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1872 AND LANCASHIRE ABVERTISERFEBRUAR THE PRESTON CHRONICLE STATIONS OF THE BRITISH AIT A acmrcvf TiANCASHLRE Wknn tttrn nlodOD STA TT1PT) Hnilfirl tho Tin- nn.j Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth said this question was not of nrovidence. but of the social condition of the which the depot of the regiment is stationed. lH "THE INEVITABLE BATTLE." of economic doctrines T- AlnnA.D rtn inrtnlaation 2nd do, Bengal (, 30th, Jersey "em0lh 31st, Malta, Currajh agriculttoaTsociety'S COUNCIL MEETING. On SaturdayTastco'an'clnDting in connection with thiabovesociitywasheldinthe large room of the Red JSSf (MHunt) to read the report, which oorii. -The amendment was put to the meeting, when for and twelve against, and it was declared to be lost.

TheCHAiEHAN slid that the that the meeting be adjourned for a fortragn a fc the statement of accounts drawn up STttJj Li-presented to the General Pnrs Commi ttoe Willacy said that JJf and deal the Council at once proceed with that report with the clauses gun" report is refused it is done with not go on with the More the meeting Rev ft stat. Glasgow 'Ji The Chairman to mane on r--- ha ex. CAVALRY. 1st Life Guards, Windsor 1 nd ditto, Regent's Park Royal Horse Guards, Knights bridge 1st Dragoon Guards, Dublin 2nd ditto, Aldershot. 3rdditte, Maidstone 4th do.

Manchester 5th do. York 6th do. Dublin 7th do. Norwich 1st Dragoons, Dundalk 2nd Dublin 3rd Hussars, Bombay; Canterbury 4th ditto, Bengal Canterbury 5th Lancers.Dcngal Ditto 6th Dragoojs Cahir 7th Hussars, No wich 8th Ditto, Newbiidge 9th Lancers, Aldershot 10th Hussa's, Colchester A STBONG INTEBEST." In the financial year 1870-1 no leas than 347,723 Excise licensea were granted to dealers in and retailers of excisable liquors used as beverages in the United Kingdom the amount of duty charged was 1,297,541. The number T83 made up as follows To publieans there were granted 87,262 licenses for retailing beer, 97,252 for retailing spirits, 46,879 for retailing wine, and 24,625 occasional licenses.

There were 47,555 licenses granted to beershop keepers, 4,892 licenses to retailers of wine to be consumed off the premises, and 3,207 to retailers of wine in refreshment-houses, 399 licenses for retailing beer, in packet boats, and 500 spirit licenses to grocers in Ireland. There were 6,608 licenses granted to dealers in beer, and 4,092 additional licenses to retail 6,561 licenses to dealers in spirits, and 8,546 additional licenses to retail and 4,331 licenses to dealers in wine. There were 122 licenses to makers and dealers in sweets," and 10,392 licenses to retailers. There were also granted 32,707 licenses to brewers, 5,323 to malsters, 312 to distillers and rectifiers, and 6,501 to refreshment-houses. men ment veil aware The London Guardian ot Wednesday night, in closing an article on the Manchester Conference of Nonconformists, says It is well to have it seen that the one only object of the whole is Church disestablishment.

All the grievances complained of and it was really comical to observe the tone of meek suffering and patience under injustice which was assumed came simply to this that there is an established Church, embodying the recognised form of national Christianity, that this Church contains the great bulk of the education, intellect, wealth, and influence in the country and that, accordingly, old foundations of various kinds assume its existence, and act accordingly. It jis perfectly clear, therefore, that no effort can avert a long and obstinate struggle that any demand made by the political leaders of Nonconformity must be dealt with on its own merits without any idea of possible conciliation unless, indeed, those Dissenters who do not sympathise with the Manchester meeting will come forward and avow themselves. We are of those who, while they feel the Church to be infinitely greater than the Establishment, yet believe that for the sake of both Church and State, the old union is well worth fighting for and we exhort all those who agree in this view to prepare for the inevitable battle. If Churchmen can be united to any great degree, and if every effort be made to promote the spiritual efficiency of the Church, and to remove the abuses which are excrescences on its relation to the State, the issue will not be doubtful. But, while we desire to see union and energy, we should deprecate, as utterly unworthy, the imitation of the virulence and intelerance of the opposite side, as seen at Manchester.

It was bad enough in them it would be disgraceful in us. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER. They were perfectly J. said fhev8ridgSy add otrrStion the appointment ZtltJ ltd have nothing to 11th Hussars, Bengal Canter. bury 12th Lancers, Hunslow 13th Hustars, Leeds 11th ditto.

Ballincoilig FEARFUL MURDEB BY A WOMAN. j- show them 15th do. Bombay Canterbury l.T'T", position as to go Deiore such a a 16th Lancers, Madras; Canter said he thought Captain Jameson ann Jameson vapmui bury 17th Lancers. Lonsford the general meeting. thpm which thaAhe only resolution that had 18th Hussars, Madras; Canter bury 19th Brighton 20th do.

Bengal; Canterbury 21st Bengal; Canterburj Foot Ul-ahds. Grenadier Guards 1st bat Wellingtoa Barracks 2nd Duhlin 3rd bat. Chelsea Bar racks rinliist.nam Guards 1st batt. GEEAT LOSS OF LIFE. The Nev York papers of the 19th, received by the steamer City of Antwerp, contains reports of a murder committed by a woman at Utica, New York state, on the 17th ult.

The Herald gives the following details This morning, about ten o'clock, Milton H. Thompson, a well-known insurance agent of Utica, entered a street car, in company with his nephew, Henry H. Hall, of Odensburg. A few minutes later the car halted, in response to the signal of a tall, portly lady, who was heavily veiled. The female seated herself immediately opposite Thompson.

She was observed to lean forward and address him, and seems to have been disappointed and incensed at the reply. She made a quick, sharp gesture of distress, and a moment later sprang to her feet, presented a revolver at Thompson's head, and fired. The ball entered his right cheek, passing thence out through one of the nostrils, and finding a lodgment in the heart of Henry H. Hall, who occupied a seat by the side of Thompson. The woman, quick as thought, stepped to the rear of the car, opened the door, and sprang from the platform without opposition.

Thompson, believing himself to be fatally wounded, asked that his wife be immedictely sent for. The woman walked quietly down Genesee-street, directly in the rear of the car she had just left. At the City Hall, where intelligence of her crime had perceded her, she was arrested by offioer Supple. She gives the name of Josephine M'Carthy. Her home is in Albanv.

She swears that Thompson ruined hor, Chelsea 2nd Windsor L. C. Wood said lie tnougm nected to adopt that report without going through its Lveral detaiLc He had read it over with care, and there SSStffiesAm. in it whichhe did not think were fit to go before the public without revision He was not now speaking of the substance, but certainly in the com-posit on there was so great a. number of abcal er-rors that he should be sorry if it were to go before the pubhcematingfrom that Council.

He shouU Ibe pre-Sated, if they would read it over in detail, to point out Si errors. He should very much rather himself taw the report prepared by a small committee, who would be competent to deal with those matters, and have a number to express their opinion upon it before it was brought there He thought they would find before those proceedings were over that it would be necessary to adjourn that meeting. He was quite prepared, if they thought it desirable to go into the details of the report, but he thought it would be better to select a few gentlemen from that Council to put it into a form which would be more creditable to them as a Council. He would leave it for the Council to decide whether they go into the details one by one but for his own part he thought it better to deal with it in committee. Mr.

Hartley said the chairman announced that any observation might be made upon that report. For Mr. Wood to call upon the meeting now to form a committee for the purpose of dealing with the report without notice, he thought was not in order. The Chairman said he certainly did made the remark that they should consider it in detail, but that was Mb own individual opinion. If they thought it was necessary to put it into the hands of a committee, of course he was bound to put it to the meeting.

Mr. Forrester (Ley-land) said he presumed Mr. Wood did not make a motion on the point, but merely threw out the suggestion. Mr. Woon said he was quite prepared to make a proposition when the time came Mr.

J. W. Fair said he thought it would be very much pleasanter that a roport of that kind should not be drawn up by one person, and it would be very much better in every way to seek the advice of the General Purposes Committee. It would be very much better if the assistance of that committee had been obtained. There was something in the report with regard to the exhibition of sheep and pigs as being satisfactory.

He (Mr. Fair)thought that exhibition was thoroughly disgraceful. (Hear, hear.) There might be one or two good animals amongst them, but he thought the show discreditable to a county show. There was a tabulated form he saw going back to 1850. Ho did not know why they did not commence from the foundation of tho society, so that they could see its growth.

There seemed to be an interval of ten yeai'B. Mr. Hartley said that the course adopted now was the course that had been adopted ever since the Bociety commenced. He thought it was unfair to propose a resolution before it was given notice of to the meeting. That was the regular course adopted for the report to be provided by the secretary and brought before that meeting, The Rev.

Mr. Wood said he thought that the wisest plan was to form a committee before it was brought before them in the manner in which it had been brought there nnw. It was perfectly impossible to discuss it in detail 33rd, Colchester 34th, Newry 35th, Sheffield 36tb, Bengal Curragh 37th, Bengal Belfast 38th, Bengal Aldershof 39th Bengal, Chatham 40th Dublin 4lst Bengal; Fermov 42nd Aldershot 43rd Kinitale 44th Cork 45th Madras Aldershot 46th Aldershot 47th eetwood 48th Malta-Chatham 49th Bombay; Gosport 60th Alde'shot 51st Curragh 52nd Malta Klnsale 53rd Bermuda; Colchester s4th Currajjh 55th Bengal Newry 56th Bombay Curragh 57tb Limerick 68th Bengal Dublin 59th Bombay Limerick 60th 1st, bat. Canada. iH shot; 2nd bat.

Aldershot 3rd, bat cSeft; 53rd Bengal Devennort 64tb Malta Dublin 65th Bengal Fermoy 66th AMershn, 67th Shorncliife. ot 68th Templemore 69th Bermuda Chatham 70th India 71st Gibraltar Fort Ceor 72nd Bengal Fort 73rd Cejlon; Sheffield 74th Gibraltar; Aldershot 75th Hong Kong uj 76th Burman Chatham 77th Portsmouth 78th Nova Scotia- Elinh. 79th Homo; ParkiVt 80th Belfast 81st Gibraltar Aldershot 82nd 83rd Bombay-Chatham 94th fermoy 85th Bengal Aldejsliot 86th The Cape of GoodBoc. 87th Malta Chatham 88th Portsmouth 9th Madras; Aldershot Glasgow 91st Fort George. 92nd Bengal Edinburgh 93rd hdinburgh 94th Aldershot 05th Gosport 96th Bengal Bristol 97th Mullingar 98th Curragh 99th Aldershot 100th Aldershot 101st Bury 102nd Aldershot 103rd Parkhurst 104th Home Gosport 105th Bengal Curragh 106th Bengal Guernsey Hengal Aldershot I08th Bombay Mullinrar i9th Bencal Preston Scots Fusil ier Guards 1st bat.

Tower 2nd battalion Wellington Barracks infantry. 1st Foot: 1st batt, Warley 2nd bat Bengal Warley 2nd: 1st batt, Bombay; Dev. onnort Devonnort 3rd: 1st bat, Bengal; 2nd bat. Dover 4th 1st 2nd bat Aldershot 5th: 1st battalion Bengal Dub. lin: 2nd.

Dublin wUAfho paper read would by no means provide a remedy. No simple ystem conld be Sed which would so change the habits or condition of people as to procure the result desired, and he declared it impossible that, as class, the working men could provide for old age. There was a vast and improper dependence upon charity and a most mischievous auministration of charity, and all these circumstamces must be taken into account in providing a remedy. BISHOPGOSS AND CONVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENTS. The Right Rev.

Dr. Goss, in the course of his address at Liverpool, on the above subject, cited the constitutions of several Popes, and quoted the authority of eminent Canonists, recent and ancient, to show that for the canonical erection of a monastry, or convent, there was needed not only the Bishops but also the Popes authority, and that the institution so constituted must contain twelve inmates, or that it would otherwise fall under the jurisdiction of the ordinary. That it must have either an endowment or a sufficiency of alms for the mamtenance of its inmates, and that before giving his consent to the erect on the bishopwas boundtoreceive or hear any objections which might be urged against the erection by priors, or superiors of any othe? religious house situated within a circuit of four miles as also of the parish priest, within whose district the new monastry or convent had to be erected. He added that no such formality had been complied with, and that therefore, he had been accurate in saying that there was no canonicaUy founded religious house in his dioceise. Furthermore, he was confirmed in all that he had said by Mr Cuddon, barrister, who represented all the religious orders of men in this country before the commiBBion and who in his evidence declared that there were only thirty houses to which the cure of souls was not attached, and that it was quite a delusion to call such houses monasteries, for that in all England there were not more than one or two monasteries in the ordinary acception of the term.

He admitted that there were 121 missionary or par-ochial residences, occupied by one or two persons supposed to be religious. That Buch residences, however, were not monastic institutions at all, and that although their occupants might be members of religious orders, they were parish priests to all intents and purposes, as though they were not regulars, that they were working clergy, in fact were just like secular persons. This admission of Mr. Cuddon, although utterly at variance with the pretensions set up by the writer in the Westminster Gazette was quite correct, and was moreover in accord with actual practice for the occupiers of all missions, whether called Seculars or Regulars, were obiged to furnish the Bishop at his visitation with an account of their missionary receipts and expenditure, and were alike bound to apply all income arising from entrance money, bench rents, offertory, charity sermons, out-door collections, fees, with the exception of retributions for mass, interest of money, or rents of land, if given for the benefit of the mission, to the wants of the mission itself after deducting a suitable maintenance, and to call missions held on such terms religious communities was to expose the Catholic body to contempt and ridicule. Mr.

Harting, who was retained to give evidence on behalf of religious women, sayBttiat four-fifths of the religious in England belong to active orders, do not take solemn vows, and that a great number of their houses, though called convents, are in truth not convents that a priest for instance has a poor school; if the mission is poor, he cannot afford to pay a salaried teacher or mistress he can get it cheaper done by theBe ladies he gets two or three of them, and that is immediately introduced into the directory as a convent, but it is in truth no convent. Such were the words of Mr. Harting, and no amplification on his part could add to the weight of those words uttered by their own advocate. As regarded the Sisters of Charity, they repudiated the title of nuns, they denied with warmth that their homes were convents, and asked if it had been otherwise would they have been welcomed as they had been to battlefields and hospitals The late Archbishop of Paris had confirmed this declaration, and yet he (the BiBhop) had been blamed for not calling them nuns, a title which they repudiated with warmth. As regarded the other religious, a reference to the Catholic Times would shovr that he was not insensible to the benefits their presence had conferred on his diocese, and he had spoken of them and their labours in the highest terms.

After referring to the evidence given before the Royal Commission on Conventual Establishments, as proving that there were no canonically established institutions of the kind in England, his lordship said that there was another reason why he was not anxious to bring the Jesuits forward. By the Emancipation Act they were bound within six months to give in their names to the Home Secretary, and even now they were liable to be brought up before the courts of the country for misdemeanour, and were liable to fines, imprisonment, and banishment from the realm. They could not hold property, because it was illegal, and hence when their advocates appeared before the Royal Commission, and the member for North Warwickshire asked, Are these Jesuits the answer was, They are reputed such." He (Dr. Goss), therefore, thought that he had established conclusively that he had not rendered himself liable to the abuse heaped upon him. 6th 1st batt 2nd.

bat; ButtCTant 7th: 1st bat, Portsmouth 2nd Portland 8th 1st Bombay; Manchester 2nd, Manches. rr Committee The Chairman then put the resolution, to thSfag, which was That after hearing the oxplana-tnTteFhiance Committee, the CouncJ ca aot Recommend the adoption of the report as drawn up by the secretary, and they suggest the adjournment oi the ge ne ral meeting for a fortnight, and the meantime the ac counts and report to be submitted to a committee, and the Report up by numbers fo? the resolution and one against, several declining to vote on either side. The proposition was therefore de-clare earned, which brought the meeting to a close. THE GENERAL MEETING took place at two o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, at the Red Lion Hotel, the Right Hon. Colonel Wilson Patten M.P., occuping the chair.

There was a full attendance of members Mr. T. T. Parker announced that the Council had that morning met and resolved, That after hearing the explanation of the Finance Committee the Council have received, they cannot recommend tho adoption of the report as drawn up by the secretary, but they suggest the adjournment of this meoting for fourteen days, and in tho meantime the accounts and report be submitted to a committee, and drawn up by them, and a report made. After a short discussion this was resolved upon.

P. Chamberlain Starkle, M.P., moved that the committee consist of Thos. Townley Parker, Rev. L. C.

Wood, Jacob Fair, R. J. Flowerdew, W. Addie, and J. Forrester.

Captain Jameson seconded the motion. Mr. Hartley moved that the names of Mr. Howard and Mr. Radcliffe, of Blackburn, be added to tho committee.

The motion, with the addition, was carried. The Chairman said they would next consider the scheme for the reorganisation of the Council. Mr. Jacob Fair said, as one ol the promoters of that scheme, he might mention that the object of that scheme, as shown in tho paper they had all received, was that it should be taken before the society at tho general meeting, and that they refer it to a committee to consider the best means of adopting it. He believed that all parties to that scheme were acting under a desire for the better working of the society generally, and they did not do so entirely without precedence, for he believed that no agricultural society was governed by so large a Council as tho North Lancashire.

The Manchester and Liverpool, or South Lancashire Society, had a Council of 21, and it was gene 9tb, 1st bat, Cork 2nd, do Shornchffo 10th 1st bat Japan Dublin 2nd. Madras Aldershot and, after securing her confidence to a degree where she entrusted him with all her funds, took advantage of her by foreclosing a mortgage, which left her and her three children homeless and penniless. She claimsthat Thompson is the father of her children. The friends of this gentleman say that the woman is one of the most desperately vicious blackmailers in the country. In Albany she was known as Doctress Emma Burleigh, alias Virginia Seymour.

She has been under arrest for various offences in that city. Thompson, the intended victim, hap been in business for many years. He has borne the reputation of a somewhat rapid individual, but is at present exemplary in all respects. The murdered man Hall was a thriving young merchant in Odensburg. He leaves a wife and child.

The woman manifests much grief for the death of the young man, but expresses no sorrow when referring to her attempt to kill Thompson. She frequently makes use of these words" There's plenty of law in this country but precious little justice." By the arrival of the West India mail we have particulars of tho burning of the screw steamer America, near Buenos Ayrea, on the night of the 23rd ultimo, by which no fewer than 130 lives are believed to have been lost. It appears that on the evening of the 23(0 the America, which was one of tho "floating palaces" on the passenger service at Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, left the former port with a large number of passengers, being shortly followed by the Villa del Salto, an "opposition" steamer. In the middle of the night an explosien took place, which caused a general rush on deck. Captain Bossi, the master of tho vessel, succeeded in quieting all apprehension by stating that it was merely a steam pip which had burst, and under this impression the greater part of the passengers returned below.

In a few moments, however, the terrible cry of "fire" was heard, and a volume of flame shot up from the engine-room, and rapidly spread over the vessel. In an instant all was in confusion a fearful panic seized the passengers and crew, and the captain was the first to take a life buoy and jump overboard. The flameB continued to increase, and a struggle commenced for any life buoys, planks, casks, which could be obtained. In this struggle women and children wore entirely disregarded, and even revolvers and knives used in the intense excitement. Of the six boats on board only one could be got into the water, and into this the crew and a few of the passengers immediately jumped, to the exclusion of the ladies on board.

Tho disaster was seen from the Villa del Salto, which came to the rescue with all speed, but before she could arrive everybody had jumped oyerboard, so great was the intensity of the fire, and numbers had perished. What the captain described as the bursting of a pipe is said by competent persons to have been the bur sting of the boiler, and to have arisen from the persistence of Bossi in keeping on a high pressure of steam in order to beat the Villa del Salto, although he had been warned not to do so by the first and second engineers. Both in Monte Video and Buenos Ayres the feeling against Bossi is very strong, on account of this and his conduct during the crisis and the Buenos Ayres Standard, from which the above facts are taken, has an article calling for his immediate and severe punishment. The only Englishman lost in this melancholy accident was Mr. Peter Beare, C.E., a gentleman who had attained considerable professional eminence.

The other victims were chiefly natives and Germans. 11th 1st bat, Bengal Dub lin 2nd, bat Dublin 12th 1st battalin, Presten 2nd. Bengal 13th 1st battalion, Gibraltar Pembroke Dock 2nd bat Kilkenny 11th 1st Bengal Chester 2nd, bat- Cheater I5th 1st battalion, Curragh 2nd, bat Aldershot 16th 1st batt, Newry 2nd Colchester 17th 1st Bengal; Alder-, THE GEEAT TICHBORNE CASE. now. Mr.

J. W. Fair said that if they passed that report in it's present state they would be committing themselves to the accounts and to tho statement it contained with regard to the progress of the society. He believed that when they came to deal with the accounts they would find shot2na Aiaersnot 18th, 1st bat Fermoy 2nd bati that it was not sucn a prosperous conuuiou as uue The Rev. Mr.

Wood asked for the minutes re Uevonport 19th. 1st bat Bengal Chatham 2nd bat Bengal Chatham 20th 1st bat Curragh 2nd batj On Monday, the long-threatened approach to the Cb.il. portion of this complicated case was made by the Attorney1 General in a style which was more involved and more difii" cult to follow than any previous portion of his address-Little more than the plaintiff's shyness in confronting the witnesses has been touched upon, but it is more than probable that a good deal remains to be said about the South American lives of lloger Tichborne and Arthur Orton. It now appears from a remark dropped from the Rifle Brigade 1st bat Dover and Dat bliorncliffe; 3rd Home Dover 4th batCb-tham COLONIAL CORPS. ferring to the Finance Committee.

The minutes having been read, Mr. Wood said the committees appointed were called the General Purposes and tho Finance Committees. Mr. T. W.

Fair said he was sorry to occupy their time, but it seemed to him that it was quite impossible for that Council to get that report in any tiling like shape in time for the general annual meeting. He thought it better to adiourn that meeting for a fortnight, and request the Mauritius Uurragh 21st let bat Madras Newport 2nd bat Burmah Chatham 22nd 1st bat Gu-rnsay 2nd bat- Aldershot 1st West Indian Regiment 23rd 1st bat Pembroke 2nd bat Jamaica 2nd Demeran Ceylon Rifles Ceylon and Che General Purposes Committee to put it in shape for the tioyai Malta Fencibie Ar. Woolwich 221th fst bat Malta Chatham 2nd do, Madras Chatham oth: 1st bate, Gosport; Malta meeting, lie would propose a resolution to tnat enect. ne thought it was verv desirable that they should be unani mous in matters of that kind. He thought it better not to go on with the annual meeting that day.

He suggested that the annual general meeting appointed to be held that day be adjourned for a fortnight, and that the report be piaCCU 111 LUC J1UUUH Ul tUC UUlieiUl I lUluato vuillUUljliCG for revision. Mr. Willacy asked if that would interfere QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIP LIST. The Christmas examinations for admission into the Training Schools of England and Wales, has just been concluded and the class list issued. There are 245 males in the first class, and 532 in tho second and 334 females in the first cla68, and 651 in the second.

The names are arranged in the order of merit, and numbered consecutively throughout. The number enclosed in brackets shows the position of the candidate in the list: Makes First Class: George Allan, Walton-le-Dale, (11) JameB Haworth, Blackburn, St. Michael's, (72) William Parker, Fulledge Wesleyan School, (88) John Layland, Blackburn, Holy Trinity, (95) Hartley Elliott, Great Marsden, (10C); Thomas Dodgson, Pilling, (157) George Haworth, Hippins, Wesleyan School, (172) Joseph Heap, Burnley, Wesleyan School, (199); Richard Butcher, Walton-le-Dale, (206). Second Class Joseph P. Huntington, Preston, (274) Nathaniel G.

Fish, Preston, Croft-ctvoot. Wfislfivim School. 1323) Thomas Uleaklev. Cherrv with the rules? The Chairman said he did not think himBelf that their general meeting would adiourn rally acknowledged that the working of that society was excellent. He could mention many other societies that were governed in the same way, and with a view to that they asked them to refer that matter to a committee, and as that meeting was adjourned, ho thought that a very proper time for the committee appointed to report to that meeting.

The mode of election proposed by the promoters of the scheme was, that nomination papers be seut out by the secretary to every member of the society, so that they might be filled up, and returned to tho secretary through the post, or when they attended the meeting. The object of the promoters was to reduce the number of the Council, and put it in the hands of a fewer number of men, and they considered that tho society would be benefitted on that account. Mr. Hodgson asked how tho vice-presidents would be affected if the number of the Council were reduced. Mr.

Fair said it was proposed that the vice-presidents should act as members of the Council. Mr. Hartley supported Mr. Fair's motion for an adjournment. Mr.

J.W. Fair said the question was whether or not it was desirable to reduce the number of the Council. It was thought by many that it would be very desirable that there bo a certain limited number in the Council that would not be exceeded. Year by year gentlemen who lived in tho district where the show was about to be held had been added to tho Council, until at last it had grown enormously, and was not fit for anything. He thought what the promoters of the scheme wanted was more particularly to have an expression of feeling whether or not it was desirable to limit the number.

He proposed that the number of tho Council of tho society be 27, and should not exceed 27. The Rev. L. C. Wood seconded the motion.

He considered if the present arrangement continued that it was perfectly impossible to conduct the business of that society in a manner in which it ought to be transacted. Scenes had taken place in that The Rev. Mr. Wood seconded Mr. Fair's motion.

Mr. Hartley moved, as an amendment, That the report be adopted, it being open to any explanation." Some explanation was quite requisite. Mr. Sadcliffe said that for the sake of bringing it to a conclusion, he seconded Mr. Hartley's amendment.

Mr. Hartley said he thought the report was quite open to any explanation, and any explanation that was brought forward that Council Attorney-General, that on the conclusion of the evidence for the defence, Sergeant Ballantine will propose to put witnesses into the box for tho purpose of rebutting the Orton theory. The Attorney-General will raise the objection that as the plaintiffs advisers entered on the Orton matter while they had the opportunity, they cannot have their case re-opened at that stage of the proceedings. The question will be discussed, and should his lordship decide in favour of the admissibility of the evidence, Arthur Orton's sisters will be called to repudiate any relationship between the plaintiff and themselves. This is the programme as at present understood but it is obvious that circumstances may arise to render advisable a departure from the arrangement.

On Tuesday, the Attorney-General continued his speech, which was ef a very tedious and uninteresting nature, while on the following day he minutely commented upon the marks on the claimant's body, and endeavoured to show their dissimilarity from those bome by the real Roger. He stated that the scar on the plaintiff's head was not in the same position, and that it had been made by a sharp instrument, whereas Roger Tichborne's was caused by a fall. Again, on tile claimant's arm there were indications of something having been removed by caustic, while on the corresponding place on Orton's arm were the letters Roger Tichborne was tattoed all over, but claimant was not. On Thursday morning, the Attorney-General said that Roger Tichborne was 'attooed by two separate people one of whom, Lord Bcllem, would be called. The Attorney-General charged Dr.

Lipscombe with deliberate falsehood in giving his evidence for the sake of misleading the jury. If Dr. Lipscombe had been an honest man he would have been a witness for the defence, as he had acknowledged having seen a tatoo mark on Roger Tichborne, but afterwards said he was not sure on whose arm he had seen it, as Tichborne's valet told him there were no such marks on his young master. There was no way of getting rid of sucli naikh, except, burning or cutting them out. Cole, the valet, could not have seen Roger Tichborne undressed after 1848, at which time it was possible he would not have the parks.

The tattoos on Roger Tichborne's arm were his initials, a cable, cross, heart, and anchor, flic The writer said Ltie 1 CJnntnolie Directory mentions A statue is to be erected to Von Moltke in hi; native town. The Thansgiving Service at St. Paul's Cathedral will be held on the 27th inst. Boston furnished every newsboy in Chicago Christmas with a pocketbook and with a dime in it a-1 nest egg." It is sweet to have friends you can trust, an convenient, sometimes, to have friends who are not afraii to trust you. Paul Morphy, the foremost chess player of any age or country, still resides in New Orleans, where he it practising law.

There are about 60,000 Scandinavians in Mk. ncsota, nearly all of whom are Lutherans. The Nor. wegians have a theological seminary at Minneapolis. Another vessel in our ironclad fleet is reported to be in a very unsatisfactory condition.

The Koyal Oak, one of our largest wood-built vessels carrying heavy armour, seems to be in the same defective state as her sister ship, the Prince Consort, was lately found to be. A severe contest has taken place in Liverpool on the election of a member to supply a School Beard vacancy. The denominatioualist candidate, Mr. had the support of tho Church and the Catholics, 'out he was beaten "by a large majority" by the Eev. Dr.

Vemer White, an Irish Nonconformist, many of whose supporters ought to adopt it, if it were satisfactory. Mr. Forrester Do you propose to adopt the whole report Mr. Hartley I mado an addition to that amendment. Any explanation that can be given satisfactory to this Tree, Blackburn, (347); William Sumner, Longridge-jwirjgrjj (367) Thomas Riley, Crawshaw Booth, (386) Joseph! Lang, Clitheroe, Wesleyan School, (419) John H.

Bearf Habergham, All Saints', (429) Edward Rimmer, Fleet-I wood Testimonial School, (471) Charles E. Fielding,) Bacup, Wesley-place, Wesleyan School, (485) William TTnT-vismv AnnriTiatrm. Union-street. Weslovan Council ougfit to be given wim regard to any errors either in grammar or anything olse, but not to adjourn it for another fortnight. The Chairman said that he did not in 1523): John Pilling, Oswaldtwistle, New-lane, (523) fWouia caTnrmrocTOs- the least agree with the report, because the General Pur before the establishment of the hierarchy, so that the es poses Committee had had no opportunity of examining the accounts.

He was prepared to go into detail with the accounts when the time came, but at present it would be out of order. Mr. Hartley I move, That this report be adopted, subject to any explanation that any member of this uouncu may give with regard to any errors and where any gentleman can say it is incorrect let him do so." The Chairman then asked Mr. Hunt to read the minutes of the last meeting of the General Purposes Committee. Mr.

Hunt then read the minutes of the General Purposes Com mittee of the ICth December, 1871, which stated that tho committee were of opinion that the balance sheet pre sented by Mr. Nevett was not authorised by that commit object in cross-examining plaintiff had been to get all from Thomas Duxbury, Blackburn, Holy Trinity, (53d); George Chippendale, Preston, All Saint's, (552) Robert Singleton, Preston, Central, (552) Arthur Stutiard, Habergham Eaves, (63S); Timothy Cook, Blackburn, St. Michael's, (679); Elijah S.Dearden, Higher Walton, (682): Samuel Mayor, Newchurch, in Rossendale, (726) George Hindle, Preston, St. Mary's. (752).

Females: First Class: Mary E. Cullen, Blackburn, St. Ann's Roman Catholic School, (18): Emily J. Ruth-ven, Kendal, Castle-street British School, (22) Mary J. Parkinson, Lamb, in Rossendale, (39) Margaret Singleton, Accriugton, St.

James's, (53) Annie Dean, Burnley, Wesleyan School, (67) Mary A. Bradley, Preston, St. Augustine's Roman Catholic School, (98) Jane Danson, Preston, St. Peter's, (147) Angela M'Mahon, Blackburn, St. Alban's Roman Catholic School, (185) Eleanor White, Ulverston, (224) Sarah A.

Parkinson, Blackburn, St. Peters-street Wesleyan School, (245) Alice Worthinton, Preston, Christ Church, (249) Sarah A. Brown, Kirk-ham, (276) Jane Coulthard, St. Paul's, Blackburn, (324). Second Class: Mary Wilkinson, Preston, St.

Mary's, (358) Annie Postlewhite, Preston, The Talbot Roman Catholic School, (398) Jane Wray, Kirkham, (416) Alice Heald, Lancaster, St. Thomas's, (445) Elizabeth A. Entwistle, Blackburn, St. Thomas's, (449) Eliza Haw-cridge, Habergham Eaves. (459) Margaret Dilworth, Preston, Christ Church, (506) Alice Sharpies, Blackburn, St.

Thomas's, (514) Elizabeth Leach, Preston, Emmanuel, (523) Rachel A. Eccles, Blackburn, Holy Trinity, (656) Helen Boys, Accrington, New Jerusalem, (799) Mary Haworth, Hippings Wesleyan School, (804) Mary Barnwell, Leyland, (873) Jane D. Harrison, Accrington, Union-street Wesleyan School, (880). tee, and that they felt themselves unable to sanction it. The Chairman asked what the facts were On the 10th December they had a meeting of the General Purposes Committee, and he saw a bill receipted for 25, December 6th.

They were called there like a parcel of fools to consider that account, when they had actually paid it. He thought no man of business, to say the least of it, would give them credit for common sense. Mr. Hunt in explanation, said that with regard to the meeting of the General Purposes Committee, the meeting was originally proposed to be held on the Saturday previous. He had made arrangements with a solicitor from London and another Council, which he confessed were disgraceful, and the reporters were not then allowcdto.be present, and in prder to counteract that he voted that they be admitted.

He thought the chairman of the Council had been treated in a manner which uo one except his friend Mr. Parker would have been subjected to. That scheme, he considered, would remedy that, and each district would have an opportunity of sending a member to the Council. After a discussion, the motion was carried without defining the numberThe Chairman said he thought they would allow him, as their chairman, to suggest that they had better fix the place of meeting for next year before they proceeded with the other business. Mr.

Willacy said it wa3 supposed that at the general meeting a deputation from some town or other should ask for the meeting, and he thought that the question had better beasked whether there were any deputations as on former occasions. The Chairman asked if there were any deputations from towns in North Lancashire, or was there any from Lancaster. Mr. Chamberlain Starkie said he looked upon it that an agricultural society liko the one they were now supporting should move in a wide circle, and visit every place in routine, and that they should let every district have the advantages of that society brought to their doors at certain times. (Hear, hear.) He believed that within the last ten years that society had been in most of the districts in the centre of North Lancashire, aud in 1863 its advantages and privileges were extended to the borough of Lancaster.

He was speaking for himself, and not for the agricultural society at Lancaster. He hoped his friend Mr. Bowling, who was a member, and who had visited more of the meetings of the Lancaster Society than he had himself, would tell them what the feelings of those gentlemen were. He knew very well that in the town and neighbourhood there was a strong feeling on the part of everybody that the meeting should an there. There was a strong feeling around the farming raised the cry ot jno Jfopery.

The Conference" of the Licence Amendment League came to an abrupt close on Wednesday. Not more than a dozen persons were induced to attend, and was felt that such a gathering could hardly have much effect upon the deliberations of Parliament. The Conference" therefore adjourned. Archdeacon Denison has got into a serious quarrel with his Bishop. Two of the assistant curates at East lirent are to have their licences revoked, and the Archdeacon himself has been "inhibited from certain ceremonial observances" in his parish church.

In a letter to a contemporary, the Archdeacon says that the inhibition will never be complied with as long as he is vicar of East Brent. Three Children Getting Drunk. George Nicholson, innkeeper, of Pcnruddock, was charged at the Penrith Court, Wednesday, with supplying liquors to three children, aged nine, twelvu, aud thirteea years respectively. Tho eldest boy was treasurer for a school subscription, and ho purchased from the defendant with the money entrusted to him 6d. worth of gin, Is.

wortli of rum, and Gd. worth of whiskey, stating that the i spirits were for a neighbour. The three children were jj shortly afterwards found drunk in the road by a police officer. Only a small fine was imposed. One of the very latest "reports" in Paris states that the Italian Government contemplates nothing less than a revolution in its rehitious to the ecclesiastics! party.

The Paris correspondent of the Times gives tie report in this form "It is reported from Konie that the Italian Government proposes shortly to bring in a bill sup- pressing the religious orders, confiscating ecclesiastical estates even when international, assigning to the general superiors of religious orders their places of residence, and person to meet at his office on the Mouday. It was intended by them that they should conclude tho business on the Monday, and they worked a considerable portion of tablishment of dioceses must have gone sadly against his grain. There were certainly persons who, at the establishment of the hierarchy, proclaimed that that would throw them one hundred years back but in his (the bishop's) opinion, the establishment of the hierarchy had advanced them a hundred years, and in the diocese of Liverpool it had had some very beneficial results. The writer the article alluded to proceeded There are no Benedictines and no Jesuits. It is true that there is a large church and a large day school at Liverpool, and that there are also churches at Prestou, supposed to be under the management of priests belonging to that society, but the bishop is pleased to relegate them to the condition of simple secular priests.

We have been used to consider the Christian brothers as religious, bound together by vows for a particular object but Dr. Goss, admitting them to be both moral and estimable men, refuses to allow them to be more than mere school teachers." Now, he (the bishop) found in the report of his address in the Daily Post, which he had taken pains to examine, that he had made no denial of the existence of the Benedictines and Jesuits but he had said that in the "Catholic Directory" of the previous year they were not entered as communities of men." Ho had come to the conclusion, after a careful examination, that there was no comm iity of men and no community of women canonically established in his diocese, but that they were associations or, as tho chief commissioner of charities said they were a sort of club. The counsel who appeared on behalf of the nuns at the Royal Commission, termed the establishments associations," their defence being that they were not convents strictly so-called. In the conclusion which he (the bishop) had come to he had been supported by the opinion of a theologian who was more cognisant of the lives and constitution of religious than any other person in his diocese and who said that he did not think that in the whole of England there was a conventual establishment. He said that if any doubt could possibly remain about the character of those missions after what he had said, it must face away under the fact that, week after week, announcements were made in the Press of dances to be held for the support of the schools connected with them, which would be an impossibility if such missions were monastic institutions, and was, in any case, unintelligible when the manuals of theology, from which they instructed their people, proposed it as a question for solution whether they ought to deny the Sacraments to publicans encouraging the holding of such dances in their houses, or whether they could allow their penitents to take part in them, always supposing the absence of danger or probability of sin.

The writer of the article in the Westminster Gazette found fault with him because he had applied the term schoolmasters to Christian Brothers and schoolmistresses to religious ladies but he thought that there could be no higher office than that of a teacher. For ten years before he became bishop that was his office, and he knew of no higher duty or vocation than that of imparting instruction to youth. In further proof of this he cited decrees of Saxon Councils, instanced the examples of Archbishop Theodore and of the present Bishop of Orleans. He then continued The writer of the article in question said that he admired plain speaking, but that even plain speaking might be carried too far. He also said that there was a class of mind which prided itself upon bluutness and outspokenness, and that that class of mind was extensively prevalent in Lancashire.

He (the bishop) had never DERBY ON PROVIDENT THE EARL OF HABITS. tnataay. iuey were oungea to go to xorlishire, and lie intended to be back in time for the meeting next day. On the Tuesday he found it wasuttcrly impossible to get away. He at once wrote a note of apology, and seut it to the chairman.

He had aincu ascertained that the letter was not delivered by the railway company. No man could have done more than he did to get to the meeting, and he felt exceedingly grieved, but what could he do That was the plain fact of the case. As to ths account, he (Mr. Hunt) was perfectly at liberty to settle it on the very best terms he could. He called upon the three members of that committee in Blackburn, but he could only get Mr.

Whitting-ton to join him. They went to Mr. Dickinson, and he charged .30. He (Mr. Hunt) thought that a large amount and they prevailed upon him to deduct i'o.

If he had been acting for himself he should have done exactly what he did. The Chairman I will ask Mr. Hunt whether he told the meeting on the 113th day of December that it was paid or not Did we not discuss that account as not having been paid It was paid ten days previous to the time of discussing it. Mr. Hunt said that it was understood that was reallv the account that was paid.

It was The Earl of Derby presided at a meeting of the Society of Arts on Wednesday evening, at which a paper was read urging the promotion of a more general habit among interest, and they wanted to see what was going ou in turn ana to give mm no information. People would remember the language of their youth on returning to early scenes, but claimant knew nothing whatever, even of living in Paris. Serjeant Ballantine here complained of Sir John.Coleridge's attacks on individuals. The Attorney-General apologised for a remark on the learned berjeant, but refused to withdraw other expressions. THE AMERICAN DEMANDS.

(From the Daily Telegraph.) As to the Treaty itself, let it be plainly understood that not one word in the document was for a moment regarded by our Commissioners as having any reference, other than exclusive, to the indirect claims. Next, as to our position in view of these indirect claims for a sum in gross" as atonement for the vast injury which the cruisers caused prolonging the war." Before the Tribunal of Arbitation could come to decide upon any such claims, it must clear out of the way several highly important obstacles to its ever considering them at all. It has to take the protocols of the Joint High Commission, the text of the Treaty, and the general spirit of the negotiations between the two countries, from the time when the dispute arose to the tune when it closed, and to decide that the question of indirect claiins was plainly included, by consent of both sides, in the reference to arbitration. It must also consider the British case, as completed by its final rejoinders to the American, and must decide whether either equity or expediency can warrant it in exercising jurisdiction in a matter which both sides stand diametrically opposed. Assuming that it then entered upon the merits ana supposing, what is the highest degree improbable, that the indirect claims were admitted to be within its competency the Court must pronounce upon our conduct with regard to the Confederate cruisers.

But, even were England adjudged guilty or faulty on tho score of due diligence" and as to that our ease justifies very small comprehension yet a fourth point must be carefully considered and determined iu an adverse sense to us ere a single penny of indirect damages could be claimed for the arbiters must be satisfied that the United States on their part used all due diligence, by their own war navv, to stop the depredations oi the cruisers, and that the resistance of the South was really prolonged by their keeping the sea. In both thoserespects the American case is either damagingly feeble orstillmoredamaginglysileut. Looked at for a single instant in the light of plain facts, therefore, the huge incubus of the indirect claims dwindles rapidly down into contemptible proportions, like some overgrown goblin on a pantomimic screen, whose abrupt collapse make tho childish auditory ashamed of their momentary fears. Although, for illustration's sake, we have partially assumed the possibility of these indirect claims becoming part of tho subject matter with which the Tribunal of Arbitration has to deal, wo must put it plainly on record that no such pretensions have been or can be for a moment allowed by her Majesty's Government. Those diplomatists would have singularly forgot their English blood who negotiated those statesmen would have made an ignoble plunge to Lancaster as well as in other towns.

There was a strong agricultural interest te maintain in Lancaster and the VUe WOllung eitara ui fiujiiiy iiilu uiuuca ecmuusiieu business houses regular weekly premiums, to be deducted out of their wages, with a view to providing for old age, in a way similar to that adopted by the Post-office employes. It was also suggested that the payment of premiums should be regarded as part of a man's character in seeking employment, that it should be considered a con neignbouriioou, ana xi was me auty ol that society to look after it. They would be very glad if thev thought it proper that the society's meeting be brought to Lancaster, and he proposed it to that meeting. Mr. Bowling endorsed all that Mr.

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We are happy J3 1 perfectly understood that the account was settled. Mr. Hartley said he hud heard no minutes yet but what corroborated the statement that the secretary made the best arrangement he could with the man. Mr. Addie had no hesitation in saying that in that account, as well as in many other things, the General Purposes and Finance Committees had been ignored.

Mr. Fair considered that the General Purposes Committee were representatives of the Council. What right had the secretary to pay Mr. Dickinson's account without that cheque being signed by the chairman of the Council Why should that account be an exception Why should they not also have been signed and passed' through the bank with the chairman's signature attached to tliem Mr. Radcliffe said that the General Purposes Committees were appointed for the special purpose of carrying out the things with respect to the show.

Mr. Hunt said that so far as regarded the bill of our commercial habits, and our wide-spread commercial relations with oil parts of the world, we had as a nation made monev faster than our neighbours, and conse quently there had been a tendency to spend rapidly that which had been easily obtained. Again, a very large num ber of artisans combined a very high developement of skill with low general culture, antt tneyuie not save probably simply because it did not occur to them to do so. He did not desire to rise out of his class, and he considered that as he had maintained his parents in their old age his children should do the same for him if necessary. Another prided himself upon outspoltenness or bluntness, but he Messrs.

Dickinson and Johnson he could only say tnat prided himself on being honest and fair. Whenever he spoke, his words were always in accordance with his explanation might be that all classes mere was a lingering feeling that there was something mean and selfish in aiuiy tuiuu aujjum iu. iuuijiuu vas cailieu unanimously. The Chairman read the list of vice-presidents, from which Mr. Parker expressed a wish that his name be withdrawn.

The Mayor of Lancaster was added to the list, and likewise the Earl of Derby, Mr. Foster, of Hornby Castle Eari of Bective, and Sir Henry de Hogh-ton. The Chairman said the next business was the appointment of the Council, but he understood that many had never attended the meetings of the council at all, and upon his suggestion the matter was adjourned for a fortnight. It was of immense importance that the business of the North Lancashire Society should be conducted with good feeling. He referred, with great grief to the language used at the meetings betweon the members, and he ventured to use any influence to urge upon the members to re-consider the whole of that subject, and attempt that day fortnight to come to some amicable arrangement by which the society might be placed on a good footing, and reflect credit to itself.

Mr. Hartley proposed, and it was seconded and carried, that Mr. Veevcrs bo rc-appointed auditor. It was also resolved that Mr. Frank G.

Hunt be reappointed collector. The Chairman said the next business was the appointment of secretary and treasurer, aud it was proposed that Mr. G. Hunt be re-elected. Mr.

Parker said they could not elect one person to both offices. It was against the rules. Mr. Jacson said they were individual appointments. The Rev.

L. C. Wood said a little uneasiness had occurred with regard to the accounts and report, simply because those offices were combined. The secretary had paid away money which clearly should not have been paid except with the consent of the chairman of the Council! He did not wish to say anything unkind of Mr. Hunt, but he thought it an unsafe thing to do to appoint him to the two offices, and he thought it would be better if one of the bankers were appointed treasurer.

From the simple fact of the two offices being held by the same person they had got in collision on the subject of accounts. Mr Forrester moved that it be referred to the committee. Can- saving, and in that there was this infinitesimal amount of truth, that people whose minds were wholly set upon savins for the future were apt overlook the claims of thoughts, and he prided himself upon being straightforward. Who dares think one thing and another tell My soul detests him us tho gates of hell." With regard to the narrow-mindedness of Lancashire people, he thought that before a writer pronounced a judgment on that matter, he ought to see their miles of docks, and ask if they could be created by narrow-minded men. wards national degeneracy who sanctioned a treaty that by the utmost stretch of possibility could strike Great others.

Aaoin. an infinite amount of mischief had been done by the failure of local banks and associations of all learn (says the Htandnrcl) that the convalescence of His lioyal Hiahnoss tho Prince of Wales is progressing favour kinds, wnicu tne savings oi puur men were mvestea. Such failures were lessons of improvidence taught He ought to see their manufactories and wherever he to a whole neighbourhood. The scheme suggested seemed to assume that employers had the com mand of the labour market, and could dictate their own terms to their men. That was not prac tical in England unless employers were prepared to pay niglier wages or tne men were wining to auopt tne ably.

The Prince, however, is still pale and thin, walks with a slight limp, the result, uo doubt, of the affection by which at one time his illness was complicate11' It will be decided to-day whether His Royal Highness js remain for the present at Sandringham, or to proceC' somewhere else for change of air. Great Stokm and Loss of Life. A very severe gale raged during Wednesday night on the nortfr west coast of Scotland. At the entrance to Aitbea a Mi- f-stor fishing boat was lost, and six of the crew dwwe In the Firth of Clyde the most boisterous weather pfcf vailed. The French lugger Henraise Alliance, of 2b ton, laden with oranges, was tacking about the tail of the bn when she was driven on tho Bosneath Patch.

The taw Manitobah, 700 tons, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in bOM plan, which men were not nicely to uo because tliey disliked any such interference with their private affairB. went, from end to end ol liancasinre, fie would see nothing but marvellous activity He (the Right Rev. Dr. Goss) wished that all the world was equally as narrow-minded as Lancashire, and then they should not hear of men being sent from the east end of London to Lancashire to earn a living. He wa3 very much surprised that a newspaper like the Westminster Gazette should have dared to interfere with a bishop in the exercise of his jurisdiction at visitation, when he was acting, not only iu the full exercise of his own powers as ordinary, but also as delegate of the Apostolic See, and could be called to account only by the Holy See, whereas this masked writer had summoned him before the rag-tag and bobtail that go to form Eng Britain with a vast war line because she had been honestly neutral in the American civil strife.

Whatever may be said about the wording of the Treaty, its spirit and intent were perfectly clear to the honourable men who signed it on behalf of the English Government. The duty incumbent on the Ministry is obvious and natural. It is not to take any violent step, by way of protest, or special notice, or otherwise to absolve itself from responsibility in the indirect claims. It is simply to fulfil the promise of its original case, and meet in a supplementary document the strange American pretensions. We have no need to urge upon the Government the utmost promptitude in placing before the Tribunal the rejoinder to the American ease, involving a distinct and absolute repudiation of the indirect claims, without argument and without reserve.

Until that rejoinder shall come into the hunds of the arbiter, they are virtually precluded from considering in any way an American claim that so manifestly was never contemplated either by the English negotiators or by those who prepared the English case. Half a dozen words will be sufficient, in the forefront of the rejoinder or appendix, to place clearly before He entirely agreed, however, with the paper read as to the importance of the subject. The creation of provident there were two of those bills that were pressed for immediate payment, and he was threatened by legal proceedings if he did not pay them. The Chairman: When was tho amount authorised to be paid Mr. Hunt On the 13th of November.

I had to see Mr. Dickinson as early as possible. The Chairman Yes, but not to pay him. Mr. Hunt I was ordered to settle with him.

The Chairman said he dared say that there were times when immediate payment was wanted after the show was held, and that matter was brought before the committee on the 18th day of November. They had never been refused, and they had never been delayed by post. He asked why so many accounts required immediate payment. He thought there was something like .300 paid iu hard cash. Captain Jameson said it was ordered that that committee should have a supervision with the secretary of all accounts.

The Chairman said they were told that they were to make special agreements for Blackburn. They found actually on the 9th January, while they were called upon again that the accounts were paid in hard cash on the 6th December. They never had an opportunity of examining them, and they had nothing laid before them but what was laid before them that (Saturday) morning. Mr. Hunt They were laid before you.

The Chairman begged- Mr. Hunt's pardon, but they were to adjourn the meeting on account of not having them there. When they found that they were paid they refused to go into them. What duty was it of theirs to go there? Mr. Willacy asked whether the General Purposes or Finance Committee gave any information to the secretary that the things were to be put upon a different footing He thought that considering the many years that things had been going on as they had been, there should be a little leniency towards Mr.

Hunt. The Chairman in explanation said that he took the opportunity to see Mr. Hunt, and told him that he should call upon the Preston Banking Company, and draw their attention to rule 9, which stated that the secretary had not power to draw cheques unless countersigned by the chairman of the council because it had been for many years his custom to send cheques and get them paid in direct contravention to rule 9. Mr. Hunt said that he never drew a cheque unless it was countersigned by the chairman of the society.

They certainly had paid a good manv ae. habits was a national as well a private question. Jiconomy, like everything else, might be carried to extremes, but he did not think we were likely to run into that danger in this country. The difficulty was rather the other Way. It had been suggested that what was wanted was somebody to set the example but he had found that, as a general rule, the men who set an example were the most unpopular men in the neighbourhood.

(Laughter.) The question of providence was exceedingly difficult, and was increased when those who were alive to it were well off, and those who received the advice were to whom economy was a great difficulty. It was all verv well to sav that a man ought to take the lish public opinion and one reason why he referred to the matter was to call the attention of the proper authorities to a flagrant violation of ecclesiastical propriety. In the afternoon his lordship confirmed a largo number of children. The O'Donoghue asked to Resign The tne court tne views ot England on tins subject. But those words must be Bpoken without delay, without O'ionoghue's declaration against Home Rule has pro falter, with a boldness and confidence of mien which shall testify that behind the men who utter them stands the united English nation willing to do its duty, but voked a requisition from 140 of the 263 electors forming his constituency in which they call upon him to resign.

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Wood intimated their intention of withdrawing from the committee. The ChaIrman said he could not help expressing his deep regret at the retirement of those two gentlemen, and he would urge them to reconsider the matter for the good of the society. Mr. Forrester and Mr. Addie said they did not wish to act on the committee either.

Captain Jameson knew those gentlemen were perfectly at liberty to do what they pleased, but he thought they would confer a great favour if they would not withdraw their names. Mr. Parker said if he only thought it would confer a favour he would do so with the greatest pleasure, but he never was insulted more in the course of his life than he had been in that Council. He had just left tho society having handed in his resignation adding that under the circumstances it was impossible for anybody to sit on that committee. The Chairman said that under the circumstances he thought the whole of the subject should come before the meeting, and let them decide what course to adopt.

Had they not better leave the consideration of the matter to that day fortnight It was then decided that the committee as it stood consisted of Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Howard, Mr. Flowerdew, and Mr. Jacson.

The Chairman did not wish the society to take any false step, as it might probably involve their entire ruin. After a vote of thanks had been accorded to the chairman, and responded to, the meeting separated. consequences of his style of life but as a rule he was not the sufferer. The misfortune generally fell upon the children, who were in no way to blame. On the other hand, if every man had the assurance that although he made no provision for his family they would none the less be provided for comfortably, there would be almost an end to individual saving.

We must not rely upon fear; we could only show a man that if he did lay by money his old age would be madecomfortable. The conclusions to which he came were these. He did not think any schemes would be more than palliativos for the existing evil. "We always had been and still were improvident, and national charac ous and simple spring cover it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any tobacconist, grocer, or chandler will supply it.

Epfs'b Chocolate. La Situation, (the Imper- alist organ), in an article entitled Francaiet Angleterre," says: whom she Has consulteu, ana tner rcmeuiea nun to her any good. She then tried Dr. Scott'sBihous Liver Pills, and it is -with much gratification and delight i able to assert that they have done her more good than counts without them being signed and going into the The Prussian Government contemplates introducing a bill prohibiting tho issue of new shares by joint-stock companies before the full amount of the previous issues has been paid up. Holloway's Pills.

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They expel every noxious and effete matter and thus the strength is nurtured and the energies stimulated, uHiiK. ae aia not tninK tnat tnat had Deeu injurious to the society. It might not be in strict accordance with the rules now laid down, but it was in accordant with ter could not be changed in a day. All we could do was keep public attention fixed on these matters, and give every reasonable encouragement to men to invest their savings. He did not attach much importance to tha remark that Savings' Banks gave a lower interest than wry other, because, although that wbb a fact, they provided ereater security in point of fact than the Funds.

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