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The Week.
" miscellaneous , " together , there is a decrease of , in round numbers , £ 210 , 000 . All the other items show au increase , —the improvement in the Excise revenue amounting to £ 318 , 000 . As a set-off against the diminution in the quarter ' s receipts Mr . Gladstone has the satisfaction to know that the revenue for the year ended on Wednesday last ivas higher by £ 300 , 000 than
that for the twelve months immediately preceding it . The returns collected " by the Central Relief Committee continue to show au improvement in the condition of the cotton-manufacturing districts . In the last week of September , 267 , 9 . 82 operatives were working full time , and 160 , 835 short time , Avhilst 101 , 198 were wholly unemployed . Comparing these
figures with the tables furnished at the close of August , we find that tha number out of work has decreased by 14 , 702 , while the number * iii full time has increased by 25 , 537 . At the last meeting of the committee , it ivas resolved to make an appeal to the public for donations of clothing , Avhich ivill be greatly needed during the ensuing winter by the factory
operatives who will be employed on works undertaken under the set of last session . It appears that the Poor-law Board has already received applications for grants under the Public Works Act amounting in the whole to £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The agricultural statistics collected in Ireland in June and July last , reveal several foots of considerable interest . It appears
that the extent of land under crops of all kinds this year falls below that of 1862 by 93 , 431 acres , but notwithstanding this , the Registrar General estimates that this year's harvest will ho more valuable than that of last year by " several" millions sterling . There is also a serious falling-off in live stock—the country being poorer in this respect by about a million and a quarter sterling . Our readers will be prepared far the fact that there has been a great increase in the emigration from
Ireland during the present year . In the seven months ending the 31 st of July , no fewer than 80 , 508 persons left the sister kingdom for distant lands , an increase of 34 , 307 as compared with the corresponding period of 1 SS 2 . —It is officially announced that Sir Roundell Palmer has been appointed Attorney General , and Jlr . Collier , M . P ., Solicitor General .
The colonelcy of the 2 nd Regiment of Life Guards , vacant by the death of Earl Baauchamp , has been conferred on the Marquis of Twcedale , and General Cameron succeeds to the colonelcy of the 43 nd Highlanders , vacated by the marquis . In a speech at Hitcliin , Sir E . B . Lytton spoke of the ,: startling and Gudden changes" ivhieh mark the times iu ivhieh Ave live . All
foreign countries , he said , " while they have gone in one direction against forms of government based on absolute despotism , equally discovnMge systems that are based on unmitigated democracy ; " and he thought it probable that the close of the present century would see constitutional monarchy established throughout tho whole of the civilised Avorld . He ridiculed the
American notion of persuading " Canada to desert the old union jack for tho flag of the stars and stripes , just at the moment when that flag is so torn in two that the stars are gone , and the stripes remain . " About 100 friends of the Confederate States lately met at the Clarence Hotel , Jlanchoster , under the presidency of Lord W . ' iarncKft ' ., and resolved upon the
amalgamation of two societies which ivere formed some time ago for tho purpose—as ive have understood—of influencing public opinion iu this country in favour of the immediate recognition of the independence of the Southern Confederacy . Lord Whamcii .- ' e addressed tha meeting at some length , urging in the course of his speech that it now became the duty of
"the friends of the South" to endeavour to show that Lord Russell A-.-as labouring under a delusion when he stated the other day at Blairgowrie that the sympathies of the majority of
Englishmen were with the Northern States . At the last meeting of the Metropolitan Board of AVorks , the plans of the engineer for the embankment of the north side of the Thames from Waterloo Bridge to the east end of the Temple Gardens ivas sanctioned , and proposals ivere directed to be issued for contractors to tender estimates for the Avork . The Aveste . rn portion of
the Avork had previously been tendered for . The engineer reported on the progress of the main drainage , from Avhich it appeared that the outfall is now connected Avith some portions of the different levels and is discharging their sewage into the river at Barking ; that the middle level , especially towards the east , may be said to be complete , and good progress is being made
on the others , with the exception of the northern loiver level , which , of course , is dependent on the embankment scheme . The beautiful weather with which the Dublin people were favoured , and AA'hich enabled them in such great numbers to visit the Channel Fleet , came to an end on Wednesday Aveek . A gale from the south-east , accompanied by incessant and heavy
rain , set in about midday , effectually putting an end to a ball that had been arranged to he given on board the Defence , making it impossible for any steamer to go alongside the ships , and detaining as prisoners about 700 ladies and gentlemen AVIIO had gone off to the vessels before the full fury of the gale AVAS felt . ToAvards midnight , however , the storm abated , and the
prisoners were released . Betiveen three and four o ' clock on Tuesday morning , the shock of an earthquake ivas distinctly felt in many parts of the country . In Manchester , the strange and startling phenomenon ivas perceptible to an alarming degree , but it Avould seem that at Liverpool and other places the upheaving AA'as still more marked and violent . At Congleton , for instance , a portion of a chimney w-as thrown CIOAVU . Most persons , of course , were in bed AA'hen the shock ivas
experienced ; and it is , therefore , difficult to get more than a very confused notion of the occurrence—its duration , force , and the direction of the undulations . It AA'as also felt at Newport , Hereford , Wolverhampton , Worcester , Leicester , Windsor , and other places , and AA'as as close to London as Notting-hill . ¦ The garotte season appears to have commenced . A poor
labourer was attacked the other night in Chelsea , knocked doAvn , and robbed of his humble earnings ; and though one of his assailants ivas captured , the victim has been terrified by the ruffian ' s associates into a refusal to prosecute . In Shoreditch a still worse case has occurred , ivhere an itinerant vendor of German sausages ivas knocked doivn and robbed , and has since
died from the effect of the blows . The murderer , ivho secured a booty of about 9 s ., escaped , and there is no clue to him . A case is also recorded Avhere an artist ivas robbed and brutally ill-treated at Jlile-end . The annual meeting of the Social Science Association ivas opened at Edinburgh on Wednesday . Lord Brougham , in his inaugural address , reviewed not merely
the salient incidents of the year's progress in ivhat may strictly be called social science , but also the more prominent political questions ivhieh have been engaging the attention of the AA-orld during the past tivelve months . Tho insurrection in Poland , the " unity" movement in Germany , the French intervention in Mexico , the French occupation of -Rome , and the war in America
Avere all referred to by the noble Lord . He deplored the atrocities committed by the agents of the Russian government in Poland , but deprecated a resort to foreign intervention in favour of the Poles . France , by tiie continued presence of her troops iu Rome , ivas guilty of a serious injustice to Italy ; and her intervention in Mexico might , " by no remote possibility , lead to
an amicable intercourse ivith the South—not , perhaps , against the North , but in formal recognition of the secession , and in breach of the blockade . " ' This would manifestly tend to pro-
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The Week.
" miscellaneous , " together , there is a decrease of , in round numbers , £ 210 , 000 . All the other items show au increase , —the improvement in the Excise revenue amounting to £ 318 , 000 . As a set-off against the diminution in the quarter ' s receipts Mr . Gladstone has the satisfaction to know that the revenue for the year ended on Wednesday last ivas higher by £ 300 , 000 than
that for the twelve months immediately preceding it . The returns collected " by the Central Relief Committee continue to show au improvement in the condition of the cotton-manufacturing districts . In the last week of September , 267 , 9 . 82 operatives were working full time , and 160 , 835 short time , Avhilst 101 , 198 were wholly unemployed . Comparing these
figures with the tables furnished at the close of August , we find that tha number out of work has decreased by 14 , 702 , while the number * iii full time has increased by 25 , 537 . At the last meeting of the committee , it ivas resolved to make an appeal to the public for donations of clothing , Avhich ivill be greatly needed during the ensuing winter by the factory
operatives who will be employed on works undertaken under the set of last session . It appears that the Poor-law Board has already received applications for grants under the Public Works Act amounting in the whole to £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The agricultural statistics collected in Ireland in June and July last , reveal several foots of considerable interest . It appears
that the extent of land under crops of all kinds this year falls below that of 1862 by 93 , 431 acres , but notwithstanding this , the Registrar General estimates that this year's harvest will ho more valuable than that of last year by " several" millions sterling . There is also a serious falling-off in live stock—the country being poorer in this respect by about a million and a quarter sterling . Our readers will be prepared far the fact that there has been a great increase in the emigration from
Ireland during the present year . In the seven months ending the 31 st of July , no fewer than 80 , 508 persons left the sister kingdom for distant lands , an increase of 34 , 307 as compared with the corresponding period of 1 SS 2 . —It is officially announced that Sir Roundell Palmer has been appointed Attorney General , and Jlr . Collier , M . P ., Solicitor General .
The colonelcy of the 2 nd Regiment of Life Guards , vacant by the death of Earl Baauchamp , has been conferred on the Marquis of Twcedale , and General Cameron succeeds to the colonelcy of the 43 nd Highlanders , vacated by the marquis . In a speech at Hitcliin , Sir E . B . Lytton spoke of the ,: startling and Gudden changes" ivhieh mark the times iu ivhieh Ave live . All
foreign countries , he said , " while they have gone in one direction against forms of government based on absolute despotism , equally discovnMge systems that are based on unmitigated democracy ; " and he thought it probable that the close of the present century would see constitutional monarchy established throughout tho whole of the civilised Avorld . He ridiculed the
American notion of persuading " Canada to desert the old union jack for tho flag of the stars and stripes , just at the moment when that flag is so torn in two that the stars are gone , and the stripes remain . " About 100 friends of the Confederate States lately met at the Clarence Hotel , Jlanchoster , under the presidency of Lord W . ' iarncKft ' ., and resolved upon the
amalgamation of two societies which ivere formed some time ago for tho purpose—as ive have understood—of influencing public opinion iu this country in favour of the immediate recognition of the independence of the Southern Confederacy . Lord Whamcii .- ' e addressed tha meeting at some length , urging in the course of his speech that it now became the duty of
"the friends of the South" to endeavour to show that Lord Russell A-.-as labouring under a delusion when he stated the other day at Blairgowrie that the sympathies of the majority of
Englishmen were with the Northern States . At the last meeting of the Metropolitan Board of AVorks , the plans of the engineer for the embankment of the north side of the Thames from Waterloo Bridge to the east end of the Temple Gardens ivas sanctioned , and proposals ivere directed to be issued for contractors to tender estimates for the Avork . The Aveste . rn portion of
the Avork had previously been tendered for . The engineer reported on the progress of the main drainage , from Avhich it appeared that the outfall is now connected Avith some portions of the different levels and is discharging their sewage into the river at Barking ; that the middle level , especially towards the east , may be said to be complete , and good progress is being made
on the others , with the exception of the northern loiver level , which , of course , is dependent on the embankment scheme . The beautiful weather with which the Dublin people were favoured , and AA'hich enabled them in such great numbers to visit the Channel Fleet , came to an end on Wednesday Aveek . A gale from the south-east , accompanied by incessant and heavy
rain , set in about midday , effectually putting an end to a ball that had been arranged to he given on board the Defence , making it impossible for any steamer to go alongside the ships , and detaining as prisoners about 700 ladies and gentlemen AVIIO had gone off to the vessels before the full fury of the gale AVAS felt . ToAvards midnight , however , the storm abated , and the
prisoners were released . Betiveen three and four o ' clock on Tuesday morning , the shock of an earthquake ivas distinctly felt in many parts of the country . In Manchester , the strange and startling phenomenon ivas perceptible to an alarming degree , but it Avould seem that at Liverpool and other places the upheaving AA'as still more marked and violent . At Congleton , for instance , a portion of a chimney w-as thrown CIOAVU . Most persons , of course , were in bed AA'hen the shock ivas
experienced ; and it is , therefore , difficult to get more than a very confused notion of the occurrence—its duration , force , and the direction of the undulations . It AA'as also felt at Newport , Hereford , Wolverhampton , Worcester , Leicester , Windsor , and other places , and AA'as as close to London as Notting-hill . ¦ The garotte season appears to have commenced . A poor
labourer was attacked the other night in Chelsea , knocked doAvn , and robbed of his humble earnings ; and though one of his assailants ivas captured , the victim has been terrified by the ruffian ' s associates into a refusal to prosecute . In Shoreditch a still worse case has occurred , ivhere an itinerant vendor of German sausages ivas knocked doivn and robbed , and has since
died from the effect of the blows . The murderer , ivho secured a booty of about 9 s ., escaped , and there is no clue to him . A case is also recorded Avhere an artist ivas robbed and brutally ill-treated at Jlile-end . The annual meeting of the Social Science Association ivas opened at Edinburgh on Wednesday . Lord Brougham , in his inaugural address , reviewed not merely
the salient incidents of the year's progress in ivhat may strictly be called social science , but also the more prominent political questions ivhieh have been engaging the attention of the AA-orld during the past tivelve months . Tho insurrection in Poland , the " unity" movement in Germany , the French intervention in Mexico , the French occupation of -Rome , and the war in America
Avere all referred to by the noble Lord . He deplored the atrocities committed by the agents of the Russian government in Poland , but deprecated a resort to foreign intervention in favour of the Poles . France , by tiie continued presence of her troops iu Rome , ivas guilty of a serious injustice to Italy ; and her intervention in Mexico might , " by no remote possibility , lead to
an amicable intercourse ivith the South—not , perhaps , against the North , but in formal recognition of the secession , and in breach of the blockade . " ' This would manifestly tend to pro-