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wards he insisted upon the advantages of offering rewards to labourers for long service , and also [ pointed out the desirability of providing decent cottage accommodation for the labourers . Professor Fawcett has taken the bull by the horns . In order to ascertain bow much or how little truth there is in the imputations which have recently been made against the ivorking

classes in Sheffield , Jlr . Fawcett on Tuesday evening attended a numerous meeting of the members of the file trade . In answer to his questions they denied emphatically that they countenanced trade outrages , that they offered more than a passive resistance to the introduction of machinery , or that they were favourable to the employment of children of tender

years in the workshops . It is pretty certain that whatever evils may exist among the labouring classes of Sheffield they would soon give way if the example of Professor Fawcett were more generally followed . The Hereford town council , as we learn by telegram , has determined to exclude all horned stock from the great cattle fair in that city . In Sussex , too , it has

been resolved to put a stop to fairs and markets . During the last two or three days a storm of considerable severity has raged on the north-east coast , and tbe reports , from Shields especially , are more distressing than any we have received for a long time past . The loss of the Medara , with all hands , has been followed by other casualties almost as tragic . It is ,

however , gratifying to find that the lifeboats of tbs National Association have done much to prevent that loss of life which , but for their assistance , could not have been averted . FOEEIGW IXTEIMGENCE . —Baron Eotvos , the distinguished Hungarian statesman and author , who generally stands in politics by the side of Francis Deak , has issued an address to the electors of Buda . He deals , of course , largely with the Imperial manifesto . The spirit of his address is decidedly

conciliatory , and lie acknowledges his willingness to go a certain length in the way of compromise , but he insists strongly on the maintenance of the fundamental conditions of Hungarian independence . Cholera appears to be rapidly dying out in the East . According to the Levant Herald , the last traces of the disease have disappeared from Smyrna . The French Government appears to be determined to grapple with the evil of cholera

at its very source . A report has just been published in which MM . Drouyn de L'Huys and Behic recommend that a diplomatic conference be held to improve the sanitary condition of the East , on the ground that the pestilence was introduced into Egypt by Mussulman pilgrims . Mecca is undoubtedly a nursery of the cholera , but we feel convinced that wherever there is

dirt or foul air , there another hotbed of it may easily be established . The Austrian , Gazette states that the conclusion of the new loan may . now be regarded as an accomplished fact . The authorities of AVarsaw have received a notification that the state of siege in the kingdom of Poland is to conclude with the present year . They are therefore instructed to make out

a scale of legal punishments for offences to be adjudicated by the police tribunals . AVhetber Poland is much worse off during a state of siege than under the ordinary Russianised administration of the law may well be considered doubtful . There is some talk in Paris about a political mission to Florence , with wliich Count AValewski is to be charged . There is , however ,

only vague conjecture as to the object of the mission . The King and Queen of Portugal left Biarritz for Bordeaux on Tuesday evening . They were accompanied to the railway station by the Emperor and Empress of the French . The official journal of Rome is at much pains to assure the world that the Pope in his late allocution spoke wholly from promptings of his own conscience , and that the expressions he employed were in nowise strengthened ov modified by any foreign influence .

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The reason of this explanation is that some papers alleged that the French Government had insisted upon the suppression of certain expressions in the allocution relative to tbe funeral of Marshal Magnan . Austria , ive are informed on good authority , has agreed to accept a pecuniary compensation for the surrender to Prussia of her claims upon Schleswig-Holstein . —— .

Tbe Parliament of Norway has been opened by the King . AMERICA . —By the arrival of the Asia we have news from New York to the 28 th September . The Alabama State Convention had adopted the ordinance abolishing slavery , and had declared negroes entitled to rights from which they have hitherto been excluded . The work of reconstruction goes on

in South Carolina and elsewhere . Mr . Johnson had had an interview with the Brazilian Minister , and explained to him how friendly was the policy '_ of the United States , and how completely that policy recognised henceforth no labour but free labour . A story is given in the Panama Star which deserves notice . That paper alleges that H . JI . S . Devastation had sailed

in pursuit of the Shenandoah , and that the captain had declared if he caught that craft he ivould treat her as a pirate . Gold on the 28 th was quoted at 144 . The telegram of news brought by the City of Boston has one especially interesting paragraph . It says that Captain Hall , the American Arctic explorer , has ivriiten from the Arctic regions , under date "December , 1864 , stating that he had information from the natives leading bim to believe that there may yet be three

survivors of Franklin's expedition , including Cromer , who succeeded to the command of the party after Sir John Franklin ' s death . Everybody here will hope that this information may turn out to be true , but most of us will doubt it . The dates from New York are to the 30 th September . The work of reconstruction appears to bo steadily progressing . The South Carolina Convention had formally repealed the secession

ordinance and abolished slavery , and the Alabama Convention had repudiated the Confederate debt . It is stated that the State Department has requested all persons who have suffered from rebel cruisers or raids , to send in theii- claims , which will be presented to the British Government for settlement . Gold on the SOfcli September was quoted at 144 .

INDIA , CHINA , & O . —We have telegraphic news from Bombay to the Oth September . The rainfall had been abundant , and the crops were looking well . Sir Bartle Frere held a durbar at Poonali on the Sth , and addressed the chiefs in their own language . The Nawab of Chajulpore had been driven from his territories by an insurrection of bis subjects . The money

market of Bombay was easy . The more remote provinces of China seem to be sharing tho anarchy which has so long preyed upon that unhappy empire . A revolt lias taken place in AA ' estem Tartary , the immediate result being that tbe province of 111 has thrown off its allegiance to the Pekiu Emperor . Burgevine , the American filibuster , has been " drowned . " So the mandarins ominously report .

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* * * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , AA . C . F . G . —1 . AVe presume the question to be " Chapter" consecrated . It is customary that chapters should be consecrated , but we have known some chapters Opened without consecration . 2 . Tbe three Principals can open the chapter alone , but the other petitioners for the ivarrant ought to be present for

business . The salutations may then take place , and , when exalted , they aro eligible for election to every office below the chairs . Visitors generally make up the necessary number for business in opening a . new chanter .