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The Election Auditor for Great Yarmouth has published his return of the expenses incurred at the late contest for the representation of that borough ; they form a striking contrast to the statement we published last week of the expenses of the East Suffolk contest :- " The expenditure of the successful Conservative candidate [for Yar- mouth], Sir E. II. K. Lacon, M.P., and Sir II. J. Stracey, M.P., is stated to have been 8091. 158. ; while the disbursements of Messrs. Watkin and Young, the unsuccessful Liberals, are returned at 6031. 17s. 6d. Among the items which make up the Liberal expenditure is 251. for reports of speeches, and considering the enormous length to which these extended the amount seems very reasonable."

For Truro the expenses were—Mr. Augustus Smith, 2161. 8s. 10d.; Mr. Montague Smith, 3631.08. 4d. ; and the Honourable Captain Vivian, 247/. 11s.

For the borough of' Malden, Essex—Mr. Thomas Sutton Western, 547/. 6a. 3d. ; Mr. G. W. M. Peacocke, 571/. 168. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Meyrick, 8271. 6s. 7d. Before a Commission appointed to inquire into certain alleged charges of bribery in the borough of Malden, it was stated by the late Mr. Quintin Dick that in a few years he had expended no less than 27,0001. in contesting the representation of this borough in the Conservative interest.

A most extraordinary number of objections have been made both by the Conservative and Liberal Registration Associations against electors who are entitled to vote for the return of representatives from the county of Middlesex to the House of Commons.

The controversy on the subject of barristers taking more briefs than they can attend to, is continued this week by " A Barrister of Fifteen Years' Standing," in a letter to the Times. Amongst other things he says :-

" A barrister receives fees he knows he cannot earn, on the principle that he is retained not only for, but so as to prevent his appearing against his client, and he trusts to chance to take part, if it be only for a few minutes, in the cause. . . . A barrister may hand over to others, who having no business are glad to get something to do, the briefs lie cannot himself attend to, but not the fees. This also is plain dishonesty, for the labourer ought to be worthy of his hire ; and the man who does the work ought to have the pay." The writer exculpates the solicitors from blame in patronizing "well- known men," for the clients " insist upon having, at any cost and at any risk, the advocate whose name is up."

The letters of allotment of the Indian Loan are endorsed outside "On her Majesty's Service ; " the stock receipts prepared by the Bank of England are identical in foim (though, of course, distinguished by verbal alterations) with those of Console ; and the transfers will be effected in the same office at the Bank of England where transfers of Bank stock and of the Reduced Three per Cents take place. With the provision that the dividends on the new stock shall he payable at the same time and place as those on British Government securities the public are al- ready familiar. The Act of Parliament declares that the present loan is raised " on the credit of the revenues of India; " yet in every point the arrangements are so framed as to convey an impression that tho new stock has something in common with the securities of the British Go- vernment. There is not the slightest doubt, too, that these arrange- ments have already attracted, and will continue to attract, numerous bond fide investments. One of two conclusions must be accepted : either these forms signify absolutely nothing—in which case it is disingenuous to parade them for the possible mystification of the ignorant investor— or they really possess a certain significance, and, in conjunction with the solemn assumption of the Government of India by the British crown, help to fasten upon British shoulders both a moral and a pecuniary re- sponsibility. In the latter case, why is the money raised at 51 per cent ? —Daily News, City Article.

Our copper coinage is to be improved. Government inspectors find it in a bad condition. The old penny is worth almost half as much again as the new one—for the reason, that the old penny was coined at the rate of six- teen in the pound, the new one at the rate of twenty-six. One-third of the copper coins in circulation require renewal, and by the mode proposed by Government for that renewal, although an outlay of 50,0001. will be re- quired in the first instance, this expense will be entirely covered by the profit arising from the change of material and weight. The new copper coinage will not affect any question of the currency or computation. IL will leave all such matters exactly where they were ; nor will it have anything to do with the decimal question ; it will merely be. the substitution for the present coins of pieces harder and more convenient. It is stated in the City article of the flaws that few or no policies of in- surances have been taken out on the Great Eastern at Lloyd a, the under- -writers being generally unwilling to transact any business until the com- pletion of the trial trip. Almost the only reason assigned for this course is the possibility of the vessel's not getting safely out of the Thames.

A military concert and quadrille band, under the managemnet of Mr. George Macfarlane, will attend the passengers of the Great Eastern on its trial trip to America. Several able musicians have been engaged.

" One of Green's Mids " writes to the Times to explain the strict supervision and discipline in the service to which he belongs, for securing the " complete readiness" of the boats for emergencies :-

" Every night at eight o'clock the fourth officer goes round to each boat sepa,

rately and sees that all is in complete readiness for lowering, and re- ports the same to the captain. The rule is never departed from under any circumstances, and if it were adopted in every merchant-ship we shot, hear no more of such disasters as that which befel the Alma."

The Right Reverend Bishop Carr has resigned the rectory of Bath in con- sequence of his state of "hopeless paralysis."

The Reverend F. B. Falkner, M.A., late scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been appointed to the Mastership of Brackley Grammar School, in the gift of Magdalene College, Oxford.

The Venerable Archdeacon of Ely, whose melancholy death in the passes of the Pyrenees was recently announced in the Times, was buried on Sunday the 21st of August last in the south-east corner of the cemetery at Luchon ; the service being performed by the French Protestant pastor of Toulouse.

A marriage is arranged, says the Post, between Mr. William George Granville Vernon Harcourt, son of the Reverend W. V. Harcourt, canon of York, and grandson of the late Archbishop of York, and Miss Lister, daughter of Lady Theresa Lewis, step-daughter of Sir George C. Lewis, and niece of the Earl of Clarendon and Lord John Russell.

Mr. Simpson has purchased the remaining eleven years of the lease of the Surrey Gardens for 30001. Tho grounds are to be converted into a jardin d'hiver with skating on the lake.

On Wednesday, at the meeting of the Sunderland Board of Guardians, an old woman named Chapple, the wife of a miner at Usworth Colliery, was introduced, and applied to the Board for permission to adopt a boy named John Ward from the workhouse. She said she was not all related to the bov, but did not think she could be happy without a boy to look after. She adopted one about seven years ago, and brought him up, till he recently got married and left her. Her husband was a religious man—a member of the Wesleyan Methodist body—and they had lived nineteen years at the same colliery. The boy would have a comfortable home, and be well provided for, educated, and put to a trade. After a little conversation the guardians agreed to accede to the old lady's benevolent request, and to supply the boy with a respectable suit of clothes, as Mrs. Chapple said she would like to have something better than corduroys for him to put on upon Sundays. The boy, a stout, chubby-faced little fellow, of eleven or twelve years of age, seemed to be rather intelligent, and signed his name in a very good hand.

A chemist of Lyons spilt some hydrochloric acid on a terrace and found that ithardened the spot ou which it had fallen and maintained it in a state of permanent moisture. Experiments are now being made in that town. for laying the dust of public promenades with a solution of the acid, and it looks like a success.

The Canada Kingston Herald and Advertiser in a leading article on the 12th of August, advocates the formation of local Rifle Clubs to protect the colony in case England should be engaged in war.

At Nantes, a few days ago, a party of seven priests, a young man, pupil of an ecclesiastical college, together with two men and a boy, went fishing in a boat in the neighbourhood of St. Nizaire. A sudden gust of wind threw the boat on one side, the party collected on the other side, and this caused the boat to upset. They were all precipitated into the water. Some of them clung to the boat for some time, but eventually all were drowned except one of the priests and the boy, who swam ashore.

Parana having declared war against Buenos Ayres, the latter has not only accepted the challenge, but through its War Minister' Senor Velez- Sarsfield, puts forth a declaration that the war will, on its part, be con- ducted in the mildest manner. She will recognise no enemy but the soldier who attacks, and no hostile property but his munitions of war. In the river commerce the neutral flag shall cover merchandise. No restrictions shall be imposed on foreign commerce, except in case of goods contraband of war; nor are vessels to be detained except upon certain assurance that they have on board goods contraband. The Minister promises to go even further than the United States in respecting the property of individuals, and at the same time admits that the United States are now in advance of the other great powers in this respect. One reason for this moderation is, that Pa- rana and Buenos Ayres are both members of the Argentine Confederation, and that most of the commerce exposed to the vicissitudes of the war will be confederate commerce. Goods contraband of war are defined to be simply arms employed for warlike purposes. No prize courts are to be established, nor privateering authorised.—Boston Courier.

The Registrar-General returns the number of deaths last week at 1217, an increase of 29 on the previous week, but a decrease of 3 on the average for the corresponding weeks in the last ten years. The mean temperature was 60'6°. The health of London is now in an average state.

Arrangements have been made for holding the next meeting of the Insti- tution of Mechanical Engineers at Leeds, on Tuesday, the 6th, and Wed- nesday, the 7th of September.

Mr. E. J. Lowe, of beaten Observatory, says, "there can be no doubt as regards the earthquake shocks in Norfolk ; on examining my pendulum I find that a perceptible movement from west to east has taken place." -

The oldest of eight horned owls which have occupied the niches of Arundel Castle for generations, has just died. She was about a hundred years old ; bad been blind for the past twenty years ; and died from physical exhaus- tion. Her name was Lord Thurlow.

The Talky Tan copies the following statistics of Mormon population :- " The population of Mormons in the United States and British dominions in 1856 was not less then 68,700—of which 38,000 were resident in Utah, 5000 in New York State, 4000 in California, 5000 in Nova Scotia and the Canadas, and 9000 in South America. In Europe there were 30,000—of which 22,000 were in Great Britain and Ireland,16000 in Scandinavia, 1000 in Germany and Switzerland, and in France and the rest of Europe, 1000; in Australia and Polynesia, 2400 ; in Africa, 100 ; and on travel, 2800. To these if we add the different schismatic branches, including Strangeites, Rigdenites, and Whiteites, the whole sect was not less than 126,000. In 1837 there appears to have been a decrease in the population of Utah—the number being only 31,022; of which 9000 were children, about 11,000 women, and 11,000 men capable of bearing arms. There are 388 men with 8 or more wives ; of these 13 have more than 19 wires, 780 men with 5 wives, 1100 with 4, and 2400 with more than 1 wife. Recapitulation- 4617 men, with 16,600 wives."