The Express. — London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

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Reser" Reynold', Big wool, Clan n..n, and Leslie; Mesdames Comae Bosth, Mr. Doughty. Performing Dogs.—And ADMI TOR. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To-tla 7 —Manning, 7h. 35m. .Afternoon, EC 17m. To-DIA 'mow —Morning, ¶h. lim. .Altersoco„ Ula. 49m. NOTICL MIMICS/ of MIMS, limuusons. and Diann, IN reeedved ImUll2 o'clock for insertion same evening. Price Is. 61. A SECOND EDITION of the =PRESS, oorfrAnswo The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest Citt Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCT. 10. THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. AT the late Church Congress in Dublin one of the subjects of discussion was the atti tude of periodical literature towards religion. The proceedings commenced by what might be termed a counterblast against newspapers by Archdeacon LEE. He described the functions of journalism to be limited " to a machinery for re " ducing to method and rendering, as it wore, ar " ticulate, the confused utterances of what is " called public opinion." In this process the journals ground up, amongst other things, a large quantity of atheistic materialism, " known as the " Positive Philosophy," and presented it in leading article forms to the general reader. The religion of huminity,' as it is called, has its apostles amongst the editors and contributors of all sorts of papers. This was not the case always, though it was in the days of LUCIAN, Of CELSUS, of STRAUSS. WILSON, DE QUINCY, JEFFREY, MACAULAY, and Scorr, were not as irreverent or as rationalistic as modern writers. Thus does the venerable Archdea con procetd, him words obtaining a certain commu nicative power as he advances. Is this charge true in the first place If the Press is bold towards the Church, surely some of her bishops and preachers have been at least equally audacious. In fact, those special topics of discussion referring to supernatural and eternal interests are usually left untouched within the protection of the clerical folds until they are started into the light of com mon day by one of their own eltstodian s. What then follows is simply that the newspapers &al with them in the course of business, as generally with a cautious regard for the, feelings of their, supporters. This is the lowest ground of reason , for prudence, and the ,press. is influenced by more creditable motives, but this ono at least should not have been overlooked by the Arch deacon. Neitherblasphemy nor atheism would pay. As for the scepticism—what is a aseptic ? Is Col ENBO sceptic ?—is Mr. MAURICR P—is Mr. MAR TEINEAII ? Archdeacon Lau admits the difficulty of interfering, conceiving that a case for interference exists, and he speaks of " calmly accepting the " situation while we deplore the fact that a seep " tical tone of thought should prevail, inviting the " expression Of that thought rather than seeking "to drown its utterance." This is a wise resolve considering that no Church Congress in this country without, a Pope ea its president, could venture to stop the papers from oommenting on religious questions. Further on the Arch deacon tone us, that after all it is bettor that there should be plain speaking in ' such matters than whispered incredulity. Then comes his great point. Let it be a fair fight on both sides. The Church is ready to do battle for her belief and her authority with the Press, but the Press, by the system ,f anonymity, has an undue advantage. " The legitimate influence of perio " dical literature can be maintained solely by the " force of truth and the weight of argument. To " seek to add to this influence something over and " above what the appeal to reason bestows, is to " convert the freedom of the prose into an atm " lute despotism. There is at present a kind of " corporate power in journalism the existence of " which depends on the authorship of the dif " ferent leading articles, or reviews, or letters, in " serted being concealed—a power which would "at once disappear wore signatures enforced, " whether by law or by mutual convention." Admitting that this is correct, and that the proposition cunningly wrapped up in it is true—namely, that this " corporate " power" has been generally used for mischief, lot us set against it the weight furnished to the other side by the names of bishops and the hierarchy attached to what they say or write, and in what direction does the balance of influence fall 1 1 We cannot enter into the old controversy about signed articles and essays with the Archdeacon. There may be some advantages in the principle he advo cates; but we fail to see the force of the logic on which he basei it. It does not seem to us that ho shows a sufficient courage in his cause when he is afraid to confront it with the Press until the Press has been cut up into divisions and groups upon which his artillery can be brought to play with convenience and comfort. The Church will fight Baowx, JONES, and ROBINSON, as Captain BOBADIL fought the army ; but the Church will not engage with those champions if they organise a newspaper. We are not taking aides with the sceptics in stating that no body has ever availed itself of " corporate power" and of other more awful powers and aid than the Church, and we are inclined to think that the Archdeacon's requirement will not meet with the sanction of many of his brethren, who must perceive on the face of it an expression of weakness which may thoroughly misrepresent them. Has not the Church its own press and its own periodical literature? There are tracts for tho million and delightful magazines for the masses, to say nothing of the Accord. The Rev. EDWARD JACKSON, of Leeds, who wound up the Congress meeting to which we are referring had " banded together about 30 young persons for the " purpose of soliciting orders for religions periodi " cals, and in the last year no less than 15,000 " copies of religious publications had been circu " lated amongst the young persons in the factories "of Leeds alone. If every clergyman attempted " this and succeeded to the same extent, there " would be no less than 150 millions of useful and " religious periodieals circulated yearly in England " alone." We may be pardoned for considering so magnificent a distribution a mitigated advan tage, bearing in mind the literary and even sacred value of the works to be disseminated. Banco doubt the Rev. E. Jecssofe means well, and so do all the members of this Congress. They will not, however, see any blame in themselves, We do not think the Press responsible for the scepticism of the age as they call it. Are the clergy free from intellectual narrowness? Have they done sufficient to ac commodate and reconcile certain apparent points of difference between the Scriptures and modern science ? Where do they attempt in reality to combat the spirit of which they complain ? There is plenty of respect for them, plenty of reverence for them ; but the Press cannot help reporting the proceedings of Convocation and the freaks of Ritualism. It is not the newspapers altogether that require reforming. The sympathies of the intelligent Press are towards religion, but it cannot close itself to the murmurs from without, to the vague questionings which aro often left disregarded and unnoticed by those who should attend to them, until at length they be come so definite and peremptory that journalists must &sculls them. It is comforting for us to read however, that the Bishop of DERRY considered that the official organs of the Church were harder upon ecclesiastics than the profane newspapers. His lordship took a mote cheerful view of things on the whole than Archdeacon Liz, and ho en couraged young clergymen to enter the lists of literature on behalf of the Church. This position need not to be delegated to recruits, and wo have a suspicion that there are as many young clergymen mixed up with literature or journalism at present as are wanted in either department. But let us have them by all means in preference to the amateur and profes sional tract hawkers of the Rev. EDWARD JACK SON. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY Nothing could be more incisive than the few lines which represent the epponen or of seduotion the franc/Ass pa afterwards passing a measure "Urger " and mare democredie than thei bill wadi, in " 1868, we were told, by t,Se highest authority " woold reduce our institutions to the pattern of " the American republic." The bile amended and almost transformed by the opposition, naturally present the marks of conflicting handiwork, and Mr. OLADIITOMB plainly. point& out one doted— the personal payment of rates—which has led to grievous inconvenience and vexation, and which under favourable auspices, the liberal party will endeavour to remove. With the authority and responsibility of his great eoonomical re putation, is re-stated the fact that the three millions which have been added by the present government to the public charges have not been justified by the demands of the public) service. Agricultural gentlemen will see with satisfaction that Mr. Out.teiTOwn is pledged to the principle of representation with regard to local burdens. Upon the subject of primary education, on which ever 7 syllable fall ing from the writer might be viewed with anxiety and perhaps even suspicion, the leader of the Op position marks the progress of opinion when he says that " it has become increasingly desirable " that the State should stand clearly apart from " responsibility for the teaching of particular and " conflicting creeds in schools aided by grants " from any national fund." The largest portion of the address is devoted to Ireland and its necessities. Every word should be read and weighed by thinking men. It is a small matter comparatively that the present Ministers were desirous to establish, at the charge of tho Exchequer, a Roman Catholic University, and to raise the status of the priesthood ; in the presence of an exigency so serious, past blunders claim but secondary consideration. The reminder that the Church of Ireland is negative for good, that it embitters political controversy, and carries the polemical temper into social life and public affairs, will not be disregarded by men who have sincerely at heart the interests of tho Protestant faith, while politicians will fool more than over bow indispensable a condition to tho con tentment of the sister country is the removal of the Establishment. Following con stitutional precedents, which common sense would endorse, Mr. Ch.snwrosE, it will be seen, after en forcing a spirit of equity in regard to detailed arrangements, leaves the disposition of tho pro perty which remains in the hands of the State, to the suggestion of those who are entrusted with administrative government, only promising that it would be inconsistent with the principle of the measure for which the Liberal party contend, if the State, after disestablishing the church, " were " to apply its funds to the teaching of religion in " any other form." Standing on this broad ground, Mr. GLADSTONE looks to the future with confidence. Ire appeals to the national honour, and to the intuitive love of justice, as well as to the country's interests, and we are persuaded ho will not bare done so in vain. MR. GLADSTONE'S ADDRESS. NEXT week the leader of the Liberal Opposition will, it is expected, meet his future constituents, and through them speak to the country. The written address which is published this morning has not the wealth of illustration and argument, or the smiting force which are peculiar to its author as an orator, but it puts before the English people calmly, and in singularly felicitous terms, the vital distinctions which exist alike between the course and the principles of Mr. Or.ancroind and Mr. Dulatau. The one, in contradistinction to the other, has no faltering in his accents, no hiatus in his case; no blurred • passages or distorted narrative. Not only is there nothing in the past to conceal, or in the future' to evade, there is everything which impels to frankness and publicity. The contrast in this reppect between the manifestoes of the two poll-; tics! Chiefs must, we think, strike oven the pre judi;ed reader. Mr. Outneroun's reference to the circum stances under which the proposals in his Re form Bill of 1886 were made, and to the result, though strictly historical and exceptionally brief, is in itself an effective politkal stroke. " EMINENT WOMEN." THE Westminster Review for the current quarter contains an essay entitled " The Suppressed Sox," the writer believing the term to be fairly de scriptive of woman and her condition. In America, he must allow, the sex has its duo bare of expansion. A publishing firm at Con necticut has just brought out a volume called " Eminent Women of the Age; being narratives " of the Lives and Deeds of the most Prominent " Women of the Present Generation ;" and if this is not appreciative, some women will never be pleased. The female contributors completely dis prove an old slander, for they hurl praises on every aide, and half bury particular friends under heaps of eulogy. Grum GREENWOOD pelts FANNY LIMN with the richest exotics of the language of Battery, while FANNY FERN has her revenge ia equally luxurious treatment of " GArr. liaxarors." Gaecff GREENWOOD in turn looks for justice to Mr. LYMAN, who is equal to the call. She is described as a CORINNE in her youth, but " rising up to the " full summit level of her time," and " with " faculties polished by long and diligent culture ; " a heart throbbing with every fine sensibility and " every generous emotion ; a large, warm, " exuberant nature; a ripe and glorious woman " hood ;" sure of worthy achievement and lasting fame in " such a wondrous mother age." Mr. TILTON Sets himself to pourtray Mrs. Swerox, " a radiant and sparkling woman, full of wit, " mason and fancy, and in conversation a second " Madame de STAEL." Mrs. STANTON, the new Madame do STAEL, herself writes of the champions of the woman's rights movement, and says all sorts of generous things of many who are now with drawn from public) life. She mentions the " rare " gifts as orators" displayed by ANGELINA GRIMM and ABBY KELLEY; "the terse and " finished writing, the vigorous thought, and high " moral principle of gentle, refined, unobtrusive " MARY GREW ; the beauty of Mrs. PHILLIPS; " the modest grace and winning sweetness of " lanY Hurcmiesos ; the magnetic eloquence of " LL7CY STONE, and the heroic work of Mrs. Mort" Mrs. STANTON also writes the story of ANNA DICKINSON'S labours and triumphs--" the won " derful story of the beautiful and proud girl who " at twenty saw the nation at her feet ; who was " called by despairing Republicans to save the " country from wreck; who swept through the " land withering her enemies with her burning " wrath ; and, gathering up reluctant. States, " threw them, as her woman's offering, into the " Republican scale, and saved us !" These ladies are not " suppressed " by any means. They are directly before the public eye, and mean to re main there. Yesterday afternoon the captain and crew, 15 in number, of the ship Disraeli, were landed at Dover, from a Deal lugger. In the late gales the ship sprung a leak and became waterlogged. The crew were picked np by a Prussian barque and trenefecred to a Deal lugger, from which they were landed at Dover and received at the Sailors' Home, where every pmeible attention was paid to their wants. Captain Semmes has made arrangameeta with a Baltimore Sim for the publication of his narrative of his cruises in the Sumter and Alabama. The volume will contain about 760 pages, and will be illustrated with pic tures of American sips destroyed by him. THE Duxz or Ei+ritovoon TN WlNowa FORM'. Yesterday morning, him Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant Haigh, left the Waterloo tannin= of the Loudon and South Western Railway, and proceeded by the 8 o'clock down train for • • I Windeor, for the purpose of having • day's W shft ilsor ia;h; Great Part. H royal higbnem arrived at at 9.5 Lei., sad was received by Ur. Cheessisan. the station- master. The diar,e left tha station in • shooting break and four, and drove to the Great Park. After aver the royal °ordain and enjoying sorlq r :st- ei rate sport *wag the weltea ratt c w aborin,d, with eliCts, ham and Wa s drove to idoor station of etern P49la bi an e d left by the AO pm. up trate, WhiCh WITS at tot at 4.64 p.m. Him royal hips** wore I& costume and and as blo Alit le thr:r4 borough wee . tow pimple viter . arm' kit %bedlam loellefloommosiwor, i i V A NING, OCTOBER ,10, 1466. Utl R CONTEMPORARIfr23. (THIS DAY.) / • Mid bite Mallets on the Rugby ancrTaamington canof the Leados and North-Wadan Railway are the at comment is the flows and Des* Nam $ will be resemhered that the fasismiage between the chairs and the shows were detective, and gave way, and thus the raft could not retain the oerrisges, which left the line and tarried over the embankmeut. The liines says that a most dangerous inesearity must have pre vailed for some time along this line, and sup pimiento the directions of the government importer with the suggestion that the speed of the trains am, ander the ocaditiose, ezeseave. It is all very well to say that "if a line ia in proper order speed is nothing at all." That doctrine, so guarded, is doubtless true, bet bow many lines, especially branch lam, are actually in proper order? 714 AM remarks that Mr. Gladstone is ender the dis advantage, when liming an address, of having a definite and known policy, being inenble, therefore, to startle the world with any sensational serprble. Ite.fliadstette pro poses stag; Mr. Disraeli nothing. The Herald Wendel the minority clause, and with re gard to the City =preemie its beide that' a oonedderable section of the electors will gladly wales= with the con servatives in supporting a trio of candidates Who, both from their mimeos in the risroaniale world and their ability to represent the City with dignity and command leg infuenos, an admirably fitted to raters it to that position in the House of Commons which it is entitled to possess. The Daily Neva has received a letter from a tenant of the Earl of Lichfield, stating that many of his lordship's tenants, who are likely to rots for Colonel Dyott, who as a onesurvative opposes his lord ship's brother ' Major &woo, • liberal, have received notices to quit their holdings.. The Daily Nltas, observing that Lord Lichfield is a prominent antagonist of the tyranny of trades anions, expresses its difficulty in believing this statement to be correct, for the conduct Imputed is as bad as that which has seat many • wretch to prison and the gallows. It is intended to falsify the record of national opinion on the great question sub mitted to it. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Commenting upon Mr. Disraeli's address, the Saturday Seeing says it is set forth by authority as a con fession of faith to be henceforth substituted by °enures tire candidates for their own vague or schismatic utter ances. Their leader has perceived that many of them, in default of guidance, were wandering into general phrases scarcely distinguished from liberal commonplaces. Some of them have intimated that the Reform Bill went too far, or that it was still imperfect ; or perhaps they espreered their willingness to reform abuses in the Irish church, while they opposed total epoliation. If the anarchy of conservative opinion had been prolonged, there was reason to fear that the party would, for the sake of bare life, sacrifice all its reasons for living. Mr. Disraeli himself has on some occasions shown on a large scale the same appreciation of the advan tages of simple vitality; but a mob of candidates cannot be trusted to educate itself, or to discern the proper occa sion for overbidding an adversary. If servo-comic adroit ness is a kind of art, Mr. Disr►eli never showed himself a more complete artist; but all intellectual triumphs aro more or lees in accordance with truth and nature, and cynical contempt for the human understanding is not the quality of a statesman. It is the very graved calamity for the conservative yarty, remarks the Spectator, that it should be led by a man who neither does nor eau give the weight of conviction to his manifesto. of policy and his cries to arms. There are those who wish that the liberals were led by a man more of Mr. Diareeli's type, who, instead of Mr. Gladstone's grave and earned faith, could show some of that reckless destruc tiveness, that mockery of traditional usage, that ase of the true guerilla warrior, which Mr. Disraeli disguise with difficulty under the solemn mask of • political schoolmaster. Liberalism is appre hended by some,—the mod unmanaguble and mischievous of their party. it is true,—as a mere disorganizing power, whets function it is to assail continually the venerable fictions of the world ; and at the same time, most institu tions embodying any real idea are, in the eyes of such men, mere venerable fictions. Now, we cannot wonder that such as these should fret under the lead of a man of such positive cha racter as Mr. Gladstone. But while there is a certain superficial plausibility in misrepresenting the party of 'movement as • party of reckless and destructive instincts, which needs • leader of like character, there is nothing but inconsistency, both superficial and profound, in having for the leader of conservatives, for the official protector of our "ancient institutions," for the solemn champion of all that is venerable, for the wise and cautious states man who disbuds change, one who cannot say a word in his appropriate part without over-acting it, and inspiring, not sympathy and respect, but a certain puzzlement among the credulous and amusement everywhere else. The lonian Berkey observes that the blundering tactics of the liberals in many parts of the Empire—the selfish ambition of some, the vanity of others, and it may be the treachery of not a few—are placing in serious peril •await which at one time was regarded as beyond a ques tion. The hberals have been dividing their forces until they have placed themselves in some danger of being beaten in their chief strongholds by a party inferior to them in numbers, but superior in a know ledge of the art of political warfare. It would however, be easy to avoid this result, if men would only make the good of their party, rather than their own glorification, the measure and end of their political action. The active canvass that is carried on for weeks and mouths previously to an election shows with sufficient accuracy the probable leanings of the mass of voters ; and any candidate who sees that, without securing his own success, he is endangering the chances of other candidates of the same colour, and risking the seat to the whole party, should be regarded as a traitor to tho cause which he affects to servo. The En:miser thinks there is reason for thankfulness that Mr. Disraeli has est neither a controversialist nor a .ritualist to rule at Peterborough. Without giving an opinion as to the personal fitness of the new bishop to administer spiritual jurisdiction in the Fen country, oar contemporary fully recognises the importance of such an exercise of the royal prerogative. The appointment of Dr. Magee is a threatening notice of what may come of literalism applied to legislation in ecclesiastical affairs. It is a warning not to be mistaken and not likely soon to be forgotten by English political zealots and clerical poli ticians, not to talk nonsense they do not moan about the Irish Church being one with their own. A now weekly newspaper is advertised under the name of Progress. It is to advocate " Church and State Principles and Protectionist Politica, and to counter act Schismatic and other Publications, miscalled Reli. giouL" Mr. Leighton is travelling in Egypt. Mr. Ma mma Hunt, alter a sojourn in Naples, has returned—for a short time—to Florence, whence he will proceed to the East. Among the books recently presented to the library of the Hartley Institution in Southampton is a copy of Milton's " Paradise Lost," published by subscrip tion by Jacob Tolson in 1720. It is • WV volume of upwards of 600 pages, and contains, besides the great poem, a list of subscriber, Barrow's Leda and Andrew Marvel's English lines and Addison's essays on it. Mil ton's short preface justifying blank terse, and an index to the poem. Among the subscribers' name are Alex ander Pope, Sir Isaac NewtoniKetthew Prior, Dr. John Arbuthnot, and Thomas racket/. In 1720 the poem had been written upwards of 60 years sod had been previously published, and yet ft had to be published by subscription. A curious discussion took place at the last meet ing of the Belfast presbytery. A " call " was handed in, from a congregation near Granath, which pledged itself to give the munificent salary of 451. per annum to the, minder named in it--a Mr. William Moore. The Roy. Mr. Johnston said he was exceedingly sorry to see a con gregation that numbered scene of the most wealthy and respectable persona in the preebyterian church amongst, its members erasing forward and offering the petty sum of 461. a year. One of the gentlemen in connexion with th a t congregation had an annual revenue of 9,0001., while another, who was legb sheriff of the elettetEs woo able to receive the representative of their church in a eaniegeasd fens. Hoe than gentlemen mid expect their pastor was to be a gentleman sad a Cisisilaa• as 461. a yeer was mete lien he scald make out. Mit a lcbg di, w e * I t we, molted to head the "se" is Mt. ' • *cillit:l the Court. BALIIORLL OAHTLIS. Oar. 8. The QuoS., aocrompaniod by Princes Louise, went out yesterday teaming. In the afternoon the Queen drove out, accompanied by Prince= Meanies end the Princess of Teck. Prince Leopold drove out. The Prism and Printer of Wales, aecompanied by Prince John of Gluoksburg, and attended by the Ron. Wm. Coke, General Sir William linollya, and Major Tees dale, arrived at Marlborough-house yesterday morning front Scotland. Their Royal Higherres Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, Princess Louise, and Princess Victoria of Wales, arrived at Mariboraigh.boure or Thursday morning direct from Duarobia Castle. The Prince of Wales rode out, attended by Lieutenant- COlona Kappa. The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon, attended by the lion. Yrs. Coke. Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel has succeeded MO: Tees dale as equerry-in-waiting to the Prinos of Wales. The marriage of Crofton J. B. Vandeleur, Cap tain 12th Lancers, only son of Crofton Vandeleur, Rm., of Werdene.town, county of Weetmeath, and the Hon. Nakao Yelverton, youngest daughter of Viscount Avon more, was celebrated, says the Dublin laming Mail, on Wednesday. The ceremony took place at Lorrba Church and was performed by the Archdeacon of Killaloe, as sisted by the Rev. I. C. Head, Rector of Terryglms. The bride wasattended by eight bridesmaids, viz., Lady Dora Hastinp, Has O'Connor, Miss Stoney, Hies Bally, Miss Emily Cole, Has Percy, and Has Hawes. Atter the cere mony, the company, who numbered between sixty and seventy, adjourned to Belle Isle, Lord Avonmore's seat. In the afternoon Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Vandeleur took their departure en rests to Killarney and Valenta. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OXFORD, &TIMMY MOBNING. This morning tho vice-chancellor publiahe 1 a letter received from Sir William Reathcote, announcing his retirement from the representation of the University on the ground of ill health. The letter was read in con vocation. Sir Roundel' Palmer is spokon of as the hon. baronet's probable sucammior. The ele ctions for open scholarships and fellowships at Magdalen, New, and University Colleges are not con cluded. MR. STANSFELD AND THE NAVAL EXPEX bITURB. HALIFAX. FBLDAT Num. This evening Mr. Stansfeld, M. 1 1., in address ing the joint committee of himself end Mr. Akroyd, replied to the speech of Lord H. Lennox. He said the noble lord seemed to think him (Mr. Stansfeld) a mere party politician and a party critic; but he denied that position, and had alike criticised the expenditure of both liberal and conservative administrations. He had always endeavoured to do the most exact justice to the heads of departments, whether liberal or conservative. With regard to the part of Lord IL Lennox's speech which dealt with his positive statements and figures, he would reassert ipsissintses rabic every statement, figure, and in ference he had drawn, and would undertake to show that it was he (Mr. Stausfeld) who had given a correct view of the policy and expenditure of a department which Lord H. Lennox was bound to represent, and which he undertook to defend. His (Mr. Stansfeld's) state ment was that in 1867 the conservative govern ment bad spent half a million more money than had been spent in the building of unarmoured vessels, which wore weak, slow, and entirely unadapted for fighting purposes. He re-asserted every figure and word of that speech. Lord H. Lennox had said that this half million was spent on armour-clad vessels, but he would prove that statement was the reverse of truth. Lord H. Lennox had said the estimates would prove it, which might do at Chichester, but would not do at Halifax, because there they knew the difference between estimates and accounts, and he would prove from both that his (Mr. Stansield's) statements wore right. He then quoted from a speech made by Mr. Corry in the last session of parliament, in which be showed that in the year 1867, a year in which Lord If. Lennox raid the extra half million was spent on armour clad ships, the actual expenditure on unarmoured vessels was 929.1141., and there was the extra half million. He then dealt with the remainder of the statements made by the Secretary to the Admiralty, and concluded by saying. that if Lord H. Lennox was willing to join the party who wished for administrative reform, they would willingly welcome him, but he must not take credit for being first to speak out on that question. By the permission of the Commander-in-Chief a contest in athletic sports will be held on Wednesday next, the 14th inst., at Beaufort-house, Walborn-green, between the gentleman cadets of the two military colleges of Wool wich and Sandhurst. The first stone of the Schubert Memorial is to be laid on the 12th of October. This evening tho Adelphi Theatre re-opens. A version of Monte Christ°, in which Mr. Webeter and Mr. Fechter take part, is the promised novelty. The new Alfred Theatre, late the Marylebont. opens this evening, under the management of Mi*s Amy Sedgwick. An Indian drama, entitled Rides Singh, is to be performed. M. Frederic Lem&itre is going through a round of hie favourite characters at the Ambigu Comique. Re has commenced with Georges in Tretele des de la Vie grim imam Mr. Horace Greeley's Autobiography, which ap peared in numbers in the New York Ledger, under the title " Recollections of a Buoy Life," has been revised by the author for publication in book form. Several loiters describing the meteor seen on the night of the ith are published. A coastguard station officer at Sandown, Isle of Wight, says About 11.53, while patrolling the shore, I observed a very brilliant meteor due south, dropping from a great height, appa rently at an angle of about 46 to the horizon, in an easterly direction. At first it appeared like a small ball of fire, but it enlarged very rapidly, and, in about two seconds, increased to such a size as to obscure the moon and burst at last into what seemed like variegated stars, springing from a body which assumed the shape of a hug.. luminous diving-bell. I can liken it to nothing else." It was seen also at Brighton, Sandwich, Leytonstose, and other places. MEMORIAM WINDOW.—M will be remembered that the Hon. Alice Arbuthnot, daughter of the late Lord and Lady Elves, of Itishmoor Lodge, Wiltshire, was killed by lightning on her wedding tour, after her mar riage with Captain Arbuthnot, of the 14th Hussars, whilst ascending the Schalt/urn, one Of the Berms Alps, near Intarlachen, in Switzerland, on June 21, 1863. A handsome stained-glass window has just been placed in the east end of the north aisle of the parish church of Tolland R&M Wiltshire, to her memory. It is by Berlin!, cd Wan, and has three compartments. The small wooden cross erected by the peaeanti on the spot where the unfortunate lady fell, and which has been re placed by a marble one, hss been erected on the south side of the window. TEE CORNELL UNIVERSITY (UNITED STATES). — The Ithaca Jaw/6410t the 2.2nd ult., says the executive committee of the beard of trustees of the Cornell Uni versity have osingistad ths purchase of the Mineralogical Cabinet of Pro/mate Bonjusin Billinian, of Yale College, New Maven, while, has long been consi•leral one of the beet in the country. Professor Willman speaks in regard to it as follows:—" My col lection has been formed almost exclusively by my own personal exertions, during more than twenty /ears of active cyanoses as a collector in the field, and by the Mime of eachnnges Instituted from an early day with the most active collectors both in America and Europe." A rft of a chime of nine bells has been received from Miss Janie McGraw of Ithaca. The bells are to be cast by Mencely and Co., of Troy ' the tenor, or largest beg, ess ay 2, poands. Ea& bears as an lines from the beautiful poem on the Bells, in Tennyson's "In Memo risme." The following professors were chosen:— Professes of Rhstori• and Wey Hon. H. E amps, late Priasipil at Mete ; IC School of Connecticut. robasco rd Gansral Agriculture' Geobjf —Prof. C. C . F. Kart. at present et Oeolegy Botany y am , boo. r..,Ab 05 0.. Professor of Botany an d id eg us e asous.—PreE Prentiss, at present Pro roPe iocilto Ca Prot eg mor .c4 cl i gatt L Morris, of Ovid, N.Y. , OP Worn or Air. AT r 4 , IO IPrM 7 4 1 1. 4 W, •. FOREIGN NEWS, tTHIS DAY.) (=sown szarza's Loan ) THE SPANISH REVOLUTION. VIOLENT ATTACK UPON GONZALES BRAVO'S SECRETARY. THE NEW MINISTRY AND THE LEN ). CRATIC PARTY. MADRID. Oer. 9, R r The Secretary of the ex-Prime Minister (1. )1 ,, 4 ,;,. i Bravo he. been dangerously wounded by tilt: s t ,, in the street. General Prim made a speech from the balennyq his house blaming this outrage, and stros4., recommending the people to forget wrongs, and said that former servants of t 4. Crown ought rather to be spared than massaero.. The leaders of the democratic party have sgr.,o, to give the present ministry their imam provided it should continue in favour of a cratic solution of the pending questions. Rivoro declared this to the people whom dressed from the balcony of the . Ministry of Interior. BERLIN, OCT. 15, Several commercial firms in different parts 'J! the North German Confederation have petttx,, the Chancellor to despatch some men-of-war u, Spanish coast and Cuba for the protection interests of North German traders. The rts.s.,n this expedition is said to be that much pr..; of the Confederation, chiefly from Silesia, . Thuringia, and the Rhenish provinc. , s, i .. 4 exported to Spain and to hertransatlanti: Special stress is also laid upon the fa , :t t:, number of German firms, eetablished at t! • port of Barcelona and Dialogs, are interc-• FRANCE. PARLS, 1) - r Tho Emperor and the Empress are exp..;; arrive here on Monday next. RUSSIA. ST. PETERBIII7IIO, 0 1 . An imperial ukase permits soldiers to mtur. • their homes in such numbers as may be con3i convenient by the military authorities ; their • *- lough to last from the 13th instant to the 11_ April next year. The Russian papers publish advicee fmm - stating that an Englishman had there arrested on the charge of exciting the poop. sedition against the Porte. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, O. It is stated that a native militia is being f,r in Bulgaria, by the Porte fur the protectiou •.: frontier. AMERICA. YEW YORK, Ocr. Mr. Howell Cobb is dead. THE CONSPIRACY AT CONST,LNTINOi There seems to be now little doubt of th•- tenoe of a conspiracy at Constantinople, ai armed by the North Correspondence. not yet known with certainty whether att were actually made upon the life of the . . but the conspiracy is proved by the arrests w have just been made at Stamboul. The I pendance Beige publishes the following letter i. Constantinople, dated Sept. 29 : A great deal of attention has been given at Per, Stamboul to arrests made during the last few day, . • circumstances which lead to the supposition that of an unusually grave character. A plot a4a:•.•• safety of the state is freely talked about. Two Ili .•• • era of the imperial palace in the time of Abdul-Y. and who continued to be employed in the •. of the sons of the late Sultan, were arrested on F:. the village of Saint Stephan°, and taken before t! One of the prisoners is a Russian subject, the Greek. An Austrian lady was aftervrarsis arrest . • two or three females who were with her. . • immediately followed. Thu examination of the • . has been in private. I await fuller informati sending you further particulars ; but people's r: :..• •.• quite filled with this mysterious affair, which involve matter of a most serious nature. THE GOVERNOR-GENERALSHIP OF BRUNSWICK. The St. John's Trieraph, speaking of the C t3ocretary's despatch announcing the ths4ll. , A of the bill to reduce the Governor-General . says: . . There is nothing surer under the sun than that of Buckingham's despatch will not be ssocepted liameut in the stead of Dominion le:, : The opinion of one man or half a d 07 ., :1 in England, given to sustain the Isdditut _ . outragwusly extravagant salary on the : of tho Dominion, will not quietly bo . the place of the legislative action of those who to represent the aggrieved tax-payers—wh., un . their means, their circumstances, and their vrisb see the country already saddled with every de..• of taxation; offices and officials multipbed every hand, and money squandered on st:i. or frittered away to maintain the '• dignity" of soul.• magnate. When parliament meets, it will dud honour, as well as the determinatiou of the eleet..,.. require that it vindicate its action. and claim I•r the right to regulate the salaries which the pm.' And ;re may safely predict that the attempt t parliament, and limit its powers, will only haw the ' of pushing on the work of retrenchment more for:. than ever. The Queen of Hanover is travelling about t. many with her nephew, the Russian tiraml Duke N.. hm. The Duke do Rivas, late Spanish Minist..r Florence, is in Fit ii. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has returned to Paris. •E is occupying himself with agricultural interests. According to advioes from Pau, the ex-Queen Spain receives many %imam daily, the einiirretiort taken the direction of the French frontiers. TheCete- • di Giepnb has joined the tinily circle, and the oou.: • ex p ec ted to do so, being no longer detained by the ftpu. • • authorities. A Madrid correspondent writes :—" From walk through the streets I am able to inform my l readers that the favourite colour of the Spanish Is iut , • blue, silks of that colour being, next to black, by far most general among the occupied of the balsam. have scarcely sent a lady in a bonnet, all the upper • wearing the black lan mantilla, while the lower • generally saver their heads with a white or coloured ha:: kerchief, white being greatly in the majority." Four English iron-ohala are reported to h entered the Bay of Naples. Letter from Napier say t 4, ': trade b Miring in Italy. A correspondent of the r - writes:—" I passed a few days at Sues; not a tel i za within 40 mace to be had fur love or money ; but tuft" 40 manufactories, with 10,000 workmen, all working I time to supply Sicily, which this year Ito uut.te moneys in corn, sulphur, wine, de. Terni, t. ahead; they are building factories there on a gol ll, nabs. Naples improving fast." ADRIFT AT BRA.—The Coker* Eng/ish/no 4t:ei that six more men of the new of the Sultana barn arm. 1 at BurrisauL Then consist of a swung, a :10.1:111014 ri li n f iriour Wears. The state that when the ail, mum!' they were overboard, but SIKMIO.I ,I / 4 1 clinging to two spin ! On these they an' t .• fodays and time 61kts about the Bel of 14•14:: • 1,111 at last they were Wawa ashore, Moro dead tr. = o r on. tr put-east 000 the Iturn 66 . .: were no* Madly, treated IT *be fed tfaa for an days, and ultimata,' to them spokkeenation at landsaskbalas o lent when--) thry were to bar*** . . A fel Fu la P toPP en ..zuen (lectric por t wi of • b° ru bes to sort BOUM •elves P °IICY Lift ll Y I The] a bkely r, o glat doubt 1 WW2 w ith tl w ill en It &PI po rtano f orerno of Engl mgdo ibtiee to faddy the cool intrigue would t devolve down s those pc Lions. al 'hand. tan, wh before I the cow may be for oglx The not tip] and to the pay -dined • ing throug age." 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