The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-16 00:00:00

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Use Wdlleasselreot, London. oI'EAM to NEW YOWL—UNITED STATES , IA 11. LINK -111 e waltmlneent steamers of the New York eel 11.0 t• ,: 0. thlp Company will leave Havre and Falmouth in e, y.,...., 1,3 rs and malls once a fortnight, an under. These ' km ir. air Matti uallnd for their paaaenger woman., lotion, and gni, rUcn, . I th.lr c uisine. From Hans. I ?row lialninith. Itnil‘llM I Fals o3 We.,uesaay, June 121Thunday, June 13 t:•. .a:.4 , tar Wohnsilay, June 26 Thursday, June 97 Mew WedueaLlay, July 10 Tbanday. July II — Tama* Lam front London, CJ.' ISa , •. £l9 Vs. and £1613e. iNg..La. —! IP f4rlllor pArtietdareapply to J AIMS A. WOTTON, Sam: 1.31L111 1 8. ITE, KANE, and lb. Park: G. C. and Z. W. kol. awl Lo.. It alsuoith; ur H. STARleand 03., 141, Cbripaldo. CLLItICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE IZANCE socirrr. I:4NI'S Al1:811NC, 1867. Report presented at a Ilisatibi bold on Um and January Ka.! r de. i-de... 4 the Eighth %mew, showed. I. A, lIIE PRAM: TIIE MX:ILTV. :hat dune. in, .erigniucound period which knoinatctl on the ;411 Jut, j , ,g, A.., (or 3 total corn of L 1,518,181, and yielding 1.. : 4,471.i.1ein , i 1 premiums, had been elfeetinl • of which WIN 1 ‘• r lid by 431,h11, and the lettez by .E 2,302, i!i f ..ny kr.,virmn period , that the The IN. • MI 113.11iturvitsed flout 1:196,470 to C 215,327 peran utu . MIA OA The c oo' t: Fran , after payment of 185,303 011 'eeriest if bent. had Linen from a:1,422,1111 to .1 1 , '0.'1 IIF:VI YA Ni L 'CATON OF 71111 SOCIETY. That the .1..-etz on the with Juni.. PLO, were L 1,519,524.0 14 8 And the 1.1.,141.the on the same date 1,243,117,8 19 2 Lest log • 'amiss of 475,830 15 6 ad that. aft, ntnt.; x•itir wo,uq la a aPorlat tra. -1,6 f usal Ihr It t:i l' T WWI .0_.2.5.830 16a. W., of Which aIUIII x..• It , •101`, ',kJ for ollriaion. 3. A.l o TON ItIMULTS OY THE DIVIAION. Tait the portho, of tioi% flllO of xfts.ooo—vis livealiths, or 11%7.740—e1m Is 1..11 to the Assured, would yield a iramto:. ARS Mod TION to the Patina 4212,4184, avenging 45 pr lsmt., sur3io,4 w ith the different ages, from ;;4 to al per uht, INVIAIU/2111 paid tissue the last division , sod that the . . . . . . _ cs•u which lc the ex act equivalent vat such Reversionary loses. would acreage td per colt of the like premiums. Tbe pert expiable.' at length the nature of the investotetitc sal tl.e uue• et the cal. Illations, the results of which, as 11101 , 11 401114, arc tianiebtly fat ...arable. Ty sett of Profit, will take place in January, IST?, tad prism, etfe* t New Policies before the end of J nue next will 10 enncol At that Idvl onto onc yeara additional share of Profit. OVif later Assurers. Forms of Proposal. the Report above mentioned. .1 ...COMM of the procrealogi of the bonus mectmg, tau be obtain,l Irma any of the Society's Agent, ; or of t; LONA CtITCLI VIM, Actuary and Secretary, 13, M. Jao. Woo:rears, Loudon, S.W. FREE TRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners of tmumu and the Lords of the Treedery.—Preparht toor publican., the toreespurnleuce on the waded, of Privileges. W grautol and how withheld. IMPOkTKIUI of 000136 who are alatnted to etre , ..te thanes on roods landed on captain's soy sill gleam apply to R CLAY and Co., Pt, Upper Thamar And, City. 110 GENTLEMEN, MERCHANTS, and TRADELY.—Mr. YIAIiCII, 13, Basingludlrtrvet, opposite We Ratilauptcy evurt, ellccia arrangements between teddies and their (*traitors wiU.• , ut pubiidty. Irumethata protection obtalsed for Penne and Property. Terms very moderate. Coo. siltation tree. Highest ratereacee iNTIFIC ATTAR ATUS. HR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at hie anent Rooms, King.etrect, Corent•ganlen. lioltR(1W. May it, at halEpeurt 12 precisely, • COLLECTION of P 1111.11•0111 II'AL INSTRUMENTS, the property of lir. Robert Adans. fornierl) lecturer dal chealatly and natural pikrophy. the iseehnlea instruments for the popular Rua:ration ee seeentles, astronomy, inagnetism. eleetro magnetism, tdr graphs. 'collide and fractional electricity and chemistry, with Ms celebrated m.raratna for condensing gases and liquefying sad solidifying carlaatiC add, tueether with sundry other isteful istrumemb, : lbe wlede well adapted for lecturers both in Lin tel sad in provbeial towns. Also the Library of scientific ,eassones —4ln clew this day and morning of sale, and testa e/eft had. .K INA HA N'S LL WHISKY. 71YDUBLIN raammos, 180& Odetrated old IRISH WHIRR Y pined the DI7BLIN HIDAL —lt le pure, mild, mallow, delidosa sad very Maisons. Sold in bottles, 3s. ad. each, at the re house la 'redoes by the agent' In the principal towns Is Ragland. Weide at 8, Great Windmill-direst, Loudon, W. Observe the I seL pink label, and cork branded "ILtaahaWs LL Whisky.' CHEAPER THAN EVER—Ia. 6d., Ta., nd per pound are the prices at whkb P 1111.1.11.3 and tea reerchauts, 8, King Williana-erzeet, City, Lomlon. t Wins good and fine BLANK TEA. A prits oarrent post fres worth c..rrlage free to ally railway statloa or market town in I United Kingdom. AU goods aarriage tree to all park of Mos. observe-111114.1PS and Co. have no agent& awn lamphed at market prices. VOTICE.—CARPETK—An eminent Manufac tures STOCK of Tapestry Brussels. at 23. 744., 2a. Sid , id ht. Ild. Also t 11.006 worth of best Brawls, at ta 4141., nrth ft 4.4 Turkey Canwts—tke our new Ilat ot reduowt prkeu ith rhea, grails. Fundtitre. netlsteads sad Yethling, phas• n. ac. some worth to select from, at very r• (Need prices toots earraate.l„ sad denvared free throughout the kturtest WAIN IX! to ISO, ewtaaten-batts. W. OMIRATT sad CO. UMBER OA, VIGO-STREET, W. Trowerrs, ids. All wool and shrank. ---- UMBER ea, VIGO-STREET, W. Overcookla Very superior. 206. ..dane sad °LENNY, OUTFrITERS, oval estantishment In London. Del , &or to itotornot - Aimed. N.D. Lists et necessary tor eoretrarlooo thi a lren otkat t to toL lsalla ClAna, and the Calmer , to for- )RICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE (Plumed_ ~ -111 e newest and bed tenet soap Wee= well. "I " ant fragrant lather, is entirely tree from coons net Qf net. 4 4AO and contains half its weight of PriLea die. lsfreedat ' Pold m ed. and U. tablete. MIMS PATENT CANDLE COMYAN 1r (United), Beknost Weed. Batteries. B.W. ATE and SOUND TEETH aro indiapena , Ws elasti perrmal attraction, and ROWLAND to health an mo d Ingerity cation of food. 'S °no, or 7. 1 11. DENTIVIUCE, compounded of Oriental ingredients, is hestie.l.le %nine' in preservine and beautifying the Teeth, "rl.tueft the 1014111, Mud In hhing • plea.ing Ongnitnce to Oteath. It rradkates tartar Nam the teeth, rem ~en spots ,ifieent decay, and podshee and preserves the enamel, to f•to if 'apart* a peari.like whiteness.. Oa invaluable proper. !V f_ l 4 el.tainwl the patronago of royalty and the ariiriti7 'won. and It la univenally to high repute. Price b. 9d. par tad .4 so Hatton sanlen, and by eburists and perfume». rot ton was Wont°. • WOWS BILIOUS and LIVER lin•T failing remedy, prepared without any m "'Mt o dl be found Invaluable to all rho suffer frongbilleel complamis Indigestion, wind spasms, &Mine= died th" For Etbitual wind. as • family ""gl medicine and as a purUler of the blood, they are truly "wet: =id their operation and grateful to the stomach. it create appetite, promote digestron, and strengthen the has r —.Sold by W. Lambert. =moat, 8, King t. Charm-cram, and by moat diegglata, in bouts, three times the etiaet3tece, In Bd. lie sure to ``.t.tt' Bilious and Lir The gelatine an in a 4, Oen mel s mee, with "Wil e li r am Lemberg" engraved on =a JP AIIINE-MEGE (JOZEAU). M. Cullerier, stretary of the committee ted by the Academy at in " of Paris to eutuuse ts Smelling the t tr. 7vitte. etpressed him-elf at the meeting et the 27th if . 1 . is ot at follows —" The ten patients treated with the stew sure cured in four, seven, and eight days, without colt. t.kkiteas, or auy repugnance." The Academy re 'io send a letter of thanks to the oritrlnattw of the !opal, Me. Ittyd. Poland. Is Gros Clark, Gay, and Whim have repeated them experiment. in tootles. at fit. Bezthe laett 4. St. of Thomas's. Guys, and the Itayal Vree Hospitals Mee March—Hold at 4s. Gd. a beide by all re 4h‘,..„Le eurnicts. General Depet,ek Haymarket. London, St the only French Pharmacist' with the diploma of &lst of Pharmacy. ' kyiglT to SILCITESTER.--Bee the BUILDER 1.,T1.11A WEEK, 44_ or by post lid.. which also cootabs 11t," 4 0 Caning and Ironwork at Iteekharet Fine View l'axt.so Nanearlak Coventry : New houthwerk b.., 1,, Archita-ctive Architectural Art -Worts, Paris 1 .0 mtatioa. Wakefield Better nines for Hallways; Otte and various other articles. with all the Saul • 4-,^nstml,.thmal ant Artistic news—l, York.strert, Covent ' 41,4 all new;isira. PAINLENI SYSTEM OP DENTINIRY. '"I Pu biutuut, price PL. or pod tree tour stung, ir AL ABOLITION of PAIN in DENTISTRY. 434,0 1 GAREIEL the old eetabliduut DENTLiVE LVINIATEIIILL CITY. t sti, Ant.m . ,rractkr, w., t 14 ° 431 '. 134. Dt:KK-STEEKT. LIVERPOOL 'totem Rated' 'movement fa dental surgery."—Herad. 11 , a.Wlrwl. l:U ll:Ltrr a, Amur, anti accrotary, 13, St. Jao ream:mare. London, S.W. FREE TRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners of Iltatmos and the Lords of the Treasury—Preparing ow publication, the correspoodeuee on the ssbscet of Privileges. Me grouted mid how withheld. IMPOETERA of GOODS who are Wonted to eiree.:ee charges on pees booed on captain's tatty sill pleat apply to R. CLAY and Co., SE, Upper Timmer Meet City, 31 7. r GENTLEMEN, MERCHANTS, and TRADELS.—Mr. LARCH, 13, Baaingludl•street, opposite sw Ragruptcy Court, died' arrangements betweeu Debtors sod their Creditors wit Lout publicity. Immediate protection ebtalised for Roma and Property. Terms very moderate. Con. t WWl= tree. Highest reterencoo Ht•IENTIPIC APPARATUS. KR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Griot Moons, 7s, Kingdetrect, Covent•ganien, TO- MolillOW, Slay 0, at half-pant 12 precisely, a COLLECTION of PSI DIM ellf le*AL l N sTRI'AI EMI'S, the property of 11r. Robert 1 . Miens. formerly lecturer on chemistry and natural pilueophy. lbell)%efti..ll Isseholea instruments for the popular Iles:ration is . of acetotlea, astronomy, magnetism, eleetro magnetism, tele- srapha. voltaic and fractional electricity and chemistry. with 0,, to celebrated apparatus for condensing gases and ileinefyivg solidifyisig earbonic add, together with sumiry other asehd 117: ilistrumrnt. : the wh de well adapted for lecturers both in Dan. ss, and in pnivimial towns. Mao the Library of edentate I:guinea —On view this day and morning of age, and atta- r.. ,uev had. 1. 11 INAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION , ISA& &, migrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DITBLIN is pure, mild, mallow, Milldam, and very . • Sold in bottles, 3s, Pd. each, at the retaf houses in .. • by the agents In the principal Smells in Ragland at 8 Great Windmill-greet, Loudon. W. Observe the . mg pink label, and cork branded "Elageen's LL Id a • is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 24., ta. rd, per pound are th e price* at which PHILLIPS and h. D., tea reerehauts, 8, King Willlaniestreet, Clty, London. Y.C., It telling goal and floe BLACK TEA. A prim current post fres al worth carriage free to any railway 'tattoo or market towels rote United Kingdom. All goods carriage tree to all tarts of nide lon °Marva—PHILLIPS and Co. have no agenda. eupn it • manned at market prices. in" 7 , ` l OTICE. — CARPETS.—An eminent Manufac- turers STOCK of Tapestry Brussels. at 23. 714., 2a. 91d , •X. Ild. Also £II.OCIO week of best Brumels. at ta 41d., . 6a tieL Turkey Carpets--hee our new list of reduogi prima • dies, gratis. Fur:atom. Dedsteads and Melding, Uphols- to • ac eso.ooo worth to select from at very r. duced prices. ,tie • Mods earnests: 4, and delivered tree tkroughout the kingdom. W. MAINE, 133 to 130, fiewingteadratts. tile• • W. GARTT mad CO. I UMBER oa, RA VIGO-STREET, W. spla -- Trowiers, Itla. All wool and ehronk. • I UMBER 6s, VIGO-STREET, W. Ind Overcoats. Vary supraior. toe. ilia • Iron :-z HER and GLENNY, OUTFITTERS. fib egablishment In London, neat door to Somerset- ' ahead. N.B. Lista of necessary outfit for every purpse ids . ea ap • plica t India, Cigna, and the °clashes, be Per- tion. • 'I RICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE tynentM .-1 Le newest and best toilet soap, wean well, a ( ' aancb oud loidanl. lather, Is entirely free from deem nut or env. , of alkali, and contain.' hall its weight of Primb silt ' Streerig. TO fold In 44. and ed. toggle. 1,43* PIJCTi PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Malted), Bahama Works, Battersea. S.W. ITE and SOUND TEETH are indispens- alae to personal attraction, and to health and longevity M' Litt Pfel mastication of food. ROW LAND'S ODONTO, or DENTI PRICE, compounded of Oriental ingredients, ta • Us • awstia,l.l.: %nine In preserving and beautifying the T ee th, .hullog the WOWS, anal 111 going a pleaaing fregranim to me I ~am. It rrestkates tartar from the teeth, rem.. ea spots O ! ssiboid decay, and poilahos and preoervas the enamel, to diet naliarts a pest!-like whiteness. Its invaluable proper- *. a d a h ne obtained the patronage of royalty and the arisras7 wing, and It to anignally In high repute. Price Ea. 9d. per inrr , tie. Hatton ganlen and by chemists and perflintera for toolauera Mionto : SCOW'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, a mere holing remedy, prepared without say mercurial bra , a al be found Invaluable to all who suffer from Woes tomplands, indigostloo, wind, spasms, eggnog. dint ..111S, oic. For habitual coativeuesa, as a family • • medicine, sad a. a purUler or the blood, they a truly e: road hi their operation and grateful to th e re stomach, the Wage appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the ep.,! * 27., —.Sold by W. Lambert. ehmenst, 8, King g. J. olden, Lhanneterosa, and by moat drugglata, robozos, Lid ao.l throe M o m the %mantel, in le. ad. Be sure to s ot *IS. ' , Mrs Buena sad Liver Pills. The gamine an In a tango package, with "William Ignshart" eograved on lb& P AIIINE-MEOE (JOZEAU). M. Cullerier, Ike w retary of the oommittes pointed by the Academy .mecito of Pari s to institute e a eto touching the tO- - - r - titiee mortals-el him-elf at the meeting of the 'loth it ", lb 0 , as follow, .—" The ton patients treated with the Fie . we sire cured in four, seven, and eight days, without calks cickinwic , w any repugnance." The Academy m- o o • ft oral a lettered thanks to the originate, of tbs. 4!..pnlline. 1 .1.4 y d: Poland. 1.44, Gros Clark, Gay, sod thllaway have of • t ' 461 ,. 1 8 1 t Mated them esp.:knout. in London. at St. Bathes mas's. Goys, and the Royal Pree Hospitals. 114ee g lauret of Maeda 3d, Mir,. -Llold at 4a. Gd. a bottle by all re- ebernies. General Depbt, 49, Haymarket, London, at '& 6l 's the only trench Pharmacies' with the diplo ma of fleh;ml Ph&rwiy. o • VISIT to SILCHESTER. —See the BUILDER 4. , of Tills WEEK, gi, or by post bd., which also contabas t i carving and Ironwork at Rockhorst Pine View relict Patton Xo Coventry; New Southwark- l ersl 1,, Archliectum lecture' Art-Works, Paris; ucl • " . &`4 Statioa. Wakefield Better fines for hallway,; e and venom ether articles, with all the Simi- s, W ani Artistic news,-1, Yorkstreet, eel all newsmen. I PAINLES4 SYSTEM OP DENTISTRY. . Maelahoil, price 34.. or pod free four stamps, ' AL ABOLITION of PAIN in DENTISTRY. ▪ icy Moen GAISEIEL tbs old established DENTLiIIt, kein . &I. IX IMATII.IIILL crry, tt ss, sittEv Eirr w., t 1 "a° 11 . las. DUE ii-BTREST. LIVERPOOL Not sod gates& tmorovenient In dental surgery."—Herald. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. OIECTRIN TUAGRAXS.) THE LONDON CONFERENCE. PARK MAT 15. The Moniker dr Soir, in its bulletin, says:—" The result of the London Conference has been well re ceived both in France and abroad. It is permitted to hope that nothing will interfere with the Ex hibition, the success of which is increasing, and which attracts an extraordinary number of crowned heads to Paris. The fortunate issue of the Ci .n -ference has strengthened the position of the English ministry. All acknowledge the great ability of Lord Stanley, who presided at the delibe rations of the 'plenipotentiaries. His enlightened and impartial attitude was in keeping with the dignity and interests of England. A real solidarity unites the subjects of the Emperor with those of Queen Victoria. Since the treaty of commerce in 1860 no nation profits more than England by a guarantee which strengthens the peace of the Continent." In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body M. Picard requested leave to address an interpellation to - the government respecting the order fixing 3,000 francs as the sum required to procure exemp tion from military service. M. Picard asks whe ther a reduction in this amount will not take place, considering the new circumstances which have arisen. It is stated that the Shah of Persia will visit Paris in July. BELGIUM. BBUSIMILS, N.tv 15. In to-day's sitting of the Senate the Minister for Foreign Affairs announced to the members that the treaty drawn up at the London Conference was concluded, and he added that this treaty increased the security of Belgium. AMERICA. (41011 OUR SPICIAL CORRISPONDWT.) NEW YORK, MAY 1. I saw recently in the Pull Mull Casette a com ment on Mr. Covode's vulgar joke levelled against the President, as the " chief tailor of the nation," in the debate in Oongress on the court costume of American ministers, based apparently on the account given of the debate by the Times' cor respondent, and in which the writer adopts the correspondent's assertion that Mr. Johnson was selected for the vice-presidency because his origin was low. Thereupon follow some sharp animad versions on the " snobbism " and meanness of Americana in reviling and ridiculing a man for the very thing which had led thorn to put him in high office. A more absurd generalisation about America I do not remember to have seen, though I have seen a groat many absurd ones during the last six years. One easily sees, however, how the Times' correspondent came to make it. A man's birth and position in early life are in England of a good deal of importance, and if he rises to eminence are never forgotten, but constantly referred to as something very remarkable. This is true of all walks in life, but it is particularly true of political life, the high positiOns in which have been reserved, with rare exceptions, for men of good family. It is, as all the world knows, no easy matter for s man not connected with the great houses to get into high office, or, if he gets in, to stay there comfortably. A man of positively "low origin," and no early education, has, as far as I remember, with ono exception, never got there at all. When a man has worked his way up from a mean calling to even a good social position, nobody, not even his friends, ever tall of his career without mentioning his beginning as something very remarkable, and his enemies take great delight in recalling it, and commenting on it. It is, in short, a most important circumstance, and makes a deep impression on the popular imagi nation. Accordingly, when an Englishman comes over here, and sees a tailor or a rail splitter, badly dressed and with indifferent manners, filling one of the highest offices in the State, he naturally begins to speculate as to the cause of what is to him so extraordinary a phenomenon. He thinks it impos sible that people can have overlooked the low origin of their candidate. They must have thought of it, and cannot possibly have thought of it without considering it a circumstance of considerable im portance. Evidently, however, they did not con sider it a disqualification, or they would never have elected him ; and others must, he concludes, have considered it a high qualification ; it must, in short, have been the very thing which led them to elect him. Lincoln must have been nominated because he was a rail splitter, and Johnson because he was a tailor. Such is democracy. Now the truth is, wonderful as it may seem to many Englishmen, that to the great body of Ame ricans a man's trade or calling, provided it be an honest one, is a matter which exercises absolutely no influence on his political fortunes. So far from its affecting his chances of office favourably or un favourably, it does not affect them at all. Anybody who has even a limited acquaintance with American feeling or tone of thought knows perfectly well that the business in which a man was engaged in early life is not a thing of which they ever think of speaking seriously as a fact of importance in judging of his qualifications for office. Education and manners, as well as pursuits, of course do in fluence a mates marriage, for a young man engaged in tailoring, or hod-carrying, is pretty sure to fail, if he tries to marry a woman of fortune, or position, or of refinement. But he has only to get out of his tailoring and hod-carrying to find, if he is a man of ability and has acquired a good ordinary education, that his having been engaged in them will be no bar whatever to his filling any corn mereialorpolitical position he aspires to. There are, in fact, very few bank or railroad directors, presi dents of insurance companies, or wealthy mer chants in New York, who have not at some period or other in their career got their living in a way which in England would have left a kind of stigma on them all their days. I might fill one of your columns with the names of men now in the fore most positions in politics and commerce who have stood behind counters in their youth—a fact which an Englishman would carefully conceal as far as he could, and the mention of which by his friends would be considered unkind or offensive. The American, on the other hand, neither conceals nor avows it, he simply refers to it whenever necessary with the same unconcern with which he talks of his having once been young, or of having once had black or brown hair. If you were LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1867. to go about here announcing as a fact of some im portance that Senator This or Bank Director That had once kept a thread and needle store, people would probably laugh at you. In short, the feel ing which makes an Englishman'attach so much importance to a man's being born in a certain posi tion in life may be said to be unknown here out of a small set in the large cities. I do not mean to say that people do not take pride in belonging to a good family, or that it would not help a man in "marrying well," but on his success in business or politics it would exercise no influence whatever at the North. His having split rails had about as much to do with Mr. Lincoln's nomination for thu presidency as his height in his stockings. Nominating con• ventions in America are not composed of scholars and gentlemen, it is true ; but neither are they composed of imbeciles. The members are gene rally plain sensible men, and are little moved by the superfine considerations of fitness and pro priety which rule at the Carlton Club. The Conven tion of 1860 selected Mr. Lincoln for the presidency because Mr. Seward's claims having broken down, and no other Eastern man of prominence offering himself, and it being desirabletosecurethe adhesion ut the West, Mr. Lincoln was the moat prominent man of the largest and most influential Western State. Ho was the best known republi can politician and one of the moat respected lawyers in Illinois, and therefore was one of the class from whom candidates have to he selected. Now, he became a prominent politician and a re spected lawyer because he was an able man, and a humorous, forcible stump speaker, and thoroughly upright in all his doings. When he stumped the State against Douglas in 1859 people crowded to hear him, and his speeches were printed and spread broadcast over the country, not because he had split rails in his youth, or was not "gentlemanly " in his appear anoe, but because the speeches were excellent of their kind. The Americans may not be the wisest people in the world, but they arc nut such fools as to crowd to a man's lectures, laugh at his jokes, applaud his arguments, and give him their legal business to do because he was once a day labourer. All this may be said mutretis mutandis of Mr. Johnson. That Mr. Johnson's having been a tailor affected the Baltimore Convention in selecting him for the vice-presidency is an assertion so' ridiculous that it is very hard for anybody who knows what American feeling on these sub jects is to set about gravely refuting it. In the first place, Mr. Johnson's early antecedents were I not known, I believe, to anybody in the Convention. I know as a fact that the leading members of it knew absolutely nothing about him except that he had been before the war United States senator from Tennessee. The reasons which operated in securing his nomination were that he was a senator from a Southern slave State, and that he was the only senator from • seceded State who had re mained faithful to the Union. Moreover, it was felt desirable that he should appear on the repub lican " ticket " to prevent its having the strictly sectional character which it would have if the can didates for the presidency and vice-presidency had been both Northern men. Now, why was he senator from Tennessee ? Why, as he has so often told the world, did ho fill every office in the gift of the people of the State, from that of village alderman up to senator? Simply because, whether a man of ability or not, he happened, in the various districts in which he lived, to be the ablest man of his party, the most attractive, truculent, and foulmouthed stump orator--or "crossroads" orator, as they call it down there. His tailoring, or his low origin, or lowly condition, had about as much to do with it as the cut of his coat. Mr. Cm-ode's joke about him had therefore absolutely no political or social sig nificance. It was a joke which the subject before the house, thoroughly ridiculous as most members cousidered it, suggested not unnaturally. I do not defend his taste in making it ; but it is a joke which might occur to anybody who knew Mr. Johnson had been a tailor, but most men would not have thought it worth re peating in public. I doubt whether most member► of the house saw anything more "snobbish" in it than the House of Commons sees in the occasional allusions made in debate to the "Asian mystery." In fact, the sting of it only strikes those who, like the Times' correspondent, and perhaps most other Englishmen, consider it a terrible misfortune for a statesman to have once been a tailor. Americans do not take this view of it ; they generally con sider it simply an incident in his career, but an incident without colour. Two-thirds of the false inferences which Englishmen draw from the phenomena of Ameri can society are due to the practice, which in this instance has been faithfully followed, of judging Americans and their doings by the English stan dard—reasoning from English ideas, English habits, and English prejudices. The whole body of English opinion, let me say, on the subject of personal dignity, the comparative respectability" of occupations, is as little known here, and affects men's lives as little as the Roman law. I do not say that there are no circles at the North into which the European feeling about labour and descent have not found an entrance, and do not find expression in conversation. But you do not meet with them out of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and they affect the national life and progress about as much as the opinions of the "de cayed gentlewomen" who "used to inhabit" Hamp ton Court Palace. A man is here a man, and nothing more ; and it may be said, with as close an approach totruth as can be made on such sub jects, that nothing but his own faults or follies can affect his social or political standing. The other day P. T. Barnum, the great showman, was nomi nated for Congress in Connecticut. He is in his private dealings an honest man, is an anti-slavery man, a rich man, and a humane man, yet he was badly beaten because he was a " profaned hum bug." Could it have been said of him that be was the son of a strolling tinker, and had passed his youth as a boot-black, and had it been said it would not have affected him in the least ; but the taint of professional duplicity killed him. The Pall Mall Gazette, by-the-bye, has been badly hoaxed. John Morrissey's speech in Congress, on which it comments, was composed by a wag in this city, and sold on a fly-leaf at a cent a copy for nearly three months in the streets by the news boys. Morrissey never officially opened his mouth in Congress, except to say "No ;" he voted with the democrats. This is even worse than the speech which Milos O'Reilly passed off on the Saturday Review as General Dix's, in 1864. NATIONAL REFORM UNION. The first public meeting held by this association, in pursuance of • resolution pawed at the rioted winter eine, took place yesterday evening in St. Jamesls-hall. The hall was crammed in every part an hour before the commencement of the meeting, and soon after seven o'clock the doors had to be closed, so dense was the crowd waiting to be admitted. The appearance of the popular reformers upon the platorm was signalled by enthusiastic and protracted cheering. Amongst those present were Mr. S. Moaner (in the chair), Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. J. Stuart Mill, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, BLP., Sir H. Hoare, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. E. Beaks, Colonel Dickson, Mr. Holden, M.P., Mr. Barnes, M.P., Hon. Lyulph Stanley, Serjeant Parry, and Mr. Vernon Harcourt. The said the gentlemen on the platform were net present for the mere love of agitation. He felt like a man just waking to the conviction that he was being cheated. Having expected a reasonable settlement of the reform question, and thinking it desirable the ques tion should be shelved at least for our lives, by the adop tion of a moderate measure, which would give room for practical legislation, the events of last Thursday had bitterly disappointed him. He saw in the government bill • sign that the old pane was being played, and that the measure was being framed in the very essence of toryism—in a mistrust of the people governed by fear. (Cheers.) He objected to the compound householder being handed over to two of the most objectionable of parties — parish officers and landlords. (Haar, hear.) He protested against the further progress of the bill in its present con dition, because it was founded on fraud. (Cheers.) Mr. Disraeli was never more true to his party than in his in troduction of a measure that would hand over the boroughs of England and Wales to rich :oen and election agents. He and his friends on the platform were prepared to enter upon a new agitation, however long it might last. It was not a question of union or league ; they were all friends of the working man. (Cheers.) He was extremely disappointed with the course pursued by certain liberal members—(hisses)—be hoped, however, they would rally round their noble leader. (" Three cheers for Gladstone!") A friend of his had told him that the Scotch members, true to their instincts, had gone over to the enemy, because they thought they would get a good bill for themselves. (Laughter.) He, however, would not do the •Scotch members that Injustice, but would leave them to their constituencies. Let the people of this coun t 7, notwithstanding cabals red tea-room intrigues, back Mr. Gladstone in the new agitation for reform, and maths factory reform would follow. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Veitxret Mascot ter said at the commencement of a great battle it was usual to send out the skirmishers, and in that capacity he then presented himself. He knew that the heavy infantry and old guards would follow him. (Cheers.) It was the duty of every man to come forward la support of a common cause, and he agreed with the chairman that all differences ought to be allowed to subside in disposing of the great imposture that was now being passed off on the country. The people had asked for bread and the House of Commons had given them a stone ; they had asked for fish, and received • serpent. (Hear, hear.) The policy being pur sued reminded him of a lady, a distinguished florist, who was as 'cute and ingenious in her way as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Laughter.) A friend asked her for one of her choicest plants, but though loath to part with it, she, after some hesitation, sent her friend, with a very courteous note, the root of • rare tulip; but—and here came the point of the story—before sending it she took care to have it boiled. (Laughter.) Now, the present object of the House of Commons and the government appeared to be to cook household suffrage before presenting it to the people. (Cheers.) The resolution he had to move was this—" That this meeting desires to ex pressheartfelt gratitude to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. r ight, and Mr. Mill, and the other mem`ers of par liament who have acted with them in theft endeavours to secure a satisfactory reform bill during the present session, and to assure them of its entire con d. deuce in their efforts to obtain a full, just, and equal re cognition of the people's rights." Having adverted to the manner in which the gentlemen named had recently been traduced, he add some of this abuse about " incendiallies and 'pouters of sedition " reminded him of two lines in siohnerm— Rate never wounds more deep the generous heart Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. (Cheers.) Sir HENRY Miser seconded the resolution, remarking that those who indulged in hard wools should remember that " hard words break no bones." Despite what had been said of theui by the tories, the people should support their leaders blindly, confidently, and place implicit trust in the course they might suggest for their adoption here after. (Cheers.) In 11tH the cry of our forefathers was " The bill, the whole hill, and nothing but the bill," and he would advise the reformers' of the present day to in scribe on their banners, "A real bill, an honest bill, or no bill at all." He had much pleasure in appearing upon that platform, believing that under the influence of a little more agitation the liberal minority of to-day would become • majority to-morrow. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried by acclamation. Mr. W. E. FORRTIII, M.P., who was received with loud and long-continued cheers, proposed the second resolution, which was as follows:—" That this meeting utterly re pudiates the bill of the government, in the present form, as a settlement of the reform question, especially in the borough franchise ; and resolves that, 'a the House of Commons, by the divisions of the 12th of April and nth of May, refused to remove the partial, capricious, and unjust restrictions by which the government seeks to prevent large numbers of householders from acquiring the franchise, the agitation be at once renewed and continued until these restric tions be abolished and an honest and straightforward measure be seemed. If the deputation of " incendiaries and 'poetess of sedition"—(groans and enthusiastic cheers)—had come up earlier, arguments would have reached the tory lines that had not hitherto reached them. If that magnificent meeting fulfilled its promise, and if the earnest reformers of the country bestirred themselves, they need not give up the hope of the borough franchise even out of the present bilL That bill was good so some extent. It was a good bill for 29 boroughs, but it was a very bad bill for 171 boroughs. Should they accept this bill as a settlement of the reform ques tion? (Loud cries of " No, no," and protracted cheering.) They should continue to agitate before they accepted it as a settlement ; but at the same time they could use the bill as a lever to remove those inequalities which made it impossible it could be a settlement. Mr. J. B. Tone, a member of the National Reform Union of Manchester, seconded the resolution, and ex plained why the Union bad not appeared in London be fore. Mr. George Wilson, the president of the union, when his attention was called to the stigma which the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad tried to cast upon him, said, " Never mind that ; it is not the first time Mr. Disraeli has accused me of sedi tion." And it was so, for during the corn-law struggle precisely the same epithets fell from Mr. Disraeli, when speaking of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and the other leaders of the Anti-Corn-low Levee. (Hear, hear.) But the right hon. gentleman seemed to be oblivious of his early political career, or he would have recollected • passage in one of his letters, written at the time he was seeking to eater parliament through the borough of Mary lebone. In that letter he wrote, "My forte is sedition " --(obeens)—and therefore be should be • little more chari table in the ugly expressions he flung about him when speaking of the motives of those who differed with him. (Hear, hear.) But the forte of the National Reform Union was not sedition. It relied upon the constitutional usages of the country for the attainment of its object, and with the aid of other meetings similar to the present, to be held periodi cally in London and the great boroughs of the provinces, it Must at no distant day succeed. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT, on rising to address the meeting, was re ceived with the most enthnsisstle cheering, the whole audience rising, and waving hats and hadkerchiefs. When silence was restored the hon. gentletari proceeded to remark that from the first reformers had had the misfor tune of seeing the question in which they were interested in the hands of its enemies, who, is almost every clause of their bill had introduced some►hing of a pernicious ten dency. Entering into an analysis of the provisions of the measure, Mr. Bright came to the conclusion that all that it would really admit upon the borough register would be about 122,000 names, while it would prac tically exclude 238,000 who would be voters if the bill fairly applied equally to all the boroughs in the kingdom. It was a monstrous proposition, and unheard of until this day in English legislation, that a bill should pass the knperial parliament which opens its arms wide to all the people of Sheffield and closes them almost absolutely to the people of Bir mingham. Therefore he said that the government were not in earnest and meant to deceive. Would anyone my it was a just act of parliament to give to the Irish borough. • franchise down to the rate of U. per annum, and the DAM to Scotland, and to deny M to the great majority of the people of England who live in the 170 boroughs to which the reAriction refers! To all those liberal gentlemen who had been so credulous about the candid consideration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the right hon. gentleman had given • slap in the face, which he (Mr. Bright) hoped they would long remember. [STAMPED, Id. ADDrIIONAIr ] Everything said last session against the bill of Earl Rus sell's government was now pretty nearly given up. The lies had served their purpose and were dropped. In Mr. Gladstone's bill there was not • dodge from one end to the other, but there was scarcely • clause in Mr. Disraeli's without one. The subtlety of Mr. Disraeli's intellect (continued Mr. Bright) Com bined with the corruption of the electioneerin-' agents of government, brought the bill to the condition in which it was when it made its first appearance on the table of the House of Commons. The one answer we make to them is this—that we are determined, with increased resolution, with increased numbers, if that be possible, with increase ) combination and union, to achieve that great success which may not be exactly at our feet, but which is not so far ahead but that most of us see it. (Loud cheers.) lam not of the opinion that these 29 boroughs of England and Wales or the boroughs of Scotland which, if this bill should pass, will obtain the franchise—l am not of opinion that they will then sit down and say, " We have got our own table richly spread, and we shall not attend to anything that may Ise said by our famishing brethren of the 170 boroughs-" (Cheers.) I believe that these 29 boroughs when they get their own enfranchisement, will be all the more re solved that the bill shall be made an equal and a just bill for all their countrymen in all the boroughs in the king dom. (Loud chem.) What I would recommend there fore to these various associations of the Reform League and the Reform l'nion would be to proceed to organise in the various boroughs committees with the spatial object of doing this special work, that the work of the enfranchisement of these 170 boroughs may be effected in a better parliament. In each of these boroughs you will find some half-dozen, or 20 or 50 men who are willing to form themselves into en active committee, which will take care that the question, if it is allowed to pass in the present year in the miserable positions in which it is now placed, shall not remain in that position longer than to another election. (Cheers.) I say, at all the boroughs—the 29 as well as the 170—and also in the boroughs of Scotland and Ireland—at all of them let this one distinct question be put to each sandi date,—Are you willing to eote steadily and constantly? for that is an important thing now—(cheers)—in favour of making the franchise which was pretended to be given by the act of parliament of 1867—• real extension of the franchise to all the boroughs in the kingdom. And whatever may be the character of the candidate—whatever his politic —whatever his past ser- ViCeS—l advise the constituencies of those boroughs not to stultify themselves and their constitutional rights by re turning any man to paeliament who is not willing to accept that pledge. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Two or three allusions have been made to the views which those who are termed the middle ensue—those who are on the present electoral roll—take of this matter. I met with • gentleman the other day, and he said that the shopkeepers were tired of this agitation—(a laugh)— oh, they are told these things in the newspapers you lenew—(gratt laughter) —and that they fancy it disturbs their business. Well, I have no doubt that a great proces sion on its way up Regent-street does not stop to buy jewellery—(laughter and cheers)—but they are on their march to boy something that is worth infi nitely more to the people than all the jewellery in the world. (Load cheers.) But I don't believe that the majority of the shopkeepers are of this opinion. There are no doubt many causes that affect the state of trade nut only in London but throughout the country. Hilt what the shopkeepers have to do is to bring their minds to an eta,- mention of this question—what is just for the people of this country—what has been promised them by the parlia ment and the government—what the parliament and the government are about to offer them; and when they see that what is offered le not what was promised, they will shake bands with Mr. Wilson iu Manchester and with Mr. Reales in London. (Loud cheers.) They will look at the case, as their fathers looked at it in 1831, when they spoke out like men, and like men demanded from an inlveme government their just rights, and their just rights up to the lights of that time were conceded to them. (Cheers.)Re ference has been made to certain members of par liament by whose defection the present momentary cloud has come over this question. Ido not speak with any feelings of anger—l speak only,vrith feelings of deep -1 may say of inexpressible sorrow. They, by their feeble ness and by combination with the real opponents of reform, have transferred the management and the framing of this bill into the hands of a statesman who during twenty years has led the tory party in opposition to every proposition from our side of the house fur improved legislation and admieistration. (Cheers.) They have done this farther— by so greatly elating him, and by weakening the parliamentary power of Mr. Gladstone, they have given the Chancellor of the Exchequer that spirit which he has manifested for weeks past, and which will not allow him to lose a single opportunity of venting his sneers and pouring his insults ou the leader of the liberal party. (Loud cheers, anal cries of "Shaine.") This, I know well, was not intended to be the result of the action of those members. But the Chancellor of the Ex chequer is a DWI who, though he does not change has countenance much—as those of you know who have seen him—(a laugh)—still he is like most other men, and, like most horses, he can't stand above certain quantity of corn. (Great laughter and cheers.) Elated by his temporary succor he cannot submit to judicious restraint, and he treats some of his opponents as eminent as Mr. Gladstone in a manner which I have never before seen since I have been in parliament on the Treasury bench. (Cries of " Shame !") I admit we are under a momentary disappointment. Bet if I could get out of my soul the grief with which I have seen men who, up to this time, have been so just and fair, depart, as I believe, from the policy of their past es—if I could get that from me, I don't think I should feel so much dation- I raged or grieved at the present aspect of the queetion. No doubt the great causeof reform has marched with statelyand rapid steps within the last year and • half. From the moment that Lord Russell heume minister, with Mr. Gladstone as his leader in the House of Commons—from that moment the question took • new start. It fnund itself surrounded with hosts of friends, and from that hour till now, whatever may be the checks, whatever the tem porary identities of the struggle, we sae that its march is continuous—we see that this great question grows—and there is no man but believes that • just and a generous settlement will soon be arrived at. (Cheers.) Let us not forget now, more than in past years, the great and noble cause for which we strive. You see how it thrives beyond the Atlantic. (Loud cheers.) You see how it thrives in almost every country in Europe —you see bow it has grown here since the time to which I have referred. Let us not despair—let us take greater courage to go on in the great cause for which we tight—the enfranchisement of • great people--and let us remember that the tribunal to which we ',ppm!, and which must finally decide the question, is the incorruptible con science of the British nation. (Ttw hon. gentleman resumed his neat amidst enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. EDMOND Beams, who next addressed the meeting, said he was there to advance the union of all reformers out of the house, in order to shame—if it was possible to shame them—the (Reunited reformers within the house. (Hear, bear.) He was there to extend the right hand of fellow ship--and he did it most heartily—to the National Reform Union. (Cheers.) They had now arrived at a point at which they could unite their forces to oppose the govern ment bill, and he was ready to do it. (Hear, hear.) Ho believed the great body of the people were rallying round the franchise proposed by the Reform League ; but what they bad now to do was to deal with the unjust, the un equal, and the partial bill of the gotermocut (Hear, hear.) What they had to do was to render it, if possible, a pure and simple household and lodger franchise h ilt. (Cheers.) He would not give up the belief that the best and most constitutional suffrage was that propounded by the Reform League, but still he was ready to support this movement of his friends from Manchester to make the government measure uperfect as possible. (Hear.) But only upon this condition—if the bill should be rejected in con sequence of its not being made what they wanted, those who rejected it must come under the obligation to give them a better, a fuller, ands n ore equal measure. (Cheers.) Let them have no mistake about it, no fencing with the question ; but let it be clearly understood that the liberals, should they ever come into power, must do so pledged to give them • better, a larger, • more just, and a More equal measure. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put, and like the former carried by acclamation. Mr. Pore, who proposed the next resolution, said whatever might be the opinion of ,he government, at all events it was unmistakably the opinion of the meeting that, even in politics, "honesty was always the best policy." The resolution he bad to submit for their adoption was one that was necessary, in order that there might be no mistake as to the policy to be pursued with regard to the government bill. It was this: "Re solved, that this meeting, having no hops of any frank or fair concession of equal popular rights from those who have always been the avowed enemies of reform, calls upon the liberal members of the House of Commons, if the bill of the government arrives at a third reading without the amendments indicated in the last resolution, to reject it altogether, and remit the question to the people." Mr. Wadneenet of Manchester, rose amid loud calla for Mr. Mill to second the resolution. The CHLIIINAIi protested against the meeting calling upon Mr. Mill. He said that gentleman was there to show has hearty and intense sympathy with them. He (Mr. Mill) was prepared to help them, which he would do at a future meeting. The resolution was then put, and carried with acclama tion. Mr. MASON JONEN proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Sam. Morley for presiding. The proposition met with an enthusiastic response. The Cummins in acknowledgment said be was prepared I to work in the ranks. He called upon every one present to feel that each one had a part to take, sail earnestly urged them to prepare for the great conflict that lay before them. The proceedings then terminated, having lasted about two hours. [TWOPENCE UNIVERSITY OP LONDON. --• Yesterday a meeting for admission to d egree. was held at Burlington -house ; Earl 0 RANVILIX, calor of the University, presidin4. There was a very full attendance of members of the university and their friends (of both sexes); and surrounding the noble Chancellor on the dais were Lord Helper, the Right Hon. W. Cagan, M.P.. S. Gurney, M.P., A. C. Sherrill, M.P., Professor Tayler, Professor Martineau, and the following members of the senate :—Tho ViooChancellor, Kr. G. Grote, LLD., Earl of Kimberley, Dr. Billing s Right Hon. R. Cardwell, M.P., Sir John Lubbock ' Sir G. Baum Lateen, Sir Edward Ryan, Bight Hon. R. Lowe M.P., Dr. Wil liam Withey Gull, Messrs. Heywood, Hattori, Jewel, • Miller, Oder Quain, Sharpey, &boon, Wood, and Dr. Storm (chai rman of convocation). Dr. CARPENTER, registrar, reeds report mho • the satis factory state of the university, and then proceeded to read the names of those who had paned the various degree examinations. They were called up in order, and each received his certificate. There were 4 for LL.D.; 11 M.D.; 1 M.S.; 3 D.Sc.; and 10 M.A. Next came 18 LLB.'s; 9 N.B.'s ; and 2 B.'s ; 42 B.A.s • and 6 B . S.'s. Next came the gentlemen who had obtai ned honours in passing, who • numbered as follows :—LLB., 10; ILB., 16; 8.5.. 3; 8.A., 9 ; and B.Sc., 3. After a few remarks from Earl Grenville, the prises were distributed. Among the B.A.'s was one whose ■ppearanes excited considerable interest. ! He is named Daniel Conolly, and is blind. He was led up to the chair by a boy, and received his diploma amid bud ' cheers. Each graduate to whom a scholarship, medal, or prise had been awarded was next presented end received his prima THE FENIAN TRIALS.— DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY Ni.HT.—E.lward Duffy, John Hood, and .lames Cody were indicted today for treason-felony. Cody is the person arrested • abort time ago in this city, and who attempted on that occasion to shoot • policeman. He is charged with being the leader of an assassination committee, whose object was to assassinate informers, judges, &a Mr. Butt, counsel for the prisoners, com plained strongly of the conduct of the Attorney-General in mixing up Duffy and Flood with the actions of Cody. The same for the prosecution had not concluded when the court adjourned. The Bernina Freeman announces that the government have determined, in deference to public opinion, to spare the life of the convict Burke. - • THE PRINTERS' PENSION ALMSHOUSE, AND ORPHAN ASYLUM CORPORATION.—Th• annual dinner was held last evening at the London Tavern, Ra a b street. The chair was occupied by Earl Russell. %Vi e r; proposing the toast of the evening, took occasion to refer to the fact that nearly 40 years ago be presided at the inaugural dinner of the corporation, at that time a simple society. After commenting upon the progress that the society had made, and the advantage that the cultivation of prudent habits was likely to confer upon the workmen of the metropolis, his lordship remarked that the corpora tion had provided almshouses for 12 persons, end that pensions were at the present moment granted to 77 decayed printers or widows of printers. His lordship alluded to the arduous labour which compositors and printers en countered is the performance of their duties, and urged upon those present the necessity of supporting an indite- Lon which tended so much to the promotion of prevalent habits—an appeal which was liberally responded to by those present. ROYAL NAVAL SCRIPTURE RZADIIRS' SMINTY.— Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the friends and supporters of this society was held at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, Sir John Paldngtoo, the Secretary of State for War, occupying the chair, supported by Mr. Corry, the • First Lord of the Admiralty, and a large number of naval officers. The society, which is gratuitously conducted, WAS inaugurated in 1801, under the auspices of the Me . naval adminietration, to promote the religious welfare of the rank and Me of the navy. Chaplains, says the report, who are attached to the larger ships of war, end divisions of the Royal Mariner, have experienced great oxalates's, from the Scripture re aders ',welded by the society, whilst for the smaller easels of war the society affords the only means of systematic instruction within the mesh of their crews. Thirteen carefully selected readers have been watchfully superintended by the naval clergy at Devon- ' port, Portsmouth, Greenwich, Woulwich. Chatham Deal, Malta, and Bermuda. Sixty•rween thousand men-of-war men and Royal Marines call for this additional agency, and seven more readers are required to occupy the Chief ports on the remaining stations. The Admiralty, commanding officers of ships, chaplains awl officers generally, have exerted themselves to ligh ten the expenses and facilitate the operations of the society, and the funds are so econo mically managed that last year only la. 74d. in the pound was absorbed in the collection and distribution of the income. The expenses, however, of bunt hire. sad of reader, serving abroad, is considerable, and to enable the society to meet the additional requirements of the navy an augmentation of 1,0001. a year is necessary. The report having been adopted, the urgent and strong claims of the society to public support were warmly ailvece'ed by the right hon. chairman, Mr. Corry, Admiral Sir Fred. Grey, Admiral Sir John Hay, and other gentlemen, and at the close of the proceedings a liberal subscription was made towards its fondly. _ ------ Ittrosu BILL Pyrrnoss.-The following resolu tion was unanimously passed at a meeting of the Birming ham Liberal Association on Tuesday ; Kr. Thomas Lloyd in the chair :-" That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that a petition be signed, and presented to the House of Commons, protesting against the clause. in the government bill which trovide for personal payment of rates by householders whose houses are now comp:Marled for under the existing law, and calling upon the house either to strike out such clauses or reject the bill." TRIO BRADFORD REFoRN UNION AND THE RN roam BILL-The committee of the Bradford branch of the National Reform Union have passed the following resolutions :-1. " That this committee views with surprise and regret the repeated disloyelty to the canes of popular rights of the liberal members who conferred e triumph on government in the division on the personal pay ment of rates, and 011 the disabilities of compound householders ; and declares the enfrauchimment conferred on the working classes in a few boroughs and townships, with the bone of contention thrown between compound householders, owners, and vestries in the other boroughs, to be an insult to the people, calculated to prolong and embitter agitation, end that the members for the torough be earnestly requested to coppue! the fancy franchises and voting papers, as tending to unlimited corruption, and to insist on a more adequste scheme for the redistribution of mate." 2. " That this committee earnestly calls on the members for Bradford and the West Riding to resist to the utmost the passim% of the Royal Parka BBL" 3. " And that a public meeting be held to protest; against the personal payment of rates and the dimibilitios of cunipound householders, and against the other ohjee tionable parte of the government scheme yet to be dis mimed, and that a petition emanate from the meeting." COIDOOLB.-On the first dividend day in 18ti5 the number of persona holding Cowed' was 126,331, as com pared with 126,653 in 1864, and 126.701 in 184:3. These totals may be classified as follows :-The number of preemie entitled to dividends not exceeding IV. weans ltc',.3„ ; in 1864, 42,900 • and in 180, 42 The nauiber of per eons entitled to'dividends not e xceeding 101. AS in 1910, 19,604 ; in 1864, 19,500; and in 1865, 19,870. The number of poisons entitled to dividends not exceeding to. was is 1863, 41,626; is 1864, 41,:r.r. ' • and in 1865, 41,279. The number of person s entitled to dividends not exceed. ing 1001. was in 1863 11,820 ; in 1864, 11,806 ; and in 11165, 11,537. The number of persons entitled to dividends not eeceeding 2001., was in lei 3, 6,9V4 ; in 1864, 6,905 ; and in 1865, 6,130. The number of persons entitled to dividends not exceeding 300/. was in 11621, 1,929; u 1864, 1,850; and in 1863,1,848. The sumle rof pencils entitled to dividends not exceeding 50/3e WWI in 180, 1,343 ; is 1864, 1,374 ; and in 1865, 1,329. The number of permns entitled to dividends not exceeding 1,0001. Fee in 186:3,653; in 1864, 679 ; and in Iho, 671. The number of persons entitled to dividends not exceeding 2,0019. was in 1863, 211 ; in 1864, 204 ; and in 1865, 218. The number of per sons entitled to dividends exceeding 2,0001. was is 1863, 96 ; in 1864, 110 ; and in 185, 93. BtaliOF COLANSO.-Dr. Biker writes to the Guardian "1 am happy to say intelligence bas been re ceived that the Bishop of Capetowtie appeal from the sentence of the Supreme Court of Nodal, in the matter of the cathedral, has been allowed, and is to be prosecuted before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. This will raise the whole question of the legal validity of Dr. Colenso's letters patent ; and if their legal nullity, already incidentally affirmed by that tribunal, shouhl- as it eau scarcely be doubted it will-be formally and directly re affirmed, the pretended authority of Dr. Colette. to Peer ' vise episcopal functions and to enforce episcopal noanuates by civil process will be forever set at rest.' , Livsaroot, MAY 15.-The African mail steamer K'Cregor laird, has arrived here. Her dates are-Fer nando Po. April 11th ; Old Calabar, 14th ; Roney, 17th ; Lagos, 20th ; Accra, mid ; Cape Palma, 25th ; Siena Leone, 29th ; Tenerife, Kay 7th ; Madeira, 90. ..tt all the principal ports health was good and trude woo gene rally firm, with the exception of Lagos, which was un healthy. She brings 170 ounces of gold dust and 11 large amount of specie. James Gordon Bennett, of the..N'etr Yor4 and the well known Kr. Barnum, are at war. lielmett pursued Barnum to Connecticut, when the latter tried to represent that place in congress, and pertly contributed to his defeat through attacks in the Herald. Barnum keeps a museum in New York in which there is a waxwork ex hibition, and be is about having wax figures made to re present certain scenes in which Kr. Bennett has been in the cham are be n r ai o d f Mad d . ai in ini the ble7R e er of ar hia e tecarbee"Placcm•de