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WATS& AT LONDON BRIDOL TIM DAY —Morning, Sit. 10m Afternoon, 311. 4Gm. TO-HOinote—Morning, 411. :ter Afternoon, 4b. 17m. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. THE argument against the extension of the franchise, which is usually drawn at this time of the year from our own municipal elections, has this year been drawn from a more distant source. The North American Review has published a very remarkable article on the condition of municipal affairs in the city of New York, and that article has been made to do suit and service in rousing fear and suspicion of popular government. The facts of the case seem very obvious, and to de scribe them without showing the relation between thorn is an easy way of suggesting a relation which does not exist. Nothing can exceed the corrup tion of the New York municipal government Its extravagance, its peculation, its jobbery, are all such as perhaps no other govern ment, of any kind, has ever exceeded. At the same time it is a purely democratic gc vernment, elected by almost universal suf frage, and springing directly from the popular will. The suffrage is wide and free, and the government resulting from it is the worst and most dishonest in the world. But it is ob vious that to mention these two characteristics in connexion with the question of Parliamentary Reform is to suggest that some connexion exists between the wide suffrage and the low character of the resulting representative body, and to assume that there is some parallelism or relation between the franchise extension demanded here and that which has been established there. If this relation is not pretended to exist, in what possible wal can the corruption of the New York municipality throw light on the question of the extension of the suffrage in Great Britain ? Yet it can only be in reliance on English ignorance of American affairs, and in the confidence that very few who read the arguments against Reform will read the paper, or even fully ascertain the facts on which they are based, that any such relation can be even tacitly assumed. The suffrage in Beaton is even more widely distributed than in New York, and Boston is perhaps the best managed city in the world. The most careless reader of the article in the North American Review would see at once that it is in the exceptional circumstances of New York city that the whole cause of the cot • ruption of its government is to be found. That great city is au exceptional place, even in the domestic politics of the Union. The vast mis takes which many of our contemporaries make in their studies of American affairs arise from their assumption of the metropolitan and re presentative character of New York. Yet in many respects New York, so far from being the representative city of the United States, is the most foreign city in the Union. Recelving as it does the overflow of the Old World, the vas' . current of emigration which perpetually flows to it carries with it much that the Old World is gladly rid of. It is in the nature of things that this the worst element of Old World emigration is detained in a great city, while the better element flows through it to remoter settlements. At the present moment we believe that the native born Americans are in a considerable minority in the city of New York. Of the actual voters who elect the municipality seventy-seven thousand are said by the North American Review to be of foreign birth, and only fifty-two thousand to be native Americans. The population is also as fluctuating as it is foreign. During the five years from 1860 to 1865 the population diminished to the extent of 87,283, notwithstanding the large immigration of those years. In a city thus peopled with a foreign and fluctuating population it cannot be said that the American system of government has a fair trial. That great machinery of popular education which is the glory and boast of the United States cannot exert its proper influence over a constituency only one-third of which con fide of persons who have been brought beneath its training. And this is exactly the complaint that the North American Review makes. Its comment on the terrible details it has given is :—" Such " are the consequences that have resulted from THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1866; "admitting to the polls unqualified and *Maxed ' the speculators contracting to deliver an immense men in a city which eatable" spil retail/Abe queasily of she. *Mout having Wynne poseennt of thee fienrhen she Mired alkneciation came it Last it " worst of the foreign immigration, iind wherlithere el are aevenforeign-bornvoteato ases7fivaail4". &roil frees the wants of the sperulatoes themselves, who ' were foralto buy frig. the pulite at Its price that which But it is admitted that ewn Under tee very ' thy' liad undertaken to deliver. The Tines NOG the exceptional circumatarilis of New Yolk' whabtreth 1 not ilat yet, and Ills astliaprobe that household franchise worked well. All this` cor- some of those who took part in the cosplihration were, from ruption has originated in a definite time, and as the the first, its intended victims. result of a particular change, which change has and 1 The upshot of the matter between Mr. Bright, T. B. Smith, and the Bishop of Oxford, the Daily New/ My., is ospiiptve no parallel to anything that has been sug this: that Mr. Bright's facts are undisputed ; that a state of gashed here. " Within the memory of men still things which, the bishop admits, "seems to be disgraceful " " living," says the Review, " the affairs of both , does really exist ; bat that, in the ease of the particular " the City and State of New York were so well family to which Dr. Wilberforce dexterously narrows the " managed, that other States and cities were glad controversy, the blame rests sot with the clergy but with "to copy their methods of doing business. The I parental negligence and vice. The parasol ques ohnowinever,. !a te w v h e o ry small one. onee. Surely only " time was when men, after a brilliant career in ' ti q r " Congress, regarded it as a promotion to be business of the clergy Is to overcome the dead.w y eight " mayor of the city, when a seat in the city legis- of indifference which they attribute to the farm labourers. " lature was the coveted reward of a lifet ime of ITo the great landed proprietors great social and political " honest dealing in private business, when a seat privileges are secured by express legislation, and if the "in the State legislature was the usual first step joint influence of clergyman and squire fails, then our "to the highest places in the national government, ecclesiastical and territorial organisation breaks down. " when the very ward committees were composed In acquitting person., the Bishop of Oxford indirectly casts "of eminent merchants and lawyers, and when blame on institutions. His doctrine, by inference, is far more revolutionary than Mr. Bright's. Many concurrent " even to serve as the secretary of a ward corn- causes must conspire in order to bring about a change for " mittee was a feather in the cap of a bank- the better. A large emigration, elevating the material " teller or a head book-keeper in a house of condition of the poor who remain ; the gr.wth of a keener " business." But this was not under a restricted sense of their duty on the part of the privileged classes ; suffrage in the English sense of the term, but and more efficient legislation—all are necessary. under household suffrage and the ballot, and that Lord Carnarron, the Daily News states, has called upon the Canadian government for the production of all the at a time when rents were low, when most o f t he documents that can throw light upon the facts in the New York population lived in their own houses, Lunirande case, and in due course our Foreign-offioe will and when education was not nearly so universal or have to apply to the French government for Lamirande's complete as it now is. So far, therefore, as this restoration. The result will be expected with much lute- New York experience runs at all parallel to our rest in England, inasmuch as it will show ui bow our questions, and so far as it throws any light what- neighbours regard the engagement subsisting between us ever on the question of Reform which we are now and them, and to what extent they are prepared to see its discussing, it goes to support and justify an ex - working affected by the different habits of mind which the judicial officers of the two countries respectively bring to tension of the franchise to the widest extent that the estimation of the evidence of crime. any statesmen of the present day are at all likely The Star thinks those journalists who stood almost alone to propose. in warning England of the danger of permitting Southern It is quite true that it is to an extension of the privateers to sail from her ports may be excused if they franchise that the degeneracy of New York po- now enjoy something like a triumph when their opponents litics is to be traced, but it is to an extension of come over bodily to the same aide. Even the tory journals which applauded when the bold Mr. Laird avowed his de which our social condition affords no parallel. In sire to be the builder of twenty Alabama, now coolly 1821 the democratic party abolished household speak of thethe fitters - out of tho se ships suffrage and gave the vote to foreign cit izens, de plore R in perm itti ng and the making naturalization easy. A foreigner who has ques ti on to grow into a serious international difficulty. been ten days a citizen, who has resided in the A tory journal bemoaning the depredations of the State one year, in the county four months, and Alabama is ,wonderfully like a certain personage quoting in the district ho votes in thirty days, has a vote. Scripture. He may, and generally does, know nothing of politica, nothing of parties, and nothing of in dividual men ; but he is induced by political agents to take up his citizenship, and is persuaded by them to give his vote. He is at heart an alien still ; in ideas, in education, in association he is a foreigner ; he cares nothing for his newly-adopted country, and he votes as he is bid. Thousands of Irish, our correspondent tells us, were thus being made citizens in anticipa tionof theelection of Tuesday last, whenthey would be driven to the polls to swell the Democratic vote for the supporters of Mr. JOHNSON in New York city, and to diminish the vast majority which every other portion of the State is sure to give against them. A foreign immigration thus laid hold of by the induati ions agents of the Demo cratic party neutralizes the native element in New York politics, gives them their Democratic charac ter and their rowdy aspect, and produces that municipal degeneracy which all good Americans so winch regret. But what has this to do with Eng lish politics ! What foreign element, ignorant ot our affairs, can be enfranchised hero ? Yet the argument has no meaning otherwise. Nothing is being proposed hero but the wider enfranchise ment of the English people. Will any eta-en - nen stand up in Parliament, and reason as it has been reasoned by some of our contemporre :es on these New York revelations ? Jf so, this will be his argument—" The indiscriminate enfranchisement "of foreign immigrants has caused New York " municipal politics to degenerate to the foulest " corruption ; beware, therefo e, how you proceed " t.o the discriminating enfranchisement of a per " tion of your own countrymen. The forcing of " votes on foreigners who care nothing for politics "of which they know nothing has made New " York municipal politics a trade ; beware how " you gran: Notes to Englishmen who have shoe " thc 'r interest in national affairs, awl have ear " neatly desired to give practical effect to that " interest and knowledge." But it is not even on inconsequent argument that the feeling against Reforie is based. A vague fear, an unreasoning prejrdice, a foolish dread of the people, is really at the bottom of it, and these New York difficul ties, only half appreciated and utterly misurder stood, do as well as beater reasons to keep alive • I tha:, uneasiness and fear. l3r THE WEEKLY PRESS. Lord Romilly has practically decided, the Spectator says, if his judgment be sustained on appeal, that if the colonial churches wish to emancipate themselves from the final control of lay judges, they must give up the name of the English church, constitute themselves on a voluntary basis of their own, and if they continue the episcopal government, must accept bishops conse crated voluntarily by other bishop., but not selected by the crown, not consecrated at the order of the reigning monarch. Bishops created and consecrated by the Queen's order cannot, without renouncing their allegiance to the English church, go over to such free colonial churches as are now contemplated. Such churches may, no doubt, remain in communion with the English church—in deed, the English church is in communion with the Scotch episcopal and American episcopal church, and may be in communion before long with the Greek church, but they will not be part of it ; their clergy and arch deacons, and bishops cannot minister in the English church ; their onlers will not be held valid in the English church ; in a word, they will be an entirely different church—a church with a common origin and a common root of dogma but likely soon enough to issue in branches, leaves, and flowers of a very different variety indeed. But will not the temptation to be free from the curb of lay tribunals, and to have the clergy determining what is orthodoxy and heresy for themselves, operate so powerfully that churches schismatic in all but their wish to remain in communion with the mother church, will yet be formed ! That some I attempt of this kind will be made in the colonies, as soon as it is known that to belong to the English church means accepting sbsolutely the decisions of lay tribunals with re spect to the nature of the obligations imposed by the for mularies of the church, the Spectator does not doubt. As there is no certain knowledge of what may be the views or future policy of Prussia, the Examiner cannot but deem it highly premature to come to a decision here as to our future adhesion or repugnance to it. If the internal government of North Germany manifest itself in liberal progress, let ns be ready to award all praise. It relying upon its now compact territory, its late victory, and a strong military organisation, it direct its steps to its own German development,there is no one among us who will not applaud. But if the new government of Prussia be found intriguing or allying either with France or Russia for a further disturbance of the balance of power of Europe, and for the conversion of it from a great republic of inde pendent states into a mere triad of empires, then the world will have reason to curse the day when Bismarck triumphed at KOniggrutz. In an article called " Young Oxford," the Saturday Re- view informs its readers that the present fancy there is for vestments—for the quaintest, richest, and most expensive ecclesiastic garments. The undergraduates form themselves into • holy brotherhood, and settle that the brethren shall wear something as splendid as fancy can suggest and money can buy. The room in which one very precious set of vestments is stored is said to be insured for thousands and thousands of pounds. A sort of celestial bagman goes round on behalf of a celebrated millinery warehouse, tout ing for orders. A publisher has a secret and sacred corner in his shop where every information on costume cm be obtained. Young men walk about the liigh-street with garments and bead-dresses on, that give the initiated to understand that their wearers are as much priests as it is possible for young laymen to be. And, naturally, the appropriate theology prevails also. Undergraduate after undergraduate announces that he IN restored to the bosom of the true church ; and as under the modern system Roman catholics I are allowed to be members of many colleges, • fervent young man can go over when he pleases, and yet pursue his university career. With this high dressing excitement, that of gambling on a scale previously unknown is said to have come in, and epigrammatist, remark that it is either maw or unlimited 100. It certainly seems, after the two great movement, at Oxford, the high church movement and the liberal movement, a strange bathos to sink to these pnerilities—these silly extravagances which usually promote a strong reaction against all religions. In the larger theatre of the outside world, the ordinary Eng lishman, the complacent, church-going, tolerably bene volent taxpayer, would be quickly petrified into indiffe rence, or irritated into enmity, if religion came before him in the shape which it assumes among the leaders of Young Oxford. But the reaction, if it comes, will be only temporary ; and before long the whole effects of the pre sent excitement will have died away. Let us hope that something more noble and more worthy of young men will take its place, and that Young Oxford may once more occupy itself with the works of great writers and the thoughts of great thinkers. 1 Th e Economist considers the question, Ought the tories to touch a reform bill I and comes to the conclusion that there is no place for such a measure. All snares, artifices, and "dodges " on so palpaLle a matter will assuredly fail, and any reform bill really gratifying to sincere conserva tives would, if it be possible, fail even with quick cer tainty. THE PRINCE ow WALES'S PARE AT BINGLEY.— His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has contributed to the park at Bingley, in the West Riding, • umber of trees, in recognition of the " good and kind feeling shown by the inhabitants and working men of Bingley towards himself and the Princess of Wales." The folio • is • copy of a letter sent to the vicar of Bingley, from Sand ringham, concerning the gift, and in it was enclosed a list of trees sent per rail to Bingley station :—" • ham, King's Lynn, 6th Nov., 1466. Dear Sir,—Referring to our former correspondence, I have now the pleasure of in forming you, by the Prince of Wales's directions, that a parcel of trees has been forwarded to your address, this day. from Sandringham, with a view to their being planted in the People's Park at Bingley. I enclose a list of them, and trust they will be acceptable and arrive without damage. Any expenses that may be incurred f u r their carriage I sha ll be obliged by your sending me a note of, in order that I may refund the money.—l am, dear a i r , v er y truly yours, W. KPOILTB.—Rev. A. Irwin." the Court.. WINDSOR CAME, Notts 9. The Queen drove in the Home-psi. y0[4104191, afternoon, nasmHapanied by the Princess 44» and Prince LeafialL Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, &Menai' by Viscountess Jocelyn, drove in the grounds of the Castle this morning. The Prince and Princess Christian also went out driving. To-day is the birthday of the Prince of Wales. A committee of the Lords of kir Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on matters relating to the Cattle PlAgue. The lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended the committee. A deputation consisting of Mr. John Holms, Mr. John Plummer. Dr. Black, Mr. Mark Coles, Mr. George Low land, Mr. George Dornbuach, Mr. Gilbert Marshall, and Mr. J. R. Crompton, had an interview with Lord John Manner at her Majesty's Office of Works yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Prince Arthur having now reached his sixteenth year, her Majesty, it is announced, has determined that he shall enter the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as a gentleman cadet. The Prince of Wales is a general in the army and colonel of the 10th Hungers ; Prince Alfred is a captain in the nary ; and it Is intended that Prince Arthur shall be prepared for a commission in either the Engineers or Artillery. The royal family will thus be connected with nearly every branch of the service. Nearly 200 of the tradesmen appointed to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales cele brated his royal highness s birthday yesterday evening, by dining together at the St. James's-hall. Mr. Alderman Cope lend, having most kindly foregone his seat at the Guildhall banquet, presided, and gave the various loyal toasts with true aldermanie spirit. By direction of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, through General Knollya, a bountiful supply of find venison was provided for the feast. The chairman was supported by the honorary secretary, Mr. Melton, of Regent-street, who announced that a ball would be held at Willie-rooms on the 3rd of December next, in honour of the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and that the worthy alderman had consented to allow his name to appear as a steward. In the evening most of the royal tradesmen illuminated. _ . His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has consented to lay the foundation stone of the " Smalley wing" of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum in the course of the present month. ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM. —His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has graciously signified his inten tion of opening the grand bazaar and flower show in aid of the funds of this institution at the Guildhall on Tuesday, the 13th inst., at one o'clock. Contributions of needle work, &c., will be thankfully received by the secretary, 98, ('heapside. The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer House, St. James's, yesterday, for Althorp Hall, North amptonshire. Tho marriage of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., M.P., with Miss Harriett Moncreiffe will take place on the 6th of December. The Lord Warden and the Countess Granville will leave Widmer Castle on the 16th inst. Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton) has left Podevin's, King's Head, Dover, for Paris and Nice. Hi■ lordship is not likely to return to England before the opening of parliament. There is a rumour that Lord Chelmsford may resign the Lord Chancellorship, and take the place likely to be vacated by Chief Justice Erle, the Chief Justiceship of the Common Plmis, in which case Sir Hugh Cairns would take the Lord Chancellorship. . We read in the Spectator : " Ecce Hurno '.' appears to be at last definitely traced to l'rofessor Seeley, of University College, London. The author complained in his recent preface of its being supposed that he could wish to mystify the public as to the drift of his trea tise. We suppose he felt no such scruple as to his Authorship, as he seems to have succeeded admirably in mystifying even intimate friends. It is not, we should think, any want of pride in such a hook, or in its reception by friends and foes, which ioduced him so perseveringly to preserve the incognito." " S. G. 0." AND THE 131 SHOP OF SALISBFRY.— In reply'ng in the Times to the recent letter to him of the Bishop of Salisbury " S. G. 0." obis: ryes that that letter is conclusive as to the fact that members of the episcopal bench can hold much of the doctrine he de nounced, and he had a right to assume that where a bishop sanctioned the teaching be would only consider the vest ments and ceremonial as so much of accessory eleirent in the matter necessary to give it its full dignity. As to the charge that he was creating disaffection by cutting away no small portion of the ground on which the church of Eng land rests her protest against the exclusive claims of the church of Rome, be remarks that they were fast cutting away all grounds for exclusion from the latter church, and it was hardly worth while to protest against what they were so rapidly removing. The apostolic " in heritance" which the bishop claimed for the clergy must include all that is claimed by the Romish clergy ; it could not be held in part, or re ject 1 in part, at the will of the heir. The word " lucky," as applied to ecclesiastical preferment, S. G. 0. says he used in its ordinary sense, and he never con templated applying it to any particular bishop. He cannot understand bow it is that bishops and clergy, who' all claim to hold apostolic powers differ so much on points called essential. In conclusion, the writer says that no fear of rebuke can induce him to be silent when he sees daily the growth of this attempt to destroy what our forefathers established at so great a cost ; " far better would it bo to dismiss to Rome a thousand or two of those who clearly love her better than us, and serve us with a traitorous service, than to allow tamely the spread of a poison which, carefully adapted to youth ful, weak tastes, snares our children into a creed which palliates the deceit that covers the belief of the papist under the clothing of the protestant." The New York Tribune of the 31st ult. has the following :—Mr. Hepworth Dixon, the well-known editor of the London Athencrum, and biographer of Lord Bacon and William Penn, leaves for home by the Scotia this morning. Mr. Dixon has devoted the last four months to a tour through the northern States, a portion of the South, and as far west as Utah, where ho orient several weeks in studying Mormon faith and practice. He visited the James River, Plymouth Rock, and otherlocal ities of interest in our early history. He has also been studying the sentiment among our publishers, authors, and journalists upon the question of an international copy right law, with the view of co-operating in a fresh move ment for its adoption. Upon reaching home Mr. Dixon will immediately issue in two small volumes a work en titled The New America," recording his observations of social and political life in the United States ; devoting particular attention to those peculiar and curious religious organisations among us of which little is known by the general public either in Europe or America. He has been greatly pleased with his tour, and his observations will doubtless be entertaining and valuable. THE PAMS EXHIBITION, 1867.—A meeting of the committee for the representation of objects for the use of the army, navy, and navigation, was held yesterday in the Sheepshanks Gallery of the South Kensington Mu seum. The following member of the committee were pre sent Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G.; his Grace the Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, M.P. ; the Right Hon. General Peel, M.P. ; Lord Allied Paget, Sir Morton Peto, M.P. ; Colonel E. M. Boxer, R.A. ; Mr. James Buchanan, Captain IL C. Close, Trinity-house; Colonel Dixon, RA.; Mr. John Fowler, P.LC.E. ; Captain Douglas oslton, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel Jervois, C.R , R.E.; Brigadier Genera Lefroy, R.A. ; Cap tain B. H. Martindale, R.E. ; Mr. John Macgregor, Mr. D. Ramsay, Mr. E. J. Reed, Mr. J. H. Ritchie, Mr. J. Scott Robertson, Major-General St. George, ILA., C.B. Mr. William Scholefield. M.P. ; Mr. J. White, and Colonel Younghnoband, R.A. Mr. Henry Cole, 0.8., Secretary to her Majesty's Commissioners, attended ; and also the fol lowing secretaries of the committee :—Rev. J. Woolley, LL.D.; Captain J. F. Donnelly, ItH ; Mr. J. Wilson Cooper, Mr. H. K Acton, and Commander Scott, R.N. ..a - ratt Ham.. —The National Choral Society will comment* its seventh season on Tuesday, the Bath inst., with a performance of Elrijsd, in which Mr. &alley will appose. Mr. Southey is she angered by this society for its Christmas performance of the Nesase, Dee. 26th ; and for the Creation, Jan. 3rd. Ooadader, Mr. G. W. Mortis. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE lIINIAI - IitISONERS IN CANADA. The following despatches are published in the American journals : Department of Slate, Washington, Oct. 27, IW. D. Thurston, Esq., United States Consul, Toronto, C.W. Sir,—For your information I enclose a copy of a note o f this date which I have addressed to Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, the British minister here, upon the subject of the conviction and sentence of James Lynch and John M'Afahon, by a colonial court of Canada, on the charge of complicity and participation in the late attack on Fort Erie. _ . In acoordance with the purpose expremed in that com munication, you are expected to procure, without delay, for the use of this department, a oopy of the record of the trial and conviction of Lynch and Widahon, and also of all further trials and convictions of a similar character which shall take place in Canada, with the lent possible delay after their termination.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Wrimait Eitsivaaa. MR. REWARD TO 818 11 DBCCI. Department of State, Washington, Oct. 27,1566. Sir,—lt is understood that James Lynch and John M'Mabon base been recently convicted in a colonial court of Canada, and sentenced to death upon a charge that, being citizens of the United States, they wen actor' in the assault made in the month of June lass, at Fart Erie, in that colony. - • It can hardly be necearnaty to direct your attention to the fact that the government of the United States is required by the highest considerations of national dignity, duty, and honour to inquire into the legality, justice, and regularity of the judicial proceedings which have thus taken place, and that, after making such a careful scrutiny, we shall expect to make known to her Majesty's government such opinions as the Presidenkupon due consideration shall adopt. _ . . . - . With this view the Consul of the United States Toronto is this day instructed to procure, for the informa tion of this department, a copy of the record of the trial and conviction of Lynch and Dl'Malion, and also of all further trials and convictions of a similar character which shall take place in Canada. While no unnecessary delay in the examinations of the cases which are thus ex pected to come before this government is intended, it may nevertheless happen hereafter that delays may un avoidably result from past incidents or from future events which cannot now be foreseen. I have now the honour to request you to take such proceedings as you may think proper, to the end that such applications of the consul shall be prop. rly granted. The President directs me to assure you of his confident hope that her Majesty's government will not only cheer fully comply with the request I have thus made, but they will think it proper also to examine the judicial proceed ings aforesaid, with a careful regard to the rights of the United States, and to the maintenance of good relations between the two countries. Such relations are always difficult and delicate in States that are adjacent to each other, without being separated by impassable boundaries. For this reason it would be very gratifying to the President if you should be able to give me an assurance that the execution of the sentences pronounced upon the convicted persons will be suspended, if occasion for delay shall arise in the manner before mentioned to make it desirable. Finally, I deem it proper to say that the offenses in volved in these trials are in their nature eminently politi cal. It is the opinion of this government that sound policy coincides with the bed impulses of a benevolent nature in recommending tenderness, amnesty, and forgive. ness in such cases. This suggestion is made with freedom and earnestness, because the same opinions wero proposed to us in our recent civil war by all the governments and publicists of Europe, and by none of them with greater frankness and kindness than by the government and statesmen of Great Britain. • I am very sure that you will find that those recommendations of a policy of clemency and forgiveness in the case of the parties concerned are in entire harmony with all the suggestions and representa tions which this government has made to her Majesty's government in regard to the aggressions which have bent made on the Canadian frontier, and that they are also in harmony with the proceedings which this government has thought it just, wise, and prudent to pursue in regard to the violation of its own neutrality laws which was in volved in those aggressions.—l have the honour to be with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant, WiLuast H. SEWARD. To the Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., Oct. 29,1866. have received your communication of the 28th instant, together with a copy of the preamble and resolu Cons adopted by the Common Council of the City of New York, and approved by yourself, asking the interposition of the government of the United States to secure the pardon and release of Robert Blom Lynch and other citi zens of the United States now confined in Canada. In reply. I transmit for your information a copy of com munications addressed by the Department of State on the 27th inst., to the British minister at Washington, and so the consul of the United States at Toronto, Canada. These prompt proceedings will convince you of the deep interest felt by the government of the United States in the cases of those citizens, and of its determination to take all steps that may be necessary and proper for the protection of all its citizens, wheresoever they may be, I am, sir, very respectfully yours, ANDREW JOHNSON To the Hon. John T. Hoffman, Mayor of the City of New York. PUBLIC OPINION IN CANADA. The Montreal Witness sees " nothing extraordi nary in the event" unless the sentence is carried out. On that point it has the following : We do not see from the evidence that there was any proof of the prisoner being the actual murderer of any of our heroic volunteers who fell on that occasion, but only that he was one of the invaders. To this crime our laws attach the same penalty as to the crime of high treason- - the penalty of death. Now, it must be admitted that executions for treason, which used in old times to be frightfully frequent, have been growing fewer and fewer, till now they are rarely heard of. There was not, we think, a single one of the cabbage garden rebels in Ireland executed ; and the first execution for treason has yet to take place in the United States out of more than half a million who might lawfully be executed for that crime during the late rebellion, and many of them most aggravated cases. The only execution of the kind in the States was that of John Brown for his invasion of Vir ginia : and we all know the impression produced by that event, and the reputation earned by Governor Wiae for his part in it. Far be it from us to defend the Fenian, or to extenuate their crime ; but we cannot ghat our eyes to the fact that it was a political crime, and that the whole current of public opinion in all countries, unless it be Russia or Jamaica, tends towards leniency in such cases after the immediate danger is past. That is to say, any amount of severity may be used in the field against those who have arms in their hands ; but after the emeutc or invasion is successfully quelled, there is little or no more blood shed, however severe the punishment may be otherwise. It will be well, at all events, for his Excellency the Governor to consult the Home Government in this matter, as it will have a direct interest in anything that affects our external relations. The Toronto Leader, a bitter opponent of the North during the late war, sees in the employment of counsel for the prisoners by the United States government a criminal sympathy with the acts for which they are being tried. It is bitter in its denunciations of the United States government and people, and rather clamours for the blood of the convicted. The Ottawa Times, on the other hand, takes almost the opposite view, and looks upon the employment of counsel by the American government as a perfectly legitimate course of action, " a compliment to the justice of our laws, and the integrity of their administration, of which we should feel justly proud !" Rumours are rife in Toronto that an attempt at rescue will be made, and the press of that city re port that there are a large number of strangers there at present without any visible means of sup port, and that a large number out of employment in other provincial cities have &eked thither, all OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Though possessing many of the same qualities as the late Lord Palmerston, to whom it was as natural to speak at a public banquet as to talk at his own dinner table, Lord Derby feels the responsibility, not to say diffi culty, obser►es the Times, of the position be occupies ; and hence, in his addresses as Prime Minister, a certain reserve which marks the statesman whose achievements are still in the future. That he did not break silence last night respecting his coming measures is no reason for complaint. There are still three months left of the recess, and the government has a right to take all the time it can for the consideration of its measures. The most important point in his speech is the intimation that a proposition for the arrangement of the differences between America and this country with respect to the Alabama claims would he favourably entertained, and that the duties of neutrals in maritime war might, if necessary, be reconsidered. Lord Derby's government is, happily, able to approach these questions without suspicion or prejudice. And while it would be almost impossible for Lord Russell and his col leagues to approach these discussions with a fair chance of success, they will not the less, we may hope, give cordial support to their successors in any attempt which may be made to remove' a cause of offence which appears to be deeply felt on the other side of the Atlantic, and to achieve a substantial and permanent reform of international law. Though it is almost in the nature of things, and is cer tainly for the advantage of the country, that the liberal petty should be for the most part in office, and that the conservatives should perform their appropriate function of checking and regulating the stream of legislation, yet sea sons recur at which it is beneficial that this relation should be changed, and that the party generally in opposition should be called upon to act where they have been accus. tomed only to criticise. The present, the Times conceives, is one of those seasons, and Lord Derby and his colleagues have once more the opportunity of gaining a higher repu tation than that of clever opposition orators. In another article the Times draws attention to a draft report prepared by Sir J. Pakington on the subject of national education, and published, though not adopted, by the select committee of laat session. Sir John proposes to create a ministry of public instruction ; to appoint edu cational boards for counties or dioceses throughout the country ; to give the power of compulsory rating in cer tain defined cases ; and to make the insertion of a con science clause in the trust deed an indispensable condition to a giant. A third article is devoted by our contempo rary to the extraordinary combination which was formed at Glasgow to buy up the stock of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. These gentlemen, it is evident, had not in the first place the money, or the " margin," as it appears to be called there, for the pueblo • of these shares bought in their names, and they could eel, hope to pay ont of the proceeds of the ultimate re-sale. Then, it is confessed, that the shares were boa even bought to the extent of the engagements to of whom only await s beck from the —..... 7 rity to make the city the thesis of riot NA shed. (iimmes TELzoLuts.) THE WEST COAST OF Llmpoo AFßict i iitiaxi The steamer Macgregor Laird, witht ,tl4-40,41., mail., arrived in the Mersey-this Wettin g. R d a mps Are, Benin, Sept. 20 ; Ben ce (14. 3 ; Cameroon', Sept. 30; Old 011ste R o a 5 11 Br ; ; Lagos,ass sth River, New ; Accn4 Clotalabars ; and Cape 12th ; Cape Palmas, 14th ; Sierra 1 40§11 1 Bathurst, 24th; Tenerife, 31st ; sad 2. She brings 3,238 use, of gold 44,11436 sovereigns in specie. _ In consequence of the French govern: n* about to exact duties at Gaboon, much di mifin , Lion had been caused among the English f u4 Z New Calabar was tranquil. The King o f No is dead. Yellow fever was prevalent at G. 466, INDIA, CHINA, AND AITSTRALLiN 144 MARBEILLIS, • g The China arrived at 7 p.m. to-day. Th mat *. leave for London at 10 p.m. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CEfl GIBRALTAR, x 0 9. The Mullis, from Southampton on th; inst., arrived to-day at 2 p.m., and lea n ci p.m. for Alexandria. All well. AMERICA. NI'LLIRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YOU, z e . i The official statement of the publictifigdo i United States on the let inst. shows arsi t p, of 20,000,000 dole. since the Lt October lrt The Transatlantic Compauy's stesiserA m i has arrived out. EXPRESS FROM PAIU (nom OUR OWN OORILISPONDINt) PARIS, FEDAT tr am The departure of the court for Compiiga i N j to be definitively fixed for Tuesday. Ca u tis the last meeting of the Reorganisation Cos a ii, will be held, when tho project determined ce, 1 bases of which have already been appros e i i ,i be presented in the form in which it will be taco before the Legislative Body. When thie he meeting shall I•sve been held, it it bsier t i i that special commissions will be re•si take into consideration each of the era of which the efficiency of the army &pea t %I general commission has only had to cceiisn i subject of recruitment, the means of inneuilikl disposable forces of the country. The onet missions will have to consider the Tins strength to be given to each arm, the shafts _ . to be - made in their equipments, and the ausa wig. The medical service will, of COll/.3, we its fair share of attention, and thus a on* which its members had made of their isms being neglected falls to the ground. The Russian ambassador here is and/Meek have given explanations to the MinisterolPaip Affairs on the increase in the Russian seal. It was of course received with the courtesy Aides tinguishes M. de Moustier ; but as the Mame has not given the substance of those eiplesim,' they would seem to have made little Mimeos yet. Of course they are accepted, and willsmes . in the official paper in a day or two, beessapar for next year is almost a necessity to the and, as I have already written, there me here who almost despair of its being =intend M. de Sartiges is decidedly going back tam it is said much against his will. He willed acs have no merit if things turn out well, bet Me wise he may be made the scapegoat of tbeiwang policy in the eyes of France. It is said tist r. has demanded writleu instructions embnag contingencies, and it is even added, shiett sea i less probable, that he has obtained them. Ile while we are assured that the question of tie it terest of the Roman debt is on the eve of s ment in conformity with the exigencies ofbra namely, that Italy shall take upon itself s proportion of the debt contracted when Li tb States of the Church were under the papal** that the interest shall be paid through the VW treasury. The Italian government is im ' qnired to repay to the pontifical goverammt * sums paid by way of interest on the ponies 65 assigned, since the day the provinces weft *kg possession of. It is here that the &ell& There is probably no truth in the report thee* requirement has been enforced by a tbrestd 6 non-withdrawal of the troops until it be cagy with. It would seem that non-official 0166116 tions are actively interchanged between Ramie Florence, and I am disposed to believe tist, will end in an arrangement satisfactory toallP' Rome lives by the Pope, and Victor Emma* who finds Florence an unpleasant readrsa could not live there. He has sheik elf . . tale enough on his hands, and Turin do the well-beloved among them all. On elw oll/ hand the Pope who, when he heard of them. of Venice, exclaimed that it was "the 154 146 • day in his life," will be loth to leave his Nor can one who has stood on the felted. solitude where Carthage was, and has sal ey remains of ancient Rome, and all that roodee°. has added to them, doubt that the power has preserved and created these splendoon still continue their guardian. The King of or M. de Bismarck in their treatment of 9sl may perhaps have pointed out the course by the interests of all parties may be conciliated. is reported this evening that the 'tabor!: went is negotiating to secure the receptiosa" Vcgezzi at Rome as its official representative. The arrests which I mentioned yeevedsl4 noticed in some of this evening's Pr eit said that 42 students were arrested i n a add sn" Pont St. Michel. lam infonned that they tovP an affiliation of the Workmen's Internstioesl° greas which met this summer at Geneva. a The thirty-sixth list of subscript ions for de tiros of the inundations was published 7°l The whole sum collected in Paris is now 71r - Large subscriptions arc seldom offered here, .r d , by the wealthiest. The lists for th e load ch'istit, in which a direct interest might be W 9%, stimulate generosity, are astonishi n g l y p oor long time M. Rothschild figured alone on do r: list for the sum of 8001. His liberality Mg ; found an imitator. M. Alexandre Biltk nephew of a wealthy financier (of Havre, 1 7i having received, on the occasion of his oat age, a present of 20,000 francs from hiss cle! horses, thought he could invest the in nelS charity. Perhaps the liberality was ktg in proportion than M. Rothschild's , far after all is richer than the wealth,..ii age. But giving is a habit on a comparatively small scale her' got reason may be that it is only of late P'g ri ,• • there have been really large fortunes in all1;1 " derable number. The newly-enriched k'i yet vats l l their looked for ev landed funds anyihi with th the WWI . The opened necuriti opened failed a 89fr. 1 group Mob' • quoted 90fr. higher lottery the pre Noku :6reasu l Aura Ard Cape Cul Holyhead Penaahoa Lorlent., Roolletoe. ~i1. , m0 Inrima Loadea Yormoil Viest ei Long e tad VP ea o f yd f r w.-7 1~ 1 ~ ! ( r. Balder .. 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