The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE runLIO JoURNALS, A Queen's Speech, says the Saturday Review, is always sere to provoke criticism, and at the dead season of the year, when the interest and excitement of the session are over, and there is not much else to criticise, the criticism naturally becomes keen, minute, and impassioned. It is assumed that a Queen's Speech ought to be a model of composition in every way, with the best grammar pos sible, full of good sense and stirring matter, and adorned with flowers of appropriate rhetoric. If this is the standard by which the document read on Wednesday last by the Chancellor is to be judged, it falls, it must be owned, lamentably short. A more bald and jejune piece of composition has seldom been issued by a Ministry. This gives a splendid opening to the Conservative journals, which find in the shortcomings of the Queen's Speech a Tory triumph, and take a natural delight in discovering that the Liberal Cabinet, which was said to be so very clever, so much beyond anything the Conservatives could muster, has shewn itself so stupid and cornmonilace in framing the Queen's Speech. A section of the Liberal Press, on the other hand, tries to rob this criticism of its sting by suggesting or explaining that the very clever members of the Cabinet had nothing to do with it. Their best man has been ill, and so the Tories need not triumph. As they put it in their poetical way, the Queen's Speech bears no marks of the pen of William Ewart Gladstone; and they go on, with a fine sense of internal evidence as to authorship, to pronounce that the speech was the work of Lord Hartington and Mr. Bruce. If so, those members of the Cabinet certainly command but a homely and unpretending style. How Lord Hartington would frame a Queen's Speech, if he had to frame one, we cannot even guess; but it must be acknowledged that there is an air of probability in ascribing the composition to Mr. Bruce. He has had exceedingly hard work lately, and has taken a laborious part in one of the most laborious sessions on record. A very tired man, longing for nothing but his holiday, and thinking that if he could but just get up enough energy to write a Queen's Speech, he might hope to be allowed a little leisure, would, we should imagine, compose very much in the style which is now criticised. If we can conceive a railway pointaman, after having stared at the signal for sixteen consecutive hours, being called on to draw up the by-laws for a branch line, he would probably fall naturally into some such style. But then, after all, the Queen's Speech does per fectly well even if it does not satisfy criticism. It is a mere piece of form. At the beginning of the session it tells what the Ministry is going to do, but at the end of the session it can only say what the Ministry has done, and everyone knows all about it before a word of it is read. The Spectator declares that the great fact of this session is, that the revolution of 1867 has been successful, that the RefOrm Bill has worked as it was expected to work, and that but for the Lords Parliament would be once more a most efficient governing body. The men sent up to the House of Commons have belonged to the same classes as of old, but their temper has been changed. They have desired to do things, instead of desiring to leave things undone. The demon Content has been exorcised from their midst, and the sovereign power once more perceives that improvement is possible, that change is not neces sarily evil, that to makea political experiment, even when not demanded with threats of revolution, is often a wise and a profitable expenditure of energy. The secret dis like to every innovation because it was an innovation, the hankering for a good long rest, which marked the Pal merston Administration, and was fostered without being wholly approved by the great Sac!duce° himself, has de parted, and in its place we have an eager readiness to work and to.advance. No proposal which promised results has been too new or too radical for the House. The main business of the session was to pass a bill the object of which is to abolish Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, to abrogate the system of governing that country which has been in force for more than three hun dred years. It was a bill in the highest degree revolu tionary, for it seriously modified the Constitution, it transferred a great mass of property from an order to the State, and it surrendered in principle the right of Great Britain to govern Ireland according to the governors' good pleasure alone. Twenty years ago, ten years ago, such a measure would have been impossible, but this year the Commons could not be induced to swerve from their resolution to sweep it through. They faced menaces of civil war, they faced the resistance of the Lords, they faced the united clergy, they faced a minority which, in England at all events, owned half the property of the country, and carried it through trium phantly in a single session. So absolute was their deter mination that, rather than yield, they would have remodelled the Constitution, and the Lords felt that a compromise which gave them nothing hut a compliment was a welcome relief from a most dangerous situation. The temper of the House, in fact, has been such that Ministers have seldom had to appeal to its aid, that immens9 interests like the Indian railway companies and the publicans, and even the landowners, have felt that it was safer not to oppose, to come to some understanding, or failing that, even to obey in silence. There is not, in fact, an interest in the country which wor:el at all like a stand-up fight with the Cabinet, or an official nho does not feel that there is strength enough in the Government to call him, if need be, to a severe account. The Householder Parliament has restored force to the Executive, that pon er of doing disagreeable but necessary things, which is the grand distinction between dying governments and governments that are effectively alive, and has restored it, as far as we can see, consciously, with a definite wish as well as an unde fined willingness that Government should be strong, should govern, and not merely reign. If that spirit lasts, and it may last a generation, the next cycle of thirty years may be marked by improvements far greater than those which have distinguished the last thirty, and the country will have ample excuse for condoning every error Mr. Disraeli has ever committed. He is, at least, entitled to this credit, that his measure—for Household Suffrage was his, if the Reform Bill was not—has permitted the formation of a Government as strong as the nation, and as Radical as its convictions. The John Bull says that this is the " cream '' of the year, which is being enjoyed in various degrees according to the capacity of the purse of the enjoyer. Already "My Lords and gentlemen" have quitted the dingy atmosphere of St. Stephen's, and having donned their tweed suits and ponderous Balmorals, are preparing to "disestablish" the grouse on the Northern moors. "The girl of the period " is in full force at various watering places, and even out-does herself in the georgeousness of her attire, and the sparkling amiability of her well-known manner. The City clerk manages to run down to Mar gate for a week or so, and enjoys a metaphorical "half pennyworth" of that cream in which his wealthier neigh bour can indulge ad libitum. In other words, all the world is holiday-making, and a fashionable marriage at St. George's, Hanover•square, at this period of the year, would create quite as great a sensation as a wholesale murder. London, which a few weeks ago gathered into itself all the brilliance and fashion of the empire, will in a few days more be a complete waste, and the West-end will vie in dulness with an average country town, when it is not market-day. We wish the holidays to be enjoyed, and we trust that Minis ters and others will eschew that very objectionable way of working known by little boys as " holiday tasks." Yet if report says true, Mr. Gladstone contemplates a trip to Ireland with Mr. Bright. To our idea, a tour anywhere, and under any conceivable conditions, with Mr. Bright as a companion, would be something too fearful for serious contemplation. At the best Mr. Gladstone's visit to Ireland will have some painful resemblance to the visit of a certain Israelitish King to a little vineyard, of which he had taken possession. We therefore venture to suggest that it would be better for the Premier to "look up" his old friends in Lancashire, if, indeed, he cannot consent to give himself an entire rest. It is to be hoped that Mr. Lowe will not develope any further plans for the deteriora tion of British coinage during his time of rest ; and if Mr. Bruce's official zeal must find a vent, we should propose for him the congenial work of a tour round the prisons of England in search of experienced convicts, who have not been as yet set at liberty. The Economist thinks the present system of coinage is clearly bad ; but we must be careful about the remedy. The subject is a most delicate one to handle. England is a great exchange place, a great settling house of inter national dealings, and all such business is based on and is calculated by the " sovereign." If, therefore, we in a hurry make a wrong change, we may throw this exchange business, which is both important and lucrative, into con fusion. We shall probably not hurt the great exchange dealers ' • rather very likely they will fi rs t see th e i r way through the confusion, and so profit by it. But we shall hurt the common dealer and merchant, for he will have to pay not only the ordinary rate of exchange, but an in creased rate—the cost of the confusion—in addition. Mr. Lowe does not enough remember that changes of this sort are addressed, not to a special, but to a common, a eery common, jury. A person able to read Adam Smith, a person fit to weigh nice arguments, will see that mostly on an average it will go Ai Mr. Lowe says ; 1 r we have here to deal with people who do not know what an "average" means . What such people believe is that they are always likely to be cheated, and always are being cite- ted, unless they take the greatest possible pains in every traosaction. Vnless these sort of people get back the identical sort of sovereign from their banker which they paid in to him, they will believe that the banker is " doing " them, the Government is " doing " them, or somebody is cheating them. And we are not sire that. of course not at banks, but at inferior retail shops, this species of imposition might not be attempted on cii,.toniers apparently weak-minded. We can iioa inc a lady saying to a shopman -" Ah, but that's not the price ticketted in the window;" and the shopman answering —" Ali, ma'am, that price is in the old money. Since that they've shortened the sovereign, and we mu4t Lingthen our prices." If the present most expensive of coinage is to be reformed, ice think that the plan of charging a seignorage at the Mint, beginning with a small one and gradually increasing, is subject to by far the least ohjec- Cons and offers the greatest advantages. Foreigns nations would not be affected by it becawse the sovereign would contain the same quantity of bullion as now, and, within the country, the physical sovereign being the same, it would be most hard to convince the rough mass of man kind that all was not the same. Indeed, if, as we have suggested, the imposition of the law were protracted over a series of years, the process would be gradual and imper ceptible, and for practical purposes the effect would be too email to be worth considering. A GIRL FOURTEEN YEARS ASLEEP. Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, " the sleeping wonder," died at her mother's home, some eight miles from Hick man, on Wednesday, the 14th of July. At the time of her death Miss Godsey was about 26 years of age, and had Leen asleep, as described, about fourteen years. The existence of this wonderful state of coma, or preternatural disposition to sleep, has been doubted by many, but the fact is indisputable. The history of the case is briefly this :—When about 12 years of age she was taken with a severe chill, and treated accordingly by her physician. As the fever which followed her chill subsided she fell in a deep sleep, in which condition she has remained ever since, except at intervals. It was her custom at first to awake regularly twice in every twenty four hours, and, singularly, within a few minutes of the same hours ,Tay; but of later years she awoke oftener, ID much so sua.ny considered it an indication of her final recovery. She would remain awake five, ten, or perhaps .fifteen minutes, and then gradually drop off to sleep again. IThen asleep it was utterly impossible to arouse her. SLe never complained of bodily pain, though when asleep she was very nervous at times, and appeared to suffer considerably by the violent twitching and jerking of her muscles and limbs, and her bands clenched tightly as if enduring severe pain ; but when awake she did not appear to suffer except from a drowsy, gaping inclination, and a persistent effort to cleanse her throat of phlegm. She generally passed into sleep through violent paroxysm, which would last perhaps five minutes, and she would then sleep awhile as calmly and quiet as an infant. Miss Godsey was of medium size, and her limbs and muscles were well pro portioned and developed, and grew considerably after her affliction.—Hickman (Ky.) Courier. E SUN, LONDON, S URDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1869. such 'as' to be used as a plea for disestanusnmetio Ireland. But if, as Dr. Buchanan holds, the Free Church " has been a triumph compared with the Esta blished Churches," surely the case did furnish an argument in favour of the Irish Church Bill. LAW AND POLICE. GAME DISPUTE.—ACTION FOR LIDEL.—A Mr. Dickens, at the Croydon Assizes, on Friday, obtained 2500 from the Mansfield Game Association for libel. The plaintiff had been discharged from the Duke of Portland's farms because it was thought he killed game contrary to his agreement with his landlord. The Duke of Portland's steward had requested the Game Association to write a letter—which seems to have been made public—charging the plaintiff with stealing game. This letter, it was con• tended, was calculated to injure the plaintiff with his friends. So the jury thought, and gave him £5O damages. ACTION AGAINST THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COM PANY.—At the same assizes, on the same day, an action was brought against the South-Eastern Company to re cover £35, the value of a portmanteau alleged to be lost through the negligence of the company's servants. The plaintiff was a Polish refugee, and a teacher of languages. On Whit Monday night he went from London to Erith, where he resides, and saw his portmanteau labelled "Erith," and wheeled on a truck towards the luggage van. On arriving at his destination the portmanteau could not be found. Serjeant Ballantine, for the defendants, said they would not have contested the claim, but they believed it to be an exaggerated one as to its amount, if any portmanteau were lost at all. Plaintiff's own witnesses, who packed the portmanteau, said that there was one suit of clothes in it, while plaintiff himself swore there were two. This was enough to discredit the whole statement. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants. MR. EDWARDS AGAIN.—Mr. Edwards, lately the official arsignee to the Court of Bankruptcy, but who was dismissed by the Lord Chancellor from his office on account of his connection with the affairs of Overend and Gurney, is plaintiff in an action brought against Mr. David Ward Chapman, to recover a very large sum of money. When the case was called on at Croydon Assizes, an application was made for a postponement, on the ground that the plaintiff himself was a material witness for the defence, but every endeavour made to serve a sub pna upon him had failed. The court acceded to the request, and an order was made to change the venue to Middlesex. MR. ALBERT G RANT.—The action against Mr. Alber. Grant, the late chairman of the Credit Fancier, brought by a Mr. Clench, and having to do with the Belgian Public Works Company, the alleged frauds in connection with which have made so much stir in Belgium, seenis likely to go before some "private tribunal." Its trial has been postponed that it may be so settled. SUICIDE.—Three charges of attempted suicide were brought before the metropolitan police magistrates on Friday. At South wark a young woman, who had either thrown herself or fallen from a second floor window, declared the occurrence to have been accidental, and was given up to ber friends.— A man who Lad jumped into the Thames at London Bridge also pleaded the absence of any intention to commit self-destruction, and was liberated. At Worship-street, a clerk, 22 years of age, who had at tempted to poison himself, explained his conduct by stating that he was in difficult:es, and had not a friend in the world. He had been in prison several days, and was again remanded in order that he might Le Lenefited by the ministrations of the chaplain. VAcclNATloN.—There has been another con viction under the Vaccination Act. On Friday, at the Thames Police court, an ignorant woman, who objected to vaccination "on princ7ple," and who bad been previously fined, was convicted in a penalty of 20s. for refusing to have the operation performed on one of her children. Rather than pay the money the defendant went to prison. ROBBERY AT WOOLWICH.—A wholesale robbery of Government property has been discovered at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Three persons were charged with the offence at the Woolwich Police-court—two with steal ing, and one with receiving the property. A good deal of evidence was adduced, at the conclusion of which the prisoners were remanded. The men accused of the theft were responsible officers at the Arsenal. PRIZEFIGHTER'S A MUSEMENT.—On Friday afternoon. Dillon, the prizefighter, was brought before the Andover magistrates, charged with assaulting Mr. Robert Cann, a butcher. The complainant was returning from Stock, bridge Races in the same carriage with the defendant, and some rough "horse play" was practised by the defendant, to which the complainant objected, and Dillon there upon seized him by the throat, knocked his head violently against the back of the carriage, struck him in the face—blackening both his eyes. Dillon's friends had, however, used such arguments with the complainant, that on his appearing before the bench he desired to withdraw the charge of assault on account of the prisoner's family and his expressions of contrition. To this the bench acceded, giving a suitable admonition as to future conduct. On a second summons, taken out by the railway company, Inspector Potter said that the sole object of the traffic manager was the protection of the public in travelling on the line, and he had no desire to press vindictively on the prisoner if the bench thought fit to deal with the matter leniently. Tie presiding magis trate said that the prisoner was doubly fortunate. The prisoner must pay 95., the cost of the summons, &c., and then be discharged. The Wandsworth District Board of Works has decided to test the question of the compulsory liability of railway companies to repair the railway arches for the prevention of percolation. An action is to be entered against the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany, the arches crossing Clapham-road and Wandsworth. road forming the subject of complaint. AUSTRALIAN HOUSES OF LEGISLATURE.— The Builder publishes an illustration and plans of the Sydney Houses of Parliament now being erected at Sydney at a cost of £650,000. The building is divided into two blocks ; the Government offices are placed on the west, co as to be more accessible to the city. By the arrangement of entrances and corridors, any one of the departments can be approached without passing through the others. The parliamentary buildings communicate with the Govern. ment offices on the upper floor, but are divided below by two spacious courtyards. The entrance to the Legislative Council is immediately oppo site to the governor's residence. The legislative chambers are placed east and west, the centre of the block contain. ing apartments common to both Houses. The ground floor of the large tower will be a state-room, and the upper portion will be available for fire-proof rooms for records. The south front will make one side of a grand square, which will be formed by the removal of some bonies between the site and the present chambers, which will be applied to other purposes. The foundation of the struc ture is sandstone, which is found below the surface at a depth of five feet. FATHER IGNATILTS.—A lecture was attempted to be given by Father Ignatius, at the Store-street Hall, Tottenham-court -road, on Friday evening, at which he tried to reply to a lecture given by the Rev. J. Geikie, at the above ball, on the subject of the Reformation. Father Ignatius said the "Reformation was a curse ;" when such au uproar occurred that the lecturer wasunable to proceed fora quarter of an hour. Ile said Ito was at perfect liberty to exore. t h:s own opinions, a, the Rev. Mr. Geilzie had ex pre, ea Lis pretty strongly- on a former ~o ca sion. Ile was an Er.glihman, and had as much right to claim the privileges of the Magna (Marta as anybody. 'tfartin Luther was a bad man, and one of his &chines was that if an infant were baptised and was not one of God's elect, and was thrown into a fire, it would not burn until it had done something to merit damnation. He (Father Ignatius) was a persecuted man, and the Protestants could nut bear to hear him say a word which they did not preach. The uproar here became so great that Fatherlgnatius was obliged to retire. The audience then made a rush upon the platform, when the gas was turned out, and the lecture terminated in almost a riot, Father Ignatius being allowed to speak for only about half-an-hour. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TRH IRISH LAND QUESTION. The Irish Church Act is done with and almost/ forgotten. Even the efforts of the disestablished body to institute a form of government e::cite only a languid interest. " The " question of the day is now the relations between Irish landlord and tenant ; and from August to some time about next March there is a fair interval in which the public may sup full of this intricate subject before the bill promised by the Government is brought in. The Times opens the campaign by sending over to Ireland a special repre sentative to examine the question. With a due senseof the importance of the matter, this representative is termed, not a " correspondent," but a " commissioner." His first letter begins with the first opening of the land-tenure difficulty, about half a century ago, when the land system of Ireland had assumed a " melancholy and portentous " form, when absen teeism prevailed to an enormous extent, when large tracts of land had fallen into the hands of needy and worthless landlords, when in many cases divers interests interposed between the culti vator and the owner of the soil, and when the greater part of the land was held on a precarious tenure by very poor peasantry. " A bove all, an immense and increasing breadth of the country was being rapidly covered by the dense swarms of a cottier population, who, intrenching on the domain of legitimate husbandry, and clinging in wretched ness to their petty holdings—their squalid ' cabins and potato gardens '—spread over the island a huge mass of villeinage—a multitudinous array of want and pauperism." Great misery and poverty were the result of this state of things. The tenant was often too poor to make improvements ; and he was so much in the power of the landlord that, when improvements were made, the owner of the soil reaped the profits, and animosities of race and sect increased the all - culties between the two classes, the proprietor and the tiller. A fierce struggle for subs:stence was the result of this misery, and the difficult:es of the poor were speedily aggravatedby a wild endeavour to force upon the soil a population which in its then condi tion it could not support. "In part,unconsciously to themselves, the small farmers and the mass of cottiers arrayed themselves into a set of trades unions for the purpose of regulating property in land, so as by some means to get a livelihood out of it ; and, like other trades unions, they expressed their will by a system of terrorism and general outrage. The Whiteboy code con fronted the law and overcame it in many districts ; tribunals of assassination and violence prescribed the conditions of landed tenure, and agra rian crimes increased and multiplied, supported far and near by popular sympathy. The upper classes, angry and terrified, and backed by the whole power of the State, retaliated with no light vengeance; and repeated acts of coercion, special commissions to administer relentless justice, continual e:ecutions and transportations, and law executed with unsparing severity, were the lamentable and unceasing conse quences." Such was the state of society which has so long occupied the more or less anxious attention of Parliament. The famine brought a great alteration, and this visitation of Providence averted a danger which threatened the whole empire. The Irish nation went through a strange transformation. The miseries of famine were relieved by magnificent Imperial charily, and then the population emigrated in millions. Next, a stringent Poor Law prevented poverty from settling on the soil and accelerated the exodus of the cottli rs. The estates of the insolvent landlords were sold and transferred to others by a summary process, and in this manner an immense area was thrown open to a new class of proprietors. At the same time many legislative efforts were made to simplify and reform tenures, and to attract capital and energy to the land ; and the Imperial Exchequer contributed largely in loans for the improvement of landed property. Where great changes have brought about the most beneficent results, the material wealth of Ireland has advanced greatly, millions of waste acres hav e been reclaimed. Landlordism is at all events not what it was. There is no war of poverty against property. The rate of wages has increased. lhe cot tier has become an agricultural labourer. Tried by every test, the condition of the Irish people is prosperity itself to what it once was. But much remains to be done. Absenteeism is still detrimental to the best interests of the country; the old dissentious of religion and race are still the causeof serious difficulty, and mischievous proprietors are, it is said, yet numerous. Most important of all, though the per-atoll of the poorest orders has so greatly improved, it cannot be said t'. at the relations between the landlords and the better class of tenants have amended in an equal degree. Five-sixths of the land of Ireland is still held by precarious tenures. The mass of im provements are not, it is said, the work of the land lord, but of the tenant ; and yet in many cases the former has the power, and not seldom the will, to appropriate the benefit to himself. Thus agriculture is hampered, and the tenant is unable to get a fair profit for his labour. Moreover; those foul con federacies established half a century ago have never been dissolved. The spirit which fosters conspiracy still survives in certain districts. This is the aspect of affairs now. MR. HARVEY LEWIS, Some of the Marylebone electors have met to dis pose of Mr. Harvey Lewis. It has been resolved that the decision of Vice-Chancellor Malins, relative to the conduct of Mr. 11. Lewis, is, by the compromise effected, accepted by him as true, and that be is thereby unfitted to remain the representative of the borough of Marylebone." But between pronouncing against the refractory member and getting rid of him, there is a great gulf. His conduct has been declared in a court of justice to be " false, fictitious, and fraudulent;" and though he has promised to disprove that verdict, he has not done so. Resign Mr. Lewis will not, albeit ho has left his borough only half-represented during the session. PROTECTION. On the face of a threatened revival of the agita tion against Free Trade, it may be as well to point out some of the fallacies on which the advocates of Protection rely. At the meeting just held in East London much was made of the old plea that because the value of the goods we import is D 38,000,000 in excess of the price paid for those which we send out to other countries, therefore Free Trade must have a prejudicial effect upon the resources of the country. The ignorance which could raise this old question is truly amazing. If these sixty-seven millions really represented the difference of the export and import trade, we should have to send out a proportionate quantity of gold to make up the deficiency. But the amount of gold in the country does not diminish. The fact is, that in return for our imports we get goods which to 113 are worth £68,000,000 more than those we send out, and therefore this large sum represents the profit upon our foreign trade. Last year the total of British exports was 2271 millions. The imports were 2951. Is it not clear that, as we send out no gold to make up the difference, the difference must be profit THE RELIEF OF DERRY. Since the siege of Londonderry in the reign of William 111., the anniversary o'‘ the day on which relief came to the beleaguered inhabitants has never been celebrated with greater rejoicing than on Thursday. In numbers and enthusiasm, the demonstration was the greatest ever held. The attendance at the cathedral, where the Bishop of Derry and the Rev. Mr. Carpenter officiated, was very large. Mr. Johnstone, M.P., became the fortunate recipient of a sash and medal. There was bell-ringing, volley-firing, flag-displaying, and marching without end. In the afternoon the ap prentice boys captured the Russian trophy gun on the walls, and fired several times before the police arrived ; but there was no disturbance or interfer ence of any kind. It is gratifying to learn that the memory of the Irish Church Bill did not lead the Orangemen into difficulties. Everything passed off good humouredly. ARCHBISHOP THOMSON AND THE REV C. VOYSEY. The letter of the Archbishop of York to the Vicar of Ilealaugh is generally regarde l as of serious import. The Te!eyraph opines that it foreshadows an important crisis in the history of the Church. The question which will be decided by the prosecution of Mr. Voysey is—Has or has not Mr. Voysey broken the contract into which he entered when he became a clergyman of the English Church and accepted the vicarage of Healaugh ? Should this point be decided in the negative the national clergy will have an unlimited range of teaching; should the answer be against Mr. Voysey there will be, in the opinion of the Te'ewra:ll, great danger of a schism in the Establishmeet. "We may e:peet to tee another body of Churchmen agitaCng for such a revision of the articles as would give the clergy greater room for independence of judgment. Already, indeed, the advanced Lib-ral party within the Churs:l; is malzing arrangement; fur slr. Voysey's defence, and it has received the powerful aid of Dean tanley." THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. At a meeting of a Commission of the Scottish Free Church General Assembly, a discussion arose touching the Archbishop of Canterbury's statement that the Sustentation Fund had been a failure. Dr. Buchanan rather warmly questioned this dictum. It was not claimed for the Sustent ttion Fund that it had been able to o:•ertake all the spiritual destitu tion of Scotland, but he maintained that, com pared with the Established Churches, the Free Church had been a triumph and a success. On the other hand, Dr. Begg said that the Arch bishop did not question the good work done by the - mina ! ha held only that its success had not been THE LAW OF FX.DENCE. Not the least important legislative measure of the year is the important change—coming into opera tion at once—which has been made in the law of evidence. The Evidence Further Amendment Act prescribes that parties to actions for breach of pro mise of marriage are now competent witnesses, but no plaintiff is to recover a verdict unless his or her testimony is corroborated by some other material evidence. Parties and their husbands or wives in suits for adultery are competent witnesses. No witness is to be asked, or bound to answer, questions leading to show that ho or she has been guilty of adultery unless the witness has already given evidence in disproof of adultery. The judge is empowered to dispense with an oath whenever a conscientious objection is raised. The object of this measure is to facilitate the discovery of truth in courts of Justice by the further removal of restrictions on evidence. It is scarcely necessary to obsvrve that hitherto principals in divorce and breach of promise suits have not been admitted as witnesses. A SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. Jonah Detheridge, whose execution at Dorchester for the murder of a warder in Portland Prison was yesterday recorded, is a strange study—one of a species of which happily we get rare examples. Of a bad disposition and morose temperament, ho seems in his life to have been ripening into hardness of heart, and the prospect of death made him harder still. He lived a life of crime and died in despair. Not softened in the least, he was executed while almost in the act of charging the Almighty with causing the end to which his violence had brought him. For days he has been sullenly silent. To the Wesleyan minister who visited him he paid no heed ; and on the scaffold ho treated with scorn any reference to prayer. Here are his last words, reported as taking place after the cap had been drawn over his eyes : The Rev. J. Mann (most earnestly pleading, and holding Detheridge by the hand) : " Try to pray ; pray ! Pray to the Lord to have , mercy on you." Prisoner (fiercely and defiantly) : " Who must I pray to ? Who has brought me here? That is what I want to know. Has God brought me here ? " Mr. Mann (imploringly) : "I want you to try to be saved. The Lord have mercy upon you." Prisoner : "What arc these men here now, and what are they come for ?" Mr. Mann : " Try to pray! try to pray 1 " The rev, gentleman shook hands with him, and said. "Good bye, God bless you," and left the scaffold. To Calcraft the convict muttered " What does he say ?" Calcraft : "Pray to the Lord to save you." Detheridge (in a scornful tone) : " Pray to the Lord Iry save me ! " The convict within three minutes was dea.d, TIIE KNIFE. The use of the knife seems to be on the increase; hardly a street row occurs but somebody is assailed by it, or threatened with it; nearly every assize pre sents a calendar of violent attacks with it. There are several murder eases now being preliminarily investigated in which the knife was used in a fit of passion. At Gateshead a man has killed his drunken wife with that weapon ; and at Liverpool, on Wednesday, a public-house dispute ended in a man being taken off to the hospital stabbed with a dagger. The dagger, indeed, seems to becoming an indis pensable article to a certain class. There used to be a wholesome contempt for the " Italian method of attack." Has the prohibition of prize-fighting and the decline of the "noble art of self-defence" brought about a revolution in our national mode of quarrelling? COINAGE. Colonel Smith writes in support of Mr. Lowe's proposition to stop the deterioration of the coinage by imposing a charge for the expense of converting bullion into money. He replies to the argument that such a charge would tend to debase the currency, by pointing out that though the currency has been debased in past times by rulers who forced bad money on the people to secure a profit, the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is very different. It lowers the value of the sovereign only to the extent of twopence, and for a just purpose—to pre vent the melting and exporting of sovereigns. To debase the coinage for profit is one thing ; to debase it for the purpose of reform is another. OUR COTTON SUPPLY. An Australian merchant recommends Northern Australia as a promising field for the cultivation of cotton. It is under British rule, abounds in rivers, the rainfall is ample, the soil fertile, and the climate to all appearance would favour the cultivation of the cotton plant. Moreover, it is much nearer China than are the Southern States of America, so that labourers could be imported with the greatest facility: DECLINE OF THE BROAD GAUGE. The Metropolitan Railway was projected by gentle men connected with the Great Western _Railway, and it was constructed to take the broad gauge as well as the narrow. This proves to have been an unnecessary a pence, as at the present time workmen are engaged in removing the third line of rails, so that broad gauge carriages can no longer pass along the line. For some time past the directors of the Great Western ltailway have decided to construct no more broad gauge engines or carriages, and the extinction of the broad gauges at no distant date appears to be inevitable. Thus ends the " battle of the gauges." LONDON NOISE AND SLEEP. The overworked and brain-fagged Londoners have a prescription written out for them by the doctors ; they are ordered " a little more sleep, a little more slumber." The prevalent vice of this age is not quite that against which Solomon inveighed so strongly, it would be better if men would consent to more "fold ing of the hands to sleep." The brain is worn and wearied with earnest labour; it, therefore, wants rest. But when they try, our friends who live in the metropolis—i.e., who reside in the populohs districts, and have not sought the quiet suburbs—find that they can't sleep more. They can't fold their senses In forgetfulness while the organ, horribly ciphered, is murdering a music-hall song only six doors off. The German band, with the trombone in one key and the cornet in another, would have kept the Tung of Sleep himself awake. And who cares to go to bed to heir the refrain of the chorus sung by the party keeping late hours over the way, the j o k es o f the cabmen uttered in their highest tone of voice about the drunken fares they have just b r o ug ht home, and the with a start by a train of scavengers' policeman m aking his nightly round ; to doze for a moment only to be awakened tramp of the solitary c arts passing under the window ? From half-past one to four there is a little relief, but about the latter hour the butchers' carts begin th e i r run , th e s t ree t scrapers comm ence their work, a n d th e no i se , n ot incessant — that might be bearable—but intermittent and uneasy. " M.D." who writes t o the Times. on the startling, constantly keep s th e w ould-be sleeper subject, thinks something ought to be done. " Ever is simply murder." lasting noise (he says) BRIGIIAM YOUNG. Brigham Young ? the leader of the Mormons, has had as much experience of family life as most people; so that when he says that he has found doctors altogether useless, his declaration should hardly be overlooked. In a recent sermon preached at Salt Lake city, he stated very explicitly that he ob jected entirely to allow his children to be " physicked." He liked doctors very well as gentlemen, but he would not employ them professionally. lie found he got on very well without them. His family (as he himself remarked) is not a small one by any means ; he said it was a " pretty " large one; we in England would probably call it a "very long one." And as to health, he proclaimed his willingness to compare it with any other on the face of the earth. How Mr. Young manages without doctors is not very clear. He first told the people that they were to rebuke a disease in the name of Jesus ; then he said that illnesses were caused by rich living and luxurious habits, and if they would abstain from these, they would lose all chance of sickness. A FLOWER GIRL BRIGADE. The amusing discussion now going on m the Telegraph respecting the propriety of establishing "A Flower Girl Brigade," to replace the dirty miserable creatures who now vend roses and camelias in the streets of the metropolis, has hitherto been all on one side. The brilliant idea seemed to be supported by the entire strength of the talented cor respondents whose effusions garnish the columns of the Telegraph at this season of the year. One philan thropist suggested that the members of the brigade should brush the hats and coats of customers—an ingenious suggestion, which promises to be fruitful of others in the same direction. But at length a " Social Reformer" makes his appearance with a grave word of warning on the other side. Ile points out that most of these flower-girls belong to the most degraded class, that in all probability they would refuse to be enrolled in a "brigade," and that a bench ial result would be by no means the certain consequence if they consented. Nor is the design of enrolling a baud of new recruits to peram bulate the streets selling flowers without objec tions. Surely the true object is not to encourage the wandering of young womep about the streets, but to prevent it. A bore, meeting Douglass Jerrold, said—" Well, what's going on to-day ?" " I am," exclaimed Jerrold darting past the inquirer. ExcLustvE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplougu's Pyretic Saline, cur:ng the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affections. Pleasant palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.--[Advt.] AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (Prom the Anglo-American Times.) It is evident that measures are under the con sideration of the Washington and Madrid Ad ministrations, notwithstanding the denial that any negotiations were in progress for the sale of Cuba. At the Cabinet meeting held at Washington last Tuesday, a decision on the Cuban question was postponed for a fortnight, because important de spatches were expected in the interval from General Sickles, Minister at Madrid. We imagine the case to stand thus--American feeling favours Cuban in dependence; considerable pressure has been brought to bear on the Government to recognise the in- surgents ; the unceremonious manner in which cap _ . tured Americans were shot,and the horrible cruelti e s perpetrated in the island, have tended to strengthen the desire for the expulsion of the Spaniards. Secretary Fish justly cmsiders the purchase of independence to be the only way out of the di lemma, and m e believe he has endeavoured to carry into effect this policy. Unless the Spaniards are mad, they will accept what they can get ; but if they choose to brave everything they will have to bear up ere long against an attitude in the United ,States that will imperil their possession. It is not pleasant for a householder to have his neighbour's dwelling on fire, and if the fire ba not subdued, there is always a chance of that neighbour inter fering to press vigorous measures for its extinction. There will be no peace in Cuba henceforth so long as the Spaniards rule ; and we can only hope, with out anticipating too much, that there might be peace after they had retired. An extraordinary ad vet tisement has appeared in the New York papers offering employment in the Carlist Service to Ame rican officers of military experience, and we believe not a few have answered it. Thus the revolution which dethroned Isabella and excited the sympathy of the American people finds numbers of them fight ing against it in Cuba, and others enlisting to fight against it for a Bourbon ! The Cuban Junta pro test against the purchase of the island iu the same way as the Fenians protest against good legislation for Ireland, or a beggar protests against the work house. The Cabinet have decided not to release the Spanish gunboats seized, and this is taken to indicate a policy more favourable to the Cubans. The Mexican Minister, in presenting an address to President Grant, made au acknowledgment of the great obligations of Mexico to the United States for assisting her to resist European aggression. It is a pity that the United States cannot protect that miserable Republic against itself. The Indian re volt in Yucatan is extending, and the lawlessness of the whole country is now almost beyond belief. Ten thousand Indians in the State of Chiapas have a!so revolted. Of the Joint. Commission appointed to sit at 'Washington to settle the claims between the nations, the Mexican member is said to have announced the Mexican claims as exceeding those of the United States. The Queen's Speech:on proroguing Parliament last Wednesday was of little interest; the most notice. able subject being the suspension of the Alabama claims negotiation between the Queen's Government and the United States, when the earnest hope was expressed that the delay would end in the friendly relations between the two countries being placed upon the most durable basis. The adjournment followed, and the members hurried off to shoot grouse, a practice we consider to be unfair to the birds so early in the season. No shooting should • be permitted before the Ist of September. The civil war brought out the value of torpedoes, which were freely and destructively used by the Con federates on the harbours and rivers of the South. It is now an ascertained fact that the best defence of a port and a river against ironclads is the efficient use of torpedoes, and this being admitted by the United States Navy, a torpedo corps has been organised and a school of instruction formed, stations being established at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Bos : ton, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Pensacola, and Mare Island. At the school of instruction to be selected, trained officers, after studying chemis try, and frictional and current electricity, will be sent to witness the courses of experiments inaugu rated, and when versed in the science they will be assigned to duty at the various Naval stations. They will have immediate charge of all torpedo apparatus, and be responsible for its condition and also for its readiness for immediate use. " They will carefully examine the channels of the harbours under their supervision, and select such places as will be best suited for obstructions. Depots of torpedoes and torpedo material will be estab'ished at each principal station under their charge. Tor pedo boats will be fitted as soon as possible, and kept in readiness for use wherever they may be required. The use of the torpedo not being con fined to defensive purposes, it is intended to make it one of the most efficient means of offence. The officers of the navy are called upon to submit to the Bureau of Ordnance any plans relating to the effi cient working and use of torpedoes that may recur to them." We may add that Commodore Case is to succeed Admiral Dahlgren as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, under which Department the torpedo corps is to be organised. The names when lit tle known transmitted through the cable are generally misspelt. Last week the death of Mr. Isaac Soucey was announced, but it was the Hon. Isaac Toucey, ex-Secretary of the Navy and ex-Governor of Connecticut, who died. He was very ill, no hope being entertained of his reco very when the last mail left ; indeed his death had just been telegraphed to New York. He was born in Hartford county in 1798, and in 1846, after being thrice elected to Congress, became Governor of his native State. In 1848 President Polk ap pointed him Attorney-General, and two years later he was elected for the Senate of Connecticut, from which he quickly stepped into the Senate of the United States. Mr. Buchanan made him Secretary of the Navy. The charge has been brought against Mr. Toucey, and never rebutted, of aiding the treasonable plans of the Secessionists. It was said that the most trustworthy of the dis tinguished officers of the Navy had been placed by him on the retired list just before the war, and when the Administration required the aid of the ships for the suppression of the rebellion they had to get them back from China and other such distant stations, whither he bad despatched them. Of course the candidate for Governor in Tennessee could scarcely escape being turned into Seuter, and turned into Seater he certainly was. Indeed, the cable would be inconsistent if it did not make such a transformation. We trust that the telegraph operators are more successful in these essays :—" Mr. Munscal, the new Mexican Minis ter, was officially received last Monday by Presi ' dent Grant. Mr. Kavanagh, Democrat, has been re-elected Congressional delegate for Montana. General Rosecranz has declined the Democratic nomination as Governor of Ohio on the grounds that his business engagements and his duties to his family preclude his accepting the appointment. General Canby has revoked the order issued last winter by General Stoneman, exempting several grades of civil officers in Virginia from the opera tion of the test oath requirement." Nevertheless Rosecranz is often spelt thus—Rosecrans ; and Mariscal we believe to be the name of the Mexican Minister. Admiral Poor had been named for the command of the West India Station ; surely the French Cable has not transformed him into Porter ? The telegram announcing the probable resigna tion of Mr. Rose, the Canadian Minister of Finance, some assert to be premature. The Montreal Gazette that started the report, as it acknowledges, on no authority, thinks itself now enabled to state that no Ministerial changes will take place, and that the offers made to Mr. Rose have not as yet reached a point which will deprive the country of his services. We, however, can settle the question, as Mr. Rose has written to a friend in London to take a house for him, as he expects to reach the metropolis in a month ; and he adds that he has let his own house in Montreal for the accommodation of Prince Arthur, which disposes of the pretty story that the Prince was to occupy a captain's quarters, Mr. Rose's re sidence being a magnificent mansion. The eclipse of the sun, for which such extensive pre parations in America have so long been made, came off, according to appointment, last Saturday, and the observations were favoured by the weather. Great darkness prevailed, and alarmed the negroes and those whom the announcement had not reached. The delegates of many scientific societies and col leges were successful in their operations. The total eclipse was visible along a tract of 6,600 miles by 140 broad, lying across a portion of Asia and all the breadth of North America. At New York, and generally throughout the United States, but five-sixths of the sun's disc was obscured. Mrs. Henry B. Stanton has come out squarely in the cause of the fair sex. Her ambition is to array women in male attire, so that the sex may be disguised, and whether the next passer be a Jane or a John, a Harry or a Mary, may then be unknown to the wayfarer. What Mrs. Stanton ex pects to gain thereby for womankind we cannot imagine, but we hope some of our readers will scud her this little story which occurred in Ceylon to show her what may happen. In the Isle of spicy bre( z as described by Bishop Heber, where only man is vile, strangely enough this male animal has taken to female attire. his long black hair is rolled up in a kcot at the back of his head, that head being freely adorned with combs. The passenger touch- ing at Galle in the steamers en route to and fro be lieves that the men are women, and a stout lady under this impression brought one of them into her bath-room to aid her iu washing off the impuriti s of the voyage. In the old Dutch town of Galle these rooms are flagged with red tiles, and a stool is placed there whereon to stand to be dried and rubbed down with towels. Standing on this stool the fat lady, in the innocence of heart, bad one of these " vil•s" creatures to rub her down. Imagine her consternation on speaking to one of her fellow passengers, who knew the country better, about the woman who had assisted her in her ablutions, to learn that it was a man whom she had called in to her secret councils, and " red as a rose is she" when this little episode flits across her mind. Judge Cochrane, in his charge to the grand jury of Westchester County, condemned in plain terms the State prison of Sing Sing and the county gaol. He allu led to the insufficiency of the provision and safe accommodation, more especially for the proper distinction between the prisoners, some being held for crimes nit even proved against them; the mixing of men and women, old and young, and the hardened. He touched on the insecurity, the dan ger of an epidemic which might spread to the citi zens outside, the lax administration of discipline, the frequent escapes of convicts, and the harshness of the punishments inflicted in gaol, as a scandal to a country so rich and populous as the United States. Again and again the subject had been brought to the attention of the grand jury, not only by his predecessor, but by Justices of the Supreme Court. The Chicago 7 inzes devotes eight columns to a description of the gambling dens in Chicago. There are 40 gaming houses, of which 6 are on a leading scale, 14 medium, the others being either thief houses or ten cent games. The average number of players each night in the leading houses is put duwn at '2O, in the thief houses 26, and in the ten centers 31, the gross earnings of the whole being estimated at $12,000 from each night's play, over $3,000 of which is clear gain. This the Chicago .7imes declares to be from a low but very carefully made estimate. At Faro nearly $3,000,000 are absorbed each year, without count ing what is won or lost at other games or privately. Thus these gamblers supply, through their infa tuated folly, with every luxury that money can command, a combination of detestable scoundrels, with an income as sure as if derived from the public Treasury. Horatio S. Flint, Inland Revenue Collector at Washington, died on Wednesday, July 28. In stantly the hungry office-seekers were in motion, for a post worth $lO,OOO a year was the prize. The President being at Long Branch travel took that direction, and the telegraph was freely used, but it must not be supposed that office-seeking is all profit and no danger, as a case in Buffalo suffi ciently proves, for on the evening of the 29th July, a Goth, named Norman Holly, thrashed the Rev. Sanford Halbert, editor of the Christian Advocate, for publishing a defamatory article on him and his father, who is the Collector of Customs in Buffalo. The article was said to be caused by the editor's disappointment in not having added to his minis terial and editorial duties a post in the Custom houie, for which he had been an earnest applicant; a combination of places, taking them all in all, of a highly incongruous character. The San Francisco Bulletin gives an account of the late trial trip of the A vitor. The miniature steam engine having set the propellers in motion after the balloon had been inflated, so as to main tain its position free of the floor, s'artel easily ahead, the propellers making about 70 evolutions a minute. The Avitor went twice round the building at the pace of a rapid walk, but it was evident that it could move with speed, though the obstructions of the gas pipes prevented it. The baloon now building is 150 feet long, and the engineers enter tain sanguine hopes of its success. Mr. Cornelius Grinnell was the victim of a ter rible accident, resulting from the way they build houses at Ryde, where he had taken lodgings dur ing the yachting season. Last Tuesday, with Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., he dined at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, of which he had recently been elected a member, having purchased the steam-yacht Hawk, of 142 tans. His lodgings were at 35, Pier street, where he repaired with Mr. Bennett and Mr. Shepherd Homans, intending to make up a bed for Mr. Bennett. The latter gentleman went down stairs, leaving Mr. Grinnell under the impres sion that he desired to take his chance of getting a room elsewhere rather than intrude on his kindness. Wishing to urge his offer, Mr. Grinnell got up say ing, " I will see ; I will get out on the balcony," intending to call Mr. Bennett back, and he opened the window and stepped out. As nothing was after wards said Mr. Homans went to the window to see, and to his horror found there was no bal cony there. 'The truth flashing across his mind, he ran down stairs to find his friend lying dead beneath the window. Both gentlemen strongly bore testimony that Mr. Grinnell was quite sober at the time, and the coroner's jury gave their opinion that the window was in an insecure condition, and re quired protection. This accident has thrown a gloom over the Isle of Wight, and at the request of Sir John Burgoyne, the foreman expressed the general sorrow that so untoward an event should have happened to one of their visitors. Mr. Cornelius Grinnell was the son of Mr. Henry Grinnell, well known in New York, and nephew of Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, the present Collector of Customs in that city. The house has been more especially connected with shipping, and Cornelius Grinnell managed on this side the New York linero, owned by the firm. Ile was a direc tor of the Cable Transatlantique Francais, the board of which at its meeting on Wednesday passed a minute expressing its deep regret at having thus lost a colleague. Another lamentable accident has occurred in the wreck of the Hamburgh-American Company's steamer Germania on Cape Race, which left New York last Tuesday week, with about 200 passen gers, and was lost during a heavy fog last Saturday night in Trepassy Bay, .Newfoundland. The pas sengers and crew were all saved, and there are some hopes that the mail may be also ; but there ate none with regard to the vessel and cargo, though we presume that the $25,000 she had in specie has been got on shore. She was of 3,000 tons burden, having originally cost £90,000, her value being now reduced by wear and tear to £65,000. By a singular chance the danger of the place was further illustrated the next day, for on Sunday the steamship Cleopatra, from Montreal for London, was there also wrecked, the passengers and crew being likewise saved, but the vessel totally lost. A gentleman has written to urge again the necessity of erecting on the spot fog signals, a powerful steam-whistle being proposed which could be heard ten miles to sea. The steamer Cimbria, belonging to the Hamburgh Company, left New York intending to call at St. John, New Brunswick, and bring on the passengers and craw of the Germania to Europe. TIIE RECENT ELECTIONS.—FuII reports published of the elections in Alabama show the return to Congress of four Democratic and two Republican Representatives. In Tennessee Senter was elected Governor, and the Con servative ticket was carried by a majority of 65,000, all the Congressmen being Conservatives as well as the majority of the State Legislature, which renders the return of An oto drew Johnson to th e U n it e d St a t es S en at e soMefhisg, ° h d than probable. Th e H era ld appears t o b e highly dchk er e with the p ros p ec t , an d eu l og i zes M r. J o h nson as the e President si nce M r . Ad ams w h ose political vitality surte vived his exit f rom office. We may, however, add teat I is the first President who carried with him so inei ti e motive, in a sense of wr ong and bitter hate. The " R io headed eagle" threatens to contest Senter's election, which he is strongly:supported by many Congressman; this opposition seems to be daunted by the decfs iv° o o jority thrown for the C onserva ti ve ti c k e t. Sv e ": 0 J heard nothing more a b ou t J u d ge D en t' s can didetur e, ,. Secretary Boutwell's opp o siti on . Wh en th e mail left tuileii were conflicting rumours as t o w h e th er h e would or vieo not accept the nomination, but he settled this in his re o. to a letter asking the uestion, July 30, giving his deter of ination as fixed and unalterable to accept the nenein atW Tte the National Union Republican party if tendered• hio, sympathy of the Administration is, however, aga inst e General Tarbell, s e cr e t ar y o f th e R a di ca l R e publican 2 1 1 ,t16 mittee, had an interview wtth the President, who, "00 expressing a wish to trust the Southerners, conside re er fel Conservatives of Mi ss i ss ippi t o b e t oo c l ose ly cecnathe with the Democrats. If J u d ge D en t b e nominate to influence of hi s b rot h er -i n -l aw, G enera l G ra nt, n ev a against him. Mr. P en dl e t on , th e p o litician, s 00 t highest in favour w ith th e D emocra ti c par t y , and tie, g'6o, greenback redempti on man h as b een nom i na ted f or 00 , vernor of Ohio, Gene ra l R osecraus h av i ng re fused le i r o t Thus in ono great State we have the great origl e J o s e most powerful of th e re p u di a t ors as D emocr atic en e oot i• for Governor; and for the adjoining State anoth er _ Ij e e b° Ha by the same party o n accoun t o f we alth, of yfr ogo e vast portion is in the bo n d s th e P en dl e t on party P r to finance out of existence. ti t/• BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—R e y. Chas. jos' 11 rill, rector of St. Alban's Ch urc h, N ew York, - I ,f arrived in London.-Gener a l M'Cl e ll an i n tends D ile- 0 ° Apt . summer tour through Canada and the North-we st "o6 o Mackenzie has won the chess tournament of 900 r - eli New York.-Chief Justice Chase was to leave (-;,110 is to New Hampshire, July 28, for Narragansett, Wh en° ;Jo visit Mrs. Senator Sprague. From Rhode Island he ' z i tt ie to Washington, and thence to Parkersburg, Wes t Ir a i O r o ' Will where he will preside at the Circuit Court.- 13°s 'ie tr give Mr. Longfellow an enthusiastic reception o.da turn from Europe.-Portland, Oregon, and ' l o' Vancouver's Island, voted to the Ilonourabla orOle Seward the hcspitalities of those cities.-The 11 , °11 Leel l4 J. G. Blaine left Augusta, Maine, July 27, for D'''.l te e" Pennsylvania, to attend the funeral of his sitcesbill Secretary Cox was recently offered the new jc t . 00 0 created by Act of Congress for Ohio, but n it ' 314 consideration declined the office. - Mrs. Vz ; O ra Walker thinks that the de a th o f the Presidejl i -e s tfic e ' ' was a judgment on him for not g iving her 00; Sir John Barrington arrived from New York in the ship City of Brooklyn.-Count Poacher do CV . t ° o o l3 " family, of Paris, Baron Leder e r, th e A u strian Nlf e ` o, aro P, Count Esterhazy, Secretary of the Austrian Legs ti° o/10 1/ ' New York.-Samuel Bowles, of the Spring§eld Re 11 ,..,„1 11 ! is going to erect a summer residence in Colored': $' Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, Gove r n o r e l e ct of Virglel3ol( re the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York.—Senator Nye'raci° vada, left New York for his home, July 27, by the o Railroad.-The New York Sun gives these "Sp ar the Telegraph :"-"Johu Will hanged himself i e rt enr! house in Rocheeter, July 19. T. H. Drake, of Sy /510' N.Y., cut his th roa t i n th e Ap p l e d oro H o use, Is le o ia a r' George H. Fanhesto c k a cc id en t a lly s hot J am es''hims e risburg. Julian E. Leach, son of the HO. eon s Leach, was drowned while bathing in Topszn.'„„oreoll, N.C. 11. L. Friebie, salesman in the bones (Ir is pn i i M'Millan, and Co., of Cleveland, drowned hhn se dusky. Lieutenant Beecker, of the Pawnee SO olio' three iudians and wounded three more on the B e t e tol e :, River, Kansas. Our readers will consider fkst graph of the Sun is of a sparkling va riety -91 ; 0 . s et i 0 W. Evans, of the Emperor's household, Pari s ' o ftege s e ,l ratoga on Sunday, July 23, and engaged tw o c /or, the Union Grounds, for members of the sess ete, i, Family, who will occupy them early nc lt oo l, lo , ~ Mr. Potter, the President of the Grand 0 / way, was about to visit Canada, to make Ce rt r ra en l- r0 plete and careful examination of every d e P s l .l B ,l be f Madame Patti has arrived at Homburg from la s - o ho et she is engaged to sing.-Among the passeug l a otefi n/ o f rived at Southampton in the North German v,0 r ,,„p0 , „ Leipzig on 'Tuesday were the Hon. Edward Atited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Clerk of the jJ o so e 0 • House of Representatives, who co ntempla tes „ f Varl, sive tour of Great Britain and the continentovolerSien Mr. Edward M'Pherson, jun., Mr. John 13 ' 00 1,86 0 is Dr. Charles Hammond, and Mr. A. Pa rks tio eeti ) io, lately of the United States Post-office Depar t ' 001 0 ti t Excellency A. Musgrove, Governor of British and his family, are the guests of Mr. Cyrus . v ottr', to Irving-on-the-Hudson.-A Georgia boy, two"' is able perfectly well and healthy in other respects, ' iv! Doe breathe only about four times a minut e ' d e ers e el puzzles the doctors.-Mrs. Livermore has Putt the :ell little foot, and says that she will vot e sto o lo o election in Chicago-or at least she'll try. - 1 1 : 0 .5 : 00b 0 ; -; 031:i t Jackson has just received a bequest of Morrissey is said to have made a half milli °n e Gr e : oe • speculation in New York Central.-Hon. 1 1 °7 ° -tite, 7 l tbs and General Robert E. Lee were in Alexan drA deot c 'i c en day, July 23.- Edward King, special corresPl Jever m e Boston Journal, is at Putney to report tho Ana st n University boat race. Thence he proceeds t° re eec a o ; to write on the Exhibition and the scientific Poe of which that city will soon be the theatre:coio, : t ee W. Seward met with a warm reception at es t e of couver's the acting Governor, the Bla )- $0 c! c eja a principal citizens wishing to do him hononlr• o prn4 i te his speech of thanks for his serenade, with I v hi gh bodY 1 A of friendship for Great Britain. -Mr. Pea of th e ssv - Sulphur Springs, where resolutions e xpress" o re P: eo tir opinion entertained of him by the visitors hid hittee and presented to him, and a grand ball:: , f tb o was arranged for August 11.-General h or sßat! rab rt iog a letter on applying tho test oath to 111; ono a ss ,. ° o ee' Virginia State Legislature, and he co/1 0111° 0 0o t e Congress to be the only power which 0 30 , r obe If oe ; tr en ° cessity of taking the iron-clad oath. though Packer has accepted, in a long letter, th ol o l , .0 et reluctance, his nomination for Governor " L y . 0 1.1( St fl o c ia lth -Mr. Jefferson has reappeared on the Nei to 13° 13 1 9.' Booth's Theatre.-Mr. Adamson, Ce° s l ll .„, Ja i ls e ti arrived at San Francisco on Thil csu A 3l t ' 11° 5,0 The President was expected at the s is a t ier o July 31.- Governor Wells, of Virgilli al, r onao.„ ° o o;ett Denis Hotel.- Sir James Anderson, C O „c sco et frog' the French Cable expedition; Lord Cecil, v , te . o , Ye l r sot el.; and J. G. Watson of England, arrived i Clren d° te ti Boston, July 29, and proceeded to the w.a c ,,, tit eainP, Sr Among the passengers who arrived at lesv iree eS • e leic" c ' a G P o ll' the North German Lloyd steamship to brale s een r nesday, was Mr. R. Schlaginweit, the c _ st o bent. tr f a ist e i traveller and naturalist.-This is the Int:l ts ,T o 1 46 ,1 vexed question :-" Mr John Bigelo w d ito of D d at Paris, has accepted the position of E clollare York Times, at a salary of ten thousand enter immediately la, „wilt A1i , ;(15,,ja, ADVERTISEMENT. J—Holloway ' S O' n- o le w °-- s erti r . l ,o o ' Ulcers, Wounds, Sprains.-Bad legs,. ia W ith o rt! a ll sprains, whether recent or chronic, celerity to the cooling, healing, and g e i t e rt:dlre lj es l b it es sj this invaluable ointment. It may " our b e $l O3l 01 4 such cases as have baffled the skill 0! the in itos ° f time f 0 e ° . • surgeons. No matter the length 0 eas e 0 o f th I tel l endured this ointment, assisted by a c ' the c orn t ioa f !,lo' pills, will quietly, but certainly, reach,hout ad d sllooooo plaint, and thoroughly eradicate it, vv l ,l,b e ee 1 1 00 104 1 00 pediments to pleasure or business. _ A t he overcome the worst forms of disease, nott` he jocP 1 . 0 0 of the blood ; they never fail to cur e eaf fti rie % es s. ot o 4e and strengthen the general health. they a iseni e rc oa e d , LADvErtrisEmßxr.j—Avoid Medichaseds:ele2eltberooo,l'ieti chronic complaints: but Du Barry throe t or e c o Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields ost in e on i 'oe• e e mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its e and invariably restores perfect digestioF, si;leop, lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing or e an t at,,r,` f!'r re gularity, ami energy to the most Wal: p ep s 's oT o ly tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:— eta., ot t oei. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413 , " nen t, el es eo es -The health of the Holy Father is eXCei_,, ne d h e O ,, e .e l abandoning all other remedies has conr ivb ich _ is iocg o at f e to Du Barry's Revalents. Arabica Food, °J . surP of pro % i s et . ! l t a plateful at every meal. It has p r cluc s e„ly &jai effect on his health, and his Holiness ye 7 er c i, . li os lent food too highly." From the " Giszettrof s ev°ll ll No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehm , 20ttese , laesspo; lions complaint, wasting away, debility, constant 8 1 1 0 , Oa palpitation all over, bad digestion, cour cu re o_ 4 0 4 , the most intolerable nervous ag itatio;_ ter ford , i ;y e 0 1 , ;11/ 0 " Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of , spasms, dyspepsia, dyspepsia. sickness, 4 9 nervousness,eo 3 a 2 n: asthma,' F d v i o f t m y n e c a og r u: years' r, T i c ue " tr i j b r p er, , e ; e t , y; 0. 1 :1 , 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frini.._r c t of the 10 13 4 diseased lungs, spitting of bloc!, 11 21 30 varo_och,..00,0!* 8 ; partial deafness. Important Cau!lOp: stion s t 0 7 3 , 811 ~'lpeero unsavoury and more than slopPY. ir cu ost n udsc' ila ; I .', o oovipa authority, Baron Liebig's name la „ d . obs Co_ 1 4 coo In tins, at ls Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs Aw ali i , fo i l .0 D o t 21 lbs 405.-Also DU BARRY'S BEVALE N ,,, opS a 5 76 C' Y os e PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for fo!, t iall„o,4l at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups _ . &; 0 " 0 an d t D ,.. .)j o ioe ci v o i, -being about one penny per cup. P free on ; 0 . 0 1' re carriage r and dne BARRY Chemists t and e i s a o n ., d N o o n . 7 7 , c i iePgtStstrew t, D el' or e ' BIRTHS. The a rt, o f 0 CAMPBELL—On the 11th ins., at y ca , e pbe jl er°. A i. 116 the wife of Colonel Sir Edward • le, e daughter. 12 E d g ' w ' PEARSON—On the 10th inst., at 2 , wife of Mr. John Pearson, of a dang ° Tic' JI A RiII:AGES- at st jeinesScrocci MEALY—GLADWIN—On the 12th instil ricca diV. o lol‘ E ca l d iz i , l , l b y e , o 3 l l G r. b l ia 'r w ed in k. , I,:irenc.a ai tti t • t 011 14 0( stro Y , g at r. 0,10 . de f 1, Warwick-st:eet, Regeuti- stree t , STERRY—ROBINSON—On the 12th tan.st,.,,.ei raetatr.„,4,, lien' p eal, Henry Sterry, D 1• R°bioso Kent-road, to Jane, relict of 11 , the same place. AD ° DEA TB& _bermora 01 FE V R i o s u co s i o i N ut _es; n Oe t i h nbe e COMBERMERE -On the 12th intesdtro.,sslo...t. pCoa:01 13 tley's Parl‘9„dl4 GOSLING -On the 12th just, at fiD 21, Giltspur-street, I.l:3inteyl'ir,e;ansaOtg.d Robert Gosling, Esq., of Ilassobuil, London: Printed and Published by of No. 112, Strand , printer, at THE SUN pace idal° Oir , in the Precinct of t he Savoy, in the County 0.-- Saturday, August 14, 1339