The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

Mita OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Although, says the Sato; lay Review, it would have been Unreasonable to wish for the prolongation of a painful and hopeless illness, few Englishmen have heard of Lord Derby's death without a feeling of regret. The influence which he so long exercised over his social equals in the House of Lords proved that he possessed in an unusual degree the power of commanding personal attachment and respect. A much larger section of the community was proud of the brilliant qualities which adorned a great posi tion. By a singular felicity the chief of one of the most powerful families in England was born an orator, trained into an accomplished scholar, and raised by circumstances to the rank of a party leader and Prime Minister. His death, soon after his voluntary retirement from political life, cannot be regarded as unseasonable. The political period which his faculties were calculated to adorn termi nated, not without his own co-operation, simultaneously with his active career. His probable successor in the lead of his party is also the head of an ancient and powerful house, and with greater industry, and perhaps with more originality of thought, he possesses much of Lord Derby's vigour and pugnacity; but the character and tactics of the party itself must be remodelled if it is hereafter to share in the govern ment of the country. Lord Derby will perhaps be remem bered as the last representative of a ruling aristocracy, if not of a school of statesmen. The Spectator observes that after a political career of forty-five years, during which he has been three times Prime Minister, the Earl of Derby has at last vanished from the scene. He has not been a great statesman. He has hardly matured a single historical measure; for any credit which the Household Suffrage Reform Act may have reflected upon his Government belonged rather to Mr. Disraeli than to himself. But there has scarcely ever been a party leader whose name had so great a spell in it for the imaginations of his supporters, or whose pungent scarcasm in debate was so keen a terror to his opponents as the Earl of Derby. In the Upper House especially his speeches have broken the torpor of the heavy atmosphere, and lent a sonorous animation to discussions that would otherwise have been too often languid and sluggish. Wherever Lord Derby moved in politics, the air became eager at his presence, and that alone has been no small benefit to the dignified dullness of the Peers. If he was wrong, as he was apt to be, he was wrong with an imperious confidence of manner which pro voked even titled tranquillity into dissent and disputation. Yet, whether he were in opposition or in power, his first thought was for the splendour and prosperity of the Em pire, and no man could ever honestly charge him with making the embarrassments of his country the occasion for personal or party aggrandisement. We have lost in him a brilliant and even splendid Conservative general of division, though only a third-rate commander-in-chief. But whatever political qualities he missed, he had at least the undeniable gift of even making blunders with " dis tinction ;" and in a political atmosphere so liable to become thick and turbid and full of vulgar dust as ours, it is some thing of no little moment for leaders to lead, as Lord Derby did everything, in " the grand stylf." The John Bull says that Lord Derby has passed away from amongst us amidst a larger amount of general re gret than has been exhibited in the case of any statesman ante the death of Sir Robert Peel, and with a far larger amount of personal regret than was shewn even in that instance. The position which he held in the political world secured to him the notice of his countrymen ; but his awn strongly marked characteristics enlisted their sym pathy and their admiration. Both the Chamber of Com merce in Liverpool and the Common Council of the City of London have honoured themselves by their spontaneous testimony to his single mindedness and patriotism. It is much in these days of change, and of a lessening standard of public morality, to have the example of a man of lofty station, of vast political influence, of large property, who has lived a life unchequered with one act of meanness, and has died without one taint or suspicion of dishonesty. It is a life of which we all have reason to be proud. It is well to remember that living, as Lord Derby did, in the Byes of the world from the moment when he passed out )f the walls of Christ Church, until his dust has mingled with his ancestral dust at Knowsley, his life should have been thus blameless, and that he should have passed away, like the Knight of yore, sans peur et sans reproche. It is much that his countrymen should feel and acknowledge that in every pursuit in which he entered, whether of the more serious or of the lighter kind, he infused into it a purifying and elevating influence. The Economist believes that Lord Derby was a fitting Conservative leader, and on the whole, though a rash and 2nsuccessful one, he was not incompetent. He kept the Upper House very firmly together ; he fought hopeless battles like Protection very resolutely; he preserved the Irish Church for twenty years after it ought to have perished ; he organised a " country party ;" and he always :voided ruinous collisions with the majority of the people. He had, too, one statesmanlike quality, very often indeed wanting to men who are conscious that their attitude is )ne of resistance—he could take a decision when it involved immense responsibility. He quitted a Cabinet to save the Irish Church; he risked a quarrel with the Crown to prevent the creation of life peers; he accepted Household suffrage, awl he adhered to it when some of his shiest lieutenants shrank; and in the Trent affair he made up his mind to a great war so decisively that he is credibly ieclared to have conveyed an assurance of support to Lord Palmerston. In nine cases out of ten he was wrong in his political forecast, his political wishes, and his political action ; but he was never—except, perhaps, once—more wrong than his followers, and as he was more eloquent, more decisive, and more influential with his order than they, we cannot affect to wonder at his ascendancy in their z.ouncils. The Spectator considers that Dr. Temple has proved anew his special capacity for the duties which Mr. Glad stone has devolved upon him by sheaving a noble jealousy for the liberty of the clergy of our Church, which they, apparently, do not feel in any emphatic way for them selves. Unless a fair proportion of the rulers of our Church are at least as jealous for the liberty of thought of the clergy as are Dr. Thirlwall and Dr. Temple, it must very soon cease to be a living Protestant Church at all. We want men, and not religious diplomatists, for our bishops, if we are to gain over the alienated working-class to the Church—men who will not fear being heterodox half as much as they will fear not speaking boldly what is in their hearts. It is because Dr. Temple has shown that he is not to be either intimidated 1r persuaded into ceding a single liberty that legally belongs to the Anglican clergy, that we can even rejoice Dver the preliminary disquietudes which have attended his nomination. It is of infinitely more importance that an English Bishop should defend his right to publish his aonvictions precisely as freely as any English layman, than that he should be cleared from possible complicity in this Dr that heresy. We may find the very essence of Chris tian faith in conjunction with this or that heresy. But we cannot have the spiritual liberty without which all Protestant faith is a phantom and a sham, unless men in authority, openly shew their contempt for the petty shackles which Puseyites and Evangelicals are so anxious to.combine in forging for the consciences of our modern llibrgymen. The Saturday Review thinks the United Kingdom Alliance have some cause for boasting, and, to do them jus tice, thershew no disposition to let the opportunity slip. When tb ey number • amongst their defenders men of Dr. Templo,'s stamp, they may fairly boast that their principles, if not, generally accepted, are at least considered worthy of dis%nassion by cultivated and intelligent men. The fact is the less surprising when we consider it in connection with a more general change of sentiment. We hear on every side, as some of the speakers remarked, cries for compul sory .Yearning, compulsory leisure; and compulsory cleanliness ; why should we not also have a movement for compulsory temperance? A great and acknowledged. evil, such as the prevalence of excessive - drinking, is 'pointed out, and it is at once assumed that it , would be eradicated by the simple process of passing a law • fthat people shall not drink. The true principle is of course very different. It is simply that the effect of any given . law is often a very complicated problem, and may turn out to be precisely opposite to the intention of the legislator. It is as absurd to suppose that laws can do everything as that they can do nothing, and the result must, in any given case, bo determined by experiment and care ful preliminary investigation. 'Thus, in regard to the ques tion of temperance, we have no difficulty whatever in going some way with the agitators. It would be difficult even for them to exaggerate the evil consequences of excess in drink. If, by the waving of a wand, or the passing of an Act of Parliament, we could convert all thr, drunkards of England into sober men, we should con frr a benefit upon society equal to all the benefits that have been conferred by the legislation of centuries. But smuggling has - a very bad effect on any population where it is customary ; and the effect of this system is to make smuggling for immoral purposes common amongst a large ration of the population. Even if we should admit, then, that a restrictive system might do good in country vil lages, there are great dilliculties about applying it to London or the la:-;;e towns in which the vice is most pre valer t and deadly. If the law were not put in force in towns, there would always be lar , e reserves of drunkards, InAkiug its application difficult in any place with which 'they communicate. If it were applied in such places as Loudon spasmodically or regularly, the evils would be twofold. There would be the demoralization which always takes place when the law is sy,tematically evaded, its it would of course be to an enormous extent. Further there would still be the greater evils which would result whole it could be really enforced. The moral, then, upon which most sensible men are more or less agreed is prett . obvious. It is not that all restrictive measures are useless, but simply that they require caution and foresight. The Alliance will do their duty best if they desist, as much as a body of such a nature can desist, from vague declamation against an admitted evil, and attempt to show within what limits repression is possible, and what authority can be 'cost satisfactorily entrusted with the task. ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. Mr. Msigrave applied on Friday in Chancery Chambers for leave to issue a summons, returnable at once, to appoint an agent to go to Berlin, where the police had seized the agent already there, together with his books, and had locked him up. The Chief Clerk granted the application. Messrs. Lewis and Co., on the part of the official liquidators (Messrs. Price and Young), applied for leave to retain the services of Mr. A. Kirby, the manager, and other clerks and servants of the Albert Assurance Company, at their present salaries. There was a very large amount of business to be transacted, which involved a great deal of information of which the present officials only were cognizant. The Chief Clerk asked what the affidavit said as to the necessity of such a course. Messrs. Lewis said the present staff had to be kept on and paid overtime. The fact was a scheme of reconstruc tion was being considered by the liquidators independent of the one already submitted to the Vice-Chancellor. This was likely to Us matured, and would bring about a large amount of labour. The Chief Clerk said the liquidators must be the best judges whether they required this retention, and made the order subject to the usual affidavits. Messrs. Macken zi e appeared on a summons returnable to-day for leave to appoint a committee of policy-holders to confer with the liquidators. Mr. Musgrave asked that the summons might be ad journed to the Judge on the 6th. The Chief Clerk said he would adjourn the matter to the Vice-Chancellor, as asked. An application was made by the clerk to the official liquidators for £5OO. The official liquidators required some ready money to carry on the matter, having up to the present time paid what was required out of their own pockets. The amount asked for would be included in the three-monthly accounts. The Chief Clerk asked what the applicant estimated his current expenses to be. Applicant said he did not know that they wanted £5OO—L3OO, perhaps, would do. Order trade for the latter amount. A summons was heard on an order of the Vice-Chan cellor, directing the official liquidators to give security within a week. On the application of Messrs. Lewis and Co., this order was extended for a week. LAW AND POLICE. AN ANGLo-INDIAN OFFICIAL—Thomas Nash Turnbull, an overseer in the Forest Department at Wynad, in the Presidency of Madras, has been brought up at Bow-street on the remanded charge of embezzling various sums amounting to £3,431, the property of the Indian Govern ment. Mr. Vaughan said he had read over the depositions, and had come to the conclusion:that the prima facie case was completely established. He should, therefore, commit the prisoner for trial, and he must remain in prison until be could be sent to that part of her Majesty's dominions where the offence was committed. A THOROUGH DRAUGHT.-A young man, named Ayres, was charged with refusing to work in St. Luke's Work house, Chelsea. He came into the casual ward, rccoiving his supper, bed, and breakfast, and was set the usual task of oakum-picking. He picked a little, Ind then began smoking, and refused to do more. Defendant said that he had picked part of his oakum when _the superintendent threw open the doors of the shed, and exposed him to a thorough draught. The magis trate said that was to let the smoke out, whereupon the %mused indignantly asked if a " free-born Englishman was lot to smoke tobacco which he had bought himself, in a workhouse yard?" If so, he thought the sooner he was )ut of the country the better. He was committed for seven days. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN A FARMER. C. Gargory, M.R.C.S., writes to the Lancet:—" l was Sent for one day last week to see a farmer, who has had a large amount of foot and mouth disease among his cattle, and has himself constantly administered remedies to them, and in drenching them has had to hold their tongues. I found him suffering from an eruption on the hands, having the appearance of small blisters similar to those caused by rowing or other hard work; his tongue was swollen, and there were three slightly raised white patches on it, about the size of a small horse-bean, surrounded by a • narrow margin of red ; on the roof of the mouth there was a similar oatch. He complained of lowness of spirits, and described himself as feeling altogether out of sorts; he also said that his feet felt tender and sore. I think this a case of foot tnd mouth disease, produced by his hands coming in contact with the tongues of the animals." An Oxford correspondent telegraphs :--A telegram las been received at St. John's College announcing the dis •overy of the dead body of Mr. 11. R. Band, 8.A., and scholar A that society, on the railway near Newark. Ono of his :ollege friends immediately proceeded there, but particulars Are rot 3 et known at Oxford. An important discovery has been ma& in Kansas. 4 vein of excellent coal, extending northward, has been struck on the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, east of )enver. This chews that the workable coal-beds of the Cocky Mountain base extend miles eastward in the great Aldus. Some perplexity has been occasioned by the appli mtion of the term Valid to one of the Sultanas at Con stantinople, on the occasion of the Empress Eugenie's visit. the wife who first gives birth a to son is proclaimed Grand sultana or Azachi Sultana, and is solemnly crowned with small gold diadem enriched with precious stones. lithe prince thus born ascends the throne, then his mother takes the title of Sultana Valide. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—We are in a Josition to state that the payment of the £300,000 by Ilana.da to the Ruction's Bay Company will be made on or *iefore the Ist of December next, as on that day the north .rest territory will be included by proclamation as part of the Dominion. The money will probably be immediately •wised by a loan on the market under the Imperial guarantee, or, failing this, the hon. "Mr. Rose is authorised ~ o make other arrangements, so that the money under my circumstances may be handed over to the Company before the Ist of December next.--Canadian News. A. story is told of the late storm in Maine, which sffords an amusing instance of the relative value which an old "gent " set upon his wife, pig, and colt. He waded through the flood which surrounded his house, and lamented his situation in this wise :--" Oh! if I only had my wife here I wouldn't valley giving five dollars! And there's the pig ! I'd give ten dollars this minnit if he was only safe ! The spotted colt's gone too ! I'd go two dollars more if she was ashore!' The old lady was safely carried to dry land by some neighbours, but her husband's grief for the loss of the colt and pig was too great to be as suaged,and he passed the remainder of the night lamenting `heir loss. A. LADY UPON LAWYERS.—The Montgomery ( Uabania) Advertiser says :—" One day last week a novel ^ase was tried in the court-house at Greenville. Judge M. C. Lane brought a suit against Miss Josephine Hutton for a fee. The lady appeared in court, pleaded her own lase, examined witnesses, and made a long speech to the jury. Her reason for appearing was that she did not believe an honest lawyer was to be found in the country. She said, among other things, that if an earthquake was to come, and the clouds were to fall, she believed the first thing thought of by the lawyers would be the collection of their fees, preparatory to entering upon that long journey in search of a future home, deep down in the dominions of his Satanic Majesty, whither they were all slowly but sir' tending." TELEGRAPHIC COMMUN 'CATION . e understand, • ays a contemporary, that at the commencement of the year, on the Government taking over the telegraph; the public is to be benefittod by the choice of having their messages transmitted in cypher. This will be a very great boon to the commercial public, as in the present and the past complaints have been numerous against the publicity given to telegrams. The system which the Post master-General has already sanctioned for public use consists in a numerical code applied to and embracing the entire English language. In order to transmit a message by this code it is necessary only as far as the telegraph employer is concerned to telegraph a number of groups of figures. Oftentimes in one of these groups a whole mes sage is contained, and in body they never exceed more than five figures, which, taking each figure as a letter, represents the meaning of the words in the English language. LIVINGSTONE.—A letter was on Tuesday October 5, received in Bombay by Government from Dr Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, dated September 7, 1860, in which he states that he has received a letter from Dr. Livingstone, o.ated Bangweloo, July 8, 1863 In that letter Dr. Livingstone says:—" I may say I :lave found what I believe to be the sources of the Nile, between 10 degrees and 12 degrees south, or nearly the position assigned to them by Ptolemy." The sources of the river appear from the letter to consist of a number of largo lakes, and Dr. Kirk, in writing of these lakes, says they are "probably ten days' march in length, and, like the Nyassa Tanganyika and the Albert Nyanza, overhung by high mountain slopes, which open out in bays and valleys." This description of the appear ance of the lakes and mountains appears to have been obtained from the Arab traders who brought the Doctoi's letter to Zanzibar: - Dr. Livingtone was in good health and spirits when le wrote_ this letter from Is,pgvreloo. Bombau Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, S: TIJRDAT EVENING; OCTOBER 30, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. year MM. Dr. ti - uthrie TIM tnat neither rrtissia nor any nation of the presentige first introduced this principle. It was not only iscovered but initiated 300 years ago by John Knox That great man laid it down that "no man of wiatsoever his estate be shall be permitted of his owl phantasy to bring up his children, but he shall be ,ompelled to give them an education in learning ant virtue." Dr. Guthrie thinks that no party will feelthe compulsory system except those persons who are able, but not willing, to pay. If the law allows aman's wages to be taken for the purpose of supportiig an illegitimate child, much more ought it to aloes a man's wages to be taken for the purpose of edttating his own family. ing failed to pass the Parliament of the North, broke down also in the Prussian Chambers. The deficit in the Prussian Budget is attributed to the refusal of the Federal Parliament to impose fresh taxes. Herr Von der Heydt made a similar attempt in the Prussian Chambers with the same result. He is now reproached at head-quarters with not having attempted a thorough reorganisation of the Prussian financial system, and with not having sought relief from the pressure in some other way than by the increase of taxation. One thing appears certain :no Prussian financier will be permitted to try the only method by which, in the opinion of impartial observers, the equili brium of tho Budget can be secured—viz., the reduction of the military expenses. Herr von Camphausen is said to be the successor of Herr von der Heydt. TEE SOUTHWARK ELECTION. The choice of the Copservative candidate in South wark seems hardly settled, but- there is a decided disposition to prefer Mr. Morgan Howard to Mr. Alderman Cotton. The former stood for Lambeth last November, and made a better fight than Mr. Cotton did in Southwark. Mr. Morgan Howard polled one-half as many votes as the Liberals, whereas Mr. Cotton's proportion was not more than two-fifths. A strong section of the Liberalparty have asked Mr. M. Gibson to stand. Mr. Bradlaugh will not come for ward. It is stated that Mr. William Allen, secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers' Society, is to be the candidate elected by the Labour Representation League. He will be put forward without reference to Whig or Conservative interests, and any cry about dividing the Liberal interest will be disregarded. Mr. Allen has long been a resident in Southwark, and was recently, if ho be not now, a vestryman of Christ Church parish. THE lINIVERSITTES CONTEST. Mr. Archibald Smith appears to 'be fatally unsuc cessful in his efforts to gain the support of the majority of the University electors. A few days ago he stated that although he has had no opportunity of studying questions of importance to medical men, he asked the members of the medical profession for their support on the ground that his principles were on " the side of progress." The Lancet thereupon asserts that the supporters of political progress are not always of necessity scientific and sanitary reformers ; that this really is no political question at all ; and that, in questions relating to public health, scientific research, Poor-law reform, &c., there are probably as many members willing and able to discuss and to legislate on the one side of the House as on the other. Our contemporary points out that Mr. Gordon is pre pared to undertake various and important measures relating to matters medical; therefore it considers that " it is right and proper " that, in the absence of a medical candidate, Mr. Gordon should receive the support of the medical profession. The nomination is fixed to take place on Tuesday next. BERWICICS/ILItE ELECTION. Both political parties have already formed com mittees in order to secure the election of their choice when Mr. Robertson is made a peer. Lord Douglass is actively canvassing the county in the Conservative interest, and the Liberals have held a meeting at which a resolution was passed calling upon Lord William Hay to enter the field forthwith. It is con sidered probable that Lord William's family, who opposed him when he endeavoured to oust Lord Elcho from East Lothian, will on this occasion throw in their lot in his favour. LEGAL CHANGES IN IRELAND It is generally believed in the north of Ireland that Mr. Sullivan has been appointed Master of the Rolls, in which case Mr. Barry, the present Solicitor- General, will become the first Irish law officer of the Crown. The elevation of Mr. Sullivan will create a vacancy in iklte representation of Mallow, and thus an opening is made for Mr. Barry, who has hitherto been without a seat in Parliament. Both parties are astir at Londonderry, as it is anticipated that the vacant Solicitor-Generalship will be offered to Serjeant Dowse, who so cleverly . defeated Lord Claud Hamilton last November. Mr. Dowse's majority was then 1043, but the Conservatives entertain sanguine hopes that in the event of his again appealinm to the electors he will lose his seat. As their late champion is at the present moment a candidate for Lynn, it is not known who will be brought forward. At all events, a close struggle may be anticpated. TENANT-RIGHT DEMONSTRATION. The second of the county meetings in support of the tenant-right agitation, has been held at Castlebar. The Irish evidently are second to no people in the world in the art of gettinc , up demonstrations. Numbers and enthusiasm are always c at command for any purpose whatsoever. At Castlebar, a small Place in the county of Mayo, 12,000 persons assembled. They were chiefly settlers and farm labourers, and appeared to have no very clear idea of what was going on, but, .at any rate, they were able to cheer and groan in the right places. Archdeacon Brown, parish priest, presided, and made a speech enforcing the old arguments in favour of fixity of tenure with an equitable rent. Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P., came out of his brief obscurity with renewed vigour. He contrasted the mode of dealing pursued by English landlords, who made all the improvements on their estates, and Irish landlords, who had done nothing beneficial to the soil except to cut down the native forests ; whereupon the meeting cheered the English landlords, and groaned at the Irish tyrants with much zest. Mr. Moore has no faith whatever that any of Mr. Gladstone's pills can cure Irish grievances, much leas the homoeopathic doses which the Government is mixing up for the next session. Another meeting was held at Sligo. The attend ance was only moderate, and so were the reso lutions. They declared that the conditions should be modified so as to give encouragement to the tenants' industry and secure continuous occupation of holdings at an equitable rent, and full compensation for improvements ; the tenant to be bound not to waste the soil or sublet against the landlord's wish, and the rent to be settled by the fluctuation of the markets. These resolutions are somewhat remarkable, being prepared at a meeting at which representatives from some county landlords were present. IRISH CULTIVATION. Mr. Grace Lambert, M.P. for Buckinghamshire, has been combining business with pleasure, by means of an Irish tour. He notices a somewhat neglected feature in the land question—the style in which the soil is cultivated. Mr. Lambert affirms that the Irish system of agriculture is deplorably bad. By far the greatest portion of the country is so divided into small enclosures (which swallow up and disfigure the land) and badly and slovenly cultivated, that it does not produce one-half of what it is capable of yielding. Nobody in particular is to blame for this result. It was brought about by. the excessive population, finding no extra employment in manufacture, gradually dividing and subdividing the soil. Mr. Lambert has no hope that Government can very effectively deal with the case; but ho suggests a moderate improvement. It should be compulsory on landlords to give leases to tenants holding 25 to 30 acres of land worth £1 per acre, such leases to last for twenty-one years, and to contain a map and valuation of the farm and build ings, with a clause stipulating that if at the end of the twenty-one years the landlord evicts or raises the rent, he should compensate the tenant for all improve ments. Cases should be tried at quarter sessions, not before a jury. If a tenant wishes to leave him. self, he is to have a right to sell his interest to the incoming tenant, the landlord retaining a veto on the choice of the - tenant and right of pre-emptio.. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE AND THE " RELIGIOUS " DIFFICULTY. The announcement that the National Education League is not formed to advocate " secular" educa tion has not been received with general favour by its friends ; and, strange to say, the protests against its religious character come in two instances from ministers of religion. Mr. Miall, a Baptist minister, of Dalston, and a Surrey rector, both demand that riot even the Bible unexplained, not commented upon, shall be read to the children. Yet the Bible— taking the lowest ground—is often the only litera ture with which children of the poor are brought in contact. They know nothing of poetry or eloquence beyond what they meet therein. MAD METAPHORS. Colonel the Hon C. 11. Lindsay, M.P., has dis tinguished himself. He has contrived to compress into one sentence perhaps the greatest number of incongruous metaphors ever collected into so small a space. Whilst distributing prizes to the 4th Berks Volunteers the respected member for Abingdon delivered himself of the following remarkable period : I am rejoiced to find by the return which I hold in my hand that new blood has been flowing into the arteries of your rifle practice, and that the pulse of emulation has been beating high in a new direction, by which means the old and stereotyped groove of almost monopolised success has been turned into another, by new and skilful marksmen, proving thereby that there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. New blood in the arteries of rifle practice, the pulse of emulation, old and stereotyped groove, and fish in the sea. It is pleasant to find that after such an aerial flight, the versatile Colonel was able to get down to the terra firma of fact. Although he differs from the volunteer, policy of the last two or three Govern ments, he acquits them of any intentional delay in serving out breech-loaders. The requirements of the army have been great, but the turn of the volunteers will come soon. The honourable member, however, strongly resents the niggardly refusal of an increase to the capitation grant—au increase which, in his opinion, is much needed. TIIE SCOTCII UNIVERSITIES. The Council of Glasgow University are engaged in the reform of this famous institution. A commission, which sat in 1858, introduced certain changes, but these have not worked well. It is now proposed to extend the list of subjects for which a degree may be obtained, and to shorten the period of residence required. The degree of 8.A., abolished by tho Commission, is to b e e restored, and may be had after two years residence. THE FIRST ADVOCATE OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION. The Rev. Dr. Guthrie is one of the firmest allies of the party in favour of enforcing the attendance of children at schools. At a speech made whilst opening an industrial school at Leith, the rev. gentleman "chaffed" members of Parliament for thinking that the necessity for compulsion is a grand discovery of the HARES AND RABBITS. The Devon and Cornwall Clamber of Agriculture, at a very full [meeting, has passed, by a large majority, a resolution in favour of a legislative enact ment giving landlord and tenait equal rights to kill hares and rabbits. It appearsthat Earl Morley and Sir Massey Lopes opposed ;he words " legislative enactment." They hold, apparently, that it should be left to the good will and merciful generosity of the landlord to grant his tenants this boon. It is unfortunately true, lowever, that very little disposition of this kind his been shown hitherto. If the tenants have to wait until their landlords con cede the privilege of their own freewill, they will require a considrable stock of patience. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S HARRIERS. The Prince of Wales has recently sold his harriers at Tattersall's. They were bought by the former members of his hunt. These gentlemen, after un successfully applying to the Queen to continue to hold the harriers, determined to buy them, and to keep them as a subscription pack. They were car rying out their intention—had, indeed, given the highest bid for the hounds—when they received a letter from the Prince of Wales asking their accep tance of the pack. His Royal Highness informs Sir Roger Eykyn that "it was impossible for him to afford himself this gratification as long as there was any uncertainty whether it was the intention to con tinue hare-hunting in the neighbourhood or not ; and when made aware of the fact that it was so, it was too late for his Royal Highness to withdraw the hounds from the public competition by which he had engaged himself to dispose of them." TENNYSON'S NEW POEIL The Poet Laureate seems to be taken up withlhe fashion of obscurity in poetry. The newly published, poem of his, which he calls "The Mystic," is per fectly unintelligible to the ordinary mind. He tells the readers that they do not know the mystic ; Probably ; certainly it is hard to understand Mr. Tennyson. Perhaps, however, he intended to run into abstract puzzles; such puzzles as the dreamer delights to make for himself. If this were his intentions he has undoubtedly succeeded in the following passage : Always there stood before him night and day Of wayward, vary-coloured circumstance, The imperishable presence serene, Colossal, without form, or sense, or sound, Dim shadows but unwaning presences, Four faced to four corners of the sky : And yet again, three shadows fronting one, One forward, one respectant, three but one : And yet again, again and evermore, For the two first were not, but only seemed One shadow in the midst of a great light, One reflex from eternity or time, One mighty countenance of perfect calm Awful with most invariable eyes. CAMPS FOIL INSTRUCTION. Under this heading, the Times publishes an article on the need which exists for training our soldiers and their officers for war. In the manner of sham fights, for instance, how utterly absurd it is to make one general master of the field ! He is, says the Times, like one man playing chess—the right hand against the left. Nothing but the rudiments of the game can be learnt in this way. But when, some time back, a change took place,. and men were pitted against men, enthusiasm prevailed in the ranks, and some real work was done, and not a few profitable lessons learnt. Why should not the same kind of thing be carried out at Aldershot, instead of mere drill ings and paradings taking up the time ? Our men want to learn to run. They have not yet had shewn to them the lessons of late wars ; they do not understand the revolution wrought by needle rifles and "big guns ;" they must learn how to use cover, to throw up earthworks, and be taught to de pend more upon these and less on dash than they were used to do. Such at least is the Times' opinion. A HALFPENNY TAX ON MARRIED SOLDIERS. The Lancet is scandalised and indignant at the fol lowing order issued from the War Office : Extra bedding will be issued on the requisition of officers commanding regiments or corps in the following propor tions—viz.: for a family of one or two children, one bed stead and a set of bedding complete; for a family of three or more children, two bedsteads and a set of bedding A charge of a halfpenny a day, for each set of bedding issued will be made against the soldier for whose family the bed ding is supplied. Our contemporary scornfully declares that taxpayers do not want retrenchment after that hind; the authorities, it says, are neither just nor logical. Openly banish marriage altogether from the army, and make it a crime for any soldier to marry; but do not insist upon his first getting his commanding officer's leave, on the plea that marriage is an indul gence for men of good character and long service, and then practise such contemptible petty ways of extricating halfpence out of his pocket. Bedding ought to be issued to him in proportion to his require ments free of charge. THE COMING ATTACK ON TUB CHURCH. The Bishop of Ely is one of the many leaders of the Church who are convinced that the work o' disestablishment is but just commencing, and that the victory recently won will be followed by a further advance. The mode in which the Establishment in Ireland fell was more instructive than its fall. English Dissent, not Irish Romanism, Dr. Browne assigns 8.5 the true motive power. There were doubtless men of high tone and character, feel ing deeply for the wrongs of Ireland, who shed lustre on all the rest. But with them were the Liberation Society, the Scotch Presbyterians, jealous of State influence, the Irish priesthood, and, throwing their dead weight in the scale, the unbelieving, sceptical, indifferent, Besides these there were many Churchmen, who sighed for relief from earnest and ungodly. State control, in the hope that separation would both increase progress and settle differences. All these influences have combined, and their efforts are not restricted to the Irish Church alone : Turning from the Irish to .the English Church, we see that church-rates are gone ; the marriage law is changed ; there is a design to secularise all education; there is a threat of immediate attack on the Welsh Church, and the seats of the Bishops in the House of Peers. Then the same influences are at work in conti nental Christendom, the Church and the civil power being often at open war. All seems to indicate that we aro entering on a new era, passing, perhaps, as much into a new atmosphere as those who lived in the times of Constantine, or Charlemagne, or Hildebrand, or the Refor mation. But though the danger is so imminent, it is the duty, Dr. Browne pleads, of Churchmen to unite in the endeavour to ward it off. The disasters of disesta blishment must be great Perhaps the town clergy in a disestablished Church would be richer than at present. But how could we pro vide for the country parishes? A parish of 1,000 people would contain about 200 house s . I n a p oor parish each household might contribute perhaps ss. a year for the sup port of a clergyman. • This would produce £5O a year as the income of a man who had perhaps spent £3,000 on his education—a sum which, sunk in his life, would give him £3OO a year. Whore could we look for such a provision as would restore to our 10,000 villages the blessing of a resi dent educated pastor, whose great end in life was the '....m -poral and eternal welfare of all around him ? The poorer town population would be worse off, for it is the defect of an independent Church that it can give the supply only where there is the demand, whereas 'it is the mission of a National Church to seek out where the demand is least and the need greatest. THE TEMPLE CONTROVERSY. The discussion about the Bishop designate of Exeter proceeds apace, developing marvellous powers in the English language for "gentlemanly abuse." The impatient zea l an d unr easoning fervour with which one secti on o f t h e Ch ur ch seems ready to stig matise the other covers only a small portion of argument ; and this seems poor enough. Archdeacon Denison, i n his own dogmatic way, is gloomily sad about the whole thing; and, in a letter to the Standard, mournfully bewails the fact that there has been no co ll ec ti v e and corporate faithfulness in resisting the " scan d a lous " appointment. But, though this is an un h a ppy state of things, there is a " greater sin " beyond ; and the vicar of East Brent is evidently afraid it will be committed. Dr.. Temple . will be conse crated by " bishops; " elected by members of the Church. Thus will the Church be once more betrayed by her own friends. But the Archdeacon is not a member of the Chapter : Prebendary Sanders is. Ho spoke at Exeter on rhursday . very strongly in favour of the bishop designate—said there could not be a greater friend to the Church; and prophesied that Dr. Temple would be most popular. The Times correspondence runs very nearly all in one direction—for Dr. Temple. Two correspondents who wroto yesterday attack, the one Convocation, the other Dr. Pusey's letters. Against the former the old contentions aro reproduced, that it cannot legally act contrary to law, and it has done so in the matter of - " Essays and Ileviews;" nor does it repre sent the Church. The opponents of Dr. Pusey con tend that there are no heresies in Dr. Temple's views; what Dr. Pusey attacks are, in fact, holy truths. HERR VON DElt The Berlin papers aro full of matters touching the resig nation of the Finance Minister, Herr von der Heydt. It Is not, as was at first thougAt, wholly due to the affair of the railway loan. Herr vor. der Heydt fell into disgrace at head-auarters because hi; fina4cial measures, after hay- THE HANOVERIAN MONUMENTS. An animated discussion has lately taken place in the Prussian Chambers on the exercise of military authority at Zell, by which the funeral monuments in memory of the Hanoverian soldiers were removed. The Minister of War made an explanation, and declared that the military authority which had been exercised was quite in keeping with justice. In the first place appeals were made to the police and the tribunals to prevent the erection of the monu ments, but these having refused to support the military, the Commandant was compelled to act on his own respon sibility. He added that if his permission had been asked for the erection of a monument, he should certainly have granted it. Several deputies spoke in strong terms con demning the conduct of the military authorities, re marking on the unfavourable impression which such events produced in Hanover. PRINCE CHARLES OF ROUMANIA The Rouman Moniteur Officiel publishes a letter ad dressed by Prince Charles to the President of the Minis terial Council at Bucharest, in which he thanks the Cham bers and the other great State bodies for the affection and confidence they have displayed. When he first accepted the throne he was aware that the great wish of the people of Roumania, was to found a stable dynasty, which should not be affected by the struggles and rivalries of factions, and he has always en deavoured to fulfil those aspirations. The Prince announces his approaching marriage with Princess Elizabeth of Wied, which he hopes the people will regard as a fresh guarantee of the order and stability of his government. PUTTING A PASSENGER IN IRONS. A strange case came before the magistrates at Bombay lately, Francis Graves, a cornet in the 20th Hussars, made a charge of false imprisonment against the commander of the ship Thomas Bell, which recent'y arrived at Bombay from Gravesend. The prosecutor and some other officers embarked on board the ship to join their regiments in Bombay, and the captain did not treat them with proper respect. Some disputes arose in conse quence of a vulgar practical joke which was played on the prosecutor, in which the captain took part. The next day the captain ordered Mr. Graves to be put in irons and confined in the hold for twenty hours with only bread and water to subsist on. On the arrival of the ship at Bombay, the Brigadier-General only ordered proceedings to be taken against the captain of the ship. The chairman of the bench, in giving his decision, said that the charge had been fully made out against the captain, and that if the law gave great power to a shipmaster at sea, it also entailed great responsibility. Ho considered that no fine they could inflict would be an adequate punishment for the offence of which the captain had been guilty, and therefore he sentenced him to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour. (From the Anglo American Times.) Messrs. William Fisher and Sons, the Baltimore bankers and brokers, have written a valuable letter to the London 7 imes explaining the true position of Secretary Boutwell in selling gold to break down the clique on the 24th September last. Our readers know these circumstances, as they were fully ex , plained in our article last week, " The Great Gold Gamble," but the Baltimore bankers, learning that the now had censured the Secretary in ignorance of the subject, have taken the trouble to explain it. There is, however, in this letter a bit of infor mation, which we desire to extract. When the mer chant borrows the gold, as he does from day to day till the transaction is completed, say—if an export cargo—till the goods are shipped and the captain has signed the bills of landing, upon which he draws on the house to which it is consigned, gets the money from the banker, and refunds the coin to the person who has loaned to him the gold— till then currency to the value of the gold is de posited with the loaner as security, as in our article we explained. But it was not added, as it ought to have been, though implied, that this currency is increased if the gold rises and substracted from if it falls ; hence the merchants during the operations of the clique were daily compelled to supply more and more currency, the operators having carrie,l up the price of gold till it reached 160 when the violent fluc tuations commenced. The difficulty then was to ad just the price, and this became a source of conten tion and confusion. 140, 145, 150, up to 155, was given until the Treasury came forward as a seller and precipitated the price to 130. Our readers then understand the position occupied by the merchants. They had covered the loans of gold with green backs at these high figures, and it became necessary for the operators to refund to them the difference between 130 and say 150. This, it appears, they refused to do, and the merchants were left virtually as buyers of gold from 145 up to 155, although the market price was but 130. The long and short of it is that the merchants of America wore contending against a ring of swindlers, whom Se cretary Boutwell crushed as far as he could by his opportune action. Our readers can readily imagine the indignation of the swindlers on finding the cup dashed from their lips in the very moment of their triumph by the Government action, and, as usual, it took the shape of traducing and vilifying those who had been instrumental in defeating the bold and nefa rious scheme. None but daring men could have made such an attempt, and their audacity in their failure was only equalled by the audacity of the attempt. They actually strove to fasten on the Presi dent, and the very Treasury which had designedly burst their bubble, complicity with the design; and so :openly, boldly, and circumstantially was this done, that some people were for a moment stag gered by the attack on the Executive. Mr. Robert Bonner then wrote to the President, asking him to make a " brief denial over his own signature of all fore-knowledge of the gold combination, in order to relieve himself entirely from all responsibility for the acts of others ;" adding, those who know you personally need no disclaimer, but it is advisable to sweep away from the mind of the public these calumnies. In reply, Mr. Bonner received and published in the Ledger the following letter : " Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 1869. "Robert Bonner, Esq.—Dear Sir,—Your favour of the 11th inst. is received. I have never thought of con tradicting statements or insinuations made against me by irresponsible parties, such as those alluded to in your letter; but as you have written to me on the subject in so kind a spirit, I will say that I had no mere to do with the late gold excitement in New York City than yourself, or any other innocent party, except that I ordered the sale of gold to break the ring engaged, as I thought, in a most disreput able transaction. If the speculators had been successful you would never have heard of any one connected with the Administration as being connected with the transaction. —Yours, truly, U. S. GRANT. P.S.-1 have written this iu great haste, and without exercising judgment as to the propriety of writing it, but I submit it to your judgment. U. S. ei." Secretary Fish is beginning to receive the credit he deserves for his course in the Cuban difficulty. He has had to withstand a great pressure and no small amount of misrepresentation. It is now known that General Sickles merely tendered the good offices of the United States, and although the leading State officers, with whom he dealt, were inclined to favour proposals leading to the eventual independence of Cuba, in the then state of the Spanish mind, they could not act, as they considered, advisable for the good of the country. Both the note of Gen. Sickles and the reply of the Spanish Government were courteous. Time suggestion that the Cubans must lay down their arms before negociatious could be commenced was fatal, tlie Cubans positively refusing; and for the good reason that they would then be at the mercy of the Spaniards. The tender having been declined, the American Minister's note was withdrawn in conformity with diplomatic usage, and the subject fell back to the place it had before occupied. The Cubans have chosen General Butler as counsel, and it is believed that he has to some extent under taken to manage their cause in the United States. He finds them pig-headed, being wedded to their own stupid opinions, and they may be the means of defeating what the skill of that consummate intri guer might effect for them. The Euterpe sailed from New York on the 9th inst. for Havannah with her cargo of warlike stores for the Spanish Govern- ment, under convoy of the Spanish frigate Fernando Cortez. It is not surprising that Europeans are puzzled by American elections when they read accounts directly contradicting each other. The correspondent of the Times, whom some term " Copperhead," remarks— "In Ohio the battle was for and against the repudiation question, and the near approach Pendleton and the Re pudiationists made to a victory has had a gloomy effect in the bond market, and drooping prices are the result." T. Nation, from which he is so fond of "cribbing," says, the election "Removes Pendleton and Packer from the field of pos sible candidates for the Presidency, and is good for Hoff man—a politician worse and more dangerous, as we be hove, than either. Also, it finally disposes of repudiation, and, doubtless, ensures Ohio's renewed ratification of the Fit teenth Amendment." The Nation, however, must not be allowed to stand in the way of the twist he can give to any circum stance to make American bonds droop and lower American credit. The truth is that Pendleton in Ohio has been politically mortally wounded. He was the favourite leader of his party, and a man calcu lated by his ability and upright character to do it honour notwithstanding his repudiation theories. He is now a played-out politician, and, in the em phatic language of politicians, " a dead duck." If any one could have made repudiation popular in Ohio it was Pendleton, and he having failed no one else need try. The effect is, as the Nation says, to give Governor Hoffman, of New York, the first place on the Democratic ticket. Asa Packer was of no real account, his weight being derived from mere wealth. The same man in Philadelphia used tbese elec tions to demonstrate the widespread dissatisfaction both of the dominant party and of Grant's adminis tration. What is there to cause this dissatisfaction? Is it the honest discharge of their duty by the execu tive,—the retrenchment which permits no obstacle to stand in the way of economy,—the rigorous col lection of the revenue, and punishment of frauds ? Are these the weaknesses to which the correspondent alludes? That the wholesale ejection of the late Presi dent's employisshould have given such dissatisfaction, coupled as it was with the discharge of all super numeraries, and the abolition of posts not urgently required, that this should cause a loudly-expressed dissatisfaction is natural, to be increased by the 20 disappointed applicants for each post, but we deny that it is the discontent of the people or that these acts are signs of weakness. We have had some ex perience of the result of the Philadelphian's " careful surveys" and " dismal prospects." About this time last year that gentleman seemed to have donned the mantle of a prophet of old, till at laA he had worked himself into such a state that he spoke of his anticipations as events of the past. There never was a prophet more dishonoured in his predictions, for many of them were published with the Cable news telling the result, and it would have been wise in the Times to have thrown them into the waste paper basket, for they did much to add to the dis repute into which that journal has fallen with regard to American news. Such is not the prophet who should undertake to predict what is going to happen at the close of next year. Luck is against Andrew Johnson, who has been defeated in the Tennessee Legislature, Mr. Henry Cooper being selected as United States Senator by one vote. It was close, yet a miss is as good as a mile, and the bitter part of it is that the gentleman chosen was also a Democrat, which means that it is not party, but personal motives which influenced the Tennessee Assembly. A Nashville paper had already put a rod into strong pickle for Andy, which ought to teach him the danger of stretching the law in the day of his own power. The Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, was denied admission into the Senate after being elected ,the resolution being offered by Mr. Johnson, then Senator from Tennessee, on the plea that Mr. Bright, though not charged with any overt act of treason, was believed to be a dan gerous man, and the Senate had the right to protect itself by expelling him. Mr. Johnson on that occa sion spoke powerfully, arguing that the assembly held supreme power over its own organization, and that the safety of the people was its highest law. The paper then asks the Legislature of Tennessee to reflect seriously before it selects a man for Wash ington who may be sent back by an insulted Senate, mindful of his indecorous attacks on Congress, and the contempt which he has tried to cast upon its laws. It is said that Parson Brownlow will resign the Senatorship, and that Mr. Johnson will be elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. G. W. Curtis having positively declined the Republican nomination, General Sigel has been compelled to accept the place on that ticket for Sec retary of State, Mr. Horace Greeley having man fully come forward to take the next as Comptroller. His letter, published as a leader in the Tribune, we allude to elsewhere, but it is generally regarded that these gentlemen have the command of a forlorn hope. Tammany knows too well how to win an election in New York to permit any doubt whatever to exist as to the result. The correspondent of the Times writes indignantly regarding the way in which the Republicans secured a majority in the recent election in Pennsylvania, but if they acted in Philadelphia as he says, in which case they deserve his censure, they only took a leaf out of the Tammany book. Those who control the great cities of New York and Philadelphia now virtually control the States of New York and Pennsylvania. IVhat they do is to get their agents in the provinces to send them early information as to the majorities necessary for them to make up, and they will sup ply any amount of wooden men to over-ride the flesh and blood voters of the country. This is what. Tammany has reduced to a science, and this is what roused the ire expressed in the limes by a Phila delphian Democrat when practised by Republicans in his own city. The steamship Pereire, which carried Father Hyacinthe, made the run in 8 days 16 hours. The news by the papers to the 19th inst. is that a se rious strike had occurred on the Erie Railroad, the directors, who claimed to have made money by the gold gamble, having neglected not only to pay the stockholders and debenture- holders,but the wages of the labourers and servants of the line. The car shops at Buffalo of the Lake Shore Railway had been burnt, involving a loss of $300,000. Suit has been entered in the United States Supreme Court against George Peabody and Co., for the recovery of $300,000 in Texan Bonds, received from the Rebel authorities during the rebellion. lowa ad vices indicate the probable election of Governor Merrill to the United States Senate, to succeed Sena tor Grimes. Mr. Seward had arrived at Mazanillo, and was warmly received by the Governor. The Go vernment clerks at Washington are going to peti tion Congress for an increase of pay. President Juarez has proceeded to Tamulipas, after making his usual speech to Congress. The latest accounts of Admiral Farragut state that he had so greatly improved that it was now hoped he might recover. The ironclad Dictator sailed for Cuba on the 16th. A decision in the contested election cases of 1868 in Philadelphia declares the Republican candidates elected, and removes the Democratic incumbents, with exception of the Mayor. Mr. A. A. Low, Presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, has been exa mined by the Congressional Committee about the Decay of American Commerce. Admiral Porter had removed to Washington, and had settled there with his family. Professor Hall had returned to that city from Alaska, with all his notes on the total eclipse in August last. Bets were being offered in Washington that Andrew Johnson would not be elected Senator from Tennessee. Father Hyacinthe, we learn by the papers just received, arrived at New York on the 18th in3t., and was immediately " interviewed" by a reporter. The reverend gentleman must have known he wa going into the lion's den, and he must not be sur prised at being lionized. The interviewer, out of a consideration to a foreigner he would not have shown to one of his ow❑ countrymen, refrained, as he says, from bothering him, but this much he ex tracted : " The steward kindly pointed out the object of our search, who was then walking fore and aft, reading, as al; Catholic priests daily do, from his breviary the office' set apart for each day. Pausing to survey the man whose name has been borne on the wings of fame to the remotest bounds of Christendom, we could not help being amazed at the calm simplicity of his exterior. He is below the middle height ; stout, stoops a lit tle, has grey hair, dark eyes, and a round face. At a distance there is nothing in his appearance, but the moment you come in contact with him you feel an indescribabls charm coming over you, and, when he speaks, his soft, es.rnest voice completes the fascination, and you are complete l y. won. Immediately you realise that this is no ordinal man, but one whose mental powers are marvellously deve loped. He is gentlemanly and affable withal—the be au ideal of refinement. Approaching him, we took advantage' of a pause in his reading to introduce oursolf, and to olak ° , known the object of our visit. Ho very politely accord ed us a brief review, during which ho told ua that ho Wag 13 excellent health, and, apart from a little fatigue, felt not 5 whit the worse for his journey. He came to America for the purpose of learning more of the people and studying their institutions. He informed us that he purposed so journing among us for two months at least." In the evening the reporter went to Fifth-aven ue Hotel, where he was informed that Father HP' cinthe desired to be alone and in peace until nel . morning. " Despite a peremptory order to th ls/ effect, large bodies of the nomadic literati wer e gathered in knots in the large hallway of the be tel : and around the clerk's desk, using up hundreds e' the address slips in scribbling requests for an iete r c i view in elaborately bad French. These they wo uld send up to the Father's room by the porters, n dozen of whom were kept going up and down stairs the whole afternoon and late into the even ing. The irrevocable decision of the unfortunate object of so much attention not to grant an iet er• view to any one did not seem to affect his ~wool'" be visitors. They would not leave, and, in fact, 0, peared determined, at one period of the evening' to proceed en masse to his room, and interview him willy nilly. But fortunately the bye-laws of the hotel forbade any such summary manner of visit ing a guest therein." Mr. Peabody has been lying all the week very il l at 80, Eaton Square, where he had stopped, on ll way to the south of France, to consult Dr. G u r i There has been no improvement,and the latest reP ° was that, though easier on Thursday night, his enf e dition remained the same. Every one, from t ' t Queen downwards, has been making inquiries all nu this eminent American philanthropist. It is fe ared t , that another American of distinction is also as dallg e , its ously ill. Admiral Farragut is sick at Chicago, i n own country, and not having received intelligen ce , by cable, we hope and believe he must be recove rieg , The collection of silk cocoons in the Scientifi c . Pe t partment from California at the late Interna l o n cit j Exhibition at Hamburg received the silver of the Society. At the Royal Linnean Socletlt, Show at Brussels (Belgium) the California DeP. nr s , went received the great gold medal of the Se e° The specimens of cocoons and coniferswere takeo ff : ti e the private collection of Mr. J. Q. A. Warren , at , request of the Society, who had the honour 0f.be,30 ing off its first prizes. At Belgium, the partace.`,., attention of King Leopold was drawn to this cells; Goa, who greatly admired the contributions fr° California. 0a The news from Mexico is via San Francisee, $lO, that from Mazatlan is up t o the 4th inst. A re t e ll tion in Sinalo w as i mm i nen t. T ro ops had - 0 0 stationed along the frontier of the State. jo g Government was buying up and manufac tu t r o o ammunition in large quantities. Desertion s the army were numerous. On the n i g ht of tember 24th several soldiers deserted from th c tbe re racks. During the confusion which en:-.llal v u ot were cries of , t Viva Placid() Vega !" thro ug 'o , the city. A detachment of several hundre d tfr . valry belonging to Lozada appeared on the B °ll ,oo ern frontier causing, considerable alarm. 0 0 fifty-ninth anniversary of Mexican i n depeu' w e er e was celebrated enthusiastically. Four accidentally killed while firing a salute. i - be eti niversary of the independence of Chili ba d also celebrated. high Miss Louisa Starr is evidently rising int ° ,, a :: ll sea walk of art. That lady is said to have reached the s'A o oli point two years ago, the first of her sax, of the 4 6 -c s ` t he Gold Medal, and a critic, writing in the Tine C u d el ) Dudley Gallery, speaks of her as still moving 00 in her art. The critic discovers real genius in the I c ° 0 1 " lady, notwithstanding an immaturitvof technicalk 0 ing out frcm a palpably rough touch, is life and 01310 ore largeness of intention, and a fire of execution eve n Os uncommon in the paintings of a woman than of a M all : g ig. says -"Gold medallist for gold medallist, we n ale ; o th a the palm both in respect of progress and promise, f o re lady. Mr. Calthrop, who won the same honour e it Miss Starr, has not only not improved on the G ir° „ ri t his first Academy picture, but has not nearly corn s h r iVe rg The system on which American newspeP ers , is fairly shown by a notice recently published to Pc ° ;iag advantages of the New York Tribune as an to-lre r• jter medium. That paper is published as a daily, the P .' l3 - te being then gathered into a semi-weekly, and iins ill „ 1 0 0 weekly edition. To advertise so that the n otice sr' te4 in each of the three editions costs $25, or say $4 fop lines; or, a hundred guineas for a column, upwar ds° 00 11 times the price of advertising in the most expess is e,, n e journal. The way the Tribune puts it is this----"lritafr Lions reach a million of people, while the cost of dist , id 0 ing 300,000 circulars of the smallest dimensions Weoloce over £l,OOO. Between the value of circulars and s l f wid e ments in the advertising columns of a nowsnsP er, 4s fr ouls r ' difference for a man seldom involuntarily reads t a b(' e ltV eg t h while he often does the advertisement, sn - ire 1- the advertisement pages are as a rule skipped, te• lar nearly always goes into the waste-paper n e on th e the Tribune says, the circular is beyond coraP arl - bau l4 ' more expensive as well as laborious. W he/2 „ g ia tbe ing-house informs its constituency of a ehs h be - r of 1 firm or of the premises it addresses a defined nit re c frce l3 ; dividuals whom it can best reach by means of „ie, 0 ' But when a man offers an article to the public for F e - abiet' invites their attendance, the circular is a c lunisl e:( l 7 o,o th e The plan which originated in America is to ci' e . u ss o psi; journal for next to nothing and make the adVertilo to OS as there are no means of advertising conatliar3b d4eo of newspaper publicity. Governor Senter's Message to the st roa Legislature is now published in full. lie t ' l loop ti°f3 ; ground on the Fifteenth Amendment, urging es e9° Ll as well as the ending of all inequality for Pnlitiorralf among the people of the State. Mr. Senter d t he o f eloquently advocates the Elective Franchise , 4 611 ;tt i 10 a , teenth Amendment. The following is the n'',, G ; 0 6 % the States which have ratified and rejected the ye t D' s , ment, although the official notification h as nem f)eg,llo received from Virginia. It would appear tha t or of latures of twenty have cast their vote s in fav,o4 Amendment, while the three below ha ve reject' , RATIFIED. . 011 4 !'i 14 Arkansas ...March 30, 1869 Michigan ........... Aor 1 ~ Connecticut March 13 New York ......... Florida March 15 New Ha tapshirs' • .March Indiana Illinois Kansas Louisiana MarchiMa r a c y h 2 14 557 Nsps South unb v tu a r an d s yscaki.a:. ...... srtar co / .5 : 9 Missouri March 1 West Virginia ...... 'Ro c / g Massachusetts March 12 Wisconsin ........ ° Maine March 12 Virginia ............ 4 14 $1 REJECTED. Delaware March 18i Ohio .................. Kentucky March 13. 1 The latest news of Admiral Farragut i:tr11ola lows, dated " Chicago, Oct. 14.—Adm iral FarrsTill t ri a dangerous relapse, and is now lying in 00°1:P 4 condition. His physicians express the opin' ° ls. ,,,A o- 0 0( not survive the night." "Chicago, C )ct ' th re s re ,teiS! Farragut is much easier this evening, and • e w ills s- f erl renewed hopes of his recovery. His strong yo b is. to him in his severe sickness, but his bodily' ets e vi feitn a , h e A t, slight." His health ia a subject a deep . seo d Washington, where infoation has been re ~‘ „ o little n vr P ttld d, though he may linger forty eeks, there is ultimate recovery. . an d A t tie t, [ADVERTISEMENT.—HoIIoway'a OintrlU' „ 00 0.9 00 0 Warning to Mothers.—The little attack/ olf d 0 0 0 0 05; ing childhood, though apparently trifling su or !foci ° soci leave marks behind them when they l le inp ieltfl A re e' r The temper becomes irritable, and th having tbediee, grows murky. It is the duty of all l 0 1S 11 : 1 ,., 0 10 0 children to attend instantly to their trivial is for the radical removal of which llollowaY 0 t pr ose ots ar a received the most encouraging and consts'hudieeeiffectito quarter of a century. These invaluable Or_ yet e isafe purpose,and a certain nd r ; e t a n d e i lyy areapplied mild by : u p r: t t te e n ' ts ,., l,oo o l.l o 4 f_i e o r all skin diseases, tetter, ring-worm, tooth-I.l'ooy U kind of eruption, the soothing power of ment is most gratifying. BAREErr— ibe wife of W. J. Garrett, Esq., of a son• lin 1111°' On tho 29thBinIsRt.T, Hat3Clarevillo, Ca 0 ,0 ajO SALWEY—On the 28th lost at Moor ark, wife of Alfred Salwey, Esq.,. of a so❑. au e r s a , d:e e , l E , ! s e q s t . surviving Ins cf - I stre p et e , A _ AR o ß n i t A he GE 2s S t . ii at rjairignistee,l; Williamson, of the Loyal Exchange. crlßwori oa) x .isELi h nsr; rciscEsoeuk, _ E n ; 0: lao,( `Thornhill-square, the D o2l ,ti n r7os, 0 Ah :D r to Lizzie, eldest (11,13,,, J. t n theEla 2 s il t oh: o la te :: n e O s , t f . 1 , j I at; tsl „ft , youngest 'daughter 01 1: W - si O 7D rt lestprl:2l:nLcie2osgjutoll,t nhn Resi.tl.ol,lal; ialtg"eoer:kf GCS; °ll:,ll,eir'eltl's • HANNAY —On the 28th inst., at Norlaud-sclufiret 14()tt'''' nnst., Olencot, tiV hill, Alex. Ramsay, seu., agea , 49 , 00 - d 4 London: Printed and Published by WILLk.,...° i o n f N theo. 112, PrecinctS tran o d f , tPrinter,he Savoy, at T in as sn S e ON co O ti ed u c ti of Saturday, October 30, 18,55. Ue - ~~~ .~ `