The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Grenville Murray may yet, for aught we know, 'pays the Times, be able to prove to the satisfaction of a British jury that he is one of the most innocent and deeply injured of men, but, if so, appearances are certainly so kar cruelly against him. If we are to believe his story, or, indeed, one-half of it, it would be difficult to find a more painfully striking specimen of that not unfamiliar class of modern martyrs whom all creation is in a conspiracy to crush. Whether we are to discover Mr. Grenville Mur ray's greatness by Lis loss remains to be seen. If he be innocent of the charge brought against him, it is still in his power to come over to England and establish his inno cence. At present he has, either through ill-luck or mis management, put himself unmistakably in the wrong, and made appearances look most suspiciously against him. The verdict of the Conservative Club is valuable as a plain, practical embodiment of public opinion en this point. It puts in the clearest light the fact that a man who connects himself with scur rilous journalism must not expect to be considered a fit companion for gentlemen. The two things are incom patible, and he must take his choice between them. Mr. Grenville Murray stated—and the statement is perhaps true—that the paper which he has been accused of editing has hitherto numbered among its contributors various members of the London Clubs. There is no conduct so low that some mcn even of social position will not steer to it for the gratification of private pique, and nothing in these days affords so easy a vent for this gratification as a journal which trades upon personalities. For this reason we believe Mr. Grenville Murray's statement, but we rather doubt whether henceforth any " members of London Clubs"—assuming this to mean respectable Clubs—will consider it safe to employ the paper referred to as a meanz of venting their personal animosities ; and ,we have no Moubt at all that, if they do employ it, they will take good care to conceal the fact. The Standard declares that the proceedings at Marl •borough-street on Thursday ended in a fiasco. Distin guished visitors crowded the court, and the unprivileged public waited long and patiently outside for the hour ,when they should be gratified by the appearance of Mr. Grenville Murray and his adversary, Lord Carington. Expectation stood on tip-toe when the last-remanded case was disposed of, and the cause calibre of the day was called on. The curious and the critical were there, each class hoping to hear something fresh about the relations of the Roving Englishman to the Queen's Messenger. But they waited in vain. As if with a professional prevision of what was likely to happen, Mr. Giffard, the leading counsel for the prosecution, had stopped away ; but still the drama, though shorn of some of its attractions for the audience, might have gone on in his absence. The learned gentle man, however, was not the only absentee. Mr. Grenville Murray also had stopped away, and so had brought the pi-oceedings to a dead lock. Magistrates, counsel, attor neys, and witnesses could do nothing until the defendant made his appearance. It was like playing " Hamlet" without the Prince. For that day, at least, no progress could be made beyond calling Mr. Murray upon his own recognisances, ordering those of his bail to be estreated, and issuing a warrant for his apprehension. Mr. Knox at once directed these steps to be taken, and so for the present the matter stands over. The Post says that forty years ago, under circumstances and conditions which are described and defined with happy familiarity in one of the best of Mr. Disraeli's brilliant novels, Parliament thought fit to interfere with the management of certain trades, for the purpose of prohibit. ing the payment of wages in goods or otherwise than in the current coin of the realm. This measure of paternal legislation may have served to relieve the national con science, which was burdened with a sense of the wrong doing that prevailed in and about the mills and the pits of the manufacturing and mining districts; but, practically, the " tommy shops " were converted into stores, and the evils of the truck system went on their way rejoicing. There is, in fact, as near an approach to the pro hibited system as the employers can with impunity , adopt, and the scheme hinges entirely on the inability of the men to work to the pay-day without an advance. Wages are paid in cash, as the law provides that they shall be, but with the understanding, which is really compulsory, that the cash taken at the pay-office will be paid back at the store. The Truck Act is clearly worthless. It may not have done more harm than good, but it has bound nobody, and it has had a long trial. If it cannot be amended so as to meet the obvious require. ments, the sooner it is repealed the better. But imme diately, and as regards the evasion of the law, it is for the workmen to estimate the pecuniary loss they sustain in accepting conditional advances on their wages, and if they do that, and are disposed to help themselves—we do not say by strikes, but by firmly demanding a contract con sisting with their means—this system of extortion cannot possibly be upheld for the petty aggrandisement of masters who, we are told, count their fortunes by tens of thousands, and are in the enjoyment of magisterial and legislative honours. The Telegraph remarks that it was almost a matter of course that the Peers would read the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill a second time ; and it passed through the second stage without being subjected to more than a few words of hostile comment. In committee on the bill the Peers will no doubt manifest an equal economy of words and permit the measure to become law without delay; for everybody is alive to the national calamities which may . be caused by the importation of infected cattle. The experience of the rinderpest is fresh on the public mind ; and unless we adhere to the means of precau tion prescribed by the bill, it is vain to hope that the country can escape a second acquain• tance with the fell scourge. It is not usual fa a bishop to take part in debates on such subjects as the best method for keeping the cattle plague out of the kingdom ; but the Bishop of Gloucester had good reason for interposing on Thursday night. The transit of cattle by railway is the occasion of shocking inhumanity to the helpless brutes, which are often " cribbed, cabined, and confined" during long journeys, without being allowed to taste water from the time at which they enter the trucks to the time at which they reach the metropolis. At length the cruelty of the practice has attracted public `attention ; and, by the bill which the Peers read a second time on Thursday night, it is made a punishable offence to keep cattle without water for more than a cer tain number of hours while they are undergoing the horrors of the middle passage to the market place— horrors inseparable from a journey in a railway truck. We had a right to expect that some bishop should protest against the present practice ; and on Thursday night Dr. Ellicot performed his duty by an emphatic appeal for mercy to the helpless. The Herald refers to the question of capital punish ment, and observes that the truth may or may not be that life-long penal servitude is more dreadful than death. But it is certain that very few so regard it, and that those who would rather be hanged than imprisoned for life are not the people who commit murders. And it would be im• , possible to persuade murderers that they would be kept in penal servitude for life. First, it would be nearly imprac ,ticable so to keep them. A man w h o h as really no -hope ,of release becomes desperate and unman agea bl e , an d no warder can restrain him. Moreover, once sentenced to A hopeless imprisonment, what is to prevent the prisoner from murdering his warder ? You cannot increase hie punishment in this life ; and you will not hang him. Consequently his gaolers are at his mercy. And also it ' .would be very difficult for a Home Secretary to resist th e 'pressure that would be brought to bear on him to release a man whose crime was forgotten, while the length of his punishment and his real or affected repentance had moved universal compassion. If you are really to punish a man 'with a severity as terrible as death you must do it while the memory of his offence is fresh ; and that can only be done by death, torture and mutilation Leing happily out of the question. Secondly, even if you could keep mur derers in lifelong servitude, you could not persuade the public that you really woulddo so. The criminal would always hope that if he were convicted and sentenced he would be at some time or other released. - Lastly, you would give rise to a new class of offences, which it would he very difficult to punish. The injured parties would often be dissatisfied with the retribution of the law, and would prefer to take vengeance into their own hands ; and in atrocious cases popular sympathy woul'?, be with them. For the careful trial and regular execution of the present law yei would run tl:e risk of substituting the wild justice of revenge, and the rough rand ready procedure of Judge Lynch. All the really strong arguments of Mr. Gilpin and hi s f r i en d s wou ld be done away by a change in the law which should render the retrial at present conducted by the Home Office either `unnecessary or regular and formal, and which should ensure that sentence of death should be passed only where it is meant to be executed, and executed whenever it vaned. The Daily New 3 says that the select committee wide! , has beeninquiring into our present modes of conductin, ' parliamentary and municipal elections has postponed it s full report till next session. Its present report is com prised in a siogle sentence, and the ouly recclumendatiou it contains is that the committee "be reappointed next session, for the purpose only of considering their report with a view to early legislation." It is clearly almost agreed by the committee that the evidence has further shewn that nothing will cure either bribery or intimida tiou but the Ballot. Voting papers would diminish the risk of riot on the election day, but would, as the draft report says, give facilities for bribery, for fraud, and for certain forms of intimidation. The abolition of public nominations, the prohibition of the em ployment of paid canvassers, the closing of public. houses •on the election days, and the multiplication of polling-places, have all been urged on the eommitte, and would all tend to the tranquillity and purity of the elections. But nothing but secret voting can really guarantee their freedom; and secret voting has everywhere done this. In short, the result of the whole deliberations must be a report in favour-of the T3allot. When one os two Qenservative members who propose resolutions admi' that the evidence submitted has been in favour of th 114410 t, and either feebly deprecate it, or declare that th 6 eNperionee of other nations is no guide to us ;, when Mr. Ward Hunt merely suggests a compromise with it, and the Mariut4 of ifartington agrees with Mr. I.lr;glit it r eou n imee ding It, the conclusion is irreeistibla that the one thing needful for the restoration of our electorto PYstem to health and purity and vigour is to give the votv that shield of secrecy which has proved e ff ectual against bureaucratic, despotism and tiemooratio violence, and which wili ce urove equAlly effectual in Znglau c l aplust lifitilsia - two AlittmoloinvizAllo - THE WESLL'YAN COIVFEREXCE. The Rev. Dr. Jobson, in his inaugural address from the President's chair of the Wesleyan Conference on Thursday, after thanking the members of it for the posi tion in which they had placed him, proceeded to say that a rush of associations came upon him in that place. On his right was Lincolnshire, the county of his birth ; on his left was Beverley, the home of his ancestry; near him Holderness, the scene of his first ministerial labour. He had also many cherished recollections of good men in Hull, now dead. His first declaration from that place must be that he believed he was there in answer to his mother's prayers. His next acknow ledgment was due to his brethren. He had not dared to desire that posit, for be did not know what it might involve. Being in it, he would pledge himself by the help of God to preserve, uphold, and extend the principles now officially entrusted to his keeping. He held it to be the health and honour of Methodism that it gathered its adherents from all classes, and that it was not pledged to any fixed poll: ical creed or partizanship. It would therefore be presumption in any rnr.o who should profess to speak on behalf of the Conference on any mat ters not immediately connected with Methodism. He would assure them that on nothing doubtful would he speak as their representative. There were some principles, however, which in their name he might always safely avow. One was that, come what might, they would not in order to increase their numbers con sent to any change which would be likely to lessen the purity of the Church, or weaken its godly fellowship. (Loud applause greeted this reference to the class meet ing.) He for one would not care to be connected with a large ungodly Church. Again, be might say, they were resolved to continue plain, earnest, evangelical preachers of the Gospel—preachers, he said, not readers, not reciters, but proclaimers, publishers of truth. He knew that on some occasions it was not only allowable, but desirable, to read ; and he knew that many good men made it their practice ; but if ever it became common to use the manuscript, or even lengthy notes, in Methodist preaching, its glory would have departed. He need not say that he believed they were com petent to discharge all ministerial duties, but they would not be ashamed still to be called " Methodist preachers." No dignity was higher than that of the preacher. Again, they were resolved to continue firm in their adherence to scriptural Protestantism, united in Christ with all Evan gelical Churches, but never conscntingto any alliance with the " Man of Sin." Men might "level up" or "level down," but with those who advocated concurrent endow ment or indiscriminate endowment, or who, though bound by oath to "drive away damnable heresy," could Judas like betray the truth for pieces of silver, they could have no sympathy. They would continue loyal to Christ, loyal to the Book, loyal to the House of Brunswick, loyal to Queen Victoria, and loyal to our Martyrs and Confes sors. They would give up not only glebes and houses, but life itself, rather than betray the truth. Again, they were agreed, while spreadir truth amongst the dense masses of large towns, not to neglect the villages. Methodism had now become a powerful thing in the world. In conclusion, he would beg for the prayers and help and forbearance of the Conference. SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A very strange railway accident occurred on Thursday at Preston. A train, consisting entirely of waggons filled with stones, is run down to Preston from the Longridge Quarries every day, and the whole of the line, about seven miles in length, being cn a strong down gradient, no engine is attached to them, the waggons coming along in charge of break:men by their own momentum. On Thursday morning a stone train consisting of twenty five waggons and one van was despatched frcm Longridge. It was in charge of two break:men—Henry Helm and William Wearden—who have for some time been used to the road. Everything went on right until the train bad got within a short distance of Preston, when the breaks men found that they could not check the waggons pro perly—the breaks having been either applied too late or the train being too strong for them. The line on which they were proceeding runs within about eight yards of the front of the house occupied by the breaksman Helm. His wife who was looking out of the parlour window, saw the train approaching at a rate more rapid than usual, apprehended that it would break over the buttress in front of the house—used forblocking waggons—and run right into the dwelling, so she at once seized her two children, ran into the back yard, lifted one of them over the wall, and then got over it herself with the other child. A moment or two after she had effected her escape, the train, which was still running at eight or ten miles an hour, came into violent collision with the house, and broke in a large por tion of the front. A van weighing between nine and ten tons at the front of the train was driven completely through the parlour window. It pushed in the surrounding masonry, and was driven through the wall about half its length—fitting tightly in on every side—before it was stopped. Two men, who were passing the front of the house when the train came up, had a narrow escape from being killed. The van was very nearly broken into pieces, a waggon was also driven into the end of it, another waggon was nearly smashed to atoms, one was pitched across the adjoining rails, and damage was done to others. No one was, fortunately, Burt by the accident. LAW AND _POLICE. -.0.- TitusTs DECLARED VOID.--Vice-Chancellor Malins, On Thursday, gave judgment in the case of "Peek v. Peek," in which William Peek, as heir at law of the late Richard Peek, of Hazlewood, Devon, prayed that a certain settle. ment should be declared void, or that its trusts might be carried out under the direction of the court. The Vice- Chancellor said the trusts regarding the house and land were void. if they were permitted to take effect, the property might be inalienable for generations to come. He held that the charitable trusts in the deed also failed, and the whole of the trusts must be declared invalid, and the heir at law would consequently be entitled. . A RAILWAY COVENANT.—A question of some interest to railway companies was raised in the case of " flood v. North-Eastern Railway Corn pany," before Vice-Chancellor James. The bill was for the specific performance of a covenant entered into in 1838, on the occasion of the sale of the Pepper Hall Estate, in Yorkshire. The railway company undertook to use the station at Cowton, and the plaintiff, who is the successor in title to the vendor, Lord Alvanley, alleged that the company did not observe their covenant, as no fast trains stopped at the station, and there was insufficient accommodation there, and no depot for luggage. The question turned on the meaning of the words " first-class railway station," and the Vice-Chancellor held that there had been a breach of the covenant. There would be an order on the defendants to provide proper accommodation, and an in junction to restrain them from allowing any ordinary or fast trains, not including snail or express trains, to pass the station without staying there. STRANGE SCENE.—An extraordinary scene took place at the Thames Police-court on Thursday. Four Irish labourers (brothers) were charged with assaulting a relative. The case arose out of an old family quarrel, which was - heard before Mr. Paget eighteen months ago, and he then sentenced the male prisoners to four months' imprisonment. On the present occasion it was ascertained that a woman had been badly used, and Mr. Paget denounced the men as ruffians, and sentenced them to various terms of imprison ment. As soon as the sentence was pronounced Ulf prisoners set up a loud yell and abused the magistrate. They made an effort to reach the bench, and were with difficulty prevented from so doing. Some police constables were sent for from the adjoining station-house, and they assisted the ushers of the court and others in removing the prisoners, but a violent struggle took place before they were taken away. These men have often been convicted and havebeen in custody for felony. THE GRAVESEND ELECTICN EIOTS.—The case of the fourteen electors of Gravesend, who were charged at the Maidstone / I .ssizes with riot and destruction of property, was decided on Thursday, when the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty against all the defendants. ATTEMPTED POISONING.—At the Berks Petty Sessions, James Heath, a shepherd, was charged with attempting to poison his wife and child. The prisoner left home early on Tuesday morning, and his wife and child, with a neighbour, sat down to breakfast. The child and neighbour became very ill after tastinz the tea, and the wife was also affected. The sugar was examined and was found to contain portions of stone mercury which was used to destroy insects in sheep. Prisoner denied his guilt, hut was remanded for further evidence. A NEW GUN.—A gun, called the mitrailleur, ez rifled battery, was undergoing trial on Thursday at the Inner Range, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, under the super intendence of Major Fosberry. It consists of thirty-seven barrels, each of which is discharged in succession, firing. a bullet, and is worked round by a handle. The object of the gun, by the rapidity of its firing and supposed destruc tive effect, is said to compare with-that of shrapnel shell fired from field guns. RUNAWAY SEALS.—Two seals which recently arrived at the Zoological Gardens at Brussels escaped a few nights ago from the reservoir in which they were kept, and, crossing the park, climbed up the wall and dropped into the road which skirts it at a depth of six feet; they then set out on a nocturnal promenade in the direction of Wavre, much to the terror of the persons who met those singular-looking animals on the way. Their absence being perceived, they were overtaken, and brought back by their keeper. A strong railing was the next day put up round the liethiltsunonat atinelitign:9llWizeak. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1869. THE JEIVISK ABDUCTION CASE. The famous Jewish abduction case was continues on Wednesday, at Cardiff Assizes, when the public interest seemed rather to have increased than diminished, hun dreds of persons being unable to obtain admittance to the court. A large number of ministers of variou► denominations were present, and a great many ladies. The case for the prosecution was finished on Wednesday, Mrs. Ly, ns, the mother of the converted Jewess, beinh• examined. She was very much affected during her examination, and totally denied having ever ill-used her daughter in any way. She had slapped her as would be done to a child, but had never threatened her, or beaten her, or kept her without her food. On the case for the defence being opened, Esther Lyons herself came into court, and sat with the defendants, her father and mother and their children sitting nearly opposite. The mother was much affected and had to be removed. Mr. Grove, for the defendants, protested against the plaintiff's family sitting in that position, and the children, on the suggestion of the Judge, left the court. The first witness called for the defence was Esther Lyons herself, whose appearance in the box pro duced great interest. She was accommodated n ith a chair. and seemed to he very unwell, speaking so low as to be scarcely audible. She said that her mother treated her most cruelly, beating her with fireirons, a brush, or anything she could. She. also called her names, pulled her h air, and prevented her from having her meals. She had tried to run away twelve months before. Before she left home she bad no communication with Mr. or Mrs. Thomas ; it was Sarah • Carver who proposed she should go to them. Esther Lyons said she had often spoken to Carver about getting a situation, and Carver told Mrs. Thomas she had left home, in consequence of her mother's ill-usage. While Miss Lyons was giving her evidence she fainted, and had to be carried out of court. The Judge directed that tho governor of the gaol should take charge of her and give her all she wanted, letting her see her friends, but not permitting access to any of the witnesses. THE CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST MR. GREY VILLE MURRA E The adjourned summons charging Mr. Grenville Murray with having committed perjury while giving evi dence against Lord Carington, on the 7th inst., came on for hearing before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Thursday. As on previous occasions, the court was crowded in every part. The Duke of Suther land and other noblemen and gentlemen were present. Some preliminary cases having been disposed of, Mr. Knox asked where Mr. Grenville Murray, the defendant, was. Mr. Gill : Mr. Murray is not here. It became necessary after the evidence of Mr. Hughes on the last occasion that Mr. Reginald Murray should be produced to give evidence as to conversations which took place in his presence. On Sunday night Mr. Grenville Murray hurriedly went to Paris to fetch him. Mr. Reginald Murray is afflicted with a complaint which obliges him to be placed under a certain amount of restraint, and, according to the French law, the person who put him there is the only person who can take him away. Mr. Murray was about to come over last night, in order to attend here to-day,but was taken ill, and a telegram arrived this morning. He no doubt will be here on the text occasion, and in the memitime if I represent him, the case can go on. Mr. Knox : It is utterly impossible. He must forfeit his recognisance. I mu: t sign a warrant for his appre hension ; and his sureties will be forfeited. Mr. Gill: That is rather hard measure, where a gentleman is detained by accident. Mr. Knox : No accident is possib7e. Mr. Gill : When a gent'eman is attacked with dysentery, and was ill when he left, and two doctors certify that he was unable to travel at that moment, and he promises to be here on the next occasion, or as soon as he can travel, it is rather hard to fine him i'lsoo merely because he was unable to put himself into tl.e train and travel at night. Mr. Knox: Mr. Murray knew perfectly well what ho was abcut. He was bound by the law ;so am I. His recognisances and the sureties will be forfeited, and a return made to the sessions in the usual way. I shall sign a warrant for his apprehension, and there is an end of the case. (To the Chief Clerk :) Take care that a proper return is made. Mr. Knox then directed that Mr. Murray should be called formally outside. Mr. Gill asked the magistrate to adjourn the case until to-morrow. Mr. Knox : Most distinctly and positively no. Mr. Murray, the instant he sets foot on I.l7itish soil, will be arrested under my warrant. Mr. Gill: I must a.slc you to enter this telegram as received on the notes. Mr. Knox : I decline to enter anythinv of the sort. Mr. Gill: Will you take a note that I presented it. Mr. Knox : I shall he perfectly prepared to say, if I am called upon, Mr. Gill, that you did hand me a telegram. The officer returned saying that lie had called for Mr. Murray outside and there was no answer. It is said that the person who became surety for Mr. Grenville Murray has shewn much anxiety since the case against Lord Caringtcn was disposed of at the Sessions, and lately called at the police-office seveial times to express his fears that Mr. Murray intended to leave the louu try. THE DOG Ttx.—The dog licences are now issued by the Post Office. In the first quarter of the year 18G9 381,47 G licences were issued by the Post-office in Great Eritain-3-10,613 in England and Wales, and 40,863 in Scotland. A REPRIEVE. —We have authority for stating that the sentence of death passed upon William Murray, for the murder of Frederic Redniss, has been commuted by the Home Secretary to one of penal servitude for life, on the express recommendation of Lord Chief Justice Bovill, who tried the prisoner. How TO QUIET A NOISY MAN.—At the late meeting of Presbytery in America, when the subject of Scripture was under discussion, Brother Watson said early in his ministry he and another brother were conducting a meeting in which there was much religious interest. An old man gave expression to his joy by shouting, and con tinued it until it began to interrupt the services. Brother Hall said to Brother Watson, " Go, stop that old man's noise." He went to him, and spoke a few words, and the shouting man at once became quiet. Brother Hall asked Brother Watson, "What did you say to the old man that quieted him so prompt 7 y ?" Brother Watson replied, " I asked him for a dollar for foreign missions." DEpTFoRD EMIGRATION SOCIETY. —A party of emigrants left Deptford Dockyard on Thursday, by steamer, for the Victoria Docks. They were accompanied by the chairman and several members of the Blackheath and Deptford Committers, among whom We observed Dr. Carr, Captain Wilkinson, Captain Liebenrood, Mr. J. L. Pulling, Mr. Pembroke, &C. The screw steamer the Medway, in which they proceed from the Victoria DOcke to Quebec, is a very fine vessel, and remarkably well fitted with everything requisite for the comfort of the emigrants. Prince Arthur, who is about to go to Quebec, has sent some of his luggage by this vessel. The men are mostly of the labouring class, and express themselves quite pre pared for the rough work necessary in the colonies. Before leaving, they were supplied with great coats, boots, clothing, books, and other articles which had been kindly, collected by Dr. Carr and others at Blackheath. ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST A BISHOP.—Sono excitement has been created in the Isle of Mar. in conse sequence of an action for libt.l which has been commenced by Mr. A. N. Laughton, a barrister of Douglas., against the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. H. Powys, the Bishop of the diocese. It appears ;hat some months since there was a dispute between the Bishop and the Rev. W. Braddan as to the right of presentation to the church, and in order to put an end to all doubt upon the matter, the Bishop caused a bill to be introduced into the Manx Legislature fur dividing the parish of Braddan into several districts. This would have given the Bishop the nomination to the Church of St. Thomas, which has been closed for two years. Mr. Langhton, who opposed the bill, spoke strongly of the Bishop ; and the latter, in a charge just delivered to the clergy, spoke of Mr. Laughton's "slan derous statements," uncharitable imputations," and "calumnious assertions," adding that Mr. Laughton had " borne false witness against his neighbour." The damages are laid at £l,OOO. ANECDOTE OF SIR WILLIAM lIAMILTON.—The following anecdote, in an illustration of the extent of Sir W. Hamilton's erudition, is given in Professor Veitch's memoir of him :—Dr. Parr, when in Edinburgh some time before 1820, met Sir William at the house of Dr. John Thomson, the distinguished professor of pathology in the university. - Sir William astonished the colossal philolo gist by evincing a range and accuracy of scholarship no inferior to his own. The erudite doctor, probably in gracious condescension to the society in which he found himself, bad at first discour sect of Creek philosophy, his knowledge of which was certainly extensive ; but finding he did not achieve any decided superiority in this chosen walk, betook himself to an obscUrer field of learning where he naturally expected to reign alone. Ire led the conversation towards the later and lessknown Latin poets, with their imitators at the revival of letters, and in still more recent times, but he soon discovered that even here his companion was at home, until at length finding that, turn where he would, the young advocate before him could not only follow step by step, but was actually able to con- tinue his quotations and correct his references, his imper turbable superiority gave way, and he was startled int• the sudden inquiry, " Why, who are you, sir?" The doctor, as afterwards appeared, did not forget Sir William Hamilton, nor lose the impression hits cxqls_cliAary acauirggok4s made , upcg2-134,_ 13-1 111E7 ROPOLITAN G 08.51 P-7 hursday. The most prominent characteristic of London life just now is " the car rattling o'er the stony streets " piled up high with boxes of the Noah's ark class, baths, perambu lators, and all the other impedimenta of a modern British family taking flight from the metropolis. Formerly these cavalcades were not seen much in the heart of London itself, but were confined to certain districts such as Pad dington, the New Road, Belgravia, Shoreditch, &c. But now that the railway companies have carried their lines over the Thames, now that Ludgate-hill and Charing-cross and Cannon-street are termini, Fleet-street and the Strand, previously overcrowded, are blocked still more. The flitting will go on for another fortnight or three weeks, and then we may look for quieter times. The final settlement of the chief measure of the session has permitted not a few of our legislators to take their depar ture, even though Parliament is still several days from prorogation. True, a large proportion of the estimates remained unvoted, but the guardianship of the public purse is generally left to a few M.P.'s who have a taste for figures. It is only when some scandal turns up, such as that about Mr. Layard and the Salviati Company (which proved no scandal at all), that our representatives as a body shew much interest in protecting our pockets. Ordinarily the bulk of them feel at liberty to leave town as soon as the last great party divi sion of the session has been taken. The Whips of course are glad of empty benches then. Provided they can get enough members together to form a House, the fewer there are the better, because the less chance will there be of objection to the estimates. It is a matter for real satisfaction that the present session will witness the passing, not only of a first-class political,butalso of two first-class social, measures. For the last four years politics have been so urgent that social reforms, which after all are the real work of Parliament, have been neglected. But this year will see not only the Irish Church disestablished, but the law of bankruptcy reformed, and the telegraphs in the hands of the Govern ment. When the law lords insisted upon taking the Bankruptcy Bill into Select Committee, commercial men were in despair. But their lordships, with all their minute criticism, have found very little to alter, and so the measure will go through, and Sir Robert Collier will have the satisfaction of seeing his name recorded in the statute book. The truth is the Peers themselves have of late years become concerned in tbia measure. "Plunging" has brought so many coronets to Basinghall-street that the wearers thereof naturally have an interest in the law of bankruptcy which they did not feel in quieter and less rapid days. There is a rumour that the Queen intends visiting Ire land this summer, and so witnessing with her own eyes the effect of Mr. Gladstone's "message of peace." I need hardly say that that visit would in itself be such a message. The Irish would be loyal enough if their loyalty had more to feed on, and the more frequent presence of the Sovereign would have prevented many an angry oration, many a treasonable meeting. The Prince and the Princess of Wales are on their way to Wildbad, for the benefit of her Royal Highness, who is in somewhat delicate health. It does not appear that either the Prince or the Princess will be present at the marriage of her brother, the Crown Prince of Denmark, with the Princess Royal of Sweden. Mr. Gladstone's offer of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Temple shews that we have made some progress towards liberality and common sense during the last ten years. It is just about a decade since the famous " Essays and Reviews " appeared. At first they excited no attention ; but the more bigoted and narrow-minded of the religious journalists discovered heresy in the book, denounced it vehemently, and of course made it sell by thousands. Assuming that two or three of the "Essays" did contain some questionable theology (though the Final Court of Appeal decided that they did not), yet no charge of unsound teaching could fairly have been brought against Dr. Temple's "Essay." It was nothing more than a sketch of the education of the world as manifested in Holy Scripture. But though his contribution was thus harm less, and though it was expressly stated that he was responsible only for what he had written, and had written it without concert with the other essayists, the bigots made him responsible for all that the remaining six had said, and he was involved in one general condemnation. Even Convocation condemned the "Essays" as a whole, refusing to discriminate between what was sound and what was unsound. Since then the keenness of the controversy has been blunted, and the injustice to which Dr. Temple was subjected has been made clear. It was a graceful act of reparation on Mr. Gladstone's part to offer his fist valuable piece of preferment to the Master of Rugby. Of course this consideration was not the only motive. Dr. Temple has been one of the ablest supporters of the Premier's Irish policy; he has also given material assistance to the Government in the develop ment of their educational seheme. That ho should have refused £3,000 a year for doing nothing, on the ground that he has so much to do at Rugby, shews how much higher is the tone which influences public men now than formerly. Of old a sinecure was the summit of a man's ambition ; now hard work is the chief attraction. The effect of this new and better spirit must lead ere long to the suppression of sinecures. If all our ablest men Prefer industry, the nation will hardly be content to see the lucrative posts of the Church filled by drones. The Prince and the Princess of Wales have expressed them selves in the warmest terms as to the reception which was given them at Hull on the occasion of the opening of the Docks. The event was one of momentous importance to the borough, and, in connection with the royal visit, excited the greatest enthusiasm. As there are many Danes in Hull the Princess met a number of her countrymen, which added much to the pleasure of her visit. She was altogether greatly pleased, and exclaimed with girlish glee, " Hull is seven times better than Manchester." It was a subject of general remark last week that the Solicitor-General should have appeared at the Middlesex Sessions in the Carington-Murray case. I believe the hon. gentleman's fee on the occasion was 300 guineas— not a bad day's work for even one of our leading lawyers. Three years ago Sir John—then Mr.—Coleridge was retained on behalf of Mr. Waters, Lord Shaftesbury's steward, at the Central Criminal Court, when his fee was 250 guineas. The lower the court the higher the fee, is evidently the motto upon which the hon. member conducts his professional duties. The chief topic of interest in sporting circles is the approaching Anglo-American boat-race. The Harvard men are actively training daily over the Champion Course at Putney. From what I have seen of them at their work, I venture to predict that they will hardly prove so formidable a crew as was expected. Their physique is admirable, but their form at present bad. They adopt the fashion in vogue on the Tyne, but unknown on the Thames, of the stroke taking the water on his left, and the bow on his right ; the latter working with his left hand uppermost. Their pace is now about thirty-four strokes per minute. Kelley's coaching, and the exchange of their own boat for a lighter one, which Messrs. Salter are building, will, no doubt, soon increase their speed. In their opponents they will meet the pick of the University, and if the Oxonians do succeed in beating them they will be the first amateurs that have ever done so. The acceptance by Brown, the American champion, of the challenge to' the world given by Renforth, who asserted the supremacy of the Tyne over the Thames by his defeat of Kelley last year, is likely to prove an aquatic event productive of even greater excite ment than the contest between the Universities. When the two will try conclusions is not yet decided, but the Tyne is to be the scene of the struggle, the prize being four hundred pounds and the honour of being stylod the champion of the world. The picture season is fast coming to a close. One after another of the chief exhibitions is putting up its shutters, and the Royal Academy closes on Saturday. Its hun dredth year has been,l believe, the most successful of any that it has held except 1851 and 1862, the years of the two International Exhibitions. From the first day to the last the noble rooms of this the finest academy in Europe have been crowded, although the number of competing collec tions was never before so large. I fear, however, that congratulations mast end here. It has not been a good year for art so far as picture buying is concerned. The literary world and the art world are-still sorely depressed, though money is at a little over 2i per cent. The Royal Academy of Music is an institution of which the world knows little. It is of somewhat less than half the age of its m ore illus trious sister. It has about twenty-five male, and fifty female, students. They have their exhibition in the shape of an annual concert, which took place a few days ago in the Hanover-square Rooms. The pieces con sisted of selections from Beethoven, Rossini, Bach, and other masters, and of six works by students, of which, perhaps, the best was that by Mr. Shakespeare. Mrs. Gladstone gave away the prizes. In dramatic matters the chief event of the week has been the production of Mr. W. S. Gilbert's "An Old Score" at the Gaiety. It is well spoken of, and though rather too sketchy, is one of Mr. Gilbert's best efforts. Mr. Brougham's farce " Among the Breakers," at the Strand, is absurd enough to suit even that extravaganza loving house. Mr. Chatterton has secured for Drury-lane Dioh Boucicault's new play "Formosa, or the Railroad to Ruin," and so has cut out Mr. Vining at the Princess's. The St. James's Theatre closes on Saturday, after a bril liant season of Offenbach's music, if large and fashionable attendances and handsome profits constitute brilliancy. Some persons will think that public morals would have benefited if the closing had taken place a good deal earlier. In literary matters the chief event is the very serious illness of Dr. George Macdonald. This gentleman has for many years been in very delicate health, and a few months ago was laid up with a violent attack of haemorr• ha,g.e from the lungs while on a lecturing tour. He recovered from that, and after lecturing and writing and otherwise working very hard, started for a yachting trip to the Shetland Islands and Norway. During the cruise he was taken so alarm ingly ill that he had to be conveyed to the nearest port, which was Shetland. He remained there for some time in a sorely-depressed state. After rallying a little he was taken to London, and he is now in Derbyshire, very weak. It would be a great misfortune to literature if Dr. Mac donald were laid aside permanently. Few men have made so much and deserved progress of late years as he has done. His " Robert Falconer " is one of the ablest novels written in the present generation; and his contribu tions to Good TVords and other periodicals have been gene rally very valuable. Mr. Longfellow, after remaining on the Continent long enough to avoid the dinner which the Goldsmiths' Com pany intended to give him, has returned to England, and has been staying at Oxford. Mr. Tennyson has returned from Switzerland, utterly disgusted with his trip. Wherever he went he was mobbed by other tourists. If he put his head out of his bed-room door, be found a number of girls hovering abDut in the passage waiting for a glimpse of the author of " The May Queen." On one occasion one of the gentlemen of Mr. Tennyson's party found his hat gone, and another substituted for it. He made a great hue and cry, and discovered that the missing article had been taken in the belief that it had covered the brows of the Laureate. A still more disagreeable incident occurred. A well-known literary man, who accompanied the poet, had kept a diary in which he noted down from day to day the leading events and principal topics of conversation. This diary can nowhere be found. It is supposed that some very 'cute person has got hold of it, and that some equally enterprising American publisher will bring it out at New York, where they are accustomed to sharp practice. I hear that Mr. Robert Buchanan, who is now in th• Highlands, has written a poem having a metaphysical cast, which is pronounced by his friends to be the most ambitious effort he has ever made, and which is expected to give rise to a great deal of criticism. A cheaper edition of Charles Dickens's works is expected to be issued at an early date. MISCELLANEOUS NETVS. THE SECRETARYSHIP TO THE TREASURY. There are various rumours afloat as to the Secre taryship to the Treasury. Mr. Hamilton, the present Secretary, will in 1871 become Commissioner under the Irish Church Act. Already one story has been denied. Now it is stated that the post will be bestowed on Captain Galton, who has been for the last few years employed as one of the Assistant- Under-Secretaries at the War Office. It is rather early to speculate about this post. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The passage of the Irish Church Bill has not pro pitiated the Daily News; and a propos of the Scotch Education Bill our contemporary continues its criti cisms on the Upper House. Lord Salisbury, it points out, claims for the Peers the function of revision. But he practically leads the House to take more. They want at the beginning of the session to have measures before them which they adjust and then send down for the national representatives to revise. They thus act without knowing officially the will of the country. It is not right, the Daily News thinks, that they should do so. The House of Commons should initiate legislation. Under present circum stances it is especially essential that the Lower House should retain its proper functions. A Liberal Government is in power, and has the cordial support of an overwhelming majority in the Repre sentative Chamber. It finds itself opposed by a majority absolutely but little less, and relatively greater, in the House of Peers. Ministers are powerless in the Lords. The measures which they introduce cease to be their own as soon as the stage of committee is reached. Seeing that the House has refused to pass any reforms - without great majorities in the Commons, it is impossible to give them bills without any manifestation of the opinion of the Lower House upon them. They have so mangled the Scotch Education Bill, for instance, that the Government cannot recognise it; and it now stands totally opposed to the opinions of Scotch members. THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the select committee appointed to inquire into the mode o f con d uc ting elections in this country were issued yesterday morning. The report simply recommends the re-appointment of the committee next year, with a view to early legisla tion. From the resolutions proposed by the several members, we are able to gather what the probable result of their deliberations will be. The Marquis of Hartington intends to propose that the adoption of the Ballot will tend greatly to the tranquillity of elections; that the adoption of voting-papers in county or borough parliamentary elections is not desirable ; and that public nominations are unnecessary„ Besides these re:ommendations, Mr. Bright will Make a proposition " that the hiring of rooms in public-houses for committee-rooms during elections is a fruitful source of expense and of corruption, and should be dis countenanced and forbidden by law." Mr. Ward also believes that the weight of the evidence g . v. a before the committee leads to the con clusion that the discontinuance of open voting, ant the substitution for it of secret voting, would be of great advantage. Mr. Fawcett intends to endeavour to throw the election expenses upon the local rates, and to prohibit the employment of paid canvassers and agents. Mr. ITowes and Sir Frederick Ileygate are not prepared to recommend the adoption of the Ballot ; both •agree that the hourly state of the poll should not be published. The last-named hon. gentleman regrets that troops should be employed at Irish elections. METROPOLITAN ]SIEMDERS AND THEM CONSTITUENTS. Three metropolitan members of Parliament had their conduct under review by their constituents on Wednesday—Messrs. Chambers, Lewis, and Reed. Mr. Chambers addressed a meeting of the Maryle bone vestry, and received its thanks. The same meeting did not, however, thank Mr. Harvey Lewis for his services. On the contrary, his conti nue d absence from the House of Commons gave rise to a discussion, in which opinions by no means compli mentary to him were expressed. A resolution was moved, calling upon him to resign, but it was objected that a vestry meeting ought not to be turned to political uses, and the " orders of the d a y" were passed to, by a vote of a large majority. Mr. Charles Reed's conduct in Parliament has generally pleased his constituents—so well pleased them that a testimonial to him is proposed. H e h as certainly acted independently and fearlessly i n th e House. On metropolitan rating—a very g rea t po i nt with the inhabitants of Ilacliney—on education, on the matter of cheap trains, on the subject of Sunday rating exemption, the hon. member has taken a very active part. A committee has been formed to collect money for the recognition of his services. THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION PETITION. _ _ _ The hearing of the Nottingham election petition commenced yesterday before Nr. Baron Martin. About 130 witnesses have been brought up to give evidence against Mr. Seely's return. The Notting ham Journal expresses the opinion that the petitioners are finding the proof of specific bribery somewhat difficult, and that they meditate enlarging the scope of the inquiry, if the judge will permit it, so as to prove intimidation and the prevalence of corrupt practices. Nottingham is distinguished by the skill with which its municipal elections are "managed," as well as by its pre-eminen ce i n th e rioting department. It is believed that a system of municipal corruption can be proved to exist, and that a certain Liberal, well known for his skill in carrying the lesser elec tions, was actively engaged in Mr. Seely's interests at the greater. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ABOLITION BILL. In the division on Mr. Gilpin's bill on 'Wednes day afternoon only four Conservatives voted in its favour—Mr. Henley, Mr. Laslett, Mr. Salt, and Colonel Wright. Mr. It. N. Fowler, another Con servative, and a member of the Society of Friends, acted as co-teller with Mr. Gilpin. The principal leaders on both aides were conspicuous by their absence. The Prime Minister and Mr. Bright were absent through indisposition, and the only members of the Cabinet who voted were Mr. Bruce, Mr. Card well, and Mr. Goschen. Mr. J..D. Lewis, member for Devonport, and Mr. Tipping (Stockport), were the tellers for the Noes. THE WIIITEBAII DINNER. We confess to a feeling of relief. We were told by several of our contemporaries, who ought to have known, that the innovating Cabinet of ours was going to meddl e ver y ser i o usly with the Constitution; t 'at Ministers, indeed, were going to have their an nual whitebait dinner at Blackwell instead of at Greenwich. We are happy to announce to-day that Mr. Gladstone has at present no intention of tramp ling on tradition, or truckling to revolution. lle will not, we sincerely trust, turn away from his constituents at Greenwich, but will loyally stick to the old place. The whole story about Black wall is false; the day has not been fixed; Greenwich is not abandoned. But a serious ques tion arises, which we leave for Lord Mahon to make a note of. If the hon. viscount contests Greenwich at the next election, we advise him to mark how the landlord of the Ship Tavern votes. Mr. Gladstone has the fixing of the whitebait dinner. If the Ship Tavern landlord votes for the Premier, is it not prima fac:e to be inferr e d th a t hi s vo t e was par t o f his bargain about the dinner. THE LIBERALS OF HASTINGS. A Liberal demonstration has been made at Has tings, under the direction of the Working Men's Committees. Its object was to celebrate the return of two Liberal members at the last election. Mr. North, in returning thanks, said that he was grad.. Lea to find, ile_itzength_yrhich the_Libmi.caus. possessed in Hastings. lie felt the greatest conn dence in Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister, end he had never had less doubt about the way he should vote in Parliament. Mr. Brassey declared that Mr. Gladstone had performed his difficult work of ren dering justice to Ireland in a manner that sur passed all expectation. He considered that the Premier was now at the age when he was rich in experience without having lost the vigour of his manhood. Lord E. Cavendish, in proposing " Her Majesty's Ministers," dwelt upon the triumph they had achieved in the Irish Church Bill. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen responded, and declared that Mr. Gladstone did not regard the passing of that measure in the light of a party victory, but with thankfulness to Providence that the question had been brought to an issue. The Premier was over come with the work of the session, but he was now, happily, recovering. PILATE AND HEROD. The Adver 11,3er has found another remarkable combination in the Premier. Ile is Pilate and Herod. The other day he laid the first stone of a new Ritualist Church in Soho ; he regularly attends the high service of All Saints, Margaret-street; and generally he has a liking for music and colour in the services and temples of God. Pilate or Herod here— we don't know which, but that it is one or the other is very plain. Mr. Gladstone, moreover, has writteu in defence of " Ecce ITomo," has shewn a disposition to favour rationalism, and lies offered a deanf-ry to Dr. Temple, one of the essayists and reviewers. This is clearly enough Tiered or Pilate, one or the other ; though here also the Advertiser is not explicit in saying which. Mr. Gladstone, moreover—this is the culminating point in the indictment against the Premier, it is here Herod and Pilate together appear— has laid down a rule for his new appointments. "Merit, talent (he says) shall be the test. Let a man skew ability, earnestness,' and a disposition to do work,and he shall have favour in the eyes of the Premier." These, let it to be understood, are the very words of the Advertiser. To put its charge into common language, what our contemporary thinks so shocking is that Mr. Gladstone does not require in every man whom he advances thathe should see "eye to eye" with the editor of the Advertiser in all theological matters. THE PATENT LAW. Mr. Made, the member for Leith, endeavours to keep the discussion of patents alive. He says, in a letter to the Daily Vets, that patents make manu factures dear; that foreign competition is able to get the better of us on account of them ; that Switzerland has found no patent laws an advantage ; and that the present system is one opposed to Free Trade. To which arguments the Daily News answers that patentees make production cheaper, or the patents would be useless ; that there is only one fair way of rewarding an inventor, by giving him a monopoly; that foreign competition is next door to nothing ; that Switzerland has sent all her inventors away from her; and that Mr. Macfie's theory of free trade would lead more and more to the omni potence of the money-bag. THE IRISH RAILWAYS. The movement in favour of the purchase of the Irish railways by the State makes progress. The committee of Irish peers and members of the Lower House have adopted a report, in which they strongly recommend that a measure be brought in next ses sion enabling the Government to take the railways on the basis of the Irish Railway Commission's second report. They believe, however, that the Exchequer must be guaranteed against loss by this acquisition, and they therefore conclude that the Irish people ought to make good any deficiency if the lines will not pay their way under a system of reduced fares and better accommodation. PRINCESS LOUISE AT VENTNOR. Our Princesses are coming somewhat into public life. Princess Christian recently distributed the prizes to the Wimbledon prizemcn, and will shortly perform the same office for one of the metropolitan volunteer corps. Princess Louise, on Wednesday, laid the foundation-stone of a pair of buildings about to bo erected at Ventnor for the National Cottage Con sumption Hospital. There was the usual ceremony. The town kept holiday, royal salutes were fired, addresses were presented and answered, the stone was laid with the usual formalities, trees were planted, and purses laid before her Royal Highness. MR. VOYSEY'S DEFENCE. The Rev. Charles Voysey writes to a Scotch con temporary with reference to the views which he enunciates in his work, "The Sling and Stone," a book for which he is under prosecution. He corrects a mistake frequently made that his production is based upon learned criticism. He says he has assailed several critical points in the Bible on the ground of common sense alone, and by appeals to the consciences of his fellow-men. " Years ago," he continues, "I foresaw that the great work of removing popular superstitions could never be clone by the scholars and critics alone, because half the mass of unlearned people in this country could not understand Biblical criticism, and the other half could not connect it, even if understood, with their own traditional beliefs. The great blttle would have to be fought on moral ground, by appeals to common sense and moral instinct." There is one issue, he declares, which is in danger of being overlooked in the airciety to maintain existing institutions. "It is quite possible that my views may be, after all, true, and the traditional views false. Now, if th e Ch urc h o f E ng l an d s h ou ld ex p e l me without refer ence t o th e t ru th or f a l se h oo d o f my opinions, what ki n d o f f u t ure wou ld s h e b e pre paring for herself ? If my opinions be in the main true, then my expulsion will lead inevitably to her own doom." DR. PUSEY ON UNIVERSITY TESTS. Dr. Pusey writes to the Guardian to explain that his counter prop os al to the Solicitor-General's University Tests Bill is not a " proposed surrender of half the colleges." The Christ Church divine says that what ho does propose to surrender is income which is at present wasted. It is well known that certain fellowships are simply a sinecure endowment of students who have obtained a good class, and who go away without doing anything for the colleges to which they are elected. Nothing; could be lost by giving up these sinecures. "Accept ing then, as a fact, that, since the Church of England had lost so many of her people, it is virtually settled that she shall forfeit a proportion of her endowment, I was willing to accept denominational endowments.' I was willing to ' surrender : not half the colleges,' but whatever portion of their income it might seem right to the Legislature to take, with the view of retaining the colleges themselves as places of edu cation for the laity or future clergy of the Church of England." Dr. Pusey believes that the English Dissenters will get nothing by the Solicitor-General's bill, which proposes to allow the Heads of thirteen col leges and all Fellows who are not to he in holy orders to be of any religion. " Since there is more of that talent for which a person would be likely to be elected a Head or Fellow amon g p ersons w h ose belief is undistinguishable, except in name, from Deism, than there is among the religious Dissenters, those which aro ordinarily spoken of Dissenting bodies' would profit, I believe, next to nothing, while a large proportion of our heads, Fellows, or Tutors might be unbelievers." All 1)r. Pusey wants is to see the young men of England educated by Christian instructors—not Deists and the like. On this account he thinks the Wesleyans acted very unwisely in rejecting the offer lie made last year. Is the Doctor sure that lie is not begging the question, by assuming that there is more of the talent which wins Fellowships amongst unbelievers than Dissenters ? STATESMEN HANDLING NEW ZEALAND. The two debates in Parliament on New Zealand affairs have not been sufficient for the Right Hon. Sir C. B. Adderley. He writes to protest against the Bishop of Lichfield's theory that because the Im perial Government made the first contract with the Maories, therefore the taxpayers of England must make it good. Surely it does not follow that a bargain made in the interest of the whole Empire should be supported only by people in this part of the Empire. The Bishop's argument, in the opinion of the ex-Cabinet Minister, amounts to the conclusion that Crown colonies must be guaranteed against all errors of the Government, the consequences of which must be borne by us at home. Sir Charles observes that New Zealand can now readily afford to pay for a few regular troops, if necessary, at half the cost price. TREASURE TROVE. A short time ago a great robbery was perpetrated at the Ocean Bank at New York, and property to the value of a quarter of a million of dollars wap abstracted. Some 20,000 dollars worth has been re covered in New York, and, s t r ange to say, another sum has been found i n England. Ten days ago an un knOwn person deliberately threw himself before a train at Crewe, and was killed. Certain paper securities were found upon him, and it now transpires that these were stolen from the Ocean Bank. THE DUNKELD TOLL-DAIL We called attentjon a clay or two back to the fact that the attacks on the Dun!zeld toll-bar were this year being renewed. At the time we suggested that at once the local authorities should take action and very severely punish the rioters. It seems, however, that last year did not teach the police that to overlook such ebullitions of popular indignation against turnpikes is in effect to encourage illegality. We are now again informed by the Dundee papers that " the Dunkeld disciples of Rebecca have taken up their testimony against pontages in a very emphatic way, a large mob having assembled, under the leader ship of a local man of mark, and smashed the ob noxious barriers with sledge hammers, leaving free passage for the lieges and their vehicles." Will any action be taken in this case ? TB E MORMONS. The New York papers are excited about the Salt Lake Pity: Judge Trumbull has been there, kud 144 enjoyed, , e the pleasure of a conversation with Brigham Young. 1 ; 11 , talk turned on the relations of the United States Wit' Mormonism. The prophet expressed himself willing t° adhere to the Union in general, but there was " one ennet . ment of Congress which the Mormons would n °l obey," namely, the one forbidding poliga ra/. He added, too, that the United States author?' ties must not be surprised to hear of certaul individuals—to wit, obnoxious Federals officers —being P I !! out of Utah, but, if done, "they might be sure that It would be for just and good reasons." This declaration has greatly incensed the Americans as represented 11 their journals. They aver, and with great reason , 0111 Brigham Young will obey only those laws of the Val which do not happen to disagree with his own views, 1171 ,; that he will recognise the United States authorities 0)11 if they do not prove obnoxious. The New York ilot t opines that this state of things cannot be tolerated. '; declares that the duty of President Grant is to see tilAi the enactments of Congress are enforced without r es Pee to persons or religions, and that the representatives of O . Federal Government legally appointed for that porP,l shall be upheld and protected if it be necessary to era m°l the whole power of the nation. MR. rEABODY. It is stated that Mr. Peabody's ill health does not Al l , e from any disease, but is simply a loss of vitality. S I , feebleness, unfortunately, does not appear to be the les" serious on that account. Ile is now so weak as t 0 unequal to any active exertion ; he is almost confinca to his room, and cannot talk much owing to a bronch i , affection. The Boston Journal says he has "lost oi t pounds of flesh during the past year, but he is not 1' means a thin man now." The total amount o f Peabody's bequests of every kind amount to eight milli tirj s of dollars, which at par would be equal to 14136 £1,800,000. ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE. The Americans—not to be outdone—want a c 3/31 1 : exclusively of their own, and under their own C ontr° 4 Accordingly, some of the most wealthy New 17.61 .;, financiers have for some time past been working U P means and the programme for an American wire, to_ . , 4 P` v ceed direct from New York to Europe. In what V:. of Europe it will be landed is kept a secret, but NY• tit told that it will not be in either France or Englvad, some State—say Germany—with which the United $ are likely never to quarrel. It is some satisfaction to that there is such a country. THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. The great Chinese question still commands attentiorliti the States. Senator Cole, of California, has give 1)111 : attention to the subject, and seems to have struck out o new idea. He has no objection to the Chinese as h aie L brother Californians—far from it. His idea of utilt o ; the hard-working, frugal, and sober idolators, is to let t"..,e drift southwards and swamp the Mexicans. chin* ( " - 1 spare enough of her people to regenerate Mexico, Ancli.ll.:ll miss them. The Chinese possess just the virtues voltio the Mexicans lack. Their habits of labour an d tb to would convert the fertile wastes of that country gardens. The Mexicans will not work ; the Chine BeW el not be idle. Mexico, though abundantly eo d° " 4 iii by nature, is noted for its poverty An d 0 ,41 security, and so it will remain while it dePvi—ty, upon the Indian and Spanish races for its Prost .- io Senator Cole thinks that the new-comers might t o . further, and descend into Central America, thelle'sbe South America—leaving the United States t o A 0 Americans themselves„ who find the Chinese ask competitors. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. 40 11 Notwithstanding the statement of both the Altl e " and Spanish officials that the insurrection in ell!lbe declining, and that it must soon die out if no more n r y sent from the United States, the New York paVe rg tinue to receive bulletins announcing " victories" 11°- bo the insurgents. General Puello has been attacked 11:be insurgents, and his force driven into Nuevitas, loss of eighty men, Puello himself, it is said, being be e s The strictest orders to prevent all filibustering 1131,e "Cub given by the American Government, but the "° l „, a e , are neither discouraged nor demoralised" by these incot tions. They now affirm that they do not want l ea stores, and these they can still get. P g At the Barnsley Court-house on Wednesdai • colliers were charged with intimidating Aaron Arini t9se ; to collier. The complainant and his brother wore g ° "%130 work, when they were attacked by the defendant s ,' threw stones at them. Armitage worked at Mr. ri colliery, at a reduction of wages, and the defell";:re bad refused to stop on account of the reduction. r rb e /.... ofr indignant with Armitage for remaining, and theref°'" tof tacked him. The bench committed the two most c i°le , ti nf the defendants to Wakefield House of Correction "'" month, and the other three for seven days each. The English volunteers have just received a i ' - 0 111 invitation from the civic militia of Liege, who are 0115° ter, . g an international rifle meeting for the 18th of SeP tein t , r 4 The President of the General Committee, in writing t cs ; Elcho, says:—" Among the volunteers w h o m We ar ',: ll desire to see take part in this fete the English celll-ftetelo occupy the first place. The vivid recollections 9 0 1 splendid and fraternal reception given to the ne l g iii° o s 6' Wimbledon will never be effaced from their ulere-erti, Belgium will be happy to receive the English v°llll fte d , d , and Liege will endeavour to repay the debt of P which her citizens have contracted towards th e nation." BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JUIY 29. co The following is the return of the Bank of for the week ending to-day, together with th e responding figures of the previous account DEBTOR. JOY 25' c' July 29. fr. c. fr' n 000 Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500, - Profits in addition to catal (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 71° 44 '7 16 el Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserv perty e of landed pro- 4 Notes in circulation 00 _7 14 1,3 2 6 4 2, 4;07 1 60 0 90 5 2 : 100 81 0 5 Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at 37,924,463 75 37,19-- ' sight 1 518 66 - Treasury account cur- 44 0 i -1 6 0t " 1 rent creditor 205,261,925 38 19 01 6 Current accounts, Paris 264,303,317 24 27 6 , 1 ;1'869 Do. branch banks 43,908,003 4 V ) ,,;:2'23 1. 2 Dividends Flyable ,705,986 Discounts and sundry 6 06,08 9 g interests Rediscounted the last 991, 66 0 ---' 61 0 9,328,057 66 11,1861-8 six months 991,660 38 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries ...., --- 495 - Total CREDITOR. je ll 2 3 ' Ce July 29. 21 Cash in hand and in fr. e. fr Branch banks 1,196,443,747 80 1, 1 15 Commercial bills over- 22 7 / 981 due Commercial bills dis- 9 4 51 9 ' counted, not yet due 806,238,296 50 311,1`1514 Do. branch banks Advances on deposit of I 07, 7 1 '' 255,252,691 2571 96 , bullion Do. branch banks 6,017,600 "' n / Do. on French Public A. 14 8 , 10 ' , Securities 17,473,600 I g o 40 0 Do. by branch banks 7,107,500 6 1" - ' .., APO Do. on railway shares ao 586t',0 , and debentures - ‘ ,.' ‘ , -, 1 67,7d Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier g 88 , 1" .., Bonds Do. branches 1,004,60 01042300 —__ 1,0 422 0 Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 5O - 14 60,000,000 -- 80, 7 0 Government Stock ro- -- 4 12,9 lBl serve 12,980,ea0 1 , oi, Do. disposable 000 Routes Immobalisees 1 0 000, (Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 -•-. -0 ' Hotel and furniture of 61 , the Bank and landed 8,97 8 1 7 property branches Expenses of manage- 00,1 6 16 went 682,89433 ~ 7 76, 4 %„/ Sundries --", 99 -- --- 0 49 0 3 8 1( Total ... 130 Certified by the Senator-Governor of France. 00 °. 60,000,000 ? (Signed) 2: . „/ maApnisiDEN— y Elphinstone, of a B s I 0 R n 7:115 . . , On the 29th •OS re Or, INSTONR— On the 27th fast at Carbery A° Lad 1,5 0131 fi ayeS, C °l2 HrLE—AmAN—On the Mrs. Henry Marsden, of son. 28 i ta n h s t i ., at The MARRIAGES. rcb' Epsom, John Hill, Es. Souldern, Banbury, to . 04 , Esther, younger daughter of the lefts Banj. Mit°, Epsom, Surrey. s .0 , WILLIAMS -SomEns—On the 29th lest', at A r l y i ;1 21 ', l f) Cornwall, Edward 11. Williams, Esq., Q' lu f t. lest., at the parebsusal,l6 rn wall, to hose Elizabeth, younger daughteotr:oo° late Thomas Somers, Esq., of Mendip Lodge, DICK- On the 28th inst DEA 7.slllS. H aymarket' If Willi° , at • , KING ick, aged 39. !je lly B u xton; —_a ins t., at the - f 91 n el the 27th " t Old Hall, nig, aged 82. f pi 0. ROBERTS —On the 26th inst., Mr. R. F. Roberts, 0' Pate) noster-row, aged 58. , P' ... 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