The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-04 00:00:00

August appears likely to be the mcst critical time, fur, towards the dome of that week, reaping will be general, in all probability, throughout the midland counties; the ripening time i:i the north more nearly than usual ap proaches that of the southern districts. Barley is reported in many cases to be rather short, but in most instances will reach an average crop. Oata are likely to be a full crop, except wt ere they hare suffered from want of rain. 3eans are also a good crop, but in some districts may turn ut badly. rats have suffered much from scorching sun, And insects are z oticed. Still, where already gathered, a good yield is sported. foot crops had been severely tried by the want of rain, but now look better, and may after all turn out well, The pastures were lately brown and withered, but have revived wonderfully with the firs change in the weather." From Ireland the reports are not so discouraging. The injurious effects of lung continued drought bare been removed, or at least greatly mitigated, by rain during the past week. The wheat and oat crops look healthy, and promise an abundant yield. It was feared the latter would be very stunted, and that straw would be very scarce, but a fresh impulse has been given to vegetation by the refreshing showers, and the crop has sensibly im proved in length and fulness. Turnips are also looking better. The potato crop is sound, and the hay harvest is saved in good condition. Tho accounts from France are also good. The harvest is being prosecuted everywhere on the best possible conditions, and if fine weather only continues for another week or two wheat and rye will be secured n all parts of France without having experienced ny of those fatal deteriorations which sometimes crawly compromise crops at the Lust moment. As nothing is occurring which is calculated to lessen thequan ... _ _ 'Ay or quality of the crop, confidence is on the increase, ....nd there seems a tendency to forget the unfavourable weather of the spring and early summer. At the same time the disasters then sustained by the growing wheat crop are not likely to be altogether obliterated. Notwith- standing that the prosecution of harvc:it work has reduced the supplies of wheat brought forward on the French departmental markets, they bare she►rn a, downward ten dency with the exception of Bordeaux, where there has he( n rather a considerable amount of business. The stock on hand at Marieilles has become rather small, and this fact has sustained prices, notwithstanding the appearance of new wheats on the market. The Institute of Mechanical Engineers is now holding its annual meeting in Newcastle. Papers are read each day descriptive of modern engineering works. Sunderland on Monday kept high holiday on the occasion of the presentation and laurehing of a new life - b^at, the gift of the Foresters, to tho National Lit*boat In stitution. The Wicklow peerage case was again More the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords on Tuesday. Evidence was taken tending to show that the infant claim ant of the estates could not Le the son of Mrs. Howard. The stipendiary magistracy cf Salford is rendered vacant by the death of Mr. H. L. Trafford. It will be re membered that it was not long since the same offiw W 33 vacated in Manchester by Mr. Fowl r. Dean Stanley has caused a series of notices to be affixed to several parts of Westminster Abbey, in which is given an epitomised history of the structure to gether with references to the surrounding records of the entombed. President Grant has replied to the Emperor's cable message of congratulation with a very cordial response, in which he looks forward "to the creation of numerous means of communication of the same sort between the United States and her most ancient ally and friend." A gentleman who attended divine service at the Foundling Chapel on Sunday mentions the following fact : He saw a respectably dressed man enter and put a penny upon the plate as his contribution, when it was imme diately returned to him with the remark that "No coppers were taken." Sir Shafto Adair is to stand for the vacancy at Antrim county, under the auspices of the Ulster Liberal Re gistration A ssociation. Lord Claud John Hamilton is spoken cf in the Conservative interest; but it is tail that Captain Hugh Seymour, of the Grenadier Guards, is likely to stand in the same interest. Lord Clonbrock, who has received a letter threaten ing his life, has assembled his employes, and said he - was convinced they knew the author; and pledged himself that if the slightest attempt were made to carry out the throats he would at once, with his family, leave the country, and never set foot in it again. TAKING THE CENSUS IN CHEYENNE.—Our frontier females do not seem to understand the necessity of taking the census and naturally resist such things. To one Mr. Pierce, the collector, said, " What is your age ?" and she replied, " That is an impudent question, and I won't tell you." "Well, I shell put you down at thirty," said Pier ce . " I'm only twenty-seven," indignantly ex claimed the now thoroughly enraged lady. The re cord was corrected accordingly. " Madam," said Mr. Pierce) to another lady, "I have been at your house twice to take the census." " You had better not let cAtch you there taking anything," answered the in dependent woman. "1 want to know how many children have ?" asked Pierce, walking into a house. " What's that your business ?" answered the dame, "so long as we don't ask you to keep them." "I am taking the census and must know," pursued Pierce. " Well I guess some body has been a takin' yours and you'd b tter be hunting them up young man," vociferated the (lame. " What is your occupation here?" asked Pierce of the ladylike keeper of a house, the character of which was already sufficiently - tvell known. "We toil not, nether do we shin," archly replied ilia damsel, " yet you can safely set us down as public benefaetors."—Letterfrom Cheyenne. Among the curiosities of America is an Illinois gentleman who, believing he is destined to re-enact the part of Noah, has constructed an Ark in anticipation of another Flood, in which he designs to save himself, the few he considers worthy to perpetuate the race, and such animals as in his eyes seen good. Brig.-Geheral C. B. Norton has retired from the Paris baukitig hou3o of C. B. Norton and Co., leaving his late partner, Mr. Henry Cook, to wind up the business of the late firm, and to carry it on under the style of Henry Cook and Co. The reports on the crops this week are vague and con tradictory. From some parts we are told of "perhaps an average yield ;" in other districts the farmers are doubtful. Some agriculturists speak of " a good chance of a fair harvest ;" others are—but by no means dogma tically—predicting a bad one. Nor are any two agreed as to what is wanted. Some ask for much rain ; others for gentle showers. "Yester day, it may be remarked, the rain fell copiously in most districts. The Mark Lane Express summarises its report in the remark "Our crop promises to be very various, according to soil, culture, and situation." In another article it says, " Much anxiety is felt, and the last accounts are nothing near so favourable as they were a fortnight back." Other general reports are more decidedly gloomy than this; that of the Chamber of Agriculture Journal very much so. "Upon inferior or ill-managed clays," says our contemporary, " the crop is a poor one—a very poor one ; there is an absence of plant. Upon gravels and light soils there is more straw, but the want of rain has seriously damaged the crop, and appearances are against an average yield. There are signs of premature ripening, and occasionally a field is passed denoting blight. On both these varieties of soil the sample will be uneven, the quality inferior, and the yield short. On the richest and best-managed lands the crops manifest an unusual variety. There is here and there a good crop, and healthy in appearance, but these are the exception ; the great bulk of these better-land crops are very indifferent, many are very thin in plant, others are not only thin in plant, but much storm-broken; others are root-fallen, some irrecoverably fallen, and the straw decaying. The green fly is doing damage in some districts. The great deciding point now depends upon the weather of the harvest season. If favourable—if the weather:is quiet, free from storms, and sunny—thedifference in yield will be considerable. The storm-broken and root fallen, orrather the partially fallen or "kincked," derive great benefit bya more plump filling of the grain or berry, as some term it. If the weather or harvest season is decidedly unfavourable there cannot be an average yield. The fenny districts of the kingdom are likely to produce crops above the average. Harvest has commenced in several districts of the country, and will be general about the middle of August." - Other accounts tend much in the same direction. One correspondent writes :—" The wheat harvest has now commenced in early districts, though not by any means general even there ; these report in most cases a fell average yield, so far as ascertained, though it must be remembered that it is precisely these lands which are loamy or clayey and well farmed, and that are now in process )f harvesting, and these have suffered much less from untoward weather than crops on light soils which are generally a few days later. The balance of opinion ap pears to be in favour of a very variable wheat crop, making a total below an average ; each district has some peculiarity to report, one mentioning flies, another insects, as doing much damage, a third complaining of short ness in the ear, while a fourth remarks the crop is wanting in strength of straw, others noticing nothing wrong, and looking for a large yield, though in no case does this approach last year's growth, which was extraordinary. All now depends upon the weather experienced at harvest time, and the second week is , MISCE. 'EWS. THE REPRESENTATION OP ANTR/M. Although several days have elasped since the death cf Admiral Seymour, the late member for Antrim county, no candidate has yet come forward for the vacant seat. Rumours have been afloat that a brother of the deceased Admiral has been selected to be his successor. The Wm thern Whig wants to know which of the two brothers has been chosen—one being a royal equerry, and the other a youthful guardsman. Sir Shafto Adair is mentioned as a probable candi date in the Liberal interest. FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION. Protection is again being taken up as a cry by a section of the working men. The impression seems to be gaining ground that the cause of the present depression and distress in this country is Free Trade. A meeting has been held on the subject in the borough of Chelsea, and a resolution was passed:— "That the principle of Free Trade should be based upon an equality of international exchanges ; but other nations not having adopted the principle, it has hitherto become injurious to England, and is the cause of the present depression of trade, the want of employment, and the increase of pauperism. This meeting, therefore,eonsiders it to be the duty of the Government to institute an immediate inquiry into the working of our commercial policy, with the view of ascertaining how far this unreciprocated Free Trade contributes towards producing this depression, want of employment, and pauperism ; and to what extent it may be limited so as to produce un effectual remedy." Several speakers dissented from the motion, but they were in a minority; and a petition to Parliament, praying for an inquiry into the subject, was agreed to. Mn. 'WIIALLEY UPON MR. MURPRY. Poor Mr. Murphy has been much " put upon," and his friend, the member for Peterborough, comes forward to vindicate his character. Ile writes to the 7inie3 calling attention to a paragraph stating that Mr. Murphy had urged the Protestants of Birmingham to drive the Roman Catholics out of that town : " I have made such inquiry as to the truth of that report," Mr. Whalley says, "as to justify me in stating that it is a deliberate fabrication; and wholly' without foundation. In requesting you will insert this letter, I think it right to add that on previous occasions I have ascertained that Mr. Murphy's language and conduct have been grossly misrepresented in the public journals." MR. GRENVILLE MURRAY. Though Mr. Grenville Murray's letter—of which we have already given a summary by telegraph —cannot be accepted as a satisfactory explanation of his conduct, yet he must have fair play. He complains that the prosecution against him is got up by an avowed personal enemy, who has expressed his intention of " smashing" Mr. Grenville Murray, "if it cost a thousand pounds." Such language undoubtedly does deserve strong reprobation ; and it is to be deplored that a prosecution which may or may not be justifiable has been undertaken in such a spirit: Mr. Murray complains, too, that five eminent counsel and four great firms of solicitors are arrayed against him, whilst to oppose this host he has, so to speak, nobody. This is undoubtedly a disadvantage, though it is to be expected that the prosecution will obtain the best aid in its power. Mr. Murray offers, further, to prove that he was not the author of the articles, " Our Hereditary Legitlators ;" which is highly satisfactory. But he is wrong when he says that nothing has been proved against him, and that his case has been pre judged. Ilis antecedents, as described in the Blue-book which records his dismissal from the Consul-Generalship of Odessa, are not in his favour. lie admits, too, that he was connected—no matter in what way—to a considerable extent with the Queen's Messenger. Is this nothing against him ? THE CASE OF FANNY OLIVER. Mrs. Oliver, the woman sentenced to death for poisoning her husband, will, instead, undergo the punishment of penal servitude for life. This com mutation will provide for any doubt that may exist as to her guilt, though it involves the awkward dilemma that if such doubt be reasonable the woman ought to be set free, and, if not, her crime is one for which the only legal punishment is death. The _Daily News says :—" We are not amongst those who doubted of the guilt of the unfortunate woman; neither can those be who are now consign ing her to life-long toil and degradation; and we cannot but submit that it would be wiser on the whole frankly to abolish capital punishment outright than to resort in individual cases to commutations which distinctly repeal the law." TUE WONDERS OF COMPETITION. The song of the glory of competition has yet to be sung. What it has given us only a poet's pen could tell. Prose would be apt to let out such secrets as half ruined railway companies, altogether broken trades men, bankrupt banks, and impoverished homes; but the poet, looking on the brighter side, would tell another tale. To the coming Laureate, then, we recommend the fact that competition has given such facilities for intercommunications between England and Ireland as never were before. Inhabitants of Liverpool are invited to take a journey across to Dundalk for 3d. "To Ireland and back for Cd." is the advertisement. It would be curious to know if cheap fares in this case are paying. If they are, there is a grand chance of commerce between the two countries. r.t3. - Ni.r.ss The latest d'scovery from the work! of science is in the right direction. Dr. Richardson has communi cated to the British Medical Association an explana tion of an instrument by which surgical operations can be performed without pain, chloroform, ether spray, or any other anresthetic. The invention is based on the fact that velocity of incision prevents pain. The cutter is small enough to carry in the pocket. By it abscesses can be laid open, carbuncles divided, and other minor and daily-needed operations performed " without knowledge or consciousucul of pain " on the part of the patient. A :NICE QUESTION. Why is it that the great actor and the great era matist are seldom or never united in one man There are many reasons why they should be. When the playwriter is "on the stage," for example, he knows what his bretheren can do, he is acquainted with their wants, and is " well up in the general business." An actor who writes should be able to interpret better, and ought to have some idea of the feeling of the dramatist. And yet greatness has never yet been attained by one man in both walks of life. The Daily News discusses at length the cause of this, and thus states its conclusion : The productions of the poetic art are the result of an intense subjection of the poet's entire nature to a speci es of exquisite distillation, only to be effected in quiet and solitude, in the brooding heat and watchfulness of severe self-questioning,, and by the exaltation of dreams and reveries, of thought and observation, of agony and rapture. The loud, showy, and unreal life of the stage is fatal to the inspirations of poetry. The object of the poet is to arrive at the essence of 'things ; that of the actor to represent their externals. Even the dramatic poet— nay, even the prose dramatist—is concerned more with ideal truth than with literal fact ; and this idealisation is fostered by habits of seclusion, and marred or vulgarised by the coarser manners of the stage. The eternal make believe of .the theatre—its false lights, false Scenery, false complexions, and false intonations—all is antagonistic to the simplicity and sincerity which belong t o th e poet i c character. In its highest manifestations acting is no doubt a noble art ; but it is practised at the sacrifice of qualities peculiarly necessary to the literary career. The actor must think primarily of effect; the poet ba4 to consider essential. truth. And success iu both respect is not likely to be the portion of one man. THE ST, PANCRAS GUARDIANS. It must be a great honour to be a guardian of the poor for the metropolitan parish of St. Pancras. St. Pancras possesses (at least so we hope) no common Board. Its members use language so sweet, gentle, and mild, and, corporately, they take such extraordinary courses that, we repeat, it must be a great honour to belong to their body. They shone in all their brilliant perfecti on on M on d ay l as t. Th ey had an opportunity for courtesy, and such as has rarely fallen to the lot of a board of guardians, :Luc] they did not neglect it. The letter from the Poor-law Board, suspending a, greater part of their functions, was read to them, and .they immediately began to pass compliments. One was very bold, and dared the Poor-law Board to do its woist, comparing Mr. Goschen to Oliver Cromwell, and speaking of him as a remorseless tyrant. But the love shewn to outsiders —if we measure it by the language used —was nothing to the kindliness of heart which overflowed towards each other. One speaker was informed that he was a liar, another that he was a libeller, and a third that he was a perjurer. A Mr. North told a Mr. Chandler that he was an "arrant ass." Amidst excitement, general indignation, and universal feelings that English liberty should never be trampled upon, it was courageously resolved—" That the letter do lie upon the table." AN IRISH IVA 1,7 E. Why don't hospital authorities respect ancient traditions ? An Irish labourer died ac other day in the Westminster Ilospital, and forthwith an influen tial deputation from the teas-nes of the surround ing district waited upon the authorities to claim the body. They wanted to " wake" it. The reply was that not even the solemn ceremonial of a "wake " could take place before an inquest was held ; but the deputation were not satisfied. The desire to alarm the metropolis by howls of grief and to consume a boundless quantity of whisky, was so strong that the Irish stormed the hospital, entered the dead-house, and carried off the body. It was brought back the next day with an apology. It seems that the time has come for a reform in " wakes "as in other matters. Irish relatives must be content to have their deceased with them in the spirit, and dispense with attendance in the flub. THE DEMENTED BARRISTER. We are glad to notice that at last a proper course has been taken with Mr. Briefly, the barrister who has caused so many " scenes " in the metropolitan e.cuirtz of late. It has conduced neither to the ME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1869. _ dignity of the benth nor t; ;iie 1-: - cstrge Gr rile nar that a member of the legal profession should come session after session into each of the criminal courts in turn, make a disturbance, and have to be forcibly removed, " kicking out all round," threatening and howling. Long ago some.: one ought to have taken charge of him. The state of his mind was clear when he threatened the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Commons Pleas, and he should have been look e d a ft er th en . B u t ho has since appeared at the police and other courts, armed with two large stones, which he threatened to hurl at the head of any person who touched him. The idea of one of our judges being "killed while in the execution of his duty is not a pleasant one, and for the sake of the " immaculate eighteen " we are glad that the danger has been removed. There will now be the less need of the latest invented con trivance, suggested by the recent rows at our law and police-courts, a trap door under the seats of all magistrates and judges, through which they can immediately diiappear at the slightest appearance of danger. ASIA7IG'S IN THE UNI7E•D STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) No. 11, American national opinion can be most quickly guessed at, but the expression, however general, is frequently deceptive. It is evident that the erection of barriers will not be allowed against Chinese migration, but, on the contrary, that the whole country will be opened to the Mongolian inroad. It will readily be believed that this is hateful to such European labour as intends to be always labour, for the hereditary hewer of wood and drawer of water will not rejoice to see the cheapening of hewing wood and of drawing water. Strong as are the labouring classes in America, capital is stronger still, at any rate when backed by the institutions as wellas sentiment of the country, and however power ful has been the effort for the exclusion of the Chinese, it may be said already to have failed. The Memphis Convention on the Chinese labour ques tion was held on the 14th inst., and Chinamen then addressed a large gathering. TYEKE3I-ORR said that after a residence in the West Indies he had tived for the last two years in the United States, principally in Louisiana. There were 70,000 Chinese now in the West Indies, where much dis tress prevails, as the men were not well selected, most of them being criminals, and many employed on unfamiliar work. Pieper agents could procure any number of agriculturists in the interior of China ; farm hands there receive only from $lB to $2O a year, but living is so cheap that 150 lbs. of rice cost but $2. it was a mistake to suppose that the women of the agricultural class had small feet; they had to labour in the fields, and it was only in the cities where they could enjoy that luxury. About one in ten of the Chinese love strong drink, but comparatively few are opium eaters, as that also is a luxury the rich and city people only can afford. He spoke highly of his countrymen as labourers; show ing, that the products of the Southern States and of China are almost identical; he considers that these labourers would there feel at home. KOOP. MANSHOOP arrived while the Convention was in session, and immediately addressed the meeting. Of the 60,000 Chinese engaged in California as me chanics, and on the railroads, his house had im ported 30,000; they were paid on an average a dollar a day in gold as labourers ; they could be induced to come from San Francisco to Memphis for $2O a month, and could be had on a five years' contract in China for $lO to $l2 per month. The expense, according to the Transportation Com mittee, of carriage from Hong Kong to San Fran cisco ranged from $BO to $lOO in gold, and from San Francisco the men can be brought to Memphis over the railwayin gangs o f 50 for about $5O each person. KOOPMANSHOP said they were not reliable, as unless security was exacted they would take service with others on higher wages being offered. The Conven tion met again on the 15th, and organised the Mississippi Valley Emigration Company, with one million dollars stock, in shares of $lOO, with the privilege to double its capital, and $40,000 were subscribed on the spot. It is evident that a strong tide of Chinese and Japanese immigration is about to flow into the United States, which in time can scarcely fail to make itself felt on the nation. However repugnant to Republican institutions a servile class may be, in no other country in the world would such a class be more heartily welcome than in the United States. An American does not choose to submit to be his own hewer of wood or drawer of water if he can by any means escape the drudgery; on a pinch no one will do it more readily, but as a constancy no one is more impressed with the conviction that he is above such work, and to escape i t America n ingenuity has always been keenly taxed. If this feeling is strong in the men, it is still stronger in the women. So generally is the want of that sort of labour felt that a distinct tendency is ob servable among Americans to abandon the country and flock into the towns where they can do better with brain-work, and in speculating and trading among the crowd, than in labouring without suffi cient help on their farms. Yet it is not so much what they gain in the city as what they avoid by leaving the country which impels them. The fathers feel it ; but if they do not act on it, the children feel it still more strongly, and do act on it, for they cannot en dure a life of hard manual labour, ending only in securing the bare means of living. To have.the farm cultivated, the household drudgery performed by docile, contented, industrious, and cheap Chinese labour would be an unspeakable relief to so intelli gent a class, condemned to a lengthened, monoton ous, and to them most distasteful toil. In the cities the comfort experienced from a large Chinese immigration would be felt only in a lesser degree, and no theories, no probabilities as to the social effect, no difficulties as regards the suffrage, will be permittad to stand in the way. But let us imagine the native American gratified by the import of millions of Chinamen ; let us imagine the almond eyed Celestial on every farm, in every house, what would be the effect ? Puttiug aside the Chinaman as a voter, and on his use of such a privilege few can speculate who do not know the people intimately, it is easy to see in the future an America wholly changed from the early days of the Republic. A servile class inevitably creates an aristocratic class ; while an aristocratic class is as great an abomina tion in the eye of a truly Republican A m e r i ca n as a servile class. Socially, it is no exaggeration to say that a large importation of Chinese labour would in a few years change the country. Another of its effects would be to add to the disparity between rich ani poor, making the rich richer, and giving to capital the command over labour. The influence on Europe would be instantly felt, America becoming the land for enterprising young men with capital, but not for the working man. The emigration now going on would be checked in quantity as well as changed in quality, for Europe would have no chance in com peting with China as a labour-bearing field, and in proportion as•the Asiatic stream flowed in would be the decrease of that from Europe. This alone would have an extraordinary effeet,making North America the amalgamation ground for the most energetic of the European and the two sleepy Asiatic races so long" excluded from the rest of the world, the Chinese and Japanese. But are the Chinese the peaceful, docile, harmless creatures so generally represented in America? In England's colony of Hong Kong frequent murders are perpetrated in the vicinity of the town, it is notoriously unsafe to enter a boat after nightfall, the adjoining bays and harbours swarm with pirates, and Chinese junks have to sail in fleets and make preparations be fore starting for defence. The most numerous as well as atrocious risings at sea have been among the Chinese coolies, who have destroyed very many ships in their efforts to capture them. The most sanguinary rebellion of aodern times has had China for its stage, and none can inspect their pictorial representations, as well as the life-like clay models in which they excel, wilout being satisfied that they are a cruel race. indeed their markets fur nish sufficient evidence of this fact, their system being carried out with a total disregard for the sufferings of the animal. That they are a con temptible enemy, with little knowledge of offensive weapons, we grant, but this renders . them inoffen sive, not from disposition, Init from inability. Though they have as immigrants, both in Australa and California, proved harmless and docile, yet this has not been so in Penang, Borneo, and Singapore. Another subject connecttd with this immigration attracts much attention—the bellot in Chinese hands. The XVth Amendment, now almost vir tually a part of the Constitution, insists upon nn. partial suffrage, and that induces people to con sider whether a Chinamae, on becoming a citizen, who could neither speak nor read - English, and who knew nothing whattver of the Constitution, ought to be allowed to yob. The thousands of the most ignorant latest arrivals from Europe, who claim this for themselves as the inalienable right of man, would see it in a different light when claimed by a Chinaman. Hence tie Celestial immigration may lead to the adoption ef an impartial educa tional ttst, and a gradual retction take l lace against universal suffrage, for it isa manifest absurdity to regard Chinese unable to peak English or to un derstand the privilege, as nen qualified to vote; yet what excludes them should exclude others as well. The subject is of deep interea. to Americans, as it can scarcely fail to exercise au important influence on the country. One thing, however, is evident, that the price of labour will not fall without a bud fight. The Trades Unions all over the States have been addressed through circulars issued from Washington, directing their attention to the influx of Chinese, and asking their advice, while meet ings have been called throughout the country, and representatives from California are engaged in agi tating the question in many Eastern cities. LICENSE TO 1?013. (From the Anglo-American Times.) If the majority of those who framed the Limited Liability Act of 1862 had accurately estimated the tone of commercial morality in England, they would certainly have refrained from passing a law which can be summed up in the three words, License to Rob. It is true that the Houseof Com mons is in a degree composed of the robbers, and that the direct tendency of the Act was to increase the class, for the most successful of the bubble-floaters in all their brilliant hues, float as a rule into Parliament. "M.P." after a man's name when the Act came into operation could constitute to him an income. Although not the initials of the words, the public accepted the letters as standing for Universal Knowledge, leaving out the " I's," which meant industry, intelligence, integrity, in corruptibility. It mattered not, then, how many charges were undertaken by such heaven-sent ge niuses as M.P.'s. No one asked what they knew of the affairs they undertook to conduct; no one asked what time was at their disposal ; the company was a joint-stock limited liability, the proposed director an M.P., and how would the curious shareholder who made such inquiries have been met by the S,cretary or shareholders ? Yet it was reason able to ask if the range of one man's knowledge qualified him properly to conduct the affairs of a great railway, a steamship company, a mine in Mexico, anotherin Australia, a tea estate in Assam, a linen manufactory in Ireland, a brewery in Eng land, and a ship-building company on the Clyde. The law was a profitable law for such members of Parliament as considered themselves qualified for these varied pursuits, and did not object to under take them, besides attending to their own business, if they had any, their private affairs, which they must have, as well as their duties in the llouse. Whatever may have been the action of the law on the outside public, and whatever its effect on the cha racter of these Parliamentary magnates, it seems as a rule to haveleft the latter untouched in pocket, and we know that it was a source while it lasted, of fruitful gain to the " guinea -pigs," as those who pretend to conduct such numerous concerns are called. After the crash of 1866 and the subsequent revelations which fully prove the assertion that the Joint- Stock Limited Liability Act of 1862 was a license to rob, of which many in good positions availed themselves, it might be expected that the atten tion of Parliament would again be directed to a measure which had had so pernicious an effect. More than three years have passed since the com mercial name of England was trailed in the mud ; a by -word and reproach, a thing to jeer at through out the world, yet no action has been taken on the subject. A man who libels the privileged classe.?„ like Mr. GRENVILLE-MURRAY, is quickly set upon and extinguished ; but those who systematically plunder the people, who affix a stigma on the British national character, who ruin families by the thousand and dissipate scores of millions, who in destroying confidence injure for many years the trade of the country—can do so with impu nity. The "smashed" as a rule are small peaple ; the earnings of the retired shopkeeper, the savings of the military officer, the modest competence of the widow, may be appropriated and their owners crushed in shoals; they may starve unnoticed, die, or commit suicide; they disappear, when other victims grow up from the path of our " guinea-pig" legislators, who are again ready for action, but surely these men and their doings are more worthy of the national atten tion than our hereditary legislators, whom it has lately been so much the fashion to write down. Yet this House of Commons, which is so busy that it cannot attend to small matters like this Act, finds time to pass a law for the suppression of Mr. SULLIVAN, the Mayor of Cork. When will Parliament take up this subject, and trace out the ruinous working of the law passed in 1862? If to it is to be attributed the Fraud Crisis of 1866, that measure did more to dissipate wealth, to bring ruin, misery, insanity, and death into families than the Crimean War, or any contest in which Great Britain has been engaged since Waterloo, not excepting the expeditions into Affghanistan. Let any with a large circle of acquaint ances calculate the persons they know, who were hurried into their graves from the effects of their severe losses, just as much as were men who eventu ally died from wounds receives in action, and they may estimate, when they multiply the number by those all over the kingdom what its effect was even in depriving of life. But disgraceful as were the acts perpetrated, disgraceful as is the impunity with which they were committed, and destructive on all sides as have been their effects, it does not appear to be of suf ficient importance to engage the attention of Eng land's Statesmen, who are convulsing the country on an Irish Church Bill. The very essence of Mr. GLAD STONE'S Administration is money, the integrity of the Empire even being jeopardised for economy, yet, the Irish Question only involves a sum exceed. ing by a very few times that dragged from the pockets of the swindled shareholders in the matter of OVEREND-G URNEY alone. Parliament passed a law which has been proved to be a mere license to rob. Among the many who availed themselves of it to rob were members of Parlia ment, for, although it may appear harsh to say so, we cannot regard same of the proceedings of mem bers in any other light. Hence it is the more in cumbent ou the House of Commons fully to show up the working of this Act in debate, and to apply such a remedy as will, at least, make it dangerous, for any "guinea-pig" or director to put his name to documents he does not understand, and which, in so many notorious cases, have proved to be deceptions, traps, and frauds. It is amusing to trace the steps of the successful bubble-floater into Parliament ; indeed had the bubble mania not been interrupted by the Fraud Panic, the Treasury Benches, with those on the other side, would have become the pleasant seats of the unscrupulous. The letters "M. P." were worth money in a guinea-pig line of business. Acts such as that which limited liability Were the very basis of their trade, so " the House" at the West-end of the town became one scene of. their operations, while the llouse," as brokers and jobbers call the Stock Exchange in the City, became the scene of their operations at the other end. We grant that the enlarged Reformed constituencies rejected many of these people, and that souse, brazen-faced as they are, had not the audacity to propose their return to the scene o their glory, the Commons being thus far purified. But the character of the House could not be other than injuriously affected if another crisis arose out of such fraudulent transactions as those to which this Act of Parliament opened the way, if the perpetrators of the frauds proved to be, in numerous cases, mem bers of the House. And what is to prevent this ? as all now required is the new crop of fools, the entire machinery for working them being in perfect order, while the results of the last battue may, on the whole, be considered by the guinea-pigs to be highly encouraging. Stringent measures are re quired to fix on directors who are paid for taking charge of the money of others the strictest respon sibility—in fortune, for the success of what they re commend to others ; in person, to answer for fraud, as well as a public prosecutor, whose business it should be to bring the law to bear. We would not then be scandalised by the sight of men connected with transactions which have spread misery over the land, living in opulence, though their victims have to be sought ont in lunatic asylums, poor-houses,. or in paupers' graves. Until some such law is passel there will be nothing to prevent a repetition of the Fraud Crisis, except the dread a burned child has of the fire ; but it should be borne in mind that those are again congregating, untaught by ex perience, who have faith in members of Parliament and other persons of position in particular, and in human nature in general, and they become the suf ferers, while the wary old stager who foresees what is about to happen, prepares himself for the scram ble, and begins to regard such periodical " slaugh ters of the innocents" as a natural law, whereby he FORESTAL RIGHTS OF THE CROWN. Mr. Lowe has no comfort for those whose souls have been grieved by the encroachments of Lords of the Manor upon open forests and commons. There is no help for it, he tells the malcontents. He for one will not step in and exercise the privileges of the Crown by preventing manorial rights from being enforced. Indeed, he told a deputation which waited upon him about Epping Forest that he did not think the Crown had any power in these days to interfere at all. It was shewn to him that a king could order Epping Forest to be kept clear for hunting ; but that power, he replied, extended only to the chase. The Sovereign no longer hunted there ; and there was no reason, therefore, for enforcing the law. Mr. Lowe did not see that the " Crown's" pleasure in most cases now meant the people's pleasure, and he thought it was not equitable that what had originally vested in the sovereign for a specific purpose should now vest in the public for a similar purpose. YOREIGN NOTES. THE CABLISTg. A letter from Bayonne says that the supporters of Don Carlos are very numerous at that town as well as at Biarritz and St. Jean de Luz. They appear to be wait ing the order to cross the frontier. A journal published in the Carlist interest speaks of the agitation as being everywhere; the Government reports affirm that the movement is crushed utterly. The deduction to be made from the mass of chaotic details is that the rising, sup ported as it is by the clergy, has not yet been put down ; but there is no evidence whatever as to its making any pro gress. The correspondent of the Inclipendance Beige says that the total of the Carlist bands first gathered in the neighbourhood of Ciudad Real amounted to 3,000 men, and that some severe engagements have taken place. Many of the insurgents have, however, dispersed, and there is no reason for thinking that the movement is likely to succeed. A SCHLESWIG-110LSTEI1 CANAL. The Prussian Government seems to have filially deter mined that a canal through Schleswig-Holstein, joining the North Sea and the Baltic, and converting the penin sula of Jutland into an island, is necessary to the development of North Germany as a naval Power. The North German Correspondent rays that the preliminary surveys are complete, and the work will now be pushed on by the Government itself. Why should it not? There is everything in favour of Prussia becoming a great naval Power, the length of the canal is short, and the cost, 4i millions sterling, not excessive, considering the impor tance of the work. GUANO IN nussi.t. An interesting discovery is announced by an agri cultural paper of Russia. A large guano deposit has been found on one of the estates in the province of Esthonia, which borders on the Gulf of Finland. The bed was accidentally lighted upon by some workmen em ployed in draining. the land, "and it is supposed by those who have studied the matter that the layer in question was formed so long ago as in the ear:y days before the deluge." The chief layer was found at a distance of six feet below the surface of the soil, and measures 2,000 feet long by ninety wide. Its volume is calcu'ated at ISO,COO cubic feet. Similar deposits are surpcsed to exist along the shore about Revel. The discovery must prove of in estimable value to the agriculture of Russia, and, as the province adjoins the coast, to Europe also. SALE OF CUBA TO THE UNITED STATES. The Times' City article, notwithstanding recent denials, seems to put credence in a strong rumour that the pre liminaries of a bargain between the United States and Spain with respect to Cu')a have been arranged. The terms are said to be that Spain will recognise the independence of Cuba, and will receive from the new Government 100 millions of dollars (P. 20,000,000) in bonds to be secured on the revenues of the island and guaranteed by the United States. This sum would set Spain fr, e from financial difficulty, and the bargain seems a highly advantageous ore. Much, however, depends upon what the Span'ardg think of selling their island. They arc a'ways prtujebt when they are woat TILE QUAKERS AND 7EE INDIANS. 'When Gent al Grant entered upon tl:e duties of Presi dent, one of Lis first acts was to g've the Quakers the management of the troublesome " Indian question." This proceeding excited no little criticism ; but it appears that the administration of the Society of Friends has met with considerable success. A white man was recently killed by the Pawnees. The Quaker agent immediately called all the tribe teg).ther, and told them that the supplies furnished by the Government would not be distributed until the murde)ers were given up. The Pawnees dis covered the guilty t artier, e'ght in numter, surrendered them, and the Quaker agent at mice distributed the sup plies to the value of several hundred dollars. This good faith deliLlded the Indians, who declared that nothing tf the kind had ever been done before. Previously the whites retaliated, and a small war, accompanied by massa cre and outrage, was the general sequence. NTAGARA. Sightseers had better get a glimpse of the Niagara Falls before they are shorn of their glory, for again we have alarming intelligence that the rock is wearing away, and that consequently the Falls are " going." Heavy masses of ice which pass over in the spring, strong currents, and the tremendous concussio n of the cataract, are doing their work slowly, but surety. A correspondent writes :—" The Horse Shoe has evidently given way some thirty feet in that part of the cone where the `green water' is seen, so that the horse shoe appearance is metamorphosed to that of a triangu!ar shape. It is thought that about one hundred and fifty tons of rock must have fatlen in on the Horse Shoe alone, and old habitu 's here are taking landmarks to notice the recession that may take place before another year." The American Fall likewise has given way to some extent. Altogether, the present retrocesssion is the greatest ever witnessed by one generation. OUR COUNTRYMEN IN JAPAN, Insults to Englishmen and foreigners generally in Japan have been very numerous of late—so frequent, indeed, as to lead to diplomatic disturbances. On account of one outrage the Mikado sent an apology to Sir Harry Parkes, the British Ambassador ; but our representative persisted in demanding the names of the offenders. The native Go vernment declared that " they were unknown ;" but this transparent excuse did not deceive Sir Barry. He still refused to accept the apology unless the names were likewise given. The Japan Gaze'te states that since the Mikado has entered Yedo the indications of an approach ing outbreak against foreigners have become unmistake able. Neither the Mikado nor his supporters appear inclined to tolerate the presence of the "barbarians." TUE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The general tenor of the news from Paraguay is that the Allies find great difficulty in dislodging Lopez from the position he last took rip. The Buenos AtTes Standard says the Allies have stretched their lines round the moun tains, where the Dictator is posted, but hitherto with vciy little effect. Military men think that the operation of driving Lopez from his last position will be one of gi eat difficulty. Numbers of women and children, in a s'ate of great destitution, have been brought into the allied camp. One very serious engagement has taken place. General Beretto had made a successful raid upon the Paraguayans, and had liberated a great number of women and children. He was, however, attacked while defiling through a difficult pass in the mountains twenty-one miles long, and a desperate fight ensued. he Brazilians formed as well as the defile would admit, but the Parsguayans had a battery mounted on an eminence, which raked the pass, and the rear of the Brazilians was cAnpletely cut off. Hundreds of the unfortunate families perished, being between two fires, and the two cavalry regiments which wound up the rear were comrletely destroyed. This is considered one of the most serious engagements of the war. It seems to testify that the resources of Lopez are by no means exhausted. An interesting suit is progressing against the Shakers of New Lebanon to recover the person of a nine year-old girl held by the society against her will. Mrs. Sarah Ann Barbour left New-Dorp, Staten Island, clan destinely with her two children and arrived et New Lebanon iu October, 180, avowing herse:f a convert. Her Inotber, James 13. Daniel, joined her a year after, but lately both having become discontented withdrew, but the society kept this child, the other having been killed by an accident. The child .was kept by order of the Court in the custody of the Shakers, pending evidence to be pro cured before the following term, and the mother is per mitted to visit it four hours each day. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the wont Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfawt ; or 4, BoaufortrbuiPlings , Strand, London, W,C.— [Ad vet use moat, is supplied with prey, as insects are to birds, and birds to the fowler. While we admit that no legislation can prevent the inexperienced from being plucked by the it we maintain that it is the business of a Legislature to protec t the interests of thepublic gene rally against plotters. Society has wholly changed since the days when the Common Law of England was framed for the security of property and the punishment of thieves. That code is mainly directed against burglary, robbery with violence, defaulting clerks, or combinations of coiners, and those of the poor to defraud the rich. Now, few fear robbery with violence, or the skill of the pickpocket, or any other means by which purses are captured or pocket handkerchiefs or silver spoons abstracted ; but what men have to guard against is a more subtle and wholesale system of spoliation, and there is no effec tive machinery to put in force even such laws as have been passed for the punishment of these cases. Since the passage of the Limited Liability Act, scores of millions have been deliberately stolen under its provisions, a greater sum, probably, than the grand total of all the burglaries ever committed in Eng. land, for which thousands have been hanged—and who, for these atrocities, has been punished ?—while there is a civic dignitary, a notorious guinea-pig, connected with some concerns which alike ruined creditor and shareholder, flourishing, and standing high in the confidence of the commercial world. We may illustrate our position by a case which has just occurred in New York. WILLIAM H. SANFORD, the cashier of the Central National Bank, a man pos sessing the entire confidence of his employers, ab sconded with bonds amounting to $lOO,OOO, leav ing his wife and family stigmatised and starving. Before going he wrote a letter showing the agonised frame of mind in which he fled ; and what was it that carried him into this abyss ? Did our readers glance through an article which appeared in this paper a fortnight ago, telling the story of the Mari posa swindle, and which we gave as a sample of how they do it in New York, which is not unlike the way they do it in London. SANFORD was one of the unsuspecting crew caught by the brilliant reports from the estate in California, which there is reason to believe were all manufactured in the office at New York. He thought he might make a little money for himself, with small risk to the funds he used of the bank, by speculating in stock he had such good rea son for believing would soon be atpar. Those who read that article know what the thing was in which he in vested, and will not be surprised to learn that he is now a fugitive from justice, his wife and children reduced to beggary, and the innocent shareholders of the bank mulcted in the sum of $lOO,OOO. But a few weeks ago, the president of that company was presented with a piece of plate in consideration of his services and of the rising value of the stock, when he modestly disclaimed the high compliments ihowerei on him, ascribing the success of the Mari posa swindle to an over-ruling PROVIDENCE! The fate of SANDFORD, the loss to the Central Natimal Bank, and the desolation of the wife and little ones are a part of this pious gentleman's h.mdiwo.k. The law which would award the punishment of felony to the deceived culprit, regards as an hon oured member of society the deceiver ; and this is practically the same in England, where, we venture to assert, there were scores of such cases during the last three years. The law requires a change, but tl.cs3 who make the law are in n) hurry, as the interests of the mernbers themselves would be rather injured than served by any such alteration. BUDGET OF PERSONAL—The New York. Work! reports that General Butterfield was appointed Assistant Treasurer, at New York, on the recommendation Mr. A. T. Stewart.—The Hon. James E. Wilson declines to be considered a candidate for United States Senator from lowa. Captain Lott, of the Cunard steamer, Russia, has crossed the Atlantic 371 times.—Major-General Thomas and Staff left Portland, Oregon, on the Bth of July for Alaska.—Ex -Secretary William H. Seward is confined to his hotel, at San Francisco, by an attack of rheumatism.— Commodore Vanderbilt has engaged a suite of apartments at Niagara for the summer.—Cyrus W. Field and Frede rick E. Church aro at the Prospect Park Hotel, Catskill. Mr. Church is about to build a residence on the east bank of the Hudson River, opposite the hotel.—Andrew Johnson is announced to make a speech at Carthago, where some body says the modern Marius can survey his own ruins.— Among the passengers by the Uamburgh and American Company's steamer Si esia, which arrived at Plymouth from Now York July 23, were the Hon. S. B. Ruggles, the United States delegate to the International Congress at the Hague, and Captain Tetteuborn, the Prussian Consul- General at Shanghae.—Sir John Rose, the Canadian Fi nance Minister, has resigned; we regret to hear of the death of his grand-child at Montreal during his ab sence at Washington. It is said that either Sir John Macdonald or Sir George Cartier will succeed Sir John Rose as Finance MiaLter. General Franc's A. Os borne was offered, but has declined, the appointment of Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the State of _Massa chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.—Hon. Edward M'Pherson, of Pennsylvania, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, was to leave Now York for Europe on July 23th, on a trip for the benefit of his health.—Sec rotary Boutwell has reappointed T. J. Kinsella Special Agent cf the Treasury Department. This is the gentleman who re cently investigated the New Orleans frauds.—Mr. R. W. Raymond,Commissioner of Mining Statistics, is now on his travels, collecting materials for his next annual report to Congress.—Prof.Whitney, with a scientific party, is to spend July and August in the South and Middle Parks, for the purpose of making a geological examination of the country. Another fight has been arranged between McCoole and Allen, for $2,500 a-side, to be fought in four months, within 50 miles of Cincinnati.—Marshal Packard, of New Orleans, has seized the books of Auguste Contourie and Co. for examination relative to the recent sugar frauds.— It is rumoured in America that the Empress of the Francis will visit the United States next summer. —About a fort night ago an unknown person threw himself under the wheels of an advancing train at Crewe station, England, and was of course instantly killed. Upon his body was found papers and Wads which had been abstracted from a New York bank in ono of the recent robberies, we pre sume of the Ocean Bank.—Two ascents of Mont Blanc have lately been made, and singularly enough the gentle men who made them met on the summitt and descended together; the one was Mr. Armot, of New York, and the other Mr. Adams Reilly, of London. —Mr. Jefferson Davis, accompanied by. Mr. Charles Mackay, has reached Edinburgh on a tour through Scot land. We presume, therefore, that Mr. Davis is not in the deplorable state of health in which he was represented in a paragraph which went the rounds of the American and English papers.—The Episcopal Bishop of Chicago has instructed the wardens of Trinity Church of that city not to allow that pulpit to be occupied by Rev. Dr. Cummings, the latter having inveighed against Ritualistic doctrine.— The New York Mail remarks that Mrs. Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. —The Hon.E.J.Morris, American Minister at Constantinople, has been elected President of the English and American Bible Society of that city.—Atnong the passengers on the steamer Berlin which left Baltimore on Wednesday, July 14, for South. ampton, 'wore Henry Howard and family, of the British Legation, at Washington, Mr. Rainals, British Consul at Baltimore, and the Rev. Dr. Rankin, of St. Luke's Epis copal Church, Baltimore. On the 16th of July, in Oyer and 7ernziner, New York, seven of the Wall-street brokers, against whom in dictments had been found, being arrested proposed to give baiL The names of those found were as follows : Russell Sage, whose surety is James Buell, Lucas J. Van Boskirk, surety, James H. Benedict ; Reuben W. Howes, surety, Charles A. Macy, junior; Chas A. Macy, surety, Charles A. Macy, junior ; Edward R. Jones, surety, Ed ward Jones ; George Phipps, surety, Edward Jones ; David M. Morrison, surety, Douglass Duane. The bail was in all the cases fixed at $3,000, except Mr. Macy's and Mr. Jones's, against whom two indictments have been ound, who aro held in $O,OOO. The indictments are simple indictments for usury, under the statute by which usury is made a misdetueaeor, punishable with a fine not exceeding 81.,000, a - A imprisonm:int not exceeding six months. LITERARY ITEMS.—Mr. Bayard Taylor has ac cepted a non-resident profesiorship of German literature at the Cornell University, where ho will deliver next March a series of • lectures.—Mr. John Tyler, son of ex- President Tyler, is writing a series of essays on " The Course of Commerce during the First Historical Cycle of Human Eventualities. It is thought that it will be light reading for those on their holiday "summer tour," and is generally recommended by the American press Cs well calculated to relax an overstrained mind. Bat ja lging from the extracts given, we are inclined to think that iu a happy state of vacancy the raader would drop off to sleep, a page being sufficient to ensure a nap. If we had not so many authors in the same style, these essays might be at least as valuable on this silo of the Atl ntic. —Mrs. Stowe's " Oldtown Folks" has reached a soli of 23,000 copies.—A pamphlet has been issued in New York on the "Dietetic Means of Reducing Superfluous Fat." OBITUARY.—R. M. Field, who has stood for many years at the head of the St. Louis bar, died Jul 3 12. —The Hon. William Brigham, a prominent lawyer of Boston, died ou Friday, July 9.—Gilb er t H o ll an d W arren, eight yaars old, son a the editor of the Buffido Courier, and godson of Dr. J. Holland, died in Buffalo on Sunday, July 11, of lockjaw, the r e s u lt o f acc id entally shooting 'a pistol ball through hishand some weeks before. HOUSE OF LORDS -LAST EVENING. DUBLIN FREEMEN'S COMMISSION. Earl GRANVILLE moved that the house go into co of mittee on this bill, which was opposed by the B 3rl LONGFORD. After a few w or d s f rom L ord CAIRNS the oppo sition 1 0 was withdrawn, an d t h e bill passed .through comm'i'e and was reported without amendment. FORTIFICATIONS BILL. This bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMIVIONS.—LAsT EVENING. The SPEAKER, took the chair at the usual hour. NEW WRIT. f A new writ was orderel to issue for the election ti „ . .l member for the co un t y o f A n t r i m in the room of Ado''' . Seymour. NOTICES OF MOTION. Fur next session : Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY—In the event of tbelft; ried Women's P ro p er t y Bill not becoming law during tmto present session, t o move f or l eave to bring in a amend the law relating to the property of married vfor li ; Mr. C. DENISON — T o call attention to the 10' ,' damages awarded in crises of accident against rail"' companies. Mr. GRAVES—To movo for a reduction of the iri ter' national postage of newspapers and letters. Mr. M. TORILENS (ou the third reading of the;tifetro' , poliian Board o f W or k s L oans Bill) —To move the i01:-0 tion of a clause restricting the - sale of surplus park 1a fit by the Board to one-twelth of the whole land vested the purpose of a park under their control. Colonel SYKES—To call attention to petitions stinted by officers of the Indian army claiming redre ss grievances connected with their plyments to the life hones fund. THE NEW LAW COURTS. In reply to Mr. MONK, Mr. GLADSTONE said that it was impossible, at h period, even to arrive at a decision on the re port, r 6 `` c had not yet been laid before the house. THE APPROPRIATION BILL. This bill passed through committee. EAST INDIA REVENUE. Mr. GRANT DUFF then proceeded to mako the ar null statement of the condition and position of the fle3ll - India, which occupied the remainder of the sitting. On resuming at 9 o'clock, Of a ° Mr. FAWCET T move d that, in the opinion 0 „si house, those who are no t members of the Esta blis; , Church cannot be placed in a position of equality w itb ie p gard to university education in Ireland until all the 0 0 lowahips and sch o l ars hi ps o f T rinity College, Dub l i n, freed from all religious disabilities. After a brief discussion the motion was withdraW a ' a d A number of other topics were discussed brieflif - 1 11 amongst them the fi nanc i a l position of the country Ws;so regard to the Nati o n a l D e b t ; M r. H. B. Sher idan called attention t o a case and grievances of a gen tlen' rt named Huggin s , A ss i stant Judge of tho Supreme C°llthi: sierra Leone ; whil e M r . E y k yn further allude d to sot case of the thr ee b an k er ' s c l erks, whose trial and disr; lls ,t. tt the Marlb oroug h- street Police -court has recentll - tracted so much attention. r e St The Parochial Schools (Scotland) Bill occup i e d tile d the evening in discussion. The house then adjourned. b Miss Maria S. Rye has add resse d a l e tter t° t 0 e 1 . New York Tribune, in which sho states that in a s w ill fourth party o f a h un d re d small girls is a success, 611 is of get consid era bl e ass i stance to place some thousa nd young Englishw omen i n goo d h omes in America,' 3 wants being funds. Of the new Captain-Gen era l o f C u b a a corre' spondent says:—" De Rodas is a man of quite g () % r ivg pearauce, is somewhat short in stature, not !pe a° eye , more than 5 feet 7 inches, is bald-headed, has a fin e cie uto and a martial bearing. One not knowing his antl e ge ritr would think him amiable.—Au American paper 'tat * ing the British Minister, Mr. Thornton, says that fl - 00 0, certain amount of British stiffness he has a fine P res t o:o l wears grey side whiskers, and speaks with loss than.,oo - the disagreeable English accent I Another cerro - u r r of dent thus describes tho two candidates for Oev el .. ° Tennessee :—" The contrast between the two I .° iitti° marked. Senter is young, between 35 and 3 ` 4 ,, - to 1)° above medium height, broad and rather incline,, f a ce, portly, black hair and beard, and full and floc • p rlu• which tells of a love for the good things of the w ° v ouvo anchorite, evidently . Th ough comparatively a - 7 Joel man, he has had much political experience, ha viug arS in public life almost constantly since he was '2l Y e giglit age. Stokes, on the contrary, is thin and sP a , re r ', : oor figure, a little stooped, bald crown, smooth an u ,',,,f less face, beak-like nose, and general contour hot'!" an and figure, which at times seems decidedly bird-0.11.$ • lb° recalls forcibly the familiar sobriquet (the bald eao l ! w a i* mountains'), by which he has been so widely kl 2v this canvass. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—HoIIoway's Ointment and Dangerous disease s wou ld not present themsel,l e s ging ° often if timely a tt en ti on were bestowod on the firs' fife' which betray a departure from health. Hew 1119 ,„ v i;tonl long maladies spring from neglecting trifling Y .- The pimple readily curable in the nursery becoin s e s thr9 V -1111 .. carelessness the irremediable torment of after-1 0.0 %00 0 a knowledge of the curative power of HollowaY 'l3 e i l i c atiot and pills, and the facility and safety of their al ) ,_,P st s eeds those who fail to use them for extirpating the 'risienee of hereditary ailments will have to bear the punts re resulting from their folly. Holloway's remedies rofulal and sc move eruptions of the skin, scorbutic disease, r au and heal every description of ulcer, sore, wou nd, ° sion. p0r .,,, [ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all are ori)sit bilious, stomach, and iver complaints in every ' lll4 9 60 0 ' uti , aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve , y descrig eo le 00 perfe.:tly curable by Do BARRY'S health•restoring "i ia d n Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which. ) eos t g ri considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dYsP e Pnil asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrifcc-'icucY, "Ds, derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, Sato cu tarr et , vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtherra!_te, go se. impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rhernps"' ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debilf Y; e , sl oe spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at at _ ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, P we ci aot i ,(4 o , pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, B z . c.„; d, Ctan r io few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Harry's . 0 21 Fafn u ra 68,413—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the -no 3r is,l3s_7A, excellent, especially since, abandoning all other rails_ wet , V) ce a confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta A pr od.t . ; of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. it h ia l s s iloh„" c tte a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and the esThef rout tio cannot praise this excellent food too highly."— r robert sl tea"' du Midi, July 2 Cure No. 46,•a0. Mr. James —. ns ed : co re irritability,siecrels: merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disc foss. r fod , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial dea o ,„ T me s _ r N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies Lord-Lieutenant e`ec. coliglijao of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83. "Fifty Yer h able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, astbra_i tivg . eer y stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and v""„, unsay authority Jolly." 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DIRERT ATi EARITAII EN it The LORD CLIANCELLOR took his Boat on the woolsack at five o'clock. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ARRANGEMENT BILL. The Earl of . LICHFIELD moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to give power to three" fourths of th 3 mem b ers and value of any Joint SO°t Companies to make arrangements to prevent litigat l°l3 connected with winding up their concerns. Lord REDLSDALE opposed the motion, as the ID": sure bad arriv e d a t th e i r l ordships ' house too late to 01) taro the necessary consideration. —• After a few words from Lord KIMBERLEY and LORD CIIA.NCELLOIt the order for the second reading 1138 discharged. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BILL. The Marquis of LANS DO WNE, in moving the sec° t reading of this bill, p rocee d e d to give a detailed stateulend of the provisions of the bill now under consideration, An also the tetras upon which the existing telegraph COw parries wore to be taken over by the Government. Tho bill was accordingly read a second time. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANDIALs) BILL. On the motion that this, bill do pass, The Marquis of SALISBURY moved the insertion of t ; clause allowin g ra il way com p anies to charge for the cos t° , disinfecting cattle in transit. He contended that it %ca d but fair th a t whilst the companies we r e prevented raising their fares beyond the recognised Ug ull they ought to bo allowed to charge for i ll : creased services. The railway companies had 101 had two addition a l c h arges cast upon them during the IsB .. year—viz., the cos t o f prov i d i ng smoking carriages an d tli ci ° communication with the g uar d, an d as t h os e h i !, led to much expense being incurred, it would be but ill that the present a men d m e nt should be inserted in the Di ll Earl DE GREY opposed the insertion of the claus e, which, however, was not pressed, and the bill according' , ' passed. I 1