The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-13 00:00:00

SENATOR MORTON ON ENGLAND. The speech of Senator Morton, of Indiana, on the occa of consecrating the soldiers' monument on the battle-field of Gettysburg, was by no means confined to the subject immediately before him. After describing the battle, and touching upon most of the events of the war inremarkably highflown language, the Senator gradually turned his attention to the progress of liberty in America and other parts of the world. A large instalment of his discourse was given to England. Be thinks great changes are yet to come :—" Another reform bill will soon be demanded, making suffrage universal, or nearly so, to be followed by the disestablishment of the English Church, the abolition of the laws of primogeniture, and the final de struction of the kingly office. The mass of the English people are substantially, though not professedly, republi can in sentiment. They accept the great doctrine of human rights upon which our Government is founded; and, while they yet retain the throne and the House of Lords, any attempt on the part of either to exercise positive power, to resist the popular will, would be instantly met by threats of resistance, and, if not aban doned, by revolution. The throne and the Upper House remain much like the feudal castles that yet distin guish the English landscape, emblems of departed power, curious to the view, full of historic interest, but no longer dangerous to the peace of the surround ing country. English reforms, heretofore slow, are becoming more rapid, and the English people are marching with accelerated speed to a repub lican government. Universal suffrage and heredi tary privilege cannot exist long together. They are essen tially hostile elements. The spirit of American liberty is abroad in England. Her Brights, Gladstones, Forsters, and her whole host of Liberal statesmen, are proclaiming the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, and verifying the saying of a celebrated Englishman, that the American Revolution guaranteed the free institutions of England. We may not live to see England a republic, but I believe our children will. The event can be pre dicted with as much certainty as any other in human affairs ; and it is hastening on, perhaps fast enough when all things are considered." ,SERIOUS DISURBANCES NEA.R SHEFFIELD. At a late hour on Saturday night a very serious conflict took place between some unionist and non-unionist colliers near Sheffield. The scene of the affray is the Manor Castle Pit, which belongs to Mr. Huntsman. A strike took place at this as well as several other of Mr. Huntsman's pits three or four months ago, and since then the colliery has been worked by men from a distance who are not members of the colliers' union. Two or three disturbances have taken place between the two sets of men, but till Saturday night they had not resulted in anything serious. The disturbance then was of such a character that it is feared a woman, named Sykes, will lose her life. How the disturbance originated is difficult to ascertain. It seems, however, that a man, named Davis, who is the engine-tenter at the colliery, was returning from Sheffield with his wife, and that when near their own house they were assaulted by a unionist miner, named Sykes, and his wife. The assault seems to have been of a brutal character, and Mrs. Davis's screams attracted the attention of the night watchman at the pit bank. He and one or two others went to the assistance of Davis and his wife, and on their way were stoned by some unionists who had been attracted to the spot. They then returned for further assistance, and on again making their appearance, some more stones were thrown at them, and a general conflict took place. The non -unionists seem to have been greatly overmatched, and to have been very much kicked and knocked about. Two or three of them, whilst on the ground, believing their lives to be in danger fired loaded pistolsat their assailants. The contents of one of the pistols lodged in Mrs. Sykes's body, and last evening she was not expected to recover. A non-unionist, named Nixon, was also shot in the thigh, but not seriously. Several of the non-unionists were severely cut and bruised, and Davis had one of his ribs broken. Mrs. Davis was so much cut about the face and head that she has since been confined to her bed ; her face is one mass of bruises. The conflict continued till the arrival of some police constables, when three of those who it is supposed took a leading part in the conflict were apprehended. LAW AND POLICE. THE DUTIES 01' TEUSTEES.—In Vice-Chancellor Malins's Court, on Monday, a case:was heard in which the trustees of an estate refused to pay a sum of money to the niece of the testator, the legacy being, to "Ann Haslop," and her name being "Mary Ann." The defendants pleaded that there might be a great niece called "Ann," but the Vice- Chancellor said that in no case could a great niece be -entitled, and as there was no justification for the refusal to pay, there must be a decree with costs.—ln a similar case, the widow of the testator bad been reduced to the greatest straits, though property amounting to £350 had been placed at the London and Westminster Bank by the trustees. She had applied to the defendants, one of whom gave her ls. and the other ss. Vice-Chancellor Malin said they must pay the costs up to the hearing, and there must be an account. A summons must be taken out, and he would direct investment in New Indian Stock, which would produce £l5 a year, and payment of the income to the plaintiff now. UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—At Guildhall, on Monday, a greaseboiler, named Barnes, carrying on business in Suffolk, was sent to prison fur a month for sending to the New Meat Market the carcass of a pig unfit for human food. A farmer, named Bryant, also from Suffolk, received a similar sentence for sending the carcasses of four sheep unfit for food to the same market. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB.-At the Marylebone Police court, the case of the Marylebone Club was brought under notice. Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Russell appeared to answer the charge of keeping a place for betting. A police-constable said he went to the house in plain clothes, and took out a ticket of membership for ss. He saw betting-lists on the wall, and saw the defendants make bets. For the defence it wassaid that this was as much a club as Tatter sall's, that none but members were allowed to enter, and no bets were made except with members. Mr. Mansfield said he would give his decision on Thursday next. THE CEMETERY FRAUDS.-At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Joseph Kitchen was indicted for em bezzling various sums of money with intent to defraud the Abney Park Cemetery Company. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy on account of the prisoner's previous good character. Mr. Lewis, on the Fart of the prosecution, joined in the recommendation. The Recorder passed a sentence of six months' imprisonment. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BANK CLERK.—At the Central Criminal Court, George Dickson pleaded guilty to embez zling sums of money belonging to his employers, Messrs. Smith and Payne, bankers. The Recorder said the prisoner bad been in a responsible situation, but engaged in betting transactions, and plundered his employers. He sentenced him to five years' penal servitude. Another stzike amongst the colliers in the Barnsley district seems imminent. Owing to the depressed state of the trade, the proprietor of the Mount Osborne and other pits in the neighbourhood, employing from 600 to 70C men, bas intimated his intention of reducing the rate of pay ment. Tho men have held a meeting, and resolved not to .ccept tho reduction. A lamentable occurrence took place at the port of Goole on Saturday evening. A billy boy lighter, called the Stone Merchant, laden with copper ore, for the Goole Alum Works, was coming up tho river, in charge of a steam tug, and when abreast cf the Lock Hill, the tug stopped to allow the lighter to swing round on a taut rope. Just at this time the screw steamer William Caulman was leaving the steam packet lock for the continent, and the two vessels came into violent collision, the sloop sinking instantly, taking down with her the master, John Car michael, of Hull, and his wife. The bodies have not been recovered. THE GREAT PROBLEM SOLVED.—The New York rapers of the Ist publish the following despatch:—" San Francisco, Tuesday, June 29.—Successful experiments have been made in this city with a working model of an aerial navigation machine. It not only ascended into the air, but was propelled in any required direction by the machinery, and it has the capacity for carrying eight or ten persons, being constructed for the purpose of making trips to New York. The inventor is confident that the tr;p can be made in twenty-four hours." THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND AND HIS CREDITORS, —ln Judges' Chambers, on Monday, four summonses came on before his lordship, Mr. Baron Bramwell, in refe- Nence to the Earl of Westmoreland. They had been taker out (except one) on the part of the Earl for liberty to the Sheriff of Northamptonshire to sell by private contract, instead of public auction, and in case of a new execution a public sale was preferred. The several solicitors in the matter discussed the applications. The execution creditors asked for a sale by con tract, as beneficial compared to a public auction. The Sheriff of Northamptonshire was represented before the learned judge, and he wished an order to enable him to sell by contract. It was stated that the property other than that claimed by the Dowager Countess would fetch about .C5OO . more than by public auction. The first execution was by Mr. Solomon for £3,000, the next by Messrs. Beyfus for £9,000 and upwards, and then other executions would take if any was left. Mr. Davn Bramwell made the order for leave to 411 1 .)Y private contract. THE VALVE OF FORTS. (From the Anglo-American Tin-es.) Some telling statistics have been brought tobear on that disputed point, the value of forts. The figures show the enormously increased cost of defending, say a seaport, by ironclads instead of by forts, the difference being little short of ten to one, while the efficiency is less. There are certain points which must be defended ; on these points, from shore to a depth of more than six fathoms, fortifications should be erected, as they are cheaper, as they remain at the place where they are a necessity, and when there are better adapted to the required work than ships. The estimated cost per gun in the improved ironclad is £lOO,OOO, a sum beyond all comparison greater than the cost per gun of erecting and main taining fortifications of equal strength, even where a ship would anchor, though in such depths the expen diture on the fort is mainly sunk in the foundations under water. The cost per gun mounted in vessels of the Warrior class is about £ll,OC°. In the Hotspur, where the strength of the plating is enormous and the guns very powerful, though few in number, the cost per gun is £97,000.; but in forts of stone, plated with iron, it is £4,000 per gun, and of earth only £2,509. While :he difference in the first outlay is so great the cost of maintenance is still more dispro portionate. To keep in repair a steamer with its engines, wear and tear of hull and gear, not to men tion the crew, must cost more than a fort, the items of repair being much larger, while the ship goes more speedily to destruction than the fort. The cost then per gun in outlay and repair mounted in a first class ironclad is said to equal £lOO,OOO, while tak ing the most improved forts, including those con structed at Spithead, in instances, we believe, in over ten fathoms water, the expense per gun would not reach one-tenth that sum. In blocking Ports mouth against an attacking fleet forts are indis pensable, unless an ironclad squadron superior to the enemy is to be kept constantly at anchor at Spithead ; and as the Needles are being rendered impassable to hostile ships by the erection of such forts as that of Hurst Castle, and of those at Portsmouth and at Spithead, it follows that the squadron before necessary—for Portsmouth must, at all cost, be defended —is liberated for the work which more properly appertains to it. In fact people do not sufficiently separate two dis tinct things when discussing the value of forts. Forts are defensive, fleets are offensive, and it would be a mistake to apply the more costly offensive weapon for work which can be better done by the cheaper defensive system. As such arsenals and dockyards as those of Portsmouth, in England, as well as of Norfolk, in America, must be defended, if there be no forts at the proper points, ships must take their place. Hence the fleet, which may be neces sary for a service of the utmost importance else where, becomes tied to a depot where are grouped things of great value, which, if left, may be destroyed by an insignificant attacking force, while the ships cannot be wholly calculated on, as they may be driven to sea by a gale of wind, or, worse still, ashore. Given then the necessity for guns to be mounted at certain spots, which undoubtedly exists, and the value of forts is obvious ; nor that only, for they are almost indispensable. A British officer, whose experience is considerable, and knowledge of the subject intimate, maintains that the English system of erecting forts has approached to perfec tion, and in consequence some of the fortifications along the English coast are the strongest in the world, indeed, almost invulnerable, while their ar mament is the most powerful. In contrasting the cost of these with ships he has a right to take the new class of ironclads, the forts being also iron -clad, and it is amazing to learn the enormously increased cost per gun in the men-of-war. Vessels of the Warrior class are egg-shells as compared with those now building, and this may well be so when the expense has risen from /11,000 per gun to £90,000. It is indeed true, that war is in this day a game of science and money, for nothing but mechanical power and in genuity can meet the attack of such monsters wherever a nation has a vulnerable place on the sea. The ordinary guns now used will deliver on a given surface a blow nearly five times as great at 200 yards as the 68-pounder delivered, while this dispa rity is very much increased where the distance be comes greater, as the gnus of the present thy carry their force and velocity much further. Th 3 pro gress made is not confined to guns, but includes projectiles ; the introduction of a harder material, of for ms more suitable for penetration, having done most to give guns their present power. Chief among these is the chilled iron elongated shot, which is represented as being much superior •to steel ; the latter when pointed, on striking a target almost invariably alter the form, while the former goes through seven inches of iron without any per ceptible effect on its point, though the body is fre quently broken. Admiral ROBINSON laid it down as a rule (the truth of which appeared to be ad mitted in a general way in the evidence given be fore the Royal Commission on Fortifications) that the resisting plate to be effective must be as thick as the diameter of the attacking guns' bore ; that is, the shot from six-inch guns would be resisted by iron plates of six inches, as would seven-inch plates resist seven-inch guns, and so on. There is scarcely a limit to the size of the artillery which may be mounted on a fort while there is a limit to the weight of the gun which can be carried in a ship. Naval officers think it possible to mount a gun of 25 tons, but we believe that no such gun has as yet been shipped. The heaviest of British construction is 22 tons, but one of 13.3 inch has been used in throwing an elongated projectile of 600 lbs. In weight of metal the forts must always have the advantage, whether against an attacking fleet or army ; obviously in the latter case, where the heaviest siege train gun even thought of for the Bri tish service is but a seven-inch breech-loader, weigh ing 72 cwt. To move anything weightier with an army would, if not impossible, be so cumbersome as to delay operations, check the whole movements of the force, and be dangerous in a hostile country. Allowing that the fort being stationary affords a better target for a ship, it is also true that being stationary its accuracy of fire is much greater than that of amovingplatform, andthe material used in the construction of the strongest can only be destroyed by repeated shots striking the same place, or near to it. Although there can be no doubt as to the value of forts as thebest means of defence against ships at cer • tainpoints,thevalueof fortifications to stop the march of an army may be more conjectural. The increased range of projectiles has so changed the old systems, so widened the operations, that it is impossible no w to construct fortifications effectually to protect a point of attack, except on a circle so large as to require an army for its defence. Their value in this way may be doubtful, and there is no experience of actual war to guide since guns and targets attained to the present perfection. Richmond was defended by an army, but nearly all the fighting was in the open field, and artillery has become more effective since its fall. The siege of Sebastopol is of no value, for the guns there used were much the same as those with which NELSON fought the battle of Trafalgar. The French campaign in Lombardy did not test the question, as the Treaty was con cluded before the Quadrilateral was invaded, and the Prussians ran past lioniggriaz, the fort behind the Austrian army at Sadowa, when it proved worthless as a means of checking the advance of the victors, though it would have been of much ser vice in the campaigns of GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. It is a disputed point what the fort of Konig griitz did to save the routed Austrian army hold absolute destruction, yet it in no degree stopped the advance of the Prussians on Vienna. But whe ther useful or not against an invading army, the value of forts at certain spots on a coast, in moun tain passes, or even on rivers, is so manifest, that we cannot understand how the doubt could have I arisen or such a question come up for debate. The Japanese Government has made full and final payment, with interest, for the ram Stonewall, pur chased by the American Government two years since, and the money has been placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navy Department. DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. 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., Belfast; or 4, Beata Strand, Loudon, IV,C.—[Ad Tel ilbealellt_ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1869. every effort is being matte to ontain an alteration 'a the law, which refuses to them the right of prosecuting a• defaulting secretary. There seems to be little hope of Mr. Hughes's bill being carried through this session, especially as the Government has determined to deal thoroughly with the matter next year. Meanwhile, however, it is felt that it would be injusticeto leave matters as they now stand, and on Saturday a conference of barristers and others interested in the question, among whom were Mr. Frederick Harrison, Mr. Wright, Mr. God frey Lushington, and Mr. R. Applegarth (secretary to the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners' Society), was held in chambers at the Temple, for the purpose of framing a bill to be introduced in the present session, having for its object the protection of the funds of trades unions. The whole question was discussed at length, and a bill containing one clause protecting the funds of the societies and punishing embezzlement of them was framed, and it was resolved to hand it to Mr. Rathbone, 31. P. for Liverpool, who is to ask a question of the Govern ment on the subject to-day, for introduction at an early date into the House of Commons for Pas sage this session. THE MEETING OF MISH PEERS. There are various rumours afloat, more or less defined, as to what was done on Saturday at the meeting of Irish peers at the Duke of Abercorn's. It seems certain that their lordships were not unani mous ; that there was an extreme party, represented by the Marquis of Westmeath, and including the Earl of Clancarty, the Earl of Bandon, Lord de Vesci, and Lord Middleton, which was in favour of the total rejection of the bill on the third reading; and that, as a whole, the assembly came to no decision whatever upon the subject. Moderation, however, was urged by some of the peers, notably by the Earl of Bosse, the Earl of Clonmel, Lord Dunsany, and Viscount Hawarden. These nob!c lords, it should be noted, spoke very strenuously in favour of the amendments ; and generally there seemed to be a disposition to resent any interference on the part of tho Commons with the measure as it stands. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The correspondents on the Irish Church iSill aro still actively at work. Mr. Tighe Hamilton renews his arguments in favour of the gift of glebes and houses to the clergy of the three rival denominations. Upon the statesmanlike solution of this " great glebe land question" depends, in Mr. Hamilton's opinion, the ultimate result of equality or inequality, of conciliation or of mortal offence to the Irish people. ' He stipulates, however, that the transaction should be entirely with the laity. Another correspondent of the Times writes strongly on the hardships eilclured by the Irish Catholic priests for want of proper accommodation. Many painful cases have come, he says, under his own knowledge. An " Irish Protestant " thinks that the conferring of decent residences of Catholic and Presby terian clergy would be strictly in accordance with the original purpose of the fund, and would be a significant sign of the overthrow of Protestant ascendancy. Another writer quotes from a recent article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, in which the French politician recommends the separation of Church and State, avoiding the evils of a voluntary system by the incorporation of the congregations of each parish vesting in them a limited demesne as glebe. The Rev. Baldwin Brown, the well-known Inde pendent minister, writes again to the Daily News on concurrent endowment, and again condemns it, though not so sweepingly and unreservedly as some of his fellow-Congregationalists. He evidently sym pathises to some extent with those who support it, and is somewhat touched by the Broad Church idea of an establishment. This last, how ever, he does not think practicable. He thus paraphrases the appeal for comprehension : " Let us invent a platform on which Dr. Davidson (to whom we owe thanks for unveiling what Eras tianism would do for us) and Mr. Voysey may stand in church fellowship with the Bishop of Ripon and his congenial Dean, and be publicly paid and petted for undermining what the great mass of the people, rightly or wrongly, believe to be sacred and most precious truth." Is there (he asks) the faintest hope that in these days such a scheme could stand ? Mr. Brown goes on to argue that if the apostles of culture and lovers of scholarly Christianity had their way, if comprehension reduced all to a dead level, and fanaticism were extinguished by an Establishment taking in the whole nation, yet as soon as the desired results had been accomplished, Nonconformity would break out afresh as vigorously as before. THE DEMONSTRATION ON BLACKHEATH. The Protestant demonstration on Blackheath was by no means dull. From 2,000 to 3,000 is the number estimated as present, and of this gathering a considerable proportion— without being more precise as to a majority or a minority—was hostile to the purposes of the meeting. While some wanted to denounce Mr. Gladstone and abuse Mr. Bright, others were there to proclaim them to be the best of statesmen. The result was uproar, confusion, howling, yelling, and some little fighting. Even the Standard admits the meeting to have been a failure, and attributes its non-success to the lukewarmness of some of the Conservatives present. There were no resolutions put, and only one complete speech made. One of those who helped to arrange matters writes giving his opinion of the cause of the failures. Ile thinks it was impossible, in so short a time as was given, to get up anything like a good demon stration. " Nevertheless (he adds), I can assure our Protestant friends that no discouragement is likely to ensue from this failure ; for, with sufficient time to organise, with judicious manage.- ment, we feel sure we can at any future period draw together 100,000 good and true Protestants in the vicinity of the metropolis, to support the House of Lords in the constitutional course they are pursuing against the Irish Church Confiscation Bill." If the Conservatives had not great success they has their laureate, and if they had few speeches they had their ballad. A truly Protestant song was given to the people. here is a specimen of its genius : "Against fell dissensions The work of a band Whose Lilfral pretensions Would dismember the land. Against such declaimers As Beale;, Potter, and Bright Our Church's defamers, Let's meet in our might. To stay thelr aggressions, Now on Church, next on State; Judge their professions By their actions of late." A few such ballads as these judiciously circulated among the populace would " stay Liberal aggressions" indeed. The rhythm is so swinging, the language so choice, that no one could help being convinced by the sentiment. MEETINGS ON THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. Meetings are being arranged throughout the country to support the Government in opposing. the Lords' amendments to the Irish Church Bill. In addition to those already announced, there are to be meeting - 3 this week at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Bradford, Leicester, and Wolverhampton. At Birmingham the Liberal Association are considering what steps shall be taken to support the Ministers, and a town's meeting is to be held at Stockton-on-Tees. THE COBDEN CLUB DINNER. What the Liberal party owe to Mr. Cobden for his teaching, perhaps very few members of it calculate; but it is satisfactory to find that they give honour to him. The dinner on Saturday was attended by a Cabinet Minister—the Duke of Argyll—and by a large number of the rank and file of the Liberal members. What an influence Mr. Cobden has had on the public men of the present day may be gathered from the speech of the Duke of Argyll, who gave it as his opinion that the changes apparent in our states men were produced mainly by the policy which the deceased politician had advocated. The Duke went on to give his unqualified adhesion to Mr. Cobden's policy, saying that ho did not think it could be too extensively enforced. Mr. John Stuart Mill said much to the same effect. His remarks about America, that the principles of Free Trade there were now well established; it would be impossible for her to go backward in the matter; and that, as these principles became generally spread abroad, it would be impossible to sow dissension be tween the United States and England, were received with loud cheers. M. Chevalier gave reply to some criticisms on Mr. Cobden : " It had been said that Mr. Cobden was a man with but one idea, that Free Trade was the Alpha and Omega of his whole life. Those who entertained such a notion respecting the objects and aims of the life of his lamented friend could not have properly known him. Mr. Cobden was, on the contrary, a man of large ancl comprehensive feelings, and Free Trade WAS only one step towards the grand whole which he desired to accomplish. Mr. Cobden's desires were the welfare of mankind, the good understanding of nations generally, and the amity of all civilised nations. Mr. Cobden looked for Free Trade because he saw that it gave liberty to industry ; and he opposed Protection because it was a species of tyranny and oppression, and was productive of no good to the country. Mr. Cobden was also opposed to the militaryism of nations, which had of late unfortunately sprunginto existence, and it was to be regretted that that opposition had had no very effective or satisfactory results up to the present." THE FENIAN PRISONERS. Another demonstration intended to be grand and imposing has failed ignominiously. The great meet ing held at Mallow, on Sunday, to denounce the Attorney-General for his speech on the Fenian prisoners, was not attended by a thousand persons. Though the Attorney-General was certainly de nounced, the meeting was rather one of sympathy with the prisoners than against the Government. No person of influence attended, and the proceedings went off quietly. THE ORANGE AND TIIE GREEN. The union of the Orange and the . Green—the meeting of two extremes—has become tin . fait accompli. An appeal was issued on Saturday to the people of Cork urging them to sink party diffe rences, to remember that disunion has bronghi Ireland under a foreign Government, to determine that Ireland shall be free, and to wear the Orange and the Green together. This placard %yrs thought spurious by the Freeman's Journal, the Roman Catholic Liberal paper of Dublin, but Is taken up quite seriously by the Dublin Mail, the Orange organ. The Mail declares that the advice given in the bill is "sound and patriotic so far as it inculcates friendly relations between Orange and Green." Does the Mail really mean to say, as representing Orangemen, that they are prepared to help the Feniansto free Ireland from a w d it v h i c t e h e gi F y e e n n i w a n a s r tan ris k o e il e r a s t a t t h meetinge " a foreign Government ?" It may be added that the of s_ s n y d m a y p . a b A y Mallow on large number of the crowd wore orange and green sashes THE TRADES UNIONS BILL. The trades unions have still a chance of having zaLvrotectissiaffsicled_to theru thisutession:, SUNDAY AT 'WIMBLEDON. It was the intention of the authorities to have closed the Camp on Sundays against all who were not subscribers, in order to avoid the large and somewhat disorderly gathering which had assembled on previous occasions ; but so much dissatis faction was expressed at the idea of excluding the friends of the volunteers and the public on Sundays, that the idea had to be abandoned, and a vast con course occupied the camp on Sunday last. As usual on similar occasions, the orderly behaviour of the crowd left nothing to be desired until after the opening of . the drinking-shops in the afternoon, when a change for the worse was manifested, and noisy quarrels Imam° common. Close by the north-east gate is the canteen, where the supposed wants of the soldiers are supplied under Government regulations. The visitor on enteringthis "regulated"shop on Sun day evening would have seen a wet and dirty counter, behind which were arranged huge barrels of alcoholic liquors ; the foreground was occupied with soldiers, many of them noisy and quarrelsome. In one corner a member of her Majesty's forces was seen as drunk as a man could be ; in the oppo site corner a drunken woman was receiving the attentions of a number of men not much less drunk than herself. These disorders were ac cepted as the usual and rational accompaniments of the canteen. Nineteen-twentieths of the vast crowd assembled at Wimbledon were as orderly and respec table as anyone could wish to see there, and the disorderly fraction were under the influence of that liquor which Mr. Locke has seen so many people the better for taking. We know it is the proper thing to pass by on the other side, and leaving disorderly persons to themselves; have nothing to do with them until they become criminals or paupers. We should, however, prefer being able to walk on all sides upon such public occasions with out interruption or annoyance, and this would be at once possible if the incentive to mischief was not brought into the midst of the people. CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN IVORKHOUSES. Cn Sunday, in all the Roman Catholic churches in London., a pastoral was read from Archbishop Man ning, in which he strongly denounced the conduct of the guardians of the metropolitan districts in reference to Catholic children in the workhouse schools. Ile said there was no greater wrong than to rob an unconscious child of its religion. There were guardians in London who had tried to resist the authority of the Poor-law Board, and to detain the children of the Catholic poor under Protestant education. Such cruel injustice was going on all over the country. The best course would be to remove the children into . Catholic schools certified under the Act of Parliament, and open to inspection. There was no reason for refusing this act of justice except religious bigotry, and the will to oppress the weak. THE TRUCK SYSTEM IN IRELAND. The revelations made of the truck system in Scotland are likely to lead to suppressive legislation. The _Korth British Daily Mail, which has been exposing the corruption of the system, states that, even at this advanced stage of the session, a bill will not improbably be brought in on the subject, not in the expectation that it will be capable of being passed before the prorogation of Parliament, but for the purpose of drawing the attention of our lawgivers to the existing evils and facilitating future legis. lation. AN ILLUSTRATED PROVINCIAL PAPER._ , Provincial journalism is evidently " marching on." The latest announcement shews this most clearly. Illustrated papers, for a long time thought to be impoisible, and now confined to the metropolis, are to have a competitor in the Midland districts. In August a new pictorial newspaper—the Illustrated Midland News—is to be issued from Birming ham. It is to be a local paper, dealing with district affairs, inventions, arts, and manu factures largely. It will be non-political, will avoid religions discussion, and will seek to speak without assuming a dictatorial tone. It will be a gossipy, entertaining paper, abounding in lightsome sketches and talcs. The career of this new publica tion will be watched with the greatest interest. EPISTOLARY FORMUL2E. The Daily News protests against the now fashion able way of ending a letter " Yours, &c." What does the etcetera mean ? People rebel against saying " your obedient servant," and perhaps rightly, but surely it is impertinent to get over the difficulty by " Its." The formula there means, " I ought to end my letter with some civility, but I do not know how to define my relation to you, and I do not care to chew you my consideration by making the usual obeisance." This, says the Daily iVews, is stupid and impertinent. ANOTHER AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. (E'rom the Anglo-American Times.) Among the many peculiar difficulties in the way of American statesmen is one, which though lesser than either of the other two, upon which we have de scanted, is yet more remarkable. What the Mormon community is in the United States may not be easy for Europeans to understand, for those who have never been out of a thickly-peopled and highly cultivated country cannot conceive the mag nitude of the distance, the isolation given by the,broad wastes intervening between settlements in the Far West of the American Continent. When Brigham Young led the Mormons, as Moses did the children of Israel out of their Egypt to their promised land, he intended to build up an independent power wholly unconnected with the Union, differ - ing altogether from its structure of society, which as he designed should assume more of an Asiatic type Americans with pleasure saw him, and his fol lowers depart, believing that they were well rid of a nuisance, perhaps a danger, and surely a crime, for the bitter persecution, the wanton violence, rob bery, and murder to which they were subjected, and which could not be prevented if they remained, would be no less than a sin and a scandal to the Union. Vast as was the distance these fugitives trod, barren and uninviting as was the land whereon they settled, huge and forbidding as were the grand mountains which hedged them in on every side, and numerous, warlike, and cruel as were the savages roving around their wilderness, yet Mormon boys had scarcely grown into men ere the city their fathers founded had become one of the most im. portant central towns of the Continent. San Fran cisco grew into a great emporium on the Pacific, and the road from San Francisco to New York passed through the Salt Lake City. It was then when Utah was the most populous of the territo ries, when Brigham Young ruled with undivided authority, centreing in his own person spiritual as well as temporal power, that this despotism within a Republic, this heathendom within a Christian land, attracted universal attention, and presented a most extraordinary problem to the citizens of the Union. Constantly there landed at New York parties of immigrants about to settle in the United States, but not to become a part of the nation. They were bound West, to what they called their promised land, a people separate and distinct, having no com munion with the other inhabitants of the country, whose Government they disowned, whose religion they repudiated, and whom, as broadly as they could to mark the distinction, they termed Gentiles. Strange, too, and worthy of note—that when verit able Jews settled in the New Jerusalem by a laugh able perversity they also were called Gentiles, being outside the pale of these " Saints," the now chosen people. Here was a territory of the Republic wherein no United States writ would run, where its laws were defied, where the Christian religion was outraged, not merely in a sectarian way, but funda mentally, where th e institution upon which Christen dom builds up society—that of monogamy—was set at naught, while the community that thus acted was rapidly attaining to a central and populous posi tion in the Union. For a time, affairs assumed a threatening attitude, and an army actually took the field to coerce this contumacious people, follow ing the track of the Mormons, when they fled from persecution, until crowning the Pass the promised land lay stretched before the soldier, dotted with its lakes and gleaming with the chain of snowy mountains which girdled the vast valley, even as the pilgrims saw it. But they likewise beheld in amazement the Mormon work, which had altered the colouring and aspect of the land, for the desert "blossomed," the salt-sprinkled earth, and the in terminable sage were changed into waving crops, the smoke of habitations rose into the bright clear highland air, and grouped into a mass by the spark ling Jordan embowered in trees lay the Great Salt Lake City; the dreary waste of nature over which they had toiled, as by magic, giving place to a scene of peace, civilization, and labour. Per haps, in the hearts of the soldiers there was a bitter prejudice against that community, but who could gaze upon such a landscape and assert that their work was not good ? Nor would they have gained that pass while the strong arms and unerring rifles of the thousands beneath them lay idle had they not entered in accordance with the treaty which practically still left the rule to Brigham Young, and there are many who think that but a doubtful triumph would have awaited the United States army, and the distinguished officer who led it bad the fanatical zeal of the Mormons been roused to resist. Young's directions to mis sionaries are, preach not the beauties and peace of our mountain home, but preach a persecuted church, and it is undeniable that persecution has raised the Mormons into a powerful society. How the Go vernment at Washington is to meet this grave diffi culty was a question some years ago that darkened counsel, for on every tack they were wrong. Their Republican institutions admitted free discussion, free thought, free religion. The Mormons were harmless beyond their own settlements ; they were industrious, peaceable, and religious within them ; yet they were a standing menace to the commu nity and a scandal. To employ force in Mormon suppression was to increase it ; to let it alone was to recognize it. I his was the dilemma, and when, as is usual between the kindred nations of Great Britain and the United States, the former sneered at the monstrosities created by the boasted institu tions of the latter, and the position in which Mor mondom had placed it, with striking truth the other retorted, "Mormonism is not a creation of our's but of your's ; it is nourished and magnified not in the United States, but in the hills of Wales, in the dingy and dilapidated streets of London and of Liverpool. You create for us these perplexities, fix them as a slur on our institutions, and then sneer at our attempts to unravdl them ;" and this brings us to another point worth the closest atten tion of both nations. They act and re-act on each other in a way so intricate that they cannot be wrenched asunder, and whatever may be the 'degree of animosity between them they are so linked toge ther for good or for evil as not to be disse vered. When an Englishman flings into the face of an American the taunt that his free Republic bad human slavery for a corner-stone ? " Placed there," was the immediate reply, " by you." What of Mormonism ? " A false religion ; which has its main support in England." What of Fenia,uism ? "An organisation of the British Isles seeking an asylum in the Union." W hat about American animosity to England, cherished almost into an institution, which finds its most lively expression on the Fourth of July? "The seals planted first by unjust treatment to the colonists ; second, by a prolonged, relentless, devastating war ; third, by a period of bullying while the new-born Republic was weak ; followed by another of satire and ridicule when it began to grow strong ; finally, by the un disguised effort, within safe bounds, made during a time of great trial, to split the Republic, that its struggle might fail to dig out the corner-stone laid by England, and which, for so many years, had been her standing taunt against America." Take the other side, and we see that nearly all that is best in the Republic is derived from England ; but while occu pying a neutral platform, we never attempt to dis guise the grave causes of offence and dislike given by England to the:United States, desiring to weigh the good against the bad, when the benefit will be found greatly to preponderate, and on this truth we rely for an eventual agreement and good-will. If, then, the influence England exerts on the Republic extends to so remote a locality as the great Salt Lake, and to so peculiar a community as the Mormons, is it sur prising that that influence should be so felt through out the Republic as to make the kingdom an ex ceptional nation, against whom, to the exclusion of others for a like act, Jonathan's wrath is directed. But, to return to the Mormon difficulty ;—while Senates debated it, while the press discussed, it, and while soldiers planned, and councils estimated the cost and effect of a war, an agent was at work on whom the country now almost wholly relies for its solution—the Pacific Railway. Can Mormonism withstand free contact with the world ? Discussion in private, harangues in public, the pulpit and the press, Mammon and vice, all, are now brought freely into Utah, and although while the old prophet lives, who is sixty-eight years of age, there may not be any great change visible, the true test will be applied when a man less rooted in the affections of the coin munity,less associated with its early history and perse cutions as well as with a long and prosperous rule, assumes the mantle of the departed chief. Already there is talk of the abandonment of polygamy. Once the offer was even made to the Government by the Mormon elders to quit the settlement and leave for ever the shores of the United States. But the matter involved so serious an outlay that al though President Buchanan entertained it, the ques tion was dropped, like many others, on the outbreak of the great Civil War. What will be the eventual solution it is impossible to predict, for the end must mainly depend on the root taken by the doc trines revealed to Joe Smith ; but Brigham Young, with the most influential of the " saints," do not con ceal their hostility to Gentiles, and their willing ness, if needs be, to appeal to the sword. Still with out venturing an opinion, we can with undeniable truth assert that a more extraordinary difficulty neve r before arose in the pathway of stat esmen , and it may well be enumerated among the great pro blems given to America to solve. A XEIV YORK JOIN7-STOCK COMPANY. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) Till we read the Nation of June 24 we were unaware what that pretty name signified—Mari posa—which weekly takes its place in our New York Miscellaneous Share List. If our readers refer to it they will see Mariposa Preferred, 17k. Whatever may be the value of a name to a CAPU LET or a MONTAG UE, its value can be translated into £ s. d. in those prosaic regions the Stock Ex changes, and if there, it will readily be believed anywhere else. To the pretty name hangs a pretty tale, which, on the above-named authority, we thus briefly tell. The Supreme Court of the United States confirmed General Fatmorres title to the Mariposa estate in 1858, but the expenses of the suit ruined the suitor, and a creditor obtained judg ment against him, attached, and caused the estate to be sold by the Sheriff, the creditor becoming the purchaser. A San Francisco banker, also a credi tor, to secure himself paid off the first claimant, and agreed with the General to re-transfer seven eighths of the estate to him, on condition that his advances were paid, retaining, as a bonus, the one eighth. In 1863 the Mariposa Company was or g-anized under the laws of the State of New York, several well-known citizens of the Empire City being among the directors, who were announcedin the usual terms of prospectuses, as of such honesty, skill, and business tact, as to be in themselves a sufficient guarantee for success. By the ordinary means the advantages of the investment were brought before and pressed upon the public, and the directors issued $10,000,000 of shares, subscribing the whole amount themselves, but not paying a single dollar on the share certificates issued. These they divided amongst them, giving a certain portion to General FREMONT for his right to redeem seven-eighths of the estate. Our readers may guess what the directors did with the stock thus distributed. Ad vertisements everywhere announced the treasures which lay buried beneath or on the surface of that estate with the sweet name of Mariposa, treasures even worthy of the morocco-bound gilt edged pamphlets wherein they were described. The shares were dealtin on the Stock Exchange,fetching inWall street from 60 to 75 cents on the dollar, and quoted in all the daily papers, and were paid for by the public to the extent of some five or six millions of dollars. What the stock really represented was ' the right to redeem seven-eighths of the estate on the payment of $300,000 in gold ; but on the ten mil lions of stock issued not a cent had been paid into the corporation's till, if it bad one—the only tills as yet being the pockets of the directors—therefore the arrangement remained as originally made be tween the San Francisca banker and General FRE MONT. The next process then commenced of rais ing $1,500,000 to payoff the lien and work the estate. This consisted in mortgaging the property for the mil lion and a half, and on the security of this mortgage issuing that amount of First Mortgage Bonds, which the public actually took at par. The original proceeding offered the best inducement to sub scribe for the next, as an estate which had just been purchased by shrewd business men for the vast sum of ten millions of dollars surely offered ample security for a million and a half. . It is true that no such purchase had as yet been made, the right only being acquired to redeem seven-eighths of the estate, and no such mortgage could be made by those who pretended to mortgage it, for the pro perty still belonged to the banker of San Francisco, interesting facts, though not communicated. It soon transpired that fifteen hundred thousand dollars were wholly insufficient in the hands of the shrewd business men to pay three hundred thousand dol lars, and the well-known citizens, scorning to do things by halves, determined to pay nothing. What became of the fifteen hundred thousand dollars never transpired, but the great Mariposa estate still remains in pawn. The public, however, believed that it had been redeemed, and the enormous num ber of dollars required for the purpose, added to the awe with which these confiding individuals re garded the name of Mariposa. Of course a cor poration which had floated nearly twelve millions dollars of stock must have a clear, indisputable title to the estate, and it needed little buoying to float two millions more as Second Mortgage Bonds. Finding the name a mine of wealth the well known citizens became greatly enamoured of it, and as it acted as a magnet in attracting money from the public they proceeded to make another haul, issuing eight or nine millions of Preferred Stock in exchange for the original shares on re ceiving so much per share. When the company failed to pay the coupons on its First Mortgage Bonds, and a little inquiry showed their real value, the holders were offered other Bonds in exchange on payment of a round smn, the guarantee being given that these should be a genuine mortgage on the banker's estate with or without his consent. The heaviest losses are incurred by the efforts to save previous advances made in a wrong direction. A man goes in timidly at first, but with increasing desperation, as the amount at stake becomes larger and larger, while he is led on by the delusion that his only hope rests in propping up the ricketty structure, beneath which he is eventually caught and crushed in its fall. One of the safest things for an investor to know is " the timely retreat ;" it would be better, of course, not to get into a Mari posa; but, as few wholly escape that, the next most valuable knowledge to acquire is, how to get out of it. Acting on the old delusion, the first bonds were surrendered and the new bonds taken, more money being paid for a mortgage in no respect differing from its predecessor. By these means securities were sold to the extent of from seventeen to eigh teen millions of dollars upon a property to which the company never had a title, and for which they never paid a cent. All this time the Mariposa Estate belonged to the San Francisco banker till it was seized by the Sheriff and sold ! for unpaid taxes. But in this lay the true chance ; here was a pro perty, upon which had been issued these millions of dollars, in the market without a purchaser ; while by paying the overdue taxes and other claims the real owners would surrender it to the third parties (not to the Mariposa Company), and the confiding public actually took this bait, surrender ing their bonds and shares, getting in exchange and in consideration of more money paid, new docu ments called trust certificates. Although this ar rangement seemed to bar the Mariposa Company from all claim to the estate after which it was named, by some extraordinary perversion in the minds of the public, it imparted a value to their preferred shares, which having fallen to suddenly advanced in price. " Now is the time !" was the cry raised for those who had lost heavily, "to get back your money ;" and the shares rapidly rose to 52, while the higher they got the more eagerly did the old holders purchase. Everything was made to wear a cheerful aspect ; the mines yielded liberally, the new machinery worked well, and the public asso ciated this with the Mariposa shares, with which, in reality, the estate had then, even if it ever had, no thing to do, their contingent interest having been lost. Eventually it was discovered that those who raised the cry " Now is your time," were themselves freely selling ; and then commenced a stampede ; the shares falling from 52 to 13 in forty-eight hours. Nor is it anticipated that the story of Mariposa ends here, for the mine that lies under that magic name may not yet be work e d ou t . T h i s tale shows that 'cute as are American business men generally, they may be taken in as are others like children, and the richer and lazier they get the more liable are they to fall victims, till they descend eventually to the gullibility of the English public. We had no idea that this quaint comedy could have been acted on any other stage than that of London, for a more confiding, enduring, less suspicious body of share holders, could not be found even among the sundry lots lately knocked down in such monotonous heaps in the English Law Courts, and a more rapacious set of Directors never sat around an English board concocting plans for the welfare of investors. Mari posa, sweet name, tells a tale of interest, which will be read with delight by thousands of victims of the late mania. "We thought," they will exclaim, " that we were par excellence the flock of geese, that we were the herd of asses, but we find, even in the land where least expected, a flock of bigger geese, a herd of greater asses." What remains to be seen is, whether these things on both sides thepond can be done with impunity ; if Overend, Gurney are trium phantly acquitted, we will at least know that men in England may safely take three and a half millions of pounds sterling by deception out of one set of pockets and put them into another set ; and if the well-known citizens of New York can play the Mariposa little game, they can, as far as New York law goes, "do any mortal thing"—al ways providing that the story is fairly and truthfully told. JOURNALISM IN AMERICA.—The El Dorado, the women's paper in San Francisco, has been suspended for want of patronage. The Saturday Evening Mercury is the only Woman's Rights organ now printed on the Pacific coast, and it isn't published very much. The Macon Telegraph of June 12 came to the Tribune office with a ton-cent Confederate postage-stamp attached, and that journal asks, " Have they a Rip Van Winkle there ?" Sixty-one new newspapers were started in the United States during May. The National Intelltgencer is to be printed henceforth with the Washington Express as morn ing and evening editions of the same paper. The imme di►ate cause of the arrangement is a strike in the office of the Intelligencer which the proprietors have failed to ar range. Accompanied with considerable capital, and sup ported by wealthy citizens of Washington, a company is being formed to carry out the scheme. The Tribune says the Intelligencer was started in 1800 in Washington, on the ruins of a paper translated to that city, and once known as the Independent Gazetteer. The In telligencer then belonged to Mr. Harrison Smith. In 180'e Mr. Joseph Gales secured an interest, and in 1810 Mr. Smith left the firm, and Mr. Gales becoming sole pro prietor, took into parternership his brother-in law, Wm. W. Seaton. in January of 1813, the Intelligencer was first issued daily. For eight years subsequently Gales and Seaton were both editors and reporters of their papers, and may be fairly credited with being the patriarchs of Congressional reporting. One of them attended the House and the other the Senate, and both received marked courtesies from the officers of those bodies. For 12 years one of the Intelligencer's editors, Mr. Seaton, remained Mayor of Washington City, and rarely has ever an elected officer been so complimented. The Intelligencer's "Regis ter of Debates" was once a high authority in our politics, and the Intelligences itself has for nearly half a century maintained a position of staid respectability.— The New Idea, r.n annexation paper, printed half in French and half in English, in Vermont, is being extensively cir culated in Quebec.—Horace Greeley's chapter V. is on Paper Money—lnterest—Usury.—The Newport Mercury has celebrated its 111th anniversary. It is the oldest jour nal in the United States, having been commenced by Jas. Franklin, Ben's brother, June 12, 1758.—The Revolution has increased its size and price.—Mr. R. W. Wright, late Private Secretary of Governor English, will issue the first number of a new daily paper in New-Haven, on the 10th of July. TRAINING REPORTS. STANTON—The following have been doing good work since my last: —Lady Highthorn, Fidelia, Ben Block, Parma, Mont Blanc, Royal Head, Shelah colt, Whist filly, Sportsman, Ampleforth, Lady Evelyn filly, Free Trade, and See-Saw. Dunbar has been stopped in his work, and is only walking. ILSLEY.-At Nottingham we have Ligurian, Winifred, and First Emperor engaged in the Nottinghamshire Han dicap. Ligurian is at Birmingham. Winifred, I think, will be kept for the Berkshire Stakes, at Reading. First Emperor I don't fancy. Ventnor is well, and doing good work for the South Hampshire Stakes at Southamp ton, and if he runs, and is wanted, he will take some doing. MALTON.—War has returned home, and looks none the worse for his journey. I would advise your readers to stand him to win and place in the Goodwood Stakes. From what I can see the following will go to Pontefract : —Consternation, Cure colt, Janet Rawcliffe, Little Bo- Peep, Fichu, Mary of Argyle, Better Half, Amendment, Torus, and My Lord. These are all well, and fit to run for a man's life. RtctimoND.—Sinco my last Bete Noire has done good two mile. gallops daily, going remarkably well. At Ponte fract we shall have Enterprise and Man of Ross engaged. Both have done well of late, and are sure to distinguish themselves in whatever race they run. Enterprise is a really good animal. LAMBOURNE.--At Nottingham, in the Biennial Stakes, we have Sister to Lady Craven and The Boy, and the last-named is our best. Ho is doing some very good work, and if ho runs I think ho will give a good account of himself. LEWES.—Provider, engaged in the Goodwood Stakes and Cup, is doing well. I fully expect to seo him run into a place if he continues as well as he is at present. KINGSCLERE. —On Tuesday all our horses cantered up the hollow twice, except Rosicrucian, who was again led about. Lictor then led Siderolite, Madame Eglentine filly, and Girasol a half-speed gallop of rather over a mile. Am bitious showed the way to Blue Gown, Tho Palmer, and Morns, in a nico striding gallop of nearly two miles. Wednesday.—Much the same description of work took place. Thursday.—Lictor was the first to canter a mile and a quarter, followed by the others. Some walking was done by all for some time in the hollow, when they re peated their previous canter. Shortly afterwards Lictor, Madame Eglentine filly, Siderolite, and :Girasol galloped at half-speed rather over a mile. EPSO3I.—On Wednesday, Cecil and Adolphus, in com pany with Red White and Blue and two or three others of Nightingall's, went a good five-mile sweat, and pulled up fresh and sound. Thursday.—They took things quietly, and this morning (Friday) went a nice steady gallop of two miles. Warlike is gone to Birmingham and Polissonno to Aldershot to fulfil their engagements. FYFIELD.—Make Haste is well, and does two mile gallops daily, led by Skipjack, for the Goodwood Stakes. This (Friday) morning, after cantering, he galloped about a mile and three-quarters, Skipjack leading, and Moslem going with them, pulling up sound and well. The last-named went first-class. 1 don't see that we have any thing engaged at Southampton, but we have several in at Reading. Skipjack, La Belle Helene, and Threatener are all well for the Berkshire Stakes. NEWMARKET.—The following have been doing good work, and most of them are engaged at Nottingham : Cymbal, Stork, Pericles, Sagittarius, Redivivus, Pandora, Countryman, Silenus, A caster, Islam, Martyrdom, Robes pierre, Vespasian, Tornado, Chapel Royal, Grimston, Car dinal York, Harebell, Sphynx, La Mousse, Riga, Roma, Master 'Walter, Elferon, Electricity, Kennington, Camel, The Rake, Rupert, Cast-Off, Syceo, Maaander, Coup d'Eclat, Wild Briar, Venice, Jenny Page, Trocadero, Resti tution, Typhon, Risk, Voda, lEolus, Miss Thackeray, Dodona, Morning Star, Clarionette, Queen of Hearts, Prince Imperial, Amelia filly, Rigolboche filly, Lifebuoy, Columbine filly, Blueskin, Lancet, and Miss Gratwicke. MIDDLEIIAM.—For the Nottingham Handicap Mexico will be our best. He is very well, and will be-bad to beat. Agility will land the Biennial. King of the Fairies will be our best in the West Riding Handicap at Pontefract; and as Kelvin Grove appears to be running more kindly now, he may win the Pontefnict Handicap. Down Royal Corporation—Pretty John will about win the Belfast Handicap, Bard of Erin the Lurgan Stakes, Duneane the Nursery, and Bard of Erin or Pride of Erin the Railway Handicap. STOCKBRIDGE.—I expect several will go to Nottingham and Southampton. At the latter place we shall no doubt be well represented, as it is so close home. In the South. Hampshire Stakes, Red Rice is entered, and with such a rough lot he might stay, but I fancy it is too far for him. Welter Stakes—Red Rice, Boaster, and Eruption are in, and I fancy the last-named will about win. Southampton Nursery —Soucar, Dick Curtis, Dolphin, Malaria, and the Grillade colt are in, and the best will be found in one of the two last-named. Cranbury Park Stakes—Figleaf, Duckling, and Swallow aro in, but neither can beat The Mate, if he runs. Stand Cup—Re flection, Malaria, and Dolphin are in, and I fancy the first named. Southampton Plato—The same lot are in again as are in the Nursery, so that it will be best to go by the pre vious form. Sir C. Legard's colt by Cramond out of Biddy O'Rourka (2 yr.) has been named "Hollywood." Mr. Elyott Bower's colours are :—Whito body, black sleeves and cap. On Wednesday last, S. W. Reeves, son of W. Reeves, the Epsom trainer, was married to Miss Mary Sane Marsh, a sister of Marsh, the well-known jockey. Lord Falmouth named his two year old filly by Young Melbourne out of The Swallow, " Wheatear," after win ning her race at Newmarket on Friday. Nearly £3OO has been collected for prizes and gratuities at the foxhound show, which will be hold under Mr. Chap lin's presidency, when the Lincolnshire Society holds its meeting at Lincoln, the week after the Manchester royal meeting. The colt by Trumpeter out of Sharp Practice was claimed by Mr F. Elliot aftor winning a Selling race at Newmarket on Wednesday. Tit- bit, the property of Mr. Elliot, was claimed by Capt. Machell. Mr. J. FaiTer's colours are : —Blue, and amter-croaa. belts. The following assumed names have been registered:— Mr. J. Farrer, Mr. A. Barton. Tumult broke down while running in the Welter Plato at Sutton Park on Thursday. Achilles, the winner of a Selling Sweepstakes at New market yesterday, was claimed by Mr. Burcham. At the beginning of this season, Sunshine had twenty nine engagements, the forfeits of which amounted, to £1,330. Miss Mildred Catherine Hawley, eldest daughter of Sir Joseph Hawley, was married on Wednesday morning to Captain Barrington B. D. Campbell, at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Rev. H. C. Hawley, rector of Ley' bourne, Kent, officiated. After the breakfast, the nenwly married couple left for Hungerford. The training establishment, with the dwelling-house, paddocks, &c., at Newmarket, known as Lowther Ficouse, at present occupied by Sam Rogers, was put up for ruile by auction, on Wednesday, by Mr. E. Feist, but there. "being no bid up to the reserved price (£4,000), it was not. sold. The Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger, and Grand P•,vize of Paris, for 1871, close on Tuesday next, for now ye aarlings• South Devon Races are now definitely fixed to ',lame off on Thursday and Friday, August 12 and 13. The Wolverhampton Stakes has closed with, thirty nine subscribers. The following horses, the property of M. BOV.Per, have loft La Morlaye, and will De trained by C.Thorpe„ o,t New market :—Gaulois and Drone (6 yrs and aged); Anthee, Benevolence, and Witchcraft (4 yrs); Boston anAl Chatal herault (3 yrs); Bretville, Florion 11., La Trc,cien, and Lavandiere (2 yrs). Mr. R. C. Naylor sold Chatsworth at New market, on Thursday, to Mr. Parker, of Doncaster, for 180 i guineas. A LITERAL CAPTAIN. — An English. lady of fashion,amongst other invitations to her soiree dansante, sent ono to a captain of a militia regiment, in which, ac cording to the conventional form, she " hoped for the plea sure of the warrior's company." Imagine hor /consterna tion when, on the appointed evening, in marched the obliging officer at the head of his whole company !—VI 73- ternational. [ADVERTISEMENT J.—Holloway's !Pills are securities 1 0 all nations, of whatever clime. They have given hope, relief, and comfort to n.illions. In irritation and debility, generated by excesses of any kind, or in general prostra tion of the system, their effect is rapidly soothing, reno vating, and restorative. They rapidly drive from the system the morbid cause of ailment, and renew in the frame its pristine animation, health, and vigour. They greatly increase the appetite, give tone to the stomach, assist the digestion, and impart elasticity to the spirits; their essence enters the circulation, and carried through, its course, exerts its cleansing power over every organ. In the lungs they effect most striking changes, conver ting the impure venous into pure arterial blood, by which the whole frame is recruited. BIRTHS. BRITEti—On the 9th inst.., at Oak Park, the wife of Bruen, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. VANDELEUR -On the 11th inst., at 18, Eeeleston-squa re ' Mrs. U. Vandeleur, of a son. MARRIAGES. NEEDHAM —A LLPORT On the Bth inst., at Derby, 11 . 3 : ward Moore Needham, Esq., of Alvaston, Derby , i" Iltiry Louisa, eldest daughter of James J. Allport, }-Isql . _ of Littleover, Derby. - A WENDT—AYLWARD—At St. George's Catholic Cathe.ral, Southwark, Adolph A. T. Wendt, of Hamburg, to _ to Fanny S. Aylward, only child of the late Dr. AY ward, Chislehurst, Kent. DEATES. JERDAN—On the 11,h inst., at Bushey-heath, 'farts, W iv ,; Jerdan, many years editor of the " Literary Gazette, aged 88. LOCK—On the 11th at Woodland, Gillingham, Kent, J ob° Lock, aged 85. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDOWT of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, StrO in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the county of Altddlefscl.—. Tuesday, July 19,1069.