The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

• SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNA.LS, * MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ; proposed V _____... that the CC The Saturday Review looks with suspicion on the THE DECISION OF THE IRISH BISHOPS. it would ce The result of the Irish Conference—that a ANOTHER modern love of the picturesque, andobserves thatit isa factßishops general synod full and equally representing the that, taking all the poets and writers who ever lived - y equally clergy and laity be called—has, on the whole, been almost down to our own times, you can't get as much out greeted with a feeling of satisfaction and relief. Mr • WI of them in the way of rapture about the charms of mono- The Times Dublin correspondent says that ships to th( to the fus tarn and sky and torrent and flickering shade and serene the decision will have the effect of recon depths and cloud mysteries, and all the philosophy and tiling some wide differences of opinion, and cant of the picturesque, as you can from any fifth rate allaying feelings of apprehension and distrust which are . o t f_the_ ; ..pi ahof . novel or trumpery magazine verses of the present day. the laity were beginning to entertain. The Irish ?Ir. Whits. .., instruction The question then suggests itself, whether most of our Church is already entering smooth water. conventional enthusiasm about scener y— ma j es ti c scener y, The question of her future government presented be open to • awful scenery, lovely scenery -the poetry of mountain numerous difficulties and dangers vrhich it is now hoped will be surmounted. Divers schemes are advocated , and glacier, gray heath and shaggy wood, torrents and by contending parties. Some are in favour of the fertile vale, is not very like affectation. We shrink in • • • • a fi n rs d t i a n ct Pl o i l revival of Convocation, and this party in turn is benefit of awe at the regal splendours of the Matterhorn ;we bathe divided, a few supporting a sacerdots.l oligarchy, 3lr. An/ our souls in the purple lights o f th e B a y o f N a pl es ;we giving no power whatever to the laity, and treating the Alkali are in ecstacies at the glorie s of th e fi or d s an d f osses of them as if their duty was only obedience. But the Norway, because it is the right thing to be ecstatic at the i greater part of the Convocation advocates are in Which cone right place ; because we arc told to do so. And have we favour of the representation of the laity. Another . testingofl • eex a not read—some of us—our Byron and our Wordsworth, party think the restoration of the ancient synods Fm nroved. and all of us our Mr. John Ruskin and our Murray's Hand- distinct from Convocation—the Anglican and more l am l ount of book? And in our heart of hearts a good man y o f us modern form of assembly—would supply the best form it is also of government. Convocation, in the opinion of know that we are shams and hypocrites, our passionate inevitable ' this forty, is imperfect as a system of government love mere make-believe and hollow pretence ; the very the adva,: without the connection of the effort to be ecstatic about peaks and roseate hues and the State. CO great The b'shops, says the correspondent of the Times, . almighty rocks we feel to be too often a grievance mostsuiting. ft have done much to reduce this controversy to oppressive to the soul. Not that retribution is not at order. They have set an example of self-abnega- but these hand. The mere picturesque tourists a nd the students of tion and cordial sympathy with the laity if chemical the beautiful are now set down by the real traveller as which inferior dignitaries who might be disposed to was Propel poor creatures. Science scoffs at the landscape-painter, arroga t e exc l us i ve r i g ht s w ill pro b a bl y f ee l it th e i r the acid es can he re( We must nowadays do Alp andApennine with a purpose; duty to imitate. The declaration that the laity shall a serious, brave, and improving object; we must under- be " fully and equally represented " will inspire through a stand the laws of glacier-growth ;we must be able to say confidence and win the hearty co-operation of the .andt interfere i p n , er ere . • • why every rock has its own angle, every peak its own people. Any attempt to exclude the laity from . Respecting the governing body, or only to admit them ender height ; we must be up with all the ages which have states pT e that made every crag to be just what it is, and no other ; we the skirts of the clergy,. wou . ld . lead to an . . open furnaces, si rupture. There will be no difficulty in devising a must be able to say when the limestone formation began, satisfactory scheme of representation. The bishops' by cooling and why, being limestone, the particular mountains must • should take counsel with both parties in each diocese. admit the have this contour ;if we talk about trees and flowers, we i The Dublin Mail, however, by no means approves for coml mint only do it with a full knowlege of zones of vegeta- sof the bishops' determination. The prelates, in their properly tion and of the absolute conditions under which floras— second resolution, recommend the convening of the but not so glacial, Alpine, sub-Alpine, and all the rest of it—must provincial synods in order to settle the difficulty of duction of follow defined and invariable laws. When it comes to representation. The Mall thinks the bishops ought rious condi this, the holiday traveller, the mere safe talker of the old boldly to have put forth a system of representing manufactu: parrot talk, the second-hand p ra ttl er o f th e s t a l e conven . the laity and clergy, and have convened the General rain instal) tional adjectives—glorious, sublime, splendid, beautiful, Synod at once. The propos it to appeal for assist- is . eas h e t r h to a , ante to England seems to be generally condemned, magnificient—must shut up his wallet of commonplace. now k av The picturesque, when it becomes scientific, becomes THE LODGER FRANCHISE. will remove serious, and what is serious is apt to be tiresome. We I The inhabitants of Chelsea met on Thursday the public should not much wonder if the fashion of travelling for night, under the leadership of Mr. Moy Thomas, to be carried the picturesque and for the love of scenery should go out consider the unsatisfactory position of the lodger. Under the: of fashion. I They complain that the Reform Act gives with one in giving e The Spectator says that the session has not been hand,and takes away with the other. In consequence pressing ar marked by any great change in the personnel of politics, of the ratepaying clause s and other pa restrictions the No considerable politician has died ;no new man of the value of the measure has been muchimired. Of 1, G 0 The sold I lodgers in Chelsea only 497 were in a position to ask first class has made his appearance; and no man has been for the privilege of being placed on the register, and cussed, ant generally recognised as likely in course of time to attain not near that number would be able to maintain that the nu Cabinet rank. Owing partly to the pressure of a si ng le t h e i r t i t l e. Si r C . W. Dille, M.P.,.who was present, " valise " h subject, upon w hi c h, as it happened, scarcely anyone i said there was every prospect that ample re- great man: except the Premier was absolutely maste r of d e t a il s , f or ms wou ld be mad e i n th e p ar li amen t ar y ordered th( partly to the disinclination to debate which prevailed franchise next session. He in the meantime Ito ten i reg throughout the session, and partly to the absence of keen urged the Chelsea electors to make the valise Id l e s 1 interest in struggles which, with such a majority, could most of their opportunities, and push on registration the ha s s o them n in their borough mall the utmost diligence. Theit only terminate in one way, the Reformed Parliament has satisfactior been undoubtedly sterile of new men. Of them all, Mr. worthy electors . appear ft to hahe found the lodger Ti an "the moil: inadequate lanciantlered into i pi cv various a i l l i s e t 11, evening .i s Jessel has perhaps succeeded most fully in gaining the discussion. Chairman sun i ey_ soon disap s nie ear of the House, as a Radical who will go far, but who •hoped, the Besting that the Ministry be ' reconstructed, and that has always solid arguments t o p ro d uce f or hi s a pp aren tl y Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bruce be removed for two poli- his Olden extreme conclusions ; but Mr. Jessel has hitherto confined ticians more suited to the circumstances of tho himself to questions in which he is professionally interested, ' day. The lab and has yet to shew his strength or weakness both as THE FENIAN PRISONERS. choly suici statesman and politician. Th ere h a s no t b een muc h more Mr. had been change in the hi g h er re gi ons th an i n th e l ower . M r . Johnston, M.P.. of liallskilbee boat, news has set an ' i Gladstone has al rea dy reac h e d a h e i g ht o f p o p u l ar favour "Amnesty m : mental de' xcellent example. lie was asked 'by the Irish Committee " to preside at a meeting to i nary abilit: beyond which no advan ce is p oss ibl e , •a height at which .b e h e ld i n B e lf as t f or th e p ur p ose o f pro even a blunder would be forgiven, and the decided meting the release of the Fenian convicts. • able work a increase of his influence within the House itself, an in- Mr. Johnston curtly replied that he should i mate Survey. crease clue to the mastery of his great subject such as no I maintain a strict neutrality in this matter I'nen subject to i I other member even dreamed of acquiring, could scarcely of political prisoners, and that he should l strengthen his already irresistible power. The only change ' interfere neither . at Belfast nor elsewhere. .Applica- anover e tions for Fenian sympathy do not prosper just now. little doubt in his position is an increased belief that be can cause. tie Colonel Warren recently asked the American do very great very things '' in a effective wee ' a ' Attorney- General to interfere on behalf of the workers, Iv confidence which has this drawback, that he is expected to prisoners in England, and was plainly told that the knowledge. do things almost impossible, an expectation which in Fenians were a set of thieves. Ireland may have fruits. Mr. Disraeli, on the other band, i TIIE DECLINE OF A DENOMPNATION. The rem has decidedly declined during the session, but for the 1 . . Religious statistics are frequently unsatisfactory, amongst th coup d'etat would have fallen almost out of sight. He has subject of a for they are often made to look somewhat too made a speech or two on the wrong side of a question of • Council fro favourable. But one denomin a ti on , th e United Metho- Council fro both sides of which he was visibly ignorant ; but the effort dist Free Churches, an offshoot from the Wesleyans, 1 The disease wearied him, arid on smaller topics he has been unusually has the honest frankness to confess its decline. ; ing much is silent. Mr. Bright has, we think, slightly, though very They are just now holding their annual assembly in .on its first: slightly, lost ground in the country, while gaining it among Z.imiderland, and they find theanself. es a smallee , that all ani: some of his opponents. The Peers have not turned out a " connexion " than when last they met. It would on landing ; new man any more than the Commons, for Dr. Magee is appeer that their revivals are generally followed by re- ' Contagions protected by his mitre from so sublunary a description, actions, and the p resen t is. a period after a " stirring of enable the l the Church." It may perhaps be asucct wile-trier e,eene.,- and the position of knownmen has been but little changed. meet, which in the end . causes a falling away, is _ recurren P.P_ The country is not stirred yet by what seems to us Lord altogether healthy or desirable. Granville's mismanagement of New Zealand affairs, and Though in his other capacity he is what he was, not only the best THE METIITC SYSTEM. Europe ale: l ea d er o f the Lords we could find, but the only possible the second report of the commissioners appointed there is st leader. His opponent, Lord Cairns, after nearly surrender- I to inquire into the condition of the Exchequer distant part ing his leadership to Lord Salisbury, recovered himself bya standard was issued yesterday morning. They have New York • sortof coup d'aat, very clever and perhaps a thoughtunscru- ' come to the conclusion that the time has now arrived much forth pulous, and lie has gained also by his rival's unexpected :wheal the law should provide, and facilities be country is manifestation of his earlier temper. A little more reti- , afforded by the Government, for the intro- continuing cents, a little less irritability, a trifle more sensitiveness duction and use of metric weights end nmvsures in Inch I Islam as to the opinion of average Peers—who did not want to the . - United Kingdom. 1 hey believe that it is that the advisable to introduce the French nomenclature, as Company is run their beads slap against both Government and the well r.s decimal scale of the metric system, into this Havannah, country—and Lord Salisbury might have been master of country; for although there may be some objection ' United Ste the Lords for life. As it is, the session has been to him 'to the inconvenient length and occasional similarity main one is lost time. The Duke of Argyll h as ga i ne d decidedly both of this proposal, both to the eye and ear of the Porto lice by the ability and the earnestness of his speeches on the I French nomenclature, yet they think it probable stretching Irish Dill, and by his courageous definiteness in the that these names will become familiar by custom, Panama. administration of his own department—that railway des- and obtain popular abbreviations. The commis- of which 3 1 patch, for example, really inaugurates a revolution—but , sioners are of opinion that the general introduction of all men in both Houses no man has risen so decidely as of the metric system should be permissive only, and that even if the difficulties of establishing an inter- Lord Hatherley. When the session began, the country, Time r national unit of comsge cannot be at present over- the Daly chiefly from an accidental ignorance, regarded him as a come, yet the decimalisation of our system of coinage ' • J makeshift. To-day a Liberal piebiscitum would make excursions 0 would be very useful to the public. They add that (it says) is th him Chancellor. He has shewn himself the equal of any ,it is expedient that no steps should be taken in the than two hum rival as a lawyer, the superior of most as a debater, while matter until the whole subject of weights and mea- Cook's ticket there is not a Liberal in the profession, not even Sir j • . ' does not exec Roundel' Palmer, whose moral wei g ht co uld h ave a dd e d sures is urought before Parliament in one bill, which time of the c such strength to the Gladstone Administration. they think should be brought in by the Executive , tweed three Government. The John Bull think; that Mr. Gladstone has reallyl themselves o• taken some pains to force the Bishops' Resignation Bill TIIF. ROYAL VISIT TO GERMANY, ! them ever through the House of Commons, and a t first sight our ' one or two m gratification at his doing so may seem inconsistent. But i The Prince and the Princess of Wales h ave arr i ve d to every rule there is an exception, an d th e dise as e in this at Wildbad. A correspondent nal:vely informs us ought case calls so loudly for a reme dy th a t we thi n k th ere i s a that their r e c e pti on has b e en " every w h ere ent h us i - f or those jam tl to o l l a ) e l i r i justification, particularly as the House of Commons is not astir," but that " there is no doubt that their Palaces, ma asked to alter materially the decision of the House of retirement and comfort will in no way be interfered droves, and Lords, which on a matter of this kind is far more compe- altogether sr , with." The Princess, despite the fine weather, looked continental tent to judge. There, at least, few legislators are not pale and fatigued with her journey, a bulletin which, party ; and i members of the Establishment, and those few (mainly Roman Catholics) certainly have never shown a desire to unfortunately, we now often hear. From time ti hinder. any measure for the Church's benefit, as when Mr. . have Liberals in the House of Commons ; from TEE GRAND JURY SYSTF.3L with as man] grand juries which House, as the late Bi s h o p of Lichfield It was a little while back a custom for truly remarked, it was hopeless to expect any men- to present ae lselv .useless. advantage th es as They did not wish t . The sure which would really benefit the Church. The - to spen their time at the assizes, and they came to d ' n ' a b n n i t i tl , i i i i s a i i s ng ri miss. _ . • I attempt, therefore, to prevent more members of the House of Comm ons f rom expos i ng their ignorance on the conclusion that they were not want e d th ere . organ i s i ng , Church matters than may be expected in August may be But Mr. Baron Cleasby thinks they perform a most troops of considered a real act of kindness. Mr. Gladstone received important function, and eo he told the grand jury for annua l boll very efficient help from the junior members for both the Leeds Assizes on Thursday. They stayed s•exa universities ; and whether Mr. Mowbray with his tious can leave hie prosecutions, he pointed out. They were able . traveller goir knowledge of Durham, most efficiently' snuffed railway ticke out Mr. Bouverie, who h a d t h e audacity to to receive evidence in private, an d t o ac t on i nforms- ' pleases. Tle assert that the Bishop of Exeter's canonry was worth tion not given before the magistrates. Before Magna i explaeation. £6,000, or Mr. Beresford Hope more effectually con- Charta the grand jury system had been established; only those t demned Mr. Dickinson out of his ow n mou th, may f a i r l y and it had been since adopted b nearly all civilise th be considered an open question. Th e f a ll acy that the nations, for it placed the admn isytration of justice in gentoiinds sa tobo , cc ar i( bishops are rich men still seems to prev a il i n the House of coupons—th Commons, and the nonsense talked by many Liberals in the hands of the people. taking his te the debate only shews how unfit an arena is the House of MURDER AND SEMI-MURDER. francs a day. Commons for the discussion of religious que s ti ons . W e ing places i are glad that Mr. Henley's advice of restricting the opera- The Medical Times and Gazette thinks the tour- • Switzerland, tion of the bill to two years has been taken, and this very mutation of the sentence on Fanny Oliver wise, cheque-book circumstance exempts thi s particular measure from the though illogical. The failure of one test—that of tourist has si• observations as to year,te general inexpediency of legis!ation Reinsch—to detect arsenic, left the testimony of the a " Dinner at this time of when members of Parliament are not 1 Mr. Cook at ' scientific test applied by Mr. Hill unsupported. fairly open to Earl Granville's taunt of preferring their the other. own pleasures, because they are wearied with labours of There was, therefore, the medical journal thinks, popular indei unexampled severity. I such doubt concerning the scientific evidence as to of it. On rendcr the case one for commutation, but not for is a Swiss a The Economist, in referring to the report on paella " A married woman who dictates love-rnentary and municipal elections, remarks that the choice pardon. the 11th Sep lies between the Ballot and the existing system, and the letters to a former lover, purchases arsenic, giving Italy will existing system is declared, after inquiry, to be no longer the lover's as her own name, who nurses her husband routes il by th endurable. We are inclined to believe that time country through an . illness, - and in whese husband's . body _P i o ' rh a p n e'ii, So e r r at large will endorse the verdict of the committee, and death, cannot be surprised if lurin, and ! that the opposition, unless, indeed, it come from the arsenic is found after ^ Lords—who, however, will not like to interfere with a society considers her a dangerous person, and dis- thirty-six gui mode of election adopted by the other House—will not be poses of her accordingly." The MedicNl Times and railway and fierce. The discontent with the present system is very Gazelle thinks the moral of this case is that three (including a opening of widely diffused, and reac h es very hi gh up. Peopl e who experimentalists at least ought to test suspected of another are not much shocked by ordinary bribing dislike the ' rioting and tumult and mo b coerc i on which attend articles in trials for murder. November, elections, and which in Tory belief are permanently inju- Another trial—that of a husband for killing his and back b rious to the Conservative cause. Th e r i c h and the timid wife at Iledhill—furnishes food for reflection. This Passing to th and the refined, who aro all Conservativ es by instinct, home or abro independence fellow,.named Simmons came home one night and abstain from voting. yet would vote if the vote could be abused his wife, a hard-working, , sober woman, clearly define given in the quiet which, according to all the evidence the Ballot does secure. The small proprietors' finishing his entertainment by throwing her down all who mod: too, are very impatient of the pressure exercised by stairs and fracturing her skull. There ho purchase of their grandee neighbours, and the latter feel more let her lie, bleeding and inanimate ; and published twi really remark almost than any other men the influence of the general when assistance arrived, the woman was of twenty-fou drift of e V whether it be owards Radicalism or not, is towards the that tia c liverdeath had throughprobably rule of the multitude, awl in thousands of minds habitually Conservative there is a latent liking fer completeness, akicks. The man was tried for scarcely attn feeling that as the householders are to rule they ought to ' man slaughter ; but surely it did no t f o ll ow a ft er this ordinary coat be set free to 11 0 it. Other schemes for setting them free 1 lucky escape f rom a capital charge that he should be Excumonist. might no doubt be d ev i se d ; b ut th e o nly one the country ' " recommended to mere • " The Daily News never there are eig tours over tho knows anythate alseit is the Pallet, and the ballot there- P, d 1 o fi f v s e uc y h ea a rs re i comm . 3 e;idati on . Tile savage will in Holland at fore will in nil he man probability be tried. There are local canoes also in eeera.tieri which greatly lend to tlimi linehe hill be at h. t . - I ' n ber p t r y is t o o n i , :ii a i t so t in he e oetnhderowfolmvhanic.h are fifteen, ar enable the to nish resistance to the i:,noratiun. In Si:MLA:pi the tenants would like the flnl!ot, beenmse it wrmT,l av,•rt petty an- direction, an THE BANNING LAWS. sum ranging nnyancee, while time lan4lionis are so completely powerless that the - Ballot cin rig them no harm. In Ireland it is a , Mr. Lowe has given another instance of hie dis regard of the official cansn, that no applineit shall in a few ca moot paint whether secret voting would nut cripple the booking and r priest railer more than th e landlord, a vote, as was be formally' refused a request. It has lOng, bee n th e g p u tl a r r e , l l ll ( g m es ea i c n il carefully explained to the committee, not Leing a sin ' custom to promise . to . talic a stthject with which a oneof which the peeitent is bound to confess before absolution. these qi Minister does not inteed to deal into consideration. traveller mak, In England the influence of the great employers of labour But AI r. Lowe tells what be thinks promptly, if some- ling ex p enses is so divided th at i ts ext i nction will be regarded without alarm on party grounds, while in Wales the Ballot will b e times rude)y. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce book of hotel- , received by ail lint a few landlords with enthusiasm, The has just asked the Chancellorof the Exchequer to instis he has but to wine, to calcu main resistance, in fact, will be from a few ultra-Tories tute aninquiry into the operation of the banking laws, impossible to • who dislike change of any kind, and a few very strong Liberals like Mr. Hughes, for example, who want the Mr. Lowe will do nothing. of the sort, and he replies, m t ore ve d s m elic o a n t e el : electors to win freedom of vo ti ng b y pluck an d perseve- th roug h hi s secre t ar y, "that the operati on o f th e Isa ranee as the Scotch have done, and not merely to evade Bank Act has been already so thoroughly explored, inconvenience, the pressure by securing legal secrecy for their acts. I and the laws which regulate the currency, and which are the EXCLUSIVE These two classes, thc.egh influential, do not form nearly a majority, and will not he able to delay the pealing of are reduced .. to as much eel tainty as any other branch the measure. ----- - -- ._ _. _ __..... of political economy, are so generally understood, , worst laea.asellei .. ._ • _ _ .._ thatAol.lllllble44lo o -in 44 - 118 4. 11111 al ' PalAtale Wiz ._.- • . .. . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1869. proposed inquiry, and is not prepared to recommend that the country should be put to the expense which it would occmion." ANOTHER MUNIFICENT BEQUEST BY MB. WHIT- WORTH. Mr. Whitworth has offered eighty more scholar ships to the Science and Art Department, to be devoted to the furtherance of technical instruction. They are of the annual value of £25 each, and represent a capital of £40,000. This is the second bequest which Mr. Whitworth has made in the interest of scientific instruction. This second series of scholarships is to be open to the competition of students in universities and in public and private schools : Mr. Whitworth's first act of munificence was more especially for the benefit of artisans. THE ACID AND SMOKE NUISANCE. Mr. Angus Smith, the inspector appointed under the Anali Act, has just issued his annual report, which contains much useful information. The mode of testing the quantity and quality of acids contained in the exhalations from chimnies has now been so much improved, that it is possible to ascertain the exact amount of mischief clone by each manufacturer, and it is also pretty well known whether the nuisance is inevitable or otherwise. Mr. Smith assumes that the advantages of industrial occupations are SO great that the unavoidable evils re sulting from them must usually be borne ; but these evils would be co:nparatively small if chemical works were carefully conducted, and coal was properly burnt. It seems that 90 per cent. of the acid escaping from the manufacture of salt cake can he recovered by passing the smoke and gases through a " wash tower." This tower is of simple and inexpensive construction, and its use does not interfere with the efficiency of the furnaces. Respecting the consumption of smoke, Mr. Smith states that in general far too much air is supplied to furnaces, which involves much waste, and does harm by cooling the furnaces. What is requisite is to admit the exact quantity of air required for combustion, and to cause it to be properly distributed. " Air is easily given, but not so easily used." He recommends the intro duction of a jet of steam to the furnace. The inju rious condition of the atmosphere in many of our manufacturing towns is clearly pointed out. " The rain instantly reddens test paper in Manchester. It is easy to account for the absence of plants ;" and, ho might have added, for the high death rate. We now know that improved processes of manufacture will remove the greater part of the evils from which the public suffer, and these improvements can often be carried out with advantage to the manufacturer. Under these circumstances no time ought to be lost in giving practical effect to our knowledge by sup pressing any abateable nuisance. THE SOLDIER ' S KNAP:'ACK. The soldier's knapsack has been long enough dis— cussed, and we are glad to learn from the Lancet that the new system has been decided upon. The " valise " has been selected after much debate and a great many trials. The Con.mander-in-Chief has ordered the new arrangement to be supplied annually to ten regiments. The only competitor with the valise has been Colonel Carter's knapsack, but that, the soldiers said, hurt them in the small of the back ; it has therefore been abandoned. It is with much satisfaction that we record that the old knapsack, or "the monkey," as the Prussian soldiers call it, will soon disappear from the British army, to, it is to be hoped, the comfort of the soldier and an increase ot his efficiency. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) We have just received our files of papers to July 27. Postmaster-General Creswell had met with a serious accident at his home in Maryland. The grand ball to the President at Long Branch on the 26th was a brilliant affair. A cannon weighing 57 tons had been successfully landed at Fortress Mon roe. There are legal difficulties in the way of Mr. Stewart's purchase at Hempstead Plains. A politi cal affray took place at Augusta, Georgia, on the 24th July, in which two men were killed and seve ral wounded. By the caving in of a sand bank on the New York Central Railroad several workmen were injured. A torpedo corps is about to be orga nized by the Navy Department. An accident oc curred on the Connecticut River Railroad on Sa turday, and three persons were injured. By Andrew Johnson insisting on securing for himself the United • States Senatorship in Tennessee he was imperilling the election of Senter. A fire at Long Branch destroyed $lO,OOO worth of property and endangered 30 horses. Frank Leslie gives a picture of Marriott's steam carriage Avitor, and if the likeness be correct, it more resembles a flying fish than a cigar. Our readers must imagine the body of such a fish with its fins extended along each side, and not pointed wings as erroneously imagined ; for they begin near the head, reaching down towards the centre of the Avitor. The rudder at the stern may be described as not only a vertical fine, like that of a fish, but with another crossing it horizontally in the centre and at right angles. Thus by elevating the end of this rudder the effect would be to raise the head of the balloon, by depressing it the head would tend down wards, by turning it to the yight, the Avitor would come round to the right or to the left, just as a ship would obey her rudder. This carriage is a mere working model to test what could be accom plished, but though said to be clumsy in appear ance when on the ground, it looks imposing in the air, and will doubtless astonish the birds. Out of the back at the centre protrudes a small funnel, from which Frank Leslie pictUres smoke as issuing, which is a mistake, for spirits of wine only is used for generating the steam. There are two little masts, to which ropes stretching to the extremities of the wings are attached, the Stars and Stripes fly ing at the masthead, but the Eagle of the United States would be more appropriate. A third, and even more successful, trial was made on the 21st July in the presence of reporters, engineers, and some members of a large party from Chicago. The Chicago Tribune says, "They are building an air ship in New York on the mcdel of the California inven tion. Its owners announce that they will complete it in two months, and they expect it will take them to Europe in fifteen hours. It may, but it is more likely to take them to the other world in fifteen seconds." Koopmanscbaap is a native of Holland, who emi grated in 1851, and, prospering in San Francisco, took to importing Chinese, of whom he has intro duced 30,000. He is not, then, the Celestial his name led every one to suppose. After successfully forming the Chinese Emigration Company, he pro ceeded to New York, where he became " a lion," great interest in his mission being felt. Though thousands earnestly desire to introduce coo!y la baur there are other thousands who dislike it ; and it was soon seen that the company organized by Koopmanschaap, proposed to infringe an Act of Congress passed in 1862, prohibiting the trade, and forbidding the citizens of the United States to raise, ecrrip, load, or otherwise prepare, any ship or vessel, registered, enrollel, or licensed in any port of the United States, for the purpose of procuring the sub jects of China, known as coolies, to be transported to any foreign country on pain of forfeiture of the ship. This is rather an awkward barrier to Koop manschaap's proceedings, and he has taken his de parture from the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, for San Francisco. The Irish Church question excites much interest in America, " Pig-headed" being the mildest term used for what is considered the obstinacy of the Peers. Leading articles on the subject appear in nearly all the papers. It was confidently antici pated, however, that the Lords would soon give way, and the news that such had been the case was received with general satisfaction, as Mr. G!adstone's Bill is held to be a triumph for liberty, and America welcomes every move which tends to assimilate the countries. A 'cute Yankee made the Boston Jubilee a means of advertising. In the hands of the chorus he placed 18,000 boxes of his cough lozenges at a cost of $3,750, and then boldly proclaimed that to his lozenges, and to them alone, the success was due, for which he deserved to be patronised by Boston in particular, and by the State in general. Another enterprising American offerel to supply a congre gation with prayer-books gratis, but each alternate page contained an advertisement. A third made the minister an offer for the outsideof his pulpit to advertise baby-junipers. A proposal has come from an advertiser of large mind for both sides of the Sutz Canal, and we are directed to announce a handsome bid to any crowned head who would let out his back ; the advertiser guaranteeing that the lettels shall be in gold, and the subject neither baby-faiming nor quack medicines ; but the royal word is required that he will not lean back in his carriage. It may be remembered that before General But terfield would accept charge of the Sub-Treasury in New York he desired that all the coin should be counted. This might appear a simple task to those whose ears are only gratified by the jingle of six pences in their pockets, but when the sum amounts to millions the task requires organization and ex perts for its quick and successful accomplishment. Messrs. Guthrie, Moore, Baker, and True were se lected from the corps of assistants in Washington and sent to New York to aid the 59 rapid accountants already engaged, presided over by P. C. Calhoun, president of the Fourth National Bank. They be gan work on the afternoon of July 2, commenting eingwith the currency, ranging in denomination from $1 to $l,OOO, which was counted twice, the total sum reaching $30,000,000.. At about 10 o'clock on the night of July 3 the reckoning was finished, every piece of gold and silver having been twice counted and weighed piece by-piece, and a detailed analysis re cot ded on each bag. Thus $70 ; 000,000 in gold and 500,C00 in silver were manipulated, together with bar gold to the value of $3,000,000, which had to be weighed, calculated, and repacked ; the grand total being found to be $102,727,648, cents 29, which proved the Treasury return to have been accurate in every particular, and the sum to be the largest ever gathered in the New York vaults. The effect of the Tribune's work in giving such prominence to the income returns of New York City and its vicinity is becoming more marked e v v er e n ry day.ment offi l e t ia a ls tt , r a a n et d ed e t u h r e re a d tte n n p tio t nheof effi th e e er G s 0 0 - f internal revenue. Re-assessments have been or dered for several of the great cities, inquiries have been instituted, and prosecutions in cases of false returns. In consequence numbers of persons whom the Revenue Commissioners had never heard of before are now as eager to get their names on the list as they were before to keep them off. Attention seems to be chiefly directed to Fernando Wood, but there is a number of other poor men for whom much commiseration is felt, and into whose cases searching inquiries are in charity to be made. The New York Timessays :—" The information at the In ternal Revenue Bureau is of an encouraging charac ter so far as the collection of the income tax is con cerned. It appears that the Assessors and Col lectors find the business of the year, in this respect, which they bad supposed finished, almost as active as ever, the number of gentlemen who find that they now have taxable incomes, and who are desir ous to pay the income tax, being coutit,d by thou sands." The Revenue officers have been very good till stirred up by that Radical paper the New York Tribune,oiitsnvaer'ißctsaedaioi. s content with the comfortable arrangement by which the "poor m en" returned an income with out paying a tax, complacently receiving each year a notice co t a l: lo a om t c , oo:u i e f ar, they did not pay, a fine would be snehco any y v e enru, departmentmt h number e t r R o a f d ic lettersa Radical apapers receivedgiving n took g information about delinquents. The Tribune is entitled to et heavy oOmuligiov, Which tho whole ' $lOO,OOO would scarcely repay. But it must be re membered that these income returns are not true indications of wealth, for much property pays the tax before the income reaches the owner. The dreadful news has been winged to New York that Andrew Johnson is sure to be returned from Tennessee to the United States Senate. Se nator Sprague is fortifying himself for the coming campaign by a visit at Narragansett Pier from that great tactician and daring general, Phil. Sheridan, about whom an Irish-American paper of the Fe nian persuasion has circulated the report that he gave hearty encouragement to some F. B. Senators. Sheridan and his staff have lately been the guests of L. P. Morton. Senator Hendricks of Indiana, who is going to the Pacific coast, is to have recep-: tions at the hands of the Democracy of Omaha and Cheyenne. Senator Fenton, in the following words, declined an ovation iu the shape of a numerous and brilliant escort down the Bay on the occasion of his approaching departure for Europe James town, July 14, 1869.—The Hon. John V. Gridley, New York.—Your despatch is received. Accept the express:on of my thanks for your kind offer, but I beg you take no further steps in the matter. I shall be well pleased to leave upon my voyage with a knowledge of the generous purpose of the members of the Lincoln Club and other friends, without the demonstration you suggest. I even prefer a quiet departure.—" R. E. FENTON." The 7 ribune asserts that the first intelligence re ceived direct from Paraguay at New York was the letter published July 22 from its correspondent at Buenos Ayres. General M'Mahou bad arrived there on his way home, the recall from the Hon. E. B. Washburne having reached him at the same time as the hearty approval of his course by Mr. Seward, the former Secretary. The correspondent further states that Gen. M'Mahon's recall by Mr. Washburne was rendered the more offensive, as the Secretary was the brother of the Minister M'Mahon had replaced. How is it, if this be true, that the ex-Minister to Paraguay, Chas. A. Wash burn, always spells his name without the final e, while the well-known family of which the Minister to France is a member spell the name with an " e." The correspondent declares that Gen. M'Mahon saved the United States from becoming entangled in an unjustifiable war with Paraguay ; that he exercised a most beneficial influence over Lopez, and through hint alone was there a chance of peace being effected. Lopez's official organ, the Estrella, pays General M'Mahon a high compliment, contrasting him with Mr. Washburn much to the disadvantage of the lat ter. The writer considers that the allies cannot make a successful attack on the Paraguayan position in the Cordilleras, the headquarters of which is at the mouth of the principal pass. Lopez was casting guns at the rate of three or four a week, nearly all his wounded had recovered, and had again joined him, and he was prepared for another four years' war. Astonishing revelations are promised when Gen. M'Mahon speaks out, and we have beard no thing apparently more contradictory than this Para guayan question, as it now stands. Admiral Davis and General M'Mahon seem to be arrayed on the side of Lopez; Ex-Minister Washburn, Messrs. Bliss and Masterman, and Colonel Thompson strongly condemn him, as does public opinion generally, while the Paraguayans seem to be fanatically at tached to his fortunes, and, however accounted for, they ought best to know him. The Times, in its City Article last Tuesday, re iterates the assertion, notwithstanding the denial already made, that the preliminaries have been ar• ranged at Madrid for the recognition of the inde pendence of Cuba by Spain in consideration of $100,000,000 in Bonds, to be secured on the reve nues of the island and guaranteed by the United States. We heartily agree in these remarks of the leading journal : "Under the circumstances the view is that the result will be of the highest benefit to all patties. Spain will not only be enabled to put her finance in a sound position, but will escape henceforth tho cost and peril of dealing with the revolutionary elements in the island ; the Cubans will have the means of rapid development opened up to them ; anc the United States will be spared the complications constantly threatened by the attempts of American citi zcns to foment and aid the disposition to rebellion." While the report is categoric ally denied at Madrid it is repeated by telegraph from New York. There it is believed that the Washington Administration has instructed its Minister to Spain to open such a nego.!iation, though nothing official had as yet tran spired. A further story is that Air. Forbes of Bos [Ott ut,t - cd.,l to le eiree keheir the United States the sum of $100,000,000 for Cuba. As the island returns an income of $10,000,000 this sum only represents a ten years' purchase. Senator Sumner, in a recent letter dated Nahant, (Massachusetts), fully endorses the action of the Governm .nt in maintaining the neutrality of the United States towards Cuba. lie does this, how ever, from a motive for which we have little sym pathy, as it is grounded on mere expediency, unin fluenced by principles. His heart is with the Cubans, but the importance of the negotiations with Great Britain, which would be compromised by the slightest concession, over-rides the interests of the revolutionists. We hope Senator Sumner wrote no such letter, for the action of the United States Ad ministration on foreign as on home matters should be guided by law and equity alone. No course pursued by America could justify Engltnd's action in the Alabama case, and the claims of the United Stat2s, however inconsistent the demands might be with such a course, would still remain. Nor is this letter consistent with Mr. Sumner's previous views, who alleges against England, as a crime, her sym pathy with the rebellion, while he, the Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Affairs, openly announces his own sympathy with the Cuban rebels, for which, according to his own showing, Spain has the right to complain. We are glad to see that he supports the purchase by the Cubans of the island, the bonds, as proposed by Secretary Fish, to be guaranteed by the United States. Lemus has been removed from the Presidency pf the Cuban Junta, the agency being transferred to Senor Macias, late of Buenos Ayres, and this is said but to anticipate the action of President Cespides, who heads the revolt in the island. Lemus left Wash ington,July 22,t0 meet the difficulty which has arisen; but it is evident that there is a split. It is said by those who have transferred their allegiance that he was lukewarm in the cause, that he never be lieved in its success, and that the failure of the re cent expeditions is due to his obvious want of in terest. Ryan and Currier, who escaped at New York, are at an hotel on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. There they will be conveniently placed in the event of the rumoured invasion of Canada, now telegraphed as coming off, and " creating some excitement in the towns on the St. Lawrence." The news from the Phillipine Islands is that an insurrection threatens there against the Spanish authority, and it is semi-officially an nouncel that an attempt will be made to follow the example of the Cuban insurgents. Pleasant news for smokers! to have Havannah and Manilla d..- vastated by civil war at the same time. President Grant has made a great haul of gun boats. Spain has been extensive in her orders for small vessels for war purposes, and employed the yards of New York, and of Mystic, Connecticut, to construct them. The Peruvian Minister lodged a complaint, alleging that the vessels were intended for an attack against Peru, and orders were given to the United States Marshal to seize those in New York. Eight were captured in the harbour, but seven got away to Long Island, whither they were followed by the Government officers, of whom others were despatched to Connecticut to size the 15 now building there. They each carry one gun, being but 170 toes burden and 105 feet long. The proba bility is that they were really designed for service in Cuba, but it was found to be more convenient and diplomatic for the Peruvian Minister to coin plain, as i:o Cuban agent could be officially re cognized. The Spanish Minister, of course, pro tested against this high-handed proceeding, but Grant will hold to the saying, that " what is sauce for 0,3 goose is sauce for the gander." The news via San Francisco, from China, is to June 19, and from Japan to June 30. A steamer, formerly the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee, :was wrecked near Yokohama on June 17, and 22 lives were lost. The Imperialists had captured Hako dadi. The Mikado had appointed two ambassadors to the aancl7fich ik4ands, and they were about to start upon their mission. In China there was great excitement at the discovery of a conspiracy to be gin another great rebellion. Another outrage upon foreigners near Hankow is reported, the British Consul and his wife being among those attacked ; and the matter is to be investigated by the Govern ment at Pekin. At Ichang the crew of the gun boat Opossum saw placards posted on the gates offering rewards for the murder of foreigners and the destruction of their steamers. Bank robberies by persons in positions of trust continue in New York. The two latest are those of Frank Ballard,•Secretary of the Security Insur ance Company of New York, who is a defaulter for $63,000, and of Daniel H. Fitzgerald, formerly cashier of the City Bank of Syracuse, N.Y. Mr. Ballard has been Secretary of his Company for nearly three years, after filling the posts of Secre tary in both the New York Board of Fire Under writers and the National Board. He is a promi nent member of the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, having been but a week before the discovery that he had stolen $63,000 from his employerselected an officer at the society's International Convention at Portland. He is known also as the corre ponlent of the Boston Post, who signs himself "Nor' Wester," and he has for a long time been held in high esteem among insurance men. The Evening Post remarks "The defalcation was managed in the most ingenious manner, and could have been accomplished only by an expert book-keeper. The company usually has a surplus of about $200,000, part of which ie used to make call loans. Tho company never charges more than 7 per cent., and receives only Government Bonds as collateral secu rity. These collatemls were used by Mr. Ballard for purposes of speculation." Another assassination isreported from Arkansas, Marion, Crittenden county. Captain A.T. Haynes, formerly of the 3rd Coloured Cas airy, was shot by Clarence Collier, according to one account, by a deliberately planned assassination, and according to another under the pretence of self-defence. Both, however, agree that Collier was in a grocery, that he stepped into the street where Haynes was with a double-barrelled gun, that he fired one charge with - out warning, into Captain Haynes' side, following it with the other barrel, and then drawing a pistol sent two bullets into his body. Although the Mem phis Appeal asserts that Captain Haynes had threa tened to shoot Collier and some others on sight, and that when he saw Collier he put his hand to his back as if about to draw a pistol, which induced Collier to fire, another account maintains that it was a most deliberate and cowardly murder, the assnssin lying in wait for his victim, having his horse ready saddled to ride away, which he did. Collier, who is described as being a young man only just of age, with black hair, dark eyebrows, and a small dark moustache, is said already to have killed five men, among them a son of Mr. P. C. Bethell. No hard words had passed between them ; on the contrary, Collier, who had fled as a Ku-Klux when the militia occupied the town, assured . Haynes on his return that he desired to live there in peace. The Memphis Appeal thus heads its ac count of the murder, which it terms a I?.encontre, " Haynes, the Highwayman," referring to him as "the late infamous commander of Clayton's militia." What is required is, to hang without remorse such ruffians, and unless Grant thus succeeds in dealing with these cavaliers there will be no peace in the South. Hang every man who shoots another, and such assassinations will cease, for there are few who can make up their minds to die for the sake of gratifying hate. It is really marvellous that in a Christian land a man barely 21 years of age should add to the numerous assassinations he had perpetrated that of an officer whose crime was that he had commanded the state troops on an oc casion distasteful to such a band as the Ku-Klux Klan, and that he could murder him in the open street with absolute impunity, giving his victim no chance but destroying him as he would a mad dog. The coloured people are, however, likely to work a wild justice with Collier if they catch him. They mounted and followed, and if they c )me across him they will probably shoot him in the same way as he shot Haynes, as they have but little faith in the working of the laws of Arkansas. We are glad, however, to add that much indignation has been excited at Marion by this act. The Nation of July 22 has a remarkable article on the difficulties of Economical Discussion. The World and the Evening Post consider that the tariff question cannot be taken out of the area of party politics and treated simply as the sei.!ntific question it really is. While admitting this, the Nation deplores the common mistake of associating political economy with statesmanship, the suppo sition being that a man who knows political eco nomy is sure to be a good legislator. It is hardly ever consider6d purely as a science, and it will be a long time before it can be so considered unda a popular Government, for the simple reason " that there is money in it" as the lobbyists say : "No matter what may be the motives of the general public in putting on protective duties on foreign commo dities, the result of doing so is to create a large class who have a pecuniary interest in maittaining the duties; and his class called into existence, farewell to science or scien- tific treatment. When the question of continuing the duties, the question whether they have not been is exist ence long enough, or the question whether they ought ever to have been imposed at all, comes up for discussion, it is invariably mixed up with a great variety of considerations —some economical, some social, some moral, some reli gious, and some personal. It will be said that the tariff ought to bo maintained for the elevation of the working man ; for the purpose of preparing the country fora foreign war at some indefinite period; for the purpose of diversify ing industry, and to improving the mental faculties of the population; for the purpose of punishing some foreign power for bad behaviour; for the national honour and glory, and so on. Not one of these considerations has any thing economical about it, or is ono on which a scientific econonlis,t has any opinion to offer; they are things for the consideration of the politician properly so called ; but a great misfortune of the times is that the distinction between the spheres of the two men is entirely overlooked. Lord Derby, for instance, when he was opposing free-trade in corn in order that England might not become dependent on foreign countries for food, and in order that the landed interest might be maintained in health or prosperity, thought he was talking political economy, but he was not —he was talking politics; and half his hatred of free trade was composed of the landowner's jealousy and dis trust of the manufacturer. So it is here; anybody who takes the trouble to read the curious essays Mr. Greeley is presenting his readers in the Tribune under the name of a treatise on political economy, will find hardly a trace of the science in them. They consist of a collection of political and social theories and personal reminis cences. In fact there is something really remarkable in his own faith that ho is talking science. For in stance, he declares the object of political economy to be the conversion of good-for-nothing non-producers, which, if true, would make it the principal business of political economists to establish gaols, industrial schools, and reformatories ; and anybody who differs from him ho pronounces a blockhead or ' blear-eyed pedant.' Some of the weapons ho employs in the discussion are very curi ous. Mr. Wells having furnished some facts, which seem to controvert Mr Greeley's theories, he declared solemnly that, in his opinion, Mr Wells is bribed. Ile publishes a long list of income returns, provided him by revenue offi cers, whose accuracy, it seems, he does not take the least trouble to test, for the purpose, as he alleges, of exposing those who evade paying their dues to the Government ; and although under the law the return is no evidence whatever of the amount of a man's incoute•—the interest or dividends of the money invested in the stock of corpora tions having the tax deducted by the corporation—he holds up to execration those whose names do not appear in his columns, or whose returns do not seem to their neighbours to account for their expenditure." And this the Nation asserts to be done with the intention of bringing to shame such editors and public men as support Free.tradc, and to discredit their opinions. The comity of States, slys the Cleveland Herald, requites that Ohio Democratic papers should omit all reference to the " bloated bondholders," for fear of wounding the feelings of the Democratic can didate for Governor in Pennsylvania, who is bloated" with several unlLons of dollars of that sort of property. The French Atlantic Telegraph Company have announced that their cable will be opened on the 15th of August, their rate on a message of ten words being £1 125., with a charge of 3s. 3d. f•.,r each additional word. DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, ate the largest holders of Whisky in tha world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casts and cases for home use or exporta- tion Qaotationa on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., pelfast; or 4„ yett4f9Ft-paliclinFa ? Stre,tp4) l o449n, Wr i 9,-;•[Ad Ye; illezeq_ SAD SUICIDE. The late Mr. William John Salter, whose melan choly suicide from the Steam Navigation Company's boat, near Gravesend, was recorded on Thi,rably, had been suffering for many months from severe mental depression. lie was a man of more than ordi nary ability and acumen, and had forme r ly d one muc h able work as _a pake on tol oglst of the British Geological Survey. It had long been known among his inti mate friends that the unfortunate gentleman was subject to fits of depression and irritability owing to an over clever and susceptible brain. There can be little doubt that his sad death WM owing to this cause. He will be greatly regretted by many fellow workers, who had much esteem for his scientific knowledge. CATTLE DISEASE. The recent outbreak of foot and mouth complaint amongst the cattle of Buckinghamshire has been the subject of a deputation to the Vice-President of the Council from the Home Cattle Defence Association. The disease was, the deputation represented, spread ing much in the same way as did the cattle plague on its first outbreak. Mr. Forster gave an assurance that all animals found diseased should be slaughtered on landing ; and expressed his confidence that the Contagious Diseases Bill in its present shape would enable the Privy Council to deal effectually with any rileurrrilne_ of contacion. OCEAN TELEgRAPITS. Though abundant eole communication between Europe and the United States hns been established, there is still much to do in the way of bringing distant parts of the New World within reach of the New York wires. Some parts of South America are much further from tho United States than the latter country is from us. It is with the clect of continuing the communication through the West Inch t Islands to Brazil, Peru, and other States that the West India and Panama Telegraph Company is now forming. It proposes to begin at Havannah, which is already connected with the United States, and procmd in two branches, the main one running through the West India island of Porto taco to South o lea, the subordinate cable stretching from the same island to Mexico ard Panama. The whole will be 2,000 miles long, of which 350 miles will be land line. COOK'S EXCURSIONS. The excursion season will soon be at its height; and the Daily 1V ems, in view of it, publishes an article on the excursions organised by Mr. Cook. Mr. Thomas Cook (it says) is the Napoleon of excursionists. Last year more than two hundred thousand people travelled by means of Cook's tickets ; this year the number will approach, if it ' does not exceed, three handred thousand ; and from the time of the commencement of the system until now, be , tween three and four millions of tourists have availed themselves of the facilities offered by it, without one of them ever getting so much as a bruise. There are ' one or two misapprehensions as to these exclusions which ought to be removed. One of them that it is necessary to travel in a body ; that the conductor of each trip purveys for those joining in it,• that castles, cities, galleries, palaces, mountains, lakes, antiquities, are visited in droves, and in droves only, by Mr. Cook's patrons, is altogether an inaccurate idea. Not five per cent. of the continental travellers taking these tickets travel in a party ; and not one out of the number need do so at all. From time to time, what is called an excursion is made when Mr. Cook himself, or his representative, travels with as many as choose to avail themselves of his guidance; bat this is regarded rather in the light of an exceptional advantage than as one of the conditions of the system of tours. The great conductor himself, however, is popular, and during the quarter of a century he has been organising, travelling, and contracting, has made troops of friends, who prefer so to time their annual holiday as to secure his company. A traveller going part way with Mr. Cook in these parties can leave him at any time, use his hotel coupons and his railway tickets, and rejoin him when the said traveller pleases. The phrase " hotel coupons" calls for a word of explanation. Mr. Cook has, on behalf of his clients, not only those travelling in a body but all his hundreds of thousands, contracted with certain hotels on the Conti nent to board and lodge every one who elects to carry his coupons—there is, of course, no compulsion on those taking his travelling tickets—at a uniform rate of ten francs a day. This arrangement extends over the lead ing places in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy ; and a packet of coupons like a cheque-book having been purchased in London, the tourist has simply to tear off a "Bed," a " Breakfast," or a "Dinner" cheque, with a smiling medallion portrait of Mr. Cook at its head, when he wants either the one or the other. The associated system, however, is very popular indeed, and people of high rank take advantage of it. On Monday, the 16th of August, there is a Swiss and Rhine party leaving England, and on the 11th September a month's tour to Switzerland and Italy will start. There will be a choice of routes by the Splugen, St. Gothard, or Simplon ; and Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Civita-Vecchia, Leghorn, Pisa, Lucca, Turin, and Genoa will be visited. The fares will be thirty-six guineas for the month travelling first class by railway and steamer, or thirty-two guineas second-class (including all hotel charges in each case). The opening of the Suez Canal will be the occasion of another associated tour, starting on the 3rd of November, the fares from - London to Alexandria and back , being £35 first-class and £2B second-class. Passing to the general system under which travelling at home or abroad' may be pursued, without loss of individual independence and with certain advantages which are clearly defined, we strongly advise (says the Daily News) all who meditate a holiday to expend twopence in the purchase of Cook's Excursionist. This is a periodical published twice a month during the tourist-season, and is a really remarkable compendium of information. It consists of twenty-four closely-printed pages of the size of the Pall Mall Gazette, and gives an idea of the comprehensiveness and completeness of Mr. Cook's system which is scarcely attainable in any other way. Therefore the ordinary continental traveller would do well to study the Excursonist. The circular tours in Switzerland, of which there are eight, each comprising a different route ; the tours over the Alps, and to time Italian Lakes ; the tom-s in Holland and Belgium, via Rotterdam, of which there are fifteen, and via Antwerp, of which there are eleven, enable the tourist to travel by any train, in almost any direction, and save him over the ordinary fares a sum ranging from ten to twenty, twenty-five, and hi a few cases even thirty per cent. Instead of booking and rebookirg at the various stations abroad, lie purchases in Fleet-street a little book of coupons. The guard on each line, instead of asking for a ticket, tears ell oneof these quite in the regular way of business, and the traveller makes one payment for the whole of his travel ling expenses before leaving town. If lie _choose to buy a book of hotel-coupons for the number of days lie is away, be has but to leave a defined margin for amusements and wine, to calculate the cost of his jaunt to a nicety. It is impossible to imagine a system which is more complete, or more delicately adjusted to the ordinary tourist's wants. It saves money,temper, and time, and prevents a thousand inconveniences and delays. EXCLUSITE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplougn's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant Sig We i Alta 41Tiggriktilag• 001C1 by all Chsmigo,—CAdTt•l IMPERIAL PARdith ENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tms EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wools a ' at five o'clock. Their lordships, after forwarding the bills on the ord er of the day a stage, immediately adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. THE HENRY- MARTINI RIFLE. of Capt. VIVIAN, in reply to Mr. Muutz, said it Wa s , j) , intended to place the Henry-Martini rifle generally in hands of the army, until it had been tried in all parts '24 the world. 200 rifles had b e en ordered for the purpose t" being distributed to different regiments. With respe ct : grave doubts about th e d ura bilit y o f th e weapon! tb - authorities were not aware that any such exists. DAGENHAM DOCKS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in ra il to Viscount Enfield, said that the reason the Cus t t ni s License to land goods h a d b een re f use d t o t h e Dagen" - c i Dock Company was the great distance of the propos e docks from the C us t om h ouse, an d t h e present uns helter ed and unprotected state of the place. b Mr. OTWAY, i u r e ply t o M r . T orrens, sa id there been proposals of ex t ra diti on t reat i es b y certa i n fore,it-t Governments, and d ur i ng th e recess t h e w h o l e wili be taken into consideration. DISCHARGED GOVERNMENT CLERKS. 0 Mr. STANSFELD, in reply to Mr. Sheridan, a: arrangement had yet been made re l a ti ve t o the cleri cs ;: longer required at Somerset Hou s e i n conseque nce a i d - abolition of the fire insuran ce d u ty. He could not 1:1'20, out hope of further employment to them by the Go yer mont; but with respect to compe nsa ti on , h e had t° 5 :1 1 0 that tho Treasury would take th e mos t lib era l v iew o' position of affairs as the act enabled them to do. PAROCHIAL EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) DILL. On the house going into committee on this bill, be Mr. DISRAELI thought it w as i m p oss ibl e to ga - t be measure that consideration it d eserve d a t thi s p e riod of " 0 - 0 session. The subject of Scotch education was not °of simply affecting Scotch members, but it was one national interest, and he did not think it ought to be (1 , 1 ( 1 posed of in any hole and corner manner, but discussoti considered in the amplest manner, and he wanted to ir 3 s' he if such could be done now at the very fag end ° I ....d i " session. It was said that if the bill was not passed c l A °: ; s • d this session 90,000 children would be deprived of 3 " 0 1 , tion, but, if that was so, that was no reason why 3° - , : Dt proper bill should be passed. (Hear, hear.) Ile t b° % it was a matter that desi r ed th e mos t ser i ous c onsider 3"::; of the house whether they should not pass a law li' tB the time after which no public bill should c read a second time, b e caus e if bills of P b o paramount importance as that now before i 'be were pressed forward at the end of the session, w 113° ,,1d Appropriation Bill had been passed, and the session 13 :,4 upon as virtually at an end, it was, in fact, givieg:be members on the Ministerial side of the house, 1 °, 1 " .n vic holding office under Government, the power of P7OO any measure they pleased. He thought, under e ll t o• circumstances, the bill ought not to be now furthe r r ceedecl with. The LORD ADVOCATE said it was most unfer n oo that there should have been so much delay, but it oe wholly impossible to prevent it. He hoped the would consent to go on with the bill. Mr. HENLEY said ho thought they were, duri.tiod last ten days, going at a pretty good pace for 1)14 381 legislation into contempt. (H ear , h ear .) And " l os did that contempt for the law would follow. Ther e . 00 4 now over 100 amendments to the bill ; a n d althoug h : l o o'f been said that the Lord Advocate had agreed to 7 0 ho did not think that even then there was time to g ig measure that consideration it deserved at this adv . period of the session. be N T sco toh Mr. COLLINS said he did not care what t- f oi 4 members did for Scotland—(laughter)—but he ays s le 3 that the manner in w hi c h thi s bill was being bagjor through the house would be made a precedent for th e , lish bill. It appeared to him perfectly ridiculou s w i t i d they only had to send the bill b ac k t o th e L o rds aft er DO had made amendments. That was true certaiull:or then they were going to send the Lord; back a bi A l. ;0 1 fcctly different from that which their lordships 113- down to them. (Hear, hoar.) ieb 100 Mr. CA.NDLIS if thought it was not too 11.11 ` - t o g a , that there were still numbers in that house willin g e tc , ' on with the bill. The session had not been a P r°t p il s siol l one because there had been occasions when the , 6 ; t bei had extended to the 23d of August . (Oh, oh.) " . `dis set fairly to the consideration of the bill, it could 1)9 010 posed of long before that time. He could not bel ie° hon. members thought more of the grouse than t he l i r o P the education of the children of Scotland. (005 n and laughter.) vrtth tUB Mr. BRIGHT urged the h ouse t o proceed ' f tU bill, as it would, if passed, remove a difficulty out 0 matters to bo discussed next session. 00 1 co ELCHO thought it would be the wises: r tis ° pursue not to hurry the bill through at that par° a irlo° session, and therefore he sh ou ld move th a t the cll. do leave the chair. The house divided, when there tippeared- - 27 Ayes Noes _9_971., Majority against the motion . .7* a ****** house resuming tho consideration o'r-trii-e bll at el° s , v ie i The consideration of the other clauses of the bill ° c ' . the house up to the hour at which the sittieg suspended. 11e3 On resuming at nine o'clock, Sir R. PAL O . II the attention of the house to the report of the ,$-00. Lareply Law Commissioners; and in the which sca' blVt by Secretary BUUCE, the Government pronilo a t° ne s the question an early and ample consideratioe ol oti °° session. A -ilcabi othr sti — on the - number of other questions were ra for adjournment till Monday. i o ti'° The remainder of the evening was taken 1. 1 1 ) gc otO cussion of the Parochial Schools re-committ ed) Bill. The house then adjourned. COURSE OF EXCHANGE' Antstordam Short ... 11 191 ." 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We quote whose health has been perfectly restored by i t sf t e x o ' fl fron 3 sl ay o.. e r t, eo o) Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning r 6 r io rb .r y st ee d 4 1311 t ec l "' 'ill , "de dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du fe l o es f Arabic& Food, of which he consumes a plate ... h is It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect ?i,_"`, hit; his Holiness cannot praise this excellent oorktrveSoceiriioo: extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures:—% j iver o ,lpf ot 0/ 6 the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven yea/ r vortle Ole . 0 , wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ti OCI t i rfq s , all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness:. lori;ciyaeosl,_ tolerable nervous agitation. 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