The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

LA TV COURTS RE-OPENED, The brief Christmas vacation being over, the courts of common law at Westminster and the courts of equity at Lincoln's Inn were re-opened for business on Monday. In the Queen's Bench, the Exchequer, and the Common Pleas the judges sat in Banco. In Chancery the interest of the proceedings centred in the new legal appointments. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Hatherley) having in his private room resigned into the hands of the proper official the warrant which he held as one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, Sir G. M. Giffard, late Vice-Chancellor, was sworn in as his successor, and took his seat in 'court with Lord Justice Selwyn, the latter occurying the place of the senior judge. Mr. W. M. James, Q.C. (known at the bar as Fat James), was sworn in as Vice-Chancellor, and took the seat lately occupied by the new Lord Justice, in the pre sence of a crowded court. Mr. James will shortly receive the customary honour of knighthood. Mr. Wickens, who is still behind the bar, has received the appointment of Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, vacated by Vice-Chancellor James. LEG'ISLATION FOR IRELAND. eastterosse, in his election speech at Kerry, ad mitted that Ireland did not appear to have received an equal share of benefits from the Reformed Parliament with other parts of the empire. The last House of Commons ,had, however, done its best to repair the neglect, and had dealt a death-blow to religious ascendancy. He considered that the crowning act of the assertion of " Ireland's right " would long be remembered, and they had the experience of three hundred years to shew them that without it there could be no peace in the land. He would not trouble them with much discussion on the law relating to the occu pation of land, but he was in favour of tenant right. In Mr. Gladstone they had the foremost man in the country for their leader, and the Liberal party only wanted union amongst themselves and fidelity to their chief. Sir Colman O'Loghlen said that a great parlia mentary struggle was taking place when he had last addressed the electors of Clare. The Government of that day had challenged the opinion of the majority of the House of Commons, and insisted on appealing to the country against it. The first act of the new Premier would be to settle the question of religious equality, and this laid at the root of all the other evils of Ireland. It had been said that Mr. Gladstone had taken this up as a party question, but this was not the truth. The land question must also be taken up, and the G"vernment intended to render full justice to Ireland. ACCIDENT AT THE RAINFORD COLLIERY. Fresh news of disaster reaches us from the Painford Colliery. Of the seven men injured by the fire last week five are already dead, and one of the survivors is not likely to recover. The only one who has thus a chance of escape was, it appears, dressed in a flannel suit, which protected him from the action of the fire. On Friday night, however, two more lives were sacrificed to this unfortunate affair. On Friday the mouths of both stages were closed a short distance below the pit bank, and a strong jet of steam turned into the down- Last pit, to extinguish the fire. During the night the pits were left in charge of two of the engineers, who noticed about four a.m. that a quantity of steam and smoke was ascending, and it was therefore plain that the ventilation was reversed. The engineers thereupon proposed to jump down to the scaffold which was supposed to be closing the shaft, and which was only three or four feet down. Unhappily, the scaffold, from some unexplained cause was not there, and the men when they jumped went to the bottom of the shaft, which has been sunk to a distance of sixty or seventy yards below the burning seam. The night was very dark, and it is not surprising that the engineers should not have noticed the disappearance of the scaffold in the smoke and steam, but its absence is unaccountable. Some are of opinion that there has been an explosion in the mine, which has displaced the scaffolding ; others that the weight placed upon the horse trees in the shaft has been too great, and that they have given way. It is possible that, the supports being overtaxed, the weight of the two men jumping down was sufficient to break them. No trace of the scaffold could be seen on examination. The last that was heard of the poor fellows was that one asked the other how far they would have to jump, to which his companion replied that it was not far. The archway from which they fell has been bricked up, but it is feared that notwithstanding all precautions to prevent the air from reaching the fire, it may be fed from the old workings and disused shafts round. The Government inspector, Mr. Iligson, was pre sent at the colliery on Saturday. The painful accident of Friday night has increased the excitement in the district. THE ELECTION PETITION TRIALS. In the Court of Common Pleas on Monnay Ina case of Hind Edwardes and another was heard. Mr. Price, Q.C., said the plaintiffs had presented a petition attacking the seats of 7ir H. Edwardes and Capt. Kennard, the members for Bever 'ay, upon the grounds of bribery, treating, and intimida tion ; and, though both seats were attacked, they had given security only for £l,OOO. The question had been raised oefore Mr. Justice Wells, at Chambers, whether there ought not to be two separate securities for £l,OOO —one in respect of each seat. The present application made on behalf of Sir Henry Edwards was a rule calling upon the petitioners to show cause why an order of Mr. Justice Willes, holding that the security given was sufficient should not be set aside, and all further proceedings stayed, upon the ground that in fact the security given was insufficient. The learned counsel referred to various sections in the Bribery Act, and also to the new rules,and contended that these showed that each member petitioned against was entitled to receive a £l,OOO security for costs. The Lord Chief Justice said that as he understood there were other applications of a similar_ kind, the Court would hear them before giving their deci iion. A similar motion was thereupon made in the case of the Hull election by Mr. Mellish, Q.C., on behalf of Mr. Clay. In this instance there was the additional point that the petitioners themselves had entered into the recognisances, instead of other persons being sureties. fdr. Mellish, Q.C., moved on behalf of Mr. Wylie in refer ence to the Hereford city election, and on behalf of Mr. Woods in reference to the Wigan election. Mr. Price, Q.C., [for Mr. Poland) moved on behalf of Captain Kennard, M.P. for Beverley. Mr. Jelf moved on behalf of Mr. Lancaster, M.P. for Lancaster borough. Mr. Gifford, Q.C., moved on behalf of Mr. Herman, M.P. for Preston, and next the learned gentleman moved on behalf of Sir Thomas Hesketh, the member for the borough. Mr. Stave ley Hill, Q.C., moved on behalf of Mr. Hoare, M.P. for South ampton. Mr. C. Pollock, Q.C., moved on behalf of lqr. Van derbyl, M.P. for Bridgwater, Mr Yates moved on behalf of Mr. Eaton, M.P. for Coventry. Mr. Sergeant Sleigh moved, in reference to the Penryn election, on behalf of Mr. Bost wick ; and he also moved (for Mr. Straight) on tehalf of Mr. Fowler. Mr. C. Leigh moved on behalf of Mr. Hibbert, M.P. for Oldham ; and Mr. H. James moved for Mr. Platt, the other member. He also moved on behalf of Mr. Clive, M.P. for Ilereford, and Mr. A. King, late M.P. for Bridg water. The Lord Chief Justice said that rules must be granted in all the cases, and tho Court would appo'nt a day, of which notice would bo given, for hearing the arguments. Rule granted. M. Victor Hugo has addressed thefollowing letter, dated December 19, 1868, to M. Canellopoulo :—" Your elegant letter has moved me deeply. You are right in punting on me. All that I am and can is at the service of your noble cause. The cause of Crete is the cause of Greece, and the cause of Greece is the cause of Europe. The sequence is not perceived by kings, and yet it is per fectly logical. Diplomacy is nothing else than the ruse of princes in opposition to the logic of God. But at the right time God will prevail. God and right are synonyms. I am but an obstinate voice, lost, however, in the triumphal tumult of successful iniquities. What matters? heard or not I shall not weary. You say that Crete asks of me what Spain asked of me. Alas ! I can only sigh. I have done so before, yet I shall do it again. You may reckon on me." A bet made by a wag of Berlin on New Year's .)ay attracted crowds to one of the principal streets of the capital. In this street there is a hairdresser's shop, and the anther of the bet bad undertaken to sit for four hours, without moving, in the place of the wax figure in the window. At three in the afternoon he appeared at his post, dressed-in a white sheet and with a huge wig on his head surmounted by a fez cap. Every effort was made by the bystanders to make him show some sign of life. Street boys were tempted by the promise of large rewards to make their most ridiculous grimaces, and address him in all sorts of funny speeches, but all in vain. He remained immovable until the clock struck seven, when he rose, bowed gravely to the assembled crowd, and 'aired into the shop. THE NEW LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. orresponaence from Dublin is to the effect that arrange ments are in progress for giving a suitable reception to the new Lord-Lieutenant on Saturday next. The Lords Justices and officers of the Viceregal household will await the arrival of his Excellency, who is expected in Kingstown by special steamer at midday. A royal salute will be fired, the yards of the Royal George manned, and a military guard of honour will be in waiting. Th e corporation will proceed to Westland road terminus, and there await the approach of the special train which will convey the Viceregal party to Dublin. The keys of the city will be presented in due form to his Excellency, who will then proceed on horseback to the Castle, accompanied by the Commander of the FOAces and a brilliant escort, the Countess and suite following in the Viceregal squipago, •Ilko ptpitg UN A% THE MAYOR OF CORK. What is described as a " very discreditable scene arising ut of the uncontrollable desire of the Mayor (Mr. D. O'Sullivan) to ventilatf, his political opinions from the oench of justice," was witnessed in the Cork Police-court on Saturday. It is thus described. " When the ordi nary business of the court had been disposed of the Mayor rose and said : As the representatives of the press are here, I wish to make a few observations. I made some statements in this court this day week, which have been taken up by the magistrates, or some of them. An attempt was made to answer them, hut the public opinion, not only of this city, but of the whole country, has quite approved of what I said. I made the statement here, that young men have been brought up and remanded here for several days by the police without any charge against them, unless the mere suspicion of the constabulary. Several times, I repeat, that took place and was allowed. That was the statement I made, and I do not see any thing, nor do I know anything, to change my opinion. The press wrote about the matter, and some of the English papers said that any magistrate expressing the opinions which I gave utterance to should not be allowed to hold the commission of the peace in the county. I believe that, notwithstanding this opinion, I will still continue to hold the commission of the peace. I do not withdraw any of the expressions I used. I have only to explain that I would be sorry to say that the police of the county were not worthy of any credit, for generally speaking the constabulary is composed of very proper men. But sometimes, especially in times of political excitement, they are induced to go beyond the limits of constitutional law.—Captain Tooker : I must protest most strongly against the introduction of political matters here. The Mayor : I am free to express an opinion. —Captain Tooker : I deprecate the introduction of politics here. When you come in here you should leave your politics at the door, sir.—The Mayor : I do leave politics at the door. This is not the place to discuss them. But I assert emphatically that I have a right to state that men have been brought up here and remanded because of police suspicions —Mr. Hamilton : I for one must contradict that assertion. As I said this day week, Mr. Mayor, no prisoner, to my knowledge, was ever remanded in this court without satisfactory evidence of some kind against him. That has been my experience of this police-court, and I think that it has been very considerable. I must say I believe that that is a libel on the bench of magistrates of the city.—The Mayor : Then the representatives of the press must have stated what was wrong.—Captain Tooker : I believe I am one of the oldest magistrates on this bench, and I must say I have never heard such a scene as has taken place here to-day. I here declare that I think it is a disgrace to the bench that such should be allowed to continue. If we have business to he done, let it be done. We are not to be occupied.--The Mayor: I am as well entitled to speak and have my opinions as you are.--Captain Tooker : Yes, when you know your duty. --The Mayor : Ido know my duty. I know my duty as well as any man, and I know my duty to my country. LAW AND FOLIC] _~ PROFESSIONAL THIEVES. —At the Central Criminat Court, on Monday, three men and a woman were charged with possessing unlawful instruments. Two police constables saw them one night in Holborn, and watched them for more than an hour. At last, finding two of the male prisoners examining the door of a jeweller's shop. they apprehended them, and in the ensuing struggle a "jemmy," or crowbar, fell from one of the men, and two skeleton keys were found upon another. The men were all found guilty, and received heavy sentences. The woman was acquitted. THE SWANSEA MURDER. - This case occupied the attention of the county justices at Swansea on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last, there being upwards of twenty witnesses examined. It will be remembered that deceased was deliberately shot through the head while sitting before the fire in his cottage. On Friday the magistrates finished their inquiry, and committed the prisoner for trial on the charge of wilful murder. ALLEGED WIFE MIIREER EDINDIIEGII.—On the night of the sth, or morning of the 6th inst., a cabman, named Clapperton, assaulted his wife and pushed her down a stair.in the neighbourhood of St. James-street, causing injuries which soon afterwards issued fatally. He was apprehended on Saturday, and a post morten examinatior of the body of deceased took place on Sunday. STONE -THROWING EITRAORDINART.-At the Westmin ster Police•court a singular case was brought forward. A man and woman were throwing stones at each other in the street at Chelsea, when one of the atones struck a lady who was passing. Her husband remonstrated, when the man attacked him. A bystander remarked that it was a shame, whereupon the woman stabbed him in the face. She was sentenced to a month's hard labour. CRIME AND FOLLY.—A man named Crabtree was finally committed for trial by the Birkenhead magistrates on Monday. He had been snaking a practice of duping and robbing girls, under the promise that he intended to marry them. A case in which he had thus deceived a young girl from Scotland, and robbed her of 210 and some other pro perty, was proved, and it was also proved that, though he has a wife and family at Birkenhead, he induced a young woman residing in Southport to marry him in November last, and that after living with her a few weeks he deserted her. A beautiful crypt of the twelfth century has just been discovered at Gran, in Hungary, near the cathedral ; eight granite columns support the roof, and each has a different capital. The monument is to be thoroughly restored. In a recent discussion at Melbourne, before •he Royal Society, relating to the South American earth quake, it was stated that the great wave which rolled on the coasts of New Zealand and all the eastern and southern shores of Australia on the 15th of August, must have rolled over the Pacific Ocean in eighteen hours, or at the rate of 383 miles an hour. M. E. J. Marey has endeavoured to solve three questions respecting the flying of insects. By careful and ingenious experiments he has ascertained that the wings of the common fly move at the rate of 330 strokes per second ; of the hornet, 240 ; the bee, 190 ; the wasp, 110, &c. As for the second question, M. Marey finds that the figure described is that of an 8. The third question is still subject for investigation. Dr. Maziere Brady, writing to the Liverpool Mer cury, observes that so much has I een said on the non existence in Ireland of whole parishes without Anglicans that he deems it advisable to give a list of them in detail. In 1861 they were 199 in number, but since then some of them have been suspended. Their total Catholic population is 98,229, and their area extends over more than 537,000 acres. Their ecclesiastical revenues exceed £13,000 perannum. About 18 of them being inappropriate, appear to possess no church revenue. WHAT WILL BE. —A clergyman, whose name is stated to be Mr. Wild, has been lecturing in Canada, taking for his subject "What the world is coming to." He announces these, among other things, looming in tha distance :—Coral insects will fill up the Pacific with solid habitable land ; eventually the globe will be all land, or at least there will be no more sea ; there is also to be perpetually equal day and night of twelve hours each all over the globe ; there is only to be one language spoken throughout the world, and " that, of course, will be English." THE POOR RATEPAYERS. —The City Press states that the guardians of the City of London Union ha:•e resolved to appoint a committee of their own number to take into consideration the whole question of the adminis tration of the laws for the relief of the poor in the metro politan district, and particularly the administration of the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867. The guardians of the East London Union have agreed to take counsel with the guardians of St. Luke's, and other boards and vestries are fully alive to the subject, the common object being to check the constantly increasing expenditure for poor relief, without injury to the legitimate object of that expen- diture. CONFESSION OF GUILT BY THE LEWES ML'E DERER--Every arrangement has been made for carrying out the sentence of the law on Monday next, at eight o'clock, on the young man, Martin Brown, aged 22, for the murder of David Baldey, at Kingston, near Lewes, on the 9th of October last. Caicraft will be the executioner. The convict eats, drinks, and sleeps as well as an ordinary person, and his unhappy position does not at present affect in the slightest degree his health, which is natu rally very good. He listens with attention to the spiritual advice of the chaplain of the gaol, the Rev. Mr. Duke, and has of late employed much time in read ing the Bible and other religious worl<s, but he appears hitherto to have received but slight religious education. Though quiet and respectful, he does not seem to entertain such a deep sense as might be wished of the awful position in which he is placed. Nev since his confinement in the prison has he volunteered a disavowal or his crime, and at length he has rnacie a full confession of his guilt and the circumstances connected with it. lie repudiates the supposition that lie murdered Baldey for the sake of securing the paltry sum of money That he took from him, and asserts that he had a stronger motive. What that motive was, together with the other circumstances now stated by the only human being to whom they were known, will, for obvious reasons and at the prisoner's own request, be kept from the public until after the execution has taken place. On .Monday affect ing interviews took place at the Lewes prison between the convict, his mother, and his sweetheart, I4e 4294 not lesm InticiPats, Akevievc MISCELLANEOUS IVEWS. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1869 improvement, aria the conamon or the :Amen =a destitute is sad indeed. AN AMENDMENT OF DENISON'S ACT. Mr. Flint, in writing to the Times on the necessity for an amendment of Mr. Denison's Act, expresses his belief that some of our public charities are so badly administered that they pauperise instead of benefit the community. The records of Lovejoy's Charity at Canterbury shew that even felons and vicious persons have received its gifts, and the mass of the poor in Salisbury also are none the better for the accumulated bounties which they receive. Mr. Flint is, no . doubt, just in his strictures, but it is noticeable that, while he thinks the administration of charitable funds hopeless, he considers that all defects of the poor-law system can be readily amended. He disbelieves in the necessary connection between igno rance and crime, a degree of scepticism to which few will attain ; but the amendment of the Act which he calls for is excellent in its way. The poor-law guardians are at present allowed to impose a condi tion upon the recipients of out-door relief—that their children shall be sent to school. Mr. Flint would make this condition indispensable to the granting of out-door relief, a reform worthy of consideration ; but it must be clearly understood to involve com pulsory education and local school-rates. T 1 BALLOT. The Monzing Post seems to think that the Ballot question is entering upon an altogether new-phase. The latent Conservatism manifested at the general election by some of the large towns has removed the objection to secret voting hitherto felt by many Con servatives. In the colony of Victoria a similar change took place just prior to the adoption of the Ballot. The measure was, as Mr. Childers has said, "not exclusively a d voca t e d by th e popu l ar or Lib era l party, and opposed by the Conservatives. On the contrary, some of its most strenuous advocates sat on the Conservative side of the House, and unques tionably its most formidable opponents were the leaders of the extreme democratic party." RENFIIEWSIIIIVF. ELECTION. On the death of Captain Speirs, the late Liberal member for the county, it was generally expected that the Conservatives, by putting forwa r d Si r Michael Shaw St ewar t t o fill the vacancy, would gain a seat from their opponents. The events which have since transpired shew, however, that the Liberals will not give up their hard-earned possession without a struggle. It has already been slated that the Home Secretary has been invited to come forward, and it is extremely likely that he will accept the invitation. Colonel Mure, who was first announced as a candidate in the Liberal interest, has informed the chairman of the Glasgow Liberal Com mittee that he should waive his claims to the support of the party in favour of Mr. Bruce, thus securing the unity of the Liberals. The fact was at once telegraphed to the right hon. gentleman, and it is believed that at the meeting which is to be held to-day his formal address to the electors will be read. The Conservatives have not as yet started a champion, and the Liberals believe that Mr. Bruce's acceptance of the invitation will virtually mean his return, for that, with their party united, opposition would be useless. It is a little singular that Mr. Bruce, if elected, will be the seventh Englishman sitting for a Scotch constituency, seven being the number of new members taken from England and given to Scotland. THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. We understand that a formal notice of the recent judgment by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has been served upon Mr. Mackonochie. Little alteration, however, took place at St. Alban's on Sunday, the only deviation being that the celebrant did not kneel during the prayer of consecration. At this and most of the other churches where altar lights have been used, they continued to be so. At St. Michael's, Shoreditch, a church in which the ritual is far in advance of that at St. Alban's, there was a procession before the Communion office, a brazen crucifix being carried, and flanked by acolytes bearing lighted tapers. The reading of the gospel gave rise to a most elaborate ceremonialism, all the clergy and the acolytes being grouped around the gospeller ; in fact, it took seven persons to accomplish this portion of the service. The confession was read by the gospeller alone, instead of by the congregation likewise. In all probability, however, the altar lights have been used for the last time, so far as their use is symbolical and not intended for the purpose of giving light. It is generally understood that the result of the forthcoming meeting will be a submission to the judgment under protest. TIIE nunnic, THE lITHOLE RUBRIC, AND NOTHING BUT THE RUBRIC. The Telegraph shews that the cry which Lord Cairns's judgment has raised is a most impracticable one. Those who conscientiously wish to comply with tl7e judgment and to aceept as their guide the rubric, the whole rubric, and nothing but the rubric, will find themselves utterly at loss. There is no rubric for the pulpit, none for the alternate reading of the psalms and the canticles by the clergy and the people, none for the doffing of the surplice and donning of the black gown. The ritualists are the only persons, the Telegraph holds, who wear the proper vestme n t s d ur i ng the Communion Service; yet, if the direction under which they act were carried out universally, the result would be almost a rebel lion. " Some latitude, some discretion must be conceded, though the proper limits of that dis cretion are not easily discernible. The principle of absolute uniformity, which would make all the ministers do exactly the same things, in exactly the same way, at exactly the same moment, has never prevailed in England, and, by the nature of the case, it never can. Before the Reformation we had the Sarum ' use,' the Bangor ' use,' and several others; and how many existed after that period it would require a prodigy of liturgical learning to discover. Even the strictness of Papal rule has never been carried so far as to demand absolute iden tity of ceremonies." The Milan " use " dif fers from that of Rome, so does the Spanish, and "it may be reasonably doubted whether we should in any way be gainers by a discipline more inflexible than that of Rome, by inflicting on the clergy a drill as uniform a s th a t o f th e sergeant maj or." The Telegraph i s i nc li ne d t o cons id er th e recent victory of the Low Church party a Pyrrhic one. "According to tho latest decision of the Judicial Committee, the clergy mu s t, d own t o th e m i nu t est particular, conform to an elaborate series of laws which conflict with the p resen t prac ti ce o f t h e Ch urch. This grave consideration furnishes one more proof of the fact that our ecclesiastical law and practice stand in urgent need of reform and readjustment." IRISH MATTERS. Ireland has peculiar grievances, but that fact can hardly account for the very strange way some of the people have of shewing that they are dissatisfied. What good, for instance, can come of shooting at a train ? Except as an exercise ala the running deer, the whole thing seons senseless. Yet that is what has now been done several times. True, in one case the story resolved itself into a hoax ; but in the other account there is more evidence of reality. The driver of the up-mail train from Waterford to• Limerick on Wednesday stiles that about four miles from Pilltown he observed two men, one of whom levelled a gun and fired at the train. The window glass of the engine protection van was broken. Did the "miscreants " fire at any one in particular, or was the shot levelled at travelling humanity in general ? It might have killed the best head of " repeal," if " repeal " be the object, or the foremost upholder of State Churches, if the men are aggrieved at the way the elections have turned. They must have done the deed out of pure (or rather impure) love of wickedness. The best thing that could happen to them would be that they should be sent to gaol for a few months. There are some leaders and pictures in the " national" prints this week which will give the Conservative journals a good text for a sermon on Irish wants. I 7 irst, there is the Irisbnum condoning, if not altogether excu s i ng th e mur d er o f Mr. Baker. The Weekly News condemns the murder, but has a much more " pronounced " cartoon. The chief figures are " Erin,' Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bright. Mr. Gladstone is consoling the disconsolate Miss Erin by first taking away the odious Church and giving her the one she is fond of ; next, by presenting. her with the Portlind prison key ; and then by giving her a tenant-right charter. But she refuses to be comforted. She still wants more. " What is it ?" asks the Prime Minister, puzzled. " Here it is," says Mr. Bright, bringing in a heavy trunk labelled " Repeal of the Union." Dublin is to be en fete on the 13th inst. She then welcomes the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Earl Spencer made a public entry yesterday as the repre sentative of the Queen. his will be no easy task to please after so popular a man as the Duke of Abereorn. The Mayor of Cork, whatever may be said by the party papers, must be an eccentric man. The other night he was in the local theatre during the panto mime. An allusion was made to the Tories, and one of the characters exclaimed "Down with them." Up rose the Mayor, his excitement boiling over at the name of those he disliked. " That's right !" he exclaimed, making threatening gestures towards the boxes. " Down with Orangemen." The boxkeeper had to come to the exceedingly political first magistrate and intimate that he was breaking the law. Mr. O'Sullivan had to subside, amidst loud hisses. Let us charitably hope that he was suffering from " a heated imagination." LORD ELCHO ON THE VOLUNTEERS. On Saturday the prizes were distributed to the London Scottish Volunteers in Westminster Hall, and after the ceremony Lord Elcho addressed the assembly. The noble lord noted that the past year had been one of criticism for the Volunteer force, and unfortunately the Windsor review did not exhibit that amount of discipline which the nation had a right to expect in such a body as that of the Volunteers. Lord Elcho did not approve of the reinstatement of a carps that ha , lbeen struck out of the army. He hoped that they would all profit by the criticism passed upon them. He then referred to the answer given by the Secretary of State for War to the deputation which had waited upon him, to the effect that the present grant was sufficient to cover all the ,_, expenses of the Volunteers. This opinion was not shared by those who were well qualified to judge of the matter, and he did not believe that the mbli c «' heel the Volunteers themselves to contribute to the expenses of the undertaking. FAVOURITISM TO CRIMINALS. Dr. Stallard disapproves of the suggestions made by the Times on the treatment of criminals, and con siders that it is hard to favour the guilty at the expense of the poor and honest. Inquiries are to be instituted into the means of subsistence of the one, while the other is to be left to take his chance. The State is supposed to have no relationship with the destitute ; and yet how many miserable men at the East-end of London would rejoice if they were pro moted to the treatment of the criminal ! The parish authorities ars not likely_ to do much in the way_ 9# 7 FREE BANKING. The discussion upon the principles of free banking is continued in the columns of the Star by " Econo mist," who heartily agrees with Mr. Bruton and Pro fessor Thorold Pogers in denouncing the unlimited issue of paper money. He protests, however, against the proposal of the latter to reduce by one-half the £15,000,000 of notes which the Bank of England issues on securities. Such an att emp t wou ld, i n th e opinion of " Economist," stop the Bank of England, and bring down all other banks in its train. The other suggestion of Professor Rogers, that the Bank directors should supply themselves with gold by the sale of stock as soon as their bullion falls below a certain amount, pleases the critic no better. If the Bank sells Consols it would be paid with its own notes, and if it buys gold with the notes, its general position would be just where it was. The business of the country is now practically conducted by bills of exchange, and paper demands, called cheques on bankers, and by cross entries in the books of the various banks. The moment anything inter feres with this highly artificial and unsound system people want their money out of the banks, either in gold or a banknote. Such things are not to be had ; the banks have them not in sufficient amount, and the Bank of England has neither notes nor gold to meet the demands \ of its customers and of the banks. So a crisis ensues, and the Government steps in. How much better it would be to have a rational system of currency upon a gold basis, and not merely co-equal with the amount of gold in the Bank of England at any given moment. A currency of this kind would contract and expand with the requirements of the country, and would work very differently from the hard-and-fast line of the Bank Act, which snaps every ten years and works terrible mischief. THE TURF. According to "Meteor" the Turf has been living too fast and is obliged to pull up. The glory of the " plunging " days is over, " swells " have gone the length of their t e th er; an d Admiral bus's prophecy, that the January entries would be very bad, has turned out true. For all the 1,000 sovs. added to the small sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 forfeit, there are only a dozen four-year-olds and upwards deemed good enough to nominate in this stake, although all the great winners during the two preceding years are penalised, and " maidens " are allowed 71b. or 121 b. But for the superabundance of gambling handicaps some twenty or thirty gentlemen might have thought it worth their while to reserve their second-rate horses for such a rich plum. Sir Joseph Hawley evidently intends to lead the radical reformers of the national pastime, for he has given notice of his intention to move three bold resolu tions at the general meeting of the Jockey Club, held in the Two Thousand week. They are to the effect that no two-year-old shall rim in a handicap throughout the year, or in any race before the lst of July, or in a stake to which money shall be added from the funds of the Jockey Club. But the great question is the Derby—will it be run this year ? As yet there is no certain answer, though the Daily _Yews devotes two columns to the discussion of the matter. One fact there is : a new course is being made, and the Te/egraph believes that it will be available by Epsom week. A WOULD-NOT-BE ALDERMAN. The Dissenters of the City of London used to complain, and now boast of a peculiar kind of mar tyrdom which was imposed upon them by the enthu siastically " State Church" authorities. It was a practice to fix upon some rich Baptist for sheriff. As he could not take the oath of conformity he was mulcted by fines to a considerable amount. The Council of York seems to be determined to have a Mr. Taylor for alderman, nolens volens. He refuses to accept the post. For the luxury of refusing he is to pay £5O. 31EITM ET TUL-211." There are few pages of history more curious of their kind than those which deal in the thefts—made con sciously or unconsciously — by authors. The instances Milton, Dante, &c. interested in such in ' poets had evidently in nr ae tl nowei s c B l y rße r t n copied these S tc h oa a s l e f t s s h p to e hs r eee each hit upon the same thoughts in working out similar ideas. There are not wanting those whose fame—such as it is—has been made on anotber's work. But 'ye have seldom read of a more impudent case. of the kind than that recorded in the Liverpool Mercury. A local orator has been obtaining praise for research into the question of languages, &c : , on the strength of a pub lished lecture on the subject. Mess rs . H o tt en , th e publishers, write, pointing out that the w ork is simply a paraphrase of their " Slang Dictionary." There are only about half a dozen " original " para graphs in the lecture, and of these one at least is the result of a peep into a work by Mr. Mayhew. PUNS. Amongst the " tendencies " whi c h th e D a il y News has criticised of late, is the tendency of burlesque writers to make bad Puns. In doing so our contem porary quoted Johnson as the author of the maxim, " Ile that would make a pun would pick a pocket." Since then letters have appeared from all quarters, denying that Johnson was the father of the saying. It is discovered that it was quoted before the time of Johnson, and he probably but uttered a well-known saw w hen quotes ewrote not it very l 7l . eci l‘ s l i: Y e Thomas attributes it to Dennis, the critic and sentence opponen fr to o f m the Pope, poet nnd a on the subject. A HOLIDAY GROUND IN DANGER. --- English readers will peruse with no little regret the account of the great landslip at Ragatz. Ragatz stands at the mouth of the Tamina river, which comes c i n grand style th roug h a gorge o f rocks. By 1 siderushing in of that riv er a roa d h as b een r hi t n h g e engineered which leads to the far-famed baths of Pfafers, one of the best-known holiday grounds of Europe. The road has a melancholy interest in consequence of the sad accident which took place some five years ago, when a carriage containing some English ladies was over turned, and its occupants pitch e d i n t o th e roar i ng stream beneath and drowned. According to the telegram, some portion of the rocks, or at all events the superficial earth, must have given way under the incessant rains, and . have choked up th e r i ver, w hi c h has now become converted into a lake. But from the nature of the ground the lake can be but a narrow one, and what will happen when it becomes full, or when the temporary barrier gives way ? Surely, Ragatz itself must be in danger of beine. washed into the Rhine FOREIGN NOTES, THE FRENCH BUDGET. M. Magn4, French Minister of Finance, publishes a highly pacific, and in some respects satisfactory, Budget report. It announces that the floating debt has been reduced from rather more than thirty-six millions sterling to rather more than twenty-nine millions.- The indirect taxes have returned an increase of £1,360,000 on the year. The supplementary credits required for 1869 will be less than this increase. The estimates of the ordinary Budget shew a surplus of 0,440,090, which will go towards the extraordinary Budget. ROME. The General Council of the Church will De held in the right nave of the great edifice dedicated to St. Peter. The stalls erected for the accommodation of the holy fathers will cost some £9,000. Some of the South American bishops are already preparing to leave their dioceses, and, according to the LiboV, the arrival of prelates at Rome will continue without intermission from the early days of April. Some of them, it is thought, will not be able to remain until the end of the deliberations. The labours set before the Council are so immense that six months will not suffice to complete them. A private correspondent mentions a most remarkable accident which took place in the Roman Campagna a few days ago. On Sunday, January 3, an artillery officer hired a horse for a ride on the Campagna. At a few miles from Rome he dismounted, and while lie was stand• ing, with the reins in his hand, the ground under the horse's hind legs suddenly gave way. The struggles of the horse with his fore legs, and the efforts of the officer, who held the reins until they broke, were alike unavailing. After balancing for a few seconds on the brink, the horse fe - . backwards, down what proved to be a deep well, against the sides of which the horrified rider heard his steed strike as it fell to a depth of at least a hundred feet. It may readily be imagined that the officer was not a little disquieted after this narrow escape from an involuntary repetition of the fate of Metius Curtin% RUSSIA. The Russian Government is determined to impose its barbarism as well as its civilisation upon Poland. Russia is the only European State which retains the old Julian calendar, and yet the Government has ordered that Poland, who adopted the Gregorian computation of time three centuries ago, shall change it for the obsolete Julian. Surely it is not essential to the subjugation of Poland that its progress should be dragged back in every particular to the point where Russia's begins. SPAIN. some or the Madrid papers publish formidable estimates ' of the loss of life at the recent conflict in the streets of Malaga. Not less than 1,000 combatants of both parties have been killed or wounded, some estimates placing the loss of the troops considerably higher than that of the insurgents. The corpses of several women were among the dead. Though the rising at Cadiz was more general than that at Malaga, the resistance was equally desperate. It is still matter of doubt how far this oppo. sition to the Government was a party movement. Many accounts state that the disarming of the militia was the sole cause of the rising, and that men of all parties, the rich and the poor, manned the barricades. The National Republican Committee of Madrid has published another manifesto, by no means such a pacific document as the last. It is nothing less than a formal act of accusation against the Provisional Government, bitterlycomplaining that no Republican has been admitted to the Ministry, that no citizen under 25 years of age can vote, that the Juntas have been dissolved, and, in short, that the Provisional Government have striven to convert the great national movement of September into an ordinary pronunciamento. This is not a satisfactory demonstration, but the Republicans append a saving clause. They exhort their supporters to make use of the voting paper as their only wenp:n. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The revolutionists have at length met with a severe check. Later advices confirm the report that they had been defeated in a battle near Puerto Principe. They lost 500 men, and the only two pieces of artillery they pos- sessed were captured. Nevertheless, it does not appear that this success is sufficient to retrieve the ground lost by the Government troops. The insurgents still greatly out number the regular forces. In the neighbourhood of San tiago they have been joined by 800 filibusters, and their force in that district is now increased to 10,000, against 1,800 Spanish soldiers. The insurgents have adopted a new warlike arm. Some of them cooked a quantity of food which had previously been prepared with strychnine, and then retreated, expecting that the advancing Spaakiards would swallow the bait. The Havana correspondent of the New York Herald has had an interview with some of the leaders of the revolu tion, in which he endeavoured to learn the exact objects of the present rising. The Creoles were by no means reticent. They entered into a detailed history of the intrigues which had preceded the outbreak, stating that the movement had been projected for many years, and hung fire only through want of the proper opportunity. On the conclusion of the civil war in the United States the Creoles hoped that the American Government would exact repara tion for the conduct of the Spanish Government, which had allowed Havana to be made the great market of the Con federates. The Washington Cabinet did not take this course, and the Cubans then turned their attention to Madrid, hoping without violence to gain the liberal reforms which they desired. The abundant pro mises but scant performance of Isabella's Ministry raised the standard of rebellion. The objects of the insurrection are the independence of the island, the establishment of a Cuban republic, the abolition of slavery, and the ultimate annexation of the country to the United States when its people are satisfied that it can enter the Union as a sovereign State and remain so. The chiefs complained that whilst Spain drew more money from Cuba, it returned nothing in the way of liberal laws : the island was considered a conquered country. INDIA. The Calcutta correspondent of tne Tones mentions that Sir John Lawrence will, after the expiration of his term of office, which takes place this month, go to Ceylon, where be has coffee estates ; and he is not likely to return to England before the summer. It is probable that before that time he will have become Viscount Lawrence of Lahore, though he himself cares little for honours of that kind. Private correspondence states that the term of Sir Donald 11PLeod, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, expires in 1870. It is hoped that the new governor may be a married man, for Sir Donald, being " without encum brances," is perpetually in camp, to the no small disgust of the official Punjabees. REUNION. A vague telegram has been received in Paris announcing a grave disturbance in the French colony of Reunion. The aid of the troops was found necessary, and upwards of eighty persons were killed and wounded. The why and the wherefore of this affair is as yet a mystery. (From the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 25, 1868. Washington is again empty ; every one who can having rushed home to spend the Christmas holi days. When Grant was asked about the army head-quarters, he said let all have a chance, and give all the time we can spare. Congress will not reassemble till the 4th January, when business will recommence, and the city become a little more lively. General Raasloff has come here from Den mark to work up the St. Thomas' treaty, made a year and a half ago, ratified by the Rigsdad, and unanimously voted for by the islanders. Den mark wants, to transfer the little earthquake island and finger the coin ; but U nc l e S am does not appear to see it, and there are no such patriots for poor Denmark as Robert J. Walker, who, with burning eloquence, melted the icy heart of Congress in favour of the purchase of the Russian avalanche Alaska for the consideration of $26,000 in gold. We would recommend the ex- Governor of Kansas to the attention of General Raasloff. It must be very gratifying to Mr. Walker to see how sensible the country is of his valuable services, and at what a low figure he estimates them, and how high and patriotic are the motives which influence him. The story i, that Colonel Forney declined the $3,000 offered for the use of the Washington Chronicle in writing up the scheme, and that Mr. Walker then offered the money to the publisher, who, like a sensible man, put it into his pocket and pro ceeded to set up any amount of " copy" sent him to show that guano and icebergs were the same things, and that Alaska would pour a fertilizing stream over the Union. Perhaps you may remember how the incensed Walker raved against Special Corn missbner David A. Wells when last year that gentleman opposed the purchase, demanding the Commissioner's expulsion as an opponent to the Manifest Destiny doctrine, the theory which should in the mind of an American override any thought of economy. Retrenchment is now, however, the order of the day, and Denmark is late in her move, though I cannot understand why steps going so far should have been taken without completing a trans action which I am inclined to think the United States are now bound in honour to complete. The nation ought to stop these appropriation schemes of its Secretary of State before, not after, all the arrange ments have been made with a friendly country. There are some delegations of Indians expected at Washington for the winter, when existing treaties relative to lands and improvements, morally and materially, will be discussed with the Government. Lately an Indian party came here to complain of the agent appointed to deal with the tribe, who gave himself th e monopo ly of all the goods used, and went beyond other monopolists in supplying trash at an extravagant rate. When the chief left the reservation he was arrested, and had not some one who understood the law obtained a writ of Ha beas Corpus he would have been still iu gaol, pon dering over white man's justice. After encounter ing all sorts of peril he was at last enabled to see the President, who has ordered an investigation. The " ring" is notoriously corrupt, and this is the main reason why General Sherman has urged the transfer of Indian affairs to the War Department, which, singularly enough, the Senate opposes, al though the bill has been passed by the House, on the plea that the purest body of public servants—the of ficers of the replier army—would be corrupted by the work. Considering the opportunities offered by the war for peculation—of which no man can say they availed themselves--it is scarcely probable these gentlemen would condescend to cheat the poor lielians. It is the well-known purity of the military officers which gives such strength to the incoming Government. The people believe in men like Grant and Sherman, and Schofield, and Thomas —who by the way modestly refused to have his figure placed among those at the base of the Lin coln Monument—insisting on the resolution to the effect at Chicago being expunged. It is their ho nesty and the high sense of honour that animates them which inspire the confidence, and the general feeling is with the officer who told his fellow citizens, when called - on to speak, that Americans were a great deal too fond of "gab," and allowed too much licence to politicians. Grant can, however, speak with emphasis when required, as a Senator learnt who called a day or two ago to ask a favour. The Senator was going away to spend Christmas with his family, and on learning this the General observed that he hoped he would stay away if he favoured the Pacific or other railways receiving more money from the Treasury. Other Congress men were present, and listened with astonishment to the frank and energetic speech of the silent Grant, who in substance said—" It was very appa rent to every man in the country that our finances needed the closest attention, and that it is vitally important, if we intend to pay off the national debt and lighten taxation, to practise the most rigid economy, and the place to begin with is the bills that are pending in Congress granting further sub sidies to the Pacific and other railroads. No mat ter what may be said about the prospective benefit we are to derive from these roads ; it is too long to wait, and we should make the best possible use of our present resources, without increasing the bur den of our debt by incurring expensive risks which are hazardous." This news will discourage those with designs on the Treasury, who have no fancy to meet Grant as sentry there, beside his friend, styled the Treasury bull-dog, the lion. E. B. Wash burne. Another effort is being made by Colorado f promotion to the dignity of a Scate. A delegate is at Washington to press this matter upon Congress, and figures are manufactured in abundance to show that the territory has attained the necessary popu lation. Senator Morton's bill for the resumption of specie payment . has been much discussed, but on the whole the people seem to favour it, although many objections are urged. Secretary M'Culloch thinks this Congress will do nothing to forward the scheme but talk. He does not believe in the plan of hoarding gold, as he thinks contraction is the only safe road to resumption, and there is no chance for that, as Congress and the people are opposed to withdrawing any more currency. The members of the Republican caucuses are getting annoyed with Grant's reticence about his Cabinet. At first it appeared all right, but it has been continued be yond reason iu their opinion. The New York Sun thinks it cannot be wrong in announcing that the Hon. E. B. Washburne will take office in Grant's Administration as Secretary of the Interior. BIiI7ISH EMIGR,A7ION W AMERICA. -- No. 11. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Although the emigrants have to be considered first, as those most deeply concerned, they are not, as generally supposed, the only persons interested. It is clear that a large exodus from one country to another must affect both, and snore particularly that which receives it. Unwisely conducted it may affect the country left much in the way a nume rous family is affected when its most sturdy mem bers, becoming a burden from want of work, leave the neighbourhood and sl-ift for themselves. The proportion of the weak, of the very old, and the very young is increased, and although the pressure against the means of subsistence is for the moment lessened, it is at the sacrifice of bone and sinew. An adult in strong health is a greater consumer than the old and the infirm, hence, during a period of non - production, he costs more ; but while the easiest and the most immediate relief is secured by packing him off to find elsewhere the support his home denies, it is at the expense of the family strength. The strong may have a legal, but they have not a moral, right to leave the weak, for it follows that such a system of depletion eventually throws those who remain on the charity of their neighbours, and if such a system were continued the nation would in the end become worse off. The country, then, that sends forth the emigrants has a right to be considered, as the system pursued may add to instead of relieving pauperism. Nor is the country which receives this bone and sinew of the other benefited so greatly as might be expected, for it gives a preponderance of men severed from all family ties, who, isolated and alone, are not likely to settle down to the hard work of farm-making in the wilderness. The best plan for both countries is for the entire family to proceed together, and this principle may be ex tended into banding families from the same locality for the purpose of settling in the same locality in the other laud. This is the true principle on which to direct emigration, and one of deep interest to England to be understood and acted on. The country which thus sends its surplus people forth is fairly re lieved of a superabundant population, leaving more behind for others to eat, and less competition for work which could not before fully employ all. In the new land, the language, the traditions, the home influ ences are preserved; the sections of English society being planted intact. These plantations may ap pear - small matter to some, and doubtless few in the Mayflower could have pictured the influence they were destined to exercise on a continent— perhaps the greatest ever wrought by a small com munity, if we except the Jews, who gave us Chris tianity. We admit that the Puritans who founded the States of New England differed widely from any class of emigrants likely again to go forth. Indeed such a community could only be produced by special circumstances, and under that strongest of incentives, religious persecution. But, however weak in comparison, a fair section of the poorer classes in England would form an excellent body of settlers and good citizens in the land they adopted. Emigration, then, should consist of a com munity from the same locality to the same locality, if rertl good is to be done to the emigrants themselves, to the country from which they go, and that to w men they proceed. After deciding on the advisability of relieving England of a portion of its population, the question then is, where they ought to go. British emigration has, on the whole, been more hap hazard and less organized than that of any other country, although Britain has been the founder of nations, while the colonizing efforts of all other . people have failed more or less. The Puritan set tlements in America, the Quaker, the Catholic, and the Cavalier were successful, and left their mark on succeeding ages (more especially the Puritan), be cause they were organized and conducted on the plan we advocate. It may be said that they were men acting on principle, instead of flying from poverty. But we maintain that whatever be the motive, the result will be somewhat similar if the direction be good and the organization complete. Not long since a great effort was made to revive, on a very grand scale, the old system of emigration, by the late EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, and on this principle he succeeded in colonizing New Zealand, particularly that most successful of English settle ments, the Province of Canterbury. Its foundation created an interest in England, which might have grown into an organized means of placing sections of English society on waste lands—adapted to main tain them. But the gold mania overthrew all the high-flown sentiment drawn from Mr. WAKEFIELD'S theory, which was sound, containing within itself all the requirements of wise emigration. The re action which always follows when England gratifies her tendency to run into extremes effectually checked emigration till now, when it has suddenly risen into unexpected importance. The wild, reck less rush to the gold-diggings of Australia had a double influence ; the one deterrent, in the accounts cf the disastrous failures sent home; the other, similar in its effect, in giving a spur to labour, through the wealth produced in the colony, by which the demand for manufactures was increased from home. Much has to be done to prepare the Englisk for emigration. Doubtless people at their wits' end for the means of living would be glad to be de ported to where they think they could secure ir, but such emigration will do no manner of good except to a few isolated individuals. The masses think that those alone should go who are starving, and that when they reach starvation point it Rill be time to discuss the proposition. It would be no easy task to eradicate this error, although it bears its refutation on its face. To relieve poverty iu England it is essential that families while they can still afford to emigrate should do so ; as those who have sold their last stick of furniture to buy bread are beyond any voluntary system, being mere objects of charity. But the thrifty families whp can go, leave their places open for their poorer brethren who cannot, the former taking the higher places in the new land, dud this is another truth about emigration which cannot be too widely dissemi nated throughout England. If the organization which workmen have created to influence the price of labour had been directed to the transport from the country of the surplus hands, a magnificent national system of emigration, organized by the people themselves, might now have been in force. All lands would then have been known to every family likely to emigrate in the kingdom ; their climates, resources, geographical features, Govern ment, facilities for location, and permanent occupa tion. In this would have been found the true means of raising the price of labour, as it is not by artificially creating a dearth that the value of any thing can be permanently enhanced, and they who apply this rule will see the truth of our remark. Even through the Trades' Unions, if the leaders of the workmen would but study the commonest principles of Political Economy, much might yet be accomplished, and it ought to be earnestly urged o❑ their attention by those who can influence them. The gist of what we say is that to emigrate wisely p:ople must return to the old organizations by which America was, in the first instance settled so effectually as to form the mould into which the con tinental type of character has been cast, and that is for communities to combine to change their locality, the friends and neighbours of the old country, be coming the friends and neighbours of the new. Next, that this must be done by themselves while the families have yet means, before they have reached au extreme of poverty ; and, finally, that Governmert interference being pernicious, and only to be adopted in an extremity, that the people should organize of their own accord, collect and distribute information, arrange for the purchase of tracks of waste land, and otherwise help and for ward the objects of the emigrating bands. With the exception of some•fitful efforts to return to the old system, English emigration has consisted of broken-down families of the better classes—of in corrigible young scamps of the same—of sturdy young labourers and mechanics smitten with a vague notion that they might better themselves in " furrin parts," and of the organized means taken by the colonies to carry out agricultural, and more especially female, labour. With the latter exception the whole has been drift ; the people being pro foundly•ignorant of the country they were going to, but going anywhere to escape starvation, or to bury shame. When we consider what emigration means—what is implied to the people in the word we get a better idea of the importance to the emi grants themselves of a general and well c msi dered system, and it is marvellous to see this Eng lish drift, to contrast it with Scandinavian combi nation, or, bad as it is, with that of Germany, of France, or even of Ireland. We learn from one of the latest American papers that a colony of Swedes in Northern Illinois, consisting of 200 fami lies, has purchased a track of 30,000 acres on the Saline River, Kansas, on which they will settle in the spring of this year. Now this is the true prin ciple of colonization, and are example worth in quiring into; for why should the settlers of Nor thern Illinois desire to locate themselves in Kansas, more especially on the Saline River, which has so lately been the scene of outrages by the Indians ? We think we can answer this in our next number, when we hope to discuss the requirements of Eng lish emigrants in the land whereon they locate themselves, and what country, in a general way, best supplies their wants. Foreign Mail .Paclot List. MAILS DUE. . ustrall& and New Zealand, via Sonthampton....„Jan. 30. Ditto, via Yuseilles •............—Jan 25 Ditto, via Pi. 4. %Ma ......... •• • •• • • ......... • • • Jan 23 irazil, Buenos Ay res, and Monte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by Frenob packet '`ape Verde, by Brazil paezet ••••• _ Feb. 3. .)ape of Good ELpe. Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 12. ;hina Penang, ana Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 16. ilbraltar, via Southampton 'udia,via Soutbamoton Jan. 1 1 Ditto, via Marseil.es daily, Egypt, eze. .. Jan 13. Ditto, Marseilles Jan.l.2 Ntat•ritfus, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southams ton Ditto, Marseilles . Jan. li ' ewfoundlanc ••nirtogal ••••• • • • . ........... .. .. ... Fe 5. 3. ?Taitorl 'gates. anadA, California, .te., by British ...---- ,ket Ditto, by Canadian packet Jan 15 Ditto, by L oited States packet Pitt.) ditt, (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerin ......Jan. 17 West Indies and Pazitio ;except Mexico and Baha- Jan 13 mas) Failland Islands • ....... Cub ► and. Mexico .... .........Jan. 13. Bermuda. via Halifax... B.rtaahas, via New York Vice President (elect) Colfax arrived with his wife in Springfield on Thursday morning, Doc. 24, and became the guests of Mr. Samuel Bowles. The armourers serenaded Mr. Colfax on the evening of Christmas Day, after which he held a reception, from 8 o'clock till 10, at the rooms of the Springfield Club, in Shaw's block. The patent held by A. B. Wilson, of North Adams, Massachusetts, and the firm of Wheeler a nd Wilson, for the four-motioned feed used on all family sewing machine; expired on the 19th December, and the Commissioner of Patents refuses to grant an extension. The actual cost to manufacture of a good machine is not over $l4, and this refusal to grant an extension, is, therefore an important step towards reducing the retail price of the machines. vADVERTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- ith these remedies in reach persons suffering from dis orders arising from atmospheric inclemencies are without excuse if disorder eventuate in disease. 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We quote few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restored by DU Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abary Boning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he Consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly be nef.l - effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi, ' JulY 25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agon y .froth dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria Job'', Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5° Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hertel, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits , and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of the maul unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority. Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls. 11d.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, lls. ; 12 lbs. 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also DU BARRY'S REYALENTAARABICA CHOCO LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., for 2 4 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office urder.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. BUXTON-0u the 9th inst., at 23, Upper Brook-street, the Lady Victoria Buxton, of a son. LAMBTON —Ott the 11th inst., the Lady Victoria Lambtoof of a son. WtsE—On the sth inst., at Feltons, the wife of H. Wise, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. DENNIS—MAYHEW— On the 9th inst, at St. John's Church , Hampstead, George K. Dennis, Esq., of Coddenhauly Suffolk, to Emm e li ne A me y , e ld es t aughter of Fret!' Mayhew, Esq., of Adelaide-road, N.W. RICHARDS —HOWE -On the sth inst., at Knowle, Witr wickshire, Charles, eon of the late Wm. W. Richards' Esq., of Edgbaston, to Elizabeth Mary, daughter of the Rev. J. Howe, M..A., vicar of Knowle. Deaths. BURTON—On the 9th inst., Mr. Joseph Burton, of 7 74, Bishopsgate-street without, aged 62. HEMP—OiI the 10th inst., at 41, Button-crescent, William Hemp, Esq., aged 84. INN Es —On the 10th inst., at 46, Porchester-terraeo, John lnnes, Esq., aged 83. ROBINSON—Oa the 10th inst., Nea Eva Emily, the eldest daughter of Sir Hercules and the Hon. Lady Robinsor• SmANGroitn—On the 9th jest., at 58, Cumberland-plac e, Percy, Viscount Strangford, eighth and last Viscoun t ' aged 43. London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIAM A.NDILEW S ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at' Pas SUN Officn, Strand, in the Precinct of the Se troy, In the County of MiddlEgliQX : -.Tuesday, January 12, 1862.