The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, in discussing Sir Roundell Palmer's argu tnents against the disendowment of the Irish Church, observes that the property which has been devoted to the sustenance of Protestant ecclesiastics in Ireland is neither more nor less subject to State control, because it has been vested in corporations. " Corporation "is a word of charm which seems to have run away with the judgment of many statesmen and thinkers—Mr. Disraeli, as Mr. Lowe chewed, played with it most dexterously—but the ground for the intervention of the State does not lie in the accidental form of tenure of the legal estate of eccle siastical property ; it is to be found in the nature of the trusts under which it is held. National property has been applied to certain uses, and the partiality of the application is now seen to be prejudicial to the peace and harmony of the nation to a degree outweighing all pos. sible advantages resulting from it. This is not all, for the application itself is recognised to have been unjust from the beginning, and to be, in its maintenance, a violation 01 all the principles of free government, and of all the maxims of equity and justice. These considerations support and require the disendowment— for we do not scruple to use the term—the confiscation of revenues which, belonging to the fiscus, have fora time been kept apart from it. Nor has this resolution any necessary connection, as Sir Roundell Palmer seems to have supposed, with the act of disestablishment. If we could conceive the Irish Church endowed with national funds, but not established, the necessity of resuming tl.•e endowment would be not a whit less strong than it is. In violation of all policy, of at justice, of all religion, the governing body of the nation violently transferred, three centuries since, endowments which had been appropriated to the use of all to the use of a few. The Parliament of to-day wishes to undo this transfer, and, the altered circumstances of the time no longer admitting the application of endowments to their former uses, they will be devoted to fremhpurposes of general national utility. The Standard observes that the position from which Sir Roundell Palmer addressed the 1 - louse of Commons was at once the most favourable and the most embarrassing for a speaker. On the one hand, both sides of the House. respecting his evident honesty of purpose and his noble sacrifice of his personal interests to his convictions, and curious, moreover, to know the exact nature of his objec• tions to the Government measure, were prepared to give him the most attentive hearing. On the other hand, he had to perform that most difficult task for any speaker who addresses a popular assembly— to express views iE which, as a whole, neither party could thoroughly agree, and whilst proclaiming his personal attachment for a Government, and his general sympathy with their princi ples, to denounce a measure to carry which they came into office, and upon which they have staked their existence, as a scheme alike unjust and unwise violating eery •rule of equity, and fraught with the most mischievous consequences' to the empire. Sir Roundell Palmer succeeded where many a man of great ability would have failed. He kept the attention of thi House from first to last throughout a speech lasting mor. than two hours, less by charms of oratory than by force of argument ; and much as has been said and written against the abolition of the Irish Church, he urged reasons against it new to the House of Commons, and of the utmost cogency, completely disposing in his speech of the assertion made the other night by Mr. Miall that there was nothing new to say upon the question, and proving the utility of a discussion which the advocates of the Government have declared to be superfluous. With much that the learned gentleman said we cannot concur, with more we heartily agree, and at this moment we are more concerned to find points of agreement than of opposition. We take leave of his speech for the present with an earnest recommendation to every man who cares to get at the truth, whatever the views he now holds, to read it attentively, to weigh its arguments carefully. It will add to Sir Roundell Palmer's reputation as a speaker ; it will enhance, if it be possible, the respect universally entertained for him. The Post remarks that on Monday, as on Friday, the Irish Church debate was resumed by two lawyers. The place of the ex-Attorney-General of Irelsnd, Dr. Ball, was supplied by the ex-Attorney-general for England, Sit Roundell Palmer ; whilst that of the present Irish Attorney-General, Serjeant Sullivan, was filled by Sit John Duke Coleridge, her Majesty's elicitor-GeneraL But in many respects there were wide differences not only between the combatants, but between the circumstances under which they addressed the House. Sir Roundel: Palmer, who, having moved the adjournment on Friday night, followed Mr. Bright in the debate, is a Liberal the sincerity of whose political convictions no one would dream of questioning. In fact, in recent times no one has given so conclusive a pledge of that sincerity as the hon. and learned membez for Richmond. It is no secret that had in chosen he might have been presiding in the House m Lords instead of occupying a seat in the House of Com mons behind the Treasury bench, and have secured the blue riband of his profession, the custodr of the Great other respects to go with his party, could not bring self to assist in stripping the Irish Church of its endow ments, and rather than do so, he preferred to sacrifice, at least for the time, the prize which was within his reach. The intimation that such a man would reopen the debate. and bring to it all those resources of learning and persua sion which he is so well known to possess, naturally lintel the House. Nor were those who came to hear the staunch Churchman and eloquent lawyer disappointed. In a speech of upwards of two hours' duration he explained with incomparable perspicuity the grounds on which he disapproved of the measure ; and if he did not gain con verts, he unquestionably proved that much more was to be said at least against one branch of the bill than any member on the Conservative side of the House had, apparently up to that moment, thought of. The Telegraph says that before the appointment of the commission the public had been startled by the atrocion outrages at Sheffield. That, for refusing to comply with the rules of a particular union, a man should be waylaid and beaten, should have his tools stolen, should find gun powder thrown down his chimney ins canister, or scattered loose in a work-trough exposed to the sparks from his lathe, should be shot at with air-guns, and, finally, killed —such a congeries of enormities bore a dreadful resem blance to the worst practices of Thuggee. But Sheffield presented the black side of unionism. The great majority of the unions were as innocent of such crimes as the London and Westminster Bank ; and, when society was horror-stricken by the Sheffield revelations, those bodiee came forward to make a charge against society itself. "We unionists," they said, " only use the privileges of English men in combining for mutual protection and advantage. We do precisely what is done by lawyers, physicians railway companies, and limited liability shareholders. We seek the strength which lies in union." The orthodoe. commissioners would draw a hard and fast line between what they would sanction and what they would forbid. They would not hold a trades union to be illegal, nor would they refuse to say that it was "not illegal," merely because its - rules might seem to restrain trade. But with that con cession they stop. If a unionist refused to work with any non-unionist, or with any number of apprentices, they would punish him. They would prohibit a combination if its aim involved a breach of contract, and they would punish the offence by a special law. When one union is on strike it often gets aid from others ; but that also is a practice which Sir William Erle and his friends would sternly forbid. Into the work of discussion we do not enter at present. We merely point out, for the public edification, that, after listening to evidence for months, some of the ablest men in England are still as far as ever from agreement respecting the most elementary principles which must govern legislation on the subject of trades unions. A commission made up of rival theologians could not have presented a spectacle of greater discord. The Daily Reins declares that if America and American institutions are to be perpetually referred to in parlia mentary debates, it would at least be well if honourable gentlemen who make the reference would confine them selves to matters within their own individual knowledge or experience. On such a question as the adoption in Ire land of the voluntary system in religion there is, however, every excuse for references to the example of a country which took the lead in the adoption of that system several generations ago. A comparison of its results in that country with the results of the opposite system on the continent of Europe, and with the mixed system in this country might throw very little light on the road along which all civilised nations are travelling. It is evident that voluntaryism in the 'United States has amply provided for the religious wants of the people. No such provision as this exists even in England or Ireland ; and so far Its church accommodation is concerned America far outstrip s us all. Nor does this give the full view of the voluntary activity which religion exhibits when nop o liti ca l connections e n t ang l e its action. All this has not only been done without church rates, without tithes, with. out parliamentary grants, without endowments, but with the concurrent demands of voluntary P rov i• sion for unive rs iti es, and for all the needs scholarship and learning. In thes.., of course, i% cannot cc:4,s:: the older world, but she is fast tread:n ,, on our heels. American example is, in fact, full of hope for the future of Irel an d. I t i s clearly not only, as Sir Roundel' Palmer says, "not less rel'gions," but better Provided with the material aids on which religion leans. Religion, put out of politics, takes its !MD place, and fill it well. It is lifted at once into a cal Mer atmosphere, an.l lives more naturally its spiritual life. It may no long-r "raise its mitred head in courts and senates," but it sheds it quiet influence over common life, and does an humble but effectual work in the byways of the world. An Alabama paper announces tlit it will not. hereafter. take navment in dozz. DEATU OF THE EA2L OF WICKLOW, K.?. Sir William Howard, third Earl of Wicklow, Viscount Wicklow, and Baron Clonmore in the peerage of Ireland, also some time lord-lieutenant of county Wicklow, died at his town residence, 2, Cavendish-square, on Monday morning, the 22nd instant. The deceased Earl, who was born in 1788, and succeeded his father in 1818, was elected in 1823 a representative peer for Ireland. In 1829, at the request of Lord Aberdeen, his brother-in-law and intimate friend, he seconded the Address in the House of Lords in support of Catholic emancipation. From that time he took a leading part in all debates relating to Ireland, and spoke frequently on the subjects of the tithe rent-charge and of the Irish Church generally, whcse interests he always warmly espoused, while at the same time lie insisted that the State ought liberally to endow the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. His lordship supported the bill for the removal of the Jews' civil disabilities, and took some part in the debate on the bill for repealing the corn laws. Since the Earl of Aberdeen's death Lord Wicklow has gradually be come less regular in his attendance at the House of Lords, but was usually in his place to promote the interests of the Irish on omasions such as the recent Fishery Bills. He was known in Ireland as a kind and liberal landlord, and while in health made a point jof residing on his estate in that county during some portion of the year. His lordship was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1808. In 1816 he married Lady Cecil Frances, daughter of John, first Marquis of Abercorn, by whom he had issue seven daughters, three of whom survive him. The peerage and estates devolve on Charles Arnold, a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers, and aide-de-camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, son of the late Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard, a brother of the deceased. (From the Anglo -American Times.) If the Times' correspondent at Philadelphia simply recanted all he had written last year, to prove that the United States would pay the Five- Twenty Bonds in greenbacks, he might be permitted to slide out of his false position, however awkwardly, but he accompanies the recantation by a false statement of the circumstances. He says : " During six months past there has been a great change of sentiment in the United States on the subject of paying the debt. Last autumn, repudiation was openly advo cated by many leading public men of both parties, and the greenback payment theory seemed to have taken complete possession of the Western States. The taxa tion of the bonds found a majority to support it in the House at the close of the last session ; and in order to hold their own in the West, against the Democrats who claimed to be the special champions of repudiation, the Republicans throughout the Mississippi Valley either kept silence or had to advocate the green back theory. sow, however, all has changed. The sen timent of the country is unmistakeably in favour of an honest payment of the debt. One of the leading advo cates of Repudiation last year, General LOG N, of Illinois, has publicly recanted, and come over to the honest Bide. The same House that in July voted by a majority in favour of taxing the bonds declared almost unanimously against it in February. The Congress that could not be brought to declare in favour of honesty before, has, under the pressure of public opinion, passed General SCHENCK'S Bill by large majorities in both Houses. Senator SHER MAN, of Ohio, who last spring reported that the bonds might under the law be payable in greenbacks, and that this ought to held as a rod over the bondholders to compel them to reduce the interest, is now the author of the amendment of the Senate which makes the bill even a stronger declaration of honesty than when it passed the licuse. The country is evidently determined to honestly pay all its debts and all the interest, and, to do this, is de termined to begin an era of economy, so that the world may see there is a surplus revenue sufficient to redeem some millions of debt every year. The new President is one of the strongest advocates of honesty in the country, and he intends to use all his energy, ability, and power to repress abuses, promote economy, and stifle Repudiation, so that the good opinion the world is forming of American credit may bo maintained and strengthened." If he did not, he ought tv have known that the sentiment of the country is not changed, that the intention always was, honestly, and in the most liberal construction of the contract, to meet every liability. There was much discussion, and a strong effort made by unscrupulous politicians to gain votes by raising the question. Unfortunately for the bondholders, and for the credit of the United States, the great Democratic party incorporated Repudiation as a plank of their platform, and it was this appeal to rascaldom that gave the subject a vitality the Republicans feared so much that they were compelled to shuffle and manoeuvre. We have all along asserted that the sentiment of the country never favoured it, but the tactics of Politicians, the best proof being that the subject came up with the elections the more prominently as the party strife approached a climax. There may have been men deluded into the belief that more of their fellow-citizens were dishonest fools than honourable men of sense, and perhaps even the dweller in the " City of Brotherly Love" might Lave enrolled himself among the number. They miscalculated, however, as they are now com pelled to acknowledge, for the discussion of the question brought out so completely the strength of the bondholders' position, and that an attack on it by thepeople would be but an attempt to destroy their o wn strong fort, that common sense alone, independently of honesty, was sufficient to deter them. The sen timent of the country, then, never did favour repu diation; and had the Democratic writers for the London press not been actuated by ulterior motives they would not so grossly have misrepresented it. Those motives we have before alluded to, but it is as well here more distinctly to point them out ; and in this we are aided by the Philadelphia corre spondent, whose letter appeared last Wednesday in the Times. Alluding to the rise in the Bonds and the fall in gold in New York he says : "These movements result from but one thing—the in creased confidence that is felt abroad in the credit and honest intentions of the United States, for American prices always follow and are ruled by the quotations of Five-Twenty Bonds iu London." Now, admitting this, what was their object during the crisis of the late political struggle in America in depreciating to the utmost the price of the Bonds in London? The attempt wasmadebyllcutocratic writers of a marked strive. and they were successful, for they Commanded the Times, the otuitaititi, and other great Lonlou newspapers. If the price in Wall street reflects the price in London by influencing this market they influeeced all. The Democrats were pledged to the doctrine of Repudiation, and what told most in their favour was thedisgust created in the American mind by the low value set in every Bourse on the "promises to pay"of his country. That a nation continental in extent ; the greatest exporter of the chief staples grown; with railroads equalling in length those of Europe ; with telegraphs exceeding those of the world ; with a population considerably greater than that of the United Kingdom and all her colonies; with a debt not so large, but a growing ability to pay infinitely larger, should have its Bonds on a par with bankrupt, dishonest, or contemptible Governments, was gall and wormwood. The world's belief in American dishonesty was thus outspoken ; that is, the creditor allowed the debtor who could at pleasure escape the liability, to feel that he was held to be a dishonest scamp. Predictions of repudiation tend to their own fulfilment; and nothing is more an in centive to throw off a burden than that the person for whom it is carried should count it as worthless. When Six per Cent. Bonds were quoted in the Lon don market at between 60 and 70 they were ap praised at a greenback redemption rate, and it strengthened the argument of the Democrats to point to a fact proving that this was the opinion everywhere held by the dealers. Each fall on this s ide was an extra inducement to repudiate on the other ; but, on the contrary, if there had been such a rise as the Bonds have experienced in Europe since the commencement of the year, repudiation theories would have been annihilated, and with them every Democratic argument and chance. For this reason it was essential in the party advo cates to throw down the price in Europe, more especially on the London Stock Exchange --and hence their persistent efforts. Happily there is more sense in the United States than they gave the people credit for, and their endeavours egregiously failed. It is very well now for the Philadelphia man to say that the feeling in the country has c'aanged, consigning into oblivion the elaborate calculation by which he sifted Congress and as signed to the Representatives of each State their places on his Repudiation ticket. Nations and Legislatures do not change with such marvel lous rapidity ; and it must be remembered that the members whom he thus analysed had been elected on party questions, prominent among which was greenback redemption. Upon what ground, except one of his careful surveys, can he assert that the changebe alleged has taken place? There has been no election to show the feeling of the country since, but it was, as shown by an election, that he then de clamd it. It may now suit his purpose to shuffle out of his false teaching as it can no longer aid his party, and to attribute to the fickleness of the people the fact that they refused to follow the dishonest lead he had predicted with such certainty. We leave the dweller in the " City of Brotherly Love" on the horns of his own dilemma, to explain to his countrymen as best he may that the majority in the United States were not rascals, only, because they are so fickle. GEN. GRANT'S HEALTH AND HABlTS.—Walk ing down Pennsylvania-avenue this morning I met Gen. Grant on his black horse, trotting quietly towards his headquarters. He was never looking better in his life, and the sight of hint reminded me to state a fact about hint in this letter, which I have known for 1301119 time. The general's physical condition is better than it has been for twenty years. His eye is clear, his hand firm, and he has every app.aranceof robust health. Some time ago ho came to the decisi la that he would not use intoxicating liquors at public dinners which ho is com pelled occasionally to accept. What his habits are when at his own table with his wife and children I do not know, nor is it any business Of mine or the public's; but everybody who has seen hint at a dinner within six months gives the same report—" Gen. Grant doesn't drink a drop." At the last act dinner which ho attended, as istihtee.cusltnoT,shh?arltf tanndaotzhee general' s dozen glasses were w e r all full, he b o y n ea t ch plt tasting a drop, till, becoming annoyed by the number, or because they were in his way, he asked ,dlnenwohuoghsattonreeanriohviem This I t a h t e t m h . e Washington Cor Velma Tribune. h th a e ve se fr rv o a tn nt a togebn'tlkemin ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS. After the lapse cl several sessions without a Dilapida tions Dill, the Archbishop of York has laid before the House of Lords another bill upon the subject. The bill proposes, like its predecessors, the appointment of official surveyors ; they are to be chosen, not for a diocese, but for an archdeaconry, and by the archdeacon and rural deans, subject to the approval of the bishop. The sur veyors are to be paid, not by salary, but according to a rate of charges to be fixed in each diocese by the bishop, the archdeacons, and the chancellor. An incumbent of a benefice may at any time, at his own expense, have the buildings belonging to his Denefice inspected by an official surveyor ; his report is to be subject to appeal to the bishop or archdeacon. On the incumbent executing the works, he and his estate are to be free for five years from all claims for dilapida tions, unless the bishop, on a vacancy occurring within the five years, shall consider that wilful waste committed makes a fresh inspection proper. If the surveyor certifies that, in consideration of the antiquity of the premises, or for other reason to be specified, the cost of the repairs ought to be spread over several years, then with the consent of the bishop Queen Anne's Bounty Board may lend money for the execution of the repairs, to be repay able by instalments out of the proceeds of the living. On the avoidance of any benefice, the incumbent not being free from liability, as above-mentioned, the arch -deacon is to order an inspection of the buildings. If the surveyor's report of dilapidations is objected to, the arch deacon may direct a fresh survey; and the order even tually made by the archdeacon will be subject to appeal to the bishop. If the amount finally ordered to be expended cannot be recovered from the late incumbent or his estate, or if there are repairs ordered for which he is not liable, the new incumbent may, with the consent of the bishop, borrow from the Bounty Board on the security of the benefice, the amount to be repayable from the proceeds of the living by instalments. The new incumbent is to pay to the Bountyßoard the sum required to =are good the iilapidations, and it will be paid out as the works progress. There arc several clauses of an incidental or miscellaneous character. The incumbent of every benefice hereafter becoming vacant is to insure from fire, and deposit the receipt from time to time in the bishop's registry. The bill does not appear to relate to houses of residence o bishops, deans, or canons. LAW AND POLICE. DECEPTIVE DIVIDE:MS.—A case was on Monday heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins respecting the Mercantile Trading Company, which was established during the American war for the purpose of running the blockade and procuring cotton. The application now made was on behalf of the official liquidator, who sought to compel the late manager, Mr. Stringer, to return to the company his portion of a dividend of £28,000, which, it was alleged, was not the result of profits, but of a loan from the Agra and Masterman Bank. The Vice-Chancellor commented severely on the impropriety of obtaini n g p:iy and ordered the return of the money. WITHOUT A FINE.-- A shoemaker of Northampton, who lass lately made a practice of buying up the carcases of diseased animals, and sending them to the London market for human food, was on Monday convicted of the offence at G uildhall, and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, without the option of a fine. THE ABERGELE ACCIDENT.—On Monday, at the open• ing of the Ruthin Assizes, the grand jury found a true bill against the driver and stoker of the goads train at Aber gele, which occasioned the fearful accident to the Irish mail last August. An indictment against the station master at Llandulas was also preferred hut the bill was ignored. MANSL.S.IIGHTEII.—At the same assizes two brothers, named Jones, were indicted fur the wilful murder of Thomas Foulkes. They knocked him down, and kicked and beat him about the head with stones for twenty minutes. A verdict of manslaughter was returned, and sentence was deferred. DEATH AT THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—At the Cam bridge Assizes, on Monday, George Clark, a young shoe maker pleaded guilty to the charge of causing the death of Mr. Lofts, late porter of Christ's College, on the polling day of the last Cambridge election. A disturbance arose between some undergraduates and townsmen, and the former took refuge in Christ's College. The gates were closed, but stones were thrown ; and one of them, thrown by Clark, struck Mr. Lofts in the eye, and he died in con sequence. The authorities did not press for punishment. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour. THE MURPHY RIOTS.—At North Shields, on Saturday, an Irishman, named James Machin, was charged with taking part in the riot in Saville-street West, on Friday night, during Mr. Murphy's lecture. He was remanded for a week. THE NEW POACHING ACT.-At the Bridgnorth County Sessions, on Saturday, William Bowen was fined is. and 13s. costs under the new Poaching Act. A constable, meeting him on the high road at half-past eleven in the morning, suspected he had been poaching, and wished to search him. Defendant refused to be searched in the highway, and hence the fine. There is a widow in Nashville, Tenn., 114 years old, who enjoys the pensions of three husbands, all of whom served in the Revolutionary war. Her name is Dinah Vies. She has 400 descendants. FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN THE SEED TRADE. —A meeting of the Agricultural and Horticul tural Association was r field at the Freemasons' Tavern on Monday ; Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., in the chair. The absence of any promise of immediate legislative action with the view of checking the adulteration of seeds, &e., and punishing those who use false weights and measures was generally regretted. Resolutions were passed affirm ing that the practices complained of could be dealt with only in two ways —by the action of Parliament, and through the instrumentality of co-operative associations. T HE NEW TRADES MOVEMENT. —The first meet ing of the newly-formed Board of Conciliation and Arbi tration in the North of England iron trade district was held at Darlington on Monday. A representative had been appointed by the men from each of the works during the week, which, with one master from each works, composes the board. The business lasted from eleven o'clock in the morning till a late hour in the afternoon. A standing committee was appointed, and other preliminary business transacted. The meetirg w as private. The wages question was discussed at great t length, he and t board shouldia l• be e u a l ultimately j m o t a u t e n l e yes ;t resolved standing i a n t g t meetin g of committee is, in the meantime, to verify the masters' contract prices, and to report upon them. Pending a financial scheme, the men arc to pay a penny per month, and the masters an equal sum. SIGNALLING IN TUNNELS.—A new system, afford ing a great security to the platelaycrs in the tunnels, is used in the Blaisej tunnel of the Paris and Marseilles line. The tunnel, 13,i;00 feet long, is sometimes very smoky, and ne men had great difficulty in bend properly warned of . an approaching train. An insulated wire has been laid by the side of the tunnel .Ift. over the ground. The ganger of the platelayers is supplied with a portable electric bell that he must suspend to the wire in the neighbourhood of the place where his men and himself are working. The electric communication is completed by an iron wedge in serted between two rails of the line, and connected by a wire to the electric bell. As soon as a train goes into the tunnel, the signalman of the clock system at the entrance of the tunnel sends an electric current in the wire and irsingrsectehievehaell4eoomntitnhe otheruallyuntilenta of signal,he h e " u nn t lin et_ ecleL," Engbiter. THE SUN, LONDON, TOES. THE FIVE-TIVENTY BONDS. IAY EVENIN, - MARCH 23, 1L69. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. been ftr the most part a Am - fight, and that 31f.. Bright's speech was the first to give it a loftier and worthier tone, and was sustained by the eloquence of political conviction inspired by moral and religious feeling. Whatever may be the opinion as to the merits of the measure under discussion, there can be no doubt .as to which of these two speeches more conveyed the idea of sincerity. Mr. Disraeli was witty and brilliant, and covered what was virtually a surrender under a fine display of elocutionary fire works. Mr. Bright spoke with all the feeling and the force of one who finds himself at last in a position to give effect to the convictions of a lifetime. VOLUNTARYISM IN AMERICA. THE REFORM LEAGUERS. Messrs. Beales (M.A.) and Howell will certainly not lose anything by resigning their connection with the now defunct Reform League. Mr. Bea les, it is said, will get a county-court judgeship, which should be equivalent to his retirement from political life and Mr. Howell, having failed to get a seat in Par liament, has become private secretary to a gentlemtin who has been more fortunate than he. THE REVIVAL OF FENIANISM. The Dublin correspondent of the Times attaches very little importance to the alleged revival of Fenianism in Ireland. It is easy enough to make a great show with very small materials. Paper and ink cost little, and as there is a keen competition among the " national " papers, there is sure to be plenty of seditious stuff forthcoming to meet the demand of the editors. The " national tribute "in behalf of the liberated Fenians has been a ridiculous fiasco. There is one subscription of £lOO, another of £25 (from the patriotic Mayor of Cork), and then a long list of subscriptions, some of them as low as 2d., and amounting altogether to £146. So that the total amount is under £3OO. There seems to be a quarrel among the patriots, and both parties are in want of funds. The Times thinks that the chief danger to the com munity lies not so much, if at all, in a renewal of the Fenian excitement and a fresh impetus to the conspiracy as in the development of the Riband system and the increase of agrarian crime. Outrages are of frequent occurrence. An American writes to the Times on the volun tary support of religion in the United States. He complains of the manner in which Dr. Ball disposed of the subject in the House of Commons the other night. He declares that his countrymen are a reli gious people, and the voluntary system has been successful among them. The various denomina tions meet the necessity of erecting churches to supply the wants of the increasing popu lation with promptitude and liberality. With respect to the salaries of English and American clergy, he is convinced that the voluntary system will suffer nothing in comparison. All the great denomi nations of America are in prosperity, and out of these have sprung the numerous colleges which maintain courses of instruction that would do no discredit to Oxford or Cambridge. The American does not assume to say what is best for England or Ireland, but if our questions are to be settled by suggestions which are furnished by American experience, he desires that such experience should be taken as it is. SECRET SOCIETIES, THE IRISH CHURCH. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Armagh likes Lord Oranmore and Browne writes to the Daily Fenianism as little as the Beresfords like it. The Telegraph giving his objections to the Irish Church Primate of Ireland could not denounce Fenianism Bill. "I object to its provisions," he says, " because more vigorously than his episcopal brother (or the powers given to commissioners are unprece competitor ?) h a s d o ne. He declares of Ribbonism dented and unconstitutional, because they are untrue that it was " conceived in darkness, nourished by to the preamble, dishonest as touching private intemperance, supported by violence, treachery, and endowments, and that, while they ignore the bloodshed, that th e hideous monster spreads desolation claims of the Protestant laity, they deal more wherever it p ene t ra t e s. It has been the most power- favourably with the interests of those clergy who ful instrument i n the hands of the exterminator had no claims on Church funds than with the just —the most _powerful aid of the cruel petty tyrant claims of the clergy of the - Church itself." His —it demoralises society, and extinguishes the ' lordship chiefly addresses himself to what we generous instincts of our nature." He adds that may call the denominational objection. He points ftrtc_. se.loo_o, ..nat--u -" all secret societies are branded with the anathema out that reformat-nay i industrial i i 4 ss nf the Clowoh, and the crimes of agrarian outrage tions for training nurses, deaf and dumb asylums, and murder nre condemned by the natural and and refuges for those of weak intellect are carried Divine laws. Tho Church has always condemned on by the energy of the different sects ; the larger these crimes. Murder cries to heaven for vengeance, number of the population being Roman Catholics, a and agrarian outrages attack the fundamental laws larger number are tended by friars and nuns. The of society. Our rights and our liberties are not to end of the lives of these persons is - to convert to be promoted by violence and bloodshed. Evil is not Romanism. In giving the money to these people, to be done that good may follow. But what good Mr. Gladstone will be giving it towards the propaga could come from the violation of God's law ? Or tion of Popery. The preamble of the bill declares what services could the members of secret societies that the endowment shall not be used for the teach render to their country ?" He concludes by caution- ing of religion. The measure itself disregards the ing the young men of Ireland how they are deluded preamble. Lord Oranmore goes on to say that the by emissaries who, pretending to be friends, are in measure will please the Catholics, but is a palpable reality - the worst enemies of the country. insult to Protestants. He finishes his epistle by THE LAST D RUNKEN DRAM A , abusing the Roman C a th o li c clergy and extollin g the virtues of the Protestants. While the latter are Legman, a Sheffield rinder, said to be a very intelligent man, got drunk on Thursday night, and all that can be wished, the Roman Catholic priests, of tea by the hands of their lay in bed on F r id ay to sleep off h i s debauch. His as a body, and th e l ower or d ers of l I ish led by them, * wife sent him up a cup are now, as ever, religiou s ly and ' politically youngest child, a b oy four years old. A few to the English and Protestant connection. T hostile hey look minutes later the d runkard came d own sta i rs, and for the establish men t o f a national and Socialist saying "Go and l oo k at Harry—he i s dead, " went Republic, in which th e R oman Catholic clergy expect out of the house. Th e w i fe rus h e d up sta i rs and to have a dominant influence. The more that is found the child, a few minutes before well and happy yielded to viol ence , th e more w ill be demanded, weltering in his bl oo d , and qu i te d ea d . His father' backed by still greater violence, which soon _will pro had all but sev ere d h i s hea d f rom t h e body, duce feelings of bitter hostility between c class, and religion and religion, ud Great y '' W ass and _ This tale moves e ven t h e not very suscept ib le Daily Britain having again t o recon quer ending lreland. Telegraph to ask, When will human creatures ce ase to put an enemy into their mouths to steal away THE GOVERNMENT AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. their brains ? " The answer is Never, so long as the 1 The Chancellor of the Exchequer was waited upon publican is allowed to make men drunk ; never, so on Saturday by members of the Meteorological Society, long as the freedom of this traffic is considered of who asked for a participation in the grant of £lO,OOO more importance than the lives of the 50,000 persons made annually by Parliament to the Royal Society. who are every year slain in this country, directly or Mr. Lowe, in return, gave the deputation what he indirectly, by drink. After all, the chief victim in himself called a lecture. Going out of the way usual this case is the best off. For him one innocent life on such occasions, he gave at some length his opinions has been exchanged for .another. For the murderer- on granting State money to voluntary s ,sieties. Ile father there is the gallows ; for the doubly-bereaved was entirely and altogether opposed to the Govern mother and wife life-long anguish and shame. ment doing anything of the kind. They MR. FROUDE ON MODERN EDUCATION. I were economising ; that was one insuperable ' Mr. Froude's in s t a ll a ti on speec h a t S t. A ndrew ' s difficulty in th e w a y. But even if there University was an eloquent attack on the system of were plenty of money to t spare he should be education now pursued in the schools and the univer- opposed to giving anythin a. o the Meteorological cities. Deploring that poverty and education no longer o . i e ety. Ile would do nothing on the part of the Ministry which the people could do for themselves. went hand in hand, that the uuiversities were rather "As long as people are left to their own exertions, institutions for trainints in luxury than places where they do most admirably well, and they make their the young were taught e to bear poverty, he went on to shew that th e w h o l e un i vers it y sys t em was money go far. People found schools, for instance with the greatest enthusiasm and rotten at the core. Child ren are taught the greatest wish to promote the interests of when young mech an i ca ll y, are g i ven mere f acts. education mid of religious teaching; they make instead of ideas. When they become older they are expected to learn everything. But general great sacrifices, and do a great deal of most praise worthy work- but from the moment they begin to linger information is equ i va l en t t o no thi ng w h atever, Learn a special fact, and learn that. well. "You Government' money, it seems as if it produces a cannot learn everything," said he; "the objects of revolution in their minds, and the whole object of knowledge have m u ltipli e d b e y on d th e powers o f the the schools seems to be per ve rt e d f rom the real intention of the people who founded them, and strongest mind to keep p ace w ith th em a ll. You directed to the getting the greatest po E sibl e amoun t must choose among th em , an d th e on ly reasonable of Government money.' Ile therefOre a d v i se d guide to choice in such Matters is utility." A n d so the society to have nothing to d o 'a ith lawyers were told to leave Greek to the dogs and to -- , fley. but if the publi c did no t support them, to grasp Latin, Norman F r efia and bco - t e li law ; withdraw operations until th e i r nee d was fully felt. doctors were told to confine themselves to French, German, and the subjects of their own profession, &c. THE REPRESENTATIVE REFoRM ASSOCIATION. Mr. Froude is undoubtedly a great authority on such At present this association, which has fsr is object matters; but is there not a danger lest such a course the adoption of Mr. Hare's scheme of representation, of study would lead to contracted minds ? A doctor is making little progress. It has received several who is a doctor et preeterea nihil is not the highest influential accessions to its ranks ; and Mr. Morrison idea of a man. Mr. Froude's special subject, history, is endeavouring to get one of its members, Professor embraces and r e quires a smattering of all the sciences Fawcett, added to the select committee of the House and a knowledge of many languages. However, it of Commons charged with exam i n i ng i nto the mode is not so with all professions. of conducting elections. No doubt, under any THE SCOTCH EDUCATION RILL. circumstances, Mr. Hare will have an opportunity of As a whole, the Commission of the General explaining his system to the committee. It is no Assembly of the Scotch Free Church seem to be mere theory, but is actually in operation in Norway. well satisfied with the Scotch Education Bill. There The association considers that the present device f are several objections raised to it ho wever . It h as for the representation of mi nor iti es i s a misnomer, been unanimously resolved, for instance, " 1. That the proposals of the bill with reference to the parochial schools are far from satisfactory. 2. That while the institution of a Scotch board is good in preference to a management i n L ondon, that, with the view of commanding the confidence of the country, the constitution ought to be considerably modified, and that the meetings of the board should be public. 3. That the provision which requires the consent of the Central Board to the branches of education, resolved upon by the local parties, is objectionable, unlesa it be carefully guarded, espe cially as regards the teaching of religion, according to the use and wont of Scotland. 4. That it is essential to the right worki ng of the bill, with reference to adopted schools, that the central authority of such a body as the F ree Ch urc h b e effectively recognised. Si. That it is also essential to the right working of the bill that the proposed power of the board to require managers of adopt e d sc h oo l s to repair and enlarge their schools at their own expense should not be vested in the board. 6. That the provisions in regard to testing the qualifi cations of teachers, and other matters affecting their interests are not satisfactory." We ha ve y e t t o l earn the opinions of the General Assembly of the Esta blished Church. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. -+-- (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, March G. 1 George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times, arrived by the steamer Samaria, much improved in health, and lost no time in hurrying to Washington to keep Grant straight in his Cabinet and on the Alabama question ; for the editor of that sporting journal is far from confining himself to sportiugmat ters. Col. M'Clure has published. a card in explana tion of his interview with Gen. Grant, about which he says the papers have given an erroneous impres sion. He merely went there to present a letter from the Hon. John M. Read, which evidently im pressed the General, and led to a conversation on the Cabinet. He urged no one, but earnestly begged, that representative Republican politicians should be selected. Like Uriah Heap, he now turns out to be a " 'umble individual," who would not pre sume to insist on any particular man as the confiden tial adviser of the President. It was reported here, early in the week, that Mr. John A. Cisco would be selected for the Treasury Department, and he left those who questioned him under the impres sion that he bad been communicated with on the subject. Among those who have started for Wash ington, whose name is "legion," are a number of pickpockets, who will, I dare say, be more success ful as pocket-seekers than the crowd who have gone as office-seekers. Central Park is to have another statue ; a marble monument of Alexander Von Humboldt will be erected on the hundredth anni versary of his birth, which will be the 14th of next September. Baron Von Gerolt is one of the Committee. We have had some bitter weather, so cold as to dispel the expectation of reaching Albany by boat as yet, and the ice is now reported to be very thick above West Point. Here, as elsewhere, the gas is complained of. When I was in London I was told that nowhere else was it so yellow, dim, and impure, and looking at a lighted lamp through a fog at night, I was compelled to admit the truth, while on one, bright and frosty, I was equally sure that Cockneys did their gas companies injustice. New Yorkers have made such a fuss about their illuminators that the State Legislature has sent a committee, who sit at the St. Nicholas Hotel, to inquire into the subject, and the gas is being analysed, and the pieces are to be held by the savans under the noses of the directors of the New York, Manhattan, and Harlem Companies. These people, hoWever, hold their noses so high that nothing is expected to come of it. By furnishing bad gas at exorbitant prices they have accumulated great wealth, and we all know what the weahhy can do here. They have only to rob the public en masse and wholesale, and dole out to the public's protec tors a portion of the plunder. here are a few philanthropists, som e p eop l e term th em a nuisance, who are more than ordinarily aciive at present. Paul Bagley is one; but he, Congressmen rejoice to know, is on your side t o get the Fenians liberated. May he make Ch:na his ultimate destination, no w that the death of King Theodore has left no pri soners in Abyssinia for him to look up ! Mr. Bergh's philanthropy takes another direction ; for he is the friend of the beast. He wants to make smooth the path of the lamb to the slaughter and the horse with its load. He has just been making a tour of the city, and the drivers have had a gentle hint that RIVAL BISHOPS, At the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, on Sunday morning, the incumbent, the Rev. R. T. West, spoke with great delight respecting the conse cration of Mr. Macrorie. He denounced Bishop Colenso as a " miserable man " and a " traitor," who had denied the divinity of our Lord and the inspira tion of S cr i p t ure. He announced that a ft er th e evening service the "Miserere," which was tohave been chanted, would not be sung, but that the " To Deum" would be sung instead by way of thanksgi v i ng f or the consecration o f the new bishop. It is worthy of note that in all the denunciations of Bishop Colenso which are dealt both from High Church and Lour Church pulpit s no s h a d ow o f ev id ence i s ever given in support of the charge of treachery, in sup port of the assertion that the Bishop has denied the divinity of our Lord. It is assumed that he has done so, and he is condemned on that assumption. Doubtless he has said much that sober-minded Chris tians will regret and censure ; but the charge made against him by Bishop Gray and his friends in Eng land is a specific one, and should, if made, be sup • ported- by chapter and ve rse out of the Bishop's writings. The Times has a leader upon the state of affairs in South Africa. It attaches great importance to the consecration of Mr. Macrorie, because, having the power to ordain, he will be able to multiply the clerical representative s o f hi s princ:rdes, and there will thus be a constantly-increasing Li:aid of clergy arrayed against each other, who will daily spread division among Church of England con gregations and perpetuate the schism in antago nistic buildings and hostile functionaries. In England this resort to extrem e measures has, with all our wide theological differen ces , been avoided ; but there are signs that th e quarrel in Africa will extend to England. Should it do so, the Times believes that the end of the Established Church will soon come. State functionaries will refuse to be embroiled in the quarrels of Churchme n and the disestablishment movement, which is even now receiving a great impetus from the chief measure of the day. will become irresistible and complete. THE HOXOI7IIB OF THE DEBATE. It is amusing to see how the political journals of both parties attempt to treat the Irish Church debate from the position of impartial spectators. Says the Morning lierald: "We cannot think we are too confident in assuming that the result of the great debate thus far has been a substantial gain to the cause of the Irish Church. The honours of the debate unquestionably rest with the Conserva tives. Mr. Bright's declamation essay notwithstanding, it must be conceded that the Ministerialists have altogether failed to answer or argue down the speeches of Mr. Disraeli and Dr. Ball." On the other hand, the Daily Telegraph declares that Mr. Disraeli has abandoned the Irish Church. that. the debate has his eye was on them, and that tholaws for the pro tection of animals would be enforced. coming humiredB of miles to see; as it was, it im pressed every beholder, so stupendous was the gathering. To-clay rrestde.t (,rant took Mrs. Grant to the White House, but admitted no visi tors to the Executive Office. There he awaited notice that Congresi was ready to receive any communication, which be received from Commit- tees of both Houses at a quarter past 2 p.m. Gene rals Schofield and Howard, and Admiral Farragut, however, managed to see him, as did Senator Joshua Hill, of Georgia. Commissioner Rollins has re signed, and received a very complimentary letter from General Grant. Ex-Senator Wade bid the President good-bye before leaving for Ohio. Ex- Secretary Welles ordered a general court-martial to meet before retiring ; his assistant Mr. Faxon returns to Connecticut. The crowds are now hurrying away with the same eagerness with which they came. Five thousand tickets were sold at the Baltimore depot. in eight hours, extra trains were put on, but the impatient multitude made such dis turbance that thirty were arrested. MAIL PACKET SUBSIDIES. Mr. SEELY carried his motion to refer to a Select Committee the contract made by the late Govern ment with the Messrs. Cunard and the Inman Com panies for the carriage of mails to the United States. Throughout the speech of the bon. member was plainly marked by animus against a company which has done more within late years to uphold England's nautical fame in America than the British fleet. The contract had been cut to the lowest point by the close shaving of the Conservative Government ; indeed to so low a figure that these two great com panies could not have accepted it, had not the exigencies of their position compelled them to keep afloat the finest fleets, towards the maintenance of which the trifle offered by the Government was but a help. The interference of Mr. SEELY appears to be wholly uncalled for, and had Parliament fully un derstood the circumstances, the agreement made by the late Postmaster-General would have been heartily concurred in. What Mr. SEELY wants is what we all desire—to get something for nothing. It would be very nice if the Cunard and the In man, the North German Lloyd, and the Ilamburgh and American Companies, would, without expense to the national exchequer, keep vessels steaming across the ocean, at 13 and 14 knots an hour, carrying our mails, and forcing their way in spite of sea or weather. He seems to think that. the nation can get them to do so for nothing, an error which will soon be exploded. The Hamburgh line, which he justly says, have some of the fastest boats afloat, for a period ceased to touch at Southampton, when the subsidy was withdrawn, yet the hon. member dis cusses their vessels as if the Government could com mand them without payment. Mr. SEELY'S speech is replete with erroneous statements. The subsidy paid to companies and the postal rate have no connec tion. The nation may gain or lose ;it may be more profitable to have a high than a low tariff, or a penny may really return more to the Treasury than a sixpenny rate, but this is a matter with which the companies have nothing to do. What they undertake is to start a powerful steamer at a given hour on a certain day to and from England and New York, the passage to be performed, and the mails transmitted within a certain time. That this should be done with the utmost regularity and speed is the essence of the whole question to the com mercial community. A penny postage would be a boon to the people, but the other conditi ns are a necessity to both continents; indeed, rapidity of communication ranks far before the cost of postage. When Mr. SEELY therefore strikes at the subsidy he damages the essential point, for there must be an inducement, or no people in their senses would undertake to perform so expensive and onerous a task. The animus of his attack on the Cunard Company is 81)0m, n throughout his speech. From the Ist of January, he said, the commencement of the contract, to the Bth of Feb., sixteen voyages had been made by the Cunard and the Inman steamers, nine of which exceeded time. Why did not Mr. SEELY add, that there never had been known in the WASHINGTON, March 5. We had a week of great excitement, as we had to instal General Grant as President of the United States. Washington is literally crowded. The national imagination has been spurred by the secresy with which the Cabinet appointments have been kept, and every office-seeker is fired with the hope that his man may be brought in. We have fifteen new Senators, and a crowd of new Representatives ; we have a gathering of Governors, naval and military men of distinction, among them Admiral Farra gut and General Sheridan ; we have editors, the most active of whom is Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent. Horace Greeley is also here, and George Wilkes, just arrived from Europe. The Union League of America is in session, and there are men of mark connected with that organization. They commenced business by filling posts as follows: —The Hon. John W. Geary, Governor of Penn sylvania, was elected National President; G. IV. Godard, of Brooklyn, Vice-President ; and Thomas C. Baker, of New York, National Secretary. The following were elected to the National Executive Committee from New York :--Geo. 11. Van Cleft, Waldo Hut c hi ns, Geo. S. M'Waters, Wm. V. Alex ander, and Jacob M. Patterson, jun., with Messrs. C. W. Godard, Volney Green, and Joseph Reeve from Brooklyn. Washington is unlike any other place -in the world, for there is no other city so wholly and purely political. At one time filled to overflowing and rampant with excitement, at an other dull, silent, and intensely stupid. At inter vals it boils up till it furiously blows off steam, but never have we been blowing away so much as within the last few days. Every corner is occupied, every hotel filled, the talk is incessant, for every little politician has his own Cabinet, and private but reliable information. The Rev. Dr. Punshon is in the crowd. Ex-Governor Hassirtssi Fish lizta seen Grant, and men say that he will be Secre tary of State. Governor Cox has come up as the most likely for Ohio, but, strange to say, he is not here. Stuart, of Philadelphia, is, but it is doubted now whether he is Grant's choice. A. T. Stewart is also here ; the difficulty is not in telling you who is here, but who is not. It is hard to say whether the outgoing or the incoming President is most pestered with callers. Grant would be if the road were open, but it is not so easy to get an in terview, and when got it is generally very unsatis factory. Andrew Johnson is most worried for par dons. If half is to he believed of the loose talk picked up in the streets and at the bars, he must be driving a roaring trade in I ardons ; but few who coolly assert this believe it themselves. Callicott, after desperate efforts, has failed, and his friends say that it was because his funds were insufficient. Spangler and Arnold, implicated in Lincoln's mur der, have been released from the Dry Tortugas, which finishes the list of those connected with that tragedy. Numerous other pardons have also been obtained. The last reception was on Tuesday. and the White House was a picture. It was not a mov ing but a jammed, blocked up crowd. The carriage way was filled with ladies and gentlemen in evening dress, while the building was already occupied by those who had assembled early, and rushed iu when the doors were opened. The efforts made to get in were considerable, but nothing compared to those to get out. Hats, cloaks, wraps were lost, and a woman who went in elegantly dressed came out battered and torn. Several fainted, and it was im possible to procure an exit till some files of soldiers cleared the way, as the police were powerless. Scenes so congenial almost make an honest man turn pickpocket, but there was no necsssity thus to improve the occasion, for those were there whose trade it was, and three were cap tured in the act. The refrain of John Brown arose from the outside, and it is passing strange that that should be the last tune that greeted Andrew John son's ear in the Executive Mansion. His daughter, Mrs. Patterson, left it next day for the house of the Secretary of the Navy, and the President becomes the guest of M. John Coyle of the lntelligencer. On the 4th, the crush and the excitement culmi nated. I suppose you will publish full accounts o what was done ou Inauguration Day. had it no been for the rain the scene would have been wor ARRIVAL OF THE S.S "INDIA" FROM NEW YORK' The Anchor line steamer India, Captain R. D. Munro, has just returned from New . York, bringing a large cargo of American produce, 45 steerage and intermediate, and 23 saloon passengers. Cabin passengers: Miss WOO', Miss Cushing, Mr James Mollison, Mr Wm. Mollison, Mr Matthew Mollison, Miss Robb, Mr James Rob b ' Miss Mary King, Captain Meehan, Rev. Mr Ind, Mrs Ind and family, Rev. R. Shippen, Mr J. shipr° , Mr F. L. Messenger, Mr S. Carskey, Mr. H. Young/ Miss Catherine Hunt, Mr Alex. Lochhead. At a ineeting of the passengers, at which Joseph Shippen, Esq., p r : sided, the followin3 resolution, offered by the Rev. R. R. Shippen, and seconded by the Rev. T. M. Ind, were una nimously passed:—"Resolved, that we, the passengers of the steamship India, tender our cordial thanks to Captain Munro, his fellow-officers, and crew, for their watchful care and courteous attention, which ha v e rendered our voya ge across the Atlantic safe an d pleasant, and we heartily commend them to the patron ago of the travelling public. The India is the latest addition to the Anchor fleet. This large and superb vessel is of iron, bark rigged, and built by Messrs. William Simons and Co., of Renfrew, last year, being launched the 2d of July, 1868. her length cn deck is 315 feet 6 inches , and over al! 330 feet 2 inches. She bas a breadth of beam of 36 feet, a depth of hold of 22 feet 4 inches, a load draught cf 20 feet 6 inches, and is 2,500 tons burden British rant''' . surement. She has three decks, the depth between then' respectively being 7 feet 6 inches. Upon each of these decks are iron plate stringers of largo size and thickness, tending to materially s t reng th en t h em. Th e hull is 4 : 3 wrought iron plates 11 inches in thickness on her bottom, which decreases but three-eighths of an inch in any por tion. Her floors are of double angle iron, of more than ordinary width and thickness, and her plates are to a greet extent double riveted. She is fitted with six water-ligh t , bulkheads, whi c h are o f i ron, one-half and fi ve-eighths o f nn in.), in thickness from engine -room to after hold. The water tanks are capable of containing 4,000 gallons each' and the apparatus for condensaticn has a capacity of 300 ,. gallons and up war d every 24 h ours. The steering g et has all the modern improvements and great strength: Properly rigged, one half bring provided with improvoa lowering apparatus, are six lifeboats hanging over the upper deck. Sh e i s Pi tie d w i t h compound direct-actin, engines, having four cylinders—two being of 72 ladles en B e sides diameter —with a stroke of pist on o f t h ree f ee t. p a ta these there are st eam pumps, fi re pumps, steam h o isting apparatus, and all else that vessels of this character an service require in abundance. She bas ample accolla! le , dation for 120 cabin passengers, the state rooms benlf , roomy and comfortable, and the saloon, richly decorakeel is 90 feet in length, one of the articles of furniture being an excellent piano. The American papers assert that v" Anchor Line will es t a bli s h a connection between t h e Mediterranean and the United States in summer. A meeting of the shareholders of the liudsou Bay Company has been called for Wednesday, the 24t c b ; to consider Lord Granville's proposal for the transferen,a, of the Hudson's Bay territory to the Dominion of Cana", Lord Granville proposes that the company shall Or, render to her Majesty all their rights of governra°ll.4 o f Bre t ' property, &c., in Rupert's Land and other parr. s the tish North America, which will be transferred to ay Dominion of C ana d a upon Canada paying the nomPalits. £300,000 in compensation for their territory and r o .htS It is proposed that the company shall retain their rit, o3; of trade, their stations, and blocks of land adjoining* thone and they shall, moreover, be allowed to claim i ° t hin twentieth of the land in every township or district %% tie _ what is called the Fertile Belt, as it is set out for ment. Nor are any exceptional taxes to be laid on the company's land, trade, or servants. 'ADVERTISEMENT. 1 —Hollow a y' s Oi n t men t an d - a d e d Many aggravating sores stand ready to pounce upon theos;re when an accident weakens any part, or over-fatigue and eXp oiteii to wet or cold have irritated the nerves, rendered excl ui „,. da l sensitive by the distended condition of the veins, and the P.V i , obliteration of their valves. This ointment is most p o r n a fter curing all cases of ulceration, abscesses, and "bad legs , re every other means h ave failed, and the sufferings from theni ot utterly unendurable. So on a f ter the application of the gi m m e s e coolness and comfort a re o b ta i ned i n the affected part, the pall e ts se finds himself more at ease , an d daily becomes mor e hoPe_wea with departiug pai ns a v i s ibl e growth of granu lations eu forth. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspep s i a • ation Consumption, and all ner (lnclige b s i t l i i o o n u ) s, Debility, vons, ted and acee pu liver complaints in every stage, are only aggrapa rated by drugs of every Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabi P ca Food, as prOV h a s description, but erfectly curable ed hi thousands —cough, asthma, also d'art% ria, catarrhs, colds, inflnenza°3a, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, .•seto°MUaestbP, aie_ rheu matism, impurities,lgia, gout, eruptions, hysteria, nears dse f 0 bee _., i n bility, sleelessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn , noises in i o n rr th h e of h d e s, ad li , .., e 4itnes s debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, . ve " pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, .... th o of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between t , h e shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope's health resto.re 1,11,0 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68..413—" Rome, July 12, 18‘68,6-;don health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since , a" Du vaenrdeo ears,dPll3bit-11tae ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely '^i ate - Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes 3 ,, e P t i c ial ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly be..._ _ no t effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this ex" rur e food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. . e ,` - i ' iey , No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant., of F a r .' l i v er Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting 0. derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Le ra „ n sia. de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dY s P e l",, s ia, No. 49,83.2—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from d Y sP as tus, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatnieneZ , sP tion. --- sickness, and vomiting.-3laria Joly." Important ' , n a tions Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy i n '', a wls,- bloc). tuar, to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name Is ni°B - attached. 121135, . In tins, at Is. Ild.; R ADICA. , -T er 2.i 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs. 115 ' i-,00 225. ; . 4 lbs, 40s, -Also Du BARRY's REVALENTA A LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 28 ::6 . cups cups at Is. 6.1., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cups at :Ws. fox 5 5 4 5. tins at 5 5s.—being about one penny ner cup. The 3 05 . and ollice are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Pos Order. BARRY DU B ARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon don; and all G rocers and Chemists. ----_-r""..... Births. GRENFELL—On the 22d inst., at 29, South-street, gr°' Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of a son. WIL1111A1(AM—On the 19th inst., at Dublin, Lady MarianWilbraham, of a son. Marriages. FARR—Smim—On the 20th'insat St. John's, t., Dr. Arch. • • Archer Farr, to Elizabeth Medora, youngest daub ter of George A. Smith, Esq., Marlowes, Hemel Bolur k•ted, Hertfordshire. od IlltritnAY--JoNEs— On the 20th inst. at South Norwo Matthew Murray. Esq.,Florence,elde s t dviAter of to th, Me Richard Junes, Esq, of The Lawns, Sellti° Latnbethi South Norwood. Deaths. CAnn—On the 21st inst., Franvis Carr, of 1. War nford• court, and Sto c k Exchange, London, aged 34. JERVIS—On the rah inst., at Dublin, Sir klenry 3I J. N. Jervis, Dart., aged 7G. SELWIN —On the 20th inst , Sir John T. Selsvin, 1 3, " 1 " of Down Hall, Harlow, Essex, aged 85. WicKLow— On the 22d inst., at 2, Cavendish-square, the Earl of Wicklow, aged 81. r,ondon : Printed and Pahlished by WILLIAM.NDILLW.F, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tae SUN OLlicl, No 1:2 ; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Oa u2t Y Middlesex.—Tnesday, March 23, 1869, e,...... Atlantic a period of such frightful gales? What the companies undertook to do could not better be illustrated than by this period, for they had to dridg their costly boats through seas which shook the vessels from stem to stern so as to test their strength and shorten their career, and that they performed the work so well is the marvel, considering the fre quent accidents that happened to other vessels. Again he says that the Messrs. CUNARD were not building any new steamers—and why here, also, did he not tell the reason ? being well aware that the very motion he was then making, had induced that company to stop such expensive work. Had he said so he would have effectually answered his own remarks; for even the po,sibility of the contract being rejected at once put an end to the construction of fast steamers by the greatest of all steamship companies. We will get as good a service, he maintains, without a subsidy ; yet the Hamburgh Company withdrew their fast line from Southampton when their sub sidy ceased, and the Cunard stopped building when their contract was even jeopardized. He could re flect on the want of patriotism of the latter com pany and the novelty of a private firm placing itself in opposition to the power of Parliament; but we can assure the hon. member for Lincoln, patriotic or not, that the firm allu led to have done the nation service he little understands in upholding its nautical reputation. English men-of-war do not call at Nevi York. For reasons into which some day we Will inquire, Her MAJESTY'S ships seldom or never touch at ports of the United States. Without ex ception, the Republic is the country most desirable to impress with the idea of England's naval strength, yet it is the one maritime nation which never sees her men-of-war. But if iu New York no English frigate upholds the grandeur of the Union Jack, that flag floats over vessels of unequalled size, strength, and beauty, b e lo ng i ng t o thi s an d ot h er En gl ish fi rm s ' It is impossible to traverse the ocean in a Cunarder without being impressed with the might of England on the sea. Th a t vesse l s o f such tonnage and horse power, navigat e d b y sc i ent ifi c gentlemen, and main tamping the exactness of a naval discipline, should be owned by a private firm, convey to the passengers an exaggerated notion of what the Navy must be of such a nation. These are acts, not talk ; and it little becomes a member (for an agri cultural place in England, too 1) to call in question the patriotism of a company Whose fame is world wide, reflecting no small credit on the country, and who during so lengthened a period have safely transferred from shore to shore with extraordinary speed and comfort the greatest number of pas sengers and mail bags ever carried without acci dent. Nor would it become the Government to throw overboard their most important Ocean mall, while enormous subsidies are continued to the Peninsular and Oriental Company and the West India Royal Mail boats.—Anglo-American Times. COnsii eelebr Border Whist also bi numb( of oth( sortm , lisks, &c., it shim I TEN/ w.c., Mr: MINE of Lye tate t GEOI goinee - PRA MINE 149, TH The Fire I The m Bonus value render leave i$ thirty ( The o lish and laui wise Pr , suitable The C entirely Office. 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