The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-03 00:00:00

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CHARLES LEWIS GRUNE MEN, Secretary. 9111 E NEVADA FREEEIOLD PROPERTIES TRUST (Registration is not Required for Trust Properties).— Subscription, X 340,000, in Certificates of .£2 each, bearing interest 121 per Cent., payable to Bearer ; Li on Application, and Li on Issue of Certificates, No further Liability whatever. TRUSTEES. The Honourable James Tobin. Major- General T. E. Monk Mason. Lieutenant-Colonel P. L. C. Paget. Charles F. Heneage, Esq. John R. L. Walmsley, Esq. BANKERS.—The National Provincial Bank of England and all the Branches. AUDITORS.—Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper , Wintle, and Evans, 8, Coleman-streei-builClings, E.O. SOLICITORS.—"AraImsIey and Co., Gresham-buildings, Guildhall. SECRETARY, PRO TEM. - C. H. Thomas, Esq. 0 Mee—`22, Moorgato-street. Tho object of this Trust is to purchase the Fee Simple or Freehold of Twenty-four large Estates in Nevada namely, Twenty-two uncucumbered Freehold Silver Mining Properties, giving a total measurement of 52,200 lineal feet (or nearly ten miles), all of which are let on leases, and Two Estates of Fine Pine Woodlands, com prising nearly six square miles. 1. Rentals above £52,000 annually, with Royalties in creasing yearly, raising the income to nearly £70,000 as the minimum. 2. Twelve and a half per cent. interest during the whole term of the Trust (17 years); all the Certificates to be re paid in full to holders, by yearly drawings within that period. 3. A fourth of the subscriptions for Certificates at the Bankers reserved as guarantee for the first two years' in- terest. 4. The Certificates to be payable to holder or bearer. 5. 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An ILLU ATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, &c , post free. Established 1811 IMPORTANT TO SPECULATORS. THREE SPLENDID SPECULATIONS may actually be strongly recommended as affording every prospect of Great Success. With a Single Stake of £2 you can realise £26,030!! with £8 £37,000! ! with £1 £20,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. CLERGY MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established in 1829. OFFICE : No. 2, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster. TRUSTEES. The Archbishop of Cauterbuiy.: The Archbishop of Dublin. The Bishop of Winchester The Archdeacon of Maidstone. CHAIRMAN. The Venerable the Archdeacon of London. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. Tho Honourable Edward W. Douglas. ACTUARY. Stewart Helder, Esq. SECRETARY. The Rev. John Hodgson, M.A. Total Existing Assurances 1.473,023 Os. Od. Total Annual Income 173,545 98. 7d. Total Invested Capital 1,693,975 Is. 6d. Fer the year ended 31st Nay, 1869, 315 proposals, as suring £274,540, and yielding in annual premiums £9,383 16s. 6d., were completed ; and £88,482 13s. id. was (not wi'hstanding the large reductions made by Bonus in every fifth year from 1831. to 1866, both•inclusive) added to the Fund accumulating for the purpose of meeting future claims. Prospectuses, Accounts of Bonus, &c., &e.. to be Iml at the Office, ou application personally, or by letter; also a Pamphlet by the Bev. J. Hodgson, called " Notes on Life Assurance," containing explanations on various interest ing points. Clergymen and their Wives, and the relations of Clergy men and of their Wives, are invited to make Life Assur ances in this Society. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN - Fredei ink H. J anson, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Leferre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq James Goodson. Esq Abraham J. Roberts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Mulkey. Esq SEcniTAßA—ThoMas Tallemach, Esq, ACTUARY—Sa.mI:Brown, Esq. The full benefit of the Abolition of the Government Duty - will be aff , rded to Insurers. Prospectus and Forms of Proposal free on application to the Company's Agents, or to the Secretary. E UROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC %tun, Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to Forfeiture. Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants. and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free, HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 316, Regent-street, and Waterloo-place Pall mall, London QAMARITA N FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymonr-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for disuses of women 2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed ,and will bo received by Messrs. Hatchard, ; Si r Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary. THE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Ransom, Bonverie, and Co.—The Committee APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri days to out-patients who are treated without letters of recommendation. HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary. THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road. Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Institution affords employment iu various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts aro granted to the blind who cannot earn their own living. 500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL. Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it war established et King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bonverie, 1, Pall-mall.—Hon. Sec., 1. Smith. Esc. CEo. REID, Sec. H OSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT. Golden-square W. President—lris Grace the Duke of GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses. Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the last six years. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. MHE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge- road. Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at this Hospital. The Committee most earnestly solicit Contribution; to enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so helples s by sickness and poverty. Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo-bridge-road, S E. BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap ham-rise. Instituted in 1861. Patroness—Hall. the Princess of WALES. This Institution provides a home for life, with good nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over 20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope lessly afflicted with incurable disease. Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted The Home was opened in September 1863; 71 in patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections in May and November. Forms of application may be ob tained from the Secretary. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are earnestly solicited. Bankers —Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. ED WD. WEA - YEA Sec. Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C. rtniE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES F ‘ o r r e P s ailZW wB onTjen. -1. 28, Church-row, Ilamp- 150, Now Kent-road. Camden- 48, Ne C w h i t n nch- n s . treet, Stoll-, 13 6 , t e e :Len-street, town. 8 t 2. P 73,l, o a r acor Y myh .n o ue ......d u r c ,L n hso g - drt G .go :v i e r, James's-street, 205, Great Portland street. Bmrial,rei;scaf,kmes3;:psahutsnirrtlgbeelirtb,:. Cottage,.i;ll. Dover. Gre e n - 9, Flenstridge-villas, St. John ac : Homo -85 , Queen-street, Choa' Country the Cheap lido Temporary In addition to the above -named home., have under their charge three homes for'sorvant',4 character, in which are admitted about 1,600 iriend g l o e o s d F servants annually - . The home at Great Portland-street is for you-tfr faller girls from 10 to 16. Tho committee ate deeply motions tc open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse i 124 appli cants whoso histories are recorded in the appli(lant's book. The Society's lieport (of which a contributor writes, "1 never read a report of any charitable institution which fa entirely commended itself to my mind and ac eke m . sympathy") may be had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly, - commend its work to the benevolent. ;DANL. COOPER, See.E SF Queen-street Cheauside. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1869. - dr, 14 " • It 4 thtt I " r -•-•• t t 41 W tri=4 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1869. Nearly forty years ago, Lord MACAULAY wrote in the Edinburg Review—it was in the June of 1830, in his criticism on " Moore's Life of Lord Byron"—these remarkable words [the Reviewer, it should be re membered, was referring more particularly at the moment to the insensate outcry which had hounded Lord BYRON out of England because of cer tain vague scandals in regard to his marriage]—" All those creeping things," wrote Lord MACAULAY, " All " those creeping things that riot in the decay of noble " natures hastened to their repast ; and they were right ; they did after their kind. It is not every thy that the savage envy of aspiring dunces is " gratified by the agonies of such a spirit, and the " degradation of such a name." Those burning words of indignation, written upwards of thirty-nine years ago, might have been written yesterday. Half a century almost has elapsed since the date of the Poet's death at Missolonghi. And within this interval of upwards of five-and-forty years all Lord BYRON'S nearest and dearest, all his most intimate friends, all his most malignant enemies, have, one after another, also disappeared. Not a single indi vidual who could personally adduce any evidence whatever, bearing on one side or the other, sur vives. The Right Hon. Sir STEPHEN LUSHINGTON is still amongst us, it is true, a very old man indeed, having been born as far back as in 1782, and having consequently, at the present moment, attained not far short of the patriarchal age of a nonogenarian. But Sir STEPHEN LeSHINGTON was only consulted, at the time of Lord and Lady BYRON'S separation, by the latter or her emissaries. And therefore all that Sir STEPHEN LUSHINGTON could say now, if he said anything, would be that more than half a century ago he bad been told so and so by Lady BYRON or by Lady BYRON'S representatives. No direct personal evidence, we repeat, is, by any possibility, adducable nowadays by friend or foe of the great man who is, now,' suddenly and posthu mously, accused, upon Lady BYRON'S reported ipsi dixit, of a hideous abomination. Already we have expressed our own profound conviction that, in this deplorable matter, Lord BYRON has been wrongfully accused. Of the foul sin imputed to him, we believe him to have been utterly guiltless. Not one atom of testimony in support of the charge has to this instant been adduced. Direct or personal evidence in the matter, as we have just now said, is no longer by any possibility adducable. All those who were intimately acquainted at the time with Lord and Lady BYRON are dead and buried. It is not merely that the noble, erring, warm-blooded poet, and his exemplary, cold-blooded wife have both of them passed away. Their beautiful, gifted :laughter is also dead—Ana, late Countess of Love lace. The infamously maligned half-sister of Lord Byron, his beloved sister AGUSTA (the llon Mrs. LEIGH) to whom all these shameful slanders all point so cruelly and detestably—slae also has disappeared from the scene. And not only are the principals thus hid away in their scattered graves before the atrocious calumny is thus distinctly promul gated, but it is thus likewise with regard to every one of Lord BYRON'S most intimate friends, with such bosom friends, for example, as his bio grapher Tuomas MOORE and his fraternal associate and travelling companion, Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, afterwards Lord BnouGuroN. All that Mrs. STOWE has now related in her catch-penny article amounts simply to this—tlmt Lady BYRON made to her, several years ago, such and such a statement. All that Sir STEPHEN LUSIIINGTON could possibly say now in corroboration of this (Ye Gods !) " True Story"--told not by an idiot, certainly, but by a Yankee Blue-Stocking, would and cou'd alone be that, so many more years ago, he, in his turn, had re ceived from Lady Bynos's lips, or from the lips of some one sent to him by Lady BYRON, such and such similar assurances. The whole amounts to an ex parte statement, and that, moreover, are conveyed to us vica riously. We repeat now, onFriday, the 3d of Septem ber, what we asserted most distinctly and most un hesitatingly on Monday last, the 30th of August, that there is not, to this moment, one tittle of evidence adduced, that there is not one tittle of evidence ad ducable in support of the atrocious charge directed against Lord BYRON'S memory, with a view to the utter blasting of his reputation. We declared on Monday our absolute conviction that there never was one atom of truth in the imputation directed against Lord BYRON by his unhappy wife— the charge arising, as we believe, wholly and solely, out of a craze on her part, or what is called a hallucination. We were all the more earnestly desirous to make our meaning upon this point quite plain, in our impres sion of Monday evening, because the 7imes of that morning contained an extraordinary article not an editorial, however—in which Lady BYRON'S " True Story," so-called, was swallowed wholesale, and accepted, just as it came to us from the hands of Mrs. STOWE, as a revelation altogether conclusive. With a satisfaction that, in describingit, we could not possibly exaggerate, we now read in the Times of this morning, four days afterwards—in an editorial this time ! let it be observed the following most deliberate and most em phatic admission—" While we see no possibility of Mrs. STOWE'S having misapprehended Lady BYRON, we think it perfectly possible—and, indeed, probable— that Lady Byron was herself the victim of a delusion, — that she wrongly suspected her husband of the crime with which she charged him." That is the stand-point of our whole argument. That is precisely what we insisted upon, in these columns, on Monday last, the 30th of August, namely, at the earliest possible moment after our perusal, with a pang of grief and in dignation that no words could in any way adequately express, of Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE's cruel and afflicting statement—not of facts but of hallucinations —in Macmillan's Magazine for this current month of September. mo T ß H ß E is S o p s. eCt a a t tor p , l r y e n fe io rr u i t n h g a t i o th e p i dM r . r . s A e speeches E A Mr. a t Sheffield, says, with respect to the remark of the former member, it wherever I look I find myself stopped by the phantom of the House of Lords," that the note of reform having been struck, " the phantom ' will, we imagine, be a point in every speech delivered during the recess." The Spectator! expects too much. The great bulk of M.P.'s, whether Conservative or Liberal, dread more than anything, rashness. They believe, as GOLD SMITH used to say, that " cautious dullness is always in the right," and if not naturally dull, they assume a dullness in order to avoid the risk of displeasing their supporters. Among these last are official members, or those who hope to be official. They, rightly enough, refrain from starting new topics, because they feel that when they speak they are supposed to speak, not for themselves only, but for their colleagues, the Ministers of England in esse or in posse. Then, again, there are a large number of M.P.'s who really never study politics. Such are railway directors and the young scions of noble houses. The first have entered Par liament in order to guide their schemes through the dangerous shallows and rapids of the committee-- room. The second, in order to maintain the social and political pcsition of their family. When all tllese classes are taken into account, we have elimi nated a large portion of M.P,'s, and leave a compa ratively small number who have either the wish or • the power to take up new and important political problems. The junior members for Plymouth and Sheffield are among them, and to these we may add the member for Lisheard and the junior member for D evonport. It was Mr. HORSMAN who first started the ques tion of a reform of the House of Lords. He pro posed a complete scheme, which, so far as we remember it, contained some wise provisions. Of course such a change as this will not take place suddenly, and will not be assented to by those whom it affects, on the first demand. Still the Lords have shewn that they recognise the necessity of some changes. They have voluntarily surrendered the right of vote by proxy. They have admitted the principle, vehemently repudiated a dozen years ago, that the Upper House does not necessarily consist of hereditary peers plus the bishops, and though the mea sure introduced to give effect to the innovation was absurdly small and rejected on the third reading, yet their lordships cannot reverse the great concession of principle which they have made. If it should lead to the introduction into their House of men like our principal judges and the ex-governors of our chief colonies, such as Sir GEORGE GREY and Sir WILLIAM DENISON, a great advance will have been made. A still more important change would be to confine the entry into the House of Lords to those peers who are really pre pared to do the duties which belong to that body. That House is a legislative chamber, and yet three fourths of its members were never trained to legis lation, and do not care about it. The elective test which Mr. MORRISON proposes would probably be difficult, yet not impossible, to devise. Far more feasible would be the limitation of the right of veto. The experience of last session shews that eloquent debaters though the chief peers are, they are very far from being able to appreciate the wishes and the resolves of their fellow-countrymen. It would be to destroy their function as a drag upon the wheel of the State chariot if they were compelled to pass at once a measure of which they disapproved. There have been times—there may be times again—when the people go too fast, and when the interval given by the resistance of the Lords has been of great ad vantage to the nation. This, however, is less likely to happen now that the people, instead of being compelled to make their wishes known by tur bulent clamour, can do so in a representative body which they themselves have elected. The same reason —the all but certainty that a course sanctioned by the House of Commons will be the matured resolve of the nation—is a reason why it should not be frus trated, why the right of veto by the Upper House should be restricted to a certain number of times. Mr. MORRISON proposed three, and this is the number to which the royal veto is restricted in Norway. We trust that other members may have the industry to think of, and the courage to speak upon, this important topic during the recess. We are heartily weary of the Irish Church. We need no retrospect of events which are fresh in the memory of each one of us. We do not want our members to be telling their battles o'er again. Let them point us to fresh fields and pastures new, and then we will tell them if we will follow. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. President Grant has gone to. Saratoga, where he will remain a fortnight. The Hamburg an 3 American steamship Saxonia arrived out to-day at 5 a.m. COMIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 135 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 135 k; the lowest, 133 k. Sterling Exchange on London lO9 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 " 1885 199;1. " 1867 l 9ll. 10-40 Illinois l3Bl. Erie Cotton —Mid. uplaud Petroleum—Standard White .. 341. ~. 35c. 3212. Flour, extra state, $6.5c. to $7.5c. Corn, old mixed, $1.17c. PRINCE ARTIIUR IN NOVA SCOTIA. HALIFAX, Sept. 2. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur attended at a pic-nic yesterday given by the citizens of Ha lifax. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 3. The Cunard royal mail steamer Scotia, from New York, arrived at 2 a.m. to-day, with 90 cabin pas sengers and $5,000 in specie. She landed mails, passengers, and despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at 2.50 a.m. All well. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 2. The Marseilles Company's steamer Bourgoyne has arrived here, with 300 passengers. Her dates are Buenos Ayres, 20th July ; Monte Video, 21 ; and Rio Janeiro, 7th August 7. She brings no news of importance. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 2. Daoud Pasha has arrived here with the draft of a new provisional convention relative to the pro jected Roumanian Railway. It was submitted to a Council of Ministers to-day, and it is said in official circles only awaits the Sultan's signature. Among the stipulations of the Grand Vizier's letter to the Viceroy, which has just been dis patched to Alexandria, is one that his Highness shall not contract any further loan in Europe without the sanction of the Imperial Government. It is understood that the settlement of the question is mainly due to the good offices of England, France, and Austria. At the outset representations were made by. the English and French ambassadors, Baron Prokesch-Osten, the Austrian ambassador, having abstained from taking any part in the pro ceedings. Baron Prokesch-Osten, however, joined M. Bource and Mr. Elliott, after receiving instruc tions from his Government, which followed an exchange of communications between the Courts of Paris and Vienna. The Levairat 1 imes says that the Khedive will shortly visit Constantinople, and will be received as formerly. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. The medical officer of the Privy Council, in his yearly report, writes strongly against the proposed extension of the 7.lontagious Diseases Act to the civil population. In addi ion to the usual arguments against this change, Mr. Simon points out that enormous cost would be involved in providing hospitals. Taking what he considers a moderate estimate, he says that the plan would require for London alone the zreation and maintenance of new hospital accommodation iearly equal to that which is now given by the twelve general, hospitals of London for all bodily diseases put together; accommodation, namely, for 3,000 patients. The charge of maintaining (independently of the cost of constructing) such lazarets as the above would probably represent a first cost of little short of half a million of money ; besides all which there would be the con siderable annual charges for police arrangements and medical inspections. This for London alone" FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 3. The official journal of this morning states that Empress and the Prince Imperial left Toulon yesterday morning at seven o'clock for Chambery. BOURSE, Sept. 2.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 44 per Cola. Lnd of nonth — 3 per Cenr. End of morth 7l 93 Credit Mobilier Transatlanti Credit, Pone' or 1710 ParN Gas... 1617 50 Cash t)riran s Western N orthern ... 1097 Strasburg • • 597 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6o6k Sardinian Austrian Lombard 535 North of Spain I Saragossa - 1 ,1 litoman s2} Bank Shares 28',0 ItaPan Fives 6O Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 320 Do. Debt 4l 23 Spanish Threes 28 Home Deb' I Deferred — RAILWAY ". NEW STEAMBOAT PIERS.—Two new steamboat pie: rs, similar in design and dimensions to those already on the Thames Embankment (north), will be opened in the con rse of a few days at llungerford and Waterloo bridges. Tin )se are the only stations on the river where two piers arq placed. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR YORK. The Eastern Morning .Nezcs reports a serious and fatal —llision which took place on Wednesday on the York and Scarborough line, near to the Strensall Station, seven miles from York. The usual slow afternoon train from Scarborough to York, due at 5.30, arrived st Stren sall at the proper time. On approaching that station the driver of the train noticed on the line for York a coal train, with two or three cattle trucks attached to the end of it. The back signal was up, but from some unexplained cause the driver of the passenger train was unable to pull up in time, and the engine dashed into the tail of the coal and cattle train. The shock caused by the collision was severe. Some of the passengers were knocked about and shaken, and one gentleman, Mr. Henry Newman, of Birmingham, a commercial traveller, in the jewellery line, was very seriously cut and bruised. A cattle drover of the name of Pearson was killed, CARDINAL CULLEN'S DENUNCIATION OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS. Cardinal Cullen, in a letter on the opening of a Christian Brothers' school in Dublin, discusses the model school system of the national board. His objections to it are that "children professing different religions, and holding doctrines directly opposed to each other, are admitted to the same school, and then, in order to keep these diszor dant elements from breaking out into continual conten- tions, the mention of every religion principle is prohibited, with the exception of those fow things in which all agree. Hence everything specially Catholic is banished from the school ; a child is not allowed to bless himself or say a prayer, though Christ says we should always pray ; he is not taught the obligation of going to mass or receiving the sacraments ; he is not instructed in the duty of believing in and obeying the one Holy Catholic Church." The masters, also, " may be of every religion—Catholics, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Soc'nians, Arians, Swaddlers, and some, probably, of no religion at all. A Catholic child will observe this Babel, and, perhaps, may be driven to doubt about the truth of every religion when he sees his teachers divided upon so important a matter." Cardinal Cullen declares that " the whole system, as carried on in the model schools, is replete with danger, and well calculated to undermine the foundation of Catholic faith." He finally urges the taking away of children from the model schools, and adds :—" I have had occasion to speak of ecclesiastical penalties, but I am now so convinced of the evils of the model school system, that I give notice to any Catholic parents who will obstinately persevere in keeping their children in the lion's den, in the midst of danger, that I will feel bound to deprive them of the advantages of the sacraments of the Church until they make up their minds to act as parents anxious for the eternal salvation of their hildren ought to act. Those who `sacrifice their little ones to Moloch' shew themselves to be unworthy of the benefits of absolution." THE LAST IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGE. The inquest on the body of Mr. James Hunter, the Scotch farmer who was shot on Sunday night. a short dis tance from his own house in Newfield, has been held by Mr. Bourke, coroner, in the yard adjoining the residence of the deceased. The yard and adjoining fields were crowded with the neighbolfring peasantry. The police arrested the following on suspicion yesterday ;—Daniel Kean, Rosskean ; John M`Governon, Patrick M`Gover non, and Laurence M`Governon, Knockranson ; Martin Moran, John Moran, and John Moran, jun., Roskea ; and John O'Neil, Newfield. (The latter is the person upon whom the warrant to distrain was served, by order of the sheriff, for 10s. fine and £4O costs, the amount granted against the defendant at the last assizes in an action on the title for the recovery of bog). The first witness called was the servant, Theophilus Kean. He stated that Mrs. Hunter and her son went to Newport Church on Sunday, and remained in the latter town up to half -past seven o'clock in the evening; that whtn they were a short distance on the road a wheel came off, which was subsequently put on by a blacksmith named Gibbons ; that the second wheel also came off about, three miles farther on. This was about ten o'clock. Mrs. Hunter sent witness for the deceased, who accompanied him with the tax car to the spot where he had left Mrs. Hunter ; that Mr. and Mrs. Hunter got into the tax car at Mrs. Noble's, Crossasolla ; that they rode in front, and witness and Mr. Hunter rode behind ; that when they were about to turn off the main road into the narrow road leading to Mr. Hunter's house a single shot was fired ; that the latter cried out, and witness shouted and jumped off the car; that he heard the noise of a person running through potato stalks, but saw no one ; that he saw lighted paper in the road after the shot was fired, and that the deceased was dead before he reached his own house. Simon Hunter, son of the deceased, about 13 years of age, in addition to the evidence of the previous witness, stated that he saw two or three boys in the road when he was returning, and that his father was not in the habit of carrying arms. A rusty revolver was pro duced, which witness identified as belonging to his father, but which evidently had not been used for a length of time. The bullet with which the deceased was shot would not fit the chambers. Mr. Carr deposed that he made a careful examination of the spot where the deceased was shot ; that he observed marks apparently made by a person descending into the field. It was evident he had lain against the ditch for some time.. In the field in the rear of the spot where the person had been lying against the ditch witness observed footmarks which led in the direction of the mountains beyond the Tyranagh river ; the man had evidently been run ning fast, from the distance between the foot marks. Sir George O'Donel said he had accompanied the witness, and could corroborate his statement. Mr. Davies said he made a post-mortem examination of the body ; found two gunshot wounds in the right side, and one ball in each cavity, one of which passed through the chest and the other the left shoulder ; both passed through the lungs, one rupturing a large bloodvessel near the heart. This was the cause of death, which must have been instantaneous. After three minutes' deliberation, the jury found that the deceased came to his death by being wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown death being caused by a gunshot wound. The prisoners were remanded. The remains of the deceased were interred immediately afterwards in the Newport Presby terian burying-ground, and were followed to the grave by a long line of cars and other vehicles. A facetious tradesman in Worcester, after having repeatedly announced that he was selling off, has now placarded his house with bills stating that he is selling on THROWING STONES. -At Clerkenwell Police court, the youth Lyons, who had been charged with man slaughter by throwing stones, was convicted of the minor offence of assault, and sentenced to two months' imprison ment. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR DRESDEN. — The number of victims of the explosion of fire-damp in the basin of Plauen, near Dresden, is now officially known to amount to 276. All the corpses have been recovered but two. 206 widows with 639 children are left to deplore this terrible calamity. A trades' unionist named Norton was committed for triel by the Manchester magistrates for having stabbed a non-unionist stonemason named Walsh in the left temple. The crimo was committed in a beerhouse, and was occa sioned by the non-unionist asserting, in answer to offensive language masle use of by the unionist, that he was as good as his assailant. A VERY YOUNG SUICIDE. —An inquest was held on Thursday, at Brighton, on the body of Isaac Oldacre, aged 17, son of a station-master. Deceased was a clerk at Ford Station, but disliked his occupation and had threatened to enlist. At length he wrote to his father stating that he was tired of his life, and was seen to get upon the line and deliberately lay himself on the rails in front of an approaching train, which went over his body. A verdict of "Temporary Insanity" was returned. NOVEL SPORT.— A correspondent of the Inver ness Courier, writing from Glencoe, mentions that the tenant of the shootings and fishings at Invercoe, Mr. T. Faed, It. A., finding it impossible to supply his table with fish by means of the rod, has taken to the unusual but exciting method of getting them by the gun. The river Cona is extremely small and clear, and there are lots of salmon and grilse in the pools, brit they will not look at the fly. On Saturday evening Mr. Faed shot a salmon of Sib. weight with a pea gun when it was whirling porpoise like in the water, either In play qatter !eq .) TWO were Allot with ti lawiingztaletie► M. DE LESSEN. The Daily News tells the story of the lifo of M. de Lesseps, the chief agent in the making of the Suez Canal. Our contemporary points out how B.C. 326, King Seti, of Egypt, commenced the work of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean. In the eighth century the Caliph Almansour destroyed the work Seti had begun, and the enterprise slept for a 1,000 years. In 1793 Napoleon Bonaparte, then serving the French Republic as commander of the expedition to Egypt, proposed that a canal, capable of being navigated by sea-going ships, should be cut across the Isthmus of Suez ; but he was met by the curious yet time-honoured objection that the waters of the Red Sea were not on the same level as those of the Mediterranean. Bonaparte scouted this idea as being contrary to the scientific laws which govern the globe, but he, nevertheless, directed the commission of savans which accompanied the expedition to survey the Isthmus with the view of ascertaining the levels of the two seas. Lissbre, an engineer of high standing, who conducted the survey, reported that one sea was higher than the other by several inches, and the idea of connecting them was there upon abandoned. The statement of the French engineers'," though at first accepted as being the result of a special survey, was so directly opposed to the teachings of science that presently it began to be hinted that there must be a mistake. In 1830 Lieutenant Waghorn, planning the Overland Route, resurveyed the Isthmus of Suez, and settled the question by demonstrating an almost perfect equality of level between the two seas. At this time M. de Lesseps was serving his diplomatic apprenticeship in the French Consulate at Cairo, and the laying of the bugbear which had hitherto prevented engineers from seriously considering the pros and cons of a pro ject for dividing the continents, suggested to his mind the possibility of carrying out the scheme. He felt a powerful " call " to the work, but it was plainly more than might be undertaken by a young man aged 26, and but just started in life. M. de Lesseps, however, did not by any means abandon the idea because circumstances happened to make it impracticable at the moment. He carried it with him to Barcelona, whither he was shortly after removed, and where he gained great fame - by his conduct during the siege of 1842. He kept it before him in Rome, where in 184 S he further distinguished himself by presuming to differ from his Government on the question of the French occupation of that city, and by honestly avowing his sentiments, ancl sacrificing his position thereto. In 1854 the opportunity for which he had long waited arrived. Mahomed. Said, the Viceroy or Egypt, invited him to pay a visit to Cairo, and one day, whilst crossing the desert from Alexandria to the capital, M. de Lesseps opened out his scheme to his Highness. Mahomed was delighted with the idea, which he was shrewd enough to perceive was fraught with great advantages to Egypt, and he pledged himself to support the undertaking by every means in his power. It was in the beginning of November that this conversation took place, and on the 30th of the same month M. de Lesseps was in possession of a viceroyal firman bestowing upon him the exclusive right to construct a maritime canal across the Isthmus of Suez. LI. de Lesseps had reached an age at which most men begin to think of rest when he commenced the work for which he was born ; but if he had been 25 instead of 50, he could not have set about doing it with more ardour. At the outset difficulties were no sooner over- come than others arose and filled the vacant places. It was necessary to obtain the Sultan's confirmatior of the Viceroy's firman, and the Sultan was not greatly disposed to further an enterprise which, whatever became of the original shareholders, could not fail to add to the importance of Egypt—a dependency already too precocious to suit the jealous policy of the Porte. Then Lord Palmerston, possibly foreseeing an ulterior French " annexation" of Egypt, canaland all, set his fac against the project, and was supported by some of our contemporaries, who, in leading articles which 11L d Lesseps carefully preserved in his desk, and now glee fully shows to his friends, styled the promoter of the scheme the " High Priest of the Egyptian Enterprise,' and other funny names. Scientific men demonstrated the impossibility of the undertaking, and even Stephenson lent the weight of his great authority to crush it. But the energy of M. de Lesseps triumphed over all, and in 185 S, four years after he had definitively taken the matter in hand, the subscription list of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal de Suez was opened on all the - stock exchanges of Europe. Shares were taken up with encouraging alacrity, and on the 25th April, 1859, possession was taken, in the name of the company, of a narrow belt of sand on the northern coast of the Isthmus, washed on one side by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the other by the shallow waters of Lake Menzaleh. FALLING FROAI A RAILWAY PARAPET. The inquest on a Mr. Showell, who was killed on the evening of the international boat race by falling over the parapet at the Latimer-road station of the Metropolitan Railway, was concluded on Thursday. The jury, while declaring that no blame attached to the company, expressed an opinion that the parapet at this point, which is below the level of the carriages, should be guarded so as to prevent the recurrence of a similar catastrophe. OPENING OF THE SOUTHERN THAAIES EMBANK MENT.—The second portion of the Thames Embankment on the south side of the river, viz., that which commences at Lambeth Bridge and terminates at the end of the Potteries is now so far completed that during the past week persons have been permitted to walk along it in instead of, as formerly, proceeding through the dirty thoroughfare which runs parallel with it. Nearly the whole of the embankment is now paved, and as soon as the roadway is finished, which it is expected to be in the course of a very few days, it is understood that the Metropolitan Board will permit its instant use for traffic. The first portion of this embankment, it will be remembered, was opened about twelve months since from Westminster Bridge to Lambeth Bridge. The extensive demolition of houses in the Potteries has considerably improved its appearance. THE " CAT" IN THE WORKHOUSE.—At the last meeting of the board of guardians of the Brentford Union workhouse, the attention of the chairman was called to a communication in a local newspaper, inferring that the cat-o'.nine-tails had recently been used upon three lads, aged respectively 14, 15, and 16 years, Inmates of the workhouse, who before they made their escape from the ward in which they were confined were each mounted upon the porter's back, their legs held by another man in front, and their garments being let down about their heels, the master flogged them, and that this took place in the presence of boys of more tender years. The master of the union said the affair had been greatly exaggerated, The chairman said it was a matter which ought to be cleared up, and at the next meeting of the board the master is to make an explanation on the subject. THE TRAINING FOR THE BOAT-RACE.—While there can be little doubt that the human body may be fortified by a good and judicious system of training, so as to render it more capable of sustaining great and unwonted exertion, it is still more certain that the physical powers may be diminished and the health undermined by one of an opposite character. There were some whc thought that the system pursued by the Harvard crew influenced the result of the late international race ; and if their diet scale had been really such as was laid down by one of our contemporaries the idea would have bad some foundation. But we have ascertained that the Harvard men were allowed during their training plenty of meat, with milk, rice, vegetables, and fruit. Compared with the diete,ry of their op ponents, it mainly differed in the matter of beer, which the Oxonians were allowed to consume, while the Americans used no beer, wine, or spirits. It is asserted that the Harvard crew had been in train ing for four years. We cannot pretend to express any opinion as to what might have been the influence of the differences in the rowing and steering of the two boats, or as to the effect of the want of experience of our river on the part of the Harvard men ; but the difference of diet had clearly nothing to do with the result. The crews were well matched, the race was most severely contested, and it is evidentthat the Oxonians had to put forth their full powers to make the victory theirs.— Lancet. CANNIBALISM.—If any of us look forward to being eaten by cannibals, he may wish to be informed how he is likely to be cooked. It is a comfort to know that the savages who may devour him are by no means devoid of refinement in their culinary disposition. Some French soldiers were lately taken prisoners by the Canaks, and one of them was killed and eaten. His comrades describe the process. The Canaks first decapitate their victim, a matter of no small difficulty considering the bluntness of their hatchets. Ten to fifteen blows are necessary. The body is then hung up to a tree by the feet, and the blood allowed to run out for an hour. Meanwhile a hole a yard and a half deep and a yard wide is (lug in the ground. The hole is lined with stones and then in the midst of them a great fire is lit. When the wood is burnt down a little and glows with heat, it is covered over with more stones. The man is then cleaned out and divided into pieces about a foot long, the hands and feet being thrown away as worthless. Th e pieces of the man are placed on the leaves of a large rose tree peculiar to the tropics. The meat is surrounded with cocoanuts, banana, and some other plants noted for their delicate flavour. The whole is then tied together firmly; the fire is removed from the pit ; the meat is placed in among the hot etones, and thus, carefully covered, it is loft to cook for an hour. Women do not pa , rtakeqtlll4 warrior4' fra4t. Men alone are permitted 01 ( pipril0 19R911P. HQ rare a &lie aoy,— .„., SPIRIT OP Tilt PUDLIO JOURNALS. No one can wonder, says the Times, either at tire Sonja' tion produced by the story which Mrs. Beecher Stows has just published of Lady Byron's estrangement from her husband, or at the general reluctance to admit its correctness. What Macaulay wrote nearly forty years ago on the difficulty of separating Lord Byron's personal from his literary character is almost as applicable now as it was then. But it certainly is passim; strange that what we may call the smaller, weaker parts of Byron's character—his childish vanity and taste for stage tricks, his womanish petulance and sensisiveness, the unutterable meanness of his money dealings with his wife—should not long since have dethroned him from the position of popular idol to which his literary success raised him. It is by no means creditable to us as a nation that such a man as Byron should so long have been one of its favourite heroes ; and though his genius must command admiration while the English language lasts, his character will, we feel sure, come, before long, to be regarded with feelings very different from those with which nine out of ten Englishmen regard it now. Its present hold, however, upon the nation is beyond dispute, and no one can feel surprised that Mrs' Beecher Stowe's curious revelation should be by many resented and refused all credence, not upon its own merits or with any consideration of its intrinsic claims to proba bility, but simply because it throws discredit upon 0 0 popular a name. While, however, we see no possibility of Mrs. Stowe's having misapprehended Lady Byron, we think it perfectly possible—and, indeed, probable-- that Lady Byron was herself the victim of a delusion —that she wrongly suspected her husband of the crime with which she charged him. We can find nothing in Mrs. Beecher Stowe's elaborate story of the whole case 9 3 all incompatible with this hypothesis ; on the contrary. she now and then unintentionally confirms it. We cannot , indeed, conjecture how Lady Byron first came to e nter• tain the suspicion—upon this point we have before us 1 10 evidence—but we can easily understand how, having once got hold, she contrived first to impose upon herself and then upon Mrs. Stowe. She would only have been doing what thousands of unhappy wives have done before , except that the guilt to which her unjust suspicions pointed was of exceptional enormity ; but this fact, as W e have said, is quite accounted for by her doubts as to her husband's sanity, and by the very low opinion which big own unblushing confessions may have led her to form of his morality. The Telegraph says that a painter, renowned among his contemporaries, and not unworthy to rank even with the great masters of old days, has lately passed away from this life. Jean Auguste Henri Leys is known wherever art is loved and honoured ; but he was the especial Prid e and glory of his native city, the head of the moder° Belgian school in colour and design. Antwerp alreadl, possessed a catalogue of artistic names each in its kin 0 second to none which any other capital in Europe could boast. Rubens belongs to her, with h i ! mighty force of composition and his spl endl° hues. Hers, too, is Tenier's wonderful work. - V en . AO': Dyck, Jordaens, Sneyders, and Quentin M painted in the ancient city ; but she will add this modern name to her trophies of great artistic sons' as . a sufficient proof that the mantle of their genius has TIC)v worn out its power in its descent from age to age. 121 , 1 ! native city has buried her famous son like a prince of tu' blood royal. Strangers arriving in the quaint Bel town on the closing clay of the past month, and noun torned to connect the sight of a population in menru iv e pomp with the demise of kings or conquerors, might heN been astonished to learn that the spectacle of mingle grief and pride was due to nothing more than the death °f as a painter. A public commemoration like that wh ich been devoted to the Belgian historical painter refieeto it more honour on the citizen than on the c it y' announces in plain and noble terms the dignitythe aristocrats of intellect and genins ; it enforces the 8 excellent truth that those most deserve homage whoa- lives and careers confer upon their country mos t 1115„ a and advantage ; and it inspires the humblest to strive , hope in emulation of him whom the people Oelea.o " delighteth to honour." That long lists of masters which Antwerp boasts, and to which she has 11 6 solemnly added the name of Henri Leys, is hers, hec at .,a she has always thus reverenced and upheld the wort' rig works of Art. Belgium is only a small country, i s upon the reticence of her powerful neighbours ; but, by example of sincere regard for those who are g rea : nature, not by wealth, rank, or power, might b e useiu and humbly imitated by more than one of her Puissant neighbours. The Standard thinks the mediums are in a Pe sit A i ,l, analogous to that of habitual criminal under the new They, or others of their craft, have been exposed so a te ; that the public is justified now in assuming there until they are proved to be innocent. And hardly a•P'4) occurrences under their influence ought to be reg arde o f except after severe tests, as free from the suspicion trickery. If they were anxious to submit to such test it would be something in their favour, but they I's notoriously averse from this. They want audience° believers ; at all events, whenever scientific reelll3ll,.°o constituted themselves committees of investigation, manifestations have always broken down. For some ti°ce now spiritualism has been under a cloud in conseglie/;,,, of celebrated exposures, and the most enthusiastic lieverstnust admit, at any rate, that a good roanYq°,l)6 0 who professed to be mediums have turned ou t to he bugs. If, however, people who honestly believe do t there is "something in" the phenomena which i 5 . 0 % dreamed of as yet in natural philosophy, and c an V / ra or scientific men face to face with recurring OW m e it is of no use to talk about isolated ev ejl ,: nt ios the past which are only reported by witnesses, a11 d , c ,.; be searchingly examined ; if such people come 1° it and accumulate a sufficient quantity of MAllifeStatiollo, to wor e of may be worth the while of scientific men once form a committee of investigation. The reve l3t ra the past will doubtless make them suspicious, b ut W ;fi - 5 13i th°, all be quite sure that if the scientific world obt" - ;00 ot smallest grain of fact, fairly removed from the r e g;hich conjuring, and plainly attributable to a force wit h - 1 3 0 N NV Ni e are as yet unacquainted, the intense interest which • 11 necessarily attach to it will speedily take the whole subject into the hands of a set of people very tinl iP f t ojet ° who get their living by it at present , an d the tab le 1 , - I° o 00 will then be able for the first time to turn th eta the sceptics. th The Herald remarks that if occrtsionallY: t ‘ b - a lli pril o ' d stranger than fiction," fiction very o ften enj occasionally oirlyto lege of seeming more real than truth. It was - ~ e j ~i reply w illustration het h oefr hthe the skipper precisely sakdipepv eerr hteo a t h rtd i h s eo feeling eeli Robinsonng gentlemanwhich wchr u p o r s o r p r y: . ee t f od : 130 1 0,: .- - i yes ; he had known him intimately ;o1 gr• ' - i , bori l , 4 - - made a mistake in his birthplace, for he was 111/ ". fle iSi;,, Mythical York, truth, b an u t Hull." The name of Robinson Cra;-cer,„- in ce s l t e a b n r c i e de p s ar f e o x r cel w le h n i e c e h , of the realitYi:eole:igicicoittlit we have tending, And is not every incident which this ~,,, pie of the Saxon tongue has recorded crystallised WI us_t rel° Is not every personage which he has paint ed d o • r o 3 of as any human being that ever li ve d? There is a :d r° a small urchin in knickerbockers, who, seeing A . °' wr t o h ufes e lthfh s ae t erd r e e uu e nop t fw s , Ftiol b rl i r ihnd o ig k amy e E,. n forth nd firmommetdhieatceolynstirnatirseedf ottrobjeits hi s 13 th e re A m n it d e „mote 1,0 0 in Robinson can scarcely be accounted a fict' t- I . ol o°- to our boys. The shipwreck, the cave, til e e bel , w in ho t m rut p h e , f t o h e is h f a a s i s t h h f a u , l : oo 3 o f :7 „, the parrot, the dog, the frotprints on t to ib e f are not the episodes of all these kn ° ,,, Wii rele s •• fer our youngsters considerably better than til f e l ost , it their dogs'-eared Latin syntax? The island ° I. t .....a 0 . 0 ; nandez as long ago as December in last Y e : 00 0 , 0 0, is a painful reflection that at the time we k lie f Cie° 0/ whatever of the fact—was ceded to a socieYfrboan'tioos under the guidance of one Robert of ' o wn° ci o engineer from Saxony, for the purpose 0f,,,c,„1 00' 1 0 Well, we wish these colonists every good,, '''', - weit,,,„ivo d Y desire. May a long and a happy lu e „ - t.of 3P ;e, °"A Wehrhman and his compatriots in the I°7 ? couri t . th e little island to which they have steered the i lm lelbel which our great countryman has unmistaketefore fete, mark of his genius, and which he has, longer,'' poP ti e f 11, 01 sturdy German adventurers proceeded' hAuebenags with the creations of his own genius and ' l dig . own great imagination. f the to The Daily News declares that the b e ns ° beet o ra ern. tbe ir e a t, established Church of Ireland are cleingf r iend e, , a arcn falsify the prophecies of their quondam o , c e recote of justify . the confidence of those whom theY, opP° li t e esO n ti as their bitterest enemies. Very few of ti; that rro el disestablishment were willing to adnait iu the die' Episcopalianism in Ireland would be W e ttn portroio tt i keeping of its friends ; none of those wile : o ' r gall o l lite, establishment believed that as a religiou its rcl ' the Church would suffer by losing , .„, r esse rfe ril s status. The expectation repeatedly, ea' ssw or te 3 us was that the Church, insteact t , stsPl j o t sli by the change, would find in the new zcal of it s ample compensation for the loss of State en4 o „, is i:s biza , the prestige of Establishment. This exPeceT)bis,estab,'.`ty t° in course of realisation. No sooner is th Ja libe r " l ior p c t Act passed that, the laity begin to shewg_went,o fsc, wards the Church which i; fa of cncourp, .e .t is t.i. f , li , r, future. What the public are interested : nw 14 MI that since the Irish Church Bill passe(l,_.o tivALetiol gone forth over the Church in Ireland:sa," to r tr"- ee t,i:. bones already live. Even now there I , a „,., tO :: 0 0t 1 41 '; in its movements. The Provincial SYn °(l6 3r 'e'sen t •sPi t lo .Arrnagh and Dublin in the middle of the i , I, n t i l e c o t . 6 they will then at once smite in one Syn; i l ' c i er gy fir ; t 0 0 1 '4 and prepare the representation of tl u t G h e e n y es w •al ill Sy l i n so e t e l t , in th N e vhicls: proceed together to form the new Clisencllh. )- t , 11 ; went is healing instead of slayingth I,' which 1 f rill is in it a vigorous and ample d life t .tit 'freeeot , l e s. it has been painfully an reltic . ;, a l ona, e or to the decrepit body of a repudiated - 1, - , _ .. . er s aria fr ee , form to itself new organs fitted to its now' it will I to oil; re presentati ves S yn o o c . l f . f {or the e t n b e il saci ts v y . A: 4s: sive of its vigour. As a Free Church,. nip _,,,a tP, live its own full life, and to fulfil its.inr_ltelP:c, 007. way; and when the new organisation is „ _rs er 1 10 Lii 11 new machinery at work, we shall no at figitl regrets over the past, but expressing ca I.'" which life and action always give. .