The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

ASSOCIATIO N THE NORIVICII MURDER.---SHETKARD'S CONFESSION The Earl of Shaftesbury presided on Monday night, in Exeter Hall, at the anniversary meeting. As usual the large hall was crowded to excess The Revs. J. Moor- Jiouse, J. C. Harrison, W. G. Williams, M. C. Osborn, • and-several other clergymen and employers were upon the platform. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., and Mr. C. Reed, M.P.. who had been announced to speak to the first resolution, sent letters of apology, expressing the warmest sympathy in the objects of the association, but excusing their absence on the ground of expected important divisions in the House of Commons on the Irish Church Bill. The Rev. A. J. Murray having offered up prayer, Mr. Shipton, the secretary, read a report, which gave a very satisfactory account of the success of the society during the past year in the increase of the number of Bible classes in houses of business, devotional meetings, and the reformation of many young men who had been brought within the society's influence. The progress of the work .in Ireland and on the Continent was also spol:en of as satisfactory, and it was announced that agencies had been organised to promote the work in the British provinces. The Rev. J. Moorhouse delivered an address on the motives furnished by the facts of Christianity, to the cultivation of personal holiness, and moved a resolution recognising the great benefits the association conferred on commercial young men. The Rev. J. C. Harrison delivered an address on the opportunities of Christian testimony afforded by busi ness life ; and the chairman wound up a speech testi fying to the benefits the society had and was calculated to confer. LOPEZ AT _HOME. As' Worksop boy, who ran away from home to see the camp - of Lopez, writes his experiences to his mother. The letter is dated Feb. 15. The following is the most inter esting passage : " When I wrote to you last I told you that I was going to Paraguay. Well, I have just returned, after having endured great hardship. I arrived in Asuncion and Conxepsion, the capitals of the before-named country, on the 7th, and I saw the allied army ; and then went outside the city for ( a league or two. As I went np in the steamer I saw all the fortresses where the bloody battles have been fought, and they were all in ruins. When I got to my desti nation, I saw that the cholera was raging there. When we saw this, we knew it was healthy in the mountains where Lopez and his army were. ' Well,' I said, ` let us go there,' and my friends said, ` No, no ; if we go there Lopez will make us serve in his army.' T,said, ` Well, we had better do that than die of cholera.' Well, they consented, and we went about fourteen leagues up the mountains, when an escort of Lopez's troops came on us, seized us, and took us before Lopez, and I knew we should be sure to have to work at either one thing or another. Well, we had been working in the foundry for four days without almost anything to eat. At first they thought we were Brazilians, and all they gave us to eat was a piece of dry hide and some herbs, and hardly any water. I knew Lopez's wife was English, and one day she came close past me, and I spoke to her, and she at once told Lopez, and he let us enjoy ourselves as much as we liked. We saw how they lived, and we saw female battalions go through their drill and everything. Lopez bad been driven from every stronghold he possessed, and is now in the mountains. Where we were there is a THE CONVENT CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, splendid plain for leagues, on which grows every- on M onday, Mr. C. Russell, on the part of Mr. Mellish, thing. Before he went to the mountanis he ordered who was absent from illness, applied for leave to move for every family in Paraguay there, and they all went, a new trial in the case of " Saurin v. Starr." In reply to and there it is, just like livin g in a town, but the the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Russell said it would be houses are different. All they have is a hide to sleep chiefly on the point reserved ; and the application was under. The day we left Lopez, he ordered a small force acceded to, provided the motion was made this week. to go round the country and to kill everyone that had not re ll e I.E S HAM AFRICAN PRINCE.—At Marlborough-street, gone to the mountains as he ordered them." on Monday, James Manna, the sham African Prince, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour on the charge of being in Mr. Johnson's house for an unlaw ful purpose. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he believed the prisoner went there intending t o ge t p ossess i on o f watc h es and The murder and suicide which were comm itt e d a t 33 , Fleet-lane, Farringdon-street, on S a t ur d a y, h as f orme d other valuable articl e s b e l ong i ng t o th e f am il y. the subject of a coroner's inquiry at Bartholomew's CHARGE AGAINST A BANK MANAGER.—At the Mansion Hospital. The name of the murderer is Leonard Tillett, House, on Monday, a case of considerable importance was and that of his victim Harriet Talien, their ages being heard before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Samuel Greenway 50 and 39 years respectively. A woman, named Robinson, Finney, lately manager of the English Joint Stock Bank the landlady of the house, 33, Fleet-lane, said that (Limited), was charged with having made, or concurred Mrs. Talien lodged with her. She last saw her alive in making, divers false entries in the books of the hank, at a quarter to twelve on Saturday, Tillett came to and with omitting certain material particulars, with intent the house about a quarter to eight that morning, and to defraud. Mr. Lewis, who conducted the prosecution, asked, "Are they gone ?" (alluding to Mrs. Talien and explained that the prosecutor, Mr. Lambert, had been a Mr. Pickering, who had gone to fetch Mrs. Talien's son victim of the company to the amount of nearly £4,000. from Holloway Prison.) He also inquired if a man The bank suspended payment on the 10th of May, 1866, bad not been in Mrs. Talien's room on the previous and the prisoner was no more or less guilty than the evening. Witness replied in the affirmative, and he then directors of the company, against whom he should ask the said, " I suppose he thinks he'll have her, and he shall if I bench to issue process. The company was in the first let him." He was quite sober at the time. Mrs. 'fallen instance called the South-Eastern Banking Company returned at a quarter to twelve, and went to her room, (Limited). The capital was £500,000, in 20,000 saying she would see witness in a few minutes. Shortly shares of £25 each, and the first issue was after Mrs. Talien's little boy rushed down stairs and 10,000 shares, on which £lO had been paid. The two pro exclaimed, "Oh, Mrs. Robinson, I think Tillett has killed moters—Mr. March, an accountant, and Mr. Walter, a mother !"—William Smith, a detective attached to the surveyor—received a sum of £6,000 between them. The Fleet-street police station, described the position in which directors were to receive £3,000 a year for the manage the bodies lay on the bed. He found a blood-stained razor nient of the business, with an additional sum if the divi open in the cupboard, which Mrs. Talien's son told him had dends exceeded a certain amount. The prisoner had been been lying near his mother's hand. Witness produced the the general manager from the first at a salary of £1,200, following, which he found in one of Tillett's pockets : to be raised to 21,500 in the event of the dividend reaching "I, Leonard Tillett, have done a foul deed, because she 6 per cent. The substance of_ the charge was that the turned on me, and took to Pickering, a married man, and accounts had been falsified in order that a 6 per he used to go with her, and his wile knew it. So it is true cent. dividend might be paid, so that the directors how this is done, and the Lord have mercy on my soul. So and the manager might receive the increase of salary good bye to this world for Leonard Tillett, and God bless agreed upon. When the second report was issued, on the everybody. Thisis the truth how it is done without a doubt, 30th of June, 1865, there had been actual losses and for annayone knows him he is a villein (villain), but God expenses of trading amounting to £2,012 ; but, instead of forgive him and let the world know what it was done for." that being carried to the profit and loss account, it was —The daughter of the deceased woman, a girl 16 years added to the cost of establishing banks, by which means the old, stated that her father, William Talien, was dead, directors were able to declare a 6 per cent. dividend. Tillett came frequently to see her mother, who had often In November of the same year, before the issue of the said she would not marry him. Tillett was jealous of a third and last report, the directors sent to Messrs. Thomas man named Pickering, who lived in the house. She had and Co., stockbrokers, and asked them to give a credit of heard Tillett threaten to kill her mother, and he said if £lO,OOO, to enable the company to purchase its shares. her mother did not have him no one else should. Tillett That must have been done to deceive the shareholders, worked in a coal-yard, and was a widower.—Alfred Talien and raise the shares to a fictitious value. That act a lad of 15, said his mother, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. alone rendered all the parties engaged in it liable Pickering and Tillett, met him at Holloway Prison ou to penalties. Nothing relating to this transac- Saturday morning. They rode home in a cab, and had tion appeared in the books of the company. some drink on the way. They all entered the room, and When the company stopped payment, on the 10th of some beer and gin were sent for. They were all the worse May, 1866, the directors sent £lO,OOO or £12,000 in trade for drink. Mr. and Mrs. Pickering went up to theirroom, bills to Messrs. Thomas, but that sum had since been and Tillett sent him (witness) on an errand to Shoe-lane. recovered at the instance of the liquidators. The whole He left Tillet and his mother together. On returning affair was concealed from the shareholders, and omitted from Shoe-lane he found his mother and Tillett dead with from the next balance-sheet. Other details were given of their throats cut. He had heard 'Fillet say he would do the financial transactions of the managers, and Mr. Lewis for his (witness's) mother and himself.—Dr. Wilson, of added that the result of its trading during ten Farringdon-street, said he had no doubt the wcunds were months had been a loss of more than a quarter of a million. inflicted by Tillet.—Thomas Pickering, an engraver, After several witnesses had been called, Mr. Littler, for corroborated the evidence of Mrs. Talien's son. The the defence, argued that there was no evidence of an at witness was questioned by the coroner and the jury as to tempt to defraud ; but the Lord Mayor thought other whether Tillett had any reason to be jealous on his wise. If the directors of a company trafficked in its account, and he assured them that his relations with shares, even for the frurpose of maintaining its credit, that the deceased woman were only those of a friend, and that was a fraud. The case was adjourned, the prisoner being Tillett must have been labouring under an hallucination. admitted to bail in one surety in £2,000, and himself in —John Barret, the potman at the George, a public-house £2,000. in Fleet-lane, stated that Tillett was drinking there on Friday, and in the course of conversation he said, " I have a nasty job on hand, but I don't know whether it will come off till night." LAW AND POLICE. THE CITY OF LONDON T_RAGEDr. ANOTHER IRISH MußDEß.—Scarcely had the Prince left the borders of Tipperary when another murder was committed. On Saturday morning, as some people were driving into Limerick, they discovered in a ditch by the roadside at Phillipstown, near Cappawhite, the body of a respectable fanner, with his head beaten in. His name is not known. He is about 40 years of age, and apparently in good circumstances. There is no evidence of the fact, although it is reported that the murder was agrarian. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Tillett, relative to the death of the woman, and a ver dict of felo de se as regards the death of the man himself. THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE BATE. Mr. Edmund Yates, of the General Post Office, on Monday, .bad an interview with the chairmen and other members of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Tradesmen's Guild on the subject of a proposed /d. postage for printed matter. Mr. Yates afterwards saw the proprietors of the leading local newspapers upon the same subject. In the course of the day he was enabled to collect a large amount of valuable information, which will be embodied in a report to be presented to the Postmaster-General and the Treasury. VICTOR HUGO ON THE ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY.— The following is the preface to Victor Hugo's new novel, " L'Homme qui Itit :"—" In England everything is great, even that which is not good—even the oligarchy. The English aristocracy is au atistocracy in the true sense of the word. There has been no feudalism more illus trious, more terrible, more vigorous. It must be said that this feudalism has had its hours of usefulness. It is in England that this phenomenon—lordship may best be studied, as it is in France that we must study the pheno menon—royalty. The real title of this work should be ' The Aristocracy.' Another book which will follow might be called The Monarchy.' And these two books, if it is permitted to the author to accomplish his task, shall be followed by another which will be entitled "Ninety-three." THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. DEUCE, Q.C.— The inquest on the body of Mr. George Druce, Q.C., wh,• was killed while riding on Wednesday last, has been held by Mr. W. Carter, at the deceased gentleman's residence in Denmark hill. Mr. Wilkins, of the Clayton Arms, „Kennington Oval, said he saw the deceased riding his horse ,round Kennington Oval on Wednesday morning. After .galloping round several times, the deceased took ,his right foot out of the stirrup, and he then fell back t ward on to the ground. No person spoke to the deceased„ or advised him to throw himself off. The deceased was at first quite insensible, but in about ten minutes was able to say, " Druce, Denmark-hill." Mr. William Bean having deposed that the deceased had died of con. cussion of the brain, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. THE POPE AND THE LOTTERY.—A letter from Florence says : "Thanks to Pius IX., lottery gamblers in Italy have just made a great hit. On Sunday last, the 11th of April, 1869, Pius, ninth Pope of his name, cele brated the fiftieth anniversary of his first mass, which he said at the age of 26. The last number also corresponds in the lottery-player's guide-book with the word 'mass,' as well as with ' money.' Nothing could be clearer to all those who had cash to stake and faith in the usual rules, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of persons played upon the numbers 11, 69, 9, 50, 20. In the .Florence weekly drawing of Saturday last all those numbers came out of the wheel. It was what is called a vine— tbat is to say, a gain on the whole five numbers. Those who had backed them all to come out won sums enormous in proportion to the trifling ones they had staked, and the gains of those who had only backed four or three of the numbers were also very great. Incredible stories are current of the fortunes made by indigent players—for it is the poor who chiefly support the lottery. There is no doubt that the Government has had to make very heavy payments to winners. It is an old belief with numbers of persons in Italy that Pius IX. has the evil eye, and in this instance the Italian Treasury may well share that opinion. But what goes out to-day comes back to - morrow, for nothing stimulates the Italian propensity to lottcg- D i ay l iag 24 4 0 th in A brilliant hit of this d.l/ FALL OF A Music HALL.—The New Adelphi Music Hall, 'Union-street, Oldham, opened a few months ago by the Oldham Philharmonic Society, has just fallen a complete wreck. Friday night was fixed for the benefit of one of the artistes. It was expected there would be a crowded house on the occasion. It having, however, been ascertained from an examination that the build ing was unsafe, the managers very properly decided not to allow the performance to go forward. The building is calcUland to hold 2,000 people. On Monday morning while the musicians were collecting their music the east wall gave unmistakable evidences of its unsoundness. They therefore rushed f or th e outs id e. Th ey were on l y just in time, for the lessee was caught on the head by by some of the falling building. He is not seriously hurt. The east wall is completely do wn t o t h e ground, and the rocf and galleries are also destroyed. The cause is the pndermining of the foundations, while ex tin f asbApipicluthildiagik The following is the text of the confession made by Sheward a few days since :—" City Gaol, Norwich, 13th April, 1869, 2.45 p.m.—The voluntary confession of William Sheward, under sentence of death in the aboie prison. —In the year 1849, November, I placed a box of money, having £4OO in it, in Mr. Christie's possession, for him to take care of for me. In the year 1850, to June 1851, I drew from that box £l5O, during which time my wife wanted me to bring the box home. Mr. Christie asked me if he might make use of the money. My wife seemed determined to fetch the box herself. I knew he could not give it to me. On the 14th June 1851 Mr. Christie asked me to go to Yarmouth to pay £l,OOO to a captain of a vessel laden with salt, to enable him to unload on the Monday morning. On Sunday morning, the 15th, I was going to Yarmouth on the above errand. She (my wife) said, You shall not go ; I shall go to Mr. Christie and get the box of money myself, and bring it home. With that a slight altercation occurred ; then I ran the razor into her throat. She never spoke after. I then covered an apron over her hi ad, and went to Yarmouth. I came home at night, and slept on the sofa downstairs. On the Monday I went to work ; I left off at four o'c'ock p.m., and went home. The house began to smell very faint. With that I made a fire in the bedroom, and commenced to mutilate the body ; kept on until half-past nine p.m. I then took some portions of the body and threw it away, arriving home at half-past ten. That night slept on the sofa again ; went to work again the next day ; went home in the afternoon, about four o'clock, and did the same— the same night again. On Wednesday went to work as usual, left off early, and went home—carried some more portions in a trail basket to another part of the city. Thursday, work same, and returned early. The head had been previously put in a saucepan and put on the fire to keep the stench away. I then broke it up, and distributed it about Thorp; came home and emptied the pail in the cockey in Bishopgate street with the entrails in. I then put the hands and feet into the same saucepan in hopes they might boil to pieces. On Friday I went to work, and went home early, and disposed of all the remains of the body, hands and feet included, that night, because I knew I should not be able to be home on Saturday until late. On Sunday morningl burnt all the sheets, nightgown, pillow-cases, and bed-tick, and all that had any blood about them. The blankets, where there were any blood, I cut in small pieces and distributed them about the city, and made off with any that had any appearance of blood about them. The long hair, on my return from Thorp, I cut with a pair of scissors into small pieces, and they blew away as I walked along. I also state I never saw or knew my present wife until 21st June, 1852—twelve months after the occurrence. I hereby give authority to place the above facts to the Home Secretary and Baron Pigott, but I request that this may not be published at present. Taken in the presence of the undersigned, this 13th day of April, 1869. (Signed) WILLIAM SHEWARD ; Godwin Johnson, Visiting Magis trate ; Robert Wade, Chaplain of the Norwich City Gaol; John Howarth, Governor of the said Gaol. " TOUNG MEN'S CHRIS' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRft 20, 1869. 211 ISCELLANEOUS NEWS. man on strike can stusist, umy uy piunuvring vnacio shops, and is in a manner obliged to do the greatest damage to his employer in the shortest time by destroying his work." Moreover, Mr. Neate points out that before the existence of trades unions— during the time of the Luddites in 1816, for example—the same disorders happened in England. o fIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. On the reass'e mbling of the Melbourne Parliament, which took place on February 11th, Mr. McCulloch for mally announced.' that increased efforts were about to be made to promote ,immigration. It is proposed to appoint a small staff of w Nl-informed agents to labour in Eng land in connection- with the agency of the colony in the organisation of .a select immigration, such as will not swamp the labour market, and will introduce some little capital, as well asAone and sinew, into the colony. In connection with 12iis proposed effort to revive immigra tion, tenders for,' a monthly steam service between England and •Triamia rid the Cape of Good Hope have been called for. The Argus hopes that the service may be so arranged as to counter balance the gregt advantage which Canada derives from her proximity to Englani. The Australian Govern ment may, however, rest assured that a system of free passages will al,-rie surmount this difficulty. Emigrants will not readily undertalze a voyage of two or three months when al - ,and of Promise lies within a few days' steam. CRI.IIE IN NEW YORK. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Various causes have combined to foster and en courage crime in the large cities of America, more especially in New York. The Tribune of that city draws attention to the increase of crime as a fact well calculated to cause alarm, and we transcribe the figures that our readers may judge for them selves : Disposed of Unnaccounted Offences. Arrested. in the Courts. for. Assault, felonious 712 24 688 Arson 65 2 63 Bigamy l3 1 12 Burglary Forgery ll3 24 89 Larceny, grand 2,413 317 2,066 Murder 7B 15 63 Picking pockets 303 21 279 Receiving stolen goods 255 3 252 Robbery l3O 11 119 Total 4,712 605 4,107 As long as this state of things continues it will be idle to look for a diminution of crimes of violence. Heavy sen tences do some good, but they will not prove very effica cious when hardly one case in eight is ever tried. The police, the judges, and the district attorney must all co operate. Out of 78 arrests for murder, only 15 cases got as far as the courts. Out of 13 persons arrested for bigamy, one was tried. Out of 65 cases o f arson, only two were tried. Of the pestiferous brood of receivers of stolen goods there were 255 arrests and only three trials ; and so on to the end. Although crime in New York City has increased in the greatest ratio, still the causes which have produced the effect there have not been without their effect elsewhere in the Union. We think it was the Spectator which, last Saturday, stated, on the authority of an Amerimn in high office, that if a millionaire in New York even committed a murder under the state of things existing there, he could not be punished, as no jury could be got to agree in its Finding. Railway corporations are said to own judges, body and bones, who work cer tain Courts in their interests; and if in Equity, why not in criminal proceedings? If corruption thrives in the municipal bodies, it is not unlikely to spread to the Legislature ; and if the Governor, Senate, and Representatives can be influenced in their official action by money, the Judges may be induced to sell decisions. Such an example is but too eagerly followed by subordinates, and by an easy stage, the rascals become masters of the situa tion. Bad as is the case, as put by the Tribune, it represents but one phase. Out of 4,712 arrests, but 607 cases were disposed of in the courts, and it would be interesting to trace these to conviction and punishment. If the Tribude would follow this out, the reason why men threaten to organize Vigilance Committees for the suppression of crime in New York City would be understood in Eng land. First, there is the attempt to convict; in which, in accordance with the Anglo-Saxon code, every difficulty isplaced in the way. Raving succeeded in establishing the guilt of the criminal, so that it could not be ignored by judge or jury, and procured a sentence, it might be supposed that there that case ends. Not a bit of it ; as yet but one scene of the drama has closed. The moment the culprit is incarcerated his friends —and they are a powerful body the criminal classes of New York, bound together by a common danger and a common cause—begin to work for a pardon. The Governors of all States, as well as the PRESI DENT, have absolute power to pardon those con victed within their jurisdiction. The first step is to draw up a petition, narrating facts not allowed as evidence or disproved on the trial, spicing it well with such sentiment as the heart-broken wife and starving children stigmatized with a father's crime there is reason even to believe the father never com mitted. The counsel then sends this round for sig natures,which are readilyprocurable, if the sentimen tal part has been skilfully pictured, and the evidence disproved on the trial well recooked. Armed with the memorial the Governor or the PRESIDENT is be sieged; a haggard wife, weeping children, the mother tottering under the blow to her grave, play their parts ; and the Executive, being but responsible for a _short period, feeling the full force of the torrent, and finding plausible reasons for doubting, the verdict of the jury, grants the pardon. It ap pears, then, that most criminals in the great cities of America have two trials, the one with all the advantages English or American law gives the criminal, the other a trial from which the prosecutor is excluded, wherein the evidence is wholly ex parte, nothing being heard against the convicted felon, and based mainly on sentiment. Supposing that the sentenced thief fails in both, still as an English song has it, he " is not without hopes of liberation." In some of the gaols the prisoners are said to be masters of the position. At Sing Sing they do very much what they like ; even the oc casional brutality of the officers towards them going to prove this. Last month they rose in an organized attempt to escape from the prison of Sing Sing, and many did escape, though they were recaptured. Two or three days before, three prisoners had walked out of the gaol at Trenton, New Jersey, and were not retaken. A few days after three more left Allentown Prison, Pennsylvania, and the same day a woman took her departure from the female department of the Sing Sing prison, and went on her way rejoicing; while a new keeper, who did not know how civil he ought _ • to be to the prisoners, was so beaten by them that his life was only preserved by the interference of the superintendent. Not long ago a political meet ing was held in one of these prisons to give expres- sion to the political feeling of the community. Take REAL'S case, who was sentenced to ba hung on the 2d inst. This man deliberately shot a policeman. He was incarcerated in the Tombs, shortly before he committed the murder, awaiting his trial for assault and battery on the man whose life he after- wards took. District-Attorney HALL, with the concurrence of the judges, refused to bail him, and being about to proceed to Canada he wrote on his direction slate, " Don't bail REAL, for if he gets out he threatens to kill SMEDICK " (the policeman.) This memorandum was shown to the County Judge when bail was applied for on Habeas Corpus, but he set it aside, and REAL was bailed, who, on leav ing the prison said to the keeper, " I only want to get out for a few days to kill SMEDICK ;" and kill SMEDICK he did, deliberately shooting that police man when on duty. It might be supposed that little could be said on behalf of a murder so preme ditated ; yet, Governor HOFFMAN, who is showing admirable qualifications for the high post he fills, has had to withstand a great pressure--memorials, peti tions, supplications innumerable for REAL's pardon. Nor that only; the life of the judge, who passed sentence, is openly threatened, and Sheriff O'BRIEN is reported to have said that he will not hang REAL if he can help it. Up to the last, motions were made to stay proceedings, so that every legal subtilty might be exhausted in favour of this deliberate murderer, after every attack on the Governor had been unsuccessful and every demonstration of New York rowdies had failed, The policeman was murdered last July, I was toldl should be a son of the Queen, and I am lying under her eet. will always be a soldier of the Queen. You European }people, I tell you if Tee Kooti and Tito Kowara are rtilled there will be peace, but if not there will always be strifft." Vhe two gentlemen last named ar e th e rebel leaders. Aftrm- this piece of good advice the worthy legislator conclude d with a song. All this is, no doubt, very able and six Sere, but it does not quite prove that the New Zealand ar is yet up to administrative mark. roLnic tr. POSITION. The London correspondent of the Atanches'er Guardian says that " the Tories are so thoroughly disheartened by the increasing majorities in favour of Mr. Gladstone's bill that many of them are dis posed to forego the discussion of all except one or two money questions in committee. They cling to the hope that Lord Derby may so alter the bill in the Upper House as to prevent its passing this year. Lord Stanley's reappearance in his place on Friday evening was regarded as no more than a concession by that chief of temporisers to the urgent cry of distress raised by his party. He sat out the greater part of the debate with exemplary patience, there being littl e of novelty in it with which he could sympathise. He is expected to In a speech on the third reading, in vindication of the course which he has pursued. Ic had much better let it alone." We are inclined to think that there is one Con servative who views " the increasing majorities in favour of Mr. GlaC!sone," with great satisfaction, and lie is no other than Mr. bisneli himself. All the world knows that he cares nothing for the Irish Church; that he (leems it ";:lien" Church, that he would gladly let it g), and that he defends it solely because the exigencies of party compel him to (lo s:). At the s line time he knows Ferfeetly well that so long as this question remains undecided there is no chance of his Fay returning to power. lie. knows that for the Lords to throw out the bill would be the best thing that could happen to Mr. Gladstone. Therefore it is that he exposes his party to defeat night after night in order that the Peers, convinced of the hope lessness of resistance, may pass the bill, and leave the field clear for other contests. The land question, for instance, is far more hopeful for the Conserva tives than the Church is. The old Whigs have never cared much for the Church, but they have always cared a good deal about the land ; and while they would view the " spoliation " of the first with perfect equanimity, the same operation applied to the landlords would seriously alarm them, and pre pare the way for " caves" and " 4 .m -rooms," and "middle-parties." The London correspondent of the Dublin i';vening naturallyattaches another meaning to thepresent course of events. Referring to the noisyscene on Thurs day night, he says : " The oldest frequenters of the House of Commons do not recollect a more scan dalous display of brutal violence, coupled with sub mission to the whip, than was exhibited last night." He acids that Lord Stanley "remained perdu in the library during the debate, and at the critical moment stole away from the House," and then goes on to give his interpretation of the " perfect discipline of the anti-Protestant majority." " Mr. Gladstone's great anxiety to push on his scheme by brute force arises from his fear that some of his friends in the Upper House may reduce their idea (that of concurrent endowment of the Roman Catho lics and the Presbyterians) to practice, which they would attempt if a complete discussion of the Minis terial scheme in the House of Commons could be obtained, and the time and knowledge for its full consideration were thereby afforded to the country. Mr. Gladstone would not dare to flout an Opposition in which the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earls Russell, Grey, and Harrowby might take a part. Nor would the press in that case talk any more of an over whelming creation of pocket peers." MR. WIIALLEY AND THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. Whalley writes again to the Telegraph on the subject of his vote and conscience. He declares again that he was not induced to give his support to Mr. Gladstone on account of any external pressure brought to bear upon him. It is true that on the resolutions of last year he did hesitate as to his vote, because, in so far as those resolutions formed part of a policy for conciliating Fenians or satisfying the Romish priesthood, he felt that they must expose us as a nation to ridicule and to con tempt ; but this difficulty he met by publicly dis avowing any such motive or object on his own part. As to the story of his exclaiming, " What will my Orange friends think of me ? " Mr. Whalley declares be could never have used them in the sense imputed to him, as he had before told Orange meetings that they must not continue to rely upon the Establish ment for the spread of Protestantism. PRINCt ARTHUR IN IRELAND. The Queen's contract with the clerk of the weather does not appear to extend to her children. P r i nce Arthur has been having anything but "Qu een ' s weather" in Ireland. For him the *A atonal Anthem has had a new but scarcely improved version, though " Long to rain over us" was at least a truthful des cription of facts. To make up for the absence of the sun there has been an abundance of loyalty, which is " still the same "in cloud or sunshine. Even the weather gave the Prince a n oppor t un it y of gratifying the Irish national feeling, for it induced him to invest in a Waterford overcoat, and to vest himself in it. The cheers which greeted him at " Cashel of the Kings" were something startling. Clearly they did not speak without reason who said that an important part of the Irish question was the residence of a royal prince in Ireland. TIIE LAND QUESTION. Sad to say, while all this jubilation is going on in honour of the, Queen's son, the Queen's subjects continue to be attacked by assassins. Two more agrarian outrages are reported. Mr. 11. C. Curry, J.P., of Carry Lodge, county Leitrim, lv,s fired at on Thursday morning when returning home from a friend's house in the county of Cavan, but escaped without injury. The cause of the outrage is not known. A farmer named Horan, living about ten miles from Ennis, was fired at and wounded by another farmer named M'Kean, because he proposed to hand over to his son-in-law a portion of unclaimed bog which had beenin M'Kean's possession. INFKean has absconded. The Times, in a leader, follows up the hint given by the Spec tator on Saturday, that the Government should deal with the land question this year. The second paper says that wild hopes are being excited among the peasantry as to the intentions of the Government upon this matter ; and that it would be more prudent to set bounds to these at once by publishing the Government programme. The Times says : "It is stated that in various districts in Ireland, such as Westmeath a n d par t s o f Ti pperary, there pre vails something like a resistance to landlords altogether, and an apparent determination on the part of those in possession to hold their land without paying any rent whatever. The tenants are relying on the terror inspired by some recent outrages, and the landlords and their agents are not insensible to the danger." The same paper goes on to ask, " Before matters became worse, would it not be possible for Government to take up Lord Clanri carde's very simple and moderate bill of last session ?" The object of that measure was to simplify and cheapen the legal forms necessary for a contract between landlord and tenant. There are still three months to deal with this measure. No doubt there will be more time to deal with it next year ; " but who can say what even this year may not bring forth ?" TUE BUDGET. The London correspondent of the Scotsman contra dicts emphatically the story that the Budget is Mr. Gladstone's production. It was delivered, it will be remembered, on a Thursday. "Up to the Saturday before," says our informant, " even Mr. Gladstone himself knew nothing of the scheme. Mr. Lowe was left to himself, with full confidence in his skill and diligence. On the Saturday Mr. Lowe laid the whole scheme before Mr. Gladstone, and the Premier at once gave it his hearty support. Did he, then, con tribute nothing to the scheme ? Nothing but a cor rection. He went carefully through all Mr. Lowe's calculations, and he found a single error of £2,400. It happened, however, that this error came in a. very critical point of the calculations, and affected a good many of them. The result of Mr. Gladstone's dis covery was that certain Treasury clerks had a hard day's work on Monday to reconstruct the calcula tions. By Monday night all was 'ship-shape.' On Tuesday the Budget passed the Cabinet, and on Thursday all the world was let into the secrets which had been thus remarkably well kept." AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. It has been asked whether English farmers have made any use of the agricultural returns which have been collected by the Government during the last three years. Several facts have been stated in the Chambers of Apiculture Journal which indicate the contrary, especially with regard to the wheat crop. The wheat crop of the United Kingdom harvested in 1867 was reckoned at one-fifth below the average, but the growers failed to dispose of their prodtice to advantage. In the same way we find that this year farmers have been holding back their wheat, in spite of the ample rate of importation which brought from September 1868 to February 1869 two-thirds of the total quantity we shall want till next havest. Plainly the farmers have 'not as yet been influenced by agricultural statistics. TRADES UNIONS. Mr. Charles Nea,te, the late member for Oxford, writes to the Star on the subject of Trades Unions, and founds upon the strike riots in Belgium an argument in favour of the much-abused English institutions. In that country there is no other way of bringing a pressure upon the masters than by demonstrations.. These, when they are intended to be emphatic, become riotous and dangerous. The law is broken, blood is shed. In England strikes are comparatively peaceful. "It is not only that the English workman is habitually more regardful of the law, and more averse to the shedding of blood than the Bela it but it is also, in great measure, because the funds of the union, upon which he can fall back, enable him to put a peaceful pressure upon his employer. In Belgium, where the right of association is more restricted, and where no_such organisation of trades Diaaa_tuats thert4 •-tW._.gsauntrY. Mat works REPRIEVES. The ground on which reprieves are asked for now a-days for murders, however foul, suggests the question whether petitioners understand the nature of, and the reason for, capital punishment. So many murderers are reprieved that it seems to be generally understood that petitions shall be drawn up and signed, as a matter of course ; and that the Home Secretary is bound—unless there was no excuse for the crime, and the deed was particularly barbarous—to send his writ preventing the execu tion. Three men, - Wiltshire, Jenkins, and Mac donald, have been reprieved within the last few days. Wiltshire's crime was most atrocious. He murdered a woman, whom he had previously violated, and when in prison, after his conviction, he attempted to take away the life of his warder. Now the Home Secretary, for suffi cient reasons doubtless, has ordered his life to be spares. This, 'Wien in connection with the other t,vo cases, has made the friends of Sheward hope for his life. The reason they urge for his reprieve is that his health is failing. Could anything be more absurd ? The conception of the law on capital punish ment since the Commission on the subject— on which no legislation has been taken—seems to have fallen into inextricable confusion. THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE OF MERCY. Mr. Wilkinson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, writes to confirm the statement made in our last impression that the personal relationship between the bigamist baronet and the First Lord of the Admiralty had nothing to do with the liberation of the baronet, since it was Mr. Hardy who ordered his liberation. As a matter of fact, the eccentric baronet is still abroad, in accordance with the terms of his pardon, and he is in very bad health. _ __ _ The statement that Sir E. Eardley owes his libera tion to an unworthy motive having b een di s p ose d of, there is another similar charge concerning which, no doubt, an explanation will be forthcoming. Sometime ago a London solicitor, named Farrar, convicted of forgery at the Central Criminal Court, was, together with one John Hullett, sentenced to two years' penal servitude. The sentence created no surprise in the minds of those who read the evidence. What has created surprise has been the announcement that her Majesty, at the instance of the present Home Secretary, has granted a free pardon to Farrar, whilst Hullett, who seems to have been his dupe, remains in prison. Hullett, we are informed, was an eccentric man, who was the victim rather than the accomplice of Farrar, and if this be true, it is hard that the lesser offender should still be in prison while the greater is set at liberty. TRADE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The iron trade of South Staffordshire, though still, depressed, exhibits a slight improvement. At the last market held a t Bi rm ingham a more hopeful feeling prevailed among manufacturers. The iron masters are anticipating large orders from the north of Europe. General trade is dull, and numbers are out of employment, but the operatives on short time seem willing to meet the views of the masters. Among the hardware trade of Birmingham there is little activity, and trade is dull in every department. The foreign export trade is somewhat more buoyant. ;• THE OPERA. The difficulties with the prime donne of the Italian Opera appear to have been surmounted. Nilsson, instead of going to New York, will appear on May 4, at Covent Garden, and Patti, as the publics - still call the Marchioness de Caux, will appear on the 6th. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Sir Arthur Clifton, who died a few weeks ago id 08 years of age, has left a good round sum— £l4o,ooo in personalty, besides landed estates. These go to his nephew, Sir Robert Clifton, the eccentric Nottingham M.P., who will now be set up again. Strange to say, Sir Arthur was heir presum tive to his nephew's baronetcy, and the nephew was heir to the uncle's estates. The personalty of Mr. Heathcote, the sporting man, has been sworn under £lO,OOO ; that of Mr. George Lawrence, of Mossley hill, near Liverpool, under £140,000. Mr. Brown, formerly a partner in the publishing firm of Long mans and Co., has left to the Booksellers' Pro vident Institution, .10,000; to the Booksellers' Retreat (Abbotta Langley), £lO,OOO ; to Christ's Hospital (where he was educated), £lO,OOO ; to St. Bartho lomew's Hospital, i:5,000 ; to the Stationers' Com pany's Schools (recently constituted under the Court of Chancery), £5,000 ; to his relative, Miss Brown, £10,000; to his faithful attendant, W. Dignam, £B,OOO. There is stated to be about 125 legatees named in the will. The residue he has left between the grandchildren of his partner, Mr. J. N. Long man. Mr. Brown died on the 24th ult., at the ad vanced age of 93 ; he had always resided in the City, and latterly at No. 30, Upper Ludgate-hill. Clearly literature is not a bad business, whatever Mr. Froude may say of it as a profession. FOREIGN NOTES. THE BELGIAN BAILITAt DIFFICULTY. The Indt'pendance Beige publishes another letter tietail ing the "progress of the negotiations." But as this progress has of late been only in a backward direction, the Belgian journal is able to supply very little information. It is noteworthy, however, that a misunderstanding and a complete failure of the attempt to settle the difficulty are now spoken of on all sides. The Independence Beige does not think that Belgium's refusal to accede to the conditions imposed by France will lead to any serious consequence ; but the Etoile Beige is very much alarmed, and is evidently preparing for more Parisian bullying. TUE GREAT STRIKE IN BELGIUM. The entire colliery district around Mons has become a scene of industrial desolation. No further disorders were reported up to Sunday, but the strike bad so greatly ex tended that perfect armies of workmen were assembled in different parts of the country. The International Society makes no secret of its share in this industrial quarrel. A manifesto of violent tone has been circulated in the district during the last few days ; but no special grievance is com plained of. The tyranny of masters and the oppression of workmen are the topics upon which the committee enlarge. It appears, however, that the old wages difficulty was the proximate cause of the strike. Business has been bad in the Mons district for some time, and the wages of the workmen have suffered by the depression. Their discontent has been gradually rising to a crisis. The International Society has not failed to profit by their mutinous disposition. Several days ago the men employed in one of the pits demanded an increase o f wages, and on refusal ceased work. Others followed, and by Friday the strike was general throughout the Borinage. The malcontents did not hesitate to intimi date their companions. The men at least of one colliery were obliged to come up and join the rest. Only one conflict with the soldiers has taken place ; the troops were assailed at Frameries, and formed square, firing from one side, and killing two persons. All traces of the first strike at Seraing have disappeared. A DICTATOR FOR SPAIN. The Liberti states that the idea of a directory of three, or any other number, has been found impracticable. A scheme for entrusting supreme power to a lieutenant general of the kingdom, to be chosen by the Cortes, is rising in public favour. The Liberte adds that a majority of the deputies seem disposed to rally round Prim, whose popularity, though slightly imperilled a little while ago, is again in the ascendant. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian states that the hopes of the moderate constitutional party are entirely crushed by the refusal of Dom Fernando to accept the Crown, They will gradually and silently fall into the ranks of the reactionists, and support the nomina tion of the boy Prince of Asturias, with Serrano for Regent, and Olozaga for Minister. INDIA. The Government having been empowered to modify the values of goods on which ad valorem duties are charged, have promptly published a new tariff, which comes into effect at once. The maximum duty on imported goods is fixed at 73 per cent. ad valorem. On piece goods the Times of India calculates the duty roughly at 5 per cent. On imported iron for railways and the like purposes it is only 1 per cent. "Our beer, porter, and ale will have to pay one anna per imperial gallon only ; spirits, three rupees per imperial gallon of six quarts ; champagne, sparkling wines, and liqueurs, Rl-8 per gallon, and other wines one rupee." The export duties range at about 3 per cent. THE MONSTER NUGGET. The great Australian nugget, weighing 2101 b.—by far the largest on record— was found by two poor Cornish men, John Deason and Richard Oates. It was turned up only two inches beneath the surface, and at one of the earlier goldfields in the Donolly district, which has been well dug over for many years past. The two men received £9,600 for their prize. MAORI LEGISLATORS. Some time ago the process of civilising the aboriginal New Zealander was extended to giving him a share in the legislative business of the colony. Maori representa- tives were admitted to the General Assembly of New Zealand. This proceeding seems to have been a little too far advanced. A dinner was recently given to his Excel lency the Governor, and Mete Kingi,a Maori member of the Assembly, made a speech. After informing the company that he was the only one who did the Governor honour when he went to Wanganui, he said: " I am teacher of gengralLast4ll.2l; of the jjoup ; but and this case was going on as actively, as if a man of character, culture, and intelligence had been be trayed into a breach of the law under some great provocation, instead of one belonging to the criminal class designedly seeking out a policeman to whom he owed a grudge for having discharged bis duty faithfully, and shooting him on his beat. Sympa thizing friends visit this coarse ruffian in numbers, and his table is supplied by them with every deli cacy, while the activity displayed in the attempt to defeat justice is astonishing. Indeed, the execution of REAL will be considered a triumph of law--a result we will learn before going to press.* It is not surprising that crime should prevail where ;t stalks abroad with such impunity. The jury who could find a verdict of Not Guilty, on the plea that the prisoner had been sane up to the moment and sane the moment after, but insane while coin witting a cruel and deliberate murder, held out a premium to such acts. It would be wise to have less of sentiment and more of dry legal evidence; to finish with the verdict and sentence, discouraging to the utmost after proceedings, and to control the pardoning power by compelling those who exercise it, fully to state their reasons. TWICIIELL'S was an infamous murder, yet all sorts of logal quibbles have been resorted to to enable the culprit to escape the penalty. Punishment is inflicted not to aveng , , but to deter; but if it be in the highest degree un certain, and nearly all the chances of getting off are in the culprit's favour, the law, instead of deterring, offers inducements to crime. Society at large will then suffer, for men become criminals, who otherwise would not. A man argues—l have the grand chance of escaping detection; but, if caught, everything is in favour of my evading the law, and such an argu ment, if well grounded, will create criminals by the thousand. The New York State prisons are said to be iu a terribly embarrassed financial condition. The cost of the management of Sing Sing, Auburn, and Clinton Penitentiaries in 1868, was $500,000 over and above their earnings. The Legislature at first refused to approve a deficiency bill of $3OO, 000 to meet this balance, but on the representation of the Controller that unless the bill was passed, the prison doors would have to be opened and the con victs set free, the action was reconsidered and the bill passed. * He has received a respite. BUTLER GET7ING UGLY. It is said that BEN BUTLER is much annoyed at not being nominated for the Chairmanship of the Committee on Ways and Means. Speaker BLAINE selected the Committees, and Mr. SCHENCK was his choice for the post BUTLER so coveted. It is no sop to him to get the Reconstruction Committee, or the Judiciary Committee ; what he wanted was the post of power, the Chairmanship of that Com mittee which reports on affairs wherein the House is supreme ; as in the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, which makes CHARLES SUMNER al most the equal of the Secretary of State, as does the Chairmanship of the Ways ani Means Com mittee of the House make Mr. SCIIENCK little less powerful than the Secretary of the Treasury. BUT LER'S vindictive, and he intends to make both the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee pay for his chagrin. He has already given the latter a dose be did not like, and which has made him look uncommonly queer. " I know all your ins and outs," said BUTLER, "and some day or another they shall be investigated." Now this may appear a very ordi nary threat to those who are not aware that BUTLER got permission, of which he fully availed himself, to ransack all the offices for telegrams, to get information that would convict the " re creant seven" in the Impeachment Trial, of cor ruption. Though he did not find the evidence he sought, he got something else he thought might be useful hereafter. What he got . none can tell, but he shakes his bead and looks ominous while throwing out dark hints, and those with anything on their conscience quail. If all our "ins and outs" were known we would like to be on good terms with those who knew them, and this is the sort of power that BUTLER is just now exercising over Congress. Considering it was Congress that delegated to him the authority which gave him the means of acquiring this terriorism, the punishment is singularly appropriate. Mr. SCHENCK. was one of the most earnest in pressing for a conviction against ANDREW JOHNSON, and in getting up the persecution of the " seven," the chief step for which was empowering General BUTLER to break open boxes in search of evidence. For some time it was thought that Mr. SCIIENCK would fight it out on the gauntlet then thrown down ; but he thought better of it, and, apparently frightened, has left the fiel Ito BUTLER. That gentleman has a telling way of "putting things," however scrupulous, as may be gathered from this, that because he found no evidence against the accused seven, he declared it was just as he expected, as such " cunning rascals" were not likely to leave traces. Had he discovered any, his was the eye to detect at once the full significance; and it is not impossible, that a brain so active was engaged in forecasting the future, and treasuring up the faux pas he discovered among his friends. Though he secured no evidence against the recreants, it is known that he obtained enough to implicate some Senators who voted for conviction, and it is believed that other telegrams passed into his posses sion, interesting to members of the House. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writing on this subject, says :—" The only definite thing which has leaked out concerning BUTLER'S purposes, and what he knows, is that he intends to press the matter, and says that he has sworn testi mony to the effect th a t a w hi sky man drew an im portant whisky clause in the revenue bill for SCHEYCK, and that the latter was in the ring with the witness. When BUTLER attempts to make the House believe this or any similar charge of its im portance, then the tug of war will come. Thee it is expected that BUTLER will be charged with sell ing out himself to the whisky ring, and agreeing, for certain considerations, to suppress evidence taken before his Committee to investigate the failure of Impeachment. And as a matter of like character the House may for the first time learn what evidence was taken concerning Sena tor POMEROY which it was deemed best to sup press. And if the notes are destroyed, as the witnesses are still alive, it may be possible to astonish even Mr. BUTLER. At least some friends of General SCHENCK incline strongly to that opinion." BUTLER got up another scene in the House on April Fool's Day, of all others, during the debate on the Mississippi Provisional Government Bill, introduced by him. He had possession of the floor, when Mr. DAWES, his colleague from Massachusetts, asked him to yield for a question. " No, Sir," said he, " I cannot open my mouth that some gentleman does not come down my throat." Mr. DAWES in sinuated that it would be a very repugnant place to him, and continued to press for his question, when BUTLER sternly said he would not yield. Mr. DAWES urged that he simply wanted the ordinary cour tesy, and he was going on when his colleague again rudely broke in, declaring he would not be catego rically catechised. These scenes are now of weekly occurrence in the House, with BUTLER always in the foreground. —Anglo-American 7imes. The American Bible Society has commissioned the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vermilye and Henry Dickinson to attend, as its representatives iu London next month, on the opening of the new house for the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Plymouth church members at Brooklyn are raising funds to place a colossal statue of Henry Ward Beecher in the group which is to adorn the Lincoln monu ment at Washington, at a cost of SG,OOO. A remarkable revivAl of religion is prevailing in Carbondale, Illinois. During eight weeks more than two hundred persons were received into the Methodist church of that place on probation, General John A. Logan among the number. Rev. George Bowler, well known for his vigo rous efforts in the war to raise the 46th Regiment, of which ho was for a few months colonel, died very sud denly on Friday morning, March 26, in Nashua, N.H. Secretary Boutwell has appointed Messrs. A. T. Stewart, Horace Greeley, sod William Orton as the com mission to look atter the construction of a new Post-office in Now York City, for which Congress appropriated $200,000. Mr. Mullett, the Government architect, is to superintend the work. CJ 7IIE LAST OF THE TENURE'-OE-OFF I ACT. This bill gave rise to another discussion is i t ; Senate on the recepti on o f a message f rom the announcing its non-concurrence. Mr. Truni v it u , made a long spee c h i n support of h i s mo ti o n t° ae sist, and it was carried against the motion to rece; by the same votes as before. It came up ag aill bl the 31st March, when Senator Trumbull brongi up the r e p or t o f t h e Committee on Con f ere nc , o , e 0 the Senate, an d M r. B utler in the House . l y bill which we l as t wee k gave, as amen d e d, re P e : e . the first and secon d sect i ons of the origina l Te° ., ' of-Office Act of M arc h 2, 1867. The first section of the Senat e amen d ment is left untouc h e d' t he , s; ti 3 second section is amen d e d so as to read as folloo " That. during any recess of the Senate the Preside ri .d hereby empowered, in his discretion, to suspend anY e t t o f officer appAnted by a n d w i t h t h e advice and 0 04 ' 0 the Senate, except judges of the United States Ci r o until the end of the next session of the Senate', 31) ; io designate some suitable person, sul.ject to be removoty his discretion by the designati,n of another to p ernt duties of such suspended officer the meantime, a n d S pers,m so designated shall take the oaths and gi ve ge . bonds required by law to be taken and given bf th e ),0 pended office r , an d s h all, during the tim e he perforn'-tiell duties, be entitled to the salary awl emoluments of 6 , 5 , officer, no p ar t o f w hi ch shall belong to the offoer.‘ 0%'.! vended ; and it shall be the duty of the president will -d o . days aft er th e commencement of every session of the SO except for any office which in hi s op i n i on oug ht o'4 til°oll filled, to nominate all peisons to fill all vacancies in °,'- which exist t o th e meet i ng of the Senate, whether fed ol porarily filled or not , an d so in the place of all °l'nbs suspended ; and if the Senate during such sess ion s ol i refuse to a d v i se and consent to an appointment la oi l place of such suspended officer, then, and not o ther vi $ 1 the President shall nominate another person as s° °° o practicable to s aid sess i on of the Senate for said officef,l 'Phis is the shape in which it has become law. t hi: Butler, who reported it, thought the section ° n al! removal and rein s t a t ement of officers repeale dl l Tenure-of -Office A c t as th oug h i t had nev er bit passed. He did not think it altered the poive r , the President f rom w h at he had under the C°l3sltio , tution. Mr. L ogan w i s h e d to know whether f. difference b e t ween t h e repeal of ti:, Tenur e- k Office Bill and the re p or t o f t h e C on f erence Conlivod . tee was not the diff erence b etween twee dl e do tweedledee? Mr. Butler said he would not P, tl t he,. so strong. He thought the difference was rig ll ;di other way ; it was th e diff erence b etween ttreed‘, o ,i , and tweedledunz. The House pa sse d th e bill by ' O , against 67, all the Democrats, and 17 R e publO ate , making up the N a y s . Wh en ta k en to the Selitio Mr. Trumb u ll gave qu it e a di fferent i n t e rpreO othi there to that given in the House by Butler. 13 0' however, appeared to be satisfied, and the eo lln o li which looked for a s plit, i s surpr i se d . The Be n concurred in the Report by 42 to 8. Mr. SP r ', and seven D emocrats— M essrs. Cole, Fessellodeotv Robertson, Sherman, and W arner — re f use d 0)1 '01 Mr. Morto n was not present. Mr. Grimes /el " yea," and th us , a t l eas t f or the present, bas "d; settled a bill which has led to a fight all O l io first, betwee n C ongress and the President, °jib/ in Impeach men t ; nex t b etween the Senate siloia House, ending in a comprom i se; t h e Sena te u el h considered in the ge nera l me le e t o h ave triun3Phv It A New E ng l an d " m i n i ster " of the days o f i,os and thereabout s did not necessarily or probably I°°o6' marriage as a holy sacrament, and, judging from t be e P r o tice of slaveholding Catholic countries, perhaps not much authority for believing that if he had so co a , dered it he would have felt obliged to insist on its slit ness in the ca se o f a co l oured couple. But still it is ti startling, even to .the reader who regards marriag e civil contract mer e ly, to read a "fo rm o f marr iage" i nie was drawn up and use d b y the Rev. Samuel Ph 0, a pastor in Andover, Massachusetts, for sixty 1 01 from 1710 to 1771. I t appears that the negr° 11,! and groom and the witnesses having been gathore tooo gether befo re th e c l ergyman, the latter used firs t dress the int en di ng h us b and and require him to Proiplo) that "so far as s h a ll b e consistent with the relatiolle r 0 you now sustain as a servant, you will perform throoi, of a husband t owar d s h er; and in particular Ycili P th,/ that you will lo ve h er; an d t h at, as you shall 113'0 opportunity and ability, you will take a proper car e r ot in sickness and in health, in prosperity and adv e , o lo The bride for her p ar t was th en requ i red to pr oo , P o i t same things, and—as was also required of the gr i l ft itlr„ respect of her—to say th a t s h e wou ld b e " true and 11P, ful to hint and cling to hi m , on l y as l ong as God, I o pe° Providence, shall continue his and your abode place or places as t h a t you can conveniently ccfire6o/ gether." The mini s t er th en declared to them that ft).ole, time as God should cont i nue their place or places o f 3 as aforesaid, and for so long as they "should ha haV(3 t.i' i conduct themselv es as o b ed i ent and faithful serv3 „ 7 " not as ey e - servants, men-pleasers "—" toward tboisitO spective masters a n d m i stresses, " they might 040: re themselves man an d w if e. " And finally, " 110 ti' say to the m , "I ex h ort and charge you to bei" 00: you give place to the devil "—who, when L a g , men and wo men i n very prosperous circut nsta3c'„greP apt to stir them u p w ith out di st i nction of colour t°l,oo6' heights of va i n - g l ory and haughtiness— " so as to casion from the license now given you to be lifted 0 1: p oii pride, and thereby fall under the displeasure not o'" only, but of God also ; for it is written that God reps,; the proud,but giveth grace unto the humble." bee; used to conclude the ceremony, which seems to 1 13/ . 0 0 a tolerably r ecogn i sa bl e part of " the great lois:11101'; scheme" that use d t o b e spoken of, for bringing 600 nighted children of Africa to a knowledge of th° light. —Nation. gi tlp Professor Robl ey D ung li son d i ed on the 1S 000 in Philadelphia. Ho was a native of England, and r e , s li from London to the United States in 1819. 1 1 ° l a tO, rl brated for his medical works, and was a member 3 : 13 60: respondent of numerous literary and scientific so c ` e i t itt; both Europe and the United States. Over 100,0 00 vt9 of t/1 3 , of his works have been printed. He was Chairtr l3l3 oll l , l Committee of Instruction of the Institution of the be itl' i and afterwards Vice-President, which position he pa t ' the time of his death. He also published a large d ie tio for the blind. , 5 fol 0 :1 L A DVERTISE M ENT.] EIOII O way ' s Pills.—Healtli 001C!i tain —lt can no t s ure ly b e necessary to remind any l'140:#1 reader that the purity of the blood determines every) gli o t health and vigour. Holloway' s me di c i ne searches out the 0 0 taint in the vital fluid, and neutralizes or expels it, Be „ed. g circulation supports the syste m i n p l ace of sowing the P ot e'p decay. When epidemics a re a i vane i ng, and diseas e on the increase, it beh oves every one to have a res to o ' ll, 1 . 1 . 1 these pills ready to sot right any irregularity in stonlits g bowels, or kidneys. Holloway's treatment is esp for the young, delicate, and nervous, who are most 0° O P of any prevailin g s i c k ness, an d w h om violent measures endanger little less than the epidemic. [AD VERTIS E NT.] Dyspepsia. (Indigestion), Debility, Consumpti on, an d a ll nervous, bilious, stoniti 001 , liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated l ie f/ rf, rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cure ta e Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as 1) , god thousands or cases which had been considered hepeles° r 4plT, —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver CO- tiiP,lle, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat%ro,,' r iv, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and e ': A , matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neural a ds bility, aleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, e ale, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sicknes%igil l pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula , ,,oo r 4 of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and be""to shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health res 6 Kg, Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 1 jot', r health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially t` i p P e 4 ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entir' s Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consunl e p etie ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly- eft effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise th , l s.lei food too highly. —From the "Gazette du Midi," JulY ffirin No. 46,270 —Mr. James Roberts, timber mereitant, 0f, 00 9 Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of yt"„rdV,, derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,771—L ap e de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years of SV) No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony fro , ' $ •ofri nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulenctoo4,, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria July." Important jol ty to which, without authority, Baro n Li e bi g ' s name is Beware of the many unsavoury and more t h an sIoPPY„.,OO I)'y . ciously attached. 1 1 °1 ? In tins, at ls. ; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lb s. 4s. 6,1 ; 5 lbs. 10 ' 0 fo rd 225. ;24 lbs, 40s, Also Do BARRY's REVALENTA AF! le., ctip LATE POWDER is packed in ti n can i sters; for 12 cups 1,",57i1.0 cups at Is. 6d., for 48 cups at 6 5., for 288 cups at 305., w it ,n ,. jr, at 558.—being about one p enny per cup. The 30s. takost are sent free of carri age i n England on receipt ca sere Order. BARRY DO BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent 0" t don; and all Groeers and Chemists. Births. BECKFORD -On the 18th inst., at ittucloy the ifo of F. J. B. Be c kf or d , E sq., o f a daugu t° o ol 9 KILCOURSIE —On the 17th inst., at Bath, the Vi 6C Kilcoursie, of a daughter. Marriages. 4 , Cl,i HAnnocx —PERRY—On the lith inst., at St. ' ft to 4 ton, Boland Haddock, o f Cr o yd on, Surre.Y , J. 2.,.. Ann, second d aug ht er o f J ohn Perry, Esq , no' / ' Claremont-place, Clifton. Djor KEMP — GORDON—On the 17th inst., at Upper a njeoceiii Dixon Kemp, E sq., o f Gordon-place Cl ir° „'r t - i5 O Kensington, to Ge org i ana M ary B ess i e, you ng ter of the late George LTuntly Gordon, ESI' Gardens, Maida-hill. ie' Deaths. Ect-' CoLE—On the 17th inst , at York-street, Poi t nl- i 9- e Lieut.-Col one l Robert. Cole. 1,04 10 DRUMMOND—On the 18th inst ,at 5, Ches- o' o Spencer Dru mmon d , Esq. . 00 IJARTRY—On the 15th l us t , at East Brixt on, 1 ii ief llartry, Esq., a ge d 47. . SPIELMANN—On the 18th i ns t. at, Hereford 11005e' Brompton, Adam Spielmaan,. Esq., aged S. • London : Printed and Pablished b WILLIA.Ig isto ti 0 of No. 112, Strand, Pri n t er , a t T ai Sun 001cl 'ootti Stragd, in the Precinct of tho Savoy to the Bliddlesex t —Tuelday, April 20, 1869. RrNAHAN'S priz This celebrated C e Medal. It Pure, Mild 1 4 ,1 ( , Sold in Bottles as th e Agents in the , pril LL 8, GREAT "V 9 Observe the ed SI Whisßks'. M EiTyiAL 14, ItUSSELI,-1: ADVANC AndES MONE' hold or Leasehold P able weekly, tnonthl F orms free on receii OYAL Al Prot Gre at Sueees s of t Duet.--Arr. Arthur T Bones in the O r i git greatest Ventrilo 'Wonderful Illusions Actre sses —3lr. P,u ten to a.racters—)fils ttn(l talenteiartist Rattlees. Noti ce. —Mr. P .(101 Mace on Wednestla Rve. P Esq., w w ill tal.-e the oh t. Jth ohn-str(Tt-i Well" iMr. IRTS- ATACLA a oe lv and lw Beau ava tiful ße ItACII EL, and num, Under ten, Gd.; extra A RGY LL EVENING fc .00111 R have been ma and Co. The celeb i an attractive Prom Dance Ittisic. Doors a W/N6,;, Irusical Duecto THE above PP ALunc heon. B for deviling Lego of re ORIGINAL AND To be JOI AsilL . Ey Very Fine Pale, Dry, Old Crushed Port (D Shipping), Vinkage Sparkling Champagt lery, Qualitd Super Sample cases of t 1 bottles herry, two I GARRICE B. HALL, Consi• ed neat the " gnee for celebrat PALE NICI an, Bordeaux Wines and whiskies, from Rev( also be seen at the T of others alinottedlsi,nPtic SOTENTIFICI A nitNAMENM and Dincr-r sortnaent of VASE lisks, Inkstands, be &c., in Italian, Ala shire Spar, &c. h TENANT, Mine NV.O., London. MUr Tennant arra INE RALS, and yell' s E lements Late the interestiz GEOLOGY, and guineas each. PRA.OTIOAL E MINERALOGY is 149, Strand. THE LIVE R om GLOB " 8-1 , Dale. The I nvested Pt fire Revenue to £8: The moderate rates Bonus for the Life value as SPECIA render them Patti( leave is granted on thirty days after /WI RING'S COI street., APPEAL for F Line Ul Petises. Assistant' F. AL JAME. SEAMEN'S off Greenwich, Na`ic ns, who are re( The receipts from -£879 less than the e SU BSCRIPTION Williams Deacon, a the Secretary, at th, street, London, E.C. Qualification for Governor, £lO 10s. NATIONAL C Richmond, Su Neer tbe patronage 0 Whereby a home has Girls of all ages, class the kingdom. The objelt of the Ch lish education, and Pr a nd laundry, to 8t the W ise provided for wb suitable situations for The Committee egru entirely Sustained by ° ale% 121, rall-mall - - 1111,kenz t!Tlsyr 43. ac • e-par• Patron —Her 1414 Por the gratuito destituts or fr, and of all denonah prosperous circumsi One hundred and stitution ; ample roe Increased suppor endowed, and is in assistance. Subscribers and Institution, and jud Its peculiar claims. The last Report c Secretary. CITA AUB Offices, 73 1 , p Chea tankers—llessrs l ane ; and Messrs. 1 REALTH RESTORE] DIJ BARRY'S and Infants' Saves fift THE y times its perfect digestion- st refreshing sleep, fu , most disordered c effectually indigesti sutuption, habitual rangements, Inntn( nervousness, biliou catarrhs, colds, in rheumatism, gout, ralgia, irritability heartburn, headac nausea and sicknes fits, th stop zo reelmmipn b i ovt r os o aßotl n fTi d c dsL h ti gnh i ae t Te i ns s d inf and more than slo rity, Baron Liebig' Henceforth none Du Barry's health and Infants' Food, has already receic been deemed hopel nese the Pope, will by it after thirty y We quote from tt 18,1" Rome, Holy Father is ex Ho remedies h( Revalenta Plateful at every n beneficial effect of praise this excellet Cure No. 58 , 2 16 yeara) liver eompl doss, irrit a bi lity xi gestion, C onstant nervous agitation. Cum N 0.78 of ( S tuart de Docies, T ford: —"I bay() d e food.—STtrAitT DE W aterford . , OUrO No. 49 fror, dyspepsia, 'T• f latule noncy, spasms of LYnn• Norfok': C ure No, 47 121 vo l s f nervousanness, indi. ies. Cure No. 56,814 y ear s diarrl: tZ a. Th e Food is Rol( lb., P. 6d.; 121 b., anisters, carriage 13 trry s Revalenta tia canisters : For cups at 65., for 282 f ab out cne penny p ree of c arr i age in it tt R.Y DII RAU also at Portnutu taracec huteli-stre e New Nerth-r3A4,