The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT 'OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, attnough entirely opposed to ale reaffirm of Convocation in Ireland, thinks it most desirable that Irish Churchmen should assemble and express their views on the situation of the Irish Church. Let the Irish bishops take counsel together, in the first place, with such lay assistance as may be immediately available, and consult as to the constitution of the committee they would con voke to represent the opinions of all members of the Church ; and when in this committee let them consider what arrangement they will accept from the Government. If, for instance, they should really devise a committee fairly and impartially representative, and capable of efficient action, they would secure the sanction of Parliament to the adoption of such a committee as the Administrative Council of the Disendowed and Disestablished Church. If, again, accepting as a necessity the abolition of the Esta blishment, they drew up a scheme for the conversion of reserved life interests into the nucleus of a permanent endowment, if they constructed an organisation for the receipt and application of such funds as might hereafter accrue from the voluntary gifts of the members and friends of the Disendowed Church, such a scheme and such an organisation would receive the attentive consideration, and in all probability the willing approval, of the Ministry. It would be a minor but a most useful feature of such a representative committee as we have imagined to bring together evidence of all cases where Churchmen like the late Sir Benjamin Guinness have contributed from their private wealth to the re•edification of churches or the better endowment of clergymen. It is, in fact, plain that if the Irish Churchmen are disposed to meet the Ministry frankly, the Ministry will be glad to meet them. They must not, of couree;answer with a Non passuntus. They must accept a inevitable the abolition of the Establishment, and make the best of that necessity. Will they do so? To speak honestly, we have no confidence that they will. If they will not, it must follow that the action of the Government will be simpler, if more rough and more severe than if they assisted to guide. No Administration can pursue the task of dis establishment and disendowment into the endless ramifi cations which might each be cared for by a consultive com mittee of Irish Churchmen. The Churchmen of Ireland have at this moment an excellent opportunity ; let them seize it, and put to shame our prognostications by aban doning all hope from such a broken reed as Convocation, and by constructing in an impartial and courageous manner a new temporal organisation for the communion of which they are members. The Pest refers to the appointment of Colonel Henderson as the Chief Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and declares that the Home Secretary decided the point regarding the selection of Sir Richard Mayne's successor by selecting , a soldier, and yet not simply a soldier. Colonel Henderson belongs to the Royal Engineers ; his -services, however, have mainly been of a civil character, like those of many of his brother officers ; and they have -been of a nature eminently suited t 3 qualify him for the -trying post for which he has been chosen from among so -many. Nearly twenty years ago Colonel Henderson sailed for Western Australia with a ship-load of convicts and a company of Sappers, to make the arrangements for their establishment there. At the end of several years, spent in successfully carrying out this scheme, he was appointed to a civil office under the Australian Government, which he held for a considerable time. Soon after his arrival at home, on giving up his colonial appointment, Colonel Henderson was selected to fill the office of Surveyor. General of islilitary and Convict Prisons, and he has held this important post up to the present time. Thus it will be seen that Colonel Henderson has lad just the right kind of experience to justify the selection of the Home Secretary. A scientific soldier, and still not moulded into stiffness by many years of unmiti gated pipeclay ; a practised administrator under novel and trying circumstances ; an officer thoroughly acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of criminal character, and one who has thoroughly merited the several important offices he bee filled, the new Chief Commissioner of Police appears to be the right man in the right place. The horning Star says the Ultra Ritual Lits have done their best to elect their five candidates for membership on the standing committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and have signally failed, and that it is impossible to regard the issue of the contest as other than an additional rebuke offered by public opinion to the extreme Ritualist party. The truth is that Englishmen do not and cannot live in the mediaeval world into which the new school of ecclesiastics would lead them. The dogmas to which they are wedded may once have flourished on English soil ; but we are not a people who are likely to return to these ancient ways simply because they have been trodden by our forefathers several centuries ago, or because they were devised orliad the sanction of certain persons who began to flourish two or three centuries after Christianity was launched by its Divine Founder, and who had no warrant whatever for the additions they made to the teachings of tho New Testament. This, be it remembered, is no guess tion of the external beauty of public worship. People may admire an ornate ritual or the cultivation of an sthetio taste in the outward and visible forms of divine worship, without feeling the slightest sympathy with the Ritualists who teach the dogma of the Real Presence, ia vest colour and light with a degree of sanctity, and pro• ceed much further in adoring the Virgin Mary and the Saints than is generally supposed. Indeed, if the Ritualista had their way, the Church of En;latol would become a mere travesty of both the Roman Catholic and the Greek Churches—a mongrel institution which neither Church would recognise, and which would yet have as little affinity as either with the Protestantism of the country. The Telegraph refers to its announcement of the refusal of Government to sanction a revival of Convocation in Ireland, and considers that the best justification of the refusal is the language of the rejected application just pub, lished. There is a large and daily-increasing party among the clergy and laity in favour of negotiation with the Government, but, on the other hand, the bishops who signed the petition are at present vehemently opposed to every thing like concession or accommodation. It is certainly not the policy of the present Government to discourage overtures of capitulation or fire on a fl ag of truce. On the contrary, Ministers most earnestly desire to carry out the great reform in a conciliatory spirit, and to confer with every or any fairly-constituted institu tion which represents the parties interested. There are many reasons why such communications should be invited and hailed with the utmost pleasure. In the first place, the questions of proprietary right which the Legislature has to consider are extremely intricate, and it is especially desirable that the various claims should be well inves tigated, and, if possible, settled by amicable arrange ment. By a rough computation, the annual eccle siastical income of the Irish Establishment is six hundred thousand pounds, of which about one-third is derived from land, and the residue, for the most part, comes from the tithe rentcharge. With all this property Parliament must deal in the ensuing session ; and, in order to estimate the justice or expediency of any plan for appropriation, we ought to have a clear concep tion of the existing titles and tenures. For the purposes of hustings declamation, of harangues addressed to Orange lodges, it is sufficient to say that the property has been solemnly and irrevocably given to the Church ; and it follows, as a sufficiently logical consequence, that Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues are spoliators and robbers. The Daily .News asks whether railway shareholders have any fair right to throw on the public the burden of their own mistakes and extravagance by compelling them to pay double and treble the price on the lines they do want which they would have paid if the company had not wasted their money on lines which are not wanted. Share holders assume as a matter of course that they have such a right, and they will not stop to consider the other side of the case. When one of their number, saner than the rest, attempts, as on Tuesday at the meeting of the Brighton shareholders, to remind them of the public expectations, and of the experience gathered elsewhere as to what is really remunerative, they put him down for trying to " depreciate their property." This is all very foolish, be cause the case of the public sooner or later, and sooner rather than later, must be fully beard. Shareholders would do well to pause before they push their rights, or fancied rights, to an extreme. We dispute, then, alto gether, the absolute right of railway companies to a five per cent. or even a one per cent. dividend on the enormous capitals which they have heaped up. What they are strictly entitled to is a fair return on the capital actually expended in constructing and working line s , the various branches of their amal gamated undertakings being in this account kept separate. They have no sort of moral or equitable claim to make the stream of traffic on the main line, or the suburban lines near London, bear the interest on capital for totally disconnected agricultural lines which they have chosen to take upon themselves. The two things are entirely distinct, and although they insist on kee • ing them together, th e pu bli c will not agree with them when , the penalty is too severe. That this is now the case we need not insist. One can only wonder at the in fatuation of Mr. Laing in talking b 0 glibly as he does of the expediency and justice of raising fares and rates in order that above all things a certain ideal return may be obtained. lie did not care, he sa id, according to onre port, "whether the fares per passenger were id. a mile or :id. a mile," provided the gross receipts were so and so. But this is exactly what the public do care about, and in their present mood it was not wise to indicate so roughly and epigrammatically the disposition of railway dim tore to neglect them. 712 Derby Mercury ritates that there will be no petition against tho roturie of Colo4ll Wilmot t9' §otttli Dreg MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. h f - We in England are bothering the brains of the Home Secretary bycalling emphatically for a stronger police. In'Jersey, however, which seems to be quite a modem Arcadia, there is an attempt being made to put down the police altogether. The force at present at St. Helier's (population 30,000) consists of ten constables, without a superintendent. That office is filled by honorary constables on alternate days. A bill is now before the States of Jersey for the abolition of this force, and the revival of the watch men of " Old Charles." It has been referred to a select committee—a proof that the opponents of the bill were not strong enough to negative the measure. Jersey offers a good field for an enterprising gentle man engaged in " professional" pursuits. THE MONTH. The meteorologists have been rubbing their hands with joy again during the month passed. Never before—meteorology being a young science—have such aztounding, records been made. But the joy has had with it a certain amount of perploaity. Witness Mr. Allnatt's letter to the Times, aslciug mysteriously whether the crust of the earth had been "attenuated." He seems to have come to himself again since, howevet, for he offers no such solution of the problem in his monthly epistle to the great Thunderer. The month he has written about is certainly a remarkable one—sultry to-day, frosty to-morrow. It opened with considerable frost, the mean of the day being 2.8 deg. below the average of fifty years. From a temperature of 28 deg. on the night of the Ist (a wind arising) the ther mometer suddenly ascended to 40 deg. Then we had several days of intermittent gales varying in force. From the 15th to the 17th the thermometer was again above the average from 71 to 01 deg. On the 10th there was a minimum. On the 24th the temperature was 10.4 deg. below the average of 50 years, and on the 28th C• 2 deg. above. Surely never before did the clerk of the weather look after his work so badly. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. On Tuesday morning- a disastrous explosion oc curred at the Unsworth Colliery, the property of Mr. George Elliot, M.P., by which one man was killed and three persons seriously injured. The man who was killed was blown a distance of sixty yards. The boiler which exploded was situated among seven others in the pit-heap near the colliery. The origin of the accident is not stated. THE HIGHWAY ACT. Lord Teignmouth has replied at some length to the attack made upon him by Mr. Soulby in reference to the new Highway Act. It will be remembered that Mr. Soulby, who is strongly opposed to the Act, was much incensed by the language used by Lord Teignmouth at the Nor% Riding Quarter Sessions i rcs9ect;ng the agitation against t. -Lord Teignmouth declares that the only petition against the new Act originated in a single district, and that the local resistance to it has been greatly exaggerated. He avers that the opposition of rate payers was treated by the magistrates with uniform respect, and that the whole matter was freely dis cussed and considered. Lord Teignmouth is highly indignant with Mr. Soulby, whose position as secre tary to a Chamber of Agriculture gives him some importance, and Lord Teignmouth calls upon him to substantiate or withdraw the charges contained in his letter. THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. What kind of man is the agricultural labourer ? He produces as much perplexity as the ," working man" of the famous Reform struggle. (me writer makes him almost revel ,in luxury, while another pictures him sunk in squalor, dirt, and misery. Mr. J. J. Mechi, of Tiptrce Hall, Essex— an authority on agricultural matters—gives us his idea in a letter to the Timm. Here it is. Conditions—generally healthy. Wages, under good masters, 15s. or 16s. per week, generally I ls. or Families—large, (over ten children), set early to work, generally healthy. Cottages —many very bad but a new order of things coming in. As the lalymrer is generally contented, gets pure air for nothing, has a healthy, though not too abundant diet, Mr. Mcchi th'nks him superior to his brother of the town and the factory. 0 IIGIYALITY. A discussion long wanted has commenced in the London papers as to originality. It arose in this wise : Mr. Robertson has just written two plays— " Home" and " School "—both of which have been favourably received. Suddenly a correspondent discovers that Mr. Robertson's play " School " is something after the style of " Aschenbriidel," a German play of some repute, and straightway charges the author with piracy. It is admitted that the play is no mere translation • many scenes . are workingentirely new, the dialogne is different, the out in respects dissimilar, but there is the "inspiration." had Mr. Robertson r.ny right to use the play ? Those who say so, argue that any genius, any man who has any wish to write for the coming generation, an author with a spark of individuality, would lean on himself clone, would spurn such aid as can be got from other people's brains. In using another man's work—inn-dressing it—he gets credit, is paid for doing what any ninny ought to be able to do. On the other hand, it is contended that such a strict rule would fetter the genius of the present generation. As it is well put in one of the papers— " The right of an artist to try and do better what he believes has been imperfectly done before, is one that no one questions, as it concerns the magnates of the past, who are beyond the pressure of contemporary prejudices and interests." Shakspere found Boccaccio helpful; Scott worked out a border legend in his " Bride of Lammermoor ; " T enn y son " Idylls " are "as old as the hills." And yet no one complains. May not the same thing be done by play - nights ? SYMPTOMS OF THE SESSION. _ Earl De Grey and Ripon, Lord President of the Council, has given his first Ministerial dinner of the year. Twelve members of the Cabinet, the Lord Chamberlain, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harmon were present; the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Goschcn, and Mr. Fortescue were the absentee Ministers. At the Cabinet Council, held the same morning, fourteen members of the Cabinet were present, Mr. Fortes cue, who is in Ireland, being the only absentee. Lord Clarendon was at both gatherings ; so that the report set on foot by a recentl y -started evening paper as to the serious illness of the Foreign Secretary would seem to have no foundation in fact. THE IRISH CHURCH. The English Conservative journals are sheivinga good d ea l o f i rr i tat i on at the attitude o f I r i s h Church men. The first complain that the second now, instead o f ma ki ng a b rave res i stance , be only upon cap it u l at i ng on the best terms. should These journals say that it is rather hard that English Con servatives sh ou ld h ave to fight the batt l e o f th e Irish Church alone, s h ou ld b e the only party t o rally round the standard of "no surrender. ' It was not for such fainthearted conduct as this that they fought the battle of the elections. Moreover, what are they to do in the coming campaign if they are to be d e p r i ved of the only ground which is left them fo r com b at ? Irish Churchmen are wiser than English Conservatives thought them to be. They have no wish to be made a mere cheval de beadle, as the " Constitution" was during the Reform, struggle, to be abandoned like that whenever the necessi ties of party warfare compel a strategical move ment or a masterly retreat. They know that the men who entered Parliament pledged to the lips to resist " democracy," invented the fiction of a democratic Tory as a pretence for dishing their opponents ; they know that these men, took a leap in the dark so far as the State is con cerned, and believe that they would take another as regards the Church. So they think it wisest to make terms with the Liberals, who are willing to grant liberal conditions, rather than to refuse all terms only in order hereafter to surrender unconditionally. CONGRATULATIONS. The Conservatives of Mid Surrey held high festival on Tuesday night. They met together at one of the several new " railway hotels " which have of late been erected in the metropolis, to • congratulate another on having succeeded in carrying two Conservatives at the election. It is amusing to note that whenever such a banquet takes place—whichever party rejoices—the speakers consider that the con stituency has been " rescued f rom oppressive thraldom." This and a great deal to the same effect was said by the fervid after-dinner orators. Lord George Hamilton, M.P., was one of out the speakers. He ridiculed the idea n deao e f p th e e in p te r d es Government being a " strong , one. that notwithstanding the pvuelaakrintey ai ss of thtelatoessMienfisa try, it had bray seat by prosecuting Mr. Johnston fe , ar of Ballykilbeg. oflosmgtie support of a section of But the present Government in had not the moral, courage to put downllg. the Mayorethepa rty, of Cork, notwith ta Mr. t Brodrick set forth a "social fo a r n 'th i epresen Government. siidil'g his seditious"policy ELECTION EXPENSES. It is astonishing how much may be spent by a can didate in a few days. There is Mr. Tomline, for in stance, who went to Grimsby only a week or two before the election, and who spent -£1,40 ; and Captain Williams, who was brought out at the last minute for Barnstaple, and who spent over £9OO. Both these boroughs are so notoriously corrupt that neither side dares petition, knowing well that the places would be disfranchised, and all opportunities of future spoiling of candidates would be taken away. Thus the worst offenders escape punishment. BARON MARTIN. Surely Baron Martin though a most excellent judge, i s a somewhat indiscreet man. His letter to Sir Henry Stracey, in which, after unseating him publicly hp consoled him privately, was, to say the least, an eccentric proceeding. His speech at Bradford ithtn deciariug_ xx,r2.l§l9x duly gllxtecl ms_awael THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1869, thing more than eccentric. tie protestea ioualy and vehemently against having to try the case at all. It was perhaps pardonable that all the judges should hwe protested in the first place, and when the new regulations were still under dis cussion, but that a judge having bowed to the will of Parliament, and having undertaken the duties imposed upon him, should, in the discharge thereof, have resented the task, does seem contrary to judicial dignity. Baron Martin has now delivered his soul, and it is to be hoped that henceforth he will refrain from private letters to the members whom he unseats, and from public protests against the law of. the land. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) A BLITNDER-BUSS.—Kissing the wrong gir. DELICACY.—Young Swell : " We won't go clown Con duit-street, for I haven't paid my tailor his Christmas bill yet, and if he sees me he might feel embarrassed COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Ruined Shareholder to Daughter : " Yes, they are committed for trial ; but we my child, to hard labour for life 1" A HOLIDAY TASK FOR AN M.F.H.—To keep in good temper with a large field while Mr. Titups amuses himself by heading the fox and riding over the best hounds. A GOOD REASONER.—A teetotaller's arguments are pretty sure to be sound, for he is certain to make use of nothing which will not hold water. LOOK HERE, LORD LINDSAT.—Brisk Volunteer (to languid ditto) : " You'll be at drill next Saturday, won't you?" Languid One : " Eh, ah, it's the first this season, isn't ft ? Ya-as, think I shall. 'Chore's sure to be more talk' than dwill ; so it'll be a good night to go." (From Fun.) MOTTO FOR Ir. M.'s STATIONERY OFFICE.—Take care of the pens and the pounds will take care of themselves. 818 I)S OF A FEATHER.—When a man has feathered his nest you will generally find that he also plumes himself upon it. How true is it, therefore, that " riches take unto themselves wings." LITERARY NOTE.—The great " Proverbial Philosophy" of our Tupper hai just be&n translated into Swedish. We trust it will be appreciated by the turnip-headed Swedes. We only wish Stockholm would relieve us of the home stock of the work. COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY.—Let this paragraph, which we clip from a contemporary, be a warning to all ardent bachelors A female weaver, at Bradford, named Sabina Carey, has gained 5!.5 damages against a young man who, while courting her, squeezed her hand so hard as to break one of her fingers." If Sabina Carey's young man had only been learned in the law he would have married her out of hand before breaking her finger. It is one of the privileges of a married man under our wise laws to break his wife's head—or her heart—with perfect immunity from the danger of damages—to him self. State after State is yet to arise, and where the pro ductions for the support of society in the old crowded States must be brought forth. Power is not to re side permanently on the eastern slope of the Alle ghany Mountains nor in the seaports, but will be located in the Mississippi Valley and at the sources of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. I now believe, he continued, that the ultimate last seat of Government on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle not far from St. Paul, the head of the navigation on the Mississippi River. The tide of emigration is now rapidly flowing in, and will, no doubt, bring about this great change. The estimated population of the United States (38 millions), at the present rate of emigration, will in thirty years be 100 millions, and at least 60 per cent. of that increase will be thrown into the West ern States." St. Paul, the city whose future is pre dicted as the seat of Government for the continent, by such an authority as Mr. Seward, is already a large and beautiful town, situated on a great bend of the Mississippi (which is there bridged), contain ing,upwuds of 20,000 inhabitants. It is the centre ,ass Considerable trade, numerous steamers lie at the wharf, and eleven railroads put down and carry off passengers. Fourteen thousand tons of shipping be longed to the port in 1867, and the emigrant is sur prised to see so many vessels grouped at the docks in a place he regarded' as the outskirts of civi lization. A railway connects St. Paul with Lake Superior, running through a fertile portion of the State, and laying open two millions of acres of rich agricultural land. It is calculated that on this line the freight of wheat alone will be from 12 to 20 millions bushels annually. An association is now in operation to people this land, with an office at NO. 1, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew lane; opposite the Bank of England. It offers homes for emigrants on terms which will eventually pay, though not perhaps at present, the proprietors of the railroad. The United States' plan of peopling the waste places is for the Government to grant alter nate sections for ten miles back along the road as constructed, which gives a vastly increased value to the half belonging to the Government. 'rho object of the company then is to get the country on each side their road settled as speedily as possible, for every farm recovered from the waste adds to the business of the line, and consequently to its value. Those then who form this association are enabled to kill two birds with one stone, for in offering farm land in a charming country to hungry families at a small cost, they add to the intrinsic worth of their property in the direct proportion of the success of those they plant along the line. The produce of the State is mainly wheat, but very valuable crops are raised of hay, Indian corn, potatoes, and oats. In 1865 400,000 acres of wheat were harvested, giving twelve millions of bushels, averaging all round 30 bushels to the acre. This was a great yield, though the soil is said to return 35 bushels of wheat to the acre, of corn 40 to 50, and of potatoes 300. aSugar maple is plentiful, much being manufactured in 1867, together with 48,0001b5. of tobacco. Honey and beeswax averaged from 21bs. to 4lbs. a hive. The lands along the bank of the Upper Mississippi are covered with forest, and of the S'. Croix, Crow Wing, and Otter Tail Rivers, which employ about 3,000 lum ber-men. In 1866 the logs and lumber cut yielded 175,000,000 feet at St. Anthony and St. Croix, where mills are at work which turn whole trunks of trees into boards at one sawing. At St. Anthony there are magnificent Falls, estimated by engineers to equal 120,000 horse power, and this is the centre of a most fertile district. The Missouri plains, as well as the country generally, grows good grass, well adapted to depasture cattle and sheep. The oak openings afford both splendid feed and shade ; the wool grows finer a d in larger quantities than in the warmer climes of the south ; while the number of days in winter they require to be fed and sheltered is not greater than in Ohio and in Southern Illinois. Un like such countries as Australia and New Zealand, Minnesota abounds with game. Indeed, the valley of the St. Croix is noted over America for its deer, bear, turkeys, prairie fowl, pheasants, grouse ; wild pigeons, and prairie chickens positively swarm. Oc casionally buffalo find their way into these prairies and elk. The lakes and rivers are alive with fish, from speckled trout to the largest pike, while they are covered in winter with wild duck and geese. Pickerel are caught weighing 20 pounds, and the trout are said to weigh in some instances 301b5., white fish about 111bs., and carp about 4lbs. Although we have said that Minnesota is nut noted for any scene grandly pictu resque, an exception must be made in favour of the Falls of Minnehaha, four miles from St. Paul . . This, the most beautiful cascade in America, derives an additional charm from LongfAlow's Hiawatha, which in a measure has made it classic ground. This State is reached in three days from any of the great Atlantic ports by rail and by water, either up the Mississippi or by the St. Lawrence, though of course the time would be very much longer. Through it will pass the Northern line to the Pacific ; indeed the rail terminus of such a road must be in this State, for here the water communication begins. Instead, then, of being out of the way, it may not only become a centre for Government, but a world's highway. It was settled about 1846 by emigrants from the Northern and Western States ; organized as a Territory in 1819, and admitted into the Union in 1857. From 1854 its increase was very rapid, which has continued up to the present. It remains for us now but to touch on the financial condition of the State. At the commencement of 1867 its funded debt, exclusive of unrecognized railroad bonds, only amounted to $350,000, of which hut half is held outside the State. It had then a claim against the United States of $lOO,OOO ; and indeed virtually it may be said to have no debt at all, being in this respect in a strikingly favourable position when contrasted with other communities in America. The revenue for the year was estimated at $322,546, and the balance in the Treasury was $68,189. The taxable value of real and personal property returned for 1865- 6, was $45,127,318 ; for 1866-7457,50 0 , 000 . The permanent school fund then amounted to $1,333,161; the revenue was $109,935 ; the school districts, 1,993 ; the school houses, 1,297 ; the pupils, 52,753 ; the average daily attendance, 33,319. A university was opened at St. Anthony, a thriving city, and a State Penitentiary at Still water, another rising town. There is a deaf and chain' institution with 28 pupils. Around Lake Superior there is abundance of copper and iron ore, also coal, slate, building stone, and clay. It now furnishes one-fourth of all the iron ore produced in the States, upwards of 500,000 tons, which is so increasing that it is expected in five years to reach a million tons. The red pipe stone, of which the Indians make their pipes, is found in this State. The next State we purpose to discuss is Texas, going at a bound from the North to the South of the Union. At the fire (Dee. 24) at Briggs Brothers, in Twenty-third-street and Sixth-avenue, New York, the following were the horses destroyed :—" There were on livery at the time some seventy private animals, embracing a pair of bay mares belonging to Mi. Lo Fevre ; a pair of bay geldings, belonging to Mr. Platt; a pair of black trot ters of Mr. Ifoadlay's ; a Henry Clay horse of Mr. Osborne's ; Mr. Ross's sorrel colt Whirlpool, a promising three-year-old ; a four-in-hand of Mr. Palmer's ; black and bay coach teams, the property of Messrs. William P. and Ferdinand Earle; a saddle pony and black team of Mr. Slaughter's ; Mr. Frazer's two road mares ; a carriage team of Mr. Thompson's ; a pair of greys of Mr. Ballard's ; a road team of Mr. Hotchkiss's, of St. James's Hotel ; a black mare of Mr. Read's, of the Ho►fman House, for which 51,000 was recently paid ; Mr. Arkenburg's carriage team; while road and saddle horses were lost by Messrs. Lappin, Jones, Merritt, Lawrence, Beach, Martin, Dodge, and many others. The Briggs Brothers lost sixty animals." A telegram, dated Berlin, Jan. 29, was to the effect that the editors and jnurnalists of Berlin had adopted, upon the suggestion of Herr Berth old Auerlach, an address to General Grant, to 1s presented to him upon his assuming the of ica of President of the United States, requesting him to take the initiative in a bill for the mutual protection of literary and artistic property in America and Germany. The various literary societies of Germany have also been Invited to unite with . the Berlin editors in this matter. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is to commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon W.Q —[Ad- Tortisement.] "ORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA. Some of the Calcutta papers mention a rumour to the effect that Lord Napier of Magdala will shortly return to England and take an important post which will enable him to assist the reforms at the 'War Office. Lord Napier left England just before the present Ministry came into office ; so that his recall home almost immediately after leaving England may not be as improbable as it appears at first sight. A ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. According to the Irish Times, the Prince and the Princess of - Wales will visit Dublin during the ensuing spring. As they are not expected back from the East for some months, this announcement does not seem to be well founded. GIBRALTAR AND CEUTA. General Codrington has addressed a letter to the Times urging that some facts have not been duly weighed with regard to the proposed cession of Gibraltar. He first points out how widely applicable is the abstract theory of nationalities. He next argues that England has a duty and an interest in preventing one nation from controlling both shores of the Straits. There have been instances in which dues have been enforced in such narrow passages, whereas Gibraltar is now a free port, open to all nations in peace. With respect to Ceuta, after pointing out that the abstract theory applies to that port as well as to Gibraltar, the General goes on to state that the extended fron tier of Ceuta weakens it as a military position, while naval officers of experience have given conclusive opinions against it as a harbour. lie admits that the present anchorage of Gibraltar is not tenable in a war with Spain, but, as possessors of Gib raltar, we are not necessarily at war with Spain. England, he goes on to point out, has derived much good from the fortress, as may be seen from the history of the wars from 1805 to 1814. Another point worth attention is, that the civil population of Gibraltar numbers 14,000 persons, many of whom hold property under English law, and all of whom value highly their rights as British subjects. Yet tne transfer to the power alla laws of lip am as men tioned as•if these persons were of no account. VOLUNTF.T.It STATISTICS. The Morning Post sides with " Hippophylax ? " and doubts if the Government would act wisely in in creasing the capitation grant to volunteers. Ou r contemporary gives the following statistics :—G The total estimated cost of the ohmtecrs for the current y ear was £385,000. Out of this sum the adjutants were to receive k 04,400, and the sergeant instructors .-058,000. Miscellaneous charges reckoned for ;t4,700. The Capitation Grant for the Volunteers themselves amounted to £228,000. Thus we have one hundred and seventy thousand efficient men, each cost ing the State £2 55., against £32 for the ordinary and £4O for the re-engaged regular soldier. The money expended on the volunteers would procure about ,000 regular tr oo p s ." S ure l y th e fi gures h ere are too high and too low ; the stated cost of the volunteer is excessive and of the regular soldier beneath the mark. We have heard the cost of a soldier put at £lOO a year, while the Pot puts it at only £4O. Everything depends upon the mode. of reckoning the cost. Our contemporary seems to have included all :he expenses so far es the volunteer is concerned — ranges, headquarters, rifles, staff, and the like ; and to have reckoned only the bare pay so far as the soldier is concerned. FUREIUN NOTES. SPAN. The Provisional Government has at last confessed its inability to find a suitable candidate for the throne, and has decided to recommend that the supreme executive power be conferred upon a triumvirate, or directory of three. The Liberte says that the situation demanded some expedient of the kind. Not only is the uncertainty dangerous, but some members of the Government are utterly weary of their task. Prim and Serrano enjoy most of the luxury of power, whilst the hard labour, care, and peril which the subordinate Ministers have undergone since the fall of Isabella is not compensated by any hope to the ambitious. The Libera and all the French Liberal papers rejoice at this decision, which they believe to be a decided gain to Republicanism. So it will be if it do not result in the other extreme. History is not reassuring on the subject of triumvirates or directories. As to the Pro visional Government, it will dissolve in honour, and with the respect of Europe. Its faults have not been few. But it has given the nation compa• rative quiet during a time of great cligiculty. It has esta blished universal suffrage, and worked it without riot, cut down the army to 50,000 men, reduced the nary, suppressed the colonial budget, saved millions in ecclesiastical ex pense 3, and has done something to diminish the deluge of distress and pauperism. The Government, says the Times' correspondent, has acted very unjustly and unwisely in bringing the persons arrested at Burgos before a court-martial. A deep sense of horror and disgust has been awakened by this resoln. tion. It is, indeed, true that a state of siege has beth proclaimed at. Burgos, but by the law of Spain courts• maltial cannot judge any offence committed previous to the proclamation. A.T:sTr,rA. The Bohemians and the Poles are alike struggling for an independent existence similar to that of Hungary, but whilst the Czechs have been playing the game of their adversaries by violence against the Government and division amongst themselves, the Poles seek their object by legal means. They have carried a motion by which the question of Polish autonomy is to be submitted to the con sideration of the Reichsrath. The Minister of the Interior did not discuss the question, but he did not oppose the motion. The cause of the Austrian Poles looks hopeful. TURKEY AND GREECE. The Greeks are much irritated at the declaration of the Conference. They had little hope that it would be in their favour, especially after the refusal of their Ambas sador to take part in the deliberations at Paris ; but they are, nevertheless, greatly disappointed that a Conference at which Russia was represented should have pro nounced so decisively in favour of their adversary. The people are said to demand the rejection of the proto- col, and there is no doubt that the Ministry is disposed to take that course, but the chances are in favour of peace. The King, it is authoritatively asserted, will acquiesce in the decision of the Conference, and a Ministerial change is probable. Turkey has managed matters well, and has gained all that was to be had—though that was not much. This difficulty is merely one incident in a chronic state of hostility between the two nations. The most substantial advantage acquired by the Porte is undoubtedly the victory in Crete. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The details of the recent great battles in Paraguay shew that the Allies have gained a substantial, if not a very glorious success. They have defeated a greatly en feebled adversary, and the cause of Lopez seems utterly lost. After the two battles of the sth and 11th of Dec., the allied army was obliged to rest awhile, in order to receive supplies, but on the 21st it moved forward to assail the Paraguayan position on the hills called Lomas Valentinas, about nine miles from Villeta. Here Lopez was posted with a small, but still respectable army, clearly proving that the capture of Villeta had not been followed by the flight of the Dictator with a few hundred cavalry, as was at first asserted. The Allies had suffered so severely in the two battles before Villeta that their number was reduced to under 18,000 men, but the Para guayans had only 7,000. These forces were engaged on the heights of Lomas Valentines, and little by little the Para guayans lost ground. By six o'clock on the night . of the 21st the Brazilians had carried the first line of defence, but the fighting went on all night, the Paraguayans making repeated efforts to recover the position. They were unsuccessful, but held their remain ing lines un til t h e 27t h , t h e fi g h t i ng b e i ng incessant. On this last day all the allied troops advancedwcarried,asdefences. gained n a lid g oe a bnr i yne alls the the esgi side the on Lomas Valentines, ground intelligence ni s , Lopezt h e chiefhadcn dr retreated e d , tb o r bta up ep i d n t oi t n h t teho there e eh a vi rse evenings na lastga of the 27th Augustura still held out. The war, say the Brazilian papers, will be carried on until Lopez be captured or driven out of Paraguay. lie deserves a better fate. Whatever may be his private character, it has been grossly calumniated, whilst the skill and the courage with which he has defended his country against a greatly superior enemy have never been surpassed. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. The Falkland Islands, a British settlement hitherto deemed both undesirable and hopeless, are rising in im portance. The stream of emigration flows largely towards South America just now, and of course the irrepressible Briton forms a considerable proportion of it. To protect English interests, the Falkland Islands are of some conse quence. Many sheep-farmers from Australia and New Zealand have invaded this possession, the imports and ex ports have risen, and a dry clock is being constructed. Gold and coal are believed to exist, but the labour which might find them is wasting in the mother country. A Scientific Tract Society has been suggested as a suitable means for the diffusion of useful knowledgo among the Working peoplo. (From the Tomahawk.) DRAMATIC AND MILITART.—The new gun-metal for English picas. German silver. Eh ! Mr. Tom Robertson ? A curious rumour prevails in the City that Mr. E. W. Edwards, of Overend and Gurney fame, is the original of that whimsical character in Offenbach's " Orphee," John Styx, the being who drowned his care in draughts of Lethe. The regal salary which Mr. Edwards received for doing comparatively nothing seems to give an air of tredibility to the rumour. DRI7ISII EMIGIZ.47ION TO AMERICA. IVINNESOT (From the Anglo-American Times.) This State derives its name from the Dacotah words Minne-sotah, meaning sky-tinted water, in reference to its numerous and beautiful streams and lakes, which, from their crystal purity, re flect the clear blue skies. • The area given of Minnesota is about 83.531 square miles, with a population now estimated at 420,000, being an in crease of 70 per cent. on the State census of 1865, at which rate, if maintained till next year when the census of the Republic is taken, it will be 600,000. Bacon in his Handbook estimates the Indians at 25,000, but they are now probably under that num ber, as the Sioux were driven into Dacotah in 1862, the Chippewas alone remaining in the State. Hole-in-the-Day, a brave, intelligent chief of this tribe, was making money at Crow Wing in farming and industrial pursuits, and was thought to be as respectable in every way as his neighbours, till he died the other day leaving a vast sum to his wife. From an unpublished manuscript we learn that from Superior City at the head of the lake of that name, across the State, and from White Bear Lake to Otter Tail, there is no more danger from Indians than in the Strand. Minnesota is the most western of the most northern tier of the States. Beyond it, to the setting sun, lies the Territory of Dacotah, bounding it from north to south on tfie west. Next to Dacotah is Montana, and between that, and the Pacific State of Oregon and Territory of Washing ton, lies Idaho. The greater half of its eastern boundary borders on Wisconsin; the lesser on Lake Superior, while all along the north runs the Hud son Bay Territory. It may be thought that the climate of a State sofas north must be cold, and liable to great extremes. The 45th parallel of north lati tude runs right through its centre, passing over the best and most fertile parts of Canada West, touching the north of New York State, Vermont, New Hampshire, and along the centre of Maine. As the Atlantic is neared the cold becomes more intense, and the gigantic lakes bordering on the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minne sota, tetnpsr tha climate, which is marked by distinct peculirities ; with the winter of Canada and New England, but without their heavy falls of snow. Ono of the peculiarities is a clear dry at mosphere, for which the State has become noted, and has added SO much to its salubrity, as well as to the brilliancy imparted to every landscape. The moisture in winter is frozen out of the atmosphere, and lies on the soil in snow from December until the end of March. During this time rain seldom falls, while the snow is not sufficiently deep seriously to impede travel. In the spring there is a rapid thaw, but all the water ---the lakes and rivers —remain as clear as glass. The settlers as sert the clima!e to he the healthiest in the world, and eminently seised for consumptive people, and the leading life assurance companies authorizo their agents to take risks which would not else where be touched. The surface is undulating with stlaaln-like peculiarity being many of them theg r e anumerous y c o r y f pic turesquely placed, sparkling waterfalls, and high bluffs. Much of the land is a rolling prairie of rich soil, and the State may be said to be equally di vi d s db and prairies; stately fo rrivers, and there are few countriesct e s l iue evn t the w e h e bankser e o awk woods o o o p df nt and open untimbered plains are so happily distributed. The prevailing soil is a dark calcareous loa m, c omposed for the most part of decayed vegetable matter or leaf mould, averag ing in depth six feet, and rssting upon fine sand and rocks. The scenery is more attractive from its diversified character than from anything particu larly grand and marked. This is perhaps attribut able to the extraordinary clearness of atmosphere which imparts its brilliancy to all surrounding na ture. The rivers become a deep blue, the water falls sparkle, and the numerous lakes reflect the bright sky like mirrors cast over the surface. Sun sets are gorgeous, the stars glitter, and the nights are as beautiful as the days are delightful, for there is a joyousness in such a climate which those only can appreciate who come under its influence. Three fourths of the soil is suited for agriculture, but the best farm lands are in the southern portion, com prising about one-half of the State. Above the Falls of St. Anthony the country gets wet. Minnesota is the birth-place of the Mississippi, and the head waters of Lake Superior also lave the shore of this State, almost the largest lake and the largest river in the world. It is the proximity of these two of nature's greatest channels of communication which enables the citizens to predict with such confidence a prosperous future. Nor can those who glance at the map be surprised at this anticipation. Centre ing in a rich country, blessed with a climate as en joyable as healthy, commence the two great water courses of the Continent. From Duluth at the head of Lake Superior the navigation extends for thou sands of miles through lakes, through the St. Law rence, through canals, embracing a vast extent of civilized, settled, fertile country both of the British Dominion and of the United States. From Duluth to St. Paul, the capital of the State and the head of the steam navigation on the Mississippi River, the distance is but 150 miles. Then commences a communication, if more intricate and wanting in breadth of lake, yet more stupendous still. The main feature of the Continent is the valley of the Mississippi, which embraces the State we are now discussing. Our readers know that at least 23,000 miles of navigation is opened by this river and its branches, and the starting-point is from St. Paul. It was this fact which made Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, exclaim in one of his most celebrated speeches, " Here spring up side by side the two great rivers of the Continent, the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, almost within a stone's throw of each other, and running iu opposite directions—the one half way to Europe, the other gathering the produce of the cotton plantations to the Gulf of Mexico, or to the vast water power of the Upper Mississippi. Here is the place (allud ing to this district), the central place, where the agriculture of the richest region of North America must pour out its tributes to the whole world. . . On the cast all along the shore of Lake Superior and west, stretching in one broad plain across the Continent, is A country where SPORTING INTEL LIGENOE. SUDBURY SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. A Handicap Plate of 40 sovs ; winners extra. One mile and a quarter. Mr Robert's Flash, by Thunderbolt—Miss Hinds, 3 yrs, ist (inc. 71b ex.) (Butler) 1 Mr Rover's Poleaxe 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Barker) 2 Mr Wass's Whit wo;th, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (T. Goodwin) 3 The following also ran :—Wild Blood, Contempt, Nannie, Mathilde, First Fiddle, and Colonel P. Hustable weighod for Cromwell, 5 yrs, Bst, and the number was hoisted, but the horse having left the course did not start. Botting.-2 to 1 agstFlash, 4 to 1 agst Nannie, 5 to 1 (at first '2 to 1) agst Contempt, 8 to 1 agst Poleaxe, 10 to 1 agst Whitworth. Won by a length and a half. A Hunters' Plate of 20 sovs for bunters ; weight for age. Two Taos. Mr Audinwood's Lucy, pedigree unknown, 4 yrs, 12st 7lb Mr Seabrook's Lizzie, aged, 12st 12Ib (Owner) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Lucy. Lucy had the race to herself, Lizzie persistently refusing to start till her opponent Rad gone thirty yards; and when she did get off she ran so unkindly as to leave Lucy to canter in alone. A Plato of 20 sovs, for all ages ; weight for age. Three furlongs. Mr Fuller's c by Simple SimonT—Ambush, 2 yrs (X2O), 6st s!b 3Sr. J. Waltham's Colonel P., 3 yrs (1:20), Bst 71b (I'. Gootlwin) t 2 Mr Goodwiu's Mousetrap, 2 yrs (..£2O), 6st Mb (car. Est ... (Butler) 3 Mr nis!!brook's May Queen, 2 yrs (£2O), Est 51b (Dann) 4 Betting-5 to 2on Mousetrap, 7to 2 agst the Ambush colt, 10 to 1 " bar two." Mousetrap jumped off with a clear lead of Colonel P., the Ambush colt bringing up the rear to the distance, where Mousetrap was beaten, and the Ambush colt join ing Colonel P., the pair ran a close race up, resulting in a dead-heat. The favourite was third, beaten a length from the dead-heaters, while May Queen was last, beaten off. Deciding bleat-2 to 1 on the Ambush colt, who made play throughout, and won in a canter by ten lengths. The Spring Flying (Handicap) of 30 soves ; winners extra. Half a mile. Mr C. Jarvis,'s Little Coates, by Lambton—dam by Bal linkeele, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Iluxtable) 1 Mr W. Dixon's Peter, 4 yrs, Bst ilb (Payne) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Little Coates, who made the whole of the running, and won in a canter by a length and a half. The winner was not sold. A hurdle Race Plate of 30 sovs, weight for age, one mile and a quarter, over six flights of hurdles, became void. THE SUDBURY lIANDICAP.—Owing to the Stewards not being present to-day, the objection against Nannie was not considered, but it will bo decided in London on Monday. CARMARTHEN HUNT MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Cambrian Stakes of 3 sovs oath, with 30 adlod; we"ght for age, with selling allowance. About two miles. Mr Planner's Farleigh (lato Serious Case), by the Cure, —Gift, aged, list Mb (H. Ellison) 1 Mr Todd's Paddy, aged, list 31b (J. Pope) 2 Jack and Englishman also ran. Betting-5 to - 4 on Farleigh, 2 to 1 any other. Won in a canter by three lenz-ths ; Jack bolted, and Englishman refused. The winner was not sold. Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, h ft, 3 to the fund if declared, with 100 added. About four miles Mr R. Green Price's Whitehall, by Sir Tatton Sykes (h b), aged, 12st (G. Stevens) 1 Mr Richardson's Chance, 6 yrs, list 81b. (Hitchings) 2 Mr Noble's The Guide, aged, 12st 21b (fr. Ellison) 0 Betting-6 to 4on The Guide, 6to 4 agst Whitehall, 3 to 1 agst Chance. Won, after a good race, by a leng . .b. Whitehall broke down after passing the post., The Guide pulled up. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 40 added ; weight for age. About three miles. Governess 1 Isle of Man 2 Forester, President, and Aprilis also ran. Betting sto 4 agst Governess, 2to 1 agst Isle of Man 5 to 2 agst Forester. %Von easily. Forester bolted into the betting ring, Aprilis foil, and President refused. Acceptances for the BIRMINGHAM GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE of 15 sous each, with 100 added ; certain winners extra. About three miles and a half. Age st lb Doctor, The a 12 7 Lamb, The ... a 12 6 Philosopher a 12 2 Steamboat... 6 11 12 Meanwood... ... a 11 5 Ace of Trumps ... a 11 5 The Robber a 11 4 Greenland... ... a 11 4 Tribune ... ... 6 11 2 Orne 5 11 2 Bt a 11 2 Despatch a 11 0 Brick ... a 11 0 Fan...all 0 Liston ... a 11 0 Ag) st lb Tennyson ... a 11 0 Lord Waldegrave... a 10 11 Jurjman 6 10 11 Bannockburn ... a 10 10 A‘la ... 510 9 Owen Roe ... 6 10 9 Columbia ... a 10 9 ... a 10 9 Flatcatcher ... a 10 8 Plover ... a 10 6 Gip ,, y Girl ... a 10 5 Prima Donna ... 510 4 L.S.D. ... a 10 2 Bishopton ... a 10 2 Malvern ... 6 10 2 BACLNG 'IXTU RES. FEBR Lincoln l6, 17 H4rrow lB, 19 Mansfield 18 Pontefract lB, 19 j lIARY. Nottingham Spring 23, 21 Chelmsford.... 25, 26 Derby Spring 25, 26 MA Liverpool Spring 2,3; 4 Shrewsbury spring 5, 6 Downpatrick 9 War wick ...9, 10, 11 Hendon l2, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 Northampton 16, 17 West Drayton lB, 19 BaMoyle First Spring 18, 15 Margate 20 Beverley 20 Durham '29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 Abergo.venny l, 2 Bromley 1, 2 Aldershot l, 2 Catterick Bridge... l, 2 Thirsk .. 6. 7 Hutigerford 6, 7 Lichfield 6, 7 Cambridge 7 8 Croxton Park .. 8 Streatham 8, 9 1.1. Chester 4,5, 6, 7 E g li n ton Hunt 6, 7 Winchester ll, 12 York 11, 12 Baldoyle 2nd Spring 11, 12 St Albans 1: 4 , 14 S a lisbury l3, 14 Newmarket Craven...l2, &c. Knighton... l3, 14 Ludlow 15, 16 Eastbourne l9 Lewes 20 21 Curragh ...20, 21, 22 Croydon... 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Spring 26, &C Doncaster 13, 14 I West Drayton l7, 18 IBath 18, 19 Manchester l9, 20, 21 Croydon 19, 21 IHarpenden 2l Epsom Summer .. ...25, &c. NE. INewcastle ..., ...... 22, 23, 24 Oldham 22 Bibury Club 23 I26Stockbridge 24 , 25 Chelmsford Sutton Park .....29, 30 Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 Ascot ....8, 9, 10, 11 Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Curragh 22, 23, 24 Worcester l, 2 Newmarket July 6, &c. Carlisle Pontefract 9, 10 Hendon ..... 12, 13 Nottingham 13, 14 14Y. Southampton 13, 14 Reading 15, 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 1 Stamford ..,, '2, 23 Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 AUG Brighton 3, 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes Egham lO, 11 Wolverhan'pton lO, 11. Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans l7, 18 Stockton lB, 19, 20 UST. Oxford York 24, 25, 26 Plymouth 26, 27 Scarborough 30, 31 Derby Summer .. 31, Sep. 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 Canterbury .........31, Sep. 1 SEPT: Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield OCT Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester ' 7, 8 Bromley 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 20 Kelso 19 20 HOVE. Worcester 2,3, 4 Harrow 2, 3 Liverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 STEEYLECIik FEBR Chippenham 10, 11 Streatham 11, 12 Newbricige 15 Lincoln lo, 17 Morton-in-Marsh lB Harrow lB, 19 MA Liverpool 3 Shrewsbury ..... 5, 6 Malton Rugby (Grand Mil.) 8, 9 Kingsbury ...............12, 13 AP. Aldershot ..................1, 2 Bromley ..................... 1, Ab crg avenny . 1, 2 Lichfield ...... Southdown Hunt .7 Cambridge ... 7 8 Cheltenham 7, 8 Limerick Hunt 4 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 JULY. MBER. Hampton .....21, 22 Western (Ayr)........ 22, 23 Hendon Monmouth . 23, 24 Newmarket Ist Oct 28, &c. Lanark... 29, 30 1B ER. Cheltenham l9. 20 Curragh l9, 20, 21 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmark4t Inon ...25, &o. :31BE R. Shrewsbury 15, tee. Leamington hunt 23, &c. E FIXTURES. rAILY Pontefract 18, 19 Boston Windsor 22, 23 St. Albans 9 3, 24 Derby • • 25 Basohurch 26 West Somerset 15, 16 York 17 Crowkerno lB, 19 Chepstow 29, 30 Streatham B, 9 Royal Artily., Woolwich...B 1114;1i:on Ludlow l5, 16 Tenbury... 2l Croydon 22, 23 Co. Louth & Ardeo 27, 28 AY. St. Albans West Drayt0n.......... 17 Kingsbury 9 AUGUST. St. Albans 17 OCTOBER. _ Bromley 7 I West Droyton 2l, 22 NOVEMBER. Harrow 2, 3 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 I Worcester 3, 4 Liverpool St. Albanfif 1111 l 111/111 ttttt 6 t SiireWoburY.me, 16 / 19 RC IL WATERLOO ME (Over .1 Patron-Right Hon. The Waterloo Cup, value £l, of £25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO. 1. Mr C. F. Allison 83. Mr J. Ingleby 2. Mr J. F. _Armistead 34. Mr R. Jardine 3. Mr J. Bake 35. Mr F. Johnston 4. Mr W. J. Barden 36. Mr J. Johnston 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37. Mr H. B. Jones 6. Lord Binning 38. Mr W. J. Legh 7. Mr J. Blackstock 39. Mr S. C. Lister 8. Mr J. S. Bland • 40. Mr J. Lonsdale 9. Mr G. Blanshard 41. Lord Lurgan 10. Mr W. a Borron 42. Mr S. Mallabey 11. Mr T. Brocklebank 43. Mr C. E. Marfleet 12. Mr J. Brundrit 44. Mr W. 11. Massey 13. Mr R. B. Carruthers 45. Sir C. Molyneux 14. Mr C. J. Chesshyro 46. tlon. C. C. Molyneux 15. Mr W. H. Clark 47. Mr I'. Neville 16. Mr E.*Croft 48. Mr R. Paterson 17. Mr J. Cunningham 49. Mr T. L. Reed 18. Mr W. D. Deighton 50. Pr Richardson 19. Mr James Dunlop 51. Mr J. Savage 20. Mr J. Evans 52. Mr N. Saxton 21. Lord Garlies 53. Lord Sefton 22. Mr J. Gibson 51. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Spinks 24. Col. Goodlak6 56. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. Graham 57. Mr E. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green 58. Mr B. Swinburne 27. M. C. A. Bailey 59. Mr G.A. Thompson 28. Capt. Hat horn 60. Mr R. Todd 29. Mr J. ITay wood 61. Mr B. W. 'Tinder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr It. C. Vyner .• 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. H. Williams 32. Mr J. Ilyslop C 4. Capt. Wyndham The Waterloo Plate for the 16 dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, amounting to £lOO, to be divided as under: • 1. Winner o receive 1 Second ditto •• ••• 2. Dogs to receive £7 10s each 4. Ditto ditto ditto ... :ETING—FEB. 17. kltcar.) . the Earl of Sefton. ,600 in specie, by subscriptio wiener to receive £5OO, and £4O 25 8 £lOO Tho Waterloo Purse, for the 32 dogs beaten in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to ba divided as under:- 1. Winner to receive £lOO 1. Second ditto ••• ••• ••• 50 2. Dogs to receive ..£l5 each._ 4. Ditto ditto l 0 ditto... ... 40 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto... 40 £260 The Great Waterloo Cup, 64 subscribers, at £25 may" the money £l,6oo—to be divided as under:- 1. Winner to receive ... 1. Second ditto 2. Dogs to receive £5O each... 4. Ditto ditto 30 ditto... 8. Ditto 20 ditto... 16. Ditto 10 ditto... £5OO 200 100 120 160 160 ----. , 1,240 The Waterloo Purse arid Waterloo Plata 360 £1,60P The Waterlos Plate, value £lOO in specie, taken from the Cup Stakes, for the 1G beaten dogs in the first ties for the Waterloo Cup. The Waterloo Purse, value £260, in specie, taken from the Cup Stake, for the 32 beaten dogs in the first round for the Cup; the winner to receive £l6O. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 21 ' Ditto, via ............ Feb. 22 Ditto, via klia_ttma ........ ......... ........ Feb Brazil,Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Mar. 1. Ditto, by Frenoh packet Cape Vcrds, by Brazil paoket ..... .Mar. Cape of Good EL,pe. Ascension. and St. Helena.... Feb. 11 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. Fici). 1/ Gibraltar, yla Southampton India, via Soutbainnton ...... 0 unto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, &o. Fab. 6. Ditto, Marseilles Ftb • 16 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southann ton Ditto, Marseilles Feb. 13 Newfocindlar ...... ....... r b 0 Portugal .. thkited States, ( anada, C tlitornia, Ste., by British packet Ditto, by Canadian packet ........... Feb 3 Ditto, by L sited States packet _ . Ditto dill( (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, 31adeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 1 6 ' West Indies and Pacific ;except Mexico and Baha- ~ mas) Feb 1. , Falkland Islands „„„.. mar l• Cuba and Mexico ....Mar. 1 • Bermuda, via Halifax. ... Bahamas, via New York - The mineral resources of Arkansas prom's= w r yield immense benefits to that State. Gold and si lv° o bearing quartz has been found at various points on Washita river; load in seven counties, and in all tliv various spurs of the Ozark range. The Confedoroel mined a large amount of lead in Sevier county during war. Zinc exists in half a dozen of counties in als' ° : 3 unlimited quantities. L awrence county conta i ns a del''s-0 almost inexhaustible. Nitrate o f p o t as h i s a b un dant. Sc—,,ati, of the finest black marble ever discovered on the C Ol-i nent has been taken from the quarries near Jacksoa - P o . r t :, on White Ri ver . Th ere are var i ous grades of 0 ; 0 marine at num erous p o i n t s i n th e same valley, and g ranite in endless, varieties.— Wall-street Journal. nt last Saturday evening, in the Mere: • i wits' Glasgow, Captain Munro, of the Ilibernia, screw sto 3 ', /l u e p was publicly pr esen t e d w ith 150 sovere i gns, su b s cribe , ' the citizens of Glasgow, in recognition of his heroic s o f seaman-like conduct in connec ti on w ith th e fOuudering his ship on the 24th November last. A new velocipede has been invented in Portia° Ma'ne. It has three wheels, but a fourth is to b3ad de '„ t , motion The bot a c n o d ra t in h u e e i i s t h c e :p r •t a v b i i t e h t o h f e b h e s fe or with vehicle attach;, to a horse and drawn like an ordinary buggy. Th e , st ,, e ,o ing apparatus is managed by the knees of the rider. l' - n d are several other differences, said to be improvernon ts l 9 :o ingeniously contrived. Cincinnati has had a velo ci Lst tournament, with prizes for both the fastest and 01 °' - riders. A deputation, consi s ti ng o f t wo clergymen from Bohemia, will visit th e U n it e d St a t es thi s spring, 11/°,tro to set forth th e con diti on o f t h e P rotestants i n that vines of Austria. Th e v i s i t i s i n consequenc e of s ' „' e A t vitation at the meeting of the Evangelical Allittn e tae Bath, England, in 1866, and renewed in 1867, by an rican clergyman who was travelling in Bohemia. 0. [ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Ointment an d - -01 Ds o- Jaundice.—Disordered Liver. —A good free flaw of bile ii ° me t! lutely necessary for digestion; when this secretion is interr`4" or or depraved disease immediately sets in, and salloWn es :ot jaundice marks the cause to be in the liver. This lroP, o uce organ, so liable to disorder, can always be regulated h3 r way's ointment and pills. The former, rubbed on the rig ht l o st over the region of the liver, upon which it exercises 01 401 0 salutary influence without harassing the stomach or th e ", soe tli —a matter frequently of vital importance—confers on this V ro s• an advantage over tvery other form of medicine in the Ph i : o w copceia ; when assisted by the pills every disease is spee d ' jected and effectually banished. torh i g ADVERTISEMENT.J—Du Barry's Delicious Health l les Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three th!lesotzer nourishment of the best moat, saves fifty times its cost 'b o at remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, soun, eri orgi healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, 5 1 % , on . ,`" to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing sPee',l l. effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual COO c.O• as diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat s , catarrhs, colds, lft", crOP I : noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impuritgq.,, tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, 8 ,0 " 1 ,'• 1 1 1' pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps , or,bitil nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma., 100010 incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, Pl o ta ii ; the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. 11 / B , 4 Dy few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restored Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. 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Noble, Esq., of St. Mary's Priory, 11 E 4 ' 1- Deaths. stoic ," DAMES—On the Ist inst. , at Woodberry Vale , ington, George Dames, Esq., a;ed 43. 11 0 DONKIN—On the 2d inst., at Farnham, S tool, pi Donkin, Esq., aged Z 5. 10,4, HALL—On the 2d inst., at Sonthsea, Sophia 1%. 14 ,' -i n ' fan"' of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, o f the COL ° aged 68. WHITTINGRAM- On the 2d inst., at Western 110 O ;Ot DP ford, John Whittingham, Esq., late o f lieJ Essex. Ey oS AND_.. )3 1 4 , London : Printed and Pablished by of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Oc.'o,,tott Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the Iliddleaux.--Thursclay, February 4, 11309.