The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-21 00:00:00

THE .RECOVEBY OF THE STOLEN CHILD. The following facts, *which 'have been obtained from the most authentic source, will complete the story, hitherto imperfectly related, of the restoration of Colonel Hickie's child, and the capture of the woman Barry. She had been in the service of Colonel Hickie for about two months, and was under notice to leave, on account, as she imagined, of complaints which were the subject of hints with the other servants of the house. During the last six or seven years she had been in as many different situations ; but usually referred to one lady for a character. It has been ascertained since she stele the little girl that she had,, in two or three cases of dismis sal from employment, threatened to be revenged. The simple cause of her being discharged from Colonel Hickie's service was that she was found unsuitable for the duties of her position in his household. It may be mentioned, as a curious incident, that, within the past twelvemonth, she has been in the service of a well-known detective and principal of en "inquiry office." When Elizabeth Barry left Colenel Hickie's house, at throe o'clock in the afternoon of October the Bth, with the child entrusted to her care, she went to the Taplow Park Station, where she had to wait nearly half an hour for a train to London. None of the officials noticed hcr; but it , happened that a young woman, who was her fellow-pas senger, did so, and, afterwards remembering the cir cumstance, wrote Colonel Hickie a letter, which he re ceived last Sunday. On the night of the same day on which Barry left Kidwells Park, the residence of Colonel Hickie, she proceeded by the North-Western Railway to Liverpool, and took lodgings in St. Jude's-place. A little girl who lived in the same house read in one of the local papers a description given of Barry, and in particular was struck by the fact that the strange woman had a mole On the right upper lip. The girl told her father ; who com municated with the police; and a detective, assuming the character of a lodging-house inspector, went to the house and asked the new lodger her name. She said it was Tay lor; and the office; who had been informed of her maiden name, asked whether it was not Fox. She answered that it was, and on being further interrogated she confessed that her name was Barry, and that she was the person who had taken away the child. "I am looking for you," said the detective, " and you are in my custody." Barry, so far from having taken affectionate care of tho little girl, had cropped its hair close, pawned its clothes, and, for some days at least, neglected and half-starved it. Indeed, for a week previous to her discovery the woman had given way to drunkenness. She is supposed to have had £2 10s. in her pocket when she left; and the little that was left of this, after paying hee railway fare, had been spent in drink. The child was in such robust health when taken froni its home, that a few days' deprivation of proper and sufficient nourishment had had no seriously ill effects on ifs physical condition. Barry had no means, as we have shown, of paying her passage to America ; and her assertion that she did not intend to snake the voyage may therefore be credited. She states that she had proposed supporting herself and the child by needlework. Too obvious for any elaborate comment is the simple truth that a little girl, aided by a newspaper, was practically the " detective" who arrested Elizabeth Barry, and that the police had but a secondary part to play in the business. At the same time, the earnest desire of every member of the force, whether in Liverpool or in London, to ,aid Colonel Hickie's pursuit of the woman who had stolen his child, may be acknow ledged. A telegram received from Maidenhead on Wednes day night, says :—The prisoner, Elizabeth Barry, in the custody of Constable Holdway, arrived at Taplow riation at nine o'clock. She stepped lightly out of the carriage, and was promptly placed in a cab that was in waiting, and driven off rapidly to Maidenhead. On the cab drawing up at the police-station, there was a great rush cf excited people to gain a sight of the prisoner, but she was so speedily and cleverly taken from the cab and conducted to the cell, that no time was given for any display of public indignation. Barry was respectably attired in a black dress, black Astra chan jacket, and black bonnet. She is a sharp-featured woman, of dark complexion, black hair, moderate height, and of middle age. The constable reports that he got his prisoner away from Liverpool without marked observation. At Paddington they were recognised, and a crowd of two or three hundred persons quickly gathered round. The woman was securely transferred to the local train, and taken on to Taplow. To ensure the safe keeping of his prisoner, Mr. Superintendent M`Grath has arranged that an attendant shall remain with her during the night in the ward of the prison. LAW AND POLICE. rec'EssruL SmNDLEus.—.Aremarkable case of swindling is 'now under investigation at the Marlborough-street Police-court. A gentlemanly-looking man, named Alfred Howard, who has passed as Captain Howard and Captain Herbert, and a woman, named Nicholson, who passed as his wife, have pursued a system of fraud. In the metro polis and in several watering-places and provincial towns they have obtained an immense quantity cf property of various kinds. The library of the police-station at Marlbo rough-street presented the appeal ance of a bazaar, the misc?.l - gcods taken from tho prisoners' lodgings and obtained by means of the duplicates found upon them being spread out for identification. Property was pawned to the amount of £6OO, its actual value being at least double that amount. Howard is said to have obtained a medal in the Crimean war, in which he served as a private. The prisoners were remanded. THE EFFECTS OF DRINK.—A young man named Plummer has teen sentenced at the Mansion House to four months' imprisonment for embezzlement. He was a cashier in the employ of Mr. Kerby, a wine cooper, who placed great confidence in him. Latterly he had given way to drinking habits, and was discharged. A deficiency was found in his accounts amounting to /200. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had now produced memoranda of certain payments which reduced that sum to 189, and as beforele gave way to drinking habits great trust had been reposed in him, he asked for a lenient sentence. MERCIFUL EMPLOYE - MS. - A respectable man named Glover, employed as a commercial traveller by Messrs. Lyle and Gilbert, was charged with embezzling £3D. The case was heard at the Mansion House. The prosecutors asked to be allowed to withdraw the prosecution, as on inquiry they found the prisoner had a large family, and two of his children were ill with scarlet fever. His wife had also been turned out of her house. Sir Robert Carden agTeed, solely on the condition that no money should pass, and the prisoner, who wept bitterly, was discharged. CHARGE OF STABBING.—Joseph Welsh, a journeyman painter, was charged at Greenwich Police-court, with stabbing a man, named Abrahams. A day or two since the prisoner summoned Abrahams for a sum of twenty-six shillings, for work performed. The summons was dis missed owing to a dispute about the value of the work. Unfortunately they met the same day in a public-house, and a quarrel arose, which ended in Welsh's drawing a knife and stabbing Abrahams so severely that he died next day at Guy's Hospital. After some evidence,, h a d been taken the prisoner was remanded. ROBBERY BY A DRAGOON.--A private of t l- „, e sth Dragoon Guards has been charged at Leeds stealing a silver spoon and fork from the barracks of the regiment. He was engaged as assistant order l y -room clerk, and had access to the pantry. An ap;.ter.tiee, named Suddaby, was charged with pledgin6 the plate, but as Stephens, the private, admitted 'having given it to him, :, 2, 3ddal-7 wap dismissed and Stephens committed for trial. THE LIVG OF HONITON.—We the Rev. Edward Austin, of Broughton, in the parish of Hawarden, has been approved by her Majesty as suc cessor to Mr. Maekarness in the rectory of Honiton upon his approaching accession to the see of Oxford.—Chester Chronicle. SHOCKING MUDDED AND St r ICIDE.-At Dundee, on Wednesday, David Dick, a fanner, livingnear Arbroath, while at dinner rose and took a gun from the kitchen, went back to the dining-room, locked the door, and shot his wife dead. He then shot himself ; but the shot proving ineffectual, he cut his throat and died immediately. They were each about 40 years of age, and five children are left, the eldest aged 13. THE BALLOT IN AMERICA.—it is suggested that Lord Hartington, as chairman of the Election Practices Committee, may, perhaps, find some light thrown on the Ballot and popular voting by the publication thus announced in the .21 7 e n, York Tribune :—" The Wig and the Jimmy : A Leaf from the Political History of New York," may now be obtained at the Tribune office. It is an elucidated synopsis of the evidence taken before the Committoo of Congress who visited our city last winter and took testimony as to the gigantic frauds whereby General Grant was swindled out of the Electoral Vote of New York, and John T. Hoffman made Governor. Briefly the Judicial and E::eenti le magi ;trates of this city were the projectors and responsila authors of the frauds in :.\ - aturalisation, Recistration, and Repeating whereby seine tliiety thousand votes were illegally yelled here, with soveeal thousands more in the adjacent counties, expressly to produce the results above set forth, The people cf the raral districts ought to know by iviiat barefaced villany this city is ruled, and this pamphlet will show why every Democratic journal and politician opposes registry laws and all other devices fur preventing frauds at elections, If this exposure were in every voter's hands we are confident that the reformed Constitution would be ratified, and a check thus put upon all sorts of villany 1 4 41;94944 WA i 4 kgi41.449j1t r 1199. tY1134441 1 0 - HALL'S ARCTIC JOURNEY. This explorer, who returned to New Bedford on the 26th of September from a five years' search, wrote to Mr. Grinnell, through whose enterprise and generosity he was equipped for his arduous and dangerous task. The letter is dated Repulse Bay, Jane 20, 1869, on his return from a 90 days' sledge journey to and from King William's Land. He had previously visited Melville Peninsula, in the vicinity of Fury and Hecla Straits, where he found in Parry Bay a tenting place of white men, and a white pillar they had built. The informa tion he gained from the natives confirmed what be had heard in the winter of 1867-68, and his journey to King William's Land fully established its truth. None of Sir John Franklin's party reached Montreal Island. In July, 1848, Crozier, with 45 men, passed down the west coast of King William's Laud, dragging two sledges on the sea ice, one with an awoing•covered boat, and the other with provisions and camp material. They were met by four families of natives, of whom two gave Captain Hall the information. The Esquiwaux secretly deserted after camping with Crozier's party, and suffered them to die, when they might easily have been saved, as game abounded, which they were in capacitated to kill by scurvy. The first trace of the party from this is the skeleton found by M'Clin tock, near Cape Hershell ; then comes a camping place three miles east from Pfeffer River, where two men had died and received Christian burial. Fish bones showed that an excellent species had been there caught and eaten by the party. Five miles to the east a long low point marks the burial ground of another man ; and two and a half miles further, on Todd's Islet, five men have their last resting-place. Again, at Point Richardson, on low land, the awn ing covered boat and the remains of 30 or 35 of Crozier's party were found by the native, Poo yet-ta. In the spring of 1849 a large tent was discovered at the head of Terror Bay by some of the men Captain Hall had met; the floor beino• strewn with the remains of many white men, and outside were two graves. It was not till the spring of 1861 that a boat overlooked by by M'Clintock, probably because then hidden in snow, was seen by an Esquintaux party about half a mile from whereM'Cliutock had found the other. In and about the boat were several skeletons and relics similar to those enumerated by M'Clintock. The 'native, who conducted the Esquimaux over King William's Land, is the man who gave Dr. Rae the information of where the party bad died, and Hall terms him a walking history of the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition, and he accompanied Captain Hall in his explorations of King William's Land : " The same year that the Erebus and Terror were aban doned one of them consummated the Great North-West Passage, having five men aboard. The evidence of the exact number is circumstantial. Everything about this North-West Passage ship of Sir J. Franklin's Expedition was in complete order; four boats were hanging high up at the ship's sides, and one was on the quarter-deck; the vessel was in its Winter housing of sail or tent cloth. This vessel was found by the Ook-joo-lik natives near O'Reilly Island, lat. 68 min. 30 deg. N., long. 99 min. 8 min. W. early in the spring of 1819, it being frozen in, in the midst of a smooth and unbroken floe of ice of only one Winter's formation. From certain evidence I have gained both at Ig-100-lik and King William's Laud, there must have been a dog of the greyhound species belonging to one or the other of the two ships. I only know this through native testimony. It is quite likely that some one in England can tell whether there was a dog on board either of the ships when Sir John Franklin left in 1845." With Captain Hall there were eleven Esquimaux, but nothing could induce them to remain over the summer to prosecute the search. The natives of King William's Land bear a very bad character, and Captain Hall considers that most probably he would not have escaped the fate of Crozier's party had he remained. Wherever the natives have found the graves of Franklin's companions the bodies have been dug up and robbed ; and it was one of Captain Hall's tasks to re-bury them, to fire salutes, and wave over them the Star-Spangled Banner, erect ing monuments to the true discoverers of the North- West Passage. He reached within 75 miles of the vault, a little inland of Cape Victory, where the logs and journals of Sir John Franklin's expedition are suppose I to be buried ; but unfortunately a stampede of his natives forced him to relinquish the prize, which he feels certain could be secured by a well-equipped party working in the summer, when the snow is off the ground. Relics of the expedition are widely scattered among the natives, and Hall brought what he could carry, one being the chronometer box, with its number, name of maker, and the Queen's broad arrow engraved upon it. There is an elaborately finished mahogany writing desk, silver fork, and spoons, with the initials and crests of their owners. In his expeditions from Repulse Bay a tragic event occurred. In 1865 he started on a dog-sledge journey to King William's Laud with a party of natives, and when 200 miles on their road they were met by men fleeing from a war raging in Pelly Bay, whereupon his men turned, and nothing would induce them to proceed. To make his future operations more certain he en deavoured to get a small band of white men out of whaling ships, and he only succeeded at the last moment in the autumn of 1867, when the whites were leaving the Bay. Frank Lailer proved of the five a faithful, hard-working, energetic man, but two turned out to be desperate characters, and when his faithful friend Lailer was absent on some buSiness a mutinous attack was made on Hall, who, in self-defence, was obliged to shoot Coleman, the leader, and in this man's death the rebellion ended. This event seems to have cast a gloom over the ex pedition, but it had no influence in cooling c i . p. Hall's love of adventure. His great desire. COW is ito reach the North Pole, and it is prota-bi e that an expedition will be started next su ',Amer for thi s ob ject, aided by Government. the manuscript sa id to be found at San Buer_ d ventura, on th e coast of California, contains nothing inconsistent with Cap tain re , ,‘, - rt. As far as can be d ec i p h ered that docu went is as follows : 1 " Her l 'i r iajesty's ships Erebus and Terror, May 28, 1847. Tvintered in the ice in lat. 70 deg. 5 min. N., long. 98 deg. 23 min. W. " Having wintered in 1845-6 at Beechy Island in lat. 74 dog. 43 min. 28 sec. N., long. 91 deg. 39 min. 15 socs. W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77 deg., and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. " Sir John Franklin commanding the Expedition. All well. "Party consisting of two officers and six men left the ships on Monday, 24th May, 1847. "GRAHAM GORE, Lieutenant. CHARLES F. DES VOEUX, Mate." Around the margin and on the available space out side the printing the following is inscribed : " Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror were deserted on the 22d of April, five leagues N.N.W. off here, having been last seen September 12, 1846. The officers and crew, con sisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain F. R. M. Crozier, landed here in lat. 69 deg. 37 min. 42 secs. N., long. 98 deg. 41 min. W. Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847, and the total loss by death in the Expedition has been to this date nine officers and 15 men. " F. R. M. CROZIER, Captain and Senior Officer. " JAS. FITZJAMES, Captain, her Majesty's ship Erebus. " And start on to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River." 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Chambers, M.P., was the leading performer on this occasion. He went through his role in very mild style. The chief object of the meeting, he explained, was not to investigate the merits of vaccination, but to inquire into the jus tice of a law which imposed cumulative penalties on parents. There was reasonable doubt as to the effi ciency of the remedy, and therefore it was wrong to impose heavy fines on those parents who conscien tiously objected to vaccination. The member for Marylebone seemed to take no account of those parents who have a conscientious objection to small pox, and who protest against infection from unvacci nated children. But Zr. Chambers was not thorough enough for this meeting. The rest of the speakers left him far in the rear. The doctors got to work again to prove that there could be no doubt what ever about vaccination. It was bad and pernicious in its effects. It increased erysipelas. It multiplied horrible and filthy diseases. One gentleman, Mr. Pierce, contended that smallpox was a blessing, not a curse, and made life longer. Dr. Pierce is acting up to his creed ; he is bestowing great care upon the cultivation of smallpox. The world progresses, and probably we shall soon find that the disease, besides giving people long jives, improves their personal appearance. ANOTHER, POLICE CASE. Stories against the police charging them with un necessary violence and perjury are coming thick and fast. One of them is related by a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph; and very harshly the hero of it seems to have been treated. The writer relates how, coming through the metropolitan region of Golden-square— the neighbourhood in which scenes of so many roman tic stories have been laid by popular and unpopular novelists—ho saw a man being cruelly treated by three constables. They were holding him by the collar, twisting his arms behind him, and forcing his head downwards in a very painful position. The pri soner struggled somewhat weakly to get himself more ease, and cried out that he would walk quietly if left alone. But the policemen would not listen to him; they tripped him up, and one of them kicked him about the head while he was lying on the ground. A man by the side of the Daily Telegraph correspon dent here cried out " Shame." Thereupon one of the constables seized him by the collar, took him vio lently to the station, and charged him with assault. The next day he was brought before the magistrates at Marlborough-street. The policeman said the man had attempted to rescue a prisoner, and detailed several acts of violence. To this story a com plete denial was given by the defendant, but the magistrate ordered him to be fined 102.—a sentence which would have been carried out had it not been for the gentleman who now tells the story in the newspapers. lie gave another com plexion to the affair, and so changed the mind of the magistrate that his worship dismissed the defendant, without, however, even the slightest warning to the police. Thus the story is given ; and it is certainly an ugly one as it stands. It must be remembered, however, that the statement is entirely ex parte. We have only one side of the case before us. WINDOW GARDENING FOR THE POOR. The Department of Public Works has shewn itself not unmindful of the London poor. The First Com missioner intends to have distributed this autumn, among the working classes and the poor inhabitants of London, the surplus bedding-out plants in Battersea, Hyde, the Regent's, and Victoria Parks, and in the Royal Gardens, Kew. Window gardening furnishes neither meat, clothing, nor shelter but it has an elevating tendency not to be despised, and it is a pursuit in especial favour with the class that rarely gets a sight of flower or field. AN ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY. Some few months ago there was a small Republican outbreak in Italy. Who originated this attempt at civil war, or by what means its promoters persuaded themselves that they had a chance of su:cess, a won dering world will probably never know. Cert a i n it i s that at divers pla ces i n the peninsula, but more espe cially at Milan, a fevir Republicans raised a commo tion in the streets the immediate result of which was to lodge the majority of the patriots in gaol. Un fortunately, an Englishman, a young man named Nathan, was amongst the captured. He has been in prison since last April. Various representations have been made in the House of Commons, and the Foreign Office has applied to the Italian Government, but nothing has come of it. Mr. P. A. Taylor, 111. P., has written a letter to the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, urging the department to adopt effective and immediate measures for Mr. Nathan's release. It seems clear that something ought to be done. The friends of Mr. Nathan allege brat he is innocent, that the Italian authorities ware mistaken as to the proof of his complicity in the republican fiasco • but, how ever that may be, it is a fact that Mr. Nathan has been imprisoned since last April without being brought to trial, and the Italian Government seems to have no sufficient reply to this complaint. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Agent-General for the colony of Victoria expects shortly to receive further regulations from the Colonial Government, under which the assistance given to emigration by Lie Government will be largely extended. The rules at present in force provide for the assistance of persons nominated by their friends in the colony, who, upon payment of a small sum there, may obtain passage warrants in favour of their nomi nees here, and they enable the Agent-General to grant free passages to single women fit for domestic service. In this way nearly 400 people are sent out to Mel bourne every month. But this supply is not nearly sufficient. The great distance between England and Australia gives Canada and the United States an advantage in the competition for popular favour. Thq Australian Government must offer exceptionall . ,, g oo d terms if they would restore the balance. TUE QUEF:;, Tier Majesty has fir . resolved to appear once 'The Lord Mayor h as rece i ve d more in public a communicat 4 .:A ihrcugh Mr. Gladstone announcing the Queen's pleasure that Blackf i i ars B r id ge an d the c Holborn Viaduct be opened on the 6th of November. The ceremeny will be a very quiet one, with as little Pomp fr... 1.1 vanity as possible. It i s un d ers t oo d th a t the pomp will meet the Civic functionarie at Black- I3ridge, a procession will be formed and go along Bridge-street, Farringdon-street, Farringdon-road, and New Charterhouse-street, on to the Viaduct, which her Majesty will declare opened. An address of welcome will b. 3 presented by the Corporation and replied to by the royal visitor. NEW LONDON. . - The Holborn Viaduct, which the Queen will opal after the ceremony at Blackfriars Bridge, is only one of many vast improvements now being . effected in and about the City of London ; but it is the most important, ft raises an ex t ens i ve valley, one of the busiest scones in London, to the level of the hills at . eigier end. Formerly all the traffic along Holborn hill had to toil down one steep elevation and then up another. This difficulty has now entirely dis appeared, and a magnificent level roadway stretches across the valley, along which the great stream of traffic will run unhindered. The benefit this great work will confer on London may be readily appre ciated. In 1865, 9,134 vehicles passed up and down Holborn-hill in twelve hours, and five years before, the number of foot passengers going down the hill City - wards in twelve hours was 29,770. The saving of life, too, will be considerable, for Holborn hill was the most dan g erous place in the met ro p o li s . In 1862 more than 13 per cent, of all the street acci dents in the city occurred at this point. THE FENIAN DEMONSTRATION. The promoters of the grand display of Irish fervoir4 which is to come off in Hyde Park on Sunday, have been slightly uncomfortable touching the possibility of police interference. They are now reassured. It is probable that the sympathisers with the Fenian prisoners will be allowed to let off their patriot steam ad lib., provided that peace and order prevail. Great precautions, however, have been taken by the authorities to prevent the fervour degenerating into riot. The London Amnesty Committee deserve at least credit for zeal. They have worked thoroughly hard, and organised every district in order to make the demonstration a success. THE SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES' ELECTION. It cannot be denied that the selection of Mr, Smith, of Jordan-hill, as the Liberal champion for the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities has provoked much 'discontent among a portion of the electtrsi Mr. Smith is very little known south of the Tweed y whilst his opponent, Mr. Gordon, is personally pou lar not only th roug h ou t th e , w h o l e o f Scotland, but. also in the metropolis. The constituency is believed to be thoroughly Liberal, but, by pitti ng M r . S m ith against Mr. Gorden, an o - vinion is b'eginning to be held that the Conse rva ti ves will. win a seat through the mistaken choice of thr. Liberal committee. The defeat cf the late I.ord-Advocate by the narrow majority of G 7 w-,.s 'generally attributed to the fact that the Disrael,i i .Mi:listry went out of office two or three days ber...)re the poll closed. Although a majo rity of the , Jl6ctors were then, as now, Liberal s Mr. Moncreirf was exceedingly unpopular among the more advanend portion of the constituency, and it was not uriil his party had taken office that the tide turned in his favour. The Conservative party are making strenuous exertions in favour of their candidate, and they anticipate that many Liberals will record their votes in his favour to mark their sense of the injudicious selectibn of such a mediocrity as Mr. S m ith. The latter gentleman has declared himself more of a P ee li te : Itian an advanced Liberal— a course of: action 15'12 will not P increase his 0 P 2 ' . ONE OPINION OF IRELAND. So much has been said from the pessimist point of view concerning the condition of Ireland that it is well to remember, if only by way of change, that everybody does not speak of the land across the water in the same desponding way. There is Lord Bandon, for instance. He was speaking at the town whose name he bears as late as Tuesday, and he told the Cork farmers present at the annual agricultural dinner that the letters written to the Times and other journals speaking of unhappiness and wretchedness and poverty were all moonshine. Ireland, he asserted, with emphasis, was not in the condition described ; she was prosperous. The stories told about the rela tions between landlord and tenant were exaggerated and extravagant. The landlords as a rule were on terms the best and kindliest with their tenants ; and as to grievances, they existed in the imagination, nowhere else. His lordship's speech is interesting reading—it breaks the monotony of incessant tales of oppression, discontent, misery, and murder. We heartily wish we could endorse what he says. TENANT Mom. The first county meetin g in support of the move ment for settling the land question on the basis of tenant right was successful in gathering together a very large body of small farmers, cottiers, and labourers. The Times' correspondent, however, finds himself unable to congratulate the 20,000 persons who assembled, on the moderation and good feeling they displayed. The one member of Parliament who was present took the chair, and expressed his sorrow that more of his brother legislators had not attended. He was met by the highly-complimentary remark "We don't care for them.' Encouraged by this appreciation of his services, Mr. Bryan, the solitary M.P., proceeded to argue that the responsi bility of Irish crimes rested with the landlords; let the peasant once be secure in his holding, and agrarian outrages would disappear. The ten ants, however, should be just, specific, and practical, and not arm their enemies by advocatincr impossible remedies. This was good advice ; but the meeting didn't seem to see it. One speaker told a story of the present Lord Carrick turn ing out a tenant who had succeeded his father-in-law on an estate, which the latter had improved at enor mous cost during many years. Lord Carrick not only evicted the son-in-law, but declared that he " had promised that farm to a friend," adding, "I have been waiting for years for your father-in-law's death." This gross case of oppression—if the story be rightly told—utterly nullified poor Mr. Bryan's advice. Lord Carrick was dubbed " a felon," amid great cheering, and one individual found much favour by recom mending that the peer be hanged. The excitement did not abate as the proceedings progressed, but the assembly got through its work, and passed the usual resolutions. The Roman Catholic clergy of Tuam have given their opinion on the land question. They call for "an equitable covenant, regulated by the price of produce, and ontire security against eviction on any score but that of the non-payment of rent on the aforesaid scale." ENGLISH TENANT HIGHT. The cry of tenant right for Ireland has quite over powered any weak demand there might be for tenant right for England. Yet amid the general shouts con cerning the sister country, a voice makes itself heard protesting against the tyranny of a Dean and Chapter. The "victim " tells us in the Times' largest type that he is the lessee of a small Church property. The land has been in pos session of his family since 1800. They held and he holds by lease for twenty-one years, renewable every seven years. The original lease was costly from special circumstances ; and the holders have always considered that it was renewable for ever. The " victim " has netted from the property £3OO a year, of which about £llO has gone in renewing. For this £llO he was able to put into his pocket £lOO a year. But now the wisdom of his ancestors is brought to nought, for the Dean and Chapter refuse to renew again. By their refusal he is likely to lose £lOO a year ; for he cannot now with the same money buy the same income. lie contends, therefore, that the ecclesiastical body has no right to evict him at the end of the thirteen years, and urges his right to com pensation. It was understood that the lease was "renewable for ever ;" the Chapter themselves have so regarded it hitherto. The refusal to renew is (according to the Times' correspondent) a. "moral breach of contract," THE GAME LAWS. The case of Mr. Dickons is not a happy illustration of the working of those statutes which country gentlemen consider the safeguard of British liberty, the anchor of the British Empire. Mr. Dickons was a tenant farmer on land belonging to the Duke of Portland. This magnate conferred on half a dozen individuals calling themselves the Mansfield Game Association the right of shooting over Mr. Dickons's farm. The farmer and the association soon disagreed on the subject, and the latter conveyed such representations to the Duke of Portland as procured Dickons's eviction from his holding. The farmer made those representations the subject of an action for libel, and obtained through a Leeds jury hand some damages against the association. 'This body, however, is not satisfied. It has plenty of money, and it intends to appeal against the verdict. But the public will not look on callously at this proceeding. Whatever may be the merits of the difference between Mr. Dickons and the association, there is something in the idea of a farmer being turned out of his holding for the sake of a few miserable pheasants and part ridges which is calculated to rouse indignation, and it is accordingly proposed to give Mr. Dickons a hand some sum, to be raised by subscription, " as a testi monial for his gallant attempt to protect the British farmers from the petty tyranny brought to bear upon them by individuals whose interests are inimical to their own." The farmer has shown a vigour and in dependence which merits respect. cnuncu WORK. The Bishop of Ely has commenced his second visitation by an earnest appeal to the clergy of his diocese to promote the great work of union. The right rev. prelate looks forward to the time when the Continental Churches and the Dissenters may all be brought tog-ether by the Church of England, which holds the middle place between them. But before this can be effected the Church of England must be at one with itself. Why should Churchmen unite in unions and associations for carrying on war against each other instead of for promoting the work of God P Why should mission societies be made scenes of conflict P—an allusion to the S. P. C. K. affair. For all these thin g s the Church mus t wa it, d ou btless ; but whilst it waited it could labour : "There is a great work field among our poor who are sadly alienated, not only from the Church, but from all religion. We must throw ourselves fully and boldly among them—open our churches to them, adapt our sermons and services to them. Intemperance is a monster evil with them ; and our disunion puzzles, distracts, and so alienates them altogether. With regard to Dissenters, we must not sacrifice truth, we should do all we can to win them, acknowledging our own faults rather than pressing theirs." MRS. STOWE AND lIER CRITICS. The slashing attacks made from every direction upon Mrs. Stowe have at last roused that lady to a reply. She simply asks the impatient public to stand and wait. Too much passion and excitement exist, she says, to permit any useful explanation from her at present. She withholds her communications, there fore, until such time as the minds of her readers shall be more quiet, and disposed to judge calmly. Time is required, moreover, for her to complete her defence. She is constantly receiving additional proofs from England ; and without these her review would be incomplete. Some of. our contemporn.riasi. judge that these two reasons are altogether insuffi cent ; and they. demand that Mrs. Stowe at once produce her arguments against the rejection of her True Story." They urge that if the public mind is in an excited state, it is simply because the public thinks that Mrs. Stowe has too lightly brought an accusation of tre mendous gravity against a man who cannot now be heard in his own defence. Consequently the best mode of allaying the excitement is to hasten, not f' defer, the publication of any evidence which the accuser has in her possession tending to elucidate the mystery. Then as to the "new proofs," it is con tended that Mrs. Stowe ought to have had a com plete case before she latmched her_chigget FOREIGN NOTES. , ARCTIC DISCOVERY. The Weser Zeitung gives Dr. Bessel's account of the late voyage of the Albert in the Polar Seas. This steamer if the first vessel that has crossed the Spitzbergen Sea al 76 deg. lat. from the south coast of Spitzbergen to the northern coast of Nova Zembla. The Albert reached the most northern point of her voyage, SO deg. 14 min. N latitude, on the 20th of June. Here the ice presented ar impassable barrier, so that the proposed visit tc Gillis's Land had to be abandoned. A landing was made two days later on the western coast of Spitzbergen, but the torrents of snow-water streaming from the glaciers en every side rendered it difficult and dangerous. The way to Bclsund was next tried, and found choked with pack-icc,.. Hunting expeditions were formed to the remains of the old Dutch settlement of the seven teenth century. The ruins of eleven boiling houses and heaps of chi barrels and bleached bones of whales were found. There, too, were many gravestones piously inscribed. Ducks were numerous, and many were shot. Dr. Bessel took some photographic views, and then, as the way northward was still blockel up, the vessel turned southwards. Somo errors in the maps were rectified, a number of meteorological observations made, apd zoological specimens secured with the dredge. The season appears to have been peculiarly unfavourable, ft. 3 the English, Norwegian, and Russian vessels which have wtio eAgago in l ocatio ns have been ch • • endeavours. The English, which was undertaken by Mr. Lamont, of the Royal Geographical Society, was very successful in the way of sport, its members when en route homewards killing 30 walruses, 20 large seals, 2 bears, and 102 stags. The Norwegian expedition was under the com mand of a celebrated walrus-hunter, Captain Carlsen, who sailed along the Siberian coast till he reached the White Islands, a few miles from the mouth of the Obi. Captain Carlsen secured 233 walruses, 30 seals, and three polar bears, which he estimates at a value of 7,500 thalers. The Russian expedition aims at establishing a direct com munication by sea between Norway and Siberia. The sand banks at the mouth of the Obi form the most serious obstacle to this route, the commercial importance of which would be very great, as the water is free from ice four months in the year, and the distance between Vara, in Norway, and the mouths of the Obi may be traversed by steam in a few days. This expedition has not yet returned. THE POSITION IN SPAIN. The proverbial obstinacy of the Spaniards has been dis ilayed at Valencia, for, in spite of the numerous forces brought against them, they persisted up to the very last moment in constructing barricades and refused to follow the counsels of the clergy, who urged them to surrender. The Imparcial says that great confusion ensued in that quarter of the city on which the first discharges of shells came, and the rebels seemed to lose all confidence at once. The regiment of Toledo sustained great losses in the conflict in the Calle de Caballeros; they lost their colonel, four officers, andlOS men. The Regent is said to have given orders that those insurgents who laid down their arms should be treated with great leniency. In all directions the Republican forces are making submission to the Government which may now be looked upon as master of the situation. Hitherto the conquerors have conducted themselves with moderation, and the Cortes were lenient in their judgment on the rebellious deputies. Great doubts are expressed as to tho wisdom of choosing a sovereign in his minority for Spain. The Constituent Assembly has hard work before it, and by the time the Constitution is consolidated and the laws are amended, a king may be found. Twenty-one Republican newspapers have been suppressed by the Government under the new regime. The condemned were certainly extravagant enough if we may judge of their style from that of the Bandera Baja, one of the doomed journals. It contains a violent attack on the Minister of War, and seeks to excite the most angry passions of the multitude by the language it employs. PRUSSIAN FINANCES. According to the Korth-East Correspondence, the position of the Cabinet of Berlin is seriously affected by the pro posed loan and impost of additional taxes. A Ministerial crisis is threatened. The deficit in the Prussian Budget proves to be 5,400,000 thalors, or 6,202,482 thalers if the sum allotted to the expenses of the railways, for which the financial Minister asks a special vote, be included. The report which precedes the Budget gives no hope that the receipts in 1870 will increase sufficiently to cover the expenses. Neither is it possible to wait until the sums payable by Prussia to the Confederation shall diminish. The position of affairs in 1871 does not promise better, as the expenses are likely to increase, owing to the interest on the railway loan. The receipts since 1868 have not augmented, they have even diminished. The deficiency is attributable to the following causes : The timber duty has become federal ; the diminution of the Zollverein tariffs has compelled Prussia to increase her contribution ; Prussia has since 1863 renounced certain dues and rights which she claimed from the new provinces Prior to their annexation. A NATIONAL THANIISGIVING. President Grant has issued a proclamation appointing Thursday, the 18th of November, as a day of national thanksgiving for the general health, peace, and prosperity of the nation during the year, which has been free from iaestilenoe. THE STORM IN AMERICA. The British American provinces did not escape the great storm which raged over the States at the beginning of October. New Brunwick suffered severely, the bridges throughout the country being swept away, the marshes completely covered, and thousands of sheep and cattle drowned. The tidal wave has caused great destruc tion on the Bay of Fundy and around St. John. Ships, houses, barns, and cattle were swept away, and an immense amount of property lost. The bridges of the European and North American Railway were destroyed. In the small parish of Saekville, New Brunswick, the damage is estimated at $1,000,000. The storm was predicted last December by Lieutenant Saxby, R.N., and the English papers have lately been calling attention to the warning. In Montreal no mails from Now York, Albany, or Boston were received for many days, owing to the freshet. In several of the Eastern States of the Union the trains could not run for five or six days, owing to the sub merging of the lines. POLITICS IN VIRGINIA. Governor Walker, in his message to the Virginia Legis lature, urged the State to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment (giving the negroes votes) as it has already adopted its prin ciple. Congressional representation he regarded as the final step of restoratian to the Union, and suggests that such men should be selected as would be acceptable to Congress. The Legislature subsequently ratified the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, OCt. 1. Secretary Robeson and General Sherman returned on 'Wednesday, as did Postmaster-General Creswell. Secretary Fish will be here to-day or to-morrow. Collector Grinnell and Judge Blatchford reached Washington on Tuesday, and proceeded immedi ately to dispatch their especial business, with the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. Ge neral Breckenridge and Alfred Pike are here, and Senator Spencer has come to press Judge 1). C. Humphries' (of Alabama) claims for the vacancy on the supreme bench. A delegation is &so here to direct the attention of the Administration to the steel interest of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. There is a special agent of the Trea sury on duty in Great Britain, named Farwell, who has discovered a fraud in the exportation of the eteel, whereby that of high quality being marked as of a low grade, from 1 to 2 cents per lb. is saved in the import tax, which enables foreigners to under sell the home manufacturers. Secretary Boutwell has also been communicated with by the Shipowners' Association in New York on the decline of the ocean-carrying trade, and he has promised them in reply his hearty co-operation to prevent any f ur ther falling off. Horace Greeley is catching it from the ladies he has deserted. Last Saturday there was a meeting here, and Mrs. Griffin told the New York philosopher her opinion of his recreancy. Other meetings are to be held in Washington, and women are soon to be emancipated from the tyranny which is the last relic of slavery ; even Sambo got out of his bonds first. People do say that the most inde pendent animal in existence is an American girl in America ; the only mistake she ever makes is to marry, and some wretched husbands could tell a doleful tale of whose the slavery is then. Affairs in - Mississippi, although not so bad as in sonic States, are still not very encouraging. Since General Ames assumed command in March last he officially re ports 32 actual murders, 13 attempts to murder, and 13 outrages. Things do not improve, as the Ku- Klux are carrying on their old game of intimidation before an election. Even under martial law, it is almost impossible to punish this class of criminals. General Sherman was said to favour the election of Judge Dent, but this he denies, not that he is op posed to his success, but to taking any part what ever in th. se political contests. He cares as little about them as does his great colleague, the Presi dent ; and this he has signified pretty plainly to his friend, the brother-in-law of the President. It is not improbable that General Grant's other brother-in-law, Dr. Sharp, may be elected as Sena tor from Virginia. He is an able and active Re publican, and it weighs considerably with the State the belief that his election would be gratifying to Gen. Grant. The rumours parties always attempt to circulate in the different States touching the pre ferences of the President, though constantly con tradicted, are as often revived. It was said that he favoured the election of Gen. Robert Williatns as Senator, and some leading Radicals called on the President to ascertain its truth. They state that though Williams professes to be a Repub lican, his friends are actively canvassing the Demo crats. Attorney-General "[oar holds that the Vir ginia Legislature can elect United States Senators after organizing, as it is not legislative business, and will, therefore, be legal. Secretaries Boutwell and Creswell consider that the Test Oath ought to be administered before the members of the Legislature are permitted to take their seats, and if they elect Senators, Congress on meeting will not admit them nto the Chamber. Senator Wilson spoke at Read ing, and is to speak at other places in Pennsylvania, and he will probably visit Mississippi and Texas to party in aid in the organization of the Republican those States ; he would ground it simply on the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. In Georgia the Republicans will probably re unite, and com promise matters with the Democrats, by which the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment will be secured at the next meeting of the Legislature. The Collector of Customs at Baltimore has ' been directed to sell 50,000 dollars of gold per week, at per cent. premium ever the New York price ; this is intended to facilitate business to the import merchant, who hitherto has had to buy his gold at New York and carry it to Baltimore. There is likely to be a vigorous prosecution of the Custom- House frauds. ferry Fuller had great difficulty in getting bondsmen at New Orleans. Mr. Coyle per haps did not like the aspect of affairs, and has not offered to renew the bond, but at last he got a citi zen of New Orleans, Mr. Merchant, to sign for $20,000 for his appearance in November. Creecy has gone to New Orleans as counsel to the defence in the extensive sugar fraude, which is to he tried immediately. Mr. Waddy Thomi‘son's affair will come off soon in Memphis. It is reported that dur ing Fuller's administration nine vessels arrived at New Orleans from foreign countries without a Cus tom House officer on board and without manifests, and the internal revenue for the district shows an increase of $lOO,OOO over the corresponding five months of last year. Mr. Grinnell gave a dinner party during his short stay here, at which there were several Congressmen, but there is little gaiety as yet to report. The sentence of the Naval Court-mar tial on Assistant-Surgeon Green has been pub lished. He was found Guilty of contempt to his superior officer in the Leipsic in dissenting from an order to take a seaman off the sick list ; and in dis obeying a lawful order iu this refusal. He was also accused, but acquitted of being intoxicated and misbehaving in the town of Aspinwall. He has been suspended from rank, and placed on furlough pay for two years and reprimanded ; the reprimand to be read at each naval station, and on each vessel. The Secretary of the Navy approves, but consider ing the case, a mistaken sense of duty, as well as Mr. Green's good character, remits the sentence of suspension. The trial has excited attention, and has caused a considerable difference of opinion, most persons believing Mr. Green to be in the right, as the order was to discharge from among the sick under his care a man he considered to be unfit for duty. The discipline of the Navy must, however, be upheld, even when it ap parently involves an injustice. The approaching electiOns draw attention. Orders have been issued permitting the clerks of the War Department to proceed home to Pennsylvania, Ohio, or to lowa, to vote without respect to party. Judge Richardson resigns the Assistant-Secretaryship of the Treasury, as pluralities will not be allowed, and retains his judgeship in Massachussetts. Secretary Boutwell has received from the Judge his resignation of the post in this city. As this appears to be the ruling, I should not be surprised if the Secretaryship of War, now held ad interim by General Sherman, were not soon filled ; it was supposed that the Pre sident would await the meeting of Congress, but there is no sound reason why he should, indeed there are many why he should not, of the same charac ter as these which led him when about to be inaug urated President to seal his lips as to the men he had selected for his Cabinet.* The Pall Mall Gazette has lately been hitting right and left at the " literary body-snatcher," in the pay of what it calls the "D. T.;" meaning thereby the Daily Telegraph. Last Wednesday it published a letter purporting to come from the "D. T. body-snatcher," pointing out that the only effect of its hostility was to call more general atten tion to his splendid and unequalled literary achievements, whereby he had been promoted from Fleet-street to Print ing-house-square. Then the late "D. T. body-snatcher," in proof of this, triumphantly pointed to the first article in the Times of that morning on Spain, and, selecting sen tences, asked who but he could have applied such a touch. We have got a little bit of warning also to effer to a writer in the Times. We would recommend the Philadelphia correspondent not to transcribe so closely the words of the Wation, for it is a paper a good deal read in England. We regret, if he requires a model in style, that he should be "choked off" from one so excellent as our Now York weekly contemporary. The correspondent professes to be purely original, while a good deal of our matter has to be condensed from the American Press. Here is a sample of his originality Philadelphia Correspondent New York ntion, of the Times, Oct. 1. Sept. 30. "The operations of last "The operations in the week were simply gambling Exchange were on a scale on a scale never before wit- never before witnessed, nessed, dozens of enormous dozens of enormous for fortunes being staked at tunes being on the table once and lost or won by a at once, and lost or won in crowd of howling, desperate the twinkling of an eye, in men, maddened by the a quiet, well furnished frightful alternations of room, which was crowded hope and fear protracted by hundreds of howling, through days and nights of desperate men, maddened agony." to distraction by frightful alternations of hope and fear during fifty-six hours, and all this literally in the presence of a disgusted and alarmed nation." RAILWAY NEWS.—The new railroad between New Orleans and Mobile, which is to run near the sea coast and cross all the streams at their widest parts, and several arms of the sea, will require an unusual amount of bridging and trestle work. It is expected that the road will be in running order between New Orleans and Mobile by next March.—The St. Louis and Cedar Rapids Railroad— Arrangements have been made with the North Missouri Railroad Company, by which the company agrees to build that road from the present terminus of the North Missouri at Bloomfield, near the State line to Ottumwa, by December Ist, distance about 18 miles.—The annual meeting of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Com pany, will be held in Hannibal, Missouri, on Nov. Ist. The Wisconsin Legislature has granted a charter to the Hudson and Superior Railroad Company, and the St. Croix and Bayville Railroad Company, according to the terms of their charter, twenty miles must be built and equipped within one year.—The Evansville and Indiana polis Railroad Company has been incorporated with 8800,000 capital. Francis Fellows, of Hartford, and John J. Merritt, of Brooklyn, aro the chief stockholders in the proposed line.—The St. Joseph and Denver Railroad was expected to reach Severance, by October let, and Hia watha (sixteen miles further) on the Ist November.— Several railroads are projected in Dakota, having Yankton for their terminus. Chief among them aro the Sioux City and Yankton Railroad, and the Minnesota and Missouri Railroad.—A convention was held at Springfield, Missouri, on the 25th Sept., to consider the project of building a railroad between Kansas City, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee. A temporary organization WM effected and a board of directors elected, with Col. J. M. R. Richardson as Secretary.— Preparations are being made to commence the Northern Pacific Railroad early next spring. Conditional ariangements have been made in Stockholm for a force of 7,000 Swedish labourers, to be employed upon the eastern end of the route, and a like number of Chinamen will work upon the western division. The construction of the Pacific side will commence at the Wallula, at the head of the per manent navigation of the Columbia River, a terminus which will b.l only temporary, the original design of carry ing it to Puget Sound being adhered to. Tho eastern terminus has not yet been fixed, but according to the terms of the charter it is obligatory to locate it upon the shores of Lake Superior. The works upon the eastern and western divisions will be commenced simultaneoyslv.— The Honduras Railroad—Another Route from New York to San Fraucisco.—This important enterprise, which will reduce the time by sea between San Francisco and New York to 14 days, originated some years since with Mr. Squier, who first gave it shape and consistency while he was United States Minister to Central America. It hung fire for a long time between American, French, and Eng lish capitalists, who in turn had the trans-continental railroad route surveyed at a `eat expense, and always with the same result. Each time wai or Panama Railroad interests or untoward events retarded 01 ;,: - Tations, until the great house of Bishopscheim and Goldsalmidt, of London, in connection with other European Slim talists, took the affair in hand, and it is now only a, question of time, say another year, for the locomotive to be running from ocean to ocean. ' Shiploads of iron and material from England have been landed at both termini, and thousands of labourers, native and foreign, are at work along the line. The distance across is about 240 miles, there being no serious imp ediments of mountains or rivers on the route. The harbours at both ends are exc,l - Port Cortes (or C &hallos), on the Atlantic side, is safe, deep, and well protected ; while the great Bay of is one of the finest harbours Fonseca, on the Pac: n ifi f ( a : c a t i:l a s, ,, constellation of harbours," in the world, ' being, landlocked, deep, and capaCious, and with accommodation for unlimited shipping. By this route the distance between New York and San Francisco is shortened 1,200 mike— a fact to which no ocean traveller can close his eyes—the moment that regular lines of steamships commence run ning ; and passengers and freight now going by Panama will naturally seek the shorter route. The time between San Francisco and New Orleans via Honduras will be re duced to about 11 days, and although no steamship route can be expected to compete with our own continental rail roads, still there must necessarily be much freight and many passengers passing by the Honduras Railroad, espe- * Our correspondent is right, for we learn by telegram, General ihlkaap has been appointed Secretary of War. daily those going to or from the Southern States. The principal advantage which the Honduras route has over that of Tehuantepec consists in its fine harbours, of which the latter is entirely destitute, while the distance between New York and San Francisco is about the same. —5 O Francisco Alta California. IIv7ERVIEIVI.NG. (From the Anglo American Times.) Interviewing has been the rage in New York, everybody being interviewed, from Commodore Vanderbilt down to George Francis Train, and from the Harvard Boys just landed from Paris to Jay Gould. Fisk was pursued by an interviewer even into the presence of the President's brother-in -lay'/ but that slippery customer was not caught. Mr. Gould's tone was all that could be desired, although the reporter had just found him where his employes declared he was not, and had also returned from 3 wild-goose chase, on which he had been sent by Gould after Mr. Fisk. Ile deeply regretted the financial des pression, but he had foreseen and predicted it to the President and to Mr. Bout well. He had convinced the President, whom he had intercepted on his way to the Peace Jubilee that throwing gold on the market was au injurious policy for the Treasury. He thought the metal ought to be at a premium of, 45 in the autumn during the expert of grain. Th e agricultural districts of Europe were placed on an advantage by their better currency, and last spring , when the Secretary was throwing gold on the m arket, on one day he had been obliged to countermand the shipment of 400 carloads of grain. He had ne t brought on the present panic, and he could ne t imagine why any man could be so crazy as to WI gold at 160 when Mr. Gould was selling it at 14 5 . On the 22nd September he had forwarded a despatc h to Mr. Boutwell, showing how the panic had been engineered by a " bear " combination, and that in consequence of it he required $BOO,OOO in cur rency to pay his 10,000 einploye's on the Erie line' which he requested and advised the Secretary t ° lend him. While the sanctimonious Gould s'il a reading the despatch, Fisk came in and discussed matters after this style : " There was a time when he was very sensitive, b ut newspapers had made him callous. If there were 0° many sharp men bit, must not they have been operating?' If they had me where the hair was short, would not they have made me squeal ?' Well, 1 guess yes. Talk abnli t , buying $30,000,000 of gold! Why, no one supposed Ono there were so many wild men that were more crazy tbsi ! the man who bought it. The whole matter can be pla ned in a nutshell. Mr. Belden told Mr. Speyer in his (f f ; Belden's) office, in my presence, that any orders th at might give him (Speyer) would be on Belden's acnoll% With that I told him to buy at GO, never supposing 'lO could raise 810,000, instead of which he took in 530,00 0 ,p 0 and a great many sharp men too. It is nothing but a Dill e days' wonder. I know there are a great many sick well la Gotham, but the world still moves." Mr. Legraud Lockwood, for whom much sympathl was felt, was then attacked by the interviewer. on sidering that he had been 29 years in business, t h 3,, he had attained to the very highest rank, that h ci had weathered all the late financial cyclones, 0 tLat he had just failed under a combination of no, fortunate circumstances, some may think that th ere was a sad want of delicacy and kindly feeling in pushing interviewer. Au interviewer has, howevo'sl.: but one object, and he can see nothing else—a O n tional statement for his paper. We may here saY to the liabilities are rumoured to be $6,000,0 00, Mr. Lockwood's mansion and grounds at Norvlsitb; which cost $BOO,OOO, together with all his a nd private property of Mr. J. H. Benedict and that :113s° partners, have been placed in the hands of ,„ assignee, Mr. John Acker, for the benefit of 4 creditors. Mr. Lockwood said he had no sta teme', 0 15 to make, the accounts not being yet cleared UP• to position was peculiar, but his creditors and , he public were very kind, and the desire was thatfribe house should resume business on an early day interviewer was much impressed with Mr. Le_of wood's genial, pleasant manner, but there is a s P ic e i , sarcasm in his last remark, " You are perfectly wing come, sir, to the information" he replied , add' of pleasantly " but you have not got much !" o ° B o , several efforts to interview the house of Si f t er Gold, Marten, and Co., was successful, but o nl y f r ied a surly rebuke. Mr. Smith was employed on .rt oysters. Mr. Marten was flitting about in his sleeves, and Mr. Bach, the junior partner, was a o miring sketches he had drawn and pasted up Iv o his desk. The "Brains," as the interviewer te1:0, Mr. Smith, seems to have had the best occuP ti tbe which he does not appear to have shared w ith to e reporter. He is represented as paying away eheq o f and doing all in his power to get to the bottosuould the contracts (and the oysters), which he c a() n ot then see, and he complained that srh oo he was doing this others were backing out the all sides. Mr. Henry Clews, at the bead 0 ' .. „0 great banking house of Henry Clews and Co. 0-" sis also interviewed. He took a cheerful view of the C I he tion. The greater proportion of railway 5 took ,tieo/ said, had b een lodged in blocks among certa in Par and had been so watered that the astounded P: c o s wondered when the inflation would cease. . tio se the bubble burst and the stocks fell ; and th e t the t he had arrived for genuine investors through () ; v ets country to buy. His orders given by such ha u atte so received from all parts of the Union, and ill be ing would soon adjust themselves, the stoeks.a ov er scattered in good hands, and the money P al f id to those obliged by circumstances to sell au .ieca .. price. The panic grew out of the wild geld lation, and was not like those of former year s, ";0 4 by a drain of specie, hence the banks have a th 6 stood the crisis with remarkable firmness ; an or fact that they are not now exposed to thelrreopy rency flowing abroad is a compensating ct.treet stance for having such a currency. e _ co' has suffered in reputation through villainousfP'of who are unworthy to be known as members ° ..0 the Board, and of which the gold gamblers sinter' worst." Commodore Vanderbilt gave thel who viewer very little information. When asis'd itieseot the clique were, he replied, a combination a T sao who got up the panic to fill their pockets. c ir d car smoking his cigar while waiting for his sPle ll , tos oU r. riage and horses, and in a horribly bad P ....j0 g 1,1 ! He neither knew what the object was in rune',bY' gold, nor whether the clique had made m° l3 , l • T e nor did he know who the leading men sy' we 'se pect ilators r of the blame. the Government or the s blame. Finally, he shut up the intervievre to et • World by telling him that he had n othing. lc and he would get nothing out of him. : 0 , 3 , St e wart was among the " interviewed, .oteel re ported to have said, the interviewer guar'oo these as his words, " I disapproved of the P oo pro: selling gold and purchasing bonds with , e3 (1 0 ,,' , ceeds, believing, as I do, that it will never i ' lto eii . ; as it is probably meant to lead us, to speci e Il es alt t o Such a policy would not lead us to such a ~% 0 01 0. 5t 0 ten years —no, nor in a hundred. The ss r ca ns of bonds with gold gives the speculators. I'oooo carry on their operations. This policy n o to es! , tionably of great benefit to those whosly °p o haveof their own. While solvent men will en.tiivOse fed pose this policy, it will be approved 139 . , t _, A 0 1 , 0 are shaky." Assistant Treasurer Batterlie.', too t, that it was the sale of Government gold that 4vr falle tt r ae down the market, the premium having o .. 6 a quarter of an hour before he received e v ist o f tP to sell, but the question is, who first order to sell ? pees I BIRTHS. ter b°l FITZWILLIAM —On the 18th inst., at Itilte n, re fj the lion. Mrs. Fitzwilliam, of a daughter' b, tse ToRREss 7 On the 10th inst., at Sundridgn of Captain A. Torrens, of a son. BARBOUR—MA CFIE tt ElC hilr° ', O M nAtALRI.2AOtGhEinS • st. pat parkot f3oiego, Cheshire, George, only son of It Barbour, t3secl...lrhtel. worth Castle, to Caroline Easton, youngest d ut , I , _ll. A. Olathe, Esq., M.P.. Ashfield nail, HARRIS—POTTER—On IS POTTER —On the 16th itiSt , at St. 3 . ° 11 1 1 „ 6 tol l, Holloway, William John Barris, of Bleu td " Fauny Potter, of Gorriugo Park, Mitcham. „ CA' D EA TB S. ne cOvt puny —On the 17th inst ,at North Taw ton, -.' . therine Budd, aged 91. • T oo , ..aeos7 JONES—On the 17th just., at 1, Craven-hill -g Jones, E. 0 ' 1 r ilesterl -q., ~u., age( i. A voc VERNON—On the 19th inst., at Bussholine, Wm. Esq I d 77 Vernon, .1 - ge • i r,s'i r g i A- - -01 O P • ao ' Nesoo: aveo London: Printed and Published by WILLIA 112, t' $,/ of No. 112, strand, Printer, at THE SUN Oe niilo' in the Precinct of the Savoy, iu tho Couritl c' t i Thursday, (MOOT 21, _l3O THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1869.