The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-04 00:00:00

BPIBIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNAL% florae fifteen years ago, says the Times, it occurred to certain :Amber's of Oxford and Cambridge that goodnight be done and credit acquired by the publication of a volume or two of papers as evidence of the opinions, studies, and pursuits distinguishing our old universities at that particular period. The idea was approved, and in due course "Oxford Essays" and "Cambridge Essays" appeared in succession. They consisted of a collection of articles on various topics, and were the precursors of a kind of joint-stock literature, exemplified after wards in "Essays cn Reform," "Questions for a Reformed Parliament," and other similar works. But a curious incident attended the adventure. Among the numerous contributions offered to the editors were certain papers oft theological questions—subjects which had neither been forbidden nor suggested, but which came in fortuitously with other Essays. After some consideration it was decided to confine the publication to secular topics, and so seven Essays were omitted. Never was an accident fraught with graver consequences than that of this un lucky " residuum." As it seemed hard that the Essays should be wasted, the alternative of printing them all together in a separate volume was conceived and em braced, and the book accordingly made its appearance under the now notorious title of " Essays and Reviews." Its authors never had an idea, originally, of the combination into which they were thrown, still less of the designs with which they would be credited ; but they kindled a con flagration which is raging to this hour, and the effects of which appear daily in our columns. It is solely because Dr. Temple was one of the seven contributors that Dr. Pusey objects to his consecration as Bishop of Exeter. It was solely because all the seven excluded articles were ultimately published together that Dr. Tait thought theas so obnoxious. Possibly if the purely accidental character of the compilation had been more generally known, less would have been thought of the presumed concert of the "Seven Champions of Unchristendom." The Daily News remarks that the opponents of Dr. Temple appear to have agreed at length that it will be in vain to carry their antagonism any further. It is not said what authority there is for the statement of the Record, that the Chapter of Exeter will elect the new Bishop by a majority of fourteen to eight, but there is no doubt that he will be elected. But it is to be feared that the pernicious consequences of the agitation will not pass away with its failure. The extreme men of both the High and Low parties have used and abused their opportunities, and it is now the turn of others to speak. The violence of Drs. Pusey and M`Neile has provoked Dr. Ewing, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, and one of the most thoughtful and peaceful of Churchmen, to speak out. Bishop Ewing feels compelled to say, in his letter, that the doctrines which Drs. Pusey and KNeile preach are more dangerous than those of " Essays and Reviews," for that they " destroy the meaning and benefit of revelation, and by separating God from nature and righteousness, are driving out all true knowledge of God ;" and that the Essayists are better than they. In the mouth of Bishop Ewing, as many of our readers know, a sentence of this kind is not a mere rhetorical missle, but a grave judgment full of significance. Woe to the sheep when the shepherds can thus strive with one another. The Standard says that Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., in a very big letter, couched in a very big tone, offers to sail a very big race for a very big sum of money. Mr. James Ashbury, of the yacht Cambria, has, amongst other challenges to rival yachtsmen, offered to sail an ocean race across the Atlantic from England to America. This challenge, as we gather from a somewhat acrimonious review of all the circumstances connected with it which is contained in the letter to which we refer, was taken up by Mr. James Gordon Bennet, jun., the gentleman whose name is so indissolubly associated with that magnificent organ of public opinion, the Nem York Herald. But it is not enough for Mr. Bennett to accept the challenge. He aims apparently at accepting it in the manner in which it might have been accepted by Monte Christo. He will sail Mr. Ashbury from the Old Head of Kinsale to the light-ship off Sandy Hook on the Bth of March next for a service of plate worth £lO,OOO. In the same breath, indeed, he declares his rea diness to sail the race for nothing. As a Cowes yachting cup worth, say twenty guineas, is to ten thousand pounds, so is an English yachtsman to Mr. James Gordon Bennett. It is a rule of-three sum in admiration. Certainly our cousins in America are great people. Was it not Mr. John Heenan, the American prize-fighter, who offered, when some dispute arose concerning the issue of his conflict with Tom Sayers, to jump off a house-top with that gallant veteran? Perhaps he would really have clone the thing if he had found his quondam foe in a favourable frame of mind. If Americans talk on a large scale they are nevertheless prepared to do things on a large scale too. The patrons of the prize-ring did not want to know whether the "Benicia Boy " was brave to foolhardiness or not, but s'mply whether or no he was a better pugilist than the Englishman. So with the present affair—we do not want to know whether Mr. Bennett is or is not a rich man. That i 3 of no importance to anybody but himself and his friends. If we are to have an Ocean race between the Dauntless and the Cam bria, let us try to keep it clear of all collateral issues. The Post thinks the public will learn with satisfaction that the Court of Queen's Bench, after long and solemn argument, has decided that the Beverley . Commissioners were in the full possession of the authority originally con ferred upon them, when, on the 20th October, they com mitted two persons to York Gaol for contempt, in refusing to give evidence when called upon to do so. It is a matter of comparatively little consequence whether the individuals in question pass the remainder of the term for which they were committed in prison or not, but it is of very great importance indeed that the authority of the Commissioners should be thus completely vindicated. If the truth were known, it is probable that it would be found that the witnesses in question evinced their Iplexped contumacy in order that others personally and politically interested in rendering the proceedings of the Commissioners abortive, might, by the crucial test of the validity of the committal, ascertain whether in effect the Commissioners had not, by certain supposed irregulari ties, rendered themselves functi officio. Regarded from this point of view the decision possesses an interest and significance which cannot be overrated. The Telegraph observes that the famous Council of Trent threw the whole of Christendom into a fever of excitement. In our day everything is altered. Protestant Europe looks forward to the (Ecumenical Council with great curiosity— and that is all. At that time the Pope was the supreme director of Catholic consciences; now it is the King. Fr,ur centuries ago Rome could dictate to Paris; 'now it is Paris which dictates to Rome. In old days civil States were tolerated by the Church only so long as they did not touch her posses sions or imperil her power ; now the Church is tolerated by civil States only because she is politically impotent. By comparison with the great theocracy which could once set up and pull down kings, and which even men of intel lect believed to wield the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the Roman Catholic Church of to-day is life less. The whole secular intellect of the Conti nent calmly sets aside her pretensions as too preposterous for discussion. Scholarship is ceasing to debate her historical claims to hold a monopoly of religious truth. Civil Governments no longer pay the slightest attention to her dictates, and calmly permit their policy to be determined by that regard for the secular good of the greatest number which is fundamentally anta gonistic to sacerdotal claims. Liberalism has paralysed, and will some day kill, priestly power. Hence the old dread of Rome has vanished from men's minds, and, now that she is politically impotent, she is no longer hated, but rather studied and admired. If the sound of PrCtestant polemics is stilled, it is because the political power of the Papacy as completely belongs to the past as the dominion of the Caesars. The time for railing and invective against Rome has gone by. We can now afford to admire the past great ness of the Roman Church, and the undoubted Chiistian qualities which many of her chief devotees still display. Hence it is only with curiosity that Protestant nations and, Catholic statesmen look forward to the meeting of the Council ; and all the pastorals in the world cannot conceal the fact that the bishops who are next month to meet in the Vatican will represent a Church which, in com parison with the great theocracy of the past, is politically dead. The Herald desires to give Dr. Cullen all possible credit for his outspoken denunciation of a crime which is th peculiar reproach of his countrymen and co-religionists, and which has, of late, become so fearfully common as to constitute one cf the most remarkable features in the state of Irish society. That murder of the most atro- cious and dastardly sort—murder in secret, murder committed by acas,ins lying in wait in some secure hiding place for an unguarded victim, murder per petrated now by scoundrels hired for the purpose, now by discharged labourers, cr dismissed tenants, actuated by e savage lust of revenge for a trivial injury, which was gene rally no wrong, is of daily occurrence in the Roman Catho lic districts of Ireland,- is in itself a foul disgrace to Irishmen, to the Rontan Church, and to the present Admi nis.itration. Side by side with the inftnife.:to of Dr. Cullen apnr a •ed in Wednesday's ap ers twe speeches made ty perish pries ts at a tonal; t race titer. wild, inisclnevous in the e.xtrente end in one f gpc Cie s the act of the landLrel who insi.:ts on • Lis rent, and evicts the man whoovill not pay, is pa , :sionately described as murder, while the coM-bfoCeled assassination perpetrated by the tenant, whose only grievance is that lie was not allowed to defraud his landlerd with impunity, is qualified as "the wild justice of revenge." it is in Dr. Cullen's power, we believe, to punish this speaker severely, an (l to deprive him of further opportunity of mischir.f. By his dealing with such an off( nfler we may fairly judge of his earnestness and sincerity in his denunciation of the evil which the offender has done his Lest to oncourag,e arld to aggravclt". A Government came into office which 1 - mocl:time 1 an intention of conciliating Ire land by governing in accordance with Irish ideas, and which began its work by an act of what its chiefs, honestly no doubt, however strangely, believed to be jus tice to Ireland. .We see the result in frantic excitement, rampant sedition, outrage, terrorism, and murder. Ireland has been cast back some quarter of a century by twelve months of government on the principle of concession__. A NOTTINGHAM MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The borough of Nottingham has on more than one occa sion drawn attention to itself at some important crisis of English history. The burning of Nottingham Castle shared with the riots at Bristol something of that position with respect to the first Reform Bill, which the invasion of Hyde Park and the destruction of its too-celebrated railings bore to the second. Nottingham is one of the oldest corporate boroughs in the kingdom, and its corporation is a most active and energetic body, as becomes the busy, thriving town it rules. In common with all the boroughs of England, Nottingham held its municipal elec tions on Monday last. The elections turned, as they do in most boroughs, on questions of politics, and the fight was one entirely between Conservatives and Liberals. There was however, this year, in all such elections, a double element of novelty. An act of last session had given female occupiers municipal votes, and had reduced the re sidential qualification for municipal voters from three years' residence, at which it was fixed by the Municipal Reform Act, to the single year required for the Parlia mentary franchise. This extension of the area of voting seems to have intensified this year's contest in Nottingham. The Corporation is predominately Liberal, but the Conser vatives made an unusually vigorous, though quite unsuc cessful, effort to dispossess their opponents. The methods of this fight we will not venture to describe in our own words, but will quote entirely from the three daily papers published in Nottingham. The Conservative Nottingham Guardian describes the elections in all the wards save two—and those two of course Conservative wards—as "mere farces." "Strictly speaking, they were not elections at all, the voters having been bought like so many sheep." The Daily Express, the organ of the Liberal party, accuses its opponents of "having resorted to a systematic plan of bribery through out the day," and records how in one ward there was a fight, " till the Tory lambs, finding the Dolphin getting too hot for them, beat an ignominous retreat." But our chief informant is the Nottingham Journal, which, as it is neither cold nor hot in its Libe ralism, is free to give an account of proceedings in which both sides shared. The Journal says there were contests in every ward, and that the candidates "were loud in their denunciation of bribery and corruption, from which one would have thought an era of purity was about to dawn upon our notoriously corrupt borough." Never theless, the sum spent in bribery is declared by the Journal to have been £2,000. On Monday night, towards mid night, the Journal sent a reporter to various places to see how the free and independent electors bore themselves after the fight. At the King's Arms, in Byron Ward, this gentleman found a sort of court being held: — "Three youthful clerks, with a more elderly person at their elbow, were seated over a series of papers at a broad table, and before them stood several members of the great unwashed,' who were having their claims' settled. The parties to be paid were admitted by three or four at a time by a back door which opened close by the table, and as the door was opened by a faithful Cerberus, it was plain that even at that late hour the staircase was crowded with voters whose wistful faces would have formed an excellent subject for the painter. The members and attendants of this court seemed so intent upon their business, so occu pied in discussing when certain bargains were made, and what were the exact sums agreed to be paid, that they took no notice of the intrusion. The intruder, how ever, soon got tired of watching this little game, and again going below made inquiry for the landlord. Mr. Chettle presently appeared, and with the true pathos of an ill-treated mine Host' led the intruder round to inspect how doors had been smashed, pannelling dislocated, and staircases crippled by the eager voters, who had been pressing in as starved-out bees might press to a feast of sugar.'" At another inn, in the same ward, similar scenes were being enacted, but there the voters were spending their bribes, or presenting their tickets for ale. " The aspect of the room was very singular—a large proportion of the occupants being women, and most of them being voters who had just received their crown' for their day's work. There was no secrecy about the affair, and, as our reporter left, he was saluted by a weary attendant who stood at the door, Ha, they near done payin' ye% mester ?'" During the day bribery seems to have been. equally open. Our ungallant contemporary says that in this same ward a gentleman who canvassed on behalf of the Liberal candidates met only one female voter who did not ask, "What do you stand?" In another ward forty men presented themselves to a losing candidate just before four o'clock, and offered to vote for him for a shilling each. In another ward the Liberals gave £1 a vote, and the Conservatives 10s., and of course the Liberals won ; and in yet another ward, where professions of purity were loudly made on both sides, the .Ton rnal says, " a great many voters on one side or the other received large white pieces of and did not seem ashamed to make the matter known. On both sides people were driven to "the poll like sheep, at dinner time, several women being amongst the drivers." In fact, it is clear that this election, like those of which the witnesses spoke, has been an affair ,f money, Such is the picture of a great English borough olecting its local Parliament, as drawn by its own chro niclers. Nottingham is, however, no worse than many other boroughs, and had we not named it, many another borough would have seen in the pictvre its own features. LAW AND POLICE. TUB CARDIFF ABDUCTION CASE.—An application has been made to Vice-Chancellor James for the appointment of a guardian to Miss Esther Lyons, the heroine of the Cardiff abduction case. Miss Lyons is now 19, and it is proposed cn behalf of her relations that her eldest brother should be appointed her guardian. A second sum mons had been taken out, asking for the appointment as guardians of Mrs. Keefe and Dr. Schwartz, who were co defendants with Mr. Thomas in the Cardiff action, but against whom no verdict was found. Mr. Higgins, for the relations of Miss Lyons, expressed a desire for a public hearing of the matter in order that the amount of influence exercised over her might be tested by cross-exa mination. The Vice-Chancellor directed the matter to come before him in Chambers on Friday afternoon, when he would himself see Miss Lyons. TEE ConPouenas OF HALI FAX.—A motion was made for a sequestration against the corporation of Halifax for an alleged breach of an injunction granted against them last July at the instance of Messrs. Holdsworth, worsted manufac turers, to restrain the Corporation from sending the sewage of the borough into the Hibble-brook. The Vice- Chancellor thought there had been no breach of the injunction, which was to restrain the making of any new drain or outfall, not to interfere with those already in use. THE Noon-GREEN MIIRDER.—An application was made in the Court of Queen's Bench on the part of Henson, who is in prison on the charge of murder at Wood-Green, against the printer of the Middlesex Chronicle for an alleged libel. The complaint was that an article in that paper prejudiced the case, and went into matters extraneous to the evidence. The Lord Chief Justice said that as the article went out of the evidence, and the application was previous to trial, he thought there should be a rule nisi. The other judges concurred. ALLEGED LIBEL.—An action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas by an attorney at Amersham, named Bedford, against the publisher of a local newspaper, the Buck inghamshire Guardian, for an alleged libel in refe rence to his candidature for the office of clerk to the Board of Guardians. Mr. Chambers, for the defence, made an amusing speech, and said, supposing In ignorant man like himself were made Lord Chancellor would not the Times have a right to say, " Dear me, has Mr. Chambers been made Lord Chancellor because he is competent or incompetent? What right has he to a pen sion of £5,000 a year." The learned Judge remarked that if Mr. Chambers were made Chancellor no doubt he would be indifferent to such comments ; but with a country attor ney the case was very different. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. It is rumoured that the Duke of Edinburgh has made a lucky speculation in New Zealand, having bought shares in a ruining company which have risen to an almost fabulous value. Some say he could now make a profit of wore than £200,000. O'CONNELL AND HIS SON. —Thera is a story told of the First Lib era t or w hi c h i s no t unworthy of being recorded. The great Daniel when taking a sauntering ride in the neighbourhood of his house at Caherciveen had occasion to ask an urchin to open a gate for him. The little fellow complied with much alacrity, and looked up with such an honest pleasure at rendering the slight service, that O'C,,nnal by way of saying something—any thing—asked, " What's your name, boy ?" "Daniel O'Connell, sir," replied he, stoutly. "And who's your fath?x?" demanded the astonished liLerator. "Daniel O'Connell, sir." O'Connell muttered a word or two below hisroreath, and then added, aloud, "When I sea you again I will give you sixpence!' Riding ly on, he soon forgot the incident, and fell to thinking of much gravor math rs, when after some miles of way he found his path obst , acted by some fallen timber, which a boy was stoutly end( avouring to remove. On looking more closely, he dis cove red it to be the sarale he had met in the morning, "What," cried he, "how do you come to be here now?" " I Zuu said, sir, the next time you teen me you'd give me si tpunce," said the little fellow, wiping the perspiration fr one his brow, "Hero it is," said Daniel; "you are my sc424the devil a doubt of it , "-- 7 " Cornelius O'Dowd," in Brad wood's. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EvENIN9., .NOVE3II3ER 4, 1869. 311SCELLANEOUS NEIVS. THE MINISTRY AND NEW ZEALAND. Earl Carnarvon is fearful that the present relations between New Zealand and the mother country may culminate in disaster. Putting aside all the old questions between the two countries, the Con servative peer in a letter to the Times directs his atten tion solely to Earl Granville's refusal to allow the colonists the use of troops, though the New Zealand Government pay the cost of them. Earl Carnarvon concedes that the Colonial Minister has good theoretical reasons for his decision. "As a matter of rigorous logic, it may be that the Government are right in considering that the time when it was open to the colony to claim that moderate amount of protection has gone by." But this is not a time for rigorous logic. • The people of New Zealand are in great straits—in imminent danger. They apprehend that the withdrawal of the British troops will be followed by a general massacre; and if any disaster of the kind takes place the honour of the Empire will be tarnished and its integrity placed in jeopardy. Earl Carnarvon holds that we cannot permanently reverse our general policy towards the New Zealand colonists, under which we have surrendered to them the con trol of native affairs, and they have accepted the corresponding duties of self-government and " self reliance." Right or wrong, the original concession cannot be recalled. It would be equally impossible to retain English troops in the colony and pay them, leaving their employment to the discretion of the Nevv Zealand people. It is too late, also, to grant the request of the colonists, and allow them to have troops on paying the cost, the disposition of the forces to be left under imperial control. But Lord Carnarvon thinks that by guaranteeing a loan we might give the colonists the means of crushing the insurrection and of placing themselves in a position of permanent defence. Loans to colonies are not, indeed, to be lightly granted. " They are weighty instruments of the last resort, to be employed only in grave emer gencies of Imperial policy, and to be justified by spe cial circumstances. Such, I believe to have been the recent guarantee to the new Dominion of Canada. It was money well laid out in consolidating the strength, and, as I trust, the enduring union of that noble people with the British Crown, and the present case in New Zealand, though different, is one where a guarantee is fairly applicable." The neces sity is of the most urgent kind, and, considering the resources of the colony, the risk cannot, Earl Car narvon thinks, be great. " The Government, in the early part of the year, declined to give such assis tance ; but Ido not think that even now they are precluded from reconsidering their decision." It might be well, the writer also suggests, to send over a commissioner to New Zealand so as to ascertain what the wishes and necessities of the colonists really are. As Earl Carnarvon was himself Colonial Secre tary in the early part of Lord Derby's last Premier ship, his manifesto is of special importance. THE ,NEW THIRD LORD. Mr. W. H. Gladstone, the Premier's eldest son, is a young man who has been fortunate in political life. He is 29 years of age. He entered Parliament in 1865 as a member for Chester, and at the last election was returned for Whitby. The post of Third Lord of the Treasury is now reformed as a Junior Lordship, with a salary of £l,OOO a year, and the appointment has been given to Mr. Gladstone jun. The Telegraph says that " this nomination has been pressed upon the consideration of the Premier by officials of marked authority conversant with Mr. Gladstone's merits, and it is also generally known that the in dustry and ability of the First Lord's son amply justify the selection which has been made." But it is none the less true that Mr. W. H. Gladstone must be regarded as an exceptionally fortunate young poli tician. THE RECENT APPOINTMENT. Poor Lord Elcho is very sad indeed. He has been pleading all these years for more sweetness about the Metropolis, and ho had, until Mr. Layard came, to deal with First Commissioners of Works - without ideas of beauty, and caring nothing about improving the dark places of London. In the member for Southwark he had a man after his own heart, one who really did appreciate beauty. While in the midst of congratulating London and himself that at last an YEdile worthy of the place had been obtained, his Lordship's spirits have been laid low by Earl Clarendon sendinc , Mr. Layard off to Spain. So there is nothing left but to send a song of lamentation to the Times. "I could hardly believe my eyes," Lord Elcho says, "when I read of the transfer of Mr. Layard to Madrid, and of Mr. Ayrton to the Board of Works. A more successful putting of square men into round holes has never been effected." Mr. Layard is the only man fit to have the place he has held : and he is gone. As to Mr. Layards' successor "no name would have less readily occurred to any ono who has given a thought to these subjects, though there never was a time in the whole history of this office when the person choosers to fill it should have been 'more carefully selected on account of special fitness." This is complimentary to Mr. Ayrton. TIINANT-RIGHT AGITATION. Those readers who would like to peruse a dozen columns of eloquence on tenant-right may derive that enjoyment from the. Irish papers. The amnesty agitators, who decreed that no meetings on the land question should be held until the Fenian prisoners were set free, have found some little difficulty in carrying out that salutary . law. They prevented the meeting at Limerick, but the gallant army of 20,000 Fenians who destroyed one platform could not be campaigning in several places at once, and consequently two meetings were brought off at Navan and Cavan. The former is called a successful demonstration of 10,000 persons. The shops and private houses were adorned with green leaves formed into fanciful designs, and green rosettes, ribands, and leaves, where other emblems could not be procured, were worn by the inhabi tants. Banners and flags were profusely displayed; nor did t&I newly-declared war between the tenant righters and the amnesty agitators lead to the Fenian prisoners being forgotten. The meeting at Cavan mustered between 13,000 and 15,000 persons, but the demonstration was not thought so successful as that at Navan, because few tenants were present. As to the speeches, they differed neither in tone nor ability from those of previous meetin g s; but it is noticeable that one parish priest complained of the High Sheriff refusing to convene the meeting, and ridiculing him as an " evangelical itinerant preacher." A strange outrage took place after the meeting at Cavan. Whilst the Rev. James Dunne, a parish priest of Belturbet z was returning in company with some of his parishioners, shots were fired from a party in am bush. A man named Edward Morton was shot dead, and several others were wounded. The horse in the car in which the priest and curate were seated was killed. What is the meaning of this deadly assault ? Are the Fenians really about to carry out their threat of shooting those who refuse to, agitate for an amnesty before tenant right ? LORD BURY ON THE LAND QUESTION. Lord Bury's remedy for the land grievance in Ireland, as explained to his constituents at Berwick, lies chiefly in securing compensation for improve ments. He rejects the demands of the Irish populace as utterly wild and unreasonable. The law, in his opinion, ought to be so far altered as to make it impossible for a farmer to be evicted without compensation for unexhausted improvements. A cheap, ready, and efficient tribunal should be created, to which the tenant could apply for redress if the landlord attempted unfairly to raise the rent when the tenant had spent money on improvements, and had consequently raised the value of the estate. Upon this latter proposal the Telegraph comments that such a tribunal would have a vast deal of troublesome, and even dangerous work, to perform, and that, in fact, it could never properly fulfil its mission. Lord Bury holds that the custom of Ulster does not work well ; and he, therefore, does not desire to alter the law so as to legalise that custom. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MB. BRETT. The Daily Express of Dublin takes a strong view of the case of Mr. Brett, the county surveyor of Limerick, who so nearly fell a 'victim to the bullet of an assassin. The Irish paper declares that if Mr. Brett had been killed, his blood wou2fl have been upon the heads of the Irish Execui,Ye. It was known to the Government that • lir. Brett was a marked man. "He has incurred the odium of persons with whom he was brought into contact, because he conscientiously performed his [duty, and refused to sanction the fraudulent appropriation of the public money for work badly done or not done at all." Ho ;was actually fired at twelve months ago in Rathkeale. As his life was still threatened, urgent and influential appeals were made to the Government to remove him The Daily _Express wishes to learn what in fluence prevented the granting of this request. A sub-inspector of constabulary was shot at in tho open street at Rathkeale. He has been removed. So has the surveyor of a Western county, " whose life was exposed to similar danger, and from the same. cause — a conscientious discharge of his duty." Another county surveyor is now guarded by police, and will be removed as soon as possible. But if the conscientious discharge of duty invariably exposes these men to danger, what is to be done ? EMIGRANTS' PROSPECTS. The other day the Standard published a letter from " An Emigrant's Friend," giving a most gloomy account of the state of affairs in Canada, and of the ruin which awaited persons who were unwise enough to emigrate. It is satisfactory to find that this epistle has called forth a host of replies—many from competent authorities—affirming that the one want of Canada is labour, and that there is abundance of work for artisans, and still more for women. The idle and the dissolute will not prosper there or any where elses.buttlA _imiutitricAs unanimity or me- many loners m answer to ''din - mmigrarrc --, Friend," is remarkable, and—considering the . great exodus now going on—reassuring. But the original letter must surely have been a hoax. The writer stated that there were plenty of women in Toronto, and that employment could be obtained in a tobacco manufactory only on condition that the ayplicant must smoke and chew ! Canadian grocers, it is to be presumed, stipulate that their assistants must eat a minimum quantity of raisins per diem. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION UNION. Yesterday the National Education Union com menced its conference at Manchester. Very appro priately, in point of time, a letter is published from Mr. Winterbotham, M.P. for Stroud—the answer to a communication asking him for his support to the Union. The hon. member undoubtedly hits the weak point of the society. The association—the Birmingham League—against which the Union is working has a definite policy, including" unsectarian education." The Union is opposed to unsectarian education—and so far justifies its existence. But beyond opposition to this possible proposal, it has very little policy. The Union professes its anxiety "to secure the primary education of every child," and proposes to accomplish its purpose by " judiciously supplementing the present denominational system." But how to do so, by what means to build schools, in what measure to use com pulsion, the Union does not teach. Mr. Winter botham points out these omissions 2 and further denies that denominational education is at all neces sary. He declares his opinion that secular education is the only thing that will keep Irish Protestantism alive. MR. BERNAL OSBORNE AS CANDIDATE FOR 'WATERFORD. Mr. Bernal Osborne is now trying his hand as can didate for Waterford. He addressed a very noisy meeting in the city on Monday. In it he said he had loved Ireland all his political life, and had lost many a seat by so doing. Would the elec tors of Waterford recompense him by elect ing him ? His views were the popular ones. He favoured security of tenure in land, advocated denominational education, and thought the Fenian prisoners had loved Ireland " not wisely but too well." He would give them a helping word when he could. But (the candidate added) the tone adopted by some agiiators was calculated to double-lock the doors on the captives. This announcement caused tremendous confusion, and it was with difficulty the meeting could be brought to a formal ending. THE SOUTHWARK ELECTION. Mr. Layard has addressed a letter to his con stituents, explaining that he did not publish a fare well address, because his acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds cannot take place before February. His supposed neglect had given great offence in the borough. This letter was read at a meeting of the Liberals on Tuesday evening, and it was unanimously resolved to request Mr. Milner Gibson to stand. Those electors present promised to give the ex-Minister their undivided sup port, if he consented to come forward. Those electors who were not present have four months in which to make up their minds whether they will run a work ing man's candidate or be content with a representa tive of the old school. THE TEMPLE CONTROVERSY. Letters and facts concerning the Temple contro versy overflow. There is another long essay from Dr. Pusey, an earnest appeal to Dr. Temple from Archdeacon.Denison, a letter supporting the Bishop designate from the Scotch Bishop Ewing, of Argyle and the Isles, and various other documents more or less interesting. Dr. Pusey's letter occupies more than a coluMn of the Times. He declares his willingness to abide by the " Tracts for the Times," to which he contributed, though he would not himself have used certain expressions in them. And then again he fixes on Dr. Temple's own expression, that " outward manifestations of God can not be received now," a doctrine which he before spoke of as heretical. Convocation—Dr. Pusey repeats—has condemned "Essays and Reviews" in particular terms. Dr. Tait, the present Archbishop of Canter bury, has himself denounced the work, though he voted against its condemnation by the bishops. And, finally, the volume of sermons issued by Dr. Temple does not answer the charges against him as having complicity in a dangerous work ; for it omits the sacrificial aspect of the death of our Lord. The Bishop of Argyle expresses his thank fulness that the " magical i ns t ru mentality " of Dr. Pusey's theology and the unreal morality of Dr. Bl'Neile's have not, either of them, received the pro tection of the State. He denies that Christianity is comprised merely in either of these systems, and re joices that magical influence, unreal righteousness, and verbal inspiration do not occupy the whole State Church. Evil will it be for England (he exclaims) when the State shall cast the Church adrift, "find every small theology will find a representative head for itself." Archdeacon Denison s letter to the Bishop designate may b 3 read in full : I appeal as cne in very deep distress. I believe, with many others, my brethren, clergy and laity, that, as the case stands, your consecration would be a blow from which the Church of England must very grievously suffer. But if —as you appear to indicate in your letter to Mr. Buck— there are words to be spoken by you hereafter which will remove this belief, but which you will not speak now, I be seech you, in Christ's name, to reconsider your determination and to take the burden away from our souls now. Do not leave it to be removed, after consecration, by "personal intercourse " which must, in its nature, be casual and limited ; and will, to many, come too late, if at all ; but help us now, that we may be able to pray for you that you may do the work of a bishop in the Church of Cod. BLOCKADING Ll' TIME OF WAR. cc W. S. L."—Mr. Lindsay, late M.P. for Tyne mouth—writes a second letter to the Daily News on belligerent rights. The first communication con tended that during war all private property should be free from capture ; this, the second, is an argument against blockades. Mr. Lindsay believes a blockade, so far as England is concerned, to be impolitic and: absurd. It is a blow directed on our enemies glancing off, without hurting them, %upon ourselves, for we are a commercial nation. Could we destroy the commerce of another nation we should cut off our own supplies, and make our own food and raiment dear. But we cannot, under present circumstances, destroy commerce. We can only we had, . send goods a roundabout way, and so enhance the cost to ourselve.s. Thus, we blockaded Cronstadt during the Russian war. We still obtained Russian privately in case of, war with ',France, pay heavily for it. We might get com merce from her ports, but the railways would take it into Spain, and a ; tel b y u t t o the only result would be that Eng lishmen would have to pay heavily for French goods. Such is Mr. Lindsay's opinion. CHURNING BUTTER. A case just tried at a London police-court proves that churning cream is not the only method by which butter can be made. More than this, it seems that Dutch butter can be manufactured in England up on a system which is remarkable, if not admirable. A man was charged with stealing 64 cwt. of suet, value £lO, from a place called a J)ut c h b u tter factory. The word " factory': seemed strange to the magistrate ; but his worship -soon discovered that the term was thoroughlY appropriate. Dutch butter is manufactured at Bromley in Middlesex, and at other Places ; and, judginm from the ingredients, mired up here, sent to Holland, and then report of this case it is re-exported.a compound of fat and other "When we pay for butter do we then have common fat?" mournfully asked the magistrate. Alas ! we do. And though the fact may be astonish ing to the public, it is quite natural that the ingenious persons who own these manufactories should sell fat instead of butter. The price of butter ranges from one shilling to seventeen pence a pound. The suet which the police-court culprit had stolen was worth three shillings a hundredweight. It cannot be expected, as times go, that such a profitable trade should be neglected, COURSE OF EXCHANGE. •••••••••••••••••• Amsterdam Short .., 11 18 ... 11 18i "Do Rotterdam l2 1 ... 12 lf Antwerp — ••• '25 35 ... 25 40: Brussels Hamburgh —__ ... 13 11 ... 13 11 1 Frankfort-on-the-Main .. ' 12 Paris Short ... 25 121 ... 25 22 Ms. ... 25 32 ... 25 37 Ditto . •.• '2 5 32 ... Marseilles Vi enna - ••• 'liege l2 57i ... 1.2 62} 120 5 15 ... 12 12 6 1 0 Petertburg 9 20 ... 9 24 Copenhagell... ........ .••• -- . 1. 6 21 ••• 6 28 --- Berlin Madrid- Cadiz 4 8 .1 ... 49 .... 26 i'.l .., 26 85 Leghorn - .. 26 77 ... 26 •85 Milan --- .... 26 174 •••• 26 b 5 Genoa — ... 26 74 ... 2 6 85 Naples Palormo - 1 26 85 allit Messina - Lisbon -- 511 ... 52 Oporto _ ... ...... ••• Rio Janeiro _ ... New York . The usual furlough season has commenced at Woolwich, and leave of absence has been granted to a number of officers of the-garrison. BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.— GRATEFUL AND COM rouTING.—The very agreeable character of this prepara tion has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gaze,le remarks :—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his homceopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition , an d b y a caref u l ap plication of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled tIANtES EA'S and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. AMEPICA ;,),' A FFilpi..S. (From She Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Racing has been the attraction of the week. On Tuesday the races in Jerome-park came off, the attendance being meagre on account of the un favourable weather. R. W. Cameron's horse Inver cauld won the Jerome Sweepstakes for three-year old fillies. I believe that Mr. Cameron is about to bid sporting scenes " good bye," and if so, I fear his loss will be greatly felt. Attraction, one of the favourites, lost its rider. The second race was won by Corsican and the third by Metairie. There were races on Saturday as well, and the most noticeable feature was the headlong speed at which the beggars rode who had been mounted by the smash in Wall-street. The carriages have changed hands--that's all; and their new occupants are on the gallop—we know where ; not that either you or I have ever been nearer the place than Dante brought us, or intend to be. Booth, on the last week's occasion, won the Hurdle Race • Duke, the Handicap; Gleneig, the Champion gtakes ; and Remorseless, the Nursery Stakes. Boards of mis sions are active as well as the sportsreen. 4 That of the Episcopal Church has been at work in this city all the week, but its finances do not wear a flourishing appearance. The total liabilities are $20,698 ; cash in bank, $822 ; leaving the deficiency close on $20,000. The disbursements amounted for the year to $132,859, the receipts to $110,594. The foreign committee represent the mission force to be 37. Among interesting accounts given of their labours, that of the missionary Bishop of Colorado is foremost. He has certainly a queer lot to deal with at Cheyenne, Laramie, and such places. Mr. Niblo, of New York, erected at his own ex pense Calvary Church, Idaho, and the work accom plished by the mission is of evident benefit, the best proof being the state of those places where the mis sionaries have not penetrated. Monday being the anniversary of Cuban Independence—(how grand that sounds!) —was observed by Cubans as a holiday here, but unfortunately we all had to go into mourning for the death of our old President, Franklin Pierce, the flags being hoisted at half mast and business suspended in the Federal offices. A member of the Junta wanted the mayor to hoist the Cuban flag over the City Hhll, but Okey proved equal to the occasion ; swelling to his full propor tions, he replied—" I am the only City Hall on which to hoist the Cuban colours." He did, however, sanction the flag over the building, and it was accordingly raised. The Fisk-Corbin row still continues, the papers keeping ep the excitement by hammering away. The Sun calls upon the Government to re ' move General Butterfield, who, it says, is the pro minent official so frequently alluded to. It farther asserts that the assistant-treasurer was a heavy loser in the gold " corner," and even the amount of the loss is mentioned at $150,000. Judge Ingra ham, in his charge to the grand jury on the o p enin g of the ' Court of Oyer and Terminer, called attention to the criminal offence in persons who conspire to the injury of public morals, or of trade, or of commerce. Agreements between two or more to control freights or carriage, or to prevent others bidding at auction sales were against public interest and void. An arrangement to influence freights on the canals by law had been held to be conspiring, as had an agreement to raise wages and prevent others work ing for less. The offence consists in agreeing be forehand to do such acts, and its bearing may be seen on matters recently brought under the notice of everybody. The judge thus continued : " I do not say to you that any of the lace occurrences in this city, which have caused so much distress and alarm through the community, came within the provisions of this statute, and expose the parties concerned to the lia bilities under it, because the facts connected with those transactions are not sutliciantly within my knowledge to warrant me in expressing any opinion thereon ; but where transactions of this character take place, causing so much derangement of business, and inflicting such in juries on the trade and commerce of the country, it may well be the duty of the Grand Inquest of the County, as it is undoubtedly within their province, to inquire whe ther such occurrences may have been brought about by any unlawful combination, and, if so, to present the guilty parties for trial." The necessity of enforcing the laws against obscene literature as well as the usury laws was dwelt on, and his remarks are believed to have reference to indecent illustrated weekly papers, which have long disgraced New York in spite of the efforts of the constituted authorities to suppress them. The • Baron de Riviera. through his counsel, denied all the criminal charges brought against him by his re puted wife, Helene Stille, and does not confine him self to mere denials, but hits back. There are affi davits from the woman, who claims to be his real wife, and from another woman, affirming that the reputed wife is really the wife of George Salle, of St. Louis, Missouri. He accounts for the attack on him as an attempt to levy " black mail." Horace Greeley has accepted the second place on the Re publican ticket, that of Comptroller, to which he was named by the State Committee, in session, at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. In reply to the Hamilton Harris and associates, a long letter ap peared in the Tribune, in which the indomitable Mr. Greeley proclaims his intentionto devote the few remaining years of his life, if spared, to secure that which he has spent his life in trying to achieve, the equal rights, legal and practical, of American citizens, and he congratulates the committee on its assured triumphs, as this must be soon secured re gardless of colour. A gentleman who has taken so prominent a position, and has thus steadfastly nailed his colours to the mast, firing away right and left at all its enemies, cannot fail to be cordially hated by some, so out comes Mr. George W. Blunt with a card showing why, although a Republican, he de clines to vote for Mr. Greeley. "He has not enough of common sense. He has not the necessary firm ness for the place. He has used his newspaper in telling untruths, which he never retracts nor atones for." General George B. M'Clellan and family, and General Marcy, the father of Mrs M'Clellan, have engaged quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel , and will spend most of the winter in this city. The gallant Seventh, our New York show regiment, has ' been honoured by the erection of a fine statue, re . presenting a private,or at least will be as soon as it ar rives from Philadelphia. The Seventh, among whom I have many friends is, however, more distinguished for the atoms which go to compose it than for its allons in battle, where it has been so carefully re strained that it has never had an opportunity of annihilating an enemy. The Providence Light In- fantry have been "starring" about on a visit, and were reviewed by Mayor Hall. I learn that Com modore Vanderbilt has begun to manoeuvre to get control of the Lake Shore Railroad, and that Augustus Schell replaces, through his influence, Mr. Wetmore as director, and Mr. Banker will be the Treasurer. Although buth parties take the late elections quietly, there is an uneasy feeling about the working men, who appear inclined to throw over both Republicans and Democrats, and organise a party of their own. They say they will be strong enough even by the next election to sway either, by their hold of the balance of power. The Rev. Dr. H. N. Pierce has been elected Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Indian Territory by the House of Bishops assembled in Trinity Chapel. He was born in Rhode island and educated at Brown Uni versity, and is well known as a missionary. The Rev. Dr. Whittaker has been consecrated Bishop of Nevada, at St. George's Church, Bishop Johns preaching the sermon. The actor, Mr. Eyck, was arrested after playing Sebastian, in " The Tempest," at the Grand Opera House, on Wed nesday, and next day he was brought up and bailed for $2,000 on the charge of forging army pay masters' cheques. There is some talk of a little fraud in the Havannah Custom-house, which shows that however expert our rings, they will have to brighten up or they will be outshone by the West Indies. That fraud, the Tribune says, is for $10,000,000, and it wonders if the Captain-General and Minister Roberts had any band in it, inno cently adding that through these gentlemen the Tribune has been excluded from Cuba. WASHINGTON, OCt. 15. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas passed through this city on a visit to his friends. He comes from the Far West, but he left his companion Admiral Farragut very ill at Chicago. Commissioner Delano has returned, and Secretary Robeson has left for Annapolis to inspect the war steamer Lancaster. By special invitation of the Agricultural Society, of Frederick, Maryland, the President visited the State Fair, and became a guest of his wife's cousin, Judge Marshall. The party, consisting of President Grant, Genet al Sher man, Postmaster-G:meral Creswell, Secretary Cox, and General llorace Capron, left Washington yester day at seven o'clock. They were joined by a com mittee at the Relay House, which escorted thew to Mouocacy Junction, where they were received by a committee, and, under its escort, proceeded to Frederick Depot, and thence to the grounds of the Agricultural Society. The visitors will remain in Frederick until this morning, and then visit the battle-fields of South Mountain and Antietam, re turning here the same evening. Among the recent arrivals are Speaker Blaine, Congressman May nard, and Postmaster Jones of New York ; Edwards Pierrepont, Waldo II uschins, James B. Taylor, Post master Jones, Roswell Hart, Mr. Richmond, and Major Haggerty. General Badeau arrived I , ,st week from London ; ex-Senators Doolittle and Henderson are likewise hero. The Hon. John A. Campbell, who resigned his seat on the bench o . f the Supreme Court to take part with the South m ~L'T the war, has reappeared in the Court in a case for Abbot's poem of the " Thakoorie," who puts t Alabama, and, by a singular coincidence, just before words into the mouth of th e P r i ncess he opened his case Judge Curtis, of Massachusetts, " Father, my choice is made! Yet ere who formerly had a seat on that Bench, closed a case I braid in Doorga's knot my hair, he had been sent to plead. The following gentlemen Oh ! let me once—once only, view were on the occasion admitted to the bar :—Edwin The glad, green earth, the heav'n's pure bide, ved T. Merrick, of Louisiana; Morris Lamprey, of Min nesota; William Yerger, of Mississippi, a brother of Edward M. Yerger of the habeas corpus case ; and John S. Key, of Indiana. Mr. Doolittle's business is on the subject of the Island of St. Thomas, the sale of which the Danish Government have never ceased to press. Mr. Doolittle is employed in the interest of Denmark, and he has had several inter views with the President and the Secretary of State, but neither seem to fancy the business so auspiciously opened by Mr. Seward. Among the men of note here may be mentioned Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island, who is gathering statistics in aid of the celebrated bill to which he has devoted his energies. Many leading citizens and men well known i❑ business have backed him, and Mr. Jenckes will meet Congress next session stronger ! than ever to fight the battle of rotation in office. Mr. Jefferson Davis is expected on a visit to his friends here on his way home to Mississippi.* Many of his supporters awaited his arrival iu Baltimore, but Mr. Davis has the good taste to decline the discus sion of political affairs. Silence is the true course for the leaders of the defeated South, and to do them justice they have seen and acted on this. The Washington men who met him say that he is in better health than when he left the country. His family are in Europe, and he merely registered as Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. A shock awaited him in the death of his old friend and chief, ex- President Pierce, who had selected him as Secretary of War. It is also said that he favours the Con servative Republicans in the South, while refusing to take any side. Collector Thomas of Balti more has been ordered to sell in that city $150,000 gold per week during October, and afterwards $lOO,OOO per week till countermanded. This helps the Baltimore merchants, and relieves them from the operations of the gambling mart in New York. The number of clerks who have left for Pennsyl vania, Ohio, and lowa to vote, gives a desolate air to the deserted departments, especially the Internal Revenue Bureau ; but that business over, the em ployds will soon be again at their desks. Indeed presently our city will assume its liveliest appear ance, for the day draws near when Congress will commence its session. The Cabinet officers are busy in preparation, and the yearly reports of some military commanders have already been received, Considering the importance of the elections just de cided it is surprising how little was the interest ex cited. Mrs. Rawlins was escorted by the President to the City Hall to qualify as executors under the will in the Orphans' Court ; General Smith, Colonel Parker, and the Hon. Jacob D. Cox testified to the signature, and Mrs. Rawlins and President Grant received the letters testamentary, the bond being fixed ats2o,ooo. The first bequestof the General in the will, dated sth September last, is to his ivife, Mary E. Rawlins, and to his three children, his house and lot, situated at the south-east corner of Twelfth and hi-streets, as equal heirs, as also his lands in Cheyenne and Golden City, Wyoming Territory. To his son, James Brandon Rawlins, he leaves his library. To his father and mother his property known as Rawlins's Homestead, in the town of Guilford, Joe Davies county, Illinois, is bequeathed ; and at their death it is to he divided into eight portions, five of them to go to his brother Lemuel, who is to satisfy his sisters, Mary and Laura, and brother Robert, and keep the place as a whole. The general committee, numbering 100, of the proposed International Exposition Association met on Tues day, and adopted the charter to be presented to Congress, to incorporate the association with a capital of $1,000,000. The scheme continues to progress favourably, and its officers are now ready to submit the matter to the Federal Legislature. The New Orleans frauds are still being investi gated by the Government, and the closer the in spection, the more general the thefts appear. Coffee is received in large quantities, and some evasion of the duty in that has been discovered. Mr. Kellogg is uneasy under the charges made against him, and insists on an immediate investigation. The Government buildings were closed on Monday, and draped in mourning in respect to the memory of ex-President Franklin Pierce, and the flags both in private and public buildings were at half-mast. Millard Fillmore and Andrew Johnson are the only ex-Presi • dents now left. Talking of the latter our reports from Tennessee are that he will be elected Senator on the first ballot. No one can be said to be certain of anything until he gets it, but it appears, to say the least, to be probable that the late President will thun der denunciations of his Presidential successor in the Senate Chamber, and tell his entranced colleagues how he rose, step by step, till he could have erected and seated himself on the throne of the United States had not his Republican virtue been proof against any such regal temptation. He can also tell the open-mouthed Africans how he became their Moses, leading them from the Egypt of their slavery without any wandering in the wilderness at once into the promised land of freedom. Indeed, he can prove to every one'ts satisfaction that in self-denial lie was the *qual of Washington, and as a deliverer he was greater than Moses. But whatever may be Andrew Johnson's claim to negro gratitude, satis factory progress for them is shown in the fact that the Freedmen's Savings' Bank, of Washington, has on deposit $1,500,000, and the institution will soon be located in a large building to be erected at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fif teen and-a-half-street, which has been purchased for the ' purpose. Senator Morton is to arrive here on the 10th November, and Secretary Belknap is expected ' about the end of the month. Reverdy Johnson was to have appeared in a case of appeal from ! Maine to the Supreme Court ; but it has been postponed till Monday. Mr. Johnson has quickly recovered his remunerative practise, and he is always employed on constitutional questions. Once - mote - from 'neath the old lor Gaze o'er Nerbudda's waters free, Envy each wave, bright dancing past, And look and know that look my last. Then one fond glance to heaven I'll tlincr To wool and wild my anthem sing; Take the last draught, the oblation make, Nor count it bitter, for thy sake !" Americans often hear the name of 'Maharajah Dhu leep Siug in England, and see it among fashionable arrivals, and as a guest of the Queen, but few loin° what it signifies, or who he is. His mother i 5 among llindoo female celebrities, and his fat her was the well-known Runjeet Sing, the lion of th e Punjab. Ranee Chunda was, we believe, a na utch girl before she became the wife of the 111aharajab, and his son, Dhuleep Sing was but an infant whe n Runjeet Sing died. On the young prince attainihg his fifth year he was taken from the Zenana and Pr° c i claimed ruler of the Punjab. The Ranee then d ," 1 „, not meddle in state affairs, but on the fall of ti chief Minister, Heera Sing, her brother Juwalie: Sing for a time held the reins, till murdered by O f Khalsa army, when Ranee Chunda assumed I) o , e ' as regent-mother. She appointed Lall Sing ter and Tej Sing General-in- Chief. At the ti me ' 1845, the Khalsa army had shaken off all con trol ' and Minister after Minister had fallen victims ,to r their caprice and intrigue. Fearing a like fate '° e her favourite, Lall Sing, it is probable that Ra n v at Chunda took the step which precipitated the fi ne :, body of Asiatic soldiers ever formed into dest r _,. tion. No force in Asia at the time, t .,1 1 exce pt t b ° o ° British, could have withstood the shock of Khalsa army, and there was no direction in wh they could be turned except towards the British P . ,1, vinces. Foreseeing the annihilation of her late b`,; o , band's renowned army, she did not hesitate ill " be spatching it on the errand of destruction,becaus e also foresaw that nothing could otherwise save bersed her son, and her favourite, and avert the plund er t be the city. Then followed the great struggle On ti Sutlej, when for the first time the Sepoy regim en ' were broken like reeds, and even the finest regle: ments of England recoiled before an Asiatic 1113 , Clear as was the treachery of the Seikh conn iln, ders, yet the Governor-General and the Corn aln t „ o der-in-Chief of India had enough to do to effec t t ea Ranee's object, and for twelve long hours it see,,—beit uncertain whether the Khalsa might not fulfil ' 4. . 0 , mission,'and loot both Delhi and Linares. Th e is however, of the doubtful strife turned decisiveli o f favour of the British, and at the great battle.do Sabraon, where the Seikhs fought with the rive`oo, their rear, they were almost annihilated. The ' the i jab was then at the mercy of the %British ; but . l isp Dhuleep Sing on the throne with a / 3 °,0 Resident, allowing the Maharanee 115, 0°° „ r get annum, but no share in State affairs. Her eile d at this was increased on Lall Sing being c 0 400 to British territory, and portioned off on £ 2 l', year. From that date she began her farno u ' rit eci trigues against the conquerors, and soon forae_eats a wide-spread conspiracy. Two of her as 3 1 were detected in tampering with the troopsair Lahore, convicted, and executed. It was thel l tt o covered that all the chiefs of the Durbar exeeP r elf were in the league. Nor did this clever wows? e or on a mere rising in the Punjab, for her cir e ,: e dea braced Cabul and Cashmere to the north, an d 85 to to Rajpootana south. The first step taken W ,, er to place the lady under restraint, removing Pi,to o z"hakoopoor, and reducing her allowance te dor, a-year. But this in no degree stopped her a s bet and Sir Frederick Currie suddenly transpor te ' e for across the Sutlej to Benares, the British eld Indian State prisoners. This step was follorlivhiell a rising in the Trexal, and the second warl,_ fire led to the annexation of the country of O v o tber rivers. But the Ranee was a woman of e n ti ro elf mould to the rest of the prisoners at Benares, k eep s a few months elapsed before she gave her the slip, escaping in male attire to Nepali' , ee s 0 ` sovereign, notwithstanding the remonstrah.. h er. the Governor-General, refused to s urrende l e ole' Her son was placed in charge of an English g,.,J to man for education, and eventually transfT le ,o o England, when he became a well-known 0 0 ' 0 0 ° and a highly accomplished gentleman. Tb e 1 0 di 3 of his mother from Benares was at the time M, t° regarded as an extraordinary feat for a W 0 a n , t bose achieve, and she continued, even in her retreav!attle machinations which then tended so much to tiutiol. the country and pave the way for the great 1 0 00 0'8 Her name during that period was on eve/ fros l lips ; and v.henever a misunderstanding a r° ' or igi n Persia to China it was supposed to have its 00 in the brain of the Ranee. Of no birth, co al fugitive without wealth, the surprise is that Ab* have so long retained her influence. its ° ' The Ranee of Jansi, widow of Gungad i bil o t eel and Buudela Chief, is the last of the Hill il _bag,l brities. On his death-bed, in 1854, herb - ' O , a 1 )- according to old Indian custom, adopted a s n ar ota . she applied to the Governor-General for ceti o ioll e tion, and demanded the sovereignty on b is „ a t ti!i Lord Dalhousie, at the time was carrying, to a l ' policy of annexation, which did so u rov e: 1 1 the mutiny, and he rejected the claim. T im ,, it ed i `o thus ejected from power and fortune , avi`; a , ice, opportunity fcr revenge, and she foun d t h ' 5eP,5 as her own fate three years after in 0 0 , 1 , mutiny. It was through her instigation to tb, troops quartered at Jansi rose, and 0 1', dro pea e : June, 1857, the officers and other 1 -," he i r ovi . , found themselves besieged in the fort V thy , men. As usual, finding resistance bope,lTioitea surrendered on terms which were ruthlesaiiievace3 ti; every man, woman, and child, with a sing,t l ee d tion, being massacred. This atrocionstbuo pla t e b v", brought home to the Ranee, who, having „o i led ~,a herself beyond the pale of forgiveness, as' she ti! . , a reins of power. With a masculine energl digr o l set to work to strengthen her positi°„, aril/fete up 20 buried cannon, and raising it co toPA 14,000 men. Nor had she much time Si r 07 0 her preparations, for in less than a th rou ghYe,, i o Rose was on his path of conquest 0 Sri' it 91 tn vested country. On the 25th of April, 18 5, ; inve o t he General appeared before the city and l e d on all sides. But the garrison, n 10 1 31 , 0 0;030 spirit of the Ranee, offered a stout resm' o . o o(l, po t. artillery practice proving remarkably of for SA guns being so well served as to return % ro tar ot o. Women were seen hurrying along Lu Ose d P e ° ct erl bearing ammunition to the most exP_., d o el _ .er e The palace was defended by three thollit' ap ee ri o g I men, of whom the Body Guard of th e e c oult i the most conspicuous, but no such forOnted withstand the attack of a well-aPP ° , l b , fort, D at io o Army, and in two days the city fell, the refol..,3ed ing out but another day. Through i t., n _ oBo es7to and devotion of her Body Guard the 0 6 ,, e to 0 1 with two thousand followers, taking_ r for Se b en Calpee. There she made another atar iv oi, 0 4 days, but was dislodged on the 26th ob t a ,.o to she made good her way to Gwalio, ü b ` e ' r f 0 13 %0, received with a warm welcome, addiei s troag,.. v ieg the insurgent troops assembled in t hat ., t he iv is o At that time all India was alive ivltt ivrti lier. lo9 e. brigades of the British ; and when drawn uhod captured the net around theßanee vats, at tbe . .;o o Still exercising considerable power, all 1 1 ..,„ tor . b et of a body of troops, she pursued her e . ;, / boT t ote Sipree, then held by the English, / A 0 3 advanced guard came into contact. a 1 3 70 001 possible to break through, she gave IT - 7t h a defeated and slain at Morar on the - 1 1' . . ti ljorf_ t aier 1858, her troops dispersed, and her_ a ' l _,,.'" j e st s u :o l ' tured. Thus died in harness the p in t h il or the mutiny produced, and it will re 3 . ,'" w hic . , o pg lous fact that in the revolt of an a ir r e n Z t ,„ , rl,oo o perilled one of the greatest of EnIP _ th at 0 the most cruel, as well as the most who came to the surface, was a wonlau tree * He disappointed them, as ho embarked at Baltimore for New Orleans, going up the Mississippi to his State. —En. 1111VD00 I,EMALE CELEBRITIES. (From the Anglo American Times) No. 11. We desire to return to this subject, as it tends to correct an erroneous impression held about Hindoo women with regard to their status. The supposi tion is that they are mere slaves, of no account be yond the family circle, shut up to obey the behests of their lords, and to be excluded from communica tion with the world generally. Throughout flindoo history women have exercised a considerable degree of power, and they have made it felt by the British conquerors of the country. In the former number of the Calcutta Review only dames who lived so long ago as now to be regarded but as mere myths were discussed, while in the present number the heroines are of recent date. Our remarks are confined to two, who within the memory of nearly every one actually came into contact with the British, begin ning our tale, however, with one in justice to Hin doo women, to show to what a noble height a Hin doo damsel can soar. Kishen Komari Baie, or the Virgin Princess Kishen, was born in 1792, both her parents being of the highest rank and descent. To great beauty of face and person she added an engaging demeanour, and was called the Flower of Rajasthan. When sixteen years old the Rajah of Jeipoor sent to ask her hand, but Mann Sing of Marwar advanced pre tensions, on the ground that the princess had been betrothed to his predecessor, who had died. Each suitor urged his claim at the sword's point, each as sembled his followers and overran Odipoor, bring ing it to the verge of ruin. The Rana knew not how to act in the dilemma, as either chieftain was stronger than he although infe r i or i n ran k . O ne solution remained to save his dignity and kingdom, to remove by death the lo ve l y o bj ect o f the war, and this was urged by Ameer Khan. Even 'after the father had given way to this atrocious plan no one could be found to perform the deed. A kins man was first sounded " to save the honour of Odi poor," but, horror-struck, lie exclaimed, " Accursed the tongue th a t comman d s i t ! Dust on my alle giance if thus t o b e preserve d . " Next i t was ex plained to a natural brother of the girl, from whose hand the da gger d ropped when in youth f u l love liness Kishen appeared before him, and he returned more wretched than the victim. The purpose thus revealed called forth shrieks from the frantic mother, yet the maiden h erse lf no t on l y b or e the intelligence calmly, but became a willing victim to save her father, family, and tribe. The steel was changed for poison, and as she drank the cup she . prayed for her father's life and happiness. Turning to her iuothet she thus endeavoured to console her, re buking the imprecations that lady poured on her husband's head. " Why afflict yourself at this shortening of the sorrows of life? Why should I fear to die ! \Ve are marked out for sacrifice from our birth (alluding to Itayport infanticide), scarcely entering the world but to be sent out again. Let me thank my father that I have lived so long !" Three times did the bitter potion fail, but a stro nger draught, with a powerful opiate, had the effect, and Kisken slept never again to wake. On the parti culars becoming known, the valley of Od;poor was filled with lamentation, the youth and extraordi nary beauty of the victitp exciting a deep inte rest, so lasting, that this story of weakness and cowardice is never told even at this remote day without a faltering tongue and a moistened eye. Her wretched mother, ravi ng i n d espa i r, refused food, and in a few days followed her daughter to the 'funeral pyre. The circumstance is told in •• -- ----- [ADyEnTis to „nro fr e Els---......:------'fENT..__uonovray,s Ointment . rao , a pill e 4, madam Rh a e ti u s matic Pains. 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