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THE CONVENT CASE. The Lord Chief Justice : Did this happen every week ? Defendant: For several weeks. They were not expli. cable by age or wear. Mine scarcely wanted any repairs. In March 1865 my attention was called to plaintiff's finger. She bad a piece of rag or paper around hex thimble finger. I asked her whyslie wore it, and she said she wore it because her thimble was too large. I said she had better have a smaller one, and I gave her a bagful from which to choose. She said that one she had woulo do. I gave her one to wear. She afterwards said hex finger was sore. I looked and found the finger was not sore. I did not select a brass thimble for the purpose of hurting her. She had a chilblain on the top cf the first finger. I did not tell her then to wash the candle grease off her finger. It was prior or subsequent to it, 1 don't know which. In 1564 or 1865" I had found in hex room and other parts of the house pieces of tallow. The Lord Chief J us ti ce : D o you mean pieces of candle? Defendant : Pieces of tallow she had taken from the candles. The Lord Chief Justice : What sized pieces ? Defendant : Very small. I saw the floor had been soiled by grease being trodden on, and on finding tallow in her cell and in the community-room, where she had been sitting, I questioned her about it, and s!e told me she had taken it for her chilblains. I told her she should not have taken it, but have applied to me for a remedy, and I would have given her one. They might take it, but what I found fault with was, her allowing it to fall about, and be trodden on the floors. The witness, referring to the statement made by the plain tiff about the thimble, said Miss Saurin was very rude about the matter. I required her to take one that would fit her, and she said, " How can you persecute a poor creature so?" That was before she said her finger was ore. The Lord Chief justice : What sort of thimble was she ,wearing?. Defendant : Steel. The Lord Chief Justice : What was the one she was required to take ? Defendant : Brass. They were all brass, I think. The Lord Chief Justice : At all events it was a brass one she was compelled to wear? Defendant : Yes. They may be either silver, steel, brass, or ivory. Her silver thimble was taken from her in the previous June because it had been given to her by an extern, Mrs. Grimston. I don't know it of my own knowledge. The Lord Chief Justice : She is one of the great supporters of the institution. Defendant : Yes ; she is one of our great benefactors. She should have had leave of the local superior. The Lord Chief Justice : Did you first ascertain whether she had done so? Defendant : No. The Lord Chief Justice: But should you not have done so before taking it from her? Defendant : It is not necessary. The Lord Chief Justice : I understood you took it from her because it was given to her by an extern. Defendant : Yes ; and because I did not wish her to retain it. The Lord Chief Justice : Why did you not wish her to retain it? Defendant : Because I saw in her such a spirit of appro• priation. The Lord Chief Justice : If a thimble is given to a sister tor her own use, must she not keep it, but give it over for the general community? Defendant : When a sister receives a present she must give it up to the superioress. She cannot retain it without the superioress's leave. The Lord Chief Justice : Did you take away presents from the other sisters under similar circumstances ? Defendant : Yes ; it is the constant practice with me, and it is done in other convents as an exercise of poverty. She had shown a bad temper the previous day. Whilst she was kneeling down and acknowledging her fault, she made an indirect charge against me. She spoke incoherently, but it was in a tone of complaint. I cannot give her words. She said in substance that the sisters turned their backs upon her at recreation. She spoke about the bread. She said it was either bad or mouldy. She alsa spoke of per secution and tyranny. Mrs. Kerr and Mrs. Melligan were present. She said she knew she could get into another convent if she chose, but that she would n o t go. She w as ver y exc ited. I was not conscious of having persecuted her. All I had done was to correct her, and try to make her good. I told the sisters that the accusa tion of faults was not intended to give an opportunity to the imperfect to give vent to their bitter feelings ; that I had allowed Sister Mary Scholastica to speak as she had done without interruption that they might know her and judge for themselves. I addressed Miss Saurin and said, "I excused you yesterday because I saw you were in a passion, but to-day you coolly and deli berately give yent to your bitter feelings, and accuse me of tyranny and persecution. You have just now said you could get into a convent if you liked, but that you would not go." I said, "Do go," and spoke to the effect that we should be all very thankful if she did so. In further examination the defendant said: About the end of May, 80, plaintiff asked for a staylace, and in four days afterwards she asked for another. I took her into my private room. Mrs. Kennedy, the mother assistant, was present. I told plaintiff to take off her upper clothing after she had taken off her habit. I think I put my hand upon her petticoat, and said " Take this off," and she did so. As she took her clothes off, I put out my hand, and she gave them to me. She had three small bags round her neck. In two of them she had scapulas and some bonnet ribbons, and in the third bag she had some devotional object. I took the bags off her myself. She immediately said, " Don't take my scapulas ;" and I replaced them on her neck. She then took off her pocket. The tunic was not disturbed by me or Mrs. Kennedy. She made a movement to open her tunic, and I said "Don't do that ; you must not." On taking off her pocket, I laid it on the table. She appeared anxious to get it back again, and said she wanted her pockethandkerchief. I gave it to her. I then exa mined her packet —a very large one. I found a collection of small thi ngs, as on a previous occasion. Amongst other things were two ropghly-made tablets. She had from time to time applied for writing materials, and I had given her them. She had not asked leave to keep such tablets. Some further evidence having been given, the case was, again adjourned. TM: RIVAL CIIRISTY MINSTItLs.—TIie long pending dispute between the rival troupes of Christy's Minstrels has b?en the subject .of an action in the Bail Court. The plai n tiff :4 are the C. C. C., or Colo ure d Comedian Christy Minstrels, and they accuse the Original Christy Minstrels, who perform in St. James's Hall, of pub lishing libels upon them. Th ey all, it seems, b e l onged to the same troupe originally,but af terperforming, together for setae years azepg.ration took place. The libel complained of by the C. C. C. Minstrels was the warning on the playbills that the Original Christy Minstrels never performed out of London, and that consequently all others were impostors. A verdict was agreed to for the plaintiffs—damages, 40s. ; the defendants promising to withdraw the advertisement complained of, and to state in any other notices that their objections did not apply to tlaa C. C. C. Minstrels. The prospect of the-cross-examination of Mrs. Starr, one of the defendants, gave a fresh impetus on Thursday to the excitement which the Hull convent case has aroused at Westminster. The Solicitor-General is an adept at this operation, which, while good fun to the spectators, is often death to the witness. " Silver-tongued" Coleridge, as the second law officer of the Crown is not inaptly styled, plies the scalping-knife of cross-examination with a ruth less hand. Possessed in an eminent degree of the suaritcr in modo, he deals no puny blow to the fabric of an oppo nent's case when ha takes their witnesses in hand. With out any approach to the Old Bailey manner—which may bs effective, but is certainly unpleasant—the Solicitor. General has a marvellous faculty for compelling the occupant of the witness-box to give those little details of evidence which the other side would much prefer being concealed. Those, however, who were fortu nate enough to get into court yesterday were not imrue diatelypermitted the treat of hearing the cross-examination of Mrs. Starr, for she had still much to say about the alleged ill-conduct of the plaintiff through the medium of her examination-iu-chief. referring to the episode of the torn veil, Mr 3. Starr said : Four or five days after I discovered the veil worn by Miss Saurin was torn, I gave her another one, which I thought would please her better, and I gave the torn one to another sister, who repaired it and wore it daily for nearly three years after. I gave her a new one, fearing she would utter' destroy the one she was wearing. The Lord Chief Justice : Did you say anything to her about the tearing ? Defendant : No, I thought it useless. When stockings were given to her they were in good repair, but I noticed when they came from the wash that they were torn in many places. They could not have been so torn in the wash, or when they were worn. They were principally torn in the legs. Once or twice, on giving her clean stockings, I asked her for the soiled ones. They were not torn, and had no tears in them when they came back from the wash. I once gave her a fine toilet towel without any hole in it, but she sent it to the wash in so torn a con dition that it could not be used again. Her tunic was given to her in good repair, and of the same quality as I wore myself, but when it came from the wash it could scarcely be repaired. AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Timls.) [SECOND NOTICE.] • My Adventures Afloat in the Sumter and Alabama. By Admiral Raphael Semmes. The name under which the Alabama sailed from Liverpool is explained as being the 290th vessel built by the Lairds. She was of 900 tons burden, 230 feet in length, 32 in width, 20 in depth, drawing when ready for a cruise 15 feet of water. She was rigged as a bark with long lower masts, which en abled her to carry large fore and aft sails. Her scantling was light compared to vessels of her class in the United States Navy, being more designed as a scourge on commerce than for battle. Her engines were of 300-horse power, and all in all she was a perfect steamer and sailing ship at the same time, though not as swift as supposed. Her propeller could be raised in 15 minutes, and lowered with equal facility. Her armament was eight guns, six 32-pounders in broadside, 100-pounder rifled Blakely on the forecastle, and a smooth 8-inch horegun abaft the mainmast. her crew was 120 men,with 2-1 officers. The cost of the ship complete was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The escape from Liverpool is described, and the arming and commissioning at Terceira, from which island No. 290 issued as the Confederate man-of-war Alabama, and commenced a career replete with disasters, but without a single good--alike the destroyer of property and harmony, marking her track with ships on fire, and leaving behind her a heritage of discord. We do not intend, at least here, to discuss the arguments of Admiral Semmes to show that his career was legal and abundantly covered by precedent even from the history of the United States. We desire the record of his cruise to stand alone, himself telling the mo tives and sentiments which moved him to action in the despotic position he assumed. The book abounds with proof how be regarded his enemy. He held that the America warring against his section was only Puritan, and he replied bya a rabid hatred of the Pu ritan element. " With all the Puritan's pretension to learning, and amid all the appliances of civilization by which he has surrounded himself, he is still the same old Plymouth-Rock man that his ancestor was three centuries ago. He is the same gloomy, saturnine fanatic ; he has the same impatience of other men's opinions, and is the same vindictive tyrant that he was when he expelled Roger Wil liams from his dominions. The cockatrice's egg has batched a savage in short, that refuses to be civilized." This we extract at random to show the feelings with which this judge went forth to admi nister international law on the high seas. We had other grounds for asserting that Admiral 6emmes was a sea-lawyer than the long-winded historical retrospects and legalargmnentswith which he opens his book. Indeed he claimed for himself a monopoly of law, at least in the Alabama, and to show his impatience of any one in his company even pretending to such a knowledge, we may quote his own words :—" Whenever I found 1 had a sea lawyer among the crew, I got rid of him as soon as possible—giving him a chance to desert. I re served the quids and quos and pros and cons exclu sively for myself." Ile had established a Confe derate Court of Admiralty on board for the trial of doubtful questions ; but he does not tell how it was constituted. It is clear, as he drove every " sea-lawyer" out of the ship, that no One remained but himself; and although be enters the decrees against the Lafayette and the Lauretta as if those of a regular court, they could have been but his own ipse digit. The questions arising were often sufficient to puzzle an able advocate trained to sifting such evidence. But these questions appear to have given very little trouble to the gallant sea lawyer, who almostinvariably cut them short with the sword and torch. Cargoes of coal for the Peninsular and Oriental Company —for the Messageries Impe riale—and in other cases where there could be little doubt in the mind of any rational man that the freight belonged to a peaceful company of neutrals unconnected with America, were mercilessly de stroyed, and in cases where he hit any house or in dividual in his list as hostile to the Confederacy or distasteful to himself the sea-lawyer always found the capture a goof prize. For instance, in the case of the Wales, " consigned to and probably owned by the obnoxious house of the airings in Boston, whose ship, the Neapolitan, I had burnt in the Straits of Gibraltar. This British house had ren dered itself exceedingly active during the war in the Federal interest, importing large quantities of arms, and otherwise aiding the enemy; and I took a special pleasure therefore in applying the torch to its property." Again the Ariel, which he captured when on the look out for the treasuresteamer from Aspinwall to New York. Unfortunately for the Alabama she was outward bound, and there fore had passengers, but not gold. For three days he kept her, in the hopes of capturing some craft of lesser value into which to turn the 500 passen ger, and burn the Ariel, which he the more ear nestly desired, "as she belonged to Mr. Vanderbilt of New York, an old steamboat captain, who had amassed a large fortune in trade, and was a bitter enemy to the South." Here, then, he was simply re strained from destroying the vessel by the fact that with it he must destroy a number of passengers, and it was only when compelled to proceed for the des tination to which he was then bound that he allowed the vessel to depart on a ransom bond, Capt. Jones pledging his word that it would be regarded by Vanderbilt as a debt of honour. " The bond," adds Semmes, " is for sale cheap to any one desir ing to redeem Mr. Vanderbilt's honour." The au thor furnishes many instances of the motive upon which this judge of every one's property on the high seas worked. Yet there is no betterproof of this than in the tone of the book. Let any man wholly free from I bias read it, and answer the question whether its writer was a p roper person fairly and impartially to decide questions on Federal property. He was always receiving batches of papers and letter-bags from captures, The e the latter he kept f o o r r ns h i e s r h o e w d n i e r t e r a i b d u i n t e g d , t a o n t d h e s s o h m i p e , curious secrets he alleges he was let into thereby, uncon nected—at Apbotograp l h eas an t d i na love-letter from a material way—with busi ness.the sea capt a i n ' s b ag wo n o r I d a r d o i p n f g r , o b natmhoongdothsierevsartio ous invoices a n d bills passionatem reassure the fair ones that their secrets are safe as they have all been consigned to the deep. These letters and papers, coming from the North, bad a Northern way of putting the questions concerning the war, which seemed to fire the soul of the equit able Semmes with patriotic indignation and brighten to a fiercer flame his ever-lighted torch. He never seems to tire of abusing and expressing his contempt for the Yankee arguments and the " Yankee hash," but, very innocently, he winces and kicks viciously against what he desires people to believe he re gardeditn papers s h s a v d it h an p o r th of e o r u e n ff d ee c t on b te es m id p e t s . spurring The h Northern e partial judge int o th e destruction ofNorthern trader. When he got on the track e o wa f les t l ehdtee Artnhmesetsriahetieapsns, bjtemarkinflgeteht,e gasratinhetoyEounnrogpeooffifcetrshe his posts came in with great regularity, for he had I only to lie still, allow the ships to come down and deliver them, and be destroyed. Ile thanks the editors of the New Yorkgerald for valuable informa tion regarding the enemy's gunboats, which enabled him to take the better care of the Alabama, adding, " The Americans effected many reforms in the art of war during our late struggle. Perhaps this was the only war in which the newspapers ever ex plained beforehand all the movements of armies and fleets to the enemy." Nor this only ; for the New York papers gave him information about the Ala bama, where she was going, and where she was ex pected to go, and he was glad to find that while the cruiser was drawing in to the Empire City itself, they were persuaded that it was on the coast of Brazil. The accounts given of the captures he made could scarcely have added to the affection he already bore his Northern brethren, who he so heartily and continuously abuses for abusing him, while all his moralizing is in a strain of wonder at the Yankee hatred of the South, as illustrated by their plunder ings and burnings there, totally forgetting that his mission was to apply the torch to everything be longing to the North which he could lay his hands upon. According to this legal authority the regu lar Government of the United States had no right to burn anything, and, in doing so, displayed their THE SUN, LONDON, , FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1169. cupidity and malignity, but he, as the servant of the pretended Government at Richmond, had the right to burn and plunder, not only Federal pro perty, but that of neutrals, which in any way might be used to strengthen and to comfort the Nortb. It is ludicrous to observe the tone of this gentleman, indeed some of his moralizing is worth noting. The prize Parker Cooke on fire, lighting up the mountains of St. Domingo then in sight, induces the following : " Sixty years before, the negro had cut the throat of the white man, ravished his wife and daughters, and burned his dwelling in this island. The white man in another country was now inciting the negro to the perpetration of the same crime against another white man whom he called brother. The white man who was thus inciting the negro was the Puritan of New England, whose burning ship was lighting up the shores of St. Domingo !" There may be something remarkable in the connection, in the chain of evidence, and in the eventual pun'sluent, to hare induced these reflections which seem to have so highly gratified the legal subtlety of a Semmes' mind. But we cannot see it; in truth, un less we had heard it from so great a legal authority we would have applied to this the pithy Persian word, signifying nothing, Bosh ! Nor could we have found any other word more aptly to express our meaning for what follows :—" That Puritan, only a generation before, had entered into a solemn league and covenant to restore to the Southern man his fugitive slave if he should escape into his territory. This was the way in which he was keep ing his plighted faith ! Does any one wonder that the Alabama burned New England ships?" It is gra tifying to see that the interpretation of law laid down by such a master, and the precedents thus established, have not been lost to the world ; but were these reflec tions extracted from the " Alabama Confederate States Admiralty Court" decision on the prize Parker Cooke? Again he visited this island, and again he moralized, for the scene of negro triumph and negro cruelty seems to have had a strange power of fasci nation over the mind of the Alabama's captain. "The old city of Sr. Domingo, how many associa tions does it not call up ! It was a large and flourishing city a hundred years before that pesti ferous little craft the Mayflower brought out the cockatrice's egg that hatched out the Puritan." His descriptions of the Yankee captains captured are in the same strain. " The captain of the IVales, though a Northern man, had very few of the ear marks of the Yankee skipper about him. Ile was devoid of the raw-boned angularity which charac terises most of them, and spoke very good English through his mouth instead of his nose. Ilis pro nunciation and grammar were both good—quite an unusual circumstance among his class." Yet quali fied judges, and British too, have lately pronounced a strong opinion that English is spoken in America in far greater purity than in Great Britain--the exception being the people who speak good Eng lish taking the English in a mass, and the excep tion being those who speak bad English in America taking the Americans in a mass. lie gives an account of a consul he captured in the Union Jack, on his way to Foochow. The Rev. Franklin Wright was "au ex-New England parson, editor of a re ligious paper, in a New England village. Ile had Puritan :written all over his lugubrious countenance, and looked so solemn that one wondered how he came to exchange the clergyman's garb for the garb of Belial. But so it was. Franklin was going out to India (sic) in quest of the dollars. We de prived him of his consular seal and commission, though we did not molest his private papers, and of sundry very pretty consular flags that had been carefully prepared for him by Mr. Seward (fls), at the State Department at Washington. I am pained to see by that little bill of Mr. Seward (pre) against the depredations of the Alabama, before referred to, that the Rev. F. Wright put his dam ages down at $10,015. I had no idea that the New England parson carried so much plunder about with him." The legal acumen of Semmes does not prevent his falling into many conspicuous little blunders. In the instance we have given, Foo chow appears to be in India, and a few pages before he makes the strength of the U.S. gunboat Halle METROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday. --0-- The week has been rife with rumours of Ministerial differences. These rumours are not unfounded. The old story is being re-told. There is a feud between the Whigs and the Radicals, and it is quite within the range of possi bility that the Liberal party may be broken up. Lord Russell's proposals with regard to the Irish Church, which were contained in his third letter, but which to ordinary readers seemed entirely out of date, have proved by no means so. The Whig party generally are for accepting these proposals, or something like them, and it will be remembered that they were long ago advocated by Earl Grey. The Radical party are, of course, for entire disendowment, and strongly adverse to the levelling-up policy. This difference of opinion has broken out in the Cabinet, and it is by no means certain which party will prevail. It seems strange that there should be any doubt on the matter, inasmuch as Mr. Gladstone has pledged himself against any appropria tion of the Irish Church revenues to the Roman Catholic Church ; inasmuch, too, as the country deliberately pronounced against that policy at the general election ; inasmuch, moreover, as when Mr. Gladstone formed his Cabinet it was understood that on many subjects there would be latitude of opinion allowed, but on the subjects of the Irish Church agree ment was essential. It is stated to-day, in well-informed circles, that the measure for dealing with the Irish Church will not be brought in during the first fortnight of the session, but that it will be laid on the table on a day famous in the annals of legislation—the day on which Lord Russell brought in his successful Reform Bill of 1832, and (Liberals will say absit omen) the day on which he brought forward his unsuc cessful Reform Bill of 1860—the first of March. Of course, a measure of such importance, and one with which Mr. Gladstone has so completely identified his name, will be introduced by the Premier himself. This announcement, which is made on what I believe to be good authority, would seem to imply that the differences spoken of above had been surmounted. That is not neces sarily the case. It does not follow that the bill which Mr. Gladstone brings in will be the bill to pass. It is by no means improbable that Lord Russell will move au amendment when the measure reaches the Upper House, embodying the proposals of his letter, and that the Conservatives and Whigs will agree to support it. In that case it is intimated Mr. Gladstone might be found submitting to the inevitable. There is nothing in his past history which seems to warrant such a supposition. At present the situation is not a little critical. The report of Lord Clarendon's illness, started in the Echo, was quite unfounded. Not only has the Foreign Secretary not been unable to attend to the business of his department, but he has been peculiarly active in conduct ing it during the last two or three weeks. I may state that he has been the foremost in counselling the Greek Government to accept the protocol of the Paris Conference. It was only with the greatest difficulty that this concession could . be obtained, and to our Foreign Minister Europe owes it that she is not witnessing now the beginning of a great war. It would be too much to say that the danger of war has been altogether surmounted. There are many symptoms, especially the large importation of French arms into Civita Vecchia, which seems to show that France, at all events, considers the conflict only postponed. But Lord Clarendon will say with Canning, who, when some member declared that war must come sooner or later, replied, " Then, sir, let it be later." All doubt respecting the leadership of the Conservative party in the Upper House is now apparently set at rest by the seemingly official announcement that the duty will be entrusted to Lord Cairns. This is a position of which he may well feel proud. Fifteen years ago he was only Mr. Cairns, member for Belfast, a barrister in good practice, though not a Q.C., and not known as a debater. In 1856 he took silk; in 1858 he became Solicitor-General; in 1866 Attorney-General ; in 1867 Lord Justice ; in 1868 Lord Chancellor ; and now, in 1869, this undistinguished barrister of fifteen years ago is put over the heads of mar quises and dukes, takes precedence of the noblest and oldest blood in the kingdom, and, risen from the people, leads the most aristocratic assembly in the world. This speaks much, not only for his abilities, but for the paucity of ability among the great ruling families. No single incident of recent times marks so strongly the decaying power of the peerage as the fact that the great Conservative party is led by a gentleman of the Press in the Lower House and by a gentleman of the long robe in the Upper. A mong the unfounded rumours of the present week is the report that the Government did not intend to carry out the project of purchasing the telegraphs. There has, I am assured, been no hesitation about the purchase, but there has been some consideration as to whether the terms mentioned last year were not too high. The bill passed last year simply enabled Government to purchase on terms not exceeding twenty years' profits ; but this clearly leaves the Government open to purchase for eighteen years' profits, if it can. I believe that at the present time certain Government officials are now in various offices of the telegraph companies, learning the way to work the wires, so that the Government may not be left stranded when the transfer is made. The death of Mr. Charles Bell, the member for the City, was announced liefore the event by one of the London evening papers, and that announcement was tele graphed to all the country papers. About noon on Tuesday a message was sent from a well-known adver tising and newspaper agency in the City to all the London evening journals to the effect that Mr. Bell was dead and that Baron Rothschild would come forward to take his seat. At two o'clock, just as they were going to press, a second message was received requesting that the first might not he used, and that request was com plied with by all the editors except that of the Echo. The morning journals of the next day stated that though hopelessly ill, the hon. member was still living. As a matter of fact, he died at Richmond during the night. This makes the fourth death which has taken place since the elections, both sides having suffered equally—Wareham and Renfrewshire by the death of Mr. Calcraft and Capt. Speirs, South Derbyshire and London by the death of Sir Thos. Greeley and Mr. Bell. The latter two had not been in Parliament before. The Liberals lost a seat at Wareham by the death of Mr. Calcraft, but will gain a far more important seat in London by the death o f M r . Bell. He was the minority member, and although the Conservatives have met to discuss If they should con test the constituency, no one believes that they would have the smallest chance in a single-handed contest ; and as nothing is said in to-day's papers with respect to their in tentions, it may be assumed that they will not attempt to fight. Mr. Bell was member of a firm which had three partners in the House of Commons. He is to be succeeded by a commercial magnate who has an equal number of relatives in the same assembly. Baron Rothschild has been selected because it is supposed that the seat is due to him. There is no great amount of enthusiasm in his behalf, for be is no speaker, and a rare attendant at the debates, or even in the division lobby. A certain section, consisting chiefly of the London tradesmen, would have preferred Sir Benjamin Phillips, who as Lord Mayor of London won their hearts. But the men on 'Change think that be would not have been "big" enough, and prefer an inefficient Rothschild to an efficient Phillips. ras, he Lad just sunk, officers and crew all told, to be 108 ; yet, almost immediately after, he says he landed lao of the men of the Hatteras at Kings. stown, Jamaica. But we must hurry on, fur, as it is, we have dwelt s) long on these details that we cannot give an idea of Semmes' account of the illabanza without a Third Notice. Next to the action which closed the career of the Confederate cruiser, the incident which excites most interest is the combat between her and the gunboat Hatteras. After leaving Martinique, and coaling on the road, Semmes ran into the Gulf of Mexico to strike a blow at Banks' expedition, then organizing to in vade Texas. That. General he describes as " a prominent Massachusetts politician, who had no sort of military talent, having risen to the surface among other scum, amid the bubbling and boiling of the Yankee cauldron. Banks had mounted a stud-horse on Boston-common on militia review days before the war, and had himself lithographed stui-horse, cocked hat, feathers and all ; and these were credentials not to be despised." The Confe derate hoped to effect a night surprise, setting fire to the large fleet of transports, and getting off un harmed. It was on his way to Galveston, while keep ing a look out as an interlude for the California trea sure ship, that he captured the Ariel, his elephant, as he truly calls her, not knowing what to do with the ponderous brute. When he sighted his port he found five Federal war ships shelling it, which was the first intimation he had that Magruder had re captured it, and that Banks had therefore changed the direction of the invasion. When the Federal fleet observed him, one of the steamers immediately got under way, and it was then he conceived the notion of drawing her from her consorts under the supposition that the Alabama was a merchantman, when he might capture her if he had reason to be lieve he was superior in force, or run if the strength lay on the Federal side. The Hatteras followed him for 20 miles, when night fell; and suddenly the Alabama, with her steam up and all cleared for ac tion, turned. The Hatteras ran close up and hailed, and the answer was " Her Britannic Majesty's ship Vixen." The Hatteras said she would send a boat on board, which was immediately dropped, and it was not till then the announcement was made that the strange vessel was the Alabama which reached the United States gunboat almost simultaneously with a broadside. The action lasted only thirteen minutes, and in a few more the Hatteras sank. She was an old tub, totally unfitted to cope with a new vessel of war, like the Alabama, even had her battery been equal. Her engines were not protected beneath the water line, like those of the vessel built by Laird, and the eight-inch shells crashed through them, quickly disabling the Hatteras, and rendering her unma tnoagteha o b l e last,. H owever b C a a r e p l t y a i n t m ß e u to o k e g e t fought out w t e h r his crew, before she went down. The weight of the metal and the quality of the armament were much superior in the Alabama, tho ug h th ere was little ervels. difference theT hisw as tonnage Semmes' or greatin t feat e e strength of ed the e not desire to detract from its merit ; for though the result could not be doubtful where two such vessels were handled by brave seamen, yet neither knew against what odds he might be matched, and both gallantly took their chance. Nor can a sailor, as we shall hereafter have occasion to say of Semmes him self when it comes to his turn to sink, do more than fight his ship till she goes down under him. We may, however, just now allude to the strange retri bution which overtook this man. He had the pain of seeing his own vessel destroyed by an adver sary fairly matched agaist. himself, her career ending in a way similar to n that which, through his agency, had overtaken the Hatteras, while even tually the very torch he had so ruthlessly used in burning merchantmen he was himself compelled to apply to the last squadron of his Government and the last ships he ever commanded. Mr. Glyn and Mr. Hart Dyke will have plenty to do on the first night of the session. There will be no fewer than nine writs to move for ; four of these—Bradford, Drogheda., Wexford, and Radnor —were filled by Liberals ; five — Bewdley, Norwich, Dublin, Westbury, and London —by Conservatives. Probably we shall hear something also about Nottingham, where Colonel Wright some time ago announced his retirement. It is not the fault of the Conservative party that other seats have not fallen vacant. Ten Liberals have been unsuccessfully petitioned against. Clearly, Mr.Spofforth has found himself all at sea with this new-fangled petition apparatus which his clever chief devised. Like household suffrage, it has hurt its inventor rather badly. The birth of a "Duke of Orleans " has caused no little excitement in Anglo-French circles. It is another guarantee for the continuance of the Bourbon line, for the supply of claimants to the French throne whenever it becomes vacant. Among our own upper circles the event has caused great satisfaction. The English Royal Family and English statesmen may recognise the ruling French dynasty, but the English noblesse do not. A very well-known English Parisian who has been over here for a few days told me that our aristocracy almost invariably keep away from the Tuileries when in Paris. The men who used to be friends with Napoleon when he was an exile will not pay court to him now that he is an emperor. They are rejoiced at the "accident" which has placed in the English Embassy an unmarried ambassador, and thereby interposed a serious obstacle to the pre sentation of English ladies at the French Court. The Emperor, I am assured, feels this cold ness not a little, the more so as he knows that English nobles would crowd to Paris if " Henri Cing " were to be master of the Tuileries. As it is, the number of English residents in the French capital has long been steadily diminishing. A new protest of Ritualists against the St. Alban's judgment has been published. It is subscribed by very few persons of importance, and the fifty dissentients at the great meeting in the Freemasons' Tavern appear to have diminished just one-half. Even the other moiety do not say they will disobey the judgment ; they simply pro test against it. At the church of one of the signitaries, St. Michael's, Shoreditch, it is said that the Sarum use will be introduced after Easter. If this be true, Mr. Nihi!l would do well to read the preface to the Prayer-book " Concerning the Service of the Church," where it it said, "And whereas lit,:ret4)" THE LICENSING SYSTEM. —The Birmingham borough magistrates, at a sitting on Tuesday morning, adopted an important memorial, praying the Government to introduce a bill speedily into the House of Commons, taking away from the Excise the function of Hcencing beer-houses, and vesting the power in the magistratei of the boroughs and counties. DosvILLE and Co., Belfast, •are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W.Q.—[Ad Tertitntneal • _.....- fore there there hath-been great diversity in saying and singing haVe been MOM. than doubled Within the last few in churches within .this realm, some following Salisbury years. A third' parish, adjoining these two and in a use, some Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some still worse plight than either, has to pay both the of York, some of Lincoln: now from henceforth all the extra expenses of extensive turnpike roads and the whole realm shall have but one use." One of the clergy increased rates of a town union ; while a fourth who refused at first to c om pl y w i t h the judgment,ent, the parish, near at hand, h a ppil y f or itself, has no dusty o Rev. B. T. Weit, of St. M ary M agdalene, Paddington, not write .r 4 1? us in urbe ads within its ' a bor s i ders, t and does s poor-rate has, in consequence of a f r i en dl y conference with his motto." Mr. Lippincott goes on to shew what a new diocesan (whose command he was willing to needless multiplication there is of collectors. Ea II obey, though unwilling to obey the State), followed tithing has its property-tax collector, whose duty it the example of the majority, and at the eight is to receive the property-tax returns for his par o'clock celebration yesterday (Ash Wednesday) the altar titular district—a thing impracticable in many candles were for the first time unlighted. The new instances, seeing that portions of several tithings are bishop seems anxious to shew as much consideration as he frequently included in a single farm, which is let at can for the Ritualists. In his old di ocese t h ey were railone rent. In every p e tty tithi ng t wo co ll ec t ors are nantcs in gurgite waste; in his new, he finds them so appointed to gather the land and assessed taxes. The numerous that they cannot be put d ow fact is, Parliament h as i nva d e d th e o ld system ofn. Hi s fi rs t public purely i local taxation but has not made a complete act will be performed to-morrow, when h e w ill consecrate conquest of it. Consequently, we are now standing a church near the Commercial-road. between the old and the new systems, without the No little scandal has been caused in metropolitan advantages of either. Mr. Lippincott acids : "As Dissenting circles during t!:e last few d a y s b y t h e dis- remed i al measures for this state of things, let county appearance of a Nonconformist preacher from the north of be substituted for parochial and union rating—a London. The person in question was a pupil of Mr. corollary to which, by the way, would nat ura lly b e Spurgeon, had a very comfortable livelih oo d o f £ 7OO a abolition of th e law of settlement; and, that the year from his chapel, and was blessed with a wif e an d four rates may be yet more equ a lly di s t r ib u t e d , l e t th em be raised on the principle adopted i n th e assessment to children. But these various - good things did n o t content him : be must needs run off Property tax : let paid G overnmen t o ffi cers be ap to make the matter worse, the wrong e d h us b an d i s hi s own with another man's wif e , and, pointed to co ll ec t over enlarged districts the oert - , land, and a ssesse d taxes;in place of the prpresent'paro y - - - brother. chial and tithing collectors ; and in order that the Of literary news I have a little to-day. Mr. Josiah occupiers of land may be duly represented in the Gilbe r t, the editor of Murray's Guide to the Tyrol, and administration of the county finances, let a certain the joint author with Mr. Churchill of the book on the number of their body be elected to take their place Dolomite Mountains, is engag e d i n wr iti ng a Lif e o f Ti t i an, at county fi nanc i a l b oards. These changes, what with criticisms on his works. Th e b oo k w ill b e b eaut if u ll y ever others may f o ll ow, would seem to be but a illustrated, and published by L ongmans . Messrs. Parker needful suppl ement to what has already been done. " are eked to publish a concord ance t o K e bl e, b y t wo BURDENS ON LAND. ladies, which will be a remarkable" work, inasmuch Professor Thorold Rogers, in writing to the Morning Ste, respecting the burdens on land, someves„ it knowledge isa g eod s i gnat t t h h a e t the fttet e farmers v e w t i s o h as one of the editresses i s bli n d, b ut h as nevertheless -(r1: - l ,I. , - hat account—a hob:l7er the most perfect knowledge of K e bl e ' s poe t ry , h av i ng l earnt it incidence of lo ca l t axat i on. The interest of the by heart. Messrs. Parker have iss ue d Si r J o h n Coleridge's farmer is the same as that of any other manufacturer Life of Keble, whose intended appearance I mentioned in or producer. If a tax is levied on his profits a former letter. The "Hymns for the Sick and Suffer- while the landlord's estate is free, the farmer is just ing," which have bad a considerable sale, are by Miss as much wronged and should be just as much Priscilla Maurice, si s t er o f P ro f essor M aur i ce an d o f M rs, aggrieved as a trader o r a p ro f ess i ona l man would be. Hare, widow of Archdeacon Hare. The editor of Mr. The landowner is singularly favoured in this country. Crabbe Robinson's diary is Dr. Sadler, a Unitarian In nearly every other a land-tax forms a notable b minister, of Hampst ea d. M r . R o bi nson hi mse l f was branch of the revenue. I n F rance th e rece i pts on this head amount t o a t en th o f th e w h o l e i ncome, a Unitarian. Mr. Edmund Yates has since his bankruptcy in Belgium to an eighth in Austria to a third In resigned the editorship of Tinsleys' Magazine. This gentle- this country the land tax ' is . ludicrously small, and if.s man found his first attempt at playwriting by no means more than compensated by the shilling duty on corn. satisfactory, having, as he stated in court, cleared only The landowner on succeeding to his estate is liable to about £l5 by his " T ame Cats," a fact which will not no probate duty, and pays a succession duty much greatly vex the soul of Mr. Swinburne. Mr. Stigand, the lighter than that exacted from the inheritance of author of the noticeable paper in Belgravia on " Byron," personal property. He is indirectly liable to certain is a contributor to the current number of the Edinburgh local rates, but if poor rates were abolished Review, having- believe, written the articl e on "Spain wages would rise, and the highway tolls preserve the 1 under Charl e s 11." E ver yb o dy is talking about P ro f essor roads, by which the l an d owner c hi e fly b ene fi ts. Pro- Beesly's ar ti c l e i n th e F or t n i g htly, which i s n o t on l y fessor Rogers a vers th a t h e h as never b een a b le to f di o s t co c l'er i t i tny t pruli f ar . burdens t. on lan d d, while he has unusually brilliant, but has a special interest in it, Jo a i f i t s e a r n de p n r o ix; i i i l t e c te g s con the under the characters of two French statesmen of feared dn a. on os la o ndo n s n vne j r r s e • the. last century, he has dealt with two most eminent country squires as the advocates of a selfish social x e a m n p d. English s t a t esmen o f our own d a y. I should acid that faction, he expresses a hope th a t we shall s oon see a Mr. Beesly i s no t on l y a R a di ca l of the extrem es t kind, thorough change in this branch of our legislation. but a Comtist, and has therefore no sympathy, nor EMIGRATION. indeed pati ence , w ith a m i n d lik e Mr. Gladstone's , which A conference was held at the 'Mansion House on is so powerfully influenced by religious motives. The Wednesday on the subject of emigration, • with espo article i n th e Q uar t er l y on Rit ua li sm is attribut e d t o C anon cial reference to the chronic distress at the East-end Robertso n , o f C an t er b ury, the au thor of "Sketches of of London, and the condition of the unemployed Church History d ur i ng the First Six Centuries." Captain workmen at Woolwich. The Lord Mayor presided, Byng Hall, who was said to be the editor of The Queen's. and in opening the proceedings said that Messenger, the new weekly spoken of in a former letter, all the palliatives which had been made to has publi c l y d en i e d i t. I t was a connec ti on o f w hi c h he deal with pauperi s m a t th e E as t- en d o f L on d on h a d could scarc e ly f ee l prou d. failed, and some large scheme of emigrati on mus t Artists are now d ec idi ng upon the pictures whi c h t h ey be adopted. He thought th a t e ff or t s s h ou ld b e madeonly to stem pauperism but to p u t a s t op t o it . will send to th e R oya l A ca d em y, M not r. Frith has seve ra l in He had met with an i ns t ance o f th e cos tli ness o f t h e hand, amon g th en a mo d ern su bj ec t called "H o p es and ordinary modes of relief, for one famil bad cost the Fears," a scene f rom "D on Q u i xo t e ,"and anoth er s t u d yot Jewish guardians no less than £400. y The Lord Caroline times (though very different from his famou s Mayor concluded by saying that motives of picture of 1867), N e ll Gwynne selling oranges. Both economy should induce people to aid in schemes Mr. and Mrs. Ward will exhibit. The first win of emigration rather than let the unemployed have the I n t ro d uc ti on a t C our t of Grinling Gibb ons, continue burdensome to th e pari s h es w hi c h th ey inhabited. T wo reso l u ti ons r, ere passed at the the wonderful woo d carver whom Sir Christoph er Wren brought from the Netherlands, in order to do the e meeting, t e pledging the I g s en i tle s r f a present ni t e o ti the stall work at St. P au l' s . M r , Ward's other pictur e will oi r) relieving ersitgrreassionanw; , d the other decLiug that be "Luther .First Studying the Bible." Mrs. Ward's a subscription should be entered into with a view of subject is "An Incident in the Life of the First Pre- extending the operations of the East-end limigra tender." Mr. Pettie has selected a very notable subject, tion and Relief Fund. Mr. Torrens, M.P., said "The Fall of woasey.e Mr. C a ld ero n has two pictures-- it would be wise to send the empty mouths to the 1 one has for title the first line of Marlowe's well-known Wasted food in Australia. A discussion took place song, " Come live with me and be my love," and represents as to the merits of pauper emigration, and some two figures in fifte en th - ce ntury costume. The oth er becauseof gentleman observed that if failure occurred it wou ld poor-law administra the error in the represents an incident in F r ench history—the widow of the ,be • on, by which all men were ticketed as paupers on Duke of Guise pers ua di ng Cl emen t to murder Henrylll. ti r hinthe 1 which • 1 eac g and to they =get be sent. Mr. Armitage has a scriptural subject, and a picture of Hero and Leander. Mr. Leslie has two pictures —on e a SALDANLIA DAY AND 3IALI N IE SBURG. A 1 " Saldanier " writes to the editor of the Tunes single female figure reclining in an arbour; the other founded on the old song, " It's best to be off with the old o d i e i cl t ar i c e s t d i i i f . li t cu ti l i t e i r e e s 'of dealing wi t h iil crinpals, and love before you're on with the new "—a girl standing with meat while we have an army inu of 100,000 culprits, ir o a v i el, and her recreant lover's portrait in her drooping hand, while 2,000 of the most desperate criminals are let loose in her mother is reading the letter in which the rupture of London every twelve months. The overcrowded the tie is announced. Mr. Marks has a large picture, state of the poor in London has long been a subject " The Minstrel's Gallery," a major-domo of the Middle of the greatest anxiety, and to relieve this pressure Ages sheaving a number of minstrels to the gallery whence on society must be the object of earnest they are to enliven a festival which is being carried on attention. He then describes the district of below. Mr. Mason, whose " Evening Hymn "was the gem of " Malmesburg," which lies on the seaboard of last year's Academy, and won for him th e l arge num b er of South Africa, and points ou t the adv=antages that forty votes at the late ballot for two associates, has two may. emigration accrue fro ( 7 1 f the pau p t e r r a s n transmission i z 112 place.o f land pictures, one a rustic party taking' refuge under a tree is within twenty days' steaming from the shores of during a hail-storm, arid the other an evening on a England, want is unheard of there, and yet the place moor, with the bright light of the sunset reflected is comparatively unknown. The members of the on a stream. Mr. Wattshasonhand severalpictures, among Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, and Crime which are " Diana and Edymion ;" a single figure, larger may be assured that all emigrants to Saldanha Bay than life, of Hyperion sitting on th e c l ouds just ere the will be well satisfied. ~ sun breaks forth upon . th e night ; 4 "U na and the Red Cross Knight," the first riding on her lowly ass, and the knight on his war steed ; also, a portrait of a lady. Mr. Watts will probably send these, and perhaps more, to the Royal Academy Exhibition, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. USURY. Money-lenders seem to have resolved themselves into one of the evils of the day. Seeing the result of our system of trading, as shewn forth in the panic of 1866, and remembering the temptation to which young men with expectations are exposed, one is puzzled to know which is the worst, the p resen t prac tices or the old usury laws. Proposals come from all quarters for the suppression of extortion. It is for gotten, however, that already, as far as the law is concerned, this is done. An application to Cha ncery would, in the case of over 5 per cent, being charged, be immediately followed by relief. The evil is, that men would rather pay than be exposed. For them there is no law, and so the extortioner prospers. THE METROPOLITAN CHARITIES. - Mi. Hicks has done good service to the public and to the suffering poor by endeavouring to throw some light on the complicated machinery of our London charities.. He has prepared a synopsis of the reports of our principal metropolitan charities, w hich must have cos t hi m an immense amount of time and labour. Mr. Hicks has given us a list of the names, addresses, and objects of no less than 363 charities, institutions, and asylums, ranging from those which provide for the care of crippled infants to the associations which provide for the widows of professional men, or assist the task of self-education by the loan of diagrams and maps. Many of the charities here referred to are probably unknown by name beyond their own immediate circle, but each has its special object of usefulness. The great matter of regret, as Mr. Hicks observes, is the want of all organisation, and consequent loss of power. Tho preVailing absence of uniformity, as well as the defective manner in which some of the balance sheets are prepared, prevents the information contained in the several reports from possessing their full value. - Under a different system they might, as Mr. Hicks points out, become valuable centres for information from various points of view. Mr. Hicks does not profess to give a complete repre sentation of the metropolitan charities, but his synopsis is, no doubt, sufficiently acc ura t e f or any or di nary inquirer. He divides it into seven classes, under the heads of infancy, childhood, manhood, old age, professional, afflicted, and general assistance ; giving, in all cases where a report has been furnished, a summary of their receipts and their expenses. The sum total of all the balance-sheets thus dealt with presents the immense aggregate of 22,040,897, and yet the last tables of pauperism show us that in the last week of January the total pauperism of the metropolis was 154,067. Mr. Hicks points out that the names of some of our charities, such as those for the Homeless and Destitute, speak for themselves of the inefficiency of the poor law. At present, he says, the public, instead of supplementing the relief of the poor law, is, and has been for years past, doing the work of th e poor l aw i tself. Th e synopsis before us, occupying as it does two-and-a-half pages of the Times, seems to confirm the assertion. " IIEARTLESS PARASITES." People who take houses for any length of time are always anxious to know if they are " clean." Nothing can be more trying than to be assailed in the first night after the bustle of removal by those nameless minute insects which are the abomination of every clean housewife. A Mr. Trevenan, of Wareham, Dorsetshiro, unaccustomed to the inconveniences of " half the houses in London," found it trying indeed. Ho removed from Wareham to the metropolis, and took a house at Brixton. But it was absolutely uninhabitable. He could not rest by clay or sleep by night; so he gave up the house in despair. He was put to great expense in removing, and thought the owner of the house ought to pay him for sending him into an uninhabitable house. But the ownerobjected. He did not put the parasites there. Mr. Trevenan was, however, determined to get the money if he could, and brought an action in the Common Pleas to compel his landlord to "hand over." The•action was tried on Wednesday. The jury were sympa thetic with the plaintiff, and would have given damages to any amount. But the judge thought the case had better be "settled," not being at all sure that any damages were due. The lawyers, therefore, made it up between d themselves. Hence orth it must be_411.49 t h kW' Itr9. ' EEnIG TROUGH A 3rnLSTONE. There is none of our contemporaries which will compare with the Morning Advertiser in seeing through a millstone, It devotes a leadert o the Lord Mayor's banquet at Dublin, and enters into an elaborate argument to prove that because Lord Spencer eulogistic language, M r . Gl a d s t one h as deterntined to 44 evel up," and Mr. Gladstone's Ministry will therefore be "swept away from the political earth." Unfortunately for this argument, it was not the Lord-Lieutenant, as at first reported, but the Lord Mayor, who proposed the health of the Car dinal. The effusive manner in which "that eminent prince of the Catholic Church" was spoken of did appear strange so long as it was supposed that Lord Spencer was the speaker ; but a special telegram to the Times states that the speech in question has been attributed to the Viceroy in error, and that it was really made by the first magistrate of Dublin. THE GOyERNDIENT TELEGRAPHS BILL. Readers of the Edinburgh Review are aware that a severe attack appears in the current number of that quarterly upon the arrangements of the late Government for the purchase of the telegraphs. Thi s ar ti c l e h as b een cr iticised in the Times, and now the reviewer replies in the same journal to his critic. The reviewer says that he does not wish to upset the scheme for the purchase of the telegraphs. On the contrary, he desires the Government to become the owner of them. But he does censure what lie deems the extravagance of the late Ministry for the terms which they proposed to give. He does not say that twenty years' purchase of past profit s i s t oo high a pried, but he thinks that twenty years' purchase of estimated future profits is too high. He points out that whereas in 1805 Mr. Scudamore estimated the cost at £2,500,000, in 1868, when under examination, he said that the price would not exceed£ 8,000,000. The reviever believes that it will, and he would have Parliament thoroughly consider the terms before sanctioning them. The reviewer fails to see that if Mr. Scudamore's estimate of the purchase has increased threefold in three years, this is a clear indication that the profits arc increasing very rapidly from year to year, and that therefore it is not fair to estimate the value of the telegraphs by their profits only of past years, for a great portion of which time they were unreniunerative. As to the rise which has taken place in the market value of the shares, that is only the natural result of the Prospect of immediately realising future profits. _ AN OCEAN PENNY POST. The idea of an ocean penny post has been regarded like most other such reforms, as a " dream." But from what Mr. Reverdy Johnson said at Glasgow the other day, that the American Government had instructed him to press a cheap international postage on our own Government, the dream is not unlikely to turn out prophetic. The subject is being taken up, too, in the chambers of commerce throughout the king dom, and on Wednesday the directors i of the Man chester Ch am b er passed a resolution n favour of a penny post between this country and America. The discussion of the question is making some progress, therefore,. LOCAL TAXATION. The poor and highway rates are unequally dis tributed, not only as regards persons, but also as regards places. Mr. -Lippincott, of Over Court, Bristol, writes s "I reside in a parish in which the cost of maintaining some eight miles of turnpike roads (thoroughfares of the surrounding neighbour hood) has just been thrown upon the rates. An adjoining parish is free from this charge, but is still more unfortunate than its neighbour, in that, though strictly rural, it is attached to a town union, and in Consequence subject to ve heavy establishment and casual Door char t an extentithatittLratea SPAIN. The accounts of anarchy in the Spanish provinee4l no better. Some districts are infested with robber ° such an extent that it is unsafe to stir from home Wit' ll° o an escort. The correspond en t o f th e T e l egra ph s tates t a friend of his had the wh o l e o f hi s crop o f o li ve s 4°l off the trees. In the province of Toledo, one gentlen3 slll4l :4 obliged to fortify his house, and from behi n d hi s barrie s , (l o doors and windows he and his servants kept up a n i g; warfare with the peasants for more than ten till at last he came to Madrid, leaving his country to take care of itself. These reports may be too libel; interpreted. It is natural that the Revolution s hould 11$ d the effect of disturbing social order, but the O at° l o affairs was bad enough before September last. It i s ° in the south that any change for the worse appears. t ) The Indc'penclance Beige says the Directory POj ec under a cloud, if not altogether abandoned. d The third series of Protestant services at - Maar' e j again very largely attended ; hundreds had to be t tirP t y away. The Daily News correspondent says that id greatest decorum prevailed. He noticed maul 13tal ol men with tears running down their cheeks at the W ert preaching of Don Ruet. ITALY. Italy is not usually look e d t o f or exam pl es in socl a l De provement, but it appears that there is somethirigli learned even there. Italy, like England, from an unequal distribution of labour. In : 1 ;0 4 ] , arts the population is too cro w d e d, in °v er labour only is required to render a wilderness ° f flowingly fruitful. A Sardinian Colonisation C° 1331) 01 has been formed at Genoa. Its object is to colonisso all but desert, though fertile, island of Sardinia. company has a capital of £40,000, and proposes to P oe work on the following system:—lt has b o ught a i ox / tract of land in Sardinia. Every five years a ce r of 500 emigrants is to be established in o rs tain portions of the island. The colonists i bound to give their labour for five years:oo return for their food, lodging, clothing, and a of threepence. On the expiration of his term of sei the emigrant will become the owner of a small COtts;ji with about two and-a-half acres of goo d l a nd 0,1112 10 1 and receive the sum of £2O for the defrayal of the 0 0 expenses of cultivation. The company calculates u lid very large profit—in fact, that its capital will be d ou ce ir in five years. Should this be so, it will be for us t l ajoil cider whether Canada does not stand i n th e same re' to England as Sardinia does to Italy. elO l The Princess Marguerite, wife of King Victors son, fainted at a ball a few days ago, and the 00 , then announced that she was in an interesting sit l16 :00 As it was feared that Prince Humb er t would 0 41 children, this isnews of some importanc e . The Fr ill. however, is very delicate. ROUHANIA. T oe, The Danubian Principaliti es are a p rey to 11 -do. political agitation. The turbulent party, at the be A which is Bratiano, the l a t e Mi n i s t er, h o ld s a d ec ide" 00 ponderance in the Legislature, an d th e new C a bi n et experienced a severe check at its hands. The reap car ment of a General was made the subject of a vote 0 sure, on which the Ministry has been defeated bi 42. As the reappointment was perfectly vrit bill ol province of the Government, the vote of censure li te somewhat unconstitutional. Prince Charles has to dissolve the Chamber rather than dismiss his Cllr A general election will therefore take place. - Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUB. h 1 1 ' in/dulls and New Zealand, via Sonthamptort.....r , e 'gt Ditto, via }ruseilles . Fe"' . Ditto, via Pl..)_araa Feb - . • •• •• •• 000000000000 1, brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video gat - Feb' 71, Ditto, by French packet . isir• l ; Cape Verde, by Brazil packet . .... ...... ,1 , Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. H e l ena ...• Ve' 13 China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southamp ton. • Fe,'" 1 3 Gibraltar, via Southampton . • Fe b i 1 India, via Southampton F eb 'idtto, via Marseil. es F •. F Malta, Egypt, &o eb eb' 16 Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Ditto, Marseilles ~Feb' ',O r 1 Yewfoundland . ... ga t ' Portugal United States, Canada, California, &c., by British 0 packet ...... Fcb Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Feb " Ditto, by L Lited States packet Ditto ditt( (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe West Indies and Plu.lific (except Mexico and Baha- b I mas) Falkland Islands ..... 31 0 t 1, Cuba and Mexico . ••••••• „ 3100 Bermuda, via Halifax.... Feb' .. • •• • rep' Bahamas, via New York LADVERTISRMENT.J—Avoid Medicines: they alwaYs4„ e gil oo? chronic complaints: but Du B arr y' s d e li c i ous health" poef.oi. Revalenta Arabica Food, which yi e ld s th ree t i me s the ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other I' s, g o o ! and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong ne r l i act i V, lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, ef e d.,„re , regularity, anti energy to the most disordered enfee ble to 1 5 extract a few oat of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health 'e, by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome JulY 119 s3i9 Cl —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, eSPee" if CO. fe abandoning all other remedies, he has confined him ( oo', to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he c ,b, a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprist u fhis ci" , 4 B tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise 2 5 g el lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, JulY,,,rs oil; No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Y`:, D er", complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with ,esswt': palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeples ß ,', 7 l; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. L'air, Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of re a ',,,,r l 4 , dyspepsia. No. 49;832: " Fifty years' indescribable ef i ; t 0110, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , 0 ,00 ,0 4 spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria JolY. 3O 46,270: Mr. James Rob e rt s , o f F r i m l ey, S urre y, O f diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ho partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware ~, lo t e lf unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to ty tts„ll, o ' authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciouslY.,,,LPoe In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. sd .; 2 lbs. 45. 6d.; 5 lbs. ,1- 0 ' .4 a ri l 225. ; 24 lbs, 40s, —Also Du BARRY'S REvALEN TA ARAB! v.,: Or. LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups t;'", 51e ill! : cups at 35. 6d., for 48 cu p s a t 6 5., f or 288 cups at 305., L ° 6060 at 55s.—being abo u t one penny per cup. T he 30s• / 0 0 p, are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of ot , Order.— BAßßY DU BAR R Y an d C o., N o. 77, R eg eht"°tr don; and all Grocers and Chemists. FOREIGN,',NOTZIL THE EASTERN . DIFFICULTY. King George has at last succeeded in finding ‘ 01 1 # who is willing to accept the declaration of the Conferen ce ; and who is able to form a Cabinet t o su pp o rt him. Zaimis Ministry is complete, and Count Walewski left Athens on Monday, "taking with him the reply of t: Greek Government, which is satisfactory in every rar e : How the popular demonstrations against aceepting declaration have been dealt with, and what willbe the c °11 : sequence of the acceptance, rem a i n t o b e se en. Tr ust worthy information stat es th a t th e new C a bi ne t hag b ee-,. : hatched for the sole purpose of getting over this slit:60 11 ; it has not the confidence o f th e p eo pl e , an d canno t 041c this crisis. MORE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS. Though we are not likely to hear of ano th er Abyssi ni f l o expedition, it appears that the rom an ti c en t er prise ai l ed year did not complete its work. It will be rememb! that two members of the Armenian-Gregorian clergy“ Jerusalem set out previously t o th e ex p e diti on in orde rvi obtain the release of the prisoners by peaceful met; Religion, however, succeeded no better than diPb/r a t c ;i; Not only did the two worthy e cc l es i as ti cs f a il in fr o mission, but they aro still in Abyssinia, and w 11 3. 4 10 worse, cannot get out. The mantle of Theodore has f': ; upon the new sovereign in resp ec t o f retaind', captives. The imprisoned clergy have written letter to their brethren as sur i ng th em that ° it are in the power of the mona rc h, an d canno t get s°' , They thought the Abyssi n i ans were Christ o , oo sl but they have been bitterly deceived. There is no reliP i , in Abyssinia, only the name. Even the Abouna, W ll° the bishop of the one Abyssinian diocese, and is tilt from the Coptic clergy of Alexandria, is not treated' respect. Why the new sovereign will not let the Si a l Armenians go is not quite clear, b u t th e d o leful le g seems to hint that having thus got a good stock of cl e on hand, he is disposed to keep it in readiness, Ana° the trouble of sending to Alexandria. b • •cr ,il 0 0 Births, ASTELL— On tho 9th inst., at Woodbury hail, qr„ l ' . ., shire, the wifo of John Harvey Astell, A 0 daughter. #1 , 4 SUTTON—On the 10th inst., at 7, Gloucester-ter race ' park, the wife of Graham E. H. Manners So t ' . if s of a son. tb° ll SCOTT—On the 7th inst., at 223, Brompton-roa d, of Clement W. Scott, of a son. Marriages. BARTON—COLLIS —On the 9th inst., at Queenstolo' 0'41.; Barton, fourth son of Charles C. Barton, Escl-7, ° r of hams. to Geraldine de Courcy, second daugh t er o f Rev. Dr. C. Collis. 0:1;01' Hruscx—HYA3l—On the 10th inst. Oscar Ilfrsc - ' JJ) Hamburg, to Emma, eldest daughter of Lawroa e Esq., of 9, Leinster-terrace, Hyde-park. Deaths. ,g-te dif C T.: YILLIER —On the 11th inst., at 3, Invern .-- ' oc ilt Austin Cuvillier, Esq., aged 56. .n. Des 4ll DASHWOOD—On the 9th inst., the Rev. G..... - op vicar of Stow Bardolpb, aged 68. Of KENIIICK —On the 10th inst., Wm. Kenrick, V sq.' it, n o Clare, Walmor, Kent, aged 56. hen... KESEVETT —On the 10th inst., at Ealing, 31 r. °' lid / aged 'i 1. p h i D ose, t." REDHEAD —On the 10th in s t ., a t Ch es ter g ir l for Norwood Park, Lauren ce R e dh ea d , Esq., e".... county of Surrey, aged 89. 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