The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-23 00:00:00

ANNEXATION OF BRITISH COL UMBRIA TO CANADA. An important despatch from Earl Granville is published in a series of official papers on the subject of annexing British Columbia to Canada. This State paper is dated August 14. Earl Granville says that the prevailing opinion in the colony seems in favour of union, and such also is the conviction of her Majesty's Government : ° They believe that a Legislature selected from an extended area, and representing a diversity of interests, is likely to deal more comprehensively with large questions, more im partially with small questions, and more conclusively with both, than is possible when controversies are carried on and decided upon in the comparatively narrow circle in which they arise. Questions of purely local interest will be more carefully and dispassionately considered when disengaged from the larger politics of the country, and at the same time will be more sagaciously considered by persons who have had this larger political education. Finally, they anticipate that the interest of every province of British North America will be more advanced by enabling the wealth, credit, and intelligence of the whole to be brought to bear on every part, than by encouraging each in the contracted policy of taking care of itself, possibly at the expense of its neighbour. Most especially is this true in thd case of internal transit. It is evident that the esta blishment of a British line of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is far more feasible by the operations of a single Government responsible for the pro gress of both shores of the Continent, than by a bargain negotiated between separate—perhaps in some respects rival—Governments and Legislatures. The San Francisco of British North America would,under these circumstances, hold a greater commercial and political position than would be attainable by the capital of the isolated colony of British Columbia. Her Majesty's Government are aware that the distance between Ottawa and Victoria presents a real diffi culty in the way of immediate union. But that very diffi culty will not be without its advantage if it renders easy communication indispensable, and forces onwards the opera tionswhich are to complete it. In any case it is an understood inconvenience, and a diminishing one, and it appears far better to accept it as a temporary drawback on the advan tages of union, than to wait for those obstacles, often more intractable, which are sure to spring up after a neglected opportunity." Earl Granville adds that, as the connection of England with British Columbia is closer than with any other part of North America, Her Majesty's Government have thought it fitting to give a more unreserved expression of their wishes and judgment. LAW AND POLICE. Tin BIRMINGITAM HosprrAr..—A suit has been insti tuted in the Rolls Court on behalf of the General Hos pital at Birmingham, to recover a legacy of £l,OOO. Many years ago the testator, ➢lr. "Wade, bequeathed his property to hi s mother and daughter, for their lives and the life of the survivor, and then as his mother should appoint. His mother appointed by will—subject to the daughter's life interest— £l,ooo to the hospital, and both died more than thirty years ago. A like sum was left to the Leeds Infirmary, and duly paid several years ago by the defendant, Mr. Smith, who was one of the executors, and also medical officer of that infirmary. His lordship said the payment to the Leeds Infirmary did not constitute an admission of assets, and until a fund was set apart, which was not don* in this case, ll , no trust was created which would prevent the Statute of Limitation from being a bar to the claim. Bill dismissed with costs. THE FAMILY ENDoirismrr LITE ASSITILANCE.—An appli cation has been made by General Patt, an annuitant of the Family Endowment Life Assurance Society, in Vice- Chancellor James's Court, asking that the society may be wound up compulsorily by the Court. The Society had been amalgamated with the Albert in 1861. The plaintiff had received payments from the Albert Company, but it was contended on his behalf that there was no evidence of his assenting to the amalgamation. In opposition to the petition it was argued that the society had ceased to exist before the Companies Act of 1862 came into operation, and that no winding up was possible. Further, that the receipt of the payments from the Albert was a clear proof that the petitioner assented to the amalgamation. The Vice-Chancellor said that in view of the extreme importance of the questions raised, he should reserve his decision. "Ecuoas OF THE CLUBS "—ln the Court of Queen's Bench Mr. Justice Lush has granted a rule for a new trial in tho case of libel against the proprietor of the Echoes of the ClOs. The damages were £5OO, and the rule was granted on the ground of their being excessive, unlessther were reduced by consent to £250. CHARGE AGAINST A MONEY LENDER.-At the Central Criminal Court, Robert Cooke, a solicitor and money lender, has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The charge against him was that he had induced a widow named Hall to execute a deed by which she assigned to him a policy of .E2OO in the British Equitable Assurance Office on her husband's life, she being unaware at the time of the nature of the deed. LIBELLING rn EUROPEAN COMPANY.—In the New Court, Joseph Bentley pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with publishing a libel on the European Assurance Company. His counsel said that he had been misled by the institution of certain Chancery proceedings and by current reports. He now wished to express his regret for having published the statements complained of, and to apologise for them. Under these circumstances the prosecution had agreed that the defendant should enter into his own recognisances to come up when called for. Mr. Commissioner Kerr said that in the absence of evidence of malice he would allow that course to be taken. A STORY FOR TEETOTALLRRS.—A man, named William Howell, has been charged at Westminster Police-court with assaulting his wife and son. It was stated that the prisoner was a good tradesman, but a drunkard, and had been imprisoned for four months, for assaulting his wife. He had so beaten his son that he was a cripple for life. Last Friday he came ; home drunk, and made the boy stand naked in the passage for several hours. On Saturday he again came home drunk, and kicked tho boy cruelly. The mother interfered, when he attacked her and cut her face, when fearing murder would be committed she gave him in charge. He had once sharpened a carving-knife to kill them, and another time he knocked four teeth out of his son's head. The prisoner excused himself by the plea of drunkenness. The police gave . evidence of his violent conduct, and the sobriety of his wife. Mr. Selfe said he had never met a worse case, and he regretted he could not administer the lash. For the assault on the boy he sentenced him to six months' hard labour, for that on the wife to two months, and then he must find bail to keep the peace for six months. Reports have been called for by the Cabinet as td the working of the Cornwallis Land Settlement in India, and an able member of the Indian Civil Service, who is acquainted with the land system of the East and West, has been commissioned to visit India and to report on its condition. Mr. Commissioner Kerr still believes in heavy sen tences. On Monday George Checseman, who bad previously suffered five years' penal servitude for passing counterfeit coins, was found guilty of a similar offence, and the Com missioner, who said previous warnings had no effect, sen tenced the accused to fifteen years' penal servitud•. A case of alleged misconduct of a Master of bne Court of Common Pleas was brought before Mr. Ju=tice Willes, in Judges Chambers on Monday. It was an application on tchalf of the piaintiff, an executrix named Cox. to review Master Bennett's taxation of costs. Mr. Coote, for the plaintiff, declared that the Mas ter's taxation was "unfair." Mr. Justice Willes said, after an allegation of misconduct, he would not hear the appli cation. A charge of misconduct must be heard in public court. A FRIENDLY lIINT.—The following lines were not long since written on the wall of the tramps' ward of the IVhitechurch Union, in Hants:— " The Governor's name is Sutton, The pauper's diet is mutton. - But you must not be a glutton When you come here to lodge, You had better go on to Andover, Where you can feed on clover, By a far better dodge. Martin Leonard; alias Bow street, Spider, Squirrel." EXPLOSION AT AN IRON FURNACE.—On Monday morning a " tuyere " burst in one of the furnaces belonging to Mr. James Holcroft, at the Level Furnaces, Brierley-hill, near Dudley. In a second the bed for the casting 'pigs " was all torn up by the molten metal, and five persons, including the manager, Mr. George Pearson, very dangerously burnt. This gentleman was standing near the furnace talking to a workman named Coombes, when the explosion occurred, and they received the brunt cf the shock. The whol4 -of Mr. Pearson's clothes were burnt off his body, and as he wrung his hands together the skin and flesh fell away, causing the most intense pain. An uninjured workman wrapped him in a coat and bore him away. Coombes was also severely scalded on the head, neck, and hands. The other sufferers were struck by pieces of the scoria, but being farther off, they did not get the full force of the heated missiles. Their names are Robert Evans, Edward . Barnes, and Joseph Smith. The damage done to the place is considerable, but at present it cannot be esti mated. It was thought the three last-named men would recover, but the opinion as to Coombes and Mr. rearson Wasl_Vierved. MISCELLANEOUS NEIVS. TIPPERARY. The chance of Mr. Heron securing a walk-over is the only question involved in the Tipperary election. There has been a good deal of talk about a bond fide Fenian candidate, but the " national " press is not earnest or unanimous in advocating , the chosen man— O'Donovan Rossa. Moreover, says the Tiniescorrespon dent, it "will be hard to persuade the shrewd and sturdy farmers of the county to prefer the shadow to the substance and have a mock election of O'Donovan. who can do nothing for himself or them, instead of returning a trusty champion who can serve all parties and advocate the cause of the prisoners with the advantage of personal knowledge. ' Mr. Heron pro mina all that the farmers desire, except insurrection. QUEEN'S COUNTY. The Liberals of Queen's County have eligible offers in the shape of Mr. Fitzgerald or Mr. Edmund Dease; but they require some well-advanced tenant-righter. It is thought probable that they will find one in the person of Sir D. Corrigan, whose Dublin speeches prove him to be quite "up to the mark" on the land question. Mr. Pease, however, will contest the seat ; at least he has commenced his canvass and issued his address. The latter is an ingenious document. Mr. Dense goes in for the support of the Radicals on the one hand by promising the Ballot, and for the Catholics on the other by pledging himself to denominational education. As to the land, he is prepared to " support Mr. Gladstone in the passing of any measure of tenant-right which, having its foundation based on justice, will render the occupier as secure on his property as the owner is on the soil." This declaration has given rise to the jocose comment that the tenant-righters will be very uncomfortable if the occupier is not more secure than the owner is at present. Perhaps the passage is meant only as an elegant periphrasis for the common term "fixity of tenure." SOUTRIVAILK. A somewhat noisy meeting of working men has been held in Southwark, under the auspices of the Labour Representation League, to consider the pro priety of bringing forward an artisan candidate for the borough. That such a candidate there ought to be the meeting had no doubt whatever. Who was to be the choosen working man gave rise, however, to some little difficulty; but ultimately Mr. Odger obtained the preference over Mr. Bradlaugh, and was selected as the fit and proper representative. THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THE LAND DIFFICULTY. Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., crosses the Rubicon of the land question. The time for settling the difficulty by any measure merely prescribing compensation for improvements has, he says, gone by; to give security by law is the only feasible and the only wise mode of appeasing Irish discontent. Three schemes have been put forward for establish ing this security of tenure. Mr. Caird advocates that the State should not enforce security, but should hold out strong inducements to the landlords to grant it of their own freewill. Mr. Buxton holds, first, that this concession would never satisfy the Irish ; and, secondly, that to act on landlords by indirect modes of compulsion would be hardly fair. The second scheme consists in legalising the custom of Ulster for the whole country. Mr. Buxton, however, regards this as impracticable. To enforce the Ulster custom would, in fact, be confiscation of the landlord's pro perty. The Ulster custom having been established by force of law, henceforth the landlord will be com pelled to acquiesce in the payment, by all future incoming tenants (or by himself), to the outgoing tenant of a sum to be fixed by valuation, for the occu pation right. Now, as the produce of a farm is divided between the landlord and the tenant, it is clear that the interest on the sums paid for occupation rent will be so much deducted from the share of either the landlord or the tenant. Unless, therefore, the farmer's subsistence be curtailed, the land will be saddled with a tax laid upon it, being the interest of the capital sum paid down by the next tenants to those who have the rare luck to be in possession in the year 1870. The third plan of settlement is the one proposed by - Mr. Butt that the law should cease to recognise tenancy-at-will for Irish farms (except possibly in very minute holdings), and should act on the presumption that every tenancy is for a period long enough to give the tenant the opportunity of developing all the resources of the farm, and to com pensate him for the whole of his outlay and labour. This scheme is most favoured by Mr. Buxton, but he reserves his reasons. THE CHANCES OF AN IRISH RISING. The " national " press of Ireland has suddenly be come more moderate. It is moderate, however, only in the discussion of revolt, which is canvassed with a calmness and precision that may prove much more effective than the late virulence. This week, for instance, the People of Ireland enters into •an elaborate estimate of the chances of an insurrection. The issue of a struggle is predicted with confidence. The English soldiers in Ireland, it is allowed, number 26,000 men, well armed with Sniders ; but numerous garrisons would be required for Cork, Dublin, Belfast, and other places, so that the whole available field force could not exceed 11,000 men. Large reinforce ments could, it is true, be sent over from England; but, on the other hand, there is a strong Republican spirit in the greater island, and a power ful Irish population in the large towns. Both these disaffected elements, says the People, would require watching. Then the English officers are tho roughly unequal to their duties, whilst nume rous able and experienced Americans could be found to head an insurrection. " General Cluseret, who combines with vast technical knowledge an immense amount of experience, gallica in his African, Italian, and American campaigns ; General Millen, now at the head of the artillery of the Mexican Republic, a profound strategist and thorough Irish patriot ; Colonel Kelly, who was never seen to fail when a darinF deed was to be done ; all these, and hundreds besides, who have seen service in the terrible war of the Union, would be only too ready to place themselves at the head of a movement." Lastly, the English soldier is a machine which works for itsahilling a day ; whereas the insurgent may be an intelligent man, and will undoubtedly be brave because ho will fight with a halter round his neck. Very true ; but the prospect of the noose being un pleasantly tightened may prevent him from fighting at all. A CHRISTMAS-BOX roit CITRATES. The Bishop of Cashel has bestowed a seasonable present upon the curates of his diocese. They are each to receive before Christmas from £5O to £75 at his hands. The disestablishment of the Irish Church has called forth this immediate generosity. The Bishop had made arrangements for giving them each, by his will, a token of remembrance ; but, in the altered circumstances of the Church, he thought it better— and the curates will not question the wisdom of the more mature decision—to hand the gift over to them at once. He has accordingly directed the amount to bo paid over. It is varied in proportion to the claims of the respective recipients, some receiving £5O, others £l5. THE HEAD MASTERSHIP OF RUGBY SCHOOL. The new Head Master of Rugby, the successor to Dr. Temple, is the Rev. Henry Hayman, B.D. The newly-appointed master is a comparatively young man. His present position is that of Head Master of St. Andrew's College, Bradfield. He has been head master of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, Southwark, and of the Grammar School at Cheltenham. He has also been an assistant preacher at the Temple Church. Amongst his published works are some Latin and Greek translation exercises, and a letter to Dean Mansel, condemning the Public Schools Latin Primer. Mr. Hayman obtained his M.A. degree in 1851. THE FRENCH TREATY. It is thought probable that tho Board of Trade will make an inquiry into the operation of the treaty of commerce with France. The varied statements which have been published render it' advisable that the real facts should be known, and tho Board of Trade will get at the truth more rapidly and con veniently than a Royal Commission. A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 'WANTED. Facts are so continually pointing with stern logic to the necessity for a public prosecutor that it seems really surprising that the appointment of such a functionary is still (apparently) far off. The other day, at Wolverhampton, when a woman, who was also a wife, charged her paramour, who was not her hasband, with stealing money from her, she was told she had no remedy, though the wrong was clear enough. Nobody else, of course, would undertake the prosecution. No w a noth er c ase has come under notice. One T a yl or h as j us t passe d th roug h th e Bir mingham Bankrupt c y Court. In so doing he has rid himself of a debt of £3,600. £OOO of this money is bond Jide debt. Tho rest, however, was embezzled from th e Vi c t or i a F ree h o ld L an d and Building Society. That society stopped payment a short time since. Taylor's embezzlement was discovered. An application-was made to Chan cery to authorise Taylor's prosecution out of the society's funds—or rather out o f it s d e b ts, f or i t owed much more than it possessed. The application was refused ; Taylor goes scot-free ; the £3,000 had to be written down as a, debt against him ; and in satisfaction of it he applies to be released from it by the Bank ruptcy Court. The commissioner before wh om th e cas e comes is indignant at the state And of the law, b u t i s o bliged to accede to t h e application. we still go on without a public prosecutor ! CURED BY A RAILWAY COLLISION. ---- " L. R.," who describes himself as a " City man," and who is a constant traveller on the Midland Railway, bassliscovered a atrium virtue in.railwanol- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1869 lisions—the power of curing suddenly a serious =ass. He will not give his name and address for fear the com pany should come down upon him for compensation. The story he tells is simply that, being in Man chester on the 16th inst., he felt upon -himself the symptoms of rheumatic fever. Thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of illness away from home, and aching in every limb, he wrapped himself up well, and took train immediately for London. From a waking d re am of horror painful limbs, hot and feverish body, heart going at express speed—he was aroused by a crash, and by being tossed like a ball from one side of the carriage to the other. Ile found the rest of the travellers in his compartment bleeding from injury. Forgetting his disease, he jumped out to render what aid he could. When he came again to himself ho found his fever, rheumatism, aches, and pains gone ; and he has been quite well ever since. Of course it is pleasant to find " good in everything," even in railway collisions. But the pleasure is somewhat lessened by the thought that this case may encourage the railway companies to recklessness. It should be pointed out to the directors of the Midland Com pany that they will probably have to pay heavily for that collision—too heavily for even the curing of a case of rheumatic fever. Montank Point. He claims that the Cuba was a legitimate man-of-war, commissioned by the Cuban Government. He intended to prey upon Spanish commerce in the West Indies, and to assist the Cubans in gaining possession of one of the ports of the island. He attributes the failure of his scheme to his inability to obtain coal without run ning into Wilmington. The officers of the Cuba lose heavily by the seizure, but they are determined to try the experi ment again if they can obtain another ship. joined them that they were one tree. In conclu sion he looked forward to one God, one Faith, one Baptism, and one Shepherd. There was a surprise on the " street" on Thursday when it became known that the Government had accepted two millions instead of one million dollars worth of bonds as advertised for. Our Secretary is always dashing the cup from the lips either of our " bears" or of our " bulls." A case of State jurisdiction is now pending. New York complains against the New Jersey Central Railroad for filling in and building piers beyond low water mark on the New Jersey side. The question is how far the company can build out, or can it build at all beyond low water mark. This will perhaps have to be decided by the United States Courts. Another ease is that of Gray versus Brooklyn, on application for da►nages received through a broken sewer, but the Court of Appeals decides that the city is not \VASIIINGTON, Nov. 5. Colonel Charles K. Gardner, U.S.A., died on Monday night, aged 83. He was born in New Jersey, and entered the army in 1808, and was Adjutant-General of the A rmyof the North in 1812, when he saw some hard fighting against the British. At Niagara he carried Gen. Scott severely wounded from the field. He was appointed Adjutant-Gene ral of the Army, which he resigned in 1818. He was afterwards First Assistant-Postmaster-General, rising in the department to be Postmaster of the City of Washington, then Surveyor-General of Oregon, and finally he was transferred to the Trea sury Department as Sixth Auditor, which he resigned two years ago owing to advanced age. He was the author of several works on military drill. Sister Loretto died here last Sunday. She was the lady who nursed Thaddeus Stevens during his last illness and converted him, according to her statement, to her faith. Talking about the war with Great Britain, another actor in it also died last Sunday, Charles A. Wickliffe, ex-Governor of Kentucky, in which State he was born 1788. He served on the staff of General Caldwell in the war of 1813-14. In 1836 he was made Lieut.-Governor of Kentucky, and three years later became actual Governor on the death of Governor Clark. President Tyler made him Postmaster-General. In Washington in late years he was nicknamed 44 The Duke" from his portly appearance and dignified manners. He was a thorough Southerner in feeling, as were all his family, most of whom took part with the South in the war. But he was a fine old gentleman, and had a large circle of warmly attached friends. General Belknap took the oath of office and entered on his duties of Secretary of War. Many citizens of lowa called on Tuesday at the house of Colonel Dayton, whose guest he is, to deliver a warm ad dress of welcome. After thanking Associate Justice Miller, the new Secretary continued in response : "Your hearts must beat with pride, indeed, when you think of your home beyond the 'Mississippi, a State whose population has increased from 195,000, in 1831, to over 1,000,000, in 1869, whose prairies, as they stretch from far away to the west, aro rich enough in soil to fill with their productions the granaries of the world ; whose school system extending to every hamlet offers to all the benefi cent blessings of a free education ; whose people increasing from year to year in that knowledge which is power, have, from the feeble commencement of a few colonies of pioneers, increased to the extent and moasure of a strong Commonwealth, illustrating in its growth the progressive character of the American people. A State, too, my friends, whose record in war is as bright as the brightest, whose 80,000 troops, inspired by no feeling of resentment toward the people of the South, but actuated purely by love of their country and its Union, fought on almost every field from Belmont to the end—whose regiments gave Kins man, and Mills, and Baker. and Redfield, and Wentz, and Worthington, and hosts of private soldiers to the cause of freedom ; and a State, too, which honouring itself by giving its 46,000 majority for the Great Captain who led our armies to victory, opened wide the door of suffrage to every American citizen, and but three short weeks ago reindorsed the great principles of the party of progress by majorities large and decided." Francis Springer succeeds Belknap as Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of lowa. The President, with his family, got back all right last Friday, and had a conference with the new Minister to China, Ex-Governor Low. The regular meeting was held on Tuesday, but Secretaries Fish, Robeson, and Creswell were absent, they being re quired in their different States to cast their votes. Senator Fenton has taken a suite of rooms at the Arlington House at $350 per week, where he is soon expected in order to be present at the opening of Congress. A grand new carpet from Connecticut is being spread on the Hall of the Representatives ; tine last was of foreign importation and much more expensive, but it does not do to supply such goods to our Representatives, where habit will not be broken through even though the floor be spread with cloth of gold. The fair at Richmond is now being held, and although the President, who was invited, declined to go, its success has been great, 25,000 Virginian farmers with their families and other citizens attending. This State Agricultural Fair arouses interest, as it is the first since the war, and as that war swept everything agricultural out of Virginia. Previously in no other part of the Union did these fairs take a higher place, and they were always regarded by Virginians as happily combining business and pleasure. The President attended a dinner given by General Harvey to some of his oil companions in arms, which has cause I surprise, as it has become the etiquette for Presi dents not to dine out in Washington. The Ame rican Union Academy of Literature, Science, and Art has completed its organization, and Dr. John W. Draper has accepted the presidency, to which he was unanimously elected. The Vice-Presidents are Judge Casey, of the Court of Claims ; Rev. Dr. Sampson, President of Columbia College ; and Judge J. W. Borthy, formerly of Ohio. Many eminent men in America are enrolled among the members. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided in the appeal case of Thorington versus Smith and Hartley, that a contract made in the Confederate States during the rebellion to be paid in Confederate notes, should be paid in lawful money of the United States according to the value of Confederate notes at the date of the contract, when not made in aid of the rebellion. General Spinner might get up au amusing book if he kept all the letters from the saints and the sinners, with remittances to reimburse the Government for frauds as conscience money. " A lover of Jesus" has sent two packages of gold leaf, stating that it belongs to the Government; another man from Fall River has sent one dollar; and it appears that the Trea sury may now calculate as with you on a certain in come, which, I understand, averages in England about $25,000 annually, received so regularly that a man might safely base his expenditure on it as his income. Cincinnati,Boston,New York,Chicago,and St. Louis, as well asLouisville, have sent a delegation from their Chambers of Commerce to consult with Commissioner Delano on pork-packers as manufac turers. The Commissioner maintains that as such they are liable to the special tax. With reference to the provision dealers of New York, the Provision Ex change of Boston, and the pork-packers of Louis ville, the tax will be suspended till New Year's Day, to allow them to apply to Congress for legislation on the subject ; but this is all the Commissioner concedes. Ile has also assessed publishers engaged in manfacturing, making, or producing books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, &c., even though they employ others to print. Only one exemption of $5,000 annually can be made for sales at the place of manufacture, and publishers of books are liable to a special tax for every distinct place where the manufacture is carried . on. Many interesting facts, extracted from the coming reports, now daily find their way into the papers. From one I learn that for the fiscal year ending last June the Army and Navy, the Indian and Pension expenditures, as settled and adjusted, at the Treasury, amounted to $807,684,225, of v Bich a considerable portion was outstanding aecounts for war expenditure, bounty and prize - money, claims of States and pri vats persons, whie,n shows how heavy has been the I outlay met, and now large the reduction which has not appeared in the general debt of the country. The Quartermap ter's accounts altogether amount to $ 5 16,487,05, the Commissaries' accounts to $731,915,00P,, Commissioner of Pensions 15,612,330, Engineer Departtnet4 $11,731,311. The Marine Corps fu rnish a separate charge, amounting to nearly h a lf a m i llion of dollars. The accounts for the Navy state the advances to paymasters for pay and rations of crone provisions, clothing, and repairs on foreign stations to be $14,509,809, and various accounts at home $22,683,469, making, with the other charges, and that of the Marine Corps, a total of $51,633,455. The different States and Territories receive back nearly eight and a half millions. Washington will be bristling with figures for a long time to come. GENEVA, NOV. 8. Sirt,—lt was but a few days ago that an Ameri can gentleman of high culture and education, when speaking, in my hearing, of Great Britain and Ire land, said, " We all know that they have a popula tion much larger than we." I was surprised at the statement, but yet it is a common error, and one under which many of our countrymen labour. Many of the London journals alao lead their readers to believe the same error, or at least they place the two countries upon an equal footing. If any one would take the trouble to look into the last number of the " United States Census Report" they would at once perceive the mistake so many make. On page 133 they would read that, on the Ist of June, 1860, there were in the United States 31,445,089 persons, exclusive of Ind;ans, while on pages 112 and 113 they would discover that the population of Great, Britain and Ireland, in 1861, was only 29,193,298, laving a balance in our favour of over 2,000,000 persons. But the most wonderful and gratifying discovery would be the relative decennial in crease of population in the two countries. The United States would be found to have increased during every ten years, since 1790, by a number equal to one-third of her population at the close of the pre vious period. The subjoined table will give, per haps, a better idea of this increase is the United States than these explanations. The population in 1790 was 3,929,827 : One-third Population Actual Increase would varied from Year. Population. have given estimate. 1800 ... 5,505,927 ... 5,339,102 ... 166,827 1810 ... 7,239,814 ... 7,311,236 ... 101,422 1820 ... 9,638,131 ... 9,653,085 ... 14,951 1830 ... 12,866,020 ... 32,850,811 ... 13,179 1840 ... 17,069,453 ... 17,154,693 ... 85,240 1850 23,191,8;6 ... 22,759.270 332,606 1860 ... 31,445,089 ... 30,922,501 522,588 It will be perceived that never has the increase fallen more than 102,000 below the estimate, while it has exceeded it by over 500,000. As there is no reason to believe that between the years 1860 and and 1870 the United States will not have increased in population in the same ratio, or that during the remaining decades of this century she will assume any other, can any one place reliance upon the prophecies of the, following table : - - Year. Population. I Year. Population. 1870 41,826,785 I 1900 94,701.1 AG 1880 55,769,016 1 During the first six decades of this century the in crease of Great Britain and Ireland was equal to about 85-100th of the number of inhabitants in 1801. This gives us an increase during each de cade of rather more than 14-100th, though during the last two periods a fall much below this. It is fair to suppose that the future increase will not ex ceed, if even equal, this ratio. Allowing it, how ever, we have the following table : Year. Population. Year. Population. 1801 15,800,000 1870 33,280,359 1860 29,193,298 1900 47,258,1.09 A comparison of the above tables will not be with out interest to those Americans who would know the probable future increase of their country, as compared with the possible growth of the laud from which their nation sprung. G. PORTSMOUTH, NEW ILIMPSHIRE, Nov. 1. In 1603 a small fleet, consisting of a ship of 50 tons and a barque of 26 tons sailed from Bris tol, England, to prosecute the discovery of the northern part of Virginia. They first touched at some islands near the entrance to Penobscot Bay, where, some 100 years since, John Salter of this town touched his vessel's bottom on a voyage to London, and being obliged to winter in an adjacent harbour, his friends in Portsmouth knew nothing of his misfortune until they heard of his arrival in London the following summer, intercourse be tween Maine and New Hampshire, being at that time carried on by sea, where now the rail would convey information in six hours, and the telegram in as many minutes. Thence this little fleet pro - - ceeded to the L'iscataqua River, which Pring calls the westernmost as well as the best river, and he explored it ten or twelve miles into the interior in June 1603. In 1611 John Smith of Pocahontas fame, with two vessels, arrived on the coast of Maine, and while his men were engaged in fishing he with eight of his company ranged the coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Cod. He was the disco verer of the Isle of Shoals, which pleasel him so much that he named them Smith's Isles, a name they surely sought to retain, in remembrance of one for whose valuable services in the early settle ment of the country no pecuniary reward was be stowed. Smith drew the first map of our coast, and on presenting it to Prince Charles, with a re quest that he would give the country a name, it was called New England. This town is not so large as its namesake in England, but contains about 12,000 inhabitants. The principal feature here is the Navy Yard, which is one of the best in the United Stated States. Portland and Boston being so near they absorb the shipping which formerly came here. Thereare several Englishmen in this city who own a good deal of land, some, who might be nefit themselves and their neighbours if they would improve it. Farms can be bought here at very low prices from parties who wish to emigrate to the Western prairies, this being a hilly State, con taining Mount Washington, 6,496 feet high, which is ascended by thousands every summer from all parts of the Union, who like to breathe the moun tain air, as well as to bathe in the surf at Rye Hampton and Newport. New Hampshire has pro duced some celebrated men. Daniel Webster was a resident of this town for several years, and married Grace Fletcher in 1808. In one of his speeches he said—" The future is not within our power ; no one knows what is assigned to his lot ; human life is uncertain ; human destiny is unknown ; but we have a country which will be spared for future generations ; human life is short, but institutions of Government should be made to endure. The creatures of to-day may be of but small importance, but this Constitution of the greatest Republic in the world, extending over so vast a territory, from its effects on the prosperity of untold generations, has a value incalculable. However it may happen to us, however it may be with events which are beyond our control, let us see to it that the basis of our free institutions, so long as left in our keeping, is sacredly preserved." By next summer we shall be able to ride by rail to Shediac, on the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, from whence it is a pleasant trip to St. John's, New foundland, where embarking on a steamer like the City of Brussels, the Russia, &c., one could reach Queenstown in a few days, and soon tread the shores of Old England. The Pacific Railroad is being improved, and a line of steamers is projected from San Francisco to Melbourne in about 40 days. The steamer on the 4th of each month from San Francisco will reach Yokohama, Japan, in about twenty days. We learn that Henry Meiggs, who went front here under a cloud in 1854, and settled in Chili, where he built the railroad between Valparaiso and Santiago, in so much less time than he had contracted to do that he received a hand some present front the Government, and subse quently went to Peru, where he has been engaged for some years, has recently made contracts to build roads in Boli v i a and several other countries, and the Commercial Gazette characterises him as the regenerator of South America. We hope it may prove true, and also that Paraguay and Bra zil may follow their example, and expend their mo ney and labour in those useful ways, instead of try ing to destroy one another, as t he y ha v e been doing. Mexico also, we hope, will so on • be g in t o develope her great resources ; and Cuba soon, we hope, will be free. The Alta California has consolidated with the Times, to be called the Alta California and San Francisco Times. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23. Sin, —Did you ever read the " Resources and prospects of America ?" And did you observe two pictures in the beginning of the book, one repre senting the little seaport of San Francisco as it was 20 years since, now the fourth commercial city in the Union ? The other picture represents Chicago, a small village on Lake Michigan. Now Chicago is the largest grain and lumber market in the world. Atalanta, the famous centre of attraction duri n g our late unfortunate war, has increased its popula tion 200 per cent. since 1861, and similarithinga 0 . 115 going on all over the Union. More railroads are, being built than have been do n e in many years, a nd we can ride from New York to San Francisco ill less than six days, whereas 20 years ago it took as many months, either across the plains or round the Horn, the Panama route at that time not being in existence. The Panama Mail Steamship ComPa u P new steamship America made her first appeara nce d in California the other day - , having been despatch e d from New York to China via the Cape of G°° Hope. She has created an excitement by her supe r rior appearance. If you want to go to Japan China comfortably and expeditiously, cross the At lantic ferry from Queenstown t o New York i n Dine ''. days, railroad to San F r a nc i sco s i x days, l' a nd stea to Yokohama 22 days. All our w harves and docks (not fine English do c ks, b u t j e tti es thrown out int° the bay) are crowded with shipping. The re are some 50 vessels on their way from Atlantic po rts " ,,f the United States, and about as many from Ear e P e w ' of which one-half are from Liv e rpool. 'fie dock at South San Francisco is a fine ail' and will be a great convenience to shipPi u g o The crops are very abundant this year, an or shall not be able to command so good a pric e i ,' o t our breadstuffs as we have the last few years. - 1) % as we can ship wheat to Liverpool or New I°j° cheaper than our Minnesota friends, who are " great growers of our country, can ship to Ne a York, we have the advantage ; besides, our cli caat and soil produces a superior quality. Fruit of atltt kinds is exceedingly abundant. Grapes at S un if , Barbara and Los Angeles are worth about a h ° oll penny a pound. What a pity we cannot sen d Y some! One man lost pa) worth he sent to °ur to Chicago brethren. if you want a pleasant clU na ot to spend the winter come out here. Italy ea nil io equal us; and if you want a really fine trip , i t g 3 t h one of the steamers which leave Liverpool the Iv io of each month, and, calling at Bordeaux , it . ts Janeiro, and Montevideo, pi sa through the St ra . l of Magellan, and land in Valparaiso, cha n g ing e dreary November to ban, ty spring ; and Igbo spring comes round, take tie steamer to Faus—ni a ot and San Francisco. You will find California presfeco her finest appearance in &pril, having had he r 5 0 washed, and no dust moving, as is the case in t summer and fall, when we have no rain for moo' PRICE OF GOLD. - D ad The quotation of gold at Paris is about at Pa r ' w o, Vie short exchange on London is 2M. 151 per £ 1 ' ter , of On comparing these rates with the English Mint P r, t e a t tia.lo4d. per ounce for standard gold, it apped o ri io gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris tXS- LOniacki.. a$ The safe of the burn e d s t eamer Stonewall hi r e been taken from the wreck. Several more bodies of as victims have been interred. Collector Casey was n°t ; cf reported, a passenger on t h e St onewa ll. The nuta be " persons on board has now bee n ascer t a i ne d to hav e bed. 275, of whom 44 on l y are k nown t o h ave been s a ' h - Although 65 bodies have been recovered, only ten - 1 8 0 been identified; two or three charred were found (11 % N e vreck. The river was being drag ge d. A very ° : ", 135 0 0 f eling has arisen against Captain John T. Wasb i t i b t ij of the Submarine, No. 13, who passed while the S tone d was burning. A vigilance committee has been for n r e ; lynch Captain Washington on his return. John IL tat the Second Engineer, gives a long account of the He says that while he was struggling in the river be nearly drowned by the swell of the Submarine. The repo was then full of drowning people, and ev er/ rise thought that aid was approaching, and their suril- n and dismay may be imagined when she never storKt°o a wheel. Instead, according to this tostirnoni' t he swell caused by the steamer drowned several, sen ding of water into their mouths, and he then saw many throc;ol their hands and sink. Ho saw one man on a mul e round and round ; several mules reached the shore, "" had all its skin burnt off, another its ears, another its eYe"; It is said, although Mr. Lyon does not narrate it, that i,n,j struggle for a bale of hay a man drew a knife and another, only anticipating the doom of both. : All a Gurney saved herself through her marked energy pluck. When forced overboard by the fire she caught bu 6 of a rope on rising to the surface, which was attached e lf spar, to which she pulled herself ; but she was Ses' e , l l,,g injured by a post of the burning cabin which fell, str ijs her ou the shouleer. The coal oil cans burst, coveri u g, -11 : water with a liquid sheet of flame. A gentlema n, 'd i ll managed to get to the spar, held on with her, w: falling wreck; but he became insensible, and whe n i. , t e - i: boat arrived from Neeley's Landing, and they were t ,t ' - 0 , ashore, he died within half an hour. The first thing " . " I ', Gurney saw when she got ashore was her husbao d ' h e t only hale and hearty,:but dry, being one of the ton sc ll° ,6o away in the yawl, which could safely have carried 40 °r 50 and never returned to look after their relatives or fr in° pa Fisk and Gould are fighting the emplolles , the Erie Railway with their usual pluck and dete'llifilto tion. It is seldom they are in the right, and wew is- i i y give them whatever credit attach?s to their new the racter. General Robert C. Schenck, Chairma n n ` t he Ways and Means Committee, reached New York °° Bth inst. Dr. Edward Gilchrist, United States isl .01 ;, 13 00 died suddenly, aged 52. There had been a heavy Lake Ontario, and some vessels had been lost. -A re fr - oot train on the Manfield and Newark lino was throw n , i te a the track near Sandusky, smashing the engine el3 7 Bl eg cars, and killing James Cialzand ; the engineer and PI "-- were injured. A O: RAILWAY NEWS.—The Wall-street Journa l -o• "The long-talked-of consolidation of the New l r°l l,;tb e tral and Hudson River Railroad Companies, uti w— it ., name of the New York Central and Hudson lav er - . v i tal road Company, has been finally accomplished. Th e etihi of the concern will stand as follows: fo a 0 0 ° 62 8 , ,- , 00 0 289,000 shares N.Y. Central 161,000 shares Hudson River Together in stock 170 strip -80 per cent. old and 27 per cent. new on N.Y. Central A n 85 per cent. on Hudson River 13,685, 0 00 645, „,.> 0 „.... Stock and scrip seo ,oo b ee The time for finally capitalising the scrip has 0 100: fixed, but the whole of the scrip, including the 0 0 ing 80 per cent. of the New York Central, Wolve s - toc l4 solidated obligation to pay the same dividends as the 5 al it , ' on the opening of the consolidated books, and the efl of . o o 4 stocks of the two roads can be made consolid,Wficeo,., share and share alike. But before such consolid3 stoo: extra division of 1 per cent. (equal to $1 80 o n th i j e cicW; with the scrip attached), will be paid to the f tl 3 of the New York Central. The funded deIAZO,OOOI two roads amounts altogether to about $ l - I V t . cer it ‘ three-fourths of the amount bearing only 6 P i e f ,..oS,„f i ,c l ; currency interest ; the principal being 13° ,," t guishing by the operation of the sinking funw 00 1 annual gross traffic, of the consolidated line svilllo.o7 c 001522,000,0001 522,000,000 $22,000,000 from the start. The officers of tho,f 3e o Va n : pany are:—Cornelius Vanderbilt, President; Aeg u e / derbilt, Vice -President; E D Worcester, Treasurer ;,,aoclo,/ tus ScLcll, Secretary. The directors :—Cornelius bilt, of N. Y. city ; Chester W Chapin, Mass. ; Augustus Schell, of N. Y. city ; n Albany, N. Y.; H H Baxter, of N. Y. city , Wl - I ,j.ei t i o g f Vanderbilt, of N. Y. city ; Horace F Clark, Aof rl ir 'i s sae 3 sf James H Banker, of N. Y. city; William f N. Y. city • ' George J Whitney, of Rochester , v o ci Harker, of N. Y. city ; Samuel F. Barger, of N' t „ a s0 01 ,1 1 0 and Samuel Barton, of N. Y. city."—Judge J° on ieit the New York Supreme Court, has filed his decii°o3,- case of the Albany and Susquehana Railroad Celt of , i p requires the receiver to pay the current exP e°- ci road and the interest due on coupon bonds e ll e ive Op/ loaned the company, and authorizes him to re-bort balances due the company. He is forbidden Y' money for the company without judicial authorileooteet LADVERTISEIdEST. I —Holloway's Pills. --T o f droegb changes of temperature with rapid alternation o to ol s : and rain are causing daily derangement in elle" ~S e re ci t y and liver. For rectifying the slightest or most se so co orders of these organs nothing has been foueuv, to s t o utly successful as Holloway's pills, which m a y e ote', 4 t by anyone without fear of injury. These so salutary an influence on the organs of die ß n iy, R ills tio almost any ordinary food may be eaten with O T I PIditY , they strengthen the weakest stomach against e e ',„dilY - 1 ) - telency, heartburn. Their aperient qualities 81 1° ' °_„„,c lieve both nausea and biliousness. They remov:(3,o prob e structions in the system, and I restore 1 ‘ function to every organ. healthfully BIRTHS. Fr ° ‘. lO CA l y a — rk O c n an tb n o , E 2O s t q h ., i o n f st a ., so a n t . Dawlish, the 0. ;, ° 0f a' Monnisox—On the 20th inst., at Blackheath, f g • )1 rison, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. DE : 1 : — ::::: i s n o: t - 00 0 . n the 20th inst., at St, Kenning,ton-road, Thomas Deeley, Esq., a vv„,.sov, to Emily, second daughter of the late Win. Aus N am Lu o. n o r i , l o 6n :k re.r F lo o i nnEs So rg Soro Iducdrdloown,Fboarbrreiss,teEr-qa.t-laW, to far daughter —On the 20th inst ,at DEATBS. E'cl'' v BARCLAY—On the 20th lust. Arthur IC . 13arclitY, t , Bury Hill, Dorking, aged 64. n -str e ELLEir—On the 20th inst., Saml. Ellett, a jeil l " o 11°V. city, aged 62. Szoox—On the 21st inst at Richmond, Sarre°, tl2 John Stock, aged 76. 1 _ o pt • .... A SP 1 ",,21 London •. Pnn* ted and Published by WILLIA-u '7, ,2 St r°- ,. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE SuN °ince Nci_.,-".:1:00501° in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of A.- ' Tuesday, November 23, 184. THE FAILURE OF COLUMBIA MARKET. A very few months ago, with a grand flourish of :rumpets, amid universal congratulation and general rejoicings, a new market, designed to supersede the gutter-shops of the costermongers, was opened by Miss Burdett Coutts in Bethnal-green. Here cheap and good food was to be obtained by the poor, instead of the miserable stuff given from the street barrows. "No more stale veget-tbles !" "No more short weight !" were the cries. All who took an interest in the establishment of this beautiful institu tion will much regret to learn that Miss Coutts's munificence has been thrown away. Columbia Market, Bethnal-green, has failed hopelessly. While the costermongers are still carrying on a thriving trade, the dealers inside the market have waited for cus tomers so long that they have become impatient ; and the majority of them have gone away. The great mistake made by the committee of the establishment seems to have been the refusal to admit costermon gers except at a prohibitive toll. The customers, finding no bustle or excitement, no sacrificing offers, went where these incentives to trade could be obtained, and left Columbia Market to fail for want of funds. THE LAW OF DISTRIBUTION. The Court Journal gave the law of entail credit tr being less unequal in operation than it really is. It first stated that whilst Earl Grosvenor, the eldest son of the late Marquis of Westminster, succeeded to his father's title and the bulk of his vast property, Lord Richard Grosvenor, the second son, was left only the comparatively ridiculous fortune of £2,000 a year. The Court Journal afterwards corrected this state ment, affirming that Lord Richard inherits £%20,000 a year. But it would appear that the first announce ment was right. £2,000 a year, according to the latest affirmation, is the second son's allowance. The wonder is that he was not sent to tho worlihJuse. THE SUEZ CANAL. Captain Slierard Osborn supports the general testimony respecting the success of the Suez Canal. The Hawk, belonging to the Telegraph Construction Company, accompanied the fleet from Port Said to Suez, and made a most successful passage. Vessels drawing seventeen feet of water, it is announced, will easily pass. This precisely accords with the account given by our special correspondent. The Times cor respondent, on the other hand, gives less favourable testimony respecting the depth of the Canal. Ile adds that the banks are much damaged. THE OVERLAND MAIL BY BRINDISI. A correspondent of the Times makes the following remarks on the Overland mail by Brindisi as compared with the Marseilles route. They correspond exactly with important conclusions we have previously published on this subject :—" The Brindisi route already presents a clear advantage of twenty-four hours, not withstanding the hindrances purposely thro wn into the way of i'os success by the slow rate of railway travelling between Macon and St. Michel do Maurienne, on the French side of the Alps. Another immense disadvantage against which the Brindisi route has to contend is the breach of continuity in the transmission of the London evening mail, which is kept waiting in Paris for the whole period of four teen hours, owing to the jealousy of the French rail way and steam navigation companies—a jealousy which all the' exertions of our Post Office authorities have not yet been able to overcome." Were the French Government and railway companies to act justly and reasonably in this matter, the Brindisi route would offer an advantage of 18 hours in addition to the 24 which it already presents in spite of unfair ODPO- Eition. E3IIGR ANTS. A correspondent recommends Jamaica as the rifht Place for emilzrants. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are all - very well; but the place where an industrious man can earn a competency in the shortest time is Jamaica. The productions of the country are infinitely varied, water is abundant, and the roads good. An agriculturist, says this writer, must succeed, and tradesmen—especially masons, carpenters, coopers, and smiths—can always find work at remunerative rates. OBITUARY. Lord Foley died at Paris on Saturday morning. He was the fourth holder of the title, was born in 1808, succeeded to the peerage in 1833, and in 1849 married Lady Mary Howard, eldest daughter of the sixteenth Duke of Norfolk. Previously to entering the Upper House, Lord Foley represented Worcester shire, and voted in favour of the first Reform Bill. Earl Grey gave him the courtly appointment of captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, an (Ace. he has held throughout every succeeding Liberal Administration. He was also one of the Liberal tellers in the House of Lords. FOREIGN NOTES. INDIAN RETRENCIIMAT. The Government of India has resolved, in view of the state of the finances, to make a large reduction in the police charges. The office of deputy-inspector-general is to be abolished, which will entail the saving of three lakhs of rupees by annulling fifteen appointments. The services of 107 assistant district superintendents can also, it is believed, be dispensed with at a saving of five lakhs. His Excellency considers that yet further reductions may be made when the local Governments have been referred to. The Governor-General has given up his private patronage until the officers thus thrown out of employment and reported fit for other duties, are provided for. STAFF OFFICERS IN INDIA. Military staff appointments in India are no longer to be sinecures. An order, dated Simla, October 16, has appeared in the Gazette of India, announcing that all officers on the general lists of the cavalry and infantry of the three presidencies who do not qualify for staff employment by passing the higher standard examination in the native languages before the Ist of 11Iay, 1871, will be removed from the service. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Locusts are still doing great damage to the crops in India, and the flights are visiting many unexpected places. The political agent for Mahee Kanta reports that young locusts are now being hatched in that district from the eggs left in August, and are destroying the crops of Vajrce. The natives are afraid to kill them, believing that by so doing they would incur the displeasure of the " roatajeen (goddess) who would send a hundred for each one they kill. But for this prejudice the numbers might have been greatly reduced. CENTRAL ASIAN EXPEDITION. The Calcutta Englishman states that Mr. Hayward, the young savant specially sent out by the Royal Geographical Society for the purpose of exploring Central Asia, is staying at Murree, previous to a fresh expe dition. He has already penetrated into Kashgar, from whence he returned safely, being the first scientific Englishman who has accomplished that feat. The Central Government has refused to grant him any marks of special recognition, or any semi-official powers which might lead to complications with the wild nations of Central Asia. The Englishman observes that the enterprise is ono of very great peril, but that should Mr. Hayward succeed in forcing his way across the Famir plateau and down the course of the Oxus into Russia, he will place himself in the foremost rank of the travellers of this age. The Russians are organising an exploring party from their own side. SAN DOMINGO. Messrs. Lawson and Son, the contractors for the San Domingo Loan, have been informed by their New York agents that they understand the annexation, together with the assumption of the indebtedness, of San Domingo has been decided upon at Washington, whither they intend to rroceed to obtain more precise information. INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA. At a mooting in Kingston, Jamaica, in support of the Cubans, Mr. Aaron Gregg, the United States Consul, made a speech, in which he expressed his conviction that Cuban independence would be recognised. He did not speak from, conjecture or speculation, but from certain know ledge of the American people and their sentiments. The Americans would prefer that the Cubans should become independent of all other nationalities, but if they gained their independence, and then thought fit to incorporate, the American people would be glad to receive them. THE CUBAN PRIVATEER, Captain Higgins, late commander of the privateer Cuba, says that he was forced to put into Wilmington in conse quence of the inferier quality of the ec9,l he yeceived at OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH SUBJECT. Mr. Koppers, an ex-correspondent of the New York. Herald, was arrested and subsequently expelled from Cuba. The Spanish officials acted with great harshness, and kept Mr. Koppers in solitary confinement for ten days, denying him the privilege of making known his situation to the English or American Consuls. They acted under the belief that he was the author of some letters which appeared in the Herald. Mr. Koppers is a British subject, and has entered a protest against this treatment. lle has placed his complaint in the hands of tho British Consul in Havana, who has forwarded it to Lord Clarendon. A SCHISM AMONG THE MORMONS News from the Salt Lake indicates that the Mormons are getting into difficulties. A proposition to open up the mining regions, and favour the immigration of capitalists, offended Brigham. He, therefore, soon after announced that he had a revelation directing him to draw $25,000,000 now deposited in the Bank of England, and to remove to the Sandwich Islands with it. However, his people were not at all disposed to accept this notion, and he has given up the idea. The railroad connecting Salt Lake City with the Pacific Railroad will be completed, it is thought, about the New Year, and may possibly exercise some influence on the territory. ' SMALLPDX AMONG THE INDIANS. The smallpox is making terrible ravages among the Gros Ventre Indians. The deaths number five hundred, of half of the entire tribe. They are committing suicide by blowing their brains out with revolvers. Tho dead Indians strew the road from the Forks to Mill river. The Gros Ventres demand that the Indian agent shall act as a mediator with the Great Spirit to stop the disease. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Nov. G. General Butterfield is highly indignant at the rumour put in circulation about him, and has, in consequence brought an action against the New York newspaper which started it, for libel. It is an old story, and one which told strongly against the appointment when first made, although then drowned in a chorus of newspaper praise which always looks suspicious when sung, for the newspapers do not thus raise their melodious voices unless the key-note be sounded, and that is not given without an object, which generally is to cover some scheme or to hide some black mark in the record of the appointee. The story is that, when a staff officer of the army, he used his privilege of sending telegrams in cypher and his information, to operate in stocks after the battle of Chancellorsville, while he withheld all in telligence of the disaster from the newspapers and the public. There is little chance of such trials being pressed to their legitimate conclusion. If they were, another chapter will have to be written about the war of a highly sensational but not very creditable character. If, for instance, Fisk and Gould would submit the affidavits on which Orland W. Joslyn, Fisk's broker during the Gold Gamble, was arrested for perjury to the searching ordeal of a fair and public trial, people would obtain infor mation about the secret operations of the ring which would help them in forming an opinion on the character of some New Yorkers in high places. But these are always evaded, though the quarrel among the robbers has done something in the way of exposure. Mr. Joslyn lately brought a suit in the Common Pleas to recover sums he had lost on the purchase of gold for Fisk and Gould, who then repudiated their contracts. The latter made affidavits denying that they had ever bargained either to sell gold to him or to receive gold he had bought, and as the affidavits pointed to perjury on the part of Mr. Joslyn, he was brought up at the Tombs Police Court, where Francis P. Wallace gave bail that he would answer any indict ment found against him by the Grand jury. Al though we have gone through an election week, no amount of stirring up, could make the people shake off their apathy. The closer the exciting moment came the greater was the apathy, and not withstanding the tremendous issues involved," the screams to look out for repeaters, to register, to vote, to work, to advance the entire line, people still were indifferent, and in view, too, of the new Constitution. Five coloured clergymen, supported by some members of their congregations, have ap pealed to the people for the abolition of the clause which saddles them with a property qualification of $250 on each, over and above his debts. What they say is very forcible, and some Radical papers have used it with effect to excite a . little interest, although, as I said before, nothing did arouse the people. Their poverty contrasts in numbers, wealth, and social standing with the position of the whites. They are barred instruction, then taunted with ig norance ; excluded from work, then flouted with being idle and beggarly. Every avenue to emi nence is closed, while men wonder they lack energy, thrift, and aspiration. To weight them with a pro perty qualification not applicable to the whites, while denied the most ready means of acquiring property, does not sound like equality is our De mocratic Republican State; and the best of the joke is that Irishmen, who are always spouting about their the wrongs of race, and raising over a bright horizon the dawning sun of liberty, carefully ex clude poor Sambo from the benefit of its rays, leaving him out in the cold and in the dark shadow with his blackened face. There was a free fight last week among the First Ward politicians, when one man was mortally wounded ; but this was in a drinking T saloon,h and I kno w no t if it arose ou t of politics. Rev. W. 11. Millb urn, w h o h as l a t e ly e Re been lecturing and preaching in London, recently returned to the United States, and preached last Sunday at the chapel of the Holy Saviour. It is extraordinary the information this blind gentle man acquires on his travels. There are thousands who go over the same ground with both eyes open, but see little in comparison with him. The Cham ber of Commerce does not advise immediate action with regard to the Mediterranean Oriental Steam Navigation Company, to help in their organization; but it urges Congress to instruct the Post-office Department to take measures for increasing the mail service to a semi-monthly instead of a monthly line between San Francisco and the China ports. Father Ilyacinthe has run the reporters down ; they can get no good out of him ; he has gone, I believe, to Albany, after his visit to Staten Island, and will leave, I am told, in ten or twelve days for Europe. At the meeting of the various evange lical denominations at the Fifth-avenue Reform Church, the Rev. Dr. Schaff gave an interest ing account of his recent mission to Europe. Its object was to obtain the promises of leading Protestant clergymen to attend the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance which towards the end of next year is to assemble in New, York. He had been cordially received by Lords Stanley, Shaftes bury, and 'bury, and many members of both Houses of Parli amen t. 'I he Archbishop of Canter bury, though no t see i ng hi s w ay, would:correspond on the subj ec t, b ut t h e D ean of Canterbury pro inised to be p resent. The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, though strongly sympathizing, could not atte n d. D r . Schaff had met w i t h as mu ch encouragement on the Continent as in Great Britain. Dr. Thompson read a letter from Father Hyacinthe, who was un able to attend- through a detention at Highland Falls. The letter was written to the Rev. L. W. Bacon, as a preface to the sermons that gentleman is translating. The Father expressed his gratifi cation at their republication in English. How et er unworthy, he presented them to Ame rica and to th ose Protes t an t Churches, of which 1- the translato r was suc h an o rnament. He was proud of F rance, and would continue faithful to the Catholic Church. In protesting against her usurr at ions his lov e could be judged by the bitter ness of his lamentations. lie appreciated the syins pathies of other Churches in his stand, nor did he think, though separated from the Catholic Commu nion, they were beyond the pale of the Holy Ghost. Hereafter we will be united through time, and all live in hope of the same eternity and have of the same God. We aro all labouring in common for the great Church of the Future. 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