The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-27 00:00:00

THE DERBY. . „ The ninetieth Derby. will be known for its pleasant ness. Dark races there have been ; a cold Wednesday, with falls of st-ow, there has been ; ruinous—desperately ruinous—days there have been ; but no great plunging, no great cold, no great heat, no serious accidents are known to have marked the Derby of 18G9. Royalty attended—the Princess of Wales for the first time ; lords were there in plenty ; members of the House of Commons, the professional, the merchant, the tradesman, the beggar, and the thief, all these were, as usual, represented, and the day passed off very jollily indeed. THE WEATHER. The weather is generally the first thing described. It was simply beautiful. During the afternoon it was so entirely unexceptional, that if one could place the slightest reliance upon the prating of those pulmonic meteorologists, who try to persuade us that our climate is all fogs and east v. inds, we must have sup- posed that the scene of the afternoon's amusement was some "balmy region of the south," where suns are ever bright and winds are ever soft. This, however, was only after noon. If an English May day is often worse than its word, it is sometimes better than its promise ; and so it was on Wednesday. The morning was dull and chilly, not to say gloomy and cold. The clouds gradually dispersed, however, the wind moderated andleft people to enjoy themselves thoroughly and without any discomfort. THE ROAD. There was the fun of the road this year, but it was not so smart as usual. About it it is not easy to say much that is at once novel and varied. Yet the drive down to the Derby is one of those few events in life which never quite lose their charm by repetition. Every year the sub urban journey, through miles upon miles of streets, grows longer and longer; and in this present year of grace, Epsom-bound wayfarers made acquaintance with a bran new Ixanspontine district of Battersea beyond the bridges. To any one acquainted with French race courses, the half-world contingents of our Derby Day appear of a very meagre order ; while equipages like those which carry the female celebrities of Paris down to the "Courses," are happily unknown in England. Some statistician would do service by making a calculation as to the quantity of gallons, casks, and hogsheads of beer consumed on the road to Epsom. There must be, on the average, a public-house for every couple of hundred yards between London and the Downs; and every public-house was crowded with thirsty customers. But this year's Derby was not an exceptionally drunken one. Correspondents say that neither in going on returning did they see many sympt-)ms of undue indulgence in the beverages that may possibly cheer, but assuredly inebriate. A few early topers lay stretched along the footpaths, sleeping the sleep of the just, heedless who lost or who won ; but the real mass of the holiday folk were perfectly sober and well-behaved. As to the coarseness and brutality of the crowd of holiday makers, there is not much wit, perhaps, in putting on pasteboard noses of brilliant red and wearing straw-fibre bonnets, and singing " Immensikoff " at the pitch of your nice to the music of a cracked bugle ; but these amuse ments are harmless to everybody except the performer, and they constituted the worst outrages against good taste which one saw exhibited by any of the much-abused million. On the whole, too, the road was rather dull this year. The bicycles long looked for did not turn up. The riders probably left them at home. THE COURSE. The Course, like the ground, has been so often describes that one can hardly say anything new about it. If any thing distinguished Wednesday from preceding anniver saries, it was not the addition of any new or striking epi sodes, but the absence of many familiar incidents. Never was there so quiet and so sober a Derby ; seldom has there been so little of the " larking " and riotous fun supposed to be inseparable from the occa sion. "Aunt Sally" is losing popularity; the race of tumblers, mountebanks, and conjurors is becoming extent ; there are no workers of prodigies to take the place of the men who used to break stones with their clenched fists, or lift huge weights with their little fingers. At a period , when the poorest costermonger " puts something" on the favourite, it would be absurd to expect that any surplus should be left tor thimbleriggers and cardsharpers. Spe culation on horses has become so universal that the cheaper and less exciting forms of gambling lose their interest. Imperceptibly, but surely, the spectacle is becoming different from that on which Mr. Frith col lected the materials of a picture whiclt may serve to remind the holiday makers of 1880 of the costumes of their parents. The interest of the sight, however, consists, not in the variety of the details, but in its grandeur as a whole—in the fact that nowhere else in the world is there gathered so vast a concourse of human beings of all ranks and conditions. The trivial episodes of the scene are forgotten as soon as the eye ranges over the immense masses of black, between which flows the green racecourse. and the ear is deafened by the Babel of the Stand House and the Ring. TILE lIILL. As the day advanced the crest of the hill became illumi nated with the gilt-lettered refectories of the gingerbread vendors, vdithout whom no holiday festival of the people could be considered complete. In recognition of the pro minent place to be assigned to the Volunteers in the great gathering on the Surrey Downs, the "Rifle Saloons" • occupied a conspicuous position on the kills. Those in search of curiosities would probably be more than satisfied by gazing on a picture of a ferocious Mastiff held in gentle durance by a smiling gentleman, even if the bewildering legend beneath of " The Spotted Twin Sisters, born at Egham, and exhibited by their mother," did not further induce them to inquire within. At an adjoining tent was to be seen " A Marvellous Freak of Nature," described by the highly imaginative exhibitor as "The Bodiless Womam, and only specimen of the kind ever brought to England," and in which apparent mystery the familiar optical illusion of " The Sphinx " was not very carefully enshrouded. The itinerants who beguile the in tervals between the races were of the old type and pattern. Conspicuously amongst them came the troop of " nigger minstrels," led by the familiar street personage who represents Punch, and who, adorned with nose and spectacles, chews such a curiously applied knowledge of pirt:Singing, and who, if local legends are to be believed, is a respectable householder in Kentish Town, and a prominent member of a ritualistic choir when his secular duties are over for the week. More nigger minstrels, whose lays are of a time when the " Christy's " were unknown, and vagrant singers, who rely on strength of lungs rather than appropriateness of ditty, make up the vocal throng who besiege the occupants of carriages with their noisy impor- • tunities. The extension of the photographic system was exemplified by a portable camera, which, with a woman for the operator, took unanticipated groups of the inmates of various carriages. These seemed to find a rapid sale. The general amusements on the hill were of the old familiar. kind. The sharp crack of the rifle, at a penny per shot, was to be heard constantly throughout the, day. Portable ninepins car ried about in a box were revealed for the gratification of those who believed in skittles as a necessary adjunct to human happiness ; a clever female prestidigitateur shewed the juggler's sleight of hand in substituting pence for half crowns in paper purses ; the stilt-walkers took advantage of their elevation to carry their caps into the faces of the loftiest amongst the spectators and the assertors of the right of " Turbary," or of the privilege of going upon the soil of another and digging turf, and carrying away the same, seemed to be fully aware of their especial immu nities. THE PADDOCK. Leaving the people for the horses, we turn from the grand sea of massed faces to the Paddock. Horses do not show there as they used, and Martyrdom and Border Knight were for some time its only occupants. Lord Cal thorpe's horse looked much " fitter "than he did on the Two Thousand day, but though his quarters and thighs were good he did not go so well in front as he did behind. The roan, Rupert, was the next to show, a heavy shouldered horse, and lacking quality, followed by the game and blood-like little De Vere, and then a rush to the gate proclaimed the advent of a " crack," who proved to be Pero Gomez, led by King Cophetua. Pero had evidently received a wonderful pieparation at the hands of Porter, but still his upright pasterns provoked much hostility, while in thehand some Belladrum, who next appeared, there was really no fault at all. But he had been beaten by Crocus as well as St. bingo in his trial, and though the public prevented him receding to a longer price than 6 to 1, there were few investments among real judges. Perry. Down, but for a crooked sinew in the oil fore leg, looked eminently a horse for the Epsom gradients, and the Drummer had fined (loan and NV (.1.4 blooming. Taking a horse for his good looks alone, Mr. Padwick's Ethus was, next to Belladrum, the Lest picture of a race horse in the Paddock, but he exhibited a scrambling. action in his canter, which destroyed thc effects of his appearance. Pretender did not appear at all at the Paddock. Enpert was the first to emerge from it, followed by De Vere, Tasman, Tenedos, Eysliworth, Lada , , and Lthus, and then came Martyrdom, tenting at i!is bit and going with a free action phasing to Lis backers? eyes. The last to show was Belladrutn, and a roar of gle.eting from the multitude attested the popularity of the some son of Stockwell, and the unflinching trust of the I public in their idol. TILE START. When the time came fur saddling and starting, from 1 the little meadow, with its Avail of may-blossom and che3t• • nut spikes, one could see the vast crowd splitting intJ two sections, divided by the long green fillet of the course, 1 and the people settling down upon the mountainous pile of the . Grand Stand, like black snow upon a hill-top. Now the clothing was drawn from the sirining backs of the rq . ilne champions; the little saddles were clapped into their pace and tightly Birthed clown, and one by one the little cv . zeted men and stunted lads, who had bees walking about w th gaily-coloured caps, likeperipatetic flower-buds, broke au', all of a sudden into full-blown jockeys. It must be confessed that racing is wonderfully pretty. The bright [o'-ours of the riders and the satin sheen of their horses, tit up by such a sunshine as on Wednesday made the scene radiant, go charmingly together; and when the saddles were all filled, the nineteen or twenty in the Paddock made 4 beautiful squadron of holiday cavalry. At the starting point were by-and-by gathered one by one the gay specks of silk, which go dancing past the Stand; and, seen through the glass, the group appears like one of those peep-shows of flower-leaves which schoolboys make with glass and paper. And now the prodigious concourse—which Was so noisy and mobile—is suddenly hushed ; those that can see the flag drop are intent, and those that cannot see it catch the spirit of intense atten tion from the faces of the others. The three minutes to which all the preparation of the day conducts this swarm of human creatures, at which it culminates, and from which it has its charm and popular vitality, have arrived. Nobody does anything but look hard towards the little flag in front of the group of flower-leaves. The gipsy woman breaks off her prophecy in the middle, the proprietor of Aunt Sally ceases to invite her demolition, the acrobat has come down from his stilts, the chicken-liver is suspended midway between the plate and the mouth, the champagne glass is put down half drained. " They're off r' goes through the multitude like a wind more than a voice. No Drummer and ugly Rupert, and a horse with blue and gold colours, have gone away; but the attempt is false, and they are recalled. Once more they marshal themselves in a gay cloud, and the flag falls to an excellent start. This time they are really off ; the impetuous Drummer again in the front, and the two cracks lying in the rear, with Martyrdom's sky blue glittering behind all. As the horses get fairly away, and the course of the race leads them from the right to the left of the Downs, the most curious of all the won derful effects of the Derby Day is to be seen. The faces of the gathered multitude all flash round from one side to the Other, making a pale gleam run along the surface of the Grand Stand, and light up the farther border of the Course. It is as if an immense avenue of aspen trees was agitated by the wind, and displayed at one instant all the white underside of their foliage. THE RACE. The colours of Mr. Savile on Neuchatel were the first to shew in front, followed by the blues of Middle ham stable, the cherry jackets of Sir Joseph Hawley, the green of The Drummer, and the blue and gold braid of the ~.Egean, with Belladrnm and Tasman the two last. Mr. 'terry's colt was never in it, and appeared to be checked by the hill before he bad got to tha furzes— a strange reversal of his Newmarket running ; while Pre tender was always in the van, closely attended by Pero Gomez, The Drummer, Duke of Beaufort, Rupert, and Ryshwortli. A scuffle occurred after they had come round the corner on descending the hill, caused by the Duke of Beaufort cannoning against Pero Gomez, and knocking the latter out. of his stride. Wells had to set him going again, and this had a material influence on the final struggle, which was left to Pretender, Pero Gomez, and The Drummer, with Rupert, Duke of Beaufort, and Ryshworth well up. Pretender appeared to be tiring, and Wells made a vigorous call on his horse, who, answering most gamely, looked like catching his opponent at every stride ; but he failedquite to get up, and was beaten, after a most exciting finish, by a head. The Drummer was third, and so close did the next two finish that the judge was unable to place a fourth. But for the collision above mentioned it is the general opinion (the Times says) that Pero Gomez would have won. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A beautiful start was made, Perry Down on the outside jumping away in frent with a slight lead of Drummer, Neuchatel, and Lord Hawthorn, but when they had fairly settled down to the work Butler pulled Perry Down back, and Neuchatel, with the object of making a pace for his stable companion, Rysliworth, took up the running, cut tin' out the work at his best pac e , an d w ith a c l ear l ea d of Lord Hawthorn and Pretender, almost level with whom lay The Drummer and 2Egean, Perry Down heading a closely packed b o dy o f h o r ses , most prominent being Tenejos, Belladrum, Rupert, and Border Knight, King Cophetua going on clear of his stable companion, Pero Gomez, at whose girths was Martyrdom and Ethus; the last lot, as they streamed past Sherwood's Cottage, being Thorwaldsen, Alpenstock, and Tasman, Kenyon, on the latter, having a clear line to himself in the rear. Before a quarter of a mile had been accomplished, Neuchatel in creased his advantage, and a change took place in the front rank, Pretender being pulled back to the head of the second division. Already the field began to present somewhat of a tail. As they entered the furzes, Belladrum drew up, and Daley, taking advantage of an opening, got him in the direct track of the favourite, and about two lengths in the latter's rear ; but half-way through the furzes the Russley crack was in trouble, and despite Daley's exertions the horse lost his place, and was passed one by one by the competitors. so that when little more than half of the journey had been completed Mr. Merry's colt was toiling on hope lessly in the rear in company with Ladas and Ethus, for both of whom the pace was much too strong. Neuchatel was still at the head of affairs, and excepting that Rysh worth took a more prominent position on the extreme outside, no change occurred in the leading division till the competitors were fairly char of the furzes, when it became el i lent that Neuchatel was gradually compound ing. Descending the hill, Neuchatel was beaten, and imineeliately retired. Lord Hawthorn, to keep the pace strong for Pretender, rushed to the front, while The 2}2gean simultaneously beat a retreat, leaving The Drummer about a length in the rear of Lord Hawthorn, Pretender being the immediate attendant of Mr. Graham's horse, while the favourite was followed down the bill by Rupert, I:yahworth, and Duke of Beaufort, the latter of si hem was materially interfered with through something crossing him, and it required all Cannien'a exertions to prevent him falling. As it was, he was passed by Pero Gomez, King Cophetua, and 1)e Vere. To this lot the race was now apparently confined, as Martyrdom, Thorwaldsen, Alpenstock, The h'gean, and Perry Down were a long way behind the front rank, and quite three hundred yards separated the leader from Belladrum, who, as he com menced the decline for Tattenham Corner, was the abso lute last, the rearward trio at this point being Ethus, Ladas, and Mr. Merry's colt. Rounding Tattenham Corner Lord Hawthorn was disposed of, and Ryshworth, who had gradually crept up on the outside, took up the running in the centre of the Course, and was followed into the straight by Pretender and Drummer almost side by side on his left, Peru Gomez being next on the higher ground, whilst the most forward of the remainder were Rupert, Duke of Beaufort, De Vere, and Border Knight, Rupert holding a position on the extreme, left. De Vere and Border Knight were both in difficulties before reaching the road crossing, which Ryshworth, who had -been fairly pulling -Maidnient out of the saddle previously, "shut up," but his jockey, keeping pegging away at him, managed to hold A forward place. After his retiremeut from the front, Pretender took up the running, with a slight lead of Drummer and R,upert, but clear of Pero Gomez. Before the distance was reached both Drummer and Rupert slightly - headed the favourite, but at the point indicated they were simultaneously in trouble, and Pretender was again left with the advantage, .Pero Gomez, as they neared th e commencemen t o f th e Stand-enclosure, heading the beaten pair, and drawing up to the quarters of Pretender. The race was now reduced to a match between the two favourites, both of whom were going remarkably well. The riding of Wells and Osborne s'-as brilliant in the extreme, and as both animals ran with unswerving gameness, it will he readily imagined that the fiuish was a magnificent one. Though Pero Gomez rapidly decreased Pretender's advantage opposite the stand, and appeared for a stride or so to get level with the Two Thousand winner, Pretender got the best of an exciting snd interesting struggle, and won very cleverly by a head. The race for place honours was not the less exciting, but The Drummer stayed longer than the Duke of Beaufort, and obtained the third position, finishing a length in the rear of Pero Gomez, but he was not more than a head in front of Duke of Beaufort, close up with whom was Rupert fifth and Ryshworth sixth. Then at a clear interval came Alpenstock seventh, Martyrdom eighth, and King Cophetua ninth. Some distance in the latter's rear, Thorwaldsen was tenth, while Defender, De Vere, and Ethus were together next. Perry Down, who fell lame as they entered the straght, was fourteenth, with The /Egean, 'Penedo s , Tasman, Lord Hawth or n, an d B or d er 'Knight next, Neuchatel cantering past the post in the rear of the latter while the last but one was Ladas, and Lelladrum the allalute last. Time, as taken by Benson's chronograph, 2 min. 52,1 sec. Time of 1868 race was 2 ruin. 43A sec. TIIE RUSH AFTER THE RACE. The moment the Derby was over, the fly-drivers who, from Brighton and Hastings and Portsmouth, flock to the ;;owns to pick up odd half-crowns, rushed frantically to the back of the Urand Stand, and demanded from those who hurried out whatever sums seemed to them expedient for conveying such persons as were in a very violent hurry the various - railway-stations. To load a ramshackle trap with half-a-dozen passengers at two-and-sixpence each, and to goad a raw-boned, weary, half-starved animal into a movement which was intended by both horse and driver for a gallop, did not occupy many minutes, llut they were few who fled the scene thus early. The travellers by road did not begin to move off- till half-past four o'clock, and then until six there was a continuous stream flowing front the Downs by five or six channels. THE ROAD HOME. Probably never before, and certainly not for man years past, have so many people been assembled togeth,r7 of both sexes ' of all ages and all classes, t o w i tness a return home from the Del by. The footways along the 1113A:friars, Waterloo, Westminster, and Vauxhall roads were lined with spectators, but the scene at the Elephant and Castle, Newington, and down the Kenoington-road as far as the Horns Tavern, was most re:narkable. Between . these two points both footpaths and carriage-ways. were .almost impassable, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the large body of police on duty, including several mounted constables, could obtain a passage for the numerous vehicles. The portion of the nal from the -Horns to the Elephant and Castle was one continuous block from seven o'clo, k in the evening until ten at night. As might be expected, in the confusion and e:zeiternent numerous coltish s, upsets, and other t-Asualties occurred, t bough, as far as could be ascertained, none of a very serious nature. To add to the excitement and animation of the scene, many of the occu pants of the four-horse vans amused themselves by displays of red, blue, and green fire from the roofs. The same thing was done, with time addition of fireworks, from the windows of several of the public-houses along tl:e road. This: practice, largely indulged in, though it added to time excitement, also increased the co nfusion and danger from the sudden rushes of pcopie that took place and afforded a fine addi-• tional field for the operations of the light-fingered bri ,, ade. The roughs, as usual, pelted all respectably dressed occupants of-carriages with small packets of flour, made up and scld for the occasion. It was after ten 'clock before any perceptible diminutionstreams of r was observable hvei. izt•the crowds of people or the en cle4,-1 up to midnight the road had a most uproarious -, :wet,' . • TII=E SUN LONDON, MAY : 27, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEiVS. _gloolny,prAage. _,Uunnning, since .the exposure or the Lancashire earthquake hoax, has none. AGRICULTURAL COTTAGES. The problem of how to give farm labourers good dwelling-houses is still practically unsolved. Many plans have been put forward. But while it has been admitted that the hovels in which our agricultural population dwell are wretched, it has been often found that good cottages do not pay. Christopher Nevill writes to the Times, giving a description of some cottages which he has raised, and which he thinks fulfil the conditions required : "They cost rather under £l7O per pair; they are let to pay 5 per cent., which is rather more net interest, calcu lating everything', than buying either land or Consols. The great difficulty has always been as to the three sleeping-rooms. Either the living-room and scullery must be larger than necessary, or the bedrooms must be very small indeed. If half the number of cottages have three bedrooms and the other half two, the supply of bedrooms is ample. A pair of cottages mightAherefore, be built having five bedrooms, the middle bedroom being thrown to either cottage as required. This arrangement has been carried out. The cottages have been examined by the President of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and by one of our largest laud agents, and they have both expressed a most favourable opinion of them. They have everything an agricultural labourer can want, and nothing he does not want. I allot to all my cottages half an acre of garden ground at a full rent, they all pay 5 per cent. on the cost, and in forty years I have never lost one shilling by any arrears." THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE ALABA3IA DIFFICULTY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Times on Wednesday, alluding to the in structions given to the American Minister, Mr. Motley, on the Alabama difficulty, observes that it would be left open for future occasions unless Eng land, uneasy under the suspense, is willing to treat on the basis of Mr. Sumner's speech, shorn of its extravagance. On this ground only America will meet England, and the Times considers it is judicious so to instruct him that the overtures must come from England, for the certain refusal that would follow a proposal based on such terms might not be con ducive to the results all are bound to desire. Whe ther the alternative of simple suspense will prove equally politic remains to be solved. The grievance is sentimental, and material only so far as is neces sary to frame it into a tangible demand. What is required is an apology for the "massive grievance." We shall do both countries good service by saying in the fewest but the p'ainest words possible that it will never be given. We may add just one more remark; that never before in the history of civilized. Stairs was such a thing so much as asked for. The undisguised sympathy shown by Americans with England's enemy during the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, and the unqualified delight at her difficulties and disasters, would form more than a set-off to England's sympathy with the South, America's true grievance, if such questions could be adjudicated upon. The leaders of Secession confi dently calculated on English intervention, believing cotton to be king, and considering the pressure would be sufficiently great to drive English manufac turers into raising the blockade. Nor they only, for the Federals thought so too, and their expressions of alarm and remonstrance beCame louder "and More earnest by every successive maiL. " There was a time when the Americans would have made any bargain with us to avert-this dreaded intervention, and at that same time, as they well know, we were pressed to intervene by an ally so powerful that if the com bined weight of the two nations :had been thrown into the scale against the North, the Southern half of the Union would never have been recovered. Yet we resisted these solicitations, and we endured the less of the greatest trade in the world rather than depart from that neutrality for which we are now prosecuted." If Mr. Sumner says England is chargeable for half the war, Mr. Jefferson Davis asserted that it would not have lasted six months if it had not been for the prodigious supplies the Federals drew from England. The Morning Advertiser, while treating the Alabama questio❑ with moderation and fairness in its leading articles, at the same time publi-hes letters from correspondents cAlculatel to excite anything but kindly feelings. On Tuesday, for instance, (me of these appeared which could scarcely be surpassed in bitterness. The writer observes that had English statesmen, like true men, recog nized the independence of the S3uthern States, " a million of lives would have been spared from going down into the pit, and a Leantiful country would have escaped the curse of that man who has risen to the Pr...kident's seat on hecatombs of his own as well as of the Confederate soldiery " " England will not suffer at the hands of a reck less, unprincipled, and lawless mob, led on by mad demons in the shape of men." We find so much that is fiendish in the writer that we should Chick him to be no Lad judge of demons. The Star of Ttursday publishes a list of the vessels destroyed by the cruisers, and the valu.s, so far as ascertained, as fixed by their owners. That list was published by us two years ago. The amount, calcu!ating dollars at their present rate, the star estimates at £2,614,286. It - consders, however, that England is only unmistakably responsible for the work of the Alabama, and it recommends that the claims arising from her proceedings should be separated from the others, that an English commis don should be appointed to appraise the losses caused, and that the Government should express sorrow that such a vessel should have escaped from an English port. A letter from Sir Francis Head was yesterday published in the limes toui;hing on the reference in Mr. Sumner's speech to the incident which oc curred in Upper Canada in 1837 as one of the offences to the United States by the sovereignty of Great Britain. At that tine Sir Francis was • Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and be applied to Mr. Marcy, Governor of New York, for the arrest of Milienzio, the leader of the rebellion, whom he accused of arson, murder, and robbery, and detnanded his person under the Extradition Treaty. The matter was referred to the Attorney- General, who, on the plea tl at open, public, and notorious war existed in Canada, said the refugees . had a right to an asylum in an independent State, and the Governor therefore declined the request. This abrogation, as Sir Francis considers it to have been of the Extradition Treaty, then but lately passed, he alleges to be a proclamation of neutrality between two belligerent forces ; the one was the authority of Great Britain, the other a gang of desperadoes, commanded by an American General, all from the United States, who had seized on a little British island in the river Niagara, waged therefrom war on Canada, drew all the supplies from the United States, and used 22 pieces of artillery captured from an arsenal •of the Republic, beside 3 thousands of small arms. LES EXTREMES SE TOLICHENT. It has been often noticed that scarcely anyone is married in Lent. It is not so generally known that scarcely anyone is married in the Derby week. Everyone is supposed to be keeping fast during the former period ; everyone is supposed to be keeping holiday in the latter. And so it comes to pass that the Times of to-day has but one English marriage in its column of hatches, matches, and despatches. A QUARREL IN HIGH QUARTERS. The Record, which is always skilful in finding out the highest and noblest motives for conduct which seems erratic, has discovered that the reason why Lord Russell has quarrelled with the Government is, that Lord Hyde was chosen to fight the Ministe rial battle at Brecon instead of Lord Amberley. The same trustworthy authority goes on to say that " the Government shew no disposition to march through Coventry with such an ornament to their junior attacht% as this ultra-Malthusian and Positivist' young nobleman."' The journal which hailed a Pela gian Premier as the man of God because he ap pointed Low ChurCh bishops, would naturally ascribe an important political action to sordid reasons. HARD WORDS. There has been a meeting of ultra Protestants at the East End of London. There were no bones broken, but there were a good many hard words. The Pope and Mr. Gladstone had to act as " Aunt Sally" while the amiable advocates of the pure faith hurled their missiles. Mr. Gladstone was denounced as" a traitor in the camp."-, This was stick number one; but as Mr. Gladstone had never been in the "camp," the missile fell wide of =the mark. Then came another " shy :"—" False as he had been to Protestantism, he had been still snore false to himself. He had been turned out of Oxford and South Lancashire, and was now a poor Greenwich pensioner." This, too, was equally unsuccessful, for as Mr. Gladstone did not vote against himself at Ox ford or in Lancashire, he can hardly be said to - have been " false to himself" in " bemg turned out." Then came the last attempt. Mr. Gladstone's policy was "that of a ruined gambler, who, playing for high stakes, was regardless what card he played." This was witier of the mark than any. If Mr. Gladstone is a gambler at all, " ruined " he certainly is not with a majority of 113 .to back him. Another of the speakers declared that should the present Govern ment again be in Opposition, it would bid for place by an offer to disestablish and disendow the Church of England. Of course after hearing this prophecy the ultra-Protestants will do their best to keep the present Government in office. SIR EDMUND LACON. Mr. O'Malley is a very injudicious friend. In de fending Sir Edmund Lacon during the recent election petition, the learned gentleman referred to former elections at Great Yarmouth, and said that the hon. baronet had never done anything of which he need be ashamed. Perhaps not, for Sir Edmund is used to that style of thing ; but other gentlemen would certainly chew some emotion after the disclosures which led to the disfranchisement of the bloater capital. Mr. Justice Blackburn, at all events, has a very strong opinion on the subject, and declared that " he could not regard the acts com mitted by Sir E. Lacon at Yarmouth elections as otherwise than disgraceful." There are some victories worse than defeats, and all the world, except perhaps Mr. O'Malley and Sir Edmund Lacon, will think that the victory of the sitting mem b ers f or N or th Norfolk is one of them. THE ABOLITION OF PATENT LAWS. The Patent Laws are one continual worry. The public would not be unjust to an inventor, would not get cheapness by allowing any one to step in and use the time, brains, and money of another in the pro duction of commodities. And yet it can hardly protect one inventor without injuring his fellow discoverers. It was thought the question was virtually settled when a high price was put on the acquire ment of a patent. But this has rather increased the anomaly than otherwise, for poor men can rarely get the benefit of an invention. Reformers seem to have been disgusted with the matter altogether, and propose free trade. But inventors already protected are much opposed to this course. Mr. Macfie is to move a resolution abolishing mono poly altogether. Members of the Inventors' Institute and others have waited upon the Attorney-General urging their objections to this motion; and Sir Robert Collier told them that, though he could not speak on behalf of the Government, he was, personally, against making an invention of one man the property of the public. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. The association whose object it has been to obtain the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act to the civil population, feeling secure in the thought that the Government would support an ex tension of the measure, gave up any further pursuit of the subject some - time since. It has now been called once again into action by the an nouncement that the whole question is to be referred to a select committee of the House of Cominuns. Meetings are being held, and information is being obtained, to show the feeling of tire country, and the true bearing of facts upon the matter. An oppo sition is also organised, chiefly proceeding from the refuges, which is endeavouring to enlist the religious feelings of the country against the proposed reform. In this the refuges are . not altogether successful. Several bishops, deans, *and many clergymen have given in their names to the society, and Lord Russell, with several other eminent statesmen, lead the way in counselling the alteration of the law. :- It is feared that if the measure were passed, penitentiaries would lose their hold. The society alleges,-- however, that they would be of still more use. Women would co:ne under religious instruction in the hospitals, and might, if they wished to leave their lives of vice, be handed over to the penitentiaries. THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The Herald, which has been publishing very favourable statements of the health of the Bishop of Salisbury, now announces that there has been given " too hopeful a view of his lordship's condition. It is true that the Bishop has recovered from the extremely critical condition in which he was three weeks ago, but he has by no means reached that point at which we may look for a speedy recovery." DEAN ALFORD IN TROUBLE. The Dean of C an t er b ury i s in trouble. le has just published a revised version of the New Testa ment, and by some unexplained blunder has left out seven words. The omission occurs in 2 Cor. xii. 18, where the words " Walked we not i n the same spirit r are left out. Fortun a t e l y , t h e blunder is his not a be v s e t ry to ifyserrieocitisoneii and • Dean Alf or d h as done by advertising it in the " agony " column of the Times. There was, many years a far more awkward om i ss i on, thatofthe g wo a rd o4 not" from the Seventh Command ment, and terrible was the penalty inflicted upon the perpetrator of the blunder. The erring edition of the Bible was burnt, and the only copy in existence is now in the Bodleian Library. MR. SPURGEON ON FANCY BAZAARS. Mr. Spurgeon approves of fancy bazaars. Ho even thinks those persons Pharisaical who object to them. He argues that it is not everyone who can give money to a charitable object, but there are many who can give time and labour in the shape of worsted work. This is true enough, and against such persons no one can say a word. The real objection is that a vast quantity of useless rubbish being sold at a high price, charity, so far RS the purchasers are concerned, takes the character of a bargain, and that usually a very bad one. Either the purchaser buys what is worth buying, and then there is no charity at all in the matter so far as he is concerned, or he buys what is not worth buying, and then the time and labour spent in the production is lost, from the politico economical point of view. But the economists are not likely to have much influence in the matter. Bazaars will continue, though girl graduates should have to pass an examination in all the philosophers from Adam Smith to Stuart Mill. DU. CUMMING AGAIN. There is not one of the sporting prophets which ,can compare with Dr. Cumming in unshaken ,elf confidence. It is n o thi ng t o hi m th a t h e prophesied the end of the world for 1867, and that here we are still merrily spinning round the sun. It is nothing to him that a few Sundays ago he made the alleged earthquake in Lancaihire a text to prove that the destruction of all things is close at hand, end that this earthquake turned out to be-a hoax, perpetrated by a silly fellow upon the . 3lanehester many persons journals. Th e d octor i s still as confident as eteg, and as go to list en t o hi m as ever . H e has just been d own to Alanchester, and has been insisting, in defiance of all facts—in defiance of the fact that nations were never so slow in-fighting as they are now—that this is the time of wars and rumour:, of wars which is to precede the final catastrophe. The " s e ll " a b out the earthquake hcs not in the least disconcerted him. In the winter he considered that the term earth quakes in " divers - places " was to be taken literally ; but now ho interprets it to mean a financial crisis. The discovery is rather late in tho day, considering that it is 'now three yea.' s sinco the " earth quake " to3k pirce. The value of his inter pretations is seriously deteriorated both by .their tardiness and by their uncertainty. The most remark able thing about the matter is, that for once Cardinal Antal - 1(311i and Dr. Cumming are of one mind. The Cardinal, when he heard that Austria hid given up the Concordat, exclaimed Casca it monde. The doctor, without any particular reason, repeats the equivalent of those words in English, and says, "The world is going to smash." Antonel li 'had . , at Innst, from his point of view, some excuse f or h is THE iIMERICAN PRESS. The SPring geld Republica - n considers that the sword of Damocles suspended over England is working an immense change in the foreign rela tions of European Powers. The balance of power is in the hands of President Grant and the Ameri can people. By a kind of poetic justice England is punished by her treason to liberty in the American Civil War and other acts, and while her hands are bound by the American complication, the Emperor of Russia is emboldened to act in the East. Mr. Motley enjoys the advantage of an intimate ac quaintance with Bismarck, which may prove of value in the course in England he may be compelled by circumstances to take. Mr. Motley is not only Mr: bumper's cherished friend, but diplomatically he is an embodiment of Lis speech. "The proper vindication of our dignity and our rights need not necessarily he regarded as a provocation of war. We can afford to wait for some time longer, until, under the efficient administration of President Grant, Gre Britain and the English people shall become convinced that we demand only what Eng land, if she had been in our position, would have insisted upon with much greater rigour than we have as yet seen fit to exercise. Great Britain having placed herself in the wrong, and the authors of that wrong—her principal statesmen--having made a public recantation, so far as they indi vidually were concerned, we shoul I think that England's honour were as much interested as our own honour, in a comprehensive and equit able settlement of this all-important question." The of the 7imes holds that England is awakened to the po.bition by Stunner's speech and the rejection by the Senate of the Convention she cooked up, and that she will tender the required redress, not through any dawning sense of justice, but because she has discovered that the American people arc not to be humbugged no r pu t o ff from their demands, and because she cannot afford to re main under the duresse of this A/crbaml question any longer. As the situation leaves Americans perfectly at perue they arc indifferent as to Eng land's course, for the pressure of the situation is to her war enough. "It cripples her from hosti'e operations against even the moot puny foreign power, and binds her, through thd overhangin g ' dread ef our repris Ils, to keep the g neral peace." Great Lr:tain is practically incapable of conductin g a war on anything like equal terms against the United States. Sne is no longer a military power, but if s're were she could effect nothing by way of inva sion. Canada would compensate for the injury inflicted upon American commerce. When England during the war drove that commerce from the sea, it was only felt as a slight incident to the condition. [We thought Mr. Sumner's complaint was that it doubled the duration of the war, and ccst America .F. , 400,000,000.—ED. A.A. T.] With England, loss of commerce, which is the breath of her nostrils, is very different. It would bring starvation to the TIIF: TRADE IN BEER. " Gilpin Grains" writes a letter to the Telegraph protesting against SirJ. Selwyn-Ibbetson's beerhouses bill. " Gilpin Grains" is a brewer, and the owner of a large number of beerhouses. He points out that while everybody condemns magisterial supervision of public-houses, it is propos4 to extend it to beerhouses. The bill, he futilier urges, is confinatory, interferes with the freedom of the trade, and tends to produce a huge monoply. It prevents a beerseller from selling his house with out the consent of a magistrate, and deprives him of his property should he be unfortunate enough to be fined for breaking the law. There can be no objec tion, this correspondent thinks, to a severe punish ment; but he protests against the house being closed on account of the tenant's misconduct, as it would de prive the Man's family of all their wealth. VELOCIPED E INSTITUTE. Of course we can do nothing in England without an institute, a society, or some kind of nucleus for a " swarmery ' when the enthusiasm is no longer, - repressible ; and so a Velocipede Institute is to be established, from . which rules, instructions, and encouragement in the shape of prizes to good velocipedestrians nre to issue.' But what is the Aeronautical Society about ? Velocipedes, looked on at first with much the same encouragement as flying machines, are now the hobbies , of the period. But the high-flyers are still unpatronised, and one of their balloons has taken itself out of control. STERN JUSTICE. Two criminals were lately brought before the magistrates at T w i c k en h am , c harged with the heinous crime of breaki ng a f ence an d stealing the broken pieces. • The prisoners could not look over the dock, for one of them was 6 years old, the other only 5. The Rhadamanthi of the Thames neverthe'ess condemned these desperate and hardened offenders to a fine of 2 s . eac h, or seven days' im prisonment. The p aren t s , who were poor, pleadedfor time, but cou ld o bt a i n a respite only till the evening, when they were told that if the money were not forth com i ng the Queen's warrant would be issued for the comm itt a l o f these wicked babies. Eventually the money was paid. We should like to know if these stern administrators of the law would have dealt in the same manner with the infants of one of their collergues, had they been guilty of the 'sin of inju r i ng G enera l P ee l' s ra ilings ? If not, is it true that there is the same law for rich and poor ? ABORIGINAL OVENS. This highly-important subject was discussed at the last meeting of the Anthropophagal. we as'c pardon, the Anthropological Society. Sir Charles Nicholson contributed - a p a p er t o spew how the ancient abori gines of Australia made their ovens, and he proved a good deal of culinary skill on their part. Clearly Sydney S m ith' s j o k e a b ou t "cold boiled missionary on the sideboard" was very wide of the mark. With such ovens as those just referred to the aborigines were not at all likely to put up with cold meat. FOREIGN NOTES. AUSTRIA. The Indepenriance Belg - e announces that Herr Beke, the financial representative of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry, will take a diplomatic post at Constantinople. He will be replaced by a Hungarian. This is another proof of tho growing influence of Magyar statesmen in Austria. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. The public business of Italy is once more suffering from its chronic disease—the incurable laziness of the deputies who are chosen to manage it. Whilst the weather is bad the Italian Parliament is pretty well attended ; but no stoner does the Southern sun put forth its spring -time beams than the members of the Chamber, who have a free pass over all the railways in the kingdom, disperse in all directions, leaving public affairs to look to themselves. Year after year the busi ness of the country is left undone, or half done, for the law requires that one more than half the entire number of members must be present to form a quorum, and the deputies will not attend. The names of the absentees are posted in the O f ficial Gazette, but this is no punishment, for that great corrector and reformer, " public opinion," is yet in its infancy in Italy. RUSSIA. A somewhat serious insurrection has broken out amongst the Kirghiz tribes of the Russian Asiatic frontier. All the hordes of what is called the Great Steppe, east of Oren berg and north of the Caspian Sea, have taken part in this rising. The insurgents pillage the convoys, attack the isolated posts, and burn the Russian villages on the frontier. A considerable force of cavalry will be required to subdue them. 'THE UNITED STATES. Chief Justice Chase has decided that the Statute of Limitations applies to all cases where money held by American officials was given up to the Confederate Government in 18G1. Postmasters and others who gave up their funds to the Confederacy at the outbreak of the civil war will not be liable to refund the sumo. CANADA. 4. strange rumour caused considerable perturbation at Montreal a few days ago. Information had been received in the city to the effect that the British Privy Council was considering the advisability of relinquishing all the British colonies except India. AFFAIRS IN NEW ZEALAND. A long letter from 'Wellington, New Zealand, by Mr. J. C. Richmond, appears in the Times. The writer very severely attacks the Times' regular correspondent for some of his asserticns as to the state of affairs in the colony. The latter writer charged the New Zealand Govern ment with having adopted a hand-to-month policy, in no wise calculated to secure the respect or awe of the natives. He stated that since the outbreak of the war the colonial Government had distributed amongst the natives a largess of £15,000 in public money, and had granted a redress of grievances, which had been sought in vain for the last two years. Certainly, paying large sums of money and redressing grievances in frightened haste on the outbreak of a rebellion is calculated to demoralise ; but Mr. Richmond denies that any thing of the kind was done. He says that in 1865 the loyal part of the Ngatiporau tribe were attacked by Hauhaus, but with the assistance of some troops they repelled the enemy. The rising, however, spread south wards, and the mixed force, including these loyal natives of the Ngatiporau tribe, followed up the enemy with brilliant and unbroken success. The Ngatiporaus returned to their homes with a promise of reward out of the lands of those taken and killed in rebellion, or out of the proceeds of the sale of those lands. A special Act of Confiscation was passed by the Legislature to give effect to this promise. But this Act was apposed, and it became necessary to pay the reward in money. The intrigues had gone on for two years, and thus the time of the fresh outbreak, commencing with the escape of prisoners from Chatham Island, arrived, and the Ngatiporau were again required as allies. The pay ment was once more delayed until the men returned to their homes after the recent operations in the field. Mr. Richmond does not prove that the reward could not have been paid sooner, but he does succeed in shewing that it was not a largess distributed in haste. On the contrary, it was payment for services rendered sometime before the last outbreak. There were no grievances' redressed, be cause, Mr. Richmond affirms, none existed. The writer denies in general the charge that the colony has constantly endeavoured to buy loyalty by large dona tions, and failed to consider Maori grievances unless driven by fear and necessity. He adds that New Zealand re quires assistance, because the geographical position of the country, LOCO miles long, intersected by numerous chains of mountains, and colonised at a dozen different points, prevents the concentration necessary for repelling the Maories. He suggests that it might bo permitted to the New Zealand Government to raise a Volunteer Corps, both officers and men, from the British army, for service for a definite number of years. The Volunteers might have the privilege of conlinuing on the books of the War Oilice without loss of rank, and of returning at the end of their term of service. A disciplined force would thus be furnished to the colony at less cost than its present imperfect levies, and the ltnpe:ial Treasury would not spend a penny. The suggest:on deserves consideration; but the writer overlooks the fact that the assistance of British troops was offered and declined, because the colony would not ray for them. Between a British regiment and a corps of volunt( era from the British army there would be little practical. d'ffereace• The Times, in a leader, still holds to the op;nion that the New Zealanders aro capable of deftudlnk themselves. door of every operative in a month ; therefore Eng land cannot go to war; but, in case war did result, America has little fear. " Our plan then is, to let England gnaw the file of this Alabama question to her heart's content, and allow her journals to rail at us without reply. Our case is made ; we know what we intend, and we have nothing to do but to rest placidly within our lines, until Engl and comes to our terms, or until our opportunity arrives. Oar judgment is, however, that she will curse herself down to the level of surrender, and when that is done, and she desires to make amends, we may pro perly accord her such diminished terms as becomes a generous and superior power." If England be allowed to delay atonement it is the duty of the Washington Government to pay the sufferers. The Spirit learns from Washington that the President and Cabinet are discussing the plan it suggested a month ago —to audit claimsfor the damage done by the An glo-rebel cruisers, and pay by orders on the Treasury. "A bill will accompany this measure for the issue of Alabama bonds, running, say thirty years, at five or six per cent., in order that the people may take them, and thus relieve the Treasury flout the new burden. The bon Is will doubtless be the most popular ever put upon the market; and when the whole amount is audited and the last of the bonds issued, the Government may probably conclu le that the hour has arrived to close the question with Great Britain by a demand for immediate restitu tion." The Public Ledge, of Philadelphia, remarking on . the effect produced upon the newspaper press of England by the rejection of the treaty and Senator Suinuer'sspeech, sees through the various comments, the uniform assumption that the Senator's expres sions embody the demands of the Government an I people. This is au error; and the Ledger thinks there is reason for the belief " that neither the Go vernment, nor the journals, nor the ruling classes of the people of Great Britain, have ever correctly understood or estimated American feeling on this question. There is no general desire in America to make exorbitant demands upon Great Britain ; there is no such desire to press that Government to the verge of national humiliation ;' nor is there any wish among those thotightful men who move and control the great industrial, trading, commer cial, and influential interests of the United Stites, and whose views are always respected by our Go vernment in international affairs, to indulge in the luxury' of a war with England." The feeling in America is that at the outset of the rebellion the then existing British Government acted in a most unfriendly spirit towards the United States, en couraging the fitting out of hostile vessels to dt.s:roy American commerce, which caused in indirect de struction millions of dollars and indirectly millions more. " The two points, iu their estimation, go to gether; they should be considered together, and they should be considered independently and apart from any other matters of dispute or negotiatisn between Great Britain and the United States." The weak point Of the late treaty was that it did not provide a sepa- Tate, distinct, and specific mode of settlement, and no-one could see through it the end of the sllataina controversy, while its obscurity made the people and Government afraid to trust it. The Ledger consilers the unfriendly course of Lord Russell's Government in 1861-62, so clear to Americans that they believe the common sense of Europe to be with them, and that the Enelish are convinced of I the error of their Government, regret its acts, and believe some clear, frank, manly form of contri tion should be expressed, instead of the subtleties and finesse of diplomatic conventionalities. "When ever the British Government approaches the settle- - ment of the Alabama controversy in this spirit, the end will not be far off. Till then there is danger in it, though we believe our people prefer to wait rather than to seek fora settlement by war.' The Nation asserts that calm consideration begets much dissent from and dissatisfaction with Mr. Sumner's speech, as a statement of the Ame ricsn cause against England. His plan of making England apologise for the neutrality proc'amation is assailed as both unnecessary and certain to fail, while even its legal position is attacked. The na ture of England's offence is not presented in a dis tinct theory. In one place she is charged with giving. Confederate sh ps the rank of lawful belli gerents by her proclamation. He then calls these lawful ships " pirates," showins that the procl t =ion gave them no lawful status. Further (n he alludes to tilt to as En s lish ships erga s ed in war against the United States. I 1 They cannot be all : " If the proclamation gave the Coefederatss a law ful status, their cruisers were not ' pirates.' If it gave them no status, and they were • l ii at. e,' Eng land is not responsible for the proclamation ; if they were English war vessels assailing the com merce of a friendly nation, all talk about the pro clamation is a mere waste of breath. Any intelli gent reader may satisfy himself, by looking care fully at the speech, that it is really marked by the confusion we have here described, and we are therefore sorry that somebody did not undertake the work who had firmly grasped some one of these doctrines, and could present it clearly and vigour ously. Mr. Sumner has supported all three vigour ously by turns, but none of them long." his sen timental charge for the want of sympathy was out of place in a legal argument, especially where it took the form of damages. If such a rule is to be introduced into national law it ought not to be confined to questions of slavery. It would then be proper " To bring England to book for the indiffe rence or hostility of her aristocracy to the temper ance movement, and her neglect of popular educa tion, and the low condition of her almshouses. Grotius and Puffendorf would probably be asto nished to hear of Admiral Farragut burning the shipping at Liverpool, or shelling the fortifications at Portsmouth, because the House of Commons was not sound' with regard to the proper treat ment of the insane, or was obdurate on the eight hour question, or deaf to woman's claim to the ballot ; but Grotius and Puffendorf, poor old fellows, wrote according to their light, which was small, and are now dead, which is well for them." The Tribune, in announcing Mr. Motley's in structions concerning the Alabama claims, considers them to exhibit " the consciousness of an impreg nable position felt alike by the Government and people of this country, and our entire readiness to await a more convenient season, or a better temper on the part of our British cousins, before pas=ing the settlement of a matter which we can very well afford to leave open as long as they can." There is no menace of war, no threat of hostilities ; no fillibustering raid upon Canada is meditated. "Mr. Motley has simply to tell the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs that we are assured in our position, and can afford to wait. That is all." The New York Herald, in its usual peremptory style, brings the question to the alternative of a prompt settlement or war ; but the New York 2 imes takes an opposite view, discussing the question with temper and conciliation. There is an able article in the New York. lndepen dent,. written by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, "Our Rela tions wi!h England." lle consilers Nfr. Sumner's speech to be a model in clearness of statement, force of reasoning, dignity of tre ttment, and calmness of temper. At the saute time he notices and dwel's at length on what he holds to be a flaw—the partw herein Mr. Sumner invokes the mem JryofWilberforceagainst England. His argument is precisely that of the English press, that England could not consider it a war• against slavery, while Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Sewarl did all in their poxer during its early stages to deprive it of such a character, the one being the official head of the nation, and the oth r its mouthpiece with foreign States. When the character of the war did change, and the blows were struck directly against slavery, the writer a3serls a great change to have been iinaiAliately wrought in England. Patuphles were scattered broadcast through; the land, and everywhere the Northern cause found earnest champions. The New York Notion has au article on the news paper scandal, the Young-Dana affair, which i: treats as of a serious nature. The New York Sun asserted that it only affected Mr. Young himself, a statement which, if correct, would leave that paper without a shadow of excuse for devoting four of its columns to the publication of his frivate letters, and the exposure of his private affairs. " What makes his doings and those of his frieads in Phila- delphia of the least importance to the world at lnrg u is that he has, dui ing the last three eventful yelr' 4 ' had almost entire control cf one of the most impor• taut instruments for the moulding of public ollai° l3 in this country ; and that the gentleman in Bina' delphia who now acknowledges that he paid a Liv n for whole months to steal de3patches from another newspaper office, to be used for his own pecuniol 6 benefit, was a t th e ti me h e did i t engaged i n cc 11 . eating the party' up to higher moral ground about the negro. Considering the kind of people scone of the educators' of the party during the last five years have been, the wonder is that it should to even as decent and well-behaved as it 15 almost impossible to over-estimate the influence erected by a daily paper on the fortunts of public men and affairs, as the editor, by simple it.Jration , can do more than talent, learning, and logic 011 undo. Even apart from his editorial wil l ' moots, iu supplying and arranging news b e makes or mars a politician's cireer, cor:signing one to obscur;ty by silence, by treating his saying ; or doings as of slight importance, or, by inuenJ o about them, by spreading false reports or attribill• inn base motives. On the other hand, he inly pn- 11 a worthless adventurer into the place of an hone° man. The character of the men who control snob machinery is of the first importance to the compliv nity, and ought to be taken from the hands of at e who forfeit public confideno3, or the country s'll° lose almost its sole remainiog instrument of re' form. "The influence of all other agencie3 011 public affairs is comparatively slight. The period' cal, and, above all, the daily press, is engrossla more and more of public attention ; and unless 11 ° morality grows with its strength, and the men W ll° manage it, having so much to sell, are not respect: able men, we might as well ask the knaves, withou b more ado, to divide our substance between them . Politicians nobody trusts; - the judiciary feyt er trust every day ; the pulpit has greatly declined is influence ; and if the newspapers go over to th e enemy, and sit at his orgies, w h a t i s to become, us ? It is therefore greatly to be regretted that Mr. Young has not been able to deny the genuine' ness of the letters, or else offer a satisfactory eJ ( ," planation of them. The b r i nging o f a against the Sun does not meet the difficulty, becalls e the libel suit cannot be tried for two years to coal° , and because we observe by Mr. Young's affi lav l t' on which the order of arrest was obtained, thlt b° does not meet any of the serious points raised by 140 letters themselves." The New York Citizen has another long leader 0 ° impending Imperialism. The establishment of suc h a paper as the Imperialist not only, without molests tion, but almost without a remonstrance, the CitizJ l regards as a startling fact. On the contrary, lead" ingßepublican journals have seized this opportuo lt i to ventilate tLeir own views for a more c entralizes and stronger form o f G overnment. " Wh en a jourl3sl like the Round Table," says the Citizen," gravely d e :, Glares that we are drifti ng i nto I mper i a li sm , a° the Cincinnati Commercial talks of the coning uc ly tralization which is to absorb and govern the Coo: tiuent, we may well wake up to what seems near 0 hand." Some assert the impossibility of a c!tange to the present form of Government, or even in its elo • den and violent overthrow, bat the Citizen declur ej the Radicals have effected this change a'reacif: having overturned States, robbed millions of th' it right to representation, tore the national constatty tion to pieces, and pasted it together with pail patches, so that the fundamental law Ehauld male to follow a party, and not the people made t " conform to the law. These Radical s h av e been i law to themselves, ruling the land with a rod ° iron, making it suffer the terrors of a despotism without the paternal care such despotisms usua l i extend. After en u merat i ng t h e un l aw f u l nee ° the party it adds, "All this time, behind Congre ss ' we have seen the d rawn swor d." Th e roa d belulo thus smoothed from such despotism to actual iu l t ; perialism is an easy step. Th e d anger mus t not disguised nor ignored, nor must the presumed WO' . ness or incompetency of " the man on horseback' 13 ; held in disdain. The Citi zen p o i n t s it s remar l ' , with a striking illustration. The Radical party bu g ins exhausted the means which placel it in po'v er i the issues which ma d e i t h av i ng passed awry, 119' a dk..sperate resort to contilue in plwer having bei come necessary, the Administration ‘% hieh start ed with the cry, " Let us have peace," is enlisting fl lorm:da!,le standing army to prop peace with uo r bayonets, and the mili tar y b e li eve t h at a ll me asur es , must be conduct e d by m ia try means. The considers the most.alartning feature to be time utter ep thy of the people, who, like the great taida . : 6 class of France, want to make mo ne y, and to b b let alone. " Our own quiet submission to a g r 3.. , dual but persistent usurpatio n o f w h a t we on ce ° ll e sidered sacred rights ; th e grow i ng l ove f or 1 1 - 11°1. ' and extravagance so prev a l en t th roug h o ut t, '' o ~ , country ; the forced feeli ng ever y w h ere t h a t Repu; licanistn, at least as Radicalism has administere a . l and construed it, is a failure; and that fatal facib t i we have for change, a n d t h e rea d y accep t a nce °f 0 change, without consid er i ng w h et h er i t i s a chalf, for the better—these are the dangers of the day' A respectable new s p a p er i n N ew J ersey declare, that the Imperialist, the organ established to ad. c19 , 0 cate Imperialism, is " edited under the ausl 3l l; and at the cost of the Secretary of the Navy, ": Adolph Boric," and still further, that " Grant hi u . self lends counte nance t o t h e sc h eme b y a idi n g 111 th ~ money and means its circ u lati on among hi s friends' MADLLE. ILMA DE MURSKA.—A promised great appearance in the musical w or ld w ill no t a t a very dtst date be the talk of the c o un t r y c i rc l es as presen t e d at t he , - , 5 own doors. There are no m o r e spirited enterprenetil l, 1 all the world is aware, than the directors of the 1141' Italian Opera, Covent-garden, and o f h er M a j es t y 's Tboatro• It is to these gentlemen's indefatigable determination a" make the Italian Opera in this country the n 3 phis til t o f of attraction (now that th e un i on o f th e operas a dinitg the fact), that we shall owe a g rea t appe arance f or Whi : country opera lovers are little prep ars d. Dramatic singersl and musical artistes of no c o m mon no t ; have been":l before this, hoard in number in the country. But a FP °.- feature of Mr. Mapleson's u sua l operatic tour this forth coming time will be the presence in his company of `i; celebrated singer and artiste, Madlle. Iltna de Murska• many respects she is the most remarkable and the I t3 " - „ A admirable vocal actress and dramatic vocalist that has he' d heard in an opera house. Her line of art is peculiar, 15 her operatic heroines are sympathetic and surprising t ° degree that is beyond belief by those who have not s°B her. Lond on i s crowding, at present, to the Royal Itali an Opera, Covent-,garden, drawn by her brilliant talents- bie LAn VERTISENENT.)—Henceforth no one will doubt the YAllicS , properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalento. drab Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of WS, s 'beell it has already received from Invalids whose position baup o pe, deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the ', s of whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y e ` t 4 to cla unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Ga ze ijolf Midi," July 25th :—"Rome, J uly 21,1866. The health of the Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other re 01 dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's ReTs . ,,' Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plat e f u l a t everY,''',oa It has produced a surprisingly beneficial eff ec t on hi s health' vire his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highlY.2 l 6, extract a few out ofmore than 6:3.000 cures :—Cure No. 5S , ;; 111 0 the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver come wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palP" ,, : t all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most (16 tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771 : Lord Stus' p os. 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