The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLIO, A TICKET-OF-LrAvr. 24[4N.—On Wednesday, at the, Central Criminal Court, :Jan Tionorm, aged 24, was charged with a robbf.ry with r;olence. In his defence be handed in a written rtatem+rt, in wltich he said that be had beel. sentenced to seven y.e.:6' peral servitude for robbery in 1860, and after iiva years obtained a ticket•of•leave. governnr and chaplain at Millbank told him that a sum of £lO, earned by his work in the prison, would be placed in the hands of the police of his district. He had applied for it, bat could not get it ; had been discharged from the Docks through having to report himself, and could gat no honest employment from the interference of the police. The jury found him guilty, but the judge deferred sentence until inquiries had been made. A CRUEL PARENT. —At the Middlesex Sessions, Robert M'Coll was indicted for cruelly beating his own children, 6 and 8 years of age, when intoxicated. It was proved that he had beaten them severely with a thick cane, and even with the poker, and both the children bore marks of his cruelty. He was sentenced to two years' hard labour. PIRATING ExcnAvnica.—At the Mansion House, on Wednesday, Mr. Graves, the well-known printseller of Pall-Mall, prosecuted a picture-dealer, named Ritchey, for having infringed his copyrights of thirty-one engrav ings. The magistrate inflicted a fine of £5 in each case. In default of payment, the defendant would be imprisoned for two months in the first case, and in each of the others for seven days. The alternative is thus between paying a money penalty of £155, or spending nine months in prison. The prisoner did not pay the fines, and was taken to Holloway Gaol. The pirated photographs were ordered to be destroyed. Tun CLERKENIVELL EXPLOSION.-At the Clerkenwell Police• court, on Wednesday, the lessee of two of the houses in Corporation-row, Clerkenwell, which were damaged by the Fenian outrage of December 1867, was again summoned for payment of £27 2s. 2d., the cost of shoring up the houses. The defendant pleaded that he had been ruined by the explosion, and was unable to work. He and his wife had been severely injured, and one of their children killed. The crround landlord had received compensation from the Explosion Fund, and ought to pay the money. The magistrate allowed the defendant three winks for payment. RAILWAY INJURIES.-At the Leeds Assizes, on Tuesday, a maid-of-all-work, named Crookes, brought an action for damages against the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. shire Railway Company, in consequence of injuries sus tained by her in a collision on the line last October. The jury gave her £2OO damages.—At the same assizes, on Wednesday, Mr. Trundle, paper-stainer of Leeds, was awarded £3,000 for compensation for the injuries he received in the accident on the Midland Railway, at the Leeds Station, in the month of April last year. The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges, queen's counsel, &c., at his lordship's residence, in Great George-street, on Thursday, the 15th instant (the first day of Easter term), at 12 o'clock. THE CASE OF THE REV. MR BENNETT.—The let ters of request from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, on doctrines taught by Mr. Bennett, of Frome, will forthwith be filed in the Arches' Court. Another application to the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus in respect to the Bishop of London, in reference to Mr. Bennett, is expected to be made on the first day of the ensuing Term. A COPYING INK THAT NEEDS NO PRESS.—Dr. lied Boettyer, of Frankfort, according to the Scientific Review, prepares thus a black copying ink, which flows easily from the pen, and will enable anyone to obtain very sharp copies without the aid of a press :—One ounce of coarsely broken extract of logwood and two drachms of crystallised carbonate of soda are placed in a porcelain capsule with eight ounces of distilled water, and heated unt►l the solution is of a deep red colour, and all the extract is dissolved. I then take the capsule from the fire, and stir well into the mixture one ounce of glycerine of a specific gravity of 1'25, fifteen grains of neutral chromate of potash dissolved in a little water, and two drachms of finely pulverised gum arabic, which may be previously dissolved in a little hot water so as to produce a mucilaginous solution. The ink is now complete and ready for use. In well-closed bottles it may be kept for a long time without getting mouldy, and, however old it may be, will allow copies of writing to be taken without the aid of a press. It does not attack steel pens. This ink cannot be used with a copying press. Its impression is taken on thin moistened copying paper, at the back of which is placed a sheet of writing-paper.— Builder. ELECTION PETITIONS.—Mr. Justice Blackburn has appointed Tuesday, the 27th instant, for the trial of the Bewdley petition, "The Hon. A. Anson against Cunliffe." This is the second petition since the general election, and will be tried before the same judge who unseated the late member. The Norfolk county election petition is to be tried at the Castle, Norwich, on Tuesday, the 11th of May, before Mr. Justice Black burn. The scrutiny lists have been filed at the Rule Office of the Common Pleas in the Yorkshire elec tion petitions. "Stanhope v. Beaumont and the Hon. Stuart Wortley and Viscount Milton and H. F. Beaumont." The lists contain more than three thousand names, and the trial is expected to occupy about three weeks. As much inconvenience and additional expense of conveyance of witnesses would arise from the hearing of the South ITants petition at Winchester, a city altogether out of the electoral division, a joint application will pro bably be made to Mr. Justice Willes, at Chambers, asking him to take the case at Southampton. The petition against Lord H. Scott having been withdrawn, there is a general impression prevalent in the county that permission will he asked to follow a similar course in regard to the petition against the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, which at present is set down for trial on the 26th inst. Notice has been offi cially given of the withdrawal of the Boston election petition, " Jones, petitioner, and Malcolm and Collins, respondents." AO application must he mad e a ft er a week's notice to a 'Judge at Chambers for an order to I withdraw. TEE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1869. SPIRIT Ole 'IE7. PUBLIC JOURNAL -.00,---......, The Times in discussing the condition of Irish politics admits the great importance of the land question. Every Administration during the last eighteen years has acknow ledged the necessity of dealing with it. The colleagues of Lord Mayo are as much committed to this truth as the colleagues of Mr. Chichester Fortescue. The practical question to be considered by Lord Stanley and every statesman is whether he will pluck up courage to satisfy so much of the claims of the Irish agriculturist as is founded in justice, or will allow him to become exasperated by deferring attention to his com plaints. It is an issue on which the common sense of every one can judge whether the better way to silence extravagant demands, in cases where there is an acknowledged ground for some demand, be to concede what is justly due or to refuse to concede anything. Pre cisely the same reasoning applies to the agitation for legislative independence. The strength of this cry has always been the injustice of the legislation suffered under, or by permission of, the Imperial Parliament take away this foundation for by abolishing the Establishment and securing to the tenant his just claims, and the agitation collapses. Refuse to do anything, and every year will add to the violence and unreason of its demands. The question of education is apparently more com plicated; but in reality equally simple. It is almost entirely a clerical grievance, and we have hitherto done our best to strengthen the clerical influence. We have furnished both priest and peasant with grounds for discontent in maintaining the Establishment and in allow ing the land question to pass unheeded, and priest and peasant accept and support each other's objects. Disunite them as they are disunited in America, and if the priest does not cease to be influential, he ceases to be a leader commanding unquestioning obedience. We arrive at the same moral with respect to education as with respect to land, to nationality, or the other cries which influence Irishmen ; if we would maintain what is good and with stand what is evil, we must be prompt to remedy what is evil and to sanction what is good. The Standard declares that some of its Liberal con temporaries of the weekly press are just now a good deal occupied with the condition, the policy, and the prospects of the Conservative party. They profess to be very much concerned with the fortunes of their opponents, and are good enough to spend much labour in speculating on their position and in advising them how to shape themselves, so as to conform to that true ideal of Conservatism which has been formed for our benefit. Notably the Saturday _Review has been for some weeks past profuse of counsel and of instruction to Conser vatives. The behaviour of the Conservatives at this period of their history is to that journal a subject of much interest and of speculation. As we stand at present it may be perhaps useful to ourselves to know that we are not altogether such as we should be in the eyes of our censor. We have a good deal to amend before we can arrive at the standard of that perfect oppo sition which our contemporary has imagined. We con tinue to be influenced by two opposite influences—the 'persistent ambition of our leaders to govern the country, and the stolid apathy of our rank and file, who are only too happy to remain in peaceful obscurity, and to let the Liberals carry all necessary measures. There are special reasons, chiefly springing from their unlucky nomencla ture, why those who call themselves Liberals should always exceed in number those who reckon themselves Conser vatives. Most men are naturally anxious to pass in the catalogue as Liberals. Everyone would like to be considered. and considers himself, a Liberal. Upon a bare enumera: tion, therefore, of the respective denominations, it ie reasonable to suppose that the Liberals will always out number the Conservatives. But it is absurd to suppose that this condemns the Conservative party to a perpetua; exclusion from power. It is puerile, moreover, to rest the position of the Conservatives on a question of nomencla ture. Those who anticipate that the function of Conser• vatism is over, and that the party are doomed to a per petual opposition, have scarcely studied with clue attention either the duties of Conservatism or the temper of the English people. Certainly nothing has happened within the last two years to put Conservatives either out of date or of hope. The Gerald says we have been so frequently told, both in and out of Parliament, that the Conservative Govern• ment was unpopular with the great bulk of the Irish people, and so frequently assured that tranquillity could only be established and maintained in Ireland by the con cession of Liberal measures, enacted and administered by Liberal statesmen—that unless good proof to the contrary could be shewn, it is more than probable that the public mind of this country might, in the end, yield credence to assertions so perseveringly reiterated. .Yet, when we appeal to admitted facts, it becomes evident—test ing their truth by the commission of such illegal acts as are generally allowed to evince the real state of Irish popular feeling—that such assertions are perfectly unfounded. The surest indication of the social condition of any country is to be found in its criminal statistics ; and taking the past condition of Ireland under a Conservative, and its present one under a Radical, Administration as our guide, we can easily prove that it was more satisfactory under the Governments of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli than it now is under that of their successors in office. That is to say, that there have been three murders and two attempts at murder, within nearly two years and a half in the one case, and just the same number of murders and shooting within four mouths in the other. Such a disparity in the amount of crime between the two periods we have alluded to, is, we should think, quite sufficient to satisfy us that—whether arising from a want of confidence in the present Government, or from a determine• tion to exhibit their discontent at the postponement of the land question in favour of the Church question—the Irish peasantry are far more hostilely disposed than they were, and are little likely to be satisßecl by the abatement of a grievance which does not touch their pockets, while pant ing for an arrangement which, according to the promises of the statesmen they have assisted in elevating to power, would convert them from occupiers into the more enviable position of proprietors of the land. We have, to support our views, only stated the number of outrages which can be strictly termed agrarians did we extend our notice to acts of violence arising from private motives and resulting in death, the proportion would still more strongly indicate the present unfavourable condition of Ireland as compared with its past. The Daily News says that the House of Lords has been occupying itself during a good part of the present session with one of the most important innovations of modern times. Hostile critics have already described it as the introduction of a new principle into our law, the creation of a new clas s o f " suspected persons, " and the introduc tion among us of police surveillance in its most tyrannical and odious form. But the very title of the bill deprives such rhetorical descriptions of more than half their force. A bill which only p ro f esses to deal with habitual criminals is not likely to excite much alarm among honest men. Their question about it is not very likely to be—What new legal principle does it apply, or with what new power does it arm the police? They are more likely to ask—Does it afford a chance of dealing effectively with well-known rogues? The bill does not, in fact, create a class of "suspects ;" it merely provides legal recognition for a class which is already too well known among us. It is a magnificent principle of English law that every man shall be presumed to be innocent till he is proved to be guilty, and to all honest Englishmen that principle is a guarantee of safety. But underneath the fair seeming surface of modern civilisation there has been long spreading a social rot which needs a new principle to enable us to deal with it. The old dis• tinctions of classes have been supplemented by another, and the very phrase the " criminal classes" is an addition to our social nomencla ture which merely recognises a new and fright fully significant social fact. A section of society lives, and is known to live, by preying on the other sections. A suspected class actually exists among us. The l,sw does not recognise a criminal class, but a criminal class exists ; its members are to some extent known. Why should not the law, therefore, recognise the fact? By Lord Kimberley's bill it does recognise it. That bill does not create a class of " suspects ;" it gives legal recognition to a class which already exists. It does not treat police surveillance ; it gives an existing surveil lance more effectual power to protect society. It does not affect a single honest man, except to protect us all; t does not even alter the status of an ordinary criminal ; it deals only with ticket-of-leave men, who are only free by "license ," and with twice - convicted habitual rogues, an d it s imply removes from them the shield of that assumption of innocence which the law throws over all persons when they are first accused, but to which habitual criminals Lava forfeited all right or claim. The Telegraph observes that Mr. Disraeli's speech on the second reading. of the Maynooth College Bill,in 1840, is memorable, as among the fiercest of his diatribes against Sir Robert Peel ; and in that speech he plainly disavowed " supp ose d " connect i on o f Church and State, declaring that it had no existence, and was not desirable. " I have," he said, " unfaltering confidence in the stability of our Church ; but I think that the real source of the danger which threatens it is its connection with the State, which places it under the control of a House of Commons that is not necessarily of its communion. Leave the Church to herself, and she will shrink. from no contest, however severe. I believe in Ire land itself, if the question be Will you sever the Church from the State, or will you endow the Roman Catholic Church ?' for my own part, I believe the Protestants of Ireland would say, Sever the connection between the Church and the State, and don't endow the Roman Catholics," This memorial passage deserves to be recalled now that we are threatened 2 with anoth er d e b ate on the Kum ) exciting topic, ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE IRISI3 CHURCH, The Ven. Archdeacon of Taunton held a visitatioft al St. Mary's, Taunton, on Tuesday. Referring to thr Irish Church Bill, he said it was a measure of confisca tion, by which Mr. Gladstone's suppor:ers were pledged to more than they at the time of the general election; intended. This was ground sufficient to justify the Lords in throwing out the bill. It had been reported that many of the English bishops would not vote against it, although present. He could not believe so monstrous a thing. ' Mr. Gladstone had bought the support of the Nonconformist, the Roman Catholic, and the unbeliever, at the price of the sacrifice of the Church of the Reforma tion. Worse acts done under fine names, acts of more deserved reproach to the contriver, awl of more lasting injury both to Church and State—acts with nothing to redeem their character except the temporary consolida tion of a shattered party—a test more unsound even upon the bare principle of the world's statesmanship— a blunder of policy more egregious and more fatal T a more distinct and emphatic and shn subordi nation of the truth of religion to party policy were not to be found in any history. It was not too late for the peop le to save themselves from complic it y with so g reat a s in. He approved of the first assumption of the "High Church Radical," that the Church ought to be free de facto as well as de jure ; but that Mr. Gladstone would set the Church free, or that, if free, she would be allowed to retain her endowments,he regarded as the most curious hallucination he had seen even among the clergy. THE FORTHCOMING VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT PORTSMOUTH _ The subjoined letter has been received by the Lord-Lieu. tenant of the county of Hants, the Marquis of Winchester, from the Secretary of State for War, relative to the pro posed review of the volunteers at Portsmouth :—" War Office, April I.—My Lord,—ln reply to your lordship's application of the 24th ult., I have the honour to inform you that I approve of a field-day of volunteers being held at Portsmouth on the 26th of April, 1869, and the attendance of the Ist Administrative Brigade Hants Artillery Volunteers on the occasion. I have further to request that your lordship will be good enough to inform me, as soon as possible, of the probable number of volunteers who will be present at the field-day, as, in the event of a large number of volunteers wishing to take part in the review, it will take a considerable time to make the necessary arrangements. All applications should, therefore, be sent in not later than the Bth inst.— I have the honour to be, myLord, your Lordship'sobedient servant, EDWARD CARDWELL." Major-General Lindsay has sanctioned the time of application from corps to be present at the review to be extended from the Bth to the 12th inst. Commanding officers of volunteer corps intend ing to be present should make application at once to the railway authorities for the conveyance of their corps. There appears to be every prospect of a large number of volunteers being present, and, to insure a successful and creditable result, it only remains for those who may have the preparation of the day's programme that such a plan of battle may be drawn up that tl.e vt , !unteers may not be compelled to fight in imposs.ble pctaions, arid that all ranks may have , :•alt!t something of their duties its citizen soldiers at the close of their day's work. REFORM OF T.HE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The New York 7 ribune approves of the American system by which every change of administration is followed by a change in the incumbents of all offices. That paper thus writes: — "Washington reports affirm the existence of a per sistent pressure upon heads of departments by members of Congress for places wherewith to reward needy con stituents. In so far as these demands involve merely the supersedure of ins by outs, wo do not regret it. ' Rotation in office is generally wholesome, even to those who dig relish it. No department clerk who is worth his salt ought to remain in office more than four years at furthest. Lot young, active, energetic workers be appointed to clerkships ; let each understand that he is to be retained but four years, and be admonished to save at least one third of his earnings from the outset ; let him go with the Administration that appointed him, having saved the means wherewith to start in some private business (set tling and working a quarter-section of public land, if he can do no better); and let the next brood follow in the footsteps of its predecessor." It is astonishing to see the system upheld in the very article in which the mischief it creates is de nounced. The clerk is to understand that he is to make the most of his four years of office. With that " most " he may settle on a quarter-sec tion of public land. Cannot the Tribune see that the former is a direct incentive to plunder, and that the latter places a man in the very position for which his previous training has completely disqualified him. He who has got the office, and knows he can at best but hold it •for four years, loses with every week the dread of the punishment involved in being turned out of it. His activity for the Government can bring no good to himself, but his activity for him self against the Government may be productive of material advantage. He gets his office by unscru pulously serving his party, and he uses his office unscrupulously to serve himself ; thus a young, ac tive, energetic worker, who under more favourable circumstances might have proved an honest man, is trained at the threshold of his career to be a rascal. After teaching him the value of having a country to sell, and unfitting him for agricultural work by four years departmental employment, the Tribune would place the;clerk on a quarter-section ; and a more incongruous connection it is really diffi cult to conceive. " his the crying evil of our day that working for the public pays better, or is supposed to pay better, than work ing for yourself. The farmer's or the mechanic's son would rather be an Inspector of Customs or Police man than his father's business and follow it. The soil is neglected and often deserted, because those who should cultivate it fancy they can do better as tide-waiters or Post-office clerks. The laws and the policy which beguile them into that delusion have very much to answer for." And what are the laws and policy but those the Tribune thus describes :—" To the victors belong the spoils of the vanguished, is the accepted maxim, and we submit, only protesting that it is not the people and their Treasury who are rightfully vanquished." Can Horace Greeley really suppose that the winning party is to have its pap, but that none of the plun der is to be extracted from the public. If not from the public—then from whom? Householders might as well keep up a school for training burglars, and then whine over their invaded premises and ab stracted valuables. "We have demonstrated,"says the Tribune in another article entitled the " Siege of the White House," " that nine out of ten of the office seekers must be disappointed, and must re turn to their residences (if they have any) with broken hearts and pockets hopelessly empty. To say nothing of self-respect, and that personal dignity which every gentleman should strive to maintain, we have proved, though proof was hardly needed, that there are very few offices the emoluments of which are equal to the honest wants of honest daily work in ordinary departments of human in dustry ; that dependence upon the public patron age is almost sure to be fatal to a muscular self-reliance; and that superannuation is almost sure to find an office-holder, who is usually bled by his party unmercifully and by his friends heroically, as needy in the end as he was in the beginning." A picture is drawn of the fools who know not the difference between shade and substance, who every four years pursue the beautiful bubbles. Might not this pursuit be connected with the stupendous frauds in the collection of the revenue ? The salaries of officials compare as but a fraction with the sum out of which the nation is swindled by their connivance. The fools may be running after the bubbles, but the beautiful illusions are the rascals living in luxury, who, from their offices, have realized fortunes. There is something more than bubbles to be got out of these posts, and there are some substantial proofs of the fact. The Tribune may rely on it that the Civil Service can never be reformed until it becomes a profes sion for which lads are trained, and in which they rise by good conduct, qualifications, and length of service, as they do in the Navy and Army. In one article it asserts that no clerk worth his salt ought to wish for office beyond four years ; in another, that no person worth his salt ought to wish for office at all ; in a third, that General Grant is absolutely borne down before the solid phalanx of those who do wish for office ; that they have settled over Washington as grasshoppers in Utah; that the Departments are clogged with them and their applications, the White House besieged, and that business has b een almost brought to a stand still by their importunities. And from what do the eager hosts arise if not from the rotation system in force ? This is the most apparent effect, though it is by far the l eas t to b e deplored. Another is thus described : "If we could only dispel the too prevalent illusion that the public service is a political alms-house, wherein the lame, and the halt, and the paralytic are to be fed and fattened at the public cost, the needed reform would be easy. But almost every one has a brother, or cousin, or son, or nephew, who d oe sn't seem to k now how to take care of himself, hence is presumed admirably calculated to officiate as a guardian of the public interests and welfare." While making such a fuss about the bad results, how is it that the Tribune can be so blind to the cause? Any one acquainted with the administra tion of other Governments knows that the Ameri can system must breed corruption, and the Tribune may go on deploring the corruption and the useless ness of the mass of candidates without changing that result so long as the system that produces it is upheld. Why should the army and the navy be conducted on a different plan from the Civil Ser vice ? Do not most of the offices require as special training and qualifications, many of them such as in the Patent, the Land Surveying, and other bureaux in a higher degree? and, if so, why should these be open to the idiotic, the halt and the blind, any more than the command of war ships, of regiments, and of divisions? The security of the tenure tends, according to the Tribune, to make men fossils ; but experience has shown that pro motion is the best incentive to work, and the higher the value attached by the incumbent to his post 1 the better the guarantee for the honest administra tion of its duties, and there is no such value as security. It is certain that the present system has worked badly, indeed so badly that most men are convinced that Mr. Jenckes's bill ought at least to be tried. If we sought an instance against Grant's saying that the right way to get a bad law repealed lies in its vigorous enforcement, we would find it here, for the rule upheld by the Tribune, that to the victor belongs the spoils, has worked infamously, and has been productive of enormous injury, yet it has created an interest perhaps powerful enough to keep it in force against the wish of the President and of the majority of the people. This paragraph from the Waterford News gives an instance of the rights of property, while it suggests that prope r ty may h ave duties as well. A man commits a sin, outrages the laws, and flies the country ; he is a great territorial magnate, and his establishment is broken up, his servants are suddenly and unexpectedly discharged, and the estates on which he has resided cease to benefit by an expenditure by which they had been fostered, and which will continue to draw everything from them, while it returns nothing :—" The Marquis of Waterford.—We regret to learn that, owing to a recent deplorable event, the establishment of the Marquis of Waterford, at Cur raglimore House, will be broken up, all the servants, with the excei.tion of two, having received notice that their services are no longer required. The absence of a resi dent nobleman, who spent so much of his time at the fa mily residence, will be felt seriously in the locality." Mr. George G. Fogg, late United States Minister to Switzerland, contradicts the statement of Mr. Smalley that Mr. Hale, the American Minister to Spain, is not cn good terms with the members of the Spanish Government, or that he sympathizes with the late Queen of Spain and wishes for her return. The new President of Harvard College is Pro fessor Charles W. Eliot, of an old Boston family, son of Samuel A. Eliot. He graduated at Harvard in 1853, and is about 38 years old; ho afterwards held the place of tutor and of professor in the college, and has been for some time a professor in the Institute of Technology. His specialty is physical science, but he is a good general scholar, and has lately attracted notice as a writer on education. THE EMIGRANT SHIP "JAMES FOSTER, JUNIOR." (From the Anglo-American Times.) The sea has always furnished a prolific field for adventure, and the one from which novelists have drawn most largely; but as imagination only fol lows iu the footsteps of natural events, the story teller but seeks there, as the ocean supplies the most thrilling incidents. The narratives are various, and all tend towards horror. The winter just closed has been noted as one of the stormiest known on the Atlantic. With almost the regularity, force, and continuance of a monsoon, westerly gales have blown over the British Isles, and the logs of ships prove that these gales have extended far over the Atlantic. The Pereire furnished an instance of a mail packet almost buried under a huge wave, returning shattered from the dreadful encounter; the Hibernia gives the disas trous tale of a great steamship going down in mid ocean ; and now comes another story even more horrible. The American ship James Foster, Junior, left Liverpool on the 14th of last December, with 146 steerage passengers, bound to New York. The weather she encountered may be gathered from the fact that the passage occupied twelve weeks, as she only arrived at Sandy Hook on the Bth of_ March. Having typhoid fever on board she was placed in quarantine, and most of the surviving passengers were sent to hospital. Out of the total number but 36 were considered to be in good health. The Emigration Commissioners inquired into the treat ment they had received in the ship. and a harrow ing tale of cruelty was then revealed. Each emi grant was allowed about 24 square feet of room, but it was not the space to which objection was made. Raw food was served weekly, the emigrants having to cook it for themselves at the ship's galley. In such weather it was impossible to comply, and in consequence, even had the food been sufficient, it would have been useless to many. Without the ordinary necessaries of life the un fortunate people remained huddled together in in describable filth, which bred a pestilence, and struck down the crew as well as the passengers. A ship, helplessly rolling and pitching in the cold wintry gales of the Atlantic, with such a freight, is suffi ciently appalling; yet we have told but half our story. In cabins luxuriously fitted up, and in strange contrast with the bunks between decks, lived officers, whos e ti me appears to have been spent in aggravati ng, not i n mitigating, the suffer ings of the wret c h es co mmitted to their care. Accepting as true the evidence on which they have been arrested and held for trial, Captain Armstrong, his mates, the boatswain, carpenter, steward, and even the surgeon, were banded in con. spiracy against the lives of the passengers and crew. The carpenter and the boatswain appear to have been peculiarly active in maltreating all, and to their brutality several deaths are attributed. Emigrants are often deluded by an abatement of passage money into sinning articles to ship as sea men, being told th ey wou ld never be required to go aloft, only t o wor k on d ec k, in aid of the watch. When at sea the b oatswa i n , armed with a belaying pin, orders the l ong - sheresma n aloft to reef or un furl sails, and the application of the iron to his head either ends in his going above or in his being carried insensible below. In the James Foster they stood on no such ceremony as having signed shipping papers, but used compulsion freely in getting the passen gers to a id in working the ship. Nor were they restricted by their contract as re garded the provisions. For one week nothing but meal was issued, two pints a day, with a spoonful of sugar, and the English portion were soon re duced to a state of starvation, when they bad to buy biscuits at a shilling each from the Germans, who appear to have made such a provision. Com plaints of the food were answered with curses, and those who carried these remonstrances to the cap tain were driven away with violence. The work was mostly done by the passengers thus fed on meal and with about a pint of water a day. It is surprising that not more than 22 passengers and sailors died during the voyage, but the effect in sending 88 fever patients into the State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital on arrival was the natural result, and there others have died. The stories of the cruelties are appalling ; indeed they resolve themselves into cases of downright murder. A sick cabin boy was drawn to the upper deck by a rope, where he lay exposed during the night, and died. One of the men, a passenger cook, was kicked from the hospital by the carpenter, who required him to draw water. When he went on board he was strong and healthy, but they buried him in the Atlantic. The carpenter issued the pro visions ; and he was a man whom the combined testi mony of every one describes as of a cruel disposition, and in all his excesses he was backed by the captain. The treatment of the sailors was somewhat similar. One night two emigrants co ncea l e d t h emse l ves on the quarter-deck when the pas sengers h a d b een sen t below, and they saw the officers lay h o ld of White, mouth with s oa p t o preven t hi s him astrid e a spar, f rom w hi ch he a ws ersseaai castosr la fi on l od l s eh lash tis to be carried to the hospital, where thrown over b oar d . J o h n 0 . he died, and was Southard died shortly after the arrival of the ship, but he lived long enough to testify against the third mate as the author of the injuries which had ended so fatally to him. It is astonishi ng h ow genera lly an example of such fearful cruelty can be followed. The steward is quite a lad, y e t h e pursue d an un fortunate boy around the deck, beating him with a belayi ng pin till he had rendered him insensible, and from this state he was only carried to his grave. The ship's surgeon calls himself Mr. Monument, a native of Norfolk, holding a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons, and formerly medical officer of the ship Great Webster. He alleged that his medi cines were furnished by the London Society, and as no such society in London for furnish ing medicines is known of in N ew York, nor any s uc h vesse l as the Gr ea t W e b ster, d ou bt s are entertained of the truth of his story. Ile is about 50 years of age, with too rich an Irish brogue for a Norfolk man. His prescriptions were alleged to have been orders to have his patients flogged ; the amount of medicine he dispensed was limited to two doses of castor oil. When the real character of the treatment received by the passengers transpired, the third mate, carpenter, and boatswain were arrested, and the captain and first mate were dis covered, after a diligent search, by the police. Armstrong's wife asserted that he was very ill, which the police discovered to be the case. Both he and the mate had been stricken with this typhoid fever, and the captain then was delirious. Some days before he reached N ew Y or k h e com plained t o hi s brother, the first mate who, with the carpenter, has also been stricken with this fever, that he was unwell, but on arrival he was able to walk to his home in Myrtle Ave nue , Brooklyn. After recover ing, a narrative of the outrages which be saw in the newspapers threw him back. He asserted these accounts to be f a l se ; and under the excitement they produced he r e l a psed, never rallying, till be died in the arms of his old steward, March 17, his last words being, " Louis Lee, if you bad been with o ccurred." The place where me this would n ever have the passengers slept is about eight feet high, and presented anything but an inviting aspect; for days after it had b een scoured an d f um i ga t e d , t h e smell remained, and t h e visitor cou ld scarce l y endure the atmosphere. The Commissioners of Emigration have taken nation having been strongly directed towards it, up the subject, the attention of the and as the ves se l sails under A mer i can co l ours t h ose who perpetr a t e d the cruelt i es are lik e l y to rece i ve a lesson which w ill prove a warning to others. Sailing ships should no t b e perm i t t e d t o carry emigrants, for such a system of treatment as that practised in the James Foster may b e p rolonged till it has become fatal, or at l eas t to injure permanen tl y th e consti tutions of the sufferers. However bad might be the treatment on board a steamer, the run is too quickly made, to prove so serious. Although a law cannot be enacted to prevent a sailing ship from carrying such passengers as choose to take berths, condi tions may be imposed for their comfort and protec tion, which would effectually prevent sailing ves sels from competing with steamers. The James Foster will probably give the death-blow to the car riage of emigrants in vessels relying alone on sails. The advantage —even economy—of selecting steamers has long and generally been seen. In 1856 the total number of passengers brought by 22 steamers was 5,111, but in 1868 184,941 were carried in 378 steamers, while the ratio by sailing vessels had decreased in a corresponding degree. The attention, too, of the Republic has now been fastened on the best mode of protecting emigrants at sea, and this will perhaps lead to conventions with other nations, especially Belgium. 321SC'ELLANEOUS NEWS. CLUB-LAND. The Owl says that at the last general meeting of the Carlton Club it was decided to request Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli to sit for their pictures, with a view to commencing a gallery of eminent Con servative statesmen, to be preserved in the club. It is not to be inferred from this request that the club considers Mr. Disraeli to bear the same relation to the Conservative party as Lord Derby does, that of (to adopt Masonic initials) P.G.M. The Owl gives another item of news from club land. " The unusual prevalence of blackballing in many of the London clubs has recently given rise to much remark. The practice has obtained to such an extent during this spring at one of the oldest clubs in St. Jamess-street that it has been decided to hold a general meeting to consider the whole subject of election of candidates, pending which no b a ll o t is to be taken." Some time ago there was a quarrel at the Reform Club between the members of two professions. At first all the candidates of one profession found themselves black balled, and when this was discovered, their friends took to doing the same kind office for the friends of the blackballers. Matters became serious, and we believe that there is now peace. But which is the club referred to by the Owl ? "One of the oldest clubs in St. James's-street" may mean either Brooks's or White's—may mean either that another quarrel has broken out among the Whigs, or that the Tories have followed the example of their rivals. THE NEWSPAPER POSTAGE MOTION. Mr. Graves's proposition, " that it is expedient to reduce the rate of inland postage on printed matter to one halfpenny for two ounces," did not receive the support of the leaders of his party. Among the Conservatives who voted for the previous question (in favour of the Government, were Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli, Lord Eustace C ecil, Mr. Henley, Mr. Walpole, and Mr. Bromley-Davenport. The Liberals who sup ported Mr. Graves were Mr. Blake, Mr. Crawfurd, Mr. M'Carthy Downing, and Mr. Fletcher. Although the majority in favour of Ministers was so large, it was the general opinion before Mr. Lowe moved the previous question that they would be defeated. This adroit move, however, formed a convenient loophole for those hon. members who, although agreeing; with the motion, did not wish to embarrass the G overnmentby voting against it. Whilst Mr. Gladstone was explaining to the new members the meaning of "the previous question," Mr.Mundella, who seconded the motion of Mr. Graves, crossed the floor of the House, and appealed to the hon. m em b er f or Liver pool not to go to a division. Mr. Graves refused to accede to the request, and the member for Sheffield then went into the lobby with the Government. Mr. Walpole also advised the lion. gentleman to give way, but without success. Mr. Ward Hunt did not vote. The tellers for the Ayes were Mr. Graves and Mr. Goldney, and for the Noes Mr. Glyn and Mr. Adam. TEGIC COMPOUND UOUSIMOLDEIt. The ghost of the compound householder will not be laid. Mr. Disraeli tried his hand and failed ; h o took the House of Commons into his couns e l, b u t with no better success. 'Private members, indepen dent members, uttered their respective incantations, but the old House and the old Government had to leave him to a new order of things. The new Government seems to find him as difficult a subject as Mr. Disraeli did. The tenants are still troubled, the owners have no rest. A large number of the latter waited upon Mr. Goschen 'a day or two back to ask for a modification of his system. They thought 25 per cent. discount for being responsible for the rates of their tenants was too little, and asked to have it made 35. One of the speakers thought the Government scheme, though much better than the present enactment, to be cumbrous and expensive. Mr. Goschen, assuring the deputa tion that the Government would take their sugges tions into consideration, said that all difficulty with regard to the collection of rates could be got rid of if the owners and the collectors came to an under standing as to the payment, and in that way the tenant would be spared the unpleasantness of seeing and dealing with the collector. There would really be no distinction between that course and the system of compounding. THE NEW BANKRUPTCY BILL. A correspondent of the Daily News thinks that the history of our bankruptcy legislation for many years has been most unsatisfactory. But we may now hope that the long lane has come to a turning, and that Sir R. Collier has achieved a success in his new scheme. Within certain limits he ha s endeavoured to make property acquired after bank ruptcy liable for the payment of debts. This critic is, however, afraid that the Attorney-General may not go far enough, because he is unwilling to consent to Mr. Jessel's proposals. He said that if all after acquired property was to be liable, we might as well have no bankruptcy law at all. It is argued that there is one class class of after-acquired property that would for ever be subject to debts. No argu ments in favour of exemption can apply to acquisi tion of inheritance. We are now in the lull which succeeds a great. commercial crisis, and the lax prin ciples of our bankruptcy law did much to lower com mercial morality. This, then, is the time to raise the standard of commercial morality before another epoch of temptation comes round. THE BEVERLEY ELECTION PETITIONS. The reports of the judges on election petifons do not give universal satisfaction. Those on whom they pronounce the verdict of Guilty don't like them at all. But instead of taking the fault as their own, the inculpated candidates lay the blame on the judges. sir Henry Edwards, the unseated member for Beverley, thus complains of the judgment of Baron Martin. Th e learned judge thought the hon. baronet's connection with the Beverley Iron and Waggon Company was such as to have an influence on the election. This, Sir Henry says, in a letter to the Standard, is calculated to mislead others, and pre judice him in the eyes of Parliament. "My connec tion with this company did not take place until seven years after my first candidature for Beverley, two contests having occurred in the interval, in both of whi c h I had large majorities over my opponents. Sir Henry goes on to explain certain suspicious circumstances in the evidence. As to £BOO spent by a Mr. Norfolk, the hon. bdronet says that it had only to do with the municipal elections, and he did not contribute a farthing of it. The hon. baronet aea rs anxious for the honour of pp the borough, a n d he points out that since 1832 the only seat at Beverley lost on petition has been that of Mr. Walters in 1850, Mr. Glover's seat being declared v o id f or want of qu alification. The petition against himself in 1859, and that against AI L Walker in 1800, failed. NAVAL MATTERS. Rear - Admiral Hornby is to command the "flying Childers," or rather Mr. Childer s ' s fl y in g s q uadron . This officer is rather young to obtain so important ft command being only 43 yea rs of age. He entered the navy in 1837. He has been commander-in-chief on the West Coast of Africa, and has received a medal and a clasp. He will Moist his flag on the Liverpool, 35, and this s hi p will p robabl y be commissioned early nex t month by Captain J. 0. Hopkins. This v essel, together with the Liffey, 31, now at Devonport, Captain J. 0. Johnson; the Phcebe, 35, Captain J. Bythesea, V.C., ordered home from the West Indies ; the Endyrnion, Captain C. Wake, ordered to Spit head from Cadiz ; the Bristol, 31 , on her way home from Bermuda ; the Clio, 22 ; and the Scylla. 17, to b e c o mmissioned at Sheerness, will form the Flying Squadron. The Defence, from the Channel Squadron, relieves the Doris at Jamaica, and sends her home to be paid off. The Channel Squadron returns to England the first week in May. On the 14th May the following vessels, manned from the Coast Guard and Naval Reserve, are to leave Portland on a cruise for ten days or a fortnight : Ironclnds : Agincourt, Black Prince, Hector, and Valiant. Wooden-screw liners : Duncan, Donegal, Trafalgar, Royal George, .and the frigate Mersey. BEAILD S . "The sincerest form of flattery is imitation," said Rochefoucauld. Colonel Ilenderson, leuderson, the new Commissioner of Police, is a hairy man, and has just given orders to the force that they may . wear beards and moustaches. The consequence is that the London policemen, by way of flattering their chief, are just now in a very bristly s':ate, which is anything but picturesque. Mr. Childers also is an Esau, and the Owl under stands that " an order will shortly appear permitting the wearing of beards in the Royal Navy." As shaving on board ship is not an operation that men perform because they like it, we may shortly expect to see the whole of our gallant tars bearded like a pard. In fact, there is no reason why the youngest middy or cabin boy should not appear with the proper hirsute appendages. Mr. Childcrs's order is very comprehensive. It sanctions the wear ing, not only the growing, of beards. There is no reason why the naval cadets at Dartmouth should not exceed Don Whiskerando himself in fierceness of countenance. It is bad news for Slicilield, since razors will be a drug ; b u t 'ti s an ill w i nd that blows nobody any good, and if tip old-fashioned baroer s find their occupation gone, the modern perrftriuiers will drive a roaring trade. nal3W D ; CEOOLS Dr. Bradley, head -master of Marlborough College, writes to the Times on the difficulties of the Endowed Schools Bill, and applauds the spirit which has prompted Dr. Temple to demand that Rugby should be subjected to examination by the proposed Central Council. He says that if the provisions of the new Act are good for one school, they are_ good for all, and it cannot be right that Marlborough, Cheltenham, and other places should be taxed and eantrollM while EnzbY 4x4cl IltoA. are untouched. JJr. Bradley rooßs with anxiety to tree working of the new scheme, and under the most favourable circumstances thinks it would prod= uniformity and monotony, He considers that too much power is given to the new Council, and it can hardly be deemed desirable that the whole con trol of English schools should be taken out of the hands of the masters. He looks with much misgiving on the position of his own and similar schools under the new Act. He concludes by declaring that unless some safeguards of a very important character are introduccd into the bill the masters and scholars will be losers by the examinations pro posed. He is sorry to oppose any part of an Act brought forward to raise the standard of English education, but he hopes that the select committee in whose hands the bill is placed will carefully weigh all the objections which can be brought against it, THE COLLECTION OF 111.41VUECRIPTS. England may be justly proud of its collection of manuscripts. In art we are a long way behind other nations, for we allow the whole of the paintings of the great master, Turner, to lie in cold oktruction and to rot, because we have not a building in which they may be displayed. But the British Museum has collected one of the finest sets of books, manu scripts, and documents which the world possesses. By putting one of our first lawyers, the Master of the Rolls, to collate manuscripts of national importance, we have shewn how much value we set upon these works of other days. The author in England has the best' opportunities of obtaining good information directly from its source. And the Government, wishing to increase hi s pr i v il eges, h ave ta k en a s t ep for which all lovers of historical correctness and all archaeologists will thank them. In the belief that belonging to many institutions and private families there are various historical manuscripts, a royal commission has been appointed to inquire as to the places in which such papers are deposited. Lord Romilly, as Master of the Rolls, is chairman, and the other members of the commis sion are the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earls of Airlie and Stanhope, Lord E. Fitzmaurice, Sir W. Stirling- Maxwell, Bart., Mr. C. W. Russell, Ur, G, W, Daunt. and Mr. T. Duffus Hardy. REPORT ON THE ALLEGED CORRUPTION OF THE NEW YORK SENATE. It is seldom that a Legislative Committee has been placed in a more awkward position than that appointed by the Senate of New York State to in quire into and report on the alleged bribery and cor -1 1 ruption of that body. It is a difficulty almo s t in surmountable to obtain evidence sufficient in law to convict men of bribery where the parties are con fined to two or three persons. Nor, indeed, is it easy where a portion of a constituency, as so often oc curs in an English borough, are recipients of a consideration for their votes. An assembly placed so high as the Senate of New York State, and so limited in number, would require a bold man for its assailant ; nor would any one dare to make such charges as have been openly published un less they wore a matter of public notoriety ; neither is it likely that citizens of the Em pire State would be loudest in denouncing a body drawn from rand elected by themselves, with out good grounds. Bat it is easier to hold forth in strong condemnation of men elected to high legislative posts, selling their trust for personal gain, than to prove to the satisfaction of any legal tribunal the charges they censure. Another and almost as formidable a difficulty is in the way of the assailant. Above all things it is necessary if the public are to know the truth that those who summon witnesses, take evidence, and report thereon, should have no connection with the assembly whose conduct is im pugned. Yet 'the Senate, charged with corruption, selects a committee of the Senators to inquire into these charges made against themselves. With due regard to this, we consider their report fair. It is made by the members of an assembly denounced in New York as one of the most corrupt, and there fore strict truth could not be looked for ; impar tiality under such circumstances it would be absurd to expect, and we have then what might have been anticipated, presuming that the committee acted as might reasonably have been supposed. They exa mined the newspaper editors, who made the sweep ing charges, prominent among whom was Horace Greeley, and those from whom the editors derived their information ; they examined the directors and treasurers of railway companies, with of course the Erie figuring prominently in the front; they ex amined the agents and the lobbyists who received money to get " the thing put through ;" and they examined the Senators whose names came up in the evidence tendered. The report is very hazy where it ought to be clearest, and it is very clear where the transparency matters little. There is a great deal of mud raised about the spot round where the public supposed the treasure to have sunk, but the water is like crystal over the bottom no one cares to look upon. It is shown that Mr. Eldridge, presi dent of the Erie, received from its treasury (we will count in English money) ilOO,OOO, which was charged to him on the books, and asserted to be advanced forthe purposes of litigation, but themoney was expended at Albany: Mr. Gould paid LewisF. Payne £l,OOO. Mr. D. D. S. Brown, of Rochester, got between £5,000 and £lO,OOO ; Luther Caldwell got £12,000 through Mr. Thompson, but traced to the Erie Company ; so the Committee admit that large sums were used, for—they can come to no other conclusion—for corruption. They trace these sums to the lobbyists. but no further ; then they ask certain Senators whose names transpire whether they received any thing to influence their votes, which they, of course, indignantly deny ; hence the lobbyists got the mo ney, and kept it. having shown this, they censure in no measured terms the folly of those who allow themselves to be gulled by agents, who pretend they can influence the votes of Senators, and are thus enabled to make capital out of the characters of honest men. Of this, Payne's case furnishes an example. As a New York harbour-master he was not, nor had he ever been, in a position to do that for which he was paid. Mr. Thompson advanced him £l,OOO for a few days' advocacy of the Erie Bill at Albany, and Mr. Gould, unaware of Thompson's payment, gave him another £l,OOO " to soothe him over." Of course he was supposed to control " a Senator," but, unfortunately for him, his Senator voted the wrong way. There was some stir about the matter, and it then transpired how the Erie had been "done." The case of Luther Caldwell the Committee considered to be still more extra ordinary. He appears to have acted for both sides, and when summoned to give his evidence he thought he would turn it over in his mind ere he committed himself to any answer. For this the time he asked was granted, but the turning over process re quired a congenial climate for reflection, so he went South, and was no more heard of. Indeed, the committee appear willing to let this witness go, and the report so confuses his evidence, that as we are not paid to unravel it, we drop it as unintelligible. So also with Senator Mattoon; Horace Greeley de clared that he sold his vote and influence in the Erie, first on one side for £3,000, then to the other for £4,000, insisting upon £2OO extra for his son, which shows a most commendable family affection. That Mr. Mattoon got the Committee to inquire into the Erie business extended so as to include himself, the evidence shows; that when the inquiry of this committee. was progressing in New York that Mr. Mattoon was in close communication with all the accused parties, is also shown ; as well as that after the report was drawn up and signed by two on one side and two on the other, he withheld his signature, thankful, we presume, for the com manding position in which he was thus placed ; and that he eventually signed the report impugning the conduct of the Erie directors as disgraceful and ille gal is also true, though the signature took the breath out of Jay Gould's body with surprise and conster nation when he saw it. The committee gently al lude to this eccentric conduct of Mr. Mattoon, as well as the facility with which he swung round in voting, but they treat it as the mere peculiarity of a Senator desirous of getting to the bottom of the subject he was investigating ; but the public are left to their own conclusions whether some of the treasure did not also lie at the bottom to which he di,l get. Mr. Greeley speaks distinctly and unreservedly on the subject, not only before but after the re port. Alluding to the Committee he says 44 They know that Mattoon was bought again and again as palpably as any horse was ever bought, and that he sought private interviews with parties that might better pay for his voice and vote than do without them, expressly that he might be bought, and for no other purpose whatever." After show ng the value of Mr. Greeley's evidence, and cen- suring newspapers for this want of caution in a tributiug c r i mes t o pu bli c men involving ruin and el: grace, they com e d own square l y on the head of M . John P. Mi nes as a str iki ng i nstance of the utte r recklessness of writers. This gentleman, the correP pondent of numerous newspapers while am attache of the Senate, whose only service was to draw bi salary, wrote an elaborate article for the indepett . dent, in which he asserted that the Legislature d 1868 was the worst assemblage of official thieve that ever disgraced the Capitol of the Empire State , that it exceeded all its predecessors in corruotioof and its private venality was only equalled by i ts eagerness for public plunder. Summoned before the committee, and long examined on these sweep ing charges, he was unable to state a fact within his personal knowledge, or give the name of aill one who informed him of such facts, nor could i 0 in any way aid the committee in their investigations' " indeed," says the committee, " this witness stated when he heard rumours of corruption he ' purposell investigated no further.' He did not try to trace these rumours to facts. With such avidity did tlCld writer for a professedly religious newspaper seize hold of scandalous rumours, utterly regardless of their truth or falsehood as a basis of a ' sensation article' written for pay ! While your committed recognize fully the right and duty of the press to criticise and comment upon the conduct of mol l in public life, they are satisfied that such inclis' criminate attacks upon a legislative body, based upon idle rumours, and written by men wild take pains not to ascertain the truth or false' hood of what they write, are not only unjust! but tend directly to encourage and increase the , evil which they p ro f ess to d es i re to correct. '' Horace Greeley, however, has a reply. Alluding to their abuse of witnesses, he says Mr. Mine " Wrote of matters notorious and unquestioned- 4 f what was in every one's mouth, though only the inscrutable could absolutely, positively attest their verity. He knew last winter's legislation was cot runt, just as your nose often affirms the proximiti of carrion which you never saw and never want to see." Nor is he less explicit as to where the mo nd , went. " Who believe s a wor d o f the stuff aboill the large sums " loosely" paid to Bohemians of the Lobby, who couldn't get credit at a good Albalif hotel for a m on th' s b oar d ? Who imagines Wte $60,000 of Erie money were ever put into il l hands of a non-resident ex-Clerk of Assembli without knowing that it was to be disbursed t o members for votes, who were to have it, and P i much respectively? This silly ostrich has not sil t d ceeded in covering even his head, to say nothing the larger extremity.,, These are the conclusio o to which the Committee arrived " 1. Largo sums of money wore expended for eorril l purposes by parties interested in legislation concerni4 railways during the session of 1868. 2. Lobbyists I'd thus enriched, a n d i n some case; received money on Or, false pretence that the votes of Senators were to be i lr , fluenc3d. 3. There i s no proo f o f actual bribery of 01 Senator. 4. The newspaper charges, made in the D r stances that were brought to the notice of your _Lei mitten, were fo un d e d upon rumour alone, and have be 7, in no cas o susta i ned by the evidence of the writers, v other proof." The difficulty of proving bribery is then touch on, and " a change in the law recommended, 1 which the giver of a bribe which is accepted . 9113_ : be exempt f rom prosecution, not from any dispo#' tion to palliate the guilt of the parties giving bribe ! " but because public policy requires that the m ead of obtaining proof shall be facilitated ; and this o 3: be done only by exempting from punishment O of the guilty. The guilt of the party who, by 3 ,, c ' cepting a bribe, b etrays a public trust and violat; his official oath, i s (if there can be degrees in goo of this kind) greater than that of him who gives it' l Finally, " Y our C omm i ttee are also of opinion tli d i; some legislation is necessary to prevent the depo' he of large sums of money with the mem b ers of tilt lobby for the purposes of corruption, and to P l. , vent the use of th e money o f corporations, by tilt directors, officers, or agents, with intent to viols el the laws against b r ib ery ; an d w i th that view tb , recommend the adoption,with such ,modificatio ll . and amendments as may seem proper, of the I/ 1 for the more effectual suppression and punish; went of brib er y,' heretofore introduced by Ol t chairman, and no w on th e f i les of the Senate. " is not, however, these milk-and-water proceeding which are to renovate and render moral the Alb:1 Legislature and lobbie s; an d h owever unjustifiable may be the s weep i ng c h arges of the press in t eye of the New York Senate, they have been 1 31.° ductive of good, in forcing them to admit as 1 11 ° as they h ave , an d to take the action the Cummitt64 recommend to check the growing tide of corrupti° The Philadelphia correspondent telegraphed o ; Thursday "that the Secretary of the Treasury had 115 0 his usual monthly s t a t ement of the public debt of ti United States, w hi c h shows its total on the cy inst. to have b een 2 , 6 53,750,000 dollars. This is a e: crease during th e l as t month of 7,200,000 dollars." rt rotary_ Boutwell t oo k charge of the Treasury deeit ment with about $102 , 0 00,000 in coin in the vau,,p $29,000,000 of which was in gold-bearing certificates , f o , $13,000,000 in currency. The public debt on the is March was $2,545,336,964 38 , b ut s i nce that time ha s : di creased about $3,000,000. N o payment of interest 4 bo due until the Ist of May, w h en $30,000,000 in eoia : . be required to pay the semi-a nnua l instahn.ents of int e t o on the Five-Twenty Bonds which falls due on , date. Router's telegram gives the United States del" 0 $2,636,000,000, being a decrease of $25,000 , 000 as Coot, pared with tho March retu rn. Th e cas h i n the T rc as so amounts to $92,500,000, namely, $82 , 500 , 000 i n coin , $10,000,000 in cur rency, b e i ng a decrease of $23,000,0 p These figures do not agree, b u t t h e difference per i j o arises from the mode of ca l cu l a ti on, though even incluu or excluding the sum i n th e T reasury cannot reco py Reuter and the Times' correspondent. [ADVERTISEMENT:I—H o II oway ' s Pills and Ointment/ Derangement of the Stomach and Bowels. —in all 0 4 ., of irregularities of the liver, the stomach, and bov i e a Holloway's celebrat e d p ill s are safe specific. DysePtp biliousness, acidity of the stomach, si c k headache, 105 d appetite, drowsiness, and incapacity of exertion NY P ' t ii pass off before a course of these pills, which purify blood and give tone to the whole system. In extelj injuries, such as b urns, sca l ds, and bruises, and all °0 diseases, the Ointment i s won d er f ully efficacious. 130 tio Pills and Ointm en t are composed of rare balsamS, mixed with .a grain of mercury or any deleterious 81 0 stance. They can be used with safety by both sexe s '' all ages, in any climate. I.ADvEnrismtENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always agb"fir chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-res'y Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the no jj .d ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other ret a : o oF,,, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, ; P' lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fune - Se, regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled o re extract a few o a t of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health res4.lo! by Du Bar ry ' s Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 'we' —The health o f the Holy Father is excellent, especially s t i t 4 aba ndoning all oth er remed i es, he has confined himself , to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consV i a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly A C' ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this `cor 4 lent food too highly." From the Gazette du Mid!, Jnly 25 , No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nee yr" palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness,,,,) the most intolerable nervous a g it at i on.. " Cure No. 1,771; o gri Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutena n t o f Waterford, of many , dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agov1;00 , . dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, coug h , constipation, flaio! spasms, sickness, and vomiti ng .—Maria Joly —Cure 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 9 g diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangemepyll partial deafness. Important Caution. —Beware of the unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, nit, authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously at . t ?/1 , In tins, at ls. lid. ; 1 lb. 2s. vd.: 2 lbs. 4s. Gd.; 5 lbs. 115.,,,;., i 0C; 225. ; 24 lbs, 405,--Also DII BARRY'S RE VALENTA. ARADICA LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters ; for 12 cups at 25 ; ;;or, cups at 3s. 6d., f or 4 8 cups at 65., for 288 cups at fiOs„ for s iu s, tW at 555.—being ab ou t one penny per cup. The 305. and s'oo are sent free o f carr i age in England on receipt of Post vi Order. - BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street• don; and all Groctrs and Chemists. Births. ANsori—On the sth inst., at Sudburyßectory, DerbY - the Hon. Mrs. Fredk. Anson, of a son. CHAMPAIN—On the 6th inst., atAshford, near Stairte' ' wife of Major Champain, ILE., of a son. • Marriages. AINSLIE — CAMPEELL—On the 6th inst., at St. 1 1 4 , 64 ' Belstze-p ar k , C harles Ales. Ainslie, Esi., of Mad"jje ,L ~, Annie Augusta, th e e ld es t d aughter of R. 0. Cann' Esq., of Crosslet, Dumbartonshire. PROCTER - SIMPSON —On the 6th inst Robert ne s Procter, Es q ., F ern Bank, Cheetham . Manchet' ,, :,," Helen Loui sa ., secon d daughter of A. Simpson, Bloomsbury -square. • Deaths. 03 CF BAILLIE —On tho 4th inst., at Dunkin House, Inne r 0 shire, William Baillie, aged 80. Wismigwroic—At Oxford 8 0 , Thomas Edward, eldest - Sir Thomas E . Winningtou, Bart. aged 21. . WHITE —On the 6th inst ,at Queen-area, Twicl ,- -e - Edward White, Esq. • „ 7 4100 I ' f ,ondon : P r i nted and Pabliehed by WILLIAM 1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam SUN Odle , ,: Na t ati Strand, in th e P rec i nct of the He voy sn the u °- M ichilesox.—Thursday, Aran 8, 1869. K INA This eele prize Medal ll Pure Sold in B the Agents i 8, G Observe t tan's LL muTi, 14, IIUS ADVANCE hold or Lec able weekly Forme free ROYI Unpr Mr. 'Arthur Original Ch quiatrof the (Magic)—L C. Burton, Packer, fro Lizzie Rea Duettists—l !(la' Mr. place on 11 man will to MAD/ A IN New and I BACH NM, under ten, AR' FP] Rooms hay and Co. 1 an attracti Dance Moe THE a Lunc for deviling ORIGINAL A S" Very Fine Old Crush Shipping Sparkling lery, Qua Sample , bottles Sh( P. B ne Consignee celebrated Bordeaux' Whiskies, also be se( number of of others IN SOIEN' ()RNA and sortment Hake, Ink &c., in It: shim Spa TENNA] W.C., Mr: Tei MINERS of Lyell's tate the GEOLOG guineas a - PRMY] M INER A 149, Stra THE Offices Tho In Fire Rev( The mod• Bonus foi value as render tt leave is g thirty da,3 TIN( Bt, APPE AT ponses. QE A.lll !•-, off G Na'icns, The rec £879 less SUBS( Williams, the Secre street, Lc Qualifil Governor NAT Ric Under the whereby Girls of al the kingdi The obj lish educe, and land wise prov suitable el The Co: entirely 111 Office. 1 i)RI' -E-g Ma( For ti destitute and of t prosper°, One hi stitution Increa endowed assistant Subsci Instituti, its peculi The la Becretar: Offices Banke lane ; an HEALTH DU I ac saves fift perfect d refreshir most di, effectual sureptiol ran gem( nervous] catarrhs rb eu mat ral gi a, heartbui nausea fits, bro the pit c the most for inva ImPol and mm rity, Bat Heim Du Bar and Info has alre been de( nese the by it aft We quc 18,418): Holy Fa other rc Barry's plateful benefich praise tl Cure years' li nese, irr digestio nervous Cure Stuart d ford Waterfc Cure from dy flatulent of Lyn r Cure norvou E vous fax Cure years di The 21b., 4s. c mister Barry s :in c.`aui Daps at about c. free of ( also at Graced New NI Patr< Music