The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

THE EARNINGS OF A LONDON CROSSING- SWEEPER. In an article on beggars, the Daily News puts down the probable daily value of a sweeping near the London Clubs as six shillings. A competent authority, Mr. H. Cecil Sykes, of the committee of the Crossing Sweepers' Bri gade, now writes that that conception of the subject was lamentably poor and inadequate. He has had to do with dozens of boys who have followed crossing-sweeping as an occupation, and he vouches for the following facts : " One boy who has swept a triangular crossing in the neighbourhood of Camden-town for 15 years, states that one Christmas morning he earned thirty shillings before dinner. Another, hardly as tall as his broom, earned fifteen shillings in the two hours preceding divine service. Many such extraordinary harvests are on record ; while all my informants agree that for a boy who sticks to his work, in any neighbourhood, two, three, and four shillings a day are the average earnings, ac cording to the tact and address of the youngster." The boys in uniform, belonging to the Brigade, bring home no such sums nightly, though it seems impossible to ascertain what they actually receive. They seldom make their appearance with more than the regulation tenpence demanded for their keel . To shew the way in which people encourage mendicancy, Mr. Cecl Sykes mentions that some actually give the boys money not to be put into their boxes, as their rule re quires, but to spend on themselves, and adds, " What can we do when thwarted by such pig-headed stupidity THE SUPPOSED NORWICH MURDER. The evidence given on Monday in the Norwich muraer case was voluminous, but mostly unimportant. Of course local interest has not fallen. Sheward does not give the prosecution any more information. The only thing to be wondered at is, that considering the evidence, there was nobody wise enough to put this, that, and the other thing together, and get at the truth. On Monday the disap pearance of Mrs. Sheward was again vouched for by several witnesses who did not seem to have any suspicions excited. But there was one witness who did—William Banks, a labourer, the husband of the twin sister (since deceased) of the murdered woman. He said the prisoner married his first wife at Greenwich, October 28th, 1836, as appears by a certificate produced. They stayed at my.house in St. James's about a quarter of a year. After that they lived in Ber-street, White Lion-street, and St. Giles's, Norwich. My wife and Mrs. Sheward were very fond of one another. After the prisoner and his wife hail left St. Giles's, I and my wife came to Norwich, as my wife could not rest. NN e went to a house on St. Martin's Palace-plain, opposite the Bishop's-wall. My wife went into the house to see her sister, Mrs. Sheward ; she was in the house a couple of hours. I did not go into the house. We came to Norwich again after this, and went to Sheward's house in King-street. I came to Norwich because my wile could not rest. I saw Sheward, and I and my wife were talking with him some time in his house. I did not hear what my wife said to him, but I told him that we bad come on purpose to know what had - become of Mrs. Sheward, and what were the last words she said to him. He said he walked with her to the railway train, and said to her, "If you won't write to me, you'll write to some of your sisters." He also said that she said in answer to him, "No, never." When we were at dinner afterwards his hand trembled very much, and he could not cut me a piece of meat ; he had invited us to dinner. "'Fetid to my wife, " Dear me, what's the matter with Mr. Sheward? He can't cut a piece of meat, his hand shakes so." Sheward never applied to me or my wife about his wife. Mrs. Sheward lived in London before she married, and was in the habit of sending my wife some of her left off clothes, which fitted my wife exactly, Mrs. Sheward's shoes also fitted my wife's feet, which were very small. Mrs. Sheward was about Mt. or sft. lin. in height. She was a very fair, light-complexioned person, and had golden-coloured hair. Cross-examined : When I came from Wymondham with my wife, we had not heard from Mrs. Sheward, or from Mr. Sheward either. My wife had heard from somebody that Sheward and his wife had parted. It was in con sequence of this that I asked Sheward what were his wife's last words to him. My wife never heard from her sister. When I spoke to Sheward about his wife having left him, he appeared to be out of spirits. He left off talking about her, and appeared to be disposed to talk about anything else but her. When I remarked to my wife that Sheward'e hand shook, he did not make any answer. My wife is dead. Two other witnesses proved that Sheward married the present Mrs. Sheward, and that he had previously visited her when she was a nursemaid at St. Martin's-at-Oak. LAW AND POLICE. MADAHE RACHEL AGAIN.—The case of Madame Rachel was before the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, an application being made by Mr. Collins on her behalf to strike a certain attorney off the rolls, on the ground that it was he, and not she, who was guilty of the alleged frauds of which she has been convicted. Madame Rachel's affi davit was very lengthy. The Lord Chief Justice granted a rule. THE TYRANNY OF SHERIFFS' OFFICERS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench a rule nisi was obtained on behalf of Sir Gerald Fitzgerald against Morris Levy, an officer of the sheriff of Middlesex. An action had been brought against Sir Gerald for £3OO, the value of a pair of c trriage horses, which he denied purchasing. A writ of capias was obtained exparte, and the officer arrested Sir Gerald at his house in Grosvenor-place in the evening. He was kept in Levi's house till one in the morning, the defendant not being satisfied with any bail until Sir Gerald obtained the bond of the two managers of the Westminster Bank for £5,000. Excessive charges were demanded from him, and the case was founded on the plea of extortion. THE CHARGE AGAINST A CITY MERCHANT.-At the Mansion House on Monday, Edward Simpson, the silk merchant of Cheapside who is charged with obtaining goods worth £4,400 on credit three months after his bank• ruptcy, was again examined and the case again adjourned. A YOUNG LADY BURNT TO DEATH.—A shock ing and fatal accident which occurred to Miss Lean, a young lady, at Cliftonville, near Brighton, has just formed the subject of a coroner's inquiry. The deceased, who lived with her aunt, Mrs. King, an aged lady, was in the latter's bedroom, standing near the fire, when her dress caught fire. She screamed for assistance, and ran into the drawing-room and afterwards into the conserva tory, where the butler and footman came to her assistance and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The unfortu nate young lady was, however, so terribly burnt as to be past all help, and she died on Sunday morning. A verdict of accidental death was returned. ELECTION EXPENSES. —Dr. Lush's election fox the city of Salisbury cost him £2BO 6s. 6d„ and Mr. E. W. Hamilton's expenditure amounted to £4lB Os. 10d. Mr. Granville Richard Hyde's outlay exceeded that of either of the successful candidates, the total being returned at £sBllBs. 6d. The expenses of Mr. Dodson and Lord Edward Cavendish, the Liberal candidates at the East Sussex election, where the former was successful and the latter unsuccessful, are returned at £8,868 Bs. 2d. The unop posed return of Colonel Barttelot for West Sussex cost him £lB2 6s. 3d. ; and of the Hon. H. Wyndham, for the same constituency, £l6olls. 9d. At Hertford, according to the returns just issued, Mr. Dimsdale, M.P., expended £418165., and Mr. F. W. Gibbs, the unsuccessful candidate, 2188 16s. 7d. In the new borough of Wednesbury the expenses of Mr. I3rogden, the successful candidate, are returned at 24,625, exclusive of agency coats, which are not yet made up. Mr. Walker's expenses (one of the unsuccessful candidates) are returned at £6,480, of which £4,273 is for professional and other agents. At Walsall lir. Charles Forster's expenses were £149. At Dudley Mr. Sheridan expended £33.5. At Licl - .field Colonel Dyott's disbursements amounted to £2,617, exclusive of the returning officer's charges. Major Anson's expenses are returned at £540. At Coventry Messrs. Eaton and Hill expended £1,412, which includes £613 for "hire of rooms." Messrs. Carter and Jackson expended £1,141. IRELAND FOR THE AMERICANS.-1n the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 13th the House resumed a discussion upon a joint resolution for extending the protection of the United States to Hayti and St. Domingo. In the course of the debate, Mr. Robinson, of New York, proposed an amendment, says the report in the New York Times, to insert before the word " Hayti" that of " Ireland." Steam and the telegraph brought Ireland under the scope of the proposition, and made Ireland a country adjacent to the United States. He wanted Ireland protected. The heart and substance of Ireland were in America. Irishmen were brothers with them, and aliens only to the Government which had held rule over them for seven centuries. He had no more doubt that Ireland would be annexed to America than that Cuba would be in the course of time. She would come with the natural laws of affinity, and with her life, politics, and statesmanship, Ireland would yet be a part of the United :.itates, and represented in the House and Senate. They wanted no war with Eng land. Ireland's heart was there. England would not have peace until Ireland was incorporated into the American Union. Mr. Butler hoped they would be spared a dissertation on Ireland. No man felt more deeply than he did for its interests, and the necessity that something should be done for her. But the way for protection to be extended to Ireland was not to drag her there in season and out of season. It simply trailed her cause in the dust. Mr. Robinson replied he had never dragged Ireland in as a rider on any question. Ireland was suffering now, but be did Act liice_to lay tesmgch 9g tlaciulicct. THE EARL OF MALMESB CTRY. The Conservative papers announce the retirement of the Earl of Malmesbury from the leadership of the Opposition in the House of Lords. Considerable surprise was felt at the time that he undertook the Conservative chieftainship in the Upper House eleven months ago. It was thought that he was by no means strong enough to do battle with such men as Earl Granville and the Earl of Clarendon. Appa rently the ex-Privy Seal seems to have arrived at the same conclusion, and although he will give an official dinner to his political friends at the opening of Par liament, it is stated that this will be his last act as a political leader. As his lordship is only 62, it is pea- Bible that he may take office again. We presume that the leadership of the Tory peers will now de volve upon Lord Cairns. At the present time that nobleman is in Rome, having been ordered abroad for the winter by his medical advisers. INNOVATIONS. What are we coming to ? Mr. Childers has actually ordered copying presses to be introduced at Chatham Dockyard. Hitherto a large number of clerks have been kept to copy letters at from £2 to £3 a week. One press, costing about £3, will enable the Admiralty to dis pense with a dozen or a score of these. Of course, any other establishment than one belonging to the Government would have adopted the mechanical arrangement years ago. But the idea of likening our dockyards to any ordinary business concern is so revolutionary that old-fashioned politicians, aghast I at the innovation, may well ask " Where shall we stop ? " After all, the householders' Parliament seems to be something different from its prede- censor. Simultaneously with this radical change—this invasion of the copying press—we hear of another innovation. The recent Government order about bankrupt officials is not to be mere brutuna fubnen. One of the established clerks in the storekeeper's department at Chatham has been suspended, it is believed preparatory to dismissal, for having become insolvent. THE GOVERNMENT REDUCTIONS. After being baffled by the strong appearance pre sented by the present Cabinet, thwarted in the hope ! that the new Government was already " split " into factions, and confounded over the decided action expected to be taken on the Irish Church question, the Conservatives have now commenced to vilify the new Administration for the extensive reductions already foreshadowed in the army and navy esti mates. The cry repeatedly raised by the Liberals while in Opposition, that the expenditure of the country had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, had no effect on Conservative financiers ; and now that the Liberal party are endeavouring to justify the hopes held out before they entered office, their oppo nents have determined to attack them on that point. We have already alluded to the remarks made by Mr. Stewart Hardy at Rye a few days since ; we have now to supplement his statement with one recently uttered by Lord John Thynne, at the inaugural dinner of the " Salisbury Constitutional Union and Working Men's Association." The noble lord—who was described by one of the speakers at the gathering as being " one of the best specimens of the House of Commons "—thus spoke of the reductions at the several dockyards which are now considered useless :—" At this very moment, at Christmas time, when, as they all knew, work was slack, those friends of the working men (the Liberals) had selected this bitter cold weather, when living was dear and food and fuel were required, to discharge thousands and thousands of men, under a mistaken economy, from the Government dockyards. (Cries of ' Shame.') Had they considered the interest of the masses of people they employed, they would have waited until the summer, when men could get work, before they made those reductions." The noble lord spoke a little too fast. The Government do not intend to discharge thousands and thousands of men "in this bitter cold weather." On the contrary, one of the yards—that of Deptford—will not be closed until the Ist of April next, and the other—Woolwich—is to remain open for nine months longer ; thus ample ~ notice is given to all the men before they are discharged. The concluding sentence of the noble lord's speech, wherein he again alludes to the subject o economy, is worthy of perusal. " The last time," he said, " Mr. Gladstone was in office he did a great piece of economy. He went to Corfu, one of the possessions of England—one of the great resources of the maintenance of our shipping interest. Now they talked of giving up Gibraltar, and next of giving up India, on the same principle. After that they would be giving up New Zealand, where we had friends among the natives ; and then we should be giving up Ireland, where we had no friends amongst the Fenians." Is it to be wondered at that even Conservative working men greeted such balderdash as this with dissent, and that "great confusion " followed the noble lorry remarks ? LORD ELCUO ON THE VOLUNTEERS. Lord Elcho has written to the Times representing the grievances of the volunteers with respect to the Government grant. The Secretary of State for War has said that the Government wish the volunteer force to be maintained, and that it is not right that volunteers should be called upon to pay their money for necessary expenses as well as to give their tim e an d service. The question is, therefore, whether or no the present capitation grant is sufficient to cov er expenses. The volunteers have decided through their delegates that it is not, and yet this Government, like the last, refuses to enlarge the grant. Lord Elcho informs us that there is to be a meeting of volunteer commanders in London soon after the meetin g o f P ar li am ent, and as there are ninety volunteers in the Commons, besides many. in the Lords, h e h opes they will succeed in obtaining a hearing from the Government. TAXATION AND RATING. That our present system of taxing and rating . must soon be revi ewe d seems to b e now generally admitted. The only question is in what way shall a change be in come tax, Th e " M anc h ester party " l ove the tax, and Mr. Gladstone's Ministry do not seem to have any great horror of that mode o f raising the revenue, " Abyssinian 2d." i s to b e retained. A no th er c hange if we may believe the report that the which has long been called for by the same school of politicians is that the land should be called upon to pay a little more . In a di scuss i on on t h e poor ra te in the Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture a day or two back, the Earl of Camperdown referred to the sub ject, and protested against the proposal to make the land pay all the poor rates ; but he acknowledged that a general ignorance prevailed as to whether the land at present was paying t wo -thi r d s or com paratively nothing of the rates and taxes. He therefore thought an inquiry into the subject would be naturally beneficial. Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Muntz, M.P.'s, also gave it as their opinion that inquiry was wanted, the former announcing that if Sir Massey Lopes brought forward a motion on this subject he would support him. Mr. Muntz, however, protested against any more burdens being put on the land, on account of the dicouragement which it was to persons pos sessing money to invest it in the improvement of land or property, as the assessment would be propor tionately increased, whilst the money would be exempt from rates if invested in the funds or in shares. Mr. Wm. Peacock, of Barnsley, writing to the Times on a collateral subject, demands the rating of mines. He draws attention to the district of Cleve land, where the owners of the ironstone workings must have netted—as he calculates—no less than £1,000,000. The working men around are compara tively poor, and it is on them the burden of the rates has fallen. He asks whether this should have been so. A CREDITABLE AVOWAL. The lion. .lgernon Egerton, speaking at an agricultural dinner in Lancashire, deprecated the employment of such persons as Murphy in the Con servative cause. Ile did not believe in Murphy, and he thought the Liberals had some ground for saying that the Conservative triumph in South Lancashire was due in part to fanaticism. THE LIBEL BILL. Sir Colman O'Loghlen is member of a Government which does not endorse his Libel Bill ; but that bill is " one of the best productions of his genius," as the orthodox phrase is, and naturally he does not wish to let it come to nothing. It has hitherto failed for want of time, not for lack of principle. It was accepted by a large majority of the dying Parliament, and would doubtless have passed the house of Lords had not prorogation come too soon. So Sir Colman—in capacitated by reason of his office—has handed the hill over to an unofficial friend, who will endeavour to carry it through the House. Since its introduc tion the judges have " made law" which has taken away the danger of reporting the Houses of Parlia ment. The only matter that remains is the reporting of public meetings. TUB BALLOT. The Ballot at Manchester has concluded, and the Liberals have chosen Mr. Ernest Jones to be their candidate by A largo_niaiQrity,blzaiiiluor T E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1869. MISCELLANEOI7S NEWS. THE QUEEN. If the Court Journal is accurate in saying that the Queen will return to Windsor Castle on the 10th or 20th of February, a statement made a few days ago that the Queen will open Parliament in person must be unfounded. Her Majesty's subjects will regret her absence on so important an occasion as the opening of a new Parliament, elected by new constituencies, and assembling under the auspices of a new Premier. West-end tradesmen will, however, be consoled by the promise that her Majesty will reside at Buckingham Palace during a portion of the season. supporters complain that a system very lire canvas sing has been carried on by Mr. Jones ; but this apart, the experiment has been eminently successful. The anti-Ballot newspapers may call it a " fancy " ballot, but the fact that the machinery has been found " workable " can hardly fail to have an influence on the discussion which is now being so energetically conducted. An objection to the plan used at Manchester is advanced by a correspondent of the Times, which is likely to " taboo" the use of the envelope for the future. He points out how easily a blank card may be put into the voting envelope, and the card itself placed at the disposal of party agents. INDIA. The Earl and Countess of Mayo sailed for Madras on the morning of December 30th, after a week of gaiety and sight-seeing in the Bombay Presidency. At Poonah there was a grand review and levee, the Viceroy being accom panied by Lord Napier of Magdala ; at Broach there was an exhibition of industry and agriculture, which seems to have been remarkably successful ; and at Bombay there was the usual round of balls and receptions. The new Viceroy has set to work to " get up " the country which he is to govern. He has inspected the manufactures and defences of Bombay, while the Countess has gone the round of the schools and visited the principal native ladies. The Times of India observes that Lord Mayo is resolved to spare no pains in order to enter upon the duties of his high station with as intimate and varied a knowledge of the country as opportunity will allow. He received two deputations—one from the Chamber of Commerce, and one from the Bombay Association—and to both of these he accorded such a reception as has left upon their minds a very favourable impression as to his character and ability, and led them to anticipate many substantial benefits to India from his rule. The conference between Lord Mayo and the Bombay Chamber of Commerce lasted nearly two hours. The deputation pressed upon his lordship the necessity of at once taking action in the great public questions upon which the prosperity of India depends. Trade languishes in many districts owing to a total want of roads; railways arc much needed, and the lack of irrigation is itself the cause of famine. Lord Mayo entered into an animated discussion on these topics, and assured the Chamber that his attention should in particular be given to the primary necessities of railways, roads, and irrigation. _ The mail brings a very melancholy bulletin of pestilence and famine. Smallpox is raging in three large districts, and bronchitis is prevalent to a remarkable extent in another. Arcot, in Madras, is likely soon to be added to the long list of famine-stricken provinces, in which the severity of distress is in no respect diminished. Relief works have, however, been undertaken in some districts, and will speedily be established for the benefit of all. We have not yet, it seems, heard the last of the Mutiny. The Indian papers state that the sentence of death passed upon Meer Hadjee, the murderer of Captain Douglas and others on the 11th of May, 1857, has been confirmed, and the convict will be executed at Delhi, near the scene of his crimes. THE PHILADELPHIAN CORRESPONDENT OF THE " TIMES" We conclude from his letter, dated Jan. 5, that the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times has been told by the oracle of Printing-house-square to sing to another tune, otherwise we are utterly at a loss to account for the sudden disappearance of every " dismal prospect," all of which, with the New Year, have vanished—except some financial troubles. Our own intelligence was that last year closed with heavy commercial failures in some of the great cities of the Union, and that anxiety was manifested regarding the soundness of trade. Its very basis was threatened in cases now on trial in the Supreme Court, wherein the constitutionality of the Legal-Tender Act is disputed. Fraud had grown to an overwhelming extent, the revenue was not increasing, an Indian war was on hand, and there certainly are as many causes now to make up "dismal prospects" as when the wonderful corre spondent wrote of them some months ago. Indeed, to a strongly pronounced Democrat, the " disnaals" ought to have increased in the election of GRANT and in the success of the Republicans. But some how or another, although the announcement of GRANT'S majority,according to him, had sent up gold 4 or 5 per cent. at a bound, yet by one of those graceful swings round the circle, fur which those who work in and for Printing-house-square are celebrated, the correspondent of the luminary, which from these purlieus enlightens the world, now discovers that the election of GRANT has transformed the "dismal" into " cheerful" prospects. Here is what he says : " The New Year opens with a cheerful prospect for the United States. Trade is somewhat better than it has been for a good while, and a marked im provement is anticipated. All classes of the mer cantile community, even the shipbuilders, have re covered from the despondency of last year, and now hope, not without cause, for better things The South is almost completely tranquillized, and the asperities of politics have to a great extent disap peared from both sections." We imagine that he got his cue from the office of the Times, where it was perceived that the misrepresentations he has been disseminating throughout Europe are shown up to the damage of the'Times itself, in quarters wherein they are likely to do harm, and that the recoil in America tends to influence injuriously the friendly feeling desirable to cultivate, and those very negotiations England considers essential to settle quickly and for ever. The letter referred to is really worth reading, and because it bears out all we have urged during the year just expired, we reproduce this portion as a sample of the writer's consistency, and ask our readers whether the Times correspondent or the Anglo-American Times has given the more correct information on American affairs : " Financial troubles alone seem to beset America; for in everything else her prospects are bright. As both Congress and the new PRESIDENT, however, show a commendable desire to practise national economy, and keep the expenditure much within the income, it is probable that the country, without any great derangement, will be able to return to a normal condition of finance. This c heerful_ prospect is due to a great extent to the popular confidence in General GRANT. They expect to find in him an honest, energetic, and judicious Executive, who will endeavour to tranquillize instead of stirring up strife, and who will try to make the burdens of Government rest as lightly,upon the nation as pos sible. This feeling is shared by both parties, and, with the exception of a few restless politicians, the mass of the people intend to give him their support from the outset of his Administration, confident that their trust will not be misplaced. They expect to rind him a moderate ruler, who will check the extremes of both parties, and who will try to keep that middle path which, under the American sys tem, is the only one that can insure tranquillity. The American people are heartily tired of the bitter and vexatious strife that has been waged between President JOHNSON and Congress, and will therefore I welcome a change that can give them a President and Congress who will act in harmony. The cost of all the expensive measures devised by Congress to check the Executive will be saved ; the demoral ization in the revenue service caused by the dis putes between the two branches of the appointing power will to a great extent be checked ; and, when the public mind is quiet, those members of Con gress who desire to reform abuses and reduce ex :, - penscs will be heard and heeded." The first ques tion suggested to the mind of any of our readers is —IV by then did the writer to the best of his ability aid the canvass of SEYMOUR ?----how comes it that the nation whose trust is in GRANT to-day, ceno elected. r fif r ae e vls field" t r n h d aoN e dvf n et sconvince ddidat say , uN t hvr h se e th i w t "im h o a a u t car ld t h d I then, and long before, to point out the very facts 'dhs though at ea qt w up h irr o ee s s whose i tu g ed h he t s , i c h oeuts discernment o e f n s e i ( d i tdo n i n o pg t e e tc choose ta the. ' now shining so brightly before this correspon- Is d et e e n d, t ti folly of placing a Republican Congress in the Capitol and a Democratic President in the White House ; and as the former could not fail to b e R e p u blican one of the strongest reasons we advanced f or t h e e l ect i on of a Republican President was to secure this very har mony. Nor did it require much knowledge or any great amount of acumen to predict that the cause which had tended so much to keep alive Southern political violence and ill-feeiing would, if continued in Washington, be continued in the South, and that therefore it would be ill-advised, if the country was to be tranquillized, to encourage either in the White House or in the Capitol the Southern spirit of re : sistance to a policy upon which the Northern mind was fixed. Indeed it differs but little from the part of the vicious boy, who, desirous of fanning the quar rel of his friends into au open fight, pats one on the back, and asks if he is afraid ? and whispers in the ear of the other, " he calls you a coward and a snob, and says he will punch your head." Yet any per son who recollects what the correspondent Ills pre viously written must know that no such truths before found a place in his letters, and that all the influ ence he dared to give in the columns of the Times was exerted in favour of what he now shows would have been so disastrous. Nor was he alone among correspondents to English papers in these efforts; for it was the bias of their communications which spread throughout the country the general but erroneous opinion that GRANT would be defeated ; that it was desirable he should not be elected ; and that it was still more certain and more true that the Republicans would be unsuccessful in returning their candidates to the House, a prediction even more to be desired, though the Senate would remain overwhelmingly Republican. Immediately after the nomination in Tammany hall this cry was so loud that it deceived the world, and it was not till the Republicans fairly set to work and got accurate re turns of their strength that the errorbegau to be cor rected. It was the actual defeat alone that stopped the facile pens of many—the Times correspondent among the number. Then his "careful surve3 ," pre dicting an assured success, gave way to his " dismal prospects." Still, however tardy may have been the change—to whatever cause is a ttributable the dis covery of his errors—their op en renunciation is satisfactory to us, and, if spontaneous, creditable to him. Yet it may be that be adopts all the well-known habits of the 'limes; that he drops on his knees like a Parsee to worship the rising sun, though his face and his prayers may have been turned the day be fore towards Mecca with the exclamation ou his lips, 4 , There is but one GOD, and MAIIO3IET is his prophet !"—Anglo-American Times. Mr. Alexander S. M'Crae, the Liverpool broker, in his last weekly produce statement, publishes a corres pondenmhe had with the American Minister on the sub ject of repealing the late Order in Council imposing re strictions on the importation of American hay. The cor respondence is introduced with this remark :—" Anybody wishing to learn how the American Ambassador can re move restrictions on trade, as well as pacify a nation, should read the following:—'lt is to be hoped that this simple record of facts will show the American people the vast and judicious influence their Ambassador exercises amongst us, and prove, that however great, or however small the occasion may be, he is always equal to it.'" DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W.C.—[Ad TONAcilleut.] " ECONOMY AND REFORM." (From time Anglo-American Times.) The speech of ELIHU B. WASHBURNE, of Illinoie, on the Gth instant, in the House, on the Appro priations for the Session, is taken to indicate the policy of the incoming Administration. The bark of " the Treasury watch-dog" comes with a deep bay'd welcome to the national ear, sick of hearing stories of gross corruption, of lobbyists, of rings, of pecu lation, and of speculation ; of contracts, and of shoddy. The speech was well-timed, preceding as it did the discussion on the appropriations. Mr. WASHBURNE asserted that the Republican party triumphed in the last election because it was pledged to honesty and economy ; to uphold public faith and public credit, and to execute the laws. The strength of the party which enables it to set at defiance exe cutive vetoes fixes on it the responsibility of go vernment. They have elected to the White House a man true to the party, emphatically an honest man, an enlightened statesman, to administer the laws without fear, favour, or affection :-- "Added to other terrible evils brought upon the coun try by the war for the suppression of the rebellion is the demoralization incident to all great wars and to the ex penditures of vast and unheard-of amounts of public money ; to the giving out of immense contracts by - which sudden and vast fortunes were made, the inflation of the currency, which engendered speculation, profligacy, ex travagance, and corruption, by the intense desire to get suddenly rich out of the Government and without la bour, and the inventions and schemes generally to get money out of the Treasury for the benefit of indivi duals without regard to the interests of the Govern ment. While the restless and unpansing energies of a patriotic and incorruptible people were de voted to the salvation of their Government, and were pour ing out their blood and treasure in its defence, there was C,e vast army of the base, the venal, and unpatriotic, who rushed in to take advantage of the misfortunes of the country and to plunder its Treasury. The statute books are loaded with legislation which will impose burdens on future generations. Public land enough to make empires has been voted to private railroad corporations; subsidies of untold millions of bonds, for the same purposes, have become a charge upon the pecple, while the fetters of vast monopolies have been fastened still closer and closer upon the public. It is time that the Representatives of the people were admonished that they are the servants of the people, and are paid by the people ; that their constituents have confided to them the great trust of guarding their rights and protecting their interests; that their position and their power are to be used for the benefit of the people whom they represent, and not for their own benefit and the benefit of the lobbyists, the gamblers, and the speculators who have come to Washington to make a raid upon the Treasury." The time has come to hold public men to a more strict accountability—to scan with a more critical eye their actions in the discharge of their duty. General GRANT alone cannot secure the reforms in the Public Service imperatively demanded. lie must have an earnest and cordial support from the other branches of the Government, particularly of the Legislature. The responsibility of this Con gress to the next is complete. By its recklessness and extravagance it can make appropriations of land and mon y, which will destroy the national credit and make the country an object of scorn to the civil ized world. Then without money or credit, unable to command respect at home and abroad, the Re public will be held in contempt by the weakest and the most pusillanimous of nations. " But," con tinued Mr. WASHRURNE, " one thing is clear, if Congress cannot control the expenditures of the Government ; if it cannot curb the executive officers of the Government in spending the public money, and if such officers are to be left practically to determine the appropriations, then, I say, let Congress abdicate, and let the people be saved the expense of keeping up this expensive and somewhat ornamental institution." It must always be a treat for the lobbyist to hear " the watch-dog's" bark, and it was all the louder in his late speech, as it heralded the advent of his friend GRANT. The St. Louis Democrat gives a report related by a prominent citizen of St. Louis of a conversatiou he heard be tween General GRANT and a Senator from Louisiana. A Judge wanted the Government to guarantee the State bonds for the restoration of the levees. In reply to GRANT'S quick and decisive utterance, "I hope the Government will not do it ?" he re marked that the signature only was required to enable the State to sell the bonds at other than a ruinous discount without costing the United States a cent. GRANT replied, "I never knew a Govern ment to become responsible for any amount that it did not ultimately have to pay. You now want the endorsement of the bonds. If that is given, you will soon want to legislate for the payment of the bonds." It was in vain that they urged on him the millions of fertile acres under water. " Let them overflow, and let them stay under water," said GRANT, " until their owners are willing that Northern men and Northern capital should come in and protect and improve them. Northern men with ample capital are ready to make a garden of your State, and you won't let them do it. Your large landholders are as hostile to this United States Government to-day as they have ever been ; and if that Government should rebuild their levees it would not change them a particle. I know no way the Government could have adopted for re building the levees but to have confiscated the lands of those engaged in rebellion, and used the proceeds to restore the country. As that was not done, nothing remains but to set your negroes to work, and invite in and welcome Northern men ;" closing the conversation with the remark, " that the Louisianians will have to build their own levees or stay under water until men should come in who will build them." The Senator who waited on him about the Union Pacific Railroad was served out with the same sau3e, and there is a good deal of blank des spair and a bad time expected, at least in the Wash ington lobbies. The statesmen at the Capitol have to learn the lesson GRANT taught the Generals in the field. The President Elect is so quiet, silent, unpresuming a man that those accustomed to " tall talk" find the greatest difficulty in not believing him to be a goose ; and the number of people sold in this way exceeds the number of geese sold for Michaelmas -day in England. The Generals, even after some of GRANT'S most brilliant victories, could not persuade themselves that he was anybody, and often thus impressed presumed in a way they would not otherwise have dared to do. The politicians, even in spite of his renown, cannot refrain in pre sence of this modest being from trying the same game. But they are beginning from practical ex perience to learn the style of man with whom, for at least one term, it is decreed they will have to deal, and the lobbyists do not admire the prospect. We expect, if the opportunity offers, to see a furious onslaught made on the General ; but a child might as well fire a pop-gun at a man in armour, for he is clad in proof, and he but requires the support of the Legislature to sweep out of office a great deal which has settled down there during the term of his predecessor. GRANT knows that nothing grows more rapidly than corruption or assumes so many plausible disguises ; and being a plain, straight forward man, with a singular facility for pene trating at once to the core of a matter, he is determined not to parley with, or entertain schemes directed against the Treasury, no matter how pa triotic, in appearance, may be the motive. The best patriotism is to raise the credit of the country, and to lower the burdens of the people ; but plain a truth as this may be it is too often forgotten and too frequently set aside when any pet scheme has to be forwarded, even by good men. If we be lieve one thing more than another about GRANT, it is that he has no pet schemes except the national one of increasing the credit of the country and reducing the taxes, and the strength of his posi tion lies in the fact that the people generally know this too. Ilarper's Weekly opposes the new international Postal Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, which has just come into operation, on the ground that the preference given to the circWation in America of English thought and opinion amounts to a direct discrimination in favour of the English subject over the American citizen. The writer argues that through it the United States Post Office will carry from one end of the country to the other English book parcels up to 100 lb. at 16 cents per lb., the charge on American books being 96 cents per lb., makinga difference of 600 per cent. against American books, authors, readers, and publishers. The writer overlooks the fact that tho advantage is reciprocal the American author being placed on the same footing regarding the United Kingdom. England, too, under takes to carry through the kingdom American parcels on very favourable terms, addressed, to continental or colo nial countries. SUNDAY'S SERVICES IN RITUALIST CHURCHES. If our London contemporaries mean to report the ritualist services from Monday to Monday, they had better get " coached " in their subject by some one competent to perform that task. So will they save themselves from many ludicrous blunders. The omniscient Daily Tekgrapla, for instance, speaks of the credence and the re-table as the same thing, and says that seven lamps were burning before the altar at St. Alban's because it was Septuagesima Sunday! The same paper states that Mr. Mackonochie was the preacher, while the Times men tions Mr. Stanton, and from its description of the sermon and of him who delivered it, there can be no doubt that Jupiter Senior was right. Both papers seem greatly impressed with the great earnestness of the people and the reporter of the Times, whose animus was clearly not of the most friendly character, confesses, with something like astonish ment, that " the congregation included a very large number of the upper class of tradesmen," and "it is clear that the services at St. Alban's are found to be attractive to great numbers of the middle class,and apparently they are morepopu lar with th e men than even with the women." More than one member of Parliament was present, and at the bottom of the church was Father Ignatius in his monastic dress. The altar-lights were extinguished at the Communion Service ; but seven pendant lamps are kept constantly burning before the altar—a symbol whose meaning is not very apparent, unless Mr. Mackonochie should violate one of the rubrics by " reserving " the Sacrament. At St. Peter's, London Docks, Mr. ' Lowder's . service was of the most elaborate kind. Procession, acolytes, altar-lights, incense, genu . flexions, and prostrations, just as though no judg ment had been given. At St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, the altar-lights were used ; at St. Barnabas', Pimlico (Mr. Bennett's old church) they were not. WATER-MARKS. Paper manufacturers who take orders from banks, beware. Do you use a water-mark in preparing cheque paper ? Mind what you are about, for you are breaking the law. Water-marks are luxuries which manufacturers of paper for the Bank of England alone may indulge in. Cheque and other paper must be plain. The Bank of England is willing to look charitably on your case for once, believing that you have no intention to break the law ; so, in conse quence of your ignorance, they will not put it in force. But you must be very sorry, and not do it again, for the directors have issued a circular for bidding any trespassing on their privileges. No more bank paper containing water-marks may be manufac tured. THE DIGGINGS IN SCOTLAND. There appears to be no doubt that gold does exist m Sutherlandshire ; but hitherto it has been found in such small quantities as scarcely to be worth working. One old Australian, more successful than the rest, has made 10s. a day, and has had to walk twenty miles a day. The climate is atrocious. The Duke of Sutherland, the lord of the county, will not say what he means to do—whether the diggers will be allowed to work in peace and quietness, or whether he will turn round upon them with a sic vos non vobis. These three considerations—the poorness of the yield, the inclemency of the weather, and the un certainty of the tenure—are quite sufficient to pre vent any rush to these Scotch diggings. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Daily News is on the whole well content with the half-yearly reports of the joint-stock banks. They have not made large profits, but they have not lost money. Taking seven large banks—the London and Westminster, Union, London Joint Stock, Consoli dated, City Bank, Alliance, and Imperial—the total dividends shew an increase of 8,1 per cent., as com pared with last year's, though for the halt-year there was a slight falling off. The acceptances have increased by about two millions and a half, but the deposits have fallen by over three millions. There is one point to which the Daily News directs attention the practice of leaving a great part of the cash r.sPrves at call. Our contemporary has little hope of persuading the bankers to alter this arrangement. " They have not been taught by the lesson of Overend, Gurney, and Co. of the peril of this system, and it is little use to pursue the subject further until some new catastrophe brings it home with force." PAUPERISM AND CRIME. to the c Notwithstandinghureh has becamet t just more o n r e ow i n t t h e e re discussion as n it has been for years, " S. G. 0.," the great champion of the Low Church party, lit's been most inexpli cably silent. Ile seems, indeed, to have turned his attention to another subject altogether; and he now comes forward to swell the rimes of those who aro writing so prolifically on the subject of pauperism and crime. In a long letter to the Times he adds very little to what has been said before. It does not follow, he says, that pauperism must beget crime, for there are offenders against Divine and human laws among those who pay the rates, as well as among those who come on them ; but the public feeling is more alive to the crime of the pauper than it is to the offence of the rich man. We are for giving as a nation to any villany which takes the form of a commercial transaction, but very indignant with the villany which takes our property without the pretence of bargaining. We are at our wit's end to know how to stop the spread of pauperism, and the only remedy that can be efficacious must ascertain its cause. Unless this be done emigration will afford only a temporary relief, and the evil will not be eradicated. Concerning the doubtful characters at large among us, "S. G. 0." observes that it is justifiable to legislate with regard to what a man intends, when he is known to live by sheer criminal industry. All the time that we are deploring the increase of paupers and of criminals, we are neglecting to seek out the spots where men, women, and children are bred to a vermin life ; but, if we went to the root of the evil, and tried to diminish this dangerous breed of beings, we should interpose a more effectual check on their proceedings than if we increased the number of the Poor-law officials or incited the police to greater activity. So long as the dwelling question is neglected, the many efforts that are made by religious and charitable persons to afford relief, and the legal apparatus for the prevention of crime, will be found ineffectual. The nation has yet to make intimate acquaintance with the condition of those classes who now excite • so much attention as paupers and as criminals, and while much has been written on the true causes of the degradation of the poor, our ruling powers have made no effort to deal with them. FOREIGN NOTES. TURRET AND GREECE. It is expected that thu answer of Greece to the declara tion of the Conference will be received during the present week. The Ambassador will then meet once more, adopt final resolutions, and then the deliberations will terminate. What reply is the Greek Government likely to give? The Levant Herald dogmatically assures us that a refusal was determined upon before the declaration was signed at Paris, and the Independance Beige has received intelligence of a similarly =favourable character. On the other hand, various powerful arguments are adduced on behalf of the probability of a favourable reply. It is urged that the Great Powers took especial care not to insert anything in the declaration which might offend the Greek Government's sense of dignity and indepen dence. Next, Greece is almost certainly isolated in Europe, even Russia not wishing to add open war to her intrigues. Thirdly, the Powers have skilfully provided for the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two disputants—and this of itself will be sufficient to ensure the virtual acceptance of the declaration. To this may be added that as the declaration contains nothing there is not the slightest reason for raising any difficulty about it. All that the Conference has done is to draw up in an official form three principles of international law, which may be found in any elementary treatise on the subject. These principles are univepally known, acknow ledged, and— disregarded. If Greece accepts the de,clara tion and then sets to work to revive the insurrection in Crete, she will be taking a course which, unfortunately, has but too many precedentr.l The Patric, a Paris semi-official paper, publishes a rather gloomy article, attributing the refusal of Greece, if such be the case, to Russia. It notes that Turkey—the Conference notwithstanding—still continues all her war. like measures. Greek vessels are still excluded from Turkish ports, and the expulsion of Greek subjects will be countermanded only if Greece accepts the declaration. GERMANY. Letters in the Moniteur depict in very sombre colours the results of Prussian rule in North Schleswig. Prussia • has ruled the duchy for eighteen months, but she has not succeeded in satisfying its• inhabitants. The tutorship of the bureaucracy is especially distasteful to the Danes. An amusing story of the hostility between the two races is given in the Paris journal. A society of Flensburg recently gave a banquet, at which a Prussian military band kindly attended. During speechmaking the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Denmark were included amongst the toasts; I the Prussian band, not understanding what was going on in 1 Danish, striking up a lively air on each occasion. It has peen forbidden to attend any more banquets, THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. In contrast to the horrible story of the massacre at Poverty Bay, it is satisfactory to find that at last the New Zealand authorities are energetically striving to retrieve their past errors. According to the latest news from the colony, a New Zealand officer of militia was recruiting in Victoria with considerable sue. cess. By December 14th it was expected that he would be able to despatch to the North Island 200 active, hardy men, who would deem a brush with the formidable savages a relief from the dullness of Victorian life. Small reinforcements are arriving from the Middle Island, and it is proposed to raise a body of the miners, who are both numerous and fully competent to the pe• culiar labour of New Zealand warfare. The Mel bourne Argus justly remarks that this assistance will not avail unless the European population of the troubled districts pluck up spirit, and do battle on their own behalf. "Heretofore, we regret to say, they have not maintained their own cause as they should have done. The position of settlers among hostile native tribes is necessarily full of danger, and men who are not prepared to fight have no business to take up that position." The Sydney Herald holds the British Government responsible for the recent calamities ; but the Argus replies that it was at the colonists' desire that the onus of the Maori war was thrown upon themselves. What is more, it is quite within their power to carry on the conflict vigorously, and bring it to a successful issue. AUSTRALIA. Two new gold-fields have been opened in Victoria, one at Spring Creek, already employing 6,000 miners. At the second place, named Berlin, many nuggets have been found. These new fields are the best that have been discovered in Victoria for the last five years. AMERICA. Mr. Wells's report on the existing tariff and revenue system is attracting a good deal of attention. Mr. Wells has carefully collected his facts, and spews that the labouring and middle classes have been growing poorer every day under the present system. All household expenses, according to his tables, have risen 79 per cent. since 1860. Every class of the community suffers, and producers and consumers alike grow poorer. It has been argued that much of this evil is due to excessive protection. The lumber tax of 25 per cent. on foreign lumber is loudly de nounced, as it presses heavily on the people. The New York Tribune contends that a distinction should be made be tween the protective duties and the duties on imports which have nothing to do with protection. The latter class it ranks at five-eighths of the whole import duties. It is necessary to maintain a high tariff to fill the Exchequer ; the receipts of the Custom House ought to go to the reduction of the National Debt. The Tribune argues that the whole mischief is owing to the excessive volume of the debt, which ought to be at once acknowledged and reduced. The imports of the States, says Mr. Wells, are too large in proportion to the exports, and the Tribune advises those who want the duties removed to consider the alternative of increasing the iinports yet further, or of diminishing the already impoverished revenue. It is said that Admiral D. D. Porter will be appointed Secretary of the Navy Iwo tem., and that he will hold the office until the naval survey, which creates three admirals, is completed. Admiral Porter will then resign the secre. taryship, and take one . of these three posts. Genera; Schofield is to tak e a pontion in the Cabinet on the same conditions. At the regular meeting of the California Aca demy of Natural Sciences, Dec. 7, Mr. J. E. Clayton read a paper describing the earthquakes in the Kern River re gion, as observed by Dr. Farnsworth. A discussion on the theories of earthquakes followed. Dr. Gibbons remarked that it was a natural tendency of the human mind to aim at new and novel theories to account for phenome na, and if a theory has the merit of being one's own, and novel, a man would defend it as earnestly as a parent will defend h is deformed and ugly brat, and that simply because it is his own. The Electric theory was unphilosophical, and unworthy of a scientific man. Why should we seek for strange and mysterious causes when geology gi ves us so simple and reasonable an ex planation? The study of the earth's surface would satisfy any candid mind that our globe was once much hotter than now, and at some distant period in a melted state. If so, only the outside has cooled as yet, and the in terior is still a molten mass. Comb us ti on nee d n ot be going on—the beat is there and retains the matter in a melted form until time is given it to cool. The present contortions of the earth's surface must have been caused through this igneous agency, and when such action takes place, vibrations and trerublings must ensue. Humboldt stood upon the brink of a crater and observed that an eruption was always preceded by rumblings and shocks, exactly like our earthquakes. In this case we know that fire and gases are concerned, and the cause is in the interior ; then why not allow that our shocks are produced by this same agency in subterranean caverns ? This molten matter is at rust, but when water gains access, combustion ensues, and volcanoes and earthquakes result. Mr. Clayton said he once unintention ally illustrated another cause in the following manner : Re had constructed a tub four feet deep and five feet in diameter. Having filled this tub with water, and wishing to heat it, he inserted a pipe in the water through which he introduced steam for the purpose. The result was that a series of shocks was produced, and the tub danced around the room like a thing of life, till it was finally rent in piezes. We might have reservoirs of water beneath us—which uo one could deny—and a stream of hot water might gain access the result would be an earthquake. The Geysers were an illustration of these causes on a quiet scale. As a further corroboration of this, he said earthquakes were more frequent in countries where there hss been the greatest disturbance of the earth's surface, and hence caverns were more likely to exist. The settling of the earth in places most probably filled these caverns, and we had seen instances of the water from these reservoirs rising to the surface and forming springs. The earth has also been rent in the same manner that the tub was. Very light shocks are continually taking place from these causes. Mr. Yale thought that earthquakes were perpetual, and not exceptional, but it is only the more se vere ones that we experience. When a boy lie once en tered the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky with a party, where he remained 48 hours. While there a tremendous thunder storm took place is the "outer world," "but no sound of that e'er came down to the everlasting depths of those dark solitudes," Dr. Kellogg also thought the electrical theory unphilosophical. If electricity throws down a chimney simply, it makes a deafening report; how then could it throw up moun ains, or shake the earth so silently ? General Dix has succeeded in procuring a circular from M. Pinard, Minister of the Interior, dated Bth De cember, 1868, doing away with the necessity of passports for Americans in France. This order relieves the citizens of the United States, more particularly in the south of France, from much inconvenience. " The Emperor's Go vernment has decided that citizens of the American Un'on shall hereafter be permitted to enter, travel, and sojourn in France, on the simple declaration of their nationality, and without being subjected to the necessity of passports." LADVERTISEMEINT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Safety amidst Danget'S.—Surrounded on all sides by the causes of disease man must keep ap a constaat watch if he would preserve or recover his health. These purifying pills present the most certain and effectual means of removing all obnoxious matters from the blood, at the same time that they regu late any disordered actions which their presence has in duced. The harmless and strengthening balsam of which Holloway's pills are composed renders them peculiarly well adapted for the young and delicate, who can with im punity bear only Wirier treatment. SOUTHERN AFFAIRS. Arkansas is in a nice state ; but what that state is cannot be so easily told. On one side black militia men, without uniform orbadgesto show the nature of their employment, drag their white fellow-citizens to gaol, and shoot them without going through even the form of a trial. They throw up entrenchments and threaten to burn down the town if attacked. On the other hand, the Hon. Thomas Boles, Con gressional Representative from the Third District in Arkansas, has published a statement to show why the Governor organized the militia. political murder had for months been reduced to an art, 20 prominent leaders and over 200 negroes having been assassinated in cold blood. Constables and Sheriffs who interfered were themselves killed, and the men who did these deeds publicly boasted of them while threatening others. The Governor finding it im possible to arrest the murderers and to save the loyal citizens in any other way called out the mi litia, arrested those accused of the crimes, while be fortified and guarded the gaols against a rescue. According to Mr. Boles, the cry on this is raised of military persecution. We hope to have better tidings from Arkansas after the inauguration of Grant, although that event will not be a universal panacea. But if the right and the wrong is doubt• ful in Arkansas, there can be little question who is in fault on the Ogeechee River, Georgia. The Standard's correspondent who may be relied on for the most Copperhead aspect, writing from New York on New Year's-day, says " that country is alive with gangs of negroes who murder the plantation watch men and carry off the crops. On Tuesday a sheriff and two constables left Savannah furnished with warrants for the arrest of 17 negroes accused Of shooting watchmen. Five of the blacks were cap tured and placed on a railway train. The train was stopped at an obscure station by about 100 negroes, who rescued the prisoners, robbed the sheriff, taking from him his arms and warrants, and promised that death should be his portion should he ever attempt to execute another process upon a negro in that vicinity. The blacks then marched away, crying out, ' The war has com menced. We will have the heart's blood of every white man on the Ogeechee River.' Hearing of these threats the white citizens of the vicinity has tened to Savannah, not supposing that their wives and children would be molested. But the negroes drove the women and children into the woods, and now hold them as prisoners. The greatest indignation and excitement exist in Savannah. The news from Savannah, up to Dec. 31, is as follows :—" The Ogeechee troubles still continue. Mr. Middleton's house was burned last night and his crops ruined. All the whites came to the city except one man, who has not been seen since the trouble. The Sheriff, with a posse, went out this morning, but returned without making any arrests. The negroes are fully armed and in large force, and are determined to resist the authorities. Scouts sent out this afternoon were stopped six miles from the city. All six of the roads leading to the city are picketed by negroes. A public meeting was held to-day at the Court House, and affairs were discussed by General Jackson and others, and to morrow they will decide upon what course to pursue." It is reported in Washington that a coloured delegation from Georgia will submit a memorial against the admission of the Senators elect from their State, their argument being that the admission of the Senators will be regarded by coloured voters as an approval by Congress of the action of the Democrats in expelling coloured mem bers from the Georgia Legislature. Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown is leading the movement against any interference by Congress with the affairs of Georgia. The Freedman's Bureau ceased to exist on the Ist inst., and 711 clerks and others were thrown out of employment. Their salaries alone , since the inauguration of the Bureau in 186 5 , amounted to $2,517,240. THE STRAUSSINE DIAMOND.—For some time s variety of experiments have been in operation to ascert ain the possibility of the productidli of a substance having 911 the hardness and lustre of the true brilliant, the capability of being used in jewellry in place of the genuine stone, and so reasonable in price as to make it, a ° the saying is, " almost common." After varioue failures, the end has been accomplished by M r ' Jeffery, of Tottenham-court-road, whose artistic work has already secured medals in various national exhibition s. Ile has produced a "diamond" of remarkable highly refractive, and so purely white that it takes all the talent even of a connisseur to discover that it is not at° real stone. Whilst carrying on the experiments for the production of the " Staussine" diamond, the clever opera; tor achieved another success by discovering a method °' producing a mock opal with the beautiful emerald green colour clearly defined, thus solving another matter which has for a long time puzzled the curious in such matters. Mrs. Foot, wife of the Commissioner for Patents' and a daughter of Senator Henderson, is a successful iv ventor herself. She has contrived a skate without story and several other things.—Thaddeus Hyatt is now ()Wr ing a large income for his patent for glass light in ps/ a. ments. Among the eminent Americans who died during 1868 were the following :—Alexander Asboth, Jo" Jacob Astor, jun., Col. Francis Markoe B ac h e , Gener 3 ' , Lafayette C. Baker, Richard H. Bayard, Moses It' Beach, Rear-Admiral H. H. Bell, James Buchanan, NO - Liam Curtis, Peter Gagger, John H. Campbell, Kit Carson , George Christy, Howell Cobb, Captain J. J. C o°l , - stock, Julia Dean Hayne, Rear-Admiral Frederic* Engle, Robert Ewing, Peter Force, J. Heron Foster, Commodore Gansevoort, General William Gates: General Alfred Gibbs, John A. Gilmer, Francis Granger, C. F. Hargedorn, Fitz Greene Halleck, Charles G. Halpine, Henry Hartstene, T. C. Hindman, Bish °9 Hopkins, Joseph R. Ingersoll, George W. Jame son, Rev. George Junkie, Heber C. Kimball, 11°- bert P. King, Rev. Isaac Leeser, E. Leutze, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Lerd, Providence Ludlam, David M. LY le ' General George A. M'Call, J. J. M'Rae, Abijah Men u ' James Mann, Adah Isaacs Menken, Matthew kirk, George W. Nebinger, Samuel Nicolson, Frederic* A. Packard, Alonzo C. Palm, Admiral James S. Painter' Commodore George A. Prentiss, Morris J. Raphall, Any thony L Robertson, Commodore Daniel C. Ridgley, C. Rives, Joseph W. Byerns, John Sefton, Thomas P ' Seymour, Conger Sherman, Gen. A. T. Slemmer, Admiral John D. Sloat, General P. F. Smith, Casper Solder, JO" General Frederick Steele, Edwin A. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens, Rev. Thomas A. Stockton, General Walter tt* Stevens, David L. Swain, William M. Swain, Francis Troubat, Patroon Stephen Van Hensselaer, Matthew 17.35 " ear, David Wilmot, William B. Wright. The Right Hon. John Bright, who has been on a visit to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Leatham, of Beee b lawn, Heath, on Sunday attended the Friends' Meeting house in Wakefield. It b3coming known that in all Pr o ' bability he would be one of the congregation, the numb er of attendants was somewhat larger than usual, and at t he hour of the service closing a crowd gathered outside' This anxious curiosity to catch a glimpse of the pre sident of the Board of Trade appears to have rouse' the righteous wrath of one of the staid Quakeress ee who, being fully imbued with the doctrine that even the wearers of purple are but men, indignantly exclaimed 9 ' 4 she beheld the peering throng, "One would think he we ft :, more than mortal to see the people gathered together e° , and at once turned off on her homeward way. As the right hon. gentleman walked through the streets accci ta ; parried by his wife he receiv e d on a ll s id e s the most Waite' tokens of respect. Births. ITE!IvEv—On the 23d inst., at Ickworth Park, Bury Edmund's, the Lady Augustus Hervey, of a daughter. TRACY—On the 25th inst., at 28, Ch es h am -pl ac e, the o °° ; Mrs. Charles Hanbury Tracy, prematurely, of Wille son and daughter, the former stillborn. TREVOR—On the 23d inst., at 36, Belgrave-square, L t/cif Edwin Hill Trevor, of a son. Marriages. CHIDLEY—ROITTLEDGE —On the 21st inst., atChristchu reb ' John George, eldest son of Richard Chidlo4; E , q., of Wellington Chambers, London-bridge, to L o f Harriet Halsey, only daughter of Mrs. Routledget Forest-hill. ST. AUEYN—TIOLDSWORTR—On the 21st inst., at Stolc,els ham, South Devon, the Rev. Edmund St. Aubye, lies youngest son of Sir Edward St. Aubyn, Bart. , to •A Mary, third daughter of Arthur B. E. Holdswort h , of Widdicombe House. BLAKE—On the 22d inst Death s ~ Mr. Joseph Blake, of H arrOW' on-the-hill, aged 78. 13nocK— Oa the 21st inst., William Brock, Esq., Aric t°l43- road, Guernsey, aged 80. of GowAiw—On the 24th inst., Zachariah Goward, late Woodford, Essex, aged 60. or GREEN - On the 24th inst., at 5, Kensington-pal tLe°.- dens, Bevis E. Green, Esq., aged 75. ,sno l KNIGHT— On the 22d inst., at Sandgate, Kent, 03 " Knight, solicitor, aged 43. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM All p _ r i T f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sux 0810, t g 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, the 0000 " Middlesex.—Tuesday, January 26, 1869. Sold the Ag ObsE ban's ] This prizo 1 ~~] M 14, ADVj hold i able v Forme I\'l GE S 1 under a.m. t Eve and Vide D. BE ringtc and a Ea (W. , idinst noon and I an a Dane Vera Old Sh Spat ler celel Bore Chi also nun] of of and be fi app] Fire The Bon valu rem leav thir S' £B7 Wil the etre GO`i fess wee bin( est nis( and La( Car