The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-10 00:00:00

TRIAL FOR POISONING, SPIRIT O. THE PUZLIO JOURNALS. Ninety-eight peers, exclaims the Times, dividing upon A Scotch Education Bill in the afternoon of the 9th of August 1 The fact is itself a portent. Whence came these noble lords who arrived one after another in the Palace of Westminster, between five and six on Monday, Kenton a speedy division and a, departure as hurried as their .Arrival? What was tl.e motive that touched their legie lai(7;al?eal so deeply? If report speaks true, there has not been su,h a " whip"—sharp, sudden, and severe—all the session. Raileeys and telegraphs make the very peers " thralls" of their party managers. It is impossible to get out of hearing, and it is impossible to plead an inability to return to town. Men voted on Monday who had been brought back from Scotland, where they had been " prospecting" the moors ; others came across the four seas, mostly—so mysterious are the ways of Fate— indifferent sailors, and Saturday was a breezy day. Of one it was said that he had been intercepted in a south western port, where he Lad put in with his yacht, a tele gram lying in wait for him there and elsewhere, vaguely but sufficiently addressed. "To Lord , cruising in the channel." And they came, all of them, obedient to the call. It is not difficult to discover the main motive which prompted the members of the Opposition to rally together. It cannot be thought they were all pas eionately opposed to the principles of the Scotch Edu cation Bid; it may be believed, without any grievous Mack of charity, that many of the majority were even ignorant what those principles were ; but they all felt that the Lords, to use a common phrase, were being "put upon," and that an unfair attempt was being made to evade their influence at the end of the session. The oft repeated lesson is repeated once more that it is impossible to introduce a bill of a distinctly Liberal character in the House of Lords. But will it be comparatively easy to pass the bill as it finally stood again through the Commons ; the standing difficulty lies in a want of harmony between the two branches of the Legislature. The Lords have given the coup de grace to the Scotch Education Bill, says the Standard. The hot haste in which the bill has been rushed through the Commons for the last few days, the frequent changes made in its pro visions to gain a friend here and to smooth down an op ponent there, the long-protracted sittings day and night in committee, and all the expenditure of time and temper that has been wasted on the measure, have come to this result—that the Lords decline at this period to take into consideration the amendments that the Commons have made. And no one that has watched the progress of this bill can be surprised at the result. 'We are sure that her Majesty's Government must all along have anticipated this conclusion. We can only ac count for their determination to push the bill forward in the face of a rejection, which must have seemed to them too probable, to one cause, and that was a cause which the House of Lords must have felt as a greater insult to them than the attempt to turn their House into a mere instrument for registering their decrees. The Government can only have proceeded upon the assumption that all independent peers must have left town, and that they would be able to carry the measure by the votes of the official members. We do not wonder that many peers shewed their indignation at this treatment by returning to town at the last moment, and assisting in the rejection of the bill. What her Majesty's Government asked for was a mere blind unreflecting assent to whatever was laid before them, and it was because the - peers of England refused to submit to this insult on their under standings that the bill has fallen through. The Telegraph, thinks that few persons have an ade quate idea of the amount of labour which Parliament per forms in a single session. Ordinary observers are apt to measure the work done between February and August by the length of the debates, and to overlook that vast amount of severe toil which members undergo in the committee rooms, and in laborious and protracted sittings of the House devoted to business which attracts a small share of public attention. The private mem ber who may have a faculty for work but not for speech, has much cause to complain of national ingratitude. The big - wigs on the front benches get a most unfair share of the renown for which politicians sacrifice health, strength, and fortune. For them are reserved the ample attention of the reporters, and the honour of discussion in leading articles ; while the shy, well-informed occupant of a back seat, who puts a large amount of good sense into a few words, is merely recorded to have offered some remarks which did not reach the gallery, or to have made some observations upon the 'details of the bill. The life led by members of this class for half the year is the life of galley-slaves, and it is diffi cult to understand how free Englishmen —men of rank 'and fortune—can submit to such ill-requited drudgery. The industrious private member very often does not leave the House until long after midnight ; by eleven o'clock the next day he is down at a committee, where he has the intense delight of hearing a number of long-winded, loud-voiced counsel snapping and snarling at 'each other, or wrangling with the witnusses. lie must b e in the House soon after four, for then commcnc,, the business cf interrogating various Ministers on all sorts of topics; and a member who has any pretensions whatever to industry and activity must be present during that part of the sitting. The poor legislative drudge is unexcep tionably lucky if, by a " count-out," or other accident, the .House is "up" before midnight. During the busiest part ,ef the year such a man spends by far the greater part of the twenty-four hours either in that noisy crowded apart ment or its purlieus. Two poisoning cases which have caused some interest have ended very differently. Mrs. Mary Anne Langford has been acquitted of poisoning her child at Lynn on the 2Gth of April last. She was tried at the Norwich Assizes an Monday before Mr. Justice Byles. There were two charges against her, that of poisoning her young child, aged four months, and one of murdering her husband. She was the wife of a chemist at Lynn. Her husband had been in ill health for the last two years, ana incapable of attending to business. For some time previous to her last confinement the prisoner had Leen in low spirits, and had expressed great anxiety about the falling-off of the business. At about 8 o'clock on the morning of the '27th April, Mrs. Langford, the prisoner's mother-in-law, who resides in Lynn, received a message from the prisoner, in consequence of which she went to her house. When she got there she asked how Mr. Langford was, when the prisoner exclaimed, " Oh, dear Mrs. Langford, forgive me, I have poisoned myself and them," alluding to her husband and the child. The mother-in-law immediately sent for Dr. Lowe. When he got there he found Mr. Langford in strong tetanic convulsions ; he immediately came to the conclusion that strychnia had been administered, and sent for a stomach pump. He then went to see the child, who was on a bed in another room, and found it also in convulsions. The witness then asked the prisoner how long it was since the convulsions came on, in reply t 6 which she said, " Oh, doctor, I could not bear it any longer, and I have poisoned myself." II e said, "And your husband?" to which she answered " Yes." He then asked " With strychnia ?" to which she also replied in the affirmative. She then bent forward and placed her hand upon his, and was herself seized with violent convulsions. Dr. Archer, a physician, was then sent for, and he and Dr. Lowe remained in the house all the day. In spite of their exertions, the child died at about six in the evening, but the husband lived until the 6th of May, when he also died. The prisoner resisted the application of the stomach pump, but eventually the medical men got it down, and she recovered. Loose in her pocket was found a considerable quantity of pure strych nia, in the form of crystals. In cross-examination, Dr. Lowe stated that about six months before Mr. Langton's death he had prescribed nux vomica for nervous irritation from which he was suffering, but there would only he a third of a grain in the mixture, which would certainly not account for the symptoms, but if taken in larger quantities it might. Dr. Letheby said that Le received a packet containing 5A grains of rure strychnia, which was found an the prisoner's pocket. He also examined the pocket and found about a third of a grain of strychnia. He after wards examined the child's stomach and contents. In the stomach he found an ounce of a fluid substance, in which he discovered distinct traces of strychnia. He then ex amined the liver, and from it he extracted some thing, which he knew to be strychnia from its bitter taste and its action on a frog which he killed with it. His opinion was that the child died from poison. ing by strychnia. In cross-examination the witness said that the longest period he knew of in the case of poison ing by strychnia was six hours. He was aware that since the death of these persons a case had been reported in the Lancet of a child who exhibited the tetanic symptoms of poisoning by strychnia while the mother was taking nux vomica, and that they ceased when the mother gave up taking the nux vomica. Dr. Taylor was then called, and said that, having heard the evidence, be was of opinion that the child died from the effects of strychnia. He could conceive no other reason for the convulsions. Poison might find its way into the mother's milk, but he should hardly expect it. He never knew an instance of a child living nine hours after strych nine had been administered in sufficient quantities to cause death. In that respect this was a case by itself, and he could not account for it ; still he could see no other cause for death. Strycbnia administered in crystals would not be absorbed so soon. It is v ery insol utile, and would be slowly dissolved, but strychnia in crystals might kill in two hours. Mr. O'Malley, in addressing the jury for the prisoner, said that if they convicted the prisoner they must convict her on the evidence of the doctors, who said that they never knew such a case. He also suggested a number of inge nious theories, which he contended were consistent with the prisoner's innocence, and urged that, however impro bable they might be they raised such an amount of doubt that the jury could not say that the case was proved against the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. No evidence was offered in the second indict ment. The Post observes that, according to Mr. Lowe, the 'question of an international coinage, so far as France is .concerned, is not so difficult of solution as has been sup posed. He has given the House of Commons his reasons :for holding that opinion, and although he distinctly depre cated being taken to speak in other than a suggestive manner, and to supply a topic for future reflection and discussion, still his argnments seemed to establish the feasibility as well as the desirableness of carrying the idea into execution. It appears, too, that we may have this improvement without paying for it. All we need do, we are told, is to charge something instead of nothing for coining, by putting twopence worth less of gold into each sovereign, and to obtain the acquiescence of the French to a few points on which they are not, it is said, indisposed to yield, and the thing is done. Everything seems, therefore, to point to the probability of the eventual, and perhaps not very remote, establish. ment of a greatly improved, if not an absolutely perfect, international coinage. In fact, it has become a necessity. The perplexities of foreign exchanges were bad enough when they chiefly affected mercantile transactions, and when the people of different countries mingled little with each other. But in these days, when people rush to and fro without regard to the boundaries of States, the com ,plications of diverse monetary systems are simply as unbearable as they are barbarous. Any serious effort, then, to remedy the evil is deserving of every support and ,encouragement; and we trust that Mr. Lowe may triumph over the difficulties that undoubtedly stand in his Way. • L7ITV 4121'D POLICE. ACTION ACAIM,T LONDON GEN Ell A L CO:ill - ANL—The London ecnei al On.nlus Company was cast, and ordered to pay darn ages to the amount of -2300, on IVlonday, at the Croydon Assizes. A lady named Fennell brought an action against the company for damai_xs sustained through the tarcler.snces of a servant d the company. The plaintiff, wLo %%as lame, was getting into the omnibus wl.ile it stipped at the orner of Regent-circus, Piccadilly. A policeman spoke to the driver and told him to move on, and the driver, without looking behind or speaking to his con ductor to see if all was right, clid so, the result of which was that the lady was suddenly thrown forward and sQs tamped a rather severe wrench to the muscles of the spine, which caused a serious injury. These was, as usual, a conflict in the medical evidence on one side and the other, the medical attendant of the lady being cf opinion that she could not recover in less than twelve or fifteen months, while Mr. Skey, the eminent surgeon, who was examined on the part of the company, thought she would recover in less than half the time. The Lord Chief Baron, before whom the case was tried, said the driver ought not to have moved till he had asked the conductor if all was right. The jury, therefore, found for the plaintiff for Eno. THE MOLD RIOTS.—The defence of the Mold rioters, Whose trial was concluded at Chester on Monday, was made by Mr. Floyd. For Gomer Jones, Richard Tones, and William Hughes, ho set up an alibi. For the other three prisoners he contended that they were not guilty under the indictment, inasmuch as the evidence proved them to have been in the County hall-yard, and upon the road to the station, while the bodily harm was inflicted at the station by stones from an embankment, at a distance from both places where those wisoners were observed. At the conclusion of the speech Mr. M'lntyre replied on the whole case, and his lordship summed up strongly against the prisoners. All except Richard Jones were found guilty, and sentenced to ten 'ears' penal servitude. MURDER OUT AT LAST.—At the Southwark Police court, a hawker, named Kate Roe, alias C'‘..cl.lln, living at Brentford, has been charged with a murder committed year ago in the Borough. IL August 1868 there was a row in Parson's-alley, an extremely low neighbourhood, and an old man named Dennis engaged in a fight with a man named Roe. While this was going on, Mis. Roe fetched " a chopper," and struck Dennis two blo son the head and one on the arm, from which he died. The woman absconded, and has only just been apprehended. She was committed for trial. The Times laments the increasing frequency and des tructiveness of accidents in coal mines, both here and abroad. At Dresden the slaughter is greater than in many an engagement, and is even more distressing. In war ,death is anticipated, and public honour and gratitude bring some consolation to survivors. But here, in the midst of happiness and industry, a sudden destruction falls upon a quiet village or district. Within a single hour it is found " there is not a house where there is nut one dead ;" children are rendered orphans, and women made widows and childless at one stroke. Why are such disasters constantly allowed to pass with but cursory notice? The Times thinks that our miners have some ground for complaint. At the time the second reading of the Irish Church Bill was being debated in the Lords the late explosion at the Ferndale Colliery was reported, and a French journalist, comment ing on the news from England, observed that a tenth part 'of the skill, the energy, and the labour employed in that debate would probably find some means of averting such catastrophes. The lives of our colliers are at least as important as those of our cattle, for whose protection an elaborate measure has been carried this session, and the Government are now forcing through the two Houses more than one minor measure which would certainly be post poned if other lives than those of Miners were con cerned in a Mines Regulation Bill. No doubt the men are apt to expect too much from the Government, but we are also apt to expect too much from the men. This fearful disaster in Saxony will, perhaps, rouse the attention of scientific men, who are generally forward enough to try - to mitigate the sufferings and dangers of humanity. But we trust also that the memory of this summer will be all that is necessary to induce Parliament to give full attention to the subject next session. We du not presume to say at present who are chiefly to blame, but in the face of these frequent calamities wo all stand The Rev. Dr. hiller has contradicted a statement condemned. Public money and public tho ug ht oug h t not , to be grudged in order to avert occurrences which are somewhat confidently made, that Mr. Gladstone had offered equally distressing and discreditable to the country. him the Bishopric of Salisbury. The Herald remarks that an unforeseen consequence has ensued from the singular policy adopted by the present. VELOCIPEDES.—It may be useful for some of our Government in reference to the presents made by the young readers to know that the law ofr:cers of the Crown Duke of Edinburgh in Australia. When the cost of these 'n Ireland have given their opinion that it is an offence gifts was made the subject of a vote in the House it seems within the meaning of the Dublin Police Acts to run to have been forgotten that the colonists in Australia would ultimately criticise the proceedings, whether theyvelociped es on th e pu bli c f ootways, an d t h at t h e po li ce h ave passed off quietly at home o r n o t. The vote was said at been instructed accordiegly.—Frcemun, the time to have been proposed as a " feeler ;" but how- Socs EAL JIALITY WASHINGTON. —A despatch ever this may have been, its authors evidently overlooked the possibility that the colonists of Victoria might dislike from Washington to tLe New York papers says to be made the that the deepest subjects nnoyance of th has be is expenericreated ment. i at Mel Melbourne by the manner in which the hill f o r the presents made by the Criminal C our t h ere trying a murder case, seems to the Duke has been sent into the House and haggled over I get along very well i n th e matter of social equality. They in committee. Worse than this, the passionate loyalty are quartered at one of the third-class hotels, where they of the Australians has been seriously wounded by that F occupy a suite of rooms and eat at the same table without inconsiderate sten. The presents have been robbed of any exhibitions such as di s t ur b e d the peace of Mayor the charm which belonged t o th em . The value of these to the recipients had nothing to do with their money ißowen and the committee of Radical councilmen at Gettysburg on account of the presence of the irrepressible value, but must have sprung entirely from the associa• said,p s Cons connected with them when they were supposed to . Afr i can Hatton . Flatton. The black and white jt i t t ro i r s s be absolutely and in all respects the gifts of the royal an their sailor. Now all this delicate sentiment is swept away. evenings together playing euchre, and, they They are no longer presents from a prince, but so many take a cocktail together without wincing. The Washing. pins and rings grudgingly paid for by the House of Com- ,t ni who have had more of the nigger th an any mons, and merely distributed by the D u k e . N o wonder I ° al ; the Australians are anxious to return their value to the other portion of the American people, are evidently British Exchequer, and be quit with an obligation whiel3 becoming accustomed to him socially as well as politi has been changed from a pleasure to a burden. A PROFESSION STOPPED FOR A TIME.—The Lambeth police were fortunate enough a day or two ago to stumble fipon a professional robber, who had a most complete out fit of burglarious implements, and a large quantity of • tolen property, in his bedroom. The prisoner, whose name is Bentley, Las bten brought before the magis• trate and remanded. It was stated that there were sixty skeleton keys of " the most admirable make," and a sort of knife, ingeniously contrived to unfasten window catches. Owners are wanted for a variety of articles of iewellery and other valuables. THE ALLEGED POISONING AT NEWPOLT.—The boy Charles Gritt, who confessed on Saturday to having poisoned the late Miss Emily Collier, daughter of Mr. Collier, oil merchant, Newport, Monmouthshire, was brought before tbeboroughmagistrates charged with poison ing Miss Emily Collier, in April last. The boy does not deny the charge, and expresses his sorrow for what has hap pened. He says he gave the young lady some poisoned wheat which he got from the Caerleon schools, and when he gave it to her he only did it to see what effect it would have on a human being. Superintendent Huxtable asked for a remand fur a week to take the necessary steps to obtain additional evidence and get the body exhumed. The application was granted. THE SUN, LONDON, rj UESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1E69, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. MR. GLADSTONE. The health of the Premier is the subject of some little uncertainty at present. From good authority we may state that Mr. Gladstone is not ill, but is unler restrictions against over-exertion. The right honourable gentleman can attend to his official duties during the day, but must avoid late hours in the House. ratner did not like it. - He was merely flirt , ing, that is clear. He may have had some pos sible ulterior purpose, but he never really made up his mind to marry. Miss Morony's letters, some of them most pathetic, spew that she was in earnest, and felt her lover's neglect very deeply. The Telegraph warns girls such as she to be more careful than they are, and suggests that mothers should teach their daughters not to look at every man ready to sly pleasant things as a hero. There is a golden rule, too, in such cases, Do not believe in a man who keeps his engagement secret from his friends. The Daily News thinks Society, which looks so tolerantly on flirting, is somewhat responsible for such cases. If a man who jilted was only estimated properly, and visited with dis pleasure, there would be fewer of both sexes who now spend their time in making " con iquests." Not many have the courage to do as Miss dorony has done and come before the public to punish the false and the cowardly. It i s th e d u ty hen of society +4,- -do the work, and to spare its members from the pain which is now very often over looked. and there is little protection for the natives trom the hardships inflicted on them by the traders. The captain and sui - ,ercargo of the Young Australia have been brought to trial on the charge of murdering three Polynesian natives. The vessel was engaged in kidnapping natives, who were taken on board against their will. Captain Howell and a native have been sentenced to death. The supercargo has been found guilty of manslaughter, but sentence has been deferred. TIIE PROROGATION. The end of the session is close at hand. On Saturday the Queen in Council approved the Speech from the Throne ; the greater proportion of our legislators of both Houses are already away from London, and to-morrow those who remain to the end will be dismissed ; they will be thanked for their attention to the business of the nation, and told that their services can be dispensed with until the 28th of October. If nothing happens meanwhile, Par liament will not meet again till February next. THE CONS En VA TIVE PIC-NIC IN THE 7Anr, OF DERBY'S GROUND. The Conservative papers of Liverpool have been advertising profusely a great Conservative pic-nic, "to be held, by the kind permission of the Earl of Derby, K.G., in Knowsley P.lrk." The picnic came off on Saturday, and was a dismal failure. In point of numbers it was good, but hardly were the first excursionists arrived at the park when the rain fell in torrents, some 5,000 persons being wet through to the skin. This was bad enough, but, worst of all, no one could get anythinm to eat or drink—end what is a pic-nic without eating and drinking F Some roughs attacked the refreshment van and spoiled the food it contained ; and other roughs smashed all the plates and dishes on which they could lay hands in the park. So that the tickets for the train took the neople out to get wet; the tickets for refreshments left the people hungry. THE ANTRIM ELECTION. It is satisfactory to learn that there will be, ac cording to all appearances, no division iu the Conservative camp at the first Irish election after the Irish Church Act. The important battle for Antrim county will be fought out evenly, Sir Shafto Adair representing the Liberals, and Mr. Seymour the Conservatives. The former has already expounded his views on the land question, pronouncing in favour of full and fair compensation to the tenant, though he has not favoured us with his definition of "full and fair compensation," which is the turning point of the question. Sir Shafto Adair advocates tlio establishment of a land court to settle all differences that may arise. The landlords of Antrim have met, and, of course, have resolved to support Mr. Seymour, but one of them, Lord Arthur Edwin Hill Trevor, has publicly renounced the "screw." His tenants may vote as they please. THE FEIN - lAN PRISONERS. Mr. M'Carthy Downing has paid a visit to some of the Fenian convicts in England, and gives us the result of his observations. He seems to have con vinced himself that O'Donovan Rosso, was badly treated last year. That convict declared in the most circum stantial manner that in the months of June and July, 1868, he was confined in his cell, manacled by his hands behind his back, for 35 days, from 5 o'clock a.m. until 7 p.m. each day, his hands having been brought to the front at meal hours, but handculel that for 21 days ho got additional penal punishment, three successive days on bread and water; on the fourth the punishment was varied ; again three days' bread and water, and so on alternately for 21 days. But, notwithstanding the Fenian's positive assurance, Mr. Bruce contradicts this story point blank. O'Donovan Rosso, explains his assault on the governor of the gaol on the theory that the penal discipline "had driven him to desperation." Mr. M'Carthy Downing likewise visited Richard Burke, and gives his opinion that he was in a bad state of health. It will be gratifying, however, to the friends of these mild and suffering gentlemen that their treatment is now all that the prison rules will admit of. Their work is of the lightest character, and their food good. Indeed, the " patriots" come off much better than the other convicts. The Irish Times says that the sentences of the unpardoned Fenians will soon be considered, with a view to revising some of them. THE ADMIBALTY AND MR. BAXTER. The Admiralty clerlis have given in to Mr. Baxter. They were indignantly remonstrating with hini the other day ; they are quietly nlersed with him now. Mr. Baxter made them angry by saying what was undoubtedly true, that a system of "tipping " had extensively prevailed in their department , . They would not, they declared, have aspersions cast on their characters, and they met to denounce Mr. Baxter. But their attention is drawn to the fact that Mr. Baxter has dismissed several clerks. Is it not nnst likely that he has sent away the guilty persons? Ought they not, therefore, to be rather pleased at the eliminating of their evil companions ? They should no longer be morose with the hon. member for Montrose. TILDES rx:oN DEMONSTRATION. A. formidable trades union demonstration was got up at Manchester on Saturday. All the branches of the cotton, iron, and building- trades, printers, tailors, and many others were represented. A pro cession numbering 5,t00 men was not prevented front ta.ing a walk by heavy rain - which lasted two hours, nor did a. smart downfall scorn to damp the ardour of the 10,000 who gathered at an of en a:r meeting in the evening. The object o: this demon stration was to express the symi achy of the various trades with those branches of the Manchester builders who are " now struggling for the maintenance of their just rights and privileges." Some speeches were made, in one of which a stonemason's representative set forth that ho and his brethern were contendini , for a reduction of labour hours to nine a day, but that the masters would not entertain the application, even if the men consented to a decrease of wages. The plan of settling disputes by arbitration, the hour system of payment, and the " Free Labour Society," each came in for some hard treatment during the evening. THE WESLEYAN DIETHODISTS AND "THE SABBATH.' A correspondent recently called attention in our columns to the declaration of Mr. S. R. Ball, the ex president of the Wesleyan Conference, that there must b 3 no diversity of teaching in the Methodist Connexion. Mr. Ilall told the y oung ministers about to be admitted to " teach in the congregations " that if they changed their views they must resign. And the Wesleyans strictly enforce uniformity. They will have no " diversity of teaching," for instance, on the point so much disPuted:—the Christian Sab bath. The Rev. Arthur Ransom holds that the Jewish Institution was abolished by the coming of our Lord ; he does not in that matter " believe and preach Methodist doctrine ; " he is therefore called upon to give up his position as Wesleyan minister. Though ho distinctly stated that a day of rest was needful, and ought to be provided, notwithstanding his declaration that the example of the Apostles made the observance of the Lord's Day as a day for worship imperative, he was first asked to reconsider his opinions on the subject, and then the resignation which he tendered was accepted. Ile has not been treated, it would appear, by any means harshly. For two years he has been in correspondence with the Wesleyan theological tutors, and during the whole of this time he has been spoken to and of with kindliness. Ile only com plains of what has been done, not the way in which he has been treated. In a published letter he declares that the policy taken towards him will keep from among the \Vesleyans all young men of inde pendent thought. " Wesley's Methodism was plastic —it accommodated itself to the wants of the age. The Methodism of the Wesleyan Conference is; I am afraid, fixed and stereotyped. If so, religious thought and life will most certainly leave it, like an ancient sea-beach, high and dry." THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S PRESENTS. The news that the cost of the Duke of Edinburgh's presents had been defrayed by the British Parlia ment has given great offence in Australia. The Duke has certainly not added to his popularity in the colony by this demand for £3,500. The Melbourne Argus says the proceeding is looked upon as the very reverse of princely, and those few individuals who re ceived any souvenirs from his Royal Highness regard them now in a very different light from that in which they were first received. In the Legislative Assembly of Victoria a notice of motion has been given for the appointment of a committee to inquire into and re port upon the p resen t s ma d e b y t h e P r i nce w hil st i n Victoria, with th e vi ew o f p l ac i ng a sum upon t h e estimates to recoup the British Parliament the money thus expended in 'Victoria by his Royal highness. TUE PRESTON COTTON TEADE. The state of the Preston trade becomes more and more serious. Another large failure occurred on Saturday, that of Mr. Ogle. This is the sixth stoppage in the Preston district within as many weeks, bringing to a stand about 142,00 spindles, and from 2,600 to 3,000 looms, and throwing out of employment nearly 2,000 operati% - es in the various branches of the trade, including those who are called " odd hands." There are now nearly half a million spindl es an d f ro m 0,000 t o 8,000 looms standing idle in Preston alone. Emigration goes on apace. Many weavers re:eive "passes'' from their relatives on the other side of the Atlantic, the cost of these being paid by the American employers, on the understanding that the shm is to be refunded in working. These emigrants are amongst the best of the workmen. THE CASE. OP " MORONY V. LEE." Several of the daily papers comment upon tlle breach of promise case, " Morony v. Lee," which was decided at Croydon on Friday. Lieutenant Lee is very strongly denounced, the Daily _Yews going so far.,As to suggest that a course of the treadmill would be good for him. The only reason which he bad for breakinz off his eneazement was that his rcTilfAsuiNa THE BANNS. The question of the utility or reasonableness of "publishing the banns" is being raised. It is argued that the practice is useless and absurd ; very absurd, indeed, when (as was the case at Lambeth parish church on Sunday week) the announcement of the future intentions of certain couples occupied longer than the sermon ; useless because such publi ca ti ons do not prevent illegal marriages. Tho Daily 11'ms points out that it is generally to some church miles away from the place in which they are known that young couples generally resort when they want to be made one. "At present church goers endure the reading of a long string of words whichconvey no notion whatever to their minds, with out the consolation that theyare rendering any service to anybody. It is an inconvenience which might be easily abated." THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM. One of those habitual criminals, for whose benefit the Government have been passing a stringent law, came before judge at the Bury St. Edmund's Assize last week. A man named Walker, who pleaded guilty to a charge of housebreaking, was shewn to have been sentenced to sixty-five years' penal servitude during his career. In 184 he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for housebreaking. Two years afterwards he was condemned to fifteen years' penal servitude for felony ; but in the course of time he obtained his ticket-of-leave, and in 1852 a second sentence of fifteen years was passed upon him for housebreaking. Once more a portion of his punishment was remitted, and in 1859 the burglar was at his old work, and was for the third time sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. Another ticket-of-leave afforded him the opportunity of renewing his war upon society, and he pleaded guilty, a day or two back, to a charge of housebreaking. The Lord Chief Justice, before whom the case, came sentenced Mr. Walker to twenty years penal servitude, remarking, as he did so, " I shall take care to communicate to the Home Office the effect which the leniency and mercy shown to you on former occasions have had, and that you have gone on in the same way as before." A WELSH JURY. Every assize brings its crop of complaints about the vagaries of Welsh juries. But has the fact that often there are jurymen `r•ho do not understand the language in which proceedings are conducted been sufficiently taken into account ? It is stated that out of twelve jurymen who de cided upon the merits of a case heard at the recent Merionethshire Assizes, only four could speak or understand English. The evidence was given in English, the counsel spoke in English, and his lord ship's charge was given in English also. And eight of the jurymen understood not a word ! Upon the four who did devolved the unpleasant duty of explaining the points of the case, and making clear to their fellows what was before dark. Can goal verdicts, it is asked, be expected under such circum stances ? SITOEMAKINGI- IN SCOTLAND. Cotton-spinning is not the only trade suffering from depression. The Scottish shoemakers find their business in a depressed condition. The National Amalgamated Union have accordingly been holding a conference to consider the matter. The deliberations occupied four days, and the result was that the modern panacea, a scheme of emigratiosi, was generally approved of as a means of relievingthe over crowding. A good deal was said as to the necessity for the ( stablishment of workshops in which the men might carry on their trade instead of at their homes. Sonie of the delegates said that the men themselves were indifferent on the subject; but others pointed out that the places which the masters were disposed to give them were generally very uncomfortable. A garret, or cellar, or outhouse, was considered good enough for a shoe maker to work in. The matter, it was argued, should be regulated by legislative interference, and a Go. ernment inspector should be appointed to see that proper accommodation and proper ventilation were provided in the, won:shops. One operative from Wisham s:tid that when work shops were established in his district two years ago, and the working hours were restricted to twelve per clay, the men made higher wages than they did when they worked sixteen or seventeen hours at their houses. - Ultimately it was agreed that a campaign be opened on behalf of workshops, and that Linlithgow men make the first stand. SEWAGE AT BARKING. The inquiry into the alleged pollution of the Thames at Barking by the discharge of sewage from the works of the Metropolitan Board terminated on Saturday. On the part of the inhabitants of Barking, it was urged that the poisonous vapours at the outfall affected the health of the neighbouring people, and that the sewage was a nuisance as regards the navigation of the river. On the part of the Board both these allegations were denied. Mr. Rawlinson will make his report shortly, but in the meantime the Standard thinks the result, even if inconclusive, cannot be favourable to the Board. One point of dispute, viz., whether any of the sewage ever got up the river towards London instead of floating towards the sea, was, the Stan dard thinks, decisively proved in the affirmative. There can be no doubt th a t a cer t a i n quan tity d oe s ascend the river westwards in the direction of the City. When will people, instead of fighting these battles, make up their minds to devote sewage to its proper use—the fertilisation of the soil? THE RIDHON OATU. Many versions of the oath by which the Ribbon Brotherhood bind themselves to dark deeds have been published; but at last, we are told, a copy of the genuine article has been fo un d by th e I r i s h police. It is certainly diabolical enou g h f or Ribbonism or any other organisation. The brethren undertake to "hunt, shoot, and destroy " all landlords of the Church of Rome who may evict tenants, to shoot all traitors, and to do their utmost to prevent any persons, except Irishmen, from possessing Irish land. The oath likewise provides for the " extermination of everybody except Itibbonm en . all heretics," and, in fact, for th e e x termination of FOREIGN NOTES. SPAIN AND CUBA. In spite of the repeated denials of the reported negotia tions for the purchase of Cuba by the Americans, the Times thinks there is A substantial foundation for the story. It is said that Spain is not unwilling to part, not with Cuba alone, but with the whole of her West Indian possessions, which at present bring her little fame, power. or money. The price which she puts upon these colonies is, however, rather too high for most purchasers, £40,000,000. So far as Cuba is concerned, it has been confidently stated that the American Government has offered .£15,000,000 cr £20,000,000 for it, and it is now proposed to raise whatever amount is necessary to complete the purchase among the wealthy classes of the island who are anxious to have it transformed into an independent State. The Washington Government would in this case give security for its fulfilment. The Spanish army are much irritated at the proposed sale, while the Cuban Junta at New York have entered a!formal protest against it. The opposition of the latter is not likely to prove a very formid able obstacle, since by the latest accounts the Junta have left New York, the Government assistance having been sud denly withdrawn. The Washington Government are naturally no longer willing to encourage the rebellion in the island they are negotiating to purchase. Tat CRACOW CONTENT. The pretty of Vienna announces that the tribunal at Cra cowhas confirmed the arrest of the two superiors of the con vent. It has likewise ordered the confessor to be set at liberty, but the authorities being against this, be will remain under restraint. More than half the inmates of the convent have already been interrogated. The Prague journals state that the commission found an underground door when they were making their examination, and the superior having lost the key they had the lock forced, and found a long passage, at the end of which were two more doors, of which the keys were also lost. One opened on a cellar full of wine, and the other disclosed a staircase which led to the chapel of the convent of St. Lorette, which is inhabited by the Capuchin friars. AUSTRALIA. H.M.S. Rosario has seized the Australian schooner Daphne, at Leoreka, Fiji. She was found to have on board 100 natives from Tanna huddled together, and un able to make themselves understood. These natives had been engaged as labourers for the planta. tious in Queensland, but were taken to Fiji to find a better market. The Daphne has arrived in Sydney for adjudication, and the captain has been committed. It is believed that a wholesale system of slave-tratEc has been going on in these islands, TROUBLE IN CHINA. There is, it seems, a prospect of another rebellion in China. Suspicious occurrences have taken place in the neighbourhood of Soochow, and great excitement prevails in that district. Three men were arrested at Wookong, having in their possession a large official seal bearing the inscription " The Great Original General governing th- East." The prisoners, when examined, confessed flirt' this was part of a conspiracy in which several thousand men were engaged to set up another Taeping rule. The men were beheaded, and several othe• arrests were made in Soochow itself, whil between twenty and thirty men supposed to be the ring leaders have been taken in Shanghae. Most of the con spirators are Canton and Ningpo men, and are either old Taepings or disbanded braves. The head chief is believed to be an old Chungmow. Altogether they are said to number some 50,000. The North China Daily News states that so great is the uneasiness felt in Soochow that numbers of the inhabitants have taken refuge in Shanghae, removing all their property from Soochow in fear of a general outbreak. ABYSSINIA. Colonel Kirkham, before noted, has been commissioned by Prince Kassa to take the control of his army at Adua, Abyssinia. In a letter to Colonel Sykes, ALP., Colonel Kirkham appears to be full of confidence as to the result of his labours, and the Prince is pleased at the state of efficiency to which he has brought the men. The chiefs do not like the arrangement, but the Prince is determined to take the poWer out of their hands. Colonel Kirkham has given the Prince some excellent advice, which he seems disposed to take, such as granting tracts of land to European com panies for growing cotton, coffee, &c. He has already taken the duty off the merchandise carried by Europeans. The Colonel hopes to do a great deal of good in the country in a year or two, if he gets over the first difficulties of the enterprise. Be declaras that his heart and soul is in making Abyssinia a great country. Prince Kassa is afraid of the Russian Government helping Prince Gobazi who has applied to them for assistance, and Coloi.i Kirkham thinks the Russians might be glad to get a settlement on the coast. tISIINDAT. M. de Persigny's speech on the Constitutions,' reforms has excited some interest. The ex-Minister regards the Imperial concessions as the sign of strength rather than of weakness. There are, according to M. de Persigny, two principles—both equally false—on which most monarchies rest. The first principle declares the sovereign to be irresponsible, it is the Cabinet alone who bears the respon sibility ; and this fiction has sent kings to exile and the scaffold, for if the sovereign is inert he inspires con tempt, if he is active he is accused of usurping undue power. In France this system has proved most unsuc cessful. The other principle condemned by M. de Persigny regards the sovereign alone as responsible ; and thus renders him the object of all public censure, and finally of the public hatred. The Senatus-Consultum, according to this speaker, avoids both dangers. The Emperor is re slonsible on great questions ; the Ministers on matters of detail. The fifth article of the decree, which allows the Senate to indicate the modifications it thinks necessary, and to return a measure to the Corps L6gislatif, is, in M. de Persigny's opinion, a dangerous experiment. He forsees conflicts between the Chambers, conflicts which must end in the discomfiture of the senators, whom he warns not to sacrifice the shadow for the substance. Apropos of the Senatus-Consultum, I may mention a conversation which has just taken place between the Emperor and a foreign diplomatist on the subject. The Emperor sheaved himself really anxious to carry out the reforms in good faith, but on one point he is immovable. lie will not allow his personal responsibilityto be touched, though he is willing that the Ministers should be respon sible before the Chambers. Some extraordinary rumours arc current as to the Imperial intentions in case of the failure of the present scheme. The Emperor, it is said, will appeal to the people, and should they express any anxiety for a Republic or for another Monarchy, Napoleon 111, will not oppose their wishes, but will retreat from the struggle, without allowing himself to be vanquished or bequeathing anarchy to the country. Extravagant as these rumours are, they have yet found currency in circles by to means hostile to the Government. The amnesty is still talked of. There are, I believe, some difficulties in the way, owing to the antecedents of some of the political offenders. The appointment of the reporter to the committee on the Senatus-Conmitum has been the object of an animated discussion among the members. M. Delangle seems to have a good chance. At yes terday's sitting of the committee he made a liberal speech, professing his sympathy with the state of political feeling which called forth the Senatus-Consultum. Upon this several members, who had believed him to be the Government nominee, called upon him for an explana- tion. M. Delangle professed his entire independence, declaring that M. Behic was the Ministerial candidate. This explanation will, it is thought, greatly increase his chance of success. M.M. de Maupas and La Guerronire, the head of the Liberal party in the committee, will support him. M. Delangle is popular in the Senate, who wished to have him as President. It is thought that the report may be brought up on the 14th or the 16th, and that the debate may open on the 20th. It is rumoured that it has been suggested to the Emperor that the session of the Conseils Generaux shall be adjourned till the 30th August, in case the vote on the Senatus-Consultum should not he taken before the 23rd. The official journal has given the programme of the fete on the 15th in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the First Napoleon. It does not appear, however, that much variety has been introduced into the details, or that those who take part in the affair will find much to distinguish this fete from those which have pre cedei it. Judgment has been given in the case of the miners on strike at St. Etienne. Only ten were acquitted out of seventy-two who were charged with the offence. Sixty-two ha .re been condemned to various terms of imprisonment. A curious case was heard lately at the Tribunal of Cor rectiOnal Police. A woman who kept a lodging-house was charged with detaining the uniform of a National Guard. He had been her tenant, but she expelled him for non-payment, and detained all his effects. The defaulter being called out for exercise, could not appear without his regimentals, and in his difficulty applied to a Commissary of Police, who requested the woman to give up the uniform, explaining to her that it was the property of the Government, and not of her debtor. This, however, she positively refused to do until paid her money; she even declined to appear at the police-office to give an explana tion. Her obstinacy was only overcome by a regular prosecution, and she was condemned to two days' im prisonment. A commission of nineteen members has been appointed to inquire into printing and bookselling. It does not con tain many special names, and the interests which are affected by this inquiry are only represented by two voices in the commission. The appointment of this commission has long been required, and it is so far satisfactory that it has been arranged. GUIDE TO TOURISTS. A handy little guide to Connemara has just been issued for the use and information of tourists. An American, who imagines that the United Kingdom is throughout an artificial and cultivated country, has a surprise awaiting him in the Northern Highlands of Scotland, in the Western Highlands of Ireland, and even in some parts of Wales. The incessant beat of the Atlantic Ocean on the exposed coasts of Scotland and of Ireland has created scenery essentially differing to the east and west of the British Isles. We doubt whether in the whole world more rude, wild, and storm lashed coasts are to be seen, and we say this, after a travel which has embraced every continent and glimpses of many an untrodden shore. The natural work of the ocean in hurlingincessantly on the land the mighty waves driven before the endless western gales was to cut the coast into indentations, leaving bleak bids to invade the water, while the water scooped away the soil through many a long inlet. No where else is the action of the Atlantic more marked than on that most exposed of coasts, the west of Ireland. Where the country is low, shelving down from the great mountains into the sea, such as the land be low Clifdeu, the tr avclier looks over a raging surf, extending as far as the eye can reach, not all being white, but in long streaks, where the apparently smooth sea curls itself into breakers, and the dark water is flaked by creamy white, the only indication furnished of the ledge of rocks which interrupts the ground swell. This water cornea up to the shore bright and clear, with a sparkling white sand be neath, or over long ridges of black rock covered with kelp, little mounds whereof are smoking along the shore, showing the process adopted by the inhabit ants to convert it into an article of commerce. Crawling along the bottom are crabs and lobsters innumerable, and with t 3 belly even whiter than 11W....a the sand on which it almost rests swims the turbot. I 'Wild as is this scene seaward, with its black-pointed rocks, its distant islands, its deep blue water and breakers, at intervals, away to the horizon it is wilder still when the traveller looks around him on shore. Rocks are the prevailing feature, standing in huge boulders or iu wide ledges, interspersed here and there with faint efforts to grow grain ; with black peat, from which potatoes are reluc tantly coaxed ; with cottages, whose architecture is comprised in stone walls and roofs ; but the land rises as it recedes, getting a more mellow tint as it trends away till the sharp outline reaches, perhaps, to 2,000 feet against the bright, clear, crisp atmo sphere. The scene changes, and the traveller stands on a bold promontory. Beneath him roll in, the hitherto unbroken billows of the Atlantic, and the sound reverberates among the precipices as the re treating wave meets the incoming one, which rising at the check curls and falls with a roar, making the rock-bound coast white with foam. As a rule, not a tree is to be seen, while the mountains are coated to their summits with heather. Lakes of all sizes reveal themselves everywhere; here, in a chain connected by a rushing, brawling stream, an I hemmed in by steep mountains, but only clad on the eastern slope with grass and timber ; there, fcr no reason that the traveller can perceive, on a ledge of the hillside ; but they are everywhere, their sky-tinted surface being broken by the leaping trout. Connemara is a land of lakes and mountains ; of rock and bog. It is a land of savage wildness, yet with a gentle, picturesque, and, on the whole, superior peasantry. It is a land of good roads, strange locomotion, and not bad hotels. It is a land of a marvellously fine climate for three months, and of a marvellously bad one for nine ; of peculiar and striking scenery ; of salmon and trout, of lobsters, crabs, and turbot; of snipe and woodcock,of kelp and peat ; and, according to Mr. Ivatts, of rare plants, a list of which he gives, geological specimens and antiquities. Of course American travellers are invited to pay Connemara a visit, and all we say is that they might go to a worse place. For nearly three months no people on earth, except those in the north of Scot land, will breathe a purer, brighter, more ex hilarating atmosphere. The wildness and gun deur of the scenery, at various parts, is such that it is quite impossible to convey fully to the mind of the reader its beauty. The panoramic Nie w of Killery bay, for eight miles, with its wild, romantic mountains towering into the sky, and volcanic-like " Mweelrea" (2,688 feet) at the en trance, cannot be surpassed ; the wild grandeur of Kylemore Pass and lough, with the "Twelve Pins" (2,000 feet) in the back ground is unrivalled. The silvery loughs Derryclare, Glendalough, and Inagh, teem with salmon, trout, pike, and perch, and offer inexhaustible sport. The sea, cliffs, and head lands of Clifden and Achill, the latter 2,000 feet, washed by the broad Atlantic, are grand and wild. Clew bay, comprising an area of twenty-eight square miles, studded with over 100 islands, affords, from " Croaghpatrick" (2,500 feet), one of the rarest panoramic views in the world, not excepting the thousand islands of the St. Lawrence. Lough Corrib, a freshwater inland sea, is eighteen miles long. The venerable ruins of Cong Abbey are not only beautiful, but traditionary and legendary. Loughs Conn and Cullin, the former eight miles, afford views that are the real of the extrava gant scenic artist's ideal—wild foreground--water —jutting headlands backed by numerous lines of hills and mountains. Lough Gill, and Ha zlewood demesne, afford a change from the wild and romantic, to the wooded class of scenery, —still, however, blended iu the background are desert - looking, and serrated mountains." This he contrasts with an English seaside resort; a long beach, an esplanade, rows of houses, and bathing machines ; or a spa, where chalybeate waters are drank by the gallon. Travelling is cheap in Connemara, and the hotels as yet very reasonable in their charges. The time will come when Connemara will be a fashionable tour, an .1 the unsophisticated dwellers among these mountains will learn the art of " fleecing ;" but as yet food is plentiful, space ample, whisky abundant, and there is no lack of that fine sauce which nature gives those who thus seek her, an appetite. It is a common mis take for the English as well as American visitors to Ireland, to limit their travel westward to Killarney ; but Americans when they know there is anything tube seen beyond gallop along as hard as a "Biancuni" can carry them, taking in the greatest quantity of scenery and air in the shortest possible time, as they may have to inspect the ruins which linetheliilefrom the top of the Pyramids, and accomplish a pilgrim age to Jerusalem before the year ends.—Anylo American 'limes. S 7A TE BOUNDARY CHANGES. (From the Anglo:Anterican Times.) The march of empire westward developes the errors made in the State divisions of the Union by the early settlers, as well as in the establish ment of a National Capital. Considering the change from the time when the States were a few strag gling settlements along the Atlantic sea-board main taining a feeble political and commercial connection with Europe, and the mighty nation now spreading from ocean to ocean, with instantaneous communica tion acrossand a transport occupying but seven days, the marvel is that so few, not that so many, errors are apparent. In olden days the New England States were large contrasted with English counties and cal culating the then difficulties of travel and transport. Now the New England States are small when com pared with the vast expanse of the new States. Contrast them, all grouped as they are on the north eastern boundary, with the single State of Texas on the south-west extremity of the same sea-board, or take the eight Atlantic States of Maryland, Dela ware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Ilampshire, and Maine, add up the area of each, and it will be found to be con siderably less than a third of the area of Texas, and not near one-half that of the single Pacific State of California. While population remained massed along the Atlantic seaboard this disproportion was not so glaringly conspicuous ; but the march of Em pirewestward, merely following the path of the peo ple, is but another phrase to indicate the course of emi gration. Maryland contains 11,124 square miles, Delaware 2,120, New Jersey 8,320, Connecticut 4,750, Rhode Island 1,306, Massachusetts 7,800, New Hampshire 9,280, Maine 35,000 ; the total being 79,700 square miles ; while the area of California is 188,981, and of Texas 247,356. Rhode Island, the smallest State of the Union, is forty-seven miles long and thirty-seven broad, but this ambi tious little commonwealth requires no less than the two capitals, Providence and Newport—Delaware is 96 miles long and 37 wide; the former had a popu lation in 1860 of 174,620, the latter of 112,216. When we consider what a State of the Union means we see the injustice of constituting dots like these (though each might do for a German principality or an English county) into States. Not only are the States sovereign, but all count alike in the Upper House of Congress. New York, with its 46,000 square miles, its population of 3,880,735, is therein represented as is Rhode Island, weighing not a feather more in the scale. The Senate is the most powerful of legislative bodies, having a much more decisive voice in the affairs of the United States than the House of Peers has in these of Great Britain, while the members are not a fifth as nu merous. As States like Illinois and California swell in population, it is natural that they should object to the un lue influence exercised in so important an assembly by such comparatively insignificant com munities, and a Californian, with a sneer, says : " Why, my little ranch at Los Angelos is nearly as large as Rhode Island, and I cannot see why 1 should not return myself to the Senate for it, as well as Mr. SPRAGUE for his pocket borough." The BAYARDS can always scud a BAYARD from Dela ware and although Rhode Island may be split into contending factions, the question with the Rhode Islander is narrowed to " under which king?" A g lance at the map will show that the surveyors who chalked out the boundary lines of these States were hazy in conception. Why should Delaware have, a.ny existence at all as a State ? Was it that in ancient times it was thought necessary to shut out from the seaboard, such a great common wealth as that of Pennsylvania? The boundaries appear to be marked off as if expressly to prevent the big State from having any coast line, and New Jersey al la , Connecticut seem to combine with the store 014 0 against New York, which tapers to a narrow point a° it approaches the sea, and, were it not for Long Island , would have but little seaboard, while it stretche d an enormous distance along Lakes Eric, Ontario, and the river St. Lawrence. The Tribune propose s that Delaware should be divided between Pennsfr vania and Maryland on a line indicated by the pe°' ple, andißhode Island halved by a b oun d ar y runol°g through the centre of Narragansett Bay---the one t ° be absorbed by Massachusetts, the other by o ° s : necticut. It further proposes t o un it e N e w York' below the Highlands, with New Jersey ; west Ne l , Jersey being annexed to Pennsylvania. This wou ld bring the great metropolis well into th e cen tre of th e State to which it belongs, an obvious convenien ce ' The City of New York can never be really w,ll go_ verned as long as it is under the jurisdiction o f to States, for in truth it approaches to thi s —the sprea d in g interests of that rapidly-increasing city extend u l over to the New Jer s ey s id e , w h en c l a i ms an d deq ° may clash, what is done by the one Legislature bel l) ! undone by the other Legislature. Two States wo ul d thus be expunged, while a new State, to be ca lic Superior, might be form e d a l ong th e sout h ern sh°r o of the lake from the upper peninsula of Michig 3 . l :; where separated by the Straits of Mackinaw, 111 ' 0 that portion of Wisconsi n lyi ng t o th e nor th o f al° drawn due west from the mouth of the Menominee, in Green Bay, together with a part of Minneso ta ' Oregon is said to be ve r y i n j u di c i ous ly s epara from the territory of Washington. The River C 5, lumbia to Astoria Bay, has been made the hollaia dary, whereas e v ery i n t eres t requ i res t h a t it W il lie be made , the centre of the State, and the gri° 3 o f says :—" If all Oregon and Washington wes t de the 121st parallel, or the crests o f the Case a Mountains, were fused as the State of Oreg ° ' t and the western residue of the t w o declared (fov the present), the Territory of Washington, to be admitted as th e St a t e o f lik e name , the a tii vantage to the great body of the people of 10 0 would be signal and im me di a t e ." A s regar ds it has long been proposed to break it up into thr oo or even four States. At present the popula / o is not sufficient to bear the ex p ense o f ma king Bt/ o g a division, but the Western and Eastern see ts) differ from each other, while the Red River di o u r from both in climate, soil, and production. -A -1)(I to tion of Florida stretches to the We s t, g oing far t° wards shutting out Alabama fro m th e G u lf of ge li o t So obviously ridiculous and incon v e n ient Is the arbitrary division that it is to be submitted to o d inhabitants of the district between Alabama 5 0 the Gulf whether they elect to be annexed t 0 iV State of Alabama or remain as they are. This ,4 probably make the river Apalachi c ol a the boun t o between Alabama and Florida ; but the line e f .4 , Suwanee is talked of which would be manifestly pt fair to Florida, and wou ld b r i ng ano th e r clay ° i to for a slice of that State into the field, in Gee r t g o t A change more eagerly discussed is however o i l of the removal of the National Capital. The ul f ° t , of empire westward m akes a n y pl ac e east a t to Louis an Eastern city, and the right of the eas 00 have the capital located there is denied. Bu t , e to o St. Louis, it is argued by the Ch e y enn e Argus, °pi far East, and if the population tends toward W ier cific seaboard, were the transfer effected, this e t d 1 tion would sur e ly i n th e fut ure b e rev i ve d. Ewell , i t 0 condemns 'Washington. One paper says f t he one of the wicked es t pl aces i n th e wor ld, one ° lleo t, muddiest, one of the dustie s t, o ne o f the du o' and, worse than all, it con t a i ns t h e na ti o nal e ° tiou of works of art," b u t it a l so sneers a t C' jo as the vainest place in the world ; at St. LO lll3 respectable old town, where the representati v° 4 o l) have nothing to do but stand on the levee and the shipment of breadstuffs ; at Cincinnati , gb has no genteel family amusement except porks l3 io itO tering, and at Oshkosh, which can only enter t 3 O Ol guests with statistics of its own greatness• impudent little place Omaha is inflated W o o° extravagant and juvenile ambition h a ving hi c t fallen into a fine property. Keokuk is ruled °u is .tat its preposterous name ; and some f a il to see ° o lio' grounds a town like that could pretend to sue ll o s elf nour. Nearly all the papers of what are novi called the Western States admit the claims of St. 00 0 4 and even the leadin g j ourna l o f th e l ea ding i s or al city, the Chicago Tribune, p ronounces in fa' l3 o l Chicago's rival. Any one on referring to a ilj avorl: the United States mu s t b e s t ruc k w i t h the 5 4gt tages of the position of St. Louis. Situa te 10.0: below the junction of the Mississippi with th e " co of souri, it stands in the most commanding P 1 51 0,00 the great valley of th e Mi ss i ss i pp i, and is 3 Golf equally distant from the vast lakes North, the fit. of Mexico, South, and the Atlantic Ocea t t so air This unity of opinion throughout the West loe% p erii nous, although sneered at by the New Yor l .ii rbior To secure the removal, there must be a ee' - o f t he effort of a large proportion of the citizen s jo United States, and the most important st e s, o lo° , fix on the new site. If Chica g o, Memphis, SY' o g and Cincinnati all agree to differ and pull i t tl a site directions, Washington will continu e i itic tio s length of time to enjoy the unenviable d is of sti r : of being the " wickedest place," which is u es e. 11, to be the location of the National Legislatart Empire City claims the seat of governnle°lol), right should that seat be moved, and if the „ e fo' OP long it will be necessary to erect two capita ls ' , o ast .4 the East and the other for the West ; but s ci a o r il h e ,'' this to happen the prairie States will be " car l o New York and San Francisco must in that °3 o t the day. The error of locating a Goveril% e rtlxv o rural village for the representatives to ho bl era al e , d simplicity and virtue has exploded. G ov j 0V . 4 breeds corruption, as a military garrison WV haS a breed vice, and LONGFELLOW w 01.11%. in 0 • other deep voices than th a t of the oce a ' r es jo swer to the wail of the forest, had C en t i ada n j sembled in Acadia. If ever a change b ° gr','A the Federal seat of Government it will be °ober city, and the conflict will be between the and the interior, between one and two. 4 14 er. 01j A 1 [ADVERTISEMENT. Consumption, an , . 7 0 , "0 bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in everY?" o - c lott ° ,,,jell e , aggravated and accelerated by drugs of evei Y .9„ r ti e r, perfectly curable by Du BARRY'S health-resto re 1 0 0 0 0 ,%0 Arabic& Food, as proved by thousands of cases 77 ' oitt) , Arr noP 0 bk - tie considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dYs. co o 0, rrh ne 'l l asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, dig- - a.tat°,o derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, 50 ° 0' vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diPb t ";;;ati s "P colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rhe.„,.. v , slc o olx impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritalTaty, ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache , deo", at s e o 0 0 , spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnan c !. t ing flts, bronchitis, scrofula, tiOatness of the etl: M e cur, r pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders , 1: 0 0(1 , 01 1 ` 1 0 few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's ob' 68,413—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the f , '„ e 3 excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reTopi confined himself entirely to Du Barry's RevalenttSo 116100 of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. 1 1 biO , 00`of a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, tr ot tir cannot praise this excellent food too highly." -- qtobe r T(l I t ' j c i of ° du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. Jam es , d oeSS - ,, merchant, of Fernley, Surrey, of thirty years, dea feS,teP spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial ut o f 00' 00 0' N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Llenterla ears' - rift yco 1 of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83 '. I r b y" able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, as .., 00 0tungsv„ r it, stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and ; 00 ,nY Jolly." Important Caution.—Beware of the_ 4tbo ot and more than sloppy imitations to which, . 3 ib° 4g Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls 1Id; Ilb `2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 1 , Ao te fo r 0 s 2 t lbs IN.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENYA 00, 9 et) POWDER is packed in tiu canisters: for 1 2 nuP' f ' o r 57., r e e l at s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 305, 55 , ne or cl —being about one penny per cup. The 30s nj?,`„ A str Offi.,dott free of carriage in England on receipt of r tr u, Do. RAR iy' Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regen" oet all Grocers and Chemists PENNANT—On the Bth inst _ ion. Mrs. A. Douglas Peninaantt,7o7f aCcilitteusgtlr:esra::::l'B:l:: THOMSON —On the Bth inst at 58 square, the wife of David " • ' Th sov 1.46- '" Lionel oni I lenSitigt°ll,:l'el °f Son. BIRTHS. :MARRIAGES. 00101101 CUMING —On the 7th inst. at Sout. Nrsidiro' Cuming, Willi;" Ellis, Esq. of 40 Clifton-gard"n,. o f S fL t ,'ill• to Maria Jane, the eldest Lirviving daugil`estock"rd, of Ifarrowden, to Frances Y l‘farn MOSTYN—KEARNEY —163,0 n sth inst., at ICils, k tora Esq., of Adelaide-road, flay° 0111'01 the lion. nonfarm° Most Ll._ 80000 SOll 01 oo r 0 J. Kearney, Esq., D.L., MiltoWn nee Se, eldost dBllg-kteatp' I s , DEATEIS. lop b t All'` ALLAN—On the Gth inst ,at Brighton, -.--° - - er 1.4" of Hendon Lodge, Wi.indsworth, aged s 5. I -A ' l t MORRISON 011 the sth hist rfans Morrison, ci, 9 4' of the Middle Temple aged" 27. '7 , Da Or ORD --On the Oth inst., at Upper Clapton, -'° aged 65. _.... 51) , o ds 1 A.IVE A 4tro , London: Printed and P ublished by WILL- .„,. 02, ../,- of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TS SIIN affle e '''', °; ' d idd lo ' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the t.lounty 0, Tuesday, August_lo, PO.