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

LAW A.ND POLICE. BRZACIDIS OF TIM FACTORIES ACT.—Several cases arising cat of breaches of the Factories Act have recently been brought before metropolitan magistrates. Mr. Spearing, a printer, of Holborn, has had to pay three penalties of 20s. and costs for employing apprentices within pro hibited hours. At the Thames Police-court, several \persons belonging to the Jewish persuasion were sum p:tong for employing workpeople on Sundays. They pleaded that, as their Sabbath was on Saturday, and there were several religious holidays lately, it was hard to have to give up three days in the week. The magistrate, be lieving that they - acted in ignorance of the law ordered them to enter into sureties to appear for judgment when called upon. SENDING DANGEnons GOODS BY RAIL.—Mr. Landsherger, commission merchant, was summoned before the Southwark Magistrate for sending eight barrels of mineral oil by the London and Brighton Railway without distinctly marking the nature of the goods outside, or otherwise giving notice The oil was petroleum in a crude state. The magistrate said it was a bad case, and inflicted the fall penalty-120 and costs. _ _TRIAL OF Two BROTHERS FOR MURDER.—TWO brothers named Barbour have been charged at the Glasgow circuit court with the murder of a poor washerwoman at Greenock in Jaly last The elder pleaded guilty to cul pable homicide, and was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. The younger escaped punishment on the ground Mit he had merely concealed his brother's crime. &JFPOSED MURDER BY TRADES UNIONISTS IN SALFORD. A bTutal murder has just been committed in Salford, which is supposed to have arisen out of a trade dispute. On Monday afternoon a man named Burnes, who lived at No. 33, Zebra-street, Regent-road, was seen in conversation with two men in a beerhouse, near the, Regent Hotel. One of the two men appeared from his dress to be a bricklayer; Burnes was a mason. After having some drink in the beerhouse, the three men went into the road, Burnes being apparently anxious to escape from the other men, and the bricklayer following him with threats and abuse. Suddenly, whilst Burnes was quickening his pace, the bricklayer went up to him and struck him a fearful blow on the head. The unfor tunate man fell heavily, the back of his head striking the flagstone with such force as to render him quite insen sible. The fury of his assailant seemed to increase when the unfortunate man fell, and he kicked him with great violence, and even lifted up his head and dashed it on the flagstone. Whilst all this was being done, a number of persons looked on, but not the slightest attempt seems to have been made to seize the murderer, and he escaped. The murdered man was removed to the Salford Royal 'Hospital, but he was never conscious after his ad ,mission, and died on Tuesday evening. He had a -wife and three or four children, who are left in a deplorable condition. QUARRELLING OVER THE DEAR An extraordinary outrage has taken place near Bristol. Horick, the widow of an army officer, lived in a house near Totterdown-terrace, on a pension allowed by Govern ment. A man named West, an intimate friend of Mrs. Horick, lived in the same house, and died about six weeks ago. Mrs. Horick, on his death, gave herself up to habits of intemperance, and speedily killed herself. Since the death of West, it appears that his father, a man 60 or 70 years of age, had been allowed to reside at the house, and after the demise of Mrs. Horick be remained there a day or two, and then obtained lodgings in the neighbourhood. Mrs. Horick's landlord, who lives next door to the house of the deceased, then took possession of the premises, Mrs. Horick having no friends in the locality. On Friday it was rumoured that the old man West had been advised to claim the furniture and contents of the house, and that an attempt would be made to gain possession of them by force. The land -lord placed the matter in the hands of Messrs. Clifton and Mosely, and as an attack on the premises was anticipated on Saturday, Mr. Cross, from Mr. Clifton's office, attended there with a body of men to act on the defensive. In the meantime, arrangements had been made for the funeral to take place on the Saturday afternoon, and while the hearse was in readiness at the door to take the corpse a number men entered the premises from the back dashed in the plate-gla.ss windows, broke open the doors, and, getting into one of the rooms, made pretty free with the beer and eatables provided for those attending the funeral. They then came into collision with the men engaged to protect the property, and -while the corpse was in the house a disgraceful and riotous scene prevailed till the defenders succeeded in ejecting the intruders. The row attracted a considerable crowd round the premises, and it was found necessary to postpone the funeral. A FARMER ACCIDENTALLY SIIOT.—A shocking accident happened at a shooting party of farmers near Leamington, on Wednesday afternoon. One of them fired at a covey of birds and accidentally shot Mr. W. E. Frank lin, of Offchurch, who was also one of the party. Some of the shots entered his right eye, completely destroying the sight, and a great portion of the charge spread over his right side. Mr. Franklin was taken to Leamington, where Dr. Horneblow extracted some of the shots lodged in his body, but those in the eye cause great agony, and it is feared may have penetrated the brain. EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY. - The Sydney Morning Herald of the 11th of August, says it is stated on good authority that there is a man (in the healthful dis trict of the Kurrajong) 113 years of age. His name is Michael Norton. He lives on a patch of ground on the Colo River. He states that he is the sergeant who was in charge of the party under an officer named Ross, who marched to Government House to 'arrest Governor Bligh is recorded in colonial annals. MYSTERIOUS DEATH ON PLAISTOW MARSHES, On Thursday a labourer, while walking along a field in the occupation of a farmer named Lake, near Canal-line, observed the body of a man, apparently a gentleman, lying in the bottom of one of the deep ditches by which the place is intersected for purposes of drainage. Having procured assistance, the body was lifted out of the ditch, when it was found that the throat was cut from ear to ear. A surgeon who saw the body was bf opinion that death had been caused by the fearful wound in the throat some three weeks ago, and that the :body must have lain concealed in the ditch for that period of time. The remains were those of a respectable-looking man, apparently of the middle class. The clothing was so tffected by the water and mud of the ditch that a minute description of it could hardly be given. The deceased ap peared to be a stout, well-made man of about sft. gin. in height, aged about 60 years. The features were greatly decomposed. Nothing but a few copper coins were found in the pockets. Search was made in the vicinity of the spot where the body had been discovered, and an open Tiasp knife was turned up The police are endeavouring to procure some evidence as to the identity of the deceased. AN ARCTIC EXPLORING PARTY.—Mr. Lomond, late M.P. for tute, and Mr. Levsey, of Ventnor, have just arrived at Dundee from an expedition to the Arctic regions. The party arrived in the steamer Diana at Spitzbergen in June. The primary object of the expedition was to endeavour to penetrate beyond this point until, if possible, the pole was reached; but notwithstanding every exertion, they were unsuccessful on account of the unusual quantity of dense heavy ice that was encountered. If it had not been for the extraordinarily large blocks of i©e that were met with, it is believed that the Diana would have made some considerable distance farther ahead. Ten years ago Mr. Dimond attained a more northerly point in a sailing' sloe, than that - which he reached on the present occasion, although at that time the excursion was more for hunting than exploration. The present expedition made th r ee attempts to go beyond Spitsbergen, but the farthest point they could reach was 80 degrees north latitude. The medical gentleman was Dr. Smith, whose name is familiar to all who take an interest in seafaring matters from his connection with the ill-fated Diana, of Hull. STRANGE AFFAIR AT , BELFAST. — The other morning the inhabitants of Byron-street, Belfast, were alarmed in their beds by a sudden report resembling thunder, or the discharge of a battery of artillery, under their windows. Hasty preparations were made for a speedy exodus from the locality, and many people, in the firs' paroxysm of the panic, rushed out in every stage of the toilet. After some time COrifil:CllCC was restored, and the people retired again. In the morning it was found that the cause of the night's alarra was the total demolition of a whole street of new houses, fortunately as yet not occu pied, not being quite complete, which came down with a sudden crash. Doors, windows, bricks, &c., all lay in one heap of ruin. Where, the previous night, a row of partly-completed dwelling-houses stood, there was now I, pile of rubbish and debris. The mystery was cleared by th, production at the police-court of a. man named Clarke, who, with a number of other men, was found by two con stables, immediately after the fall of the buildings, con cealed in the imraediato vicinity, A subsequent search about the premises lea to the fluding of a UWAllber of strong ropes, like ships' hawsers, which leads to the sop position that the mischief was &ma by passing the rope= round the narrew walls betweefl wiaclewa *aatlex math, and " a lei atmagtvA ai a }All laithav did AO rest, 41E2 ROPOLITAN G OgslP—Thursday. Mr. Gladstone has, on the whole, accom hed his fir( at task of Bishop making very well. His appeintmentse'have been commended by the Opposition no less than by the Minis terial journals. Of course they do not suit the extreme men, whose praise is censure, and whose censure prai se ." But moderate men of all schools will be well pleased. As I stated last week, in contradiction to sundry rumours, Bishop Wilberforce goes to Winchester, and, in all proba bility, Dr. Miller to Carlisle. During the present week it has been announced that Lord Arthur Hervey will go to Bath and Wells, Prebendary Mackarness to Oxford, and Dr. Temple to Exeter. I cannot help thinking that in selecting Mr. Mackarness for Oxford and Dr. Temple for Exeter, there has been rather a placing of the round man in the square hole, and the square man in the round hole. Mr. Mackarness has passed most of his post-academical life in the country, and has been little connected with Oxford, nor while he was at the University did be have a career much above the average. Dr. Temple, on the other hand, has been a prominent man, as a writer, as a preacher, as an educational reformer, and above all as the head of a famous school. His proper place would have been at Oxford, Prebendary Mackarness's at Exeter, especially as in the latter diocese there is scarcely any Broad Church element, and the few men of that school are looked upon with great dislike by both the other schools. Dr. Temple certainly has a difficult task before him in healing the breach which now exists in the Western diocese, and it will not be rendered easier by the fact that he will have to work with men of such narrow views, and violent enunciation of them as Dean Boyd and Archdeacon Phillpotts. Nor will Dr. Miller have a much easier task at Carlisle, where, though he will find in Dean Close some points of agreement on theological matters, he, an advanced Liberal, and a sup porter of disestablishment in Ireland, will have to work with one who has declared disestablishment a crime and a sin. On the other hand, Dean Liddell is not likely to give Mr. Mackarness any trouble, for they both are supporters of Mr. Gladstone. The Dean of Wells (Dr. Johnson) is not likely to trouble anyone, for he is one of those dignitaries who pursue the even tenor of their way so quietly that outside the diocese it would be diffi cult to ascertain their names. Dr. Temple, it will be remembered, two months ago re fused the deanery of Durham, on the ground that he had a great work to accomplish at Rugby. Some persons will say that he has been induced by the extra £2,000 a year to give up that work. Yet it may be well imagined that he was influenced by much higher considerations. A deanery is a somewhat otiose dignity, and Dr. Temple may have felt that he was too young, and had too much work in him, to subside into that. Educa tion has always been his strong point. He was for merly one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. It was he who, together with Mr. Acland, M.P., for North Devon, the present Earl Fortescue, and Sir John Coleridge, the father-in-law of the new Bishop of Oxford, did more than any other person to originate the movement for improved middle-class education which is now going on, and especially the university local examinations. He was too one of the Royal Commissioners who inquired into endowed schools, and whose report of twenty volumes is the finest blue book ever published. Dr. Lake was another of the Com missioners, and he received the deanery which Dr. Temple declined. Dr. Temple has accepted the bishopric prompted, we may well believe, by the idea that in the House Lords he will be able to give valuable assistance to the Government when, next session, they bring in their Education Bill. While Mr. Gladstone has got through his episcopal appointments, he has still to fill up a large number of ecclesiastical vacancies caused by those appointments. The rectory of Honiton, worth £BOO a year, with a Prebendal stall at Exeter, fell vacant by the elevation of Mr. Mackarness, and although the first is usually in the gift of the Earl of Devon, it falls to the Crown on this occasion in consequence of the vacancy occurring through a Crown appointment. Lord Arthur Hervey's promotion renders vacant the living of Ickworth, worth £BlO a year. The appointment to the Archdeaconry of Sudbury will, however, remain with the Bishop of Norwich. Should Canon Miller go to Carlisle there will be the living of Greenwich,worth £l,OlB to give away. The Canonry of Worcester is only an honorary one, and will, I believe, revert to the Cathedral chapter. The Headmastership of Rugby, which will be vacant by Dr. Temple's election to the episcopate, will be conferred by the Trustees of the School. It is early yet to say who will be chosen • but if Mr. Farrar, the second master at Harrow, should come forward there could hardly be a better man for the post. The universities have fared very unequally in the present distribution of good things. Mr. Kingsley, who succeeded to Dr. Moberly's canonry at Chester, is a Cambridge man, and of course his successor in the Regius Professorship of History at Cam bridge, Mr. Seeley, of " Ecce Homo fame, belongs to the same university. So, too, does the new Bishop of Bath and Wells. But Dean Lake, Dr. Temple, Prebendary Mackarness, Dr. Miller, and, of course, the Bishop of Oxford are all Oxonians. The ages of the new prelates are as follows :—Dr. Moberly, 66 Bishop Wilberforce, 63 ; Mr. Mackarness, about 48 ; Dr. ' Temple, 48; Dr. Miller, 55 ; Lord Arthur Hervey, 61; giving an average of 57, which is five years too high. As there is no present prospect of an underground com munication between England and France, a proposal has been made by Messrs. Waring Brothers, contractors, who, it is understood, are supported by some influential firms, to construct a port of refuge near Cape Grisnez, which is about ten miles north of Boulogne. The French Government has been asked for a concession, and the pro jectors offer to find the whole of the money which may be required. At the particular spot there are twenty-six feet of water in all states of the tide, so that large vessels would be able to enter at any time. The distance from Dover is t went y -two miles,and, , as steamers of the class that r un between Holyhead and Kingston would be employed, the passage could be made in little more than an hour. Passengers would, therefore, have the advantage of the shortest journey by the fastest and most comfortable boats, with a certainty of being able to enter the port when they reached it. To a seasick person nothing is more trying than to find, after crossing the Channel, that the steamer has to remain outside the harbour for an hour or two until the tide serves. A convention a-,,pointed by the French Government will meet at Arras on the 14th inst. to consider the phn. A very strong opposition is threatened by the inhabitants of Boulogne and Calais, who foresee that such a scheme, if carried out, would completely divert the traffic from those places. They represent that it is possible so to improve the two harbours as to give sufficient depth of water at any time. It remains to be seen whether the Government will be tempted by the offer to improve the communication, with the additional advantage of a new port of refuge, at no cost to themsel ves, or w hther the rival interest of Calais and Boulogne will prevail. At all events it is to be hoped that some means will speedily be found for rendering the passage from shore to shore less unpleasant than it is now. Mr. Rassam, of Abyssinian fame, is returning to Aden, i where he hold a post in the tone As before he undertook to liberate the captves. He leaves England, greatly complaining of Lord Napier. He declares his lord ship did not treat Theodore fairly. When the cows were accepted, Theodore thought that all was right, and that there was nothing more to do than to make terms, having been assured to that effect by Lieutenant Prideaux. It appears that Lieutenant Prideaux did not dare tell Theo dore that the English general demanded the surrender of Magdala, for he feared that the an g r y tyrant would be enraged and put his informant to death. Hence Theodore did not know Napier's terms, and Napier supposed that they had been rejected. Indirectly, therefore, as well as directly, Theo dore was his own executioner. But for his atrocious tem per, ho might have been informed of the British con ditions, might have accepted them, and might be living now. The literary world is beginning to revive, and publishers are now venturing to issue books which they have been holding back for months in the hope of better times. It is hardly, however, owing to this cause that the delay has taken place in the publication of Mr. Tennyson's new poem, whose subject—The Quest of the Holy Graal—was first announced in this correspondence. Whatever the "Poet Laureate writes is sure to sell, no matter how dull the times. Delay in his case always results not from the unwillingness of publishers but from the fastidiousness of the author. Except Balzac, there scarcely ever was a man who touched and retouched so much as he does, as the printers know to their cost. ,There is scarcely one of his poems as now published which has not been altered since its first appearance. Fortunate are those which have been only altered. More than two dozen of the " Poems, chiefly Lyrical," published in 1830, and just a dozen of the poems published in 1833, have been altogether suppressed. The new poem, lam glad to say, is in type, and there is good reason to hope for its appearance on this side of Christmas. It is not often that poets so fastidious are so successful. For ten whole years Tennyson published nothing. During that time he was perfecting what will probably remain his greatest work, the "In Memoriam." Even now his works bear but a small proportion as to number compared with those of Wordsworth. And yet while Wordsworth was a comparatively poor man, Tennyson is guaranteed £4,000 a year by Messrs. Strahan. Another point of interest is the fondness which the Laureate has shewn tbroughout his whole career for the Arturian legends. So long back as 1832 he published the " Lady of Shalott." In 1842 there were fragmentary poems borrowed from the same source, namely,the "Morte d'Arthur," "Sir Galahad," and " Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere." Then came, in 1859, the " Idylls of the King," and now at the ripe age of 60 he is about to give us a poem founded on another of the same legends. It is worth mentioning that Tennyson is indebted forhis poem " Enid " to Lady Charlotte Guest's " Mabinogion," whose narrative he has followed even in minute details. Finally, on this subject, what has become of the promised collection of Tennyson's songs, set to music, which was announced some time ago ? A few days ago the Times contained a long review of Mr. Gilbert's new novel, " Sir Thomas Branston." The reviewer spoke highly of the artistic skill of the book, but protested against the main fact, declaring that it was im possible for a well-principled young woman to be so utterly , changed by typhus fever and the administration of alco holic stimulants during the fever as to become the demo niac which the novelist depicts. lam authorised by Mr. Gilbert to state that this change is not only not impossible, historyb I.t countless continued has i s aiaacntfsutt trueeaa actually recovery, nes oevi. taken yen wr he. i p rte ti a aa c t nka e let; taken haw that, alcohol so in fa ro.taGei administered ne e r s , h Minnie 's and has produced mo ra l i nsa nity of the kind ou h rheaysi portrayed.ous illness, For such, and indeed for most dipsomaniacs, there is no cure but an asylum, where they may be under restraint. There, being deprived of d r i n k, they are perfectly sane ; but theirreturnnecessarythemfat al released.they as release, G e lb n e 6 r e, : isDuchess n completely , c (c, l ze em s wonriiftaiiicFsge a as any n in ien t t h io e ne s tl y i l n da S li cii m pt g u a r , e ine Renee, Fer rara, and the Italian Reformation, and it wills o interest those who are reading it to k n o w that there are in archives of Ferrara a number of "the good Duchess's" letters which have never seen the light, and which have become accessible only since the Austrians were driven out of Italy. Mr. Gilbert is now just setting out for the open ing of the Suez Canal. I have already referred to the book about London which will shortly be published, written by 19Innchard Jerrold and illustrated by Gustave Dore. I have now to announce a book about Paris written by Mr. Bertrand Payne (Moxon and Co.), and illustra ted by Mr. Moyr Smith, these two gentlemen having visited Paris together for that purpose. But that which is likely to prove one of the most remark able illustrated books which have appeared for a lon g g time is Hood's poem of Miss Kilmansegg, illustrate by Mr. Seccombe. FOf t his artist, as yet unknown to fame, and who is, I believe, an Artillery officer, his f r iends speak in the most rapturou s terms. They say that he combines the genius of Tenniel, Doyle, Cruikahank, rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1869. renowned explorer bad arrived at the Lalte Ay Last February, and doubtless, long ire this, he has advanced further into the interior. Of course his progress must depend greatly upon the disposition of the natives ; but the telegram we published yesterday proves that these were not hostile. All Dr. Livingstone's European companions had deserted him, but the Arabs were furnishing him with foot. and Hogarth. Concerning this poem I may mention an interesting fact. A very accomplished Frenchman who has translated a large amount of English poetry, including even Chaucer's, into the French language, states that " Miss Kilmansegg " is the only English poem which he cannot render. Its wit is so subtle, and its allusions often so recondite that they will not bear " over-setting," as the Germans say. Mr. Lawrence Oliphant has been in England lately, after a few months' residence with the American communists. A work by him, entitled " Piccadilly," is announced by Messrs. Blackwood, and is, I believe, a republication of the tale which appeared some time ago in their magazine, which., by the way, Mr. Blackwood edits for himself. The clever sketches of the Life and Times of George 11., which have appeared in tho same periodical, are by a namestke, but no relation, of the author above-mentioned—viz., by Mrs. Oliphant,the novelist. The author of the article on Sir William Hamilton in the London Quarterly Review, is the Rev. John Moor, a favourite pupil of Sir William's. Dr. Rule, author of a work on the Inquisition, wrote the article on the (Ecumenical Council in the same review ; the Rev. C. A. Row, author of "Jesus and the Evangelists," wrote that of " Lecky's History of Morals ;" the Rev, W .B. Pope, that on Stier; and Professor Paton, of Nottingham, that on Protoplasm. Among the new books that are announced I may men " Wenderholme, a Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire," by Mr. Philip G. Hamerton, author of " A Painter's Camp," and also of those capital papers in the Globe newspaper signed "G. P. Notremah " (his own name spelt backwards) ; also a work to shew the evidence for the Papacy in Scripture and in primitive antiquity, written by Mr. Cohn Lindsay, who was formerly president of the "E. C. U. " and lately seceded to Rome ; likewise a dic tionary of Ritual, by the Rev. Frederick George Lee ; and " Families of Speech," by the Rev. Fred. Farrar, of Harrow. The new work by Garibaldi has for its subject Rome in the nineteenth century. Mr. Dutton Cooke, the theatrical critic of the Pall Mall Gazette, and the novelist, has in the press a volume of studies, entitled " Art in England," which will constitute a history of English art from the time of the Stuarts to the present day. The second volume of Taxile Delord's " History of the Second Empire " will be out before the end of the year, and will contain some im portant documents from Belgium. Mr. Kinglake is gone to the Crimea to obtain materials for the concluding volume of his history. MIL SIIERIDAN, M.P., AND THE ALBERT. Several of the electors of Dudley, having expressed themselves dissatified with their member's explana tion of his connection with the Albert Assurance Company, a meeting was held on Wednesday evening to consider what steps should be taken in the matter. It was unanimously resolved that a requisition be presented to the Mayor requesting him to hold a public meeting, "to enable the electors generally to have an opportunity of recording their views upon the hon. member's transactions with the Albert and other insurance companies." The requisition was signed by nearly the whole of the meeting, and arrangements were 9iade for increased circulation. THE CANADIAN DOMINION. An address to the Queen from the two Canadian Houses of Parliament, praying for the admission of Newfoundland into the Dominion, has just been issued. It is proposed that the Dominion should tale the debts of Newfoundland, and as the latter State will be taxed for the liabilities of the whole territory—herown debt being very small—an allowance should be made. Newfoundland may transfer to the General Govern ment her unoccupied lands, mines, and minerals, and will receive 150,000 dollars a year as com pensation. This transfer, however, is op tional. The fisheries of the island will be encou raged. An efficient mail service between Canada, Newfoundland, and the United Kingdom is to be esta blished. No exceptional tax is to be imposed on any of the Newfoundland exports. Canada will defray the salary of a Lieutenant-Governor for Newfound land, the expenses of the postal service, and other charges. Such are the conditions as laid down by the Canadian Leffisl2,ture ; and it appears that they do not greatly differ from those approved of by the Newfoundland Legislature. Sir John Young, in a despatch to Earl Granville, hopes that the con stituencies of the island will approve of the union at the general election which takes place this autumn. PROFESSOR ROGERS ON THE LAND QUESTION. Writing to Sir John Gray, ALP., Professor Tho rold Rogers, of Oxford, gives his views on the land question. He thinks that " Ireland must be a country of small holdings ; but it must, in order to obviate disaffection, obtain fixity or security of tenure for the agriculturist. It is plain that agriculture is depressed when the only person who invests capital in the soil is discouraged from such an investment by the uncertainty as to whether he may not be made to pay interest on his own capital' Mr. Bright's plan, the professor thinks, is rational and businesslike, but unluckily its operation must needs be partial. Mr. Mill's has the merit of being universal, but it made the state of the landlord irre sponsible, and a terrible army of bailiffs would be wanted to collect the rents. Professor Rogers believes 'the only remedy is that of turning the non* occupying landowner into the recipient of a fixed rent charge, payable in money, but calculated, to save changes in the value of money, in produce. He would also put a treble income tax on the absentee owners of such a rent charge." He knows the scheme will be pronounced revolutionary, but there are plenty of precedents in English history for it, ono of which was the Tithes Commutation Act. In the North of England and Lancashire the custom of letting lands in towns at a perpetual chief rent is well-nigh universal; and had not the custom pre vailed, Mr. Rogers is convinced that some of the industries in the county named would never have grown to their present extent. By the plan named, the landlord would, of course, lose the power to drive his tenants to the poll to vote against their convic tions, and the people would not be obliged to employ violent means to protect their own. It may be said that a tenant might overcrop and exhaust the land ; but there could be a cheap and easy process by which he might be summoned before a jury of farmers, and if the charge be affirmed, the holding should be put up by auction. ARCHDEACON DENISON ON TILE CHURCH. At a meeting of the English Church Union, held it Liverpool on Wednesday evening, Archdeacor Denison and Mr. Mackonochie spoke on the increase of the episcopate and the ministry of Christendom The Archdeacon, in the course of his address, said that the Church of England as a Church could get nothing from Parliament, for the House of Lords had dealt its own death blow, and the House of Commons consisted of Roman Catholics, Nonconformists people of no religion at all, and those who had Nonconformist constituents to gratify. He spoke, he said, with feelings of great respect to the present episcopate, when he said it was absolutely lifeless compared with the wants of the dioceses. The English Church Union was the representation of the prin. ciples of dogma, which was the strength of the Church of Rome, and therefore he advocated ite increase all over England. The English people were not going to become Roman Catholics, not Broad Church, but they were going to become Anglo- Catholics. The Church of England, he ended, had nowhere called herself Protestant. Mr. Mackonochie opened a discussion upon " The Reunion of Christen. dose ," in the course , of which he stated that good would result from the forthcoming General Council a' Rome. EXPENSES OF MANAGEMENT. The Bishop of Oxford has just been making s pleasant speech at a Liverpool meeting in connection with the Universities' Mission to Africa. The Univer sities' Mission seems to be a model specimen of phi lanthropy. Nobody is paid for specimen the concern.' The secretary, the collectors, and the rest of the officials do all their work in the heartiest manner for nothing. All the money goes to Africa, and hence the mission is successful. The Bishop of Oxford, in fact, thinks that the way in which the work of the Church is done abroad is ti great lesson and encouragement to the Church at home : I am not one of those who have any fears about the Church at home—not the least. I see none of the signs of a failing Church anywhere. Those signs, the deepest, the most deadly, the most certain of all indications--want of zeal for the Master's name, want of love to the Master's person, and so, carelessness about the Master's truth— those, I believe, were never more absent from this English Church than, through God's mercy, they are at this moment. Some quaint remarks about Sir Samuel Baker's edition to put an end to the slave trade in Central expedition to pitt an end to the slave trade in Central Africa followed these hopeful expressions. The right rev. prelate is glad that Sir Samuel has undertaken this important enterprise, and glad that the Viceroy is helping him. But he does not think that the latter exceedingly clever man has sanctioned the ex pedition because "his Mahomedan heart is over flowing with the milk ..)1 human kindness." His great object is to win the confidence of England, and therefore ho is in earnest to put the slave trade down. But whatever may be the Viceroy's object, the means he uses to gain it are unimpeachable. THE BAPTISTS IN CONGRESS. At the meetings in connection with the Baptist Union Congress, now being held at Leicester, resolu tions have been introduced pledging the Union to support a thoroughly unsectarian system of education, supported by local ratos under local management, and with power to compel the attendance of children at school. Thanks have been presented to the Government in general, and to Mr. Fonter in particular, for the Endowed Schools Bill. With respect to the University Tests, it has been resolved that "no settlement of the University ques tion can commend itself to this Union which does not open the offices, honours, and emoluments of the national uni vers iti es an d co ll eges t o a ll classes of her Majtsty's subjects, irrecp?e;",!vo religious distinctions." SAFETY OF DTI. Sir Roderick Itnrchison has once more proved correct. Ile expressed his belief that .Or. ..Aringstone had made his way to Lake Trzwanyika, with the intention or striking thence thxough the continent to the West Coast. Part of this surmise Droves to._llisve been well founded. The COLONEL KELLY. A correspondent of the Liverpool Courier, who has just arrived from America, furnishes some informa tion regarding the real Colonel Kelly, which, if correct, sets all doubt about this mysterious indi vidual at rest. This correspondent states that he was in the company of the Fenian leader in New York so late as three weeks ago. The Colonel is at the present time postmaster of the F Division, 3rd Avenue, New York, a position he has held for thirteen months. Ho escaped from England as a German emigrant. THE BENCH AND THE PRESS. The judgment of Vice-Chancellor James in the suit by the European directors against the Times, for commenting on the position of the company pending legal proceedings, has not been met by the condemnation of the press alone. The London correspondent of the Manchester Courier says that some of the English legal authorities have expressed the opinion that Sir W. James has pushed the autho rity of the court to the most extreme point. " The two paragraphs from the City article complained of were no doubt awkward, but they were merely a repetition of facts perfectly well known and easily ascertainable by anybody who chose to take the trouble, and not a tithe so damaging as the current gossip of the day." THE ALBERT ASEITI 4 11 . tie COMPANY. Whatever may be the opinion of the London Committee, the policy:holders residing at Liverpool and Hull seem determined to set their faces against the scheme for worlriu,?; out the Albert account by the Alliance Company. Those who hold policies in the first-named town have passed a rosolution stating that they are afraid that by sanctioning the scheme they may compromise their claim on the shareholders of the several companies whose business has been transferred to the Albert, and they, therefore, prefer that the assets should be realised as soon as possible. The Liverpool policy-holders set forth similar views in a resolution, which also expressed a wish that Mr. llarding should be appointed co-liquidator with Mr. Price, to protect the interests of the policy-holders. MEAT FRO3I AUSTRALIA. The value of the Australian preserved meat has been subjected to a very i n teresting. trial at Edmon ton. The test applied was that of giving the wives of a very large number of artisans instructions how to prepare a dinner, and then supplying them with the means of publicly cooking the meal for themselves and husbands. The meat experimented upon was the salted and boneless mutton and beef which has been exported from Australia. It was cooked, not in joints, but in stews, mincemeat pies, &c., the instructor pointing out to the wives that by preparing the meat alone much of its goodness was wasted. A meeting was afterwards held, and the working men, after a pleasant discussion, pledged themselves to use the meat, whether they liked it or not, for six weeks as a portion of their food. DE PBOFUNDIS• -- - Vice-Admiral Elliott writes a most grievous lamen tion on the decay of our merchant service, and the rapidly-increasing loss of life and property through shippingdisasters. Ships aro now frequently sent to sea in a defective condition, because so in effectual are the laws of survey by which certificates of seaworthiness aro obtained, that, long after ships aro unsound and unsafe, they are allowed to be loaded with heavy cargoes and human freight, and, in fact, they are run to perish. The insurance covers the loss and a new vessel is provided. Not only does life and property suffer from this system of sailing unworthy ships, hut likewise from the decline in the British sailor class. Denationalised, demoralised, and supplanted is the fate of the English tar. Much of this risk is owing to the Free Trade policy, for during the glorious times of Protection the crew of every ship was required to be two-thirds -English, and a certain num ber of apprentices had to be carried. The Admiral calls for a reversal of this policy in favour of recipro city, and for an Act of Parliament more strictly defining and forbidding what is unsafe in navigation. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18. The habit of enclosing in letters sent by mail BUMS of:money, has created a numerous set of thieves connected with the postal departments. Greenbacks are convenient thus to despatch, but it tempts the carrier, and makes thieves even of the postmasters. Many newspapers have bitterly complained of in tercepted letters containing remittances. A mail agent named R. J. Schooner has been arrested, being detected in the act of opening and abstracting $24 from a letter, which he after wards tore up. He was doing a fine trade between Philadelphia and New York on the New Jersey Railroad. There is much dissatisfaction among the Johnson Republicans who have lately been removed from the post-office, many of whom have seen war service. The work on the new building is pushed vigorously that the founda tion may be laid before the frosts set in. Eighteen feet below the surface a very old Indian scalping knife was turned up. The Harvard crew arrived in Antwerp,them a welcome. Surveyor and No. 2, North Pier, was the City of giveto Cor nell boarded the vessel at Staten Island and was the first to congratulate them on their return. Mr. Shea tendered them the hospitality of the New York boat clubs while they remained in the city, and amid loud cheers they were driven to the Astor House, where a sumptuous feast awaited them, and on that evening they figured at a great banquet at Delmonico's.. All I can tell you is that whatever might have been their mush and fruit training-diet in England, they have been doing their best since to make up for lost time. Loring and Fay, the bow and the stroke oar, only, of the actual crew have returned, Simmons, Burnham, and Lyman remain ing in Paris as well as the substitutes, Bass and and Rice ; but Win. Blaikie, their Secretary, and Messrs. Edward Dudley, A. 0. Evans and T. B. Ticknor, members of the senior class at Harvard, accompanied them, also C. H. Elliott, their boat builder. In the Gay of Antwerp were Signor and Mrs. lan officer well knownin connection with the river transport during the war, and whom Blitz; Gen Parsons was also on board. A "professional" gentleman mentioned in your columns , I have seen frequently excites no small share of attention, the celebrated James Mace, who has arrived in sound condition ready for the fray. Ido not know who this pugilist is to fight, but I suppose some one is in for it. The Peruvian Minister has been serenaded at Gramercy Park by the friends of Cuba, as a compliment to his Government, for the handsome way in which they have acknowledged Cuban independence. The Junta is very confident that recognition will soon be accorded by our Government. They say that President Grant has freely expressed his own views in their favour. Asa Packer has arrived from Penn sylvania, and has been eagerly consulted on the state of affairs in the Democratic camp here. A great effort is in progress to patch up the. rent, but with doubtful success. The Citizen and Round Table maintains that the design of substitut ing Chief Justice Chase for Governor Seymour just before the Presidential election was conceived by August Belmont, and to that unjustifiable act the defeat of the Democrats was mainly owing, his object being t o f orwar d the interests of the foreign bondholders. Th e m ovement now in progress is to get Mr. Tweed t o d ec l a re that he does not aspire to a place on the National Executive Committee, when Mr. Belmont may withdraw, it is asserted, of his own accord. Richard W. Bleecker has been made Pre sident of the North American Fire Insurance Com pany in place of Mr. James Otis deceased. The new Fire Department of Brooklyn has been brought into operation ; the 179 men are dressed in blue overcoats, with white metal buttons, and caps the same as those of the New York firemen. There are 13 engines and six hook and ladder trucks, with nine hose carriages always ready for use. A very remarkable instance of devotion to duty occurred yesterday week on a drawbridge of the New York and Newark Railway. Albert G. Drecker had to close it just as a passenger train was coming up, and while on the work his son, a small boy, fell off the bridge into the water. The father had to continue his work while the child was drowning, the choice being before him of saving his offspring or wrecking the train. The boy was drowned, as the watchman elected ascould toeod welldoh his duty humanyundera hseig. painful o cir cumstances The Humboldt Centennial was favoured by delightful weather. The medal struck to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his birthday is of bronze, twoinches in diameter, with a profile head of Von Humboldt, with the legend on the reverse—" Eart 4 and Heaven he explored, Revealed Nature, and . Freed the Mind." It was executed by Anthony C. Paquet of Philadelphia. The president of the Monument Association, Mr. Detmold, formally presented it to the commissioners of the park, and his excellent speech was responded to by Mr. An drew Greene. The procession , under Gen. Louis Bur ger, marched in imposing array from Great Jones street to the Central Park, when the bust was un veiled, and in the evening there was a grand banquet at Kranbz Hall, Fourth-street. The occasion has been generally observed throughout the country by our German citizens, with the hearty sympathy of all the native born Americans who know anything of the man whose memory the world honours. Some one facetiously remarked, on hearing that milk had risen in price on account of the drought, that he was not aware that water was so expensive. We are told that standard milk should contain 88 of fluid to 12 of solid substances, but here 93 is the mark. We have, however, this advantage over you in Lon don that, so far as I am aware of, New Yorkers have not as yet undertaken to make milk, while I un derstand there are with you regular manufactories where calves' brains, chalk, and other things are used for the solid substances, and I prefer our thin milk to such a thick mixture, but it would be preferable if the milk were left alone. The West side coopers are now on strike. The So ciety of United Coopers, No. 8, has caused the strike on account of the masters violating the rules in employing green hands and men not members of the union. Their work consists in baling and hooping boxes used by dry goods houses, in which they earn from $l7 to $l.B a week. The first num ber of a new evening journal, called The Republic, appeared on the 10th September ; St. Clair Arliel way, formerly of the Trenton Monitor, is the editor, and William H. Hallock, of the Journal of Com merce, manager. A new weekly has also just come out, The National Guardsman, to advocate the esta blishment of a national guard, and to uphold the interests of citizen soldiers and of the militia gene rally. Secretary Boutwell has been in town and interviewed extensively, but though he takes in the ideas poured into his ears, I can scarcely say that his are a mutual interchange of views, for there is next to nothing to be got out of him. " Sun-set" Cox has returned from Europe, and was met by a number of his friends, who gave him a hearty wel come and afterwards a serenade; Ex-Secretary Borie is also here on private business. Mr. Asa Potter, who was once Secretary of State for Rhode Island, was thrown out of his carriage in Broadway yester day and seriously injured. The horses ran away, and their driver was badly hurt. The number of these accidents is surprising, and proves bad driv ing. Here is the latest instance—Mr. W. Heaton, a merchant in Boston, was thrown from his carriage on Thureday, and died yesterday from the injuries sustained—Sheridan Shook has been honourably acquitted of any lot or part in the fraud on the Government, agratifying result to the many friends who were present, including Thurlow Weed. The other parties will have to face the charge them selves. Matteson, the deputy, who received the missing cheque for $7,000 from Alexander and Co., which was never credited to the Government, has waived an examination, and his case will go to the Grand Jury. Among the arrivals here are Major Jas. Haggerty by the steamer India from Glasgow and Koopmanschap from San Francisco.: WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. The Celestial Mission is at a discount, and it is clear that Americans are not impressed with the notion that Peking is a paradise. Horace Greeley stated in his paper that nothing could induce him to accept it; the Hon. John Bigelow, editor of the New York Times, declined it, when it was tendered the result being the same with ex-Senator Frelinghuy - sen of New Jersey. The President has made General Sherman ad interim Secretary of War, many believ ing that the permanent appointment will not be filled up till the meeting of Congress. The legality of holding two offices is questioned, but it has been decided that there is nothing to prevent the Gene ral from commanding the army and acting as Sec retary of War at the same time. There are several other cases, such, for instance, as that of Judge Richardson of the Massachusetts State Court, who is Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury ; and a case also in point is that of General Young, and you even have one in Europe in General Sickles, ‘N ho is not cnly Minister to Madrid, but has brought there with him a General's staff. Many papers de nounce these incumbents of double appointments as " bloated I luralists," representing us as drifting into the sinecure system, out of which you in Eng land have been struggling, and General Sickles fur nishes a fertile subject for abuse, sound though he be on the main question, and notwithstanding that he left a leg at Gettysburg. A statement has been going the rounds that the confession signed by Mrs. Sickles and read at the trial, is said by her to be untrue and obtained by force, that she signed it without reading it, and was therefore ignorant of the contents; but against this it is urged that the confes sion was in her own handwriting. By the wording of Sherman's Commission, as Secretary of War, he is appointed till the end of the next Session of Con gress, but he has to elect which salary he will take. The name of Gettysburg recalls the fact that the officers who went there to mark out the positions had a grand dance, and have been heartily abused for their levity on such a spot. One set condemn the gathering as perpetuating an ill feeling, de claring it to be got up too from the vilest motive 3, by a ring of laud speculators, who wished to adver tise the mineral-waters, so that, altogether, the Gettysburg affair proved a failure, All the citizens of Pennsylvania and Ohio iu Washington are to pro ceed to their respective States, to vote, the Republican ticket, of course ; reduced rates of fare on the rail roads have been secured. Few reside here who be- long elsewhere, except office-holders, and they know which way to vote, because their masters tell them. It saves them any trouble in the way of thinking, and as their services are supposed to be wholly given to the Executive Department, they have no right to expend energy or thought which might be utilized in the service, especially as they thought business belongs to the head of the bureau. Our President, however, cannot be brought to see things in the pure light of a party politician, and he is a decided stumbling block in the way of those who desire to coerce, in the interests of party. Greenbacks continue to pour in in small sums as contributions to the Rawlins' Fund, which will be made up, it is thought, to $lOO,OOO, New York contributing one-half. The Treasury Department has discovered a new mode of re trenchment very disagreeable to the clerks, indeed if anything could " choke off " an American from office the treatment of these gentlemen might be expected to do so. But an American official is like a wife, the more she is beaten the fonder she is of her place. An estimate has been made of the loss through the absence of clerks, and it is found to figure up to a total for the Revenue Department alone of little short of a half million of dollars, without including the men who are late, and those who take now and then an odd half hour, and some five-and-twenty clerks have had black marks put against their names and their monthly compensa tion reduced. Supervisor Fulton, who is an active agent against the whisky rings, has been here con sulting with Delano. He wholly opposes compro mises, advocating a strict administration of the law, and it is believed that the Commissioner fully sup ports his view. Captain James Burns has been ordered with his company of cavalry to South Western Virginia to assist the collectors of Internal Revenue. All the distilleries • and bonded ware houses are to be provided with a T owns e n d l oc k Ifrom the Manufacturing Company at Buffalo. The doors are to be fitted with the requisite hasps and staples; and these locks, at the expense of the owners, and the supervisors are directed to see that this is done. henry Wilson, who was once Pay master in the United States Navy, has been putting his knowledge there acquired to some account. Two bills have reached the Navy Department, from San Francisco, purporting to be signed by him, which, if the signature be genuine, shows that he drew $604 in gold on forged papers, ordering him to proceed to China, and draw on the Department for his expenses. A comparison proves the signature to be his, and he was recently seen in California. Commissioner Delano left last night for Ohio, and he is shortly to stump Pennsylvania. Secretary i Boutwell has returned, and Attorney-General Hoar will next week, when we will have a full Cabinet meeting this day week. The President is expected ' here next Tuesday, by which time the White louse will be renovated and completed for a winter resi dence. Secretary Robeson has been very ill, so much so, I regret to say, that yesterday he was unable to receive visitors. It would never do for the Secretary of the Navy to follow the Secretary of War. Parson Brownlow, old and decrepit as he is, keeps up the conflict. At present a row with Captain Ricks of Knoxville is progressing, who ac cuses him, in violation of his promise, of having permitted a Secessionist to succeed him in the edito rial chair of the Knoxville Whig. In reply it is asserted that the paper is owned by a company, in which Brownlow only held shares, without a con trolling influence, the sale of these being but a mere matter of business, that Ricks' charge arose from a feeling of hostility, as he had been rejected by the Senate as Pension Agent at Knoxville. The Pub lishing Association announces that the Washington Express is to be issued in connection with the Na tional intelligence) . as a Democratic morning jour nal next Monday. Already the Secretaries are gathering their information on which to compile their annual reports to Congresa. A circular has been forwarded to the head of each bureau of the Trea sury Department to send in at once an account of the year's business, and other Cabinet Ministers are, I suppose, doing the same. It appears now to be certain that General Sickles was not authorized to make any demand on the Spanish Government, but to press mediation earnestly on the basis of a fair payment by the Cubans to induce the Spaniards to withdraw ; and this is the view still held to be the correct one by lead- ing members of the Government. The question has been carefully considered by the State Depart ment,,and our Minister has been told to press this on the attentiott of the Madrid Administration. Here a positive refusal is anticipated, and people look with some apprehension on the growing ex citement among the Spaniards, and Prim's pro ceedings in Vance. I can assure you that it bodes no good ; for, although our Administration will carry on their negotiations in the - Inost courteous and conciliatory manner, yet they strongly incline to put their foot firmly down on the Cuban ques tion. AMERICAN PRESS. A Gentile newspaper, the Utah Reporter, thus reviews the controversy between Brigham Young and the sons of Joe Smith : "The special excitement in Salt Lake City, consequent on the mission of the young Smiths, seems to have quieted down and given place to a mere quiet and argumentative discussion on the writs of the case. This is one of those singular controversies in which both parties' know they are right,' 'arid can prove it too. AE far as human testi mony can prove anything, it can be proved beyond a doubt that Joseph Smith, the Prophet, practised polygamy, while, with still more certainty, both by human testimony and documentary evidence, it can be proved that be constantly and bitterly denied it, that be 'silenced' all the Elders who preached it, and that nearly the last day of his life he pro- nounced it a false and damnable doctrine. Sixteen women swore most positively, and allowed their affidavits to be published in the Nauvoo Expositor, that Joseph Smith had made proposals to them to become his concubines, and twelve women, now in Salt Lake City, subscribe to affidavits that they were the spiritual wives of Joseph Smith, and lived with him as such. It were difficult to prove a case more plainly. When the Expositor came out Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, Dr. Bernhisel, and all the Nauvoo Council, composed of the leading Mormons, pronounced it an infamous libel and the women perjured liars, and destroyed the printing office. In conversation with Governor Ford, shortly after, both the Smiths, John Taylor, and Wil lard Richards most solemnly averred that polygamy or spiritual wifery was no doctrine of the Church, and that by such a charge they had been cruelly maligned by the publishers of the Expositor. Could that side of the case be more plainly proved ? But there is other evidence. The Brighamites claim that the revelation authoris ing polygamy was given July 12, 1843 ; on the Ist of , February, 1844, the following appeared in The Times and Seasons, Church paper at Nauvoo : Notice—' As we, have lately been credibly informed that an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by the name of Hyrum Brown, has been preaching polygamy and other false and cotrupt doctrines in the County of Lapeer and State of Michigan, this is to notify him and the Church in general that he has boon cut off from the Church for his iniquity, and ho is further notified to appear at the Special Conference on the Gth of April next, to make answer to theso charges. JosErn Sminti Presidents of the Church, HYRUM SMITH, "Only six weeks afterwards Hyrum wrote to ' the bre thren on China Creek" that as he had heard of a man preaching that doctrine there, 'it was false doctrine, not taught or practised in Nauvoo,' &c. For nine years the church kept up this deceit. And now comes John Tay lor, Brigham Young, and others, and deny their old de nials, claim that they lied in their statements to Governor Ford, and that they did practise polygamy extensively in Illinois. How can we believe the testimony of such people on any subject ? They do not claim to be consistent in this thing, but justify it as pious policy,' and state dis tinctly as their views that the Lord allows his people to lie for a good cause.' Within a few days past two pro minent Brighamites have avowed it to me, quoting the example of Abraham in favour of judicious lying, and one of them supplemented his statement by the re mark—' Anyhow, it's no harm to lie to a gentile!' But Joseph F. Smith, who is conducting the discussion on the Brigham side, seems still to have a faint sense of honour, and in his sermon last Sunday e ve ning grew quite indignant over our published statement that he had proved his own father a liar.' Ho said that he made a great distinction between toll ing a lie and not telling all the truth.' He then read Web ster's definition of the word polygamy, and stated that 'that kind of polygamy was not practised by the Saints; that was the kind his father, Hyrum Smith, meant, and that was a false and abominable doctrine.' This is a nice distinction, but I give him tho benefit of it if any one can see it. But with such quibbles on words, such ingenious evasion of the plain meaning any sensible man would put - upon a statement, and especially with their avowed doc trine that 'it is no harm to lie for a good cause,' we hope the Mormons will not expect us to believe any more of their professions." The New York, Times considers the reward of public men in America is " to be abused when liv ing and praised when dead," citing the obituaries on Senator Fessenden as an example. The United States Economist says : " The fall trade opens under circumstances that warran anticipations of a more favourable season than has been known for some time past. At this early period of the season there are no very marked improvements in the ge neral condition of business, but there is a perceptible ac tivity that promises better things for the future, and that is, at least, indicative of a departure from the extreme dull ness that has solong characterised all branches of business. The grounds for anticipating a successful fall trade are de ducible from a consideration of the main features of the industrial interests of the whole country rather than from aspect of affairs the cheering, though possibly transient, in this and other commercial centres. The time has now evidently arrived for witnessing the effects of the remark able industrial efforts put forth by the whole American people since the close of the civil war. ' For the last four years wo have been at work in the field, forest, mine, and factory, reproducing the property destroyed during the great conflict. We wish we could add that we have boon at work on the sea, but it is all too manifest that our ocean commerce, which was the first to suffer by the war, is likely to be the last to improve. In evorthing else, however, we have made the most substantial progress. Thanks to immigration, there was more land under cul tivation in the United States this year than ever be fore. Even the South, exhausted and almost ruined, is recovering much of its former prosperity. The cotton crop is very nearly up to the maximum of theanter period in quantity, and, owing to the advan ce in p rice, The will realise more money than in any former yield y ear. other products are more diversified , and sugar, anda and ‘vt thep tobacco, es ere promisess,w i th to b t e h e exceptionsatisfactory.of rice, of I n tl m North ecorn, a si r l e al a l b n ov ot e teheelyavhear‘a,geeseeofe.ethe nbiorsetapdraotaspffearotues y ears. render f o W o d e j v h o n n. country, but will also have With these substantial a large surpplentiful and l u c s he fo a i p . go and transportation of our ex we possess all the elements of . a prosperous j e u x p o o u i l- ta og t ‘ advantages, lv'oerseixfnainn (Auctions can hardly fail to fall s t i r v a o d a c i . id d T i im partten' a healthy stimulus to every branch of business. Eng hnd will certainly want more cotton than we can se ll h er, an d probably all the breadstuffs that we can spare. An other favourable circumstance is found in the remarkable extension and improvement of railroad and water transpor tation during the last few years. The opening of the Pa cific Railroad, and the construction of the numerous branch lines in connection with it, open a new and vast field to commerce. There is scarcely a town or village in the broad expanse of our country that does not feel the want of transportation facilities, and that has not taken measures to remedy any deficiency that may exist. Many new short linos of railroads have been recently opened, through sections of country hitherto practically excluded 1 from a market. Nor is this all. Our system of water transportation is being developed to a remarkable extent. The Mississippi grain movement is assuming vast propor- Lions, and public attention is now directed to the ad vantages to be derived from the development of our interior lines of lake and river navigation, and the construction and improvement of canals in connection with them." The Omaha Herald of the Bth Sept. is filled with the sayings and doings of George Francis Train, who appears to have just returned from an ex tended tour through California. Judging from the tone of his remarks our impression is that Geo. Francis had not been well received by the citizen° of San Francisco, otherwise it is hard to account for his swinging round the circle, from abuse of England to the abuse of California. Perhaps it as he says, because the newspapers were very Englis7 that he found the country so objectionable. was never so astonished before," says Mr. Train; " no one had even heard that Lee had surrendere d * They cheat you in everything. First, they say there a population in San Francisco of 150,000. I 0 up one morning and counted every man, woman , and child, and there were not 100,000. Everything was a show. The Pacific coast was a sucked orang e and San Francisco the sucker. It is the most gantic swindle I ever saw. The Soutb Sea bubble was only a ten million dollar affair after all. Mississippi land scheine only another 10,000,0 w, and the tulip mania of Holland 5,000,000. Twentr five million dollars was. the whole extent of tb h e gigantic bubblesof the seventeenth century on wb ies so many volumes have been written. The bubb, l° of San Francisco amounts to $200,000,000." T ° result of his inspection was—" Alaska, lives ; Prh: tish Columbia, dead ; Washington Territory, aliv e Oregon, sound ; San Francisco, exploded ; COW' nia, broke ; Nevada, ' played ;' Idaho and Bin ° ' tana, dying • Pacific bubble, burst ; Utah, fin e ; rishing. ' George wrote a sweet thing in epigrn °l on the Yo Semite, and says : " When I g,t of back from the Yo Semite I found C alf ' a friend of mine and a first rate fellow, who do 9 s ; 11 largest business on the smallest steam engine of any' b in this country. He can take a piece of Indiana dollgoo and divide it mom equally among one hundred chic l ‘ e „, than any other man. Colfax went out with SO"' Bowleg, on whom I wrote the epigram : The Springfield Republican and the Worcester Spy, Too mean to live, and too poor to die ! Holland's a brick; but the smallest of souls Is the one-horse editor, Samuel Bowles.' " bat He proceeded to tell his enthusiastic audience t t, be would be President in 1872, and after extraeed ing a vociferous cry of Aye from all who favo ur io it, he called for the Noes of those who opposed. di response came a very distinct No, whereon the r e ,je l, George remarked, "there was a stranger in ':, o r braska." Again he put it to his hearers whetl'e, he was to deliver a coherent or an incoherent leer ture after stating it was the same to him whe,"„ o ci it should be incoherent or not, an 3 received a 1 3, 0 response in Aye, but one voice cried No. "SA. said George, " only one, and be is an Eng li s t man ; I like his individuality." We wondered 11 0 11 had become of George Francis Train ; he ha s ° t he been taking in a fresh cargo of ammunition 004 Pacific Slope, and he now commences firing " in his usual reckless style. do ° Alluding to the three men of national reputilt,o then lying dead, the New York Herald says, ' l ; e ral different ages seem brought together in the e°, l o histories of Fessenden, Rawlins, and John Bell. 711 E AUUMN HANDICAPS. : - ..3 8 4 THE CES The Palmer See Saw ... 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