The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-19 00:00:00

Si 31 0; , rULLIC JOLTI-Lx'aLs, CA.YOEING O 2 THE TO The Times hails with pleasure the i n ti mat i on g i ven to Mr. Macgregor, alias " R o b R o y," wr it es f rom "T e ll Him Sea of Galilee," by date Jan. 22, giving an interest both Houses of he r M a j es ty' s w illi ngness t o rece i ve i n person the addresses in answ e r t o th e R o y a l S peec h, and ing account of some ca noe i ng w hi c h h e h as "d one " on believes that the people a t l arge w ill h ear th e intelligence the Jordan. Leaving D amascus , w h ere t h e snow l ay on the ground, he mad e hi s way roun d t h e spur o f H erman, with even livelier satisfaction and interest than the mem and launching his boat near Habesast, he soon reached the dent for the occasi on w hi c h i s f u ll o f hi s t or i ca l i n t eres t. hers themselves. Mr. Glad s t one h as di scovere d a pr e c e - Dan. He was s t o pp e d, h owever, at l engt h b y t h e i n h a bi- The 21st January, 1806, formed one o f th ose e pochs which tants, and had his canoe ca pt ure d. Th e nove lt y o f a canoe on the river first collected a crowd, which grew gradually seem like turning-points in the history of the world, when larger, By and by the cry of " bucksheesh " (money) the destinity of humanity itself bangs in the balance. The nation was thrilled with the e xc it e m e nt of Trafalgar, when arose, and as "Rob Roy "would no t s t o p an d g i ve th em a n y the naval power of F rance an d Sp a i n wa s dest ro y e d, b u t they captured him and his boat after fi r i ng a t hi m several " The greatest sailor s i nce th e wo rld began " wa s l os t t o times. " They hoisted the canoe on their s houlders, and his country." The nation hung also over the death-b e d o f I bore it, with me sitting inside, to the te n t of the Pitt, and was perpl exe d, if not in despair, at th e th oug h t i Arab sheikh. A large crowd f o ll owe d, shouting of the anarchy that must follow on the d ea th — rea li se d and dancing. I insisted on havi ng th e Rob Roy two days after—of that commanding geniu s . Th e King brought into the tent. A gran d 'p a l aver was , lamenting the death of his brother, suffering f rom incipient held. I told them I was an E ng li s h man . Sown, blindness, and not unwarned of th a t more terrible sows, they said (friend). I said I mus t p as s on to the alienation of power which was to f o ll ow, did not meet lake. They assured me there w as no roa d. I sa id I must Parliament in person, but Parliam en t, cast i ng as i de, if it i go to see. The seniors of the tribe a ssem bl e d to consult, ever cared to consider, the questi on o f prece d ent, hastened and several precious hours w er e was t e d i n t a lk. Mean to testify its loyalty and pat r i o ti sm a t t h e f oot of the Throne. while I made sketches f u r som e , gave a lesson in geography to others, fired off some wax matches for The Queen will com e f rom 'Wi n d sor to receive the the rest, and cooked my luncheon of hot soup in my addresses of Parliament, and it may be presumed that an early day in the en su i ng wee k w ill b e appo i nted for the canoe cuisine' to the wonder and delight of all. ceremonial. The pe o pl e w ill see i n thi s spontaneous act Over and over they pres s ed for bucksheesh,' and I something more tha n anx i ous so li c it u d e on t h e part of her answered, `Certainly, but it must be given to your Majesty to p er f orm h er hi g h pu bli c f unct i ons i n a manner sheikh.' He winked to me. I knew I had bought him most gratifying to her loyal s u bj ec t s . Th e recept i on of then. I privately gave him a g o ld na p o leon, and he the two Houses by th e sovere i gn on th e assem b l i ng of pressed me to stop the night in his t e nt, but I was at last allowed to go on. and so in triumph launched the canoe this new Parliament, indeed, bespeaks the Queen's kindly again on the fast flowing stream." But only one of the Arabs feeling towards the mass of her people, her broad, popular had before seen an Englishman, so they "followed him up" sympathies, the satisfaction she has in being associated until getting entangled in some weeds he found he would with an assembly representing in the largest and freest manner the weight and purp ose o f th e na ti ona l w ill . have to remain with them f o r the eight. Setting off next morning, he paddled on to the Lake of Genessareth, The Standard declares that there is cause for satisfaction " where," he goes on to say, " I have spent six hours of in the arrangements that have been made for the pre- this fine summer-like day in a careful scrutiny of the sentation of the address to her Majesty. "Bringing up water on the north-east shore. I soon found ruins under the address" is usually a form which does not excite the clear water, and it seemed that no one was within the slightest interest. The clerk reads the sentences in half a mile of me then, but suddenly a man which the House humbly thanks her Majesty for what came forth, as if out of the earth. He was of the she has said in her gracious speech in the midst of a general colour of the soil, too, and perfectly naked. He gave a conversation, and unless a member whom the Speaker loud Shout before plunging in to reach my boat, but the could not see on the opening night insists upon delivering warning was in time, and of course he could not catch me the speech with which he was primed, the question is put by swimming. I asked some of the Arabs why they and the incident is over. Last night, however, the routine wished to get hold of the canoe. Some said because the consecrated by the practice of so many years was broken boat was so low in the water they thought I was sinking ; upon. Mr. Gladstone moved that the address should others that, being alone, I must be lost. `Then to be presented to her Majesty by the whole House, a pro- save me from being lost or drowned,' I answered, ceedina under the circumstances almost unprecedented. It you think it best to shoot me.' The real reason is, I had been, the Premier observed, her earnest desire to meet believe that an Arab cannot resist firing at what is new herself the new Parliament, but the state of her health and moving. In England many of us would take a shot rendered the gratification of that wish impossible. at a man flying in the air if he suddenly hovered over At all times the ceremonial of opening Parlia- some country village. I had already seen Palestine before ment had taxed her Majesty's strength most severely, in the usual way, but the varied enjoyment of this and severe and long-continued suffering had rendered journey has made it all new again, and I finish the tour, her personal appearance at the opening of Parliament so novel in its mode, with my boat uninjured, and the impossible. But the Queen was anxious, the Minister happy recollection of months of glorious weather in which explained, to meet a House elected under such peculiar every day has been a delight to the crew of the Rob Roy, circumstances, and had therefore been graciously pleased Jways in perfect health." to suggest that the address should be presented to her by the whole House. Mr. Gladstone's proposition to that effect, which was seconded by Mr. Disraeli in a few well. .UR RELATIONS WITH CHINA, chosen words, was unanimously accepted by the House, A similar resolution was arrived at by the Peers, and An important correspondence concerning the relations consequently her Majesty will come to Buckingham Palac e between Great Britain and China has been published. The to receive in person, from both Houses of Parliament, most important of these diplomatic communications is a their addresses. The country will appreciate as it merits letter addressed by Lord Clarendon to- Mr. Anson Bur this anxiety of the Queen to show her sympathy with her lingame, the chief of the Chinese Embassynow in Europe. people, and her interest in the work of its representatives. In this letter our Foreign Minister lays down the substance of a conversation with Mr. Burlingame respecting th e The Daily News says that th e di sappo i ntment felt by views of the Chinese Government as to its foreign rela the Queen's subjects when th e announcement was made -.that the first session of th e R e f orme d P ar li ament would tions. Alluding to the object of the Chinese mission to Europe, Lord Clarendon says that at his interview not be opened by her Majesty in person was, we believe, with Mr. Burlingame be understood that the Chinese felt in at least an equal degree by the sovereign herself, so soon as it . bccame cle ar t o h er th a t s h e cou ld not prudently Government were fully alive to the ad van t age, if not t h e tax her strength w ith th e b ur th en o f a protrac t e d and necessity, of extending the r e l a ti ons o f t h e C elest i al fatiguing cerem on i a l. Th e f ac t th a t th e procee di ngs of Empire with foreign countri e s, b u t th a t w i t h a ll t hi s they Tuesday last were practically th e commenc ement, not felt that any attempt abr u ptly t o i ntro d uce new systems simply of a new sess i on , no t mere ly o f a new Parliament, or new ideas among a p eo pl e w h ose k nowledge of foreign but of a new period in the history of our representative nations was of recent d a t e , an d w h o h a d b een b rought up under a traditi ona l system, would not only produce con openfusion and even revo l u ti on i n t h e country, b ut wou ld ten d system, naturally prompted in her Majesty the desire to the new era, if it may be so called, in person. Her design to do so was abandoned, it is understood, on to retard instead of promoting progress. Our Foreign the distinct advice, couched in terms which amounted Minister fully recognises on the part of England the almost to a prohibition, of her physicians. The Queen's wisdom of not pressing the Chinese to rapid and preju solicitude that the first meeting of a House of Commons dicial chang e s, b u t a dd s th a t h er M a j es ty' s Govern representing her subjects more amply than any previ ous went expected from China a faithful observance Parliament should not pass without recogniti on on her of the stipulations o f ex i s ti ng t rea ti e s. He con part, has found, in the revival of an occasional pra c ti ce, a tinues : " But her Majesty's Government are, more suitable means of gratifying itself. In the gra ce f u l s p eec h over, entitled to expect from China, as an indispensable in which, on behalf o f th e sovere i gn , h e t en d ere d h er condition of their goodwill, the fullest amount of protection Majesty's in v it a ti on o f th e represen t a ti ves o f t h e people to to British subjects resorting to her d o minion s . They are her presenc e , M r . Gl a d s t one state d t h at at every period aware that the Provincial Governors are t o o often in the habit of disregarding the rights of foreigners, trusting to of her Majesty' s lif e , even a t th e per i o d o f i ts unclouded impunity a.s regards the Central Government of Pekin g , and happiness and un i m p a i re d s t rengt h , t h e l engthened ceremonial connected with the o p en i ng o f Parliament to the unwillingness of foreign Powers to ass e rt th e r i g ht s o f taxed her Majesty's strength t o th e very u t mos t. their subjects by local pressure. Her Majesty's Govern merit feel that they are acting iu the interest of the At the time fixed for the meeting of Parliament this Chinese Empire, wizen they announce their preference for year, the Queen suffered a degree of p a i n an d p ros t ra ti on which amounted to a positiv e di sa bl emen t f or th e office an appeal rather to the Central Government than to local which she was anxiou s a t an y en d ura bl e cos t t o h erse lf to authorities for the redress of wrongs dune to British perform. That consid era ti ons o f mere l y persona l con subjects. It is with the Central Government, and venience did not influ ence h er i n determining on dischar , - not with the provincial authorities, that foreign Powers ing by commi ss i on th e d u t y o f open i ng P arl i ament is r have entered into treaties, and it is for the interest of the proved by the Queen' s rea di ness t o come up from Windsor Central Government that foreign P o wers should recognise to London to rec e i ve th e a dd ress o f b ot h H ouses. A s its supreme authority over its provincial governors , and Mr. Disraeli s a id, it i s i m p or t an t an d d es i ra bl e t h at some that the Central Government should assume, and , on all personal relations should be est a bli s h e d b e t ween h er occasions when appealed to for the redress of loca l wron g s, Majesty and the new P ar liame n t, an d th e course suggeste d be prepared t o exerc i s e that authority. It rests with the by the Prime Mini s t er w i se ly and j u di c i ous ly es t a bli s h e d Central Governm en t s o to order its intercourse with Great those relations. Britain and th e Q ueen ' s su bjects as to avoid cause of The Daily Telegraph regards with satisfacti on th e speech difference. I ha v e only to add, that all her Majesty's agents in China hav e been instructed to act in the spirit in which Mr. Gladstone explained to th e H ouse t h e arrangements which had been concerning the address, and with the objects which I have just explained to you ; and remarks that in broaching the subject, the Prime and generally to caution British subjects to pay due Minister explained—what we had stat e d, indeed, some respect not on ly t o th e l aws o f the empire, but, as far as few days before—the regret which her Majesty felt at may be, to the feelings and usages of the Chinese people." not bein g g able to open th e sess i on o f Parliament in person In reply, M r . Burlingame asTees as to the gen eral accu and, to show how desirous she is of meeti ng the national racy of thes e deductions from the conversation between representatives, it is now proposed that, instead of reading himself and Lord Clarendon. He adds that Lord the Speech from the Throne in the House of the Lords she should listen to the addresses of the Lords and Common; Clarendon's explicit declaration will give great satisfac in Buckingham Palace. Wehave, on a full knowledge of the tion to the Chinese Government. Copies of these letters facts, borne witness to the conscientious endeavour with were sent to four of our representatives abroad. In ad which the Queen has always, in times of joy or trouble, in health or in sickness, sought to do her part in the practical dressing Si r R u th er f or dAl coc k , our A m bassador at Peking public business of the empire—an endeavour needing on this important matter, Lord Clarendon says : " You will more exertion and attention than many can possibly observe in Mr. Burlingame's letter that he clearly under people, e. it we ßut re, the to vi grac siteher ful in her act whic own house whe n she h makes her ask her stands that f orce may be at once employed "to protect life cannot as go to theirs, e vinces the earnestness of her de s i re and property im me di a t e l y expose d." When, these being not merely to fuldher share of the work done, but to meet secured, the question at issue has been referred to Peking them face to face, and to exchange those greetings of to be diplomatically discussed between her Majesty's mutual esteem and kindly feeling which she has so sincerely at heart. representative and th e C en t ra l G overnmen t, the manner in which the matter should thereafter be dealt with, if it could not be amicably settled on the spot, would necessarily be left to the decision of her Majesty's Government. THE ATTACK UPON ENGLISH MISSIONARIES AT YANG-CHOW . These principles are applied to the consideration of the practical case of the outrage on missionaries at Yang chow. Respecting this affair, Lord Stanley addressed our Ambassador in general terms, hoping that missionaries would act with the greatest circumspection, and do their utmost to avoid occasion of collision. Lord Clarendon, writing January 14th, says that Sir R. Alcock properly referred the assault on these missionaries to the Central Government for redress. But the Foreign Secretary cannot approve of the interference of the naval force to threaten and intimidate the local authorities, irrespective of the demand upon the Central Government for redress. The active interference of the naval forces should only be in cases of sudden emergency. In another despatch Lord Clarendon gives further instructions to the employment of force:—" I have to instruct you (Sir R. Alcock) to explain to her Majesty's consuls thatad s h ips e t om h t e p lwo special ec ia daro l en stthapurp oses stationed ne d coastsfor i n aretwhichhe tports her p r toefct China tMajesty'se floating commerce of British subjects against piratical • attacks in Chinese waters, to support her Majesty's consuls in maintaining order and discipline among the crews of British vessels in the respective ports, and, in cases of great emergency, to protect the lives and proper. ties of British subjects, if placed in peril by wanton , attacks directed against them either on the part of local ' authorities or by an uncontrolled popular movement. As regards this last point, her 'Majesty's consul must constantly bear in mind that the interference of naval force, either on their representation or on the part of naval officers acting on their own estimation of facts before them, will alone receive the subsequent approval of her Majesty's Government when it is clearly shewn that with out such interference the Lees aryl properties of . British subjects would in all probability have been sacrificed; and even in such a case her Majesty's Government will expect to learn that the alternative of receiving them on board ship, and so extricating them from threatened danger, was not available. Her Majesty's Government cannot leave with her Majesty's consuls or naval officers to determine for themselves what redress or reparation for wrong done to British subjects is due, or by what means it should be enforced. They cannot allow them to determine whether coercion is to be applied by blockade, by reprisals, by landing armed parties, or by acts of even a more hostile character." The Post considers that by this time the public must - nave arrived at a tolerably correct comprehension of the meaning of the word " financing." It has been a great, influential, and little understood phrase hitherto, but seldom in the history of trade has one single term exer cised such wide and powerful influence. For seven years we have been living upon " seems," and treating dead leaves ailf they were golden sovereigns. The investing public has bee n somew h a t rudely awakened by the heavy fall which the year 1867 inflicted on speculation, a fall so continuous and so deep that it has landed its public appa rently at the bottom of that famous well where it is said Truth is to be found. There has been a great find of truths lately, and the speculative manipulators of money seem to be seized with a mania for revelations and confession which has apparently an epidemic character, just like humping, shaking, or harki ng among re li g i onists. They ave certainly told their stories plainly, and in many instances - with so little reticence and with such a face, that it is evident, painfully evident, that the standard of morality in the monetary world is so low as to be scarcely appreciable. The whole of the transactions are so bad on the face of them that no denunciation can make them more evidently black. If we would prevent money from withdrawing itself from all adventure, we must reform the system and punish the men who have been engaged in its dishonest development. The Star, in discussing the meeting held the other night fur the reform of the licensing system, observes that its promoters succeeded in making out a good case for imme diate and practical action upon the limited ground they had chosen. It is conceded on all hands that the Beer shop Act of 1830, which it is proposed to repeal, has entirely failed to attain the ends which the Legislature had in view when it was passed. It is acknow ledged that beershops do an infinite amount of mis chief, and that the inequality established by the law between their status and that of licensed public houses is the cause of that mischief. The abolition of beer houses, if agitated in a determined spirit, would probably be carried without material difficulty, and, besides being in itself a beneficial measure of reform, it would be a step to the reorganisation of the licensing system cai more stringent and uniform principles. The reform which is now demanded - is merely the abolition of the Act of 1830, as far as the further issuing of Leershop licenses is concerned. It is not proposed to touch vested interests, but to allow beershops to die out by degrees, so that in a short time the whole liquor traffic of the country may rest upon one uniform basis. That basis, of course, ought to be a remodelled licensing law of a very stringent kind. For this reform, however, some further agitation and discussion of the question in all its bearings will be necessary ; but there is at present general and just discontent at the manner in which public-house licenses are granted by the magistracy. One significant instance of the lavish wanner i n which licenses are eTanted way pointed out on WtAncs lay night l'y Mr. .T 7 A. Smitl Ile called attentio n t o t h e fact th a t in Upper Thames': street five consecutive Louses were licensed as pi 1 lic Louses. It is impossibi e th a t t h ere could be a demand 'for so many dealers in intoxicating liqnors within sucli irr limits. The change prop ose d d oes not startle bYits'anaaogvi nitmle, while all must admit its expediency. The Herald observes that the only objection raised against Mr. Forster's Endowed Schools Bill referred to the proposal to fix the second reading for Thursday. The persons interested in this bill must necessarily rely in a great measure upon the debate .in the House of Commons for their information as to the character and effects of the bill. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the House of Commons should proceed to its consideration after a sufficient study of the provisions of the measure, and with a full knowledge of the objections which the interests affected can urge against it. Much more time will be saved by discussing the bill thoroughly - upon the second reading, than by post poning discussion to another stage ; and Mr. Forster, in yielding to the wishes of the House, has really advanced lts Dassaae iiitQ TESTIMONIAL TO MR. KENDALL, EX-M.P. FOR EAST CORNWALL—A large meeting of leading Liberal and Conservative politicians assembled at Lostwithiel on Thursday, and presented Mr. Nicholas Kendall, late Con servative member for East Cornwall, who was obliged to retire from the contest at the last election, with a hundred guinea salver, on his leaving the country for Gibraltar. Twelve hundred rounds have already been subscribed, and the list will remain open for another fortnight, when the money will be handed over to Mr. Kendall. 1 THE SUN, LONDON', FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRLTARY 19, 1869. THE CONVENT CASE. - IIIETI?,OPOLITAN GOSSlP.—Thursday. At last there are signs of the end. The Hull Convent case commenced on the 3rd of the month, and will probabl3 be concluded on Tuesday. Interest in the proceedings is naturally declining, and for two days past the Court of Queen's Bench has been much less crowded. Yester• day the examination of Mrs. Florence Mary Kerr was proceeded with. In answer to Mr. Russell, she said : The defendants did not suggest my writing to the bishop in August 1865. (Witness's deposition was put in and read. She commenced it by stating that from her first acquaintance with the plaintiff she was impressed with the idea that Miss Saurin was a most dangerous person— very vain and worldly, and in order to gratify her vanity and her dislike of the reverend mother, she had recourse to inventions and falsehood, and that she felt that Misa Saurin's remaining in the community would undermine their religious life from her constant murmuring, disobe dience, and the false representations she made of the reverend mother. In many things Miss Saurin was a great actor, and she would lead the community to believe that the superior's conduct was whimsical, tyrannical, and partial. Her conduct was such that she (the deponent) had to withdraw as much as possible from intercourse with Sister Scholastica.) My de position was made in good faith, and in the honest belief of its truth. After the plaintiff's dismissal she was fed the same as the community. (Witness corroborated the main circumstances deposed to by the previous wit nesses for the defence which came under her observation, and which were in contradiction of Miss Saurin's state ment.) The witness appeared to wish to get in advance of the questions of the learned counsel, when Mr. Russell asked her if she had ever had to do penance for being impetuous. One danger is safely past—Ministers have got over the difficulties presented by the Irish question, so far as to prepare a Queen's Speech—Message, rather, for the day of Royal Speeches is gone by—and to meet Parliament with an unbroken front. Not the less, however, are there prophets of evil, who predict that this same question will yet break up the party, even should it not break up the Cabinet. Strange to say, it is Mr. Bright, a Noncon formist of Nonconformists, who is now supposed to be the chief advocate of the levelling-up system. His religious friends are whispering anxiously about him ; they fear that he is not " loyal" to the great principle of sepa ration of Church and State; and certain rabid anti-Roman journals are calling attention to the fact that in the recently published volumes of speeches by the President of the Board of Trade, one letter is included, that letter containing a proposal for giving each of the three chief communions in Ireland a million sterling out of the Church revenues. Why suffer this letter to be republished, say the critics, if Mr. Bright does not mean it to be understood that he holds the same views as he held 17 years ago ? Is it not because Lord Russell knew well he had a powerful ally in the Cabinet that he published his third letter to Mr. Chichester Fortescue, embodying the same proposal as Mr. Bright's ? While there is doubt as to the Ministerial intentions, doubt to be solved now in eleven days from this time, there is necessarily uncertainty as to the tactics of the Opposition. But already some sort of scheme has been traced in outline. Needless to say that for it to have any chance of success, it must command the support of a por tion of the Liberal party. A Conservative campaign fought under the old " No surrender" banner is not even The Lord Chief Justiee : You are not bound to answer the question. thought of by the Conservative leaders. The Irish Church, in its present form, is not so much precarious as past Witness : I think I have one now, my lord. (Loud praying for. The only hope of warding off total disesta laughter.)blishment and disendowment ( w hi c h, b e i ng i n t erprete d , Mrs. St arr never as k e d me a b out my confes sions. There was only one sick sister in Miss Saurin's means the only hope of the Conservatives regaining office) room, and that was the sister who sprained her knee. I lies in concerted action with the old 'Whigs, who are sup never knew of any ill feeling towards Miss Saurin. posed to be alarmed at the Radical programme. The Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General : A copy was present id ea is to relieve Roman Catholics from contributing taken of the letter she wrote to her brother Patrick when to the MI pport of the Protestant C hurch, j ust as Conservatives she was in the bath-room. Mrs. Kennedy did not dictate proposed to save church rates by relieving Dissenters from that letter. She objected to the first letter, and Miss that impost; and when that is done, to continue the Saurin wrote the second one. Except having a sister to go relations between the Protestant Church and the State, about with her after her dismissal, she was perfectly free by maintaining the supremacy of the Crown, the right of to go where she liked. She was treated the same as the other the bishops to sit in Parliament, and the jurisdiction of sisters with reference to th e or di nar y com f or t s o f lif e . H er the Privy Council in m a tt ers o f d oc t r i ne an d di sc i p li ne. I secular dress and clothes were goo d. I d on 't cons id er In this scheme the fi ne R oman h an d o f D ean St an l ey can her stockings were the v er i es t rags an d t a tt ers a scare - crow be traced, and sca rce ly l es s legibl e is th a t o f Arch was ever dressed up in. (Laughter.) I know she had a bishop Tait. I have reason to think that it good pair of stockings given to her on the 12th of February, would be supported by the Bishops of Oxford and but I cannot say if she put them on. The sisters wore Peterborough, and it would certainly be viewed their stockings as long as they will hang together. with greater favour at the Court than last year's (There was a slight manifestation of opinion by the " thorough." It is, in fact, the scheme of the Erastian public, which partook of the character of subdued party in the Church. This explains the strange rumour hissing. This had occurred on one or two former circulated a little time ago that Lord Westbury would occasions. The Lord Chief Justice stated that if heard lead the High Church party in the House of Lords. The any more of such noises—whistling or hissing—h e would truth is, this schem e i s far more likely to break up the clear the whole body of the court.) High Church party than the Liberal party. There are Witness : Silence is enforced in the schools. We teach High Churchmen and High Churchmen ; there are some the children self-control and to learn to hold their tongues. who, belonging to the old-fashioned school, consider the Speaking when at needlework is prohibited ; and to a vo id union of Church and State as the one " sacred " principle; speaking we use signs, such as putting the finger to the and it was of these that Mr. Disraeli was the spokesman last mouth to enjoin silence on the scholars. We might have year. There are others, the neo-High Churchmen, who had strawberries, but never strawberries with cream. hold that the union with the State is tolerable only because What made me so suspicious was her covering it up. I of the material advantages which it brings, and that if thought it was very had from what I had been taught. these are to be surrendered that ought to be annulled. The Solicitor-General : Was eating strawberries mala These High Chu rc h men wo uld denounce as Erastian any in se ? such scheme as I have shadowed, and although it is likely Witness : I don't know what you mean. that a sop will be offered to them by extending to the The Solicitor-General : Bad in itself. It was not a sin . Irish Church the right of synodical action which was con- Witness: No, it was not a sin. It was not a sin to eat ferred by Lord Westbury's bill upon the colonies ten years an apple, but a great deal of harm came from it. ago, they, are not at all likely to accept it. I know as a (Laughter.) matter of fact, that the editor of an influential Conservative The Solicitor-General : Not in the apple itself, but from and High Church paper has told his friends that if disen doing what was forbidden. Wh en mi ss Saurin muttered dowment is resolved upon he will "go in" for disesta• about black and mouldy bread, I thought she did it as a hlis'onent—fo r " free " Church, that is. matter of complaint. Ido not think it was an appeal to Ministers certainly have their work cut out for them. our sympathies. The reverend moth er mad e me leave out Although primary legislation, the codification of the law, of my depositionwbat she thought was too strong. I always and tenant right are omitted from the programme, there felt great sorrow and compassion for her. are measures enough to occupy, and more than occupy, the The Solicitor-General : You wrote this more in sorrow session. Even were there no Irish Church stopping the than in anger ? way, there would be an embarrassment of riches Witness : I used to fret about her, thinking how she with secondary education, the equalisation of the was throwing her life away, after she told me that her poor rates, county financial boards, bankruptcy reform, will was turned to evil, and that she had no power to the prevention of crime, the reform of the Reform Bill, change it. The rev , mo th er use d to try and h id e Mi ss and the like. It is to be regretted ' that some of these mea- Saurin's faults from me. sures are not to be first introduced in the House of Lords. Mrs. Theresa Collingwood, examined by Mr. Charles Lord Cairns very justly complained that the Upper House Russell : lam a lay sister, known in religion as Sister had nothing to do for the first half of the session, and was Mary. I did not come much in contact with Miss Saurin. overwhelmed daring the second half. Why was not the I saw something of her in 1858. I was a pupil in the day Banksteadr o u f p b tc y y si ß r i n ll o t:a e k r e t n co in llie h r a ? nd by Lord Hatherley, in school, and the pl a i n tiff occas i ona ll y taug ht nee dl ewor k. She did not obs e rve sil ence . Sh e f requent l y spo k e a b ou t h er re and, I think, by no means commendable plan of family, and allow e d the child ren t o ta lk . Sh e use d t o ask the old me about my friends. I di c t a t e d my d epos i t i on to M rs. communicating the contents of the Queen's Message to the p Kerr. I bad previously t o ld M rs. S tarr what I knew a b out ublic journal s i n advan ce h as b een rev i ve d thi s year. blissstated whatauri n . s h ek (Thene knew deposition s her,i tio and wasd tthat a t put ste d rfo r of e r ainlid,Na.o.ortudhneil. The Daly News (which, by the way, has been enlarged to n fifty-six columns on those days in which there are k o her g a ita m a l crin e i e reg r a n l ont, down, .eNtet'tro' desk. oaeekhnns the heart, t h l rs,t l she eoiaddalimsialt Plaintiff mentioned ti i we o mao s n e : ; e vn e d a i t long debates) affects to doubt this, and assumes that things.) In to try and excuse her, saying she bad the articles written by its Liberal contemporaries were only g ith happy, or scarcely happy, guesses. As a matter of fact they inhda, Motley,arnm and nadi will said aldli e tio s mue e In 1858 or 1859, Father Mother was i t iN n s o r o rh h . were not, but were based upon information supplied from the best of sources. The Times, the Telegraph, and t the Star had each a different informant. I could mention ( a li n d y no m t e a re pp u e n a t r il to hear hieiaadr gone Navnitdhthheenr.sh: the name in each case, but am not at liberty to do so. s c l o m m u e l ot li d e o This selection of particular journals for these confidences your afterwardsouun rs dceopnodsuliltceitao. deposition, d , his lunch was ready, It :as different to is rather invidious, and it is to be hoped that the precedent will not be followed. In this case the information, though , They she aredre drew generally roely, andgrave e n c e a u n r d a g sedate. Cross-examined about y theyoung m en w otod Solicitor-General go an y: lengths,Y u sa say n i dn authentic, was a little misleading, for it is said now that the Speech underwent considerable modification at the last to speale never seemed weary moment. blushed that I should have - The Owl has made its appearance ; but is no longer the dowyoiutnmesesa:nlbywatlataat?f lis t listening anything thatl have abo u t o i f t t . e , n , 1v since ha t bird of brilliant wit and special information that it used to be. The old original Owl has for some time ceased to be connected with it. The little sheet owed its name as pupil in the school at the time, and well as its existence to him. The title Owl was chosen because the initial and final letters were the initials iltflilssinStaeunrdiendutsoedmtaorrasyk; tmheeirifeml p w l as oy a na n en a t d , m a i g r e e , r a o n f d m w e h n e — re of Mr. Laurence Oliphant's name transposed. At that time he was the favoured of society, and had princes for his they lived. friends. He had been one of thegreatest travellers and The Solicit or -G eneral :What was there i n th a t t o ma k e g you blush ? he was ene of t h e b es t t a lk ers of his time. He entered Parliament, and every one expected that h e would r i se t o Witness: My answering her these questions. It is con. a high, if not the highest post at the Foreign Offic e . asked. trary to a religious life, and not what a young girl sheuld be Two or three winters ago he went to the United States, and visited, I believe, some of those communities The Solicitor-General: Whose words are those I h ave w hich Mr . Hepworth Dixon quoted —yours or Mrs. Kerr's 9 " New America." He returned an altered man ; shunned Witness: They has described in his are Mrs. Kerr's, I told herthesubstanoe. the salons , was supposed to he affected by religious melan- It is not my composition. choly, dissatisfied his constituents, a m so that they requested The Lord Chi e f J ustice : What age were you a t thi s hi m to resign, and then disappered from the face of tune? " Society." It is now stated that he has betaken himself to one of the American communities above-mentioned, where he, the s poiled darling ng of fashion, seeks for I There is a good story now current w of o a rki n n em g i a n t e t n h t e c l o o u o n m sel whose name has been conspicuous in some notable cases lately.p n lise in has a g " fo d r fees, but is rather apt t h o a f oprigeetstlleai tilling tr t a ol i i l apostolic maxim, maxim, " He that will not work, - neither shall he eat." Knowing his laxity on that point, an attorney having occasion to retain him marked his brief with eighty guineas, thinking th at such a hand some honorarium would secure the attendance of this (lake far niente counsel. He attended the consultation on the eve of trial, faithfully ' promised attendance the next morning, but unfaithfully failed to put in an appearance. The case went against the attorney's client. Thereupon attorney, in great e w o r u a n t s h, er a s nd takin g ehamber is ,u h pbra cl i i d e e n d t h w i m i n h d i m sa , i went d to d o notm e eminent an to leave this room until I get the eighty guineas back." Eminent counsel protested that such a thing as returning a fee was never heard of, that it was wholly unprofessional, and much else to the same effect. Eminentcounsel, though clever enough at browbeating a witness, found that browbeating an attorney was a very different matter. Attorney remained firm, counsel continued indignant and obstinate. At last attorney said, by way of clenching the matter, " I mean to leave no stone unturned to recover this money, and shall, in the last resort, memorialise the Lord Chancellor." That threat was effectual. A cheque for £B4 was signed and delivered, and the unfortunate client left his treacherous counsel's chamber rejoicing that though he had lost his case, he had regained his money. The matter did not end there. It came to the ears of Lord Chancellor Cairns, who sent for the counsel and expostulated with him: " Really Mr. —," said his lord ship, "if this sort of thing goes on we shall be having a Parliamentary inquiry into the relations between counsel and client." Mr. p rom i se d good behaviour in future, and being pre-eminently a "funny" counsel, the interview concluded with good humour and jest on both sides. I must talk about the weather again. The long spring time, which has lasted ever since the autumn, continues. The trees are fast coming into leaf ; the almond trees are a sight glorious to see. I have never seen such a display of colour before ; the pear -trees at Kew are in full blos som. The thrushes and other verrnivorous birds are rejoicing in a banqu e t of worms, and the sheep have more grass than they know how to get through. This warm season is in direct contradiction of the popular idea that an abundant display of holly-berries means a cold winter. Never was there a more brilliant blaze of scarlet in the holly bushes than there was at the beginning of December. I suspect that a hot summer has always more to do with this than a cold winter. Nature is not a weather prophet. Londoners are essentially conservative in some things. For instance, they so strongly prefer the old-fashioned narrow two-horse to the roomy three-horse omnibuses, that where the latter have been tried they have been given up. It was a common thing to see the wretched " Citizens," as the yellow Paddington omnibuses are called, crammed, while the large and well-built vehicles Witness : 21. I entered the convent in 1861, three years afterwards. The Lord Chief Justice : Did you ever speak of these things to any other sister? Witness : I once said a word to one of the other sisters, and she so sharply reproved me for it that I never again said a word. Mrs. Mary Agnes Fearon, known in religion as Sister Mary Evangelista, was examined by Mr. Charles Russell : lam a choir sister. I entered the Hull convent in 1860. I had frequent opportunities of seeing Miss Saurin, both at Hull and Clifford. I have known her to directly refuse to obey the superior by performing work she was forbidden to do. She showed great deceit. Her manner was exceedingly noisy, and she only observed silence when she could not possibly get any one to speak to. I have known her neglect the school for ten or. twenty minutes, and even for half an hour, in unneces sary conversation with the mothers of the children. I heard her speak to a lay postulant before mass, a time of strict silence, and I saw the postulant crying in consequence. Miss Saurin was given to telling falsehoods. She has denied conversing with persons, and in my presence, when she knew I had seen her. I have seen her examine the children's dinners, break off small portions and give them to the child, retaining for herself the remaining portion. At other times, when she did not go to dinner, I have seen her take the chil dren's dinners from them and break off portions and give to them, and keep the remainder. I never mentioned it until I was asked to write my deposition. I considered her treatment of the children very rough, and in some cases cruel. I saw her pull the hair of a child until he screamed, and on another occasion she pinned the pinafore of a little girl over her head, place her on a high stool, and exclaim, "Now roar again, my beauty." (Laughter.) I never saw Miss Saurin treated differently from the other sisters. Miss Saurin never had to wash the stone steps: She hsd to see it done. Besides the detes table mutton, I have known her to have pork, bacon, veal, and fowl. She seemed to be fond of strong bacon, and in carrying out Mrs. Stare's direc tions I kept some for the plaintiff's special me. Mrs. Starr seemed to me to be quite Miss Sraurin's dupe, and not to have her eyes open to her faults. Between August 1364 and January 1866 I was at Hull with Miss Saurin. Her conduct there 'was the same with retard to the children's dinners as at Calf ford. A little girl complained to me daily for three weeks that part of her dinner had been taken from her basket. At dismissal time I once saw Miss Saurin with part.of the child's dinner in her hand. The case was adjourned over to-day till to-morrow. The testimonial to Mr. J. A. Roebuck has nov( reached about £3,000. Mr. Roebuck will preside ;It till Sheffield School of Art on the 17th of March, and the pre sentation will take place two days after. The prteial atiel will be made at a public meetin g o f t h e subscribe re, fade a banquet will be given to th o l earned gentletua !La . faille eveninc. of the Manchester pattern were empty. For some tim past the latter have been withdrawn. Sir John Coleridge's " Life of Keble " is selling faster than the binders can supply copies to the pub lishers. The editor of the London, Quarterly _Review has lost one of the ablest members of his staff by the death of Mr. Monsell, a brilliant writer, whose long residence on the Continent enabled him to deal in a masterly manner with Continental politics. The next number of that review will, I believe, contain an article by Mr. Edward Spender, on Dean Milman's " Annals of St. Paul's." The concluding verses in the current number of London Society are by Mr. Henry Frith, of the War Office, a constant contributor to Judy, and who will also, I believe, have some verses in the next number of Under the Crown. Nisbet is about to publish the life of Caesar Malan, the well-known Genevan minister, written by-one of his sons. Mr. Fowler, M.P. for Cambridge, has in the press "Thoughts on Free Trade in Laud." Sir Edward Creasy's History of England will be published by Walton. Lovers of art will be glad to learn that an exhibition of the late Mr. Wehnert's pictures will be held in April. OILSCELLANEOUS IVEIVS. OUR MERCANTILE ➢IARINE. A notice has already been placed on the boolcs of! the House of Commons re:Teeth - 1g the nesletz.sary amendments in the laws relating to our merchant shipping. Mr. Candlish will on Monday next ask the President of the Board of Trade if he expects, this session, to bring in a bill with that object. A correspondent of the Times, a member of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, has explained at some length the chief grounds for the existing dissatisfaction. Our list of wrecks is not only very heavy, but is annually increasing at a much higher ratio than the increase of our shipping. There is no room to doubt that the unseaworthy condition of many vessels, the incompetence of their commanders, the insufficiency of their crews, and the absence of proper appliances for navigation afford the explanation of the greater number of the catastrophes. The interference of the Legislature is needed to remedy the inefficiency of the ships and the inferior quality of the nautical instruments, while for the improvement of the officers and crews we must look to more gradual measures. The writer of the letter we have referred to suggests several methods of securing a better supply of trained sea men. Another point on which Parliament might with advantage interfere is the licensing and official inspection of sailors' boarding-houses— a reform the men themselves desire. It has been proposed that a small voluntary due of id. per ton should be levied on all the shipping entering our great ports for the benefit of educational and charitable objects connected with our mercantile marine. Such a rate if levied on the shipping entering the Mersey alone in 1867 would have produced £5,540. THE REFORM OF TILE LICENSING SYSTEM. On Wednesday evening a meeting was held at St. James's Hall, under the presidency of the Archbishop of York, in aid of the movement for the reform of the licensing system. His grace made a very interest ing speech, observing that' they had to deal with a question of great magnitude, and that their design was to diminish the temptations to drinking. Their immediate object was to prevent the renewal of any existing beer-house license or the creation of any new license. They wished to let the present beer-house licenses die out with their holders, so that these objectionable establishments might b e in time done away with. The Archbishop referred to the enormous consumption of alcohol in this coun try yearly, and said that if equally divided it wo u ld allow 2 gallons of pure alcohol to every man, woman, and child annually. In a single year 320 inquests were held on persons killed by violence, excessive drinking having contributed to eve r y death. Several noblemen and gentlemen interested in the object in view afterwards addressed the meet ing, and it was resolved that their efforts should be directed to the suspension of the Act of 1830. REPEATED CONVICTIONS. Lord Pollington writes to the Times in reference to the case of George Roberts, who was recently tonvieted at douthwark raliCe-court. The prisoner is an old offender, and the incidents of his career furnish most convincing proofs of the errors of our penal system. He is one of the " oldest burglars" in England, and many years ago was cast for death, but the sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He received a ticket of leave, and has since been twice transported for life and liberated with a license. Lord Pollington asks how it is that this man's ticket of leave has not been revoked, without a chance of ever receiving another ? THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. Mr. Bruce has already, as our readers know, given notice of a measure for the repression of crime. There is a sign of energy, too, in the way of organis ing the Metropolitan Police. It is understood that four Chief Constables will shortly be appointed at salaries of £'JOO a year each. Provided (says the Daily 11"e2es) that the right men are selected, such an arrangement must greatly increase the efficiency of the police force, which hitherto has been an army with one general and no commissioned officers. Yesterday, Mr. Bruce received a deputation of Surrey magistrates, who waited upon him to bring forward the subject of vagrancy. A NOTABLE PRIVY COUNCILLOR. The Church _Yews, famous for its novelties in the way of news, says it is reported in well-informed Roman Catholic circles that his Eminence Cardinal Cullen will be recommended to her Majesty to be uworn of the Irish Privy Council by the Lord- Lieutenant and the Roman Catholic Lord Chan cellor. LITERARY COPYRIGHT. Let all authors rejoice. The Colonial Copyright Act, which gave them the hope of receiving remu neration for the sale of their works in the British dependencies, has at last begun to work. Such is the power of English genius that the people of Newfoundland could not do without the works of English authors, even though they • had' to pay for them. And so we have the authority of the Times itself for announcing that " the Newfoundland authorities have transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury the sum of fourpence (the Times prefers to write it in full) on behalf of British authors, this sum having been received under the provisions of the Colonial -Copyright Act 10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 95, for the preceding year." Who is the happy man ? When he gets his money we can imagine how he will express the thanks of an overflowing heart, by blessing the country which is so just in its dealings with its inhabitants. The fact, however, is, that the Colonial Copyright Act has proved a total failure. THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. " A Country Vicar near Honiton " calls attention to the state of the western dioceses of England, which we have more than once commented on. Writing to the Daily .21rews, he says that from Middlesex to the Land's End there is barely one bishop capable of fulfilling his duties. This of course is an exaggera tion, since Oxford and Gloucester and Bristol inter pose between the two points. Still the main facts are true. Salisbury both in body and mind is prostrate, Bath and Wells is quite inefficient, Win chester has had a severe stroke of paralysis. Exeter is over 90 years of age, and for the last twelve has ceased to discharge the duties of visitations and con firmations. These have been handed over entirely to colonial bishops, and his son, the chancellor of the diocese, has represented his father at the different visitations. A large body of the clergy have never seen the bishop, and very few during his long episcopate have ever partaken of his hospitality, though that is one of the duties specially enjoined upon bishops in Scripture. The writer goes on to complain that the bishop resides at a most incon venient place, in a palace on which a large sum of money has been expended, that it is very difficult to find out his present state of mind, and that his grandson, a very young man, seems to have the sole management of the diocese. The writer calls upon the Archbishop of Canterbury and the House of Lords to say how much longer the present state of things is to continue. THE ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Anglo-Continental Society has been held at Willis's Booms. The Bishop of Ely opened the proceedings, and regretted that at the present time Christendom should be divided in every possible way. Infidelity could never be driven back while so much di e _ union prevailed. Protestantism did not exercise a very active influence abroad, and the increasing dissensions at home were most discourag ing. The Earl of Carnarvon moved a resolution to the effect that the Church of England has duties to wards all the branches of the Church Catholic. His lordship said that they must guard against a greater danger than had ever before hung over Christendom, which was Infidelity, and to counteract its evil tendency ~they should all work together in faith and unity. This resolution w ne carried, and another passed, respecting the duties of the members of the Church of England towards foreign Christians. The Bev. J. Mercwether ga ve some very interesting results of his experience abroad as chaplain at Venice,. and explained the purpose of the labours of the Society in foreign lands. CITY MEN. The Pall Mall Gazette is publishing a series of cleverly written sketches on " City Men," which, if internal evidence be worth anything, are from the pen of Mr. Anthony Trollope. " The Old Moneyed Man," which appeared in the issue of February 13, and " The New Moneyed Man," presented to the world four days later, are both admirably drawn portraits. The first is essentially reserved, dull, respectable, substantial ; the second is adventuroug. and a 3 unsub. dant - in' . as a rainbow or a soap-bubble: In the one case Bullions have gone on intermarrying..with Ingots for generations, so that even the substantial mansion at Dulwich, which belongs to the head of the house, is not capable of receiving all the members at once. In the other case, Mr. Mark Lane began as an office boy, and began his career by anticipating the charwoman in the sweepings of the office. Bullion-Ingot does not parade his wealth ; he is too much accustomed to it to do that, and were it not for his occasional pity bestowed on his friend's widow, who was left with only a miserable pittance of £4,000 a year, and the daugh ters with only £15,000 apiece, there would be little room to accuse him of ostentation. Mark Lane is quite another sort of man. He has, by making himself . acquainted with secrets that were not intended for his knowledge, forced himself as a partner upon some old-fashioned. City man in the Levant trade—lscarides and Co.—supposed to be one of the most substantial houses in the world, and forced him into a speculation so;huge and daring that though it turned out successful and brought an enormous fortune to the pair, the elder partner's hair was whitened by the anxiety that consumed him while the affair was in progress. Bullion-Ingots loves to walk on the old highways, and his office, though capacious, is dingy. The firm of Iscarides and Mark Lane builds itself one palace in the City for business, and two others in N orwcod and Sydenham for recreation. The Bullion-Ingots, by keeping to their own set, always make suitable marriages, and are never ashamed of the partners of their joys and sorrows. Mark Lane, when he was struggling to make good his first step in the world, married a woman with a dowry that seemed a fortune then, but which is a bagatelle now so small that it will not compensate for the way in which she mur ders the Queen's English as she presides at her husband's table, and reveals her and his plebeian origin to their patrician guests. Lane thinks of divorce, but her conduct is irreproachable: of separation, but her temper is imperturbable. He cannot get rid of her ; he is compelled to produce her. The Bullion-Ingotg go on steadily enough to the end of the chapter, and never give rise to any remarks except by the large ness of their subscriptions to a Kamschatka. famine or Patagonia earthquake fund—subscriptions which less opulent persons ill-naturedly say are advertise ments. It is otherwise with Mark Lane. He was just concerting the transfer of the business of Iscarides and Lane to a company (limited), and expectant gudgeons were gaping for the shares when another great house that had got the start of him in that way put up its shutters. A whole trillh of affiliated firms did the like. Iscarides and Lane had been just a month or two behind the fair. Instead of the proposed prospectus, out came a cir cular to creditors deploring an immense lock-up of capital, and a temporary inability to meet engage ments, intimating books in the hands of Auditt, Balance, and Co. ; promising a speedy payment of 20s. in the pound, with flrterest at 5 per cent. ! Three years have elapsed since then, and the creditors have received a first and final dividend of 30., and Mr. Mark Lane is musing on the vicissitudes of a merchant's life in his commodious chateau on the banks of the Loire, comforted by the presence of his French cook and the absence of his wife. THE SUEZ CANAL. An interesting account of the state and prospects of the Suez Canal appears in the Times frgui the pen o Mr. Fowler, the eminent engineer. It contains, titer so many aamaging reports, very good news tor the shareholders, but will probably be considered 'depreciation" by those who still hold out in believing all the great things which were prophecied at the first. The canal will easily be made, in fact there was never any difficulty about that part of the business. From what Mr. Fowler says, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the waterway will be rendered passable, and that it will be " workable." There is a likelihood that one of the entrances to the canal may be choked occasionally with alluvial deposit, but still not to an insurmountable extent. There are other 'difficulties, but these, too, may be surmounted. The actual cost, however, will be raised by them, and the capacity of the work itself much lowered. This makes it a serious question as to whether the canal will pay. If ever it does, new vessels will have to be built specially adapted to the passage; but, allowing for a large " element of un certainty," there is reason to think that moderate wishes will be fulfilled. THE PATENT OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Almost simultaneously we have received the thick volume of plates and the two volumes which con tain the annual report of the Commissioner of Pa tents for the year 1866, and his annual report just submitted to Congress for the year 1868. The in crease in the business of the Patent. office is pro digious; 3,705 caveats have been filed, and 20,445 applications. The patents issued are 12,959, re issued 419, and 140 extended. Its businessdoes not merely grow, but it multiplies, being double that of 1865, and only less than four times that of 1848. In 1836 ten persons sufficed, now between 300 and 400 are required ; and this increase Mr. Foote at tributes to the stimulus of the rewards offered by the Patent Laws.and the progress of the count' y, by which a successful invention now brings to its author a competency for life. At the same time he allows that much of the additional work has arisen from passing patents that ought not to have been granted, as there is a direct inducement to the exa miner to allow the patent even as a cloak for his ignorance or to save labour, for the applicant has numerous appeals in case of rejection ; but, once al lowed, the matter is settled, and grants bring fees to the office. indeed it is one of the evils pointed out in the report that. the inventor is heavily taxed by a subdivision, which makes many patents where there ought only to be one. " Had the practice," says Mr. Foote, " been confined to s,eparate and distinct improvements upon different parts of a ma chine no exception could be taken to it ; but it has been carried to the extent of several patents for the same invention, and patents for parts, which taken alone constituted no invention. This sys tem has tended to complicate and confuse patented rights, and, in some instances, I apprehend, been a source of fraud upon the public." Again, he The granting of i mproper and illegal says—" patents defeats every object and purpose of patent laws. It serves to mislead and deceive the public, and to subject them to the annoyance of unjust and invalid claims. It throws distrust and discredit upon patented property, and injures the saleable value of meritorious inventions." If entire confidence could b e placed in the value of inventions passed by the examiners, business operations and the invest ment of capital would be more readily founded upon them, and the Commissioner rightly considers the qualification of the examiners an object so im portant that the success of the office almost depends on it. A board of three selected for ability and fitness have been appointed to examine employee, and many changes have been the result. From the report we gather that at least in this bUreau merit and knowledge have been the sole passports to ad vancement. The Examiner must be familiar with all the inventions of Europe, which in itself is a profession requiring years of study. His decisions involve nice questions of law, science, and me chanics, and large amounts hinge upon his action, indeed Mr. Foote classes his qualifications with those of a judge in the higher courts of law. This leads to his pointing out the inadequacy of the salaries for obtaining the best services. He con siders that the time must soon arrive when the models deemed useless will be discarded to make room for new ones in the already crowded offices. We trust that the Commissioner may get some place to display such models, for they may save years of labour to inventors in pursuit of chimeras, or to those who have conceived ideas the worthlessness of which these models will prove. Next to putting men on the right track is • the utility of turning. them back from the wrong. We recollect a conversation with the governor of a British colony, who observed that the first duty of such an official, and that to which he attributed his own great success, was to read up care fully all the records of any office into which he was nut, not to get ideas. but to learn the rocks upon which his predecessors had split, and the older he grew the more satisfied be became of the wisdom of this course, for it saved himself and the depart ment with which he dealt much useless labour. We are constantly reproducing the mistakes of our predecessors, conceiving the very idea suggested to their minds which had been exploded either by dis cussion or by practice, consigned to oblivion, and resuscitated to eventuate in the same result This is the use to which models of inventions which have proved worthless may be turned, and we would urge it on the attention of the Com missioner. "The Patent office makes exchanges of its publications with several foreign Govern ments. From Great Britain we receive full copies of their specifications and drawings. In our library we can investigate an English invention as well ° can be done in the Patent Office of Great Britain . The volumes are handsomely bound, and now fill: large room in the library. For.them we make 14 , the poor retur n o f a copy o f our Annual R epor t Mr. Foote recommends a photographic establish' ment, adapted to copy drawings of large size to sac' ply fac-similes cheaply and accura t e l y; an d the net art of ph o t o lith ograp h y i s found to be adin i ra tii adapted for obtaining any number of perfect copie; The receipts of th e P atent - off i ce from J u l y last the Ist of January have exceeded its expenditures hi about $53,000. It is confidently expected that 0 the year to come the excess will not be less thil $lOO,OOO. By strict economy an 3 system in t? management of the office, it is believed that salari el may be raised, necessary exchanges and impro .. ments made, and every nee df u l expend i ture t o rat the office up to its hi g h est state of efficiency a°: ci usefulness i ncurre d , w i t h out any charge or t j upon the public." Th e b ook of illustrat i o ns the patents for the year 1866 consists of 1, 0 ; pages, beginning at illustration No. 51,78 4 , a ending at 60,657. E veryt hi ng conceivable 1135 l place ; from whipping cream to the masts of a s", from a paper bosom and collar, to a new propeile f ,' from a toba cco p i pe to a l ocomotive. Nothing se", to be beneath th e i nventor ' s notice, noth i ng t grand for his g en i us . Th e R epublic is the "Meti; , of Invention," a n d it s h ea d quarters is the p a te! , office, Washingto n . S tat i st i cs have prove d tlf . more men have become crazed in that bureau th# anywhere else in the Union, and we can quite ur derstand such being the fact, for the mind gets a tracted by the multiplicity and intricacy of the ul l dels, and a constant intercourse with men who are?, mad on their o wn p ar ti cu l ar point ; for i t i s 'altnd . impossible to be a suc cess f u l i nventor w ithout F , concentrating all tho ug ht on one f ocus t h a t there' a burning light there, and vacancy and darknd everywhere else, which goes far to make the inve tor the most disagreeable of society, even if be the moat useful of mankind. A meeting of the 4‘ German Republican Cel Committee" to modify th e E xc i se L aw i n the States, took place at the Stenben House, New York, 00 evening of the 29th Jan., at which Gen. Sigel presided. report was presented by a committee previously appoint, recommending the appointment of a committee to take if mediate action in the matter to insure a modification of d Sunday clause of the Excise Law. The committee viri g composed of Messrs. Andreas, Willmann, Steinbrend t Renson, Naumann, Gras s e, St uzmann, an d can!' and Dr Muhr, with power to add to its members. TM Committee will proceed to Albany to confer with teed , bers of the Legisl a t ure on th e su bj ect. Mr. Otter burg,; behalf of a Committee appointed t o p repare a plan to submitted to Congress, in regard to a reform of the N 3tf , ralization laws, with a view of preventing a reeurron4 of naturalization frauds, submitted a report. The rep as modified and adopted, is to the effect that Congress petitioned to modify the n a t ura li za ti on l aws, so that to term of resid e n ce b e f ore naturalization shall be four yea, and that aft er na t ura li zation a person shall wait one Y . before he is entitled to vote at national elections; a l l that the power of naturalization be confined to the (ja i States Courts. A committee, composed of Messrs. Ott,. burg, Willma n , Gill man, an d D r. Gerke, was appointed F take this matt er i n h an d . The North G OP' ortli erman Correspondent, Feb. 3, A —`c Among the curiosities of newspaper literature, d Democratic press of Russia is e n titl e d t o a ver y consP l o ous place. Many of its later articles seem rather to come from some excitable and semi-barbarous tribes I from the subjects o f a grea t E uropean State. Lik e the fi r , literary essays of most races th ey are marke d by holdnf i of conception, grasp of imagination, and carelessness as, probability and the minor graces of execution. Th e y in fact, ballads done in the form of leading articles, they outdo those of most nations in the wonders they late. Thus the Golos, a paper which was founded in t i Petersburg in 1864, i n f orms i ts readers, in its re view the events of 1868, that not only Garibaldi's invasion 4 the Papal States, b u t th e S pan i sh Revolution and t h e CoEfl'j between Greece and T ur k ey, are ow i ng to the influence l Prussia. It is evid en t th a t th e l atter state has b ecom e, in i t , imagination of the writer, one o f th ose occ ult O s ; with which the po e t s o f ear l y ages l cvo t o deal. execution, however, as i s so o ft en th e case w ith youth writers, falls far she ) tof th e concep ti on. I ns t ea d of bol:j attributing this inform a ti on t o th e muses, or t o some ac e sorcerer or modernized Merlin, the journalist endeavour6ti prove his case in quite a matter-of-fact way, and in t his j course he fails. It is tr ue it canno t b e c l ear l y p ro ved thaLo these movements were r egu l a t e d b y or d ers f ro m Berlin, , since all I hese events were a d va ntageous to Prussia . but fair to suppose that Prussia had a hand in the ri• 1 1 reminds us of the German Radical who exclaimed, know nothing of the intentions of the Government, but conscientiously disapprove of them." / [ADVERTI SEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Ointment an d Pi -I 1, ,"1 Most people k now more or less what sickness i s , penalties it inflicts, what anxiety it occasions; theref4; little persuasion should be needed to impress on ev`4linvalid ~ that during every break of wintry weather strew, ous exertions should be made by the afflicted to reel health b e f ore unremitting cold and trying s torms set ' Throat ailments, coughs, wheezings, asthina.tical affe; tions, shortness of breath, morning lations of phlegm can readily be removed by rubbing t r p nausea, and acc um 3 fine curative ointment twice a day upon the chest :I d neck. 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