The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

osionnilip oviortirooira A MAGISTRATE IN DEFENCE OF IGNORANCE. Mr. Kynnersley, the Birmingham stipendiary magis trate, was one of the principal speakers at a great meet ing lield in Birmingham to oppose the Education League in particular, and compulsory education as a prin ciple. "You will tell me," said Mr. Kynnersley, "that ignorance is a moral evil—that it leads to vicious habits, and vicious habits to robbery and murder, to insecurity of life and property. But I answer that ignorance is not necessarily an evil to any one but the person-him self. Ignorance is not by any means incompatible with honesty and truthfulness and industry, the kindest nature and the warmest affections, nor is learning incompatible with idleness and profligacy end brutality and habitual fraud and dishonesty. Leolc at the revelations of our bankruptcy courts, where every one is more or less edu cated. Look at the men who are at every assizes and sessions convicted of forgery and embezzlement—fraudulent hankers, fraudulent trustees. Nineteen out of twenty of these men had received a superior education." In another portion of his address Mr. Kynnersley said: " I do not deny the moral obligation on every parent to do the best he can for the education of his child,and I have not aword to say against any sort of pressure being put on the drul ken, idle, profligate brute, who not only systematically neglects all the duties of a parent to his children, but who, by his example, does everything he can to make them of bad as himself—pests and nuisances to the whole com munity, leaving them to go where they please and do what they please, lodge where they can and live how they can, utterly indifferent whether they work, or beg, or steal. For the education of children of this description, however, we want no fresh legislation. It is already provided for by the Industrial Schools Act, of which we have already so largely, but so ostentatiously, availed ourselves in Birmingham. FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS D'AUMALI?. The funeral of herßoyal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale took place on Friday in the little chapel at Weybridge, which is the property of Miss Taylor, and where rest the remains of the ex-King and Queen of the French. The death of the Duchess was somewhat, though not entirely - , sudden, and took place at two o'clock on Monday, at Orleans House, Twickenham. On the previous Saturday the last Sacraments of the Church were adminis tered in the presence of the Duke, Lis son, Madame Clinchamp, and the physician of the Duchess, Dr. Guemeau de Mussy. Marie Caroline Augusta de Bourbon, the late Duchess, was the daughter of Prince Leopold of Salerno, and was born April .26,1822. Her Royal Highness married the Duc cl'Aumale in 1844, shortly after he had directed the expedition against Biskra. The late Duchess had two children : Prince Louis Philippe Marie Leopold d'Orleans, Prince de Conde, who was born at St. Cloud, Nov. 15, 1845, and died in June, 1866, and Francois Louis Philippe Marie d'Orliens, Due de Guise, born at Twickenham, sth January, 1854. The report of those who are not unacquainted with the private history of the family circle at Orleans House is to the effect that the shock inflicted by the death of the elder of the above named sons was one from which the Duchess never rallied. That she was a lady possessed of a singularly kind and generous nature was made clear to anyone who mingled with the crowd through which the funeral procession passed by the many expressions of regret that fell from the lips of the mem bers of the humbler an d poprer classes. Another testimony to the good name she had won was borne by the appearance of general mourning which, in its closed houses and shops, the town of Twickenham wore. Everywhere there weresigns cf grief, and many were the tales of the unvarying benevolence of the Duchess which were poured into the ears of stninge re who questioned the inhabitants about the family at the Park. Orleans House, a large, irregular red brick building, stands in pleasant grounds, jealously walled round their entire ex tent, and is approached on the road leading from Richmond to what is known as the town, but is really the village, of Twickenham, by a lengthy winding avenue. At the gates is a stucco lodge, whose aping of a Swiss chalet architecture is rendered the more absurd by the introduction of Chinese blinds, which were on Friday drawn down at every window. In the immediate vicinity of this lodge is the local Post Office, flanked by a hostelry which is pretentious enough to display a regal crown as its sign. As the best, and indeed almost the only point at which the general public could hope to obtain anything like a sight of the funeral proceedings, the lodge iu question formed the great point of attraction. Immediately oppo site to it a considerable crowd had assembled as early as half past nine o'clock, and though the pathway was a see. of mud, and the air was as raw as it has been at all during this present month of December, r atiently waited for the best part of a couple of hours. During this inter val there was little to see beyend the cupid arrival of private carriages containing the mourners, and the I' file of mourning coaches, with their sable steeds capari scned in velvet, drawn up down the country read as far as the eye could reach. In accordance with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, the coffin was not placed in the hearse at the door of the house, but was borne, after the per formance cf mass in the chapelle un!ente, down to the entrance of the l ark, preceded ly priests end acolyte. with lighted tapers, swinging censers, and the crucifix carried aloft. After the coffin followed the mourners, the long procession being closed by the retinue of the household. The husband of the deceased, the Du D'Aumale, and her only living son, the Duc de Guise, a youth of about 15 years of age, followed as chief mourners. The only mourning coaches admitted within the entrance gates were those pro vided for the clergy, to which they were conducted immediately before the high road was reached. .A 3 these carriages, headed by two outriders and the chief groom on the Duke's favourite grey horse, and followed by the hearse, bearing its proper heraldic adornments, at tended by two mounted pages, turned out of the park, the other coaches drew up in rotation, and were entered by the mourners. The procession, when formed, after some delay, mustered twenty-nine mourning coaches and about twenty private carriages, and proceeded, followed for some distance by a considerable crowd to Weybridge Here a large addition was made to those who desired to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased, and also to those who were attracted thither only by curiosity. The coffin was removed from the hearse, an , ' the procession of mourners formed on foot before the little chapel was reached. The capacities of this building beine limited, a section only of the mourners could be admitted whilethe remaining portion of the sublime office for the dead was completed. After the functions of the priests had closed, and the coffin, covered with black velvet, and sprinkled with holy water, rested quietly in the vault, those who had been hitherto excluded found their way into the chapel, an d reveren tly an d l ov i ng ly gazed upon it. The officiating clergy were Mgrs. Weld and Guella. Amongst the mourners were the Comte de Paris. Duc de Chartres, Duc de Nemours, Dec d'Alencon, Prince de Joinville, Due de Parthierre, the Ambassadors of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Brazil, Belgium, United States, Spain, and Italy, Lord. Clanricarde, Lord Granville, Lord Russell, M. Van de Weyer, General Peel, Marquis d'Azeglio, Sir E. Antrobus, Baron de Cotto, Duc Descagos, Comte de Porters, Comte de Jarnac, Baron and Baroness L. de Rothschild, Sir A. Panizzi, Comte Reger, Comte de Benin& Comte de Grave, Comte de Bondy, Baron Trigueti. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cam bridge, Prince Christian, and Prince Teck joined in the ceremony at Weybridge. Her Majesty the Queen was represented by Lord Charles Fitzroy. The Twickenham Vestry have passed a resolution, expressive of the great sorrow and regret felt by the whole body of parishioners at the death of H.R.H. the Duchess d'Aumale ; of their high appreciation of the public and private worth of the lamented Duchess ; and of their con dolence with her family in their bereavement. During the late Mdme. Griai's London operatic career, extending over a perio.l of twenty-seven seasons, she sang some 925 nig‘its. ORDERS RETURN ED.—At Windsor Castle, on Friday, the Marquis of Westminster delivered up tha insignia and Order of the Garter lately worn by his father Lord Derby at the same time delivered up the insignia and Orders of the Garter and St. Michael and St. George worn by the late earl. A carter named M.Govern, at Liverpool, who has been in the habit of taking opium at night to make hirustlf sleep, so that he might be able to rise early in the morning, a few days ago experimcnt;ilis.d on his child with fatal (.1- ffect. The child croFs, gave, it some epium Convulsions ensued, and tLe child died. The father is ir. custody. Pk.e Hyacinthe-0 use the name by which the ex-Carmelite is best known—seems t•o be trying tau churches of the different dencminaticns in America. We leans, by a private letter from New York, that on Advent Sunday he heard the early seven o'clock Kass in the French Church in that city, an:l then crossed the river be Brooklyn, to hear Mr. Beecher deliver one of his politico religious discourses, cf which he di ,1 not understand a word. Being under sentence of excommunication, he can not, of course, either obtain faculties to say M.:ss in America, nor can he approach the sacraments of confession or Holy Communion. But, notwithstanding this—as our informant writes:—he hears Mass every Sunday, and gene rally upon week days. He also recites his breviary regu• laxly, and declares that nothing will ever persuade him t' leave the Church. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. EDUCATION DEBATES AT BIRMINGIIIIf. At the meeting of the Birmingham Education Union, Lord Harrowby took issue with the Educa tion League on the one great point of difference between the two organisations. The Unionists desire to retain the present denominational system intact ; the Leaguers would supplement the denominational schools by rate-supported esta blishments, without any sectarian teaching, and, if the inhabitants desired,without any religious teachin g at all. True, the League would allow religious ministers to have access to the children at stated times. But this proposal the Earl of Harrowby resents, on the ground that the new measure of education will deal with the lowest class of the population, and if this class be compelled to send their children to a secular training, they are not likely to send them to the religious instruction as well. The Bishop of Worcester takes up similar ground. The proposal that religious instruction might be given out of the ordinary school hours he condemned as teaching children that religion and morality were of secondary importance—something to be learnt at leisure, instead of a most essential ingredient in all education. It would be equivalent to establishing a divorce between religion and secular instruction. PAROCHIAL DARDARIS't. The chronicle of workhouse horrors, after a short but gratifying interval of silence, now demands resumption. The performances at St. Pancras again merit public attention. Dr. Lankester has. held six more inquests, at which various facts of interest came out. One inquiry related to the death of a child six months old, in the St. Pancras work house. Evidence was given to prove that the foetid air of the nursery had been, and still is, fatal to the health of infant inmates. The resident medical officer of the infirmary workhouse said that the nursery smelt very bad, and that the unpleasant odours arose from the inefficient drainage, and not from the defective nursin g . It is further pleasant to learn that rats abound in the neighbouring ward, and that ten were killed last week. But most shameful of all was the testimony respecting the dismissal of nurses by the guardians on account of giving evidence at these inquests. Emma Howe, late superinten dent of the nursery, has been dismissed. She was not allowed to make any defence. The guardians alleged "general inefficiency;" but it was shewn that the nurse had been employed for fifteen months, and had never been complained of. She herself says that last July her salary was raised, and additional duties given her on account of her efficiency. Dr. Hill, the medical officer, testified that Emma Howe was a very efficient nurse. The jury found that the death of the child under inquiry had been accelerated by the impure air of the nursery, and added that they were disgusted with the iniquitouS conduct of the guardians in dismissing witnesses who appeared before the coroner's court. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Another example of friendly society rascality has just turned up at the Thames Police-court. A poor woman applied to the magistrate for advice, saying that her mother-in-law had for some time paid small weekly contributions to the Queen Friendly Society, established in East London, but that neither treasurer nor secretary could now be found. The magistrate could give the sufferer no comfort, except that others were in the same difficulty with herself. Several applications respecting this society had come before him. In one case a widow applied for Irlo, to which she was en titled on the death of her husband. These bogus societies, the officers of which get all they can and then vanish, are unfortunately very common. MODERN POLITICAL SCIENCE. The Bavarian King seems to hold strange notions of political principles. At the general election just held, the Ultramontanes won a majority of six on a total of 154. The Liberal Ministry of Prince Hohen lohe thereupon resigned, but they were immediately reinstated, and the victorious Ultramontanes kept out in the cold. A Central Press telegram now tells us that the King, being asked to make concessions to the Ultramontane party, refused on the ground that the great towns had elected Liberals ! How delighted the men of Man chester will be on learning this formal acknowledg ment of the political supremacy of big cities ! The friends of progress will wish every prosperity to the Bavarian Liberals. But if the people in fair fight deliberately choose a majority of Ultramontanes, it seems hard measure to both keep the victorious party out of power and refuse them concessions, because, though they have done so well in the country, the large towns have gone against them. THE PERSONNEL OF THE GOVERNMENT: The Daily IVezva calls attention to the fact that just a year has passed since Mr. Gladstone met the reformed Parliament with his new Administration. During the twelve months (our contemporary states) no member of the Government has been removed by death, and the changes in its versomel have been very few. Lord Advocate Moncreitt; is takhig the office of Lord Justice Clerk, was succeeded by Mr. G. Your 7, the S2otti6h L;elicitor-General; Mr. Layarl has been appointA lhi:ish Minister at Madrid, and the office of First Comruissioner`of WTorks is now filled by Mr. Ayrton. Mr. Stansfeld replaces the latter as Financial Secretary to the Treasury; and Mr. W. 11. Gladstone has been appoint , :d to a junior lordship in the same department. Twenty-nine peers and eleven members of the House of Commons have died within the year. PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION AT BELFAST. The Duke of Abercorn presided at the United Pro testant demonstration, held at Belfast on Thursday evening. Resolutions were passed protesting against the passing of the Church Act, against any surplus funds going to Roman Catholic institutions, and calling the Party Processions Act an unjust mea sure. A. protest was further entered into against the tenant-right agitation as a communist inovement to ruin the Protestant landowners; but the meeting agreed to support any measure calculated to satisfac torily settle the relations between landlord and tenant. At a previous meeting, the Duke of Aber corn compared the present state of Ireland with that of. two years ago—unfavourably to the former, of course—and said that the results of Mr. Gladstone's "Message of Peace " wore agrarian murders, inse curity of property, and an increase of aguessive bigotry. A RULING FAMILY. -- There could hardly be a better instance of the power of a reigning family than that of the 'Tamil tons. The head of it is the Duke of Abercorn, who holds a seat in the House of Lords, and possesses great political influence. The Duke's brother, Lord Claud Hamilton, is member for Tyrone. The Marquis of Hamilton, one of his Grace's sons, represents the Irish county of Donegal ; another son, Lord George Hamilton, was returned at the last general election for Middlesex ; and a third, Lord Oland John Hamilton, has just succeeded to the Earl of Derby in the seat for Kings Lynn. The similarity in the names of the Duke's brother, ALP. for Tyrone, and the son, M.P. for Lynn, has caused much confusion. The difference is not easy to remember. The brother is generally known a s Lord Claud, the son as Lord Claud John. LYNN ELECTION. Mr. Young, the defeated candidate at Lynn, like many other unsuccessful aspirants, has already dis covered distinct traces of a conspiracy against him. In a speech after the declaration of the poll, he affirmed that three or four cases of personation had been found out, and that other resuscitations of dead men were spoken of. Mr. Young promises to think over the advisability of a petition. A telegram from Lynn, dated yesterday morning, states that " there is a strong probability of a petition against the return of Lord Claud Hamilton." LONGFORD. Mr. Greville-Nugent, son of the member who - lies been created a peer, is making a promising canvass in Longford, and the hopes of his success aro strong. The only question is as to whether Mr. John Martin, of Kilbroney, the candidate in the Fenian interest, will really go to the poll. Some persons think that the opposition is not serious, but it is a fact that a portion of the press is very active in his favour. The donation of the patriotic Marchioness, too, looks like business. CONSERVATISM IN WAUWICKSEIRE. Mr. Newdegate has been figuring to advantage on his native heath. The annual show and dinner of the Rugby and Dunchurch Conservative Association has just taken place. Of .course the two mem bers for North Warwickshire wore present, and, equally of course, Mr. Newdegate made a speech again s t F ree Trade. He did, indeed, indulge in a passing shot at the Pope, and discharged an entire broalside at the Jesuits; but the free traders occu pied most of his attention. Even in discussing tariffs, howev,3r, Mr. Newdegate could not let the Scarlet Lady repose a while. It was not Mr. Cobden, nor Sir Robert Peel, nor any ot h er suc h insignificant person, who had repealed the Corn Laws. O'Connell at the head of the " brass band "—the Ultramontanes—did the mischief. So that, after all, Rome was at the bottom of Free Trade, as of every other evil thing. And why was this donee To get rid of the Protestant landlords of Ireland. Mr. Newdegate, however, rejoices that in this respect the machinations of Rome did not prosper; the Pro testant landlords did not quit Ireland; but he remembers with sorrow the whichlflsh ChhauvrechbeAenct?maonrde similar iniquitous measures triumphant. THE DIFFICULTIES WITH THE UNITED STATES. The Alabama claims have slept as soundly as the Foreign Ministers of England and America could desire.__ _The_ subiegt hAs i , hovoyeA Deep jeviyed THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1869. nicely Dy several occurrences, — - especially Dy the reference in the President's Message. It is generally believed that our own Government will not move in the matter until they receive a hint from the United States. But such is not the opinion of the London correspondent of the Scotsman. Writing specially on tho subject, he intimates that Lord Clarendon will shortly make another ellbrt to settle upon a new basis, the out standing difficulties between the two nations. of Congress. According to this Report the same rate of purchase and investment, together with the second interest thereon, would liquidate the national debt in 13 years. One of the first acts of the Senate ha 3 been to confirm Mr. Robeson as Secretary of the Navy and General Belknap as Secretary of War. General Carl Schurz, the first German Senator, and alike distinguished as a soldier, as a writer, and as an orator, has been placed on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, of which Mr. Sumner is the chair- man. — The Alabama delegation were admitted last iVednesday to seats in the House of Representa- Ives. It is probable that they will soon be followed by the delegation from Virginia, and as both Alis- sissippi and Texas appear to have gone Republican . . _ heir members will also shortly be installed, when he work of Reconstruction will be almost closed. The only other telegrams tell us that the Revenue collectors in Brooklyn are meeting with forcible opposition, and. on the 3d inst. they had to pro cure an escort of 800 Federal troops and occupy the Irish locality in Brooklyn, where they seized and destroyed a large number of illicit distilleries. The Dominion Government had sent special commis sioners to conciliate the Red River insurgents. It is announced at Washington that the Postal Conven tion with Great Britain has been concluded, and that it mines into effect on the Ist of January, providing for the reduction of the single letter post age to six cents. Measures are in progress for taking the Census, which will be done almost simultaneously (probably in June) throughout the United States. Many esti mates have been made, of which the latest is that of Dr. Jarvis of Boston. He calculates that the population will be 39,613,115, excluding untaxed Indians, but including 4,664,418 coloured persons. This gives more than 25 per cent. increase since 1860, the population then being 31,443,790, which is considerei remarkably goo 3, in the face of a desperate Civil War. The coloured population in 1860 was—Slaves, 3,933,760 ; Free, 487,996 ; total, 4,441,756. Hence Dr. Jarvis considers that there is an increase of nearly 5 per cent., against many good authorities which hold that the negro popula tion is decreasing instead of increasing. state that a council of th e i nsurgen ts was held on the Advices from Wi nnepeg Te r ritory to Nov. 20, 16th, at which an important result was arrived at. A proclamation from Governor Mactavish had been received by them deprecating violent measures, and urging them to peaceably disperse before incurring the penalties of the law. The proclamation had a conciliatory elect, and they had ceased to interfere with mails and t rave ll ers . I n t e lligence received from Fort Garry to the 22d ult. announces that the insurrection is subsiding, and that there are now only about 50 insurgents under arms. The Scotch and English half-breeds are favourable to Mr. M'Dougal, and it is believed that he will be quietly installed as Governor on the Ist of December. Go vernor 'Mactavish is dangerously ill. The Alta California has a correspondent in China, but China is - a big place, and we do not know where he writes from. At any rate, he is well-informed on the proceedings of the Chinese Government, perhaps better informed than anybody else, for he has stated in his newspaper that the Burlingame Embassy has been recalled to China by an order of last August, and that J. M'Cleery Brown, the Eng lish Secretary, had returned to China. Mr. Bur lingame, however, appears to be pursuing the even tcnour of his way at Berlin, evidently intending to move on to St. Petersburg. We learn also by the American papers that the Alabama question has been reopened by Minister Motley, though the par ticulars are unknown, nor will the result, it is added, be sufficiently advanced for months to be laid be fore the Senate. Singularly enough, President Grant appeared to be unaware of this when he sent in his Message to Congress. The seizure of the thirty Spanish gunboats at New York had, in a slight degree, unsettled the relations between the United States and Spain. The Pizarro, a Spanish war vessel, arrived at New Yoik, November 20, with crews to man the gun boats, fifteen of which were to be ready by the end of that month, and were then to proceed to Cuba. District-Attorney Pierrepont proceeded to Wash ington to consult, and it was decided to libel the gunboats in thy New York Admiralty Court to enable Peru to make her charges, and the case to Lc loz.tlly adjudicated upon. The Minister from Spain at lVashington, whose application for their release was refused, reported tilt course by telegraph to his Government. The suit is between the con trnctors and the United States, still the effect is to dcprive Spain of a powerful reinforcement in Cuba, whic:l, acting now, Blight put an end to the insur rection. Though the Executive at Washington is careful to allay excitement, yet the news by mail showed some threatening indications. Several Spanish ships of war had been ordered to rendezvous near New York, and the President had therefore sent three ironclads and a torpedo boat from Fortress Monroe to the same quarter. The insurrection in Cuba ap peared to be at a low ebb ; the insurgents do not now occupy a town, and General Jordan, it is said, would, had he been able, have surrendered to the Spanish forces some time ago, but he was trans ferred to the staff of Cespedes. Most of the Ame rican volunteers had been killed, as they had to do all the fighting, though more recent reports deny this, vindicating both Jordan and the Cubans. The insurgents are reported to be destroying the estates and the sugar crop, but it is possible that the as sembling of Congress may throw some military vigour into the movement ; though, in the meantime, it is threatened that Spa in will withdraw her Minister from Washington and that Admiral Malcampo will send a Spanish fleet to New York, but unfortunately for him the s t re ngth of the American fleet in his own Cuban waters diverts his attention to home. It is said that a ship, bearing Admiral Porter's flag, accompanied by Generals Burnside and M'Cook, was about to follow the vessel carrying Generals Cole and Babcock to San Domingo. These gentlemen will, it is supposed, examine the terms on which Baez, Pimental, and Carbral favour the annexation of their portion of the island. There was a rumour, however, that the two latter, now in arms against the former, do not favour annexa tion, but bring serious charges against the Presi dent of the Dominican Republic. A Dominican gentleman writes to a leading New York paper de nying that his countrymen favour annexation ; on the contrary, they strenuously oppose the foreigners who are on that side, and Baez is heartily denounced for tyranny and venality. Meetings continue in Washington to further the great International Fair, which not only the people of that city, but of the United States, desire may be held at the capital in 1871. The announcement at one of these that President Grant had given $3,000, and that in two days of canvassing the amount reached $230,000, was enthusiastically received, and followed by additional subscriptions of $200,000. The amounts subscribed range from $l,OOO to $lO,OOO. These, with the subscriptions to be paid by the city, already make a total of about $1,200,000. These favourable circumstances led to the passage of a resolution definitely fixing the purpose of hold ing an International Exposition. The committee will resume their canvassing, calling on railroad corporations, manufacturers, and others. The pros pect is that as much more will be realized. Interest has already been awakened in Europe, Henry D. Cook, chairman of the meeting, having received in• quiries from mechanics' institutes and manufac turers of Berlin, Paris, Manchester, and other Euro pean cities. At a meeting in Washington it was calculated that the investment of the subscribers would return GO per cent., but the speaker was im mediately suppreiis.:(l, as the United States do not intend money to be made by time Exhibition, and such an idea would have an injurious effect on Con Gress, to whom the Committee will have to apply for a Charter. One item of information diselwed by the sub connaitten on foreign Affairs in its inquiry into the Para guayan imbroglio is a dispute of long standing between the diplomatic officers and the nlvy on their relative powcr when they have to act together. The naval offi cers are ch-irged with acting independently of, and in ic stances without cousultiug, the representatives of the United States at foreign stations, in important to fitters. To got at the truth and to bring the whole subject before Congresg, Vice-Admiral Porter and Mr. Hunter, Secretary of State, the first representing the navy, the second the diplomatic branch, have boon examined on the theory and practice of the officers of each Department in the dis charge of their official duties abroad. The result may be definite regulations on the sulject, but it will be found very difficult to frame them so as to act for the best in the public interest. Experience prcvos that this difficulty can only bo effectually mot by a careful selection of those called upon to decide and to act together in the emergencies which may arise abroad. A pretty little affair occurred in Indiana, where the winter quarters of the Forepawgh Menagerie was established. The building was set on fire by an incendiary on the night of the 24th Novembez, when the superin tendent, fearing to lose the animals and impressed with the notion that wild beasts also had their right to existence, let them loose, though the firo was quickly arrested and the act proved needless. No sooner did the lion feel himself free than he, entertaining a diffe rent idea from the superintendent regarding tame animals, fell upon a fleck of sheep on .the Fair grounds and killed several. Finding this sport ignoble, the king of beasts selected a big bull for his antagonist, and killed him after a furious fight. The wild beasts were, however, secured before more damsge was done. General Alexander Tate, the new Minister from Hayti, was presented on the 22d Nov. to the President by Secretary Fish, and delivered an address, in which the United States were highlylanded. Among other things, the Gen. said, " President Salnave, as Chief Magistrate choSen by the nation, has instructed me to boar witness to your Excellency how highly he appreciates this token of esteem and eousideration shown to our race. He entertains in consequence the highest hopes for the extension of the relations and the mutual good feeling and sympathy which must henceforth exist between the two countries." To this the President replied, "If any proof wore wanting of the unfounded character of the prejudice which, until recently prevailed, at least in parts of this country, against the race from which you are sprung, it might be found in the high tone and polished style of the remarks you have just uttered. That, however, like all similar prejudices, no matter how deeply implanted, must sooner or later yield to the force of truth. The throes by which the now birth here was accomplished were indeed agonising, and their effects even now are scarcely over." That Salnave is not a true disciple of Republicanism is clear from the last telegram received from Hayti, as he has proclaimed himself President for life; a movement by no manna based on Republican principles, but rather the great preparatory step towards the purple. General Tato is, however, a favourit e in the United States, and formerly resided at Washington, when', at the beginning of the rebellion, he offered his services to President Lincoln to aid in the orga nisation of coloured troops. He is described as a man oe fine appearance, highly educated, being a graduate of an English college and of a French military school, and in complexion is scarcely darker than are most West Indian Creoles of European descent. The Board of Naval Officers appointed to adjust the question of the rank of the officers of the line and those of the staff of the navy, has been increased to ten members, namely, Commodore Melanethon Smith, Presi dent Alden, and Case ; Captains Ammen and Reynolds ; Surgeons Wood and Pinckney, Chief Engineer King, Pay master Dunn, and Naval Constructor Lenthall. There had been several meetings. Secretary Robeson, on the protest of the Board, dropped the word Civil, hitherto applied to the Staff officers. After discussing plans, by a majo rity vote it was agreed that the following division of rank should be made among the staff officers :—Chief engineers, surgeons, and paymasters to rank as lieutenant-comman ders ; first assistant-engineers, passed assistant-surgeons, and passed assistant-paymasters to rank as lieutenants; second assistant-engineer; assistant-surgeons, and assist tant-paymasters to rank as masters; and third assistant engineers to rank as ensigns. Tho rank of chief engineer, surgeon; and paymasters was, however, again unsettled, as some irregularity occurred in the vote. In adjusting the rank of pissed assistant and assistant-surgeons, paymas ters, and assistant-engineers, Capt. Ammon was the only line officer who voted with the staff representatives on the board, and gave them the majority. The proceedings are hereafter to be kept secret. Lyman Allyn was found on the evening of the .:4th Nov. sitting dead in his chair at Taylor's Betel in Jersey City. lie was over 70, and so infirm that he took half an hour to get from his room to the dinner table. Yet ho lived on the highest floor, from which he emerged but once a day, eating little and of the cheapest. The chamber maid alone was permitted to enter for the arrangement of his room but once a week, while the old gentleman watched her narrowly, though the girl was puzzled to know what there was there worth guarding. Two old trunks, a scanty wardrobe made up of cheap ready-made coats, two hats, ono white, the other black, and both thirty years old ; patched shoes and boots, a copy of Webster's dictionary, a Bible, and a medical book, were all that the room contained. For six years he had occupied his desolate abode, declining to see visitot sjor they only cause, he said, for his money, though they were mistaken, as ho was so poor as with difficulty to pay his board bills. His brother, Thomas Allyn, with his sister, the only relatives, arrived at the hctel, and informed the coroner that their brother had once amassed a large fortune which he lost in specu lations. No ono ku. - ,w that he was an old miser, solely engaged in gr oping and locking up the interest up ;n his Bends and Stocks until his brethren examined the two old worn trunks, which were found to contain securities valued at over six hundred thousand dollars,. togethor with a will bequeathing all his property to his brother and sister. Another curious case occurred at Poughkeepsie where an old woman, who, 50 years ago, bAng crossetEn love, bad turned miser, as her brother had done before her, till he died of starvation, leaving his sister $3,000. Her old admirer then terned up and offered his hand, which she refused, being hardened against every love but that of money. She WAS tougher than her brother, so sholived in spite of starvation, picking up whatever charity she could and saving every cent she earned. Her career closed in death on the 25th November, when she left the sum of $25,000 without a will and without an heir. The people who had fed and clothed her, under the erroneous impression that she was destitute, now bring heavy clai m s against the estate. A cavalry force has recently had a fight with Indians on the Upper Brazos river in Texas, lasting more than two days, in which forty Indians aro reported to have been killed, while only nine of the soldiers were wounded. Advices from Arizona state that the Governor had gone to Washington to got more troops for defence against the Indians, and that a battle was impending between the savages and an expedition under Colonel Bernard. The anticipated action appeared to have ended in Bernard's repulse, but ho had boon reinforced from Camp Bowie, when he assumed the aggressive, and an action was im minent. From San Francisco we learn that the Indian difficulties on Lower Klamath River have been settled by stationing a company of soldiers among the savages. Trouble is anticipated in removing the Snake and Pinto Indians from Camp Harney to Klamath River Nation and force will be used, as another Indian war in that region is expected. A conflict with the Pawnees was averted at the last moment by the surrender of the Paw nee Chief, Blue Ilawk, to the United States troops. This Chief was convicted on trial of the murder of Ed. M'Murty, and lodged in the Omaha gaol, from which he escaped. The United States Marshal proceeded to Lone Tree to re- ' capture the fugitive, but found him surrounded by 400 Pawnees, who refused to give him up. The Marshal then called upon General Augur for military assistance to enforce the law, and made a formal demand. On the refusal of the Indians to comply, the General detailed two troops of cavalry under the command of Major Dewees,lwho, with the United States:Marshal Hoile, Major Troth, the Indian agent, and a few others, started on the 18th Nov. to the Pawnee village at Lone Tree. Before leaving the Platte they were met by an Indian delegation, who desired a small party to cross the river for a talk, and they, on complying, found Blue Hawk in a lodge of the encampment with twenty Indians, sitting around a fire iu the middle of a hut. The Marshal informed him that he must take him, and that the troops were on the other side of the river. A council was held, when Blue Hawk's brother-in-law, Travelling Bear, in an inspaesioned address, incited him to resistance. The wife of the one and the sister of the other, a handsome squaw, named Young Fox, took the opposite view, urging that in returning with the officers be might have a chance of his life. The interpreter informed the chief that the majority of the whites considered bins innocent of the murder, and the decision of the Court to be wrong; that a now trial therefore would undoubtedly be granted. This decided Blue Hawk to surrender, although he had dressed himself in his best clothes to die in camp among his friends and to meet the Great Spirit in the happy hunting grounds in a manner pleasing to him. For a time this imbroglio excited considerable uneasiness, as Blue Hawk, ono of the bravest of his tribe, exercised great influence. From New Mexico we learn that on Sunday, .the 14th November, a baud of Indians ran off 1,200 sheep from the plantation of Juan Lana, of Dona Anna County. The Indians were pursued by volunteers and overtaken. Throe of the savages were killed and mostof the sheep recaptured. A. Mexican boy, whe, had been captured by the Indians a few days previously was rescued, after the Indian's had stabbed bins three times, but not fatally. THE LATE Mn. PEABODY.—It is arranged that to-day, at 3 o'clock, the remains of George Peabody will be received on board the Monarch, at Portsmouth, in the following manner, under instructions issued by Vice- Admiral Sir James Hop , , G.C.8., naval Coannander- in : Chief at Portsmouth : "On the arrival of the remains within the dockyard the Monarch will display her ensi:rn half-mast and the Ame rican ensign abreast of the foretoptnast crosArees, all the other ships following her motions. The flag ship will fire 20 guns, at an interval of one minute, co:nmenc ing when the Monarch dips her ensign ; at the expiration of which she will rehoist her ensign and haul down the American ensign, all the other ships, except the Momarch, foll3wing her motions. l c HISTORICVB '' AGAIN. The President's Message furnishes " Historicus" with a text for another long and searching disquisi tion upon the open question between England and America. He enters largely into facts and precedents to prove that the Queen's Proclamation of Neutrality was justified by the facts of the case. Of course in a war between two established Governments both parties are regarded as belligerents; but the justice of recognising . a rebellious State as waging regular war is a question which can be determined only by precedent and by the actual circumstances of the case. There is no doubt that every rebel is not a belligerent. Yet, it is equally certain that insurgents are sometimes more than rebels. The famous revolt of the Netherlands against Spain is one of the earliest instances of suc cessful i ns urrection attaining certain rights. But the best example of principle and practice is to be found in the early history of the struggle of the United States for independence. It is well known that in March 1776, even before the Declaration of Independence, and while still, even in their own way, remaining an integral portion of the British dominion, the United Congress of America issued letters of marque and armed privateers against England. "From the earliest ' moment France and Spain opened their ports to the North American colonists, and treated them as inde pendent people. Their private as well as public cruisers were not only admitted into the ports of the above-mentioned States, but the same friendly disposition was manifested by all the other European Powers except Portugal." In the case of the emancipation of the South Ameri can colonies, the War of Greek Independence, and the revolution in Texas, it became equally necessary to distinguish between rebellion and civil war. The general rule which has always been recognised — except now by the Americans—is that a certain degree of force and consistency a2quired by any mass of population engaged in war entitles them to belligerent rights. A party in a State which is strong enough to make head against the Sovereign, and establish a separate Government, is carrying on civil war, not merely an insurrection. Surely the Southern States " made head " as much as the Greek patriots or the South Americans. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRANIg. It seems to be positively settled that the Govern ment will take over the telegraph system on the 31st of January. It is stated, on what seems to be very fair authority, that the payment of the . 1 25,715,018 compensation money to the companies will be made some time between the 28th of January and the sth of February. FIXITY AND SECURITY. Lord Portarlington seems somewhat in doubt. He is strongly in favour of tenant-right, but is anxious not to perpetrate " landlord wrong." When first he announced himself as an advocate of security of tenure he was much abused by the Con servative press ; but since ho has drawn a distinction between security and fixity, he has been received back with only a covert sneer or two into the bosoms of the orthodox. His lordship writes to the Free man's Journal .giving the conclusion to which he has come. He believes in "fixity," if the expression means—as some interpret it—" that the tenant shall not be removed without paying him the full value of his property in that holding, and compensating him for the loss of such removal." A question arises, however, as to what the tenant's property is. His own buildings upon a farm, and his unoxhausted initilervb ments therein, Lord Portarlington would allow for ; but he protests that the farm itself belongs to the owner of the property—not to the occupying tenant : To my mind (the noble writer says) fixity of tenure, as described in all the speeches at the late tenant-right meetings, is simply, when striped of the fine words under which its real meaning is cloaked, an invitation to the honest, industrious tenant farmers of Ireland to join together in a gigantic act of `felony ' on their landlords, by seizing on their lands, subject to a quit rent to the present owner. And as to the words fair rents, it is, in other words, a demand for fresh valuation of the rental by the State, which, though in many cases it would increase the landlords' income by one-third, would prove a source of much annoyance and wrong to the tenantry at large." DE. TEMPLE. The Bishop Elect of Exeter, though confirmed and wanting nothing to make him a full chief pastor except consecration, is still the subject of contro versy—of eulogy and condemnation. Dean Goulburn, of Norwich, who preceded Dr. Temple at Rugby, in a letter to Big hop Trtr.ver, expresses his sympathy with the protest made et Bow Church on - Wednesday the appointment. The Dean does so as a duty to his former pupils at Rugby, " who may fairly look up to me for some guidance." The very rev. gentle man has no doubt that the Bishop-elect would repu diate the more objectionable doctrines set forth in "Essays and Reviews ; " yet he thinks him in some respects responsible for the mischief the " unhappy " volume has done or is doing. The Dean is evidently puzzled as to what good the Dow Church proceedings would do ; and he is obliged to confess that there would be no other result than a security (and how very slight ?) against similar future appointments. • A very different letter appears from "A Lanca shire Vicar" to Mr. Gladstone. The rev. gentleman thanks the Premier most cordially for the appoint ment. Ho opposed Mr. Gladstone in the late election, having arrived. "with sorrow of heart" at the conclusion that the Irish Church Bill was a mistake. But he is now glad that the Prime Minister has prolonged the existence of the Church of England by the appoint ment of a man of the same stamp as Jeremy Taylor, Stillingileet, Chillingworth, Cudworth, Tillotson, Paley, Arnold, Hampden, and Whately—men who were denounced as Atheists, Deists, and Socinians in their life, but are now the glory of the Church. The old ugbeians' meetinc , took place on Thurabq afternoon. They determined to open a subscription list for a testimonial, and to leave the choice of tl - 0 form it should take to the Bishop himself. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo American Times.) It is evident from the summary of Secretary Boutwell's Report to Congress that he and the Pre sident are in accord on the financial policy. The Secretary goes more into detail as regards the pro posal for replacing at a lower interest the Five- Twenty Bonds. The aggregate of the bonds pur chased by Government to the 30th of Nov. last amounted to $75,500,000, of which $20,000,000 have been bought under the provisions of the Sinking Fund Act. He recommends that the en tire amount purchased be similarly dealt with. He proposes a contraction of the currency at a rate not exceeding $2,000,000 monthly. He further re commends that 1,200,000,000 dollars of 5.20 Bonds be replaced by bonds of three classes, each class amounting to $400,000,000, bearing interest not exceeding 4i per cent. per annum, payable at the option of the holder, in London, Paris, Hamburg, or Frankfort, the principal and interest to be pay able in coin, to be free from taxation, and redeem able in 15, 20, and 25 years respectively. Mr. Bout well believes that by demonstrating the probable early redemption of the existing bonds the holders would be induced to exchange them for the pro posed new classes. Although the President's Mes sage and the Secretary's proposal have been fol lowed by a fall in the bonds in European markets, it is but a temporary depression resulting from ignorance. Some suppose that the Government intends to turn the Six per Cent. into Four and a Half, whether the holders agree or not. Of course such au impression would induce them to get rid of their Bonds, and every movement, either up or down, is anticipated and aided by speculators. Although Mr. Boutwell may not immediately be able to effect the change he proposes he will cer tainly do so hereafter, for the United States have but to continue the reduction of the Debt to make scarce Five-Twenty Bonds. It would better suit the Administration to relieve the pressure of taxa tion, but if a difficulty be experienced in effecting the reduction, that relief will, perhaps, be delayed. The Internal It !venue Report of Commissioner De lano, issued Dec. 6, announc,:s that the receipts of his department during the year 1869 atnount to 160,000,000 dollars. He estimates the receipts for 1870 at 175,000,000 dollars. The internal revenue has increased 26,000,000 dollars during the last six months as compared with the precAing six months, and this increase is principally owing to the better operation of the amended laws for the collec tion of the tax on spirituous liquors and tobacco. The New York. Herald publishes in advance an abstract of Treasury Spinutr's Report, stating that since the 11th of May, 1869, the Treasury has paid $89,000,000 for bonds on account of the Sinking Fund Act and the fund held subject to the action Li, 11. "Tiro small-ann comi,unics of the Excellent, under Commander Maxwell's orders, will parade abreast of the south side of the steam basin at a quarter-past two pre cisely, Commander Maxwell reporting himself to Captain Hancock. "The marines of the squadron, except those of the Donegal, will parade abreast of the long dock leading into the steam basin at the same hour, when the officers in com mend of the several detachments will place themselves under the orders of Major Hunt, of her Mejebty's ship Duke of Wellington. " 111. "All naval officers on duty, or such as may wish to testify their respect for the memory of the deceased by their presence, are to be in undress uniform (plain trow.ers), and the latter, together with the officers of the public establishments, the corporation of Portsmouth, and such military officers and civilians as may be present, will be admitted within the enclosure abreast of the Monarch, where places will be assigned to them by an officer of her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington.. "IV. Such further instructions in regard to details as may be requisite will be given to the officers whom they concern. (Signed) "J. IforE, Vice-Admiral." On being received on board, the coffin will be placed on a bier under a lofty pavilion on the ship's upper deck, where it will remain until the ship takes her departure for sea on the following day. The pavillion will only contain the body during the time the Monarch is stoatuing out of Portsmouth harbour, and lying anchored at Spithead, and when entering and lying in tho American harbour. For its reception during the voyage a mortuary caapel has been constructed on the of tern►est part of the frigate's main deck, and into this the coffin will be removed before the anchor of the Monarch is weighed from Spithead. No trouble or expense has been spared in the preparation - of this chapel, and a very imposing effect has been produced. The chapel is circular, with dome, walls, and floor covered with black cloth. From the centre of the dome white silk cords ra diate, looping up round the upper part of the walls fes toons of cloth fringed with deep white lace. Round the walls atintervals the monogram "G. P." in silver, wreaths of immortelles, and silver-plated brackets with double waxlights. The bier in the centre of the chapel, on which the coffin will bo deposited during the voyage, has on either side four huge silver-plated candlesticks, each being nearly 3ft. in height, carrying wax tapers as exceptionally large as the lofty and gleaming masses of metals that hold them. The public have been admitted on board and in the chapel as freely as they chose, and some thousands of people have availed themselves of the opportunity, the con tinual stream of visitors passing through the dockyard to and from the Monarch from nine in the morning until near sunset, and especially after noon, never seeming to slacken. Mr. Peabody accumulated the greater part of his vast wealth during the last five-and-twenty years of his life. It is said, on trustworthy authority, that at fifty ho was ' worth but little more than 550,000. The United States screw corvette Plymouth, 18 guns, Captain W. 11. Macomb, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Marseilles, and on Monday went into Portsmouth at high water to fill up with coals. In steaming up the Solent from the Needles, in charge of a local pilot, the Plymouth took tho ground twice off Newtown, owing to the thick weather prevail ing at the time,but she remained on the ground only a short time, and sustained no damage. Sho will sail in com pany with her Msjoaty's ship Monarch for Madeira and the United States. The body will be removed from West minster Abbey at 11 o'clock to-day, and convoyed by_the South• Western Railway from Waterloo Station. Two Japanese boys have been sent to a military school in Massachusetts, and a Japanese Prince and re tinue has arrived at San Francisco to make a tour of the States, but more especially to proceed to the Sandwich Islands as a Special Commissioner from the Mikado to inquire into the condition there of the Japanese labourers on the sugar estates. The Pacific steam line to Yokohama will do much to break down Japanese prejudice and exclu siveness, and to introdaco this old but little known family of the human race to mankind. Two Etindoos, as• the American papers persist in calling tho Parsee as well as the llindoo gentleman now travelling through the South ern States, will take back to Tudia with them a new idea of the Anglo-Saxon race. Some papers outer into a mi nute description of the caste of the Parsee, and no Asiatic ever helps an Anglo-Saxon, probably not comprehending the real meaning of the word caste. Properly!speaking theae ' • "" is DO caste in India except among tho llindoos. The Parsee, the Mussulman, and others aro distinct races, and no more 'Undoes than are Americans, and they might as well discuss an Englishman's caste or that of the degraded descendants of the Portuguese in India as that of the Parsee. They are Ghebres or Fire-worshippers, originally from Persia, who are tho richest and most intelligent citi zens of Bombay and of the Western coast. That interesting question to America, the Bible iu Schools, continues to make its way to tho front. Many of the Thanksgiving sermons had a special reference to the subject, and much diversity of opinion is expressed. For instance, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the Rev. Dr. Ewer, who perhaps might be as likely to arrive at the same conclusion as Mr. Spurgeon and Mr. Mackonochio of St. Alban's, favour, at least conditionally, severing the schools from State support. Archbishop M'Clpskey's organ, the Tablet, desires that the proportion of the public money to the number of the Catholic children educated, be appropriated to the Roman Catholic schools, and the whole internal management left to their educational autho rities, the rest remaining under public control. But this is exactly what must journals strenuously oppose, as this is the thin edge of the Catholic wedge, which would soon be effectually driven home to the destruction of the corn • mou school system. The 3oncral opinion of moderat.• mon appears to be this : —the Bible is the best of all books, most beautiful in precept, most beautiful in language, most thrilling iu incident. For these reasons it is the best of school books, more espec!ally as the basis whereon stands Christianity. But a largo section of Christiana disapprove its general reacting by laymen, and some citizei.s are not Chrhtians, and disapprove of the book altogether. Both these desire to set up schools fur themselves, but it is the national wish that the children of the nation should receive their early education on a commen system in the State schools. To persist in using the Bible as a school book is to defeat this, therefore it is better to keep the Bible at home and in Sunday schools, which would thwart the in tention of those who desire separate schools by removing the only objection they can raise against the national wish. A characteristic article appeared last evening in the Pall Mall Gazette on Sir G. Young's paper on the Ala bama claims. There is nothing mere easy than to pooh-pooh an insult, even when coupled with an injury. It is done every day, and every effort of counsel is thus to treat a bad case, adding to that abuse of the plaintiff's attorney At the same time there is nothing more absurd than for a man who dwells in a glass house to justify and uphold the precedent he may have established of throwing stones. Were it not for the application of the latter case to England, we could quite understand the Pall Mall's treatment of the subject, but it would be simple suicide on the part of England to allow the pre cedent England has established to stand. Herein lies the strength of the United States and the weakness of England. Yet it is wholly overlooked in the article, while the people who do see it, and regard it with such apprehension, are sneered at as those who cannot let things remain in that happy state in which the rejection by the Government of the United States of the proposal it had itself framed had left them. The Government thin had framed the proposal did not reject it, nor did any other Government of the United States reject it. That Go vernment accepted it, but another authority in the United States also necessary to any U.S. treaty, that is, the Senate —rejected it. There was a time when any discussion of the subject was declined almost with disdain, but England has got so far as to bo ready to pay for the material damages, and she will before long advance to the point, which she feels bitterly, though she will not confess, which is an acknowledgment of wrong. America says, " Let the precedent stand," and if the Pall Mall Gazette ro-echoes this, why touch on the subject—" Let it stand." ELECTION NEws.—A New York correspondent says the recent New York election cost Tammany over $900,000. The grand torchlight procession cost $120,000. Mayor Oakey Hill contributed 20 per cent. of his salary, and eight candidates for office contributed $5,000 each.' All the subordinates in public offices under the control of Tammany were taxed 20 per cent. on the amount of their salaries. The candidates for the State Senate paid about $28,000 each, with the exception of William Tweed, who paid nearly $50,000. Alaska advices report the election of General I'hrie as Delegate to Congress. As the Legisla ture of lowa will soon meet, the Governor, Mr. Merrill, declines to make a temporary appointment iu place of Senator Grimes, leaving it to the Legislature not only to elect a citizen for the remainder of that Senator's term, but for the succoedir.g six years, and Mr. Allison's chances appear to be on the increase. It is now reported that Texas has gone Republican, not Democratic, as before stated. In the Virginia Republican Convention, Nov. 24, an address to Congress was adopted, declaring the elec tion in Virginia "a Confederate triumph, achieved by in timidation and fraud, the secret of the Republican defeat being the submission to a separate vote of the test oath and disfranchising clauses," and asking Congress to order a now election ou the constitution as a whole, or else to exact the test oath from the members of the Legislature, and give the seats of those who cannot take it to their eligible opponents. About thirty delegates seceded from the Convention, being dissatisfied with its proceedings. The House of Representatives in the Tennessee State Legislature has tabled the bill permitting negroes to hold office and to be jurors, wLile a till repealing the law imposing penalties for distinctions in public cars and other places cu account of race has passed to a third reading. BUDGET OF PERsoNAL.—The President bas ap pointed Robert M. Douglas his private Secretary, and Junes T. Ely, of Illinois, Assistant Secretary. - If ttgl, Marrow and James Dougherty, convicted of atterni.ting to assassinate BevenueDetectiveßroolts, in I'bilatlelphin,were sentenced by Judge Ludlow, Nov. 20, to pay each a fine w of 61,000 and be imprisoned x years, eleven months, and twenty-three days in the Eastern Penitentiary.- Jud g ,. Johnston, of Virginia, in acknowledging the receipt of hit• credentials as United States Senator, wrote to Governor Walker in approval of the Suffrage Amendment, and ad vocacy of good faith in the payment of the public debt. - Lieut-General Sheridan is suffering from a fever resulting from a cold, at his re4d ence i n C hicago, being confined to his bed.—Georgo 11. Halsey, of Newark, New Jersey, is said to bo selected as Mr. Grinnoll's successor as Collector at New York.—Miss Bateman has procured an injunction against a Chicago manager to prevent him from produc ing "Mary Warner," which, it is decided, Miss Bateman has the sole right to play in this country.-Jeffer son Davis declines to make public speeches or to indulge in public receptions. He has been elected President of the Carolina Insurance Company of Memphis, and it is said he will reside in that city.—Otis Tufts, recently deceased, inado $1,000,000 by his patent hotel elevator.—The latest about Olive Logan is that she wears a chignon that cost $1,100.—• A committee of merchants in St. Louis have made a report declaring that Captain Washington, of Submarine, No. 13, was guilty of "a grave error" in failing to render as sistance to the passengers on the kurning steamer Stone wall. —Bernard Kane, the switch tender at Sampsons Station, who caused through ignorance and incompotency the accident on tho Western Pacific Railway, has been lodged in gaol.—Father M'Mahon has been howling about his bad treatment in the Kingston Gaol, Canada, but the Inspector of Penitentaries, T. J. O'Neill, as loudly con tradicts him.—Quartermaster General Meigs has been very ill with erysipelas at St. Louis, but is better.—Tbe health of ex-Secretary Stanton has greatly itni"v ed. -- General Ceepectes and wife have sent to New York, to be , sold for the good of the Cuban cause, $25,000 worth of jewels, whilst a number of other patriotic Cubans "" added other jewellery, valued at $25,000 more. —George 11. Pendleton intends to leave politics, and go into rail roading, giving his whole attention to the Kentucky Cen tral Railroad, of which he has recently been elected Pre sident.- E. 11. Ring, President of the Bank of Montreal, and Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trunk way of Canada, arrived in Europe in the steamship Ru e —Father Ilyacinthe was to deliver a lecture in French , at Cooper Institute, New York, on the 9th of December.-- General Hardee is talked of for President of the Alabanief University.—Hon. Amos Kendall left $25,000 to en cli f his grandchildren, with the exception of one, to whom a° gave but $lO,OOO because he was in the Confederate will' —Miss Middie Morgan, formerly equerry and superin offten dent of stables to King Victor Emmanuel, has been er ed by Leonard Jerome $20,000 toward establishing a riding" school in the upper part of New York. —Pierce Ega n i° going to America with a series of lectures on London We' —The following is the way in which the Springfield Re publican announces what wo presume to be an engag e ' went :—" 0. J. Hollister, United States Revenue Collector for Utah, and formerly of th 3 Colorado Press, has ce mn , East, and will report at Washington. When he returns " is probable that a member of Vice-President Colf ax 'B family will go with him."—lt is stated that the sentence of Lieut.-Com. Seeley, recently tried by court-martial in Boston and found guilty of the charge of cruelty to seamen while in command of the United States steamer Pawnee, i 5 that he be suspended from his command on furlough pay for four years.—Cornelius Vanderbilt, jun., whose hal° is in Hartford, and whose father will not pay all debts of his contracting, has been spending a season in Ludlow-street Gaol, New York, on account of debts, for which he had given worthless cheques. Mr. Greoley ha: often befriended young Vanderbilt, loaning him money a various times to the :Amount, now, of $15,000 to $20,000. In our opinion the facts prove that his father was much the wiser man.—The lion. Ben Wade is for the immediate re cognition of the Cuban revolutionists, and against spode payments. He thinks there is not currency enough 113 America now, and cites the low price of bread-stuffs asproof. —A $75,000 marble mausoleum to 11. Keep, the late Chicago, railroad king, and at his death president of the Chicag oan" North-western Road, is being erected at Watertown, ties/ York.— On dit that the widow of Abraham Lincoln is abo utto marry a chamberlain of the Grand Duke of Baden, Count Schneidenhatzen.—Pere Hyacinthe arrived in New lroric on the evening of Nov. 25 f rom B os t on , an d went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel.—Mr. Tustin, of Petaluma, who Wa : killed by the recent accident o n th o U n i on Pacific Railroau: Wasatch, was the inventor of the Union reaper, the Tusti n . Gang plough, and sev e ral o th er va l ua bl e i n ventions. - 5. " . " Tustin went East as o ne o f th e C a lif o r n ia Pio: 001.-- Mr. Rawlings, Internal Revenue Collector of San Err disco, who was recently injured by the bursting ° I. centrifugal sugar-drying pan, has had his leg alnPn --- toted, but he is not expected to survive the operat ion ' The celebrated case of Kimberley against Gen. BE ILI '' t had been sent for trial in Baltimore, November It is understood that Miss Romaine Goddard, EPP" daughter of Admiral Dahlgren, is shortly to be united in marriage to Mr. Qvarbeck, Austrian Consul at gel !: Kong, and that the bridal trip will be to that place of Europe. -Brevet Lieut.-Col. George A. Gordon, Major the Fourth United States Cavalry, has been tried by coo" - martial, found guilty of the charge of drunkenness to lin' prejudice of good order and military discipline, and sew tented to be suspended from rank and command f or lb° period of eight months, and to bo confined to the j iutitg of the miliiary post at Fort Griffin, Texas, for the sai n vc period.—C. (1 Ripley, formerly a member of the Safe bar, Las just been :sleeted Chief Justice of Minnesota for a term of seven years.—Within two months elne rico has lost by death one ex-President, two ex-Sc: retaries of the Treasury, the Secretary of Nay an an ex-Secretary of War, two ex-Senators, ono ex7Pr's__ master-General, the Rear-Adoairal,arcd a Major-Gener'}' At a meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College, ° Monday, Nov. 22, President Smith was granted t hree months' leave of absence on account of ill health. In fessor D. J. Noyes will be president, ad interim, dn ' n. '" the absence of President Smith. The next tern: will cola: mence Jan. 7, 1870.—A Mr. Bourne, who began his b° 6 0 , 1- :less life as a carrier for the Providence Journal, returns the second largest income in et:lifer:ll3%6 Mr. Perry, President of the Kansas Pecific now in London, at the Charing-cross Hotel. —F' k , Hays, president of the South Paeifie Railroad, is at Fra n , , fort-on-the-Maine, on business connected with that Ex-Chancellor lI.P. Toppan and family are at Nie e ,; (. Commodore Livingston and family are at Flarence. t Nitt C. Sprague, lately appointed United States Coos ° Brunswick, Germany, has entered upon the discharge -11,t the duties of his office.-0. S. Rose, late Consu l to Mecklenburg, Germany, has been appointed United Sta at Consul at Ancona.—Two sons of General Butler ar e Frankfort-on-the-Maine to attend school. They are stay" ing with Mr. Webster, United States Consul-General 3 f brother-in-law of General Butler.—Mrs. Banks, the wi fe General Banks, and family are at Neufchalet,s, Mr. H. Allardt has been appointed Emigration Ce rnin .:,n sinner by Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, and is re sidi at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.—The case of Mr Brotheratco4 under the bankruptcy of Messrs. Belding, Keith, and g r . resulted in his favour, in the decision yesterday c' f , t o Commissioner Bacon. Mr Brotherton becomes entitleaos. the proceeds of the sale of a bond for $5,000, taken P jt session of by the assignees in America in April last' - was urged, on the part of the assignees, that Mr. Ereti t.. ton was only entitled to come in with the rest of the cd, ditors. The costs were granted, and the case terrninnt'e which excited deep interest in a crowded Court.—G elle , Bauks and Nathan Appleton, a delegate from tho 133 ,1, 1° 0 Board of Trade to the inauguration of the Suez Carte l, 'in , returned to Paris.—The following are some of the big I s. comes in Philadelphia : H. C. Gibson, $279,5 41 i fi ta r ts, Moores, $199,363; J. G. Fell, $195,8 . 20; G. N1T 5163,199 ; J. P. H. Tasker, $149,556; Stephen ,-°-:0, $116,058 ; T. T. Tasker, jun., $115,166 • $112,820; 11. J. Mo rr i s , $107,256; o'. 0. rrisont $106,574; N. B. Per ron , $101,784. LADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Pills.—lnfestiotis enolijs, dies.—ln our variable climate, bronchitis, cought w ith with many other chest and throat complaints, ratt r ' s y ' A WI ) regrettable regularity the change of seasons, and o ,` li - tbs all aware that at certain times disease runs thront? people like the plague of old; under such critical cttculls stances we all should likewise know that Holloway ?fiiig can chock and arrest these c a la m ities. This Pu ri ,J .o ll s medicine expels from the blood and system all 01300.001- matters which breed both contagious and infectiouet' ol dies. It institutes a radically curative, ra ther than w ith' liative treatment. Holloway's pills should be talonioad oat one moment's delay when disordered stomach' frail is. ache, or restlessness betokens der an g e ment of th e vo o, [ ADVERTISEMENT. —Consumption, and all Deb 0 01 bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every pta:, , s "T oo , 'ft aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every descritt o jea'7, perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health -restoring -"Z i a b-e,, - Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases Which - coag.ii; considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspaP" 3 ::ii gast!„.. asthma, consumption, h ibitual constipation, diarrhelat," c y, derangements, luemorrhoids, liver complaints, Ilatall ti trf.,: vousness, biliousness, fevers, sons throat, diphtheria, goo:, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheur au " s reP le "s impurities, eruptions, hy s t er i a , neura l g i a , i rr itability , s „. 0 ,011 , : nets, acidity, p a lpit a ti on , h eart b urn , h ea d ac h e , debility , s tat e spasms, nausea and si c k ness even i n pregnan cy or at . B n r si t W t . bag fits, bronchitis, scro f u l a , ti, : h tness o f t h e c hest, Pa.,' e q uo , o , pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &e• cureis few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food- . ti oer„,„ G 8,413 —"Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the II De DI excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reraeuo Foo d ' confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenin A rabi io odu„,,,ss of which he consumes a plateful at every meaL It ) 11) :',, Von"to a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and the 61a 5- be r cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—Fran l - 4 . 0 tiro du Midi, July 2i. Cure No. 46,070. Mr. James Rober s ' e ll ltaie re merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disea_ ss. Ca_ A, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deaifvatercfl fol; N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83 .„ "Fif t y years 7 sh, cO oi able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma;F ° stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickne ss , an d von uttng a •,,vo ty Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many u W° and more than sloppy imitations t o w hi c h, without aO, Baron Liobig's name is most audaciously attached. i2lba TO In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs Is 6d 5 lbs „ i0 c0r. ,, „• 21 tbs 10s. -Also Du BARRY'S IISVALRNTA AR OS. POWDRR is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 28, for at 5 $ at 3s 6d, for 48 c ups at 6s, for 283 cups at 308, for 57 6 °P a re —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 558 do er G r iot free of carriage in England on receipt of P o st-03°, 1o ; 9° IiAR YDo BARRY an d Co, No 77 Regent street, L°ll- all Grocevs and Chemists BIRTHS. ofoll r ' BALFOI7II—On the 9th ingt at Edinbur g M rs ' of Fernie, of a son. ho Wi f° NESPIELD —On the 10th inst , a at 7, Doaret-square, of Markham. Nesfield, Esq . ' 7 of son. MARRIAGES. T ., g id , FORD - —DAY—On the 9th inst., at St. John's, Ea st mil ., Jc, te James Ford, of Wchniond Villa, Lewishara-P• rp.;4, Alice Mary, youngest daughter of S. Huhn() D:l4 of Peckham- rye-common. p.mu l% LEFROY —BLACKBURN E 011 the 10th in St., et St• Knightsbridge, G orgo Lefroy, Esq., sou 4)f Hon. Thomas Ltfroy, to Mary, widow of W 0 isurne, Esq., Tankardstown, Shine. DEATBS. f WA ll°° Manor, On the aged (i 2 o7thinst. : Edwin Bailor, EscP7 Oxford, Sr amAn—On the 9th irsf . ., nt 102, Long - Pere, Mr. Sloitutu, of Covent-garden Ties): r aged 73. .„; ~T o ptEw London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM st , 2 S tP3 of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at TnSUN Office No. ll o w' in the Precinct o the Savoy, in the County a AUcl ale Saturday, December 11, 1U". AE This colt z p•ize Medal. _ _ _Pare, ] Sold in lie' t Agenta in 8, GR Observe tin n's LL Wh lITU 14, MISS ADVANCES hold or Leal able weekly, Forms free c THE ah Luna for deviling ] ORIGINAL Ira B. I next Consignee f 4 celebrated P Bordeaux W Whiskies, fr also be seen number of E of others wai ANG] AT Devoted to PAGER. Railroad, k and those h. this newspm Publish E STAB , The rela fossional M weekly nay biped with establishine This este nised by hc and it is i Lady Lanz Caroline RI All infor ten or persc S nbscripl Treasurer, THE D I- JEW receive AP and DUNI] Pupils, for The sys manual alpl A public when the nessed. A pplicati other partic THE I Offices— The Inve Fire Roveni The modern Bonne or t value as $ render ; then leave is grat thirty days T HE R of C 1 Upwards this Elospita The domi enable thb - ti numerous p helpless by tankeri, 1 street ; and Waterloo- Arrroi Riehm Under the pat whereby a b Girls of all ag the kingdom. The objet( fish education and laundry, wise provide( suitable situai The Comm! suttrely susta Office, 121, G. ILEA Thla Mar establisboc , s free_ Bankers stroot, Messy Seo, L Smii 11RITD Macke Patron— For the destitute orp and of all prosperous c One hundi stitution , an Increased endowed, an assistance. Subscribes Institution, ; Its peculiar c The last Secretary. 0 ffices 73 , 1 • Bankers-- ane ; and XI LIFE BC of the boat Institut from various The Institut on its Lifebi 44,250 for ri The Instit its managem Contributi and country Esq., at the J HEALTH RE DU BAT and L saves fifty th perfect diges refreshing al( most disordi effectually in gumption, ha rangements, nervousness, catarrhs, col rh eamatism, ralgia, irrit naartburn, I nausea and s' fits, bronchit the pit of th( tho most dige for invalids a IMPORTANI anu more the rity, Baron I Heneeforti Du Barry's 1 and Infants i has already been doomed ness the Pop by it after th We quote fi 48,113):—"I Holy Father Cher romedi arry's Rove lateful at el eneacial eff praise this el ; fOure No. 5 years' liver noes, irritabil digestion, cm ervousagita Curo N 0.7 titnart de Dec ford :—" I La food.—STUAT Waterford." Cure No. fro rt dyspops flatulency, sp of Lynn, NOY Cu - 1-014 . 0. 4 narvonsnoss, 'rens fancies. Cure No. 5 years' diarrhc The Food 21b., 4s. 6d.; eanistera, ear Barry's Rovi tin oaaister3 : caps at 65., fc an3at JlO fie: tree el oarria l 3ALIitY DU also At Fort Griesehateh- Raw Elorth-r n