The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-16 00:00:00

sznuT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL% The Times remarks that whatever the appropriateness, little or much, of the occasion, and unendurable as it would be for the precedent of Colston's Day to be followed commonly wherever there is a charitable foundation, it is not without interest to have occasionally an oppor tunity like this of collating the views of different sections in the same town on the same events. The Liberal party and the Conservative party, to judge from their Bristol oratory, both find the retrospect of the last general election and session a matter on the whole for congratulation. It is very satisfactory when this is so. In England Liberals and Conservatives have each useful functions to fulfil. Nothing can be more advantageous than that the party which is beaten should discover in its defeat new reasons for pursuing its special vocation in politics. Mr. Stansfeld's speech at Bristol, says the Telegraph, though he did not intend it, more or less marks the begin ning of the new epoch in his own career. His position as I I Third Lord of the Treasury was transitional ; now, as Financial Secretary, he takes a post bringing him into close and confidential relations with the Premier, and making him more or less an organ of the Cabinet in many impor tant House of Commons debates. There are few men in public life who could bring to the duties of his new pest more appropriate qualifications. His long and dis interested devotion to the Liberal party has not even yet received anything like its full reward, though he would be the last to say so himself. Yet there is some thing peculiarly honourable in the personal character of a man of whom nearly every observer remarks, no matter what situation he gets, that it seems below his deserts. "Friend, Sit up higher," seems a kind of universal wish when Mr. Stansfold and his post are in question. That he will soon sit up higher is always the belief ; meanwhile, he does what great men before him have always clone. He works where he is placed with a singleness of purpose and pure devotion that win him, now as ever, " honour, love, and troops of friends." His speech at Bristol was a happy reply to the absurd criticisms which have been heaped on Mr. Gladstone's City address. As we had already remarked, and as Mr. Stansfeld says again, people who saw in it signs of doubt had " forgotten the serious ness and the conscientiousness of the man." Speaking for the Ministry, Mr. Stansfeld shewed that it approaches the Irish land question without fear. Of course Mr. Glad stone and his colleagues know the difficulties of their task; but they are accustomed to difficulties. In that work we are sure that the Prime Minister will find no ally or col league more cordial in co-operation, more thoroughly to be trusted, than Mr. Stansfeld himself. Mr. Stansfeld, says the Herald, is authorised and enabled to declare that the Cabinet, of which ho is not a member, has already made up its mind upon three most important questions, and expressed that mind in drafts of bills. The occasion for these revelations of the Government policy and this announcement of Mr. Stansfeld's influence was the Colston Liberal dinner at Bristol, at which Mr. Stansfeld returned thanks for the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers " after a Dissenting preacher had, in returning thanks for the ministers of reli gion, abused the clergy of the Established Church of England for their opposition to the Irish Church Bill, threatened them with disestablishment and disendow- 1 ment in their turn, and, in perfect keeping, represented Dr. Temple as a bishop who would serve the Liberal cause—that is theAnti-State Church cause. The honesty and the courage of the new Land Bill, if, as Mr. Stansfeld pro mises, they will satisfy the Bristol Liberals, will hardly be appreciated so much in other parts of the kingdom, if we may take a certain Sir Edward Strachey—a guest whom the Bristol Liberals delighted to honour — as an exponent of their opinions. This gentle man has, he says, investigated the circumstances of every Irish outrage committed during the last eighteen months, and has found that the persons guilty of them — Sir Edward Strachey must be in the confidence of the murderers and would-be murderers, for of most of these crimes the public does not know the authors—had been driven to desperation by cruel oppression. The statement is, of course, false. But it supplies as good a gauge of the mental capacity and the moral standard of the Bristol Liberals as poor Mr. Morley's assertion that the com mercial delinquency of the day is very much the product of the University Tests. The Times discusses the designs of the two new men-of war to be immediately constructed at Portsmouth and Pembroke, and says such, in brief, according to present ideas, is the First-rate of the future. She will carry the most powerful artillery known, and be able to work her guns under all conditions. Her sides will, as far as we can at present presume, be impervious to the shot of an enemy. She will be able to repair to any station, will be perfectly seaworthy and habitable, and will possess a speed of some thirteen miles an hour. Her single defect— if that can be called a defect which was a deliberate sacrifice—will be this—that, inasmuch as she depends upon steam power alone, she will be effe, tive only for a limited service at a time, and will be exposed to risk in case of damage to her engines. On the other h;:n.l, her engines will drive a pair of twin screws, working inde pendently of each other, so that both must bo disabled before the vessel can be crippled. Such ships, it is clear, could not fulfil the purposes of a flying squadron ; but for these purposes other ships would be available, while in the Devastation and the Thunderer we shall obtain men-of war at once stronger and more formidable than any now afloat. Hitherto, for the mere sake of providing all our vessels with sailing power, we have been com pelled to sacrifico some of their most service able qualities. We surrendered in turn our expectations of speed, of strength, of handiness, and of lightness, in the vain hope of arriving at a perfect vessel of all work. At last we have recognised a different prin ciple. For mere cruising purposes we have actually returned to the old wooden frigate without armour, on the presumption that a vessel which was always free to run might safely decline to fight. For mere fighting purposes we have now embraced the turret principle, but have carried it beyond its original design by adaptations and improvements. Only, it must be understood that we cannot have cruising and fighting qualities together. The best vessel for one of these services would certainly not be the best vessel for the other, and the simplest as well as the most promising policy will bo to keep the require ments apart. The Standard observes that Dr. Manning's recent Pastoral on the approaching Council has excited an in terest that extends far beyond the limits of his own communion. It is a subtle, laboured, sophistical, and scholastic, if not truly learned, vindication of the doctrine of Papal infallibility. With its arguments we are not at present concerned; the prospect 'which its appearance indicates is a. matter of grave importance to the entire Latin Church, if not to the whole Christian world. There can be little doubt that Dr. Manning is thoroughly well, informed as to the intentions of the Roman Court ; and as little, we fear, that whatever the intentions of that Court may be they will be servilely registered by the majority of the Council which is about to meet under its auspices. We may, therefore, take it for granted that the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff, when speaking ex cathedra upon matters of doctrine, is about to be made a dogma of the Roman Catholic faith, which every member of the Church will be bound, not merely to accept in silence on pain of excommunication, but to believe ex aninto on peril of his soul. However this may be—whether the Church loses her finest minds or de grades them to the level of her lowest—she will in the promulgation of this new dogma have sealed her fate. From henceforth she must be at war with know ledge and with civilisation, with liberty and with science. She used to claim for herself an adaptability to all politi cal forms, a capacity of assimilating to herself the intelli gence and the progress of every age and race. And no General Council has ever yet committed her to any dogma irreconcilable with such a policy, or would be likely to do so. The Papal Court will so commit her—has so com mitted itself. When'Pius IX. and his courtiers have made it impossible for Englishmen, and Germans, and Ameri cans to be Catholics without being Ultramontanes, to ac cept the authority of Rome apart from her carnalised de vo*ion, and to retain the faith of the Fathers without engrafting on it the superstitions of the Jesuits, they will have made it impossible for their Church long to retain any hold whatever on England, Germany, or America. The Daily News remarks that in the agricultural world, as in the great world of cities, one-half ' e gi vii_ s entlK does not know how the other half lives. Indeed, it a puzzle to know how the agricultural labourers' in such Southern and Western counties live at all, that statements d about r a o to be them are received with discredit. They are to true. When Canon Girdlestone proposes to improve condition of Western labourers by helping them to r Ji e,, rat e northward and eastward, and describes with terrible fidelity the state of things in his own locality, the Northern farmers resent his description as though it was meant to apply to them. When a Lincolnshire farmer, who pays his men from 2s. Gd. to 3s. a day, hears it said that a Dorsetshire labourer is thought well oil on Is. Gd. a-day, he quotes his own practice as though it were a conclusive answer to the charge. In g reat towns there is the same incredulity as to these statements, and from the same cause. But recent evidence is conclusive. Even the low wages of the western labourers are badly disfributed. The men get most when they want least. rod 'Last when they want most; and even a man who, in the season, when politicians are in the country and these things come before them, may be pointed out as earning 12 s. Gd. a week, and keeping a family of twelve upon it, will probably have to go through the winter with Os. a week—less than a penny is head a day for clothing, schooling , fi re, and food. Such the home of the English labourer as he lingers on his poor existence on the great estates of Southern England. A little meat "when anything happens" on the could not farm to ceatow or sheep ; a few peas because the p man barley ; rarely a sip of milk for the children, but broth to which workhouse " skilly " must be luxury; and yet net ono word of complaint. Yet through all this one gleam of hope, and only a gleam, breaks. The shepherd's wife says, " One of my son's is gone to America, and there's our Jim, ho say's he'd be away too if it wasn't for his bad leg. They like to be good scholars, because it helps them to go away." Perhaps when the studies of these poor people have been carried a little further, they will understand that the case is not so bad as they imagine. Dorsetshire is not England, and there are counties where the agricul tural labourer can live in decency and comfort, and avoid the necessity of going to America. EMBEZZLEMENT OF £O.OOO. The sum of £G,173 has been stolen from a Wolver hampton society, composed chiefly of operatives and small tradesmen. It is known by the name of the Weliellampton Freeholders' Permanent Benefit Build ing Society. The head office is in the borough named, and there are branches in most of the smaller towns throughout the Black Country. The society was started nearly twenty years ago, and it has had only two secretaries. One died a few years ago, and he was suc ceeded by the man who had been for some time his ohief clerk, and in whom the society had the greatest confidence. Presently, this second secretary, whose name is Ward, was discovered to be misappropriating the funds of the society, and he is now undergoing a term of imprisonment in Stafford gaol. The scrutiny of the books and accounts of the society which had been begun when Ward was committed has just been completed. The result is the discovery of a series of peculations extending over nearly the whole period embraced in the existence of the society. The dis honesty is clearly traceable to the secretaries, and chiefly to the one w:.o LAW AND POLICE. TFIE Drone . OF LANCASTER.—In the Court of Chancery an appeal has been heard from the decision of Mr. Wickens, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster. The suit referred to a certain deed which was held to be not binding on the plaintiff, and was only noticeable from its being the first instance in which a Chancellor of the Duchy has been called upon to exercise judicial functions since the present Court of Appeal was created in 1854. Lord Dufferin, as Chancellor, sat with Lord Justice Giffard, his presence being necessary to constitute a Court of Appeal, as there is now only one Lord Justice. AN INTERNATIONAL LAW CASE. —A suit has been instituted in Vice-Chancellor James's Court by the London and Mediterranean Bank for the recovery of certain bills of exchange for £16,000, which had been disposed of in America. There had been some litigation in New York respecting them, and a commission was appointed by the American court to take evidence in England. The bills formed part of the assets of the Continental Bank, with which the London and Mediterranean had amalgamated, and being protested for non-payment were intrusted to Mr. Strutton, a solicitor in New York, who undertook to act as the agent of the Continental Bank, and recover the amounts due. It was now alleged that with the exception of receiving £:00 on account, the Bank bad been unable to obtain any informa tion respecting them. They afterwards learned that they were in the hands of a Mr. Morton, who, it was contended, obtained them from Strutton when they were overdue, and instituted proceedings in the American CoUrts upon them. The billy were now held by the third defendant, Mr. Muilens, who refused to acknowledge the company's claims. The bill in the Vice- Chancellor's Court prayed that the defendants should be ordered to bring the bills into court, and that they should be restrained by injunction from parting with them. — 'rho Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the arguments, said that if Mr. Strutton as agent of the bank in America failed in his duties, any suit in reference to the matter ought to have been instituted in that country. The plaintiff, however, had taken the extraordinary course of endeavouring to defeat the action of the courts of the United States in matters that were properly before them. To his mind it was a violation of the principle on which the county courts was founded. The court never interfered with the administration of justice in another court, except on a case properly made, but in this case the real parties to the suit were out of the jurisdiction. Any rights of the plaintiff must be asserted in America, and the present application must be refused with costs. STABBING A RAILWAY PORTER.—Alexander Reading was charged, at Bradford, with stabbing a porter on the Great Northern Railway. The latter went to him to take his tie et, when he produced one out of date. A dispute took place between them, and Reading took out a knife and stabbed the porter in the head. The prisoner was remanded for a week, bail being refused. INFECTED ANIMALS. - At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Mr. Bath, farmer, was summoned for having in his posses sion a number of animals infected with the foot and mouth disease, without giving the required notice. Mr. Bath pleaded ignorance of the law, and the chairman inflicted a fine of 30s. en Mr. Bath, and 10s. on his drover.—Mr. Spearman, J.P., was also summoned for having two cows in his possession infected with the disease. He was also fined 30s. THE MURDER OF A FENIAN IN CORK. Circumstances have, it is said, come to the knowledge f the police authorities at Scotland-yard whhich serve to throw score light upon the tragedy enacted in Cork on :unday week, when a young man named Callaghan was shot dead. It has been ascertained that Callaghan was in London some six weeks ago, when he purchased, at a guninaker's in Gnmechurch-stre. t and elsewhere, a number cf ii.-chambered revolvers, which, he said, having been dressed like an officer of a ship, were for " his skipper," whose ship was at the time lying in Victoria Dock. During the time the deceased was in London he visited, on several eccassions—as he had been in the habit of doing when in London—a public-house which has been recently brought prominently before the public as the rendezvous of either Fenians or Fenian sympathisers. While in this house one evening two revolvers were presented at his head by brother Fenians while in the midst of an argument respecting the disposal of the arms which the un fortunate man had come that week to London to purchase. Some Fenian spirits cooler than the rest interfered, and saved Callaghan's life, which, at a later period, and in his own native city (Cork), was brutally sacrificed. The de ceased, having been continually threatened dui ing his stay in London by a faction of Fenians, rivals of that to which he belonged, left England, taking with him the arms, consisting of rifles, revolvers, sword bayonets, and stilettoes, which he had come to this country to purchase. When he arrived at home the news of his intention to appropriate the arms in a certain way and in a certain quarter was in Corkbefore him; and as he had expressed a determination to carry it out, he fell a victim to the jealousy of disappointed traitors. The deceased man Callaghan was well known among the Irish population of London, among whom he was esteemed an enthusiastic, earnest, sincere young Irishman. It is highly probable that, through certain facts which have trans pired in London, a link wanting in the chain of circum stances to bring home the murder to its author will be almost immediately supplied ; and it is said that division in the London Fenian camp will be instrumental in fur nishing it. The use of the Bible and the singing of hymns in the public schools of Cincinnati has been prohibited by the Board of Education, but an injunction against the board was granted lately forbidding such prohibition. It is stated in the London correspondence of a Sheffield paper that Lord Stanley of Alderley is about to issue a pamphlet upon the position taken by the Catholic peers when the proposition for concurrent endowment was before the House of Lords last session. Some interesting additional discoveries have been recently made at San Clemente, Rome. A prior has found a vast subterranean chamber beneath the pavement of the ancient Basilica. Part of the walls are formed of wood work, and part of bricks of peculiarly fine manufacture. A beautiful series of chrome-lithograph plates have been pub lished, and are on sale in Rome. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. —His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as President of this hos pital, has intimated his intention to preside at the special meeting of the governors convened for Monday next, to hear a statement by the treasurer (Mr. Foster White) in reply to certain charges which have been made against the management of the institution in some respects in several of the public journals. TUE ADVANTAGES OF A KNOWLEDGE OF GEOGRAPHY.—Ono of the commissioners on agricultural employment (Mr. Tuffnell) enforces the advantages accruing from the teaching of geography in schools, than which, in his opinion, few subjects have a more powerful influence in enlarging a pupil's views. Ho relates the following anecdote that occurred within his own know ledge:—" A gentleman, about to emigrate to New Zealand, asked me if I could send him an orphan boy from some workhouse school as a servant, and he especially desired that the boy should have been taught baking. I happened to know only one school where baking was taught, and I accordingly went to it, explained what I wanted to the first class, and the advan tages which would probably be derived by a transference from the low condition, which was their only prospect if they remained in Envland, to the high-waged country at our antipodes. Not a boy would accept the oll'or. I then explained to the gentleman that I could not ge•t him a baking boy, but that I could send him a boy of developed intelligence from a good school, who, though he would not know baking, would be found able by his superior education to turn his hand to anything, and thus be much more generally useful. • llc accepted my offer, and I then went to a good school in the Isle of Thanet, .hero I knew the children were well instructed in geography (none was taught in the other school), and made a similar offer as before to the first class, desiring any i)oy who wished to accept it to hold up his hand. Every hanid was instantly raised. They were well acquainted with the British colonies. I selected a boy who answered per fectly well, and is now married, and a prosperous colonist in New Zealand. I believe the above to- be a typioal instance" THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1869: MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. rsvour or a diocesan comerence or some kind. Before such a conference is held, however, the right reverend prelate thinks that the opinion of the laity ought to be taken. "At the pre sent time, and as at present informed of the feelings of the diocese upon the subject, I am not prepared to assemble a diocesan conference, but I will endeavour at as early an opportunity as may be given me, and as effectually as I can, to ascertain the opinion of the laity upon the question." We learn from Bombay that while H.M.S. Forte was cruising about near Cape Guardefui in quest of slave dhows, she went aground, and sustained considerable damage, a great part of her keel being torn away. The shore in that part is very irregular, and though the water is deep, care is necessary on account of the strong currents. The slavers find a convenient refuge in the bays on the coast, and it is supposed that Sir Leopold Heath was examining them more closely than was prudent when the disaster took place. The ship will go to Bombay for repairs. THE CABINET. The first series of Cabinet Councils has come to an end, and Ministers have dispersed to their country seats. Each member of the Cabinet has departed to his own place, except the Premier, who, with his family, are on a visit to the Dean of Windsor, and three Ministers who remain in town—the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the President of the Poor-law Board. WIIITBY. The nomination for Whitby takes place to-day Major W. C. Worsley, although ho has done com paratively little electioneering work, perseveres with his intention to combat Mr. W. 11. Gladstone. The last meeting held by the candidate for re-election was a large one, and was addressed by Liberals of very various classes—a county proprietor, a Middles borough merchant, a working man, and Mr. Glad stone himself. The latter expressed his confidence in his re-election. IN promised to take care of fishing interests. With regard to the Greenwich sixpence he had the satisfaction of saying that Government were about to settle the matter. The Bo ..,ard of Trade had issued a form, for which applica _on should be made at once. Those who had paid nto the fund for the longest period would have the priority of claim. CHESTER. The llon. Norman Grosvenor has met a deputation of the Chester Liberal Association, and of course has satisfied them as to his political sentiments. His address as a candidate for the seat left vacant by the elevation of his relative has been published. It contains very little. The Hon. Norman Grosvenor declares himself a Liberal, ready if elected to give a " general but independent support to tho Premier and his colleagues in their endeavours to redress the real grievances of Ireland and to improve the system of national education—the two questions now pressing upon public attention." If these are the " sentiments with which electors are "satisfied," why should candidates be put to the expense of publishing an address at all ? IRISII ELECTIONS. The not very smooth waters of Irish politics are now troubled by two elections. The writs have been issued for the county of Tipperary and the borough of Waterford. Mr. Heron is the moderate Liberal candidate for Tipperary,• as Irish moderates go— if a candidate can be so called who denounces the "iniquitous" land laws, declares that all prisoners ought to be released, and tacitly offers himself as counsel for any future political offenders. Though Mr. Heron does all this he finds no favour in the eyes of extreme men ; he would take office if he had the chance under the present Government, and is there fore to be opposed by a real red. Mr. Bernal Osborne has until now been looked upon as the popular candidate at Waterford ; but the tide of favour el the populace seems to have turned against him, and his last meeting was so noisy that he could not say one word. Ills ready wit and good humour did not forsake him, however, nor did his courage. lle stood his ground notwithstanding that a bottle was thrown at him, which very narrowly missed his head ; and when told by ono of the voters that it was a pistol shot, replied :—"IVill you do as it has done, then—go off!" The Irishman suo , Y Pc ests O'Donovan Rossa, who is one of the F enian prisoners, as a candidate for Tipperary, and a very fiery placard has been posted recommending him. With respect to the vacancy created at Mallow by the acceptance of the Mastership of the Rolls by Mr. Sullivan, it may be stated that the Cork and Limerick Farmers' Club have passed a resolution expressing a desire to see Mr. Byrne, the chairman of the Mallow Club, returned. VISCOUNT CANTERBURY. Th, peer whose death we yesterday announced was but little know to the general public. He was descended from Dr. Manners-Sutton, at one time Arch bishop of Canterbury, but made no mark in public life. His successor is a very different man, though even ho has so long resided abroad that he will hardly be remembered. Yet Sir John H. T. Manners-Sutton was a member of the House of Commons from 1841 to 1847, and during a large portion of that time held the post of tinder-Secretary to the Home Department in Sir R. Peers Administration. In 1854 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. From thence he was removed in October 18111. In 1864 he became Governor of Trinidad, and went from there to be Governor of Victoria in 1866. Whether he will continue to fulfil his high duties, or will return to add to the colonial powers of the House of Lords, remains to be seen. THE LATE MR. PEABODY. On the morning of Friday week the remains of the late Mr. Peabody will be received at Portsmouth, to be conveyed to Portland, in the State of Maine. For this duty her Majesty's ship Monarch, a turret-ship of the most recent construction, and probably the most powerful vessel in her Majesty's navy, has been selected. She is under the command of Captain Commend!, V.C. and C.B. When this arrangement was communicated to the Government of the United States, Mr. Motley re ceived in reply a telegram announcing that the Prei dent will order an American vessel of war, if it can reach E: gland in time, to act as a convoy to the Monarch on her mission to the United States. THE DEANERY OF ELY. The Rev. Charles Merivale, 8.D., has been offered the vacant deanery of Ely. This clergyman was formerly Fellow and Tutor of St. Johu r s College, Cambridge, honorary D.C.L. of Oxford, and Chaplain to the House of Commons. The appointment (says the Times) is calculated to give great satisfaction to the residents of the University, among whom Dr. Merivale long held a distinguished place. THE UNIVERSITIES. The Universities are exciting considerable interest from one cause and another. Their non-national character has been attacked by the Daily News, which especially denounced the policy of requiring , subscription to the Articles of the Church to candi dates for fellowships--a policy to which Mr. Morley attributed, at Bristol, on Saturday, a large portion of the commercial dishonesty of England. The Times, too, has been assailing Durham University as old and effete, slumbering unto death ; and a dtmand is made for a thorough revision of the system of fellowships. These simultaneous movements upon the "seats of learning" have roused the members thereof to battle ; and so we find in most of the London papers letters from university men defending their insti tutions. To take the Times first, the newly-appointed Dean of Durham is the champion for the Northern Colleges. His letter is most cheering. The university authorities were already making alterations ; they are not asleep ; they have some time since determined to admit the study of science, and to promote reforms in their colleges. As to Fellowships generally, the religious subscription difficulty has been discussed to barrenness. The Conservative journals point out that a Dissenter may study, and take positions in the universities—but this evades the real question, Is is fair to shut him out from Fellowships ? The other charges against the system—that Fellowships as at present constituted are abuses—are met by Dr. Lake, of Durham, and Mr. Potts, of St. John's College, Cambridge. Dean Lake says that Durham is better than Oxford, for Oxford gives men £3OO a year for doing nothing for life ; Durham for only ten years. Dr. Potts, however, defends the present plan. He denies that the Fellows are doing nothing : they are studying, teaching, writing ; they have most of them compiled text books—a work at which it is fashion able, but not just, to sneer; and some of them have obtained world-wide reputations. As lecturers and tutors the value of their labour is incalculable. Without the Fellowships, so unremunerating . is their work, they could not live except by increasing the charges to students—a much-to-be deprecated event. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE 'TELEGRAPHS. The time at which the Government will take over the management of the telegraphs is drawing very near, and it is cheering to hear that the authorities will be ready in most cases to do their duty. Every effort is being put forth, post-offices are being altered throughout the country, re-arrangements are being made, the companies are "finishing up," now lines are being hung, old ones perfected ; and Mr. Edmund Yates is inspecting and inquiring from town to town. So far advanced are all these arrangements, that the Post Office will establish itself as the telegraph office on the Ist of January next, and will become ruler direct immediately. In the case of some companies, arrangements may be made, however, for them to carry on business for the time under Government control ; though such a state of things will hardly last long. ECONOMY. Mr. Commissioner Winslow has come athwart the extreme economical policy of Mr. Lowe. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer has taken possession of the fund from which the expenses of prosecutions in bankruptcy were formerly paid. qmceforth creditors who wish to prosecute a fraudulent debtor must do it at their own expense. Mr. Commissioner Winslov.- does not hesitate to stigmatise the conduct of Mr. Lowe as monstrous. The credi tors have for many years paid large foes to the court in order to create this fund, and now that it is in existence, and a considerable amount has accumulated, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Steps in and seizes the whole. In short, whilst justice is suffering because so many prosecutions of different kinds aro left to the discretion of private persons—who, of course, will seldom bear the cost--Mr. Lowe aggra . Yates the grievance by throwing still more public duties upon individuals. DIOCESAN CONFERENCES. In answer to a memorial from 356 clergymen, the Bishop of Norwich expresses the opinion that whilst a majority of his clergy are opposed to the revival of the ancient Synods. a very large number are in THE ST. PANCRAS GUARDIANS. Mr. Goschen is one of the three Ministers who remain in town, and it is not difficult to surmise that the doings in the parish of St. Pancras have had some share in retaining him. The guardians are not yet satisfied. The shocking disclosures at the late inquests, which many people fancied would prove a " settler " for these parish dignitaries, have turned out to be nothing of the kind. The guardians have thrown open the workhouse in order that the public may come and see for itself as to the management of the . infirmary. Th e y h ave h e ld a meeting to protest against the statements made of them selves and their doings. Hero they affirmed that they had been grossly vilified. The conspiracy which all tho world was forming against the peace of St. Pancras had thickened. In brief, the guardians lay the whole blame of the disclosures made at the inquests upon the medical officer, Dr. Ellis. They do not hesitate to officially affirm that this gentleman contrived and brought about the state of things which has caused such public indignation, for the express purpose of discrediting the guardians. O ne o f th e m said they "were in a position to prove that orders had been given to stop up every means of ventilation, every crevice, for two hours before Mr. Solly and Dr. Brundenell Carter visited the wards. If the deaths had resulted from breathing the atmos phere described by those gentlemen in the infirmary, the medical officer, and no one else, was answerable for such deaths." The sum and substance of the defence is that the medical man w h o has so frequently protested against the present management of the St. Pancras workhouse, and who affirmed at the ina nest that ho had vainly plead e d w ith th e gu ardians for better provision, is just the person who is responsible for the horrors which, according to his account, he strove to avert. And the only remedy the guardians propose is that the Poor-law Board should dismiss Dr. Ellis. Then everything will go on swimmingly. Dr. Ellis has written a letter, in which he states his view of the case. He says that so far back as last July ho sent a half-yearly report to the guardians in which he described the state of the sick wards pre cisely as they were found a few days ago by Solly. In July ho affirmed that the accommodation was insufficient, and that the wards were so small that the beds were far t oo over crowded. The close proximity of one patient to another was unhealthy, inconvenient, and indecent The water-closets practically ventilate themselves into the wards, and the sinks in which the patients wash do the same. During the first quarter of the year there was ). weekly average of 156 patients in the workhouse who, from sickness, ought to have been in the infirmary. During the second quarter there was a weekly average of 72 patients who ought to have been, from the same cause, in the infirmary. Th e f ema l e it c h, men's itoh, and men's foul ward would have to be better lighted and better ven tilated before they could be used as stables for horses. With these irrefutable facts it is self-evident that the exist . tng accommodation foTtitesiccfsinsufficient. Such are Dr. Ellis's expressions in July, and such were the opi n i ons o f hi s predecessor. How, then, could he have concocted this state of things ? It remains to be soon w hi c h v iew of the case Mr. Goschen will adopt. It is rumoured that ho intends to take the management of the workhouse out of the ifuardians' hands. The Daily News and Spectator advocate this course. OUT - DOOR WOMEN PAUPERS. The Poplar guardians are considering the advisa bility of giving a needle-work task to able-bodied women in receipt of out-door relief. This heavily burdened parish has on its hands 468 widows between the ages of 20 and' 60, together with 1,207 children under 16. It is not proposed to em ploy the women on needlework for persons outside the workhouse, and thus enter into competition with traders, but simply to engage them upon the labour of making clothing and repairing, &T., as may be required in the "house." On these terms a committee has decided that able-bodied women ought to have a task given them in return for relief, provided that not more than three days' work in the week be enforced. THE LONDON MISSION. Tho twelve claws' Church Mission commenced in London on Sunday, and was carried on chiefly at High churches. Special services were advertised for seventy churches, and they were mostly well attended. Almost continuous services are to be held during the week ; they commence daily with celebrations of the Holy Communion, and go on till nine at night, with not very long intervals between each. Mr. Bennett, of Frome, who conducts the worship at Kennington, announces that ho will hear confessions. A. protest against him appears in the Times. BRANCH LINES. The notices for railway bills during the next session are significant as a sign of alterad times. Preceding Parliaments have been overwhelmed by applications for the extension of railway systems and for the con struction of branch lines. The next session will be remarkable chiefly for the contrary policy. The notices just issued embrace a large number of applications for the abandonment of the proposed works. The South-Eastern Railway ask for power to abandon the construction of the extension to Cran brook, which was authorised five years since, and also the whole of the railways between Tentordon and Appledore, a nd . Appledore and Snargate. The the Great Watford N oie• asked o b i Edgware ay Company wish t o ab an don lino, an undertakingwhich . v o va years since, and similar powers also aorauthorized anl Railway Lancashire and Yorkshire ertitrjd nthe five Railway Company with respect to a portion of the Ripponden branch. SLAVERY. A. MinisteriaLprotest against slavery has been made in the Spanish Cortes. On Saturday Minister Becarra promised that a new Constitution s h ou ld b e b roug ht forward for th 9 Spanish. West India island of Porto (;) Rico. In so pledg in g himself, Senor Becarra declared serYroust he ab o li s h e d , b ut gra d ua ll y, an d with indemnification the slave-holders. The deputies Porto Rico—f or th e S pan i s h co l on i es . are represented the Mad r id Parliament—likewise ex p r essed the opinion that slavery must fall. tN p tth es from FOREIGN NOTES. DILIiATIA. The Wanderer, of 'Vienna, has reason toiTelreve that the Austrian Government is desirous of entering into negotia tions with the Dalmatian insurgents in order to put an end to the insurrection Deputy Vojnoire has been received by the Archduke Carl Ludwig, on which occasion he implored the publication of an amnesty and a respite for the condemned insurgents. If this request be granted it will be a satisfactory proof that the idea of a compromise is entertained. Such a course is recommended by the Government as its wisest policy, for even if the rebellious districts were wasted with fire and sword the land would still be anything bu t pacified and tranquil. THE DIME OF EDINBURGH IN THE BAST. The visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Japan appears to have given general satisfaction. The unusual affability and condescension of the Mikado is especially remarked by the Japan journals. His conversation with the Prince in the garden pleasure-house was considered a remarkable event, while it was but a degree less wonderful for his uncle, who is only a little less sacred than himself, to dine at the British Legation, to meet the Prince, and to attend the ball afterwards. With him were two of the most enlightened members of the Japanese Government. The Duke has fortunately succeeded in ingratiating himself with the foreign settlers in Japan, and the Japan Gazette, in chronicling the departure of the Galatea, enthusiastically exclaims, "There is nothing in connection with the splen did frigate, her royal captain, officers, or crew, that has not left a favourable impression." Much disappointment is felt by the community at Shanghai by the report that the Duke will not pay his promised visit there. His movements appear to be somewhat uncertain, and at Hong Kong it was believed on the 30th of September, that he was en route for that town, having visited Tientsing. TUE ADMINISTRATION OF TRH PIINJAII. Indian journals give currency to a report that compre hensive changes are in contemplation in the adminis tration of the Punjab. It is suggested that, by transferring the military functions of the Punjab Government to the War Department of the Government of India, the whole of the money now spent upon the Punjab secretarial would be concentrated on the civil work. if the Punjab were divested of its military functions, a strong civilian administration would be needed, and it is proposed that Sir Richard Temple should be the next Lieutenant- Governor. llis removal from the head of the Finance Department would certainly nct be matter for regret. THE COTTON IT.:-CDS BILL. The Legislative Council at Bombay has been occu ed (f late in the discussion of a Cotton Frauds Bill. The object of this measure is to prevent the adulteration of Indian cotton, and to suppress more effec tually the frauds committed in the trade. It was to have been read a third time and passed at the beginning of October, but the third reading was deferred until the 21st October, cut of deference to the very strong opposition against it both in and out of the Council. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce held a stormy meeting against it, and the Bombay Association and the native merchants made strong protests. As amendments had bccn introduced into the measure removing many of the objections made to it, it was filially passed on Thursday, the 21st of October, after a six hours' debate. CHINESE SUPERSTITION. The whole tribe of Chinese officials at Canton assembled one evening at the end of September, in the Temple of Confucius, for the purpose of praying in the name of the Emperor—a time-honoured custom which they observe twice a year. While they were thus engaged they were startled by the fall of part of the inner wall, against which a large crowd of spectators were leaning. Many persons were seriously injured, though no deaths are reported. The Chinese arc seriously uneasy at what they esteem to be a bad omen. When the top of the old Pagoda came down, in August 1856, some national disaster was foretold, and a months or two later the Arrow imbroglio occurred, so that they are now on the look out for some special disaster. AN ISTHMUS CANAL. The scheme for excavating a canal across the Isthmus of Panama and Darien, has lately occupied a good deal of attention in Central America. The latest news from Panama states that the Legislative Assembly had passed resolutions in favour of the scheme and were anxious to obtain a reconsideration of the treaty negotiated at Bogota between the Governments of the United States and Columbia. The inhabitants of Panama view with alarm the project for making a canal across the territory of Nicaragua, and believe that if further delays are suffered to occur, the capitalists, who are anxious for an interoceanic canal, will turn their attention to the Nicaragua route. VIRGINIA STATE FAIR. On the 2nd. of November the Virginia State Fair was opened for the first time since the war. A telgram was received from President Grant regretting that his engage ments prevented his attendance. W. Sutherlin, President, delivered an address, in which he welcomed visitors from other States, and said that Virginia needed an addition to her population and capital to develop her resources, and it was to be hoped that these fairs would be the means of attracting both. Many visitors from Northern States were present, and the 'United States Commissioner of Agriculture was expected. The mineral and cattle departments exceeded those of the last fair held nine years ago. The public offices, schools, and banks were closed on the 4th, and the citizens generally adjourned to the fair grounds. The weather was delightful, and everything seemed to contribute towards rendering the exhibition a complete success. The railroad companies lent their aid to further the enterprise, and a feeling of cordiality seemed to pervade every department. The representatives were eminently creditable to the agricultural, mercantile, and domestic departments of " Old Virginia." Distinguished states men and agriculturists from other states were received with satisfactory demonstrations of fraternal regard. THE CUBAN PRIVATEER. The decision of the United States Commissioner in the case of the officers of the Cuba is regarded as very favour able to the Cuban cause. Most of the officers were dis charged, and the rest required to find bail in the sum of $5OO each for appearance before the United States District Court. The Spanish Consul is greatly disappointed at the result. The suit on the libelling of the ship will now be commenced, and will take some time. One of the attorneys engaged by the Government has died. The decree regulating the relations between the Cov-ein— ment and the great bodies of the State has appeared in the Journal Officiel. It is not much more than a matter of form, and has not, consequently, attracted much notice. The Constitutionnel rejoices over the liberality of the Government, which has carefully avoided putting the least restriction on the rights of the Senate and of the Corps Legislatif to regulate their own administration. All questions concerning the right of initiative, the right of intcrpellation, and the orders of the day are to be solely regulated by the Chamber itself. The Siecle, less easily satisfied, thinks, on the contrary, that the decree shows more clearly than over how prominent a position is still occupied by personal government. It complains, more over, of the formalities and petty detals entered upon in the decree, and the endless exchange of waste paper be tween the palace of the Emperor and the hotel of the Minister, the Conseil d'Etat and the two Chambers. But after all the main fault is in the decree itself, which proves that the Dictatorship of the 2nd of December is not yet over in France. It is rumoured that the Ministers, on presenting them selves before the ChamberA, will ask that before any debates which may give rise to votes the ratification of the elections may be concluded. M. Carnot has agreed to be put in nomination for the First Circumscription, a fact which the Liberal papers regard as highly satisfactory. Notwithstanding all the lectoral emcitement that prevails, the Moderate Liberals of the First were absolutely in want of a can didate. M. Rochefort seems to be losing ground, and though he consithrs that Ledru Rollin is unequal to his mission, he has somewhat exceeded his own. It was reported a day or two since that his friends, when despatching him to London, extorted a promise from him that he would not open his lips on his return until after the day of election. If this were so he left his promise in the Channel, for he has been busily haranguing all who like to hear him. Yesterday evening a meeting was held at Batignolles, at which the would-be political martyr was present, and pathetically declared that he was fully conscious of the importance and delicacy of his posi tion. M. Lissagaray succeeded him with an impassioned appeal to the electors of the First Circumscription to be the 32nd denti brigade of the Revolution, alluding to the brilliant military successes achieved by that regiment. M. Rochefort was so enchanted with this allusion that he fervently embraced the orator in the midst of great enthusiasm. Questioned as to the resuscitation of La Lanterne he announced his intention of creating a journal whose :name he could not yet tell, but whose office should be that of systematic opposition to the Government. A speaker who declared himself adverse to the hero of the hour, was shouted down, and the assembly broke up in great confusion. You will per ceive, however, that the classes whom M. Rochefort succeeds in pleasing are neither the most elite nor the most statesmanlike. The Gaulois announces a rival near his throne, in the person of M. Le Guillois, formerly editor of the Ilanneton, who has come forward as a candidate inas sermente and irreconcileable, for the suffrages of the First Circumscription. Queen Christina is so dissatisfied with the hesitating course pursued by Queen Isabella in refusing to abdicate that she has, it is said, taken up with her other daughter, the Duchess of Montpensier. The Duke and Duchess of Alontpensier have sot out for Madrid. They have not been near that city since they were exiled from it by the ex-Queen. Among the second series of guests to Compiegne will be Baron Werther, the Prussian Ambassador. He will present his credentials to the Emperor. Father Hyacinthe's successor in the pulpit of Notre Dame is Mousabre, of the order of St. Dominic. He has chosen as the subject of his conferences the Jubilee and the Council. He will also make a commentary on the pastoral letter of Monseigneur Darboy, which has just been delivered. It is said that Troppman has confessed that he killed the elder Kinck by the administration of prussic acid, which he made himself. He is, according to his own account. very skilful in the concoction of poisons. At the stag-hunt last Thursday the Emperor came to the ground in a char-a-banes, in which wore Marshal Canrobert and several ladies of distinction. The Prince Imperial fol lowed the chase on horseback. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Annual State Department Reports to Con gress are being rapidly prepared, and many of their facts have transpired. In the Post-office Department for the year ending 30th Juno there were ;5,091 contractors for carry ing, and 6,487 mail routes in operation, in length 22,373 mile; the aggregate transport in the year being 90,7'23,403 miles, at a cost of $10,406,501, independent of railway compensation, post-office clerks, route and local agents, which would increase the amount by $1,275,227. During the year 6,803 miles were added, the extra cost being $299,919. The Postmaster-General thinks the depart ment ought to be self-supporting, and he will recommend as a measure of reform the abolition of the franking pri vilege; that each department pay its own postage out of its own receipts ; that amendments be made in the law respecting advertising, and not without cause, as the following case shows:—ln the quarter end ing the 31st of March, 1869, the expense of adver tising exhibits a largo increase. The Chronicle, Star, and Republican newspapers presented accounts for advertising mail letters in various States, which they had copied in their papers—claiming their right to do so under Acts of Congress, the sum amounting to $49,584. The case was submitted to the Attorney-General, and, under his opinion, the claims were paid. Mr. Creswell also favours a reduction on registered letters to six cents, the present charge being prohibitive. During the past fiscal year 760,000,000 letters passed through the mails of the United States, being an increase of 40,000,000 over any previous year. The Annual Report of General Spinner will show an enormous increase in the internal revenue receipts for the six mouths ending 30th September over the cor responding period of last year, as well as a considerable sum gained in the expenditure of the Treasury Depart ment. The figures are as follows: RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURES. 1868 ...... $65,057,227 20 lB6B 55,149,629 79 1869 Increase ....x ; 21,420,197 62 Decrease... 5779,385 92 Alexander Delmar wrote to Secretary Boutwell, recalling the fact that the provisions of section 6, Act of Juno, 1844, had not been complied with, giving the Trea sury receipts and expenditure quarterly. The Secretary recognizing the force of Mr. Delmar's remarks, ordered the publication to be resumed. Hence this interesting table : QUARTER ENDED SEPT. 30, 1867. Customs receipts • • 518,071,908 Total receipts War Department expenditures Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures 100,269,226 QUARTER ENDED DEC. 31, 1867. Customs receipts 5 3 9,983,305 Total receipts War Department expenditures Navy Department expenditures Total expenditure QUARTER ENDED MARCH 31, 1868 _ . Customs receipts 540,143,162 Total receipts War Department expenditures Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures 95,96 4 ,027 QUARTER. ENDED JUNE 30, 1868 Customs' receipts .... 543,256,225 Total receipts War Department expenditures 34,388,152 Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures.. 91,801,902 QUARTER ENDED SEPT. 30, 1868 Customs receipts 549,676,594 Total receipts War Department expenditures .. 27,219,117 Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures . ... 105,152,470 QUARTER ENDED DEC. 31, 1868. Customs receipts 536,960,463 Total receipts 76,769,201 War Department expenditures 23,918,873 Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures 72,317,478 QUARTER ENDED MARCH 31, 1869. Customs receipts $49,3=9,534 Total receipts 88,934,057 _. War Department expenditurog Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures . . QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 1869 Customs receipts . . . . Total receipts War Department expenditures Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures 64,636,344 QUARTER ENDED SEPT. 80, 1869 Customs receipts 52 102 709 Total receipts 11,413,905 War Department expenditures 15,859,055 Navy Department expenditures Total expenditures In the preliminary report of the Department of Agriculture attention is drawn to the agricultural 1 sson the last season inculcates—the necessity for drainage and thorough culture. It estimates the loss from the alternate scorching and drowning of the farm cropsat $200,000,000. The September sunny weather lessened the apprehension of a serious failure in the corn crop, and the aggregate will attain a moderate yield. Had the spring wheat been equal to the winter the whole would have been enormous. In the South the yield is unusually largo and the qua'ity excellent. The area in cotton was last spring increased 16 per cent., more than a million acres being added ; fertilisers were liberally used in the Atlantic States as well as improved instruments. In truth, the South is rapidly recovering from the losses and depression caused by the war, tho dif ference being that the wealth is more general, though, as not confined to a few, it may not ha so apparent. The sea- son for oats has been unusually good, the lowest increase is 10 per cent., which ranges in some States up to 35. In __ _ _ the South and on the Atlantic Coast, as far as New York, potatoes have failed, but in New England and west to Minnesota the crop has been excellent. Sweet potatoes have increased, as have fat stock, though in some of the States they have declined, for instance, in Now York, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. It is not wise for a State to have its greatest town on the borders of another, as New York has disco- vered ; nor is it wise for a Territory to erect a big town on its extreme limits. Arizona city is built half in California, half in Arizona, the dividing line being the middle of the principal street. The revenue officers of California re sided 200 miles away, and visited the town but once a year. On their arrival they found the California side a desert, and as there was no property there there could be no taxation. On their departure, as if by magic, the city of Arizona stood in California, wkere it bid defiance to the revenue officers of the Territory. Co urnissioner Delano instituted an inquiry, and found that California had no territory east of the Colorado, and therefore the line itself was an imposition, but Judge James gives an opinion that the President cannot attach a collection district of one State or Territory to another State or Territory. ELECTION NEWS.—The President's letter to his brother-in-law, Judge Dont, August 1, has been published, as the General Press Dc,:patcli gave a version of a conver sation between the President and Senator Thayer of Nebraska, which Mr. Dent's friends considered to be calculated o mislead. The President was therein de scribed as contradicting a published telegram, which ascribed to J udgo Dent the assertion that the President sus tained him as the candidate ; but ou the contrary, ho had enclosed the telegram, to Dent, who had not yet replied whether or not he had s .id so. Grant was against Mr. Dent's connection with the Conservative movement, who wore the enemies of the Administration, and he believed and hoped that Alcorn would be the successful candidate : " Long Branch, Aug 1, 1869. " Dear Judge—l am so thoroughly satisfied in my own mind that the success of the so-called Conservative Re publican party in Mississippi would result in the defeat of what I believe to be for the best interest of the State and country that I have determined to say so to you in writ ing. Of course, I know or believe that your intentions are good in accepting the nomination from the Conserva tive party. I would regret to see you run for an office, and be defeated by my act, but as matters now look, I must throw the weight of my influence in favour of the party opposed to you. I earnestly hope that before the election there will be such concessions on either side in Mississippi as to unite all true supporters of Reconstruc tion and of the Administration together in support of one ticket." Fllere follows a paragraph of a private nature, and the letter then concludes as follows I write this to you solely that you may not be under any wrong im pression as to what I regard, or may hereafter regard, as public duty. Personally, I wish you well, and would do a ll i n my power proper to be done to secure your success; but in public matters personal feelings will not influence me.—With kindest regal de, yours truly, "U. S. Glum" It is stated that the Tennessee Legislature will pass a bill calling a State Convention at an early day. There seems to bo no prospect that the Legislature will ratify the Suffrage Amendment.—An Omaha despatch contradicts the state ment that the Nebraska Legislature ratified the Suffrage Amendment last March, and says an extra session will probably be called thikwinter.—General Reynolds com mending in Texas, refuses to recognise the validity of the ordinances passed by the Constitutional Convention. BUDGET OF PERSONAL. —The latest about Jeff. Davis is that he intends to go into the life insur ance business in Mississippi, residing at Hernando. One gentleman there has subscribed 1,000 dollars for the purpose. Mr. Davis arrived at New Orleans ou the 25th October.—Amos Kendall has given 17,000 dollars to the establishment of free mission schools in Washington.— Chas. O'Conor, the Nestor of the New York bar, began his career as a newsboy.—Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has been severely censured by the press of the State for chartering a special train to convey the Georgia dele gation to the Louisville Commercial Convention.—Ex- Governor English is banding the first iron front ever put up in New Haien.—President Grant has pardoned Anderson, Patterson, and Elsom, who were convicted at Richmond in 1868 of conspiring to defraud the revenue, and sent to the Albany Penitentiary.—W. B. Hayward, lately connected with an insurance company in Jersey City, has disappeared with $30,000 belonging to other people.—Hon. Moses Wingate of Haverhill, Massachu setts, was one hundred years old on Monday, October 25.—Gen. Buell's sister is Superior in a Convent in In dianapolis.—Edwin M. Stanton is suggested as a Judge of the Supreme Court.—The late Mr. Peabody was proposed for election in the Lancasterian Society of Mexico.--Mrs. E. A. Stevens, of Hoboken, has given the handsome sum of $30,000 to Princeton College, to endow that institution with a mathematical professorship. Au unknown donor has contributed the same amount.— Senator Pomeroy has been elected President of the distiiet of Columbia Women's Suffrage Association.—Mr. Drake, who put down the first oil well in America, and who at one time was worth $1,000,000, recently died in the poor-house.—Vallandig ham, according to the Dayton, Ohio, Ledgn-, declines the Democratic nomination for President in 1872.—George Seater, one of the coloured Representatives in the Virginia Legislature, is worth $lOO,OOO, all made by his own exertions.—George H. Perkins. a graduate of Yale Col lege, has been appointed acting Professor of Natural His tory and Geology in the University of Vermont at Bur lington, during the illness of Professor Marsh.—Professor J. D. Whitney of Cambridge University has gone to Cali fornia with his family, on business connected with the geo logical survey of that State, of which he is the head. —W m . L. Garrison protests in the Boston Advertiser against any expenditure of charity for Aaron Cooley, who is popular!y supposed to have saved Mr. Garrison'slife in the mob of 1836. Mr. Garrison says that he didn't do it.—The Dowdoin College Medical School has two new professors, Drs. Al fred Mitchell of Brunswick, and Alonzo P. Palmer of Ann Arbour, Michigan.—ln the United States Commissioners' Court of Boston, Monday, Oct 25, Dr Charles A. Guil mette, the woll-known vocalist,:aud Gottleib It. Reichgrdts were bailed over in $l,OOO each fur trial, for carrying ‘ on the n rati obnu known sine sso as s rectifiers ex t ract ( 0 , ff juniper,spirits, without compounding pan • g t t i i i : G.,e(v r ti e t,tiu p ee a aov - f: e A eris l n V oNf a ot l h k r I , B C II it. L oh i oo e l ir f sfl o t o f tdh,oe College , National 3 Bute spe cialSt t o a u t t . i — a s t x ce — s o , u i G s r a e m t n e b m o F m b . $l,OOO for f e e o f c r ' k 3 a class Dr. R. D. Ilitchcock's), have subscribed scholarship, as proposed at the last meeting of the alumni. —Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields, and Miss Mabel Lowell, daughter of James Russell Lowell, returned to their 11 0 ° 6 at Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 27, from their European tour' —Orson B. Curtis has been appointed Postmaster at Coleraine, in place of Horace Smith i esigned. Forester P. Ainsworth has been appointed Postmaster at North Amherst, in place of the late Charles H. Hobart.-- Tim overseers of Harvard College, on Tuesday, Sep tember 26, besides re-electing ex-Governor J. H. Clifford president, confi mod Ephraim W. Gurney as prof es . sor of history ; John B. Perry, lecturer of geology; Ira A Ho lds. Salmon, lecturer on dental hygiene ; John P. Be y instructor in obstetrics; J. Nelson Borland, i n chemical ro medicine, and recommended George M. Lane a s Pope p fessor of Latin. —Dr. Holland intends to spend this winter in Munich with his family, there to write a book, and return to America next Juno.—Cat. Dana Robinson, an ns - Englishman, who recently died at St. John, New Bruke wick, left life insurance policies for four of his namesas. of $70,000 each, to be paid them on their attaining the age of 25. The young men are receiving their education at Phi l ' lip's Academy at Andover, and at Dedham.—Mr.Colbath, the newly-appointed postmaster of Dover, N e w Hamps ho is an own brother of Senator Wilson; Mr. Wilsou, w 110 originally came from New Hampshire, changed his n from Jeremiah Colbath to Henry Wilson. The new ar, poiuteo lias for several years been ono of the doork.eoP"rnl " of the United States Senato.—Ex-Governor has been elected president of the Vermont Bible Soeiety, hire , and Rev. E. I. Carpenter appointed its agent. l' ll° 52,800 fr °ll3 ceipts last year wore $3,700, a falling off of previous annual averagoc.—Samuel Holmes , of /1/r//te;r; bury, has established five $l,OOO scholarsh i p s Yale College, open to students from the public soll °° _, of Waterbury, Wolcott, Prospect, and MiddleburPb, Col. T. A. Green, who killed Gen. Early in St. J°6°„P,l, Missouri, last Fall, was tried at Plattsburg, Missouri, v-vt, 28, and acquitted.—William 0. M'Corkle, a I'r °lit :f e merchant of Lynchburg, was mortally stabbed 1 1 '4 '. Sumpter, while on the fair grounds at Rich mond.-- s i p to miral Farragut had so far recovered that b e to leave Chicago for the East on Monday, the 25th 0 t ' o , - ; Major Haggerty, late United States Consul to Gl ase x was to address the citizens of Schenectady on Sa t° io evening, Oct. 30.—Keckley, the coloured dressmaker' sv A 3 put in a book her recollections of Mrs. Abraham Lii3c,- has sued her publishers for half of the proceeds of the vr — s . she never having received a cent.—M. d'AntasPorteglicof Minister at Washington arrived in the Pereire, on I° 9 lo absence. During his absence M. de Cunha Wi ll e ‘ c ,., t - ra Charge d'Affaires.—Among the passengers by the 8 "; r ; ship Allemania, which arrived at New York, Oct. the Hon. J. W. Francis of the Troy Times, and fan'',';ll William Lloyd Garrison delivered an add ress Woman's Suffrage Convention at Hartford, Coal:OA/4m October 29.—1 t is said that General Banks learll e ', the printing trade, when a young man, in the office e' jo a Boston Traveller. Mrs. Banks, when a girl, also O r t : in the same office.—Edward M. Paxson, Esq., has acc o e i P o e St the position of Associate Justice of the Common 10 Pennsylvania, to succeed Judge Brewster, tondere '° by Governor Gerry.—.Ex-Governor Fenton of Sew.rluage with his daughter, has lately been at Naples with Birdseyo and Rev. Samuel Osgood, D.D. Senator t . d ut has left that city on his way to Washington to be Ito at the opening of Congress.—The Rev. Dr. Chita. J ac tile pastor of St. Peter's Church, who is distinguished 39 , oj a only Dean in America, has returned to Westchester ' li r y his six months' tour in Europe. Mr. Jackson s 11°1teop much improved. On Tuesday evening, Oct. 26, a resort tion was given him by Mr. Wm. Watson and faeli l l'weit made the trip with him, at their 'manor house, 0 031. Farms.—The central jury of the recent Internat iot t hibition at Amsterdam have, on the P •°P os ition o f T p r :ry a L. Simmonds, one of the British commissioners, erlr";:orti upon Mr. Joseph Gibbs, the private secretary to the ;"t-ba Mayor, a handsome service medal, in recognitiou very valuable assistance rendered by him to the lA committee on behalf of the exhibition. Father Hyacinthe has made this appea l th c r n citigil tb the columns of the Tribune :—" Although thankful manifold tokens of sympathy received at the band e d - 0) or° American public, and which, in his opinion, elP r , es ,,, 1 l ir than mere curiosity, the importunities of profess l°- :dia bet viewers have forced the Rev. Father to give 3 , s ; t : o° l3l order to the hotel employes not to bring up to 're r ott e the cards of visitors, except those of the few f r - v j i all/ friends who always have free access to him. Ile Le , - ,til, denies certain statements which have appeared fr°—„sea to time in some papers, as he has or no occasion osil-oe views different from those contained in his letter to th eCl „ e 4tll ral of his order in Rome, published in the Tribune of t' l3 ' io l inst. The Father states that until present at theme Council Council in Rome ho will not express further his and opinions ; that he never has meddled with p°lit;3,o3 cept so far as politics bear upon religion ; that he / a to 1 . will be a true and fervent Catholic. although oppos3 to extreme measures and outre sentiments detrime bls ° 1 the welfare of the church. He requests that durl,l3ficl to further stay in the United States the public will 0 ° N , O lO him that courtesy due to every foreigner, an d to le3orr further actions and movements nnwatcbed an d hip stricted ; that all his visits to different places of l i— aer &c., are to be explained by the natural desire of a still ' Th e to see and hear thoso whose utunes:a.ro ce lebrated ." , 1 ,0 1 father will visit West Point during the course a`awit• week, and intends on his return to still refuso the 1/ vt itY lance of callers. Messrs. Putnam and Co. wills °°°: lish a translation of some of his lectures and seval/:-;,0! James Fisk, jr., is paying the penalty of greajliftted the veil behind which lies his domestic life beiq for the public gaze, and his household aff ajr i ti e posed. He has maintained the citizenship ° ; 5 O 11 . States to suit his law purposes. As a Beat°l3" for sued the Springfield Republican and the Times, and as a Bostonian he throw th e Vei' aiet,t ° lest possible mite necessary into the 11 Ia ssae' Exchequer. When sued himself, however, ly o 5 0 &illy comes out as a New Yorker, why, we 014 know; but so well had he established his 60'31)4 of Boston in his previous affairs, that Judg h e tig etto; persisted in regarding him as of Massa°'.ovii,6 During his inquiries the Judge asked afte r 'fiel ° ' and family, to which his counsel, Dudle9 A fro o replied that Mr. Fisk's wife was separa te L J ia t° him. On this Mr. Fisk rushed fra ntica. print : 11 10,/ 5 c "My relations with my wife are now, a s theJ sof " have been, without interruption, during the 13 I : Lir 14. 0 married life, perfectly harmonious and happy" the e• But poor Fisk got a shocking slap 03 „ in t 0 from the President, who, when spokeiljn,ifar' ference to the interview on board the " steamer, said— " i don't know but I should have felt insulted ;Iv proposal had it come from any other but ape v ote" But coming from a man so destitute o f moral Ol t ' did not think it worth noticing ." Then again Fisk rushed into print : " Gen. Grant never would hav pted the ns- dos destitute shared the table of a man wh e he believe" as °: destitute of moral character as this canard pretension Grant spent three hours at my table on one ee c- a r l y, Pie made the entire journey to Boston in my e° l/3 ; P e i l - 13 0,0 11 1 well known to many gentlemenwho were g i st frie",le who know that our relations were of the W s ' g ce r r i a 4 character. He and his family have peatedll; trifling favours at my hands anc of rep 14t t e i f perfectly proper among friends. I mentioneu their:4,oloy no intention of implying that they have plac ed e 15811 under any obligation ; but they are those whiehrliside;ofoo man would accept from one whom he did 13°,thc:011`,/hl - Indeed so perfectly easy have beau 111' 1 -'O l between us that Gen. Grant has also dispen se little formalities of acknowledgmentwhie. tho - - tor equally eminent but less intimate with met 11$ „k — de le ,o 4 l it necessary to observe, and has not even thar,ebeer4 them. The numerous little services which it il f/ t i, sie.t" s a o pleasure to render him have been treated on h l) ."; fr" . o o a matter of course, just as they should be bet vr , e ;coetiel quite at ease with each other. On the very " - Gra' if which this Herald inventor pretends that 000•801 et so insulted, our conversation was most age lasted nearly an hour." 4 1) 0 0 0 vie ft bt Ar tb iatO [A.DYERTISRMENT4—Henceforth no one de di 101 0 ble s ee ° . Boa „f properties of Du Barry's health-restoring - „ds v 130"coirf invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thoust it io9 it has already received from Invalids whose r i T io eso o rso e tl,° deemed hopeless, wo may now add that of his " 1 ,,, c ,: r thir,y o sololl whose health has been perfectly restored by it aft the e 'd ttle fe lS 4 r unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote fr°r,esltb Of Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21, 1866. -The 0',, 0 1 4 ,0 1 j Father is excellent, especially since, abandonitErrys , f ; r y , 0 13, dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du t Arabica. Food, of which he consumes a plateta c a is he,„,of It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect ota h igly;; ; ll,u 4 o his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food tO ° ' o pl,*; o of _zoo . o ,b extract a few out ofmoro than 68,000 cures: ipter . .l9 l s t ; i0 the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yeur s. ,. v ous r e :O r s wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a 126 ^ 6 0 stso p si° all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness,, Der 4 dyl„e o p, o l, tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. I, ' years c1y0!',4.4.,0'r Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of Man,' 000, Sr No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agoxy at eq c ,7oi4-. nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , 73 No . se a sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jol" r clioe fo es°' tIY.O 6 James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 Ye!',' itt i dot% o ol o gi6 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and 1 04 2 ur y all' 4 o o 9 ; portent Caution—Beware of the many unsavv„..., Der sloppy imitations to which, without authorol, 1 1 c , 0.t 4 name is most audaciously attached. Vs: o o6 m c 0 In tins, at la 11d; 1 lb 28 9d; 2lbs 48 6d ,;, 0 . 1 31e , ! for ; OtL,st 2 t lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S RRYALENTA .;;; st POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 eutl o r 5 1 ",..,0 ter' at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 3 0 0 , A 550_ 0 „,ef . —being about one penny per cup. The 30a s.g - st ..oowijoto free of carriage in England on receipt of ° c ot, BARMY Du BARRY and Co , No. 77 nagent all Grocers and Chemists 13 de' BIRTHS. VI .4.1 of BRANDRETH —On the 13th inst., Darif — a, 1 - t• J ' a Weybrid ge , t h e w i fe of Captain Bran ure. th 0 son. e CIUSFORD—On the Bth inst ,at Forest-hill, - B. Orisf or d, E sq ., o f a daughter. ,st; MARRIAGES'. 1,11 0 ' 4 0 1)P , iti V r ti, DOWN , WARD —ROBERTS —On the 9th ins.. , ,i v D e jjai I. gate, John Downward, Esq., of lfampto° RIP , to Alice Ma:ia, eldest daughter of the late tell Esq., of Dagenham, Isseex. • t r e le $24_, 1 °., Id e, m _A RSHALL CANNON —Ou the 13th inst., 0. f iv iw b rto7,, r , Eaton-square, Henry Calder, second son ° Callc o a° Marshall, Esq., ILA., to Johanna Ma rul bell'* daughter of Arthur Cannon, sq., St. Step bury. 1(1-' 3" DEJTES. 4; CANTERBURY-0 n the 13th inst., at 130 n -m hte ioh ° Viscount Canterbury, aged 57. ,;,. roe ° PRIOR— On the 14th inst., at Brightoct ifjci 20, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park, egad LIAR 1 1 London: Printed and Published by Wi l l% p.10._,,10 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tim Sus ouic - O' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Couutl Tuesday, November 16, 1834