The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

TEBBIBZE T.RAGEDY ON BOARD A THE FRENCH ATLANTIC COMPANY. ,-,`,STEAMBOAT. (From the Anglo-American Times. Monopolies are injurious, often even to the inte rests they are designed to subserve. If a monopoly can be justified, it would be in the case of the men who laid the Atlantic Cable between Europe and America. Although they started with a monopoly, having Newfoundland guaranteed to them for a century, it may happen that they are left out in the cold, while a French company cuts in with a genuine monopoly to the shores of America. Indeed nothing but the action of the United States Senate has pre vented this, and we would then have seen the ex traordinary spectacle of the great pioneer line, which has lost and endured so much in the interests of science, set aside that a mere imitator might step in and enjoy the fruits. - We do not like monopolies of any sort, and we believe it would be just for England and the United States to reimburse the Cable Companies for the sum lost in their first efforts to lay the line, letting the cables, now down, rest on their own merits and management, leaving the shores of both Europe and America free to all thatcmn p c a a n s i e e s the t Atlanticla nd wires Telegraphe s Companies restriction.onipanies wouldln surrender their privilege as regards Newfoundland, rl-v without u and the new French company their's as regards France. But till such privileges are surrendered we believe the late ruling of the Senate to be just, permitting no cable to be landed in the United citizens of the States from any country where the Republic are not allowed equal rights of landing wires on its shore. America's objection to the com pany organized by Mr. Reuter is, that the French I restriction would practically give it a monopoly of The number of deaths by the terrible explosion at the I Atlantic telegraph communication with France. Ilighbrooks Pit of the Park-lane Collieries has been 'lf the United States were to permit the land - reased to thirty-three, three more deaths being i reported on Saturday. All these were amongst those first of the French line on their territory th ese reccovered from the district in whi c h th e ex pl os i on occurred, gentlemen will enjoy a well-secured pri v il ege , and all were dreadfully burnt. It is feared that the list for no American can pass a line from New York will receive yet further additions, as several others of to France until this agreement ends. That COM hose injured are not p rogress i ng favo u rably. Late piny then asks that, w hile F rance i s secure d to t on Friday afternoon the inspection of the mine by them, America may be also secured as regards Mr. Higson, Mr. Mercer, one of the proprietors, and other France against Americans—a one-sided bargain gentlemen was c om pl e t e d. It was ascertained with some the ' cute Yankee is not likely to make. We hope degree of certainty that there had been a fast or " blown that these restrictions may not interfere with the out" shot in the place where a man named Leyland was . laying of the French Cable ; but if we are to have working, but as this was in a down brow it was a spot In mono p o ly, in all fairness, that monopoly should not likely to lurk. No fire-damp a which gas was was found in the course of the examination, although be in the bands of the Atla n ti c T e l egraph Com the usual quantity of air sent into the workings was di m i- panic s . No corporation has been b e tt er or more nished by nearly one-half, owin g t o the leakage from the liberally managed, and even now arrangements are large quantity of brattice whi c h h a d t o be put up in order being made for a further reduction in the price of that the searching party might carry the air alon g with transmitting mess ages . D ou b tless the Senate was them. Men were at work at the time of the e x pl os i on i n every "place" in the district, so there was inspection the body of the lad Parkinson, who was unknowingly l e ft i n reciprocity. But th e p l a i n pr i nciple of not sanction the pit on Thursday evening, was sought for and found. ing the invasi on b y a f oreign monopoly of Amer-- can territory wou ld un d er He had in all probability been killed by the force of the any circumstances have blast of the explosion, or at all events so much injur e d as led to the same decision. The simple rule is that to be unable to escape the choke-damp. He was placed now distinctly recognized by the Government of with the others in the shed, where there are now t wen t y - Great Britain, and which guided the late decision nine bodies. The inquest on the bodi es was opene d on in refere nce t o .Malta. Saturday morning before Mr. C. E. Driffield, and was We believe that th e F renc h adjourned to Thursday. Company would a c t w i se l y i n throwing over their privilege and trusting to the skid and economy of their management to work at a profit against all of comers. In fact, there is no alternative unless 4 they desire their line to end at Sint Pierre, 't a destination which will scarcely gratify the aspi n rations of the shareholders. The cable is expected to be finished in June, and already a large por p tion is on board the Great Eastern. It will be 1 . little short of the whole length of the two cables laid in 1865, and 1866, united. When down, it will lie in a regular depth between 1,800 and 2,000 fathoms, and steamers were to have left France this month to make careful soundings for the route. The work, we should think, must now proceed, as the cable manufactured is a great deal more valua able than the privilege which takes hold only of one , end. The enormous weight of the cable may be gathered from the fact that each mile of the con ductor alone weighs 4001b5., and around it are four folds of gutta percha and four coatings of in sulating compound, covered and bound together by ten galvanized wires, done up in strands of Manilla hemp saturated with tar. The shore ends on both sides will be something prodigious in weight, as each will extend twenty miles to sea, gradually tapering as they go, while for seventy miles further from either shore, an intermediate link will connect with the deep sea cable. The shore ends will weigh twenty tons to thtsmile, but the intermediate cable differs chiefly in the cover ing, which is designed to protect the conductor against chafing on the rocks. We a'. ways start on new enterprises with errors, which, when practi ! tally proved, appear absurd ever to have been enter tained. Before the Atlantic Cables were laid the masses believed that dropping a wire to the bottom of the ocean was not unlike a man in a penny steamer throwing sovereigns into the Thames as he moved along ; as in both instances an equally use less track of metal would be left behind. 'I he fre't and fume of the restless Atlantic was thought fatal, and it was nothing in point that lines had lain across the Channel for years. "The Channel, in deed ! What is the Channel to the Atlantic?" Now, we know that whatever danger of injury exists is at the shore ends; that there the water is stirred to its bottom, and that its restless bed is generally the hard, jagged rock, the danger increas ing with the shallowness of the water. In the depths of the ocean, however, the cable lies on a soft bed of minute shells, fine as sand, in the still ness of the grave ; and a marvellous fact has bsen developed that these, of all known to telegraphy, are the most favourable conditions. A cable is judged of by its powers of resistance to the passage of the electric current through the con ductor, and this is measured by units. The standard of the Persian Gulf Cable is fifty million units; the Atlantic Cable of 1865 one hundred millions ; of 1866, one hundred and fifty millions; but both these latter have so gained under the ocean that at times last year they gave a resistance of four billions of units. For the French cable the contract is a standard of two hundred and fifty millions of units. While we recognize the enterprize of Mr. Reuter and the French Company, we regret the difficulties of the Atlantic Companies in getting their cables into direct communication with Paris. Every effort by them has failed to throw their line open for through messages. It is true that they have an office in the Rue Scribe, where a gentleman who talks many languages sits, . N o through" wirei ads epost-haste froth t s t h toa nd looks helplessly a t t h e eager comer who desires York "putmessag e ouse, o e s u s s a e g , e n o t o c New York. No wir&leads from that house, no click click is heard in that building, for the French Government has prohibited it, and the gentleman can but direct the applicant whose hurry is extract ed and repl ace d b y t h e virtue of patience before his'bn siness is transacted by the French officials. This fact, well known across the water, does not tend to facilitate the designs there of the French Company. if every privilege in France is so jealously guarded how can it be expected that concessions will be given for the asking in the United States ? Yet it is clearly for the interest of both the Empire and the Republic that the lines should be laid, for it would be invaluable for America in case of war with any other European Power than France, and under any circumst ances, i t i s well, to have ' two strings to your bow." • - 001t11 - e „afterpoog 'of .Pie, ITt . ult. throple n TO on board tlitf rtiearder - Bel4 - of Memphii, at Itaandi No. 10 (says a St. Louis paper), and stated that they wished conveyance to Craig's Landing, some distance above. Two of them are brothers, named Darnell ; the third iii as yet unknown. All were armed with shot guns and pistols. Opposite 'Watson's Landing, the Belle was hailed. and took on board a Captain Lane, his wife, and two 'Children. A brother of the gentle. man and a friend by the name of Edwards, who accom panied him as far as the stage plank, witnessed and glared his fate. The Darnells and their comrade ap pear to have been on the forecastle of the boat, and while Lane and his family were going up the stairs, one of them shot him in the back, inflicting a mortal wound. The other Darnell, standing on the other side of the gangway, behind two passengeres immediately levelled his gun and shot Lane's brother, who was still on the bank, killing him instantly. The third member of the gang completed the triple murder by shooting Edwards, then forty yards distant and running for his life. The latter fell to the ground, writhing in agony, when the miscreant deliberately went ashore, walked up to his victim, shot him again, and thus finished the work of death. Captain Lane, in a dying condition, was carried on shore by the crew of the steamer, and left in the midst of his horror- , stricken family. Aft er this wholesale slaughter, ore of the assassins quietly told the captain of the Belle to " take good care of the lady and children, as they were nice people, and he would pay all expenses." He and his companions then departed unmolested, the passengers being apparently so paralysed by the scene as to be unable to even attempt their arrest. THE WIGAN COLLIERY EXPLOSION. ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT. About twelve o'clock on Friday evening a pit in one Lady Carnarvon's colleries was suddenly inundated, ar four men lost their lives. The pit is situated t Skegby, about three miles from Mansfield. The me, worked in shifts, and seven men descended the shaft 0] Friday evening. All appears to have gone on as u,ual uj to within a few minutes to twelve o'clock, when three of the seven men were startled by a loud roaring noise, and immediately volumes of water came rushing on to them. They had no time to give their unfortunate companions the alarm, but at once hastened to the bottom of the shaft. Here the poor fellows were obliged to remain in the utmost peril for an hour and a half before they were extricated, there being no means by which they could give an alarm. At the time they were rescued they were standing up to their chins in water. The chance of saving the other four men was quite hopeless, as the pit at the end where they were working dips considerably below the level. The depth of the pit is ninety-five yards, and at three o'clock on Saturday morning the water had risen to within forty yards of the pit's mouth. The pit is completely surrounded with old shafts, and it is thought that one or more of these gave way, and so caused the inundation. Besides the four men, there are five horses and seven asses drowned. One of the rescued men, on being brought to the pit's bank, stated that such was the force of the water pouring into the pit that the horses were carried before it with great velocity. As soon as possible the pumping engine was set to work, and a vessel, capable of holding a ton, was also sent down the shaft. It is expected it will take three weeks to clear the pit so as to.. be able to get to the dead bodies. BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMs.--The President has appointed Robert M. Douglas as his private Secretary. He is a son of the late Senator Douglas. Colonel W. T. Foster was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior Pen sion Agent for Philadelphia on the 14th March. Marcus Eldridge, a prominent citizen of Troy, N.Y., has committed suicide by cutting his throat. Capt. M. E. Lonaid was assaulted and robbed in Milwaukee on March 13. He is not expected to recover. Allison Smith was killed at Spen cerport, N.Y., on Sunday, March 14, while entering a church at the head of a funeral ; the wind blew a belfry down upon him. —An American paper announces that Jefferson Davis denies that he has heart disease, and says that he was never better ; but we are sorry to hear, from a gentle man who knew him well in former times, and who had an interview with him recently in London, that he is far from looking well.—General Ames, Commander of the Fourth Southern Military District, has been instructed to act as Provisional Governor of Mississippi until Congress recon structs the State.—Four women are returned as "ship_ builders" in the Vermont census.— William Morgan, one of Commodore Perry's crew in the battle of Lake Erie during the war of 1812, died recently at Boston. —Attorney- General Hoar is a first cousin of the late Attorney-General Everts.— General Longatreet is a relative of Mrs. Grant.— David Crockett's son has d ed in Kentucky.—Tho lion. Onelow Stearns, Governor elect of New Hampshire, is at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. The British Government has done away with the Colonel of Artillery maintained at a heavy expense at New York for many years to look after its interests in the trial of a case in the New York Courts for a breach of contract on the part of an American manu facturer for a supply of arms.—Frank Eastman is to bs Postmaster at Chicago. LAW AND POLICE. BISHOP ITLLATHORNE AND THE " UNIVER S AL NEWS."— An application has been made in Judges' Chambers on behalf of Messrs. Richardson and Son, the Catholic pub lishers of Derby, for leave to inspect and copy the files of the Universal News, dating from the Ist of January, 1868. The proprietor of that newspaper, Mr. Clinton Hoey, has commenced proceedings against Dr. Ulla thorne, the Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, for an alleged libel contained in a pastoral, to the effect that the Universal News was the organ of the Fenian party in England ; and also against Messrs. Richardson and Son, for having published the pastoral containing the alleged libel in pamphlet form. Dr. Ullathorne pleads justification. The application to inspect and copy the files of the Universal News was granted on Saturday. A vigorous effort by the friends of both litigants is being made to have the cite settled by arbitration—the plaintiff being the proprietor of a Roma* Catholic journal, and one of the defendants a bishop,of the Roman Catholic Church. RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.—At the Old Bai ley, on Monday, George Roberts, aged 65, pleaded guilty to three indictments, charging him with being at large before the expiration of the period of transportation to which he had been sentenced. It appeared that he had been twice transported for life, and once for fourteen years. He was twice sent to the colonies, but released on a ticket-of-leave, and contrived to escape, resuming his old courses directly he got back to this country. The prisoner said he was an old man, and made a strong appeal to the court not to send him back to the same punishment. He had been treated worse than a slave, and had often been tempted to commit murder, that he might be hung and escape from his misery. He had endured a martyrdom for thirty years. The Recorder said that if men offended against the laws of their country they must take the consequences, and he had no alternative hut to sentence him to penal servitude for life. THE YORK ELECTION PETIT LON.--The second York election petition, "Burrell v. Westhead," has been before Mr. Justice Willes, at Chambers. His lordship, after hearing both parties, made an order for the with. drawal on payment of costs. TJNSPORTSNIANLIKE PROCEEDINGS IN THE BURTON COIINTRY.—A large quantity of poison has been recently discovered in one of Lord St. Vincent's woods at Norton Disney, in consequence of which a universal feeling of indignation has been aroused throughout the whole of the Midland counties. It is generally believed that this poison was deposited there in order to destroy some of Mr. Chaplin's far-famed hounds. The farmers and sportsmen of Lincolnshire are about to memorialise Lord St. Vincent on the subject, as it is generally believed that, in the event of any of the hounds being either staked or poisoned, Mr. Chaplin will throw up the Burton country without a moment's hesita• tion. It is therefore to be hoped that Lord St. Vincent— than whom a better sportsman or neighbour does not exist—will at once put a stop to the dastardly acts of some would-be sportsmen, whose names are well known in the locality, although they may be unknown to the sporting world. MARRIED IN FUN BUT WEDDED IN EARNEST.-- A correspondent of the Montpellier Journal describes a serio-comic affair which has occurred not a thousand miles from White River Junction. The writer says : "At a party last we. k, at one —'B, a ter exhausting th e ordi nary games, an I wanting something new, mock mar. riages were proposed. Accordingly names were drawn by lots, and 1 - 4 ur coup!es stool up to be married. The ceremony was performed, and they were duly pronounced man and wife, by the laws of the State and before these witne2Fei.' After wards they ascertained the man officiating was a justice of the peace, and the parties were legally married. One of them, Professor -----, ofT semis Grp, expects a lady up fro:n below in a , , out a fortnight to marry him, and nearly everyone involved is expecting to i.e married right away ; one other gentleman to a laly below, and they feel like death. 'II , y have searched all the law books and consulted authorit:e 3 far and near, and everything only proves the knot still tighter. The justice has been fined fifty dollars for each couple. He says he is from another county and cannot do business here, and supposed the marriages not to be legal. It is certainly a funny scrape, and made still funnier by the fact that all the parties belong to the Upper Ten.' The best opinion and can only b e divorced is that they are l ega lly marr i e d , by the Legielaturc.'!_— THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 169. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. parties, that the existing ciinerences may De ;inertly adjusted. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE. TELEGRAPHi. Ryland's Iron Trade Circular states that the arrangements for the transfer of the telegraphs to the Government are proceeding rapidly, and that the purchase will include at least one of the cables between England and the Continent. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. There is still a South American war. The only item of news brought by the Brazilian mail records the unques tionable fact that Lopez is preparing to carry on the con test. He is now at the central town of l'araguari "levy ing men in all directions ; but he is believed to be very scant in munitions of war, although food is most abundant. " The Buenos Ayres Standard fixes the number of Lopez's army at from 1,000 to 1,200 men. Deserters who have arrived at the allied _ camp represent the women as employed at the mines making gunpowder. No despatches have been received from the Ameri can Minister, General M`Mahon, or from any of the foreign consuls, a circumstance which has led to the belief that Lopez has intercepted all the despatches sent. It appears that at present the Allies are making no attenlat to get at the Dictator. Of course his last chance of making open war is lost, but he may yet give some trouble. (From the Anglo-American Times.) This bill, passed by the Radicals to put the bit into ANDREW JOHNSON'S mouth, has come back like a bad shilling to vex its authors. Strong efforts have been made to induce the Senate to pass the House Bill repealing it; but, as yet, in vain. The Senate modified the Act so as to retain the sub stance of power, and returned the bill thus amended to the House, who defeated it by 99 against 70. As the House insisted on the Repeal, and the Se nate adhered to their decision for modification only, a conference was agreed to, and the subject re ferred to a Joint Committee, who, having reported the bill, substantially as that adopted by the Senate, it finally passed both Houses of Congress as thus modified. By its provisions the PRESIDENT may suspend and nominate ; but if the Senate does not confirm the nomination, the suspended officer reverts to his post. The ignorance of the English Press on American affairs has been strik ingly exemplified in its comments on the defeat of the Senate's Amendment by the House of Repre sentatives. The Morning Post wrote a leader on " GRANT'S First Check," which, for a tutal perver sion of the facts, could scarcely have been excelled. It was not that the writer was intentionally inisre presenting, but he was discussing a subject of which he knew nothing, and he supposed that the Repre sentatives were endeavouring to tie up the PRESI DENT'S hands, and the Senate, in a modified degree, to set them free ; while, as our readers know, the re verse was the case. Yet this article was generally quoted, summaries being given of it in the even ing papers, and all with the sensational head ing of " GRANT'S First Check." This article will be found, as it originally appeared, iu another column. The Standard thus alludes to the telegraphic message---" This early ex hibition of want of confidence on the part of the House of Representatives towards President-GRANT does not augur well for the future peaceful rela tions between the Executive and Legislature." The Globe wrote a short article to the same effect, and how many more papers we cannot pretend to tell ; yet these are the guides and instructors of a great nation on subjects concerning another great nation, each of which exercises a most important influence on the other. But to return to the Tenure-of-Office Act. GRANT pending the settlement declines in a general way to make appointments, asserting that the incum bents are protected by this law, and his answer to the applicant often is—" Why ! the place you want is not vacant." The result has been a strong pres sure by the office-seekers on the Senate to repeal the law ; and the Chamber has been in this curious position, that if they do repeal it they will rob themselves of the power in favour of the PRESIDENT, by which each individual Senator will lose much of his personal influence, and if they do not repeal it they will lose still more, for the incumbeats, ac cording to GRANT'S reading, will then be in for life, and there will be no offices to fill. Every compromise to meet the difficulty has failed. Mr. TRUMBULL reported the bill as amended by the Judiciary Committee on the 16th March, striking out the word " repealed," and inserting instead " suspended until next session of Congress." What the Senate intended was to work the bill as the House of Commons works the Mutiny Act. If Parliament, annually, does not pass that law, the power of officers over soldiers ceases ; and if the Senate (had this amendment been adopted) ne glected to suspend the Tenure-of-Office Act at each session, the PRESIDENT'S power of dismissing officials would be at an end. Mr. MORTON con tended that every argument for suspension was equally good for repeal, that the amendment showed distrust, proposing probation for the PRE SIDENT to see how he will act. Under the law charges must be made against an officer which would ruin his reputation, if sustained ; but if not, would subject the PRESIDENT to the imputation of recklessness or malice, thus bringing both into a personal interest in the result. In reforming the service there might be so many suspensions that Congress could not inquire into the reasons for each case, and the law therefore would fail to work As the PRESIDENT is responsible he should be left un trammelled to carry out the great reforms expected by the country. Senator YATES agreed with Se nator MORTON, in thinking the Act should be un conditionally repealed, also urging on the Chamber the PRESIDENT'S responsibility as the hest reason ; but having yielded tha floor temporarily to Mr. ED3IUNDS, that gentleman called attention to a legal opinion he read from a book, asserting it to be absurd that the PRESIDENT could create vacancies in public offices without the advice and consent of the Senate. As Mr. YATES could not agree with that opinion, Mr. EDMUNDS said that what he had read was the opinion of one of the Judges in the Im peachment Trial, Senator YATES of Illinois ; which, of course, raised a laugh against that gentleman. Mr. EDMUNDS strongly urged the retention of the law, not for to-day or to-morrow, not for this Presi dent or that, but for the time when the nation would consist of 100 States and 1 00,000,000 of in habitants. The millenium had not come because an honest President and Vice-President had been ele3ted ; they would pass away, but the country would remain, with its contending sections and fac tions, its army of postmasters, collectors, and as sessors to attend primary meetings ; and who could tell how soon another ANDREW JOHNSON might sit in the Presidential Chair. Senator FESSENDEN had opposed the law from the first, had foretold it would do more evil than good, and would now vote for its repeal. He censured the tone the discussion had taken as to confidence of Senators in GRANT and his great victories, who was not now a General, but PRE.IDENT, and likely to have a hard time. Senator HoWARD would keep the law on the Statute Book. He admired GRANT, but he would not swerve from his duty for any man. Senator THAYER offered a substitute, adding the condition that all nomina tions by the PRESIDENT made during the recess shall be sent to the Senate within ten days after the session had commenced. In cases of vacancies by death or resignation, the PRESIDENT need not now report such nominations, and Senator COLE favoured THAYER'S motion. Senator SHER3IA-N supported a repeal, as did Senator CARPENTER, who argued that the power of removal without the con sent of the Senate might end in making the PRE SIDENT the people's master instead of their servant. Senator MORTON thought this argument in favour of the law far-fetched; some of them reminded him of one who liked the Maine prohibitory liquor law in theory, but, sternly opposed its enforcement. Whatever force there was in the reasons against repeal existed against suspension, a proposal which confessed the retention of the law to be a mere matter of expediency. Senator DAVIS, of Kentucky, spouted on the floor for hours, to empty seats and galleries, in favour of the repeal ; then the remarks of Governor BROWNLOW, who was too feeble to read them, were read by the Secretary. He opposed the repeal, but would modify the law as far as Con gress thoughl expedient. His opinion of GRANT, how ever high, furnished no reason for removing a neces sary restriction. Senator SCOTT would not repeal the law, but was willing to vote for its suspension. For three-quarters of an hour Carl SCHURZ then might held h the havefloor. voted On the f ro simple repeal, but under the circum cumstances he preferred suspending and retaining the law. One of the greatest problems presented to the statesmen of the day was how to reform the public service, and root out the degrading and dis graceful corruption and inefficiency now existing there. The main source of that corruption was not to be found in the exercise of arbitrary power of removal by the Executive, but in the system of ap pointment of public officers at random from personal or political favouritism, or upon the principle that "to the victors belong the spoils." He would vote against repeal, paradoxical as it seemed, because Congress having attempted ref ortn in the wrong di rection and failed, would be driven to gotat the roJt of the evil by establishing a true reform in a system of examination, appointment for merit, and removals for cause, thus giving respectability and permanence to the Public Service. He had heard with regret that the PRESIDENT felt so sensitive about this law, that he would await its repeal before sending no minations to the Senatc—a rumour doubtless with out truth, but tending to bring the Legislature and the Executive into collision, Ile Iva§ not one of A law was introduced into the New York Legit' lature and referred to the Committee on Judicial providing for the p u bli cat i on of a sworn statemell in each issue of a New York newspaper of th e actual circulation of the preceding issue. The Ne l York. Legislature is not fond of the newspapers' and, although it fears them, still, it is not sorry t ° give them a back-bander when the opportunity offers. Regular advertisers are aware that a wid e circulation is but one element in the value of s ti , advertisement. The class whi c h rea d s , we i g h s mg with the knowing ones. A London publisher, 0 instance, selects a leading weekly review for 81r nouncing ordinary books ; but if he hai che 3 P literature to dispose of, he prefers Lloyd's IVeekl News. A carriage manufacturer would not pay 0 the publicity to be acquired from a paper circular' ing in the East End. Circulation depends more fat its value to advertisers, on its nature, than on i t : quantity. The m a j or it y o f t h e Committee repo ts in favour of the law, but the minority declare it 0 be arbitrary and unnecessary. The class each pape r addresses, they consider to be as well known as tbe business of a dry-goods dealer or a manufacture! of shoes, and that an advertiser will select tlla' paper through which he can address his customer: or those be d es i res t o ma k e his customers. Tb minority rep or t a dd s, " Th at t h ey who produce the best article and please the public by a conformitl to the essentials of journalistic enterprise will se l f the greatest num b er o f papers. " If the law were passed and brought iuto operation, we venture to as' sert that the Committee would discover the differ: ence between theory and practice, and find that th° most unworthy were often those in largest cire ti ; lation; while obscenity, and even blasphemy, 0) add to the sale, at least momentarily, of such pr°' ductions. The London Spectator, during the Aul e : rican war, sh owe d h ow a rigid adherence to tro t" may damage a circulation. A review, of its a dteir able and able character, must have, at least, a 0 13; siderable portion of its subsc r ib ers among t h e bes t read people, who, as a rule in England, are atn9 4 , the upper classes. With them the side taken lv the Spectator was most unpopular ; but the revies q ' which knew a great deal more about America 01 0 , its readers, per s i s t e d i n te lli ng t h e pla i n truth, an d suffered in conse quence . N o d ou b t i t all comet, square in the end if the paper can only live throng it, but this law would add to the truckling to poP tl .; lar prejudices and fallacies, already too common t o New York. Any grea t d a il y j ournal that r 3 counter to the error of the time might itself plode before the error exploded, for not only Nvo° l its circulation rapidly dwindle, but, having to ar l : nounce the fact, it would give a spur t o thos e against whom it was fighting, for nothing more teli s than to see how the enemy suffers, while its adve r ; tisements would decrease with its ci rcu l a ti on . Ther e is no horse that eats its head off like a daily new s ' paper, and there is no fortune that can long with stand the drain when the journal falls into neglec t, The stimulant, then, would be given to do ex actly what the press ought no t t o d o , th a t is, to pander to public vices and prejudices. The so e ' cess of the "Brick Pomeroys" is sufficient as it is, without throwing all the trumps into their hand s ' The outrageous bo as ti ng o f some New Vro journals about th e i r c i rcu l ation might have to 13 maintained at all hazards, and if a man lies voluo' tarily without an oath, he may lie on compulsio n with an oath, a ddi ng anot h er to the many eleme nt of New York corruption. It would be much fair e for all if such a law were necessary that the su b ' scribers' names should every quarter be published!, and this might really b e t urne d to the advan t a g of the journal, if Paid or Unpaid was added t 4 each. Such a li s t, t oget h er with the number sold by newsvendor s an d sent over the country arl ci abroad for sale, would be much more to the pill' pose, but it w ou ld b e s till b etter to allow each t." standon its own merits. The boasting, the unbounded,a exaggeration, the 100 , 000 su b scribers, are stale, old tricks which deceive no one, and ought by this till to be thoro ug hl y p l ayed out, at least in New Yong City. When the Committee on Military Affair called on the PRESIDENT to discuss army legislatio l3 ' GRANT told them that the less they did in that 0 1 3 the better, and th e sam e advice mi g ht b e t en dered to the New Y or k L eg islature reg ar di ng the .I`le't York press.—Anglo-American Times. LUkURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. 1 1. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de li g htful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Ha i r fr° falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant grovt: t i it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles' Price Six Shillings. Sold by most C hemists and Perfura ot Depot 266, High Holborn THE BUDGET. It is rumoured that Mr. Lowe, who makes his financial statement on Thursday, will extend . the assessed taxes to Ireland. In that case there will be a row of true Hib ern i an v i gour . And yet this exten sion would be nothing more than just. " Justice to Ireland" involves, the Liberals assert, the &sesta ; blishment of the Irish Church. "Justice to Ireland" involves also, they cannot help seeing, equal taxation to that of England. It has been the policy of former Governments to bribe Ireland into good humour by certain handsome presents in the shape of immunity from taxation ; and at the same time English ascen dancy t e h n e s C r l e hu g r e c i h ng an t d o the la n w d a s s y m ste a m in s t . ain e x d ow by eur try another tack, which at least deserves to succeed, meanssta t because it is essentially just. The ascendancy of the few over the many is to be abolished ; but the many while thus getting their rights, are, if rumour be true, also to be called upon to fulfil their duties. Sixteen years ago the income tax was extended to Ireland. More recently the spirit duties have been equalised. The unfairness of the present system of taxation has been clearly shcwn by the correspondent of a contemporary. He says :" A friend of mine, having an income of £1,500 per annum, lives in cicse proximity to a fashionable square in which reside an Irish archbishop, an Irish representative peer, an Irishman who is a member for a place in Ireland, and an Irishman member for a place in England, in the enjoyment of incomes varying, let m . e say, from £15,000 t o £5 ,000 per annum, and living accordingly. My friend pays assessed taxes for brougham, horse, c oac h man, an d footman, and paid them without more than th e or di nary amount of grumbling, until he was informed that the several equipages, horses, an d re ti nue of his more fortunate neighbours, to whom I have referred, were exempt from similar taxation. When he mentioned the matter to me at the club, I thought he must have been misinformed ; b u t it i s t oo true, for b y d i nt of Investigation in the library we find that the Act which imposed the existing assessed taxes is the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 00, and that Schedule M to that Act contains most elaborate provisions for insuring such an exemption." ELECTION COMMISPIIONS. Mr. Rogers writes to the Star• on the Nor wich and Bridgwater commissions. He considers that the recent decision of the House of Commons will be of the greatest possible service in puri fying Parliamentary elections. It is advisable that the " peccant constituency " should bear the expenses of the inquiry into their malpractices. He regrets that the judges should have insisted on such stringent proofs of agency in dealing with electoral offences. The only real remedy will be the Ballot; but certain persons in Parliament are interested in maintaining the present system. The Ballot is a necessity for Ireland, where its absence makes electioneering a mere farce, and would introduce many advantages into the repre sentation of England, Scotland, and Wales. The Professor concludes with an anecdote of the Ballot in the days :of Louis Philippe. !,A lawyer of Bordeaux, was a candidate for that city, and after the election he was waited on by a client, who was also an elector. He came to pay a bill of charges incurred by his suc cessor to a relative's estate. " Add," said the client, " 125 francs to the account." When this was done ho explained himself. " When you were a candi date for Bordeaux you asked me to vote for you, and gave me 125 francs. I voted against you, but now that lam rich I cannot keep your money." Mr. Rogers thinks that an English elector would foil an agent as completely as the farmer did the Bordeaux lawyer. AMB:GULTY. Correspondents of an Opposition journal, in search of blots on Mr. Gladstone's Irish Churchßill, are asking in whom the parish churches are to be vested. The twenty-fifth clause of the bill, which deals with this, provides that where a church is required for religious purposes, the representative body of the said church " shall notify the same to the coin, missioners, and in it—" the representative body of the said church "—the building shall be vested. Does " said church " there refer to the Irish body as a whole, or only to the particular con gregation by which the church is required ? Else where a capital C is used to denote the whole body; here only a small one. Rigid Episcopalians are asking, "Is it possible that the Government intends to impose upon the Irish Church a congregational form of government ?" MURPHY AGAIN. That fighting apostle Murphy is ag a i n preac hi ng in the North of England. In some way or other the gospel which he tells, whatever it may be in theory, - produces in fact broken heads and damaged property. The magistrates of South Shields seem to have discovered that after all his sermons are not the best for the public peace, and so on Sunday they would not let him enter the circus. But this did little good, for Murphy can brave the cold in the open air. The usual lecture was delivered, the usual row took place, the Frers next day came out with the usual announce ment that several Leads were broken, the police were put in the usual predicament, the military were, as usual, held in readiness, and the magistrates have to despatch the usual charges against rioters. And all this because nobody is brave enough to get the anti-Romanist bound over, as he was further south, to do nothing calculated to produce a breach of the peace. Surely we want the men whom Carlyle calls for —men who are not afraid to govern. THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. • The United States correspondent of the Times, teleg ra ph s f rom Philadelphia on Sunday that he has " the best authority for stating that Mr. John Lothrop Motley is selected for Minister to England." It will be remembered that our London correspon dent, writing on Thursday, announced this appoint ment. Mr. Motley will, we presume, shortly enter upon his new duties ; new, that is, so far as regards England, for he was appointed Ambassador at Vienna in 1801. He is just 55 years old, having been born April 15, 1814. He has spent a large portion of his ti me on thi s side of the Atlantic. After being educated atHarvardUniversity he, in 1831, came over to Europe, and spent some years in travelling on the Continent. In 1841 he was appointed Secretary of the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. R e t urn i ng to America, he became a contributor to the north American Review, and a writer of fiction. In 1851 he recrossed the Atlantic, and took up his quarters at Dresden, where he col lected materials for his celebrated history. In 1856 the first part of it, entitled The History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," came out. This was fol lowed in 1800 by his " History of the United Netherlands." In 1801, as above-mentioned, he was sent as Ambassador to Vienna. Ile has received ,the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the, University of Oxford. Fortunately, he is a reading and writing rather than a talking man, and is, therefore, the more fit to conduct diplomacy. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has attained the distiuction of having talked more than all the United States Ministers put together since the days of John Adams. A NEW ROMANCE OF TEE PEERAGE. The legal profession may rejoice over the prospect of another romance of the peerage. The succession to the earldom of Wicklow and to the family estates is likely to involve a lengthened investigation. William, third Earl of Wicklow, just deceased, left no direct heir. Until 1833 his next brother, Francis, was heir presumptive, and on his death his eldest son, 'William George Howard, stood next in reversion to the family title. This Mr. Howard was constantly before the public in a not very creditable fashion, ap pearing frequently in connection with the Bankruptcy Court. It was always understood that his uncle, after repeatedly assisting him, had cast him off alto ' gether, finding that his repeated promises of amend ment were constantly broken. In February 1803 'William George Howard married a lady of somewhat inferior rank, and the son, on whose behalf the title and estates are now claimed, was born in 1804. 'William Howard himself died in October of the same year, and the family assert that his son died also in early infancy, and that the child now claiming to be Earl of Wicklow has been substituted for him. The other claimant to the title is Lieutenant Charles Arnold Howard, of the 9th Lancers, half brother to William George. It will be readily seen that the case is likely to be a Perplexing and difficult one. THE STRIKE AT PRESTON. The news from Preston is not of a very encou raging character. The total number of hands on strike up to Saturday night was aboht 3,000, and on Thurs day next, if matters are not arranged, about 10,000 ' more will be added to the list. At present there are nine mills in the town where operative weavers are on strike; and at most of them the spinners are out. There seems little hope of an adjustment of the dispute, as the masters are strongly opposed to arbi tration, and the operatives are determined to resist any reduction The questions in dispute are very com plicated, and manyof them are of a technical character, which some of the operatives themselves do not clearly understand. The masters held a meeting on Satur day, and proposed by way of a compromise that they should make a reduction of 5 per cent, all round, and pay the weavers by the wheel dividend system, which will entail a further reduction of 31 per cent. The weavers, it will be seen, would by this plan gain 11. per cent, on the original reduction of 10 per cent., but at present there is little disposition to accept the terms. On Saturday the operatives were disheartened by the intimation that Mr. Hermon, M.P., who has eight or nine mills in Preston, employ.. ing nearly 3,000 hands, had given notice for a S per cent. reduction in a month in all branches of spinning and weaving. Meanwhile the operatives are emigrat ing in large numbers. A batch. of spinners is to leave Liverpool for America this week, in the Man hattan. . is_to_he__ hoped, in the interest of all A PAPAL ANNIVERSARY. ------- The 11th of April will be an interesting day to Roman Catholics, being the fiftieth anniversary of the Pope's first celebration of the Mass. On Sunday a pastoral from Archbishop Manning was read in all the Catholic churches throughout London, stating that the clergy and the laity of many nations had agreed to keep the day as a jubilee, and that the Pope had offered a plenary indulgence to those who devoted their prayers and offerings on that day for the conversion of sinners and the propagation of the Catholic faith. A Jubilee Commemoration Fund has been opened in England, to which the Duke of Norfolk has given £200; Earl Denbigh, Lords Petre and C a stlerosse, and Mr. Mons ell being also among the subscribers. The Arch bishop has refused to allow the memorial to Mr. Gladstone on behalf of the imprisoned Fenians to be left for signature at the doors of Moorfields Cathedral. It is not possible, he says, to allow the Catholic churches to be used for any but religious purposes, and any political or other petition must be signed at other places. The memorial is to be pre sented to Mr. Gladstone on the 10th of May. THE NORWICH CONVICT. - - The communication made to the Norwich magis trates, purporting to come from Mrs. Sheward, for whose murder William She war d i s l y i ng under sen tence of death, is rightly denominated strange. The correspondent says that when she left her husband she went to visit her first and only love. He was dying. Before he died he made her promise she would never return or discover herself to Sheward: She will not come forward to exculpate her husband whatever may take place. From all the surrounding circumstances it seems most probable that the letter is a hoax, a miserable one enough, without a shade of fun, or an iota of good nature. But the defence are trying to worm out the matter. Mrs. Sheward did have a lover before she married— one Worseltine, and Sheward is said to have told his lawyers that his wife had gone with him; but the defence say there was so little money to make inquiries that nothing could be made of the matter at the trial. THE AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. Many grumbles have been raised of the incom pleteness and the untrustworthyness of the agricul tural returns. In the recent report of the Inland Revenue complaints are made that the officers who collet the returns are exposed to much insult and annoyance in collecting the statistics. The reason for this is pointed out by a contemporary. The time selected for pursuing their investigations is when the farmers are for the most part engaged in the hay harvest, and are " very irritable when called upon by a Government officer to leave their occupation for the purpose of detailing to him the particulars of their holditigs." Would not, it is asked, the Somers e t House official s be rather irritable if in the bu s i es t hour of the day they were called from their roo ms to answer th e questions o f an inquisitive country gentleman ? Under the circumstances it is probable that the commissioners are correct in supposing that the "r t suit of their officers' investigations can scarcely be of much value." STREET INIUD. This is a day of utilisation. We have already found out plans for turning old clothes into money, ; for making our fields fertile by using the refuse, and now the proverb "cheap as dirt " seems likely to lose all its force. The Engbieer, speaking of the wet mud, called macadam milk, which covers the streets of Paris in the rainy season, says: "An adventurous individual has found an a pplication for this stuff, and at the same, it is said, an income of £4OO a year for himself. He collects the milk, allows it to settle in large tanks, passes the precipitate through silk sieves, and forms it afterwards into what we call Flanders bricks for knife cleaning, which sell at a franc each." W ould that Flanders bricks were more in request that we might have more adventurers starting up to cleanse our towns of matter which is certainly in the wrong place when it covers our boots and trousers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On December 0, 1867, Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, was so thoroughly burnt that nothing but a shell was left. .0n May 28, 1868, a contract was signed by the Earl of Dudley, the landlord, and Messrs. Trollope, the builders, by which the theatr e was to be rebu i lt b y March 1, 1869. Very heavy penalties were attached for non-fulfilment of the contract, and many of Messrs. Trollope's friends predicted that those gentlemen would beruined. They commenced operations on May 30, and completed them by the specified time. The theatre is now in a condition to hand over to the lessees (whoever they may be), and thus this great structure has been rebuilt in considerably less time than Covent Garden or Drury Lane. Nothing has been retained of the old building but the four walls. The most careful pro vision has been made against fire. Externally, as viewed from Pall Mall West, the structure is most and look s lik e a cross b etween a an brewery ; b u t i n t erna lly th ere tlicinsaignlciitly, ais much to admire. The question now is what will Lord Dudley do with the house ? He has frightened away his old t enan t b y th e t erms he asked. Who will venture to speculate in a theatre which takes 9 ,500 spectators to fill it ? OBITUARY. The following deaths are a nnounce d : —Th e E ar l of Cloncurry, an Irish Co nservat i ve peer, who has died at th e age of 5:, and is succeeded by his son, Captain Lawless, who is 29 years old ; the Lady Georgiana Cecil, third daughter of the Marquis of Exeter, and who has died from congestion of the brain in her 10th year; the Hon. and Rev. Dighy Walsh, second son of Lord Ormathwaite (better known as Sir John 'Walsh), and who has died sud denly of scarlet fever at Trowbridge, where he was a News ann ounces also the death of Dr. Hynes, Bi s hop curate ; Mr. Jackson, the publi s h er, who has died at 08. Th e D a ily of Demerara. No such dignitary B h a r s i t i a f l o i r G t u N i v a e n n a t . y -seven years been th e Bi s hop o f appears in the list of our coloni a l c l ergy. D r. Aust i n whereof Demerara is the capital. 1 FOREIGN NOTES. REPUBLICAN ninuarls /N ITALT. All doubt as to the attitude of the Republicans in Italy is now set at rest. That the recent disturbances at Ancona, ,Terni, and elsewhere were instigated by Mazzini and his colleagues is disputed; but it is quite certain that the Republican leaders did not stake much upon these outbreaks, and that their preparations for more serious attempt s are s till going on. Our Rome correspondent says that the accounts from the north of Italy are very disturbing. "A continued communication is kept up be tween Lugano, the headquarters of Mazzini, and the other cities. The movement is understood to be fixed for the autumn, so as to give time for a similar Republican organi sation to take place in Spain, and also to consider and take into account the bearing of the French elections, which are expected to be favourable to the Left. In any case everything is being prepared here for another and far more formidable attack on Rom e , and the little Papal army is kept i n cons t an t d r ill and is now admirably armed. " The Ete n d ar d con fi rms thi s information. Making all allowances for exaggeration, it i s i mpossible not to perce i ve that the intrigues of the Mazzinian Committees are being carried on amongst the troops of Victor Emmanuel. The non-commissioned officers of several regiments have been found in possession of revolutionary proclamations. The explanation they h ave given cannot be deemed sati n . factory. rius Our Rome c)rrespondent sends a very favourable bulletin of the Pope's health. Hi s Holiness assisted at the usual celebrations during R e l y Week. On Saturday he was much exhausted worn out by th e f atigue of t h e wee k . B ut on Raster and spoke very feebly, being evidently Monday he was looking well and had perfectly recovered. His Holiness assisted at all the succeeding ceremonies, his clear voice chanting the invocation to the patron saints with wonderful freshness and vigour. Immense crowds were present at these magnificent spectacles. On Easter Monday the number could not be less than 150,C00. AGITATION IN PORTUGAL. If by any chance a bill reducing the number of the House of Commons by one-third were to pass into law, what would be th e result? Th e c onte m pl a ti on of such a proceeding enabl es us to rea li se th e fi erce di scontent now agitating Portu ga l . The Ki ng has signed a d ecree l arge l y reducing the numbers of the Chamber of Deputies. The agitation consequent upon this step has been so violent that many leading political personages, including the Marquis of Vallada, have implored the King to revoke his d ecree . Ire has no t yet decid e d t o d o so ; an d the electoral c omm i ttee are preparing to add to the pres sure by organising a procession which is to proceed en masse to the King's palace to obtain an answer. The Cor responlencia of Madrid represents the state of affairs to be very grave indeed. REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. The Neio York Herald has received nc.ws from Mexico to the effect that the " entire country is wrapped in a flame of revolutionary agitation." The Government troops have suffered a defeat. The people are disgusted with the plundering of the Juarez Cabinet. And then we come to the gist of the affair:—" Advices from Texas throw out the conjecture that United States trooi.s would soon invade Mexico, and leave it open to inference that the beginning of the end was not far distant." It ought to be mentioned, however, that the herald has lately been afflicted with the annexation fever. Hayti, Cuba, and Alexico are all to be snapped ußat once. Births. 'o ' OAIKEEELE—On the 3d inst., at Prince's-terrace, Princ e gate, the Hon. Mrs. Hallyburton Campbell, of a son. ho FRAsER—On the 3d inst., a t D u dl ey H ouse, P ar k - l an e / t wife of Capt a i n K e ith F raser, Ist Life Guards, °f p son. Marriages. HILL — BENGOUGH—On the 3d inst., at St. John's P - 01 ney, Frederick Ch ar l es, t hi r d son of Wm. Hill, Escl. , 4 ,- liishopsgate and Willesden, to Henrietta, fourth daub ter of Mr. Ben goug h, Richmond-road, N.E. STARKEY—WALTON—On the 2d inst., at Ealing, Starkey, of Lansdowne road, Notting-hill, to En i r,e , third daughter of th e l a t e Ch arles Walton, of hill, Surrey. Deaths. CLITHERON—On the 4th i ns t., a t 5 , Q ueen Anne-B.+ 31et Miss Clitherow, aged 90. to BLATR—On the 31st ult., a t R ome, Li eu t . -C o l one l Stl' i Blair, late Scots Fusilier Guards, aged 42. Mosr.LEY—On the 4th inst., at 1, Fonthill Villas, T onivr ton-park, Robert Moseley, Esq., aged 54. p 4, NASH—On the 2d inst., a t H as ti ngs , ver y suddenly, ',ife, Nash, Esq., of Th e G range, Hi nxton, Cambrictges': aged 65. London : Printed and Pablished by WILLIAM ANDB S of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Suri Offic9, NO pi Strand, in tha Precinct of the Se voy tti the Bliddiesox,—Tuesclay, April 6, 1869. THE CIVIL WAR IN JAPAN. The foreign representatives of England, France, anti Prussia at Jeddo have announced the termination of the struggle between the North and the South. The Mikado's victory is virtually acknowledged, and no hope remains for the few belligerents yet in arms. TheJalan Heald, in an explosion of nonsense about Japan now " pointing with pride to this epoch of her history as a nation," says that the lives of most of the vanquished princes have been spared, though their lands have gone the way of all con quered territory. As to the Tycoon, the representative of the side opposed to the Mikado, we hear nothing of him. Formerly he abstained from all share in the fighting, but held himself in readiness to share the spoil ; and doubtless this noble policy has been continued to the end. In the interests of commerce it is satisfactory to learn that the war is at an end. THE INDIAN BUDGET. 7RAINING REPORTS. Epsom..—On Wednesday Tomlinson was out early with Rampart, Fairfax, Ennui - ,lina, Tim Hogan, First Duke, and Mercury, who all galloped the mile twice. He then sent David, Inheritance, and Tott a steady gallop of two miles and a half. Forster sent Epsom, Salamis, and Chivalry two nice spins of a mile, and Nannie went a steady two mile and a half gallop by herself. Reeves's lot merely did healthy canters, except Adventuress and Seleucu., who went a good gallop of a mile. G. Searle galloped Lord Warwick, White Hart (late Crosslanes colt) and Sailor Boy (late Vitriol). Hughes sent Melinda, Ambi tious, Redcap, Warrior, Seringapatam, and Pt.wderhain pipe-openers of about a mile each time. Martin sent Do mino and Copenhagen a good two mile gallop. Thurs day.---NightiLgall was busy with Elector, Adolphus, Laird of Scotland, and Cecil. The last named has been doing plenty of good work, is a grand mover, and getting very fit. Reeves did the mile twice with Sir Oliver, °bedding ton, Nanny Thormanby, Seleucus, and six or seven two year olds. Tomlinson was again busy with his team. Potter's man did well with Helice, Balder, Northill, Roque fort and Lizzie Hexam. Friday.-- Reeves sent Sir Oliver, Cheldington, Nanny Thormanby, Seleucus, Golden Hair, Conservative, Candour, Wedding Chimes, Skittles, Two by Honours, and Pate two or three nice mile gallops, J. Nightingall again gave Elector, Adolphus, Laird of Scot land, and Cecil some good work, and South Hatch, Alar mer, Dunphain, Apathy, Aversion, and Molly Carew colt did the mile twice. Sherwood did well with Charlatan, Otho, Malcolm, Bonnie Katie, Antias, Master Dick, Prince Henry, Mrs. Jones, and Claribel. Carter galloped Queen Esther, the Baroness, and Prince Paul. LAMBOURNE.—On Tuesday the following of the Bussley horses went to White Horse Hill :- Miss Hayes, Phoebus, North Briton, Belladrum, St. Muogo, Crocus, Disguise, Idston,• Sunlight, Sunshine, colt by Newminster out of Eltham's dam, colt by Marsycs out of Symmetry, filly by Thormanby out of Masquerade, filly by Dundee out of Zaidee, filly by Lord of the Isles out of Lady Lurewell, filly by Cramond out of Sempstress, and a filly by Lord of the Isles out of Miss Ann. They allovent through a fair amount of work. Belladrum did his fair amount of work in company with North Briton, Phoebus doing the same for Crocus. Wednesday.—The same lot came on the near downs, but there was not much done, as the weather was very bad. Phoebus led the young ones two cantors of half a mile. Belladrum and the rest of the team were by the side of the plantation. Thursday.—The same lot came out except the filly out of Miss Ann, and they wont to Hinton. down, where North Briton led the young ones a smart canter of three-quarters of a mile. After some walking exercise, North Briton and Belladrum came to the end of the gallop, and North Briton led Belladrum a nice steady gallop of something like a mile and three - quarters. Phoebus led St. Mungo and Crocus a little over the same distance. ITEDNESFORD.— Those doing most work aro Kidder minster, Melody, Agile, Ettrick, Master Tom, Venice, Official Assignee, Fly filly, filly by Neptunus, Orion, and Uncas. The last two go along in fine style. Hopwood's Lord Ha tings, Side Drum, Wynnstay, Surprise, filly by Sawyer, filly by Oxford, and a colt by Umpire are in good work. The latter has not made so much progress as I ex pected. Wright's Flying Scud, Lawyer filly, and Arran are doing good work, but Sundew is a little off. Eskrett's Masquer, Emily, colt by Hadji, Jenny Mills, Edinburgh, Brother to Ti m Bobbin, Dean of York, Newminster filly, Musical Bell, Lin en D raper, an d B u rgundy are doing good work. MALTON.-At Thirsk, in the Hambleton Plate, Light Cloud, The Clipper, and Amendment are engaged. The last-named is the best from here. Mowbray Stakes —We have Callipwdia and Bucchanalian, and I give the first named the preference. In the Sowerby Plate we have Policy, Queen of Beauty, Malta, and Queen of York. The two first -named will be absentees, and as regards the other she is at Catterick. In the Thirsk Handicap we have Toison d'Or, Viscount, and My Lord; they are all well, and whichever they select will be found handy. In the Falcon Plate I see Little 80-Peep, Janet Rawcliffe, The Cure colt, and Lyttleton. The three first-named are well and fit to run, but Lyttleton will be an absentee. At the post I should give the preference to The Cure colt, and next to him Little 80-Peep. This day (Thursday) Za polya and Barna Bimbo left for the Continent, accom panied by Walter Oram, who will train and ride them. RICHMOND. —At Thirsk on Tuesday, in the Hambleton Plate, we have Caprera. Flora, Annie Stewart, Retort, Bete Noir, Number Nip, The Prior, Rodney, Moscow, Levena, Valtz, and Annie. It is uncertain yet which runs Catterick is over, but J may here state Elliott ought to win with whatever he selects, my own choice being Annie, for she is very fast, fit, and well. Hunt Cup.— Lancaster's running at Catterick will tell what chance he may have. Thirsk Handicap.—We have Caprera, Flora, Hector, Retort, Prior, Rodney, and Moscow. Hero again Elliott ought to win. Falcon Plate.—Mr. Cowen's La ve!! or Clarionette should win. CHlLTON.—Arit;:tham, Stevens has Chateau Mar gaux and Albatross:engaged. The first-named is going on well, and is sure to take a lot of beating, but I don't think much of Albatross. Cameroon and Kieksey Winksey are also doing well for their coming engagements, and both go well. M.A. and Mimus will be wanted shortly by the work they are doing. Actrea, Out-and-Outer; and Precious metal continue doing regular work, and a bigger rogue than Out-and-Outer never was, as he will only try just when it suits him. • Careful (3 yrs) has been sold for a hack, and has left Stevens's stable. FINDON.—AII our horses are doing well, and although Romping Girl, as I stated in my last, has been in physic, the mare is well, and as sound as a roach. Notwithstand ing Guy Dayroll won like a good horse at Epsom, ho is far from being the best two year old at Findon. Fyn - ELD.— Thursday—Taylor had along string of horses out, and they are all going on first rate. Our horses en gaged at Croxton Park are all well. MlDDLEHAM.—Pretender, our Derby horse, is looking fresh and well. Of those loft at home, the following have done well for Thirsk :-Inon, Ritualist, Mysotis, Bard of Erin, King's Cross, Rob Roy, Queen of Beauty, Flying Jib, Nectarine, and Apemantus. LEWES.—The following horses of Drewitt's are doing good work :—The Scout, Wanderer, Witless, Perdita, Buccaneer filly, Young Fenton, Bretby, Ethus, Workman, Wrestler, Watteau, Winchilsea, Elsham, Prince Leopold, and Ironstone. Ethus goes beautifully, and I think better every day, and a finer-tempered animal was never trained. If he keeps well he will be very hard to beat for the Derby.—Sporting Life. The following officers of the Senate Chamber have been nominated:—John R. French of North Carolina for Sergeant at Army, to succeed George F. Brown, John M. Morris of Connecticut for Executive Clerk in place of Dewitt 'C. Clark, and A. M. Clapp of Buffalo to be public printer in place of John D. Defrees, the intimate friend of the Vice-President: Mr. Clapp is now said to be ineligible unless he selLs his newspaper, the Buffalo Express. fADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.— uenza, Colds.—ln diseases of the throat and chest so prevalent in this country nothing so speedily relieves or so certainly c. tres as these inestimable remedies. These disorders are too often ne glected at the commencement, or are injudiciously treated, re sulting in either case in disastrous consequences. Whatever the condition of the patient Holloway's medicines will restore if re covery be possible; they will retard the alarming symptoms till the blood is purified, and nature consummates the cure, gradually restoring strength and vital nervous power. By persevering iu the use of Holloway's preparations tone is conferred on the stomach and frame generally; the fluids are regenerated, morbi tic matter is expelled, and a happy revolution occurs the system. throughout We have already noticed Sir Richard Temple's financial statement. Full details by the India mail shew that there was a deficit of 14 millions in 1867-68, and that for the year now closing there will be a def cit of 2 millions. The revenues for 1869.70 are estimated at 49 1-3 millions, and the ordinary expenditure at 49 millions ; in addition to which there will be "extraordinary expenditure for reproductive works,' set down at 3i millions. To make up the amount requ'red, loans to the extent of five millions are to be raised-3d being to meet new debt, one for renewal of old debt, and half a million to meet possible temporary deficiencies. The Ponzlay Gazette deprecates the continued resort to loans. It is the weak part of Sir R. Temple's Budget that he repeats the fashionable mistake. IJIE 2ENURE OF OFFICE ACT. apouomme the many who flew into paroxysms of adulatioA but he thought too highly of President GRANT DC/ I to believe he would avail himself of the oppoll tunity to serve his country, whether that or portunity came in the suspension or in the re' peal of the Act. Senator SPRAGUE, who fol' lowed, went for repeal. He thought that the were too many lawyers in both Houses ; educated in one line, with one range of ideas and experience+ and therefore incompetent to represent faithful!! the diverse interests and necessities of the nation Forty-five of the sixty-six Senators were lawyers ; five of the remainder had received a legal educa' tion, the rest being guided by the lawyell and their teachings ; and even a worse state cl things prevailed in the House. He was 13 ° one of those who worshipped the political systcl of the States, or attributed to it their grea t material growth, which was due to slavery apd immigration. Mr. SPRAGUE then denounced the politicians who had aided to build up the two grea t sections which eventually were pitted in conillet against each other. All theirefforts were for "party, not for the welfare of the people. He would favoilf the repeal in any case, on the ground that if he mus s be subject to a tyranny he preferred that of a WM with humanity in him holding a responsible posi' tion to that of an irresponsible body like the Senate Mr. NYE humorously defended the lawycre Senator COIII3E - Iv would leave th e P RESIDENT inr trammelled, as he was a better judge of fitness that' the Senate could be. The war against rebellioo was a costly failure until one man was made so' preme, when it became successful ; he would there' fore repeal the law ; as would Mr. BAYARD, WY showed the untenable position taken by those who favoured suspension while believing the law to he unconstitutional, by stating that the Senate had De more right to divest itself of a constitutional power than to usurp a power not granted by the constitty tion. This finished the debate in the Senate up to the departure of the mail. It is said that the po t of Minister to England is one of those awaiting the settlement of this question, and if so there must he, a hitch in it, o r we wou ld h ave heard who GRANTI O nomination before this. We know what emigre:4 had done, but we do not yet know what course the PRESIDENT has taken, though it is certain that 11 1 very much dislikes the law. If he sanctions th t modified law passed by C ongress, we may expel immediately to hear the name of Mr. REvEld JonNsoN's successor. 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