The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-27 00:00:00

nun OrTJ E PUBLIC JOITBNALS, ----- me upshot of Monday's debate, says the Times, Was that Lord Clanricarde's bill was postponed till after 'Whitsuntide, and in the meantime the Government will Make up their minds as to the course they will take. If they can in any way come to a decision, we would earnestly suggest that they should prepare a measure, or at least let us know the principies which they intend to apply to the tenure of land in Ireland. It cannot be to the advantage of the country that another year should pass without some intimation of the nature of the measure which the Govern mentproposes. Lord Monck protested against the coupling of such matters as the assassination of landlords and the legislation on land ; but it is hardly to be denied that to leave open such momtntous questions year after year, and though they have been made the subject of significant speeches by members of the Government, must tend to excite vague expectations and to deepen the dis content with which it has long been tile fashion for Irish men to view their relations with their landlords. Of course there are those who will say that the advocates of a speedy settlement of the land question want to prevent the reform from being complete and thoroughly beneficial. They will Le accused of desiring to hurry through a measure which will be favcurable to the land lords, instead of waiting for the more liberal scheme which the Government, after a year of con sideration, may produce. As far as regards ourselves, we utterly repudiate any such notion. We arc convinced that the relations between the owner and occupier of land in Ireland can never be placed on a sound basis except by a measure which shall do ample justice both to the tenant and the landlord. And it is because we see in the House of - Commons as it exists at present an assembly disposed to carry through even a► bold and large scheme that we would deprecate the loss of time. The present Parliament was elected to legislate on the Irish Church and on Ireland generally ; it is in the first glow of youth and enthusiasm, the Liberal majority is unbroken, and there is no reason to doubt that it would sanction any well-considered measure which the Government might resolve on pro posing. The Post observes that on Monday the House of Com mons, with what we suppose must be termed unabated energy, proceeded with the task of reducing to their final shape the several clauses of the Irish Church Bill. Pro ceedings in committee are not generally of the liveliest description, but a variety of circumstances conspire to render those in which the house is now almost exclu sively engaged particularly dull and tiresome. All the questions incidental to disenclorment and disestablish ment have been so thoroughly "threshed out" that nothing remains to he said, and the results of divisions on disputed points are always practically the same. Nevertheless the attendance of members in their places is rigorously enforced by the Whips of both sides, and Conservatives and Liberals respec tively find themselves obliged to forego dinner parties, visits to the opera, and balls, with a rigour which even the keenest ascetics would scarcely undertake in Lent. Even the customary expedient of pairing can only in e exceptional cases he resorted to. • The Ministry carried their point by a majority of one hundred, which probably surprised the Conservatives even snore than that of any previous division, but which proves that snider all cirenni- Kt:nice:l the Liberals are prepared to give an unhesitating and undivided support to their leader. The other sections el the clause were then agreed to, as also the 26th clause, which provides for the disposal of burial-grounds. The committee then entered on the consideration of the clause dealing with glebe lands and ecclesiastical residences, and at this point the debate was adjourned. The Standard declares that it is not possible to forget the tone of speeches made in IE6B. No one who listened to Mr. Bright and Mr.Glei's'one then, and believed in their sirceriiy, could doubt . they meant to give the Irish Church her sacred buildings, her glebe-houses and gardens, free of charge; to -leave her in possession of 'a considerable revenue, and to treat her claims in a spirit exactly the opposite of that carping, spiteful, malicious temper, spoiling with one hand half that is conceded with the other, that marks the bill. No one can doubt that, if then suggested, Mr. Disraeli's amendments would have been declared by ins opponents to fall short of rather than to exceed their intended liberality to the Church. And when Mr. Glad stone denies that there has been a change in the policy of the Government, be either asserts that they did not mean what they said in IS6B, or he affirms that they are now acting up to it. If the latter, he asserts what no one who understands the English language can believe. Can any one doubt what spirit inspired a contrast like this ; or whose was the power that, taking advantage of the ambition, of their necessities, actually compelled an English Ministry to insult the conscience of the nation by enriching a Popish college out of the spoils of the Protes- tant Church ? The bill is not Mr. Glsolstmic's, nor Mr. Lowe's, nor Mr.Briglit's ; it is the bill ef Cardinal Cullen and the flornish hierarchy of Ireland. And if it pass it v.iil not be the last measure of confiscation that, under -similar dictation, will le presented by the Ministers of a Protestant Queen to a Protestant Parliament. The Star remarks that Mr. Disraeli appeared on Mon day night in his favourite character of champion of those shadowy and impersonal rights which are talked of as the vested interests of the laity. He prefaced a long string of amendments, some of which he moved and some of which he delegated to lieutenants so diverse in ability and position as Dr. Ball and Sir George Jenkinson, with a sparkling shower of epigrams and sneers, discharged Upon the heads of nearly all the leaeiog members of the Government. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Fcrtcactie, and the Attorney-General for Ireland were pelted in rapid succession, and did not appear to. be greatly disturbed by the infliction. Mr. Glad stone, indeed, in replying to the leader of the Opposition, made very light of the sarcastic attillery of which he had been the object. The point of Mr. Disraeli's speech was that the interests of the laity had not been considered in the composition of the bill, and that this omission was inconsistent with the promises of Mr. Bright last year of " gracious and generous" treatment. He quoted Mr. Fortescue's definition this year of the bill as a " severe and sweeping measure ;" and be taunted Mr. Lowe with his repudiation of the geneiosity which had been avowed by his colleagues. In a few words Mr. Gladstone disposed of these verbal quibbles. There had been no change in the policy of the Government ; and while the generosity, or rather considerateness, applied td the treatment of individuals, the severity-was the necessary consequence, and even the end, of the disendowiug clauses of the bill. .According to the Telegraph, some surprise has been excited by what has seemed the apathy with which Mr. Disraeli has seen clause after clause of the Irish Church Bill passed through committee. In that stage not a burst of rhetoric, not a premeditated epithet of indignation. not an epigram, not a criticism, has the leader of her Majesty's Opposition launched against the bill —until Monday. But he then made amends for his unwonted reticence. Before moving his own amendments, the Tory chief proceeded to deliver one of those philippics by which he has won his way to a front place in statesmanship, or, at least, in party leadership. Mr. Bright was reminded that he had urged Mr. Gladstone to deal with the Irish Church in " a gracious and generous spirit," and the Prime Minister that he had heartily responded to his colleague's words. But, after the general election, added Mr. Disraeli; not another word Ives said about being "gracious or generous." The Chancellor of the Exchequer —whose " sympathy with all the softer parts of one nature" Mr. Disraeli did not forget to signalise—had pro tested against the idea that w* should be "generous" with other people's money ; and Mr. Chichester' Forteseue had eulogised the bill as "sevezeiaid sweep. ing." Such was Mr. Disraeli's indictment. Tut there is Rio discrepancy - between the statements which tins Ministers made when out of place, and those which they have set forth since they lave been in power. The bill is " gracious and generoui"—in some respects, perhaps, more gracious and generous than strict equality can warrant ; and to that characteristic we may justly ascribe the fact of its passing through the ordeals of public opinion and the House of Commons with greater rapidity and success than any great measure brought in by any states. man—even by Mr. Disraeli Lireeelf. The Daily Neirs says that if the lawyers are rieht neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor ,the P r i v y ; Council has any jurisdiction over the Bishop of Natal. The Royal Supremacy has created what it cannot control. It has conferred the duty, the position, and the title of Bishop, but has reserved En means of enforcing responsi bility for them. The fault, however, does not rest in the colony, but at home. Tl:e. , e eolunial bithoprie3 were the creatures of the vain ambition of the Bishop of Oxford and other dignitaries at home. They thought to anticipate the wishes of the colonists, and have overreached themselves. They were pretty sure that when the colonies came to self-government they would not do the right thing in this matter, and they tried to do it for them beforehand. They were not to be trtrted to choose their own ecclesiastical system, and with the aid of the lloyal Supremacy, most improperly accorded, prelates at home were in haste to put a little copy of our English State Church in posses• sion of the ground. ]fence all the difficulty and all thl humiliation of these later years. The Church has been betrayed by a few fussy self-constituted leaders into a false position, and is suffering from it. WOMPN PREACH 7.115. —A New YOrk paper sap the Methodists have boldly so:ved one of the great Problems of the day by licensing V:omento'prench. The Conference of the El'olivine District, New York, has given credentials for this purpose to a widow lady namee. Vann Cott. The Sing Sing Conference has referred the subiect to a special committee. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE WRIT FOR YOVGHAL, There is likely to be a fight over the issue of the writ for Youghal. Ministers intend moving for it to-day (Tuesday). It is said that the motion will be resisted by the Conservatives, who will endeavour to obtain the notes of evidence taken at the trial of the ele:tion petitions, and maybe will ask for a royal commission. PROPERTY IN ADVOWSONS. The amendment to the Irish Church Bill proposed by Captain Archdall on Friday night, providing that compensation for advowsons should be paid not to the owners of livings, but to the Irish Church body, raised a neat point of equity. Sir Stafford North cote, in stating the whole case, left his hearers in doubt as to what his opinion was. He pointed out that a living was public property, vested by accident in one person. He shewed that, according to his opinion, this person—the landlord—was being com pensated for all his losses by the provisions of the bill. And yet he declared he would not vote against this person being compensated again. The Times stated his argument as that adowsons were not private pro perty . Sir Stafford, however, writes correcting this, and, so far as we can gather from his letter, what the member for North Devon really does hold is that, theoretically, a living is public property. In its commencement it was such ; but practically—the sale of adowsons having become a recognised trans action—it has vested is and become the private pro perty of the one who holds it. So though he speaks on abstract principles, Sir Stafford votes without them. THE STATE OF IRELA D The unsettled state of Ireland just now is again illustrated by an example. What one of the Fenian journals recently described as the " agrarian war in the South," seems to be vigorously conducted. A magistrate and a landlord has fallen as the latest victim to it. Mr. W. J. Bradshaw, of Philipstown House, Cappawhite, was shot dead on Saturday morning at teno'clock,at a short distancefrom his own house. It appears that Mr. Bradshaw left home about half-past seven o'clock to give directions toll's workmen in the fields. lle seemed low-spirited and restless. Ile left to return by a sequestered path, with a stream on one side and trees on the other.. In a few minutes two shots were heard, but no attention was paid to them. About nine o'clock some constables came on magisterial business, and Mrs. Bradshaw, thinking it time her husband should bc, at home to breakfast, sent an old man to look for him. He went to the fields and heard the deceased had left, and, following the path, found him lying in the stream. Six feet from it was a pool of blo o d. Th e i n j ur i es were horrible—ten pellet and ten bullet wounds in the head. The police and the magistrates were soon on the spot. Suspicion fell on a young man named All.s, the son of a small tenant. He could not be found, but List evening. he walked boldly i n t o Philipstown Horse, and ga ve hi mse lf up to t h e police, making statements of where he had been which they knew to be false. THE InLu LEGAL APPOINTMENTS. There seems to be much uncertainty about the Irish legal appointments. It has been stated that Mr. Barry, th o Irish Sol icitor-General, has accepted the appointment of Judge to the Landed Estates Court. For this, however, there appears to have been very little founda.tion. The Advertiser now announces that he has declined the offer. Probably enough he intends to fly at higher game. The Advertieer adds, that in all possibility the office will be conferred on Mr. Stephen Woulfe Flanagan, formerly one of the M.stcrs in the Encumbered Estates Court, and brother of the defeated candidate at the last Sligo ekction or on Mr. David Sherlock, M.P., for Queen's County. Mr. IT. I_Aw, the draughtsman cf the Irish Church Bill, is also named among the candidat TILE COLENSO DIFFICULTY. Some one, it does not appear who, has asked the opinion of three eminent counsel—Sir J. D. Cole ridge, Sir IL Palmer, and Dr. Deane—with respect to the Nat .ldifliculty. The question they asked was, " Assum ing that the present Bishop of Natal has been guilty of en ecclesiastical offence, what sters can be taken to bring him to trial, and before what tribunal ?," The Times, which publishes the counsels' opinion, and also a leader on it, assumes that it is the friends of the Bishop of Capetown who have consulted the above-mentioned eminent lawyers. This arsumption scarcely seems to be borne out by the fact that Dr. Colenso is spoken of as the Bishop of Natal, whereas Bishop Gray and his partisans declare that Bishop Colenso has been deposed. How ever, the most important matter is the opinion itself. From this we learn that the Bishop of Capetown has no jurisdiction over Dr. Colenso ; that even if the letters patent granted to Dr. Colenso were valid, there is no tribunal, civil, criminal, or ecclesiastical, in Natal whichcan determine if Dr.Colenso's opinions rre erroneous, or can enforce a decision ; that the Archbishop of Canterbury has no authority over the Bishop of Natal ; that the Crown has no authority to try the question • and that the only ground on which the letters patent could be revoked would be that they were ab initio void, and the result of the case " - Bishop of Natal v. Green" renders it quite possible that they might prove legally %: lid. "We are therefore of opinion," add the counsel, " that no means at present exist for trying before any tribunal competent to decide the question whether or no pr. Colenso, the 'present Bishop of Natal, has advocated doctrinal opinions not in accordance with the doc trines held by the Church of England; and, assuming the present Bishop of Natal to have been guilty of an eecics:astical offence, no steps can be taken to bring him, as such bishop, before any tribunal. We do not, however, think that, upon the present mate rials, it would be satisfactory or proper for us to enter into the question whether, if Dr. Colenso were pre sent within the jurisdiction of an English ecclesias tical court, .and were in this country to commit any offence against the laws ecclesiastical, he could or not he proceeded against, under the Church Disci pline Act, as a clerk in holy orders of the Church of -England." According to this opinion the Crown, even if it has legally appointed bishops in the colonies (which is doubtful), has appointed irremovable, irresponsible bishops, who cannot be tried.for any proceedings, however outrageous; and thus the energy of those Churchmen who founded the Colonial Episcopate about a quarter of a century ago, and the liberality cf persons who, like Miss Burdett Coetts, have largely endowed colonial bishoprics, have been grievously misdirecta There seems, however, no doubt that Bishop Colenso can be brought to trial under the same conditions as the vicar of Frome. The Bishop's work on the Penta teuch was published in the diocese of London no less than Mr. Bennett's essay on " The Church and the World." The Bishop himself would probably throw no obstacle in the way of a fair judicial inves tigation. TIIE PIMACIIING SEM On The London preaching season is now in full force. Bishops, being mortals, have a lively appreciation of the amenities of the metropolis during the spring; and probably more than half of the bishops who are not impotent are now in town. They make good use of their Sundays by preaching in behalf of various charities, or for their friends who have not yet advanced beyond the second clerical order. On Sunday three archbishops and a large number of bishops held forth at various churches. The Bishop of Derry, the foremost orator of the Irish Church, preached at Westminster Abbey, to an enormous congregation ; but though there were eloquent passages in the sermon, it did not come up to the high expectations which Bishop Alexander's fame had excited. At the Temple Church the Bishop of Peterborough preached to- a cong,regation - which contained a large number of notabilities, including the Speaker, Lord Grinvil t .e, p M r r e . ac l i i i a eti rd a y t , adkillddel‘rnTri.atalit.i(rhyv , e O ll l . l tThhee excellenciesß i Bishop ofOoxff the e e l Church Liturgy. TURNING TIIE TAMES. The harvest festival of the Rev. Alan Greenwell. at I Inydock, in Lancashire, willberemembered because of the appearance of a pig's head among the offerings. Great was the outcry excited by that unlucky gift of the peasant who in the fullness of Iris heart gave of his substance, and never dreamed of the notorie! y that his act would bring upon his villag e . Ai r Greenwell shortly afterwards resigned h's cure and was succeeded by a Mr. Sherlock. Ili( gentleman has given great offence to his parishioners because he has abandoned some of the Ritual practised by his-predecessor. One of th( churchwardens has presented his vicar to the Arch deacon on the ground that the vicar w ou ld not weal the "legal eucharistic vestments." A.rehdeacor Jones declined to give the required admonition. Ar appeal is now being made to the Bishop of Chester and the churchwarden declares that he will, if neces sary, carry the matter into the Court of Arches. Clearly it is the Church militant which we have her( en earth. I,IE. ACLAND, M.P., ON TEE FRIENLs OF Tll CI:UT:Cir. Mr. Adana was one of the guests at the festival 01 St. Mark's Training College, Chelsea. In the course of his remarks the member for North Devon said " they had heard that these were times full of clanger and difficulty—times in which the Church had tc encounter (as they were often told) hostility ane treachery ; but he would say to the young mer before him, ' Do not believe that the cause of the Church depends upon any particular party in the country. Use your common sense and con.mor judgment, and do not believe that those who appeal hostile to the Church, awl are perhaps compelled tc take a course which wears that aspect, may not, after all, be some of the warmest-hearted and most earncsi of Churchmen.'" Wise words these, and partial.• . larly needed just now. BETTING AND LOTT EWES. The sober-minded valio_will be glad to hear THE SUN, 10N.69N, TUESDAY - I(L'irliNtNo, APRIL _• 21,_ 1869 the revived energy at .'Scotland Y arcs. I-or time' betting " specs," as they are called, have beet allowed to defy the law and cheat the public. Al these are now about to be put doWn. Ihe Star says " An order has been privately issued to prosecute al persons found dealing in specs' or sheaving spec bills. The detectives are hard at work getting 111 information, and when they have the :name; and addresses of persons who have sinneC against the law, the police intend to institute a whole series of prosecutions. None of those con cerned in the traffic of spec tickets are to be allowee to escape, and several hundred persons will be proze. ented. The police have resolved to put down the traffic with a strong hand. In about three wcchs time another series of prosecutions will be com menced, and the parties then assailed will be the agents on commission and the owners of betting . e' changes. These prosecutions will cause consider• able commotion amongst thousands of persons." 2russia and Austria . which raged so furiauslk a little while ago. The North German Gazette, the greatest sinner, it will be remembered, on the last occasion, has begun the campaign with a Perce attack upon Count Beast. .It lioVs him answerable for the publication of this despatch ; which is, indeed, a feasible assumption, fur - no doubt the Austrian Minister would be delighted to publish it. It accuses him of attempting to create dis trust of Prussia amongst the smaller States. And it winds up by charging him with seeking a quarrel, relying on the aid this time of the Hungarians and Sclaves. body have generally suffered from the late cold weather. One of Nit - master Cresswell's first acts was to remove Andrew Johnson (junior) of Green ville, Tennessee, lately of Iv a - shington, from the Special Agency of the Post-office Department. He ,had been collecting Post-office funds in the South for some months. The President is said to regard Mr. Butler as leader of the House, and although Butler changed his opinions on the Reconstruction Bill, adopting those of the President, still there is generally believed to be an understanding be tween them on the leading measures. On Wednes day a delegation from the Philadelphia Society of Friends had an interview with Gen. Grant in rela tion to the managementoflndian aff air;,proposiu g the Superintendent of Indian Affairs and his subordinates to be placed under their control. Colonel Parker, the Indian officer, lately on General Grant's Staff, has been appointed Indian Agent, and will work well with the Quakers. It is generally under stood in Washington that Secretary Fish does not favour annexation schemes, and is opposed to in terference in Cuba and to the annexation of St. Domingo. Annexation policy is iu his opinion a mistake, but it is known that the question of Cuban independence was discussed at a Cabinet meeting before a full attendance. Whether we cheat less or have less conscience than you Britishers I cannot tell, but our Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges less " Conscience Money" than the English Chan cellor of the Exchequer. He has just got, how ever, asloo bill from Providence, New Jersey, the sender addressing it to Mr. Fisb, Secretary of the Treasury; another letter contained one dollar and a half in revenue stamps from Pennsylvania. In the election case from the Twenty•first District of Pennsylvania, where the Election Committee de cided that John Covoda had a prima facie right to the seat, the House has ordered the whole subject to be recommitted, with instructions to report on the mer;ta of 771 E NORTH AMEI?ICAN UNION. (From the Anglo-American Times) The New York Mtune, which is considered to indicate the policy of the Government at Washing ton, unfolds in a series of articles on Canada, one reason for the rejection of the Alabama Convention. The dominant idea of the Republican party is 11111 •on which appears to strengthen as its extreme wing is neared. It is known that England sets no mate rial value on the Canadas, that they are to her a loss and a danger, provocative of a war which could only end in their conquest, supplying, not a British field for emigration, but a channel to the United States. Nor is the conne c ti on o f any real value to the Dominion, for the provinces a s of being s what they gain in the dignity andrespect lose portions of the British Empire; while the imperial expenditure on their defence is insufficient compen sation for the risk arising from an overwhelming rower along their borders, being made invaders by an act they cannot co n t ro l , of another m would ent be ef more the D t o e m t country. Whether the establish Dominion ° a n d v a a s natn n t ll l.t i a i h w e absorption ba ve i n n e t o d t e h n e b Union t i a i s u g d a e e of p ri e ti n t e l d l s the petrno about it does not here enter into our subject. The Tribune, arguing that union would be a gain both to the mother country and to the colony, concludes that it would be sound policy for England to sug gest the separation, and settle all disputes now pend ing with the Republic on that basis. The pre cedent of international law established by England is at last seen by British merchants to be the most injurious ever set by a nation against its own secu rity. If a cruiser can go fully commissioned, armed, and equipped from the ports of neutral Powers to seize and destroy the ships of a belligerent, actin,' as its own Prize Court, and burning at sea the cap tured vessel it condemns, a law will be in operation which cannot fail some day to be fatal (0 England's commerce. Now England's commerce is her life ; with it untouched she is chief among nations ; cut it off and she collapses, her wealth dwindles, her people starve, and she sinks to a position in accord ance with the tenitorial extent of the kingdom. To obliterate such a precedent, which a moment of madness allowed her to sanction, has, and will more become, as this is better unders . ood, an object of vital importance. Those who have watched the progress of the dispute are aware of the truth of our assertion. From the days when members cheered Mr. LAIRDS proud boast in the house, to those when England heard with concern the rejection of the CLAREN DON-JOHNSON Convention, there has been a mighty change, and that mainly grounded on the know ledge becoming general that never was there such an instance of a man dwelling in a glass house bringing stone-throwing into fashion. Columbia, aware of the strength of her position finds that it suits her purpose to keep the dispute open, but we ima gine the Senate had an ulterior object with which they connected that dispute when they rejected the treaty for its settlement. To Senator SUMNER has been attributed, as we before observed, some remarkable articles in the Tribune, and he is the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as the Senate's instructor and guide on those affairs. In these articles he associated the settle ment of the claims, the remodelling of the inter national code, and a firm and lasing alliance be tween the nations, with the voluntary withdrawal of the sovereignty of England from British America. Is it :not probable that Mr. SUMNER advised the Senate when discussing this question not to accede to any settlement until England was prepared to concede that which, however valuable to the United States, was really of no value to her? The tendency and tone of the American papers is to exaggerate the wrong, and the injury dose to the Republic through English sympathy with the rebellion, yet to reject every means suggested for the compensation of those injuries, and to such an extent are both car ried, that in Europe they arc ascribed to sentiment and pettishness. Here Columbia is represented as a spoilt child, roaring over some fancied wrong, declaring she will not be good, she will not kiss and be friends, she will not take the cakes and jam, bat that she will pinch and slap to her heart's content hereafter. Now it is just possible that Miss M COLUMBIA maybe playing a very sly game. Mr. SU NER is a leader of the extreme Republican party ; union, as we before said, is the grand idea of that party ; for it, the war was fought, for it hundred's of thousands fell, and hundreds of millions were expended ; but so strong is the sentiment in the Northern mind that the party strikes a sympathetic cord even when boastingly alluding to the sacrifices made to preserve the Union. Consider then the triumph to this party if they could make that very war waged for severance not merely the means of strengthening the bonds which bind it, but extending that union over the whole continent. The weapons were still red in the bands of the Northern soldiers when the attempt to founds Latin counterpoise on the Continent was sternly forbidden, and the first foreign fruits of Northern triumph was the with drawal of foreign soldiers from Mexico, leaving it a mere satrapy of the Union. But another attempt to establish a nationality has been in progress on the Continent in the Dominion, threatening a more seri ous impediment to the darling American idea of unity. What if the Republicans can accomplish the absorp tion of the Canadas through an incident of that war, carrying its objects to their legitimate dnd, for it was fought on the defeated side for the sove reignty of States, and would then result in one con tinental dominion. Nothing could more bring home the scope of what was contended for, the grandeur of the object, and the fuluess of the success. This is what is necessary to complete the war, making on has , nation every citizen feel th a t, however great hi s sacr i f i ces the magnitu le of the g a i n ma k es them small, and the party under whose auspices the achieved so ranch will be domitrtut in the. Union during the present generation, and hand a great name down to posterity. The Tribu ne cons i ders that such a course on the part of England would open a new dawn of real friendship between the countries, based upon common interest and mutual honour ; a voluntary and magnanimous reparation having obliterated the memory of a mighty wrong, gravea d e buried slavery an d ravagestbe reb ellion. ' of said BRIGHT, in contrast t o th e Confederate success, " another and a brighter vision before my gaze ; it * We wonder why th_e, Tribune always calls these wretched wooden privateers "ironclads." TILE PUBLISHERS AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM. There is a wise law in operation concerning the British Museum, which enacts that publishers of any works whatsoever shall send one copy to the librilry there. If this rule were carried out no publishes would feel the burden, and all England would be benefited. We are reasonably proud of the library and the more complete we can _make it the better But it is a well-known fact that publishers de not obey the law. The more eminent music publishers have long ago ceased altogether tc send their works. Is there no one to look after this matter ? There is also another theory which Mr. Ayrton told to the House on Friday night that newspapers were sent to the Inland Revenue and from thence to the national collection. But here . also the law fails in some way. Newspapers which, under the Stamp A c t, mus t h ave b een sent tc the office of the Inland Revenue, are now probably stuffed in some . of the back rooms of Somers& House. At any rate, the British Museum authorities know nothing of them. TEE BROAD AND NARLOW GAUGES. The battle of the gauges is over. In the fighl between Stephenson and Brunel, the genies of the North lies triumphed over the man of many defeats, and has added another to the list of failures already so large. The Oreat 'Western has p;:ver in at last, and, in the place of the expensive broad gauge, they are laying down the more con venient narrow gauge. As regards the Midland ds triets of England, the broad gauge is already a thin!: of the pest. Since the lst inst. the G rent Western 11 is if way Compnny have ceased to run any broad gauge passenger trains between London and Birmingham oi Wolverhampton. Travellers between London and' Shrewsbury or the North have no longer to change carri3ges either at Wolverhampton or Binning-11pm the trains now running between Paddington and Birkenhead on the narrow gauge without any change whatever. Already, too, on the branch betweer Reading and Basingstoke, the third rail has been re moved, thus converting that line from a mixed gauge info an entirely narrow gauge line, and connecting the Great Western system with the London and South-Western Railway and the South of England In addition to this, the whole of the broad. gauge lines north of Oxford will immediately be taken up, removing in the Midland counties the last trace of the system. THE REWARD OF BRAVERY. Is the Royal Humane Society in want of money that it can afford neither a gold, nor even a silver medal ? We are compelled to suppose so when WE find that it has awarded only a bronze medal to Mr. West, of the ltit't Middlesex, whc w gallantly plunged into the sea during the hurricane at the rover and saved a brother volunteer Illicit he w7-s at the last g:lsp. 11 anyone dcerved the gold mi_dal, Mr. West certainly deserved it. DTATIIKENNEES IN TIIE ARMY. A general order has just been issued from the Horse Guards, deliug with drunk ennt s 3 in the army. The offence is to be punished by flues increasing in amount according to the frequency of the offence. There is a right of appeal to a court martial. TI e following is the scale of fines :—" First and second acts, admonition or confinement to barracks, at the discretion of the commanding oflicer. For every subsequent act of drunkenness, if within three months of a former act, 7s. 6d.; if over three and within six months, es.; if over six and within nine months, 2s. ed.; if over nine and within twelve months, company entry ; if over twelve montlits, to be treated as the first act; when the four preceding acts have been committed in twelve months, 2s. ed. to be added to the foregoing scale. The fines to be levied in colonial corps (the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment excepted) will in each case be one-half the amounts above specified, and the maximum daily stoppage is to be 2d." In one part of the order the curious provision occurs that "all defaulters are to be permitted to enter the canteen during certain g t t e o r p w a o y rd a s , s r •h e I f e o for a b in e h a tg li s ru s i t e, fixedeh fjourrst.l"nwl-ilnliio) he 111: - .y go into the canteen and s p en d hi s money i n getting drunk again. Or, to put it in anothe r form, the man who is still undergoing punishment for having y!elded to tempt • t -on, is, the wisdom of the Ilona Guards, to be exposed to temptation a second time. FOREIGN NOTES. THE CONSPIRACY AT MILAN. The plot discovered at Milan was got up by Mazzioians. According to the rersertranza, it was very skilfully arranged. The conspirators had been divided into sections and subdivisions, Milan being only one of the principal centres. Revolvers and Orsini bombs had been dis tributed. It was agreed that at dawn on a certain day the discharge of a number of bombs should be the signal for the rising at Milan to commence ; all the principal civil functionaries and military authorities were to be arrested as the first step, in the hope that the police and soldiers would be powerless without leaders. A considerable number of the conspirators have been captured, including not a few army officers of the lower grades. Letters by Mazzini have been found on some of these individuals. What chance of success the Mazzinians anticipated it is not easy to divine ; but it is evident that, at all events, a serious attempt was meditated. The Italian papers express much dissatisfaction at the conduct of the Swiss Government in harbouring Mazzini and his accomplices within its territory. According to one letter, General Menabrea had addressed an " energetic note" to the Government at Berne demanding the expul sion of the Mazzinians from the canton of Ticino. The Italian Government, it is said, will even blockade the canton if satisfaction be not given. CRISIS IN PORTUGAL The news from Portugal is vague, mysterious, and dis turbing. " Fresh insurrections," we are told, "quickly re pressed, break out every day in the army." Nothing is said as to the nature or extent of these outbreaks, but it is clear that the country is in a very unsettled state. The King has called the Duke of Saldanha to take the Presi dency of the Council, with the portfolio of foreign affairs. But this state.smtn declines to face tLe situation. Ile excuses himself on the ground that he is too old, and that the difficulties which await the Government require prompt and energetic measures. TIIE SPANISH THRONE. • At a recent sitting of the Cortes, Sefior Zorilla told the Republican minority that the refusal of Dom Fernando had not left the Government without resource. They still had a candidate. This is believed to be Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, elder brother of Prince Charles of Roumania, and brother-in-law of the King of Portugal. In no way is he connected with the Bourbon family. DIPLOMATIC DISCLOSULISS. The career of the admirable Mr. Benjamin Higgs is not the only case which may serve to point the moral that nothing is so damaging to success as too close inquiry into the means by which it is attained. The Prussian war of 1866 was a striking triumph, but unfortunately for the credit of Count Bismarck and his royal master, all their fine schemes are now being detailed to the world in black and white. A few months ago the publication of the famous Usedom despatch, in which Count Bismarck laid d own a sc heme by which Prussia and Italy were to achieve the utter ruin of Austria, was the source of infinite annoyance to the Prussian statesmen. Count Bismarck was obliged, for decency's eake, to disavow the document—a task to which he address , d himself under the pleasing consciousness that nobody would believe him. A still more mortifying disclosure has just been made. The other day we gave the substance of a despatch ad dressed by Count Bismarck to the Prussian Ambassador at Paris. This creditable communication was sent by telegraph in cypher, _but the Austrians " milked" the wires, and discovered the key to the cypher. The despatch is to be published in tl:e fourth volume of the great work on the war by the Austrian staff, but it has bten given in advance by the New Free Pros. In it Count Lien rtrck informs the Ambassador that King Wiliiam cared little or nothing about a North German Confederation. What he wanted was annexation—Conquest in the good old style. Tie would not consent to make peace without substantial additions to Prussian territory. And yet King William had re peatedly assured the world, at Wiesbaden and in ITanover, that he never intended to deprive his brother German sovereigns of their crowns. He followed these sincere protests by the declaration that he would rather abdicate than return from the campaign without conquest. NVell might the French journals copy this despatch with openly. manifested glee ; well may the Prussian papers protest against its publication. The assurance that the unity of Germany means, in King William's phraseology, unity under Prussia, is not likely to gratify the Southern States. PAPER WAR. As might have been expected, this revelation has been the signal for a reoue_ning 91 the journalistic strife between. OUR INDIAN POLICY. Everything passed off well at the meeting of Lord Mayo and the Ameer Sher° Ali. Never has such a "durbar" been held before. Judging from the accounts, it seems a mistake to say that the proceedings were con ducted " regardless of expense," for the masters of the ceremonies have apparently been anxious to get rid of as much money as the occasion could possibly warrant. So lavish was the outlay that the Times of India bluntly calls it sheer waste. The Ameer reached Umballa on the 24th of March, and Lord Mayo arrived on the 27th, the troops forming a line two miles in length from the railway station to the camp. In the afternoon the grand durbar was held. Lord Mayo welcomed Shere Ali in a short speech, trusting that the visit would be the commence ment of many years of amity between her Majesty and th e ru l er o f Affghanistan. Shere Ali's reply came up to the usual princely standard of oratory. Then came off the return durbar, given Ly Shere Ali. On the 30th took place a review—one of the finest ever held in India. Lord and Lady Mayo were present on horseback ; the Viceroy was mounted on the national elephant. Again everything passed off successfully. The Ameer was delighted, but apparently his pleasure was not without alloy. Despondingly he is said to have remarked that he had not seen a handsome man within the boundary of British India. De gustibus, &c. This review took place at six in the morning, and at eleven the Viceroy held a levee, and at four His Excel lency had a private conversation with the Ameer. Nothing is known reppecting what took place; but the Times of India says " it may be regarded as certain that, whatever Shere Ales wishes may have been, no treaty or definite engagement vas made. It has probably been con• sidered sufficient .for the present to assure the Ameer of the friendly disposition of the British Government, and to prove it by useful aid in arms and money." The Times of India, notwithstanding its grumbling at the expense, believes that the meeting will improve our rela tions with Affghanistan, and perhaps other Asiatic peoples. And this seems probable. A telegram from Bombay states that all Shere Ales rivals have disappeared from Affghan territory, that he is greatly elated at the result, and ascribes it to the Umballa meeting. A NOBLE CAPTAIN. A correspondent of the Daily News records a gallant deed by Lord Kerr, commander of the English warship Hercules. Whilst at Lisbon, the other day, a sailor fell from the rigging into the water, striking his head against a boom. The man was stunned, and would have perished in the water. Lord Kerr gave the order customary on board a ship -of-war when the cry " Man overboard!' was raised, but for the moment no one stirred, then in a twinkling he stripped off coat and vest and plunged into the river, succeeding in holding the man up until assist ance came, (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, April 10. A grand military.ball was given by the Seventh Regiment on Thursday, the most brilliant of the season. Very shortly a magnificent hotel and opera house to cost $1,000,000 will be commenced between Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets on Broadway, by Mr. S. 111. Pike, which will make the third in this city. The Fire Marshal says that last month there were 79 fires in New York, 12 of which were caused by carelessness, 5 by explosion of kerosene lamps, 3 by upsetting of the same, 3 by children playing with matches, 3 by spontaneous. combustion, 1 by explosion of chemicals, 1 of in cendiary origin, and the rest unknown. Total loss on buildings, $64,790 ; stock, $237,390 ; in all, V 02,180. Total insurance, $982,260. Trade is very bad, money awfully tight, things having ar rived at a point which causes real alarm. The country banks are drawing largely on ours, which are by no means in' a position to meet the drafts, and exchange has ;one up to a price which pays to import gold fr. m Europe. The ships are accumu lating at our wharves. Last Saturday the number was 549, of which 80 were steamers, 73 ships, 145 barks, 162 brigs, and 89 schooners. Owners say freights barely cover expenses, nevertheless the real estate mania continues, though there have been signs of is breaking. The railroal ticket agents had a great meeting at the St. Nicholas Hotel, to adjast the freights and passenger rates between the West and the seaboard. Forty-seven delegates were present, ineucling 11. W. Gwinner, of the Pennsylvania Railroad; I). M. Boyd, jun., Philadelphia and Erie ; G. A. B idinan, Wilmington, and Ba!tintore ; and 'l'. N. Raus kin, of the New Jersoy Railroad Company. The result of their deliberw.ions will soon be known. So will the investigations of the commissioners ap pointed to look after the bridge at East River. It is believed that the bridge would be in the way if the shipping business was done by clippers as for merly, but as it is not, slight inconvenience only, it is thought„ will result. • Me Spirit notifies its sub scribers that when they receive the paper in a blue wrapper, the time for sending in subscriptions will have arrived. It says that great things are expected in the coming yacht season in the contention between European and American yachtsmen. A fine new schooner, built for Mr. George Lorillard, was launched during the Week from the yard of Messrs. C. and R.. Poillon, who built the Sappho:- The new vessel is called the Meteor, and she follows the favourite American model, having a length on deck of 120 feet and 27 feet beam, to 9 feet 9 inches depth of hold. Senor Mauricio Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister to the United States, and P. D. de Rivera of the Spanish Legation, are at the Albe marle Hotel. WASHINGTOY, April 9. Mrs. Grant commenced her receptions at the White House last Tuesday afternoon, and intends to continue them on that day. Her unfortunate husband had had a tooth extracted, and being sur rounded and beset by oflice•seekera was not pre sent, but Mrs. Grant was aided by Mrs. Senator Williams, and the attendance was very large. The Secretaries are trying to decapitate long-winded bores, and it would indeed be a blessing could they succeed. Secretary Boric has published a notice asking his visitors to stick to business. The Su preme Court intends to hold a session during the months of . October, November, and December, then to adjourn over the holidays to the Ist of February, when the Court will hold another session of three month& If the bill to reorganize the Court;nowpend ing, becomes a law, the periods and times above mentioned will thenceforth be a permanent arrange ment. Mr. Joh n J ay is here, and is said to have declined the mission to Austria, while his friends are pushing him for that to England. It is rumoured that the President has telegraphed to Mr. Reverdy Johnson to resign, and the belief is general that Mr. Motley, who is also here, will be his successor. General Sickles has refused the mission to Mexico. The Finance Minister of that country, Senor Romero, is on his way to Washington on a special mission, to ask for money, I suppose, as that is what Juarez seems most to need. General Stoneman is also in Washington, but leaves immediately for Key West, where his regiment, the 12th Infantry, are to go instead of to California as before ordered. His successor in the command of Virginia, Gen. Webb, is turning out Stoneman's nominees by the 'dozen. Mr. John Davenport bas been in Washington work ing on behalf of the Union League of New York for the re-appointment of the Committee on the New York election frauds. Longstreet is here, as well as Magruder, who is delivering lectures on Maximilian and Mexico. Gen. Itosecrans, it is rumoured, will be recalled, at. the request of the Mexican Govern trinit, who have made charges against him. Gen. Whittaker is looking a ft-r the Hartford postmaster ship. General G. K. Wan en has returned from investigating the Union Pacific Railroad. Charles M. Wilder has been confirmed by the Senate as the Columbia Postmaster on a salary of $2,300. His appointiw nt is remarkable as being the first negro end ex-slave who has obtained such a post, and South Carolina has the honour of receiving the coloured postmaster. Frederick Douglas has been pushed for the Haytien Mission, for which a strong party are bent on nominating au African ; but be says he would not accept the appointment if tendered. .Laroche is expected here to act as Ministe r for th t t island. Mrs. Thorton has been very ill with a sore throat; indeed the 'diplomatic may be a vision, but I will cherish it. I tee one vast Confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line . to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people and one language, and one law and one faith, and over all that wide Continent, the home of freedom for the oppressed of every race and of every clinic." JOHN BRIGHT is the most representative English man alive, and what his mind's-eye saw with enthu siasm ought not to alarm his countrymen. No other principle is better established than that the one thrives in the success of all. The wealth of pro duction developed in America is a source of gain to Europe, and if Africa, instead of being a dead continent, poured the riches nature hasstored therein over the world, the world would benefit in a secon dary degree only to Africa. In the remarkable article in the Edinburgh Review, of which we have elsewhere given au outline, the writer appears to conclude that the prosperity of the Republic, if it continues to be prosperous, will be attained, not in 4 consequence of, but in spite of, its institutions. But a glance at the world ought to have taught the reviewer that out of Europe the Union stands alone in its prosperity, in wealb, and civili zation, though other nations own territories as exten sive, and even more gifted by nature. While from the Rio Grande southward to Cape Horn, igno rance, poverty, and lawlessness prevail, so as to throw them out of the pale—northward we have a comparison. Can the reviewer explain why the line of the St. Lawrence and the British boundary is marked on the one side by progress, material pros perity, and corn-fields, and on the other by stag nation and the primeval forest? Can he explain the rcaeon of the exodus from Canada into the United States, which is now creating such astonish ment and even dismay? No; while we grant the cor ruption, we contend that there has never been such ny, ;eats nee of i , "cm.wt growth, and we conclude that to those who have effected so much may safely he left the destinies of the Continent. IF, then, Eng ' land, even more than other countries, would benefit by American prosperity, and that prosperity can be advanced by the absorption into the Union of the British Provinces, BRIGHT'S picture should be seen by England as seen by him. While advocating the end, we object, if our surmise be true, to the means. The Alabama question has nothing to do with the withdrawal of British sovereignty from America. The subject, if openly approached, has a much better chance of success than as tacked to a threat and a bribe. No country aspiring to a leading place, and which valued the national honour, could consent to barter away its territory for security except on compulsion after defeat. Nor is the treaty—though termed the Alabama Convention— for the settlement of the claims arising from the ravages of the cruisers only ; fer British subjects also have bills for damages. Yet, it is true, that in the spirit which actuates the community is to be found the real difficulties to a settlement, or facility in arriving at an amicable solution ; and from such a withdrawal, would ensue in the feelings it would engender, among numerous other benefits, the obli teration of a dangerous precedent, and the remo delling of international law. The article in the Tribune which called forth the preceding remarks was suggested by what it termed " a significant article of the Anglo-American Times." While thanking our great American contemporary for its flattering allusion to us, we note in it a pecu liarity of American jou' nalism. The Tribune is not content with saying that we arc an " able London paper," but begins speculating on who is its editor. In America, the editor is the spirit ; the journal, mere paper. In England, the journal is the spirit; the editor, a myth. If the journal be a power, the editor in this loses some personal importance, but the weight in society taken frcm himself is thrown with a multiplying effect into the scale with the journal. When one meets an apparently stupid man in society, and is informed that he is the edi tor of " au able London paper," the respect formerly entertained for that organ is subjected to a severe trial. Henceforth it is associated with whatever peculiarity or defect was observable in the indivi dual, even after he is buried. 110 R ICE GREELEY, of the Tribune ; RAYMOND, of the New York Times; and BENNErr of the Herald are like the chiefs of clans, and they always come up, as in Seothind, associated with that ilk. Indeed, as there where names are merged in the estate, they are merged in the papers, or rather the papers in them ; at any r ite the two being so associated as to be almost inseparable. Now, if asked who is the edi tor of the / 3 a// Mall Ga:ette ? we would reply, we neither knew nor cared ; not havi❑g even the remotest idea, and being content with our igno t ranee. Who writes the Echo ? and our answer would be " Echo ;" yet the editor of this rising young paper, so largely circulated in London, holds a most responsible position. We know that Mr. WALTER is the principal owner of the Times, and if the magnificent house he is building in Berkshire is to be taken as a test, his share can be no small thing. Although we lately saw the information in an American paper, we have no notion who own or write the Daily News, Standard, Stir, or Telegraph, notwithstanding that the gentlemen who control these powerful organs of opinion exercise more in fluence in the country than perhaps any other men in it. Would they exercise more, if each journal became as intimately associated with its chief edi tor as is the case in America ? Certainly not, nor anything approaching it, for it is the abstraction that conveys much of the power; the mystery that gives weight to the oracle ; the very fact of its want of association with any individual on whom the imagination can fix it. No men can better tell this than the leading article writers of the Times. To them it must be intense amusement to enter society and hear their own thoughts reproduced, indeed their very words, as the utterer's own, while perhaps setting the spoken words of the writer aside with su percilious disdain. This must constantly occur, and owe of these journalists could give most amusing narratives of their experiences. But if the article were associated with the writer, not even the Times could save it from losing vastly in import ance. At the same time that the knowledge would elevate the writer in the opinion of those with whom he came in contact, it would be out of proportion with the heavy cost to the jour nal. In England, therefore, editors wisely prefer to merge their individuality into their papeis, existing so far as a mere abstraction. Another advantage in this is, that in shielding it from personalities, it elevates the profession. Angry men, with pens in their hands and a journal to give publicity to what they write, will often say what they wish to recall in their calmer mood. It is not because of opinion that men get annoyed with each other, but on ac count of the personalities imported into the con troversy. But these could not be introduced unless the arguments were connected with individuals. Hence one good reason for not allowing them to be so connected. A man can never write with an untrammelled pen ori such questions as occupy journalism, if the public know who the writer is. What pleasant scenes we shoald have in drawing rooms, if, say, the Pall Mall critic was brought face to face with the lady author ; nor would it tend to make a dinner:table ageeable, if the writer of a severe animadversion on the speech or conouct of another of the guests, was at the table. The consequence of American editors photographing all their pages with themselves, is bitter personality, and often tragical quarrels. In France this effect is only less because the Press is shackled, while in America it is as free as air. A Look more funny than any " Joe Miller" could be compiled by simply esthering what the editors say of each other in the . Sta!es. We will just cast a glance through a tile of a❑ American paper for an iustance. —here is the result : ^ " A Missouri editor speaks thus of one of his brethren of the press The poor, old, dilapidated piece of flesh and bones who hangs himself out every week in the Jack son Standard, and who, by common consent, was consi dered the jackass of the Editorial Union, has rattled his old skeleton at us.'" Ha! ha! ha! not bad that, as a sample, and we are thankful to the kind chance which has so helped us in our illustration. Although the chiefs of the great American metropolitan papers have made their names celebrated by associating them inti mately with such widely circulated organs of opinion, yet they are constantly subjected either to venom ous attacks, or to impertinent familiarities. Indeed people get so much into the habit of speaktog . IlonAcE GREELEY that no one ever t hi n k so f putting " Mr." before his nmic. " Shake hands IIoRACIt',. writes GEORGE FR A NC IS TRAIN, " and do not do it again." The truth is, that Americans, notwilb" s!auding their Republican principles, perhaps more covet individual distinction than any other people. If they cannot bear titles (by the way, wherever they can they do, either of army or navy rank, or the degrees conferred by universities) they seek to make their names known among their fellow' citizens, and some do astonishing things for the sake of a momentary notoriety. There is a prying curiosity too in American journalism which drags forth everything into the light of day. Like paw n ; brokers in the .North of China, w hil e a i r ing turning their old clothes, they are shouting then' for inspection and sale; there is no washing of that linen at home, nor anywhere else but ill t he thronged market place. Although English jour' nalists might know little or nothing of their brethren editi ng p a p ers c l ose b y, all their i ns and outs," as BUTLER says, ate known iu New For k ' and if any on e o f th em w i s h es to ha hi s his domesti c history toll and all his peccadilloes exposed, 118 must manage to give offence to a lENNETf, or $ RAYMOND, or a GREELEY, and one of the reporters will follow along his trail from his birh up to the time of publication. AMERICAN POLICY TOWARDS CUBA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Curl has been writing some sensational non sense about the attitude of the United Sta te ; towards Cuba, of whi c h th e d a il y papers ava iled themselves for the cat c h penny h ea di ngs with which the streets were placarded. Had the much la ter intelligence from Am er i ca t h an t h e l etter on vibieh the Owl grounds it s assert i ons b een looked t h r ong' , - they would have seen that 4 , GR ANT h a d -not run mad ;" that " th e f ee li ng against E n gland and ,„"' France and Sp a i n " was not b e i ng worked UP Congress and in the public press ; and it is . sinalNY . untrue that GRANT and hi s f r i en d s ar d ent l y long for a foreign war. How can the limes repro:la c° such a hooting as this ? " The entire fee l ' ing pervading the high officials is one of ba t :, red to England, and to France in a less degree' The Secretary of State, a well travelled, educated, moderate and conciliatory man of sense, and Senate r SUMNER, work Foreign Affairs at Washingto n ; Those who know them are aware of the falsehood marking a paragraph which has been copied iot cy almost every English paper, and it is lamentable that such stuff should be believed in Europe' General Creaez - r, like all generals who have se en most of war, hates it. He knows that it has bee n the indirect means of breeding a dangerous ne t ' ruption in the Union which will require a v ei l, strong and combi ne d e ff ort to eradicate, and be ': aware that this is not to be accomplished withou t producing a con vu l s i on, except by a handling both skilful and vigoro us . It i s as untrue also 03t • his advisers desire war, as that the feeling of the high officials is one of hatred to Englan d ' Why three of the highest are Massachusetts me n ' and a Massachusetts man inspires the foreig n t policy at Washington, while another will represen the United States at the British Court. The par a. graph would not deserve an answer, had it not boa copied so extensively, and furnished these sensation headings. The real position as regards Cuba 0 a 5 4. One,. when the m a il l e ft on th e 10th inst., of dou b t and uncertainty. Many American journals denie d even the existence of a revolution in Cuba. 1:11 „ 8 New York Time s wr i tes t h at an English gentleno: had ridden throu g h th e i s l and in search o f tb rebellion, but at each v ill age i t was d ec lared to be a few mil es f urt h er off ; that be n ever came up with it ; eventually arriving at Hava n a : nah without seein g a s h o t fi re d . Anot h er lea ing Republican paper suspects that the Cab. revolution, revolution, like the I r i s h R epu bli c, i s quarter ed l 0 New York ; that most o f th e m ili tary oper ation s , are carried on in the nei g hb our h oo d o f t he Ci* Hall. The 7 ribmie, in an article on the 10th / 115t1 answers these sneers, describes the physical fool; tion of the island, an d s h ows that it is impossib for the insur gen t s t o carry o n regular military °Pe:, rations there though they hold the interior. GRAS I. policy has been distinctly pronounced—vigorou s ly to protect the resident American ci t i ze ns, and a: vigorously to suppr ess th e expe di t i ons f i tting out in the United St a t es i n a id of the insurgents. '5 prepare f or b ot h Admiral lIoFF's fleet b n , been greatly strength ene d, an d b y a t e legra; from Washi n gt on l as t M on d ay we learn be to be reinforc e d by e i g ht more steamers txonyt, ing 77 guns. 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