The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC .701.1NAL8. The Daily News says that Lancashire is going through one of those trying and critical experiences which belong to the lot of the prosperous and the great. She has been a long time in the school of trouble, and is be gi nning to be anxious for the holidays. She has learned all the sweet uses of adversity except the last, and the last is almost too hard a lesson. Philosophers and poets, moralists and divines, all agree in telling us that the chief use of trial and difficulty is that it drives us back upon our principles. Those principles are secure enough when all goes well with us, but as soon as things go wrong there are sure to be tempters enough about, who mock our fidelity and ask us what we think of our principles now. This is the case with the great, busy, prosperous district which taught Free Trade to England. But even in this time of trotble Lancashire seems to be quite firm enough in its principles to fall back on them. The two Liberal members for Oldham were speaking on Saturday night in the very heart of the cotton district, but neither they nor their hearers had any mistrust of Free Trade. Grant that the depression of trade is a thing not easy to explain; there is still no reason to doubt the whole principle on which their trade has been developed and increased. Neither Mr. Hibbert nor Mr. Platt made much of the neo-Pro tectionist argument, but Mr. Platt at least took the trouble to refute it by reminding his hearers that the very same depression which troubles Lancashire troubles all other countries, and is common to Free Trade and Protec tionist principles alike. Lancashire has no reason to be , afraid, and the rest of England is not likely to be called on to witness any reaction in that county towards the exploded fallacies of Protection. It knows how, in a time of depression, to fall back upon its principles, for it feels with Mr. Hibbert that, come objection to those principles from what quarter it may, there is no doubt of their sound ness and of their final victory. The Post thinks it would be hard upon the Marquis of Hartington if his accidental and contingent position as a Cabinet Minister were to be held to neutralise his per manent and absolute position as the son and heir of one of the largest and most powerful territorial proprietors in Ireland. He has done wisely in deciding not to forego his natural functions for fear, in the course of their fulfilment, they should clash with his assumed ones ; and it is only just to say that the Cabinet Minister has separated his individualities with a distinctness that must satisfy the most captious politician. The object of the Government ought to be—as it may be hoped it will be—to place the conditions of agriculture in Ireland on such a footing as to encourage to the full the development of her resources so as to enable her to maintain her population on a scale of living not inferior, if possible, to that of the rest of the empire. Probably the true solution of the question is not to be found in any one system of farming by itself, and Lord Carnarvon may be nearly right in 1 inclining to look for it in a mixture of small, moderate, and large holdings. In England the tendency, ever since free trade has made its influence fully felt, has been to increase i and extend the system of large farms cultivated by great I capital ; and the numerous other channels open to smaller industry has prevented this circumstance squecz:ng tho minor men cut of social organisation. In Ireland, unfor tunately, there are no such channels, and the effect of placing the cultivation entirely in the hands of agricul turists of the type of Mr. Pollok, although it might pos sibly increase the yield of the soil, might leave a country such as Ireland absolutely without that middle class which every politician knows is one of the mainstays of society. The Herald thinks it is not surprising that the death of Bishop Phillpotts should have suggested itself as a suit able period for the revival of a question which has long been one of no ordinary interest in the two western coun ties of England--the propriety of dividing the see of Exeter. A memorial to Mr. Gladstone, setting forth the grounds of such a step, has been drawn up, and is at present in course of signature. The movement gathers additional significance and interest from the fact that, not many years ago, in the spirit of self-sacrificing energy for the Church's weal which characterised uniformly all his public acts, Dr. Phillpotts himself lent it the powerful assistance of his advocacy, and offered to surrender half his income as an endowment for the new prelacy. Those acquainted with that portion of England cannot be unaware that the inhabitants of Cornwall, who, by the way, aro especially sensitive in all matters affecting the prestige of their county, and ethnologically differ almost as widely from their Devonshire neighbours as the natives of Monmouth do from those of Macedon, regard it as one of their stand ing grievances that the most important and popular Cornish district is situated more than one hundred miles from the cathedral city of Exeter. The memo rialists declare that it is not their " wish to see any increase in the number of bishops in the House of Lords." We may ask what is the precise nature of the position which they are anxious that the Cornwall bishop should occupy, and is his spiritual lord ship of the future to stand in the relation of vassal or coadjutor to the senior prelate of Devon ? The whole subject is well worth consideration; and we may submit that a settlement of it would be much facilitated by pub licity being given to the ecclesiastical htatistics of Devon shire and Cornwall, so that the world in general might know more than it can be expected to know at presont of the position, work, and requirements of the Church in the two counties, The Star says that poor Major Waterhouse was a good deal bothered by his examination at Beverley on Satur day. The commissioners were to the last degree inquisi torial. They were somehow not quite satisfied with the Major's answers. They were distrustful almost to the verge of rudeness. And, moreover, they insisted upon prying with impertinent familiarity into his motives as well as his acts. Major Waterhouse is a brother-in-law of Sir Henry Edwards, and as, he sits for a Yorkshire borough, they formed a little family party of two in the House of Com mons. It was therefore only natural that the one gallant officer should be interested in the political misfortunes of the other gallant officer, and be prompt to offer his advice. We dare. say Major Waterhouse is a very good natured per son: We do not suppose ho thought he was doing much harm. He wished to oblige his relative and to serve his party ; but in reality he was doing neither. A few years ago and these tactics would probably have proved success ful. Mr. Cronhelm would have been spirited away, and perhaps half a dozen other essential witnesses into the bargain. But a marvellous change has taken place in the temper of the country. The people are disgusted with the corruption which has eaten into the very heart of their free institutions, and the commissioners appom • ted to drag the truth to light have caught a large measure of the popular spirit. This is ext r e me l y unpleasant to gentlemen in the position of Major Water house; but the wisest thing they can do is to make a clean breast of all that they know, to avoid everyth i ng like fencing with questions, and to keep their memories i n a state of preternatural activity. The Telegraph declares that all France is talking about the extra,or,rmary dovelopruenti of that terrible mystery known as "the Pantin massacre." From the Emperor himself, who converses with M. Pi6tri regarding it, to the workman who eagerly spends twenty-five centimes in buying the very latest news, the utmost anxiety is shown to ascertain the facts of the l'rthtful story. At Paris peo ple actually forget politics, bu: bless, i.lcasure, and take the trains to the scene of the wl olesale assassination ; while the newspapers snatch at every item of intelligence or conjecture bearing upon the ghastly affair, and treat their treaders to diagrams of the field of blood, pictures of the scenes, and represent:along, after the French mode, of the corpses as they lie at the Morgue. French methods of criminal procedure appear to act upon the consciences or the calculations of prisoners in a way so strangely and effectually extractive that any day may bring us a genuine and complete confession from Traup mann, which will make all clear. As our knowledge stands, the affair is not a murder, but a massacre ; and if it should turn out that the prisoner Traupmann slew eight victims with his own hand, his name will stand out with a fearful pre-eminence upon the annals of murder. In any event, the Pantin tragedy must still make us tremble at the atrocious degradation and .ferocity of which human beings • . • are capable. The Times is disposed to think, upon the whole, that tht chief lesson to be dravin from the cruise of the Admiralty is the superiority of the Monarch pattern to any other represented in the squadron: In most ordinary qualities she was as good as any other ship ; in steadiness she was far better. It not have been forgotten that on one occasion she was described as the only effective vessel in the entire fleet, and that under circumstances by no means exceptional or improbable. A very mode rate swell in fine weather sufficed to set the broadside vessels rolling so heavily that not one of them could have fought her guns, while the Monarch sat steadily on the water, and could, it is said, have steamed up at her pleasure and sent half the squadron to the bottom. This enormous superiority, being unqualified, as far as we are informed, by any material disadvantage, would appear almost to settle the questions between her type and that of tho Bellerophon or Agincourt; but then another question succeeds. Suppose a veuel with a still lower freeboard—that is to say, still more submerged than the Monarch—could be made equally seaworthy, might not she, in a still heavier gale, have just the same advantage over the Monarch that the Monarch had over the rest of this Admiralty Fleet ? She owed her superiority entirely . to the element or principle of the turret introduced into her construction ; what if that principle could be intro duced further, and with as much success ? If the experi ment were attempted, what should we obtain ? Should we get an improved Monarch, fit to knock all our broadsides to pieces, and even the Monarch herself ; or should we get another Scorpion, very powerful for offensive purposes, but unfit to go to sea at all ? That, in a few words, as illus trated by actual examples, is the great question now before the Admiralty and the couniiy; and we have directed attention to it especially because there is really no other question in naval matters on which so much depends. LAW AND POLICE. BELBMG A POLICEMAN.-At Marlborough-street Police court, on Monday, a clerk, named Stainforth, was charged with being drunk and assaulting a constable. The case was trifling in itself, but assumed a serious aspect from the prisoner, when taken into custody, having made an attempt to bribe the constable to set him at liberty. He denied this charge, but the magiatrate believed it and fined him 50s. or fourteen days' imprisonment. The fine was paid. SUNDAY GAMBLING.—At Worship-street, seven lads of ages varying from 14 to 18, were fined small sums for gambling in the street on Sunday. CASUAL PAUPERS.—Two young men, casual inmates of the Shoreditch workhouse, were on Monday charged with neglecting to perforM the task assigned them, and with setting fire to the oakum. The fire was said to be caused by a match used in lighting a pipe. The magis trates asked if the applicants were not searched on being admitted. The superintendent said they were but acknow ledged that the search was IRA a close one, as there were ninety casuals cn the occasion, and to search them properly would take the whole night. A notice against smoking was posted up, but three-fourths of the casual inmates were unable to read. The prisoners were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. THE MASSACRE AT PANTIN. The elucidation of the Pantin mystery proceeds slowly: but the excitement of the French public only gains strength by delay. Paris, says one writer, is mad about this crime. " The excitement caused in London by the most celebrated and sensational murders perpetrated in England in our day—such as the Manning or the Jenny affair—does not, if my memory serves me, anything like equal that which now here prevails. It is a passion, a rage, a fury, an insanity. Some of the papers fill their columns with scarcely anything else. Journalists and amateur detectives are travelling about the country, tracing out every circum stance connected wi,th the affair, visiting the places with which the victims and supposed murderers were connected, and writing down their minutest impressions and observa tions. Some of the papers which devote themselves most particularly to the topic declare that their sale has in creased by tens of thousands since the murder, and the statement is probably to a great extent true." Hundreds of people daily drive or rail out to the scene of the murder, and among them are a great number of ladies, not a few of them of the demi-monde, but also many persons of distinction. A paper says that on Thursday ladies were taking their luncheons on the grass, at the very place where the blood ' stains were discovered on Monday morning last, which led to investigation and to the disinterment of the mangled corpses. As there is no restaurant or pro vision merchant in the neighbourhood, it is presumable the ladies in question took their food out from Paris, in order to enjoy a sensational pie-nic on the very spot of the horrid butchery. On Friday there were also a great many visitors—ladies, - literary men, actors, and even a Russian prince—an exotic not very common in Paris at this season —but there was no more banqueting on the turf. The papers assert that the Prefect of Police, M. Pi6tri, who goes daily to St. Cloud, makes regular reports to the Emperor on the progress of the investigation of the affair. The man Traupmann, or Tropman, who was arrested at Havre on Thursday, and who is now supposed to be the murderer of the whole family, was brought to Paris on Saturday afternoon. A large crowd had assem bled round the station in the Rue St. Lazare, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the prisoner, and it was obvious that a highly excited state of feeling existed against him everywhere. Special precrutions had, however, been taken by the authorities to prevent Traupmann being seen. No sooner was the train in than he was hurried out of the station through a private door into a side street, where an ordinary cab was waiting to receive him. The officers and the prisoner were in the cab, and the cab had driven away almost before the arrival of the train was known to the crowd. Some fcw people, however, became aware that the supposed assassin was close at hand, and many ran after the carriage as far as the l o slevard Haussmann. Yells anp threatening cries had previously been heard, and they were continued until the cab was completely out of sight. Traupmann, while being removed from the train, is said to have been completely livid, and his legs shook beneath him, so that he had again to be supported. He held a coloured silk handkerchief to his face, to conceal his features. The cab was driven straight to the Morgue, followed by another containing the remaining officers who had accompanied the prisoner from Havre. As soon as it was known that Traupmann was inside the building an immense crowd collected, and it was at one time feared that the circulation would be completely stopped. Special measures were at once taken to prevent this. Inside the Morgue the accused was awaited by the Juge d'lnstruction and the Procureur Imperial. Traupmann was then shown the bodies of Madame Kinck and her children laid out on the marble slabs, and he was asked if he recognised them. " The prisoner," says the account in the Gaulois," walked a few steps along the room, and with a sang fro-id no one present exhibited, said, without moving a muscle d his face or faltering in his voice,a3 he pointed with his finger to each of the dead bodies, "That is Madame Kinck; that is Emile ; that is Henri ; that is Alfred ; that is Achilles ; that is little Marie.' The account further state 3 that he did not even take off his car, and that his cynicism shocked all who were present. The formal recog nition of the dead bodies being completed, Traupmann was taken into another room and the proces verbal drawn up. It was at this moment only that some signs of agitation were observed in the prisoner's face. Before signing the proces-verbal he again maintained that he had been a mere instrument in the hands of the Kincks, father and son. The Times correspondent, who leans to the belief that Traupmann murdered the whole family, says he must have had accomplices. Tho pickaxe he wielded was a very heavy one. He could not alone have committed the murder and dug the trench. The whole of the sheep which arrived in London for Monday's markets were seized on account of disease. Two MORE BARONETS.-011r Liverpool Corre spondent states thtt Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead, and formerly me nber for North Derbyshire, and Mr. Hardman Earle, of Allerton Towers, near Liverpool, have accepted baronetcies.—Times. An ingenious farmer has found a way to induca crows to commit suicide. He strings several grains of corn on a horse-hair, causing a tickling sensation in the crow's throat. In his effort to get it up the crow invaribly scratches his head off. A patent has been applied for.— American Paper. RETURN OF HOP-PICKERS TO LONDON.—On Satur day and Sunday thousands of ragged and famished men, women, and children poured into London from the hop producing counties in a most pitiable plight, and so over whelming were the applications for casual ticket 3 for a night's lodging at one or other of the workhouses, to the police inspectors, as to occupy tho undivided attention of those new relieving officers for hours, whilst the masters. porters, and other workhouse officials wcro in many in stances completely at a loss to find room for the poor crea tures to even lie down under any sort of cover. CATTLE IMPOitTATION.—The. only way in which reform can be brought to bear on this subject, is by a rigid inspection of all stock—first, at the port of embarkation in Ireland, and then again at the port of landing in Britain. In every case in which animals were put on board sound, and de barked in an injured condition, the double inspection would furnish to the owner good ground for bringing an action against the company through whose mismanage ment and want of proper accommodation the injury was caused. Ono or two successful actions in this way would inevitably react upon the general traffic management for its effectual reform. Whatever the Irish breeder might gain by the salvation of his store stock from grievous loss of value during the short period of exportation, the English graziers would be still more advantaged in being enabled to purchase beasts of better quality in a more healthy and promising condition, and thus all parties, excepting graziers in Ireland, are interested in applying the humane clauses of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act to the droving, railwaying, and shipping of Irish cattle.—Chamber of Agriculture Journal. THE CATTLE DISEASE.—The foot and mouth disease is spreading rapidly in the neighbourhood of Leeds. A number of animals were attacked some weeks ago, and since then the disease has made great progress. The West Riding justices aro the local authority in the matter, but no steps can be taken by them until their meeting at Wakefield on the Ct'i of October. At Mahon, on Saturday, there were many reports of the rapid and apparently mysterious spread of the disease. Reports were made from various parts of. the district, and notably one from Amotherby, in which nearly twenty beasts were stricken in a field a mile and a half from any road, and to which it is not known that even a dog had access. Sheep are also reported tc have taken the disease. It is about thirty years since the district was ravaged by a similar visitation. Mr. Kilby of Appleton Roebuck, one of the most active members of the North Riding Chamber of Agriculture, has issued cir cnlars to almost every farmer of note, seeking replies tc certain questions as to the lung disease and the foot and mouth disease, with a view to a compilation of statistics sheaving the losses sustained by Yorkshire farmers, and also by the country at large, by the occurrence of thew epidemics, THE SIJN, LONDON, TUSSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEIVS. bad in the Manchester region. - If there had been any falling off in the quantity of material exported the mystery would be intelligible, but nothing of the kind has occurred. The quantity of cotton which actually passed through the Lancashire mills in 1867-8 was as great as that consumed by these same mills in 1858-9, the time of our greatest prosperity. In the year ending last December our exports of cotton goods, amounted in value to £67,500,000 ; whereas in 1854, a year of the good old times, they amounted to less than £32,000,000. It will thus be seen that the quantity of Lancashire produce is quite as . great as it used to be, whilst the value, owing to the increased price of cotton, is double. What, then, is the moaning of Lancashire distress ? The Times, commenting on these puzzling facts, is almost disposed to " give it up." It sugvests that as mankind can consume only a limited supply even of cotton goods, and as other nations are competing with us, we must in future be content with a portion of the trade, instead of the whole. But this is really no reply. Lancashire, notwithstanding rivalry, does as much business as before, and yet its prosperity is grievously impaired. Is it not that the success of the cotton manufacture has attracted an amount of capital and industry which has swamped even that splendid branch of trade ? AMERICAN AFFAIRS. will remain there for several weoks.—General Hooker's health is much improved. He is now in Watertown.— Anna Dickinson has just visited the Yo Semite valley in full bloomer suit on a man'ssaddle, which she rode astride. —A n American paper says, " The Cunarder Siberia, from Liverpool, brought 92 cabin passengers and 642 emigrants to Boston, on Saturday, Sept. 10, the largest number of passengers at Boston by a single ocean steamer for a long time. William and Ellen Cratts, the distinguished coloured people from England, were among the passen gers."—Kate Field Las fifty engagements to lecture in New England.—Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore S Peek of Burlington has been chosen Assistant Adjutant-General of ilia Grand Army of the Republic in Vermont.—Dr George C. Reynolds of Chicago, Illinois, and Miss Matte Tinker of Old Lyme, were married in that town on Wed nesday, Sept. 8. Dr. Reynolds is a graduate of Williams, an assistaut-surgeon during the war, and is now under appointment as a missionary physician of the American Board to Eastern Turkey. His wifo is a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary, and a successful teacher at the west.— Gov. Clafliu's Tosidence at Newtonville, near Boston, is one of the finest in Massachusetts. It is partially sur rounded by beautiful elms and other trees, with a large lawn in front, where the ladies pass their leisure in cro quet. His conservatory of rare plants is equal to that of any private gentleman's in the State. Proverbial for his hospitality, his carriages are usually in waiting for the arrival of every train from Boston. His liberality equals his hospitality, one of his last gifts being a do nation of $l,OOO to the M. E. church of the village.— Mlle. Carlotta Patti and Max Strakosch arrived at New York, Sept. 9, in the steamship St. Laurent, and wont to the Everett House.—Capt. E. M. Shaw, Chief of the Lou- • (From the Anglo-American Times.) Masrs. Loring and Atkinson, two Boston brokers, the New York Nation says, have been making in quiries into the industrial condition of the South, and have compiled a pamphlet of extracts from the replies to questions addressed to 200 Southern planters,brokers,and factors throughout the country on agriculture, the defects and advantages of the present system of labour, the condition and pro spects of the negroes and their relations to their white employers, and the opening in the South to white immigration : "One of the first things which strikes us in reading the letters is, that there is a general agreement amongst the writers, not only that the working force of the black population has been greatly diurinishe I by disease and casualties during the war, and by the general refusal of the women to labour in the fields since the war, but that they are not multiplying, owing to the increasing in- disposition of the women to bear children—this inference being drawn partly from the fact that the births have diminished greatly within the sphere of the writer's ob servation, and partly from the notorious increase of the practice of abortion. That it is a correct inference, nobody need feel much difficulty in believing who remembers that the care of the plantation children now devolves on the mothers, and not, as formerly, on old nurses detailed for the duty ; and that impatience of child-bearing is not con fined in our day to the negroes. The effects of the diminu tion of births, combined with the less careful treatment of disease—which is the natural result 'of the sick negro ceasing to be property, and being left to got well by his own devices—the neglect of vaccination, and the greater irregularity of the negro's habits in freedom than in slavery, and the sudden access of anxiety caused by emancipation, and falling on a race unused to anxiety, and all forms of nervous wear and tear, except physical fear, have also probably done much to raise the bills of negro mortality, or would, if any such bills existed. They would make the prospect of an early extinction of the race very strong, if it were not for the probability that the race will, with fair play, before very long adapt itself by a process of natural selection to the new conditions of existence. The shiftless, licentious, vagabond, and stupid will inevit ably die off rapidly ; they cannot keep their footing very long in a busy industrial community such as the South, no matter what race supplies the labour, is sure to be ; the sober, industrious, strong, and enterprising will hold their own, acquire land and trades, and bear large families, and eventually present to the world a now and select negro pe, adapted to the now order of things." The Nation considers that large farms can only be kept up by a degraded and very dependent labour ing population, and has only been seen in perfec tion "in the South during slavery, and in England where the hind's condition is one of the reproaches and scandals of modern civilization." If cotton cannot be raised except in large quantities on large plantations, by hired labour, it is safe to say that no very great increase can be looked for at the South. But the letters show the possibility of cotton culture on small farms, the climate is no difficulty in the way of white settlers, and the profits of careful cotton culture are enormous. Ginning is thegreatestobstacle; but there is no more reason why the grower should gin his cotton than grind his corn. Negro labour is uncertain and less productive than in slavery. More bales to the hand were produced in slavery than by the hired free la bourer; as the latter, however, takes charge of him self and family, which the slaveowner had formerly to do, the comparative cost of producing a bale is not a settled question. The letters seem to agree in attri buting the dependence of the South on the north west for provisions mainly to the hog-hunting, chicken-stealing, and other thievish propensities of the black, which amount to a mania, and has caused much concern in the South. The majority deny the negro's accumulative power ; but the Nation replies to this that the South, in a state of freedom, is a far better market for manufactured goods than before, when in a whole county of Mississippi there was not a single store. When " on shares" the negro works more steadily and less wastefully, but allows the farm to get out of repair in fences, building, and draining, and wherever the crop is not affected. But on wages he is idle, and has a tendency to sudden desertion. On the whole, the pamphlet represents him, the Nation thinks, like the untutored Caucausiau. " For abhorrence of hard labour, his only match on this side the water is his white neighbour. His tendency to drift to the towns is shared in the fullest degree by the Irish and French, and the negro woman's love of finery and objection to large families, as well as her manner of showing them, is found in quarters to which we are too bashful to ' allude more particularly,' as the reporters say." BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—The oldest theatrical manager in America (in point of experience) is Benjamin Do Bar,. of St. Louis, who is probably the wealthiest also. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, is the second. His theatre (the Holiday-street) is the oldest now existing, having been built in 1812. J. H. M'Sricker (Edwin . Booth's father in-law), J. L. Wallack, Ben. De Bar, John T. Fold, and Moses Kimball, of the Boston Museum, are the wealthiest managers in America. —lgnatius Donnelly is very anxious to be nominated for Governor of Minnesota. If " slang whanging" could get him the office we know no more likely candidate.—Among the " matrimonial engagements" recently announced is that of General Phil. Sheridan to Miss Bessie Cheover, of Boston.—Vanderbilt, being im mortalized in bronze, it is now proposed to erect a statue of Fisk, jun., in front of the New York Opera House.—Theo dore Tilton has promised Ida Lewis that she shall become Secretary of the Navy when he becomes President. —An enthusiastic New England lady wishes to wipeout the defeat of thejlarvards, by a crew of American girls challenging an equal number of English girls to row in American waters.— Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, has brought suit in the sum of $25,000 against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, for injuries sustained by him (luring the summer.—F. E. G. Lindsay, Postmaster at Ra ven's Nest, Scott County, Va., was arrested and brought to Richmond, September 7, for robbing the mails.—Baron Gerolt, Prussian Minister to the United States, arrived at Washington Sept. 8, from his tour through the States of the North German Union.—Judge Gleeson, late United States Consul at Bordeaux, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York.—Mr SamuelG. Wheeler, jun., of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Miss Isabella Sloan of Cold Spring, were married .in the Episcopal Church at Cold Spring on the 7th of September inst.—The New York. Sun, re marks the Tribune, brings forward another editor as a candidate for the Chinese mission. It is Mr. Geo. Wilkes the proprietor of the Spirit of' the Time; and says : "Wo are opposed to his appoiutment, and don't think ho has any business to interfere between two such political and literary giants as the editor of the Tribune and the editor of The Times." We believe George Wilkes is a candidate, and will get the appoint ment; but Horace Greeley is not, and would not accept it if pressed on him, nor do we suppose would the newly-in stalled editor of the Times.—Henry T. Moore of the Rutherford Park Hotel, highly -respected, and in good circumstances, committed suicide by shooting himself on tho 7th insta.nt.—Joseph Snyder, the murderer of Mr. Carter, at Philadelphia, committed suicide in his cell, Sept. 8, ty holding his head in a bucket of water.—The leading spirit of Japan now is Satsuma, the Treasurer of the Empire. Ile is the richest of the native princes, or Diatnios ; adopts every improvement, arms his followers with breech-loading rifles, has sent as many as 50 young Japanese to be educated in various parts of Europe, and, in a word, is a man of the times.—Senator Cole, of Cali fornia, has returned from St. Domingo, and gives a glow ing account of the desirability of Samana as an outpost for our Government. —The Hon. C. H. Van Wyck of New York was married to Miss Kate R. Broadhead, at the Presbyterian Church, at Milford, Pennsylvania, on Wed nesday, Sept. 15. The wedding party, consisting of six or eight persons, afterwards started for California, and THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS. Saturday's evidence at Beverley was interesting on account of Major Waterhouse's contribution to the electoral history of that borough. This gentleman is the member for Pontefract, and is the brother-in law of Sir Henry Edwards. Meeting Mr. Spofforth one day in the lobby of the House of Commons, the conversation turned naturally on the prospect of an inquiry at Beverley, and on the probability of Mr. Cronhelm being summoned to appear. Both the Major and the Conservative agent agreed that it was desirable to get Mr. Cronhelm away from Beverley if possible. His health was delicate. He was, in fact, an invalid. He might sink under the labour of giving evidence. Animated by these charitable considerations, Major Waterhouse straightway gave a little friendly advice to Mr. Cron helm, who went away from the town for the benefit of his health. Unfortunately for the member for Pontefract, the Commission could not be induced to believe that the benefit of Mr. Cronhelm's health was the sole reason why he was advised to decamp on the opening of the inquiry. The Major was constrained to admit that Mr. Cronhelm might reveal facts "which it was desirable should not be communicated." In other words, as the Chief Commissioner put it, Major Waterhouse attempted to keep back information which the Commission was specially sent to seek, and which the Le g islature, whereof the Major is a membe r , h a d d ec id e d ought to be known. And yet, though the member for Ponte fract confessed that he had given this advice, he pro tested that he knew nothing of Mr. Cronhelm's inter ference in electoral matters. The Chief Commis sioner wanted to know whether Major Waterhouse had advised Mr. Cronhelm by personal message or by letter. But on this point the Major found refuge in that infallible resource of witnesses—a bad memory. The transaction occurred this year, but the member for Pontefract could not remember whether he had written or spoken to Mr. Cronhelm. VACATION UTTERANCES. The members for Oldham, Mr. Hibbert ana Mr. Platt, have been addressing their constituents on things in general. Mr. Hibbert kept principally to home affairs, while Mr. Platt traversed, the se', and took Paris, China, and America under his special protection. Both referred to the recent resuscitation of the controversy between Free Trade and Protec tion, and it is to be hoped their arguments and illus trations may have some effect on the recalcitrant northmen. In speaking of general politics Mr. Hibbert said very justly that two of the most impor tant questions of the future were popular education and the Ballot. We could not afford to have our children uneducated if we were to compete with other nations; and if they could not be educated by the will and permission of their own parents, the State must interfere. As for the Ballot, he believed a satisfactory conclusion would be arrived at beforo the approaching session was at an end. Mr. Platt's speech was chiefly in reference to the French Treaty, of which he gave some interesting particulars, as he had joined Mr. Cobden in Pans. Mr. Cobden wrote for him to come over, telling him to keep the object of his ;journey a secret even from his wife. While in consultation at Paris he often heard the Emperor express his desire to convince the English people that he wanted peace. "It is foolish," he said, "to talk about French invasion ; the last thing I should think of would be war with England." He was ready, he said, to enter into a personal treaty of commerce, though the Chambers would not agree to one." "If we once," he added, " begin to trade together, I hope the future will see us live in peace and harmony." EAST CHESHIRE ELECTION. Sir Edward Watkin and Mr. Brookes are still engaged in " stumping " the Eastern Division of Cheshire. Both sides express confidence in their success, although it can scarcely be a matter of doubt on which side victory will lie. The high Sheriff has fixed the nomination to take place at Macclesfield, on Wednesday, October 6; the polling will come off on the following Saturday. THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The question of an amnesty being granted to the Fenian prisoners, was warmly discussed at meetings held on Sunday in various parts of Ireland. The Dublin meeting, at Inchicoro was attended by about fifteen thousand persons, the greater number of those present wearing green neckties and ribbons. Strong speeches were delivered, and resolutions passed demanding the release of the prisoners. The city of Cork was paraded by masses marching in sections, wearing green sashes, and accompanied by bands. Having congregated at the western end of the city, they marched in proces sion to the park, where a meeting was formed and resolutions passed. About 10,000 were present, including many women. An amnesty meeting was also held in the town of Roscommon, attended by 5,000, Mr. Mapother, ex-High Sheriff of the county, presided. Captain D'Arcy and the parish priest of the town were among the speakers. DIZ . CLT3IMING. The interpreter of prtphecy is not yet ..atisEed. He is forbidden to appear a St. Peter's ; but he thinks that " more light " is required from the Coun cil ; and as the Pope seems to read the Times, the Doctor thinks the columns of that paper will still enable him to carry on the controversy. Not being permitted to prove his case at Rome, ho endeavours to do so through the leading journal. The Pope, in his reply, laid the main stress of the issue on the belief that St. Peter is the foundation of the Christian Church. Now, says Dr. Cumming, there is but one passage in the Bible by which this doctrine can be supported in the slightest degree—the well-known verse, " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church." In the original text the word "Peter," which means "a stone," is signified by petrol, but the is denoted by pe t ra , th e c h ange o f clearly i n di ca ti ng , i n th e op i n i on of tzhrmi o e r dpnotrtiooocrnk" Doctor, a change of persons. Moreover, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, occurs the passage, " Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." In Revela tion is the following : " The wall of the City had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb." Are these passages, asks Dr. Cumming, in favour of the doctrine that St. Peter is the sole founder of the Christian Church?" The Protestant champion then proceeds to inquire why no priest, prelate, nor Pope, can marry when St. Peter, the first Pope, was married ; why St. Peter submitted to a rebuke from St. Paul on one occasion, instead of excommunicating, the apostle who dared to censure the Vicar of Christ ; why St. Paul, who in the Epistle to the Romans sends apostolic compliments to sixteen persons, men and women, never mentions his "ecclesiastical superior, Popo Peter ;" why St. Peter, instead of calling himself the Supreme Pontiff, or the Vicar of Christ, is content with the title of " co-presbyter." These are only . a few of the many knotty points on which "more light" is needed from the Council. The doctor winds up by declaring that the Council itself is not worthy of the title " ilEcumenical." The Greek Church will not be represented, nor any section of the Protestant Church. Such an assemblage is a " denominational conference with which it is not reasonable that we should in any way interfere." Why, then, does Dr. Cumming interfere with it ? ENGLAND AND THE NAPOLEONIC DYNASTY. According. to the Pari s correspon d en t o f th e D a i ly News, the Great Powers have for some time been prepared for the Emperor's death. During Lord Clarendon's late visit to St. Cloud, he had to acquaint Napoleon with an agreement which had been come to by Austria, Prussia, Russia, and England regarding the course to be adopted in the event of his death, that object being to preserve peace, check the con tagion of a revolution in France, and as a means con ducive to those ends, not to thwart German unity. The task was a delicate one, but the announcement was received by many assurances that no one could be more desirous than the Emperor was to preserve the peace of Europe. Every effort will bo made to induce Prussia, whether on the Baden or any other question, not to give any provocation to France. The correspondent believes that, whatever may happen tc the French dynasty, the good sense of the world will prevent a general war. THE APPOINTMENT OF NEWSPAPER MEN AS MAGISTRATES. The question whether editors of newspapers should be appointed magistrates has lately been a matter for discussion, in consequence of the present Lord Chan. cellor having refused to place certain gentle• men on the bench who were known to be• long to newspaper offices. As far back at 18151—if not before —certain rules have been observed by the respective Lord Chancellors, by which clergy' men, practising attorneys and solicitors, wine, spirit, • and beer merchants, and any person con• netted with the local press, were excluded from being included in the commission of the peace. It has been laid down that a magistrate ought to be free from any bias, and it i s con t en d e d by Lord Hatherley that' th e other magistrates would be fettered if they knew that one gentleman sitting on the same bench was in thr .9 position to criti c i se th e i r proceedings anony mously. It is not denied th a t th e rule has been infringed, but this has been through either inadver tence or necessity. The Lord Chancellor does not feel disposed to dissent from the regulations observed by his predecessors; he declares that he can now understand and appreciate the reasons which led to the present regulations being established DISTRESS DT LANCASHIRE. The discussion on tho causes and possible remedies of the distress in the Lancashire cotton district has complicated rather than explained the problem. Nobody seems to know exactly why things are so FREE TRADE IN FARIIIN The land question is not only exciting interest in Ireland, but is also receiving attention from English landlords. Sir Wilfrid Lawson is already making arrangements by which h e w ill en d eavour t o carry out the principles of free-trade in farming. Ile intends to remove from his tenants' leases all sorts of obsolete conditions which prevent the flow of capital to the cultivation of the soil. Ilis opinion is, that the landlord ought to allow the farmer to work to the best of his ability to make money. He believes that by making a condition that the landlord should pay for any improvement which the tenant made for the real permanent value of his farm—in the same way as the tenant had to pay for any deterioration during his tenancy—he would be able to obtain a superior class of agriculturists for the cultivation of the land, and also secure a larger production from the land. Such a practical way of dealing with this vexed question certainly deserves success. FAREWELL DINNER TO LORD NAPIER. On the 28th of August a farewell dinner was given to Lord Napier at Poonah, on the occasion oof his resigning the command of the Bombay army. In returning thanks for his health being proposed, Lord Napier said that the campaign at Gwalior first made him acquainted with the portions of the Bombay army which distinguished themselves in Central India, and that he accepted with pride the command with which the Queen had honoured him. lle paid a high taibute to the merits of the several portions of the army. The artillery distinguished themselves greatly, and the infantry displayed a unity of organisation and economy which carried them unchanged from clime to clime, and held them ready at a word for duty, whether for burning India or the snows of Canada. Addressing his friends in the native army, Lord Napier expressed his confidence in their loyalty, and said that the native army of to-clay was capable of doing as much as had been done by its predecessors. When ho ap proached the word farewell many thoughts of a long career of forty years in India crowded upon him. He compared the India of to-day with the India of his first acquaintance, and came to the con clusion that the changes they had regretted were for the best. Life was for the pr sent and the future, and not for the past. In conclusion, he entreated his friends to do their best to carry out the new system, and to take every opportunity to educate the soldiers, and place due responsibility - upon the officers of the native army. THE BETTING MANIA. What is described as " a somewhat novel move ment" is said to be contemplated in the sporting world. The rumour goes that it is intended to present to Parliament a petition praying for a measure to legalise betting, and to award licenses to commission firms, upon guaranteeing by sureties their responsibi lity and solvency. It is exceedingly unlikely that an effort to legalise tho pernicious practice of betting will be seriously made ; still more unlikely that, if made, it will be granted by the Houses of Parlia ment. Would it not be better to adopt a different course, and shut up betting clubs altogether ? THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE COMPANY. Some few days since we noticed a letter to the Daily News from Mr. P. W. Clayden, in which he brought a serious charge against the directors of the European. Believing that the society was nearing its destruction, he applied for his policy, for which he was offered the sum of £3O 18s. 3d. He immediately returned an answer accepting the money, when he was informed that the directors had determined not to oiler any more quotations for the acceptance of policies. The " Interim head of the Surrender Department " has since written to Mr. Clayden, stating that whilst there would be no more oilers for policies, the directors would agree to pay him the amount agreed upon. It is stated that a mistake was made through the senior of the department being away on leave, his place being taken by an assistant. Mr. Clayden states that he has no hesitation in accePt ing the cheque and gil ing up his policy. THE NEW LAW OF EVIDENCE. In a letter to the Star, Mr. J. G. Irolyoake com ments on the recently-passed Evidence Amendment Bill, which, ho says, is as important to all habituated to independent thought as the late Reform Bill was to outlying politicians. The Reform Bill enfranchi se d the citizen—the Evidence Amendment Bill has enfranchised personal conviction. Mr. Ifolyoake observes that he has never taken an oath in his life, and for thirty years, during which time ho has been interested in public affairs, he has been an outlaw on that ground, and suffered many civil disabilities. EXPEDITIONS TO THE POLAR SEAS A despatch received at the Foreign Office from her Majesty s Consul-General in Norway gives an account of an expedition made by a small Norwegian sloop in the Carean Sea. As the Solid sailed along the Sibe rian coast she passed extensive lines of low flat lands covered with 'brushwood and bushes, in most cases extending nearly to the water's edge ; the sea shal lowed to some distance off the land, varying from four to six fathoms, with a slimy bottom. The expedition was not only a successful one in a financial point of view, but it is also interesting from this small craft having generated so far into waters hitherto considered as practically inaccessible. The despatch states that another expedition, which left Ilammerfest on the 3rd, with the intention of ascending the Obi river, is likely to be successful ; and probably a lucrative trade may be established between the inhabitants bordering on the Obi and Finmark in cereals and other Siberian products, and transported to the coast by means of th and from thence to Finmarken, there to .be exchanged for European ey th c e an fre be sh r e ea s di i l i y i the spring, products. FOREIGN NOTES.-- TILE PRESSIAN NIXISTRIL AT PARIS. The Presse of Vienna announces that Baron de Werther, the Prussian Minister at Vienna is appointed to the post of Ambassador at Paris in the room of the late Count de Goltz. This appointment the Presse regards as important on account of the antecedents of the baron. He represented his country at Vienna before the great war, and it was in defiance of ordinary diplomatic etiquette that Count von Bismarck sent him again to the Austrian capital after the Treaty of Prague. It is never usual after the conclusion of hostilities to accredit the same diplomatists who have contributed to the prepa • ration of the rupture. The presence of Baron de Werther at Vienna was therefore held to be indicative of Prussia's insincerity in the reconciliation, especially after the publication of his dispatch relative to the coronation of the King of Hungary. He was said to be conducting intrigues with the ultra party in Hungary, and the sus picion with which he was regarded was a permanent source of embatrawnwst. The recall of Baron de Werther, there fore, is 1 ': ' 3 V'e—na Press , . . . .'' 'fling for Austria LI diplomatic disarmament of Prussia. SPEECH OF TILE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN. In opening the Baden Chambers the Grand puke said that he rejoiced to be able to state that the relations exist ing between Baden and the North German Confederation were being placed upon a still closer footing, and he confirmed with pleasure the fact that the progress of the national conscience was tending more and more strongly to foster a sentiment of common nationality among the German States. He referred to the introduction into Baden of a military organisation in conformity with that at present existing in North Germany. By this means the Baden troops could enter the ranks of the Federal army of North Germany on the same footing as the Federal troops. The Grand Duke concluded by expressing his belief that they would peacefully achieve their desired objects. THE AUSTRIAN EXCITANGR. The Austrian Exchange is still very much agitated. Extraordinary rumours prevail which naturally produce ex traordinary fluctuations. Few actual failures have how ever, occurred. The regular banking firms have felt the crisis less than the outsiders, though the stress of money is felt everywhere. Money was at one time so easy, and the price of securities so high, that everyone thought he had the philosopher's stone within reach. Everyone bought securiM,. an , liffercntial speculation, c, by 'lepositing them w' 1 ank or othcr which b • - ;.ons upon them up to 70 or 80 per cent. of their daily market value. Now, as securities sink in value, and the possessors are unable to pay the difference between the loan raised upon them and their depreciated market value, the con sequence is a forced salo and a further depreciation of the securities. - - don Fire Brigade, arrived in New York, Sept. 9, from a tour in the West, where he has been inspecting the Firo Departments of the principal cities. He went to the Bre voort House, and was to leave for Europe on Sept. 15. Mr. C. Catacazy, the now Russian Minister to the United States, arrived at New York in the St. Laurent, the late Minister, was recalled some months ago, and Mr. Catacazy appointed in his place. During the interim, Mr. Waldemar Bodisco, formerly Secretary of Legation, has acted as Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Catacazy will remain in the city several weeks. — Koopmanschap, the Chinese im migration agent, has left San Francisco for New York. Ho will make a tour of the Southern States, and will then go to China for labourers.—Fourtoon of the United States Senators have visited Cali fornia since the completion of the Pacific Railway.— The Hon. Judge Day has left Ottawa for Washington to examine into the boundary claims of the Hud3ou's Bay Company.—General M'Clellan and Edwin M. Stanton, with his family, are at Boston. —Thomas Ewing having appeared in Ohio politics, the New York braid calls him ono of "the surviving but dormant politicians of the epoch before the flood."—An Englishman has started in a canoe, to paddle himself from New Jersey to Texas. He has made extended journeys of this kind in Europe. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.--The United States suffers an annual loss of $300,000,000 from insect depreda tions.—Nashville, Tennessee, is putting up a $300,000 cotton Council Bluffs, lowa, with 3,000 inhabitants, has several square miles devoted to a park.—The San Diego Union states that out of 55,000 head of cattle that started from Texas during the past year for California not over 5,000 reached the State. —The revenue of the New Dominion for August was 5389,279, and the ex penditure $757,387.—A coach of Wells, Fargo, and Co. was robbed in Montana by highwaymen of $30,000 in gold.—By the explosion of a bomb-shell in a machine shop at Buffalo a workman was horribly mangled.— One of the largest Sunday schools in San Francisco is composed of Chinese children. —The old banking-house of L. A. Benoist and Co. of St. Louis suspended, September B.—The stock holders of the Richmond and York River Railroad have resolved to extend the road to the Chesapeake Bay, thus shortening by seven hours the time between Richmond, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.—On the Bth instant the down freight train on the Jackson Railroad, from New Orleans, fell through a trestle-bridge near Kennersville. Four cars took fire, which, with contents,were consumed.— Professor Davidson's scientific party has returnee to San Francisco from Alaska. Tho result of the expedition-is satisfactory. The party visited a region of country never before penetrated by white men.—The Imperial Insurance Company of London paid $lOO,OOO in Philadelphia on the Ist inst., on losses by the destruction of whisky at the late fire on Front-street, and would in a few days pay $200,000 more.—Since September 1 it is unlawful for first cousins to marry in New Hampshire. Before the Ist, that is up to 12 o'clock midnight of August 31, it was legal for persons so related to marry.—An $l,BOO pup is the last present to Grant.—The Agricultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts, opened its autumn term on Thursday, the 9th September, with additions to its corps of instructors, of Capt. H. A. Alvord, of the United States Army, as Pro fessor of Military Science ; E. H. Barlow, of Amherst College, Instructor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and Dr. A. S. Packard, jun., Lecturer on Entomology.—The old church at Hingham, Massachusetts, built in 1681, and the oldest in New England, having been thoroughly repaired and refitted, was re-dedicated ou Wednesday, the Bth of September. The church has had only seven pastors in the 234 years of its existence.—The Boston journeymen tailors have decided to demand an advance in their wages, equivalent to about $3.50 per week. For mak ing dress and frock coats they will hereafter charge $ll, and lower prices to $7, according to the style of coat. - The workmen engaged in excavating for the new Yale College dormitory, on the ground formerly occupied by the President's house, unearthed four bottles of very old mulberry wine in an excellent state of preservation.— The Canadian Medical Association met in convention at Toronto on the Bth inst. A large number of delegates from all parts of the Dominion, also from American medi cal associations, were present. C. Tupper delivered the address, after which the new medical act for Ontario was discussed at great length. The following, not residing in the Dominion, were elected honorary members: —Dr. W. ,Davis, of Chicago, Illinois; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D., Sur geon, United States Army; Samuel D. Gross, M.D., of Philadelphia; Charles A. Leo, M.D., of Buffalo Univer sity.—On the evening of the Bth inst. the thirty-eighth annual exhibition of the American Institute was for mally opened to the public at the Empire Rink, on Third Avenue, corner of Sixty-third-street, New York, by an address by the President, the Hon. Horace Greeley.— The American papers say that the extravagance of Jenny Lind's husband has so reduced her circumstances that it is thought that she will open a school for opera singers in Paris.— Montreal has an important case involving the legality of the marriage of a white man and an Indian woman in the Hudson Bay Territory, and having 8300,000 dependent on the verdict.—The Richmond Enquirier is glad Harvard lost, because " the Northern people have enough to be proud of," and it desires that " some check should be administered to American conceit." The same paper is delighted with the present political situation in Virginia, and "thanks General Grant and Horace Greeley for it." The Boston Journal says that drunkenness is just as com mon in the streets of that city as ever, and that intoxicat ing liquors flow just as freely as when there was no law to restrain their sale.—Kansas claims to be the champion corn grower this year, and that its crop will lead every other State.—Chicago, upon orders from London, is ex porting butter to China by way of California.—Lowell, Massachusetts, since New Year's Dry, has had sixteen suicide cases, chiefly of young girls. ELECTION NEWS.—On the 7th of September the annual State election held in Vermont resulted in a Repub lican triumph, their majority being 20,000. Tho vote was light, little interest being taken in Cie cause, as the result was known to be sure. The State officers elected are—Go vernor, General Peter T. Washburn of Woodstock; Lieu tenant-Governor, George W. Hendee of Morristown; Treasurer, John A. Page of Montpelier. The State Senate is unanimously Republican, while the House contains less than a dozen Democrats. The Republican ticket for Wis consin is as follows :—Governor, General Lucius Fairchild of Dane ; Lieut.• Governor, Thaddeus 0. Pound, of Chip pewa ; Secretary of State, Elia A. Spencer, of Dane State Treasurer, Henry Baetz, of Manitowoc; Attorney- General, S. S. Barlow, of Sank; Prison Commissioner, G F. Wheeler, of Fond du Lac ; Supt. Pub, Instruction, A J. Craig, of Jefferson ; and this is the Democratic : Governor, Charles D. Robinson ; Lieutenant-Governor, Gilbert E. Park of Portage; Secretary of State, A. G, Coble of Columbia;_ Treasuror, John Black of Milwaukie; Attorney-General, S. W. Pinney of Dane; Prison Com missioner, Carl Birdoe of Waukesha ; Sup. Public Instruc tion, I. K. Cannon of Ozaukee. The chances favour the Republicans, nor do wo think the platform of the Demo crats, which advocates the taxation of the National Bonds, at all calculated to strengthen their chances in November. The Minnesota Republican Convention at St. Paul, on Thursday, Sept, 9, nominated Judge Austin of St. Peter for Governor. The returns from California are still in definite.• A majority of members elected to the Legisla ture are doubtless Democrats, securing the rejection of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Democratic local tickets were generally chosen. In San Francisco, the indepen dents at first claimed that they had elected Mr. Selby as mayor, together with a proportion of the other officials, but M'Coppin, the Democratic candidate for mayor, has insisted on another count of the votes, and it is now in progress. The Democrats carried everything in Sacra mento and Nevada counties, which have hitherto been Republican, and William M. Gwin, jun., is elected State Senator from Calaveras county. Nuckolls, the Demo cratic delegate to Congress from Wyoming, was elected by a majority of JO. In New Mexico the returns in- dicato that tho Republican candidate Chavez I;as au; cessful. The Santa Fe county returned the whole Republican ticket by an average majority of 200. Senator Sumner had been invited to preside at the meeting of the Massachusetts Republican Convention, to be held on the 23d inst. Of that Convention we have news by cable, and Mr. Sumner's speech, whatever it was that gave offence, has been repudiated. We are curious to kn ow h ow so . _ . . experienced a politician could on such au occasion have so spoken as to induce the Convention to repudiate what he said. The Convention renominated Governor Claffin, and all the present State officers, and has adopted resolutions endorsing President Grant's course and denouncing the taxation of bonds under any form. While repudiating Sumner's speech they approved the Republican Finan cial policy, which leads us to suppose that the great Massachusetts Senator may have taken ground un palatable to his party on that subject. More over, . they favour non-intervention in Cuban affairs, excepting by way of mediation, and declare that the insurgents are not yet entitled to Will. gerent rights. The resolutions affirm that the United States suffered incalculable injury during the rebellion by the aid and encouragement given by Great Britain to the rebels. For the present, however, it would be enough to expose British accountability ; the question of the reparation to be offered as accepted was a matter for further consideration ; the settlement of the American claims by the transfer of Canada to tho United States was impracticable ; Canada was already gradually ap- preaching union with the United States. The New York Democratic Convention met last Wednesday. Reso lutions were adopted opposing Grant's Administration, demanding a general amnesty, the reduction of the army, the subordination of military to civil r ower, the payment of debt according to contract, the equalization of taxes, the reduction of tariff to a revenue basis, protection of American citizens in Great Britain and Cuba, and oppos_ lug negro suffrage and amendment to the Constitution. The Mississippi Conservative Convention, which nomi . . nated Judge Louis Dent, held on the Bth inst. at Jackson, was composed of 3CO delegates, 75 of them coloured. Judge Jeffards was nominated for Lteut-Governor, and a complete ticket for Congressmen selected. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the principles enunciated in the constitution of June 23, declare in favour of a liberal system of free schools, and of an equitable distribution of the public school funds, cordially invite immigration of capitalists and mann facturers into the State, and pledge such legislation as shall most effectually aid and•foster all industrial pursuits, and dovelope the resources of the State. 'rho ticket yas 7HE AU7 UMN HANDICAPS. 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"Fifty Ye 9 ' co ugn(ta ib .:,,, able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, astbre a l t iog. a coS,", stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and 1n' 911 „,, nes, h orl" Jolly " ' lmportant Caution.—Beware of the Eu s '''t 0 111 " , thou 00. and more than sloppy imitations to which, wi d. i bo 01 Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attaelie ; 12 1.,A • In tins, at 1 s lid; Ilb 28 9d: 2lbs 4s 6d ; lbs 0110, ca o 21 40s.—Also BARRY'S REVALENTI ARAB! 20, fo r ° l; PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups 9 67 6 cal l , 03, at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 300, N r t ioS 6 tor. —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and t s 'o s ocee,,, f o ; free of carriage in England on receipt of Pc's"; Loa''' BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Itegent-str ee all Grocers and Chemists FOLKESTONE —On the 26th inst ;40' BIRTHS. OLP' ► ford, Viscountess Folkestone, of " a daughter.at trifc)rd garw' ty GARNIER - On the 27th inst , at 17, Prince's -r. lion. 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" 12 I) SP: litil of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN office No.,." . .TiAjor" in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coun t y of W."— Tuesday,:September 28, 1888. completed as follows:—F or S ecre t ary of State, Thal" Sinclair (coloured); Auditor, A. W. Wells; Treasurer, Joseph M'Elroy ; Attorney-General, R. H. Lowry ; Superintendent of Education, Thomas 11. Gathnigh t ' Mr. Walker was installed on the 21st instant as Governor of Virginia with the usual ceremonies, and the Legisla ture will meet Oct. 5. General Canby issued his procla , mation announcing the result of the Virginia election ort the 9th inst. The election of six Walker and three Wel l° Congressmen is declared. OBITUARY.—Francis J. A. Boole, ex-Aldern o and City Inspector of New York, and for many year° noted Tammany leader, died at the Lunatic Asylum i° Utica, on Thursday, Sept. 2, aged 48.—Mrs. Catherine Washington died in Delhi township, Ohio, on Saturday morning, Sept. 4, aged 80 years. It is claimed that eb ° was a relative of President Washington. She was bore and married on the Washington estate, in CulpePe County, Virginia.—Paymaster John D. Gibson, U.S.J'" died Sept. 3, at his residence at Brooklyn, from disease contracted on the Guerriere while on the Brazil station! Ex-Governor Worth died at Raleigh, North Carolina. ° II Sunday night, Sept. 5.—J. C. Howe, an aged and well known merchant of B os t on , di e d S ept. 7.—James H. Cs" ferty, a distinguished painter, died at his late residence in New York, Sept. 7, of dropsy.—Mr. James Jackson, Pit sidant of the Passaic Co. National Bank, and formerly $ locomotive builder, died Sept. 7, aged 66 years.—T" mother of ex-Governor J osep h B . Hawley died at Gaze novia, N.Y., Sund a y, S ep t. 5 , age d 72, and was interre d at Hartford. She was the wife of Rev. Francis Ilawlelif c4 ; for merly of Farmin g t on , o f S cotc h descent and a nat i ve °' North Carolina. Governor Hawley is now absent in Ca l !' fornia. —The Hon. John Bell died Sept. 11, at his r egi ; deuce at Cumberland I ronwor k s, Nashville. He bad be es confined to his bed several weeks with fever. This paragraph is going the rounds of the Amy rican press :—" A writer in the Pa r i s Sp or t anticiPs''; great fun in the American colony next winter, becau Se t , great number of ladies aro coming over from Californi a ' We would like to know what the fun is the Sport ant i pates, and we ca n on l y h ope th at the Sport will not be (4°- appointed of its fun. 1) url VILLE and Co., B e lf ast, are the lar gesi holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky ig commended by the medical prof ess i on i n preference to gad! , Brandy. Supplied in casks and ca s e s f or home use or esl)°,o`- Lion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and cl Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-b u ildi ngs, S trand, London, NirSl'A vet tisement. ~~.