The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

THE CONVERT CASE. SAtrßni V. STARR AND KEN. NEM —lf the Court of Queen s Bench had been six times as large as it is, it would rot have been large enough to afford room for all who yesterday went down to Westminster on the chance of obtaining a glimpse of the " sister." Not to have the building crowded to an extent which would interfere with the business before it, the Lord Chief Justice gave special orders to the officials 'as to the way in which the right of admission was to be granted. As it was, many members of the bar were ruthlessly shut out, for those who had secured either seats or standing room stuck to their privileges throughout the day with a persistency wonderfully unanimous. In the body of the court were a large number of the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the gallery at the end was occupied by Sisters of Mercy, in the habits of their order, who will be called as witnesses. The examination of the plaintiff was resumed yesterday, when she said, in further evidence of the con duct to which she had been subjected : About 30th May, 1865, I reached the convent from school about four o'clock. I had a little tea and bread, and then I went to the community-room. In passing Mrs. Starr's room, she called me in. Mrs. Kennedy was there. The door was then closed. Mrs. Starr desired me to take off my clothes. I hesitated for a few moments, and then I remembered my vow of obedience. I then took off my veil, habit, cincture, and beads. I waited a little while between each, but The hurried me, and helped to pull them off, and examined each article. She unfastened a pocket and pulled it very roughly from me, and threw it to Mrs. Kennedy. I asked her to let me have my handkerchief that was in it, as I was crying, and Mrs. Kennedy gave it to me. Mrs. Starr then directed me to take off my skirt and stays. I did so, but each article she rudely pulled from me. Each article as it was taken off was examined. I never saw my pocket nor the contents afterwards. Mrs. Starr undid my last skirt and examined me. The Lord Chief Justice : Did she convey the idea to you for what purpose ? Plaintiff : No, my lord. She dragged the scapularies off my neck, and also a small rosary I was wearing. She then threw me back some of my clothes to put on. I did so, and when dressed I left the room by her orders. My examination book which contained entries relative to confes sion was in my pocket. The articles produced were taken from my desk, except one examination book that was in my pocket. About Dec. Ist or 2nd, 1865,1 was sitting at work in the morning in the community-room. Mrs. Starr came into the room, and by her orders I went into the small room adjoining, and in the presence of Mrs. Dawson, now a community sister (Sister Mary Winifred), but then a novice, I had to undress standing opposite the open door, with the sisters constantly communicating with Mrs. Starr. My clothes were all taken off except my inside tunic. This occupied a considerable period. I was standing all the time, and felt very cold. I put the habit over my shoulders, but Mrs. Starr rudely pulled it off. She told Mrs. Dawson she could not tell how I could stay in the house, and that I might go as soon as I liked. She appealed to Mre. Kerr to know if it was not inJuly that the bishop wrote to her saying he had got a dispensation to absolve me from my vows, that she was to be ready for a quick despatch, and to have a secular dress ready for me ; but she said she had had it prepared for a long time. The bell was rung for prayers. I asked permission to write to my friends. She refused, but later in the day she came to me, took an old letter out of her pocket, tore off the flysheet, and gave it to me, saying I had a quarter of an hour in which to write a note to my mother, but I was not to attempt to ask her to come and see me because she did not want to be annoyed by her. I wrote a letter, and gave it to Mrs. Starr, but I don't know what became of it. I was astonished at being dispensed from my vows, and on the Sunday following she gave me permission to write to the bishop. I asked for an envelope, but she said she knew her duty and would send it herself. I expressed a wish in my letter to see the bishop. I got no answer to that letter until I received notice of the commission. I had a severe illness in September 1865, and on one occasion during that month I was so ill that I could not kneel in chapel. I worshipped seated, when Mrs. Starr ordered me a high seat in front of her. She knocked me with a book on the head or shoulder during mass. She frequently did it. Just before the commission much writing was going on in Mrs. Starr's room. Every sister receives a ring from the bishop at her profession. It is regarded with peculiar reverence by them, and is looked on as a symbol of the Church. I wore it on the third finger of the left hand. In August 1865 Mrs. Starr told me I had left some thread on the mat in the corridor, and then she asked me for my ring. I was greatly surprised. I, how ever, moved it a little way down my finger, when she pulled it away, and I never saw it after. This occurred after my Jesuit brother calle d. When he called I had not seen him for eight years. Mrs. Starr, the following morning, touched me with the book before mass was concluded, and told me that I was not to go to holy communion that day, but she gave me no reason why I should not go. She made a sign to me after mass to follow her. I did so, and when I got to the door she put a quarter-hour sand-glass in my hand, as is usual when friends frequently call, signifying the time that we were allowed to be together. I never knew of any limited time being fixed in the case of relatives. Mrs. Starr opened the visitors' room, and pushed me in, where I found my brother. I remained with him half an hour. On the follow ing morning Mrs. Starr asked me why I did not acknowledgs staying so long in the reception room with my brother as a fault. I said I thought I had permission. She told me she had had a long interview with my brother. I did not see her again. From that time I never saw the bishop. The Rev. Mr. Mathews came in November 1865. On the Ist January 1868, there was much writing going on between Mrs. Starr, Mrs. Kennedy, and Mrs. Kerr, both in the library and the community room, and on the 2nd of January Mrs. Kennedy handed me a note from the bishop announcing the commission. I afterwards destroyed it. It did not state the date when the commission would meet, and I wrote to know the day, and asked what I was charged with. I also expressed in my letter to him m 3 wish for him to be present, and that I would abide by his decision. He replied that they were breaches of my vows. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Beverley was called, and produced that letter. In the course of her further examination, the witness (amongst a variety of other matters) stated that on the 12th of February Mrs. Starr, advancing to her bed, said she required the whole of her religious dress, and told her that she was to leave the convent. Mrs. Starr left her a secular dress to wear. Witness replied that she would not go; she would rather die than leave the convent of her own free will ; but it pleased God to leave her at the mercy of the Superioress, and she might do as she pleased. Mrs. Starr said, " I cannot put you out." To this wit- ness answered, " I will die where I am." The case still proceeds. LAW AND POLICE. THE LAW ON PERSONAL INJURIES.— A special jury was summoned a day or two ago at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-square, in an action in the Exchequer, in which judgment was allowed to go by default. The case was a compensation one for injuries inflicted by the Great Eastern Railway, and the damages were laid at £l,OOO. The plaintiff was a carman who was injured by the fall of some timber at the goods station of the Ipswich Railway. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell told the jury they had a diffi cult task, as the medical evidence was conflicting, and much depended on the future condition of the plaintiff. He thought that juries should have the power of awarding interim damages, increasing them if the plaintiff proved to be permanently injured. The jury assessed the amages at £450. A CRUEL STEPMOTHER. - At Hereford a day or two since, John Nott, a painter, and Francis, his wife, were charged with cruelly ill-treating and neglecting William Nott, a boy 12 years old, the son of the male prisoner. A police constable gave evidence of finding the boy in a wretched condition, while the children of the female prisoner were well fed and clean. This witness asked the boy when lie had food last, and he replied that he had some bread and treacle the day before. He insisted on seeing the place where the boy slept, and found an iron bedstead with nothing b u t a b un dl e of d i rty rags. After h ear i ng more witnesses to the same effect, the mayor said that he was only sorry he could not give both prisoners six years instead of six m on th s ' hard labour. The crowd cheered the sen tence, and followed the prisonr;rs to gaol hootine , and groaning, BANQUET TO THE D(; IC E OF WELLINGTON.— The Duke of Wellington was on Friday night entertained at a banquet by the county magnates of Middlesex, of which his grace is lord-lieutenant. Tlie party numbered about 160. The chair was occupied by Mr. Henry Pownall, the chairman of the Court of Sessions of Middlesex, beside whom sat the guest of the evening. A mongst the other gentlemen present were Sir John Gibson, Sir Francis Graham Moon, General Wood, Sir William Bodkin, Sir Robert Carden, Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. Edwards, M.P., Mr. Walter, M.P., Hon. Frederick Ca.dogan, Sir James Duke, Sir Walter Stirling, Sir Benjamin Phillips, Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr. Serjeant Cox, M.P., Sir Charles Crossley, Sir George Hodgkinson, Mr. Hepworth Dixon, &c. In reply to the toast of his health, the Duke of Wellington said there was no county in which the official duties of the magistrates were discharged more efficiently THE RIGHT HO N . W . F. COWPER. than in the county of Middlesex ; so much mo re so , th at in recommending gentlemen for these offi ces it was utterly The Right uth Coer as been eaking impossible to find places for one-half of th ose w h o were . his supporters i n So Hant wp h s. Referring sp jothe deserving of being so recommended, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 13PI1iIT UA LIS;11. We are going to have the old story of spiritualism over again. One would have thought that Daniel Home, Esq., spiritual medium, would have been con tent with the exposé made in " Lyon v. Home." But he is not ; and the Dialectical Society is to be now the' medium " by which some more of his marvel lous tricks are to be given to the world. Professor Huxley, one of the members of this society, has, however, refused to have anything to do with the investigation. A committee of four has, notwith standing, been appointed, and the seances are to be given very soon. Mr. Home claims to be allowed to bring in three persons to assist him. RIFLE SHOOTING. " A Musketry Instructor writes to the Times on the system of instruction pursued in the army. Besides the training-school at Hythe, a staff of district inspectors in musketry is kept up at con siderable expense, in addition to the subaltern instruc tors of each regiment. On the training of each man ninety rounds of ammunition are annually expended. The " figure of merit " has been established to com pare the relative efficiency of regiments in the use of the rifle, and thus an esprit de corps is excited, without which good shooting cannot be attained. The greatest interest, says this writer, is taken in the annual match, and companies begin practising volun tarily for weeks before it. As economy is the order of the day, however, he thinks it well to ask what is the use of the district inspectors ? They have just the same knowledge as officer instructors, and are certainly not more competent to see that fair play goes on between the regiments. The Secretary of State might, in the opinion of " A Musketry Instructor," very well dispense with these costly and useless officials, and the money thus saved might procure a " challenge shield," to be shot for annually by regiments on the Volunteer principle. THE VOLUNTEER CONTROVERSY. The discußsion about the Volunteers is becoming personal, and will have to be cut short. Hippophylax " finds it necessary to clear himself from the accusation of being one of the show soldiers who see war only in Hyde Park and the region adjacent, a matter which has nothing to do with the interesting question which has been raised. With greater relevance "A. W." points out that after all, numbers do count for something, as was proved in the American war ; and that as to fitness for taking the field, "In the regular army a man may purchase the command of a regiment, although it is notorious to every one in it, from the drummer-boy upwards, that he is unfit for the post; whereas the Volunteers have the advantage that unless a man exhibits some natural aptitude for the com mand, public opinion will soon constrain him to make way for a better man." A sharp hit this at the rcenlars. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. Mr. Gordon, one of the defendants in the Overend and Gurney prosecution, has very properly resigned his seat as a director of the Oriental Bank, after having held his seat for a quarter of a century. The board are stated to have expressed in their reply their unaltered sense of his honour and integrity. Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards has not thought it expedient to resign his post as official assignee of the Bankruptcy Court. Perhaps he thinks that he would not elicit a similar profession of belief in his upright ness. PROFIT AND LOSS. It is stated that 3,399 partridges were bagged on General Hall's estates during one fortnight, and that the general unfortunately broke a collar-bone while pursuing the sport. The account will therefore stand: Debtor to 3,309 partridges killed; creditor by one general's clavicle broken. The general would probably consider the account about balanced; we should like to know what the partridges would say. DR. DLAKENFX ON THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. The Rev. Dr. Blakeney, of Birkenhead, is writing a series of letters in the Rock on " The Church and the Reformation." The greater portion of his second letter is devoted to the recent Ritual judgment. He considers it most satisfactory on all points. He questions some of the inferences which have been drawn by the High Church party at the expense of the Low. He declares, for instance, that "We must not surrender the black gown," and that there is no need to comply with the rubric directing daily prayer. In conclusion, he expresses his gratitude for the union of Church and State. He says : "It is our safeguard against sacerdotal power and tyrannical synods ; and let us remember that although the Lords and Com mons contain amongst them a considerable diversity of sentiment on religious subjects, yet that the great majority of both Houses consists of Churchmen. The Parliament of the present day will bear comparison with that of 1549, or 1552, or 1559, or 1662. There wore many able Mediaevalists and adherents of the Pope in the first three, and several stirring speeches and protests were made against the Reformed Liturgy. Even the Parliament of 1662 was not without its evils. Had Imy choice I would prefer the Parliament of the present century to those of the Reformation and Caroline periods for the dis cussion of religious questions." TIIE THAMES EMBANKMENT. There has been no work executed for years which students of esthetics have been so unanimous about as the Thames Embankment. They all, or nearly all, declare it to be a noble work. But the Metropolitan Bocrd of WorLs—a kind of society for the perpe tration of ugliness—threatens to spoil itby construct ing a viaduCt from Charing-cross Bridge to Water loo Bridge. This would for ever cut off all communication between the Strand and the Embank ment, would spoil the proportions of that work, and prevent Government or any other buildings of architectural beauty from being erected ; and for all these advantages the ratepayer would have to pay heavily. A deputation has waited on Mr. Layard to ask him to do what he can to make the Board of Works be quiet. Mr. Layard lamented that he could not stop the Board, but promised to throw every ob stacle in its way which he possibly could, and ex pressed a hope that the law courts would be erected on Thames Bank instead of in Carey-street. LONGEVITY. Yesterday's Times contained the deaths of nine per sons over 80 years of age. One of them was 90 , the other 96. Th e average - of the nine was 85.7. During last week the deaths of nineteen nonagenarians were noticed, and a widow died in Brixton at the great age of 104. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. Disraeli, following in the wake of Mr. Glad stone, has issued a circular note, calling upon his followers to form their ranks, and to be ready to do battle when Parliament meets. The letter of the leader of the Opposition runs thus : " I have to remind you that Parliament will meet on Tuesday, the IGth February, and to express my hope that you may find it convenient to be in your place on that day, as business of importance may be expected." The dull season will soon be over, and we shall be amidst the excitement of party rivalry. Who that has read for so long the arguments on the Irish Church question does not wish that the preliminary talkee-talkee was over ? -- - But the first part of the session will be notable in that it will hear " Mr. Gladstone's secret " divulged. We shall then know what the Premier intends doing with the funds of the Irish Church, the machinery he will use to accompl i sh disestablishment and dis endowment, and the position which he intends the Church to take after those operations have been com pleted. Indeed, Mr. Gladstone has revelations to make, sensational enough to call the House together without any " circular notes " whatever. THE MINISTERIAL PLANS. The a Lon e d l o ie n ves ee t rr ha e t s there is of the Manchester Gu respecting plan of Irishtriple endow_ Church. s a good d ea l i n th e reported compromi se Ile says that Lord Russell's entertained, in th e p policy i s s t rong l y high ment e 3 has as quarters. revived The h o p i e e s v , ei l l o in n g g_ u advocated at Court, at clubs Cabinet. The section of Li nd h a e , above all, in the opinion that "it is not too late to rale who h o ld th e of re-distribute th e Church property of Ireland among the th ree deno minations," embraces some party, abl es t and truest men of the Liberal Pe English owners of Irish estates, nervousy. The great of f respect ing the effect of the confiscation ecclesiastical rents, are for the same solution of the problem iesia so far stical as Lord Grey' P s proposal with respe c t to glebe e Mouses and glebe lands is concerned. There is a strong curr ent setting in among the Conservatives in the same direction. Even the Irish bishops admit the present pcsition to be untenable, and the 1 c ergy are awakening to the unwisdom of insisting upon such an u nreality as the identity of the Irish with the Engli s h Church. The Low Church party, however,are resolutely setagainst anyconcesLion toPopery,andit is likely that this usually high Tory party will unite with the Non conformist Radicals to prevent it; and that there will be other political complications of a very curious sort. 1...` - _ , e Pope is seid to desire such a compromise es this rafilier than smetion the secularisation of Church revenues, 1 c, which would have a bad effect elsewhere. The y man Catholic bishops and .. 2 ,1 .1 ):, w i ll not g i ve : open sanction to any scheme of redistribution ceause the mass of , their people prcPer the other , 'lternative. The Presbyterians would gladly receive a 5.. -ni g p arsona g e and farm in exchang e for the Regium Doi.' gm, which they think impairs their independence. The ccirre spondent thus concludes -- interesting t ' r a vary let,. " From all these considerations, I am led to think that the coming session will be marked by a collective attempt to bring about a compromise of the Irish Church question, the discussion of which will unavoid ably prove n o t a little embarrassing to many of our friends." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1869. expenditiiie, he endorsed the policy of the urovern ment, believing their economy to be judicious, and that it was the desire of the Administration to render the various departments of State more effective by lopping off a large proportion of superintendents and this, that, and the other. He expressed his opinion that the questions of education and local taxation, which the Liberals had put forward in their pro gramme, would hardly be brought on in a tangible form for some time, the great and difficult question relating to Ireland demanding the preference. of a troop of soldiers put an end to the struggle, after several had been killed and wounded on both sides. The attacks upon isolated houses remind one of the Irish Whiteboys. In the province of Kowno a band of forty assailed a large estate, bound twenty farm-servants, and carried off plunder to the value of several thousand pounds. Tae Polish peasantry have taken to this remunerative pro fession. pany with a set of unscrupulous and greedy lobbyists, in an attempt to misuse the power and influence of the Re publican party for private ends. It is the self-confessed agent of monopolists, whom Mr. Wells, himself a Protec tionist of the Henry Clay school, exposes in his last report, by facts and figures which no one of the monopolists has yet met." To this Mr. Greeley replied--" When the Republi can party had first elected its President, the editor of The Post asked of Mr. Lincoln the appointment of its publisher to one of the most lucrative Federal offices in our city, and was gratified. Being a party organ, the Tribune never presumed to do Mr. J. J. Stewart, of Baltimore, was nominated on the 22d January by President Johnson as Minis ter to Turkey, - thus showing the truth of the report that at least the Executive intend the recall of Mr. Morris. A telegram from Constantinople, dated last Sunday, asserts that Mr. Seward had autho rized the American Minister there, during the rup ture between Turkey and Greece, to proffer in formally his good offices as a channel of cominuni cation betwee❑ the Government of King George and the Sublime Porte. His Excellency Reverdy Johnson and the Right Hon. Earl Granville arrived at Southampton on Wednesday, and proceeded in her Majesty's yacht Alberta for Osborne. We have good reason for stating that Mr. Johnson will be succeeded, shortly after the inauguration of the President Elect, by a gentleman renowned in litera ture. A correspondent of ours, in sending us some items of news from the Continent, asserts that the Hon. E. B. Washburne will perhaps accept the mission to Paris, but we hope he will not do any thing of the sort, for although therein he might consult his own dignity and ease, he would not cer tainly consult the national interests ; for while plenty of qualified men may be found to transact the business of the United States in Paris, who could take up the work Mr. Washburne dropped ? whose place we fear would be as vacant in Con gress after his departure as was that left by Joseph Hume in Parliament when he died. Besides the Minister to Constantinople, the President made the following nominations on the 22d January : —Selah Waters, of Tennessee, to be Minister Resident at Ecuador ; Delos Lake, to be United States Attorney for the District of California; J. M. Grissom to be Pension Agent at St. Louis. _ _ Mrs. Twichell has been released, as the trial sud denly terminated, by the Commonwealth abandoning the case. The jury returned a verdict of " Not Guilty," as all along expected, for the evidence given against her husband failed to connect her with the tragedy. When ordered to stand up, for the first time she removed her veil and showed a face marked with grief and premature age. We learn from the president of the Universal Peace Union that Hester Vaughan will not be executed, and that the banker Jay Cooke will pay her pas sage back to England. General Schofield has sent a report to Congress on the working of the brevet-system in the United States Army, asking the Legislature to repeal the Glst A rticle of War, by which this " brummagem" rank gives command and precedence. Captains in the line are sometimes Majors-General by brevet, by which the number of an animal OLIC3 rare in the United States has been increased by 138. Brevets sometimes answer on active service, but both in England and in America they are usually carried to an extreme, which ends in degrading the rank in stead of elevating the recipient. Somebody has said that if anybody leaving a pier or a station in the United States took off his hat and shouted, " Good bye, Colonel," that the response would come from at least half the spectators, but since then the Colonels have be-ome Generals. We heartily ap prove General Schofield's action in this matter, for men who wear the rank ought to have earned it. Joseph Pease—he ought to change the "s" into a "c," when he would be well named for the post he holds as President of the Peace Society—has been carrying on a correspondence with Lord Clarendon and Mr. Reverdy Johnson, urging the incorporation into the treaties under discussion an arbitration clause for the peaceable solution of disagreements which may afterwards arise in the interpretation of those treaties. Lord Clarendon fully concurs with the Peace Society, and so does his Excellency the Ame rican Minister, who has acted in accordance with it in the Conventions referred to. The American branch of the Universal Peace Union is now in session at Washington. Numbers of men and women are present from the different States, showing how wide the peace feeling is in the Republic and how strong the party. The peace they propose to bring upon earth is no less than that of the millenium, delight ful in theory, but impracticable, as those who best know human nature will say, when they hear the resolution the association arrived at : " Resolved, That all idea of punishment, both in the human and divine government, should be done away with, as at war with the law of love. The present system of discipline in the family, the school, and the prison, founded on this idea, is unworthy of civilization, to say nothing of Christianity." The following telegrams were received this week : The Democratic Convention of Connecticut has met. James E. English has been nominated for Governor. Resolutions have been passed that re fer to (but do not take any decided ground on one side or the other) the question of the payment of the United States Debt in gold, but deny that re pudiation is favoured by the Democrats. Resolu tions have also been passed against Negro Suffrage. The Convention promises to support President Grant in every just and Constitutional measure be proposes. A Constitutional amendment granting Negro Suffrage was passed on Saturday by the House of Representatives by 147 to 42 votes. It goes to the Senate for consideration. The House of Representatives, by 110 to 62 votes, has tabled a resolution in favour of the annexation of the Republics of Hayti and San Domingo to the United States. The London board of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway directors announce that the line having been leased to the Erie Company their func tions cease. They forward copies of the text to the bondholders, together with thatof the supplementary leases, but not of the Columbus, Chicago,and Indiana, which the shareholders had not ratified. They give no opinion, but leave the proprietors to judge for themselves from the documents. They say, how ever, they think it right to add that they do not doubt that the president, Mr. Stebbins, the Ameri can Board, and Mr. APllenry, who have struggled with great energy with many difficulties and dis couragements, have made what they consider the best arrangements practicable under the circum stances. The first effect has been to throw the bonds down considerably, but whether this arises from a want of confidence among the proprietors or the machinations of speculators, we are unable to state. After the long and steady rise, however, the reac tion is not surprising. Commodore Vanderbilt's affidavit, read in the New York Supreme Court on the 19th January, in the case of Isaac N. Jenks against the New York Central Railroad, is of interest. In it he states he was President of the New York Central from De cember, 1867, and was present when the certificates were authorized by the board. A rough estimate was then made of the nett earnings, but he con fesses to knowing nothing about it. The statement of the nett earnings applied to construction, read at the meeting, was prepared by Clark and himself : he did not recollect its contents, but it showed that a very large sum expended on the road legitimately belonged to the stockholders, and his only motive was to give them what belonged to them. During his connection with the road no earnings have been applied toconstruction. If he could not save in working $ - 2,000,000 ay ear lie would have nothing to do with it. In answer to the question why his intention was not made known to the public—" Made known !" he exclaimed, " to the gang of .thieves and robbers in Wall-street !" lie did not tell many of the direc tors for fear they would speculate in the stock, and the knowledge was confined to himself, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Chaplin ; and the meeting, by accident, was held at Clark's house on the day of the deci sion. The certificate closes with the assertion that the business of the road had been done last year for $1,600,000 less than before by saving. The New York Legislature is investigating the stock opera tions of that road and the Erie. A director of the latter refused to tell what had become of the pro ceeds of the new stock, and so far checked the in quiry, but a very strong pressure will be brought to bear on Albany by the press, and the Legislature will probably be kept up to its work. Governor Fenton's success and Governor Morgan's defeat continue to be as great a surprise and mys tery as ever, and one authority saddles the result on the universal scapegoat, the Erie Directors. That ring is said to have heavily backed Fenton, while Morgan was the public favourite, and it is alleged they paid the Governor, for signing the bill they got passed last winter, $25,000. The outcry raised against Governor Fenton is considerable, and it is hoped that he may meet it by a public investigation. Mr. Hugh Hastings, the editor of the Commercial Ad vertiser, brings point blank charges against him, and when threatened with legal proceedings openly accepts the challenge, daring Mr. Fenton to take the question into the Courts. As a party matter the election is of no importance, as both are men of , ability and of the same stripe. The New lark Sun asserts that Mr. Fenton wished to withdraw in favour of Marshal 0. Roberts, who went to Albany to see if he had any chance, when he found that Fenton was sure of the election. On proposing to return, the ex-Governor wrote to him, stating that be was willing and desirous to withdraw in his favour as candidate for Senator, and to remain at Albany, from which his letter is dated Jan. 15, to work for his success. An interview followed, but Mr. Ro berts would not change his determination. The Sun terms this " the great Seymour game of de clining ;" but we confess we do not understand Mr. Fenton's drift. Mr. William Douglas, writing from the Union Club, New York, Jan. 19, to Mr. James Ashbury, states that he has purchased the Sappho, as he is desirous that she should again enter the lists against the Cambria. Early in June he will cross the Atlantic, when he feels confident Mr. Ashbury will afford him the opportunity ; and the conditions of the match can be settled at Cowes. He wishes, however, to remark that for the Sappho to show her ocean and winter cruising qualities, an open course would place the yachts on a more equal footing. Mr. Ashbury accepts his challenge in the same frank, courteous way in which it is given, and remarking on the great advantage the ,Sappho's tonnage of 381, gives her against the Canibria's 188, he says—" The courses I suggest are-Ist, round the Isle of \\Tight ; 2d, from the Isle of Wight round the Eddystone Lighthouse and back ; 3d, from the Isle of Wight round the Cherbourg Breakwater and back. These courses, in addition to the various Club matches, will afford ample op portunity for displaying the qualities of our re spective vessels." We are glad to see this inte resting contest taken up in a spirit so friendly, that whatever may be the result it can only lead to increased harmony. STATE DOINGS. The Premier has been dining eight of his fellow Cabinet Ministers and the wives of some of them. Lord Clarendon was among the guests, by way of giving an additional denial to the assertion that he was in bad health.—The Queen held a Privy Council on Wednesday, at which Lord Justice Giffard and Mr. Stansfeld were sworn in members of the Council. After that ceremony Vice-Chancellor James was knighted, and Lord De Tabley and Lord Otho Fitzgerald kissed hands on their appointments as Treasurer and Controller of the Household. ELECTION NEWS. It is thought probable in Dumfriesshire that Sir S. Waterlow, the London alderman, who defeated the local magnate, Major Walker, will be unseated by reason of his connection with a firm which has a Government contract. A meeting of the Conservative party in the county has just been held, at which Admi ra l H o p e J o h ns t one , Sir J. H. Maxwell, and other local notabilities were present. It was mentioned that Major Walker would, if his party wished it, fight the battle again, and it was decided to organise a committee on his behalf. At Manchester the party who supported Mr. Ernest Jones were very desirous to bring forward Mr. Samuel Pope, and it is thought that if a ballot had been resorted to that gentleman would have been selected. But a majority of the Liberal committee Preferred Mr. Milner Gibson. At Bradford it is proposed to reconcile the divided Liberals by resorting to a preliminary ballot, such as took place lately at Manchester. Mr. Holden and Mr. Thompson, who were defeated in the Eastern Division of the West Riding, are spoken of as candi dates. THE QUAKER IN THE CAIHIsSET. What does the Society of Friends think of " the Right Honourable" John Bright ? Are its members pleased or sorry ? If we may take the Friends' Quarterly Examiner as the expression of the general feeling, there is a confident pleasure, not unmixed with fear. They are pleased that he has gained his present position, they have confidence in his integrity, and feel sure that he will hold firm to the principles of the Society, and yet they are half afraid that those principles often clash with the accepted ideas of government. With regard to the latter, however, the Friends' Quarterly Examiner is by i o means unreasonable. It says : "We cannot disguise our views that its healthful existence as a religious community will consist in judiciously casting off that which (whether old or new) has lost its life and greenness, and in wisely adding those means which each generation requires for its peculiar condition. The body that can thus reform itself from within is neither lifeless nor decaying." The Quakers, as a body, are notable for their " reforming " tendencies, and for the breadth of their views on secular matters. With all this there is a possibility of their looking narrowly on matters concerning their own body. SICK BISHOPS. The Bishop of Salisbury is no better, and we fear there is little chance that he ever will be better this side of heaven. The Bishop of Rochester is suffering from bronchitis, and was prevented from attending at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canter bury. The Bishop of Winchester, who is partially disabled by paralysis, was also unable to be present. The Bishops of Exeter and Bath and Wells have long been hors de combat. THE NUMBER. OF THE BEAST. A question of overwhelming importance remains undetermined still. Is Mr. Gladstone the Beast, or not ? Anti-Gladstonites say yes, and, in order to prove it, confound the gamma with the th;qamma, and omicron with omega. One vehement partisan would make Mr. Gladstone out to be a woman, by using eta as the final letter of his name. One thing is very clear, that a fair rendering of the Premier's name into Greek characters will not make up the mystic number. Fervid partisans have to follow the example of erring directors, and must cook their figures. Were it otherwise, what then ? Is every man whose name will sum up 666 the Beast ? If so, there will be a perfect menagerie. If not, on what principle are we to pick and choose ? Can any sane man waste his time over such " pernicious nonsense" ? PROFITABLE READING. The Dublin papers give, in two columns of small t Ireland persons h Lr e first e t d e c r l a the g- L i a s m i e l ieivistealonyfaaniatild profitable reading i s f o ll owe d of l newsl o o ) e m , I : t reTd namr es six columns describing the dresses of the ladies. The greater portion of this reading will be to male readers an unknown language. For instance, what on earth does this mean, "Jupon of rich white poult de soie, with overskirt of tulle plissed, and pallier of tulle agraffed with ruban ponceau, camargo sash placed derriere trimmed to correspond ? " It is taken quite at random from about 20,000 words of a sirailar kind. Fancy any brained being sitting down to read such stuff as this. It is worse than heralding, Free masonry, or deciphering "the number of the Beast.", FOREIGN NOTES. TURKEY AND GREECE. The eight days within which the Greek tiovernmeni was to announce its decision have terminated, and Athens is subject to all the excitement of a dangerous Ministerial crisis. King George has got rid of his warlike Cabinet, but so far his good intentions are materially hampered by his inability to find a peaceful one. To accept office means to accept the declaration, and it is difficult to find a politician who will commit himself to this course. Nevertheless, the balance of opinion is of the optimist character. The Independance Beige believes that Greece will accept the declaration if Turkey withdraws her ulti. matum. This means unreserved acceptance, for the declaration is for the most part a transcript of the ulti matum which the Porte has already offered to withdraw. The Liberte, which is entitled to be regarded as an authority on this question does not believe in a favourable settlement. Its information leads to the inference that if Deligiorgi or Zaimis were to accept the office which has been offered them, they would not retain it for a fort night. The chance of King George and Greece finding themselves in the same position as Isabella and Spain, is by no means insignificant. The London Conference in 1867 finished the Luxembourg affair in four days and three sittings, and the consent of France and Prussia was known in a few minutes. The Conference of 1869 has been sitting or waiting for above a month. It took one week to conclude its deliberations, it needed another week to receive the answer of Turkey, and now Europe has been waiting since the 16th of January for the reply of the Greek Government, the telegraphic dis tance between Paris and Athens being only a few hours. The Liberte knows that the delay of eight days has been followed by another adjournment until Monday, nor is it likely that this will be the last. The Temps says that Comondouros has been offered the first post in the Greek Cabinet, but has refused. The New Free Press contains a still more alarming piece of intelligence. It is informed that the Greeks resident in England are forming a committee to agitate in favour of a republic for Greece, should King George give way to the Porte. This looks very warlike ; but, if the Greeks go to war, what can they do? The Memorial Diplomatique says that the autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon was delivered to the King himself by the French Ambassador at Athens. On the previous day a telegram had arrived from Trieste announcing that a courier of the Russian Cabinet had embarked at that port to proceed to the Greek capital, and that he was the bearer of an auto graph letter which the Emperor Alexander had addressed to the King, urging him to accede to the decla ration of the Paris diplomatists. "The step taken simul taneously by the Emperors of France and Russia, with the object of determining Greece to defer to the wishes of the Conference, appears to have made a deep impression on the mind of King George, who, after several consulta tions with his Ministers, finally pronounced for an accept ance of the declaration drawn up at Paris." SPAIN. The correspondent of the Star is not satisfied with our representative at Madrid. We pay Sir John Crampton £6,000 a year, but English interests, receive very little at. tention from the ofEeal who draws this very handsome salary. " One must go generally twice, sometimes thrice, before one can deliver one's credentials even to the deputy, the principal being seldom visible, or visible only for a few moments. The only place where one is certain to find him is at the Museum, copying, with snore or less success, one of the many masterpieces to be found in that magnificent collection." Certainly the economy which begins with quill mending ought not to leave out of consideration the salaries of representatives at Courts where there is little or nothing to do. 1117SSIA. Some of the Governments of Europe are not to be com plimented upon their successful preservation of social order. The present seems to be the golden age of briga.n dai4, There are brigands in Spain, more in Greece, many in ifu •gray, and multitudes in Italy. In Western Russia, too, they are by no means uncomm on . Th e i r exp l o i ts largely com.-lsi: in carrying on a contraband trade across the front i ers*o f j7nssia, and many severe combats take place betweent•the fron,!-4;r guards and the se d epre d a t ors . In one fight a, fl e band theirnuml th of a r a ri n v n a i m danger CANADA. Unless a reprieve be granted, Whelan, the assassin of Mr. Darcy M`Gee, will be executed on the 11th of this month. His case was argued on the 22nd of January in the Court of Error and Appeal at Toronto. Ten judges delivered elaborate judgments, fully reviewing the case. The judges stood four for and six against granting a new trial. The prisoner's counsel applied for leave to appeal to the Privy Council o England, and after consultation the court decided that t had no right or power to grant the leave. INDIA. After a long period of great distress, and prospect of more, the assurance comes from India that at least the worst extremity of famine will be escaped. There has been a general fall of rain in all the famine-stricken dis tricts. In some cases the shower has been slight, but it appears to have been heaviest where it was most Deeded. The canals are replenished, the crops are renovated, the price-list shews a marked decrease. The Government had previously taken every precaution to diminish the distress; but energy in providing a remedy would hardly atone for shortcomings in the matter of prevention ; and it is a sub ject for sincere congratulation that whilst India has escaped another famine, England has yet another chance of redeeming herself from reproach. THE CREW OF THE ST. ABBS. A few days ago we published a statement made before the British Agent at Aden by a native of Eastern Africa. This statement was to the effect that the narrator had been driven by stress of weather on the Somali coast, and had there seen a man of light complexion who was acting as a slave. Contriving to speak a few words to this slave, the East African was told that he had been wrecked on the Somali coast some thirteen years ago, and with some of his companions, who were then in the interior, had been subjected to bondage by the Somali people. A correspon dent of the Standard is disposed to believe that this slave was one of the crew of the St. Abb s. It is true that he called himself a Banyan—a Hindoo believer in the trans migration of souls--but his account did not bear out this assertion. A Banyan can eat no meat without immedi ately losing caste ; whereas this slave acknowledged that he ate meat and yet retained his religion. A Banyan always speaks Arabic, besides other languages ; but this slave could speak no Arabic, nor indeed Hindustani. These facts prove the man's ignorance of the Banyan faith; and the correspondent of the Standard therefore concludes that he was an Englishman, but fearful of acknowledging his Christian faith to an East African, who was of the same complexion as his captors. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Coloured Men's National Convention, which last week we reported as being in session at Wash. ington, paid a visit to General Grant on the 19th January, through a committee, whose chairman delivered to him an address in the name of four millions African citizens and 700,000 electors of African descent, a number he asserted reduced by assassination and murder in exercising the franchise guaranteed by American law. Ile expressed the great confidence felt by the coloured men in the General's ability and determination to administer the Government according to the " principles of morals and law announced by the fathers." To the address General Grant thus replied : "I thank the Convention, of which you are the repro seniative, for the confidence they have expressed, and I hope sincerely that the coloured people of the nation may receive every protection which the laws give to them. They shall have my efforts to secure such protection. They should prove themselves by their acts, their advancement, pros perity, and obedience to the laws, worthy of all privileges the Government has bestowed upon them ; and by their future conduct prove themselves deserving of all they now claim." Nor was that Grant's only speech on the 19th January, for the Mississippi Republican Delegation called on him to secure the restoration of the State to the Union under the Constitution voted on last summer. In reply, the General said the Recon struction Committee reported a bill embodying substantially what the committee desired, and in the course of conversation about political affairs in the South, including those of Mississippi, he re marked he wanted the matter settled as soon as possible, or before the beginning of his Administra tion. Then the committee of the Baltimore City Council was introduced to present resolutions of friendly feelings, and to tender a hospitable invita tion to the city. General Grant replied he was " under obligations to the City Council and their committee for the kind invitation, and would be very glad to accept it were it in his power; that he was one of the trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund, who held their annual meeting in Baltimore on Thursday and Friday ; but he had private en gagements for those evenings." In reply to a ques tion, he said " he could not now name any hour to receive the citizens of Baltimore. If the business of the Institute occupied Thursday and Friday it was probable he would do so on Saturday morning, but he would see the committee again and name the place and hour." On Thursday morning, Jan. 21, Camden-street, in front of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, was densely thronged by the citizens of Baltimore to receive the President Elect at their city. The General was accompanied by Admiral Farragut and wife, Hon. W. H. Evarts, wife and daughter, Mr. Riggs and wife, and Generals Dent and Comstock. In response to the loud cheering Grant lifted his hat an almost imperceptible distance from his head, took the arm of the Hon. W. 'r. Alb er t, en t ere d hi s carriage, and with his suite drove to that gentle man's house. The rest of the party were accom modated as guests in the 11Iount Vernon Hotel. There they stumbled on the celebrated Confederate General T. B. Magruder, to whom Mrs. Riggs ex tended her band, having known him as a captain in the United States army, warmly asking, " How do you, Captain Magruder?" General Grant's first visit was to the Peabody Institute, when the trus tees immediately went into executive session. It is extraordinary how men now discover that in Grant's unpretending appearance there is an indefin able, indescribable something which impresses on the observer that here is no ordinary man. It took a great deal of impressing on the part of Grant, however, before he made this generally known. The New York Commercial Advertiser came out with another smashing article on the evening of January 20 against Senator Fenton. Last week we gave one for which, with other allegations, that paper was threatened with a suit for libel. But this only seemed to spur on the Advertiser in the course it had chosen, and it openly dared the late Governor. "Governor Fenton fears to bring a libel suit. * * * He and his back-door-go- betweens understand too well that we know too much. * * * No honest, upright citizen, much less a Governer and United States Senator, can sub mit to the brand we have put upon him. * * * We knew men who, for the last four years, have been acting as brokers of the Executive Chamber—one who levied black mail on the Dry Dock Railroad Company for $20,000, to obtain the signature of his Excellency ; another, who made the Insurance Companies of this city pay toll to the amount of $10,000; another, who received $lO,OOO for Fenton's approval of the Erie Railroad Bill, &c., &c." The Tribune had " thrown itself into the quarrel as a matter of course, for there could not be a little sen sation of that sort without Horace Greeley's inter ference. On the morning of the same day this is what the Tribune said, Mr. Hastings being the editor of the Advertiser— "lt may possibly be that Governor Fenton deserves abuse ; but the fact that Mr. Hugh J. Hastings stigma tizes and scandalizes him creates a strong presumption in favour of his integrity. For what:rottenness was ever re vealed iu the recent political history of our State that this Hastings was not implicat3d in ? Who has had a bad re putation for jobbery if ho has not? And how can a Governor ha venal and yet have Hugh for his enemy ?" Of course Mr. Greeley did not escape, for an article almost as severe appeared in the Advertiser of that evening, charging him with corruption at Washing ton, if not at Albany. This is a nice fight among the Republica n party, an d it seems t o h ave b een copied pretty closely in Indiana, where the war ring Radicals nearly ended in losing the seat in the Senate, and only succeeded in returning a man who was not the one the party caucus had selected, by a compromise. The Evening Post came down upon the Tribune, why, we do not profess to know, perhaps in self glorification, taking up the great Radical organ to point the contrast of that journal's shortcomings with its superiority. "We are not like !the Tri bune, a mere party paper," says the Evening Post, " nor a Protectionist." We work for the benefit of the whole nation ; but " The Tribune, on the other hand, is engaged, in cora. THE SAN JUAN QUESTION. Under date Washington, Jan. 20, the Philadel phia Public Ledger thus discusses the San Juan controversy :—" From official documents your cor respondent gathers the following : It is well known that for forty years or more prior t ) 1816 all that territory west of the Rocky Mountains, between the latitudes of 42 and 54 40, was in dispute be tween the United States and Great Britain, each claiming the right of sovereignty to be in itself, and denying that right in the other. In 1816 the two Governments concluded a treaty, iu which the line of boundary between the United States and Great Britain was to be continued westward along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the conti nent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean. Out of this verbal description of a water line of boundary through the middle of the channel which separates the con tinent from Vancouver's Island, &c., a new con troversy arose between the two Governments, Great Britain claiming that the Rosario Strait is the channel intended by the treaty, thus giving to her all the islands in the Haro Archipelago, the United States claiming that the Canal de Haro is the channel intended by the treaty, thus giving to them the Haro Archi pelago of which San Juan Island forms a part. The claims and pretensions of Great Britain under the treaty of 1846 were made known to the President of the United States through Mr. Bancroft, our Minister in London, as early as November, 1816. These claims were promptly rejected by the Presi dent, as being without sufficient foundation, and the claims of the United States under the treaty were made kno xn to the British authorities. Diplo matic correspondence on the subject ensued, which resulted in the appointment of two Commissioners, one on the part of each Government, for the pur pose of carrying into effect the first article of the treaty of 1846—by locating and marking out that part of the water boundary line which separates the Washoe territory from the British possessions. This was in 1856. Each Government instructed its own Commissioner. Congress appropriated nearly twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of establishing this boundary line. The Commis sioners met in June, 1857, and after spending m any months in endeavouring to accomplish the object of the joint commissions failed to agree, and reported the result to their various Govern ments. Diplomatic correspondence was again resumed, and no final settlement of the con troversy has yet been made. During all the time since 1846 until the present, each Go vernment, as is well known, has adhered to its construction and understanding of the treaty. Each has invariably asserted its claim to the island of San Juan and others in the Haro Archipelago, by acts and public delarations too plain and em phatic to be misunderstood, and more than once during that period the controversy has assumed aspects which made war almost inevitable. From this brief summary of facts, it would seem to fol low as a legitimate conclusion, first, that the boun dary line between Washington Territory and Van couver's Island, verbally described in the Treaty of 1846, has never been located and determined, and that so far as that part of the boundary line is con cerned the first article of the Treaty of 1846 has never yet been carried into effect. Second, that neither of the two Governments has ever yielded or surrendered to the other the right of sovereignty over San Juan and the other islands lying between the Rosario Strait and the Canal de Haro. Third, that these islands are disputed territory, and that any determined exercise of the exclusive right of sovereignty on the part of either Government would lead to a declaration of war by the other. In the light of these facts, the importance of the treaty now before the Senate can be appreciated when it is explained that the treaty contemplates an amic able settlement of this controversy by the submission of the dispute to the arbitrament of the President of Switzerland." Cyrus W. Field stopped a day or two in London on his way to join leis family at Nice, taking his departure either yesterday or to-day. He looks thinner and some what shaken by the effects of the dangerous accident he lately met with, but otherwise he appeared in good health. The accident occurred when inspecting the progress of same works on his estate, some 25 miles from New York. The architect suggested a spot for a trout pond which lay in a hollow among rocks and trees. It had been snowing, thawing, freezing, raining and freezing again, so the banks slopeing into the vale were like glass. Mr. Field, unaware of its nature, stepped on the slope and shot down like a streak of lightning. Tho cape of a thick hooded cloak he wore flew over his head, and thus enveloped, with out the slightest power of checking his speed, ho was hurried along till ho struck an apple tree, and in a most fortunate place for Lim, fo: a very slight change would probably have made the blow fatal. Al though this did not stop his descent, it checked it, swung him round, and relieved him face from the folds of the cloak, so that ho was enabled to grasp the next tree with which ho came in contact. The architect came down too, but having on thick boots, studded with nails, he was able to check the pace, and he was not taken by surprise as was Mr. Field, who was so much injured that ho had to be carried back in a large sleigh, in which his bed was placed. He left Now York long before ho had recovered, trusting to the quiet of a voyage to aid instead of retard his progrese, and the result has proved that his advisers were correct. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beatdort-buildin,gs, Strand, London W.Q —[Ad' vernsenlent.] CONGRESS. SENATE. In the United States Senate, on the 18th Jan., a petition was presented from prominent business men of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, asking that hereafter sales of United States Bonds and Treasury gold, on Government account, be made by inviting public competition, and at publi c auc ti on. A bill was passed, pro vtd ing for the taking of testimony in election cases by notaries public instead of registers. Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee, reported a bill lega lizing gold contracts, and providing for the funding. of the debt at a lower rate of interest, Scc. Mr. Trumbull introduced a bill amendatory of the judicial system. The Copper Tariff Bill was dis cussed. On the 19th Jan., the President's Mes3age in reference to the pardoning power was p r esent Mr. Cole, of California, introduced a bill relating to securities of National Banks. Mr. Comte3s pre sented a bill for a mail steamship line between New York and Europe. Mr. Thayer, of Nebraska/ offered a Constitutional amendment e3tablishing universal suffrage, which was tabled. The Cop pe r Tariff Bill was finally passed, with amendments, only eleven Senators voting agairst it. Mr. Ed: munds tried to have his resolution relative to thu payment of the National Debt considered, but thu Senate went into Executive session, and soon after adjourned. On the 20th January Mr. Pomeroy tried to have the Central Pacific Railroad Bill considered, an d Mr. Edmunds to have his public debt resolution disposed of. The Senate, however, took up Sherman'sAirLine Railroad Bill, which was discussed. Mr. Robinson introduced a bill extending the juris diction of the Court of Claims to claims of loyal . citizens for property approp r i a t e d or destroyed during the rebellion. Mr. Wilson introduced bills providing for the reduction of the army, and re organizing its general officers. The latter continues the rank of general at present pay, and provides for three lieutenant-generals at reduced pay. On the 21st January Mr. Morrill introduced 3 bill to regulate the payment of the tonnage ta lc ', Mr. Morton's bill to p reven t co ll ec ti on o f illega l taxes on passengers was discussed. Mr. Conkliug introduced a bill to Prohibit Secret Sales of Ge l g by the Treasury. Mr. Sherman, from the Carrell Committee, reported his bill to a m e n d the Nation al Currency Act. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On the 18th January a bill was introduced 13 / Mr. Poland, of Vermont, for the retirement of till' , United States no t es , an d a f ree system o f n ationa l banking. Mr. B arnes , o f N ew Y or k , i n t ro duce bill to prevent the loaning of money on legal-tende rs ' and prohibiting banks of issue from paying inte rest on deposits, except f or a specified time, not less 1113 0 /1 30 days. Variou s o th er bill s were a l so pre set& f including one by M r . Bi ng h am, for the a d m i ss ion °, Mississippi when her Le g i s l a t ure s h a ll h av e ratifie d the 14th amendment, & c . O n mot i on, th e Cel li ; mittee on Expenditures were di rec t e d t o i nv estiga t a the mail contract with Wells, Fargo, and Co., au a the manner of its performance. Mr. 11 010 offered two resolutions decla r i ng against further subsidies to railroad or o th er corpora ti on s, and 3i; 4 se t tle , r i . grants of public lauds, e x c e pt to ac tual The first resolution was a d o pt e d— yeas 90, nals u but the second—a ga i ns t l an d gran t s — w as till/ I°a by 56 majority, Mr. W as hb urn , o f I n di an a, saYipgtv that it would interfere with the Soldiers' Be as `'d Bill. The Naval Approp r i a ti on Bill wa s passe d with an amendment red uc i ng th e i tem f or the rht,,":. delphia Navy Yard one-half, Mr. Kelley advocat i ; the reduction. M r . B u tl er, f rom th e A p propriat ion Committee, reported a resolution, which was Pas sed, a l calling for inf orma ti on as t o w h e th er Nati ° . ti o banks have e x ch ange d go ld-b ear i ng for rag' s i Railroad Bonds, &c. The resolution for rop ey of disqualified office-holders in Virginia and rre'c'i was reported and passed. Mr. Wood, of NewY c ' ri,, spoke in Committee of the House. v oo, On the 19th January Mr. Ela, of New oa from the Printing Committee, reported a resnl att ia i for the printing of 30,000 cop i es o f the SP ec , io Revenue Report, which gave ri se t o co nsider av ir discussion, after which it was adopted. Mr . 25.s i l e ley's bill to pr eserve th e pur i ty of elections i ° , ; - i „ a territories was p asse d. Th e Senate bill g proviu'f; r for the transfer t o th e F e d eral Courts of snits loss of prope r ty i n trans i t over railroad, stea i na" hio, " and express lines during the war was conc urred 0 , The Senate bill i n a id of the Denver Pacific 113 b. road and Tele grap h C ompany coming up Mr.Wac:to bourne, of Illi no i s, spoke in opposition to it, 313 0 o f similar measures. H e sa id t h at near l y one-thir ef the public domain and untold millions of w °ll o o had been gr an t e d to ra i lroad corporations, all'oer passage of thi s bill wou ld b e g i v i ng sanct i on to ° ga s r project s i nvo l v i ng two hundred millions o f d°' of to aid in the construction of ten thousand w ile ' railroad. bil l On the 20th Jan. Mr. Shenck introduced a . . e0 " to str eng th en t h e pu b l i c credit, " wh i c h deel3;vl United States Bonds payable in coin where th e tha t has not expressly provided otherwise ; provide s c gs before such bonds are paid at maturity, gree nb3 co ia shall be convertible int o co i n , an d l e galizes dioo contracts. Mr. Farnsworth, f rom the Pe st-e kin g committee, reported a bill restricting the fra ll orar privilege. The first section requ i res the ali‘ ° ° s ou signatures of the person using the privilege; 0 the second directs the payme n t o f postage °, fre e matter mailed to such person, unless declarea s . es ,/ matter by law. On motion of Mr. Ferris, e t N it York, the second section was o m itted, and th e to was then passed. A bill remo v i ng disabilities fro jaci a large number of ex-rebels wa s reporte d a ver passed. The Senate bill granting aid to the P 1 314 Pacific Railroad was considered, and advo cated Messrs. Kelley and Covode. fror On the 21st Jan. Mr. Norris, of Alabama' the Reconstruction Committee, reported k ; AP' directing the Secretary of the Navy to In d e roi pointments of midshipme n t o th e Naval Ae' c l io n ot before the sth of March, from States whic h m Job: elect members for the 41st Congress prior to Di: next, on nominations of p resent C ongre ssmen' io ed ' bill was passed. M r . Shellabarger intron ° , bill to regulate appli ca ti ons f or t h e removal, ° ,'Stioll tical disabilities. M r. Cook, from the -r-a s , tho Committee, called up th e resolutions declar i° l o George W. Anders on i s not, and that Switzler is, e n titl e d to a seat from th e in diat Missouri District. Th e fi rs t resolution, elced—iiino Mr. Anderson, was d e f ea t e d, an d t h e (Act* , 5 the seat to Mr. Switzler, was laid on the table. by 0 9111 ,.1 . [ ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Pills.--Frea- - - t i er P - p ' t —Nine-tenths of our ailments might be a ltoget_ er e $7.1 vented or directly cured if the first faulty actions 17.. right. This great end is accomplished with vrottuopt opted certainty and safety by Holloway's pills, which ar i l v oit e d to the stout as well as to the frail, and are eq":1,1 3 to every constitution and climate. They purify that seat of life and source of health, w hich in its go Eying streams, diffuses regularity and vigour 00°3,100v the system, and gi ves every organ i ts pro per netu r tion. Many stomachic maladies though simple 511citherout by Holloway's t rea t ment at their onset, become , j a tile" neglect or mism anagemen t , both very troublesome progress and vary serious in their results. Births. e 00 0/' . FEVERSIIAM—On the 4th inst. at at Albert-gate , v tTi- soi jj, toss of Feversha ni , o f a daughter. IfENNELL—On the 3d inst. at at Oakwood , °re „ 0 . the wife of A. G. H enne ll, Esq., of a daughter. O WHITE —On the 2d inst., at Croydon, Mrs. F. of a son. Marriages. , ar ldo, fo, :g GADSDON -BARTLETT—On the 4th inst., at a Ua Great Ilford, George John, second son of Char i o JaV don, Esq., of Park House, Stoke Newing ton/ 13 0{0f elder daughter of the late John Bartlett, of Essex. S o uth n er HARKER —COCKERELL -On the Ist inst., at '''„d1, 1 0 0 1 wich, George Harker, of Richmond, SurreY , 3 ., - e bta Thames-street, London, to Clarissa, eldest dlr. George J. Cockerel), Esq., Upper Sydeuhautill - _ _ i a JO ° Deaths. CANTIS —On the 4th inst., at 509, Old Kent" ' joiiil Cantis, Esq., aged 85. iv . gr. CouDY—On the 31st ult., at Chelsea, S. " " Cl' u Cordy, aged 72. Fr Aci il l DENISON—At 1, Cavershain-road, Kentist-town.,, (1.e.0 Denison, SuL-Lient. It..N , second son of gar'''. 0. of Sir Wrn. Denison, K.C.8 . ., aged 24. Joh n Orl )e " Forms -On tho 3d inst., suddenly, Mr. J°-- 11 011' 45, Sloane-square, Chelsea,* ' aged 61. 1 1 , t ifffi WEST—On the sth inst* ,Mr Jams Neat, of 3' / park-road, aged 51. 0 London : Printed and Pablished by WIL LIA '' - 14° °f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at DIE Suli Oiltoooiti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill Middlesex.—Saturday, February 6, Ma r S rel.. 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