The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT' OF TUB FIIBLIC -4.- The Tones refers to the brief discussion in the House of Lords on Monday respecting the retirement of bishops lisabled by age or infirmity, and remarks that it is difficult %) understand how so obvious a necessity can have been 30 long neglected. In no other profession or service would such a state of things be possible as has existed for many years in the diocese of Exeter. In the law or the civil service, in the army or navy, no man could retain posts if active authority who was no longer able to perform active duties. Due arrangements are made for superan nuation and for pensions, and it is found that, in spite of the love of work or of power which an energetic career may induce, men are generally very glad, as infirmities increase upon them, to avail themselves of opportunities for retirement. There cannot be any insuperable difficulty in providing similar facilities in the Church. The difficulty, in fact, has already been surmounted in three recent instances, and arrangements which were rendered possible by special Acts of Parlia ment for the dioceses of London, Durham, and Norwich must be equally practicable under a general 4et of Par liament for all dioceses. As often happens, however, in this country, it has needed an extremity of inconvenience to bring about this simple and common sense reform. When the whole South of England, from the Fore land to the Land's End, is practically destitute of episcopal superintendence, the abuse can be no longer overlooked. In other affairs, however good the organisation, everything depends upon the fre quent presence of the chief among his subordinates, upon personal vigilance, and the encouragement of the eye, the hand, and the voice. Beli3ion, we are constantly told, and we fully believe, needs this per sonal influence more than anything else, and nothing is more evident than the vigour which is at once inspired into a diocese by the appointment of a new and energetic prelate. The great scheme, for instance, of the Bishop of London's fund is due, above all things, to the earnest per sonal efforts of the present Archbishop of Canterbury. The machinery, in a word, may be very perfect, but what is needed is a man to make it work. The bishops, perhaps, are rarely well-advised on such points as these by those who surround them, but their clergy are much less contented with these mechanical arrangements than they are themselves. We may now. hope that the evil will be remedied. But it must be owned, with Lord Lyttelton, that it would be more satisfactory if the bishops themselves sheaved a little more anxiety for the efficiency of their order. The Standard says that Mr. Fawcett could hardly have used a more dangerous and more imprudent argument than to remind the House that the Irish Church Bill is likely soon or late to be drawn into a precedent fur the construction of a measure to disestablish and disendow the Church of England. This is undoubtedly true ; as undoubtedly it is a truth which Mr. Gladstone has obsti nately denied, which his party have done their utmost to conceal, and by ignoring which they have succeeded in carrying the constituencies with them. The avowal of that which has been so long, so loudly, so passionately denied, not only gives the lie to his leader and his colleagues, to the Liberal party and the Liberal press ; it gives the alarm at a critical moment to the friends of the Church throughout the country ; it warns tens of thousands of honestly deluded Liberals what they have really been doing, and what are the real intentions of those who have deceived and bamboozled them ; and it enhances in no ordinary degree the perils which still await the bill. The amendment might not be peculiarly obnoxious to Mr. Gladstone ; but the speech certainly must have dismayed and annoyed him extremely ; and he would no doubt have given away for ever the benefit of Mr. Fawcett's vote and support to have silenced him on Monday night. But the truth has been avowed ; the warning has been spoken ; and it behoves the friends of the Church to take note of it, and to see that Parliament and the country are not allowed to forget or to overlook it. The Telegraph declares that Monday's discussion in the House of Commons will be memorable as the battle of the Tithe Commutation Rent Charge. A majority of 148 — the largestwhich has yet been recorded in a division on the Irish Church Bill—affirmed Clause 32, by which the Government provides for the redemption of that charge at the hands of the landlords. The greatnessof the majority is worthy of remazic, for the clause is unquestionably the most puzzling part of the bill. Mr. Gathorne Hardy has called it a specimen of financial hocus poem Sir Michael Beach brands it as a combination of sacrilege and bribery. Sir Stafford Northcote has spoken of the pro posal in much the same terms. Mr. Fawcett thinks that it robs the Ireland of the future in order to benefit the Irish landlords of the present. Even Mr. Gladstone has termed the scheme " a financial puzzle ;" and, as Mr. Fawcett hints, it has been defended by some Liberals, not because they consi dered it just, but because they fancied that it would "grease the wheels" of Irish landlordism, and help to push the bill through the shoals of committee. Nor, at first sight, can any wonder be excited by these conflicting statements. At present the tithe-rent is a charge payable on all the soil of Ireland for the support of the Church, and payable for ever. But the Government proposes that, after the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church, the landowners shall be enabled to make such a bargain with the State as shall for ever free their property from the burthen. With the passage of Clause 32, one of the main remaining difficulties of the measure has been overcome ; and we may confidently rely on the correctness of Mr. Gladstone's anticipation, that before Whitsuntide the bill will have passed through committee. The Herald thinks that the work of Church spoliation goes on bravely in the House of Commons. One of the most important clauses in Mr. Gladstone's bill was passed on Monday night, after an animated discussion, in the course of which objections were raised to it on both sides of the House. As far as the principle of the measure is concerned it matters little what is done with the tithe rent-charge—that tax upon the landlords which has hitherto been devoted to the maintenance of the Establishment. The justice of the disposal of it provided for in the 32nd clause will seem fair or unfair according to the manner in which it is regarded. The view which seems popular now-a-days is that these Church funds are the property of the State, and may be applied by the State to any other purpose which it may think best. This view, as suggested by Mr. Fawcett on Mon day night, may be brought to bear at no distant date on the question of the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England. This vaster project has not yet occupied the mind of the leader of the Liberal party, but the possibility of it seems continually suggesting itself to a large number of his supporters. Whether the intellect which we suppose still to be slowly ripening will in course of time mature to the full grasp of this grand conception, whether the appetite for confiscation will grow keener with what it has fed upon , time only can show. We can never prof ess t o b estartled by anydnenvoetloEe ment of Mr. Gladstone's convi c ti ons, and it cannot doubted that the success of his onslaught on the Irish Cnurch, supposing it to succeed, will p ave the Way to the demolition of a system coeval with it. The Daily News, in commenting on Mr. Sumner's extra ordinary speech on the Alabama claims, says that English. men have read his speech, and have been astonished at the boldness of its rhetoric and the still greater boldness of its logic, and they are asking, "Is it possible that these can be the words of a responsible statesman, one of the fore most men of the, American Republic? There can be no doubt that the tendency of a speech like this, by a man of Mr. Sumner's eminence, is of a nature to produce in certain circumstances a grave situation. At present nothing has been done, the consequences of which it is not in Presi dent Grant's power to control. At the same time, it is not too early to point out what must be the effect of declarations of this kind, if they receive any sanction from those who are the official representatives of the United States towards this country. Englishmen, of course, can have nothing to say to any decision which the Government and people of the American Union may think called for by their honour and interests. But we are sure we may express the confidence and expectation of the whole country that the Queen's Government will maintain a firm position against all exorbitant demands, of whatever nature they may be. Our Government has been supported in a policy of conciliation and concession for reasons of which, happen what may, we shall never be ashamed ; but there is a line beyond which concession is weakness and renunciation of duty. Mr. Motley, or whoever else may be sent here to represent the United States, will find the same honourable desire for peace, and the same good will towards his country which dictated our part in the treaty rejected at Washington; but the Queen's Government will disappoint the expecta tion of the country and prove itself unworthy of its trust if it did not entirely and firmly repel every attempt to trespass upon the honour and rights of the nation. have done what lay in us to compose disputes and settle difficulties which grew up far more out of the unhappy circumstances of the time than out of any want of good feeling towards the Amer:c Republic ; now it is for the Government of the - United States to consider what , it owes to the cause of peace, jus'Ace, and incrnational lam TOLL ON - VELOCIPEDES.--At Ramsey, on Friday, a turnpike collector was summoned for illegally demand ing' and receiving the sum of 2s. Gd. as toil for a velo cipede. The defendant contended that he was em powered to make the charge under the Act; but the Bench told him that neither in the Local Act or the General Highway Act was there any clause under which the toll could be demanded. He was fined six pence and costs, the magistrates at the same time order ing the restitution to the plaintiff of the 2s. 6d. illegally received. • - ,i; ISCEtLAiVEOI%S NEP S. THE Mts.' CII I it! II There was a large meeting yesterday in St. James's Hall, London, which demonstrated in beh:df of the Irish Church. Some influential members of Parliament took part in it. CORK AND DERRY. Cork and Derry, the North and the South of Ireland, the city of Roman Catholicism and the Orange Corporation, are in an equally unsatisfactory state. The language of the mayor of the former city is not, unfortunately, denounced on all hands. He has found defenders; and, amongst a class by no means insignificant, he is the hero of the hour. He does not stand alone in the council room, but has friends ready to adopt his language as their own. Only when amongst the magistrates does he seem to be friendless. The patriotic citizens, as they call them selves, have been holding fetes to commemorate the courage which Mr. O'Sullivan has shewn. A large open-air meeting has been held, and passed a vote of confidence in the spouter of assassination. His " persecutors "--thcse who interrogated him at the Town Council—were condemned as traitors, spies, and informers. The Mayor has also addressed a meeting. lle disavowed all sympathy with assassina tion, and expressed confidence in Messrs. Gladstone and Bright. Tar barrels were then set alight in his honour, and the Nationalists rejoiced with exceeding joy. All this is most sad ; but the worst part of the story is that it is very doubtful whether Mr. O'Sullivan will be removed from his post. "A B arrister," who writes to the Times, giving the law, leans very decidedly against the possibility of calling the chief magistrate of Cork to account. The law, as laid down by this correspondent, would make a distinc tion between treason and the words of the Mayor of Cork. The only statute under which he could be indicted provides against inciting any person to war against the Queen. The Mayor did not do that. His words are too vague to be laid hold of. If a crime were to follow his words, he might be brought up as an accessory. But the words themselves are not a crime. To attempt the life of any other but the sovereign is a mere capital offence, not treason. Lord Cairns thought the Mayor might be unseated by an ex ( I /fie/0 information in the Court of Queen's Bench. The correspondent seems to doubt, however, whether this would be effectual. Mr. O'Sullivan said what is imputed to him when outside his official capacity. A special statute (10th George 11., c. :A) was found necessary to displace the Provost of Edinburgh, who was accused of neglect and misconduct in relatiOn to the f am ous Porteous riot. Will not the same be required for Mr. O'Sullivan ? Meanwhile, the police-court is the scene of d:s zraceful squabbles. The magistrates are quarrellinc• v . ;*! - ‘ : . !!e •,('. I. t: . .:r.t'.Z•l . ;1 ..ses ;;:st. Pr7llco enollgh. refesed in T,l :6 :,.;:>!.e 11 , 3 could not go there. The origin of the riots at Londonderry are being in To lay the principal fault on either side is impossible. The Ilibernian band in the pro cession was allowed precedence of the 'prentices' band. This produced unpleasantness in the latter company, which was increased as the Ilibernians c.ntinued to follow them about. Stone-throwing, however, seems to have been commenced by the Orangemen, and was succeeded by pistol firing. The firing of the police will probably form the subject of a close inquiry, and the old question of firing without orders in riotings will be raised. The place has been proclaimed by the Lord- Lieutenant, under the Peace Preservation Act. There seems, however, to be very little re-:son for apprehending any renewal of the disturbances. AN A TOLOGY TCII 1711. ED:CET. Mr. Bright's org:n egtnds Mr. Bright's lapsul linguee on Friday night. The Mcrning Star will not see anything improper in one member of the Cabinet, and that one not the chief member, declaring, with referenc3 to the question which is, above all others, the most important, "I" am prepared to introduce a measure for dealing with that. question. It is a great pity that it should be thought neccs3nry to defend a clear blunder like this. That it wi s a blunder the Star itself would have admitted if the Marquis of Ilartington, cr any other scion of the aristocracy, had committed it. It is none the less a blunder on the part of Mr. Bright, although pardonable in a man who has spent all but a few weeks of his political life in fighting for his own sword. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. In spite of Sir Francis Grant's zasertion at the Royal Academy dinner that every " accepted" picture this year has been placed, there is more than usual dissatisfaction among artists on account of the rejec tions which have taken place. It is not merely that artists little known to fame have had pictures sent back which not merely " partial friends," but good critics, thought safe to be exhi bited, but that some artis's well known in every way have been among the excluded. Altogether nearly I,ICO pictures have been ttlrruil away, many of them of far greater merit than some of those exhibited. So strong is the feeling of resentment that it has been determined to ttart another academy, and it is stated that f.:S,CCO was subscribed on Saturday among well-known patrons of the fine arts on the Stock Exchange, although May 1 is a dies non so far as 'Change is concerned. It is hoped that the movement thus vigorously begun will, next year, result in a formidable rival to the Royal Academy. THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. It is expected that Mr. J. L. Motley, the new American Minister to England, will be at his post in London about the Ist of June. Ile intends to sail from New York in the Cuba on the 10th inst. The Time Philadelphia correspondent s a y s his instructions are not yet completed, but Mr. Motley and the Secretary of State have been in consultation at Washington. They do not, however, seem to have made much progress, for the Government scarcely knows how to deal with this question, which becomes more and more difficult. Amid all the bluster of American politicians and writers, there is no serious design of war. The new Secretary of State, Mr. Fisk, is indeed decisively of opinion that it would be foolish to hazard a war with England, and counsels moderation. What kind of moderation will be found possible after the rejection )f the treaty it is difficult to say. THE MERCHANTS' COMPANY. Mr. Richard Stuart Lane does not seem to have learnt well the proverb " Least said soonest mended." He has been condemned as morally guilty of fraud by the Lord Mayor of London, but lie dies not let the matter drop—he will not wait till the world forgets it. He writes to the Times telling his story over again, and protesting against the decision of the Lord Mayor. Ile asks of Mr. Alderman Lawrence ' who made him a judge" that he should decide such luestions, forgetting, apparently, that the laws to which Mr. Lane is bound to submit give Mr. Lawrence, as magistrate in some sort, that office. Mr. Lane goes on to say that he is in every respect responsible for what has been done. He sees nothing wrong in what he has committed. Ilis defence is that the prosecution has confused two very distinct things. They point to losses in his business which we not mentioned in the prospectus. But these losses, Mr. Lane declares, were not incurred in com missions, th e l eg iti ma t e b us i ness o f th e fi rm —th e business sold—but in speculations on cotton and shares carried on by the firm, but having nothing to io with its proper transactions ' • and, therefore, not necessary to b e men ti one d when the business was sold. A JUDICIAL `WIGGING. A Rev. Mr. Johnson has presented a petition In the Court of Chancery to wind up a limited liability company, called the Cheltenham and Swansea Carriage and Waggon Co. Vice-Chancello r Mathis administered a severe wigging to the petitioner. It appeared that some time ago the shareholders were asked to say if the company should go on or be wound up, and it was agreed that those who wished to retire from the company should do so. Mr. Johnson, however, had not availed himself of ,this privilege, but had actually decided in favour of going on. The company did go on ; it reduced its debt at the banker's nearly one-third ; it entered into a remunerative contract with the Russian Government, and is now in a position to discharge its liabilities. The Vice-Chancellor therefore said that Mr. Johnson had seemed resolved to make himself as disagreeable as he could, and instead of applying to the directors for the amount for which he was liable, which no doubt they would gladly have paid, presented this petitiop. His honour then went on to comment upon the petitioner's conduct in terms of great severity, and concluded by dismissing the petition. EMIGR.tTIOIN". It is satisfactory to find that there is a competition going on for our surplus labour. The only danger which was feared—that we should be dis3harging our paupers into a country where they were not wanted, as of old we discharged our criminals—does not, therefore, exist at the present time. The Pro vince of Ontario ciarmeliy Upper Canada) i 3 about to advertise extert Maly in this country the advan tages of that paittikAtlar colony. Placards will inform the passers-by that tto the small capitalist, to the tenant farmer, to the &dile(' and the unskilled labourer, Ontario will accord a welcome, while supplying man y material advantngcs. The small capitalist will there receive fI her cent. interest with first-class security ; tenant farmers will Lave it in their power to buy and -- stock - a farm - at the price they rent and manage one in Great Britain, good cleared brill with a dwelling and barn on it being purchasable for from £4 to £lO per acre while for labourers there will be plenty of work at high wages. To those who are willing to become per manent settleri.. but are unable to ounihase Tilt SUN, LONDOY, , TtTESDAY EVEN 100 acres will be given gratis. The more Upper awl Lowar Canada and the United States advertise their pe, - ,uhar advantages, the better fer the country which can offer the poor labourer no other inducements than the casual ward and the stone-yard. here, and the Embassy is being renovated. As far, how ever as I can judge, there is no official intercourse pro bable unless the Czar makes up his mind to accept the Pope's terms, i.e., the recall of the Polish bishops to their sees, and the withdrawal of restriction laws against the liberty of worship for the Polish and the Russian Catholics. The great increase of revolutionary agitations in Russia has, however, alarmed the Government, and the religious sects, all holding subversive principles, and numbering 22 million fol lowers, are rapidly sapping the old Muscovite orthodoxy, and therefore Roman Catholicism, always conservative in its tendencies, is not at the present moment what Russia most dreads. Moreover, he is very anxious to make his Polish subjects believe that he is on excellent terms with Rome. Prince Vladimir's visit to the illumi nations of the Russian Consulate for the Pope's jubilee, and the present report, which is traceable only to Russian sources, -are so many means of creating this impression, which a few weeks will dispel or justify. As yet it is not confirmed by any reliable information. The Queen of Portugal is seriously ill, and is ordered by her doctors to go to Nice for the summer. She will arrive in the first week in May. The Duke and Duchess of Parma left for Austria last week. They are on their way to Hohsdorff, where they intend spending some weeks with the Count de Chambord. TILE FOREIGN MISSIONS. (From the Anglo •American Times.) General CASSIUS CLAY corrects an error reported about him in a letter we publish to-day. The difference, however, is not material, as we presume the discussion at Washington was whether ANDREW JOHNSON should observe the conditions with which he coupled his resignation, which would naturally raise the question whether an officer of the Govern ment could lawfully dictate the terms whereon he would resign. That Mr. ROLLINS did SO, is true; but he was backed by the Legislature; while many con sider that the Executive was right, however un popular, and Congress was wrong; though might lying the other way, right succumbed. Mr. MONTGOMERY GIBBS was long the favourite on the PRESIDENT'S list for Consul-General to Paris. He was strongly backed by the Ambassador, E. B. WASHBURNE, wholeaving Ne W York to-day, we may expect in lest than a fortnight. What effect the attack of the Nation had, we cannot tell ; but Mr. GIBBS, though thus powerfully supported, failed i e getting his name sent to the Senate ; but it is doubtful whether he desired the change proposed from the post he has held for many ye irs which he has just returned to Europe to resume. Tne New York Evening Post may, by its furious assault on General SANFORD, have injured him with the Senate, who, we learn, has rejected the promotion designed for him by General GRANT from the Belgian Mss pion to that of Spain. How this rejection came to pass we do not yetknow, as the Foreign Affairs Commit tee had agreed to report favourably on the nomination. While we freely acknowledge the right of s journal to c:iticis: the nominee for an important public ap pointment, it ought never to be absent front the mind of the writer in such a case that the person criticised being on another continent cannot reply, nor take any measures of defence from his ateer sions till the whole matter is settled. The Post :legit's by mis-spelling the Ministers name while proceeding with assertions which require au iodinate acquaints ' aucewith him for the writer to know. That his tastes and habits are un-Republican is a very general and safe mode of criticising a public officer, and one worthy of M'CRACK EN. The Post should first I.:y down what it considers.to be Republican tastes and habits. The Republican habits and tastes of Maiae differ a goof deal from those of New Orleans, and we would like to have a standard whereby to mea sure the Republican tastes and habits of American Ministers. Some such charge was brought against Mr. MOTLEY, who was pronounced to be by one who declared himself to be a Republican authority an "unmitigated flunkey," and this haslately been re newed with great bitterness by the World. We do not know whether CHARLES SUMNER is considered to have Republican tastes and habits, or to be a qualified judge of them in others e. but, if so, he has mule some mistake in Mr. SANFORD, as well as in Mr. MOTLEY,_for he is, we believe, an earnest friend of both. Mr. SANFORD, the Post says, has no ability, anl that he acquired his position by bribing Sena tors. He must be a very virtuous man who passes this wholesale condemnation of others, among whom Senator FENTON has received the largest dose. Mr. JONES has been nominated toßel e iutn, and it was said that General SICKLES, after refusing Mex . ca and one or two other appointments, was offered Spain, but also declined it. A report he has contradicted then spread that he called on 1110 PRESIDENT, by wb, , m he considered himself to have been slighte.lon learn ing that the Spanish Mission had been filled to tell hitia so, but this and other stories of the same sort are we believe wholly untrue. He has, how ever, retired from the army on the full psy of a colonel. Governor CURTIN'S nomination( to St. Petersburgh was virulently attacked by Senator CAMERON, who not only questioned his acts as Gover nor of Pennsylvania, but also his integrity. Where men fight as is the Quaker S:ate, even leaders of the same party opposing each other with the bitterest animosity, more so indeed than the common enemy, , we know how to appreciate such charges, and ex- Governor CURTIN being on the spot, the same objection does not hold as in the attack on General SANFORD. The opposition, however, was of no avail in the Senate, powerful as Senator CAMERON undoubtedly is in Penusyl vania. Mr. MOTLEY, who has been receiving lessons from the late Attorney-General on international law, was soon to take his departure for Etigland, filled to overflowing with instructioes. He will be empowered to embrace a wide range with re and his di r ectio n s are said spect to future tresties, to differ entirely from those given to Mr. C. F. ADAMS and to Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON. General ADAM BanEau accompanies him as Assistant-Secretary of Legation. Mr. MOTLEY desired this arrangement, probably to have one near him who so iiitiraately knows IhePRESIDENT, while conducting negocistions of such an important character for, General BADEAu has long served on GRANT'S pers3nal staff, and commands his full confidence. This distinguished officer will, we feel assured, meet a hearty recep tion in England, where he at least can be " dined," swear some after dinner eternal friendship, and be treated with a little extra civility, without rousing feelirgs of indignation. Mr. MORAN remains ia his present post at Mr. MOTLEY'S especial request, who will thus be fortified by one who knows all the negotiations and records of this office ; and, on the otherhancl, in Badeau, by an officer who commands the PRESIDENT'S entire confidence. The publication of the SEWARD-HALE-PERIIY correspondence in the public papers almost. as soon as it reached the Senate has caused much surprise and no small scandal. The documents were not worth the fuss likely to . be made about them, and it only shows what the indefatigable reporter will do. What we publish of the correspondence was in type last week, but crushed out by an unexpected demand for space, which shows that we, at least, did not con sider it to be of such overwhelming interest to our readers. How it became public is to be investigated, and authority has been given to a Committee to send for persons and papers. EDWARD L. PLUMB, the new Consul-General to ilavannah, is about to leave Washington for his post ; emphatically in structed to take high ground as regards the itnpri sonment and ill-treatment of American citizens by the Spanish authorities, while declating the strict neutrality of his Government. Although as our list of nominations, given in another column, shows a successor has been named to Consul-General MURPHY, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, his is the only one in that grade not yet sanctioned, and ws know that it caused considerable di,cu4sion, as the present ineu.nbent is strongly backed at Wash ington. Senator CARL SCHURZ uses all his in fluence in favour of Mr. PILE for the Bra- zilian Mission, but when the mail left the Senate had not decided, nor in the cases of Mr. CAIILISLE for Sweden, nor of Mr. JONES for Bel gium. The Committee of Commerce report on the Consular appointments, and four-fifths of the names sent in were passed by that Committee on the 16th April, and the most that remain will not be favourably reported on, but it is thought that many of the nameswill be withdrawn, indeed many already had been. Although Mr. IlArtvEr was first no minated as minister to Portugal, it was announced when the mail left that Judge SHELLABARGER, of LORD IVILLOUGHBY VERESLY. It is well for the credit of the British peerage that there are few peers who would venture to outrage public opinion in the way Lord Willoughby D'Eresby has done. Everyone will remember that scandalous trial in which he was sued by the lady who had formerly lived with him as his wife, and whom, on coming into his title and fortune, he turned off. Everyone will remember the Lord Chief Justice's severe remarks upon the defendant, and the still severer comments of the whole newspaper press. It will be remembered, too, that the suit was referred to arbitration, and that Mr. Vernon Harcourt decided th it the lady should receive £lOO a month, 525,000 down, and £l,OOO .a year •as rent. Nevertheless his lordship, who has rn l'ome, we believe, of i7'0,000 a y e ar, bas paid only ;300 a year under the award, and the lady has been so embarrassed in consequence that her creditors have im prisoned her for debt, and her health is now broken down. More than that, they even demanded bail, unr7er the pretence that she was going to run aw:.y from her creditors. As this would be running away from her income lil:ewise, one cannot help suspecting a siecial motive for, and instigator a hidden of, proceedings so needlessly harsh. In the meanwhile Lord Willoughby D'Eresby is a second time the theme of universal scandal, the object - of universal condemnation. TWO DUKF.S OF WELLINGTON. Saturday was the centenary of the birth of the first Duke of Wellington. As long as he lived he used to keep up the memory of his battles by a grand banquet at Apsley House. Most of the Waterloo and Peninsular veterans have followed their great captain into the other world. Yet surely the second Duke of Wellington, might have honoured May Day. 1769, by some sort of gathering on M'y Day, IWo. Perhaps be feared that the contrast between the ilrst and the second Dukes of Wellington would be too striking. THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. A Bath paper states that " though feeble in body, the Bishop of Rath..and Wells is perfectly well able to attend to business." It would be interesting to know wherein our contemporary supposes episcopal duties to consist. When a bishop has to be carrice, up and down stairs, and his journeys are confined -to a perambulation of the palace grounds in a Bath chair, it is difficult to understand how he can accomplish the overseeing of his diocese, which is the essential meaning of the word "episcopacy." When Lord Derby's attacks of the gout became more frequent, so that he was often confined to his room. he resigned the Premiership, although his mental faculties were perfectly unimpaired. U.s lordship has since then recovered and taken part in the debates of the House of Lords. The recovery of Lord Aucliland is impossible, yet he does not resign. It comes to this, that what would be unpardonable sticking to office in a statesman is perfectly justifiable in a bishop. What wonder if the world says that the Church can very well get on without her chief rulers? THE DAGENHAM DOCKS. The unfortunate shareholders of the Dagenham Docks are still suffering from the caprice of Sir Thomas Freem ntle and the ten other commissioners of her Majesty's Customs. A short time ago the Treasury were asked to receive an influential deputation on the matter, but declined, on the ground that it was not in their eepartment. It was then proposed to wait upon the Customs' Commissioners, and several M.P's. were prepared to back up the directors, but the commis sioners declined to receive M.P.'s, on the ground that they (the commissioners) were not a political body. The docks have now been inspected by competent engineers, and the directors hope that, in conse quence of their favourable report, the commissioners w:11 not be any longer able to refuse the necessary license. But is it not disgraceful that a great under taking which has received the s:lnAion of the I. eg's lature should be hindered by a tanglement of red tape in this way ? Things could hardly be worse in Italy or France, where every step has to be won by a liberal payment of backsheesh. THE FIRST CLUB-HOUSE AT BIRMINGHANI. Club-houses are no longer to be confined to the metropolis. The joint-stock palaces, which the ladies dislike so much, are spreading to the provinces. Birmingham has erected a refuge for gentlemen. The Midland metropolis opened yesterday a large club-house, built in the Italian style, capable of accommodating 700 meinbers. The building is said to be very fine, mil will form one of the ornaments of Birmingham. THE PAPAL STATES. Agb. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) R . THE. APRIL 27. Tl•c Austrian alliance with Italy is not yet afa it acme p 7 , as the cession of the Trentino is a condition which the Catholic party 5n Austria and the province itse'f ale resolved to combat to the very last. Tient lqis just sent a. large sum of money to the Pope, and among the many members of her noblesse who leave enlisted as simple. Zouaves, may lame the Count Josef di Paoli, who took service last week. ~ -, etters from Vienna speak of the suggestion o: a mixed occupation of Rome as impossible, as the Austrian Liberals would not retard the fall of the Temporal Power by a day; and the Austrian Catholics would join those of all other countries in oppo sition to the insult implied in the presence of the Italian troops in Rome. In Florence a withdrawal of the French Corps E..7editionnaire is looked upon as certain after the French elections, and in such a case the attack of 1E67 would probably be renewed. In Rome itself an optimist view seems to prevail, and far too much reliance is placed on the discomfiture of the Garibaldians in 18G7. Another invasion would now be attempted, if at all, with the ban et arriere ban of the Italian army, and the whole " ciangeroas class " of Italy, and would be a very different matter to the levy of raw boys and canaille or. Mentana. Moreover, l;;wouldhava the full benefit of Mazzini's direct aid and experience, and, as nearly certain, the under hand help of the - United States, whose fleet is relied on by the Mazzinian party, as pledged to the unfortunate role of Admiral Mundy's squadron in !.8.60. On the other hand, tl:e Pope's position, as not exclusively dependent on France, is greatly improved, and the Catholic party in Italy is strengthened by the recent , gathering in Rome. The entrance of Germany on the Ultramontane stage is a great event, and this has ci n. siderably lessened the danger of an attack, although it has by no means assured its not being made. A meeting of the heads of all tl - e national Catholic committees now in Rome was herd yesterday, Count von Biome (married to a daughter of Count Bush) repre senting Austria, ; the Chevalier Dexmet, France ; Mgr. Stonor, England M. D'Emptine, ; and von Glieeland, Bolland. Measures for the better organisation and mutual understanding were discussed, and r. common plan of action decided on. The maintenance of the Papal army costs above £600,000 annually, and the levy oz the usurped provinces £800,900, making a total of £1,490,000, to !ie supplied ".iy - Catholic funds. The feast of St. George was observed w tle English contingent of Zouaves this year with great festivities. The young men, above sixty in number, and among whom were Messrs. Vavasour, Stourton, Watts, Russell, Collingridge, Woodward, Weimar), Vansittart, Maxwell, and Errington dined together rt Cie Parigi. Mgr. Stonor was in the chair, and gave fie Pope's health, which was drunk with a genuine burst of English cheer ing, and then, in a very excellent speech, he: l'irjesty Queen Victoria's, impressing on his young hearers the duty of every English Catholic of being a loyal subject to the Crown, and alluding to the baneful effects of treason, rebellion, and sedition, which they, in a most special sense, were pledged to oppose at home and :.broad. There was evidently very little necessity for the Zouave chaplain's appeal, for a scene of great enthusiam followed, the cheers only ceasing to give place to the "God save the Queen," sung in chorus, to the great astonishment of the Romans. The Pope received the English Zouaves the same day, and singled out especially the " veterans," and the sur viving brothers of Julian Russell and Alfred Collingridge, both killed in action in the last campaign. A soirée to the Catholic gentlemen now in Rome was given at the English Zouave Club in the evening. Victor Emmanuel has', the telegrams of this evening inform us, left Naples, Prince Napoleon arriving in his yacht an hour later ; and as the royal visit had been timed expressly to meet the Prince, this hurried departure is the subject of much comment. All along the line the King was hissed at the sations, and cries of "Abasso la Monarchia ! " "Viva Mazzini!" " Viva Garibaldi !" saluted hirn. The conspiracy of Milan is considered to be far from arrested. Its ramification s extend to every city in Italy, and to Naples and Florence especially. The Italian Government has made a strong remonstrance to I. Pioda, the Minister of the Swiss Confederation, against Mazzini's residence at Lugano, and as it has not ol,ta'ned any satisfaction, it has established a cordon of troops across the Ticenese frontier, with the object of preventing the passage of Mazzinian agents, by whom the nzot d'ordre has been given from other parts of Italy. The Garibaldians disclaim any complicity in the Milan plot ; but no one gives any credit to this disavowal, as both Menotti and Ricciotti have been con stant visitors at Lugano this spring, and the former was on his way back there when the arrests at Milan were male. 1 - 11.! resun plop of diplomatic relations between the Coles of Rome and St. PetersLurg is currently reported NO, MAY 4, 1569 Ohio, would get the post, which the cable clnfirms. It has been noticed that the Western men get the South American appintments, and the Eastern men those to Europe, perhaps on the principle of sweets to the sweet, and roughs to the rough. Maine has.one Consul-General an:l four Consuls ; New Hampshire, two Consuls; Vermont, one Consul ; Massachusetts, one Minister, one Consul-General, and one Consul ; Rhode Island, one Consul; Con necticut, one Minister and three Consuls ; New York, one Minister, two Consuls-General, and seven Consuls; New Jersey, one Consul-General, and two Consuls; Pennsylvania, two Ministers, one Secre tary of Lngaticn, and seven Coasuls ; Maryland, one Minister and one Consul ; West Virginia, one Minister; Virginia, one Consul ; North Carolina, two Consu's ; South Carolina, one Consul ; Louisi ana, one Minister and one Consul ; Texas, one Minister and one Consul ; Arkansas, one Consul ; Tennessee, one Consul ; Kentucky, one Consul ; Ohio, two Ministers and six Consuls ; Indiana, one Minister and two Consuls : Illinois, two Minis ters and five Consuls ; Michigan, one Minister and three Consuls ; Wisconsin, one Minster and two Consuls; lowa, one Minis' er and two Consuls ; Missouri, two Ministers and three Consuls; Min nesota, one Minister; KausAs, two Consuls; Cali fornia, three Consuls ; Oregon, one Consul ; Ne vada, one Consul ; Utah, one Consul ; and District of Columbia, two Consuls. The following named States have thus far received no foreign appoint ments : Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska. SY MPA77-1Y ITV POLI7 ICS. A letter appeared in a London morning paper on Wednesday from an American on the ignorance of the English press regarding the desire of his.fellow, citizens to annex such countries as Cuba, and espe cially Mexico. t;f course, he was contradicted, and . his own ignorance exposed by a flippant evening paper, which professes to know all about everything, more especially when it is genteel. The American merely repeated what Gen. SCOTT had said of Mexico, an opinion held by the best informed, that its an nexation would bring a deluge of barbarism into the Capitol. He e,timates the Senators to which a population so extensive would have a right at 13, and the Repre entatives at twice that number. He does not explain how the " odd" Senator could get in, as they always run in coupes ; but ace pting this calculation, and a powerful influx is shown as the result into the very citadel of American freedom of bigoted Catholic Indians, who, on the whole, are even preferable to their half-caste or Spanish de scended fellow-countrymen. And for what ? To ac quire a territory, more than half of whiei is irreclaim able desert! Americans consider that they have evil influences enough at Washington without the addi tion cf such an element, which they know cannot be produc . ive of good, but. might probably produce evil. There are, in truth, two conflicting feelings at work, the one an aspirttion fur unity— a eontineotal Ad ministrati,n, in such contrast to what prevails in Europe as to be the r• verse ; the other, a detire to make the best of present circtunstaocos, a convic tiou that the country is a!rearly too large accord ing to its population for comfort and good govern ment, te:Titorial ad litions but increasing the evil. The former is the dream of the future, the latter the present bard m iterial fact, which any English inan feel on going evea a shirt distanc , into t'43-eciintry from New York City. These conflict ing ideas convey to foreigners an erroneous impres sion, making America appear to act a contradictory part. The masses give uleranee to the sentiment, and what they say is hear 1 over the world, whilc it precedes the action of the Arlauni,tration the dry legal facts, which is felt, and the action is not in accordance with the talk. So it has been with Cuba. Notwithstanding the overwhelming vote of the House on the resolution of its Committee on Foreign Affairs in sympathy with Cubi, notwAh standing the arguments of the press and the frantic oratory of the Cuban patriots se there I over the Union, the ?hiladelphia c mrespeuileut of the Tinvs telegraphed last Wednesday to Plinting-Imse square, Ow— " The Government will not interfere in the Lubin affairs 7 .urther than f,r the protection of American in terests. Two we, 11, , ago the belief was that some act of recognition woul.d b; made, but the views of Government changed on intelligence b ing r, , ceiyed from Cuba that the insurrection could not sustain itself without acCve foreign aid. As recoguhion m , ght involve America in a war, any idea of interference seems to be abandoned." This, if it were possible, ought to make Englishmen corn rehend the character of the news supplied by such pretenders as the Owl, but we have no hope, for they continue as ready to receive and the press to publish any seas u.ioual rutnoar intended to ex cite ire and keep alive the discord which, unfortu natay for mankind, appears to be the normal con dition between Et:gland and ktneric t. Those who read that portion of the American pnss which in fluences the Administration could have anticipated when the Owl wrote the course of the Executive at Washing , on as the exposure of the Cuban re volt had been as comolete as that of the Fenian. It is true, Cuban patriots had supplanted their Irish competitors in New York, where they alsc had established a Republic, working vigorously to gather in subscriptiorp, waging from platforms war to the knife with Spain, and in spirit-stirring words sketching the downfal of the whole lin of tyran nical and effete European Governments. I)TfroN says that "lhey who world be fre them-elves must strike the blow" and a pity Republic d o es n o t wr;te tlie3Jit is that the :words over an arch far the cohaderatio•t of the incoming pa triots Alto pass into the Sia es prefaced also by BYRON', query, . 4 Kilow y.! not." Why s ould the Kaathlic be male th.a tool of every comarubity of conspirators stocked with chip-trap to spout from the balconies of New York bonzes to cheering thousands The patriot is fetetl, the patriot is pa tronized, and it is something to be patronized by a great, nation. He forms the subject of sensational leading articles, thousands beg for an introduction, parties contend for the honour of lionizing him, and this is all gained at the expense of an easy flow of language. What wonder, then, that no oppor tunity is lost of playing this safe and agreeable role in the Union. But while the people are en joy i r.g their little excitement, they have• no idea of the injury sustained by the Auaerictnnarne abroad. The world considers the Republic to be the fte of established Governm , nts. The Hoti . Se of-Repre sentatives, which assented to an.solution encouraging the bogus Fenian Republic, passed another of sym pathy with the Cuban Republic, while neither had much more of an existence than an office in New York. The one aimed at the dismemberment of the United Kingdom, the other of the ::panish Dorniniohs, yet both were assented to by the popular branch of the National L gislature, while urging the Executive to enforce demands against England for its sympathy with the American re bellion. The trath is, that the Anglo-Saxon race, while as ignorant and as little capable of appre ciating the sentiments of foreign communities as Hottentots, insist upon meddling in foreign affairs, and interpreting the feelings of other nationalities by their own. In consequence, the expression of England's sympathy has been a tissue of pernicious mistakes, with that one of overwhelming magni tude in the American Civil War. If the English went to the utmost extremity of wrong on that occasion, considering that the quarrel was between their own English-speaking cousins, how can they be qualified to decide on the rights of a national dispute in Spain, in Italy, in Austria, in Turkey? Perhaps nothing has tended to make the English snore hated than the ignorant injustice of their freely expressed opinions of others, and the stupid obsti nacy with which they have taken up the wrong side. In America the case is somewhat similar. The people there, arc equally ready as here tl pro nounce a very decided opinion upon a quarrel which equally divides the most intelligent men of an in telligent nation. Living further away, not having so large a class wholly to devote themselves to study, to travel, and to politics purely for the sake of power, Americans are even more ignorant of Continental European matters than the British. The country_ in the inagnitild.3 of its unoccupied land, in the liberty an] e;!dom from want of all its citizens, is wholly dissimilar to Europe, yet they apply in judg ing European questions the " American view," and, taking it as an infallible tee, endeavour to square the circumstances to that pattern, and arrive at such resolutions as those so strongly advocated by General BANKS and favoured by the Representatives. Instead of wishing to be unjust, it is the generosity of their nature which piompts to this action, and so often enables designing men to use them as their tools. Hard as it may appear to say so, the sym pathy and kindliness of American nature have producd harm both abroal and at home, and caused the national character to be misunder stood. The Red Republican, who aims at disorgan izing society and rioting in the saturnalia of a French Revolution, w apostrop!tising Liberty and spouting of Fraternity, strikes a sympathetic chord in the American heart who will not believe in the creature's vice, and that he is simply a hateful out cast of the nation he misrepresents. The same feel ings enable criminals to escape paaisliment, and have led to a laxity of law, and an immunity to crime, which is telling injariously on American society. Sympathy is the worst possible control ling influence for a nation ; yet Congress is over flowing with it ; for the Irish, for the Cretans, for the Cubans, for the Negroes in the Sauth, for the Chinese on the Pacific slope, for any thing that ap pears weak, and has voice enough to cry. There is, however, too much sense to permit this feeling to obtain the mastery ; for the people are too prac tical to let it go far beyond mere talk. The oppo sition daily strengthens to any increase of territory inhabited by inferior races. The African has brought with him woes enough, and it was literally a black day for the continent when he first landed on its shores. Is the Legislature to be over-run with all shades of colour, and the absurdity to be daily witnessed of laws being enacted for the lordly white by men with whom he would scarcely deign to sit iu the same railway car? Nor should it be forgotten that the days of States' Rights have passed ; that centralization now rules. Hence countries, such as Mexico and Cuba, were they in trodUced, would not be still governed locally, throwing an influence into the. Central Adminis tration not strongly and generally felt, but the new States would be rued from Washington, where they would ex?rt a great influence, probably as tools of " rings". and cliques. Before the Republic can admit any States flora Mexico or the Antilles, she must be fortified by the Canadas, and those most interested in this fact are the New Englanders and the citizeLs of the States bordering on the Lakes and the St. Lawrence. It would, indeed, be a mistake to legislate on a dream, or to act on the Utopian conviction that the mission of the Republic is to regenerate savage or half-civilized races, to right the wrongs of the world, and to cram Repub lican liberty down the throats of reluctant peoples. Anglo-American Times. 711 E CASE OF THE SECRETARY ( , I , ' LEGATION AT MA DfilD. Some of the letters rAtiog the squabble in the American Embassy in Spain have now been pub lished. Airrnig them is Mr. Perry's defence of him self, under a very recent d tte from M 4316,1 : "In the spring of 18;7 I was made aware, through a reliable channel, that a Cabinet Council had been held to consider what was to be done ie view of the repeated complaints from the officers of the Customs of the abuse by Mr. Hale of hi.; franchise for the importation of arti eles free of duty. Some of the Ministers were in faiour of immediately informing his Government, but. it was finally decided that Mr. hale shoulci bo informed that the Spanish Geverninent were aware of his operatiens, and expected they would immediately case. It was also decided that if afterward there should be any re petition of the offence his Government should bo informed, and the circumstances published in the official Gazette. This report of what had taken place in the Cabinet was not known to me till after the circumstances which fell under my personal knowledge, and which I will now re late. On the 18th of March, 1867, I received a note from the Chief of the Bureau of Commerce in the Department of State, inviting me to call at his office, as he wished to speak to me about a certain affair. [Vid 3 Enclosure No. 41 1 went, and Mr. Asensi put into my hands some docu ments—among others a royal order from the Minister of Finance, of Feb. 21, informing the Minister of State of the Circumstances attending the introduction of inereltandise by Mr. Hale, for a commerc'al establishment in this city, under his 'diplomatic franchise, stating ant it. was the second offence deuueced, and having it in the hands of the Minister of State to apply the remedy. [Vide lnclo sure No. 3.1 I was then informed by Mr. Asensi that the Spanish Govertnno• t was not disposed t 3 pursue this matter any further than was absolutely necessary to pre vent a recurrence of the abuse, and that Mr. Hale must be informed that if there should be no repetition of the offence the matter would stop there, and no further ac tiou would be taken upon these papers, and that they would be kept entirely secret in the Department. Mr. Asensi said he would be charged with this affair, and by the instruction of the Miui,ter it ha 1 boon decided to call me, and by me to communicate these things to Mr. Hale, as the mode least wounding to his pr;de, and best calculated to arrive at the object proposed. I at first de clined to take any part in the matter, but I was afterward convinced that it was my duty, and that it was a courtesy to my Government not to wish to humiliate the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, forcing him to stand in person before a Spanish official as a convicted culprit. I determined not to refuse my assistance to ease over the matter as smoothly as possible. I confess I still hoped, also, that there might be some examation. In this I was disappointed. I broke the matter to Mr. Hale as kindly and even as tenderly as possible, but his extreme agitation did not allow him to attempt any explanation. He, however, at my suggestion, and iu my presence, immediately addressed a letter to the cominerc'al house in question, who, it seems, were in possession of still another order furnished them by Mr. Hale for the admis sion of merchandise in his name, then expected, request ing them to pay duties on those packages, as if that order were not in existence, and to stop till further importations in his name. - (Vide inclosure No. 5.) This letter was promptly auswerel. (As per inelosure No. 6.) I communicated the cessation of the abase to the Spanish State Department, and the Matter dropped. I soon after became aware, however, that there are certain services which a subordi na t e may perform for a super:or officer which are more unpardonable than any injury. In spite of the secrecy promised in the State Department some con fused indications of this affair leaked out, perhaps from the Finance Derutment. and were made the subject of con versation. A libellous letter, dated on the 17th of April, was published in the New Perk Herald of the 4th of May. seeking to throw upon me the onus of this transaction, and alleging culpability in me in regard to a telegraphic grant, which, however, was obtained and held by me in 1859, two years before I en`ered the Government service here in 1861. This was, not long afterward, followed by an official representation to the Secretary of State of my cul pability in the telegraph matter, made by my superior officer secretly, and without any indication of his inten tion to me. The good faith of the Department seems to have been surprised to some extent by that statement of the .responsible officer of the United States at this Court, for I received a very hard and severe despatch from Mr. Seward, based on that statement, which I have never yet seen. I answered the Depart ment immediately and satisfactorily, still ignorant that my superior officer was the • author of the charge. This I learned subsequently. I bad also learned that the libel in The Herald was done with his previous knowledge, and ho so confessed to me, but avowed he did not write it. From that time to this I have been the object of the most un compromising and rno-t cowardly host;lity from my supe rior officer. Complaint upon complaint has been poured into the State Depart rueii whenever a misrepresentation of any fact giving the slightest pretext could bo availed of. Hundreds of private letters to all the friends and political connections of a man who had lived 25 years in Wash ington burdened the mails, inuring every spring acd wire to secure my removal. A corresponding treatment here of me and my family has been adopted, and relentlessly pursued with the evident purpose of making my life so intolerable as to force my resignation. He has drawn some foreign adventurers about him to aid him, and has made his house a centre of defamation. I have been sustained here by the public conscience and the general respect which comes only after long residence. I have failed to appease Mr. Hale by my silence ; I have cared for the decorum of this Legatiou, and have never criti cised my superior officer, nor allowed him to be criticised in my presence. lle has not Leon able to draw me into any dispute or public scandal hero. At home I have had _only my record, my services rendered to the country, and not one personal acquaintance in any branch of ulie Administration , or in ethl. House of Congress. Under the circumstances, 1. feel grateful t o the - Department that, at m. the surprise of Mr. Male's first charges in June, 18,37, and on every subsequent oc cosion, I have been allowed an opportunity to be heard b '- fore - being condemned. The letter signed by Mr. Hale, Jan. 1, and published in the New York Time.; of Feb. 7, besides some new stir among his foreigners, admonishes me that I ought nut to longer delay the communication I now make. After tit; libel in the Herald seeking to in culpate me, and after the developments of Mr. Hale's un scrue ulous conduct toward me during the summer of 181;7, as stated, I addressed to Mr. Asensi, Chief of tlee .Auresu of Commerce, the pelvate letter dated November 20th, end received his answer dated November 24th. It was understood that I was not at liberty to print the documents, seeing that the Spanish Government hod declared the affair nettled, and did not wish to revive it, but I was authorized to use them confidentially, with my own Government, if at any time it should become neensary for my own de baveltbe honour to be, &c., 11. J. Mr:Y. " The Hon. - Wm. 11. Seward, Secretary of State." An extract from a process is enclosed, found in th department of Finance, whi c h rea d s as f o ll o ws " The Collector of Customs gave i n f orma ti on on the Ist of Oet., '6G,:t hat on e xa m i n i ng e i g ht pac k ages contain ing carpets and other thi ngs f or th e Mi n i s t er Plenipoten tiary of the United Stat e s, was f oun d a case con t a ining e 377 kilograms of cotton stuff, collar crack, and 7 packages containing G 3 kilograms of woollen felt, and 19,950 cf Magueta carpets ; that suspecting, under the law which allows the diplom itic body the entrance of goods free of duty, the interests of the Treasury might be prejudiced, be decided that on the goods leaving the Custom House they should be followed to the place where they were to be delivered, and the result was that 377 kilograms of crack were delivered in the Calle de Cappallanoq, No. 1 0 a store for the sale of linms, and the carpets stud felts at a store where suzh goods aro sold. The direction propose that the Minister of State should bo informed of what had occurred, so that ho may propose to her 31ajosty h steps should be taken to prevent a recurrence of such things. The matter to which reference is made is notablY )(Clown, that it is necessary it should b.) investigated, and some means adopted to prevent in future . a repetition of abuses liko tho ono stated." Two of the letters are addressed to a merchant with reference to the accounts for procuring the importation of goods free of duty. There are so►ne letters from the Hon. John P. Hale, in one of which he states that on Oct. 14 last Mr. and Mrs. Perry took a conspicuous place in ono of the largest public meetings ever held in Madrid : "Mrs. Perry is a middle-aged woman, not far from 5 0 years of age, cud on the present occasion she appeared Ca the stago before the immense assemblage with her lorg hair flowing down her neck and shoulders, and, with stage effect, delivered a short poem in:favour of the abolition of slavery in Cuba. The meeting then voted itself a society for the abolition of slavery in Cuba, with Mrs. Perry as its President. Mrs. Perry's poem was printed and circulated in great numbers throughout the kingdom. This action Mr. Hale pronounces highly improper and reprehensible on the part of representatives of a Government maintain" ing neutrality." This most unfortunate controversy began with a letter from Mr. Seward to Mr. Perry, data July the 16th, 1867. The Sectretary tells him to resign if the allegation be true of his connection with telegraphic or other enterpri&.s. TLis- Mr. Perry Beni, s, asserting that he had entirely with drawn from commercial transactions. The next ig a letter front Mr. Hale to Mr. Seward, enclosing one from Mr. James Eldridg of C difornia, in defence of Mr. Perry. On the Hai Sept., 18 51 / Mr. Hale complained to Secretary Seward of Mr. Perry's discourtesy in having anticipated him ia conveying to Queen Isabella a letter of congratu lation on telegraphic communication being estab lished between the United States and Spain. Mr. ['erry explains that it was unofficial, coming Ireu l the officers of the company as his friends. The re ply of Mr. Hale involves a serious charge. :7," The siinpla fact is, Mr. Perry took the private despate ll of the President of the compa n y to hi mse lf. an d o bliterated the addresS to himself as Vice-President of that company' and the d rtes of both time and place, and gratuitously ill ! Aortimr, what was not true, to wit: that he had received It from Havana; enileavourvd to give it every appearnico 01 being a corruni.nic :lion direct to the Queen; and it w 34 with this spurious, manufactured do3patch, that Mr. ferry was (11 , thled lo anti. ipate ma in the execution wh . ch y"a devolvA oa me by your tlegraphic communication , of t he 12ill of D: ember.,' After enumerating Mr. Perry's discourtesies, the Minister asserts that he is more of a Spaniard than an American, that his family only speak Spanish'' that he has not bean in the United States for I- 3 ' years, and has no idea of resuming c:tizens4 , again asserting his ccnnection with Spanish cot''' . tracts and jobs. Mr. Seward sustains Mr. Perri ;n the telegraphic congra:ulation business, recinv mending an amicable settlement. The next charge was m ide by Mr. Hale on his return from Pali 4, wherein Mr. Perry was accused of attempting to create a feud between him and a Spanish S ate Minister; Perry's defence is termed a direct falsehood, O a his letter a piece of unbecoming insolence and subordination. Mr. Perry replies that Mr. llale's complaint arose from his attempt to ignore him a s a Charg6,i'Affaires during his absence. The next letter of importance was frona Mr. Elate, dated.Feh• 8, 1838, wherein he declares the falsehood of Alr' Perry to be met clearly, and shown by irresistib le testimony, concluding thus :-- " Mr. Seward, I cla'm it as an inc mtestible right in gl o , as a man to defend my reputation when thus wanto nly assaulted, as in the pr,sent case, and I am certainly n u : willin gto send in my resignation until this atroclou' calumny of Mr. Perry's can be refuted." 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High Holborn , ag [ADVERTISEMENT. 1— nolloway's n en t.-21.g 0 ..• 0 50 Pains.—lt gratifying to bear sufferers recount th e tO they derived when first they applied this Ointmloa ulcers, sores, or abscesses, with which they bad A leg afflicted for years. Soon after it application to a 1-ool or inflammatory ulcer it restrains the excitement of bi` arta vessels and nerves, which at once brings coolues B t o , comfort, and furthers the gradual deposit of healthY l i t y, teritils to fill up the ravages caused by violence, de l l' s all or disease. It exrels all noxious matters, and 111 pgSi sores soundly. It gives ease to varicose veins, bad i# and swellings of the feet an d j o i n t s w h en - the ag°o 1 % almost unremitting, and the pain too m uc h fora gi g strength. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), ConstiV Debility, Consumption, and all ncrvons, bilious, stomac h ' c ole • liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and sr 00 rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable bi d Di Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ambler" Food, as Pr °ve cl3 ll4 thousands of eases whieh had be m considered hopeless , 01 100 —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, hwmorrhoids, liver c 0111 ,,P„ht0 8- flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, u're l eir ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears , , o ittv matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, ne tt ralgia , Sob,o', bility, bleeplessners, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, Ile' l ,, e o debility. dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness , ,e, t oe o ; pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tl l. of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and betwe e l:dl l l shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope's health reetOt The Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413—" ome, July 12, 18 ", a- 0( 1 ,1 health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, to V ing all other remedies, he has conlined himself entirely „later o,:oßarry's Revalenta, Arabica Food, of which ne consumes „li t ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly b e ... 11 ,e11 0 , 1j 0 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this es food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2 ., ; .''▪ ',.01 0 J; No. 46,270 -Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of, ' 2 , ( 1, liar t Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of b 10 " 1 Sala derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l.___Lert.,,,psW de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia' No. 49,832-:-"Fifty years' indescribable agony from d3' B ,, P tl so l . „. B ' nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency , s „ r ios•,, o sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Li a i ta tiCT, Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy • to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is 111°- ▪ • ciously attached. 21 0 ' In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s Gd ; 5 lbs Ils; 12 lbifil 24 Ibs 40s. Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA. Cl C. 4 ,50 POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at • s, so', o "t at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 0-1, „ - r a o ` - ‘ , —being about one penny p er cup . Th e 30 s an d 55s tills Or , der , 0 0 t 1 free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office,„, ; BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, L on all Grocers and Chemists, „, LIVINGSTON -On the 3d ifist at 33, Clevelan d-z ' i-l' Mrs. W. P. Livings. of a 'dter. MoNsox,-On th e 29th ton ult., at Kir au i) gh •-under-Dale , the 1100' Mrs. T. Monso n , o f a d aug ht er . 3 ./11 ARRI AG BU ES.. nt ' RNTON—SWYTT -On the Ist inst , Back-ono:1m, 1;-e voc y Spencer, eldest son of A. J. Brunton, Esq.. of T o riffl square, to Janet, elder daughter of Henry _Edward &q., of The Ferns, Deelenliatn. ut e PINNIGER —EVENDEN - On the Ist inst., at Itydt, 131:;°070i pinuiger, of Denbigh llouse, Ilyde, to Sarah, iv• tholaie James Eveziden, of Lover. DEITITS. ,eofr TIERING- On the 2d inst., at 11, Argyll-street, Ve. street, Fredk. Hering, Eiq., architect. l iged od ' d i n o HommG—On the Ist inst., Warm:n3ter, Nit*" spinster, aged 91. 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