The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Times, in examining the arguments advanced by the Protestant declaration to which a thousand deputy lieutentante, magistrates, and gentlemen of Ireland have attached their names, pronounces it to be a singular pro• duction. We need not go through this singular declare• tion. Its propositions can be supported by no person of authority in the united Parliament. It strives to cover the weakness of the original title by which the Protestant Establishment holds its endowments by acts of subse quent recognition, and its authors at last work themselves up to the astounding assertion that ii is not within the moral competence of Parliament to overturn the institution they would defend. They do not understand that the recognition of a bad title by the man who sets it up and claims under it is worth nothing—it must be recognised by the other side to gain any force—and that the assertion that Parliament is not morally competent to abolish the Irish Establishment is simply begging the whole question. There remains another fallacy, and it is the last we shall notice. The Protestant laymen declare it is an error to suppose that the Roman Catholic peasantry contribute, by pay ment of rent charge or otherwise, to the main• tenance of the Establishment, because the rent charge is mainly paid by Protestant landlords. We might answer that Mr. Gladstone proposes to give back the tithe rent charge to the landlords, but we prefer to rest on a surer ground. The tithe rent charge is paid by no land lord. It is a national inheritance, reserved for public uses from a date far older than the ancestry of any existing Irish landlord—we believe we may add, as a strictly his- torical fact, older than the recognition in Ireland of indi vidual property in land—and to talk now of the tithe rent charge as paid by landlords is to repeat a fallacy so often exploded that we can scarcely understand how it can be once more advanced. Strong in the sense of the righteous ness of the cause, conSrmed by the weakness of the attacks of its opponents, we bate no jot of our hope that the Establishment of Ireland, too long the scandal of our justice and of our political capacity, will, before the close of this session, be overthrown. The Morning Post observes that the commissioners appointed to investigate the subject of trades unionism have published their report, and we regret to say that it displays a very serious conflict of opinion in respect to the best mode of dealing with the matter submitted to them. There is no doubt very great difficulty in concocting any scheme which will at the same time afford to the opera. tires the full enjoyment of their right to impose whatever conditions they please on giving their services to employers, and at the same time protect the latter from those strikes which so frequently paralyse trade. It is equally difficult to prevent voluntary associations of men who consent to be bound by certain regulations as to the conditions on which the members shall accept employment without striking at the foundations of that liberty of action which in a free State every indivi dual should possess. Now, looking to the recommenda tions of the majority of the commissioners, we very much fear that there is a good deal to which the working classes would object, and not altogether without a show of reason. Some middle course must consequently be taken, and it will be for Parliament to decide what that course should be. The door of escape, if any there be, is, we believe, in furnishing facilities for courts of conciliation and arbitra tion rather than by coercive legislation ; but we fully agree with the report of the majority that these courts should have the most ample powers, and that their deci sions should be conclusive, and strenuously enforced. The Standard considers that one after another the barriers which- separate the soldier from the rest of the community are being broken down. And now the first report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the present system of punishment for military offences proposes to remove still more of these marked points of difference between the military and civil population. They submit some of their suggestions relative to military punishments at once, thinking they should be acted upon without loss of time, especially as the abolition of flogging in the army renders it all the more necessary to revise carefully the remaining punishments. And they commence with laying down a doctrine, which is unquestionably sound, that no man who has undergone penal servitude should be retained in her Majesty's service, and so that it should be only had recourse to where the crime is so serious as to involve dismissal from the army. Surely this is the dawn of a new era, when dismissal from the army is to be the highest punishment that can be awarded. The whole report of the commissioners is based on sound reasoning, and is suited to the nature of our army and the times ; but certainly no portion of it will carry more weight and meet more universal approval from officers and civilians than their concluding recommendation that greater facility should be given for the discharge of soldiers who, from repeated convictions, afford grounds for believing that they are beyond the power of reformation ; for that the continuance of such men in the service tends to demoralise the young soldier, and is otherwise seriously prejudicial. The Herald declares that successive Liberal Adminis trations have strenuously opposed all attempts to protect children in print works from the excessive and torturing labour imposed upon them by their remorseless task masters. This scandal and disgrace of the system have been denied with an audacity which it is not easy to understand. And this, too, in presence of the admitted truth that Factory Acts were passed in order to remedy a state of things which in its cruelty was absolutely infamous. But if the Legislature be sincere in the sym pathy it professes for these over-burdened younglings of the community, it ought, and it might at once, without waiting for any further reports this waiting for reports is the Old Man of the Mountain in Parliament—to enact that no distinction shall in future be drawn between print works and ordinary fac tories. If there be a difference it is in favour of the latter. It may be conceded that an occasional demand may cause a sudden emergency in the print market ; but we legislate for women and children engaged in other branches of industry ; we do not permit seamstresses and milliners to sew and stitch after a definite hour on Saturday afternoons; we forbid the toiling and spinning of children in cotton factories, excepting during a specified time of the day, and let us hope the date is near when those horrid truths told in the last report on agricultural gangs will no longer be quoted to our shame by the press of Europe. It was written centuries ago that civilisation meant mercy, and notwithstanding some cold technicalities in the discussion of Tuesday evening we cannot imagine a member of Par liament undertaking a more creditable effort than that of mitigating the severity, the dreariness, the gloom, and the monotony of children's labour. The Star says that it would be difficult to analyse the feelings which from year to year conspire to make the University Boat Race a metropolitan if not a national festival. The cynic may ask with a sneer whether the over-mastering interest in this annual exhibition does not . encourage habits at variance with the intellectual exertions to which universities are devoted. He has undoubtedly large scope for his sharp tongue, both in the practice itself, and the motley crew who are drawn to give their promiscuous presence. He has a right to remind us that it is the mind which makes the man. We admit it all with due humility, but we would appeal to him, whether the united testimony of ancient literature and history is not in favour of the beneficial result of the various innocent games of the Greeks on even the mental development of the race. Our old friends the Romans, again, with their usual thoroughness, when they once fairly became ena moured of a pursuit, went to extremes in the matter of wild beasts. As their voluptuousness and luxury increased, they gave themselves more and more up to the stimulus to Ise derived from the amphitheatre. Had they only encouraged boat-races on the Tiber among the young patricians, instead of combats of gladiators with tigers and with one another, the fate of Rome might have been different. While Spain clings to her bull-fight, England may fairly take credit for refining her sports, and confining teem to bloodless exhibitions of the trial of speed of horses a:id the power of sinew of students. Whether the latter is destined to endure in such companionship we cannot say, but we bid the cynic draw his deductions from what he saw of the bedizened crowd of Wednesday. The Telegraph regards the Customs and Inland Revenue officers with wholesome awe. No man who has any pre tensions to a place in the middle class escapes the all watchful glance of that great band of legalised freebooters, commissioned by Government to levy blackmail of six pence in the pound on every income. "Here comes Mr. Winter, surveyor of taxes ; I'd advise you to give him whatever he axes ; for, permit me to tell you, without any flummery, though his name may be wintry, his actions are summary." So impro vised Theodore Hook, thinking, doubtless, with mournful humour, o f th e c h ampagne, the hunters, the opera-boxes, and the costly late hours which, as he told the income-tax collector, denoted, not his "income," but his "outgo." The surveyor of taxes is a tremendous personage to tolerate in a free State. He is such a despot that, had he been created by any consul like Cicero, the Romans wo u ld h ave torn him limb from limb, and pitched his remains into the Tiber. Indeed, when describing the authority which the State had given to the officers of Inland llevenue and C ustoms, Mr. Glalstone spoke almost with bated breath. He hinted that if he were to tell the House all he knew about those powers, the members would be horror-struck at the terrible despotism which Parliament had coupled with salaries of £2OO a year. And, as he added, we are in such a p os i t i on that we cannot . do without the despotism. The Eoard of Inland Revenue must be a great vigilaTlC , , c omm i ttee; its officers musthave something like absolute power over a large body of manufacturers ; and under no other conditions can our revenue be levied. Mr. Atonlr. is quite right in saying that it is hard to debar alarge class of men from a life of political activity. But, though hard, it may be necessary ; and in this matter the Revenue officers suffer in good company. In an unanswerable speech, the Prime • Minister pointed out that other classes of citizens were subjected to the same disabilities ; that Government con tractors like Sir Sydney Waterlow, though perfectly honourable men, were incompetent to sit in Parliament ,• and that the members of the police force were debarred from taking an active part in political proceedings. Mr. Monk's friends cannot have their cake and eat it too. They cannot be at once surveyors of taxes and political agitators ; they may not unite the functions of the tax collztor and Mr, Bplgil. . --- THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. THE START. It was nearly four o'clock, and the tier of steamers ranged above Putney Bridge had been a long time impa tiently wheezing and wallowing behind the umpire's boat, when Dark Blue was first see= upon the water. Every one could perceive at a glance that Oxford had, as is her wont, eigbt aquatic Anakim to row for her. They came out leisurely in their jackets and caps, and swung round to the starting-barge, where they were held to the Middlesex shore by the rudder yoke. A minute or two more and Light Blue :merged from the shadow of the boat-house, rowing along with the same quiet paddle to the barge. The Oxford men surveyed their competitors as the eights came together, and there was a general " unpeeling." Comforters and coats were loosened with one band, while the other kept the oar-blade on the water, and this toilette of battle was soon and dexterously completed. Mr. Chitty, the time honoured umpire of the lists, now stationed himself like an animated figure-head in the bows of his vessel, the youth ful athletes bent forward with the edge of the blades " huntry " to clip the water, and the word " Off !" was given by Mr. Searle. The start was fair and prettily effected, but the first grasp which the dark blue blades took of the river lifted Oxford sensibly ahead. UNTOWARD ACCIDENT. At this moment an accident occurred by which the intense excitement of the moment may be understood. Looking back from the position of advantage occupied by the privileged steam vessels, an ugly sight was iiible in the thick of the ruck of those following. A screw tug had jammed her gunwale under the sponsor of a paddle, and was heeling right over into the thronged and churning river, the water halfway up her decks, and people on board dropping off into the tide, and frantically scrambling into the craft on this or that quarter. Horrible as the accident looked—for it seemed that the little tug must fill and go down among the furious paddles of the steam fleet—the attention of those closely following the university crews wavered a little between the race and the peril, and then gave itself up to the race. No lives, fortunately, were lost. THE RICE. For the first few strokes the nose of the Oxford boat shot ahead. However, this lead was not of long duration, for the Cantabs, having settled down to their steady way of rowing, at once began to make up lost ground, and before the first bridge on the towing path was reached, the lead, if any, was in favour of the Light Blue. From this spot to the point the two crews kept their respective distances, but when getting abreast of Craven Cottage, the Cambridge boat—in rather more stream, though slightly wide—had now a perceptible lead ; still, in the full sweep of the tide, which here runs diagonally to the boat's course, the Light Blue ship gradually chewed in front, the Oxonians taking a shorter course in shore, but one upon the shallows and out of the tide. This lead of the Cantabs was responded to 15y loud shouts from the bank, Which were redoubled when it was seen that instead of keeping their distance only the Cantabs were adding to it. By the time the two boats were opposite Rose Bank the Cambridge crew were three-quarters of a length to the good. At this point the steering of the Cambridge coxswain had been as good as his opponent's was inferior, but by making too far for the Surrey shore before sighting the dummy at the Suspension Bridge, the Oxonians got the benefit of a straight line to the centre arch, while the Cal-itabs had again to go out to clear the pier properly. Here for the first time the signs of flagging were perceptible in the Cambridge boat, and for the first time since the start were some of the men out of stroke. FROM BARNES BRIDGE. The race was virtually- over at Chiswick, and when the heats carne in view from Barnes Bridge the Cantabs were beaten 1...; least two boats' lengths. They never gained ground afterwards. The stneke from the steamers was the first signal of their approach. Certain dots in the water, moving on its surface like insects, and hacked by a black wall of battering rams, each vomiting forth its quota of steam and smoke, were the first things recognised. Then couple of white streaks stealing rapidly onwards, and in another second sliming what looked like antennae in the air, were said to be the boats. A moment more, and the colour of one set of antennae was said to be darker than the other, and simultaneously with this discovery rang out the words " Oxford first." Therest is soon told. The Cam bridge men looked fagged and sorry as they glided by, but pulled with a steady,regular stroke, while the Oxford crew went by easily, and in far better form than they promised a week ago. A perfect fleet of steamers puffed up imme diately afterwards, three of them coming into collision nuder Barnes Bridge, to the outspoken satisfaction of the spectators ; Lir they had resembled nothing so much as a floating wall, advancing to engulf the hindmost boat ; and the crowd, whose sympathies were aroused, protested loudly against the unnecessary risks to which their favourite. the Cambridge boat, was exposed. TILE CTIOWD. The bill at Epsom on the D,.rby-day ; the course at Hampton on the Thursday; Regent-street at an illumina tion time—if night were suddenly turned into day ; a Loudon festival at which all classes are represented, and upon wh.ch an influx of educated , provincials had suddenly come—any of these were represented. The dubious brougham, with its bevy of painted brazen women, cackling, blatant, hoarse—the well-apprinted drag with its aristocratic cargo, all clothed in white mackintoshes, as if in obedience to some secret sumptuary law ; the Cockney riders, addressed generically as " tailors," driven from the towing-rath, and earning not blessings by their bad horsemanship and clumsy ways upon the carriage road ; the family coach, well laden and well provendered; and with sight-seers of both sexes and all ages, absorbed in interest ; the hired carriage of university lads, joyous, noisy, and a little inane—all these were crowded and crowding together pell-mell. THE RETURN. The million was generally dissatisfied : they wanted Light Blue to win ; and what general cheering there was, was good-naturedly given to the defeated boat, as it paddled lack along the southern shore. Oxford kept to its own side in returning, and was as nearly as possible swamped by one of those odious and übiquitous little screw tugs which make the Thames above bridge hideous and perilous. A brutally mismanaged craft of this description steamed at full speed past the victors, and sent its offensive wash right over the gunwales of the Oxford boat, all but sinking it. The Dark Blu,s were luckily near their own stern-barge, and got on board it, for another such experience would have set them swimming. Nor must we fail to remark that two conspicuous examples of insubordination were set even in the upward course, whereby the office of the umpire was rendered difficult, and the eights endangered. to say nothing of the discourtesy of pushing before the steam-vessel which bore the royal standard of England and carried the son of the Queen. THE DINNER. The crews dined together in the evening, and compli • ments were passed on both sides. The Cambridge men thanked their coach, Mr. Morrison, an Ox ford man, for the way in which he had trained them. Mr. G. Morrison said he hoped that he 1a 1 done some good at Cambridge and laid the foundation of good rowing there. The Cambridge crew had made z, good race of it with an untrained No. 7, and if they hid done as much as they had with an untrained man, what might they not have ex pected with one in good condition? Next year Cam bridge would have a better pick of men. The Cam, he could assure them, was not an engaging river to any man, and to him, an Oxonian, the least engaging of any river he ever saw. If Cambridge had won, he said, he would nut have offered his services again ; but that not being the case, he should, if Oxford did not object, again go to Cam bridge (though he had no wish for six months' hard labour and coach their crew. A MONSTER. A human monster, a female child with two heads, was born a few days ago at Zerbst, A careful examination has shewn that the spinal column divides into two at the first of the true vertebra, and that from this point two perfectly developed necks and heads proceed. The breast is half as broad again as is usual, the limbs simple and well formed. We have not yet heard in how far the internal construction of the breast is simple or complex. It appears that the child died in the co urse of birth, from the pressure of the two heads against each, ether.—Galignani. CORRUPTING MILITARY STUDENTS. James Quintlan, aged 18, of 2, Nelson-street, St. Peter's-square, Hackney, was charged at the Woolwich Police -court, on Wednesday, Tinder Lord Campbell's Act, with offering Indecent prints for sale amongst the military students at lVcolwich. The prisoner had been previously in custody for offering similar pictures for sale amongst the cadets of tile Royal Military Academy. Henry Somerset Irassald said he was 17 years of age, and a student at Mr. Mulcaster', establishment. The priso ier, who had been turned m t of the premises on a previous occnsion, came and shewed the students a number of prints, and he (witness) gave bin: *ix books in exchange for one of them. The books were educational works, which his father had bought him prior :0 his coming to Woolwich. The prints were handed t the magistrate, who, after turning over a few of them, ,poke in the most unmeasured terms in condemnation of the prisoner's conduct in selling prints of that description to s'.udents of 16 or 17 years of age. Mr. Maude ordered the prints to be retained, with a view of their being Act exa of minpedarmlioarmeemnth: he ute p ly r , m a n n is d e i d f i f il thndtaot h come should wit hinmehay thc effectual punish men t, and ordered the prisoner to be 12/221 up on a future say, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,- MARCH [B, 1869. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) THE QUEEN'S LEVY.—Taxes. THE PAYAIASTER-GENERAL.—Mr. John Bull. AGRICULTURAL MACHINES.—Farm labourers. " PARTY PEocEssioNs."—Going down to supper. THE HEIGHT OF FASHlON.—Ladies' Hair as now worn. A SWEET IDEA.—Giving sugarplums to children, if not an act of bonhomie, may surely be regarded as an act of bonbon-homie. BIS DABIT.—Mr. Eastwick has postponed his motion on Central Asia. We thank him. If he would only add tc his kindness by going thither and delivering his speech, our happiness would be complete. LEGAL CHARGE.—A contemporary stated that "The trial of the great Nun case cost about two hundred and fifty pounds a day." A Cockney friend adds, that was about a Nun•dred every two hours. A SAINT REHABILITATED.—St. George, in his character of a gallant knight on horseback, spiking a dragon, was dis gracefully removed from the sovereign ; and Mr. Punch has scarcely cared to take a sovereign since. if ho does, it is only to do like other people, and because that coin does as well as au other to shy at a waiter after dinner, and in ex change for the,cigar-l . gbt. But St. George, as the jolly rap padocian Baker, has never had half justice done him, and Mr. Punch inclines to consider him in this light. The notion came into h's head at St. George's own Hall, nearly opposite the Polytechnic, the other night, while he was listening to the Christy Minstrels, who made musical the echoes of that highly superior edifice. It occurred to Mr. Punch that be would write them an opera, to be called George, the Cap padocian, or the Brace British Baker. We hereby copyright the idea. ,There be passages in the life of St. George which would not only delight, but inQtruct. We should not leave out the Dragon, but should put him in a new light. George was brave, but a cheat. The Dragon was the type of the Magistrates who seek to prevent bakers from cheating. Wd should not give George the victory, though he gets it now a-days, thanks to the imbecile idiotcy of Vestries, but we should repress him by means of the beautiful Princess. We forget whether Cappadocia is a place where blacks live ; but no matter ; we should certainly let the Christy Minstrels wear their sable, though we never could comprehend why really charming melody should come more pleasantly through redded lips than from an artist's natural mouth. Yes, we are rather nuts upon our Cappadocian opera, and shall pro bably give the scenario at an early date. Meantime, go to St. George's Hall, and hear the Minstrels ; for they are exceed ing good, both in serious and comic work, and they have excluded all the vulgarity which used to make Punch long to break the woolley heads of other days. (From Judy.) " A STRAIGHT TIP."—" Direct bribery." THOUGHTFUL HOSPlTALlTY.—Entertaining an Idea. A " HANGING MATTER."—The Sword of Damocles. To BANDMASTERS.—Does the " March Wind" enter into the composition of a "Military Air ?" A METROPOLITAN PECULIARITY.—It's strange that Bow should lie in the East, and Harrow in the West ! DISTANCE " LENS " ENCHANTMENT, &C. - Artist (Photographic) : " Oh yes, Mum, we can take anything—. we can take the sun, which is millions of miles off." Old Lady (struck with an idea) : "Oh, you can. Then, if you would besergood aster take half-a-dozen of my son in Austeraylia, which it's only thousands of miles off, I should take it as a favour." (From Fun.) THE END OF A " FAST " LIFE. —Starvation. THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.— Mr. Iron monger, Mayor of Wolverhampton. A HERO OF FinaxcE.—Mr. W. E. Edwards, Ex-Official Assignee in the Court of Bankruptcy. A " TRULY" LIBERAL POLICY (recently displayed by the Crystal Palaca Company—read this announcement, never mind the bull).—" Guinea Season Tickets Free I " PITCH AND Toss. : —lf instrumentalists require new horns in consequence of the alteration of the pitch, does it follow that mad bulls will require new horns for their toss ? The question leaves us on the horns of a dilemma. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. the establishment will remain open unto every arvUici. in pawn is redeemed by the owners." The result of the debate in the Lords was, however, no sooner made known than this and similar announcements were withdrawn. from having the slightest public effect. The result is natural ; on these topics the public become more and more ignorant. Fifty years ago the foreign relations of America were more equitably adjusted than those of any other nation in the world ; to day they are assuredly not in a good way. It, was only the other day that a number of discontented Irishmen planned, under the protection of our 11 , 1 g, the invasion of a country with which we were- at peace. They organized, equipped, and despatched an army across the Canadian frontier. It seemed as if we were returning to a stateof nature when a nation pretending to be civilized could permit such prac tices. Many of our newspapers and orators ap plauded, and when President Johnson, prompted by the simplest dictates of duty, doing what he ab solutely had to do, arrested the movement, and per formed the one act which entitles him to the respect of the country, abuse was showered upon him from every side, and the affair was spoken of in many quarters as if one of the inalienable rights of man was to take advantage of neutral territory to orga nize thieving, murdering attacks upon his neigh bours. Again, a little later some of these same in- vaders, being captured, were held for trial. The law was simple enough ; they were on the same 'ooting with pirates. But a cry was raised that their being American citizens made a difference, and the trial was spoken of as an insult to this country and the invasion of American rights. The Admi nistration was reqr,ested to expostulate, and, al though nothing had been done except to treat a crime as a crime, we seemed for a while to be really nearing war." It considers such humiliations might be avoided if the people could hear the reasons which influence the most intelligent and cultivated body in the country, and thereby escape th injury done by the House of Representatives, whose de bates are published, wherein are prescribed the rela tions of nations to one another. Although the Senate is the assemby which ratifies treaties the House is the great forum of debate on Foreign relations, and ➢lr. Banks, and Mr. Robinson, the " faithful Fenian," are the instructors of the people on inter. national law. The Tribune argues very forcibly the injustice done to the United States by the conduct of England in permitting privateers to prey upon American commerce. Remarking on the correctness of the New lurk limes that the war would have ended at least a year sooner than it did, had England not taken so unjustifiable a course, it says : —" But from this sound premise it proceeds to deduce the curiously illogical conclusion that the Senate should declare war or confirm the treaty. The right to declare war is one thing, the duty of declaring it is quite another ; and when there is a reasonable prospect of obtaining reparation without war, an unnecessary declaration of war would be at once a blunder and a crime, and especially would this be so in the case of England and America, which are closely allied by kindred blood, one lan guage, an identity of interest, and a commom heritage of freedom. . . War may arise suddenly, especially since Mr. Reverdy Johnson's too amiable and too undiscriminating affability, and where then would be England's commerce?" Undoubtedly there is a strong belief on this side the water that America has no sea-going ships that could for a moment stand against those of Great Britain, and that her powers are much smaller in constructing such, although very powerful in floating batteries and vessels for coast defences ; and expresssion was given to this by the Right Hon. Hugh Childers in his speech on the Navy Estimates. The London Times also signified this in a recent article, wherein it expressed disbelief in the power of America to sweep England's commerce from the ocean, while it laughed to scorn the idea that it could be done by vessels of the class of the it'abanza or Florida, alike devoid of speed and strength. As regards the capture of the British possessions in North America, the result is beyond doubt ; what the Tribune states being the only course open to the Canadians, viz., quietly to enter the Union and avoid a desolating war, ending in an inevitable conquest. The concluding remarks of the Tribune are in accordance with the opinion of no small section of the English people ; it will take some time to grow more general ; but we verily believe that the end will be what the Tribune suggests, on which we have frequently written, and which forms the subject of a chapter in Mr. Mike's work, Greater Britain. At present we will content ourselves with giving the words of the Tribune, but we will hereafter offer our reasons for advocating such a policy :—" The London Tintes of Feb. 19, in an article on the Alabama Treaty, says: 'We have done our best ; we have gone to the verge of national humiliation to secure a settlement of the question at issue. We sha PARAGUAY-THE STORY OF MESSRS. BLISS AZVD .11ASTERAN. These gentlemen arrived at New York in the Brazil mail steamer Mississqvi, Feh. 21, and after a short stay proceeded to Washington for an inves tigation of the charges made against them by Lopez. Mr. Porter C. Bliss, from Western New York, is about 30 years of age, and eight years ago accom panied Minister Webb to South America, where he studied the languages and the geopraphy of the continent. His appearance indicates what he ha s suffered, and tends much to confirm his story, a does that of Mr. Masterman, an Englishman, who, in 1861, entered the Paraguayan service a , chief military apothecary, on an engagement made in London. In substance their tale is as follows. Benigo, the brother of Lopez, having access to the Treasury at Ascuncion, abstracted a large sum, for which he was tried and found guilty. To avert punishment, he professed to know of a conspiracy, to further which the money had been taken. Minister Washburn, the Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Berges, the Portuguese Consul, 'Masterman, Bliss, and others, were accused. Many were arrested, as were Messrs. Bliss and Masterman when on their way to a United States steamer in company with the United States Minis ter, to whose Legation they were attached. They were placed in irons, weighing about 401b5., and taken 36 miles from Ascuncion after being rifled of everything they had. For weeks they were kept in an open field without shelter until some branches were tied together and covered with grass. A sentry kept watch and allowed no communication, the monotony only being broken when they were taken beforo the revolution try tribunal. Both prisoners were tortured, a musket being placed under the knees and another over the neck with connecting thongs, which, on being tightened, force the head between the knees. When thus fastened the executioner strikes the muskets with a mallet, while a priest urges confession. Under this pro cess, the prisoners, who knew of no conspiracy, in vented one, and Mr. Bliss was compelled to write a pamphlet, and it was from this Lopez made his extracts which so astonished Mr. Washburn, giving what professed to be a full, true, and particular account of the conspiracy in which he had engaged. - 1 At the time Mr. Washburn expressed his belief that a narrative so untrue had been extorted only by torture, and Mr. Bliss, now in the United States, solemnly asserts that such was the case; that he knew of no conspiracy, but that he was compelled to save himself from so horrible a death to invent the story. In this Mr. Masterman fully bears him out. Mr. Bliss adds that he lived on terms of the closest intimacy with Mr. Washburn, as well as with the most prominent foreign families in Ascuncion, and that they could not have been engaged in a conspiracy without his knowing it, yet 500 of these foreigners have b-en :hot for this phantom conceived in the Dictators' brain, a man as cowardly as he is tyrannical. Mr. Bliss alludes to Lopez as a wretched fool, and speaks of him personally as a poltroon ; and he considers it a strong proof of his folly that be should have ac cepted as truth these statements, wrung from men under torture. The greatest care was taken in re vising his pamphlet to make it complete, and in every particular to bear out the charge. He was kept in cessantly at work often 14 hours a day, and some times roused up at midnight. He had to alter and revise the fictitious history at the dictation of the authorities, which, of course, under the circntn stances he readily did, and he attributes his preser vation to having made Lopez believe every word. ,During the time he was writing be had at least a roof over his head and was better fed. Mr. Masterman, after five years service with Lopez, had been thrown into a dungeon for not obeying an impossible order by telegraph. He was kept in a loathsome cell for eleven months, and being close to where the poli tical prisoners were confined he could hear their shrieks and groans, and see them carried back covered with blood from torture. When released he accepted the post of surgeon to the American Legation, offered him by Mr. Washburn, scorning to return to the service of one who had thus treated him ; a proceeding Lopen!ver forgives. He had been most useful as a chemist in improving gun powder works, making fulminating powder, extract ing sulphur from pyrites, and designing terpetios, for he was thoroughly Paraguayan in sympathies, regarding the inhabitants as a brave and noble people, who freely poured out their best blood " in defence of the most hideous tyranny the world could show—for the Republic existed but in name—Lopez ruled alone, with a power so absolute and neves tioned that no one who has not lived in the coun try can form any adequate conception of it." After bring arrested with Mr. Bliss, and hurried to Villeta on mules, with 401bs. of irons hanging to their ankles, he was brought up for examination, brutally flogged with a stick, and then thrust into a hut, where he found Capt. Falcon, and a priest, who acted as secretary. The former said, "A h ! we have got you at last ; now confess that you are a traitor, and that Washburn is the chief in the con spiracy." He replied that he could make no such confession, since, to the best of his knowledge, no conspiracy had ever existed, and that the charges against Mr. Washburn and himself were false Falcon shouted savagely, "Then you w ill no t con fess; I will see if I can make you." He was then placed on the ground outside the hut and close to its thin straw wall, so that the captain, seated within, could hear al that was said, while the priest superin tended the application of the torture called the " Uruguayana"—by which the prisoner had his arms tightly bound behind him by two soldiers, and then being seated on the ground with his knees separated, and a musket bound beneath thorn, one of the men put his foot between his shoulders, and forced his head down until his throat rested on the musket. Another was then placed on the back of his neck, and the two tied firmly together with thongs; at intervals the execu tioner struck the ends of the muskets with a mallet, while the priest continually exhorted him to confess and claim the forgiveness and bounty of the President. After a time he was unbound and another musket added to the weight on his neck, but as th ey were forcing— his head down he threw it forward to avoid the pressure on the throat, and his lips were so severely cut that his mouth was filled with blood, nearly choking him. The pain was so excruciating that he fainted, and on recovering consciousness found himself lying on the ground, while the priest, who had left for a short time, came back saying that Bliss was already confessing, and urged him, as the only means of saving his life, to follow his example, while dull, heavy blows, each followed by a shriek from the negro servant of Dr. Carreras, who had been also arrested, showed that they were inflicting some other form of torture upon him. It was, therefore, useless to hold out longer; Don Benigno, Jose Berges, Carreras, Rodriguez, and Bliss, with many others, hai all been made to say that Mr. Wash - - burn was guilty, and with a sense of bitter humi liation he told them, as they were about to apply ;he torture for the third time, that he would confess all he knew—that is to say, falsely declare that a conspiracy, which he was positively aware had never existed, bad been organized and presided over by Mr. Washburn. The confession was interrupted by incessant threats of the reapplication of torture, for not knowing what he was expected to confess, and forgetting what the others had stated, he was constantly at fault. After the execution of Drs. Carreras and Benitez, both of whom had suffered excruciating torture, and some fifty Paraguayan officers, they were a little better treated. Finally, they were summoned before the revolutionary tri bunal, and informed that their evidence would he read over in presence of two officers of the United States, and that their lives dependel on their ad hering to the depositions. Captain Rains ty was about to ask Air. Masternian a question in presence of two Paraguayans who understood the language, but he entreated him not to do so. The officers evi - dently regarded them as criminals, and treated tht , in superciliously. About midnight of the 10th De cember they were put on board the Wasp, when the following scene occurred :—Commander Kirk land, without replying to their salute, called the Master-at-Arms, and said :—" Take these men :orward, put a sentry over thew, and dou't let THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT. There is another blow in store for Messrs. Newde gate and Whalley. Ministers intend to support Mr. M'Evoy's bill for repealing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. This Act was passed by Lord Russell in a time of excitement, and, like all panic-stricken legis lation, was exceedingly foolish. The Act has never once been enforced, although it has been violated every day by the men against whom it was directed. Nothing can be more undignified than for a great nation like ours to have upon the statute-book measures which are not enforced. If the members for North Warwickshire and Peterborough have not had the enterprise to put the pains and penalties in operation, it is certain that no One else will, and that the sooner it is got rid of the better. The ablest men of the ti me — men lik e Si r J ames Graham and, we believe, Mr. Gladstone— o p pose d th e measure when it was introduced. It will be f or th e l as t t o assist in repealing it. MR. WHALLEY. The hon. member for Peterborough having seem ingly exhausted himself on Jesuitism and Roman Catholicism, has got hold of a new hobby, or rather, has found out a new obleet of aversion, in the income tax. For the future, instead of cardinals, Papists, and priests the House of Commons is to be bored with returns and schedules ; instead of the exorbitant claims of Rome, is to be told of the horrible charges of the tax gatherer. Mr. Whalley commenced operations on Tuesday night by moving a resolution tending to the unconditional abolition of the income tax. Two hundred magistrates, he told the House, had signed petitions in favour of his motion. The reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was intended to act as an extinguisher to the persistent loquacity of the mover of the resolution. But it rather added fuel to the flame. Mr. Lowe rather doubted the good judgment of the 200 gentlemen who had selected Mr. Whalley as their spokesman; and while admitting the magnitude of the question which he brought before the House, left it to be inferred that the Government could not seriously entertain a proposi tion coming from such a quarter. This roused Mr. Whalley's mettle. Ile told the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he was young in his place, that he had therefore no right to be discourteous. But he had also been impertinent. Then, as if antici pating the cries of " Sing, sing " (which, however, did not come), he assured the House that he was suf fering from a severe cold. He could not speak, but he would have his revenge, he would put the House to the trouble of dividing. Here Mr. Bright inter fered, and by a little friendly advice succeeded in pacifying the hon. gentleman. But M r . Wh a ll ey declared, before sittingdown, that the House had not heard the last of the subject; and from what we know of .31r. Whalley, we are really afraid it has not. THE PARTY PROCESSIONS ACT. The suggestion of the Irish Secretary that the debate on the Party Processions Act should be ad journed, in order that the Government mi g ht b e a bl e to state what they intended to do in the matter, did not seem acceptable to the Conservative party. The division list spews that of the 113 members who voted for the adjournment only four were Conservatives, viz., Mr.Bromley-Davenport, Earl Percy, Mr. Talb o t ( W est Kent), and Mr. W'ethered. Two Liberals voted against the motion—Mr. M'Clure and Mr. Whalley. Mr. Johnston, who brought forward the original motion, voted as one of the tellers for the :Noes, whilst The O'Donoghue, who seconded the motion, went into the lobby with the majority. CANVASSING IN GOVERNMENT OFF.CE3. Sir Arthur Guinness writes to the Times con tradicting a report that in his canvass of the Dublin Post Office he was accompanied by the Secretary of the General Post Office in Ireland. " I did obtain from Mr. Cornwall, the secretary of the Post Office, ('writes the hon. baronet), permission to canvass the voters in the various offices of his department, except the sorting-office; but it is not true that Mr. Corn wall, or any of the leading officials accompanied nr, in any portion of my canvass through the Post Office, and I may add that Mr. Cornwall said that under no circumstances would he vote or take any part in the election." COMPENSATION TO 'WORKMEN. A bill is about to be introduced to Parliament, under the auspices of the Miners' Association, to amend the law for Compensation to Worhmen. Its provisions declare that any workman or servant who is injured in consequence of his master neglecting to provide for his safety when at work shall be entitled to claim damages for all such injuries. Whenever power is given to other persons to direct servants and workmen in the absence of the master they shall be responsible for any neglect that may tal-:e place. All actions for compensation shall be begun within twelve months from the date of the injuries received. THE PAWNBROKERS AND THE HABITtAL CRIMINALS PILL. _ We are now informed how very angry the pawn , brokers were at being classed with habitual criminal:3 in Earl Kimberley's bill. They held a meeting just before the clause was rejected, and subscribed in a few minutes £l,OOO for agitating against it. Many of the leading men in the trade declared they would abandon the business as soon as the bill became law. The rejection of the clause in the bill by the House of Lords has, however, altered their intentions. One pawnbroker at the! East end, who is the proprietor of three extensive esta blishments, had large bills printed to the following effect : s " T House of Lords havin g th oug ht proper c h l e ass the pawnbrokers with habit ua l crimito . no more pleeekffill kamittato but now await propositions from the new A( ministration of General Grant.' Is this quite correct? asks the Tribune. Is there any na- tional humiliation involved in England's prof f• ring us of her own accord the amplest repara tion from all that we have suffered from the in defensible conduct of her subjects, and the grave error committed by her Government in mea- suring their. national duty by their municipal law ? Does not the same rule apply in such cases to Governments which applies to gentle men—whose honour never appears more bright and pure than when repairing a wrong, and doing, at whatever personal inconvenience, au act of justice? Under these circumstances, should England promptly and frankly tender to the United States in full satisfaction id the debt she owes us, first, the amount of the Alabama claims due to individuals, and then the relinquishment of her sovereignty on this continent, with the con sent, of course, of her Canadian subjects, might we not, consistently with our national self-respedt, accept the tender as cordially as it was offered, with the understanding thal bygones should be by-goner, and that we would revise together the International Code, and remodel it on that of Washington ? That such an offer will be made to us by England seems the more probable when we remember the length of time through which Eng land and the Canalas have been looking forward to their separation ; that such an arrangement now would but slightly anticipate the early and inevitable future ; that it would more comport with England's truest interest to make the transfer of her own free will and with the free eon- sent of the colonies, and that such an offer, discreetly made, although it would not restore our lost commerce, might be regarded as a proper reparation for our wounded pride, our violated rights and shattered interests. Our people have been displeased, and justly, at the unwisiom which has been ready to swell our indebtedness, at a most inconvenient moment, by indiscriminate and needless purchases, from the North Pole to the Equator, of icebergs and of earthquakes. But the voluntary cession of the British rule in North America, where it has ceased to be advantageous to England or beneficial to its matured colonies, would be an imperial gift, which England might with dignity tender, and America gracefully accept. Such an olive branch from England, healing the past and restoring the good will that has been so rudely broken, would un- doubtedly be scouted by those who are seeking to embroil the two countries in war, from perslnal bate or what Governor Andrew used to call a principle of " general cussedness ;" but we think it might be fearlessly accepted in all honour by the masses of our countrymen, who trust, in the lan- guage of John Bright, " that the two nations, separated as they are by the ocean, come as they are, notwithstanding, of one stock, may be in future time united in soul, and may work together for the advancement of the liberties and the happiness of mankind." According to the Providence Journal, Mr. William Hamlin, of that city, is the oldest hiring Free mason in the United States, if nct in the world. Ho is nearly 97 years old, and has been a member of the order G 5 years. [ADVERTISEMENT.I-110110Wily'S Ointment and Pills A word of promise.—All sufferers from sores, ulcers, s?,or butic affections, and skin diseases may confidently com mence the treatment of their several infirmities with these healing and cleansing remedies. Under Holloway's well tried medicaments the worst cases will soon assume a kinder aspect, and in the progress of the cure the afflicted will not be enibarassed by difficulties, nor disheartened by failures. A little perseverance and moderate attention to the "directions for use," enveloping every packet of oint ment and pills, will enable every invalid to conduct his complaint to a successful issue, and be may feel assured that by following this simple but searching treatment his skin will be made sound, severe suffering reared, and holth rotored. SIR JOHN LAWRENCE. Sir John Lawrence has chosen his title, and though a Scotchman, will take an Irish name, Foyle. He was educated at Foyle College, in the north of Ireland, and bears, we presume, a pleasant recollec tion of his school days. No doubt the ex-Viceroy will be created a viscount, with a pension for three lives. THEODORE'S CROWN. The crown of King Theodore was bought at the capture of Magdala from a common soldier, by a Prussian officer attached to the expedition, and by him was presented to his sovereign. King William having had his attention drawn to Lord Napier's order, forbidding the sale of articles taken by the army, has now forwarded the trophy to this country. The Owl says it has just arrived here, and will find a more appropriate home than in a Berlin museum. Can there be any doubt as to where the crown will go ? King Cole is not likely to let it escape him. THE DANK OF ENGLAND. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the commercial hurricane of 18(30 was certainly not that wind. Though the House at the Corner was blown down, and buried a number of other houses in its ruins, the still bigger house at Threadneedle-street was only the more established. Since then it has prospered so much, and its business has increased so largely, that albeit money has for ever so many months been ranging at from 2 to 3 per cent., it is found necessary to enlarge the premises of the Bank of England by the addition of another storey at the western portion of the building. The truth is, Overend and Gurney was the Bank's chief rival, and that having been re moved out of the way, the Bank has all the business it likes to take. THE NEW DOMINION. The completion of the Confederation scheme becomes more probable every day. The Owl states that the long-pending dispute between the Mason's Bay Company and . the Canadian Confederation, for the transfer to the latter of the territorial rights of the former, is likely to be submitted to the arbitra tion of the Privy Council. The case of the company will be stated by Sir P►oundell Palmer. IN! lAN TFLEGIAPIIS. There is a pretty quarrel going on between two of the recently-started companies for effecting tele graphic communication with India. The direct English, Indian, and Australian Submarine Company propose to lay a line from Brindisi to Malta. There upon the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Com pany give notice to warn off all intruders from their territory, asserting that they have an exclusive concession from the Italian Govern ment to lay lines between any part of the Italian coast to Malta. But it appears that when this con cession was granted (1869) our Government, in the interests of free trad e , s trenuously opposed the gra n t, and in deference its companyothi so now, with an assuran ce the company surrendered that is almost sublime, declaresth at it renounc e d the concession onlyso far as the British Government was concerned, and that as it still holds good with the Italian Government the company has applied for a prohibition of the line from Brindisi. It is probable that our Minister at Florence will be instructed to ;nterpose in this matter. OBITUARY. We regret to announce the death of Admiral Sir Peter Richards, K.C.B. Sir Peter was 82 years of age ; entered the navy as a first-class volunteer in 1798, on board the Cambridge; served in the Channel and Mediterranean squadrons, 1802-7, in the Cullo den, Princess Royal, Hercules, Ocean, &c. ; was made lieutenant in 1807; commander 1816, for his services at the bombardment of Algiers ; he became captain 1828; sJrved in Portugal and China; was Captain- Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard 1849-M ; a Lord of the Admiralty 1854-7 ; and a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital 1857-65. He was made a C.B. in 1842 for his Chinese services, and a K.C.B. 1865. He died after a few days' illness at Wimpole street, London. THE WEATHER. Was there ever such a season for those who watch the weather as this season of 1868-9 Having, as Mr. Allnatt points out, had " March winds and April showers " in January and February, which brought out our peach . blossoms, we are now, mutatis mutandis, plunged into the depth of winter. Writing from Frant, Sussex, on March 14, the meteorogical correspondent of the Times says :—" On the Ist of January the mean temperature was 35 deg., which was the only instance during eighteen days of that month of the mean sinking below the estimated average. From the 2nd to the 18th the temperature rose, and was daily in excess, the surplus ranging from 113 deg. to 12.8 deg. During the past fourteen days of March the mean has been exceeded thrice only, and that by a very small amount. On the remaining thirteen clays the deficiency ranged below the average from 1 to 8 defy,. On the 14th, the ground at several places was covered deeply with snow, and mean temperature sank 81 deg. below the average value." THE' ALABAMA CONVENTION. (Front the Anglo -American Times.) There is no further development, in the United States, at least up to the time we write on the subject of the Alabama Convention. The decision of the Senate was t o pass it over to the next Congress and Vie new Administration, but it was known that Republican Senators would vigorously urge its rati fication. The people, however ignorant as a miss on international law, cannot help seeing the incon sistency of screaming aloud at Great Britain's con duct in her precipitate recognition of Confederate belligerency, and the immediate recogni ion, not of belligerency only, hut of the independence of a Government whenever a revolution has been suffi ciently successful to establish a de facto Govern ment. Of course, the world can no more be hood winked than can the American people hoodwink themselves, and the position therefore assumed is, that rebellion is justifiable against anv Government but that of the United States ; and this is in a measure avowed, on the ground that it is the only Republic ever firmly established on true Re publican principles—the inalienable right of man— which the Fifteenth Amendment will recognize as a right not to be limited or restricted by any cause whatever. W hat the Republicans then say is, that all other Governments are based on error, in a greater or lesser degree, which it is our duty, as the champions of human right, to remove as the opportunities offer, and we are pl e dged to supp ort our d octr i ne w h erever it is advanced, for we then contend,not for the United States, but for the broad principle of the Rights of Man. In warring to split asunder the Republic, our enemies were not ours only,but of the human race; the contention being that of an oligarchy against the people, iu supporting which the English Govern ment sinned against the principles of liberty. Hence the very doctrine to which we are pledged, forces us to uphold nationalities struggling for :inde pendence, and however apparently inconsistent to condemn the effort to destroy us the champions of that cause. In this there i, no inconsistency, hut the contrary, though there may be both egotist', and dogmatism. In Europe the apparent contra diction is too obvious to escape notice, and the fact is that the action of the Republic really places her in the position of asserting that what she does against other countries is justifiable, but what other countries do against her is an unpardonable sin. Many Americans emphatically condemn the assump tion and the interference ; but little impression can be made upon men who are enthusiastic believers in their doctrine. The New York Nation hits straight out in an article on Secret Sessions against the Senate deliberating with closed doors on such a Convention as the Alabama claims. Setting aside with the utmost contempt the appeal " to God and humanity" of such men as Mr. Yates, it desires that the nation should be enlightened by hearing the opinions on points of international law (whereon it is profoundly ignorant), of the trained men and theSumners, Fessendens, Trumbulls, Edmonds, like Conklings. It remarks, "In the first place, one of the greatest evils arising from the system of secret sessions is, that a public which is of course very ignorant of international law finds no means of en lightening itself, while it is able, notwithstanding, to exert the most powerful pressure on our foreign relations. In a country in which it is a truism that all power comes from the people, a principle is in troduced which seems founded on the belief that the people are of no consequence whatever. No sound progress in Democracy is possible at all unless all make pro gress together ; whatever is done by the leaders must at l east be understood by the rank and file, for if this haverule be the file, neglected, ultimateth era power, nk and will knowing they nullify in some way or other the acts of the leaders. Now, we cultivate in the Senate a body of picked men, the most able representative body in the country, but on some of the most important topics that come before them we prevent their debates them loaf about." Mr. Masterman said Capt. Kirkland, we are not mechani2s, and I hope you will not send us forward. Mr. Bliss is the son of a Minister, and I have held the rank of Lieutenant for about ten years." The rough reply was " Wha t would you have me call you ? Go forward !" Mastermaa continued :—" It is true, sir, when you laßt saw us we were regarded as criminals. I hope you don't think we are so." He said, " I receive you as criminals, and I shall treat you as such until you are proved to be innocent." He then left thew. They remained in the forecastle, eating pork and hard tack, until at Monte Video they were trans' ferred to the flagship Guerriere, where, in spite of renewed remonstrances, they were placed in. the warrant officers' mess, with a sentry over thera. On the 4th of January Admiral Davis accepted Mr. 11Instertnan's parole, but neither he nor his companion were permitted to communicate Wit h the shore until the morning of their transfer to th e Mississippi. Mr. Mastertnan most feelingly se' knowledges his gratitude for the service rendere d him by the United States in saving him from jilt' pending death, but at the same time can but thivk that -a generous service was most ungenerous l i performed. Both these gentlemen uphold Mr' Washburn's policy and th tt of General Webb Wit h regard to Paraguay, and very strongly condemn th e actions of. Admiral Davis. Mr. Bliss, when at Wash' ington, was about formally to lay a complaint of 1 0 treatment as a member of the Legation on board the U.S. ships of war, and Mr. Washburn had alreadyprc' ceeded there to press the matter on the attention of the Government. When we consider that it bee taken more than half a century even to apprOV mate to the facts of the battle of Waterloo, it is not surprising that what transpires in a little Republic in the interior of South Arterica should be but HO known, and be told so that one story neutralizee another, for all is a mass of contradiction. lh e circumstantial account, however, of Bliss and Ilas terman must have a damaging effect on the prestige of Lopez, and will be taken as strong evidenc e in proof of the hideous cruelty of the Dictator about to be published by the Allies. If Nal° ° they say is confirmed, not only will the Allies be justified in declaring Lopez an outlaw, but la setting a price on his head ; for a man who ac t° such a part can be regarded only as an eile ci i of the human race. Still there are facts in contra c i diction, such—as the action of Admiral Davis an of General M•Mahon, who has accompanied LoP even when his fortunes seemed to be desperate. appears, however, certain that if Lopez has acted t he part ascribed to him a terrible punishment hang s over his head, and will inevitably fall on it. The Brazilians are said to have sacked Ascuneien' plundering the deserted city for three days, t he Brazilians taking no part being stationed four miles to the north, at T r i n id a d. Thi s i s regir de in the Argentine Repul)lic as a breach of the free t ,Y; by which the independence a nd the p ro perty of tu . , o Paraguayans were to be respected. Marshal Li Caxias, as well as the Brazilian Admiral, have re; signed their commands. In C a xi as ' order, he e l() his successor has been informed of all required carry on the war." This the Rio papers take Upr sharply, as he had repeatedly announced that the I ra was over. Lopez is sail to be at the naturally All position of Piribeby with a force estimated as bi g,. even as 10,000 men, while the Allies only niU nb n e l about 20,000. The Englishmen in the service Lopez are stated to have voluntarily followed hie l the mountains. General M'Mahon has certaicil done so, as well as the foreign Consuls. There are signs that Brazil desires to retain possession Paraguay, which the Argentine Republic we ll o resist. Garibaldi is reported to have asserted , Brazil is altogether in the right in the present w; The Argentine Republic o w es it s p ro sperity to expulsion of Rozas, which was accomplishe d ig great cost by Brazil ; Garibaldi adds, and he ot acquainted with South America, where he eP e . O many adventurous years L o p ez , I f e el c erta i l is even worse than Rn es, and Paraguay asol rtp will owe to Brazil its civilization and libe l, A dreadful account is given by a Paraguayan o f cer, Captain L iguier, of the barbarous act s so Lopez. Barges was flogged before being sh °tf was Dr. Carroras, and Don Benign() Lopez v i o almost cut to pieces. L dies were compolle" witness the torture and execution of their hushal,; and even his sisters were thus treated. 313d3 :1 i e Lynch, his mistress, is Irish by birth, and i 3 ' l / wife of a Frenc , l surgeon, whom she left abo ur years ago fur Lopez. Site is described as a w 0036 of fine personal appearance, still bearing the c 33r d l of the beauty by which Lopez w a s first captiv ate o and exercises great influence over the P a ragtiel a. President. She has bor ne hi m sever al chillroeto Lopez has never married. A rn c ng the doc uille iv ill which fell into the hand s of th e Alli e s was 8 0,11 made in her favour, giving to her absolutely d, his property, rights, and claims. It wa s ,I v e dressed to General M‘Mahon as the represea t el og of a friendly p ower , enc l ose d i n a l e tter, n r g eo him to place the document i n th e hands c' g lady, and begging his aid in carrying out its P r w e sions. With this was a no th er l et t e r, wh teh think it but just to Lopez to publish : s to `a Honourable Sir,—As you have had the kill" e r s ettu• take charge of my childr e n, I n o w p re sume to COII-004 thein_to your entire protection, in ca s e anything 6 tt ,ps happen to rue, giving you authority to take whatever s o f you may consider necessary fur the future Iv elf ' " ;0 - these pour creatures, especially for L. opuld, wh ose D ial• tier years give me the greatest concern rep e ctiog o to r Your compliance with this request will (made 1 0° , 1 ret , is heartfelt gratitude, since the thought of these ai l o , the only thing that troubles my mind at this try lo g went, when I mu called upon by duty to dedicate ni t o rte at every risk, to my country's cause. They wil l be i. ,,i rA ble nate to be near a gentleman possessed of the au' sh ort qualities which it has been my happiness, on °llr rositi acquaintance, to find in you, and I trust to your g en° to accept the task. Your most obedient servant, 0.0 Fi tAN cisco S. IJC/r t th ir ' In accordance with the stati s ti c s of the last that teen years the New York Sun say s it is almost Dertriaiong the some 50 persons will he murdered in that city " y e t a A r n I v B E 6 R 9 T . ISEMENT.I Dyspepsia stiPs t .o4 Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, s -t ia n ' e a li c 'e-e p ir tt ple vf liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravate.,4 rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly u.—„ r ovei, Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as, E, ‘ " . ear' thousands of cases which had been considered huP e ' e „ s o la pita, —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver is ,119 ' l? flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore tier ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head an pia, it Vie, matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nun r3 bility, sleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, h e artburn' s even ea debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sick?: tigl' Us aid pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scroln _tweeu by of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and ufestareuilia shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's hea1t1i.;16.66-10,- Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—";t0me, July 1 -' s 9 ,ban ul ptt health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sitic,,,lely ing all other remedies, he has confined himself en",„, late' Barry's Revalenta Arabic.% Food, of which ne COnsr - bellsliens ful at every meal. It has produced a surprising.Y 0034 effect on his health, aud his Holiness cannot praise 11 25 . food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi, y Frinl No. 46,270 Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant. r Stuartua Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting Lc rd,, s ia. derangFment, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1, 771--e rg . aysP e ,,r o aw de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many Y ea ' n " - , clYsP er aiSe No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony I r ° nc y, slA s y r , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, da tule t Cu ti°. sickness and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Importan Cost „iv Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sleßl2", o st to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name 'D 12 0 ciously attached. In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. ad.; 2 lbs. 4s. 0.; 0 11C) r C li 225.; 4 lbs, 40s, - -Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA fa r LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cum , sat . 0r -57 6 tiD cups at Is. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at „d 55 a gce at Ms.—being about one penny per cup. The 3 ".. orpos L ax'are sent free of carriage in England on receiy e t ut _ stree t, +- Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Il e a don; and all Grocers and Cemists. Births. forth DRUMMOND tho 16th inst., at 2, Bryanston-scl the 11 , ,n. Mrs. Edgar Drummond, of a daughter' 8 0 of ESSEX—On the 14th inst., at Cass i o b u ry, the Couute Essex, of a daughter, stillborn ROSSLYN—On the 16th inst., at 20, Hanover-Ware' 1116 Countess of Bosslyn, of a son. Marriages. • ( I S t3te l ANDREWS —FIELD— On the 17th inst , at the 'Uni te , Leation, Paris, James B. Andrews,' to FannY t-T, r „. s y, B Field, daughter of Cyrus W. Field, all of lges v j „ v fg tth ox—ENoca—On the IGth inst., at St. Paul's, Is — `' aft rr rclv Thomas Box, Esq., of London, and Mayfield, ~° t ;64.1 to Marianne H., daughter of the late J ohn En c1c1 " of Warwick. Deaths. v v. E. COCTIRANE—On the 16th inst., Major the ion voro coetaane, sou of the ninth Earl of 1781. A sea" DELAMAIN— Oa the 16th inst , at 16, Victoria - road' a ,ed 6 7 . r e lif siugtun, W., Henry F. Delaniain, Es 4•, EnwrN—At Wimborne Minster, t o Car tajil Demi , Edwin, It N ., aged Drindoutad• A x London : Printed and P.:Wished by WILL I Th,,, IL , , ,C? ; Oj of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at HE 6 1714 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy' in Iliddlotiez,—Thureday, March 18, 109. (the fl LUTH seen A dmq room Roorng and C, nn att Dance T x 4r,1 ORIGI A very F Old Cr Shirq Spa rkl lery. gaMT bottles p. Consiz eelehrrt Borelea Whiski also he numbei of other SCITT O M sorfmo liska. I ttc., in shirt S TEN V.C., Mr: ' MTVE I of Lyel Mtn tl GEOLI guinonf PRA. INEI 149, St TH' The Fire Re The me Bonus f value a render leave is thirty d. S EA? ,---, off 1 Niviens, Tho ri £879 la,. SI7BS William the Seer street, I Q.uali Govern( NTAI Under th whereby Girls of t the kin& The oh lish erlue sari laun arise 'or° suitable E The Co entirely F OftleA. ' T HE Presid Treasun DON expPnclit at ViTttlt( Bai OM NI, giRI -1-P Ma For tl des:titutA end of prosoern One h stitution Ineren endowed assißtAnc Subgel Instituti its pPeul Th. la Becretar. Officos Barite , lane ; an REALTH DUB an slatefill at NsneficiaT praise , thi, Curn N, years' liv, floss, irrit dizestion, er vous RI Cure INT( Chine (lo Fora :—" T fo , , I.—ST' Waterford Cure N from (Fr , of Lynn. Curo rvonsno vole fan 6, ( Inn , N( 7 PArq ,I;art T hp Fo4 b.. 4e. 6d anistere, e RE zanlete JIIOR at 6e. About cna free battRYD also rtt Gr a o elehnt , Vow Nortl OS Patr 97: Thi Sol ~rio AL I , r 14, ADP? hold Ible 'onnf RI Mr. local congri Fanni Ope , prirat, M A'