The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 71IE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tinzes has always thought it a ma ter of regret that attempts should be made to unsettle the law respecting marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and :s still of the same opinion, though it was inevitable the pro:, esal should be renewed in a reformed Parliament. We cannot but think that those who promote all this uncertainty on so grave a subject incur a heavy responsibility. Like all questions which touch the foundations of social life, this is one which it is very hard to argue. Once refuse to recog nise the existing law, and there is no common ground to go upon. Every man approaches it from his own point of, view, and would reconstruct society upon his own theory. We cannot, however, but observe one point in which nearly all the speakers displayed a concurrence of feeling the more remarkable because it was frequently unconscious and unwilling. It is felt on all sides that the House of Commons is not the place to argue the theological bearing of the question, while at the same time everyone betrays an uneasy feeling that a great difficulty is involved in it. Such feeling exist, and exist in the most powerful religious communities of the country, and it is necessary to take them into account. We do not live under that law of nature to which several speakers appealed, and there is nothing unreasonable in asking a small number of persons to forego the rights they would enjoy in such a state in order to avoid, as far as possible, bringing the law of the land into direct conflict with the law of great religious com munities. It.should also be remembered that to repeal an existing prohibition is an act of considerable significance. Mr. Bright said that the bill did not encourage such marriages, but only permitted them. But to pass the bill is to encourage them. It is to give distinct information to the whole community that in the opinion of the Legis lature such marriages are not undesirable. Whatever the ultimate result, the immediate effect would be a general and painful disturbance of existing relations. We cannot see that any case has been made out to justify a change of such doubtful policy. In England we see no hardship in requiring men to find second wives elsewhere than in their first wife's family, and we anticipate great inconvenience from removing the restriction. The Standard thinks the course of the discussion in committee upon the Irish Church Bill affords a striking proof of the temper of the majority and of the spirit of Liberal statesmanship. Such peremptory haste on the part of the Minister, such insolent impatience of debate on the part of his followers, have not for generations dis credited constitutional government, and likened the Par liament of England to the Congress of America. Mode ration cannot be expected from one party alone. If Mr. Gladstone chooses to press on his bill by every means which the command of a servile majority affords, he must be prepared to find the minority resolved to use their power of resistance and obstruction. If he will concede nothing to justice or to reason, ho must be prepared to find force encountered with force. It is only by compromise that he can carry a measure which offends the moral sense of one-half .he nation, and of one branch of the Legislature ; and if he insists on carrying out his own will on every point, he can only expect that his adversaries, when their turn of power comes—and come it must—will enforce every one of the amendments he has rejected, and leave him to choose between the humiliation of an unwilling submission and the inconvenience and peril of a renewed appeal to the country. Never before has an English Minister pushed matters to such an extremity; and perhaps no living man, except Mr. Glad stone, would be foolish and reckless enough so to push them now. THE REPRIEVE OF THE CONVICT WILTSHIRE Sir George Jenkinson has given notice that to-night (Thursday) he will ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is true that a man named Charles Wiltshire, sentenced to be hung at Gloucester, has been reprieved by his order; if so, whether he is the same man who was convicted at the last assizes at Glou cester, in the present month, of violating and murdering a woman, and who, since his conviction and sentence, bas attempted to murder the warder in charge of him in Gloucester Gaol ; if he is the same man, will he state the grounds on which be has recommended the reprieve of this man ; and, will he state the number and names of those convicts who, having been sentenced to be hung for murder, have been reprieved by him since he came into office, and the dates of such reprieves; and the names and number, if any, of those who have been hung in accordance with the sentence passed upon them since he came into office. DINING AT GREENTVICIL A lively article appears in the Daily News, describing a dinner at Greenwich in April. The writer is enthusiastic in praise of early whitebait and dinners before the crush ing season begins. There is no crowding in April, no apologetic speeches from host or manager to the effect that your telegram was received late, that the best rooms are occupied, or that the greatest dinner of the season is about to take place upstairs. The choicest situation in the house, the most assiduous attention, the warmest welcome, are all yours. Your company is evidently expected, and the interest you awaken is lively and concen trated, not wandering and diffuse. The very waiters — who seem to have been wrapped up in lavender in their solemn black and white cravats at the close of last season, and to have been exumed directly the first white bait was caught in this, so unaltered are they—regard you with sympathetic approval as men and women of taste. They know how beautifully fresh, how deliciously crisp yet melting is their sacred fish at this present time of eating, and they have but a poor opinion of the political insight which can delay the close of the session, and so defer the Ministerial dinner until delicacy is sacri ficed to size. Some confidential whispers as to the various wines to be ordered, a sweet in terval of anticipation spent on the balcony, some passing gossip in which those present try to impose on each other by talking of indifferent topics, while whitebait, and whitebait only, is in their hearts, and then —The Dinner. That the souches are as plentiful and as good as ever ; that the whiting pudding still recalls a poetical batter ; that the curries, the stews, the boiled, the fried, the roast, the grilled fish were all more or less good, it is needless to say. Happy was the young person who dinned at Greenwich for the first time, happy in the pleasant compulsion which made him partake of every dish, thrice happy in the constitutional vigour which made compulsion unnecessary but delightful. Older diners find an unfailing solace in contemplating the opposite bank of the river during the discriminating pauses they think it right to make. That cattle browsed where warehouses and factories now cluster, and that where that long line of buildings stand was marshy pasture land, when you, when we, when most people were young, is an announcement frequently and judiciously made ; for it reminds the eaters of the mutability of all earthly things, and that the present only is theirs. Not less wise is the command that the banquet shall not be hurried. An exquisite course should not be executed like commercial orders, "with promptitude and despatch." A decorous dallying heightens the joys of anticipation, and makes fruition ecstacy. The waiters think so, and regard those issuing this mandate with increased respect. Whose fault it was that the salmon cutlets before referred to should have been served tepid it is too late to ask. The blow was felt keenly at the time, and not even the addition of a hot relay of the same dish removed the sense of injury. For, as was remarked with much acumen, salmon with hot pickles is the turning point in a fish dinner. The mingled piquancy and richness stimulates the palate, titillates the appetite, and cheers the diner on. It is dis tressing that when, as in our case, these cutlets are flabby instead of firm, sodden instead of sharp, and of a temperature which is neither hot nor cold. Let the hotels look to it ; let their patrons be on the alert. Call it by what name you will, the admixture of salmon and pickles should be regarded as a crucial test of excellence, and should be refused unless it has been brought direct from the kitchen by express. It would he deceitful to deny that a temporary blight fell upon the party at this failure ; and that nothing but the supreme excellence of the three courses of whitebait could Lave restored their spirits. With respect to these, description fails to convey the sweetness of the first, the rougher merits of the second, or the more fiery pleasures cf the third. One wooed the affections coyly, the others had different methods of taking them by storm. Whitebait au naturel is like an ingenuous maiden who wins all hearts by her innocence and timid grace ; while the successive varieties of " black devilled" and " red" are grades of matured beauty, in which art supplements nature, and artificial graces compel the devotion you rejoice to pay. Perhaps the "black devilled" may be held to form a half-way stage, combin ing some of the attractions of the two others, and so enlist ing the special sympathies of all moderate diners. There was a tender glow from the setting sun which played softly about the waiters' heads as they handed the last-named dish round, and made them, as they put their heads on one aide to whisper to those they served, like animated pictures of inedimval saints. This gave a beau tifully serious tone to our employment, and after the whitebait stage it is perhaps well to draw a veil. Other articles come and go, and are discussed with apparent vigour. In particular there is a spring gosling which is agreeably succulent and rich ; and some iced gooseberry fool which wins unstinted applause. But the event of the day is over when the last tiny" bait" has disappeared. Even the initiate seem serenely satisfied then, and though the remaining dishes are accepted as appropriate, all fervour is at an end, and the gratitude evinced becomes of a retrospective rather than an active kind. The Telegraph says that although Mr. Disraeli has styled the Irish Church Bill of the present Government a "vast and violent change,' it seems not nearly big enough to suit the digestion of certain people. Lord Cairns and Lord Salisbury in the Upper Chamber, with the dubious companionship of Lord Westbury and Lord Clanricarde, want Mr. Gladstone to give them forthwith an Irish Land Tenure Bill as well. Meanwhile, Lord Clanri carde has before the House of Lords a little scheme of his own invention, which is good so far as it goes, though it goes but a very short way. On Tues day night the noble Marquis presented this legislative bantling for a. second reading ; but he used it rather too much like the Russian mother, who threw the smallest of her babies out to the wolves, in the hope so to save the sledge and with it the rest of the family. Lord Clanricarde did not affect to care half so much about getting his own bill made law, as he did about finding out by means of it what the Ministry proposes to do in regard to the land question. Lord Granville, with the gentlest possible rebuke of such impertinence, gracefully declined to be thus made to " stand and deliver." To such free-and easy interpellations the Government will necessarily turn an unheeding ear. So far as they are merely inquisi tive they are impertinent and obtrusive. So far as they express a genuine apprehension, that the state of Ireland may be affected by uncertainty in regard to the Government policy, a sufficient answer exists in the reports of Parliament. Mr. Fortescue's measure of 1.8(36 will stand as evidence at once of the aim and spirit which will animate any measure to be proposed by the present Government. But the very effort will demand time and deliberation, with a survey of 'existing conditions ; and to touch any task so vast, so complicated, and demanding so exact a treatment, while both the Government and the Legislature are actually engaged in the momentous work of reorganising the Anglican Church in Ireland, would be to frustrate the labour of the present session, and defeat the hope of the next. The Herald, in discussing the Irish land question, is of opinion that Lord Clanricarde's measure of itself could effect but little, if any, good. To reduce the stamp duty on leases and ender them cheaper, must, as a matter of course, form a part of any measure which may be here after introduced for the arrangement of the land question. But we have never known disputes arise concerning the tenure on which land was let, or the rent stipulated to be paid for it. The real objection to granting leases on the part of landlords is simply that they only tell in favour of the tenant, and throw unjust obstacles in the owner's way when he seeks to recover possession of . his land from a non-paying occupant. Every one conversant with the management of Irish estates knows that, when "times become bad," the landlord is obliged, as a matter of prudence, to grant abatements; while, when prices largely improve, the lease, which still remains in existence, stops his right to raise his rent in proportion. To talk of enforcing violated covenants, by THE CASE OF SHEWARD.—It is stated that a distress for the penalties agreed upon, would be a farce— few days before Sheward made his first confession his no person would dare to purchase either goods or cattle-- attention was called accidentally to a work relating and then comes the final loss of at least two years' rent to the discovery of long-hidden murders. He was at and costs before the law will oust the dishonest or insolvent the shop of a Mr. Boston, a pawnbroker, at the time, holder of the farm. To make leases the rule, the advan- and he was observed to be much affected, and left rather tages to the contracting parties must be equal; by all hurriedly. means give perfect security and a fair tenure to the tenant on the punctual discharge of his liabilities; hut, on THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The Lord the other hand, enable the landlord, in case of his default, Justice-General of Scotland was on Wednesday installed to recover his property by an inexpensive and prompt Chancellor of the Edinburgh University, amidst enthu proceeding. The effect of such laws would be to stimulate mastic demonstrations. Numerous academical degrees the tenant to industry, because he could not count on pro- were conferred, and the new chancellor delivered tection from litigation, while they would induce the an inaugural address, returning thanks for his owners of estates to give fair tenures which could election, and entering upon the questions of univer be quickly terminated on the default of those to whom city patronage, the prospects of the Edinburgh University, they let. and the necessity for additional chairs, besides that already The Post complains that recently and frequently lan- established of engineering, to meet the demands of new guage has been held upon the Irish land question which professions. has been sometimes stupidly impolitic, and sometimes, it CHEAP MUSICAL BOXES.—We have just received is to be feared, designedly mischievous. It is an untoward a letter from - a victim of the "musical box" swindle, fact, of which Lord Grey has truthfully and disagreeably whose experience may be of value to intending purchasers reminded us. But among all the utterances which have of the cheap musical boxes advertised in some American been scattered forth we cannot call to mind any more and Canadian papers. The advertisement offers for sale "musical b oxes " warrante d to play eight tunes, and the calculated to create the difficulties whi c h h e de precates than those enunciated by the noble earl price asked varies from one to three dollars. Our cor himself. We do not expect, as some people appear respondent sent for one of these, inclosing the requisite to do, that the Irish Church legislation will turn funds, and received by return a twopenny mouth organ out to be a harlequin's wand, and will change with a with eight holes. This advertisement our correspondent single flourish the condition of men's minds and the whole thinks " a sharp Yankee dodge."— Toronto Globe. aspect of things in Ireland ; but we are persuaded that all lliggs does not seem to be without present imita other legislation would have failed in effect, unless the tors. It is stated that the chief clerk in a well-known ground had previously been cleared for it by dealing I and hitherto flourishing London cemetery comp an y h as na y s _ primarily with the great Church difficulty. Those, there- I teriously disappeared during the l as t few days, and his fore, who have sufficient power of self-d en i a l t o postpone • party strategy to patriotic considerations, will cease to sudden exit has impelled another employe in the same endeavour to induce in the Irish mind an idea that their company to follow the example of his superior office r interests are made subordinate to those of th e Administra- Simultaneously with the departure o f th ese it has been dis r - . tion in their character of the managers of a parliamentary majority, covered that the Ehareholdei s have been seriously de frauded, and that the defalcations extend over a consider- The Daily News declares that the Bishop of Peter borough must have forgotten the date. tfis protest I able period. The total amount has not yet transpired. For against the " voluntary system" belongs to the period many years rest the shareholders have regularly received before the first Refor mcond. Act, an It is true that hi s an d iend is an anachronism in thece a high dividend, and the cc mpany ha s b een regarded days succeeding the se as one of the best managed in London. Th e b eard of on Wednesday cheered him when he said, " Upon the endowed principle it was Felix who sometimes trembled directors includes a well-known member of Parliament and before Paul ; upon the voluntary system it was Paul that several gentlemen of high commercial standing. As a meet was for ever trembling before Felix ; but Churchmen ing of the company n-ill shortly take place a full, true, and generally will read the speech with amazement. articular recount of the irregularity will probably be sub- It is new to us that when Paul preached t o P Felix he was an endowed preacher, at least in mitted to th e suff er i ng s h are h o ld ers . the Bishops sense of pecuniary endowments; and c , oHAIISPERE AND BACON. —The Historical Manu the spiritual endowments of a Paul are certainly not attached in these days to the material endowments scripts c omm i ss i on, whi c h was appointed on the recom mendation of ilr. Duffus Hardy t o searc h f or th e hi s t or i ca l even of a bishopric. But mo st Churchmen believe that the voluntary system is the new life of the c Chu t re o h c , o a w n e ( r l MSS. that are still concealed in pri va t e co ll ec ti ons , h as dis they do not believe either that the lay man t lt before the priest, or that the voluntary s j sem makes the covered a book, apparently th e not e -G oo k o f a stu d ent o f minister "the :stave of the fanaticism, passions, and l o ng- Gray's-inn during the time when Bacon was a bendier of ranee of Lis flock." Is this a true description of the , society. It is earlier in date than the published works voliin.tasy Churches of England ? it even like enough ," 4 - if Bacon, and it contains the outlines of many of those to be a caricature of the working of the voluntary system I in the Chu r ch itself? That voluntary support in- thoughts whirl Bacon afterwards elaborated in his essays terests the l a ity as w e ll as the clergy hi Church and other of his works. The euriore fact th a t no li n k o f t h e affairs is true ; hut the time is gone by when those t slightest kindlas hitherto connected together Shakspere and affairs can be consid e red as belonging to the clergy alone. I The one thi ng - the Church of England depends on for its his illustriouscontemporary Bacon, has been frequently sub figure is, that the laity should identify themselves wit II it. ' lees of commen t•;but on the inside of the cover of the thi s b oo k, They can only be brought to do this as their voluntary onrymai,ysrribbings, the name William Shakspere occurs zeal is called ont and their influence recognised. Whey do . not want the minister to be under them, but they will not . four times. This signature is not thought to be Shakspere'e be under the minister. Their willing gifts are the own. It appears as if the book belonged to a youth who Church's best endowments, and if; those gifts are spurned had taken xuzates of lectures delivered by Bacon, and bad for fear they should make "the clergyman the mere slave i • in things temp ora l o f t h ose to wh o m he was to be the scribbled d wring intervals of inattention the name of some teacher and pastor i n things spiritual," , the Church will man of not esor possibly of some companion. For the not gain the permanent material endowments f o r which ' i nfo a ti o , mo S those curious in the eul‘i we may say the bishop longs, and may Irmo those whom it should shepherd and teacb in spi r it ua l thi ngs , the name i nwritten as we have given it " Shaksnere.'l_ THE SUN, LONDON, TtittnsDAY EVESTiNd, APRIL 22, 1E69. THE 11Lt YXOOTH CLAUSES IN THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. Mr. Whalley has given notice that he intends to move the omission of Clauses 39 and 40 of the Irish Church Bill, which relate to the College cf Maynooth, and that he will substitute instead thererof words to the following effect: — "That it is expedient that the Maynooth Grant shall cease with the Irish Church Establishment ; be it enacted, therefore, that no appointment shall after the pass ing of the Act be made ; that on the Ist of January, 1871, all property, real and personal, belonging to the college, shall vest in the commissioners, subject to all claims of private parties to vested interests of rights of property therein ; and the commissioners shall, from the same date, pay each year to every professor and office holder in the college, so long as he lives, an annuity equal to the amount of yearly income of whichhewillbe deprived by the Act." 1111.SVELLANEOUS NEWS. of his brother magistrates. It is not enongn trim his Worship:declares his sympathy with Fenianisni and his dislike of Orangeism ; he is not content with giving forth that, if he had hisway, he would not have a Tory holding office in the kingdom, but he now libe rates the prisoners without trial, and afterwards pub- licly advocates the clisestablishment of the policeman. On Sunday he went to the gaol of Cork and set free all the drunkards and petty offenders • and when called to account for his conduct next day, went off in a tirade against Orangemen, and in favour of liberty. He had previously expressed his belief that if the - police force was altogether abolished the country would be more peaceful ; and now no police man who is brought before him is believed if his evidence is questioned by persons however notorious for ill-deeds. The result is that thegalleries are filled with a rabble who cheer the Mayor to the echo, and hiss pertinaciously the other magistrates. Tho police, being in disgrace, can do nothing to prevent these unseemly demonstrations. Cannot Ear? Spencer ? PUBLIC PETITIONS. The tourteenth report on public petitions has just been issued. The same subjects which predominated in the former report reappear in this one. The number of peti tions in favour of the Ballot reach to thirty-six, with nearly 17,000 signatures. The ladies who are ambitious of possessing the franchise have succeeded in representing their claims pretty strongly, for they have presented sixty-five petitions with 4,335 signatures. When we come to the ecclesiastical department we find that the advocates of opening the British Museum and similar institu tions on Sundays, are sadly outnumbered by their oppo nents. The former send twenty-seven petitions hearing 2,105 signatures; the latter 433, with 51,462 names. In this division come the Irish Church petitions. Against the bill there are 1,969 petitions, with more than a quarter of a million of names ; in its favour there are 136, with 50,000, besides others for alteration. For and against dis. endowment there are many more. The temperance party have been advocating their cause with vigour. Besides twenty-four petitions for prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, there are 208 for an alteration of the law of licenses, and 116 for a restriction of the sale of liquors. In favour of the Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill there are 178 petitions, with more than 10,000 signatures. The New Law Courts, as might be expected, have produced a good many appeals to the wisdom of Parliament. The Carey-street site has 300 supporters, who send a joint petition ; the Thames Embankment has 204, who send two petitions in its favour. TILE LABOUR QUESTION IN POLYNESIA. Some terrible revelation are coming out respecting the atrocities committed by captains in the act of " recruiting " these poor islanders in the southern seas, under the British flag and the license of the Queensland Government. A case has just come to the knowledge of the authorities of Sydney which compelled them to put the law in force against the offenders. The captain of the Young Australia and one of the crew stand committed to take their trial for the murder of three natives of one of the New Hebrides group of islands. The supercargo, who is also implicated in the affair, has been caught at Melbourne, and is coming up. Briefly, the particulars are as follow :—The vessel mentioned, chartered by a Sydney firm, sailed in Septem ber last or thereabouts with a cargo for Fiji. The cargo being discharged, a raid was pr)posed among the New Hebrides islands for " niggers, as the Polynesians are called, to work on the newly-established plantations at Fiji. The vessel was five weeks gone, and when it re turned landed 230 natives, including six women, some thing like £1,200 having been cleared by the transaction. The vessel returned to Sydney. While here, intelligence was received from Fiji, which was made known to the Government. It appears that during that voyage off the island of Palma, three natives were forced on board, who, breaking open the hold in which they were confined, fought for their liberty, and were shot down and tumbled overboard by command of the supercargo, and under the silent sanction of the captain. The vessel was just on the point of starting again from Sydney on another expedi tion when the captain was arreste3. LAW AND POLICE. ~_ _- 4 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.—On Wednesday, in Vice- Chancellor James's Court, a case arising out of the American civil war was heard. The American Govern ment called upon Mr. M`Rae, the agent in England of the Confederate Government during the war, to account for large quantities of goods and money sent to him by that Government, and said to be in his possession at the time of its dissolution. Mr. M`Rae's counsel denied the charge in Coto, and said that he was sent to this country simply to negotiate a loan, and to see that interest on it was duly paid. The whole correspondence between the Confederate Government and its agents skewed the utmost desperation as to means. The Vice-Chancellor reserved judgment. PLAYING SKITTLES.—On Wednesday, a beerhouse xeeper, named Durnford, carrying on business in one of the villages of Suffolk, having been fined by the local magis trates for permitting playing at skittles for beer, appealed to the Court of Queen's Bench. The Chief Justice and Justices Mellor, Lush, and Hayes held that playing at skittles for beer was gaming within the meaning of the statute, and affirmed the conviction. FRAUDS BY A RAILWAY CLER K.—A young man, named Colvin, was brought before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday on several charges of obtaining money on false pretences. He had been a clerk 'in the employment of the Great Northern Railway, at one of their goods sta tions. His duties were to call upon customers and receive payment for the carriage of goods. Having been dismissed the service, he continued to make these calls, having provided himself with blank forms of bills, twenty-four being found in his pos session when apprehended. He used to look over the book of invoices of goods from the country at King's-cross,on the pretence that he was expecting a parcel from the country. By this means he obtained particulars of the charges to be made. He was committed for trial. WORKSHOP REGULATION ACT.—On Wednesday, a Marlborough-street, two cases came before the magistrates for a violation of the Workshop Regulation Act at West-end milliners. In one case, it was said that the workpeople were not required to work beyond the proper hou;s. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that the Act was n'ended to protect workpeople against themselves, as well as against their employers. He imposed a fine of 40s. in each case. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.-At the Westminster Police. court, on Wednesday, Mr. Irving was charged with stealing a number of tickets belonging to the Metropolitan Railway Company. A clerk at the South Kensington station proved that the prisoner had committed the offence, and a porter stated that he found the tickets on the line. Prisoner said he was drunk when he took the tickets. Mr. Arnold remanded the prisoner, and refused bail, there being other charges against him. Lord Stanley of Alderley is seriously ill, and his condition causes much anxiety to his family. Mr. Thomas C. Bowie, nephew of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, was killed on the 31st of March by falling into a cellar in Kansas city. THE JUDGESHIP OF THE IRISH LANDED ESTATES COURT.—The Dublin correspondent of the Telegraph says : "I believe I may say with certainty that Mr. Barry has accepted the vacant judgeship of the Landed Estates Court. The rumour is that he will be succeeded as Soli citor-General by Sir Colman O'Loghlen." FORGING TELEGRAMS AT NEWMARKET. On Thursday last some scoundrel at Newmarket forged a telegraphic message in the name of George Everett, to a friend, Mr. W. Cosby, of Birmingham, whereby the latter gentleman was plundered to the extent of £lOO. Fifty pounds is offered to anyone bringing the offender to justice. It is understood that Mr. Everett is already on his track. The name of Locket, the well-known "tipster," was forged by the same hand on the same day.—Bell's Life. As DRUNK AS LORDS OR AS DISORDERLY AS BISROPS.—Dr. Sandwith, of Kars, who contested Mary lebone at the general election, and is still mentioned as a candidate for the borough, seems to have a rather singular idea of the behaviour of bishops. At a meeting of the Liberation Society, held recently at Manchester, the doctor had occasion to rebuke some roughs .who were making a noise in the corner of the hall. In order to con vince the disturbers of the meeting of the most supreme contempt in which he held them, he told them that if he had come there as a perfect stranger, he might possibly haVe mistaken it for a meeting of Convocation, and he should certainly have supposed that the Bench of Bishops was sitting in the far corner of the room. MAORI ELOQUENCE.--At a banquet recentlygiven to his Excellency the Governor at Littleton, Mete Kingi, oue of the Maori members spoke as follows :—" Saluta- tions. There are no Maories here present. The Governor brought me here, and I have seen great things here. When the Governor went to Wanganui they did not do him honour. I was the only one that gave him a dinner. (Laughter.) I gave him . a fowl and a glass of wine. I have many titles. lam teacher of religion, assessor, a general member of the house ; l ut I was told I should be a son of the Queen, and lam lying under her feet. I will always be a soldier of the Queen. You European per.ple, I tell you if Tee Kooti and Tito Kowara are , killed there will he peace, but if not there will be strife. (He sing a song.) This song is my affection for you." Mete Kingi'u next animated peroration may perhaps take the shape of a New Zealand war dance. . THE POLITICAL SITUATION. The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail, who is a well-informed writer, adheres to his statement that the Irish Church Bill will not be ac cepted by the Lords in the shape in which it will reach the Upper House. The Peers will either trans form it to such an extent that the Commons -will refuse to accept the amendments, or, to use the words of our contemporary, " will boldly throw it out on the second reading, justifying the step on the ground that the country has not sufficiently considered the matter, and that it is the duty of the Upper House to resist the sudden, unreasoning, and tyrannical action of a brute majority." Why a majority should be "brute," we do not understand ; but no doubt a party becomes more spiritual in proportion as it is smaller. Clearly, when it has no corporate existence it mast be entirely spirit, or else nothing. The correspondent goes on to unfold the green flag. He is so intensely loyal that if the Queen will not do her duty by settine , her single will against that of the nation, Ireland must teach her her duty. So he says, "Men are beginning to think that if the issue were fairly put to the country it would not decide to overturn the Constitution, and incur dangers the nature of which they are now beginning to perceive. I know the contingency of a Repeal of the Union is the subject of familiar discourse, not only among heated Irish Protestants, but between men of large political experience." Then there is a word for those Who care about such carnal things as trade; they are told that if the Union were dissolved, " the trade of America would have its European entrepot in Ireland," and that would soon bring about a complete separation of Ireland from England." This is followed by a fearful vision of "a break up of the British empire." All this is to happen because the Queen no longer appoints bishops in Ireland. Truly how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The correspondent, aghast at the lurid picture which he has drawn, believes that the country would be equally terrified, and that another general election would sweep the Liberals into St. George's Channel or to the Bishop of Cork's blank. All this would be very dreadful if we had not heard it whenever any political change had to be effected. As it is, it is only very funny. We have not yet done with this famous Correspon dent. He says : "As an additional evidence that people are beginning to reflect, I may mention a rumour, very generally current, that a concession of equal terms to the Church as those offered to Cardinal Cullen in the matter of the capitalisation of life incomes is under consideration. It is said that fourteen years' purchase all round might be yielded, if brought forward in the Hbuse of Lords. I give the story for what it is worth." Well, what is it worth ? That is just what the correspondent's readers are most interested in knowing; that is just what he cannot tell them. The inference is that the story is worthless. A TERRIBLE RUMOUR. It is reported that if the Opposition carry their obstructive policy too far they will find that Mr. Gladstone has a rod in store for them, the use of which they will not at all like. The Premier will, it is said, either refuse, or at least postpone, the Whitsuntide holidays if the preamble of the Irish Church Bill has not been passed before the Feast of Pentecost. It will be remembered that the House was induced to accept half its usual vacation at Easter on the understanding that the deficiency should be made up at the end of the Fifty days. But if the holiday has not been earned, if the House has proved itself refractory, the arrangement will not be carried out. Clearly Mr. Gladstone is bent upon giving the Lords full time to consider the important measure which is now being so hotly debated. OFFICIAL NEWS. The Owl states that "the committee of which Lord Northbrook is president has concluded its sittings at the War Office. Among other changes recommended by it has been the reversal of the- chief recommenda tions of Lord Strathnairn's committee for the reor ganisation of the administration of the army. The committee will at once commence its sittings at the Horse Guards, to inquire into the workings of that department." Clearly doctors are not the only per sons who disagree. Colonel Mure having declined the Lord Lieuten ancy of Renfrewshire, vacant by the death of the Earl of Glasgow, the office has been conferred upon Sir Michael Shaw Stewart. This gentleman claims direct descent from Robert 111., King of Scotland. He is, we believe, a Conservative, and no doubt owes his appointment to the fact that he is the son-in-law of the Marquis of Westminster. His brother-in-law, Earl Grosvenor, has been good lately. PARTY JOURNALISM. The Manchester Courier published yesterday a very sevCre article upon Mr. Bruce because he had released Sir E. Culling Eardley on the application of a Cabinet Minister who happens to be a relative of the bigamist b:ironet. -The statement was denied by us on Monday ; the denial was subsequently published in the journal (the Pall Mall Gazette) which originated the story ; and it was officially denied by both Mr. BruCe and Mr. Hardy in the House of Commons on Tuesday. It was, as they said, Mr. Hardy himself who had liberated the bigamist: That statement the Manchester Courier publishes in its parliamentary in telligence, and yet in the very same issue of that jour nal appears this attack upon Mr. Bruce, in which the fake statement is republished. If this is not cul pable carelessness, it is carrying party journalism beyond all bounds. , un p HY AND THE 1101131 SECRETARY. Mr. Murphy is about to avenge hi mse lf f or b e i ng prevented from speaking at South Shields the other day. He is about to institute proceedings against Mr. Bruce, to try the question whether the Home Secretary had a right to put a stop to a lecture which he believed would lead to a breach of the peace. If the law does not give that power, it certainly ought to be altered. A 11017 AL VISITOR. The Owl announces that the - Viceroy of Egypt intends shortly to visit this country, and expresses the very natural wish that his Highness may have a reception more worthy of him than the last which we gave him. Two years ago the nation was in debted to the hospitality of a private nobleman for the Viceroy's board and lodging, the nation providing two sentries to stand outside Lord Dudley's house, and the Queen providing, we believe, a carriage or two. The Viceroy has just spent £60,000 in entertaining the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and it is to be hoped that either his guests, or, better still, the sovereig n , will be able' to find a tenth-part of that sum m entertaining Ismail Pasha. It is time that England should remove the prevalent impression that silo is the most inhospitable country in the world next to the country of the Somalis. LIFE PEERAGES. Supposing that the Whig Earl and the Tory Mar quis persuade the House of Lords to agree to life peerages, is there anybody who will accept the boon if offered ? It is hinted that the first batch of life peers will include Mr. Cole, C. 8., Mr. Dickens, and that celebrated, but now retired, acc oucheur, Sir Charles Locock. Perhaps this is only a joke. Cer tainly if it be anything more, the fact that the first and the third have received the new dignity will make it absolutely worthless in the eyes of the men for whose benefit the dignity is supposed to be in vented—eminent lawyers and politicians without much property. If, however, a judicious selection is made, the dignity will soon become more valuable even than an hereditary peerage, inasmuch as it will imply distinguished merit on the part of him who wears it; while the hereditary peerage will be conferred upon the men who have no other claim than the fact that they are " acrecl up to the lips, consoled u p t o t h e chins-2' With one-half of the creation life peerages will not be popular, for they will confer no title upon the wives. The helpmeet of a life-peer will be plain Mrs., just as an aich bishopess is ; the children also will not be entitled to use the word " Honourable" on their cards. The rule seems rather hard when we remember that the title of " Lady " is borne by the wife of a successful cheesemong er , who has been knighted because he happened to be mayor on the day that some event of interest happened in the Royal Family. THE ROYAL SUPREMACY. --- --- Mr. J. G. Hubbard, who represented Bucking ham in the Conservative interest in the last Parliament, writes to the Times on the subject of the Royal Supremacy. Mr. Hubbard's religious opinions triumph very decidedly over his politics in his views on this subject. He is a Iligh Churchman, and he rejects altogether the notion of the Head of the Church which Dr. Ball promulgated in the debate on the second clause, and which was accepted by Mr. Disraeli, and by the Con servatives generally. The representative of Dublin University based his argument on the well-known statute of Ring henry VIII., which enacts that the King shall be reputed the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England. Mr. Hubbard Points out that the Act in which this is contained was repealed by Mary, and ho argues that it was never re-enacted. Several Kninent commentators have laid down a different opinion ; but Mr. Hubbard thinks that it is notorious that Elizabeth rejecting as profane the title born* by her fath er an 4 brother, took as the designation of her own office and p re rogative that of " Supremo Governor o f thi s realm, as well in spiritual [and ecclesiastical causes as temporal." The Act by which it is thought the Act was re-enacted is Ist Elizabeth, cap. I ; but the title " Supremo head of the Church" never once occurs in it. THE MAYOR OF CORK. The Mayor of Cork is becoming a popular man amongst the lower orders in the " beautiful city," and he has dis Lusted and is fast winninz the hatred THE BISHOP OF CORK. Not only is the conduct of the Mayor of Cork called in question, but the Bishop has had to answer for a reputed lapszis linguce. Nor is his lordship ready to let the matter of the "-" drop. His chap lain writes again to the Times on the subject. What (he asks) was the obvious meaning to all readers of "- " ? And yet this was what the reporters supplied where they lost a word. They might, at least, have asked what the Bishop really did say, instead of imputing to him an expression which no man has heard him use, either in public or private. Mr. Gregg now repeats once more most decidedly that the Bishop never used the offensive expression, but that he said that " Billy Gladstone and his bill might go to the wall." This authorised episcopal utterance has lost some of the force, but none of the elegance, of that which was imputed to his lordship. INHIBITION OF MIL MACKONOCHIE. The Rev. A. 11. Mackonochie, of St. Alban's, Holborn, is now in Yorkshire, and was to have preached next Sunday at St. Jude's, Bradford; but the incumbent of the church, the Rev. J. Eddowes, has received an inhibition, in which Bishop Bickersteth forbids Mr. Mackonochie to preach any where in the diocese of Ripon. And yet Mr. Macho nochie has been considered by two bishops fit to preach in the diocese of London. BISHOP MAGEE ON THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. the Bishop of Peterborough has b een makinga speech of a kind that we certainly should not have expected from him. Addressing a meeting of the Additional Curates' Society, he took exception to a passage in the society's report, which said, " We are only be ginning to see that they (the millions of people in this country') must be provided for under a voluntary system." Bishop Magee said that while he approved of voluntary payments, he strenu ously protested against the theory that payments voluntarily made must be necessarily administered upon what is called the voluntary system. He recommended that voluntary gifts should take the form of endowments, otherwise the pastor was the mere slave in things temporal of those to whom he was tio minister in things spiritual. " The voluntary system degraded; the voluntary system iii the form of endowments elevated. The voluntary principle would make a clergyman the slave of the fanaticism, passions, and ignorance o f hi s fl ock ; while the endowed system gave him a standing ground, which lifted, him above such evil influences, and enabled him to be . the fearless pastor of his people. To sum it up in one word —upon the endowed principle, it was Felix who sometimes trembled before Paul ; upon the voluntary system it was Paul that was for ever trembling before Felix." These remarks were, it is added, " received with prolonged cheering by the audience,- seven eighths of whom were ladies. We are not surprised to hear the last fact. The logical sex would certainly not have cheered the Bishop. In the first place, they know that facts are against his theory ; that the most fearless clergy in London and the large towns are these who depend chiefly upon the weekly offer tory. In the next place, they would point out the injustice of men giving their money to provide for the spiritual wants of another generation when there is a generation around them sorely in need of spiritual provision. Next, they would remind the Bishop how likely their gifts are to be abused when they have no longer any control over the adminis tration. No doubt a minimum endowment is a wise and good thing, but it ought never to be large enough to be an incentive to indolence. THE PRESTON STRIKE. From all accounts it would appear that the Preston strike is very near its end. The masters having no compunction in shutting their mills, and rather hailing a pretext for doing so, the men being without funds except those derived from other districts, there being a large number of operatives who are Willing to work, and the notice of reduction having been given generally in places which otherwfse would have contributed towards the support of the Prestonians, there seems nothing for it but for the strikers to submit to. the masters' terms. The last blow will probably be fatal to the continuance of the strike. The masters of East Lancashire (from which large contributions have come) have posted a notice that they will . for the future pay less wages. If the men in this district submit to the masters, they will hardly care to pay towards their brethren who will not do so elsewhere. If they decide to strike, they will have no money to spare. A FAMINE IN BELGRAVIA. There is a great cry gone out from the wives ana the daughters of Belgravia and 'Westbournia because they cannot get any men to come to their pleasant parties. In vain do fair women submit to the opera tions of the coiffeur ; in vain do they encumber themselves with pyramids of hair cut from corpses ; in vain do they attire themselves in full dress, which is something more than half undress • in vain do they get Gunter to cater and Strauss to play—the men will not come; oven the " detrimentals, who used not to dance when they did come, have ceased to adorn the walls; and as for the dancers, these have wholly disappeared. The last, at all events, can scarcely be blamed. They did like dancing, they were prepared to dance, but the thing was impossible when 200 persons were crowded into rooms that could not hold fifty; when a waltz had to be accom plished on a space of ground not so large as a table cloth. Moreover, what is the good of going to a dance, even though it offers special attractions in the shape of some beloved object, if you cannot get up the first flight of stairs, and the charmer is in the inner drawing-room ? But it is not merely from the rout that the young man of the period absents himself. He is no more to be seen riding with Belgravian belles in the Row, nor lounging behind them at the Opera. The young man of the period is getting decidedly lazy, and something worse. Ile prefers sitting in a chair, sucking his stick, to a canter in the Park ; and as for his female friends, they belong to the class which is fair, no doubt, but is also frail. What is to be done ? Belgravia has been imitating. St. John's-wood in attire and speech to no purpose. Supposing that Lucretia gives up the competition with Lais, Lais is sure to win in the race of immodesty. Lucretia should try to be modest by way of variety, for even the young man of the period acknowledges that " variety is charming." FOREIGN NOTES. , ADIBRICAN DESIGNS IN CUBA. The American Government has sent a large fleet to demand the restitution of the Mary Lowell, which was seized by the Spaniards whilst hovering suspiciously on the coast of Cuba, and attempting to communicate with thist h e I n e s:: gi is the nts. first c c s o t rd ep i n t o g w to ar d t s h e s s O n w e l the x , ation d . ep l a , r h t e u r h e ir o d f of night has received information that - General Grant has run mad on the subject of Cuba, and will undoubtedly give aid in some manner to wrest that island from Spain. A yacht was to leave New York some days back ostensibly for the purpose of a pleasure party. But its real mission was to learn the exact condition of affairs, and to corn. municate with the leaders of the Cubans. The persons on board had received their instructions from General Grant's Government. The coast of Cuba is so guarded by Spanish cruisers that it is impossible for larger vessels to run in. Several expeditions have lately failed in land ing. This is serious news; though the Owl's correspon dent writes in a suspiciously violent strain about General Grant desiring a foreign war, and wishing to provoke England and France to interfere to save , ,Cuba. It is hardly likely that the new President desires a ..war with these two Powers combined, . even if they were disposed to make a cases bclli of. the Cuban affair. But there is no doubt that the annexation fever is rampant in America just now. People feel, says the correspondent of the Daily News, that at last Cuba is going to fall into their power without costing anything . "In In a year or two the best porti ons o f t h e West In dia • Islands will be in tha hands of th e i r natural owner s" Moreover, while the Cuban u p roar i s going on, the incor*- poration of British America is openly and very warmly ativocated. A large addition of the Anglo-Saxon race would be much more acceptable than a fresh hor d e of the semi-barbarous subject s t o b e f ound southwards. The Times correspondent, on the other hand, says that the Government is very cau ti ous in its dearllBgith Cuba, tough fear of compli ca ti ng the Alabama 1 difficulty. The insurgent envoy has not been received. The Spanish the Minister at Washingt on , see i ng the dilemma Govern ment is in, is very b o ld, protests against eve rything going on that may possibly aid the insurgents , and thre atens to demand his passport s an d l eave if General Banks : s resolu tion for their recognition passes the Home Negroes are being enlisted in Cuba on both sides. T. THOSEAS. It can scarcely he considered creditable to the American Government that, in the midst of this annexation fever, the bargain which has been formally concluded with pen mark for the sale of St. Thomas should remain unratified. In fact, the history of this affair is simply disgraceful. The Panes did not want to sell their West India island, but they were badgered into the bargain by Mr. Seward, and at last concluded it. The consent of the inha bitants was taken by a vote. The United States agreed to pay about a million and a half ster ling. The King of Denmark formally bid farewell to the people of St. Thomas, and its cession was proclaimed to all the world. But though the treaty was sent to the Senate in the winter of 1867-8, it has never been even noticed. The Danes have relinquished their island, but it has not been paid for. The unpopularity of Mr. Seward is said to be the cause of this neglect ; but why the Danes should suffer for the ex-Minister it is not easy to tell. St. Thomas is a valuable West 'lndia station and worth more than the whole of Alaska. A RAILWAY THROUGH THE ALPS. The project of constructing a great central railway through the Alps is assuming a definite form. The Canton of Berne, displaying a laudable spirit of independence, proposes that Switzerland should make the line at her own cost, and should not accept the co-operation of any foreign State, individual cantons, or private com panies, except on conditions which would preserve the neutrality and independence of the country. With this view the law of 1852, which interdicts the Confedera, tion from constructing, possessing, or working railways will have to be revised. The Government of Berne also demands that the tariffs shall be fixed in such a manner as not to prevent the creation of new lines on the right and left of that of the Saint-Gothard. It was at first proposed to construct the Saint-Gothard line with the aid of subsidies from the neighbouring States ; now it is thought that Switzerland ought to have the line entirely her own, and the Independance Beige thinks that this will be the policy adopted. TIIE STRIKE IN BELGIUIf. Up to Tuesday evening no progress . had been made towards a settlement of the labour disputes in Belgium. On the contrary, the strike has spread. A large number of carpenters employed at the Cockerell establishment at Seraing, the scene of the late strike, have refused to work. They had looked for an increase of wages to the extent of about a halfpenny an hour, but the demand was neglected, and the men packed - up their tools. " More wages" seems to be the warcry throughout this great movement. The men were reported to be peaceable, but obstinately indisposed to resume work on the same terms. A large meeting of colliers has tal ..n place at Mons. In flammatory speeches were made. Several members of the International Society have been arrested. THE ITALIAN ARHY. A 'scheme for the reorganisation of the Italian army after the example of the great continental Powers has been presented to the Florence Chamber of Deputies by the Minister of War. From the beginning of next year Italy will have an effective force of 620,000. The figure of the active army is fixed at 400,000 ; the remainder will constitute the reserve. The peace force is to be dependent on the annnal Budget ; and if this rule be strictly carried out, the peace effective will be undoubtedly small. If the strength of the army be measured by the capabilities of the Budget, Italy ought to have an army as small as that of the United States. The mode of enlistment will be that practised throughout Europe. A contingent of recruits will be conscribed every year, and a similar number will complete their term of service. NEW ZEALAND. Simultaneously with the war against the Maoris, a much more active ecclesiastical war is being waged in the newly-created New Zealand diocese of Dunedin. Dr. .Tenner was consecrated bishop in Dunedin in 1867, but manifested such strong ritualist ten. dencies that the Colonial Church protested loudly against his coming out. Bishop Jenner promised that he would remain in England until the General Synod gave a decision on his claims. The Synod decided that, for the peace of the Church; he had better resign, but he has, nevertheless, arrived in New Zealand. Bishop Harper, the colonial primate, declared that he had come out without authority, and prohibited him from preaching. This the Church in Dunedin thought too hard. Bishop Jenner was not under ecclesiastical censure, and might at least preach like any other minister. But the primate adheres to his determination. SEMI-SLAVERY IN QUEENSLAND. The employment of natives of the South Sea Islands in the Australian colonies has been the subject of a large public meeting at Sydney. Petitions are to be sent to the two Houses of Parliament in Queensland, praying them to repeal the Polynesian Labourers Act if necessary. The Bishop of Sydney spoke strongly against the working of this Act, which permits the importation of South Sea islanders into Queensland ; and some sad revelations were made of the injuries inflicted by captains in recruit ing the poor islanders under the license of the Queensland Government. The wife of a mis sionary furnished some accounts which shewed how the slave traffic was being carried on in these islands. In one case the authorities have been compelled to put the law in force against the captain and one of the crew of a vessel. They are to take their trial for the murder of three natives o! one of the New Hebrides grcup of islands. Many shippers are engaged in this traffic, which can be carried on under the sanction of the Queensland Parliament. The Sydney petition has shewn that slavery in the colonies will he the consequence of this system of kidnap ping if the injustice is not put a stop to. JOIIN JAY, U.S. AIIIVISTER TO AUSTRIA. Last week we announced that Mr. John Jay had been selected for the Embassy to Austria, and his no mination was among those sanctioned by the Senate on Monday. The name recals that of his grand father, whose signature is attached to the Declara tion of Independence, and is endeared to the American mind by an association with an act which must remain as of the greatest political importance that occurred on the Continent. Though the grand son is a lawyer of eminence and a speaker of no ordinary ability, he has for the last few years been most associated, with the Union League Club, an influential organization established in New York City, first to grapple with the spirit of disloyalty which threatened to paralyse the action of the North on the outbreak of the war, and afterwards to combat the corruption which has lately spread like a cancer in the large cities of the Republic. Other Union Leagues have been formed and have become a power in the land ; but that which has indelibly associated its history with the war is the parent club of New York, of which Mr. John Jay has been for an anxious period, Presi dent. On the 23d of June, 1866, he issued an address to the members, which we have before us while we write. It was sent from Europe, where the President then was, resigning the post, as he feared his absence might be detrimental to the ob jects whose interests the club was pledged to up hold. His attempt to resign was overridden by the unanimous voice of the organization, and Mr. Jay has since held the post and resided in New York. The brief history he therein gives of the club's con nection with the events lately enacted and then en acting, is of the more interest as nearly three years have elapsed since it was written. That it was truthful in its exposition of the past may partly be judged from the singular accuracy of its predictions. The remarks on education are specially worthy of note. "To secure ignorance on the part of the masses was the deliberate policy of slavery." " Sla very may be destroyed in a day, but its unpleasant traits may survive for a generation. The brutal ignorance, political degeneracy, and social degra dation that it engenders demands for their ex tinction systematic and persevering efforts." " Universal education in a Republic governed by popular suffrage is a thing not simply de sirable, but absolutely essential to the safety and welfare of the people. Inevit• ably an unenlightened constituency become the blind tools of designing politicians, and in New York the less educated Democracy were made throughout the Rebellion to do the work of the aristocrats and despots of Europe. whom they do not profess to love ; in assisting the rebel attempt to divide the Union and to overthrow at once the American Government and popular freedom." Further on he alludes to the dangers which fos ter the insolent ambition of unscrupulous leaders, which facilitate the corruption that thrives by the " lobby" or the " ring," and saddle the industry of the community with exorbitant taxes to administer to private and political profligacy. On the 27th of March last the Union League Club met to con sider measures pending at Albany, relating to the City of New York. Mr. Jay, who occupied the chair, said : "The Union League Club bad been originally organized with a view to the preservation of the Union, but that great end being accomplished they had adopted a new principle—namely, resistance to, and exposure of, corrup tion, wherever found in State or municipal affairs. Mr. Jay referred to the actions taken by the Club in other matters of a kindred nature. It had, last year, opposed the appropriations for the support of the Roman Catholic schools of a private character, and, subsequently, the _ naturalization frauds received its attention. 11 ° 5c" ; tions, resp ec ti ng t h e election frauds i u t he city °, New Y or k, at l ast . general election, were then read an° , adopted. Th e pream b le referred to the Assem bly Co mittee on pri v il eges an d elections appointed t o i n vestiga te those frauds. Th e comm i ttee have discovere d that the frauds practised at the election on the 3d of November last far exceeded anything of the kind in our past historilY(l [hat they h a d b een conducted upon a systemat i c plan, 8 15 with the knowled g e and connivance of prominent offlet% of Now Yo r k. Th ese f rauds comprehended every kn°'i , crime against the elective franchise. Now, therefore feto solved that Congress ba respectfully besought to give r , this subject their united and earnest attention, n"d t `' ° daiu at the p resen t sess i on some scheme of natu ralizat to3 which, while offering all proper facilities for the lizat ion of aliens, will preserve unimpaired the high d t nity of Am er i can c iti zens hip , wh i ch has b een s o sh am fully degraded by fraud and perjury, and which will at the same time wipe out the fraudulent and counterle certificates of naturalization wills which the c ountry ha been flooded, in violation of law and justice, and which, if they aro not annulled by Con g ress, the abe tto of th e l a t e consp i racy hope to perpetuate the i r ill-Pt te power." Of However popular may b e th e a ppointmen t John Jay to th e C our t a t Vi enna, we ca nnot b u t regret that h e s h ou ld b e remove d f rom his pre seji li sphere of u se f u l ness . I t i s not every man that Wl io undertake th e th an kl ess tas k o f attempt i n g to tit% the tide of cor ru pti on . I t i s not one f or which Li d is paid ; it co mman d s no patronage or power, alio receives but th e f ee bl e support o f peop ' e who only hazily the deep interest to themselves and t ' e children involved, w hil e th ose w h ose opera tions are interfered with di rec t a t th e h ea d o f the reformer t; torrent of calumny and vituperation, s ubject ing him to every i n di gn ity i n th e i r power. Hence tbeos rascals thrive, and society finds so few chatnr i L to guard its interests. No man in Congress been more abused than Mr. Elihu B. Washburnel the United States Minister just appointed to Franc e ' and although Mr. John Jay had a club at his bac k ; we dare say h e h as b een ma d e to feel the effects ° his action. We doubt whether it be for the n tional good that influential men, willing to tak e 11 ; such a part, should b e o ff ere d F ore i gn lkliss i°°- ' although it may be a greea bl e t o themselves to change a post of detraction for one of bone% However, the energies of the U n i on League C lil have been, and are well di rec t e d ; an d we b°ne , 1 r there are many among its mem b ers on w ho'll %, Jay's mantle may fall, a n d th a t th ere ar e ReP r . g sent atives in Congress not i ncompe t en t or unwil li / to act the "Trea sur y wa t c h-d og ' spart, " w hosebu r we fear, will not soo n aga i n b e h ear d i n the ba ll ° the House. —Anglo-American Times. EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS• The following nominations have been decide° upon by General Grant's Cabinet : aff, General J. A. Campb e ll , o f General Schofield s" late of Ohio, Gove rnor o f W yom i ng; James N. A s hleY - f Ohio, Governor of M on t ana; G eneral IL D. Wa s hbu ro e °, Indiana, Surv e y or -G enera l of Montana; Colonel Eugll.of Surveyor-General of Wyoming; Dr. Rush Spe°, cer „,4 New York, Surveyor-General of New Mexico ; Col. r j ;" - g Wolcott of Kentucky, Registrar of Lands for WY °ll3 :„ n g ) • Mr. Clarke, of Ohio, Register of Lands for Washingi"; Dr. Scott, of Ohio, Secretary of Washington ; (Jr. Earle, of Maryland, for First Assistant Postai:oi t General ; John Allison, of Pennsylvania, to be 1 1 °0 of the Treasury. t } t e The following appointments have been confirmed by Senate :—George Earle, of Maryland. to be First Po,tmaster-Ge nera l, v i ce Skinner, removed ; B. O d e r Goodrich to be Surveyor of the Port of PhiladelP -9' : George Bergn er t o b e P ostmaster at Harrishurgli, Fel ; i sylvania ; Alfred B. D a d a to b e Postmaster at St. Ps:ribe Indiana; Mr .T. W. Allison, of Penn., as Register 01 5 , Treasury, vice Jeffries, resigned ; hlr Franklin J. R ei n i.ll ; 5 , as Collector of Int erna l R evenue for the Fourteen th P trict of Maine, vice Miller, resigned. tUg Tho President sent the following appointments to Senate, April 2 : —For Collectors of Internal Rev ei) :. e e e , W. W. Hawkics, First Di s t r i c t o f N ew York ; J a s. land, S , cond District of New Y or k ; G or d o n L. .1: Third District of N ow Y or k ; Alf re d Pleasonton, F°7or; District of New Yo r k ; J o h n 0 . V . G r id ley, Eighth oft trict of New York ; W. A. Darling, Ninth District of York ; J. F. Bailey, Thirty-second District of York; John Richmond, Seventh District of 1 1413 ), EL C. Fleming, First District of Connecticut ; R 0, Donaldson, First District of South Carolina; Dobson, Fourth District of Kentucky ; Charl es p i s , [legate, Sixth Di s t r i ct o f Indiana ; Wilson BowleY , „rii trio of O r eg on ; C. W. F or d , Fi rst District of l Uisso, fames A. Galbreath, First District of Tennessee ; C. Evans, Third District of Pennsylvania ; e ßrown, Second District of Texas ; Thomas W. PL'T )f. l'wenty-second District of Pennsylvania; Williate er , [laird, Eighth District of Pennsylvania, C. J. Fourteenth District of Pennsylvania; George Eighteenth District of Pennsylvania; William B. ftb Second District of Pennsylvania; J. F. Wilcox, -"," i; • District of Pennsylvania ; G. W. Palmer, Twelfth Y t 0 1 trict of Pennsylvania; John T. Foster, First Di str l c dtt . Alabama; James P. Faince, Second District of A r irg t ., l l : . A. W. Mann, Third District of West Virginia MGM, Sixth District of Tennessee ; T. S. Johnson , .J. -• 0, District of Louisiana; James S. Chapman, Second ' 1 trict of Louisiana. 'for th, For United States Marshals—lsaac M. Quimby, ''; l ;7l' ern District of New York; D. B. Parker, District 01 n i •lt , ginia ; James Wadsworth, Southern District of New lf , i ) tlit For Surveyor of Customs—Wm. R. Martin, Portsal ° : t;, N.H. ; Wm. R. Holliday, Wh ee li ng, V a. ; E. 0. 000cit'e Philadelphia, Penn. t For Collectors of C us t oms —W m. M u ll er Distri e e , Mobile, A; - -us iobile, Alabama; A. J. Goss, District of St. Aug' . Of' Florida ; Wm. D. Nolan, Di s t r i c t o f D e l aware ; Albe rt e, Barney, District of Santiago, Texas ; Georg o of District of Detroit, Mi c hi gan ; J o h n H. Bailey, Distrw' Portsmouth, N.H. For United States Attorneys—Edwards V. PiorreP r Southern District of New Y or k ; G eorge Willey', IC° ,perl' ern District of Ohio ; S. E. C amp, E astern Di str ict of ' se e; nessee ; Robert M. P. Smith, Middle District of Teo ll „ e i s n ferf -t heta Northern A. T. Ackerma n , Di s t r i c t o f G eorg i a ; Josep h O. 1- T he tli Northern District of Illi no i s ; Th os. B. Wilson, So' District of Illinois. For Associate Justice—O. S. Strickland, Utah le' 01 For Assistant Tre asurer —G eorge E yster, Philade lo Pe For nnsylvania. Assessors of Internal Revenue—James - NE,Clir"° 0, Fifth District of New Y or k ; W. 11. Treadwell, S e District of New York ; Augustus Ford, Eighth Dis t lr r ' o ,4; New York; A. P. K e t c h um, Ninth District of New rter L. L. Doty, T wen t y - secon d District of New York ; s j ; ter S. Cole, T wen t y - sevent h Di str i ct of New Y°/ g' F. Cleav e l an d, th e 32d D i str i ct of New Y or k; , Carman, Tenth District of Pennsylvania ; A. ClO rn f ietr lain, Twelfth District of Pennsylvania ; Wm. derson, Sixth District of North Carolina • Russell 22d District of Pennsylvania ; James t District of Tennessee ; H. C. Pedigo, First Dis'„,"":so 4 ,' Texas; F. W. Sumner, Fourth District of hp Benjamin Emmons, Fourth District of . Missouri ;_ i dkpo c i; Kenny, First District of Pennsylvania ; Saml l .7 . Thirteenth District of PennsylvaniaA. Charles•DistPoi First District of Alabama ,• of Mississippi ; George 13. Johnson P. , Third distr i g e jol Ohio; Orris Hatch, Fourth District of Wisconsin; F. Joabert (coloured), First District of Louisitll'A PF4, t Dzis, District of New Mexico; K. R. Cobb, Sec cin i - lir ° ' •t of Virginia, 0. W. Mather, Third District o• Virginia. In ans wer to the congratulations of a Y e- ve; vania delegati on, S ecretary B or i e said he 114 d,„ - ate aspired to th e pos i t i on ho now occupies, and int`-t that, in consequence of delicate health, he would 9° t o f tam it [AD long. ewes VERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.—Enjoi Life. —When the blood is pure, its circulation po,r,Aen the nerves in good order, w e are we ll . These piustri s i°es"a a marvellous power i n s ecur i ng th ese great secre ts °.' d and purifyin g , regu l a ti ng, and strengthening efl de solids. Holloway's pills can be confidently recorair to all persons suffering from disordered digestiao c) co rre u c e tied by nervous fancies or neuralgic pains. Tiwi k en t f i" acidity and heartburn dispel sick headache, 41 11 ', - 1 ", ae`: action of the liver, and act as alteratives and ge u 'Tht tu r f ents. The weak and delicate may take them wi th° iidS ° Holloway's pill s are eminently serviceable to in vg , erfn irritable con s tit ut i on, as t h ey raise the action o f e very 110 0° to its nat ura l standard, and universally exercise a c' and sedative influence. Births. na doo lj GRAHAM -On the 30th inst., at Eastbourne, Mrs. Graham, of a d aug h ter. TILLY -On the 19th inst., at Teignmouth, Desr„°°' wife of Liout.-C o l onel G. S. Tilly, R.E., of a 60". Marriages. • e, nlillt ECCLES —DIXON— On the 21st inst , at Christ , -••. c 01 , ' Lancaster-gate Henry James Eccfes, Esq., of 6 , l) c l : fa i l stone, 11- vonsh ' ire, to Catharine C. Dixon secoou n 4i , ter o the late Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, K.C•B' a t ? WILLO UGHBY-OSBORNE—KAY— On the 20th ins, co, Ann's, Turton, J•)hn henry Willoughby- °shortie, phi ( lain Bengal Army, so❑ of Major. General Willoog4. Marc, o , borne, flawford, near Worcester, t o dl i o° of James Kay, Esq., of Turton Tower, Bolton-le- Deaths. 11 1°1131/ COV ENTRY—i ns t., OU the 19th at Nice, France, Coventry, Esq., o f Li nco l n ' s -i nn, age d 73. Gros FARQUHAR —OO the 20th i ns t., a t 28 , U p p e r vr" . street, Sybolla, Lady Fariutiar, aged 85. CV WEBBER— On th e 19th i n st, su dd en l y, C ap t a in l' , 'O , ,' Webber, U.N., of Ashfield Lodge, Midhtu:tLaj:„„/_______) tt . hjl/ London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIA.I I AN D g 61 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan S UN Orree,olo „ Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy 10 the i d" Zliddleaet—Thuraday, Aptil 22, 1869. RLNA., This celebrz Prize Medal. 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