The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

OPIITIT OP Tllll PUBLIC .1071INAL13, The Saturday Review cannot doubt that the situation in Ireland is growing every day more dangerous. The language of all the advanced Irish is that England 11mA restore the Irish land to the Irish, under the threat cf - king made to do it if she declines to do it peaceably; and that when she has done this service, she will be invited, under a similar threat, to clear out of Ireland altogether leave the Irish to themselves. The only question is wheil,eE the moreimpatient spirits will be content to make two bites a;" a cherry. Why, they ask, if England is going to leave Ireland should it not begin at once ? The Irish could pass an admirable land bill for themselves, without troubling the English Parliament to waste its time in discussing a measure it does not understand. We observe that at a Poor-law Board in Dublin, the Guardians almost unanimously passed a resolution that nothing but a national parliament would do for Ireland; that absen teeism was the great curse of the country, and that an Irish parliament would soon cure the mischief by taxing absentees until they could not afford to hold their land. The mover and seconder of the resolution were Conser vatives, and thus we have the curious feature of Dublin Conservatives of a most respectable typo actually going in for a Repeal cf the Union as the only remedy for the miseries of Ireland. Men like the Duke of Abercorn of course take a wholly different line. They say that resis tance to Irish clamour must cease some time, and that it will be wisest to commence at once. That they should say it was only what was to be expected ; but what is now is that they are beginning to stand alone, and that the Orange population, the Conservatives of the middle class, the popular leaders who are still loyal, the priests and the Fenians, are all working towards the same end, that end is independence of the English Parliament. .All this may be, and we trust is, a mere momentary fit of pique, excite ment and vapouring. But the embarrassment which it will create as long as it lasts is very serious. The present Ministry came into office announcing that it was going to govern Ireland according to Irish ideas. Ireland is now thing the trouble to inform us what Irish ideas are, and to explain that the chief of these ideas is to have a national Legislature. It will be difficult, if all except the great landowners, many of whom are absentee Englishmen, join in saying that this is the chief Irish idea, to reply that it is not. If the Irish try to push it further than it wishes to go, it will employ the military strength of England. Mr. Gladstone, who started as their one great friend, will have to make the Irish understand that if they do not take what he gives them, and keep quiet, he will, how ever reluctantly, have to shoot them. This is what he will practically have to say, in whatever fair and courteous language he may try to say it. The romance of the Irish system of Government will be gone. Mr. Gladstone will no longer be able to talk of messages of pence. The land bill is sure to be a message, not of peace, but of bitter disappointment to many thousands of Irishmen. What is justice in so complicated a matter is hard to say, and so many arguments may be used against every proposal, that a weak Government would inevitably succumb before the criticism which the Irish Land Bill will provoke. This is exactly the kind of rock on which second-rate Liberal Governments have in variably split. Mr. Gladstone approaches his hour of trial with advantages which no Minister, previously pos sessed, and, with tact and firmness, there is every hope of his succeeding. But probably no one is so well aware as he is of the grave nature of the obstacles that stand in hig way. The Spectate/. thinks there is something not entirely intelligible about the heat with which our Protestant journals take side with the Bishop of Orleans and his party in relation to the great controversy which is now raging at Rome. Every correspondence to the English papers with which we are acquainted reports with mani fest eagerness and favour every sign of the weakness of the Vatican, and with manifest displeasure every sign of its power and every omen of its success. Yet we can hardly see the justification of all this party feeling with relation to a discussion entirely external to ourselves—unless it be a sort of political jealousy of the Pope's claims as distinct altogether from any theological disagreement with him. In some sense, we suppose, the Council may be regarded as a representative body—though a representative body claiming infallibility as a representative body is a very bizarre conception—and the Pope as a sort of king, and no doubt it is the tradition of England to sympathise with all representative bodies which repel the assaults of the royal prerogative. Yet, look at the matter from another point of view, and we think it will be seen that Protestant sympathies may very well turn the other way. We cannot but hold, therefore, that the Pope, in as suming at once, most logically on his theological ground-- that he has already an infallible veto on the discussions of the infallible Council, that, indeed, it is ono of the chief securities of the infallibility that he can prevent even the utterance of a proposal-which he deems unsound, and so arrest heresy at its very source, has not encroached upon the liberties of the Church, but solely on the privileges of an oligarchy which at present assumes to rule it as despo tically, but less definitely and clearly, than be would him self do. The bull regulating the procedure of the Council cannot be accepted by the Gallican party without acquies cing in a sure omen of defeat—the admission of the Pope's separate infallibility as organ of the Church ; and though it is absurd to talk of degrees of infallibility, yet the admission even of the greater and clearer evidence of his infallibility than that of the Council itself, will have been virtually granted before it is actually announced. The John Bull says it is most earnestly to be hoped that the four bishops to whom it is said that a commission ha.; been issued to consecrate Dr. Temple do not labour under a misapprehension which prevails in some quarters. It is by some persons supposed, but erroneously so, that the above-mentioned bishops would incur the penalty of prcemunire if they withheld consecra tion till Dr. Temple had purged himself from all com plicity with any matter contained in " Essays and Reviews" except that which he had himself written—and that they are statutably compellable to consecrate. But this is not so. As the four bishops are neither statutably compellable, nor canonically bound to proceed, it is most earnestly to be hoped that they will withhold consecra tion until some disavowal in complicity with the general teaching of " Essays and Reviews " has been made by Dr. Temple, and until he has purged himself from offence in the face of the Church. If legal or canonical compulsion could be exercised over the bishops, their lot would indeed be a hard one, and they would be the objects of the deepest sympathy and commisera tion, not only to all Churchmen, but to all honest men, as being forced to consecrate to the holy office of a bishop one who was a joint author of a book under condemnation of their own Synod, and, by consequence, of themselves. But if, on the other hand, unconstrained by legal or canonical compulsion, they should proceed to con secrati9n, then, indeed, it must be taken to be a voluntary and willing act on their part. And under such circum stances, on the loss of confidence or influence within their respective dioceses, we are restrained by many reasons "from enlarging ; although the Bishop of London's letter itself shows that, though he has satisfied his own con science, his being chief consecrator will grieve many. The Economist is of opinion that much good might bo done by compelling the publication not only of the pro spectnses of joint stock companies, but of their articles of association and the documents referred to in them. In actual business there is a great difference between having the in formation at hand and having to look for it. At the best it can hardly be said that examining a long deed in an office is the same thing as having a printed copy which may be freely used. It is not every one who could pick up the sense of a legal document in that way. More than this, you cannot submit the documents which only lie at an office for inspection to a friend whose opinion you would like; and you are not likely to hear comments upon them by friends or acquaintances who would form, an opinion if the matter was conveniently befo r e th em , th oug h , h aving no intention to subscribe tteemselves, they will not take the trouble of spending an hour or two of the business day in a solicitor's office to satisfy mere curiosity. This disadvantage of not being able to procure extraneous comments is really very .great. There is at least one friend of the general public— the Press—which would be sure to make its comments in all important cases, if it only had the information. But, for the comments of the Press, it is above all things necessary that nothing should be written about but what is printed and in everybody's hands. It would be enormously difficult and most unsafe to publish remarks in a journal, under heavy responsibility, relying only on impressions from the perusal of documents which were not in one's possession. Possibly the companies concerned ns,ght furnish copies if asked for; but the practical incon venience of getting these things as a favour, if they are got at all, is insuperahle. The false ' , within in which a journal wenhl l r put by ilia favour of documents froia peuolo , n whose proccc ilia . :,; it rci : lt 11,5 ^ to ciim meld unfavourably, ni e.l not Le pi in kilt out. According to the Tablet the question or Civil Mar ,iage is likely to occupy the early al Mention of the Congre gation of Discipliw, at its settlement in Germany, Italy, and Denmark, has become indispensable, and the cases sent to Rome for consideration are continually inereasinf r ,- in number. The funeral of Mr. W. 11. Barber took place on Friday at Kensal-grecn Cemctery, and was attended by Mr. E. G. Dixon, Mr. E. Jr. Thomas, Captain Stocker, and Mr. Johnson, M. D., as mourners. There were also present Messrs. Bernard C. Molly, Turn Hood, Sutherland Edwards, Savile Clarke, Moy Thomas, Thomas Price, John Hollings. head, and other gentleman. t , THE n'OLY GRAIL," At the present time, when nearly everybody is discus sing Mr. Tennyson's new poem, it may be interesting to give a t description of what "The Search for the Holy Grail" means. According to the tradition of the "Death of Arthur," after Christ and the Twelve Apostles had left the Upper Room in which they had celebrated the Last Supper, Joseph of • Arimathea elate: ed the apartment, and, as a memorial of the sacred event, he took away the vessel in which our Saviour had eaten the Paschal Lamb. According, however, to a more poetical tradition, which is followed by the Poet-Laureate, Joseph carried off the cup in which Christ had drunk with his disciples. Following both traditions, we find that the saint took the relic to the Cross, and, as he held it up, drops of blood from the wounds of his crucified Saviour fell into the sacred cup. Thus he became possessed of the Holy Grail, which was his constant com pauion in his wanderings through Pagan lands, until he reached England, and founded Glastonbury Abbey. At that time the Holy Grail was the most precious possession of traditional England. It was the symbol, we are told, of our Saviour's presence among men; it effected miracu lous cures ; and its presence healed the sick, gave strength to the lame, and even rolled back the gates of death. The wickedness c f the land, however, caused it to disappear from human sight, leaving in the minds of all men the faith that to search for the Holy Grail was the highest duty of Christian knighthood, and to find the sacred symbol the highest felicity of life. That legend vas a tradition of the Round Table at which sat the Arthurian knights. It was even whispered that some of those champions had been mysteriously fed from the holy cup; and it was said that Sir Launcelot of the Lake had been thus favoured by Heaven when resting at the castle of Pelles, " King of the foreign country, and cousin nigh unto Joseph of Arimathea." But, since he was not pure, Sir Launcelot was fated never to touch the Holy Grail. That felicity was reserved for his son, the good knight Sir Galahad; and the Arthurian warriors know him to be the chosen of Heaven when, on the first occasion of his entering their company, he sat unharmed in the chair of Merlin, which to all but stainless knights was a seat of death. Thus, also, it was seen that the time had come for the Holy Quest. But the task was perilous as well as fruitless to those who were living in sin. Disaster chastised the unworthy knights who had set out on the sacred errand. Others, who although shining lights of chivalry, still bore some traces of earthly imperfections, caught a glimpse, and only a glimpse, of the Ginn. Thus, when Sir Ector de Maris and Sir revels ale de Galis went in search of Sir Launcelot after he had rushed away mad from the presence of his angry Queen, they met in their wanderings, and, not recognising each other, they fought until each fancied that Le Lad been wounded unto death. Then both found out that they belonged to the Bound Table, and presently both were healed by the Holy Grail. Being the less worthy knight, Sir Ector did not sco the awful presence, but the pure Sir Percival° " had a glimmering of the vessel and of the maiden who Lore it." For the same reason Sir Launcelot never found the object of his search. That "great and guilty love he bore the Queen" made him unworthy to touch the holy of holies. But, because he was the bravest knight in nil the world, because he struggled against his sin, and was ultimately to die in the sanctity of religion, he was permitted to approach the sacred presence, and to see what he was fated never to touch, for on iushiug fol ward to told' the holy treasure, he was smitten down, and lay in a long stupor. Only Sir Percivale, Sir Roes de Cards, and Sir Gala had were to find the Holy Grail. They find it at the castle of King Pelles, where Joseph of Arimathea comes back from the place of the dead to address the awe struck ],nights, and where the Master Himself appears, to bid them partake of His feast. They receive the precious vessel and depart. Then, at a second appearance of Joseph, Sir Galahad is singled out for the special favour of Heaven, and receives the sacred boon from the hands of the Saint himself. That is the token of his high felicity. So, giving to his companions the kiss of farewell, he leaves this life, and is borne to the clouds of heaven by angel hands. Sir Percivale goes into monastery;a after many wanderings Sir Bors reaches Camelot, to tell the knights the fate of the sacred Quest; and so ends the search for the Holy Grail. The sacred symbol is claimed to be in the possession of the Cathedral in Genoa, and is stated to be two palms wide, hexagonal in shape, and green like an emerald. LAW AND POLICE. CHARGE AGAINST THE GASLIGHT COMPANY.—In the Court of Exchequer, Joseph Morris, an American by birth, has brought an action for malicious prosecution against the Cas Light and Coke Company. The proceedings originated in the burning of Saville House, Leicester-square, in 1565, through an explosion of gas. Mr. Morris, who was tenant of part of the prcmises made a claim against the company fur £.2,700. Ho was himself on the Continent exhiLiting the Aztec children at the time of the fire. There was a dispute as to its origin, it being attributed to the negligence of the defendants' employes, who supplied the gas, and a great deal of litigation ensued between the gas company and the insurance offices of the several Lnants. The claims were referred to arbitration, and Mr. Morris, who was nut insured, but who had a claim on the gas company for his losses, made a mistake of some £2OO in the amount, which mistake was rectified. The company maintained that his claim was excessive, and had him suddenly arrested on the charge of fraud. He was taken to the police station and locked up for the night. Being remanded, he was sent to the House of Detention, and was afterwards committed for trial. When the case came on and the witnesses were examined, Mr. Justice Lush animadverted strongly on the institution of the pro secution pending a civil claim, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. A fortnight later the arbitrator made an award in his favour for - £2,170. Mr. Morris offered if the company would pay his attorney's bill of £l,OOO, to waive all right of action against them, but they declined the offer. The defendants' counsel having asked leave to consult, a verdict was assented to for £1,50). The Lord Chief Baron strongly condemned the institution of criminal pro ceedings by the company, and said the plaintiff's character was in no way impeached. A TRADE QI:EST:ON.—In the Court of Common Pleas a compositor, in the employ of Messrs. Itivington, the pub lishers, sued to recover a trifling amount for work clone, the object being to obtain a decision of the court on a trade dispute. The question at issue was whether by the custom of the trade a compositor who had composed part of a section of a sheet, the rest being matter already made up, was entitled to charge as though he had composed the whole sheet. A number of witnesses were examined on both sides—those for the plaintiff to prove the existence of the custom, those for the defence contending that no such custom existed. The jury found for the plaintiff ; but Mr . Justice Brett, who complimented both parties upon their fairness, thought it was a proper case to bo tried in a superior court, and reserved to the defendants' counsel leave to move the full court. CHARGE OF LIBEL.—The publishers of the Free Lance, a local publication, have been charged at the Manchester Assizes with libelling two solicitors by calling them "impertinent and stupid." An apology was agreed to, and a formal verdict of Not Guilty returned. SMUGGLING ClGARS.—William Weedon, the steward of a ship from Melbourne, has been fined £lOO at the Thames Police-court for smuggling cigars and tobacco. On Thursday the Right Rev. Harvey Goodwin, late Dean of Ely, was enthroned and installed as Bishop of Carlisle. FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—The Gazette contains the cowrie d'ilire for the election of a Bishop of Oxford, in succession to Dr. Wilberforce, translated to Winchester, and the royal recommendation of the Rev. J. F. Mackarness to the Dean and Chapter. It is also announced that the Marquis of Normanby is to be captain of hex Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, in the room of the late Lord Foley. The Speaker's warrants fox the election of new members for Longford and Queen's County, in succession to Colonel Greville Nugent and Mr. Fitzpatrick, two of the new peers, aro published in the Gazette. THE FO 0 T-AND-1110 TJTH DISEASE. —A. supple ment to the London Gazette contains an Order in Council empowering a l oca l authority from time to time, with the view of preventing th e s p rea di ng o f f oo t- an d. mouth disease, to mak e regu l a ti ons f or app l y i ng to t h a t disease all the provisions contained in the Conta gious Diseases (Animals) A c t , 1869 , relating to plow°- pneumonia, or such part or parts thereof as may be thought lit. The following rules for foot-and-mouth d:s ease shall, however, bo in substitution of the pleuro pneumonia rules contained in the seventh schedule to the Act referred to These rules are to have effect with respect to any field, stable, cow-shed, or other promises infected by foot and mouth disease. 2. Animals affected with foot and mouth disease, or herded with animals so affected, itre not to be moved from such field, stable, cow shed, or other premises, or from any land or building con tiguous thereto in the same occupation, except either for immediate slaughter, according to regulations to be from time to time made by the local authority for insuring such slaughter, or if not for immediate slaughter, under a license signed by an officer of the local authority appointed to issue licenses in that behalf. 3. Sheds and places used ;by animals affected with foot and mouth disease are forth after being so used, to be cleansed and clisigfftesl)o the satiafactiQuA the decal althotiti. ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, -DECEMBER 18, 1869 Mr. Grimes' place will remain vacant, the Governor of lowa not having filled it. In his Sunday sermon the Rev. 0. B. Frothingbam alluded to his part in the deathbed wedding, justifying his action, con demning not only M'Farland's conduct, but those who spread abroad idle, vain, vindictive gossip. "To fill up a newly-made gave with venom, to cover a pure, lovely, broken-hearted, distracted woman with reproof—to fix a stigma which, per haps, can never be wiped off upon innocent children standing on the threshold of life, is to break up the order, peace, and harmony of society." It is evident from the telegram of Sunday that no time was lost by the Representatives in endea vouring to expand the currency, for last Saturday a bill was introduced to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue additional currency to the amount of $44,000,000 for the purpose of purchas ing and cancelling bonds. A motion to lay it on the table was defeated by 88 votes against 65, but the bill was finally referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency questions, which is known to be adverse to the measure. These efforts to get back to the good old days of inflation are supported by the heavy fall in the nominal value of nearly all property, with the rise in the purchasing power of greenbacks. Genuine losses have occurred to mer chants who imported and cleared goods when gold was 140,as well as to those wbo made large purchases, leaving a portion of the payment to stand on mort gage. Debts remain representing the same num ber of dollars, while the assets with which they have to be paid shrink daily as greenbacks rise towards the level of gold. Weak houses are sus pending, and strong houses are talked of as likely to do so. Under such circumstances, it is not sur prising that Legislators, who think the impending evils could be averted, while the financial strength of the Government was increased by merely print ing some scores of millions of greenbacks, which could be put into circulation by purchasing 5-20 Bonds, should eagerly move such resolutions. No Dead Sea fruit ever looked more tempting to the eye ; but there are many men in Congress who know how it turns to ashes on the lips. These are the only other telegrams :—" President Grant has nominated Attorney-General Hoar As ' sociate Justice of the Supreme Court." " Atlantic and Great Western traffic receipts for the year end ing June 30, $5,100,000. Operating expenses 70 per cent.". "On Thursday, at a sitting of the Se nate, Mr. Carpenter delivered a long and impres sive speech in favour of recognizing the Cuban in surgents as belligerents. Mr. Sumner spoke in op position." " Ottawa, Dec. 16.—The Canadian Par liament will adjourn on the 23d iust. until the 11th of January next." The. Reports of the Special Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce on the decay of American Commerce are full of interest, and can scarcely fail to have an effect on Congress. Mr. A. A. Low read at the last monthly meeting the ma jority report, and Mr. A. Snow read the minority report ; but both in the main facts agree. They enter into the history of the ocean-carrying trade and the causes of the decline. A full and intelli gent inquiry will reveal enough to disabuse many American minds of erroneous impressions ; both the Chamber of Commerce and the Congressional Coln mittee will do much to explode the fallacy that the Alabama and such corsairs destroyed the mercantile marine of America. We have long ago arrived at the same conclusion which the nation is now beginning to understand ; but Consul-General Morse was ahead of us, though our opinions were expressed before we had seen or knew anything of his valuable report. We will discuss next week the Reports of the Chamber of Commerce, which recommend that foreign built steamers might be purchased abroad, and registered as American, ex cept in coastwise trade ; that the materials for build ing steamers might be imported free of duty ; and that steamers constructed in American yards should be subsidized, and drawbacks on ships' stores al lowed. The Congressional Committee has closed its investigations, having visited Portland, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Its report, now being printed, runs over 800 psges of manuscript, and it will be found that these three proposals are developed at every stage of the inquiry : "First —A drawback of tho duty upon all materials entering into the construction of vessels, and a subsily equal to the amount of the duty when American materials are used. Secund—Permission to purchase and admit fo reign-built vessels to American registers. Third—Subsi dies to American linos of ocean steamers." The Pennsylvania Railroad continues to extend its connection, and it may now be said to be the greatest of all railroad corporations. It has just Wilmington, and 'Ganes bought the Cincinnati, vine Railway, running over 130 miles through a rich district of Ohio, the direction being from Cin cinnati towards Pittsburg. The road was sold by the European bondholders, and the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pennsylvania Companies competed for the purchase, the latter being successful. The line cost about $3,000,000, and in default of pay ment of interest on its bonds was sold for about $1,001,000. The difference between the progress of the Pennsylvania Railroad and that of the Erie, once its great rival, is striking ; indeed the former is growing into a positive danger in its magnitude, for such a powerful interest means a monopoly. c Aeb appears to have been de cided on between t tph manufacturers of e Treasury Department of Washington rem a rkaarilde h step e steel Shef field, England. We have of late frequently alluded to a charge urged, more especially by Pennsyl vanians, against the manufacturers in England, of invoicing their consignments of steel to the United States at a rate far below their real value, with the design of evading the import duties, in collusion with the consignees on the American side. An agent of the Treasury left the "Black Country" for Washington, with evidence calculated, we un derstand, to support the charge, but it has teen in dignantly denied by the Sheffield manufacturers (Front the Anglo-American Times.) and those by whom the goods are cleared in New Our news by the nolsatia is to the 7th instant York. The Treasury Department has agreed to Both Houses of Congress organized on the Gth ; in send a Commissioner to Sheffield, there to examine the Senate the monster petition for the recognition the books of the manufacturers, whn,.on their part, of Cuba was presented by Mr. Cameron, and bills h ave invited the investigation. were introduced restricting the jurisdiction of the The bill entitled the Tenure-of-Office Act, in- United States Courts, regulating Chinese immi tended to s h ac kle the late President, and which gration, and for the reconstruction of Georgia ; in eventually. led to his impeachment, has agai n come the House bills were introduced providing for the u taking of the ninth census, for the admission of up for discussion. The House has always fa v oured its repeal since the inauguration of General G rant, g 'Virinia, and to amend the Bankin and Currency but the Senate, into whose hands it throws an extra Act. An escaped captive states that there are 20 share of power, has not been so ready to relinquish whitechildren held as prisoners among the Cheyenne Indians. Mr. Beecher, whose part in the deathbed it. During the first Session this bill nearly l ed to a split between the Representatives and the Senate; marriage has been severely condemned, has written ', to the Star a letter of explanation. He maintains and the Judiciary Committee, we presume of the that his impressions, though vague, were " that a House,has . reported favourably upon the bill for the worthless man had proved in every way unfaithful repeal of the Tenure-of-Office Act. to his marriage relations ; that , wo r n out b y ill- Not long ago Peru was a purchaser of war 'ma sets in the United States, and in answer to t h e pro treatment, the woman left her husband ; that . test of Spain that country furnished the best reply Richardson, after the separation was final, became that could be made to the detention of the Spa nish deeply interested in her ; that she p rocured a gunboats in New York on the plea that they were divorce, which was not only legal, but well-founded designed to be used against Peru. In the face of upon the strictest moral grounds." In case they its former assertions, it is neither more nor less than should turn out to be wrong, he would acc e p t the ridiculous for Peru to come forward in an United truth, and make such reparation as be could to States Court as plaintiff in such a case. Judge M'Farland. It is said the Report of the Committee on Blatchford released the gunboats on the 10th inst., the Paraguayan affairs will not be ready for a long District-Attorney Pierrepont baying declared that time. Senator Brownlow has arrived in Washing the Government would not prosecute the libel, as a ton in better health than last winter. The trial of state of war did not exist between Spain and Peru. the Susquehanna Railroad suit between Ramsay Eighteen of these gunboats were formally trans and Fisk continues at Rochester. Testimony has (erred to the Spanish flag on Wednesday, and were been given to show that at the time of the election to have sailed for Cuba yesterday, as crews to man for directors the rootr was packed with New York them had arrived in a Spanish frigate, which for roughs, so as to prevent a meeting of the regular sonic time has been lying iu the harbour of New stockholders. Florence Scannell, to whom our York. New York Correspondent alludes, has died. The Scere`•aryof die Na vy has ordered the Port - At I mirals Some interesting experiments with torpedoes were witnessed, Dec. 2, at the Washington at New York and Eoston to confer with the local Navy authorities that tiuo honours may be shown to the yard by Secretary Robeson, s l Admira • Porter and Dahlgren, Commodore Case, and others. The body of Mr. Peabody on arrival. Though the day steamer Nina, the first torpedo boat tried, was dur on which Congress assembled was bleak , a ra in (inn the war, an iron tug of 306 .tons, very strong and snow storm prevailing, the Capitol was fu ll, and fast, going when at sea 17 knots an hour. An the best feeling existing, Rcoublicaus and Demo iron bar, 20 feet in length, attached to her by ma crats evincing the utmost cords. ,)sty on their meet ing. A son of 0. W. lice 'nes accompanied chinery, is rigged to the bottom of the vessel. The Senator Sumner to Washington. as clerk of the torpedo is connected with the bar, and so arranged Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Senator f that a torpedo can be exploded by electricity every Sherman denies the action attributed :to him on minute. Lieutenant.-Commander Matthews, iu the finances. It is conceded that Mr. Morrill, of charge of the torpedo corps, was highly complimented Maine, will be made Chairman of Appropriations, on the successful results of the experiments, the vice Fessenden ; and Cragin, elf New Hampshire, first of which, .with 361bs. of powder, caused a con of the Committee on Naval Affairs, vice Grimes, t vulsive movement of the water, a liquid body fly though Drake is also menti( Med. For the present lug 50 feet into the air ; while the second, with FOREIGN NOTES. THE DECAY OF ACA COMMERCE. The special committee appointed by the New York Chamber of Commerce to consider the causes of the decline of American commerce, and the remedies which the Chamber should recommend to Congress, have presented their report. They arrive at the conclusion that Congress must initiate measures "mono liberal and just than those hitherto adopted, or the sea must be abandoned to wiser and better governed nations" They recommend that Congress should modify the existing laws, so that 1. Foreign-built steamers may be imported free of duty, and privileged to carry the American flag, provided they are American owned and not employed for the coastwise trade. 2. That iron plate and other shipbuilding ruatelial be admitted free of duty. 3. That on all ship stores pro curable in bond, drawback be returned. And finally, that subsidies be granted to lines of steamers built in American yards, so that a successful competition may be maintained with powerful foreign organisations. Mr. Low, who read the report, said that if they could have steamers in no other way, they had better import British steamers free of duty. A minority report was also read, recommending free trade in ships and a change in the bonded warehouse system, but opposing the grant ing of subsidies by Congress. In the course of the debate it was observed that during the late war LSO American vessels were built and put afloat in three years. It was, however, contended that the vessels composing this impro vised navy were rapidly perishing. It was resolved that the two reports should be printed, and the discussion of the subject postponed for a special meeting of the Chamber. 1001bs. of powder, blew into fragments the vessel against which it was-directed. The Nina is consi dered a very formidable war engine, indeed capable of destroying ships of almost any power. The in gredients of the explosive compound is kept a pro found secret. The French steamship Pereire has be.en making some fine runs across the Atlantic, but she has been, wholly eclipsed both by the German and the Eng lish lines. The vessel which has now taken the lead is the City of Brussels, the latest addition to the Inman fleet. Her trip out from Queenstown to New York was accomplished in nine days, but her passage home is really the fastest ever made, being in seven days, twenty-two hours, and three minutes to Queenstown, and eight days, fourteen hours, and fourteen minutes to Liverpool. We take no small interest in fast vessels of the Inman line, for the mass of our news is carried by the mails leaving New York on Saturdays. The City of Brussels, which is commanded by James Kennedy, who, if we do- nut mistake, was the seaman who gained so high a name both for himself and for the City of Paris, left New York at 7.45 a.m. on Satur day, December 4 ; passed Sandy Hook, discharging pilot, 9.30 ; stopped at Queenstown, 10.10 a.m. on Sunday, December 12 ; and anchored at Liverpool 4.45 a.m. on Monday last. General Schenck, who spent the summer in Europe, returned to Washington in time to set to work in earnest with the Ways and Means Committee, of which he is Chairman, on Tariff Bills, and on his own elaborate Bill— "To reduce into one Act, and to amend the laws relating to Internal Revenue." The Bill, thus entitled, was read twice on the fir st Session of tho present Congress, and ordered to bo.printed, and it makes a largo book of 341 pages. What is *of most importance to Europe is the free list as proposed by the new Tariff Bill, to which three hundred articles will be added. The Secretary of the Treasury furnished the Committee with a paper showing the duties collected during the year on these articles, and it is estimated that the reduction will be 20,000,000 dollars in the tariff income. Judge Kelley has submitted the following articles to the consideration of the committee for the free list: Chalk, chemical dyes, drugs and medicines, as follows : Acids—Benzoic, unless 25 percent. can be placed upon it when it could be manufactured here ; nitric, oxalic, and subacetate of copper; verdegris, annota seed or extract, antimony crude or sal [lure argols, &c. (see under cream of tartar); arsenic, assa fcetida, balsam copabia, balsam pouvian, balsam tofu ; bark Peruvian, Cinchona, Lima, and Calisaya bark ; brimstone, crude ; bitter apples; colocynth or colo quidita ; buchu leaves; camphor, crude; cantharides, or Spanish flies; coculus indicus; cream tarter, crude argols, single refined tarters, cubebs, cuttlefish bone, cutch or cutachu and terra japonica, jambier, dragon's blood, dyes, not specified ; flowers, plants and leaves medicinal, not specified ; iodine, crude ipecac, jalap, lac seed, lac and stick lae, liquorice-root, manna, opium, opium extract, potash, muriat of, rhubarb, rose-leaves, safflower, sarsaparilla, nitrate of soda; cork, unmanufactured ; ginger -root; gums, arabic ; jedda,^myrrh ; senegal, copal, kowrie, san darac, datnar, and other varnishes; gums, mastic, and sheilac ; kyrolite (this article, free, does not interfere ma t Tinily with soda ash, because it would be most to the interests of manufacture's to make carbonate and bicar bonate If soda at once from kyrolite, and not to make soda ash for sale, the order of the process being soda ash, car bocate of soda, bicarbonate of soda—and kyrolite makes carbonate of soda at the first crystallization); lead-pig free, or one cent per pound; mineral waters, nut galls,' oils, fixed or expressed, almond, laurel, croton, mace, olive in casks, palm, and cocoanuts ; oils, vo!a,tile or essential — almond, amber; crude rectified—bergamot, casseput, cara way, cassia, cinnamon, cittrooella, fennel, fazel; oil crude in casks—juniper, orange and lemon, roses, thyme, red or origanum thyme, white valerian, and all other essential oils not otherwise provided for. Seeds—Anise, anise star, canary, caraway, cardatnon, coriander, cumia, fennel, fenu gree, rapeseed, wormseed, nux vorniea, sponges, albumen, berries, nuts, vegetables, &c., not otherwise provided for, used exclusively in dyeing or composing dyes; bismuth, cochineal, dye-wood, and sticks, indigo, lac dye, and mad der root, ground or prepared. Some papers sneer . at this list as a mere parade, got up for show, but meaning no thing, while Pennsylvania screws up the articles which do mean something. The Bill of Judge Poland of Vermont will come tip early for discussion. It provides for a free system of National Banking, and when presented last March was re ferred to the Committee on. Banking and Currency. Ile proposes to issue Bonds for $1,000,000,000, to run for 30 and SO years, bearing 4 per cent. interest, and free from State or municipal taxation, for the 30 years bonds, and three and sixty-five hundredths per centum for those running 50 years, these • bonds to be exclusively used in pay ment of or exchange for the bonds, or notes now out standing ; .the notes to be destroyed as withdrawn, un til only 100,900,000 dollars are left. The national cur rency is to be issued to the banks in place of the legal tender Dotes withdrawn. All the banks to secure their circulation by the now bonds. These are to be issued first to localities not now having their proportion of the circulation. All national banks within a year after the hill passes to deposit the new bonds, in amount Such as the law now requires: After the "legal-tenders" have been reduced to the sum before named, all banking asso ciations depositing bonds of this proposed issue are to re ceive notes in accordance therewith. The v 00,000,000 limitation to be repealed. Wo do not think that Poland's bill will be acCeptable to America, savouring, as it does, of compulsory caversion of the bonds as far as the National Banks are concerned. Mr. Lynch; of Maine, has a bill before the Com mittee on Banking and Currency, to provide for the gradual resumption of Specie Payments. Ms scheme is that after a certain date the United States notes now out stirnding shall, when received at the Treasury, bo de stroyed, and in lieu thereof now notes payable in coin and on demand within ono year after date shall be issued. National Bank notes received by the Treasury, and not paid out to persons willing to receive thorn, shall be redeemed by the banks in legal-tenders, which arc in their turn to be destroyed and now coin notes sub stituted. 'The whole amount of the coin notes is not to exceed the present issue of Treasury notes, exclusive of the fractional currency. The new notes aro to bo a legal tender for redemption of national bank notes, and for all other purposes, except "by the United States in pay ment of other such notes as have already matured, or in payment of the interest on the public debt whore such in tert is now, or hereafter may be, payable according to law in coin, and also, except before maturity, in payment to the United States for duties on imports." Said notes, if received or redeemed at the Treasury, may be re-issued in now notes to the same amount, under the same regula tions, except after the payment of specie has actually commenced, when tho Secretary of the Treasury may re issue them for periods of less than a year, but not less than throe months. He may also issue new notes, in lieu of others that have been redeemed, and in payment there for may at discretion issue bonds to an amount not ex ceeding $50,000,000, payable on and after five years, bear ing not more than 6 per cent. interest (coin), the bonds also payable in gold; said bonds aro not to bo issued at less than par in lawful money. An accurate account is to be kept of the notes redeemed, issued, reissued, and de stroyed. After the passage of the bill no gold or silver is to be paid or sold out of the Treasury, except in payments such as existing lawri demand. This Bill was before the Fortieth Congress, and is said to grow more popular, as it is discussed, carrying even the Western Representatives with it, as it does not contract the currency. TILE NEW YORK CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICIALS.-- Public attention having.been recently called to the alleged misconduct of the officers who examine the luggage of passengers arriving at New York, in a letter, addressed by an Englishman to a prominent London jomnal, we deem it but just to give the testimony of an American gentleman who recently landed at Now York. Ho says, " From much I had heard and read of our Surveyor's officers, I confess I had formed an unfavourable opinion of them, and I was not alone in anticipating annoyance and perhaps insult. I know none of these gentlemen personally, and they had no motive for treating me with more polite ness than my fellow passengers. Instead of meeting with insult or annoyance we were treated with the greatest courtesy. The necessary and very unpleasant duty of examining tho baggage was performed with as little an noyance as was possible consistent with the law. I was constrained to remark while the examination was being made. that the officers who directed it bore themselves like gentlemen, and while they were faithful to their trust were considerate and patient towards the passengers. I regret that I cannot recall the names of those I especially noticed, fur I disliko to discriminate where all deserve praise, but I especially desire to designate as efficient and gentlemanly officers, Messrs. Kirk, Chalker, and Lawrence, of the Surveyor's corps." The winter is likely to cool the ardour of the lied River insurgants, patriots, or whatever else it may please sections of the world to call thorn. It appears that there aro two parties around Lake Wiunepeg, who in their isolated and lonely district have teen living a sort f eat,rnl,log life. One, the Scotch, was founded by the Ea, I of Selkirk, who was the Governor of the Titoism) flay Company ; the other was front the Lower Province of Canada, and therefore French, and as both lived on more or less friendly terms with the Indians, a variety of half- breeds was the result, but all were fostered under the internal government of the comptuy. Its policy was exclusion, but to satisfy the world it was necessary that they should bo able to point to some sort of settle ment, and this of Red River supplied the requirement. The inhabitants enjoyed independence under a mild rule till the transfer of tl:e eompanv's power to the Dominion, which not only raised questions as to their future, but aroused their pride. The idea of being sold like the fur-bearing animals whose skins they eap tur and to become:a colony of a colony, seems to have exasperated the settlers, who number about 20;000. There was a meeting at Winnepeg of the half-breeds on the 16th Nov., when Governor M‘Tavislt's proclamation ASIATIC TELEGRAPH CABLES. The Russian Government is said to have granted the privilege of laying a telegraph cable to China and Japan. Mr. Tiedgen and his associates are to carry it out. The land lines through Siberia will, it is expected, be connected with this submarine cable from Nangasaki to Shanghai, in China. From the latter place the wire will be taken to Hongkong. When those lines aro completed, telegraphic communications can bo sent from the United States to China. TILE INLNDATIONS AT PISA. The Provincia di Pisa gives some details of the serious Inundations that have taken place there. A few days ago the waters of the Arno were swollen to such an extent that for some time they menaced the city. The authorities adopted so many precautions that no serious damage would have been done, if a portion of the pruapet had not been carried away by the force of the waves. The waters then rushed in and inundated the southern part of the city. The inhabitants became greatly alarmed for the consequences. The municipal authorities and the military consulted together, and resolved upon the best measures to talc° in the emergency. The students, the troops, and many of the citizens set them selves to work in earnest,•and in a short time they restored the place to comparative safety. Fears were afterwards entertained that another portion'of the parapet was giving way, but This evil was averted by the adoption of precautionary measures. The appearance of the inundated streets the next day was very desolate, and the subsiding of the waters disclosed the damage that ha I been done in all directions. Several corpses were found in the ground floors of houses, and some were buried in the sand. The citizens are all greatly affected by the grave disaster which has Lefallen them, and of which they are likely long to feel the consequences. EIRRACKS FOR RUSSIA Military reform is beginning to occupy a good deal of attention in Russia, where, strange to say, the old system of billeting soldiers is still kept up, instead of the soldiers being placed in lamas. The Moscow News is strongly in favour of the 'Western system, and bases its arguments on military, as well as on social grounds. The soldiers, says the writer of a recent article on the subject, are quartered out during eight months of the year, in which they Lave little or no military duty; the younger men are, therefore, likely to forget their drill as soon as they have learned it. The Prussian soldier, who serves only three years, has as much actual training as the Russian, who serves ten; and, is, as the Sadowa campaign testifies, considerably more efficient. "At present," says the Mosecia 2Veirs, "we are maintaining and keeping in readiness, even in time of peace, at least two-thirds of our entire army, at an enormous expense to ourselves and with no benefit whatever to them." If the military esta blishment wcro reduced one-third, and the men were quartered in barracks, a saving of 2- million roubles, equivalent to £3,500,000, would, it is estimated, be saved, as well as an inq rov, m nt being effected in the morale of the troops, and a relief given to the people, upon whom the quarterage system presses heavily and unequally. Peter the Great, with whom military efficiency was a paramount object, contemplated the erection of barracks, and leveral of his successors also entertained the project, which was never put into practice, chiefly owing to the e::pense. This is still the chief obstacle urged against it, but when once the advantages of the change a:e fully ap preciated, it can hardly be deferred on that score, since the expense, as the 31 - osc!;w _Yews reminds us, will not be les sened by waiting. TUE JEWS IN RUSSIA, The Jews resident in the United States have sent a deputation to President Grant, asking him to use his influence with the Russian Czar to obtain a revo cation or modification of the late ukase under which 2,000 Hebrew families have been exiled from their homes in Russia. The President said it was too late in this day of enlightenment to persecute people of any colour, race, or religion, and he promised that the influence of the American Government should bo exerted in order to obtain a revocation of the ukase. The American envoy at St. Petersburg has received instructions accordingly. MANNERS AMONG THE JAPANESE. A correspondent of the .Nite York Time., relates that in some instances the Japanese adopt European manners. On board one steamer it was curious to see men who at home never take their meals at a table, sit on a chair or eat with a knife or fork, seriously addressing themselves to all the formalities of an American dinner. Their separate table was served exactly like that of the foreign passengers. Tho Japanese are not separated from the Europeans by any cast-iron customs like those which divide us from the Ilindoos or the Chinese. One of the guests was di essed completely in the European style, and others wore Various articles of foreign make. These are indications of coming changes. One of the nrinces has accepted a New Testament, which it would nave been death to receive a few years ago. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. was circulated and produced a marked effect. lie de nounces the seizure of public and private property, the in terference with mails and travellers; he charges the in surgents to disperse, and calls upon the citizens to act vig orously to avert the threatened danger. The final wards of the Proclamation are—" You are dealing with a crisis. out of which may come incalculable good or immeasurable evil, and with all the weight of my official authority, all tho influence of my individual position, let me finally charge you to adopt only such means as aro lawful, constitutional, rational, and safe." Mr. Ignatius Donnelly of slang-whang,- ing fame, he whose disgraceful attack on Minister Wash burne, because ho effectually shielded the Treasury, so dis gusted his fellow-citizens that they sharply closed his Con gressional career, has been trying in Minnesota to make the most of the disturbance. On the other hand, the militia of Canada has been volunteering to suppreSs the insur rection, but - all this is mere talk; the settlers have a per fect right to be heard, and their demands, which appear reasonable, to be considered, and this is the only course England would countenance, or indeed Canada desire. Captain Ermatinger, of Montreal,. is, to be despatched to Red River as a special messenger; to conciliate the set tlement. The latest floss s, vvhichls as follows was tele graphed on Thursday, and is frail the Chicago Tribune,j which states that reports from Winnepeg Territory repre sent the insurgents as still issuing rations from the scores of the Hudson's Bay Company, and announces that they have placed a guard over Governor Mactavish, and re pelled the messengers sent by Mr. M'Dougall. _ _ _ . _ _ _ Mr. Motley accompanied the body of the late Geo. Peabody to Portsmouth, with Sir Curtis Lampoon, Mr. C. Reed, and Mr. Peabody Russell, nephew of the deceased ; and the Minister, in an appropriate address, confided the remains to Captain Commorell's care. Tho Monarch then slowly steamed out, accompanied by the American cor vette the Plymouth, but the vessels wore detained by a violent south-westerly gale till last evening. Sir Curtis Lampson, on his return, met with an accident. His car riage &waited him at Three Bridges Station, and in it ho left for Rowfant. Near Worth Hall a train stoppad the way, and the noise of the engine, when it started, fright ened the horses, but Sir Curtis fortunately got out while they were kicking and plunging, for the coachman was thrown 'to the ground, and they started down the road they had come up, breaking through a gate on another level crossing, and galloping along the line towards the Three Bridges Station. About that time their owner might have calculated on their "coming to grief," and sold them cheap; but there was another turn in the tide of their affairs, for before reaching the station the carriage was smashed against an empty train, and the released horses sprang over an embankment and brought up in a brook, where they were secured unhurt. Last Wednesday in the House of Representatives a resolution was introduced by una nimous consent, announcing the death 'of Mr. George Pea body, and reciting the honours paid him by her Majesty, the Lcndon authorities, the French Emperor, and others, and also the extraordinary preparations for the transfer of his remains to America. The President was autho rised to order as many ships of war as were convenient and adequate fo: this occasion, to meet at tea the European convoy conducting it hither, and to make other proparat:ons for the reception of the corpse, so as to be commensurate with the merits of the deceased. The re solution was made a special order for Monday. The London Standard was made by its American correspondent "Manhattan." Another good correspondent followed on "Manhattan's" death, and on the death of the other a third promises to be as amusing, if ho would but write oftener and fuller. We like the Standard's corre spondents all the better that they, are of the straitest Copperhead sect, from whom we get stronger views than in any American paper. Alluding to the death-bed mar riage of Mr. Richardson, ho says :—" Seldom even in Ame • rica has there been witnessed a more discreditable, it might almost be said a more disgraceful, scene fur all the parties concerned in it, than this marriage. . . . Ono sen tence from Mr. Frothingham's prayer will suffice : `Father, we thank Theo for what these two have been to each other and for what they may be yet.' Those two' have been living in adulterous intercourse with each other, and although six weeks had passed since the re moval of all legal impediment to their marriage by her divorce from Mr. M'Farlaud, no Beecher had been asked to unite them in lawful wedlock ; nor did it even occur to Richardson to propose such a thing until it was t) be done, like a scene in ono of Mrs. M'Farland's melodramas, in a death chamber, with all the United States looking on, and the reporters of the daily newspapers standing by the bridal death-couch togivo the affecting details to a sym pathetic public." There is no better judge than a Standard correspondent, because they know all the facts intuitively. This writer, for instance, can tell exactly the relations that existed between Mr. Richardson and Mrs. 31 l'arland, and it is a pity that our belief in such prescience should in any degree be shaken, but it happens that the late Mr. Richardson, nine months ago, publicly stated that it was understood between himself and Mrs. M'Farland that they would be married when the law permitted. The lady has, we aro informed, been lately in Indiana, and Mr. Richard son had only returned to New York a week before he was shot. The cause of his murder was that he was about to marry Mrs. M'Farland, so we believe there is scarcely a word of truth in all tho above lines. The same correspondent then thus comes down upon George H. Butler, who appeared iu the Lon don Gazette of last Tuesday as having been approved by her Majcsty as the Consul-General at Calcutta for the United Sates :—" It is rather curious, as another illus tration of Now York morality, that at the very mommt the mar' yred R!cisardson lay in arlEctdo m9rtis in one of the upper rooms of the Astor House, the banqnoting, hall of that well-known hotel was filled with a roystering company of his friends and admirers assembled to do honour iu a farewell banquet to a kindred spirit. A nephew of Benjamin• P. Butler, recently appointed by President Grant Consul-General of the United States for some region at the aatipodea, and well known as the fighting correspondent of a sporting newspaper, and as the husband of a popular actress, was on the eve of de parture for his distant post of duty, and at the festival board, where ho was the guest, cheers were given for the dying man upstairs, while threats of vengeance against APParland mingled with compliments to the nephew of his uncle. Such are the humours of the time." This may convey an idea of the writer's knowledge of geography, but if the correspondent is not accurate he is at any rate amusing. _ _ Ex-Senator Ramsay has failed, as England and Italy failed, in inducing the French Government to modify its postal regulations, especially with regard to the alte ration in her standard of weight. The French postal con vention with the United States ends with this month. The French postal authorities refused, in the first instance, to change the weight used in Franco of 71 gramtnos, or ,z. With England, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Swit zerland, and Italy the ioz. is the standard to the United States, and as Americans aro in the habit of writing upon strong heavy paper their letters generally turn the French scale, incurring double postage, or 32c. France demanded a double share of the interior rates of postage, also that the United States should establish a semi-monthly line of mail steamers between New York and Brest, equal to the French vessels between these ports, or pay the entire sea charge, and British inland transportation of all mails conveyed through England, that is four-fifths of the cor respondence between the United States and Franco. The postage of the United States correspondence with France amounts to $300,000 per annum. As the treaty was framed in 1857 its terms were better calculated for those days than for the present. France cannot see what all neigh bouring nations see, the necessity of altering those anti quated regulations, and granting and receiving conces sions which are sure to redound to its own advantage, as well as to that of the friendly nation with which the treaty is concluded. Commodore John L. Worden arrived at Anna polis on the Ist inst., and assumed the Superintendency of the United States Naval Academy. Vice-Admiral D. D. Porter's colours wore lowered under a salute of fifteen guns, and the Commodore's hoisted, the salute being eleven. The Commodore awaits the arrival of his family in the Maryland Hotel. Ho has but recently left Germany, where this distinguished officer had been staying for some time. The President has directed the Secretary of State to forward to Minister Curtis►, at St. Petersburg, the appeal of the Israelities on behalf of their expatriated brethren. It will be accompanied by a letter asking its favourable consideration by the Czar. An account of Minister Curtin's reception by the Czar appears in the American papers. The Emperor reciprocated the hope expressed by the Minister that the existing feelings be tween the two nations would be perpetuated and grow stronger, adding that they were alike in their growth and improvement, and during his reign the friendship would become closer. The proceedings were published in the Court Journal at St. Petersburgh, an unusual course, and significant of the importance attached to the interview, and an illustrated Russian paper published a photograph likeness of Minister Curtin and a representation of the proceedings. General N. P. Banks was also presented, and accompanied the Emperor at a review of 40,000 of the Imperial - .Guard. The American Major-General was dressed in his uniform. The Mormons found the Co-operative Associa tion.a useful instrument against the Gentiles, but having accomplished its work in ruining a number of useful traders, it proved to be a two-edged sword, cutting back among those who have employed it. Its effect was to convert the Mormons with means into a Joint Stock Join pany,and here we know that shareholders look almost solely to dividends. Brigham, however, has but a remote idea of dividiug anything even with the "Saints." Indeed ho is a bad sample of an English director, who has had his way so long as to get angry with and browbeat any share holder who asks for a return. A nominal dividend of 12 per cent. was recently declared, but this was all paper work, a sort of laying up of treasure for which the "Saints" had no fancy; so a meeting was held, when Brigham .said that, es the diVidendi could not be paid over, the stockholders should have the amounts credited on the books. Like a cantankerous English share holder, the wealthy Mormon merchant Jennings talked about being swindled, whereon Brigham became angry, and empliatioally observed that any shareholder desiring in-.- mediate payment had. clearly l ost the Spirit of tho Lord, and verged on apostacy. One shareholder went to the goCai.......nowimmemmarrunesgra. 0•111 , 41. - N 101.131.001.111,. Bishop fer his dividend, but was handed a sack of sugar; another, it great disgust, has tendered big resignation as a member cf the Mormon Church, evidently confuring his religion with the groceries of the conc,3rn. The Co-operative Association and tho Utah Magazin? are the active agents in disrup tion, but Brigham is confiscating the Magazine through the Post Offices just as it he was the Czar of All the Missies. But no Czar, or even any Monarch of the Middle Ages, had a more atrocious story circulated to his disal vantage than that now rumoured of Brigham. He appears to have kept a murderer ! who executed his sentences as would a "bravo" of Venice. William Hickman became dangerously ill when at a horse-race in Nevada, and sent for a "Saint" to baptize him, who, however, refused, asserting that Hickman had shed too much innocent blood to hope for salvation. "Not ou my own account," replied tho bravo, "for all was done at the instigation of Brigham." " How many?" asked the Josephite. "Per haps about 400," was Hickman's rough calculation. That he had murdered many persons is notorious, but it not known to what extent, if any, Brigham is imply , cated. There was a rumour that the Mormons bad assumed a hostile attitude, and that orders had been re ceived at different btitious for movements of troops, which led to the supposition that they were to be directed to Utah. This, we are confident, will prove untrue ; while Brigham is too wise to allow schism to become strong is his own hold. lie directed public attention from hone grievances to a great Mormon propagandism, sending out as missionaries those suspected of sympathy with the move ment. lie has power to dispatch any member of the Church on a mission, whatever his position, and as they got no pay but have to pick up their own crumbs on the way, there is no necessity for murdering his enemies, as he can despatch them to China, Africa, or India. None refuse, leaving their farms, offices, harems, to raise among the most ungenial climes and races, the banner of Mor monism. The case is told of a yoUng " Saint" in love with a woman Brigham did not wish him to marry ; so ho or dered him to India, and the missionary had to sever the strongest of human ties, gird up his loins and go. _ The income-tax is giving rise to more discussion in the United States than any other single tax, perhaps, indeed, for the moment, to all other taxes combined. The reason is two-fold ; first, from its unpopularity, as not only. direct but inquisitorial ; and, again, because it expires by limitation next year. The question is whether this unpopular tax shall be renewed. If the enactment were not limited the question would not assume its present pro minence; but if, during this session of Congress, the time be not extended the collection of the income-tax must cease. Hence the discussion cannot be avoided, and as it is a tax liked by Secretary Boutwell, and supported by those who believe in the advantage of direct imposts, the parties for and against it are not unevenly divided. The tax levies 5 per cent. on incomes over $l,OOO, with very large exemptions for various expenses, .especially house rent, without reference to the amount,. It is calculated that about a third of the tax is evaded, yet the amount de rived last year was about thirty-five millions of dollars, being ono-fourth of the whole internal revenue. idr. Wells would roduce,the rate while maintaining the tax, as serting that 3 per cent., more honestly and skilfully col lected, would yield a larger return than the present 5 per cent. New York City pays more income tax than a third of the States, showing how unevenly the assess ment works. Horace Greeley writes bitterly on the fact ho cites, that ho has paid over 1,000 dollars per annum since the tax was imposed, while he sees men around him with six times his moans who do not pal a penny. Quoting the World, whose editor asserts that ho owns the entire concern, Mr. Greeley says though he owns but a tenth of the Tribune he pays thus largely, while the other editor, who professes to have a more extended cir culation, dacs not ray anything; nor, adds Mr. Greeley,does any other editor of a Democratic journal issued in New York. "Yet the whole of them make the welkin ring with the inequality and injustice of Tariff imposts and the beauty and equality of free trade and direct taxes!" On Monday, November 19, the first detachment of 20 boys arrived at New York, in the steamer Bellows, in charge of a Farm Superintendent, from the Earl of Shaftesbury's "Farm School," near Woking, en -route fo r Wakefield, Kansas. With a view to form an English co lony iu connection with the institutions in and about Lon don for destitute boys and girls 33,000 acres of land have been purchased from tho National Land Company, along the line of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad in Kansas, and there are already located upon it about 100 families of English farmers. The boys were given a dinner at Astor House before leaving New York, at which were present Mr. Reuben Cox, general superintendent of the Kansas Feral, and Mr. Charles Parker, superintendent in charge of the boys. The following is a list of the boys: —Wm. Turner , age 16; Hy. Dillon, ace 17 ; Walter Garrett, age 16; J. Bag gott, age 16 ; Richard Evans, age 17 ; Thomas Stratt, age 16 ; Richard Daley, age 17 ; Alfred Malcotuber, ago 1 6 Michael Sullivan, age 16 ; Benjamin Brabgun, ago 1 6 ; John Cunuingtou, age 17 ; Frederick Scotcher, ago 1 8 ; Joseph Holliday„ age 18 ; Peter Donoghue, age 17 ; Ge°' Redfern, age 16 ; Benjamin Miles, age 18 ; Robert Clark, age 17 ; Charles Porter, ago 16 ; Albert Kemp, age 1 8 ; James Burley, age 17. At the close of the dinner, Colonel Loomis, President of the Land Company, addressed the boys in a speech expressive of friendliness to both EnOan a and America, and pointing out the advantages now . 3 " . tended to them. The boys were to start at once for Wake!ield, Kansas, via St. Louis. However excellent the Tribune may be, however full and accurate its intelligence, as a general rule, it has 6 singular facility in arriving at a wrong total when it 0(1 6 up little schoolboy's sums. We never could make out who did the addition business in the Tribune office, butt is evidently a great swellperhaps Horace Greelay himsel f —who is far above paltry figures. Hero is a correc ion which it seldom deigns to make, but why it should de scend into such minntire, considering its unfortunate habit, we cannot understand:— By the accidental dropping of a figure yesterday itt showing the reduction of the public debt, wild work We" made with some of the amounts, although the main ones were accurately given. A more exact calculation (omit' ting minute fractions) shows the following result for the first nine months of General Grant's administration: — Reduction from March 1 571,903,525 00 Reduction per month Reduction per week 1,843,680 00 Reduction per day Reduction per hour Reduction per minute Reduction per second But occasionally wrong figures may do much harm. i rcrr, instance, the Tribune says—" Reports to the Agricultu re ' Bureau indicate that the Southern cotton crop will he nearly 3,000,000 bales." A telegram was sent to O . Commissioner at Washington to ascertain if this was cor rect, and the reply was that the highest estimate made 11 the Department is 2,750,000 bales. A matter of a quarte t of a million is nothing to the Tribune, but it means sonic" thing to the cotton market, which has a little weight in the commercial affairs of the world. The Tribune's despatc h , appeared in the Associated Press matter, though no attc' t estimate was made by the department, nor, it is said, ec_ t h by the Associated Press. The Commissioner of Agric w° ture is now stated to receive monthly, accurate returue from every cotton-growing county of the United States' lie was within 20,000 b a l es o f th e cro p o f l as t year ; and as this system for obtainin g i n f orma ti on i s muc h b e tter no r, the Commissioner says that d ea l ers ma y re ly upon his figures, the estimate being 2,750,000 bales, or a trifle lose' PRICE OF GOLD. a The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par. -- .n, the short exchange on London is 25f. 150. per El sterlizo On comparing these ratea, with the English Mint pried' 0 t £3 128.100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears gold at the above price is slightly Nearer in Piles than London. Du BARRY'S Delicious Health R es t or i ng Bova.° be Arabica Food, which contains three times the nourish men t of ;e best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, restore: perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, T,, 12 c freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the m ph enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion l er pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea., haemorrhoids, 11 ,, rt complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ea it . rheumatism, gout, impurities, er u pti ons , hy s t er i a , neurall d .. irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, 10 .0, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and slant', sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient consuniP ll 3. scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stemwi between the shoulders, dce. W e quo t e a f ew ou t o f 08,000 cure plO. —The Pope's health restored by D u B arr y' s F oo d, Cure. e r 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.—Th e h ea lth o f th e Holy Fat l i e is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, h as has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revel, nta, Ara Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It his Produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, , sT ro ta Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly.' ', o r, the Gazette du Midi, July2s. Cure No. 49,832: "(if Fifty3: lo o indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, a cough, eonstipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the s_t , "". fo llt and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortham, Ling, near Diss, . 14a ' r ati Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing X ie „ a ‘ iiers Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousness, ind; gs",;tioll gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. Important C a ,.„ita• —Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy tions to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name 10 10 au daciously attached! 220; In tins, at Is lid ; Ilb 2s 9d; 21b a 4 s 6d 5 lb s ll s; 12 lb is 24 lbs 40x.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALINTA. A.RADICA 0110 0 ;211 POWDER is packed in tin cani s t ers: for 12 cups at 'is, for 24 e t 560 at 3s 6d, for 48 e ups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cuPs °seat —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins er'L j .... , free of carriage in En g l an d on receipt of Post-Office C , "wia BART, Y DI: BARRY and Co., No. 77 Regent street, London; all Grocers and Chemists BIRTHS. DAILNLEY—On th e 14 t h inAt , Cobham H(.11, the Coutitcos of Darnley, of a d aug h ter . . ELLESMERE On the 16th inst., at Bridgewater Housof tb Countess of Ellesmere, of a (laughter. MARRIAGA'S. Caps A, FoLLETT—KENNEDY —On the 15th inst., at Culzoan Captain F o ll e tt, C o ld s t ream Guards, son of the ha° o f Win. Follett, t o Lady Julia Alice Kennedy, da,ugh tel - the Marquis and Marchioness of Allan. rg POLAND —HANDS—On the 15th inst., at the Albion, . gate, Mr. Sid ne y P o l an d , o f 11 , M a id a -hill w est, to. 1, 4 . ., becea, eldest daughter of Joshua Ilands,pf 11,11r,trwle road, Mai a-Lill. DEATIIB. cAnntow—nn tho ltith inst., nt Stoke Lodge, Duck s,l/113. Cat iltO w, Esq., F.R.C.S., aged 63. tr t iter 11Aallisox—On the 11th inst., at 33, Burton-street, 1,1 Standen Harmon, Esq.. aged 37. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEE Sux Office No 112. gtraDi in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of laidd l°"-. Saturday, December 18, 1869. Consig colebn Ponlet WI islt also be numbe of othe A' Devote PAGA Railra end th this n Pu 1 - 4 1 S 1 Ld TH' receive and D Pupils, The manual A pu when I mused. AppE other pl Pr' The Fire Re , The mo Bonusf value al render ; I leave is thirty ch H o ti pwai this Host The d enable th nnmeron helpless 1 Banker street; a Water] 'MAT] I 1 Ric Under the whereby g Girls of at the kingdc The objc fish ethical and launch wise provl suitable sit The Om entirely an Office, 11 G" This ili establish el free. BankerE street, Ifs , Sec., F. S, RIT JUP Mac] Patron For the destitute o and of al prosperone One hut stitution , Increase endowed, i assistance. Subscril Institution its peculiar The last Secretary. Offices 7 , Bankins ane ; and : LIFE B of tl boat Institi from varioi The Institi on its Life £4,250 for The Inst its manages Contribu and countr . Esq., at the HEALTH R DU BA and . saves fifty t perfect dige refreshing s most disor( effectually i snmption, b rangoments 54MITOU8n0SE catarrhs, cc rb enmatism ralgia, irri headhun t nallElea, and fits, bronchi the pit of tt the most dig for invalids IMPOBTA anu more tb rity, Baron lienoefort Du Barry's and Infants' has already been deemed nese the Por by it after tt We quote 48,413):—"l Holy Father ther rowed arry 8 Reva lateful at e , enoficial efl praise this el :IClure No. t years' liver ness, irritabil digestion, col ervons agita Cure NO'.7 Stuart de Dec ford :—" I ha food--STUAI Waterford." Cure No. 4 from dyspeps datulency, sp of Lynn, Nor Care No. 4' nervousness, vous fancies. Cure No. 5( years . ' diarrho The Food i 21b., 4s. 6d.; : clnisters, carr Barry's Royal, tin oaalsters : ems at 65., fo atoat )1O pen free al oarriag jAilitY DU I also at Fortr Graceohnreli-E Neff tiorth-n Offic road. Tn S )1 , t ~'~' ADV., bold ablo v Form T' for de ORIG' ,