The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 'JOURNALS, The Times remarks that the Irish Church,Act has been added to the Statute Book. Less than a score of legisla tors attended the last act of the drama which had so ener getically stirred the passions of all. This absence of interest, which is in strict accordance with historic pre cedent, is, no doubt, due, in great measure, to the purely Ministerial character of the ceremonial, but it may also be in part attributed to the reaction consequent upon the termination of a party contest. The reconciliation of Ire land to England is the great result intended to be attained by the policy of which the Irish Church Act is the first fruit, and to Ireland we shall have to look in due season to discover whether the result corresponds to our hopes. If we have any regret in reviewing the measure, it is that it was not more complete. The outward pre sentment of the Irish Church will scarcely be changed by it. It is satisfactory to see that there is no fear of that dilapidation of the Irish Church which some of its defenders wildly predicted, and that, on the con trary, there is every reason to anticipate the success Mr. Gladstone wished it. With the anomaly of the Irish Establishment the anomaly of a Protestantism which is not Liberal will disappear. The direct effect of the Act may thus be an Irish reconciliation in which both parties will change sides ; but this result, if it sh( uld happen, will not be discouraging. If the Catholics of Ireland become Conservative, they will, at all events, become law-abiding. If, on the other hand, the Protestants become Liberal, we may still be confident that their energies will not be directed to breaking the law, though they may agitate for changes in it. The one party will be brought into relation with the Constitution, the other will not depart from it ; and the unity of the kingdom will be perfected because all forms of political development will be included within it. The Irish Church Bill, says the Standard, has received the royal assent, and, therefore, has now become the law of the land. We are not surprised to End that the set tlement effected with such startling rapidity last week has failed to secure the approval of the Irish Protestants, and we can make every allowance for the vigorous language in which they record their dissent. The Conservatives have done their best for the Irish Church, and that best is represented by a very appreciable increase to the modicum of wealth which it is permitted to retain. At present the service is grudgingly accepted where it is not indignantly repudiated. As time rolls on and the sharpness of the blow which has fallen upon their Church becomes blunted by the lapse of years, they will learn to think more gratefully of thole who have fought their cause with such perfect devotion and such persevering earnestness. They will forget, or rather, cease to think of, the wrong done against their Church, and, ceasing to complain of acts which cannot be recalled, they will strive to make the injury as little harmful as possible. Resigned to a fate which was not to be averted, they will gather courage and determi nation to strengthen their Church as much as possible, so that it may still be equal to the high mission set before it. The Post observes that the Irish Church Bill has received the assent of the Crown, and it is to be hoped that the angry passions which, if its discussion had been adjourned to another cession, would probably have fixed themselves in the form of deep and lasting antagonisms, will now die away and disappear. Without bating a jot of their Pro testantism, the people of England and Scotland have at last freely and fully admitted that the Irish people, being a Catholic people, have a right to perfect independence, or to a perfectly equal union. Now the fundamental cause of offence is to be removed. The fortress of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland is already virtually surrendered. All the Churches it that country are to be equal in the eye of the law. Nevertheless, the die established Church may preserve its ascendancy on a moral footing. Its priests may be tribunes of the Irish people. But, whatever may appear hereafter, there is every reason to believe that the Act which is nowrecorded among the statutes of the realm will confirm the noble old maxim, that "Right never comes wrong," and we may believe that a measure of substantial justice, which redresses the grievances of Ireland, cannot fail to strengthen the arm of this country. The Daily News says that the royal assent was given on Monday by the commission, which included the Heir .Ap parent of the Throne and two princes of the royal blood, to the bill for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. The cheers which greeted the Speaker on his return from witnessing the ceremony acclaimed the reconciliation, where there had been divergence, of law and of justice, and the accomplishment of that first instalment of a remedial policy for Ireland to which the Government has pledged itself, and to which Mr. Glad stone has, we believe, resolutely girded up his strength. The logic of facts may be irresistible, but it is tardy. It took politicians forty years to perceive that the full rights of citizenship being conceded to the Irish Roman Catholics, it was an anomaly and an iniquity to main tain among tilt m, out of the national revenues, a so-caned national Church, in which they, being seven-eighths of the population, had no part or lot. The chief immediate causes of the success of the measure lie beyond question in the force with which Mr. Bright's noble eloquence has brought home to the national mind the obligation and necessity of pursuing a policy of civil justice and religious equality in Ireland, and in the ear. neatness and vigour with which Mr. Gladstone has applied his unrivalled administrative capacity, and the strength which the trust of his countrymen gives him, to the accomplishment of a great task. It would be vain to expect all at once great and startling results even from a measure of signal justice. The change for the better will first be conspicuously discernible in the generation which will grow up, and the character of which will be formed, under the new conditions which the legislation of the present Parliament is creating. In the present and the immediate future we shall see chiefly the fruits of the past. The Irish Church Bill, says the Herald, has become the law of the land. The mischief is done, and it remains to be seen what will be the consequences of the Act now passed on the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland. It is likely that Orangeism will be much more general and potent in the Church than heretofore. She will be more passionate and less reserved, more 'controversial and less practical, more given to preaching and less to prayer —in fact, more governed by the so-called Evangelical and less by the Moderate school than she has yet been. If the laity desire to avert this danger, they must keep her as much as possible what she Las hitherto been, an endowed Church ; a Church governed by law ; a Church of which the clergy are independent in their functions and secure of their bread, but in which the legislative and controlling influence is that of laymen. The future of the Church is in the hands of her members; it can be secured by sufficient sacrifices on their part ; and we shall think ill of the zeal and piety of Irish Protestants, of the sympathy of their English brethren, of the Orange spirit—and above all, of the sincerity of those professed friends of the Church who voted with Mr. Gladstone, if those sacrifices are grudged. The Star thinks that the establishment of the new Church body in Ireland will be one of the most peculiar and interesting experiments in ecclesiastical history. Well might the Earl of Carnarvon, in advocating the with drawal of the Irish bishcps from the House of Lords, suggest that those prelates would be better employed in the great task which awaited them than in attending parliamentary debates at Westminster. A labour of mora special difficulty than that which they and the representative body will-have to perform, if the advan- takes of the Irish Church Act are to be secured by the Church, has seldom been undertaken. The difficulty will not arise from the poverty of the Church. On the contrary, she must be rich, and may be much richer, if the arrangements of the Act are carried out. But with the churches for nothing, and the glebe houses for next to nothing, with the half-million in lieu of private endow ments, and with complete liberty of organisation, the coming task of the Irish Church, however difficult, ought not to be by any means insurmountable. INluch will de pend on the wisdom of the representative body, and per haps even more on the willingness of individual clergymen to do their best for the Church by availing themselves of the commutation, and consenting to be stationed where they can be most useful. The Prince and Princess of Walt s intend to leave Marlborough House to-night for Germany, where they make a stay of a few we. ks. _ MIIRDER.—Two cases—one of murder, another of attempted murder—are under investigation in the Midland district. One William Mobbs has been com mitted for trial in Bucks, on the charge of murdering a boy, named Newbury. The boy was found in a pea-field, near Haversham, with his head nearly severed from his body. The prisoner's clothes were covered with blood, and a knife found near the body is thought to have belonged to him; but no motive for the crime has been discovered. In Derkshire a man, named Sherwood, has confessed to an attempt to murder a fellow-workman near Maidenhead. TIIF, tAI:KING SEWAGE OUTrA LL. The inquiry 1 Pollution of the Thames at Barking IvaP resumed ua Momloy in one of the committee-rooms of the House of Commons. Mr. Bidder, C.E., considered that so far from the sewage having contributed to impede the navigation, a contrary result had been cblained. Three-quarters of a mile from the outfall the presence of the sewage was not perceptible. Mr. Gregory, C.E., agreed with the theory and opinion of Mr. Bidder as to the speedy dissolution and disappearance of the matter. Mr. Hawksley also expressed his conviction that the river had not been injured by the action of the outfall works. Scientific evidence was then taken to shew, on analysis, the constituents of a sample of mud taken from Barking Creek, and the inquiry was again 44 Jourind. - lilt° the all( AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The Magnet, in its review of the corn trade, says : "Although a few warm showers would doubtless have been beneficial to the country in general, more favour able weather for hastening on our very backward har vest than has prevailed during the past week could hardly have been desired. The rapid strides to maturity which the growing crops have made have been regarded ,with universal satisfaction, and have assisted in dis pelling, or at all events allevtating,,thoseVloomy rumours which but recently were productive of such, general consternation. As regards the wheat plant, the flowering period has been passed through satisfactorily, and notwith standing that the harvest will fall a month later than last year, and the yield cannot prove anything like so abundant, in consequence of the vicissitudes through which the plant has passed, it is expected that the crop will prove much more remunerative than has been lat terly anticipated. At the same time it is agreed on all sides that it will be very variable, and, taken as a whole, will turn out to be somewhat under the average. Barley and oats, which did not suffer to the same extent as wheat, through the superabundance uf moisture, are now stated to be rather pining for want of rain. Generally speaking, however, the accounts from the agricultural districts respecting spring-sown corn are favourable, and a good yield is confidently looked for. The extreme beat and scorching sun have, in a great measure, dried up the pas tures, and the prospects of a second crop of hay are much restricted. The development of root crops at the same time is being retarded frcm want of moisture." The wheat trade was heavy on Monday at a decline in some insta•wes of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. IRELAND. The news from Ireland is still stirring. On Sunday evening an attempt was made to kill the clerk of the North Chapel at Cork. John Keating entered the chapel, and, drawing a large knife, went up to where the clerk was standing, and made a desperate stab at him. The clerk avoided the blow, and the knife penetrated the door a couple of inches. Keating was instantlysecured. Four police men on duty in Shandon street on Sunday night attempted to arrest a man named Morrissy, who was disorderly. Morrissy called on the mob for assistance, and made a des perate resistance. The crowd threw stones, and struck the policemen. A reinforcement of police arrived, and, aided by some citizens, kept back the mob, but were struck several times. After an hour's struggle Morrissy was got to Bridewell. He was recently in custody for murdering his father, the charge not being proved. A large block of offices, the property of George Gould, of Lisearrock, county Cork, have been malici( u s ly burnt, and with them a large quantity of flax and other property stored there. The cause is a dispute about the ownership of a bog. Gould, who exerted himself to prevent trespass on it, became obnoxious. Eight men have been brought up before the magistrates at Kells Sessions charged with being implicated in the late attempt to assassinate Mr. Gargan, the steward of Mr, Farrell, of Moynalty. They were escorted by a large body of police, amid expressions of sympathy from the crowds in the streets. The chief witness against them is an informer named Magill, who was hooted and pelted with stones by the mob. One of the stones intended for him struck a constable in the eye and wounded him severely. So threatening was the aspect of the mob that the Roman Catholic priests bad to use their influence to prevent bloodshed. The investigation was private, but resulted in the prisoners being admitted to bail, to attend that day week for further examination. An investigation was also held respecting a charge against a man, named Murray, for firing at Mr. Rotherham some months ago. Magill was also an approver in this case. A correspon dent of the ExTress states that when the inquiry termi nated he bad to be got out of court by a back door, to avoid encountering the fury of the mob. As he was getting into a car a stone which was aimed at him struck a policeman. The driver of the car was unwilling to take him until the police interfered. A telegram from Belfast, on Monday, says:—" This evening a magisterial investigation into the cause of the riots at Lurgan on the 13th inst. was adjourned till Thursday. About seven prisoners arc now in custody. At the Londonderry Assizes a true bill was found against ten policemen for firing at the mob in that city on the nightof Prince Arthur's visit." LAW AND POLICE. THE CASE OF CAPTAIN KELLY.—At the Middlesex Sessions, Mr. Montague Williams applied that the recognisances of Captain Kelly should be estreated. He had been committed on a charge of cutting a ten pound note in two and obtaining an advance from different persons on each half. He was allowed bail, but did not tuiuv I ot.t thea. the nnen who gain bail had both been convicted. The recognisances were estreated. MUSSING DOCUMENTS.-7n the case of the China Steam ship and Labuan Ccal Company, which was beard in the Court of Chancery on Monday, the decision of the Master of the Rolls was reversed by Lord Justice Giffard, and the name of the lion. F. C. Drumm( nd nas runoved from the list of contributories. Some of the documents not being forthcoming when required by the court, his lordship said he wished it to be understood in future that where an official liquidator did not come prepared with the proper documents for the use of the court he would be allowed no costs of the hearing. THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.—In the Chancery Court an application has been beard from Mr. Singer, to remove his name from the list of contributories. The peculiarity of the case was that the name had been placed on the register by the liquidator since the commencement of the voluntary winding up. It appeared that in 1864 the Newcastle shareholders, of whom Mr. Singer was one, became dissatisfied with the management, and effected an arrangement by which they gave up their shares to the company and received £2 103. The liquidator treated this transaction as ultra vircs, and placed Mr. Singer on the list. His lordship thought the transaction ought to be allowed to stand, and that the name of Mr. Singer *rust be removed from the list. A BARONET CONVICTED FOR ASSAULT.— At the Buxton Petty Sessions, on Monday, Sir Hew Pollock, Bart., and Mr. Herbert Badger were charged with assaulting an old soldier in the employ of the Duke of Devonshire. The assault arose out of a disturbance at a public-house. The bench fined Mr. Badger 20s. and costs, and Sir Hew £5 and costs, adding that if they heard any more of such proceedings, they would bind him over to keep the peace in a heavy sum. Munrozn BY rOACIIERS.—At the Lincoln Assizes the two poachers charged with the wilful murder of the game keeper of Mr. Thorold, near Grimsby, were tried. Gouldy, the deceased, went with Marshall, a gamekeeper, to the spot where they expected the poachers would be found. They came upon the prisoners, who made off, and the game keepers gave chase. Gouldy, who was in advance, was shot at, and when Marshall reached him he was dead. Both prisoners were found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. A certain youth belonging to one of the Shaker families in Al aine recently yielded so far to worldly seduc tions as to make a velocipede, upon which he went round feeling good until he attracted the attention of the elder brethren, who, in solemn conclave assembled, resolved that the article was auti•Shakerean, and ordered its immediate confiscation and destruction " with an axe," 13EYFUS V. THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND."— On Monday there was a summons in this matter at Chambers, to prevent a sale at the family mansion, Green street, Grosvenor-square, by giving security to the claimant. The matter stood over, and the postponement is likely to take place. The sheriff of Middlesex consented to the application. A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT. The 21 etv York Tribune records a very singular " religious movement :" "A well-known resident of Newark (N.J.) is about issuing, in tract form, a most remarkable document. The idea is that a day shall be set apart by Christians of every denomination when prayer shall be offered that at a certain day and hour the Lord will set a sign in the heavens whereby infidels may know that the Bible is the Word of God. The tracts are to find their way all over the country, and will probably excite a considerable degree of public attention. WARNED IN A DREAM.—A few days ago a serious accident occurred in Fulmer village to a pic-nic party going to Castle Howard. The party made the journey in an omnibus, and it seems that the wife of one of the men hesitated to join the party, and tried to persuade her lin.l , and not to go, because she had ireamt week I,ef re that they were in an omnibus, and were upset ❑ going throu g h a village and greatly injured, fright awakening her. The man and his wife, however, did go, but on reaching Luhner the woman became greatly excited. Not only, the remarked, was the omnibus that which she had seen in licr dream, hut the village was that in which the accident she dreamt of happened. The words were scarcely uttered when the omnibus was upset, and a scene of great confusion result, '. Those on the outside were thrown to the ground *with great violence. One man was rendered insensible by the omnibus falling upon him, and several sustained rather serious injuries. The woman to whom the accident was revealed before. hand was herself badly hurt, but her husband's was the worst case,the sustaining a dislocation of an ancle. Medical aid was quickly procured, the sufferers wore relieved, and afterwards conveyed to their homes. Every incident of the accident Deems to hare been pictured in the premonitory skim MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. --11.- AFTER THE BATTLE. The satisfaction almost generally expressed on Saturday as to the Irish Church Bill is now succeeded ' by slight grumbling all round. The compromise has settled the question—that is a good end attained; nearly everybody is glad. But it has been settled on grounds which satisfy very few indeed, least of all party men. For the very nature of a com promise is that each party allows certain things which it does not like that it may retain or intro duce that which it considers more important. So now the extremes of each party are finding fault with their leaders for the course they have taken. A correspondent of the Daily News—a chairman of a Liberal association—states the Liberal indictment against the Premier. His chief complaint concerns the House of Lords. That Chamber has been taught that it is still a power in the land. Ile had hoped that household suffrage would have taken away much of the old power of the Lords, and he very much blames Mr. Gladstone for not insisting that the Upper House should give way. Their lordships now know that they are a match for the Premier, though the latter be backed by the country. The flag, this corn , spondcnt thinks, is in the hands of the enemy ; and the influence of the surrender will be felt for years to come as University Test Bills and other measures of our time are sent up to the hereditary Chamber. In Ireland the end of the battle has caused no little astonishment. This compromise—which is regarded in Ireland muckin the light of a capitula tion—was precisely the result which nobody expected. The ultra-defenders of the Establishment are of course furious. Others, less violent, hold that if the Opposition in the House of Lord had held out more concessions must have been gained. Saunders's News Letter predicts a prejudicial reaction upon the House of Lords itself as the result of its submission, and expresses regret that their lordships indulged in the mimicry of war. The Mail, as we have before seen, considers itself " sold." The Daily Express is bitterly disappointed,and contrasts the pro fessions of zeal for the Church made by their lordships in the course of the debates and the practical results of the compromise. The Irish Times acquiesces in the result, and considers that the Government has acted generously. As to the Liberal papers, the Freeman is glad, but revels not ; the Northern Whig is also gratified, but not quite satisfied that Mr. Gladstone has got all that b, might; the _Evening Post is triurniihant. The Paris _Eberle' is much impressed with the termination of this great struggle. What, it says, has always ruined progress in France is the intolerance between the different parties; what has made England great is the spirit of moderation and timely concession which animates its politics. "France for eighty years has known only a policy of irreconcilable opposition and hazard. England has never practised any policy but that of prudence and coneess'on. This is the secret of its powet and firmness, and of our weaLness and instability." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ULY 27, 1869. venerable of English cathedrals ; nothing ID um fitting than that the memorial should be placed, as suggested, near the monument of his friend and poetical master, William Wordsworth. To honour such a man is to honour all that is worthiest in human nature. An humble-minded, pure-hearted, faithful parish priest like Keble, whose one ambition was to do good and to be good, wins the love and admiration of those who differ the most widely from him in ecclesiastical controversies." In connection with the subject it may be pointed out that neither Collins, Cooper, Crabbe, Sir Walter Scott, Coleridge, Burns, Byron, nor Shelley are com memorated in the Poet's Corner of the Abbey. THE CHURCH AFTER DISESTABLIMMENT. A requisition is now in course of signature asking the Irish Archbishops to convene a Church Con ference again. The Dublin Mai! lays clown a pro gramme for their assemblage. As the function of the Conference is in keeping with the distinct promise at its election ceases with the passing of the bill, it cannot meet to form a Church body, or to determine in any way upon a constitution for the Church. But a beginning must be made somehow, and as the object must be to frame a constitution in accordance with the feelings, and so as to represent duly the interests, of all Churchmen, the Conference may make preparations for the elec tion of a new body, out of which the framers of that constitution may ultimately be chosen. It will be seen that in this new body the laity should be much more fully represented. The laity will now be called upon to bear responsibilities such as they have not known before. The Mail believes that the con vening of the Conference would create an instant enthusiasm amongst the Protestant people which would remove many difficulties. THE LAND QUESTION. Now that the Irish Church controversy is effec tually disposed of, the still more intricate question of land tenure crops up. The Ministry are pledged to bring in an Irish bill of tenant-right and land tenure next year. The present Cabinet will " stand or fall" by the measure they intend to introduce, and another strain may possibly be witnessed between the two Houses of Parliament. The speech of Sir Roundell Palmer on Friday afternoon is taken as indicative of his return to the fold of the Liberal party, and his valuable assistance will undoubtedly be given to the Ministry in their attempt to grapple with the second great Irish point of dispute. A. creation of peers during the recess is still talked of. ItOUNDELL PALMED. AND TIIE PATENT LAWS. Sir Roundell Palmer has not yet, it would seem, convine-_•il any very considerable class that the Patent Laws on ;ht to be abolished. A meeting of working men, over which he himself presided, decided against him on Saturday. Ile was chairman of a conference held in Aldersgate-s'seet, London, which was calleJ to consider the subject, and notwithstcndlng the arguments which he put so enticingly before the meeting, notwithstanding that he was supported by Mr. Macfle, the member for Leith, a resolution was carried to the effect that " protection is absolutely necessary as a right, by which inventors may be secured a true lqgitimate right in their inventions." Sir Roundell, in a short address, gave his reasons for his opinion that the Patent Laws did more harm than good. Ile deprecated very earnestly the neglect of steady industry by the hope of some windfall in the shape of a lucky invention. It was doubtful, he said, whether there were many of the working classes who ever drew prizes in this lottery, and in most cases even the most useful inven tions fell into the hands of employers or capi talists, or became, from the absence of a patent, common property. The legitimate reward of poor inventors would probably, in the event of the aboli tion of the Patent Laws, fall to them much in the same way as it did now. A patent, moreover, was a monopoly which limited and taxed all searchers in the same direction. Mr. Macfie, M.P., added a national argument. " The foreign manufacturer, who paid no royalties, could compete in the British market with the English manufac turer who, under the Patent Laws, had to pay heavy royalties:' The meeting, however, was not convinced, and ultimately passed a resolution in favour of cheapening the means of obtaining patents. It was also determined to form a society, to be called the National Mechanical Inventors' and Designers' Co-operative Institution, to assist inventors and to buy up inventions of poor men, so that they might obtain rewards for their labour. TIM ATHANASIAN CREED. ""V. J. I." (the initials are those of the Rev. Dr. Irons, of Brompton), writes to the Post on the Athanasian Creed, protesting against any alteration in the law concerning it. Such an alteration, he says, would separate the English Church from the whole of European Christendom. The three creeds have been the foundation of unity between the Churches up till now; it would be an error not to say crime to disturb this unity. The creed he also regards as a protection from Arianism. In America, where itis unused, there is a growth of false doctrine, and the English Church should keep up the bulwarks against such inroads. With regard to the Eastern Churches, which we should have thought were not united with the Western in this matter, "W. J. I." tells us we are mistaken. "The Greeks mean the same truth here as the West, but express that truth with other metaphysics than ours, and with less success, as all the Oriental history shews ; but it is wrong to insinuate that we con demn any, for intellectual forms outwardly different from ours, so long as they do not reject the Truth itself. To ' hold' a truth is far from being the same as intellectually receiving it or ' under standing' it. How many ' hold' their Bible to be true throughout without understanding one half of it. . . . If it be true," the correspondent continues, "that ' he that believeth not shall be damned,' as our Lord himself said in His last warning words upon earth; if it be true that they who obey not the truth 'shall be ' punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,' as St. Paul says ; if it be true that ' they that have done evil shall go into everlast ing fire,: or as the parable says, these shall go into everlasting punishment,' who are we that we should dare to ' bracket' this truth, and call our faithlessness 4 charity' ?" THE 111C11 MAN'S DEW. A correspondent calls attention to a case which has recently come under his notice. Attending a church which was filled to overflowing, he noticed one pew in a good situation without occupants. Several persons essayed from time to time to avail themselves of its conveniences, but in each case the " pew-opener " interfered and requested them to go elsew here. Th e c h urc h became more and more crowded, and eventually, to save himself from further trouble, the pew-opener plaCed the footstools on the seats, in order to chew that the pew was reserved. Throughout the service no claimant appeared who was entitled to displacetho footstools, and there they remained. In Mr. Spurgeon's chapel all privileged persons must be in their seats five minutes lefot e the service commences—at that time the public are admitted and allowed to tal e any vacant seats. The time cannot much longer continue when seats will be reserved for the rich and occupied by their footstools. A KEBLE MEMORIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. The suggestion that a tablet to the memory of John Keble should be erected in Westminster Abbey is being warmly taken up. The _Daily .News advocates it strongly. " Nothing," it says, " can be more appropriate than that the chief Church poet a England should, _have his niche in Jhe Mad TDB INDIAN BUDGET. 'the Duke of Argyll's financial statement is noticed by the papers with an expression of moderate satisfac tion. The Indian revenue grows admirably. In the ten years between 1857 and 1867 the total has risen from 33 to 48 millions, one half of this very largo increase being due to more taxation, and the other half to fair expansion of returns. This is highly satisfactory, but it is only one side of the ledger. The expenditure, too, goes up at an alarming► rate; in fact, notwithstanding the increased income, it is a matter of great difficulty to make ends meet. The army requires not less than 16 millions for its sup port. Public works cost five times what they did in 1857. The police expenses have doubled. Nor does it appear that there is any prospect of retrenchment, for both the Duke and Lord Lawrence urge that none of the items can safely be diminished. Canals, railways, and barrac'.:s must go on, and the army must be kept up. But the comparison between the debtor and the creditor side is, nevertheless, not .so bad as it looks. Much of the money is spent upon public works which are absolutely necessary to develops the resources of the country; for it is laid down as a maxim that no money shall be raised by loan for public works unless they be self supporting, if not remunerative, such as irrigation works. One of the greatest changes projected in Indian administration concerns the construction of railways. Henceforth the Government will take this great task upon itself. It is proposed during the next ten years to make 7,000 additional miles of railway, at a cost which cannot be under 84 millions. Even this is far from sufficient. India is a country of such vast extent that a thousand miles of rail are but as a branch line in England. The Times City editor thinks that the money for this purpose will not be got very readily. The City of London is getting tired of Indian loans, and it is probable that 5 per cent. will be the lowest rate at which these many millions will be raised. THE SCOTCH MARRIAGE LAW. The want of equity in the general operation of the marriage law of Scotland is constantly receiving illus tration, as if to keep the subject continually alive. Another example is provided at the Northumberland Assizes. A man charged with bigamy is proved to have married a first wife in Scotland, according to what a clergyman of the Scotch Church declares to be the national ceremony. Ile is also shewn to have married another woman subsequently. But the judge will not—cannot legally—take the evi dence of a clergyman. He must have a Scotch lawyer to give the law to him. No such lawyer being present, the jury have nothing for it but to record a ver dict of not guilty. TIIE TUNNEL UNDER TIIE STRAITS OF DOVER. The tunnel under the Straits of Dover which has been so long discussed appears to be given up. It is stated that the engineers of France and of England have just now pronounced definitely against the scheme. They all agree, indeed, that the tunnel is quite feasible ; but then they add that the cost of it would be £10,000,000; which puts it quite out of the question, unless the Governments of France and of England should, in the interest of international amity, think it right to proceed with the works regardless of expense. To pay, such a tunnel would require 20,000 passengers a day at ss. apiece. I obody looks forward to such a large traffic between the two countries. TIM SEWAGE FARM. The Lodge Farm at Barking continues to receive a portion of the London sewage, which is pumped up by a small steam-engine and distributed over the farm by the ordinary means of irrigation. The produce this year will be 70 tons of grass per acre, and as the crass sells for 18s. Per ton on the spot where it is cut, the result looks profitable. Between the incon venience which arises from throwing the sewage into the Thames and the obvious advantages which result from carrying it over the land, it would seem that no time should be lost in changing from the wasteful system to the profitable. Even during this hot weather no bad smell or inconvenience arises from the sewage water, and after it has passed over the land it flows off in a pure state, in which fish will thrive. CHARITY OR TIATNICRYISM. The great scandal of the annual Dramatic College Fête at the Crystal Palace was removed this year. The fancy fair, with its stupid buf foonery, was not held, and everyone must feel satisfaction. But the Star denounces another evil in connection with the fête no less strongly than it did the unseemliness of former exhibitions. There was first acting—which was good ; there was then tumbling—of which evil should by no means be spoken; after that performance the Prince and Princess allowed all, who would pay two guineas and upwards, to approach within six feet of their Royal Highnesses, and bestowed upon each a smile and a bow. This latter use of royalty the Star is much disgusted with. The spectacle, it says, was absurd from beginning to end. Two pound two for a good long stare at the Prince and the Princess! How many are there who would not mind double the money ? HOW DISEASES SPREAD. Overcrowding, impure air, and impure living make the amount of disease amongst the lower classes in our large towns by no means marvellous. If their habits are generally such as those which Dr. Bateson, the medical officer of health for Southwark, describes, it becomes a wonder that disease is not more- prevalent than it is. The doctor describes some visits to a room in which a child was found dying of smallpox. Two other children in the room were immediately vaccinated, but the smallpox poison forestalled the vaccine matter, and they were seized, fortunately, however, getting safely over the disease. When the first child died, the coffin in which it was placed was actually used as a work-table, with the lid partly slid aside. In another case it was shewn that a mother had been carrying her child about the streets upon whom the eruption of smallpox was fully developed, thereby endangering the public as well as rendering herself liable to a penalty. Clearly it is time the Ladies' Sanitary Society brought its in fluence to bear. "PUNCH" NOT SOLD. The proprietors of Punch, Messrs. Bradbury, Evans, and Co., write to the Times denying very explicitly a statement which has appeared to the effect that their comic paper had been bought by Mr. Agnew. "We wish most emphatically to make it known that this firm only are the proprietors of Punch, and that no sale whatever of that journal has ever taken place." • The Honolulu Gazette reports the discovery of what is described as a valuable fire-proof hydraulic cement, It is formed of volcanic ash from the volcanoes of Molokai and the Hawaiians expect to find it a now and importani source of commerce. FOREIGN NOTES. - DEFEAT Of THE CABLISTS IN SPAIN. The unfortunate supporters of Don Carlos's pretensions to the Spanish throne have hitherto met with nothing but disaster. Most of their chiefs have been arrested, most of their plots have been unearthed, and finally they have met with a serious defeat in a conflict of some magnitude. That the movement is a widespread one is evident from the fact that this engagement took place in the neighbour hood of Ciudad Real, a town about 100 miles south of Madrid, and far from the northern frontier where it is sup posed that the Carlists are chiefly congregated. A band of about 500 to 600 men, under the Carlist leader, Sabaruge, was met by the Government troops under Commandant Formaseti. The former party were beaten and dispersed, many being killed and wounded. This fight took place on Saturday evening. Much agitation then prevailed in many parts of Spain ; but the telegraph made the usual announcement that there was " tranquillity at Madrid." It remains yet doubtful whether Don Carlos has passed the frontier, or whether he is still, as say some journals, at Fontainebleau ; but it is clear that, whether animated by the presence of the Pretender or not, his followers are getting lively, The Spanish journals are in high spirits, one of them expressing a hope that the Carlists might assemble in considerable numbers, headed by their chief, in order that the Government might enjoy the gratification of more effectually demolishing them; but the Government itself does not appear to share this exhilaration. It has resolved to put in force a law on pu7)lic security passed in 1821—a measure conferring extraordinary powers of seizure and repression. Making allowances for the inaccuracies and confusion always attendant upon events in a country where there are no proper means for the transmission of news, the Carlist rising must undoubtedly be considered a serious one. The correspondent of the Standard rap that Carlist conspiracies have been discovered simultaneously in many places within the last few clays, even in Madrid itself. " The clergy here are almost to a evident man in his favou r , as h e re p rese nts the restoration of Catholicism t o a ll th e pres ti ge a nd power it has lost through the serious revolution. i s Th at the Government movements rnmentbeli o f es - o matters the continuous troops all over the country, and by the fact that Prim and Serrano, who had intended to take some holidays as soon tia..oQrStmliQlWltl. bye deluellheialcutivhatml The Madrid correspondent of the Independance Beige mentions a very alarming fact. The securities for a loan issued by Don Carlos have met with a very favourable reception in some parts of Spain. At Saragossa the bonds offered by the agents were covered by three times the required amount, at Valladolid twice, at Burgos the sum was half as much again. TURKEY AND GREECE. The two States, which so nearly came to blows at the beginning of the year, are now apparently on the best of terms. A second child has recently been born to the King and Queen of Greece, and amongst the congratula• tions received from foreign parts the earliest and most courteous was one from Abdul-Aziz—the Sultan. A MATRIMONIAL FAIR. The Roumanians who dwell in the Austrian province of Transylvania bold an annual fair in the month of July. The objects to be disposed of are not cattle, nor inanimate wares of any kind, Lut the marriageable daughters of the region round about. The custom is for the fathers to get a cart, place upon it their daughters, with everything included in their portion, take their stand in the fair ground, and cry their merchandise to the assembled mul titude. A buyer comes up, the haggling goes on, and the result is ratified over the bottle. This year the fair was held at Kalingassa, en the 11th and 12th inst. The atten dance was large, and business brisk. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The little news there is from the seat of war in the La Plata region shews that the Allies have gained somegrouncl, but that the difficulties they encounter are too great for them to attempt an immediate attack upon the Para guayan position. All parties seem tired of the war. The Anglo. Brazilian Times says it is haidly possible to doubt that the bloody struggle will continue for a very long time if the stipulation of the Triple Alliance Treaty with regard to the expulsion of Lopez as the sine Dui non of peace be adhered to. " The tenacity with which the Paraguayans cling to and rally round him, however defeated, proves that in the Paraguayan mind he is firmly associated with their national cause as understood by them, and that the Provisional Government will remain a farce, and must be upheld by the allied bayonets." IRISH INFLUENCE 111 , AMERICA. The Irish Republican National Convention has been in session at Chicago endeavouring to bar monise Irish feeling with American principles and objects—a task in which we need scarcely say they are little likely to succeed. Mr. BELL, of the Irish Republic, called the meeting to order, and a series of resolutions with this object were parsed, though some by narrow majorities. The Irish Republic has been lamenting the failure of Irish immigration to make a permanent mark on America : . " For the last sixty years the stream of Irish emigration has been flowing hither. Millions of our race have found a refuge and a country here. What solid impression has been stamped into the character of this mighty Republic by those millions of vigorous and imaginative men of our race? . . . Their American descendants have carefully buried all Irish memories of the 'lrish' graves of their fathers, and now prate of their 'Anglo-Saxon' descent as glibly as the descendants of the old Tories, or the children of the throat-cutting Hessians. Whose fault is this? Why are the children of the bravest race on earth ashamed to acknowledge their Irish blood ?" The answer ascribes the cause to the unreasonable puffery of Celtic bombast; which bas made the Irish ridiculous before the world. People laugh at their exaggerations : "Our O'Brennans and Laffans, et hoc genus mines, standing on their old carts, blowing their elk-horns, and challenging all creation to their unapproachable Celtic show, are to Ireland what fanfaronade is to the country show. They make some pennies by their bottomless exaggerations, but they set the world laughing at their country." The writer then remarks that the Irish have fallen away from their religion of high principles, of grand ambitions, of manliness, of liberty. They have upheld slavery and been false to the cause of free dom. They have fallen among thieves in America, and, though they did not steal, have taken a part with those who did, and for these things their American children disown them. It is undeniable that Ireland is about the most wretched country in Europe ; but whose fault is it ? The Irish say it is the fault of the English ; the English, with common sense and reason to back them, assert that it is the fault of the Irish. No one denies the shameful oppression of by-gone years; but had Irishmen been true to themselves, had they exer lised their indisputable bravery and uncommon -bility, had they united in good faith, rallying to the common cry of their country, acting truthfully and unselfishly, no nation exists, that could for a genera tion have oppressed them. They say they have a fertile island, a numerous and industrious popu'a: ion, yet they are among the poorest of Europeans; poor, on account of England's oppression, of course; but England's empire is one on which the sun never sets, and wherever else she rules, the community is among the wealthiest of mankind. how is it that the _lrish Republic has to lament Irish want of influ ence in what one of the Chicago resolutions de clares to be the only free country in the world? They cannot assert tyranny to be the cause, and the Irish Republic is therefore compelled in its argument to point out some reasons. But it ignores others of more weigh; in accounting for the undeniable fact, that while the E nglish exercise a mighty influence on Ame rica, the Irish exercise but little. Who people the " Five Points ?" Who are the inhabitants of the " D üblins" which distinguish so many Eastern cities? Who perpetrate the greater portion of the crime shown in the criminal records of America ? Who give a handle to the most unscrupulous politicians, which enables them to wield political and civic power for the plunder of the people ? These exploits are not redeemed by ridiculous organizations, by Fenian invasions of Canada for the liberation of Ireland, by street processions, by the manifestoes, proclama tions, buncombe, and highfaluten, which, indeed, is the only distinguishable mark Irish imagination has left on the Republic; while, unfortunately, fanfaro nade is going out of fashion in America, and the in troducers are now rather censured than praised for the extravagance of their style. A letter from the Empire City, published in an American paper, says— The reportorial force of New York is Irish through out. Though many of them are cultivated gentlemen, the traditional taurus, reported to be peculiar to the natives of the gem of the sea, will show itself occasionally, id spite of all efforts to prevent." Nor are these drawbacksredeemed by ceaseless abuse of England, by piling up charges, all men of any education know to be untrue, by organizing torch light processions and serenades, by collecting the savings of nursery maids to fit out piratical ex peditions and buy powder for Clerkenwell ex plosions. Yet it is thus, and thus only, that the rich come prominently before the citizens of the United States. The Irish Republic deplores the tendency of the grand-children of Irish emigrants to drop Ireland, to change their name, and talk glibly of their Anglo-Saxon descent. But the reason is obvious. For the most part those who have done so have been settled on the soil as farmers or as traders in the country towns. Gradually they be come Americanised, and their children still more so. Fortunately for them they have disentangled themselves from the influences of their congregated countrymen, and when after years of work in esta blishing their position they are thrown into contact with auy Irish organization they find themselves out of harmony with it. They have been engaged in subduing the waste; in establishing a town ; in Viking an honoured place in a civilised community ; and they are asked to assist in the extermina tion of the Sassenach, the sanguinary English tyrants, the treacherous, selfish, world-enslaving, &c., to free their Green Isle, &c., &c. The men who make this appeal, this demand on their patriot ism, who urge it with eloquence while denouncing with scorn their past delinquencies, are plainly seen to be the most worthless of the nation, those who carefully study how to avoid a hard day's la bour. There is nothing in them whereof to be proud, and the urgent and ceaseless claims inso lently made for an object with which they have lost sympathy ) estranges them still more : they desire to drop the connection, to change their names, and talk glibly .of their Anglo-Saxon descent. Nor, when they look to the position taken by their race in the great cities, can they discover any cause for pride in the connection, any reason why it should be maintained. Hence the justice of the Irish _Republic's lament, for the backsliders are the best,- and therefore the most successful portion of the Irish immigration. The wildness cf their language makes them, as the Irish Republic says, ridiculous in the eyes of the world. The extravagance of their Charges makes that yforldinciodulous, Whlie always denouncing, always giving utterance toe concentrated bate against England (except when engaged in the abuse of each other), always levying taxes to carry fire and sword ilito a peaceful land, they appeal to no sympathy in mankind, and they become little better than a public nuisance. Human nature is not so bad that the best way to captivate it, is a standing proposal to cut your neighbours' throats, and there is not an American of common sense who did not see the wicked folly of invading Canada as a means of liberating Ireland. The ob ject of Irish organization is, according to its own profession, to free a European country from the bondage of a European Power, while the European Power declares that the people alleged to be in bondage, are the freest in Europe. Americans say "It is no business of ours to decide whether they are free or not ; or, if they be not, to free them. It is essentially a foreign question, with which we have DO more right to interfere than England has to free the slaves of Brazil." The orator appeals to the blood which flows in the veins of so many millions of eitizms, as if the founders of the Republic, the men who colonised it from the s.ia-shore backwards, were not the descendants of those very men who rode rough-shod over Ireland, and enacted that Penal Code, which is the best excuse a Celt of the Eme rald Isle can offer for his hereditary hatred. In all this there is no captivating political motive to one whose sentiments are American; nor, socially, is the Irish status such that men would be eager to claim connection with it, for the best have become merged into Americans, and the worst remain in tensely Irish, congregated as a degradation to the large cities. There is, then, this great defect in the general Irish platform that it has nothing American in it, no object which could carry with it a patriotic citizen. The nearest attempt to erect a platform to command any genuine American sympathy is that of the Irish Republican Convention at Chicago. There are planks in that platform with which most men agree, but, as usual, the resolutions are tainted with their one grand object, to work for the injury of the English. The 7th runs as follows : "Resolved—That Free-trade (falsely so called) being a selfish and cunning device of the enslavers of mankind, saps the very foundation of American prosperity and in dependence; and that we, in the interests of the entire American people, claim full and adequate legislative pro tection to American industry, and for those only who maintain the principles of protection, and who will make honest efforts to embody it in a Protective Tariff, should the votes of the Irishmen in America be given." This is openly supported as a means of damaging England ; that is, laws are to be foisted upon Ame rica, not to benefit the country, but as a means to in jure foreigners, because the Irish hate them. IVe ask if it is surprising that a section of a nation, who make enmity to a far-off people their moving-spring of action, should fail to enlist the citizens of their adopted country in their crusade of hate, or mould them into any shape desired by those who cherish such uu-Christian motives ? That the Irish should so completely have failed to make their mark in America, considering their extraordinary talent, is a strange fact, furnishing a strong proof of the neces sity of erecting a platform with something good instead of something bad for which to strive. The Irish are the most imaginative of all races, the most eloquent of orators, the most brilliant of writers, yet in a country where the people are moulded from the pulpit, platform, and press, they have not suc ceeded, as the Irish Republic says, in tracing a Celtic line in the lineaments of the Republic. It is a pity that that paper did not more fully explain the reason. True, that generally they supported sla very, that their language is extravagant, that they cease to be so docile in religious matters, after a residence in America, as their pastors desire, still all this, butvery faintly accounts for the fact, that seven millions of a brave, clever, and, on the whole, in dustrious people, should not have succeeded in mak ing a distinctive mark on the land they had adopted. The plain reason is, that they built up an immoral platform, that of hatred and revenge, which a Christian people could not support, having a foreign object, the humiliation of the European Power which had founded the colonies whence sprang the Republic. —Anglo-American Times. In answer to the reports circulated of a disagree ment in the Cabinet, of which Mr. Borie's resignation was one result, and to show the letters published between the President and the Minist•'r of War in a New York paper to have been an invention, the following. which was the actual correspondence, has been sent to the press : " Washington. D.C., June 25, 1869. To the President.— When I assumed, with appreciative pride, the high office of Secretary of the Navy conferred upon me by your flattering predilection, I stated that I feared for reasons of a personal and domestic character, then unexplained, that 1 would not bo al•le to retain the position long. I now come to ask your acceptance of my resignation. The severance of my official, and always most attractive rela tions with you, for whom I entertain so much esteem and attachment, gives me severe pain, and the aban donment of my public duties much regret. But the great confidence I feel in the harmonious and suc cessful prowess of the Administration under your able, honest, and glorious lead, is my great solace, but with the warmest wishes and most earnest prayers for the health and happiness of yourself as well as all dear to you, I remain most devotedly and respectfully, your obedient servant, A. E. BORIE." The following is a copy of the letter of President Grant accepting the resig nation of ex-Secretary Borie :—" Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., June 25, 1869. The Hon. A. E. Borie,. Secretary of the Navy. Dear Sir—Your letter of this day tendering your resignation of the position of Secretary of the Navy is received. I need not assure you how much I regret the severance of our official connection, nor how confident I am that the high esteem I have always felt for you increased with further acquaintance will continue while acquaintance lasts. I accept your resignation with regret, therefore, and I hope that the quiet you will find in retirement may restore you to perfect health. With great respect, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT." POPULAR HISTORICAL ERRORS.—Very inaccurate impressions of historic events sometimes obtain wide spread and permanent diffusion through the medium of authors, whose works are written in a lively and pleasing style, whilst deficient in faithful impartiality or scholar like research. For example, the fair fame of William Penn, the illustrious founder of Pennsylvania, was grossly maligned in Lord Macaulay's "History" by charges which are still believed to be true by many persons, in spite of their completj refutation by Hepworth Dixon, Mr. Paget, Right Hon. W. E. Forster, and other able writers. More recently, Mr. Kinglake's work on tho Cri mean War has been the moans of widely diffusing a curi ous misrepresentation of tba London Peace Society. That work conveyed an impression that the Emperor Nicholas declared war with Turkey and the Western Powers, in consequence of a deputation from the Peace SOciety, lead ing him to infer that England would not fight in defence of the Ottoman Empire. The idea thus conveyed is more than a common mistake; it is an egregious blunder. The deputation in question (with which, by the way, the Peace Society had nothing to do, inasmuch as it was a deputation of the Society of Friends, acting as a religious body), waited on the Emperor on February 10, 1854 ; bit, as Mr. Kinglake says, in his history, three months previ ously, "on tho 23d of October, 1853, the Sultan was placed in a state of war with the Emperor of Russia ;" and mor than two months before the Friends' deputation arrived at St. Petersburg, active hostilities occurred by the de struction of the Turkish fleet at Sinope, November 30, 1853. Hence the deputation could not possibly have occa sioned warfare with Turkey. Neither did it load Russia to declare war against England ; for the latter country took the initiative. The British Government declared war on March 28, 1854, and the Emperor Nicholas, in return, reluctantly issued his declaration a fortnight later, on April 11. So much for the historic foundation of this strange popular delusion, which many superficial readers still entertain. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—On Sunday after noon, the 27th ult., the steamer Kate Connor, the first steam vessel built on the waters of Great Salt Lake, ar rived at Corinne, and was received by the citizens with great rejoicing.--Captain Spooner, of the ship Timour, which arrived at Boston, July 3, from Liverpool, reports that onJune 27, lat. 43 deg., north long. 47 deg. 20 sec. west he passed a vessel bottom up ; supposed to be 400 or 500 tons burden ; was yellow metalled, and from the appearance of her stern, judged her to have been a screw steamer, and apparently had only been a short time in that condition. —The shareholders of the Royal Canadian Bank of Toronto have elected a new Board of Directors. John Crawfard, M.P., was elected President, and William Thomson, Vice-President. It is thought this change will restore confidence in the institution, and that it will resume business within the time prescribed by law. Chinese yams aro reported to be growing very well in Minnesota; the same State is also raising wool two feet long on Cotswold sheep ;—perhaps to make strings for long-bows.—Florida, it is said, contains over seven mil lions acres of land lying along the Atlantic coast, from Indian riper to Cape Sable, admirably adapted to the cultivation of coffee.—The State of California offers a bounty of $3OO for each 100,000 good merchant able silk cocoons, and $250 for each plantation of 5,000 trees, or more, two years old, set out at pro per distances, for permanent silk culture.—Three tons of laiBk4 G9l9rado, Itathu aches C h icago during one day last week in Tune.—A statist estimates that America consumes 349,521 kegs of gunpowder in getting through the "Fourth."—A man lately appeared in an Indiana town, wearing a vest made out of the skins of ten rattlesnakes, part of a nest of one hundred and six snakes killed in one day by a Kentucky farmer.--A co-operative housekeeping establishment, con taining bakery, kitchen, and laundry, will soon be started in Cambridge, Massachusetts.—Near Cheyenne has been discovered an immense tract of land covered with mushrooms of extraordinary size and delicious flavour. One is spoken of as seven inches in diameter, with a teem two inches thick, and weighing a pound.—The New Fork Times informs us that "ox-Commissioner Seth Greene is at the present time on the upper Hudson, hatching shad at the rate of a million a day." An lowa paper reports that as a man and his wife wore at work in a field in that Stele, their child, which was in a basket near them, was heard to cry, and the husband asked his wife to go and see what the trouble was. She, intent upon her work, delayed a few minutes, and then, to her horror, found her child dead/ with a large snake coiled wound it. The husband, in the frenzy of his anger and grief, struck his wife with a bee which he held in his hand, and killed her instantly. An interesting list isrecorded in the WCI t chnian and Reflector with respect to the positions taken by d'stinguishe d men as students in the military school at West Point : - Jeff Davis graduated 23d in his class ; (Jeff has made some stir in the world since then), Genera] Jo Johnson, 13th' General 0. M. Mitchell, 13th ; General Meade, 19th ; Gn u ; T. D. Sherman, 18th; General Pemberton, 27th; General Jo Hooker, 29th ; General Canby, 30th ; General George Q. Thomas, 12th ; General Doubleday, 25th ; General Longstreet, 54th ; General Early, 18th ; Genera U. S' Grant, 21st; General Burnside, 18th; General Philip Sheridan, suspended in 1832, and graduated in 1 853, the 34th ; Professor A. D. Bache, the Ist ; Professor Mahan, Ist; General Bartlett, Ist; General Sibley, Ist; General Lee, 2d; General Ewell, 3d; General Martin' dale, 3d; General Halleck, 3d; General W. T. Shernaans Gth ; General Beauregard, 2d ; General Gilmore, Ist; General. George B. M'Clellan, 2d ; General Howard, 2d. A WEEK'S CASUALTIES.--A Mr. Smith, of NO York, and daughter, were killed at New Providence, N.J., on the Morris and Essex Railroad, on Tuesday evening , and Mrs. Smith was seriously injured. The parties Wer e standing in front of one train while avoiding another. - Two men were killed by the explosion of an anvil used ae a cannon, at Prairie City, la., Saturday morning, and Orn more were fatally wounded.—An accident to a construe' tion train on the new Cincinnati and Louisville short hoe railway, on Sunday, killed two men and wounded 17 more. —Joshua Plumb, a brakeman on the Harlem and Boston Railroad, was killed, Wednesday morning, by coming i ll contact with a bridge about two miles from Harlem, N. l " while on a freight car.—James Clark, conductor, and seve ral hands on the Troy and Boston Railroad, were badly injured, on Tuesday, by a train being thrown from the track.—The tug boat Ripon at Cleveland, 0., on Thursday night, struck a ferry boat containing 10 or 12 passengefirs and from throe to five persons are supposed to have be e° , drowned. Only one body, that of Martin O'Donnell bo o been recovered.—Miss Anna Rose, of Hornellsville, N. l " was drowned last week, when out out in a boat with party of friends.—A painter named Evans was killed, 11n , another Sampson, fatally injured by falling off a scaffel u, ing in New York, last week.—The convi c t Drake, 'rib o was shot in the revolt at Sing Sing prison, on Wecluee day, died on Friday.—John O'Connell was shot and ju ; stantly killed at Louisville, Ky, , Thursday, by Jam es Hendricks, whilst under the belief that he was pursuing a thief.—Christopher M agu i re kill e d hi s w if e i n a drunk en frenzy at New York, on T ues d a y even i ng ; an d Bridge t , Dugan killed John Pearson in the same c ity by a , Wen from an adz, d ur i ng a t enemen t h ouse fi g ht . -R o bert 4 : Garmo, of Roch e ste r , N.Y., on hi s re t urn t o his 1 0° , from seeing the fireworks, Monday evening, found burglar therein, who shot him, inflicting a mortal wound, and then escaped. _ _ NAVAL ITEns.—Admiral Hoff will soon be a le ; ceeded by Admiral P oore; th e f ormer comman d s th e Sou th Atlantic squadron, the latter the Navy-yard at Wash i , l3g ; ton. Admiral Hoff h as b een ordered to procee d to P ° "" Domingo to investigate the outrages, as alleged, on A u f; rica,n citizens. —Tho P awnee, j ust returned from South American waters, where she has been cruising two Y ea i and a half, is refitting, to return to Cuba with Adusti lt ' Poore. - - bas The call for a meeting of Progressive Jews been responded to by several rabbis throughout Ame rica and the prospect is that ther e w ill b e a l arge r epresow - f tion at the conference next autumn. Th e c hi e f object °, the movement is to unite all Progressive Jews on ' 3° platform of principles. As this branch now 01 i5t .. 4 ° ' it is itself divided into two p ar ti es —th e Reforme rs and Radicals. The latter desire the un ion to b : made upon their views and doctrines. They claim th it requires but a distinct declaration of such doctrin to bring all others within their ranks. The faith of the Radical Jews, as compared with that of the orthodox, is greatly in advance of it, viewed fro-, the stand-point of Gentiles. It denies and repudiate some of the most cherished dogmas of ancient Jot' ism. In the first place, the Radical progressioniste y - c longer believe in a p-rsonal Messiah —a royal king, I° , l , ,- shall reign in power hereafter over a new Palestine. i' h -r do they look forward to that land, or any other, as the place for the restitution of the Jews. They ha v , e „ - r ° visions of the new Jerusalem or the now temple. -r thermorr, the Radicals renounce the obligation of t " - old dietary laws not only in practice, but in thoodo also. In regard to the marital relation, referred to ill t f call, they look up on it as a su bj ec t to b e con trolled " 0 civil laws, and hence accept all divorces as final that O il courts may decree. These are the chi e f features on o bi the Radicals base their faith, a n d th e y h o p e t o unite 811, ,be e a reform party upon them. As to mo d es o f worshiP tm ; consider that a matter of individual church preference' Springfield Republican. Wisconsin is reported to have attracted greater attention than heretofore from emigrants, who are a t P re ; sent settling in large numbers i n th a t St a t e . Over ° ro - thousand families have settled this spring near S t° ip Lake, Buena Vista County, and from an elevated sr! je , that vicinity 68 teams, engaged in ploughing up the pra l %h were counted at one time, and as far as the eye could re s ‘ - to the white tents of the settlers could be seen. The immigr ° ,l 3o are asserted to belong to a h a rdy an d i n d us t r ions chugs, " seo women in many instances driving their teams of bl r s i v while their husbands were holding the ploughs. - - Ledger. tb° At the annual dinner of the Cobd en Club at f Ship Hotel, Greenwich, last Saturday wee k, the if°k e tts, Argyll in the chair, Mr. George Walker, of Massachus W 0 l a g health thanks for the American guests present, 10 0 health was drank. Ho said that Mr. Cobden's n ame sti standing by the friends of Free Trade in his CO the present time, so highly was he honoured in the lin 0 OA States; but Mr. Cobden represented something mer a Free Trade-education, the elevation of the O • w the opening of a passage which led to the exercise Of freest political rights for all. 6ADITERTISEMENT.] -Holloway's Pills -Annoy . 13 , ev al - n change of weather, excessive exertion. or, l ,llclerf trouble, a distressing pain often a r ise s i n the side, 8 ' 1 " jiver' or elsewhere. Its known cause is congestion of t,he b oo Its infallible remedy is Holloway' s Pills. Mr. 1-1° t iv; rY St. George's-square, Liverpool, states that, after c oal' countless means for relieving those oppressive Pai ng e or se out receiving the slightest benefit, he commenced a froei of Holloway's Pills, which in a short time freed hi ra 4 , o them altogether. Neuralgia and other tormentS4or readily dispelled. 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James Roberts, of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased In:: spitting of blood, liver derangement, and artial deafne'' re tho; portant Caution-Beware of the many unsavoury and T., 1,03b 15 sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron n is most audaciously attached. 12 l b AO In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 2s 0d; 2lbs 4s 6d ; 5 lbs lls; ~s 21 lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA AaesisA u," 24 Pownna is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups at .1 c u p s at gut at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30$, for 57 6 c ",,,re -being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tin s or der_.• free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office ; RARti Y Du BARRY and Co., No, 77, Regent-street, ho n `^ - all Grocers and Chemists BITHS. PEREIRA.— On the 24th inst ., , at 23, Grosvenor - s e i g3— ' tie SOUTHAMP Hon. Mr TONd — s. Ewar On d the Pereira 24th. , o inst., at 18, Upper f a son. pro street., the Lady Southampton, of a son. MARRIAGES. 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