The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Beview,---in discussing the progress of the Irish Church Bill, thinks that the Reform Bill has effected a great change in the conduct of Liberal party. What ever may have been the good or the harm of the bill, the belief that it would at least strengthen the Executive, and make government a little more possible, has been justified. Members are much more bound up with their constituencies than they were. It is difficult to get, and very difficult to keep, a seat; and the man who happens to be sitting has to think very carefully what his local friends will say of him. The Liberal constituencies do not like being left out in-the cold, with their member voting and speaking and caballing and intriguing according to his own, personal whims, and fancies, and interests. They . want to see the Liberal party triumpt and they want their man to contribute to this triumph. They have a perfect horror of Caves, which, they conceive, owe their origin to the piques and passions of individuals, and to an inherent contempt felt by London gentlemen for humble country electors. Undoubtedly this increase of political power has been purchased at the cost of some degree of honourable independence on the part of the members. This is an evil, but the evil of trying to govern a great country through an assembly of six hundred people, each thinking and talking and acting in his own way, is greater. The want of all motive force in the unreformed Parliaments was fast bringing parlia znentarygovernment into contempt. Everything attempted was laid aside, and put off to another session. Now the Irish Church Bill hasbeen got through before Whitsuntide, and if the remedy applied to produce such a change has been strong it has been very successful. And, perhaps, of all the parts of the Reform Bill which have wrought this change, the disfranchising clauses have been the meet operative. There were far too many seats which nominal Liberals could command, and which permitted them to chew, not any real and sensible independence, but a com plete indifference to the interests of their party. Any fancied slight on the part of Mr. Gladstone, any hint that his vote was counted on by the Ministry, was sufficient to send one of these very free awl independent Liberals into the wrong lobby. It is a very good thing that this has come to an end. Session after session spent in - abortive attempts at legislation, under a successionof weak Govern ments, involve a most lamentable waste of time and strength. The present ardour of obsequiousness to the Government will probably soon pass away. There will be less certainty of opinion in the constituencies and in the House ; but at any rate we may hope that we shall not have any Caves for some time to come, and that, if sections of the Liberal party differ from each other, they will do so on public grounds, with a real sympathy between members and electors, and not out of mere wantonness, or from a wish to take a petty vengeance or to gratify personal spite. The Spectator thinks that if all Americans were as reasonable as the two gentlemen whose letters appear in the Times of Wednesday-letters which in their temperate force are-worthyof statesmen-there would be little reason to apprehend the calamity which many now believe to be impending over the world. Our conduct with reference to the Alabama can be submitted to arbitration without ' dishonour, and without more difficulty than attends the ' preparation of "issues" in any suit of first-rate import. ' ance or complexity, and if the question is - confined to that-as the "American Citizen," for example, says it will be confined-it is within the grasp of diplomatists or lawyers. But we see grave reason to apprehend that it ' is precisely this limitation to which Americans object, that powerful men in Washington seek rather to strengthen than to weaken the objection, and that the demands may be extended into a region in which true negotiation is impossible, in which . the only alternatives are submission under more or less plausible pretexts or war. Look at it how we will, war between America and England is mere destruction, mere loss, a civil war in which the only pos sible gainers are the enemies of both ; but why in that contest of suicides should we not be at least the last to perish? Because the Union is so large ? Com pared with the territories of Queen Victoria, it is a speck on the earth's surface. That sen tence is nonsensical, we acknowledge, but it is true, and is as sensible as the argument it refutes. In war con centration is everything, not dispersion, and we have the population of the entire North concentrated in a territory less extensive than Pennsylvania and New York. The policy which crushed the South cannot be applied to us, for when we had lost the lives the South has lost, all we should feel would be that our existing emigration had been diverted to an unforeseen purpose. There is something j shocking to ourselves in the mere use of such an argument, but the war against which we use it would be more shock ing still-a war between equals, between brothers, a civil war spread over earth, a war in which every incident of , slaughter would have the moral effect of massacre, a war in which every victory on either side would be sheer loss, a war without a limit or a con ceivable end. We could gain nothing by the war, even if we triumphed, and , America nothing, for Canada is not worth a doubled debt ; i while if we lose, we lose only Canada, and America, if she loses, loses the unity she has spent so much blood and treasure to-preserve. There never was such an act of lunacy as such a war would be,. yet it is such a war that speeches likeethat - of Mr. Sumner would force on. 1 1 The Examiner and London Bericzo says that seldom has a great assembly on the tiptoe of rage been more laughably baulked than the House of Commons was on Tuesday i last. If the Mayor of Cork spoke on the banks of the , river Lee in praise of assassins, on the banks of the Thames I he was ready to declare that he disapproved entirely of assassination. As municipal monarch of the chief city of Munster, he had placed the civic crown on the heads of Fenian rebels ; but that did not prevent his declaring within the precincts of the city of Westminster that "he believed the battle of his country was to be fought on the floor of the House of Commons." In a word, he who had been to the end of last week ambitious to win the rank of O'Sullivan More, was now content, under good advice, to be O'Sullivan Beg ; and, as the first appropriate act of his changed condition, he begged to abdicate in favour of the Queen of England. All things considered, it was certainly not unnatural that the Chief Minister of her Majesty should wish to make sure that the versatile functionary, who had thus offered to surrender at discretion, should not once more give them the slip at indiscretion. Napo leon had broken out of Elba in breach of his covenanted word ; and who could tell but that another great enemy of ours might break into Cork once more, and that there might be there, as in Paris, another Hundred Days of- misrule. Who could tell but that he might be re-elected, this present act of abdication notwith standing? "Wherefore it was proposed that all further proceedings should be stayed for a month. We must say it was very sarcastic of Mr. Gladstone to declare that the time should be a lunar month ; as if he meant thereby decorously to hint that, if no fit of Fenianism should return for the space of four weeks, this poor old good natured country might then sleep soundly and safe, and save the money that would otherwise have been necessary for locking up the head of the O'Sullivans, or, at least, for locking him out of Cork. But more bitter and burning far was the sardonic rejoinder which Mr. Gladstone's sug- ' gestion drew forth from Mr. McCarthy Downing, a repre sentative of the county of Cork, and well acquainted, therefore, with the feelings of the people, and the effect i likely to be wrought upon them by th e scene then enacted. The House, he said, might rest perfectly confident that, 1 after what had taken place that day, there was not the I least likelihood that Mr. O'Sullivau would ever be r e . I elected Mayor. So we should suppose, for we never recollect to have read of a "prize-fight prevented" in which the disappointed crowd were not described as ready to visit with every mark of derision and disgust the champion whom they suspected of having given a hint overnight to the police. Already, indeed, we hear quite enough from afar to satisfy us that there is not much danger of anyone being chosen chief magistrate of Cork who will identify himself with Fenian festivities, or who will talk ambiguously of Fenian crimes. The John Bull says that the debate in the House of Lords on Thursday is an instance of the continued alarm felt at the outbreak of agrarian offences in Ireland. Tim imputation of party motives is utterly at a n end when Earl Rumen, the old.and tri e d supporter of Lileeralism . , considers the crisis grave enough to arrest a motion for the adjournment of the House by a demand for such explicit declaration on the part of the Ministers as 'll lo allay that anxiety and di scourage the perpetratio n wl of agrarian crime. It is ha r d t o see how that - deznanl l be met. The avowed opinion s o f a l eading member of ca G o vernment are before the w or ld , and are asserted to be the stimulant to crime, and th e cause of anxiety to all holders of property in that country. The excuses which Earl Granville and Lord Kimberley have offered for the incendiary letter and speeches of Mr. Bright would be iu part sufficient if they concerned England-they are wholly beside the mark, when we note their effect upon Ireland. They resemble too much the wild promptings of O'Connell for us to wonder that they are followed by scenes such as followed the speeches of the archeigitetor of the past generation. Nor is the excuse that the letter of Mr. Bright, the burning words of which have passed like a fiery cross from one end of Ireland to another, was a private letter sufficient to exonerate the President of the I:oard of Trade from having caused the mischief which s e deplore. A private letter is supposed to speak more tutreservelly the settled convictions of the writer than his public and official utterances; so that the senti ments of that letter may be taken as the deliberate belief, end the expression of the deliberate intentions of Mr. Bright. Nor is it unusual to assume this. Within the last week the Mayor,of Cork has very properly been corn polled to resign his office in consequence of the language used by him, not in court nor in his official Capacity, but at an unofficial dinner party. And we have yet to learn , t :let he was less culpable in choosing such an occasion for the utterance of sentiments so atrocious as have com pelled hint to retire from his , offic'al post. Nor is it any extemiation of Mr. Bright's language-never disavowed. be it remarked- that it occurred in a private letter. It is lee; alleged that such language fails to represent the epilielie. of the President of the Board of Trade ; and so lug a e. leading meniLer - one of the drienteirs of. her M:ejesty's Governm en t- exc it es t o p l un d er, w h e th er i n a 1 private letter made public, or in a public speech, no weeder that the seil of Ireland is weekly stained with 1 blood, and a feverish anxiety fills the nal4 - de et all WIWI 1 LUC =At to lie ill that couutp I RIOT BY COLLIERS. Tyldesley has, during the last few days, been the ECM of much excitement, in consequence of the threatening attitude of the colliers on strike at the colliery belonging to Messrs. Holland and Green, and those employed by the Tyldesley and Astley Coal and Salt Company. The men have been on strike for a few weeks rather than submit to a reduction in their wages of 10 per cent. A report was current that a number of colliers from Staffordshire would, arrive in Tyldesley by the nine o'clock train, to supply the places of the men on strike. For some time before the arrival of the train thousands of people took possession of the principal street through which it was expected the men would be escorted. ' The expected train, however, instead of stopping to put down the men at the usual platform, sped on to a siding which leads to the colliery. So soon as this became known the crowd hurried on to the spot. By the time the train arrived at its desti nation the mob had taken possession of the road and bridge over which the police and their charge had to pass. The moment the Staffordshire colliers were recognised a shower of stones was hurleJ at them and the police. The latter charged the mob, and injuries wire received on both sides, the police suffering from the stories, whilst the mob were beaten with the truncheons of the officers. They forced their way to the yard of the colliery, and another fearful set-to took place, but ultimately the mob was driven towards Tyldesley. and the Staffordshire men were lodged in an outbuilding, specially provided with beds for their accommodation. On the following morning the men were escorted to Common-lane Pit by the officers, and returned in the same way in the afternoon, but nothing further took place beyond hooting and an occa sional stray stone being thrown. The place ie still guarded by the police. CLOSE OF THE PRESTON STRIKE The following report has been issued by the Preston executive of the power-loom weavers, &c., to their fellow ' opeptives in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derby shire :—" Friends and Fellow-Operatives,—ln p l acing before you this our seventh report, we beg to tender lur warmest thanks to the Preston Trade Council, Darwen, Chor'ey, I'adiham, Harwood, and other Fast Lancashire diArlcts, for the noble and philanthropic mariner in which they have tendered their support, notwithstanding the distress so prevalent in their own homes. In consequence of the cowardice of Blackburn; we can hold out no hopes of Lringing this struggle to a successful issue, and we feel it to be cur duty to advise the operatives of Preston to try and make some amicable agreement with the employers; and we hope that all districts will do all they possibly can to raise subscriptions in their respective mills this week in order that we may be able to pay the amount due to our treasurer, and a little for the hundi ees of c pzratives who will be denied employment in consequence of having taken an active part in attending shop meetings and col lecting at the mill gates. And it is to Preston and the East Lancashire districts, coupled with the Trade Council, we have to depend on in meeting the deficiency we have c.)ntracted in relieving, as far as possible, suffering humanity in Preston, caused by the cperatives defending right against might ; for not only has Blackburn withheld its support, but rumour says that several hundred Blackburn operatives have been working in Preston on the masters' terms—not only has Blackburn neglected Preston, but has by its apathy, in our opinion, caused the reduction to take place in the East Lancashire districts. 'We hope the districts will not be led away by the conduct of Blackburn, but chew by your subscriptions on Saturday next that you will still sympathise with those operatives who are com pelled to walk the streets in unwilling idleness, in conse quence of standing up for labour's rights —a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. In conclusion, we hope each district will do its duty this week. Hav'ng dine so, you will be able to say, We have done all that lies in our power, in this our day and generation, to rescue Labour from the iron grasp of Capital.'" LAW AND POLICE. LORD DERBY AND THE BURY IMPROVEMENT COMMIS SIONERS.-On Friday, in the Exchequer Chamber, the question was raised whether the Bury Improvement Com missioners were justified in waking a pier over the land of the Earl of Derby. Mr. Justice Hannon reversed the judgment of the Court of Exchequer, which had been given for the plaintiff, the Earl of Derby. VOLUNTEERS IN TROUBLE.—A nu:111)er of volunteers belonging to the 40th Middlesex corps were summoned at the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Friday, for non-payment of subscriptions. Great regret wa..-; essed on tl e part of the honorary colonel that such proceedings s'iould be necessary, but they were taken in just:cc to the officers and men who did pay, and to those of the public who contributed towards the expenses of the corps. In most of the cases the sums due were paid. WANDSWORTH COMMON.-At the Wandsworth Police court, on Friday, Mr. Buckmaster, a churchwarden of this parish, was summoned by a builder for having broken down a fence on Wandsworth Common. Thecomplainant had purchased a piece of land frczn the directors of the Brighton Railway, not knowing it was part of tl.e Common. Mr. Buckmaster said. the. eneosures on Wandsworth Common now comprised 150 acres. The summons was dismissed. CHALLENGING TO A DUEL.— 011 rifl: 7, a' the Wool wich Police-court, Edmund Valentin Valentin, a pro fessor at the Royal Military Ac tdemy, was sum moned for assaulting and cl a'..e.tgiag Professor Cassal, of the TA ndon Univos ty, to fight a duel.. Charles Cassal gave his evidence to the effect that he and the defendant came to Eng'and as exiles in 1851, and at one time were friends. At the beginning of this month he went to see a friend who was ill. Mons. Valentin, who happened to live at the same house, followed him out, and struck him violently, refusing an explanation. Mr. Epps, i\I.R.C.S., deposed to attending the complainant after the assault, and found him suffering severely. AL Bosqut stated that he went to demand an txpla nation from the defen lant, who declared that he wished to fight a duel. The defendant justified his con duct. Mr. Patteson committed him to take his trial at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court. He agree 1 to accept bail, the defendant in £2O) an 1 two 'ales in £lOO each. ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. — At the Derby Police-court, a day or two since, a young man named John Attrey, Wa3 charged with attempting to defraud the Midland Railway by en.7eavouring to obtain compmsation for a supposed injury. He hal written under a false name to the company at the Derby Station, saying that he had been hurt in a collision at Birmingham, his hat smashed, and his ring injured, and asking for compen saVon for thel'ing and the bat.. It was admitted in the courre of the trial that theprisoner had re ier been in any railway accident, and he was committed for trial. A IforEFuL BOY. —William I dzn, :Ted 11 years, has been charged at Ila!ifax with having n the previous evening knocked down a little gir: in the street at Br:g lions; and robbed her of ls. %Nal also charged with having broken into the houie of M!s. Macmillan, of Bridge End, and stolen a gold watch guard, about six months ago. He was remanded fur other charges of felony which are to be brought against him. A FARMER'S DAUGHTER CHARGED WITH FORGERY.—At Cheltenham, a few days Since, the daughter of a respect able farmer, named Ashchurch, was charged, with forging an order for goods on a .Iraper of Cheltenham. She had forged the name of Miss Jacksor., a customer at the shop, and obtalned a quantity of valuable goods. She after- Wards obtainAl goods to the value of £27 10s. from another shop in the town, Fempicions being excited, these were fortunaLly recoverA She *as committed for trial, but adteLted to bail on a. , x;ount of her health. The example of Mr. G. Peabody has been fol lowed by Mr. A. T. Stewar`, of New York, who has given six mill:on dollars for cl.aritable purposes. The bulk of the m.:ney is to be expended in-building two large hotels, one for single working young women, and the other for single working-young men. -... _ , THE OLD COPPER PENCE.—Most of the old copper coins in use before tlYe introduction of th e b ronze coinage have disappeared from circulation. 'With a view, however,.to their entire extinction, a proclamation has been issued, ordering that, from the 31st December next,, the old copper money shall not be legally current in the United Kingdom. CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held in Downing -street on Friday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Gosehen, the Marquis of liartington, and the Right Hon. C. Forteseue. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE ON THE HIGH LEVEL: CRYSTAL. PALACE RAILWAT.—On Friday afternoon, as the 3.14 p.m. London, Chatham, and Dover train from Victoria to the Crystal Palace was travelling between Peal am Ilye and lIono!ir Oak stations, a man, who had got on the liue ne Lr the Nunbead Cemetery, delibe- rately threw off his be, and east himself in front of the train. The act was observed by the driver and fireman on the englne, and they stopped the train as (pinkly as possible, when it was found that the man bad not been run over, but had been struck by the iron guard of the engine. His head was frightfully injured, but he was still alive. The assistance of a policeman having been seem:tate Juan was taken to Peckham, and thence to. Guy's Hospital ; lout there is little hope of his life being' spare). from card, Lu:id on Lim tll4 11411 is SUppOnd to 135.1 cm3,42l4eifr.taci C Wks, MISCELLAAEoUs NEIVS. A MESSAGE OP PEACE TO IRELAND. The Rock is very sarcastic because Mr. Gladstone's " message of peace " to Ireland has not elicited a more peaceful response. Our contemporary proposes a message of its own—bloodhounds, which should be used in hunting down all persons concerned in agrarian crimes. The same journal rejoices that the efforts of the Government to maintain peace in Derry by proclaiming the " maiden city" have been frustrated. Says the Dublin correspondent of our contemporary : "I suppose you have heard that the Government (i.e., Cardinal (sullen) have proclaimed ' the maiden city.' The purpose of this move was, I believe, to seize upon and secure the cannon and arms of the "Prentice boys,' and so prevent the annual celebration of the anniversary of the siege of Derry. This purpose, lam happy to say, has been frustrated by the energy of the "Prentice boys,' who took good care to have the cannon and arms safely landed in the county of Tyrone, beyond the proclaimed district, before the proclamation took effect." This correspondent is an admirable specimen of that little but powerful party in Ireland which would support Protestant ascendancy by outraging the Roman Catholic population, would govern Ireland by the sword, and let loose the dogs of war in avery literal manner. There is another suggestion made by a correspon dent of the same journal with respect to the Irish Church. He is hopeless of help from either Mr. Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone, and so he says, " I would advise that all constitutional members leave the house, each going back to his own constituents — getting up an agitation throughout the country, and pouring in petitions to the House of .Lords and memorials to her Majesty the Queen against the bill —the whole bill." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1869. removed to a lunatic asylum, and died. irne acctora say death was brought about by congestion of the brain congestion of the brain by hard work. The moral is this. The employers were not hard-hearted. " Evil," says Hood, "is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart." They did not notice, presumably, how this poor child teacher languished and faded and drooped her lead; they had other things to think of. At the outset a glass of wine when she came in fagged from her walk, a little lunch, a little rest, a few kindly vords of human interest and sympathy, might have recruited her strength, given her tone, courage and force. One is ready to believe that had her employers thought of it, had they ever suspected how il, she really was, they would never have refused such little friendly offices;. but if they thought of them al all, they thought of them too late. Others shouldlook to it that they do not go and do likewise. THE UNDER-SECDETARY FOR IRELAND. A good deal of speculation exists as to who will succeed Sir Edward Wetherall. Mr. Maguire is thought to be the most likely man. He certainly hasclaims upon the Government which it is surprising have not been recognised already. It was through him primarily that Mr. Gladstone regained office; it was through his advice to the mad Mayor that the Government was extricated from an awkward predicament. Sir John Gray also is mentioned, but he is supposed by many persons to be too much the mouthpiece of Cardinal Cullen to be suitable for this very important post. Should either of these gentlemen be chosen, a vacancy in the House of Commons will be caused. The Conser vative papers say, " It is rumoured that a Mr. Burke, intimately connected with Cardinal Cullen, is to succeed Colonel Wetherall at the Castle, Dublin." They would like the appointment well, because it would give them such a famous opportunity of indulging ip the rhetoric of indignation. A MINISTERIAL DEFEAT. Ministers sustained a curious defeat in the House of Lords on Thursday. The subject was the Govern ment of India Bill, and the Marquis of Salisbury moved, as an amendment, that the members of the India Council should be nominated by the Crown. This amendment was supported by Lord Lawrence. The Duke of Argyll said that if the house insisted upon giving this additional patronage to the Crown, he certainly should not quarrel with the House, nor withdraw the bill. Still, he considered the arrange ment by which a portion of the council is elected should stand, and he would, at all events, take the sense of the House upon it. In doing so, Ministers were beaten by 89 to 53. STAFFORD ELECTION. Two Liberals have already offered themselves to the electors of Stafford in the place of Mr. Pochin, (L.), and Colonel Meller, (C.), unseated for bribery. They are Mr. Odger, the working-man's candidate for Chelsea, who withdrew in order not to divide the Liberal interest, and Mr. Evans, who has repro. tented South Derbyshire, but was defeated after a very severe contest by the late Sir Thomas Gresley, who did not live to take his seat. Mr. B. Whitworth, recently unseated at Drogheda, is also spoken of. At Stafford thelast election gave the following result: Mr. Pochin (L.), 1,189 ; Colonel Meller (C.), 1,124; Mr. Chawner ( L.), 1,107. It will be seen that the running was very close, and it is quite impossible to guess the result of another contest. In Mr. Pochin women have lost one of the warmest supporters of their political " rights." TILE DEANS. The Times is requested to state that the paragraph respecting the meeting of Deans (which appeared in most of Thursday's London papers) " is in many essential particulars incorrect." TUE INCREASE OF PAUPERISM. Mr. Goachen on Monday evening ascribed the increase of pauperism to public opinion. Some three years back certain exposures were made, and the British public demanded that the workhouse should be made more habitable. It was made so, and those who had formerly been afraid of it now paid visits to it. It is a very difficult question how to to keep the idle from falling on the poor's rate. Cer tainly we shall not solve it by starving them, by allow ing the sick who enter to die of non-attendance, and the able-bodied to make their bed in filth, and assail one another with bad language. So thinks the Lancet. ." We are sure," it says, " the British public will not grudge the money necessary to remove the shameful scan dalsof workhouses which it was our duty to expose three years ago. If the moderate imprOvements we sought for, and which to a large extent have since been obtained, have made the workhouse sick-wards more attractive to the poor, the remedy does not lie in restoring the ancient abuses, but in exercising a wiser discretion in the adminis tration of out-door relief, in bringingpersonal visitation to the houses of the poor, and in.conlisinff the admission to workhouses to the really destitute. So long as any rascal can obtain admission to reasonable comforts on the plea of illness, and discharge himself without making any return for the benefits received, abuse is unavoidable. The executive ought therefore to have greater powers of control." EMIGRATION. The mania for emigration, which is just now running wild, is a most serious matter. At first it was thought that the scum of the population might be drafted off to America and the colonies, relieving us and giving them a chance of success in another sphere. But if men, who, through idleness or vice, have a good opportunity cf becoming well-to-do in another country, how much - more the provident and hardworking. And so now the solution of the labour and capital question is looked for in emigra tion. Those who nre be7ng sent away are no longer exclusively com p ose d o f th e wors t wor k men , b u t of the most valuable. The strikes in the cotton and coal districts have been defeated by the masters employing a second batch of men. But these are very inferior to the old ones ; and the original work men, being supplanted, are loo';ing vhont for some way of exit from their present position. They will not submit, they cannot starve. They must, ere f riza are y being fro th a e s& c s l t is e t d ri district, do must u s s o t . leaveiftrade ti d i e e country, revives—the idea am ong th e men i s that it never g and will—the masters will find themselves much incon venienced. TILE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADES. The Beehive says that in about fourteen towns there are struggles going on between the master builders and some of their workmen. At I3radford and Lancaster the strikes have ter minated by the withdrawal of the " hour system" by the masters. The masons in both these towns have resumed work. At Leeds there lus been a conference of six masters and six masons, and there is a probability of the " hour system " being with drawn in that town by the masters. At Manchester the master builders have held a representative meeting, at which it was unanimously rewired to stand by the "Notice." The masons, on the other hand, are as determined in their resistance to it. In Bolton, Coventry; Sunderland, Sheffield, Wakefield, and other places the struggle still continues. At Bristol, arbitration has gone in favour of the car penters. They will receive an advance or wagea, and also a reduction in the hours of work. Time masons of that town have resolved to meet the master builders, and six representatives of each have been elected to confer together as to whether the hour system shall be adopted, and a bw.rd of conciliation formed. NURSES. The reign of Mrs. Gamp and her friends is over for ever. Protestants are following Ilinnan CAI:to& s in thiS-Lthey a - rb providing Sisters of Mercy to nurse the sick. Dissenters have swallowed a lump of pre ju lice Very large indeed, and have established an institution not unlike a convent in some respects. There is the term " Sister," thodistinctiVe dress, the promise (not a vow) not .to marry•iinmediately, - the requirement of satisfactory religious condition, and a devotion to deeds of love. Indeed, all sects and sections are awaking to the want of efficient tending of those who cannot tens themselves. Another institution—national, not see , tarian—has just been opened for training nurses. Prince Teck, on Thursday, opened a home in connec tion with the Middlesex Hospital, out of which will ultimately come nurses for our London hospitals, gratuitous nurses for the poor, and nurses to be hired by the rich. It i s t o be hoped that the fund for nursing the poor will, to some extent, be helped by the return Made by the rich. A NEW " SENSATION." The Telegraph his fallen upon a new subject on • which to discharge poetry and pathos. The'British governess is now put before the public with a claim on its sympathy. ()Or contemporary confesses that _the sub; ect is worn out ; that the governess of romance has been made too much of ; that the gover ness of reality is perhaps a little less interesting than could be wished. But it tells a story and provides a moral. The story is this. A banker's clerk died suddenly, leaving a • family unprovided for. Tho younzest child, 1p years of ow?, obtained a situation as governess. She . 11,yd to trudge four miles to teach her charges, and but f a lase ye r . % . i . lliligs a Week. But during the hot the work and the wan. wero, too 1 -41:0Acklokil,a.1 1 / 1 / bi'LiSigiL her nava. W THEATRICAL. Mr. Buckstone, speaking at the dinner of the royal Theatrical Fund, on Thursday, spoke very earnestly against the narrow views taken of the theatrical art ever since " the gloomy days of Cromwell." Ile assured that portion of his audience who was not composed of actors that those who lived by the stage thought themselves respectable membeis of society, notwithstanding the recent letter of the Lord Chamberlain on the skirts of the dancing ladies. En passant, he gave his opinion that the said letter was useless, there being no nth for guidance as to the length of the ballet dresses : and therefore no uniformity. Ile went on to solemnly defend the theatrical profession against one aspersion. A meeting was recently held at Exeter llall to oppose the opening of museums, &c., on a Sunday. "An eminent lawyer and member of ParliLment thought proper to assert that to allow the opening of museums and galleries on that day would lead to the opening of theatres. Now, I am sure, as regards the Haymarket, there is not one member that establish. ment who would consent to act on a Sunday ; and I am certain I may declare, in the name of every performer of both sexes in England, that none would be found to do so. Hundreds of them—and it is not too well known to the fanatics—frequent places of worship on Sunday ; and all of them enjoy the day of rest too well to have it inter rupted by attending to their professional duties. For my Own part, I know that on a Saturday night, after a lr,trd week's work and many anxieties, I have frequently exclaimed, "fhank God, to.morroW's Sunday."' A PUZZLING ANNOUNCEMENT. A contemporary announces that " the Marchioness de Caux has taken up her residence, for the season, in Cumberland-terrace, Regent's Park, and Mdlle. Adelina Patti has likewise arrived in town. The latter lady is in magnificent voice, and will make her appearance, most positively, at the Royal Italian Opera, as Amina in Sonnambula.' " We were under the impression that the Marchioness de Caux and Mdlle. Adelina Patti were the same person. Our contemporary is either ignorant of the fact, or is perpetrating a joke. If the latter alternative is cor rect, we are stupid enough not to see wherein the joke consists. A NAVAL VETERAN. The death is announced of one of Nelson's ofa companions in arms. More fortunate than many of them, Admiral Bateman Dashwood rose to flag rank. Ile entered the service in 1799, and served uninter ruptedly till the peace of 1815. He was a midship man in the Defiance at the battle of Copenhagen, under Lord Nelson. In 1811 he was first lieutenant of the Active, then commanded by the late Sir James Gordon, G.C.8., when that officer fought and took the French frigate Pomone, after a despe rate contest. When Sir James had his leg shat tered by a cannon shot, Lieutenant Dashwood took the command of the Active until he himself lost his arm, and the French ship finally struck to the third lieutenant. Captain Dashwood afterwards, when in command of a br i g , f ough t and captured two French privateers. In 1816, before our expedition against Algiers, Captain Dashwood was sent in the Prometheus to parley with the Bey, and to place our Consul and his family in safety on board his ship. This could be effected only by stratagem, as the Bey refused to let them leave the town. The Consul's wife passed the gate disguised as a sailor, but her child, which she carried in a basket, having cried as they passed the sentry, the party were pursued, and with difficulty defended themselves until they reached the boat of the Prome theus. Captain Dashwood then joined Lord Exmouth's fleet, and was present at the bombard ment of Algiers. Admiral Dashwood was 80 years old at his death. STREET TRAMWAYS. The Inventors' Institute ought to be a progressive., and by no means a prejudiced, body. Composed to a large extent of engineers, who . live (so to speaii) by the discovery of novelty, the institute itself also being formed to protect inventions, it ought rather to encourage the trial of what is new than otherwise. But it does not seem to be taking that course in regard to street tramways. Seeing that it is admitted that these would provide an easier and more commodious mode of transit than now prevails ; seeing that they have already suc ceeded in America and elsewhere, and that the House of Commons has sanctioned their trial in this country, it seems rather to be contrary to the principle on which such an association should be worked that a meeting should be held to protestagainst the adoption of tramways in London. Yetthis is what has been done. Two " C.E.'s," Messrs. Imray and Measor, are much opposed to the innovation; their principal objections being the old ones, that the rails would cause acci dents ; that it was inexpedient to g i ve a flying stream of carriages priority of way in any part of the road; and that it would, by narr ow i ng the li n e of route, make traffic still more difficult. FOREIGN NOTES. ALTERED POLICY OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMINT. The change in the policy of General Grant's Cabinet becomes more marked. There has been a strong reaction against the belligerent sentiments so freely expressed a short time ago, and the Government has found it necessary to give heed to the current of respectable public opinion. The Tinzes Philad el phia correspondent says that the visitsof business men to Washington, and the counsels of the more prudent politicians, all urging that the country needs peace, have decided the Administration to discountenance further agitation. Both with reference to the Alabama claims and to the insurrection in Cuba the prospect becomes more and more pacific. The Cuban agitators are disappointed at the change of affairs, and say the rebellion will wane if it loses the chance of recognition by the United States. But there is scarcely the remotest proba bility that such recognition will be made. " The improved condition of affairs is generally remarked." So far, then, the speeches of Messrs. Sumner and Chandler have produced only the effect of injuring their Own country. The price of United States Bonds, which had risen materially in consequence of the decisive measures against repudiation, has fallen again in con• sequence of these speeches. The ground lost wili have to be retrieved once more. American credit is bad, and AMerican politicians will not allow it to improve when it might. TfIE ITALIAN MINISTRY. General Menabrea's Cabinet has been reconstituted, and the result has been in some measure a triumph for the Piedmontese. These deputies, who have held aloof from the party in power since the seat of government was transferred from Turin to Florence, although their poli tical principles were well-nigh the same, agreed to join Men abrea's supporters provided the Ministry of the Interior and at least another seat in the Cabinet were given up to them. The Tuscans were very reluctant to part with the portfolio of the Interior. They hinted plainly that Signor Ferraris, the Piedmontese deputy who aspired to the post, was not of " sufficiently high position." But the Piedmontese have held out, and the Tuscans have given in. Ferraris has become Minister of the Interior. Signor Mordani, too, who was deemed objectionable on account of his Garibaldian antecedents, has been let in as Minister of Public Works. NORTH GERMANY. The smaller fry constituting the North German Con- federation are getting into terrible financial difficulties. The taxes imposed since 1866 have become overwhelming, and yet deficits accumulate. By the terms of confederation it was agreed that Prussia should maintain all the soldiers, of the Union, and that each State should pay 225 thalers per man for the support of its contingent. A convention, however, was signed in 1866, by which the sum was reduced to one-half until the year 1873, from which time the full 225 thalers will have to be paid. This increase will intensify the financial troubles of the smaller States, some of which will, it is expected, become utterly bankrupt. MAZZINT. Letters from Florence represent Mazzini to be in a very deplorable state of health. The frequent vomitings and the want of sleep, which proved so dangerous some time ago, have been renewed. There is too much reason to fear that these attacks are but the earlier symptoms of that incurable malady — cancer in the stomach. For a long time the Republican leader has taken only the most simple and digestible nourishment, but the good effects of a careful diet are counteracted by the excessive use of tobacco. Mazzini smokes thirty or forty cigars a day. " Strong-willed as is this man," says the Ll , berte," he struggles in va'n against this passion, which endangers his life." THE CZAR. The health of another personage of much higher posi tion begins to cause uneasiness. The Czar has been unwell for 'several weeks. Some time back he was crossing a bridge in an open carriage with his eldest son, when the horses took fright, and, dashing across the foot path, were only prevented by the parapet from falling with the vehicle into the river. The shock was so great that it is feared the Emperor must have sustained somo internal injury. He has been indisposed ever since. THE IO;i141Z ISLAIVDS. ~~,.~ -~ ~ at Corfu. His sojourn in the chief of the lonian Islands will probably be some consolation to the inhabitants for the loss they have sustained by the departure of the English. The lonians have found to their cost that the doctrine of nationality does not always " pay." In 1815 the islands were formed into an independent State under the protection of Great Britain; but the people were dissatisfied. The Parliament declared for annexation to Greece, and in 1864 this wish was gratified. But the lonians bitterly rue the change. The English functionaries and officers who formerly resided in the protectorate, and the visitors and ships that frequently stopped there and spent a good deal of money, have vanished for ever. If the suffrages of the lonians were taken again, there is no doubt that they would declare unanimously for a renewal of English rule. CONSULAR COURTS IN EEG' T. The Liberte announces that the Western Powers have agreed upon the appointment of an international commis. sion for the purpose of investigating the working of the Consular Courts in Egypt. The Egyptian Government has long been anxious that this question should be inquired into and finally disposed of. It complains greatly of the capitulations by which foreigners are not answerable to the Egyptian courts for offences committed in Egypt, but can claim trial before the consular tribunals. It is confident that an international commission will acknowledge the defects of this system, and that a reform will be the consequence. But hitherto the project of an inquiry commission has been in abeyance because France would not consent to it. Her refusal, it is assured, has been withdrawn, and the investigation will now be made. (from the Anglo-American Tinies) An article in the London Sun of Thursday even ing excited some attention, and we regret that we cannot admire the tone adopted by our old friend and very ancient contemporary, for the Sun is among the oldest newspapers in the world, and has perhaps the best godfather of them all, being founded by no less a man than Pitt. We do not think it right that English papers which so loudly praised Mr. Johnson until that very praise began to work its reactionary effect in America should sneeer on his departure at the break down of his n ego ti a tio ns. The American press finds in the rresent tone of the English press towards their former favourite a true sample of John Bull-ism, who worships success, but kicks the Joss to whom he has been chin-chinning if that divinity fails. It may be both natural and proper, but it looks bad when done ostentatiously. "Poor Mr. Reverdy John son!" says an American paper. " Even Blackwood's Magazine gives him a parting kick, and sneers at the unnecessary soft-sawderi which he has seen fit to employ." We think that on another shuffle of the cards, Reverdy Johnson may appear in a different character; for then the man Columbia is now throwing out of her hand may then turn out to have been trumps. As to hasty popular judgment, we offer this opinion —when in doubt, the odds are that it is wrong. Mr. Johnson leaves London on Wednesday, embarking next Saturday in the Ohio from Southampton for Baltimore. It is becoming rather the fashion to arrest editors in New York. Mr. Bowles of the Springfield Re publican was made the victim of a smart attack by James Fisk, jun., for he was hurried out of his hotel off to gaol for the night. Mr. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun was arrested on the 27th April, at the suit of Mr. John Russell Young for " a false, scandalous, and malicious libel." Mr. JusticeTappen of the Supreme Court bailed him pending the trial, the damages being laid at $lOO,OOO. We hope this little episode will not have the effect of inducing Mr. Dana to change his mind on the dignity and utility of an editor's calling, for it is surely better to be Appraiser of Merchandise in New York than defending actions and defeating the schemes of the viciously inspired vicious, whose ins and outs have been exposed. Mr. Young is a principal editor of the New York Tribune, and what the Sun alleged was that he sold the editorial columns of the paper on whose staff he is, putting the money into his own pocket, at the expense of Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania, Judge Chase, and other leading men, to the injury of the journal and its proprietors. The despatches of the New York Associated Press he transmitted, in violation of his promise to the asso ciation, to a paper in Philadelphia he owned clan destinely. He is also censured for puffing himself, taking advantage for this of Mr. Charles Dickens's visit. He thus, adds the Sun, brought himself so prominently forward a to have been at one time named as a member for General Grant's Cabinet. The proprietors of the Tribune met 1 o consider these charges, and he was deprived of his position, but the vote was rescinded, as was but fair, considering he has challenged an investigation by bringing an action against Mr. Dana. _ _ In the Tribune of May 1, there is a leader with the initials of Horace Greeley, commenting on a sneer of the New York ,Sun, that the 7 ribune which used to be a goodly newspaper had of late lamentably failed in not supplying its readers with the news then the talk of all America regarding the exposure of Mr. John Russell Young ; adding, " perhaps, it would soon have a new managing editor, and then it will begin to publish the news again." Mr. Greeley squarely meets the charges against his subordinate, which he enumerates as Ist, conceit ; 2d, abusing his position on the Tribune for his private gain ; 3d, the surreptitious use of the Associated Press despatches. The first is no one's business ; the second he is the best qualified to judge of, and he pronounces it to be false and un founded; the third he hopes will prove equally so, and the Tribune calls on its partners in the Asso ciated Press to institute a rigid inquiry into this grave accusation. Meanwhile he intends to up hold Mr. Young, who shall not be stabbed in the back, saying he has not been:removed or suspended, or condemned in the Tribune office, as circulated by the Sun, where it is not the custom to pass judgment on a mere indictment "plainly impelled too by envy, malice, and blighted aspirations.' The charges made by the Sun are based on a packet of private and confidential correspondence of Mr. Young, which filled four columns of that journal, which, although we have not seen in their complete form, have, we believe, an ugly appearance. The editor of the Morning Post of Philadelphia, Mr. John D. Stockton, in a two-column article, accuses the New York Sun of a conspiracy to injure Mr. Young and the Post, the paper Young is alleged to own, lie says that Amos J. Cummmers wrote J the libellous matter, Mr. Young's correspondence being furnished by a defaulting cashier of his jour nal, Charles M'Clintock. Ile further asserts that it was Mr. Cummings who, when night editor of the Tribune, sent the Associated Press despatches to the Post without Mr. Young's knowledge, and offered to continue the supply on becoming night editor of the Sun. Mr. Dana is condemned for the course he has adopted, but we are not acquainted with the arguments by which he justifies it, and therefore cannot express an opinion. We now learn that Mr. ReverdyJohnson had pre sented Mr. D. Moran on Thursday to the Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, as Chargé d'Affaires, pending thelarrival of the newly-appointed Ambassa dor, Mr. Motley. The brief career in England of that astute and renowned constitutional lawyer of America has been remarkably chequered. The hos pitality and adulation he received in Great Britain annoyed America, and this feeling was fanned into a flame by his ostentatious reception of those known in the States as "unrepentant rebels" and " rebel sympathizers ;" by expressions of eternal love on be half of an offended nation who had sent him to de mand reparation, and by the fact that he re presented an Administration in the highest degree unpopular in the Republic. Not only was the treaty he had framed rejected by an almost unani mousa fiory v o p t t e d o n f i p t p h i e e b S y e n theate , most o u s t t i e t lNeNq'atstenctonndleelmunbeedr in of that assembly, and the Minister's resignation re quested by the new P res id ent. M r. R. Johns o n's lters exit, together w ith Mr. Sumner's speech, appears to have sow hcd Jonatha n , who perhaps w h en h e how he has stirred up the British lion will be q uite restored to complacency. An evening London paper, with some truth, remarks on the American reply . to Mr. Joh nson ' s e xpress i ons on behalf of Americans of esteem and friendship for England, as met by a fierce denial, while Mr. Sutnner's denun ciations and charges, embodying intense hatred, were endorsed by the nation. Against such a fact it says it is useless for individuals to argue, as it simply 0 4)(44 t h e animosity towards 13ritaul . which pervades American society. While admitting the force of the fact, we qualify it by this, that Mr. Johnson's exaggerated professions of friendship for England on the part of the country from which he came,offendedapeople who had sent him there to re present a grievance, and thus naturally produced a rebound, which found expression through the mouth of Senator Sumner, but the one was cause] by the other, and was alike an exaggeration in the opposite direction, just as a pendulum which has been swung far to one side will swing back far to the other. The President will not visit California as reported. He has signified this to Mr. Sargent, who desired to know, as the Pacific slope might prepare for his reception, the distance being too great for his li mited time. (iii. Lee was expected at Washing ton on the Ist instant at the house of Mr. Montgo mery Blair, as the President desired to have as in terview with him regarding Virginia. Mr. Motley has had several interviews with the President, and it is thought that instead of awaiting the reply of the British Government to the rejection of the Ala bama Treaty that the Minister would leave at once for London. All the members of the Cabinet had returned to Washington by the Ist instant, except Mr. Cresswell, who was not expected till the 3d ; but no meeting h:;1 been held to discuss the tenour of the instructions to be given Mr. Motley. Professor Coffin, superintendent of the" Ameri can Nautical Almanac," has selected either Siberia or Alaska wherein to take a station for observing the total eclipse of the sun next August. In com pliance with Lis request, Secretary Rorie, of the Navy, has ordered Rear-Admiral Rowan, command ing the Asiatic squadron, to meet the observers at Yokohama by the Ist July, whence they will sail for Siberia. Rear-Admiral Turner, commanding the Pacific squadron, has been instructed to allow the party, if it be required, to use the warvessel stationed at, Alaska for the purposes of these Savants. • Every means to make the observation as complete as possible will be supplied to Professor Coffin's party, whose instruments and appliances will be new, complete, and furnished with all modern improvements. The President has given instructions that all war materials not wanted by the Washington Govern ment should be sold to those who wish to purchase, and the Cuban agents are in that field. There was a rumour that the United States would follow the example of Mexico in recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents. The Junta have appealed ear nestly for this recognition in order to end, as they say, Spanish atrocities, although in what way is not stated. There is no chance of the Washington Government recognizing the Cubans in any way until a considerable change is wrought in their posi tion ; and if what the islanders assert be true, that change need not be looked for, as they say it can only be brought about by the recognition ; whereas the United States say the recognition can only be brought about by that change. The strength of the fleet under. Admiral Hoff is to be reduced, but heavy supplies of naval stores have been forwarded from 'Washington to the sea ports. There is news from San Francisco to the 29th April, by which itappears that adviceshad there been received from Auckland, New Zealand, of a terrible massacre at White Cliffs,* Taranka, on the 15th of February, during which Lieut. Gascoyne, wife, and family, and six settlers, were killed. Settlers ar riving in Auckland reported that the stores were closed and ensigns flying at half-mast. * We imagine Taranaki must be meant. Gregoria Benitz and G. Perez of the Paraguayan Legation in Paris have arrived at Washington, not improbably to transfer Lopez's interest in the country to the United States. Mr. Masterman has received a series of questions from the sub -com mittee on Foreign Affairs appointed to investigate the Paraguayan difficulties, with which he was con nected. Mr. Bliss has given his testimony, which is said to be damaging to the naval offi'ers. One of the charges of Messrs. Bliss and Masterman is for the supercilious and insolent treatment they received on board war-vessels of the United States, wherein they were taken to New York as prisoners. The conclusion at which the Committee arLives can scarcely fail to be influenced by the answers re turned by Mr. Masterman, now in England, and it is believed his testimony will be in support of that of Mr. Bliss. Mr. Berthemy, the French Minister, handed over the affairs of the French Legation in Washington to Count Faverny, and sailed from New York on Saturday, May 1, for Europe, on leave of absence, from which he is not likely to return. Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister, will soon sail for Europe on three months' leave of absence. Mr. Ford, the Secretary of the British Legation, is at the Claren don Hotel, New York. Senor Maurieio Lopez Roberts, the Spanish' Minister, and P. D. Rivera, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, are at the Albe marle Hotel, of that city. The Hon. Elihu Wash bourne also sailed in the Pereire on the Ist May, and arrived on Wedesday at Brest, so he is pro bably now in Paris. The Hon. John Jay, Mi nister to Austria, likewise left New York on the Ist May, but in the Cunarder Russia, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Jay, and they arrived on Thursday night at Edward's Royal Cambridge Hotel, George street, Hanover-square. An enthusiastic meeting of the Union• League Club assembled on the 26th April to take leave of their president, and to the address of Dr. Thompson Mr. Jay made an elo quent reply. An order has lately been issued from the Adju tant-General's Office in Washington, re-opening recruiting depots for the United States army. This order has occasioned much surprise, as it has fol owed one amalgamating regiments and materially reducing the strength of the land forces. Taken with the activity in the navy yards it might be pro ductive of alarm, mord especially in conjunction with the attitude assumed by England. But it is notorious that the United States were never more peaceably disposed, as a nation, than at this mo ment ; and no hostilities could arise except from the malice, aforethought, and the shameful blunder ing of those entrusted with the Government. The New York Tribune asks :—" How does it happen that so soon after a reduction of nearly one-half in the infantry regiment& of the army, it becomes necessary to reopen the expensive recruiting system ?" The following remarks remind us of the investi gations into the Joint-stock Limited Liability Com pany failures in ;,, f ondon. More promising schemes never were launched, nor conducted by a more up right, painstaking, industrious, and skilful manage ment. These detestable shareholders who appear to flaunt their rags in the faces of the highly-respect able directors ought to be sup press2d and dis couraged, nor shoul 1 moderate Three per Cent. investors in British Consols sympathise with the greedy throng whom nothing less than Ten per Cent. would satisfy, and who came to grief in the pursuit. An American paper says : " There w;ts an accident a few days ago on the Long Island Railroad, and it is now being investigated. So far as they have gone r the inquiries seem to _show that the rails were the best ever made, the track in perfect order, the management of the road wholly beyond criticism, and, in short, that no improvement in any particular could possibly be suggested. It is a little curious that the result of all coroners' inquests in similar cases shows the same state of facts. No roads, on which accidents occur, aro over faulty in any respect." The completion of the Pacific Railway, connect ing the Atlantic with the Pacific, was celebrated last Tuesday at Trinity Church, New York, by a solemn Te Delon. At a meeting of citizens in San Francisco, on Thursday, April 29, a committee of 200 were appointed to make arrangements for the Pacific Railroad celebration. _ • General llosecrans has forwarded despatches' in charge of a special agent from Mexico, and the hearer has had interviews wit') President Grant. These despatches are sail to relate to negotiations for a further cession of territory from Mexico to the United Stites. A celebrated Irishman when acc►►sed of having sold his country, burst into ex pressions of gratitude that ho had a country to sell, and so perhaps with Juarez. We do not know what hold the Mexican President has over the territory he proposes to cede, but this we do know, that he might profitably to himself dispose of 'it " cheap." Minister Rosecrans, among other things, is desirous of prolonging his stay in Mexico till the completion of this business, but he will learn that a change has come o'er the spirit of the Administration, which repudiates llilie the prolage of the fries ic,Qbers or the torrid desert, for the United States is reserv ing itself for a grand feast, wherein it will swallow up the new Dominion ; and, with such a prospect, has no appetite for the pickings Mexico and the Antilles offer, unless, indeed, it be that bon bouche, Cuba. Rosecrans' successor, too, has not only been nominated, but confirmed. Mr. J. M. Ashley of Ohio and impeachment re nown has written a letter to say that he never did an improper or corrupt act as a Representative, all assertion borne out by a Committee of Congress, with the facts before them that Mr. Ashley urged the appointment of Mr. Case to a lucrative territorial office on the understanding that certain relations of his should receive certain posts, and other posts should be given to Congressmen as bribes. Another portion of the compact was that he and Case should form a partnership, Case speculating in land in the Territory on the information procurable by Ashley from his official position. To this Al r. Case consented, executing and returning the agreement. Two black spots attach to this story outside Mr. Ashley's re puzation. The one, that he should have been a leader in impeachment which tends to discredit 3 solemn act of national justice, and the other that a man with this record should have been nominated and confirmed as Governor of Montana. The organization of a systematic emigration of English operatives to the United States under the Trades Unions is attracting attention in America, where it meets with encouragement. Letters , re ceived in Washington state that the Trades Unions leaders, Pot ter and II olyoake, aided by such generous capitalists as Samuel Morley, M.P., have turned their attention to this scheme, and that a large num ber, especially of the spinners and miners of the North of England, would be aided in their transit during this summer. A delegation of working men had been elected to proceed to the States to collect information, and on their return to establish a bureau in London for its dissemination. This is • the very scheme Professor Goldwin Smith hit so hard by his letter to the Beehive, which itself was induced by that unfortunate speech of Senator Sumner. We can only hope that an object, indi rectly to forward which we have lent so willing a pen, may only in this have received a temporary check. The Boston people being mad on the Negro qu, s tion, are not fair judges of anything with an African in it. Brazil is the only Slave Empire, yet, the effort of the Bostonians is to get Frederick Douglass nominated to Rio as Minister. Frederick Douglass is an able man, but we do not consider that Brazil, under the circumstances, is the proper place to dispatch him to as au ambassador. He is said to have been defrauded out of the mission either to Hayti or to Liberia by a report indus triously circulated that he would not accept either; and his white friends desire to make it up by the place Mr. Pile failed in attaining. Poor Mr. pile! to have run in vain for a post reserved for a N e gro! is this the depth to which a Missouri politician has at last arrived? COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 12 21 12 21 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 3 12 41 , _ Antwerp — ... 25 15 ... 25 50 Brussels — ... 25 45 ... 25 50 Ilatnburgit — ... 13 121 ... 13 131 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1211 ... 122 V ienua — ... 12 67} ... 12 721 Trieste — ... 12 67} ... 12 i2l Petersburg Copenhagen ... ~ 9 25 ... 9 29 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz ... 481 ... 49} Leghorn Milan — ... 26 70 ... 26 771 Genoa — ... 26 70 ..,- 26 7 7 1 Naples Palermo — ... 26 70 ... 26 77f Messina Lisbon — ... 511 .._. 52 Oporto — ..• 51f ... 52 Rio J aneiro - ••• a •• - New York - ••, ..• Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 2 ' Ditto, via YArsellles May 17 Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video June 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde, by Brazil pa.oicct June 4. 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The North German Lloyd, on ths i line between Bremen and B iltimore, will, it is said, charg e , singers from Germany on their return from B a ltimore t' that country only half passage. A bill has been introduced into the Massael' u s setts Legislature, which provides that any person wr i : duty it is to handle, remove, or take care of the bagg'" of passengers, shall wilfully and wantonly injure or cll . : stroy any trunk, vas; box, package or parcel, while lo a ," 0 ing, transporting, unloading, or delivering, or storing I ,l v same, he shall be prtni,hed by a fine not exceeding P,` dollars, or by imprisonment in gaol not exceeding t" months. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Cintment and Pills 9 1 5 unfeignedly the remedies upon which all may rely are suffering from diseases of the skin, scrofula, s curv.l l ulcerations, and bad legs. When the warmth of the We ir ther determines unduly blood to the skin, all these co in ; plaints assume a worse appearance, and their sympto lo become more harassing unless Holloway's Ointment be e applied to check increasing inflammation and to sootba the excited nerves. No knowl e d ge, b eyond that contaise. in the "Directions for U se ," i s requ i ted for using thflis cooling and healing unguent, which always acts cially. Thousands afflicted with bad legs, who w e ' c i slowly sinking under their suffering; have been rescue from their perilous position (after all curative gle 3/1 seemed powerless) by persevering with Holloway's mea t caments. (ADVERTISEMENT.].—Avoid Medicines: they always agfin „cs,te ma chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-resto li Revalenta Arabica. Food, which yields three times the nouris h, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remc , _ . .,,," and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, s°`";l lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functioLo regularity, ant' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. r 4 extract a few oat of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health rest 4 l7 6 , by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, I ', o —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sl ° ' abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself enti r n e o t to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he consu m e a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly be'',o tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this es , ;: ro lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 , f ive r No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years ~.0 0 complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nerf':',„a palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness , the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771: Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterforclfof many yt dyspepsia. No 19,832: - Fifty years' indescribable agonl' dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constination, ilatulen, ao spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure 41;270: Mr. James - R.olerts, of Frimley,• klurrey, of 30- Ye: 0 :1 diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement , partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the n' ou t unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, wht,,,cl. aatthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attact.,,,,: In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; Ms 48 Gd; 5 lbs 11 s ; 12 lbs '. r s 21 lbs 40s. - Also Dc BARRY'S REvALENTA ARABICA C BOC OL, i ' Pownxa is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at s, for'!* p e e at Os 63, for 48 cups at 6a, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups 5 00 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 5.5 s tins are free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Ordelocl BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Loudon,; all Grocers and Chemists. FORMIAM —Oa the 12th inst.. at Odsey Park, Cambs., t he wife of Herbert Fordhatn, Esq., of a son.l bIICKAY—On the 12th inst., at Dellifure, Inverness - B -1 Mrs. Grant Mackay of a daughter. 31 A RRIAGES. KIDDIE —PROWSE—On the 13th inst., at Lee, Jno. Ii t Esq., R.N., to Gertrude, youngest daughter of Rov e " Pruwse, Esq., Lee, Kent. THESIGER—STOPFORD —On the 13th inst., At St. Pitill s 2 Knightsbridge, the Lion. Edward Thesiger, fourth 6,71. of Lord Chelmsford, to Georgina Mary, third dau;2l,4. of Wm Bruce Stopford, Esq., of Drayton House, Is" thamptonshire. _ DEATIIS. FEENEY—On the 11th inst., at Church-road, Mg')s's/(7°' John Frederick Feeney, aged 62. HauLEY—On the £th inst., at 24, Rue Bergere, Faris, Howland Harley, Esq., aged 61. I reel NICHOLLS- On the 11th inst., at 17, Hyde , par k -s Lads Nicholls. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDO A strO d : of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office, N 0 .112, 4 tte Pracinct, of Ciao Lizw, tip cpwaty Qf lag-C 446t 50453 - 171 LW 16,1869. al