The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times thinks that Monday night's discussion in the House of Commons may be accurately described as "Much ado about nothing." The only objection possessing any semblance of importance raised against the Budget is that founded on the allegation that the balances in the Ex chequer will, by the accumulated receipts of taxes in January, be starved from October to January, and be superabundant from January to April. Mr. Lowe's retort, that the money market must look after itself, would have been more satisfactory if the disproportionate receipt of revenue atone season were not in itself an inconvenience to the Government as well as a possible cause of disturbance to the public. It is plain that the Government must either borrow before Christmas, or have a large sum, even after payment of dividends, lying idle after Christmas and in either case there is a diminution in the national economy of money. The balance of certain advantages against uncertain dangers must lead us to accept Mr. Lowe's scheme if it be impossible to dispel the apprehen sion of disadvantage; but if the possibility of incon venience could be removed without altering the essential points of the Budget, we cannot pretend that we should not be better satisfied. The Daily Hews, in discussing Mr. Hunt's analysis of the Budget, says that he objects that Mr. Lowe's remis sions of taxation are made at the expense of posterity. What Mr. Ward Hunt probably means, and there is a certain degree of truth in the statement, is that th ,- . present year financially is enriched by crowding into it payments which, if matters had been left in their old position, would not have been made until the following year. Mr. Lowe replies that if the year ISG9-70 steals from the year 1870-71, that year in its turn may steal from 1871-72, and so on ad infinitum, to the last syllable of recorded time. What may be done in the final year of grace, which has no successor to borrow from, the Chancellor of the Exchequer professes himself unable to conjecture. But as in all probability he will not be holding office at the time, he makes his mind very easy on the subject. The Chancellor of the Exche quer of that time, whoever he may be, if he he at all con scious of the position in which he stands, will probably be thinking of something else than his financial arrange ments. If neither he nor the millions whom he taxes are aware of their situation, they will wake very calmly in eternity to the discovery that they have paid in advance for an unborn year in time. Mr. Lowe's illustration, however, though a tolerably good joke, is not a very sound argument. Though taxpaying is not likely to cease so long as sun and moon endure, individual taxpayers are not immortal. The anticipation in one year of the revenue of its successor means that the taxpayers who die in the first year will nevertheless contribute to the expenses of the second, that is to say, a portion of the money which would otherwise go to their heirs will fall to the State. There is no disguising this fact, and no need to disguise it. It is price paid for a great administrative reform. The diminution of taxation, both by the reduction of its amount and by a cheaper and more efficient system of collection, is an improvement which, in the mere money point of view, is well purchased at the cost at which Mr. Lowe offers it. The Standard declares that the meeting of the Oppo sition at Lord Lonsdale's on Monday afternoon gave a tacit, but emphatic and conclusive, contradiction to the insinuations of those Liberal journalists who, making fancy supply the place of fact, and guided in their fancies rather by their wish than by their knowledge, are never weary of assuring us that the Conservative party is divided and disheartened, disgusted with its leaders. shaken alike in its allegiance and its principles, doubtful of its present course, and hopeless of the future. Looking back as far as the first beginning of our acquaintance with the tactics of political warfare, we can remember no session during which ti' same allegations were not made as loudly and repeated as frequently as now. Con sidering how often the Conservatives have been crushed, annihilated, destroyed as a political power. they are marvellously tenacious of life. Considering that they are once a year, at least, on the verge of a general breaking up, it is marvellous to see bow close and perfect their cohesion is, and how vainly their oppo nents look to their parliamentary conduct for any signs of that relaxed discipline and dire discouragement which their guides in the press have bidden them to expect. What is required from the leader of such a party at such a crisis is. not that he should stimulate the fervour and maintain the cohesion of his followers, but that be should moderate their vehemence and direct their counsels judiciously ; that he should have the tactical skill to make the best use of the forces which their enthusiasm and devotion place at his disposal, and to avail himself to the utmost of the strength of his cause, the courage of his adherents, and the blunders of his opponents, and no one will deny to Mr. Disraeli the capacity to direct a parliamentary campaign with skill and ability, or question the good for• tune which has placed the management of a contest like that which impends in the committee on the bill in the hands of the first political strategist of the day. The Telegraph, in commenting on the meeting at Lord Lonsdale's, says that the chief of the Opposition spoke with vigour and effect ; the meeting was unanimous and enthusiastic, and his words were received with manifest confidence and approval. The tractical result of the gathering was that, though not without some spiritual distress, disestablishment must be accepted as a foregone conclusion. The fight on that ground is fairly given up. Whatever else the Irish Church may save out of the fire, it will not preserve its connection with the State. Thus, at the outset, more than half the campaign is over. The coming debate, then, will be, as we had anticipated, not an uncompromising battle between the two great parties in the State, but a House of Commons' discussion in which every member of the House may freely join. It would be idle to deny that if the Conservatives will frankly accept the bill in its principle, they must obtain a locus standi for their amend ments ; and should those amendments be urged in a spirit worthy of the crisis, because above the habitual panceuvring of faction, our opponents will find the Liberals giving to their suggestions a kindly and states. manlike consideration. The Herald says that two at least of its Liberal contem poraries have found out that Lord Stanley is not a Liberal after all; and one of them, with more courage than candotitpretends that it never intended to claim him as such. We need not concern ourselves with this les. ingenuotrsportion of what is a substantial retractation. It would be no more a waste of time and an insult to the understandings of our readers to argue that we are in the month of April, than it would be to adduce proofs of the notorious fact that ten days or a fortnight ago the entira Liberal press was busied in the endeavour to spread tha impression that the late Foreign Secretary was entirely of their way of thinking in politics, and that nothing but filial piety withheld him from improving their prospects by accepting the bait so often held out to him to supersede Lord Clarendon. But it is of some interest to note that the ingenious misrepresentation has already collapsed. No true Liberal, we are told, would think of claiming Lord Stanley after the Glasgow speech as a statesman whom he could with any satisfaction see acting in coalition with the present Government. According to Liberalism, all the preceding policy of the nation has consisted, to use Mr. Bright's phrase, of acts of sheer madness. According to Conservatism, it has been sometimes wise and some times unwise ; but even where it has been the latter, it has entailed certain consequences which we may modify, but cannot safely attempt to extirpate. This is avowedly Lord Stanley's view of things. One of our contemporaries says it does not matter what we call a man when we know what he is. It does not much matter to the man, hut it matters considerably to the reputation for good faith and good taste of those who call him what they know he is not. Sir Massey Lopes's question to Mr. Gladstone on the expediency of providing for the retirement of aged and invalided bishops suggests to the Times that it is certainly time that some public notice was taken of this subject. It has for some time been a topic of private remark, and the observations it prompts can hardly be to the advantage of the Church. At this moment the greater part of England south of the Thames is destitute of what Mr. Gladstone called " responsible Episcopal Government." There are tut two conclusions possible—either that the existing laws and customs of the Church expose hermembers to grievous injury, or else that bishops are of less importance to the spiritual welfare of their flocks than we are wont to suppose. Of the correctness of the former of these conclusions there can be no doubt. Sir Massey Lopes is one cf the members for Devonshire, and is pro bably aware from experience of the serious damage ieflicted upon the Church in the West Country by the Prolonged abeyance of episcopal superintendence. It is not merely, we fear, that the Bishop is not seen, but that he should Appear to cling to his office when he has long been incapable of performing its functions. But, after ad 7 mating all these considerations, it must still be remembered that bishops were made for the Church, and not the Chnrch for bishops ; and, in addition to the loss of episco pid superintendence, prelates in the position we are noticing expose both themselves and their Church to grave miscon ceptions. Something* ought to be done to facilitate, if not to rs Tare, the avoidance of bishoprics when their occupants become incapacitated. Mr. Gladstone observed on Thurs day night that it was a somewhat delicate thing for the ' Government to take the initiative in such a matter, and we are glad to under s t an d f rom his lanemage that the Bench of Bishops have the subject uncle; consideration. It is undoubtedly a matter which concerns them, their . ordei, - and their Church more nearly than anyone and they may he sure that it cannot be neglected with safety. The Government will be ready to concur in a y reasonable proposal, and, with the aid of the Ecclesiastical n Commissioners, it ought not to be difficult to dvise some arrangement which will render impossible for the future such a state of things as now exists in the Sonthem dioceses. ANOTHER AGRARIAN OUTRAGE. The Clonmel Chronicle reports another agrarian outrage. It states that as a farmer, named Corcoran, who lives at Glenpadden, near Cappaghwhite, was about to retire to rest a few nights ago, he heard footsteps in the yard in front of his house, and immediately two shots were dis charged in quick succession close to the window. He had been previously threatened, and was afraid to venture out to see who the parties were, but it is supposed that the possession of a farm which he holds has rendered him obnoxious to some of the law less spirits of the locality. The same journal mentions two cases to illustrate the difficulties of Irish landlords in the management of their property. In one, Mr. John Scully proceeded against a Mrs. Tobin, a tenant whom lie had been obliged to eject for non-payment of rent, after fcrgiving her two years' arrears, reducing her rent by more than one-third after her husband's death, so that it was much below Griffiths's valuation, and, finally, allowing nearly three years more to accumulate before proceeding to recover possession. He offered, even in the court, to give her a sum of £4O if she went out peaceably, but she obstinately refused to quit the land, although she is unable to farm it, and it is getting into bad condition. In another case one of the most indulgent landlords in the county offered to forgive all arrears to a tenant who was grossly neglecting the land, and to give him, besides, a sum of £3CO3 if he would give up peaceable possession, but he refuses. MURDER OF A GREEK SAILOR. Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an inquiry on Monday, at the Vestry Hall, Cable-street, St. George's, respecting the death of Nicholas John Camhurus, aged 24. Inspector Osborn watched the case on behalf of the Commissioner of Police. Constance Theopheny, 15, St. George's-street, a boarding-house keeper, said the deceased was a Greek sailor, who had been six weeks in England. On Friday, the 2nd instant, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, he was brought home to witness's house quite dead. Simon Sheppard, a cigar-maker, living in St. George's-street, said that on Friday night week he left his house to buy some oil, and while out he saw some Greek sailors running down the street, calling out, "Me no fight." He next saw two men run after the deceased, and knock him down. The two men then jumped upon him while he was lying upon the pavement, and one of them afterwards knelt down and caught hold of the deceased by the hair, and he pulled the head up off the curb on which it was lying, and dashed it against the stones. Edward Crosskies, said that on the Friday even ing he saw two men trying to rob some Greek sailors. The Greeks had a knife. The two men then attacked the deceased, and the other Greeks ran away. The two men then knocked the deceased down and jumped upon him. Dr. J. C. Budgett said that he saw the deceased shortly after death. There was an abrasion on the head. The face was swollen. The man's death bad been caused by injuries to the head and body. He had ascertained that fact from a pcst-mortem examination of the body. Police-constable Newman, 71 H, said that on Friday week evening, at 7 o'clock, he was told that some men were using knives. He went to St. George's street, where he found a large crowd about the body of the deceased. A person present stated that the Greek Government had offered £lOO reward for the apprehen sion of the murderer. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," and they requested the coroner to ask the Home Secretary to offer a reward for the apprehension of the murderers. The coroner said that he would do so. Both of the guilty men are said to be well known to the police, and will not lung escape detection. TERRIBLE SCENE IN A GAOL. The Chicago Tribune gives the particulars of a terrible scene which occurred on the ffith ult. in the Cook County Gaol. In one cell there were five young coloured men, named George Washington (No. 1), George Washington (No. 2), Benjamin Wilson, John Williams, and Charles Pile. They were accused of various crimes, ranging from burglary to petty larceny. In accordance with the rules, or in the absence of any rules, the prisoners were allowed to smoke. About three o'clock in the afternoon Pile lighted his pipe and threw the burning paper upon the bed, and the straw caught tire. His companions remonstrated with him, but he coolly remarked, "Let the damned gaol burn up." The bed soon presented a sheet of flame. The prisoners here generally deprive themselves of all clothing but their pantaloons. In this state were the inmates of cell No. 8. One of the George Washingtons made an effort to extinguish the flames, but of no avail, and soon joined with the rest in crying for help. Every thing combustible in the cell was on fire, and the inmates literally stood in the flame. Assistant-turnkey W. F. Rice was in the office at the time, and the moment the cries of the unfortunate prisoners reached his ears he hurried to their rescue. When he reached the door, the flames were rushing out between the bars, and it was with the utmost difficulty, not unaccompanied with danger, that the lock could be reached. While Mr. Rice worked about the lock, the prisoners set up fearful yells of agony and pain, and with might and main threw them selves against the bars in the vain endeavour to force them from their fastenings. Finally the door flew open, and out rushed the prisoners, wild, blistered, and with hair on fire. Nearly frantic with pain they rushed up and down the corridors howling piteously, and it was many minutes before they could be calmed sufficiently to accept aid. The tall George Washington was most severely burned. His entire body was one mass of open wounds, and in many places the flesh was fairly roasted. Wilson was badly burned about the back, shoulders, and face. Washington No. 2 the same. Charles Pile, the author of the catastrophe, fared a trifle better ; and John Williams, who had taken refuge under the bed. escaped with some comparatively slight burns about his hands and face. It was, however, feared that one, and perhaps three, might lose their lives. THREATENING LETTERS.—At the Irish uommis sion Court, on Monday, James Magill, a workman dis missed last year, was convicted of sending a threatening letter to the chairman of the Midland Railway, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The mother of Benjamin Higgs, late of the Great Central Gas Company, has just died—her death having been hastened, it is said, by her grief at the disgrace of her son. She was buried last Monday at Brightwaltham, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, where she and her husband kept a public-house, until they were induced by their son to leave and come up to London to live. SOCIAL SUPERSTITIONS.—That it betrays a vulgar mind to carry a parcel in the street, especially if it be wrapped up in a piece of newspaper. That if you are seen running, as though really in a hurry, you must cer tainly lose caste, and that nobody worth knowing will take notice of you afterwards. That something dreadful must happen if you leave your gloves at home, although the weather is so hot that you cannot bear to wear them. That if you are a lawyer you will lose all your best clients should you carry a blue bag, but nobody will be offended at your carrying a black one. THE LATE HUNTING CATASTROPHE IN YORK SHlRE.—lmmediately after the sad accident on the Ure which led to the death of Sir Charles Slingeby and other gentlemen, a movement was begun to erect a fitting monu ment to their memory. Already upwards of £l,OOO has been subscribed for the widow of the huntsman Orvis, and .£4OO for the families of the two Warriners, the ferrymen. As yet no step has been taken towards the general memo rial of those who perished on that fatal day beyond a general acquiescence in the necessity for such a monument. Instead of a pyramid or obelisk, however, a North Riding magistrate has this week put forth a proposal for a memo rial bridge across the Ure, which should at once per petuate the memory of the " last of the Slingabys" and his friends in death, and prevent the recurrence of any similar catastrophe. The cost will be great, but the funds are thought easy of reach. OUTRAGE BY A CONDEMN ED CRIMINAL UPON HIS WARDER. —The convict Charles Wiltshire, who was tried before Mr. Justice Hannen, at the recent Gloucester Assizes, for the murder, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's, and sentenced to death, committed a brutal outrage on Monday morn ing upon his warder, in the county gaol. Since his con viction the prisoner has shewn a quiet, tractable demeanour, and has listened with apparent profit to the exhortations of the prison chaplain. No violence being apprehended from him, he was placed in a room in the hospital, where, some years ago, Lewis Gough, a criminal under sentence of death, spent his last hours. Two warders took it by turns to keep him company, one by day and the other by night. Until late on Sunday night nothing occurred calculated to excite any suspicion that he meditated violence. As his usual hour for going to Ibed approached, he appeared somewhat disturbed, and when, towards one o'clock, his attendant, who is a sergeant on the South Gloucestershire Militia Staff, asked him if he did rot intend to lie down, he replied in the negative. Shortly afterwards he contrived to get, uuobser ved, behind the AY acder. and seizing a metal candlestick which was on the table, struck him a heavy blow on the back of the head with the bottom part of it Though partially stunned, the warder did not lose his presence of mind, but resolutely grappled with his assailant and raised an alarm. A night patrol happened to be near, and hearing an outcry he ran to tthe room, and the convict, who is a powerful fellow, was secured. The warder had sustained a severe scalp wound of some three inches in extent. Surgical aid was rendered, and no serious conse quences are likely to follow. The execution is fixed for Monday next. Meantime a memorial in favour of arespite of the prisoner has been numerouply signed. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1869, THE UNITED STATES AND CAA-ADA. (From the .Inglo-American Times.) Opinions in widest circulation are often the most erroneous ; for instance, many believe that Canada is the joint in England's coat of mail that the Re- ' public can at any time penetrate with the most deadly effect to the monarchy. It is the threat which America most delights to flourish, and which most makes England quail ; nevertheless, it is true, that, instead of being England's danger, it is America's danger, and the more dangerous because it makes so little threatening show. Instead, it lures ; offer ing a tempting bait, though as deceptive as a gaudy fly on a barbed hook. Canada conquered, would be Britain freed from an encumbering dependency ; but what would Canada conquered be to the United States? If the Union took forcible possession against the strenuous resistance of the Canadians, the chance would perhaps have passed away for ever of amalgamating the whole Northern Conti nent into one nation. The Northern States might drink a little more of the intoxicating draught of glory ; but at what a price ! The history of Ame rica could not then be written without stirring up in American bosoms feelings of irritation. The con quest of the South and the conquest of the North might read very pleasantly to the Middle States, but from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, from the St. Lawrence to the North Pole, that history would give but little satisfaotion. There ate Northerners who think the civil war a gigantic blunder, and there are more who believe it to ha►e been a neces sity only less fatal to the conquerors, than to the conquered. Its record can never be expunged, its memories never obliterated, and the day will come when the burden of Southern poetry will be to give vent in song to triumph in Southern victories, to wail over Southern subj ugation, and to mourn the memories of the leaders who fell in upholding the Southern cause. STONEWALL JACKSON is a name that will be heard oftener fifty years hence than now, and it may represent to the Southerners of that day, what WALLACE does to the Scotch. 'A more unwise thing could not be done in cool blood by any nation than deliberately to generate, beyond the St. Lawrence, the memories stamped into the soil south of the Potomac ; and if ever this fatal thing happens, the statesman has to be born who can undo the work. Those who, like the New York Times, glibly talk of conquering Canada, had better ponder this view of the question. Let Americans weigh all the cir cumstances, and see who would lose most in such a course of action. Our deliberate opinion is that the tempting bait of Canada's conquest is Ame rica's danger, not England's ; and that in retiring from the continent, with the towns and villages of Canada in flames behind her, England would leave to the United States one of the most fatal legacies ever wrung by one nation from another. We are among the believers in what is so often sneered at, as the " Manifest Destiny," but we base our belief on the virtue and good sense, in the main, of the American people. The hardest task ever undertaken is that before them. They must, indeed, have read history to little profit, who suppose that a con tinent can be built up and welded together as one nation, unless virtue, wisdom, and moderation pre vail. Clashing interests have grown, are growing, and will continue to grow. Localities may become the centres of extravagant demands and angry agi tation, and it will require an emblem of the Union, a national flag which speaks to the heart, to keep always in the American mind that, however distant from the place of go vernment, that however grievous may be their wrong, yet that the-y are but a part of a great nation to which it is their pride to bel ing, and whose history they all cherish. But, let wide terri tories regard with aversion that flag, and know that American history is to them but a record of their own subjugation, and the dragon's teeth are sown hereafter to rise in crops of armed men, and it will become almost impossible to fulfil the destiny it is the fond belief of so many, awaits the Republic. Canada wrenched from England is but the loss of prestige; and not much of that, for no one supposes that any European nation can fight the Republic on American soil without quickly coming to grief. The struggle would be on the water ; and there lies England's strength, for she could build and man ship for ship against the world combined, when thoroughly roused and driven to it. It is not, how ever, the chances of such a war that we here discuss, but the error so generally entertained in both coun tries, that the danger to England in its colony contrasts in such a conflict with the sure triumph of the Republic, for we feel certain that if the Canadians fight, it would be the most disastrous conquest ever achieved. Worse than Dead Sea fruit, it would dash from the lips the ravished cup when supposed to be filled ; while naturally, the luscious fruit would come in due time to those who honestly worked to gain it. Instead of advancing the real object of a genuine continental Union, it would erect before it a barrier almost insurmountable. Canada must drift into the Union by the attraction exerted by a mighty mass. But let America beware of conquest, for in attempting there to strike England, the recoil might have a shattering effect on the stability of the Republic itself. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. PRINCE ARTHUR AT TRINITY COLLEGE. Prince Arthur has had to meet political feeling in Ireland, and he seems to have looked on in simple amazement and wonder. He visited Trinity College, Dublin, on Saturday, and the students made the occasion one for displaying their hate of the policy of the Government. He was received by cheers and Kentish fire. The latter he could not understand ; and he seemsto have got still more uneasy, as, in reply to shouts of " Maynooth," the students began to groan vigorously. But his own name was received in every case -with favour. The Roman Catholic Freenzan's Journal would have it that he left abruptly on hearing groans called for Earl Spencer ; but the other papers make no mention of this cir cumstance, and all agree in stating that the name of the Countess was cheered to the echo. merely manufactured front cork. It would be easy enough, therefore, to manufacture a dozen out of as many wine corks. It is no use our barring up our eyes and saying such things could not occur at any respectable club. They did occur at a very first-rate club." No wonder that the Owl announces a tem porary suspension of ballots at one of the principal clubs until investigation had been made in order to ascertain how it is that so many candidates for election have come to grief of late. CAREER OF A BIGAMIS7. Cunningham, the bigamist, has been condemned to Sing Sing for five years. His real name is Clinton Wheeler. Although 53 years of age, with moustache and whiskers of fiery red, he has been the most successful " lady's man" of whom we have any record, which is mainly due to a suavity of manner, and an unbounded power of lying. When sentenced he declared he would marry another woman for every month of his confinement. He returned from California, where he spent 12 years, last summer, and pursued his professional swindling in the Astor House. Mr. Benson, of York-street, Jersey City, was his first victim ; his next was Mr. John Banter, whose daughter received a hasty pro posal of marriage, which the young lady, under the impression of enormous wealth, as hastily accepted ; but the wooer suddenly disappeared with a watch, a heap of money, and a box of clothing belonging to Mr. Banter, and a few of the neighbouring far mers also suffered. Mr. John Ward, of Morris town lost 400 dollars, when ha took a start from that neighbourhood to East Tarrytown, New York, where he adopted the name of Cunningham. He was very condescending to the farmers whom he visited, and Mr. Weimer's daughter took his fancy and he married her. On the next day Cunning ham left to complete his business for the purchase of some property in New York, but he went up the river to Ponghkeepsie. On board the steamer was a Miss Louisa Ameigh, to whom he proposed and was accepted before the journey ended. He went home with her, and they were married. She spread the fame of his wealth in every direction, and he availed himself of the credit it gave by getting all he could. Having turned every thing into money and secured all his wife's valuables, he proceeded without notice to pay a visit to Mr. Laird in Pleasant Valley, Ulster County. He had known that gentleman's son in California, and this was his passport, but Miss Laird, a sensible girl, rejected the offer he immediately made of his hand. In fact, his con duct excited suspicion, and it is clear the Lairds were not such confiding simpletons as his previous acquaintances. Ile had to escape at night with his booty in a carpet bag, toiling over the muddy country roads, but was captured before morning, and committed to the White Plains Gaol, and both his brides appeared against him. His full history would be a curiosity, if this short sample which has become known is anything like the rest. The.Ameriean Free Trade League proposes to give a series of lectures on the subject of free-trade iu all large cities and towns of the United States. Some of these lectures have already been delivered, and havo been listened to with marked attention. At Indianapolis, Indiana, an audience of a thousand persons was present. This method of presenting the respective merits of Free Trade and Protection is one of the best ways of informing the people of America upon this much-vexed question. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the word. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application , to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.(l—[Ad vc:rtisement. LORD POWERSCOURT. Lord Powerscourt's letter to the papers, assenting to Mr. Gladstone's policy on the Irish Church, seems to have created a great stir amongst the Orange men. Lord Roden, the grandfather of the defective politician, weeps publicly over his grandson's fall from his high estate. 'Writing to the Dublin Mail, the Earl of Roden most pathetically sets forth his sorrow. " How (he asks) can I describe my feelings at my grandson's (Lord Powerscourt) conduct towards me ? I got him into the House of Lords by interesting our Protestant peers to vote for him at a vacancy i n th e represen tative peerage, by which he succeeded to the seat he now fills, and in virtue of which he intends to vote for Mr. Gladstone's bill. Those peers whom I can vassed for him, and who at my request voted for him, naturally supposed that he held the same principles and opinions as mine, and which I was fully led to believe myself at the time. I can only say that I consider such conduct in this transaction as most ungrateful and disingenuous, coming in as he did to the representative peerage under false colours. And now he has the presumption to de s i gna t e as ' fire brands' those who are honestly, manfully, and con scientiously opposed to this measure of which he has become a champion. I only hope he will live to repent of his ingratitude towards one who has acted by him as a father, and has lost no opportunity of seeking his benefit." Could a lament by a father over a prodigal son be more affecting? SEEING THROUGH A MILLSTONE. . The Morning Advertiser says that " the following Lithe first visible fruit of the visit to Lady Herbert : Mi. Weld, a prominent Roman Catholic, of or from New Zealand, is appointed Governor of "Western Australia." The Advertiser is very clever at seeing through millstones, no journal more so, but our contemporary sometimes sees things which don't exist, a feat not surprising on the part of the organ of those who sometimes see double. In the first place, colonial appointments are not made by the Premier, but by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who happens to be Earl Granville. In the second place, Mr. Weld's claim to the post of Governor of Western Australia consists, not in his religion, but in his long and distinguished colonial services. In 1800 he was appointed Minister for Native Affairs in New Zealand; in 1804 he became Premier, and held that office until 1865, when he undertook to explore some of the uninhabited districts of the colony. lie is also the author of several valuable books, and is altogether a man far above the common. H e was born in 1823, and married a daughter of the seventh Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. Though a Roman Catholic, he as at least as suitable a man for a colonial governership as Mr. Ducane, or those other M.P.'s for whom Mr. Disraeli found places last year. THE POPE'S JUBILEE. The fiftieth anniversary of the Pope's celebration of his first mass was o b serve d on Sunday with considerable cerem on i a l i n mo st of the Roman Catholic churches. At Rome the Pope, who was in excellent health, celebrated, at seven a.m., low mass at the papal altar of St. Peter's, before an immense number of spectat ors, w h o are described as pro foundly moved. Th e P on tifi ca l Court, the diplo matic body, foreig n pr i nces, deputations from the communes and from f ore i gn dioceses were present. Among the enormous number of visitors who have entered Rome during the past few days is the eldest son of Gabriel Mastai: Ferretti, head of the Pope's family. After mass, a "Te Deum " was chanted, and the Pope then gave a blessing. After the service he breakfasted in the Sacristy of St. Peter's, the entertainment being furnished by th e Ch a pt e r. Out of doors the weather was magnifi cen t. The event has been celebrated by an amnesty which extends to political offenders. At Moorfields, Archbishop Manning preached.. He reviewed the clircer of the Pontiff. Referring to the events of two years ago, he said that, to the shame of Italy, the man who led them was regarded as a patriot. he prayed God to preserve England from such patriots. lie condemned the statesmen and diplomatists who had looked on so impassively while the Holy Father had thus been suffering and he added that no Catholic was opposed to a united Italy if based on the jurisdiction of the one Catholic Christian faith. But he had heard it from the lips of the Pope himself that he would never yield. Though it should cost him his life he would stand steadfast as a pillar of truth and justice amongst men. When the Governments stood aloof the hearts of the faithful drew near t) that good shepherd who, like his Great Master, "had compassion on the multitude." Viewing the career of Pius IX. in its internal aspects, he alluded to the fact that three times Pius IX. had gathered round him the chief pastors of the Catholic world in the bonds of brotherly love, and to the hearty cordiality with which the dogma of the Immaculate Conception bad been received by the Catholic world. He anticipated a similar success for the CEcumenical Council which was to assemble in December next. The Papacy was still powerful, he said, and the Pope had suffered exile, and was prepared, if necessary, to suffer it again, but not to bend or to betray. THE DURATION OF WAIL By constant repetition, the statement that future wars will be very short ones has come to be regarded as almost a truism. Railways enable troops to move faster, breechloaders enable them to fire faster, tele graphs transmit orders faster, and these expensive appliances force belligerents to spend money faster. And so, it i s arg ued, wars will be shorter. Mr. Lowe seems to have been convinced by the argument, and grounds an important provision of his kudget upon it. But is the assumption a sound one Colonel Ha mley, in a l e tter to the Times, says No. He admits that armies in future will come into contact quicker, but he thinks that the knowl e dge of the great engines of destruction y will mak e commanders cautious, and their movements tedious. There were well as in more recent times. will make commanders abort tiho warsuws 1 will a nfcodormi formerly h e eeri lr i y n t a o s pla The American War contained all the elements of long marches and drawn-out operations ; and the Colonel is of opinion that when the imminent con flict between France and Prussia takes place, modern appliances will not make it necessarily a short campaign. THE CAPTURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA. The discussion on the question whether it is advisable to alter the international law allowing an enemy during war to capture private property at sea, is renewed by Lord Hobart in the Times. His lordship gives his opinion in the affirmative. He rejects as untenable the argument that war should be made as disagreeable as possible • for, admitting that, the shooting of women and children and the torture of prisoners must be allowed. The " disagreeable ' must, therefore, be a question of degree. The degree has already been narrowed by the prevention of the capture of private a neutral vessel to carry p r i v ate goods. Why, then p aa r k o s pe t r h t e y n o o n bl l e ald lord, i, and still more by the allowing of shall not the whole doctrine of th e immunity of pri va t e pro perty be at once laid down ? It is said that the goods are, so to speak, the sinews of war. But much more does this apply to men ; yet men not under arms are not captured. And, if carried to an ex t reme , the theory would lead to the punishment of a ll w ho, by supplying food to the belligerent na ti on , give them the succour whereby they are capable of bearing arms, which, his lordship implie s , i s an a b s urdity. Consistency requires, he declares, that the capture of private property should be disallowed. THE WEATHER. One of those sudden waves of heat" which meteorologists have so often noticed in April of late years has now come upon us. We have all at once passed out of the meteorological region of frosts and biting east wind to a midsummer temperature, cloudless sky, and b a l my b re ezes. On Sunday the London thermometers in the shade rose above 70 degs. Yesterday morning they were above GO at eight o'clock, and before ten the temperature in the sun was 90. The effect of this sudden accession of heat upon vegetation is marvellous. The trees in the parks, which had remained in mu c h th e same con dition as they were in the first half of F e b ruary , have leaped into new life, and the tints are as b r illi a nt as they are in autumn. In fact, th e p rogress of vegetation during the last few hours has been of almost Norwe g ian rapidity. A weath er p rop h e t h a s predicted that we shall have thunderstorms for sonic time, and that alternate fits of cold and heat will visit us till about the 24th or 2;jth May, "when we shall probably settle down into a summer similar to that of last year." Me genoito. 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The building was of the hideous kind common in the days of the " pious and immortal" From the Danes it passed into the hands of a sect which had for its founder the eccentric "Boatswain Smith." After bim it passed into the hands of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, who called it " The Sailors' Church," a title it used to bear somewhat ostentatiously some thirty or forty years ago on a board which surmounted the parapet from east to west. More recently the Church was used by the Rev. Mr. Lowder, and the other priests of " St. George's Mission," as a missionary chapel or church, until a more permanent and suitable edifice should be built. The lower part of the wall on the north and south sides is now all that is lett standing, and as soon as the work of demolition is completed, the site, which forms a little imperipm in imperio, an enclosure within the garden of the square, will be devoted to the erection of some schools in connexion with St. George's Mission. The house in the square in which the schools have hitherto been held is noteworthy as having been the birthplace - of Thomas Day, the amiable but eccentric author of " Sandford and Merton," and in the church or churchyard was a memorial of " Colley Cibber." WHAT DOES IT MEAN. The following advertisement appears in the " agony column" of the Times :—" All persons affected by statements in Lord Campbell's ' Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham,' and interested in the pure administration of public justice, are re quested to favour Miss Ralston Shedclen by commu nication immediately, by letter, with her at 259, Vauxhall-bridge-road, S.W. ; or under cover to Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, Ely-place, Hol born, E.C." This, no doubt, is the indefatigable Miss Shedden who has so often tried th e pa ti ence o f our judges. But what is she going to do ? Appa rently she is about to bring an action against some body, perhaps the ghost of Lord Chancellor Campbell. FOREIGN NOTES. OUR NEW INDIAN POLICY. The Amen: of Affghanistan has met with a splendid reception during his visit to India. "Everything that could be thought of " was done in honour of this potentate as he passed through the various cities, from Peshawur, on the extreme Punjab frontier, to Umballa. At Peshawur ho first saw a review of British troops, and heard the roar of British cannon ; but, much as he admired brecchloading Armstrongs, he did not see his way to introduce them into his kingdom, on account of the difficulty about procuring suitable ammunition. He also had himself photographed, and is said to have gone to a tailor and ordered English costume for all his follower=. This last action seems to have caused some little tremor. What if his Highness's retinue should discard the garb of Affghanistan for the prosaic English costume before reach lug Umballa? Sheer Ali is represented as a fine, hand some man of middle age, affable in conversation, and speaking Hindostani fluently. Whilst at Peshawur be wondered that the English could fight and rough it as well as Affghans, and yet surround themselves with com forts and luxuries at home. The mail left just before the meeting of Lord Mayo and the Ameer at Umballa-1,154 miles from Calcutta— and therefore no details of the interesting occurrence have arrived. We are told, however, that the preparations were on a magnificent scale. The new policy of friend ship or alliance with Affghanistan was to be inaugurated in a befitting manner. Money was no object. Festive preparations had already cost about £50,000, and the Bombay Ca:ctte imagined that a few more lakhs of rupees might safely be counted on. The Ameer had brought splendid presents from Aflgbanistan, and was, of course, to receive magnificent gifts in return. These havelmen prepared in Calcutta.; and, according to the Times correspondent, " are to be borne on fifty-one trays, containing the finest Cashmere shawls, richly jewelled arms, cloth of gold, such as only Benares can produce, embroidery, jewels, and Arab horses." As we are led to suppose that the Arab horses will be borne on trays the sight will be worth seeing. The Indian Government has clearly determined to express in the most unmistakeable manner its sense of the importance of the new policy, THE SPANISH CROWN. Not only has Dom Fernando decisively rejected the crown of Spain, but he seems to have taken special pleasure in making his refusal as brusque as possible. It is not pleasant for a nation to have the offer of its crown thrown in its face, and the Spaniards are naturally very wroth with the Portuguese prince. Amongst the people the excitement is intense. For the Government, the blunder threatens to end seriously. The Etendard con fidently asserted, in fact, that a Bourbon restoration was talked of. Queen Isabella's son was to become king,witha regency. The Liberte, however, denies all this. More than everisarestorationofthefallendynastyimpossible. But the situation is not the less grave. There is a general outcry against offering the crown to any foreign prince after this humiliating rejection. There are no signs that it is likely to be offered to the Duke of Montpensier, who would certainly accept it, and the Liberte thinks a republic looms in the distance. CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. The session of Congress terminated on Saturday. The House of Representatives, by the large majority of 98 to 25, has declared the sympathy of the nation with the Cuban insurgents, and has promised its support to the President whenever he shall think it right to recognise their independence. The House of Representatives inay congratulate itself upon having deliberately done an act of incomparable political impudence. It is, indeed, by no means uncommon for nations to sympathise with rebellion in other countries, and yet resent all sympathy with rebellion in their own. The English are by no means guiltless of this inconsistency. But to complain of our recognitiOn of Confederate belligerency as a wrong for which atonement is all but impossible, to refuse liberal concessions on our part because they are not sufficiently servile, and yet to express sympathy with Cuba whilst declaring that our implied sympathy with the South is irreparable. is without parallel. The Alabama treaty has not been considered. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The Moniteur states that the news from llavann% is decidedly bad. The Spanish troops occupy the cities, and the sea-coast ; but the insurrection prevails throughout the interior. General Dulce wants more cavalry and artillery. It is believed that he will be replaced, and that a third general, Caballero do itodas, will try his fortune. Some doubt has been recently expressed touch ing the real magnitude of this revolt in Cuba ; but it is clear that the rising, even if not so successful as the onitiur alleges, is yet of a very serious character. THE BELGIAN RAILWAY DIFFICULTY. The official journals of Paris announce the speedy return of M. Frbre-Orban to Brussels. Unfortunately, however, he is not about to leave Paris because his business is finished. He has been unable to come to terms with the French Government, and be is about to return to Brussels, says the Temps, to consult with his sovereign respecting this yet unsolved problem. The position remains unal tered. The French Government desires the ratification of the conventions with the East of France Company ; the Belgian Government still declines to concede so THE" SATURDAY REVIEW" ON AMERICA (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Saturday Review is remarkable for the bit terness with which it writes on America. The cause less hatred of America towards England is gene rally dwelt on in any article on the United States. Of course, those who rely on what it writes believe that all Americans hate England, and desire that na- tion's humiliation, for which no effortof the Republic would be wanting if the opportunity offered. Per haps no one in England reads the American press more than the editor of this paper ; it is his busi ness to do so; and it is not for mere pleasure that he wades through journals falling thickly around him as snow flakes in a winter's storm. This read ing is certainly in a measure confined to leading American papers as it is to leading English papers, and he has no hesitation is asserting that, with the exception perhaps of the New York Herald, the bitterness of dislike expressed by the Saturday Re view and the Pall Mall Gazette for America has but few parallels, on the other side of the Atlantic, to wards England. Both these London papers are said to represent the same class, and the only con clusion at which Americans can arrive is that this class is most inimical to their country. The untruth of the statement, however, so constantly repeated by the Saturday Review, would be at once seen if its readers had the opportunity of looking through files of American papers, or if they paid a visit to the country, That there is a good deal of national jealousy we admit ; that there is considerable sore ness about England's conduct during the war is true ; but that Americans so hate England and ear nestly desire her humiliation, as represented by the Saturday Review, is false. We wish we could be lieve the statement was equally false that that sec tion of English society which supports the Saturday heview hates the Republic, but we fear it is unde niably true that this dislike exists. The Saturday Review is not unlike the drunken man who asserts that his companion is intoxicated. Hating the Republic itself, and writing for those who hate it, it never ceases to declare the hatred of America towards England. What is the motive ?—for although its readers may not know, the Review can scarcely fail to know the falseness of these assertions. Americans oppose to the death oligarchies, and the Government of England was once that of an oli garchy, a form it has been but slowly losing ; hence it was natural for a Government of the people to oppose the Government of a class. Bath the Revolutionary war, and that which followed in 1812, were the work of this oligarchy. The people control now ; and, worse still, the Republic has been steadily " Americanizing" England, a word which makes the hair of an old Tory curl with horror, though a propagandism connected rather with love than with hatred ; but the ideas of the Republic are even more difficult to combat than its arms, and it is not sur prising that those who see their class privileges invaded should hate the country whenc3 emanate these re volutionarydoctrines, not in a merely political way, but socially. We can then perceive why the Saturday Review and its readers should bitterly dislike Ame rica, should jeer at it, misrepresent it, and endea vour to sow the se•As of dissension. It may dis cuss it as unfashionable ; something vulgar, illite rate ; gross in manner, in taste ; grotesque, when it apes gentility, and endeavours to spend the money it has accumulated in " shoddy contracts, and in striking 'ile." But it must be gall and worm wood to perceive how ineffectual such efforts are. The Republic is walking out of the rank of first-class powers with a swiftness that appals them ; and they scarcely know whether to com bine against it, or to fall down on their knees to ask its forgiveness, and alliance. With the spite is mixed this dread in the Saturday Review class, which make a strange combination. We desire em phatlcally to deny that the Republic hates Eng land ; the aversion of native Americans is much more towards Ireland. Politically, they may sup port the Irish in their demand for redress of griev ances, and may talk in a strain of highfaluten, about " our Irish fellow-citizens ;" but socially England is regarded with respect, in the hearts of many, even with love and veneration ; and to old New England families it must be painful to. read the untruthful assertions of the Saturday Review. much JOHN LATHROP _MOTLEY. Mr.• REVERDY JOHNSON has publicly announced his resignation. 44 Eight or ten days ago," said his Excellency, in a graceful and becoming speech, " I sent it to Washington ; and I will shortly return home, never again to s ee my many k i nd onle friends on pe r t h h a i p s s n side e t v he ocean." He expressed a warm wish for the diplomatic success of the next Minister, a gentleman of great talent and literary fame. In a few words, he replied to some ill-mannered re marks of the Imes, and we congratulate Mr. JOHNSON that that journal has swung round the circle, and now fires its bolts at instead of soft sawdering him; and we only hope that Mr. MOTLEY may not have the bad luck of being patronised by Printing-house-square. No American Minister could have a worse introduction to his fellow citizens ; indeed he must be strong in their affec tions and respect to withstand the laudation of the 7 Ines. The latest news by mail from America spoke of Mr. MOTLEY'S nomination as certain. Many weeks ago information was given to us through a re liable source, that it would be so, as that gentle man was backed by the influence of Senator Su3r- NER, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who, since the retirement of Mr. SEWARD, is all powerful in these matters at Washington. JOHN LATHROP MOTLEY, of Massachusetts, was born on the 15th April, 1814. He graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and proceeded thence to Europe, where he travelled extensively. The first book he published appeared in 1839, and gave a graphic and amusing sketch of German society. His talents were shown so conspicuously as to attract the attention of DANIEL WEBSTER, then Secretary of State, who appointed him Secretary to the American Legation at St. Petersburgh. On his return to the United States he devoted himself to literature, and be became a regular contributor to the North Ame rican Review, and a writer of fiction. It was dur ing this period that he matured the idea of his great work, to accomplish which he recrossed the Atlantic in 1851, and took up his residence at Dresden. There he diligently commenced the col lection of materials, but it was not till 1856 that the first part came out, entitled the " History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic." Four years later it was followed by the " History of the United Netherlands," works which placed the name of MOTLEY on a firm pedestal as an historian. The year following, that is in 1861, be was selected by Mr. LINCOLN for the Embassy to Austria, where he was well received as his literary fame was then widely known, though the Hon. ANSON ButzuNGAME bad been rejected by the EMPEROR on account of the sympathy he had formerly expressed for the pa triots of the Hungarian revolt. The world is faith liar with the extraordinary way in which Mr. MOTLEY left that post, but it is too amusing to emit this portion of his career. A man, who de scribed himself as of New York, and called him self GEORGE W. M'CRACKEN, after spending the early part of 1866 in European travel, wrote from the hotel Meurice, Paris, a letter to the PRESIDENT, giving a full report on the American Diplomatic Missions to European nations. The insolence of this proceeding was only excelled by the manner in which it was transacted. He commenced by telling the PRESIDENT how hostile to him were the majority of the Ministers and Consuls, more especially of the New Englanders, a very indifferent set collectively and individually, who furnished most. " Mr.MOT LEY does no t p re t en d t o con ceal 4 his disgust, ' as he styles it elegantly, at your whole conduct. Having been appointed exclusively by CHARLES SU3INER he applauds him and his revolutionary doctrines, de spises American Democracy, and proclaims loudly that an English nobleman is the model of human perfection. There is not in all Europe a more thorough flunkey or a more un-American function ary. He tells every traveller that SUMNER is en tirely justified, and that you have deserted your pledges and principles in common with Mr. SE WARD, who, he says, is hopelessly degraded." This was but mild abuse to what Mr. M`CRACKEN . launched at other Ministers and some Consuls. Yet the PRESIDENT was so ill-advised by SEWARD (we suppose) as not only to read this production, but 50 to notice it as to demand explanations from those whose conduct it impugned ! Mr. MOTLEY, in in tense disgust, resigned, but the Senate, annoyed at the PRESIDENT'S folly, would not sanction a succes sor, and one of the reasons for tying up Mr. JOHN SON'S hands was furnished by this incident. it was more than a year afterwards before Mr. WELL;, the present Minister, was confirmed. A glance at Mr. MoTLEY'sdiplomatic correspondence, at hisspeecbes, and at his conduct through life, refutes Mr. M'CRACKEN'S assertions. If JOHN LATHROP MOT LEY be not a genuine American, we do not know who is ; and the two other men with whom Mr. - M‘GuAcKEN associated the Minister are of the same type--CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS and ANSON BUR LINGA3IE. Mr. MOTLEY has written too much for the wor:d not to be aware of opinions expressed so distinctly and in such terse language. For instance, it may be taken for granted that he advocates Free Trade. On the 23d October, 1864, he said in one of his despatches from Vienna, " There is a strong party in Austria who believe that the old system of exclusive tariffs, and of what it is the fashion in many parts of the world to call protec tion of native industry—that is to say, taxation of the mass of consumers of a country for the benefit, not of the National Treasury, but of a certain class of producers—is an error, and a veil expensive one. But the production of beet-root, sugar, and native tobacco, of spirits, wines, which could be purchased far more cheaply and of better quality in foreign countries, has been immensely stimulated by Protection, and the class interested are too powerful not to oppose with success any sacrifice of their vested interests." His despatches abound with paragraphs showing how grossly mis informed M'CRACKEN was. The man who "de spises American Democracy" says, " In Europe•to be powerful is to be venerated ; to be weak is to be trampled upon ; therefore, the public opinion of Europe is, and ought to be, of comparative indif ference to us." Again, " I may be over-sanguine, but a doubt has not yet crossed my mind that the American Republic based upon Constitutional law, popular self-government, and the great principles of reason and justice, will suppress an insurrection made for the perpetuation and extension of African slavery, and of the abrogation of the first principles of freedom; I expect as much to see the sun set at noonday as to witness the destruction of our noble Commonwealth and its dismemberment into a jarring, warring Europe, without the historical excuses of Europe." In another despatch he says, " A contemplation of European politics leads u s to the sincere prayer that America may never be Europeanized." No one could read his letters with out feeling the impression that here is a man who believes in the " Manifest Destiny." He does not express it, neither speaking nor ;writing spread eagleism; but the idea is not the less conveyed, and this is he who "despises American Democracy." Nor is the charge of his thorough flunkeyism less re futed by these despatches; but it must be recollected that we are not defending Mr. MOTLEY from Mr. Al'enAcKEN's ridiculous attack, but using it as a means for conveying to our English readers some idea of the new Minister. In alluding to European sentiment regarding the war he wrote, " The opinions held by the influential minority are manu factured for them by their public preceptors, who make up what is called the public opinion of Europe. Now there was a time when this tribunal was regarded by us almost with reverence. That day is, I trust, gone for ever in regard to American affairs. The result of a final analysis of that opinion is simply this : It is desirable that the great Arne' can Democratic Republic should be destroyed ; an energetic and admirably organized insurrection 1 5 attempting its destruction, therefore that insurrec tion should be encouraged in every possible way." Again, " The thinkers of Europe, so far as I know, without a solitary exception, and the labouring classes, wish success to the American Republic. The dominant classes, with individual and illus trious exceptions, together with the idlers, who are unwilling or unable to form opinions for themselves, desire the success of those who are attempting its destruction." lie remarks bitterly on the opinion prevailing in the upper classes, and con trasts their ignorance and prejudice with the more truthful and generous sentiments of the great un• represented, voiceless mass of humanity, the toil ing millions whose plrt in life, according to the European scheme, which he often condemns, is to be governed and to hew wood and draw water for thole who govern. 7n his despatch, No. 36, Oct. 5, 1863, he pays this generous tribute to the Eng:ish masses " The heroic attitude of the working classes of Eng' land, steadily withstanding the acts and misrepre sentations of demagogues, will ever be cherished as a manifestation scarcely less sublime than the heroism with which Americans of all classes have been ready to lay down their lives that their own country might live ; nor shall we ever forget that the journalists who have defended our cause among a host of enemies have been unsurpassed in the whole history of the periodical press, for know ledge, ability, and nobility of sentiment ; that some of the most eloquent and honoured public men of England have spoken words which have echoed in every American heart, and that the loftiest and most earnest thinkers, both of England and of the Continent, the true and permanent guides of public thought, with scarce an exception, have expressed themselves, in regard to the great revolution now going on in America, with a wisdom, and breadth Of vision, that do honour to the age." Mr. MOTLEY received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford ; and he is well known to the literary men of England, in the libraries of which country much of his researches were made. The appointment will be as well received in America as here, for Mr. MOTLEY is a genuine represented tive, and long and strongly attached to that party now all dominantlin the Republic. —Anglo-Anieri can 2 intes. DEATH OF EDWARD BATES.—This well-know o statesman expired at St. Louis on Thursday, March 25 aged 75. He was born in Goochland County, VirginiAt Sept. 4, 1793, and remained comparatively unknown be' yond the State of Missouri, whither he had emigrated , till 1847, when he was appointed delegate to an In' ternal Improvement Convention held at Chicago, whorl the talents he displayed brought him into public notice• In 1850 Mr. Fillmore offered him the post of Secretary of War, but he declined it ; and in 1860 was a prominent candidate for the Presidency. On the first ballot the vote stood :—For Seward, 1731 ; for Lincoln, 102 ; for Simon Cameron, 501 ; for Salmon P. Chase, 49 ; and for Edward Bates, 48. On the seeond ballot Mr' Bates had 35, and on the third 22, his strength gradually going over to Mr. Lincoln. After his election, President Lincoln selected Edwin Bates for Attorney-General, which post he resigned in 1E64, when he retired into private life at St. Louis, whence he never after emerged into actitte politics. A flying machine, it is announced, has recentlf been invented by a citizen of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania/ and the model is said to exhibit groat ingenuity. The wings are 15 feet in length each, and together will cover 900 square feet of sui face. General Samuel Fessenden has died at Portland+ Maine, at the age of about 85 years. He had been eminent as a lawyer, citizen, Mason, and politician, and was once grand master of the Masonic fraternity in Maine. 11 e leaves a largo family of descendant; many of whom at° distinguished in tho public service, Senator Fessendei l being his eldest son. Births. - - BOND— On the 10th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Erati mus Bond, Esq., of a son. ST. ALBANs--On the 11th inst., at St. James's Palace, th? Duchess of St. Albans, of a daughter. Marriages. DI CKINSON—RoosE—On the 7th of April, at All Saints ' Church, Kensington, by the Rev. J. Light, M.A. (Vicar) , Lieutenant B. Percy Dickinson, R.N., to Bessie de Montmorency, daughter of John C. Roose, Esl., al l granddaughter of the late Sir David Charles Roose. SMITH —AxcELL— On the 10th inst., at Camberwell, Philip Basden Smith, Esq., of the Admiralty, to Emma Ade . : laid°, eld es t d aug h ter of Henry Ancell, Esq., of 010'0 miralty. Deaths. 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