The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

TILE EMPI;I2OI2 NAPOLEON. The Tablet receives from a correspondent a new theory as to the health of the Emperor. The Imperial rheumatism and local affection, it says, " have been compli cated by a disturbance of the nervous system, connected with his Majesty's long-continued idea of his own destiny, and giving rise to a temporary prostration of strength. The Emperor has said more than once that no attack, whether of open foe or secret conspirator, could harm him before his mission was accomplished. His mis sion was to save Trance from the Republicans and to lead her through Imperial autocracy to liberty under the con stitutional dynasty of the Napoleons. The reforms just adopted appear to be the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of this mission ; and to a nervons temperament, coupled with an habitual tendency towards peculiar fatalism, the coincidence of a painful indisposition with the Apparent accomplishment of the destined mission,' may possibly have been as dangerous as our informant has heard." THE DARTMOOR ORDNANCE COMMITTEE --4 P .--- An evening contemporary, without affecting any superior knowledge, anticipates the report of the Dartmoor Ordnance Committee. "As yet nothing has leaked out as to its contents, though it is to be presented next week; but those who have watched the experiments, and who subsequently have attentively considered the re sults, cannot fail to arrive at the very conclusions that probably will close the report. The shrap nel-shell, although it has certain disadvantages, and is comparatively expensive, has proved itself a very formidable projectile at troops in a skirmishing or extended order, and it is probable, therefore, that the committee will recommend its partial adoption." Our contemporary would welcome a recommendation of this kind, provided that segm ent-shels formed the larger proportion of the ammunition carried in the limber-boxes. Thus, a proportion of two shrap nel to three segment would probably meet all the requirements of service : the former to be used exclu sively with time-fuses, the latter with concussion-fuses alone. With regard to the field-service-fuses, there can hardly be any difference of opinion. The metal time fuse, known as the E pattern, must sooner or later be withdrawn from the service to give place to Boxer's wood time-fuse ; nobody therefore need be astonished if the committee report in this sense. With reference to the concussion-fuses, it must be adelitted that they are by no means all that could be desired, and the committee might safely recommend their withdrawal, provided there is any likelihood of a substitute being found. Although not strictly within their province we may expect some allusion to the great superiority of the 12-pounder gun over the 9-pounder. The latter forms the armament of the Horse Artillery at present ; and although we by no means wish to reduce the mobility of that useful branch of the service, we demur to the continued employment of a gun so vastly inferior to one from which it only differs by two cwt. If the com mittee, therefore, should recommend the substitution of 12-pounders for 9-pounders, we shall not pity the Horse Brigade. In one of the rcorns of the Birmingham Odd Fel lows' Hall some workmen ripping up the floor found on Thursday the skeleton of a child wrapped in a newspaper fated 1857, and supposed to have been hid for 12 years. No less than six inquests were held on Thursday in Bristol. Four of the deceased persons were drowned, one hanged himself, and one died from the effects of burning. There was another body awaiting the coroner, but the in quest, owing to the want of time, had to be deferred. An application was made to Mr. Baron Clcasby yesterday in the matter of the Duke of Newcastle, with the object of removing from his grace's mansion, in Carlton house-terrace, the man in possession, at the instance of the executing creditor. The case was adjourned. A special telegram from Philadelphia gives a few details of the heavy gale which occurred at Boston on Wednosdsy evening. The Colosseum was partially de stroyed, several buildings injured, and steeples blown down. One man was killed. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. The Law limes says the recent extension of the municipal franchise to single women duly qualified will make very consideralle additions to the burgess list in the boroughs. In one borough of 17,000 inhabitants an addition of 300 is anticipated, and in another no less than 750. It has been placed beyond doubt by dirtct ex peliment in the persons of three enterprising pathologists, M.M. Hartwig, Villain, and Mann, that milk from a cow affected with " foot and mouth disease," con taminates the human subject, and will even produce an eruption like that which appears on the animal. At the annual general scesion for the county of Lancaster on Thursday, it was stated th .t during the past year, whilst the increase in the :.dult crime of the country has ben, 9 per cent., the increase in the county of Lancaster has been 29 per cent. And, with regard to juvenile crime, whilst the increase elsewhere has been -1•6 per cent., in that county it has been 20.7 per cent. The death is announced of Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes, K.C.B. He was born in 1796, entered the navy in 1810, became captain in 1828, and subsequently be came vice• admiral and admiral. At the battle of Navarino, in 1827, he greatly distinguished himself. He was mnde K.C.B. in 1860, and was a knight of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece. Admiral Baynes was married, in 1846, to the Hon. Frances Denman, daughter of the first Baron Denman. On Thursday, at the Swansea Police-court, Mr. Stirk applied for a warrantfor the apprehension, on a charge of embezzlement, of Joseph Lewis Smith, cashier, at Swansea, to Messrs. Ind, Coope and Co., brewers, of Burton-on-Trent. proved that the accused had received sums amounting to £3O during the month of July, which sum ho had not entered in the cash book till the 13th of August, when wax taxed with the irregularity. Mr. J. J. Close deposed to the facts, and a warrant was issued, but it is believed th Smith has left the country. ANTIQUITY OF PINS. —Anotlia• illusion of these later times has just been dissipated. The moderns rancied they had invented pins, which, it appears, were known and very well made more than 3,000 years ago. The proof is that twenty-five of them have just been placed in the Louvre, Muse Charles X., in a glass case before the door of the ceramic collec tion of Napoleon 111. They were found by M. Blariette in the subterranean vaults of Thebes. —Ent? A cte. BLUE -BOOKS AND RED -BOOKS. Whatever may be asserted to the contrary, the Austrian Red-books are cot an imitation of the English Blue-books ; they are only a parody of them. They have a closer affinity to our Yellow -books and the Italian Green-books, injenious col lections of despatches often selected ad hoc and always presented to the public with the view of producing a special effect; less intended to elucidate facts than to exercise a certain influence on public opinion ; not pub lished to reveal the truth, but to darken and falsify it. The English Blue-book, on the contrary, is a complete repertory of diplomatic documents ; it is essentially " a book of truth." If speech has been given to man to con ceal his thoughts, it may be said that Yellow and Red books have been invented to express the contrary of what their editors believe. In this point of view, if they offer Governments certain advantages, they are accom panied by serious inconveniences, and the most grave is that of rendering a Cabinet responsible for what it publishes as well as for what it suppresses. Count Beust must have often felt this danger. How often has he been asked, "Why do you openly display this and carefully hide that document? Is that frankness, is that honesty? And since you make a choice, why do you select precisely the papers most capable of wounding, if you have no in. tention of doing mischief ?n—Revue Contonvoraine. A London contemporary publishes a ridiculous letter, written by a soldier, late a private of a Dragoon regiment, from New York to his old captain, which it heads, " Our American Cousins." Perhaps the editor will explain what the connection is between a drunken English Dragoon and our American Cousins ; but perhaps the man says, who sold his shirts, as fast as they were issued to him, for drink, is not only to the Army and ..Vary Gazette graphic, but reliable. He got employment in the Tribune's office as a compositor, and he tells his Cap tain that Horace Greeley is the editor and proprietor \Ve would not tell Horace Greeley about the English Dragoon were it not that he announces an intention to proceed to California, carrying, as lie boasts, a good trails in his hands. "Captain," says this lively corres pondent, " this country is clean played out ;" indeed well it might be, if his words were true that mils; s yon whipped o it your revolve and shot your man on the first symp tom of a quarrel you ar sore to b shot yourself. Indeed it is represented by the British Dragoon that our Ameri can C011i;113 in New York proeeeil dawn the trvets with a revolver in each hand, blazing away as they go, and the surprise is that any of them are left; though it is not supris log that all left are majors, colonels, and the like. He was introduced as a British soldier, and to the question of rank and regiment answered—" Major, in the hilt Light Dra goons." We would argue from this that he had served in the 13th Hussars; but lie could not see why he should not dub himself Majo: as well as a crowd of those he was going to meet the night he wrote. What.3ver might be the smount of his valour, he shows discretion, for he closed with the observation, " but I never lend them a cent." The letter is decidedly more amusing than instructive. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplou,gn's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or bilitry affections. Pleasant, palatable, and invigor.aing. hold by al Chemists.—[Advt.], .2111SCELLAIVEOUS NET NEW THE PREMIER. Mr. Gladstone, now sojourning at Raby astle, has deferred his proposed visit to Whitby, and has been represented at that borough by Mrs. Gladstone, with her son and daughter. An address has been presented to the wife of the Premier by the Working Mens'Society and the Registration Society of Whitby. These joint bodies congratulated the head of the Government on the success of his administration, with, of course, special reference to the Irish Church Act. The constituents of the Premier's son hope to be speedily favoured with a personal visit. The corporation of Clonmel, in Tipperary, nave drawn up their address also. It deals more with the future than the past. The alder men and councillors are thankful for the Irish Church Act, but they are likewise impressed with the necessity for a settlement of the relations between landlord and tenant. "An equitable Land Bill, upon the basis of tenure at a fair rent, with compen sation for unexhausted improvements, would be hailed with gratification." THE ILECTION COMMISSIONS. The mean trickery, chicanery, and fraud which prevailed at Bridgwater among men holding them selves to be above such petty ac:e almost challenges belief. The worst feature of the case is that those who indulged in small deeds of knavery do not seem to feel they were doing anything so very wrong. It was election time, they urge, when strayings from the straight path of moral rectiiude are not merely excusable, they are " almost necessary." Mr. Vanderbyl appears to have been pushed into corrupt practices. For some time he held out that the election should be purely conducted, but he was sneered at, argued with, and told plainly he would be certain to lose the day. Ile complained to a deputation that the lawyers wanted his money and were pressing him hardly for it. Ile had pro mised Mrs. Vanderbyl that he would not bribe ; and he did not intend to break his pledge. The announce ment was received with a contemptuous' whisper of " humbug:" the witnesses cannot agree upon the phrase used; the term expresses the meaning. What a pity he was not strong enough to hold out against the tempters ! The same feature of disregard of strict upright ness of moral conduct is too plainly nromirent alma ati neveriey. There, even overt acts of bribery are regarded as mere trifles—nothing to be ashamed of. A farmer who spent £f in getting votes held himself up as a grand example of incorruptible purity. "It would be a good thing (he i nnocen tly declared) if there wer e more p eo pl e lik e me i n B ever l e y. 'early all the witnesses speak of the borough as " disgracefully corrupt." They nearly as unani mously attribute its misfortunes to the " influential people." Certainly the pasture-masters—the " big men" of the town—do not set a good example in first swearing solemnly that they will impartially administer their offices, and then using their whole influence in the moat unblushing favouritism, for tho sake of their own political party. Sir Henry Ed;vards decidedly objects to have more sins attributed to him than those of which he is guilty, and he has addressed a letter to the Beverley Royal Commissioners, saying that he is not so bad as the witnesses would make him to be. The Commissioners have seemed ready to regard the money used in bribery as his. Sir Henry writes : " I protest against this, and mo,t emphatically deny that the money came directly or indirectly from myself or Captain Kennard, as we both stated in our sworn evidence before Mr. Baron Martin. You will at your pleasure have an opportunity of examining me in person, when I shall be completely in your power. Until then, therefore, or until there is evidence to warrant the Commissioners in thus using my name, I hope you will refrain from so doing." CIIURCII RECONSTRUCTION IN IRELAND. The second sitting of the Down and Connor Diocesan Synod has been mainly occupied with the re presentation of the laity in the General Synod of the Church. The churchmen of this diocese think it very undesirable that a district of a few inhabitants should claim as many representative 3 as a populous region. They hold that each diocese ought to send to the General Synod a number of laity proportionate to its population. THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. The Tinie3 commissioner, pursuing his inquiries in the neighbourhood of Athlone, quotes a remarkable instance of the misellief brought about by insecurity of tenure. The barony of Gleashill, a tract of 30,000 acres, is now in possession of the I)igby family. The late Lord Digby, who was an absentee, gave towards the end of the last century a great; many leases to his tenantry, and as he was himself only a tenant for life, some of these leases were greatly in excess of his powers. But as he lived to 155, and during that time the occupiers were well treated, they made great improvements, creating on the land a considerable amount of property. Lord Dighy's successor, who was not a near relation, thought himself justified in availing himself of his strict rights, and destroying tides which, not being consistent with the provisitels of the entail, were, technically speaking, wl:olly invalid. Eject ment proceedings were commenced, cr threatened, against the whole body of the lessees-1:20 families. As to compensation, they were referred to the executors of the deceased Earl, who were not bound to disburse one farth:ng. The whole country Was in an uproar, and serious consequences might lo• - ;.ve ensued, load not Mr. Trench— anthLr of the " Realities of Irish Life'--persuaded the execntois to allot a sum of f::;0,0C0:.s compensat:on. Many of the occupiers were•permitted to retain their holdongs at greatly increased rents. This case is an instance of the insecurity of tenure, not merely as matter of theory, but according to the Irish law, for these unfortunate men had no means of ascertaining the defects of their leases. Who, as',is the Commissioner, ever heard of LO leaseholders on one English estate, after having enjoyed their lands for two generations and added enormously to their value, being threatened with immediate eviction, not for any misconduct or default, but simply because there was a flaw in their titles The writer quotes another instance of flagrant injustice to tenants-at will REFORM 11Y MR. CEOR , IE POTTER. The organ of the trades unions—the Ileehive—has takon up very earnestly two " urgently needed" reforms—those, namely, of the aristocracy and the land. Against the former it is urged that they monopolise everything generally—the land, the Church livings, the legislation, the con sciences of their tenantry, the army and navy appointments, Government offices, &c., &c. The land laws are denounced as starving the many, and driving the poor to huddle together in hovels, and sending them from their own country to another. " The landlords (the Beehive exclaims), must be masters of the situation no longer. The land is ours, and ours it shall be. We did not, in the time of manufacturing prosperity, feel the impor tance of the land question, as we do now in the time of our adversity. We must now look to our feet to see where we stand. We find we have no standing ground on the land—that has been taken from beneath us. Our liberty is no liberty so long as the land is held by one class alone." TRE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. The aggregate meeting of the Albert policy-holders in London is regarded as an important step in the direction of a settlement, The assemblage was lively and noisy, but it came to one or two practical con clusions. Firstly, it rejected the liquidators' scheme; and it is to be hoped that the unanimous censure and contempt with which this proposal has been received will bring about its withdrawal. Secondly, committee was appointed to determine, in conjunction with the provincial committees, the best means of arranging the affairs of the company and report to the policy-holders at a future meeting. This deci sion is considered wise because it merely removes an obnoxious proposition, and leaves the ground open for another. Neither the London policy-holders, nor those in the provinces will come to a conclusion without a mutual agreement. The policy holders parliament which has been formed will, the Daily News remarks, at once supersede all the little cliques and parties which persons in pursuit of business have formed at their private offices. Hitherto the policy-holders have been an unorga nised crowd, without a leader or a purpose, and a host of would-be leaders have offered to put them selves at its head ; now the occupation of such gen tlemen is gone, and any advice they may have to offer, any plans they may have to suggest, can be communicated to a representative body, which has ability to deliberate and power to decide. Mr. Cave, member for Barnstaple, gives a more detailed explanation of his connection with the Albert Assurance Company. He became a share holder in 1853, and shortly afterwards a local direc tor. It seems that directors get their information touching the state of the company with which they are connected from without, for Mr. Cave says that "rumours impeaching the soundness of the office were conveyed to us," Stirred by these sinister reports Mr. Cave and others made inquiries, and seoa " disc,vered and reported what we considered to be errcrs of the gravest kind in the principlis 0:1 which capital had lweu de it with, annuities granted, and dividends paid, and that the general expenditure for the previous year had exceeded 5O percent, of the income." The ollice was remodelled, Mr. Cave became managing director, and under his guidance t ing n rapidly improved. Th e i ncome of the com pany increased threefold, and it s gross expenses fell e. t from 60 to 15 per cent. In 1857 proposals were made for the amalgamation, and afterw,,r,7 a the purcinse, of the Eat“ of TIG:1, 1 .1 C ola - Daily : No commis.3:on, c;;Eupen,&i , u, or other rayment was made to any person whatever in respect of it, but I ,`eceived an appointment for a term of years, the details of which were unanimously approved by a general meeting' of the shareholders of each company. Mr. Cave does not say what appointment, nor what were the details which were unanimously approved. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1669. Whit the pro)eet of amalgamation was abandoned, rand purchase was substituted in its place, the member for Barnstaple sm.Treadered his appoint ment and received compensation. llis connection with the office then ceased—some ten years ago. FORMS OF WORSUIP AMONGST DISSENTERS. The English Independent, a leading Nonconformist newspaper, has some noticeable remarks this week on the subject of the form of worship amongst Dis senters. Our contonporary, in reviewing a book of prayers just issued for the use of Free Churches, points out the great change that has recently taken place in the mode of conducting services amongst Congre gationalists. The bald and barren simplicity of ancient days has given place to greater cheerfulness, more music, better singing, and a higher tone of impres sive prayer and praise. Still more radical changes are ahead, the Independent seems to think ; liturgies are beginning to be used, and there is now a pretty general • agreement that some of the Church of England prayers may be sa:d with advantage both to ministers and people. The present s 3 steam the Independent admits has not enough solemnity ; it is wearisome to the people because they do not take sufficient part in it; it does not, therefore, do all that could be wished in the way of eliciting great devoutness and earnest feeling ; more ,joyousuess might be introduced ; and those who ayee repelled from a congregational chapel by the want of these things would thus be gained. Though the discussion of the matter has only just begun, and though those who are opposed to edge are very determined in their opposition, yet the Independent—no mean authority surely— leans very perceptibly towards the triumph of the liturgical party. will continue, and that the growth or the plant wilt soon regain its old proportions. But the Times bolds to the opinion that England will get comparatively but a small share of the supply. A large pro portion will be retained in the United States, to be worked up by the mills of New England, :and much of the remainder will be carried off by the manufacturers of the Continent. How has this come to pass ? Our skill has not diminished, and our superiority in capital, coal, and iron remain comparatively unimpaired. But the Americans are unwilling to let the division of labour continue. They prefer, by the imposition of a heavy duty to keep out our cheap fabrics and sell their own dear ones. 66 We can buy cotton in Georgia, bring it to Manchester, spin it into cloth, take the cloth out again, and offer it for sale on a Georgian cotton-field at a price below any that a Georgian manufacturer can4each." The Americans, however, choose to reject a cheap article for a clear one, and there is nothing for it but to await the end. For there must be an end some time to artificial trading. FOREIGN NOTES. VIE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA. Every soul in the workings of the coal mine at Pty. mouth, in Pennsylvania, where the dreadful accident Net reported took place, has perished. On Thursday, says Times telegram, the explorers penetrated to the inno chamber, and found all dead. Two hundred and ten bodied were brought to the surface. Several persons were over come by the carbonic acid gas during the explorations, but all of them were resuscitated. The scene was most painful at the colliery, where the weeping relatives of the dead had assembled. All work is stopped in that part of the coal region in which the mine lies. The dead were placed in one chamber. The bodies were not burnt, and were easily recognisable. All had evidently died from suffocation. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Lord Dello proposes that instead of boat-racing atrial at the butts should be established in any future international match. The rifle, his lordship says, is the pioneer of civilization, and there is no denying that it is one of the most effective of the means by which we "civilize savage races off the face of the earth." tie alludes to the great efficiency at one time attained by the Americans, which made the rifle par excellence their national weapon, and he seems to take a pride iu the way in which the colo nists used it in clearing the British troops out of the Confederated States. Lord Elcho understands how to address the citizens of the Republic, and we hope his challenge will be taken up. Presently we shall arrive at such a pitch of friendly international contests that we will have the Americ.tn Rodman and the English Armstrong great guns pounding away at the same target, alternately at Shoebury ness and Fortress Monroe. " Riverside," as the Washington correspondent of the Neu , York Citizen styles himself, is an amus- ing writer. He works on the old principle of ac counting for divergence of opinion by bribery, and exhibits this in a most characteristic way. Judge Dent's letter to Secretary Boutwell has been vehe mently condemned by the Republican press and upheld by the Democratic. Among the savage edi. toria!s against him was one in the National Repub lican of Washington, " wherein the hand of Bout well, Creswell, and Hoar, or some of their pecu liar friends, could be traced." These three gentle men have certainly more than one hand between them, and would it require the heads of three Cabinet Ministers to be laid together to produce a savage editorial. Having thus fixed its authorship on the absent Ministers, "Riverside" in his own peculiar way proceeds to show what mere froth the savage editorial is. We call his way peculiar, for it would not at the first glance suggest itself to our mind, or to that of any of our readers, but we would commend it to the notice of our editorial brethren. The correspondent turned from the argument to count the squares of Government advertisements, and found that on the day succeeding the attack of the National Republican there were 265 squares in the issue of the morning, and for some days before and since there had been 200 regul trly. Here you have it all in a nutshell : and what is the use of wasting words ? We are much surprised at the folly of the London 7 Imes—we might say dis honesty—in writing down these new telegraph companies while their advertisements figure in its columns. Why do these would-be Joint Stock Associations support such a treacherous enemy? But the conduct of the Times would rather puzzle "Riverside," for that journal never more strenu ously exerted itself against a mania than during an approaching railway crisis, which was daily yielding to it cores of golden sovereigns. The eclipse expedition of the United States Coast Survey to Alaska was not very fortunate in its ob servations. It left Sitka on the 15th of July in an open boat, and was eleven days in reaching a pro per position on the Chilkah river, only 20 miles from the point of totality. It was found imprac ticable to carry instruments and provisions over the Iron Mountain range for the determination of the latitude and longitude, and obtain the magnetic variation before the date of the eclipse. The 7th of August was the cloudiest day experienced, but breaks in the clouds enabled the party to observe with some satisfaction. The rose-coloured flames were clearly seen, their extent,position,elevation,and approximity measured on the south-east and south west parts of the sun's limb. The corona was visible over a part of the limb only, but though the beginning of the eclipse was accurately noted, the end was not observed. The comirg darkness and growing light were marked along the course of the valley. Professor Davidson's camp was visited by Mr. Seward and party, who witnessed the magni ficent picture presented by the phenomena. The Professor's party, however, appear to have " gone further and fared worse," for the Active, at the mouth of the river, had a better view, seeing the planet Mercury and stars of the fourth magnitude. Mr. Seward arrived at Victoria on the 25th of August, and was handsomely entertained by the authorities. The late heavy storms in Oregon had seriously injured the wheat crop. The Philadelphia correspondent of the 7inics on Tuesday sent tl.e following telegram :—" A dread ful calamity occurred on Monday, at Plymouth, in Pennsylvania, in the coal region of Avond de. The colliery had not been in use for some time, on account of the labourers being on strike, but they resumed work on Monday, when a shaft more than 300 feet deep caught fire at the bottom, from the ventilating furnace timbers being dry. In a few moments the entire shaft and buildings above were in flames. The fire continued for some hours, and rubbish fell down and choked the shaft. Two hun dred and two men and boys who were in the mine are believed to have been suffocated. Access has not yet been got to them. Two men sent down the shaft last night were suffocated. Great dis tress is manifested at the pit mouth, which is sur rounded by hundreds of weeping relations. Efforts have been made to-day to force air down the shaft by a steam fan. An attempt is also being made to effect an entrance to the colliery from an adjacent colliery by drilling a hole from one gallery to another. Nothing is yet known of the unhappy persons inside, but all are believed to be dead." On Thursday, after much hard work, th e ex pl orers i n the coal mine at Plymouth, in Pennsylvania, pene trated the inner chamber, and discovered that every collierin the workings had perished. The bodies were brought to the surface, when it was found they numbered 202. Several persons were overcome by the carbonic acid gas during the explorations, but all of them were resuscitated. The scene was most painful at the colliery, where the weeping relatives of the dead bad assembled. All work is stopped in that part of the coal region in which the mine lies. The dead were placed in one chamber. The bodies were not burnt, and were easily recognizable. All had evidently died from suffocation, and bodies continued during the whole day to be brought up from the mine. A heavy gale occurred at Boston on Wednesday evening. The Colosseum was partially destroyed, several buildings injured, and steeples blown down. One man was killed. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. The telagraph land lines were de ranged, and in consequence no message had been received in Boston from New York. The only other telegrams are :—The rise in gold is owing to a report that the amount of gold in bars has been overstated. The Comptroller of the Cur rency has ordered the banks to make a special state ment,. Advices have been received at New York up to 4th inst. from Hayti, announcing that Sal nave has been defeated and badly wounded at Aux Cayes. He is said to be preparing to abandon the contest. The Cacos have captured Gonaives. Numerous conflicting accounts are published re garding General Sickles' negotiations on behalf of Cuban independence. All that is publicly known is that Spain accepts the friendly mediation of the United States in the premises, but that action upon the latter's proposals is deferred until the Govern ment at Madrid be reorganized. A meeting of Americans was held last Saturday at the Langham Hotel, to express the high sense of approbation they entertained towards Prince Na poleon, more especially for his late, manly, and eloquent speech in the French Senate. We have received from a correspondent a long account of 'the proceedings, which relating to French affairs would occupy more space- than our readers who look to this paper for American intelligence would approve of our according to it. Although we heartily agree with mail of the resolutions, we are too strongly persuaded that France is not America, the citizens of the Empire not the citizens of the R►,epublic, to suppose that institutions which suit the one must suit the other. Among the gentle men present were the Ilou. W. Douglas, of Phila delphia ; Dr. B. Ford and Charles G. Howard, Boston; Colonel Berton, 11. D Paul, Captain Halpin, J. Seaton, and A. Lewis, of New lark ; P. Dwyer and W. Kaufman, 'Chicago ; F. Blan chard, of New Orleans ; and A. Monquin, of San Francisco. Col. Berton was elected chairman, and 11. De Paul and Capt. Halpin, secretaries. _ . Prince Arthur left Halifax for New Brunswick on the 3d, and he seems to have met the warmest reception wherever he proceeded, He left Pictou on the Gth for Shediac, and on the 7th arrived at St. John's, where his reception was enthusiastic. Sir John Young held a levee last Saturday at St. John's, Newfoundland, when he took the opportu nity of stating that opposition to confederation was rapidly subsiding. He praised the energy and in dustry of the people of the province, and predicted that the Dominion, led by Great Britain, would rapidly attain to a condition of virtuous prosperity. On Tues3ay he reached Ottowa. On the 4th inst. the strike of ship-labourers was compromised, and order is restored at Quebec. The Gettysburg Battle-Field reunion has been in progress, a considerable number of officers hav ing attended, though many of the most distinguished were absent. General Lee wrote thus in reply to his invitation : "My engagements will not permit nlo to b 3 present. I believe, if there, I could not aid anything material to the informatio❑ existing on that subject. It is wisest, more °Yet., not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." Gen, Fitzhaugh Lee sail in reply to the invitation extended to him, which letter was sent through Gen. Robert E. Lee : " It will not be in my power to be present, but any in formation I possess will be cheerfully given. If the na tion is to continue as a whole, it is better to forget and forgive rather than to perpetuate, in granite, proofs of its late civil wars." Nearly all the Confederates followed the example of their leaders, and remained away. Some vicious Democratic journals assert that the project was a cunningly devised advertisement to bring the Gettys burg springs into notice as a watering place. The fertility of the soil in Virginia has caused the lines before Richmond to be well marked, for a corre spondent notices as a fact, that along the lines held by the contending armies for so long a time at Petersburg, Virginia, for a distance of about 45 miles, there has since grown up a continuous row of peach trees, now yielding an abundant crop. The scouts and pickets ate the fruit while on duty in the summer of 1864, throwing the seeds aside, and they now appear in this peach orchard 45 miles long. As we all along surmised the telegram so oft re peated, that Admiral Porter had been appointed to the command of the sivadron in the Cuban waters, is a gross telegraphic blunder. The meaning of superseding Admiral Poor by an Admiral in Por ter's place, would have been an anticipated war with Spain ; and had we credited the message, we would have regarded the intelligence as of grave signifi cance. The simple explanation we presume to be that the operator on this side—it may be indeed the case on the other—knows nothing of the names of leading and distinguished Americans. Ile had a dim idea that there was an Admiral Porter, but knwing nothing of Poor, he thought the former must be meant, and substituted the name. All the London papers the other day announced the illness of Secretary Raulin, meaning General Raw lins. Rear-Admiral Poor having relieved Admiral Hoff in the command of the North Atlantic squad ron on the 25th, temporarily hoisted his flag on board the Albany till he can transfer it to the Se vern, when she is got ready, in which ship he will proceed to Cuba. ' Governor Senter's arrival at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, was taken advantage of by a herald re porter, and ho was accordingly interviewed, being by gentle prevailing drawn into conversation. Senter preferred that the Tennessee question should be left alone to die oat of itself, his ♦isit had no offieial character, and ho bad not come North to see Grant about Tennessee. if the office holders who voted for him aro turned out it will be a great iajustico, as they are all staunch Republicans and en thusiastic Grant men. To the charge that the large ma jority was obtained by fradulent registration, Senter de clares that Stokes iu saying that, if ho did say it, said what he knew to be untrue. He had appointed the best registrars he could, turning out ono man he found selling certificates to blacks and whites alike. The result was altogether beyond any such influences. In the calf-killer district, where Stokes fought his only battle during the war, and got whipped at that, ho did not obtain a single vote. He was beaten in his own county, in his own Senatorial district, in his own Congressional district; in fact, beaten everywhere in every Congressional district. Parson Brownlow's political summersault Senter utterly denied, asserting and attempting to prove his consistency. Nor was there more truth in the allegation that he had thus changed his front to retain his three sons in well-salaried State posts. Ile has only one son, the Governor said, in the State service, whose appointment Senter had himself urged. The white people feel kindly towards the negroes, and it is untrue that they are again beginning to persecute them, and it is also untrue that murders and outrages by re bels have become more frequent since the election. The threatened nullification of the election by the Fede ral Government is all buncombe, for it is a fixed fact. In reply to the questions whether Andrew Johnson would se cure the Senatorship, and if the State would repudiate the new bonds, Senter was very guarded. It is now pretty well known that Baillie Peyton backs Andrew Johnson, and what is more Fowler, the Senator, he wishes to succeed, does so also. Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, is desirous of securing un election to the United States Senate. Harvey Jewel is likely to be the Republican caddidato for Governor of Massachusetts. Emerson Etheridge spoke at Dancyville, Ten nessee, on the 19th August, in celebration of Senter's election. "Show me," he said, "the people who have light taxes to pay, and I will show you a people happy and contented, proud of their nationality, and relying on themselves. Show me, on the contrary, a heavily taxed people, and I will show you an inert and slavish race, whose dissensions will make them sooneror later a prey to tyrants and despots. "No great revolutionary war debt," eon tinned the orator, "was ever paid, though there may be some new things under the sun, and such a payment would be one of these. Of this debt you can relieve yourselves in one of three ways only : Pay the Debt ; Carry it, and Pay the Interest; or, Repudiate the whole thing." Aft er go i ng on to prove that France and Texas had repudiated, and Eng land had more than half repudiated, having borrowed at 10, while now paying only 3 per cent., ho observed that England, although ten times more able to pay her debt than the United States, never would, and that though the United States by proper management could pay its Debt, it never will. "When you hoar the cry of repudiation, do not say 1 raised it," and the speaker then corrected the mis representation made of his speech at Milan, wherein he was said to favor the repudiation of Browlow's S tate Bonds. But the alleged unsoundness of Mr. Etheridge on tho ques tion of Federal or State Debts, has scarcely been removed by his speech at Dancyville. It has been proposed to refer the truth or false hood of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's story to tho spiritualists and it is considered a splendid opportunity, of which they ought to avail themselves. Failing them, Ben. Butler, with his usual effrontery, has undertaken to settle the question. The General always precipitates himself into anything in the shape of hot water, being ready even to defend an English lord, at the cost of establishing gross in accuracy against a well-known American lady. If Byron's spirit be invoked a question we suggest is, What do you think of your American champion ? Mr. Hembold's magnificent four-in-band double team of dark brown horses is ono of the sights of Long Branch, and this no newspaper man envies him, for the great druggist has obtained a fortune, as the most con rageous--some people, who do not understand it, might say reckless—advertiser in the world. He commenced with $2,000 eighteen years ago, and now he spends $lO,OOO a week in advertising alone; always working on the plan of the more he gets the more he advertises. He has 2,700 papers on his list, and he has paid to several of the leading journals from $1,500 to $3,000 for a single in sertion of his great advertisement. He always communi cates with the, editor or proprietor, himself and does his own business with them. To the Nem York Herald he once offered $5,000 for a page, but it was of the issuo which announced the fall of Richmond, and interesting matter then so pressed on Mr. Bennett that he was obliged to decline the offer. The seventh meeting of the International Statisti cal Congress is hold this year at the Hague. On Friday, the 3d inst., the official delegates were received in the hall of Vereinigung by the Ministers of the Interior and Fi nance. The United States was represented by the Hon. Samuel Ruggles. ELECTIONS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.--Senator Brownlow, of Tennessee, has written another letter en dorsing the Republicanism of Seater, the newly elected Governor. He says the Legislature will pass the Fifteenth Amendment, and will not send Andrew Johnson to the United States Senate. Brownlow thinks some old lino Whig will be elected instead. At Washington, however, it is asserted that Andrew Johnson's success is almost assured, as the Hon. Baillio Peyton has not only with drawn from the contest, but has become his warm sup porter. Another report is that, in dread, the Radicals have been casting their eyes about for a man to match him, and General Butler is suggested. In anticipation a strong movement will be made at the capital to transfer the Massachusetts Representative into the Senate. In answer to this a leading Massachusetts paper observes :—" Tho people of this State are quite able to attend to that little matter themselves; and oven supposing Butler is the only man in the country able to squelch Johnson, we are sure they would consider the remedy worse than the disease." A telegram of last Saturday, from New York, says Mr. Hoar, the Attorney- General, has urnished an opinion to the effect that the members of the new Virginia tegi sl6 " tore are not obliged to take the test oath, but that t he Legislature cannot enact laws un til it ra tifi e s the suffrage amendment. R. M. 'l'. Hunter urges that Virginia ele ct no United States Senators until the disabilities of all h er citizens are removed. General Robert Williams, ivp ° married Stephen A. Douglas's widow, is ecandidate for 6 United States Senatorship in Virginia. The Republican' have carried the elections in Vermont., electing Mr. Wash burne governor by 20,000, and returning a majority of the, Legislature. Ihe vote is light, and show s relatively a soil' Democratic gain. The elections took place ou the 2d inst. in California. The Democrats secured a majority for th e . Legislature, and also elected most of the local office rs Wyoming Territoryelected a delegate to Congress Sept'' the opposing candidate being W. W. Corbett, Republican' and S. F. N uekolls, Democrat. In Mississippi the canvas has commenced, two well-known coloursd orators taking. the stump in the Conservative interest. The latest se; count is that the Conservative Republican Convention °` Mississippi has confirmed the nomination of Mr. Lel Dent as Governor. The Democratic State Convention ° Wisconsin has nominated Colonel Robinson governor, and has passed a resolution in favour of taxation of bonds. Mr. Chaves, a Republican, has been r e / ; elected Congressional delegate for New Mexico. is reported that Voorhees does not want to 1- , 0 ti° o - vernor of Indiana. Chief Justice Chase wrote thy' a citizen of St. Louis. " 1 am out out of all future politi c ' contests, and no one need be jealous of me hereafter." Kentucky Democrats are already agitating the prcject,° electing a United States Senator in place of Thomas 11' M'Creery, whose term expires March 4, 1871. 1° M'Creery is himself a candidate for re-election, and ti le other prominent candidates are Governor John W. S' venson, John G. Carlisle, Gen. William Preston, Je e d D. Bright, formerly of Indiana, and who was expellee from the Senate, for disloyalty, in 1862, and Judge G e°r° .s " Robertson. Governor Stevenson seems to have abo ut good a chance for the succession as any of them. The lion. W. E. Dodge, of the Indian Convii i . : sion, telegraphed to George H. Stuart, Esq., of PO lllll ,l vania, that a council had been held on the 21st Aug ° with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes in Indian Vail the results being favourable. A large number of eb i° r• were present, while 2,000 men, women, and children i'teeg, on ponies outside. "Medicine Arrow" for the Cheyeu rl o i and "Little Room" for the Arapahoes, made ele ell :ha speeches. The Indians bad killed 700 buffaloes in week within ten miles of Camp Supply. A Governrueo surveying party were attacked by the Indians Aug" st" on the Platte River, and their outfit captured. The strike of miners in Pennsylvania was C O/1 11 ; sidered happily to have been brought to an end, b ut t he result announced by telegraph of the frightful catastroP which was one of its direct effects, can be considered Olt; thing but a happy beginning. The strike c ommence d e l' the Bth May, lasting nearly four months, and aline/4.0:a hausting the supply of coal on hand. The men compr cl3l ; with the employers, but practically the lattergained th° ject for which they contended. Pennsylvania has auf fe po most from the late drought, Philadelphia being Bf i li o threatened with the entire failure of its watorsupplY, 3Tici ne° e. people have been put upon a most restricted a110w.61-0 The snow sheds constructed over the line of thol-/r:io, Pacific, at its highest elevation, near Sherman Slit' have been burnt down for some two miles. .j,lO BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—John C. Breckin ri recently made his first appearance at the bar since th e W ee , The theatre of this interesting ev e nt w a s Lexington' 5 aS tucky, and the case, as a Louisville paper assures 115 ', 11 t0 an " obtruse " one.-James Bessom, a pedestrian, 1/3 d - to attempt the feat of walking backward from Port ja f f ,ea Boston, a distance of 110 miles, in eight days, on a 'lge of $l,OOO, on the 26th of August.-Gen. Hiram Wa lbri , a has declined the Presidency of the Mediterran ean Oriental Steamship Company, the now line jected, assigning his feeble state of health as the ea n l'al, Henry Ward Beecher says he owns a farm at re el= t o and "if he had another he should think himself on 00 high road to the poor house ;" and no wonder, if w iit ,elto New York Sun says be true, that Horace Greelon 'lO3 "farms by books," is raising turnips that N it ~/ a e $1 10c. each. -General Sherman and Senator SPriiir have been at camp meeting, in Rhode Island.-Ps°ol, regard is said to bo flirting vigorously at the Ninli te f lint phur Springs.--Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, is so i„ L aeS his life is despaired of.-Secretary Boutwell conteraP-Ap an autumnal Southern tour.-General Meade and 000. Packer have returned from Long Branch. The latter g ar s a banquet at Mauch Chunk to the Philadelphia Ferf Club, which General Meade, General Patterson, Morrick, William H. Gatzrner, and other well -W 3 re' Philadelphians, attended. General F. P. ]3lair Dar t ported to be going into the insurance busiuess.- -ne v of Toombs, who has given up the idea of calling has ° ba s slaves on Bunker's Hill, is going to Lake Superior f°'l3.,. health.-General Hooker is at Saratoga in ill George If. Pendletcn intends to take the stump 111 ° J e - „ise Rev. Father YlLMa.hon, who was imprisoned as a ot es in Canada, arrived in Buffalo, Aug. 24, after dares` o ir absence. By advice of counsel he will proceed to ington to demand damages from the Canadian 00191,0 mont through the Cabinet for false irnprisonn i° , Pt ;fir injuries sustained by his long confinement. -Th e ' ll -ir i. o i rl' fi-ld Republican says that Miss Grinnell of Ne w ses't now at the Kearsago House, in North Collw 33l ', ce o Hampshire, has become insane s i nce he ar ing of th ey accidental death of her brother by falling from a sv ,-7„ite ° at the Isle of Wight.-Ilen. 11. M. Watts, late v - a st States Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria, has arr i t g o e f ee his home in Philadelphia. -Mr. Brick Pomeroy is tr w :At t against Mr. Tweed for the State Senate of Now a t e eef Murphy, late Consul-General at Frankfort-on -41 %t r to is at St. Petersburg. -Mr. Washburne, the 31ie- joe t ; France, has left Paris fur Germany, unwell.- 31r. diate l i t gomery Gibbs, who is at Morley's Hotel, will imale sue s London on his return to Paris.-General Long $ 0 1( has filled several positions in connection with t he ., jle d Orleans Surveyorship with coloured men. r i .,,, lte it ita°l groes are at the present time employed in the tto t ° Custom House. Milmore, of Boston, has the isp reel Dr. Edward Hitchcock in plaster, and it will for the Amherst College library in October more is now at work on a bust of Secretary 13°fl ci statt Mr. Aaron Goodrich, late Secretary of the foci c a l if :, Legation at Brussels, left Southampton last i l ne posPi the Weser.-Two youths named A. Homma and 1.4 ' se °' have arrived in America from Japan, for the pu r lsetV l attending the high school in Worcester, lian s foir. l ‘ 6' accompanied by a middle-aged mentor named B . P. toe ae: -Professor Julius 11. Seelye, of Amhurst Colleg ei tae termined not to accept the presidency of 3diehig Se ri A versity.-The Rev. Paul Bagley has returned to ,jet,' carrying with him numerous petitions and renel33l,e'Pf tions for the discharge of the Fenian prisonera'-;tieS'- tai, the celebrated physician of California, has 700 P. o°,l' and an income of $7,000 per week.-The Rev i tte°,"; ardson, of Washington, Ohio, is th e oldest liviao ertori‘o can clergyman, but although 106 years of age /l ose° five miles on Sundays and preaches a sermon' hold g , F. T. Dent is the o n ly one o f f our b ro thers wh ° t oe e "; Federal office, having been an army officer fo r r yeel'!„ . ' six years. A. Dent was the White House doe. OSP' if that can bo considered an oflice. -31i :: ot C h f° o; Gardner, daughter of Colonel Henry W. G" rd , e ; i eg lj- d g vidence, Rhode Wand, was so severely burn t, ball dress catching fire on the 26th August in h e ale, room, that her recovery is doubtful.-Williara b icl g te ti o prietor of the Lake Circus, Granby, Missour i / t o oa dered by Killyon for ejecting him from the ere declining to pay for his entrance. 41) ler Re Du BARRY'S Delicious Health Restori n iorne i ;"fe Arabica Food, which contains three times the no ur d i e s, r,,,01 best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other retit D v l i r Perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, h e to ia Net freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energk e ot . o n' t i enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually in 4.h00i,, elf pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea, fs „ o ..: 1 complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousne sg ,: e aP P ,Of throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the 0 0, liv; 0 0, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysterTtivnriop, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, be' &n d ° ; o 3pcli: ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea , c on 0 01 (1. 0 0. sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient the c o e scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the Pt of o,oae t oi between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out ;„ —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's So'i'diel,lo, 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866. -The health of t r eit , golf is excellent, especially since, abandoning all othe i l i 3 O q , Dio has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's R ef i tieo b a 9 ri' Food, of which he consumes a plateful at everi i r eo lti ,, ,,,x, produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on bi s h igni)::, t y /..0 01 Holiness cannot praise t 2 excellent food toe,, o f YP so tP oc t! , the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervol' s t the et o cough, eonstipation, flatulency, spasms, sickiles: r piqicA and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Northam, Ling, I §7, z ing A ie t io o Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of :00, in al fD' Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervou sn ' o rt0"/ 0 ; 1 , 6 • 10 1 P 0 gatherings, low spirits. and nervous facies. s —Beware of the many unsavoury and n more , 0 1 0. 0 00; tions to which, without authority, Baron Liebig 120 0001; audaciously attached. A SOS 11 1 ; 0 .24 CI P O In tins, atlslid; Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6-; n ote- for - pty 21 lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA „WO 0 0e, POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 eePi or 57 6 . $ 6 1. 10 f. at 3s 6,1, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, d 550 tiller g o —being about one penny per cup. The 30s t1,'„ 4 _0fi1 e ,,,09 ; free of carriage in England on receipt of "'_'„ t 1.4 0 ' ILtal,Y Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, all Grocers and Chemists Regent-strev IBOTcE—On the Bth inst. at iß D Tl :l 'g s; on, Mrs' .. ' 5 EL o E f Ic a — s O on n . the Bth inst., Will iti ' -13 a 0° ITEATiteITE _ 1 „ ;1 - 0 .,rea 1 of W. T. at Finebley Eley, Esq., of a daghter. g (11 James's, m Piccadilly, Charles MARRIAGES. s ,t 1 "/,14 1 d Edith, eldest daughter * Of the Hen. NV. Moyer ileatheete, , E:4 - 1 of Conington Cas t 'sef• 1 4 Wroth" s c jelio llontE —DAttnic— On the 'Ali inst, at Linc. 9ll3 ,! e itor , o cl' Hoare, of Great James-street, London, B° L ' f 9 1if Annie, daughter of NN Bikini Darby, Bs c i" - place, Brixton. O r DEA TLIS. II; d ll° AxszituntEit--At Boulogne-stir-bier, Sir 1 , - LI t o' niiehael Anstruther, Burt., aged 77. 0 9ths e coni vidiSv:ol,l3of y r," ' di f 4S, CATO —On tl.e 9th inst., Josiah Cato, Es(l-7 u 10 , pii bridge -terrtzeo, Ilyde- park, aged 74. , of KING—On the Bth inst., James King, s'E'f' Middlesex, aged 83. fl B ' London: Printed and Published by w WILLIAPI° 3 ' - i `o. .t - ,. ..4 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Odlee ~,,, 'ield' in the Precinct of the Savoy, iu the C ounty of 4- Saturday, September 11,1+30. DIOCESAN DIVISIONS. The Morning Advertiser objects to the appoint ment of the present Bishop of Oxford to the see of Winchester. Not that it does not like the man, or has anyone else to propose in his place, but it protests against such large dioceses and large incomes as those of Winchester. We have too few bishops-(says the Advertiser). They should be increased and their incomes diminished. Mr. Glad stone himself admits that this should be done; his proper course would be to keep the bishopric open until his policy could be carried out. The Advertiser's plan is that the bishops' incomes of Winchester and Exeter, together amounting to £20,000, should be divided into four parts, that Devon and Cornwall should be parted and Winchester divided, each division being given a "spiritual lord." OSCILLATION OF RAILWAY TRAINS. Sir Charles Fox has a scheme for preventing the oscillation of railway trains—a plan which having been already tried is certainly worthy of attention. He believes that the present undue motion is caused in very great measure by the use of wheels the tires of which are portions of cones instead of cylinders. The tires of railway wheels are generally coned to an inclination of one in twenty. Th e se were first introduced in the expectation of facilitating the passage of vehich!s round curves. No advantage, however, is found to arise in the use of conical whe,ls in passing. round curves, Sir Charles has, then fore, construct( d upwards of 2, - ;0 miles of railway abroad, in the rolling stocic of which he has departed from the usual form of wheel, and has used only cylindrical ones. The result is reported to be an increased steadiness of motion such as is impossi ble under the old mode of tire mating, CRIME IN LANCASIIIIIE. A gloomy report on the moral condition of Lan cashire Las been submitted to the magistrates in annual general sessions at Preston. In the country at large adult crime shews an increase of 9 per cent. ; but in this county the increase is not less than 29 per cent. For England and Wales the advance in juvenile crime has been 41 per cent.; in Lancashire the increase is 20-1 per cent. Refor matory arrangements are very defective. One fourth of the children who are sent to reformatories never get there, partly because there is no room f or them, partly because the magistrates do not know their business. Through svAit of attention to certain details of regulation, the magistrates sentenced children to reformatories, who wereref used admittance. Mr. Aspland, the author of this report, plainly says that " if magistrates would study the Act of Parlia ment and the rules laid down by the reformatory committee they would see what to do." A nice state of things, truly ! People us nest vocations are expected to understand their business, but it appears that the duty of administ ring the law is often a great exception to this general rule. What would be the effect of setting up a school for magistrates JOINERS ON STRIKE. The carpenters and joinery in London met on Thurslay to consider the propriety of ass'sting their brethrin at lil%cliburn who are on strike. This turn-out has I: sted about thirteen weei:s. Some three years rgo the masons, plasterers, and brickhlyet s of Illackburn succeded in obtaining a recluAion of the week's quantum of labour from fifty-four to forty-nine bolus. Envious of this success, the joiners tried the same thing, but the thaLtel stubbirnly refused the concesLion, and three months' idlem ss has uc.t " brought them to tlic:r metres." The f.onden wood- wor:ans are decidedly e f opinion that the strike should go on, and that they should assist in the good can e. Thc General Union of Carpenters has already spent 1.1,200 in this con test, and has been able to keep Blackburn free front " blacks"—frce labour men. The London men passed a resolution sympathising with the movement and offering assistance. ANTI-VACCINATION. The Mile End Board of Guardians has been making things pleasant with the anti-vaccinators. That important department of government recently received in state a deputation of Mile-end ratepayers for the purpose of presenting a resolution against the Compulsory Vaccination Act, and calling upon the Board not to enforce it. Dr. Pearce l e d the van with a speech, in which he contended that vaccination was no remedy against smallpox, and that it induced other diseases. After more speechifying, the chairman made a remarkable statement. Ile said the Board petitioned against the bill when it was before Parliament, because they believed it to be an uncalled for inter ference with the liberty of the subject. " The Board had never assumed or exercised any of the powers given by the Compulsory Vaccination Act, for they held it to be their duty to do nothing which was was obnoxious to the ratepayers." Here we have in a nutshell the whole principle of parochial manage ment. Parliament provides for the care of the poor and for the health of the community, but the busi ness of the guardians is to do none of these things; it is to please the ratepayers. Disease may spread, p au pers may perish, but that is no concern of the guardians. It is their duty to do nothing that is obnoxious to the ratepayers. RAILWAY FEEDIII.S. The Tram-Railway Company of Great Britain pre sents us with a new idea--that of constructing tram ways to act as feelers to railways, and thus to bring out lying towns and districts within reach of the ordinary lines. Among the first districts contemplated for the introduction of this system aro those of the Teign Valley Railway, the vicinity of the towns of Cambridge and of Bolton in Lancashire, and the great iron and coal fields of Yorkshire. The com pany starts with a capital of £lOO,OOO, and the cost of making these auxiliary lines is calculated at £2,000 a mile. The experiment will be undoubtedly interesting. TUE BYRON CONTROVERSY. Newspaper correspondents are determined that the disclosures of Mrs. Stowe shall be regarded from every point of view. One writer in the Daily News holds that the case is at least one of strong suspicion against Lord Byron; that it certainly does not improve the reputation of Lady Byron, and that Mrs. Stowe was justified in making her narrative public. Such a revelation was not needed to excuse the separation between the poet and his wife, for the gross immorality of the former was jus tification enough. But if her ladyship thought it was necessary to explain her withdrawal from her hus band, it Iva& surely necessary years ago as well as now. The charge should have been made by the victim herself, openly and publicly, so that it might have been examined and tested in her lifetime, when there would have been opportunities for any further details that other persons may have thought fit to demand. To keep the scandal during her life and unfold it after death, was, this writer opines, a curious species of martyrdom. BOAT-RACING. The Times a day or two ago proposed that the Oxford crew should compete with the Harvard, each on its own terms ; the former carrying a coxswain, the latter retaining its system of steering by an apparatus managed by the foot of the bowman. This plan was advocated on the ground that the coxswain's steering would be sa much superior that his extra weight would be more than counterbalanced. A corres pondent, however, points out that the foot apparatus is not new in England. In July, 1807, a crew from St. John's, New Brunswick, rowed at the Paris Regatta in a four -oared boat without a coxswain against a London, an Oxford Etonian, and several other four-oared crews with coxswains. The St. John's crew won so easily that it became manifest the dead-weight of the coxswains in the other boats, notwithstanding the possibility of their being steered a better course, had handicapped them quite out of the race. The principle was then tried in England ; a crew from Brazenose, Oxford, competing without a coxswain against some boats which carried one. Again, the better steering could not make up for the difference in weight. THE SOUTHERN COTTON CROP. It is now certain that, on the whole, the cotton crop in the Southern States of America will be largely in excess of last year. Moreover, there is no little reason to believe that this increased prgduction TIIE NENV AMERICAN SECRETARY OP WAR. General Sherman has taken the War Secretaryship, vacant by the death of Mr. Rawlins ; but he is officiating only temporarily. It need hardly be added that Sherman is the skilful commander who executed the famouc march to Savannah which did so much towards the ruin of tho Southern cause. LIEGE AND LIWSSELS FETES. The most extensive preparations are being made at Li4o in honour of the forthcoming fetes. The official reception will take place on Sunday, the 10th inst. Fifteen hundred English volunteers are expected, and 1,600 Gerdes Nationales and volunteers from France, Holland, Switzerland, and Germany.. These will be selected from the best sharpshooters, and the shooting at Liege and Spa is expected to be the most interesting tir that has yet taken place in Europe. On the 27th instant, at Brussels there will be the greatest review of the Belgian army that has ever been held in the kingdom. There will be on the field eight battalions of riflemen, two regiments of light infantry, three of infantry of the line, and a regiment of grenadiers. The troops will number in all about 35,000 men. The municipal authorities and the Garde Civique of Ostend have intimated to the Anglo-Belgian Committee their intention of meeting the steamers from Dover on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th, for the purpose of welcoming the English volunteers, and conducting them to the rail way station. The Garde Civique of Brussels have also arranged to give a hearty welcome to such of the volunteers as intend visiting Brussels, on their return from LiZ:ge and Spa, though there will be no great public demonstration, as the authorities reserve to another time a reception more worthy of the mutual good feelings which unite England and Belgium. GERMAN ECONOMICAL CONGLESS. The Economical Congress was held at Mayence last week. Dr. Braun was re-elected to the presidency which he has held for ten successive congresses. In reviewing past events, he claimed for the Congress a large share of the achievements that have been made in the economical field. A discussion took place on the failure of the Albert Life Assurance Company. Some of the speakers con sidered that the directors should be made responsible for the debts of the company ; but this provoked a difference of opinion. A resolution was passed to 4,19 e effect that the formation of a joint-stock company should not depend on the approbation of the Government. It was considered that the increasing knowledge of political economy would enable the public to decide for itself as to the merits of any company and its claim to confidence. THE HUSS FESTIVAL. It appears, according to the North-East Correspondence, that the fkes in commemoration of John Huss, at Prague, were not so successful as had been expected. Invitations had been issued to some of the leading Euro pean democrats, such as Victor Hugo, Garibaldi, Maz zini, &c., and they did not judge it expedient to accept this invitation. The Czechs were obliged to be satisfied with the presence of less famous guests. The Czechs look upon Huss snore as a great Liberal patriot than as a powerful thinker, and the immediate precursor of Luther and the -Reformation. TUE NATIONAL DANK OF VIENNA. The directors of the National Bank of Vienna have issued a note to the following effect conference has been held between the representatives of the Anglo- Austrian Bank, the Cr6dit Mobilier, the Discount Society of Lower Austria, and the National Bank, to consider the position of the. money market. The directors of the National Bank having explained the state of their affairs at the close of August, stated that they would continue to increase their reserve of notes, with the sole object of relievinz the pressure on trade and industry. Usually they are unwilling to multiply their notes for any object whatever, and even now they would only do so with great caution. The National Bank, whose discounts for Vienna amounted in this last month of August to nearly 116 millions, discounted in the same period 176 mil lions on account of the various institutions of credit of the place. The Bank has no intention at present of raising the rate of discount. This announcement of the intention■ of the National Bank was generally approved, and the belief was commonly expressed that when it was made public the exaggerated apprehensions which prevailed would be diminished. PHOTOGRAPHIC MAPS. The important problom of constructing plans and maps by photography has been solved. The Berlin photographer, Herr Afeydenbauer, has been at great pains to produce pic tures that are correct in a perspective point of view. The Prussian Government, being convinced of his ability, com missioned him to survey a fortification. The task was a very difficult one, but in six months he obtained 800 plates. By this time he gained so much experience that he com pleted a photogrammetric instrument, which was so simple that a workman was able to draw up a plan of a fortress after a few instructions. The photographic camera can now be employed for a number of important purposes. THE KIRCHIS STEMTS. Europe knows comparatively little of the wandering tribes of the Kirghis Steppes, but recent events have attracted attention to them. They are a nomadic people, and, though few in number, have hitherto succeeded in evading all direct control. A small tribute paid yearly to the Czar, and an undertaking to provide camels for the transport of troops through their territory were their only connection with the Government. Last year, however, the Russian Government seized the idea of consolidating its territories, and incorporating the several outlying populations into one, by destroying their distinctive features. In pursuance of this design, a Steppe Com mission was formed to remodel the whole system of Khirghis life and customs. The wandering tribes were henceforth to live in villages, the country was to be sub divided into communes, and every effort was to be made to convert the Kirghis from a pastoral to an agricultural people. The pastoral system. was introduced into the Steppes, and not only were any infractions of it on the part of individuals to be severely punished, but a whole tribe was liable to fine and imprisonment in the event of changing encampments. The amount of tribute waz increased, and Russian officials appointed in place of the native rulers. It is not surprising that the wild tribes, whose mode of life dates back a thousand years, and who are accustomed to absolute and unconditional freedom, should find these restrictions intolerable, and accordingly we find the Kirghis in open rebellion, and the power of Russia in Central Asia greatly imperilled. We recommend to the attention and hearty de nunciation of the next National Labour Congress the following, which we have extracted from the Newspaper Press : "'TIE TIMES' AND ITS COMPOSITORS.—Twenty-one of the printers of the Times having been found guilty at the Old Bailey Sessions of combination and conspiracy to raise the rate of wages on the Times were sentenced, December 11th, 1810, as follows:-Two to be imprisoned two years in Newgato and pay a fine of one shilling ; three, eighteen months with a like fine ; three, twelve months with A like fine; and eleven, nine months and like line ; the Recorder remarking-, Persons of your de scription must I,e taught to feel the effects of that contu macy in whidi they presume to wrestle with the laws of the bold, and to sot up their daring combinations davit edicts against the good order and well-being of soc i ety, and the interests of honest industry."' [ADVEILTISTMENT. 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