The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

£PIBIT 0 JOURNALS, The Times sums up at length the case against the directors of the great firm to whose sudden collapse we owe the disasters of Black Friday, and observes that the mode in which a body of shareholders was induced to accept and even pay a heavy price for liabilities like those of this firm was most discreditable to the character of those of the directors in the company who had been partners in the firm, and to the judgment and discretion, at any rate, o! the rest. It is possible they believed the assets, including the private fortunes of the members of the firm, would balance the liabilities ; but they must have known that they were not giving the shareholders as large a benefit at had been bargained for. Their failure to make a full dis closure of their balance-sheet proves that they mistrusted their power to induce the public to share their confidence. But even had their hopes of a restoration of the origins' prosperity been justified, the public was not the less de frauded by a concealment which prevented it from parti cipating in this future prosperity-on as easy terms as CIS( it might. The shareholders fancied they were conceding certain advantages to a partnership which in dissolving itself gave up much greater pecuniary advantages. But the fact was that, as now appears, in consequence of losses then known to the partners and the directors, but not disclosed by them to the public. the firm without the company must then, at it ultimately did, have simply collapsed and carrie d down with it -the entire fortunes of its members. Tc attempt to win such advantages at the cost of a pecuniary risk to strangers without first obtaining their consent to the hazard is what in equity is called a fraud. But the criminal charge will hardly succeed unless it can be eats blished that the directors themselves knew they were inveigling the shareholders into an undertaking whicl was then insolvent. The absence of adequate motive is those of the directors who were not members of the. old firm, but between whom and the latter no distinction b made, for imperilling their credit in an enterprise so despe rate on the face of it as the prosecutor represents it, is s grave objection to this point of view. Whether and hoe it can be got over remains to be seen. The Post directs its attention to the pernicious systere of the money-lenders, whereby they seduce young and inexperienced persons into the meshes of usury and debt The notice from the Treasury serves as an opportune warning to one class of persons of the sad consequences of such practices. The employes of the civil service are told to take heed to their ways under the contingen+ penalties of losing promotion, rise of salary, and even their situations. The clerks whom it is most worth the while of the usurers to attack are those who are well connected, and whe do in effect live with and upon their relations, the salary of a hundred and odd pounds or so, more or less, being regarded as mere pocket-money, and this the usurer soon takes care to absorb in the shape of interest on his. "accommodation." Still, on the other hand, there are poor clerks whose necessities —among which that of keeping up appearances is not the least—cause them to fall victims to the meek, smooth-tongued, plausible money-lender—not from mere extravagance in the sense of betting and dis• aipation generally, but because circumstances compel. or at least are conventionally supposed to compel, them tc live in a style which is really beyond their means. The grand principle to be observed in all cases is that whirl: holds good equally of nations and of individuals—namely. to make one's expenses conform to one's income, and upon this excellent text the new minute, as we have remarked, preaches a most edifying sermon, the minator3 clauses of which are by no means the least important part of it. The Herald, in referring to the threatened attack of the new Administration upon the members of the Civil Service, observes that it will not do much towards reducing the total expenditure of the country, and a single blunder in building a new frigate on a wrong plan, or in the die tribution of colonial garrisons, may cost more at one blow than can be saved by all the pruning possible in the salaries of Admiralty clerks or the civil staff of the War Office At the same time there is no doubt some money may be saved without in any way detract ing from the efficiency of the Civil Service. A great deal of the circumlocution complained of is due no doubt, to the fact that public departments may be called upon at any time to give a more minute account 0. their transactions than private firms. There may be needless complications in the systems of some departments No one has a direct pecuniary interest in their simplifica tion, and their natural tendency is to grow more and more complex. But if the departments were more independent they might also be more extravagant in matters of greate, importance than the salaries of their clerks. The Heralc suggests that the inferior departments of the service should be reserved for the employment of very young men on the understanding that they should only hold them fot three or four years. Such employs would onli require small salaries, while the three or foul years' maintenance would give them a start it life. In the higher departments probably some conspi• cuous salaries could be saved altogether, here and there The abolition of boards, indeed, and the substitution o• single chiefs of departments, would be a method of saving salaries not by any means unattended with clanger. The members of a board are mutually a check upon one another, and a single chief might often be under a strong personal temptation to make the expenditure of public money subservient to his own interest or that of his friends, Where an appointment is abolished, and the Government magnanimously foregoes a bit of patronage, the sacrifice is of course lightened by the thought that it is very con• spicuously made, but such sacrifices may be made too otter for the good of the country. It is a curious fact, but ow which can hardly escape the attention of any one win devotes a little study to the subject, that the lowest salaries in the service, and not the highest, are too high. The Daily News considers the question of the army, and remarks that as yet nothing is settled. What changes are to take place next spring are not determined upon but a good deal of doubt is felt in many quarters as to the intentions of the new Minister of War. There are excellere reasons for believing that Mr. Cardwell will not introduce changes which will seriously affect the prospects of the officers, or materially impair the efficiency of the army It is very desirable that the enormous half-pay establish ment should be put down, and the most simple and effice cious way to accomplish this would be by letting half-pa 3 officers be appointed alone to the militia anc reserve ; but this cannot be done until the militia patronage is taken out of the hands of lord lieutenants, and the appointment of its officers given tc the charge of the regular military authorities. This change appears to be the key to an organic improvement in out military system. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell supported by the intelligence and opinion -of the country, are strong enough to disregard the opposition of some influential landowners, if political and salutary reason, alone influence their courses. The lord-lieutenants will, doubtless, resist to the utmost of their power, and will bring all their social influence to bear upon the point. Here is the danger. The issue must prove whether the present Government consists of real reformers, or only carpet knights, easily amenable to the intrigues and impressions of the drawing-room. The Star believes that the Poor-law Board has resolve/ upon a great measure of reform, in order to make uniform the whole treatment of casuals in England. The object will be to found a system which will supply all the casual', wants, without ministering to his fancies, and the life of the inmate in the wards is to be made as unpleasant as h consistent with a due regard to his health. At the same time we must not conceal from ourselves that but half the work of the Poor-law Board will have been done whet workhouses and casual wards have been made a terror, of rather an aversion, to the idle. There will still be, or the other hand, the man in distress, who may fairly claim that they shall be made as comfortable fen him as circumstances will allow, or, at all events, that they shall not be made so unpleasant as to render the shelter they afford a penal infliction. Such harshness would defeat its own purpose, for, beside: the unmerited suffering it would inflict on the unavoidably destitute, it would once more encourage in the vagrant mind the play of hope and fear, as it would be impossible to maintain a uniformity of surliness throughout all the workhouse lodges of the kingdom, and the happy valley would again be dreamed of as a place when nature sometimes made the official smile in spite of the "rules of the - service." What we so much want in this matter of pauperism and vagrancy is, to get rid of that sad alternation of fits hot and fits cold, from which our emotions have hitherto suffered—to-clay a charity sermo n and half-a-crown in the plate ; to-morrow a prose• cution under the Begging Act—and we welcome the new proposal of the board as a sign that we are getting into a state favourable to a healthier activity. The Telegraph considers that, on the whole, the retro spect of the last twenty years is cheering. In the country great efforts have been made to improve the dwellings of the poor. In•towns; the progress of sanitary science, and the construction of sanitary works, have certainly diminished disease and dirt, and counteracted, to some extent, the evils of overcrowding-. We know that education, bohks, and newspapers are now widely spread,. and that good fruit twist come out (1 teaching the poor to read and think. We know that churches and clergymen have multiplied ; and, i.e . noriitg for the moment all higher thoughts, we are aware that a Christian gentle. man. resident in any parish or district, nmst do some good. Our prisons, if not perfect as places of punishment, are, - at all events, no l onger , as once t h ey were, unwholes.me dens in which penalties never adjtolged—namely, pesti• lence and death —awaited the hapless prisoners. Of our trade and finance, as they were carried on three or four years ago, we will say nothing good ; but there are signs that a new spirit has arisen to rebuke raguery, punish fraud, and place enterprise on a solid basis. Our colonies are no longer overgrown boys fighting with the mother country; they are a "Greater Britain" of free acid all but independent States, nearly self - protected, and universally loyal to the Queen. It is certainly no mere estimate of an enthusiast to say that in the twenty years from 184 S to 186 S the world has witnessed the achievement of good deeds greater in character, number, and apparently in lasting result, than were accomplished in any ether twenty of the past hue. dyed years. EXCITING SCENE OX THE ICE. Alexander Robbie and an assistant gardener in the ser vice of Sir George Ramsay, of Banff, were sent on Friday to the loch on the top of the hill of Alyth to sweep the ice, preparatory to a skating match. While the men were 4 work on the ice it gave way, and both went down in deep water. In a moment they arose to the surface, and ,lung to the surrounding ice, which gave way at every-part. A goy who saw the accident ran to the volunteer rifle range, where the riflemen were engaged in their annual prize competition, and gave the alarm. The whole of the volun teers ran to the loch, where the men were still holding on by pieces of ice, and keeping afloat. It was impossible to enter the water with any hope of rendering service without ), rope, but no such thing was to be had. At once it was suggested to bind all the cravats of the company together, which was done. The line thus extemporised was fastened round the body of George Lindsay, Sir George's gamekeeper, who went forward with the volun teer flagstaff, which he held out to the gardener, he being nearest. The gardener got hold, and the men on shore pulled both to the beach. Lindsay immediately went in to rescue the other man, but it was then discovered that the line was too short to allow him to get near enough to Robbie. By that time Robbie was rapidly giving way, when one of the riflemen took the leather sling from his gun, bound it to the rope, and so lengthened it sufficiently to admit of Lindsay going near enough to the drowning man with the flagstaff. Robbie, with a last effort (he had been twenty minutes in water then), seized hold of the pole, and was got out, apparently in a dying state. He was taken to a farmhouse, medical aid was 'procured, and we learn that he is likely to reeover. ACTION" FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT. A very singular case has come before Mr. Justice Lush, at the Liverpool Assizes. The plaintiff was Mr. William Young Torckler, and the defendant the Rev. Mr. Tattersall, of Claughton, near Birkenhead. The action was brought for an alleged false imprisonment. The plaintiff was formerly in the service of the East India Company, and in 1829 held a commission as lieutenant in the Bengal N.I. Mr. L. Temple and Mr. M'Connell appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. Russell and Mr. Herschell for the defendant. According to the opening statement of counsel, the plaintiff had seen a great deal of service, had been engaged in the action at Bhurtpore, and had obtained several medals. In 1829 he had a quarrel with one of his brother officers, during which pistols were drawn, and the plaintiff fired, though without doing any injury to his antagonist. For this offence he was tried by a court-mutial, and was sentenced to death. It transpired, however, that the proceedings of the court were irregular, and the then Commander-in Chief (Lord Dalhousie) refused to carry out the sentence, though plaintiff was dismissed the service. From that time to 1864 this sentence of death was hanging over the plaintiff's head, and it was only on the movement of Sir Fitzroy Kelly (the present Chief Baron) that this sentence was rescinded. Notwithstanding the sentence and the subsequent dismissal, a pension of £7O was granted to the plaintiff, which he had enjoyed to the present day. Of late years he had supplemented his means of livelihood as well as he was able, and, amongst other pursuits, adopted that of teaching gentlemen's sons at Bristol and other places. He recently came to Birkenhead, and being a Freemason, was befriended by several members of the craft residing in that town ; and having received a list of the other members of the order residing in that district, he called upon them to solicit pecuniary aid, with the object of founding a school for military exercises. Amongst others he called upon Mr. Tattersall, the defendant, who promised to give him a sovereign, as the other brethren bad done, and who subsequently sent to plaintiff's house the sum of half a sovereign. This the plaintiff received, but sent back a note to the effect that he was obliged tg . the reverend gentleman "for the instal. ment," but that as a sovereign had been faithfully promised he should expect the balance. On the 9th 'October last the defendant met the plaintiff and began to abuse him, calling him a "rogue and a vagabond," and accusing him of having received 10s. under false pretences. He followed plaintiff into a public-house, sent for a policeman, and gave him into custody upon the charge of misdemeanour. The plaintiff was taken before the county magistrates and remanded, but was ultimately discharged, and he now brought this action to compensate him for the injuries which he had received, and for what he deemed a malicious prosecution. The damages were laid at £5,000. After the case for the plaintiff had been opened, he consented to refer the matter to the stipendiary magistrate at Birkenhead, but a verdict was entered for the plaintiff for the amount claimed in the declaration, subject to the decision of the referee EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBERY. A singular charge of robbery from the person is unaer investigation by the magistrate at Worship-street Police court. Henry Thomas Holloway, 25, estate agent, Rectory-road, Stoke Newington, stands charged with stealing a gold watch and chain and other articles, the property of Joseph Lillie, of Malvern Villas, Cassland road, South Hackney; and Martin Durnsford, 20, clerk, of Gloucester-road, Regent's Park, is charged with being concerned in the same robbery.— Mr. 'Wontner, jun., appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Peckham for Holloway ; and Mr. Serjeant Robinson for Durnsford. The prosecutor was one evening drinking heavily, and treating the prisoner and others in a public house. He left in a cab, accompanied by his three or four friends, and on his way home missed his watch and other articles. Some days afterwards he accused Holloway of the crime. Durnsford was apprehended outside the court on a charge of stealing a bank-note for £lOO from a Mrs. Howard, and he was further charged on his own con• fession with having stolen Lillie's watch and chain. Evi dence was given by Mary Ann Cott, who cohabited with the prosecutor, relative to the events which took place on the night of the robbery, when Lillie and the young men reached her residence. From her statement it was shewn that Holloway, whatever share he may have taken in the proceedings of the evening, did not avoid the prosecutor's house or company for several days after wards ; in fact, not till after he was .accused of being the thief. Mrs. Annie Howard, of Caroline-street, Bed ford-square, deposed that she knew the prisoner Durnsford, and had known him about three months. On Friday last he went to her house. She remarked that he looked very ill, and he said that he was very ill and bothered, and asked her if she had seen a case of larceny in the papers. Witness replied that she h ad not, and he said it was in regard to a watch being lost. He told her that he had been at a tavern, and there he had met schoolfellows, and the gen tleman who lost the watch was the father of one of the party. He also told witness that they all had a great deal of champagne, and the man who lost his watch asked them to go to a house with him in Hackney. On the way in the cab or in the tavern, witness could not say which, he said he took the gentleman's watch. Holloway, who wasthe expected party and under remand, was innocent, he said. Before that witness asked him if he knew who was the guilty party, and he said yes, he was. Witness promised to keep his secret, and tried to hide him in her house for two days. Durnsford told her he had pawned the watch opposite the railway station in Shoreditch for £6. The chain he detached and took to another pawnbroker, where he found that it was aluminium, while he thought it was gold. On finding out that it was not gold, he took it to a railway station and hid it in a water - closet.—Cross-exami ne d by Serjeant Robinson : Witness said she was a widow. Her husband was a Mr. Howard, who died about a year ago. [Serjeant Robinson was proceeding, when witness said she thought it was very irrelevant to the question, and Mr. Newton said something to the learned counsel, who thereupon aban doned the course he was entering upon.] Under further cross-examination, she replied that she knew the prisoner Durnsford very well, and had introduced him to her family—in fact, she looked upon him in thelight of her )wn son, but she declared that there bad never been sny improper connection between them. She did try to hide him, and never gave any information about his confession until discovering her loss of a £lOO aote, four of which, together with a £2O note, she had in a Sa2; in her house while prisoner was there. When she missed the note she went to Scotland-yard to give informa tion of her loss, and was then obliged to say who had Seen in her house. The prisoner slept at her house on the Saturday night, and left about 8.30 the next morning. Witness begged to say that she did not charge Durnsford with stealing the £lOO note, and also that since she had Seen in the court she had received information that two gentlemen had caljed at her lodging and returned the £lOO cote to her servant.—Police-sergeant Thomas Manisty, 12 N, deposed to taking Durnsford int o cus t o d y cutside court, telling him that lie should charge him wit]: dealing a £lOO note from the house of Mrs. Howard, ind alsc on the charge of being concerned in stealing' a hutch and chain from the person of Mr. Joseph Lillie. Witness read the information laid at Scotland- i'ard respecting the £lOO note to prisoner, who said the irst portion, about his being there, was correct, but he did lot take the note.— At this stage of the proceedings the ?risoners were remanded on bail.—After the case had con- ;laded, Police•sergeant Parker discovered the missing watch at a pawnbroker's in the Kingsland•road. FINE WRITING. —A. Rochester paper, describing 1 recent fire in that city, employs this fine figure of letoric :—" About this time the rear wall of the back minding fell with a crash, and the Fire-fiend danced vith malignant joy in and about the rear portions of the tores and offices nearest the burning building."—,New Yorlcßun, Dec. 23. `THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. the act of endeaCrouring to effect an entrance into hi house through the kitchen window, he duly attende at the police-coul t, with his mother, who was th principal witness to prefer the charge, and th prisoner was remanded, being liberated on bail. Th next day the writer and his mother were again a the police-court but after waiting in a sid room until five o'clock, they were informed tha the man had brought satisfactory evidence of hi character and had been discharged. If this instancy fairly indicates the practice at police-courts, n 1 wonder thieves are many and prosecutors few. Sea ; but as usual with these great discoverers he is short of the " ready," was unable to provide for his former wife and daughter, and was committed to &ism, in default of $lO,OOO bail. Cunningham, another man, accomplished in four weeks what had taken Jannett years to do. Representing him self as a wealthy Californian, he went about the coun try, putting up at likely farm houses; where the daughters were well off he would make up a match, take his wife to one of the great cities, and after a few days run away with her valuables. He was arrested in Westchester county when about to lead a widow to the altar, and I only hope that, if proved, it may be the last opportunity he will ever have of practising that little game, the most vile and cowardly of which a man can be guilty. The " Bourbon" case has been again before the court ; District Attorney Courtney is working to try all the accused together on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government, but I suppose it will end in Mr. Courtney being himself gobbled up, the almost invariable fate of those who attempt to break into the "ring." The case was postponed, as usual, in the absence of some of the defendants. The Erie Railway war has taken a new phase, and as if the present tangle is not enough to unravel they have dragged up the Drew- Vanderbilt fight of last spring. The company desire to enforce on the Commodore a vast number of shares which he sold to the directors last summer, but as his price was 70, and the present market rate little over half that, he stoutly resists the pressure. One of the suits is for tha recovery from him of four and a half millions of dollars, paid it is said by Drew, out of Erie funds to compromise the old quarrel, yet it is but one of several cases, and the public are growing weary of these Erie affairs. The police are instructed to arrest street beggars and juvenile pedlars. We make less bother about invading the right of such citizens than in London, where the lives of weak-knee'd brethren, as far as 1 recollect, are often endangered by little wretches with brooms dancing straight in their front, while a Hansom shoots down one way and a lumbering " bus" comes up the other, the difficulty of keeping one's feet on the greasy mud of the pavement being enough without any other obstruction. Friends of aline recently returned from London tell me that street begging is worse than ever, and has really become a nuisance, particularly to my kind-hearted countrymen who cannot look calmly upon such dis tress, and I fear I may add, without being often im posed on. Superintendent Kennedy has ordered our young beggars to be • given over to the Com missioners of Charity and Correction, who will look after them during the winter. The case of Commodore Meade, who, by the way, is brother of General George Meade, has excited a good dell of interest. Mr. C. K. Landis of Vineland gives his version of the affair. It washe through whom, it was said, the Commodore bad been arrested on a certifi cate of insanity granted by two Tombs physicians, when a suitor for the hand of the Commodore's daughter. He says that in ;January he first met the young lady at the Commodore's house in Wash ington, and then learnt that it required a doughty knight to carry her off, as the father kept watch and ward over her, and had driven at the point of the sword every suitor out of the house. The difficulty and danger may have been an addi tional attraction to Mr. Landis, for he quickly demanded from the Commodore the surrender of the prize. The short, sharp, and decisive answer conveyed a peremptory order to desist, followed by another, threatening serious consequence if the first was not obeyed. He deigned, however, then to enu merate his objections, which Mr. Landis thus giveS :—" First, my age ; second, my religion ; third, being an entire stranger. Being at the time 34 years old, I was at a loss to know whether he meant that I was too young or too old. I did not care about adopting any new religion, and being fully his equal in birth and education, and having lived for 11 years upon my own estate in New Jersey, with my banner on the outer wall,' I could not possibly sympathize with the last objec tion." He consulted the Commodore's son, Capt. Meade, and other members of the family, who ad vised him to pay no attention to the Commodore, who, for some time, had suffered from aberration of mind, caused or aggravated by unjust treatment from the Government in respect to a claim of mil lions of dollars, and in the loss of the San Jacinto. The attentions were continued, the more so as the wooer would have blushed at anything like per sonal danger influencing his conduct, and he was aware that the Commodore was watching for an opportunity to shoot him. The marriage was ap pointed to take place on the 14th October, at the residence of the young lady's uncle, Mr. C. A. Meigs, of Staten Island. Although warned that he would be shot if the Commodore got a sight of him, he crossed the ferry on the 11th in an open carriage in broad daylight, feeling he was risking his life in a good cause, and with his father, sister, and chief secretary arrived a t t h e house. It was, perhaps, well for Mr. Landis that the Commodore's son, Captain Meade, had on the previous day shut up his father in Bloomingdale Asylum. On his person were several revolvers, and in his valise four more, while a gang of riughs had been engaged to stop Mr. Landis's progress to his marriage. The family expected that the match would be broken off, but Mr. Landis insisted on the ceremony being performed, and it is evident that he had nothing to do with the Commodore's incarceration, and that he acted throughout not only as a brave but as an honourable man, and in accord with all the other members of the Meade family. The Commodore has published a letter thanking the press, the judiciary, and the public, and threa tening fuller particulars. On the subject of insanity, we may mention that Ebenezer Haskell, a well known Philadelphian, has, after three years' impri sonment in a private mad house, been pronounced by a jury to be sane. He made prodigious efforts to escape from a dark cell in which he was long con fined. Ile sawed through iron bars, and fractured his leg by a fall in scaling the wall. It must not be supposed, however, that all the lunatics in Ame rica are thus treated. On Thanksgiving-day, at the asylum on Blackwell's Island, there was a grand dance, followed by a magic -lantern exhibition. Capt. Weise, who served in the 7th New York Regt. during the war, was one of the rational insane dancers, with a nice, quiet-looking woman, who only went mad on meeting her husband, on whom she would rush with a carving knife, if she could get one, to kill him. The party was conducted with great pro priety, and the inmates appeared contented and in health. Since I last wrote the Alaska purchase money has caused much commotion. The warrant for $7,200,000 in gold was drawn in favour of Baron Stoekl, and given by him to the Washington banker, J. W. Riggs, the money being payable in Washing ton. Riggs asked for a loan in currency of $200,000, which he had at once to disburse out of it, which Mr. M'Culloch refused, but Gen. Spinner, on being urged, consented. The first Treasury cheque, dated Aug. 1, was for $7,000,000 in coin to the order of J. IV. Riggs. It was made payable byMr. Riggs to S. S. and C. Ward of New York, and by them indorsed and the money paid to H. F. Vaile, of the Bank of Commerce of New York, by the Sub-Treasury, on August 4th, three days after it was given. The next cheque was given for $lOO,OOO in coin, and made payable to Riggs and Co., and was paid to W. A. Jenkins, in New York, on August 4th. The next was upon August 3, for $25,000 in coin, and was paid into the same source. Upon that date also another was given, but late in the afternoon, f0r525,000 in coin, and passed to Van Dyck's Sub-Treasury through the same channels as the two previous ones. No call was then made upon Gen. Spinner for any fur ther sum until September 9, when a coin cheque for $20,000 was issued, indorsed to Riggs and Co., and receipted for by " J. Purnett ;" the last being fur the balance of $20,000 in coin, upon September 16. whioh also passed through the same source as the previous one. None were indorsed, and all can now be seen in the Treasury. A young man from Georgia has stated to some members of Con gress that among the papers of Robert J. Walker he saw a list of those to whom this money was paid. As I before informed you, Mr. Walker admits hav ing received a large professional fee. An investi gation ha , . been ordered by Congress, and it is not improbable that a system of gross and shameful plunder will be discovered, by which lobbyists obtain money under the pretence of buying over COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS, There is likely to be no lack of measures for deal ing with the important subject of local taxation. beside the notices of motion given by Mr. Acland, Sir M. Lopes, and Sir W. P. Gallwey, we learn that Mr. Read, the tenant farmers' member, and his col league, Mr. Howes, are preparing a measure for the establishment of county financial boards. ASSESSMENT OF CLERICAL INCOMES. Under the heading of " A Fat Living," the Rev. J. F. Hodgson, vicar of Horsham, writes to expose a very serious injustice to which he and his brother clergy are exposed. His nominal income is £BOO ; but, when the absolutely necessary outgoings and those morally necessary are deducted, £2OO is all that remains for bread and cheese. He is assisted by four curates, the salaries—Ll7o—of two of whom are paid by him. Formerly the magis trates used to exempt him from the payment of rates upon this sum, and he was thereby saved £4O a year ; but, by a recent decision in the courts of law, they are unable to do so any longer, and he now has another £5O per annum clapped upon his shoulders. The result is that he is unable to increase the stipends of his hardworking curates, as he had intended to do. The amount of the clerical tithes being known exactly, the clergy are rated to the utmost, and every burden now—police, lunatic asylums, county rates— is heaped on these local rates. Of course, though Mr. Hodgson does not say so, the squires and the farmers take very good care to exempt themselves from assessment on their necessary outgoings. The case is really very hard, and some coun ty M.P. oug ht to introduce a bill for exempting curates' stipends from the assessment on the incumbents' incomes. RITTJALIST SERVICES. The Ritual judgment being, as Mr. Mackonochie mentions in his letter to the Archbishop of Can terbury, under the deliberation of the High Church clergy, the practices condemned by that judgment are still adhered to in the churches where they have hitherto prevailed; i.e., the altar lights are still lighted, the officiating clergy still prostrate them selves after consecration of the elements, and in some places incense is used. The morning papers con tain long accounts of services at two London churches, All Saints, Margaret-street, and St. Paul's, Lorrimore square. At the first church the services have not, hitherto, been so " advanced " as at St. Alb an ' s an d St. Michael's, Shoreditch. But Mr. Upton Richards, incumbent, now intends to make them more ritualist; and in order to compensate for the prohibi tions decreed by the judgment, he asked the congre gation to shew their reverence for the sacrament by kneeling at the words in the Nicene Creed, "And he was made man," and also by prostrating themselves after consecration. He especially exhorted them never to sit down, but to kneel or stand " while Our Blessed Lord lies on the altar." No one, he said, would think of sitting in the presence of the Queen ; how much more should one be reverent in the presence of the King of Kings ? At St. Paul's, Lorrimore-square, of which the Rev. John Going is the incumbent, the sermon was preached by the Rev. G. Abbott, travel ling secretary of the Curates' Aid Society, who, before commencing his sermon made the sign of the cross, and in his discourse spoke of the large increase in the number of churches where such services as his congregation were then witnessing were carried out. He said, if they would have their worship acceptable to God, and carry out what they had in view, they must suffer, and by the measure of their suffering they might count the measure of their success. Let them adopt the principle of non-resistance,which had been the weapon of the saints. Let them give a passive resistance, for true it was, and true it always would be, that they who took up the sword perished by the sword. They might come to church to cross themselves, to kneel and talk about religion, and all that might give them a name ; but the true circumcision was the circumcision of the heart. He attributed the shocking scenes witnessed in Lambeth and other parts of London to the want of money for the sup port of God's priests. At St. Peter's, Vauxhall, the incumbent, Mr. Herbert, a moderate High Churchman, said that he felt bound to comply with the recent judgment, and he should therefore adopt the Eucharistic vestments. As the Daily News remarks, the net result of the judgment so far is to convert moderate into advanced ritual. THE LITERATURE OF A YEAR. Four thousand five hundred and eighty-one new books and new editions were published during last year, and of these one fourth were issued during the last two months of the year. To the total above mentioned must be added 408 importations of original American books, and 103 registrations of alterations in price on re-issue, making a gross total of 5,092 works. It shews the great interest which is still, pac e the Positivists, taken in theology, that one fourth of the whole—viz., 984—were devoted to theology; whereas novels, which we had supposed to be the largest class, contained only 408 ; even the arts and the sciences had more (429) than fiction, and so too had education the classics, and philology (446). THE LAW OF PRIMOGENITURE. " L.'s " letter on this subject, which appeared in the Times last week, seems likely to excite a good deal of controversy. "In Aqualitate Xquitas" writes that a large professional experience convinces him that " L." is wrong in saying that directly a man purchases an estate he desires to " make an elder son." On the contrary, among the middle classes it is almost invariably the rule to treat the children equally. Consequently, although of course such persons should be permitted to make a will by which they may if they please leave all their landed property to the eldest son, it is not fair that the law should make a will for them which the great majority of them would not make for themselves. Consequently, in the case of a landowner dying intestate, his property shaid be sold, and the pro ceeds divided equally, any member of the family being at liberty to buy. Sir George Bowyer writes on the same subject that for many centuries there existed in Kent a law of "gavelkind," by which all land was divided equally among the children of a landowner, and the division could not even be set aside by will. (Sir Georg e appears to be unawa re o f th e fact that this law existed by virtue of the compact made with William the Conqueror by the men of Kent, who, having proved themselves nearly invin cible, agreed to submit themselves to him on condition that they were allowed to retain their old privileges and customs, among which was the one in question.) Sir George declares that gavelkind was found to be so inconvenient, that land in Kent has been disgavelled until very little gavelkind re mains; and the Real Property Commissioners, in their third report, recommended the total abolition of the custom, on the ground of the difficulty in dealing with property of this tenure arising from the minute shares into which it often becomes divisible. If equal distribution were merely voluntary,. Sir George Bowyer considers that very little effect would be produced. If it were made compulsory the change would render the inves tigations of title more difficult even than they are at present; in other words, the cost of conveyance, i. e., the cost of land, would be increased, and it would be almost impossible to effect mortgages. Sir. George has clearly never heard of the Act for registering titles. RETIREMENT FROM THE TURF. If a rumour in sporting circles is to be believed, the Duke of Hamilton has decided upon breaking up his training establishment at Winchester, which was managed by T. Brown. Some of the horses go to Page, at Chantilly, and othersto:Matt Dawson's, at Newmarket. THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. BAKER. The Irish papers supply the details of the Tippe rary murder. The evidence at present accumulated proves that there must have been a thorough acquaintance with the somewhat peculiar habits of the deceased on the part of the person or persons who perpetrated the crime. Mr. Baker had served an ejectment on Thomas Dwyer, a yearly tenant, who had frequently given considerable annoyance by quarrelling with his brother, another tenant on the property. The morning before the assassination Dwyer had urged Mr. Baker to withdraw the ejectment, but his request was refused. Mr. Baker had left his own house to visit his father, the Rev. Mr. Baker, and soon after wards a woman heard shots, and discovered the body lying on the avenue. Mr. Baker had been shot in the head, and his body bore marks of blows. The police at once arrested Dwyer's son, and the father, who had not been at home all night, was taken subsequently. The coroner's jury contented themselves with return ing a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unLnown. Mr. Baker was 40 years of age, and has left a wife and three children. PROFESSOR FORBES. Tidings of the death of Professor James David Forbes, D.C.L., LL.D, have been received from Scotland. The deceased was Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvador and St. Leonard's, St. Andrews. The deceased, who was a son of the late Sir William Forbes, Bart., of Pitsligo, was born in Edinburgh in 1809, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained several prizes, and where he held the Professorship of Natural Philosophy from 1833 till 1860. He was the author of a large number of works on physical science, as well as of worlds in various departments of general literature, amongst which may be mentioned " Travels in the Alps of Savoy," " Norway and its Glaciers," " Papers on the Theory of Glaciers," &c. Some years ago he received the Perth Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Rumford and Royal Medals of the Royal Society of London, for various papers on the transactions of those bodies. AN ENCOURAGEIENT TO PROSECUTE. To illustrate he difficulties thrown in the way of prosecuting thieves, a Mr. Charles Walker writes to the. Times to say that a man having been taken in DEATH IN A POLICE CELL. The death of a - woman who was carried on a stretcher to the police-station, all but naked, and was locked up, cold, wet, exhausted, and imperfectly clad, a few days since, has called forth a communication from Dr. Painter, for seven years surgeon to the Bow-street police, in which he points out that the great fault of the present system is, that for the,sake of economy the surgeon is not sent for nearly so often to the police-station as he ought to be; and that the inspector or sergeant on duty is the sole judge as to whether a given case requires a doctor, and is one of intoxication, illness. bodily injury, or what not; and this, although the 'discrimination between intoxica tion, apoplexy, starvation, fracture of the skull, or some kinds of poisoning, is frequently so difficult as to tax the skill of the most careful surgeon. When ever there is the very slightest suspicion of illness or accident the surgeon should be sent for. Though this is admitted to be the rule, as a matter of fact it is not acted on to the extent it ought to be. The writer remarks that the sad story upon which he comments is not an isolated case. A few years since a similar one came under his own notice, and from that time, on his recommendation a general order was given that every stretcher should be provided with a woollen rug. It was further advised that at every station a thick woollen coat and trousers, and a similar kind of gown and petticoat, should be kept for the use of such cases as the above ; also that every station should have one cell with a wooden floor, and no bench, where persons should be placed who were likely to fall or roll off the bench. Also, that all cells should be provided with pillows made of some strong material, as it is most injurious to many persons to lie or sleep on a level surface. THE VACANCY IN EENFREWSHIRE. The Daily Telegraph recommends the electors of Renfrewshire to elect the Marquis of Hartington in the place of the late Captain Speirs. We doubt if this advice will be followed. Renfrewshire is rather a Conservative constituency, and it was chiefly by his large territorial possessions and personal popu larity that Captain Speirs succeeded in defeating the old Conservative member in 1865. ANOTHEIt MABBIAGE AMONG THE CAMPBELLS. The Dul:e of Argyll, having just married his daughter to the heir of the Percys, is about to marry one of his sons to his ward. The North British Daily Mail announces that " the marriage of Lord Archibald Campbell, the son, and Miss Callander, the ward of the Duke of Argyll, will take place early in January, at Argyll Lodge." It seems almost a pity that there was not a "double wedding." FOREIGN NOTES, • TLC appointment to the India Office seems to have given general satisfaction in India. The new Ministry is strong to statesmen who might be advantageously appointed to rule our Eastern empire, and, as the Times of India re marks of the two most probable candidates, Mr. Bright and the Duke of Argyll, India felt she would be well off with either. Mr. Bright has long been looked upon as a future Secretary of State for the great British possession, but hia strong denunciation of the East India Company at Edin burgh diminished the hope of his appointment. The great preparations which were made in Bombay for the reception of Lord Mayo induced some of the Bengal journals to regret that none of this excitement was caused by the expected arrival of Lord Napier. The Abyssinian expedition never gave rise to much enthusiasm in Bcmbay. The return of the victorious army was scarcely noticed. Certainly, if Lord Mayo deserved a demonstrative wel come, it ought not to have been wanting to the conqueror of Theodore. Sir John Lawrence having resolved to retain his position until the last day of his term, Lord Mayo cannot take the oaths of office until January 12. The Indian papers regarded his recall as not improbable. "It cannot be denied," says the Bombay Gazette, " that a strong feeling prevails—wising, of course, from no personal dislike to Lord Mayo, but from a conviction that he does not possess the special qualifications which would fit him for the high office to which he has been appointed—that the new Ministry would be performing its duty if even at this late moment it determined to send out a more suitable man than the Conservative nominee." The Pioneer observes that as the office is not vacant, and as the nomination will rest with the Liberals, the recall of Lord Mayo would be perfectly justifiable. But it recom mends that Mr. Disraeli's selection be confirmed, and believes that such will be the course adopted. The news from the famine•stricken districts is no better. Troops are being withdrawn from all the provinces where the food is required for the inhabitants ; but in some cases this is attended with danger, for the starving natives are already resorting to violent measures for procuring sub- sistence. An Lmerican, named Walker, who was required to take the oath of allegiance to the Ring of Burmah, was beaten and nearly murdered by the Burmese officials on his refusal to do so. This outrage will give rise to some little difficulty between Burmah and the United States. The statement that the Russian authorities had imposea a duty. of 50 per cent. on all British goods imported into Central Asia is confirmed. This extraordinary regu lation has had a very unfavourable effect upon the trade of Northern India, large orders have already been cancelled. Throughout the etnpire it is looked upon almost as an act of hostility, and the Indian journals express, the hope that the Foreign Office will at once make representations on the subject at St. Petersburg. It cer tainly is a barbarous and retrograde measure, such as sbe civilised world has already refused to tolerate in the case of China and Japan. The news from Alfghanistan is much like that from Paraguay. It is now ascertained that the "great battle" between Shere Ali and Abdul Rahman was a concoction. Shere Ali has the best of the situation, but no battle has taken place. BELGIUIf. A. commission of the Royal Academy of Medicine has for some time past devoted its attention to the employment o f women an d girls in subterranean mines in Belgium. The result has been an order to the effect that after 1871 this species of employment shall cease. It appears that an agricultural gang was a model of purity compared with the communities who labour in the Belgian mines. It is difficult to conceive a worse state of things. But the absolute prohibition of labour, which appears to be the direct cause of such terrible results, gives rise to that difficult question—what is to become of the women who find this the only means of obtaining a livelihood? Legislative interference with the right of labour to the extent of absolute prohibition is hazardous, and many authorities in Belgium are doubtful of the effects of this new regulation. SPAIN. The situation in Spain, which wore rather a favourable aspect after the repression of the rising at Cadiz, has again been troubled by a disturbance at Malaga. The reorgani sation of the militia was the cause of this outbreak also. Though the rising has been serious, it would be premature to attribute it to the influence of any particular party. The Republicans, in fact, exhibit a disposition in favour of an amicable settlement. A large meeting has recently been held, at which it was resolved to accept the candidate of the Progressista, provided that the election be only for life. This would really be a sort of republican monarchy ; but the monarchists may find it preferable to a deadly struggle ending in military government or the success of the reactionists. PARAGUAY. The news from the La Plata is a little less doublefaced than usual. The defeat of the Allies and the injury of the three ironclads is admitted. The Brazilian accounts, how. ever, speak of a new enterprise by which the position of Lopez has been turned ; whilst the Paraguayans say that the Allies have remained satisfied with their defeat. It is clear that the relative position of the two parties remains unchanged. The Argentine Republic has fallen a prey to the chronic malady of the South A nThrican States —inter. nal arritation. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Dec. 19. We are likely to have plenty of law business dur ing this winter —criminal cases, and cases in equity, whisky frauds, naturalization frauds, stock-jobbing frauds, murder, arson, and bigamy. Touching the latter, James NV. Jannett has lately been com mitted, charged with having married three women, all now living. The first and third appeared in court, together with a young lady, his daughter by the first, the eldest, it is said, of five children, all bent on the suppression of tl is Mormon monster. No. 2, however, could not be found. These are the known cases, how many more wives may turn up when the subject gains publicity remains to be seen. Jannett asserts that he was the owner of two vessels employed as blockade runners during the war—of these one was lost at sea, the other seized—when he found himself a prisoner for two years. The death of his wife was communicated to him after release, whereon he decided on marrying, and only became convinced that his former wife was alive on seeing her. He has grand prospects, and his life is valuable, as he is the discoverer of guano islands in the Carribean newspapers, members of Congress, and others sup posed to have influence, to secure the passage of a measure, while they simply put the money thus ob tained into their pockets, caring little how they injure the reputation of those whose names they use in com pleting their robbery. The terrible disaster which followed the steamboat collision has led to the re peal of all laws authorizing the carriage of petro leum as freight on passenger steamers. An awful description is given of the scene when the petroleum in the United States caught fire. The oil ran into the river, and the burning vessel was surrounded by a lake of flame. The passengers were not even offered the alternative of fire or water, for the water became a sea of fire ; many of the bodies recovered being much burnt, of which over eighty-six have now been fished from the river. An effort is being made to introduce the half price system into the New York theatres, and the managers are urged to adopt it in their own inte rest. The lynching at New Albany is much dis cussed, and strongly condemned throughout the North. The scene, as described by the sheriff, was very dreadful. The four men were executed, and the lynchers dispersed in from three to five minutes. Some of the murdered men fought desperately, as was evident from the bruises they had received, and Anderson, who is an Englishman, it is asserted was declared to be innocent by Frank Reno of any part in the Express robbery, and the Canadian authori ties received a solemn promise that both would be fairly tried. The Canadian papers are not unjustly indignant, as the danger had been pointed out be fore the prisoners were surrendered, and this is strongly dwelt on in the Toronto Leader. The Montreal Herald also joins the Leader in stating " that if such things are to be done, extradition must cease. We cannot send men over the border to be torn to pieces by an unauthorized rabble, no matter what their crimes may be." WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. Although not so brisk as speculation will be on General Grant's Cabinet when Congress gets back to Washington after the holidays, yet the Cabinet occupies more of men's thoughts than anything else in the political capital of the Union. Two men are considered certain of place—the one is his friend and neighbour, Mr. Elihu B. Washburue, of Illi nois, who, it is thought, will till the post of Secre tary of the Interior; the other is Mr. Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune, who was also spoken of in connection with the same appointment, but will take nothing less, it is alleged, than the Em bassy to London. So determined does Mr. Greeley appear to attain this object that he will most likely succeed. Whether Senator Sumner will succeed Mr. Seward as Secretary of State is a point much discussed. Mr. Adams was sent for from Quincy to meet General Grant when he visited Boston. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Mr. Seward himself might be dispatched to London, and if he talks in the same overwhelming style as he writes he will smother the whole English Cabinet, unless they wisely give way. The General is doing all he can to judge personally the qualifications of the most prominent politicians. Very properly I see you give Commissioner Wells a high place for the Secretaryship of the Treasury, he is a very able and, what is more, a highly trained public servant ; and, after the example given by no less a person than the President of the United States of w•h it financial heresies an American in high place can be guilty, we most want a sound man, educated to deal with this difficult subject. The President's repudi ation proposal has been ingeniously defended by Senator Dixon, who, while condemning and oppos ing it, stated that it was a mere offer to the bondholders to accept or reject as it pleased them. It certainly pleased the Senate, who shouted with laughter at the absurdity. With this exception, I have see❑ no attempt at justi fication, the nation with one voice condemning the proposition. In the House last Wednesday a new drawing for seats was made to give the new Southern members a fair chance. This scene always affords amusement, as it separates cronies and throws the most prominent into the shadiest place. General Butler was not fortunate in his lot, and seated himself among the Democrats, when some one cried from the gallery, " Right, that's where you came from, and that's your proper place." Mr. Menard presented his credentials as Congressman from Louisiana. He received the congratulations of the friends of coloured men ; but, on the whole, he has reason, if I am rightly informed, generally to object to his treatment. He was born in Ran dolph county, Illinois, and after spending much of his life on the farm in that State, he entered IbJri t College, Ohio, where be was educated. He fur nished President Lincoln with an able report of British Honduras. It was not till 1865 that he settled in Louisiana, where he acted with the Re- publican party with much ability and courage, and in return they elected him to fill the unexpired term of the deceased member, Mr. Mann. The Re presenatives spent yesterday in eulogizing the late Thaddeus Stevens. '1 he galleries were well filled, and among the distinguished persons was Mr. Thornton, the British Minister. Seventeen Repre sentatives spoke in honour of the deceased, and with unusual ability, as the old commoner, whatever his faults, was a fine subject. Among the best of these addresses was that by Mr. John M. Broomall, of Pennsylvania. The House is similarly occupied to-day, and will be to-morrow on other deceased members, as is the Senate ou the late Mr. Stevens. There are some alarming reports of ruffians who have pledged themselves to assassinate Gen. Grant. Almost universally they are regarded as merely 4 , sensational," though it is alleged that over a hundred have sworn that the President Elect shall not be inaugurated. The Senate have not considered the nomination of Alex ander Cummings for Revenue Commissioner, in succession to Mr. Rollins ; hence, it must lie over till January, when Congress reassembles. On Mon day the President sent to the Chamber the name of Henry A. Smythe, Collector of Customs i❑ New York, for Minister to Russia, but the Foreign Re lations' Committee promptly reported against the ' nomination. Among the other nominations were William J. Cullen to be Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Idaho and Montana ; Benjamin F. James to be Chief Examiner for the Patent-office ; and Alfred Marcy to be Collector of Customs at Nantucket, Massachusetts ; J. N. Marks to relieve General Cake as Collector of Customs at Philadel phia. Senator Henderson, who has returned to this city, intends, if successful in re-election to the Senate, to announce himself a candidate for the Governorship of Missouri. Green Clay Smith has resigned the Governorship of Montana Territory. Mr. Fred. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, will, it is said, be named by the President, if Cummings fails, for Mr. Rollins' place, on whom strong pressure is brought to bear to hold on till Grant comes in. General Schofield only, was absent from the Cabinet to-day. Fessenden and Bayard alone con firmed the appointment of Collector Smythe for the Russian Mission, the vote being five against their two. Mr. Creecy appears to think that a clue has been obtained which will break up the "ring" in New Orleans against the revenue, great tobacco frauds being discovered. Our authority for the following is the Spring field Republican, though we doubt that a "British Colonel" would get such a job, and if he did at such a salary it would be rated higher than any General's command in Great Britain :—" The suit of the British Government against the• Sharp's Rifle Company, of Hartford, for the foreclosure of a mortgage on account of non-fulfilment of contract by the latter, has at length been decided by the Supreme Court of the State in favour of England. It has been on trial for 12 years, and involved about $lOO,OOO. During all this time a British colonel has been stationed at New York to manage the case on a salary of $lO,OOO per year in gold, and the Crown lawyers while in attend ance have had $5O per day in gold." Apropos of British colonels an American paper, by way of showing up the abuses of the Purchase System, quotes a recent instance of an ensign having purchased a colonel's commission. As our article last week showed he could not have lone so by any expenditure, as the rules that limit purchase are inexorable, and cannot even be infringed by the Queen. JJUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. 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 exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London vertisement.] RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL' ROAD.--It is stated that $2,000,000 have been spent by Robert B. Potter, receiver of this railroad, during the past 16 months in placing its track, road bed, and rolling stock in the most perfect condition. Important improvements and renewals have been, during the period named, continually in progress. Two hundred miles of new rails, weighing 651bs. to the yard, of the best quality and most improved pattern, laid with the celebrated fish-plate joint' have taken the place of old ones, rendering the track like one continuous rail, and preventing the jarring and noise so exhausting and disagreeable to passengers. Five hundred thousand new oak cross ties have been laid ; new bridges, durable and sub stantial, have been built ; trestle works have bee° replaced by solid earth and stone embankments, and new day cars and sleeping coaches have been placed upon the line. The formal transfer of this railway to the control of tb Erie R may Company was ma le on December 12th, at Meadville, Penn Il vania, The road is to be known as the Atlantic and Great Western Division of the Erie Railway. Messrs. Gould and Riddle represented the Erie 1 0 taking possession. Messrs. L. D. Rucker is retained as superintendent of this division. No other ap' pointments or changes have yet been announced. The Erie officials started for Cincinnati to-day. SOUTHERN RAILWAYSTOCK. —Chief Justice Chase, at the present term of the United States Circuit Court, sitting at Richmond, it is reported, has de• livered an important decision, establishing the right of stockholders in the loyal States to dividends de' dared during the war upon stock held by them i 0 Southern railways, notwithstanding the confisea' tion of such stock and its dividends by the Code' derate Government. The opinion enters at length into the question what is meant by the term de facto government, and lays down the rule that Confede' rate notes received in the rebel States by the repre sentatives of persons in the loyal States must be accounted for in lawful money, equal in value to the Confederate notes at the time of their receipt : The Illinois Central Railroad Company la pay a net dividend of 5 per cent. to those entitled thereto on the Ist of February. The " Selma, Rome, and Dawton Railroad," el' tending nearly 200 miles from Selma, Alabama' to Rome, Georgia, was opened on the 31st 01 October. It is a combination of several unfinished roads projected and begun before the late war, but which were nearly destroyed during that period' It forms the shortest line of road connecting the larger cities of the Atlantic with those of the Gal l of Mexico. 'I be old portions have been thoroughly rebuilt, and the new line has been constructed 1 ° the most substantial manner. The Great Indian Peninsular Railway Compani paid £1,070,136 into the Bank, to the credit of the Secretary of State for India on account of the £2,000,000 stock just issued upon tender. The joint traffic return of the Cale'lonian and North British Itiilway Companies shows an irY crease of £2,354. JOURNALISM.—The New Jersey Enterprise 14 new four-page weekly paper, published at Bur/in:4 oi ' N.J. It contains 32 columns of reading matter and wive': tisements, and pros nts a very attractive appearance. P paper called the Daily World has been establish-d in 11 °: roato, Canada, devoted to the interest, of the workiel men. There is a newspaper in Maine which bears the r e ' nrtrkable title of the Presque Isle Loyal Sunrise. The Se' d Fork herald calls Theodore Tilton the molasses of put' nalism, and Wendell Phillips the vinegar. There is are' ligious newspaper at Shanghae, China, called Kian Sing Ban, which is edited by the Rev. Young J. Allen, 0 American missi onary . Th e pre f ace and dedication 1 General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust's forthcoming work 4' Lives of th e W arr i ors o f the 17th Century, " to which I alluded in our last issue, is, we now see, printed for P; I :',1 vate circulation only, and addressed to Brigadier-Gene Watts de Peyster Tivoli, New York. JAPANESE NEW TESTAMENT.—The Phil auei ph-i 0 Public Ledger s a y s a J apanese N ew T estament, trans l a ted and edited by the American missionaries, is now in coat! of publication in Japan. The English and Japanese P ./ printed in par a ll e l co l umns an d i n R oman type, au arra ng , mont which will f a cilit a t e th e mas t ery o f b ot h l angu ages r enabling the natives to learn English and foreigners Jail; nese. Ther e i s no soun d i n the Japanese tongue w hic corresponds to either the letter lor th. The former j so%' pressed by substituting r, and the latter by s. A colossal bron z e s t a t ue o f Bi s h op B rown el l l designed by R an d o l p h R ogers, and intended for Trial;, College, has just arr i ve d at HarVord, Connecticut, fr° Munich. • Artemus Ward's moth er , a t P or tl an d, h as rece if d 0 from the Engli s h exec u t ors o f hi s esta t e a b out $7OO greenbacks, the amount of property which came into the ol possession. He had an estate on the H u d son wor th 3 1,° 85,000, making about SG,OOO i n a ll. N o won d er h e ' s , ing to figure out in the spirit world how he could g l away $25,000 so generously.—Spring field Republican. h, The President ha s ma d e th e f o ll ow i ng appo in t ments :- S. J. Hooker, to be United States Marshal f Wisconsin ; Walter R. I rw i n , C omm i ssioner to negocigero treaties with the Sen ecas an d ot h er Indians in the WeSterosio part of New York; and F. A. Dockray, United St 6 "i District Attorney for the S ou th ern Di strict of Florida. Jot N. Cramer has been confirmed as Postmaster at RbiDd beck, New York. Charles H. Poor has been promo' Rear-Admiral in the Navy. Secretary M'Culloch has appointed Gen. Y Oll l to be Supervi sor o f I nternal Revenue for the South District of Ohio.—G eorge B ax t er, j un., h as b een pointed gauger for the Third Massachusetts Internal Jr venue District. A circular from the office of the Factory l i n t ; Spector calls attention to th e f ac t th a t , commencing Igor the New Year, th e S a t u id ay h a lf - h ol i day will be e°l, pulsory as regards child ren , young persons, and wora 0 pi. in all factories and wor k s h ops, w i th a few excapt i° The hour for the cessation of labour is two o'clock. fp On his way to Ca m b r id ge , MassachusEtts, Gre,r Grant paid a visit to the library of the Massachusetts gl torical Society. He was accompanied by Gov. Clifford;4 Judge Bigelow, and was received at the library by B 0 C. Winthrop, the p res id en t o f th e soc i ety. While puttl 1 4 his name on the regist er h e o b serve d t h at almost i'_vt schoolboy could wr it e it b e tt er ; at wh i ch Mr. Wintlil o remarked that at any rate there was not one of that , W was likely to make his mark so well. !ADVERTISEMENT 1— Consumption, and al , nervous, bili ° i ;l stomach,and liver compl a i n t s i n every stage are only aggral:4 and accelerated by drugs of every description, but per.,/' , " curable by Du Barry's health- restor i ng Revalenta ArabicaP"isil as proved by thousands o f cases which had been consicV:3o hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, „, sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea , all gastric dolt? ments, haemorrhoids, liver comp l a i nts, flatulency, ne ryous ° biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, cult p°' fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, 1 7,0 0 ' rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ale eplesslof; acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dr ° f r, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy 701" sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the c hip pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders. r il We quote a few.—Th e Pope ' s health restored by Du Bar iyo' Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning other emedies, he has c on fi ne d hi mse l f ent i rely to Du 13°iP; Ol Revalenta Arabica Food, o f w hi c h h e consumes a doir, at every meal. It h as pro luced a surprisingly belle ttg effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prailocll:„ excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du or July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber 0 0 chant, of Frimley, S urrey, of thirty years' diseased 1°,0.1d spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafue.y Cure No. 1,771. L or d Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuteu?l'lP Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia..—No. 49,832. t;:i years' indescribabl e agony from dyspep sia, nervou°n asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware e ware of the.% unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, ' v1 ,141 authority, Baron Liebies name is mo s t au d ac i ous l y attach f,,,9 In tins, at ls. 14,1 . ; 1 lb . 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, lls. ; 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENIA ARABICA LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters ; for 12 cups at 2 0 .. c 0r j cups at 3s. 6c1., for 48 cups at 6 5., f or 288 cups at 305., for 57; : O at 55s.—bein g a b out one penny per cup. The 30s. and s.''birA are sent free of carr i age i n England on receipt of Post Orden—BAßßY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street , don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. yfo le Buvrox— On the 2d inst., at 9, Seamore place, A— II - Lady Buxton, of a daughter. La DUNLO— On the 29th u l t., at Fort Eyre, Galway, the Dunlo, of a son. POLWARTII—On the 31st ult., at Mertoun Rouse, Berif shire, the Lady Polwarth, of a daughter. Marriages. figl°;ll ELLIOT—BROMLEY—On the 4th inst., at St.George' o 4,ig, over-square, T. F. Elliot, Esq., son of the late Ppli Hon. Hugh Eliot, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Admiral Sir Robert Howe hlromley, Bart. Ro l' SELLS —DE GRAVE —On the 2d inst., at Highbury, the torn Alfred Sells, M.A., of Polygon House, Southa" to Anna Maria, second daughter of the late E. Grave, Esq., of Fetcham, Surrey. Deaths. .11( BRASSEY—On the bt inst., at N ew h o ld C ornyn, Lear ,-,104 ton. Arthur Albert, the infant son of Henry A. 1311 ' Esq., M.P. e /1/ FuLr.rat -On the 3.1 i ns t .„ C a de town, Stratford-place, ocl town, W. C. Full er , aged 68. ~.o*6 GREENSHIELDS On the 3d i ns t ., a t horse, Lesma,'" John Greenshields, Esq., of horse. PARRY - On the Ist inst., at Clearwell Vicarage, G .° 7 4 - ai r i" tershire, Captain H owar d L ew i s Parry, Royal ' aged 77. - - Loud : Printed and Pablished by WILLIAM ANDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Trig Sus Odic', N' C ' t y 7 Strand, in the P rec i nct of the Si' voy, in the 003 Uiddlesex.—Tuesday, January 5, 1& 9.