The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUELIC JOURNALS. The Times, after considering Mr. uoscuen's expositlox of his new Assessment Bill, arrives at the conclusion tirti the growth of the nation has been much slower in politica intelligence than in material wealth. The " muddled' condition of our local government appears in frightfn: contrast with the simplicity and perfection of the adminis tration of our forefathers. The framers of the parochia: system were in reality persons of great politica: capacity, and the best testimony to the value of their work is, that our legislators, when they try reform, are constantly working on the Same basis. As far as the new measure is concerned, we may certainly congratulate Mr. Goscben on the attain• ment of a high degree of simplicity, though his plans *mid be still more simple if the Central Board were dropped out of them altogether. For all the good they promise to do they might be spared the trouble of coming into existence. If the scale of deductions is to be inserted in the bill, why not the common basis also? The assessor is the dominant person of the scheme, and, indeed, we already feel some little awe of him. What power is great enough to delegate such vast authority to him? The Lord Mayor, according to the most exaggerated conception of foreign fancy, is nothing by his side. He will be able to say with command to this union, " You are too low," or to that, " You are too unreasonable," and they must obey him. We do not find that Mr. Goschen explained how this omnipotent creature is to be created. Perhaps he will be named in the bill, and provision made that on any future vacancy Parliament shall be called together to name his successor. It might be just possible to give the sovereign a right of making a provisional nomination. Or perhaps Parlia ment, in its wisdom, may hesitate to call such a Frankenstein into existence ; and the President of the Poor-law Board may be asked to devise some other mode of appeal of one Union Assessment Committee against another. The Post thinks that the discussion raised is the House of Commons by Lord Elcho on the subject of the viaduct from' Hungerford Bridge to Wellington-street was oppor tune in several respects. Mr. Layard described, almost pathetically, how he had contemplated the erection of a public building on part of the very site of this objection able viaduct, which could not be carried out if the road way were made. The particular part of the Embankment ha.alluded to is that on the west side of Waterloo Bridge corresponding to Somerset House on the east, and there can be no question about such a building being aesthetically desirable, balanc ing Somerset House, as it would if rightly designed, and combining with it and with Waterlco Bridge to form an ensemble not easily to be matched. But this need in no way interfere with laying out the Embank. ment between Waterloo and Hungerford Bridges with a sufficiency of gardens and open spaces. Some people seem to desire to occupy the newly-formed site with con tinuous, or nearly continuous, rows of stately buildings along its whole length. Others appear to wish for nothing but gardens and promenades. But the hate Milieu, the combination of detached buildings with intermediate gardens, while probably satisfying both parties sufficiently, and ensuring a good artistic effect, would prevent the Strand site from being deprived to a considerable extent of Pght and air. There can be little doubt that Parliament, now that its attention has been drawn to the matter, will take care that the viaduct is not constructed. It should, however, also make arrangements calculated to prevent the occurrence of similar muddles to those already created in respect of the Thames Embankment. Divided authority, and anomalous arrangements, are at the bottom of contretemps of the kind in question ; and happily the tendency of public feel ing is at present entirely favourable to the abolition of these sources of infinite mischief. The Standard says that the Government intends to let the bulk of the Fenian prisoners loose. Of eighty-one persons at present under sentence of penal servitude for treason-felony or kindred crimes, forty-nine are to be at once and unconditionally discharged. We need not say that we should have nothing to urge against the exercise of the Royal clemency in favour of any particular Fenian prisoner for whose release any fair grounds could be shewn. But it is quite evident from Mr. Fortescue's own statement that the Government did not look at the question from this standpoint. The prima facie case in its judgment was in favour of a remission of sentence which might serve its party interests, and only those convicts have been refuaed pardon, as Mr. Fortescue, with much sim plicity, explained, whom it would have been absolutely suicidal to let loose. Everybody for whom any possible excuse could he found, no matter the character of his crime, has been released. It is an ungracious task to suggest doubts as to the expediency of exercising the power of pardon which the Constitution vests in the Crown, but we must frankly say that we cannot conceive a stronger encouragement to treason—and this treason includes murder and half a score of other crimes—than the release en masse, after a few months' imprisonment, of ir.en whom juries of their countrymen, anxi , me, if possible, to acquit them, have been compelled to find guilty of the charges brought against them, :Ind to whom the judges of the land have awarded the sentences which such offences called for. If the prerogative of mercy is ttc remain, as heretofore, one of the brightest and most beneficent attri butes of the Crown, it must not be prostituted by the advisers of the sovereign for the promotion of their own party purposes. The Telegraph is surprised that such systematic and flagrant unfairness is tolerated in these days as is shewn in our present system of rating. We are quite in the dark as to the exact weight of local burthens. At present, to a great extent, we are forced to go by guess work. That the East is scandalously loaded in comparison with the West, is only too manifest ; but how much the burden of the one district exceeds that of the other, we cannot tell. As Mr. Locke pointed out the other evening, no measure can be complete so long as the rating of the metropolis is not equalised. On Saturday we exposed the extraordinary difference between the rates per pound paid in various parts of London ; and the sub ject is so fertile that on Monday it seemed about to provoke a long and animated debate. As a member for the City, Mr. Lawrence complained that the Temple, which is a parish by itself, pays no poor rates at all. No doubt it supports its own poor; but that is an easy task, since the laundresses and other servants who wait upon the inmates live beyond the sacred boundaries of the legal sanctuary, and hence, even if they become destitute, they impose no charge on the Temple. The same blessed freedom from poor rates seems to be enjoyed by Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. Had London a Government worthy of the the name, such an anomaly would not be allowed to exist for a day. Even Mr. Chambers—who, as the member for lightly-rated Marylebone, might be expected to champion the present system of inequality—did not argue that, in itself, such a system was defensible. He was con tent to plead that, before reforming it, we must ascertain, by means of Mr. Goschen'sbill, the real incidence of rating. No doubt we must. But as the President of the Poor-law Board frankly admitted, the present measure is only a 'step towards that larger reform which, making East and West contribute in equal proportions, shall destroy a system that, while light to the ricb, is oppressive to the poor. The Herald declares that modern society has a certain degree of impatience, which forbids that anybody or any - thing should have more than a tolerable degree of atten tion. The public have heard more than enough of the Gulf Stream. Not a breeze could flow, not a shower could. fall, it could not be hot, and it could not be cold, but there followed the inevitable explanation that the Gulf Stream did it all. We are tired of the Gulf Stream, and we are deeply indebted to Mr. Findlay, of the Royal Geographical Society, for trying to get rid of this trouble sonie creature. Mr. Findlay undertakes to shew that it is physically impossible for the G ulf Stream to do all that is said of it. The mouth of the Gulf of Mexico is altogether too small for the exit of such a monster current as would cover the ocean from Portugal to Greenland. The Florida Channel has a minimum breadth of 45 miles, and at that spot is only 325 fathoms deep, of which depth —says Mr. Findlay, on the authority of the United States Survey—the Gulf Stream occupies little more than half, with icy cold water beneath it. The velocity and magni tude•of the stream, as shewn at the outset of its career, are considered by Mr. Findlay utterly incommensurate with the notion that it is the great modifier of climate in the north-east Atlantic. So far from travelling an inde pendent course of 3,500 or 4,000 miles, the stream, accord ing to Mr. Findlay's conclusions, gets into trouble off Cape Cod, and is soon afterwards so knocked about by the Arctic currents that it becomes utterly demolished off the banks of Newfoundland. The Daily News refers to Henrich Christian's maxims on the use of money, and quotes his conclusion after all his experience: In clothing live up to your means ;in food below your means ; in dwelling above your mealy.' The first recommendation reminds one of Polonins and his " costly thy habit as thy purse can buy "—in which. of course, the modern system of tailors' bills and " milhnited credit " was not taken into account. With regard to the second dogma of the economical creed v:e are considering, " In food live below your means," we have Lo doubt whatever. It is as sound' ; , piece of advice fo l could be given, and is terribly needed, we are bound to add, by En;lishmen, and pal ticularly Englishmen of the present generation. We presmne however, that in this pnrticnlar Bunsen would ha veanmoi ved them. "Indwelling live above your means.' And on the whole we Arrive at this conclusion, that whatever is calculated to preserve s man's own self-respect, and likewise to uphold his tsti illation amongst his neighbonrs, should b e approac h ed and treated with liberality. Thus, his home and his attire should never wound his dignity or invite malicious compassion. lint in all that serves merely to pamper mat,Tial appetite, lie should bt, to him self and Isis fanny a jealons a nd v i g il ant watch dog. Nothing so transitory as a meal ; nothin4 so permanent, as far as tie individual is concerned, as a roof tr2e, and even clothes lest a considerable time. - these two do last they give a man a solid vantage-pm-nil from which to encounter the stings and arrows of out rageous fortune ; but the costly banquet excites only t o depress, and too often lards him in what Mr. Disraeli has so admirably described as "the ignoble melancholy which springs from pecuniary embarassment." ELECTION PETITIONS. The Irish election petitions are still occupying a large share of public attention. In English news we have the abandonment of the Hull petition, and the commencement of the Bodulin inquiry. At Yonghal oral and documentary evidence was offered to abew profuse expenditure on the part of the respondent. Captain Weguelin, who acted as expense agent, depcsed that he disbursed in all £2,198. Mr. Weguelin paid £7O for four months' rent of the house in which he stopped. The accounts which were given in evidence shewed that the respondent's friends took great care of the wants of the poor, and at the same time did not forget what was clue to themselves. There were such items as " Please give Ellen and Margaret Moloney two nice dresses, and charge to C. W.'s account." Poor persons received petticoats, boots, and bonnets. en the Bth of August the hungry populace were fed with bread to the amount of £l2. John O'Shea, an elector, who was a woollen and fancy merchant, had a bill for £OB 18s. At the Devonshire Arms Hotel the expenses from the 24th of July to the 17th of August were £l5O 2s. 6d., and from the 17th of AttguSt to the 12th of Sep tember, £256 lls. 3d. The items consisted chiefly of dinners, bottles of champagne—which one wit ness, whose credit was not impeached in this respect, pronounced very bad—bottles of brandy and sherry, and, as a natural consequence, dozens of sodawater. Mr. Butt renewed the application made on the first day to have the petition dismissed, on the ground that the petitioner had given and received bribes. The court declined to do so, but reserved the point. _ At Sligo the chief witness to sustain the allegation of bribery was a man named Neilan; who swore that he went to Major Knox to ask the respondent to do something for him, as he was heavily pressed, and that he received two letters, one of which directed him to call on a Mr. Pollock. He did so, and was offered £lO, but he said it would not do, and finally got £2O in X 5 notes. That was in February 1868. He admitted that it was not in any way suggested that he was to vote for the respondent. He voted for Captain Flanagan, ani he told " certain persons " that he wished to have the £2O repaid. He was pressed to tell the names of the persons, and at first declined to do so, but Judge Keogh having insisted upon his telling, he stated that it was Father Ihnly and Bishop Gillooly. No one, however, on the Liberal side ever promised to pay any part of the money. Mrs. Dunleavy, the wife of a straw-plaiter, and voter, swore that Major Knox came into her shop in, company with Mr. Pollock and another gentleman, and handed her a £lO ncte, which he took Nit of his pocket. She promised to use her influence with her husband to get him to vote for the respondent. Her husband gave corroborative evidence. Dominic Kilcullin, an elector, swore that Brenner, who had been acting for the respondent, offered to get him money for his vote, and that the respondent would procure employment `or his son. He received the following letter : " 53, Fitzwilliam-square, Dublin, Jan, 25, 18C8. "Dear Sir,—Wonld you kindly let me know what ap pointment your son would wish to have, and I will do my best to obtain it for him? It will afford me pleasure to fur ther your wishes regarding him. " I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, " D. Kilcullin, Esq., Sligo." " L. E. KNOX. LAW AND POLICE THE MERCHANT'S COMFANY. — The nearing of the first charge against some of the directors of the Merchants' Company was resumed on Monday at the Mansion House, when Mr. Richard Stuart Lane, Mr. Horace Edward Chapman, and Mr. Frederick Helbert Helbert were accused of conspiring to defraud the shareholders by ssoing, a prospectus well knowing it to be false in certain material particulars. The case is quite distinct from that heard on Friday, and in which Mr. Lane and Mr. Childs were committed fur trial. Mr. Cape, the official liqu:• iator, was recalled and examined, and the case was again adjourned until Saturday next. DARING HOTEL ROEBERY.—A French medical student, gamed Henry Antoine Lavalley, was charged with sobbing a Russian merchant of napoleons and roubles to the value of about 2124. The prisoner, who bad ills card printed " Marquis Henri de la Vallette, Faris," net the prosecutor at Ostend, and traveled with him to London. They stayed together at Salter's Hotel, when the Frenchman took an opportunity of steal mg the money from his fellow-traveller's portmanteau. When detected, he declared that it was all a bad joke. Ile prosecutor strongly recommended the prisoner to nervy, because he belonged to a good family, and was highly educated. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and *was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard 'abour. BELL-RINGING AT CAMERMCE.—A good deal of interest has teen excited in Camlaidge by an undergraduate of John's College being brought up at the Guildhall, -,barged with mischievously ringing the door-bell of Dr. Ransom. It seems that fur several terms a mania for bull ringing has I:riyaileil among the undergraduates, and Dr. Ransom's Len is the spezial objcct of the crusade. When the first offender eras apprehended Pr. r:knsom, in the opinion of his eon& a ;nes in mischief, was unduly In:Hulls for his punishment, so that they have revenged themselves' by ringing his night-bell at Xll sorts of hours, without any reason. The zulprits have not always escaped detection, for some half-a-dozen of them have been f n ed at different times for ringing this particular bell, and the bench intimated on the last occasion that they would send the next offender to prison. Those who bad crowded the 7.ourt in the expectation of seeing an under graduate snatched off to prison, were, however, disappointed. The defendant, who is a Creole, declared that being a freshman, be did not know that it was Dr. Ransom's bell which he was ringing, and he called in evi dence the dean of his college and his tutor, who both gave him ran excellent character for steadiness. Under these circumstances the bench contented themselves with inflicting a flue of 405., which was at once paid. --- Mr. Ralph Barnes, Secretary to the B:shop of .:xeter, died suddenly on Monday afternoon, in his COth year. He was in practice as a solicitor in Exeter for sixty seven years. Several assaults were committed in Sheffield on i;sturday night. An Irishman was half murdered, three Englishmen were injured, and a man, in the employment , f a tobacconist, was knocked down in his van, and an attempt made to !I b him of his master's money. Sheffield has become notorious for its disturbances of late, and the sentences which have been passed on the offenders do not appear to have produced any salutary effect. THE NEW INFANTRY SHAKO.— Although the eatteru for the new shako for infantry officers has not yet been sealed, it is so far decided on as to enable us to say that it will be a great improvement upon the one now in wear. It will have a smarter appearance, being somewhat taller, and will be 1 ound ror.ni at top and bottom with two or three rows of gold gimp chain or braid, and the peak will be similarly ornamented.— United Service Gazette. A meeting of the. Gloucestershire Chamber of Agriculture was held at Gloucester on Saturday, when the sanitary regulations Of the home cattle trade, and the establishment of safety markets for imported animals, were discussed. Resolutions were passed recommending further legislation respecting the introduction of foreign cattle, and Government inspection, to secure animals con veyed by rail or steamboats from needless suffering. It is said that in former days, alien cattle were driven slowly along the roads, and well supplied with water, many diseases now decimating our herds were scarcely known. SCIENTIFIC FARMING A MUSEMENTS.—For catch ing rats in a cheap and effective manner we recommend the following :—Cover a common barrel with stiff stout paper, tying the edge around the barrel; place a board so that the rats may have easy access to the top ; sprinkle cheese parings or other "feed" for the rats on the paper for several days, until they begin to believe that they have a right to their daily rations from this source ; then place in the bottom of the barrel a piece of rock, about 6in. or Tin, high, filling with water until only enough of it pro jects above the water for one rat to lodge upon. Now replace the paper, first cutting a cross in the middle, and the first rat that comes on the barrel-top goes through into the water, and climbs on the rock. TLe paper comes back to the place, and the second rat follows the first. Then begins a fight for the possession of the dry place on the stone, the noise of which attracts the rest, who share the same fate.—Scientific Farmer. A CURIOUS STORY. —A servant girl, lately in the emr boy of Miss 'Hopkins, an old maiden lady, residing in Stourbridge, wa.s last ~ reek charged with a very exten sive robbery from the l •use of her late mistress. The aleged robbery was sink ular in respect cf the miscel laneous character of the articles said to have been stolen. For instance, amongst them was a bed, an article entirely out of the category of those which are generally found to tempt the cupidity of domestics afflicted with kleptemani:.. But a matter cropped up, almost incidentally, in the course of the case, which is sufli c'ent to make the most cr :dulous stare. The prosecutrix stated that she had been] ,eked up by the prisoner in her bedroom for five days am . five nights, and that during the whole of that time she wa : without food. The girl alleged that the prosecutrix 100 l ed herself up, and refused to come out. It would thus Appear that she had been in the bedroom for that length )f time, whether with her own will or against it ; but Ns as she without food, the whole time? Would it be possil le'for an elderly woman to sun vive that length of time without eatin g and drinking? Ii she did; wom 1' 8 not, come, out a raving maniac?—Bir. int:ltaly - on Gaze! e. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1869. THE SERRISTORI CONSPIRACY. (From a Correspondent.) ROME, FEE.- 15. The recent controversy respecting the execution of Monti and Tognetti will have revived in the memories of your readers that memorable incident of the Garibaldian invasion, the blowing up of the Pontifical barrack at Serristori. It will be remembered that in the latter days of October 1867 Monti was hired by some of the Roman conspirators in league with the Garibaldians to blow up the Serristori barracks by a mine, and that, with the assistance of a man named Tognetti, he accomplished his task. Several Zouaves were killed and wounded. Monti and Tognetti were tried, and, after twelve months' interval, were put to death for the crime. The facts are now before me in a collected form, by the publication of the legal proceedings of the Roman Con sulta, and they are too remarkable not to merit a brief recapitulation. In presenting your readers with an abbreviated narrative, I think it better to give them the authorities from which the facts are drawn. They are the sworn depositions of the various witnesses called on the trial. Several other details are furnished by the docu ments published by the Italian Government itself after Alentana, in justification of its zeal in the national cause. The revolutionary party at Florence having waived its differences with the Italian Government, came in the month of August, 1867, to a full understanding with Rattazzi as to the Roman question. The final attempt was settled to be made in September 1867, Garibaldi taking the field, in the first instance, with his volunteers and a considerable number of troops of the Royal army, travestied as Garibaldians, and pushing as far a the walls of Rome, where it was arranged that an insur rection should break out on the 22nd vof October. The choice of Garibaldi and Rattazzi fell on Francesco ' Cucchi, of Bergamo, then and now a deputy of the Italian Parliament, and a major of the Garibaldian Volunteers. , The supreme direction of the internal insurrection was confided to him, while Luigi Castelazzo, of Pavia, Tito Navona, Giuseppe Castagnola, Giuseppe Ansiglioni, a Roman emigr an t, an d Gi u li o Sil ves t r i, an officer of the royal Italian army, was appointed as his subalterns. Cucchi immediately started for Rome, and entered it by means of a false passport. The communications with Florence were maintained through the Royal Delegate of Police at Carrese, Signor Buglielli, who acted as the paymaster, commissioner, and go-between of the Garibaldians and Rattazzi. Hidden in the most out-of-the-way quarters of Rome, living under a false name, and known only to a few of his most trusted associates, Cucchi remained in Rome during the greater part of September and October organising the insurrection. Cucchi's plan was simply this : In order to create confu sion, spread disorder and consternation among the Papal troops, and favour an internal rising, he gave orders to mine several of the principal barracks occupied by the Papal troops, and especially by the Zouaves. Those of Serristori and Cimmorra were decided on, as the other barracks were occupied by Italian Pontifical troops, whom Cuccbi (most erroneously) calculated on as friends rather than enemies. He had also succeeded in penetrating in disguise into Fort St. Angelo, and had corrupted several of the non-commissioned officers and privates of artillery on guard, and induced them to promise to blow up the powder magazine at a given signal, and spike the cannon under their charge, seizing at the same time on the officers, and scattering Orsini bombs, introduced for that purpose into Rome, among the Zouaves and Legionaires. e explosion ry of t o S e fi r n r s t a o r w a n a s c fully apab d e e o c f i d e e x d e c o n n t , i n a g n d t h i e t becamed coup. Such a one was Monti, the mason, born of respect able parents, who had come to seek work at Rome, but who fell into the society of the Garibaldians. The plot was opened to Monti, who states that he at first recoiled in horror, but by threats of death and promises was ulti mately persuaded. He was taken in a carriage to Serristori through the Borgo St. Spirito, and getting down at the adjacent Palazzo Marone, part of which was occupied as a stable, the master of which it would be necessary to take into their confidence. This was the more safely accomplished, as he was an old Garibaldian, and an agree ment was made by which Monti was to lay a train and two barrels of powder in the vaults under the barrack, by means of the stable adjoining it, and a grate which had been left to go to decay. Monti was therefore lowered by a rope into the vault, and reported the matter as practicable, a side door in the cellar conducting to that beneath the barrack. Two days passed, and he took measures with a locksmith, named Gaetano Tognetti, a young man of 23 years of age, but high in the confidence of Bassi and Cucchi, to obtain the keys necessary for opening the door without giving rise to suspicion. On the 20th of October the stableman suddenly disap peared, writing from Turin that he had been sent for by his mother, who was ill. It appears certain, however, that he had given information to the police, or the next day a number of arrests was made, and deposits of hatchets and Orsini bombs seized, and the alarm having having been given at Castle St. Angelo, the officers con trived to separate the men they suspected from the rest, and to empty the powder-magazine, without, however, giving any reason or communicating their fears to the regiment at large. Bossi Anziglioni, Cucchi, and Perfetti changed their residence first to the Tor Dei Specchi and afterwards to the Via Dei Crescenzi, No. 50, where the meetings were then held. Monti was summoned to their presence on Tuesday, the 22nd, and found them in _private conversation with four . unknown persons, whom by their accent he knew to be Genoese. On leaving the house lie met Barzelli, who asked him where he was going, and on Monti replying that he was going to dine, " Have not the gentlemen received any orders y:lt ?: , 11.1on re i is no time to waste. We are to rise to-day ; the order .; t replied that he did not know, and Barzelli said, '1 here come." " By day ?" said Monti. " By day ori e bi hr n e l ea h or , as it may happen," replied Barzelli. a.eorn7warn He vftlrinemng. four o'clock probably. Go back at once You will • Monti went back immediately have received the or e t a l to find Ansiglioni and the rest, and found them dining, tVs l lh see e d t a h n e X e b f a t and discos ered that they were perfectly ignorant that the revolution was to break out that day, and when lie told ; them what he had heard from Barzelli, they broke into a howl, saying that it could not be, for nothing was prepared. In the midst of this conversation Cucchi I entered, and calling Ansiglioni, Silvestro, and Per ; fetti into the inner room, remained in consultation with them. Ammanniti was called in, and despatched On some errand, and then Angelo Tognetti, after which Cucchi left the house. Monti was told to get into a carriage and go with Ammanniti, whom he would find in it, to the Via Sellegrini, and there ask for a uniform, which he was to carry to 2, Piazza della Rotonda, and give to four indi viduals who were waiting for it, which lie accordingly did, taking the carriage back to the house. Perfetti and Ansiglioni and Silvesti got in, telling Monti to wait for them. After an hour's absence Perfetti and Ansiglioni returned, the latter in a great state of agitation, saying, " Angelo Tognetti is not yet arrived. Everyone will fulfil this duty to-night save myself ! No end of money has been spent, and nothing done. What will Nicotera say ? and what a figure I shall make." At length, out of patience, he turned to Monti, saying, " Go at once to the Borgo. Find Angelo. Tell him to get his people ready. Get the key from Serristori, and bring it - back to . me directly." Having met Angelo Tognetti, he assured Monti that all was ready, and that Gaetano Tognetti had the keys and the address of the young man who was to accompany him. Having found Gaetano Tognetti, he gave the false keys to Monti. They had been made to open the magazine of the Papal engineers, adjoining Terristori, and whose vaults ran under the barrack itself—a measure which had been resolved on when the flight of the stable-man closed the other means of ingress. Having returned to Ansiglioni and reported progress, he said to Monti, " Listen, Peppe, exactly to what you must do. Go directly to the Bargo, and bring me the two soldiers you know of, and the boy, as I wish to instruct them. Then take a cab and go to Banchi Nuovi to the little tinman's shop. Give him this half of a five-franc note as a counter- sign. Send on the cab and keep it behind the Nicolo della Campanella. They will open you a door on that street, and will give you two barrels of powder. Put it into the carriage, and go straight to Serristori. The locksmith will open the door, and the two soldierswill put the barrels in and stand sentry while you do what I tell you. You will take the two barrels and place them so that the mouths touch, and connect them with this tin pipe. On this you will spread a little powder, which they will give you, loose, and you will fire the train at twenty minutes to seven by means of the tow attached to the pipe, which will give you twenty minutes to save yourself. At seven, the mine will blow up, and the explosion is to be the signal for the revolution to begin." Monti listened without offering a w or d o f reply till Ansiglioni had finished, when he flatly refused to accept such a task, and said that those who had planned it ought to carry it out themselves. On this Perfetti flew into a violent rage, and taking up a revolver, held it to ' his head, threatening to blow out his brains if he did not go at once, or if he repeated his refusal. He added that the present evening was not one for joking, that he was perfectly serious ' and that Monti, if h e re f use d , would be massacred first of all, whereas, if he consented, lie would be rewarded next day by Garibaldi. Ansiglioni also made him the most advantageous offers, and pointed out to him that when he had done his work he alone of all of them would be exempt from fighting, and would go quietly home. Between threats and promises Monti yielded. Half an hour after sunset he started on his fatal mission, and found the young guide Peppe and two soldiers of the line in red trousers and grey capotes (corporal and private) waiting. They got into the cab and drove back to Via Crescenzi, where Ansiglioni and Per fetti gave them their final instructions. Ansiglioni asked Monti if lie had a watch, and on his replying in the nega tive gave him his own, and thirty scudi to divide between Peppe and the two soldiers, Perfetti warning Monti as he left that his steps were watched, and that woe be to him if he failed the cause. The four companions then mounted the cab, and drove to Nicolo Campanella, where Monti left the cab, the soldiers, and Peppe, and turning into the Bandu Nuovi, went to the tin-shop, and found it open, but dark, and no one there save a little boy, who told him his master had gone out, but would be back directly. He therefore lighted a cigar and waited a few minutes, when four unknown individuals, all wrapped in cloaks and hoods, passed by, and one, detaching himself from the group, called Monti by his name, and asked him what he was doing, and why he had not gone to Serristori ? Monti, seeing he was cognisant of the affair, answered that the master of the shop from whom he was to get the powder was absent. The stranger turned to the little boy and asked him where was so-and-so, and, as he could not answer he sent him away to buy a light and a halfpennyworth of lucifers. The boy went and returned, and the unknown lighted the waxlight, took Monti into the shop, and into a back room, which opened through another room into a deposit far mason's tools, lime, mortar, &c. H e ca ll e d a l oud for the " old man, " an d a voice answered from out the darkness, " I am here ! " in Romagnol accent, and, turning the slide of a dark lan tern, he appeared before them. On being asked for the barrels,he spewed them all ready, observing that one was full and the other only a quarter so. The unknown then hastened the old man, made him open a side door, which led through a court and a corridor unto the Nicol() della Campanella, exactly where the cab was standing. The soldiers were called at once, and the barrels Tdaced one inside the cab and the other beside the driver, after which the unknown gave Monti three pounds of loose powder in a handkerchief to spread on the j sheet of tin Ansiglioni had given him, and left. The four companions then drove towards Serristori, stopping the cab on the Piazza Scossacavalli. where Monti got down from the carriage, and gave the driver a scudi in payment, telling him to drive the others as close as pos sible to the barrack door, which he did very unwillingly, as he appears to have suspected mischief. Peppe, the locksmith, opened the door, with the false key fur ' nished by Gaetano Tognetti, with great rapidity ; and dexterity, and the pretended soldiers carried the barrels in at once, without exciting the slightest suspicion, and the carriage drove off. They then called Monti, who waswaiting on the Piazza Scossacavalli, and told him all was ready,and that the rest remained for him to do. He asked if the tin sheet had been pit in, and found that it bad teen forgotten in the carriage. Peppe started in chase, but did not succeed in catcling it. It then became nenesssaiy io provide a substitute, and fresh lengths of tow. The first was supplied bya long tile, of which a quantity were lying about, and a fresh piece of tin tack being prepared, Monti prepared for the last desperate act. He became aware then, for the first time, that the same four unknown men, carefully disguised, had taken up their places at the c'hemist's shop on the Piazza, and were evidently sent to spy his movements and avenge his weakness. This decided him, and he started for the bar racks, which lie close behind the Piazza. He entered the magazine, closed the door behind him, spread the powder, and by the pale light of a single heifer match, groped his, way to the place where the barrels had been laid, attached the linstock, weighting it with a stone that it might not be blown away by the wind. Hedragged the ammunition stores into close proximity with the barrels, and then ap plied a light to the linstock and fired the train, rushing from the building, and closing the door after him. On reaching the Piazza Scosscavalli he paid each of the men ten scudi, and, walking on by himself, he had only reached the Borgo Vecchio when the awful explosion took place. He looked at his watch, and it was exactly seven, the train having taken five minutes before reaching the powder. He went back to Ansiglioni, but could not find him, and wentto seek him at his other hcuse in the Rotonda, but no one could give any account of him. About half-past two Ansiglioni returned, pale and frightened, and asked for wine. On being asked how matters were going, he said, " Very well," but without specifying how, and he went to bed, and slept soundly. In the morning he called for Monti, and gave him ten scudi (p 2), at which ridiculously small reward he complained bitterly. A. number of young Genoese, who had been engaged in con flicts with the military, began to arrive, and at a quarter past ten Barzelli came in, and taking off his hat in a marked and formal manner, addressed Ansiglioni, saying that the General Francesco Cucchi desired him in his name to present his compliments on the happy results of the Serristori enterprise to him who had directed it, and him who had executed it. Ansiglinni, on being asked who had been the principal actor, replied that it was Monti, on which Barzelli replied, "Bravo, Peppe ! you will have a great reward for this !" Monti answered by spewing the ten scudi Ansiglioni had given him, at which Barzelli made a gesture of surprise and annoyance, and Ansiglioni interposed, saying he would conic toan understanding with Cucchi as to the price, but that for the moment he was short of money. About half an hour after the house was filled with strangers, all unknown to Monti, and belonging to all countries—French, English, German, Italian, and American—who succeeded each other in rapid interviews with Ansiglioni the whole morning. Monti dined with Ansiglioni, who told him he had seen Cucchi, and that he (Monti) had prepared a happy future for himself, that he would never need, to wodc, but, noon. -- Ilva like gentlemen, and want for nothing." He then said that Cucchi had directed the movement of the previous even ing pressed on by Garibaldi, but that the details of the mines had originated with himself, and that the object was to destroy, if possible, the foreign troops. and above all the Zonaves, no idea of mining the barracks occupied by the Italian troops existing. He said that if the revolt succeeded, a Provisional Government would be proclaimed until the arrival of the Royal troops, in order that Rome might become the capital of Italy. The expenses of the movement, Ansiglioni said, were furnished by Cucchi, the Italian Government having, moreover, spent three millions and a half of francs for the purpose of exciting an internal revolt. i%lonti was arrested on the 24th, and finding himself betrayed and abandoned by the men who had caused his ruin, confessed the entire affair, as did also Bassi. Their evidence was amply confirmed by the numerous witnesses and by the papers which were found a few days after in the house of Ajani, in Trastemere, which after the dis covery of the conspiracy in Trebia Crescenzi became the headquarters of Cucchi, and hence, on the attack of the Pontifical troops, he succeeded in escaping with Silvestri, Perfetti, and Ansiglioni. Twenty-seven lives were sacrificed in the explosion. Of these by far the greater number were Romans belonging to the band of the Zouaves. But for the numbers on their uniforms they could not have been in most cases identified, so terribly were they crushed and mutilated. Ten others, most of whom died a few days after, were rescued alive, and carried to the hospital of St. Spirito, and besides them a father, mother, and child were crushed beneath the ruins, the woman alone surviving to tell the tale. The condemnation of Monti and Tognetti to death, of the rest of their- accomplices to the galleys for life and lengthened periods, and the executions of the former are incidents fresh in the memory of all. The originators of the attempt have succeeded in evading justice, and Cucchi still sits as deputy for Bergamo in the Italian Par 'lament. . MISCELUNEOUS NEWS. life intekestB," and hand them over in trust for tna Church. The Freeman's Journal of Dublin criti cising his plan, looks upon it as " a repetition in another form of the great blunders of the rent. charge system." Another tractate to which 'some attention is called contains selections from the speeches made during the general election by the Rev. J. Congreve, rector of Tooting Graveney. It is the production of a clergyman who does not see any injustice in Mr. Gladstone's policy. Explaining his position as opposed to the great body of his brethren, he says : 4 You will not expect me to speak otherwise than tenderly of my own order. I have too much esprit de corps for that; but I must candidly confess that history tells us the clergy, as a body, have too often opposed progress, and have ranged themselves on the side of a retrogressive, stationary, or obstructive policy. And yet it ought not to be so. According to my reading of Christianity, every minister of Christ should be a man of liberal opinions. His calling - is to further everything that is for the advancement, the progress, and the reformation of the human race. Without presuming to judge others, I feel, for my own part, that a Christian Minister should be on the Liberal side, and that when lie is so he is in his natural and true position." 'The doctrine thus laid down by Mr. Congre.e, if logically followed to its end, leads to the conclusion that every man, minister or not, who is not on the Liberal side is in an unna tural position, which begs the question in rather too obvious a manner. The Royal Commissioners on the Irish Church estimated the property of that Church at £011,840. Colonel Adair, one of the commissioners, seems to have thought his colleagues' estimate too low, and in his pamphlet he sets down the value as £839,045, a difference of about 35 per cent. PRINCE LEOPOLD. It is stated that Prince Leopold is suffering from extravasation of blood," which has settled in one of his knees. His Royal Highness, it is known, has been greatly troubled since his birth by reason of the extreme thinness, amoun ting almost to entire absence, of cuticle. Co nsequen tly he is constantly subject to violent att ac k s o f h aemorr h a ge, which are brought on by the most trifling accident. Seven years ago he had to be sent to the south of France for his health. and it was while he was there that he underwent in the course of a f ew h ours the bereavement first of his governor an d th en of his father. The Prince will be 1G years old on April 7. Ile is now under the care of Sir William Jenner. THE PRINCE OF WALES. The report that the Prince of Wales finds his allowance insufficient, and will ask Parliament for an increase, scarcely seems to be well founded. Not only is he mehing a costly tour abroad, but ho has rented for three years t,:;e Duke of Devonshire's beautiful villa at Chiswick . , and is about to rent or bny a seat in Ireland. THE: CABINET. All fifteen members of the Cabinet were presen at Saturday's Council. The Marqus of Ilartington found himself in the peculiar position of being a member of that distinguished political body, and yet unable to take a seat in either House of the Legislature. The Marquis of Hartington seems to be vieing with his colleagues in economy. Ile is overhauling all the mail contracts with the railway companies. The South-Eastern has been the first to come under this scrutinising. influence. The company carries the continental mails, the Post Office paying so much per mile for the carriage of the mail-bags. Up to a very recent period the road from London to Dover was by way of Redhill and Reigate, but latterly the com pany have opened the new Tunbridge route, by which the distance is shortened thirteen miles, and the time occupied is proportionately reduced. The - Post Office insists upon the mails being conveyed by the shortest and quickest route, and has cut down the allowance as well as the time for doing the work. The company has had to submit. TtADNOTI ELECTION. On Thursday we shall know if the only member of Mr. Gladstone's Government who has had to undergo a contest on re-election will be victor or vanquished. Mr. Phillips, a local Conservative, has declared his intention of going to the poll against tho Marquis of Hartington. The Marquis has issued a very short address, in which he says that Mr. Gladstone's Government intends " the establishment of complete religious equality in Ireland," a phrase which of course reveals nothing as to the way in which that equality is to be obtained. ELECTION PETITIONS. The tide is turning. After a long run of ill-luck, the are getting the better of their opponents in the election petitions. The victories, however, are only qualified-ones. Mr. Smith, M.P. for Westminster, escaped with the skin of his teeth, and will have to paY a portion of the costs. Messrs. Eaton and Hill are declared duly elected for Coventry, but the judge declared that the petition was " most reasonably presented and prosecuted." At Cashel, Mr. O'Beirne; who describes himself as an c , independent Liberal," has. been unseated for bribery; but his opponent, Mr. Munster, has also been convicted of the same offence, .and it is likely enough that this borough, with its less than 150 electors, albeit it is called the " City of the Kings," will be disfranchised. Mr. O'Beirne is the first M.P. declared guilty of bribery personally, and will therefore be the first to undergo the penalty of exclusion from the House of Commons for seven years. It would seem that the cost of election petitions is likely to be very large,in spite of the fact that they are tried on the spot. The Law Times says that the cost of the Norwich trial will be 85,000, although it lasted only four days. What it will be in other and much more protracted cases we scarcely like to think, but our . contemporary says it will be " ruinous." In this respect, therefore, the new measure will greatly disappoint its promoters. The Law Times states that prompt action is to be taken with the boroughs reported upon by the election judges as having been guilty of corrupt practices. The House has ordered that the evidence in the cases of all the boroughs in which the members have been unseated be laid before the llouse, and the writs will bo suspended until the House shall have determined what course, whether of total or partial disfranchisement, it will pursue in respect of them. The immediate penalty will be the loss of their full representation for a lengthened period ; certainly for the present session, probably for the present Parliament; with the prospect of a commission of iniuiry. TUE IRISH CIII7.IICH. Peal Parliamentary business will hardly commence until the Ist of March. There will be very little thorough worc done until Mr. Gladstone rises to propose that the Speaker leave the chair, in order that the House may resolve itself into a committee to .consider the Irish Church question. Up to that date measures will be proposed, many of them important, but none of them exciting, and we are likely to have a woe',: of sleepy dead-alive debates. Meanwhile Pamphleteers are very energetically giving to the world their opinions on the " great question." Tw o works are attracting particular attention just n ow . One, written by Colonel Adair, is notable in that it is the production of a member of thelrish Church Commission. He advo cates disestablishm en t, m eaning by that term the withdrawal of th e bishops from the House of Lords and from the Irish Privy Council. He would set the Church entirely free, giving her power to govern herself. Ile would, instead of giving to each occupant "" the usufruct of his life interest. capitalise all the PREFERMENT FOR DR. MILLER. It is stated that Mr. Gladstone has conferred the rectory of St. Mary, Newington, upon his staunch political supporter, Dr. Miller,the vicar of Greenwich. It will be remembered that this 'preferment became vacant on the day that the new Bishop of London took the oaths; but that owing to the formal docu ments relating to his instalment not having been completed, this rich piece of patronage, which would otherwise have been at his bestowal, passed into the gift of the Crown, in other words of the Premier. No one can find fault with Mr. Gladstone's Selection. Independently of the valuable help which he gave the Premier during the elections, Dr. Miller is one of the ablest men in the Church, and will, in all probability, rise to a bishopric. The fact that the Bishop of Salisbury is recovering has probably led Mr. Gladstone t.) confer this rich living of between 3,000 and £4,000 a year upon the vicar of Green wich. That vicarage which now becomes vacant, and is in the Premier's gift, is set down as worth 1,018 a year.. It is to be hoped that it will be con ferred upon the Rev. Alfred Cay, who has for many years done all the work in the parish of St. Mary Newington. THE ADMIRALTY SCANDAL. The discovery of the Admiralty scandal, in which Messrs. bumble and Gambier are involved, will, it is believed, bring about the resignation of the Store keeper-in-Chief, the Hon. Mr. Dundas, brother of Lord Melville. lie was originally a diplomatist. and amongst other employments he was sent ussia as secre - tary - to toe iong-lententoereu embassy of the late Duke of Devonshire on the coronation of Czar Nicholas. "Of late years,', says the Manchester Guardian, " he has been growing apathetic and inert in the discharge of duties that required the wakeful intelligence of a man in the prime of life. When the Duke of Somerset presided at the Board of Admiralty, it was suggested that some one of more energy was required at the head of the storekeeping sub-department ; but his Grace could notbring himself to disturb a man so well-born and well-bred, and Mr. Dundas has accordingly continued to potter on until one of the rotten planks has given way beneath him. Two days ago (on Thursday) it is said that he was politely requested to resign, and it is probable that we shall speedily hear of some more vigorous hand being substituted for his." RITUALISM IN LONDON. The Morning Star describes the communion ser vice at St. Matthias's Church, Stoke Newington. It seems to•be performed in the same manner as before the recent judgment. Incense, lights, and the mixed chalice are used, and in addition gospel lights " are held round the deacon at the reading of the gospel. A St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, the judgment has been complied with, and the Rev. R. T. West has issued an address to the congregation, in which• he .states that he has yielded obedience at the request of his bishop ; and he calls upon the congregation to rest not in their efforts for obtaining the abolition of the present Court of Final Appeal, which he condemns in strong terms. SUNDAY EVENINGS FOP, THE PEOPLE. - - - - In consequence of the recent decision at 'West minster in favour of the legality of the recent Sunday evening lecture-concerts at St. Martin's Hall, they have been resamed. St. Martin's Hall, indeed, has become converted into the Queen's Theatre, and so the " Religions Recreationists " betook themselves to the Freemasons' Tavern, but lately resounding tvict the fervid protests of angry Ritualists. A Mr. Slack gave a lecture on " the relations of physical science to national progress," and there was a selection cf music from Haydn's " Creation," Costa's " Naaman," and from works by Gounod and another composer. The papers say that the discourse was listened to with profound attention, and although, in deference probably to the semi-religious character of the meet ing, there was no applause, its close was accom panied by a murmur or hum of approval and satis faction. THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN AND THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. The letter written by the Bishop of Capetown to Archdeacon Fearne, which we alluded to several days ago, is now published in full. Bishop Gray explains how it is that Mr. Macrorie was not con secrated before he left England. The Bishop had fully counted upon this, for the Duke of Bucking ham had informed him that he had invited the Archbishop of Canterbury to apply for a mandate. After this some time was spent in discussing several legal formalities, and before these were settled the session was over, and all London c:nptied. (Query, was it necessary that Parliament should be sitting and London be full in order that Mr. Macrorie might be made a bishop ?) During the vacation Bishop Gray wrote several times to the Duke of Buckingham, praying that there might be no longer delay ; several of these letters miscarried, and the rest remained un answered. At last the Bishop was obliged to leave for his diocese, and he took his passage, thinking that the delay could not last much longer. The Bishop adds, "In this I was deceived. Still obtaining no reply, I sought an interview with Mr. Disraeli, though only on the day before I left London, and formally com plained to him of the conduct of the Duke of Buckingham. Nothing could be more frank or courteous than the way in which he received my complaint, regretting only that I had not appealed to him sooner. He said . that the matter was not before the Cabinet ; that he would make no secret of his general sympathy with me and my proceedings ; that it .would be impossible, .at that late moment, to do anything before .I left, but that in a day or two an answer should be sent to anyone whom I could name to act for me." Bishop Gray goes on to say that his slight allusion in the parting services to the Colonial Secretary's conduct roused the Duke of Buckingham to the necessity of coming to some conclusion, and at the very moment of embarking at Plymouth the Bishop received a letter from the Duke, promising to communicate with tho Premier. Here the matter rested when the Bishop wrote his letter. He con cludes by saying that it is clear there is no substan tial legal difficulty in the way, for if there had been any the Duke would have stated it. MR. PEABODY ' S GIFTS. The trustees of Mr. Peabody's munificent gifts to the poor of London have prepared a statement of the receipts and expenditure for the past year. The original fund of £150,000 has been increased by rents and interest to the extent of £23,313. During last year Peabody-square, in Victoria-street, Westminster, has been completed. It contains 235 rooms, fully occupied by 389 persons. The trus tees have secured two other sites at Chelsea and Bermondsey, to be built on in the same way. The total population of all the completed buildings is 1,971 consisting of working men and their families, the average wages being under 21s. a week. The sanitary report is most encou raging, and the number of applications ex ceed the vacancies. Good ventilation and clew& nesi are characteristic of the dwellings, and there is an unlimited supply of fresh water free to erery tenant. The other two funds, each of £lOO,OOO, Are not yet available for the objects of the trust, but will be applied in like manner. The total cost of the management for the year was £271 10s. ed. The trustees complain of the heavy burden of the rates which amounted in the year to £744105. 3d., and are still increasing. A SEEMING PARADOX. London is increasing at the rate of 100,000 inhabi tants a year. The population of London has fallen off the bist fen Yenrs shout 25 Per cfmf.• This seeming paraaox is exptainect by tee tact teat tee word London is used in different senses. In the first sense, it includes the whole vast province of houses called the metropolis , which extends from Ilighgate to Dulwich, from Stratford to Acton. In the other case the City proper is meant. The ancient City of Londo n is, in fact, fast becoming a city of offices and shops by day ; as busy as a beehive by night ; as empty as that same hive wh en the bqes have swarmed. This is well. It is good to change one's air and one's scene, to have one's home apart from one's work, to breath something Elie country air ,in the evening if city air must be breathed at morning and noon. May this depopulation go on and increase. only now niucu longer will the City be entitled toits exclusive privilege of returning f our members toParliam ent ? At present it is ancient custom and the modern worship of wealth which confer that privilege. If we ever come to apply the test of population strictly the City will have to yield this privilege. THE COTTON TRADE. What is called a " wages crisis" is predicted in the cotton trade of Lancashire. The men are most dis satisfied at the recent reductions of time and wages. The masters are taking steps for their own security by joining the Free Labour League of Manchester; and, to better their position, the men propose to amalgamate all trades into " one grand union." Should they do as is proposed, the very first dispute between masters and men, in whatever trade, may be expected to be the signal for such a conflict between capital and labour as has never been seen in this country. So say those who watch the " signs of the times." That the workpeople are really in earnest may be gathered from the fact that the female operatives are proposing to throw off their woollen under-clothing, and to wear only calico and calico priats. This, if it had any effect on the Lan cashire trade, would cause a serious depression in the woollen trade of Yorkshire. OUR MI RC'ANTILE MARINE. A correspondent of the Star declares that the: Navigation Laws have not ruined our shipowners, but that these have gained by the change. lle is opposed to the " capitation grant for boys in training ships," and thinks it will be a dangerous precedent. He is also against the plan recently pro posed, that a Government inspector of shipping, resident at each of the principal ports of the kingdom, should inspect all vessels before they proceed to sea. lle considers the pre caution to be quite unnecessary, and declares that all classed ships are now inspected by men quite as capable as any Government officer can be. Too many inspect9rs would be required to perform the task of supervision, and if they did discover the defects they might wink at them. In conclusion, the writer complains that the adoption of such a course would relieve the shipowner from wholesome responsibility. TO AMUSE THE PUBLIC. Our contemporary the Daily Telegraph has so often surprised us by its love of trivialities, that Nye were prepared for almost any reasonable freak in which it might take it into its head to indulge. But its last errors or genius "so surpasses anything we have previously seen, that we cannot refrain from remarking it. During the progress of the Saurin case,. the Solicitor-General quoted the nursery rhyme —" The Queen was in the pantry, eating bread and honey." He received a correction from the learned judge, who would have it that the Queen was "in the parlour." Yesterday' our contemporary pub lished a column and a half of short letters on the subject, the correspondents contending for parlour, arbour, kitchen, pantry, drawing-room, &c. Upon these letters—genuine or otherwise—the Teeyraph founds a leader, discussing the various expressions, and gravely concludes that the Lord Chief Justice was right. The upshot of the tedious Saurin case is a drivelling discussion cn a. nurs"ry rhyme. FOREIGN NOTES, AItERICA. The Mormons are represented as much alarmed at Mr. ashley's bill for the division of Utah, and well they may be. if Congress pass the measure there is an end of Brigham Young's empire founding. The bill does not Propose to divide Utah amongst the neighbouring States, cutting off the uninhabited portions, and leaving the Mormon community a compact whole. The community itself is to be broken up. Wyoming will be increased in area, and quadrupled •in popu- lation by the addition of Mormons. Nevada gets 22,000 square miles from Utah and 10,000 Mor mons. Colorado is likewise augmented. The prophets and saints are spending a most uncomfortable quarter of an hour. It was on the Gth of April, 1830, that six persons founded the settlement which now numbers 250,000. If Mr. Ashley's bill passes, two-score years will see the end of Mormonism as a political ►)over. and probably also as a religion. The Suffrage Amendment nas now passed both Houses, though not without a struggle. On February 8 and 9 the Senate had a sitting of 1G hours' duration. It began at seven in the evening, and lasted until eleven the next day. This is hard business, but it must not be overrated. One senator addressed an enthusiastic audience of two members and one drowsy messenger ; but though the de bate was so near collapsing, it still lived through the night. Some grave considerations are connected with this amend ment. It is all very well to give the suffrage to negroes, but the consideration that "no distinction of race or colour" would bring in the Chinaman, proved very awk ward to some Republicans. And the negro and the Chinaman are not the only coloured races in the vast terri tory of the States. TURKEY AND GREECE. Both the lately•disputant States have expressed their readiness to re-establish diplomatic relations in conform ity with the decision of the Conference. But it appears that several weeks must elapse before the respective Am bassadors can take their places. This delay is " owing to the necessity of accrediting another Minister at each capital." It i 3 rather strange that a change of Ambassa dors should require such a delay in the case of two nAigh bouring States. SPAIN. It is reported tnat an attempt has peen made on General Prim's life. Some of the members of the Government visited a royal possession near Madrid a few days ago, and, whilst walking in the woods alone, Prim was attacked by a man with a dagger. Prim seized the fellow by both wrists, overpowered, and held him until assistance came. Such an attempt is by no means an unlikely event, but the story, nevertheless, needs confirmation GERMANY. The Second Chamber of the Bavarian Diet has just terminated an interesting debate. No less than five pro positions for an electoral reform, all of them based on the principle of universal suffrage, have been submitted to a Commission, • which has recommended the rej ec ti on o f all. The Government approves of this decision. Strange to sa y, one of these propositions was brought forward by the clerical party. The Minister of the In terior said that the Cabinet was very desirous of arriving at a sincere expression of public opinion, but they feared that universal suffrage would not lead to this consummation. The influence of the clerical party was so great, and was exerted so systematically, that universal suffrage would be merely a tool in its hands. It is certainly a new thing for the priestly element to make such a proposition, and it is equally new to find such an argument brought against it. At present the franchise in in Bavaria is enjoyed only by citizens of 25 years of age, who are rated at not less than 16s. Bd. a year. INDIA. The cause of the disastrous railway accident on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as yet shrouded in mystery, but the calamity appears to have been the result of the hasty construction and imperfect appliances common to most railways in newly-opened countries. The train was going down a very steep and dangerous incline. A very powerful engine, and four break-vans were attached, bnt this force proved insufficient to control the speed of the train. On the most dangerous part of the line the pace accelerated every moment, defying the exertion of driver, guard, and brakemen combined. These men foresaw the danger that wa4 unavoidable, unless the speed of the train was arrested, and that instantly it must dash over the embankment at the end of the revers ing station. The driver, therefore, reversed his engine. hut to no purpose. Seeing that nothing they could further do would be of any avail, the driver and guard jumped off, and the ill-fated train flew into and over the embankment at the rate, it is said, of sixty miles an hour. Sixteen passengers, all natives, were killed, and many dreadfully mangled. The jury decided that the accident was owing to the dew, which had rendered the rails unusually slippery, but the Times of India says that nobody is satisfied with this verdict. At all events, heavy dews are of constant occurrence on the Ghauts, and if the accident is to be attributed to this cause, it may be repeated any day. All the resources of Affghanistan are now in Shere Ali's hands. The reputation he enjoys as an able administrator will now be put: to the test. English money has contri buted not a little to place him in his present position, and there is no doubt that what has been gained will not be lost for the want of a little more. The Indian Government seems determined to lose no time in consolidatimr its in fluence in this — important quarter. The treaty which was to have been signed between Shere• Ali and Sir John Lawrence will at mice be taken up by Lord Mayo. The new Viceroy contirues to Le the harlest worked man in India. His mornings are spent in inquiring into the gaols, charitable institutions, and industrice of Calcutta; his afternoon in receiving ceasoless deputations, and, of course, in "getting up " fur them. If uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, doubly uneasy must be the lot of him who 1,a,3 to " learn the businc , ss " as lie proceeds. 'llia I ece tn lien:cid states that Lord Napier of Mcg,lala will go to England in April. In that case Major General Gordon will succeed to the command of the Indian army. NEW ZEALAND. The stalement that a detachment was to leave India for New Zealand was made in ignorance of the successes which have followed the dismal tragedy at Poverty Bay. As the Queen's Speech hinted that the colonists must rely upon themselves, and as the colonists are now sheaving that they can do so, it is not probable that any assistance will be sent. The colony is retrieving its disasters and its dis grace, and if the lesson has been dreadfully costly it may also be of infinite value. THE CHINESE MISSION. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is rich to hear from China the same el about Mr. Burlingame's enthusiastic after dinner 4 speeches in America as comes f r o m the Unit' States about Mr. Reverdy Johnson's after dinne r speeches in England. A missionary contradict° this assertion of the Ambassador. " China invi te° the unfurling of the glorious banner of the cross t° o every hill-top and in every valley of the empire' which leaves the-impression that the Chinese Go vernment favours Christi an m i ss i ons an d uphold s t those engaged in th em . Th e m i ss i onary sa ys that so far is this from being true, that the Governwe° officers take every opportunity to persecute Chri s ' tians, and he gives three recent instances of wante a l outrages upon missionaries an d th e i r conv erts. 4% Formosa violent persecutio n o f Ch r i s ti an s has be en going on for three y e a rs , i n di sregar d o f a ll trea t y engagements, and no remonstrances on the subje c t obtain notice. The missionary adds----" IVc do no r believe that China i s ca lli ng f or Ch r i s ti an ity, does she welcome the erectio n o f th e cross o n her hi; tops, or in her valley s ; a t l eas t we h ave y e t to leaf. it. We would be glad to have a healthy and inte l . ll ' gent interest created in America in regard to theta' s ' sionary work in China. But we deprecate an terest founded on sensational, after-dinner speeclietb which, in fact, have no real foundation to rest upon' as far as the acts of the Chinese Government are concerned. It is to be hoped th a t th e un founde d impression as to the intention of the Chinese C 4° .; vernment in regard to Christi an mi s sions, cans' by these sensational reports, will not react to the jury of the cause, when the facts become know° /. America, but will be overruled f or goo d." If_this lo all the missionary has t o com pl a i n o f h e m i g ht ban e kept his contradiction t o hi mse lf 0, as it amount ° , little or nothing. The re i s a goo d ar ti c l e in .Blac o t f wood of this month, taking a very genial vial' 00 Mr. Burlingame's work. The writer thus skete b . o that gentleman, w h o , it says P r i nce K ung hit 0 1 0 default of a Chines e s t a t esman possess i n g ° to requisite qualifications, as one he ri g htly though t would be agreeable both to the people and 6.° vernment of the United St a t es , an d no t ups° l• come to those of Great Britain and Fra n i: Mr. Burlingame is a gentleman of S co ttish desce° and proud of his ancestry, as most American f3to t f men are. Eleven yea r s ago h e sa t i n th e Fede r 7 o House of Representatives as one of the m ember!, Boston. He was an earne s t an d e l oquen t maul; of the Anti-Slavery p ar ty, a t a ti me w h e n it f quired considerable courage t o avow such unlY3l:ir 0 lar opinions. Next t o M r . S umner, h e was " most noted Abolitionist in Congress ; and s2c°. s l , to few, either in or ou t o f th e H ouse, f or t h e ab 11 1; and fearlessness with w hi c h h e a d vocate d a Pe lly, , 0 of negro emancipati on , w hi c h h e j ust l y considered be a question of even more vital importance t ° An poor w hite-bo rn s l ave h o ldi ng peop l e o f the S ou th tb b it was to the negroes. On the unexpected of his party he was one of the first offered place' r d, Lincoln, on the recomrnendatioc of Mr. Se ° A u, tendering to him th e E m b assy to A us t r i s • Burlingame accepted the appointment, a nd %, arrived at Paris, en ro u t e f or hi s post. V er y °l o t pettedly the Empero r o f A us t r i a i n ti ma ted `, he would not b;;received at Vienna, as Mr. 130 c 0 lingame had made hi mse lf consp i cuous am lng , b 0 countrymen in his sympathy f or K ossut h when o ` o Hungarian patriot was m a ki ng a t r i um phal t io , through America. His speeches on Hungaria n 01 , dependence were not pleasant to the Empero r te j his advisers, and on this occasion they regn es oo . the Government of the United States to . 0 . credit instead, some g en tl eman no t so ulo b 4 o . tionably associated with the rebellion. A- I r. m o s lingame was ther e f ore nom i nate d to t he 133 . 0 ; important if less com f or t a bl e m i ss i on to C13,1°0, and the sanction by th e S enate being gh-he Mr. Burlingame proceeded to Peking, where as spent the period of the great party strife, as we b ig strife in arms, which followed his departure, ip .e d native country. In consequenc e , w h en he retu r :' lately at the head of the Chi nese m i ss i on , he find fed enemies in America, for his absence had prel e° l his taking the active pa r t h e o th erw i se would' 0 s pa exciting animosity ther e by. Th e wr it er argues 0 Europeans have been as wrong as the Chin ese be the treatme n t eac h h as accar d e 1 the other, an.„tor thinks we ou g ht n o t t o f orget that whatev er ' 4 OO now be the relitive position, we were barbar t o ll o 2,000 years ago an d t h ey were not. " expecting too much as the immediate result ► of Burlingame's mission, or sharing the lively . f 3l :,:es , the Plymouth Brethren or other m issiot ) 'i i i ioS whether Protesta n t or R oman Catholic, tb,,a t „; o s t'i o Li is speedily or ever to be converted to the u` . the faith ; without believing it, probable that 1 00 3 Chinese will look upon Christian churches 00 more favour than Englishmen would look ° . ° 00 0 ,! erection of Buddhist temples in England ; vii ho'; even expecting that the men of this generati° ° , e ns be able if they wished to traverse China fr ° s, Ol a f to end as cheaply, as comfortable, as exkol t ,'" t oor as they can travel for similar distances in Patb ° and America, may we yet expect an increase 0 10 world's happiness, as well as of the world's get sr° from the new relations that the East and 1', 1 ",,`; tbg about to assume to each other. It is all and the reward of well-doing, that true w ipe dom is always more fruitful of good than tb e iss io o men know or can possibly c a l cu l a t e . The ° 3 per with which Prince Kun g h as en t rus ted D ll* * ol igh , : a lingame and his colleagues i s a no bl e on e, anu , not only to secure f or the Chi nese P r ince ,;rli ll , l place in contemp or a r y hi s t or y, b u t f or Mr. v a ell game and his two ma n d ar i ns respectful re o°, tion, and a hearty welcome f r o m a ll EuroPe• t wholly agree with Old Ebony, and only regr fiel so powerful a periolical was not e a r lier in th e with these telling remarks. • an `l rilitele LADvErtmEmENT.l—Holloway's Ointment `, fi e - 13 4 8 Hereditary diseases are never more likely to dev i el° r log hits existence and to display their intensity than "'oat :to autumn months. It should therefore be linoW ri .,,,fet,g , tendency to particular ailments transmitted fronljose s e e child exercises a wide influence in producing cu 6 A re f t cl mediable by these preparations. Few person s o ut, 0 06 1 from hereditary predispositions; consumptiolarg e o, v scrofulous disorders are from this cause ever pro s , 0 yearly rob us of our dearest treasures. HolleW a y bWai, ment and pills have the power of removing t h ere frera i ot the morbid qualities in which lie the essence of 5, i ed, tart' diseases, and not only do they cl ea nse the purify every living tissuo throughout the frame' grave [AD VERTISEIIENT. ] -llenceforth no one will doubt the 'Armil' i) o properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Reva lelr lblelBe a Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands 0 o ,(14,1 it has already received from Invalids whose Positi°e t he y .s°' deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holine s ,,,ye o , 6 o whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thi,rU a yet4 o l9 unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the ` - oe' Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health e e r re 6 0 oth Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all, vei l ' ' dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry 0 ,,,"" c 0m 0 04 Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at e ivA lt o b , AC? It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on 11 , 1, 1 0 y. , 6 of his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too h..„ 16 extract a few out of more than 68.000 cures :—Cnre - 04° * c olliP the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver .sw ita . fi r wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervonsi;iesl t rde all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and St oar tolerable nervous agitation. Curs No 1.771: 1 4 0r `: A oysl , qoiP Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford. of many Y -008 oysP e ',o o, No. 49,832; "Fifty years' indescribable any , sp o gr , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipationgo flatulen,Y. 40: IS4I, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' ws' iti ess. tlt spitting of blood, liver derangement, and parl dea c i t or o 4o portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavourY ! a r o sloppy imitations to which, without authority, P' t 41 1 7 name is most audaciously attached. 110.; OC Y 4 ' . 5110. - A CO 1 ., In tins, at is. lad. ; 1 lb. 2s. mmd.: 2 lbs. 4s. Gm •, „ Al a for g 228. ;24 lbs, 40s, -- Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA fta- t c op s LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 OP' a joi 5 4 " . OP: cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cups at 30 0 i.,0 5,5 0 , 4 0 c m, at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 300. rr o st L' l ,oll' are sent free of carriage in England on receip t c t ' ..s reetm Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co No. 77, Reg en don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. soy. , CORRY—On the 21st inst., the Ilon. Mrs. Corry, °- t a ~ t' s CorcHmAN—On the 20th inst., at Tunbridge "sve,.% ils, .7 ox wife of Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. 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