The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in considering the recent decision of the Privy Council with respect to Dr. Colenso, remarks that the honour and peace of the Church are both concerned in obtaining some legal settlement of the controversy. Apart, however, from the case of Dr. Colenso, we beg the reader to observe what is the state of the Colonial :Episcopate as illustrated by:this opinion. It followsthat in many cases a colonial bishop is independent of all authority in the exercise of his episcopal functions. He may commit ally enormities within his own diocese, and no one has any jurisdiction over him. He may deny the essential doctrines of Christianity, or even of religion, and, if he pleases, he may still hold his post and exercise the functions of his office. There could not be a more discreditable instance of the confusion of ecclesiastical law. The only satisfactory reflection is that time must needs put an end to much of this con f,i,ion by removing the bishops who have been thus " improvidently" appointed, and there is one obvious v arii:ng which we have some confidence will be deduced floni this history. It is that for the future, unless we are yrcpa:ed for distinct and complete legislation upon the stti , jcet, the Government must have nothing to do with tie religious affairs of the colonies. The relations of lurch and State are sufficiently complicated in this olintry, where they have developed naturally; and nothing but redoubled confusion can arise from artificial imitation of them in countries where the whole framework of society is different. If we are not prepared to take the Church in the colonies under efficient home control, the only thing we can do is to leave it alone. The Post thinks that the discussion on the organisation of the military forces of the country, originated by Lord llonck in the House of Lords, was one of no little impor tance or interest. The question of maintaining the army in India was discussed, but it was by no means satisfac torily disposed of. It appears to us that much as Lord Northbrook objects to a local army for India, % proposition to form one will yet have to be seriously entertained. With seven-year terms of service the diffi culty might perhaps be surmounted, but then it seems extremely doubtful if these terms would secure us the great disideratum of an ample army reserve. On the whole, the information elicited in the debate indicated substantial progress in the theory and practice of army reform. We are on the eve of having short terms of service tried. The necessity for trained reserves has been thoroughly admitted ; steps are about to be taken for improving the character and augmenting the supply of militia officers ; a committee is investigating the difficult question of the volunteers ; and some of the foremost officers of the force are to be consulted as to the most suitable arrangements to be made ; soldiers are to be employed in industrial pursuits ; and the entire forces of the country are to be told off into district armies. There are several questions, however, of great importance still to be grappled with. Purchase in the army will yet have to be discussed and dealt with ; the promotion in the non-purchase corps is in a highly unsatisfactory condition ; and the maintenance of an European army in India will, with short service, be a much more difficult question to solve than Lord North brook seems to imagine. But nevertheless there can be question as to effective vigour having been infused into the administration of the army, and that there will soon be practical demonstration of military reform having advanced beyond the stage of mere discussion, where it has stuck so long. The Hcrald declares that amongst the grievances now in process of establishment is one having reference to an institution which prudent Radicals are not yet prepared to attack in front. The House of Lords is becoming a debating society. It has not been enabled, in spite of preternatural activity, to accomplish more than one piece of tangible work this year. Radicals benevolently theorising on the subject are sometimes inclined to think that the hereditary character of the peerage accounts for the political weakness of the House of Lords. With a system of life peerages the House might be elevated into the condition of a Senate. What an elevation ! Some thing ought to be done for the House of Lords ; they are sure of that at all events. Who could wish that it should remain inactive and useless—a mere excrescence on the Constitution ; a relic of antiquity ; an assembly with powers which cannot be exercised in an age of progress, and shadowy privileges which forbid it from adopting any career of humble usefulness? What is the meaning of this hypocritical anxiety that the House of Lords should be invested with some new attributes which would make it, what it is assumed not to be at present, a power in the State ? What hidden change lies wrapped in these professions of fear lest the House of Lords should degene rate into a mere debating society? Surely, we can scarcely telieve that those who are thus professing anxiety that something should be done to invigorate the House of Lords are the most sincere in their wish to see it strengthened and induced to assert its dignity and power in opposition to the growing supremacy of the Commons. We have lighted upon times when no Democratic movement can be altogether despised ; when the earnestnees of Radical attack must be encountered by equal earnestness in Con servative defence, and when people who hate revolution as much as they love liberty, instead of contenting themselves with silently thanking God that we have a lionse of Lords, should be prepared, by voice and pen, at all times to justify and explain their thankfulness. The Daily Hews reminds us that the House of Commons has now spent four evenings in committee on the Irish Church Bill. A good stroke of work has been done ; and the manner in which it has been performed is creditable to both sides of the House. Mr. Gladstone has been firm without ceasing to be conciliatory. Mr. Disraeli has gone, rather wearily, and appa rently more as a matter of convention than of conviction, though the business cut out for him by Dr. Ball, who, on the Irish Church question, is viceroy over his chief. As the rate of progress increases day by day, by the decision of questions of principle, which practi cally carry with them subsequent provisions ; and as many of the late amendments set down by the leaders of the Opposition are only development; of earlier amendments which have been rejected, it is likely that a large amount of the controversy which the notice paper seems to threaten will be avoided. The most important clauses which remain tobe considered, and are likely to give rise to controversy, relate to the disposal of the Church fabrics, burial-grounds, and eccle siastical residences, the adjustment of building charger, the title of the Church to private and mixed en dowments, and to royal grants, the sale of the tithe -rent charge, the amount of compensation to be given to the recipients of the Maynooth grant and the Regium Donurn,and the appropriation of the surpl us t o t h e relief of va calamity and suffering, forms of unavoidable On afl o t u hese points the subtlety of the lead ers o f the Op. position has been exercised ; and it will require the constantviilance of the Go vernmen t an d the fidelity o f its supporters prevent th e f r i en d s o f religions inequality inlreland o from slyly taking back with one hand that which they affect to surrender with the other. The Standard says that a Minister's influence extend s tot only to his p ersonal action, or the effect of his counsels upon the action of his colleagues • a most momentous part of it i s t h at wh i ch his known opinions and supposed authority exert upon the expectation s , hopes, and fears of othe rs . A n d i n t h e case of Mr. Bright this influence is very wide, very deep, and very dangerous. His opinions are kno wn t o b e extreme, and his violent Tr!.'sde of expressing them has led people imperfectly acquainted with English politics to fancy them more extreme than they are. Hearing that a Minister of the Crown had proposed to divide some of the largest and hest managed estates in Ireland among the tenantry ; that the property of the Church was to be confiscated ; that the property of the London companies was fiercely attacked and scarcely defended by the Government and that a speedy and satisfactory solution o f th e land question—the real gravamen of which is the objection of the tenant to recognise the landlord's proprietary rights— ' was promised by the Ministry, the Irish peasantry hurried to the conclusion that the land was very soon to be theirs by law, and that in the meantime all proprietary acts on the part of the landlord—even to the exaction of rent— were an injustice to the tenant. We know that such ideas are widely prevalent—bow widely we cannot fully estimate—and that they have led to the most dangerous consequences. Another consequence of Mr. Bright's pre sence in the Cabinet is that foreign States believe that England has adopted his views. France and Russia fancy that they may pursue designs of aggrandisement without taking England into account. America believes that she ma y impose what terms she pleases; that no humiliation can be too abject for the men who have consented to serve in the same Government with Mr. Bright. And this belief has already exercised a very serious influence on the course of negotiation. The Star suggests that Mr. Gladstone, in disposing of the funds of the Irish Church , should extend his aid to a class which is grievously and hopelessly afflicted. If the relief of unavoidable suffering constitutes a special claim upon the surplus of the Irish ecclesiastical property, the want for which we plead is qualified by an indisputable claim. It stands in all res p ects uponthe same footing, as regards its fitness for the aid of the State, with the claims of lunatic asylums, county infirmaries, asylums for the blind, for the deaf and dumb, and for idiots. There is in Ireland no systematic provision whatever for the treat ment and relief of incurables ; and yet there is no country in the world where the want of such a provision occasions more bitter and more wide-sprcad suffering among the poorer claszes of the community. It is this urgent and crying want that we plead for. We ask that out of the dis posable surplus in the hands of the commissioners a certain small proportion shall be allotted to . t h ‘ ,2 f l ot , i 4 lada ton and maintenance of hospitals for incurain... i in Ireland. The concession of this boon wo:ild not largely subtract from the I,3venties at the disposal of the Clovernment for the support of those institutions u.W charged upon the county cess, while it the would relieve great classes—we in might say every class country—of the intolerable burden of human suffer.ng which cannot be alleviated or taken away. It might be fitting to establish a distinction between incurables whose relatives might be able to pay something towards their maintenance, and pauper incurables who are now forced to the chilling protection of the workhouse. But this is a mere question of detail. In any case the establishment of the institutions we have described would lead to the mitigation of an immense masa of acute and hopeless suffering which now is allowed to afflict the poor without check or relief, and which presses most keenly upon those wb9 arc leapt Able,Den• THE STOR►Y ABOUT HARE, THE " BURKER." On Saturday, at the Bow-street Police-court, William Hawkes, a blind man, of somewhat remarkable appearance from his tall stature and Herculean proportions, and well known at the court as having been repeatedly charged with begging in the streets, applied to the sitting magis trate, Mr. Flowers, for advice. The applicant said he had been subject to a great deal of annoyance in consequence of the following paragraph having appeared in a daily paper:—" Hare the Burker,Still Alive.—Persons accustomed to pass through Trafalgar square will have noticed from time to time a sturdy and disreputable beggar who is blind of both eyes. This fellow is a notorious scoundrel. He is no other than Hare, the associate of Burke, in the Edinburgh murders, who originated the term `Barking' forty-one years ago. Hare turned King's evidence, and saved his own neck from the gallows. Subsequently he went to work under a borrowed name, but his fe low-workmen discovered who he was, and threw him into a I:me-pit, and there both his eyes were burnt out. He now appeals to the charity of the public, who have, of course, no idea who he is." Since the publi cation of this paragraph many persons had conceived an impression that he was the blind beggar referred to, and he bad been annoyed by people asking if his name was Hare. He wished to know whether he had not some remedy against those who had so injured him. Mr. Flowers asked how he knew that he was the - person meant. The applicant said be knew by the description. Mr. Flowers : I see the description is " a sturdy and dis reputable beggar." (A laugh). But there might be other beggars, and they might be sturdy and disreputable. A woman who accompanied the applicant said it was mentioned that he stood in Trafalgar-square. Mr. Flowers: Yes, and you stand there, too—to beg? The Woman : He stands there, and is asking alms. Applicant : No, Ido not beg. I do not ask for alms. I stand there, if anybody gives me anything— Mr. Flowers : You do not refuse it ? (A laughl. Applicant : No, Ido not. (Laughter.) Mr. Flowers : I thought not. (Renewed laughter.) But I presume—though I really have no right to ask you, and you axe not bound to answer unless you like—you arc not Hare, are you? Applicant : No, sir, I aint him. (A laugh.) He used to beg there, but he is dead. Mr. Flowers : Then you clearly are not the man. (A laugh.) If you can shew that the paragraph was levelled at you, you have an action for libel against the papers that inserted it. (Laughter.) The Applicant: That is too dear a way for me. (Laughter.) Mr. Flowers : Then write to each paper that inserted the paragraph to say you are not the man. The applicant left the court muttering something to the effect that he only wanted to vindicate his character, and that there ought to be justice for a poor man. LAW AND POLICE. A DISCREDITABLE CASE.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Saturday, in the case of " Johnson v. Ham mans," Sir R. Malins expressed his strong disapprobation of the suit. It had been going on for seven years, to raise money for a child 13 years of age, who had, on coming of age, repudiated it. For raising £B5O, £5OO costs had been incurred, and the father being dead, the widow, who knew nothing of the matter, was called upon to execute a deed to charge property worth £2,450 with £1,350. Such a suit was a scandal to the court. After some observations from the counsel, the Vice-Chancellor said he should investigate the whole matter, and see if there was not some means of preventing these poor people from being beg- gared by these proceedings, and making those pay the costs who had taken such an improper course. A DIFFICULTY RESPECTING AN INVOICE.—III the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, an action was brought for the non-acceptance of twenty parcels of hops, in which a verdict had been found for the plaintiff for £l3O, leave being reserved to the defendant to move for a rule, which had been obtained accordingly. Two questions were dis cussed : whether an invoice of the hops, which contained the words " that the hops sold were to await orders," and which was returned by the defendant on account of the price, formed part of the contract declared upon ; the second question was whether a subsequently signed proposal of the defendant to take the hops at £9 instead of £9 95., would, with evidence of a verbal assent by the plaintiff, form a good memorandum of the bargain within the Statute of Frauds. Their lordships decided both questions in the affirmative, and discharged the rule. THE MERCHANTS' COMPANY.—Messrs. Lane, Chapman, and Ilelbert, three directors of the late Merchants' Com pany, again appeared before the Lord Mayor on Saturday ' to answer the charge of having made a false statement with intent to defraud the shareholders. The counsel for the prosecution took occasion to deny the statement made by Mr. Lane at the last hearing, that an attempt bad been made to compromise the case, and that the court was being used as a vehicle of extortion. The proceedings were further adjourned to Friday next, when it is anticipated that the evidence in support of the charge will be completed. The defendants were allowed to go upon their personal recognisances, each in the sum of £l,OOO. INEFFICIENCY OF THE LAW.-At Marlborough-street, on Saturday, Mr. Knox convicted three nighthouse keepers in penalties of £5 each. The defendants intimated that they should appeal, and it was stated that the cases could not be heard at the sessions until the 24th July. The magistrate then said that as at such a late period of the parliamentary year it would be impossible for the Legislature to deal with the matter, the object of the question being raised at the sessions would be defeated. He therefore cancelled the con victions and dismissed the summonses, telling the police that under the circumstances they might as well give up their supervision. In our report of the charge against the directors and ollicers of the National and Provincial Union Assurance and Loan Society, it was stated that Winks and Jones were bailed, and Reid and Kiddie remanded in custody. It should have been Winks and Kiddie were bailed, and Reid and Jones remanded in custody. Immediate steps are about being taken to test the validity of the rival claims to the Wicklow peerage and property. Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications for office, has received an answer from President Grant that she might have an interview when dressed as becomes her sex. The velocipede mania has reached the distant Highland village of Braemar, where the country black smiths are diligently engaged constructin,M, / machines to rival in speed the light and airy French vehicles. The Asiatic understands that in all probability Sir Ilenry Durand will be the next Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. Mr. George Campbell and Sir Richard Temple are also named. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress propose to entertain her Majesty's Ministers at a grand banquet on Wednesday, Juno 30. Prior to th*t date they propose to give a banquet to her Majesty's Judges, and another to the bishops and clergy. THE MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH.—His High ness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has been adding con. siderably to a noble collection of rare and foreign birds which he has formed at his seat at Elvedon, near Thet- ford, Norfolk. The Maharajah has also been forming a menagerie, and a herd of antelopes has just been added to it. A member of the Barr family is still with the Maharajah as falconer. CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held at Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan. cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. 11. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Ear, Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Marquis of Hartingtun, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. ESCAPE FROM GAOL IN IRELAND. —Either gaolera just now are ve►y lax, or the prisoners are more than ordinarily " cute." Another clever escape from gaol at Queenstown is reported in an Irish journal. A mar named Clarke having had his breakfast brought to him by the wife of the gaoler, forced her into the cell he had occupied, taking her keys from her and locking her With these he unlocked other doors, and made his way tc the street before the loud cries of the imprisoned womar had attracted the attention of the officers of the prison. Clarke was in prison for theft. Ile has not since beer heard of. DISCOVERY OF NATURAL GAS. —Some workmen, while boring for water ;it Middleton Ifail, observed that gai escaped from the bi.re. They applitd light, and instantly the gas blazed up into a beautiful whit, flame, and continued to burn with increasing force until ii was extinguished by the workmen in order to resume boring After the men had finished their " shift," the gas had con siderably increased in volume ; it was again ignited, and • pail oficold watersuspended over it, which was boiled in thirty minutes. The strata from which gas evolves is well knowr to mineralogists as the marl which overlie the rich hitt'• urinous shales of this district. Judging from the extent of the source of supply and the richness of the gas, if might be profitably employed for oil•makinF, heating, ai' klumivatiPg purpossergotitnan, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1869, THE COMING FIGHT IN AMERICA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is evident that the forces to fight the battle of Protection and Free Trade are being marshalled in the United States, where the greatest problem of economical science ever submitted to a people has to be solved. What took England nearly half a century to carry through cannot be achieved else where in a year, nor in the States without a struggle of unequalled bitterness, for it will be more rapid, and earnest, fought with great numbers, for greater ends, and with greater intelligence in the masses. The lion. DAVID A. WELLS will, it is pro bable, lead the Free-traders ; and, if he succeeds, he may take in America COBDEN'S position in Europe, leaving such a memory behind him. That he wig have a hard time, if he did not know it before, he knows it now. The Tribune leads on the Protec tionist side, and article follows article, letter fol lows letter, ably advancing the views of that party. Emphatically the question is one of money ; indeed it embraces not only the repeal of excessive import duties and taxes imposed for protection, not for re venue, but a reform of the financial system, of the civil service, and a return to specie payments. That. suebenormousinterests should bewatched by earnest guardians, and fought for to the bitter cud, will not surprise, while the state of the country so cle irly indicates the necessity for a revision of these laws that it can cause as little surprise a strenu ous attack should be organized against them. The Special Commissioner's report was the Free traders' gauntlet thrown into the arena, and it is probable that during the interval till next session the controversy on it will rage even more furiously than hitherto. The attack of Representative KELLEY, from Pennsylvania, on Mr. WELLS has called forth a reply, and although it was not couched in the choicest language or restrained within ordi nary limits, Mr. WELLS thanks him for the oppor tunity he has given of contributing additional in formation and of explaining portions of his former report which had been misinterpreted. The Free Trade League is dispatching lecturers throughout the country, societies are being organised in many cities, and an aggressive campaign has commenced, which must inevitably end in remodelling parties in the United States, for the great moral questions on which they were constructed have been decided and material ones of overwhelming importance have arisen, mainly indeed on the ground of the old subjecti in dispute. Our English readers must not suppose that either of the great parties have fixed views on these points, though the Re publicans embrace most Protectionists, and the De mocrats most Free-traders. For instance, such a Republican journal as the Nation strenuously ad vocates Free-trade; and a leading New England newspaper, the Springfield Republican, is denounced fonts unflinching support of free- trade by the Tribune. Not only will parties split, but States also, on these points, though as a general rule the prairie and great agricultural States, still erroneously called the West, will join their Free-trade majority with that of the Southern States in opposing the Pro tective majority of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and such wealthy, populous, and powerful manufacturing communities. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. This is ivhat is actually done, yet it is ny no means certain that it is done with the authority of the War Office. "An Army Medical Officer " writes to the Broad Arrow that " No document that has to b a signed bir an arr . ny medical officer necessarily implies the existence of a special mark or brand upon any invalid, and the infliction of such is undoubtedly illegal and quite unauthorised. I have always stead fastly refused to carry out any suggestions that may have fallen from an over-sensitive inspecting officer, that such further treatment would be advisable pre vious to his signature appearing on the third page of 180 form, No. 83, and in no instance have I been required to affix the mark." SENA 7'01:. SPRAGUE'S NEW LICH?. Senator SPRAGUE bas given the galleries another treat, and the astonishment is great throughout the country at the sudden outburst of one hitherto regarded as a silent member. Twice he announced his performance from the floor of the Chamber, an advertisement which took. The galleries were crammed with fashionable ladies, and seats ran up to a premium. The Senator cast a complacent glance on these preparations, while the people sat impatiently awaiting the entertainment. There was nothing before the House connected with the Sena tor's subject (the dismal ruin awaiting the country) ; but this to him was immaterial, and he commenced when the opportunity offered. It appears that some second light has been vouchsafed, for he acknow ledges taking part in the legislation which has brought the threatened ruin on the devoted land. The new light he thinks it right however to follow, re gardless of consistency, which is only a bugbear to the weak. This light has revealed to him the idiotic proceedings of the Legislature, and he feels impelled to warn the people of the impending dan ger. A true system of finance bated on something the light had clearly shown will however give the Re pnblic a higher and nobler position than that ever even aspired to by any other country. The spirit informs him that the only salvation is for the State to loan out small sums to poor men on good secu rity, and to do a general banking business ; crush ing out, we presume, all competitors, on the plan the Senator has fonnd so beneficial to himself, what ever it may have been to the crushel competitors. On this portion of his subject he sums up in these words--,"Nothing is more vicious and cowardly than five hundred thousand dollars, unless it isa million." Then he comes down like a sledge hammer on BROWN, IvEs, and Co., of Providence, a manufac turing family of great wealth in Rhode Island, against whom he made the very charges, common in the United States against himself, that they con trolled the politics and business of the State. He again attacked his colleague ANTHONY and his paper, ons "SPRAGUE s S i r n rt v a e s G t n E g exposing the insinuations contained in such expres sc.xptzidueEd,i's' i i n s ti v le er as‘ S y 01.1 111 th7 11 " doing a very great business," accompanied by a shake of the head, which meant that they could not tell what it would all end in. There was a report that he had bought the National intelligencer, but it was untrue, as he was not going to run a news paper or organize a new party. lie then had a bard hit at the press represented there by re porters and correspondents. As the greattst of all powers he regretted it was not used to promote the prosperity of the people. They assumed to give wholesome advice, to be the champions of liberzy, in the protection of which they were, of course, always engaged. They never took bribes. Oh, no ! They were content with the pittance doled to them, and sternly resisted the corruptive influences around them. Oh yes ! These remarks were directed to the reporters' gallery, and answered by loud laugh ter. If, however, continued the Senator, the peo ple learn to think differently that influence will be less. Those who had the real interest of the nation at heart would not slur his utterances. If they became the tools of the jobbers and monopolists their end would be dreadful. Mr. SPRAGUE bad written to the Providence Journal to tell the editor to what a low ebb his opinion- of him had fallen, and bow little he thought of the press of Rhode Island. Altogether the Senator is having a busy time, and we fear his new light is a veritable " Will o'-the-wisp," which will end with him as usual with the beguiled, by enticing him on till it leaves him up to his neck in a bog.—Anglo-American Times. Tea plants set in 1858, on the estate of Captai❑ James Campbell, of Knoxville, Tennessee, have attained a height of from five to eight feet, and are now yielding young Hyson of an excellent qua lity. That State, as well as others, are well adapted for the cultivation of the tea shrub, and much interest has been directed to its cultivation. California, we presume, will take the lead, if not too dry, with its sunny soil and Chinese popu lation. Ben Wade bas, our readers know, curious notions on political economy. lie once made a speech in Kansas which, by frightening people, in no small degree helped Andrew Johnson in impeach ment. Lately, addressing George D. Downing and others, who form the "National Executive Commit tee of Coloured men," Mr. Wade said, among other things, "1 can never believe a Government perfect while it is possible for one man to appropriate the avails of the labour of thousands, while those that perform the labour pine away their life in poverty and destitution, or to monopolize an unlimited extant of Gol's earth to the exclusion of others. These evils are yet to be coritet«l, and may I nut expect that you who have 13,,en so lately emanci pated from the foulest oppression and injustice will take he lead in these great and necessary reforms ?" LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL AIR.--M RS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S lIAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It,pre/ents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dyo. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers Depot 266, Itighliolborn -,.~,, •. THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. A correspondent of the Daily News gives his experience of the difficulties arising from the present system of endowing parochial clergymen. The parish in which he lives is inhabited chiefly by the trading and working classes, with a fair proportion of professional men. The minister's income was for many years been derived entirely from pew rents and Easter offerings, and amounted to between £4OO and £5OO. He was much liked and respected, and certainly never thought of " trembling " before any of those who considered it a privilege to support him. A variety of religious and charitable associations were formed for the benefit of the neigh bourhood, and were well supported. Under these cir cumstances the parish afforded no inefficient test of the working of the voluntary system. All went well until the minister left for another diocese, and the truste( s appointed a clergyman who dis approved of everything which his predecessor had done. Within six months most of the charitable organisations had been broken up, the congregation rapidly fell off, and the income derived from the pew rents fell to £l3O. The congregation appear to have hoped that the minister would resign, but unfortunately the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners have, instead, twice augmented his income. There is no lack of money among the people for all useful and n ecessary purposes. All they want is a leader and a centre of action. The writer complains that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are doing great mischief by their interference with a matter into which they have not inquired. The Church would, he thinks, thrive by a development of the voluntary system, and the salutary working of that system is arrested by these extraneous endowments. THE LORDS' DEBATES. The Peers have made interest in Printing-house square. Formerly their lordships' debates, however interesting, were, except on a great field night, com pressed into about half a column. This session they hue been reported in the Times at great length. Friday's debate, for instance, occupies eight columns, or as much space as the Peers would have been allowed in a fortnight a year ago. MOPE BISHOPS. The secular journals are very sarcastic over Lord Lyttelton's proposal to increase the number of lishops. They find abundant room for satire in the present bishopless condition Of the Southern dioceses, and insist that if these dioceses can get on with only nominal heads, there is not the least necessity for increasing these honorary and costly dignitaries. The truth is the Southern bishops are doing more Civil all that Milton, or Cromwell, or the Puritans effected to bring about the abolition of the Episco pate. They attacked the office because the men who held it possessed too much power ; the modern anti episcopalian attacks it because the holders of it are impotent. " After us the Deluge " seems to be the Episcopal motto. Only two bishops voted on Thursday in the division on the increase of the episcopate—the Bishops of London and Oxford ; they voted in its favour. So did the Lord Chancellor; but Lord Chelmsford gave his name against it. The Mar quises of Bath and Salisbury ; Earls Brownlow, Carnarvon, Dartmouth, Nelson, Romney, and Verulam ; Lords C hurston, Colchester, Delamere, Har tismere (Henniker), Heytesbury, Lyttelton, Monck, Redesdale and Courtown voted in its favour. Against are recorded the names (among others) of the Dukes of Richmond and Somerset, the Marquises of Lans downe and Normanby, Earls Airlie, Camperdown, Grey, Morley, Shaftesbury Stanhope, and Zetland, Viscount Gough, L or d s Calthorpe, Houghton, Kesteven, Lawren ce , L yve d en, S e ft on , Somerhill (the Marquis of Clanricarde), and Westbury. THE DIOCESE OF FTETER. The John Bull, in a paragraph which was evidently written at Bishopstowe, states that the commission given by the Bishop of Exeter. to Bishop Trower " is general. It authorises him to examine testimonials, presentations, petitions for institutions, &c. ; to institute clerks to benefices, and to license to miracles, as well as to accep t resignations, and generally to do an d perform t h e ac t s belonging to the episcopal office. Patronage is reserved to the Bish op o f E xe t er , in expressly accordance, we believe, with every precedent except that of the Bishop of Lichfield's commission to Bishop Trower." This reservation will cause the greatest possible dissatisfaction in the diocese, for the chief cause of complaint is that the patronage has been exercised by irresponsible persons of whom the diocese knows nothing. With reference to this same matter the John Bull adds, that " though the aged prelate suffeis considerably at times, his mind, we rejoice to hear, is not affected." CLERGYMEN IN PARLIAMENT. Lord Henry Thynne hit a very palpable blot in our legislation when he asked his question relative to the exclusion of clergymen from the House of Commons. No one would wish them to be there as clergymen ; and although in Norway parochial clergy are constantly elected members of the Stor thing, it would be very undesirable that the clergyman in charge of a parish should imitate the example of a bishop in charge of a see, and spend half his time in London. But the fact that a man has once entered holy orders ought to be no bar to his entering the House of Commons, should he at any time give up parochial work. For instance, there is ex-Professor Rogers, who has been ordained, it is true, but who is either a politician or nothing, and who, being a very able man, would be an acquisition to the Legislature. But the door is closed against him, although if he had happened to be a Dissenting minister he might, as Mr. Richard, the new member for Merthyr, has done, have entered without difficulty. Surely it is somewhat paradoxical that official connection with the State Chur h should limo facto disqualify for service in the state. NAVAL AND MILITARY ITEMS. The United Service Gazette understands that the price to be paid to a lieutenant, R.N., on giving up his commission, time of is 2120 for each year of ac t ua l ser vice from the entering. The A rm y an d Navy Gazette says that Major-General Sir Edward Wetherall is likely to be offered a divisional com mand in the Bengal Presidency. It will be remem bered that this officer was appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland by Mr. Disraeli at the time that the last Administration was in articido mortis, and that the present Government said they should take the earliest opportunity of transferring Sir Edward to a post more suited to a military man. The same paper denies the statement that Lord Northbrook's committee bad made a report reversing some of the principal recommen dations of Lord Strathnairn's committee, and says that no report has been made. The Gazette believes that General Stisted will be appointed to the com mand of the troops in China and Japan, and under stands that Rear-Admiral Loring will succeed Rear- Admiral Wellesley at Portsmouth Dockyard, an appointment which our contemporary expects will cause great dissatisfaction. The Broad AMU, believes that one result of Lord Northbrook's committee will be the re-union of the Audit Department with the Accountant-General's Department at the War Office. The Duke of Cam bridge has been examined at great length, and it is understood that the committee's labours are drawing to a close. The same paper states that "Dover House, Whitehall, has been purchased by the Government, and it is not improbable that it will form part of the range of buildings in connection with the Horse Guards, when that department is amalgamated with the War Office." From the same source we learn the very serious, such, it is feared, hopeless illness of Captain Colin Campbell, and the recovery of Sir S. Dacres, who will probably take command of the North-American squadron before long. THE SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL. It is believed that the Scotch Education Bill will be abandoned. A Scotch contemporary says : " The Duke of Argyll is quite disheartened by the host of hostile deputations which dun him daily, and almost hourly, and Mr. Moncreiff has expressed his delibe rate opinion that enoug h op position has been manifested to shew th a t t h e coun try is not ripe for the proposed change. The lobbies of both Houses for the last fortnight have been' quite a study to any one knowing anything about Scotland. Professors, ministers, priests, schoolmasters, Scotch advocates on the look-out for berths, have swarmed there, and the Scotch members have had to run the gauntlet of being button-holed at every step. Nor have the peers escaped, the Duke of Argyll having been driven to the verge of losing his temper more than once." Dr. Playfair (a Lib era l) h as given notice that he will on the motion for going into committee move the "six months" amendment. " CROSS-C UPPING." ------ -- A few nights a go —Mr. Cardwell, in reply to a question, denied that " a soldier suffering from consumption, or any other disease whereby he was incapacitated from continuing in ller Majesty's service, cannot be discharged till ho has been subjected to the operation of cross cupping." Ile added that cupping was never resorted to except as a remedy for disease. The Secret .ry of War appears to have been strangely nis:nformed. When a man passes the invaliding bard he is then, and not_ before, cross-cupped, for the purpose of affording a means of identification should lie present himself for re-enlistment. Nay more, he is cupped—it is always cross-cupping—on a part corresponding with the seat of disease, so as to afford a clue to the nature, or, at all events, to the position of such disease. Thus, if he is invalided from any cerebral affection, he is cross-cupped in the back of the neck ; if it is anything connected with the trunk he is cross-cupped on the sm all of the back ; if the kne e or an kl e joints be the seat of disease, these are the parts seclected for the - manna ofAbilijusreniom. &vim THE IRISH RAILWAYS. The attempt to withdraw attention from the Irish Church by running the land and railway questions must now be seen to have decidedly failed. The supporters of the plan for the State purchase of railways have now adopted another plan, which will probably meA with much the same success. They are beginning to threaten the Government that unless it determines to deal with the matter imme diately they will vote against it in a body on some other question. This is certainly a logical position to ta!ie—according to an Irishman's view of logic— because the Government is wrong on one point, the Irish members will vote against it on another in which it is right. AN IMPROBABLE RUMOUR. It is stated in the Elgin Courant that the Govern ment have purchased Covent Garden Theatre as a central office for conducting the intricate and elabo rate system of working the telegraphs, the details of which have been already settled. The same paper states that the cost of the telegraphs is likely to be much larger than was expected. THE OVEBEND AND GURNEY TRIAL. The Solicitors' Journal refuses to believe the. horrid rumour that Dr. Thom means to carry on the prosecution of the Overend and Gurney directors without the aid of counsel. The supposition is too dreadful. Moreover, our contemporary has disco vered a constitutional objection to this course. " Mr. Thom is, no doubt, the prosecutor in the case, as any other of her Majesty's subjects might have been. But when once the grand jury has found a true bill against the accused, if they do so, the cause, like all criminal causes, will be one between the Queen and the prisoners. In the Court of Queen's Bench, to which the case has been re moved, no one is entitled to appear and conduct a cause but the parties to the cause, or their counsel. We are therefore at a loss to see how in a case, the par ties to which will be her Majesty and the accused, Mr. Thom can possibly , be entitled to open his lips, except as a witness." If this be true, no doubt the Solicitor-General or some other counsel learned in the law will be instructed by the Crown to conduct the case. Hitherto; it must be confessed, the Crown has shewn great backwardness in coming forward. Dr. Thom was offered £2OO by the Government towards his expenses; but as they are probably ten times that sum, he declined to receive a payment which, while it would not have materially relieved him pecuniarily, would have de prived him of all the éclat which he now has for his public spirit. LAW AND EDUCATION. There seems to be good reason to hope that we may see before long a law university established. A. scheme has been devised, which has received the sanction of both the Lord Chancellor in esse, and the Lord Chancellor in posse, of Lord Ilatherley and Sir R. Palmer, that is. The pro moters propose five objects :—The institution of a central law college or university; the abrogation of the inns of court, and the admission to both branches of the profession on the combined test of collegiate education and examination by a public board ; the application of all revenues now applicable to the purposes of education to the support of the new uni versity ; an easy transition from one branch of the profession to the other; and the admission of attorneys equally with the bar to the unpaid magistracy and other offices. In the meanwhile, the University of Oxford, wishing not to lose all itslegal alumni, asit has already lost nearly all its medical, has just established a new professorship of law with a salary of £OOO. The professor is to reside three months in full term every year, and his duties are " to treat of legal history, to compare with one another the legal systems of different nations, to expound the principles of jurisprudence, and to teach whatever in his line he shall deem conducive to the purposes of the university." The university is wiser than the Church. for having the spectacle of tenacious octogenarian bishops before their eyes, the electors reserve to themselves the right of appointing a deputy in the event of the professor becoming unable, through age or infirmity, to discharge his duties. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. The Duke of Edinburgh has been . laying the foundation stone of the Sailors' Home at 'Adelaid e , and then, variety being charming, indulged in the fine manly sport of pigeon-shooting. In the evening of the same day he dined at Government House. Before leaving, his Royal highness made a present of £5O towards the Home, an act of generosity which will no doubt appear in ne: - ..t year's Civil Service Estimates. TIIE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY AND THE EDUCATION OF THE VERY POOR. The Earl of Shaftesbury gave his opinion at the Conference on Reformatories and Refuges upon the subject of the education and reclamation of the criminal classes. There aro very few whose words are entitled to more weight. He has long been fore most amongst those who have sought to teach the very poor, and to reclaim the city Arab. And he told the meeting that one of the things to be much dreaded by philanthropists was that the State should have anything to do with the education of the reformatory schools. Government .control should not be exercised, he thought, in this direc tion, but rather towards the coercive prevention of crime. The Habitual Criminals Bill he thoroughly supported. While in this way crime was made a steep and thorny road to tread, the path of honesty might be made easier by giving to the outcast a certain amount of education, and by i m buing the mind a the untrained with ideas of uprightness. THE PAPAL STATES. (FRI3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, APRIL 20. The succession of deputations presenting addresses to the Pope has continued without interruption to the present time. On Wednesday a large body of Italian youths from Bologna, Ravenna, and other towns of Italy, as well as the principal Catholic gentlemen of the Vene tian, Milanese, and Piedmontese towns, in all nearly two thousand deputies, were received at the Vatican. Their address was read by Stefano Margatti, of Turin, and by Aquiderma, of Bologna, and was signed by nearly every name of note in Upper Italy. The scene of enthusiasm was such as cannot be described. The audience broke out with the true southern vehemence into a denuncia tion of the new reiginte, and a complaint of the evils it had introduced, so violent that the Pope was obliged to calm the agitation. "Siamo col Papa /" (we are for the Pope) was the cry that broke from every part of the room. The Pope replied at some length, dwelling on the duty of pardon and charity to all enemies, but speaking most severely of those who had seduced and corrupted the youth of Italy, and told his hearers that a great struggle for virtue and religion was before them, but that he was with them heart and soul. He advised them to look on them selves on their return to their hearths as the missionaries of faith, and to persevere in prayer, in study, in science, and in all which might place an obstacle to the seductions of an atheistic revolution. The offerings of Italy have been very large, in propor tion to her impoverished re sources-3,000,000 lire. The total sent for the Jubilee is estimated at a million ster ling, which i 3 more than sufficient to defray the enormous expenses of the Ecumenical Council. Twelve magnificent horses are on their way from the Sultan as his present. The deputation of the English Catholic clergy w as received by the Pope on Saturday. Dr. Weathers, Canon Dennis, Canon Gibbons, and Dr. Fra di Bruno were the priests composing it, and they were presented by the Hon. and Very; 'Rev. Mgr. Stonor. The address was accompanied by an offering in money and by the magnificent medal of Vechte, executed in repou,asts work in pure gold by Messrs. Hun: and Roskell. A separate address was presented from the diocese of Newport by Dom Bede Vaughan, prior of St. Michael's, near Here ford. On Wednesday the ladies of various nations, headed b Princess Odescalchi, presented the Pope with Lafori's great picture of the battle of Mentana, and with a sum of money contained in a richly - embroidered purse. The Pope, in replying to the address, took occasion (as he always does when addressingladies) to speak most strongly on the necessity of women highly p ee, o arf renewed nt e dhe e ewt d es tduShepettethri the sa m e ruinous superfluities ' siati ees example of modesty and moderation, in oppositi on to the lux o it i c i e r h y f on a ri n . ecdi their which. of () t r i o : b e si‘ p i r to e in s l e e d n ap t yo a oi g ri wh recommendation to five hundred other ladies be , l , onging to inE f i iasn service s e r d v e i c A e l o a n r i e s . St. G l e i o e r w ge i ' l s l r th ec e e p iv io e u t s h f l i e o E ci n et g y li c s a h ll z ed ou t a h v e es " Day, with their chaplains, Mgr. Stonor and Father Gurdoris Cardinal Clarelli publishes, in the name of the Pope, a General Jubilee to all the Faithful on the occasion of the (Ecumenical Council, extending to the ]st of June, on which day it will be closed. The jubilee year implies extraordinary powers given for the absolution of reserved cases usually only judged is Rinne, and which will In hus extended to a certain number of ecclesiastics in each country. That a modus vivendi has been under discussion between M. Nigra and M. de Lavalette, and that the latter has authorised the Italian Minister to give hopes to his Government of a withdrawal of the French troops within a given time, there is very little doubt, and this in the face of his own words in the French Senate. A triple occupa tion of Austria, France, and Italy is also spoken of, but all these projects are ignored by the Pope, who will not allow them even to be mentioned to him, and who is resolved to lend himself to no compromise. If France decides upon abandoning the Roman territory, a Prussian legion would be sent next day, and the certainty that Rome is to be maintained neutral and free and sovereign by the Protestant Powers, if the Catholic Powers abandon her, acts as a powerful drag on any con cessions on the part of Napoleon to his Italian allies. My own sources of information lead me to believe that some attempt at a modus vivendi will be made by him after the elections, but whatever it is, the Pope w ill be no party to it ; and therefore the entire odium of any attack on Rome will rest on the framers of the new con vention if it is not observed. About the end of June the situation will become more accentrre, as the French say, and speculation before the result of the elections is decided is useess. Mazzini and the brothers Garibaldi are in full activity, and the uncertainty of 'natters in Spain alone retains the Republican party in Italy from another attempt. The Spanish Government have, by the way, sent their congratulations to the Pope, with a very cordial message, since Ivb rote to you. The Count of Girgenti and his wife, the Infanta of Spain (daughter of Isabella) have arrived here. Queen Christina has given orders to sell her furniture and let the Palazzo Albani in apartments. It is reported that she is raising money to bribe Prim to support her daughter's restoration, or rather that of the Prince of Asturias with a regency, as Isabella is resolved to abdicate in favour of hereon. A letter from Jeruialem states that the Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne has bought the Mount of Olives, has presented it to the French Government, and is about to complete a beautiful cemetery for foreign Catholics. The " Our Fathers," in immense letters of bronze, is inscribed in a different language over each gate of the Campo Santa. The same letter says that the waters of the Mediteranean have reached those of the Bitter Lakes on the Sues Canal, a sign the work is well advanced. It will be opened next October. MR. JENCKES' CIVIL SERVICE REFORM (From the Anylo-Americam Times.) Mr. JENCKES, the Representative from Rhode Island, introduced, on the sth instant, his bill to reform the Civil Service of the United States, after a long and able speech. 'lbis is his third attempt to secure the passage of a measure which most sensible men believe to be the only means of arresting the general tide of corruption now flowing with so baneful an influence over the Union. On the day his first attempt was defeated by two votes, in the Thirty-Ninth Congress, a clerk defrauded the Treasury out of an amount more than sufficient to paid a year's expenses of the Commission he desires to establish, which would effectually have prevented such a clerk, who had obtained his appointment under an alias, from getting into the position to effect such a cheat. While the secon i bill was under debate in the Fortieth Congress a system of pcculation was discovered in drawbacks, by which the Government lost, in a single Custom-house, money enough to pay the expenses of that Commission for at least ten years, on the calculation that it would annually cost $60,000. No doubt, if Mr. JENCKES would seek the information, he would be able to put the climax to this story, by telling what took place while the third bill was being discussed ; but we hope he may be deprived of aay after opportu nity, by securing its passage. He proposes to leave the appointments which now require the sanction of the Senate untouched as the prizes of the politicians. Thus, not only would all the great offices of State, such as move with every change of Ministry in Eng land, be changed on the advent of a new President, but the thousands of minor offices, also to secure which Washington hasbeen thronged , the Capitol and the PRESIDENT besieged. Mr. JENCKES' bill would not interfere with that scramble, which many con sider to comprise all offices. These are the heads of Departments, Assessors, Collectors, Postmasters, as well as the Consular and Diplomatic Service, but those which this bill proposes to deal with are the forty thousand officials subordinate to them. It is not the offices eagerly canvassed and discussed in the newspapers that Mr. JENCKES seeks to fin with the qualified class, but the secret appointments about the selection for which the public learn nothing. " I have seen," said Mr. JENCKES, " Custom-house clerks who know no more of the foreign weights and measures in the invoices and of the coinage in which the goods were valued, than of Sanscrit ; ap praisers who had no more idea of the manufacture or cost of the articles than of the physical constitu tion of the moon ; gaugers who could not read their instruments; and collectors and inspectors to whom the common chemistry of distillation was as much unknown as any of the lost arts." Not only is the Government plundered by the connivance of bribed officials, but it is still more defrauded through the ignorance of its guardians, who, even if willing, are incompetent to protect it. Against Gen. Burreee's assertion, that the higher grades do most thieving, Mr. JENCKES argues that, if true, no more effectual check could be placed on the superiors than in the integrity of the subordinates, for these frauds can not be perpetrated without their knowledge. But, he says, the plunder is chiefly effected before the money reaches the higher grades, being stopped at its source in innumerable small thefts, and Mr. JENCKES appears to think that by getting the better class, which permanent appointments would attract, the Government would adopt the best plan for honest collection. Nor that only, but the cheaper; bringing the expense down to more rea sonable proportions. The cost of collecting the In ternal Revenue is five per cent. on receipts, just, double that in other well-ordered countries, being at the same time the worst collected and the most costly. This, however, should not be over looked that the expense of collection must be in a measure in proportion to the destiny of population. Mr. JENCKES would authorise the President to form a Civil Service Examination Board of four officers for a term of five years ; each on an annual salary of $5,000, to prescribe the quali fications and provide for the examination of candi dates ; to keep lists in the order of fitness for places and promotion ; and determine the rules for mis conduct or inefficiency by which members of the service should be discharged. All citizens to be eligible—males and females. Each applicant to pay a fee of $5 for examination, and $lO on receiving a certificate of recommendation for appointment. The duty of the Commissioners will then extend to sepa rating the wheat from the chaff, and sending the names up in batches for the PRESIDENT to deal with. They will have nothing to do with the nominations, the departments making their selections as the PRE. SIDENT may direct. Whilegrieving over the venality, the nepotism, the incompetency, and reckless disre gard of the public interest, Mr. JENCKES denies that integrity, honesty, honour, and patriotism have died out in the Republic. Eight years ago many affected to believe that the race of brave men had become extinct in America, but circumstances soon showed that those who held such an opinion were wrong ; those also who profess to believe in univer sal dishonesty would be shown to be in error if this measure were carried into practice. Such a mode of selection, instead of being an innovation, is in true harmony with the original theory and practice of the Republic. It abolishes patronage, which is a word repugnant to Democratic institutions ; it bars the invasion of the Executive functions by members of the Legislature, which is not only a usurpation, but an influence as demoralizing to the one as to the other, and still more so to the public service. Instead of creating a privileged class Mr. ,ll:scirs asserts that it would destroy a privileged - class. Now the avenue is closed by barriers to the general public, the bars being in the hands of those who let in their followers only. It is absurd to call that erecting a privileged class which throws open the service to every citizen of the United States, demand ing what is the right of the country to obtain and retain only the best men procurable. The Repub lican theory is not that all men are equal in quali fications, but that all should start on the same leve', no hindrance being placed by the State in any one's way. Nor is the Government an almshouse for the imbecile, the inebriate, the blind, and the lame, but a general co-operative business, of which every citizen is not only a customer but a partner, with powerful and direct i n te r e s t i n it s goo d administra tion. So infamou s ly ha v e th e em pl o ye s be en selected that were it not th a t th e " s t ore " h as th e na ti on for its owner it would have "bust up" long since. It continues to be run because it is a necessity, and, as it must be worked, surely there is sense in what Mr. JENCKES proposes, that at least the junior clerks should have their hands kept out of the sugar, and b© prevented from purloining the plums. Ile desires to exclude the shoulder hitter, the garotter, the pipe-layer, the ballot box smasher, the false oath-taker, the ward-room bully, the primary-meeting manager, the bal lot changer, the rioter, the peculator, the gambler, and the thief, to whom the avenues to elective of- fices woul I continue open. They may still become Aldermen, Allyors, Governors of State, , ,, Congress men, even Judges, by the popular choice. The reform Mr. JFNCKES advocates is limited to a hum bler sphere ; nor is it probable that those who see k the clerkships, the places of weighers or gaugers will be adorned with university honours. The sort of aristocracy it creates will be Indian agents, let ter carriers, light-house keepers, and tide agents. Within the scope of the bill there arc not a hun dred offices over $3,000 a year, and the average is under $1,200. These "bloated aristocrats" might get up in Washington, where its cream would be found, a new farce of " High Life Below Stairs" if any fun was left in the poor clerks after their dusty drudgery. It has been urged against the creation of this oligarchy that it would be dangerous to the.. State ; but the Republic is more likely to withstand their insidious policy than the present mode of col lecting the Revenue, which is, in truth, a real dan ger. Our objection to Mr. JENCKES'S Bill is that it excludes too many offices from the permanent and competitive principle. Congress ought not to over look the feelings so deeply imrlanied in the human . mind of hope and ambition. A lad may plod with • an earnest zeal through long years of ill-paid mono tonous work with the prospect of an eventual prize. The amount of honest, steady intelligent labour the State may secure at a trifling expense through working on these feelings no statesman should dis regard. Mr. JENCKES pays a high tribute to Eng lish Common Law, and he would find in many par ticulars the Civil service of this country worthy of imitation. The essence of it is promotion for good service, and Mr. JENCKES omits a very attractive magnet in so carefully culling the plums out of his pudding. It is, however, a most important step in the right direction, to which, if the people were only fully alive, an immediate trial would be given. The treaty sketched out by Dr. Roesing, Con sul-General of the North German Union for the protection of German emigrants to America, ought immediately to be carried into operation. The ship Headwig, from Bremen, arrived at New York with a large number on the 6th inst., and the pas sengers accuse the officers of brutal ill-treatment on the voyage. Captain Beaumann was examined by the Consul-General, and his affidavit taken as well as that of Mrs. Mairose, who exhibited symp toms of insanity. She accuses the boatswain of hav ing committed an outrage, and the Consul has sent the evidence to Bremen for the action of his Government. The captain declares he endeavoured to check and arrest the boatswain, who has escaped. On the 9th inst., the prisoners, James Glynn, William Carruthers, and Joseph Murphy, charged with bru tality on board the emigrant ship James Foster, Jun., on the voyage from Liverpool to New York, were brought before United States Commissioner Jones, ard, waiving examination, were committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. On receipt of the telegram giving the Connecti cut elections, we were correct in supposing that the old Republican member for the 'third District, H. H. Starkweather, had been elected to Congress, his majority over Converse being 2,254, the largest cast. William 11. Barnum, the former Democratic Representative, was returned for the Fourth Dis trict by 700 votes over the Republican candidate, Sidney F. Beardsley. James Dixon was defeated by the Republican candidate, Julius L. Strong, by a majority of 764 for the Hartford District ; and Mr. Strong takes the seat of the late De►,iocratic member, Richard D. Hubbard. Mr. Kellogg, the Republican, had a hard struggle, but he defeated James F. Badcock, the Democrat, by only 323 votes for the New Haven District, thus giving another Democratic seat t) the Republicans in that lately occupied by Julius Hotchkiss. The success, there fore, of the Republican party is greater than an nounced by the Cable, as it was left to be supposed that Badcock had carried the New Haven election. The State Senate have increased their Republican ma jority, but the Republicans have lost heavily in the House, though they still command there a small majority. The correspondent of the London Times is then wrong in the informatio❑ he gave in that journal on - Wednesday last as regards the members elected to Congress. Messrs. Strong, Kellogg, and Starkweather took their seats in the House on the 9th inst., but not Mr. Barnum. We have already given the returns for Rhode Island, and we have only to add that Governor Padelford's majority was 3,875, the voting being for him 6,271 ; for Pierce, the Democratic candidate, 3,396. The Legislature is strongly Republican —the Senate standing 26 Republicans to 7 Democrats, and the House 60 Republicans to 12 Democrats. A Leavenworth paper thinks "an evidence of the westward march of civilization" that the Kansas Le gislature appropriated $1,400 for tobacco for the peniten tiary prisoners, and only $3OO for preaching the gospel to them HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are decidedly the best remedy for all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the liver and kidneys They act with so decided an effect, and yet so gently, that 11300° of the moat delicate constitutions may take them with the most perfect confidence. They do not contain a single grain of mer cury or other noxious substance, being composed exclusively of rare balsams. 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With the se inestimable pills at hand, together with the printed directions affixed to each box, no other medical advice or assistance can be needed in ant ordinary case of sickness [ADVERTISEMENT ]— Consumption, and all bilious, nervous, stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectl/ curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food. as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, non sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhcoa all gastric derange ments, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness , biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphth er i a, catarr h s, co lds, in fuenza, noises in the he a d an d ears, rheumatism, gout, rifles, eruptions, hysteria, n eura l g i a, irritability, sleeplessness acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drops/, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or et t sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &e We quote a few.—The P o p e ' s h ea l th restored by Du Barr Y's Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health o f the Holy Father is exce ll ent, especially since, abandon i ng all , other emedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consumes a plateful at every meal. It h as pro laced a surprisingly beneficu, effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise !ill excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi , ' July 25. Cure No, 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber ialer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. -- ; Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousnes s ' asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the Fee' o l ,. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, with , Lt" authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attaeheT_ In tins, at Is. lid. ; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d ; 5 lbs. Ils.; 12 In!: 225. ; •44 lbs, 40s, Also DU BARRY'S REVALENTA AF LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., for 24_ cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post OW e . nTcA 01002 Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent street. Lon don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. DAwsoN—On the 20th inst., at Charlesfort, Ferns, the wife of Captain Westropp Dawson, of a daughter. PAGET—On the lith inst., the wife of Dr. Paget, Cam bridge, of a son. Marriages. DAVIS —lforwooD - On the 22dinst., at Richmond, Surrey , Oliver Henry Davis, Esq., of Eversfield House. Alex" andria-road, St. John's-wood, and 28, St. Martin's-1a" , Cannon-street, to Mary, second daughter of LI curl Hopwood, Esq., of Richmond. . . , TLEY —SALLIS -00 tllO 22d hist , at Dal William, eld,,t sou of W. ()alley, of Alciermaubury, E C., to Go — trade, daughter of the late W. W. Salis, of Cross-kb) square, Little Britain. Deaths. TANNER —Ott the 22(1 inst., at Ventnor, Joseph Tanner, E , (1., of Marden, Wilts, aged 62. FINGALL -On the 21st inst., at 47, Montagu-squar', th e Earl of Fingall, MP., aged 78. UsnouNE— On the 22d inst., Thos. Henry Usborne, Egl" of Onslow-square, ana Mardley Bury, Herta, aged 60. London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIAM ANDBZW! of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tax Sum Oftior, No lr of " Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy the i gow 2tl MiddlOsex,—:Mouday, Aril 20, 1809. INAH) enlebra prize Medal. 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ING' .., 14 tree APPE&L : pauses. A.: SE.,NIF. off Gres Ica icns, The recei £879 less ti SUBSOR E the Secrotai street, Lon, Qualifleat Governor, I NATIO Rioter Under the •ca whereby a I (lirle of a ll a the kingdom The obje , t Rah educatio. and l atin d ri , wise Proviai suitable situ The Comm entirely mist 000, 121, jRIT] Mack( Patron- For the destitute of and of all prosperous One bun , atitution ; a Increase' endowed, a assistance. Subscrib Institution its peculiar The last Secretary. Offices, 7 Bankers lane ; and HEALTH R DIJ B and