The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that the public is somewhat callous or the subject of railway dangers, and a panic, if it could be raised by the story of a collision, would speedily abate but it would be for the public advantage to have the strictest investigation into the Trent collision, even at the risk of a panic. But we are sceptical as well as to the necessity of such risks being offered by companies to the excursionist's choice as of his willingness to undergo them if they were once brought home to his understanding. It is ludicrous to treat an October fog as a strange and wondrous visitation confounding the nicest calculations of railway time-tables. Companies have no right to make the lives of their passengers depend on such nice calculations, or to tempt needy holyday makers to take the chance. It is a simple matter of money So long as a company forces its lino fitted to carry so many trains to carry on particular occasions treble or quadruple the number, there must be risk of life. If " special" traffic r ays companies, they should provide special accommodation for it. If it does not pay them to provide for it, they ought to dispense with this source of profit. If they refuse to do one or the other, a question may even arise whether they must not be compelled to make their choice. But in the meantime every opportunity should be embraced to shew the excursionist classes on what terms they visit gay and brilliant scenes like the Nottingham Goose Fair. When the Board cf Trade holds inquiries into - accidents like this at Trent with closed doors any benefit teywhich such calamities might be turned by way of warn ing both to companies and to their customers is lost. The department even exposes itself to the suspicion of con spiring with the' company to evade a thorough investiga tion. But if departments could be absolutely relied on to conduct such inquiries with the zeal of the Election com naissioners notwithstanding the exclusion of public criti cism, they would not be entitled therefore to exclude it. The travelling public in these inquiries is itself virtually on its trial for life and limb. It is not fair to condemn it in its absence. The Post declares that we have never yet had an efficient police force. No one understands this so well as the criminals themselves, and they express their contempt of our police arrangements by breaking into our houses in the daytime. Forty years ago the force consisted of between three thousand and four thousand men, of whom two thousand seven hundred were night watchmen,whose chief services were rendered by a proclamation of the passing hours to the population which lay asleep. Now we have eight thousand constables, and by all accounts it is an insufficient force. Many parts of the metropolis are so imperfectly watched that the inhabitants must rely on themselves for protection ; and the fact that the number of convictions bears but a small proportion to the number of ascertained offences points in the same direction. If the police aro to blame, of course this may not be an argument for increasing the force. We assume that, on the whole, they do their duty, but that the thieves are too many for them. When, however, they pride them selves on the tact which they themselves display in bring ing criminals to justice, it should occur to them that almost every conviction which they obtain goes to prove their inability to meet the first requirement of society. What we want is not so much punishment as protection. It is extremely unpleasant to feel that, as far as the police are concerned, the security of our houses consists in the the ignorance of the criminal classes of their accessibility. And as to the cost of maintaining the force, which is about £672,000 a year, £160,000 more or less can hardly be a con sideration. It surely will not be said that the expenditure of three-quarters of a million sterling for the assurance of the enormous wealth and population of the metropolis would be excessive. The Telegraph quotes the dictim of an American philo sopher, " This age is getting- a little mixed." Yes; there it is. Most things seem to be drifting into a mixed and uncertain condition, and mankind cannot make up its mind, apparently, on any single point, save that it is a good thing for people to get money, and to bully their neighbours if they have a chance. We cannot even agree about funerals; we have taken to squabbling over graves, and shaking our fists at each other over coffin-lids. At Rochester, an admirable parish clergyman, the Rev. P. 0. Mayne, vicar of Strood, has refused to permit the Church prayers to be read over the body of a man who recently died while in the act of plundering a house into which he had broken. The jury returned a verdict that the man" died by the visitation of God," and he was buried in what is called " unconsecrated " ground, without any religious ceremony. May we ask if the Burial service is performed over convicts who die at Chatham or Portland?—because, if a man who has committed, say, five burglaries and a murder, is entitled to Christian burial, why should the burglar who dies before he has accomplished his purpose be deprived of religious interment? Shakspere speaks of "maimed rites." Might not a curtailed service have been provided for the man at Strood ? We ask this question seriously; for, while we deprecate Mr. Mayne's interdict as wrongheaded and out of place, we cannot deny that it possesses a certain lcgical force. How could a clergyman to whom words are more than mere sounds speak of a dead house-breaker—who died, too, in fagrante delicta— as " our dear brother departed" ? But what a pity it is that we can't be unanimous about something ! The Standard says that on Tuesday a graceful deed was done in Kensal-green Cemetery. The memory of Leigh Hunt, the poet and man cf letters, was honoured in a tribute which is perhaps just such a one as the poet would have esteemed. as the most grateful which his survivors could offer. Men of all parties joined in raising the monument, to which Mr. Durham gave his art and Lord Houghton his eloquence. Such funds as were required to do justice to the memorial were raised among Leigh Hunt's admirers, upon an appeal based upon the express ground of freedom from politics. Tories and Radicals indiscriminately were asked to subscribe, and did subseribe, to do honour to the memory of one whose fame was regarded as unconnected with parties or with politics. The world—certainly the world who sub scribed to the Kensal-green monument—knows Leigh Hunt only as the graceful essayist, the tender poet, the ,writer of some of the daintiest prose in the English language. For that, and for that alone, Leigh Hunt has been honoured and will be remembered. That is the part of him which the world " will not willingly let die." As to his political performances, they have been defunct for almost half a century. No true lover of Leigh Hunt could wish it otherwise, for the truth is, that in politics he was the opposite, of all which in literature brought him to eminence. The best thing which every real admirer •of the poet and the man of letters could do; one would think, would be to forget — on this occasion above all—that Leigh Hunt was ever a politician. But with that same curious tendency to regard anything done for the party as' the one great and living merit in a man, whi c h d om i na te s the e n ti re Liberal profession, the Liberal organs insist upon interpreting the .spontaneous homage paid to the man as the tribute due to the politician.' In fact, according to these guardians of his memory Leigh Hunt is honoured with a monument precisely on the same grounds on which Mr. Gladstone .makes his bishops and his baronets, namely, for " service; to the Liberal party." Two months ago, says the Daily News, we commented on the case of "Dickons v. the Mansfield Game Association," which had just been tried at Leeds. The case was one of considerable public interest, as illustrating the operation of the game laws in sowing mistrust between landlord and tenant ; and as evidencing a spirit of vigour and - independence which it is of all things • most desirble that the tenant farmers should be encouraged to exhibit. Mr. Dickons was a tenant farmer under the Duke of Portland ; the Mansfield Game Association consists of half a dozen gentlemen to whom the landlord gave the right of shooting over Mr. Dickons's farm, and Mr. Dickons and the association guar 'relied. The association, however, had the better of the quarrel. They had the ear of the Duke's agent, and made representations which procured Ali. Dickons's eviction from his farm. Those representations formed the basis of ' an action for libel, and a Leeds jury gave the farmer hand some damages. The affair has led to a long and bitter con troversy in the local papers, and it is now said that the association, having plenty of funds at command, mean to contest the verdict. In these circumstances it is proposed to give Mr. Dickens a handsome sum, to be raised by sub scription, "as a testimonial for his gallant attempt to pro tect the British farmers from the petty tyranny brought to bear upon them by individuals whose interests are inimical to their own:" It may be hoped that the response to this appeal will be large and general. The farmers must pro tect each other, and the manifestations among them of a determination to do so will win for them the respect of other classes of the community. The cause of the tenant farmer is that of the public at large. - The Herald considers that the situation at Exeter, awkward and embarrassing as it undoubtedly is, is wholly and solely the creation of Mr. Gladstone, and it is difficult to believe that he did not foresee what has actually hap pened. On the one hand, Dr. Temple, as a clergyman who has sedulously eschewed clerical work, has no claims to preferment, and certainly no fitness for the office of a bijholL On the other hand, his disqualifications are positive and obvious. IE.?: is to succe: d the prolate who has publicly branded him a:en nnnfithful priest awl a iler.nver of the orthodox. faith. Ceill(1 anything be mere wan tonly provocative. than this ; anything better c.liculated to bring about the conflict which all moderate churchmen would postpone as long a'; possible ? There is but one way of escape from the difficulties of this critical situation. The indignant protest of the Church must be received with respect. The appointment must be cancelled. Dr. Temple must not be dragged from the ditties at Rugby, which he found so onerous as to compel him to decline the deanery of Durham, solely that he may be rewarded for his political services against the Irish Establishment, and at the cost of outraging the sense of the whole Church. Mr. Gladstone must give way, and whatever maybe the amount of pressure necessary to compel him to do so, we trust that it will not be wanting. With the earnest and hearty co-operation of the clergy and laity of all shades of opinion, he may be confronted by a weight of protest against which he will feel himself powerless to contend. Otherwise he may find himself in the yet more disagreeable predicament of having to uphold the prerogative of the Crown by enforcing the penalties of promunire. THE AMERICAN RAILWAY KING. -0. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the American Railway King, is a self-made man, and is considered by his admirers as the embodiment of American enterprise and determination. A colossal bronze statue of the " Commodore" has been erected on the Hudson at a cost of $250,000, and will shortly be unveiled to the public. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Staten Island in the days when New York had a population of 80,000, and the island was as far away from the city as the slopes of the Pacific are now. Vanderbilt's father was a farmer, his mother a clever and energetic woman. His education was of the most rudimentary character, and when quite a boy he was set to manage a small boat running to and fro the city. His great ambi tion was to possess a boat of his own, and he went to his mother for the hundred dollars required to buy it. She agreed on condition that he should plough and harrow a stony field of eight acres in about three weeks, which ho accomplished; and at 10 the great railroad and steamboat monopolist started his first boat. He soon achieved great success as a ferryman, being always prompt and energetic, and never failing in what ho undertook. lie says himself that money has never been his object; it is to " carry his point." The war of 1312 brought him many oppor tunities for distinction. He sent in his name once for a Government contract, and was much surprised that the offer was accepted, as he was underbidden by all the others. "How is it," he asked, "that you give me this contract ?" " Because we want the work done, and we know you will do it," was the reply. In 1813 a British fleet threatened Fort Richmond, and the commander of the fort, fearing an attack, wished to get the news to the city. A terrific gale raged, and no one would go. Vanderbilt was sent for. "Will you," asked the commandant, "take the messenger through this gale ? He will risk his life if you will." " Certainly," was the prompt reply. "My patriotism would induce me to go if nothing else, but I'll have to take him part of the way under water." The voyage was safely made, and the fort was reinforced next morning. After many daring exploits and a good deal of private litigation, Vanderbilt became the steamboat king, and one of the richest men in the country. In 1853 he undertook a plea sure trip to Europe in his own yacht, taking with him his whole family circle, numbering twenty-seven persons. apedition was chiefly remarkable for its mag ilitcence as belonging to a private citizen. During the late civil war the "Commodore" came to the rescue of his Government at a critical moment, and gave them a fine steamer. For this Congress voted him a gold modal. For some years past, however, he has forsaken steamers for railways, and owns more railroad stock than any man in the country. He owns nearly the entire of the Harlem Railroad. He is controlling owner of the Hudson River Railroad. He has a large controlling influence in the New York Central. He owns nearly all the New Jersey Railroad. It is useless to undertake to give the extent of his railroad dominions. He is the third richest man in the country, and though, as we have seen, his early education was defec tive, he manages his complicated business with ease, using few books. "What is tho secret of your success ?" a`gentleman asked him not long since.—" There is no secret about it. All you have to do is to attend to your business and go ahead." " And that's all ?" "Except one thing, and that is, never tell what you are going to do till you have done it." In private life he has shewn himself nearly as adventurous as in public. His first wife died last year after celebrating her "golden wedding," and the Commodore has just taken another bride. One of his sons died in the war. LAIV AND POLICE. TAR ALBERT Com - PANv.—An application has been made at the Chancery Chambers for the appointment of a repre sentative of the numerous policy-holders, now that the of f icial liquidators have been appointed, in order that the policy-holders might have due notice of all meetings. ROBBERY IN A PUBLIC-lIOUSE.—Three young men have been found guilty at the Middlesex Sessions, of stealing five £5O Bank of England notes and other property. The prosecutor was a butcher, who met them at a public-house when he was nearly intoxicated. He became intoxicated and unconscious, and when he came to his senses found his pockets empty. The judge deferred passing sen tence until next sessions, to give the prisoners an oppor tunity of giving information as to what they had done with the money. AN INCORRIGIBLE Womi.N.—Hannah Vansuller, who has been more than fifty times in prison for being drunk and disorderly, was brought up, at the Middlesex Sessions, for sentence. She had been committed for trial for attempting self-destruction, it being her practice to do so whenever she was locked up. On a previous occasion she was brought for trial before Mr. Serjcant Cox, and he not being aware of her previous character, discharged her upon her own recognisances. Her history having been communi cated to the learned Recorder he regretted his decision. Hannah Vansuller, however, soon gave him an opportunity of amending it, having again been apprehended for drunkenness. She was sentenced to six month's hard labour. A FFINIAN sN TROUBLE. A Fenian named Curtis, was charged at the Middlesex Sessions with stealing a hand kerchief on Clerkenwell-green. The turbulent Sunday meetings on the green for discussing the release of the Fenians and other purposes have occasioned the inhabitants much annoyance. A great number of thieves and " roughs" were present on Sunday, and while the police were taking two of them into custody the prisoner stole the handkerchief. Ile was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. ALLEGED BRIBERY OF THE POLICE.—A fish salesman, of Billingsgate, being summoned at Guildhall for obstructing the footway with his barrels, said he had only been sum moned because he declined to continue bribing the police. It had cost him 355. a week to bribe the police to let him carry on his business. The inspector, when questioned by the magistrate, admitted the fact, and said that he and his brother inspectors had endeavoured to stop the practice by removing or dismissing the men bribed ; but such sums as were offered by Mr. Lelen were too great a temptation for men receiving only 21s. per week. Mr. Alderman Besley strongly cen sured the salesman, whom he fined 20s. and costs. Other cases of a similar character were tried, and the Alderman directed that the matter should be laid before the Com missioner of Police. A Smut DwrucTivt..—A man named Kingwell was com mitted for trial at Lambeth for passing himself off as a detective, and obtaining £2 from a person who was endeavouring to trace a man who had robbed him. Raw Beef, it is asserted, proves of the greatest benefit as a diet for persons of frail constitutions. It is reported that physicians are now administering to con sumptives a diet of finely-chopped raw beef, properly seasoned with salt, and heated by placing the dish con taining it in boiling water. This food is given also in cases where the stomach rejects almost every other form of food. [t assimilates rapidly and affords the best nourishment, while patients learn to long for it and to like it as much Is Dr. Kane did his Arctic dinners of raw seal and walrus. A GOOD STORY, IF TRUE.—A story is going the round of the French papers which shews that detectives sometimes know how to look after their own interests. A legacy of 500,000 francs was recently left to a lady who had long lived with her daughter in extreme poverty. Unfor tunately this suddenly enriched couple were nowhere to be found, and the affair was put into the hands of a young s,ncl active detective. He asked for fourteen days to pro isecute the search. At the end of that time he had been unsuccessful, and he begged for fourteen days more. Still he was apparently no nearer his object, and he requested that the time might be extended to a month. When this period had elapsed, and he presented himself, unaccompanied by anyone, before his superior, the latter upbraided him with his inefficiency. It was obvious, the lndignant official remarked, that his subordinate did not sufficiently know his business. " Very well, my dear sir," Was the calm reply, "but I have now to inform you that I have been eight days married to the daughter of the lady I have been searching for, and I shall thank you to hand aver the 500,000 franca which are the property of my mother-in-law." Sin nENRY BULWEIL ON SAINTE-BEUVE.—Sir Henry Buiwer has written to the Temps as follows : "Sir, Not having been able to he present at the funeral of M. Sainte-Beuve, I wish to avail myself of your journal, in which the latest productions of this Mtn inous mn.n have appeared, to , give my poor testimony to the character of a man who, during a period in which we have seen the alternating triumphs of the most opposite opinions, was able to preserve that remarkable impartiality which reconciles the love of liberty with the horror of dis order. It is rare to find in the same person a knowledge so extensive and of such depth, together with wit so moderated, yet so brilliant. For myself I may say that from the first moment of our acquaintance I was seized with the peculiar charms of a conversation which, ever instract ing, never wearying, presented to view in a manner unrivalled the union of the soundness and steadinesswhich talent gives with the modesty induced by study. Happy are they who knew him, unfortunate those who have lost him ; and dear to us all will be a remembrance which the French language will preserve for over.—Receive, my dear sir, tho assurance pi toy deep . regaFd. Dotobor'l7.!; MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. `THE SUN, LONDON, WEVNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1869. to these and numerous other restrictions, in autumn to stringent rack-rents, the benefits enjoyed by the aforesaid tenants are limited to the unspeakable blessing of vegetating upon Leitrim Estates in County Donegal under perpetual Notices to Quit' at the expiration of six months from each gala day of rent that may be paid ! " Such, according to the Derry Standard, are the Earl of Letrim's conditions. They aro modest, certainly, and not nearly what the tenants ought to expect. They , ought to pay the Earl's taxes in addition to their own, as French tenants did before the Great Revolution. THE QUEEN AND • THE • UNEMPLOYED. It was recently rumoured that arrangements were being made for a grand demonstration of the unem ployed working . men of London on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to the City. It was designed to parade a double hne of unemployed men along the principal streets through which the Queen would pass in order "to bring her face to face with the distress and enforced idleness amongst the worldng classes of the metropolis." What good purpose this scheme could effect no one has yet come forward to say ; but it is Satisfactory to find that there is little likelihood of its being carried out. No organisation is on foot in any of the principal poor districts, and several prominent members of the Unemployed League have declined all participation in the proceeding. DR. TEMPLE. Archdeacon Denison wants to know what the arch bishops and bishops are about. How is it that not ono of them has written to Mr. Gladstone to toll him of the horrible scandal and the ruin which he is bringing upon the Church of England by the nomina tion of Dr. Temple ? And if any of thorn has written why is not the fact made known ? Probably the archbishoPs and bishops will be disposed to answer that th.. can find more seemly employment; but the Archdeacon is gravely impressed with the importance of this issue. To make the Church of England a " Broad Church " is to steal away her life. It is not, indeed, to destroy her apostolical succession. If an Archbishop and Bishops can be found to consecrate Dr. Temple, he will be a Bishop of the Church Catholic. But it is to tempt to unfaithfulness so great that, if the temptation prevail, I do not know what defence can still be made for the Church of England, "as by law established." Mr. Gladstone, the Archdeacon adds, in this as in other parts of his career, has shewn that his moral sense is the slave of his intellect. Dress any proposition, however monstrous, in imagination and intellect, and Mr. Gladstone "will rise at it like a trout." A similar charge certainly could not be made out against Archdeacon Denison. He is not troubled with such a preponderance of intellect as to over weight his moral sense. The Rev. Dr. Benson contributes a letter of a very different kind to this Temple controversy. He declares that there has never been quoted one unorthodox dictum of Dr. Temple's ; he is incapable of uttering or holding one ; . but if he did hold one, he would certainly express it. Dr. Benson himself thinks the " Essays and Reviews " a mistake, both in conception and treatment. But the choice of the phraseology, to which so much exception has been taken, is, at any rate, matter of opinion. And sure I am that in undertaking to do all that time allowed him to do for the projected volume of "Essays and Reviews," viz.,to revise for publication in it a sermon which had been delivered without offence, and with some ap plause, before his university, Dr. Temple had no thought beyond what was announced as the sole object of that scheme, " freely to handle, in a becoming spirit, subjects peculiarly liable to suffer by the repetition of conventional language and from traditional methods of treatment." There can be no doubt, Dr. Benson thinks, that the Bishop Designate of Exeter was astonished at the contents of the book to which his own general views were prefixed as an introduction. But it is another question whether he was at liberty to proclaim at once the extent of his divergency from each author. For one word from him, with his reputation and his broad views, would have meant nothing short of this: " The views of you, my late co-mates, are not within the circle of the Church." Repudiation from him would have been a decision on this point, which was in more than one instance a question for the judi cature to decide. The immediate publication of the sermons delivered by Dr. Temple at Rugby was a sufficient answer to the inquiry whether he sym pathised with the book as a whole : They who censure this cange cl' dire do not know the man. They know not the singleness and truth and patience—they know not the courage, tho manliness, the life, which they would divert from the service of the Church. They know not, what is more, the power of inspiration not short of genius which he has for others ; the energy with which contact with him sets other men to work ; how many a shadow springs before him into reality. For least of all do they know his sympathetic charity, and the might of his Christian faith. We have yet to learn how we are to give our great institutes their true vitality—how wo are to make ourselves worthy once more to be the Church of the masses--masses, which it is my firm belief he will have helped powerfully to penetrato with the love of the Cross, the love of the Church, when "Essays and Reviews " are forgotten. THE PROTESTANTISM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Archdeacon Denison said at Liverpool that the Church of England was not Protestant. He was vigorously assailed at the time. Since then ono Mr. Brown has written to him, demanding, "in no carping spirit," an explanation. The Archdeacon replied, rather curtly, that no good would flow from the cor respondence, and, therefore, he declined it. "I teach," he said, " those who will be taught. I argue these things with nobody." A second letter from Mr. Brown, while declininr , to accept the Vicar of Brent's dogmatic teaching, was yet cordial, and expressed sympathy with the Archdeacon in his opposition to Dr. Temple. This epistle seems to have changed the whole feeling of the venerable recipient : The heart must leap kindly back to kindness, and the reply to it brims over with charitable recogni tion. Archdeacon Denison explains that he thinks a letter controversy always unsatisfactory, and adds, "God help us both, and us all, to know and hold the truth. Meantime let me say how thankful I am for all your courtesy and genuine kindness." Would that all con troversy in the Church were thus happily settled. Another Liverpudlian has been grieved by the Romanism of the Bishop of Oxford. The Bishop has been defending a college in which boys were invited to confess before taking the Communion. His lordship has been requested to explain his opinion on the subject. Dr. Wilberforce, in reply, refers his correspondent to the passage in the Communion Ser vice in which those who are in doubt are asked to take ghostly counsel and advice of their ministers, and are promised absolution. THE FENIAN PRISONERS. Mr. J. T. M'Donnell, " Hon. Secretary of the English Amnesty Movement," makes a statement 'which is highly important if true. He has every reason to believe that "a majority of Ministers are in favour of an amnesty, and that before Christmas-Day every incarcerated patriot will be restored to his native land and to the bosom of his family." It is doubtless a gratifying sign of the times to find the secretary of the English Amnesty movement taken into Ministerial confidence; but the cautious reader will await the con firmation of this "official" statement. Mr. M'Donnell adds that the demonstration intended to be held in Hyde Park next Sunday is not designed either to threaten or embarrass the Liberal Ministry. The sole object is to obtain the unconditional release of the patriots, and this aim will be striven for by constitutional means. It is to be hoped, then, that the men of Hyde Park will observe ordinary decency in their speeches. 1100ILE AGAINST THE &DONOGHUE. The O'Donoghue, M.P., is unquestionably the pos sessor of considerable moral courage. Regarded hitherto as the leader of the most extreme of his countrymen, looked upon as the hope of the party whose joy is their nationality, he has yet had the strength of mind to denounce the " heartless spouters"—as he himself calls them—who are continually threatening the Government, and thus preventing it from even considering measures which the braggadocio is meant to press upon its attention. There could be no doubt as to the special agitator against whom the member for Tralee meant to warn the people. Mr. George Moore has, we notice, taken the challenge to him self ; and removing his attention for the nonce from vile England, he rushes full tilt at his one-time friend. He was at Navan on Sunday ; and at an amnesty meeting there he read the O'Donoghue's letter with such emphasis that his audience was convulsed with laughter. He told his hearers that the letter was from "an Irish representative." Then in answer to cries of "Name, name," Mr. Moore spoke of him as "A gentleman who condoned the atrocious fabrica tions of Mr. Solicitor-General Barry," and who calumniated those who tried to procure the release of his "dear fellow countrymen?' Here Mr. Moore rose to the height of his eloquence : The sorry ribaldry which he intends for invective is beneath criticism, and I pass it by ; but I cannot permit to pass unchastised the fatuous impudence that would seek to palm off upon the public, as still marketable, the worn-out political credentials which I first helped him to obtain, and which have since been disposed of, and p aid for, and wasted away, time out of mind. The shouts of "Name I" became at length so over powering. that Mr. Moore had to proclaim it. "Name 1" he exclaimed ; " well, I hardly know what is his name. He calls himself Tho O'Donoghue, just as he might call himself the Rajah of Seringapatam, and I do not care to call him any other." A MODEL ESTATE. Of the many remarkable things in the way o. agricultural leases, those in force on Lord Leitrim's estate must undoubtedly be awarded the first place, at least if the descr:2tion given by the Derry Standard be correct. This Presbyterian paper states that . by these extraordinary documents the Earl of Leitiain reserves to himself the most unlimited rights of hunting, mining, road and drain making. No tenant can construct any house, fence, or road without the Earl's permission. The tenants must cut all thistles, docks, whenever commanded by his lordship ; they must lend their aid to catch trespassers, must watch all dogs in the neighbourhood, take fatherly care of all game and wildfowl, and their eons. It any tenant fail in one of Cie: e respects he is sub jected to an increase of rent. If any holler become b , ankrupt or gets imprisoned for more than fourteen cays, he is to be summarily dispossessed. No matter what improvements tenants may make upon their holdings, they shall n ever b e entitled to a single farthing of compensa -34911,_ 6 _ 6 _144t1..Y, _soAsideration of salmxittinz AN EARL AND lIIS TENANTS. The Earl and Countess of Rosslyn have been enter taining their tenants on the occasion of the birth of an heir to the Dysart ostate. Naturally the event gave rise to congratulation on the prosperous condi tion of the Dysart tenants, and on tenantry in general. The Earl thinks the Irish system of no leases, with power on the part of the landlord to turn off the tenant without compensation, is unjust and unfair. Any such system would have produced a rebellion in Scotland. As to the game question, the Earl of Rosslyn holds that if there was an undue proportion of game on a farm, the landlord must bo either a knave or a fool who did not remedy it. lie would rather that every head of ground game should be destroyed than that his tenants should suffer. The Earl intends to give his tenants the right of killing their own rabbits. CHANCERY RETRENCHMENT. Why, asks the Times, should not tho Government save £6,000 a year in the Chancery Courts ? Cer tainly a Government which is glad to retrench a few shillings a week ought to jump at the chance. And this is the way in which, according to the leading journal, it may be done : There is now a vacancy in the Chancery Appeal Court. Now, whilst there is abundance of business for the judges' clerks in chambers, there is not nearly enough for the judges themselves in court. The points of law for argument and decision by the judges in court are so few in comparison with the inquiries by their clerks that despair often marks the counte nance of the gentlemen learned in the law. It is obvious, then, that the proper course is to reduce the number of judges while increasing the staff of those who remain. " This may effectually and economically be managed by taking from the Master of the Rolls the functions of a judge of primary instance, and making that officer for the time being senior Judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery as constituted by the Acts establishing that Court, and then to distribute his three chief clerks with their subordinate staff between the three Vice- Chancellors, and thus the £6,000 a year can be saved." The matter might, the Times thinks, be managed with the greatest care. THE COUPAR-ANGUS HERESY CASE. The case of Scotch heresy, upon which so much comment has been made, is at length closed ; and its end is somewhat singular. Two gentlemen, our readers will remember—Messrs. Robertson and. -Loutet—were summoned before the kirk-ses sion at Coupar-Angus some months ago to answer certain questions as to their religi ous belief. That they refused to do. It was explained to them, as they knew well before, that certain rumours had been circulated about them, and the ministers and elders wished to satisfy themselves as to their state of religious belief. But the supposed heretics would say nothing . , and thus arose the question as to whether a member of the Church was liable to be interrogated as to his opinions. Among the members of the Scotch Established Church, the discussion raged furiously, and the hope that the question would be decided has been very generally expressed. In the end, however, nothing has been done ; the Kirk Session, while still claiming the right to interrogate, has determined to " rest proceedings." The con clusion leaves the case whore it was before. The final ceremony has just taken place. Messrs. Robertson and Loutet were, in a friendly way, "invited " to make submission. The latter gentleman declined to attend the meeting; but Mr. Robertson read a protest in which he still denied the existence of an inquisition in Scotland, and gave five reasons against the decision of the Presbytery. THE LATE EARL OF KINGSTON. Another earl is gone ; Robert King, the 6th Earl of Kingston, died on Saturday last. The 'leceased has made little mark in life; indeed, he has borne his present title only a few months; previously he was known as Viscount Lorton, to which rank he succeeded his father in 1854. He was 54 years of age at the time of his death. His eldest and only son succeeds him in the family name and honours. In politics Lord Kingston ranked as a Liberal. NEWSPAPERS AND TUE DETECTION OF CRIME. It was observed in the case of the Paris murders that the detection of the criminal was the result of the spread of all the par ticulars through the press. Colonel Hicltio owes the recovery of his child to the same agency. Wisely enough he wrote to the papers, his statement was copied in a Liverpool contemporary, and the lodging house keeper with whom the nurse had taken the child to live had her suspicions arouse,' ty fie dc=lf tions which she read of the runaways. She commu cated her thoughts to her father. Close observation was made by him, and finally he gave information to the police. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Mr. Smith, of the Norfolk Veterinary Association, makes some alarming calculations as to our prospects from the foot and mouth disease. According to present appearances, the country will lose seven millions sterling by the complaint. In Norfolk the proportion attacked or suffering at the present moment . three-fourths ,• and at this rate, as there are ten million head o f c a ttl e in the country, the number of beasts attacked, soon e r o r later, will amount to seven millions. To estimate the deprecia tion in value shillings a head is very mode rat43,andth at usAl7. e S n mlth makes out his total. There is some comfort in the reflection that other parts of the country are not so badly off as Norfolk ; in many counties the proportion of animals attacked does not amount to three-fourths; hut the disease is un doubtedly making great progress. CIVILISATION AND TURNPIKES. " Rasseh.3 " lifts up his voice from " West Abys sinia." This region is not many thousand miles away; in fact it is one of the most charming spots in Eng land—" a lovely western valley not unknown to fame." But though West Abyssinia is so near the busy haunts of man, ignorance, a nd turnpikes ke e p it i n a state of Pbr u ar e ta d ris e m e, . Easselas " complains that to reach the station, which is nine miles off, he must pass two turnpikes ; to reach the post-town or the county town, which are each seven miles distant, he must go through three turnpikes. To drive to market costs three shillings, and to the station eighteenpence. Macaulay long ago noted that, next to the invention of printing, nothing had done so much for the human race as contrivances which diminish distance. It may readily he conceived, then, that West Abyssinia is going backwards. It once boasted three starehas not now a common carrier. A little while ago "spanking royal mail." It coaches, one of them a a rash landlord started a two-horse omnibus along the - valley. The 'pikes made him a bankrupt. Such is progress in this "lovely Western valley." So long as turnpikes stand, civilisation must stand likewise. PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE GOLD PANIC. Some of the New York journals have lately testi fied their respect for the President of the United States by charging him with complicity in the mad speculations which led to the great gold panic. The President has thought it worth while to answer this miserable slander, and a letter on the subject appears in the New York Ledger. The communication was hardly necessary, but it contains one noteworthy fact. It appears that before the panic Mr. Fisk went to the President and asked him what the Administration "intended to do on the financial question." General Grant refused to give any information. "It would not be fair. Whenever the Government was going to change its financial policy the Secretary of the Treasury would give notice through th e newspapers as usual." This is cer tainly a sublime story. Fisk was the leader of the ring which combined recently to get up the price of gold, and which did so far succeed in the swindling enterprise as to bring it up from 130 to 160. It was the manoeuvre of the Government in throwing several millions of gold on, the market which finally defeated the nefarious combination. Andnow it seems that Mr. Fisk, before the panic, asked the President of the United States to inform him privately of the Government's intentions, in order that the combination might know whether their detestable scheme was likely to succeed or not! Unfortunately, up to a certain point it succeeded too well. BANK ROBBERIES• Emigrants to the United States will, it seems, do well to avoid putting their money in banks. There is risk, no doubt, in depositing cash elsewhere, or in carrying it ahout ; but the risk of entrusting it to a bad( is too great to be met. Ono bank robbery fol lows another. A few days ago it came to the turn of the National Bank of Norwalk, Connecti cut, to be plundered. The place was en tered by burglars, who opened the safe by means of wedges, blew open the inner doors with gunpowder, and helped themselves to the contents. They made a complete examination of all the money and securi ties, and carried off about 130,000 dollars in bonds and cash—that is, nearly one half the whole capital of the establishment. Numerous banks have been plundered in this way, and the story is always the same. The robbers get into the place without any difficulty. Nobody sees or hears them. Sometimes the keys of the safe have been left handy; but when this convenience is not provided there is always abundance of time to force open the docz. Then .a leisnreiy examination or the contents is made, the robbers reject what they do not like, and quietly decamp. The sequel of the story is particularly neat. The thieves cannot dispose of the securities, and so they remain in secure biding until the able and respected " detectives" offer a reward for the recovery of the plunder, when the delinquents quietly give it up, and proceed to rob another bank. FOREIGN NOTES. cm cAIiIIEL BAKER'S txrEnrriox. News from Alexandria states that three several parts of Sir Samuel Baker,s expedition have left for the rendezvous at Khartoum. Twelve hundred soldiers started from Cairo about three months ago, to form part of a small army of 2,000 infantry, 250 irregular cavalry, and three batteries of guns, mustering at Khartoum. Tho second detachment consisted of a quantity of merchandise, and the third of thirty-five barges and seven river steamers, which have safely passed the formidable cataract at Dougola. These vessels are intended to convey the expedition from Khartoum to Gondokoro, the land between those two points being so marshy as to be impas sable for troops. Two other portions of the expedition remain, and are to leave as soon as Mr. Samuda's steel steamers arrive from England. Sir Samuel Baker, who commands the first party, will be accompanied by Lady Baker, his nephew, and Dr. Gedge. His firman styles him "Gove l 4or-General of all the Provinces that he may suc ceed in annexing to Egypt." At Khartoum Sir Samuel will resume the command of the whole expedition, and go by the river to Gondokoro. Fifteen miles south of that point the grand depot and first station is to bemade. The chief difficulty is expected from the Barry tribe who are very warlike and unmanageable. There is no road through their country, and the expedition will, therefore,have the arduous task of making ono bffore them. Arrived at the point where it is suppiad the rapids cease, one of the steel steamers will be put together, and Sir Samuel will proceed on an exploring expedition as far as the Lakes. If he finds the river navigable, the other steamers will be constructed on his return, and he will proceed with a number of men to the lakes. He will establish fortified posts at every avail able spot, and endeavour to subjugate the different tribes. and make them pay tribute to tho Egyptian Government, Troops will be forwarded from Cairo until all the posts are manned. All the soldiers chosen for the expedition are agriculturists, and will cultivate farms round the forts. They are provided with several kinds of cotton seed, and at every post a commercial depOt wilt .be established. SPAIN. According to a dispatch from Madrid the Regent has in formed the deputies of Valencia that it will be necessary tt form a constitution for the country in order to prevent further conflicts. The monarchical party has a large majority in the Cortes, and the chief difficulty in their way is the want of a king. The prospects for the future are not encouraging for any candidate for royalty, and the Republican party is, some think, very likely to put forward its strength at the first convenient opportunity. The Gazette of Madrid reports complete tranquillity in all parts of the peninsula, with the exception of detached parties of fugitives scattered here and there. Only two of the soldiers in the troops concen trated before Valencia were killed, and it is supposed that the losses of the rebels were small in number, on account of their surrender following so closely on the commence ment of the bombardment. FIRE IN SIBERIA. A terrible conflagration is reported from Siberia,. Cui seyski, one of the principal towns, having 40,000 inhabi tants, has been completely destroyed. It is said the disaster originated in the neighbouring forests, which wero consumed by the flames, and that the coal-mines aro included in the general devastation. EARTIIQUAIES IN PERIL The American papers contain accounts of continued earthquakes in Peru. From the 20th to the 24th of August violent shocks were felt in almost every part of the South. At Pisaga, on one occasion the sea fell sixteen feet, and afterwards rose more than ten feet above the usual level. The steamer Payta, on her way to Valparaiso, experienced the shock of the earthquake at Tacua fifteen seconds after occurrad. Considerable damage was done to the articles of a breakable nature on board the steamer, the compasses were injured, and.one of them destroyed. The vibration threw the passengers to a height of two inches above the deck, The sea appeared to be boiling as far as the eye could reach, and the shock was accompanied by appalling subterranean sounds. The families in South Peru, and even in Lima and Callao, are preparing for the formidable cataclysm pre dicted by Faib to happen at the end of this or the beginning of next month. At Panama two or three shocks of earthquakes were felt, and a few slight shocks have been experienced at Bolivia. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT INDIANAPOLIS, The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the boiler explosion at the Indiana State fair grounds, Indianapolis, has now been given. It states that the victims came to their death by the carelessness and culpable mismanage ment of the engineer in charge of the engine, Johq deceased. Seven thousand dollars have already been raised in Indianapolis for the sufferers, from various sources, and meetings are to be held to collect additional subscriptions. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Mr. Butler, a nephew of the General and the the atrical critic of the Spirit of the Times, has got into another fisticuff difficulty. If anybody is to be shot I hope it may not be one who affords so much amusement, although it may be at the expense of the eyes and the nose, and the feelings generally, of particular individuals. Surely these persons will not be so selfish as to regret their sufferings, know ing how much merriment they cause. This time the fight was with Samuel Wilson, whom Butler struck in a car on a railroad, by way of a clencher, in a dispute. He has very knock-down arguments has this Butler, and he freely uses them, as one on the staff of a sporting journal should. Wilson tried law, but got little satisfaction, for the judge dis charged Mr. Butler for want, as he alleged, of juris diction ; but the affair is not to be permitted to end thus, for the principals exchanged cards before leaving the court, and I tremble to think that the life of my brother correspondent is in danger, and one who in dull times gives us a topic to write on. Messrs. Burnham, Rice, Fisher, and Lyman arrived in the City of Paris, and would have been publicly received by the Boat Clubs could they have waited two days, but they had to go on at once to Harvard, and the Boat excitement has subsided in view of the terrific storm raging in Wall-street, but some of the newspapers still continue to discuss the great match. Mr. Simmons, I hear, is in Dresden, where he is to learn the German language before proceeding to Vienna to study medicine. Mr. Loring is to become a lawyer, and has entered the office of Chandler, Shattuck, and Thayer, in Boston. Mr. Blaikie, the Secretary, has entered on the duties of his office of Pardon-Clerk in the Attorney-General's office at "Washington. the same crew cannot, therefore, be again got together, still Yale might try its strength. Nothing bas been talked of all this week but the great gold fight, until people are growing quite weary of the subject, and I rejoice that it is so, for it never had any great interest for me, and is injurious to the credit of our country. Senator Wilson visited the Gold Room yesterday with Mr. Henry Clews, who then took him on to the Long Room and the Board of Stockbrokers. This being his first visit to the locality he was naturally surprised at finding important business transacted in a scene of such hurry and excitement. He in tends to try and do what the late Thaddeus Stevens failed in, that is, to restrict by law gold sales to the actual delivery of the metal, making any transac tion beyond this a misdemeanour. Viscount Adare, of the Ist Life Guards, is here preparing for a shoot ing expedition in the west. He proceeds to Fort Leavenworth, and will direct his steps according to the information there given. I suppose he will fol , low a good deal in the footsteps of Capt. Tow nshend, of the same regiment, was he not ?* General Sher man and his daughter have passed through this city for Washington, and Postmaster-General Creswell has arrived from Washington. Senator Patterson and the Hon. Jacob Benton, M.C., of New Hamp shire, were also here for a night on their way home from a tour ou the Pacific Railroad. I may here mention that the road to California averages 100 mi -1 grants a day, carried to San Francisco from Omaha fors42. The trip is made from this in ten days in goods cars of the express freight train. The Union Pacific is earning in the gross about $750,000 a month ; its working expenses being $300,000, to which profit added land sales averaging $200,000 a month. A suit has been brought hero by Luther C. Challis, against the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad for $500,000, for services in negotiating a treaty midi the Kiekapoo Indians, and in procur ing a grant of $1,600,000 in United States Bonds, to aid in constructing the road. Horace Greeley has given the result of his trip to Vermont, whore lie found temperance to prevail and liquor scarce. Mr. Grceley is said to grow cabbages at $1 a piece an his little place near the city, and being a farmer on so costly a scale he is qualified to deliver opi nions. He finds fault with the scarcity of timber in Vermont, attributing much of the sterility and poor pasturage to this cause, but he praises the immense * Viscount Adaro belongs to the Ist and Capt. Towns bend to the 2d Life Guards. We believe the former is the son and heir of the Earl of Duuraven.—ED. 4.4. T. quantities of butter, cheese, and maple sugar, " white as loaf and fine as powdered Havanna," and is much pleased with the " bread that is bread and not spoiled dough." There has been a grand affair in presenting a $5,000 silver service to the late Presi dent of the Great Western Insurance Company at New Rochelle. Mr. Evarts delivered the speech, and there were several leading men prereut. At the same place, which is in Long Island, Thomas H. Fields caught himself in his own grapery with his spring-gun, and was killed. Admiral Poor sailed on Sunday from this port for Key West to assume command of the squadron in Cuban waters. The delegation of New York steel importers, on their way to interview Secretary Boutwell, have left this for Washington. Their object is not to pump the Secretary, like ordinary interviewers, but to im plant in the mind of that important functionary some alleged facts which may increase the price of steel. In my last letter I mentioned suicides were likely to be caused by the flurry in the Gold Room, and one at least has resulted, that of a broker named Solomon Mahler. John D. Culcrr, a broker of St. Cathe rine's, Canada, has absconded with $20,000 belong ing to that and other banks. The papers give an account of the wreck of the steamship Trade Wind, from New Orleans to Belize, which was lost at sea on Sept. 24th. The crew and passengers,the latter numbering only three, embarked in the boats. One of the boats has reached New Orleans, and steamers have been sent in search of the other. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence the schooner Crown Point was run down, and the captain and two seamen were after wards drowned by the boat upsetting in which they were. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Jose Morena died in Brazil recently, aged 135. His birth and age aro said to be well authenticated. John C. Breckinridgo, having been recently addressed as " General " by the Judge in a Ken tucky Court, Breckinridge suggested that hereafter all military titles be disregarded in the court room. The Judge said he acquiesced with pleasure.— Jem Mace is exhibiting his prize pitcher and cups in New York, including his own " mug."—Boston Post.— At A. T. Stewart's store in New York twenty $2,000 shawls have been sold this season, and one worth $5,700, We wonder what they would have cost at Messrs. Ever ington and Graham's, who have the finest collection in the world.—ProfessorWaters, Principal of Paterson (N J) Semi nary, was dangerously injured recently by being struck with a stone by a boy who threw it at some pears on a tree in a churchyard. It is feared ho will not recover.— Infinite trouble is in the future in settling Brigham Young's estate. He is very rich, but then when he dies each of his twenty-five widows will expect her third. He is said never to travel from Utah, fearing a prosecution for bigamy.—Ex-Governor Seymour is to deliver the annual address at the Wisconsin State Fair next month.— General Rosecrans on one occasion asked his staff offi cers for a pencil. Not one had any. The General sadly remarked, "Had I asked for a corkscrew every one of you would have had one."—Gen. J. E. Johnston is in the insur ance business in Goorgia.—A farewell dinner was given to Hon. J. Rose at St Lawrence-hall, S ept. 28, and was attended by gentlemen of all political shades. Mr. Dart, the Ameri can Consul, was present and made a speech.—Governor Campbell, Governor Bross, Lord Paget, and a number of army officers, have just made an excursion to Cheyenne over the completed portion of the Denver Pacific Rail road. The work is considered satisfactory, and is pro gressing at the rate of a mile per day.—The Hon. G. H. Hollister, ex-Minister to Hayti, arrived at New York in the steamship City of Port -au - Prince, from Port-au-Prince.—Governor Haight is a candidate for United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Colo, the present Republican Senator from California. -General Sherman, Secretary of War, and daughter, arrived in Now York, Sept. 28, and returned to Washington in the evening.— Mr. George W. Wishback, ono of the proprietors and the leading oditor of the St. Louis Democrat, left Now York on the Ville de Paris for Europe, whore he hopes to spend the ensuing year travelling with his invalid wife.—The Rev. Shapharzi, Edalzi, a converted fire worshipper of the celebrated sect of the Parsees of Bombay, is now acting as assistant curate of Holy Trinity, St. Ebb's, Oxford (Eng land). The rev. gentleman was ordained by the Bishop of Oxford. —Chief Justice Chase, who has heretofore resided with his son-in-law, Senator Sprague, in the latter's mansion in Washington, will shortly remove to a separate residence and keep house, his daughter Nettie to bo the "lady of the house." Mr. Chase has purchased, it is stated, " Metropolis View," a part of Berry's Woods, near Glenwood Cemetery, for 22,000 dollars.— Ex-Governor Bullock's eldest son is engaged to a daughter of the late Commodore E. A. Stevens, the Hoboken, N.J., millionaire, a lady who is worth over a million in her own right. 'The lovers first met in Europe, and are still abroad. —Gen. Thomas and Admiral Farragut left San Francisco for the East on Wednesday, Sept. 29.—The President has had his photograph taken on horseback to aid the artist who is modeling an equestrian statue of the General for the Lincoln monument.—John W. Moore, who killed Mrs. NPAdams at Greenville, Illinois, in July, has been sen tenced to be hanged on Oct. 22.—The return of Bradford, the artist, is announced at St. John's, New Brunswick, from the Arctic voyage in search of sketches.—The year 1869 is remarkable as the centenary of the Emperor Napo leon 1., the late Duke of Wellington, the younger Pitt Schiller, Robert Burns, Robespierre, Sir Walter Scott, Humboldt, Baron Cuvier, and Mehemet Ali, who were all born in 1769.—The United States Government pro perty at Harper's Ferry is to be sold on the 30th of November.—A large meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati was held Sept. 28 at Pike's, to take action against the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools. Three thousand persons were present. Resolutions favouring the Bible in the schools, and asking the Board not to act in the matter till after the spring elections, were passed nnaaimously.—Henry T. Eddy of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, has accepted a Professorship of Mathematics in Cornell University.—Chief Justice John Appleton of Bangor, and Assistant Justice J. G. Dickerson of Belfast, have been reappointed to their positions on the Supreme Court bench (Maine.)—The Rev. Mr. Jones, lately of Trinity Church, New York, has been called to the as sistant ministership of Epiphany Church in Washington, vice the Rev. Reeve Hobble, resigned, to accept a senior position in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn.— Professor Schaff, of the New York Evangelical Alliance, has visited Bremen for the purpose of inviting the well wishers of that Association in the old Hanse town to the general meeting of Evangelical Protestants which is to bo held in Now York in September, 1870.—Ex-President Fillmore has been elected President of the National Com mercial Convention now sitting at Nashville. ELECTION NEWS.— The New York Republican State Convention met at Syracuse on the 29th Sept., and nominated State officers as follows:--Secretary of State, George W. Curtis ; Comptroller, Gan. John G. Robinson ; Treasurer, Thos. S. Chatfield; Attorney-General, Martin I. Townsend; State Prison Inspector, Daniel D. Connor; Judges for the short term of the Court of Appeal, Messrs. Woodruff and Mason. The Convention made no recom mendation in regard to the adoption of the pending State Constitution. The feeling was in favour of Gen. Sigel for the first place on the ticket. Mr. Curtis, writing from Ashfield on the next day, declined the nomination with hearty thanks for the honour, agreeing in the declaration of principles, but stating his private affairs were a bar to his performance of the duties. By telegram we learn that Gen. Sigel was then nominated, but whether he will accept in his delicate state of health remains to be seen. Mr. Horace Greeley was placed on the ticket for State Comp troller, but it is very doubtful whether ho can accept Ho has been suggested as a Senator from Virginia, and as it now appears to be uncertain whether men oven like General C. Wickham can take the test oath, the choice is so narrowed that it is probable the Virginians will have to look outside their State for at least ono Senator. Mr. Greeley can be made a citizen in a few weeks, ho already has pecuniary interests in the State, and his in fluence went far towards securing the election of Go vernor Walker.—The Minnesota Democratic Convention has nominated George L. Otis, for Governor, J. A. West cott for Lieut.-Governor, and F. G. T. Conrad for Secre tary of State. Col. Charles H. Joyce of Rutland declines to be a candidate for Speaker of the Vermont House of Re presentatives, and recommends Mr. Grandey of Vergennes. The editors of the Democratic newspapers in Texas have met in convention, and nominated Hamilton Stuart for Governor. Stuart has accepted, and a full straight De mocratic ticket is to be nominated. Forty newspapers support the movement. Major-General Reynolds, com manding in Texas, has written a letter to President Grant, emphatically confirming what had before been suspected as to the condition of political parties in that State. He says if the A. J. Hamilton party is successful, though Hamilton professes to be a Republican, it will be through Democratic votes, and will bo tho defeat of Republicanism iu Texas, and will put the State in the hands of the very men who, during the rebellion, exerted every nerve to destroy the Union, and who have uniformly opposed the reconstruction laws with a persistency worthy of a better cause. Last Tuesday the elections were held in Pennsyl vania, Ohio, and lowa, and all the Republicans triumphed. General John W. Geary was ro-elected Governor in Penn sylvania, defeating Asa Packer, the wealthy Democratic candidate. In Ohio, General Rutherford B. Hayes was re-elected Governor, defeating the great democratic leader and the well-known advocate for greenback redemption, George 11. Pendleton. In lowa, as every ono know would be the case, the vote was altogether Republican, Samuel Merrill being re-elected Governor by some 30,000 majority. In none of the States dots there appear to have been much excitement, and the votes were very light. What ever doubts were expressed on Republican success centred in Pennsylvania, but Geary was re-elected by a majority of some five thousand, and a preponderating influence Las been secured in the Legislature. The Times states that the Republican majority in Ohio for General Hayes was but 3,000 according to the estimate of both parties. Returns had not been received for Indiana or Nebraska. Ex-Pro. sident Fillmore has been elected President of the National Commercial Convention now sitting at Nashville. Harmony has been restored in Georgia, the Atlanta New Era, from being the opponent, having become the official organ of the executive. The Democratic State Committee lately assembled at Atlanta favoured immediate obedience to the Stato Supreme Court on the question of resenting the - - - coloured members. Judge Hoar's opinion as regards tb6 power of the Virginia Legisl a t u r e i s a cce pt e d in Georg"? and it is thought that the expelled members will be re seated and the Fifteenth Amendment passed. In Bur ke ' Columbia, and Hancock Counties, murders were freque nt ' but the ill treatment of the negroes appeared to bring its own punishment, for the labourers being driven away , tbe ; crops could not be gathered. The time for the Mississig; election has been extended to two days, November 30 as n ci December 1, and Judge Dent appears to have g n° grounds for anticipating success against General Ake r !' nominated by the Radical party on the 28th Sept. at that State Convention. Both candidates will stump the St/ in person, assisted by good speakers of ea ch party, both conventions have nominated negroes for Secrets'i of State to catch the African vote. The Minnesota lie publicans nominated a Swede for Secretary of State. candidate, Hans Mattson, was put forth by the Sean; navian Convention, which met a few weeks ago, as t b ` representative man. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evellil33. WAR OFFICE, PALL .1.A.L1,, OCT. 19. sth Regiment of Dragoon G u ards—M a j o r Fred. D' ll , # Swinfen to be Lieutenant •Colonel ; Captain and Bre le t : . Major George S. Burnand t o b e Maj o r ; LieutWil l t B. Foulkes to be Captain ; Cornet Frederick F. young to be Lieutenant ; W a lter Campbell CAlsrer" Gent., to be Cornet. Gth Dragoons —Lieutenant Arthur Hunt to be LieutelA e t t. 11th Hussars—Chas. Verelst Vorelst, Gent., to be o ° ril n e j Royal Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet- o ° l° ld Alexander Tod Cadell to be Colon e l, Captain Bich a 4 George Frederick Henogan to be Lieutenant-0 01° 1 Second Captain John Charles T a ylo r to be CeP'"" Lieutenant George Bean Macdonell to be Second ve,Ps; tain, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel DorliPto Gaye to be Colonel, Capt. William Henry Sautes t ° rc i Lieutenant -Colonel, Second Captain Christopher cl ` l „ a to Newport to be Captain, Lieutenant H en ry Steveno ° % be Second Captain, Lieutenant Cha r le s Edward fl ei to be second Captain, Lieutenant Albert The t a Wodehouse Wodehouse to be Second Captain, Second 05 P . ,",,$ William Farar Grey to be Capt a i n , Li eu t en ant TV' William Roberts to be Second Captain. in el Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-C°,31161 William Collier Menzies to be Colonel, Lieut.-C° 1° ;:o Anthony C. Cooke, C. 8., to be Lieut.-Colonel, CaP,,, l ' d Anthony R. V. Crease to be Lieut.-Colonel, S ee ,:i o , Captain Percy G. Llewellyn Smith to be C° 13 , 0 4 Lieut. Chas. Warren on the Seconded List to be S e : oo 4 Captain, Lieut. Edwards Nicolls Peters to be 8e — Captain. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieut. and Capt. S. V. Stepp e :o to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel ; E n sign and A, the Hon. Robert F. Villiers to be Lieutenant and a pd tain ; Ffolliott W. Erskine, Gent., to be Eus i g ll Lieutenant. DO 'lt) 6th Foot—Lieut. W. D. Osborne, from half-pay, West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant. 14th Foot—Capt. the Hon. James D. Drummond, Foot, to be Captain. it h Vo e 4 21st Foot—Ensign Arthur S. justice, from the 6-- to be Ensign. to Il e 24th Foot—Ensign Arthur Hugh Linwood Stropg Ensign. t° vi 25th Foot—Ensign A r th ur d o l a P oor. Beresford-.6 rO be Ensign. 4 ,0 32d Foot—Ensign Liudesay Beaumont Beaumont/3-00 Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Charles Boileau to be Ensign. to " 37th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Beauclerk Bethun e Instructor of Musketry. p. 3Sth Foot—Ensign Atwell Robert Porter to be --- 40th Foot—Ensign James Brougham to be Lie ti , te ;igai Herbert Samuel Davis Gillman, G e nt., to ba Michael David Sibbald Scott, Gent., to be Ensign' 41st Foot—Ensign Donald George Mackenzie, fil a eo o Foot, to be Ensign ; Lieuten an t Burnett li° t "' Anley to be Adjutant. so isl/1 50th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Francis D/ 011 from 6th Dragoons, to be Lieutenant. 61st Foot -Lieutenant Edward Maxwell Lyte to be to ll° taro; Ensign Thomas William Crawford Leatha l t, la Lieutenant; Ludlow Strange Henry Paynsr Gen be Ensign. BREVET. ) A i, r Colonel Henry Forster, C. 8., Royal (late Bona.„bArlio tillery, Ito be Major-General, vice Richard '''', °- ftog 3l 4 Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, deceased ; COl OllO. to ena, Stewart Beatson, retired lull-pay, Royal Engine M.ajor•General, the rank bei n g h onorar y only. cs ios, t° The following promotions to t a k e place in sat o Major-General Frank Adams, C. 8., who died et:; o troir , „ September, 1869 : Brevet-Colonel Sir Thoma s M'Mahon, Bart., C. 8., to be Major-General; Cap — t ooP ti Brevet-Major James Waddell-Boyd, to be Licu Captain William E. Brown to be Major. 0 LIST FOR THE USE OF VIS1T011')c THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. lics tloo Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by a p P '9' to the secretary re ? A I Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of London, - sof park. Admission daily by orders from fellows' h Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free. 3 ,10 British—Great Russell-street. Opan free en utO Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 4 ; sumtue r nyi4.1,0" till 7. 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