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

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times suspects that very few of its readers have ever heard of Durham University. We know of the Scotch universities; we see the working of London University; and we arc familiar with the colleges and favoured studies, and still more favoured amusements, of Oxford and Cam bridge. But who, except the Bar of the Northern Circuit, ever heard of Durham University? And what has Dur ham done for learning that, alone among the provincial towns and cities of England, she has been recently selected by the Crown and Parliament for the honour of a university town? The North of England, as we all know, has energies and industries of its own. Is Durham. University a centre of learning and enlighten ment to the mining and, manufacturing interests of that busy and inventive people ? The Church of England has no richer ecclesiastical bodies than the See and Chapter of Durham, Is Durham. University a great school to supply the growing demand for au educated and laborious clergy ? It is neither. Tried by any test of ability, it can give no sufficient reason for its exis 4 once. It remains to be seen if the new Dean of Durhan., .:ho is tha warden and monarch of the University, can persuade the local authorities that wisdom and prudence alike counsel a radical change. If only they were content to be useful and could resign themselves to some loss of pretentioul dignity, they might render Durham University as beneficial to the North of England as the Scotch Universities have been to Scotland. They might retain and extend their present theological school, snaking it a rival of St. Aidan's or St. Bees, and they might found and endow for lads of 15 and 16 a useful school of practical science. Unless something be done, and that something quickly done, to sender the university a real benefit to the North, the cry will become irresistible that its revenues would be better applied in endowing thirty new districts in our overgrown manufac turing towns than in producing yearly a score of graduates and licentiates in divinity. The new dean is an educa tional reformer, and has work here ready to his hand. He will see at a glance that the model of Oxford, which he knows so well, is in the present instance devoutly to be shunned. The Daily News observes that the advice which old Polonius gives to his son, then setting out on his foreign travels—" Beware of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in, bear it that the offenders may beware of thee," has gene rally been considered very shrewd and sensible. This apparently is not the opinion of two eminent Irish patriots who have for the moment forgotten their common hatred of the Saxon in hatred of each other. The O'Donoghue and Mr. G. 11. Moore have rushed hastily into a quarrel, and being in, prudential considerations have occurred to them, and they have done their best to get safely out of it. Their first thoughts were of war, but their second were of peace; and second thoughts are prover bially best. Discretion, if not always the better part of valour, is in some cases a good substitute for it; and this function it seems to have exercised in the dispute between the two Irish leaders. Under certain conditions The O'Donoghue's second was ready to withdraw The O'Donoghue's letter to Mr Moore; while that gentleman's second saw no insuperable obstacle to the withdrawal of Mr. Moore's letter to The O'Donoghue. The Chieftain of the Glens, when he spoke of heartless spouters and of fustian, was not thinking of Mr. Moore in particular; and Mr. Moore, in throwing contempt on the title of clannish chieftainship assumed by his antagonist, was animated by the most respectful feelings towards an ancient Irish family. All's well that ends well. We dare say there never was any real danger. If the seconds had not withdrawn the letters of the valorous enemies in Ireland, they would probably have withdrawn the charges from their pistols at Boulogne ; and the thing would have ended, as it has done now, in a flash in the pan. The heroes who have agreed to be preserved to their friends and their country, and to the Imperial Legislature of which they are ornaments, have incurred no worse evil than ridicule; and to this they are accustomed. We are somewhat sorry for The O'Donoghue, who has lately shewn a disposition to cultivate sobriety and good sense; and from whose rising reputation a large deduction must be made on account of this silly escapade. One thing is consolatory in the matter, and that is, that the latest attempt to revive the folly of duelling should have been such as to cover the practice with contempt. After the affair of The O'Donoghue and Mr. Moore, we shall probably hear no more of it, and what we hear of them, will, we hope. be of a more creditable kind. The Standard thinks that there is more than a question of economy involved in the scheme for transplanting to provincial gaols, many of which are at present half empty, a proportion of convicted criminals from the metropolis, and from the home counties in general. Twice has the suggestion been laid before full assemblages of the local magistrates, and three times have various authorities, beyond their jurisdiction, expressed their willingness to receive, keep, and discipline, a certain number cf offenders upon terms to be hereafter settled. The case is a curious ono, and stands thus : London wants prisons ; the country want; prisons. That is to say, the accommodation in the capital City falls short of the necessities continually increasing, not, per haps, through any absolute aggravation of crime, but on account of the incessant growth of population. We have been accustomed to hear :of painful displacements of the poor, consequent upon the clearing of crowded districts, the ground taken for public works, the exigencies of rail- Way companies, and so forth ; but in one quarter of London --Clerkenwell—we are assured that the prison premises have been, and are being, so enlarged that they are ejecting the artisans from their homes and driving the watchmakers eastwards. This is the assertion of more than one magis trate. It is shewn that, scattered far and wide, are thou sands of cells, and acres of work-yards, into which might be draughted the excess of • the criminal popu lation, whether from London or elsewhere. We are not alluding to such establishments as Kirkdale, the New Bailey, the Preston House of Correction, the borough gaols of Manchester and Liverpool, or even Lancaster Castle, in Lancashire, although some of these are rarely full; but to others, less conspicuous, though obviously in the eyes of those magistrates who advocate, at all events, an experiment. When, indeed, the long-deferred change in the law is effected which will abolish the injustice of condemning men committed on trivial charges to months and months of almost penal suffering before trial, vast prisons will be empty during the greater part of the year; and while the fact remains so where can be the necessity for new and palatial prisons ? The Herald remarks that for some time past companies have been remonstrating and agitating against the present state of the law of compensation for personal injuries. The other day an application was made to the Court of Queen's Bench for a new trial in the case of " Farr v. the London and North-Western Railway Company." The plaintiff, a curate, 27 years of age, had been earning a pro fessional income of £250 a year, when he sustained a severe cerebral and spinal shock in the Abergele. collision, which was admitted to have reduced him from a condition of health and vigour to one of the extremest wretchedness • and suffering. There was some discussion, but eventually the rule was unani mously refused, upon grounds which must appear unanswerable to every disinterested person. The principle of law ia, that if one man negligently injures another, he must pay for the consequences of his negligence. If he has not the means to pay, the sufferer may have to go remediless, but the wrongdoer is clearly answerable to the full extent of his means. We do not think that many who have to travel by rail will willingly relinquish the check- upon railway recklessness which this right to com pensation affords, and we are sure that, whatever may happen in exceptional cases, most people will agree with Sir Alexander Cockburn and his learned colleagues in thinking that there is no reason for a reconsideration of 'he law upon the subject. Westminster Abbey, says the Telegraph, has been enli vened by an event of much social importance and festal display, which caused the antique fane to look as bright and cheerful as anything could; for the Abbey witnesses not only a wedding, but a double wedding; an espousal. moreover, which united in matrimonial alliance some o;' the. proudest houses among the nobility of the empire. Th-, brides were , the two daughters of the Duke of Abercorn ; and the happy bridegrooms were the Marquis of Blandford endJ.hollEarquis of Lansdowne. Beyond questionthose pre sc,nt sawn chartning spectacle. Always - pleasant things to see. youth, and beauty are certainly not rendered less so by the Leta of high birth and wealth, or by the combination of a. venerable and splendid ecclesiastical interior with a ga,l - of wedding guests, and all that delightful sense o' hope-and happinesz, - which belongs to the scent of orang,•: blossoms. The professional politic:an, who is, perhar,, l , ss sympathetic than he should be, will not fail to notice that the double wedding brinks together Whig and To:- - y twuses, in a manner rather foreign to par: y instincts. Till bri :es of 31inday':; ceremony ere the daughters of Mr. Disraeli's Lerd-l.ieutematt of Ireland ; and to th side of the same leader in the political field belongs th Duke of Marlborouel, father of one of the bridegrooms. On the other hand, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the s ecorei . `'happy man," is not only the scion and representative-ol an established Whig family, but a member of the presen Government, and one who, in the actual course of thin:. may reasonably hope to take high place in the profession of state:Allen:Ali!). What then ? All the old feuds e: all the Cepulets and Montagues never prevented Romeo and Juliet from f alling iu love .witl each other, and " Whig " and "Tory' have never proved words of power enough to interfere much with an eligible match in the regions of the Red Book. roimir part, we welcome the relations springing up between%the "grew` old Houses" of Whig. and Tory; and if things' do but go on " as merry as a marriage bell" in this way m lord of the antique persuasion wil by-and longer, Tory a real old To irik, by, be as extinct _ as a dodo or megathorium. •'- - .- ' -- 1 DR. LIVINGSTONE. At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Seciety, neld on Monday night, Sir Roderick Murchison, the President, delivered the opening address. Referring to Dr. Living stone, he said: "Our illustrious Associate Livingstone, whose life had been despaired of by the multitude, but of whose reappearance among us, as you know, I never doubted, will, I trust, bring us ere long the first account of a region of Southein Africa never previously visited by a European, and thus, by actual observation, will have set at rest all theoretical speculations respecting the hydro graphy of that vast portion of Africa lying to the north of these territories watered by the. Zambesi which he had previously made his own. I therefore joyfully hope that, at no very distant day, we shall hear from his own lips the description cf his travels during the three years which have elapsed since he entered South- Restern Africa on his last expedition. In his expected communications we shall doubtless be enlightened not only respecting the true configuration of the great Lake Tan ganyika, first visited by Burton and Speke, but also as to the main watershed to the south of it which he has now traced. The facts, as communicated in one of his last letters to Dr. Y:rk, from Lake Bangwelo, dated July 8, 1863, will Le c xplained to you this eve ning, in anticipatien of more detailed accounts which have been sent to the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs and India, but which by some accident have not yet been received. We now know that he had discovered a chain of lakes connected by rivers far to the south ; but whether these waters, after feeding or flanking the great Lake Tanganyika, really constitute the ultimate sources of the Nile, as Livingstone supposes, can only be a conjecture so long as no traveller has observed the connection between the northern end of Tanganyika and Lake Albert Nyanza. of Baker, which is very far distant from the southern lakes of Livingstone. But I confidently hope that this point will be finally determined by Livingstone himself ; as it appears from Dr. Kirk's information that he has touched at Ujiji, and must have there received the supplies, despatches, publications, and medicines which have so long been waiting for him. Should these South African waters, now laid open by Livingstone, flow into the Albert Nyanza, the south-western extremities of which are as yet wholly unknown (though, we trust, to be soon defined by Baker), then, indeed, the great modern problem will have been solved, and we must go back to the old geography of Ptolemy, and acknowledge that he was right in placing the ultimate sources of the Nile very nearly in the same southern tract in which Livingstone has now found them. In this event it will also give me much pleasure, at our ensuing anniversary, to assign to Dr. Beke, Mr. Arrowsmith, and Mr. Findlay, all the credit which is their due for their support, ontheorctical grounds, of this great southerly extent of the Nile Basin. In his wonderful labours Livingstone has not merely been the Chris tian missionary and geograpical explorer. He was also accre dited as her Majesty's consul to all the native states in the inte rior. Such being the public mission with which the great tra veller was entrusted, let us now confidently believe that her Majesty's Government will authorise, on his return, the grant of a suitable pension to the man whose labours have shed so much renown on Britain, and that our gracious Sovereign, who has, I know, taken the deepest interest in his career, will regard him with some appropriate token of good-will.' Some other letters were read, but the most importan' was one to Lord Clarendon. It was very long indeed. Dated July, 1868, it was written from " Near Lake Bange weolo, South Central Africa." The opening paragraphls as follows :—" When I had the honour of writing to you in February, 1867, I had the impression that I was then on the watershed between the Zambesi and either the Congo or the Nile. More extended observation has since convinced me of the o sent:al correctness of that impres sion ; and from what I have seen, together with what I have learned from intelligent natives, I think that I may safely assert that the chief sources of the Nile arise between 10 degrees and 12 degrees south latitude, or nearly in the position assigned to them by Ptolemy, whose River Rhapta is probably the Rovuma. Aware that others have been mistaken, and laying no claim to infallibility, I do not yet speak very positively, particularly of the parts west and north-west of Tanganyika, because these have not yet come under my observation ; but I believe that the springs of the Nilo have hitherto been searched for very much too far to the North. They rise some 400 miles south of the most southerly portion of the Victoria Nyanza, and, indeed, south of all the lakes except Bangweolo." In a postscript, Dr. Livingstone says :—" Always some thing new from Africa ; a large tribe lives in under ground houses in Rua. Some excavations are said to be thirty miles long, and have running rills in them. A whole district can stand a siege in them. The writings ' therein, I have been told by some of the people, are on wings of animals, and not letters. Of course, I should have gone to see them. Very dark, well made, and eyes slanting-wards." LAW AND POLICZ TILE CREDIT OF A LIINA'TIC.—In tho Court of Queen's Bench, the right of a wife to pledge the credit of a lunatic husband has been tried. The husband was under confine ment as a lunatic, but the wife had an allowance sufficient for a support. She ordered some repairs to be done to her house, and the plaintiff, finding he could not sue her, sued her husband for the amount. The court held that there was no implied authority to pledge her husband's credit, as there wero sufficient funds in the hands of the wife. The plaintiff, therefore, was not entitled to recover. THE CHELSEA ELECTION.—A case arising out of the last election for Chelsea, has been tried in the Court of Common Pleas. The action had been tried before Mr. Justice Keating, when the defendant had a verdict. It was brought for work and labour, and for money paid by the plaintiff, as chairman of one of the local committees. At first he had not expected payment, and the verdict of the jury was found on that ground. The court thought the jury had decided properly, and a rule was refused. SHARES IN OYEREND AND CIVIINEY.—A special case has been stated in the Court of Exchequer. The action was brought against a jobber on the Stock Exchange, to recover calls on certain shares in Overend, Gurney, and Co. The plaintiff, Mr. Maxted, is a gentleman residing at Hull, and at the time of sale to the defendant was owner and original allottee of shares, for which he paid £3OO. The shares had been transferred in June 1866 to a Dr. Smith, of Nor wich, who had given orders to his brokers for the purchase of Overend and Gurney shares in the April preceding. Dr. Smith, however, never executed one transfer, and had afterwards been adjudicated a bankrupt. The plaintiff had proved against his estate for the amount of a call made on behalf of the shares, but had received no dividend. Under these circumstances, the plaintiff's name remained on the ragister of shareholders, and he now sought to recover £lOO, the amount of two calls on the shares. The question was whether the defendant, as original purchaser of the shares from the plaintiff, was bound to indemnify him against all future liabilities upon them. For the , plaintiff it was contended that thero was no custom of the Stock Exchange whereby shares pur chased could be held over by a broker from one accoun day to another without the authority of his principal. It was also argued that Dr. Smith was not a bond fide pur chaser as he had not authorised the use of his name a .iltimate purchaser. On the other side it was said that the defendant was not liable, as the plaintiff had accepted the defendant's nominee and executed a transfer to him The Court held that the defendant was liable, as Dr. SmitL• had given no authority to his brokers to enter into the con tract, and had not ratified it. Judgment for the plaintiff. CHARGE OF FORGERY.--A young man, fashionably dressed, named Garford, was charged at Marylebone Police-cow t, with forgery. A saddler, named Bartley, said the prisoner produced a bill of exchange for £5O at three months' date, drawn by his mother, and accepted by him-. self, and asked him to get it cashed for him, which ho did, giving ZIO for it. The mother made an affidavit that the signature was not hers. Tile prisoner was committed for trial, there being other charges against him. THE LATE Mu. PEABODY.—The remains of the late Mr. George Peabody will be removed from No. 80, Eaton-square, the residence of Sir Curtis Lampson, on wriday next, the 12th instant, at half-past twelve o'clock, to Westminster Abbey, where a funeral service will be per formed at cne o'clock. Mn. Tanmox, M.P.—On Monday morning Mr Hermon, M.P. for Preston, met; with an accident whicl imperilled lyis life. While bein2; driven in a closed car -in -1e down Church-street, the horse took fright, ran away, .:.mc into collision with a lamp-post, threw o!f the driver, nd srns'ael the conveyance. Thcrc was great alarm in strcct. Luckily, Mr. Hermon did not sustain any njuries. • A whale eighty two feet in length and about thirty feet in girth has been cast ashore at Longriddy, on She HaddingtonN cor.:;L, about thirteen miles from Edin burgh. It was in a very exhausted condition when it reached the shore, and was soon killed by the villagers with fire-arms. On Monday the North British Railway ran excursion trains to the place, and the roads between Edin burgh and Longriddy were thronged with persons in all kinds of conveyances, and on foot, going to see the whale, which at mid-day was surrounded by thousands of people, many of whom cut their initials in the animal and carried Away portious of the fleokand whalebone. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. WIIITBY. Major Worsley is finally chosen as the Conservative candidate to oppose the re-election of Mr. W. IT. Gladstone. The gallant officer arrived in the borough on Saturd* and met with a warm welcome. Major Worsley fought Mr. Gladstone at the last election, but was defeated by 804 to 51P " Whether the new register," says the Standard, " has improved Major Worsley's chance remains to bo seen, but Mr. Gladstone is beyond doubt the popular candidate." nEnwICKSHIRE. Lord Dunglass will stand for Berwickshire in the Conservative interest. He is the eldest son of the Earl of Home, was born in 1834, is Lieutenant- Colonel Commandant of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the same county. On Saturday he addressed a meeting and was adopted as the Conservative candidate. Lord William Hay, of the Tweeddale family, represents the Liberals. THE ORANGEMEN AND TEE FIFTH. • The North of Ireland got through the Fifth of November pretty well. There was drumming, fifing, marching, and speaking ; but the memory o f departed Protestant heroes was not perpetuated by any exceptional uproar. At Belfast there was a large meeting, at which Mr. William Johnson, M.P., advocated the formation of " an independent Orange party, neither Liberal nor Conservative," its principal objects being, no doubt, to keep the House of Lords in order, let off fireworks on the sth of November, and keep up a gratis supply of superior "guys." This programme was not obscurely hinted at by the Rev. Mr. Wallace, who was the Aaron of a soirée at Dublin. This gentleman said they had been betrayed by the House of Lords, robbed by the House of Commons, a n d f ors ak en by the Queen. There was, however, some consolation in the thought that the Irish Church was " separated from that Church with which the now Bishop Temple, Bishop Colenso, the Bishop of Oxford, and the late Bishop of Salisbury are connected." Some of these prelates ;may probably not be displeased at deliver ance from Mr. Wallace. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. There is really nothing more to be made out of the controversy respecting the appointment of Mr Layard as ambassador, whereby, it is complained, the lust rights of the diplomatic service have been overlooled. "Fairplay"—who ought to be somebody, for he is honoured with very large type in the Times, though he writes a very small letter—sums up pretty nearly all that is to be said on the subject. "The system may be good or it may be bad, but so it is that for many years past it has been the habit of successive Ministries to consider Under-Secretaries if State for Foreign Affairs as apt and proper persons to represent the Sovereign or the Government at foreign courts." A young man enters the diplomatic service perfectly aware what he must expect. This. of course, does not prove that the system is right. RESIGNATION OF ANOTHER BISHOP. Another bishopric is about to fall into Mr. Glad stone's hands; and again an episcopal appointment will have to go through the scathing fire of religious criticism. The Bishop of St. Asaph is about to resign ; It is stated, indeed, that his lordship has already sent in his resignation to the Premier. The Bishop has for some time past been incapacitated ; ho has reached his 80th year. In his day, however, Dr. Short won many an honour. A " double-first "at Oxford was obtained in 1812. In the following year he en tered deacon's orders. He became Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1841, and held the see for five years only. In 1846 he was translated to St. Asaph. He is the author of several works, some of them—s& "History of the Church of England," and "Hints on Teaching Vulgar Fractions "—educational. The see over which Dr. Short at present presides, and which ho hasjust resigned, includes the counties of Denbigh and Flint, with parts of Montgomery, Carnarvon, I%lerioneth, and Shropshire. The income of the see is said in " Crockford's Clerical Directory" to be 24,200. ARCHDEACON DENISON ON Dn. TEMPLE. Archdeacon Denison will not let the Temple con troversy rest; he is at the Bishop-Designate of Exeter once again. This time he protests, in a letter to the Standard, as ho has protested before—against the "Church Catholic " of England being turned into a " Broad Church "—Church Catholic herein meaning High Church, and those whom the Arch deacon wishes to exclude being those who disagree with him. The Archdeacon implies, too, that Dr. Temple has broken his oaths taken as a deacon. He swore that he believed all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament ; and promised to teach according to God's word. Yet he has since been tellinr, Inca to "freely handle " the Biblo. Does it never occur to Archdeacon Denison that Dr. Temple may hold that the " free handling " of the Scriptures can lead only to a more intensified belief in them ? One thing, however, is very clear : the reply of Dr. Temple to the vicar of East Brent's energetic, impassioned appeal was not satisfactory to the last mined reverend gentleman. MD. PEAL OWB B CRI L. It has been suggested that Mr. Peabody should be buried in Westminster Abbey; and the probabilities are that he would have had at least a public funeral in England, only that, as we now learn, America claims his remains, and his body is to go to the United States. A telegram received from America says that preparations are being made to bury him at Danvers, in the grave of his mother. The only thing this country can now do is to . send him with honours across the Atlantic. It is therefore proposed that what is left to us of George Peabody should be sent to the United States in an English man-of-war. The sug gestion is supported on both social and national grounds. It may be added that Mr. Peabody's will was made in New York in September last, and the executors named are Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, Bart., and Mr. Charles Reed, M.P. for Hackney. MR. DISRAELI NOT A PRESSMAN The sympathy of newspaper readers is re , fisted on behalf of journalists. They—and especnthy Con servatives—have been priding themselves since Mr. Disraeli was appointed Premier, that the leader of the Conservative party was once of their craft. " Why, sir, Mr. Disraeli himself edited a newspaper at one time !" And now it seems that their b iasts were founded upon a blunder; Mr. Disraeli never edited any newspaper in his life ; he was never engaged upon one as a journalist. The story (roes that when Mr. Murray founded the Representative he intended to cut out the Times. In order to do so he chose the cleverest man he Imew ; that man was Mr. Disraeli. But the gentleman who has since ruled a kingdom could not carry on a daily journal. So the _Representative failed. The tale has been repeated over and over again ; and, remaining uncon tradicted, has at last found its way into the recog nised text-books of " Men of Mark." Finding it thus embalmed, and likely to Lo down to posterity, Mr. Disraeli has ordered its express denial. TILE UNEMPLOYED. A movement is on foot for providing employment for the large number of men who are now out of work in Liverpool. It i s pro p ose d t o e n g a ge the involuntaryidlers upon labour which will yield only a very moderate rate of wages, seldom exceeding one shilling . per day—an amount which, it is calculated, will be sufficient to keep them above star vation point, but not large enough to attract impostors, or induce men to forsake their legitimate employment when it presents itself. A room has been engaged by :a few charitable per sons, and some forty or fifty men are now occupied daily in making firelighters at Gd. per 100. This benevolent scheme has been attended hitherto with a slight loss, but it is hoped that with more capital and larger rooms the plan will become self-sur. porting. In London, too, a project is on foot for the benefit of the numerous unemployed ; but instead of seeking some practical scheme the metro politan democrats think to feed their starving fellow men with rant. After the ceremonial in the City on Saturday, a meeting of the unemployed was hold in Farringdon-street, and divers orators proposed various anarchic remedies for things in general. Ten thousand persons were announced to take part in the proceedings. It appears that the actual attendance is to be accurately represented by this number-- reduced only by two cyphers. THE SHEFFIELD IDOL. The Rev. R. Stainton has been trying to break in pieces the golden calf of the Sheffield unionists ; but the success of his attempt has unfortunately not been proportionate to its merits. The shepherd Broad head, in a recent address to his flock, had admitted that he had done wrong, but argued that ho was nit worse than the average of working men in Sheffield. The Rev. R. Stainton called a meeting to give the sheep an opportunity of declaring tha' they had been maligned by their pastor. And they did pass a resolution, affirming that Broadhead's speech implied a charge of the most revolting kind, and disclaiming any connection with him as a leader, or any sympathy with las crimes. But this act of repentance was speedily cancelled. Mr. Stainton was followed after the meeting by a large proportion of his audience, who hooted, screamed, and behaved so violently that the well-meaning clergyman had at length to take refuge in a police office. Ife had got the golden calf down, but the worthies of Sheffield speedily set it up again. TIIE SUPPLY OF VAGRANTS IN WIIITECRAPEL. Whilst other supplies run short, beggars are unfail ingly plentiful. The vicar of St. Mark's, White chapel, announces the cheering news that the number of vagrants in the union of that renowned district has increased in five years from 5,000 to 20,000. The Rev. Brooke Lambert justly thinks this a very startling fact, and endeavours to explain the "bearings of it." This increase is not due to distress, but simply to the fact that vagrancy is a profitable, light, varied, and altogether agreeable business.which a large proportion or our craw ea nation very gladly embraces. Originally the casual wards were intended to give a night's lodging and a little food to destitute travellers. They are really employed as hotels by professional vagabonds ; One of our largest paving contractors pointed the other day to a man whom he would have been only too glad to employ, but of whom he said, " Such as he will not do a stroke 'of work so long as they can get their pipe and a bit of bread any other way." This is the class which is filling our vagrant wards—a class of men who shrink from a whole day's work, who are content to sleep at a workhouso, and to shamble through their quota of stoneyard work, in order to spend the rest of the day in laziness, or who, if they do a chance job, hand over the earnings to their not very select female friends, and start for the nearest police station. When they get to the station all the police officer can do is to ascertain whether they are destitute. He must give them an order, even though they may be worthless vagabonds. If there is no room in the "house," lodging must be found outside. The Rev. Brooke Lambert thinks that habitual beggars ought to be more hardly dealt with. Those who are not bond fide travellers ought to be made to work the whole day, and not merely a short task. The most incorrigible offenders should be lodged in a place of detention for three days or a week, and kept to task work. The text, "If a man will not work, neither shall he eat," ought to be rigidly applied ; but attempts at reform also should not be neglected. THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. A serious outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in Cork has caused great alarm. A veterinary sur geon, who proceeded on the orders of the Govern ment to put the Act of Parliament in operation, found the whole stock of a farm at Ballinrea affected. The diseased animals were sixty in number. The con stabulary have formed a cordon round the farm pre paratory to other precautions. The appearance of the disease in this county is a very serious affair. MR. CARLYLE CAUGHT NAPPING. Mr. Thomas Carlyle has been punished for his excessive dogmatism in a curious fashion. It seems, after all, that when he lays down a general statement he is not always right; he has, indeed, just been found wrong. A statue to Keith has been recently erected at Aberdeen. Mr. Carlyle wrote as follows with reference to the inscription under it : If you know any likely man in Peterhead, I wish you would tell him that the word "Hochkirchen they have put under the inscription unaer the Keith statue is an ugly blotch of error, much requiring erasure for their sake and his ! "Hochkirch" was the village where Keith perished ; there is no such place as " Hochkirchen" in the whole world, nor ever will be. "Hochkirchen " is worse than " Peterheadikin ; " an incurable solecism—exactly equal to "Alta-Ecclesie," of which you can judge! No remedy but cutting out that EN (at whatever coat) and substituting silent granite. Now, with reference to the statement that there is no such place as Hochkirchen, "nor ever will be," a German, solicitous for the honour of his birthplace, writes to the Tames that he was born at one such place, and has a cousin married at another Hoch kirchen, a village in Austrian Silesia. Mr. Thomas Carlyle, before he sets up as a erophet with his " nor ever will be," must take care of his present facts. AN UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE. Musical men of taste are always denouncing indig nantly the wretch e d t r i v i a l s t u ff sung in music halls and "8 - landed "on the street organs. The airs aro catching say they, but they aro nevertheless detestable. A. church organist, who seems to have belonged to this critical class (and who has lived to tell tie dismal tale) met with a sad misadventure the other day. He bought three new pieces for the organ by the organist of the Temple Church. One of them he thought "elegant and pleasing." He practised it; and played it next Sunday before service. While he was doing so every b o dy began to laugh, and the choir boys to "nudge" one another, hum the tune, and behave otherwise unseemly. With the people the organist could not remonstrate, but the choristers he got together and began to scold soundly. He was interrupted, however, by one of his boys, who, while the rest laughed heartily, told him he had been playing a street song, "A c t on th e squ are, boys." The intense mortification, compar e d no t es , an d f ou nd, to his mortification, that such was the case. The question is, How was th e s i m il ar ity caused ? The only answer that suggests itself to us is that the music hall composer must have been in the Temple Church when Mr. Hopkins played his voluntary; have taken down the strains, and reproduced them above the words of the song. But then a gentleman connected with a music-hall must have gone to Church ! A NOVELTY. The Secretary of the National Lifeboat Institution writes to say that he has found a locality which seems to be inhabited alm os t en ti re ly by honest men. This remarkable place is on the Lincolnshire coast, and is callod Donna Nook. During the fearful gales which prevailed a week ago, ten vessels were wrecked in this neighbourhood, and ninety-eight lives were saved by the crew of the Donna Nook lifeboat and others. Unfortunately thirteen persons were lost, including Mr. Wilson, the part owner of the schooner Blue Jacket, with two other gentlemen, and four or five of her crow. All the bodies of those who perished have been found, including that of Ali. Wilson. The latter had £O5O on his person, not a farthing of which had been touched by any of the residents of Donna Nook. Such an example is indeed rare. THE CRISIS IN SPAIN. The illness of the King of Italy has materially aggravated the difficulty of the position in Spain. It must, in the first place, cause delay in the election of the Duke of Genoa as King, if he is to be elected. More than this, the danger to their sovereign has roused- amopgst the Italians a latent spirit of hostility against the scheme of sending their boy-duke to play at sovereignty whilst the real power is. held by Prim. This is the object of the revolutionary leader and his party. They desire a ki n g w h o wou ld be unable to take the reins of Government and who would leave them masters of the situation. Judging by the spirit which the Italians are showing, there is no little likelihood that the plan will fail. AMERICAN CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. (From the Anglo American Times.) The Hon. Titoalas JENCKES, of Rhode Island, appears to be progressing favourably with his Civil Service Reform Bill. Upwards of 300 of Phila delphia's best citizens, headed by HORACE BINNEY, have addressed a memorial to Congress, directing attention to the Bill, and almost demanding legis lation on the subject. The address isa very powerful resume of the reasons which have induced these citi zens thus earnestly to take the subject up, and it will be difficult to evade this unanswerable appeal. We have always admitted that corruption might lead to the disruption of the Union, while contending that it only can do so. If corruption broke down this great Democratic experiment, government by the people would be thrown back for ages, and the argument would be unanswerable, that mankind had not yet reached that point of civilization which made it possible to base and maintain power on uni versal suffrage. Anything which tends to demoralize the Republican system built up in the United States has a direct interest for the human race, be cause it embodies the hitherto unsuccessful experi ment, the result of which mankind must abide for centuries as final. Perhaps the most impor tant check corruption in the United States could receive would be in this reform of the Civil Service ; and men are not surprised to see Mr. JENCKES drop all else in pursuit of it, with a pertinacity and an enthusiasm which are good auguries of success. lie rea lizes its immense import ance, and, havin g to arouse him se lf . But w h en his biography is writ ten, those wh o th en l earn the history of his Bill done so, it is natural for him thus will know against what that gentleman had to contend. It is not open opposition, which may be met and f o il ed, act i ng m ore as an incen tive to incre ase d exert i on than a deterrent, but it is th e apathy in all around which, like a blight, kills. Here is a man who, seeing a poi son spreading th rough the body politic of which he is a member, a canker eating to its heart, points it out and asks a id to erad i cate it, but all shake their head and say-_ w h y make this fuss? it is the natu r al condition, and must run i ts course ; while he sur veys it as a fir e w hi ch m i g ht by a ction be easily sub dued, but being regarded with unconcern, whose un checked course must soon commit the city to flames. A Republic for good government requires a virtu ous and intelligent people, and one that will insist on the proper administration of their affairs. In deed, it is in this the difference exists between a peop!e who rule and a people who are ruled. The strongest incentive is given to an hereditary sove reign to administer the national affairs well, for he and his children will have to abide the result. He is taught to regard the nation as his estate, and he takes the same interest in it that a landlord does in his property. But no one can fix the responsibility of electing men to power in a Republic, and the gain or less by bad governme nt is so small to each individual in w h a t t h ey a ll actua lly and immediately see and feel, that their material interests have little strength as a spring of action. As one of the adult males who vote of the forty millions, a man feels himself an insignificant atom, and this tends to in crease the apathy with which good citizens look on the demoralizing struggle for the posts that gives the zest to party warfare in the United States. To use a homely illustration, the difference between an Imperial rule and that of a Democratic Republic is the difference between a great business in the hands of an individual and another in the hands of a Joint Stock Company, meaning of course the mere adminis tration. The individual may be trusted unless some monomania seizes on him fairly to carry on his business to the best of his ability ; but the Joint-Stock Com pany will not do so unless the shareholders watch the management, for the great personal responsi bility rests with no one in particular. The directors will help themselves as liberally as they dare, the ernpoyr:s will cheat wherever they have the chance, and the shareholders will find themselves helpless victims unless they exercise a vigilant control ; but when they do so, and put the right men into their proper places, giving them there a hearty support, the strength of the Joint-Stock Company must be greater than that of the private firm. The address of the Philadelphia citizens speaks without reserve on the results of the demoralizing doctrine promul gated 30 years ago, " that the Public Offices were spoils, to be divided among the victors in every poli tical contest." It forciblysays "that the evil has yearly grown greater, until its gigantic proportions now threaten to reduce our Public Service to chaos, and to subvert our institutions at no distant period. It may safely be affirmed that no civilized community has a Public Service so costly and so incompetent as our own." Political intrigue, penetrating every fibre,renclersretrenchment impossible, and influences are at work to stimulate a waste by which they benefit. Powerful as are the reasons in a bad and extravagant Administration, still they are the least important arguments for the reform. The country prospers, and in spite of a waste of strength may Continue to do so, but it cannot afford to debase its morality, to stimulate corruption, and to make its political life a mere degrading scramble for place. " It is notorious," continues this address, "that almost all political movements are controlled by mere aspirants for office, that nominations are se cured by corruption, and elections are carried by fraud, and that which should be the dignified spec tacle of a great, free community exercising its highest right, thus becomes a matter of bargain and sale, in which the people are treated as the property of a small class who devote their lives to the trickery and knavery by which they rule. Our present system tends inevitably to reward corruption and to de press merit. The public sense of morality is ra pidly dulled, the standard of political virtue con stantly lowered, and the reverence of the people for their institutions correspondingly weakened." Nor is this all, for the present system exercises a most unfortunate influence on a large proportion of citizens as they reach manhood. Enticed from ordinary avocations by the allurenients of the race for office, they deliberately embrace a political ca reer as a means of living without labour, and are not only lost to the community as useful and re spectable citizens, but are depraved by vile and corrupting influences. " No institutions less strong than our own could have endured so long this systematic maladministration and pervading corruption, and oven our institutions cannot resist for ever the disintegrating forces thus at work. If Democratic Republicanism be not a mistake the people must show themselves as competent to enforce the per formance of the routine functions of government as a despotism can be. It is not in great crises that public vir tu, is most severely tested, but in resisting the insidious corruption of prosperity. The one we have shown our selves able to meet iu the noblest spirit ; to the other we are succumbing; and unless our fatal progress can be checked, the hopes of rational liberty for mankind will be arrested for centuries." Like all such evil influences which become en grafted into a system, they are, in truth, beneficial to no one. Men who live by them fight to the death in their support, because they have been rendered incompetent to earn their bread in other ways, but had no such system existed there are very few of these men who would not now have been better off. What it does is by a few prizes, as prominent and delusive as those of a lottery, to attract recruits and swell the ranks of dangerous and unscrupulous men, who hustle and scramble for what they regard as plunder, but had they not been thus allured they might, and probably would, in a productive walk of life have become alike useful to thermelves and to the nation. We maintain then that it does not even benefit them, for when success ful in the pursuit, the wheel turns, and they are out iu the cold rendered by the sudden transfer from their cosy fireside, the less fitted to endure its inclemency. The Government employes appear to see that to give dignity and real value to their posts they must be made permanent, promotion being the reward of merit and good service. At a recent meeting of the clerks, at Washington, a committee of fifteen was elected to decide on the terms of a memorial to Congress. The question with them appears to have been an appeal for an increase of one-fifth in their salaries ; but the com mittee has taken a wider range, and favour instead a reorganization of the service on the plan proposed by Mr. JENCKES. The great difficulty will be to re concile the opposition to regard aslasting the acts of the party in power. As all the loaves and fishes are in the hands of the Republicans, it might answer the purpose of that party to make permanent the incumbents of present posts. But how would this suit the Democrats should they attain to . the power two or four years hence? The truth is, that un less the citizens of the United States shake off their apathy, and, in LINCOLN'S words, put their foot down on this reform, it cannot be achieved, for the hold of politicians on the Executive business of the nation is too tight to be unloosed by an arm less strong than that of Uncle SAM himself. But the moment this is accomplished the politicians collapse —just as the gold speculators collapsed in Wall street on the celebrated Friday in the face of the Treasury sales. The little game was up—that was all—the prizes are gone, and with them vanish into thi❑ air the allurement to the politicians. RAILWAY NEWS.—The West Wisconsin Railway from Tomah on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, through Jackson, Eau Clare, Dunn, and St. Croix coun ties, to Hudson, Wisconsin, and thence to St. Paul, is making rapid progress, and is expected to be finished by Jan. 1, 1871.—The South Pacific Railroad is completed to Lebanon, Missouri.—The Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company, which has extended its road four miles from the coast into the interior of Texas to California, has just signed a contract for the introduction of 500 Euro pean select labourers from Germany and Sweden to work upon that road in further construction from Calvert to the Rod River, and Kansas. The company had also bought iron rails to lay the next 50 miles from Calvert and Brenham. The consolidated road, to be known as the Lake Shore and Wabash Railway Company, was to be consummated about the 18th of October, and will embrace the following lines : Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company; Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railway Company ; Deca tur and East St. Louis Railway Company, making a route of about 1,800 miles in length. The Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad yet remains to be completed, the grading of which is now under contract.—The Erie Railway Com pany are making good progress in laying the double track on the road. The amount of road now operated between New York and Buffalo, including sidings, is 522 miles, and of this amount 231 miles have a second track laid. The Susquehanna division, comprising 108 miles, is entirely completed. The Eastern division has 88 miles laid, and the work is now advancing on the Delaware division, and 35 miles have been finished. This portion of the road is over the mountaius, and is an expensive and laborious job, but when it is completed will render the road safe. OBITUARY.—Moses M'Donald, formerly member of Congress and Colleetor for Portland, died suddenly at Saco, Maine, Oct. 18, in the 55th year of his age. He re presented the First District of Maine in the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, and in 1857 was appointed Collector for Portland and Falmouth, by President Buchanan.—G. D. Morris, of the firm of Morris and Ker shaw, of Milwaukee, fell down stairs on October 20 and broke his neck.—Ex-Governor Ritzier died at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Oct. 16, in his 90th year.— Mr. Isaac L. Cook was accidentally shot and killed at the office of the Selma (Alabama) Times on Saturday.— Hon. Frederick 11. Hastings, who represented the Twc:fth Senatorial District of New York State in the Senate of 1864-5, died at his residence at Brainard's Bridge, Reuse liter County, on Friday, Oct. 15. Mr. Hastings was never prominent in party movements, but owed his election to personal character. From the poeition of Sena tor Hest • inns on Committee, ho was charged with originating the celebrated "Conspiracy Bill,"and became at one time the object of intense hatred among working men. The charge is said, however, to have been false. lie was distinguished in the Senate for close fidelity to his official duties and entire freedom from political trickery. The last four years of his life he had spent as an invalid in absolute retire ment. He was 51 yeamof age.—Mr. John Y. Conover, a prominent politician of New Jersey, died on Sunday, Oct. 16, at his lato residence at Long Branch, aged 76 years. A DEAR BARGAIN. The Report of General GEORGE 11. THOMAS on Alaska suggests the question—Has the Re public been " sold" by Russia ? The Autocrat is a deep party, and if we are to believe all we see about his Government in the Diplomatic Review, both sec tions of the Anglo-Saxon race are shuffled by it like cards in a juggler's hand, diamonds and knaves being turned up at command, hearts when required being thrown in for sentiment. It would be a good shuffle even for the Moscovite to sell to the Union a territory not only useless, but costly, for around sum in hard coin, thus killing three birds with one stone. The first bird is the receipt of a large and needed amount of money ; the second is the cessation of a heavy annual outlay; the third is the parade of gratify ing the sentiment of a powerful, and to Russia a friendly, people. But what if the wary Russian had another and a larger bird in the net? What if he was using the gold levied from these Repub licans to supply what Russia requires to enable Odessa to beat Chicago as an exporting grain dd pot? The burden of Mr. URQUHART'S song is that the Government of St. Petersburg has no sympathy with America, but, on the contrary, heartily detests the Republic; and admitting that Mr. URQUHART may have a monomania about R ssia, there is no denying that he has weighty reasons for what he says. The Russian system is the very reverse of the American. It is a concentrated one-man power whereas the other is the diffused equal rights of all ; it is a Government of bayonets :and cannon; of repression and exclusion, conquest and coercion, against a Government of free-will, with a continual appeal to the people ; it is a community of serfs, against a community of Sovereigns. Russia is the mighty and growing Empire of the East, represent ing the Autocratic system ; the Republic upholds by a still greater and more rapidly increasing power the Democratic principle of the New World. Both are great producers of raw material, and both in some staples are rivals. They are then an Eastern and a Western Colossus of wholly different struc ture, and destined if they near each other to come into conflict. They have a single aspiration in com mon—the desire of a pervading influence over the world ; but the one can only see the realisation of this through force and terror ; the other through the sway of opinion, backed by immense wealth, strength, and that prosperity which constitutes the best appeal to follow such a lead. Two nations so dissimilar can have no real sympathy, and the Wes tern farmer will soon. begin to understand the fact that his estate would be a more remunera tive property if it were not for the grain-growing provinces of Russia. Unquestionably the Russian farmer has as much right to grow grain as the Ame rican has, and the English consumer to purchase bread-stuff where he can get most for his money. But the question we ask is, Why should the Illi nois grain-grower be taxed to furnish the means to Russia for constructing railways to bring down the Russian farm produce to Odessa, where it finds a ready sale to his English and French customers in competition with his grain. The great object of the Muscovite is so to construct his iron roads that he can open fertile tracts to profitable cultivation, and all the money Russia can spare from her overgrown armaments is devoted to this purpose. True, Rus sia cannot spare much, and perhaps it was this knowledge which induced the American farmers, who are really the controlling power in the United States, to help with a few millions of dollars in gold, knowing that such a gift would act as a fillip to Russian credit, enabling their Eastern rival to raise many millions more on loan. It may be wise in the Western Powers to lend Russia every reasonable aid, for the produce raised is their staff of life, and it is good for them to have two strings to their bow ; but why should America help in placing her rival in a position to cut out her own trade ? If the CZAR has succeeded, not only in replenishing his exchequer by ridding himself of au incumbrance, but also in gratifying the national sentiment of a people to whom he professes friend ship, while in reality levying on them a tax to be used in placing his subjects and their rivals in a position successfully to compete with their trade, then he has done a fine stroke of business ; and Mr. SEWARD, instead of roaming over America as a lion from Alaska, his dear bargain, to the Halls of the Montezumas, should creep back with lowered tail, to the peaceful seclusion of "sweet Auburn." The re ceipts of wheat iu England from the United States have largely increased within the last two years, doubling each succeeding year, and the flood of the Mississippi is at present more fully utilised by the West for the transport. The question is now coming prominently up, Chicago and St. Louis versus Odessa. The distance of the latter port from England is asserted to be 4,200 miles, while the distance of the Mississippi from England is less, but involving more railroad transport. Considerable attention is now directed to expediting the carriage by water from the Prairie States, and the subject was brought forward for discussion at the Louisville Commercial Convention, lately in session. They earnestly re commend improvements in the Mississippi and its tributaries, more especially the construction of canals, and the Governors of several States have recently met to concert measures for bringing the Mississippi into connection with Lake Michigan by a canal, utilising for the purpose the rivers through Illinois. The recent competition of the great railway corporations for the control of the Western trade has helped the farmers in bringing their produce at a cheap rate to the seaboard. But this will not con tinue ; indeed if it ends, as is usually the case, a combination of the rival lines will be the result against the public, when a period of high charges will supervene. There will assuredly soon be a sharp com petition between the East and the West to supply grain to the densely-peopled nations of Western Eu rope and the Republic comprehends the fact that, weighted as she is, it will be necessary not to carry , a pound more than she can avoid, and to avail her self, not only of her natural advantages, but to supplement these by every artificial means the skill of her engineers can devise, and the energy and wealth of her citizens can carry out. But while there are reasons to justify Mr. SEWARD in his puts. chase of Alaska, the Union should be slow in sup plying Russia with money to be used in developing her resources, so as to enable that despotism to run an opposition against the citizens of the Republic. —Anglo-American Times. * The Associated Press gives the following summary of the General's Report to the Secretary of War:—The Ge neral thinks the principal if not the only present value of the new territory is in the effect its transfer to the United States will have upon loosing the hold of England upon British Columbia. He thinks that the sending of revenue and other civil officials there is a useless expense, as the only benefit will be to those who draw the salaries. He also thinks that the military posts should be reduced, as the expense of supplying them is enormous, and the cost of keeping up the civil service will very far exceed the re venue collected. The territory was a constant burden to Russia, and she held it at great expense, simply for the benefit of the fur company. There is no probability of any emigration in that direction, as there is not the slight-- est inducement for any. Two mines of valuable minerals have been discovered which would pay to work. There is plenty of timber and coal, but plenty of as good quality and easier of access can be had a thousand miles south of the territory. There has been no change in trade on the part of our merchants ; the few houses engaged in it be fore the purchase still continue. The fur trade of the interior must continue to be carried on by the natives. Its agricultural region has no value whatever. Grain cannot be raised, and the few vegetables that can be pro duced rot if not used within a few weeks. The super abundance of rain and the great lack of sun preclude the idea of any profitable cultivation of the soil. Stock raising for obvious reasons cannot be carried on. Washington reports a tale of political woe. James Murth owns a cart. A Washington supervisor employed him to do work for the city, paying him with tho public money, in return for which Murth's wife sup plied the supervisor with eggs, chickens, and milk, free of charge. This happy exemplification of political economy continued for three months, when, according to Murth's affidavit, "finally his chickens, or the balance of them, were stolen, and about the same time his cow became dry and refused to give milk. Affiant, owing to this, was unable to supply said Crano longer with milk and chickens ar4 upon his failing so to do, his horse and cart were at , once dismissed from the corporation work by said John 11. Crane." BREAKFAST.—.BIFFS'S GOUDA.— GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this prepara tion has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette remarks :—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. B y a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap plication of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-li ne d packets, labelled JAMES En's and Co., liommopathic Chemists, London. B.IPN UM'S 81017 RAPHI'. Mr. Barnum is to publish immediately his se cond autobiography. It bears the title " Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum, written by himself," and will be sold by subscription. in this revised history of his life he is frank enough to confess that his earlier volume of reminiscmces was nothing but an advertisement for the Museum, but in the present work he intimates that he tells a true tale, and hopes to be judged by posterity on the faith of what he here sets down. One of the most characteristic stories in it is the following : " I thoroughly uaderatood the art of advertising, not merely by means of printers' ink, which I have , , always used freely, and to w hi c h I con fess myself so much indebted for my success, but by turning every possible circumstance to my account. It w 35 my monomania to make the Museum the town won der and town talk. I often seized upon an opPr tunity by instinct, even before I had a very detinit ; e conception as to how it should b e u s ed, and ►t seemed, somehow, to mature itself and serve 111 . 7 purpose. As an illustration, one morning a stout, hearty-looking man, came into my ticket-office and begged some money. I asked him why be did not work and earn his li v i n g ? Ile replie d* that he could get nothing to 'do and that q would be glad of any job at a dollar a day handed him a quarter of a dollar, told him to g ° and get his breakfast and return, and I would on" ploy him at light labour at a dollar and a half a daY' When he returned I gave him five common bricks' " Now," said I, " go and lay a brick on the side' walk at the corner of Broadway and Ann-street; another close by the Museum ; a third diagonal across the way at the corner of B r oadway 311 ,,, Vesey-street, by the Astor House ; put down t', 6 fourth on the sidewalk in front of St. Church, opposite ; then, with the fifth brick 11i hand, take up a rapid march from one point to t he other, making the circuit, exchanging your brick 5 every point, and say nothing to any one." " is the object of this ?" inquired the man. " matter," I replied ; " all you need to know is it brings you fifteen cents wages per hour. It i$ bit of my fun, and to assist me properly you go ls seem to be as deaf as a post; w e ar a serious con tenance ; answer no questions ; pay no attentioij to any one; but attend faithfully to the work, an vi at the end of every hour by St. Paul's clock shod this ticket at the Museum door ; enter, walk ing solemnly through ev e ry hall in the building; out, and resume your work." With the remark that it was " all one to him, so long as he 0 11 earn his living," the man placed his bricks and be: gan his round. Half an hour afterward at le as ' 500 people were watching his mysterious 1 31 ° 1e ..: meats. Ile had assumed a military step and be al. o ing, and looking as sober as a judge, he m ade n o response whatever to the constant inquiries as , e the object of his singular conduct. At the end of first hour, the sidewalks in the v ici n ity were pacT e with people all anxious to solve the mystery. r • r de .. man, as directed, then went into the Museum, to voting fifteen minutes to a solemn survey oc h is halls, and afterwards returning to his rounds. was repeated every hour till sundown, and whe r ' el r e the man went into th e M useum a d oze n or 1 11 °. persons would buy tickets and follow him, 11 °1 31 „ 13 :a to gratify their curiosity i n regar d t o the pure e , his movements. This was continued for sev, ral days— tii -the curious people who followed ~ man into the Museu m co ns id era bly mor e than P 3 O - 1 0 in b g his wages—till fi na lly th e p o li cema n, to wb I had i AnpArted my object, complained that the ° 0 struction of the sidewalk by crowds had becorne' s serious that I must call in my " b r i c k man.'' I n a trivial incident excited considerable talk amusement ; it advertised me, and it materially 3 t a vanced my purpose of making a lively corner n ee, the Museum. The application of residentd in the Feejee 15 131163 to Washington to extend to them the protection of United States is alluded to by the A m e r ican papers a g r- ; tilled though jocular tone. These Fejee settlers axe alu t eir wholly British subjects, who properly applied first to th own Government, but on Great B r it a in d e finitely re fu tY sil l to annex the Feejee Islands they tu r ned to the n ite „, States. It is natural for English-speaking settlers t o tu `" to Washington for the aid and countenance denied thet4l4.ll London, and it shows,;in spite of antipathies and rivalrie the common sympathy. American pr o t ec tion has been in °ll than once discussed in a Now Zealand paper, yet no colosi under the Crown is more purely English than that. 4 l° Sydney Morning braid shows the difficulties of the P l ,; tin and the objections to such an application, 9 ' t same time fully and fairly acknowledging the state affairs prevailing in the Feejees ; which is, t'g there is no law, every man being his own Pr° te „ - ‘ tor, a condition better suited for bold an d unscr u P lous ruffians than for peaceful and industrious But the United States ought to be influenced by the c a ": siderations which influence England, and decline a interference than a general order to Am er ican men-d-w3r, which call at the Islands to extend t o all settlers assi ,t3 ' ae- t and redress so far as the Consul may advise. The sli h r is difficult one, but unless the Feejees are to be taa' a ii • place of call for a regular steam line between Au stra.3' 0 and San ,Francisco the Washington Government 5„1 not take a burden on itself more likely to be prod uction mischief than of good to the country. (0 Mr. James Gordon Bennett, un. bas written i the London papers, or rathe r to )Ir. James Ashburl, the subject of the latter gentleman's offer to race h is Y 6;: it it a the Cambrian against the Dauntless and other Amer yachts. Mr. Bennett begins at the beginning in octet's, 1868, and goes straight through w ith the story to t h e with a few introductory rema r ks, to the effect tha t tea Ashbury's repeated letters to the papers had at last e s ' s " •ovi O t l from him this answer to the sort of historical r esr ° with which Mr. Ashbury h a d co u pl e d his third 01 311e- 11 1J for an ocean race. It is a pity th a t Mr. Ashbury °n o n have drawn the attention of th e p u bli c to the dis ettP io preceding a friendly contest, whi c h ca nnot fail to giyeario to a controversy. Public interest is in the match 0,0 the result, but in nothing else, and whatever generate; bad feeling in these international conte s ts injures the frie ni ll ed, rivalry, to which, when both nations are accus a- 1 00 there is no more reason for quarr e l s th a n if New y° l e pers a game of Base Ball against Pennsylyania, or the Pa" Cricketers of Surrey against the Eleven of Sent. 21, We learn from San Francisco, dated October or that the passengers and crow of the wrecked ste:6o - Nevada arrived there that day on the steame r tor. Governor Wood and wife, of Illinois, the passengers, 42 of whom were compelled to Br ° r 0 night on the sea in small boats. The treasure and PIO were saved, but the passengers lost all their effects. 000 vessel had gone ashore during a heavy fog tot w„,11o0 south of Monterey, and with her cargo was a joi The ship Falcon, according to advices from Ir°l'7- been had been totally lost near Neuchang. Nothing ha- be g. w e 0 heard from theship ter st the 17th of August last. It is known that she ena° llo o , were an , ' d a typhoon, and it is feared that the ship, with all ball lost. tbp' The News from China via San Francisco i° 11 4 the fi Oriental Jkotel at Macao had been totally destrltebirff re. A large Saigon rice junk blew up at Swatorr• " - c i e ret Chinamen were killed and 50 wounded. The 13 _, i ' r Te a of Holworthy at Hong Kong had been dischargo'h,,,,3o, inhabitants of Tsunyefoo, in the province l o a f V p r i l o s o e: had destroyed the Roman Catholic Church and maltreated the native Christians. Great pre of E w d er in e being made at Hong Kong to receive the D u o ,oi , burgh. The prince had decided not to visit h•' The Rev. J. Williamson, late of the London i" Society, was murdered on the 26th of August b 9 robbers, near Tientzin, while proceeding uP 11° , 4 - Tb g Canal. Several outr ages on f ore i gner s were reporte"' sod United States flag s hip D e l aware , an d the Nee °ca , h rg atof e Ashuelot were at Y o k o h ama . Th e . O neida was 00 " - r O P to San Francis co . Th e U na dill a and Maumee wo re oW Southern stations. The Aroostook had been sold - 00 6 hama, and the Ashuelot and Monoca,ey were likely t° purchasers in China. 4„1 It 'ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment nealing not Harmful. -No application has met Witil tha" universal approbation for curing all external allnierits which this unguent has received. Sores, deep ulcers , f e e " o " e tios ° charges, burns, blistered surfaces, and any simila r a h ,„ . 011° ,; are at once soothed and put on the road to soundness t ' h y ro way's ointment. With his ointment and pills the Ic es 'i t , t 1 30 1,; emselves much suffering, and the poor resY 11° 'OlO l a " selves to health, since these naedicaments are r e ' is°l ffe etc t price, and can be pur c h ase d i n every h am l e t. They b ac° - °- cures of stiff, swelled l egs, and lacerated li m bs, and °Pe bn i d V ec° the prospect of a happy f uture after hope o f recocry '- given up. al ° PERCY— On th e ith ° THS. BARKER —On the 6th in B st l ., R at LI , ndu, Den bi g bsbirei wife ofßarker,nst , ot Esq.,Al nwick Castl e, the COof a 3 son. unteo i Perey, of two daughters. of .111..4R1UAG ES. r lsle lIERIMMAN - STILES- On the 4th inst. , at Ven tri(L 'e. o nly Wight, John Il er d rman , Esq., Bridgend, to Alli„ets . daughter of Stiles, Esq„ late of Little rark? IzAnn—BARNES -On tho Gth inst., at St. Georgo over-square, Frederic R. Izard, ' 13()I'd daughter of th e l a t e Willi a m Barnes, of 70, street. - - DEATBS. q 11 0 P HELL:UW-0n the 7th inst., vr at Barnes, SoSerb ---e Esq., of 12 - 2, Wood-street, aged 37. Lx tOlif JOIINSTON —On the Sth inst , at Cowley Cottage' m Henry Johnston, li3Eq., aged 7?. S tA° ' SPRINGETT— On the Gth inst., at 5, I he Afoul) f , nard's-on-Sea, Richard Springott, Esq , ag...e...1!,L._._.._...!...)-.- ' London: of No. 112 Printed aud Published by WILLLOI Mee So stro'l6' , StFand, Printer, at THE SUN ° l.'Llosol in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Tuesday, November 1, 1:369. THE SUN, LONDON, UESDAY EVENING, NOVEAIBER 9, 1869.