The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-17 00:00:00

THE SOMERSET AND DORSET. RAILWAY COMPANY. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times cannot suppose that any member of the House of Lords will be misled by any idle terror from examining the question before him. What he has to ask himself with reference to the Irish Church Bill is only what he has to ask himself with reference to every bill — Is it for the good of the nation that it should become law .And this question depends upon the three ,subsidiary issues, whether it is consistent with the principles of justice, whether it promises to be productive of national benefits, whether it is approved by the mind and conscience of the nation. The Times finds it difficult to understand how anyone, freeing his mind from prejudice and honestly examining these ques tions, can answer each otherwise than in the affirmative; and is satisfied that after years will approve the wisdom and justice of this reply, and of the consequent acceptance of the Irish Church Bill. The llerald says the most valuable allies of the Govern ment insist that the attitude of stolid obstinacy which srried all before it in the House of Commons is an utter mistake in the face of a majority in the House of Peers. If the Government think the occasion is one for a compro mise, it will be their truest wisdom to say so frankly, and to indicate how far they are disposed to go in the path of concession. The Archbishop of Canterbury has sketched out a series of amendments conceived much in the spirit which suggested the proposals of the Conservative party in the Lower House, and Lord Grey has expressed his belief that they afford something like a basis for a settlement. The only response elicited up to this time is the vague and worthless assurance that any amendments which may be proposed will receive " the most respectful consideration of the Government." This amounts to nothing. It may be questioned whether it can be said to justify the course which Earl Grey intends to pursue. Still less does it afford a ground for inviting the Conservative peers to reconsider their decision. If the Government are disposed to come to an arrangement by which the bill may be reserved for consideration in com mittee, it is for them to make the first advance, more espe- cially when the duty is urged upon them by their most influential supporters. At present the Government have held out no inducement whatever which should lead the Conservative party to swerve from their original purpose, and if they should feel themselves hound to persevere in rejecting the bill on the_second reading, the consequences mil rest upon the Ministry which steadfastly refused to offer them any reasonable alternative. The Standard observes that Lord Grey, if anyone, might be expected to look with prima facie favour on a measure of whose necessity he declares that he was con vinced in 1834. He urgently deprecates its rejection; but he insists on amendments such as have hitherto been denounced as equivalent to rejection. He would pass the bill, but only that the Lords may shape it into what it is not—a satisfactory settlement of the , great question which Mr. Gladstone has chosen to raise. Such is the language of those who, on Saturday morning, will go into the lobby with the Ministers. Almost every one of them to whose opinion the least value attaches would in the House of Commons have voted with Mr. Gathorne Hardy and Sir R. Palmer. Their authority is altogether against the Government scheme, yet so feeble is the Government in debate, so hopelessly in the wrong does it feel, that they are welcomed as auxiliaries and friends, and Lord Grey's speech, those sentences especially in which he expressed his conviction that it was in the power of the Lords to amend the bill in such a manner as to make it a satisfactory compromise, was eagerly applauded by the Ministers—applauded with a signifi cance of tone which was evidently meant to convey the idea that they were willing to accept the proffered terms. The haughty and arrogant tone which they have hitherto adopted has been manifestly abated by the unparalleled demonstrations against the bill, by the altered tendency of opinion out of doors, and by the overwh e l m i ng we i g ht A FINANCIAL AGENT.— A financial agent, named Jones, of authority against them in the House of Lords. It is brought an action in the Court of Exchequer, on Wednes for the Peers to make good use of the opportunity thus day, for breach of contract against Captain Hamilton, an afforded them. At present there seems little doubt tha ofliect on half pay. Captain Hamilton, who is only 23, the Government is embarrassed and alarmed, and their wished to leave the army and find some civil employment. alarm may give to Lord Granville's promises a practical He saw the plaintiff's advertisements, and had an significance which they would not otherwise possess. interview with him. In consideration of the sum of £750 The Post remarks that Sir H. Hoare's rec en t motion being paid within six months, Mr. Jones undertook to respecting the Yeomanry Cavalry drew a tt en ti on t o the instruct Captain Hamilton in all the mysteries of finance subject, and, although not to he disbanded, th e f orce i s to agency, and to pay him £230 a year for three years' be rearmed. This, at any rate, is right. Th e y are the apprenticeship. He represented his business as large and lucrative, as he negotiated loans for only remaining visible tokens of a great spontaneous great companies, arranged partnerships, the sale of national movement that few amongst us can remember. estates, &c., a great intimacy sprung up between the With the subsidence of the danger the rest of the impro plaintiff and defendant, but neve r theless the latter vised volunteer army melted away. The Yeomanry have retired from the office at the end of six weeks and in a praiseworthy manner maintained their organisation, They have linked the present with the past. Clearly, renounced his contract. The plaintiff, when cross then, it would be a barbaris m t o a b o lish th em . It would examined, gave an amusing history of his career. seem that a wise decision has b ee n com e t o i n res p ec t of He was originally in the tobacco trade in Moor nate-street, but though turning between £40,000 and converting them into mounted rifles. Al rea dy we have amongst the volunteers several exceedi ng ly fine £50,000 a year, he was driven to the Bankruptcy Court by corps of this description. At the last Volunteer Review unfortunate building speculations. After that, he took to authorship, wrote a tregedy and a bur the Hants Mounted Rifles appeared to be a very service- Portsmouth, as we had occasion to remark at the time lesque, and published "Jones's One Hundred Lee able Lures." About four years since he became a financial able and useful body. Hunting men, mou n t e d on h un t ers , agent, and had made between i 2,1.00 and £3,000 a year. and capable of shooting with p rec i s i on , th e y were th e The result of his six weeks' tuition was, that the defen beau ideal of Volunteer C ava l r y. M en o f thi s sort a b oun d dant went forth "an accomplished finance agent." The throughout the country. A ccus t ome d t o r id e t o h oun d s , defendant said the busines s d o ne at the o ffi ce i n th e s ix skilled in the u se o f fi rearms , i n t e lli gen t an d sp i r it e d, they would, as mo un t e d r ifl emen , b e use f u l t o th e i r friends weeks, at the outside, did no t rea li se £lOO. O n ly one and troublesome to their foes in a cl os e and friendly application for a loan was made by a sus pi c i ous p erson , country. Hence we think that the H ouse of Commons who refused his add ress , an d th e grea t er par t o f hi s ti me acted wisely in retaining the servi c es of the Yeomanry, was occupied with reli g ious argum en t s w ith th e p l a i n tiff. although there was sufficient room for improvement in The jury found at once for the defe n d an t. their organisatio n t o j us tify th e ques ti on ra i se d b y Si r CAsE O F M R. Oscoore — ln the Exchequer Chamber, Henry Hoare. the case of Mr. Osgood, the registr ar o f th e Sh er iff' s Court of the City of London, came on an appeal from the The Star thinks that the proceedings of Convocation are judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench. The uestion chiefly valuable as indicating th e p reva ili ng temper o f t h e q ruling parties of the Church of England. .We see there was whether he had been lawfully removed from his office reflected, as in a mirror, the opinions of the various orders by the Corporation of London. The court held that they of ecclesiastics who, under the sanction and at the expense could do no other than affirm the decision of the court of the State, provide religious instruction for the nation. The most notable chataeterestic of this body is it s h orror below. The judgment was therefore affirmed. of change. Even when its members are apparently con- TILE WORKSHOPS ACT. —At Marlborough-street, vinced that reforms are necessary to bring the Church Madame Devey, dressmaker, was summoned for employ-- more into harmony with the feelings of the l a ity w h o worship within its pale, they yet shrink from takinn in; es c earkwomen during prohibited hours. The defence any definite step. They are afraid to alter one li ne 0 7 was that there being a pressure of work on Saturday, all the Prayer-book ; to countenance a signal change in the hands were kept on, it being intended to let the young the order or form of the services ; even to soften the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed. The people have the holiday another day. Dr. Aldis, medical discussion on the latter subject which took place in the officer of the district, said that there should be a fixed "Upper House on Tuesday last was full of significance. holiday. Mr. Tyrwhtt thought that a fine of 10s. would be Even so able a man as Dr. Harold Browne—while admit- sufficient, but he was in favour of the holiday being fixed ting that there were " exaggerations " in the Creed, and for Saturday.—Mrs. Graham, dressmaker, Conduit-street, that it gave offence to many Churchmen, yet refused to support the prayer of a petition which was signed, with, pleaded guilty to two summonses for a similar offence, and nut distinction of party, by a large number of the clergy was fined 40s. and costs in each case. and laity of his own diocese. It is all very well for CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Wednesday, James Dalton, sundry of the prelates to urge the value of " explanations" as a means of overcoming the difficulties which confessedly a labourer, who stands charged with the w ilf u l mur d er o f perplex many persons ; but all the " explanations "in the Henry Johnson, by beating him on the head with a poker, world cannot get rid of the impression which the Creed as was committed to Newgate for trial from the Southwark it stands is calculated to produce on the minds of honest and unsophisti ca t e d men w h o are un f am ili ar w ith t h e Police-court. subtleties of Jesuitical reasoning. The Times believes that the promised report of the THE SIIEDDEN LEGITIMACY CASE.—Sir John Royal Commission on British Coalfields will be reassur ing in its character. Five sub-committees have been ap pointed to report on five distinct points—the possible a decree nisi for a new trial in the case of "Shedden depth of coal-workings, the alleged waste in the consump- and another v. The Attorney General and Patrick (cited)." Lion of coal, the alleged waste in the production of coal, the supposed existence of coalfields und er more recent The learned gentleman founds his application on strata, and the probable future consumption of coal. :he statement that documents most important to the final Whether the fields hitherto unkno wn are really issue of the cause were forged and mutilated ; and yesterday accessible or rations capable of being worked m us t depend hie was occupied in endeavouring to s h ow th e motives on conside within the province of the first sub-committee, for it is vain to congratulate which actuated the parties to alter and forge the instru ourselves on the existence of inexhaustible mines :rents alluded to. After hearing the arguments, his lord of wealth, only to be exhumed at a temperature beyond ship reserved his decision. the endurance of man. The same remark applies to another inquiry of more immediate interest which has THE " EDMUNDS SCANDAL " CASE.—The ques been owners— wise th ly e inquiry into the p entrusted to some o ro f bable e the ost eminent coal- lions a s t o th e terms of reference to an open court of arbi mxtent o m f fields now in wo rk. Mr. Vivian's statement on this point tration of all ma tt ers i n di spute b etween Mr. Leonar d is so eminently gratifying that, had it not been made unde r Edmunds and the Crown have at last been settled, and a sense of responsibility, we might regard it as too good to the court of arbitration constituted. It will be recol lected that at th e l ast hearing in open court Lord be true :—'"the only district completely finished was that which emb race d th e B r i s t o l, Somersetshire, and Gloucestershire coalfields ; of this only one-seventy - Chief Justi ce Bovill undertook himself t o se ttl e th e t erms ninth, or one-f or ti e th, accor di ng to t h e d ep th taken, had of the "rule" for constituting the proposed court. The matter was heard fully his l or d s hi p i n Chambers on the Bth been exhausted pp suosing the national consumption to maintain a n average of 100,000,000 tons a year, the instant, was then argued by counse l , and the " rule " h been since finally settl e d. T he court ie to sit in public. supply from this di s t r i c t a l one m i g ht h e regar ded as practically inexh a u s tibl e ." B e f cre, however, we can b e es justified in reposing upon this assurance, we ought to have Mr. Edmunds, being the assailant, has the carriage of the an approximate calculation of that very uncertain and ar Lion. DY POLSON.—Dr. Si mpson, coroner for conjectural element—the p ro b a bl e i ncrease o f f uture con; hLt u ra i t tv i suniption. We are quite r i g ht, t h ere f ore, i n econom i s i ng coal in every way that science can suggest, and that whether the stock be sufficient t o l as t 2.000 years, as was Pontefract, concluded an inquest on Wed nes d ay on the formerly supposed, or only 100 years , as we have lately body of Rebecca Horsfall, a domestic servant with a been warned. , farmer near Pontefract. The deceased died about a fort- The Daily News declares that the independent mem- night ago, after having drunk something out of a bottl e hers had quite a field day on Wednesday. They gathered presented to her by a young man, a labourer, named in considerable strength on both sides of the House William Pickersgill, who wished to be her sweeth ear t, though chiefly on the Liberal side, and not only fritter! vised in a revolt against their leaders, but inflicted on but whom she rejected. As soon as lie had given her the them overwhelming defeat. The leaders of the revolt bottle and got her to drink some of the liquid, saying it were Mr. Charles Reed on the Liberal side, and Mr. ' S. R. Graves on the Conservative side, and the was rum and water, be ran away, but he has since been object of it was a bill to exempt Sunday and apprehended. Time medical and scientific evidence shewed ragged-schools f rom l o cal t a xation. Mr. Reed pleaded that she had died from poison, and arsenic was found in the caus e of his numerous clients with considerable effect, her stomach. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful and the very cordial reception his speech met with shewed „ . ....tinter against William Pickersgill, and he was committed that he spoke the general feeling of the House. lie had, ' indeed, a case of real hardship to state. The argnmenre for trial at the ensuing assizes at Leeds. he adduced for this exemption were from his point of view PREHISTORIC AN.—We have heard lately irresistible. All pl a c es o f wors hip are exempted, with the schools whi c h are ac t ua lly annexe ,' to then) ; all the almost too much about the prehistoric inan,and the supply imperial buildings and the universities enjoy like exemp o f fli n t impleme n ts-, perforated shells, and split marrow. tin)). Y ng separatedet if a raggedrom h a o place of w l or a Sim, lay-sc rShip, it hool is i.- no w held sII bones benins to exceed the d e ma n d ; b u t a recen t dis. buildi f o ub. ject t o ra t es . S uc h sc h oo l s are the only universities of convey in the I),pal Lenient d e l a D or d ogne o f h uman the poorest po , ir, and are k:•l , t up by the free services of skeletons coeval with the mammoths and undeniably nearly half a million of teaeln rs, py r e ,•nt. whom ! appertaining to the earliest citn:ternary pe r i o d presents have themselves been scholars in the school. The argu features of such unusual interest that the French ments from the value o f th e i ns tit u ti ons t h emse l ves were warmly received by the House, and were Government have sent M. Lartet, the distin calved by Mr. Graves, who declared that Sunday I guished palaeontologist, to make a report on the subject. schools were outworks of places of worship lie reports that the bones of five skeletons have and ragged - schools outworks of the workhouse ' Probably th e G overnmen t it se lf d oes not very greatly been discovered, and that they belong to some gigantic regret this victory of good feeling over statesmanship. Jr . race whose limbs, both in size and form, must have committee the definition of the exempted instituti ons ), - •I have to he mal e c l ear , an d p re c au ti ons taken againstresembled those of the gorilla. But the simian organ of abus e ; but hatever ameildwe"t B the measure‘'itial ! man must not be inferred from these analogies, as the underg o , its principle has been affirmed by Pa r li ament ! s k u ll s, o f w hi c h on ly three are perfect, afford testimony not Lt-cause the 1 - louse believes in exemptions, but simpl3 • from a p ro f oun d sympat h y w i t h t h e philanthropic effort to this theory, having evidently contained very which so ma n y exce ll en t peop l e are ma ki ng to stipple voluminous brains. The skulls are now in the hands of a went in some humble way our defective system of aationa committee of sccvans, who are preparing an exhaustive education. craniological reuort.—Pult Male Gazette. In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday the case of Sir E. B. Baker v. Reed came ou. It was an action by Sir Edward B. Baker against Mr. George Reed, a co-directur in the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company, to recover a sum of about £50,000, being his share of certain liabilities of the company, which the plaintiff had been obliged to meet. It seemed that the railway company was in an insolvent state, and that the plaintiff, as well as Mr. John Clavell Hansel and three other directors, had rendered themselves personally respons ible for its debts. Sir Edward Baker, as already stated, had to pay £50,000, and Mr. Hansel had to satisfy debts to a much larger amount, and they sought to recover from the other directors their share of these sums. After some dis cussion the parties agreed to refer the whole matters in dif ference between t hem to an arbitrator, who should havopower to fiLa , ly determine questions both of fact and law. A ver dict was then entered for the plaintiff, subject to reference in this action, as well as in the case of Mann]. v. Reed. in which £32,835 was claimed. ATTACK BY SUPPOSED FENIANS. --- - - A telegram from Cork states that on Tuesday night a resident at Bailinlough, near Cork, saw armed men entering the grounds. Two of the ruffians made prisoners of the servants, while others attacked the premises andkept watch. The leader of the band followed Mrs. Grey into the room where lay Mr. Grey (who was lying ill), threatened them, and demanded arms. Mr. Grey dischargel a revolver at the fellow, and the second shot took effect in the abdo men. His companions then retreated, taking with them his pistol, and leaving their leader wounded upon the ground. The ruffian was humanely treated until the police came to convey him to the Cork Infirmary, where he arrived in a dangerous condition this morning. He gave as his name Alexander Campbell, but refuses to disclose the names of his confederates. Two men were arrested on suspicion, but discharged, The police, how ever, have the clue to another man. THE ALLEGED CONFESSION OF MURDER AT HULL. - -•r A very sensational paragraph has gone the round of the papers about a confession of murder at Hull. The compiler of it may be congratulated on the possession of a fervid imagination. As the story went, one Jenny Lidster had been murdered thirty-five years ago. She mysteriously disappeared from Stockton, and in consequence of her having shortly before this hap pened to borrow a razor of a neighbour, it was thought that she must have committed suicide. Some months passed away, however, and the body of the de ceased woman was found in a hedge. An inquest was held on the body before the district coroner, and the deceased's son was examined (suspicion having fallen upon him as being implicated in the death), but he was ac quitted, there being no evidence against him. Then the climax of the story was reached. Lidster, very recently, the newspaper paragraph went on to say, being conscience stricken, and it was supposed on his deathbed, confessed to the people around him that he had some time ago mur dered his mother in the plantation referred to. The whole of the story now turns out to be true—except the confession. William Lidster, the man to whom the para graph refers, was brought up at Hull on Tuesday, charged with murder, and declared he knew nothing about the confession or the murder. There being no evidence against him he was discharged. LAW AND POLICE. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, D 69. MISCELLANEt)US NEWS. early morning, was shewn In various ways. That Seymour had the mob with him was plain enough. The crowd, surrounding Mr. Seely's committee-rooms, hooted, yelled, and hissed as if they were maniacs, The cries got fiercer, as every now and again the figures shewed Mr. Seymour so far behind. His party thought it time just after twelve o'clock to make an effort, and he was put into a carriage and driven through the more crowded streets, bowing and kissing his :land as he went. The mob cheered, and votes began to fall heavily to him, the enthusiasm of 116 friends rising with the figures. But Mr. Seymour was still behind, and the " lambs " who had left work began to take " active measures." Instead of bowling, they fought; instead of hissing, as the earlier crowd had done, they threw stones. Soon all was confusion. Nearly all the shops closed in the centre of the town, and so very boisterous did the mob become that the Mayor called out the pensioners. The retired soldiers stood with bayonets fixed against the crowd, but failed to restore order; and the Mayor at last bad to read the Riot Act. Shortly after four o'clock, however, when it was certain that Seely had won, after a little vigorous fighting, the excitement somewhat subsided, and there was no need for any very serious inter ference by the military. Mr. Seymour announced from the committee-room window that he believed himself to be the real victor ; one of his friends declared he had direct proof of bribery, and peace succeeded to the tumult, which had threatened to become so serious. minous coal of excellent quality, in seams 30, 40, and even 60 feet thick. On both sides the Upper Appomattox the same quality of coal is found, and beyond the Alleghanies extensive deposits arc asso ciated with beds of iron and salt. From Wheeling, 14 miles down the Ohio, there is an uninterrupted seam upwards of 16 feet thick, which runs 16 miles into Ohio ; another great field stretches from Clarksburg to Pittsburg, and far beyond to the north-east in Pennsylvania. Anthracite lies in the valley from the Potomac to James River ; gold, copper, iron, coal, lead, and salt are found ; springs of petroleum occur on the Little Kanawha among extensive coal seams, associated with salt springs. The Mountain section abounds with sulphur and other minerals. The rivers are numerous and use ful for industrial purposes. They either flow east to the Chesapeake Bay, or west to the Ohio. The principal is James River, which rises in the Alle gheny Mountains, and forcing its way through Blue Ridge forms numerous waterfalls, till it reaches the Tidewater at Richmond, a hundred miles from its mouth. Its only large tributary east of the Blue Ridge is the Appomattox, which is 7 feet deep at Peters burg, 12 miles from the Junction. The Rappahan nock also has its sources in the Blue Ridge, and receiving the Rapidan falls over the primary ledge at Fredericksburg and reaches Chesapeake Bay by a long estuary, twenty-five miles below the entrance of the Potomac. The Potomacand the Ohio are boundary rivers separating Virginia from the State of Maryland on the one side, and from the State of Ohio on the other. A corner of West Virginia runs along the 80a 30 1 i parallel of longitude on the Penn sylvania boundary; southward North Carolina and Tennessee are on its border, Kentucky and Ohio on the west. The Potomac rises in the Alleghanies, and forces its way through many intermediate mountain chains to the Piedmont district, where it is broken by falls 9 miles above Georgetown, adjoining Wash ington, at which city it reaches Tidewater. A hun dred miles further on it enters the Chesapeake after a course of more than 300 miles. At its mouth its estuary is 71 miles wide, and at Alexandria, 290 miles from the ocean, its width is 1 4 1 - miles. Though above Washington it is obstructed by falls and rapids, up to that city ships of the line can ascend from the sea. Alexandria is seven miles below Washington, and once was the port of entry for the Potomac. Formerly it was part of the District of Columbia, as 'Virginia ceded a portion of territory to form a Federal District, but it was returned in 1846. The land there is an undulating plain, and the town is one of the great coal ports of the Maryland mining region. and a shipping place of tobacco and other agricultural produce. Nine miles below it is Mount Vernon, celebrated as 'Washing ton's residence and the site of his tomb. The two storeyed mansion is 96 feet long and 33 wide ; it has a piazza in front, supported by square pillars, floored with sandstone. The flower garden is en closed by a brick wall ; there are old hedges of box planted by Washington, and a handsome serpentine walk he laid out. The best rooms in the house are a library 20ft. square, adjoining it the dining-room and east parlour ; on the other side the west par lour and grand dining-room, 33ft. long and 25 wide, with a handsome marble mantel-piece, a gift from Italy. The tomb is on a gentle declivity, facing a wooded hill, and through a grated door his marble s ir coph gus, handsomely ornamented, can be seen ,while the plainer one of his wife is on the left. Glimpses of the river are to be caught, but only here and there from the house. Much further down, where the water widely opens out, is Aqui a Creek. This is the route ge nerally taken to Richmond, as the railway has its terminus there. Aquia Creek, now desolate, was a place of great importance during the war, and even before it. A huge wharf with some deserted-look ing piles alone remain, and the passengers by the boat have to be transferred to the waiting train, when they move slowly, by the slopes of Fredericksburg, over a country ill-cultivated, and not marked by beauty, though renowned for desperate struggles and celebrated fields. afore renowned still, and there the tame scenery changes to a romantic beauty, is the river above Washington. Harper's Ferry stands at the confluence of the Shenandoah with the Po tomac, where the united streams break through the Blue Ridge, which guards the rich vale whereof liar per's Ferry is the key The Winchester and Potomac Railway unites there with the Thltimore and Obi) line. Perhaps no name has been made better known by the war than Harper's Ferry. It was there that John Brown shadowed the coming struggle, by his mad attempt to seize the arsenal and raise the slaves of the. State, for which he paid with his life. Nor from the beginning to the end of the contest did any town experience amore varied fortune. At one time held by the Federals, then by the Confederates, the first on which fell the storm of the invasion when ' the Union armies swept up the valley of the She nandoah, the last spot whence they retreated when the tide of victory turned again to the Southern side. It maybe that the most historical city of the Union is Richmond, the objective point of the Civil War, and the seat of the Confederate Government. It stands on the lower falls of James River, and was a beautiful town, surrounded by varied and interest ing scenery. The river, which becomes more an estuary below, is a series of rapids above the city, supplying it with immense water power, facilitat ing manufactures. Vessels drawing fifteen feet can reach within three miles, and those drawing ten can ascend to Richmond. Several elevations are em• braced within the city, the Stockhoe and Richmond Hills being the chief, and on the former are built the public edifices, the Capitol standing conspicu ously on it in a space of eight acres. At an angle of that square, not far from the Capitol, is the Go vernor's official residence, which was occupied by Jefferson Davis ; the City Hall, and the Penitentiary are fine buildings, but we have not now space to describe the city. Norfolk, connected with Richmond by rail, is the chief seaport for foreign commerce, well placed, as it is, near the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, some 32 miles from the Atlan tic, and 160 from Richmond. The Elizabeth River, whereon it is situated, is there about a mile broad, separating it from Portsmouth and Gosport, in connection with which it is the most important naval station in America. The Dismal Swamp Canal opens a communication between Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound, and Norfolk has regu lar steamboat communication with Baltimore, Phi ladelphia, New York, and Richmond. Gosport is the scat of the navy yard and dry dock; it has a fine Naval hospital, and at Norfolk there is aMili tary Academy. Williamsburgh consists principally of one street about a mile long. Across one end is the female seminary which was burned during the war; at the other end is the College of William and Mary, also set on fire, but its walls were so thick that they sustained little damage, and through the exertions of Professor Ewell it has received a new roof, and will be opened this autumn. It was built in 1693 with bricks brought from England, and i n it Jefferson, Madison, Randolph, and other dis tinguished men of Virginia, were educated. It is 140 feet long by 40 in depth, with two wings 36 by 60. Most of the houses of Williamsburgh, no w dingy and dilapidated, were built of English bricks. The Episcopal Church is very interesting from its age, and possesses the tombs of many of the nobility and more of the members of the Colonial Govern ment. The College of William and Mary has a large endowment. Farms, with fair improvements, can be had for from $s to $l5 an acre, but in seve ral hundred acre blocks. Within the town of Williamsburgh lots of an acre each are held at about $2OO, and houses and lots are cheap. The climate of Virginia is varied, but while the winters are mild the summers are liable to long periods of drought. The first Government of Virginia was administered by a council of seven, from whom a president was chosen. In 1610, however, the King sent out Lord De la Warr as Governor, and it was after him that Delaware was named. From the revolution of 1688 Virginia pros pered under a long reriod of tranquillity, but the State became a battle-field in the War of Inde pendence, and it was on the York Peninsula that Lord Cornwallis's army surrendered, a place afterwards celebrated for the advance of General M'Clellan and the series of desperate battles which ended in his retreat from before Richmond. The brunt of the war fell on this State, and nothing could exceed the gallantry with w hi c h t h e Virgi niansr met the trying circumstances. Indeed they proved more energetic by far in war than in peace ; for, although the Old Dominion was once the mother of Presidents and gave birth to the father of his country, yet the people are sadly wanting in Yankee energy as well asin industrial arts. Perhaps at this moment Virginia offers the finest field for emigration in the United States, and than that we can scarcely say more in its favour. Among its peca liar attractions are, that it is the oldest of set►led States on the Atlantic, with the rich and prosperous communities of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio bordering it, even the Federal seat of Government being on its river, the Potomac. It is then in the midst of civilization, yet it offers the advantages of a new country ; and coupled with this is an abund ance of labour, for although the tendency of the ne groes is to emigrate South, still they are too attached to " Old Virginity," to leave so long as they can be fully employed. General Imboden, who is now giving lectures on the subject of emigration to Vir ginia, slys the negroes make excellent farm hands, and are to be hired for $lOO to $l2O a year for men ; $5O to $6O for women, with a peck and a half of meal and 3lbs of bacon per week, and this enables even small farmers to command ample help. Generally the land is held in large tracts, by owners impoverished through the war, and they desire to sell, say 600 out of 1,000 acres ; thus small farms can be procured at from $5, $lO, $l5, to $2O per acre, open, fenced, built upon and improved, with all the advantages of roads, mills, schools, civil and social order, a mild, genial, and healthful climate, ample railways, canals and river highways, ports and market towns, sur rounded on every hand with unused water power, in the midst of a mineral wealth of almost unlimited extent, with perfect social and cival order, and the stability of an old civilization in every county. None of the sellers intend to leave the country, but they have too much land and cannot manage it. If worth the while of Americans to emigrate from the States into Virginia, the Old Dominion is certainly worthy the attention of English and German emi grants. General Ituboden, the Domestic State Agent for Emigration, has his office at No. 256, Broadway, New York, and General Tochmau is the European agent, but we regret we do not know his address. The State will almost immediately be reconstructed, and will thenceforth resume its place as one of weighty importance in the affairs of the Union. THE CRISIS. The prospects of the bill improve every day. The Orange organ, the Dublin. Mail, believes that the Lords will give way on the second reading. The 'lonian Catholic organ, the Dublin Freeman, says a great reaction has set in in favour of the bill, and it is now stated that a considerable number of Conser vative peers will absent themselves from the division. in order that the bill may pass by a small majority, but the London corres pondent of that paper still thinks that the Orange party will prevail. The Times takes for granted that the House will divide, and that the division will shew that "no provocation has been suffi cient to induce the majority of the Peers to place themselves in sullen antagonism to the decision of the people." The Standard intimates that if the Government would but withdraw the declaration (where or by whom made is not stated) that no amendments would be admitted by the Lower House, the Opposition would agree to a compromise ; and inasmuch as Lord Granville expressly told Lord Bate man, by what was no doubt a preconcerted arrange ment, that the Government would give every con sideration to the amendments that the Peers might desire, this intimation is a virtual offer of surrender. Lord Grey's speech has cut away the hope which once existed, that help would come from the inde pendent Liberals ; and it is, therefore, increasingly likely either that no division will be taken, or that if taken, the great majority of the Conservative party will absent themselves. In fact, Minist er s n o w give out that they calculate on carrying the second reading by a sufficient majority, and it is well known that a large number of Conservative peers have told Lord Derby that they will not run the risk which would be incurred by following his lead. The Church Neiv.3 says : " It is with great relief that we believe the crisis to be past, and the collision between the two Houses of Parliament no longer a subject for apprehension. Whatever may be thought of the Irish Establishment, there are few who would gravely and dispassionately regard it as worth a national quarrel between the two estates of the realm, possibly resulting in a revolution." Our con temporary believes that the rejection of the bill would only make the Lower House more firm in insisting upon its enactment, and all chance of amendment hopeless. It has no sympathy with " the angry shrieks and exaggerated howling " of those who would impeach Mr. Gladstone for high treason, or maintain the Establishment though there were but ten men of that faith in the whole country. There is much to be said for Esta blishments, but with regard to this particular one the Church News considers that the nation expressed its firm decision at the elections. Therefore, while no Conservative should vote for a bill of which he dis ipproves, Conservative peers may at least honour ably refrain from voting at alit The bishops are in an evil case. They have in curred the wrath of the Morning Advertiser. That eminent supporter of the Church falls foul of the whole Bench, with the supporters of the Irish Church Bill because they support it, with the opponents be cause they oppose it. Bishop Thirlwall is let off, because he is admitted to be conscientiously a Liberal, and therefore naturally disposed to support a Liberal measure. But why does the Bishop of Chester mean to vote for the bill ? Because he was appointed by Mr. Gladstone, and because he hopes that Mr. Gladstone may do yet something more for him ; because of a lively sense of favours to come, that is—a very amiable theory, only not borne out by fact, if, as is rumoured, Bishop Jacobson does not mean to support the bill. Then we come to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; what can induce him to take the part he is taking ? Gratitude would have induced him to go with the party that made him archbishop, and as lie cannot obtain further preferment, that motive might have been expected to be all-powerful ; but it is not, and so the Adver tiser is compelled to cast about for some low motive, and finds it in the desire to keep in favour with the Queen. As for the Bishop of Oxford, of course he is influenced by the most sordid reasons ; that is self-evident to the Advertiser and its clients of the gin-palace. Is lie not already named for the see of Winchester ? What else could make him vote for the bill this year when he voted against the Suspensory Bill last year ? Of course it is quite beyond the Advertiser's philosophy that spiritual peers as well as lay peers, Archbishop Tait and Bishops Jacobson and Wilberforce no less than Lords Salisbury, Carnarvon, Devon, Stanhope, and the rest of the Conservative Cave may be influenced by the consideration that a measure for which the nation has decided is in a very different position from a measure upon which the nation has not been consulted. MR. BRIGHT. No one will be surprised that Lord Cairns has given notice that he will interrogate the Government with respect to Mr. Bright's most indiscreet and ill timed letter.' The Morning Star defends it, "as (to borrow a university phrase) in private duty bound ;" the Lally News being under no such pressure, and appArently being unable to elaborate an apology, with more prudence than courage, is silent on the matter, preferring to discuss Mr. Banting upon corpulence. The Jones severely criticises the speech, as the I'(rlllllall Gazettehad previously done. The Post considers the letter most unfortunate, and that it does not represent the opinions of the Liberal party. The liai/g Telegraph says that Mr. llrig,ht speaks for himself alone, and that the claims of true states manship should have prevented him from misrepre senting, the Ministry, and " giving the enemy a gratuitous advantage in the crisis of a momentous political conflict." The Advertiser joins in the chorus of condemnation. To the Standard and the Herald the letter is "nuts," and the embarrassment in which it must have placed the Ministry will go far to atone for the defeat which is now generally supposed to be in store for the Conservative party. Less serious blunders than these—notably Lord Ellen borough's Indian despatch, Mr. Stansfeld's defence of Mazzini, and Mr. Lowe's dealings with the reports of the Inspectors of Education—have led to the resignation of the blunderer. DEAN STANLEY ON THE IRISH CHURCH. Lord Fiche's proposal for the establishment of a United Church of England and Ulster finds favour in the eyes of " Anglicanus." Dean Stanley says that his lordship's letter " expresses on the housetop what I doubt not has been whispered by hundreds in the closet, and it furnishes one more unanswerable reason why the House of Lords should consider and reconstruct the Irish Church Bill, instead of incon siderately and indiscriminately rejecting it." The Dean then goes on to summarise the arguments of a recent article in the Edinburgh Review, with which, if popular report . be true, he h as spec i a l reasons for being well acquainted. Ile gives eight reasons for reconsidering the Irish Church Bill. 1. There was never any settlement of the Roman Catholic Church in Ulster. 2. The Ulster plantation was a special importation of English and Scotch colonists who were guaranteed the support of their religion. 3, Ulster is different from the rest of the kingdom at the present time. 4. The most illustrious associates of the former days of the Irish Church are, with the exception of Bishop Berkeley and Dean Swift, confined to Ulster. 5. Its separation from the rest of Ireland is in con formity with the principle on which the rest of the Irish Church is attacked. If Connaught has been the ruin of the Irish Church in the West, and Munster in the South, for the very same reason Ulster ought to be its salvation in the North. 6. The ana logy of the division of the Roman Catholic and Pro testant cantons in Switzerland is exactly in point 7. The tedious and interminable questions respecting the " new Church Body" and the insoluble problems of its relations to the Church of England would thus be avoided. Ulster would be as it now is, and. Connaught, Munster, and Leinster must then de vend on it for their clergy so far as needed. 8. The resbyterians would then not be deprived (as they Low are, confessedly with no fault of their own) of the advantages of the Regium Donum. A HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. Mr. Bradlaugh and his friends are making arrange ments for a Hyde Park meeting, in case the Lords 4 r n ei g . e c \l t as the h e lrish Cp u u e r s c d h a y, 0 Bill.n p the a r r e i l d i m w i a n s a t r y e n g , h a itr chne dignified is meeting, bythe consisting name of of f repudiated the st a t emen t th a t the nation was changing some eier k s e i n a w - n g d r r e e e d n people ri' he , its opinion about the Irish Church Bill, and endorsed the Proposal that a Hyde Park meeting should be held on June 28, " if the Lords would listen to no other arguments." It is comforting to know that !such decided Reformers as Mr. Bradlaugh think a House of Lords useful, even though in this matter " Iconoclast" differs from his colleagues, and even though his idea of the composition of an Upper Senate,is very different from the reality. It is not, perhaps, so reassuring to know that he and his friends are quit e w illi ng to shew themselves under the windows of the House, " and there let a cry go up of justice to the Irish I or, in other worils, that I :hey are ready to use every means to intlinidat the Upser II C ule. THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. Notingimm is a lively pl ace at election time. The accounts which the local papers supply read like reports of an Irish el ec ti on years ago. The way in which the canva ss i ng i s conducted, . the sentiments by which the opponents hop e to w i n the support of the people, the appeal to brute force on nomination days, the sporting of colours, and fhttuiting of ribands, the intense excitement— seemingly without bounds—accompanying the polling., the p ositive hatred shown by the two parties to each other, and the attack made by the " blues" on their opponents, causing the total stoppage of business and all timid peophi, to quake with fear, make up a specimen of English civilisation by no means pleasant to - look upon. The fury of the supporters f 21 7 . EL- 7 nr , l% fhav found larn h a i t ind 9y THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The London correspondent of the Independance Beige is informed that the English Ministry has decided upon adopting a policy similar to that laid down in Mr. Motley's instructions. The American Ambassador is charged not to reopen negotiations; neither will the English Foreign Office. Every endeavour will be made to induce Sir 11. Bulwer to postpone indefinitely the debate which he has notified his intention to open, and thus to let this worn-out dispute rest awhile. Earl Granville' s temperate and kindly speech in the House of Lords has produced the best effect in America. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. The diplomatic service is in a very bad state, if we may believe what the members of it write to the daily papers. It is, according to them, an institu tion conducted on the principles of jobbery. A diplomatist writes that he has for many years paid annually to the chief clerk, who is financial agent to Foreign Office, a percentage on his salary, in order that he may not be sent to an undesirable post. This black-mail (he adds) has been levied with the full knowledge of the heads of the depart ment. Another diplomatist—" An ex-Minister Plenipotentiary" he describes himself as—writes shewing how men fit for work are yet shelved with pensions. He has been shelved, and from no fault of his. " I have served my country abroad for more than thirty years, and during this long period I received many official acknowledgments of my zeal and industry from successive Secretaries of State. I am now in receipt of a pension, but I have made frequent applications to be employed on active service. 'Why this legitimate request has not been granted I am not aware ; I can only say that its refusal costs the taxpayer about £l,OOO per annum." MR. ROMAINE. Mr. Romaine, whose non-economical tendencies are said to' have rendered his retention of the office of Second Secr e t ary t o th e Ad m i ra lty an impossi bility, is not to be cast altogether adrift. It is authoritatively stated that he has accepted the appointment of Judge Advocate-General in India, offered to him recently by the Duke of Argyll. Mr. Romaine was D epu t y J u d ge -Ad voca t e in the Crimea, and at the end of the war was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Sir Charles Wood. THE BISHOP OF LONDON. Several presentations, caused by the episcopal changes which took place some months back, have been made within the last few weeks. 1)r. Jackson, formerly Bishop of Lincoln, now of London, was presented with a valuable piece of plate on Tuesday. The gift consisted of a beautiful centre-piece for fruit and flowers, upon an ebony stand, and was intended as an expression of goodwill from the clergy and the laity with whom his lordship had formerly been connected. A deputation consisting of Earl Brownlow, the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincoln shire; Lord Kesteven, the Dean of Lincoln, the Hon. A. S. Melvill e , C o l one l Amcotts, M.P., Archdeacon Trollope, C o l one l Elli son, Archdeacon Kaye, Chan cellor Massie ;herd, Rev. B. Beridge, Mr. W. Ostler, Rev. 'F. Nelson, and Mr. Worth, waited upon his lordship to hand over the " token." Lord Brownlow acted as spokesman, and expressed the regret with which the Churchmen of Lincolnshire regarded his departure for London. his lordship returned the reply usual on such occasions. THE VELOCIPEDE AB A MILITARY AGENT. The Austrian Government has determined to employ the velocipede for military purposes. It is thought that where the country is sufficiently level the velocipede may be used instead of a horse for bearing despatches. A school has been set up. Why not mount infantry on these instruments? They would save a great deal of marching in a level country ; and when the hills became too steep, the soldier might put his knapsack on the velocipede, and draw instead of carrying it. A regiment mounted on velocipedes would be a sight worth seeing. THE MISSING ATLANTIC STEAMER. There is still no news of the United Kingdom. It appears that a vessel corresponding to her build and rig was seen some time since evidently in a disabled condi tion, but as no signals of distress were hoisted by her, she was passed without any particulars being obtained. The missing steamer left New York for Glasgow, with thirty passengers on board, so far back as the 19th of April. A STRIKE AT NEW TORE. Amongst the many strikes now in progress at New York a grand sti ike of waiters is noteworthy. Black and white attendants made common cause, and turned out with touching unanimity. The difficulty was very serious, for eating is a business which cannot be post poned.l e a in st ina N t v e l s iere o v f er they could. Tele grams hotel had to sally and breakfast tl akf br e grams were despatched in all di rec ti ons f or a supp l y forth of the indispensable article ; but the cry was still " They do not come." In default of better, the proprietors were constrained to engage raw bands, but the result was by no means satisfactory. Some of the joints looked, after carving, as if they bad emerged from a menagerie den, and the handsome dresses of many of the ladies were irre trievably ruined. Worst of all, several thieves engaged themselves, and did their business admirably in waiting upon the receivers of stolen good s with property plun. dered from the hotels. New York was still suffering from this catastrophe a week ago. VIRGINIA. (From the Anglo-America n 2 i Ines .) It was in Virginia that the English made their first permanent settlement in America, founding Jamestown in 1607. The area of the Old Dominion is 61,352 square miles ; its greatest length is east and west, measuring on the southern line 432 miles, but its general length is about 360, and breadth north and south about 200 miles. The State, re markable for bold scenery, may be divided into four sections-1. The Tide-water, consisting of a low sandy plain, from 110 to 130 miles wide, inter spersed with marshes overgrown with pitch pine, and very unhealthy ; the section is so called, as the rivers are affected to its limit by the rise and fall of the tide. 2. From the head-- of the Tide-water to the Blue Ridge lies a tract of country known as the Piedmont Section. At fi rs t th e so il partakes of the sandy nature of the Tide-water section, but becomes uneven as the mountains are approached, stony, and broken, but with rich deposits on the margins of the rivers ; gradually the ridges of the Alleghauies are neared, and the country becomes mountainous. 3. Between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies ex tends the Valley Section, consisting of long elevated vales, with mountains running parallel, f3Olll 3 of considerable breadth, and all of excellent land, blessed with a delightful climate. Of these the best known is the Shenandoah Valley, the scene of some of the most stirring events of the great war. 4. The Fourth Section is called the Trans-Alleghany, being the westward slope o f th ose moun t a i n s to the Ohio River, now forming West Virginia. It is traversed by several chains, chief among them the Laurel Mountain; a fine country, adapted to the growth of all varieties of grain, roots, tobacco, &e., of which much is yet covered with forests, the land being still virgin, while the Tile-water and the Piedmont Sections have been a good deal exhausted by a viciou3 system of till tge. Iti the Valley section Indian corn, tobacco, and all manner of grain are grown, and the system o° agriculture is superior to that of the low country, where Jndian corn, tobacco, and cotton are raised. The wealth of Virginia would have been shown to be greatest in minerals ha I they been energetically worked, as was the case in Pennsylvania, the natural advantages of Virginia being even greater. A company of Baltimore capitalists has purchase 1 several thousand acres whereon to establish extensive iron works, em ploying the Seibert process, for in sking steel di rect from the ore. No State can boast of richer and more extensive coal-fields ; from the Pamuuky by Richmond to the Appomattox, 35 miles long, varying from 2 to 8 in breadth, are mines of bitu- CORRESPONDENTS AND THE PRESS. As Washington correspondents are bound to fur nish news from the political capital of the nation, and as the public hold it to be no excuse that there is no news, they make it. Gentlemen of a lively turn of mind and of imaginative powers can alone discharge the duties of a Washington correspondent. The manufacture of this gossamer web is sometimes from the smallest bit of raw material, sometimes from " airy nothings." It is hard for the reader to believe that the substantial castle placed before his eyes is no more than a Chateau en. Espagne. a pure fiction, the creation of the correspondent's fancy, perhaps taking its colouring and appearance accord ing as exhilarating beverages or cigars had predo minated on the previous night. At times Washin.4- ton brims over with news ; again you have to dip deep in the well to bring up any. In the winter those best known in the Union are there met at every turn, and Pennsylvania Avenue is thronged ; in the summer a hot, wearied, disgu,ted. Chief of a Bureau only is to be found, from whom no news at any price, can be extracted. It is then that the peculiar talent of the Washington correspondent is brought into play ; but unfortunately the habit thus acquired becomes confirmed, and he is apt to carry his romancing into the winter when there is no occasion for it. Take as an instance the stories to which the New York TVorld gave publicity, wherein General GRANT, on the eve of inauguration, was represented as freely expressing opinions on leading political men. Ilis words were quoted, and the circumstances under which they were uttered detailed, not in one, but in a series of letters, in which, from beginning to end, there was not a parti cle of truth. The effect was to create a very shy and awkward feeling between men about to be brought into close contact, and the PRESIDENT had to break through a fixed habit in contradicting state ments which were no less than pure inventions. When General LEE visited Baltimore on Railway business in connection with the college over which he presides, be wrote to Gen. GRANT stating his de sire to pay his respects to the PRESIDENT, for which purpose, if agreeable, he would call at Washington on his way home. Gen. GRANT, as any gentleman would, expressed the pleasure his visit would give, and although rather an awkward meeting, consider ing the positions occupied by these distinguished men, and, perhaps, tinged with dullness, these cir cumstances tending to create a restraint, yet the ' correspondents went home in a body (after doing their duty to their papers at the telegraph offices) to write of the momentous interview which settled the fate of Virginia, although there was nothing about Virginia said, nor anything which had a shade of political significance. The Herald's correspondent w hen "interviewing" Senator SUMNER, after his cele brated speech, put the words into his mouth signi fying that that speech had been read and approved by the PRESIDENT before it was delivered, yet ti.is was not the case. A great deal of the indignation and alarm created by it in England arose from the be lief that it in some degree expressed GRANT'S senti ments, but it had no connect i on whatever with any feeling, opinion, or word of ,the PRESIDENT, being merely a very forcible utterance of a general na tional indignation, in the style, manner, and on the responsibility of an indi v id ua l S enator. If the English had viewed that speech as expressing the sentiments only of a distinguished Senator, it would have attracted no great attention, but representing the Administration—as it was presumed semi-offi cially to do—its views became of serious importance, and this erroneous impression was mainly conveyed by the correspondents. Touching the American press and the Alabama question, the Nation makes a truthful remark : " One of the unfortunate consequences of the con stancy with which a large portion of the American press abuses England year in and year out, is, that when there comes a crisis like the present when real and unusual resentment seeks expression, the news papers are inadequate for the task, for nobody minds them. They have, owing to the limitations to human speech, to leave it doubtful in the minds of their foreign readers whether the American sense of British perfidy and unscrupulousness is any one year a whit stronger than it was any other year of the last ninety. Congress has thus far done nothing to supply the deficiency. There is not, nor has there been for years, a serious debate in either branch on foreign questions. In the House the illustrious BANKS has it all his own way, and his speeches and resolutions of course have long ago ceased to influence any rational person in either hemi sphere. In the Senate the work of commenting on English policy has been left to Mr. CHANDLER, but no American has ever had the face to ask any foreigner to heed him." There is a portion of the American press edited by Irishmen who write of England much in the style of the Dublin Nation or the Irishman, but as a rule the leading papers in dulge no more in this pastime than the English papers do in abusing America. These criticisms have, as. the Nation observes, lost their force, but not so much from their persistency as from their disregard of truth. It is surprising to see how quickly the feeling that existed six months ago can be forgotten, the tone of the day being assumed to be that of the former period. The American press did not express any feeling of irritation until Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON having imbibed the spirit of his namesake, the celebrated ANDREW England, and , was sent to there discovered an easy and effective mode of stroking the fur of the American cat the wrong way. When vicious boys want good-natured the animals fight they pinch their tails ; but whether animals bite the boys or fly at each other s That chance, and so it appears to be w ith nations. I. . a mere chance, there was a strong though dormant rma, ton in America, which quickly fired up under Mr. RE VERDF JorrNsoN's treatment, is proved by the re sult ; but if the American press failed adequately to convey this feeling to the minds of Englishmen, there is no doubt that the English press has fully succeeded in makinc , known England's decision on what her people erroneously consider to be Mr. SumNER'S de mands, for he made no demands. In justice to the American press, it should be stated that it met the British outburst of wrath with a moderation winch has done it no small honour. In truth, it is charmed with its new and unaccustomed position. Hitherto it had been the attacking party, denouncing British perfidy, selfishness, and unfair demands, while threatening all manner of penalties. Now it calmly witnesses and soothes the British ire, recommending the old gentleman to compose himself, telling hag there is danger of apoplexy in such unreasonabl e fits of anger, that when in a more placid mood he will find that nothing unreasonable will be pro posed, and whatever may be the proposition it will be made courteously. The e ss en c e of our sub ject is, that journalists, whether correspondents or other writers should adhere as closely as they can to the truth. The public willin g ly allow th e press some latitude, but if it habitu illy draws nh imagination for news, and publishes leaders written without refer e nce to f ac ts, the influence it ions sesses will be lost. The habit of abusing publi c men because they act in oppositon to their party has had the effect of making many leading Amen cans care little, and cease to contradict even the strongest comments on them in the newspapers, however untrue, and this well-known fact is any' thing but complimentary to journalism._Anylo- American Times. DENMARK. Mr. Strachey, Secretary of the British Legation at Copenhagen, in his report this year, gives the estimated putlic expenditure of Denmark for the year 1869-70 at £2,533,630. The annual deficit has almost disappeared since the introduction of genuine Parliamentary government in 1865. T he national debt has been reduced to £13,238,000. Th e military items of the Buttget contain nearly one' third of the whole expenditure. The law of 1867 introduced the Prussian system of versal liability to serve, but British subjects have been exempted by special arrangeme nt. The infantry soldier, when drawn, remains for sis months with his instructors, and is then sent home. Every two years the men of the active army w ill be called out for a short drill. The future Danis h army is 40,000 strong, bat s ome ti m e must elap se fi e ld before above 25,000 men re a lly fit to take the can be mustered. The navy i nc l u d e s five ironclad s, but only one, the Lindor men , i s u p to the prese nt standard. The whole exter na l com merce of Den mark in the year ending with March, 18631 amounted to 2,708,944,5451 b. Danish (1.1 avoir dupois) 1,860,000,0001 b imports and 845,000, 0001b ' exports. The imports show a tendency to gre y( ' the exports to diminish. The share of Great Bri tain in the whole movement has fallen to 39 9 per cent. The imports are chiefly colonial products, sugar producing nearly one-fourth of the whole Customs revenue, and yielding in the year 13 61-68 a duty of 1,333,354 rix dollars. In the same Ye ar cotton and flax goods itnporte I yielded 646,3 74 r dollars, and woollens 603,442 rix dollars ; calculating the sterling equivalent it i s cow ' mon to work w i t h th e round d i v i sor 9. Meta s yielded 317,352 rix dollies. This is a large crease, owing chiefly to improved trade in iron and iron goods, particularly iu rails and sleepers. Eng land delivered the greater part of the plates, tia, anchors, chains, cables, and nearly all the iron for railway constructions, but Sweden is gradually driving out our rod and hoop iron, as well as ca r nails and spikes. The iron of all kinds declared for duty in the year amounted to 62,089,7241 b. in 1867-68; in the previous year it was but 44 mil lions. The exports of the chief articles of domestic produce of Denmark in 1867-68 declined in va lue to £2,218,780. The exportation of serials has been declining for two years, and reached only 1,400,500 qrs., a falling off of nearly 30 per cent. as compare d with 1865-66. The change cannot be altogether_ referred to bad harvest s . E ng l an d takes above h alt the cereal and leguminous exports. The average Danish cereal harvest maybe taken at about 8,500,000 qrs., and the whole export may be about half that of Austria or the Danubian Provinces. The Danis h contribution of foreign corn for England, however , 700,000 to 800,000 qrs., is an important part of the English supply. The last Danish harvest was very plentiful, wheat especially being superabundan t. There is a falling off in the export of live stoc k from Denmark in 1867-68 from 141,449 head to 125,915 head. The English take of cereals acd live stock of Denmark declined 21 per cent. in 1867- 68. England again took the greater part of th e i butter, meat, bacon, hams, wools, skins, oilcakes , and teeth sent from Denmark ; but in these articles there is a general gross decline. Owing to the lessened exports, there was a decline in the 101 1 " voyages registered in 1867-68; but the shipPi . ' t g h clearances of the year are stated at 84,9 84, tonnage 840;948, an improvement of 10 per cent. a' the number of vessels, and a tonnage nearly the sail le , as in 1865-66. There is an increased tendency o . steamers to supersede sailing ships in the co as trade, which is almost exclusively carried on D OI or bottoms. ''orkolgu ilaii Packet LIST. • MAILS DUE. r 0 9 . ustradia and New Zealand, via Southampton ..... JulY 14 Ditto, via Y nseilles .. ju y 4. .razii, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video ..... ..... June Ditto, by French packet ...... ' JulY 4 Uape Verds. by Brazil paoket gpe of Good 1.1 ,pc. Ascension, and St. Helena. Inuo eenaa, .nd Singapore, via Sou tiamPt"' June 19 ° tbr.itar, via Southampt o n ..........:June. 19 r udia, via Southampton Juno Ditto, via MarseiLes - 'la, to, Egypt, &0... ......... ................. Julie ne 19 Ditto, Marseilles.. .......................... .J .. Ju uno 16 ewfoundla ••• ...... • • tlauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via uth air Is ton .................................• July Ditto, harseilies „Jab' 4. eortugal ...• . United States • anada, California, &0., by British J Lulu 19 wicket ..... Ditto dittt (Baltimore) ....... ......... • Ditto, by L i ited States packet ................ 6 Ditto, by Inman ...... June / •••••• ... West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha: Toe 23 mas) ...... . ................................ : jun , 17 West Coast of Africa, M a d e i ra, an d T ener iffe .. •• . 23 June Cuba and iexico ..... ••••• • • ' 3 .* no 30 Bermuda, via Halifax • • , Jan° IG B‘hasias, via New York ... • LADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they alwaYs to C ri 7 g chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-re!uish- Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the n u e dies, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rere„„ t ol and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerve. lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, s tore" regularity, anti energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. a extract a few out of 68,000 cures The Pope's health re i 566. by Du Barry's , 00d. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, JulY s i n ce —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, esPeei ell tirel , abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself en _ uw et to Du Barry's Revalenta Ara,bica, Food. of which he co . n ben , a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingY„ ex cel ticial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise h is cur e lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, July P s , l iver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven Ye e „, r er you B complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a a nd palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessin I+77l'%ord the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure Ne• Yea Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of nisei f fr oul dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable ag?Viocy, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, tr.:, /co spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." n nears 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey , of 4 ' „,,a diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangemen"rasnY partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware o f the auo ut unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to w hich, e f ie j. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously att y ',_ vs' 1 s 12 lb ' TO In tins, at Is 14d; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s Gd 5 lbs 1 natoCala t 24 Ibs 40s. —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABiCA -- cop for _ at , 55s POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at vS, at Is 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups _ so t —being about one penny per cup. The 308 and 55s tins are Orden -- free of carriage in England o n recei p t of Post-Ofilee and BARRY Do BARRY and Co. , No. 77, Regent-street, Loraa" all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. CtrATErt —On the 16th inst., at 22, Belsize-road, N.Wr" the wife of George Chater, jun., Esq., of a sou. R USSE LL On the 19th inst., at Rochdale, the wife a CLIO' T. Stuart Russell, of a son. MARRIAGES. BATHE—MAYO -- On the 15th inst , hill, lesex. to Anna at Hampstead, rt)ter Bayne, Esq., of Harlington, Mid d rine, youngest d aug h ter o f ll ern y M a yo, E,q., Oa k Hampstead. K a tha: lIEATiIeaTE - WALPOLE -On the 15th inst., at Tiurslel, George Parker Heathcote, Esq., second son of Sir 0 l a. Ileathcote, Bart., and late Capt. 52d Light lufantrY, to, Isabella. M. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Bigh Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P. DEATHS. COLEBATCII- On the 15th inst., at Tredegar-square, BoWI Joseph Colebatch, Esq., of 60, Lower Thames-street. LEE—On the 14th inst., at 46, Acacia-road, Edward Lee, Esq., aged 74. PRINGLE Oh the 15th inst ,at Langton House, Berwick shire, Sir John Pringle, Bart., of Newhall, aged O. 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