The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF The Daily News criticises the different speakers in the debate, and shews how the noisy vulgarity of Mr. Greene, the flabby platitudes of Mr. Holt, and the loud debating society harangues of Mr. Charley, made Mr. Whalley appear sensible and moderate, and were an admirable foil for the very promising speech of Lord Sandon, which was admirable in its manner and temper, if not very strong iu argument. Lord Sandon recognises that there are two parties in the Roman Catholic Church—the Ultra montane and the Liberal party. He has no fear of the latter. He wishes to strengthen it. Has he ever asked himself why it does not exist in Ireland? If he considers the question, he will probably see that the Protestant Establishment has thrown the Roman Catholic laity into the arms of the priesthood, and prevented the growth there of Liberal Catholicism. Let the struggle against Protestant ascendancy cease from without, and the strife will begin for liberty within. The Telegraph thinks that Thursday's scene in the House of Commons was discreditable to a great legislative assembly. As if the principle of the Irish Church Bill had never been debated, as if the second reading of the measure had not been carried by the overwhelming majority of 118, member after member rose to urge that the House should again go through the dreary work of discussing whether the Irish Church should be disestab lished and disendowed. Mr. Newdegate, Colonel Stuart Knox, Mr. Holt, Mr. Percy Wyndham, Mr. Greene, Mr. Charley, and other members of the Conservative party, did not hide the fact that their aim was to kill time. And with what view? They know that the passing of the measure is a foregone conclusion ; nevertheless they go on resisting, protesting, and threatening, with a species of blind fury. Yet they sadly err if they think that by such tactics they can do any service, either to their party, or to the Irish Church. Not a single Liberal of the slightest eminence took part in the debate. By abusing their power of obstruction the Tory members have been guilty of an innovation on Parliamentary practice for which they will be condemned by the country as severely as by the House itself. The Times, in discussing the debate in the Lords on the two bills for the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts, remarks that the present state of ecclesiastical jurisdiction satisfies no one. The whole machinery of ecclesiastical law needs renewal, for though there has been a good deal of legislation on the matter during the last forty years. yet this has been affected in the piecemeal manner to which Parliament is prone, and the old fabric, though patched sip with some carefulness, is old still, and can never be adapted to present wants, it is not difficult to see in what direction reform must tend. There must be ,more unity and centralisation. The present system is that of an age when there was little communication, and the bishop was th e s pi r it ua l ru l er o f a territory which was ecclesiastically complete, and almost independent. With the facility of traffic and the increase of communication it is unnecessary that a separate appa ratus should be maintained for each diocese, or even that each of the two provinces should be distinguished for such a purpose as clergy discipline. The English Church will soon exist for England only ; the union with the Irish Church is about to end • the Coloni a l Ch urches will soon have thei r se p arate and independent organisations, and in any legislation with respect to England we need not look beyond the northern portion of this island. It cannot, therefore, be said that the extent of the territory or the multitude of persons who will come under jurisdiction are so great that a single court will not be able to dispose of all the business that is likely to arise. In this respect the Times approves of Lord Shaftesbury's bill, and in some other particulars it prefers the present system to the Archbishop's proposals. It is said that a ritualistic bishop might have protected Mr. Mackono c hi e, and a latitudinarian the " E ssays and Reviews. " But, even if this had happened, it would have been a less evil than the subjection of every clergyman to the attacks of the most ignorant and bigoted of his flock. Let it be remembered that a great number of the clergy are more liberal in theological matters than their congregations, and that to restrict them further by holding before them always the prospect of a prosecution for heresy is a mis take that educated men ought not to make. The Herald believes that the independent Liberals find they have made a mistake in surrendering themselves wholly to the dictation of Mr. Gladstone. 'The Liberals had but one motto on their flag ; their creed had but one dogma. Every man was to pin his faith upon Mr. Gladstone—to think as he thought, to speak as he spoke. To doubt Mr. Gladstone's infalli bility, to shrink from sundering the connection between Church and State, to strain even at the camels of their leader's new gospel, was to sin beyond hope of forgiveness. And what is the result? They have knocked out the brains of Liberalism in the House of Commons. There is a majority which is willing to follow Mr. Glad stone anywhere and in anything. It is their business. It is what they are sent to the House of Commons to do. The lessen was sternly imposed, and these men have learned it to perfection. Docile pupils, they have come to understand that everything with which they are con cerned centres in the present Premier. The whole faith, Liberalism, from its Alpha to its Omega, is summed up in Mr. Gladstone, and whichever way they speak or vote, it is for no other reason than that " the Great Mogul does so." The Star thinks that there is now a moral certainty that the street tramways scheme will have a fair trial in this metropolis. At no time could any doubt be enter tained that this would be the issue of an appeal to Pat , liatnent by responsible persons who were willing to meet any reasonable objections which did not affect the principle for which they contended. The public expectation has been amply justified by the decisions at which the com mittee appointed by the House of Commons has arrived. It is of opinion that come limitation should be placed on the proposNl monopoly ; that, after a period to be fixed, the street authorities shag have power to purchase the tramways; that the police shall have full authority to regulate the traffic ; and that the bye-laws shall be sub ject to the approval of the Home Office. To these regu lations no just objection can be taken ; but the principle having been affirmed, the matter may be regarded as practically settled so far as the judgment of the committee is concerned. The public roads arc public property ; and the use to which they may be put must be determined, not by the commer cial interests—real or supposed— of individuals who have no claim to enjoy more than that common right of way which will still remain wholly unrestricted, but upon the broad grounds o f th e public convenience which, in the estimation of the p eo pl e themselves, ,willbeenhanced by the con4ruction of tra mways on tue great roads that intersect kkis metropolis, JOURNALS. The Times, in discussing the reopening of the debate on the Irish Church, observes that as the House of Commons has got into committee, there is some hope that the pro gress of the bill may now be pursued with business-like despatch. It is conceivable that the bill may be so expedited as to pass through committee before Whitsun tide. The amendments in the notice-book are not numerous, and they are easily divisible into classes, so that if one of a class is rejected the others will fall with it. We cannot, for example, suppose that when Mr. Disraeli has been defeated on his first suggestion, to endow the Church Body with some large multiple of the aggregate income of Irish incumbents, he will think it consistent with his dignity to persevere with amendments precisely similar in scope, though varying fions it in terms. Indeed, the end of the warfare is already at hand. Mr. Disraeli shewed it by the few hesitating words he spoke at the close of the debate. What fo‘ce can withstand the strength of national opinion groping fuller and firmer every day the subject is dis cussed ? The majority of the House of Commons on Thurs day, though greater than the triumphant majority on the second reading of the bill, is yet insufficient to express the strength of the supporters of the measure, for, as Mr. Gladstone justly boasted, the supporters of the Ministerial policy are as one man, while its opponents are an army of distracted councils and divided policy. The Standard declares that, highly as it respects the character, thoroughly as it appreciates the motives, of the hon. member for North Warwickshire, it cannot but think that he was mistaken in the course he pursued on Thurs day. To call that course factious, as Liberal journals have done, is the very extravagance of unreasoning partisan ship. The forms of the House, as Mr. Newdegate justly observed, are carefully adapted to protect the right of minorities against the tyranny of the majority, and especially against that species of tyranny which is legalised in French assemblies by the permission to vote "the close of the debate," and in America by the use of " the previous question." If he had resisted the temptation to expose the habitual disloyalty of the Roman clergy, and the pretensions of their chief, and had directed his efforts to shew how seriously their power would be increased by this measure, taking for granted the injurious character of that power, he might really have made an impression on the House, and exercised an influence on the opinion of the country. As it was, the respect which a high character, unscathed by the political trials of a quarter of a century, commands in the House of Commons secured a patient hearing for the orator ; but so far as any effect on the feelings of his hearers or the fortune of the struggle goes his opportunity was worse than thrown away. The Post hardly expected that the House of Commons would resolve itself into committee on the Irish Church Bill without any preliminary debate. True, the only question raised on the motion for going into committee had been exhaustively discussed previous to the second reading of the bill, and it is no less true that the opinion of the House in favour of the measure had been then de clared by an immense majority. Still there are always to be found men who, like Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Greene, are so conscientious or so perverse that they con ceive themselves not only justified in throwing every obstacle, however ineffectual, in the path of their opponents, but morally obliged to do so, if they would maintain their character for consistency. In one sense, perhaps, what passed in the House of Commons can scarcely be described with propriety as a debate. Those who joined in it were, almost without exception, the opponents of the bill. The lAberals, satis fied with their strength, remained silent. Nothing new was advanced, and nothing needed to be refuted which had not already been refuted over and over again. In replying, at the close of the night to the collective speeches of the members of the Opposition, Mr. Gladstone merely performed an act of courtesy. At all events, it must be a source of satisfaction to him, as well as to everyone else, that the last occasion for the discussion of vague generalities has now passed away. Having once gone into committee on the bill, no further discussion can take place on the ••• formal motion for the Speaker to quit the chair. LORD POWERSCOURT ON HIS POSITIOX AS A PEER, Lord Powerscourt-. has forwarded to the Irish Times a reply to the letter of his grandfather, Lord Roden. He was elected a representative peer, he says, by Lord Derby through Lord Roden's interest, but he had the votes also of a good many of the Liberal peers, " because they saw in my canvassing letters the expression of a wish to be elected independently." He felt pledged to the Conservative party by the fact of his election, and he intended at that time, 1864-5, to act and vote with it. " But I soon," adds Lord Powerscourt, " began to find my position a very irksome one, as I con stantly felt a desire to votewith the Liberals, and yet I was bound to the Conservatives. Last summer, when the. resolutions of Mr. Gladstone were before the country, my position became intolerable to me, and I asked Lord Derby to release me from my pledge, stating as my reasons that I could not follow him on this important (the Church) question. Lord Derby then wrote to me, releasing me as regarded himself, and the only thing now that I feel I ought to have done is to have written circular letters to all the peers asking them also for the same favour." " But I cannot," Lord Powers court finally says, "but think that they would not wish any one to vote against his sense of right, though it might not be in accordance with their own individual views." I EL ECTION P ETITIONS. The charges against Mr. Beaumont, in Yorkshire, and Mr. Hutton, at Northallerton, having signally failed, only one petition is still in hearing. At Hastings, on Thursday, several additional witnesses were examined to prove that electors had been supplied with drink, and driven to the poll, which closed the case for the petitioners.—Mr. Serjeant Ballantine having addressed his lordship on behalf of the respondents, Mrs. Brassey, wife of one of them, underwent with much patience and good temper a long examination and cross examination, and denied patron icing any tradesmen with a view to influence their votes in the slightest degree, or bribing witnesses who said she had done so. Her reason for canvassing for her husband was that she understood there had been an active canvass by ladies on the other side. Mrs. Standen, the woman alleged to have been bribed by the last witness, was called, and utterly denied that any such transaction ever occurred at her house. She did not know the witnesses Knight and Brissenden. Mr. T. Brassey, jun., M.P., one of the respondents, was then examined. When he entered upon the contest at Hastings there was an honourable understanding between him and his colleague, Mr. North, that the election should be perfectly free from corrupt practices, and so far as he was concerned he carried out that agreement in the letter and in the spirit. TWO MEN" BURYED TO DEATH. - o A shockirg fatality occurred at Cr'version° on Tues day morning. At a public-house, which overlooks More combe Bay, John Proctor, boatbuilder, aged forty-five years, and James Tyson, quarryman, fifty-two, both single men, lodged. On Monday night, the two went to bed drunk. At seven o'clock on the following morning two lodgers per ceived a smell as of something burning, and they went to the room in which Proctor and Tyson were. Upon their opening the door the bedclothes burst into flames, and it was then found that the men were dead. Tyson's right hand was burned off to the wrist, and one side of his head was entirely gone. Proctor was only slightly burned, and his death had apparently been caused by suffocation. The latter was fully dressed, and in his pockets were matches and pipes. LAW AND POLICE. Dr. F. R. Lees, who is leaving England for a twelvemonth's tour in America, was entertained at a public breakfast in the Trevelyan Hotel, Corporation-street, Man chester, on Wednesday, previous to his departure, by anuniber of the friends of the temperance movement connected with the different associations in Manchester and other towns. The Chancery Bar has lost one of its most pro mising m , tubers by the untimely death c f Mr. G. Druce, Q.C., which sad event happened this morning at his re sidence, Kenton-hall, Clapham. The learned gentleman on Wednesday evening was out riding, and was thrown from his horse, and died at six o'clock on Thu: dav morning, The oldest of the Austrian generals, Baron de Lebzeltern, has just died at the age of 83. The distin guished veteran served in the campaigns of 1811 and 1813, and the Archduke Charles confided to him the military education of his sons. After sixty years of active service, the baron became governor of the military school and president of the high military court of Austria. He was a personal friend of the Duke of Wellington. An extraordinary fatality was reported to the Live-pool borough coroner on Wednesday. On Tuesday after noon George Nicholl, a sampler, in the employ of Mr. Ben jamin Sykes, wine and spirit merchant, was sampling ru m in the vaults under the Temple, in Dale-street. By some accident he spilled a quantity of rum over his clothes, and though he was seen to enter the vaults with a covered lamp he caught fire, and was so sever ely burnt that ho died the same evening in fearful agonies. A telegram in theStandardsays that 'M. Gressier, t he French Minister of Commerce, handed to M. Rouher the project of a settlement of the Franco-Belgian dispute,' drawn by M. Frere-Orban. That draft was on Wednesday submitted to the Emperor. It is con fidently asssrted that the difference is in a fair way of being satisfactorily settled, and that M. Frere-Orban will be able to leave Paris for Brussels in two or three days to lay his amended draft before the King and his colleagues. A great agricultural congress is to take place at Copenhagen nt xt July, from the 6th to the 10th. Besides the congress proper, at which papers will be read and dis cussions engaged in upon agricultural subjects, there will be a show of cattle, an exhibition of agricultural implements, an exhibition of agricultural products, including under that term butter, cheese, bees, and fish; and a flower shop. The prizes, which are very numerous, are open to universal com petition. Sir Henry Lytton Bulvver has fixed Tuesday, May 4th, as the day on which he will call attention to the relations between Great Britain and the United States. On Friday, the 23d inst., the hon. baronet intends to ask the Undet Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whetl er her Majesty's Government intends to prolong its present unsatisfactory position with respect to the Government in Spain, and he will also call attention to the absence of official relations with that country. DR. LIVINOSTONE.—We are glad to see that our well-known traveller, Dr. Livingstone, has been elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of France, in the section of Geography and Navigation. No worthier representative of English energy and perse verance could have been selected; and we tssist, lie lives to the huneur.— The Lancet. THE TRIAL OF THE DIRECTORS OF OVEREND, GURNEY, AND Co.—At the approaching trial of the direc tors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), in the Comt of Queen's Bench, Westminster, it is the intention of Dr. Adam Thom, the prosecutor, not to appear by counsel, but to conduct the proceeding s on his side in pers on . Though the defendants have retained the leaders of all branches of the law, against this a rray of legal talent he "confidently pits his case in all the sim plicity of its undeniable strength, while the technical question of guilt or innocence—the only matter at issue- - he calmly leaves to the judicial representatives of God and the country." Those who have had much experience of the manner in which suitors of any kind handle their own law cases, will probably think that Dr. Adam Thom is not well advised in the determination at which he has arrived. A NEON MALIBRAN.—One of the musical journals of Paris makes a startling announcement with reference to a young American lady, who is at present under the tuition of M. Wartel, the professor who enjoys the honour of having trit'wd Mdlle. Nilsson, the first can tatrice of the day. The young lady is described as 14,1 years old, and as having been introduced to M. Wartel by Mr. Benedict. She is named Violette Col ville. " Wartel,'' says our contemporary, "speaks of her with the enthusiasm of a true artist, and with the com petent appreciation of a professor who thoroughly under stands that of which he speaks. 'ltis a Malibran I shall produce,' be cries. 'She has the sacred fire. She always overcomes me. She apprehends too quickly. She has the most beautiful musical organisation I ever met with In my life. I shall bring her out at 18, and I only ask Providence to bless me will life till then. In three years we shall have a Malibrar.'" Miss Violette Colville is, we believe, the niece and adopted daughter of Miss Mary Provost, who, during a brief career in Lt -, n,10n seine years Ago, left in the minds of PlaYZoerts many aad touchin,z souvenirs. "^ MR. BRADLAUGH.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, Mr. Bradlaugh, proprietor and publisher of the National .Reformer, Secular Advocate, and Freethovght Journal, obtained a rule nisi, on the ground that the ►erdict against him for not having registeredhis publica tions at the Stamp Office was incorrect, as they we not newspapers within the meaning of the Act. A COUNTY COURT CLERK.—At Bow-street, on Thurs• day, Samuel Foulkes, late clerk to the registrar of the Wolverhampton County Court, was charged with embex zlement. His defalcations were said to amount to about £l,OOO, and he was committed to Wolverhampton for examination. BANK OF FRANCE. ‘' PARIS, April 15. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. April P. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of landed pro porty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur- April 15, 7,044,776 02 33,658,290 01 35,940,463 22 rent creditor Current accounts, Paris Do. branch banks Dividends payable...... Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 154,509,822 63 263,437,174 90 42,724,878 - 1,036,279 - 15 5,608,230 14 246,648,475 44 41,970,021 -- 979,540 - 5,207,6 - J7 GO ,463 96 six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 933,790 -85 933,790 85 12,G71,310 49 9,223,820 39 2,030,346,479 64 2,053,760,431 16 CREDITOR. Cash in hand and in April 8. April 15. c 87 . Branch banks ......... 1 , 1 77,610,296 65 1,172,758,078 Commercial bills over due .................... Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 253,26.3,352 57 Do. branch banks...... 2 3 5 ,408,626 Advances on deposit of bullion .............. Do. branch bank 5.......... Do. on French Public Securities ............... Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks ... Do. on Credit Fen .er d Bonds Do. branohe. Do. to the State (Con vention, Juno 10, 1857) Government Stock re serve Do. disposable Routes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) IC 0,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bt.nk and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment S undries 176,270 39 196,291 62 263,534,069 81 236,87.5,068 - 1 8,585,700 - 3,141,800 - 17,605,200 2,563,800 1 3,635,100 - 6 ,583,080 - 13,704,900 6,446,580 38,227,900 - 28,135,800 - 38,611,600 28,319,300 996,200 gag,noo 995,800 Q5q,500 60,000,000 - 60,000,000 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 80,633,437 21 80,627,187 21 100,000,000 9,003,812 - 9,022,395 1,151,169 52 1,174,503 92 9,851,083 10 9,385,403 56 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) s ROULAND, ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND IHE FENIAN I'RISONERS. The formal reply promised by Archbishop Man ning to the deputation that waited upon him on Monday from the English Amnesty Committee, with the view of obtaining his grace's sanction to signatures being taken at the Roman Catholic Church doors in London to the petitions praying the Queen's pardon to the Fenian prisoners, reached the secretary of the Amnesty Committee, Mr. J. Y. M'llonnell, late on Wednesday night. It is iu these terms : " 8, York-place, W. April 13, 1869 "Sir,--I have carefully considered the request made to me yesterday by the Amnesty Committee, that copies of their petitions should be signed at the Catholic churches in London. I need not assure you, and the committee through you, that anything directed to the obtaining mercy would always have my sympathy, and, if I am unable in this instance to comply with their request, my decision is dic tated by duty, and I may add by the strong con viction of what will best promote the object you have in view. " The invariable rule of the diocese handed down to me by my predecessors has been to exclude from our churches all matters which are not religious or ecclesiastical. From that rule I am unable to depart. " I desire very strongly to express my opinion that your hope of obtaining an amnesty for political offences will be greatly weakened by seeming to identify your appeal with the Roman Catholic churches in London, and that it will be greatly strengthened by disengaging your appeal from all special associations of nation and religion, and by addressing it to the kindly and merciful feelings of our country at large. With every good wish, I remain, sir, your faithful servant, " f HENRY EDWARD MANNING, Archbishop of Westminster. J. M'Donnell, Esq." IMPORTANT TO GAS CONSUMERS At the justice-room of the Mansion-House yes terday the Gaslight and Coke Company, Curtain road, was summoned by Ernest Marshall, of 12, Aldgate High-street, who complained that he, being desirous of obtaining a supply of a gas, was unable to agree with the company upon the amount of security for the payment thereof. Mr. Curtis, solicitor, appeared for the defence. The complainant, Mr. Marshall, stated that he was an eating-house keeper, and last Friday week entered into possession of the premises, 12, Aldgate High -street. On Saturday afternoon, finding that the gas had been cut off, he went to the company's office, and saw a man, who told him that all the people had left. On Monday, being busy, he sent bis brother, who signed a contract for him, and paid a deposit of £3, for which he received a receipt. Later in the day he sent a request that the gas should be laid on, but his messenger brought back the deposit of £3, and said some body in the office had taken the receipt from him. Complainant then went to the office him self, and was told that a mistake had bee❑ made by one of the clerks in accepting the £3, that £5 16s. was owing for the last tenant's gas, and that they were not going to be "done" by him (complainant). Complainant replied that he was willing to pay a deposit of £3 or £5, but he refused to pay the last tenant's account. The company refused to accept this offer, and declined to put on the gas. He then came for the present summons. He had made two applications since, and they stated that they would accept half the last tenant's debt, but would not put on the gas without. In reply to Alderman Finnis, complainant said the ordinary consumption was from 30s. to £2 per quarter In cross-examination by Mr. Curtis, he stated that he did not tell the company's officer that he has r•st , ta v‘f pay the baca. 4 --- did not know there was any account owing for gas. It was cut off before he took possession. The shop had been shut up. - - Mr. Oke (chief clerk) said that according to the Act of Parliament such security was to be given as the consumer and the gas company might agree upon, and if they could not agree the security was to be determined by the magistrate, whose de cision ivr.s in all cases to be final. Mr. Curtis remarked that the company were will ing to let the complainant have the gas without a deposit, if he paid the arrears of the former tenant. Alderman Finnie—You have no power to force the incoming tenant to pay the arrears. Mr. Curtis said £3 was the sum agreed upon, and they would take that. Mr. Oke—They refused to take £5. Mr. C ur ti s sa id £ 5 was required as due from the outgoin g tenant. Alderman Finnic repeated that he had no power to enforce payment of the arrears of a former tenant, and decided that the company should take £3 as a deposit from the complainant, and pay Bs. costs. f ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—lmportant to the Sick.—Though the mind be downcast, and be enfeebled by continued indisposition, the sufferer should at this season make a last effort to regain health by taking Holloway's Purifying Pills which, by cleansing the blood, will search out the hidden cause of mischief and expel the seeds of most disease& No invalid is too much reduced to undergo this very gentle treatment with safety and advantage. Neither youth nor old age need fear any in jury to the system from a regulated course of these Pills. They are infallible in stomach complaints, bilious affec tions, sickness, want of appetite, disordered bowels, con stipation, and the annoyances which spring from derange. Dint of the diseatiyo cad assimilating organs. THE SUN, LONDON, FRDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1869. THE POPE'S JUBILEE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ALPINE RAILWAYS. ROME, Ann, 10. Since I last wrote to you gifts and addresses have poured in with unceasing rapidity. I have just returned from the Vatican, and have been perfectly astonished at the number and variety of the presents which are exhibited in the cortile of San Damaso. First in order are those of the Pontifical States. Each town has sent its offering in kind : Trascati, wine of the finest quality for the altar ; Gensano, Albano, and Montefiascone, wine and oil ; Ronciglione, cutlery and wax ; Labian and Gerano, oil and silks ; Cervetri and Corveto, antique and modern pottery ; Sutri, sheep; Sezze, Mentano, Bag noria, and Monte Libretti, wheat and oil ; Tivoli, oil, paper, wine, and beautiful dyed wool ; Monte Rotondo, a cartload of wine and oil, with the beautiful grey oxen which drew the cart. Besides these the Piazza of St. Peter's was thronged with carts arriving from every commune and every town of the patrimony of St. Peter's. As for the gifts from foreign countries it would be impossible to enumerate them, and many will only arrive to-morrow. The English Catholic clergy offer a magnificent gold medal of Vechte's, executed by MM. Hunt and Roskell, and the laity an offering in money. The United States have sent above a million of francs in a splendid casket. Italy gives as much more, besides the same sum which arrived last week. The King of Prussia has sent a magnificent Berlin vase by his envoy extraordinary, the Prince Hohenlohe, who has just arrived for the express purpose of complimenting the Pope. The Prince Vladimir, of Russia, also presented his congratulations last week, but did not, as far as is known, make any present. Austria has charged her Ambassador, Count Trauttmansdorff, with an autograph letter from the Emperor, and Count Mensdorff's mission has thus been rendered unnecessary. The Emperor Napoleon has sent a splendid set of church ornaments and vestments, and Victor Emmanuel himself has sent a chalice, of £720 value, of pure gold, studded with diamonds. The English lay Catholics now in Rome intend presenting an address and purse to-morrow, and the ladies of different nationalities another. Every great town in France, Germany, and Italy sends its deputations, and they will by reeeiyca the ropy at rvui, in the afternoon in the Peristyle of St. Peter's. The Pope went this evening (Saturday) to close the Tridero, or three days' prayer at the Lateran. The great Basilica was crowded, and the approach of the Pope was the signal for a tremendous burst of cheering from the vast concourse of people. He looked well, but seemed much affected. He himself intoned the "Te Deum," and gave the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The same enthusiasm awaited him on his exit from the church. The streets are more crowded than at Easter, and as the railways throughout Italy have lowered their fares till the 16th 40 per cent., thousands of persons are arriving by every train from Bologna, Florence, and Naples. Apropos of Naples, Menotti Garibaldi has arrived there, and has carried his wife, who was spending the season there, to the mountains of Calabria, where, it is said by those who ought to know best, he intends organising a revolution and attacking Rome. The Cupola will be illuminated this evening, and a series of fireworks, illuminations, &c., occupy Sunday and Monday evenings. For some time past the semi-independent Swiss Cantons havo been engaged in a fierce conflict respecting the question of a tunnel through the Alps. These Swiss Cantons enjoy complete liberty in dealing with their individual affairs, and it is not unnatural that in the question of a railway each should have an eye to its own interests. Some preferred the Simplon, which would run close to French territory, others the Lukmanier, which would run not far from the Austrian boundary. But the majority were in favour of a line by the St. Gothard, which is, indeed, the central and truly Swiss route. The dispute appears to be settled. Switzerland cannot make this railway without aid from countries interested. Italy has declared her preference for the St. Gothard, and Prussia positively declines to support any other. The tunnel will be a stupendous work—ten miles long—and must occupy many years in construction, even with the experience of Mont Cenis. A summit line on the Fell system has been pro. posed, hut the Times Florence correspondent thinks there is no chance of its being adopted. A tele gram from Switzerland states that a company has been formed for the purpose of undertaking this important work. The Swiss companies of the centre and north-east and the chief banks of the Confederation find the greater part of the capital. The necessary assistance from foreign countries-23,600,000—has been obtained. • THE STRIKE AT GENEVA. Arbitration in trade disputes seems to have been tried with some success in Switzerland. For some little time Geneva has suffered from a strike, or a series of strikes, got up, it is said, by the International Society of Work: men. First the society persuaded the printers to cease work, and when these went in the masons were induced to strike. This dispute, however, has now been settled. A. mixed commission of workmen and employers assembled uncle the presidency of a Councillor of State, and suc neded in coming to an arrangement which has been Accepted by both parties. ThE IRISH CHURCH BILL. A correspondent of the Times suggests some' improvements in Mr. Gladstone's bill on the Irish Church, and says that it is not likely so extensive a proposal should be faultless. He considers that no representative body should be incorporated until its construction has been laid before Parliament for a certain definite period. The gravest error of the Government scheme appears in the liquidation divi s ion, where it is proposed to give up the tithe rent charge without any cons id erat i on w h a te ve r. If this be done with a view to propitiate the Irish landlord, the motive would be pusillanimous, but the better solution seems to be that the scheme is a blunder. He thinks that the proposal to compensate the vested interests of Maynooth and the Presbyterian Academy out of the Church funds is a right one, and that there is no ground for com plaint. He objects to the proposed appropriation of the surplus, and questions the wisdom of the gene rous machinery for accomplishing the works of mercy. In conclusion, he declares that he writes in no spirit of hostility to Mr. Gladstone's aim. It may be worth mentioning that Mr. Trench, writing to the Guardian, declares that the so-called present of the tithes to the Irish landowners will involve them in an absolute pecuniary loss. Clearly doctors differ. POST-PRANDIAL ORATORY. The Fislnong, - -rs' Company has been very strong in point of its princely hospitality this season. It has far outshone its brother corporations of the City of London. Ministers of State, ministers of the Church, and both together have dined at the company's board, and spoken through the press to the world afterwards. Another of its magnificent banquets was given on Wednesday, and attended by Prince Teck, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Ducie, the newly-created peer, Lord Lawrence, Sir Roundell P a l mer, the Bishop of Chester, and no end of other celebrities, titled and otherwise. The after-dinner speeches of these notabilities are pub-. Wished in some of the papers to the length of nearly half a page. But the speakers themselves will hardly thank the editors for their kincinqss. The Arch bishop of Canterbury, for instance, is made to say, at the length of some half a column, that he knew of no place where a bishop was more in his position than in joining such a corporation as that. It helped—it may be presqmed to some extent by its education in the ethics of cuisine—to spread refinement and civilisa tion. The only sentence which is worthy of remark was one towards the end, in which, referring to the presence of Dissenting ministers, his Grace said that he always found amongst those who disagreed with the Church of England more points of connection than of difference, and it was their duty to unite on these points without sacrificing principle. The sentiment is by no means new, except, perhaps, in the mouth of a Primate. Lord Lawrence also dealt out the same kind of generalities, and Sir Roundell Palmer hardly relieved the dull tedium of the speaking when he proceeded to argue against that so-frequently -exploded fallacy, that the old times were not necessarily the good times, and to declare that it was necessary for the Legislature to unite tradition with progress, to march on but to beware. The spe ec h es cannot be com plained of. Here was a company of gentlemen called upon to:talk, talk a propos of nothing. What could they say ? It may be very jolly to come together in this way to eat, d r i n k , an d " orate;" but it by no mea ns f o ll ows th a t i t should be all taken down and put int o wr iti ng — muc h less into print. Another banqu e t, w hi c h was perhap s a li tt l e Co the purpose, was h e ld i n th e borough of r. idiril Morgan In bC o t r il e . It was intend e d as a conso l at i on to m Howard, who u nsuccess f u ll y contested the at the election. Th e M arqu i s of Down:s i h r boroughire, Earl Smith, i Beauchamp, the H on . F . W . B. MasseY the member for Westminster, Lord' ociester Lord George H am ilt on, M .P., Messrs. Peek t rnbY, o ' Charley, Sidebott om , an d Vi cars, do honour to th e i r l ess successful brother. rick, M.P., s a id o f th e I r i sh Church Mr. Brod ldbupon e fought Bill that it was whichelaus e they by e o l n a e use of and th r o e se sol z• t h i i o c h nh resolution,byso wh T i h ch at t u h . e a y s t the policy of th e l ea d ers of the ought tt t n o ot tak to e falig f u ul e l t a h n e d if u o uldi s i e v , i dbceudo ervative pa r ty . s u e p u o s n e Of course ev er y one th ought that the Conservativ e reaction had co mmence d generally throughout the mutt:G lad Dukcldgey loixbeth. 182,500,000 7,044,776 02 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 1 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LOADS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE CORN DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was intended to collect the co:n duties until the 4th June. after which, if the house sanctioned the proposals he had sub mitted to it, it would alts ether cease. He could not alter the answer he had given the other day, that it was pro posed to allow any drawimck. COAL MINES. Mr. BBUCE said be iateu ded that evening to move for leave to introduce a bill to consolidate the law with regard to cual THE TELEGRAPHS BILL. The Marquis of in reply to M r . RAE r IN G TON, Baines, said he was afraid he could not give any further informatio n on the subjtct than that he communicated the other evening. The ar4itration of the sums to be paid to some of the companies if the Government took the lines had ben completed, but thegreater part yet remained to be ar ranged. When the arbitration had further advanced, so as to give an idea of the gross sum required he would at once state the course PrDposed by the Government. Ile might, however, say that he should in a few days move, in accordance witl:inotite given in the Gazette, fur leave to bring in a bill, when the bill of last session was carried into operation, to give the Government the monopoly of transmitting telegraphic messages. MEXICO. Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice of his intention to make a of motion on as earl y a day as possible for the re-opening diplomatic relations with Mexico. IRISH CHURCH BILL. On the motion for going into committee, Mr. NEWDEGATE rose to move that the house would, on that day six months, resolve itself into the said com mittee. He said he was quite aware of the desire to press forward the proposals of the Government, but he felt he had also a duty to perform, and that was to give the bill tile most uecompre.i,ing opposition. He objected to go into committee on the bill of the right hon. gentleman, because it would effect a state of things that would be most lamentable for time to come. He objected .to the bill, llTause he believed it would impair the supremacy of the Crown and the supremacy of the law iu Ireland. (Loud cheers from the Opposition.) In fact he looked upon it as a direct invasion of the royal prero gative. (Hear, hear, and cheers from the Opposition.) Colonel S. KNOX seconded the amendment. Mr. S. AYTOLTN complained of the manner in which the College of Maynooth was dealt with in comparison with the Established and Presbyterian Churches. Mr. GLADSTONE defended the course taken by the Ministerialists, which he pointed out was justified by the silence of the Opposition leaders, In reply to Mr. Aytoun he pointed out an amendment which would clearly de fine the trusts on which the compensation would be granted to Maynooth, and assured him that his figures were entirely wrong. The lesson Mr. Gladstone drew from the debate was that the majority of numbers did dot fully re present the actual preponderance of the opinion of the bill, for, while its supporters were unanimous as to their aims and objects, no two speakers on th e other side were agreed as t o th e mo d e i n which they would deal with the Church. To ill us t ra t e the divided counsels of the Oppo. sition, ho w en t th rou gh the debat e, and compared the various speeches. At the same time Mr. Gladstone did not complain of Mr. Newdegate's motion, though many of the arguments did not require an a nswer. The only argu ment which be did answer with any pains was one of Mr. Charley, that the Throne rested on Protestant ascendancy. The Protestant profession of the Sov ere i gn was not as cendancy in th e sense obnoxious to Catholics, nor had they ever complained of it, and he sh owed that the most Protestant of S overe i gns , William 111., had in his day con templated a measure of religious equality not falling far short of this. Mr DISRAELI, though he had not expected so long a debate, w as no t surpr i se d at it, seeing that only f our nights had hitherto been devoted to discussing the prin ciple of one of the most important measures ever submitted to Parliament. Neither did he think the evening wasted (and this sentiment was cheered both by Mr. Gladsfone and Mr. Bright), for there bad been made some of the best speeches he had ever heard. After animad verting on th e un p a rlitunentary and unseemly inter ruptions of th e Ministerialists, he conc l u d ed by expressing a hop e th a t after this division no further obstacle would be offered to going into committee for he was anxious to convince Mr. Gladstone there that the views of the Opposition were more decided and compact than he gave them credit for. On a division Mr. NEWDEGATE'S amendment was re jected by a majority of 126-35.5 to 229. The house then went into committee on the bill at 12 30, but the Chairman left the chair at once without making any progress. The Newspaper Bill was read a second time, and Mr "Qv. to brine in a bill to amAna law relating to the Militia, The house adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock. Foreign Alai' Packet List. MAILS DIIE. 3ustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton ..... April 21 Ditto. via YArseilles ..... •••• April 19 Brazil. Buenos Ayr es , and Monte Video May 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verds, by Brazil pack et May 4. Cape of Good iluPe. Ascension, and St. Helena April 27. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton April 21. bibraltar. via Southanipt ga April 17 India, via Southampton .......... • April 17. uitto ... , via Marseilles .. April 12. Malta, Egypt, ......... • • . April 17. Ditto, Marseilles April 12 Newfoundla no ........... . ..... ....... • • •• May 5 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via Bentham; ton ............................... Ditto, Marseilles Map 9 Portugal ....... ............. •- -• Ma yl. United States, t anad a, Cali fornia,Am, by British packet ...April 11 Ditto, by Canadian packet ... Ditto, by 1. iuited tatcs packet . April Ditto daft (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa. iladeira, and Teneriffe Bahamas, via New York ... West Indies and Pazil c (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cuba and Mexico ......... .... .... April 28 Bermuda, via Halifax, , . May 5 LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAHL—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S MVP. RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey Ir Faded Hai r t o its youthful colour and beauty, and with the drat application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is liven to th e H a i r . It stops the Hair from falling off. It preventsbaldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to ;Tow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shill by most Cho:nista and Patunors. Depot 266, Liiikkralben NEf PEER. Lord LAWRENCE took he oath and his seat on being created a peer. The note lord was introduced by the Duke of Argyll and Lorehelmsford. ECCLESIASICAL COURTS. The Earl SHAFTESBMY moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to cheapen and ex pedite the mode of procedure in the Ecclesiastical Court. After a short discnssionthe bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee. The Clergy Disciplim and Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was also read a secool time, and sent to the same committee. Their lordships then adourned. ! HOUSE OF CONDIONS.—LAsT EVENING. The SPEAKER took the :hair at 4 o'clock. THE IRISH CHURCH FUNDS. Mr. WHALLEY gave notice of his intention to move that any surplus that might rennin of the revenus of the Irish Church after compensaticn had been made should be ap plied to the reduction of tie national debt. (Mar, hear, and laughter.) The Marquis of HARTINGTON said it was the desire to protect as far as possibe the health of the persons en gaged in the transmission .)1 mails, and with that view it was about to try the expeiment of sorting the mails be tween Plymouth and Brittel instead of as was uuw done at sea. le did not say th►t the arrangement fur sorting the letters was completed. RESTORATION OF CONIPOUNDING. Mr. GOSCHEN, in reply to Lord Henley, said it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the ht say th at i t was his inten tion Assessment Bill, but he night to move the introthetion of clauses to enable the owners of small properties to make arrangements for the payment of the rates levied thereon. He would lay upon the table the clauses he proposed to introduce as soon as possible; care would also have to be taken that the rights conferred by the Reform Act of last session were not interfered with. (Hear, hear.) WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. Mr. CHILDERS informed the house, in reply to a question from !Ms. anus, i.u.t arr. JDO.IlleB was not emu.e. to a pension for his 25 years' duties as Admiralty pilot, as he had received full pilotage, which was considered quite sufficient for the services rendered. No eligible offer had yet been made for the premises at Woolwich, and at the present moment he could nut say what would be done with it. BATHING—BATTERSEA PARK. Mr. LAYAJID, iu reply to Mr. Peek, said it would be inconvenient to allow persons to bathe iu the concreted water in Battersea-park until a bathing house was erected. The water was very shallow, and he doubted whether, if the use of the water was allowed, the bathers would de rive any great benefit from the privilege. LA.NDLCEDS' TAXES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. Groville, said tananta called upon in January next to pay their landlords' asEessed taxes would be entitled to deduct them from the rent due in March. Tho tenant, he did not think, would suppose it any great hardship in being called upon t o pay the charges b efore the ordinary time. - . TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA, It is expected that the scheme for establishing overland telegraphic communication between England and India will be completed this year. Wires are already laid along a great part of the route. The line goes from London by way of Thorn, on the Prussian frontier of Russia. Thence it passes through Warsaw to Odessa, through the Crimea to Tiflis, and thence to Teheran, in Persia, where it will join existing lines. Great difficulties, arising from the nature of the territory through which much of the telegraph passes, have been encountered. The prospect of such a speedy termination to the work is both surprising and satisfactory. CIVIL WAR IN JAPAN. The " settlement " in Japan has been of the most tem• porary character. The civil war, which was reported as terminated, has bioken out again. On the day that the Mikado, the successful prince, was married with great pomp, some disturbances took place between the partisans of two rival magnates. The outbreak spread. An ad miral, a partisan of the fallen Tycoon, took possession cf one of the largest Japan islands, and established a Provi sional Government. The party of the North, favourable to the Tycoon, seem to have taken arms agan, and to have made some progress. SIR SAMUEL BAKER'S EXPEDITION. Sir Samuel Baker's expedition to the region around the sources of the Nile is an idea of considerable magnitude. The Viceroy of Egypt is prepared to furnish any material, troops, and supplies that may be necessary. Sir S. Baker is empowered to occupy the whole of the district lying between the fourth degree of north and the second degree of south latitude. The primary object of the undertaking is to put a stop to the slave trade. Khartoum, situated at the junction of the two great branches of the Nile, is the great emporium for slaves at present. Through this town they are sent to Egypt and the Red Sea. Sir Samuel Baker will stop the departure of any vessels from Khartoum. Steamers will cruise from this emporium, and military posts will be established at proper intervals, thus closing the only northern outlet of the Central African slave trade. These posts will extend from Khartoum to the Albert Nyanza lake, two degrees south of the Equator. The whole of the intervening territory is to be subjugated, the wars between the native chieftains will be forbidden, and thus the supply of slaves will be cut off. The undertaking is clearly neither trifline nor easy. THE MASTERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE. The Guardian believes that there is some mistake as to Archdeacon Robinson's resignation of the Mas tership of the Temple. Ile will shortly complete the term which will entitle him to a pension; but in the meanwhile he is not likely to resign. Dr. Miller, Mr. Plumptrc, and Mr. Liddon have been mentioned in ecclesiastical circles as the Archdeacon's suc cessor. DISABLED DISIIOPS. The Guardian, which is, we believe, neither a very Radical nor very Dissenting pap er , remar ki ng upon Sir Massey Lopes s question and Mr. Gladstone's reply about incapable bishops, says, Mr. Gladstone, answering Sir Massey Lopes, very much regrets' that a considerable number of dioceses are at present deprived of responsible episcopal superintendence ' by the illness or infirmity of their respective bishops ; but he believes and hopes that the Episcopal Bench are considering the matter, and that they will be prepared within a reasonable time to advise the Government respecting it. We hope so too. It is evident that, with or without the advice of the bishops, means must be provided for preventing the recurrence of so great an evil." We fear that there is small chalice of the first alterna tive coming to pass. It is to Parliament, not to Convocation, that Churchmen must look for relief. ' The Bishop of Winchester appears to be in a very zritical state. It is said that although there is some slight improvement in his health yet he remains in a serious and alarming condition at Farnham Park, Surrey, and very slight hopes of his recovery are entertained by his friends and medical advisers. Bishop Ryan, late Bishop of Mauritius, is assisting in the duties connected with the diocese of Winches ter. Bishop Sumner is 70 years old, and has been longer bishop than any other prelate now living. lle was consecrated to the see of Llandaff in 1826 (being then only 30 years old), and was translated to Win chester in 1827. The annual value of the see is now £10,417, but it will be considerably reduced on the next vacancy. Bishop Sumner was the founder and the first minister of the English Church at Geneva, no less than fifty-five years ago. DITUALISM OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. Even if the Church Association should succeed in putting down Ritualism in the English Church, there is no likelihood that it will die out altogether so long as Freemasonry survives. In this institution the ritual is both elaborate and gorgeous. A very grand ceremony took place at the Freemasons' Hall in London on Wednesday. The occasion was the dedication of the new building. The Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland, was seated on a throne, and sur rounded by a thousand of the officers of lodges from various parts of the country, and in full attire. There was a sermon, and singing by a large choir, and the dedication was performed according to the ancient rites, with corn, wine, and oil. It would be interesting to know how many Masons there are in the Church Association, and presuming there to be any, one would like to know how they explain their love for ritualism in the " Lodge" and their dislike of it in the Church, the first being, in their opinion, a religious building, even as the second is. GRANTS TO SCOTLAND. It does really seem that it is an evil thing for England that it is not Ireland or Scotland just now. Mr. Lowe has been closing his fist very tightly when money has been asked forany English institu tion. Compare this with Scotland. The amount to be voted this year for the new Glasgow University Buildings is £20,000 ; and for the Industrial Museum, Edinburgh, £lO,OOO. The Aberdeen Court-houses also are to get £10,000 ; an d the total estimate for Court-houses in Scotland is £29,048. SCOTCH GAME LAws, The Scotch game laws, as they now stand, have found a very warm advoc a t e i n M r. Horatio Ross, who writes to the Times at great length on the grie vances of landowners and sportsmen. Ile has not, he tells us, missed a season on the moors of Scotland for the last fifty-five years, and for forty-five years he has rented either a grouse moor or a deer forest, so that he claims to be well informed on the matter. He considers that if any of the bills now before Par liament for the reform of the Scotch game laws should be carried, a " healthful, charming recreation " will be destroyed, and a serious injury inflicted on the owners of property. Mr. Locke's bill, which he admits to be the most popular of the three bills introduced on this subject, is also, in his estimation, the most objectionable. :The arguments which he adduces against it are likely, however, to have more weight with sportsmen than with the general public. The clause which cancels in existing leases the agreement made by the landowners with their tenants with regard to game, he holds to be a " monstrous case of breach of covenant,"an d the power given to f armers to claim damages for injury to their crops from neighbouring proprietors would, he thinks, lead to e n dl ess li tigation. He reminds the farmers that the rural districts of Scotland have been greatly benefited by the annual influx of sportsmen, and assures them that, if they push matters too far, landlords will farm their own lands, or grant yearly leases. THE PARADISE OF DRUNKARDS. The following advertisement (omitting the address) appears in one of the morning papers :—" Intemper ance.-1 clergyman, residing in ono of the Orkney Islands, offers a home for a gentleman given to the above. There is no temptation within reach. Climate mild and healthy. Highest references. Communications considered confidential." The Orcadians • seem to be in the same happy condition as their brethren in race the rural Norwegians, free from the temptations of the beershop and the gin palace. It is, in fact, a paradise of drunkards, a place in which they regain lost soberness, health ) and happiness. LEGAL TECHNICALITIES. Lord Campbell, in his " Life of Lord Brougham," just issued, relates some curious stories of how the latter peer had behaved in his first circuit. He had to defend several criminal cases. There was that of a man th am a it tookdidobjection charged notsp e e w i ft i t ; h vi i t le e e a t i li hn e n dr g i ct a thne s i he sheep h e t p e oe . np tw Lord lnes ga rßotruuonpu! ewe, or wether, arguing that if the indictment had simply said " animal," it would not have been sufficient. We are told the legal mind of the judge was at first much exercised until the prosecuting counsel pointed out the words of the statute. Then a man was charged with stealing " boots," and it turned out that he had purloined " half-boots." The then Mr. Brougham made the obvio us o bj ection, and persisted in it until the judge, finding out that he was being played with, put down the counsel with much assumed dignity. Something of the kind has just taken place at Bir mingham. Two prisoners were charged with steal ing " deal boards fixed to a building." That they had stolen certain boards was proved ; but the Recorder, who was trying the case, discovered that what they had taken was " woodwork belonging t 9 a building." And so the prisoners were letloose. What u a ld le i g io a t l in to an haN c , o e e a d g u o c o a d t i o t n h . ing a 'h i e t a l l ig u l t st o b f e a f e m r e a r e l n l a a n y possibly have seen through these deal boards. A COMET. A comet is announced. A correspondent of- the Times writes that on Wednesday evening, between seven and nine, he watched one in the north-west heavens. It was a very brilliant one, he says, and had disappeared at nine. Is this - a veritable new sen sation r am or otl;crgst MAGAZINE" ON OUTGOING AND THE INCOMING PRESIDENT (From the Anglo-American Times.) There is an arti c l e i n B lackwood ' s 111agaz.; " of this month on " The Outgoing and the Incoming President." B ot h Andrew Johnson and Genera l Grant ar e sketched, but scarcely with the 1 10, accuracy of that p er i o di ca l . This outline of Gran t's career contains many errors which may well so t " prise, considering to what notoriety within so late a period he has attained. It is not our business; however, to corr ec t th ese, b ut we desire to extra ° some remarks o f i n t erest w i th which the article a' , the same time abounds. The writer says that after General Joseph E. Johnston was removed—a m i _' take of Mr. Jefferson Davis—and G enera l 1 1 ° A ' substituted, Sherman saw his chance , t with the inspiration of gen i us, and telegraphed to Genera , Grant before Richmond for permi ss i on t o mare' with 50,000 men f rom Atlanta, right through the heart of Georgi a . I t was a march of i5O miles to the city of Sa vanna h, an d the road was full of PO' sible and but t oo pro b a b le dangers. Grant w as sitting in his t en t b e f ore Richmond thinking an smoking, as is bi s wont, when the telegram je cipher was received. He read and reread it seve ral tunes, and smoked and smoked with a vigour apportioned to the importance of his silent cogi i :i 3 " tions. When he had thought it over suffieiently , he called a council of war, and submitted the Car y and emphatic document to the opinion of his 0' cers. Nobody knew what to make of it or wb at to advise. Grant smoked, and passed no opini° ° for some time. At last, having heard what every' body had to say, he put the telegram in his pocket? drew the cigar from between his lips, and said , while he knocked away the ash preparatory to another whiff—' Gentlemen, the General must d° as he thinks best. In the art of war we are all of 11l babies compared with Sherman." On the night of the 6th December, Mr. Lincoln addressing al l excited crowd from the balcony of the White House, said, "Fellow-citizens—I know where Sher man went in, but I don't know where he will come out." Nor did anybody else except Grant. Maga gives the following foot-note to show the love of the mass of Northerners for the Union—for which they were prepared to sacrifice anything , even liberty—" While the Convention that nated. Abraham Lincoln for the second term was sitting at Baltimore, in July, 1864, a Wesfero orator, of Trish extraction, related a story of a patriotic old lady at Cincinnati, who had seven sons killed in the bloody battles of the North. ll ° Mayor and Corporation of the City sent'a deputa tion to condole with the good woman on he r great loss. " Never mind me, gentlemen," said the old lady, "I only wish I had known when I was 3 younger woman that this war was coming, and would have had seventeen sons instead of seven to fight the battles of the Union." The writer thinks finance is the touchstone of General Grant's Pre° sidency—holding tone opinion that repudiation i,sfar from being dead. " All other questions are small, and of poor account, compared with this. And one of the difficulties in his path—and a very consider able difficulty he is likely to find it—is that a very urgent and powerful section of the people does not want to pay the piper at all." " Repudiation is an odious word to the merchants and bankers of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, and to all the leading commercial people throughout the Union ; but not odious to the farmers and mecha nics of the Far West, or to the bulk of the Southern people, forced by the superior authority of the in vincible North to repudiate their own war debt, and not at all indisposed to be freed from the weight of taxation imposed upon them to help to pay the ex penses of their own subjugation." The question is one of expediency, of policy, of wisdom, as well as of morality. Blackwood's foot-note we have given, was intended to show what Ameri cans will give and endure for the Union. If they are persuaded that the interests of that Union will be forwarded by honesty in this matter, and deeply injured by dishonesty, why should they not endure in this matter as well as on the battle-field? IVe do not disguise the truth that it is possible for the question again to come up, but we doubt that, under any circumstances, can it advance to the front under more favourable auspices than last fall, when it was most disgracefully defeated, and driven with ignominy from the field. We do not think bond holders need entertain much fear, but no one can at any time say they are absolutely safe. NAVAL AND 111-ILI7ARY INTELLIGENCE A general court-martial has assembled at Col chester for the trial of Private O'Connell, 9th Regiment, for insubordination. The president of the Court was Colonel Tower, C. 8., 3d Dragoon Guards, and Colonel Laye appeared as Judge- Advocate. The sentence will not be promulgated until her Majesty's pleasure is made known. Yesterday two troops of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons arrived at Aldershot. The remainder of the regiment is expected to-day. On Tuesday the Ist Infantry Brigade at Alder shot, under the command of Major-General D Lysons, C. 8., consisting of the 2d battalion 6th Regiment, under Colonel Elkington ; the Ist battalion 12th, under Colonel Meade; anfl the Ist battalion 25th (King's Own Borderers), formed up on their respective parades and marched to the General Parade, South Camp, where they were exercised by the Major-General in various field movements, which were well executed, and were concluded by the brigade marching past at the double with arms at the trail. The Lizard, 2, 150 horse-power, iron paddle wheel steamer, has been entirely broken up in the fourth dock at Chatham, and the dock will at once be prepared for the reception of the double-screw armoured-plated turret ship Cerberus, 2,107 tons, 250-horse power, which is shortly expected to ar rive at Chatham to be prepared for commission for service at Melbourne. [ADVERTISEMENT ]— Consumption, and all bilious, nervous, stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-?estoring Revalenta Arabica, Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, eon sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ment's, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu• rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy,. cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest. pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other temedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro luced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi,' July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Rob er t s, t i mber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and p art i al deafness:— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decks, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. ." Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickne ss an d vomiting.—MariaJoly." 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HEALTH RESTO W BARR' and Infat saves fift T EE y tinnE perfect digestice refreshing sleep most disorder°, effectually Indic gumption, habit rangements, nervousness, hi catarrhs, colds, rheumatism, g 4 ralgia, irritabi heartburn, boa nausea and sick fits, bronchitis, the pit of the E the most digosti for invalids and IMPORTANT C and more than raj: Henceforth da ßa l rer already L Infants' yFri roc Du Barry's hen Fe has been deemed ha toss the Pope, by it after thirt' We quote fret; 18 ,113) ; _it B on rf oly Father is other remedies,rY Revalen Plateful at ever 1)371556.60.1 effect Praise this excel Cure No. 58 Years' liver con tiers, irrit.ahility io s est ion, consti nervous agitatio Cure No. 7 8 St uart de Dec:: ' T ° fi Cure No. 49 YSpe o Ly rn fcml Corn y il l a tt_lin i . t s tier a °ll :l ( ; 3l l-B : ),.s cea s 6 l l o 2 , i' B T T ; The _Food is a. nist3r ; 1271 carria, Arry tin ,toisters • 1 , P 8 at 6 s• for f ut cna penny roe o f carriu aIe)bRYDUZ at A Tort ;,aeechut 03.--n,•114 Z. 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