The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-16 00:00:00

HALE OF MADAME _RACHEL'S' PROPERTY. The sale of the effects belonging to Madame Rachel commenced on Monday. The property was described in the advertisements in that glowing language for which our auctioneers have generally been distinguished—" a matchless sideboard," a handsome set of carved oak ;hairs, a rare and valuable clock, and a pair of mas sive candelabra, " formerly belonging to the Emperor of the French ;" a pair of incense burners, on carved ebony stands, " formerly the property of the King of Delhi." Dispersed throughout the house, adopting the words of the catalogue) were " numerous works of art and an extensive collection of articles of vertu, many of them being pre sentations from Madame Rachel's distinguished patronesses ;" a full-compassed piano by Kirkman ; about 1,000 volumes of hooks, and an extensive cellar of wines, &c. As a matter of course, there was much criticism respecting the authenticity of the articles described ; and a great deal of speculation was afloat as to how long a time had elapsed since the objects which were said to have formerly belonged to the Emperor of the French and the King of Delhi had found their way from the palaces of those renowned potentates. There was a very large attendance of buyers and spectators. The " company were not of the most refined description, and the crowd was so great outside the street that it was thought necessary to secure the services of several of the police, who were placed at the door of the house, prohibiting admittance to a public sale, except on presentation of a catalogue—price Is. ; yet such was the course adopted on this occasion, that those who had not the satisfaction of possessing the required pass port were admitted to the privilege of purchasing one on the premises. In order to accomplish this object, people were permitted to enter the dining-room, when:, at the end nearest the window, sat Madame Rachel her self, with her two daughters, all gracefully attired for the occasion, and each, paying tha closest attention to the traffic in catalogues, the proceeds of which were piled up on the table before them, and conveyed a strong impres sion that this part of the day's "sale" was not by any means the least remunerative. It may be presumed that Madame Rachel was lawfully justified in making a spe cific charge for admission to a residence which has latterly attracted so much public attention ; but the novelty of a proceeding which issued invitations to a sale by auction, and at the same time demanded " money at the doors," was naturally the theme of general su p ise. BABY FARMENG. At the ordinary meeting of the Social Science.Associa Eon, on Monday evening, Dr. Farr, F.R.S. presiding, a paper was read by Mr. J. B. Curgenven on the subject of " Baby Farming and the Registration of Nurses." Not withstanding that all interested in the matter were invited not more than a dozen persons were present. The paper referred to the practice of a lowclass of midwives receiving into their houses single women to be confined, taking the child for a fixed sum, or a small weekly payment, too frequently occasioning its death by neglect or ill-treat• ment. The Jaggers and the Winden cases were alluded to by way of illustration, and alter stating that the annual number of illegitimate children born in this country was 50,000, of whom two-thirds were put out to nurse to these baby farmers, it urged the duty of State supervision by means of an efficient system of medical registration, and advocated a scheme of colonisation for illegitimate children "mong the families of the honest, industrious poor. The •-riter recommended the association to frame a measure to be submitted to Parliament, providing for the registra tion and supervision of all dry or foster nurses who receive children to take care of, and all persons adopting chil dren for a money consideration. Provision to be made for the registration of the child and the parent or parents, the feeding medical care (by the union medical officer), vaccination, education at the parish school, and other obviously neces sary details. Captain Clode moved that the paper be printed and circulated amongst the members, and referred to the standing committee of health, recommending the preparations of a bill embodying the chief points suggested by Mr. Curgenven. Mr. Theobald, although agreeing that registration was necessary, thought it wrong to commit the society to all the remmmendAtions of the paper, especially to the inference that all nurses or institutions receiving nurse children were in a more or less degree criminal. He thought the paper should be simply referred to the committee for con sideration. Dr. Rendle considered that one great cause of the number of illegitimate births was the tone of society, which discouraged young men from marrying by exempting them in one way or other from taxes and other pecuniary burdens which married men were neces sarily liable to. Child murder was too often dealt lightly with by our criminal courts, although it was well known that in many instances when a child was entrusted to one of these advertising nurses it was expected it would only live for two or three months. He advocated more stringent regulations for investigating and registering the causes of deaths. The discussion was continued by Dr. .Acton and another speaker, who suggested that, to go to the root of evil, they must alter the bastardy laws, so as to make the father of the illegitimate child more directly liable. If the Foundling Hospital carried out the objects for which it was founded in accordance with its ample means, the existing evil would be reduced to a considerable extent. In the end Mr. Curgenven was thanked for his paper, which was referred to the com mittee. LAW AND POLICE. THE INDIAN SUCCESSION CASE.—On Monday Lorr Chelmsford gave the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the great Indian succession case. The appellant claimed the Raj of Tipperah on the Hills, with the vast estates belonging to it, which are worth between £60,000 and £70,000 a year. The late rajah had made him his successor, hut the respondent, the elder brother, claims to be the rajah. That claim has been allowed by the Privy Counci], for Lord Chelmsford dis. missed the appeal with costs. THE DOCTOR'S BILL.—In the Rolls Court, on Monday, the case of Dr. Clarke was concluded. It will be remem- bered that the appellant, a physician, charged £3lO for attending on two young ladies named Sanger. At the close of Dr. Clarke's case, an offer of 100 guineas, which had been previously made by the guardians of the patients, was renewed and accepted. The Master of the Rolls, therefore, dismissed the summons, observing that he thought it more than Dr. Clarke was entitled to, and that if he had decided the case he should have disallowed all the charges for country visits-275 having been charged for three visits to Brighton, and £7O for two to Worthing —and he should have greatly reduced the charges for the visits in town. INEFFICIENCY OF THE Law.—At Clerkenwell, on Mon- Jay, a lad was charged with having fought with boxing gloves on Sunday morning, near Highbury. The magis- trate considered that he had no power to interfere in the matter, as the place where the fight took place was private property. A PoLicElrAN's MISTAKE.-At Marlborough-street, on Monday, a gentleman appeared to complain of the inac tion of a policeman. A man was ill-treating his wife, but, notwithstanding her fearful screams, the constable refused to interfere, declaring that he had no power to do so unless he heard the cry of " Murder." The magistrate held this to be a mistake, but said that the police had a difficult task to perform. ALLEGED PorsowNa.—The Leeds magistrates, or' Saturday, dismissed the charge against Richard Atkin son, who was accused of causing the death of a widow, named Scott. Mr. Atkinson was a friend of the deceased, and had compounded a plaster for her of arsenic and herbs, to cure a cancer from which she was said to be suffering. She grew worse, and died, the doctors who attended her attributing her death to the applica- tion of arsenic. It was shewn that the accused had only acted from kindness, and had previously made successful „cures. A SUCCESSFUL IMPOSTURE.—At the Lincoln Assizes .wo men were charged with obtaining money by false pre• tences. They bad inserted an advertisement in some pro. vincial papers for persons willing to adopt a child three months' old, £5OO to be paid by the advertisers. A number of answers were received, and the impostors next demanded 55. in postage stamps as a token of good faith. In all 370 letters were received, most of them containing the required stamp s , an d one o f th em w ith a £s no t e . Th e prisoners were found guilty, and sentence was deferred. THE QUEEN AND THE BORDERS.- -The Dune. fries Herald understands that there is a probability that the recent interview between her Majesty the Queen and Thomas Carlyle may result in a royal visit to the banks of the Nith. THE QUEEN'S JOURNAL AND THE LIFE OF TIIE PRINCE CONSORT.—The Council of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union have received fro:n the Queen several copies of the above works for their circu'atin2 library, all bearing the royal autograph. About IO,COC artisans are members of the institutions which at present subscribe to this library, and hardly a week passes without fresh applications for admission to its advantages. SACRILEGE AT DEPTFORD. — On Monday naornin A daring act of sacrilege was fonwl to have been coin mitten during the night, at the chu rc h of St. Nicholas. Deptford. After the administration of the Sacrament of Sunday, the silver plate was deposited in an iron salt under the vestry, and an entry was found to have beet effected by the window leading the vestry-room, th( iron safe being forced open and the silver plate abstracted. the thieves getting clear off with the booty. Before lean. ing the sacred edifice they ruisco_ndueted themselves in disgraceful manner. CONGRESS. THE SENATE. On the 17th Feb. the bill for a site for a new Executive Mansion, Mr. Sumner's bill striking out the word " white" from the naturalization law, and the credentials of 11. V. M. Miller, Senator elect from Georgia, were reported adversely. The Ju diciary Committee also reported their opinion that the President's last Amnesty Proclamation was illegal. A substitute for the Supreme Court Judge Bills was reported from the same committee by Mr. Trumbull. It provides'for the continuance of his full salary for life to a Supreme Judge who shall resign at the age of seventy years. The House message asking a conference on the suffrage amend ment was taken up, and the Senate receded from its amendments to the proposition. On a motio❑ to concur in the House proposition, the yeas were 31 and the nays 27, so the motion failed for want of the necessary two-thirds. On the motion of Mr. Stewart, the amendment of the senate Judiciary Committee was then considered and paned—yeas 35, nays 11.—On the 18th, bills were reported to en courage the building of steamships, and to establish an American line of steamships to Europe, and re lating to captures by Admiral Farragut's fleet in the passage to New Orleans. The Virginia Election Bill was reported with amendments. Adverse re ports were made on the bill to create a Department of House Affairs, proposing an Electoral College Tribunal, and extending the time of commence ment for certai❑ suits in the Court of Claims. Mr. Thayer introduced a bill requiring the planting of trees o❑ the homestead settlements. The resolution to pay Senators from the Reconstruction States for the full term of the Fortieth Congress was discussed. The Indian Appropriation Bill was considered. The credentials of Allen G. Thurman, Sena tor elect from Ohio, was presented. The house Funding Bill was agreed to in evening session.— On the 19th Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to repeal the Act fixing the head-quarters of t he General of the Army at Washington, and requiring orders of the President and Secretary of War to be issued through him. The bill in relation to prize money for Admiral Farragut's fleet and the men of the Kearsarge was passed. The Indian Appropriatiol. Bill was passed, an amendment transferring the India Bureau to the War Department having bee:, rejected. The Tenure-of-Office B:11 was taken up, but the Senate adjourned without acting upon it. —On the 20th Feb. the credentials of Senator elect Casserly, of California, were presented. The bill repealing the Tenure-of-Office Act was dis cussed. The total repeal of the Act was advo cated by Senators Doolittle, Dixon, Morton and Robertson, while is modification only was urged by Senators Conkling, Howe, and Sawyer. On the 22(1 the United States Senate took a recess until evening to allow of a caucus of the Republican Sena tors, in relation to the Tenure-of-Office Act. On reassembling at 7 p.m. the bill abolishing the office of Superintendent of Exports was passed. The Supplementary Banking Bill, which provides for a re-distribution of the currency, was considered, the House amendments rejected, and a conference asked. The Suffrage Amendment, as passed by the Houseovas considered, hut not acted upon.—On the 23d the Suffrage Amendment was taken up, and Mr. Stewart moved to disagree and ask a committee of conference with the House. Mr. Davis moved to pestpoue all business in order, and consider the bill respecting the Tenure-of-Office Act. Mr. Davis's motion was lost—the yeas being 14, and the nays 36. Mr. Stewart's motion was then car- • ried by a vote of 32 to 23, aed a committee of conference was appointed. The bill to supply deficiencies in approi:riatiou for In dian trea'i(s was passed. Mr. Trumbuli's bill 1 0 amend the judi.Aal system was also passed. It provides for nine independent Circuit Judges to do the business of the circuits now done by the Supreme Judges, at an annual salary of $5,000 each. The bill to punish office hold;ng in violation of the Fourteenth Article was discussed. The Amendatory Civil Rights Bill was passe t. The ill reorganizing the Supreme Court was considered. Various bills were passed in evening session, in cluding cne giving consent to the erection of a bridge across the Delaware, at Philadelphia.—Ou the 24th the Judiciary Committee reported the Georgia Bill and the bill to abolsh peonage. The veto of the Copper Bill was read, and the bill passed over it by a vote of 37 to 12. Messrs. Fessenden, Ferry, Grirm s, Trumbull, t=rnner, and Van Wink le were among those voting no. 'J, he bill to provide a provisional government for Mississipii was re ported. The Army Appropriation Bill was con sidered. Ihe bill repea!ing the law requiring the General of the Army to temain in Washington, and that all orders to the army b. issuud through him, was passed ; also the joint resolution dropping irom the army roll certain officers absent three months without leave.— On the 25th a bill was reporter pro viding for a board to consider the question of pre venting obstructions of the harbours of the United States. The bill exempting manufacturers of naval machinery from tax was passed. The Army Ap propriation Bill was consul red. The Suffrage Amendment was made the order for to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On Feb. 17 the Election Committee recommended that none of the c o nt estan t s f r om the Second Loui siana District were entitled to their seats. The Supplementary National Banking Bill was consi dered, and a men d men t s were a d op t e d and rejected, and finally th e bill was ta bl e d , a mot i on to reconsi der being pending and in order to-day. The Army Appropriation Bill was discussed in evening ses sion.--On the 18th th e El ec tio n Committee reported that Thomas A. Hamilton, claiming a seat as Re presentative at large from Tennessee, was not en titled to it. The Supplementary,National Bank ing Bill came up on a motion to reconsider the vote laying it ou the table, and its reconsideration was agreed to. After some Parliamentary tactics the bill was recommitted, with instructions that it be forthwith reported back with the first three sec tions and Mr. Coburn's amendment as a fourth. The bill being so reported was passed, yeas 106, na) a 77 . The Army Bill wr s considered in evening session.— On the 19th the Army Appropriation Bill was taken up, and Mr. Blaine's amendment in relation to the reduction of the army was adopted. A bill to defiue felonies, &c., was passed. The Post 4f-ice Appropriation Bill was considered.—On the 20th the report of the Election Committee, giving the seat of delegates from New Mexico to Mr. Chaves, was adopted. A resolution passed, postponing the time for meeting of the Forty first Congress from noon to three o'clock on the 4th of March. The Suffrage amendment was passed, so modified as to prevent the abridg ment of the franchise, "or right to hold office on account of race, colour, nativity, or previous condition of servitude." It gots back to the Senate for concurrence.—On the 22d various bills were introduced and referred. Mr. 'Williams introduced a bill granting the right of way to the Memphis, Et Paso, and Pacific Railroad Company to the Pacific Ocean, which was passed by a vote of 122 to 40. Mr. Schenck called up his bill "to strengthen the public credit," but the House instead of discus sing it went into Committee on the Post-office Ap propriation Bill, which was passed with some amendmehts, mostly reductions. The Naval Ap propriation Bill was considered.—O n the 23d the Election Committee reported that J. H. Casement was not entitled to a seat as delegate from Wyom ing Territory. The President's message, vetoing the Copper Tariff Bill, was read, and the bill passed over the veto—yeas 115, nays 56. The New York Election Committee made a report, accompanied by several bills and resolutions. One of the bills, withdrawing naturalizationi jurisdiction from the Supreme .r an in d N Ci e r w cu l it ro C rk ou c r i t t s y a a n n d d C c o o n u r n t toy f , AmendmentA aconndfeNreanvcaet ‘OvLerpminority report was then presented, a a s n s d ed ri . 'e A rtnt wasn c o , d rd b ,i, r y e d M o e n ss t r h s e . s i u :A ff )s r s ag a e n d Kerr. The bill "to strengthen the public Appropriations. T c r h e e d i Le a g nd i sl a l t e i g v a e l i Appropriationgol B was, F i c c o o n n s s i d i d e e r r e e d. d in committee of the Whole, and an amendment o a, f l adopted strut spe ik ci i a n l g oievtchnenappropriationo f n o e r r. t — h e o salary of the Special I'evcrtue Coniwissio r.—On the 2fats!' passed b i l , l" as t o bi t l e t d o ti s strengthen ti, public Committee, by a ote of tive Appropriation was ll7 to - °')-i(.lThe Legisla erccl. --On the c 25th Mr. Kelley's Nickel Coinage was passed. - The confirence report on the Diplomatic anew Appro priation Bill was presented and rejected, and conference asked. .'The conference report on the Suffrage Amendment was adopted, being the Senate proposition. The Legislative and Deficiency Ap priation Bills were considered. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports son. Quotations on application 'to ;,Messre. Danville and Co. 11c1fakit; or 4, Beaufol-buildings Strand, Loudon W.g—[Ad- Ttrtibenaelat. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. with education, expresses a hope that that inquiry will be thorough and searching. " There must be no mixing or lumping together of schools, but each class of schools must be distinctly set out, whether Church of England, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, British, Baptist, ragged, &c., and the scholars in them, so that each religious denomination can test the accuracy of the figures, and detect either omissions or duplicates. . . . The mere counting of children who are in the streets between school hours (as Mr. Melly's policemen did in the twelve streets in Liverpool), and then setting these down as unedu cated because not at school, is a fallacy which ought never again to enter into argument. Out of every hundred children whose names are on school regis ters at least twenty-six:are absentees, but not chronic absentees." Widows' schools must also be discovered and visited, so that none shall be left out who are receiving education. What is called a blot on Mr. Forster's Endowed Schools Bill is pointed out in the Star by the Head Master of an Endowed School. There is no provi sion for the representation of the schoolmaster in the new Education.d Council. The council is to consist of twelve members, six to be nominated by the Uni versities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, and the remaining six by the Crown. The two analogous bodies—the Medical Council and. the Council of Legal Education—which regu late the professions of medicine and law, and which have doubtless suggested the idea of the proposed Council of Education, are wholly composed of professional men. "It is quite possible," writes the correspondent, " that among the nominees of the universities or of the Crown some persons profes sionally engaged in teaching may be included; but just as on a medical council medical men find a place, not because they are members of this or that uni versity, but because they have attained to eminence in their profession, so on an educational council, if it is expected to secure the confidence of the great body of the schoolmasters of the country, oug!r teachers to be placed, avowedly and on principle, and not by accident." returned to the Piussian capital, ana that tne Austnan Ambassador at Berlin has arrived at Vienna. It does not appear that any real importance is to be attached to these journeys, but they are undertaken at an unusual period of tbe year, and it is not surprising that such very general perambulation should give rise to comment. The Times Florence correspondent telegraphs that Count Brassier de St. Simon has been appointed Prissian Minister in place of Count Usedom. THE REFORM LEAGUE. The Reform Leaguers have taken a very wise course. They have reconsidered their decision to hold together as long as possible, and have rescinded it. That they have fulfilled a certain mission no one denies—this even the Standard admits. But it is very angry with the Liberal party for allowing them to, do the work and letting them go w ith ou t rewar d . They gave the nation democracy, but democracywould have nothing to say to them. Not a man of them was returned at the election ; and Mr. Beales has had no attention bestowed upon him, except by the Lord Chief Justice, who took away his revising barrister ship. The Standard points out also that the League was formed to agitate for manhood suffrage, and is satisfied with less. Mr. Howell's answer to this is that he and his friends were opposed to the elections being conducted by a class. The suffrage is no longer a class suffrage. The nation has to thank the League for its formation. for the work it did, and for shutting its doors when the work was done. As for ' reward " the work must be, and doubtless is, its, own. PAWNBROKERS AND HABITUAL CRIMINALS. A "Liverpool Pawnbroker" writes on the subject of Cle Criminal Bill now before the House of Lords, and declares that his class is unjustly dealt with in being associated with the habitual criminals of this country. A great difference exists between respectable pawnbrokers and the keepers of leaving shops. The writer declares that the pawnbroker and his assistants often lend valuable aid to the cause of justice. Another correspondent on the same subject declares that the bill will affect the numerous class of necessitous persons who have dealings with the pawnbroker. He refers to statistics to shew that there is no necessity for the proposed change in the law, and declares that in his own business there were taken in during the year upwards of 70,000 pledges, and only four out of that number were stolen. Ile adds that pawnbrokers do not deserve to be legislated for as receivers of stolen property. A NEW PEERAGE. The Star makes without qualification the state ment that Sir John Lawrence, the late Governor-- General of India, will, when he reaches this country, be raised to the peerage. Our contemporary gives no authority for this statement, but it is likely to be correct in its announcement, as a seat in the Upper House is- considered a complement of the Indian Viceroyship. CARDINAL CULLEN ON FENIANISM. The old proverb about the argumentative gentle man who is convinced against his will, applies very aptly to those who call themselves Anti-Romanista. nettling would convince the members of tne Protestant Association that Cardinal Cullen is not the leading spirit of Fenianism. If it is possible to convince them, they ought certainly be persuaded by his Eminence's letter to his clergy, just published. It is as opposed to Fenianism as the former productions of the same hand, and is written in reply to an application to have a collection in all churches after Mass on St. Patrick's Day, for the families of the released Fenian prisoners. He points out that the released prisoners are not in want of money, as funds have already been raised to assist them. Being strong, they ought immediately to be able to gain their own livelihoods. Ile cannot look upon the movement as coming from the pure spring of charity, but rather as a political stratagem to obtain from the country a mark of approbation of the conduct of the prisoners, or an attempt to identify the Catholic clergy with Fenianism and secret societies, which had been repeatedly denounced. There are thousands of poor widows, artisans, and other persons in poverty who are more deserving objects of public donations. His concluding para graph is a eulogy of the Irish Church measure, which, he thinks, will largely contribute to spread contentment, and produce harmony amongst all classes. " Still," he goes on to say, "to assist in ob taining so important an object, we must be watchful lest the cockle should spring up again, and it will be useful to remind your flocks from time to time that all who enrol themselves in secret societies tending to overthrow the true Church or civil society, such as Fenians, Ribbonmen, and Freemasons, are con demned by the Church and subjected to excommu nication andother ecclesiastical penalties." The Dublin Evening Mail considers the latter part of the letter a practical admission " that England will not succeed in the miserable policy of ruling Ireland through Rome, which is at present the only stratagem British statesmanship can discover for itself." THE THREATENED STRIKE AT PRESTON. A great meeting convened by the Preston Amal gamated Trades Council is to be held at the Preston Theatre to-day to consider the wages question. On Sunday a meeting of delegates from the operative weavers in Lancashire was held in the same town. After a discussion of two hours, resolutions were passed recommending that the proposed reduction of wages should be referred to ten arbitrators, five representing the masters, five the operatives, with an umpire ; that if this be not agreed upon the opera tives should go out on strike, and light rs long as they are able, and that each district should do its best to collect money to carry out this resolu tion. PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA. The lately-elected member for Oxford is as diffuse in his Communications to the 7'imes as of yore ; but while " Historicus" as honoured w ith l arge type, " 'Vernon Harcourt" vas to content himself with ordinary lettering. He has now got into a discus sion with the Economist on the question whether nations at war should capture or respect private p:Dperty at sea belonging to the enemy. Mr. Har court's original argument was that war should be made as horrible as possible ; that every class in each nation should be made to suffer during the conflict ; so that everybody should be concerned in averting it. The shipping interest, therefore, must be liable to be seriously damaged. To this the Economist agrees so far as the general principle is concerned, but objects to its application. Icy Mr. Harcourt's provision, the enemy has the power to ruin a very small class, but the nation at large is not affected. Mr. Harcourt is challenged to show that, seeing that neutrals may carry enemies' property, there is any kind of appre ciable addition to the national burdens by allowing the capture of enemies' vessels. Mr. Harcourt replies that the class he would make war afflict has a great influence. " 'When hostilities are threatened it is of great political consequence to have the shipowning interest adverse to war. That war will ever be declared by any Government in this country, contrary to the voice of the three members for Liverpool and the three members for Glasgow, is a thing which I shall not believe till I see it. I b e li eve th e id ea of reducing war to a military and naval duel between armies and fleets is as chimerical and less humane than the romantic project of chivalry to settle the fate of the Moslem and the Christian by a single combat between Saladin and Richard. These two nations are locked in the deadly embrace of war, whether they be fighting for empire or s t rugg li ng for independence. They will deal the fatal blow with every weapon which fortune places within th eir grasp : Passion is deaf, patriotism is unscr u p u l ous , cruel. To attempt to disarm wa r o f its horrors fa : is an idle dream and a dangerous delusion ; let us labour at the more practicable task of rend ering arsp is it impossible." POSTAL REFORM. It is to be hoped that Mr. Scudamore will shortly feel himself at liberty to deal with sundry reforms that seem to be needed in the postal service. Some of these are set forth in a petition drawn up by Mr. Algar, and presented by Mr. Stapleton, M.P. The following are the points mentioned :—A reduction in the postage of boas and printed matter not only to places in Great Britain, but also to the colonies and to India; a postal rate of -Id. for all printed matter under 2oz. instead of the present minimum rate of ld. under 40z.; a reduction of letter postage to India, China, the Cape, and the West Indies, &c., which has of late years been increased from 50 to 100 per cent.; and the abolition of the arbitrary fines inflicted for foreign and colonial letters insufficiently stamped. UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL. Mr. Luard, of the Cambridge University Registry, has sent to the Times some interesting information with regard to th e t es t s now required at Cambridge. The only one demanded is for a divinity degree, but if a person desires to have a vote in the Senate, he has to sign a declaration that he is a bond fide member of the Church of England. All those admitted to p ermanent offices in the Uni versity sign a statement to the effect that they will conform to the Church of England as by law esta blished. Those who are not members of the Church of England are not entitled to votes in the Senate upon taking the degree of M.A., or any other degree that confers the same privilege. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. At the last Matriculation Examination of the University of London, 253 candidates p resente d themselves, of whom 117 passed, and 130, or 531 per cent. were rejected. The total number of rejections in each subject were—Latin, 00 ; Greek, 04 ; French, 39; German, 1 ; arithmetic and algebra, 04; gemnetry, 49 ; Engli s h l anguage, 71 ; English history, 50 ; natural philosophy, 88 ; chemist r y, ;;o. Mr. Neil Arnott, th e em i nent natura philosopher, a has given to the University £2,000 to found scholarship in aid of the study of natural science. The senate has resolved that in future the degrees in Arts of other Universities shall not, except under special circumstances, be received as substitutes for those of the University which qualify for admission to the examinations for the higher degrees. This resolution was supported by Lord Stanley and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. EDUCATION. Mr. John Flint, the registrar of the Duke of New castle's Education Commission, writing to the Timcs 94 the pc Qms_ccl inauiry into thc.l4ti4tico . c9alect4.4 THE PREACHING REASON. The London preaching season has set in. On Sun day the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of London, Lichfield, and Peterborough were among the preachers. The last preached at Whitehall in the afternoon, to an enormous congregation, among whom was the Princess Mary. Bishop Magee chose for his subject Prophecy, and described with his usual clearness the difference between the two modes of interpreting prophecy—that which expected certain special events to happen at certain precise dates, and that which saw in the history of the world a gradual, though not the less sure, fulfilment of prophecy. Bishop Selwyn preached at the well-known City church, St. Lawrence, Jewry, in behalf of foreign missions. Referring to the Holy Communion, he earnestly deprecated making it a ground of contro versy. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER, AND mit. SEDGWICK. The Bishop of Manchester has withdrawn his inhi bition against Mr. Seclgwick, of St. Alban's, Manchester, and that gentleman accordingly officiated at his church on Sunday. In his sermon he statedthat there had been three charges made against him—the hearing of con fessions, the use of altar lights, and the use of altar frontals and coloured stoles. The second was given up directly the bishop desired it; the third would be given up from henceforth. As for the first, that would be continued in accordance with the directions of the Prayer-book, as it always had been. The resi dents in the neighbourhood of the church lighted a large bonfire on Sat ur day to express their satisfaction at Mr. Sedgwick's restoration to his cure. INCREASE OF THE EPISCOPATE. -- The Rev. C. Parrott, vicar of Amwell, writes to urge an increase of the episcopate, on the ground that the bishops cannot possibly do the work which is needed. Mr. Parrott is a very High Churchman, and it is therefore interesting to know that, in his opinion, the " sooner the bishops give up their attend ance in the House of Lordsthe better it willbe for their several dioceses." He adds remarks whose stringency even Mr. Miall could not exceed. " Bishops aro always complainin g of their poverty, notwithstanding the largeincomes they d raw from the Church. But why need bishops live in palaces ?' Why, indeed, we may ask ! Why should they, too, not live in their respective cathedral cities ? The Bishop of this diocese (Rochester) lives at Danbury, miles and miles away from R oc h es t er . If I want to see my bishop, I must travel some 70 miles." He add "s : We ar e prac ti ca lly w ithout episcop a l supervision." We want annual confirmations in every parish, but this is impossible in dioceses of the present size. Mr. Parrott goes on to urge that there should be a number of new bishops appointed, at an annual salary of 81,500, and without seats in the House of Lords. This reform would soon be carried out were it not that the bishops dread the loss of temporal power. The truth is the whole question of the episcopacy requires to be thoroughly examined. It is absurd that the spiritual supervision of 20 millions of people should be left to twenty-eight men, and that any number of th ese m ay continue to hold their posts long after they have ceased to be fit for that imperfect perf o rmance of their duties which alone is possible even under the most favourable circum. will be raised, " What is • stances. If something is not done soon, the question the use of bishops ?" A LADIES ' CLUB. A new club, to rival in all respects the gorgeous joint-stock palaces in Pall Mall, is to be started by and for ladies. It will be very exclusive; the entrance fee will be ten guineas, the annual subscription five. This, we suppcse, is intended as the solution of the woman's question. It is not a very satis factory solution. Already B e lgravian and Tyburnian mothers spend far too large a portion of their time atwi present. occu The English away from home ; and every year sees them more and more leave the management of their households and the care of their children to hirelings. The club will be a terrible snare to them. Scand a l or th e more i occupy a still larger harmlesspoition of m theiri llin e l i t- I s et ' home will soon become an institution known only to antiquarians. s jargona BAD NEWS Fort FARMERS. A correspondent of the Times, who has for some time been officially connected with the Chincha Islands, says that " the guano at Chi nc h as i s d one, the few shiploads rema ining requiring but a few weeks to complete the work calculated to have required fifteen or sixteen years to come." He asks what has become of the 6200,000 t ons officially stated to have been there a little over two years ago ? He replies that lie could a tale unfold which would chew how miserably the persons who lent the Peruvian Government money on the security of the guano deposit have been deluded. What will the farmers say ? Fortunately for them our towns are now beginning to ask themsel ves if it wou ld not have been more economical to use the manure close at hand, instead of throwing it away and importing other manure, at a great expense, from several thousand miles away. The exhaustion at the Chinchas is likely to hasten the solution of the town sewage problem. PRESERVATION OF SEA BIRDS Mr. Thomas Dykes writes to the Times respecting Übe preservation of sea birds. An ear li er corres pondent on the same subject had referred to the immense destruction of all kinds of sea fowl which went on at Miss, Craig. Mr. Dykes, as factor to the Marquis of Ailsa, denies this charge. He has taken some pains to examine into its authenti city, and fi n d s th a t it originated partly from a mistake by which the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth was substituted for Ailsa Craig, and partly from exaggeration. Mr. Dykes allows that some kinds of birds are killed in the breeding season, but he affirms that they must be killed when and where they can be got at, otherwise they would increase so rapidly that they would become as destructive to the fishermen as rabbits, if not kept down, are to farmers. FOREIGN NOTES. FRANCE AID BELGIUM. The present position of the Belgian railway difficulty is still very mysterious, but the aspect of affairs becomes more and more reassuring. Whilst the Belgian journals have from the first preserved an attitude of modera- tion and dignity, the French official papers, save the notorious Pays, exhibit none of the virulence which characterised the first outbreak of this question. The English Government has interfered, with good results, but-the exact result of its intervention is still the subject of dispute. According to the Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige, the change in the appearance of this once threatening quarrel is for the most part owing to England. But the French Govern- ment is, nevertheless, somewhat angry at an intervention in which the interests of Belgium, ratber than the suscep tibilities of France, were consulted. The Patrie affirms that a single sovereign will be requested to act as arbiter, the Emperor of Russia, as having the least direct interest in the question, being most likely to be chosen. The Etendard, which seems to speak most authoritatively, says that nothing has yet been decided as to the exact mode of settlement. A single arbiter or a commission may be chosen, but the latter will not be an international tribunal. It will be composed of French and Belgians only. M. de la Gudronniere had an interview with the Belgian Foreign Minister yesterday, and on this occasion, doubtless, the propositions of the French Government were formallysub milted. The difficulty seems to have fairly psssed the critical stage. DIPLOIf ATIC MOVEMENTS. One of the causes which have contributed to the revival of uneasiness on the Continent is the remarkable stampeda amongst the leading Ambassadors at the various Courts. Count Usedom, the Chevalier Nigra, M. de la Guer roniere, and the Duc de Gramont, have left, or are leaving their posts. In addition, it is stated that Baron Werther, the Prussian Representative at the Court of Vienna, hail AUSTRIA AND ENGLAND. The English Minister has sent a generally affirmative answer to the , proposition of the Austrian Government respecting the treaty of commerce. Austria offered to make considerable reductions in the Customs' duties on manufactured goods in cotton and wool, so that the new tariff will much resemble that concluded between Austria and the Zollverein. The English Government has accepted the reduction on the cotton goods, but with regard to woollen manufactures, a further reduction is asks d in favour of a few articles. This request, it is thought, can cause no difficulty. COUNT BISMARCK. The statement that Count Bismarck had suffered a partial relapse is confirmed. In a few days he will return to his country seat, in order by securing a little rest to prevent more serious consequences. INDIA. The Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces formally announces that the apprehensions of famine have ceased. In the centre of the Punjab great improvement is manifest. The most serious danger is everywhere at an end. The disagreeable souvenir of the Abyssinian expedition, in theshape of the bill just presented to the country, is not the only memento of that costly romance. Mr. Rassam has published in India a report of his mission to Abyssinia. This document, says the Times of India, might have passed unnoticed, but for Mr. Rassam's holding, or professing to hold, the erroneous notion that the herd of cattle and sheep sent by Theodore as a present to Lord Napier of Magdala on Easter Sunday, the day before the assault, was accepted by the latter. In the report it is stated that Aito Samuel asked " what reply he was to take to the King with regard to a present of cows and sheep which was offered by the King in his letter? On communicating the - question to Sir Robert Napier, he said, 'I accept them.'" Lord Napier has deemed it necessary to deny this statement. Every officer preeent at the interview testifies that the British General was indignant at the idea of accepting them, and expressed himself strongly to that effect. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The Madrid correspondent of the Constitutionna says that the news from Cuba is decidedly more favourable. The Spanish troops have achieved several very important successes, and there is reason to believethat without great assistance from America the insurgents must rapidly lose ground. It would be premature, however, to conclude that the revolt is suppressed, or to look for a speedy ter mination of the struggle. General Duke's despatches, says this writer, contains some passages which are by no means couleur de rose. What is most needed is an addition to the fleet, in order to thoroughly blockade the island and prevent supplies arriving from the United States. Then the revolt must die out, though in such a wild and extensive country the work of suppres sion will be extremely difficult. It is worthy of note that the New York papers are less confident of Cuban inde pendence than formerly. GENERAL GRANTS CABINE7. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is as interesting to watch the American papers feeling their way to GRANT'S Cabinet now that the Cable has made us acquainted with it, as a pointer working up to a covey in a thick cover. Although, at first, wide of the mark and erratic in conjecture, • they gradually neared, closing on the game, while some even pointed individual birds. On the 23d February a deputation of Congressmen from Pennsylvania called on General GRANT to urge the importance of putting a Pennsylvanian into his Cabinet. They refrained from suggesting or re commending, being uninterested in individuals or cliques, though desiring the selection of an unflinching supporter of the Republican party. The General replied that he bad chosen a thorough Republican of Pennsylvania, whose appointment would surprise him equally with the nation. We now know who that man is —but information about him must be sought in Philadelphia, as the fame of Mr. ADOLPIIE BORIE has as yet spread little beyond his State. From what the PRESIDENT said (though our readers should remember, not then PRESIDENT) his hearers knew the person indicated must be a Philadelphian, and conjecture became rife as to who he was, in deed ran wild ; yet none positively fixed on the right person nor the post he was to get, though his name was mentioned. JAY COOKE was first among the many rumour had selected ; but the General gave no clue which helped conjecture in this, though he did in another direction. Ilis opinion is that civilians only should be appointed to civil offices, and as such lie regards every seat in the Cabinet, ineuding the Secretaryship of War and of the Navy. Away, then, went one nomination con fidently predicted by the American press. Admiral PORTER was held to be certain of the Secretaryship of the Navy, as it was known that the health of Admiral FARRAGUT was too delicate for him to accept the post. This opened the appointment to a civilian, and ADOLPHE BORIE was nomi nated. He is a wealthy retired merchant, of a celebrated Philadelphia firm chiefly engaged in the East India trade; since the war commenced, Radical in politics, though before a Whig. His name is among the Vice-Presidents of the Union League, of which he founded a branch in Philadelphia. He is a Protectionist in proclivities, generous and lavish in his contributions to the war, an ardent admirer of Grant, for whom he entertains the warmest friendship, and had long held that be was certain to be ANDREW JOHNSON'S successor. But what of Ge neral SCHOFIELD as Secretary of War? If a distin guished old sailor is not to be head of the Navy, why should a distinguished young soldier be appointed to the head of the Army ? Now GRANT distinctly told the delegatiqn that he had determined to reappoint Gen. SCHOFIELD, merely as a compliment to one who had done his duty wetland served his country faith fully, for as that officer declined to resign his com mission in the army the appointment would be but temporary. Indeed he named three weeks as about the time his services would be required in aiding the PRESIDENT to reorganize the army, when he would be assigned to the command of one of the new military departments about to be created. Thus, then, we learn that the army is to be reorganized and the departments remodelled ; also that General SCHOFIELD is but the stop-gap, not the real Secretary of War. A fortnight ago it was announced in this paper that the Secretaryship of the Treasury had been offered to Mr. A. T. STEWART, of New York, and declined by him. Now something of this sort is what actually happened. He was nominated by GRANT and confirmed by the Senate, but a difficulty intervened. He is among the greatestof merchants; having built up a business from nothing, whose fame has become world-wide, for he landed in New York a penniless north of Ireland man of Scottish descent. An existing law prohibits Treasury officers from engaging in trade, and if Mr. STEWART accepted the post he would have to throw up his important business. The Secretary ship of the Treasury is the most influential and most difficult postition in the United States next to that of President, and Gen. GRANT requested Congress to repeal the law standing in Mr. STEWART'S way, which Mr. SUMNER in the Senate objected to do hastily; and we certainly agree with Senator SUM NER, though the PRESIDENT thereby has lost a valu able official, for Mr. STEWART'S resignation on this, was accepted by GRANT. The appointment, however, is not without significance, for Mr. STEWART'S opinions are well known to favour the most honourable payment of the National Debt, and to incline towards Free-trade. The selection of ELIHU B. WASHBURNE for the Secretaryship of State has again defeated conjecture. Every one knew that Mr. WASHBURNE could have any post he liked, so high did he stand in the estimation of the PRESIDENT. Of Mr. W ASHBURNE'S ability there is no question, and his honesty is beyond dispute. No man in the United States has made so vigorous a resistance to jobbery or suffered more in his cou rageous attempts to guard the public purse. hlis areset principles, not merely professed, but aced on. He was born in Maine about 1816, educated at Harvard University, rose to distinction at the bar of Illinois, a-district of which he has represented in Congress since 1853, which long-continued succes sion has made him for many years " the father of the House." When LINCOLN was elected, he, as a prominent Western anti-slavery man from the be ginning, possessed considerable influence with the Government, GRANT, an unknown Captain, late of ' the United States army, was his neighbour at Ga lena, and it was to Mr. WASHBUIINE'S shrewdness in perceiving his value that GRANT owes the start which has given him so grand a career. Mr. WASHBURNE remained in time of trial his firm friend, and there must be a feeling of grati tude on the part of the General as well as of ad miration and respect for the sterling qualities of his old benefactor. Mr. WASHBURNE is, however, not only ill, but very ill* ; and it may be doubted whether he will accept, or at any rate continue, in the office, which ranks next in dignity to that of the PRESIDENT. It was thought certain before the mail left that the Hon. JOHN A. CRESWELL, of Mary land, would get a seat in the Cabinet, therefor,; it does not surprise us to find him nominated Post master-General. In the year 1828 he was born in Maryland, ‘Aere he rose to distinction at the bar, to which he was admitted in 1850, after pass ing through Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, with a marked success. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1861, and to the Federal House of Representatives in 1863, passing up to the Senate in 1865, to serve out the term of the deceased Senator HICKS. Although a Marylander, and of a pro-slavery family, he has been a consistent Re publican, and as a man of extraordinary ability and learning as well as of eloquence, the Republi cans of Maryland anticipate for him a splendid career, though the weakness of the party in that State tended to bar his chances. Ex-Governor J. D. Cox, of Ohio, has been appointed Secretary of the Interior. He was born in Canada in 1828, and was unknown in the Union till the rebellion. He commanded a regiment of his State at the com mencement of the war, rising to be a distinguished General of an Army Corps. He defeated Gen. Wise in West Virginia, and a strong Confederate force at South Mountain, where he brilliantly carried the position with his Ohio command. He distinguished himself at the capture of Wilmington, North Ca rolina, and he took part in many of the most san guinary actions on the banks of the Potomac and in Tennessee. His services were so highly ap preciated that his fellow-citizens of Ohio elected him Governor in 1865 by a majority of thirty thousand, and it is probable that General GRANT had opportunities of forming an estimate of his character during the time he served under him in Virginia. Indeed, the PRESIDENT knows his men well ; and although many of the names are new to the mass of Americans, yet what has trans pired tends to confirm the wisdom of his selection. If there be one thing in which Americans believe that GRANT has displayed more judgment than in another, it has been in his selection of men. Gen. Cox is not strongly pronounced in his political opinions, and from his course during his term of of office there is difficulty in saying to which wing of the Republican party he belongs. As so often occurs REUTER and the Times' corre spondent differ in the lawyer selected by GRANT as Attorney-General. The former gives Judge HOAR, the latter GEORGE F. HoAR. They are brothers, sons of the late Mr. SAMUEL HOAR, of Massachu setts. Both are eminent lawyers, but ROCKWOOD HOAR, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massa chusetts, is ten years the senior of GEORGE F. HOAR. Latterly Judge HoAß's claims have been urged as the successor of Chief Justice SHAW, who died, and afterwards of Judge BIGELOW, who retired; but, much to the surprise of the people of Massachusett, he was not appointed. He graduated at Harvard University, and has long resided at Concord. His brother is not so well known ; but both are of high culture, and outspoken anti-slavery men. As it is probable that Mr. E. ROCKWOOD HOAR is the person selected, we may say that his Republicanism is somewhat tinged with Conservatism. COLUMBUS DELANO, Representative from the Thirteenth Dis trict, Ohio, has been appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in succession to Mr. ROLLINS. This appointment was known in Washington on the 24th of February, as certain to be made. Mr. DELANO was recommended by Mr. ROLLINS as his successor ; but President JOHNSON, while trying to press Mr. ROLLINS out, declined to send Mr. DELANO'S name to the Senate. Mr. ROLLINS, therefore, under the Tenure-of-Office Act, and backed by the Senate, obstinately held on. The name of COLUMBUS DELANO was urged on Gen GRANT, who, on Feb. 23d, sent for to him and tendered the appointment, which Mr. DELANO accepted. At that interview the PRESIDENT complimented him in the highest terms, signifying that he would be glad, if the op portunity offered, to give him a seat in the Cabi net. He was born sixty years ago in a State of New England, but in 1817 settled in Ohio, where he rose to distinction in his profession as a lawyer. In 1841 he was elected to the Federal House of Representatives, to which he was three times re elected. He is a strong and able Republican, though with a shade of Conservatism. His Congressional term closed on the 4th of March, as George W. MoßGAN(Denaocrat) had been elected to his seat. En Congress he was noted for his advocacy of retrench ment and reform, and this is a distinguishing cha racteristic of all the PRESIDENT'S nominations. GRANT'S selections have so upset the sur.nises, even of the most knowing, that they only picked out the Hon. BEN WADE and Mr. DENISoN as the most likely for Ohio. From the first we suspected that some of the PRESIDENT'S nominations were complimentary, the real men being in the background. So it was said of Mr. STEWART; of Mr. WASHBURNE, and GRANT hina-elf had sated that so it was with General SCHOFIELD. On Thursday, however, the complimentary men stepped aside to make way for the real men. Thus, Ex-Governor HAMILTON FISH, of New York, took the post that Mr. ELtRu WASHBURNE resigned as Secretary of State ; Mr. ALEXANDER T. STEWART vanished as a spectroscope ghost, Mr. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, of Massachu setts, coming into his place as Secretary of the Treasury ; and the fading figure of Gen. SCHOFIELD grew„into the proportions of Gen. JOHN A. RAwLiNs. Mr. ELlnu WASHBURNE, as long ago said, becomes Minister to France, in place of General Dix, and Ex-Governor ANDREW G. CURTIN, of Pennsylvania, replaces General CLAY, as Minister to St. Peters burgh. The Cabinet then is as follows :—First in rank is the Secretary of State, Ex-Governor HA MILTON FISH, of New York. First in importance, Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. GEORGE S. Bou WELL, of Massachusetts ; Secretary of the Interior, I Ex-Governor Cox, of Ohi o; S ecretary of War, General JOHN A. RAWLINS ; Secretary of the Navy, Mr. ADOLPHE BORIE, of Pennsylvania ; Postmas ter-General, Mr. J. A. CRESWELL, of Maryland ; Attorney-General, Judge HOAR, of Massachusetts. Mr. HAMILTON FISH, in 1850, was Governor of New York. We have time and space at present only to give a sketch of the incumbent of the most im portant office, the Secretaryship of the Treasury. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, of Groton, Massachusetts, was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on the 28th of January, 1818 ; received a public school education ; was engaged in mercantile pursuits previous to 1850, when he studied law and com meuced practice ; was a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1842, '43, '44, '47, 48, '49, and ' 5O ; was State Bank Commissioner in 1849 and 1850 ; was Governor of Massachusetts in 1851, '52; was Secretary of the State Board of Education of Massachusetts for five years; was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1850 to 1860 ; was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861; was the first Commissioner of Internal Ra venue in 1862 and 1863 ; was elected to the Thirty eighth and Thirty-ninth Congress, and re-elected to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 9,817 votes against 2,885 votes for Saltonstall, De mocrat ; and again last November for the Forty first Congress. Perhaps the most prominent act in his life was the pact he took in the impeach ment of the late PRESIDENT, being one of the seven Managers. General GIANT avowedly refrained from nomi nating his Cabinet previous to his inauguration to avoid the pressure which would otherwise be brought to bear upon him, and doubtless he heartily con gratulated himself that he had adopted this course after his interview on the 25th February with Col. ALEXANDER M'CLURE, of Philadelphia. On the 23d Feb. the President Elect had received a delega tion from Pennsylvania to urge the necessity of a Republican statesman from Pennsylvania getting a • His health has lately improved, but our conjecture was right, he has resigned. seat in the Cabinet. Pressed by these gentlemen GRANT thus far revealed his intention that a Radi cal of Philadelphia would bo nominated. In stantly there was a blaze of excitement in the city of " Brotherly Love," and Colonel M'CLURE hurried into GRANT'S presence with a man in his right hand to put into the seat, and his left hand clenched to knock another out. Ex-Governor CURTIN, General CLAY'S successor as Minister to St. Petersburgh, was M'CLuRE's nominee and that as well of a very strong portion of the Republi cans of 'Pennsylvania. Gen. GEARY, the Governor of the State, together with Justices READ, AGNEW, and WILLIAMS, had requested that the Cabinet seat should be conferred on him. Col. M . CLuRE proceeded as the agent of that section to Washington, and, after an interview with Colonel FORNEY, made his way into Gen. GRANT'S presence, and urged in a set speech the nomination of ex Governor CURT!. Mr. CURTIN'S name had been kept so constantly before the public by the party which favoar his election that he had little chance with GRANT, not that he is in any way personally unqualified, as the reverse is the case, but because the appointment of the head of a political section is that, of all others, GRANT desires to avoid, for he must be the Representative of a hungry host, and it is men pledged to repay by place the political support given which has introduced so much corruption. CuRTIN'S friends even pushed him for the Vice-Presidency on the same ticket as GRANT, and they have succeeded in getting him a place. In yielding to the pressure from Pennsylvania GRANT would be breaking down before the first push. To the eulogy of Ex-Governor CURTIN, and to the im portance of his nomination in forwarding the objects of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, GRANT signified his acquiescence, quietly adding that be did not intend to appoint Mr. CURTIN, nor permit the Pennsylvanian Republicans to form his Cabinet. Having failed to seat the man he carried in his right hand, Col. M'CLURE set to work with his left fist. The names, he slid; of GEORGE H. STUART, BORIE, SMITH, and others had been mentioned ; appoint none; for they are men unknown to the Republican p irty of Pennsylvania. Although for ten years he had been an active politician of the State, yet he had never met Mr. GEORGE 1L STUART. GRANT upheld and expressed his ad miration for Mr STUART. lie intimated that he might not be t he mall, and closed the interview with these remarkable words, " I am not the r - presentative of a political party, although a party voted for me ;" and Colonel M'CLURE l e ft, con vinced that the PRESIDENT intended to organize lug Cabinet without the aid of politicians. Next day Congressman O'NEILL, of Philadelphia, presen ted himself to correct the erroneous impression that GEORGE H. STUART was unknown iu Pennsylvania. The appointmentof chat gentleman would thoroughly satisfy the Republican party, and the Pennsylva" nian, to whom he was unknown, must be himself unknown in the State. GRANT approved of all he said; but he hinted that, if appointed, Mr. STUART '5 delicate health would preclude his acceptance of the post. The subject of this wasted energy ha s e resided for twenty-five ye a rs i n Phil a d e l p hi a , where be is a large import er o f M anc h este r goo ds, his brother being at the head of the British firm esta blished in that city. He is a native of the north of . Ireland, and a stro ng P res b y t er i an, b e i n g best known as President of the Christian Commission, a ruling elder of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, treasurer of the Board of Foreig n Mi ss ions, pub isher of the Church Periodical, and an eloquent speaker in the Church Courts. This episode has taught GRANT the wisdom of his course in declin ing to name the officers of his Cabinet before his inauguration. D. S. Reynolds, Superintendent of the Police, Captain Henry Dickson and two detectives of the Niagara Frontier Police, are on trial before the Police Commissioners of Buffalo, charged with criminally and unlawfully kidnapping two men, on the night of Jan• 11 and carrying them to Canada for a reward. - The correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes :—" On the 4th of March next, when General Grant ceases to be the Comtnander of the Army, or sooner if h e should resign before that time, the command will devol" upon Lieutenant-General W. F. Sherman, the next in rank, and all General Grant' s staff officers will formally tender their resignations. If General Sherman should not re-appoint them, General Rawlins will still remain a brig ' dier-general. It is believed that ho will bo nominated to some good civil position. General Badeau will fall back on his commission as First Lieutenant of the Fourth In fantry. General Porter will fall back to Major of the Ordnance Department. General Comstock will be Dial er of the Engineer Corps. General Babcock will be a's° a Major in the Engineer Corps. Colonel Parker will be ti t First Lieutenant of th o S econ d C ava l r y. General D e % will become Major of the F o u r t een th I n f an try, but will , is thought, go with the President to the White Colonel Leet will continue as Major in the Adjuta nt- General's General's Department, and Colonel Webster will be „or signed to some important pust in the Quartermaster's J-17.3 partment, if not retained by General Sherman, whi ch more than probable." 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Holloway's rem ° ' o f u la, remove eruptions of the skiu, sc o r b u ti c diseases, an d abr as ion and heal every description of ulcer, sere, wound, or "nd a n of° By the employment of Holloway's excellent, speedY , d u edicament, much pain and immense expense will be saved , a great benefit conferred on the pre sen t an d suceeedn i g g tions. I— b A ut vo n id u M Ba ed ay ici , n s chronic D V comasßgritra° g pi LI N T t Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times then _ e aies, ment of the beat meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rew sowl d and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerv, e i l' ic tion 4 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, “, ed. es deli th ci e o y us alwals regularity, anc , energy to the most disordered or enfet' i res teved extract a few out et 68,000 cures ; —“The Pope's health 1 566. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21 ' since —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especuty_rairoly abandoning all other remedies, he has confined hire con to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic°. Food. of which 1r...n`1 5 , a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surpvl.elut his e xec' flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prale,n. Cur° lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, JuIY l iver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yet ert ront , complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a aa healt h!rgeos toorfrig palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless...7.'l,aq the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. I, !'„,'„' y ears Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of 1n' 0 '7, 3 , froni dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable aF,„,IOI3cY, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatiotru're spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria 30 1 5% , years, 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fernley, SurreY, an. diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver deranget . LL w an,: partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware „7"witbou,s unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to wine. attache.. uthority, Baron Liebiz's name is most audaciously. In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. t- d.: 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 51 10 . 'cnoCo 225.; , 4 lbs, 40s, -- Also Do BARRY's REVALENTAARABI":;-„, fo r 24 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters ; for ?: ,oi !_7 s76 e t u jo pi s i cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cup at 55s.—being about one penny' per cup. The .0 3 . susof Pnst Office -treet, Lon are sent free of carriage in England on recei Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Beg don ; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 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