The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION THE NORWICH MURDER.-SHEWARD'S CONFESSION. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided on Monday night, in Exeter Hall, at the anniversary meeting. As usual the large hall was crowded to excess. The Revs. J. Moor house, J. C. Harrison, W. G. Williams, M. C. Osborn, and several other clergymen and employers were upon the platform. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., and Mr. C. Reed, M.P., who had been announced to speak to the first resolution, sent letters of apology, expressing the warmest sympathy in the objects of the association, but excusing their absence on the ground of expected important divisions in the House of Commons on the Irish Church Bill. The Rev. A. J. Murray having offered up prayer, Mr. Shipton, the secretary, read a report, which gave a very satisfactory account of the success of the society during the past year in the increase of the number of Bible classes in houses of business, devotional meetings, and the reformation of many young men who had been brought within the society's influence. The progress of the work .in Ireland and on the Continent was also spoken f as satisfactory, and it was announced that I gencies' had been organised to promote the wort: in the British provinces. The Rev. J. poorhouse delivered Jan address on the motives furnished by the facts of Christianity, to the cultivation of personal holiness, and moved a resolution recognising the great benefits the association conferred on commercial young men. The Rev. J. C. Harrison delivered an address on the opportunities of Christian testimony afforded by busi ness life ; and the chairman wound up a speech testi fying to the benefits the society had and was calculated to confer. LOPEZ AT HOME. A Worksop boy, who ran away from home to see the camp of Lopez, writes his experiences to his mother. The letter is dated Feb. 15. The following is the most inter esting passage : " When I wrote to you last I told you that I was going to Paraguay. Well, I have just returned, after having endured great hardship. I arrived in Asuncion and Conxepsion, the capitals of the before-named country, on the 7th, and I saw the allied army ; and then went outside the city for a league or two. As I went up in the steamer I saw all the fortresses where the bloody battles have been fought, and they were all in ruins. When I got to my desti nation, I saw that the cholera was raging there. When we saw this, we knew it was healthy in the mountains where Lopez and his army were. Well,' I said, ' let us go there,' and my friends said, No, no ; if we go there Lopez will make us serve in his army.' I said, ' Well, we had better do that than die of cholera.' Well, they consented, and we went about fourteen leagues up the mountains, when an escort of Lopez's troops came on us, seized us, and took us before Lopez, and I knew we should be sure to have to work at either one thing or another. Well, we had been working in the foundry for four days without almost anything to eat. At first they thought we were Brazilians, and all they gave us to eat was a piece of dry hide and some herbs, and hardly any water. I knew Lopez's wife was English, and one day she came close past me, and I spoke to her, and she at once told Lopez, and he let us enjoy ourselves as much as we liked. We saw how they lived, and we saw female battalions go through their drill and everything. Lopez i bad been driven from every stronghold he possessed, and is ,now in the mountains. Where we were there is a THE CONVENT CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, 'splendid plain for leagues, on which grows every- on Mond a y, M r. C. Russell, on the part of Mr. Mellish, - thing. Before he went to the mountanis he ordered who was absent from illness, applied for leave to move for every family in Paraguay there, and they all went, a new trial in the case of " Saurin v. Starr." In reply to and there it is, just like living in a town, but the the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Russell said it would be houses are different. All they have is a hide to sleep chiefly on the point reserved ; and the application was under. The day we left Lopez, he ordered a small force acceded to ; provided the motion was made this week. to go round the country and to kill everyone that had not re THE SHAM AFRICAN PRINCE.—At Marlborough-street, gone to the mountains as he ordered them." on Monday, James Manna, the sham African Prince, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour on the charge of being in Mr. Johnson's house for an unlaw ful purpose. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he believed the prisoner The murder and sui c id e w hi c h were committed at 33, went there intendi ng t o ge t possess i on of watches and Fleet-lane, Fasringdon-street, on S a t ur d ay, h as f ormed other valuable arti c l es b e l ong i ng to the family. the subject of a coroner's inquiry at Bartholomew's CHARGE AGAINST A BANK MANAGER.—At the Mansion Hospital. The name of the murderer is Leonard Tillett, ' House, on Monday, a case of considerable importance was and that of his victim Harriet 'fallen, their ages being heard before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Samuel Greenway 50 and 39 years respectively. A woman, named Robinson, Finney, lately manager of the English Joint Stock Bank the landlady of the house, 33, Fleet-lane, said that (Limited), was charged with having made, or concurred Mrs. Talien lodged with her. She last saw her alive in making, divers false entries in the books of the hank, at a quarter to twelve on Saturday, Tillett came to and with omitting certain material particu!ars, with intent the house about a quarter to eight that morning, and to defraud. Mr. Lewis, who conducted the prosecution, asked, "Are they gone ?' (alluding to Mrs. Talien and explained that the prosecutor, Mr. Lambert, had been a Mr. Pickering, who had gone to fetch Mrs. Talien's son victim of the company to the amount of nearly £4,000. from Holloway Prison.) He also inquired if a man The bank suspended payment on the 10th of May, 1866, had not been in Mrs. Talien's room on the previous and the prisoner was no more or less guilty than the evening. Witness replied in the affirmative, and he then directors of the company, against whom he should ask the said, " I suppose he thinks he'll have her, and he shall if I bench to issue process. The company was in the first let hims" He was quite sober at the time. Mrs. Talien instance called the South-Eastern Banking Company returned at a quarter to twelve, aid went to her room, (Limited). The capital was £500,000, in 20,000 saying she would see witness in a few minutes. Shortly shares of each, and the first issue was after Mrs. Talien's little boy rushed down stairs and 10,000 shares, on which £lO had been paid. The two pro exclaimed, "Oh, Mrs. Robinson, I think Tillett has killed motors—Mr. March, an accountant, and Mr. Walter, a mother !"—William Smith, a detective attached to th e surveyor—received a sum of £6,000 between them. The Fleet-street police station, described the position in which directors were to receive £3,000 a year for the manage the bodies lay on the bed. He found a blood-stained razor ment of the business, with an additional sum if the divi open in the cupboard, which Mrs. Talicn's son told him had dends exceeded a certain amount. The prisoner had been been lying near his mother's hand. 'Witness produced the the general manager from the first at a salary of -£1, 9 00, following, which he found in one of Tillett's pockets : to be raised to £1,500 in the event of the dividend reaching "I, Leonard Tillett, have done a foul deed, because she 6 per cent. The substance of the charge was that the turned on me, and took to Pickering, a married man, and accounts had been falsified in order that a 6 per he used to go with her, and his wife knew it. So it is true cent. dividend might he paid, so that the directors how this is done, and the Lord have mercy on my soul. So and the manager ints;bt reeel ea age ;ace-ease sr safes, good bye to this world for Leonard Tillett, and God bless agreed upon. When the second report was issued, on the everybody. Thisis the truth how it is done without a doubt, 30th of June, 1865, there had been actual losses and for annayone knows him he is a villein (villain), but God expenses of trading amounting to £2,012; but, instead of forgive him and let the world know what it was done for." that being carried to the profit and loss account, it was —The daughter of the deceased woman, a girl 16 years added to the cost of establishing banks, by which means the old, stated that her father, William Talien, was dead, directors were able to declare a 6 per cent. dividend. Tillett came frequently to see her mother, who had often In November of the same year, before the issue of the said she would not marry him. Tillett was jealous of a third and last report, the directors sent to Messrs. Thomas man named Pickering, who lived in the house. She had and Co., stockbrokers, and asked them to give a credit of heard Tillett threaten to kill her mother, and he said if £lO,OOO, to enable the company to purchase its shares. her mother did not have him no one else should. Tillett That must have been done to deceive the shareholders, worked in a coal-yard, and was a widower.—Alfred 'fallen and raise the shares to a fictitious value. That act a l a d of 15, said his mother, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. alone rendered all the parties engaged in it li a bl e Pickering and Tillett, met him at Holloway Prison on to penalties. Nothing relating to this transac- Saturday morning. They rode home in a cab, and had tion appeared in the books of the company. some drink on the way. They all entered the room, and When the company stopped payment, on the 10th of some beer and gin were sent for. They were all the worse May, 1866, the directors sent £lO,OOO or £12,000 in trade for drink. Mr. and Mrs. Pickering went up to theirroom, bills to Messrs. Thomas, but that sum had since been and Tillett sent him (witness) on an errand to Shoe-lane. recovered at the instance of the liquidators. The whole He left Tillet and his mother together. On returning affair was concealed from the shareholders, and omitted from Shoe-lane he found his mother and Tillett dead with from the next balance-sheet. Other details were given of their throats cut. He had heard Tillet say he would do the financial transactions of the managers, and Mr. Lewis for his (witness's) mother and himself.—Dr. Wilson, of added that the result of its trading during ten Farringdon-street, said he had no doubt the wounds were months had been a loss of more than a quarter of a million. inflicted by Tillet.—Thomas Pickering, an engraver, After several witnesses had been called, Mr.. Littler, for corroborated the evidence of Mrs. Talien's son. The the defence, argued that there was no evidence of an at witness was questioned by the coroner and the jury as to tempt to defraud ; but the Lord Mayor thought other whether Tillett had any reason to be jealous on his wise. If the directors of a company trafficked in its account, and he assured them that his relations with shares, even for the purpose of maintaining its credit, that the deceased woman were only those of a friend, and that was a fraud. The case was adjourned, the prisoner being Tillett must have been labouring under an hallucination, admitted to bail in one surety in £2,000, and himself in —John Barret, the potman at the George, a public-house £2,000. in Fleet-lane, stated that Tillett was drinking there on Friday, and in the course of conversation he said, " I have a nasty job on hand, but I don't know whether it will come off till night." The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Tillett, relative to the death of the woman, and a ver dict of felo de se as regards the death of the man himself. LAW AND POLICE. THE CITY OF LONDON T.RAG_EDt ANOTHER IRISH MURDER.—Scarcely had the Prince left the borders of Tipperary when another murder was committed. On Saturday morning, as some people were driving into Limerick, they discovered in a ditch by the roadside at Phillipstown, near Cappawhite, the body of a respectable farmer, with his head beaten in. His name is not known. He is about 40 years of age, and apparently in good circumstances. There is no evidence of the fact, although it is reported that the murder was agrarian. THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE PATE. Mr. Edmund Yates, of the General Post Office, on Monday, had an interview with the chairmen and other members of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Tradesmen's Guild on the subject of a proposed postage for printed matter. Mr. Yates afterwards saw the proprietors of the leading local newspapers upon the same subject. In the course of the day he was enabled to collect a large amount of valuable information, which will be embodied in a report to be presented to the Postmaster-General and the Treasury. VICTOR HUGO ON THE ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY.— The following is the preface to Victor Hugo's new novel, " L'Homme qui Rit :"—" In England everything is great, even that which is not good—even the oligarchy. The English aristocracy is au atistocracy in the true sense of the word. There has been no feudalism more illus trious, more terrible, more vigorous. It must be said that this feudalism has had its hours of usefulness. It is in England that this phenomenon—lordship— may best be studied, as it is in France that we must study the pheno• menon—royalty. The real title of this work should be `The Aristocracy.' Another book which will follow might be called ` The Monarchy.' And these two books, if it is permitted to the author to accomplish his task, shall be followed by another which will be entitled "Ninety-thrce." THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO ME. DEUCE, Q.C.— Tbe inquest on the body of Mr. George Druce, Q. C., wh., WAS killed while riding on Wednesday last, has been held by Mr. W. Carter, at the deceased gentleman's residence in Denmark-hill. Mr. Wilkins, of the Clayton Arms, Kennington Oval, said he saw the deceased riding his horse round Kennington Oval on Wednesday morning. After galloping round several times, the deceased took his right foot out of the stirrup, and he then fell back ward on to the ground. No person spoke to the deceased, or advised him to throw himself off. The deceased was at first quite insensible, but in about ten minutes was able to say, " Druce, Denmark-hill." Mr. William Bean having deposed that the deceased had died of con cussion of the brain, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. THE POPE AND THE LOTTERY. —A letter from Florence says : " Thanks to Pius IX., lottery gamblers in Italy have just made a great hit. On Sunday last, the 11th of April, 1869, Pius, ninth Pope of his name, cele brated the fiftieth anniversary of his first mass, which he said at the age of 26. The last number also corresponds in the lottery-player's guide-book with the word mass,' as well as with ' money.' Nothing could be clearer to all those who had cash to stake and faith in the usual rules, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of persons played upon the numbers 11, 69, 9, 50, 26. In the Florence weekly drawing of Saturday last all those numbers came out of the wheel. It was what is called a Dane— tba,t is to say, a gain on the whore five numbers. Those who had backed them all to come out won sums enormous in proportion to the trifling ones they had staked, and the gains of those who had only backed four or three of the numbers were also very great. Incredible stories are current of the fortunes made by indigent players—for it is the poor who chiefly support the lottery. There is no doubt that the Government has had to 'make very heavy payments to winners. It is an old belief with numbers of persons in Italy that Pius IX. has the evil eye, and in this instance the Italian Treasury may well share that opinion. But what goes out to-day comes back to - morrow, for nothing stimulates the Italian propensity to 19ttg4.1 pliwing gat Ulu al/01 1 1 11 A hit a this kincl.".4 FALL OF A Music HALL. —The New Adelphi Music Hall, Union-street, Oldham, opened a few months ago by the Oldham Philharmonic Society, has lust fallen a complete wreck. Friday night was fixed for the benefit of one of the artistes. It was expected there would be a crowded house on the occasion. It having, however, been ascertained from an examination that the build ing was unsafe, the managers very properly decided not to allow the performance to go forward. The building is calculated to hold 2,000 people. On Monday morning while the musicians were collecting their music the east wall gave unmistakable evidences of its unsoundness. They therefore rushed for the outside. They were only just in time, for the lessee was caught on the head by by some of the f a lli ng building. He is not seriously hurt. The east wall is completely down to the ground, and the roof and galleries are also destroyed. The cause is the undermining of the foundia.tiona, while excavating for the adNiciasktmliugulgq,, The following is •the text of the confession made by Sheward a few days since :—" City Gaol, Norwich, 13th April, 1869, 2.45 p.m.—The voluntary confession of William Sheward, under sentence of death in the above prison. —In the year 1849, November, I placed a box of motley, having 2400 in it, in Mr. Christie's possession, for him to take care of for me. In the year 1850, to June 1851, I drew from that box £l5O, during which time my wife wanted me to bring the box home. Mr. Christie asked me if he might make use of the money. My wife seemed determined to fetch the box herself. I knew he could not giveit to me. On the 14th June 1851 Mr. Christie asked me to go to Yarmouth to pay £l,OOO to a captain of a vessel laden with salt, to enable him to unload on the Monday morning. On Sunday morning, the 15th, I was going to Yarmouth on the above errand. She (my wife) said, You shall not go ; I shall go to Mr. Christie and get the box of money myself, and bring it home. With that a slight altercation occurred ; then I ran the razor into her throat. She never spoke after. I then covered an apron over her brad, and went to Yarmouth. I came home at night, and slept on the sofa downstairs. On the Monday I went to work ; I left off at four o'clock p.m., and went home. The house began to smell very faint. With that I made a fire in the bedroom, and commenced to mutilate the body ; kept on until half-past nine p.m. I then took some portions of the body and threw it away, arriving home at half-past ten. That night slept on the sofa again ; went to work again the next day ; went home in the afternoon, about four o'clock, and did the same— the same night again. On Wednesday went to work as usual, left off early, and went home —carried some more portions in a trail basket to another part of the city. Thursday, work same, and returned early. The head had been previously put in a saucepan and put on the fire to keep the stench away. I then broke it up, and distributed it about Thorp; came home and emptied the pail in the cockey in Bishopgate street with the entrails in. I then put the hands and feet into the same saucepan in hopes they might boil to pieces. On Friday I went to work, and went home early, and disposed of all the remains of the body, hands and feet included, that night, because I knew I should not be able to be home on Saturday until late. On Sunday morningl burnt all the sheets, nightgown, pillow-cases, and bed-tick, and all that had any blood about them. The blankets, where there were any blood, I cut in small pieces and distributed them about the city, and made off with any that had any appearance of blood about them. The long hair, on my return from Thorp, I cut with a pair of scissors into small pieces, and they blew away as I walked along. I also state I never saw or knew my present wife until 21st June, 1852—twelve months after the occurrence. I hereby give authority to place the above facts to the Home Secretary and Baron Pigott, but I request that this may not be published at present. Taken in the presence of the undersigned, this 13th day of April, 1869. (Signed) WILLIAM SIIEWARD ; Godwin Johnson, Visiting Magis trate ; Robert Wade, Chaplain of the Norwich City Gaol; John Howarth, Governor of the said Gaol. " THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDX EVENING, APRIL 20, 1869, man on struie can BUIJSISi, of Oy poluumring utuivan shops, and is in a manner otged to do the greatest damage to his employer the shortest time by destroying his work." Moiwer, Mr. Neate points out that before the existke of trades unions— during the time of the Luddites in 1810, for example—the same disorde happened in England. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. On the reassembling of the Melbourne Parliament, which took place on February 11th, Mr. McCulloch for mally announced that increased efforts were about to be made to promote immigration. It is proposed to appoint a small staff of well-informed agents to labour in Eng. land in connection with the agency of the colony in the organisation of a select immigration, such as will not swamp the labour market, and will introduce some little capital, as well as bone and sinew, into the colony. In connection with this proposed effort to revive immigra tion, tenders for a monthly steam service between England and Victoria rid the Cape of Good Hope have been called for. The Argus hopes that the service may he so arranged as to counter balance the great advantage which Canada derives from her proximity to Englaid. The Australian Govern ment may, however, rest assured that a system of free passages will alone surmount this difficulty. Emigrants will not readily undertake a voyage of two or three months when a Land of Promise lies within a few days' steam. CRIME IN NEW FORK. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Various causes have combined to foster and en courage crime in the large cities of America, more especially in New York. lhe Tribune of that city draws attention to the increase of crime as a fact well calculated to cause alarm, and we transcribe the figures that our readers may judge for them selves : Disposed of Unnaccounted Offences. Arrested. in the Courts. for. Assault, felonious 712 24 688 Arson 65 2 63 Bigamy l3 1 12 Burglary Forgery ll3 24 89 Larceny, grand 2,413 317 2,066 Murder 7B 15 63 Picking pockets 303 21 279 Receiving stolen goods 255 3 252 Robbery Total 4,712 605 4,107 As long as this state of things continues it will be idle to look for a diminution of crimes of violence. Heavy sen tences do some good, but they will not prove very effica cious when hardly one case in eight is ever tried. The police, the judges, and the district attorney must all co operate. Out of 78 arrests for murder, only 15 cases got as far as the courts. Out of 13 persons arrested for bigamy, one was tried. Out of 65 cases of arson, only two were tried. Of the pestiferous brood of receivers of stolen goods there were 255 arrests and only three trials ; and so on to the end. Although crime in New York City has increased in the greatest ratio, still the causes which have produced the effect there have not been without their effect elsewhere in the Union. We think it was the Spectator which, last Saturday, stated, on the authority of an American in high office, that if a millionaire in New York even committed a murder under the state of things existing there, he could not be punished, as no jury could be got to agree in its Finding. Railway corpora ti ons are said to own judges, body and bones, who work cer tain Courts in their interests; and if in Equit y , why not in criminal proceedings? If corruption thrives iu the municipal bodies, it is not unlikely to spread to the Legislature ; and if the Governor, Senate, and Representatives can be influenced in their official action by money, the Judges may be induced to sell decisions. Such an example is but too eagerly followed by subordinates, and by an easy stage, the rascals become masters of the situa tion. Bad as is the case, as put by the Tribune, it represents but one phase. Out of 4,712 arrests, but 607 cases were disposed of in the courts, and it would be interesting to trace these to conviction and punishment. If the Tribune would follow this out, the reason why men threaten to organize Vigilance Committees for the suppression of crime in New York City would be understood in Eng land. First, there is the attempt to convict; in which, in accordance with the Anglo-Saxon code, every difficulty is placed in the way. Having succeeded in establishing the guilt of the criminal, so that it could not be ignored by judge or jury, and procured a sentence, it might be supposed that there that case ends. Not a bit of it ; as yet but one scene of the drama has closed. The moment the culprit is incarcerated his friends —and they are a powerful body the criminal classes of New York, bound together by a common danger and a common cause—begin to work for a pardon. The Governors of all States, as well as the PRESI DENT_ have absolute powor to those con victed Hiuhin their jurisdiction. `l:4-ip IliSt step is to draw up a petition, narrating facts not allowed as evidence or disproved on the trial, spicing it well with such sentiment as the heart-broken wife and starving children stigmatized with a father's *crime there is reason even to believe the father never com mitted. The counsel then sends this round for sig natures,which arereadilyprocurable, if the sentimen tal part has been skilfully pictured, and the evidence disproved on the trial well recooked. Armed with the memorial the Governor or the PRESIDENT is be sieged; a haggard wife, weeping children, the mother tottering under the blow to her grave, play their parts ; and the Executive, being but responsible for a short period, feeling the full force of the torrent, and finding plausible reasons for doubting the verdict of the jury, grants the pardon. It ap pears, then, that most criminals in the great cities of America have two trials, the one with all the advantages English or American law gives the criminal, the other a trial from which the prosecutor is excluded, wherein the evidence is wholly ex carte, nothing being heard against the convicted felon, and based mainly on sentiment. Supposing that the sentenced thief fails in both, still as an English song has it, he 4 , is not without hopes of liberation." In some of the gaols the prisoners are said to be masters of the position. At Sing Sing they do very much what they like ; even the oc casional brutality of the officers towards them going to prove this. Last month they rose in an organized attempt to escape from the prison of Sing Sing, and many did escape, though they were recaptured. Two or three days before, three prisoners had walked out of the gaol at Trenton, New Jersey, and were not retaken. A few days after three more left Allentown Prison, Pennsylvania, and the same day a woman took her departure from the female department of the Sing Sing prison, and went on her way rejoicing; while a new keeper, who did not know how civil he ought to be to the prisoners, was so beaten by them that his life was only preserved by the interference of the superintendent. Not long ago a political meet ing was held in one of these prisons to give expres- sion to the political feeling of the community. 'rake RE Al.'s case, who was sentenced to be hung on the 2d inst. This man deliberately shot a policeman. He was incarcerated in the Tombs, shortly before he committed the murder, awaiting his trial for assault and battery on the man whose life he after wards took. District-Attorney HALL, with the concturrence of the judges, refused to bail bim, and being about to proceed to Canada be wrote on his direction slate, " Don't bail REAL, for if he gets out he threatens to kill S3IEDICK " (the policeman.) This memorandum was shown to the County Judge when bail was applied for on Habeas Corpus, but he set it aside, and REAL was bailed, who, on leav-• ing the prison said to the keeper, " I only want to get out for a few days to kill SMEDICK ;" and kill SMEDICE he did, deliberately shooting that police man when on duty. It might be supposed that little could be said on behalf of a murder so preme ditated ; yet, Governor HorFmAN, who is showing admirable qualifications for the high post he fills,has had to withstand a great pressure—memorials, peti tions, supplications innumerable for REAL's pardon. Nor that only; the life of the judge, who passed sentence, is openly threatened, and Sheriff O'BRIEN is reported to have said that he will not hang REAL if be can help it. Up to the last, motions were made to stay proceedings, so that every legal subtilty might be exhausted in favour of this deliberate murderer, after every attack on the Governor had been unsuccessful and every demonstration of New York rowdies had failed, The policeman was murdered last July, I was told I should be a son of the Queen, and t am lying under her feet. I will always be a soldier of the Queen. You European people, I tell you if Tee Kooti and Tito Kowara are killed there will be peace, but if not there will always be strife." The two gentlemen last named are the rebel leaders. After this piece of good advice the worthy legislator concluded with a song. All this is, no doubt, very able and sincere, but it does not quite prove that the New Zealander is yet up to administrative mark. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE POLITICAL POSITION. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that " the Tories are so thoroughly disheartened by the increasing majorities in favour of Mr. Gladstone's bill that many of them are dis posed to forego the discussion of all except one or two money questions in committee. They cling to the hope that Lord Derby may so alter the bill in the Upper House as to prevent its passing this year. Lo rd Stanley's reappeara nce i n hi s p l ace on Friday evening was regarded as no more than a concession by that chief of temporisers to the urgent cry of distress raised by his party. He sat out the greater part of the debate with exemplary patience, there being little of novelty in it with which Ile could sympath;se. lle is expecte 1 to mike a spec Al on the third reading, in vindication of the course which he has pursued. Tie had much better let it alone." We are inclined to think that there is one Con servative who views " the increc,sng majorities in favour of Glaflstone," with great satisfaction, and he is no other than Mr. Pisnieli himself. All the world knows that he cares nothing for the fr;sh Church; that he deans it au. " alien" Ch urc h , that he would gladly let it go, and that he defends it solely because the exigencies of party compel him to do so. At the sime time he knows perfectly well that so long as this question rc mains undecided there is no chance of his party returning to p ower . Il e k nows that for the Lords to throw out the bill would be the best thing that could happen to Mr. Gladstone. Therefore it is that he exposes his party to defeat night after night in order that the Peers, convinced of the hope lessness of resistance, may pass the bill, and leave the field clear f or o th er cola& sts. The land question for instance, is far more h opeful for the Conserva tives than the Church is. The old Whigs have never cared much for the Church, but they have always cared a good deal a b out the land ; and while they would view the " spoliation " of the first with perfect equanimity, the same operation applied to the landlords would seriously alarm them, and pre pare the way for " caves " and lc 1 -312..-rooms," and "middle-parties." The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening hail naturally attaches another meaning tothe present course of events. Referring to the noisyscene on Thurs day night, he says : " The oldest frequenters of the House of Commons do not recollect a more scan dalous display of brutal violence, coupled with sub mission to the whip, than was exhibited last night." He adds that Lord Stanley " remained perdu in the library during the debate, and at the critical moment stole away from the House," and then goes on to give his interpretation of the " perfect discipline of the anti-Protestant majority." " Mr. Gladstone's great anxiety to push on his scheme by brute force arises from his fear that some of his friends in the Upper House may reduce their idea (that of concurrent endowment of the Roman Catho lics and the Presbyterians) to practice, which they would attempt if a comp let e di scussion o f the Minis terial scheme in the House of Commons could be obtained, and the time and knowledge for its full consideration were thereby afforded to the country. Mr. Gladst one wou ld no t d are t o fl ou t a n Opposition in which the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earls ,. Russell, Grey, and Harrowby might take a part. I\ or would the press in that case talk any more - of an over• whelming creation of pocket peers." MR. WHALLEY AND THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. Whalley writes again to the Telegraph on the subject of his vote and conscience. He declares again that he was not induced to give his support to Mr. Gladstone on account of any external pressure brought to bear upon him. It is true that on the resolutions of last year he did hesitate as to his vote, because, in so far as those resolutions formed part of a policy for conciliating Fenians or satisfying the Romish priesthood, he felt that they must expose us as a nation to ridicule and to con tempt ; but this difficulty he met by publicly dis avowing any such motive or object on his own part. As to the story of his exclaiming, "What will my Orange friend s think of me ? " Mr. Whalley declares be could never have used them in the sense imputed to him, as he had before told Orange meetings that they must not continue to rely upon the Establish ment for the spread of Protestantism. PRINCt ARTHUR IN IRELAND. The Queen's contract with the clerk of the weather does not appear to extend to her children. P r i nce Arthur has been having anything but " Queen's weather" in Ireland. For him the National Anthem has had a new but scarcely improved version, though " Long to rain over us " was at least a truthful des cription of facts. To make up for the absence of the sun there has been an abundance of loyalty, which is " still the same "in cloud or sunshine. Even the weather gave the Prince an opportunity of gratifying the Irish national feeling, for it induced him to invest in a Waterford overcoat, and to vest himself in it. The cheers which greeted him at " Cashel of the Kings" were something startling. Clearly they did not speak without reason who said that an important part of the Irish question was the residence of a royal prince in Ireland. TILE LAIC) QUESTION. Sad to say, while all this jubilation is going on in honour of the Queen's son, the Queen's subjects continue to be attacked by assassins. Two more agrarian outrages are reported. \lr. H. C. Curry, J.P., of Carry Lodge, county Leitrim, ms fired at on Thursday morning when returning home from a friend's house in the county of Cavan, but escaped ~,:0.,..—i, 1,..j,—,-. TL 4, - .1...e , —P +I,. itutrn.f , et in ~,4, known. A farmer named Horan, living about ten miles from Ennis, was fired at and wounded by another farmer named M'Kesn, because he proposed to hand over to his son-in-law a portion of unclai me d b og w hi c h h a d beenin Ackean's possession. 3l'Kean has absconded. The Times, in a leader, follows up the hint given by the Spec tator on Saturday, that the Government should deal with the land question this year. The second paper says that wild hopes are being incited among the peasantry as to the intentions of the Government upon this matter ; and that it would be more prudent to set bounds to these at once by publishing the Government programme. The Times says : "It is stated that in various districts in Ireland, such as Westmeath a n d parts of Tipperary, there pre vails something like a resistance to landlords altogether, and an apparent determination on the part of those in possession to hold their land without paying any rent whatev er . Th e tenants are relying on the terror inspired by some recent outrages, and the landlords and their agents are not insensible to the danger." The same paper goes on to ask, " Before matters became worse, would it not be possible for Government to take up Lord Clanri carde's very simple and moderate bill of last session ?" The object of that measure was to simplify and cheapen the legal forms necessary for a contract between landlord and tenant. There are still three months to deal with this measure. No doubt there will be more time to deal with it next year; "but who can say what even this year may not bring forth ?" TIIE BUDGET. The London correspondent of the Sbotsman contra dicts emphatically the story that the Budget is Mr. Gladstone's production. It was delivered, it will be remembered, on a Thursday. "Up to the Saturday before," says our informant, " even Mr. Gladstone himself knew nothing of the scheme. Mr. Lowe was left to himself, with full confidence in his skill and diligence. On the Saturday Mr. Lowe laid the whole scheme before Mr. Gladstone, and the Premier at once gave it his hearty support. Did he, then, con tribute nothing to the scheme ? Nothing but a cor rection. He went carefully through all Mr. Lowe's calculations, and he found a single error of £2,400. It happened, however, that this error came in a very critical point of the calculations, and affected a g oo d many of them. The result of Mr. Gladstone's dis covery was that certain Treasury clerks had a hard day's work on Monday to reconstruct the calcula tions. By Monday night all was ' ship-shape.' On Tuesday the Budget passed the Cabinet, and on Thursday all the world was let into the secrets which had been thus remarkably well kept." AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. It has been asked whether English farmers have made any use of the agricultural returns which have been collected by the Government during the last three years. Several facts have been stated in the C'hamtere of Arr•iculivre Journal which indicate the contrary, especially with regard to the wheat crop. The wheat crop of the United Kingdom harvested in 1867 was reckoned at one-fifth below the average, but the growers failed to dispose of their produce to advantage. In the same way we find that this year farmers have been holding back their wheat, in spite of the ample rate of importation which brought from September 1898 to February 1869 two-thirds of the total quantity we shall want till next havest. Plainly the farmers have not as yet been influenced by agricultural statistics. TRADES UNIONS. Mr. Charles Neate, the late member for Oxford, writes to the Star on the subject of Trades Unions, and founds upon the strike riots in Belgium an argument in favour of the much-abused English institutions. In that country there is no other way of bringing a pressure upon the masters than by demonstrations. These, when they are intended to be emphatic, become riotous and dangerous. The law is broken, blood is shed. In Eno - land strikes are comparatively peaceful. "It is not only that the English workman is habitually more regardful of the law, and more averse to the shedding of blood than the Belgirn, but it is also, in groat measure, because the funds of the union, upon which he can fall back, enable him to put a peaceful pressure upon his employer. In Belgium, where the right of association is more :restricted, and where no such organisation of trades actatige_is itt_jhicsQvattis. the_ works REPRETS. The ground on which relieves are asked for now a-days for murders, ho=ver foul, suggests the question whether petitiond understand the nature of, and the reason for, capl punishment. So many murderers are reprieved tat it seems to be generally understood that petitionffthall be drawn up and signed, as a matter f course ; and that the Home Secretary is bond—unless there was no excuse for the crime, andhe deed was particularly barbarous—to send his wit preventing the execu tion. Three men, Wiltsire, Jenkins, and Mac donald, have been reprt•ed within the last few days. Wiltshire's crime vas most atrocious. He murdered a woman, INtoln he had previously violated, and when in rison, after his conviction, he attempted to tak away the life of his warder. Now the Time Secretary, for suffi cient reasons doubtlesshas ordered his life to be sparect. Tins, taken n connection with the other two cases, has made the riends of Sheward hope for his life. The reason tey urge for his reprieve is that his health is failin. Could anything be more absurd ? The concepton of the law on capital punisllmeat since the lommission on the subject— on which no legislatiei has been taken—seems to have fallen into inextriablo confusion. THE ROYAL PRZOGATIVE OF MERCY. Mr. Wilkinson, of jincoln's-inn-fields, writes to confirm the statemew made in our last impression that the personal relatmship between the bigamist baronet and the First Lord of the Admiralty had nothing to do witl the liberation of the baronet, since it was Mr. Hardy who ordered his liberation As a matter of fact, the eccentric baronet is stll abroad, in accordance with the terms of his parton, and he is in very bad health. The statement that Sr E. Eardley owes hi s libera tion to an unworthy ]iotive having been disposed of, there is another simlar charge concerning which, no doubt, an explanation will be forthcoming. Sometime ago a :,ondon solicitor, named Farrar, convicted of fogery at the Central Criminal Court, was, together with one John Hullett, sentenced to two years' penal servitude. The sentence createa nu surpil3t L. +.1.. mirici. tf +hose who read the evidence. What has created surprise has been the announcement that her Majesty, at the instance of the present Home Secretary, has granted a free pardon to Farrar, whilst Hullett, who seems to have been his dupe, remains in prison. Hullett, we are informed, was an eccentric man, who was the victim rather than the accomplice of Farrar, and if this be true, it is hard that the lesser offender should still be in prison while the greater is set at liberty. TRADE IN SOUTII STAFFORDSHIRE. The iron trade of South Staffordshire, though stra depressed, exhibits a slight improvement. At the last market held at Bi r mingham a more hopeful feeling prevailed among manufacturers. The iron masters are anticipating large orders from the north of Europe. General trade is dull, and numbers are out of employment, but the operatives on short time seem willing to meet the views of the masters. Among the hardware trade of Birmingham there is little activity, and trade is dull in every department. The foreign export trade is somewhat more buoyant. THE OPERA. The difficu:ties with the prime donne of the Italian Opera appear to have been surmounted. Nilsson, instead of going to New York, will appear on May 4, at Covent Garden, and Patti, as the publiestill call the Marchioness de Caux, will appear on the 6th. WILLS Al\ D BEQUESTS. Sir Arthur Clifton, who died a few weeks ago at 08 years of e has left a good round sum -140,000 i n personalty, besides landed estates. These go to his nephew, Sir Robert Clifton, the eccentric Nottingham M.P., who will now be set up again. Strang e t o say, Si r A r thur was heir presum tive to his nephew's baronetcy, and the nephew was heir to the uncle's estates. The personalty of Mr. lleathcote, the sporting man, has been sworn under 10,000 ; that of Mr. George Lawrence, of Mossley hill, near Liverpool, under £140,000. Mr. Brown, formerly a partner in the publishing firm of Long mans and Co., has left to the Booksellers' Pro vident Institution, £10,000; to the Booksellers' Retreat (Abbotts Langley), £lO,OOO ; to Christ's Hospital (where he wits educated), £lO,OOO ; to St. Bartho lomew's Hospital, £5,000 ; to the Stationers' Com pany's Schools (recently constituted under the Court of Chancery), ; to his relative, Miss Brown, £10,000; to his faithful attendant, W. Dignam, £B,OOO. There is stated to be about 125 legatees named in the will. The residue he has left between the grandchildren of his partner, Mr. J. N. Long man. Mr. Brown died on the 24th ult., at the ad vanced age of 93 ; he had always resided in the City, and latterly at No. 30, Upper Ludgate-hill. Clearly literature is not a bad business, whatever Mr. Fronds may say of it as a profession. FOREIGN NOTES. TILE BELGIAN nairmAt DIFFICULTY. The Incle'pendance Beige publishes another letter detail ing the "progress of the negotiations." But as this progress has of late been only in a backward direction, the Belgian journal is able to supply very infm-mnf inn. It is noteworthy, however, that a misunderstanding and a complete failure of the attempt to settle the difficulty are now spoken of on all sides. The Independance Beige does not think that Belgium's refusal to accede to the conditions imposed by France will lead to any serious consequence ; but the Etoile Beige is very much alarmed, and is evidently preparing for more Parisian bullying. THE GREAT STRIKE IN MGM!. The entire colliery district around Mons has become a scene of industrial desolation. No further disorders were reported up to Sunday, but the strike had so greatly ex tended that perfect armies of workmen were assembled in different parts of the country. The International Society makes no secret of its share in this industrial quarrel. A manifesto of violent tone has been circulated in the district during the last few days ; but no special grievance is com plained of. The tyranny of masters and the oppression of workmen are the topics upon which the committee enlarge. It appears, however, that the old wages difficulty was the proximate cause of the strike. Business has been bad in the Mons district for some time, and the wages of the workmen have suffered by the depression. Their discontent has been gradually rising to a crisis. The International Society has not failed to profit by their mutinous disposition. Several days ago the men employed in one of the pits demanded an increase of wages, and on refusal ceased work. Others followed, and by Friday the strike was general throughout the Borinage. The malcontents did not hesitate to intimi date their companions. The men at least of one colliery were obliged to come up and join the rest. Only one conflict with the soldiers has taken place ; the troops were assailed at Frameries, and formed square, firing from one side, and killing two persons. All traces of the first strike at Seraing have disappeared. A DICTATOR FOR SPAIN. The Literte states that the idea of a directory of three, or any other number, has been found impracticable. A scheme for entrusting supreme power to a lieutenant general of the kingdom, to be chosen by the Cortes, is rising in public favour. The Liberte adds that a majority of the deputies seem disposed to rally round Prim, whose popularity, though slightly imperilled a little while ago, is again in the ascendant. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian states that the hopes of the moderate constitutional party are entirely crushed by the refusal of Dom Fernando to accept the Crown, They will gradually and silently fall into the ranks of the reactionists, and support the nomina tion of the boy Prince of Asturias, with Serrano for Regent, and Olozaga for Minister. INDIA. The Government having been empowered to modify the values of goods on which ad valorem duties are charged, have promptly published a new tariff, which comes into effect at once. The maximum duty on imported goods is fixed at 7 per cent. ad valorem. On piece goods the Times of India calculates the duty roughly at 5 per cent. On imported iron for railways and the like purposes it is only 1 per cent. " Our beer, porter, and ale will have to pay one anna per imperial gallon only ; spirits, three rupees per imperial gallon of six quarts ; champagne, sparkling wines, and liqueurs, 111.8 per gallon, and other wines one rupee." The export duties range at about 3 per cent. TEE MONSTER NUGGET. The great Australian nugget, weighing 2101 b.—by far the largest on record— was found by two poor Cornish men, John Deason sad Richard Oates. It was turned up only two inches teneath the surface, and at one of the earlier goldfields it the Donolly district, which has been well dug over for nany years past. The two men received £9,600 for their prize. MAORI LEGISLATORS. Some time ago the process of civilising the aboriginal New Zealander wts extended to giving him a share in the legislative busines3 of the colony. Maori representa tives were admitted to the General Assembly of New Zealand. This proceeding seems to have been a little too far advanced. A dinner was recently given to his Excel lency the Governor and Mete Kingi,a Maori member of the Assembly, made aspeech. After informing the company that he was the only one who did the Governor honour when he went to 'Wanganui, he said : "I am teacher of raligtioukAssesimAid zeueral mem* 9f tht . g9uq9_i but and this case was going on as actively, as if a man of character, culture, and intelligence had been be trayed into a breach of the law under some great provocation, instead of one belonging to the criminal class designedly seeking out a policeman to whom he owed a grudge for having discharged his duty faithfully, and shooting him on his beat. Sympa thizing friends visit this coarse ruffian in numbers, and his table is supplied by them with every deli cacy, while the activity displayed in the attempt to defeat justice is astonishing. Indeed, the execution of REAL will be considered a triumph of law —a result we will learn before going to press.* It is not surprising that crime should prevail where it stalks abroad with such impunity. 'The jury who could find a verdict of Not Guilty, on the plea that the prisoner had been sane up to the moment and sane the moment after, but insane while com mitting a cruel and deliberate murder, held out a premium to such acts. It would be wise to have Less of sentiment and more of dry legal evidence; to finish with the verdict and sentence, discouraging to the utmost after proceedings, and to control the pardoning power by compelling those who exercise it, fully to state their reasons. Twit:llEl,l:s was an infamous murder, yet all sorts of legal quibbles have been resorted to to enable dle culprit to escape the penalty. Punishment is inflicted not to avenge, but to deter; but if it be in the highest degree un certain, and nearly all the chances of getting off are in the culprit's favour, the l,►w, instead of deterring, offers inducements to crime. Society at large will then suffer, for men become criminals, who otherwise would not. A man argues—l have the grand chance of escaping detection ; but, if caught, everything is in favour of my evading the law, and such an argu ment, if well grounded, will create criminals by the thousand. The New York State prisons are said to be in a terribly embarrassed financial condition. The cost of the management of Sing Sing, Auburn, and Clinton Penitentiaries in 1868, was $500,000 over and above their earnings. The Legislature at first refused to approve a deficiency bill of $300,000 to meet this balance, but on the representation of the Controller that unless the bill was passed, the prison doors would have to be opened and the con victs set free, the action was reconsidered and the bill passed. * He has received a respite. BUTLEIZ GE7'7ING UGLY. It is said that BEN BUTLER is much annoyed at not being nominated for the Chairmanship of the Committee on Ways and Means. Speaker BLAINE selected the Committees, and Mr. SCHENCK was his choice for the post BUTLER so coveted. It is no sop to him to get the Reconstruction Committee, or the Judiciary Committee ; what he wanted was the post of power, the Chairmanship of that Com mittee which reports on affairs wherein the House is supreme ; as in the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, which makes CHARLES SUMNER al most the equal of the Secretary of State, as does the Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Com mittee of the House make Mr. SCHENCK little less powerful than the Secretary of the 'rreasury. BUT LER'S vindictive, and he intends to make both the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee pay for his chagrin. He has already given the latter a dose he did not like, and which has made him look uncommonly queer. "I know all your ins and outs," said BUTLER, "and some day or another they shall be investigated." Now this may appear a very ordi nary threat to those who are not aware that BUTLER got permission, of which he fully availed himself, to ransack all the offices for telegrams, to get information that would convict the " re creant seven" in the Impeachment Trial, of cor ruption. Though he did not find the evidence he sought, he got something else he thought might be useful hereafter. What he got none can tell, but he shakes his head and looks ominous while throwing out dark hints, and those with anything on their conscience quail. If all our " ins and outs" were known we would like to be on good terms with those who knew them, and this is the sort of power that BUTLER is just now exercising over Congress. Considering it was Congress that delegated to him the authority which gave him the means of acquiring this terriorism, the punishment is singularly appropriate. Mr. SCHENCK was one of the most earnest in pressing for a convic!iou against ANDREW JOHNSON, and in getting up the persecution of the " seven," the chief step for which was empowering General BUTLER to break open boxes in search of evidence. For some time it was thought that Mr. SCHENCK would fight it out on the gauntlet then thrown down ; but he thought br.f for of it. and. apparently frightened, has left the field to BUTLER. That gentleman has a telling way of "putting things," however scrupulous, as may be gathered from this, that because he found no evidence against the accused seven, he declared it was just as he expected, as such " cunning rascals" were not likely to leave traces. Had he discovered any, his was the eye to detect at once the full significance; and it is not impossible, that a brain so active was engaged in forecasting the future, and treasuring up the faux pas he discovered among his friends. Though he secured no evidence against the recreants, it is known that he obtained enough to implicate some Senators who voted for conviction, and it is believed that other telegrams passed into his posses sion, interesting to members of the House. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writing on this subject, says :—" The only definite thing which has leaked out concerning BUTLER'S purposes, and what he knows, is that he intends to press the matter, and says that he has sworn testi mony to the effect that a whisky man drew an im portant whisky clause in the revenue bill for SCHEYCK, and that the latter was in the ring with the witness. When BUTLER attempts to mike the House believe this or any similar charge of its im portance, then the tug of war will come. Thee it is expected that BUTLER will be charged with sell ing out himself to the whisky ring, and agreeing, for certain considerations, to suppress evidence taken before his Committee to investigate the failure of Impeachment. And as a matter of like character the House may for the first time learn what evidence was taken concerning Sena tor POMEROY which it was deemed best to sup press. And if the notes are destroyed, as the witnesses are still alive, it may be possible to astonish even Mr. BUTLER. At least some friends of General SCIIENCK incline strongly to that opinion." BUTLER got up another scene in the House on April Fool's Day, of all others, during the debate on the Mississippi Provisional Government Bill, introduced by him. He had possession of the floor, when Mr. DAWES, his colleague from Massachusetts, asked him to yield for a question. "No, Sir," said he, " I cannot open my mouth that some gentleman does not come down my throat." Mr. DAIVES in sinuated that it would be a very repugnant place to him, and continued to press for his question, when BUTLER sternly said he would not yield. Mr. DAWES urged that he simply wanted the ordinary cour tesy, and lie was going on when his colleague again rudely broke in, declaring he would not be catego rically catechised. These scenes are now of weekly occurrence in the House, with BurLEtt always in the foreground.--Anylo-Ainerican Times. The American Bible Society has commissioned the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vormilye and Henry Dickinson to attend, as its representatives in London next month, on the opening of the new house for the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Plymouth church members at Brooklyn are raising funds to place a colossal statue of Henry Ward Beecher in the group which is to adorn the Lincoln monu ment at Washington, at a cost of $6,000. A remarkable revival of religion is prevailing in Carbondale, Illinois. During eight weeks more than two hundred persons wore received into the Methodist church of that place on probation, General John A. Logan among the number. Rev. George Bowler, well known for his vigo rous efforts in the war to raise the 46th Regiment, of which he was for a few months colonel, died very sud denly on Friday morning, March 26, in Nashua, N.H. Secretary Boutwell has appointed Messrs. A. T. Stewart, Horace Greeley, and William Orton as the com mission to look after the construction of a new Post -office in New York City, for which Congress appropriated $200,000. Mr. Mullett, the Government architect, is to superintend the work. 7HE LAST OF THE TENURE-OF-OFFI(' ACT. This bill gave rise t o ano th er di scuss i on i n the Senate on the reception of a message from the Bes se announcing its non- concurrence. M r. Trumbu ll made a long spee c h i n support of h i s mot i on to It' i sist, and it was carr i e d against the motion to recede by the same vo t es as b e f ore. It came up again c'll the 31st Ma rc h, w h en S enator Trumbul l brongb,o up the repo r t o f th e C ommittee on Conference to the Senate, and Mr. Butler i n th e House. Ih bill which we l ast week gave, as amended, reP eab sect the first and second ns of the original Tee s , T e o of-Office Act of M arc h 2, 1867 . The fi rs t sectio n of the Se na t e amendment is left untouche d ; the second section is a men d e d so as to read as follor".; " That during any recess of the Senate the President,ji hereby empowered, in his discretion, to suspend anY T g o ' t officer apvinted by and w ith th e a d v i ce and eonsen'l; the Senate, e xcep t j u d ges of the United States C"ur t o until the end of th e next session of the Senate, a n i ; designate some snitablo person, subject to be removed to his discretion by the designation of an o th er t o perforat'ch duties of such s us p en d e d o ffi cer in the meantime, and suthe person so desi gna t e d s h a ll take the oaths and gi ve bonds required by law to be taken and given by the pended officer, and shall, d ur i ng t h e t i me ho per f o rm' duties, be entitled to the salary and emoluments of s uc s , officer, no part of which shall belong to the offioer sll 3 o pended; and it shall b e th e d uty of the president within days after th e commencement of every session of the Sensts,,., except for any office which in his opinion ought n ot to v" , filled, to nomi na t e a ll persona to fill all vacancies in efgce, which exist to th e meet i ng of the Senate, whether tee „ ; porarily filled or not, and so in the place of all offic e sj i suspended ; and if the Senate during to such session refuse to advise a n d consent to an appointment i n 6 place of such suspended officer, then, and not otherwlso the President shall nominate another person as 0°13 ,, practicable to said session of the Senate for said offiee; ar , This is the sh a p e i n w hi c h i t has become law. lie Butler, who report e d it, th oug h t t h e sect i on on the removal and reinst a t emen t o f o ffi cers repealed the Tenure-of-Office Act as though it had never b ee of passed. He did not think it altered the power ti, the Preside n t f rom w h at he had under the Lops t t o tution. Mr. L ogan w i s h ed to know whethe r o , difference b e t ween t h e repeal of the 'rewire-el, Office Bill and the repor t o f t h e Conference Cooll9lod tee was not the diff erence b etween tweedledant a tweedledec? Mr. Butler said he would not Ps t t so strong. He th oug ht th e diff erence was right the dee other way ; it was th e diff erence b etween tweet and trveedledum. Th e H ouse passe d t h e bill by 1 3 , against 67, all the Democrats, and 17 Republican making up the N a y s . Wh en ta k en to the Sel33te, . 00 Mr. Trumbull gave qu it e a diff erent interpretntith, there to that give n i n th e H ouse b y Butler. 13° , rf , however, appeared to be sa ti s fi e d, an d th e cons' tee which looked for a split, is surprised. The 5 e1) „, 3 11 6 concurred in the Repo r t by 42 t o 8. M r . spr% and seven D emocrats —M essrs. Cole, Fessesue, Robertson, Sh erman, an d \V arner—refused to vo te d Mr. Morto n was not present. Mr. Grimes Iti°oo " yea," and th us , at l east f or the present, has Pa; settled a bill which has led to a fight all rons og first, between Congress and the President, esl l e j e in Impeachment; next between the Senate an d . v g House, ending i n a comprom i se ; the Senate beloo, considered in the gen era l me l6 e t o h ave triumPh f A New England " minister" of the days °- i 00 and thereabouts did not necessarily or probably I p o - ro marriage as a h o l y sacrament, and, judging from th P 0 lice of slaveholding Catholic countries, perhaps th ei : g i , not much auth or it y f or b elieving that if he had so ec'ci, dered it he wo u ld h ave felt obliged to insist on its sylirtetle ness in the cas e o f a coloured couple. But still it i s 3 startling, even to the reader who regards marriage b lo b contract mer e ly, t o rea d a " form of marriage" "filiips, was drawn up a n d use d b y the Rev. Samuel Fil l ,0 a pastor in A n d over, Massachusetts, for sixty Se rge from i from 1710 t o 1771 . I t appears that the negro to' and groom and the witnesses having been gathere d o d' gether before the clergyman, the latter used first W oe dress the intending husband and require him to Pr ° o) that "so far as s h a ll b e consistent with the relationtt you now sustain as a servant, you will perform the o rye of a husband towards her; and in particular you P ro tlie that you will love her; and that, as you shall W e i of , opportunity and ability, y ou w ill t a k e a proper ca re ° in sicknes s an d i n h ea l t h , i n prosperity and adversiti. The bride for her part was then required to prom ise o is same things, and—as w as a l so requ i re d o f the grltder respect of her—to say th a t s h e wou ld b e " true and . 0 11 0 ful to him and c li ng t o hi m, on l y as l ong as G o d, I 011 0 Providence, sh a ll cont i nue hi s and your abode le td place or places as that you can conveniently co ule su cli gether." Th e m i n i ster then declared to them that fort de time as God should cont i nue their place or places o f 3 :pi as aforesaid, and for so long as they "should behaVeo/ conduct them se l ves as o b edient and faithful serveutsrte "not as eye- servants, men-pleasers "—" toward th'i , c i ,ier spectivo mas t ers and mistresses, " they might coe d to themselves man and wife. "And finally," 11) ' loe l o o say to them, "I exhort and charge you to .beur 3r° oo you give place to the devil "—who, when be men and wom en i n very prosperous circumstance s, xesl apt to stir them up w i t h out di st i nction of colour teifoc, Height, ofvain-alvi aud haughtiness-44 80 a s to t A d i/ casion from the lic ense now g i ven you to be lifted 11P pride, and thereby fall under the displeasure not of 1 0 only, but of G o d a l so ; for it is written that God ras ls 5 5 the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." rr b 4 eell used to conclude the ceremony, which seems to hav e is oti a tolerably r ecogn i sa bl e part of " the grea t missi° o 0 D ir scheme" that used to b e spo k en of, for bring i ng the flighted children of Af r i ca t o a k nowledge of the u light. —Nation. 113° Professor Robley Dungli s o n di e d on the Ist ofell in Philadelphi a . He was a native of E ng l an d , an d re l° o lo' from London to th e U n it e d S tates in 1819. Ile ic brated for his m e di ca l works, and was a member arid cep respondent of numerous literary and scientific socit io ell both Europe and the U n it e d States. Over 100,000 vc" tba of his works have been printed. He was Chairman ia ° l ;o3+ Committee of Instructio n o f th e I nstitution of the Po and afterwards Vic e -P res id en t , wh i ch position be b.8,41r1 the time of his death. H e a l so pu bli shed a large dictly for the blind. 4 . LADVERTISEMENT.I Holloway's Pills.—Healtlt's n ige o ,o taM —lt cannot surely be n e cessary to remind an y inte,olo, reader that the purity o f t h e b lood determines every 11'101# health and vigour. H o ll oway ' s medicine searches out the e ll O 0 ci taint in the vital fl u id , an d neutralizes or expels it, so ue-tds circulation supports the syste m i n p l ace of sowing the efte", decay. When e p idemic s are a i vanc i ng, and disease i s on the increase, it behoves every one to have a restora t ' these pills ready to set right any irregularity in stern' bowels, or kidneys. Holloway's treatment is especiallYS;,e, for the young, d e li cate, and nervous, who are moot of any prevailing sickness, and whom violent measures " endanger little less than the epidemic.oa ‘; [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), consi, Debility, Consumption, and all nervons, bilious, stoma s liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated ar, by rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curaind Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as Pr e ,,,,c 1, 0 thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless , lsj e e —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, htemorrhoids, liver col l „00 4 . flatulency, nervou sness, b iliousness, fevers, sore throats, "ab-rll4. ria, catarrhs, co ld s, i nfluenza, noises in the head and otr'irr'ne, matism, go u t, i mpurities, eruptions, hysteria, neur ale"ose'ill bility, sleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, Woe 00 debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, sickness , e c ,btlif ti C pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula,t 05, pi of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and bet , "" r et , shoulders, We quote a few :—The Pope's health resto.A, Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, Itorlijlll health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, rt.; to i t ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entire p o i Barry's Revalenta. Arabic.% Food, of which he consumes :efi i ° 4 o l ful at every mea l . It has produced a surprisingly te...eel'oto effect on his h ea l t h , and his Holiness cannot praise this e: food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2 .,W l e et No. 46,270 —M r. J ames Roberts, timber merchant, of I', Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of h1 ° ,55 0 4 0 , derangement, and partial deaf ness. C ure No. 1,771-I,°,%eiio de Decies, Lord-Li eu t . o f W aterford, of many years' (F,,',0P600, (1, No. 49,832—" Fifty y ears ' i n d escr ib able agony from ;,45,,./ nervousness, asthma, cough, co ns ti pat i on, flatulencY, 70,P 4 0 sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important civk Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy W,,, i 0 t5 5 to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is nw ciously attached. lg,;or In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 211)8. 4s. Gd ; 511 ) 8.10.0 225. ; 241b5,405, Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA AF.k Pi e !' (of t? LATE PONVDER is packed in tin ca n i sters; for 12 cups at 16 0 ,10 0 cups at as. 6d., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cups at 305., for 50 10 at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. ae...,d o.rd are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of re' t , Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent stree don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. Lod g°. —On the 18th i ns t., a t R ux l ey the a ife of F. J. B. Beckford, Esq., of a daugut er i o ter KILCOURSIE —On the 17th i ns t. , a t B at h , t h e Vi6c° Kilcoursie, of a daughter. marriages. oleic' HADDOCK —PERRY— On th e 17 t h inst ," at St. ra n ,, t4 'l4: l l, ton, Roland H a dd oc k , of Croydon , . Surrey, 1; of Ann, second daughter of John P err y, Esq., J ''" Claremont-place, Clifton. 00' 1, -pzoilf 11, KEmr -GORDON—On the 17th inst., at Upper ~• 4 - 6 0- 11 10 , Dixon Kemp, Esq., of Gordon-place Can3P-Jlostel Kensington, to Georgians Mary Bessie, younger, 0 6 ' for of the late George Huntly Gordon, Eel., ()'` Gardens, Maida-hill. • Deaths. ti off scl COLE—Oo the 17th i ns t ., at York-street, Portma n " Lieut.-Colonel Robert Cole. I, 04 106 DRUMMOND—On the 18th inst at 5, Chea-a ~ulO '7 Spencer Drummond, Esq. 00.- ILutzur —On th e 15 t h i nst., at East Brixton, ; Hartry, Esq., a ge d 47 . XO6 SriELmANN—On the 18th inst., at Hereford House; Brompton, Adam Spielmaan, Esq., aged 57 _______-''''" - "iio -- - -- , n IV , i f, i London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIAM A ND l' n f , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tait SUN an"' fi ,.. 00 '- Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy Le the '" Middlolso7 4 —Twoday, April 20, 1869. RINA Tliis celebrat e d Ptize Medal. It Pure, Mild, "A foldin Bottles the Agents in the pr 8, e th Gll.l:_e RedkT Obßery LL Whisks. MUTUA L 14, R ELL-s' ib o l n i rlz : w o ae r fer lTT le, : eiy a B ; - h r ro o : e l n rr e N d teh T: l i. hoki' ll ietS I A" J Great " :I‘'e P I. e 4 SS o i r f rthur Mat the ori , i Mate Vent r it '• A Wo ader ful 21 '"' —etr es , e ustons ten e4 ar n, acters—lVlß, y and ' wilte d artißteKatt 1( pla ce p . ER " W , dno i• W will ta'te ths( W e ll Jo hn-strp e c ,c t i With lf r, /;. A lways Pen New and 'Beautiful RACIf and num Ander ten, 6d.; extra A RGyur, t 4,3, RvENING -001/18 have been ma arid Co. The c e l e l m an attractive, Progri Dance Music. Doors WINDII Directo PA /IRE abov e pa .o r devi Ln li nelleon, B re ng ORIGINAL f LAND E To be oh JOE ASITLEy Very Fine Pale, Dr\,. Old Crushed Port ( D ( Shipping), Vintage S parkli ng Sam Chamgn Qualitd Supena ri ple eases of th bottles S herry, two C GARRICK •I) B. }TALL, n ext the "r eqlgrgnerlee for NIGH celebrated PAL E and Bordeaux Wines and al so be Whiskies, from seve seen at the Ti ''l`i'oritiheerrs()lvf alin7eteelLptou OSCIENTIFIC, A 1' RNAMENTS a nd DininEr-rr ,sortMent of VAS ES liAlts, nkstands, hen &e., in Italian, Aid abiro Rpir, &c. Trr, TP,NN A NT, Miuet W.C., London. ltr. 'Pennant arrar, aIINETIAL F of Lyell's Elements' tatq thrl interestin' GEOLOGY, and c; gtrinons (It. PRACT MAT( IN MIN"F IRALO GY is 149, Strand. THE LIVER] GLOBE OfEces---1, Dale -, Ch The Invested pni ?ire Revenu e to tf33 The Moderate rates Bon us for the Life Value as SPECIAL l'ervier them partict leav e is granted on r( thirty days after adtn JO' - CULL .013E2t.ti:eaft(,, Llinri3l P e lleee• Assi etance i P. ATd JAMES StAMEN'S 11( Na off Greenwich f( Th e 'icns, wh o aro rocc 879 l e rece ipts from v ~SUss than tit. ex BSCRIPTION illiams, D eacon, an Str the Secretary, at th e eet, London, E.C. G overn Qualif ic ation for or, XlO 10 s. VATIo.TAL oi Richmond, Sur. under the patronage er wherebV home has 1 Glirls of all ages, c l ass° The the kingdom. °hien of the cha and education, and pra and l audry, to fit then Wise provided for who suitable situations for tl The Committee emus entirely sustained by dt °eke, 121, Pall-man, " FI JI Mackenzie-park Patron —Her Mel For the gratuitom destitute orphans froi and of all denomina prosperous eircumsta One hundred and stitution ; ample roorr Increased support endowed, and is in tl assistance. Subscribers and th I nstitution, and judg( its peculiar claims. e last Report car Se Th cretary. CHAS, AUBR - 1 Offices, 73 AAL, CheapsiC Itaers -- esss. - V lane nk. and AllegMan.r Ila' , IT1:ALTII RESTORED vl i I li BARRY'S d e -4-0' and Infants' Po TUE REI ectves fifty times its cc Perfect digestion' stron refreshing sleep, funct most disordered or c all ge enrepti habituals tion co rarigereennts, htemorrt nervusness, hiliousne catarrhs, colds, influE rheulnatisro, gout, inl ralga, irritability, 1 heartbur, headache, nausea and sickness e, fits, bronc scrofnl the pit of libels,sto the rnost digestible and for invalids and infanfi ItooliTaNT CAtprioN ittiti more than slop °N f rity, Baron Liebig's na Tienceforth none will Du Barrys health-res and Infants' Food, sin g hag already received Been doetned hopeess, Ilese the Pope, whose by it after thirty gears We quote from the 18,413):--"Ro Jul Rol F ather Father isms'excell other remedies, he ha liarry's Ilevalenta Aral plateful at every meal beneficial effect on hi praise this excellent fo, Cure No 8,216 of tl years' liverscoaint, /less, irritability with digestion, conetant 5154 rt foole rcvu.olue s is : a. o g it74t:taB: ant u . ii y: Stuart de Decies, Lord f ifIV teilltiliert :o f ° I y r lsT di . Olh.pa :4:9 , 7. n, Dg r 128. 1.1.-ezetc(l from d7RPepsia. nervool of -.312u, Norfolk. nervoCure No. 47,121.-111, nervousness, indigestio usness, fancieQ. Cure No. year s diar r h s6,Bl4 .--31 1 Ceft. lb., 4. Gd The Food is s o l d in ; 121 b., 22a anises carriage free tirry a nevalenta Arall tin eatisters: 'For 1.2 cn cups at 65.,83 cu for 2 abo ut cna ps penny par cn fr ee of carriage in E nA URI'. D U BARRY r at l also at Portuttrn and 1 Gracechutch-street • 63 New 4crth-r3s,d, LOuth