The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that Monday night's discussion in the House of Commons may be accurately described as "Much ado about nothing." The only objection possessing any semblance of importance raised against the Budget is that founded on the allegation that the balances in the Ex chequer will, by the accumulated receipts of taxes in January, be starved from October to January, and be superabundant from January to April. Mr. Lowe'sretort, that the money market must look after itself, would have been more satisfactory if the disproportionate receipt of revenue at one season were not in itself an inconvenience to the Government as well as a possible cause of disturbance to the public. It is plain that the Government must either borrow before Christmas, or have a large sum, even after payment of dividends, lying idle after Christmas ; and in either case there is a diminution in the national economy of money. The balance of certain advantages against uncertain dangers must lead us to accept Mr. Lowe's scheme if it be impossible to dispel the apprehen sion of disadvantage; but if the possibility of incon venience could be removed without altering the essential points of the Budget, we cannot pretend that we should not be better satisfied. The Daily News, in discussing Mr. Hunt's analysis of the Budget, says that he objects that Mr. Lowe's remis sions of taxation are made at the expense of posterity. What Mr. Ward Hunt probably means, and there is a certain degree of truth in the statement, is that tly , present year financially is enriched by crowding into it payments which, if matters had been left in their old position, would not have been made until the following year. Mr. Lowe replies that if the year 1569-70 steals from the year 1870-71, that year in its turn may steal from 1871-72, and so on ad infinitum, to the last syllable of recorded time. What may be done in the final year of grace, which has no successor to borrow from, the Chancellor of the Exchequer professes himself unable to conjecture. But as in all probability he will not be holding office at the time, he makes his mind very easy on the subject. The Chancellor of the Exche quer of that time, whoever he may be, if he be at all con scious of the position in which he stands, will probably be thinking of something else than his financial arrange ments. If neither he nor the millions whom he taxes are aware of their situation, they will wake very calmly in eternity to the discovery that they have paid in advance for an unborn year in time. Mr. Lowe's illustration, however, though a tolerably good joke, is not a very sound argument. Though taxpaying is not likely to cease so long as sun and moon endure, individual taxpayers are not immortal. The anticipation in one year of the revenue of its successor means that the taxpayers who die in the first year will nevertheless contribute to the expenses of the second, that is to say, a portion of the money which would otherwise go to their heirs will fall to the State. There is no disguising this fact, and no need to disguise it. It is price paid for a great administrative reform. The diminution of taxation, both by the reduction of its amount and by a cheaper and more efficient system of collection, is an improvement which, in the mere money point of view, is well purchased at the cost at which Mr. Lowe offers it. The Standard declares that the meeting of the Oppo sition at Lord Lonsdale's on Monday afternoon gave a tacit, but emphatic and conclusive, contradiction to the insinuations of those Liberal journalists who, making fancy supply the place of fact, and guided in their fancies rather by their wish than by their knowledge, are never weary of assuring us that the Conservative party is divided and disheartened, disgusted with its leaders, shaken alike in its allegiance and its principles, doubtful of its present course, and hopeless of the future. Looking back as far as the first beginning of our acquaintance with the tactics of political warfare, we can remember no session during which tho • - ;aine allegations were not made as loudly and repeated as frequently as now. Con sidering how often the Conservatives have been crushed, annihilated, destroyed as a political power. they are marvellously tenacious of life. Considering that they are on,:e a year, at least, on the verge of a general breaking up, it is marvellous to see how close and perfect their cohesion is, and how vainly their oppo nents look to their parliamentary conduct for any signs of that relaxed discipline and dire discouragement which their guides in the press have bidden them to expect. What is required from the leader of such a party at such a crisis is. not that he should stimulate the fervour and maintain the cohesion of his followers, but that he should moderate their vehemence and direct their counsels judiciously ; that he should have the tactical skill to make the best use of the forces which their enthusiasm and devotion place at his disposal, and to avail himself to the utmost of the strength of his cause, the courage of his adherents, and the blunders of his opponents, and no one will deny to Mr. Disraeli the capacity to direct a parliamentary campaign with skill and ability, or question the good for tune which has placed the management of a contest like that which impends in the committee on the bill in the hands of the first political strategist of the day. The Telegraph, in commenting on the meeting at Lord Lonsdale's, says that the chief of the Opposition spoke with vigour and effect ; the meeting was unanimous and entln.siastic, and his words were received with manifest confidence and approval. The rractical result of the gathering was that. though not without some spiritual distress, disestablishment must be accepted as a foregone conclusion. The fight on that ground is fairly given up. Whatever else the Irish Church may save out of the fire, it will not preserve its connection with the State. Thus, at the outset, more than half the campaign is over. The coming debate, then, will be, as we had anticipated, not an uncompromising battle between the two great parties in the State, but a House of Commons' discussion in which every member of the IlOuse may freely join. It would be idle to deny that if the Conservatives wilt frankly accept the bill in its principle, they must obtain a locus standi for their amend ments ; and should those amendments be urged in a spirit worthy of the crisis, because above the habitual manceuvring of faction, our opponents will find the Liberals giving to their suggestions a kindly and states. manlike consideration. The Herald says that two at least of its Liberal contem poraries have found out that Lord Stanley is not a Liberal after all; and one of them, with more courage than candour, pretends that it never intended to claim him as such. We need not concern ourselves with this les. ingenuous portion of what is a substantial retractation. It would be no more a waste of time and an insult to the understandings of our readers to argue that we are in the month of April, than it would be to adduce proofs of the notorious fact that ten dug or a fortnight ago the entire Liberal press was busied in the endeavour to spread thz impression that the late Foreign Secretary was entirely of their way of thinking in politics, and that nothing but filial pietywithheld him from improving their prospects by accepting the bait so often held out to him to supersede Lord Clarendon. But it is of some interest to note that the ingenious misrepresentation has already collapsed. No true Liberal, we are told, would think of claiming Lord Stanley after the Glasgow speech as a statesman whom he could with any satisfaction see acting in coalition with the present Government. According to Liberalism, all the preceding policy of the nation has consisted, to use Mr. Bright's phrase, of acts of sheer madness. According to Conservatism, it has been sometimes wise and some times unwise ; but even where it has been the latter, it has entailed certain consequences which we may modify, but cannot safely attempt to extirpate. This is avowedly Lord Stanley's view of things. One of our contemporaries says it does not matter what we call a man when we know what he is. It does not much matter to the man, but it matters considerably to the reputation for good faith and good taste of those who call him what they know he is not. Sir Massey Lopes's question to Mr. Gladstone on the expediency of providing for the retirement of aged and invalided bishops suggests to the Times that it is certainly time that some public notice was taken of this subject. It has for some time been a topic of private remark, and the observations it prompts can hardly be to the advantage of the Church. At this moment the greater part of England south of the Thames is destitute of what Mr. Gladstone called " responsible Episcopal Government." There are hut two conclusions possible— either that the existing laws and customs of the Church expose hermembers to grievous injury, or else that bishops are of less importance to the spiritual welfare of their flocks than we are wont to suppose. Of the correctness of the former of these conclusions there can be no doubt. Sir Massey Lopes is one of the members for Devonshire, and is pro bably aware from experience of the serious damage inflicted upon the Church in the West Country by the prolonged abeyance of episcopal superintendence. It is not merely, we fear, that the Bishop is not seen, but that he should appear to cling to his office when he has long been incapable of performing its functions. But, after ad. muting all these considerations, it must still beremembered that bishops were made for the Church, and not the Church for bishops ; and, in addition to the loss of episco superintendence,prelates in the position we are noticing eK: , ,so both themselves and their Church to grave miscon- 4; , tions. Something ought to be done to facilitate, if not to r the avoidance of bishoprics when their occupants I:cco;ne incapacitated. Mr. Gladstone observed on Thurs -lav that it was a somewhat delicate thing for the Government to take the initiative in such a matter, and we are glad to understand from his language that the Bench of Bishops have the subject under consideration. It is undoubtedly a matter which concerns them, their order, and their Church more nearly th an anyone else, and they may he sure that it cannot b e neglected wit h safety. The Government will be ready to concur in any reasonable proposal, and, with the aid of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it ought not to be difficult to devise some arrangement which will render impossible for the future such a state of things as now exists' in the Southern dioceses, ANOTHER AGRARIAN OUTRAGE. The Clowned Chronicle reports another agrarian outrage. It states that as a farmer, named Corcoran, who lives at Glenpadden, near Cappaghwhite, was about to retire to rest alevr nights ago, he heard footsteps in the yard in front of his house, and immediately two shots were dis charged in quick succession close to the window. He had been previously threatened, and was afraid to venture out to see who the parties were, but it is supposed that the possession of a farm which he holds has rendered him obnoxious to some of the law less spirits of the locality. The same journal mentions two cases to illustrate the difficulties of Irish landlords in the management of their property. In one, Mr. John Scully proceeded against a Mrs. Tobin, a tenant whom he had been obliged to eject for non-payment of rent, after forgiving her two years' arrears, reducing her rent by more than one-third after her husband's death, so that it was much below Griffiths's valuation, and, finally, allowing nearly three years more to accumulate before proceeding to recover possession. He offered, even in the court, to give her a sum of £4O if she went out peaceably, but she obstinately refused to quit the land, although she is unable to farm it, and it is getting into bad condition. In another case one of the most indulgent landlords in the county dieted to forgive all arrears to a tenant who was grossly neglecting the land, and to give him, besides, a sum of £m, if he would give up peaceable possession, but he refuses. MURDER OF A GREEK SAILOR. Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an inquiry on Monday, at the Vestry Hall, Cable-street, St. George's, respecting the death of Nicholas John Camhurus, aged 24. Inspector Osborn watched the case on behalf of the Commissioner of Police. Constance Theopheny, 15, St. George's-street, a boarding-house keeper, said the deceased was a Greek sailor, who bad been six weeks in England. On Friday, the 2nd instant, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, he was brought home to witness's house quite dead. Simon Sheppard, a cigar-maker, living in St. George's-street, said that on Friday night week he left his horse to buy some oil, and while out Le saw some Greek sailors running down the street, calling out, "Me no fight." He next saw two men run after the deceased, and knock him down. The two men then jumped upon him while he was lying upon the pavement, and one of them afterwards knelt down and caught hold of the deceased by the hair, and he pulled the head up off the curb on which it was lying, and dashed it against the stones. Edward Crosskiss, said that on the Friday even ing he saw two men trying to rob some Greek sailors. The Greeks had a knife. The two men then attacked the deceased, and the other Greeks ran away. The two men then knocked the deceased down and jumped upon him. Dr. J. C. Budgett said that he saw the deceased shortly after death. There was an abrasion on the head. The face was swollen. 'I he man's death had been caused by injuries to the head and body. He bad ascertained that fact from a post-mortem examination of the body. Police-constable Newman, 71 11, said that on Friday week evening, at 7 o'clock, he was told that some men were using knives. He went to St, George's street, where he found a large crowd about the body of the deceased. A person present stated that the Greek Government had offered 2100 reward for the apprehen sion of the murderer. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," and they requested the coroner to ask the Home Secretary to offer a reward for the apprehension of the murderers. The coroner said that he would do so. Both of the guilty men are said to be well known to the police, and will not long escape detection. TERRIBLE SCENE IN A GAOL. The Chicago Tribune gives the particulars of a terrible scene which occurred on the 26th ult. in the Cook County Gaol. In one cell there were five young coloured men, named George Washington (No. 1), George Washington (No. 2), Benjamin Wilson, John Williams, and Charles Pile. 'they were accused of various crimes, ranging from burglary to petty larceny. In accordance with the rules. or in_the absence of any rules, the prisoners were allowed to smoke. About three o'clock in the afternoon Pile lighted his pipe and threw the burning paper upon the bed, and the straw caught fire. His companions remonstrated with him, but he coolly remarked, "Let the damned gaol burn up." The bed soon presented a sheet of flame. The prisoners here generally deprive themselves of all clothing but their pantaloons. In this state were the inmates of cell No. 8. One of the George Washingtons made an effort to extinguish the flames, but of no avail, and soon joined with the rest in crying for help. Every thing combustible in the cell was on fire, and the inmates literally stood in the flame. Assistant-turnkey W. F. Rice was in the office at the time, and the moment the cries of the unfortunate prisoners reached his ears he hurried to their rescue. When he reached the the flames were rushing out between the bars, and it was with the utmost didlcuity, uu6 lillal3;uLupauictl with danger, that the lock could be reached. While Mr. Rice worked about the lock, the prisoners set up fearful yells of agony and pain, and with might and main threw them selves against the bars in the vain endeavour to force them from their fastenings. Finally the door flew open, and out rushed the prisoners, wild, blistered, and with hair on fire. Nearly frantic with pain they rushed up and down the corridors howling piteously, and it was many minutes before they could be calmed sufficiently to accept aid. The tall George Washington was most severely burned. His entire body was one mass of open wounds, and in many places the flesh was fairly roasted. Wilson was badly burned about the back, shoulders, and face. Washington No. 2 the same. Charles Pile, the author of the catastrophe, fared a trifle better ; and John Williams, who had taken refuge under the bed, escaped with some comparatively alight burns about his hands and face. It was, however, feared that one, and perhaps three, might lose their lives. THREATENING LETTERS.—At the Irish uommis sion Court, on Monday, James Magill, a workman dis missed last year, was convicted of sending a threatening letter to the chairman of the Midland Railway, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The mother of Benjamin Higgs, late of the Great Central Gas Company, has just died—her death having been hastened, it is said, by her grief at the disgrace of her son. She was buried last Monday at Brightwaltham, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, where she and her husband kept a public-house, until they were induced by their son to leave and come up to London to live. SOCIAL SUPERSTITIONS.—That it betrays a vulgar mind to carry a parcel in the street, especially if it be wrapped up in a piece of newspaper. That if you are seen running, as though really in a hurry. you must cer tainly lose caste, and that nobody worth knowing will take notice of you afterwards. That something dreadful must happen if you leave your gloves at home, although the weather is so hot that you cannot hear to wear them. That if you are a lawyer you will lose all your best clients should you carry a blue bag, but nobody will be offended at your carrying a black one. THE LATE HUNTING CATASTROPHE IN YORK SHlRE.—lmmediately after the sad accident on the Ure which led to the death of Sir Charles Slingsby and other gentlemen, a movement was begun to erect a fitting monu ment to their memory. Already upwards of £l,OOO has been subscribed for the widow of the huntsman Orvis, and .£4OO for the families of the two Warriners, the ferrymen. As yet no step has been taken towards the general memo rial of those who perished on that fatal day beyond a general acquiescence in the necessity for such amonument. Instead of a pyramid or obelisk, however, a North Riding magistrate has this week put forth a proposal for a memo rial bridge across the Ure, which should at once per petuate the memory of the " last of the Slingsbys" and his friends in death, and prevent the recurrence of any similar catastrophe. The cost will be great, but the funds are thought easy of reach. OUTRAGE BY A CONDEMNED CRIMINAL UPON HIS WAIIDER.—The convict Charles Wiltshire, who was tried before Mr. Justice Hannen, at the recent Gloucester Assizes, for the murder, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's, and sentenced to death, committed a brutal outrage on Monday morn ing upon his warder, in the county gaol. Since his con viction the prisoner has shewn a quiet, tractable demeanour, and has listened with apparent profit to the exhortations of the prison chaplain. No violence being apprehended from him, he was placed in a room in the hospital, where, some years ago, Lewis Gough, a criminal under sentence of death, spent his last hours. Two warders took it by turns to keep him company, one by day and the other by night. Until late on Sunday night nothing occurred calculated to excite any suspicion that he meditated violence. As his usual hour for going to bed approached, he appeared somewhat disturbed, and when, towards one o'clock, his attendant, who is a sergeant ' on the South Gloucestershire Militia Staff, as3kecl him if he did rot intend to lie down, he replied in the negative. Shortly afterwards he contrived to get, unobserved, behind the arder, and seizing a metal candlestick which was on the table, struck him a heavy blow on the back of the head with the bottom part of it Though partially stunned, the warder did not lose his presence.of mind, but resolutely grappled with his assailant and raised an alarm. A night patrol happened to be near, and hearing an outcry he ran to the room, and the convict, who is a powerful fellow, was secured. The warder had sustained a severe scalp wound of some three inches in extent. Surgical aid was rendered, and no serious conse quences are likely to follow. The execution is fixed for Monday next. Meantime a memorial in favour of arespite 010 Priaoller bgli l 4141-14E91111Y,Iinedi THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1869. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Opinions in widest circulation are often the most erroneous; for instance, many believe that Canada is the joint in England's coat of mail that the Re public can at any time penetrate with the most deadly effect to the monarchy. It is the threat which America most delights to flourish, and which most makes England quail ; nevertheless, it is true, that, instead of being England's danger, it is America's danger, and the more dangerous because it makes sb little threatening show. Instead, it lures ; offer ing a tempting bait, though as deceptive as a gaudy fly on a barbed hook. Canada conquered, mould be Britain freed from an encumbering dependency ; but what would Canada conquered be to the United States? If the Union took forcible possession against the strenuous resistance of the Canadians, the chance would perhaps have passed away for ever of amalgamating the whole Northern Conti nent into one nation. The Northern States might drink a little more of the intoxicating draught of glory ; but at what a price ! The history of Ame rica could not then be written without stirring up in American bosoms feelings of irritation. The con quest of the South and the conquest of the North might read very pleasantly to the Middle States, but from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, from the St. Lawrence to the North Pole, that history would give but little satisfaction. There me Northerners who think the civil war a gigantic blunder, and there are more who believe it to have been a neces sity only less fatal to the conquerors, than to the conquered. Its record can never be expunged, its memories never obliterated, and the day will come when the burden of Southern poetry will be to give vent in song to triumph in Southern victories, to wail overSouthernsubjugation,and to mourn the memories of the leaders who fell in upholding the Southern cause. STONEWALL JACKSON is a name that will be heard oftener fifty years henca than now, and it may represent to the Southerners of that day, what WALLACE does to the Scotch. A more unwise thing could not be done in cool blood by any nation than deliberately to generate, beyond the St. Lawrence, the memories stamped into the soil south of the Potomac ; and if ever this fatal thing happens, the statesman has to be born who Clll undo the work. Those who, like the New York Times, glibly talk of conquering Canada, had better ponder this view of the question. Let Americans weigh all the cir cumstances, and see who would lose most in such a course of action. Our deliberate opinion is that the tempting bait of Canada's conquest is Ame rica's danger, not England's ; and that in retiring from the continent, with the towns and villages of Canada in flames behind her, England would leave to the United Spates one of the most fatal legacies ever wrung by one nation from another. We are among the believers in what is so often sneered at, as the " Manifest Destiny," but we base our belief on the virtue and good sense, in the main, of the American people. The hardest task ever undertaken is that before them. They must, indeed, have read history to little profit, who suppose that a con tinent can be built up and welded together as one nation, unless virtue, wisdom, and moderation pre vail. Clashing interests have grown, are growing, and will continue to grow. Localities may become the ceßtres of extravagant demands and angry agi tation, and it will require an emblem of the Union, a national flag which speaks to the , heart, to keep always in the American mind that, however distant from the place of go vernment, that however grievous may be their wrong, yet that they are but a part of a great nation to which it is their pride to belong, and whose history they all cherish. But, let wide terri tories regard with aversion that flag, and know that American history is to them but a record of their own subjugation, and the dragon's teeth are sown hereafter to rise in crops of armed men, and it will become almost impossible to fulfil the destiny it is the fond belief of so many, awaits the Republic. Canada wrenched from England is but the loss of prestige; and not much of that, for no one supposes that any European nation can fight the Republic on American soil without quickly coming to grief. The struggle would be on the water ; and there lies England's strength, for she could build and man ship for ship against the world combined, when thoroughly roused and driven to it. It is not, how ever, the Chances of such a war that we here discuss, ' but the error so generally entertained in both coun tries, that the danger to England in its colony contrasts in such a conflict with the sure triumph of the Republic, for we feel certain that if the Canadians fight, it would be the most disastrous conquest ever achieved. Worse than Dead Sea fruit, it would dash from the lips the ravished cup when supposed to be filled ; while naturally, the luscious fruit would come in due time to those who honestly worked to gain it. Instead of advancing the real object of a genuine continental Union, it would erect before it a barrier almost insurmountable. Canada must drift into the Union by the attraction exerted by a mighty mass. But let America beware of conquest, for in attempting there to strike England, the recoil might have a shattering effect on the stability of the Republic itself. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. PRINCE ARTHUR AT TRINITY COLLEGE. Prince Arthur has had to meet political feeling in Ireland, and he seems to have looked on in simple amazement and wonder. He visited Trinity College, Dublin, on Saturday, and the students made the occasion one for displaying their hate of the policy of the Government. He was received by cheers and Kentish fire. The latter he could not understand ; and he seemsto have got still more uneasy, as, in reply to shouts of " Maynooth," the students began to groan vigorously. But his own name was received in every case with favour. The Roman Catholic Freeman's Journal would have it that he left abruptly on hearing groans called for Earl Spencer; but the other papers make no mention of this cir cumstance, and all agree in stating that the name of the Countess was cheered to the echo. merely manufactured fro,.i► cork. It WOUICt DO easy enough, therefore, to manufacture a dozen out of as many wine corks. It is no use our barring up our eyes and saying such things could not occur at any respectable club. They did occur at a very first-rate club." No wonder that the 0/r/ announces a tem porary suspension of ballots at one of the principal clubs until investigation had been made in order to ascertain how it is that so many candidates for election have come to grief of late. CAREER OF A BIGA3IIS7. Cunningham, the bigamist, has been condemned to Sing Sing for rive years. his real name is Clinton Wheeler. Although 53 years of age, with moustache and whiskers of fiery red, he has been the most successful " lady's man" of whom we have any record, which is mainly due to a suavity of manner, and an unbounded power of lying. When sentenced he declare.l he would marry another woman for every month of his confinement. He returned from California, where he spent 12 years, last summer, and pursued his professional swindling in the Astor House. Mr. Benson, of York-street, Jersey City, was his first victim ; his next was Mr. John Banter, whose daughter received a hasty pro posal of marriage, which the young lady, under the impression of enormous wealth, as hastily accepted ; but the wooer suddenly disappeared with a watch, a heap of money, and a box of clothing belonging to Mr. Banter, and a few of the neighbouring far mers also suffered. Mr. John Ward, of Morris town lost 400 dollars, when he took a start from that neighbourhood to East Tarrytown, New York, where he adopted the name of Cunningham. He was very condescending to the fume's whom he visited, and Mr. Weimer's daughter took his fancy and he married ber. On the next day Cunning ham left to complete his business for the purchase of some property in New York, but he went up the river to Poughkeepsie. On board the steamer was a Miss Louisa Ameigh, to whom he proposed and was accepted before the journey ended. He went home with her, and they were married. She spread the fame of his wealth in every direction, and he availed himself of the credit it gave by getting all he could. Having turned every thing into money and secured all his wife's valuables, he proceeded without notice to pay a visit to Mr. Laird in Pleasant Valley, Ulster County. He had known that gentleman's son in California, and this was his passport, but Miss Laird, a sensible girl, rejected the offer he immediately made of his hand. In fact, his con duct excited suspicion, and it is clear the Lairds were not such confiding simpletons as his previous acquaintances. He had to escape at night with his booty in a carpet bag, toiling over the muddy country roads, but was captured before morning, and committed to the White Plains Gaol, and both his brides appeared against him. His full history would be a curiosity, if this short sample which has become known is anything like the rest. The American Free Trade League proposes to give a series of lectures on the subject of free-trade in all large cities and towns of the United States. Some of these lectures have already been delivered, and have been listened to with marked attention. At Indianapolis, Indiana, an audience of a thousand persons was present. This method of presenting the respective merits of Free Trade and Protection is one of the best ways of informing the people of America upon this much-vexed question. 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 exporta tion. Quotations on application 'to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, te)ndon, W.CI--LAA- Tertisement. LORD POWERSCOIJRT. Lord Powerscourt's letter to the papers, assenting to Mr. Gladstone's policy on the Irish Church, seems to have created a great stir amongst the Orange men. Lord Roden, the grandfather of the defective politician, weeps publicly over his grandson's fall from his high estate. Writing to the _Dublin Mail, the Earl of Roden most pathetically sets forth his sorrow. " How (lie asks) can I describe my feelings at my grandson's (Lord Powerscourt) conduct towanis me? I got him into the House of Lords by interesting our Protestant peers to vote for him at a vacancy in the represen tative peerage, by which he succeeded to the seat he r o;v fills, and in virtue of which he intends to vote for Mr. Gladstone's bill. Those peers whom I can vassed for him, and who at my request voted for him, naturally supposed that he held the same principles and opinions as mine, and which I was fully led to believe myself at the time. I can only say that I consider such conduct in this transaction as most ungrateful and disingenuous, coming in as he did to the representative peerage under false colours. And now he has the presumption to designate as ' fire brands those who are honestly, manfully, and con scientiously opposed to this measure of which he has become a champion. I only hope he will live to repent of his ingratitude towards one who has acted by him as a father, and has lost no opportunity of seeking his benefit." Could a lament by a father over a prodigal son be more affecting? I'..EEING TIIROITGII A MILLSTONE. . The Morning Advertiser says that "the following is the first visible fruit of the visit to Lady Herbert : Mr. Weld, a prominent Roman Catholic, of or from New Zealand, is appointed Governor of Western Australia." The Ad ver tiser is very clever at seeing through millstones, no journal more so, but our contemporary sometimes sees things which don't exist, a feat not surprising on the part of the organ of those who sometimes see double. In the first place, colonial appointments are not made by the Premier, but by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who happens to be Earl Granville . In the second place, Mr. W e ld' s c l a i m to the • post of Governor of Western Australia consists, not in his religion, but in his long and distinguished colonial services. In 1800 h o was appo i n ted Minister for Native Affairs in New Z ea l an d ; i n 1864 he became Premier, and held that o ffi ce un til 1865,. when he undertook to explore s ome o f the uninhabited districts of the colony. He is also the author of several valuable books, and is altogether a man far above the common. He was born in 1823, and married a daughter of the seventh Lord Clifford of C'hudleigh. Though a Roman Catholic, he as at least as suitable a man f or a co l on ial governership as Mr. Ducane, or those o th er M . P.'s for whom Mr. Disraeli found places last year. THE POPE'S JUDILEP'• of his first mass was ob serve d The fiftieth anniversary o f th e Pope's celebration on Sunday with considerable ceremoni a l i n mos t of the Roman i Catholic churches. At R ome t h e Pope, who was in excellent health, celeb ra t e d , at seven. a.m., low mass at the papal altar of St. P e t er ' s, b e fore an immense number of spectators, who are described as pro foundly moved. The P on tifi ca l C o urt, the diplo matic body, foreign p r i nces, d e putations from the communes and from f ore i gn di oces es were present. Among the enormous n um b er o f v i s itors who have entered Rome durin g th e pas t few days is the eldest son of G a b r i e l M es ta Ferretti, head of the Pope's family. After mass, a "Te Deum " was chanted, and the Pope then gave a blessing. Aft er the "service he breakfasted in the Sacristy of St. Peter's, the entertainment being furnished by the Chapter. Out of doors the weather was magnificent. The event has been celebrated by an amnesty which extends to political offenders. At Moorfields, Archbishop Manning preached. He reviewed the career of the Pontiff. Referring to the events of two years ago, he said that, to the shame of Italy, the man who led them was regarded as a patriot. He prayed God to preserve England from such patriots. He condemned the statesmen and diplomatists who had looked on so impassively while the Holy Father had thus been suffering ; and he added that no. Catholic was opposed to a united Italy if based on the jurisdiction of the one Catholic Christian faith. But he had heard it from the lips of the Pope himself that he would never yield. Though it should cost him his life he would stand steadfast as a pillar of truth and justice amongst men. When the Governments stood aloof the hearts of the faithful drew near to that.good shepherd who, like his Great Master, "had compassion on the multitude." viewing the career of Pius IX. in its ixternal aspects, he alluded to the fact that three times Pius IX. had gathered round him the chief pastors of the Catholic world in the bonds of brotherly love; and to the hearty cordiality with which the dogma of the Immaculate Conception had been received by the Catholic world. He anticipated a similar success for the (Ecumenical Council which was to assemble in December next. The Papacy was still powerful, he said, and the Pope had suffered exile, and was prepared, if necessary, to suffer it again, but not to bend or to betray. THE DURATION OF NAIL pthe statement th a t f u t u r e wars yconstant will b e very short repetition, ones has come to b e regar d e d as almost a truism. Railways enable troops to move faster, breechloaders enable them to fire faster, tele graphs transmit orders faster, and these expensive appliances force b e lligerents. to spend m one y f as ter. And so, it i s argue d, wars 11111 be sh or t er. M r . L owe seems to hav e b ee n convinced by the argument, and grounds an important provision of his i kudget upon it. But s the assumption a sound one ? Colonel Ham ley, in a letter to the Times, says No. lle admits that armies in future will come into contact quicker, .but he thi n ks that the kno w l e d ge o f th e great engines of destruction rhich will com e i n to play will make commanders cautious, and their m ovements tedious. Th ere were short wa rs f ormer l y as well as in more re cen t ti m es. The American W ar c ontained all the elements of long marches and drawn - out operations ; and the Colonel is of o pi n i on that when the immi nen t con flict bet ween France and Prussia takes place, modem appliances will not make it necessarily a short campaign. TUE CAPTURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA. The discussion on the question whether it is advisable to alter the international law allowing an enemy during war to capture private property at sea, is renewed by Lord Hobart in the Times. His lordship gives his opinion in the affirmative. lle rejects as untenable the argument that war should be made as disagreeable as possible • for, admitting that, the s h oo ti ng o f w omen and children and the torture of prisoners must bo all owe d. The " disagreeable" must, therefore, be a ques tion of degree. The degree has already- been narrowed by the prevention of the capture of private property on land, and still more by the allowing of a neutral vessel to carry privat e goods. Why, then asks the noble lord, shall n o t th e w h o l e d oc t r i ne o f the immunity of private property b e a t once l a id down ? It is said that the goods are, so to speak, the sinews of war. But much more does this apply to men ; yet men not under arms are not captured. And, if carried to an extrem e the theory would lead to the punishment of all who, by supplying food to the belligerent nation, give them the succour whereby they are capable of bearing arms, which, his lordship implies, is an absurdity. Consistency requires, he declares, th at the cap t ure o f p r i va t e property should be disallowed. One of those sudd en " waves o f h ea t" w hi c h T " WEATHER. • , meteorologists have s o often notice d i n Ap r il o f l a t e years has now come upon us. We h ave a ll a t once passed out of the meteorological region of frosts and biting east wind to a midsummer temperature, cloudless sky, and bal my b reezes. On Sund a y th e London thermomet ers i n the s h a d e ro se a b ove 70 legs. Yesterday morning they were above 60 at eight o'clock, and before ten the temperature in the sun was 00.• The effect of this sudden accession of heat upon vegetation is marvellous. The trees in the parks, which had remained in much the same condition as they were in the first half of February, have leaped into new life, and the tints are as brilliant as they are in autumn. In fact, the progress of vegetation during the last few hours has been of almost Norwegian rapidity. A weather prophet has predicted that we shall have thunderstorms for some time, and that alternate fits of cold and heat will visit us till about the 24th or 2.5t1 May, " when we shall probably settle down into a summer similar to that of last year." Me genoito. BLACKDALLINGI - e The .1-Mn Ball makes a strange statement. It says that at one of the clubs it was found that there were, just before a ballot of members was taken, six black balls in each box. " Another suspicious circum stance was also observed on this occasion. On taking the scrutiny several undersized balls were disco vared.,Now at most clubA thlball§ val 4 f 9; voting are FADVERTISEMENTd-iioEoWfty'S Pills.—Without health no amount of wealth, no means of pleasure are of the slightest value. It is inconceivable how small a dis turbance of the animal functions begets wretchedness, and how readily it may be rectified by a few doses of some putifying an d regulating medicine, such as these world renowned Pills. These have proved an invaluable friend to mankind in every grade, in every land, and under al most every circumstance. Holloway's Pills purify the blood, rectify digestion, stimulate the liver and kidneys, and regulate the bowels. 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From the Danes it pr.ssed into the hands of a sect which had for its fot.nder the eccentric " Boatswain Smith." After him it passed into the hands of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, who called it " The Sailors' Church," a title it used to bear somewhat ostentatiously some thirty or forty years ago on a board which surmounted the parapet from east to west. More recently the Church was used by the Bev. Mr. Lowder, and the other priests 9f "St. George's Mission," as a missionary chapel or church, until a more permanent -and suitable edifice should be built. The lower part of the wall on the north and south sides is now an that is lett standing, and as soon as the work of demolition is completed, the site, which forms a little imperipan ire imperio. an enclosure within the garden of the square, will be devoted to the erection of some schools in connexion with St. George's Mission. The house in the square in which the schools have hitherto been held is noteworthy as having been the birthplace of Thomas Day, the amiable but eccentric author of " Sandford and Merton," and in the church or churchyard was a memorial of " Colley Cibber," WHAT DOES IT MEAN. The following advertisement appears in the " agony column" of the Times :—" All persons affected by statements in Lord Campbell's ' Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham,' and interested in the pure administration of public justice, arc re quested to favour Miss Ralston Shedden by commu nication immediately, by letter, with her at 2ro, Vauxhall-bridge-road, S.W. ; or under cover to Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, Ely-place, Hol born, E.C." This, no doubt, is the indefatigable Miss Shedden who has so often tried the patience of our judges. But what is she going to do P Appa rently she is about to bring an action against some body, perhaps the ghost of Lord Chancellor C ampbell. FOREIGN NOTES OUR NEW INDIAN POLICY. The Ameer of Affghanistan has met with a splendid reception during his visit to India. " Everything that could be thought of" was done in honour of this potentate as he passed through the various cities, from Peshawur, on the extreme Punjab frontier, to Umballa. At Peshawur he first saw a review of British troops, and heard the roar of British cannon; but, much as he admired breechloading Armstrongs, he did not see his way to introduce them into his kingdom, on account of the difficulty about procuring suitable ammunition. He also had himself photographed, and is said to have gone to a tailor and ordered English costume for all his followers. This last action seems to have caused some little tremor. What if his Highness's retinue should discard the garb of Affghanistan for the prosaic English costume before reach ing Umballa? Sheer Ali is represented as a fine, hand some man of middle age, affable in conversation, and speaking Hindostani fluently. Whilst at Peshawur be wondered that the English could fight and rough it as well as Affghans, and yet surround themselves with com forts and luxuries at home. The mail left just before the meeting of Lord Mayo and the Ameer at Umballa-1,154 miles from Calcutta— and therefore no details of the interesting occurrence have arrived. We are told, however, that the preparations were on a magnificent scale. The new policy of friend ship or alliance with Affghanistan was to be inaugurated in a befitting manner. Money was no object. Festive preparations had already cost about £50,000, and the Bombay Gla: . ctte imagined that a few more lakhs of rupees might safely be counted on. The Ameer had brought splendid presents from Affghanistan, and was, of course, to receive magnificent gifts in return. These have:been prepared in Calcutta, and, according to the Time4correspondent, "are to be borne on fiftyone trays, containing the finest Cashmere shawls, richly jewelled arms, cloth of gold, such as only l3enares can produce, embroidery, jewels, and Arab horses." As we are led to suppose that the Arab horses will be borne on trays the sight will be worth seeing. The Indian Government has clearly determined to express in the. most unmistakeable manner its sense of the importance of the new policy. THE SPANISH CROWN. Not only has Dom Fernando decisively rejected the crown of Spain, but he seems to have taken special pleasure in making his refusal as brusque as possible. It is not pleasant for a nation to have the offer of its crown thrown in its face, and the Spaniards are naturally very wroth with the Portuguese prince. Amongst the people the excitement is intense. For the Government, the blunder threatens to end seriously. The Etcndard con fidently asserted, in fact, that a Bourbon restoration was talked of. Queen Isabella's son was to become king,with a regency. The Liberte, however, denies all this. More than ever is a restoration of the fallen dynasty impossible. But the situation is not the less grave. There is a general outcry against offering the crown to any foreign prince after this humiliating rejection. There are no signs that it is likely to be offered to the Duke of Montpensier, who would certainly accept it, and the Liberte -thinks a republic looms in the distance. CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. The session of Congress terminated on Saturday. The House of Representatives, by the large majority of 98 to 25, has declared the sympathy of the nation with the Cuban insurgents, and has promised its support to the President whenever he shall think it right to recognise their independence. The House of Representatives may congratulate itself upon having deliberately done an act of incomparable political impudence. It is, indeed, by no means uncommon for nations to sympathise with rebellion in other countries, and yet resent all sympathy with rebellion in their own. The English are by no means guiltless of this inconsistency. But to complain of our recognition of Confederate belligerency as a wrong for which atonement is all but impossible, to refuse liberal concessions on our part because they are not sufficiently servile, and yet to express sympathy with Cuba whilst declaring that our implied sympathy with the South is irreparable, is without parallel. The Alabama treaty has not been considered. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The Monitar states that the news from Havanna is decidedly bad. The Spanish troops occupy the cities, and the sea-coast ; but the insurrection prevails throughout the interior. General Dulce wants more cavalry and artillery. It is believed that he will be replaced, and that a third general ; Caballero de llodas, will try his fortune. Some doubt has been recently expressed touch ing the real magnitude of this revolt in Cuba ; but it is clear that the rising, even if not so successful as the oniteur alleges, is yet of a very serious character. THE BELGIAN RAILWAY DIFFICULTY. The official journals of Paris announce the speedyraturn of M. Fr4e-Orban to Brussels. Unfortunately, however, he is not about to leave Paris because his business is finished. He has been unable to come to terms with the French Government, and he is about to return to Brussels, says the Temps, to consult with his sovereign respecting this yet unsolved problem. The position remains unal tered. The French Government desires the ratification of the conventions with the East of France Company ; the Belgian Government still declines to concede so THE' SATURDAY REVIEW" ON AMERICA (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Saturday Review is remarkable for the bit terness with which it writes on America. The cause less hatred of America towards England is gene rally dwelt on in any article on the United States. Of course, those who rely on what it writes believe that all Americans bate England, and desire that na tion's humiliation, for which no effortof the Republic would be wanting if the opportunity offered. Per haps no one in England reads the American press more than the editor of this paper; it is his busi ness to do so; and it is not for mere pleasure that he wades through journals falling thickly around him as snow flakes in a winter's storm. This read ing is certainly in a measure confined to leading American papers as it is to leading English papers, and le has no hesitation is asserting that, with the exception perhaps of the i'Vew York, Herald, the itterness of dislike expressed by the Saturday Re view and the Pall "lull Gaz, , tt,2 for America has but few parallels, on the other side of the Atlantic, to wards England. Both these London papers are said to represent the same class, and the only con clusion at which Americans can arrive is that this class is most inimical to their country. The untruth of the statement, however, so constantly repeated by the Saturday Review, would be at once seen if its readers had the opportunity of looking through files of American papers, or if they paid a visit to the country, That there is a good deal of national jealousy we admit ; that there is considerable sore ness about England's conduct during the war is true ; but that Americans so hate England and ear nestly desire her humiliation, as represented by the Saturday Review, is false. We wish we could be lieve the statement was equally false that that sec tion of English society which supports the Saturday Review hates the Republic, but we fear it is unde niably true that this dislike exists. The Saturday Review is not unlike the drunken man who asserts that his companion is intoxicated. Hating the Republic itself, and writing for those who hate it, it never ceases to declare the hatred of America towards England. What is the motive ?—for although its readers may not know, the Review eau scarcely fail to know the falseness of these assertions. Americans oppose to the death oligarchies, and the Government of England was once that of an oli garchy, a form it has been but slowly losing ; hence it was natural for a Government of the people to oppose the Government of a class. Both the Revolutionary war, and that which followed in 1812, were the work of this oligarchy. The people control now ; and, worse still, the Republic has been steadily Americanizing" England, a word which makes the hair of an old Tory curl with horror, though a propagandism connected rather with love than with hatred ; but the ideas of the Republic are even more difficult to combat than its arms, and it is not sur prising that those who see their class privileges invaded should hate the country whence emanate these re volutionary doctrines, not in a merely political way, but socially. We can then perceive why the Saturday Review and its readers should bitterly dislike Ame rica, should jeer at it, misrepresent it, and endea vour to sow the seeds of dissension. It may dis cuss it as unfashionable ; something vulgar, illite rate ; gross in manner, in taste ; grotesque, when it apes gentility, and endeavours to spend the money it has accumulated in " shoddy contracts, and in striking 'ile." But it must be gall and worm wood to perceive how ineffectual such efforts are. The Republic is walking out of the rank of first-class powers with a swiftness that appals them ; and they scarcely know whether to com bine against it, or to fall down on their knees to ask its forgiveness, and alliance. With the spite is mixed this dread in the Saturday Review class, which make a strange combination. We desire em phatically to deny that the Republic hates Eng land ; the aversion of native Americans is much more towards Ireland. Politically, they may sup port the Irish in their demand for redress of griev ances, and may talk in a strain of highfaluten, about " our Irish fellow-citizens ;" but socially England is regarded with respect, in the hearts of many, even with love and veneration ; and to old New England families it must be painful to read the untruthful assertions of the Saturday Review. much JOHN LATHROP MOTLEY. Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON has publicly announced his resignation. " Eight or ten days ago," said his Excellency, in a graceful and becoming speech, " I sent it to Washington ; and I will shortly return home, perhaps never again to see my ma n y ki n d one friends '' on this side the ocean." He expressed a warm wish for the diplomatic success of the next Minister, a gentleman of great talent and literary fame. In a few words, he replied to some ill-mannered re marks of the Times, and we congratulate Mr. JonNsoN that that journal has swung round the circle ; and now fires its bolts at instead of soft sawdering him; and we only hope that Mr. MOTLEY may not have the bad luck of being patronised by Printing-house-square. No American Minister could have a worse introduction to his fellow citizens ; indeed he must be strong in their affec tions and respect to withstand the laudation of the limes. The latest news by mail from America spoke of Mr. MOTLEY'S nomination as certain. Many weeks ago information was given to us through a re liable source, that it would be so, as that gentle man was backed by the influence of Senator SU3I NER, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who, since the retirement of Mr. SEWARD, is all powerful in these matters at Washington. JOHN LATHROP MOTLEY, of Massachusetts, was born on the 15th April, 1814. He graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and proceeded thence to Europe, where he travelled extensively. The first book he published appeared in 1839, and gave a graphic and amusing sketch of German society. His talents were shown so conspicuously as to attract the attention of DANIEL WEBSTER, then Secretary of State, who appointed him Secretary to the American Legation at St. Petersburgh. On his return to the United States he devoted himself to literature, and be became a regular contributor to the North Ame rican Review, and a writer of fiction. It was dur ing this period that he matured the idea of his great work, to accomplish which he recrossed the Atlantic in 1851, and took up his residence at Dresden. There he diligently commenced the col lection of materials, but it was not till 1856 that the first part came out, entitled the " History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic." Four years later it was followed by the " History of the United Netherlands," works which placed the name of MOTLEY on a firm pedestal as an historian. The year following, that is in 1861, he was selected by Mr. LINCOLN for the Embassy to Austria, where he was well received as his literary fame was then widely known, though the Hon. ANSON BURLINGA3IE had been rejected by the EMPEROR on account of the sympathy he had formerly expressed for the pa triots of the Hungarian revolt. The world is fami liar with the extraordinar: , way in which Mr. MOTLEY left that post, but it isto m o a a n m , w us h iong to cmit this portion of his career. A de scribed himself as of New York, and called him self GEORGE W. M'CRACKEN, after spending -, the early part of 1866 in European travel, wrote from the Hotel Meurice, Paris, a letter to the PRESIDENT, giving a full report on the American Diplomatic Missions to European nations. The insolence of this proceeding was only excelled by the manner in which it was transacted. He commenced by telling the PRESIDENT how hostile to him were the majority of the Ministers and Consuls, more especially of the New Englanders, a very indifferent set collectively and individually, who furnished most. " Mr. MOT LEY does not pretend to conceal his disgust,' as he styles it elegantly, at your whole conduct. Having been appointed exclusively by CHARLES SUMNER he applauds him and his revolutionary doctrines, de spises American Democracy, and proclaims loudly that an English nobleman is the model of human perfection. There is not in all Europe a more thorough flunkey or a more un-American function ary. He tells every traveller that SUMNER is en tirely justified, and that you have deserted your pledges and principles in common with Mr. SE WARD, who, he says, is hopelessly degraded." This was but mild abuse to what Mr. M`CniwKEN launched at other Ministers and some Consuls. Yet the PRESIDENT was 00 ill-advised by SEWARD (we suppose) as not only to read this production, but so to notice it as to demand explanations from those whose conduct it impugned ! Mr. MOTLEY, in in tense disgust, resigned, but the Senate, annoyed at the PRESIDENT'S folly, would not sanction a succes sor, and one of the reasons for tying up Mr. JOHN SON'S hands was furnished by this incident. It was more than a year afterwards before Mr. WEBB, the present Minister, was confirmed. A glance at Mr. MOTLEY'S diplomatic correspondence, at his speeches, and at his conduct through life, refutes Mr. M'CnacKEN's assertions. If JOIIN LATIIROP MOT LEY be not a genuine American, we do not know who is ; and the two other men with whom Mr. M'Cn tCKEN associated the Minister are of the same type—CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS and ANSON BUR LINGAME. Mr. MOTLEY has written too much for the world not to be aware of opinions expressed so distinctly and in such terse language. For instance, it may be taken for granted that he advocates Free Trade. On the 231 October, 1864, he said in one of his despatches fro;n Vienna, " There is a strong party in Austria who believe that the old system of exclusive tariffs, and of what it is the fashion in many parts of the world to call protec tion of native industry—that is to say, tax Ltion of the mass of consumers of a country for the benefit, not of the National Treasury, but of a certain class cf producers—is an error, and a very expensive one. But the production of beet-root, sugar, and native tobacco, of spirits, wines, which could be purchased far more cheaply and of better quality in foreign countries, has been immensely stimu'ated by Protection, and the class interested are too powerful not to oppose with success any sacrifice of their vested interests." His despatches abound with paragraphs showing how grossly mis informed M'CnacKEN was. The man who "de spises American Democracy" says, " In Europe to be powerful is to be venerated ; to be weak is to be trampled upon ; therefore, the public opinion of Europe is, and ought to be, of comparative indif ference to us." Again, " I may be over-sanguine, but a doubt has not yet crossed my mind that the American Republic based upon Constitutional law, popular self-government, and the great principles of reason and justice, will suppress an insurrection made for the perpetuation and extension of African slavery, and of the abrogation of the first principles of freedom ; I expect as much to see the sun set at noonday as to witness the destruction of our noble Commonwealth and its dismemberment into a jarring, warring Europe, without the historical excuses of Europe." In another despatch he says, " A contemplation of European politics leads us to the sincere prayer that America may never be Europeanized." No one could read his letters with out feeling the impression that here is a man who believes in the " Manifest Destiny." He does not express it, neither speaking nor ',writing spread eagleism; but the idea is not the less conveyed, and this is he who "despises American Democracy." Nor is the charge of his thorough flunkeyism less re futed by these despatches; but it must be recollected that we are not defending Mr. MOTLEY from Mr. M'CHACKEN'S ridiculous attack, but using it as a means for conveying to our English readers some idea of the new Minister. In alluding to European sentiment regarding the war he wrote, " The opinions held by the influential minority are manu factured for them by their public preceptors, who make up what is called the public opinion of Europe. Now there was a time when this tribunal was regarded by us almost with reverence. That day is, I trust, gone for ever in regard to American affairs. The result of a final analysis of that opinion is simply this : It is desirable that the great Arne can Democratic Republic should be destroyed ; an energetic and admirably organized insurrection is attempting its destruction, therefore that insurrec tion should be encouraged in every possible way." Again, " The thinkers of Europe, so far as I know, without a solitary exception, and the labouring classes, wish success to the American Republic. The dominant classes, with individual and illus trious exceptions, together with the idlers, who are unwilling or unable to form opinions for themselves, desire the success of those who are attempting its destruction." lie remarks bitterly on the opinion prevailing in the upper classes, and con trasts their ignorance and prejudice with the more truthful and generous sentiments of the great un represented, voiceless mass of humanity, the toil- ing millions whose part in life, according to the !„.! European scheme, which he of ten condemns, is to be governed and to hew wood and draw water for those who govern. In his despatch, No. 36, Oct. 5, 1863, he pays this generous tribute to the English masses : "The heroic attitude of the working classes of Eng land, steadily withstanding the acts and misrepre sentations of demagogues, will ever be cherished as a manifestation scarcely less sublime than the heroism with which Americans of all classes have been ready to lay down their lives that their own country might live ; nor shall we ever forget that the journalists who have defended our cause among a host of enemies have been unsurpassed in the whole history of the periodical press, for know ledge, ability, and nobility of sentiment ; that some of the most eloquent and honoured public men of England have spoken words which have echoed in every American heart, and that the loftiest and most earnest thinkers, both of England and of the Continent, the true and permanent guides of public thought, with scarce an exception, have expressed themselves, in regard to the great revolution now going on in America, with a wisdom, and breadth of vision, that do honour to the age." Mr. MOTLEY received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford ; and he is well known to the literary men of England, in the libraries of which country much of his researches were made. The appointment will be as well received in America as here, for Mr. MOTLEY is a genuine representa% tive, and long and strongly attached to that party now all dominantlin the Republic. —Anglo-Ameri can limes. DEATII OF EDWARD BATES.—This well-known statesman expired at St. Louis on Thursday, March 25 aged 75. He was born in Goochland County, Virginia, Sept. 4, 1793, and remained comparatively unknown be yond the State of Missouri, whither he had emigrated, till 1847, when he was appointed delegate to an In ternal Improvement Convention held at Chicago, where the talents he displayed brought him into public notice. In 1850 Mr. Fillmore offered him the post of Secretary of War, but he declined it ; and in 1860 was a prominent candidate for the Presidency. On the first ballot the vote stood : —For Seward, 173} ; for Lincoln, 102 ; for Simon Cameron, 501- ; for Salmon P. Chase, 49 ; and for Edward Bates, 48. On the seeond ballot Mr. Bates had 35, and on the third 22, his strength gradually going over to Mr. Lincoln. After his election, President Lincoln selected Edwin Bates for Attorney-General, which post ho resigned in 1E64, when he retired into private life at St. Louis, whence he never after emerged into active politics. A flying machine, it is announced, has recently been invented by a citizen of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the model is said to exhibit great ingenuity. The wings are 15 feet in length each, and together will cover 900 square feet of sui face. General Samuel Fessenden has died at Portland, Maine, at the age of about 85 years. He had been eminent as a lawyer, citizen, Mason, and politician, and was once grand master of the Masonic fraternity in Maine. Ho leaves a large family of descendants, many of whom are distinguished in the public service, Senator Fessenden being his eldest son. Births. BOND— On the 10th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Eras mus Bond, Esq., of a son. ST. ALBANS—On the 11th inst., at St. James's Palace, the Duchess of St. Albans, of a daughter. Marriages. DICKINSON—RoosE—On the 7th of April, at All Saints' Church, Kensington, by the Rev. J. Light, M.A. (Vicar), Lieutenant B. Percy Dickinson, 11. N., to Bessie do Montmorency, daughter of John C. Rooso, Esi., and granddaughter of the late Sir David Charles Roose. SmiTa —AxcF,LL— On the 10th inst., at Camberwell, Philip Basden Smith, Esq., of the Admiralty, to Emma Ade laide, eldest daughter of Henry Ancell, Esq., of the Ad miralty. Deaths. BRA DBURY—On the 11th inst., atl3, UpperWoburn-place, William Bradbury, Esq., late of Whitofriars, aged 70. MOUNT—On the 10th inst., at Waging-place, Wm. Mount, Esq., aged 81. RADNOR —On the 9th inst., at Coleshill House, the Earl cf Radnor, aged 89. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRAWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printor, at Tam Sum Oillc3, No 1)2 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy In the Qouuty of Midalestgq.queiglay, April 13, 1869. R MARA/ celebrate This Driz o Medal. It Pure,ld Sold in Bottles the Agents in the 8, UREA] Observe the Be ban's LL whisky 111 UTUAL ancor 14, RUSSELL A A h 1)71 ' 110 ES MO; _old at_l or Leasehol e weekly, met Forms f ree on. rep ROYAL 3Trorig. inAarltllehu°rnrtiLlsntlyloi.ev.: . eq:_ilis_t.uorftotnbethie (Magio_ L t on ar es Packer, fi .M'ss Lizzie Reed. Duettist s —ad Nor n P Place e n wp t i ne' In an wiii t a k e th( er MAC MADAME iNew A lway s , t a nd Beautll ` I H EL, and n undCer ten 6d • e] AR GY LI RVENIN( Rooms have be and Co. 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