The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-08 00:00:00

TILE COMIC PAPERS. (From the Owl.) NEW PUBLICATIONS. "The Laws of Storms." By Earl Vane. " Sanitary Reforms." By the Marquis of Bath. "Black as a Cole is He." By the EarLof Enniskillen. " Deportment : A Study." By Viscount Sydney. " The Horse and its Treatment." By the Marquis of Ailesbury. "On Strikes." By .uord Carington. THE PRESS ON A PRINCE. Our correspondent at Putbus has kindly sent us a copy of the leading journal of that principality, the Putbusser Pallmallische Zeitung. This paper, lately reduced to a groschen, bases its fame not only on the accuracy of its views and intelligence, but on the reproduction of public opinion from all sources on matters of general interest. A s an instance of the manner in which the journal is con ,lucted, we will merely give a page of extracts on an event that has caused recently much excitement throughout the principality:— " Yesterday (June 30) the Crown Prince attended the three hundredth anniversary of the Society of Carvers r.nd Gilders. On his health being drunk, his Highness responded as follows :—` It has given me much pleasure to be present at your meeting to-day. It has also given me pleasure that you have drunk my health. The Carvers and Gliders have always been loyal to the Sovereign. I drink to their health. The memory of this day will be carved and gilded on my heart for ever.'" (From Die Zeit.) "The speech of the Prince is eminently of a practical character. It addresses itself to the plain common sense of the people. To none could it be more acceptable - than to the society to which it was delivered. Stripping the subject of all surplusage, the Prince applied his mind to what Mr. Gladstone calls the kernel of the question. In the present state of the public mind his speech is calculated to do much good." (From Der Teigliche Telegraph.) " Seldom has the invention of Franklin and Wheat stone, the philosophers of the two worlds, spread peace and truth us last evening. Speeding over the air-cost wires flew the words of the Prince—flew from the House of Johann von Groschen to the southernmost part of the State—full of hope and exuberant joy —of promise, of brightness, and of faith. Happy the society that could elicit such words—happy the Prince who could speak them—proud the country the scene of such great things.' (From Der drorgen Stern.) " Royalty depends for continuance on its possessors. Royalty without virtue is a symbol and a sham. With virtue it may be productive of use to the Democracy. The speech of the fortunate young man who seeks to rule our land is likely to do him good. Amid the tinsel and corruption of Courts he seeks to keep his mind unsullied and, to the best of his lights, to do his duty." (From Der Morgen PM.) " The speech of the Prince last night was singularly graceful and happy. His rhetoric is felicitous, and,united with a prepossessing appearance, could not but produce a cheering effect on his audience. Some of his sentences are worthy the days of Von Grattan and Von Shell. What could be Letter than his exordium?—` It has given me much pleasure to be present at your meeting to-day r Could more, or as much, be said in as few wore s? lie spoke from the heart, and the people will appreciate the effort." (From Die Ttigliche 117adric1eten.) " In addressing the Carvers and Gilders the Prince ex hibited a considerable knowledge of political economy. This science, but little known to priLces, is perhaps the corner-stone of monarchies. The Prince is evidently alive to the merits of this society. Without the Giltiers it would be impossible to the standard price of gold. Professor Jevcns has calculated that Lot for the consumption of gold iu the gilding trade the price of that article would fall from £3 17e. 6d. to 12 Ss. Id. We trust that after the thoughtful speech of the Prince some reform may be introduced into our banking legislation." (From Die Fahne.) " While Messrs. Von Gladstone, Von Bright, and their crew are caballing basely to upset the foundations of our faith, it is pleasing to perceive how royalty ever asserts its true greatness. With the Carvers and Gilders are bound up our early associations, as well as the ground. work of our aspirations. To the cultivation of these arts we owe much that is ennobling. They refine our taste, stimulate our understanding, and lead us to higher things." [For the benefit of our non• German readers, we would add that the papers here quoted with German titles are as follows :—Times, Daily Telegraph, Morning Star, Morning Post, Daily Nears, and Standard]. (From run ch.) AND SEVERAL OF TEEm.—At the last State concert was performed " Heaven preserve the Emperor with Variaticns." Would not this do for the Irench National Anthem ? THE SEVERITY OF THE SUMMER.— The dog•days have come—to find cautious people wrapped in fleecy hosiery, and shivering over the fire. The weather has one canine characteristic, not usually associated with the dog•days— it is very biting. UNGAINLISEOROUGICS BLUE Bore.—According to th 3 Telegraph, the Queen's breakfast has settled the chief article of full dress for mornings —a blue dress coat, with brass buttons. Dash our own if we put it on ! That's final, and so the proud tailors may go marching away, and invent something comelier. We can't help women wearing whatever the things they call their minds are set upon, but, disestablish it all, a man can refuse to be a Guy, unless he have Leen christened by that noble name. A black frock coat, and a flower, or no Buckingham break fasts for Mr. Punch—should not the Queen command other garb. To please his Sovereign he would come in a hop-sack, with a cabbage-leaf on his head ; but be listens to no tailors, except Jeremy Taylor. A TEERILLL \Timor.— My dear Whalley,—Have you heard the dreadful news? It was made known to the House just ere the witching hour of midnight, on last Monday week : when, referring to a vote of further funds for restoration of the crypt beneath St. Stephens—" Mr. Guildford Onslow hoped the House would not refuse the vote. A Catholic priest, a friend of his, had seen the crypt, and thought it very beautiful. (Laughter)." At this awful news the House is reported to have laughed! Laughed? yes, "regardless of their fate, the little lambkins play." But your fertile mind will grasp the terrible significance of the disclosure which was made. A Catholic priest has been exploring underneath St. Stephens! When a visitor like this is admitted to a House, ought not somebody to keep a sharpish look out for the Fawkes?—Yours, in fear and trembling, PUNCH. MR. ROEBUCK ON THE ARREST OE MURPHY. Mr. Roebuck wrote a letter to the recent meeting held in Exeter Hall to protest against the arrest of Murphy, the " No-Popery" agitator. The following is the concluding passage of a very long epistle devoted to proving it to be most impolitic that Mr. Murphy should be stopped :—" It may Le said that in the case of shutting up the lecture-rooms of Mr. Murphy and preventing his meetings, no law was broken, as an old, obsolete, despotic law sanctioned the Proceeding. This is true. But the acting upon this obsolete law was in reality a breach of the law, as it has been acted on ever since the now obsolete law was passed. The law was passed in times of great danger and alarm, and has always, by that party to which Mr. Bruce belongs, been deemed a gross violation of constitu tional freedom. And it must surprise and shock every thoughtful man, that in these the palmy days of liberty, when we have a Prime Minister who is par excellence a Liberal, that the despotic law of a Minister should be dug up from the grave to which public prudence, shame, and indignation had assigned it, for the purpose of silencing a speaker whom you could or would not answer." The Weannouth colliery strike, by which about 3,000 men and boy s have been out of employ, has just ter minated. The remains of Admiral Sir William Bowles were on Wednesday buried at Kensal green Cemetery. The pro ceedings were as private er perrible, Lut a great many naval cite ors were present at the ccmitery. The extent to which Cheshire suffered by the cattle plague was demonstrated in a statement made by Mr. Laird, jun., at the meeting of the Dhkenhead Commissioners on Tuesday. No fewer than 73,000 cattle were slauel.tered dur ing the epidemic, and the amount of compensation paid for those destroyed after the passing of the Cattle Plague Aet (35,000) was nearly a quarter of a million sterl'ng. The Guardian states that Mr. Edwd. S:uart Talbot, student and lecturer of Christ Church, has accepted the princiralship of Keble College. It is hoped that he will be installed on April,2s, 1870. Mr.W. Gibbs has given £ 00. Sir J. T. Coleridge .£3O (in addition to a previous £110) to ill., cillege; and Mr. Eutterfiele, a second £lOO to tho temporary chapA. At a meeting of a number of the leading Liberals of Manchester, held on Tuesday at the Town Hall, to con sider the proceedings in the House of Lords with reference to the Irish Church Bill, resolutions were passed condemn ing the Lords' amendments, which proposed concurrent en dowment in Ireland, and expressing regret at the attempts being made to effect such changes in the bill as would frustrate, in many important respects, the purpose of its framers, and vtclatg the principimak,liging equOY. , THE GREAT SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND. The magnificent diamond which has for many weeks been the talk of the colony—the " Star of South Africa" — belonging to Messrs. Lilienfeld, Brothers, of Hope Town, variously valued at from £20,000 to £IO,COO, was brought down to Cape Town in the Royal Mail steamer Celt, on Tuesday, the Ist of June. As our readers have heard, it is the intention of the owners to send the great diamond to turope by this fortnight's mail, and after satisfying the curiosity of Port Elizabeth, and rendering very material service to one of the most deserving institutions of that town, it was forwarded on board the Celt for its destination. On Tuesday morning, soon after the steamer's arrival, it was shewn to the Colonial Secretary, and the lower room of the Commercial Exchange building having been kindly lent for the purpose, it was exhibited on Wednesday from eleven o'clock in the forenoon until two, at a charge of Is. 641. per head to visitors, and the proceeds of the exhibition given to the Ladies' Benevolent Society. ".Nickerk's Pandeloque," or the " Star of South Africa," or the " South African Diamond " (for it is a curiosity of ninny names), was an object for the inves tigation of many curious citizens. It can have disap pointed no one, as its purity and brilliancy are unquestionable. Within its sealed glass case, enclosing a yet smaller case, in which the precious object lay snug in velvet, in the full show of its beauty, and in the custody of the inspector of police, who had two other officers at his elbows, besides one each at the inner and outer doors, while the Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce attended to the financial part of the arrangements, the diamond that is to startle Mr. Gregory and convince Mr. Harry Emanuel looked quite equal to its mission. Speaking plainly, it is about the size of an ordinary "valnut, with an unspoiled surface, though irregular out line, but no flaw to detract from the value. At first sight it does not appear especially brilliant—not so bright, perhaps, as other diamonds which have come down from the same neighbourhood ; still, when cut it may rival even the far-famed " Koh-i-noor " for beauty, although not equalling it in size. The sum realised by the exhibition on Wednesday was, we understand, £25 18s. 6d. On Thursday, through the courtesy of those who have it in charge, it was again shewn at the Exchange from 10 until 12, when the sum of £6 2s. ed. was taken.—Cape Standard. SPIRITUAL MAAIFESTATIONS. Some more extraordinary "revelations of spiritualism" were made at the last meeting of the Dialectical Society. The Master of Lindsay handed in a paper detailing a portion of his experiences. In answer to questions, he stated that he was present when Mr. Home was carried out of one window into the air, eighty-five feet above the ground, and brought in at another window. On one occa sion he saw the apparition of Mr. Home's late wife when sleeping in the same room with Mr. Home. Hs remem bered that a friend at Rome, when he was there, one day advised him to play on three particular numbers. He declined. His friend said he had dreamed those numbers mould win, played f'r a small sum, and won. Mr. Thomas Rowcroft, of South Norwood, stated that he attended a seance last autumn, and among other extra ordinary phenctnena he had seen a spirit hand moving the keys of an accordion, and most brilliant music produced. The family commenced a hymn tune, but the key being too low, the instrument gave the true pitch. The family then sang three verses, the spirit playing in perfect time and tune. Mr. J. Jones, of Enmore Palk, said that he had at twilight seen Mr. Home floating in the air on his back, about six feet from, the ground, as if in water—there was no action of his 1.04, simple floating in the air as if carried by a current ; that he had, in the presence of several per sons sitting at an ordinary table, seen an exquisitely-formed band and part of an arm rise between the dress and black lace fall of a lady ; recognised the hand as that of a deceased relative ; that he had scores of times been touched by spiritual beings, and the sensation was like that which would be felt by the pressure of a glove filled with air. Ire had often seen the form of a hand rise between the table and the cloth. On one occasion the hand dissolved while he was vigorously pressing it ; that on one occasion, in a party, he sang `• God save the Queen," and a spirit played the seconds on au accordion. lie once attended a dark seance. Before the lights were put out he poured phosphorised oil on several musical in struments. When the lights were put out the instruments were seen to ascend swiftly in the air, and float swiftly round the room. Dr. - narrated that a medical friend ca'led on a lady patient. She said: "Last night I dreamt that the winner of the Derby would be No. 19 on the racing card." lie made inquiry, found No. 19 was "nowhere ;" 23 to 1 against it ; he took the bets, and cleared £2,000. Mr. J- narrated that, when his late wife was ill, early in March, he heard a voice, as if in the centre of his head, repeating at short intervals, " The 7th, the 7th." Considering it a prediction as to the fatal crisis day of his wife, he went to the three attendants, told them that the crisis day with Mrs. J. would be on the 7th of April, and requested them to remember the date. When his two sous came home in the afternoon he informed them. On the morning of the 7th, when his wife was leaning on the breast of one of her sous, she was seized. The scene was fearful. LAW AND POLIC.E. INTEREST SIXTY PER CENT. —ln Vice-Charicellot Stuart's Court, on Wednesday, in the case of "Robinson v. Wood," the question was raised whether Mr. Robert Cook, who had advanced the testator the sum of £1,330 in 1864, was entitled to prove against his estate for interest at the rate of GO per cent. per annum for the last five years. The Vi . ce Chancellor said that by the terms of the contract Mr. Cook was only entitled to interest at the rate of GO per cent, for one month. In the event of non-payment, he was to have entered up judgment for the amount of the principal. Had be done so, the amount of the judgment would have borne interest at 4 per cent. only, and be was not therefore entitled to claim against the estate interest at a higher rate than 4 per cent. per annum. CHARGE OF LIBEL.--In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a manure manufacturer, of Bermondsey, named Salmon, brought an action against the defen dant, another manure manufacturer, of Beading, for a libellous •publication. One of the plaintiff's agents sold some of his manure to a farmer in Kent, who afterwards refused to pay for it. The plaintiff brought an action against the farmer and gained it. A full report of the trial appeared in most of the local papers. It was said at the trial that the plain tiff's manure was mixed With sand and sawdust, and the complaint was that the defendant had circulated a reprint of the report in the form of a handbill at farmers' markets and dinners. The defence was that there was no malice, and that the report, which was important to farmers, was accurate. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, £2S7. A LUNATIC MERcUANT.—At the Lord Mayor's Court, on Wednesday, an attachment was made to secure the possession of £1,060 worth of diamonds which had been obtained by fraud. Some time ago, a Prussian, named Wendell, took offices near Fenchnrch-street to carry on business as a merchant. He travelled on the Continent, and promised to send large orders to some commission merchants in Vienna. He subsequently wrote to the firm, dating his letter from Balmoral, and gave orders for a gentleman's ring and a cross of brilliants. He directed that these articles should be left at his place in London, as the Court was about to leave Scotland. He sent a cheque for £250, which was dishonoured. The jewellery was delivered at Wendell's office, and afterwards the head of the firm in Vienna came over to London. It appeared from subsequent inquiries that Wendell was a lunatic. It is expected that the merchant will get back his property at considerable expense. Wendell has been removed to the lunatic asylum at Fisherton. The French have a neat way of putting things. Here, for instance, is a little syllogism, perfect in its way, sharp as a needle-point, and yet quite untouchable by " authority." It appears in a satirical paper, the DiaLle a Quatre :—" War is civilisation [Chillons] ; . the Empire is peace [Bordeaux] ; ergo, the Empire is not civilisation. Q.E.D." THE POUTADOWN RIOTS. INQUEST. The inquest cn the body of Watson, who was shot at Porta down on Thursday night, was opened on Wednesday. Mr. Shillington, J.P., gave it as his opinion that the police acted injodicionsly ; they went to the bonfire contrary to his ad% ice. The attorney for the police said repeatedly that he Lad a conclusive defence. All is quiet. TilT . FORTHCOMING ROYAL VISIT TO RYD/E. Some time ago htr Majesty was gyacionsly pl ease d t o grant a request from the Rev. Alinamler rook!, vicar of flyde, and to promise that "a member of the loyal " should be commissioned to lay, in her name, the foundation stone of the new parish church of All Saints about to he erected in the borough ; and it is now pretty generally understood, though it is not definitely arranged, that either the Prince or Princess of Wales is to be her Majesty's representative, and that the ceremony is to take Oleo on the f.lteth instant. If the Prince be the " member of the iZoyal family referred to, the stone is to be laid with full masonic honours. The day's proceedings are to include a processiin of the mayor and corporation in their robes of office, and a presentation of an address from that body with a banquet in the recently opened . new town ball, said to be one of the finest in the southern counties, a display of fireworks, &e. MISCEhLANEOUS THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY _ EVENING, JULY 8, 1869. lIIM CRISIS. The last defeat of Ministers in the Lords made an impression even upon Lord Granville's usually beam ing face. It was an overwhelming defeat, and was due as much to the usual supporters as to the regular opponents of the Government. There is no doubt that Ministers are now in a very painful position. In connection with this matter the summons of the Lord Chancellor to Windsor on Sunday has excited a good deal of notice, and it is stated' that immediately on his return from his interview with the Q teen Lord Hatherley wrote to Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville. These circumstances gave rise to a rumour in quarters where the wish would be father to the thought, that Mr. Gladstone had determined to resign, and in confirmation of this rumour Mr. Gladstone's words at the Mansion House " that Ministries are sometimes measured by weeks," were quoted. It is, however, more generally thought that this remark was a sarcasm at the expense of Mr. Disraeli, rather than an intimatic n of his own intentions. The Nonconformists of Walsall, like their breth ren elsewhere, have, in public meeting assembled, condemned the concurrent scheme. Their resolu tions were communicated to Mr. Gladstone. The Premier, through his secretary, in acknowledging the receipt, " desires me to request that you will observe that the plans in cuestion have neither origi nated w:th nor found countenance from her Ma;esty's Government." The Record is responsible for the statement that the heads of the Irish Church have resolved to convene a Clerical Synod or Convocation in Ireland, from which the laity are to be entirely excluded. " In the event of the bill be oming law, it is intended that this Clerical Synod shall be called on to give a sacer dotal and ecclesiastical sanction to the appropriation of the property of the existing Irish Church Establishment to the purposes directed by Parlia ment; so that by this device the property might not lose its character as a dcodand, and the Free Irish Church should receive it, not as the gift of a secular Parliament, but as coming under the sanction of a clerical synod claiming divine authority." The same paper intimates that the Bishop of Oxford is the author of the scheme. The Bev. J. Macnaughten, Presbyterian minis!er of Belfast, thinks it right to set before the public at this crisis the real views of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. At a recent meeting of the General Assembly some of the principal members insisted on giving an additional ins`ruction to the committee, who are negotiating with the Government, directing them to offer " the most strenuous opposition to the scheme of concurrent endowment." There is much diversity, he affirms, among Irish Protestants as to the merits of the bill ; but there is alarge amount of unity against all'Uevel ling up." " An Irish Roman Catholic Priest," on the other hand, writes to the Times in support of the plan of a Government grant of glebes and houses to the priests, who often cannot obtain sites for school houses, chapels, or parochial-houses. Sometimes the landlord at the expiration of the lease refuses to let the house again to the priest ; sometimes he exacts doubt , - the rent. In one parish the funds are ready to build the priest's house, but no site can be obtained. A glebe of twelve or lateen acres at a reasonable rent would be hailed with delight. TOLITICAL NI.WS. 'Mc owl states that the Irish Church Bill will be read a third time in the Lords next Monday, and. that on Thursday, the 15th, Mr. Gladstone will OVC that the Lords' amendirents be con sidurA It is expected that the coznide ration w:11 occupy four nights. We way add th.;t no one ente!.tnins the smalyst doubt as to the rejeet:on by the House of Commons of the pr:ncipal amendments, though there is a good deal of doubt as to what course the Lords wall adopt subse quently to this resection. The Owl states also that 1111.. M'Evoy has withdrawn the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill from the !louse, of Commons. on the under standing that should the Irish Church Bill become law now, the questionwill be made a Ca' iaet measure next session. Mr. Sechcr has been appointed Secre!ary to the Norwich Election Inquiry Commission, and Mr. Collier, brother of the Attorney-General, to that at Beverley. THE G OVER N . 3IENT TELEGRAPHS BILL. The Daily I.l 7 tws is tolerably well satisfied with the Government Te7e;raphs Bill, but thinks it should be clearly understood that if Government is granted a monupoty or telegraphic business, this is done, not in order that any pecuniary profit may be earned by the Exchequer, but that whatever surplus there is may be applied to the reduction of charges and the ex tension of facilities. The principle on which the Post Office contributes over a million a year to the revenue is altogether wrong. It means a tax upon letter-writers, whereas all that the Government ought to require is a sufficient payment to defray the cost of letter-carrying. Some objection is likely to be raised to the proposed doubling of the cost of telegraphing in the metropolitan distrkt. It is urged that in London the telegraph may be of instant domestic utiFty, and that this important source of revenue ought to be developed instead of repressed. As a matter of fact, however, the restrictions which accompany the sixpenny rate are so numerous as b render it to a large extent unavailable. DIPIOILt :C AND COLONIAL NEWS. There is a good deal of tarc about the absence of the military attnches of the foreign em bassies from the Windsor review. It is said that no invitations were issued to these representatives of foreign Powers, and the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs will be called upon to account for the omission. It is rumoured that Lord llowden is to be ap• pointed our Minister at Madrid, ant the rumour gives rise to a good deal of surprise. It is true that Lord Bowden filled this post from 1850 to 1858, but he is now 70 years old, and is eight years older than Sir John Crampton, 'whom he is to succeed. Cur relations with Spain have for a long time past been of a very delicate kind, and have required a good deal more vigour and tact than have been exhibited hitherto. tinder these circumstances, the appoint ment of a septuagenarian does not commend itself to common sense. The Spanish Government have just appointed to the Court of St. James's Don Manuel Rands, at present Minister for Spain at Vienna. Mr. Musgrave, Governor of Newfoundland, is to be appointed Governor of British Columbia, in the place of Governor Seymour, deceased. Mr. Middle ton, Secretary of Legation at Rio Janeiro, has been appointed chargé d'Araires to the Republic of Venezuela, in place of Mr. Fagan, who lately died of yellow fever. The successors to Mr. Musgrave in Newfoundland, and Sir Arthur Rumbold in the Virgin Islands, have not yet been appointed. The death is announced of Sir William Byam, who was for several years President of the Council of Antigua. He was previously in the 15th Hussars, served in the Peninsular War, and was wounded at Waterloo. He was knighted in 1859, and was 77 years old at his death. TIIE JUNIOR CAItLTON. The Owl says that in order to fill up the Junior Carlton Club a number of Conservatives of tender years have been admitted, and so great is the clatter which they keep up that notice has been given that in future there will be an early dinner for the young sters at three o'clock. " This is a goak ;" at least we believe it is. 1:G 1:A31 E ,ECTION The defeated_ ;arty '.he late Nottingham election assert that they intend to persist in their petition against Mr. Seely, and Mr. I)igby Seymour pledges himself to go to the poll again if his opponent is succeeded. Counsel's opinion has been taken, and the very safe reply has been made that if the cases of alleged bribery are substantiated they will prove sufficient to void the election. • TIIF OVEREND, (MINE; AND CO. CASE. To the many institutions, establishments, and " causes " now supported by voluntary contributions must be added great prosecutions. A committee of those who are desirous of a searching inquiry into the Overend, Gurney, and Co. case has been formed, and an appeal for funds appears in the advertise ment sheets of some of our contemporaries, among the reports of hospitals and other charitable institu tions. By the way, although the Attorney-General is going to conduct the prosecution, it does not appear that he will do so on behalf of the Govern ment. TIIE WAIL OFFICE. The difficulty which has lately interposed in giving effect to the new system of army control will be re moved by the adoption of an important modification. Mr. Lowe could not, on behalf of the Treasury, con sent that one of the great spending departments should have the control of its own accounts and finance. So the local control of the finance busi ness will be conducted by a special staff unconnected with any of the executive branches. The Owl states that the office of Deputy Judge- Advocate-General, which report had essigncd to Mr. O'Dowd, sub-editor of the Army and Nary Gazette, will not be filled until the Treasury has reported on the nature tnd the extent of the duties, and whether concentration with the legal department of the. War Office and the Horse Guards may not be desirable. AN ENGL7E.4I LORD CALLED TO ANSWER. The Ham:ltons are very good to the scandal mongers, or the scludal-mongers behave very badly to them, for there is always some trouble in which either the Luke himself, or some relative of the same name, is stated to have got. The latest story from Paris concerns the Duke's brother, whose hasty temper has caused him the inconvenience of a duel. The Herald, which gives currency to the story, adds :—" It is satisfactory to know that the nwainir has come off without 111137 very lamentable results, simply it very little blood-letting on no part of the Frenchman,.who appears to have been slightly wounded by a sabre cut in the arm. It would have been hardly worth while directing public attention to the affair but for the warning it gives to English men not to indulge in the strong language and still stronger physical arguments with . which they are wont to treat impertinence in their own country." HEARTHSTONE MANURE. The high rate of mortality at St. Kilda has drawn forth some remarks, and has puzzled the doctors exceedingly. Here, they said, was good air provided for the people by nature, and yet they seemed in no wise to be better for it—to be worse, indeed, than the inhabitants of many large towns. Dr. Morgan, the author of "Town Life Among the Poorest," has discovered the reason for the high death-rate in the hovels of St. Kilda. There in no smoke-hole in the cabins which afford shelter to the people of the island. Manure is so scarce in the island that the smoke cannot be allowed to escape, it is too precious. For twelve long months the soot is deposited in pitchy layers upon the inner surface of the roof. With the return of spring so much of the thatch as is possessed of fertilising properties is carefully removed, the roofing being restored to its original thickness by the addition of fresh straw on the out side. The process is yearly repeated. To this indoor manufacture cf manure the frightful sacrifice of infant life in this secluded isbind is, Dr. Morgan believes, mainly to be ascribed. There is something grimly humorous in thus hoarding up puffs of smoke to the destruction of human life. THE 'WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY. Another of those constantly-recurring cases of hard dealing toward the sick in workhouses was brought to light at a recent inquest at St. Pancras. The new board of guardians at St. Pancras appointed a temporary medical officer, who seems to have got an idea into his head, or to have given others the impression, that he had an idea that his mission was to clear the infirmary of patients. In fulfilment of this humane duty, he kept out of the hospital all whom he possibly could, and sent the inmates away as soon as the worst part of the disease was passed. Of the conva lescent he took no account. But one day he carried this strict rule a little too far. A woman was dis charged from the infirmary before the weakness caused by scarlatina had passed away, and sent home just, at a time when she ought to have been carefully nursed. Erysipelas begun almost immediately, and the poor woman soon returned to seek readmission to the workhouse. The medical officer still refused to allow her to-go into the infirmary; but symptoms of delirium having come upon the patient, he wps obliged to yield. The permission, however, was granted too late, as the woman died within a few days. Another doctor who attended on the woman thought death was accelerated by the want of attend ance, and the jury censured the temporary medical officer as being guilty of " improper and dangerous " conduct. COMPENSATION REQUIRED. The Bankruptcy Bill is hardly just. It gives privileges to a debtor by providing that his body may not be taken in satisfaction for debt, while at the same time it gives no compensation to the " honest prison keeper," who has been obtaining part of his living heretofore out of fees from defaulters. The governors of prisons are said to have been much gr ieved at this omission ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who seems to be always hurting the feelings of somebody or other, made them indignant. When the motion was made for inserting a compensation clause in the bill, Mr. Lowe, with due regard for the cash-box, spoke of them to whom it was proposed to pay damages as " those who presided over the crimes and misery of others," and werA on to liken them to the common hangman, to whom, he said, it would be absurd to grant compen sation if capital punishment were abolished. Surely with the omission, the injury, and the insult, prison governors may be classed among men with r DEAN STANLEY ON EDUCATION. The Dean of Westminster is a firm believer in the power of education, and a zealous advocate for its universal extension. Among rich and poor, male and female, he would have a higher culture main tained. lie is president of the City of London Ladies' College,..and in distributing the prizes of the session, on Tuesday, gave his opinion generally of female education. Without going into detail, ho laid down as a doctrine upon which female colleges must be based that " the education of a young lady ought to be one which would enable her to take a part in all the branches of literature and social duties with as much confidence as a man." The Dean added a protest against the French system of examining, productive of what we here call " cramming." The first element of success, he thought, was that ono thing should be learnt at a time, and that learnt well. This was forgotten where everyone was striving , to obtain enough information to pass a certain exa mination at a given time. CLEWEII. The Commemoration Festival has just Uteri Yell at Clewer, a name that of late years has become pro minent in works of mercy. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Wellington, several catechumens were confirmed by the Bishop of Gibraltar, who was one of the orignAtors of the Clewer csta_hlighment, and the offertory exceeded £4OO. A3IERIC AN AFFAIRS. (From the An9lo -American 7 lines.) NEW YonK, June 19. The case of the Depuys has been settled by Judge Blatchford in the United States District Cou'rt, adversely to the Whisky swindlers, who will in consequence remain in prison. 'lhe Judge rules that a pardon is not complete until it has been executed, and the delivery effected ; that until then it remains in the power of the Chief Magis trate to withdraw it, be he a new incumbent or the outgoing President. The law does not recognize the individual, but the office, which, like the British Crown, is never vacant, and until a man is released the person acting as President can withdraw a par don a person acting as President may have signed, just as the individual who issued it could hale re called it, so long as it was not carried into effect. Resolutions have been adopted at a conference of Republicans, denouncing a newspaper recently pub lished here called the Imperialist. You might imagine from this fact that the advocate of changing our Republic into an Empire was not without a growing importance in this country, but it arises from the novelty, even the absurdity, of the idea, which tickles and rather amuses. New York is much concerned at several atrocious and myste rious murders lately. perpetrated. Not long ago, Mr. Steadman, an English gentleman, arrived and put up at the Brevoort Rouse; he went out one evening and has never since been seen. On Tues day evening of last week Mr. J. P. Woodhull left a boarding-house at Astoria, with the object of going to French's Hotel, after which there was DO trace of him, and a few days after his body was taken out of the East River clos3 to Governor's Island, with unmistakeable marks of foul play. On examination the surgeons concluded that the wounds were inflicted by a bar of iron. Another corpse, so decomposed that it cannot be told whether he hat been murdered before being thrown into the river or not, was taken out of the East River on Satur day. A weight was tied round the neck, and little doubt is 'felt that this body represents another mur der. Public notice having been attracted to these cases, Mayor Hall has been urged to offer a reward for information that may lead. to detection. Gen. Dix arrived in the Cimbria on Tuesday afternoon in excel len t health. He was anxious to learn what had occurred in Paris, as he considered there were signs of some political trouble in the elections, but he treats with contempt any demonstration against the Emperor, which he considers would be altogether futile. Another case has been decided against the Railway Companies in " Walker versus the Long Island Rail road." A year ago the father was killed by being knocked off. a platform whereon he was standing, and the son-sued the company for damages, alleg ing their negligence as the cause of his father's death. The company pleaded a violation of their printed rules hung up in the cars, as he was stand ing where lie had no right to be, and therefore the plaintiff had no claim. The plaintiff answer,. d that his father had gone through all the cars, and looked n vain for a seat, and the Supreme Court upheld the decision of tLe Lower Court, ass2rting the lia bilitity of the company under the circumstances. An attack in the Courts has been made upon the Corporation of Trinity Church. This is a periodi cal occurrence, and a regular 1 twyers' harvest. The Corporation is iannensely wealthy, and the argument is that a small body, not exceeding ten individuals, elected themselves as the vestry, manipulating for their own benefit funds amounting to $10,000,000 The present applicant is Mr. David Groesbeck, who professes to act on behalf of the parishioners, and who applies for the appointment of a receiver, alleg ing the neglect of the poor, nothing being dope to check the spread of immorality, while a magnificent trust estate is misdirected in pampering priests and establishing houses for able-bodied young women. The case was argued by Mr. L. S. Chatfield, and is exciting great interest, as it involves a vast sum, and questions such as the apostacy of faith and the failure of Protestantism. The subject was dis cussed on Thursday, the Court being thronged. • In answer to the allegations, Mr. Harrison alleged that the Protestant faith was not mentioned in the original endowment nor in the Prayer-book, which brought to the ground one charge, the others he attempted to show were equally untruthful, but the plaintiff reiterated all in reply, and Judge M'Cunn took the papers, and reserved his decision. The Swedeuborgians have been in session, and had a long debate on the words " diocese" and " pa rish,"-which Mr. Hitchcock desired to change into " society," alleging that they belonged to the Episcopal Church, through which the monarch cal system of England was applied to religious matters in America. A difficulty has arisen between Bishop Whitehouse and the Rev. Mr. Cheney in Chicago. Mr. Cheney adheres to his convictions as conscientious, and the Bishop gave him seven days to consider, which expired on theith, without the rev. gentleman changing his opinion. The dispute sprang from the secession from the Church of a Mr. Wood, who paid the Bishop a parting visit, when the subject of baptism was dis cussed, and Mr. Cheney's views were cited, and the way in which he conducted the service. The Bishop sent for him, and a controversy almost as serious as that of Mr. Tyng is likely to be the result. A movement is on foot to alter the forms of expression in the Episcopal Prayer-book, other cases having arisen. A curious scene occurred in the Court of Oyer and Terminer at White Plains on Wednesday evening, which very much astonished Judge Barnard. A well-known lawyer, when in a state of intoxica tion, entered The Court, and insisted on the post ponement of the trial of his client, and that a spe cial term should be held for the trial. On the judge delivering his decision in a peremptory way, the inebriated counsel burst into a torrent of oaths, and was fir that state removed. The Quaker City, or the steamship Columbia of London, was released on Wednesday, and lost no time in getting off. Several drinking fountains are to be erected in dif ferent parts of the city, under the superintendence of the Board of Health. The deaths recorded last week were 425, 164 marriages; and 220 births in this city. Small-pox has been pretty well "stamped out," and there now remain only a few cases of the simplest type. In some districts of the city almost every person has been vaccinated, and the children in attendance at the various schools, public and pri vate, have been cared for in this respect by their parents or teachers. The scare of the week has been in the Cuban Junta, on the action of the United States Government, through the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit, which found true bills of indictme.st against Jose Morales Lemus, President of the Junta, and Jose M. Boson, hn 11. Lamar, .rose Mora, Colonel William C. O'llyan, Francisco Fesser, and Mariano Alvarez (members of the same organization) ; warrants were issued by Judge Blatchford for their arrest, which were immediately served. President Lemus answered, and was bailed for pox() ; O'Ryan and Mora were taken, and with the rest gave bonds to appear for trial, and immediately a big sensation arose among the friends of freedom, and several left Washington in a fright. An evening paper intro duced the affair with the headings, " War on Cuba. Crowning Infamy. The United States Fighting Freedom ;" and the allies of Cuba spread the re port that Spanish spies guided the United States officers to the capture. An officer of the Quaker City was arrested on the charge of assaulting an official in the discharge of his duty to watch the fillibustering tendencies of the vessel. The Cubans deny the truth of the report that cholera was epi demic in their island, their advices being that this was the healthiest season ever known, and alleging as the object to deter fillibusters. Anxiety is felt about General Jordan's command, which having closed on a large Spanish force, an engagement was imminent. All the expeditions sent from the United States had succeeded in reaching Quesada's army, consisting of well-armed and effective men, and they have been felt most disagreeably by the Spanish troops. Great confidence prevailed of ultimate success in consequence of the aid thus forwarded, and the recent action of Government is all the more discouraging, as it may interfere with these well-established hopes. Last Wednesday three ladies were drowned by being thrown from a carriage into a mill-pond, near Rochester. The Union and Central Pacific Railroads have adjusted their difference, and sell through tickets from our city, for $l7B 35 cents. in greenbacks, to San Fran cisco, first class, in eight days. The Erie direction get the lease of their office for five years, as they have managed to lobby their bill through our re putable Legislature. One great daily, alluding to the proceedings at Albany, observes that, if the rule holds, " the greater the truth the greater the libel," what swinging damages our Legislature ought to recover from the New York press. Mr Henry E. Clark and Mr F. Frederick Gunther got a shake and a frignt on Thursday, when driving from their hotel to the ferry landing at West Point. Two hard mouthed horses ran away, and with furious speed rushed to the pier, upsetting the carriage and plunging headlong into the water, where they were drowned, nearly drowning the driver as well, and injuring both the gentlemen. WASHINGTON, June 18. One of our citizens, William T. Smithson, has brought an action against Edwin M. Stanton, late Secretary of War, for $lO,OOO on account of tres pass and false imprisonment during the war, when Smithson was incarcerated in Fort Lafayette for four months without investigation, and he was re-arrested shortly after being discharged, tried as a spy by Court-Martial, and sentenced to five years' impri sonment, one of which he served in the Albany Penitentiary, ere released by President Lincoln. his property was attached, the furniture sold, and his family driven from their house. The facts are not disputed, but the question hinges on the grounds. Smithson alleges that he was not a spy, that the case was trumped up against him, the let ters on which he was convicted being forged, and he moves that the originals be produced for the Court's inspection. On the other side, it is as serted that Smithson was a spy, giving infor mation to the enemy under the assumed name of Charles R. Cables, acting as their financial agent, being so engaged when arrested, and that he had advised the enemy to assault this city. Under the advice of the Judge Advocate-General and the Solicitor of the War Department the Secretary acted as martial law allowed, and the sentence of the Court was confirmed. It was due to the kind ness of the President and the leniency of the Admi nistration that Smithson was released after a year's imprisonment, but not pardoned, as the Govern ment desired to maintain its hold over him in case of future misconduct. On the point of appropria ting his effects and ejecting his family, the defend ant relies for impunity on the Act of Congress of July 17, 1862, to punish rebels, and further by the Act of March 3, 1863, whereby the order of the President or officers under his authority, during the rebellion, shall be a defence for such acts, but the plaintiff is determined to test the case to the utmost, and to carry it in the event of an adverse de cision up to the Supreme Court. The Navy Depart ment seems determined to stop politics interfering with business, and to exclude persons likely to create d►ssensions, but orders have been issued not to dis charge workmen merely for holding political opinions. The commandants of the Navy yards are forbidden to allow persons t ) examibe models, plans, and in ventions, without special permission. Forty-one vessels had their names changed last Tuesday ; some of them rightly enough, but others, many think, ill ad%isedly. To get rid of the ridiculous unpronouce able names Father Welles must have deeply studied Indian history to disinter, was right enough ; but not our well-known Eastern Indian names, which are as familiar to us as any others, such as Man hattan, Nantucket, Catskill. I suppose the Depart ment wished to be clear of every vestige of the old Secretary, who would have been far better employed for the sake of England as well as of our country in rooting out such pests of the sea as the Alabama, whose career many of our naval officers think he might have made much shorter. Several moni tors are for sale ; only two bids were received for them ; the one offering 160,000 dollars each for two, and the other, small sums for about half a dozen of the smaller, but all were re jected as under the appraised value. Eighty tons of powder were sold to a New "York firm when forts Greble and Corcoran were dismantled, and the firm is loading a schooner with 100,0001b3. of the power purchased from the Government. Our new City Government was installed on Monday, but Mayor Bowen is absent at the Peace Jubilee. The Hon. Ben. Wade is among the Mormons, but he goes on when he can tear himself away from Brigham Young's harem, and Senators Kellogg and Harris passed through this city on their road to the Pacific coast.* Mrs. Spinner, wife of the Treasurer, was seized with an attack of apoplexy shortly after leaving Washington for her home in Herkimer, New York. General William F. Varney has re tired from the army, and hands over the several Indian agencies at Grand River, Fort Lily, and Whetstone Creek to the lately appointed agents after a long, arduous, and useful career. Colonel 0. A. Mack acts instead of General Pelouse as aide to the Secretary of War, and has assumed his duties. William Emory has declined the Governor ship of the Soldiers' Home. Secretary Rawlins is absent on about ten days' leave. Secretary Fish con - tinues hard at work, although he had a severe but short attack of illness ; and was " interviewed" on Tuesday by Mr. Ruiz, the representative of the Cuban insurgents, who strongly but vainly appealed for recognition, Mr. Fish merely assuring him of his personal sympathy for the cause. He alone has got up his establishment in this city, and_ makes it really his home, having taken Senator Morgan's large fur nished house at an annual rental of $6,000. Parson Browulow favours universal suffrage in Tennessee, and publishes a characteristic card. The Tennessee Senator's language is always something of the strongest, savouring of brimstone and fire, and even in his extreme feebleness of health the strong habit remains unconquerable. Like Thaddeus Stevens he is a man of indomitable will, though not with the firm and patriotic convictions which marked the career of that singular character. A story is current that the Parson will coalesce with Andrew Johnson to elect D. W. C. Seater for Governor. The ex-President wants to secure Mr. Fowler's seat in the Senate, which becomes vac - tilt in '7l, and we all know with what obstinacy Andrew Johnson-can play to the end his little game. It was also rumoured that he was about to pay Washing ton a visit, I suppose on this business. Secre tary Cox left on Wednesday for Cincinnati to spend a week in Ohio, and Judge Otto takes charge of his department in his absence. Chief Justice Chase has upset some of the calculations of the Treasury Department, for he has ruled that our statute of limitation (which I believe to be similar to yours, making six years the period) acts against the Go vernment as well as against individuals, which is contrary to the custom of the Treasury, an .1 would have saved them, had they known it, the trouble of looking up the little debts left by the Government officers who afterwards joined in the rebellion. The Chief Justice is much impressed with the improved prospects of the South, and he always advocates a genuine re-union ; none of your Congressional re constructions, but a raising of our starry banner over the land, and a rallying around it as the sym bol of the Union. Addressing the coloured men, among whom he is recognzied as one of their truest friends, he told them they had need of caution and patience, and had more responsibility in action than whites, for the conduct of one reflected on the whole race; thus signifying much more than an individual act. " If," he said, " a white man embraced the wrong he was adjudged by society simply as a citizen ; by his own merits or demerits he stood or fell, with no thought given to his race ; but if a coloured man departed from the paths of rectitude or of wisdom, society charged the fault upon his people." Texas is a big State, a fertile State, and one in which people might live satisfactorily, if some of the " cusses" there, would only let them. The experiment of hanging has not yet been tried in the case of white men murdering negroes, or shoot ing in a quarrel, or for political opinions, but is likely to be tested on the 24th Sept. next, on the per son of James Weaver, who, unless something inter venes, will on that (lay be hanged f3r the murder of Anthony Knowles, the coloured man he delibe rately and wantonly shot. As it would have been impossible to get a white jury to convict him, he was tried by a military court and sentenced to death, a decision which has been approved by the Pre sident, after being submitted to the Attorney- General, who has ruled that it is in accordance with law. In his company is to be hanged Reuben Smith, of the United States Cavalry, for the mur der of an infantry soldier. Texas will soon have a coloured officer of Customs, as a negro named Nicholls has been appointed night surveyor at Gal veston. They have an unpleasant way of disposing of Inspectors of Customs in those civilized regions. Mr. Frank Dupont is the third murdered within six months, and his body has just been found, the out rage being attributed to those unscrupulous scoun drels, smugglers on the Mexican border. The case of young Douglass still progresses. There was a meeting of compositors and pressmen at the Go vernment printing office to uphold his appointment to a place in their room, and to denounce the action of the National Typographical Convention ; and a meeting is to be held to vindicate themselves from the charge of working with a "rat." Mr. Coffin spoke to the point pretty plainly, declared the question to be that of admitting coloured men into unions, which must be met rightly, and Mr. Doug lass quietly resumed work. There was an imposing funeral here on Wednesday, that of Mrs John F. Coyle, which was attended by all the Catholic societies and friends from the surrounding country. Among the pall-bearers were Senator Stockton of New Jersey, Mr. Cochran, General Ricketts, Com modore Dickman, and Senator Morton of Minne sota. Among the retirements is that of General S. S. Carroll, who was placed on the retired list at his own request, in the class of disability, resulting from long and faithful service, or injury incident thereto, with the full rank of Major-General. His substantive grade was that of Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army, but he has frequently com manded in action brigades of great strength, and he is incapacitated from service by the wounds he re ceived. An active canvas is progressing in Vir ginia, to which State it is likely that there will be a considerable emigration after the election. Both sides are confident, the Conservatives backing Walker, and the Republicans Wells. There was another meeting at Stanton last Tues day, no other than the superintendents of the State Lunatic Asylums, an important object, for they compare notes and arrive at results to guide them in the treatment of the insane throughout the Uni)n. On such points the United States takes the lead of all nations ; when our country fills up with people and wealth, I do not boast in saving that we shall be able to carry into fuller effect and make more conspicuous, the superiority with which such institutions are here worked out. The crops in Virginia are very fine ; the wheat is said to be magnificent, and all ready to harvest. Our African fellow -citizens are pushing ahead too fast. Dr. Purves and Dr. Augusta, though duly licensed as practitioners by the Medical Society of the district of Columbia, desired membership in the society as well, but on application were snubbed, as it was re jected by sto 1. Annie Surratt has, poor girl, changed her name, and amalgamated herself into her husband, who, by the way, is a chemist., belong ing to the Surgeon-General's Office. The Rev. Father Walter performed the ceremony in St. Patrick's Church yesterday ; the publication of banns were dispensed with by Archbishop Spauld ing, the marriage being strictly private. Mr. W. P. Taney and h's bride iannedi ►tely after started on a tour. The attache of the British Legation, who gave Senator Grimes the matter for comment in his letter to the London 'Times, by an observa tion to Senator Sumner that " England's bill of damages aglins-t the United States, growing out of other claims of British subjects, would be sufficient to offset the Alabama claims" has been removed to • Mrs. Spinner died on the 14th June'at Mohawk Now York, greatly respected and regretted by all who knew her, and Mr. Spinner will in consequence be detained fcr a longer period than anticipated. Madrid. Mr. Henry Howard was the gentleman, and if he did make the remark, it has caused more commotion in the diplomatic world than there was any necessity for, while the diplomatic missions here openly express their disapproval of the free use made by Senator Sumner of their private conversation. The New York Tribune, last week, circulated a story that the British Minister was to be promoted to Spain, but I suppose the correspondent had caught up in his rapid way the transfer of Mr. Howard, for that story is now authoritatively denied. On Thursday, the remains of Junius Brutes Booth, the actor, were carried from Baltimore to Green Mount Cemetery, where are to be interred his children, and his brother John Wilkes Booth. A great seizure has just been effected in Bal timore under the Internal Revenue laws. It was discovered that the Ullman's distillery, the largest in the country, with the connivance of Re venue offs cers, had worked the most perfect system of fraud hitherto practised, violating every section of the laws for a long period. Neither the owners nor the revenue officers can escape the prosecutions now instituted against them ; and they will be taught the difference between this and the preced ing Administration. An attempt has again been made to institute charges against General Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, Clinton Arrick having sent fresh ones to the Judge-Advocate-General. Mr. Holt sent them back to go through the proper chan nels, and Arrick now applies to the War Depart ment for a court-martial instead of a court of in quiry, which has no power to convict. The Trea sury Department are investigating the New Or -1 a.ns Custom-house frauds, those detected already reaching to the considerable sum of $300,000, many officials being implicated. Robert J. Walker will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July, when the British Lion will catch it. Moriarty, President Irish Republican Association, Pennsylvania, in his address says that the Convention at Chicago will declare for universal suffrage, and war with England, the Irish being bound to uphold the patriotic utter ances of Mr. Sumner. Senator Howe denies em phatically that he approves of making the Alabama a party issue. Pressure is brought against the Presi dent, after the style with which Andrew Johnson was so familar to pardon Lieutenant M'Gar, sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Baton Rouge for murdering Surgeon Bramin, but I cannot imagine that even the plea of gallant and faithful service will atone for such a crime as murder. Courtney was in Washington yesterday to look up Secretary Boutwell, of whose absence he was not aware, and he has had his trip for nothing unless he can wait. GERMANY, June 25. Stß,—Sundry Americans in these parts were not a little surprised to find that according to " U. S. A." in your issue of June 12, we were not only " show ing our ignorance," but also making ourselves " in variably objects of ridicule" in presuming to put the initials U. S. A. upon our baggage while travel ling in Europe or against our names on hotel re gisters, the said initials belonging exclusively to the army. Now I venture the opinion that nine hundred and ninety-nine of every one thousand Europeans who see such initials on baggage or re gisters read at once United States of America ; in fact, th tt str3h is, in accordance with the intention, the invariable result. And I suggest whether your corre spondent is any exception to the general rule that we are apt to magnify our own importance,and that of our class, in claiming the exclusive right to U. S. A. for army officers ; and also whether, as our population is now about 40,000,000, our army only about 25,000, our army officers (who alone ever travel), including those on the retired list not over, 1,000 to 1,500, or not in proportion to citizens over One to 30,000, as also the fact that there is probably not one army officer travelling in Europe to 1,000 civilians—whether, I say, it were not better that the one man should (if it is deemed essential to advertise his profession) mark himself on baggage and hotel registers U. S. Army rather than change a universal no less than appropriate custom by requiting the 1,000 to be careful to explaizJ, whenever they register their names, that they do not claim to belong to the army, but are merely plain citizens of the United States. The object iS description of locality, and the design of initials is brevity. In America only the name of the State is used by its initial, because no more is necessary. In Europe not one would know anything of most of our States, where a thousand would instantly re cogniz!, U.S.A. Apply the case to a German tra yelling in America—put the name of one of the small States on his baggage, and nobody knows it; Pu t Germany in its place, and no one is ignorant of it. Or, still more plainly to the point, a friend says, if , when I lost my trunk in Italy, it had only been marked "New Haven, Conn.," I should never have found it, whereas the U.S.A. caused it to be at once taken to the American Consul. Again, U.S.A. l ° constantly used on public papers and public pro perty in America when it has no reference to the army. Hence, as I believe our countrymen and fair countrywomen are all now willing to own their native land, I think they may appropriately, and without a blush, register themselves and their bag gage as U.S.A. _ _ EX-OFFICER U.S. VOLUNTEERS. [This letter is in answer to that of U. S. A. These letters reach us from so great a distance that we cannot publish the reply itntnediately after the attack, but have to wait till our correspondent , U. S. A., in the south of Europe, can answer our correspondent in the north of Europe. Both ar e well-known Americans, and we leave them to settle whether these initials belong of exclusive right to the U. S. Army, or may with propriety be appro priated by the citizens when abroad. in America the three letters undoubtedly belong to the Army, a s the reason the Ex-Officer gives why they are useful is Europe does not there hold, while it is on that ground that U.S. A. joins issue with the Ex-Office r U. S. Volunte ers . Wh a t th e f ormer asser ts is that commonly educated foreigners have no right to be so ignorant of the United States that the nay' s of -a State is not sufficient. Where that name is similar to other names, the others must give place to the greater, that of the State, and . 013 this Americans should i ns i s t , even at the l'lsl of some personal inconvenience. Although our last correspondent is right in fact, U. S. is right in sentiment ; but we leave the latter to maintain his position if he thinks fit, whsle we can tell him th a t i n th e E x -Offi cer h e h a s no ordinary antagonist, but one who has ear n ed 111 . ,,g h distinction in his department during the war. I . v may, however, here observe that in the latest dl e ; tionary published, that of Chambers's, U.S. is gl:v° as signitying the United St a t es , an d we b e lief' these initials to be sufficient, the A being left to signify army, or N navy.--[ED. .4.A. T ] [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills have been plac ed by the common consent of m an ki n d, a t th e h ea d o f inter o d remedies for removing obnoxious poisons from the b 10 :3 and living tissues of the human body. They have sav e s thousands year after year from falling a sacrifice to effects of dyspepsia, dysentery, diarrhoea, constipatiq't; liver complaint, dm., a fact attested by myriads of W 3 1. 0 nesses. They never fail t o g i ve a su ff erer f rom scorbir affections relief at least, and in most cases they eue ti k e complete cure. Excessive weariness and debility, warnings of decreasing organic energy and vital deOfi are replaced with vi gour an d h ea l t hf u l ac ti on i n eve . organ throughout the syste m by th e res t ora ti ve and es l hilarating influence of this life-sustaining preparation. BIRTHS. EDIVARDS —On the 7th inst., at 12, J o h n - s t ree t , Berkel e i ' square, the Hon. Mrs. Edw ar d s , o f a daughter, WOOD - On the 7th inst., at Lewioham High-road, °' Mrs. B. P. Wood, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. •Cl" CLAY—ARDEN—On the 6th inst., at Tatonhall, St a. '& l 4 , l shire, Charles John, youngest son of Henry clay. . 80 of Pierce&ld-park Chepstow, to Agues Lucy, yong s n t• daughter of the late Rev.T Arden, of Waltou-ou- 11e iy, DUNSFORD --PLUMMER —On the Gth inst., at St. Mic l 4lol Bath, Henry Lyde Dansford, Esq., of Swindon, to Elizabeth, widow of the late James Plummer, x" of HighWcrth, Wilts. I WO' GAnnErr—On the Gth inst. DE , ATHS Jabez Garrett, of 7 9 51 - ling-street, E C., aged 85. LAWRIE—On the 3d inst., suddenly, at 19, Queen .A-1( street, Cavendish-square, Geo. Lawrie, Esq., a g ed A f a cr MACKLEY—On the 6th inst., suddenly, Mr. T. 0. " ley, of Now-inn, Shoreditch. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND ° O O 4 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, Str., in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Mid dles° Thursday, July 8, IFit9. s r r r e B r r C r r 1 I