The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-27 00:00:00

THE DERBY. The ninetieth Derby will be known for its pleasant ness. Dark races there have been ; a cold Wednesday, with falls of snow, there has been ; ruinous—desperately ruinous—days there have been ; but no great plunging, no great cold, no great heat, no serious accidents are known to have marked the Derby of 1869. Royalty attended—the Princess of Wales for the first time ; lords were there in plenty ; members of the House of Commons, the professional, the merchant, the tradesman, the - beggar, and the thief, all these were, as usual, represented, and the day passed off very jollily indeed. THE WEATHER. The weather is generally the first thing described. It was simply beautiful. During the afternoon it was so entirely unexceptional, that if one could place the slightest reliance upon the prating of those pulmonic meteorologists, who try to persuade us that our climate is all fogs and east winds, we most have sup posed that the scene of the afternoon's amusement was some "balmy region of the south," where suns are ever bright and winds are ever soft. This, however, was only after noon. If an English May day is often worse than its word, it is sometimes better than its promise ; and so it was on Wednesday. The morning was dull and chilly, not to say gloomy and cold. The clouds gradually dispersed, however, the wind moderated and left people to enjoy themselves thoroughly and without auy discomfort. THE ROAD. There was the fun of the road this year, but it was not so smart as usual. About it it is not easy to say much that is at once novel and varied. Yet the drive down to the Derby is one of those few events in life which never quite lose their charm by repetition. Every year the sub urban journey, through miles upon miles of streets, grows longer and longer; and in this present year of grace, Epsom-bound wayfarers made acquaintance with a bran new transpontine district of Battersea beyond the bridges. To any one acquainted with French race courses, the half-world contingents of our Derby Day appear of a very meagre order ; while equipages like those which carry the female celebrities of Paris down to the " Courses," are happily unknown in England. Some statistician would do service by making a calculation as to the quantity of gallons, casks, and hogsheads of beer consumed on the road to Epsom. There must be, on the average, a public house for every couple of hundred yards between London and the Dowr.s ; and every public-house was crowded with thirsty customers. But this year's Derby was not an exceptionally drunken one. Correspondents say that neither in going on returning did they see many symptlms of undue indulgence in the beverages that may possibly cheer, but assuredly inebriate. A few early topers lay stretched along the footpaths, sleeping the sleep of the just, heedless who lost or who won ; but the real mass of the holiday folk were perfectly sober and well-behaved. As to the coarseness and brutality of the crowd of holiday makers, there is not much wit, perhaps, in putting on pasteboard noses of brilliant red and wearing straw-fibre bonnets, and singing " Immensikoff " at the pitch of your voice to the music of a cracked bugle ; but these amuse ments are harmless to everybody except the performer, and they constituted the worst outrages against good taste which one saw exhibited by any of the much-abused million. On the whole, too, the road was rather dull this year. The bicycles long looked for did not turn up. The riders probably left them at home. THE COURSE. The Course, like the ground, has been so often described that one can hardly say anything new about it. If any. thing distinguished Wednesday from preceding anniver saries, it was not the addition of any new or striking epi sodes, but the absence of many familiar incidents. Never was there so quiet and so sober a Derby ; seldom has there been so little of the " larking " and riotous fun supposed to be inseparable from the occa sion. "Aunt Sally" is losing popularity ; the race of tumblers, mountebanks, and conjurors is becoming extent ; there are no workers of prodigies to take the place of the men who used to break stones with their clenched fists, or lift huge weights with their little fingers. At a period when the poorest costermonger "puts something" on the favourite, it would be absurd to expect that any surplus should be left tor thimbleriggers and cardsharpers. Spe culation on horses has become so universal that the cheaper and less exciting forms of gambling lose their interest. Imperceptibly, but surely, the spectacle is becoming different from that on which Mr. Frith col. lected the materials of a picture which may serve to remind the holiday makers of 1880 of the costumes cf their parents. The interest of the sight, however, consists, not in the variety of the details, but in its grandeur as a whole—in the fact that nowhere else in the world is there gathered so vast a concourse of human beings of all ranks and conditions. The trivial episodes of the scene are forgotten as soon as the eye ranges over the immense masses of black, between which flows the green racecourse. and the ear is deafened by the - Babel of the Stand House and the Ring. THE HILL As the day advanced the crest of the hill became illumi nated with the gilt•lettered refectories of the gingerbread vendors, without whom no holiday festival of the people could be considered complete. Tll recognition of the pro minent place to be assigned to the Volunteers in the great gathering on the Surrey Downs, the " Rifle Saloons" occupied a conspicuous position on the hills. Those in search of curiosities would probably be more than satisfied by gazing on a picture of a' ferocious mastiff held in gentle durance by a smiling gentleman, even if the bewildering legend beneath of "The Spotted Twin Sisters, born at Egham, and exhibited by their mother," did not further induce them to inquire within. At an adjoining tent was to be seen " A Marvellous Freak of Nature," described by the highly imaginative exhibitor as " The Bodiless Womarn, and only specimen of the kind ever brought to England," and in which apparent mystery the familiar optical illusion of " The Sphinx " was not very carefully enshrouded. The itinerants who beguile the in tervals between the races were of the old type and pattern. Conspicuously amongst them came the troop of " nigger minstrels," led by the familiar street personage who represents Punch, and who, adorned with nose and spectacles, chews such a curiously applied knowledge of part-singing, and who, if local legends are to be believed, is a respectable householder in Kentish Town, and a prominent member of a ritualistic choir when his secular duties are over for the week. More nigger minstrels, whose lays are of a time when the " Christy's " were unknown, and vagrant singers, who rely on strength of lungs rather than appropriateness of ditty, make up the vocal throng who besiege the occupants of carriages with their noisy impor tunities. The extension of the photographic system was exemplified by a portable camera, which, with a woman for the operator, took unanticipated groups of the inmates of various carriages. These seemed to find a rapid sale. The general amusements on the hill were of the old familiar kind. The sharp crack of the rifle, at a penny per shot, was to be heard constantly throughout the day. Portable ninepins car ried about in a box were revealed for the gratification of those who believed in skittles as a necessary adjunct to human happiness ; a clever female prestidigitateu r chewed the juggler's sleight of hand in substituting pence for half crowns in paper purses ; the stilt-walkers took advantage of their elevation to carry their caps into the faces of the loftiest amongst the spectators and the assertors of the right of " Turbary," or of the privilege of going upon the soil of another and digging turf, and carrying away the same, seemed to he fully aware of their especial immu nities. THE PADDOCK. Leaving the people for the horses, we turn from the grand sea of massed faces to the Paddock. Horses do not show there as they used, and Martyrdom and Border Knight were for some time its only occupants. Lord Cal thorpe'shorse looked much " fitter "than be did on the Two Thousand day, but though his quarters and thighs were good he did not go so well in front as he did behind. The roan, Rupert, was the next to show, a heavy shouldered horse, and lacking quality, followed by the game and blood-like little De Vere, and then a rush to the gate proclaimed the advent of a " crack," who proved to be Pero Gomez, led - by King Cophetua. Pero had evidently received a wonderful preparation at the hands of Porter, but still his upright pasterns provoked much hostility, while in thehand . some Belladrum, who next appeared, there was really no fault at all. But he had been beaten by Crocus as well as St. Mungo in his trial, and though the public prevented him receding to a longer price than 6 to 1, there were few investments among- real judges. Perry Down, but for a crooked sinew in the off fore leg, looked eminently a horse for the Epsom gradients, and the Drummer had fined down and was blooming. Taking a horse for his good looks alone, Mr. Padwick's Ethus was, next to Belladruni, the best picture of a race horse in the Paddock, but he exhibited a scrambling action in his canter, whkh destroyed the effects rf hiA appearance. Pretender did act api;ear at all at the Paddock. Rupert was the t it, followed ` Paddock. De Vere, Tasman, Tcricd.::3, Ry,3l: - .7arth, Lada3, and I".thus, and then came ::,1 - art7, - rdfra, tearing at ale bit and going with a free acti , ,n pleas;lig to eyes. The last to show was Belladrum, and a roar of gutting from the multitude attested the pophlarity of the hand some son of Stockwell, and the unflinching trust of the Public in their idol. THE START. - When the time came fur saddling and starting, from the little meadow, with its wall of may-blossom and chest. nut spikes, one could see the vast crowd splitting into two sections, divided by the long green fillet of the course, add the people settling down upon the mountainous pile of the Grar-cl Stand, like black snow-upon alill-top. ;.7ow tilts vigthiiif thmvn from the !hitting 12,414itt equine champions; the little saddles were clapped into their place and tightly girthed down, and one by one the little w:zened men and stunted lads, who had been walking about w:th gaily-coloured caps, like p eripatetic flower-buds, broke Du t all of a sudden into full-blown jockeys. It must be confessed that racing is wonderfully pretty. The bright colours of the riders and the satin sheen of their horses, tit up by such a sunshine as on Wednesday made the scene radiant, go charmingly together; and when the saddles were all filled, the nineteen or twenty in the Paddock made •1 beautiful squadron of holiday cavalry. At the starting point were by-and-by gathered one by one the gay specks of silk, which go dancing past the Stand ; and, seen through the glass, the group appears like one of those peep-shows of flower-leaves which schoolboys make with glass and paper. And now the prodigious concourse—which was so noisy and mobile—is suddenly hushed ; those that can see the flag drop are intent, and those that cannot see it catch the spirit of intense atten tion from the faces of the others. The three minutes to which all the preparation of the day conducts this swarm of human creatures, at which it culminates, and from which it has its charm anal popular vitality, have arrived. Nobody does anything but look hard towards the little flag in front of the group of flower-leaves. The gipsy woman breaks off her prophecy in the middle, the proprietor of Aunt Sally ceases to invite her demolition, the acrobat has come down from his stilts, the chicken-liver is suspended midway between the plate and the mouth, the champagne glass is put down half drained. " They're off !'' goes through the multitude like a wind more than a voice. No ! Drummer and ugly Rupert, and a horse with blue and gold colours, have gone away; but the attempt is false, and they are recalled. Once more they marshal themselves in a gay cloud, and the flag falls to an excellent start. This time they are really off ; the impetuous Drummer again in the front, and the two cracks lying in the rear, with Martyrdom's sky blue glittering behind all. As the horses get fairly away, and the course of the race leads them from the right to the left of the Downs, the most curious of all the won derful effects of the Derby Day is to be seen. The faces of the gathered multitude all flash round from one side to the other, making a pale gleam run along the surface of the Grand Stand, and light up the farther border of the Course. It is as if an immense avenue of aspen trees was agitated by the wind, and displayed at one instant all the white underside of their foliage. THE RACE. The colours of Mr. Savile on Neuchatel were the first to show in front, followed by the blues of Middle ham stable, the cherry jackets of Sir Joseph Hawley, the green of The Drummer, and the blue and gold braid of the ~Egean, with Belladrum and Tasman the two last. Mr. Merry's colt was never in it, and appeared to be checked by the hill before he had got to the furzes— a strange reversal of his Newmarket running ; while Pre tender was always in the van, closely attended by Pero Gomez, The Drummer, Duke of Beaufort, Rupert, and Ryshworth. A scuffle occurred after they had come round the corner on descending the bill, caused by the Duke of Beaufort cannon'ng against Pero Gomez, and knocking the latter out of his stride. Wells had to set him going again, and this bad a material influence on the final struggle, which was left to Pretender, Pero Gomez, and The Drummer, with Rupert, Duke of Beaufort, and Ryshworth well up. Pretender appeared to be tiring, and Wells made a vigorous call on his horse, who, answering most gamely, looked like catching his opponent at every stride ; but he failedqui to to get up, and was beaten, after a most exciting finish, by a head. The Drummer was third, and so close did the next two finish that the judge was unable to place a fourth. But for the collision above mentioned it is the general opinion (the Times says) that Pero Gomez would have won. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A beautiful start was made, Perry Down on the outside jumping away in front with a slight lead of Drummer, Neuchatel, and Lord Hawthorn, but when they had fairly settled down to the work Butler pulled Perry Down back, and _Neuchatel, with the object of making a pace for his stable companion, Ryshworth, took up the running, cut ting out the work at his best pace, and with a clear lead of Lord Hawthorn and Pretender, almost level with whom lay The Drummer and ,Egean ' Perry Down heading a closely pack e d b o dy o f h orses , the most prominent being Tenedos, Belladrum, Rupert, and Border Knight, King Cophetua going on clear of his stable companion, Pero Gomez, at whose girths was Martyrdom and Ethns ; the last lot, as they streamed past Sherwood's Cottage, being Thorwaldsen, Alpenstock, and Tasman, Kenyon, on the latter, having a c l ear li ne t o hi mse lf i n t h e rear. Before a quarter of a mile had been accomplished, Neuchatel in creased his advantage, and a change took place in the front rank, Pretender being pulled back to the head of the second division. Already the field began to present somewhat of a tail. As they entered the furzes, Belladrum drew up, and Daley, taking advantage of an opening, got him in the direct track of the favourite, and about two lengths in the latter's rear; but half-way through the furzes the Russley crack was in trouble, and despite Daley's exertions the horse lost his place, and was passed one by one by the competitors, FO that when little more than half of the journey had been completed Mr. _Merry's colt was toiling on hope lessly in the rear in company with Ladas and Etbr, for both of whom the pace was vouch to.) strong. Neuchatel was still at the head of affairs, and ewepting that Bysh worth tool: a more prominent position on the extreme outside, no change occurred in the leading division till the competitors were fairly clear of the furzes, when it became evi lent that Neuchatel was gradually compound ing. ].)escending the hill, Neuchatel was beaten, and immediately retired. Lord Hawthorn, to beep the pace strong for Pretender, rushed to the front, while The./Fgean simultantously beat a retreat, leaving The Drummer about a length in the rear of Lord Hawthorn, Pretender being the immediate attendant of Mr. Graham's horse, while the favourite was followed down the hill by Rupert, Ryshworth, and Duke of Beaufort, the latter of whom was materially interfered with through something crossing him, and it required all Cannon's exertions to prevent him falling. As it was, he was passed by Pero Gomez, King Cophetua, and De Vere. To this lot,tl , e race was now apparently confined, as martyrdom, Tborwaldsen, Alpeneteck, The y-Fgean, and Perry Down were a long way behind the front rank, and quite three hundred yards separated the leader from Belladrum who as he com menced the decline for Tattenham Corner,was the abso lute last, the rearward trio at this point being Ethus, Ladas, and Mr. Merry's colt. Rounding Tattenham Corner Lord Hawthorn was disposed of, and Ryshworth, who had gradually crept up on the outside, took up the running in the centre of the Course, and was followed into the straight by Pretender and Drummer almost side by side on his left, Pero Gomez being next on the higher ground, whilst the most forward of the remainder were Rupert, Duke of Beaufort, De Vere, and Border knight, Rupert holding a position on the extreme left. De Vere and Border Knight were both in difficulties before reaching the road crossing, which Ryshworth, who had been fairly pulling Maidment out of the saddle previously, "shut up," but his jockey, keeping pegging away at him, man age d t o h o ld a f orwar d pl ac e. After his retirement from the front, Pretender took up the running, with a s li g ht l ea d of Drummer and Rupert, but clear of Pero Gomez. Before the distance was reached both Drummer and Rupert slightly headed the favourite, but at the point indicated they were simultaneously in trouble, and Pretender was again left with the advantage, Pero Gomez, as they neared the commencement of the Stand-enclosure, heading the beaten pair, and drawing up to the quarters of Pretender. The race was now reduced to a match between the two favourites, both of whom were going remarkably well. The riding of Wells and Osborne was brilliant in the extreme, and as both animals ran with unswerving gameness, it will he readily imagined that the finish was a magnificent one. Though Pero Gomez rapidly decreased Pretender's advantage opposite the stand, and appeared for a stride or so to get level with the Two housand winner, Pretender got the best o f an exc iti n g And interestin g s t rugg l e , an d won very cleverly by a head. The race for place honours was not the less exciting, but The Drummer stayed longer than the Duke of Beaufort, and obtained the third position, finishing a length in the rear of Pero Gomez, but he was not more than a head in front of Duke of Beaufort, close up with whom was Rupert fifth "and Ryshworth sixth. Then at a clear interval came Alpenstock seventh, Martyrdom eighth, and King Cophetu ninth. Some distance in the latter's rear, Thorwaldsen was tenth, while Defender, De Vere, and Ethns were together next. Perry Down, who fell lame six they entered the straght, was fourteenth, with The Tenedos, Tasman, Lord Hawthorn, and Border Knight next, Neuchatel c an t er i ng p as t th e pos t i n t h e rear of the latter, while the la s t b u t one was L a d as, an d Bellad rum the absolute last. Time as taken by Benson's thronograph, 2 m i n . 52. sec. Time of 1868 race was 2 min. 431 sec. THE RUSH AFTER THE RACE. The moment the Derby was over, the fly-drivers wh o , from Bright on an d Hastings and Portsmouth, flock to the Downs to pick up odd half-crowns, rushed f ran ti ca ll y to the back of th e G ran d Stand, and demanded from those who hurried out whatever sums seemed to them expedient for conveying such persons as were in a very violent hurry the various railway-stations. T o load a ramshackle trap with half-a-dozen passengers at two-and-sixpence each, and to goad a raw-boned, weary, half-starved animal into a movement which was intended by both horse and driver for a gallop, did not occupy many minutes. But they were few who fled the scene thus early. The travellers by road did not begin to move off till half-past four o'clocl,-, and then until six there was a continuous stream flowing from the Downs by five or six channels. THE ROAD HOME. Probably never before, and certainly not for many years past, have so many people been assembled together, of both sexes, of all ages and all classes, to witness a return home from the Derby. The footways along the Blackfriars, Waterloo, Westminster, and Vauxhall roads were lined with spectators, but the scene at the Elephant and Castle, Newington, and down the Kennington-road as far as the Horns Tavern, was most remarkable. Between these two points both footpaths and carriage-ways were almost impassable, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the large body of police on duty, including several mounted constables, could obtain a passage for the numerona vehicles. The portion of the road from the horns to the Elephant and Castle was one continuous block from seven o'clock in the evenin;,* until ten at night. A 3 might be expected, in the confusion and cxcit:trent nrtracrc.•,-,3 col si ,, r s. r-.‘,3ts, and 0th , ,, , r cocurr, ^.. far.., bea3certain , -1, roue. of a vcry natur?. To add to tiv. excitement and animation of the scone, trn:ny of the ocru• pants of the foar-horse vans amused themselves by displays of red. I,lua, and green tire from tln. roofs. The sf; to e thioj N; as done, with the addition of tirewra ka, thu windows of several of the public houses al o ng the road. This practice, largely indulged in, though it added to the excitement, also increased the confusion and danger from the sudden rushes of people that took place and afforded a fine addi tional field fur the operations of the light-fingered brigade. The roughs, as usual, pelted all respectably dressed occupants of carriages with small packets of flour, made up and sold for the occasion. It was after ten o'clock before any perceptible diminution was observable in _the crowds of veople or the streams of returning vehi cles, and up to undwght the road had a molt upr94riouff Agect. - - THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1869. 111 SCE LLAA EO US 1V E YY S. gloomy presage. Cumming, since the exposure or the Lancashire earthquake hoax, has none. AGRICULTURAL COTTAGM The problem of how to give farm labourers good dwelling-houses is still practically unsolved. Many plans have been put forward. But while it has been admitted that the hovels in which our agricultural population dwell are wretched, it has been often found that good cottages do not pay. Christopher Nevill writes to the Times, giving a description of some cottages which he has raised, and which he thinks fulfil the conditions required : " They cost rather under £l7O per pair; they are let to pay 5 per cent., which is rather more net interest, calcu lating everything, than buying either land or Console. The great difficulty has always been as to the three sleeping-rooms. Either the living-room and scullery must be larger than necessary, or the bedrooms must be very small indeed. If half the number of cottages have three bedrooms and the other half two, the supply of bedrooms is ample. A pair of cottages might, therefore, be built having five bedrooms, the middle bedroom being thrown to either cottage as required. This arrangement has been carried out. The cottages have been examined by the President of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and by one of our largest land agents, and they have both expressed a most favourable opinion of them. They have everything an agricultural labourer can want, and rothing he does not want. I allot to all my cottages half an acre of garden ground at a full rent, they all pay 5 per cent. on the cost, and in forty years I have never lost one shilling by any arrears." THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE ALABAMA DIFFICULTY. (Fran the Anglo-American Times) The Times on Wednesday, alluding to the in structions given to the American Minister, Mr. Motley, on the Alabama difficulty, observes that it would be left open for future occasions unless Eng land, uneasy under the suspense, is willing to treat on the basis of Mr. Sumner's speech, shorn of its extravagance. On this ground only America will meet England, and the Times considers it is judicious so to instruct him that the overtures must come from England, for the certain refusal that would follow a proposal based on such terms might not be con ducive to the results all are bound to desire. Whe ther the alternative of simple suspense will prove equally politic remains to be solved. The grievance is sentimental, and material only so far as is neces sary to frame it into a tangible demand. What is required is an apology for the "massive gi ievancc.." We shall do both countries good servc3 by saying in the fewest but the p'ainest words possible that it will never be given. We may add just one more remark; that never before in the history of civilized States was such a thing so much as asked for. The undisguised sympathy shown by Americans with England's enemy during the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, and the unqualified delight at her difficulties and disasters, would form more than a set-off to England's sympathy with the South, America's true grievance, if such questions could be adjudicated upon. The leaders of Secession confi dently calculated on English intervention, believing cotton to be king, and considering the pressure would be sufficiently great to drive English manufac turers into raising the blockade. Nor they only, for the Federals thought so too, and their expressions of alarm and remonstrance became louder and_more earnest by every successive mail. " There was a time when the Americans would have made any bargain with us to avert this dreaded intervention, and at that same time, as they well know, we were pressed to intervene by an ally so powerful that if the com bined weight of the two nations had been thrown into the scale against the _North, the Southern half of the Union would never have been recovered. Yet we resisted these solicitations, and we endured the loss of the greatest trade in the world rather than depart from that neutrality for which we are now prosecuted." If Mr. Sumner says England is chargeable for half the war, Mr. Jefferson Davis asserted that it would not have lasted six mouths if it had not been for the prodigious Bopplies the Federals drew from England. The Morning Advertiser, while treating the Alabama question with moderation and fairness in its leading articles, at the same time pub;i•hes' letters from correspondents c dculatel to excite anything but kindly feelings. On Tuesday, for instance, ore of these appeared which could scarcely be surpassed in bitterness. The writer observes that had English statesmen, like true men, recog ❑ized the independence of the Southern States, " a million of lives would have been snared from going down into the pit, and a beautiful country would have escaped the curse of that man who has risen to the President's seat on hecatombs of his own as well as of the Confederate soldiery " " England will not suffer at the hands of a reck less, unprincipled, and lawless mob, led on by mad demons in the shape of men." We find so much that is fiendish in the writer that we should think him to be no bad judge of demons. ! The Star of Thursday publishes a list of the vessels destroyed by the cruisers, and the vale .5, so far as ascertained, as fixed by their owners. That list was published by ustwo years ago. The amount, calculating dollars at their present rate, the Star estimates at £2,614,286. It considers, however, that England is only unmistakably responsible for the work of the Alabama, and it recommends that the claims arising from her proceedings should be separated from the others, that an English commis sion should be appointed to appraise the losses caused, and that the Government should express sorrow that such a vessel should have escaped from an English port. A letter from Sir Francis Head was yesterday published in the 7 Imes touching on the reference in Mr. Sumner's speech to the incident which oc curred in Upper Canada in 1837 as one of the offences to the United States by the sovereignty of Great Britain. At that time Sir Francis was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and he applied to Mr. Marcy, Governor of New York, for the arrest of INltlileLzie, the leader of the rebellion, whom he accused of arson, murder, and robbery, and demanded his person under the Extradition Treaty. The matter was referred to the Attorney- General, who, on the plea that open, public, and notorious war existed in Canada, said the refugees had a right to an asylum in an independent State, and the Governor 41-...-crvic acchued the requezt. abrogation. as', Sir Francis considers it to have been of the Extradition Treaty, then but lately passed, he alleges to be a proclamation of neutrality between two belligerent forces ; the one was the authority of Great Britain, the other a gang of desperadoes, commanded by an A mer i can G en eral, all from the United States, who h a d se i ze d on a little British island in the river Niagara, waged therefrom war on Canada, drew all the supplies from the United States, and used 22 pieces of artillery captured from an arsenal of the Republic, besides thousands of small arms. LES EXTREIitES SE .TOU'CITENT. It has been often noticed that scarcely anyone is married in Lent. It is not so generally known that scarcely anyone is married in the Derby week. Everyone is supposed to be keeping fast during the former period; everyone is supposed to be keeping holiday in the latter. And so it comes to pass that the Times of to-day has but one English marriage in its column of hatches, matches, and despatches. A QUARREL IN man QUARTERS. The Record, which is always skilful in finding out the highest and noblest motives for conduct which seems erratic, has discovered that the reason why Lord Russell has quarrelled with the Government is, that Lord Hyde was chosen to fight the Ministe rial battle at Brecon instead of Lord Amberley. The same trustworthy authority goes on to say that "the Government shew no disposition to march through Coventry with such an ornament to their junior attachs as this ultra-Maltinisian and ' Positivist' young nobleman."' The journal which hailed a.Pela gian Premier as the man of God because he ap pointed Low Church bishops, would naturally ascribe an important political action to sordid reasons. /lARD WORDS. There has been a meeting of ultra Protestants at the East End of London. There were no bones broken, but there were a good many hard words. The Pope and Mr. Gladstone had to act as " Aunt Sally" while the amiable advocates of the pure faith hurled their missiles. Mr. Gladstone was denounced as" a traitor in the camp." -, This was stick number one ; but as Mr. Gladstone had never been in the "camp," the missile fell wide of the mark. Then came another " shy :"—" False as he had been to Protestantism, he had been still more false to himself. He had been turned out of Oxford and South Lancashire, and was now a poor Greenwich pensioner." This, too, was equally unsuccessful, for as Mr. Gladstone did not vote against himself at Ox ford or in Lancashire, he can hardly be said to have been " false to himself" in "being turned out." Then came the last attempt. Mr. Gladstone's policy was " that of a ruined gambler, who, playing for high stakes, was regardless what card be played." This was wi,ier of the mark flan any. If Mr. Gladstone is a gambler at all, " ruined " he certainly is not with a majority of 113 to back him. Another of the speakers declared that should the present Govern ment again -be in Opposition, it would bid for place by an offer to disestablish and disendow the Church of England. Of course after hearing this prophecy the ultra-Protestants will do their best to keep the present Government in office. SIR EDMUND LACON. Mr. O'Malley is a very injudicious friend. In de fending Sir Edmund Lacon during the recent election petition, the learned gentleman referred to former elections at Great Yarmouth, and said that the hon. baronet had never done anything of which he need be ashamed. Perhaps not, for Sir Edmund is used to that style of thing ; but other gentlemen would certainly chew some emotion after the disclosures which led to the disfranchisement of the bloater capital. Mr. Justice Blackburn, at all events, has a very strong opinion on the subject, and declared that " he could not regard the acts com mitted by Sir E. Lacon at Yarmouth elections as otherwise than disgraceful." There are some victories worse than defeats, and all the world, except perhaps Mr. O'Malley and Sir Edmund Lacon, will think that the victory of the sitting members for North Norfolk is one of them. THE ABOLITION OF PATENT LAWS. The Patent Laws are one continual worry. The public would not be unjust to an inventor, would not get cheapness by allowing any one to step in and use the time, brains, and money of another in the pro duction of commodities. And yet it can hardly protect one inventor without injuring his fellow discoverers. It was thought the question was virtually settled when a high price was put on the acquire ment of a patent. But this has rather increased the anomaly than otherwise, for poor men can rarely get the benefit of an invention. Reformers seem to have been disgusted with . the matter altogether, and propose free trade. But inventors already protected are much opposed to this course. Mr. Macfie is to move a resolution abolishing mono poly altogether. Members of the Inventors' Institute and others have waited upon the Attorney-General urging their objections to this motion ; and Sir Robert Collier told them that, though he could not speak on behalf of the Government, he was, personally, against making an invention of one man the property of the public. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. The association whose object it has been to obtain the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act to the civil population, feeling secure in the thought that the Government would support an ex tension of the measure, gave up any further pursuit of the subject some time since. It has now been called once again into action by the an nouncement that the whole question is to be referred to a select committee of the Iloase of Commons. Meetings are being held, and information is being obtained, to show the feeling of the country, and the true bearing of facts upon the matter. An oppo sition is also organised, chiefly proceeding from the refuges, which is endeavouring to - enlist the religious feelings of the country against the proposed reform. In this the refuges are not altogether successful. Several bishops, deans, and many clergymen have given in their names to the society, and Lord Russell, with several other eminent statesmen, lead the way in counDoliing the alteration of the 2a«-. 11; lo ro.tiett that if the measure were passed, penitentiaries would lose their hold. The society alleges, however, that they would be of still more use. Women would come under religious instruction in the hospitals, and might, if they wished to leave their lives of vice, be handed over to the penitentiaries. THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The Herald, which has been publishing very favourable statements of the health of the Bishop of Salisbury, now announces that there has been given "too hopeful a view of his lordship's condition. It is true that the Bishop has recovered from the extremely critical condition in which he was three weeks ago, but he has by no means reached that point at which we may look for a speedy recovery." DEAN ALFORD IN TROUBLE. The Dean of Canterbury is in trouble, Ile has just published a revised version of the New Testa ment, and by some unexplained blunder has left out seven words. The omission occurs in 2 Cor. xii. ls, where the words " Calked we n o t i n th e same spirit F" are left out. Fortunately, the blunder is not a very serious one, and Dean Alford has clone his best to rectify it by advertising it in the " agony " column of the Times. There was, many years ago, a far more awkward omission, that of the word " not" from the Seventh Command ment, and terrible was the penalty inflicted upon the perpetrator of the blunder. The erring edition of the Bible was burnt, and the only copy in existence is now in the Bodleian Library. MR. SPUItGEON ON FANCY BAZAARS. Mr. Spurgeon approves of fancy bazaars. He even thinks those persons Pharisaical who object to them. He argues that it is not everyone who can give money to a charitable object, but there aro many who can give time and labour in the shape of worsted work. This is true enough, and against such persons no one can say a word. The real objection is that a vast quantity of useless rubbish being sold at a high price, charity, so far as the purchasers are concerned, takes the character of a bargain, and that usually a very bad one. Either the purchaser buys what is worth buying, and then there is no charity at all in the matter so far as he is concerned, or he buys what is not worth buying, and then the time and labour spent in the production is lost, from the politico economical point of view. But the economists are not likely to have much influence in the matter. Bazaars will continue, though girl graduates should have to pass an examination in all the philosophers from Adam Smith to Stuart Mill. DR. CUMMING AGAIN. There is not one of the sporting prophets which .can compare with Dr. Cumming in unshaken self confidence. It is nothing to him that he prophesied the end of the world for 1807. and that here we are still merrily spinning round the sun. It is nothing to him that a few Sundays ago he made the alleged earthquake in Lancashire a text to prove that the destruction of all things is close at hand, and that this earthquake turned out to be a hoax, perpetrated by a silly fellow upon the Manchester journals. The doctor is still as confident as ever, and as many persons go to listen to him as ever. He has just been down to Manchester, and has been insisting, in defiance of all facts—in defiance of the fact that nations were never so slow in fighting as they are now —that this is the time of wars and rumours of wars which is to precede the final catstrephe. The " sell " about the earthquake has not in the least disconcerted him. file winter he considered that the term earth quakes in " divers-places " was to be taken literally ; but now ho interprets it to mean a financial crisis. The dis2overy- is rather late in the day, considering that it is now _three y%.lus sinco the " earth quake " took place. The value of his inter pretations is seriously deteriorated both by their tardiness and by their uncertainty. The most remark able thing about the matter is, that for once Cardinal Antonelli and Dr. Cumming .are of one mind. The Cardinal, when he heard that Austria had given up the Concordat, exclaimed Casco, it monde. The doctor, without any particular reason, repeats the equivalent of those words in English, and says, " The world is . going to mash." had, irozaiuluacant of till*. meta ekeusa for hia THE TRADE IN BEER. " Gilpin Grains" writes a letter to the Teegraph protesting against SirJ. Selwyn-Ibbetson'sbeerhouses bill. " Gilpin Grains" is a brewer, and the owner of a large number of beerhouses. He points out that while everybody condemns magisterial supervision of public-houses, it is propos4 to extend it to beerhouses. The bill, he fuitber urges, is confiscatory, interferes with the freedom of the trade, and tends to produce a huge monoply. It prevents a beerseller from selling his house with out the consent of a magistrate, and deprives him of his property should he be unfortunate enough to be fined for breaking the law. There can be no objec tion, this correspondent thinks, to a severe punish ment; but he protests against the house being closed on account of the tenant's misconduct, as it would de prive the man's family of all their wealth. VELOCIPEDE INSTITUTE. Of course we can do nothing in England without an institute, a society, or some kind of nucleus for a " swarmery " when the enthusiasm is no longer repressible ; and so a Velocipede Institute is to be established, from which rules, instructions, and encouragement in the shape of prizes to good velocipedestrians are to issue. But what is the Aeronautical society about ? Velocipedes, looked on at first with much the same encouragement as flying machines, are now the hobbies of the period. But the high-flyers are still unpatronised, and one of their balloons has taken itself out of control. STERN JUSTICE. Two criminals were lately brought before the magistrates at T w i c k en h am , charged with the heinous crime of breaking a fence and stealing the broken pieces. The prisoners could not look over the dock, for one of them was 6 years old, the other only 5. The Ithadamanthi of the Thames neverthe!ess condemned these desperate and hardened offenders to a fine of 2s. each, or seven days' im prisonment. The parents, who were poor, pleaded for time, but could o btain a respite only till the evening, when they were told that if the money were not forth com i ng th e Queen's warrant would be issued for the committal of these wicked babies. Eventually the money was paid. We should like to know if these stern administrators of the law would have dealt in the same manner with the infants of one of their co ll eagues , h a d they been guilty of the sin of inju r i ng G enera l P ee l's railings ? If not, is it true that there is the same law for rich and poor ? ABORIGINAL OVENS. This highly-important subject was discussed at the last meeting of the Anthropophagal. we as': pardon, the Anthropological Society. Sir Charles Nicholson contributed a paper to show how the ancient abori gines of Australia made their ovens, and lie proved a , good deal o f cu li nar y s kill on their part. Clearly Sydney Smith's joke about "cold boiled missionary on the sideboard" was very wide of the mark. With such ovens as those just referred to the aborigines were not at all likely to put up with cold meat. FOREIGN NOTES. AUSTRIA. The Indipendance Beige announces that Herr Beke, the financial representative of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry, will take a diplomatic post at Constantinople. He will be replaced by a Hungarian. This is another proof of the growing influence of Magyar statesmen in Austria. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. The public business of Italy is once more suffering from its chronic disease—the incurable laziness of the deputies who are chosen to manage it. Whilst the weather is bad the Italian Parliament is pretty well attended ; but no sooner does the Southern sun put forth its spring-time beams than the members of the Chamber, who have a free pass over all the railways in the kingdom, d;sperse in all directions, leaving public affairs to look to themselves. Year after year the busi ness of the country is left undone, or half done, .for the law requires that one more than half the entire number of members must be present to form a quorum, and the deputies will not attend. The names of the absentees are posted in the Official Gazette, but this is no punishment, for that great corrector and reformer, " public opinion," is yet in its infancy in Italy. RUSSIA. A somewhat serious insurrection hasllroken out amongst frontier. All the hordes of what is called the Great Steppe, east of Oren berg and north of the Caspian Sea, have taken part in this rising. The insurgents pillage the convoys, attack the isolated posts, and burn the Russian villages on the frontier. A considerable force of cavalry will be required to subdue them. THE UNITED STATES. Chief Justice Chase has decided that the Statute of Limitations applies to all cases where money held by American officials was given up to the Confederate Government in 1861. Postmasters and others who gave up their funds to the Confederacy at the outbreak of the civil war will not be liable to refund the sums. CANADA. strange rumour caused considerable perturbation at Montreal a few days ago. Information had been received in the city to the effect that the British Privy Council was considering the advisability of relinquishing all the British colonies except India. AFFAIRS IN NEC ZEALAND. A long letter from Wellington, New Zealand, by Mr. J. C. Richmond, appears in the Times. The writer very severely attacks the Times' regular correspondent for some of his assertions as to the state of affairs in the colony. The latter writer charged the New Zealand Govern ment with having adopted a hand-to-mouth policy, in no wise calculated to secure the respect or awe of the natives. He stated that since the outbreak of the war the colonial Government had distributed amongst the aativea a largess of £15,000 in public money, and had granted a redress of grievances, which had been sought in vain for the last two years. Certainly, paying large sums of meney and redressing grievances in frightened haste on the outbreak of a rebellion is calculated to demoralise ; but Mr. Richmond desks that any thing of the kind was done. He says that in 1865 the loyal part of the Ngatiporau tribe were attacked by Hanhaus, but with the assistance of some troops they repelled the enemy. The rising, howevsr, spread south wards, and the mixed force, including these loyal natives of the Ngatiporau tribe, followed up the enemy with brilliant and unbroken success. The Ngatiporaus returned to their homes with a promise of reward out of the lands of those taken and killed in rebellion, or out of the proceeds of the sale of those lands. A special Act of Confiscation was passed by the Legislature to give effect to this promiT. But this Act was opposed, and it became necessary to pay the reward in money. The intrigues had gone on fir two years, and thus the time of the fresh outbreak, commencing with the escap e of prisoners from Chatham Island, arrived, and the Ngatiporau were again required as allies. The pay ment was once more delayed until the men returned to their homes after the recent operations in the field. Mr. Richmond does not prove that the reward could not have been paid soon er , b u t h e d oes succe ed in shelving that it was not a largess distributed in haste. On the contrary, it was payment for services rendered Sometime before the last outbreak. There were no grievances' redressed, be cause, Mr. Richmond affirms, none existed. The writer denies in general the charge that the colony has constantly endeavoured to buy loyalty by large dona tions, and failed to consider Maori grievances unless driven by fear and necessity. He adds that New Zealand re quires assistance, because the geographical position of the country, 1,000 miles long, intersected by numerous chains of mountains, and colonised at a dozen different points, prevents the concentration necessary for repelling the Maories. He suggests that it might be permitted to the New Zealand Government to raise a Volunteer Corps, both officers and men, from the British army, for service for a definite number of years. The volunteers might have the privilege of continuing on the books of the War Office without loss of rank, and of returning at the end of their term of service. A disciplined force would thus be furnished to the colony at less cost than its present imperfect levies, and the imperial Treasury would not spend a penny. The suggestion deserves consideration; but the writer overlooks the fact that the assistance of British troops was offered and declined, because the colony would not pay for them. Between a British regiment and a corps of volunteers from the B r iti s h ar my th ere wou ld b e li ttle practical difference. The Tutee , in a leader, still holds to the opinion that the New • ealaiidgrs are c.tpable of didadbactikeaulyg 4 . THE AMERICAN PRESS. The Springfield Republican considers that the sword of Damocles suspended over England is working an immense change in the foreign rela tions of European Powers. The balance of power is in the hands of President Grant and the Ameri can people. By a, kind of poetic justice Engla nd is punished by her treason to liberty in the American Civil War and other acts, and while her hands are bound by the American complication, the Emperor of Russia is emboldened to act in the E tat. Mr. Motley enjoys the advantage of an intimate ac quaintance with Bismarck, which may prove of value in the course in England he may be compelled by circumstances to take. Mr. Motley is not only Mr. bunther's cherished friend, but diplomatically he is an embodiment of Hs speech. " The proper vindication of our dignity and our rights need not necessarily be regarded as a provocation of war. We can afford to wait for some time longer, until, under the efficient administration of President Grant, Great Britain and the English people shall become convinced that we demand only what Eng land, if she had been in our position, would have insisted upon with much greater rigour than we have as yet seen fit to exercise. Great Britain having placed herself in the wrong, and the authors of that wrong—her principal statesmen—having made a public recantation, so far as they indi vidually were concerned, we should think that England's honour were as much interested as our own honour, in a comprehensive and equit able settlement of this all-important question." The .spirit of the bites hold 4 that England pehan i d s awakened to the position by Sumner's speech the rejection by the Senate of the Convention she cooked up, and that she will tender the required redress, not through any dawning Genie of justice, but because she has diacoyered that the American people are not to . be humbugged nor put off from and because she cannot afford to re main under the dttresse of this Alabame question any longer. As the situation leaves Americans perfectly at peace they are indifferent as to Eng land's course, for the pressure of th e s i tuat i on is to her war enough. " It cripples her frotn hostile operations against even the movt puny fo re i gn power, and binds her, through the. overhan g ing peace." dr.?.,,ti of our repris il.=., to keep the general practically incapable of conducting Great Britain is a war on anything like equal terma again the3t United States. Sne is no longer a military power, but if she were she could e ff ec t nothing wa3-of inva sion. Canada would compensate fortht °injury inflicted upon American commerce. When England durina , the war drove that commerce from the sea, it was only felt as a slight incident to the condition. [We thought Mr. Sumner's compl a i n t was th at i t doubled the duration of the war, and coat America £400,000,000.:--ED. A.A. T.] With England, loss of commerce, which is the breath of her nostrils, is very different. It would bring stary ation to the A door of every operative in a month ; therefore Eng land cannot go to war ; but, in case war did result, America has little fear. " Our plan then is, to let England gnaw the file of this Alabama question to her heart's content, and allow her journals to rail at us without reply. Our case is made ; we know what we intend, and we have nothing to do but to rest. placidly within our lines, until Engl and comes to our terms, or until our opportunity arrives. Oar judgment is, however, that she will curse herself down to the level of surrender, and when that is done, and she desires to make , amends, we may pro perly accord her such diminished terms as becomes a generous and superior power." If England be allowed to delay atonement it is the duty of the Washington Government to pay the sufferers. The Spirit learns frotn Washington that the President and Cabinet are discussing the plan it suggested a month ago —to audit claiinsfor the damage done by the An glo-rebel cruisers, and pay by orders on the Treasury. "A bill will accompany this measure for the issue of Alabama bonds, running, say thirty years, at five or six per cent., in crier that the people may take them, and thus relieve the Treasury from the new burden. The bonds will doubtless be the most popular ever put upon the market; and when the whole amount is audited and the last of the bonds iesucd, the Government may probably conclude that the hour has arrived to close the question with Great Britain by a demand for immediate restitu tion." The Public Ledge? of Philadelphia, remarking on the effect produced upon the newspaper press of England by the rejection of the treaty and Senator Sumner'sspeech, sees through the various comments, the uniform assumption that the Senator's expres sions embody the demands of the Government and people. This is an error; and the Ledger thinks there is reason for the belief " that neither the Go vernment, nor the journals, nor the ruling classes of the people of Great Britain, have ever correctly understood or estimate.? American feeling on this question. There is no general desire in America to make exorbitant demands upon Great Britain ; there is no such desire to press that Government to the verge of national humiliation ;' nor is there any wish among those thoughtful men who move and control the great industrial, trading, commer cial, and influential interests of the United St rtes, and whose views are always respected by our Go vernment in international affairs, to indulge in the luxury' of a war with England." The feeling in America is that at the outset of the rebellion the then existing British Government acted in a most unfriendly spirit towards the United States, en couraging the fitting out of hostile vessels to destroy American commerce, which caused in indirect de struction millions of dollars and indirectly millions more. "The two peints,.in their estimation, go to gether; they-should be considered together, and they should be considered independently and apart from any other matters of dispute or negotiation between Great Britain and. the United States." The weak point of the late treaty watt that it did not provide a sepa rate, distinct, and specific mode of settlement, and no one could see through it the end of the Alabama controversy, while its obscurity made the people and Government afraid to trust it. The Ledger considers the unfriendly course of Lord Russell's Government in 1861-62, so clear to Americans that they believe the common sense of Europe to be with them, and that the English are convinced of the error of their Government, regret its acts, and believe some clear, frank, manly form of contri tion should be expressed, instead of the subtleties and finesse of diplomatic conventionalities. " When ever the British Government approaches the settle ment of the Alabama controversy in this spirit, the end will not be far off. Till then there is danger in it, though we believe our people prefer to wait rather than to seek fora settlement by war.' The Nation asserts that calm consideration begets much dissent from and dissatisfaction with Mr. Sumner's speech, as a statement of the Ame- Hem cause against England. His plan of making England apologise for the neutrality proclamation is assailed as both unnecessary and certain to fail, while even its legal position is attacked. The na ture of England's offence is not presented in a dis• tinct theory. In one place she is charged with giving Confederate ships the rank of lawful gerents by her proclamation. He then calls these lawful ships " pirates," showing that the procla mation gave them no lawful status. Further on he alludes to them as English ships engaged in war against the United States. They ctnnot be all : " If the proclamation gave the Confederates a law ful status, their cruisers were not ' pirates.' If it gave them no status, and they were pirates,' Eng land is not responsible for the proclamation ; while, if they were English war vessels assailing the com merce of a friendly nation, all talk about the pro elamatiou is a mere waste of breath. Any intelli gent reader may satisfy himself, by looking care fully at the speech, that it is really marked by the confusion we have here described, and we are therefore sorry that somebody did not undertake the work who had firmly grasped some one of these doctrines, and could present it clearly and vigour , ously. Mr. Sumner has supported all three vigour ously by turns, but none of them long." His sen timental charge for the want of sympathy was out of place in a legal argument, especially wbere it took the form of damages. If such a rule is to be introduced into national law it ought not to be confined to questions of slavery. It would then be proper " To bring England to book for the indiffe rence or hostility of her aristocracy to the temper ance movement, and her neglect of popular educa tion, and the low condition of her almshouses. Grotius and Puffendorf would probably be asto nished to hear of Admiral Farragut burning the shipping at Liverpool, or shelling the fortifications at Portsmouth, because the House of Commons was not ' sound' with regard to the proper treat ment of the insane, or was obdurate on the eight hour question, or deaf to woman's claim to the ballot ; but Grotius and Puffendorf, poor old fellows, wrote according to their light, which was small, and are now dead, which is well for them." The Tribune, in announcing Mr. Motley's in structions concerning the Alabama claims, considers them to exhibit " the consciousness of an impreg nable position felt alike by the Government and people of this country, and our entire readiness to await a more convenient season, or a better temper on the part of our British cousins, before passing the settlement of a matter which we can very well afford to leave open as long as they can." There is no menace of war, no threat of hostilities ; no fillibustering raid upon Canada is meditated. "Mr. Motley has simply to tell the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs that we are assured in our position, and can afford to wait. That is all." The New York Herald, in its usual peremptory style, brings the question to the alternative of a prompt settlement or war ; but the New York 7 imes takes an opposite view, discussing the question with temper and conciliation. There is an able article in the New York indepen dent, written by Win. Lloyd Garrison, " Our Rela tions with England." He considers Mr. Sumner's speech to be a model in clearness of statement, force of reasoning, dignity of treatment, and calmness of temper. At the same time he notices and dwel's at length on what he holds to be aflaw—the partwherein Mr. - Sumner invokes the memaryofWilberforceagainst England. His argument is' precisely that of the English press, that England could not consider it a war against slavery, while Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward did all in their power during its early stages to deprive it of such a character, the one being the official head of the nation, and the other its mouthpiece with foreign States. IVhen the character of the war did change, and the blows were struck directly against slavery, the writer asserts a "great change to have been immediately wrought in England. Pamphlets were scattered broadcast throngh;. the Lind, and everywhere the Northern cause found earnest champions. The New York Nation has an article on the news paper scandal, the Young-Dana affair, which is treats as of a serious nature. The New York Sun asserted that it only affected Mr. Young himself, a statement which, if correct, would leave that paper without a shadow of excuse for devoting four of its columns to the publication of his private letters, and the exposure of his private • affdirs.— • "What makes his doings and those of his friends in Phila.- delphia of the least importance to the world at large is that he has, during the Piet three eventful years , had almost entire control of one of the most impor' taut instruments for the moulding of public opinion in this country and that the gentleman in Phila' delphia who now acknowledges that he paid a man for whole months to steal despatches from another newspaper office, to be used for his own pecuniary benefit, was at the time he did it engaged in edit' eating the party' up to higher moral ground abOut the negro. Considering the kind of people sonle of the ' educators' of the party during the last five years have been, the wonder is that it should be even as decent and well-behaved as it is." It ill almost impossible to over-estimate the influence erected by a daily paper on the fortunes of public men and affairs, as the editor, by simple iteration , can do more than talent, learning, and logic can undo. Even apart from his editorial coca' meets, in supplying and arranging news he makes or mars a politician's career, consigning one to obscurity by silence, by treating his sayings or doings as of sli o , ht importance, or, by inuendoes about them, by spreading falie reports or attribut' ing base motives. On the other hand, he may push a worthless adventurer into the place of an hones t man. The character of the men who control, suc h machinery is of the first importance to the coming' nity, and ought to be taken from the hands of those who forfeit public confidence, or the country wi ll lose almost its sole remaining instrument of re' form. " The influence of all other agencies on public affairs is comparatively slight. The periodi' cal, and, above all, the daily press, is engrossing more and more of public attention ; and unless W I morality grows with its strength, and the men NO° manage it, having so much to sell, are not respect' able men, we might as well ask the knaves, withou t more ado, to divide our substance between them' Politicians nobody trusts; the judiciary fewer trust every day ; the pulpit has greatly declined in influence; and if the newspapers go over to the enemy, and sit at his orgies, what is to become of us ? It is therefore greatly to be regretted that Mr. Young has not been able to deny the genuine' ness of the letters, or else offer a satisfactory or" planation of them. The bringing of a libel sn it against the Sun does not meet the difficulty, because the libel suit cannot he tried for two years to comet and because we observe by Mr. YOung's affidavit , on which the order of arrest was obtained, that 110 does not meet any of the serious points raised by th e letters themselves." The New York Citizen has another long leader e! impending Imperialism. The establishment of sae' a paper as the Imperialist not only without molestir tion, but almost without a remonstrance, the Citil regards as a startling fact. On the contrary, lee': ing Republican journals have seized this opportu olll to ventilate their own views for a more central' and stronger form of Governm en t. " Wh en a jean"' like the Round Table," says the Citizen," gravely d d dares that we are drifting into Imperialism, a ll the Cincinnati Commercial talks of the coining oe lv tralization which Ls to absorb and govern the Ce ll ; tinent, we may well wake up to what seems near , s hand." Some assert the impossibility of a change 10 the present form of Government, or even in its so' , den and violent overthrow, but the Citizen declarel the Radicals have effected this change a lreoq ; having overturned States, robbed millions of th eir right to representation, tore the national constite: tion to pieces, and pasted it together with par,. 'e/ patches, so that the fundamental law should to made to follow a party, and not the people made conform to the law. These Radicals have beee of law to themselves, ruling the land with a r0d .. ., iron, making it suffer the terrors of a despot without the paternal care such despotisms us oll 7f extend. After enumerating the unlawful acts the party it adds, "All this time, behind Cortgr'; we have seen the drawn sword." The road be ll). thus smoothed from such despotism to actual It perialism is an easy step. The danger must uot_.,7, disguised nor ignored, nor must the presumed vie: 6 ness or incompetency of "the man on horseback' L' held in disdain. The Citizen points its retuar v , with a striking illustration. The Radical party 10 ing exhausted the means which pl a ced it i n poWe r i the issues which made it having passed away, i t a desperate resort to conti nue i n power h av i n g t i come necessary, the Admini s t ra ti on w hi c h star with the cry, " Let us have peace," is enlistiugto formidable standing army t o p ro p peace w ith 1 0 ° . bayonets, and the military believe that all meas ure .„s must be conducted by military means. The Cita( considers the most alarming feature to be the utte • apthy of the people, who, like the great tulddle• class of France, want to make money, and O let alone. " Our own quiet submission to agw 0, dual but persistent usurpation of what we once I d sidered sacred rights ; the growing love for 1 0 , 8 and extravagance so prevalent throughout country; the forced feeling everywhere thatEßP ttb' licanism, at least as Radicalism has administers., and and construed it, is a failure; and that fatal fue w o f we have for change, and the ready acceptso ce change, without considering whether it is a ch s oge for the better—these are the dangers of the dal; A respectable newspaper in New Jersey do l o , that the Imperialist, the organ established to o u„ .' oe s cate Imperialism, is " edited under the stlely. and at the cost of the Secretary of the NOY , &J o , Adolph Bork," and still further, that " Grant no self lends countenance to the scheme by aiding ', l ';," money and means its circulation among his frieo" ..a , MADLLE. ILMA DE MURSKA. —A. promised .4 , k ts. appearance in the musical world will not at a very ‘" - e ft date be the talk of the country circles as presented e t IP o g own doors. There are no more spirited enterprenet i all the world is aware, than the directors of the 11 " 0 . 0 .' Italian Opera, Covent-garden, and Of her Majesty's Thee It is to these gentlemen's ind e f a tigable determinat io n make the Italian Opera in this country the nl P 1 of Amite of attraction (now that the union of the operas Ss- - the fact), that we shall owe a great appearance for .4. hi dem country opera lovers are little preparsd. Dramatic se. and musical artistes of no common note, have 0 1 before this, heard in numb er i n th e country. Bute sPO far feature of Mr. Mapl e s on ' s usua l operatic tour t his f°, the coming time will b e th e presence in his company 10 celebrated singer and artiste, Madlle. Ilma de Murske* ° Ø 01 many respects she i s th e most remarkable an d the tot admirable vocal actress and dramatic vocalist that lists 001 hoard in an opera house. Her line of art is pecu liar ' • her operatic heroi nes are sympa th e ti c an d surprisiDg 0 l degree that is beyo n d b e li e f by th ose w h o have no t jot her. Londo n i s crow di ng, a t presen t , t o th e Boys -1 101 Opera, Covent-garden, drawn by her brilliant taien tg i o big LAD VERTISEBIENT.I—Henceforth no oue will doubt the 'TOO, properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of b le pee' it has already received from Invalids whose position 1 1„ roffi deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness t ', A rs whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirl9 s ' et te , : i unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " a! t „, Se Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health of reti e, Father is, excellent, especially since, abandoning all othercaleo dies, he has colciflhed himself entirely to Du Barry's I le , / 0:4 Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at sve otOtca It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his be,„: , his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hig 11 4 , 21 6, ."0 extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure No. ~ ,„3 1 A:1 , the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver c(4 t : ib tit';', wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous Pailot ae all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and theZ i ort 4o , tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord oe7io, Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from "Yoa ol ,lr, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, ,o, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 4 ,6, !a ° itifia or James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' disease 6. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deali-o . re portent Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and / AO sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron 16 ; name is most In audaciously attached. lb e Ao tins, at Is Ild; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 6d; 5 lbs lie; rg oC 24 Ibs 40e.—Also DII BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA `•;;;. C" , 5,50 POWDER is packed in tin canisters : f or 12 cu p s at 18, 01,0 at 38 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, f u r 576 cu are e', —being about one penny per cup. Th e 30 s an d 555 ti ll 'orde r ' free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-ofl ce ,,,d o o; $P BARRY DL- BARRY and Co., N o . 77 , R egen t- s t r eet, all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTLIB. Wa ld ' Gooch— On the 25th inst., at Bettws-y-Coed, North the wife of H. D. Gooch, Esq,, of a son and heir' WO TATTERSALL— On tho 26th inst. at at Coleherne Coot Brompton, M rs . 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Bre. ror deviling Legs of ORIGINAL AND S To be nit JOI ASIILEy Very Pine Pale, Dry, 01,1 Crushed Pnrt Shi pping), Vintage Sparkling Champag lery, Qua.lite Super Sample eases of tl Lottles Sberrv. two GARRICT B. HALL. next for t l h ilel relebrated PA';S an llorcleaux Wines an Whiskies, from Bev also he seen at the number of othersf Hotels, Wanted in t SO TENTIF 1 (11INAMENT \-- 7 and Dinincr sortrnent of VAST Inkstands, b ece., in Italian, Al. shire gpar. &c. T ENANT, Miv W.n., London. Mr. 'Penna.nt arr MINERALS, and of Lyell's Element i.to the interest GEOLOGY, and n Pas e pR n.TICIAL MINERALOGY 149, Strand. T HE LIVE . GUY _Ofßeas--1, Dal The Investerl 1 Fire Iles .. .Tina to 1 Thr) moderato rsti Roams for the Li valo,l AR SPECI render them nar leave is granted o thirty days after : NT L: e A er. it N roon A n :L g tatTikiner 011:110almahg.oems,ecil I . l , ,:ir ie: o c b coa l n e t i talo t r z t f te lt : e de tl ila madrY, to at _provided for .tutable situations ""rely suatairted' ° Moe, 121, Pall-i IItITISH ivAcenzte- d...e.rs;tl:int:ntt s h it:l :l: Bl n r — p d g ri h r elaadir: stitutton ; ample a b i s sS s i Increasedtsittbacio n ba , ne ad: dis i and °f all d i I l rolPero * ell° r‘ us circa endowed, sap Its neenliar Clain Id _ ee Thret las t Repo e ary. 13 an ce lce 8 4 7 - 3 'm c e l , *tia ; and Messl REST() BARRY and Infer des fifty time Perfect digestiol refreshing sleep rnost disorder& effectually indi j e ursption, habit r eegements, hi nervousness, hi catarrhs, colds, rheumatism, g( irritabi heartburn, ben ii t:u •t fi ts, ;14 1 454 8 e m b mi a o r nos o r a tr n a n e.d c d h ti hgs i g : e n s %le pit of the ir invalids ani I MPORTANT t itY, Baron Lie Renceforth Bar rs o e Q already re been doomed h ss I?y_ the Pope, it after thirl e quote fro( 15.413): (‘R rt ° 43• V Father i other remedi:E S "Y'R Ite vale 1 ateful at eve esueficial effe( PraiSo this exe Cure No. 68 Years' • ver cc on es. irritabilit ut.estion, eo tt °l.7 "g agitati t. Cure No 78 uart (1 • rad normroo d :—" I h ay w . , --STrArr: alerhi r d .. " Cure N o , ite • • na`ule rl „ Pe P," ofCure No. 47 e( rvougnesg, • fancieq L ure N o. 56 }ears diarrhoea The Fool i dn;s; 1 h„, 4g . Cd . ; te car: • e flaval ‘abistera : ht (38., f o sfl rOeelit (Ala pou b or carria:, l ntitY D U I ato, at Port( I ceehut 04t Ncrth-r: