The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC ;)OIILITALS, The Saturday Review, in discussing the progress of the Irish Church Bill, thinks that the Reform Bill has effected a great change in the conduct of the Liberal party. What ever may have been the good or the harm of the. bill, the belief that it would at least strengthen. the Executive, and make government a little more possible, has been justified. 'Members are mud: more bound nr with their constituencies than they were. It, is ddTiettit to get, and very ditlicult to keep, a seat ; and the man who happens to be sitting has to think very carefully what his local friends will say of him. The Liberal constituencies do not like being left out in the cold, with their member voting and speaking and caballing and intriguing according to his own personal whims, and fancies, and interests. They want to see the Liberal party triumph, and they want their man to contribute to this triumph. They have a perfect horror of Caves, which, they conceive, owe their origin to the piques and passions of individuals, and to an inherent contempt felt by London gentlemen for humble country electors. Undoubtedly this increase of politilal power has been purchased at the cost of some degree of honourable independence on the part of the members. This is an evil, but the evil of trying to govern a great country through an assembly of six hundred people, each thinking and talking and acting in his own way, is greater. The want of all motive force in the unreformed Parliaments was fast bringing parlia- inentarygovennnent into contempt. Everything attempted was laid aside, and put off to another session. Now the Irish Church Bill hasbeen got through before Whitsuntide, and if the remedy applied to produce such a change has been strong it has been very successful. And, perhaps, of all the parts of the Reform Bill which have wrought this change, the disfranchising clauses have been the most operative. There were far too many seats which nominal Liberals could command, and which permitted them to shew, not any real and sensible independence, but a com- plete indifference to the interests of their party. Any fancied slight on the part of Mr. Gladstone, any hint that his vote was counted on by the Ministry, was sufficient to send one of these very free and independent Liberals into the wrong lobby. It is a very good thing that this has come to an end. Session after session spent in abortive attempts at legislation, under a successionof weak Govern ments, involve a most lamentable waste of time and strength. The present ardour of obsequiousness to the Government will probably soon pass away. There will be less certainty of opinion in the constituencies and in the House ; but at any rate we may hope that we shall not have any Caves for some time to come, and that, if sections of the Liberal party differ from each other, they will do so on public grounds, with a real sympathy between members and electors, and not out of mere wantonness, or from a wish to take a petty vengeanceor to gratify personal spite. The Spectator thinks that if all Americans were as reasonable as the two gentlemen whose letters appear in the Times of Wednesday—letters which in their temperate force are worthy of statesmen—there would be little reason to apprehend the calamity which many now believe to be impending over the world. Our conduct with reference to the Alabama can be submitted to arbitration without dishonour, and without more difficulty than attends the preparation of "issues" in any suit of first-rate import ance or complexity, and if the question is confined to that—as the "American Citizen," for example, says it will be confined,—it is within the grasp of diplomatists or lawyers. But we see grave reason to apprehend that it is precisely this limitation to which Americans object, that powerful men in Washington seek rather to strengthen than to weaken the objection, and that the demands may be extended into a region in which true negotiation is impossible, in which the only alternatives are submission under more or less plausible pretexts or war. Look at it how we will, war between America and England is mere destruction, mere loss, a civil war in which the only pos sible gainers are the enemies of both ; but why in that contest of suicides should we not be at least the last to perish? Because the Union is so large? Cora pared with the territories of Queen Victoria, it is a speck on the earth's surface. That sen tence is nonsensical, we acknowledge, but it is true, and is as sensible as the argument it refutes. In war con centration is everything, not dispersion, and we have the population of the entire North concentrated in a territory less extensive than Pennsylvania and New York. The policy which crushed the South cannot be applied to us, for when we had lost the lives the South has lost, all we should feel would be that our existing emigration had been diverted to an unforeseen purpose. There is something shocking to ourselves in the mere use of such an argument, but the war against which we use it would be more shock. ing still—a war between equals, between brothers, a civil war spread over earth, a war in which every incident of slaughter would have the moral effect of massacre, a war in which every victory on either side would be sheer loss, a war without a limit or a con ceivable end. We could gain nothing by the war, even if we triumphed, and America nothing, for Canada is not worth a doubled debt ; while if we lose, we lcse only Canada, and'America, if she loses, loses the unity she has spent so much blood and treasure to preserve. There never was such an act of lunacy as such a war would be, yet it is such a war that speeches like that of Mr. Sumner would - force ou. The Examiner and London Review says that seldom has a great assembly on the tiptoe of rage been more laughably baulked than the House of Commons was on Tuesday last. If the Mayor of Cork spoke on the banks of the river Lee in praise of assassins, on the banks of the Thames be was ready to declare that he disapproved entirely of assassination. As municipal monarch of the chief city of Munster, he had placed the civic crown on the heads of Fenian rebels ; but that did not prevent his declaring within the precincts of the city of Westminster that "he believed the battle of his country was to be fought on the floor of the House of- Commons." In a word, lie who had been to the end of last week ambitious to win the rank of O'Sullivan More, was now content, under good advice, to be O'Sullivan Beg ; and, as the first appropriate act of his changed condition, he begged to abdicate in favour of the Queen of England. All things considered, it was certainly not unnatural that the Chief Minister of her Majesty should wish to make sure that the versatile functionary, who had thus offered to surrender at discretion, should not once more give them the slip at indiscretion. Napo leon had broken out of Elba in breach of his covenanted word ; and who could tell but that another great enemy of ours might break into Cork once more, and that there might be there, as in Paris, another Hundred • Days of misrule. Who could tell but that he might be re-elected, this present act of abdication notwith standing? Wherefore it was proposed that all further proceedings should be stayed for a month. We must say it was very sarcastic of 3sTs. Gladstone to declare that the time should be a lunar month ; as if he meant thereby decorously to hint that, if no fit of Fenianism should return for the space of four weeks, this poor old good natured conntry might them sleep soundly and safe, and save the resiney that woulclotherwise have been necessary for lockin gup the head- of the O'Sullivan, or, at least, for locki''ag him out of Cork. But more bitter and burning far was the sardonic rejoinder which Mr. Gladstone's sug gestion . drew forth from Mr. McCarthy Downing, a repre sentative of the county •of Cork, and well acquainted, there' ?ore, with the feelings of the people, and the effect liket I to be wrought upon them by the scene then enacted. The House, he said, might rest perfectly confident that, aftit a- what had taken place that day, there was not the les st likelihood that Mr. O'Sullivan would ever be re e.# acted Mayor. So we should suppose, for we never 3:t collect to have read of a "prise-fight prevented" in hich the disappointed crowd were not described as ready tss visit with every mark of derision and disgust the cb ampion whom they suspected of having given a hint en ernight to the police. Already, indeed, we hear quits es tough from afar to satisfy us that there is not much • anger of anyone being chosen chief magistrate of Cork ho will identify himself with Fenian festivities, or who # ill talk ambiguously of Fenian crimes. , 'The John Bull says that the debate in the House of : Go rds on Thursday is an instance of the continued alarm I 'el tat the outbreak of agrarian offences in Ireland. The i m putation of party motives is utterly at an end when 3 ill srl Russell, the old and tried supporter Of Liberalism, c on siders the crisis grave enough to arrest a motion for t he adjournment of the House by a demand for such e . q 'licit declaration on th e p ar t o f t h e M i n i sters as w ill a Er sy . that anxiety and discourage the perpetration of a ranan crime. It is hard to see how that demand can b* met. The avowed opinions of a leading member of the ,vernment are before the world, and are asserted to be e stimulant to crime, and th e cause of anxiety to all .hers of property in that country. The excuses which arl Granville and Lord Kimberley have ("tiered for the 1 icencliary letter and speeches of Mr. Bright would be in ' part sufficient if they concerned England --they are wholly beside the mark, when we note their effect upon Ireland. They resemble too much the wild promptings of O'Connell for us to wonder that they are followed by scones such as followed the speeches of the arch-agip,:. tor, of the pact generation. Nor is the excuse that the letter of Mr. Bright, the burning words of which have passed • like a fiery cross from one end of Ireland to another, was a private letter sufficient to exonerate the President of the:l Board of Trade from having caused the mischief which s e deplore. A private letter is eupposed to speak more unreservedly the settled. convictions of the writer than his public and official utterances; so that the senti ments of that letter may be taken as the deliberate belief, and the expression of the deliberate intentions of Mr. Bright. Nor is it u n usu a l to assume this. Within the last week the Mayor of. Cork has veir properly been coin pelled to resign his office in conseques'ee of the language used by him, not in court nor in hie offic:al capacity, but at an unofficial. dinner party. And we liaV yet to learn that lie was less culpable in choosing such an occasion for the otterence of sentiments so atrocious as have corn, veiled him to retire from his offiCial post. Nor is it any extenuf:.tion of Mr. Ttriglit's language—never disavowed, be it remarked—that it occurs-eel in a private lei ter. It is not aagA that such language fails to reeres cut the ' opinions of the President of the Board of Trade ; and 8 ° long as a leading member —one of the dininivirs sf her Majesty's Government—excites to plunder, whether a private letter made public, or in a public speech, 410 1 wonder th a t th e so il o f I reland is weekly stained es94b blood, and a feverish anxiety fills the minds of all twho have atwhtlo lose in that country. • RIOT BY COLLIERS. TyWesley has, during the last few days, been the seerrs. of much excitement, in consequence of the threatening attitude of the colliers on strike at the colliery belonging to Aleszrs. Holland and Green, and those employed by the Tyldcsley and Astley Coal and Salt Company. 'The men have Lecu,on strike for a few weeks rather than submit to a reduction in their wages of 10 per cent. A report was current that a nu:nber of colliers from Staffordshire would arrive in Tyldesley by the nine o'clock train, to supply the places of the men on strike. For some time before the arrival of the train thousands of people took possession of the principal street through which it was expected the men would be escorted. The expected train, however, instead of stopping to put down the men at the usual platform, sped on to a siding which leads to the colliery. So soon as this became known the crowd hurried on to the spot. By the time the train arrived at its desti nation the mob, had taken possession of the road and bridge over which the police and their charge had to pass. The moment the Staffordshire colliers were recognised a shower of stones was hurled at them and the police. The latter charged the mob, and injuries were received on both sides, the police suffering from the stories, whilst the mob were beaten with the truncheons of the officers. They forced their way to the yard of the colliery, and another fearful set-to took place, but ultimately the mob was driven towards Tyldesley, and the Staffordshire men were lodged in au outbuilding, specially provided with beds for their accommodation. On the following morning the men were escorted to Common-lane Pit by the officers, and returned in the same way in the afternoon, but nothing further took place beyond hooting and an occa sional stray stone being thrown. The place is still guarded by the police. CLOSE OF THE PRESTON STRIKE The following report has been issued by the Preston executive of the power-loom weavers, &c., to their fellow operatives in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derby shire :—" Friends and Fellow-Operatives,—ln bef .re you this our seventh report, we beg to tender our warmest thanks to the Preston Trade Council, Darwen, Chor'ey, Padiham, Harwood, and other East Lancashire di Vets, for the noble and philanthropic manner in which they have tendered their support, notwithstanding the distress so prevalent in their own homes. In consequence of the cowardice of Blackburn, we can hold out no hopes ef 1 ringing this struggle to a successful issue, and we feel it to be c ur duty to advise the operatives of Preston to try and make some amicable agreement with the employers; and we hope that all districts will do all they possibly can to raise subscriptions in their respective mills this week in order that we may be able to pay the amount due to our treasurer, and a little for the hundreds of operatives who will be denied employment in consequence of having taken an active part in attending shop meetings and col lecting at the mill gates. And it is to Preston and the East Lancashire districts, coupled-with the Trade Council, we have to depend on in meeting the deficiency we have c • ntracted in relieving, as far as possible, suffering humanity in Preston, caused by the operatives defending right against might ; for not only has Blackburn 'withheld its support, bat rumour says that several hundred Blackburn operatives have been working in Preston on the masters' terms—not only has Blackburn neglected Preston, but has by its apathy, in our opinion, caused the reduction to take place in the East Lancashire districts. We Lope the districts will not Le 'ed away by the conduct of Blackburn, but shew by your subscriptions on Saturday next that you will still sympathise with those operatives who are com pelled to walk the streets in unwilling Vleness, in conse querwe of standing up for labour's rights—a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. In conclusion, we hope each district will do its duty this week. Having (lane so, you will be able to say, We have done all tl:at lies in our power, in this our day and generation, to rescue Labour from the iron grasp of Capital.'" LAW AND POLICE. LORD DERBY AND TIIE BURY IMPROVEMENT COMMIS SIONERS.—On Friday, in the Exchequer Chamber, the question was raised whether the Bury Improvement Com missioners were justified in making a pier over the land of the Earl of Derby. Mr. Justice Emmen reversed the judgment of the Court of Exchequer, which had been given for the plaintiff, the Earl of Deiby. VOLUNTEERS IN TROUBLE.—A numher of volunteers belonging to the 40th Middlesex corps were summoned at the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Friday, for non-payment of subscriptions. Great regret wal expressed on tl.e part of the honorary colonel that such proceedings s'iould be necessary, but they were taken in justice to the officers and men who did pay, and to those of the public who contributed towards the expenses of the corps. In most of the cases the sums due were paid. WANDSWORTH COMMON.—At the Wandsworth Police court, on Feiday, Mr. Buckmaster, a churchwarden of. this parish, was summoned by a builder for Laving broken dawn a fence on Wandsworth Coln mon. The comp!ainant had purchased a piece of laud from the directors of the Brightonnailway, not knowing ideas part of t'.e Common. Mr. Duckmaster said the encs.osures on Wandsworth Common now comprised 150 acres. The Fun. mons was disinived. CHALLENCING TO A DUEL.— On Fel; y a' the Wool wich Police-court, Edmund Valentin Valentin, a pro fessor at the Royal Military A c Ldemy, was tnm moned for assaulting and cl eigi:ig Professor Cassal, of the Lundon Univels ty, to fight a duel. Charles Cassal gave his evidence to the effect that he and the defendant came to Eng'and as exiles in 1851, and at one time were fritnds. At the beginning of this month he went to see a friend who-eras ill. Mons. Valentin, Rho happened to live at the same house, followed him out, and struck him violently, refusing an explanation. Mr. Epps, M.R.c.s., deposed to attending the complainant after the assault, and found him suffering severely. M. Bowiu t stated that he went to demand an expla nation from the defendant, who declared that lie wished to fight a duel. The defendant justified his con duct. Mr. Patte7on committed him to take his trial at the text sitting of the Central Criminal Court. He agree Ito accept bail, the defendant in £2O an] two sureties in £lOO each. ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD THE MIDLAND 111.1LWAT.—At the Derby Police-court, a day or two since, a young man named John Attrey, waT charged with attempting to defraud the Midland Railway by endeavouring to obtain cotrpmsation for a supposed injury. He bad written under a false name to the company at the Derby Station, saying that he had been hurt in a collision at Birmingham, his hat smashed, and his ring injured, and asking for compen- sation for the It.ng and the hat. It was admitted in the course of the trial t!:at the prisoner bad ne:er been in any railway accident, and he was committed for trial. A HOPEFUL BM—William Helm, aged 11 years, has been charged at Halifax with having cn the previous evening knocked down a little girl in the street at Brig house, and robbed her of ls. 10. He was also charged with having broken into the house of Mrs. Macmillan, of Bridge End, and stolen a ,gold watch guard, about six mouths ago. He was remanded for other charges of felony which are to be brought against him. .A FARMER'S DAUGHTER CHARGED WITH FORGERL—At Cheltenham, a few days since, the daughter of a respect able farmer, named Ashchurch, was charged with forging an oriler for goods on a draper of Cheltenham. She had forged the name of Miss Jackson, a customer at the shop, and obtained a quantity of valuable goods. She after wards obtained goods to the value of £27 10s. from another shop in the town, but suspicions being excited, these were fortunately recovered. She was committed for trial, but admitted to bail on account of her health. The example of Mr. G. Peabody has been fol lowed by Mr. A. 'l'. Stewart, of New York, who has given six mill:on dollars for cl.aritable purposes. The bulk of th e money is to be expended in building two large hotels, one for single working young women, and the other for single working young men. THE OLD COPPER PENCE. —MOSt of the old. copper coins in use before the introduction of the hronz• coinage have disappeared from circulation. With a view, however, to their entire extinction, a proclamation has been issued, ordering that, from the 31st December next, the old copper money shall not be legally current in the United Kingdom. CABINET Con'Ncu. —At the Cabinet Council held in Downing-street on Friday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan. cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. 11. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Bight Hon. E. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exclteqtier, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Iron. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE ON THE Mall LEVEL ORYST4L PALACE Iti.III.WAY.-Chl Friday afternoon, 119 the 3.14 p.m. London, Chatham, and Dover train from Victoria to the Crystal Palace was travelling between Peckham llye and Honour Oak stations, a man, who had got on the line near the Nunhead Cemetery, delibe- rately threw (AT his hat, and cast himself in front of the train. The act was observed by the driver and fireman on the engine, and they stopped the train as quickly as possible, when it was found that the man had not been run over, but had been struck by the iron guard of the eug:ne. His head was frightfully injured, but he was still alive. The assistance of a policeman having been secured the man was taken to Peckham, and thence to Guy's Hospital ; but there is little hope of his life being spared. From cardi and en him the man it; supposed to be a carpenter named Clarke. :12,HE . LONDQN, SATURDAY. EVENING, MAY 15,..18q9. O.IISCELLA.NEOUS NETTS. A MESSAGI: OF PEACE TO lIIELAYD. The Poch is very sarcastic because Mr. Gladstone's " message' of peace" to Ireland has not elicited a more peaceful response. Our contemporary proposes a message of its own —bloodhounds, which should be used in hunting down all persons concerned in agrarian crimes. The same journal rejoices that the efforts of the Government to maintain peace in Derry by proclaiming the " maiden city " have been frustrated. Says the Dublin correspondent of our contemporary : "I suppose you have heard that the Government (i.e., Cardinal Cullen) have proclaimed ' the maiden city.' The purpose of this move was, I believe, to seize upon and secure the cannon and arms of the "Prentice boys,' and so prevent the annual celebration of the anniversary of the siege of Derry-. This purpose, lam happy to say, has been frustrated by the energy of the "Prentice boys,' who took good care to have the cannon and arms safely landed in the county of Tyrone, beyond the proclaimed district, before the proclamation took effect." This correspondent is an admirable specimen of that little but powerful party in Ireland which would support Protestant ascendancy by outraging the Roman Catholic population, would govern Ireland by the sword, and let loose the dogs of war in a very literal manner. There is another suggestion made by a correspon dent of the same journal with respect to the Iris'h Church. He is hopeless of help from either Mr. liisraeli or Mr. Gladstone, and so he says, " I would advise that all constitutional members leave the llouse, each going back to his own constituents — getting up an agitation.throughout the country, and pouring in petitions to the House of Lords and memorials to her Majesty the Queen against the bill —the whole bill." reltioved to a lunatic asylum, and (ilea.' aoctors iv death was . brought about by congestion - of the brain congestion of the brain by hard work. The moral is this. The employers were not hard-hearted. " Evil," says Hood, "is wrought by want of thbught as well as want of heart." They did not notice, presumably, how this poor child teacher languished and faded and drooped her head; they had other things to think of. At the outset a glass of wine when she came in fagged from her walk, a little lunch, a little rest, a few kindly words of human interest and sympathy, might have recruited her strength, given her tone, courage, and force. One is ready to believe that had her employers thought of it, had they ever suspected how ill she really was, they would never have refused such little friendly offices ; but if they thought of them at all, they thought of them too late. Others should look to it that they do not go and do likewise. Att Coxfu. His sojourn in the chief of the lonian Islands will probably be some consolalria — tlie inhabitants for the loss they have sustained by the departure of the English. The lonians hare found to their cost that the doctrine of nationality does not always " pay.". In 1815 the islands were formed into an independent State under the protection of Great Britain; but the people were dissatisfied. The Parliament declared for annexation to Greece, and in 1884 this wish was gratified. But the lonians bitterly rue the change. The English functionaries and officers who formerly resided iu the protectorate, and the visitors end ships that frequently stopped there and spent a good deal of money, have vanished for ever. If the suffrages of the lonians were taken again, there is no doubt that they wo u ld declare unanimously for a renewal of English rule. THE UNDER-SECRETARY FOB IRELAND. A good deal of speculation exists as to who will succeed Sir Edward Wetherall. Mr. Maguire is thought to be the most likely man. He certainly hasclaims upon the Government which it is surprising have not been recognised already. It was through bun primarily that Mr. Gladstone regained office; it was through his advice to the mad Mayor• that the Government was extricated from an awkward predicament. Sir John Gray also is mentioned, but he is supposed by many persons to be too much the mouthpiece of Cardinal Cullen to be suitable for this very important post. Should either of these gentlemen be chosen, a vacancy in the House of Commons will be caused. The Conser vative papers say, " It is rumoured that a Mr. Burke, intimately connected with Cardinal Cullen, is to succeed Colonel Wetberall at the Castle, Dublin." They would like the appointment well, because it would give them such a famous opportunity of indulging in the rhetoric of indignation. A MINISTERIAL DEFEAT. Ministers sustained a curious defeat in the House of Lords on Thursday. The subject was the Govern ment of India Bill, and the Marquis of Salisbury moved, as an amendment, that the members of the India Council should be nominated by the Crown. This amendment was supported by Lord Lawrence. The Duke of Argyll said that if the House insisted upon giving this additional patronage to the Crown, he certainly should not quarrel with the House, nor withdraw the bill. Still, he considered the arrange ment by which a portion of the council is elected should stand, and he would, at all events, take the sense of the House upon it. In doing so, ➢Ministers were beaten by 89 to 53. STAFFORD XLF.CTION. Two Liberals have already offered themselves to the.electors of Stafford in the place of Mr. Pochin, (L.), and Colonel Teller, (C.), unseated for bribery. They are Mr. Odger, the working-man's candidate for Chelsea, who withdrew in order not to divide the Liberal interest, and Mr. Evans, who has repre sented South Derbyshire, but was defeated after a very severe contest by the late Sir Thomas Gresley, who did not live to take his seat. Mr. B. Whitworth, recently unseated at Drogheda, is also spoken of. At Stafford thelast election gave the following result: Mr. Pochin (L.), 1,189 ; Colonel Meller (0.),1,124 ; Mr. Chawner (L.), 1,107. It will be seen that the running was very close, and it is quite impossible to guess the result of another contest. In Mr. Pochin women have lost one of the warmest supporters of their political " rights." THE DEANS. The Times is requested to state that the paragraph respecting the meeting of Deans (which appeared in most of Thursday's London papers) " is in many essential particulars incoireet." THE INCREASE OF PATJPERISII. Mr. Goschen on Monday evening ascribed the increase of pauperism to public opinion. Some three years . back certain exposures were ma d e , an d the British public demanded that the workhouse should be made more habitable. It was made so, and those who had formerly been afraid of it now paid visits to it. It is a very difficult question how to to keep the idle from falling on the poor's rate. Cer tainly wo shall not solve it by starvingthem, by allow ing the sick who enter to die of non-attendance, and the able-bodied to make their bed in filth, and assail one another with bid language. So thinlis the Lancet. " We are sure," it says, " the British public Will not grudge the money necessary to remove the shameful scan dalsof workhouses which it was our duty to expose three years ago. If the moderate improvements we sought for, and which to a large extent have since been obtained,- have made the workhouse sick-wards more attractive to the poor, the remedy does not lie in restoring the ancient abuses, but in exercising a wiser discretion in the adminis tration of out-door relief, in bringing personal visitation to the houses of the poor, and in confining the admission to workhouses to the really destitute. So long as any rascal can obtain admission to reasonable comforts on the plea of illness, and discharge himself without making any return for the benefits received, abuse is unavoidable. The executive ought therefore to have greater powers of control." EM:Grt ATION. The mania for emigration, which is just now running wild, is a most serious matter. At first it was thought that the scum of the population might be drafted off to America and the colonies, relieving us and giving them a chance of success in another sphere. But if men, who, through idleness or vice, have a good opportunity cf becoming well-to-do in another country, how much more the provident and hrxdworking. And so now the solution of the labour and capital question is looked for in emigra tion. Those who are being scat away are no longer exclusively composed of the worst workmen, but•of the most valuable.. The strikes in the cotton and coal districts have been defeated by the masters employing a second batch of men. But these are very inferior to the old ones ; and the original work men, being supplanted, are looking about for some way of exit from thei r p resen t p os iti on . Th e y w ill not submit, they cannot starve. They must, there fore, go away from the district, must leave the country, and are being assisted to do so. If trade revives—the - idea among the men is that it never will—the masters will find themselves much incon venienced. THE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADES. The Beehive says that in about fourteen towns there are struggles going on between the master builders and some of their workmen. At Bradford and I4measter the strikes have ter minated by the withdrawal of the " hour system" by the masters. The masons in both these towns have resumed work. At Leeds there h:•;s been a conference of six masters and six masons, and ther e is a probability of the " hour system " being with drawn in. that town by the masters. At Manchester the master builders have held a representative meeting, at which it was unanimously resolved to stand by the "Notice." The masons, on the other hand, are as determined in their resistance to it. In Bolton, CoVentry, St:nderland, Sheffield, 'Wakefield, and other places the struggle still continues. At Bristol, arbitration has gone in favour of the car penters. They will receive an advance of wages, and also a reduction in the hours of work. The masons of that town have resolved to: meet the master builders, and six representatives of each have been elected to confer together as to whether the hour system shall be adopted, and a board of conciliation formed. NURSES. The reign of Mrs. Gamp and her friends is over for ever. Protestants are following Roman Catholics in this—they are providing Sisters of Mercy to nurse the sick. Dissenters have swallowed a lump of pre jn lice very large indeed, and have established an institution not unlike a convent in some respects. There is the term " Sister," the distinctive dress, the promise (not a vow) not to marry immediately, the requirement of satisfactory religious .". condition, and a devotion to deeds of love. Indeed, all sects and sections are awaking to the want of efficient tending of those who cannot teni themselves. Another institution—national, not sea• tarian—has just been opened for training nurses. Prince Teck, on Thursday, opened a home in connec tion with the Middlesex Hospital, out of which will ultimately conic nurses for our London hospitals, gratuitous nurses for the poor, and nurses to be hired by the rich. It is to be hoped that the fund for nursing the poor will, to some extent, be helped by the return made by the rich. A Z:LIV " SENSATION" The TeJegjaph has fallen upon a new subject on which to discharge poetry and p a th os . Th e B r iti s h governess is now nut before the public with a claim on its syMpathy. Our contemporary confesses that the subject is worn . out ; ,ithat the governess of romance has been made too much of ; that the goverr ness of reality is perhaps a little less interesting than could be wished. But it tells a story and provides a moral. The story is this. A ba&:er's clerk died suddenly, leaving a family unprovided for. The youngest child, 16 years of rge, obtained a situation as governess. She . had to trudge four miles to teach her charges, and earned but a few shillings a week. But during the hot summer of last year the work and the walk were too much for her ; she sickened, lost her rosop. wal THEATRICAL. Mr. Buckstone, speaking at the dinner of the Royal Theatrical Fund, on Thursday, spoke very earnestly against the narrow views taken of the theatrical art ever since " the gloomy days of Cromwell." He assured that portion of his audience who was not composed of actors that those who lived by the stage thought themselves respectable members of society, notwithstanding the recent letter of the Lord Chamberlain on the skirts of the dancing ladies. En passant, he gave his opinion that the said letter was useless, there being no rule for guidance as to the length of the ballet dresses, and therefore no uniformity. He went on to solemnly defend the theatrical profession against one aspersion. A meeting was recently held at Exeter Hall to oppose the opening of museums, &c., on a Sunday. "An eminent lawyer and member of Parliament thought proper to assert that to allow the opening of museums and galleries on that day would lead to the opening of theatres. Now, I am sure, as regards the Haymarket, there is not one member of that establish ment who would consent to act on a Sunday ; and I am certain I may declare, in the name of every performer of both sexes in England, that none would be found to do so. Hundreds of them—and it is not too well known to the fanatics—frequent places of worship on Sunday ; and all of them enjoy the day of rest too well to have it inter rupted by attending to their professional duties. For my own part, I know that on a Saturday night, after a hard week's work and many anxieties, I have frequently exclaimed, ' Thank God, to-morrow's Sunday." A PUZZLING ANNOUNCEMENT. A contemporary announces that " the Marchioness de emit has taken up her residence, for the season, in Cumberland-terrace, Regent's Park, and Mdlle. Adelina Patti has likewise arrived in town. The latter lady is in magnificent voice, and will make her appearance, most positively, at the Royal Italian Opera, as Amina in 'La Sonnambula.' " We were under the impression that the Marchioness de Caux and Mdlle. Adelina Patti were the same person. Our contemporary is either ignorant of the fact, or is perpetrating a joke. If the latter alternative is cor rect, we are stupid enough not to see wherein the joke consists. A NAVAL VETEUAN. The death is announced of one of Nelson's ota companions in arms. More fortunate than many of them, Admiral Bateman Dashwood rose to flag rank. He entered the service in. 1709, and served uninter ruptedly till the peace of 1815. lie was a midship man in the Defiance at the battle of Copenhagen, under Lord Nelson. In 1811 he was first lieutenant of the Active, then commanded by the late Sir James Gordon, G.C.8., when that officer fought and took the French frigate Pomone, after a despe rate contest. When Sir James bad his leg shat tered by a cannon shot, Lieutenant Dashwood took the command of the Active until he himself lost his arm, and the French ship finally struck to the third lieutenant. Captain Dashwood afterwards, when in command of a brig, fought and captured two French privateers. In 1816, before our expedition against Algiers, Captain Dashwood was sent in the Prometheus to parley with the Bey, and to place our Consul and his family in safety on board his ship. This could be effected only by stratagem, as the Bey refused to let them leave the town. The Consul's wife passed the gate disguised as a sailor, but her child, which she carried in a basket, having cried as they passed the sentry, the party were pursued, and with difficulty defended themselves until they reached the boat of the Prome theus. Captain Dashwood tben joined Lord Exmouth's fleet, and was present at the bombard ment of Algiers. Admiral Dashwood was 80 years old at his death. STREET TRAMWAYS. The Inventors' Institute ought to be a progressive, and by no means a prejudiced, body. Composed to a large extent of engineers, who live (so to speati) by the discovery of novelty, the institute itself also being formed to protect inventions, it ought rather to encourage the trial of what is new than otherwise. But it does not seem to be taking that course in regard to street tramways. Seeing that it is admitted that these would provide an easier and more commodious mode of transit than now prevails ; seeing that they have already suc ceeded in America and elsewhere, and that the House of Commons has sanctioned their trial in this country, it seems rather to be. contrary to the principle on which such an association should be worked that a meeting should be held to protestagainst the adoption of tramways in London. Yet this is what has been d one. Two " C.E.'s," Messrs. Imray and Measor, are much opposed to the innovation; their principal objections being the old ones, that the rails would cause acci dents ; that it was inexpedient to give a flying stream of carriages priority of way in any part of . the road; and that it would, by narrowing the line of route, make traffic still more difficult. FOREIGN NOTES. ALTERED POLICY OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. The change in the policy of General Grant's Cabinet becomes more marked. There has been a strong reaction against the belligerent sentiments so freely expressed a short time ago, and the Government has found it necessary to give heed to the current of respectable public opinion. The Times Philacl el phia correspondent says that the visits of Lasiness men to Washington, and the counsels of the more prudent politicians, all urging that the country needs peace, have decided the• Administration to discountenance further agitation. Both with reference to the Alabama claims and to the insurrection in Cuba the prospect becomes more and more pacific. The Cuban agitators are disappointed at the change of affairs, and say the rebellion will wane if it loses the chance of recognition by the United States. But there is scarcely the remotest proba bility that such recognition will be made. " The improved condition of affairs is generally remarked." So far, then, the speeches of Messrs. Sumner and Chandler have produced only the effect of injuring their own country. The price of United States Bonds, which had risen materially in consequence of the decisive measures against repudiation, has fallen again in con sequence of these speeches. The ground lost will have to b. retrieved once more. American credit is bad, and American politicians will not allow it to improve when it might. THE ITALIAN MINISTRY. General Menabrea's Cabinet has been reconstituted, and the result has been in some measure a triumph for the Piedmontese. These deputies, who have held aloof from the party in power since the seat of government was transferred from Turin to Florence, although their poll. tical principles were well-nigh the same, agreed to join Menabrea's supporters provided the Ministry of the Interior and at least another seat in the Cabinet were given up to them. The Tuscans were very reluctant to part with the portfolio of the . Interior. They hinted plainly that Signov Ferraris, the Piedmontese deputy who aspired to the post, was not of " sufficiently high position." But the Piedmontese have held out, and the Tuscans have given in. Ferraris has become Minister of the Interior. Signor Mordani, too, who was deemed objectionable on account of his Garibaldian antecedents, Las been let in as Minister of Public Works. NORTH GERMANY. The smaller fry constituting the North German Con• federation are getting into terrible financial difficulties. The taxes imposed since 1866 have become overwhelming, and yet deficits accumulate. By the terms of confederation it was agreed that Prussia should maintain all the soldiers of the Union, and that each State should pay 225 thalers per man for the support of its contingent. A convention, however, was signed in 1866, by which the sum was reduced to one-half until the year 1873, from which time the full 225 thalers will have to be paid. This increase will intensify the financial troubles of the smaller States, some of which will, it is expected, become utterly bankrupt. MAZZINI. Letters from Florence represent Mazzini to be in a very deplorable state of health. The frequent vomitings and the want of sleep, which proved so dangercus some time ago, have been renewed. There is too much reason to fear that these attacks are but the earlier symptoms of that incurable malady - cancer in the stomach. For a long time the Republican leader has taken only the most simple and digestible nourishment, but the good effects of a careful diet are counteracted by the excessive use of tobacco. Mazzini smokes thirty or forty cigars a day. " Strong-willed as is this man," says the Liberi4 " he struggles in vain against this passion, which endangers his life." THE CZAR. The health of another personage of much higher posi tion begins to cause uneasiness. The Czar has been unwell for several weeks. Some time back he was crossing a bridge in an open carriage with his eldest sou, when the horses took filght, and;dashing across the foot path, were only prevented by the parapet from falling with the vehicle into the river. The shock was so great that it is feared the Emperor must have sustained some internal injury. He has been indisposed ever since. THII lONIAN ISLANDS. The Kinz of Greece is about to PASS park_of the season - CONSULAR COURTS IN EGYPT. The Liberty announces that the Western Powers have agreed upon the appointment of an international commis. sion for the purpose of investigating the working of tke Consular Courts in Egypt. The Egyptian Government has long been anxious that this question should be inquired into and finally disposel of. It complains greatly of the capitulations by which foreigners are not answerable to the Egyptian courts for offences committed in Egypt, but can claim trial before the consular tribunals. It is confident that an international commission will acknowledge the defects of this system, and that a reform will be the consequence. But hitherto the project of an inquiry commission has been in abeyance because France would not consent to it. Her refusal, it is assured, has been withdrawn, and the investigation will now be made. (From the Anglo-American Times) An article in the London Sun of Thursday even ing excited some attention, and we regret that we cannot admire the tone adopted by our old friend and - very ancient contemporary, for the Sun is among the oldest newspapers in the world, and has perhaps the best godfather of them all, being founded by no less a man than Pitt. We do not think it right that English papers which so loudly praised Mr. Johnson until that very praise began to work its reactionary effect in America should sneeer on his departure atthe break down of his nego tiations. The American press finds in the present tone of the English press towards their former favourite a true sample of John Bull-ism, who worships success, but kicks the Joss to whom he has been chin-chinning if that divinity fails. It may be both natural and proper, but it looks bad when done ostentatiously. " Poor Mr. Reverdy John son!" says an American paper. " Even Blackwood's Magazine gives him a parting kick, and sneers at the unnecessary ' soft-sawder' which be has seen fit to employ." We think that on another shuffle of the cards, Reverdy Johnson may appear in a different character; for then the man Columbia is now throwing out of her hand may then turn out to have been trumps. As to hasty popular judgment, we offer this opinion —when in doubt, the odds are that it is wrong. Mr. Johnson leaves London on Wednesday, embarking next Saturday in the Ohio from Southampton for Baltimore. It is becoming rather the fashion to arrest editors in New York. Mr. Bowles of the Springfield Re publican was made the victim of a smart attack by James Fisk, jun., for he was hurried out of his hotel off to gaol for the night. Mr. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun was arrested on the 27th April, at the suit of Mr. John Russell Young for " a false, scandalous, and malicious libel." Mr. Justice Tappen of the Supreme Court bailed him pending the trial, the damages being laid at $lOO,OOO. We hope this little episode will not have the effect of inducing Mr. Dana to change his mind on the dignity and utility of an editor's calling, for it is surely better to be Appraiser of Merchandise in New York than defending actions and defeating the schemes of the viciously inspired vicious, whose ins and outs have been exposed. Mr. Young is a principal editor of the New York Tribune, and what the Sun alleged was that he sold the editorial columns of the paper on whose staff he is, putting the money into his own pocket, at the expense of Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania, Judge Chase, and other leading men, to the injury of the journal and its proprietors. The despatches of the New York Associated Press he transmitted, in violation of his promise to the asso ciation, to a paper in Philadelphia he owned clan destinely. He is also censured for puffing himself, taking advantage for this of Mr. Charles Dickens's visit. He thus, adds the Sun, brought himself so prominently forward as to have been at one time named as a member for General Grant's Cabinet. The proprietors of the Tribune met 1 o consider these charges, and he was deprived of his position, but the vote was rescinded, as was but fair, considering he has challenged an investigation by bringing an action against Mr. Dana. In the Tribune of May 1, there is a leader with the initials of Horace Greeley, commenting on a sneer of the New York bun, that the Tribune which used to be a goodly newspaper had of late lamentably failed in not supplying its readers with the news then the talk of all America regarding the exposure of Mr. John Russell Young; a dding, " perhaps, it would soon h ave a new managing editor, and then it w ill b e gin to publish the news again." Mr. G ree l e y square ly m eets the charges against his subordinate, which he enumerates as l st , conceit ; 2d, abusing his position on the Tribune for his private gain ; 3d, the surreptitious use of the Associated Press despatches. The first is no one's business ; the second he is the best qualified to judge of, and he pronounces it to be false and un founded; the third he hopes will prove equally so, and the Tribune calls on its partners in the Asso ciated Press to institute a rigid inquiry into this grave accusation. Meanwhile he intends to up hold Mr. Young, who shall not be stabbed in the back, saying he has not been:removed or suspended, or condemned i n th e T r ib u ne office, as ci rculated by the Su n , w h ere it i s n ot the custom to pass judgment on a mere i n dictment "plainly impelled too by envy, malice, and blighted aspirations." The charges made by the Sun are based on a packet of private and confidential correspondence of Mr. Young, which filled four columns of that their complete form, have, we belie , journal, which , although we have not ve a se n e u n gl i y n appearance. , to injure The editor of the Morning Post ofPhiladaelvptiheilae, Mr. John D. Stockton, in a two-column accuses the New York Sun of a conspiracy to own. He says that Amo Mr. Young and the Post, the paper aJ. JcYuomumnginigsa wrote alle r g e e t d e the libellous matter, Mr. Y being furnished by a defaultingoung's correspondenceeaahievefh iajour nal, Charles M‘Clintock. He further asserts that jr n e i a g a h t d e e s d p i a t o t c r o e a f gs who cla w te h d ell P the e w rrib N u l l r ze . , C se ti n u r t i h n e Asso l on becoming night e w n i t t i l n io u u e t t ß h l e r. s Y up o p un y g's knowledge, and course he has adopted, but w e are not ac q ua inted tho ed ff i e t tr o he r ed o Pt f oo t s he Sun. Mr. Dana is condemned for the et with the arguments by which he justifies it, and therefore cannot express an opinion. We now learn that Mr. ReverdyJohnson had pre sented Mr. D. Moran on Thursday to the Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, as Charge d'Affaires, pending thelarrival of the newly-appointed Ambassa dor, Mr. Motley. The brief career in England of that astute and renowned constitutional lawyer of America has been remarkably chequered. The hos pitality and adulation he received in Great Britain annoyed America, and this feeling was fanned into a flame by his ostentatious reception of those known in the States as "unrepentant rebels" and " rebel sympathizers ;" by expressions of eternal love on be half of an offended nation who had sent him to de mand reparation, and by the fact that he re presented an Administration in the highest degree unpopular in the Republic. Not only was the treaty he had framed rejected by au almost unani mous vote of the Senate, but it was condemned in w a n n iet d wh il,; e r. President.As l Q i s n t e e r r :A I er r ; e speech e i g e. opanps appears a r ti e r, :- a fiery phillippic by the mos t e l oquent member of s that t ea togethere b m y b the ly ci t e o xuiets, have soothed Jonathan, who perhaps when he hears bow he has stirred up the British lion will be quite restored to complacency. An evening London paper, with some truth, remarks on the American reply to Mr. Johnson's expressions on behalf of Americans of esteem and friendship for England, as met by a fierce denial, while Mr. Sumner's denun ciations a nd charges, embodying intense hatred, were endorsed by the nation. Against such a fact it says it is useless for individuals to argue, as it simply embodies the animosity towards Britain which pervades American society. While admittinsf, the force of the fact, we qualify- it - by this; that Mr. ' Johnson's exaggerated profesSions of friendship for England on the part of the country from which he came,offended a people who had sent him there to re present a grievance, and thus naturally produced a rebound, which found expression through the mouth of Senator Sumner, but the one was cause I by the other, and was alike an exaggeration in the opposite direction, just as a pendulum which has been swung far to one side will swing back far to the other. The President will not visit California as reported. He has signified this to Mr. Sargent, who desired to know, as the Pacific slope might prepare for his reception, the distance being too great for his li mited time. Gen. Lee was expected at Washing ton on the Ist instant at the house of Mr. Montgo mery Blair, as the President desired to have as in terview with him regarding Virginia. Mr. Motley has had several interviews with the President, and it is thought that instead of awaiting the reply of the British Government to the rejection of the Ala bama Treaty that the Minister would leave at once for London. All the members of the Cabinet had returned to Washington by the Ist instant, except Mr. Cresswell, who was not expected till the 3cl; but no meeting had been held to discuss the tenour of the instructions to be given Mr. Motley. Professor Coffin, superintendent of the "Ameri can Nautical Almanac," has selected either Siberia or Alaska wherein to take a station for observing the total eclipse of the sun next August. In com pliance with his request, Secretary Bone, of the Navy, has ordered Rear-Admiral Rowan, command ing the Asiatic squadron, to meet the observers at Yokohama by the Ist July, whence they will sail for Siberia. Rear-Admiral Turner, commanding the Pacific squadron, has been instructed to allow the party, if it be required, to use the war vessel stationed at Alaska for the purposes of these Savants. E - very means to make the observation as complete as possible will be supplied to Professor Coffin's party, whose instruments and appliances will be new, complete, and furnished with all modern improvements. The President has given instructions that all war materials not wanted by the 'Washington Govern ment should be sold to those who wish to purchase, and the Cuban agents are in that field. There was a rumour that the United States would follow the example of Mexico in recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents. The Junta have appealed ear nestly for this recognition in order to end, as they say, Spanish atrocities, although in what way is not stated. There is no chance of the Washington Government recognizing the Cubans in any way until a considerable change is wrought in thrir posi tion ; and if what the islanders assert be true, that change need not be looked for, as they say it can only be brought about by the recognition ; whereas the United States say the recognition can only be brought about by that change. The strength of the fiLet under Admiral Hoff is to be reduced, but heavy supplies of naval stores have been forwarded from Washington to the sea ports. There is news from San Francisco to the 29th April, by which itappears that advices had there been received from Auckland, New Zealand, of a terrible massacre at White Cliffs,* Taranka, on the 15th of February, during which Lieut. Gascoyne, wife, and family, and six settlers, were killed. Settlers ar riving in Auckland reported that the stores were closed and ensigns flying at half-mast. * We imagine Taranaki must lie meant. Gregoria Beuitz and G. Perez of the Paraguayan Legation in Paris have arrived at Washington, not improbably to transfer Lopez's interest in the country to the United States. Mr. Alasterman has received a series of questions from the sub com mittee on Foreign Affairs appointed to investigate the Paraguayan difficulties, with which he was con nected. Mr. Bliss has given his testimony, which is said to be damaging, to the naval officers. One of the charges of Messrs. Bliss and Masterman is for the supercilious and insolent treatment they received on board war-vessels of the United States, where'ln they were taken to New York as prisoners. The conclusion at which the Committee arrives can scarcely fail .to be influenced by the answers re turned by Mr. Masterman, now in England, and it is believed his testimony wilt be in support of that of Mr. Bliss. Mr. Berthemy, the French Minister, handed over the affairs of the French Legation in Washington to Count Faverny, and sailed from New York on Saturday, May 1, for Europe, on leave of absence, from which he is not likely to return. Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister, will soon sail for Europe on three months' leave of ab3mc..2. Mr. Ford, the Secretary of the Britisli LT; ttion, is at the Claren don Hotel, New York. Senor Mlnricio Lopez Roberts, the Spanish Minister, and P. D. Rivera, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, are at the Albe marle Hotel, of that city. The llon. Elihu Wash bourne also sailed in the Pereirc on the Ist May, and arrived on Wedesday at Brest, so he is pro bably now in Paris. The Hon. John Jay, Mi nister to Austria, likewise left New York on.the Ist May, but in the Cunarder Russia, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Jay, and they arrived on Thursday night at Edward's Royal Cambridge Hotel, George street, Hanover-square. An enthusiastic meeting of the Union League Club assembled on the 26th April to take leave of their president, and to the address of Dr. Thompson Mr. Jay made an elo quent reply. An order has lately been issued from the Adju tant-General's Office in Washington, re-opening recruiting depots for the United States army. This order has occasioned much surprise, as it has fol owed one amalgamating regiments and materially reducing the strength of the .land forces. Taken with the activity in the navy yards it might be pro ductive of alarm, more especially in conjunction with the attitude assumed by England. But it is notorious that the United States were never more peaceably disposed, as a nation, than at this mo ment ; and no hostilities could arise except from the malice, aforethought, and the shameful blunder ing of those entrusted with the Government. The New York Tribune asks How does it happen that so soon after a reduction of nearly one-half in the infantry regiments of the army, it becomes necessary to reopen the expensive recruiting system ?" The following remarks remind us of the investi gations into the Joint-stock Limited Liability Com pany failures in London. More promising schemes never were launched, nor conducted by a more up right, painstaking, industrious, and skilful manage ment. These detestable shareholders who appear to flaunt their rags in the faces of the highly-respect able directors ought to be suppressed and dis couraged, nor should moderate Three per Cent: investors in British Consols sympathise with the greedy throng whom nothing less than Ten per Cent. would satisfy, and who came to grief in the pursuit. An American paper says : " There was an accid3nt a few days ago on the Long Island Railroad, and it is now being investigated. So far as they have gone, the inquiries seem to show that the rails were the best ever made, the track in perfect order, the management of the road wholly beyond criticism, and, in short, that no improvement in any particular could possibly be suggested. It is a little curious that the result of all coroners' inquests in similar cases shows the same state of facts. No roads, on which accidents occur, are ever faulty in any respect." The completion of the Pacific Railway, connect ing the Atlantic with the Pacific, was celebrated last Tuesday at Trinity Church, New York, .by a soleinn Te Deunz. At a meeting of citizens in San Francisco, on Thursday, April 29, a committee of 200 were appointed to make arringements fso the Pacific Railroad celebration. General Rosecrans has forwarded despatches in charge of a sp:cial agent from Mexico, and the hearer has had interviews with President Grant. These despatches are said to relate to negotiations for a further cession of territory from Mexico to the United States. A celebrated Irishman when accused of having sold his country, burst into ex pressions of gratitude that he had a country to sell, and so perhaps with Juarez. We do not know what hold the Mexican President has over the territory he proposes to cede, but this we do know, that he might profitably to himself dispose of it " cheap." Minister .Rosecrans, among other things, is . desirous of prolonging his stay in Mexico till the completi , n of this business, but he will learn that a change has come o'er the spirit of the Administration, which repudiates alike the purchase of the frigid iceberg London: Printed and Published by WILLIA3I AN ,— i 3J , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, Str—,, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County 31 1 dd :es°. t 4 aturday, May 15, 1863 or the torrid desert, for the United States is reserf ing itself for a grand feast, wherein it will sw - allovi r up the nevi Dominion ; and, with such a prospect, has no appetite for the pickings Mexico and the Antilles offer, unle3:s, indeed, it he that bon bouche, Cuba. Rosecrans' successor, too, has not only been nominated, but confirmed. Mr. J. M. Ashley of Ohio and impeachment re nown has written a letter to say that he never did an improper or corrupt act as a Representative, an assertion borne out by a Co:nmittee of Congress, with the facts before them that Mr. Ashley ral l ied the appointment of Mr. Case to a lucrative territorial office on the understanding that certain relations of his should receive certain posts, and other posts should be given to Congressmen as bribes. Another portion of the compact was that he and Case should form a partnership, Case speculating in land in the Territory on the information procurable by Ashlei from his official position. To this tilr.Caseconsented , executing and returning the agreement.. Two black spots attach to this story outside Mr. Ashley's re' ptfzation. The one, that he should have been 3 leader in impeachment which tends to discredit $ solemn act of national justice, and the other thats man with this record should have been nominated and confirmed as Governor of Montana. The organization of a systematic emigration of English operatives to the United States under the Trades Unions is attracting attention in At:aerial where it meets with encouragement. Letters re'; ceived in Washington state that the Trades Unions leaders, Potter and Holyoake, aided by such generous capitalists as Samuel Morley, M.P., have turned their attention to this scheme, and that a large no ber, especially of the spinners and miners of the North of England, would be aided in their tran o during this summer. A delegation of working men had been elected to proceed to the States to collect information, and o❑ their return to establish e bureau in London for its dissemination. This I S the very scheme Professor Goldwin Smith hit so hard by his letter to the Beehive, which itself vi 3s induced by that unfortunate speech of Senator Sumner. We can only hope that an object, indi' rectly to forward which we have lent so willing pen, may only in this have received a tetuporad check. The Boston people being mad on the Negro qu' tion, are not fair judges of anything with all African in it. Brazil is the only Slave Empire, Ye t " the effort of the Bostonians is to get Frecieri 4 Douglass nominated to Rio as Minister. Frederie Douglass is an able man, but we do not conside r that Brazil, under the circumstances, is the prope! place to dispatch him to as an ambassador. He said to have been defrauded out of the mission either to Hayti or to Liberia by a report hide triously circulated that he would not accept either' and his white friends desire to make it up by t bs , place Mr. Pile failed in attaining. Poor Mr. Pile; to have run in vain for a post reserved for a Negro' is this the depth to which a Missouri politician h al at last arrived? COURSE OF EXCHANGE. 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Obits, Penan g , and Singapore, via Southampton .. 3 - 1,13. 1 b l braltar, via Southampt o n • • lla3. i, t . ' India, via Southampton MaY ''' t lit°, 1,1 a Marseil ca Malta, Egypt, ezc. MaY 1 " r Litto, Marseilles ltay' --- n MaY l ' Nowtoundla I; C Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Scuthanntou Ditto, Marseilles , Jll:le 16 Portugal United States, l auada, California, &0., by British racket Ditto ditt, (Baltimore) Ditto, by 1_ i•ited states packet Ditto, by Inman packet.... ...,„„„„„......ntr 1• West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Mg 11 Bahamas, via New York West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) 3IaY Cub au a IT clam ..... Bermuda. via Halifax. . Julie 3 A singing festival of the North-Pastern Sa eP : gerbund will be held at Baltimore, J u ly 10 t o l6. A le rl ter from Hungary stated that from that country ni l2se .t may be expected. The North G e rm an Ll o yd, on the' line between Bremen and Baltimore,- will, it is said, C , _ tO singers from Germany on their return from Baltimor e that country only half passage. A bill has been introduced into the MaES 3C sd setts Legislature, which provides th a t a ny p er son 11 11 ,oga duty it is to handle, remove, or take care of the bagbaa , of passengers, shall wilfully and wantonly injure o,‘ stroy any trunk, valise, box, package or p arce l, while ' ° o3o ing, transporting, unloading, or delivering, or storing oil same, he shall be punished bya fine not exceeding 00 dollars, or by imprisonment in gaol not exceeding months. ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway Cintmen t and lA unfeignedly the remedies upon which all may relY 1 , 1 37, are suffering from diseases of the skin, s cr o fula, sc li . v er ulcerations, and bad legs. When the warmth of the L o y ther determines unduly blood to the skin, all thesn n i v) plaints assume a worse appearance, and their syy01:1 become more harassing unless Hollow a y' s Ointme ll "o6 applied to check increasing inflammation and to O c .' l3e a the excited nerves. No knowl e d ge, b eyond that coo ts' b ig in the " Directions for U se ," i s requited for usioglfi' cooling and healing unguent, which always acts be: s te cially. Thousands afflicted with bad legs, wil° slowly sinking und er their sufferings, have been r es .oo from their perilou s p os iti on (after all curative v 3 `• seemed powerless) by p ersever i ng w ith Holloway's 133- ,:di caments. to ( AD VERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always agg r ` i i :ral chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-rest° isly Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the pot die" tnent of the best mea t, saves 5 0 t i mes i ts cost i n ot h e r and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, s'„ee , lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refre s hing sleep, funotly. regularity, ant' energy to the mostdisordered or enfeebled•_, , e ,l extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health rest,(o. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 21, ! n et, —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially 1 1 4 .01? abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself eu. 0 0 6 to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he colit,' 4 o, a plateful at every meal. It hs.B produced a surprisingly ,'"oel Mal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this 'boo lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 2 5 , lirQt No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years ro d complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ne, palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,77 1 ; oi , Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of mail yid dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agorl ieo rt dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, donstipation, flatL i spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Co'`ll 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fernley, Surrey, of 3 0 80, diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangemen 4 y on s partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the 3 01, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, 3 ,Deg: authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously at ta s 2j In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 251 9d; Ms 4s 6d; 5 lbs lls; 12 lU „, 0 1„ f 4 40 24 lbs Dv BARRY'S REVALENTA ARADICA cI 3 A• POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 c u p s at •.s, for ; P'„l at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6a, for 288 c u p s a t 30 s , f or 576 neY' r 07, —being about one penny per cup. Th e 30 s an d 55 8 tins g der, free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Or as BARRY Do BARRY and Co., N o. 77 , R egent - street, L o ndon.; all Grocers and Chemists. 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I le, KIDDT.E - PROWSE —On the 13th inst., at Lea, Jno. e ts Esq., to Gertrude, youngest daughter of 11 " - Prowse, Esq., Lee, Kent. 1•0, THESIGER—STOPFORD —OD the 13th inst, at S'" p git Knightsb r id ge , th e H on . Ed war d Th es iger, fourth:l:4 of Lord Chelmsford, to Georgina Mary, third d' ulg or of Win. Bruce Stopfml, Esq., of Drayton House, - 1 - thamptoushire. DEATIIS. s toO , FEENEY-013 the 11th •MS t a t Ch h d Edgb° - , Church-road, John Frederi c k Fe ene y, aged 62. lIARLEY—On the 9th inst., at 24, Rue Berger°, Par rs ' Rowland Harley, Esq., aged 61. , 101 Nicitous— On the 14th inst., at 1" H 'cl park -0"" d, 3 Lady Nicholls. ,_ 1,\T.2 Un(ler Where Glrlß ; the Id, lis The ee ant la wiB e 1 anitrib The entire SE Th .4879 St Willi the E stroe Qu Gov( F ( desti Ind pros stitu end( assiF. Si hat its r Seel 0 B tan©