The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT - OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review observes that the Bishops' Resigna tion Act, though very decorously framed, and with great consideration and delicacy in details, is a very considerable innovation on what are generally called ecclesiastical prin ciples—certainly on all ecclesiastical practice. No doubt the Act does not deprive incapable and inefficient Bishops, but it puts the strongest compulsion on them short of mere force. The Episcopate is, in the highest ecclesiastical esti mate, so very sacred and awful a thing that it is profanity to touch this ark, even to preserve it from tumbling into the mud. What the State has done by the recent Act is this: to point out to the Bishops that there are great and flagrant abuses—some actual, some impend ing, and perhaps increasing —which it is high time should be put an end to for the present, and pre vented for the future. The State invites those most concerned to see to it. The Act is only a provisional and temporary one, and addresses itself to only a certain num ber of bishops. But it means a good deal. It means that office and dignity are trusts, and that the State will take care that those trusts shall be fulfilled; that the high office of a bishop involves duties ranging over a vast field of actual work, and that if any man accepts this high office, he must henceforth do so on the condition of finding it perhaps in the end a most unprofitable office. No doubt the Act does not compel any bishop to avail himself of it ; but it does put the strongest moral compulsion on him. In passing such a measure, it would be almost impossifflo not to come into conflict with some respectable or even valuable ecclesiastical traditions. It is, we think, highly creditable to the English Bench that the Bishops of Win chester and Bath and Wells at once availed themselves of its provisions. The Bishop of Exeter, who has also an nounced his intention to resign his see, it appears has exhibited the greatest hesitation in the matter ; probably because the Bishop of Exeter knows more about Church law and ecclesiastical principles than any one of his brethren. It is unfair to one who has left an indelible mark on English Church history to believe him to have been actuated by low motives ; and it ought to remembered that many years ago, under the Palmerston Government, the Bishop of Exeter proposed to resign half his revenues on condition of the establishment of a bishopric for Corn wall. However, all's well that ends well; a shower of mitres is impending, and as bishoprics are not nowadays sought with the avidity which recommended them as Sleepy Hollows of the Church in the days of George 111., they are likely to be well filled up. Anyhow, the way in which the Act has been received by the English Bishops is, as we said, a strong and creditable contrast to the Non _Possums of Rome. The Spectator thinks that the Government would make a very fatal mistake in granting at the present moment an amnesty to the Fenian prisoners—the fatal mistake of leading the Irish to suppose that they are conceding the great Irish reforms already ,effected or proposed, not be cause they are determined to be just, but because they have always been timid. We said years ago, when warmly supporting the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act for Ireland, that the duties of maintaining order and of re dressing grievances were strictly bound up together, and could not properly be separated; that the duty of repress ing with a firm hand anarchy in Ireland could only be istly discharged by a Government that should set itself at the same time earnestly to work to remove what it held to be legitimate causes of disaffection. We assert this' still, but this time from the opposite point of view. As we believe niost sincerely that any Government which punishes rebellion and puts off to a more convenient season the redress of grievances, while telieving and admitting that serious and unredressed causes of disaffection exist, is false to itself and to the people it governs, we believe quite as firmly that any Government which, while sincerely and cordially addressing itself to the removal of grievances, does not firmly repress rebellion, is equally untrue to itself and to the people it governs. The two duties arc really indissoluble parts of a single whole—the duty of removing all temptation to rebellion. In the next place, even if the time were suitable for an amncsty—which it is notthe bullying and insolent tone of those who ask for it should make it absolutely impossible for the Government to grant it. It was weak even to pardon the minor offenders, at the time chosen. But if that were an error, the result of that lamentable experiment is itself sufficient warning against the extension of it now. The released Fenians only left their prisons to heap contempt and menace on tho Govern ment which had released them, and to multiply occasions for open treason on the part of all their political friends. Are we to throw more firebrands into Ireland just on tho eve of the exciting discussion concerning the land-laws ? No policy could be more imbecile. And look at the speeches of those who demand the release of the Fenians. Are they speeches which promise security for the future, give bail as it were, for the good behaviour of the political criminals ? On the contrary, these speeches are as full of loud disaffection and bombastic invective as the speakers dare to make them without risking their own personal liberty. As it is, we trust that some leading member of the Government, Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Bright, will decla.re that they will lend no countenance to the impression that the Government is careless of peace and order because it is earnest for solid justice, and will reprehend in no mea sured terms the disloyalty of the men who are thus rant ing to their ignorant countrymen about ancient wr,:ngs, while they ignore sedulously the strenuous sacrifices mat by Parliamant tha the statute-book. Not by such mouths as these can Ireland hope to win a remission of the just punishment of dangerous men. To show mercy, even whore there is' real regretland repentance for a political sin, is not always wisdom. To let it be wrung out of you by vulgar and violent menaces is always folly—folly so grave as to be a political sin—folly so mean as to be rejected doubtless with one consent by such a Government as is now in power. The John Bull says that it would be almost impossible to exaggerate the invaluable services rendered not only to Lord Palmerston by his wife, but to the whole country by Lady Palmerston's shrewdness and wisdom. It was in no small degree owing to her influence over the wives and daughters of Radical members that those gentlemen were kept so quiet in the House, and Lord Palmerston's brusque answers to troublesome questions might not have been se efficacious had not feminine influence at homo compelled the politician to accept without murmuring a snubbing givtn by one whose wife never forgot the existence of sa Liberal member's belongings. True, Lady Palmerston had, fortunately for her, very little experience of the vulgar nobodies, who now form so large a percentage of the House ; but one, who was not only a queen of society, but the cleverest of whippers-in, would no doubt have managed even the most bumptious spouse of a Radical M.P., and very possibly found a suitable Conservative mato for the fastidious daughter of some outrageous snob. Lady Derby never could crowd her rooms with people who had only political, and not social rank ; though fortunately, with the Conservatives there was less loss from this circumstance. But she has never been a really keen party politician, though glorying in her husband's triumphs. Viscountess Beaconsfield has no doubt been a more watchful observer of political events ; but neither she nor Mrs. Gladstone, while being the best of wives, seem to have the qualifications for taking Lady Palmerston's place. Let us hope that in the Conservative ranks some Tory lady may be found to be the social leader of the party. The Duchess of Marlborough at present seems the chief entertainer, and we know no cause or just impedi 4nent against her being elected to the honourable post. That Lady Palmerston should so soon have been, we will .not say forgotten, but have filled so small a place in the public eye, shews how soon in this bustling world the past As forgotten. In the present day few of the gallant officers who cross and recross the steps of Cambridge House, or stand smoking thereon, reflect on the genial Minister and his peerless wife, or on the important destinies decided within walls which we cannot but think desecrated by being converted into a club, though we are free to confess that with Lord Palmerston's pluck and fondness for the army, if any club is allowable on such a site, it is a mili tary one. The Economist would not have been surprised if the policy of Free Trade had been subjected to a more severe criticism after its trial than it has yet met with. The absoluteness of its triumph, and general acceptance by all parties in the country during a period of less than thirty years from its first experiment in 1842, is rather a cause of Wonder. The structure of society b so complicated, the operations of business are affected by so many diff eren t causes, and the effect of legislative changes is so difficult to trace, that Free Trade is very singular in its fortune not Only to have held its ground so long, but to have done so without question—without any misfortunes occurring to furnish an opportunity for its opponents to seek a reversal 'of the policy. It is not till twenty-five years after trial that the depression following on a great war, a panic of unexampled duration and intensity, and a change of some 'permanence in the production of one of the most important raw materials, furnishes the occasion of which such small use is made. Wo believe it can be shewn that the fortune of Free Trade is not altogether accidental, that there were grave events before, such as the crisis of 1817 and the fol lowing period of revolution, and the Crimean IVar, which were likely to be rude tests of economic legislation, that the great success of free trade is due to the surprising strength and theoretical truth of the policy; but that conspicuous success and .freedom from after questioning were not to be anticipated beforehand. As for the present agitation, we do not suppose that much answering will be required. It has not got beyond the limits of the most insignificant local question. But for the curiosity of being an attack on Free Trade, which had come to be a received axiom of our policy, it would hardly have attracted any general notice at all. There will be no occasion for inquiry, because the Protectionists do not Make statements of fact which the defenders of Free Trade will find it worth while to dispute. What the Protec tionist:is gloomy about—the excess of foreign importations ever our exports—is precisely the fact upon which the free trader would congratulate the country. To, make out a case at all.the Protectionists ought to shcw the connection between the depression of trade and the facts which are Common to them and the free-trader, and this they do not even attempt. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT. A virulent epidemic having mado its appearance to a considerable extent among cattle in Yorkshire steps have been taken in some parts of that county to prevent its spread. It appears, however, that in the North Riding the "local authority," consisting of the magistrates in Quarter Sessions, have hot yet adopted any measures for " stamp ing out " the disease. Tho Lord President of the Privy Council has appointed a committee, to whom has been referred certain questions relative to the supply of suffi cient food and water to animals conveyed by sea and land, and their protection from unnecessary suffering. A meeting of the Council of the North Riding Chamber of Agriculture has just been held at York to consider what reply should be made to the Committee of the Privy Council, and also to consider the state of Yorkshire at present with reference to cattle diseases, and the best method of proventiong their spread. A committee was appointed to prepare an answer to the Privy Council, and it was next decided to memorialize the Quarter Sessions to carry out strictly the Order in Council of August 10 without further delay, the meeting considering that the regulations provided in it were sufficient to prevent the spread of the disease without closing the markets. It was also resolved that unless all cattle, sheep, and pigs imported from abroad were immediately slaughtered on their arrival at the ports where they were landed, there was no probability of the country being free from lung disease or foot and mouth disease for any length of time together. A motion was also passed in favour of the country taking upon itself the risk and expense of impor tations of cattle. LAW AND POLICE. The PAWNBROKERS' Acr.—Mrs. Emma Barker, a pawn broker of High-street, Aldgate, was on Friday summoned at Guildhall for unlawfully detaining a diamond pin worth £l5, belonging to Mr. Henry Samuels, a jeweller. The pin had been stolen from Mr. Samuels, and he afterwards saw it for sale in Storr's auction rooms. He found it had been sent for sale by Mrs. Barker, who refused to give it up unless she was repaid the £4 she had advanced upon it. It was urged on Mr. Samuel's behalf that: Mrs. Barker had failed to comply with the conditions of the Pawn brokers'Act, by entering the name, address, and position of the pawner; but Sir Sydney Watorlow said that ho did not think the civil law applied to that court, and unless some improper motive could be proved against Mrs. Barker he could not make an order against her. Eventually a com promise, was agreed upon, the pin being given up by Mrs. Parker on payment of £2 by Mr. Samuel. CHARGE OF FRAun.—At Westminster Police-court, on Friday, an accountant, named Dunham, was charged with obtaining £l2 on false pretences. It seems that he had been the agent for the sale of a fish shop to two young women, who had saved a little money and wished to em. bark in trade. He represented that the business had realised £9 in one week, and that the fixtures were his. They paid £l2 on account, and afterwards discovered the business to be worthless, while the fixtures were the property of the landlord. Defendant produced a receipt for £lO which he had paid for the fixtures, and the magistrate said the best thing to be done would be for the defendant to return the young women £2 as he had paid the £lO. This case was adjourned for a week with a view to an arrangement. CAUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS.—At the Ducks Petty sessions, two cases of great importance to agriculturists using steam power were brought forward. Mr. Boswell, a farmer, of Iver, was summoned for erecting a threshin; machine and engine withing twenty-five yards of the high road, being dangerous to cattle travelling on the road. Mr. Hall, the owner of the machine and engine, was summoned fo a similar offence. The bench fined Mr. Hall £2 and 17s. Gd costs, and dismissed the case against Mr. Doswell. Mr. Hall said he was not aware that he had acted illegally, but the magistrates told him the Act had been in opera tion some thirty years. The other case was against Mr. Richardson, who had caused a steam ploughing machine to be erected near the highway, the machine being unconcealed from passers by, and consequently dangerous to cattle. Mr. Richardson contended that he was within the law so long as he stationed a person on the highway to warn passers by. The bench admitted the de fence: and dismissed the case, refusing costs. TRADE UNION ASSAULTS.—A nail cutter, named Bostock, was on Friday summoned at Birmingham for assaulting a fellow workman. The quarrel arose out of a trades union dispute, though both plaintiff and defendant were non unionists. In a similar case several workmen waited in the street till another left work, when they met him and beat him, The magistrates sentenced the first defendant to six weeks' imprisonment and the other to a month, refusing to impose fines in either case. CCIIIOLTS LIBEL CASE.—At the Sheriff's Court, Glasgow, M. Marianski, a Polish gentleman, brought :In action against the Glasgow Herald, for damages for a libellous advertise ment. The prosecutor had taken home with him aNe sv fotmdlaal dog, which he bun 1 at the railway station, not being able to find an owner for it. Ile afterwards advertised for the owner, who was never forthcoming. The advertise ment complained of appeared in the Glasgow Herald, with out an address, to the effect that if the Pole who took away a Newfoundland dog at such ak date did not return it Withiiiihree days he wolireile pi673ecuted. The a — cTver Imo= meat was apparently inserted from malice, and as the conductors of the Glasgow Herald was unable to discover who inserted it (the name given being a false ono)theywere ordered to pay the n 2 claimed with costs. The velocipede mania has broken out in Melbourne. On the principal cricket ground, and at Croxteth Park, there have been velocipede races. Tho corporation are about to pass a bye law, specifying the conditions on which they aro to pass along the streets. Of Edmund Dean's performance of Luke, in "%fag singer's City Madan?, it is recorded that an old lady, who had intended leaving him a large sum of money, was so appalled at the cold-blooded villany ho displayed that she transferred the legacy to a distantrrelation. An Irishman lost his hat in a well, and was let down by a rope to recover it ; but the well being deep and extremely dark withal, his courage failed him before he had reached the water. In vain did he call out to those above to pull him up ; they leant a deaf ear to all he said, till at last, quite in despair, he bellowed out, "By St. Patrick, if ye don't draw me up, sure I'll cut the rope." We learn from Belfast that the remains of Dr. Kieran, the Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland, are to be laid out in state in Dundalk Cathedral on Sunday. The interment will take place on Monday. Since his death all the shops and public schools in Dundalk have been closed, and will remain so until after the funeral. LETTER OF THE COMTE DE PAms.—Le Figart publishes the following letter from the Comte de Paris : "Twickenham, 25th August, 1369.—MY dear Friend,—l am pleased to send the photograph for which you have asked me. Every time that one of such portraits takes the road to France I try to fancy that I am in its place ; that I go with it to the friends who are pleased to accept it, and that from the frame which surrounds it I can glance upon our country.—Yours, Lows PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS." A common councilman's wife, who had been his servant, paying her daughter a visit at school, and inquir ing what progress she had made in her education, the governess answered, " Pretty good, madam. Miss is very attentive; if she wants anything, it is a capacity; but for that deficiency, you know, we must not blame her." "No, madam," replied the mother ; " but I blame you for not having mentioned it before, for her father, thank heaven ! can afford his daughter a capacity; and I beg she may have one immediately, cost what it may." Acerbi, one of Garibaldi's former chiefs, has just died at Florence. He was the commander of the bands in Viterbo, but his exploits were chiefly confined to plunder ' 'ng the villages, and annexing the military chest. He fell Into discredit with his party, and retired into private life. Another Garibaldian, who is highly respected by all parties, Giovanni Cavioli, is reported by the Florentine papers to be dying, in consequence of an old wound received at the time of the invasion of Sicily, when his brother Enrico was killed. Giovanni and Benedetto, the deputy, are the last of the seven brothers Cavioli, five of whom have sacrificed their lives in the cause of Italian unity. AN OLD BLIND WOMAN RECEIVING lIEIt A strange story has got abroad in Edinburgh recently in regard to an aged female pauper in the St. Cuthbert's Poorhouse. The woman has been an inmate of the poorhouse for a good many years, and in addi tion to her other misfortunes, she had that c f being afflicted with blindness. Not long ago she was attacked with a very violent pain, such as the medical officers could not understand, much less relieve. It lasted for the whole of the night and part of the following day, and was described as of such a nature that it threatened to " tear her eyes out." At last it reached a height; the poor woman for a time was left in a state of semi-prostration ; but, to her delight, as soon as the pain had passed off, she found that her eyesight had been restored: One can imagine the astonishment of ono of the officers when, shaking him heartily by the hand, she said, " I have often shaken hands with you before ; I have sften heard your voice and spoken to you ; but never have I seen your face till this morning !" This ease, I believe, has caused some astonishment among the members of the medical profession in tho city.—Edidurgh Corresponded of Inverness Advertiser. - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18 ) 1869. 311SCELLANEOUS NE U'S. nationally categories—Chttreh of England (National), Dissenters (British and Foreign), Wesleyans, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Undenominational (Bible), Scotch Free Church, Scotch Established Church, and Scotch. Episcopal. To entitle a school to aid from the Edu cation Department, it must hoist and rally under the Church colours of some one of these denominations. Irish Catholics form 78 per cont. of the popula tion of this kingdom, - while not one of these nine bodies forms anything like the same proportion of the British, or oven of the English or of the Scotch people. This system has been repeatedly modified in detail. Royal commissions have investigated and repOrted on its working! the code under which it is a d m inistered has been often revised; but one essen tial feature has never been altered—its strictly denominational character," Why, then, asks the Professor, should the demand of the Catholic Bishops to have this denominational system extended to Ireland, provoke a burst of indignation ? especially as it is a fact that in practice there exists in Ireland no mixed or national system of education. It would be as difficult to find a Protestant as a Druid in thou sands of the national schools. meat expenses for the fiscal year ending Sept. 1 are $585;000,000." The damage. done by the gale at Boston on the Bth instant is estimated at 1,000,000 dollars ; and other towns of Massachusetts, as well as of Maine awl New Hampshire, suffered consi derably. The American Puss comment at great length on Canadian affairs, and generally pre dict an early separation of the British American colo nies from the mother country. A meeting was held in Quebec Sept. 14 in favour of annexation to the United States. It was attended mostly by Irish men. In the Avondale coal mine of Pennsylvania 108 bodies have been discovered. The colliery has been thoroughly explored, and no other bodies have been found. The above number, with two men suffocated while attempting their rescue, makes a total loss of 110, and not 200, as previously re ported. None inside escaped. Fifty-nine widows and 109 orphans are made by this disaster. Great destitution prevails, and subscriptions are being taken for their relief. Some of the killed have children living in Great Britain. Erie railway shares have been rising, and so also have Atlantic and Great-Western in connection with them, first in Wall-street, and then in Lon don on large orders from America to purchase. There is said to be in New York a strong " bull" combination with some London speculators employ ing a capital of $25,000,000. The rise in Erie brings in as purchasers whatever stray " bulls " there may be at this season of the year about Lon don, and they all help to push up one of the most dangerous and treacherous securities with which they could dabble. The Erie is a great railroad, and the combinations and amalgamations of the board appear to be judicious, but the speculators who buy Erie for a rise have got a very short memory, or perhaps did not see, as they often might, Wall-street strewn with the lame ducks who thought their information good. The Erie shares registered amount to $70,000,000 common, and $8,500,000 preferred, but if this be encouraging as less in amount than anticipated, the suicidal competition of the three great trunk roads for Western traffic is not calculated to clee'r the geurine shareholder. No one can deny that the Erie is a grand line, and will one day be very valuable property to its owners ; but what " no feller can understand" is whether the proceedings of Fisk and Gould are really in the in terest of the railway or of selfish ends; while we allow that their selfish ends may best be served by forwarding the interests of the road, and that there fore the property may never have been while under their management in the deplorable state the low price of its shares would indicate. The outrages on the negroes of Tennessee have increased, 100 blacks having been driven into Nashville from Rutherford county, and a similar state of affairs prevails in Sumner county. A meet ing was held by the negroes, and ex-Governor Foote said that 500 men would be sent as an escort if necessary to protect them. A coloured man asserted that the Governor's proclamation just issued in view of the outrages amounted to nothing, the "Regulators," as they call themselves, main taining their course unpunished and unarrested. A letter was despatched to Brigadier-General Lovell from the private secretary of Governor Senter, and a body of troops in response was sent to the dis turbed counties to maintain order. There has been a desperate fight between some troops in Texa=, who endeavoured to arrest them, and the band of outlaws under Jack Helm. Four :of the brigands an d one so ldi er were- kill e d, several on both sides being wounded. The International Congress of Working-Men continues its session at Basle, and its socialistic tendency is its most remarkable feature. It is im possible for the working-men of Europe t) as semble for any business without talking politics of a very questionable character; indeed, of the Red Republican type. Considering the numerous sub jects open for discussion affecting their own condi tion, which they left untouched, it may surprise those who do not know them to find their remarks mainly directed to the property and condition of others. They want land to be cultivated in large estates for the benefit of the human race, and most of us would sit down and look on with hearty com placency while the work progressed by which we were to be maintained. The difficulty would he who was to labour; and how was the produce to be distributed. These may appear very simple ques tions to the delegates, however d;fficult statesmen and political economists might find them, for we all desire to get as much as we can, and to do as little as possible. The news from Port-au-Prince, received by the steamer Mexican, by which the Spanish Charge d'Affaires arrived at Liverpool, is to 25th August. Salnave was still before Aux Cayes, which place continued to hold out. His two steamers had returned there damagel. The rebel steamers Quaker City and Florida had bombarded Gonaives, raised the blockade, and had gone to Aux Cayes to look after Salnave's men of war. From America the news derived from the British war steamer Britomart is that t'he Quaker City and Florida appeared off the town of Gonaives on the Bth of August, which they furiously bombarded till the 10th, injuring the buildings, but only killing one citizen and two sol diers. The citizen killed had been struck by a round shot in the house of the United States Con sul, Mr. Brooks ; where he had taken refuge, and one woman had died of fright. Six of the crews had been killed and two injured, but the vessels were not much damaged. The bombardment was suspended to remove the women and children, when close and sanguinary work was expected. The port was at the same time attacked by troops, who were defeated. All the barges had been captured, and the place completely invested, while but little food remained, and its capture was inevitable unless re lieved. The excitement was great at Port-au- Prince, to which the Britonzart had carried 200 re fugees. The rebel war steamers Quaker City and Florida are heavily armed, and Salnave's two vessels are no match for them. The Official Journal had lately published an Imperial decree promulgat ing the recently ratified Convention of the 16th May, 1864, concluded between France, Brazil, Hayti, Italy, and Portugal, for the establishment of an international telegraph line between Europe and South America. Last Tuesday was the centenary of Humboldt's birth. Great preparations were made in America to do honour to the memory of a man so highly esteemed, not only by his countrymen, but by the world ; and a telegram informs us that the day was observed by the Germans in the United States amidst great enthusiasm. The North German Cor respondent devotes a leading article to the occasion, from which we take this extract : " The all-grasping, truly Catholic and harmonious mind of Humboldt was a stranger to everything like prejudice anti narrow-mindedness; he identified himself with every effort to elevate mankind and to develope the germs of.the good and great in the hearts of tho disciples of science. For many years ho was the centre of the German republic of letters, the patron of free thought, the model philoso pher and philanthropist of his age. His life was devoted to science and humanity, and remained true to itself dur ing the long period of his earthly pilgrimagekwith a con sistency of which the records of our race present but few examples." The Springfield Republican heard a merchant, who ought to know, assert— " That not only we do not build many iron ships, but we cannot buy them of the British builders ; it being forbidden a British subject to sell a vessel to an American. We cannot (says the Editor) vouch for this, but cases of purs chase of this kind do not now occur to us. If we aro to buy iron ships at all, out of our own country, it must be in Went Britain, for they are scarcely made for sale elsew hero." Now, here is a leading paper, and as good a paper as any we know, of Massachusetts too, which is usually admitted to be the best informed of the States, supposing that a British shipbuilder could be barrel by law from selling ships to Americans. As it happens, the reverse is the case, the American being barred from buying ships from the British by the Navigation laws of the United States; they can, of course, buy them, blt they cannot register them or fly on them the National Flag. As strange, too, as the supposition that the British would tolerate for a moment the prohibition of selling ships to their American cousins, is the fact that the editor overlooked that it was their readiness to make such sales which caused the nation so much trouble. If Semmes and the Southern agents, who purchased the Alabama and the other Confederate cruisers, were not Americans, then the Southern States were further out of the Union than we thought. The law regarded Semmes and the Confederate agents merely as Americans, and had there been any pro hibition the Government would have had the power of seizing the Alabama while being avowedly built in Laird's yard for Americans. At the same time, we rejoice to see the attention of leading American organs drawn to a subject we have long discussed, the necessity for so far altering the Navigation Laws as to permit the citizens to purchase where they please, and to register as American iron steam boats for their foreign trade. The Mediterranean and Oriental Steamship Com• pany have applied to the New York Chamber of Commerce for co-operation in an effort to recover the prestige of the American flag. They assert that the American trade ;with Europe, including the lu crative passenger traffic, is monopolised by foreign flags. A first-class line of steamers is to be estab lished by them between New York, Norfolk, and other Southern ports and the Mediterranean, with connections to the East Indies and China, by way of the Suez Canal. They will despatch a vessel to represent New York in the grand ceremony of open ing that Canal. The question lies not iu American enterprise or capital, both of which would be forth coming in overflowing abundance for the establish ment of such lines, but in the laws and the ex pense of constructing steamers in America capable of competing with those of Europe. Let the Ame rican flag cover a vessel belonging to an American owner, who desires to place her on the American register, whether built at home or abroad, although she may remain in the event of her being a foreign built vessel disqualified for the coasting traffic ; and shipowners having attained to an equality will soon have fleets flying the Stars and Stripes. A sad calamity occurred last Monday at Shad wan, in the Gulf of Suez, whereby the screw steamer Carnatic, 1,800 tone, valued at £BO,OOO was lost, with several lives, all her mails and cargo, as well as £38,000 in specie. She was one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's fleet, then on her way from Bombay to Suez. Shadwan is an island at the entrance to the Red Sea from the Gulf of Suez, about 10 miles off the coast of Egypt. The loss falls on the company, who are their own insurers, and the shares have fallen heavily in consequence. Messrs. Loring, lay, and Blaikie arrived safely in New York, and were entertained last Tuesday at a public dinner at Delmonico's. Mr. Simmons has gone to Heidelberg to study. Alderman Elliott, the boat-builder, returned with those of the crew who sailed in the City of Antwerp, and we suppose had his place at the banquet. At any rate he de served it, for the boat he built for the Harvard men is said to be a model possessing many advantages, and superior to that in which the Oxford men rowed. Apropos of rowing, the race between Joe Sadler, of Putney, and Walter Brown, the American champion, comes off on the 7th October over the champion course. Harry Kelley is training Brown in the paper boat, weighing 221b5., which he brought from America ; but it is thought that he will row in an English wager boat built by Jewitt, of Dunstan. The betting appears to be in Sadler's favour. So eager is the desire in America to have another race between Harvard and Oxford tried there that some gentlemen have offered to defray all expenses of the Oxford crew, Mr. Wm. Schwarz for one. If the race be run on American waters it is but fair that two other crews of the Universities should be the competitors, as two months' training is sufficient for one set for a long time. Mr. Washburn, ex-Minister to Paraguay, who is now in London, has written to some of the Metropo litan papers denying the statement that he had long since retracted his report as to President Lopez. Not only does he re-affirm him to be the monster of cruelty he has represented him, but he asserts that all testimony has proved the truth of his accusations, and whatever evidence may hereafter be forthcom ing will fully establish it. General M'Mahon can be heard on the other side, but as far as the balance of testimony goes it is thus far in the favour of Mr. Washburn. Tne Buenos Ayres Standard antici pates the close of the war, having learnt, on the highest authority, that the Brazilian Cabinet bas de termined to finish the campaign. The hitch is, the Triple-Alliance by which the Allies bound them selves to continue the war as long as Lopez re mained alive in Paraguay, and although there are 25,000 Brazilian troops to 3,500 Argentines, yet the Argentine and Oriental Republics have as much to say on continuing the war as Brazil. The object of the struggle is supposed to have been achieved, as Lopez is a fugitive, but he nevertheless occupies aninaccessible territory, and may continue to do so as a mere brlguLid as luug us any raraguayans ad here to him. But hostile operations will not cease without another desperate effort, as shown by the latest intelligence, dated Lisbon, Sept. 14. A Pro visional Government of three members has been established at Assumption —namely, Messrs. Be doya, Seiyaga, and Rivarola. The Allied army have begun active operations, Count d'Eu having captured two forts of the enemy, occupying Velen zuela, and threatening Pirebebuy. Generals Osorio and Barreto are co-operating on the enemy's flanks. The Congressional Committee on retrenchment which lately sat in New York, and visited the Cus tom House there, found corruption so prevalent that they have decided to introduce a Civil Service Bill during the neat session of Congress. The Pre sident holds the same views, and will recommend the adoption of some such change, so it is probable that the subject will reappear when Congress again meets, with influential backers; but whether the bill will assume the same form as that introduced by Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island or not, is as yet unknown. The Committee found it difficult in any but one way to account for the eager rush of men for posts in the New York Custom House who might aspire to what were apparently better places ; but they seem beyond all things to be anxious to serve their country on what to them could only be a mere pittance. Their patriotism has in this decidedly taken a peculiar turn, and ono evidently regarded by the Committee with suspicion. We rejoice at any circumstance which • promotes a measure that we feel assured will in the highest degree be bene ficial to the Republic, and one, the importance of which is as yet but little appreciated in the Union. St. Louis is not to be baulked or sneered down in its agitation for substituting itself as the Federal Capital in the place of Washington. The chief objection to the change is the expense, but the Chicago Tribune comes forward with some plau sible figures, by which it arrives at the conclusion that that would be but .1 mere trifle. It calculates that all the buildings required for a century would not cost more than $50,000,000 ; that deducting the amount necessary to expend on the Govern ment edifices at Washington, as well as the value of these buildings when vacated for a Na tional University, the entire cost would not ex ceed $10,000,000. Very few are found to defend Washington, but its security lies in the dissensions of its rivals. In the first place, Chicago and half a dozen other Western cities would fight for the Governmental prize, as did Toronto and Montreal, while their great and really dangerous competitor, New York, would combine them all against any change. The most conspicuous candidate just now is St. Louis, hence it is the city most abused. One paper says that on the 30th August the Coroner there held 11 inquests, which it thus classified : 2 of sunstroke, 3 of drunkenness, 1 of cholera, 1 of drowning, and the rest miscellaneous, besides the case of a child born dead and concealed in a coal closet ; a pretty location, it adds, for Congress. Inappropriate pastimes are not more uncommon in the States than in other countries. At Cincin nati, on the 29th August, that is, on Sunday, a prize fight came off near Mount Auburn, and this was followed by another prize fight in Well Creek Bot tom, when Burns knocked Dennison out of time, whatever that may be, but some goo] might have been done had he knocked him into more appro priate time, and himself followed rapidly after. In Louisville, Kentucky, live persons within the city have been shot or cut at dancing parties. The Tribune suggests that the music should be the Dance of Death, followed by the Infernal Quadrilles, and pieces should be arranged for full orchestra, with groans of the wounded neatly introduced from the Battle of Prague. Wherever shootings and blows are going on, if a woman. be at the bottom of it, a THE ELECTIOX COMMISSIONS. Maybe our readers have not yet forgotten a ban quet given a day or two back at \V ednesbury, to Mr. Brogden, M.P. Several Liberal members of Parlia ment on that occasion gave conclusive evidence to Mr. Brogden's character ; and it was clear from their testimony that a pure; a more high-minded and patriotic politician did not exist. Now a Mr. Alexander Brogden, also an M.P., has been be fore the Bridgwater Election Commissioners. Ho is precisely like the hero of the Wodnesbury banquet except in one particular. While he of the after dinner speeches was a little raised above the common errors of humanity, the Bridgwater Brogden gave the Commissioners such a character of himself that they expressed doubts as to whether he ought to sit in Parliament at all. Shortly stated, what Mr. Brogden said was this : He had been asked to contest Bridg water, but declined to do so. Subsequently he introduced Mr. Vanderbyl as a candidate, told him that £1,500 would be required ; and knowing per fectly well that that money would be used for bribery, brought £l,lOO down with him, and handed it to Mr. Vanderbyl's agent. Being conclusively convinced that the previous money was being spent illegally, Mr. Brogden afterwards advanced more, to the total amount of £3,000. And ho confessed all this to the Commissioners without the slightest sense of shame. He did not (ho remarked) think he was responsible. Well might they denounce his "detestable doctrine," and express doubts whether he 'ought to sit in Parlia ment. But Mr. Brogden's evidence inculpates others besides himself; it was clear that Mr. Vanderbyl knew where the money was going. Mr. Anstoy, at the close of the day's inquiry, said : From the facts which had comp to his knowledge he felt quite convinced that at the time the inquiry took place before Mr. Justice Blackburn, both Mr. Kinglake and Mr. Vanderbyl know that money had been spent at the election, and that what they told was a gross lie ; they must have been aware that the election had not been won without money. He had no belief in personal innocence. This announcement was received in court with laughter. Ancither M.P.—Mr. Christopher Sykes—told a tale at Beverley quite as deplorable and nearly at the same time as Mr. Brogden told his. Mr. Sykes did not know generally that money was being spent ; but holding all boroughs to be, more or loss, under " pecu niary influence," he believed things were not altogether pure at Beverley. He denied, however, in the first part of his evidence that ho had advanced money for illegal purposes ; but further on he stated that a Mr. Daniel Boyes pledged himself to prevent a contest for £5OO. Mr. Boyes was promised tho money by Mr. Sykes and Sir Henry Edwards ; and notwithstanding that there was a con test, was recuperated after the election. Mr. Sykes was wisp enough to throw up Beverley and contest the East Riding, which he won. His colleague stuck to the rotten borough, and was un, seated. CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION. Great Yarmouth has been the scene of a large Conservative banquet, the cost of which was. defrayed by Sir E. 11. K. Lacon, M.P., to whom an elegant centre-piece, of the value of £6OO, was pre sented by his constituents. In the. course ,of his speech, the chairman asserted that the Conservative cause was Still paramount in Yarmouth. Major Walpole, M.P., also spoke. Referring to the land question in Ireland, he said that if the measure intro duced into the House was fair as between landlord and tenant, and if it respected the rights of property, it would be met by him in no party spirit; but if the rights of property were assailed—if the property of the landlord WOrt3 attacked—by the measure, it would have, as any other Radical measure would have, his most determined opposition. Mr. Corrance, M.P., dealt several hard blows at the Liberal Govern ment, and contended that the policy adopted in refe rence to the Irish Church would be repeated in con nection with the land question. To such a policy he counselled resistance. NATIONAL NEFOIi3I UNION. The death of Lieutenant-General Thompson waf alluded to at the last meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Union. Mr. Stokes, the chairman, in paying a tribute to ,the memory of the deceased, observed that during a great portion of this century he had worked actively in the van of the army of Reformers, and the variouz political works which he had written had exercised immense influence in enlightening the public mind on the advantages of Free Trade and other questions of Reform. Throughout a long life the General had honestly and consistently endeavoured to promote the well-being of his countrymen. THE LATEST BARONET. Mr. Gladstone's colleague in the representation . Greenwich, Alderman Salornons, has received the honour of a baronetcy. Sir David opened official life to his co-religionists in this country more than thirty years ago by holding the alTointments' 01 Sheriff of Kent and Sussex, and soon afterwards 113 contesting the aldcrmanic gown of the ward of Port saw]. Although not the first Jew elected to Parlia ment, he was the first who took his seat in the House of Commons. His fellow-citizens so full`- appreciated his services as Lord Mayor of London, that they pre sented a memorial in I&3U to the Prime Minister of the day, asking that they should receive proper recog nition. THE REGISTRATIONS. Thus far there las been attic that is cA,I4Ing lit - tno proceedings taken before the registration courts now sitting in various parts of the country. Large addi tions have been made to the register in some quarters, but nearly everywhere the lodger class exhibits the utmost indifference to the possession of the franchise. The Valuation Appeal Court in Edinburgh has decided that in the case of a county property supposed to confer two votes, only the assessor and the owners of the property can be heard. This ruling, if it will hold water, will greatly increase the facili ties for creating faggot votes. The assesssor has not necessarily any interest in the political influence of the valuation, and counsel against valuation will not bo heard. TUE BEALES TESTIMONIAL. There have been various good things promised to Mr. Beales ; he has been told of County Court judge ships, flattered with the hope of testimonials, and even been thought eligible for the post of minister in some Dissenting chapels. He has got neither the judgeship nor the testimonial, and would hardly care for the offered pulpit. The testimonial, however, he ought to have had by this time. Subscriptions seem to have been sent towards it ; but months have passed and its promoters are sleeping; nothing is to be hoard either of it or them ; except from a solitary sub scriber, who would just like to know what has been done with his money. THE IRISH CHURCH BE-ORGANISATION. The General Synod of Dublin is proceeding with its work. The decision against the admission of deans and archdeacons as ex officio members in the new Church Body, is, notwithstanding the over whelming majority by which it was arrived at, causing much discussion ; and Archdeacon Stokes has handed in a protest against giving over the Church to governance by popular clamour. Other members of the Synod, seeing the same thing, tried to introduce the representation of minorities, but failed. Then came the most important' question which the Synod has to consider—the reprseentation of the laity. The Archdeacon of Dublin proposed to ask the Bishops for permission to consider a scheme creating a third house, or " order," of laity ; that house having no power in tho matter of doctrine or discipline. The representation of the laity was moved to bo beyond tho sphere of the Synod, and the Archdeacon's pro position was negatived. THE RELEASE OF TIIE FENL4NS. "Inquirer" in the Times calls attention to the meeting held at Castlebar, on behalf of the release of the Fenian prisoners. He confesses that the descrip tion of England, given by the chairman, Mr. George startled him. "Hei as been the sword, he; Isa said diadem has been the black cap, and her Throne li sce e p n ge,' l‘ ' has been the gallows for the last 700 years. For , th M e O P ra " to f r a , ‘.7 ‘ l K more than seven centuries we have been the bondmen of that meat pharisee of nations. Every constituted authority in Europe trembles for resist ance against the bloody and iron heel of oppression. England is steeped deep in the blood of India; red handed from the massacre of the women of Jamaica, she exists with the blood of twenty generations of dead Irishmen standing between her and God on high, and, with the bones of Irishmen still suffering in her dungeons, she calls upon us to applaud the proud policy of her Government." "Inquirer" not unnaturally suggests that this " tall" languag,e is hardly likely . to charm or conciliate the Celtic race, upon conciliating whom so much trouble is to be lavished, so many sacrifices to be made. Also, it may be ques tioned if in it can be found calm, prudent words worthy either of ari Irish gentleman or of a British senator. tf what Mr. Moore thinks of a seat in Pei:Hs:next may bo assumed from the expre:vion he anlied to it when he spoko of "the beast Qf Parliament, the brutal Govern ment." it can hardly be a matter of surprise that the obli g ations of his position are accounted of little moment. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. In a long letter to the Star, 'Professor James W. Kavanagh, of the Catholic University, deals with the Irish education question. With respect to primary education, the Catholics of Ireland ask that there should bo extended to that country the same system of education—same as to principle—which has been in operation in England, Wales, and Scotland, for the last thirty years. "Under that system twelve millions have been voted by annual parliamentary grants sines 1830 _in_ sunnort of schools denomi- FREE LIBRARIES. A correspondence has passed between the Hon. Auberon Herbert and the Mayor of Newbury, in reference to the offer of the former to present £l,OOO towards the establishment of free libraries in various towns in Berkshire. In his concluding letter the liberal donor says :—" I have now only to add a few words on the subject of free libraries. I will say nothing about their direct advantages; of the opportunities of self-improvement and self cultivation which a comfortable room and well-chosen books offer in themselves ; but I would wish to remind you of the spirit which arises in these institutions and soon pervades the whole town to which they belong. They are the property and meeting ground of all. They know no distinctions. Their doors stand impartially open to all sects, all classes, all parties. They are a practical recognition of a common cause ; and a practical rebuke of that selfishness which looks upon all civilisation as a scramble of individuals, and does not require that society should advance as a compact body, leaving, none of its members behind in the onward move ment." THE nlsnornic OF CORNWALL. A correspondent of the Daily News writes, urging very earnestly the appointment of a Bishop of Corn wall. He points out that Exeter is not the centre of th© diocese; Plymouth, " the true emporium of com mercial life in the west," is more convenient. But as Exeter must be retained, Cornwall should have its own bishop. Devonshire is a diocese large enough, but Cornwall is so scattered and difficult for travelling that a bishop's acquaintance with each of his parishes and all his clergy is impossible. The Methodists are not unfriendly to the change, and there is no " real difficulty about funds " " The riches of the chapter of Exeter properly belong to both counties, and at a separation ought to be fairly divided. As the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are tho about to augment the funds of the diocese of Exeter, a fair division would amply provide for the Cornish episcopate, without (as some of the local papers suggested) going to the Dean and Canons of Windsor to supply us out of their very large rectorial tithes derived from this part of England." PIT-BURYING IN GLASGOW. Tho barbarous practice of pit-burying still con tinues in at least two of the cemeteries o Glasgow, although it is satisfactory to know that the magis trates of the city have at length interposed their authority to put a stop to such a heinous custom. The Dean of Guild states that, "computing for a period of ten years, t 5,600 bodies were lying in a state of decomposition around the Infirmary ;" a n d he proceeds to speak of a burial pit behind the Infirmary which he saw opened up, presenting i‘a scene such as but few have witnessed for hideous ness. ThiS disgusting mode of sepulture is only pur sued with the very poorest of the people. In one of the cemeteries we are inforined that— "Alongside and within the south - boundary wall, at a particular part, there is a series of about ten vaults or pits, each twelve feet deep, and separated from each other by brick partitions. Each pit is capable of holding about eighty coffins. Five of the series are yet untenanted. One of the number is always ready - for interments, and coffins continue to be laid within it in courses, with thin layers of earth between, till the vault is built up to a height of about nine feet. Three feet of mould then cover the whole, and the mouth of this charnel-house is finally sealed rp by a large flagstone cemented in its place." - - - As the .North British Mail truly says, all distinc tions are of course lost to the sorrow n • survivors ii this mixed mass of mouldering urn an ty occupying a common tomb. It is estimated that every day it. the year there are close on 100,000 corpses decaying in the cemeteries within the city. After this, is it any wonder that the rate of mortality is so high in Glasgow ? TIIE LATE DR. RUNT. The secretary of the Anthropological Society of London denies the accuracy of the statement which has appeared touching the cause of the death of Dr. James hunt. The illness which terminated so fatally was induced by sunstroke, and not by the "treatment of anthropology at the Exeter meeting of the British Association." Dr. Hunt, it is stated, was singularly capable of sustaining opposition; his courage rose with the storm, and his resources were such as never to fail him, although success was often not attained. EMIGRATION: The working classes of Lambeth have met to discuss seriously the question of emig,Tation in connection with the co operative principle. Some ii. v ortant iiiivrintrtion as to me buss places to Ithien emigrants could proceed was given by the chairman, Mr. r 'George White. Having been for twenty years in the United States, he did not hesitate to say that it was the most fitting place for working men to emigrate to, and that of all the States of the Union, Kansas was the most promising. It had a good climate, fine rolling prairies, there was no timber to cut, and the soil ready for what they chose to put into it. In 1850 lie passed through it on his way to California. It was then almost a wilderness, but in 1860 it contained 400,000 inhabitants, and it has now over a million, with well cnitivated farms and manufactories of various descrip tions in a flourishing condition, while the Union Pacific Railway ran right through it. There would be plenty of room in it for all that might emigrate to it for many a year to come, for it contained fifty two million acres. THE CATTE MURRAIN AND MILK. The British Medical Journal raises the important question whether the milk from those anirnalq affected with foot and mouth disease ought to be used as food. It is quite certain that at the present time in the neighbourhood of Guildford, and probably in other places, where the disease prevails, there is a strong prejudice against this milk, arising from the belief that it causes sore mouth in adults, and seri ously disagrees with young children. It is found tc be very hurtful to pigs, so much so that the farmers are careful to prevent their having it. Yet this milk, the use of which is refused on the spot, is regularly sent up to the London mark e t. It is p oss ible that its injurious effects are not often manifested, and only under peculiar circumstances ; s till the idea is not pleasant. Those who have seen it report very differently as to its qualities, some assertinc , that it is unaltered, others that it curdles when boiled ; that it looks brown or red, and even that it is sometimes fetid. Probably it differs much in different cases. Tho British Medical erou,nal counsels caution and in vestigation. LIGHT V. HEAVY CABLES. Tho discussion on the advantages of light and heavy cables continues. A member of the Society of Civil Engineers thinks much confusion has arisen in the course of a controversy from a misapplication of the terms light and heavy cables, inasmuch as a heavy cable in air may be relatively a light cable in water, the whole question being ono of specific gravity. What is required in the production of the best kind of cable is, in the writer's opinion, the lightest specific gravity consistent with safety; such an amount of strength as will keep it intact iluring the process of laying, and recovery if necessary; perfect insulati on ; a tmospheric lightness, keeping , the two first points e ve r present ; and the absence of all perishable external covering. TILE MOORS. The Scotsman notes that according to the present returns at least twice as many grouse have been killed this season in Perthshire as in the two pre vious seasons, and there have been no complaints about small-sized or bad-conditioned birds. There is left on all the moors a good stock of healtny birds for breeding next year. The mountain hare shooting, is still being prosecuted with vigour, and the number of hares killed is almost without a precedent in Perthshire. Partridge shooting has been better than was anticipated, but owing to the bare state of the stubble fields, there has been little cover, and the coveys have flown wide. (From the Anglo-American Times.) A San Francisco telegram states that a document was found on the 30th August last, on the coast of California, at San Buenaventura, relating to Sir John Franklin. The document has been evidently cest into the water at lat. 70, long. 98. It says that a party, numbering 105, under the command of F. Crozier, deserted the ships Erebus and Terror, and wintered at Beechy Island in the year 1846-7 ; that Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847 ; and that the party succeeded in reaching the above latitude, where the relics of Sir John Ross were dis covered. Other incidents are told. The only other telegrams are— " The joint commission for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies has awarded to those companies $450,000 and $200,000 re spectively. According to an official statement the Govern- newspaper man is nowadays pretty sure to be at tbd top. At Hartford, Connecticut, L. G. Riggs, editor of the Meriden Recorder, was struck over the head, Aug. 31, by Wilber F. Parker. The instrument used was the heavy end of a horsewhip, which knocked down and considerably bruised the editor, whom the mail left in a very critical state. The cause was au article reflecting on ex-Mayor Charles Parker, his father. The assailant has not got off, however, un scathed of law, for he has been sentenced to the longest term that could be passed on him in the police court, while he has been sued as well for $1.0,000 damages. But it must not be supposed that editors arc always like lambs led to the slaughter, for no small share of the beating and shooting Is done by them. For instance, on the same day, the editor of the Morning .Nezcs, of Savannah, assaulted the deputy postmaster of that city for refusing to deliver the mails to . his journal; and such report° from the South are so common, that we are justified in classing these assaults under the bead of inar propriate pastimes. TIM AUTUMN 11ANDICAPS. ACCEPTANCES FOR STA THE CESAREWITCI I KES. Age st lb The Palmer ... 5 9 3 Seo Saw ... ... 4 8 13 Cecil ... 4 8 9 Rosicrucian ... 4 8 9 Kidderminster ... 5 8 9 Cock of the Walk... 4 8 8 Tarabau 5 8 7 Paul Jones ... 4 8 4 Gap-a-pie 4 8 4 Goodwood... 5 8 4 Duke of Beaufort... 3 8 0 Fair Wind ... 5 7 11 Gondolier 4 7 11 Sycoe 5 7 9 Robespierre ... 3 7 9 Starter ... 3 7 8 Morna ... 3 7 8 Nancy ... 6 7 8 The Laird 4 7 8 Sidcrolite ... 3 7 7 Olomouc° ... 4 7 7 Legislator 4 7 7 Marquis of Carabas 4 7 6 The Special a 7 6 Etoilo Filante 6 7 2 Birthday ... ... 3 7 0 Myosotis 3 6 12 John Davis ... a 6 12 Adrastia 3 6 12 Robin Rover 3 6 10 Tasman ... 3 6 10 Ago st lb Phantom " 4 6 9 Tramp ... 3 6 ( 9 ) *** Conrado ~ 3 6 .; Prouesse 4 6 Our Mary Ann 4 6 Vauichka 3 6 Ladas 3 6 a . Lopez 3 6 6 Stork 3 6 v A Dodona, : : 3 6 Red Cap „:„ a 6 Peabody 3 6 ‘ ,. 3 *** Provider .6 3 6 5 Gardener a Atonement 3 6 Vallation g ••• 4 513 :; Red Rico *"3 5 1 ,1 Royal Head 3 6 1 5 :; Vladimir 3 1 5 Crown Princess 3 5 11 Storm King 3 5 Assineboine ~5 5 n e *" Miss Peddie colt 3 s g v Lady Evelyn filly 5 3 g - Vacuum 3 5 K. Alfred's dam I *** ••• 3 5 d i Cherie 3 5 1 i Lamlash 3 5 d Toby 3 5 f i Aubad0......3 5 ' ACCEPTANCES FOR ST Age st lb Knight of Garter... 5 10 7 Vespasian 6 10 6 Blue Gown 4 9 12 Friponnier ... 5 9 9 See Saw ... 4 9 7 The Palmer ... 5 9 6 Laneret 6 9 f. Rosicrucian ... 4 9 2 Sileuus 5 9 0 King Alfred ... 4 9 0 Saladin a 8 12 Plaudit 5 8 12 Cecil 4 8 10 Xi 6 8 10 Uharnwood 4 8 Typliceus ... 4 8 8 Nelusko 4 8 6 Duke of Beaufort,.. 3 8 5 Goodwood... 4 8 4 Cornet 4 8 4 Osbaldeston ... 3 8 4 Van Amburgh 5 8 3 Morns 3 8 3 Taraban 5 8 3 St Ronan 8 0 Vagabond 3 8 0 Viscount ... 4 8 0 Bel Giorno 4 8 0 Historian a 8 0 Perry Down 3 7 13 Lady &Aland ... 4 712 Cardinal York 3 7 12 Starter ... 3 7 11 Clemonce 4 7 11 Robespierre 3 7 10 Ladas 3 7 10 Islam 3 7 9 Dunbar 3 7 9 Epworth ... 4 7 9 Heather 801 l ... 3 7 8 La Maladotta f ~. 3 7 8 John Leech 4 7 8 Ste] k 3 7 7 Fair Wind... ... 5 7 7 Nancy 6 7 6 Benbo w 3 7 6 Virgule ... 4 7 6 Border Knight 3 7 6 Brambridge 3 7 4 Slcipjack 5 7 4 Etoile Filanto ... 6 7 4 Michael de Bascoo 4 7 2 Mdlle. de Fligny f 3 7 1 Adrastia ... 3 7 0 I'HE CAMBEIDGES .KE6. l b Age 5 0 Numa Pompilius 6t 5 6 0 Prior ... ••• lO Phantom ... •• 1 0 Standard Bearer " 66 0 Robin Rover ••• 610 Toison d'Or 0') 6 1 0 Chanoinesse 3 6 0 Miss Dayrell g 6 0 9 Bosworth a 6 Lopez • 6 Pompeii ••• 3 6 AMnatehdeneff 4 6 S Tramp ... ••• 36 6 Defender •"• 3 3 6 e Curious° •• 3 6 ' 1 Cocoa Nut—. ••• 3 6 / Far Away... ••• 3 6 Anlace ..• 3 6 Royal Italie •• 3 6 - 6 Neuchatel... ••• 3 6 6 Chatelherault ••• 3 6 Atonement •••• 3 6 6 Bertha .. •• 3 6 6 Peabody ... ..•• 6 Teeswator... • 3 3 6 4 Dodona ••.: 3 6 4 Jove • 3 6 Provider ... ••• 4 6 Iferennianus ••• 6 VeStlttillSter •:: 3 3 6 Winifred ... • 3 6 3 Royal Head ••• 6 0 Vacuum ... ••• 3 6 0 Red Rice ••• 3 6 0 Vladimir ••• 3 6 6 Wanderer ... ••• 3 6 i s Allbrook •.• •45 4 1 Vallation g ••• 4 5 ; 0 The Returned ••• s' o a Kaupai e ••• 3 0 Juanita ... ••• 5: 0 Lady Evelyn f ••• 3 o 5 i Turret 5 ••• 5 9 1 Assineboine ••• 5 .t s n in tfotm . A a if red .: • , 3 3 5 5 / 1 Lamlash ••• 3 5 1 Di Spanker • ••• 3 5 Cherie 3 ° Toby "• 3 , Aubade 3 Grasshopper f. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening' WHITEHALL, SErT. 15. Ar ebi g The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev; ; sty bald Hamilton Charteris D.D., to be one of her 3-iNnf Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland, in the wore " William Muir, deceased. joof, Tlle Queen ha s b een pl ease d t o p r esent the no - to, I " Macnair, M.A., to the ctiurch and parish of CanonPojath the Presbytery of Edinburgh, and county of Alid-L° vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Daniel Dl i° ' ADMIRALTY, SErT. 13. Am 1 0 The following Flag Promotions, to date from the instant, have been this day made, in consequerl, death of Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes, -K.' l " ; , , r olgifr ACTIVE LIST. Vice-Admiral John Elphinstone;al to be Admiral in her Majesty's Fleet ; Rear-Ad,tirs l ,, A ° Hon. George Fowler Hastings, 0.13., to be Vice - A" e to " her Majesty's Fleet; Capt. James Newburgh S Rear-Admiral in her Majesty's Fleet. . AO O 9 0 RESERVED LlST.—Vice-Admirals George The, Elliott, John Jervis Tucker, Brunswick Pophara 9 l lo o " Ogle, George Evans, Frederick Bullock, and Buss e ` . „, e , to be Admirals. & coy RETIRED LlST.—Vice-Admirals Sir John :Val; K.C.8., John Frederick Appleby, George Charicooel, 008 and Alfred Luckraft, to be Admirals; Captains,,„ 11 4 P/ 13aldock and George Augustus Bedford to 0 " Admirals. of th SEPT. 15. following Ca T p Le inuenry missions given by Vice-Admiral Sir Ge° l l (3 ool, e ,, Bl li , H p a r r v o me ,have h i o a n v s e , b c e e e n n s emqaudeon,t confirmson the f l io d o o ll; Mundy, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her st )." ships and vessels on the North American and e Statics, with seniority of 20th July, to jo 1 0 1 Commander Henry Frederick Nicholson in Majesty's L h i e e ruantLeonardle Lieutenant mender yet Dacres to be Com Majesty's Fleet. to o b e r i 0 1 ‘ Lle ~ .. Acting Sub-Lieut enan t C ec il B roo k e Palmer tenant (conditionally on hi s pass i ng the n t34 amination), with the same seniority. SEPT. 16. Lieutenant Francis Durrant to be COMI II to seniority of 2d September, 1869. ciss o- 6 9, Acting Lieutenant James Joseph Lawson Lieutenant, confirmed with seniority of Ist ae j ci c0n°,, " 53, [ADVERTISEMENT.] llySpepSitt (Indigestion , ' t 0 • c Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, biliees , ,,,a 01 3 DY liver complaints in every stage, are only aggrava`ra,Dl ° 4o .0 rated health drugs of every description, but perfectlY ro'pi-A Ilarry'srestoring Revalenta Arabica Food , ewe, com p Le e r thousands of cases which had been considered hfi er coe t lipte e r —cough, asthma, also diarrheas., hemorrhoids , rlk o r flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore te' n j ea' ria, catarrhs, colds, influen za , no i ses in the head a ur alalae naatism, gout, impurities, eru pti ons, hysteria, I ' o o o, ' O 4 O O O debility, dropsy, cramps, bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartioi,ooo,,,,iteo,l pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis , or d bet: t or9ll° spasms, nausea, and e io ;fala,..TA Df of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach sn u b r 0 7,66-', o o' shoulders, &e. We quote a few :—The Pope's Wl', i g, 1 , 0 0 , 0 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, J ill ' ioce , IP,te health of the Holy Father is excellent, ing all other remedies, he has confined himself svoiseeo;ool'oot Barry's Revalenta. Arabica Food, of which he co . I ,OS l tO °spe cially B , l3t ire pl .O l ful at every meal. It has produced a surPr i r;ihiso. ,jef , effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pral bvtiacof food too highly.—From tho "Gazette du Midi, o f od , No. 96,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber Merella' a 1000 0 ;io Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, aPi tt ll.- - 415 , 9P1,0 1 derangement, and partial deafness! Cure No. 1, ear s ~,s p eo lo a de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of manY Y fr ora (." o p? 0." No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agoll„ t aleeetot1 0 00 0 nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, 1- rts et i ota die sickness, and vomiting.—Maria July." IMP s iepPY ll Beware of the many unsavoury and more than ~,els' '*" 0 ' , IDS fl 4 to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's M"^" - 40,0 ciously attached 51ha CO" O s io In tins, at I s lid; Ilb 2s 9,1; 21bs 4s ; - . 01 0. 21 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARE,Y'S REYALENTA .213, '; 01 0 ' O O O POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cePr r at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 300, To o ttyle'of tad —being about one penny per cup. The 305 apt..o lll %aoii ; free of carriage in England on receipt of tr ' o i„ BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Ragou t -5 all Grocers and Chemists eA tbA~# BIRTHS. Of COLES—On the 17th inst , at Spencer UotiOt n.P' common, the wife of Captain Cowpe r e tc, son. VICKERS—On the 16th inst., at 15 IlYal r r-- coleo , t i j o wife of Stanley Vicars, 11. P., of a' daugb'e- IrAdj daughter cuh : can : G. f. O t i _Al o Af tb fA e G l6 E t g h . st stori c, o o P : Hancock — , FIT if to Alic ° l Ao'f tt K erald Captain R. ' I the late Lieut .- Col. A. Park, "30 0 ,10 of 0 . F. Hancock, Esq , of Hendon Hall, 3 11 0, fa' Estes q .0 N f r n f t o h r e d t o h dg i eS clina.;i'ocilitelea::,, 100 Sarah Jane, second danghter. of T• F. W l° Littleberries, Mill-hill, Hendon. rr' DEATHS. 01 )(1 BERNEY—On the 15th • t at Morton g a l l, ° Trench Berney, E,q.,masged 86. OO T bo ~t , , tro, PY GRAHAM On the 16th inst , Gordon-Oultt'lice GrahanT, Esq. D.C.L I' It S Master of tbo gt' aged 64. ' '' '• '' Pi HOOFER—On the 15th inst., Charles Hooper/ sel.' ington House, Gloucestershire, aged 6 0 . ` v 1, London: Printed and Published by Of ` WILLIOI4° ,4- lig, til3 ,. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T EM SUN Office o,llo°' iu the Precinct of tho Savoy, in the C o unty .- Saturday, September 18, 1369