The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT CPT THE EDW. IC JTUTiNALS, - The Times hopes that the decisive expression of. opinion: On the Bill for the Abolition of Capital Punishment by a Reformed House of Commons will fur a while repress the agitation of this question. It must be felt that the change one which ought not to be held out to the popular expectation unless there is reasonable ground to think it Will be approved by Parliament. Such a course fosters ,that very uncertainty of punishment which the advocates of the measure so much deprecate. &cause the law has failed to deter - some persons, it does not follow that it has not deterred many others ; and how many these may be it is impossible to say. We only know from universal experi ence that the love of life and the fear of death are among the strongest passions in human nature. It may even be observed that the latest evidence of this universal feeling is furnished by the advocates of this measure themselves. Their horror of inflicting death is but an exaggerated reflection of the horror with which death is regarded by men in general. Now death we believe to be the only adequate, and there fore the only just, retribution for murder. and for this reason a licalthy public feeling will always support capital We cannot, indeed, refrain from observing that the very countries inn bids the abolition of capital punishment finds most favour are precisely those in which . human life is least valued and violent crimes the least reprobated. To judge from experience, it is not a sense of the sanctity of life, but the lack of such a sense, which disposes people to remit this punishment. Where life is duly valued justice is felt to demand that life should answer for life ; where it is inadequately valued a similar instinct of jus tice is content with a lower penalty. If, in any given class of cases, the :entente of death has become a mere form, and that on grounds which commend them selves both to judges and to the public, there is certainly strong reason for considering whether the law should not be brought into conformity with custom. No doubt the appellant jurisdiction of the Home Secretary requires modification, especially in cases where fresh evidence is admitted after the trial. But it is doubtful whether, in dealing with capital convictions, we can ever dispense with a strong discretionary power. We greatly doubt, in short, whether a more rigid system than the present would be found more satisfactory. The Standard thinks that the secret of leaving the con, sideration of the Scotch Education Bill until the fag•end of the session lies in a curious intrigue, in which some of the subordinate members of the government are the prin cipal actors, though, as usu..:; They have succeeded in dragging their superiors into their quarrel. For years past there has been growing up in Scotland a desire to have their affairs managed by a Secretary, instead of by the Lord Advocate, who is of necessity a lawyer. These pleas and counter-pleas went on for several weeks, and till they were settled all action on the Schools Bill was postponed. At last the Lord Advocate triumphed ; the question of the Secretary is pcstponed sine die; and the education scheme is to be managed, as the Lord Advocate 1 first proposed, by a board. Ills victory, however, is 'dearly won. His opponents are furious at their defeat, and they are now intriguing in their turn to defeat the bill for the present session in order that the whole question may be considered next year. In the meantime they are loud in their denunciations of the Government, who, they say, have deceived them not only in this matter of the secretary, but also in putting the bill at the last moment into a shape that makes it as little 'acceptable to them as to the House of Lords. And so the people of Scotland are to be defrauded out of a measure which they had been promised, and on which they had set their hearts, on account of a miserable ,squabble for place and dignity between the Ministerial subordinates, and because the Ministers, while shewing their contempt for ono branch of the Legislature, have failed to conciliate the other. We cannot pretend to be sorry that the adherence of Scotland to the Liberal in terestbas met with such a reward at the hands of the men in whom they reposed their faith, and we believe that the heartburning and irritation which are now so openly expressed among the Scotch members is but a pre -sage of the complete break up, at no distant day, of the once compact Liberal majority. The Telegraph refers to the report just presented by Mr. Currie at a meeting of the Emigration Fund Society, held at the Mansion House, with regard to the Dominion of Canada, and Mr. Currie says that he has himself been an employer of labour in that hapless Poplar district which of late years has suffered so terribly ; he has taken much interest in the various attempts to relieve its temporary stagnation—or, to speak more correctly, congestion—of labour ; and he has shewn that interest, in a creditably practical way, by crossing the Atlantic and studying the matter with his own eyes, on the spot to which it is proposed that emigrants should be sent. Substantially, his account tallies with that of all other trustworthy witnesses. Neither in Canada, nor in the Mountains of the Moon, nor in any other known place, can idle and foolish people prosper well. On the other hand, if a man is ready to work, knows a trade, and will live decently, he can at once get fairly remunerative employment, with a certainty of rapid improvement. Here, then, in the new "Dominion" is work for a good detachment; and there are dozens of other localities which stand as much in need of English labourers as English labourers at home stand in need of food, and of that independence which is the daily bread of the soul. " The pity of it" is that the whole thing should be still ;n such a wild, chaotic condi .tion. You find swarms of poor people setting off "to the colonies," with about as much notion of what lies before them as that possessed by the thousands who joined the " Crusade of the Children" to perish mise rably long before they could reach the Holy Land. Surely it is not yet too late to introduce some kind of order into all this chaos. There are two great problems before practical English statesmen, inextricably linked 'together—Education and Emigration—and in the wise solution of these two lies the only remedy for the ugly third problem, Pauperism. We should say, for our own part, that it was highly necessary to revise our emigration system--if we could only perceive that we had at present, any "system" whatever to revise. The Herald remarks that it is possible, if there were no Patent Law, poor inventors would often be generously rewarded by rich employers when they hit upon a useful idea. So in the same way, if there were no law establish. ing a monopoly for the owner in quartern loaves people who helped themselves out of a baker's shop might some times reward the baker. Bakers, however, prefer to have their reward ensured to them by law, and to call the pro cess one of sale and purchase, and inventors seem for the most part to travel in the same grooves of thought. 11 the confusion that does sometimes arise in conse quence of many patents being taken out about the same kind of inventions be really growing and worth a legislative remedy, it might be dealt with in various ways, without resorting to such a rough-and ready plan as the abolition of the present law alto gether. No one amongst the warmest defenders of the principle of that law declares it perfect in details. It is quite an open question how far it might he desirable to exercise a supervision over the grant of patents by means of some competent scientific tribunal, so that the occupa tion of too much ground by any one man might be pre vented, and the unfair obstruction of other inventors or manufacturers be guarded against. At present, while the Commissioners of Patents are merely law officers, the 'rights conferred under the Great Seal are scrambled for, and if too much is given at random to one man, people who suffer have to dispute his claims by regular legal proceedings. It might be possible to revise all existing patents, curtailing some rights at present enjoyed, even abrogating others, and afterwards keeping watch over the grant of new monopolies ; but to shirk the work of law reform, and advocate the abolition of law, is surely a very strange course for great lawyers to adopt. The Post, in discussing Captain Tyler's report on the passage of the Channel, says that the crossing of the 309,479 persons who faced the passage was effected under conditions which do not look very inviting, for it appears that of the 365 days in the year only 90 are npon au average distinguished by calm weather in the Channel, while 102 are marked by what is called with grim irony " a good round sea and breezes," and 29 by " gales and storms with heavy seas." It is unavoidable that it should be more or less disagreeable to cross a twenty-mile strait where, as in the Channel, two tidal waves meet, and where_ there is so much strength and so little duration in the prevailing winds. But it really seems as if the passage were studiously made more dis agreeable than it nee d be. The s t eamers employed are very small, generally dirty ? and in all cases utterly destitute of any adequate provision for rendering the voyage endur able ; so that, even in fine weather, they arrive at the end of their journey with a freight of limp, helpless creatures, who are for the most part lying where they have happened to fall in a state of helpless aban donment. lii this condition they are compelled to collect together their rugs, bandboxes, and carpet-bags, and, bung round with luggage, to scale a pier lined with spectators, to whom their small but very real miseries are a delight. There is, however, no good reason why we should for ever be condemned to small and dirty steamers for making , the passage between the two countries. Captain 'Tyler tells us that the ex penditere of £lOO,OOO at Dover and of £500,000 at would render those two ports at least available for vt=isrls 'if vel:eient tonpage and draught of water to be adeT:ate for a fixed service capable of Icing carried on at any time of tide, in any state of weather, and with adequate cmi,fort to passengers. Surely this would be comparatively a very small sum to pay for so great a boon. The Slat. 1 , 111:01:3 that in laying submarine cables so great au improvement has been wrou;d that, when the electrical instrument 3 revealed the existence of a fault, not more than a mile of the French caLle had to be recovered before Mr. Smirch was enabled to lay hands upon the treacherou3 NI ire which. had perforated the gutta-percha ; while to cut out the fault and to resplice the cable was to him an easy task. Three times this delicate and dangerous operation was rendered necessary ; and when the last fracture was discovere 1, less resolute men might well have despaired of the issue. An Atlantic gale rag in g with ho toms violence that even the Great Ea ;tern pitched an 1 rolled, and her decks were swept. by angry seas ; villen it is remembered flint C a pt a i n il a lpi n hail to lack his ship against wind and waves, it is not surprising that the cable should have snapped ander the harsh strain. The marvel is that the broken end was stopped on its flight towards the ocean in sufficient time to enable the men to fasten it to a buoy, and thus to ensure its recovery without the tedious proem oi graPPlitz- IIZATY DAMAGES, 'ln theDivoreeCinniforiVedneadiTUDAPenzanee anda common jury were engaged in trying the of ' 1 Moore v. Moore and Lees." The petitioner, a captain in the army, - and . son of General George Moore, married the respondent, a physician's daughter, in 1861. He u;aiSubse quently ordered to India, where he was accompanied by his wife. In 1867 the petitioner joined the expedition to Abyssinia and the respondent returned home. She made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, and lived with him at several places ; and ultimately she wrote to the petitioner's mother, acknowledging that she was living in adultery. The facts were not denied, and the counsel for the co-respondent contented himself with address. ing the jury on the subject of a mitigation of damages, observing that this case differed from others where the co-respondent was a friend of the hneband's.—The learned Judge, in his summing up, told the jury that the case was one for substantial damages, and a verdict was given for the petitioner as to the adultery, with £1,500 damages. THE ALLEGED ABDUCTION OF A JEIVEBS. . - -The famous Jewish abduction case in South Wales is being investigated at the Glamorganshire Assizes by Mr. Baron Channell and a jury of nine. When the jury were called, only ten made their ap pearance, when it was agreed that one should be struck off, and the case proceeded with. Great excitement was manifested in the neighbourhood, crowds being assembled outside the Town Hall. A girl named Esther Lyons, daughter cf a respectable Jewish family in Cardiff, left her Lome and was found to have become a Christian, living under the protection of a Baptist minister and his wife, named Thomas, also of Cardiff: The parents of the girl charge Mr. and Mrs. Thomas with abduction. The defendants put in an affidavit affirming that they had not detained her, but that she complained of her mother's ill-usage and wished to leave home. The girl was brougl.t into court, and her mother, who had not seen her since March last year, became much agitated, and on her daughter's refusal to come to her, fainted, and had to be taken out of court. Mr. Lyons, the girl's father, gave his evidence in much 'excitement, and denied that his daughter was ever ill-used at home. Sarah Carver, a young girl who had been employed by Mr. Lyons, was mixed up in the affair, and gave evidence to the eff,ct that Esther had gone voluntarily to Mrs. Thomas's. The case is expected to last for same days. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. " Overend, Gurney, and Co." were again before the Lord Chancellor on Wednesday. his lordship gave judgment in an appeal a..;atnst a decision of Vice-Chancellor Matins ~re? i ulirg a demurrer to a bill filed by the official liqui dator, making the director of the company responsible to the shareholders for the losses sustained by the company, by reason of the purchase of Overend, Gurney, and Co. Ills lordship observed that fraud was not alleged against the directors. The bill charged them with having acted imprudently in completing 'the purchase without calling a meeting of the shareholders. But full power, said his lordship, was given to the directors to purchase the business on such terms as they might think fit. A breach of trust not being alleged against the directors, this was not a case in which the court could entertain a suit against the directors. Although the business of Overend, Gurney, and Co. at the time of the purchase was in debt to the extent of £2,000,000, yet at that time the debts due to that company amounted to £4,000,000, and there was ground for believing that although some of these were doubtful debts, a great portion of them might be recovered in course of time. Moreover, of the £500,000 which the new company was to pay to the old company for the purchase of the business, £250,000 was to be set apart as a guarantee against bad debts of the old frm, and the other £250,000 was to be expended by the partners' old firm in the purchase of shares in the new company. The direc tors of the new company had grounds for believing that by conducting the busines.ss in an improved way it might become a very flourishing one. No doubt the speculation into which they entered was tazafdons, bid that was the characteristic cf all trades, and especially of bill-broking. It could not be said that the bargain into which the directors entered on behalf of the company was absurd, and if it had turned out to be a Lad bargain the share. holders must take the consequences. L.4JV AND POLICE. ENFORCING CHURCH RATES.—In the Court of Arches, on Wednesday, an application was made to Sir R. Phi E lmore to accept letters of request to enforce payment of a church rate at St. Mary Brodin, Canterbury. The letters were accepted, and several witnesses called in support of the rate. The amount was 4s. 2d. The Queen's Advocate, for the defendants, raised several I, gal ol,j.•ctions, and his lordship, at the conclusion ef the case, said he should re serve his judgment.—Another church-rate case was tried, the plaintiffs being the churchwardens of Whitchurch, Hants, and the principal objection being that the lay rector had not been assessed, and that the chancel had been repaired. The question was whether the holder 'of the tithe rent-charge was not bound to repair the chancel. One of the churchwardens was examined, and said that a loan bad been obtained from the Public Loan Commissioners, and the rate was to pay off the first instalment. The Queen's Advocate, for the defendant, raised several objections. Judgment reserved. THE OUTRAGE AT DOVER.—At Maidstone, Tracy Clayton, a private in the 97th Regiment, was charged with assaulting Emma Wade with intent to murder her. The little girl identified the prisoner as the man who had assaulted her and thrown her over the cliff at Dover. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Justice Mellor said that it was one of the very worst cases that had ever come before him. He felt it his duty to sentence him to penal servitude for life. THE DOVER MURDZR.—At Maidstone Charles Waldrick, a private in the Royal Engineers, was charged with the murder of William Barnes. The prisoner Lad deliberately shot the deceased, who was a corrorai in the same regi ment. It was believed that the prisoner's mind was unsound, and the jury returned a verdict .to that effect. He was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. THE GRAVESEND ELECTION. —At the Maidstone Assizes, on Wednesday, several persons were charged with rioting in Gravesend in last November. The riot occurred at the time of the parliamentary election, the first election that has ever taken place in that borough. The defendants, who supported the Liberal candidate, were so much incensed at finding the Conservative in a majority, that they assembled with a number of other persons and broke a thousand panes of glass in the houses of the opposite side. One of the polling-booths was entirely demolished. The Lord Chief Baron suggested that the defendants should pay for the damage and costs, but they would not agree to do so, and the case was adjourned. THE VOLUNTEER CAMP AT SHOEBURYNESS.- Preparations have been commenced at Shoeburyness for the camp in which the volunteer artillerymen from all parts of the kingdom will be located during the ensu ing week. The formation of the camp has been en trusted to men of the Royal Artillery, aided by the staff employed by the association, and already great progress has been made. Consequent upon the large number of entries, greater space has had to be taken up than that used last year for the camp. It is anticipated that by Saturday next the camp will be ready for occupation, but the volunteers will not arrive till Monday, when it opens. SELLING BABIES BY AUCTION.—A California manager has adopted the expedient with regard to babies at the theatre which the manager of the Royal Alfred, in London, was compelled to abandon. All mothers bringing infants in arms are required to leave them in a side room next the box office, where they are checked or tagged in such manner as not to get "mixed," and to escape the ac cident of mistaken identity. This was done at the Alfred, but the mothers did not come for their babies, and the theatre was thus made a sort of foundling hospital; but at Gold-hill, in California, the door-keeper of Piper's Opera House is subject to no embarrassment whatever about the uncalled-for babies. He simply sends them to an auction store. There they are sold for the benefit of the manage. ment. At Gold-hill a baby is a wellspring of happiness worth many ounces of the precious metal ; in the New Cut, Lamb e th , a b aby is oftentimes a little Ft-palling incubus to be shaken off. The world has its contrasts. — Philadelphia Ledger. WHOLESALE APPREIIENSION OF ENGLISH MC'S rOCKETS IN GERMA NY .—r or some time past the principal watering-places in Germany have been infested by an organised 'gang of English Pivkpot;kets, who have carried on their depredations to an alarming extent, particularly at Ems, Homburg, and Frankfort - on-the-Maine. Grown bold by success, one of them, a luau named Henry Keen, bad the audacity to attempt to rob Fazil Pasha, the brother to the Viceroy of Egypt, of .£2,100 while lie was at Homburg ; but the delinquent was detected, and intmediately apprehended. For that affair he w as sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour. The police, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, under the able direction of Dr. riumpiT, have been most ener getic in their efforts to catch these depredators on the public, and have succeeded in taking no less than sixteen of them. Amongst the prisoners are two women, and they are all now lodged in the gaoll4 • Frankfort to await their trials. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1869. 111ISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TIM 112 kLytt OP THE - PREMIER. Mr. Gladstone's health is considerably better. A marked improvement has shewn itself. There is every symptom of a speedy recovery. THE IRISH CHURCH CRISIS. There are unhappily seine indistinct signs of divi sion in the Irish Church on the question of the governing body. The " clerical'? party, as it is called, wishes to assemble the synods of Armagh and Dublin to discuss that subject. The " lay" section holds it as indispensable that laymen should take some part in all the proceedings of the disestablished Church. It is to be hoped that the discussion may soon be set at rest. If bitterness of spirit once arise, disestablishment will become to the Irish Church an el it indeed. It is stated that some of the Dublin clergy omitted from the prayers on Sunday last the petition that " true religion" may be " established among us." The Rev. Dr. Irons, of -- Brampton, - writes signing himself " W. J. I." to the Post, giving some advice to Irish Churchmen at this crisis. Ile indignantly re pudiates the doctrineheld by some persor s t hat the Irish Church cannot succeed without the State's aid. The Church, -he says, is not a mere political institution, it is something more, and the " something more " the spirituality, the creeds, the sacraments, and the hierarchy—have that within them that must prevail. He thinks the taunt of worldliness which the " spoilers of its goods" throw out at the Church an unworthy one; a taunt notwithstand ing which Churchmen must take to themselves so *hat it be not true. They must now bestir them selves to work. They have happily no doctrine to settle ; they accept " the faith of ancient Christen dom ;" the dioceses are known ; all about them has already been stated. " There is nothing, indeed, at this moment to hinder anyhigh-minded bighop in Ire land from obtaining an exact map of his diocese, and marking on it, before the outlines become more dim, all the details of its system, all its wants, all its apparent poesibilities." Vr hen these facts have been obtained by the bishop he should summon his priests to meet him -in-his cathedral, together with all the landlords of his diocese, in congress or conference ; there might then be mailed out the work needful to be performed, each bishop being in constant communi cation with his brother bishop, and all being held together by the Primate. To the head of the pro vince reference should be made in case of need. Thus, Dr. Irons thinks, the Church mayovercome and get out of its difficulties. thfie 15,017.—The Owl understancia that it is the intention of the -Admiralty gito carry out the suggestions which have been 'made from time to - time by commanders-in-chief in the Medi terranean, and-to .effect a junction of the Channel and Mediterranean squadrons. This project - will be carried out at the end of August, when the combined fleet will rendezvous at Gibraltar.—A marriage is arranged between the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Albortha Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Abercorn. question chewed that whilst Prussia professed to fight on behalf of German unity, her first object was not German unity hut conquest. Is it to be expected that the Austrians Would refrain from letting the smaller German States know this? THE WIND-UP. The Ministerial whitebait dinner is limed to take place at the Brunswick Hotel, Blackwall, on Satur day, the 7th:of August. This is ominous ; but - it is by no means the only indication that our rulers have had enough of law-making for one year. The house of Lords is getting through its business at the customary July pace. At the last sitting it dis posed of such measures as the County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, the Contagious Diseases Act, and some half-dozen others, with scarcely a comment. The House of Com mons treats the claims of divers social measures with sublime indifference. On Tuesday the Scotch Parochial Schools Bill came up in committee, and the members forthwith went to work to find out whether they would be able to pass it this session. They spent so much time in considering whether they had any time, that after five hours " work " they had got only to Clause Three. TEE SERE AISD YELLOW LEAF. is clear that the end of the season of sense is at hand. Every sign points to it. The famous paper which cannot tolerate unnatural dul ness h rs a l rea d y commencedits autumnal career of unnatural liveliness. In addition to its adventure with the moon at St. Cloud, it perpetrated a whole leader on a story of Maximilian's widow playing roulette at Spa. Unfortunately this was only more moonshine, for the unhappy lady has not been to Spa. Then an attempt is being made to prove that the woman, Fanny Oliver, now under sentence of death, did not poison her husband. One correspon dent thinks that the arsenic might have been accidentally inhaled ; but this gentleman admita that it would be difficult to inhale sufficient to cause death—and yet the man died. Lrstly, the sermon question has made its appearance. A " Presbyter" proposes to mitigate the dulness of sermons by allowing the congregation the option of hearing them or not, and by "a peculiar adaptation of the style to the circumstances of the hearers." " Presbyter's" own letter shews that this latter improvement is quite possible. THE CONSERVATIVE FALTy LEADERS. There is continually being raised a discussion about the Conservative party leaders in the Lords. I Lord Derby has retired, and there is no member of the House of Lords to fill his place. Mr. Disraeli, for reasons often discussed, seems, though he keeps his party well together, to have no hold on its loyalty. But he is not in the House of Lords. In that chamber are three men regarded as competing for leadership, Lord Cairns, the Marquis of Salis- . bury, and Lord Carn:irvon. The Daily Sews, in a leader on their relative merits, s •ys that ne:th,r can lead. Lord Cairns follows. 11,1 does w bat Earl Der: y tells him until he finds the advice cannot be carried out ; then he obtains instructions from Mr. Dis raeli. The Marquis of Salisbury is somewhat opposed to Mr. Lisraeli. He has not, however, yet obtained one victory over him. Ile was defeated on Reform ; he. has again been beaten this year on Concurrent Endowment. And the Marquis is still the narrow Lord Robert Cecil, though for a time he seemed to gel outside his prejudices. Ile rapidly rose in public estimation ; he has this session quite as rapidly fallen. Ile has not advanced with his time. The Earl of Carnarvon is still further out of the question as a le ;der. He retrogrades rather than advances. Mr. Disraeli must really learn how to be in two places at the same time. ENGLISII AND FRENCH POLITICIANS. One of the ablest Paris papers contrilsts the French and English systems of political training. In France anyone may be returned to Parliament at th e age o f 26, but few politicians get there before 40. French men fight their way up in the world, spend the best years of their lives in trade or at the bar, and then take a seat in the Legislative Chamber as the reward of their success. In England, on the contrary, many able men are training to politics by entering Parlia ment very early. Mr. Gladstone became an M.P. at — 23, a year after he left the University; Mr. Disraeli, who had not simil ar a d van t ages, c o mmenced political life at 32, . 1 ..11r. Chichester Fortescne at 24, .Pitt at 21, & c . O ur con t emporary thinks the English plan of training, according to which young men begin political life early, and fight their way from post to post, the b'3tter one. It is to be noted, however, that the English system is prac ticable only in the case of men who enjoy early ad vant.iges. Our merchants and literary men do not get into Parliament any sooner than the French. TUE DEANERY OF DURHAM'. The Record may rest in peace ; Dr. Temple has declined the deanery of Durham. Ile has done so on account of the passage of the Endowed Schools Bill. That measure will make a revolution at Rugby, where he is head master, and the Doctor believes it his duty to fix his attention on the institution over which he presides. Ile was one of the commissioner? who drew up the report on middle-class education. He naturally, therefore, would wish to have the carrying out of reforms which he himself was one to suggest. TIIE WEAKNESS OF PROTESTANTISM. The Church News gives up the Irish disestablished body. So long as it was the supported of the State, the Irish Church might struggle on ; now the weak ness—the vices—of Protestantism will shcw them selves. The News believes it true that the dis established Church w ill be no match for its Roman Catholic competitor. "If there is one lesson that stands out more prominently than another all over the world at the present day, it is the proved imbecility of Protestantism in religious warfare. Socially and politically, Protestantism may do much, and will do much, in the form of worldliness and Liberalism. It makes men discreet lovers of the present world, and gains credit by its cultivation of the arts of prosperous living. But as a religion and as a positive system Protes tantism is every day exhibiting incurable weakness everywhere, and skews its consciousness of this by taking refuge in politics and controversy." To what religion dces the journal which writes thus own allegiance ? TO CAPITALISTS. • 'General Lnperon's agent in London warns capi talists not to invest in the 700,000 loan now adver tised on behalf of the San Domingo Government, of which President Baez is the head. Luperon is striving to overturn Baez. Some little time ago we announced by cable that the former had capture(' Samara, and his agent adds to this information the statement that the whole island is declaring fot Luperon. Baez and his Government are, therefore in a shaky condition. and any money lent to their w:11 be lost if General I.nperon sle..!: o,ls. It may be added that the capitalist who will send hard ens% tc an LonEngo, whichever party succeeds, must bo overburdened with a superfluity which he might get rid of to more advantage. " OWL'S" LIGHT. The news items in the Orcl are of an exceedingly meagre descripti o n. As was generallyanticipated, the bill of Mr. Tho ma Cha tubers, to Legalise Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, is to be withdrawn, there Lein; no prospect of passing it in the short remainaer of the present session.—The IZ ight Hon. W . N. Massey, late Finance Minister of India, will probably soon be put in nomination for an Irish borough. Mr. Massey co contested Liverpool a t th e genera l e l ec ti on i n the Liberal interest, and had the mortification of polling ware votes than ans other defeated candidate in tilt MARRIED WOMEN'S PEOPEILTY. Miss Becker appeals to the public to help her and her friends to obtain protection for married women. Mr. Russell Gurney's bill amending the law as to married women's property is promoted by a society of which." Elizabeth 0. Wolstenholme " is secretary, and Miss Becker treasurer. The society is preparing for a lengthy campaign on behalf of the measure, and would be very glad of a couple of hundred pounds. The object of the bill, as the reader will remember, is• to reform the common law, which gives the property and eirning,s of a wife to her husband, and thereby to eatend to the poor, who cannot afford the expense of settlements, the protection which (as Mr. Becker hints) the richer classes take care to secure to their own daughters on marriage. VACCINATION. The doctors are taking up the subject of vaccina tion. Several of them addressed a meeting of the Ladies' Sanitary Association on Tuesday. Dr. Garth Wilkinson, Dr. Collins, Dr. A. Haviland, Dr. Pearce, and others, recorded their emphatic protest against compulsory vaccination. They urged that the opera tion was no protection against smallpox ; that it carried consumption and other diseases with it to some, and caused ailments to develope in others. In many cases indeed it pro duced smallpox itself. Lunacy, idiotcy, cancers, tubercules, and many other div.r.ses were stated to have been produced by the operation; and resolutions were passed condemning it, declaring the compulsion to be a breach of the liberty of the sub ject. One of the speakers said, "It was well known by expert veterinary surgeons that Jenner's lymph was the grease arising from long established lung disease in horses. Jenner saturated - old rags with the matter from greasy-heeled horses, and with this ho inoculated." What is the meaning of this ? RAILWAY COMMUNICATION. Some letters to the Times this last day or two call attention to a serious breach of the law on the part of the railway companies. Several of them— the Great 'Western especially—seen' to have talien no notice whatever of the Act enjoining that there shall be communication between passengers, guard, and driver. We have had several descriptions of late of accidents, fires, &c., happening to carriages without the passengers being able to get the train stopped. Who is responsible for the law being carried out ? Would the President of the Board of Trade kindly take the side of the public in this case ? EIfIGDATION FUND. On Tuesday the Lord Mayor presided at a special meeting of the British and Colonial Emigration Fund. Mr. Currie, a member of the committee, read an account of a visit he had made to Canada, and he arrived at the conclusion that nearly all the emigrants sent by the chari table societies were employed, and were also contented with their position. Rethought no country afforded so many instances of success as Canada. Before the meeting separated a. vote of thanks was passed to the Marquis of Westminster for a second donation of £4OOO to the fund. WOOL-GATHERING. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce has long devoted its attention to. stimulating the production of wool in foreign countries and the colonies. The Wool-Supply Committee sends printed documents, embodying the necess.:ry instructions to all parts of the world, is ready to furnish any informa tion needed, and to select rams gratuitously for exportation. The demand for wool, says the council in a report, has fully kept pace with the largely-increased supply. " While in 1831 1,289,172 spindles and 43,048 power looms were employed in the production of worsted yarns and goods, 2,193,210 spindles and 71,660 power looms were in active employment in 1808. Thus there is every proba bility that the worsted manufacture will long be able to afford *remunerating prices for any qu"..n! ity of good serviceable combing wool wlicli the world may be capable of producing." MR. GRENVILLE 3iURP..IY. Mr. Murray is determined not to fade alto gether out of public remembrance. He is now attempting to raise a discussion on the question whether he was " expelled" the Conserratiye Club. He says he was not, urging that ho resigned. Ile may possibly b e right, as any account of what actually took place at the club meeting has not been made public. But, according to the general impres sion, Mr. Murray's resignc lion was not accepted, on purpose that the club, by formally e:zpelling might give greater force to their action in the mater. BALLOCN EXPEP.:MENTS. The captive balloon—not tLe one in Downing street—is doing service in the cause of sJience. Glaisher has been up to different heights at differ( nt times, and he finds that the decline of temperature up in the air at the approach of night is smaller than the decline within the same time at the surface. From three o'clock to seven in the afternoon the decline of temperature on the earth was 33 deg., whilst at the height of 1,000 feet it was 2.t r deg. This and other experiments convince Mr. Glaisher that shortly after sunset the temperature of the air is of the same value up to a very considerable height. CIIOLEDA lii GAMBIA. A complaint has been made by several residents at Bathurst, on the river Gambia, that the recent out break of cholera in that settlement was greatly in tensified by the incompetence of the English ad ministrator in charge—Admiral Patey. This officer promised to take all proper precautions ; but his pre cautions, say the residents, were inadequate and bad. When the pestilence was actually raging, it is true a " temporary hospital," so called, was erected ; but it was utterly insufficient for its purpose, and the nursing and attendance were miserably inadequate. The loss of life among the natives is reckoned at one-third. Of the troops one man in ten perished. TOMEIGX NOTES. THE CARLIST RISING IN SPAIN. There is a lull for the present in the activity of the Carlists in Spain. The Si3cle and other journals think that the movement is a complete failure, and that the defeat near Ciudad Real, added to the numerous die. coveries of plots, dispose of the Carlist hopes. The Const;tutionnet believes, on the other hand, that the rising is well arranged, and that all the different ramifications of the movement act in concert. The outbreaks hitherto reported may be regarded, it says, only as preliminaries to a great and general coup. As th e p re li m i nar i e s have all collapsed and failed utterly, it rem a i ns t o b e s h e vvn what chance of success the final, grand, and concerted movement can have. There is no doubt that Don Carlos himself has entered Spain. Under a false name he managed to elude all observation, and, mingling with a band of tourists, crossed the frontier at Arrena. The glad news of his coming, says the illoniteur, was immediately communi cated to all the adherents who were distributed about the wild and mountainous region which separates France from Spain. The total number of this Carlist host is put by the Paris journal at 12,000 ; though how such an army manages to exist, and to elude the French police, we are not told. Perhaps, some say, the French Government is not so particularly friendly to Prim, Serrano, and Co. as to feel very anxious touching an invasion of Spain from French gronnd. The 0141 says that this rising has been of a very serious character, but it appears to be at au end, for Don Carlos has fled back to France. This is fortunate for him, as the Spanish Government had issued orders that, if cap tured, he should be at once tried by drumhead court martial and shot. THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT AMSTERDAM. Working men ought not to forget that the International Exhibition now open at Amsterdam is pre-eminently a working-man's show. Nowhere could they spend a more pleasant and profitable holiday. Excellent accommoda tion has been provided for the working men of all nations. Two hundred can be housed at a time, and special restau rants have been established for them within the precincts of the Exhibition, the lodging-houses themselves being just outside the building: The accommodation is divided into two classes, for which Gd. and 4d. a day respectively are charged. Thisinclu3es a clean bed with ample bedding— each room being double-bedded—gaslight, and any quantity of water for Washing or drinking purposes. On these terms the trip can be male very cheaply indeed. The English committee, we understs.n I. are making special arrangements for taking over artisans. • AUSTRIA AND rnussi.t. Count Beust, the Austi ian Chancellor, makes no of the ill feeling which prevails between Austria an:l Prussia. lie has just been making a speech, in which he declares that he has honestly striven " to establish move cordial relations with Prussia, but has not been met in a similar spirit, and his endeavours have, therefore, proved nnsuccessful." The Daily News does not believe in Count Deust. It says that be has brought about this ill-feeling himself by his indiscretion, and notably by publishing cer tain documents relating to the events of 1366, the only object and effect of such publication being to create difficulties between Prussia and France on the one hand, and between Prussia and her German confederates and allies on the other. But Was it likely that a defeated State would refrain from revenging itself by making these damaging revelations if it had the power? Tho_ sloeninents in THE PRINCE AND THE ACTRESS. Dom Fernando, father of the King of Portugal, has got into trouble in his declining years. This Prince recently refused, somewhat brusquely, the free eller of the Spanish Crown. Determined to carry out to the uttermost his contempt of earthly greatness, he supplemented the refusal of a sceptre by marrying the actress, Fanny Enssler. For this step the grandees of Portugal have sent Dorn Fernando "to Coventry.' The dowager Empress of Brazil has provoked the social Nvar against him. All the highborn ladies refuse to visit him, and he is not recognised in public places whenever his wife is in his company. This is pretty smart treatment to bestow upon the father of the reigning sovereign, but it is successful. Dom Fernando finds existence at Lisbon a blank. TIVZ CHIN= IN .1-:ERICA. The immigration of Chinese to Califoriii-a is a question of growing difficulty and importance. The men of yellow( skins and high.cheek bones coma over in great numbers, underbid the white labourers, and beget great prejudice by setting up their idols in the Christian land of the West. The Californian State Legislature has imposed a heavy tax upon their importation, but it has failed to keep them out, for the Chinese already in America contribute funds to aid the immigration of their countrymen, and their coming is also favoured by all persons who want cheap labour. The Californians do not like the Chinese ; tut people in other parts of the country do. Hence thebarbarous ill-treatment of the strangers in the streets of San Francisco has caused a loud outcry. Further means are being devised for the introducing them to the Southern rice, corn, and cotton fields. THE AMERICAN PRESS. The San Francisco Bulletin of June 23, on the Northern Pacific Railway, writes : " That there is some earnestness in the recent revival of the Northern Pacific Railway project is proved by the ari ival in this city, on Friday last, of a party representing the company which has it in hand, who are charged with the duty of making a general examination of the country to be traversed west of the great north bend of the Mis souri Paver. The party consists of Thomas H. Canfield, general agent of the company, who was joined at Omaha, on his way hither, by W. NI. Robertz, an able civil engi neer from Pennsylvania; Win. S. Johnson, an engineer lately in the service of the Like Ontario Shore Railroad ; Mr. Moorhead, of the firm of Jay Cooke and Co., which has taken a largo interest in the company ; Samuel Wilke son, a literary gentleman, who will write up the general results of the exploration for the press, and Dr. Clax• ton. Mr. Canfield left Vermont for California on the 15th instant. He will start with his party for Port land, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington Territory, overland, this evening. The party will take a steamer at Olympia, examine the bays and harbour of Puget Sound and the Fuca Straits, and afterward proceed to Walla Walla, whence they will go north-easterly to the Cour d'Alene and Pend d'Oreille Lakes, and up Clark's Fork of the Columbia to Montana, passing by Deer Lodge Valley to Gallaten City, Helena, and the Cadet and Mullen Passes of the Rocky Mountains. After examining these passes and exploring the upper portion of the Yellowstone, they will go down that river on the Missouri to the North Bend, near old Fort Clark, where they may be met by another party which was started from Lake Superior. The latter party consists of Governor J. G. Smith of Vermont, President of the Western Pacific Railroad; Edwin F. John son, Chief Engineer of the Company, and a Lumber of other gentlemen connected with the enterprise. We are informed that this party, after fixing the terminus of the road on Lake Superior, and making arrangements for the location and construction of the initial se. tion, will pro ceed to Pied River of the North, near Fort Abercrombie, and thence on to Missouri River by Furts Ransom and Totten in Dakota, keeping close to the probable route of the road. Both parties will be escorted by Government troops wherever trouble with Indians is apprehended, and their reconnaissance will be preliminary to a thorough survey." The Tribune, July 10, published seven..of its large pages, with closely printed names, showing the incomes on which taxes were levied iu Brooklyn last year. Po Economy, No. 7, is on Mono poly—the' Lam of Prices—Effect of Duties on Cost. In the same number appears the text of the new Constitution of the State of New York, which is to be presented to the people for acceptance or rejection at the next General Election in No vember : " The best features of the now Constitution are those eesignml to prevent bribery in the Legislature and at the p 0.14. They promise to be effective in destroying the greatest danger of our political system. Any official WI 0 is convicted of accepting a valuable consideration for his vote or for any official act is to be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, mud imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years; and what is more im portmit, conviction is facilitated by securing immun:ty to the person who pays the bribe. The present law makes the one who pays equally guilty with the one who receives and as no one can be compelled to criminate himself, it is of course impossible to obtain legal evidence of the offence. District-Attorneys are obliged to pros 'cute when ever an act of bribery is brought to theft knowledge, and if they neglect to do so are to be removed from office. A reasonably honest enforcement of this provision of the Constitution would completely cleanse out tho lobby in a few weeks." Venality at the polls is met by disfranchisement, and the Legislature is authorized to pass mea sures to suppress the evil. The judiciary is to be reorganized, the number of judges increased, and the bench raised higher than now above the turmoil and corruption of party. The Tribune re grets that an elective judiciary is not altogether abolished, but it accepts the compromise. " The term of office of judges of the higher courts is in creased to 14 years ; arri at the general election of 1873 the people are to vote directly upon the question of filling those judgeships by appointment. . . . The pay of Senators and Assemblymen is raised from $3OO to $l,OOO a year, that they may nn longer say they }lwo to sell themselves in order to pay their Albany board bills." It recognises the principle of impartial suffrage, removing the invidious distinction which now im poses a property qualification on coloured voters. On this subject the Philiadelphia Public Ledger says : -- _ _ _ "The new Constitution is to be voted on by the Feople at the general election is to be held on the first Thursday of next November. The Constitution is not to be voted on as an entire instrument, but each citizen may cast four ballots—to wit, for or against the amended Constitution ; the judiciary article; the uniform rule of assessment - and taxation of real and personal property; and the property qualification of coloured men." The New York lVorld gives an account of the island of St. Pierre, which, with its neighbour the island of Miquelon, " moored like two little flag-boats under the lee of British Newfoundland, bear witness to the struggles not less gigantic (than those between France and England in India) which overthrew the once magnificent dominion of France in America. When the wars of Queen Anne were closed in victory by Marlborough, the Peace of Utrecht, which gave Newfoundland to the con queror, reserved St. Pierre and Miquelon to the Grand Monarque as stations of refuge for the fishermen of Normandy and Brittany who yearly thronged under the flag cf the lilies to these north ern waters. Half a century later, when the auda cious policy of Chatham had been crowned with complete success, and France, at the Peace of Paris, in 1763, signed away for ever ber supremacy on this continent, poor little St. Pierre and Miquelon were still magnanimously spared by the victors. The reservation of these islands to France in the Treaty of Utrecht was confirmed in the new treaty, and they have ever since continued to afford a rally ing -point and harbour of safety for the cod-fleets of St. Malo, of Nantes, and of Havre. . . . The small foothold which Providence (being on the side of the heaviest artillery) has permitted France, to retain in the Northern hemisphere of the New World, France, it must be confessed, is putting to the very best, most practical, and most civilised use possi' le." Of the Virginia election, it remarks : "The thoroughness with which the situation in that State has been recognised is indeed significant and pro mising. It shows a larger comprehension and more of real statesmanship than have been evinced in that latitude since the close of the war. Triumph Las been won by the cheerful acceptance of the inevitable. The Virginians have carried practical business sense info their politics. They have ignored a past which is dead, and have not lost by wooing an unattainable Utopia." On the same subject the Philadelphia correspondent of the London 7iines writes that the election vin dicated the wisdom of President Grant's Pacific policy :-- " Virg:nia heretofore Las been under military negro control, and disfranchisement and disabilities ruled there to an extent that would please the severestßadical. People who were competent could not be got to fill the ordinary civil offices, and the courts, and county, and township governments were almost abolished, owing to the want of officials to carry them on. In many. places the most igno rant blacks were the only eligible candidates, while the better classes of tho pcople, thoroughly disgusted with affairs, kept themselves aloof from any attempt to influ ence the State affairs. Had not Generals Schofield and Canby, both prudent men, been the military commanders, and conducted their administrations as wisely as the con dition of things would permit, the result would have been itiable in the extreme. For over four years, until thin week's election, the best people in Virginia took no in- terest, in its fate, and, until tho President's proclamation gave them some hope, they appeared thoroughly indif- ferent to what became of their Stato. The President wis(ly determined that, in constructing Virginia, the best policy to pursue was to induce this valuable class to again take control of affairs, and accordingly he issued his pro clamation ordering the election on July 6, and permit Ling the people to vote against the obnoxious clauses of the State Constitution, which if adopted would have kept them in perpetual disfranchisement." The majority in the Legislature are Conservatives, which ensures two United States Senators; for the Representatives, six are Conservatives, and three Radicals, of whom one, Norton, ib a negro, the first who will take his seat in Congress. Several Con servative negroes have been chosen for the State . Legislature. The election has to be approved by Congress, .which does not meet till Decemter. Richmond, which from April, 1865, had continued in gloom, broke into great rejoicings. The Citizen, which now carries on its title-page the heading of the well-known literary journal the Round Table, does not consider that the New York limes has "Fallen cff in the least under the management of Mr. Stillman S. Conant, who has assumed the editorial chair 1 ft vacant by the death of Mr. Raymond. It is as elegant, careful, and philosophical as ever, and it• would seem that Mr. Conant must have furnished more for its columns dur ing Mr. Raymond's life than was generally supposed. It is naturally a Conservative paper, and addresses i ne think ing portion of the community; wild extravagance and fana ticism do not become or suit its readers, and it has thus possessed a strong control over a public sentiment which must be convinced before it can be moved. It has always been eminently a gentlemanly newspaper, rather inclined towards the elegancies of English journalism than to the greater vigour, bitterness, and boisterous of American. Ruffianly personalities and coarse remarks have never dis graced its columns, and even the lighter style of writing has been avoided. Its existence is not only a benefit to the people, but it has a good and resteaining influence upon its contemporaries, who are sometimes carried away by the twat of argument or the excitement of a political contest." Alluding to "Brick" Pomeroy, he is described to be "As irrepressible' as his especial aggravation, the C - loured gentleman, and has no intention of dying out or being killed off just at present. Wo are not quite sure whether he knows that the rebellion is over, but we think he does. Hs has engaged C. P. Sykes, an experienced publisher, to take charge of the business affairs of his paper, while he gathers up all his strength for a grand charge on those unhappy fellows the United States bond holders, and those lucky dogs, the corrupt New York officials." The New York Nation denies the existence of any general sympathy with the insurrection in Cuba. After much careful attention it says We find ourselves that this supposed sympathy hardly exists except in the imagination of our prominent' states men,' wire-pullers, and manufacturers of issues. Of course we cannot say what feelings Grant may have, but as for any general feeling on the part of the American public, there is simply a feeling of indifference. We have not yet had the pleasure of secinlr :any person of education and influence in any part of the country who was not free to admit that he knew little about the result of the Cuban struggle, and that he thought he did not care very much. We have heard the atrocaies of th 3 Spaniards deplored, but we have heard it intimated at the same time that the Cubans were probably 'just as bloodthirsty. We have heard regret expressed that Spain left it to Cuba to abo lish slavery in the island, but we have heard douht ex pressed at the same time whether the island had done it or would do it. We have heard the Cubans called tho lazy Cubans' aul the ' dirty Cubans,' but never the noble, or the brave, or the generous, or 'the chivalric Cubans. And we cannot say that such specimens of the population are..nownngagedimpouring forth fury And war upon Spain from the lower part of this city appear to have that ticalibre, intellectual, moral, or physical, which would lead one to sympathize with them in the present or any other undertakieg. We have, it is true, read numerous fiery editorial articles denouncing Spain and proclaiming a warm love for her colony, but we never met any one who had read these editorials, or signi fied his intention of being about to do so. Most people whom we met appear to have a horror of the whale sub -ct, as a bore, an unintelligible bore, too ; those who ex press any other feeling than weariness express disgust, saying that Cuba is as totally devoid of interest as any colony in America—without a history, without literature or art, without great names in war, politics, or sc:ence, sunk for generations in slavery and ignorance, her inha bitants divided sharply into two classes, the indolent rich and the degra led poor—what is there in all this for us to sympathize with ?" The Springfield Republican writes as follows on the French cable " Now that the Great Eastern is about landing its shore end of the French cable at St. Pierre, whence it will come, next week to Duxbury, the course to be adopted by oui authorities, State and national, with regard to its landing in the Old Colony becomes a matter of great public inte rest. It has been surmised that Judge lloar's late visit to Massachusetts had something to do with this matter; if so, we incline to think it resulted in nothing decisive in the way of preventing the Groat Eastern from landing her St. Pierre cable. We believe the course of events will be some thing like this: -1. The authorities of this State will do nothing to hinder the landing. The Charter granted by Massachusetts expresses the consent of the State that the cable may be landed. If the consent of Congress is also necessary, Governor Claflin thinks that is a matter for the United States authcrities to look to. Probably, in a legal aspect, the concurrent consent of the State and of Congress is necessary, and must eventually be obtained. 2. The law authorities of the United Status will do no thing. It may well be that the previous consent of Con gress is necessary to authorise the cable to land. But Congress has not taken any action forbidding it to land, and it is, a t l ea st, doubtful w h e th er the courts of the United States would interfere, even if asked, in anticipation of some action by Congress. But it is not at all likely that any legal steps will be taken by the United States authorities of their own motion. 3. The old cable company will feel badly about it, of course, and will perhaps apply for an injunction. But meanwhile, the public like it; it reduces rates of telegraphing, and it pleases our State pride to have the terminus here. When Congress meets some action will probably bo taken, espe cially with a view to reciprocity, as we have already suggested. The cases of Malta and Jamaica furnish a rood precedent; and though France is very skittish on the subject of its mails and telegraph lines, subjecting them rigidly to Government censorship, there is no doubt we can make a satisfactory arrancetnent ultimately. Mr. Washburne, with his hobby of Government tele graphs, will like to have the negotiation in hand, and his relations with General Grant and with Congress are such as to give any treaty he might make a batter chance of ratification than poor Reverdy Johnson's ever had. The old cable company deserves well of the country, and means to continue to do so. It has responded promptly to a demand for cheaper rates, and, as its business increases, as it will do, these rates will be made still lower. It made a mistake in not accepting generously the propo sition, offered by Mr. Hewitt, of New York, to make friends of the French Cable Company; and it will con tinue this mistake if it persecutes its rival in our courts. But it is entitled to all the privileges that any company gets in this country, and, if it takes the best course, it will get them without difficulty, and will always have the preference. Secretary Boutwell has appointed General F. E. Spinner, United States Treasurer, Custodian of the Sink ing Fund and of such bonds as may be bought, subject to the future action of Congress, with instructions that they must be charged to the account of the registered bonds and books opened, which at all times must show the true con dition of the fund. lie is also instructed t-) open an inte rest account with the sinking fund, and to credit that ac count with all interest due, or bonds bought, on account of the sinking fund, or subject to the future action of Con gres3, and purchase now bonds with such interest, to be added to the sinking fund. , I ADYEIiTisEmExT.] C onsumpt i on, an d a ll nervous, Bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every sta .e are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve y description, but perfe tly curable 'hy Du BAanY's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic's Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b. en considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), coug'i, asthma, consumption, h .bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness. biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, cola, influenza, noises in the bead and ears, rheumatism, goat, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity. palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, n :use." and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti...htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, itc We quote a few; -The Pope's health restored by Du Harry's Food. Curs No. 63,413 -"Borne, July 21, 18a6. The health of tha Iloly Father is excellent, especially since; abandonin all other remedies, he h as confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Ilevaleuta A rabica Food, of which he consumes a pliteful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excell n, food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July 2'. Cure No. 46, Mr. James Roberts, thnbei• meehant, of Fernley. Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, sn'tting of blood, liver derangement, and p..rtial deafness. Cure ' IN o. 1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, I ord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.. - No. 4",83 . "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, co,._ stipation, flatu'ency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imit.tions to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached In tins, at is 11d; 1 lb 2s 0d; Ms -Is &I; 5 lbs Ils; 12 lbs 22s ; 21 Ibs 40s. -Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA. AResteA CEOCOLATK POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 9 5, for cups at 18 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555 tins are sent free of carriage in England on receiptof,sPtroese, Lolidon ; andt-Ot flice Order.— EARhY Do BARRY and Co., 77, Regent all Grown and Qbemista - .lllParn , THE " NATION" ON THE SICKLES TESTIMC;VIAb? (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Nation has a severe article in its issue of the Sth' inst. on the signers of the Sickles testimonial : "Vie have no doubt that many of those who signed this shame ful testimonial did so out of sheer cowardice. The num ber of persons who have the courage or honesty to refuse their names when asked to help a political adventurer into office is daily declining. Large numbers now end 3avour to reconcile their weakness with their sense of duty to the public by writing privately to the dispensers of patronage; asking them to disregard their signatures to testimonials: It does not appear to have occurred to the Nation that the signers showed greater "pluck" in hazarding such fill" mivations being launched against them for signing than is declining, as nothing like this could have happened had they refused their signatures. The article is perhaps the most se vere everpublished iu the Nation, the writer having gone in for remorseless execution. So also with the New York World which epitomises the career of General Sickles in big sen sational headirgs. But after all, some of the signers rnly have attached more weight to a brilliant military record ill the cause of Union and . emancipation than these writers to wards obliterating the crimes of a vicious career. The rnalu question is, What is General Sickles now? not what was Ile once. There are many of us, if we all only met our deserts , who would be, if not standing on a scaffold, at least working with a chain round our legs. It has been asserted positive'l that scarcely a man passes through life without committing a crime for which he might have been condemned to pen al servitude, and few have grown to years of discretion who have not "sat under" and, perhaps, profited by the reli gious teaching of one who openly announced that he W a'nong the most wicked of mankind in the days of his youth. There is an old proverb, too, "the greater the sinner the greater the saint," the truth of which can be easily shown from human nature, for the e n erg y w hi c h p ro mpts to crime when turned in another direction, prompts to acti vity in good deeds. If General Sickles has become good in proportion as the Nation and the World say ho w 9 5, once bad, he must now be among the mos t exc ellent 0 ' men. We desire to point out the omission on the part Of the Nation, to state what is th e pre sen t c h ar acter n' , that distinguished officer, for, in case of a thorough reform, ifs strictur e ' s on the signers of the testiraolli a, are too severe. At the same time we believe the Sa" Lion to be engaged in a very distasteful but necessari work. As a general rule, a bad record should exclud e from high public appointments, and soundness on the main question does not justify flattering testimonials from well known citizens. The habit of signing anything to get lit' of a bore, and because men are too good-natured to dell their help to a poor person in distress, is working a gray injury, and adding no small force to demoralizing influ ences. While admitting this, while alive to the fact that good nature is baneful when thus exercised, we maintain that no man should be altogether shut out from the fanged' To do so is to make the once vicious always vicious, en we have the very highest authority for believing the prise ciple to be wrong. It is on this ground that we take eVer Lion to the article referred to. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 11 1)1 ... 12 F li Do Rotterdam — ~. 12 li .„ 12: Antwerp — ... 25 Au ... 23 4 5 Brussels — .. 25 40 .. 25 4.5 Ramburgh — ... 13 11 .. 13 111 Paris Short ... 25 15 ... 25 25 Ditto . Marseilles ' ... 25 35. ... 25 4 ', Frankfort-on-the-Main, ... 121 8 12 11, V ieniri — ... 12 7:21 ... 12 ;I: 1 Trieste — 12 _74 ... 12 80 Petersburg Copenhao•eu - 9 29 - `,91- Berlin • 23 9yB 6 6 ,21 Madrid.. Cadiz.. Leghorn Milan.... xv, 48k •.• ... 2 2 6 6 i s fs s. 22661(1 Genoa Naples Palermo — 26 33 26 4 0 26 35 26 40 Messina Lisbon Oporto - 26 33 26 4 - .52 51i 52i Rio Janeiro — Now York — Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kustralla and Now Zealand, via Southampton Aug :4 ' Ditto, via Yuseilks ..... ...... ....jug . 9 Lirazll.lSuenos Ayres, and Monte Video Aug 4 ' Ditto, by Irrench packet Cape Verde, by Brazil pacact ....... , Cape of Good Li.ve. Ascension. anti St. Helena.— JulY ` el : China, Penang. and 3ingvore, via Southampton.. July ;: blbrattaz via Southampton ~i 3 1 ludiu, via Southampton ...... ....... . ..... .. • .0 T —: • unto, via Ilarsei , es . ••• •• lialta, Egypt, Sco. . July 31 Ditto, Alarseillce July 21 ' ewfoundla r c July 23 Atatritius, Cape of Good Elope, and Natal, via .. . dcutharei ton Ditto, Mareeilies _ An.: 1 , t"ortugal .... ..... .. , :t.ited :itates, k auala, C i lit oru i l, &c., by British pack ,t Dit' 0 cliff, ( Oat Omura) ....... ... . i;itto, by L i it e d 6t atee packet Ditto, by Inman packet Jab". ''' S treat Indies and ra.itio (except Mexico anit Baba mas) July ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffa .... j•JuLliyls.2JOY 23 -' Cuba and Mexico .• • . Bermuda, via Ilalif a x. . . . ... ... B lba.nati, via New York .Aux. ... PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at P a ris is abo u t at r tie short exc h ange on London is 25f. 170. per £1 ste r4 7i On comparing these rates with the English Mint pr ice h t £3 lead. per ounce for t standard gold, it appease "„, 1 3t1 gold at the above price i s a b ou t th e samo i n Loudon - Paris. Thecourse of exchange at New York on London for bills ° '„te days' sight wa s on th e 2 'th i ns t. a b out 110 1 per cen t. At thi , t pd there is a proflt on the importation of gold from the 1 / 1 31 States. At the ordinary general meeting of the 0 13°1 ; holders in the Merchant Shipping CongO li e ' r (Limited), a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. P annum was passed. of The question has been r a i se d i n the Hol ls- a t Commons whether the dividends on Goveromli' v securities were to be, as in the case of rai lW ' d e shares, remitted in . the shape of warrants t° t en holders. It was inti ma t e d th a t th e cas e had b e d brought under consideration, but the sanctitiii Parliament had first to be obtained. This I ,,te account for the point raised with r eg a rd to the 5 0 correspondence between the Chancellor of t , o f Exchequer and the Di rec t ors o f the 133" England. h fisbe l The following particulars have been Pa- - • 00 with regard to the Iri s h Ch urc h Bill : —The 0 3 0 brought in on March 1; it was read a second time iy, morning of the 24th, went into committee on Ap ril passed through committee May 7, was reported t° To house oa the 13th, and read a third time on the 3 1 ' 4 ' I s t bill was road a first time in the House of Lords 1 : 4 " , so t June, a second time on th e morn i ng of the 19th, 7 00 into committee June 29, passed that stage July 6, , ;0 8 reported to the house on the 9th, and read a third a, on the 12th. On the 15th and 16th the Lords' o rnez :be ments were considered by the Commons, on the 20th op bill was again under discussion in the Upper 11 ° ° %,,,,1 0 the 2 - 2 d the memo ra bl e G ranv ill e- C a i rns com promise 00 accepted by the Peers, and ratified by the Comm° 33s next day. 11 g . LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—,m .11-• fails to ALLEN'S WORLD'S HA IR R ESTORER OR D RESSIN G never t od quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful cole ur d beauty, and with the first application a beautiful g lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the lie'i r osc O, falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant gr it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It rere°; o -' dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large b °.,.,,,er0' Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Porfi. 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MARRIAGES. :, ; (0 1.'° GLANVILL—LEAN— On the 27th • t a t the Office, Brixton-road, Henry Glanv il l ins to Eliz Bb l 01° fifth daughter of Francis Lean, Eig , nington road. 4, °11 Terr—MADEILLEY—On the 27th at the parish of Marylebone, George N. Tait, of CanonburY to Alice, fourth daughter of George Maberlon Boundary-toad, St. John's-wood. of 28 , DEA TES. , the LIDDELL-0 n the 2Gth inst., r,t Eavensworth Cas"''' Hon. Seymour Liddell, aged 42. NORRIS —On the 28th inst , S amue l Edward of Shadwell and Upper inst. age.] 74. 1 V d- Eicn—On the 25th inst., at Exmouth, Vice Adiui-r3 —.• win Ludlow Rich, agd 76 -orris, Pq'' s o London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AllDialia' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 1 14 . in the Preeinct s of the' Savoy, in thq County of !diddle° Thursday, July 29, 1599