The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-17 00:00:00

TILE SOMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY COMPANY. IT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Time cannot suppose that any member of the Rouse of Lords will be misled by any idle terror from examining the question before him. What he has to ask himself with reference to the Irish Church Bill is only What he has to ask himself with reference to every Mil— ls it for the good of the nation that it should become law? And this question depends upon the three subsidiary issues, whether it is consistent with the principles of justice, whether it promises to be productive of national benefits, whether it is approved by the mind and conscience of the nation. The Times finds it difficult to understand how anyone, freeing his mind from prejudice and honestly examining these ques tions, can answer each otherwise than in the affirmative; and is satisfied that after years will approve the wisdom and justice of this reply, and of the consequent acceptance of the Irish Church Bill. The Herald says the most valuable allies of the Govern• ment insiet that the attitude of stolid obstinacy which carried all before it in the House of Commons is an utter mistake in the face of a majority in the House of Peers. If the Government think the occasion is one for a compro mise, it will be their truest wisdom to say so frankly, and to indicate how far they are disposed to go in the path of concession. The Archbishop of Canterbury has sketched out a series of amendments conceived much in the spirit which suggested the proposals of the Conservative party in the Lower House, and Lord Grey has expressed his belief that they afford something like a basis for a settlement. The only response elicited up to this time is the vague and worthless assurance that any amendments which may be proposed will receive "the moat respectful consideration of the Government." This amounts to nothing. It may be questioned whether it can be said to justify the course which Earl Grey intends to pursue. Still less does it afford a ground for inviting the Conservative peers to reconsider their decision. If the Government are disposed to come to an arrangement by which the bill may be reserved for consideration in com mittee, it is for them to make the first advance,more espe cially when the duty is urged upon them by their most influential supporters. At present the Government have held cut no inducement whatever which should lead the Conservative party to swerve from their original purpose, and if they should feel themselves bound to persevere in rejecting the bill on the second reading, the consequences will rest upon the Ministry which steadfastly refused to offer them any reasonable alternative. The Standard observes that Lord Grey, if anyone, might be expected to look with prima facie favour on a measure of whose necessity he declares that he was con vinced in 1834. He urgently deprecates its rejection; but he insists on amendments such as have hitherto been denounced as equivalent to rejection. He would pass the bill, but only that the Lords may shape it into what it is not—a satisfactory settlement of the great question which Mr. Gladstone has chosen to raise. Such is the language of those who, on Saturday morning, will go into the lobby with the Ministers. Almost every one of them to whose opinion the least value attaches would in the House of Commons have voted with Mr. Gathorne Hardy and Sir R. Palmer. Their authority is altogether against the Government scheme, yet so feeble is the Government in debate, so hopelessly in the wrong dues it feel, that they are welcomed as auxiliaries and friends, and Lord Grey's speech, those sentences especially in which be expressed his conviction that it was in the power of the Lords to amend the bill in such a manner as to make it a satisfactory compromise, was eagerly applauded by the Ministers—applauded with a signifi cance of tone which was evidently meant to convey the idea that they were willing to accept the proffered terms. The haughty and arrogant tone which they have hitherto adopted has been manifestly abated by the unparalleled demonstrations against the bill, by the altered tendency of opinion out of doors, and by the overwhelming weight A FlNANerse AGENT.— A financial agent, named Jones, of authority against them in the House of Lords. It is brought an action in the Court of Exchequer, on IVednes for the Peers to make good use of the opportunity thus day, for breach of contract against Captain Hamilton, an afforded them. At present there seems little doubt the. officer on half pay. Captain Hamilton, who is only 23, the Government is embarrassed and alarmed, and their wished to leave the army and find some civil employment. alarm may give to Lord Granville's promises a practical Be saw the plaintiff's advertisements, and had an significance which they would not otherwise possess. interview with him. In consideration of the sum of .£750 being paid within six months, Mr. Jones undertook to The Post remarks that Sir H. Hoa re ' s recen t mo ti on respecting the Yeomanry Cavalry drew att en ti o n t o the instruct Captain Hamilton in all the myst er i e s o f fi nance subject, and, although not to b e di s b an d e d, th e f orce i s to agency, and to pay him £250 a year for three y ear s' be rearmed. This, at any rate, i s r i g ht. Th e y are the apprenticeship. He represented his business as large and lucrative, as he negotiated loans for only remaining visible tokens of a great spontaneous reat comanies, arranged national movement that few amongst US can remem b er . g p partnerships, the sale of With the subsidence of the danger th e res t o f th e impro. estates, &c., a great intimacy sprung up between the plaintiff and defendant, but neve r theless the latter vised volunteer army melted a w a y. The Y eomanr y h ave in a praiseworthy man ner ma i n t a i ne d th e i r organisation. retired from the office at the en d o f s i x wee k s an d They have linked the pres e nt with th e p as t. Clearly, renounced his contract. The plaintiff, when cross then, it would be a barbari s m t o a b o li s h th em . It would examined, gave an amusing history of his career. seem that a wise decision has be e n com e t o i n res p ec t of He was originally in the t o bacco trade in Moor eateeitreet, but though turning between £40,000 and converting them into mounted rifl e s. Al rea dy we £50,000 a year, he was driven to the Bankruptcy Court by have amongst the volunteers several e xcee di ng ly f ine corps of this description. At the last V o l un t eer Review unfortunate building speculations. After that, he et Portsmouth, as we had occasion to remark a t th e time, took to authorship, wrote a tregedy and a bur lesque, and published " Jones's One Hundred Lee the Hants Mounted Rifles appeared to be a very service fuses." About four years since he became a fnaucial able and useful body. Hunting men, mounted on hunters, agent, and had made between £2,000 and £3,000 a year. and capable of shooting with precision, they were the The result of his six weeks' tuition was, that the defen beau ideal of Volunteer Cavalry. Men of thi s sor t a b oun d dant went forth " accomplished finance agent." The throughout the country. Accustomed to rid e t o h oun d s , defendant said the business done at the office in the six skilled in the use of firearms, intelligent a n d s pi r it e d, they would, as mount e d riflemen, be useful to their friends weeks, at the outside, did not realise £lOO. Only one and troublesome t o th e i r f oes i n a c l ose an d friendly application for a loan was made by a suspicious person, country. Hence we think that th e h ouse o f Commons who refused his address, and ene'g re at e r p ar t o f hi s ti m e acted wisely in retaining the services of the Yeomanry, was occupied with religious argum en t s with th e pl a i n tiff. although there was sufficient room for improvement in The jury found at o n ce f or th e d e f en d an t. their organisation to justify the question raised by Sir CASE or Mu. OSGOOD.—In th e E xc h equer Ch am b er , Henry Hoare. the case of Mr. Osgood, th e reg i s t rar o f t h e Sh er iff' s Court of the City of London, came on an appeal from the The Star thinks that the proceedings of Convocation are j udgment of the Court of Queen's Be nc h. Thequestion chiefly valuable as indic a ti ng th e p reva ili ng t emper o f th e q ruling parties of the Church of England. We see there was whether he had been lawfully removed from his office reflected, as in a mirror, the opinions of the various orders by the Corporation of London. The court held that they of ecclesiastics who, under the sanction and at the expense could do no other than affirm the decision of the court of the State, provide religious instruction for the nation. below. The judgment was therefore affirmed. The most notable charseterestic of this body is its horror of change. Even when its members are apparently con. THE WORKSHOPS ACT. —At Marlborough-street, vinced that reforms are necessary to brin g the Church Machine Devey, dressmaker, was summoned for employ. more into harmony with the feelings of the laity who worship within its pale, they yet shrink f rom t a ki ng in workwomen during prohibited hours. The defence any definite step. They are afraid to alter one line 01 was that there being a pressure of work on Saturday, all the Prayer-book ; to countenance a signal change in the hands were kept on, it being intended to let the young the order or form of the services ; even to soften r idi h e e dainnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed. people have the holiday another day. Dr. Aldis, medical discussion on the latter subject which took place in the officer of the district, said that there should be a fixed Upper House on Tuesday last was full of significance, holiday. Mr. Tyrwhtt thought that a fineof 10s. would be Even so able a man as Dr. Harold Browne—while admit- sufficient, but he was in favour of the holiday b e i ng f i xed ting that there were " exaggerations " in the Creed, and for Saturday.—M rs . G ra h am , d ressma ker, Conduit-street, that it gave offence to many Churchmen, yet refused to support the prayer of a petition which was signed, with, pleaded guilty to two summonses for a similar offence, and out distinction of party, by a large number of the clergt was fined 40s. and costs in each case. and laity of his own diocese. It is all very well for CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Wednesday, James Dalton, sundry of the prelates to urge the value of " explanations" as a means of overcoming the difficulties which confessedly a labourer, who stands charged with the wilful murder of perplex many persons ; but all the " explanations_" in the Henry Johnson, by beating hi m on th e h ea d w ith a p o k e r, world cannot get rid of the impression which the Creed as was committed to Newgate for trial from the Southwark it stands is calculated to produce on the minds of honest Police-court. and unsophisticated men who are unfamiliar with the subtleties of Jesuitical reasoning. The Times believes that the promised report of the THE SHEDDEN LEGITIMACY CASE.— Sir John Royal Commission on British Coalfields will be reassure Coleridge on Wednesday continued the arguments for ing, in its character. Five sub-committees have been ap pointed to report on five distinct points—the possible a decree nisi for a new trial in the case of "Shedden depth of coal-workings, the alleged waste in the consump- and another v. The Attorney General and Patrick (cited)." tion of coal, the alleged waste in the production of coal The learned gentleman founds his application on the supposed existence of coa lfi e ld s un d er more recen i strata, and the probable future consumption o f c oal. l;ehe statement that documents most important to the final Whether the fields hitherto unknown really issue of are depend eall the cause were forged and mutilated; and yesterday accessible or capable of being worked must be was occupied in endeavouring to shew the motives on considerations within the province of the hrst sub-committee, for it is vain to congratulate which actuated the parties to alter and forge the instru ourselves on the existence of inexhaustible mines :rents alluded to. After hearing the arguments, his lord of wealth only to be exhumed at a temperature beyond ship reserved his decision. the endurance of man. The same remark applies to another inquiry of more immediate interest which has THE " EDMUNDS SCANDAL " CASE.—The ques owners— been wisel the n inqu us i ntr ry into throe to so m probable extent e of the of ost emin the coal- ent coal- Lions as to the terms o f r e f erence t o an o p en cour t o f arbi fields now in work. Mr. Vivian's statement on this point tration of all matters in disput e b e t ween M r . L eonar d is so eminently gratifying that, had it not been made under Edmunds and the Crown have at last been settled, and a sense of responsibility, we might regard it as too good to the court of arbitration constituted. It will be recoi l.- , 46 vu.o +Lab which embraced the Bristol, Bomersetshire, ape iected thee At the last hearing in open court Lord Gloucestershire coalfields ; of this only one-seventy. Chief Justice Bovill undertook himself to settle the terms ninth, cr one-fortieth, according to the depth taken, had of the "rule" for constituting the proposed court. The matter was heard by his lordship i n Ch am b ers on th e Bth been exhated ; and, suposine the national consumption instant, was th en f u ll y argued by counsel, and the "rule" to maintain an average of p 100 ° ,000,000 tons aye ar, the supply from this district alone might he regarded as practically inexhaustible." Eefcre, however, we can be has been since finally settled. The court is to sit in public. justified in reposing upon thi s assurance , w e ought to have Mr. Edmunds, being the assailant, has the carriage of the an approximate calculation of that very uncertain and arbitration. conjectural element—the probable increase of future con sumption. We are quite right, therefore, in economising MURDER BY POLSON.—Dr. Simpson, coroner for coal in every way that s c i ence can sugges t, an d th a t whether the stock be sufficient to last 2.000 years, as was Pontefract, concluded an in quest on Wednesday on the formerly supposed, or only 100 years, as we have lately body of Rebecca Horsfall, a domestic servant with a been warned farmer near Pontefract. The d e c ease d di ed about a fort . The Daily News declares that the independent mem- night ago, after having drunk something out of a bottle berg had quite a field day on Wednesday, They gathered presented to her by a young man, a labourer, named in though cons chiefly iderable on strenthegLiberal side, and th on both sides not of t only he Hirate',ouse, .William Pickersgill, who wished to b e h er sweetheart, nised in a revolt against their leaders, but inflicted on but whom she rejected. As soon as he had given her the them overwhelming defeat. The leaders of the revolt bottle and got her to drink some of the liquid, saying it were Mr. Charles Reed on the Liberal sid e , an d M r . was ruin and water, he ran away, but he has sin ce b een S. 1L Graves on the Conservative side, and the apprehended. The medical and scientific evidence che we d object of it was a bill to exempt S le lay and ragged-schools from local taxation. Mr. Reed pleaded that she had died from poison, and arsenic was found in the cause of his numerous clients with considerable effect, her stomach. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful o and the very crdial reception his speech met with shew ee i W . 11 . •"11 d 1 e was committed against o lam Pickersgi ,an that lie spoke the general feeling of the ILise. lie had, indeed, a case of real hardship to state. The arguments for trial at the ensuing assizes at Leeds. lie allowed for this exemption were from his point of view REHISTORIC irresistible. All pl. ces of worship are exeitpted, with the 111 AN.—WC have heard lately schools which are actually annexed to . them ; all the almost too much about the prehistoric man,and thesupply imperial buildings and the uaiversities eit.;oy 1 , 11.0 exemp. o f fli nt implements, erforated shells, and split marrow tion. Yet if a ragged-school or it .Sandal"-schoie i., held in a hones beg ins to exceed the demand ; but a recent dig building separated from a place of worship, it is now sub. ject to ' rate's. SuchSC' .001 i ro time olify universities of co%cry in the D L 'part einen t d e l a D or d ogne o f human the poorest poor, and are kept up by the free services of skele tons c o e v al with the mammoths and undeniably nearly half a iniclion of teachers, .`‘.) per cent. of whom ; eppertaining to the earliest quaternary period presents ha.ye their.selves been scholars in the school. The argil 1 features of such unusual interest that the French mente fram the value of the institutions theinselvee were warmly received by the llouse, and were i Government have suit M. Lartet, the distin caeped by Mr. G r a ve s. w h o d ec l are d float Sunday 1 gnielied paleontologist, to make a report on the subject. schools were outworks of places of worship IHe reports that the bones of five skeletoee and ragged - schools outw or k s o f th e wor kh ou se. Preliably the Government itself does not very already been discovered, and that they belong to some gigantic regret this victory of good feeling over statesmanship. Jr race whose linihs, both in size and form, must lei.ve: committee the definiti o n o f tier exempted institutions wil r:se-ruled those of the gorilla. Lut the simian organ of have to he made clear, and precautions taken against abuse ; but whatever amendments the measure man must not be inferred from these analogies, as time undergo, its principle Ims been farmed by ParliimieA ' skulls, of which only three are perfect, afford testimony not because the House believes in exeinptions, but sim PI3 fatal to this theory, having evidently contained very frein a profound sympathy with time phil an th rop i c effort which so many excellent people are snaki ng t o supp l e voluminous brains. The skulls are now in the hands of a went in some humbl e wayour defective system of nations committee of SUIV)I3, who are preparing an exhaustive education. craniological renort.—Pull Mall Gazelle. In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday the case of Sir E. B. Baker v. Reed came on. It was an action by Sir Edward B. Baker against Mr. George Reed, a co-director in the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company, to recover a sum of about £50,000, being his share of certain liabilities of the company, which the plaintiff had been obliged to meet. It seemed that the railway company was in an insolvent state, and that the plaintiff, as well as Mr. John Clavell Mansel and three other directors, had rendered themselves personally respons ible for its debts. Sir Edward Baker, as already stated, had to pay £50,000, and Mr. Mansel had to satisfy debts to a much larger amount, and they sought to recover from the other directors their share of these sums. After some dis cussion the parties agreed to refer the whole matters in dif ference between them to an arbitrator, who should have power to finally determine questions both of fact and law. A ver dict was then entered for tho plaintiff, subject to reference in this action, as well as in the case of Mansel v. Reed. in which £32,835 was claimed. ATTACK BY SUPPOSED FENIANS. - A telegram from Cork states that on Tuesday night a resident atßallinlough, near Cork, saw armed men entering the grounds. Two of the ruffians made prisoners of the servants, while others attacked the premises and kept watch. The leader of the band followed Mrs. Grey into the room where lay Mr. Grey (who was lying ill), threatened them, and demanded arms. Mr. Grey discharge) a revolver at the fellow, and the second shot took effect in the abdo men. His companions then retreated, taking with them his pistol, and leaving their leader wounded upon the ground. The ruffian was humanely treated until the police came to convey him to the Cork Infirmary, where he arrived in a dangerous condition this morning. He gave as his name Alexander Campbell, but refuses to disclose the names of his confederates. Two men were arrested on suspicion, but discharged, The police, how ever, have the clue to another man. THE ALLEGED CONFESSION OF MURDER AT HULL. A very sensational paragraph has gone the round of the papers about a confession of murder at Hull. The compiler of it may be congratulated on the possession of a fervid imagination. As the story went; one Jenny Lidster had been murdered thirty-five years ago. She mysteriously disappeared from Stockton, and in consequence of her having shortly before this hap pened to borrow a razor of a neighbour, it was thought that she must have committed suicide. Some months passed away, however, and the body of the de ceased woman was found in a hedge. An inquest was held on the body before the district coroner, and the deceased's son was examined (suspicion having fallen upon bim as being implicated in the death), but he was ac quitted, there being no evidence against him. Then the climax of the story was reached. Lidster, very recently, the newspaper paragraph went on to say, being conscience stricken, and it was supposed on his deathbed, confessed to the people around him that he had some time ago mur dered his mother in the plantation referred to. The whole of the story now turns out to be true—except the confession. William Lidster, the man to whom the para graph refers, was brought up at Hull on Tuesday, charged with murder, and declared he knew nothing about the confession or the murder. There being ro evidence against him he was discharged. LAW AND POLICE. MISCELLANE(►US NEWS. VIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1E69. early morning, was shewn ill various ways. Tnat Seymour had the mob with him was plain enough. The crowd, surrounding Mr. Seely's committee-rooms, hooted, yelled, and hissed as if they were maniacs, The cries got fiercer, as every now and again the figures shewed. Mr. Seymour so far behind. llis party thought it time just after twelve o'clock to make an effort, and he was put into a carriage and driven through the more crowded streets, bowing and kissing his hand as he went. The mob cheered, and votes began to fall heavily to him, the enthusiasm of his friends rising with the figures. But . Mr. Seymour was still behind, and the " lambs " who had left work began to take " active measures." Instead of howling, they fought; instead of hissing, as the earlier crowd had done, they threw stones. Soon all was confusion. Nearly all the shops closed in the centre of the town, and so very boisterous did the mob become that the Mayor called out the pensioners. The retired soldiers stood with bayonets fixed against the crowd, but failed to restore order ; and the Mayor at last had to read the Riot Act. Shortly after four o'clock, however, when it was certain that Seely had won, after a little vigorous fighting, the excitement somewhat subsided, and there was no need for any very serious inter ference by the military. Mr. Seymour announced from the committee-room window that he believed himself to be the real victor ; one of his friends declared he had direct proof of bribery, and peace succeeded to the tumult, which had threatened to become so serious. TIDE CRISIS. The prospects of the bill improve every day. The Orange organ, the Dublin Mail, believes that the Lords will give way on the second reading. The Roman Catholic organ, the Dublin Freeman, says a great reaction has set in in favour of the bill, and it is now stated that a considerable number of Conser vative peers will absent themselves from the • division, in order that the bill may pass by a small majority, but the London corres pondent of that paper still thinks that the Orange party will prevail. The Times takes for granted that the House will divide, and that the division will shew that "no provocation has been suffi cient to induce the majority of the Peers to place themselves in sullen antagonism to the decision of the people." The Standard intimates that if the Government would but withdraw the declaration (where or by whom made is not stated) that no amendments would be admitted by the Lower House, the Opposition would agree to a compromise ; and inasmuch as Lord Granville expressly told Lord Bate ' man, by what was no doubt a preconcerted arrange ment, that the Government would give every con sideration to the amendments that the Peers might desire, this intimation is a virtual offer of surrender. • Lord Grey's speech has c u t awa y th e h ope w hi c h once existed, that help would come from the inde pendent Liberals ; and it i s , th ere f ore , i ncreas i ng ly likely either that no division will be taken, or that if taken, the great majority of the Conservative party will absent themselves. In fact, Ministers now give out that they calc u l a t e o n carr yi ng th e secon d reading by a sufficient majority, and it is well known that a large number of Conservative peers have told Lord Derby that they will not run the risk which would be incurred by following his lead. The Church Nezes says : " It is with great relief that we believe the crisis to be past, and the collision between the two Houses of Parliament no longer a subject for apprehension. Whatever may be thought of the Irish Establishment, there are few who would gravely and dispassionately regard it as worth a national quarrel between the two estates of the realm, possibly resulting in a revolution." Our con temporary believes that the rejection of the bill would only make the Lower House more firm in insisting upon its enactment, and all chance of amendment hopeless. It has no sympathy with " the angry shrieks and exaggerated bowling" of those who would impeach Mr. Gladstone for high treason, or maintain the Establishment though there were but ten men of that faith in the whole country. There is much to be said for Esta blishments, but with regard to this particular one the Church News considers that the nation expressed its firm decision at the elections. Therefore, while no Conservative should vote for a bill of which he dis ipproves, Conservative peers may at least honour ably refrain from voting at all. The bishops are in an evil case. They have in curred the wrath of the Morning Advertiser. That eminent supporter of the Church falls foul of the whole Bench, with the supporters of the Irish Church Bill because they support it, with the opponents be cause they oppose it. Bishop Thirlwall is let off, because he is admitted to be conscientiously a Liberal, and therefore naturally disposed to support a Liberal measure. But why does the Bishop of Chester mean to vote for the bill ? Because he was appointed by Mr. Gladstone, and because he hopes that Mr. Gladstone may do yet something more for him ; because of a lively sense of favours to come, that is—a very amiable theory, only not borne out by fact, if, as is rumoured, Bishop Jacobson does not mean to support the bill. Then we come to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; what can induce him to take the part he is taking ? Gratitude would have induced him to go with the party that made him archbishop, and as he cannot obtain further preferment, that motive might have been expe,:ted to be all-powerful ; but it is not, and so the Adver- ' user is compelled to cast about for some low motive, and finds it in the desire to keep in favour with the Queen. As for the Bishop of Oxford, of course he is influenced by the most sordid reasons ; that is self-evident to the Advertiser and its clients of the gin-palace. Is he not already named for the see of Winchester ? What else could make him vote for the bill this year when he voted against the Suspensory Bill last year ? Of course it is quite beyond the Advertiser's philosophy that spiritual peers as well as lay peers, Archbishop Tait and Bishops Jacobson and Wilberforce no less than Lords Salisbury, Carnarvon, Devon, Stanhope, and the rest of the Conservative Cave may be influenced by the consideration that a measure for which the nation has decided is in a very different position from a measure upon which the nation has not been consulted. MR. BRIGHT. No one will be surprised that Lord Cairns has given notice that he will interrogate the Government with respect to Mr. Bright's most indiscreet and ill timed letter. The Morning Star defends it, "as (to borrow a university phrase) in private duty bound ;" the Paily News being under no such pressure, and ipparently being unable to el borate an apology, with more prudence than courage, is silent on the matter, preferring to discuss Mr. Panting upon corpulence. The Times Lev ercly criticises the speech, as the Pali Mall azette had pre vi oti sly done. The Post considers the letter most unfortunate, and that it does not represent the opinions of the Liberal party. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr. Bright speaks for himself alone, and that the claims of true states manship should have prevented him from misrepre senting the Ministry, and " giving the enemy a gratuitous advantage in the crisis of a momentous political conflict." The Advertiser joins in the chorus of condemnation. To the Standard and the Herald the letter is "nuts," and the embarrassment in which it must have placed the Ministry will go far to atone for the defeat which is now generally supposed to be in store for the Conservative party. Less serious blunders than these—notably Lord Ellen borough's Indian despatch, Mr. Stansfeld's defence of Mazzini, and Mr. Lowe's dealings with the reports of the Inspectors of Education—have led to the resignation of the blunderer. DEAN STANLEY ON TIIE IRISH CHURCH. Lord Elcho's proposal for the establishment of a United Church of England and Ulster finds favour in the eyes of " Anglicanus." Dean Stanley says that his lordship's letter " expresses on the housetop wle.t I doubt not has been whispered by hundreds in the closet, and it furnishes one more unanswerable reason why the House of Lords should consider and reconstruct the Irish Church Bill, instead of incon siderately and indiscriminately rejecting it." The Dean then goes on to summarise the arguments of a recent article in the Edinburgh _Review, with which, if popular report be true, he has special reasons for being well acquainted. He gives eight reasons for reconsidering the Irish Church Bill. 1. There was never any settlement of the Roman Catholic Church in Ulster. 2. The Ulster plantation was a special importation of English and Scotch colonists who were guaranteed the support of their religion. 3. Ulster is different from the rest of the kingdom at the present time. 4. The most illustrious associates of the former days of the Irish Church are, with the exception of Bishop Berkeley and Dean Swift, confined to Ulster. 6. Its separation from the rest of Ireland is in con formity with the principle on which the rest of the Irish Church is attacked. If Connaught has been the ruin of the Irish Church in the West, and Munster in the South, for the very same reason Ulster ought to be its salvation in the North. 6. The ana logy of the division of the Roman Catholic and Pro testant cantons in Switzerland is exactly in point 7. The tedious and interminable questions respecting the " new Church Body" and the insoluble problems of its relations to the Church of England would +llll5, hn svAirlpgl TTl.gtor would he as it nnw is. and Connaught, Munster, and Leinster must then de end on it for their clergy so far as needed. 8. The resbyterians would then not be deprived (as they Low are, confessedly with no fault of their own) of the advantages of the Regium Donum. A HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. Mr. Bradlaugh and his friends are making arrange ments for a Hyde Park meeting, in case the Lords reject the Irish Church Bill. A preliminary gather dng was held on Tuesday, on the arid waste which is dignified by the name of Clerkenwell-green. The meeting, consisting of some six hundred people, repudiated the statement that the nation was changing its opinion about the Irish Church Bill, and endorsed the proposal that a Hyde Park meeting should be held on June 9 8, "if the Lords would listen to no other arguments." It is comforting to know that 'such decided Reformers as Mr. Bradlaugh think a House of Lords useful, even though in this matter " Iconoclast" differs from his colleagues, and es-en though his idea of the composition of an Upper Senate is very difLrent from the reality. It is not, perhaps, so reassuring to know that he and his friends are quite willing to chew themselves under t u l p i ey o f a ' r justice i y to t e t e I Irish ;'' or, in other worris, e i ry the wind ows o f t h e House, " and there let a cry go means to intimidats t t h h a e t Upper Ilcuie. THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. N which li th v ot a i c n e g o l t i l a n i t i s t eelylocpulace Ipap a e t rs ele s c u t p io p u ly time. r ead The like reports of an Irish election years ao.o. The way in which the canvassing i s conducted, the sentiments by which the opponents hope to win the support of the people, the appeal to brute force on nomination days, the sp or ti ng o f colours, and n-lunting of rib ands, the intense excitement— seenlingly without bounds—accompanying the polling, the positive hatred shewn by the two parties to each other, the attack made by the " blues" on their opponents, causing the total stoppage of business and all timid peoplb to quake with fear, make up a specimen of English civilisation by no means pleasant to look upon. The fury of the gupporters 141.7% ~, w han AV fOnrql b Italltimi At THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The London correspondent of the Independance Beige is informed that the English Ministry has decided upon adopting a policy similar to that laid down in Mr. Motley's instructions. The American Ambassador is charged not to reopen negotiations; neither will the English Foreign Office. Every endeavour will be made to induce Sir H. 13ulwer to postpone indefinitely the debate which he has notified his intention to open, and thus to let this worn-out dispute rest awhile. Earl Granville's temperate and kindly speech in the House of Lords has produced the best effect in America. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. The diplomatic service is in a very bad state, if we may believe what the members of it write to the daily papers. It is, according to them, an institu tion conducted on the principles of jobbery. A diplomatist writes that he has for many years paid annually to the chief cleric, who is financial agent to _Foreign Office, a percentage on his salary, in order that he may not be sent to an undesirable post. This black-mail (he adds) has been levied with the full knowledge of the heads of the depart ment. Another diplomatist—" An ex-Minister Plenipotentiary" he describes himself as—writes shewing how men fit for work are yet shelved with pensions. Ile has been shelved, and from no fault of his. " I have served my country abroad for more than thirty years, and during this long period I received many official acknowledgments of my zeal and industry from successive Secretaries of State. I am now in receipt of a pension, but I have made frequent applications to be employed on active service. 'Why this legitimate request has not been granted I am not aware ; I can only say that its refusal costs the taxpayer about £l,OOO per annum." MR. ROMAINE. Mr. Romaine, w h ose non - e conomical tendencies are said to have rendered his retention of the office of. Second S ecre t ary to th e Ad m i ra lty an impossi bility, is not t o b e cas t a lt oge th er a drift. It is authoritativ e ly stated that he has accepted the appointment o f J udge Advocate -G enera l i n I n di a , offered to him recently by the Duke of Argyll. Mr. Romaine was Deputy Judge-Advocate in the Crimea, and at the end of the war was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Sir Charles Wood. TUE BISHOP OF LONDON. changes whi c h. Several pr esentat i ons, cause d b y th e e pi scopa l been made withi n t h e l ast f ew wee k s . 1)r. Jackson, took place some months back, have formerly Bishop of Lincoln, now of London, was presented with a valuable piece of plate on Tuesday. The gift consisted of a beautiful centre-piece for fruit and flowers, upon an ebony stand, and was intended as an expression of goodwill from the clergy and the laity with whom his lordship had formerly been connected. A deputation consisting of Earl Brownlow, the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincoln shire; Lord Kesteven, the Dean of Lincoln, the llon. A. S. Melville, Colonel Amcotts, ALP., Archdeacon Trollope, Colonel Ellison, Archdeacon Kaye, Chan cellor Massingberd, Rev. B. Beridge, Mr. W. Ostler, Rev. T. Nelson, and Mr. Worth, waited upon his lordship to hand over the " token." Lord Brownlow acted as spokesman, and expressed the regret with which the Churchmen of Lincolnshire regarded his departure for London. his lordship returned the reply usual on such occasions. THE VELOCIPEDE AS A MILITARY AGENT. The Austrian Government has determined to employ the velocipede for military purposes. It is thought that where the country is sufficiently level the velocipede may be used instead of a horse for bearing despatches. A school has been set up. Why not mount infantry on these instruments? They would save a great deal of marching in a level country ; Lnd when the hills became too steep, the soldier might put his knapsack on the velocipede, and draw instead of carrying it. A regiment mounted on velocipedes would be a sight worth seeing. THE MISSING ATLANTL', STEAMER. There is still no news of the United Kingdom. It 81)pears that a vessel corresponding to her build and rig was seen some time since evidently in a disabled condi tion, but as no signals of distress were hoisted by her, she was passed without any particulars being obtained. The missing steamer left New York for Glasgow, with thirty passengers on board, so far back as the 19th of April. A STRIKE AT NEW YORK. Amongst the many strikes now in progress at New York a grand strike of waiters is noteworthy. Black and white attendants made common cause, and turned out with touching unanimity. The difficulty was very serious, for eating is a business which cannot be post fl:nof one hotel had to sally thed.andAllbrtehe inmate s akfast wherever they could. Tele grams were despatched in all directions for a supply of the indispensable article ; but the cry was still " They do not come." In default of better, the proprietors were constrained to engage raw hands, but the result was by no means satisfactory. Some of the joints looked, after carving, as if they had emerged from a menagerie den, and the handsome dresses of many of the ladies were irre trievably ruined. Worst of all, several thieves engaged themselves, and did their business admirably in waiting upon the receivers of stolen goods with property plun• dered from the hotels. New York was still suffering from this catastrophe a week ago. VIRGINIA. (From the Anglo - American 2 imes.) It was in Virginia that the English made their first permanent settlement in America, founding Jamestown in 1607. The area of the Old Dominion is 61,352 square miles ; its greatest length is east and west, measuring on the southern line 432 miles, but its general length is about 360, and breadth north and south about 200 miles. The State, re markable for bold scenery, may be divided into four sections-1. The Tide-water, consisting of a low sandy plain, from 110 to 130 miles wide, inter spersed with marshes overgrown with pitch pine, and very unhealthy ; the section is so called, as the rivers are affected to its limit by the rise and fall of the tide. 2. From the head of the Tide-water to Llie DILA, 114,18. dtea n uz.a•vt. ,of vvuuba J h...osirn as the Piedmont Section. At first the soil partakes of the sandy nature of the Tide-water section, but becomes uneven as the mountains are approached, stony, and broken, but with rich deposits on the margins of the rivers ; gradually the ridges of the Alleghauies are neared, and the country becomes mountainous. 3. Between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies ex tends the Valley Section, consisting of long elevated vales, with mountains running parallel, son 3 of considerable breadth, and all of excellent land, blessed with a delightful climate. Of these the I).:st known is the Shenandoah Valley, the scene of some of the most stirring evens of the great war. 4. The Fourth Section is called the Trans-Alleghany, being the westward slope of those mountains to the Ohio River, now forming West Virginia. It is traversed by several chains, chief among them the Laurel Mountain; t fine country, adapted to the growth of all varieties of grain, roots, tobacco, Sze., of which much is yet covered with forests, the land being still virgin,whikt the Tide-water and the Piedmont Sections hive been a good deal exhausted by a vicious sy4eiu of till t go,. In the Valley section Indian con, tobacco, and all manner of grain are grown, and the system of agriculture is superior to that of the bw country, wherelndian corn, tobacco, and cotton are raised. The wealth of 'Virginia would llavt been shown to be greatest iu minerals ha 1 they bten energetically worked, as was the case in Pennsyl'ania, the natural advantages of Virginias being ever greater. A company of Baltimore capitalists ins purchased several thousand acres whereon ti establish extensive iron works, em ploying thi Seibert process, for making steel di rect from ,he ore. No State can boast of richer and more ottensive coal-fields ; from the Pal:flunky by Ricluucad to the Appomattox, 35 miles long, varying fora 2 to 8 in breadth, are mines of bitu minons coal of excellent quality, in seams 30, 40, and even 60 feet thick. On both sides the Upper Appomattox the same quality of coal is found, and beyond the Alleghanies extensive deposits are asso ciated with beds of iron and salt. From Wheeling, 14 miles down the Ohio, there is an uninterrupted seam upwards of 16 feet thick, which runs 16 miles into Ohio ; another great field stretches from Clarksburg to Pittsburg, and far beyond to the north-east in Pennsylvania. Anthracite lies in the valley from the Potomac to James River ; gold, copper, iron, coal, lead, and salt are found ; springs of petroleum occur on the Little Kanawha among extensive coal seams, associated with salt springs. The Mountain section abounds with sulphur and other minerals. The rivers are numerous and use ful for industrial purposes. They either flow east to the Chesapeake Bay, or west to the Ohio. The principal is James River, which rises in the Alle ghany Mountains, and forcing its way through Blue Ridge forms numerous waterfalls, till it reaches the Tidewater at Richmond, a hundred miles from its mouth. Its only large tributary east of the Blue Ridge is the Appomattox, which is 7 feet deep at Peters burg, 12 miles from the Junction. The Rappahan nock also has its sources in the Blue Ridge, and receiving the Rapidan falls over the primary ledge at Fredericksburg and reaches Chesapeake Bay by a long estuary, twenty-five miles below the entranceof the Potomac. The Potomac and the Ohio are boundary rivers separating Virginia from the State of Maryland on the one side, and from the State of Ohio on the other. A corner of West Virginia runs along the 80e 30'i parallel of longitude on the Penn sylvania boundary; southward North Carolina and Tennessee are on its border, Kentucky and Ohio on the west. The Potomac rises in the Alleghanies, and forces its way through many intermediate mountain chains to the Piedmont district, where it is broker► by falls 9 miles above Georgetown, adjoining Wash ington, at which city it reaches Tidewater. A hun dred miles further on it enters the Chesapeake after a course of more than 300 miles. At its mouth its estuary is 71 miles wide, and at Alexandria, 290 miles from the ocean, its width is 14 miles. Though above Washington it is obstructed by falls and rapids, up to that city ships of the line can ascend from the sea. Alexandria is seven miles below Washington, and once was the port of entry for the Potomac. Formerly it was part of the District of Columbia, as Virginia ceded a portion of territory to form a Federal District, but it was returned in 1846. The land there is an undulating plain, and the town is one of the great coal ports of the Maryland mining region, and a shipping place of tobacco and other agricultural produce. Nine miles below it is Mount Vernon, celebrated as Washing ton's residence and the site of his +omb. The two storeyed mansion is 96 feet long and 33 wide ; it has a piazza in front, supported by square pillars, floored with sandstone. The flower garden is en closed by a brick wall ; there are old hedges of box planted by Washington, and a handsome serpentine walk he laid out. The best rooms in the house are a library 20ft. square, adjoining it the dining-room and east parlour ; on the other side the west par lour and grand dining-room, 33ft. long and 25 wide, with a handsome marble mantel-piece, a gift from Italy. The tomb is on a gentle declivity, facing a wooded hill, and through a grated door his ►warble sar cophagus, handsomely ornamented, can be seen ,while the plainer one of his wife is on the left. Glimpses of the river are to be caught, butonly here and there from the house. Much further down, where the water widely opens out, isAquia Creek. Thisistheroutege nerally taken to Richmond, as the railway has its terminus there. Aquia Creek, now desolate, was a place of great importance during the war, and even before it. A huge wharf with some deserted-look ing piles alone remain, and the passengers by the boat have to be transferred to the waiting train, when they move slowly, by the slopes of Fredericksburg, over a country ill-cultivated, and not marked by beauty, though renowned for desperate struggles and celebrated fields. More renowned still, and there the tame scenery changes to a romantic beauty, is the river above Washington. Harper's Ferry stands at the confluence of the Shenandoah with the Po tomac, where the united streams break through the Blue Ridge, which guards the rich vale whereof Har per's Ferry is the key The Winchester and Potomac Railway unites there with the Baltimore and Ohio line. Perhaps no name has been made better known by the war than Harper's Ferry. It was there that John Brown shadowed the contieg struggle, by his mad attempt to seize the arsenal and raise the slaves of the State, for which he paid with his life. Nor from the beginning to the end of the contest did an y town experience a more varied fortune. At one time held by the Federals, then by the Confederates, the first on which fell the storm of the invasion when the Union armies swept up the valley of the She nandoah, the last spot whence they retreated when the tideof victory turned again to the Southern side. It maybe that the most historical city of the Union is Richmond, the objective point of the Civil War, and the seat of the Confederate Government. It stands on the lower falls of James River, and was a beautiful town, surrounded by varied and interest ing scenery. The river, which becomes more an estuary below, is a series of rapids above the city, supplying it with immense water power, facilitat ing manufactures. Vessels drawing fifteen feet can reach within three miles, and those drawing ten can ascend to Richmond. Several elevations are em braced within the city, the Stockhoe and Richmond Hills being the chief, and on the former are built the public edifices, the Capitol standing conspicu ously on it in a space of eight acres. At an angle of that square, not far from the Capitol, is the Go vernor's official residence, which was occupied by Jefferson Davis; the City Hall, and the Penitentiary are fine buildings, but we have not now space to describe the city. Norfolk, connected with Richmond by rail, is the chief seaport for foreign commerce, well placed, as it is, near the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, some 32 miles from the Atlan tic, and 160 from Richmond. The Elizabeth River, whereon it is situated, is there about a mile broal, separating it from Portsmouth and Gosport, in connection with which it is the most important naval station in America. The Dismal Swamp Canal opens a communication between Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound, and Norfolk has regu lar steamboat communication with Baltimore, Phi ladelphia, New York, and Richmond. Gosport is the seat of the navy yard and dry dock ; it has a fine Naval hospital, and at Norfolk there is a Mili tary Academy. Williamsburgh consists principally of one street about a mile long. Across one end is the. fpro.l...minary which was burned during the war ; at the other end is the College of William and Mary, also set on fire, but its walls were so thick that they sustained little damage, and through the exertions of Professor Ewell it has received a new roof, and will be opened this autumn. It was built in 1693 with bricks brought from England, and in it Jefferson, Madison, Randolph, and other dis tinguished men of Virginia, were educated. It is 140 feet long by 40 in depth, with two wings 36 by 60. Most of the houses of Williamsburgh, no w dingy and dilapidated, were built of English bricks. The Episcopal Church is very interesting from its age and possesses the tombs of many of the nobility and more of the members of the Colonial Govern ment. The College of William and Mary has a large endowment. Farms, with fair improvements, can be had for from $8 to $l5 an acre, but in seve ral hundred acre blocks. Within the town of Williamsburgh lots of an acre each are held at about $2OO, and houses and lots are cheap. The climate of Virginia is varied, but while the winters are mild the summers are liable to long periods of drought. The first Government of Virginia was adminis!ered by a council of seven, from whom a president was chosen. In 1610, however, the King sent out Lord De la Warr as Governor, and it was after him that Delaware was named. From the revolution of 1688 Virginia pros pered under a long reriod of tranquillity-, but the State became a battle-field in the %Vat. of Inde pendence, and it was on the York Peninsula that Lord Coruwallis's army surrendered, a place afterwards celebrated for the advance of General APClellan and the series of desperate battles which' ended in his retreat from before Richmond. The brunt of the war fell on this State, and nothing could exceed the gallantry with which the Virgi nians met the trying circumstances. Indeed they proved more energetic by far in war than in peace ; for, although the Old Dominion was once the mother of Presidents and gave birth to the father of his country, yet the people are sadly wanting in Yankee energy as well asin industrial arts. Perhaps at this moment Virginia offers the finest field for emigration in the United States, and than that we canscarcely say more in its favour. Among its pecu liar attractions are, that it is the oldest of settled States on the Atlantic, with the rich and prosperous communities of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio bordering it, even the Federal seat of Government being on its river, the Potomac. It is then in the midst of civilization, yet it offers the advantages of a new country ; and coupled with this is an abund ance of labour, for although the tendency of the ne groes is to emigrate South, still they are too attached to " Old Virginny," to leave so long as they can be fully employed. General Imboden, who is now giving lectures on the subject of emigration to Vir ginia, says the negroes make excellent farm hands, and are to be hired for $lOO to $l2O a year for men ; $5O to $6O for women, with a peck and a half of meal and 31bs of bacon per week, and this enables even small farmers to conatnandamplehel.p. Generally the land is held in large tracts, by owners impoverished through the war, and they desire to sell, say 600 out of 1,000 acres ; thus small farms can be procured at from $5, $lO, $l5, to $2O per acre, open, fenced, built upon and improved, with all the advantages of roads, mills, schools, civil and social order, a mild, genial, and healthful climate, ample railways, canals and river highways, ports and market towns, sur rounded on every hand with unused water power, in the midst of a mineral wealth of almost unlimited extent, with perfect social and cival order, and the stability of an old civilization in every county. None of the sellers intend to leave the country, but they have too much land and cannot manage it. If worth the while of Americans to emigrate from the States into Virginia, the Old Dominion is certainly worthy the attention of English and German emi grants. General Imboden, the Domestic State Agent for Emigration, has his office at No. - 256, Broadway, New York, and General Tochman is the European agent, but we regret we do not know his address. The State will almost immediately be reconstructed, and will thenceforth resume its place as one of weighty importance in the affairs of the Union. CORRESPONDENTS AND THE PRESS. As Washington correspondents are bound to fur nish news from the political capital of the nation, and as the public hold it to be no excuse that there is no news, they make it. Gentlemen of a lively turn of mind and of imaginative powers can alone discharge the duties of a Washington correspondent. The manufacture of this gossamer web is sometimes from the smallest bit of raw material, sometimes from "airy nothings." It is hard for the reader to believe that the substantial castle placed before his eyes is no more than a Chateau en Espagne, a pure fiction, the creation of the correspondent's fancy, perhaps taking its colouring and appearance accord ing as exhilarating beverages or cigars had predo minated on the previous night. At times Washing ton brims over with news ; again you have to dip deep in the well to bring up any. In the winter those best known in the Union are there met at every turn, and Pennsylvania Avenue is thronged ; in the summer a hot, wearied, disgusted Chief of a Bureau only is to be found, from whom no news at any price can be extracted. It is then that the peculiar talent of the Washington correspondent is brought into play ; but unfortunately the habit thus acquired becomes confirmed, and he is apt to carry his romancing into the winter when there is no occasion for it. Take as an instance the stories to which the New York World gave publicity, wherein General GRANT, on the eve of inauguration, was represented as freely expressing opinions on leading political men. His words were quoted, and the circumstances under which they were uttered detailed, not in one, but in a series of letters, in which, from beginning to end, there was not a parti cle of truth. The effect was to create a very shy and awkward feeling between men about to be brought into close contact, and the PRESIDENT had to break through a fixed habit in contradicting state ments which were no less than pure inventions. When General LEE visited Baltimore on Railwiy business in connection with the college over which be presides, he wrote to Gen. GRANT stating his de- sire to pay his respects to the PRESIDENT, for which purpose, if agreeable, he would call at Washington on Iti6 way home. Gen. GRANT, as any gentleman would, expressed the pleasure his visit would give, and although rather an awkward meeting, consider ing the positions occupied by these distinguished men, and, perhaps, tinged with dullness, these cir cutnstances tending to create a restraint, yet the correspondents went home in a body (after doing their duty to their papers at the telegraph offices) to write of the momentous interview which settled the fate of Virginia, although there was nothing about Virginia said, nor anything which had a shade of political significance. The Herald's correspondent when "interviewing" Senator SUMNER, after his cele brated speech, put the words into his mouth signi fying that that speech had been read and approved by the PRESIDENT before it was delivered, yet this was not the case. A great deal of the indignation and alarm created by it in England arose from the be lief that it in some degree expressed GRANT'S senti ments, but it had no connection whatever with any feeling, opinion, or word of the PRESIDENT, being merely a very forcible utterance of a general na tional indignation, in the style, manner, and on the responsibility of an individual Senator. If the English had viewed that speech as expressing the sentiments only of a distinguished Senator, it would have attracted no great attention, but representing the Administration —as it was presumed semi-offi cially to do—its views became of serious importance, and this erroneous impression was mainly conveyed by the correspondents. Touching the American press and the Alabama question, the Nation makes a truthful remark : " One of the unfortunate consequences of the con stancy with which a large portion of the American press abuses England year in and year out, is, that when there comes a crisis like the present when real and unusual resentment seeks expression, the news papers are inadequate for the task, for nobody minds them. They have, owing to the limitations to human speech, to leave it doubtful in the minds of their foreign readers whether the American sense of British perfidy and unscrupulousness is any one year a whit stronger than it was any other year of the last ninety. Congress has thus far done nothing to supply the deficiency. There is not, nor has there been for years, a serious debate in either branch on foreign questions. In the House the illustrious BANKS has it all his own way, and his speeches and resolutions of course have long ago ceased to influence any rational person in either hemi sphere. In the Senate the work of commenting on English policy has been left to Mr. CHANDLER, but no American has ever had the face to ask any foreigner to heed him." There is a portion of the American press edited by Irishmen who write of England much in the style of the Dublin Nation or the Irishman, but as a rule the leading papers in dul_e no more in this pastime than the English papers do in abusing America. These criticisms have, as the Nation observes, lost their force, but not so much from their persistency as from their disregard of truth. It is surprising to see how quickly the feeling that existed six months ago can be forgotten, the tone of the day being assumed to be that of the former period. The American press did not express any feeling of irritation until Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON having imbibed the spirit of his na mesake, the celebrated ANDR EW , wa s s en t to England, a;i there discovered an easy and effective, mole of c stroking the fur of the American cat the wrong to w'a fl y h tlNtrhheeyn vicious boys " their a tails ;good-natured r d (•gs the animals bite the boys or fly at eachother is a mere chance, and so it appears to d be o there was a strong thongA with nations. rntant irritation iu v A E m i t e n r x i • c J a i w t N h s i o c h N • s q t u r i e c , l :t i t y n e u fi t r , e dupp d e r o v u e n db r y th r. e 1-1 re sult-1' ; but if the American pres 3 f_ aile.ladequately to convey this feeling to the minds ofEngli s hmen, there is no doubt that the English pres:3 has fully - succeeded in making known England's decision on what her people erroneously consider to be Mr. Sum:it:lt's de mands, for he made no demands. In justice to the American press, it should be stated that it met the British outburst of wrath with a moderation whic h has done it no small honour. In truth, it is charmed with its new and unaccustomed position. Hitherto it had been the attacking party, denouncing British perfidy, selfishness, and unfair demands, Whi le threatening all manner of penalties. Now it calmly witnesses and soothes the British ire, recommend ing the old gentleman to compose himself, telling hi tt ' there is danger of apopl ex y i u suc h un reasonab le fits of anger, that when i n a more pl ac id mood h e will find that nothing unreasonable will be Pro posed, and whatever may be the proposition it w li. ` be made courteously. The essence of our sub ject is, that journalists, whether correspondens 0r other writers should adhere as closely as th e y can to the truth. The public willingly allow th e press some latitude, but if it habitullly draws °F I imagination for news, and publishes leaders will ° without reference to facts, the influence it P° s- sesses will be lost. The habit of abusing pub lic men because they act in oppositon to their par t y has had the effect of making many leading Ameri cans care little, and cease to contradict even th e strongest comments on them in the newspaPe rs ' however untrue, and this well-known fact is any thing but complimentary to journalism.—An9 l°- American Times. DENMARK. Mr. Strachey, Secretary of the British Legati on at Copenhagen, in his report this year, gives the estimated putlic expenditure of De n mark . for the year 1869-70 at £2,533,630. The annual deficit has almost disappeared since the introduction of genuine Parliamentary government in 1865. l he nationaldebt has been reduced to £.13,238,000. the military items of the Budget contain nearly on e ; third of the whol e ex p en dit ure . The Ifo r 1867 introduced the Prussian system of uni versal liability to serve, but British subject° have i been exempted by sp ec i a l arra ngetne nt. The infantry soldier, when drawn, re ma ins for sis months with his instructors, and is then sent bogie' Every two years the men of the active army called out for a short drill. The future Dani sh army is 40,000 strong, bat some time must elap se before above 25,000 men really fit to take the fic l can be mustered. The navy includes five ironcla d e ' only one, the Lindormen, is up to the pres ent standard: The whole external commerce of Den mark in the year ending with March, 186.8, amounted to 2,708,944,5451 b. Danish (11 avoir dupois) 1,860,000,0001 b imports and 845,000,000 w. grOw: exports. The imports show a tendency the exports to diminish. The share of Great tain in the whole movement has fallen to 39 9 per cent. The imports are chiefly colonial productiii; Will be sugar producing nearly one-fourth of the 11 /h ° , 3 Customs revenue, and yielding in the year 1861' a duty of 1,333,354 r i x d o ll ars. I n the same Y ea .: cotton and flax goods importe I yielded 6 46,314 dollars, an d woo ll ens 603 , 442 r i x dollars I calculating the sterling equivalent it is e°lll s a mon to work w ith th e roun d di v i so r 9. met yielded 317,352 rix dollars. This is a 100 111- crease, owing chiefly t o i mprove d tra d e in iron an i ~ ron goods, partic u l ar l y i n ra il s an d s leepers. }-49 .' land delivered the greater part of the plates, f la t anchors, chains, cables, and n e arly all the ir on 1 . (1 railway constructions, but Sweden is g radual driving out o ur ro d an d h oop i ron , as well as °oir c i nails and spikes. The iron of all kinds declare. for duty in the yea r amounte d t o 62,089,7241 b• _ 1867-68 ; in the previous year it was but 44111.1i10 lions. The exports o f th e c hi e f ar ticles of domestic produce of De n m ar k i n 1867-68 declined in value to £2,218,780. The exportation of serials has been declining for t wo y ears , and reached only 1,400,5 v qrs., a fallin g o ff o f near l y 30 per c ent. as compareer with 1865-66. The change cannot be altogetb if referred to bad harvests. England takes abov e h ` the cereal and leguminous exports. The avera_o Danish cereal h arves t m a yb e t a ken at about 8, 500,° . qrs., and the w hol e e x port may be about half tn.% of Austria or the Danubian Provinces. The Danis _ contribution of foreign corn for England, howeve:-0' 700,000 to 800,000 qrs., is an important part of tn English supply. The last Danish harvest was v ei l plentiful, wheat especially being superabun dant. There is a falling off in the exp or t o f live stl k. from Denmark in 1867-68 from 141,419 bead to 125,915 head. The English take of cereals aAd live stock of Denmark declined 21 per cent. io 15°1 ; 68. England again took the greater part of ti' d butter, meat, bacon, hams, wools, skins, oilcakes, an teeth sent from Denmark ; but in these articles _ there is a general gross decline. wing t° ti Ly ° pi o lessened exports, there was a decline in the voyages registered in 1867-68; but the shIPP I° ; clearances of the year are stated at 84,984, wain tonnage 840,948, an improvement of 10 per oen t ', o the number of vessels, and a tonnage nearly the 0;f as in 1865-66. There is an increased tendencY.,.,,, steamers to supersede sailing ships in the coas 7o trade, which is almost exclusively carried on DOI bottoms. ()reign ALM tacliet Lisa. MAILS DUE. June '9. r u a s zD t i r li a .t l iit i o tt u. eavuniodas A N y e y, w rrgees,ii ..... ..... " ! e n a ct Monte Video .......... June 4 0 . 2 , .. a° ' Ditto, by French packet .......... 4 t.:apt Verde. by Brazil packet ..... ....... _.•• .. July 2l. 'Jape of Good live, Ascension, and St. ifeletia.- Jun ; ,, 1). e g.t ons. enau g , and Sinpure, vi a b 'Olll a P tou la rn Jun 3-00 - 1 9 ibnaltar, via doutbaciptou ......... ...' juao ig l adia, via Southampto n unto, via INlarseii ,es qaita, Egyp:, &0... ............. ... ................ Jau 0 Ditto, Marseilles.. ........... . ................. ....... / 6 -ewfoundla Lt .„. ..... • • Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via zouthatas ton ............................... •• • ~ 4 Ditto, Marselli ... Juu i es ~ .................... . Tub' '' Portugal .... .. .. .. United States. anada, California, &a, by Britis J u ane 19 , acket - • • • • • Ditto (lift( (Baltimore) ........ .. ........ '. Ditto, by I. I ited Mates packet ............... June 16 Ditto, by Inman packet.... .. ........ . West Indies and PazitiC (excep.t.. Mexico and 13ali a " Ja pe 23 mile) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .... • . : 3 . 3 : 23 Cuba and i exico .......... .•••• •• Joe 30 Bermuda, via Halifax._ B%hamae, via New York 1 6 Jlll,° ,ggrel'!!!!, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they alWaY' _ res orl".' chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health nourislr Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the c .,,,,1ie51 ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other r, -.60,,J1 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong n erv f e uetio% e ceg tr u a l e a t ri a ty je a w nd oe e t n e e f rgy 6B, t o c o ) o th e e e m re o e s ; t — d , i , s T o b rd e e p re e d pe or lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleeP' rest °"a by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Ronle , J ul ?' ily Si ne : , E , healt .21, i s 66. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, eSPee' a q ea tire. , abandoning all other remedies, he has confined him set ~„0 - ,ek to Du Barry's Revalenta Art3,bica, Food. of which he. ply a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surpri.sing3. cael Octal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praiset2esl' Cure lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, Julears' liver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven ysrcone complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with n 1f,, , a nd palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 13 ,4 ' ', T ars Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of inal,„"frona dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable eettfleoeY3 dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatio," , r ure Dl° enfeebbled. N , spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jo3Y. 30 year! ' 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fri coley , Surrey, of „, an diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver deranger ne !' ', 0 0,Y partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of _the_rthoat unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, ,`,",: e bed. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously lbs:' vs ; In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s Od: `'lnsl3 6d 5 lbs lls ri,,IOOOLA° 24 lbs 40s. - Also DU BARRY'S REYALENTA A.RABIEA. --- i rtS POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at -'s, f or - c t 5 1'55 at Is 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 2,88 cups at 30s, for 576 eel ) ! . ',," se at —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins i'' Order, -; free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office, .and BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77 , Regent - s treet, Lon ue o all Grocers and Chemists. ___„...---"'"- BIRTHS. C RATE R—On the 16th inst., at 22, Belsize-road, I"V the wife of Goorgo Chater, jun., Esq., of a sou. )t• R USSE LL On the 19th inst., at Rochdale, the wife of ,01 T. Stuart Russell, of a son. MARRIAGES. ,tcr BAYNE—MAYO -On the 15th iust , at ILtinpstea,,,,..- . - Bayne, Eeq., of Harlington Middlesex. to Anna bill, rine, youngest daughter of ' Remy Mayo, E ,4 1, °3lill' Ha rupst cad. HEATIICOTE WALPoLE •- On the 15th inst., Io George Park er Reatheoto Es se c o nd son of Sir ‘% Heatheote, 11:irt., and • late Cap q., t. 52d Light Infant' I.+ Isabella M. Eli za b e th oungest daughter of the uig H i Hon. Spencer H ora ti o Walpole, M.P. at ITurs1,1):: DEATIIS. COLEBITCII On tho 15th inst., at Tredegax-Fquare , Joseph Colebatch, Esq., of 60, Lower Thames-street. Las—On the 14th inst., at 46, Acacia-road, Ed wa rd Lee , Esq., aged 74. PRINGLE Oh the 15th iust ,at Langton House, Ilerwicil' shire, Sir John Pringle, Bart., of Newhall, aged SO. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand, in tLe Precinct of the Savoy, in the l;ounty of iliddlesa.-" Thursday, June 17, 18f2.