The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

IRAL .ROUS AFD LORD COVENT.RY'S PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS. Lord Coventry writes to the Times in answer to Admiral Roues letter stating that he cannot support the noble lord's resolutions which are to be brought before the next meeting of the Jockey Club. Lord Coventry points out that he wishes to raise the minimum weight from sst. 71b. to 6st., to which the gallant admiral objects, "because the maximum weight in a great handicap is under lOst." The writer says : " I am not aware that there is a rule of racing which fixes the maximum weight to be carried in any race ; therefore, if the alteration is agreed to, the Admiral would only have to begin his handicap 71b. higher, and it is surely no hardship to infict 10st. 71b. on a horse over a 3istance which never exceeds two miles and a half." He goes on to say that it is very difficult to find an efficient jockey who can ride as light as sst. 71b., and this fact %lone is, in his opinion, a strong argument in favour of the alteration he proposes. " For my own part," he concludes, " I should gladly see the minimum weight raised to seven me. Light, shelly, weedy mares would then be consigned to the cab-rank instead of the stud, and breeders would endeavour to produce animals of size and power which would be available for other purposes if they were found too slow for the racecourse." The Hon. Percy Wyndham also writes to the Times In the subject. Referring to the statement of Admiral Rous that the Alexandra Plate, the distance of which is three miles, and the weights 10st. and 10st. 81b., breaks Sown one-fourth of the winners every year, he says that " in the last century and later, three miles would have been 2onsidered a short distance. Four miles, and even six, were more usual, and last. and 10st. 81b. would not have been considered a heavy weight. Under these conditions we have it on record that the horses of that day remained on the turf four, five, and even seven years ; it is true they were not trained at two years old. The truth is that, given a race of thoroughbred horses, the exigencies A modern gambling and the improvement and perfection of that breed are two things diametrically opposed to one another." The Hon. F. W. C. Villiers states that his tather's (Lord Jersey's) horses generally made their first public ap pearance at Newmarket in the Craven Meeting, as the records of many Riddlesworth Stakes will testify. The Craven Meeting used to be held about two months only before the Derby. THE SERIOUS CHARGE' AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. The charge against the two Government officials of flaring accepted £3O for a corrupt purpose, or, as the Indictment puts it, of having conspired to obtain the sum of £3O by false and fraudulent pretences, occupied a long► time at Bow-street on Wednesday. The two prisoners are named Thomas Gambier and William Rumble, and the person from whom the 130 was obtained is called Max well. The facts as stated by the counsel for the prosecu tion are these :—Mr. Maxwell is one of the persons who lately tendered for the supply of timber to the Admiralty, and was waited upon last January by the prisoner Rumble, who told him that he could "get him the contract," or, in other words, get the tender accepted, but that he would •equire some pecuniary consideration. Mr. Maxwell, actuated obviously by a very laudable motive, called on the Registrar of Contracts, Mr. Antonio Brady, and told iim what had occurred. Mr. _Brady was surprised and shocked at the statement, and took immediate steps to discover the origin and details of the conspiracy. It turned out that the prisoner Rumble alleged that he had friends high in office in the Admiralty Department at k.)merset House, and that from them he could get the necessary information and could get tenders for contracts ccepted ; and that when goods were supplied under a contract he could get the goods accepted. Gambier was not referred to by name, but when Rumble was asked how he got his information and influence, he said he had friends high in office ; and in order to impress that on Mr. Maxwell, he brought him a few days afterwards the letter accepting his own (Mr. Maxwell's) contract. The authorities, in the exercise of their discretion, and in order to discover the nature and extent of a system which, if it bad any ramifications at all, must be tested to the bottom, allowed matters to go on, and Mr. Antonio Brady, the Registrar, gave Inspector Clark a cheque for £3O, with certain instructions. The inspector accordingly delivered to Mr. Maxwell three £lO notes, which the latter gave to Rumble. Two of those notes had been traced, one to Rumble, and the other to Gambier. Mr. Maxwell himself being called, than gave a history bf how he became acquainted with the prisoner. lam (said he) a mining engineer and timber merchant. I sent in a proposal to the Admiralty for a contract for elm Limber for several of the dockyards about the 12th January last. On Friday, 15th, the prisoner Rumble called upon me at my office. I said, " What can Ido for you?" He said, " That depends on yourself." I said, " How so ?" He said, " You have tendered for elm timber, but you won't get your contract unless you use influence at the office." I said, "I consider this to be a matter that should rest an its own merits, and if my own brother were the person to decide it I would not ask him to do so." He replied, " Well, you won't get the contract unless you give a small consideration. It is at present between you and another person who has tendered, and unless you make terms with me you will certainly lose the contract. Even should you get it, you will certainly find that a great portion of your goods will be rejected." I replied, " I cannot help that. I shall not use or pay for any influence. I am not sufficiently anxious to get the contract to induce me to give a bribe to any one to nse their influence." Rumble replied, " Very well ; I will do the best I can for you, and after you have got the contract perhaps you will do something for me." I soon afterwards received a note from Rumble, in which Rumble prophesied that I should soon get the contract letter. I asked him when next I saw him how he knew about it. He said, " I find out from my friend." I said, " Your friend is not Mr. Childers, I presume ?" He said, "Not very far from him. He is pretty high up." 1 further learnt from him that if he received any money from me he would divide it with his friend. Not long afterwards he brought to me the letter accepting the contract, saying at the same time that it was obtained by his influence. When he called later on I handed him three bank of England notes for £lO each, which I had received from Inspector Clark. The next day he called again, and said, " Well, you can go up and sign the contract, and send in the wood as soon as you like, and you will get your money in four days afterwards. He (meaning the friend) is much pleased, and will give you some large things when he knows what line you would like." Inspector Clark, the next witness, said he had watched the prisoners, and had overheard the conversation with Mr. Maxwell. He found that Rumble and Gambier were continually together. Acting under instructions it was_he who arrested them. Mr. Antonio Brady, Registrar of Contracts and Securi ties, Admiralty, Somerset House, said the prisoner Gam bier was a clerk iu the Storekeeper's Department, at a salary of over £5OO a year, having been fourteen or fifteen years in the service. In consequence of directions from the Lords of the Admiralty, and from information received from Mr. Maxwell, he gave Clark a cheque for £3O on the 29th January, with certain instructions. The iheque was on the Bank of England, where witness keeps is account. In the regular course the letter accepting the 'ntract would go through Gambier's office, but should be posted to Mr. Maxwell. It was marked for post, but had not been posted. _ _ _ Mr. Henry Childs Hinds, clerk to the Church of England Insurance Office, King-street, Cheapside, stated that a man named James Thomas Gambier, a clerk in the Admiralty, Somerset House, was insured in that office, and had paid his premium on the 9th February with the £lO note produced, No. 24,974, 9th May, 1867. At this stage of the proceedings the defendants were remanded, LAW AND POLICE. FATHER IGNATIUS AND HIS MONKS.—At the Maryle none Police-court, an extraordinary case was tried on Wednesday. A youth, named isTobbs, who said he was a student, was charged with stealing £l5 and with assault. The prosecutor said he kept a small general shop, but, on figiheFixaminatiun, explained that he had been one of Ir*that Igtatines monks, and that the prisoner had also - been Oiiei — Ttiey had gone about the country together lecturing, and were now in partnership in the shop. The prosecutor accused the prisoner of being a renegade, and of showing him great ingratitude. The prisoner accused the prosecuor of drinking and throwing £5 out of the window, so that ho was obliged to take the money to take care of. The prisoner was remanded for a week. MORE THAN. A HUNDRED TIMES IN CESTODY.—A woman, who has been more than a hundred times in custody, was charged a day or two since, at 'Westminster, with being drank and incapalik. She had been brought up to the same court twice since Christmas. She was fined 55., and declared that she had not a farthing to pay LEGISLATING IN FUN.—A few days ago a despatch was sent to the eastern papers from Chicago, announcing that the Illinois Hogs:; of Representatives had pasygl a bill ceding the city of Chicago and the county of Cook ti., Indiana. There was no intimation that the act was not a serious one, but it was a joke perpetrated by the House in mock session. At the same session a bill was introduced which vested " all political, civil, and social. power, irrevocably, in the female portion of the population above the ageji2L4telZZearlikel dirtallitiZeili_ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE " OWL." The Owl has re-issued from the ivy bush in which it has been hiding for the past six months. The bird of Minerva is scarcely yet fully awake, and has, so far, but few words of wisdom to utter. It states (as we had previously stated) that General Balfour has got over his difficulty at the War Office, and re turned to his post. It gives good news to the clerks at the Admiralty, who are told that they will not be dismissed en masse, but will be reduced by degrees, any vacancies which may occur being filled up with copyists. Per contra, there is bad news for M.P.'s. The Easter vacation is to be cut short because Parliament has met later than usual. Easter is earlier, an parliamentary business is urgent. A somewhat mythical secret is communi cated ; it is said that when Lord Malmesbury resigned the leadership of his party in the Lords, the names of Lord Salisbury and Lord Cairns were submitted to those with whom the appointment of a successor rated, and that it was unanimously agreed, Lord Salisbury himself sharing the opinion, that Lord Cairns would make the better leader. To us it seems impossible that Lord Salisbury could have been suggested. The idea of his working together again, with Mr. Disraeli is preposterous, or would be so were it not that Mr. Bright and Mr. Lowe are in the same Cabinet. With regard to the principal question of the session, the Owl considers that any direct negative to Mr. Gladstone's disendowment scheme is hopeless, intimates that a certain number of statesmen of both parties will unite to propose a project which will relieve the Roman Catholics of Ireland from supp or ti ng a Church to which they do not belong, will maintain, though in diminished proportions, the Protes ta nt Church in Ireland in those relations which now subsist touching the supremacy of the Crown in all matters ecclesiastical, will continue the representa tion of the Irish hierarchy in Parliament, and the right of every Churchman to have every question involving doctrine or discipline finally deter mined by a tribunal in which the lay element predominates. It is intimated that Mr. Glad stone's scheme for the .constitution of a board to protect existing life interests will not be opposed ; and that the right of synodical action conferred by Lord Westbury's Act of ten years ago upon the Church in the colonies will be extended to Ireland. The Owl censures the Irish bishops and clergy for neither creating a policy for themselves nor con curring in any suggested by other persons, and warns them that the maintenance of their present attitude of "No Surrender will bring about thaL destruction. THE HARTLEPOOL PETITION. The Liberals appear to have made a fiasco at Har tlepool as great as any of the numerous ones made by their opponents elsewhere. After having sub poenaed a large number of witnesses and given the judge the trouble of going down to Hartlepool, the petitioners suddenly withdrew from the case. The public will be interested in knowing the particulars of the arrangement. MU. HANDEL COSSHAU AND HIS SUPPORTERS. I Mr. Handel Cossham, the unsuccessful candidate at Dewsbury, has: just been the hero of a greater triumph than if he had won the election. He has been feasted by his supporters, who, in addition, paid the whole of his election expenses, £1,058, and pre sented him with a salver, and other presents. It was remarked that Mr. Cossham, though defeated, was in rather a better position than the elected of a neigh bouring borough (Mr. Ripley, of Bradford), who had spent £lO,OOO in order to be elected, and a few additional thousands in order to be turned out. Mr. Cossham, in acknowledging the various presentations, said he was really more the representative of the Liberal electors than his successful opponent was, or ever would be. The conduct of his friends with regard to the costs of the election had placed them in a very high place as a constituency. He hoped it was a position that other constituencies would be constrained to take. He had never been sparing of his time or money in political matters, and he was ready to have borne his full share of the expenses in the late contest ; but he yet felt that the course which had been taken was the right one. When a constituency imposed heavy ex penses upon a candidate, they placed him in a very dangerous position with regard to their interests. If a man bought a seat, he would be very apt to sell a con stituency. THE IRISH CHURCH. Somewhat late in the day the first step towards a general consultation with regard to the Irish Church has been taken. The bishops having in their late resolutions appealed to the clergy and laity to suggest some mode in which bishops, clergy, and people could take counsel together, the committee of the Lay :and Clerical Association—a society lately esta blished to watch over the interests of the Church in this emergency—have sent a circular to every parish, strongly urging that at the coming Easter vestries syuodsmen should be chosen who could be sum moned to diocesan conferences by the bishops. They advise that not more than three should be selected in each parish, and that these should be the persons most fitted by their reputation for wisdom and their steadfast support of the Church, for gravely considering whatever problems the conflict against her enemies may originate. or her future position require them to solve. The Archbishop of Armagh has issued an address to the clergy of hi s united dioceses, in which he sug gests that they should, on some Sundayin Lent, impress on their congregations " the duty incumbent on us all o f h um bli ng ourselves before Almighty. God, und er a sense of the many sins, negligences, and omissions on the part of the Church and o f the nation, which in former times and to tha present have tried His patience and , forbearance, and have merited Hi s di s pl e asure ; and to point out to them ho w earnes tl y th ey oug ht to join in the prayer. ` Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers,' and Turn from us all those evils that we have mos t righteously deserved.' " .The Arch bishop add s : " A n d as the H ouses o f Parliament are about to reassemble, it appears to me that you should also endeavour to lead your congr ega tions fervently to pour forth their prayers on behalf of the Legis lature." The Primate of the Irish Church admits that it has been guilty of sins, but we presume the. confession i s o f th e usua l va gue kind, not at all in compatible with an gr y resentment if any special sin were charged. TUT.: ENGLISH CIIGRCII UNION. At an important and numerous meeting or the English Ch urch Union, the recent R j itual udgmen was most vi gorously discussed. Pusey was the principal speaker, and was received with an enthusia sm which must have astonished him, _ e well accustomed th oug h h e i s to h earty rece ptions. it read an e l a b orate argument to shew that in matters spiritual and ecclesiastical the Privy Counc il ought called up on to have no jurisdiction, that the recent judgment on whi c h th e Reformation of the English Church was based —the appeal to Primitive and Catholic Churchmen to defend the principle antiquity —a n d t h at measures should be taken to promote a r e f orm of the Court of Final Appea l . Mr. Orby Shipley was for ignoring the Reformation altogether, and moved an amendment to that effect, which was lost. Mr. Perry, one of the Ritual Commissioners, moved a resol u ti on en j o i n ing caution upon Churchmen in the use of rites Wliich have not been specifically declared legal, and caution upon the council of the union in defending suits arising out of such use. It would seem, therefore, as if the High Church p ar t y h ad been taught prudence by the recent judgment, and will pause in the development of ritual, whose latest manifestations by extreme men led to the recent lezal nroceedinffs and to the condemnation, not only of ceremonies of extreme men, but of the moderate ritual of men who depre cated extravagances. This inference is confirmed by the fact that certain of the speakers at the union declared that though they did not consider them selves morally bound by the ritual judgment, they thought it expedient to obey it. DISTRESS IN WOOLWICH. There appears to be considerable distress wich, although the military reductions contemplated Wool plated by the present Government have not begun effect. In order to alleviate this distress, order take o have been issued to send 1,000 shirts weeklYtto.ng be made by the widows or wives of soldi ers h a families to support. in the Royal Laboratory Department of the arsenal a considerable number of men, women, and children have been entered durin g the present week to expedite the completion of 15,000,000 cartridges required for the service, A TOWN IN DANGER. The Rochester people are in a state of chronic alarm, as well they may be, in consequence of the large quantity of gunpowder stored up at Upnor Castle, on the banks of the Medway. They have twice petitioned the House of Commons on the sub ject, but with no effect. Now that Mr. Otway, the member for the adjacent borough of Chatham, is in office, they hope that their representations will pro duce more impression. X "RECULER rour. ANEti SALTER." The Government is going to incur a considerable expense in order to effect a larger saving. It is about to erect a lock hospital at Chatham for the reception of patients under the Act for the Prevention of Con tagious Diseases. Hitherto the patients at Chatham and Sheernes under treatment in accordance with the provislons of the Act have been received at St. Eartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, but the high rate charged for each patient at that establishment-40 per annum, only .£25 per annum being paid by the Government at the Lo n d on h os pit a l s —has induced the authorities to decide on the erection of a separate ''ospital at Chatham for the exclusive treatment of Lases from Chatham, Sheerness, Maidstone and Gravesend. T o th e two towns last mentioned, the Driniiknfi Of tho ACt Fillplaatly be ex,tetavdt THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1E69. THE GULP STBFAM. The present warm weather has evoked a discussion on the Gulf Stream, which institution is called upon to prove that it exists. Lieutenant Maury is for the time disregarded, and Mr. Findlay has publicly declared at the Geographical Society, that that eminent " observer" has stuffed the world with a lot of bosh. The Lieutenant, however, is not without defenders, and Mr. Findlay will have to answer a lot of objections before his new theory will be generally received. It is an ascertained fact—or supposed to be—that across the Pacific a stream of water—a kind of river in the sea—is continually running ; that the thermometer shews this current to be of a higher heat than the surrounding waters, and that below it the water is of the usual temperature. The question is whether this water washing our shores increases the temperature of the land. It is at pre sent a mere question of Maury versus Findlay, and while it remains so most non-professional people will defer judgment. rorte sent a commission to isagaaa to inquire into tne disputed points and definitely settle the boundary ques tion. This commission did its work well for some time, but it is now announced that it has broken down alto gether, and hence the quarrel. On what special point the difference has arisen is not yet clear. Equally difficult is it to decide which party is in the right ; but it is to be hoped that the Conference will have a reflective influence, and prevent any serious issue. As the Shah of Persia is now little more than a Russian satrap, a war of this kind might probably affect English interests in the East, disappear. I see the New York Times notices the pleasure Grant expressed from his reception at Bal timore, particularly with the manner in which many of those heretofore regarded as sympathisers with the rebellion put their political differences out of sight and mingled in the best spirit with their most Radi cal opponents. The occasion is believed to have done much toward removing the intense asperity of feeling that has existed in that city. The French Transatlantic Cable Company allege that the resolution referred to the Committee on Foreign relations requiring the consent of Congress to the landing of a foreign sub-marine cable is in the interest of the Newfoundland and Valentia line, and ask to be heard in the Senate by counsel. Dr. Mudd and Mr. Sprangler are likely to be par doned by the President. An amusing instance was furnished to the Joint Committee on Ordnance to day of the jealousy with which inventors regard each other's creations in their own line. How does your Whitworth and Armstrong pull together, as I propose to show what sort of a team our Dahlgren and Rodman make. Rodman has just been exa mined by this Committee, and freely stated that the Dahlgren gun was worthless. Admiral Dahlgren was examined to-day, and mournfully testified to the utter failure of the Rodman gun ! Both are scientific officers, but I think the Committee might look elsewhere for information on artillery. General Ingalls considers that the Ordnance and Artillery should be merged, and the Engineer Corps perform the duties of Coast Survey. This offi cer was chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomae, and gave his opinions to the Mili tary Committee of the Home. He thinks the quartermaster, paymaster, and commissary depart ments should make one bureau, with a third of the present employes. General Rollins is to be examined, and it is supposed he will speak Grant's views ; General Thomas's opinion also will be taken. Robert J. Walker came voluntarily before the Committee on Public expenditure to state his con tempt for the paragraph circulating about him and his Alaska fee. He cared nothing, but others urged him to this action. Martin had called on him in a vain attempt to levy black mail, and a self-styled newspaper correspondent bad communicated to his associate counsel that be was able to control the press and many members of Congress. Walker in dignantly sent him word that he had no such money, and if he had he would not thus use it, on which the correspondent became riled and threatened to kill the bill and call on Walker, but this honourable Robert said if he came to his office he would kick him out. Why, while giving all the voluntary testimony, did he not say something about the Alaska fee ? AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) (THIRD NOTICE.) A 1 y Adventures Afloat in the Sumter and Alabama. By Admiral Raphael Semmes. After some stay at the Cape the Alabama stretched away into the Indian Seas, carrying dismay among .the islands of the Chinese archipelago and on the coasts of India. Singapore became blockaded with American vessels, and the bay of Bengal illuminated with their bnrning hulks, and having effected as much mischief as possible, she commenced her homeward voyage. On the 2d of May the cruiser recrossed the Equator, but not what she had been ; " she was like the wearied fox-hound limping back after a long chase, foot sore, and longing for quiet and repose. Her commander, like herself, was well-nigh worn down. Vigils by night and by day, the storm and the drenching rain, the frequent and rapid change of climate, now freezing, now melt ing, or broiling, and the constant excitement of the chase and capture, had laid in the three years of war be had been afloat a load of a dozen years on his shoulders. The shadows of a sorrowful future, too, began to rest upon his spirit. The last batch of newspapers captured were full of disasters. Might it not be that, after all our trials and sacri fices, the cause for which we were struggling would be lost? Might not our Federal system of govern ment be destroyed, and State independence become a phrase ; the glorious fabric of our American liberty sinking, as so many others had done before it, under a new invasion of Brennuses and Attilas ? The thought was hard to bear." On the 10th June the Lizard was made, and next day the Alabama let go her anchor in Cherbourg, the last port she was destined to enter. The Kearsarge arrived from Flushing on the 14th June, and after making an unsuccessful application for the prisoners landed from the Alabama took her station off the port. Admiral Semmes sent to inform Captain Winslow that he would engage him if he waited till he had coaled. The crew of the Alabama were not only willing, but anxious for the combat. "The stories," says Semmes, " that ran the round of the Federal papers at the time, that my crew was composed mainly of trained gunners from the British prac• tice ship Excellent were certainly without foun dation. I had on board some half-dozen British seamen, who had served in ships of war in for mer years, but they were in no respect supe rior to the rest of the crew. As for the two ships, though the enemy was superior to me both in size, stanchness of construction, and arma ment, they were of force so nearly equal, that I cannot be charged with rashness in having of fered battle." The Kearsarge mounted seven guns : two 11-inch Dahlgrens, four 32-pounders, and a rifled 28-pounder. The superiority of the United States man-of-war lay in her two Dahlgrens, which enabled her, though mounting one gun less than the Alabama, to throw a heavier broadside. The for mer had a crew of 162 all told, the latter 149. The French frigate Uouronne accompanied the Alabama out of port to prevent French waters from being vio lated. It was a fine Sunday, the heights were crowded with anxious spectators--many from Paris, and seve ral boats came out, among them an English steam yacht, the Deerhound. The Kearsarge lay about six or seven miles off. When under-weigh and ready for action, Semmes called his crew aft and addressed them in a few animated words, which were received with a stern silence. O n near i ng t o w ithi n a mile and a half the Kea rsarge su dd en l y wheeled, presenting the starboard batt ery, an d h ea di ng i n s hore. The Ala bama then op ene d w i t h so lid s h o t, the distance being about a mile. Both ships came on under a press cf steam, and to prevent their passing each other too rapidly they moved round in a circle, the distance across ranging from one-half to three-quarters of a mile: When within shell range the Alabama used that projectile, but observing that they had little effect on the Kearsarge Semmes returned to solid shot, alternating, however, with shell. In ten mi nutes, the spanker-gaff being shot away the Confe derate flag came down by the run, but it was re placed at the mizzen-mast head. The shells of the Kearsarge began soon to tell fatally, killing men and smashing in the sides of the Alabanza as they ex ploded. After an hour and ten minutes she was in a sinking state, and Semmes made a desperate effort to drive his vessel upon the French coast with both steam and sail, but she filled so rapidly that the fires were extinguished, when he hauled down his colours, and sent a boat to inform the Kearsarge of his condition. During the twenty minutes which remained every exertion was made in the Alabama to save the wounded and such boys as were unable to swim in the only boats not destroyed by the enemy's shot, the quarter boats. Then the crew, as directed, jumped overboard, and the Alabama went do vn stern foremost. At first no movement was made in the Kearsarge, but when the Alabama sunk one boat was sent out, then another, but the Dee-- hound steamed into the midst of the drowning m en and saved the captain and forty of his crew. Nine of them were killed in the action, twenty-one were wounded, and ten were drowned. The Confederate Admiral brings two charges against the Near cage. That she violated all the rules of chivalry, as she accepted and fought a single combat, deceiving he r enemy into the belief that both were woolen ships and fought on equal terms, while beneath the dis guise of a thin planking the Aearsarge was in reality iron-clad. Iler cables had been fixed perpendicu larly from the rail to the water's edge, thus coat ing the outside amidship on both sides. The other charge is that she not only fired five shots after the Alabama had struck, but she left the men to drown, although she could easily have saved them, being but some 400 yards off when the vessel sank ; and Sm.,' AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Mr. Williams, of the Broad-street Refuge, has made public a most singular case. He states that an orphan girl, not yet 14 years of age, has been arrested and removed from the Girls' Refuge at Ealing to Whitecross-street Prison, for a supposed debt of £53 lls. 2d. Mr. Williams expostulated with the attorneys who issued the execution, but they laid the blame on their client. The governor of the gaol said he had been there for thirty years, but had never had such a case before. Mr. Williams does not attempt to explain the extraordinary trans action, but says, with reason, that it is a scandal to the law. Not the least singular part of the affair is that so young a girl should be supposed to have incurred such a debt. THE FACTORY ACT. That portion of the Factory Act making the Satur day afternoon and Sunday holiday compulsory, has created a very large amount of opposition and com plaint. Workpeople and masters alike are grumbling ; the former because, as they say, their wages have been lowered, the latter on account of the great inconvenience of shutting up so early when there are large orders on hand. Mr. Redgrave has done what he can to oblige the employers by allow ing the half-holiday to be given on any other day than Saturday. Now the Jews want relief. A day or two back no fewer than seven cigar manufacturers were brought before Mr. Benson, at the Thames Police-court, accused of having employed females and young persons on Sunday morning. From the statements of several of the defendants it would appear to be the custom of such of the cigar manufacturers as are Jews to employ their workpeople for a few hours on Sunday mornings instead of Saturday, the latter day being strictly observed as their Sabbath. By the new Factory Act all work on Sunday is made illegal, and the Jews are not excepted. It is true that manufacturers of this per suasion are allowed to employ women and young persons on Saturday evenings from four till nine, but in summer this exception will be valueless, as the Sabbath in that season does not end till after nine in - the evening. This certainly makes it a question whether Jews should not be allowed to carry on their work while the remainder of the nation is at rest. But the subject is beset with difficulties. THE USE OF CHLOROFORM. Those who oppose the introduct:on of new anaesthetics are very exacting in their requirements of safety. Only one death out of some thousands of cases was held some time back to be proof that the American system was a failure. But such exaction would lead to the rejection of all those compounds which are " warranted to prevent pain." Still the administration of chloro form is always accompanied with a certain amount of danger. On Sunday last a chemist of Sheffield died under it. He was attended by two experienced surgeons. The chloroform was adminis tered to him at his own request, and he had not inhaled it more than three minutes when the heart became paralysed, and death, of course, ensiled. The quantity given was very small, but it seems he was exceedingly afraid of it, and fear carricd him off. The jury returned a verdict, " Died from paralys's of the heart." BEET-SUGAR. the M T r i Cnlesaird has on thes s na u l bj d e e ct a o n f o h th om er e- c gr om ow m n un b i e c e a t to u n ga t r o . lie states that Mr. Duncan has thoroughly succeeded in the trial h e h as ma d e . li e h as b ee n . seconded by some Ssuilffooslian kfaibinee w farmers, whichwho dmhounst approved with for its sugar-producing qualities. In consequence of some inevitable drawbacks the result of the experi ment_has he w this season is not profitable, but enough soil been done to shew that there is nothing the out with the same success as on th e s ugar asinl sugar-beet farms of o l t f n r t e h a s t n( p i a of manufacture E ngla n b d e n t o g prevent Belgium and the North of F rance . M r . D uncan h as e m et ate cu received 800 tons of sugar-beet from the farmers, the growth of 1868, for which he has paid at the rate of 20s. a ton. He has entered into engagement to pay the same price this year, and with a favourable season expects to receive 4,000 tons. Mr. Caird observes that this is not a work to be entered on . by a novi ce , f or great chemical n 1 engi neering skill must be employed in the processes and machinery. The introduction of sugar-farming into this country may become an object of national importance both as regards consumer and producer, and as a new rural manufacture it will afford em ployment to a large body of people during three . months of the slackest period of the year: The analysis shews that beet grown in England and Scotland contains more sugar than that of Belgium, where its manufacture is successfully carried on. The best beetroot was grown on the Barking Seivage Farm, which is watered by the London drainage. It therefore appears that, in addition to yielding the best corn, the finest strawberries, and the most beautiful flowers, the refuse from our drains will produce the sweetest sugar. A PLUCKY POLICEMAN. A sergeant of police, Mason by name, has just per formed one of the most plucky actions ever heard of. He was riding along a country road in Middlesex one night, when he came on two ruffians driving a cart full of what he had good reason to believe was stolen property. He was unarmed, but he dashed at them, only to find himself con fronted by two more ruffians who had been concealed among the goods. These he held, and, after a terrible struggle, lashed f as t t o t h e cart—the first two escaping. While duty made the policeman brave to heroism, conscience made cowards of the thieves, and thus a large quantity of valuable plate was recovered. Mason has received two money rewards, no end of compliments, and promotion. Col. Henderson, who has ,just issued his address on becoming Chief Commissioner, asking the police to support him in his new duti es, h as received Irom Mason at all events a very satisfactory reply, INDIAN TELEGRAPHS. The prospect of competition seems to have stirred the managers of the present line of telegraph to India into something like efficiency. Messrs. Leo Schuster and Co. write that on February is, at 11.35 a.m., they sent a telegram to Calcutta, and that at (3.50 p.m. of the same day they received a reply answering their message in detail. Thus, in less than 7i hours, 12,000 miles of ground were traversed, which is nearly twig. as fast as the earth travels round the sun. FOREIGN NOTES. TURKEY AND GREECE. The Patric says the city of Athens bas now - become quite tranquil. The new Ministry has already commenced reducing the military expenditure, which, in the prospect of war, had become overwhelmingly heavy. A correspondent of the Post writing from Crete highly praises the activity and skill of Hobart Pasha. No Englishman has previously held such high active command in the Turkish navy, and so far the experiment has produced the best results. Hobart Pasha has settled the Greek blockade-runners, and put an end to the Cretan insurrection. More important still, he has permanently improved the discipline and organisation of the fleet under his command. The lethargic Turks think him strict, but he is, nevertheless, a great favourite both with the officers and the men. The writer believes that the Porte could not do better than give him supreme control at Constantinople. Such a measure would speedily result in a really effective naval fighting force. The Porte might do more, and get an English officer to look after its army organisation. The Turkish army is large enough, but it has none of the proper necessaries, with ou t w hi c h men are useless i n t h ese scientific times. THE PERSIAN DIFFICULTY. - --- It seems that Europe is to be annoyed by another Eastern quarrel. Turkey and Persia are on bad terms, and are troubling the world by marching troops about. It was at .first announced that the Shah had set out to the scene of "action," but though news from St. Petersburg contradicts this statement, it is added that six Turkish battalions with gems have gone to the frontier. The Nettc Freie Presse of Vienna embel lishes this intelligence by asserting that 10,000 Turks are on the march. This quarrel relates to the boundary line between the Turkish and Persian dominions. The Per sians complain that their neighbours have encouraged predatory expeditions by Koords and Arabs, and that several frontier villages have been burned and the inha bitants driven out. The difficulty arising from the unset tled boundary line between the two countries became so serious three years ago that England and France inter fered to prevent a war. The Turkish Governor of Bagdad, who was deemed the abettor of these Koord and Arab incursions, was recalled, but, much to the chagrin of the Realm.. Mt§ ..499n Idteg _PA& GERIIAY/. The husband of the Princess Royal of England and his not very juvenile father, King William, are of decidedly frolicsome temperament. At a masked ball recently given by the Crown Prince, the two royal personages left the palace secretly and dressed elsewhere. The King's figure is not particularly well adapted to disguise, but by frequent changes of domino he succeeded in enjoying the joke of being ordered about by his own police. On one occasion, says the Daily Z'cws correspondent, after be had quizzed a young countess beyond the bounds of female curiosity, she suddenly made a snatch at his mask, when to her own horror and the King's amusement, she found herself confronted by Majesty himself. Another rather ludicrous mistake arose from the Prince of Montenegro and his suite appear ing in their national costume. Their picturesque toilet was taken by the chamberlains for a fancy dress, and they were at first directed to leave the room assigned for princely personages, and to join the other maskers. Amid the noise of the dispute between Belgium and France, and the angry feeling caused by Count Bismarck's speeches in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, it is satis factory to learn that in the Upper House of the Prussian Legislature the Chancellor put forth a decidedly pacific manifesto. The second of his speeches on the Sequestra tion Bill was marked by none of Count Bismarck's brusque, not to say rude, expressions. It was in fact little less than a friendly overture to France, and though the terms were as vague as usual, they may prove not the less valuable at a time when the old angry rivalry seems to be reviving. The Owl understands that the French and Prussian Governments have now undertaken to use their influence with the press of their respective States with a view to the discontinuance of the acrimonious paper war which has been raging so hotly between the journals of Paris and Berlin. It is rather unfortunate, however, that at the present moment, owing to the Belgian Railway affair, the contest on the side of France has become more vehement than ever. PORTUGAL. The demonstrations at Lisbon in favour of an Iberian Union are not without significance. Of all the bankrupt countries of Europe Portugal is financially the most miserable. Its deficit has been accumulating yearly since 1865, and the expenditure now exceeds the revenue by one-half. For the last thirty years there has been no budget without a deficit. The debt rose from twenty millions sterling in 1854 to forty-seven millions in 1867, and all this increase has been during peace. The Govern ment has omitted to pay the interest, and has reduced the rate for both home and foreign obligations ; but these expedients have availed nothing. Now the troops cannot be paid, and the crisis, it would seem, cannot be staved off much longer. Hence the cry for Iberian Union—for annexing Portugal to another scarcely less bankrupt State. AMERICA. The important vote in the House of Representatives respecting the removal of all disqualifications of race, colour, or previous condition of slavery was passed by a majority consisting wholly of Republicans. This consti tutional amendment has yet to get through the Senate, and it must be passed this session, which expires on the 4th March. In the next House the Republicans will not possess a majority of two-thirds, which is necessary to pass a constitutional amendment. Even then negro suffrage will be far from being the law of the land. It must be accepted by three-fourths of the States, whilst it is notorious that in many of the leading local legislatures the Republicans avoid this question, which has pre viously lost them votes. Ohio, New York, and Connecticut have before declared against the amend ment. Though the motion for making San Domingo a pro tectorate of the United States, and also the motion for annexing the island, have both failed, the Times Phila delphia correspondent believes that the annexation party is growing, and that San Domingo must ultimately become American territory. (From the Anglo -American Times.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The weather has been lovely, the gardens will soon be in flower, and the grounds of the Capitol begin to throw out their crocus's if it continues, though there are growls about the short and bad supply of ice. As the time is neared fur ex-Congressmen to the scramble in the lobbies in go home for goof , creases. There is no good for going home with empty pockets, more especially when the lobbyists are showering the money about, and the last chance is drifting away, for if they l ose th e p resen t the future is propitious neither to the briber nor the bribed. G ra nt solemnly aff irms th a t no l o bbyi s t need expect anything from him. A petition signed by a number of Representatives has been sent to that no mor e a p po i n t men t s ma y the Senate begging be made until the inauguration of the new Admin istration, and the Republican Senators in caucus re solved by 25 to 8 not to confirm any more of Pre sident Johnson's nominations except in special in stances. The Senate was a little indignant at the undue interference of the House with its I" reroga tive. This decision is considered to dispose of Collector Smythe's nomination to St. Petersburgh, of Mr. Stewart's to Turkey, and others. Talking of Seward has now won f ore ign missions, Secretary over Butler, with whom h e h e ld a consu l tat i on at the Capitol together with Mr. Morrill, and the Senate Appropriation C omm i t t ee as t h e resu l t has restored all the South American missions, which was agreed to by the 'louse Appropriation Committee. Mr. Washourne is ill ; for days he has been in delicate health, and his late hard work has told severely against him. Vinnie Ream has nearly completed the model of her statue of Lin pronounced to b e an exce ll en t lik eness coln, and it is by good judges. The young lady f or re b e l p roc li v ities has had to withstand much hostile criticism. I have heard that Mr. Blaine will prove the stronger, and beat Dawes for Speaker of the next House ; and Mr. M'Pherson will gain his re-election as Clerk. So it is thought will Mr. Ordway as Sergeant-at- Arms, though there is a strong canvas against him. The professors of Princeton College, led by Presi dent M'Cosh, are early in the field for an appro priation to observe, from a point in the South, the sun's total eclipse of the 7th August next. Efforts are being made to introduce women into the pro posed Suffrage Amendment, and Senator Pomeroy came out without reserve for female suffrage, mov ing an amendment to that effect. He was sup ported by three known to be favourable, and strong men they are—Sumner, Wade, and Wil son. Mrs. Stanton has done some raving on this subject, objecting to the extension of the suffrage among men until women are enfran chised, for, if the tyrants be multiplied, the condition of the subjects becomes more hope less and degraded. She describes the male element as a destructive force, selfish, loving war and violence, and breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disease, and death. She, however, considers the recent Convention here a suc cess, which has much advanced the cause — perhaps she thinks too f as t , j u d g ing from the objectionable style adopted, which must check it. General Grant is by no means reticent about public affairs, but though he discusses measures, he is careful not to introduce a name. The story relating to him at Vicksburg is denied, though it has some foundation in fact, for it is true that Banks was ordered to join him at Vicksburg, the Government being aware of Banks' seniority, which would place the army under the control of that officer, and Halleck is - believed to have suggested this course. Stanton flatly denies the action attributed to him, and the facts Grant knows, as they are recorded in history, (teem ding to which Grant himself wished for the junction. Mr. Dana, who was at Vicks burg, and was Auistant-Secretary at War, con firms this. Talking of that gentleman's paper, the Sun, its correspondent claims positively that this be Grant's Cabinet ;—Secretary State, E. M. Stanton ; Secretary of the Treasury, G. S. Boutwell ; Secretary of War, John A. Raw lins; Secretary of the Navy, John A. Griswold ; Secretary of the Interior, J. A. J. Cress well ; Postmaster-General, J. R. Hawley ; At torney General, J o hn F. Wilson. A monu ment is to be erected to Lincoln at Spring field, Illinois, out of cannon. It is now shown that Sue Murphy and her family were disloyal, and if this proyes true her chances of compensation will mes draws a contrast between this fight in day-light and his action with the Hatteras at night, when he saved all the crew of the vessel he sank. The author, however, sneeringly adds, that he acquitted Commo dore Winslow of any intention of permitting the men to drown, or even of gross negligence, which would be almost as criminal. "It was his judgment which was in fault." This relieves us from the dis cussion of the facts whether the sailors were left to perish, as he thus acquits Commodore 'Winslow of intentional wrong. As a rule Admiral Semmes gives a true version ; therefore it is not his facts, but his fancies, which we call in question. Dropping, then, the latter charge, we may observe with reference to the former that the Kearsarge had been sent to the English Channel to destroy a vessel its Govern ment regarded as little better than a pirate. That cruiser was known to be well built, well fitted, armed and manned, and commanded by a brave and skilful officer. It was therefore the business of the captain of the Kea large to lose no op portunity of protecting his ship and qualifying her for an encounter with so formidable an ad versary. Admiral Semntnes insinuates that the boarding which covered the iron cables was in ' tended to disguise the fact that the vessel was, in a measure, ironclad. Bac a sailor will see a dozen reasons why such boarding should be used— for sightliness, cleanliness, for speed, and the better security of the fixing; the wash of the waves against the iron chains could not fail to retard speed, un less thus cased. Semmes used all sorts of devices to deceive the vessels he captured, and his answer when the Hatteras hailed, even after there was any necessity for such disguise, was an untruth. Yet he "howls a hurricane" over the chivalry of the Yankee who allowed him to leave the protection of Cherbourg to pit his wooden ship against an iron clad. Winslow ought, he thinks, either to have stripped off his chain armour, or to have told him he wore such a coat. The sense of this is some thing like his insisting upon a f rigate, which had over hauled him, casting away her strength in excess of his, that he might have the opportunity of fighting on equal terms; or as if the captain of the Ariel had requested him, when captured, to put half the Ala bama guns into her, that they might have a fair fight. The charge is, in fact, supremely ridiculous ; the two vessels were not unfairly matched, the Kear sarge being a shade the stronger, but this strength the skill and foresight of Winslow bad increased by means equally open to Semmes. As usual in the tale of the vanquished, (the coat of mail notwith standing,) but for a trivial accident, Semmes would have sunk the Kearsarge in thirty minutes, as he had lodged a shell in her sternposts which did not ex plode. Then he comes out roundly in abuse of the chief Vandal, W. 11. Seward ; and at last settles down into a hearty good cry over his ship, sobbing "No one but a seaman can realize the blow." It does not occur to him that he furnished himself with many opportunities of seeing it realized in other skippers. Finally, however, he bethinks him " that she is safe from the polluting touch of the hated Yankee," and he dries his eyes and is com forted. But while he was whining "great rejoic ing was had in Yankeedorn when it was known that the Alabama had been beaten. Shouts of triumph rent the air, and bonfires lighted every hill. But along with the rejoicing there went up a howl of disappointed rage that I had escaped being made a prisoner." Here, then, was another source of com fort. It was natural that, after this gallant fight, Semmes should be kindly received in England, as was the Kearsarge. It was au action almost within sight of the island, which must appeal to the heart of a naval people, but it is passing strange that a sister of the Prime Minister, a Miss Gladstone, should be one of the earliest in the field with a long letter of sympathy, appeals to noble influences, and offers of aid. Her brother thought Mr. Davis had made a nation, and perhaps she thought she had caught a lion and a hero. The Sumter had been run into Gibraltar and so closely blockaded that she had been sold, and as a cattle ship was afterwards lost in the North Sea. Semmes having thus got rid of his two vessels thought of retiring, but he could not keep away from action—if not at sea, at least on shore ; so, reckless of danger, he went back to the Confederate States, though " the very mention of my name had as yet some such effect upon the Yankee Government as the shaking of a red flag has before the blood-shot eyes of an infuriated bull." After reaching Richmond towards the end of Januai y, 1865, he was promoted Rear-Admiral, and appointed to the command of the James River fleet. What he saw of the country through which he had passed showed him that the days of his cause were numbered, and this conviction was written in the manner of all the leaders with whom he came into contact. His fleet consisted of three iron-clads and five wooden gunboats, but he soon found that the sailors were as much demoralized as the soldiers, and the latter were deserting in companies. Sher man, about this time, was at Columbia, South Carolina. " The Puritan was at last in the city of the cavalier. The man of ruder habits and coarser civilization was in the presence of the more refined gentleman, whom he had envied and hated for generations. The ignoble passions of race-hatred and revenge were gratified, and Massachusetts, through the agency of a brutal and debauched soldiery, had pat her foot upon the neck of prostrate South Carolina ! This was a humiliation indeed. The coarse man of mills and manufactories had at last found entrance as a master into the halls of the South Carolina planter !" The last days at Richmond and the final collapse of the Confederacy are fairly and graphically de scribed, but the Admiral can never touch on the North, its leaders, and their motives without de scending into abuse. The murder of President Lin coln to him looked " like a just retribution, that he should be cut off in the midst of the hosannas that were being shouted in his ears for all the destruc tion and ruin he had wrought upon twelve millions o f people." Not bad this, considering that one third were the slaves he had emancipated. " With out any warrant for his conduct he had made a war of rapine and lust against eleven sovereign States, whose only provocation had been that they had made an effort to preserve the liberties which had been handed down to them by their fathers. These States had not sought war, but peace; and they had found at the hands of Abraham Lincoln—destruc tion. As a Christian it was my duty to say, Lord ! have mercy upon his soul ; but the devil will surely take care of his memory." He then gives a sketch of the career of Andrew Johnson, against whom he evidently entertains the bitterest feelings of dislike. The fight between the President and Congress he designates as the falling out of thieves, both ac tuated by low motives, and regardless of the means by which they accomplished their objects. Both he considered equally unconstitutional in the course pursued, being mere usurpers, and thus his book • ends. Every ship he touched was sunk or burnt, alike whether under his command, or the vessels of the enemy with which he came in contact ; and the destruction of the fleet placed under his com mand in the James River was his last act as a sailor, and fitly heralded the collapse of the Con federate Government. E. G. Randall, Postmaster at Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for robbing the mails. It is a pity that the Spectator should mar a good article by such blunders as stating Mr. Jenckes to be the United States Senator from Rhode Island, and of the bill which has given him such prominence as hav ing been introduced into the Senate Chamber. Mr. Jenekes is the Representative from Rhode Island in Congress, and has never sat in the Senate, and the bill was reported to the House from the Joint Select Committee on Retrench ment, May 14, 1868. In the same article the Spectator alludes to Mr. Welles as Special Revenue Commissioner, though it is the Secretary of the Navy who thus spells his name, while the Commissioner of the Treasury is David A. Welk Weston, the pedestrian, arrived at Hillsboro' Bridge, New Hampshire, Jan. 2t3, twenty-one miles from Concord, and was immediately to walk from it to Keene. 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The dodges a newspaper has to guard against of schemers who endeavour to benefit, without cost to themselves, by its sole trading stock, using its pub licity to forward their own objects (and generally very disreputable objects), would astonish outsiders if everything were told. On this side we are suffi ciently exercised in this way ; but what editors suffer is " a caution" on the American side. i f" high moral-sentiment dodge--the philosophic dodge —the charity dodge—the suaviter in mode dodge -- the fortiter in re dodge—the patriotic dodge" — i n short, we might run down the whole column in enu merating their variety. Same are barefaced in their impudence ; others so skilfully designed that eve n if the editor detects the swindle he cannot fail to admire the ability displayed. Sometimes an e ditor is led on like a donkey with a wisp of hay under his nose ; sometimes he cuts up rusty, as did the New York Tribune in the following instance : Soate enter prising genius, who wishes to inculcate cal lessions in rascality, sends us the following circular: BRIEF REASONS FOR REPUDIATION • APPLICABLE /- VIE WAR DEBTS OF ALL COUNTRIES. Editors w ho receii the pamphlet of this title will oblige the uml-rsigne d they will acid any notice they may make of it, the tollow Dag : Price per hundred; single copies sent free to any part of the United States, on receipt of -- Address --, Booksellers. It may be perfectly natural for one who tries to persu' l q o others not to pay their debts to endeavour to Obtain gratuitous advertising ; but, were the object of the " phlet" to inculcate honesty (as it evidently is not), " should consider the proposition to advertise it upon `t u t' terms „other than cash dawn a little too frigid during the winter season. The good of the public is the card generally plaYe a by the schemers. " Yes, sir, I know nothing tha t would tend more to the benefit of the people than turning potatoes into molasses through the medium of this extraordinary invention, which Ca n , easily be seen on application to the Do-um-all Works, Sharper-street, in the parish of Swindle' dotn ; I feel confident that so clear-headed a jour nalist cannot fail to see this, and so public spirited a man will act on it." But while the wolves are prowling about editors' rooms, newspaper them: selves are no mean proficients in getting a " out of each other. How many beautiful extracts, neatly printed in slips, ready to our hands, wit h nothing to do but to send them off to the conipo' sitors' room, showing what the Teach-um and la" struct- um lays down as orthodox, and what th e Rule and Guide-um declares to be the law, ar e dropped into our boxes. Indeed publishers, whether of books or of newspapers, and literary "gents" all kinds, " cads," as the Imperial Review, befor e it died, used to write of them, are the most fro" quent offenders; and, strange to say, the more re ligious the thing to be puffed is, the less do- they appear inclined to leave it to its unaided Wri ts. A charming story is told by that sinner, the Nation, of the saints, the TVatchntan and Reflector and th e Independent, which we may preface by remarkia.g that the Watchman had already exhausted all it could say in its own praise, and was naturally de sirous of giving a new set of readers the benefit. " How the thing is do n e," i n the matter of gel, " first-rate notices," has been painfully revealed in the to ' dependent of last week. The Watchman and Reflector , v,, r° c/e , to it privately, it seems, for an e nc om i um , w hi c h the 111 „. pendent, feeling kindly towards the W a t c h man , a t once P - 1 pared to "set up." But before it appeared, the being long, the Watchman seems to have lost patience,3 ,, began uttering loud laments over the I n d epen dent's from "evangelical religion," and spoke also, in an ot ' d l o , part of the same issue, and in a dismal manner, of tbe.„ o r mestic arrangements of that paper, and predicted sen' t - 00 that the Independent would find "a vital Christianity itg strong for it. Seeing this, the Independent ordered forthcoming "notice" of the cowardly Watchman , t°,,,,t stopped, but the printer, mis t aki ng hi s instructions, In it standing, and it appe are d. H ereupon th e Tratcfil„, found itself terribly e m b arrasse d. O n t h e one h an d, tbe dependent, on the Watch man ' s own s h ow i ng, h a d " falle,,11;" and was in difficulties with regard to " v it a l Christiau% . o but then the "notice" o f th e I n d epen d ent was on itsheoll! j a. coals of fire. So it produced a second and reverberatory y i ds flee" of the Independent, acknowledging the indepenae praises and expressing gratitude for its heterodox aga proval. But the Independent had by this time got its blo o A up, and formally retracted "Notice No. 1," explained it came to appear, and chastised the Watchman savage . '" vt would we could say undeservedly. As the matter no d, stands, four "first-rate notices" have been utterly was te s , "all gone afay in de evigkeit," as Hans Breitmann and, what is worse, the public has been admitted to _ ro inside view of the laboratory in which these articles:ig manufactured. To say nothing about the arrant ht ll33l : d i. of them, we have always wondered how an adult of 01 00 nary education could be so silly as to engage either in o f solicitation or the production of them. They are " ° 3 ll the most ridiculous, as well as most odious, o f the E' o , impositions whi c h our very pretentious fraternity P ra it tises on an innocent public, and the religious papers ovg to set an example of dropping them. There is sornetkio! Lightly impudent in selling people, as an honest and I° o partial opinion of a m a n or hi s wor k , somet hi ng the 1113 himself has privately solicited you to say. e lf We confess to thinki ng th a t a newspaper i s t o o eloa allied to Mamm on t o b e ma d e the ve hi c l e o f ra ii p ; gious teaching. Th ere i s someth i ng i ncon sisten t in showing the van i ty of r i ches on one pag e, an intemperate haste to be rich on the other, tog ther with imp a ti ence at the stupid publ i c whi? • refuses to rus h open-mouthed at the bait sa don't l danced before it.— Anglo-American Times. The Ameri c a ns i n P ar i s l as t wee k gave a series el of ball s , w hi ch have been very numerously attend Among these were Mrs Downing, Mrs Murdock, lcir- Harbeck, an d C o l . W . W . Clarke. Perhaps the most 0; cessfnl of all was th a t o f C o l. W. W. Clarke, 73, A °1313 ,, r ii Chambers, Champ El vs e e s. A mong those presen t o ' l3 Mrs Park G o d w i n an d d aug h ter, hi s Excellency A. 135 ; lingame, Chinese Ambassador, George Wilkes, of c, Spirit of the Times, Dr G. J. Badnell, W. IL Murpl* Consul -General at Frankfort, and Mrs Murphy, A• wood, Mr and Mrs Downing, Mrs Harbeck and clang Col. Fotridgo and daughters, W. C. Watson, Consu l n : g Rhodes, Dr Evans and daughter, Dr and Mrs S% aud daughter, Mr Brewer, w if e , an d d aug ht e r, Mr and ) I ` f : rg Overn,mn, son, and daughter, Col. Gower, Mr and Albert Bierstadt, General C. 13. Norton and wife, J . ' ‘,"; Tucker, W. Bowles and wife, &c. &c. The toilettes of t'ci ladies were most tasteful and becoming. The ball las te .. o till 6 a.m. next day. Among the American institutiociP, introduced on that occasion was a Euctire-room for e sr cie playing, and a room where all American drinks were 0 . 3 , 19 for the occasion. Several members of the French nnb.,lllrs, and aristocracy were present at the ball. Cob and wo Clarke received great credit for the manner in whic li te d brilliant affair was conducted. Mrs Downing is exPe" soon to give a fancy dress party in Paris. 111 01° [A.DVERTISEMENT.]—Henceforth no oue will doubt the ,4 properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalonta Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bleAs been it has already received from Invalids whose position "-fol'e; deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the pi's whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gsg, golf Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of t",. 0 0 6. Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other loo t* dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's ne va o o ol ,; Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every or It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his heal, 80, his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly.,l6, 0 1 . extract a few out ofmore than 63,000 cures:—Cure No. 53,- pie' the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver con?A t iorr , wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous Pa l P l ,st all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the mo s t de tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771 : Lord Stae.„,sia• Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dYsf7,9iih No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dysPa,s'iog, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency , 31r• sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 4 6 D ieg g ' James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased . spitting of hlood,.liver derangement, and pariial deafn ess re portant Caution--Beware of the many unsavoury and ta l i! L OS sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls. lid. ; 1 lb. 2s. vd.; 2 lbs. 4s. 61; 5 lbs. lls'',-, 1 1 1 1 0 0 ; 225. ; 24 lbs, 40s, --Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA , o r If, LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at ''2s.6 ,OP3 caps at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., fur 288 cups at 305., for tio o at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 308. and &5 pi IC are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of re ,t f,err Order. - BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. , 11 . 0 04 BEARCROFT—On the 15th inst, at The Moorlanos+ vscp bury, Worcestershire, the wife of Henry Bearcroft, of a son. f net o ' LOWTHER—On the 16th inst., at Kent House, 0 0 ; h - tat' the wife of Francis Lowther, Esq., R.N., of a daub t, SMATER-BOOTH—On • the 15th inst., at 15, 1 410 / - * Spring-gardens, Mrs. Sclater-Booth, of a eon. iage°' COHEN—JATAL —On the Ma 16 rr th inst s. ~ at the Synggof 0- .1, 1 Paris, Alfred, third son of Louis Cohen, Esq.. , thiri e ' Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London, to j o ier thi. d daughter of IL J. Javcl, of 17, Boulevard '"" herbos, Paris. 11 3f1' MORGAN—WHITE —0 n the 16th inst., at St. Georges' „0101 ove r-square, Henry Morgan, of Plymouth, to l'iArar elder daughter of the late John M. White, Esq./ ° minstor, Wilts. Deaths. th' re DYSART—On the 15th inst., at Grosvenor-scl ll9 '; 'se a Right Hon. Maria Elizabeth, Countess of DY S3I:" 79. SU ae - DOUGLAS—On the 16th inst., at Heathfleld, upper„Cl• thaw, Wm. Douglas, Esq., aged 79. ~f i ro, FOWLER —On the 16th inst. at at 84, Ladbroke-s I - S. Fowler, Esq. aged 86.. the LOWTHER—On the ' 12th inst., at Orleans,Lady I,lojo bath Lowther, aged 85. SANDHAM—On the 14th inst, at Rowdell, Susse%l Charles F. Sandham, late /LA., aged 87. ._ ,bao et, 1 SWINEORD - On the 16th inst., at Minster Abbey, John Swinford, Esq., a g ed 82. _.......---- .11•11,11•••••••••••• ,DfLP .r, London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIAM No Li of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan BUN ODIC 00 1 1 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the. Savoy, - bliddleBoX,-7Thunday, February 18,_1809. ~11, ~.~ anc WIE ant Ins its r. So( per , P.)", Bea l