The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-15 00:00:00

.cPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times referS to the remarkable change in the atti tude of the Lords towards the Bishops' Resignation Bill. Not long ago the Archbishop of Canterbury complained that when he last brought the question forward he had failed to obtain support, the House being appa rently of opinion that legislation was not called for, and that it was not worth while to take any measures for facilitating the resignation of bishops. On Tuesday night, so far from allowing the Archbishop's motion to fall to the ground for want of support, the House was disposed to carry it farther than he himself wished. Fault was found with a few of the details, but not a voice was raised against the principle of the bill, except to point out that it did not go far enough. We pro bably owe this welcome change to one of those acci dents which in this country seem essential to the initiation of reform. It so happened that one part of England presented the singular spectacle of three bishops all at the same time unfit for the proper discharge of their duties, and this was too much even for the well-bred • repose of the Lords, not unnaturally loath to pry too minutely into the condition of any members of their own body. Now that they have taken the matter in hand, we trust they_ will do it justice. It is a grave national scandal that the order which by virtue of its high claims should be the most zealous to secure competent leaders is the only profession absolutely at the mercy of incompetence. A bishop 90 years old, who can scarcely crawl unassisted from his bed to his easy-chair, may yet retain all the emoluments and con tinue nominally to discharge all the arduous duties of his high office, pleading as an excuse for his tenacity that there is no pension for him to retire upon. It certainly says a good deal for the Church of England that she has been strong enough to carry such glaring abuses as this. We cannot help regarding it as a vital flaw in the Arch bishop's bill that nothing short of idiocy or lunacy, if we are right in this construction of " mental infirmity," and no sort of physical infirmity whatsoever, should make the resignation of a bishop compulsory. The omission leaves the diocese exposed to the very scandal which has led to the introduction of the bill. Nor, on the other hand, it cannot see what scandal could result from giving to the archbishop or two bishops the same power in the matter of physical infirmity as they are to have in the matter of mental infirmity—namely, that of requiring the sufferer to resign. They would not be likely to abuse their authority; the temptation would lie the other way. Until it became matter of notoriety and certainty that this or that bishop was unfit for his position, no archbishop would undertake the delicate And responsible duty of re questing his resignation, and then probably the merest hint would suffice. But if the bill remains as it is, no amount of pressure in any quarter can prevent the possible recurrence of the scandal it is intended to obviate. The Post remarks that Mr. Locke King has succeeded in prevailing on the Reformed Parliament to read a second time his bill assimilating real to personal property-in in cases of intestacy, and asks, Who are the landed pro prietors whose estates are not bound up by settlements, or who are so imprudent as not to make their wills ? Assuredly not the possessors of those great family estates which are so frequently pointed to by stump orators as the fruits of the law of primogeniture. The men whose property would he distributed, in the event of Mr. Locke King's proposal being sanctioned by Par liament, are small landowners, or men who, having made money in commerce, invest it in land with the in tention of transferring it to eldest sons, but who, through carelessness, omit to declare that intention by will. Of the latter class it may safely be said that there are com paratively few, and that the only effect of a Real Estate Intestacy Act would be to defeat the intention of the owners of the property; whilst as regards the former, namely, the small landowners, its effect would be to throw into the market for the purposes of conversion into personal property small estates which would be greedily purchased by the large landowners in the vicinity, and would thus defeat the intentions of those who are most favourable to Mr. Locke King's scheme. Small free holds would almost necessarily be sold in order to give effect to the Act, and the result would be that instead of the gross number of landowners in the country being increased it Would be diminished. That this would be an evil will be admitted on all bands, and its avoidance should be sufficient, independently of any other reasons, to secure the condemnation of the proposal to deal with real in the same manner as with personal property in cases of intestacy. The majority of the present House of Commons, however, seem to think differently. The Herald, in referring to the recent report of the Council of Military Education, thinks there is one thing before all matters necessary—the extermination of the system known as cram. The compulsory acquisition of purely useless and merely superficial knowledge, bad as it is, is .by no means the only evil which the sys tem involves. The recognised existence of the crammer, with all his short cuts to information and royal roads to learning, is a social bane as well. Lads are removed from school just at the age when they are commencing to reap the fullest benefits from school life to the unhealthy and pernicious atmosphere which surrounds the establishment of the private tutor. The mere prospect that they will have one day to go thither acts upon them as a premium to idleness when they are at school. Parental countenance is given to the fact that they are not expected to pass the army exami nation till they have submitted themselves to the cram flier's plastic hands. Then will be the time for work—now is the time for idleness. Against this it is hopeless for schoolmasters to struggle. If parents enusurage the view that we have described, there is nothing which is to be done, and cramming will continue to flourish just as up to the present time it has. The state of school edu cation, however, has vastly altered within the last few years. If military examinations have become more general, school teaching has become more special. Classes are now instituted in almost every school throughout the country purposely for the benefit of the candidates for Woolwich or the line. If these are but used as they ought to be the crammer will be regarded as an educational anachronism. We have said something on the necessity of home pressure. It is only by the, exercise of this that the cram system can be abolished. The Council of Military Education and the authorities of our English schools have done all in their power ; it remains for parents and guardians to do the rest. The Daqy News says that the sudden death of Lord Taunton removes from the House of Lords another of those veterans of Liberalism who have found in that assembly a dignified and not inglorious repose. The long and honourable political career which was so suddenly closed on .Tuesday was divided into two unequal parts, and it was in the first and longer of them that his lord ship made the name by which he will be known in history. He wore his honours as Lord Taunton, but he won them as Henry Labouchere, and it is in this his ancestral name that he will be known to posterity, as it was by it! that: he was best known to his contemporaries. Mr. Labouchere closed his career as an active politician when, in 1859, he accepted a peerage from Lord Palmerston. His political experience may be said to have exactly covered the political era represented by the first Reform Bill ; and his character and position marked him out as one of the characteristic Liberal politicians of that era. He bad had long experience of office, had fought a good fight during the struggle against the Corn Laws, and had been in the forefront of the parliamentary campaign against the Navigation Laws, and had earned dignity and repose. Hence a peerage was offered him, which he accepted, and for just - ten years he has con tributed large knowledge, ripe experience, con siderable readiness of speech, and some eloquence and dignity of expression t o the d e bates of the tipper House. He was, however, in every respect a Whig statesman of, the earlier days of the Deform Bill. His tact, pati ence , goo d t emper, an d devotion to duty rendered him an invaluable colleague, while he had that sympathy with Liberal principles which stood him in ample stead of that larger sympathy with popular aspira tions which is the feature of the newer Liberalism. He was a good speaker without being a great orator ; his style was the parliamentary style of the olden days, and was not much suited to popular impression. He was one of the excellent men who mediated between the present and the past. He was one of the youngest of the veterans of the first Reform era, and his decease reminds us how rapidly we are leaving that era, with all the triumphs it won and the honours it conferred, behind us. The Telegraph thinks that Scotchmen should be decidedly proud of the Colonel of the London Scottish is natural enough. Their young Highland champion has won a second victory which will be remembered as long as there are any traditions of rifle-shooting either north or south of the Tweed. The Queens rrizeman of one year is usually forgotten by the general public before the next; but this patient little north-country teetotaler has done a feat the like of which few men could have performed. It is not to steadiness of hand and eye alone that such a triumph is due, but to the steadiness of the brain and heart that control both. Young Angus Cameron, living a quiet life in the healthy Highland air, does not know the meaning of " nerves "—those troublesome "nerves" that so often fail the man of the cities when he enters upon a decisive test of courage, or strength, or skill. The boy of nineteen who conquered in 184;6 has developed into the man of twenty-two, who has 'conquered in 1.569 ; and surely there is matter for grave thought in that double victory. How many of our young athletes have kept themselves up to Cameron's standard during those three trying years, when the passions are at the strongest, and the judgment that should restrain them is comparatively immature? Depend upon it, the greatest of all "the little corporal's" achievements has been the magnificent way in which lie - . has conquered—himself ! Perfectly consistent with his prudent manliness of character was his refusal even of a_ glass of champagne to celebrate his victory. It would - have done him, in our humble opinion, a great deal more good than harm ; but he was a true. hearted Scot, a loyal teetotaler, a Cameron who stuck to his teapot as gallantly as his forefathers would have rallied round Lochiel ; and so, just waiting until the first excitement was over. and not much troubling himself about the hopping of corks in all di rec ti ons , w h ere hi s enthusiastic countrymen' were drinking his health, he quietly sat down in a tent and had a cup of tea. With that pleasant little picture we leave Wimbledon for the present, mince there is no room on our limited canvae for the aza nil of other figures that to press forward. 7 men of all climes all creeds, and all countries— MaiailnalajAAM4 THE IRISH CHURCH BILL AND THE OPPOSITIO..V. 111 Ito rouowing notice has been issued to the members of the Conservative party in the House of Commons : " On Thursday the 15th of July the Lords' amendments to the Irish Chnrch Bill will be under consideratioz, " Your attendance in the House of Commons before dinner and continuously during the evening is most urgently and particularly requested. " As divisions may take place at any honr, members are earnestly entreated not to pair either on Thursday or Friday next. " GERALD NOEL." THE ORANGE ANNIVERSABIES. There are now to hand some further accounts of the Belfast riotingr. Some Roman Catholics broke the panes of glass on Monday evening in a Protestant school, and the Orangemen, it seems, determined to retaliate. Shoitly before nine o'clock a crowd of persons, numbering between 400 and 500, issued from the direction of Wilton-street, off Shankhill-road, and the streets adjoining, and entered Conway-street. where they attacked the Roman Catholic school buildings situated in that street, near the corner of Nixon-street. The windows having been smashed in, an entrance was effected into the building through the broken panes. The door was imme diately burst open, and the seat; torn from the floor to which they were attached, pitched out into the street and smashed. The police knew nothing of this outrage until after its commission. It soon became known throughout Belfast, and the Roman Catho lics became greatly excited. A little after ten o'clock the denizens of Hamill-street and Barrack street, which is exclusively Roman Catholic, made an assault on some of the houses of the Protestants in Galway street. Fortunately a large body of constabulary, under Mr. Commissioner Bailey, had been stationed at the end of Galway-street and the corner of Durham street, and seeing the mob they immediately charged and drove them back. Hamill-street presented a very strange appearance. The police, on entering, found the pavements all ripped up, and the paving stones piled in heaps, round which crowds of roughs were congre gated ready for action. When the charge was made by the police three arrests were made by Acting-constable Collins, Sub-constable Moore, and Sub-constable Kelly, of the Detective force ; and nine other arrests were subse quently effected. In the scuffle which ensued between the constabulary and the mobs a policeman named David Watt was badly injured by a blow of s, stone thrown by some person in the crowd. All the police force was now called out ; but other dis tricts were rising. The Belfast News Letter says: " About twelve o'clock, a large Roman Catholic mob congregated in a passage off Millfleld, where they held a kind of de liberative assembly, and elected a chairman. An indi vidual in the mob was heard to use the expression, Come, boys, the resolution passed ; let us attack Brown-street' —a well-known Protestant district. The police, however, frustrated the efforts of this mob." The Belfast News Letter says little of the outrages of the Orangemen. They paraded the streets all night pre ceded by fife bands. The processions were several times charged by the police. Shortly before twelve o'clock a small party of about twelve proceeded up the Shankhill road from the direction of Dover-street, and on reaching Bower's-hill commenced to cheer and make use of party expressions. Sub-constable Moloughney, afraid that they would attack the barrack, brought the only available men outside for appearance' sake, and the crowd, which had by this time increased to about 100, proceeded up the road, and stopped outside a public•house. It is stated that stones were thrown against the shutters, but no windows were broken. A cry of police was raised and the crowd scattered, but while dispersing a party of police appeared upon the scene, and arrested ten persons. They were taken to Shankhill Police Barrack, and when quietness had been restored they were conveyed by an armed escort to the Police-office, where they were lodged for the night. The rioting in Newry was somewhat serious also. From eight o'clock p.m. a crowd, mainly composed of the oppo site party, began to assemble in the vicinity of the Orange Hall, where a supper was being held in commemoration of the day. At about nine o'clock a number of the crowd forced their way in the direction of the Orange quarter, with the apparent intention of fighting. They were quickly followed by a large party of the constabulary, who had only sidearms on. They came up with the parties just a.s a skirmish was commencing. Someof the Orangemen were armed with scythes and pitchforks, which they wielded round their heads with every apparent determination to use them. Owing to the judicious interference of the head-constables, they got each party to disperse. In the interim a large body of the constabulary, fully armed, took up a position in front of the Orange Hall, where the crowd had now assumed a very threatening aspect. The mob commenced to throw stones at the windows of the ball, and large stones were made to rebound off the roof. In a short. time several panes of glass were broken in the windows, and almost at the same instant the two windows over the watering dam, and facing Trevor-bill in the direction of the town, were thrown up, and several shots Here red indiscriminately among the crowd. '1 liree of the shots took effect— one in the leg of a lad named John O'Hare, of Canal-street, who was at the Bank of Ireland at the time, a distance of about two hundred yards. Still further on, a distance of twenty yards, a servant girl of Mr. Hutchison Boyd, sub-sheriff, named Ellen Rafter, who was merely standing on the steps at her master's hall door, was hit by a slug in the fleshy part of the arm ; and a man named Blake was shot in the cheek and ear, his whole face being covered with blood in a moment. Some injuries from stone-throwing are also reported. The latest news from Belfast and Newry is, all quiet. LAW AND POLICE. CHARGE OF MURDER.-At the Central Criminal Court, Louis Midson, the landlord of a public-house, near Har row, was tried for the murder of his wife. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, but recommended him to mercy on account of the provocation he had received. Sentence was deferred. THE ENGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK. —At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, before the Recorder, Mr. Samuel Greenway Finney, formerly general manager of the English Joint-Stock Bank, pleaded guilty to the indictment char-ging him with having appropriated to his own use the sum of £666 13s. 4d., the property of the company. Other counts charged him with appropriating sums to the amount of £5,000, and with having published false statements of the company's affairs. The counsel for the prisoner said that he had pleaded guilty at his own instance, rather than from the advice of his counsel. He had always been held in high estimation, was advanced in years, and had a wife and eight children, and he trusted the court would exercise mercy. The counsel for the prosecution said that the acts of the prisoner had caused suspicion to rest upon innocent persons. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. MANSLAUGHTER BY A BOY.—At the Central Crimina. Court, on Wednesday, a boy, named Joachim, 12 years of age, was indicted for the manslaughter of a boy about his own age. A quarrel arose between them about a lobster which lay in the shrp, where the deceased was errand boy, and the prisoner caught up a knife on the counter and threw it at him, inflicting a mortal wound. Sentence, seven days' imprisonment. CHARGE OF FRAUD.-At Bow-street Police-court, George Beck, Charged with defrauding the National Sunday League, was brought up for final examination, and committed for trial. He was accused of obtaining false signatures to a parliamentary petition, and declared in his defence that he had done it openly, and the secre tary of the Sunday League must have been aware of it. Mr. Vaughan said there was not a tittle of evidence to support such an imputation, and committed him for trial. DISEASES IN FOREIGN SHEEP.— The collectors of Customs have received an official notification to the effect that sheep-pox is raging in Stettin and surrounding districts in Prussia, and that several cargoes of infected animals have been shipped for the United Kingdom. The Customs officers are directed to exercise the utmost vigi lance in the examination of sheep imported from the dis. tricts referred to. A MARRIAGE ARRANGED BY A JUDGE.—At the Leicestershire Assizes, on Wednesday, a farm servant, named William Shields, 23 years of age, was charged with perjury, the case arising out of an affiliation case, the prisoner denying the authorship of several letters written by him to the complainant, Mary Burt. The case had not proceeded far when the prisoner said he was anxious to marry the prosecutrix, and she observed that she would _ _ _ have married him had he behaved properly to her. The .Chief Justice (to the prisoner) : Are you ready to marry her? Prisoner : Yes, 'my lord ; I'll marry her the first opportunity. (Loud laughter, in which the judge heartily j,i ne d.) The Chief Justice : But what does Mary say to that? Prosecutrix :I am quite willing. The Chief Jus- tice : I think there must be a conviction, and, perhaps, the best plan will be to respite the sentence till next as sizes, and if in the meantime they settle the matter by marriage that will be the best way to settle it. The con duct of the prisoner has been most gross and wicked, but, as he is now sorry, this will be the best way to settle the case. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the Chief Justice said : Prisoner, you must be bound over to come up for judgment at the next assizes, but I hope you will not be called upon. Prisoner : Oh, I'l4 marry Mary I:Tfoxe .ugliter,)_, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1.869, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. . THE POLITICAL CRISIS. The Daily 7 elegraph, in a conspicuously headed and leaded article, sets forth the intentions of the Government with regard to the Irish Church Bill. ' The House of Commons will (we suppose our con temporary means will be asked to) reinsert the pro vision that the Church body shall pay off the building charges before gaining possession of the glebe houses, and will strike out the clause for granting manses and glebes to the Roman Catholic and the Presby terian clergy. The Government will resist the attempt to postpone the appropriation of the surplus. The Ulster glebes cannot be recognised as the property of the Irish Church, but Lord Gran ville's offer of a round sum of £500,000, to meet the joint claim for the private endowments before 1000 and the Ulster glebes, will be renewed. With respect to the com mutation of the life interests of the clergy, the Government will not accept LordCarnarvon's amend ment, but will substitute Lord Shaftesbury's proposal to pay the actual value of the life interests. To day Mr. Gladstone will announce the intentions of the Government, and as the bill was thoroughly discussed when passing through the House, ho will deprecate unnecessary discussion. It is probable that important divisions will take place early in the evening, and the Liberal members are, therefore, exhorted to be in their places. By Friday night the discussion will be at an end. On Monday the bill will be presented to the Peers a second time. On Tuesday there will probably be a conference between the two Houses, and the Telegraph (though it has evidently very great doubts on the matter) says : " We cannot permit ourselves to doubt that the Lords will see the wisdom of yielding to so emphatic an expression of the national will as the revised measure must em body. If, however, the Lords should be so blind to their own interests as not to accept the amended bill, there remains but one course open to the Govern ment and the House of Commons. The measure must be dropped, the session speedily brought to an end, Parliament summoned for an autumn session, and the bill, in its restored shape, backed by resist less majorities, again presented to the Peers." This last sentence implies, we Presume. that Mr. Gladstona win tame measures for preventing a second defeat in the Upper House. The Times publishes, a day after date, the letter which Mr. Gladstone sent to the Ulster Orangemen. Apparently our contemporary finds this letter does not square with its confident announcements of the last few days that the Government will give way to the Upper House, for it makes no comment upon it, and not one of its four leaders refers to the political crisis. The Daily /Yews goes into figures to shew that it is impossible for the Government, even if they were willing, to accept the Lords' amendments. The market-value of the Church property is £15,000,000. The bill when it left the Commons conferred about £10,000,000 upon the Church and its members. The Lords' amendments up to Monday evening had added £3,000,000 to that amount ; Lord Stanhope's amendment would give at least £500,000 more. Therefore the bill on leaving the Lords handed over to this disendowed Church 131 millions, or nine-tenths of the property it possessed when endowed. The surplus for other than Anglican purposes is thus reduced to £1,500,000. From this has to be deducted £1,100,000 for compensation in lieu of the Regium Donum and the Maynooth Grant, leaving a surplus of £400,000 for disposal. Tha Lords finally determined to give glebes and manses to the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clergy; but this would cost four times that residuum; so that the Lords have pledged the nation to a measure which actually leaves a deficit of £1,200,000. And this is from a House which is led by that model man of business, Lord Salisbury. Turning to the other journals, we find the Morning Advertiser is now able to answer its question " What next ?" of the previous day. The Commons, it says, will unquestionably throw out the Concurrent Endowment Clause, and in all probability the Lords will submit to this alteration. It remains to be seen if they will yield to Mr. Gladstone on the other points. The Star considers concurrent endowment out of the question, and says : " Mr. Gladstone has drawn the line of justice tenderly, but firmly, end it will not be greatly departed from." The Standard affims that the Lords' amendment is a compro mise, and therefore abhorrent to Mr. Glad stone. "It remains to be seen if the Liberal party are sufficiently courageous and independent to step in between the Premier and the Lords." Whether it does so or not, " the Lords neither can nor will yield any more, and the House of Commons will have only itself to thank if the bill is shipwrecked, owing to their determination to drive too hard a bargain." The Herald, referring to Lord Stanhope's amendment, says : " Should this proposal be de feated in the House of Commons, both England and Ireland will be able to estimate the value of all that fine foaming ' Liberalism, of which Mr. Gladstone's majority are the docile representatives." The Owl states that a meeting of the Irish peers who usually support Ministers is to be held to day, for the purpose or considering- the Lords' amendments, and it believed that a strong repre sentation will be male to the Premier urging not to give way. The meeting cannot, however, be influential in point of numb e m, f or ( a f ac t which the Owl seems to forget) the Irish peers nre eketed mainly hy Lord herby and his fr:ends, the represen tative theory being a mere theory. tiOmmission—his -Last public] employment. His last considerable speech was in favour of concurrent endowment. THE ARREST OF MITRPRt AT BIRMINGHAM. The " great Constitutional question "—as some consider it—whether the arrest of Mr. Murphy r..t the recent Birmingham meeting was legal, is to come before the law courts. The Mayor of Birming ham and the chief of police have been served with notice of action in the matter. Decision is wanted on the question—ls a mayor or a magistrate acting on the principle salus populi suprema lei, and without evidence beyond his own knowledge and apprehen sion, justified in arresting one who is likely to Produce a disturbance ? dive through Europe, his hostile brother occupied himself in preceding him at all the capitals, and persuading the various Governments not to pay regal honour to the Egyptian semi-sovereign. But even the great work of expressing his hatred for his brother was not sufficient to occupy Mustapha's whole soul. He found leisure for divers useful employments, and, amongst other achieve. ments, be managed to break the bank at Homburg. By this feat he netted £12,000. TUE rot - sr OF LAUDS. The Star is taking advantage of the present dis agreement between the Lords and Commons to point out the defects of the former lrxly. This office it does with no very gentle hand. The .S 7 ni• does not like the I7pper ChambiT, says so, and gives its reasons. It has a long article sheaving that on every important national question for the last forty years their lordships have pursued a retrograde course. They opposed the first Reform Bill, Roman Catholic Emancipation, the appropriation clause in the Tithes;Commutation Bill, the relief of Dissenters, as shewn in their opposition to the Corporation and Tests Act, and the extension of civil rights to the Jews. The opening of the universities, the abolition of church rates, municipal reform, the abolition of the corn laws, the extension of education, life peerages, and the abolition of the paper duties the House of Peers has also strenuously held out against. Dr. Humphry Sandwith, a correspondent of the Star, the late and probable future candidate for Maryle bone, in calling attention to these facts, advocates the removal of " the effete institution " which is impeding the progress of the nation. He is very bitter about " the crowd of obscure titled men " who have had the decision of the Irish Church question in their hands, and have taken it upon themselves to give a different decision to that given by the nation. THE TWELFTH OF JULY IN TIIE NORTH OF IRELAND. The twelfth of July itself passed off peaceably and quietly, though it seems the thirteenth has not. That no collision occurred on Monday, is to be attributed mainly to the forbearance of the Roman Catholics. The authorities in some districts were put in the most peculiar dilemma. The Orangemen walked with banners flying, and in 811 the glory of party scarves, in direct and defiant opposition to the Party Processions Act. If the police interfered there would be the inevitable row; if they did not they would be permitting contempt of the law, which would grow, perhaps, into a g enera l di sregar d of it, and make it of none effect. The Government appears to have taken a middle course, and to have given orders that no interference should be made on the day itself, but that the leaders should be charged with breaking the law when the anniversaries were over. The Dublin Mail has a leader thanking the Roman Catholic population for their generous spirit in allowing the Protestants to demonstrate, and promises that the Protestants will not forget the kindness. In Belfast, though Monday was marked by no very serious riot, on Tuesday there seems to have been a renewal of the old spirit. " Rioting has commenced," the telegrams inform us ? with the usual addenda—windows smashed in the principal streets; national schools broken into and furniture destroyed; stone-throwing; policemen injured. LORD TAUNTON. The death of Lord Taunton is announced. He will be best know n t o th e pu b l i c as Mr. Labouchere, the one-time President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Whig mem b er f or Taunton. His lordship died suddenly on Tuesday afternoon. He was born in 1798, and in his 28th year was returned to Parliament for the Cornish borough of St. Michael's. That constituency fell when the Reform Bill of 18:32 became law. But Mr. Labouchere had previously deserted it, and had become member for Taunt on , which retained his services during the thirty years he sat in the Commons, and up to the time be was created a peer by Lord Palmerston. Mr. Labouchere Brat held the office of Junior Lord of the Ad miralty under Lord Grey. In 1834 he became Vice-President of the Board of Trade. For a few months in 1839 he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. He was made President of the Board of Trade in August of that year, and held the position until 1841. Sir Robert Peel came into office in 1842, and the Whigs were on the left hand of the Speaker until 1814. Mr. Labouchere then was once again made President of the Board of Trade, and carried, in that capacity, the repeal of the Navigation Laws. His Government made way for Lord Derby in 1852, and on the formation of a Whig-Peelite Ministry Mr. Labouchere was left in the cold. Lord Palmerston called him from his retirement at the close of the Crimean War, and made him Secretary for tho Colonies. The Conspiracy to Murder Bill which Lord Palmerston brought in sent the Ministry into Opposition, and when Lord Palmerston again took office, having no room in his Government for Mr. Labouchere, he made . Lord Taunton. Lord tan a - i • .••• _ _ _ THE TRUCK SYSTEM. It is high time that the Truck Act should be enforced. Passed thirty-two years ago, it has now become almost a dead letter in many districts. The masters evade or openly defy the law, and thus a most iniquitous system is carried on in defiance of the statute. A case has just been tried at Wednes bury, in the Midlands, which will, we trust, be a warning to offenders. A carter engaged in getting coal for John Horton, a charter master, of Wednesbury, was compelled to take a ticket for the " tommy shop " in lieu of a portion of his wages, thereby losing, as he stated, 10s. An attempt was made to shew that there was no agency. and that Horton was not responsible for what had happened. But the stipendiary magistrate took a dif ferent view of the matter. having reviewed the evi dence, and spoken in a very feelinginanner of the com plainant's wife being obliged to have her money spent whether she liked it or Rot—he said that if there ever had been an attempt to evade the Act of Parliament there had been one in this case. It was perfectly clear that if the master bad actcd under the pressure of circumstances, and desired to deal in a bond fide manner with his servant, he would have given him all his wages. He could not do other than convict defendant in the full penalty of £lo,andcosts (making £l.l 55.), as he considered the case a very bad one indeed. Of this sum, £5 would go to the informer, and £3 to the solicitor by whom he was represented. THE GRATING QUESTION. Mr. Herbert withdrew his motion for the removal of the grating which separates the ladies from the Home of Commons, and Mr. Layard achieved a temporary triumph ; but it is by no means clear that the question is set at rest. Mr. Layard's victory was the result of a letter, an epistle from a lady. But his opponents also have obtained a letter. Mr. Grantley F. Berkeley is the writer, Mr. Andrew Johnston, member for South Essex, the receiver. Mr. Layard quoted 200 ladies, all save two in favour of the retention of the grating ; Mr. Berkeley has more than 200 ladies who want the cage bars to be removed. Mr. Layard went to his ladies and asked them which.they would rather have. Many of them being by no means enthusiastic took up his view of the matter. But Mr. Berkeley's clients are actively advocating the removal—so fervently that they have subscribed together and presented to him a hand some piece of plate for the part he has taken. All this, and more, Mr. Berkeley sets forth in his letter. He hints, moreover, that the members of the House of Commons being married men do not wish to give wives power of seeing whether or not their husbands are out for the night on parliamentary duty or not. He has no " ulterior " view, he says, except one of morality. On this he is rather earnest, " inasmuch as a well-known young Irishman of that day, who had a handsome wife, on his maiden speech, rushed up to the dark lantern, under the expectation of finding the form he loved, but feature and outline being undistinguishable he clasped to his heart the considerable form of her Grace of much to the Duchess's disgust, at least so she said." AN IMPORTANT INVENTION. Mr. G. J. Mechi, of Tiptree Hall, the well-known scientific farmer, announces an important invention —a machine for drying the bay and corn crops in wet weather. The Society of Arts has given a prize of fifty guineas and the gold medal to the discoverer, and Mr. Mechi is himself perfectly well pleased with it. The mechanism is very simple and uncostly. A rapidly revolving fan, driven by horses or by steam power, is attached to the smoke-box of a coke furnace, and (a gauze screen intervening) with drays all the heat which would be carried up the chimney or shaft and be wasted, and diffuses it among the grass or corn sheaves exposed to its blast. Grass cut and at once brought to the mouth of the hot blast is converted in eight or ten minutes into fine green hay of the very best quality, fit for immediate sale or consumption. Grass con tains 75 per cent, of water ; 60 per cent. of this passes off as steam, leaving the dry hay with its usual 15 per cent. of water. Corn is dried by the same means by impaling the sheaf on a vertical hollow spike or tube, pierced with holes, through which the hot blast issues. Mr. Mechi is very sanguine as to the success of this new implement, especially as his scientific evidence slims that the quick drying does the crops no harm. The fan may be worlied by two horses or by 11-horse step in power ; and after the first outlay has been made, a considerable saving would be effected on each harvest in the matter of employment. During variable and wet seasons the saving would be immense. THE LONDON ORPHAN ASYLI'3% On Tuesday the Prince of Wales laid the founi:A tion stone of the new London Orphan Asylum at 11'z iford. The l'r;ncess of Wales accompanied him, and the town presented an animated appearance. Mr. Capel, the treasurer, read an address to their Royal Highnesses on behalf of the supporters of the asylum. The asylum was instituted in 1813 by the late Pr. Andrew Reed, and it was for some time beset with difficulties, but of late years it has prospered greatly. A suitable site for the new establishment that was required has been found at Watford, and the build ing, of which the Prince laid the first stone, is designed to accommodate six hundred orphans. The Prince returned an appropriate answer to the address, and expressed the satisfaction he felt in participating in the proceedings of the day. The secretary announced in the afternoon that he had received subscriptions to the amount of £B,OOO. When the Prince had laid the stone about 250 purses were placed upon it by the ladies who had collected them. After the ceremony their Royal Highnesses were present at a d6efiner, presided over by Lord Verulam. OUR YOUNG DOMITIANS. We have again and again referred to the shameful sport of pigeon shooting in which our golden youth daily take new delight. Cruel as we thought it, we did not suspect that there was an even greater depth of cruelty into which these merciless sportsmen fall. A correspondent of the Morning Post, the chief chronicler of the matches at llurlingbam, says that, in order to secure the flight of a pigeon in a par ticular direction, one of the eyes of the unfortunate bird is destroyed before it is let out of the trap. And yet this is the kind of amusement in which mem bers of Parliament like Messrs. Vivian and a good many others engage. Are we turning into a nation of Domitians? FOREIGN NOTES. OUB GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENTS AT HONG KONG. The Post calls attention to the statement of Mr. Mon sell relative to the licensing of gaming•houses at Hong Kong. Few people were aware that establishments of the kind were recognised by the Government. Such, however, is the fact. Gambling-houses at Hong Kong have been under official supervision for several years, and the license money has been expended as ordinary revenue But the statement of Mr. Monsell went to shew that the present occupants of office at any rate were not informed of the use to which these receipts were applied. They were evidently astonished and justly annoyed at the dis- covery, and have already ordered the immediate discon tinuance of the appropriation of the money in question as ordinary revenue. This the Post heartily approves of. Money derived from such a source ought never to be employed to the general purposes of government ; it ought to be devoted to the inspection of the houses with the view of diminishing the evil, and this is about to be done. The fashionable journal endeavours to shew that it was impos sible to do without these licensed houses ; in Hong Kong, at least, they are a necessary evil. The Chinese are the most inveterate and violent of gamblers, and before the licensing system was adepted the most dis graceful scenes were enacted. The conclusion to legalise " well-conducted houses " was almost forced upon the authorities. Would not such a system (asks the Post) be choosing the lesser of two evils in England? Would it not be better, it says, to recognise betting within certain limits, and subject all houses to inspection, rather than shut our eyes altogether to the vice, and suffer the plung ing which is now so common? FREE TRADE IN AUSTRALIA. An attempt to set up a Customs' Union amongst the Australian colonies is now being made in New South Wales. This movement, indeed, is of very old standing, fer it dates from 1863, in which year delegates from the various colonies mtt to consider the subject. This con ference recommended a uniform tariff, but it was never adopted, avid a similar endeavour in 1867 was not more fruitful. This year yet another conference of representa tives from all the Australian colonies has been held. The result has been that resolutions have been passed recom mending a commercial federation. The delegates decide in favour of a uniform Customs' tariff, free interchange of colonial products, and division of the customs' revenue in proportion to population. The immediate result of this system, if adopted, will be a great reduction of tariffs, and, in fact, the downfall of the Protective policy of Vic-. toria. It remains to be seen whether this great step in the direction of Free Trade will prevail. A strong party in each of the States supporta it. THE KHEDIVE'S DROTHER. Mustapha razil, the brotherof the Viceroy of -.Egypt, a Tertatile genius. burina the ',resent tour of the MIA. POLAND. An interesting ceremony took place at Cracow, in Austrian Poland, a day or two ago. The remains—or what represented the remains—of one of the most popular Polish kings, Cassimir the Great, were reinterred, after a lapse of five centuries. The coffin was carried by two peasants, two students, and two bottrgeois; and a vast crowd of Poles, the Polish deputies in the Austrian Parlia ment, and delegates from Prussian Poland, were present. The solemnity could hardly be gratifying to the Russian and Prussian Governments, and it was probably some such consideration which induced the Austrian Emperor to decline the invitation of the Poles. Numerous Austrian officials were there. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. News of two more successes of the Allies in Paraguay comes from Brazilian sources. In one fight the Paraguayans lost 300 men killed, the Brazilians— eighteen. In another, one of Count d'Eu's subordinates managed to carry a strong work which Lopez had erected for the defence of his position, and in doing so met with 4,000 families " who gladly joined their liberator." These state ments must be taken for what they are worth. The despatches which the American Ambassadorin Paraguay has sent to his Government shew that the Brazilian accounts are utterly untrustworthy. General MacMahon had not, it will be remembered, been heard of for many months, and the Allies gave it out that he was forcibly detained by Lopez. The American representative himself says, however, that he was always on good terms with Lopez, and that his despatches failed to reach their destination because the Allies refused them the cover of a flag of truce, and fired on the Paraguayan flag. The world may be pardoned if it refuses to give credence to the victories announced from such a quarter. THE SUEZ CANAL. No State is likely to derive more benefit from the Suez Canal than Italy. The Florence Government is fully alive to the opportunities for traffic which the complete water route to India will place at its disposal, and it has accordingly concluded a treaty with a society which will undertake to supply facilities for commerce. A service of steamers will ply between Brindisi and Alexan dria, making five voyages a month. bend appears to have calculated on the same recep tion from them as would have been accorded to him by his own brethren ; indeed, much more hearty. When he reached the Rocky Mountains at one of the furthest outlying forts an expedition was immediately planned for penetrating into the ranges which enabled him to see sport otherwise unattain able. In Colorado there are three great parks or flat places, in a small way not unlike Cashmere in the Himalayah Mountains, called the North, the Middle and the South Parks. In the North, the River Platte takes its rise, flowing north and west for a considerable distance before it turns around the Black Hills and sweeps away to the south of east. Captain Townshend gives a lively description of the mountain tracks through which he passed to reach the North Park, which he found to be a plain 30 miles long by 15 wide, covered with a sweet grass, but wholly destitute of trees, though these grew thickly on the mountains surrounding the flat. The mountain huntsmen he met were tall, sinewy fellows, each clad in a fringed hunting shirt of buckskin, with homespun trousers tucked into stout hunting boots reaching nearly to the knees, or buckskin breeches and mocassins. Their arms generally consisted of a couple of revolvers and a knife in a belt, in addition to a heavy single rifle of rather small bore, the chances being even whether these weapons were used for offence or defence. Several parties of Indians were then on the war-path, and these hunters had to keep a sharp look out to save their own scalps as well as to capture the skins of animals. " Many a glass of whisky," says the Life Guardsman, " I drank to the health of these bearded Nimrods, each of us ad dressing to the other the Indian salutation of ' Hough' as we swallowed the fiery liquid." Among these was a very old and well-known hunter, who has given his name to Mountains and Passes— ,Bridger. He is not remarkable, however, for the reliance to be placed on his discoveries, as among them, near the Black Hills, is a petrified forest, on the petrified branches of which were petrified birds, singing petrified songs. Pointing to Pike's Peak, he asserted it to have been a hollow when he first visited the country. He is described as enter taining a great hatred for Britishers, but Capt. Townshend, with discernment and truth, remarks, " Certainly as far as I could judge, the Western people generally are extremely friendly to our coun trymen, and in their own rough fashion are quite as ready to welcome them as their own more civi lized compatriots of the settled States." This was everywhere his experience, bearing one thing in mind, never under any circumstances nor any pre tence, to assume atone of superiority or of command, which is instantly met by them with a self-asser tion and defiance, and this is the advice that Capt. Townshend evidently gives to European gentlemen about to rough it in the Rocky Mountains, in the Back Woods, or on the Prairie, that they must put aside any notions they may entertain of their own superiority, or it may be taken out of them in a place where the - chances are they are infinitely the inferior. With a frank, jovial manner, and a good humoured way of bearing no ordinary hardships, they may. calculate on a warm, hospitable reception and every attention these genuine sons of nature can bestow, mixed with much that is proud, and little that is mercenary. We cannot help thinking that in the category of Bridger's discoveries, come the hunter's tales of wounded antelope. Undoubt edly those cases occurred narrated by Capt. Town shend as ocurring under his own observation, but we find it hard to credit the Colonel's story that he once followed a wounded antelope several miles, which at last escaped him, although the fore and hind legs on the same side were shot away. Americans have invented a new verb " to velocipede," and that alone can describe the future action of the wounded ante lope. If elk are destroyed at the rate the Life Guardsman narrates they will soon be scarce in the mountains. In a deep canyon last spring a party of hunters managed to drive a herd of 27 elk; there being no exit, they shot 26 of them, the last and only remaining one breaking through the line. The hunters left the elk, to return for them next day, but hating neglected to take out the entrails they found them in a state of putrefaction, and their bones whitened the gorge, into which Captain Townshend gazed. Although he was not successful in shooting many, the game being wild, he saw vast herds, and the party on its return to the fort after he had left it killed several. The grisley near, though scarce, is still seen on the mountains, and fresh footprints were on one occasion observed by him. We skip the Life Guardsman's descrip tion of the Salt Lake City, and his journey on wards to San Francisco, though not devoid of in terest. Our object is to follow one of the earliest English sportsman into the Rocky Mountains, as we feel he is but the pioneer of numbers ; indeed the American Government might contract to give the country between the Union Pacific Railway and the Kansas Pacific to English sportsmen on condition that they kept it free from Indians, and, ieg scalp,htr et uirtnwwith a n not u d n e a t c o c r o u e d t a l o b s l s e baldness h about fro itdnesso riding l ouvge asr tbhue r r o e u m n a d i s u . w i t G h o P n a o r w a - 1 ff se alo g n pa ee r s tie a s s Sherman has remarked that, in • his • opinion, the shortest way to compel the lndians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten • regiments of soldiers to the Plains with orders to they became too scarce to support the redskins. ITALY AND NAPOLEON. In 1859 about £B,ooo—a large sum for impoverished Italy —was subscribed by the Italians for a monument to the Emperor Napoleon. Ten years elapsed, and the world saw nothing of this testimonial of national gratitude ; but this year, the Liberte assures us, the long-pending memorial would have come into existence, but for the Emperor himself. Instead of a monument, he preferred that the money should go towards increasing the endowment of the Soldiers' Daughters' institution, erected by national sub scription, and just opened. ENGLISH SPORTSMEN IN AMERICA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Capt. Fred. T. Townshend gives the most recent adventures of a Britisher in pursuit of American game, and his book is written in an easy, pleasant, and readable style. His shooting in the United States may be divided into these varieties—that of the old forest and river sport, furnished by the Back Woods of the Eastern States which he sought in Adirondack, New York ; over the prairies, which he enjoyed in company with a scouting party of United States troops in the best buffalo country of Nebraska and Kansas along the Republican River, and not far from the very ground now the scene of the depredations by the Indians; and among the Rocky Mountains, principally where the Colorado peaks rise high around a wide valley, which is itself 10,000 feet above the sea level. Captain Townshend, in his pursuit of American game, employed the time the Horse Guards gave him to the best advantage ; he is an officer of that cavalry brigade to which the person of the Sovereign is more especially entrusted, and which therefore takes rank before all troops of the line, and are always to be seen in London dis tinguishable from other cavalry by the weight of horse and men, as well as by their glittering armour. His account of the expedition with General Augur is of the more interest, as the ground is so asso ciated with stirring incidents of the present Indian war. The policy of the Government is to press back the Indian tribes, more especially the Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes south from the line of the Pacific Railroad; hence the constant expeditions along the right bank of the Platte by the Republican Fork down to the Arkansas River. The Pawnee Indians are the allies of the United States soldiers, acd many of them accompabied the expedition. Major North was one of its officers, and our readers may recollect that he, while with a hunting party of the Pawnees, was attacked on this very ground by the Cheyenms and Sioux last summer, and almost immediately after followed the massacres in Kansas. Among the men were one or two who had served with Colonel Forsyth, when he, under an order from Sheridan, traversed the same country with eighty soldiers, and were beset by several hundred savages, against whom they had to:defend them- . selves for days until their ammunition_ was ex pended, when nearly all were killed or wounded, a few being captured and horribly tortured. While scouring this wild region the men amuse themselves by hunting buffalo, and they generally keep their pot well filled with the choicest parts of the animal—the tongue, and the tender loin, as they call it. Although the buffalo is the piece de re sistance for all, there is no lack of smaller game on the rolling prairies. The troops use the common A tent of the United States Army, with three poles, two perpendicular and one transverse. On reach ing their ground the horses are turned loose to graze for a couple of hours, the waggons are placed in a circle outside, and the animals, after getting a feed of Indian corn, are fastened to the ropes stretched between these waggons. Picquets are mounted, but there is little danger of the Indians attacking at night, as they have a superstition th a t , if killed in the dark, they will have to hunt in the dark through endless time. The cavalry saddle is a wooden frame, rising to a peak be fore as well as behind, and covered with untanned hide. It is a skeleton saddle, with an open space between the frames on either side of the horse's back, whereby good ventilation is Secured, and a folded blanket is placed on the horse beneath it. The stirrup leathers are used at least three inches longer than in the British cavalry, the leg being quite straight and the foot resting in a wooden stirrup covered with leather which prevents the sol dier from inserting much of the foot. This Capt. Townshend describes as a horrible nuisance, being more tiring than anything he knows in long marches of nine hours a day. Wellington boots are worn drawn over light blue overalls ; a light blue over coat, and a forage cap, with a straight peak, com pletes the uniform, A brown leather pouch-belt, with a Spencer carbine and a six chamber revolver, were the arms carried. When engaged with Indians the men dismount and fight on foot. The country is broken throughout with ravines, being in every direction ..gut up by smaller ones, while occa sionally chasms a thousand feet deep intervene, upon the brink of which the rider finds himself without being aware of any change in the land. In such places the savages, who know the country, can seek shelter with little chance of danger from white men ; but the case would be different with Indians, who follow a trail at a gallop which is when it is wholly invisible to the closest scrutiny of the white. In pursuing buffalo horses rapidly gain on them where the country is unobstructed by these ravines ; but the buffalo, even in herds, gallop over the leser ob stacles without checking their pace. Capt. Town shend had a good many rides, and a considerable num ber of these unfortunate animals, doomed to extirpa tion with the Indian, were sacrificed. The savages re gard with disgust the wanton destruction perpe trated by the white men of the buffalo on the plains and of the elk in the mountains, and their disgust finds an echo in many a white man's heart, for it is a wanton cruelty to shoot the poor beasts merely for the pleasure. of killing, as so ruthlessly practised along the railroad. An old bull pursued by Capt. Townshend, after being desperately wounded, charged on being overtaken, and the horse stood still in fright. The Life Guardsman was sent fly ing, but the buffalo passed right under the horse, raising his hind-quarters, and, fortunately for the rider, taking no further notice of him, pursued the animal. Nothing could exceed the kindness - and hospitality of the Apaericanofacers, and Capt. Towns • gi . THE AMERICAN PRESS. The New York Tribune's issue of Saturday is often a sight, being on that day perhaps the largest newspaper in the world. Alnong the interesting matters published there are sure to be a number of letters, which it heads, " From the People." The first on June 26, after assuming that a territorial compensation would be demanded for the Alabama claims, "U. S." proposes that the gold-bearing territory of Australia be taken instead of wintry, ice-bound Canada, as we, he innocently adds, have a large portion of auriferous soil and want more. He terms the Dominion a new-sham-noble go verned population. Dr. Samuel S. Guy denies tho accuracy of the statement that women were ren dered eligible for membership in the American Institute of Homcepathy, as the vote stood 84 for and 45 against the amendment, which was therefore lost, as it required a majority of two-thirds. Wil liam M. Doyle shows that Irishmen can be as sensi ble as their neighbours. He denounces the way in which money is squandered in useless parades and Fenian organizations to gratify heartless politicans, who care nothing for Ireland or the immigrant. He proposes co-operation in organizing an immi gration society, in purchasing tracts of land, and aiding his brethren iu Ireland to settle thereon. Thus he would get the people placed, as they ought to be, on the waste lands, instead of being stopped in New York to become the blind tools of wily demagogues. Now this we call a plain, out-spoken man of sense ; but he is more likely to have bis brains knocked out than his advice taken. Henry Cummings corrects an error, whereby he is made to say that no more people should be married and no more children born into the world. He is a Shaker, and he asserts his faith to be founded on the teachings of our S av i our and his d i sc i p l es. Elder Cummings says :—" What we believe is that be that marries doeth well,' if he has received no call beyond that ; but he that marrieth not, doeth better,' if so be he remaineth in that condition in obedience to the call of God, through Christ, to come up higher, and leave the earthly, sensual plane of life, and is able to live the true virgin life. But we believe, as. Jesus declares, all men are not able to receive this saying, save they to whom it is sent.'" Ruth Russell next gives Sarracenia Purpurea as a specific for the small-pox. The roots of the plant were steeped in water, and the patient drank of the decoction four times a day a wine glass full ; the proportion was an ounce of roots steeped it; a pint and half of waterred uced to a pint. 'I his cure,was evidently exciting attention, as the next writer speaks of it as being commonly known as the " Side-Saddle Flower," " Pitcher Plant," or " Huntsman's Cup." It grows in bogs in New York State ; from New England to Wisconsin ; and southward, east of the Alleghanies. It blossoms in June, has a deep purple flower, and very curious leaves, usually half filled with water and drowned insects. Among the let ters is one ".cracking up" East Tennessee as th e land for settlers. ; and a very interesting one from A. J. Grover on the education of the Freedmen, concluding in these words, "The Fifteenth Amend ment—suffrage for the negro, land for the landless —are important, but education for the children is indispensable." The Troy Times, in its New York correspond ence, gives the following : " The largest owner of personal property in this city, and in the United States, is Commodore Vanderbilt, who is said to hold twenty millions. The Astors, whose chief wealth is in land, have about five millions in personal estate. Moses Taylor has about four millions, of which his coal stocks, in connection with that of his son-in-law, reach one million and a half. George Law has about two millions, while out of the estate of the late John J. Phelps, amounting in all to eight millions, about two-thirds are in personal property. These last-mentioned men were not ambitious of being numbered among our real estate lords. Their moneys had been made by handling per sonal property, and they preferred to keep it in this shape. They wished to have their pecuniary resources ready for action at a moment's warning, in order to take advantage of any opportunity. If a certain stock fell in price they wanted to be able to buy it up, and having the control of vast amounts of cash, they could enter Wall street at any time and cut right and left with gi eat effect. Such active, nervous, resolute men do not care to be troubled with the slow details of real estate. Real estate is like forces shut up in a stronghold, while personal pro perty is like soldiers in the field. There is a constitu tional difference bet ween Commodore Vanderbilt and Wm. B. Astor, which is shown by their aptitude for their pecu liar positions. Astor sits in an office in Prince-street and simply holds on to his land. His life, compared with that of an active business man, is a mere vegetation. He has none of the excitements of gain and loss, and never knows what it is to corner a clique or be cornered himself. Row could such a man as Vanderbilt endure this life ? It would bo like cooping the eagle. The Evening Post, noticing the mania for new railroads raging extensively at present all over America, estimates that " There are now building, and in various stages of com pletion, 1,000 miles of new road in New York State, in addition to the 3,500 miles already in operation. How many miles of new road are building and projected to be built soon, in New England, a Massachusetts jour nal cannot ascertain, but estimates quite as many as in . New York. It notices also that the manner of build ing railroads has very much changed in the last few years. Private capital is drawn upon to a very limited extent and States and towns furnish the funds. Recent legisla tion in New York very mush facilitates the bonding of towns in aid of railroad enterprises, and it looks as thongh the State was to be called upon to build all the new roads in Massachusetts hereafter, or in New England, for that matter, if one end reaches Boston. Indeed, in view of the cheek of the Massachusetts Central folks demanding a . big loan before they have done a stroke of work, it would not be strange if the State should be called upon to make the preliminary surveys for the next project." The Springfield Republican, while condemning the intention of making the Alabama claims a poli tical issue in the autumn elections, as it properly belongs to the arena of diplomacy, censures the tone of some literary and commercial organs of opinion which attempt to create a feud between the State Department and Senator Sumner on this question— " When the Alabama Treaty was rejected the whole country expressed its satisfaction, not only with the vote of the Senate, but with the argument of Mr. Sumner, who in that matter uttered the voice of the Senate. But, since that time, timidity, envy, the pride of opinion and the old prejudice of the pro-slavery party against Mr. Sumner, have been at work to cavil and disavow what he said, and what the Senate did. By dint of much industry, and the air of great wisdom and moderation, the malignant enemies of Mr. Sumner, combining with Englishmen on both sides of the ocean, and hesitating good men, who dread to be extreme in anything, have got up such a show of disagreement with his position, that the English begin to hope that we shall recede from the ground taken when we rejected the Seward-Clarendon Treaty. Nothing would bo more unfortunate for them than to act upon such a hope, and nothing would be easier than, by an appeal to the American people on the direct issue, to convince them and the whole world that our position is taken, once for all." Colonel Benton, Commandant at the Armory of Springfield, Massachusetts, has sold over 100,000 repaired Enfield muskets to the Turkish Government, and is now shipping them by way of Boston and New York. The Turkish officer who made the purchase says these guns will be converted into breech-loaders snd placed in the hands of the Turkish militia.—The awards at the Baby Show at Tremont Temple, Boston, were distributed on. Monday night, June 21. The only premium for triplets was to the mother of Nellie Hope, Norah Faith, and Hannah Charity Coughlin, of North Brookfield. The handsomest girl baby was that of Alfred E. Stratton of Bostofl, the fattest baby a nine months' old boy, belonging to R. N. Ash of Somerville, and the smallest was Alice Hillock of Charlestown, two months old, and weighing four pounds—only one pound when born. An exhibition of coloured babies will take place in Boston during the present month.---A Portland n a cured one of the most dangerous cases of cancer by d, mking red clover tea and applying a red clover compress, and thinks it will prove an infallible remedy in all cases.—At Stettin, in Prussia, a project to establish a line of steamers plying between that seaport on the Baltic and Chicago is beipg agitated. There arrived at the port of New York, during the quarter ending March 31, 1869. 27,592 passengers, of whom 24,439 were immigrants intending to reside in the United States. Males, 16,650; females, 7,78 9 ; under 15 years of age, 4,260 ; between 15 and 40, 17,613 ; 40 years and upward, 2,566 ; died on the voyage , 45. The nationalities of the immigrants were as follows: Great Britain (not specified), 3,103 ; Ireland, 2,918 ; Enr land, 4,102 ; Scotland, 841; Wales, 37 ; Germany, 10,635 ; Austria, 274 ; Switzerland, 578 ; Sweden, 151; Norway, 4 ; France, 530 ; Spain, 195; Portugal, 3 ; Italy, 223 ; Turkey, 1 ; Greece, 1 ; Denmark, 130 ; Holland, 9 3 ; Belgium, 13 ; Russia, 118 ; British North American Pro vinces, 53; West Indies, 7 ; Cuba, 372 ; Mexico, 2 ; South America, 4 ; Australia, 3 ; Japan, 46; Africa, 2 • Occupations —Merchants, 150 ; mechanics, 956 ; farmers, 2,310 ; labourers, 5,920 ; mariners, 58 ; lawyers, 15 ; miners, 618; clerks, 205; physicians, 26; clergy, 28, butchers, 80 ; bakers, 125 ; musicians, 37 ; chemists, 8 ; soldiers, 6 ; tailors, 217 ; shoemakers, 233 ; painters, 3 9 ; smiths, 217 ; carpenters, 370 ; masons, 272 ; engineers, 43 ; watchmake s, 27 ; dyers, 13 ; brewers, 57 ; printers, 13 ; weavers, 36 ; artists, 43 ; teachers, 25 ; servants, 451 ; not specified (mostly women and children), 11,107. 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LAD VERTISEMENT.I—Henceforth no oue will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabia' Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessing s it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope , whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazett e du Midi," July 25th Rome, July 21, 1866. -The health of the H ell Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other rale' dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revaleett Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every mesa It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, we his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." " f extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 58, 21 , 6, . ° „ t the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver coraru t !' l- wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation , all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart ._ Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dysP e M. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspePel`s" nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, Wog,: sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46 , 270: James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased bil l; spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. fl portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more tha n sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Lien l6 name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 6d ; Subs 11 s ; 12 lbs 2 2 °- POWDER w lb p s E 4 R O . 8 - p A a c l s k O e d D B intin s s ß te E rs W : AL f o E r N I T 2 A c A. up n i t. a ß t i € 2 A. 5, C forflO2Csopc.t!.;:: at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 57 6 cups et t —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sew free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; an all Grocers and Chemists BIRTHS. EMLYN —On the 11th inst., at 36, Eaton-place, Viscountes6 Emlyn, of a daughter. EYKYN—On the 14th inst., at Hampton-wick, the w ife Of Wm. Eykyn, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. CHILTON —PERKIN'S —On the 13th inst., at Christ Ch ure Lancaster-gate, Henry H. Chilton, Captain 4th Dragoo Guards, to Blanche Rosamond, youngest daughter f the late Augustus S. Perkins, Esq., of the Old Stein°, Brighton. KING GALLOWAY—On the 13th inst. at Holy Tri nity ' Paddington, Colonel Faward Richard Ring, late 3 !' r Regt., to Mary Aun Bard°, daughter of the late Mar T. L. L. Galloway, 10th Regt. D EATES. • KARSLAEE —On the 13th inst., at Barmer House, ThonutO Karshtke, Esq., aged 64. RICKMAN —On the 13th inst., at Durweston, Dorsetshire, Robert Rickman, aged 80. ROSE—On the 13th inst., at Parkhurst, Beckenhaltti t he Rev. George Rose, aged 70. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW6' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office N 0.1 12, 5tr 44 .. . in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County a aidcu° l ' Thursday, July 15,1a69. 1 .