The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

ZMIT; OF riILE i ULL C JOU111;111,51. The SA.:,•iaj L. icy examines at some lengtn zne principles on which the tenure of property by religious corporations is based, and observes that there arc twc cases in which the State may take away the property of religious corporations without being revolutionary : either it may decide that the corporation is in itself a bad one, or, though not had, that it has too much property. In applying this theory to the Irish Church, the Saturday Bevieto says that either we mast alter all our constitu tional schemes, and allow the minority in the House of Commons to govern the nation, or the Liberal party must be allowed to apply their principles in Ireland as else where. But then the Anglican Church in Ireland is not a noxious institution in itself. On the contrary, it is as beneficial an institution as could be wished for. It is not necessary—and, if unnecessary, it would be very wrong—to suppress it, or injure it, or harass it, except exactly so far as 'nay be necessary to remove from it that accidental character of noxiousness which it has unhappily received. It must have some of its property taken from it, because it is by holding this property, and by the impress which this property has given it, that it has become noxious ; just as something must be taken away from its position as an Esta blished Church, because historically this quality of an Esta blished Church is connected with its other quality of being a noxious institution. But directly we have done enough we may atop. Directly we have removed from it the taint of being a symbol of religious hatred, we need go no further. When it is once made an innocuous institution, the State is not at all interested in lessening the control of its laymem bers over its clerical members, or in lessening its resources. It is not in any kind of way the business of the State to start the Anglican Church in Ireland as a poor voluntary body, under the dominion of zealots, and then see how the curious experiment will answer. If the Anglican Church in Ireland wishes itself to change its whole character that Would be a different matter. It could petition Parliament, and we might see what arrangements could be made for !dripping it of every shilling, and letting a clique ride toughshod over it. But at present, so far as is known, all it asks is to be left alone. We cannot let it alone alto gether, for we cannot permit an institution to continue which in its present shape is incompatible with good government. But we may let it alone as much as possi ble, and hold our hand directly we have relieved it from that character of noxiousness with whichit is unfortunately invested at present. The Spectator refers to the hard treatment experienced oy the new President of the Board of Trade, and the per tinacity of his officious adviser. The enthusiasts have made a first attempt on the Right Honourable John Bright in his capacity of Minister, and the object was to enlist his powerful aid in an internecine war—agairst bottle-nosed whales. Father Newman describes very amusingly in " Loss and Gain " the rush of fanatics upon any eminent man who is known to he in transitu between Church and Church. All sorts of wild schemers imme diately descend upon him and try to engage him for their pet extravagance. Apparently, an analogous political fate may be in store for Mr. Bright on his accession to office. All sorts of political dreamers will be apt to think that now at last they have got a man in office whose mind may be open to the grand ideas which they have never yet persuaded any one but themselves to entertain. Mr. Alexander Drew, of Nairn, will not be satisfied unless the new President of the Board of Trade will devote a good share of the Army savings to placing a bounty on the slaughter of bottle-nosed whales and porpoises, whom be regards as the great poachers on the supplies of our fisheries. Mr. Bright keeps his countenance, in a political sense, well. He first replies to Mr. Drew that Parlia ment is not likely to vote bounty money for the slaughter of bottle-nosed whales and porpoises, and on receiving from Mr. Drew reproaches for taking so contracted" a view of the bottle'noses, and exhortations enforcing his views in a rather excited manner, Mr. Bright merely directs his secretary to acknowledge the receipt of the letter enclosing the correspondence with Mr. Loch on " bottle-nosed whales." The London Review, in discussing Mr. Mill's arguments against the Ballot, remarks that he advances the seeming paradox that the spread of bribery proves the Ballot to be unnecessary. There is, however, a considerable amount of truth in the suggestion that bribery and intimidation are antagonistic to each other. Where intimidation has prevailed, bribery has often been brought in to rectify the balance ; but let us at least recognise the fact that if there had been secret voting neither the disease nor the antidote would have existed. Landlords and customers could not have intimidated ; candidates would not have needed to meet intimidation by pecuniary corruption. Nor can anyone doubt that where the remedy is so vile it would be better to prevent the disease than to cure it. At present, however, we are making a special effort to destroy the atrocious remedy, bribery, without removing the virulent disease, intimidation. From Mr. Mill's own point of view, the prevention of bribery by the Bribery Bill will naturally tend to the revival and increase of intimidation, which bribery in the past has done some thing to check. We are absolutely bound, therefore, to follow the Bribery Bill by the Ballot. If we do not, we shall have given a downright advantage to the intimida tors, and, in striking at the impurity, shall have pros trated lower than ever the independence of the electoral community. There is nothing in all that Mr. Mill has written on the subject to invalidate the practical and moral arguments in favour of secret voting. If the fran chise is a right, the Ballot is an essential security of the possessor of the right. If the franchise is a trust, the Ballot is an essential instrument for the general fulfil ment of the trust. If it were to lead to denying votes that had been given, that would be a lesser evil than giving votes which are mere records of intellectual, moral, and political abasement. But it would not lead to the denial of votes or lying of any kind, for it would make voters free, and free men need not, and, as a rule, do not lie. In short, without the Ballot, there is, in a compre hensive sense no suffrage. " What," says Mr. Grote, " is the difference between taking away a man's vote alto gether and taking away from him the liberty of voting as he inwardly prefers? Is not the number of genuine and bona fide electors just as much influenced by the one act as by the other ?" It follows that Parliamentary Reform, which Mr. Disraeli says is completed, cannot be deemed a finished work until all voters have the Ballot, without which any voter's suffrage may be unreal. The John Bull discusses the question of primogeniture, and refers to a plan suggested on the subject before the matter had engrossed public attention so much as it has lately done. A proposal was lately made by an ingenious essayist—if we mistake not by the lively and vigorous writer who has renewed his youth under the pseudonym of Cornelius O'Dowd—that a society should be formed for the extermination of elder brothers. We can fancy that such is society would meet with considerable support among the more advanced politicians of the day, and would soon be able to set up in a leading thoroughfare with a large brass plate, a secretary, and all the other paraphernalia without which in these days no object, charitable or utilitarian, can he carried out. But there is a slight drawback to such a scheme. If properly worked it would lead to the unpleasant result of the extermination of many of its own supporters, who would, by the gradual process of eliminating their elder brothers, themselves succeed to that unpopular position, and be eliminated in their turn to make way for their younger brethren, so that it last, as in the case of the Kilkenny cats, nothing but the tail of the family would be left. This borough English tenure of existence would hardly be generally acceptable. It is, however, obvious that, in addition to this slight difficulty in working a promising scheme, the times are not yet ripe for so comprehensive a measure of reform, and some process short of extermination must be adopted by younger sons, a class who, if we may believe the most noisy and pushing of their representatives, do not consider that their elder brothers' lands are comprised in the inter pretation clause of the tenth commandment. And here we mar pause for a moment to express a doubt whether younger sons as a body are fairly represented by the would-be Reformers. It is not always—with reepect to Mr. i ßeales and Mr. Finlen be it spoken—the most noisy section of the community which must accurately repre sents the feelings of the whole ; and we do not believe that younger sons do, as a rule, look upon themselves as injured by the family estates descending to their eldest brother. At a meeting of the Literal party held at Glasgow yesterday, it was resolved to invite the Right ion. A. H. Bruce, Home secretary, to come forward as a candidate for Renfrewshire in the room of the late Mr. Speirs. The meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, to receive Mr. Bruce'll reply. Colonel Mure has agreed to waive his claim in favour of the right hon. gentleman. LOCUGILPIIEAD.—On Saturday last two boats were on the look-ont for herring at the head of the loch. So plentiful were the fish that, to use a well hackneyed phrase, the sea " boiled" most ',violently. A wicker basket was: dipped amongst the struggling herrings, and it was at once filled and transferred to the boat, and the "catch" went bravely on. One of We crew was seen armed with a shovel framed with iron and 'covered with a net, with which he alternately shovelled the herrings into his skiff from the water, as fast as his arms c-iuld move, and spread the struggling " take" level in the boat as they were 'being accumulated on one sp it. For an in ur and ala' f this p . oceeded, until the net was safely ti,k n bor r 1 aga:n. OLe of the boats, which was empty of ( v !rythirg but herrings, was filled liter ally to the water's edge. Tile other boat, having the nets, of course had Int FLU h a cargo, but altogether the "take" was about 5 ),OCO. 1 1 .10 captors, six in number, made a fair why tliiect to the (pay, where they sold theii freight to Some Enslish bu.! e s for the London market— the price got for the whole ',zing £45, and the operation, from the " ehooting " of the net to the selling of the fish, not occupying more than two hours.—Glavow Citizen. TEE EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION OP MURDER. Correspondence from Norwich, dated Friday-, William Sheward, the man charged with the murder of his wife, Martha Sheward, on the 15th of June, 1831, and who voluntarily surrendered himself to justice on Friday, January 1, 1869, was brought up for examination to-day at the Guildhall. Sheward arrived in Norwich by the down express last evening, and to avoid any possible excite ment at the Norwich (Thorpe) station of the Great Eastern Railway, he was removed from the train at the Trowse station (about one mile from Thorpe), and taken to the nonce-office, where he passed the night. It appears, from inquiries made, that previously to 1838 Sheward resided in the metropolis, where he met his deceased wife, whose maiden name was Martha Francis, a native of Wymondham, Norfolk, a - woman considerably his senior. She appears to have lived with Sheward as his housekeeper at Greenwich, where they were married. In 1838, Sheward and his wife came to Norwich, and resided for some time in Ber-street, where it is believed he worked as a tailor. Ile next removed to White Lion-street, where fortune does not seem to have smiled very kindly upon him, as he failed for a con siderable sum. lie next removed to Upper St. Giles's-street, Norwich, and from thence to St. Martin-at-Palace, where, according to his confession, the horrible crime now under investigation was perpetrated. A person who was then a neighbour of Sherward's remem bers missing Mrs. Sheward at the time considerable excitement prevailed in Norwich in consequence of the finding of the remains of a young woman. This woman, although on friendly terms with Mrs. Sheward, never made inquiries, and never heard what had become of her. The next heard of Sheward was that he resided in King-street, near St. Peter-per-Mountergate Church, where he carried on business as a pawnbroker, lending money on goods and plate. On the 13th February, 1862, Sheward married his present wife, with whom he :tad previously cohabited, and by whom he had had two or three children. The marriage took place at the regis :,rar's office, in King-street; Norwich: About four months since Sheward, who seems not to have been very prosperous in his pawnbroking business, disposed of his stock princi pally to Mr. Boston, another pawnbroker, of Orford-hill, Norwich, and removed to the Key and Castle Tavern, in St. Martin's-at-Oak, where his family are at present residing. He left home a week or two since, and it was remarked before he left that he was somewhat depressed in his spirits. He had stated his intention to go to London in order to see his sister, and he had fixed the Monday after Christmas for his journey. When the day in question arrived he did not start, on the plea that he did not feel well, but early on the following morning (Tuesday, Dec. 28), after passing a somewhat restless night, he started for the metropolis. Nothing was heard of him by his wife until the morning of Sunday, Jan. 3, when she received a letter from him stating that he was " in trouble," the nature of which she would soon learn. Since the disappearance of the first Mrs. Sheward, in 18.51, a sum of about £4OO has been bequeathed to her, and is now in the hands of Mr. Cann, a solicitor, at Wymond ham, Norfolk, the birthplace of the deceased woman. Inquiries were made of Sheward as to the whereabouts of his first wife when this legacy was left to her, and he is said to have replied that he did not know where she was—that he believed she had gone to New Zealand, or Van Diemen's Land, or one of the Australian colonies. Reviewing all the circumstances which have since trans pired, it seems strange that suspicions of foul play on the r,art of Sheward newer arose, Mr. Alendham, town clerk of Norwich, appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Stanley, solicitor, appeared for ITheward, who was accommodated with a seat in the dock. Mr. Mendham having shortly opened the case, Inspector Davis, of the P. division of the metropolitan police, was examined, and stated that on Friday, the Ist instant, he was on duty at the Walworth Police-station. The prisoner came into the office and made a statement, in consequence of which he was taken before the magis trate at the Lambeth Police•court on the following day. No inducement whatever was held out to the prisoner to lead him to make the confession. He asked the prisoner some questions as to how or where the body was found. He !eplied, " Oh, don't say any more) it is too horrible to talk about." He told me he had had no food for two days, and that he could not eat. Witness offered him food, but he still said he could not eat. He drank, however, a cup of coffee. He appeared to be very much depressed in spirits. Mrs. Sarah Batson, wife of the postmaster at Hellesdon, near Norwich, deposed that she was married on the 18th of March, 1850. She and her husband went to live in a house in Tabernacle-street, St. Martin-at-Palace, Nor wich. At the time she went to live in Tabernacle rtreet, the next house to hers was not occupied. It was afterwards taken by a man and woman. She never spoke to the man, and did not recognise him now in court. The woman used to come into witness's house to buy things. She was a light-complexioned woman, and wore her hair in curls—it was almost golden-coloured hair. She was a 'cry fair woman. Witness remembered the Whitsuntide Jf 1351. She could not, however, tell the day of the month when it occurred. On reference to an almanac, witness found that Whit-Sunday occurred in 1851 on rune 8. According to a local custom, she made two -.ustards for the Whit-Sunday, and part of one of these ustards she took to the woman. whom she never saw again. She saw the man go backwards and forwards to the house after this, but she did not recollect ever seeing the man or woman again after a short time. She did not know the business of the man. In cross examination by Mr. Stanley, witness stated chat she and her husband left Tabernacle-street in 1852. After the next house to hers became unoccupied after June Dr July 1852, it again became occupied, but only by some women, so far as she knew. Witness never had any con versation with the man to whom she had been referring. By the Bench : I should say the woman to whom I gave custard was between fifty and sixty years of age. She was a middle-sized woman. I never heard any disputes between the man and the woman. Potter Batson, the husband of the last witness, gave eanfirmatory evidence. He thought the woman who lived ^.ext him in June 1851 was between fifty and sixty years •f age. She wore her hair in curls, and was a neat dres sing person. Witness could not describe the man who lived with the woman. He never noticed him particu larly. Witness kept a general shop, and the woman often came into it. He never saw her after Whit-Sunday, 'B5l. He remembered quite well some human flesh being found near Norwich in the summer of 1851 ; some was ►ound on his father's farm on which he worked, at Ilellesdon. It was found about the latter end of June, - or in July, 1851. Cross-examined : Witness had often wondered where the old woman had gone to. He had never talked, however, about the matter. Inspector Peck, of the Norwich police, said he occupied his present office in Jun e 1851, w h e n human remains ,vere found in the neighbourhood of Norwich. They were brought to the police station about the latter end of June 1851, not later than the 27th. Witness could not, howeyer, fix the date from memory. There was an in vestigation on the subject before the magistrates. Mr. Nicholls, a surgeon, examined the remains. They were .'so examined by Mr. Donald Dalrymple, another surgeon, and by the late Mr. B. H. Norgate, a third surgeon. The remains were brought to the police station by various persons. The remains consisted of human hands, a foot, leg bones, part of an arm, and a quantity of other bones. They were preserved in spirits of wine, and locked up. At this stage Mr. Mendham applied for a remand, to which the magistrates agreed. The prisoner, who wore an air of hopeless, although subdued depression, was then removed. The remains to which reference has been repeatedly made were buried many years since in a vault in the Guildhall, Norwich, and have not yet been disinterred. 'l7he spot in which the jar containing them was deposited is, however, well known. 'The death is announced of Dr. Woodford, her Majvsty's ln'pector of Schools for Scotland. Sixty dead bodies were picked up, washed In from the sea, between Cape Finisterre and Cape Ortegal, on December 28 and 29. In a Sussex churchyard may be seen the follow ing curious epitaph :—" Richard Basset, the old clerk of this parish, who had continued the office of clerk and sexton for the space of forty-three years, whose melody was warbled forth as if he bad been thumped on the back with a stone, was buried on the 20th September, 1866." THE AMERICAN MINISTER. Mr. B everdy Johnson continues his extraordinary efforts to eat and drink his way into the affections of the English people - . - - %7ith unabated assiduity. That he will succeed accom plishing his purpose we have little doubt. But is ti.is the real object of his mission ? lie is in England to reprea.rit American interests told to adjust with the English Government certain cla:ms urged upon it by our own. The good will of the English people, which he is so anxious to conciliate, is not half so important to this end as the good will of our own. We are quitd certain that there is much less hostile feeling in England than here. There is no class in Great Britain that wants a Iva!' with the United States. We cannot say as much for this country. The great mass of the Irish people in this country—to say nothing of the vast number of demagogues who court their favour and their votes—are always eager for a war with England ; and Mr. Johnson's efforts to placate English feeling- only exasperate and give fresh food for this hnatility. It is about time Mr. Johnson unused[ to reflect 'on the consequenees Of his course on his 411 countryrneNae well as upon the le 01Euglaocl.-7 Araircrla Qa, MISC EL LANE° US IV ETV'S. OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA. The Times has at last awakened to the importance of the new arrangement which has been made with the Chinese plenipotentiary. We pointed out on Tuesday that " Lord Clarendon's arrangements with Mr. Burlingame mark a new epoch in our foreign policy ;" and yesterday the leading journal says : " An announcement which has just been made pro mises to be a new era in the relation of this country with those States and nations which are not included in the comity of Christendom." It is satisfactory to find that the journal which during Lord Palmer ston's regime was all for a spirited foreign policy, and which supported Sir John Bowring's insolent conduct in the lorcha Arrow business, has come to a better state of mind, and declares that " the naval officer who is always appearing before somebody's seaport to demand satisfaction about some matter which people at home have never heard of is the representative of a spirited, but not over wise nor always successful bearing towards foreign nations. His occupation will soon be gone. It will not take four months to communicate with China or the western coast of the New World, and though a Chinese or a Mexican governor may be as provoking as heretofore, the Queen's servants, civil military, or naval, will have to wait for orders in stead of chastising the offender on their own account." Clearly we are being educated in our ideas'of international policy. In time we shall come to see that it is as great a wrong for a strong State to use its strength for the oppression of a weak State as we already see it to be for a strong man to strike a weak man. The love of justice which has already put down outrages between individuals will very soon put down outrages between nations, and the " patriotism" of twenty years ago will become as much a thing of the past as the robber " chivalry " of medieval times. NOTES ON mELAND. Do we in England understand Ireland ? It would seem not. The English press—Liberal and Conservative—is ever ready to lay each crime committed over the water at the door of the priesthood. So marked has this been that the Dublin _Evening Mail—whose Orange tint is of a pretty deep die—has come to the rescue, and protests against this continual charge against the Roman Catholic ministry. The Mail complains, too, that the English papers have assumed the murder of Mr. Baker to be an " agrarian outrage" committed by a given man. Of the one fact or the other not a tittle of evidence has yet been presented. When Liberalism descends into partisanship, it becomes false to its own principles. The new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has, of course, had to deal with several Dublin tradesmen to prepare the Castle of the city for his residence. The journal which is supposed to be the leader of Irish Liberal opinions has amused itself by finding out the political opinions, &c., of the citizens whom Lord Spencer has " honoured with orders." One of them is not sufficiently " Liberal " for our con temporary, and the noble earl is assailed for dealing with him. By implication Liberals are directed to deal exclusively with their own party men. The judges have heard an application on behalf of Mr. Pim to dismiss the Hon. Mr. Plunkett's peti tion against Mr. Pim's return for Dublin. Mr. Plunkett claims the seat ; but Mr. Phu alleges that as a law officer of the Crown he can have no right to it, being disqualified as holding a position under Government. The judges held that they had no jurisdiction to try the case, the question being one to be decided on the trial of the petition itself. AN OLD SORE HEALED. Most of our readers will remember the fracas which occurrad between Mr. Long and Sir George .Tenkinson, the two Conservative candidates for North Wilts, at the election of 1865. Mr. Long. refused to coalesce with Sir George in order to win both seats, the result being that Lord Charles Bruce, the only Liberal who came forward, went in at the head of the poll, the numbers being : Bruce, 2,151 ; Long, 1,911 ; Jenkinson, 1,373. Since then both the rival Conservatives have indulged in recriminations, each boasting of the amount of plate on his side board. This unseemly conduct between two gentlemen continued up to the last general election, when Mr. Long retired, but refused to aid in the return of the hon. baronet, who again came forward in the Con servative interest. The Liberals endeavoured to profit by this split, and put forward two candidates, but Fortune, who had proved fickle to Sir George at the previous election, and also at Nottingham in 1866, now turned in his favour, and by the aid of the tenant farmers, with whom he was extremely popular, he headed the poll, the second Liberal being nowhere. The olive leaf has now been held our by Mr. Long, who at the commence ment of the new ye:lr expressed a hope that Sir George would so far set himself right with Mr. Long's friends as would enable both to shake hands. This has c.dled forth a characteristic reply from the present member, who asserts that if in the heat of the contest in 1805 he used any expressions which unduly pained Mr. Long or his friends, he would cheerfully and frankly withdraw them. He concludes as follows : "We all attacked each other—l won't say which began—but it is high time such heart-burnings had an end ; and I am certain that Mr. Long and his friends will, with the same friemniness, withdraw the hard words they pitched at me. I shall gladly shake hands with Mr. Long, and I cordially join him in wishing all our friends—and I dare say he will not object if I say opponents also—' A merry Christmas and a happy new year." LORD DALKEITH AT EDINBURCiII. On Wednesday Lord Dalkeith was entertained at a banquet in Edinburgh by his supporters. The noble lord, in addressing his friends, expressed his gratitude for the reception he had met with. He accepted it also as a tribute to the Conservative cause, and as an earnest that they would all fight together in support of those principles which they believed to be right. In alluding to the loss of his seat at the recent election for Edinburgh, Lord Dalkeith attributed it partly to his absence, through indisposition, at the commencement of the contest. The result shelved the importance of being beforehand in a contest of this kind, the same as in a regular warfare. He consid ere d th a t th e Liberals did not practise what they preached, since they blamed the Conservatives for having recourse to intimidation, -id they did not prevent it themselves at home. The noble lord did not approve of the Ballot, believing that it would promote bribery, and would not protect the voter. Alluding to the remarks made upon the influence exercised by his father, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lo r d D a lk e i t h d eclared it' was only the power naturally possessed by a straight forward and high-minded gentleman. The noble lord concluded by expressing his regret at the general character of the elections for Scotland, where tried Scotchmen had been rejected for untried Englishmen, and trusted that at the next election that took place Edinburgh would redeem its character by returning a Conservative. BOTTLE-NOSED WHALES. ------- Mr. Alexander Drew, of Nairn, must be more apt at a joke than Scots generally are. His request that Mr. Bright, of all men in the world, would grant a sub sidy for the destruction of bottle-nosed whales and porpoises, is really most laughable. Mr. Bright hates Government subsidies as he hates a Pall-mall lounger. If he had been President of the Board of Trade a thousand years ago he would certainly not have sanctioned the reward paid for wolves' heads. Bottle nosed whales and porpoises are safe so long as the Right Hon. John Bright presides over the Board. TIIE WEAVERS' DREAM. Just a quarter of a century ago eight-and-twenty weavers at Rochdale, having reason to complain of the high charges of the grocers, clubbed together 2d. a week each, in order to establish a society whose objects were thus defined : " The social and intellec tual advancement of its members ; providing them and the public with general groceries, butchers' meat, drapery, tailoring, boots and shoes, and other general articles." The project was styled in ridicule "The Weavers' Dream." How far the dream has become a reality the following figures will shew. The society commenced operations with a paid-up capital of £2B; it is now over £128,000. The business transactions during one year have amounted to nearly a quarter of a million, the profits on which were over £40,000. The number of members has increased from 28 to 6,823. The establishment comprises a large central store, newly erected in a command ing situation in Rochdale, pronounced univer sally an ornament to the town ; ten branches, a library, consisting of nearly 7,000 volumes, news rooms, and an educational department accessible to members and their families. It will be seen, therefore, that both c l asses o f o bj ec t s h ave b een carried out. The members are able to supply the wants of the body at a moderate cost, and at the same time they have provided for the wants of the mind. One of the latest developments of co-operation is the formation of the London and Provincial Co-ope rativeßuildingSociety. The obj ect is to enable journey men builders and others to build houses for themselves. A considerable number of shares have been taken by building operatives ; but there does not seem to be the same amount of self-reliance that there was in the Rochdale Pioneers. Though there are COO shareholders, and though half the capital is paid up, and the associatioa is in a position to take contracts, it is found that the capital is insufficient, and a promise of help has been obtained from "gentlemen of influence both in a social, com mercial, and political point of view." Meanwhile Colonel Maude and his Free Labour Society are having no inconsiderable influence on the building trade of Manchester. A circular has bcen drawn up addressed " to the master builders and other employers of labour connected with the building trade of Lancashire and Cheshire." setting forth fourteen arbitrary rules imposed by trades unions upon brickmakers, brie - I:layers, and masons, pointing out that if Government had imposed such restrictions they would have been thought intolerable, and that unions have no better right to impose them ; and urging that a free exchange of labour should be pro moted, and that employers should give a preference of employment to non-unionist workpeople, or members of the Free Labour Registration society. The address is signal by ninety-seven commercial firms of Manchester: , - :ATITRDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1869, PAUPERISM. Mr. Measor, whose name is well known in connec tion with our convict system, has addressed a letter to the Star on the subject of pauperism. He fears that this social disease will be much aggravated by the coming winter, and that the ranks of crime will be recruited from those of distress. The bugbear of the misapplication of charitable funds seems, in his opinion, to have been raised as an excuse for dis regarding a national duty. After some stringent remarks on the wide gulf which in this country separates rich from poor, Mr. Measor observes that the chronically pauperised, the temporarily dis tressed, and the criminal, have got, by bad manage ment, so inextricably interwoven together, that the only immediate course is to institute public works for all wishing for labour as a test of industry and skill. These would supply a school of industrial instruction, from whence the better class could .be gradually drafted to the most suitable of our colo nial settlements. As regards the young, the flood of future evil must be stopped by removing them from vicious parents and instructors, and by training them to industry. A higher estimate of human life and labour, less cruel punishments, and more com passion for ignorance and error, can alone control and elevate the largely criminal and pauperised por tion of this great community. THE LAW OF PRIMOGENITURE. The correspondence respecting the proposed modifications of the law of primogeniture still continues. Sir G. Bowyer has written another letter giving some details of the law as it a t presen t s t an d s . He thinks the public do not know how narrow the power is of tying up estates in families for preventing their alienation, and he regards Mr. Locke King's bill only as a step towards the compulsory division of land among co-heirs in all cases. On the other hand, an advocate of the measure argues that the legal tram mels produced by long entail impede the transfer of land, and thinks that any attempt either to con centrate or to subdivide the land by legislation is a great mistake. A correspondent of the Times asks why, when the owner of a freehold estate dies intestate, and the eldest son takes the whole, no probate duty is payable, while in a similar case of leasehold estate, where the children all take equally, a heavy duty is charged on the letters of administration. Mr. James Freeman, in discussing the subject, observes that Earl Russell met with an equally formidable opposition in the institution of the Encumbered Estates Court in Ireland, which has, nevertheless, been eminently successful. THE RITUAL JUDGMENT " Lex " lays down the law as to the effect of the Ritual judgment. He says in the Times that all which the Privy Council had to decide with respect to the posture of the celebrant was, that the posture was to be that of standing, not kneeling, throughout the consecration prayer; and that no decision was given as to whether or no the celebrant should stand with his back, face, or side to the people ; this point is determined by the rubric directing him to break the bread before the people, which he could not do with his back to them. The judgment did not even indirectly refer to vestments, and " I:ex " says on this point : " The court having before them the question of the two lights, held that in order to be lawful they must have had express authority of Parliament—i. e., specific mention in King Edward L's (sic) Prayer-book. The question whether all ornaments having such express authority are now lawful or obligatory was not before the court, and it was not competent to the committee therefore to decide it. Had they thought it requisite to deal with this question in their ,judgment, it would have been requisite for them to notice the argument of Mr. Archibald as to the effect of the word retain' in the rubric as to ornaments—viz., that it did not operate to revive or restore any orna ments' which at its date (1662) were not in lawful use, having, also had express authority of Parliament in the second year of Edward VI." The most important part of this letter, however, is the statement made positively, and we presume with the authority of the Church Association, that " the vestments and other matters not covered by the present judgment will shortly be brought before the same tribunal." It would seem, therefore, that we are shortly to be favoured with another Ritual suit. ARCHDEACON BENTINCK ' S WILL. The Ven. W. U. E. Benfnck, rector of Siggles thorne, East liidirg, and formerly Archdeacon of Westminster, has lett personal property sworn under £BO,OOO. Cf th's about £30,000 is bequeathed to various religious and charitable uses. For instance, the Additional Curates Aid Society gets £7,000, the S. P. G. zt-1,000. There is one feature of his will which deserves special notice. Archdeacon Bentinck was during his life greatly interested in the erection of the handsmie church near Vauxhall Bridge. He has left .C 3,000 on trust, the interest of which is to go to the incumbent of that church, and -.Cc),000 which is to be held in like manner for the benefit of the curate. This form of bequest is somewhat novel, and is worthy the consideration of would-be benefactors of the Church, who in the troublous times that may inten tions, store find it difficult to carry out their WOMEN DOCTORS. MisS Isabel Thorne, a most accomplished and suc cessful woman doctor, writes expressing a hope that " before long some of those young ladies who have passed with honours ' through the Cambridge ex aminations, instead of swelling the overcrowded governess list, will qualify them se l ves f or th e me di ca l profession." They have an oppo r t un it y f or d o i ng this at the Medical College for W omen; 4, Fitzroy square, London, where .they have th e a d van t age of studying anatomy alone, instead of being, as on the continent, compelled to study together with male students. 71IE NEW LAW COURTS Huddled away, out of sight, in a cramped area, with no appropriate surroundings such as would shew off the proportions of a magnificent building, it is pro posed to build the new " Palace of Justice." A site facing the Thames Embankment is now attainable. Should that be used, London might be beautified, and the Thames made, as far as art goes, the most magni ficent river in the world. The finely-cUrved embank ment, the noble bridges, together with the Houses of Parliament, Somerset House, the Temple, and between the two latter the new law courts, would be a grand triumph of architecture. But on dit it is too late. The site agreed upon is already bought and cleared. Mr. Tite, M.P., ho wever, is anxious that some building should be erected on the Thames Embankment; and he proposes to separate such departments as the Probate and Will Court from the main building, and to erect another edifice on the embankment for these. He ch ews th a t th e costwi l is lnot be much g rea t er. T he object i on to his plan that it would perpetuate the divisions betw- en the several judicial offices which the new building is intended to obviate. Lawy ers com pl a i n a to rush about f rom W estm i nster ft - : find their m en or watc h the i r case. I n , l i u n e c h o 1 The arrangement of all offices in one b u ildi ng i s of s h l a n v n i n much to be desired. FOREIGN NOTES; AMERICA. The Canadian Ministers are contemplating toe speedy union of British Columbia to the Canadian Dominion. The San Juan affair—the question as to whether England or AttiA4 shall possess the island which forms part of the boundary between British Columbia and the United States—must be first settled. The Canadian News says that communications on this subject have passed between the English Ministry and the Government of the Dominion, but it does not state whether the difficulty is to be submitted to arbitration, or whether the knot is to cut by giving up the little island. The impression has prevailed in Canada that all trouble will be avoided by making the United States a present of this disputed morsel of territory. If the central Government of the United States do not take immediate action a civil war on a small scale is likely to be the result of the recent lynching in Indiana. The number of professed robbers in the State is large, and these are supported by their relatives and other indi viduals who espouse their cause through choice or fear. Hence there are two parties in the State—the marauders and the vigilance committees, who defend themselves by systematic breach of the law. The relatives and friends of the men who were hanged threaten horrible vengeance against all connected with the vigilance committee ; whilst the latter, though "loth to shed blood again," express their intention of doing so if the property of the Indiana citizens be molested. The province is in a state of anarchy. " C.," writing to the Daily News, says that the Express Companies, who are most frequently robbed, must have some complicity with the "regulators," who hang the desperadoes. He suggests, therefore, that in case any robber is in future lynched for pillaging an express com pany, the charter of the latter should be withdrawn. " C." overlooks the fact that it is impossible to withdraw a company's charter on the presumption of complicity. The guilt must be proved, and hitherto it has been found impracticable to trace these outrages to their perpetrators. No one dares appear against them. Anarchy in Indiana will not cease until the law becomes a reality. New York has just been the scene of another great finan cial struggle. The Erie Company has been so much knocked about of late that specnlation in its shares has become stale. Wall-street, theretore, turnea its attention to the New York Central Railway, and a great combina tion of " bears" was formed for the purpose of creating a stringency in the money market and depressing prices. The manceuvre was signally defeated. The famous Com modore Vanderbilt, who owns a great proportion of the New York Central shares, and who virtually directs the company, had recourse to the amazing expedient of declaring through the directors a bonus dividend of eighty per cent. in scrip, convertible into new shares, in addition to the ordi nary four per cent. dividend in money. The shares at once ran up from 124 to 162, and have retained a position above 148. The bears who speculated for a fall were miserably baffled. Four or five million dollars have been the price of failure. SPAIN. An English lady, who had the misfortune to be in Malaga during the recent conflict, writes in high praise of the conduct of the Spanish troops. The hotel where she resided was occupied by soldiers, but not the slightest injury was experienced by the inmates. The officers were kind and gentle beyond measure, the privates scarcely less so. The lady's jewels, trinkets, and money were scattered about her bedroom, but though the soldiers invaded the apartment, not a single article was taken away. The Spanish journals, contradicting the illoniteur, say that no military commission will be appointed to try the insurgents who were taken prisoners at Malaga. All except the leaders will be pardoned. The number remain ing in the hands of General Caballero de Rodas, after releasing very many, is 250. The Paris correspondent of the Independence Belge affirms that the Carlist conspiracy discovered at Barcelona is of far greater extent and importance than is generally supposed. The official accounts have not revealed every thing. A general, a brigadier, and a great many persons in authority have been arrested. Important papers have been discovered. The Libcrte recently announced that Queen Isabella had had an interview with Don Carlos. This statement has been denied, but the Paris Liberal journals still adhere to it. ITALY. The disturbances caused by the levying of the grist tax has not yet subsided in many places. Rather than submit to the impost, the millers have closed their establishments in many places. At Clavesana, in Pied mont, five hundred armed peasants appeared and demanded that a miller who had shut up his mill should resume work. On his answering that the law prevented him, they sacked the building. In two of the Lombardian valleys forty mills have stopped. Italy does not suffer greatly, according to the corre spondent of the Liberte, from the extravagance of its monarch. King Victor Emmanuel, who hates etiquette, lives more plainly than any sovereign in Europe. His house is poorly furnished, his meals simple, and the recep tions and ceremonies few. Two or three balls a year and a few dinners make up the list of festivities at the royal palace. At the great banquet given on New Year's Day the King was visibly bored. He takes little interest in administration, his attention being given chiefly to hunt ing. He is a connoisseur in horseflesh—in the shape of the living animal. Cavour was, perhaps, more feared by his monarch than by any other individual in the realm, for now that his terrors have ceased, a successor has arisen in the Master of the Household, an old banker who keeps the King in excellent order. This functionary's great aim is to clear off the crown debts, and in order to do this he has reduced the royal ex penses in the most parsimonious manner. The King's charitable inclinations are rigidly kept down. A lady in distress recently obtained an order from the sovereign for £1,600, but had to be content with one-tenth of that sum. The royal master himself has several times been obliged to borrow a few pounds of his aides-de-camp. THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. A telegram from a Greek source acknowledges the surrender of Petropoulaki and his volunteers, and ascribes it to the false intelligence which had been spread by the Turks. Petropoulaki has returned to Syra, but the insur rection, which is by no means at an end, will be vigorously sustained by his son and the Cretan chiefs. The latter portion of this statement must not be accepted without due reserve. The insurrection will be prolonged if the Con. ference does not avert war. but not if the disputants coma to terms. • (From the Anglo -American Times.) As the time approaches for the installation of the President elect he receives an attention from re porters, from office seekers, from politicians, and from the people generally wholly unusual even with monarchs of the highest rank in Europe, and which must be peculiarly embarrassing to one who dislikes it and has not been trained to endure it. When half way down Broadway he' stopped to light a cigar. " See," shouts the whole nation, " he stops to light a cigar." At the opera house in Chicago he stooped tc kiss a child. " Look !" cried the people, "he stoops to kiss a child." A reporter catches up a sneeze, and the sneeze sounds over the entire Union. He spoke—hiswords were few, but they were addressed to Senators and straight to the point, for he denounced all sorts of jobs and the humbug used in covering them. Retrenchment is to be the order of the day, and the nation does not like it the less because the lobbyists do not like it. On Dec. 23 a deputation of Louisiana Senators called on him concerning affairs in their State ; and he has despatched Generals Badcock and Porter from his staff to investigate the militia troubles in Arkansas. He also received among his many visitors Senator Morgan, General C. C. Augur, and General Haas loff, from Denmark, about St. Thomas's, and other subjects. For the few days previous to the de parture of the mail he had been hard at work in his office, while the public outside were insisting that the predicted quarrel between him and the Re publican leaders had commenced. This party hostile to the President elect is of course supposed to be headed by Butler, whom Grant hates for calling him butcher, a dislike the other returns, who was stigmatised by Grant as the corked up general. The Radicals, so say the Democrats, de sire to prevent the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office Act, which they think they can delay to the end of the out-going President's term, to whose spite they then trust to leave the law in force as a legacy to the new Administration. The latest Republican reports from Washington assert these rumours to be the reverse of the truth. Those who have most freely conversed with the General declare themselves more than satisfied with the views he has expressed. It is quite clear that the Civil Service will be imme diately remodelled by Grant, and a system of rigid economy instituted. He will be violently and un scrupulously attacked by the enormous and power f ult interests he will injure, but he will be as vigor ously defended by the best men in the Union, and he has nothing to fear, as he has only to fight it out on that line and he will defeat the enemy much more easily than he did Lee at Richmond. He thinks the New Congress should meet and organise on the day the term of its predecessor ends. Zion's Herald advocates Senator Wilson as the best representative America could despatch to the Court of St. Ja mes ' s. I ts pr i nc ipal reason is that Mr. Wilson has not a single drop of aristocratic blood in his veins, and will, therefore, do America honour with the English working classes. There never was a greater mistake, as English workmen partake as strongly as any class in England of the British prejudice in favour of a lord. Zion's Herald objects to Mr. Sumner because he is too much of a gentleman ; refined, indeed, but intensely and con spicuously English. This is very good in the reli gious journal, but it will weigh as little in America as in England; in fact the argument decidedly favours Mr. Sumner against his colleague of Mas sachusetts. The real cause of the Herald's advocacy is teetotalism. Samuer's sin, not to be forgiven. is that he drinks wine to dinner, while Mr. Wilson goes in for total abstinence, which is the best test, according to the Herald, of diplomatic qualifica tions. Mr. Greeley's reception at Montreal is taken as a sign that if appointed he would be well re ceived by the mother country. About that there can be no question, for Mr. Greeley truthfully re presents the opinions of a vast body in England as well as in Am :rica, while he commands the respect of all. As a man of great ability, perseverance, and industry ; as a writer and p ditici in ; as one of kind heart and strong convictions he must be well received anywhere, and certainly England is not the country to ignore such qualities when embodied in the person of a successful individual. Being a teetotaller he is acceptable even by the Herald, and all that the Rev. Dr. Haven could allege against him is that he goes to sleep during the sermon ; but then he should remember that they are not his sermons, but those of the Rev. Dr. Chapin, a preacher noted for eloquence. On the whole, it is evident that the Republican press will back Horace Greeley, and his are therefore the best chances. The inhabitants of Alaska have a grievance, and a very unreasonable one. According to General Halleck, commanding the division of the Pacific, nearly one-half the troops under him are in Alaska; two full regiments of infantry and nine companies of cavalry being there ; yet they ask for more, and are dissatisfied that they are not sent. The popu lation consists of 2,000 whites and 15,000 Indians. General Davis suggests the establishment of mili tary posts in the vicinity of the larger Indian vil lages, through which the country might gradually be opened to trade, without danger of hostile colli sions, and that a man-of-war be always kept in those waters. This officer, who commands in Alaskas considers the time has not arrived for the appoint ment of civil officers, excepting for the court at Sitka, and for another at Kodiac, with jurisdiction over criminal cases, and this opinion is indorsed by Gen. Halleck. The Hon. Anson Burlingame, with the Embassy from China, has left the Grosvenor Hotel and esta blished his mission in Paris, in a furnished hotel in the Rue du Bel-Respiro. The Emperor was about to receive the Embassy, which bears an autograph letter to him from the Emperor of China. It is in two columns, the Mantchou occupying one and the Chinese the other. The whole sum granted to cover the expense of the mission is £BO,OOO. In Europe permanent missions are to be established through its agency.—The American papers speak of great activity in telegraphing, previous to Christ mas, between the London mission and the Secre tary of State touching the Alabama claims. A costly Cable despatch was sent by the British Mini ster in Washington to his Government. The tenour of all these communications has been kept secret—a secrecy wl:ich has been enjoined, if common report at Washington speaks truth, by Mr. Seward on Mr. Reverdy Johnson, who has been told his out spoken frankness had caused serious inconvenience, and greatly retarded the negotiations.—lt is ru moured, too, that Mr. Morris, the American Minis ter to Turkey, is to be recalled, but no one is men tioned as his successor.—The only intelligence about missions in America is that General Thomas L. Stillwell has been nominated to Venezuela. Senator Morrill, of Maine, introduced a resolu tion on the 19th December, asking the President to inform the Senate whether instructions had been given to prevent the proceeds of the steamer Wren being paid to Messrs. Laird and Co., and to re serve such proceeds for the owners of vessels de stroyed by the Alabama. "The steamer Wren was built by La:rd and Co. for the Confederate Govern ment, and ran the blockade into Galveston with a cargo. She took a freight of cotton from Galves on to Havana, and on her way to Halifax for an other cargo her crew rose on the officers in June, 1865, and carried her into Key West, where she was libelled and condemned. An appeal was taken by Laird and Co., claiming to be her owners, and the Supreme Court at Washington ordered her release on the ground that, although she msght have been engaged in blockade running, she was not so engaged when captured by her crew. Just then Gen. Cushing libelled the proceeds of the steamer's sales, which were in the Treasury, for the benefit of the United States, as the property of the Con federate Sates ; and in case it should be held to be the property of Laird and Co., General Cushing also libelled it in behalf of his brothers, whose ship had been destroyed by the Alabama, on the ground that Laird was responsible for the damages which she had caused. This suit was defended by Foster and Thompson of New York, who have had inti mate professional relations with Attorney-General Evarts, and it is now rumoured that upon their application the Attorney-General ordered the re lease of the proceeds of the steamer without trial." Forefathers' Day was celebrated with great fes tivities at New York and in Washington. At Del monico's, in the former city, 300 gentlemen sat down to dinner, and 200 at the latter. Mr. Colfax, Mr. Motley, and Mr. Whipple delivered eloquent speeches, as did also Judge Brady, Professor Hitchcock, and Mr. Choate, and we regret we have not space to give extracts. The poet Whittier sent a long letter, which was read at the Washington banquet, concluding with this sentiment :—" May that goodly tree which the fathers planted, its strong old stock engrafted with the liberal ideas of our age, grow and overshadow the land, and wher ever its shadow falls may its leaves be leaves of healing" Brief speeches were delivered by the Hon. S. C. Fessenden, president of the society, Senators Thayer and Pomeroy, and Major B. Perley Poore, and others. The end of the programme was the doxology. Christmas Day, also, was more than usually kept as a holiday. At the newsboy's dinner in the Public Ledger Building, 150 youngsters greatly enjoyed themselves, and 100 more in New York had a feast at the Newsboys' Home. The High Churchmen in the latter city made a grand day of it. Apropos of feasting, Chief Justice Chase was to preside at the dinner to Professor Morse on the 29th Dec. Professor Goldwin Smith was to be of the party, as well as Theodore Woolsey, Presi dent of Yule College ; the Hon. Amos Kendall, General Raasloff, and the British Minister. The wires working from the banquet-hall were to tele graph messages to allparts of the world. The most important political event on Christ mas Day was the Amnesty Proclamation of the President, the text of which we elsewhere give. Not only does it include Jefferson Davis, Mason, and Slidell, but through it Surratt has been dis charged as included in its provisions, which have given general satisfaction, although the President gets little credit for it. Talking of Mason and Slidell, a story is going the rounds that when their seizure was known in Washington a gentleman called that day on President Lincoln and introduced two Eng lish friends, to whom the President remarked— I presume, sirs, that you have heard of our taking Mason and Slidell from the English steamer Trent? Your friends on the other side of the water will not like this. Well, I suppose that we shall have to give them up ; but, in the meantime, we will take good care of them." Two American vessels were seized by a war steamer at Hayti, and the cargo of one a schooner trading between New York and St. Mark's, con fiscated. Its captain alleges that he lay off the harbour at the legal distance to ascertain if tie port was blockaded, when he was boarded by a boat and compelled to carry his papers to a man of-war, which pronounced his vessel a blockade runner, and seizing her as a prize left him and the crew to shift for themselves on shore. The De Hart, another American schooner with the French ship Lerida were also captured, but released on the demand of the English and French fleets. The Union Pacific Railroad has finished two more sections of 20 miles each, which the President has accepted, issuing bonds on them of $1,280,000. This brings the road to the 940th milestone. Grant has alarmed the lobbyists by his declaration against any appropriations by the Treasury in favour of such schemes. The Central and Union are at war, and to such an extent does the Union carry its ani mosity that it contemplates evading the intended junction, and running its line to the Pacific coast. The Government have withheld $3,200,C00 till the alleged inferiority of the construction of the Union Pacific has been fully reported on. Still so rapid is the progress that President Johnson has been ap plied to for the Government Commissioners to in spect the road up to the 960th mile post, and by the time the Commissioners get there they will have it ready for inspection to the 975th mile post, at Echo Canon, where they are putting up a tunnel, 1,000 feet through the solid rock. A temporary track is being laid around this tunnel, which is being excavated from both ends. On Dec. 18 two and a half miles of rail were put down, with the thermometer in the neighbourhood of zero. Sup posing that the Union Pacific did evade a junctio❑ with the Central Pacific, which is mere talk, the latter would still have the advantage of being able to connect with the Eistern Division through Kan sas to Denver, a much easier task than for the Union to extend its line to the Pacific. A National Convention of the advocates of Woman Suffrage is to be held at Washington on the 19th January, at which Mrs. Stanton, Lucy Stone, and other ladies will be present. Also a National Convention of Negroes on the 13th January. Bat the most interesting gathering is one announced for the 29th December of all the Washington children known to the President's family, who have issued cards for a juvenile party on a grand scale, 500 being expected The greatest dinner was at Chicago, on the 15th 'l. December, at the reunion of the Western Army. Fifteen hundred guests were gathered around nine tables loaded with delicacies. On a platform sat Sherman, with Grant. Schofield, Logan, Pope and Terry on his right, and Thomas, Slocum, INl'Dowell, Stoneman, and Wilson on his left. According to the Dorld, the celebrated officers gave way to exu berant mirth and champagne, and the uproar drowned all speechifying. Grant, who had taken no wine, finding it impossible to restore order, withdrew, and the noise, as may be imagined, then increased, till General Logan managed, as described by the World, with dilated nostrils, compressed lips, and looks of scorn, to awe the vast assemblage into silence. lie charged the confusion on those who wished to show disrespect to the President Elect, which elicited loud cries of " No, no," and further confusion; but Logan prevailed, and spoke elo quently for 20 minutes, when the remainder of the programme was carried out. At a second contest, however, later in the evening, Logan was defeated. The gallant assemblage were, in truth, more or less intoxicated, and naturally under such circumstances created an uproar. The committee have decided on not introducing wine in future celebrations of this anniversary. It appears that the Young Men's Christian Association severely blamed Grant for spending Sunday on horseback to arrive at Chicago in time for this merry 'making. Lieutenant-Governor Dunn, of Louisiana, fears, and has telgraphed to Washington his opinion that the approaching Session of the Legislature will be broken up by violence similar to that which broke up the Constitutional Convention in 1866; but We agree with Senators Kellogg and Harris in doubt ' ing this, although there can be no question about the corruption, Mr. Creecy, the new supervisor, ie unearthing. A gentleman has reached Washing ton from New Orleans, who openly accuses all the officials of Louisiana of being leagued to defraud the revenue. Though 40 licensed distilleries were run ning in the City, yet the taxes were insufficient to pay the salaries of the storekeepers. The judge of an important court and the United States Attorney are alleged to be in the "ring." Merchants of !, high standing in New Orleans assert that gross frauds were committed last winter and spring through the connivance of the Customs' and inter nal Revenue officers. These gentlemen became rich, faster than the promoters of London Limited Lia bility Companies, but, although it was reported over and over again to the Government, a mere boy only was sent from the Treasury department who did nothing to check the tide of corruption bat write to Washington of the vast sums he was offered if he would join the " ring." It is proposed to send to New Orleans a Congressional Committee of investigation. Telegrams from Cuba announce that General Dulce has arrived there, and has assumed the go vernment of the island. A private despatch front Port-au-Prince, dated December 11th, states that Nonnil, President of the southern part of Hayti, is dead. President Salnave had cAptured Miragowl after a severe fight with the rebels. At the time the mail left there were still in possession 01 the rebels Jacknel and Jeremia in the south, - and St. Marc in the north, besides other places of less importance. It was rumoured , however, that a reactionary feeling was manifesting itself in the towns named, in favour of Salnave. The rebellion is greatly injuring commerce, which L I almost at a standstill. The negroes of Savannah, as of all the low-lying rice land of Georgia and the Carolinas, are the most ignorant and brutal in America, and have proved the most troublesome. Almost the only cable news thi9 week relates to them. This is dated New York, Jan. 3 :—" Federal troops, under Geueral have gone to Savannah to quell the negro distur bance on the plantations in the vicinity of that city." The date of the next is the sth inst. : " Th e negro insurgents on the plantations near Sayan' nah have abandoned their resistance to the autho . rides, and the Sheriff, who was aided by the mils-', tary, has made the necessary arrests." It must be refreshing to " Spero," of the Morningi Post, to the 7imes, to the Standard, and other ad' vocates of the Overend, Gurney, and Co., directoill to read the evidence elicited by the prosecution . " These unfortunate gentlemen," who it is now at: tempted to brand with infamy, after staking and losing their magnificent commercial positions, for' tunes and estates on the die ; whose worst offence was an unconditional confidence in their busines° they did not imagine could fail, are alleged to hate mopped up everything paid in by the shareholders , and to have withdrawn every penny of their ov o before the crash. These high-souled gentleinen , for whom the public entertain so lively a sy-mpatbf appear to have lost nothing ; indeed, some of thes e Commercial Magnates had nothing of their 0 0 lose, and their pecuniary interest in that and the world generally were debts it is not unreasonabl e to suppose they preferred that Tom and Harr! should pay. We would not even allude to tbo subject at present, had it not been for the leading articles in the Times and other journals in suppor t of the defendants, and in suppression of the gel l ; tlemau who has undert a k en th e thankless office 0 1 prosecutor. 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From the " Gazette du Midi, July '25 y et No. 55,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years 11 , 0 0 complaint, wasting away, debility, ner vousness , w ith a nerv)„, : i palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, 0 1 '.4 the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; ii; t o' Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, o f many )?"001 dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribabl e agon y if if dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con s tip at i on, itatuleo r e( o , spasms, sickness, and • vomiting.—Ma r i a Joly."—Cure ' 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Friml e y , S urrey, of 30 Y°otol diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, f i :4 partial deafness. Important C au ti on.— B ewaro of the 11,•"'"0 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, witbo 4 authority, Baron Liebilfs name is most audaciously attache ? * In tins, at Is. lid. ; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 4s, 6d.; 5 lbs, 1 ls. ; 1 1,c0' 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTAARABICA Cri",ol LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., f° . ,;o cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 C .- 0 at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 55s ; fic e are sent free of car r i age i n E ngland on receipt of Post 0 ir Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, don ; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. CODRINGTON—On the Gth inst., at Richmond, the wife T. Cocirington, E sq . , o f a son. ERSKINE —On th e 6th inst., at Alloa Park, Lady Ersl ,0 e of a daughter. FROST —On the 7th i nst., at Upper Norwood, the wife O F. D. Frost, Esq., of a son. Marriages. 1 P HAWTREY—RICHARDS —On the 7th inst., at Rya, , Hawtrey, Esq., R.N., to Mary Whitney, daughter of t late Wm. Richards, Esq., of Ely Rise, Llandaff. At, TIMMINS—CLOWES —On the 7th inst., at East Kenv - p , Wilts, Joseph Timmins, of The Beeches, East AstO Middlesex, to Margaret Clowes, of Edgbaston. Deaths. BRODRIBB —On the .1,11 inst., suddenly, at 7, Blooltsble square, Dr. .P. rodib age 68. e ClilasTlAN On th B e 7th ins r t., b, at 75, l Victoria street, j 9t' minster, Robert Christian, Esq., aged 50. FURZE—On the 7th inst., at Forest-hill, Mr. henry ,11.iZe aged 41. GRANVILLE —On the 6th inst., at Leamington, Bar ni . ' r e Granville, Esq , of Wellsbourne Warwicksb l aged 64. LITCHFIELD —On the 7th inst., John Litchfield, Esti' , Epperstone, Notts, aged 82. London : Printed and Pahliehed by WILLIAM ANDB A of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Sim 011103, NO of Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the Couati Iliddlesex.—Saturday, January 9, 1.3C9