The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-21 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF SHEW ARD. On Tuesday the extreme penalty of the law was carried out in the case of William Sheward, convicted at the last !Norwich Assizes of the murder, under extraordinary cir cumstances, of his wife, Martha Sheward, in June 1851. So long a period—nearly forty years—has elapsed since an execution took place in Norwich Gaol, that a drop was actually borrowed from the Norfolk County Prison. The scaffold was erected at the extreme end of the south-east angle of the prison, and as Sheward was a patient in the gaol infirmary, as he suffered from acute rheumatism in the ankles, he had to be removed for execution quite across the prison. The condemned man, having apparently relieved his mind by making a full confession of his guilt, slept well on the Monday night. He had some bread and milk at 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and then went to sleep again until 4.30 a.m. About half-past five he got up and dressed himself, but declined to have any further refreshment. The chaplain of the gaol (the Rev. R. Wade) arrived at the gaol between six and seven a.m., and the next hnnr was passed by the convict in earnest prayer with the rev. gentleman. On receiving the fatal summons from Calcraft, the executioner, the convict made an attempt to walk to the scaffold, but he could not do so in consequence of the pain in his ankles, and was carried by two warders to a room near the drop, where be was pinioned. The doomed man had shewn a considerable amount of nerve and composure thtui far, but after he was pinioned a tremor set in which continued until life had passed away. On leaving the pinioning -room the officials formed a short procession, headed by the Under-Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. F. G. Foster), and comprising the prison surgeon (Mr. W. H. Day), the chaplain, the governor of the gaol, Calcraft, the prisoner (supported by his two warders), and a few reporters. There were no other spectators of the gloomy scene. As the procession advanced, the chaplain, who was much moved, read aloud part of the service for the dead. On reaching the scaffold the prisoner again appeared to pray earnestly. The last preparations were then completed, and the convict, having shaken hands with those about him, was committed to his fate. His struggles were slight and brief. There was a struggling crowd of about 2,000 persons outside the gaol, and an intimation that the extreme sentence of the law had been carried out was made by the hoisting of a large black flag. The body of the convict, after banging the usual time, was cut down, and an inquest was held upon it, in accordance with the new Act regulating executions. On Monday the convict had a farewell interview with his second wife. The interview was, of course, a very painful one, and appeared to have been unexpected by the convict, who had addressed the following letter, dated St. Giles, April 19, to the poor woman :—" My dear Wife, — write to you under the impression that it is the last I ever shall write, and I sincerely beg of you, in the name of God, to be resigned to your fate, for it is God's Providence that has brought on this change ; and who knows but it may be for the best? I want you, by God's help, to forget me, save knowing that I have gone to eternal rest. I have by my prayers committed you and the dear children to the care of Almighty God, and I am sure He will hear my cries. Put your trust in the Lord, and He will in no wise cast you out. lam very sorry and heartily grieved that I should have been de instrument of drawing you into all this trouble and affliction, and I sincerely thank you, from the bottom of my heart, that you have been able to forgive me, so that now I shall be able to rest in peace with God and man. I think, if you look back for this past two years, you will see the handywork of the Almighty in reducing our stock-in-trade, and taking nearly everything from us, as a judgment on me for my hidden crime (as I have uf ten thought) ; but now I have confessed before my Maker, I hope He will restore unto you and my children I,at peace of mind which passeth all understanding, ai.t. that He will, by his Divine will, allow you all to prosper fur the future. Yon will, I hope, try and keep up a little com munication with Mrs. —, and not stop because you don't get an answer from her to your letters, because you know she cannot see to write. I should wish you to correspond with Mrs. -- and Mrs. —, who, I am sure, would ever receive a note from you with much pleasure ; and, perhaps, when the children get older might be the means of finding them employment. Now it is my painful duty to say good bye, and that for ever, for I must turn my mind to higher things. It will give you great consolation to know that, by making- all reparation in my power to God, I feel that I can die happy, in the full assurance of a blessed Redeemer interceding for me at the throne of grace, and that I shall be forgiven. May the Lord's blessing ever attend you, and may you and the children ever be haply is my utmost wish. Now by God's will, I must bow my head in peace, and say good-bye. Good-bye from your unfortunate husband, WILLIAM SREWARD." The term " St. Giles" in the date of the letter refers to the parish in Norwich in which the gaol is situated. LAW AND POLICE. LORD BROUGHAM' AND HIS DENTIST.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, the case of the late Lord Brougham and his Carlisle dentist again came forward. At the last trial the jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff with .1:1i 5 damages. Mr. Keane, Q.C.,now moved fora new trial, en the ground that the verdict was against the evidence, and said that the two sets of teeth, which formed the principal item of the account, were delivered in December 1862, and that the defendant might, there fore, have pleaded the statute of limitations. The Lord Chief Baron said that it did not appear that Lord Brougham denied that the teeth had been supplied ; he only complained of the exorbitant charges. The case was one entirely for the jury, and the court could not usurp their functions. The rule was, therefore, refused. MRS. BORRODAILE AND HER LITERARY ADVISER.— The case of " Sutton v. Borrodaile was brought before the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday. Mr. Serjeant . Robinson, on the part of the plaintiff, moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the damages were absurdly small. It will be remembered that the jury at the last Kingston Assizes gave a verdict for Miss Sutton, with £5 damages. After hearing Mr. Serjeant Robinson's arguments, the judges concurred in the opinion that there was no ground for a new trial. SINGULAR CHARGE OF FORGERY.—At the Mansion House, on Tuesday, a singular case of forgery was tried by the Lord Mayor. An old man, named Chamberlain, poorly dressed, described as a herbalist, and his sister, both living at Hertford, and a woman, named Hutchinson, a pillbox-maker, of Bethnal-green, were charged with forging a transfer of £2,194 4s. 6d. Three per Cent Consolidated Bank Stock, standing in the name of Mary Ann Chandler. It appeared that the money had originally belonged to Chamberlain, but that, being accused of some legal offence, he transferred it to Mary Ann Chandler for security. He was acquitted, and wished to have it re-transferred, but Mary Ann Chandler objected. They had passed as husband and wife for twenty years, but had since quarrelled. After the quarrel, Chamberlain persuaded the woman Hutchin son to accompany him and his sister to London and personate Chandler. By this means they obtained the stock, but the clerk at the bank discovered that Hutchin son's signature was a forgery, and subsequently the whole fraud was discovered. The prisoners were remanded, bail being refused. Victor Hugo's publisher has hit upon a quaint device for getting rid of his old stock of unsold books. The great author has just written a new work " L'Hounne Qui Rit," which, of course, all the world wants to read. You are not, however, allowed to buy it, but only per mitted to invest £4 in the purchase of "nightingales," as such surplus stock on hand is called, and as a reward are presented with M. Victor Hugo's work. Under the circumstances the title should be altered to " Grin and bear it." THE STRIKES IN BELGIDINI.—TLe Organe de Mons says :—" We have received very bad news from Borinage. The strike has now extended to Boussa and Dour. From 1,200 to 1,300 workmen assembled near the pit of Sainte-Croix Sainte-Claire, near Boussa, with a view of stopping the works. In anticipation of this the Mayor of Boussu asked that some troops might be sent. and accordingly two companies of the sth were sent at 5.30 in the morning from Mons to Boussu. The coal pits at Dour have been stopped. The situation is thus worse. A squadron of the 4th Lancers is expected from Tournai. On Sunday evening about I,ooo;workmen assembled in the Place Quaregnon, and shouted " Vive la Republique !' There have been assemblages also at Flenu and Frameries, where the people seem to be much agitated. It is said the Advocate, AL Splingard, of Brussels, has been arrested. M. Coudroy was arrested as he was entering his house, and conveyed to Brussels.' Tate PUBLIC HEALTH.—Last week the rate of mortality in London was 2G per 1,000, while in thirteeyl other large towns in the United Kingdom it was 28. Ii: the metropolis, 2,157 births and 1,595 deaths were regis tered. The latter exceeded by 75 the estimated amount of mortality, and were more by 45 than the number A recorded in th e preceding week. The deaths from zyrnot i c well-known citizen of Storey co un ty, says th e , diseases were 320, th e corrected average num b er beinc, Enterprise, has g, no to Washington to secure a l an d grant from Congress to t a l i p d the .r construction of a railroad 326. Two deaths from smallpox, 28 from measles, 41 from Elko, ontheContr at or lc, via IS hi 'll h ite Pine,to from scarlet fever, 3 from diphtheria, 103 from whooping point it is vine, on the Colorado, cough, 24 from typhus fever, 14 from enteric fever, 17 in from simple continue(' fever,and 21 from di h arr Cfrt were ternled to intersect the Southerin ne Pa r ci w fic. c registered. D ur i ng t h e last six weeks 480 children hay', 1)6 Y 1 ILE; awl Co. ' died from wh oo pi ng - cough, and within the seven (11 holders of Whisky in the a woad. Their are the large s t ~o.fel:shen in irOldlrish N to Vhisky; is re h referred to in th e report the number of children whose 3 B c o r a m h m d y e n d s ec' . p b p y i t e h d e in m casks io and p cases for preference home use or expOrta deathil from all causes were recorded was 662 - During the lion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., week the mean temp erature was 55'2, or more than ten Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buil.lings, Strand, Loudon, W.O decrees above the AVer;ge. Vcrtisement. W6 , 6t Coast A A fri: a, NiAdeira, and Teneriffe Ip:it 19. .41m /las, via New ork - vVert talks and except Mexico dad Baba maisi :ub t and t:exico 3erianida, via 11 Ap :ii 23 . .. p ii 2S May 5 n/PERIAL. PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.-LIST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. • TENURE OF LAND (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the second readiug, the objec t of which was to provide that in future leases should be in writing, and that after 1871 all leases by parole should be void. He thought the greatest tenefit would result from the passing of the bill. Earl GHANITLLLE opposed the motion as he did not think that the bill was at all sufficient to settle what was popularly known as the land question. After a few words from Lord ATIIIMINEY and Lord WESTBURY, The bill was read a socond time, and Their lordships adj.)urned. HOUSE OF COMMOS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUM. Mr. TOERENS gave notice that on an enrly day he should ask a question relative to the proceedings which took place at the laying of the foundation stone of the Metropolitan Asylum at Caterham ; and also he should want to know out of which fund the sumptuous breakfast supplied on tho occasion was to be defrayed. VISITATION FEES. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Colonel Brise, said the com pulsory payment of visitation fees by churchwardens, where no churc'a rates were now levied, waa, he thought, a hardship, and the matter would receive the attention of the Government. IRISH ORGANISTS. Mr. GLADSTONE said, in reply to Mr. O'Reilly-Dease, said an amendment had been made to meet the ease of organists, but it was not quite correct to say that organists received their appointments for life. He had certainly not thought of treating the appointment as a freehold, but the whole subject had been looked into, and the Church Commissioners would have the power of considering all the cases, and apportioning compensation, on their award receiving the sanction of the Treasury. THE CROCODILE. _ _ _ Mr. GRANT DUFF said it was quite true that the Crocodile did come home from Malta without troops, but he knew nothing of the application of General Lysoms and other officers for a passage in her homeward voyage. If the application had been made in the proper quarter he had no doubt it would have at once Wen granted. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. Collins, said the answer to the question, whether in the event of the dis establishment of the Irish Church bishops, priests, and deacons, who had or might be ordained, would be enabled to hold preferment in the Established Church in Eng'and, must not be consid;red final. With respect to those already ordained, he did not think theie could be any doubt, as they were to be secured the right to all privileges for employment elsewhere. With respect to those to be ordained, he was not so clear, but all doubt in the matter should be cleared up before the bill was completed. SIR CULLING EARDLEY. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Mr. Schofield, said that the statements that had appeared in the newspapers with re spect to the release of Sir Culling Eardley were without foundation. His predecessor in office had received an ap plication for the remission of the sentence after the pri soner had undergone some part of his 18 months' punish ment on the ground that further confinement would be dangerous to life. A very strict inquiry was made into the representations made to the Home-office by Mr. Perry, and he, finding that the prisoner was suffering from asthma and bronchitis, and also other diseases, and being of opinion that further confinement would be highly dangerous to life, his hon. friend granted a remission of the sentence on the condition that within fourteen days after leaving prison Sir Culling Eardley should quit England for the remaining term of his sen tence and not return until it had expired. When he, Mr. Brace, came into office an application was made to him to allow a longer time than fourteen days to pre pare, and eventually he granted anoth:'r fourteen days, when Sir Culling Eardley left England, and he be lieved he was still out of the country. He could assure the house his right hon. friend the First Lord of the Ad miralty never in the slightest manner urged or asked for a remission of the sentence of Sir Culling Eardley. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HARDY conSrmed the statement of the right hon. gentleman. The right hon. gentleman the First Lord of the Admiralty never in any way asked for a departure from the course ordinarily pursued, and Sir Culling Eardley was treated just the same as any other prisoner. THE NEW LAW COURTS. O❑ the motion for the house going into committee, Mr. GREGORY rose and moved that, in the opinion of the house, it was desirable to reconsider the question of I Carey-street as the site for the new law courts, inasmuch as the Embankment between the Temple and Somerset House offered many advantages for erecting such buildings. He contended that the erection of the new courts on the Carey-street site would be a great mistake, and that it was advocated but by a comparative few interested persons living about Lincoln's-inn. The Thames Em ment offered facilities that made it most eligible for the purpose he proposed, and, compared with those offered by Carey street with its want of proper approaches, it stood out most remarkably. In point of expense, the buildings might be put on the Thames Ein bankment and all the approaches made for a sum of no less than £1,650,000 below that of Carey-street, and with respect to the land so cleared, he was i❑ poss. , ssion of information which was to the effect that there was a perfectly solvent number of gentlemen who were quite ready to take it off the hands of the Government at the price paid for it. (Hear, Lear.) If the new buildings were placed on the Thames Embankment. the Carey -street site would at once become highly valuable for the erection of chambers and other offices, so that no loss would be sustained by the alteration. If the Carey-street site was persevered in no less than £700,000 would have to be laid out in the purchase of additional land; £lOO,OOO would have to be given for the Law Institution, and altogether an enormous outlay would have to be made, and after all they would get a large pile of builings, but without the con- venience that the Thames Embankment site offered, He thought it would be most beneficial to the legal pro fession that the Carey-street site should be occupied by chambers, by which arrangement all the lawyers could be within bell-pull of the new Law Courts But there were a few persons whose interests the alteration of the site did not suit, and the great outcry against the Thames Embankment was maintained and kept up solely by them. Sir ROUNDELL PALMER moved, as an amendment, "that in the opinion of the house it is desirable to proceed as soon as possible with the erection of the new Law Courts, and the offices connected therewith, upon the site appropriated for that purpose by the Act 28 and 29 Vic., c. 49, and that if additional land were necessary for the proper erection of such courts and offices, such additional land ought to be acquired in immediate proximity to that site." He did not stand up in favour of the Carey-street site simply because the ground was cleared. If not a brick had been displaced or a single individual removed from a local habitation be would still have been in its favour. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER trusted that the house would reconsider the question altogether afresh, and come down to something like the modest and fair estimate which was formed three years ago. What the new courts must have was air, light, quiet, and accessi bility ; and he deprecated the adoption of an enormous ex penditure without proper and renewed deliberation. The Government had suspended the purchase rin:il the plea sure of the House of Commons was known. He thought it would be well to put an end at once to the Royal Com mission, which had done its work; and the sums now ex pended on it were simply an unnecessary outlay. On the motion of Mr. HENLEY, the debate was ad journed. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. Forcinn klail Packet Lis; MAILS DUE. Inatralia and Now Zealand, via i.ioutharapton...... April 21. Ditto, via arsenics . ......... May 17 Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video ..........May 4 Ditto, by French paokut ...•... ~,,,,April. :2. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet . Cape of Good Ascension, and St. lielena... April 27. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton.. April 2i. tbrultar, via Southampton led:a, via Southampton uttto,via Marseil ea Malta, Egypt, So. . April 24 Ditto, Marseilles April 22 evvfoundia iat ritius, Cape 01 Good Hope, and Natal, via Seuthatri ton Ditto, Mareeilies May 9 eortugal United States. anada, California, die., by British packet April 21 Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Ditto, by L ited ',tares packet April Ditto ditli (Baltimore) THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 'EVENING, APRIL 21, 1869. .111SCELL.INEOUS NEWS. Territory. e nave ronlect away minions on Armstrong guns ; we may well spend less than the 9th part of one million in keeping India tranquil. THE PURCHASE OF IRISH RAILWAYS BY THE STATE. The agitation in favour of the purchase of Irish rail ways by the State isbeingconducted with vigour. Lord Clanricarde is the leader in advocating tile proposed administrative reform, and he has brought over the majority of Irish legislators to his opinions. A. meeting was held on Monday at the house of the noble marquis, where it was stated that seventy peers and ninety Irish representatives had signed the declaration in favourof the purchase and consolidation of the Irish lines and reduction of fares. It was resolved that Lord Clanricarde should send the lists to Mr. Gladstone, and request the attention of Government to the wish expressed. It was also arranged that Major Ormsby Gore should put his question as to the intentions of Government on the subject of the Irish railways on next Monday. Major Gore, how ever, will hardly get an answer that will be satisfac tory to him. For this session, at least, the Govern ment will be able to plead that they have enough on hand to occupy their attention. Sufficient unto the session is the consideration of the measures thereof. Moreover, Mr. Lowe, who would certainly have to be consulted in the case of such a measure, has already , announced his decided hostility to the State under taking the conduct of private enterprises. Amongst these he reckons railways and telegraphs. to free themselves. No exception can be vixen to tnis conduct, but the subsequent history of the affair is less satisfactory. Conipensation or submission vras refused, and 45) marines and seamen, with two field-pieces, were straightway landed. TLe Chinese, of course, made little headway against the Sniders with "stink-pots," " foofoo tubs," and the like effective missiles. Many were killed and wounded. The English had also over a dozen slight casualties. The question is, was this employment of armed force, instead of applying for redress at Pekin, absolutely necessary? The Times correspondent says that the neighbourhood of Swatow would not have been safe for foreigners if the outrage had been passed over. But killing and wounding several score Chinamen is heavy punishment for "pelting." THE BISHOP OF EXETER. The lively discussion which has been going on for some time in the Western Morning News respecting the (to use Mr. Gladstone's words) " absence of responsible episcopal government " in the diocese of Exeter, appears to have produced some effect. It is announced at Plymouth that Bishop Trower has accepted a commission from the Lord Bishop of Exeter empowering him to undertake generally the episcopal duties of the diocese. Bishop Trower was formerly a Scotch bishop, then Bishop of Gibraltar, and is now sub-dean of Exeter. He has for the last few months been confirming and consecrating in behalf of Bishop Phillpotts, but had not received a legal commission. This commission involves, we believe, the exercise of episcopal patronage by the bishop commissioned THE POLITICAL SITUATION. The Dublin Evening Mail publishes a special tele gram from London which states that " the opinion is growing that Mr. Disraeli's Amendments will all be rejected on party grounds, but that the bill will be so modified in the House of Lords as to ensure its rejection on return to the Commons." There does not seem to be any present foundation for this rumour. The perfect discipline of the Liberal party, and the repeated overwhelming defeats of the Oppo sition, will certainly make the Lords hesitate before they venture to reject a bill sent up to them from the Commons by such large majorities. Of course it is possible that some important amendments will be made in the Upper House, and that Mr. Gladstone will accept them. Possibly the substitu tion of 1872 for 1871, and the valuation of incumbents' incomes, without deducting the curates' stipends, will be among them. SICK LEGISLATORS. Mr. Disraeli has the gout. There is not any reason to ask the question which Talleyrand put when he heard of the illness of an ambassador, " Why does his Excellency have the gout just now ?" There is no particular reason for a diplomatic indisposi tion in the present instance, although Mr. Hardy is, according to some persons, better fitted to deal with the details of the Irish Church than his chief, who is too fond of paradoxes and too impatient of facts. Another member, Colonel Stuart, M.P. for Cardiff, -is so seriously ill that prayers for his recovery have been offered up in the Cardiff churches. Colonel Stuart is a Liberal, and the heir-presumptive to the Marquis of Bute. Colonel Kingscote has recovered from his severe hunting fall, and has been able to take part in the divisions. LORD DERBY AND THE IRISH PEERS. That the election of Irish peers is a mere farce, that it is always directed by one hand, and that members of one party only can hope to be sent to represent the Irish aristocracy in the House of Lords, are facts sufficiently notorious. Here, at least, even Mr. Bright would be convinced of the wisdom of the representation of minorities. The majority of the Irish peerage is Conservative, but the whole of the Irish representative peers are Con servative. The minority cannot raise its voice ;it has no voice to raise. When Lord Powerscourt wrote " I was elected a representative peer by Lord Derby," he told the simple truth. But Lord Derby is no Irish peer. Ralph de Peverel, writing to the Star, asks, "Are the Irish peers, as a body, and especially those among them who are, or who seek to be, ' representative peers,' a set of slaves? Such, at least, is the obvious inference to be drawn from Lord Pow erscourt's recently published letter on the Irish difficulty. I have looked in Burke's and Lodge's Peer ages in vain for any information as to Lord Derby's right to interfere in the election of Irish represen tative peers. Ilia lordship has estates in Ireland; but he is Earl of Derby and Lord Stanley of Piclierstaffe in the British peerage, not in that of Ireland. What right, then, has he to impose pledges cn Irish noblemen, or to `release' them from them ? " Perhaps the noble earl would say that his monarchy is one exercised by the free will of his subjects. But what about the minority ? THE CORONATION OATH. It is a lucky thing for the Queen that Lord Redesdale is not the keeper of her conscience, other wise she would have an evil time of it. His lordship has got the! notion into his head that the Queen having sworn to uphold the Church "as by law established," she cannot without perjury assent to the disestablishment of any portion of the Church by law. In other words, the legislation of the beginning of the century is stereotyped for all time to come. The Queen is equally bound to uphold the laws of the realm, and if Lord Redesdale's theory be good for anything it means that the Queen must veto every Act of Parliament altering or abrogating one of the statutes which was in force on June ,28, 1838. Perhaps even this veteran Tory will be open to history, even if he is not to common sense. Lord Granville mentioned a fact of great interest. It w: - :s that not only is the present Coronation o..th different from that taken by William 111., hnd from that taken by George 111., which of themselves differed, but the present oath was framed :imply at the suggestion of the then Archbishop of Canterbury at the coronation of George IV., in order to include the Church of Ireland, which since the coronation of George ill. had been annexed to. the English Church. This alteration was made not by Act of Parliament, but by Order in Council. So that the form of oath followed legislation, not legis lation the form of oath, as Lord Redesdale supposes. It will, therefore, be quite unnecessary to pass an Act of Parliament to alter the oath, or to relieve the Queen's conscience, as Lord Redesdale phrases it. THE QUEEN AND THE POPE. While Lord Redesdale has been exercising himself about the Coronation Oath, the Queen has been sending a telegram of congratulation to the Pope on the fiftieth anniversary of the celebration of his first mass. After this we can believe everything that Dr. Cumming, Mr. Murphy, and the rest announce. The world clearly must be coming to an end. There re mains but one more crowning iniquity—the esta blishment of diplomatic relations between the Courts of London and Rome, the appearance of a full-blown Minister at the Vatican instead of that nondescript official, Mr. Odo Russell, and the presence of a Papal Nuncio at St. James's Palace. We shall then be like all the rest of the world, and it will be impos sible for us to apostatise any further. CARDINAL C ULLEN. The Herald is again much exercised about Cardinal Cullen's visit to the Lord-Lieutenant. According to our contemporary, the Cardinal is notoriously desti tute of such qualifications as would render him a genial companion. The only reason for feting him, therefore, must be that h e i s th e P ope ' s representa tive, that he is the head of the Church. The Tablet has already been able to boast that in no country—not even in Catholic lands—are the chiefs of the Church treated with more respect and delicate attention than at the Viceregal Court of Ireland. "We are not aware," says the Herald, " that the sentinels as yet present arms to his Eminence as he passes, but from what has already occurred it seems certain that if a Protestant bishop ventured to dine in his company at the Castle the Roman prince would take pre cedenceof the Anglican prelate." But the Conservative journal doesnot counselthat the cardinal for the future shall not be invited to the Castle. If he continues to go he will soon become a " Castle hack," the affections of his people will be alienated from him, his spiritual power will wane. And so, after all, the Lord-Lieutenant is doing unawares a good work. Even Orangemen cannot complain after this. The presence of the Cardinal at any future banquets must not be grumbled at. Roman Catholics must be satisfied, Orangemen pleased, and more liberal thinkers will be glad of peace and quietness between the two. TILE .SOLICITOR-GENERAL. If Sir John Duke Coleridge is wise, there is one of Mr. Gladstone's virtues which .he will not imitate— humility. Mr. Gladstone is a very "'umble" person indeed, if words constitute humbleness. Sinc e h e has become Premier he has been less spa r i ng in his self-depreciation, thinking perhaps that it would be rather out of place for the fore most Englishman to adopt the language of Uriah Ileep. But the Solicitor-General is in the chrysalis state that his leader was last . year. He is not yet fully developed, and so, though all the world looks upon him as a prospective occupant of the woolsack, lie must needs be so modest as to say that he would take a very small sum indeed by way of compensation for being deprived of his chance of becoming Lord Chancellor. In like manner a pretty girl expresses her fears that she is "an awftil fright." LORD LAWRENCE. The late Viceroy of India has made his maiden speech. It was thoroughly characteristic of the man —plain almost to dryness; but it gave just the in formation that was required, and that in the fewest possible words. Mr. Gladstone making such a speech would have filled four columns. Lord Law rence fills one: and instead of an oration we m h a ve all th e succ.Aness of a e espatch. It is satisfactory to find that not only clots Lord Lawrence adhere to the policy which be upheld all the time that he was in India, but that Lord Mayo is adopting it also. We are not to mix ourselves up in the affairs of Afghanistan ; but the ruler of the country having proved a good friend to us during t'Se mutiny, and it being desirable to maintain his friendship in the case of certain eventualities, to which Lord Lawrence very prudently did not refer, we yea T r hat t a o rm il y el i p s m a i l e i er a s .t 1 1 I n 2 d o i , n 0: 0 army. That army is really fighting our battles. It is a buttres s aga i ns t him pay to the maintain At Russian invasion, and a much better ono than an English force in Cabul or _Herat would be, because the defeat of the army would not necessarily involve us in any serious consequences. It is also an effectual check IIOOD. Ain hnn) etan conspiracy within our own i A QUESTION FOR THE REPORTERS. 1 Why is it that in reporting the debates in Parlia ment the gentlemen of the gallery use the titles of certain Government officials but not of others ? In fact, why do they use them at all ? Many years ago the practice used to be confined to the Home Secre tary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, an d th e L or d Chancellor, the first dignitary being called the Secretary of State. Since the . appointment of Secre taries of State for the Colonies, for War, and for India, the Home Secretary has been mentioned by name. But within the last year or two the use of dignities instead of names has been on the increase. It is applied not only to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Lord Chancellor, but also to the Attorney-General for England and for Ireland, to the Solicitor-General for each of the three king doms, and to the Lord Advocate. Considering that during the Administrations of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli the law officers of the Government were changed every two or three months, this mode of designing the numerous gentlemen wlivo filled the offices is very puzzling and irritating-to those per sons who have to refer to the debates of a year or two ago. Why the Attorney-General should not be called Sir Robert Collier as much as the First Lord of the Admiralty is called Mr. Childers we cannot divine. We trust that the gentlemen of the press and Hansard will abandon a very objectionable practice. THE RATING ( UNDAY SCHOOLS. A body of workers which does not often obtrude itself into public notice has come before the House of Commons with a grievance. The Sunday-school teachers are compl a i n i ng , of having to pay rates. A bill has been brought into the House by Mr. Reed, thememberforHa,ekney, and Mr. Graves, the member for Liverpool, for relieving them of the ital. , ' hip, and meetings are being held throughout the country for petitioning Parliament on the subject. A large one was held at Manchester on . Monday, at which resoluti ons were passe d approving the bill. The principle upon which the measure is founded is most just. Sunday-schools are institutions essenti ally for work, and are carried on in most cases with a very small amount of money. In the worst parts of large towns they are often conducted by the energy of one man, and he is very rarely able to put much money out of pocket. In London, the Sunday School Union has often to step in and pay the rent of the schools in the lowest neighbourhoods to prevent them from being shut altogether. OBITUARY. The death of the Hon. W. C. Dobbs is announced. Mr. Dobbs - was one of the judges of the Landed Estates Court, Ireland, and thus the first legal post Of importance f a ll s t o the gift of the present Govern ment.—An account also is published of the death of a Waterloo veteran, Moses Dyer. He enlisted in 1801, was in the chief battles of the Peninsular campaign, and was severely wounded at Waterloo. He was 86 years old. His eldest son was in eleven engagements during the Indian mutiny, and from the effects of this campaign suddenly dropped dead on board ship as he was returning to England.—A Baltimore paper mentions the death of Lord Fair fax, that is to say, of the gentleman who was entitled to this dignity. He was a descendant of the great Lord Fairfax, of the Civil Wars, and was the great grandson of the eighth baronet, and succeeded to the title in 1846. He never claimed the title, pre ferring to die as he had lived, an American citizen. He was born in Virginia, but resided the greater part of his life in California, where he held high office. The peerage now descends to his broth( r John, who lives in Maryland, and is not at all likely to claim it. DR. LIVINGSTONE. Sir Roderick I. Murchison, writing to the Times, confirms the news which we gave our readers yester day, that the rumour of Fr. Livingstone's safety is an unfounded canard. The veteran geographer gives a hypothetical explanation of the reason of the non appearance of the great traveller, which also agrees with our own. The hon. baronet . says that when last he heard from his friend he was led to believe that the explorer was proceeding along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. As Dr. Livingstone haddiscoveral the height which the lake was a bovethe sea,l,Booft., he would doubtless be anxious to discover its outlet. Sir Roderick thinks, for reasons which he gives, that it flows west. The doctor finding this, would foil )w the river or rivers towards the W es t Coast of Africa. Ile could not reach any civilised place for some months yet, as the region is vast and unknown. Instead of coming home vid Zanzibar, he will probably be heard of first from one of the western Portuguese settlements, possibly those on the Congo. " While I correct the erroneous intelligence which has just appeared," says Sir Roderick, " I beg your readers to understand' that I still entertain a well founded hope that my distinguished friend—thanks to his iron frame and undying energy—will issue from Africa on the same shore at which, after a very long absence, he reappeared after his first great traverse of Southern Africa." And who does not wish that it may be as the hon. baronet hopes ? FOREIGN NOTES. COAST DEFENCE OF E'OETH GERI[AICY. Thea plans' for the erection of defensive works on the coast of North Germany are now complete, and the 'forts will be rapidly pushed forward. The Baltic is to be connected with the North Sea by a canal, the entrance to which will be protected by Thippel on the one side anet Kiel on the other. Some of the fortifications of Kiel have been completed, and all the rest are well advanced. Save that one or two of the forts at Diippel are only designed to serve temporarily, the works at this strong place are finished. -It forms the extreme west point of the coast-defence line. The port of Jande is to be protected, both on the land and the sea side. The mouth of the Elbe will be defended by strong works at Grauerfort, and the mouth of the Weser by batteries at Brinkamahoff. A complete railway system will unite these places with each other and with the interior. 1874 is fixed as the date for the completion of the entire system. FRESH DIFFICULTIES IN CRETE. The Indepenclance Beige states that the Porte has com promised the decision of the Conference and its own wise policy throughout the dispute with Greece by a very injudicious action in Crete. A body of Albanian irregulars had been ordered to form part of the garrison. The arrival of these troops, who earned an infamous reputation for cruelty and lawlessness during the late insurrection, has caused the greatest irritation amongst the Christians of the island. The population is disarmed, and exposed without protection to the rapacity and brutality of these semi-barbarous Albanians. It is even rumoured that the insurrection has broken out afresh in the Eastern part of the island. This time, at least, the Greeks have nothing to answer for. SPAIN WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. The Spaniards seem to get on tolerably well during their prolonged political crisis. In any other country rampant anarchy would have set in long ago ; but the Spaniards are used to political collapse. The Siecle says that the people are beginning to contemplate the possi bility of a republic. The bulk of them would prefer a monarchy ; but they sagaciously conclude that if they get a republic things cannot be much worse. The correspondent of the Star has more definite informa tion. He says that an understanding has been come to within the last few days between the independent Progressists, led by Prim, and the heads of the Republican party. It is now no secret that the Minister of War has made overtures to the minority. The Republicans have felt from the first that sooner or later the Progressists would come round to them, and had resolved to accept the first of the rival military chiefs who should take the initia tory step. It was in the nature of things that Prim, who is ambitious, should steal a march upon Serrano by joining his powerful party to the Republicans. Some portion of this result is due to the Republican, Castelar. The Times correspondent has called this deputy a " wind-bag," but his recent speeches chew that he is one of the ablest orators in Europe. THE " BATTLE " OP SIVATOW. The affair at Swatow was not a missionary difficulty, but it seems that the usual error was committed on this o3casion. A connected sketch of this encounter states that the crew of the Cockchafer bad gone up the river for boat exercise and drill. The Chinese assembled on the banks and pelted them. The boats tried to regain the sea, but at a narrow part of the river the Chinese cut them off. The Englishmen then had to use their Snider THE GUNPOWDER PLOT IN EGYPT. The case of the Viceroy of Egypt is particularly hard. " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," but the Vice roy has, so to speak, only a semi-crown, and yet no poten tate can well be in a more uneasy position. More than one attempt has been made upon his life. Ruling a nation is all very well, but when it. is accompanied with the imminent risk of being elevated into the air as you lie on your bed or as you sit in your chair, ordinary mortals may well congratulate themselves. The last attempt to assassinate the Viceroy seems to have been founded on the model of the Guy Fawkes conspiracy. It was projected to blow up the Viceroy as he sat Wt the theatre. His Highness's chair is on a slightly raised platform, and in the floor was found the infernal machine, composed of an apothecary's mortar. At the bottom of the mortar was found a layer of gunpowder, above which was a layer of balls, upon that another layer of powder, and on the top of all a layer of bullets and small pieces of glass. Between each layer was placed paper, and a quantity of powder was also strewn about under the raised platform, and so arranged under the main gaspipe that fire could soon have finished the work of destruction. A wick, impregnated with some inflammable matter, was then introduced into 'the mortar, and passing down the wall was hidden sufficiently by the gas-pipe to escape observa tion, while the other end of the wick was attached to a beam near a gas-jet in the side scene, where it could easily be ignited. The theatre had ben closed for some days previously, thus giving the conspirators every opportunity of arranging the details of this neat scheme. But who the conspirators are is not disclosed, even if they are known. WASHINGTON, April 2. If our people are ugly towards Spain in Cuba, it is not that they desire anything but the good of Spaniards in Spain. At the meeting of the American Tract Society of New York, held at the Congrega tional Church here, Spain figured prominently. It was for that country the most urgent claims were made; there, the work is said to be most encouraging, vouched for by the Rev. F. C. Fl etc h er, who gave his personal observations of his missionary labours. Chief Justice Chase presided. The Home evange lical work since the war has been directed to the South and taken the most prominent place with the Society; 2,800 Sabbath and secular schools there have been assisted, and 300,000 United States primers have been distributed. Abroad publica tions have been circulated in 141 different languages and dialects, many in Arabic. The whole publish ing work of the Society, which has existed for 45 years, has been the issue of 23,500,000 bound volumes, 300,000,000 tracts, and 112,000,000 pe riodicals. The new Attorney-General is upsetting the legal decisions of the old Attorney-General, and furnishing every pretty lesson of how seldom doctors agree. Mr. Everts ruled that the labourers em ployed by Government were to receive their full wages, though the time, iu accordance with the late law, had been reduced from ten to eight hours. Attorney-General Hoar reverses that decision, and says that the workmen are only to get eight -tenths of the wages, while Secretary Boric presses for the repeal of the eight-hour law. Mr. Hoar is also of opinion that the late Mr. Bates, who was Mr. Lin coln's Attorney-General, was wrong in his law, whereby Secretary Welles raised the rank of the staff to correspond with the rank of the line officers when the grade in the navy was raised from Com modore to Admiral. The line officers asserted that he had no power to do this ; Attorney-General Bates said he had ; and Attorney-General Hoar says he had not ; and the new Secretary of the Navy asks the Naval Committee of the House to , have the relative rank fixed, or he will be compelled of to reduce the rank of the staff officers in accordance f The following curious regulations for the 1 . 15 ,,, e 4 ye Royal Household of Henry VII. compare arens''' .. 7 jt with this decision. Secretary Boutwell is justifying ;with t those of her Majesty Queen Victoria : -1. The ht 1 3. ,` , . 0 , the trepidation among the female clerks employed in always keep himself clean, in order not to c t b eep various departments of the Treasury, for a very laree nullis'e his Majesty's health. 2. The treasurer shall not co e scullions who walk about almost naked, cald dies laso•cr d number have been discharged. A number of speci d agentsformerly appoi n t e d for political services are to or lie down before the kitchen fire. 3. No meat U0' 49 4, be removed en masge. But it is even easier to get , a certain price shall be served on the King's table. ; The servants 'to furnish a sufficient guarantee to ri d them out than to keep them out, which constitutes vide against . the subtraction of. wooden platters ; te r the real difficulty, just as the bottom of an iron ship is .. copper utensils to his Majesty. 5. r e a a scraped clear of all barnacles readily enough in dock, plate being too costly for belongingily use, the greatest care 0 G. but look at that ship's bottom after she has been a be taken of the wooden platters' and' pewter s poons' 5 short time at sea, and you see the same things No boy jr commissioner shall be kept at Court for tbo i l / h -O quite fast and secure there, and feeling evidently of the servants. 7. Women, who are prodigal, shal' e o banished the Court. 8. As likewise all kinds of dogs, enbe very much at home. The President has been laid a small number of spaniels, reserved for the use 13 we up for the last few days, and did not receive till 9. The officers of the King's household 1(1 00 Tuesday, and a report was circulated in New York ladies.. in harmony with each other. 12. The stable boys 13° 4 , that the attack was so severe that he was not ex- steal his Majesty's straw to put in their beds, as a Sl. ,if petted to recover ;so our rumour-mongers ma- ' dent quantity has bee n give n them. 13. Betweei l v be naged in one week to kill both the outgoing and and seven o'clock the officer charged with the service of t l i ie incoming Presidents. Much opposition is develop- i King's chamber shall light the fire and lay straw lu, D o lug itself to General Grant in the Republican press, 1 private apartments of his Majesty. 14. Coal will ola itsc i furnished for.the apartments of the King, the Queen, particularly in New York, where the Evening Post t.. t ho . seof Lady ady Mary. 15. The Ladies of Honour to . r ot. and the Sun show very plain symptoms of swinging present-tvh i t w e i b l f r o b a e d an maded some me beef for their bre o a f ; ers round the circle. The Hon. J. Lathrop Motley 16 Ime A o any of the King's big ing, on condition they make a present t° will, it is now generally believed, be the Minister to marry England, though Mr. John Jay has lately been leijesty. mentioned. Mr. Motley is now in 1% ashington, William M‘Willie, who died at Khkwood, P d ee t i' son county, Mississippi, and is often in the Senate Chamber. When the on March 3, was b o rn ... ., 1) , p Liberty Hill, Kershaw District, South Carolina, on i' ° i o announcement was made of the second adjournment 17, 1795. He graduated at South Carolina Colleg e 0 , 0 1 resolution of the llouse, Mr. Sumner shouted frotyn eDecemeer, 1817, was admitted to the bar in 18;8, at v ie , his place " Impossible ;" in fact it would be ver catered upon a successful career a lawyer, and w''' s it diflintilt to get through the mass of bnsiness await- ' pcat, dly elected to the House as of Representative B A lo ing action, but there is one way of dealing with it Senate of South Carolina. In 1845 M‘Willie remov e " r , which the Legislature will adopt, and that is leav- Mississippi, to reside on a plantation, which he bad 5 0 , chased ten years previously. He was elected a IteP l a 7 9 to ing it .to take care of itself. Mr. Washburn, of tative to Congress from Mississippi, serving from 18 ]9 Paraguay, made a statement to the House Cora -1831, was president of a bank, and was elected Gogo mittee on Foreign Affairs, respecting the treatment of Mississippi in 1858. by Lopez of his officials, Bliss and Masterman, but ' We clip the following from an American P 3 P e e p t , nothing new transpired. Witnesses have been 1 —"Mr. Aird, a noted London barrister, was a printer' be summoned, and the official conduct of Mr. Wash- ' too, was Douglas Jerrold ; John Kitto', the editor of : t g burn and Admiral Davis will be investigated. ! pictorial Bible, was by trade a shoemaker; Dr. Li vJL O z. The correspondence relating to the dispute at , stone was a factory operative ; John Cassell a journeYcs ' r Senators, though p erm i ss i on was refused to allow Madrid has be en pr i nted and distributed to the carpenter; and William Gifford, the founder of the ;sr burgh Review, first a ca bi n b oy and then a shoemaker the letters to b e p u b l i shed. T i preutic . hey are fr om Secre- The large s t ki tc h en i n the world is that of Lie'.c tary Seward, John P. Hale, and secretary of Lega tion big's Extract of Meat Company's establishment at ' 1 ": 14 1 , tion, Perry. abe no.nination of General Lon b g- Bentos, on the river Uruguay, South America. The bu is - pio street was discussed in the Senate, and gave an ing covers an area of 20,000 squar e feet. In one hall the opportunity to Governor Brownlow of attacking meat ' cutters, which can dispose of 200 bull °c o t are four that officer, which the feeble old man did with no each per hour. There are 12 digesters, in which ths n ' o oo lack of bitterness ands pite •; the Senate, however boiled by steam. They can hold altogether 1 4 '' 11 / pounds is of beef. .About 80 oxen per hour are act ° refused to be guided by Brownlow, and sanctioned' slaughtered r . or this immense establishment. ore the appointment. Secretary Boutwell asked Mr. The Legislature of British Columbia has aPK George A. Halsey,who once represented in Congress plated 620, 000 to bring servant girls from England' ~ of Newark District, New Jersey, to take the post of r gou , I. ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.—The .-- h i' , Register of the Treasury. Mr. Boutwell would not Danger. —Disease comes on With - slight symptoms, N'' . . ro sir receive a refusal, and declared that the President Ndvahnegnernoelfsli catedc,oninzi).oanse whichin intensity s and s e s l , e .e i ; would immediately send his name to the Senate. missness, when these Pills, taken in betrays with ltt , accompanying directions, would not only have checker', f Mr. Halsey arrived at Washinoton last Monday, but conquered the incipient disorder. Patients dam and rejected Mr. Boutwell's pressing invitation ward details of the most remarkable and instructive c `",ar in which timely attention to Holloway's advice 11 0 OP unless permitted to continue his leather business in a d c o t tib r tdly . saved them from severs illnesses. These,. ; ol' New Jersey. The question was referred to the At-primarily on the digestive organs which they S" torney-General, who considered that the law which late p when slow and imperfect. ' n ag; disqualified Mr. T. Stewart applied to Mr. Ilalsey, [ADVERTISEMENT 3 — Consumption, and all bilious, to rr- te . stomach,and liver complaints in ever stag re only aggc A fe ctl which is much to be regretted, as he saw more of and accelerated by drugs of every y descrlp a tion, but P s 'ivi the workings of the Treasury Department when on asp b o l v e e b a y b D y u tiltrarsya:us tea o lp;r a e s s e t s or w ie %Re -1 11 ii h a ar t :ee A n ra c b o i ll ea' s l 4 o . I s i tt og t e p l e s o s t : , the Retrenchment Committee of the Fortieth Con- ii rai3ittea"itacdiogsetilti" (dyspepsia), cough, asthU'l t o r irteinots, htemorrhoids, livelt)•acomnaipldiai a n ti? , o t 3 i a s , tu a te ll j y a , st n r e ic rifo ? o , gees than any other man. The Secretary of the fluenz es a n , e n ss dis r e e s ve i r n s, tTioer7 ead th r o aatnsa d e ix r h s t , h r e i l- s ia, t i a s rrhs i () C LI O: iiolf; Treasury asked for the power of paying interest on the public debt in advance ; and, after some le is- raiety,eruxpioitmiohnrtiretaailtiruralgiiiae,aritability, ;le eP l l r s o u r e li s e e r a a RiZs i; k liT n ts ni t r e nausea and heartburn, headache, s a ve h n e , in d p e r b e i g li t l icy , C o o r e 5 ,, latibn on the subject, it appeared that this joint re i t b h r e o s e t e o h m it a is a er n o r Na elw t e i t h u tn tres s o h f ou tla er , r f l wain at the'pit o s solution approved in 1864 was still in the Statute- Book :—" Resolved, That the Secretary of the FooCliluerea 1437.6-BZe Pope's , health i restored Du be j a lt; a ll s th t g er Holy Father is excellen o t, m e e ;pe a ciLly 2l 's since, Theallnd "P5l Treasury be authorized to anticipate the payment Rev ale i n e rl e ra. s 'b l ica e h of interest on the public debt by a period not ex- j ir o zo d, n ti o n f e dwrcnhs she entirely t e e s D a u p l e t i l o seeding one year, from time to time, either with or ett every Inhlas It has sro h l . uce a surprisingly 1 13 , 1„ . t. 11! l' healP dV 3l ; l e t , Without rebate of interest upon the coupons as to excellent food too highly n ." Holiness—From the " e l n z n e e t t te c .ll l i a ly st 2 , s. of Cure prlin I N ey o. 46270. Mr. Tames Roberts, tirnbFr ia a, him may seem expedient; and he is hereby autho- Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 'e of rized to dispose of any gold in the Treasury of the p:i i i t rt e ting ro of l T 7 o l o . cl, r - P.:es derangement, tuartdec e a s nd partial d u e t a c i;4 o l United States not necessary for the payment of the WaterforCl, 'of many years' dyspepsia.-L. No. d 49, j 8 i 32 r . 5 ...,01 0 ,1 interest of the public debt, provided that the obli- years' asthma, eo indescribable ugh, constipation,.ay flatulency, spasms, pelsia :1:1 5 :1; 0 :0 1 1 vomiting.—MariaJoly.' Imp ortant calltio n.—Beware . of I-0 D e , gation to create the Sinking Fund, according to the unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whicil , .pe ~0 Act of February 25, 1862, sCall not be impaired authority, Baron Liebig's name i s most audaciously s titt , / /P c ' ir In tins, at ls. 10.; 1 lb. 2s. sad.; 2 lbs. 4 s. ed ; 5 1b5. 118 ,''00 9 ..0 thereby." In accordancewith this order, the p Sec- 225. ;', 4 lbs, 40a, Also Du BARRVs REVA LENTA AF I Ple; s. , fo v 'po LATE p POWDER. is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups a 1 ' 6 70'00 retary has given official notice that the interest due , ts ! at U.. 0., for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at :. Os.. I °' ~,60,4Ce on the Ist May will be paid on demand at the pro- I al.a s s e .— nt b; r M e g . a o lput one penny per cup. The 80s. l o t v i o alLtrittelye s in nd E!, 4 V , ax i i \ i o. o 7 n 7 reg g ip e t n c;f oree t. per offices on a rebate of interest at the rate of 6 are Ban SY DO C per cent, pe r annum in coin. General Howard will don; and all G rocers and Chemists. continue in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau for the present. Large reductions are to be made in the bureau. The coloured people are coming in for a share of office, as two Justices of the Peace for the District of Columbia; one postmastership and an assessorship of Internal Revenue have fallen to their lot. The President has also granted an interview to Lieut.-Governor Dann, of Louisiana, who is a coloured man. Butler's bill for reconstructing Mississippi has been postponed till next session. The Reconstruction Committee, however, are taking evidence on the subject of Texas, from whi c h State there is a delegation now in Washing ton. The Pre-ident received it yesterday, but, as he does not allow reporters, what transpired is not known. John W. Douglass has en tered on his duty as Deputy-Commissioner of In ternal Revenue. The Post-office Department is organizing a special agent service. These agents will be divided into three classes ; one to superin tend railway postal service, another for the examin ation of postal accounts, and the third as detec tives. The case of George W. Twitchell, petitioner, against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, came before the United States Supreme Court to-day. Births. HAMPTON -On the 19th inst at 22, Eaton-squar e ' Laura Hampton, of a daughter. &foams—On the 19th i nst., at Englemere, Ascot, ber g Mrs. Mowbray Morris, of a daughter. Marriages. COOK —SA XTON—Ou the 19th inst., at St. Barnahit s ' ito a ' sington, Thomas Cook, late of Ipswich, to 31giipaft the eld es t d aughter of the late James Saxton,' of ford. PEMBERTON—GAIITII—On the 20th inst., a t St. San°,eilirstl' Pimlico, Henry L e i g h , youngest son of Edgar d Pemberton Esq., of E a t on - p l ace, and Ton-y- 11 i n ', pv to Mary Eliza, eldest daughter of Richard Gest , ' Q.C., of S t. George's-square, and Morden, SurreP Deaths: 31A lci" ALLNUTT —On the 19th inst., at Loose Hill, n ear stone, Henry Allnutt, Esq., aged 81. Coox—On the 19th inst., at Gloucester-square , d park, William Cook, of t. Paul's-churchyard, 3° don Hall, K ent, aged 85. SINGLETON—On the 18th i nst., at Brighton, C a ptain k Singleton, late 51st L. Infantry. Loudon : Printed and P.oliehed by WiLLIA:ff A ND si it o b il of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'RE SUN WIC ° Strang, iu the P rec i nct of the Sprov to the '-- A liddleaox.—Wednes(lay, April 21, 1809. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. (From the Anglo-American Timm.) NEW YORK, April 3. Towards the end of last week the weather changed, and on Monday an easterly gale set i❑ which kept every ship in the harbour, but sent gulls in from sea by the hundred. Poor Grinnell has had a hard time of it. Ile used to lead a quiet life, and so did the President, comparatively. Grant has been worried to his bed, and couLsses that, had be known what was before him, he would have voted for Andi'ew Johnson, for he thinks that if the ex- President, used to badgering as he was, had bad what he has endured previous to his last attack, it would have made an end of him. But, joking apart, Mr. Grinnell received ou,one day over 13,000 applications for place, and his house, the Custom Ilouse, and his plinth office in 'Wall-street were all besieged, the latter to such au extent that he had to employ a powerful clerk (he ought to have chosen a prize fighter) to hear applications, while the police had to keep the crowd out of the Custom House. He will find it easier to get rid of his ships than to get rid of this pressure. He tnet Mr. Smythe to take over charge on Wednesday, who greeted him with his congratulations, which were made the more pointed when Mr. Smythe said, " The pleasure with which I resign the post arises from the fact that I am to escape, at last, the many per secutionz and annoyances that have attended my administration ;" adding, with a sigh and a look Of commiseration, showing how little he expected it, " I hope you will see and feel less of them than I have." Mr. Grinnell replied that it would be a warning for him to avoid, as far •as possible, sitni lar embarrassments. He was not infallible, but he would do his duty to his country and to General Grant, who had, unasked, so graciously placed him there. Grinnell had not to wait long before he had another. taste of the sweets of office. The Evening Poßli&s fiercely attacked the appointments to the Custom Houseo which it represents to be in the hands ofrogues, and there is no hope under the present matidgedient. He was sworn in, however, on Tuesday, bis bondsmen being Moses Taylor, R. M. Blatchford, Edward Minturn, and Marshall O. Roberts; and next day, after taking over the of fice, he presented formal warrants to the following gentlemen as deputy-collectors :—John R. Lydec ker, George W. Embree, S. T. Blatchford, H. K. Murray, Rufus King, John Cooke, J. S. Steadman, E. C. Banfield, Moulton, Grigsby. A com mission has been appointed by the Secretary of War to report on a bridge across the East River, be tween Brooklyn and New York, and Generals Newton and Wiight, together with Major King, of the Engineer Corps, have been selected. This is in in compliance with the Act of Congress, and we may now hope to have the work soon commenced. I General Raasloff, Danish Minister of War, has re- turned from Washington and stopped at the Brevoort House before embarking for his home, for which he starts to-day, after his unsuccessful nego tiation at Washington. Logan, No. 2, was re leased, as the grand jury failed to find an indict ment ; no evidence being produced to warrant try ing him for the murder of Mr. Rogers. The girl's evidence broke down after the police thought they had got the case up. Logan behaved very well during his long imprisonment, and thanked the police for their kindness to him, exhibiting no small joy at his liberation. The murderer Real has been granted a respite although the scaffold had b een partly erected. He bore up to the last with forti tude, though things had grown to be really serious. When told of the reprieve, notwithstanding efforts made to moderate his transports, he danced about with joy. In compliance with the recent decision of the Attorney-General, orders were received at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to reduce the wages in proportion to the time struck off by the Eight Hours Bill. The sailmakers struck at and are likely to he followed by other trades. The Hon. Abram Wakeman has given over his office of Port- Surveyor to A. B. Cornell, and resumed his pract;ce of law Mr. Merritt when entering on his (ALT male a little speech. Ile asked the employes for fidelity, and said that he had made no definite arrangements for removals, but would be:guided by circumstances. The express train from Boston to New York met with an accident on the Connecticut River Rail road, ten miles above fiartford. Three passenger cars were thrown from the track arid broken up, and Colonel James M. Thompson, and Mrs Norton, of Springfield, were injured ; two or three more were severely bruised, and several slightly. An accident also occurred lately on the California end of the Pacific road, which . smashed 14 cars and resulted in the death of the Conductor ; two engineers ; two The Washington Ministry bad a very long deliberation on the 6th touching the affairs of Cuba. The decision of General Grant's Cabinet was, according to the American papers, that the strictest neutrality should be observed throughout the struggle in the Spanish island. This con clusion, as the only proper one, will surprise nobody ; but it is clear that the American Government will experience the greatest difficulty in preserving neutrality. The sympathy of the American people is all on the side of the insurgents. It has been ascertained that many Cubans, directly or indirectly concerned in the revolution, have been naturalised as American citizens. Many native-born Americans are in the ranks of the rebel army. If any of these subjects of the United States be massacred by the Spanish volunteers, there is too much reason to apprehend that the clamour of the Americans will compel the Government to interfere. 'I he volunteers beyond doubt commit unjustifiable atrocities; but it is equally certain that the American filibusters are doing their utmost to provoke the worst. The situation is very deli cate. The American West India squadron has again been reinforced. THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORY. Though the terms of settlement proposed by Earl Granville were accepted_by the Hudson's Bay Company, they have yet to be referred to the Government of the Dominion. But there is no ground for the apprehension that the arbitration of the English Miristry will be ques tioned in Canada. Indeed, the colonial papers look upon the question as settled ; but it seems they do not like the terms. One-twentieth of all the laud in the Fertile Belt is reserved to the company, which will thus become a large landholding association. It is feared that the policy of keeping back the land until it has been made valuable by the labour of others will be adopted. But surely a difficulty of this kind can be of little consequence when the territory is so vast, and for years to come will be so thinly peopled.- In any event, the Canadians would act very unwisely in seeking to reject a great end for the sake of a small question of means. There is, however, no talk of doing this. firemen, and three brakemen; and the company's buildings at Truckee have been burned at a lossiof $50,000. The Albany Express, in defence of Go vernor Fenton against the attacks of the Evening Post, alleges that the editor is a relation of Edgar Ketchum (better name, by the way, for a detec tive than for a thief), and is angry with the Senator, because he refused at the Editor's solici tations to pardon that convict. The ice has been broken up, and the river is almost" clear to Albany, and it is now believed to be open, and that navigation can be resumed. In spite of an action commenced by the Union Pacific Railway against James Fisk (jun.) and his agents for tresspass, the damages being laid at $ 1 ,000,000, the safe was broken open. It required the unremitting exertion for ho•ars of workmen, the employed,it is said, under Mr.Ucrnell, the maker. At last the vault was opened, and Mr. Durant, who had been quietly smoking his cig rr, entered with the Sheriff. Together with several others, the stock book and the cash ledger were take n. The examination is being continued, and several other law suits are likely to spring from these proceedings. Mr. Hubbell, attorney for the plaintiff in error' argued his m o ti on f or a wr i t of error to the C° lll i of Oyer and Terminer, and to the General G a ? Delivery of the city and county of rhiladelP bi : and the Supr eme C ourt of Pennsylvania f or h Eastern District. VII?GINfA. , Governcr Wells, of Vi rg i n i a, and other promiut.at Republicans, were arrested on the charge of steall'''; a letter fro m t h e P ost-office, but a United State' Commis:loner who was s en t t o Ri c h mon d order':' his discharg e . Th e G overnor has been displace' o by Gen. Stonem an , th e m ili tary commander, as W eiiit several other "R a d s ," b ut the Presi d en t 1195 superseded the G enera l , t i ll the officer 11°11 in Texas c an reac h th i s command the next lin comm an d, temporarily taking his . An amusing account is given in the Sprifigfieid -Ite ; publican of a con ven ti on i n Vi rg i nia, i u which . person named Buttz, w h o i s t h us described, WI; 5 r prominent p ar t. " Il e h ad been expel l e d knavery from three different counties of Virg iul ; and forced to fly t o E ng l and, where he forme" to swindling stock company and returned. W ee te the man who attempted to put down the favo uri o candidate of Buttz. That curious mortal sy° ll lls shriek out offensive language, burrow in the sloe" of abuse, to overwhelm the daring opponent! ali o if he could carry his point in no other way, v i°ll for leap upon a bench, and by crying three cheers his man, attempt to raise a riot." We have heel puzzling our brain to find out if this is the Buttzla t l in London. He was opposed by Samuels, a hands ° young man, refi ne d i n l anguage, descri b e d as , "plug-ugly" of Baltimore, and a carpet.bagg er t i Th'e meeting was di v id e d i nto W ells and ,t Wells men. A n ant i-W ells man was named f°,l chairman, when it seemed as if pandemonium M o t been let l oose . B uttz and Samuels rushed to O platform, shouting "D own w i t h W ells. " A dozen negroes grasped Samuels, exclaiming, " We g wi 4 l3° 0 to wring yo' nec k, b e f o ' yo ' l eave dis State !" 13j° " g were falling in every direction, " Buttz was Sinn s to the floor, hi s eye -b a ll s start i ng from their soeke under the gr as p o f a h uge Af r i can, and cld Preli , ous Question' B a y ne , a coa l-bl ack cele b r i t y who rose to notice in the reconstruction convention, 11 brandishing a white h a t, an d ca lli ng, true to ,0 name, de previous question.' The police fl o urish ed their clubs, but did no t d are to str i ke. Th i s seell3ed curious to me—b u t I was i n f ormed that the ki11113; of any one would have led to the most disastrl results. Do zens wou ld h ave b een shot bad 1)1°° once been see n . A prom i nent Republican to ld 11 16 that the Union League members were very nuu let a ' ous in the crowd, inside and outside the house. ari d would have supp or t e d t h e M ayor at any saeriao° life." Another attempt of to get up the mee tiv under the mayor hi mse lf was attended with erect worse cor:sequences. Virginia is said to be I " ° d the best field o p en f or emigration to the 1-11)!te States, but it is no t yet, politically speaking) I'l3 reconstructed condition. NINA This eels 4 . -“ze Xtedai It „ Sold pu in B the Agents 8, G. Observe tl ban's LL W. MUTE ( 14, RusE ADVANCE, hold or L ea able Weekly, Forme free 1 itOYA Great Sue Duet. —lir. Bones in tl greatest pen W onderful I: Actresses —3 tell e-aaractei ane talented arth Notice. -1: place on Wt R gq., will tat Eve. Gt. Join Well" wall 1 M _RADA' A Iwo New and Be R ACITEL, a under ten, 6tl AR"Y "RVEI` Rooms havel and Co. Th an attractive Dance Music Musical THE at, Lnneh, for deviling ORIGINAL ASHL Very Fine Pa Old Crushed ] Shipping), Sparkling Ch levy, QuaHU Sampl e me bottles Sherry GA B. 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