The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOUBNALS. r THE REPORTED SUICIDE OF SIaNO.R MARIO. ine /Imes observes that agitation in France, agitation in England, and agitation in America combine at this moment to form an extremely interesting spectacle, especially as the subject of uneasiness is everywhere the same. Trade is bad at home, it is bad across the Channel, and it is bad on the other side of the Atlantic, and the grievance as put forward by each nation is utterly incon sistent with the grievances alleged by the other two. France and England are dealing with each other not on the principle of Free Trade, but on terms specially adjusted half-way between Free Trade and Protection. In the United States the ruling system is that of Protec tion, and it is of this the New York Chamber complains. In England there are, unhappily, thousands of working men - out of employment, but if that effect were due to the. French Treaty, how is it the want of employment is just 23 great in France ? The American system has been appealed to as a proof of the soundness of Protec tionist theories, but the Report to the New York Chamber of Commerce is full of complaints against the one-sided operath.n of the tariff. That there are classes in every country who gain or appear to gain by a protective tariff is notorious enough, but is there any example of a country in which the whole nation gains by such a system ? If every article of consumption in this country were produced by a British workman, how many workmen would the demand keep in employment, and how far would wages go in the purchase of necessaries when prices had been raised all round? What would working men say if the price of the loaf were doubled ? Then, again, look at the complaints of the American shipbuilders, and apply them to our own industry. Would a heavy duty on all materials for shipbuilding help to restore the trade on the Thames? How many cotton mills would be kept at work if cotton stuffs were required only for our own population ? What would become of the trade of Leeds and Bradford if none but Englishmen wore English cloth? The absurdity to which the argument is thus reduced drives people to de mand Reciprocity instead of Protection; but Reciprocity is the actual principle of the French Treaty, and it is reasonable to suppose that it is pretty fairly established, since both parties draw the same inference from its con ditions. The Standard remarks that the story comes from Berlin that tho Emperor of the French, who is commonly supposed to be too busy consolidating his dynasty and crowning the edifice to Le able to spare any time for the concerns of Europe, has formally proposed a general disarmament. The statement, although it rests upon no very reliable authority, is likely enough to prove correct. Napoleon the Third likes to give the world a surprise of some sort at this season of the year, and he may calculate that it will be well for him and for Frenchmen too • that he should divert their attention from squabbles over contested elections and from• the futile industry of Cabinet-making to the sublime spectacle of Europe, by the grand initiative of France, offered the opportunity of turning its swords into pruning -hooks. and selling its breechloaders to the barbarians who inhabit other quarters of the globe. We can readily believe, then, that the Emperor has proposed a general disarmament ; but we must honestly add we do not think that it is of the slightest importance whether he has done so or not. The proposal may be honestly meant ; the evil it proposes to reduce or to remedy is enormous. Unhappily there is not the slightest chance of its 'practical adop tion. It is said that this invitation has also been addressed to the English Government. Probably the Emperor thought that ho would appear discourteous if he did not ask us too to disarm. It is probable that, thanks to its Irish policy, this country will not entirely disarm this year ; but the Emperor may be sure that as soon as Mr. Gladstone has made Ireland independent, and created for England dangers which it will need all the efforts of a largo army and navy to guard against, he will again go vigorously to work to dismiss our soldiers and sailors, and sell as old materials our stores and ships. The Telegraph declares that if that equitable doctrine of charity which was announced to the world nearly two thousand years ago is sound, the rich people of a nation can scarcely shut themselves up for a feast on a given day in their own homes, and leave the poor people out of doors to starve. On Christmas Day Dives should take care that Lazarus has his slice of pudding, even were Dives on the Poor Law Commission. Without fear, then, of cur friends the Political Economists, or what they may say, we ask that the millions may have pudding on Christmas Day. Who wishes to lend a hand to the good cause ? Let him look around him, and see first what he can do in his own neighbourhood. If he would go partner, as we hope he will, he need only consult the columns of this journal. In our impression of Monday we printed appeals which filled a whole column. We might go on transcribing names ; but we forbear, less by mentioning one charitable effort we may appear to be recommending it at the expense of another. That is not so. We wish well to them all alike. We have no doubt that the funds entrusted to these excellent people will be carefully husbanded, and be expended wisely. The fact is, pudding is universally ';►anted next Saturday. Any reader who wishes to contri bute a sovereign, or a shilling, or a penny stamp, to the various funds, need only take up our impression of Mon day or Tuesday, or of this day, and he will soon find out where his mite can be made available. It should not be forgotten that our appeal is made in behalf of those who, if not helped by kind hands, ran a terrible risk of being left out in the cold altogether. Had they the luck to be in a workhouse, or a prison, they would be properly looked after, and sup plied with pudding. As they are neither paupers nor criminals, they may have rather to reflect upon puddings than to partake of them. Come on, then—never mind the philosophers ! If you help these poor children and old women to a merry evening next Saturday, your own pud ding will taste all the better. Christmas comes but once a year. It will be as though you had a sprig of holly ix your heart. The Herald thinks there is no need to throw the blame for past failingsupon the present Finance Minister of India. He is one of the ablest administrators in India, but has had no special training in finance, and may be excused for being content to take the system as he found it and make the best of existing conditions. The discovery of the fact that the ship was being steered without observations, and might at any time have gone to pieces upon a rock, will be sufficient to awaken in a man of his character a sense of the importance of the situation, and we much mistake if Sir Richard does not throw himself heartily into the work of reform. If there is to be any confidence in the credit of the Government, there must at least be a belief in its own financial statements. And how can there be a belief when it is known how the estimates were arrived at ? For some time before the Government made, a dear breast of it and told the worst, it was more than suspected out of doors that the rose-colour account of the position was a delusion. And the result of this open confession has been meet healthy, as was remarked by Lord Mayo himself during the debate re ferred to. Some slight foreboding was expressed in some quarters lest the premature disclosUre of the real state of things should damage the national credit and shake the confidence of the people in the Government. But the Viceroy did not share in this feeling ; he was assez diplomat pour dire la relied; and the result has been exactly th reverse of the unfavourable anticipation. Now that the full text of President Grant's Message is before us, says the Daily .2Velc3, we have in a little more detail than the telegraph conveyed his, references to "the only grave question the United States have with any foreign nation." The actual words of the President do not alter the impression we got from the telegraphic summary, but they give us an opportunity of observing the manner as well as getting at the matter of his declarations. It is evident that the President fully shares the American feeling on the Alabama question, and is not hin dered by any diplomatic considerations from expressing it. We have so often expressed our earnest desire for a settle ment of this question which shall satisfy the wounded feelings of the American people without inflicting hurt on ours, that we do not need to say how entirely we re-echo President Grant's desire for friendly and cordial relations between the two peoples. But we are compelled to point out to General Grant that his manner of presenting his complaint is not such as t o prepare the way for any settlement at all. On what did the COnfederacy count during its long strife ? Was it en the moral help of England,or on the moral and political help of Northern citizens ? Leo and Davis looked, indeed, for aid Leyond their borders ; tut it was on reaction in the North that they counted, and at one time scarcelycounted in vain. President Lincoln found that his worst weakness was at home—that the foes of the North were they of its own household. The battle was more than once transferrer: from the fields of Virjnia to the polling-places in the 11' , Torthern cities, and even there was only won with diffi culty. President Grant has forgotten this, Mr. Sumner hai] forgotten it; the Northern people have shaken hands and forgotten their differences in the joy of victory, and now tern round together and charge the consequences of those differences upon us. It is due to 'our honour as a nation that the Americans shall acknowledge these facts. If they ask us to confess our sins against their friendship, they must be at least content that we confess only the sins of which we are guilty, The christening of the infant daughter of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will 13;e place on IThtusdayl The rumoured suicide of this accomplished singer is denied by several authorities. A telegram from Plymouth states that the Western Morning News has " strong reason to doubt" the rumour. Our contemporary says that a letter was received at Plymouth on Sunday "from one of Mario's most intimate friends conveying the intelligence that Mario is at St. Petersburg with his three daughters, and was cheerful at the time the letter was despatched. He has lucrative engagements for several months, and is certainly in no immediate pecuniary embarrassment." In confirmation of this the Times says it has " good authority for stating that there is no foundation whatever for the report published on Saturday in some of the London newspapers that Signor Mario has committed suicide at St. Petersburg." The Pall Mall Gazette has undoubted authority for stating that the paragraph quoted from a musical contemporary in our impression of Saturday, about the suicide of Signor Mario, is devoid of foundation. Signor Mario is in St. Petersburg, fulfilling his engagement at the Italian Opera. We may add that his impending "destitution" rests on no better foundation than the report of his having poisoned himself. The many admirers of the accomplished tenor need be under no apprehen3icn en that head. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A TRAIN. A desperate attempt at murder, after the Muller fashion, has been perpetrated in a first-class carriage of the Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles Railway, upon the person of a Dr. Constantine James, who was on his way home from Suez, where he had been present at the opening of the Canal. Arriving by steamer at Marseilles on the morning of Thurs day, he rested there during the day, leaving by the express train, which starts a quarter before ten at night. Much fatigued from the prolonged travel he had undergone, he looked about for an empty compartment, finally finding one in the last carriage. Entering and stretching himself out at full length, he was soon fast asleep. The first stoppage is at a station called Rognac, the junction for Aix, and there a stranger, who had taken a ticket for Miram-au-Salon, the noxtplace at which the train would call, occupying about half an hour in the =thither, got into the carriage occupied by Dr. James, who was still sound asleep. No sooner had the train got into motion than that unfortunate gentlerca n was aroused by a shower of murderous blows dealt savagely on his head with a loaded cane. For a moment he imagined a collision had taken place, but the blood pouring down his face and the continued violence soon awakened him to the real state of affairs, and the presence of his aggressor, upon whom with a frenzied effort he flung himself. Then ensued a fearful struggle. Despite his injuries and exhaustion from the wounds on his head, Dr. James, who is a hale and hearty man, ra years of age, made a desperate resistance, though each second that passed made him feel how rapidlyhis strength was failing him. Fortunately, as he was on the point of giving way from sheer weakness, the whistling of the engine and the slackening of the speed of the train intimated that a station was near. The would be assassin, finding himself baulked, opened the carriage door, exclaiming, "Poverty has driven me to it," and jumped out, disappearing in the darkness. In a few moments more Miram-au-Salon was reached. The compartment in which the scene had been enacted was splashed from end to end with blood, while the weapon with which the attack had been made lay broken Such was the violence with which it had been used. Fortunately for Dr. James he had gone to sleep with a thick hat en, which to a cer tain extent protected his skull and temples ; but at the same time the injuries he sustained were of a most serious and alarming character. The latest reports of his condition are, that, owing to the strength and healthi ness of his constitution, lie is on the road to re- cover - y. LAW AND POLICE THE BRADFORD NAVIGATION COMPANY.—A petition for winding up the Bradford Navigation Company has been heard in Vice-Chancellor Malins's Court. The company having been prevented by an injunction of the court from obtaining a supply of water from a stream polluted by manufactories, had been compelled to leave its canal disused for three years. The petition was opposed by the Town Council of Bradford, and by the Air and Calder Canal Company. After a long discussion it was arranged that the petition should stand over till February, with a view to an arrangement being made for the abandonment of part of the canal. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—At the Secondaries Court, Guildhall, the damages have teen assessed in an action brought by a young man named May against the London and Brighton Company. The plaintiff was in a horse-box, with two valuable horses, attached to a train, on the 12th of May. When near the Victoria Station an engine ran into the train, and the plaintiff sustained a fracture of the skull. The injuries were proved to be of such a nature as to incapacitate him from ever again holding an active or responsible situation, and the jury e-,..rdcd him . - 0009. REFUSAL TO RECEIVE PALTERS.—Tho magistrate, at the Highgate Police-court, has called attention to a refusal of the authorities at Edmonton Workhouse to receive a des titute cripple and his two children, who had been sent there from that court. The excuse was that the house was full. The clerk was instructed to write to the Guardians for an explanation. Some charitable parsons had given the paupers shelter. A BRAVE CONVICT.—A singular story was heard at the Liverpool Assizes respecting Thomas Gregory, alias Edward Abel, aged 35 a tailor. The prisoner had been transported for felony in 1854, for fourteen years and was charged with being at large before the expirrtion of his sentence. When in Australia ho was allowed to be free on condition that he did not come to the) United Kingdom. He went on board an American whaling ship, and went to New York. When there he was made drunk, and taken on board a ship sailing to England. Since he has been in this ccuntry he has been earn ing his living honestly. The magistrate, in referring to the story, sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned until the 18th cf April, when his original sentence would expire, and remarked that he was a brave man having on four different cceasions saved human life from drowning. AN OBLIGING SHEILIFF.—An American paper de fends the humanity shewn by the civil authority to culprits condemned to death. It frequently happens that the judge or sheriff chooses the day most convenient to the victim. "Will Thursday suit you ?"--" No, it is the 13th. I fear it may bring me ill-luck." "Well, then, the follow- . ing day P-17cur Honour forgets that it's Friday." " That's so ; but cn Saturday I have business, and Sun day won't do, so we must put it off till Monday."— "Very well, Monday will suit me perfectly.' Even after this the culprit, who took part in the foregoing conversa tion, made some difficulties. He had but one more request to make. He was a musician. Might he be allowed to spend his last hours in singing a few quartets with some friends? His recincst was granted, and when the Sheriff came he observed, " Music generally accompanies a dance, this time it has preceded it. DOG LICENSES.—On and after the let January, 1870, dog licenses will be issued to the public at all money order offices in Great DI itain. The following are the principal regulations of the Inland Revenue Office on the subject :—The duty payable for each dog, of whatever description, is five shillings. Dogs under the age of six months are, however, exempted from duty. The license terminates on the 31st December following the date of issue, and no license can be granted for a less sum than the duty for a whole year. The penalty for keeping a dog without a license is £5. Licenses for packs of hounds can be granted only by the collectors of Inland Revenue. Licenses issued under this arrangement must bear the undermentioned stamps :-1. A stamp of the Inland Revenue Office. 2. The dated stamp of the Post Office from which the license is issued. Persons obtaining licenses from a Post Office should see that they bear these stair p 3. These licenses will not be issued from the Post Office during the month of December in any year. All licenses required during that month will be issued by the officers of Inland Revenue. WAKEFIELD MODEL PIIISON.—The annual report of the Howard Association mentions that amongst the prisons lately visited by the secretary, is that of Wake field, the admirable model of discipline afforded by which is comparatively little known. It is the only British prison which, by the use of steam-pomer and machinery, approximates in its nature to the large manufacturing prisons of the United States and the Continent, where the industrial capacities of the inmates are called out to such an extent as, in addition to rendering the prisoners thoroughly practised work men, secures also th e no t un i mportant object cf largely relieving the pockets of honest ratepayers. During four . years (1365-68) the purchases of trade materials for Wake field Gaol were £39,794 ; the sales (chiefly mats), 4 '47,413 ; net profits . after deducting commissions, &e., £7,783; stork in hand, £16,888. Average number of workers, 1,007. Average earnings, £7 14s. per annum. The Governor (Captain Armytage) remarked to Mr. Tallack, "If we did not snake mats, we could turn our machinery and labour just as well to other purposes, as, for instance, to the manufac ture of steam-engines." Such industrial occupation is most valuable. Why should not idle, vicious, unskilful criminals be rendered industrious and self-supporting? The competition with outside workers is at the worst very little (a few pence or farthings per individual), and the advantage gained to both prisoners and ratepayers incom parably counterbalances it. The treadwheel is retained at Wakefield as a useful resort to fall back upon for intract Al* pri§ontro, E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. MINISTi The statement that the Irish Land Bill is settled is rendered all the more probable by the fact that Ministers are dispersing to their country seats for the Christmas: holidays—to meet no more, unless especial occasion arise, until the middle of January. Mr. Gladstone goes off to his Welsh seat at Hawarden, but requests, through the Telegraph, that letters be not forwarded to him there, but sent to his official residence in London. The Earl of Kimberley goes into Norfolk ; Earl Granville to Walmer Castle ; Mr. Lowe to Surrey; , the Marquis of Hartington to Chatsworth; and Mr. Fortescuo to Dublin. When next they come together again they will be looking forward to the then very near meeting of Parlia ment. Mr. Gladstone, it should be added, is recovering. MR. RUSSELL GURNEY ON TEE LAND QUESTION. Ono of the most advanced of Conservatives, who as clearly as most others, gives reason for the faith that is in him, is Mr. Russell Gurney, the member for Southampton, and Recorder of the City of London. He spoke last week at Southampton upon the land question, and made a thoroughly good speech. He insisted most firmly upon the necessity for doing justice—pure simple justice. Admitting that many things across the water wanted setting right, that hardships ought to be lifted, and real grievances redressed, he urged that what was done should not be done as a sop to discontent. The remedy for Irish ills ought not to be delayed one hour; but it must be the adjustment of wrong that must be accomplished, not a bowing down to treason. All party feeling must on such a momentous matter be entirely dismissed ; the nation must set itself to " apply the remedy which necessity requires." For his own party he could say that what the Govern ment proposed would 'be fairly and honestly con sidered. _ • . excites so much bliC — iiiterest as that of lifk. iia man to Rugby. The use he has made (indiscreetly but not dishonestly) of certain testimonials given him for purposes quite other than to obtain the Head- Mastership of the great public school, seems to re ceive universal condemnation ; though his friends urge that what he had done is a " perfectly common and recognised thing." One of the gentleman who has been put down as a supporter of Mr. Hayman— Mr. Bradley, of Marlborough College—writes to the Times in a tone which spews plainly that he does not acquiesce in what has been done. He says that " immediately upon seeing for the first time the collected body of testimonials sent in by that gentle man, he wrote to the trustees of Rugby School through the proper channel s their chairman. It would obviously be inconsistent with the respect due to the appointed guardian of the interests and honour of a great school for one who has laid his case before them to make a premature appeal to any other quarter." if Be did nor, the Government would not incline to a Republic. The position of affairs in Portugal is not very favour able. The King is ruled by the Ministry, who are most unpopular. A paper, published at Lisbon and called La Linterne, speaks in a most abusive manner of the King. The other day the King was insulted by a man who sold this paper and offered one to his Majesty as he was coming out of the theatre. He said the King might have it for nothing, and when an attendant snatched it away from him, the man continued to insult the royal party until the carriage drove off. The old Duke of Saldanha, the Portuguese Ambassador to Paris, is the leader of the party which desires the over throw of the Ministry, and has recently provoked much disturbance in Lisbon. He has written a letter explanatory of his conduct, in which he declares that he only seeks to gain his end by constitutional means. The army, which had shewn some signs of disaffection, appears to have regained it confidence. A General who refused to obey certain orders addressed to him has been imprisoned in the fortress of St. Julian. THE EIGHTEENTH AT DERRY. The history of the much dreaded riots at Derry greatly resembles the natural history of Irish snakes. There were no riots. Both parties were highly excited ; never was the celebration of the "memorable day" attended with such interest. The Catholics had protested in vain against the rejoicings of the Orange men; the latter had resolved to persevere in thir demonstration ; and a collision was fully expected. Each party, however, kept separate from the other, the Government provided abundance of soldiery and police, and a copious shower of rain fell in good time. The Government had been appealed to, but resolved not to interfere, unless a breach of the peace was perpetrated. To provide against this event, 1,200 troops and police were sent into Londonderry. The magistrates besought the Apprentice Boys to moderate their programme ; but the latter, insisting on what they deemed their right, decided upon abating nothing. The Catholic organi sation then expressed a resolve to prevent the manifestation by force ; whereupon the Executive telegraphed to the local authorities to protect the " Boys. The latter, on their part, pushed their prepara tions quietly on, as if no interference whatever were threatened. n Friday evening the effigy of Lundy was brought out as, usual on Walktr's monument—a visible proof that the last item in the programme would be carried out. Mr. Johnston, M.P., of Bally kilbeg, true to his promise, arrived to take part in the proceedings of the clay. In the evening the "Boys" had a meeting, repeated their resolution to conduct the celebration in an orderly manner, and were ex horted by Mr. Ferguson the Governor, Mr. Johnston, and c Captain Madden to maintain the attitude they had assumed. The Bogside party, as the adversaries of the Boys were called, made preparations for counter dis turbances; but as time wore on it became more and more evident that there would be no collision. On Saturday morning the public houses were all closed—a useful precaution. Then the cele bration was held. The Apprentice Boys and their friends, to the number of several thousands, marched in procession, headed by their band, and displaying the crimson flag of the city. They attended Divine service at the cathedral, where the Rev. Mr. Scott preached, inculcating peace and loyalty. After the service they went in procession round the walls, and cheered for the Queen at the gates. At four o'clock the great event of the day took place. Lundy, the local traitor, was burnt in effigy-, and—that nothing might be wanting—a cannon was obtained by stratagem and fired off. The Bogside party were equally successful. They enjoyed their counter demonstration in peace. Some eflig:y—it is not Quite clear whether it was intended to represent William 111. or Mr. Johnston of Ballykilbeg—was duly burnt. A procession, with flags bearing such jascriptions as " God save the Queen" and " Gladstone," preceded the "execution." At the close of the day a smart shower of rain came just in the nick of time to prevent any revival of hostile feeling. But, indeed, nothing of the kind seemed really necessary, for the best feeling prevailed. Each side had enjoyed its playthings to the full; and what more was required ? LANDLORD TUMBLING. It is gratifying to find that Catholic _bishops are not cii2posoa to tolerate sedition-mongers among their priests. The Rev. Mr. Ryan, the Catholic clergyman who described the " tumbling " of landlords on the Tipperary hustings, has been suspended. The Bishop of Waterford has also suspended the Rev. W. Mooney for writing a threatening letter to Colonel Charteris's agent. The Fenians are meeting with an active enemy in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. They could. not encounter a more formidable one. THE FENIAN PRESS. The "national" journals are subsiding rapidly in fury. The People of Ireland is defunct, or at any rate it was not issued on Saturday —a non-appearance which must be taken as a sign that the supply of seditious writing has at length exceeded the demand. The other papers are comparatively mild, and devote themselves to such stock subjects as the cruel treatment of the Fenian prisoners, the base treachery of the priests in denouncing the " national " movement, and the con cocting of panics by the Government in order to justify dragooning and kindred measures. But no more plans for insurrection are circulated this week. SOUTHWARK. Mr. Labouchere has issued an address, announcing his retirement from the many-sided Southwark con test. lle at first proposed a test ballot, but "some of the Liberal candidates" declined the offer. Upon this refusal, Mr. Labouchere procured an inquiry into the relative strength of parties in Southwark, and was informed that if more than two Liberals went to the poll, a Conservative would very likely be returned. " Under these circumstances, I beg to withdraw from the conflict. No one shall ever have it in his power to say that I have preferred my private ambition to the political opinions which I possess, and no Con servative shall ever owe his seat in Parliament to me." The Daily Nem; highly praises this resolve. A BALLOT BOX. The adoption of the Ballot is now regarded as very near. The fight is begun between the mechanists as to whose box shall be used. A most elaborate in vention is receiving attention in London. Its work ing is thus described : The voter having been furnished with the necessary number of balls, is admitted at one end of the box through a turnstile, which closes be hind him. fie then deposits his voting balls in pro perly arranged cups, and passes out through another turnstile. The machinery registers the vote, and prevents the voter from giving more than one ball to each candidate. The Daily News, noticing this com plicated machine, says : The leading differences between this ballot-box and others which we have seen are—first, its great size; secondly, its elaborate machinery ; and, thirdly, the number of objects it professes to secure. In the ingeniously-con structed model at the Cannon-street Hotel everything works beautifully. The single voter is admitted into tho sanctum, ho gives his voto in perfect secrecy and security, and as be goes out at the far en,d of the box ho unlocksthe turnstile by which ho had entered, for the purpose of ad mitting his successor. Dial indicators record his vote, and other dials tell a tale of he attempts to give more than one ball to one candidate. Whether, when constructed "life-size," and driven hard during a hotly-contested election, the box will work with equally accuracy, is a question which wo leave to be decided by actual experi ment. LINCOLN'S IIEPLY TO LONDON. Bishop Wordsworth's reply to Bishop J acirson published. It attacks two of the arguments in the Bishop of London's letter. Dr. Jackson laid great stress on the circumstance that no head pastor would refuse to institute Dr. Temple to a benefice. The Bishop of Lincoln replies that there is no parallel between institution and consecration; the former is simply the appointment of a cleric to exercise functions with which ho is already invested ; the latter is the raisin.. of a priest to the highest order in the Church. Dr. Temple, when consecrated, will be given the spiritual oversight of about a million of souls, will have the control of more than 700 parishes. "I tremble (says Dr. Wordsworth) in considerinr , the solemn and awful re sponsibility of such an act as that." Bishop Jackson also upheld the Royal Supremacy. The Bishop of Lincoln protests against the extremity of that doctrine. Ile claims Yiiy natural liberty ; and urges, moreover, that ho is possessed of a right of refusal to cons:crate, notwithstanding his metropolitan's command ; for "in order to per form duly and canonically, and with a clear con science, the act of consecration, it is not enough for x bishop to have a commission from the metropolitan, but lie ought to satisfy himself that he is not doing that act against that deliberate opinion of his brother suffragans, whose very name may serve to remind him of their duties and their rights." Dr. Wordsworth., therefore, pr a y s th a t th e consecra ti on b o d e f erre d until the reasons for the protests against Dr. Temple have been d u ly exam i ne d. Th e consecra ti on takes place to-day. THE RUGBY HEAD-MASTERSHIP. It is rarely that the appointment of a Head Master RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT TICE UNIVERSITIES. A correspondent at Cambridge writes, protesting that religious education is still given at Cambridge. It is altogether untrue that no definite teaching is afforded. The University has four Professors of Divinity, -whose lectures are open to all, and com pulsory for some of its members. Lec tures are provided by the Colleges on the Greek Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, and Paley's evidences. In these subjects also under graduates are examined. There are, moreover, two services daily in the college chapel, according to the Church of England form. Can it then be said that the universities are not religious P It is worthy of notice that the Rev. P. Clarke, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Oxford, who lost his Fellowship and Examinership in the schools on join ing the Roman Catholic Church, has been taken on as tutor at Trinity College in that University. The Head of Trinity (the Rev. Dr. Wayte), was one of the Oxford deputation for the abolition of tests the other day. SENDING A VESSEL TO SEA IN A STORM. - The Standard asks a pertinent question : Who sent H.M.S. Donegal to sea on Thursday week ? Nobody, according to our contemporary, seems to know. She left her anchorage while a terrific gale was blowing, and when there was no chance of making way. Whoever signalled her out of Portsmouth will not .be pleased to hear that within eight hours she was labouring about off St. Alban's Head, her storm-sails split, her ports stove in, her quarter galley washed out, and her decks literally filled with water. She was strained in her structure, and leaking in the top sides, if not, indeed, below the line of flotation. All night she rocked about in the Channel, in the vicinity of St Helen's Roads, and no ono who saw her stand out gallantly in the gale from Spithead on Thursday would have recognised her torn and shattered hamper when happily she arrived at a secure anchorage on Friday morning. It is esti mated that the repairs for which the nation will have to pay will amount to about a thousand guineas of her Majesty's coinage. The Standard is very indig nant for ; there was no necessity in sending the vessel through a storm. RELAPSING FEVER. Deplorable to relate, relapsing fever is on the advance in London. The latest returns announce for the week ending Dec. 14 an increase of 80 per cent. over the preceding week. Tho local authorities have put up temporary buildings and availed themselves of such hospital accommodation as they could get ; but still the disease moves on, and has now spread over the whole of London. The Metropolitan Asylums Board has met and resolved to build more temporary hospital accommodation. Of course a St. Pancras guardian (who all know "was wot "), was present at this meeting, and objected to the erection of more hospitals. But brutality did not prevail this time. THE WORKMEN'S EXHIBITION. A. difficulty of some importance has arisen in con nection with the Workmen's International Exhibition. It is alleged that the inventions of artisans are very much exposed to piracy, working men having little protection on account of the great cost and difficulty involved in patenting.. This danger will of course be specially great at the exhibition to be held in London next year. Many 'artisans, in fact, have refused to exhibit, unless special protection be provided. A depu tation has waited upon the Law Secretary to the Board of Trade, who has promised to give the matter his attention. A bill which would ensure the desired object, has been prepared by Mr. Campin, and is now under the consideration of Mr. Bright. SOCIAL DISRUPTION IN AMERICA. A further heavy fall in Erie Railway shares has taken place at the London Stock Exchange. From this occurrence it has been deduced that the attempt recently made in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in favour of the shareholders has failed, and that the judges who are bribed to abet the swindling directors have proved invincible. It might be expected that as New York is only one State amongst many, the total absence of security for investors in that district ought not to affect the whole Union ; but, as the Times remarks, it is hardly likely that the state of things which prevails at the centre of wealth will be surpassed in inferior localities. The leading American papers admit that commercial life in New York is in a condition of disruption. Indi vidual judges can and will defeat the laws of the State, and protect rogues from punishment. No civil right, no claim to property, can be made good under present circumstances. FINANCE DIFFICULTIES IN INDIA. ian l s t is not hopeless, certainly; but are very gloomy about their n n T a n h c e i a t n p g o l s o i t -Ind ion. it is very awkward, and the policy of retrenchment, which has been commenced in earnest, is making long faces in every direction. The cutting down goes on, and there can be little doubt that ma are sorely needed—the bo allowance, for instance. abolition i o n o f It has long been a scandal that a man on £5,000 a year should not only go to Simla for seven months every year at the public expense, but should get £25 a month for going. o t f he the pru Simlaning s The evidence, says the Times correspondent, all points to the incapacity of Sir R. Temple, the Finance Minister, His only:excuse is that of a “too-sauguine estimate; " but then his business was to make better estimates than other meopieN FOREIGN NOTES. THECECUMENICAL COUNCIL. It is stated that the meeting with closea do - ors in the (Ecumenical Council on the I.oth was a scene of the greatest confusion. A Croatian Archbishop was making a Latin speech protesting against the forms and arrange ments as interfering with the independence of the Bishops, when the bell rang and he was called to crdor. The Primate of H u ngary, wh o came t o hi s rescue, was a l so called to order, upon which Bishop Dupanloup made a strong observation in French, and left the hall in company with the Archbishop of Paris and a hundred others, breaking up the meeting. All the bishops complain that they are powerless, and have not had suffi cient time to know what they are to do. The accommodation of the hall is also much complained of. It is now said in Rome that if the dogma of Infallibility is adopted, the French Concordat will be at once withdrawn, and the Pope will find that new relations must be arranged. The situation is grave and perplexing, and no one sees a mode of escaping from it, save by continual adjournments. It is simply impossible that any conclusions can be pro claimed by January Gth. It has been all along declared by the French officials that Infallibility is out of the ques tion, and that its proclamation was never intended. The French agents in Rome are mostly in favour of the Papacy, and thus represented matters in the light most favourable to the Pope. Prince La Tour d'Auvergne persuaded the Emperor not to send an ambassador direct to the Council, an idea which M. 011ivior favoured. The Papal party are uneasy at M. 011ivier's growing influence, an uneasiness which is enhanced by the statement in the Yellow Book that France will defend her liberties if the Council should venture on extreme resolutions. Another meeting of the Council was held in Rome on the 14th with closed doors. TIIE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT. It seems that the wise and temperate speech of the Austrian Emperor has given rise to considerable excite ment in Vienna. Rumours of a ministerial crisis are cur rent, and the workmen's demonstration on the very day of the opening of the Reichsrath was much talked of. Herr Giskra, in reply to a question put in the Chambers, stated that none of the Ministers had resigned their posts, and that the Government intended to maintain the Constitution. The Emperor is said to be personally in favour of conceding as much as possible to the Pro gressists. TRU NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY. The Neu , Free Press, of Vienna, states that tho president of an association of jculnalists and men of letters intends to present to the Ministry a petition in favour of the abolition of the stamp duty on Austrian journals. The Ministry, it is said, aro favourable to the abolition, and aro actually engaged in the preparation of a law to that effect, which will bo presented to the Chambers early in the Now Year. Such a measure has already been passed in Hungary. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. The prolonged duration of the provisionary Government in Spain has given rise to great dissatisfaction, and a general feeling prevails in the provinces that this state of uncertainty should terminate. Marshal Prim, in reply to a question that was put to him in the Cortes, said that the question of the candidature was in the same position as it had been the week before. He added that *lle Duke of Genoa :would nieb_t_igebaikr_ votzteaut that INDIAN FINANCE 3. The topic of the day in India is tho state of the finances. A long debate on the subject in the Council at Calcutta has excited great interest. Sir Richard Temple's speech seems to have created a more unfavourable impression in Bombay than in Calcutta. The Englishman says that " a Government which takes the public into its council, and which balances increased taxation by a resolute policy of reduction, will always command sympathy and confi dence, and will always be secure of support." The Times of India, published at Bombay, considers Sir Richard's speech "singularly unsatisfactory," and re gards it as confirming the justice of the severer strictures passed on his Budget, and its break down. The Bombay Gazette thinks the debate will be read with disap pointment. "Sir Richard Temple explained everything but the capital fact—why he did not discover the financial deficiencies last March." There is some rumour of a new Finance Minister being appointed, and the Friend of India suggests that Mr. Bagehot, the editor of the Economist, and son-in-law of Mr. James Wilson, would be the most suitable person. Mr. Dickson, of the Bank of Bengal, is also talked of. On the other hand, correspondents from Calcutta think that little blame is to be at tached to Sir Richard Temple, who has completely regained his popularity by the frankness with which he acknowledges his mistakes. The disturbing elements have been :-1. Opium which had been estimated at 1,330 rupees, revised at 1,141 rupees, and only brought in 1,100, the total deficiency under that head being half a million. 2. The income tax had been less productive than was expected. 3. The customs had been less, owing to the famines. There had besides been items of expenditure not foreseen in the extension of opium cultivation interest in India and in England. He thought the deficit on the year would not _be less than a million and three-quarters. It was to be met by a reduction of £702,500 in Public Works and an increase of £lBO,OOO in the salt duty. Thereductions iu the police and army would hardly tell this year. The revised estimate of the income tax gave them £68,000, and half that was £34,000. There would still be a large defi ciency and he would do his best to meet it. In conclusion, Sir R. Temple admitted that ho had originally taken an optimist's view, but had been misled by Mr. Bullen, on whose practical knowledge ho had greatly relied, and who thought trade would revive. lie had taken the average of three years' customs. A mistake had been made in the calculations respecting the income tax in sup posing the same increase to have taken place in income as in land returns. The first estimate of the income tax was therefore £OOO,OOO, while the revised estimate was only £680,000. In future he would judge for himself, and he attributed the state of affairs to " sheer misfortune." MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MALINGERING. The Mofussilita remarks upon an order of the Govern ment of India, which forbids medical treatment of pri soners except in cases of real ailment. The order is declared to be a necessary one, in consequenceof somo circumstances which came to Lord Mayo's knowledge when he had been some time in India. The Government of the Punja.ub ascertained that a prisoner in a Cis-Sutlej gaol had been medically treated as a punishment for assumed malingering, in order to evade gaol labour, and the result had been the prisoner's death. The Government of India remained in ignorance of the matter until the gaol reports of the year wont before them, when a strict inquiry was made. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S 'VISIT TO cucureA. Some of the Calcutta justices wanted to entertain the Duke of Edinburgh out of municipal funds, but it was found that such a course would be illegal. A public sub scription is being raised. The chief features in the festivities at Calcutta will be the entertainments at Government House. A large num ber of native chiefs will bo present. The Bengal magnates will muster strongly. Earl Mayo will probably see gathered about him in his capital as numerous and noble a gathering as that which assembled at Agra in 183 G, on the limitation of Sir John Lawrence. POSITION OF THE SOUTH. (From the Anglo-American Times.) An effort will be made in Congress to revive the Negro Question, especially as it affects Georgia (which State may be remanded back to a military govern ment), and Tennessee, the enactments of whose Legislatures find little favour at Washington. The Assembly at Nashville is reported to have repealed the law permitting citizens of colour to sit on juries or to hold office, though it was practically a dead letter. The old Vagrant Law has been re-enacted, providing that negroes who have not made con tracts for their labour of the year by the Ist Janu ary, shall be hired or sold to the highest bidder. The crop of a tenant cannot be disposed of till the landlord gets the rent ; carriers can now charge first-class fare and put the coloured person into any sort of car ; voters can only cast their ballots in the districts in which they live, whereby the negro is deprived of the protection of voting with others of his class, and it is asserted that the Legislature is systematically repealing every law sustaining the equal rights of all. Leading papers advocate dele gates to the proposed Constitutional Convention who are known to be opposed to negro suffrage, free schools, and other privileges gained by the war for the African. The Northern men, formerly active in Tennessee, are now clearing out of the State, and affdrs daily grow worse. The condition of Tennessee is thus represented to enlist support in Congress for a bill already prepared to secure protec tion, whichis soon to be presented in both Houses. A coloured Labour Convention met at Washington the same day as Congress assembled, and State Labour Conventions have been held in the South. The reports received from them at the Freedmen's Bureau are the reverse of encouraging, and the following is given as a sample of the evidence taken at Colum bia, South Carolina. The delegate of the Lawrens District to the Labour Convention "Declared, that the people in his county wore merely existing, and unless something is done they will die. lie had tried to give his family a living by working on a third lle had worked as long as ho could see in the evening and begun again at sunrise, but at Christmas he bad nothing. Ho had tried $5O a year and tried 50 cents a day, always with the same result. If the Legislature does not help us we shall be driven down into the ground. The magistrates do not give justice. When a coloured man goes to the magistrate, no matter how straight his tale, he is sure to come out bohiad. The magistrates will not serve war rants. They send him from one to another, and back again, and keep him going, but he gets no justice. Pretty soon they say 'Don't plague me no more.' Then if you keep on and say, 'Give me justice,' you get knocked or murdered. No use to go to the Courts to get justice, for they will summon the white man's witnesses, and will not summon the witnesses of coloured men. If you go to the Sheriff, ho says, " Go away ; I got no use for you Republi can niggers.' The white men will cheat the coloured la bourer out of his whole summer's wages, and then, if the coloured man picks up two cars of corn to fend his chil dren, he is took up and put in gaol for six months." The South Carolina Convention addressed a memo rial to the State asking for a labourer's preferred lien on the crops; for contract commissioners to examine and attest all contracts between Plante; s and labour ers, and acting as well as advisin g counsel upon doubt ful questions under these contracts ; that labourers' suits shall have preference in the Calendars of the Courts, and be heard on the first term ; to give the working people a fair representation on juries; lands sold under execution to be parcelled into 50-acre lots ; due-bills to labourers to be transferable, and the first lien upon the crops ; also that nine hours be the legal day's work. Mr. CARPENTER and General BUTLER will bring in bills to settle Georgia. The plan proposed by both is somewhat similar to that suggested in the PRESIDENT'S Message ; that the Governor be directed to convene the legislature as originally proclaimed elected by General MEADE ; that all should take the Test Oath, except those duly relieved by Congress of disabilities, and expelling those who cannot take the oath, while imposing heavy penalties for falsely swearing or holding office when unqualified. The expulsion of the negro members from the Georgia Legislature has remained ever since a subject of contention. The Georgia Representatives were admitted to the House of Congress, but the Senate refused to receive the Senators selected by a Legislature which had thus expelled its coloured members. The Judiciary and Reconstruction Committees of the House acknow ledged in a despatch to General MEADE the right of the Georgia Legislature to judge of the qualifica tions of its members, but the Senate, by resolution, refused to admit the Georgia Senators, asserting its own right to j udge of the qualification of its members, while denying the right of the Georgia Legislature to judge in all cases of the qualificationsof its members. Thus it happened that Georgia got into its present peculiar position of being in the Union, and yet with out Federal Senators, an unconstitutional condi tion, which will have to be dealt with immediately by Congress. Southern affairs are progressing less satisfactory in a political than in a material way; but, viewing dispassionately all the circum stances, the progress of the South is on the right road, notwithstanding the outrages of the Ku-Klux, the difficulty in making Southerners accept as equals their quondam slaves, and even the impossibi:ity now and for many years to come to procure for the African, as against the Caucasian, impartial justice. That a Tennessee Legislature, fairly representing the preponderating feeling in the State, should en act the laws now being passed is not surprising ; that Mississippi and Texas will follow suit may be predicted; but the rise of the freedman in the social scale is steady and continuous, and though he has not yet gone through all his difficult probationary trial, still, if Congress acts with good sense and moderation, the worst period has already passed. With the present turn in the affairs of the South, that section of the Northerners who followed the army and were nicknamed carpet-baggers will not find their condition improved. Time was certain eventually to throw power back into the hands of Southern gentlemen, and this is what time is now rapidly doing. Congress may dislike it, still any attempt to prevent it by legislation will not suc ceed, though mischief may be done and more bad feeling aroused. We heartily concur in the letter HORACE GREELEY addressed to General BUTLER, a summary of which our readers will find under the heading of the American Press. 711 E FRANCO- A MERICAN CABLE. (From the Anglo American Time..) The PRESIDENT, in his Message, alluded to the French Atlantic Cable, describing the negotiations which resulted in granting permission for it to be landed in Massachusetts. "The company," this is the report, " have given a promise to abide by the laws of Congress, and to use their influence to procure from the French Government a reciprocal right of landing American cables in France. The PRESI- DENT regrets to say that there has been no modifi cation yet made of the concession to the French company, or its exclusive privileges on French shores, and he recommended the Legislature to pro tect the rights of American citizens and the dignity of the nation against such an assumption." it is clear from this, as well as from the tone of the American papers, that the concession granted to M. M. ERLANGER and REUTER by France, and sold by them to the company, will not be permitted to stand by the United States. Nor will this sur prise, or be considered in any degree illiberal, when the facts are known; indeed, the reverse is the case, for the American Executive are taking up a strong position in favour of greater freedom to telegraphic communication. The Societe du Cable Transatlantique Francais was formed in London, with a capital of £1,200,000, being 60,000 shares, each of £2O. The directors were Messrs. LOWE, GRINNELL, HALSEY, WILLIAM HENRY SCHRODER, REUTER, and ERLANGER, the Marquis ELIACIN DE BEAUMONT, and Baron DE BOURGOIN, but some changes have since occurred. The Concessionaires were Baron ERLANGER and Mr. JULIUS REUTER, who got for the transfer 5,000 fully paid shares, and the right to 20 per cent. of the net profits. In advertising for tenders the French Government an nounced that none would be received but from per sons previously approved by the Minister of the Interior. The concession described the line as be tween France and the United States of North Ame rica, terminating somewhere between Boston and New York, and not touching on its course the kr ritory of auy foreign State. The following stipu lations were then introduced : "2. The Government engages not to grant other Con cessions for lines between France and North America during a maximum period of 20 years from the Ist Sep tember, 1869. 3. The rules of the Telegraphic Conven tion of Paris, or of any other International Conventions which may be hereafter substituted for it, shall bo adopted on this line. 4. The tariff for messages of 20 word 4, through the length of the Cable, shall not exceed 100 francs. 5. This tariff shall be reduced by one-half for Government despatches, which shall have precedence. 6. The Government reserves to itself the right of establishing, at the expense of the_ Concessionaires, such control over the service of the line as it may judge convenient. For this purpose the service of the line shall have its office in ono of the rooms belonging to the Telegraph Office of Brest, the rent of which room shall be repaid to the State by the Concessionaires. The clerks of the Telegraph Office of the State shall be the indispensable intermediaries between the public and the agents of the Concessionaires in the transmission of messages. The messages received by the cable shall be immediately handed to them and be delivered through their agency. The messages to be transmitted by the cable shall in like manner be lodged with them, and handed by them to the agents of the Concessionaires. 7. The Company which shall be formed by the Concession aires cannot amalgamate with any other Company, whether French or foreign, having a concession for a Transatlantic cable, nor transfer or lease its line without permission from the Government. 8. If during the duration of the concession one cable shall become insufficient, by reason of the traffic or from any other cause, the Concessionaires shall be bound to lay down a second within 18 months after notice given to them by the Administration, unless they prefer to renounce the privilege belonging to them according to Article 2 of the present Cahier des Charges. In this latter case they shall make known their decision within three months from the above-mentioned notic2." Should the communication be interrupted for eigh teen mouths the right reverts to the Government of granting other concessions as it may desire, and the 10th Article states that the person who tenders must be previously approved by the Minister of the Interior. The tenders were opened at 2.5 p.m., as announced, on the 6th July, 1868, or rather the tender, for the only one was that of the Baron L. ERLAYGER and Mr. JULIUS REUTER, who were ac cordingly declared Concessionaires. While the sovereignty on the French side maintains all its rights, any reader might suppose that there were no rights at all on the American side. Indeed we may go further, for the idea would present itself to him that the sovereignty of France extended to A merica. That the United States could raise an objection ap pears not to have crossed the minds of those en gaged in the proceedings, yet of all nations the Re public was about the last with which this little game ought to have been played. That the company should under such a concession have been permitted to land and to work the line is partly due to the fact that Congress was not in session when the cable was landed, partly that Massachusetts was pleased to get hold of the end of the European Continental connection, as also that the Executive did not desire to interrupt a beneficial enterprise under the im pression that the concession was an oversight, the minds of the framers being directed only to the points with which they had to deal on the European side. An opinion was given by the Attorney-Ge neral, the declaration was made by the company, to which General GRANT alludes, and negotiations appear to have been commenced with the French Governmentdirecting attention to the extraordinary oversight of American sovereignty, and demanding its rectification. To judge from the PRESIDENT'S Mes s,age, France is as little inclined to modify the agreement with the company as to alter its postal regulations with the United States. Some Ameri can gentlemen in Paris were refused permission to land a Cable from America on the shores of France. Hence France not only assumes to give a light to French subjects to land a Cable from France on the shores of the United States, but refuses to Ame ricans the right to land a Cable from Ame r i ca on the soil of France. Is it surprising that Ameri cans should feel that a principle is involved more necessary to preserve in its integrity than telegra phic communication with France ? But this does not represent all. In advertising for tenders, the Minister of the Interior announced the condition that he must previously approve of the persons ten dering. Now it happens that the persons agree able to France are the most disagreeable to the United States that could have been selected in Europe. They required but Messrs. ROEBUCK and LAIRD of Great Britain to make the strongest guar' tette in enmity to the American Government that could be got together throughout this Continent. The Baron ERLANGER is the son-in-law of Mr. SLIDELL, and acted during the war as the financial agent of the Confederacy. M. REUTER was the concocter of the news telegrams which, until nearly the end of the conflict, used to delight the Upp er Ten Thousand. We spoke last week of the char acter of the intelligence communicated to Europe while the struggle was doubtful, and the marvel is how any Northern Americans escaped, to tell tba tale, so numerous and disastrous were their defeats. No men better know what the power of `dress ing" the news means than writers for the pr'' B ' It was this powe r w hi c h M. R EUTER wielded absolutely, and in a way to call forth the marke d indignation of Mr. MOTLEY, then Minister at Vienna. In fact, Mr. MOTLEY urged the establish' meat of telegraph communication indep en _ e nt Of so vitiated a channel. But the Northern Govern ment never was, nor is it now, alive to the import ance of disseminating throughout Europe accurate information about the U n it e d St a t es . It a llowed English opinion to drift, and the neglect was eageril i taken advantage of by M r . J EFFERSON D AV IS and his coadjutors, and for the result we refer Americans to Mr. SUMNER'S celebrated speech in the Senate on the Alabama claims. Mr. REUTER was an a ctive agent in this ; but although Americans took no trouble to enlighten the ignorance prevailing on this side, they resented the efforts of those wh o turned it to their disadvantage. The two, to wile ° the United States would not have given the con ' cession, were the very two selected by France, as if to lose no opportunity of forcing the Republic to take the most unfavourable view of the matter- Here, then, we have a line laid by order of t he French Government from France to America, ja il ; eating the spot in the United States where the en' is to be landed, all sovereign rights being carefully reserved to France but none conceded, without a n y communication with the United States, althoug h the concession involved a monopoly of direct tele graph communication between France and Amer ica for 20 years. While reserving the right of select ing those who were to receive this concession, their names were not even submitted to the American Government, and by a strange perversity the two men on the continent of Europe, most obnoxious t° the American people, were chosen. 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[ADVERTISEMENT. —Henceforth no one will doubt the v amp properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalent ti b lessilyt Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of be_, it has already received from Invalids whose position V ie rOr o i deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holine ss „yea rs da whose health has been perfectly restored by it after tili , rtd o et .f te oi i unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the c oo P- ream July 25th:—" Rome, July 21, 1866. -The health et Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all otr e olea,s, dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry ' e y Arabic° Food, of which he consumes a plateful at e b v o ,,Aqi, It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on hi s .,',7hiy. .g Of his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too o,2 l riot extract a few out ofmoro than 68,000 cures:—Cure the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver most wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervoul e ' r aos t t do all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and t ,7 St uar t •a. tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lon as peP oo , Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many year s dysPeP t aN No. 49,832: "Fifty y ears ' indescribable agony fro>n nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulenq 27 o: 0 7 0 , sickness, and vomiting—Maria Joly." Cure N°• l s ed i' James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' weet_; nore 17 0 e ss. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and f par tial dee portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury an u- „„ 0 ije w sloppy imitations to which, without authority, / 14 ^ - ls; name is most audaciously attached. lb 00 In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 6d 51b5 1 10, 0 006 01) as 21 lbs 40s. -Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIC& for . 2 4 o 0 POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups at 2 ,,t p a t ,, e at at 3s 6d, for 48c ups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 5, " - s are ` —being about one penny per cup. The 300 and 555 tin, ‘ er 10'0 free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Offl e 'do; BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77 Regent street, La n all Grocers and Chemists BIRTHS. . r aroOf MATHESON—On the 20th inst., Mrs. Matheson , of It of a daughter. ÜB' • alosEn—On the 17th last , at 45, Bedford-squa—ra, ' J. Moser, of a son, Evm—NIAwNING —On the 18th inst , MARRIAGES. ~,,arch William S. Eve, of Great Pa r Mortimer, Derloof Evoline, eldest daughter of A . M jug 8(1.' of 1 all, Raiuham, (ssex. ton -. at Aveleyy7,o, to RICHARDSoN—Dt7Ns —On the 18th inst., at Isling.,ol;etts Richardson, Esq., of 47, Canonbury-square, to B l': .. 6 6 , 44 Sophia, only daughter of the late Charles Dun ° solicitor, of Clerkenwell. DEATHS. A o f- lane' St. Dunstan' HUNT—On the 19th ' t James 11 late of I_oi -8 East i , o n s .., d 88. not, oho' LOVELL—On the 18th inst , at Apuley Guise, Bedfor Henry Lovell, D.0.L., aged 59. v , a PO MORRIS—On the 19th inst., Joseph B. Morris, ' l " 6- h" of the War Office, Pall-mall, aged 75. ~......../.° - ar p, Do lll'l l ' London: Printed and Published by WILLIA M —l4 6t.e o of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tug SuN Office No. 1 12 ;,. 0 %! in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho County of Illid uw Tuesday, December 21, ISti?, ICI This p ereh Sold t he As. 4 1T 1 14, ADVA hold o able wi Forms T, for dcv ()RIG!: Conefgr eelebral Bor , lest Whisk', also be number of other AN Devote. PAGrS Railroa and tha this n€ 6 E ST The Session: weekly bined a establis This nised b and it Lady Carolin, All I ten or p Subs( Treasui T" receive and DI The manual A put when tl nessed. Appli( other pa T HE The Fire Rev The mod Bonner o value as render ; t leave is g thirty da, T"E of trar this pwHosp The Cfc enable tin numerow helpless I Banker street; at Watery NT ATI I 1 Rid Under the; whereby a Girls of all the kingdo The obje lish and lanndr wise provi suitable sit The Com entirely stu OMee, 12 G R E Thia He establish at free. Bankoro stroot, Soo., g! ,aRIT iffi Mad Patrol For the destitute o and of al prosperous One hui etitution , I Increase endowed, 1 assistance. Subscril Institutioi its peculiai The last Secretary. Offices, 1 Banker's sue ; and B 1.4 of tl boat Instit from vario, The Instit on its Lifc a 250 for The Insi its manage Contribu and county Esq., at till HEALTH B DII BA and saves fifty perfect dig, refreshing most diser effectually sumption, 1 rsngement xervonsnes catarrhs, c rb eumatisn ralgia, in heartburn, nausea and fits, brood the pit of t the most dl for invalids IMPORTA: anu more t] rity, Baron Henoefoz Du Barry's and InfantF has alread3 been deem° new; the Pc by it after t We quote 48,413) :—" Holy Fathe ther rem& arry e Rev lateful at i enefloisl e praise this Onro No. years' liver ness, irritab dizestion, o ervousagii Cure N. Stnart de DI ford :—" I h food- —STET) Waterford." Cure No. from dyspep Oaf uleney, s of Lynn. y( Care No. nervousness vons fancies Cure No. years' diarrl The Food 21b., 4s. 6d.; allsters, ca arry's Rev; tin daaisters caps at 65., 1 &boat sae tree ui clrrif BAilltY DU also at For Graceohntet New North- Office P. Obse n's