The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-15 00:00:00

LATV AND POLICE. A CAREFUL CABSIAN.—At Guildhall Police Court a curious incident occurred. A cab-driver named Clayton, on Monday evening, gave himself in charge because he felt unable to take care of his cab. When brought before the magistrate on the following morning he explained that he was seized with a sudden giddiness, and fearing an accident, went to the station•house and gave himself in charge. The magistrate commended his prudence and discharged him, observing that, as he was quite sober, he might have been driven home instead of being locked up. "A PERSON."—A gentleman, who thought he had been overcharged by a cabman, applied on Tuesday to the magistrate at Bow-street for a summons. His little baby, only seven weeks old, had been charged for as a " person," and he had always understood that a baby was not counted as a fare. Mr. Flowers said that a baby was a " person," and could accordingly be charged for.' RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—At Greenwich a person named Burr avas summoned for travelling in a first class carriage on the North Kent line, having paid for a third class ticket only, and refusing to pay the difference. The solicitor who appeared for the railway company asked that the full penalty might be imposed, as the company was so often defrauded in this manner. A penalty of 40s. and costs was imposed, and immediately paid. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE.—At Birmingham, on Tuesday, a lithographer, named Spratt, was charged with attempting to murder his wife. lie had been drink ing for some days, and after striking her on the head with a poker he tried to strangle her, and then to cut his own throat. Be was remanded for a week. THE WINDSOR EXPRESS TRAIN.—A man in the employ of a farmer, at Feltham, Middlesex, was charged, on Tuesday, with negligently driving a waggon and horses across the Reading and Windsor railway line. The driver of the express train from Windsor to London saw the defendant driving his waggon and horses on the down line, and, with the aid of the guard and fireman, succeeded in stopping the train a few yards from the waggon. Mr. Superintendent Potter said that a gate had been erected by the company for the accommodation of the defendant's master, who was a large farmer at Feltham. Notices of caution were posted on the gates. The defendant said he forgot to look at the signals. lie was fined 40s. and costs, the fine being paid by his em ployer. Had the train not been stopped, a serious acci dent must have occurred, as it was going at full speed. THE FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN EAST LONDON. Several accounts appear of the fearful tragedy in Brom ley (mentioned in a Central Press Telegram yesterday). Ono report says :—Four persons were suffocated by the fumes of charcoal. This method of causing death has been rarely adopted in England, but has been very common in France. The victims are Jonathan Judge, aged 33 years, Mara Ann Judge, the same age, man and wife, and their children, Charles, aged 10 months, and Louisa, aged 4 months. Jonathan Judge was a driller in the employ of Messrs. Dudgeon and Co., ship builders, of whose premises were destroyed by fire three weeks ago. Since that Judge, in com mon with many others, has been out of employ, and this circumstance is supposed to have preyed on his mind, and in the anticipation that he should come to want and be driven to seek guardian-law relief, he determined to sacrifice himself, his wife, and children. The family inhabited the whole of a cottage, containing four small rooms, No. 18, Bromley Cottages, St. Leonard's-road, near the new church of St. Michael and All Angels, Bromley. The house was very comfortably furnished; and although Judge has not received any wages for three weeks there were no indications of want, and the whole family seemed happy and contented before the fatal occurrence. On Monday night, Judge, who -was a member of the Foresters' Society, went to his club house, and when he came home appeared partially intoxi cated. No notice was taken of this, because it was his usual condition after leaving his club. The family retired Wrest at the accustomed hour, atleastsuch is thesupposition of the neighbours, but they were not stirring at the usual time in the morning. Suspicions being aroused, the place was broken open by the neighbours, and stretched on a bed in their sleeping-room were the lifeless remains of the whole family. In the middle of the room was a tin pan on a large tray filled with the expiring embers of char coal, with the fumes of which the man, his wife and two children were destroyed. The chimney leading from the fire grate, the door and window of the room, and every crevice and hole which could admit air was stopped up by paper being pasted over it. The mother was lying on the middle of the bed undressed, and her two children also undressed alongside of her, while Judge was stretched across them. Dr. Brownfield, divisional surgeon of police, was soon in attendance, and said there was no doubt that the four persons were suffocated by the fumes of charcoal, And that they had been dead several hours. Inspector Smith on searching the house found bread, flour, and other provisions. In fact, there were no indications of want. On a table in the room below there were two pieces of paper n Lich had been written upon. One bequeathed the old family clock to Judge's brother, and tl.e other contained a bec i nest of the rest of the furniture and effects to several relatives. Both were in the handwriting of Judge. One was signed by him alone ; the other was signed by him and his wife, implying that she was a willing victim, if not a sharer in the crime. Another report supplies further particulars as to tho cause of the crime :—" During the great depression in the shipbuilding trade Judge was for a period of ten months wholly unemployed, one of his children died, and the infant Charles was born. These combined cir cumatances threw the family into extreme dis tress, but they never applied for any relief, even though they were often dependent upon the kindness of a neigh bour for food. Their principal resource was the pawnshop, but a local club, the Great Eastern, gave some assist ance on the occasion of the child's death. Some six weeks ago Judge got work at Messrs. Dudgeon's shipbuilding yard, and he and his wife were quite overjoyed, thinking that their . misfortunes were all at an end. But in three weeks the. great fire took place at Messrs. Dudgeon's, and Judge was consequently again thrown out of work. This new blow seems quite to have overwhelmed Judge and his wife, as they fancied that the painful ten months' struggle which they had just gone through was about to recommence. A fortnight ago Mrs. Judge, while recount ing her troubles to her next-door neighbour, Mrs. Farmer, of 17, Bromley-cottages, said that her husband the night before had said something in a very peculiar way. He said, according to her, 'I know a way of ending the whole thing. It is a very easy way that I have heard of. It is not my life or your life that I care about, but I do care about the children.' Mrs. Farmer remarked that men ' talked queer' at times to their wives, but Mrs. Judge said that he looked at her so curiously that she wat afraid that he meant something." The wife's signature to the paper is said to be a forgery of the husband ; the theory adopted by the neighbours is that Judge drugged his wife with beer before lighting the charcoal. This surmise is hardly, however, consistent with the fact that the wife appears to have been awake, and to have struggled with death ; her face was contve d ad very much. Prince Alamayo, the son of Theodore of Abys sinia, is to be seen nightly in knickerbockers, eating ices and heading tire table at the GreatEastern.—Englishmau's Weekly Journal (India). THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —Last week the rate of mortality in London was 26 per 1,000, in thirteen other large towns cf the United Kingdom it was 27, and in Paris 24. In the English towns: 452 deaths were referred to diarrhoea, an increase of three upon the declining numbers returned in the five previous weeks. In the metropolis 2,127 births and 1,601 deaths were registered, the latter being 269 in excess of the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 604, the corrected average number being 440. Five persons died from smallpox, 38 from measles, 179 from scarlet fever, 8 from diphtheria, 70 from whooping•cough, 12 from typhus fever, 22 from enteric fever, 18 froM simple continued fever, and 185 from diarrhea. The disuioe last mentioned, as well as measles and scarlet fever, vvas on the increase. ',Three persons were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets. The mean temperature during the week was 63.5, or 5.7 above the average. The range of temperature in the seven d.►ys slightly exceeded 28 degrees. WHITWORTII SCHOLARSMPS.—The following is in list of the successful candidates, with their ages, occu pations, and the number of walks they obtained, ‘,ho have been reported to the Science and Art Department rs entitled to the ten Whitworth Scholarships of £lOO a see.r each: Greenwood, William if., aged 2. engineer, student at the Mechanics' Institution, Manchester„ 143 marks; Hearscin, Thomas A. aged 23, engineer, student, 'royal School of Naval rclfritecture, V:7 marks ; Hopkinson, John, :-•;(2 , 1 f , tlip , t. at Camhridge, _ . lA marks ; Elgood, Thomas S., aged 21. mechanical ei,gincer, I. i.a 4h-r, and Ovreti's CoPege, Man chester, 127 marks; Greenhill, George A., aged 21, stu dent at Christ's Hospital School and Cambridge "Univer sity, Hi 3 marks; Brittle, John R., aged 23, engineer student at Sir Walter St. John's School, Battersea, 113 marks ; Philips, Thomas W., aged 23, student at British School, Milwall, and Royal College of Science, Dublin, 100 marks ; Sennet, Richard, aged 21 ; engineer, student at the Royal School of Naval Architecture, 98 marks; Buckley, Robert 8., aged 21, engineer, student at Merchant Taylors' School, 07 marks ; Leeds, Charles E., aged 23, 13,A. Mcr), stOelo at Oxford Vniyelity, itiistakF, Z T 1 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TIIE IRISH LAND QUESTION. In the pursuit of his inquiries on the Irish land question, the special commissioner of the Times han arrived at Athlone, where he finds the wages of the agricultural labourer to be much the same as he han found them in other places ; that is, averaging from six. to ten shillings per week, and the class, as a rule, not unprosperous. The rate of rent is extremely variable, the smaller farms being often let at a very high figure. The commissioner walked over several hundreds of acres of cold, thin, and hungry land, inhabited by a race of poor occupiers who paid 20s. per Irish acre for what would be dear at 12s. The country beyond the flats of the Shannon is fairly divided between tillage and pasture, but the agriculture as a rule is of an inferior kind, the breeds of cattle and sheep are sometimes coarse, the crops occasionally backward and thin, farmsteads are not often seen, and whole estates are covered with mud cabins. The land aye ein of the country in general is in all essential features the same as that which has been noticed by the commissioner in other places. The lino between the owner and occupier of the soil coincides tolerably well with that which marks the great religious divisions of Ireland, but there is a fair number of Roman Catholics landlords. Absentee proprietors are not numerous, but the residents as class are not progressive, and some arc said to Le much ern barrazsed. It is with con fidence asserted that the landlords do not often abuse their position, but nothing like admiration can bee::eited for a system which consists of a dominant proprietary, marked off from the people, a tenantry which has seldom a hold on the soil, though it has enormously increased its value, and which is exposed to have the fruits of its industry appropriated by superiors who have the power and a temptation to do so. Discontent and disaffection abroad in the district, repeated complaints of rack rents, and a kind of dull cry of wrong and oppression reached the commissioner's ears. In several places too, he had to listen to wild and passionate words of disloyalty—no thanks to Gladstone for what had been done. A good time was coming for Ireland—the country would yet be under America. Agrarianism prevails, as seen by the late murder of Mr. Turleton, in its very worse form. SCOTCH ninmrsa IN =LAND. The experiment made by Mr. Allan Pollock, on his estates, in Galway, to introduce the Scottisl• system of agriculture into Ireland is described at length by the Times Commissioner. The lands when they came into Mr. Pollock's hands were for the most part hold by a peasantry of small farmers and cottiers. They had been much exhausted after the famine, and their resources had never been deve loped. Ilaving bought out these petty holders, converting some of them into farm-labourers and induced others to emigrate to the West, Mr. Pol lock applied himself to bringing the estates under thorough cultivation—a task in which he has admi rably succeeded. The question naturally arises, whether the attempt thus made is remunerative ? The commissioner thinks not. Another interesting in estion is, how far the ordinary Irish farmer, with the means he possesses—his scanty capital but shrewd sense and resolute industry—can compete with such a gigantic rival, the answer to which may be found in the statement of one of Mr. Pollock's own agents, who, admitting how well the Irish took to improve ment, and how much they would do under landlords in whom they could place confidence, said, "Give them equal capitals and fair play, and they would run us hard." THE FENIAN PEISONT El. The International . Democratic A sme'ation, who nre the organisers of the demonstration which is to take place in Trafalgar-square on Monday next in support of the movement for the release of the Fenian prisoners, held a preliminary meeting on Clerkenwell green last night. There were about 600 persons present, and it was unanimously agreed to regard all professions of conciliation towards Ireland as a sham while Irish patriots are kept in British dungeons. EARL SPENCZR AND TUE DUBLIN conroßATioN. The purgatory of receiving addresses has been a severe one for the Irish Viceroy. His path in the south of Ireland has been paved with the good wishes of the corporations into whose domains he has wandered ; but, though it may be, and doubtless is, very pleasant to know that one's footsteps are blessed, it is by no means so pleasant to be stopped at every stage to hear oneself eulogised. The last of these addresses for the season has just been presented. The Dublin Corporation must needs express their gladness at the return of the Earl to the capital. In doing so, they refer incidentally to tha settlement of the Land question and the release of the Fenian prisoners, and hope that the Government, of whom his lordship is a represen tative, will take these subjects under consideration; as they will if properly dealt with " tend largely to restore tranquillity, peace, prosperity, :aid true loyalty to our beloved count ry, before which a bpi ht future now seems to be dawning." The bait so well thrown to catch the expression of the Viceroy's opinions was ; however, user's ; for his excellency contented himself with the remark that a pronouncia tion of his views on the subjects named Cu such an occasion ; to the representatives of a corporation would be unbecoming. THE WEDNESDI - IIY LIBERALS TN FETF. The Liberals of Wednezbury had a field day on Monday. Seven hundred working men " warranted bond fide,'' and all Liberals, had dinner at ono of the principal inns, and were after wards addressed by Colonel Roden, M.P., Mr. Dixon, M.P., and by the membor whose return they had met to celebrate—Mr. Brogden. The colonel eulogised all the members of the Government : Mr. Dixon gaN e a speech in favour of a better general system of compul sory education supported from the rates. Mr. Brogden related the now becoming tedious history of the Irish Church Bill. Ho spoke approvingly of the conon.ical tendencies of the Government; gave his adhesion to the Permissive Bill ; regretted the rejection of the University Tests Bill; thought that in the matter of the Irish land question there should be some arrangement by which the tenant could not be arbitrarily turned from his land; that the rent should be subject to changes considered n ecessar y by l aw; an d, - finally, speaking on the subject of trades unions, advocated the esta blishment of courts of conciliation and arbitration. TIIE EAST CIIESIJIRE ELECT:ON. Mr. Cunliffo Brooks, the Conservative candidate for East Cheshire, has commenced his contest against Sir E. W. Watkin by addressing a select party of his political supporters. He told his hearers that ho was prepared to make any sacrifices on behalf of his party if they would only support him. Money, time, and convenience he would give up so long as they fought with him. Tuis very unselfis'i announcement provoked great enthusiasm; and Mr. Brooks was immediately acce.o•prl ns the candidate. Sir Edward Watkin is rather hea 1 of his opponent. He has long ago b een " accepted, " and is now daily addressing public meetings in different parts of the county. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. SIIERIDANOLP. The idea of presenting a testimonial to Mr. Sheri dan, M.P., " for his services in the cause of life assurance," has met with scant favour at the hands of the Wolverhampton Town Council. At their last meeting the Corporate bod♦ point-blank refused to hear read a communi cation soliciting subscriptions which had been sent to the mayor. That they might not, however, appear to be wholly ungenerous, an alderman and a councillor said they would not mind handing over to the testimonial fund a couple of Albert policies which were in their possession. THE CIIURCII IN 'WALES. At a meeting of his constituents held at Wrexham on Mon day night, Mr. Watk in Williams, M.P., entered fully into an explanation of his reasons for giving notice in the House of Commons of a motion to disestablish and disendow the Church in Wales. He also announced his willingness to concur in any course of action on the question which a conference of leading Liberals might decide to adopt. Votes of confidence in Mr. Williams, and thanks to him for his parliamentary services, were passed. A CONSOLATION TESTIMONIALS The custom of presenting consolation testimonials to defeated candidates is becoming very common. The latest recipient of this bounty of the minority is Vice-Admiral Elliot, who represented Conservatism at the last Chatham election, and was defeated by Mr. Otway. In consideration of his gallant fight the working men of the borough (that is to say those connected with the lo ca l W or ki n g M e n' s Associa tit'n) ha ve presented him with " a nussive claret jug and two goblet s , a ll o f s il ver, b eaut if u l ly c h ase d and gilt: O.f course the occa s i on a ff or d e d oppor t un it y f or speecinfying; and everybody who spoke was con vinced th a t the last electio n wasno t won f tirly by the . Liberals ; that th e t id e of opinion had turned, and if now poll e d th e working class would be Conserva tive to a man. extrr.l, - ry TO 4NIIJ'ALS. The cruelties pract:::ed in th e fo-eigu cattle trad e have called forth a letter from Mi liurdett Uouttsi Althrugh now spare:l from th ie ravages of thc cattle plague, another Erilons nialady, the vnitcr pcints out, afflicts our flocks and herds —one which, during ifs continuance, renders milli unfit for consumption. "The most cleanly and tenderly -cared-for home steads are not exempt from it ; and, as none of God's laws, whether of justice, or mercy, o r t ru th, are .vio lated with impunity, I cannot see why the conse quences of disease among our well-nurtured cattle may not spread to ourselves and enter our own blood—the recoil of suffering inflicted upon hundreds and thousands of animals that may be tlba _yam selected types _of is__ helpless. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1E69 feeble, and incapable of resistance even wnen goaded to desperation, but whose tainted breath and fevered blood carry with the tread of their lacerated feet and the various humours of their bodies the germs - of retributive disease (conveyed, it has been suggested, by the agency of insect life) into whole some farms and pastures." To all persons engaged in teaching, in whatever rank in life, to the President of the Committee of Council on Education, and to the National Society's Board of Education, Miss Coutts suggests that some plan should be adopted for inculcating in a definite manner principles of humanity towards animals and a knowledge of their structure, treatment, and value to man. She men tions that in Massachusetts there is an institute partaking somewhat of this character called the " Ladies Humane Society." dering the question, passed resolutions proposing toimpose on the owners of the railways, mines, and manufactories heavy liabilities in case of accident, unless they can prove that the disaster arose from the fault of the injured per son, or from a visitation of nature. Under such a law the Saxon company who worked the fatal mine would have to pay compensation to the relatives of the 27C persons killed. Such a liability exists in France and in Rhenish Prussia, where the Code Napo. leon prevails, but it is thought doubtful how it would work in Germany. The labours of the Congress terminated with the adoption of this resolution, the selection of the next place of meeting being left to the discretion of the committee. It was not so largely attended as usual, but it was noticeable that a number of ladies were present at the debates. at regular warfare had proved that the time had not come for the triumph of their cause, yet the organization was in full working order, and the drilling of the rank and file was steadily going on. He closed with an appeal for union on the part of all Irishmen for the sake of the freedom and inde pendence of their native land. But a few delegates were present, and the report prevails that Mr. Savage will resign. Judge M'Cunn discharged, un conditionally, Mr. George R. Rutter, the president of the Tennessee Bank, accused of running away with its assets. Ile did this in spite of all the As sistant District Attorney could urge. In vain the At torney showed the affidavit of the officer despatched by the Governor of Tennessee from Memphis ; in vain he asked for a delay of three hours to obtain the signature of Governor Hoffman, the inexorable judge discharged the alleged culprit. Judge Barnard, in opening the Supreme Court, pitched into an editor of the Times, who, he supposed, had written an article on the Erie and Susquehanna War censuring his ac tion. All the writers in the limes caught it ; the late Mr. Raymond and the present Mr. Bigelow, in a style worthy of a man who has brought such dis honour on the bench. Bat Judge Barnard may depend upon this, that his own tarnished fame will not be reburnished by attempting to sully the cha racters of honourable and upright men, who, in dis charge of their imperative duty as journalists, cen sure action alike disgraceful and injurious to our country. These are the words of the Judge— " The writer in question was a man whom he had saved, some five years ago, from being sent to the Penitentiary for forgery, and that ho was following worthily iu the footsteps cf the man who, after persistent:y attacking and misrepresenting him (the Judge), went home drunk and fell dead. Hereafter he would make it a point to expose the personal character of his assailants." Brave words these ! and future juries will be highly edified by the scandals recounted from the bench about gentlemen the Judge thinks have attacked him in the press. Of course Judge Barnard at once set to work to muddle the Susquehanna affair. Ex- Governor Lowe of Maryland has been appointed to take testimony, and Ramsay, the president of the road, and Van Valkenberg, the Secretary, were brought up for examination. Orders have been issued vacating Judge Peckham's injunctions, and suspending as receiver Mr. Robert Pruyn. Mr. Stokes proves another defaulter, having bolted with some two score thousand dollars from the house of Morris and Co., Yonkers ; as usual in these cases, he had lost heavily in stock operations. Adam 1). Logan, a well-known lawyer, fell out of a third-story window of the Clarendon Hotel, and was buried on Tuesday. The failure is announced of the respectable firm of Starin and Floyd, pro duce dealers. The firm has made an assign ment to Mr. Samuel Edmonston for the benefit of their creditors. A small boy was crushed to a jelly in Gregory Steel Works, at the foot of Warren-street, Jersey City, between two heavy rollers ; he was the only remaining son of a widow, his brother baying been killed a few weeks ago on a railway. There was a shooting affray last Satur day, in which a poor girl was killed. Miss Delia Adams was near while Captain Foss, of the ship Pacific, was engaged in a contest with John Harri son, who had interferred on behalf of some boys who the captain alleged were stealing lime from the ship. A shot, intended for Harrison, mortally wounded the girl, but another severely wounded Harrison as well. George Browne, the husband of Sarah E. Erowne, has been arrested on a charge of having poi soned his wife. James M'Crorley was found dead in a pond at the corner of Fifth-avenue and Forty-ninth street with his skull fractured by a heavy instru ment. He was a gardener of the Central Park. The weather was screaming hot in the early part of the week, and had fast emptied town ; but there has lately been an inroad from the country, and a great pressure on the accommodation of the hotels. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. The States whose ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment is complete, so far as shown by the records of the State Department, are North Caro lina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, and Florida. Two States have rejected the Amendment, Dela ware and Kentucky, while the ratification of two others is defective, Kansas and Missouri. We have had a return of the hot weather, and very hot it has been ; indeed the drought is calculated to do in jury to the country. At the White house a letter was received from a Parisian named Bolmeaux, asking permission to establish a gaming -house in New York on tLe piincip]e of the German establishments, that are working under a license, a large portion of ' the profits going to the Government, and under the surveillance of the police. A reduction in the debt is anticipated, notwithstanding the enormous payments made this month. It was supposed that the disbursements on account of the Pension Bureau would turn the scale the other way, but now it appears that a reduction will be shown notwith standing. I regret to say that Secretary Rawlins is very ill. Yesterday morning be was prostrated with hemorrhage of the lungs, but he has recovered sufficiently to visit the War Department for a short time to-day, though his health remains a subject of great anxiety to his friends. Secretary Robeson and Admiral Porter have been at Boston spending a day or two at the summer residence of J. M. Forbes at Nanshon Island ; they are expected here shortly. Mr. L. Estrance, of the British Legation, left on a call from his wife's family, one of whose brothers was drowned. Mr. Estrance married an American, a niece of the late General Wadsworth, of New York, who was killed during the civil war. Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, arrived, and had an interview with Commissioner Delano. Mr. Peabody is expected from White Sulphur Springs with the banker, Mr. Corcoran, whose guest he will be for a few days. his donation to General Lee's College was intended to furnish a salary of $3,000 for a professorship, and $6OO per annum to the library. Tonry, who was dismissed from the Surgeon-Cr eneral's-oflice for marrying Miss Annie Surratt, has received a lucrative post in Kansas. He declined an appointment tendered by Judge Ilolt. Blacque Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, has been raised to the dignity of Ullah by the Sultan, conferred as a special mark of favour, being the highest grade in the first rank of the Civil Service. AMERICAN PRISONS. —GOOD AND BAD. Snt,—l have just received from America, through the courtesy of Dr. E. C. Wines of New York, Mr. Gideon Haynes, of Boston, and other correspondents, a number of interesting documents relative to criminal treatment in that country, a few extracts from Which may interest vcur readers. I may just premise ihst aweo reports throughout confirm an opinion I have long entertained, that the United States prisons are ills best and the worst in Christendom. Some of their larger prisons are the best, inasmuch as they combine deterrence with reformation, and prevention with cure, to an extent probably not approached in any other country.. Amongst these excellent institutions may be named the State prison of Massachusetts, under Mr. G. Haynes, the Philadelphia Eastern Prison, the Weather field Prison (Connecticut), the Albany Prison (NS •), under General Pillsbu rg , th e Th omas t o n Prison, Maine, under Mr. W. W. Rice, the Concord Prison (N.H.), and others. The moral and financial success of some of these prisons is very striking. Unlike most of our English prisons these American gaols make the prisoner reform himself by useful remunerative industry, and at the same time save the pockets of honest citizens, and re imburse the cost of his confinement. For example, the Massachusetts State Prison has, in the last two years, paid all its expenses and salaries, and contri buted to the State revenue a surplus of £lO,OOO (not dollars), out of the profits of the prisoners' labour. At the Maine Prison, at Thomaston, Mr. Rice teaches a complete trade to every convict who stays long enough to learn it and has the requisite capacity. He states that "of 200 convicts discharged during his incumbency a period of more than five years, only seven had been re_ convicted, but two of the seven had learned a trade, and one of them was an old thief, who had already served three terms." Framers of systems of criminal treatment who ignore religious influences as a primary aid, are like the builders who rejected "the head-stone of the corner." But the better class of American prima officials make religious (iitiSeCtariall) efforts prominent, and whilst striving to render their gaols self-supporting, also promote prison Sabbath-schools, prison prayer meetings, and prison libraries. And unmistakably good results have repeatedly ensiled. They endeavour to avoid mere routine in religi ous services, and aim heartily at reforming their prisoners. Such men are the excellent Dr. Wines, New York; Mr. G. Haynes; Massachusetts; Rev. D. Dyer and General Pills burg, Auburn, New York; Mr. G. B. Hubbell and H. C. Dorsey, Rhode Island; Rev. Mr. Canfield, of Clinton; "Father" Willett, of Richmond, Virginia ; Mr. L. R. Brock way, mul rat* 7 Wort} likegqiucicd, Although in our glig lish prisons reformation is not made nearly so prominent an object as in the above prisons, yet efforts are being widely increased to extend remunerative labour. And it is time ; for at present (1869) the average cost of English prisoners is £37 per head. The average earn ings rose last year from £2 to £2 10s. each per annum— truly a small sum at best. This small amount is chiefly owing to repeated short convictions, and, with so many of these, it is highly creditable that the governors of some of our gaols at Wakefield, Manchester (Now Bailey), Bedford, York Castle, Durham, Hull, Carlisle, Petworth, Gloucester, Birmingham, Devonport, Leeds, Liverpool (Borough Gaol), Newcastle, Bristol, Src., secure to the ratepayers from SA to £lO per annum out of their pri soners' industry. But there are other features of very many American prisons which England is honourably free from, and to these I must now allude. The reports just re ceived by the Howard Association show (what W 3 have had confirmed by trustworthy correspondence) that great enormities, corruptions, and cruelties are exercised in many United States prisons by officials, who are only fit to be prisoners themselves and not gaolers, and who owe their positions to the lowest political jobbory, and to the mis chievous American system (almost universal there) of changing all office-bearers (even those of subordinate gaolers and post-offleo keepers) at the expiration of tiza tenure of each political party's power. I have heard it said in America as a rather common plea, "Let each gc in for the stealings in rotation." Hence it is not to bo won dered at, that even in the Empire State of New York, tor ture is practised in some of the prisons. The 1869 report of that useful body, the New York Prison Association, states that amongst the punishments still employed in their State prisons, are the iron cap, the ball and chain, pro tracted shower bathings, the iron crucifix or yoke, and tho buck or truss. The shower-bath almost drowns the shiver ing, panting wretch into submission. The crucifix is a flat bar of iron, weighing from 3.11 b. to 501 b., attached to the neck and wrists by three iron rings which can bo screwed to any tightness. The "buck" punishments consist is tying the wrists and legs together, and then trussing up the prisoner for hours by moans of a stout stick passing between the legs and arms, and thus suspending the pri soner from two chairs for hours, in a doubled-up position. Criminals should be both punished and reformed ; but surely not, in those days, by such methods. Well may the New York Prison Association plead as to these tor tures—" Let them be banished by law in monk sxottlorunz." From a Western State prison the most atrocious outrages upon the female prisoners by the male officers have been very recently credibly reported by respectable correspon dents. This has been at length put a stop to; but it does not appear that the wretches have been punished to any considerable extent. Space precludes my adding more than the following extract from a recent report by a com mittee of the Delaware Legislature :—" Persons are very often arrested and committed to prison on false and mali cious accusations, and, after a longer or shorter confine ment, are discharged without trial. They have been taken from their homes and families and business, confined in the company of the vicious and the vile, and, after months of suffering, aro discharged with the taint, the disgrace, and perhaps the corruption of the prison upon them, yet wholly without redress or compensation." Hoping that the publication of these extracts may bo of some use on both sides of the Atlantic, I am, sir, yours truly, WILLIAM TALLAck. 5, Bishopsgate-street Without, E.G. AMERICAN PRESS. Mr. Blaikie, the secretary of the Harvard Boat Club, under date Aug. 7, wrote to the New York Herald in some irritation as to the treatment the Harvard crew had experienced from that of Oxford. Up to that time he says that every disputed point had to be yielded by Harvard or the match aban doned. Nearly eighteen months ago they sur rendered the question of coxiwain, then they de sired on their arrival in England to be at liberty to select the course for the race, but Oxford was ob stinate, adhering to the water with which they were familiar, and that was also conceded : "The Harvard crew have now been in London some two weeks. They can scarcely be said to have got rid of their " sea legs" before they are pressed indecently by the Oxford crew to fix a definite day for the match. They have not yet got their boat for the race. The two they br,ught with them as experiments are said by the English critics to be unfit for a Thames four-oared match, and orders have been given for two others to be built, ono by Salters, who built the Oxford boat, and one by Elliott, an American builder, who accompanied the Ilarvards to Eng land, and who is at work upon the craft in Simmonds's yard. The Salters boat was delivered at Putney, August 6, but singularly enough it was found that her canvass at one end had been slit up, and she had to be sent back for repair. The Elliot boat, in which they will probably row the match, is not ready and will not be for several days. The Oxford men of course have their boat ready, and have been in steady practica for some three months without in termission. Notwithstanding this disparity, the Harvard men signified their willingness to name a day conditionally upon the weather being fair and with the right to post pone the race should the weather be stormy and unfavour able. Bet this door not suit the book of the Oxfords, and they now insist that the day shall be unalterably e;ttled at once, without the privilege of postponernout Nor is it surprising that the eager anxiety of the Oxford men to fix the day irrevocably, and with a long notice in advance, should have revived some of those latent sus picions of an intention to beat the Americans anyhow, which the American press has laboured to allay." We dare say that Mr. Blaikie was afterwards sorry he had been in such a hurry to write. Throughout his letter the fact is overlooked that it was Har vard who challenged, and the challenger always surrenders such points. It was necessary to fix a day, and training which forces on men the life of a hermit, takes them from their friends and family circle, and devotes a period of recreation to oue of intense labour, ought to be made as short as possible. The Harvard crew was in training before leaving Cambridge, and five weeks would be ample fur practice on the Thames, unless they desired to change their style, which they did not. The New York 'limes thus desribes the reception of the news at New York : " About 1.30 o'clock the result of the race was an nounced, and was received with a cheer, but with less exultation than might have been expected. Tim Eng lishmen felt, in fact, or at least they professed to feel, that the result of the contest was aforegone conclusion, and that the Oxfords must win. But little money changed hands here, for opinions were all one way. Why', said an Englishman who was just sitt:_ng down to a beefsteak and pot of ale, how could men expect to win that have been living on mush, and rice, and such things ? There's nothing like beer and ale ; and I consider this race as showing the superiority of the roast beef of old England over Yankee food as well as men. When I heard the liar yards were training on soft food, I knew it was all up with 'em. There's no muscle in it.' Still, I must say as they did pretty well,' said another,' all things considered. It's a mighty hard thing to beat a man on his own ground, but they gave 'em a pretty hard pull for it.' The Bostonians, from their connection with the great American University, naturally felt peculiarly interested in the race, andadopted a curious method of announcing the matter. If the Harvards were victorious, 5-5 was to bo struck by the fire alarm ; but, as they wore defeated, 2-2 was struck. If the Harvards won the American flag was to be displayed on the top of a pole on Telegraph-hill at Hull; but as the English beat, the flag was run only half-way up the staff. The Harvard boys assembled in Boston to learn the result, and when it came they did not cheer. Great excitement was manifested in New York on receipt of the news cf the result, lat it was agreed on all hands that the Oxford crew had acted fairly and with credit to their ;el 41—.4 1,01, .idLa.• ..E.1_1.1,211 1 Mi." 11 . 7,11. says that more than £lO,OOO of American money was lost on the race, besides that which was bet outside England. And that there was groat interest manifested in the race may be gathered from the fact that more than a column of matter was telegraphed by cable to the New York Asso ciated Press, besides special telegrams to several journals." The Spirit of the Times, alluding to the defeat of Harvard by the Wards, and the fact that the Ox ford crew have been twice defeated this year by the crews of English clubs, observes : "The safe conclusion therefore is, that though these Oxford and Harvard crows are the best college fours in England and America, they aro not the best, by any means, that can be found in their respective countries. In one sense it is a good thing for oarsmanship in this country that the Harvard crew did not win this race. Their stroke has been so misconceived and misdescribed by their friends in some of the newspapers here that a victory would have tended to encourage a bad system of rowing among our clubs. The changes wore so rung from day to day upon the rapid style of Harvard,' the `quick stroke with a vicious jerk at the end,' &c., that we wore reminded of the nonsense whioh prevailed at the time the little engine,' Hamill, went over to England to row against Kelley. And then the editorial articles to this effect were supported by letters from correspondents, who maintained that the rapid sti olio must win. It is true that sorno of these last in formed their readers that they knew nothing about beats or boat racing, which we think was rather unnecessary, as any intelligent boy of 10 years old would have discovered that fact if they had never mentioned it. It finally came to such a pitch that the rapid stroke of the oars was likened to the effect of paddlewheels with the floats only six inches apart, which was assumed by the intelligent writer to bo the latest improved method of steamboat builders. There will now be an end to all this." The Albion notices that the Harvard men— "Not only refused to adopt the English style, but also rejected all the suggestions of their English ' coach' that would lead to a denationalisation of their rowing in any particular. This protest is enforced by their action in abandoning, at the last moment, the English boat which had been built for their use, and finally deciding to use the Elliott' modollocl for thou iA Now X9rk. Thin citterral- DEAD WRIOIIT OF RAILWAY TRAINS. The newspapers are exercised by the statement of Mr. Houghton, of the London and North- Western Railway, that for every passenger taken over the line the company mores two tons of matter. The passenger and his luggage weighs about two hundred-weight, but the total weight of the train is on the average two tons for each passenger. This fact is : however, no justification for high fares; a remedy must be found. Railway engineers could lessen the weight of the engines and carria:;es, but the remedy chiefly lies in the increase of the number of passengers and trains. kn engine weighing thirty tons will take a thousand passengers, but a train usually carries from sixty to seventy passen gers only. Give the public greater facilities for travelling, and the railway companies will no longer have to complain that nineteen-twentieths of the weight they move is unprOfitable. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Earl Granville has addressed a remarkable letter to the Governor of Jamaica on the manage ment of prisons. He complains that the prisoners are employed in remunerative labour, instead of being subjected for some portion of their imprison ment to the tread-wheel, crank, or shot drill, which he regard s as more " effectively deterrent." We should have thought that Earl Granville would have been one of the earliest to acknowledge the fact that the substitution of useful labour for degrading em ployment in our prisons and reformatories has had the most beneficial effect upon the inmates. It is true that the introduction of re munerative labour has been sometimes accom panied by comforts and luxuries which destroy the effect of prison discipline, but, if unnecessary indulgence is avoided there will be little necessity for degradation, and least of all should the idea of degradation be carried out at the expense of the ratepayers, whose taxes must be increased if the prisoners are taken from remunerative labour and placed on the tread-wheel. The experience of other countries has shown us that prisons can be main tained without cost to the community, and that the employment of the prisoners in industrial occupa tions has a direct tendency to lessen the number of recommitments, and it is therefore, in the best sense of the word, deterrent. On another topic the noble Earl has written in a manner more worthy of hi s reputation. lie points out that leprosy is not con tagious, and therefore the sufferings of lepers should not be aggravated by separation from their fellow men. A PUZZLING rizonr.rm. Mr. Bruce has had a hard question put to him. There is a drunkard in Manchester who suffers from delirium tremens, and about this man Mr. Bruce has been consulted. Tho man's wife is willing to pay for his retention in safe custody, but the oilici.ds declare that they have no legal power to detain this confirmed drunkard after recove r i ng f rom the rabid symptoms of the disease. The Home Sec retary is asked, " What can be done to protect the wife and save the man from his own folly.?" Mr. Bruce replies : The Government has announced its intention of intro ducing a measure for the better regulation of the trade in intoxicating liquors, which it may be hoped will have some effect in diminishing drunkenness nad iti attendant evils. The method, however, of dealing with persons in the condition of the man described in your letter is one of great difficulty, and Mr. Bruce is not at present prepared to recommend any change in the law with respect to such cases. THE 44 TRUE STORY." William A former servant to Lord Byron, " Childs," whose aunt was housekeeper at Newstead Abbey, writes an indignant wrathful letter to the Telegraph anent the Byron scandal. Ile charac terises Mrs. Stowe's true story first as an •' odious charge," then es a " monstrously prurient fabrica tion," and finally as a " most odious and damned lie, gross as a mountain open, palpable." Mr. Childs's reason for coming to the conclusion so very ener getically expressed, is that if Mrs. Stowe's story be true, his aunt, who lived at Newstead Abbey where Byron end his sister were often together, must have suspected it. She did not, or, at least, did not tell him that she did. Therefore he thinlis the alleged inter course could never have taken place. Mrs. Stowe's story at present stands alone without corroborator from any some% A Llll7T,kr. 1II"."T; AND One of those shameful cases of wife-beating which continually disgrace our police courts has been brought before Sir Robert Carden. The facts arc briefly these :—The complain:or', Charlotte Joyce, stated that her husband, a packer, to whom she had been married thirteen years, was given to dria' ing, and also to hert:ng her incessantly. On Thursday last he had a quarrel with a neighbour, who struck him on till bead and cut it open. Ile went to ;he hospital and had the wound dressed, and his wife, dreading his violence, did not go to bed till after be was, as she thought, asleep. She, however, soon found her mistake, for the man took off his heavy boot, and, declaring that as he could not have his revenge out on the man who had struck him, ho would wreak it out on her; he " struck her brutally in the ribs with it several times." The complainant added that the support of the family was entirely thrown upon her, but she did not mind working hard if her husband would ' let her alone.' The defendant, who denied all the charges, was sentenced to ono month's hard labour, and to find one surety in £5 and himself in 10 to keep the peace for three months more. This surely is a light pu n i s h men t f or such an incorrigible ruffian. A NEW AN2ESTIIETIC. The novelty and wonder of chloroform having passed away, science is now giving us other aniesthe tics in all directions. A new one has just been discovered by Dr. Liebreich. It is said to be better than chloroform in bringing about complete uncon sciousness ; and safe , as leaving no t races b e hi n d o f feeblbness after its immediate effects have gone. Dr. Lacbreich has called tue ne w compound chloralhydrat It is stated, in proof of its safety, that rabbits have been held under its influence for fourteen hours at a time, and have been as active as ever when awakened. TeOREIGN NOTES. SPAIN. Madrid is in a state of great excitement at present, and the confusion arises from two causes, Cuba and the Volunteers of Liberty. The Spanish authorities have kept the public in the dark with respect to the state of affairs in Cuba, and now that the truth has come out the popular feeling has been strongly displayed. The funds fell to the lowest point they have reached for sixteen years. The Epoca, one of the best papers in Madrid, published some startling acccunts of the whole affair, and concluded by de claring that the North American Republic would recognise the Cuban rebels as belligerents. All the papers, except the Government organs, copied their articles and added sensational comments. The other dis turbance arose _ from the circumstance that the Government had provided new quarters for the volunteers instead of the old place known as the " Principal." The company on duty obeyed the orders of Senor Riven), and departed for the new post, but some volunteers off duty occupied the deserted building, and their numbers rapidly increased. At one time things looked threatening, and the Ministers met at midnight to consult on the matter. Through the timely interference of some of the Deputies and several influential citizens, a serious outbreak was prevented, and the volunteers gave up the building on condition that the troops should not take their places. It is expected that order will now he pre served in the Puerta del Sol. TIIE LIEGE FETES. A largo party of volunteers have started for Libge. The English committee have closed their books, and can take no more names. The only competition at which regi mental rifles will be used is the first. In the other corn petitions any military rifle can be used. This is intended to encourage the use of arms of precision among all classes of the people, and numbers of the Belgian men possess these weapons, with which they can practice all the yeas round at tirs or ranges close to the town. The English volunteers will not appear to advantage in the interna tional shooting match, - as they will not be provided with the requisite weapons for long range shooting. The ticket; for the King's banquet and the distribution of medals have been granted very judiciously to those volunteers whc made timely application. Colonel Thomson, it is ex pected, will be the commandant of the volunteers. THE GERMAN CONGRESS. The Congress of German economists now sitting at Mayence has been discussing some interesting questions. Among them was the liability of railway companies, mining proprietors, manufacturers, and others, fol injuries sustained through the negligence of their servants. The colliery accident near Dresden, by which nearly three hundred persons lost their lives, is said to have been caused by the gross negligence of one of the employ6s, and a railway accident, which also lately occurred in Saxony, was due to extreme carelessness. The question excites great interest in Germany, where the liability in . - GERMAN NORTH POLE EXPEDITION. Lieutenant Payer, who accompanies the German North Pole Expedition in a scientific capacity, has sent back an interesting account of their first experiences. For the first two weeks they were detained by contrary winds it the middle of the North Sea, and it was not until the night of the 12th of July, that they met with the first ice. It was only a whitish blue mass, some three cubic fathoms in size, but this herald of the pack ice was sufficient to rouse them all from their sleep and bring them or deck. During the first three weeks ships were constantly seen on the horizon, but since then they look in vain for a sail. When the west wind divided the ice, the voyagers intended to steer through the pack ice westwards for Pendulum Island. Gelgraphical discovery is the princi pal purpose of the expedition. It is proposed to winter between 80 and 85 degrees north latitude, and make sledge expeditions into the interior of Greenland. If the plan succeeds, they will approach the coasts of what Kane believed to be an open polar sea. THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP. The labour question seems still to be the great difficulty respecting the American cotton crop. The New Orlean Picayune, in writing on the subject, says there is probabl; cotton growing sufficient to make three millions of bales but the question is, can it be picked and sent to market Cotton pickers calculate that it requires one hand to pick four bales, aud, therefore, it would take 750,000 labourer, fOr 3,000,000 hales. There are not so many field hands in the South, even including those required for the cultivation of sugar, rice, tobacco, and corn. Witb more labour the South could supply the world with cotton, and efforts are being made to encourage emigration. Next season it is intended to try cultivating the cotton fields with Chinese labourers, and if the attempt should be successful, the production of Southern cotton will be largely iucreased. TRADE WITH CHINA. The advisability of improving our communications with China is just now being actively discussed, and, in the present depression of trade, it deserves attention. If a direct overland commercial route could be opened from Rangoon to China, the development of our trade with Western China would be greatly facilitated. There is a vast tract of country to the West, of which very little is yet known by either our merchants or our politician!. Yunan and Szeehuen are the two largest provinces, and there are four others near them which make up a collec tire area of 551,000 square miles, having a population which, twenty years ago, amounted to little nuclei 100,000,000. Du Halde states that these six western pro• vinces contain 61 cities of the first order and 367 of the neon(' order. It is manifest that a region of such extent affords space for an almost indefinite extension of commerce, anc' our merchants arc beginning accordingly to chew some anxiety to obtain an easy access to Kiang Hung. Kiang Hung is seated on the Upper Cambodian river, which h there navigable, and is only 250 miles distant from th• frontier of British Burmah. The French, who have a greater distance to traverse from Saigon, have pushee their way up the Cambodia river,and passed throughYunan, on whose southwest frontier Kiang Hung is situated. Some interesting particulars respecting Western China have been given by the Rev. Mr. Crofton, the Government chap lain at Rangoon, who visited the Burmese capital on the conclusion of the recent treaty. "It Las now been esta• Unshed to a certainty," says Mr. Crofton, " that the western provii,Jes of China which border on Burmah and its tributary States are among the richest and most pro ductive of that wonderful country." The Shan States, which are little more than 200 miles from Rangoon, are (he adds) rich in natural resources, and inhabited by a numerous population, almost as industrious and fond o, trade as the Chinese. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times•) NEW Yomc, Aug. 28. I cannot tell what the comments are of our press on the race run yesterday on the Thames between the Oxford and liarvald crews ;, but the result was s,cretly in the minds of most Then discounted. We know how to speak brave wordg, and the late news fro n your side tended to encourage our hopes of victory for the boys from Harvard, but the betting was in favour of Oxford, although in a few instances even sums may have been laid. The tele. gram reached about half-past one p.m., and was known almost immediately over the city—l maysay, throughout the country. Preparations had been made to salute the glad tidings of victory with 100 guns to be fuel in the Park, but we have reserved our ammunition for another occasion, and that waste of powder has thus been spared our heavily taxed citizens. But if our disappointment was something, you may imagine how sorely the defeat was felt at Boston, where great preparations had been made to improve the occasion. Perhaps there is improvement after all in such occasions, when those that had come to shout greetings for a triumph should turn in silent disappointment mournfully to pursue their way back. Boston was more in terested than any other spot in America, and the pride of its Cambridge University in beating England's great and ancient College would have known no bounds. Need I add that there is balm in Gilead for the rest of America from this fact— such is the perversity of human nature, which ex tracts a pleasure from the misfortunes of friends. When Boston receives a slap on the face which is heard in New York, New York laughs aloud, the smart there, tickles here, and vice versa ; nay, I will go further, and maintain that in no small portion of the Union, the balance is of pleasure over pain at a New England defeat, though it he an American de feat by foreigners. We have not arrived at the stage of unity which appears to be one of the planks upon which you so often hold forth. There was a good deal of betting on the event, as Wall street is ready to back any conceivable event, and the late telegrams and letters from England in spired confidence. An office was opened in Wall street for arranging bets by cable, on either side of the Atlantic ; indeed I have reason to know that the Harvard crew thought their chances decidedly good, a n d some money had been remitted from this city just before the race, to take advantage of the heavy odds offered in England. A Wall-street speculator has as little objection to make his book on a boat race as on a " corner," and if be could bet three to two on Oxford against Ilarvard here, and could get two to one in England, of course the event to I TI 4.40 w avctu , ntJ wry fay. am., 46... cra-it, provided all bets were paid, about which the fear here' is lessened by paying the sum to a stakeholder when the bet is made—a good check, too, on speculation. The wish is generally ex pressed that the Oxford men should visit this country next year, and try a match in American style on American waters, and I hope this may be done, as your correspondent in that case will be furnished with something to write about, the want of which he feels during these dull times here. The frequenters of the English alehouses in Bleecker andllouston-streets,pocket some money,as they freely backed their countrymen, as did English men generally in New York, taking a livelier inte rest in the result even than our citizens. Our Mayor had his big gun ready to celebrate the event, of which he made sure ; but some one damped his confidence a trifle by proposing that it should be banded over to the English residents to announce the fact if they won. He has received a semi-official notification that Prince Arthur will visit New York some time in the autumn. The City of Paris made the finest trip on record, with the Prince on board. Young Arthurpresented Captain Kennedy with a handsome pin having the Royal monogram on it. I hope the Fenians will behrive themselves properly when the Pi ince does visit our city. They had a pic-nic last Tuesday in Jones Woods, and they certainly are very tenacious in keeping together as long as their Treasury lasts and whisky can be supplied. The Fenian Congress reassembled on Thursday, and received the annual report of Mr. John Savage, who congratulated the meeting on being able to keep so vast an organization together, which he acknowledged to be a difficult task in the face of much enmity. They ought also to be thank ful, he thought, that the spirit of insurrection was still strong, and though the failure of the attempts nation of the Harvards essentially changed the character of the contest. From being reduced to a mere struggle between four picked men of either nationality, the race has virtually decided the merits of the American a nd English 'strokes,' and those of the boat-builders of the two countries. For many reasons, we are glad that the Americans decided to adhere to their nationality in those respects. The American 'shell' is quite a different affair from the boat in which the Oxonians rowed, and it was interesting to witness the manner in which each stood the test of so severe a trial. Again, the Harvards have for many summers won tho prize from Yale on Lake Quinsi gamond, and their success has been attributed to the virtues of their peculiar stroke. It would certainly have shown a singular want of confidence in that stroke, which has so often borne them on to victory, if they had ignored it on setting foot on English soil. It thus seems but right that the llarvards should have raced as a distinctively Ameri can crew, and the Oxonians as a distinctively English crew, for only in this way could a satisfactory decision regarding the merits of the two systems be reached." The A'ew York herald of Saturday, August 28, devotes nearly two pages to the Harvard-Oxford Boat Race, the other dailies following in its wake, only in a lesser degree. Most of them publish a diagram of the Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, showing the starting and the winning points, which enables the readers fully to follow the description of the race. Contrasting the New York papers of the Saturday following the Friday on which the contest came off with the London papers of that day it is curious to observe the comparative fulness of detail in the American dailies on an event which took place within a few miles of the English metro polis. First the scene on the river is described ; then the appearance at the starting post of tho competitors; the start, the race, the winning post; the crews and their relative weight. A full account is then added of the course and the distance between notable points accurately stated. A sketch of the Oxford crew comes next, and the system of their training, followed by another of the Harvard men- Mr. Blaikie's letter of Thursday to the London 7inzes appears in full, showing that the Harvard crew were to row in American style in an American boat. Next are the origin of the match, and the letters which passed between the University Bost Clubs, which finally ended in the race of the 27th August. Having got through everything connected with the match in England, another set of reporters come on the scene to show how .the news was re ceived in America, " the grins of the winners and the grimaces of the losers," an " Ilenglish opinio n of the 'arvards," and so on. They begin at the he ginning with a thousand ragged and bare-foote d , urchins racing through th e s t ree t s scream i ng " de extree! Full account o' d' Oxferd boat race! whil e like lightning, the news they carried spread, that Harvard had been beaten, and "when it was known, that all was fair the acquiesce nce was grace f u l On quiet, tinged merely by the irrepressible and veil natural regret that victory had not fallen to the lot of the National oarsmen." In the settlement of betting accounts "there was not a single murmur of discontent, not a single allegation of foul play, 1 0 t 3 single scream of the eagle in protest of the c arry: ing off of the prey by the lion." But there .seeme d to be a decided impression that the Oxfords ough t to be chivalric enough to try another race, with th e Harvards in American waters, and a belief that they will. " Should they, they will afford the most in," tense gratification to avert' large portion of the OW inunity, if not to the whole people." The sharper.e were at their old tricks and fleeced the flats with bogus telegrams. About half-past three an excite d individual in a white flannel suit, rushed into th e goldroona withwhatpurported to be a ca bl e despatc h showing it to have been Har v a r d th a t won, tho boats in the first despatch being mistaken ; news eagerly grasped and acted on. A group of in terested debaters near the battery were broken into by an eager grey-headed old man with the e 2 te la : mation, "Look you here ; those Harvard boll: ar'nt no slouches ; they have w o n . H oo ray !" announcement which spread like wildfire, an frantic youths, with greenback s i n h an d, fled 0 all directions offering heavy odds on Harver' Washington appears to have su ff ere d f ro m a siL l3i, lar trick, and a clerk in the W er Department g 4 ,u o into trouble for practising it. I n th e sam e issue O h Herald devotes more than h a lf a p age t o theEngli,% Priue:s, Arthur and Alfred. Th e r eception of the former at Halifax is given in f u ll d e t a il, a nd se 13 the arrival of the latter at Honolulu in the 66- latea. The British residents of Honolulu are cry angry with the Commissioner for k e eping th 'i Royal Duke all to hi mse lf an d hi s Majesty 1) f Hawaii, and not gi v i ng th em an oppor t un ity kowtowing to Royalty ; while the officers of t' of Galatea are alao annoyed at not having a chanc e a , becoming acquainted with the c iti zens . On , day, the 21 inst., Prince Alf re d d e p ar ted for Jel'l 3 ; going off like a nosegay, for the native w° 11 ! .(1, approached him on the wharf as he was leairit' ao and hung wreaths about his p erso n till he 7 05 buried in flowers, to which his Royal Hislin u submitted with the utmost composure. 113 11 The same paper remarks on Tammany ‘ , a6 and the proceedings of the Democratic party, o Tammany, having the greenba c k s , m ay rise to wt the control of the Democratic party in the Union, fe r ceo , party is controlled by managers, and they by g r o i n t backs. The election of Hoffman was a !of gained ; the next is to obtain a devoted Tare l m ot i o man as the head of the Executive De.m" der s Convention, and Tweed is indicated. It con s '_ a a that Tammany " has every inducement to _ol ) . Y i v oo , her broad mantle over the democracy of the I ) ; the and to take a new departure in the name ° vet e Empire State fur the succession," and in ' ode r Bismarck Sweeny she has the man for the taking, for, although now absent in Europe' he an d return in time to look after the fall camPaign'ro to prepare the protocol of th e D e mocratic r gramme for 1872. * [ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment a.. „4 11 0 - 11 f Scrofula Skin Diseas es.— l n no di sease i s more 814 , r11 ,ftr constant vigaance required than in the treatment ex aou t fula. Early curative measures save g r eat risks, and unnecessary rmffering. 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Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, J u l a ,lll !ire! , —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, esPe c ' e lf annum:nog all other remedies, he has confined him' co usu po o, to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which be.,,iy 13 : 4 0 a plateful at every meal. It has produced a s urprir:ii i is eA i ie floral effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Pro.,. I v ,. , o er lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Mid' , J ° 'WO ,00 No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of sever a l, oer' o o complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, NO ~,o e se, , ,A palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep l 7 7 7l; P o rf3 the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure 14° ,'„anY /fro° Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford , o' ; L oaf pd. dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable 0 010 p dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipati°,t_Cure,o,ro ci spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria JolY• „f 30 AU 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimloy, Stiffen w e raer",ftei, diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derarg f t he oe o partial deafness. Important Caution.—Bewar e _JO unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to At w t , 0 0 1 authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciou. 1 2 lb , lls , OC °Y- 1 74 Te In tins, at Is 11,d; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6d; 5 lbs , eti 21 lbs 40a.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARA OI6 ,I" O, for 2 '051 POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups St 7 6 cups at Os 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups SOBs , for tins Nil —being about one penny per cup. The 5,.?0,e0f.., free of carriage in England on receipt of Postriondo.' BAR YDu BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stre e all Grocers and Chemists IO BIRTH n ear S. ga ige Nonnuity—On the 11th inst., at Sherridg e, the Hon. Mrs. Norbury, of a son ds ea n g TEANO—On the 12th inst., at Rome,. the Prin ce ' s of a son. M eP ARRIAGES. 13ItETHEUTON-PETRE- On the 14th inst ., at St• b l ab°, Manning, Church,S Spanish - place, by stbbyertti, the o most En T . ' " 6 " 11" n • I° Eq , to the 00 Leila Petre. he t, Kenn, ta furr —liEmr —On the 13th inst., at Kyre ug - I ° ,to cestershire, William Tiffin Huff, M.D., titerl the '- park-road, to Hannah, youngest daug 0 Henry Kemp, of Streatham-common. DEATDS. 1 1 1 48 ' ABRAHAM—On the 11th inst., at Ifforland 11°11:;" John Abraham, Esq., of Nwport, 1.W ., A g ed - Db 6• the 11th inst., suddenly, at 13nxo n ; i 66. i shire, Captain W. A. Eyton, late 96th Foot, L'o et co pe e ' ORR—On the llth inst., at Weston-super-gare, W. A. Orr, ILA., C. 8., of Bridgeton. ocir s London: Printed and Published by IiVILLIAg 0010°1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T HE SUN Office 141.015,il'eseP'. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the tiottoty of WedZiefiattY, sePtoter 15, Inn