The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

ADMIRAL .ROUS AND LORD COVENTRY'S , PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS. Lord Coventry writes to the Times in answer to Admiral Rous's letter stating that he cannot support the noble lord's resolutions which are to be brought before the next meeting of the Jockey Club. Lord Coventry points out that he wishes to raise the minimum weight from sst. 71b. to 6st., to which the gallant admiral objects, " because the maximum weight in a great handicap is under 10st." The writer says : " I am not aware that there is a rule of racing which fixes the maximum weight to be carried in any race ; therefore, if the alteration is agreed to, the Admiral would only have to begin his handicap 71b. higher, and it is surely no hardship to inflct 10st. 71b. on a horse over a listance which never exceeds two miles and a half." He goes on to say that it is very difficult to find an efficient lockey who can ride as light as sst. 71b., and this fact alone is, in his opinion, a strong argument in favour of the alteration he proposes. " For my own part," he concludes, " I should gladly see the minimum weight raised to seven stale. Light, shelly, weedy mares would then be consigned to the cab-rank instead of the stud, and breeders would endeavour to produce animals of size and power which would be available for other purposes if they were found too slow for the racecourse." The Hon. Percy Wyndham also writes to the Times an the subject. Referring to the statement of Admiral Rous that the Alexandra Plate, the distance of which is three miles, and the weights 10st. and lOst. 81b., breaks clown one-fourth of the winners every year, he says that ",in the last century and later, three - miles would have been :onsidered a short distance. Four miles, and even six, were more usual, and lOst. and 10st. Blb. would not have been considered a heavy weight. Under these conditions we have it on record that the horses of that day remained on the turf four, five, and even seven years ; it is true they were not trained at two years old. The truth is that, given a race of thoroughbred horses, the exigencies a modern gambling and the improvement and perfection of that breed are two things diametrically opposed to one another." The Hon. F. W. C. Villiers states that his lather's (Lord Jersey's) horses generally made their first public ap pearance at Newmarket in the Craven Meeting, as the records of many Riddlesworth Stakes will testify. The Craven Meeting used to be held about two months only before the Derby. THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. The charge against the two Government officials of Having accepted £3O for a corrupt purpose, or, as the Indictment puts it, of having conspired to obtain the sum et £3O by false and fraudulent pretences, occupied a long time at Bow-street on Wednesday. The two prisoners are named Thomas Gambier and William Rumble, and the person from whom the £3O was obtained is called Max well. The facts as stated by the counsel for the prosecu tion are these :—Mr. Maxwell is one of the persons who lately tendered for the supply of timber to the Admiralty, and was waited upon last January by the prisoner Rumble, who told him that he could "get him the contract," or, in Ither words, get the tender accepted, but that he would •equire some pecuniary consideration. Mr. Maxwell, • ctuated obviously by a very laudable motive, called on the Registrar of Contracts, Mr. Antonio Brady, and told lira what had occurred. Mr. Brady was surprised and shocked at the statement, and took immediate steps to discover the origin and details of the conspiracy. It turned out that the prisoner Rumble alleged that he hzd friends high in office in the Admiralty Department at komerset House, and that from them he could get the necessary information and could get tenders for contracts ccepted ; and that when goods were supplied under a contract he could get the goods accepted. Gambier was not referred to by name, but when Rumble was asked how he got his information and influence, he said he had friends high in office ; and in order to impress that on Mr. Maxwell, he brought him a few days afterwards the letter accepting his own (Mr. Maxwell's) contract. The authorities, in the exercise of their discretion, and in order to discover the nature and extent of a system which, if it bad' any ramifications at all, must be tested to the bottom, allowed matters to go on, and Mr. Antonio Brady, the Registrar, gave Inspector Clark a cheque for £3O, with certain instructions. The inspector accordingly delivered to Mr. Maxwell three £lO notes, which the latter gave to Rumble. Two of those notes had been traced, one to Rumble, and the other to Gambier. Mr. Maxwell himself being called, than gave a history of how he became acquainted with the prisoner. lam (said he) a mining engineer and timber merchant. I sent in a proposal to the Admiralty for a contract for elm timber for several of the dockyards about the 12th January last. On Friday, 15th, the prisoner Rumble called upon me at my office. I said, " What can Ido for you?" He said, "That depends on yourself." I said, " How so ?" He said, " You have tendered for elm timber, but you won't get your contract unless you use influence at the office." I said, "I consider this to be a matter that should rest on its own merits, and if my own brother were the person to decide it I would not ask him to do so." He replied, " Well, you won't get the contract unless you give a small consideration. It is at present between you and another person who has tendered, and unless you make terms with me you will certainly lose the contract. Even should you get it, you will certainly find that a great portion of your goods will be rejected." I replied, " I cannot help that. I shall not use or pay for any influence. I am not sufficiently anxious to get the • contract to induce me to give a bribe to any oue to use their influence." Rumble replied, " Very well ; I will do the best I can for you, and aft'er you have got the contract perhaps you will do something for me." I soon afterwards received a note from Rumble, in which Rumble prophesied that I should soon get the contract letter. I asked him when next I saw him how he knew about it. He said, " I find out from my friend." I said, " Your friend is not Mr. Childers, I presume ?" He said, "Not very far from him. He is pretty high up." 1 further learnt from him that if he received any money from me he would divide it with his friend. Not long afterwards he brought to me the letter accepting the contract, saying at the same time that it was obtained by his influence. When he called later on I handed him :three bank of England notes for £lO each, which I had received from Inspector Clark. The next day he called again, and said, " Well, you can go up and sign the contract, and send in the wood as soon as you like, and you will get your money in four days afterwards. He (meaning the friend) is much pleased, and will give you some large things when he knows what line you would like." Inspector Clark, the next witness, said he had watched the prisoners, and had overheard the conversation with Mr. Maxwell. He found that Rumble and Gambier were continually together. Acting under instructions it was he who arrested them. Mr. Antonio Brady, Registrar of Contracts and Securi ties, Admiralty, Somerset House, said the prisoner Gam bier was a clerk in the Storekeeper's Department, at a salary of over £5OO a year, having been fourteen or fifteen years in the service. In consequence of directions from the Lords of the Admiralty, and from information received from Mr. Maxwell, he gave Clark a cheque for £3O on the 29th January, with certain instructions. The iheque was on the Bank of England, where witness keeps is account. In the regular course the letter accepting the . ntract would go through Gambier's office, but should be posted to Mr. Maxwell. It was marked for post, but had not been posted. Mr. Henry Childs Hinds, clerk to the Church of England Insurance Office, King-street, Cheapside, :Anted that a man named James Thomas Gambier, a clerk in the Admiralty, Somerset House, was insured in that office, and had paid his premium on the 9th February with the £lO note produced, No. 24,974, oth May, 1867. At this stage of the proceedings the defendants were remanded. LAW AND POLICE. FATE= IGNATITIS AND nis MONKS.—At the Maryle- bone Police-court, an extraordinary case was tried on Wednesday. A youth, named Nobbs, who said he was a student, was charged with stealing £l5 and with assault. The prosecutor said he kept a small general shop, but, on further examination, explained that he had been one of Father Ignatius's monks, and that the prisoner had also been one. They had gone about the country together lecturing, and were now in partnership in the shop. The prosecutor accused the prisoner of being a renegade, and of showing him great ingratitude. The prisoner accused the prosecuor of drinking and throwing I £5 out of the window, so that he was obliged to take the' money to take care of. The prisoner was remanded for a week. Mona THAN A HUNDRED TIMES IN CUSTODY.—A woman, who has been more than a hundred times in custody, was charged a (lay or two since, at Westminster, with being drunk and incapable. She had been brought up to the same court twice since Christmas. She was fined 55., and declared that she had not a farthing to pay it with. LEGISLATING IN FUN.—A few days ago a despatch was sent to the eastern papers from Chicago, announcing that the Illinois House of Representative s had passed a bill ceding the city of Chicago and the county of Cook to Indiana. There was no intimation that the act was not a serious one, but it was a joke perpetrated by the House in mock session. At the same session a bill was introduced which vested " all political, civil, and social power, irrevocably, in the female portion of the population abovs he ., J.l . 4ttLyeaz i 2 advirtficr—rckAL: MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE " OWL." The Owl has re-issued from the ivy bush in which it has been hiding for the past six months. The bird of Minerva is scarcely yet fully awake, and has, so far, bat few words of wisdom to utter. It states (as we had previously stated) that General Balfour has got over his difficulty at the War Office, and re turned to his post. It gives good news to the clerks at the Admiralty, who are told that they will not be dismissed en masse, but will be reduced by d egrees , an y vacanc i es which may occur being filled up with copyists. Per contra, there is bad news for M.P.'s. The Easter vacation is to be cut short because Parliament has met later than usual. Easter is earlier, antt parliamentary business is urgent. A somewhat mythical secret is communi cated ; it is said that when Lord Malmesbury resigned the leadership of his party in the Lords, the names of Lord Salisbury and Lord Cairns were submitted to those with whom the appointment of a successor rested, and that it was unanimously agreed, Lord Salisbury himself sharing the opinion, that Lord Cairns would make the better leader. To us it seems impossible that Lora Salisbury could have been suggested. The idea of his working together again, with Mr. Disraeli is preposterous, or would be so were it not that Mr. Bright and Mr. Lowe are in the same Cabinet. With regard to the principal question of the session, the Owl considers that any direct negative to Mr. Gladstone's disendowment scheme is hopeless, intimates that a certain number of statesmen of both parties will unite to propose a project which will relieve the Roman Catholics of Ireland from supporting a Church to which they do not belong, will maintain, though in diminished proportions, the Protestant Church in Ireland in those relations which now subsist touching the supremacy of the Crown in all matters ecclesiastical, will continue the representa tion of the Irish hierarchy in Parliament, and the right of every Churchman to have every question involving doctrine or discipline finally deter mined by a tribunal in which the lay element predominates. It is intimated that Mr. Glad stone's scheme for the constitution of a board to protect existing life interests will not be opposed ; and that the right of synodical action conferred by Lord Westbury's Act of ten years ago upon the Church in the colonies will be extended to Ireland. The Owl censures the Irish bishops and clergy for neither creating a policy for themselves nor con curring in any suggested by other persons, and warns them that the maintenance of their present attitude of "No Surrender " will bring about the .1 destruction. THE HARTLEPOOL PETITION. The Liberals appear to have made a fiasco at Har tlepool as great as any of the numerous ones made by their opponents elsewhere. After having sub pcenaed a large number of witnesses and given the judge the trouble of going down to Hartlepool, the petitioners suddenly withdrew from the case. The public will be interested in knowing the particulars of the arrangement. RR. HANDEL COSSIIAM AND HIS SUPPORTERS. 'Mr. Handel Cossham, the unslicccslful candidate at Dewsbury, has: just been the hero of a greater triumph than if he had won the election. He has been feasted by his supporters, who, in addition, pai d the whole of his election expenses, £ 1,058, and pre sented him with a salver, and other presents. It was remarked that Mr. Cossham, though defeated, was in rather a better position than the elected of a neigh bouring borough (Igr. Ripley, of Bradford), who had spent £lO.OOO in order to be elected, and a few additional thousands in order to be turned out. Mr. Cossham, in acknowledging the various presentations, said he was really more the representative of the Liberal electors than his successful opponent was, or ever would be. The conduct of his friends with regard to the costs of the election had placed them in a very high place as a constituency. He hoped it was a position that other constituencies would be constrained to take. He had never been sparing of his time or money in political matters, and he was ready to have borne his full share of the expenses in the late contest ; but he yet felt that the course which had been taken was the right one. When a constituency imposed heavy expenses upon a candidate, they placed him in a very dangerous position with regard to their interests. If a man bought a seat, he would be very apt to sell a con stituency. THE IRISH CHURCH. Somewhat late in the day the first step towards a general consultation with regard to the Irish Church has been taken. The bishops having in their late resolutions appealed to the clergy and laity to suggest some mode in which bishops, clergy, and people could take counsel together, the committee of the Lay 'and Clerical Association—a society lately esta blished to watch over the interests of the Church in this emergency —have sent a circular to every parish, strongly urging that at the coming Easter vestries synotialueii should be chosen $, Lo ,0.,11 L. aura moned to diocesan conferences by the bishops. They advise that not more than three should be selected in each parish, and that these should be the persons most fitted by their reputation for wisdom and their steadfast support of the Church, for gravely considering whatever problems the conflict against her enemies may originate. or her future position require them to solve. The Archbishop of Armagh has issued an address to the clergy of his united dioceses, in which he sug gests that they should, on some Sunday in Lent, impress on their congregations " the duty incumbent on us 411 of humbling ourselves before Almighty God, under a sense of the many sins, negligences, and omissions on the part of the Church and of the nation, which in former times and to the present have tried His patience and forbearance, and have merited His displeasure ; and to point out to them how earnestly they ought to join in the prayer. Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers,' and Turn from us all those evils that we ha ve mos t righteously deserved." The Arch bishop add s : " A n d as the Houses of Parliament are about to reassemble, it appears to me that you should also endeavour to lead your congregations fervently to pour forth their prayers on behalf of the Legis lature." The Primate of the Irish Church admits that it has been guilty of sins, but we presume the confession is of the usual vague kind; not at all incompatible with angry resentment if any special sin were charged, THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. English Ch urc h Union, the recent Ritual judgment At an imp or t an t an d numerous meeting ot the was most vigorously discussed. Dr. Pusey was t principal speaker, and was received with an enthusiasm w hi c h must have aston i s h e d hi m , well accustomed tho ug h h e i s t o h ear t y rece ptions.lie read an elaborate argument to shevv - that in matters spiritual and ecclesiastical the Privy Council ought to ha ve no j urisdiction, that the recent judgment Called upon Church men t o d e f en d the principle on whi c h th e Reformation of the English Church Was based —the appeal to Primitive and Catholic antiquity —and that measures should be taken to promote a reform of the Court of Final Appeal. Mr. Orby Shipley was for ignoring the Reformation om , altogeth er , and moved an amendment to that effect, which was lost. Mr. Perry, one of the Ritual Cmissioners moved a resolution enjoining caution upon Churchmen in th e use o f r i tes w hi c h h ave no t been specifically declared legal, and caution upon the council of the union in defending suits arising out of such use. It would seem, therefore, as if the High Church party had been taught prudence by the recent judgment, and will pause in the development of ritual, whose latest manifestations by extreme men led to the recent legal uroceedines and to the condemnation, not only ot ceremonies of extreme men, but o f Lime 1110aulabu ritual or men who depre cated extravagances. This inference is confirmed by the fact that certain of the speakers at the union declared that though they did not consider them selves morally bound by the ritual judgment, they thought it expedient to obey it. DISTRESS IN 'WOOLWICH. There appears to be considerable distress in Wool wich, although the military reductions contemplated by the present Government have not begun to take effect. In order to alleviate thi s di stress, orders have been issued to send 1,000 s hi r t s weekly,to be made by the widows or wives of soldiers having families to support. In the Royal L a b oratory Department of the arsenal a considerable number of men, women, and children have been ent ere d d uring the present week to expedite the completion of 15,000,000 cartridges required for the service, A TOWN IN DANGER. The Rochester people are in a state of chronic alarm, as well they may be, in consequence of the large quantity of gunpowder stored up at Upnor Castle, on the banks of the Medway. They have twice petitioned the House of Commons on the sub ject, but with no effect. Now that Mr. Otway, the member for the adjacent borough of Chatham, is in office, they hope that their representations will pro duce more impression. " RECULER POUR MIEUX SAUTER." The Government is going to incur a considerable expense in order to effect a larger saving. It is about to erect a lock hospital at Chatham for the reception of patients under the Act for ti:e Prevention of Con tagious Diseases. Hitherto the patients at Chatham and Sheerness under treatmen in accordance with the provisions of the Act have, been received at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, RochesLr, but the high rate charged for each patient at that establishment—£.lo per annum, only £25 per annum being paid by the Government at the London hospitals—has induced the authorities to decide on the erection of a separate hospital at Chatham for the exclusive treatment of eases from Chatham, Sheerness, Maidstone, and Gravesend. To th e two towns last mentioned, the Drovi4i4u4 Of tho ACt_Fal shortly THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1E69. THE GULF STRFAM. The present warm weather has evoked a discussion on the Gulf Stream, which institution is called upon to prove that it exists. Lieutenant Maury is for the time disregarded, and Mr. Findlay has publicly declared at the Geographical Society, that that eminent " observer" has stuffed the world with a lot of bosh. The Lieutenant, however, is not without defenders, and Mr. Findlay will have to answer a lot of objections before his new theory will be generally received. It is an ascertained fact—or supposed to be—that across the Pacific a stream of water—a kind of river in the sea—is continually running ; that the thermometer shews this current to be of a higher heat than the surrounding waters, and that below it the water is of the usual temperature. The question is whether this water washing our shores increases the temperature of the land. It is at pre sent a mere question of Maury versus Findlay, and while it remains so most non-professional people will defer judgment. Porte sent a commission to .tsagaaa to inquire into tne disputed points and definitely settle the boundary ques tion. This commission did its work well for some time, but it is now announced that it has broken down alto gether, and hence the quarrel. On what special point the difference has arisen is not yet clear. Equally difficult is it to decide which party is in the right ; but it is to be hoped that the Conference will have a reflective influence, and prevent any serious issue. As the Shah of Persia is now little more than a Russian satrap, a war of this kind might probably affect English interests in the East. disappear. I see the New York Times notices the pleasure Grant expressed from his reception at Bal timore, particularly with the manner in which many of those heretofore regarded as sympathisers with the rebellion put their political differences out of sight and mingled in the best spirit with their most Radi cal opponents. The occasion is believed to have done much toward removing the intense asperity of feeling that has existed in that city. The French Transatlantic Cable Company allege that the resolution referred to the Committee on Foreign relations requiring the consent of Congress to the landing of a foreign sub-marine cable is in the interest of the Newfoundland and Valentia line, and ask to be heard in the Senate by counsel. Dr. Mudd and Mr. Sprangler are likely to be par doned by the President. An amusing instance was furnished to the Joint Committee on Ordnance to day of the jealousy with which inventors regard each other's creations in their own line. How does your Whitworth and Armstrong pull together, as I propose to show what sort of a team our Dahieren and Rodman make. Rodman has just been exa mined by this Committee, and freely stated that the Dahlgren gun was worthless. Admiral Dahlgren was examined to-day, and mournfully testified to the utter failure of the Rodman gun ! Both are scientific officers, but I think the Committee might look elsewhere for information on artillery. General Ingalls considers that the Ordnance and Artillery should be merged, and the Engineer Corps perform the duties of Coast Survey. This offi cer was chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomae, and gave his opinions to the Mili tary Committee of the House. He thinks the quartermaster, paymaster, and commissary depart ments should make one bureau, with a third of the present employes. General Rollins is to be examined, and it is supposed he will speak Grant's views; General Thomas's opinion also will be taken. Robert J. Walker came voluntarily before the uorknnitfen nn Public expenditure to state his con tempt for the paragraph circulating about him and his Alaska fee. Ile cared nothing, but others urged hiar to this action. Martin had called on him in a vain attempt to levy black mail, and a self-styled newspaper correspondent had communicated to his associate counsel that he was able to control the press and many members of Congress. Walker in dignantly sent him word that he had no such money, and if he had he would not thus use it, on which the correspondent became riled and threatened to kill the bill and call on Walker, but this honourable Robert said if he came to his office be would kick him out. Why, while giving all the voluntary testimony, did he not say something about the Alaska fee? AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-Anzerican Times.) (THIRD NOTICE.) MY Adventures Afloat in the Sumter and Alabama. By Admiral Raphael Semmes. After some stay at the Cape the Alabama stretched away into the Indian Seas, carrying dismay among the islands of the Chinese archipelago and on the coasts of India. Singapore became blockaded with American vessels, and the bay of Bengal illuminated with their bnrning hulks, and having effected as m uc h mischief as possible, she commenced her homeward voyage. On the 2d of May the cruiser recrossed the Equator, but not what she had been ; " she was like the wearied fox-hound limping back after a long chase, foot sore, and longing for quiet and repose. Her commander, like herself, was well-nigh worn down. Vigils by night and by day, the storm and the drenching rain, the frequent and rapid change of climate, now freezing, now melt ing, or broiling, and the constant excitement of the chase and capture, had laid in the three years of war he had been afloat a load of a dozen years on his shoulders. The shadows of a sorrowful future, too, began to rest upon his spirit. The last batch of newspapers captured were full of disasters. Might it not be that, after all our trials and sacri fices, the cause for which we were struggling would be lost ? Might not our Federal system of govern ment be destroyed, and State independence become a phrase ; the glorious fabric of our American liberty sinking, as so many others had done before it, un ler a new invasion of Brennuses and Attilas ? The (bought was bard to bear." On the 10th June the Lizard was made, and next day the Alabama let go her anchor in Cherbourg, the last port she was destined to enter. The Kearsarge arrived from Flushing on the 14th June, and after making an unsuccessful application for the prisoners landed from the Alabama took her station off the port. Admiral Semmes sent to inform Captain Winslow that he would engage him if he waited till he had coaled. The crew of the Alabama were not only willing, but anxious for the combat. "The stories," says S.numes, " that ran the round of the Federal papers at the time, that my crew was composed mainly of trained gunners from the British prac tice ship Excellent were certainly without foun dation. I had on board some half-dozen British seamen, who had served in ships of war in for mer years, but they were in no respect supe rior to the rest of the crew. As for the two ships, though the enemy was superior to me both in size, stanchness of construction, and arma ment, they were of force so nearly equal, that I cannot be charged with rashness in having of fered battle." The Kearsarge mounted seven gnus : two 11-inch Dahlgrens, four 32-pounders, and a rifled 28-pounder. The superiority of the United States man-of-war lay in her two Dahlgrens, which enabled her, though mounting one gun less than the Alabama, to throw a heavier broadside. The for mer had a crew of 162 all told, the latter 149. The French frigate Couronne accompanied the Alabama out of port to prevent French waters from being vio lated. It was a fine Sunday, the heights were crowded with anxious spectators —many from Paris, and seve ral boats came out, among them an English steam yacht, the Deerhound. The Kearsarge lay about six or seven miles off. When under-weigh and ready for action, Semmes called his crew aft and addressed them in a few animated words, which were received with a stern silence. On nearing to within a mile and a half the Kearsarge suddenly wheeled, presenting the starboard battery, and heading in shore. The Ala bama then opened with solid shot, the distance being about a mile. Both ships came on under a press cf steam, and to prevent their passing ea,ch other too rapidly they moved round in a circle, the distance across ranging from one-half to three-quarters of a mile. When within shell range the Alabama used that Proion.tile. but nhqprrincs that filoy had Fifth. effect on the Kearsarge Semmes returned to solid shot, alternating, however, with shell. In ten mi nutes, the spanker-gaff being shot away the Confe derate flag came down by the run, but it was re placed at the mizzen-mast head. The shells of the Kearsarge began soon to tell fatally, killing men and smashing in the sides of the Alabama as they ex ploded. After an hour and ten minutes she was in a sinking state, and Semmes made a desperate effort to drive his vessel upon the French coast with both steam and sail, but she filled so rapidly that the fires were extinguished, when he hauled down his colours, and sent a boat to inform the Kearsarge of his condition. During the twenty minutes which remained every exertion was made in the Alabama to save the wounded and such boys as were unable to swim in the only boats not destroyed by the enemy's shot, the quarter boats. Then the crew, as directed, jumped overboard, and the Alabama went do Nn stern foremost. At first no movement was made in the Kearsarge, but when the Alabama sunk one boat was sent out, then another, but the Dee-- hound steamed into the midst of the drowning men and saved the captain and forty of his crew. Nine of them were killed in the action, twenty-one were wounded, and ten were drowned. The Confederate Admiral brings two charges against the Kcarsage. That she violated all the rules of chivalry, as she accepted and fought a single combat, deceiving her enemy into the belief that both were woolen ships and fought on equal terms, while beneath the dis guise of a thin planking the liearsarge was in reality iron-clad. Her cables had been fixed perpendicu larly from the rail to the water's edge, thus coat ing the outside amidship on both sides. The other charge is that she not only fired five shots after the Alabama had struck, but she left the men to drown, although she could easily have saved them, being but some 400 yard§ off when the vessel sank and Sena- mes draws a contrast between this fight in day-light and his action with the Hatteras at night, when he saved all the crew of the vessel he sank. The author, however, sneeringly adds, that he acquitted Commo dore Winslow of any intention of permitting the men to drown, or even of gross negligence, which would be almost as criminal. "It was his judgment which was in fault." This relieves us from the dis cussion of the facts whether the sailors were left to perish, as be thus acquits Commodore 'Winslow of intentional wrong. As a rule Admiral Semmes gives a true version ; therefore it is not his facts, but his fancies, which we call in question. Dropping, then, the latter charge, we may observe with reference to the former that the Kearsarge had been sent to the English Channel to destroy a vessel its Govern ment regarded as little better than a pirate. That cruiser was known to be well built, well fittei, aimed and manned, and commanded by a brave and skilful officer. It was therefore the business of the captain of the Kearsarge to lose no op portunity of protecting his ship and qualifying her for an encounter with so formidable an ad versary. Admiral Semmes insinuates that the boarding which covered the iron cables was in tended to disguise the fact that the vessel was, in a measure, ironclad. Bac a sailor will see a dozen reasons why such boarding should be used— for sightliness, cleanliness, for speed, and the better security of the fixing; the wash of the waves against the iron chains could not fail to retard speed, un less thus cased. Semmes used all sorts of devices to deceive the vessels he captured, and his answer when the Hatteras hailed, even after there was any necessity for such disguise, was an untruth. Yet he "howls a hurricane" over the chivalry of the Yankee who allowed him to leave the protection of Cherbourg to pit his wooden ship against an iron clad. Winslow ought, he thinks, either to have stripped off his chain armour, or to have told him he wore such a coat. The sense of this is some thinglike his insisting upon a frigate, which had over hauled him, casting away her strength in excess of his, that he might have the opportunity of fighting on equal terms; or as if the captain of the Ariel had requested him, when captured, to put half the Ala bama guns into her, that they might have a fair fight. The charge is, in fact, supremely ridiculous ; the two vessels were not unfairly matched, the Kear surge being a shade the stronger, but this strength the skill and foresight of Winslow had increased by means equally open to Semmes. As usual in the tale of the vanquished, (the coat of mail notwith standing,) but for a trivial accident, Semmes would have sunk the Kearsarge in thirty minutes, as he had lodged a shell in her sternposts which did not ex plode. Then he comes out roundly in abuse of the chief Vandal, W. 11. Seward ; and at last settles down into a hearty good cry over his ship, sobbing "No one but a seaman can realize the blow." It does not occur to him that he furnished himself with many opportunities of seeing it realized in other skippers. Finally, however, he bethinks him " that she is safe from the polluting touch of the hated Yankee," and he dries his eyes and is com forted. But while he was whining " great rejoic ing was had in Yankeedom when it was known that the Alabama had been beaten. Shouts of triumph rent the air, and bonfires lighted every hill. But along with the rejoicing there went up a howl of disappointed rage that I bad escaped being made a prisoner." Here, then, was another source of com fort. It was natural that, after this gallant fight, Semmes should be kindly received in England, as was the Kearsarge. It was an action almost within sight of the island, which must appeal to the heart of a►naval people, but it is passing strange that a sister of the Prime Minister, a Miss Gladstone, should be one of the earliest in the field with a long letter of sympathy, appeals to noble influences, and offers of aid. Her brother thought Mr. Davis had made a nation, and perhaps she thought she had caught a lion and a hero. The Sumter had been run into Gibraltar and so closely blockaded that she had been sold, and as a cattle ship was afterwards lost in the North Sea. Semmes having thus got rid of his two vessels thought of retiring, but he could not keep away from action—if not at sea, at least on shore ; so, reckless of danger, he went back to the Confederate States, though .6 the very mention of my name had as yet some such effect upon the Yankee Government as the shaking of a red flag has before the blood-shot eyes of an infuriated bull." After reaching Richmond towards the end of January, 1865, he was promoted Rear-Admiral, and appointed to the command of the James River fleet. What he saw of the country through which he had passed showed him that the days of his cause were numbered, and this conviction was written in the manner of all the leaders with whom he came into contact. His fleet consisted of three iron-clads and five wooden gunboats, but he soon found that the sailors were as much demoralized as the soldiers, and the latter were deserting in companies. Sher man, about this time, was at Columbia, South Carolina. " The Puritan was at last in the city of the cavalier. The man of ruder habits and coarser civilization was in the presence of the more refined gentleman, whom he had envied and hated for generations. The ignoble passions of race-hatred and revenge were gratified, and Massachusetts, through the agency of a brutal and debauched soldiery, bad put her foot upon the neck of prostrate South Carolina ! This was a humiliation indeed. The coarse man of mills and manufactories had at last found entrance as a master into the halls of the South Carolina planter!" The last days at Richmond and the final collapse of the Confederacy are fairly and graphically de scribed, but the Admiral can never touch on the North, its leaders, and their motives without de scending into abuse. The murder of President Lin coln to him looked ".like a just retribution, that he should be cut off in the midst of the hosannas that were being shouted in his ears for all the destruc tion and ruin he had wrought upon twelve millions of people." Not bad this, considering that one third were the slaves he had emancipated. ' 6 With out any warrant for his conduct he had made a war of rapine and lust against eleven sovereign States, whose only provocation had been that they had made an effort to preserve the liberties which had been bonded down to them by their fathers. These States bad not sought war, but peace ; and they had found at the hands of Abraham Lincoln —destruc- tion. As a Christian it was my duty to say, Lord ! have mercy upon his soul ; but the devil will surely take care of his memory." Ile then gives a sketch of the career of Andrew Johnson, against whom he evidently entertains the bitterest feelings of dislike. The light between the President and Congress he designates as the falling out of thieves, both ac tuated by low motives, and regardless of the means by which they accomplished their objects. Both he considered equally unconstitutional in the course pursued, being mere usurpers, and thus his book elids. Every ship he touched was sunk or burnt, alike whether under his command, or the vessels of the enemy with which he came in contact ; and the destruction of the fleet placed under his com mand in the James River was his last act as a sailor, and fitly heralded the collapse of the Con federate Government. E. G. Randall, Postmaster at Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for robbing the mails. It is a pity that the Spectator should mar a good article by such blunders as stating Mr. Jenckes to be the United States Senator from Rhode Island, and of the bill which has given him such prominence as hav ing been introduced into the Senate Chamber. Mr. Jenckes is the Representative from Rhode Island iu Congress, and has never sat in the Senate, and the bill was reported to the House from the Joint Select Committee on Retrench ment., May 14, 1868. In the same article the Spectator alludes to Mr. Welles as Special Revenue Commissioner, though it is the Secretary of the Navy who thus spells his name, while the Commissioner of tho Treasury is David A. Wells. AVeston, the pedestrian, arrived at Hillsboro' Bridge, New "lampThiry, Jan. 26, twenty-one miles from Concord, and was immediately to walk from it to Keene. 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GRATUITOUS ADVERTISING. --- The dodges a newspaper has to guard against of schemers who endeavour to benefit, without cost to themselves, by its sole trading stock, using its pub licity to forward their own objects (and generally very disreputable objects), would astonish outsiders if everything were told. On this side we are suffi ciently exercised in this way ; but what editors suffer is " a caution" on the American side. Th e high moral-sentiment dodge--the philosophic dodg e —the charity dodge—the suaviter in mode dodge" the fortiter in re dodge—the patriotic dodge —ill short, we might run down the whole column in enu merating their vaiiety. Some are barefaced in their impudence ; others so skilfully designed that even if the editor detects th e sw i n dl e h e cann ot fail to admire the ability displ a y e d. S ome ti mes an e ditor is led on like a donkey with a wisp of hay tind er his nose ; sometimes he cuts up rusty, as did the New York Tribune in the following instance: — 80:110 enteiprisitz genius, who wishes to inculcate WI lessions in rascality, sends us the following circular: „ BRIEF REASONS FOR REPUDIATION ,• APPLICABLE , THE WAR DEETS OF ALL COUNTRIES.— Editors who rece' s if the pamphlet of this title will oblige the und , rsigue d ,... they will add any notice they may make of it, the tel ao i o big: Price per hundred; single copies sent free any part of the United States, o n rec e ipt of ce°t, Address --, Booksellers. It may be perfectly natural for one who tries to pero an others not to pay their debts to e ndeavour to ini_ gratuitous advertising ; but, were the object of the ." I , phlet" to inculcate honesty ( as it ev id ent ly is not), should consider the proposition to advertise it upOa I ° ll l o terms other than cash down a little too frigid during winter season. The good of the public is the c a r d gener ally Play ed by the schemers. " Yes, s i r , I k now no thing th at would tend more to the benefit of the people than turning potatoes into molasses through the mediate of this extraordinary inve n ti on , which ca n easily be seen on application to the Do-Pn3-311. Works, Sharper-street, in the parish of Swindle. dote ; I feel confident that so clear-headed a jour nalist cannot fail to see this, and so public spirited a man will act on it." But while the wolves 3r° prowling about editors' rooms, newspaper thein:, selves are no mean proficients in getting a " ri se out of each other. How many beautiful extracts, i neatly printed in slips, ready to our hands, Wi ti nothing to do but to send them off to the con l l 3° ' sitors' room, showing what the Teach-um and ha; struct-um lays down as orthodox, an d what t h e Rule and Guide-um de c la res t o b e th e law, are dropped into our boxes. Ind e ed publishers, whether of f of books or of newspap ers , an d lit erary " genls' all kinds, " cads," a s th e I m p er i a l R ev i ew , bef° r it died, used to write of them, are the m ost ir e ' quent offenders; aud, st range t o sa y, the more re' ligious the thing to be puffed js, the less do 0 1 appear inclined to lea ve it t o it s una id e d Iner , l A charming story is told by that sinner, the Nci ti° ,: e of the saints, the W a t c h man an d Reflector and tm Independent, w hi c h we may pre f ace b y rernark ii ing it that the Watchman h a d a l rea d y ex h aus ted all : could say in its own p ra i se , an d was naturally id, sirous of giving a new set of readers the benefit.. " How the thing is d one ," i n th e mat t er o f gettli;te "first-rate notices," has been painfully revealed in the dependent of la s t we e k. Th e W atc h man an d Reflector sv r. "" c i e . to it privately, it s e e m s, f or an encomium, which 0° - "„ ' re• pendent, feeling kindly toward s the ►'f'atch ' inctit, at ones pared to " set up." But b e f ore it appeare d , the int o " o cl being long, the Watch man s eems t o h ave l os t patience' /a ll'' began uttering loud laments over the Independent's fl oor from "evangelical reli g i on ," an d spo k e a l so, in ae" part of the same issue, and in a dismal manner, of 00 4 mestic arrangements of that paper, and predicted si 3v l too that the Independent would find "a vital ChristianitY:, ito strong for it. Seeing thi s , th e I n d epen d en t orderedbe forthcoming " notice" of the cowardly Watchincoi ' to rt stopped, but the printer, mistaking his instruction s, it standing, and it appeared. Hereupon the Irate found itself terribly emb arrasse d. O n th e one h a nd, al ` O, : dependent, on the Watchman's own showing, had "f gl i e ty;' aud was in difficulties w ith regar d to " v i tal Christ/0;0e but then the " noti ce " o f th e I n d ependent was on its ilea',Do' coals of fire. So it prod uce d a secon d and roverberator37lo'o tice" of the Independent, acknowledging the incleo o r praises and expressing gratitude for its heterodeliol proval. But the I n d e p en d en t h a d b y t hi s t i me go t its i ' v it up, and for ma lly r e t rac t e d "N ot i ce N o. 1 , " exp lained it came to appear, a n d c h as ti se d t h e Watchman sa"genort would we could say undeservedly. As the m atter ta d, four "first-rate n o ti ces " h ave been utterly w as e, "all gone afay in de ev i g k e it , " as H ans B re it m anu tia and, what is worse, the public has been admitted to Are inside view of the laboratory in which these artfol e 'ha . ‘ manufactured. To say nothi ng a b ou t th e arra nt howorat of them, we have always wondered how an adult of, t he nary education could be so silly as to engage either 1, of solicitation or the produ c ti on o f th em. Th e y are 0 01 1 the most ridicul ous , as we ll as most o di ous, o f the ' vi e , impositions which our very pretentious fraternitS Petit tises on an innocent public, and the religious pa p ers o h f o g to set an exampl e o f d ropp i ng them. There is soul ior highly impudent in se lli ng people, as an honest an" 00 partial opinion of a man or hi s work, something tb° himself has privately solicited you to say. gel We confes s t o thi n ki ng that a newspaper is too cle allied to M ammon to be made the vehicle of reerit gious teaching. Th ere i s someth i ng i nc onsist 6 1 in sho w i ng the vanity of riches on one page, 0 t au intemperat e h as t e to b e r i ch on the o ther / To ther with impatience at the stupid public sv ;i : t ill refuses to ru s h open - mouthed at the b a i t so de"" danced before it.—A ngle-American Times. ri e ' The America ns i n P ar i s l as t wee k gav e ,n se d e d , of balls, whi c h h ave b een very numerous ly nt'e -gre Among these wore Mrs Downing, M rs Murdoc k-, su r , Harbeck ~and Col. W. W. Clarke. Perhaps the Mt it tle cessful of all wa s th a t o f C o l. W. W. Cl ar k e , 73, A-- ore Chambers, Champ Elyse e s. A mong th os ePPrese nt par Mrs Park G o d w i n an d daughter, his Excellency -- * f the lingame, Chinese Ambassador, George Wilkes, ° Spirit of the Times, Dr G. J. Badnell, W. H. Murphy , A ' J oe Consul-General at Frankfort, and Mrs Murphy, won wood, Mr and Mrs D own i ng , M rs H ar b ec k and divot; u s " . st Col. Fetridge and daughters, W. C. Watson, Co 0 .4 Rhodes, Dr Evans and daughter, Dr and Mrs a go and daughter, Mr Brewe r , w if e , an d d aug hter, Mr° gr 6 Overman, son, and daughter, Col. Gower, Mr and r cY Albert Bierstadt, General C. B. No r t o n and wife, J' t he Tucker, W. Bowles and wife, &c. &c. The toilettes ,e 3 ladies were most tastef u l an d b ecom i ng . The ba ll i tii ttoe' till 6 a.m. next illy. Among the American is st- ork introduced on that occasion was a Euctire-room { J r de playing, and a room where all American drinks o's re ob ilitf for the occasion. Seve'ral members of the French 11 a SO' and aristocracy wore present at the ball. Col. Clarke received great credit for the manner in wil le gaga brilliant affair was conducted. Mrs Downing is ell ' ta ab l° soon to give a fancy dress party in Paris. [A DVERTISEMENT.]-11.enceforth no one will doubt the I n a i . 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We quote from the "la t e Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The health 0 %tw o Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all otlau ca le' t dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's 13 ,, r y tne:i Arca Food, of which he consumes a plateful at 0 %,1th, 5 ,010 It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his ' o f his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hiPi'3,2l 6 'iot extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures:—Cure NO. 151 p 15 : 0 0, the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver lotlio, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous P s 'l'ost all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and thectort,.l,, tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years d 'spoPoss No. 40,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from i spa s l yfr , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ilatule ll l 2 7o: sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." 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A lia rr BEARCROPT—On the 15th inst., at The Moor10,13"f: bury, Worcestershire, the wife of Henry Bea rcr°lv* of a son. ve sg, LOWTHER—On the 16th inst., at Kent House Sheerbter' the wife of Francis Lowthr, Esq„li.N., da° 4 lo 6 SCLATER-BOOTIE—On the 15th inst., at 15, Ne vl-- Spring-gardens, Mrs. Sclater-Booth, of a on. Marriages. , 445 ' COIIEN—JAvAL—On the 16th inst , a t the 9 13 " o f Paris, Alfred, third sou of Louis Cohen, . 6,4 " gar': Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London, t ° , l gale / third daughter of M. J. Jave], of 17 , B oulovar herbes, Paris. 311 . ; ' Monanx— er-squarWe,arHenry rE —On Morgan, of the 16th ins P l t., ym outh, r° at St. George:6Aroolig ov IVO elder daughter of the late John AI. White, Bsrl.l minster, Wilts. thd e Dat re, ee DYSART—On the 15th las e t , at hs. Grosvenor- sort, ea Right Hon. daria Elizabeth, Countes s of P 5 . O " 9 ' 1/Pll el. DOUGLAS—On the 16th inst., at Fl e athfleld, C. Bain, Win. Douglas, Esq., aged 79. o r., FOWLER —On the 16th inst. ,at 34, Ladbrolco 4 • , , 5' 117 ' f' S. Fowler, Esq., aged 86. d Lowninn—On the 12th inst., at Orleans, the - 1 - 43 t beth Lowthi,r, aged 85. 30 jo SA N DIIAM—On the 14th inst., at Rowdell, Sll o4 ' e t, Charles F. Sandhatn, late It.A., aged 87. ~,,, Th A/j SWINFORD On the 16th inst., at Minster Al).-,' John Swinford, Esq., aged 82. ~NDftES°. 1 4+ London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILL IS -' u „, N . ° of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'fiat SUN Owe'bootl Strand, in the Precinct of the So 709, in t" Middleou t —Thunday, February 18, _lea AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Mr. Williams, of the Broad-street Refuge, has made public a most singular case. He states that an orphan girl, not yet 14 years of age, has been arrested and removed from the Girls' Refuge at Ealing to Whitecross-street Prison for a supposed debt of £53 lls. 2d. M r . Williams expostulated with the attorneys who issued the execution, but they laid the blame on their client. The governor of the gaol said he had been there for thirty years, but had never had such a case before. Mr. Williams does not attempt to explain the extraordinary trans action, but says, with reason, that it is a scandal to the law. Not the least singular part of the affair is that so young a girl should be supposed to have incurred such a debt. THE FACTORY ACT. That portion of the Factory Act making the Satur day afternoon and Sunday holiday compulsory, has created a very large amount of opposition and com plaint. Workpeople and masters alike are grumbling ; the former because, as they say, their wages have been lowered, the latter on account of the great inconvenience of shutting up so early when there are large orders on hand. Mr. Redgrave has done what he can to oblige the employers by allow ing the half-holiday to be given on any other day than Saturday. Now the Jews want relief. A day or two back no fewer than seven cigar manufacturers were brought before Mr. Benson, at the Thames Police-court, accused of having employed females and young persons on Sunday morning. From the statements of several of the defendants it would appear to be the custom of such of the cigar manufacturers as are Jews to employ their workpeople for a few hours on Sunday mornings instead of Saturday, the latter day being strictly observed as their Sabbath. By the new Factory Act all work on Sunday is made illegal, and the Jews are not excepted. It is true that manufacturers of this per suasion are allowed to employ women and young persons on Saturday evenings from four till nine, but in summer this exception will be valueless, as the Sabbath in that season does not end till after nine in the evening. This certainly makes it a question whether Jews should not be allowed to carry on their work while the remainder of the nation is at rest. But the subject is beset with difficulties. THE USE OF CHLOROFORM Those who oppose the introduction of new anesthetics are very exacting in their requirements of safety. Only one death out of some thousands of cases was held some time back to be proof that the American system was a failure. But such exaction would lead to the rejection of all those compounds which are " warranted to prevent pain." Still the administration of chloro form is always accompanied with a certain amount of danger. On Sunday last a chemist of Sheffield died under it. He was attended by two experienced surgeons. The chloroform was adminis tered to him at his own request, and he had not inhaled it more than three minutes when the heart became paralysed, and death, of course, ensued. The quantity given was very small, but it seems he was exceedingly afraid of it, and fear carried him off. The jury returned a verdict, " Died from paralys e s of the heart." BEET-SUGAR. a o n f o h th om er e the M T r in e le a s ir o d n the has s m ub a j d e e ct He states that Mr. Duncan has thoroughly succeeded in the trial he has made. lle has . been . seconded some Suffolk farmers, who supplied -grown-isoungatro. white Silesian beet, which is the most approved ed o _ for its sugar-producing qualities. In consequenc er _f_ some inevitable drawbacks the result of the eap has him with ‘ t , h y e_ ment this season is not profitable,. but . enough .e sod been done to spew that there is nothing th being r ng carried and climate of that part of England to prevent sugar-beet culture and manufacture farms f o out with the same success as on th e su gar -a Pclgium and the North of France. Mr. Duncan has received. 800 tons of sup;Ar-beet from the farmers, Lb gtuttli of 1000, for whioh ho has paid at tho rate of 20s. a ton. He has entered into engagement to pay the same price this year, and with a favourable season expects to receive. 4,000 tons. Mr. Caird observes that this is not a work to be entered on by a novice, for great chemical : n 1 engi neering skill must be employed in the processes and machinery. The introduction of sugar-farming into this country may become an object of national importance both as regards consumer and producer, and as a new rural manufacture it will afford em ployment to a large body of people during three months of the sl ac k es t period of the year. The analysis skews that beet grown in England and Scotland contains more sugar than that of Belgium, whereits manufacture is successfully carried on. The best beetroot was g rown on the Barking Sewage Farm, which is watered by the London drainage. It therefore aappearsthat, in additi on t o y i eld i ng the best corn, the finest strawberries, and the most beautiful flowers, the refuse from our drains will produce the sweetest sugar, A PLUCKY POLICEMAN. A sergeant of police, Mason by name, has just per formed one of the most plucky actions ever heard of. He was riding along a country road in Middlesex one night, when he came on two ruffians driving a cart full of what he had good reason to believe was stolen property. He was unarmed, but he dashed at them, only to find himself con fronted by two more ruffians who had been concealed among the goods. These he held, and, after a terrible struggle, lashed fast to the cart—the first two escaping. While duty made the policeman brave to heroism, conscience made cowards of the thieves, and thus a large quantity of valuable plate was recovered. Mason has received two money rewards, no end of compliments, and promotion. Col. Henderson, who has just issued his address on becoming Chief Commissioner, asking the police to support him in his new duties, has received trolll Mason at all events a very satisfactory reply.' INDIAN TELEGRAPHS. The prospect of competition seems to have stirred the managery of the present line of telegraph to India into something like efficiency. Messrs. Leo Schuster. and Co. write that on February 15, at 11.35 a.m., they sent a telegram to Calcutta, and that at 6.50 p.m. of the same day they rece i ve d a reply answering their message in detail. Thus, in less than 71 hours, 12,000 miles of ground were traversed, which is nearly twig' as f as t as t h e earth travels round the sun. FOREIGN NOTES. TURKEY AND GREECE. The Patric mays the city of Athens has now - become quite tranquil. The new Ministry has already commenced LL. uallitatay •Ipar oder o of war, had become overwhelmingly heavy. A correspondent of the Post writing from Crete highly praises the activity and skill of Hobart Pasha. No Englishman has previously held such high active command in the Turkish navy, and so far the experiment has produced the best results. Hobart Pasha has settled the Greek blockade -.runners, and put an end to the Cretan insurrection. More important still, he has permanently improved the discipline and organisation of the fleet under his command. The lethargic Turks think him strict, but he is, nevertheless, a great favourite both with the officers and the men. The writer believes that the Porte could not do better than give him supreme control at Constantinople. Such a measure would speedily result in a really effective naval fighting force. The Porte might do more, and get an English officer to look after its army organisation. The Turkish army is large enough, but it has none of the proper necessaries, without which men are useless in these scientific times. THE PERSIAN DIFFICULTY. It seems that Europe is to be annoyed by another Eastern quarrel. Turkey and Persia are on bad terms, and are troubling the world by marching troops about. It was at first announced that the Shah had set out to the scene of " action," but though news from St. Petersburg contradicts this statement, it is added that six Turkish battalions with guns have gone to the frontier. The Neue Freic Presse of Vienna embel lishes this intelligence by asserting that 10,000 Turks are on the march. This quarrel relates to the boundary line between the Turkish and Persian dominions. The Per glans complain that their neighbours have encouraged predatory expeditions by Koords and Arabs, and that several frontier villages have been burned and the inha bitants driven out. The difficulty arising from the unset tled boundary line between the two countries became so serious three years ago that England and France inter fered to prevent a war. The Turkish Governor of Bagdad, who was deemed the abettor of these Koord and Arab incursions, was recalled, but, much to the chagrin of the PereiAua. WWI ..11901. .2aPiattr.A.WArk.jill GERMANY. The husband of the Princess Royal of England and his not very juvenile father, King William, are of decidedly frolicsome temperament. At a masked ball recently given by the Crown Prince, the two royal personages left the palace secretly and dressed elsewhere. The King's figure is not particularly well adapted to disguise, but by frequent changes of domino he succeeded in enjoying the juke of being ordered about by his own police. On one occasion, says the Daily News correspondent, after he had quizzed a young countess beyond the bounds of female curiosity, she suddenly made a snatch at his mask, when to her own horror and the King's amusement, she found herself confronted by Majesty himself. Another rather ludicrous mistake arose from the Prince of Montenegro and his suite appear. ing in their national costume. Their picturesque toilet was taken by the chamberlains for a fancy dress, and they were at first directed to leave the room assigned for princely personages, and to join the other maskers. Amid the noise of the dispute between Belgium and France, and the angry feeling caused by Count Bismarck's speeches in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, it is satis factory to learn that in the Upper House of the Prussian Legislature the Chancellor put forth a decidedly pacific manifesto. The second of his speeches on the Sequestra tion Bill was marked by none of Count Bismarck's brusque, not to say rude, expressions. It was in fact little less than a friendly overture to France, and though the terms were as vague as usual, they may prove not the less valuable at a time when the old angry rivalry seems to be reviving. understands that the French and Prussian Governments have now undertaken to use tneir innu.ice with the press of their respective States with a view to the discontinuance of the acrimonious paper war which has been raging so hotly between the journals of Paris and Berlin. It is rather unfortunate, however, that at the present moment, owing to the Belgian Railway affair, the contest on the side of France has become more vehement than ever. FORTUGAL The demonstrations at Lisbon in favour of an Iberian Union are not without significance. Of all the bankrupt countries of Europe Portugal is financially the most miserable. Its deficit has been accumulating yearly since 1865, and the expenditure now exceeds the revenue by one-half. For the last thirty years there has been no budget without a deficit. The debt rose from twenty millions sterling in 1854 to forty-seven millions in 1867, and all this increase has been during peace. The Govern ment has omitted to pay the interest, and has reduced the rate for both home and foreign obligations ; but these expedients have availed nothing. Now the troops cannot be paid, and the crisis, it would seem, cannot be staved off much longer. Hence the cry for Iberian Union—for annexing Portugal to another scarcely less bankrupt State. AMERICA. The important vote in the House of Representatives respecting the removal of all disqualifications of race, colour, or previous condition of slavery was passed by a majority consisting wholly of Republicans. This consti tutional amendment has yet to get through the Senate, and it must be passed this session, which expires on the 4th March. In the next House the Republicans will not possess a majority of two-thirds, which is necessary to pass a constitutional amendment. Even then negro suffrage will be far from being the law of the land. It must be accepted by three-fourths of the States, whilst it is notorious that in many of the leading local legislatures the Republicans avoid this question, which has pre viously lost them votes. Ohio, New York, and Connecticut have before declared against the amend ment. Though the motion for making San Domingo a rra sectorate of the United States, and also the motion for annexing the island, have both failed, the Times Phila delphia correspondent believes that the annexation party is growing, and that San Domingo must ultimately become American territory. (Front the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The weather has been lovely, the gardens will soon be in flower, and the grounds of the Capitol begin to throw out their crocuses if it continues, though thele are growl:S itUU IL Lnu Alort and bad supply of ice. As the tinie is neared for ex-Congres s m en to go home for goo , the scramble in the lobbi e s in creases. 1 Th er e is no good for going ho m e w ith empty pockets, more eipcially when the lobbyists are showering the money abaul - ., and the last chance is drifting away, for if they lose the present the future is propitious neither t o th e b r ib er nor the bribed. Grant solemnly affirms that no lobbyist need expect anything from hi m . A pet i t i on s i gne d by a number of Representatives has been sent to the Senate begging that no more a p po i n t men t s may be made until the inauguration of the new Admin the Republican S ena t ors i n caucus re istration, and solved by 25 to 8 not to confirm any more of Pre sident Johnson's nominations except in special in stances. The Senate was a little indignant at the undue interference of the House with its I reroga tive. This decision is considered to dispose of Collector S m ythe's nomin a ti on to St. Petersburgh, of Mr. Stewart's to Turkey, and others. Talking of f or eign missions? Secretary Sew ar d h as now won over Butler, with whom h e h e ld a consu l tat i on at the Capitol together with Mr. Morrill, and the Senate Appropriatio n C omm i ttee as the result has restored all the S ou th A merican missions, which was a greed to by th e 'l ouse A ppropr i at i on Committee. Mr. Washburne is ill ; for days he has been in delicate health, and his late hard work has told severely against him. Vinnie Ream has nearly completed the model of her statue of Lin coln, and it is pronounced to be an excellent likeness The bygood judges- young lady for rebel proclivities has had to w i t hstand mu c h h ost il e cr i t i c i sm. I have heard that Mr. BI line will prove the stronger, and beat Dawes for Speaker of the next House ; and Mr. M‘Pherson will gain his re-election as Clerk. So it is thought will Mr. Ordway as Sergeant-at- Arms, though there is a strong canvas against him. The professors of Princeton College, led by Presi dent INl‘Cosh, are early in th e fi e ld f or an appro priation to observe, from a point in the South, the sun's total eclipse of the 7th A ugus t nex t. Eff o rts are being ma de to introduc e women i nto t h e pro posed Suffrage Amendment, an d S ena t or P omero y came out without reserve for female suffrage, mov ing an amendment to that effect. He was sup ported by three known to be favourable, and strong men they are — Sumner, Wade, and Wil son. Mrs. Stanton has done some raving on this subject, objecting to the extension of the suffrage among men until women are enfran chised, for, if the tyrants be multiplied, the condition of the su bjects becomes more hope less and degraded. She describes the male element as a destructive force, selfish, loving war and violence, and breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disease, and death. She, however, considers the recent Convention here a suc cess, which has much advanced the cause —perhaps she thinks too fast, judging from the objectionable style adopted, which must check it. General Grant is by no means reticent about public affairs, but though he discusses measures, he is careful not to introduce a name. The story relating to him at Vicksburg is denied, though it has some foundation in fact, for it is true that Banks was ordered to join him at Vicksburg, the Government being aware of Banks' seniority, which would place the army under the control of that officer, and Halleck is believed to have suggested this course. Stanton flatly denies the action attributed to him, and the facts Grant knows, as they are recorded in history, according to which Grant himself wished for the junction. Mr. Dana, who was at Vicks burg, and was Assistant-Secretary at War, con firms this. Talking of that gentleman's paper, the Sun, its correspondent claims positively that this will be Grant's Cabinet:—Secretary o f State, E. Al. Stanton ; Secretary of the Treasury, G. S: Boutwell ; Secretary of War, John A. Raw lins ; Secretary of the Navy, John A. Griswold ; Secretary of the Interior, J. A. J. Cress well ; Postmaster-General, J. R. Hawley ; At. torney General, John F. Wilson. A monu ment is to be erected to Lincoln at Spring field, Illinois, out of cannon. It is now shown that Sue Murphy and her family were disloyal, and if this proves true her chances of compensation will I ON.. f nerN VoilB Year . wi the stry Go, Tire Wh( th e T lifth and wis, Snit ‘ I Mitt 4 ......__ trZ, Year Ile9 E tlig e ery „ C I tua ford fo ol Wat 0, frog firth, of L