The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-10 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENLNG, APRIL 10, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE BUDGET. The resolutions setting forth the provisions of the Budget occupy three folio printed pages of the par , - liamentary sessions papers. There are no fewer than thirty-four different articles which, under the abolition of the shilling duty on corn, will be set free from taxation. These include every conceivable variety of farinaceous food, from wheat to " bear or bigg," from barley t 9 " manna croup." The exa miners for the India Civil Service competitive exami nation would puzzle their candidates not a little by requesting them to translate all these terms into French or German. The remission of the duty on hair powder involves only three articles ; but it will be new to some of our readers, we suspect, that starch is applied to this purpose. One would have thought that this material would have made a flunkey's hair stand on end. " Mum "is the next word we have to deal with; it is one of the recognised terms of the brewers' vocabulary, and henceforth both mum and spruce will be subject to a duty of a guinea the barrel of 36 gallons. Other sorts of beer will be taxed according to the specific gravity of the wort before fermentation; viz., from Bs. for a specific gravity not exceeding 1,065 degrees to 16s. for a specific gravity exceeding 1,090 degrees. The new excise duties on male servants, carriages, horses, armorial bearings, and horse-dealers occupy a page, and vary from 10s. 6d. for a horse, to £l2 10s. for a horse-dealer. The most simple of the resolutions are the sth, which totally repeals • the excise locomotion duties; the 7th, which repeals the percentage duty on fire insurance ; and the Bth, which repeals the excise duty on tea licenses. This, the last resolution, includes coffee, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, and pepper, as well as tea. The repeal of the taxes on locomotion will pro bably have one effect which Mr. Lowe did not con template. It will lead to the revival of stage coaches by way of rivals to the railway trains. The coach from London to Brighton has proved so successful that it is intended to run one from London to Dover over Shooters' Hill. A. coach will also run to Sevenoaks. The truth is, Lon doners are so weary of being, whirled to and from town perhaps every day of their lives, that they want a change—a change which will give them an opportunity of going over hills instead of under them of seeing a glorious view instead of being buried in thick darkness. A tunnel has long ceased to be a novelty. We must go back to the days of our fathers in order to enioy the delizhtful spectacle of four gallant horses galloping down hill. Twelve miles an hour will then be much more of a sensation than sixty miles an hour is now. bergs, earthquakes, and hurricanes will do business with agents not empowered to buy, they run the risk of having the bargain contemptuously set aside by the Legislature, and there is then no use in blaming the Republic, and calling that, bad faith, which is really their own ignorance of the power of the men with whom they deal. Senator Sumner's earnest remonstrance may prevail, and the United States complete the purchase, but indications lead us to incline to a very different opinion. Our readers who turn to the article on the Tenure of-Office Act in another column, and see the lecture Senator Sprague fired at the galleries of the Cham ber, will sympathise with those accustomed to occupy these seats, as they cannot know how to behave in view of the action taken by the Senators themselves. On March 26, when discussing thelndianAppropria tion Bill, the two distinguished Senators, Morton and Fessenden, took headers into each other. Fes senden spoke with contempt of Morton's financial theories, and Morton sneered bitterly at Fessenden as a lecturer to the Senate. The galleries naturally re garded this as in earnest, but while eagerly looking for a further development of the quarrel they found the Senators chatting together in the most friendly way and shaking hands. Unless the Senators tell the spectators when to laugh and when to cry they can not know. We recommend the coursepursued by the lady in " Great Expectations" who sends for Pip, and says, " Now, play." If Senator Sprague would exclaim when the time came, " Now, laugh," the galleries would know what to do. The Andrew Johnson, whom the Times correspon dent killed some days ago, is "up and at 'em." De spatches from Greenville, of March 26, state that after suffering intensely from Bright's disease he has recovered, and is in his usual health. He was an nounced to speak at Knoxville last Saturday, on Tuesday at Nashville, and at Memphis and Louis ville on the 26th inst., and we have no doubt there are some, when they hear what Andy says, who will regret that the rumour which prevailed for an hour did not prove to be true. The report circulated at Washington was that the ex-President had died at his home in Tennessee at eight o'clock on the morn ing of the 25th of apoplexy, and great excitement prevailed till the evening, when the truth came out, that he had a stroke of paralysis on the right side, but that he had much improved. The family phy sician in Washington, Dr. Nims, had been tele graphed for to proceed at once to Greenville. The Nation in one of its little leaders again alludes to Mr. Montgomery Gibbs in connection with the Secretaryship of the Paris Legation. These are its words :—" Mr. Gibbs may be a very estimable gentleman, but with a large and worthy and per spicacious portion of the public he is not in good odour. One thing against him is that he was sent abroad in 1863 to report on the mode in which foreign imports into America were valued in the invoices, and that a Congressional committee, which investigated his doings after his return, re ported that be was not considered in New York a desirable exponent, advocate, or representative of an individual enterprise requiring responsibility, integrity, and veracity ;' that he had while abroad made for himself an unenviable reputation,' and that he had while there resorted to shifts, disguised names, constant misrepresentations, purposely to mislead, deceive, and entangle,' from which the Committee not unnaturally infer that it was well nigh impossible he could be a gentleman and man of honour.' We may guess, therefore, the effects upon the American name, and the efficiency of American diplomacy, of the appearance of a Secre tary of Legation at Paris with this kind of reputa tion, and of whom a Committee of Congress has spoken in this fashion." As we never saw the Re port, we are not qualified to give an opinion on the subject, but we know that Mr. Gibbs has been employed on special business by the Government in New Orleans, that be was recalled from Europe for the purpose, and that he brought that business to a successful issue. It certainly is strange if the late Administration could thus employ him, while with the present Administration he stands so high that he was supposed to be the favourite for a respon sible position, yet, should be, what this Committee describes. In fact the contradiction is so great that there must be some mistake. Mr. Henry C. Carey has written a series of letters in a New York daily, in answer to the Re port of Commissioner Wells. Exception has been taken to a remark of Mr. Carey, that the Commis sion was influenced by British gold. Whenever one man now differs with another in the United States, he who is contradicted usually retorts with the charge of corruption ; it is well known, that he who has had the audacity to dissent is a member of the Whisky Ring, stole spoons during the war, served shoddy in his contracts or paper shoes, or wa3 bribed for his vote. The man who becomes a Free trader, more especially if he ever professed Protec tion principles, is declared to have his new opinions well ballasted with British gold. The amount of British gold which must have been spent in this way ought to have sent down the premium in Wall street. We would like to know who gives it, for we much wish to dip our hands in that abundant stream. If there are men in England idiotic enough thus to spend their money, it is a great pity that their names and address should be un known to the hungry mob, always in pursuit of fools. It has been suggested that Mr. Carey's best plan would have been to prove the assertion, and save himself the reams of paper he used to contro vert the Special Commissioner's statements. We confess we would require some of this British gold befor * e we undertook to read these letters. All we know is, that oee of the arguments used by Mr. Carey was, "You are a thief, and have been bribed with British gold." What did Mr. Carey get for writing thirteen letters, each enough to fill two columns of close print in the Times? Secretary Boutwell has asked Congress for autho rity to anticipate the payment of the interest on Bonds, and it was passed by the Senate, and is now under the consideration of the House Committee on Ways and Means. The Chairman, Gen. Schenck, thinks that the Secretary has already full authority under existing laws, and therefore there is no ne cessity for such legislation. This he pointed out to the Secretary, and the other members of the Com mittee agree with him. Of course, Secretary Bout well intends only to invite application from those who desire such prepayme nt ; not to force on the holders money they may not want, with a rebate of 6 per cent. discount. He has no more right to make a man take money not due, fixing the terms upon which this should be done, for one year than for ten ; and to those who mostly invest in such securities to derive a regularly paid income from a reliable source, it would be peculiarly bard, to have to take their income when Secretary Boutwell pleases, at a rate of discount decided by Congress. Representative Lynch, of Maine, has succeeded in getting a Select Committee of Congress ap pointed to inquire into and report at the next session the causes of the great reduction of American shipping tonnage engaged in the foreign carry ing trade, and the general depression of the navigation interests of the country, as well as to suggest the most advisable measures for in creasing American ocean tonnage, and to regain for the States the foremost position the Union once held as a maritime power. Many motions are now before Congress to forward the establish ment of steamship lines with Europe. There is a New York and Antwerp Company, which asks for a remission of duties on shipbuilding materials, and the contract for the mails not exceeding the postage of that they carry. One bill by Senator Wilson pro poses aline between New York andßostonandEurope, for a 10 years' contract, with a subsidy not exceed ing pop() for each round trip. The North Ame rican Steamship Company of New York is patronized by Governor Fenton, who has introduced a bill giving that, together with the Commercial Navigation Corn parry of the State of New York, and the American Steamship Company of Boston, a con tractfor 15 years, the compensation being the sea and inland postage on all the mails carried. There is another bill of the National Steamship Company of the State of Dela ware, introduced by Senator Conkling. They want, with the remarkable modesty characteristic of Dela ware, the Government to supply all the money meded, and to pay them exorbitantly and for a very long term of years, for carrying the mail; but they offer no guarantee. The bill appears to be a curiosity of legislation ) And nit* hays required no rAIPERIAL PABLIAXENT SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, , THE CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST 1 ADMIRALTY EMPLOYEES. - The Saturday Review, in drecdssing Mr... Lowe% nnancial At the Central Criminal Court, on Firday, the case in 1 HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. statement, observes that it has been the rare fortune of . which James Thomas Gambier, a clerk in the Admiralty, T he Loin the Chancellor of the Exchequer to giatify the House When and William Rumble, an engineer in the Royal Navy, are LORD CHIN OR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. - Commons and the country with &pleasant surprise. t r n a indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to obtain by THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. all men looked that he should curse them with aa r x et c false pretences from Nicholas Mahon Maxwell the sum of It was announced to their lordships that at the meeting loan, he has blessed them altogether. The revenu e . . urns £3O, came before Mr. Justice Hannen. The Attorney- ,of the Hudson's Bay Company the proposition of the Go- Of the financial year presented a gloomy and fuligmous General, with whom u ere Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., and ! i Yernment had been accepted. appearance, and it was generally apprehen ded that d n ot alone Mr. Harrington, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown ; Mr. I The house then proceeded to consider t h e motion of the reduction of the es timates woul Serjeant Parry appeared for Gambier, and Mr. NaemYth 1 Earl Russell, with respect to the r i g ht of Lord Wensley produce an equilibrium. Mr. Lowe has mainta in ed , in for Rumble. I dale to s i t and vote in Parliament. The noble earl briefly the midst of lugubrious a ntici p ations, unbroken s ilence, The Attorney-General opened the case, stating that I reviewed the precedents, and stated that in the bill which congratulating himself perhaps on an opportunity of the prisoner Rumble had sought to obtain money from i he intended to lay upon the table he shou l d p ro v ide th at exemplifying the artistic precep t, Mr. Maxwell on the pretence that he could through a friend I the number of life peerages should not exceed twenty " Non fumum ex fulgore, sod ex fume dare lucem." at the Admiralty use such influence as would lead to the I eight, and that not more than four should be created in Mr. Lowe evidently shares the opinion that exceptional acceptance of a tender for a contract which Mr. Maxwell one year. outlay ought to be distributed over a series of years; and , The Marquis of SALISBURY said the bill appeared to had sent in for the supply of timber to her Majesty's I If he is right in believing that his new mode of collection be founded on sound principles. . docky ards . It would be shewn that Rumble bad been will be advantageous in itself, he is perfectly justified in .The bill was read a first time. close ad confidential commun i ca tion with Gambier, profiting by the accompanying windfall ; or, to use more Their lordships then adjourned. in n nd that when the latter was arrested there was accurate language, in picking up the fruit which he has found hi ms elf shaken from the tree. There can be no difference person could doubt referred to the rece i p t of £lO from I of opinion on the expediency of substituting o ffi cial Rumble in respect of lal a,xwelrs contract, and which bore / jax-gatherers for parochial amateurs ; and although date about the time that Maxwell bad paid money on this excisemen will exercise additional vigilance, moderately account to Rumble. The pretence, said the learned honest taxpayers will welcome a change which gentleman, which the prisoners made to Mr. Maxwell 1 removes their establishments and their private was altogether a false pretence. They bad no influence affairs from the curious supervision of neighbours. whatever with the Admiralty, or with any other 1 ‘ ln his estimates of revenue, Mr. Lowe has been prudently department, for obtaining the acceptance of any roodest ; but there can be no doubt that in the absence of contracts. If it were a fact that the accept- 1 disturbing causes his expectations will be considerably ante of contracts could be procured through the exceeded, even if rich men should once more disappoint influence of such means, it would be a very serious matter I him by obstinately refusing to die. With the exception indeed, and would indicate a rottenness in our public of the cotton trade, the principal branches of industry are ; service of a most alarming character. But Mr. Max- a a a a tolerably healthy state ; and the rise in the rate of : well obtained no benefit whatever from the prisoners, and ' `erect shows that commercial enterprise is reviving. if they had succeeded in obtaining money from other con- fir, Lowe has commenced his career with p t r actors in the same way , t h os e contractors had p aid their 4 au spices, although at the comme ncement of his s rosperousp eech h mone y without consideration. If the jury c ame to the wisely propitiated the jealo us p owers by dilating upon thee conclusion, after they had heard the evidence, that these unhappiness of his circumstances. ' two persons were guilty of this offence, their verdict The Spectator refers to the discussio n that has taken w ould be of the highest importance to eve r y d e p artment ' P lace about Lord Stanley's politics, and declares that in the service. .heing what be is, it can be no surprise to anybody that he ' The examination of witnesses was then proceeded with. should be somewhat of a problem and a perplexity to the Mr. Maxwell said he was a mining engineer and timber Tory party in days of hot conflict like the present. In merchant, at 49. Lombard-street. On the 12th of January times of rest, with no great issue before the country, he last he sent into the Admiralty a contract for elm timber for might do very fairly for their chief ; for he would win for the dockyards. On the 15th, Rumble, whom he had never 1 them the credit of small reforms and lineiness-like sagacity, seen before, called upon him, and told him he would not get avliile he would throw cold water w ith admirable precision . his contract unless he used influence, and, indeed, unless u• aim on the " heroic remedies" of Radical prophets alp. he made terms with him (Rumble) he would certainl y lose i i like pelicans in the wildernes s, and obtaining no heed. his contract. Witness said he would not bribe anyone to nToghave so candid a chief telling his party that all their use his influence; and Rumble then went away, saying as favourite ideas and war-cries are no use in the world, is of be left the office, " Very well, I'll do the best I can for you; course a scandal and a great source of new weakness. and after you have got the contract, perhaps you will Naturally enough Lord Stanley is at present the least do something for me." Witness immediately went to popular of the Tory chiefs, and Mr. Gathorne Hardy, who Mr. Brady, Registrar of Contracts at Somerset House, 1 has identified himself conspicuously with the Protestant and told him what had occurred. On the 18th Rumble religion, the most so. But Mr. Dieraeli, we think we may came, and said witness would receive his contract in a venture to prophesy, is not likely to give place to day or two. He had learned that from his friend in the either of his colleagues. While Mr. Gathorne Hardy Admiralty, who was " pretty high up." Witness asked I fitly represents only the prejudice, Lord Stanley "ln the event of your receiving.£2o or £3O from me, would only the prudence, Mr. Disraeli endeavours to repro- you keep the whole of it, or would you have to share it sent--and more or less succeeds in representing— with any other person ?" Rumble said, " I should have in the larger sense the policy of• the party he leads. to divide it with my friend. My friend has great in. He enters into its prejudices so as to avoid drenching the finence, and when you want your accounts passed, I shall ardour of his supporters in ice-cold water like Lord be able to shew you bow to do so quickly." On the 2nd Stanley, and without being possessed by them like Mr. Rumble came again, and said witness's contract was keathorne Hardy. He duly appreciates the force of "smashed up; " the new Board was very difficult to deal party passions which the former hardly does, but without with. He added that, while witness's contract was for being influenced by them like the latter. In a time when £914, the other was for - 0 925. He afterwards brought a letter a leader even of the Philistines can only be qualified for accepting the contract for Portsmouth Dockyard. Witness his post by having entered in some degree into the educe. asked whether the letter bad been obtained through his tion and aims of the children of light, it is impossible foi influence, and Rumble replied, " Most certainly ; if I such a man of Gath as Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Goliatt hadn't used my influence you would not have got it." though he be, to lead them with any success. On the Witness bad tendered for the supply of Woolwich, Chat other hand, it is equally impossible for one who is so ham, Sheerness, and Devonport ; and he asked bow it was purged from Philistian lore as not even to wish to see the those tenders hadnot been accepted. Rumble said, Philistines triumph, though it be also true that he has no "You are much better without them ; they are great wish to see the Israelites triumph and desires only a sus- h umbugs down there." Witness gave the prisoner three pension of hostilities, to lead the children of Philistia ; and £lO ' ' notes which he had received, through Clark, the de this is the case with Lord Stanley. Until there grow up a tective, from Mr. Brady. leader with something of Mr. Disraeli's detachment of i Mr. Brady was then called, and deposed that after vision, and yet something, too, of Mr. Gathorne Hardy's receiving a communication from Mr. • Maxwell, he Toryism of soul, the Conservatives will never have a really employed the detective Clark. The witness described the great leader. Such a statesman as the late Sir Robert Peens course of business with regard to correspondence about not easily found twice in a century—and even the late contracts, and said it could not be known at the Store- Sir Robert Peel had in him a grain or two too much of , keeper-General's o ffi ce, in which Gambier was a first - class Lord Stanley. 1 clerk, that Maxwell's contract had been accepted until The Examiner and London Review says that how to be 1 the 22nd of January, when the memorandum of the deci splendid without cash in hand, and to do the nennifi- sion of the Lords of the Admiralty came down. Gambier, cent without anything to spare, was the problem which however, had means of ascertaining previously that Providence set Mr. Lowe. Mr. Childers and Mr. Card Maxwell's was the lowest tender. well had done their best by dint of saving to furnish their Mr. Horton, a clerk in the Storekeeper-Gengars office, colleague with the wherewithal, and but for the unlookeda. and Mr - Girdlestone, a clerk in the Record O ffi ce, were for windfall of extra liability left him by King Theodorey k next examined. The latter witness said he put letters the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have really ha • } which were to be dispatched into envelopes, which a surplus, with which he might have lessened the actual he did not fasten, but placed in a basket for amount of taxation. As it is, however, the whole the messenger. Cross-examined by Serjeant Parry : of the retrenchments on account of the army and navy Do you mean to say that at the Admralty, when will not suffice to square the account for glory purchases you put a letter into an envelope, you do not seal in Abyssinia. Indeed, we are not yet quite sure hov; it or moisten the envelope? I do not.—lt is too much we shall have to pay on that score. But taking the much trouble, I suppose. (Laughter.) The messengerhas most favourable view of the case, the bloodless expeditior to do it? Yes. (Laughter.)—And he can read the letters will cost no less than £9,0e0,000 ster'iug, and thus Mr. - if he likes ? I should not allow him to do so if I saw him. Lowe has found himself driven to the necessity of Mr. William Hen ry , enryG r a ham, another clerk in the inventing a surplus, in order that he pay have the pleasure Storekeeper-General's department, Mr. Nelson Girdle of spending one. Instead of borrowing from the Bank or stone, Mr. Dundas, Storekeeper-General of the Navy, the Stock Exchange, he has ingeniously resorted to the Admiral Spencer Robinson, Comptroller of the Navy, and expedient of borrowing from to-morrow. He proposes to Mr. Baxter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, anticipate £3,30,000 of assessed taxes, a large portion of were also called for the prosecution. which, in the ordinary course of things, would not become For the defence it was argued, on the part of Gambier, payable until a good way on in the next year ; and with the that he had only given certain information, for which he produce which he hopes thus to realise, he undertakes to had received £lO. To give that information was a corn relieve the community of burthens to the extent of mon thing. It was indiscreet, not criminal. For Rumble £2,940,000, leaving a surplus, after balancing all, of it was contended that he had merely acted as agent. Wit- R 442,000 to strengthen the balances in the Exchequer. nesses as to character were called, among others The total amount to be paid by the nation in the next Alderman Sir Thomas Gabriel; and it was shewn that twelve months will, in round numbers, remain the same ; Rumble and Gambier had only very recently become but, in a variety of ways, the incidence of taxation is known the one to the other. The jury, however, after a modified or shifted from one set of people to another. The quarter of an hour's deliberation, found the prisoners guilty. whole affair, as Mr. Lowe himself candidly avowed, is the Mr. Justice Hannen, in passing sentence, said they had result of a dexterous resort to the art of "parliamentary L been convicted upon evidence which could not leave the magic," whereby a Minister of Finance is enabled to work , faintest shadow of a doubt on the mind of any person wonders. 1 1 who heard the case. With respect to Gambier, it was im. The John Bull declares that if the circumstances of , possible to exaggerate the enormity of his conduct. He Ireland are so peculiar as to demand exceptional treat- : was a person of good education, was respectably con ment, then the only logical alternative is to petition for , netted, and appeared to have troops of friends, so that an Irish Parliament. If the measure is one dealing (as it one would have thought he would have been restrained by does professedly) with Irish interest only, it is only just the desire men had to retain their reputation from that Irishmen should be allowed to decide the matter for committing such a crime as 'this. He had, however, themselves. We believe that all parties would admit violated the trust reposed in him in a high and that such a course as that at which we have hinted is a responsible office. Regarded in another view it was fair and reasonable one. But it may be alleged that in impossible to conceive any offence likely to be more mis advocating a repeal of the Union, or even anything that chievous in every way to society, for how many men who may tend to such a consummation, one incurs a fearful had never yet committed an offence of this sort might be responsibility. But the question is not whether Conserve- easily induced to do so by some tempter saying to him, tives should bring about such a cry, but whether they " Oh, you need not hestate ; it is done in the public should support it before the bill becomes lawoin order offices." In the position in which he was he set an example that English Liberals may be roused to the real which might be followed in all ranks of society, and as far danger of the situation ; for all who know Ireland agree as he might he had tarnished even the name of his country. in saying that the cry of repeal will wax louder every He (the learned judge) would not make any distinction year should Mr. Gladstone's bill become law. The Irish , between them, but pass upon them both the same sentence, Protestants will have been deserted by England. They , which must be a severe one, namely, eighteen months' ' will feel that they will not receive less justice from a Parlia. imprisonment with hard labour. went sitting in College Greene than in St. Stephen's ; and \ -- believing that the article of the Union which made their I forefathers accept it has been sacrilegiously set aside, nineteen out of twenty of them will be repealers. Those who honestly believe that this cry of repeal will be fraught with peril, and that the bill of Mr. Gladstone will alien ate the Protestants without satisfying the Roman Catho. lies, may be excused if they prefer that the cry of repeal be raised before rather than after the bill becomes, law. ' The Saturday Review looks with 'great displeasure on those well-meaning but fanatical persons who view with equanimity, if not with positive satisfaction, the prospect of exchanging the established clergy of the Church of England for a more religious, as they say, and more earnest body of disestablished and disendowed ministers of religion. We are only concerned with the fact that a disestablished and disendowed clergy would be altogether, except in Church, an institution not only different from, but opposed in conception to, an Established Church. It is simply ridiculous to suppose that, with all the exist ing clerical conditions changed, we should have the same raw material to work with. As it is, there are clergy and there are clergy. We have the intellectual, intelligent, highly-educated clergyman consorting with nobles as his equ als, which they are often by birth, sometimes by for tune, always by education ; the solid, matter-of-fact, temperate country parson, of Mackworth Praed's type ; the forward, pushing town parson, to whom popularity and pew-rents are powers ; and the vulgar, ignorant fanatic, who occasionally culminates in an Irish bishop. 'These varieties we have ' and they have their value, evil • but there would be ' their good as well as th eir , • th e disestablished Anglican parson of few varieties in the future. For a time notsomething of .l the o sapie ch.ad racter would survive Butas Rome r ralie t i!v s ery i rapidly, onic'di not perish, in a day. gradu al ly, o level sink, but the clerical not only would the clerical great character would be entirely change d . In the towns 1 , 'etive clever men of the Ward Beecher , ee . e. , - , —, . .. e „., ._ „ ______ ...., we should Lave a VD r u and very much of despots Oriental scholars have been called upon to believe. A i -ole ° tee-- type, men making great incomes, . Hocks. And we • over their thr:ving and money-making . .. discovery of some irde.re.e. 4- e, • - - should have the petted shepherds of the sectarian petite ePttse, the spiritual directors and t 3 rants of the women, and of the husbands who think that religion is a very proper employment for females and feminine-minded men. And we should have, both among High Churchmen and Low Churchmen, the supple obedient nominee who is patronised and instructed and interfered with and bu llied by the great man of the congregation who finds the money, and keeps a church and parson as an easy means of minis tering to his own state and importance and reflecting his vulgar munificence. But the independence, the freedom, thepure liberal spirit o f th e E ng li s h c l ergy would be gone. As to the country parishes, to suppose that their Church administration would rise lunch higher than it does under the present voluntaryism of Dissent is futile to argue. The Establishment, with all that belongs to it, its good and evil, its worldliness and political excellences, has made the - English clergy what they are ; a n d th en w e are asked to believe that every one of these efficient causes ceasing, precisely the same results will fellow from re • gbililo 9PPOittiritgli and pjaiiplo, . ----- P...cia HOUSE OF COMMONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took tho chair at 4 o'clock. THE NEW LAW COURTS. Sir 11. PALMER presented a petition from the members of the Temple and Lincoln's-inn against the alteration of the site of the courts from Carey-street to the Thames Embankment A WEALTHY PA.UPER.—A rather amusing case, and shewing how difficult it is to know where to give relief, took place at Ilford, Essex, a few days ago. A poor woman, named Smith, had, on representation of her destitution, which appeared true, been allowed a weekly pittance, which had lately been augmented by a piece of meat. On her death about £6O in sovereigns was disco vered under her bed, much to the surprise of everyone who knew her. The Lancet regrets to hear that at least one death has resulted from the exposure to tempestuous weather of the volunteers who went to Dover on Easter Monday. An offi cer of ono of the metropolitan corps, who was previously in good health, was attacked by erysipelas of the face on the following day, and unfortunately succumbed after two days' illness. What adds to the melancholy interest of the case is the fact that the gentleman in question was to have been married within the next few days, and that every prepara tion for the event had been made. A NATIONAL COLOUR.—Brown is the character istic colour of Spain, from the drapery of Murillo and the walls of cathedrals, to the shadow of cypresses and the arid soil of the hills. Whether brightening into gold, or ripening into purple, it always seems to give the key of colour. In the streets of Caidona it WAS the base upon which end!e3s picture que groups of pe ple ware painted —women spinning flax, children cooling their bare bodies on the stones, blacksmiths and cobblers forging and stitching in the open air—all with a keen glance of curiosity, but also a respectful greeting for the stranger. THE DISCOVERY OF RECORDS AT THE INDIA OFFICE.—The " find" of Timour's library at the India Office is, we hear, now considered not to be so valuable as Oriental scholars have been called upon to believe. A discovery of some interest to Oriental scholars has been made, but its real value is still uncertain. About thirty years ago a large quantity of manuscripts was sent to the old East India House in Leadenhall-street, from Beejapoor. These were inspected by Professor IL 11. Wilson, who de clared them worthless, and put them aside. But lately a Syrian, who is engaged un ler the librarian in rearranging the manuscripts in the library of the India Office, found that on several of the papers huddled together in the box from Beejapoor was the seal of Timour ; and these have since been put together and bound in volumes. It is not yet known, however, whether they are original memoirs or only copies of historical documents already familiar to students, and the only evidence of their value so far is the offer made by an agent of the Pasha of Egypt to purchase some of them, on the strength of their imykif _Zan&Q allamagr MUM BUDGET NIGHT. The Star remarks that when Mr. Gladstone used to make his financial statement the avenues of the House were crowded all day by persons anxious Is to obtain admission, b u t that Mr. Lowe's statement attracted no such g a th e ring. Our contemporary has forgotten that this c h an ge due, not to diminished curiosity on the part of the public, but to improved arrangements on the part of the officials. There is no need now to waste a whole day in order to have a chance of hearing the Budget. It is no longer the rule first come, first served; and, therefore, it is no longer of any avail for persons to take their seats at 5 a.m. The admissions are arranged by ballot, and it is necessary only to be at the House by 3.30 p.m. in order to ascertain if you will be among the favoured seventy and odd persons privileged to hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer unfold his secret. IRlsii NOTES. The Churchmen of Ireland are getting more violent as disestablishment becomes more a matter of certainty. Rev. gentlemen in several districts are in effect calling upon.their flocks to recent meeting if rebel. One pea ce f u l pas tor, at Monaghan, asked a sons theyohf the had any great desire to go through the operation of being trampled up on . "Would the the a tyrant king Nobody appearing t o answer in the affirmative , he was encouraged to continue his question s. " men who would not to deprive them of their rights allow a tyrant Parliament to do so ? The Protestants of Ireland were ready to do just as their ancestors did, and before they would stand to be tyrannised over they would rally round their Queen, and resist their and her enemies to the utmost ; and if a treacherous Ministry dare to bring her into a difficulty, s h e would find her Protestant subjects of Irel an d prepared to stand by her." But even_the Queen was not to be sacred. A Justice of the peace, who came after this speech, declared they were ready to stand by their Queen as long as she was prepared to stand by them, but no longer. They would stand by the Queen and Government as long as they maintained inviolate the national contract, but not one day be yond that. The Government of England at the present moment had fallen into the hands of men who, for their own purposes, were endeavouring to break the Act of It wan most likely the bill would pass in the Commons in a modified form, and he doubted if the Lords would have firmness to resist the pressure that would be brought to bear on them. Then the great point would be to support the sovereign in her duty, which plainly would be to exercise her prerogative, and put her veto upon the measure. To put against this we have news that a most enthusiastic meeting was held in Belfast on Thursday night in connection with the Presbyterian Association, and in support of Mr. Gladstone's bill. The Bishop of Cork contradicts once again most emphatically the statement that he consigned Mr. Gladstone to the devil. As a bishop and as a gentle man we are bound to believe him. At a recent meeting at Dublin, his lordship asked all the papers which had published his alleged speech to publish his reply. He said The sentence I never used. These words, or words embodying such sentiment as they do, I never used. The sentiment expressed in them, or implied by them, I utterly abhor. Such words I would not use, I could not use. Such sentiment I could not entertain towards the meanest creature that lives, and how far less towards the eminent person to whom they refer." But Ireland is not merely a land of strong lan guage ; it is a land of violent deeds. Threatening notices are becomi n g very common, and that they are not merely threats is proved by the way in which so many of them have been followed by their fulfilment. The Times correspondent says that in some instances the persons who have been menaced deem it necessary to have a gua r d o f police constantly with them for their protection, and when they go abroad are accompanied by one or two constables. "It is not now thought a very extraordinary circumstance to see a gentleman, when going out to hunt, escorted by two policemen for some miles until he crosses the borders of the district within which he apprehends dangers when he dispenses with their attendance, but has a strict appointment with them to meet him again at a certain place when returning home." The following is an extract from one of the notices recently sent in Westmeath :—" If you or any one else violate the laws* laid down in the public notices you shall receive the re ward, that is, your_ lives will be the forfeit. If you have already taken the grass farm, retract the bargain—Every one must have an equal chance of getting grass for his stock the poor as well as the rich you will be no worse than another. Do not be deceived by any false counsels the laws are made and must be carried out effectually as sure as the sun arises land or stock will be of little use to a dead man. However if you incur the danger of taking the grass farm—We advise you to get your life insured for a pretty good round sum in order that some relative may be the better of you bear in mind the bullet awaits you We remain enemys to oppres sion. Give up farm if you care to live." 013 ITUARY. Four deaths are mentioned worthy of note—that of Dreyschok, the pianist, who has died at Venice, aged 51; that of Mr. Hassarcl, also at a years, and who was during ten years M.P. for Waterford, and since 1866 one of the referees of the House of Com mons ; that of Ca who served unde r Nelson, Saula and Troubridge, and who was in hi s 81 s t ye ar ; and that of the Arch ptain Robert Martin Cole, RN., deacon of Down, Bishop Mant, th e commen tator, and 62 years old. Mr. Mant, a son of th e well-known WHEN FOUND, ALAXE - A NOTE OF. irresistibly The Daily N ew ,, , i n one of its leaders to-day, is battle once b egun, h an d e d down from sire to son." Where did S co tt say any thing of this sort ? If our contemporary will turn up reminded of Scott's lines abo u t "Freedom's his Byron, he will find the words he h as ascr ib e d to the Border poet in the introducti on t o t h e story of the Giaour. In calling 'Von the Greek to rise, and make the " clime of th e un f orgo tten braves " his own, the noble poet remi n d s hi m that though he die in striking for hi s coun t ry , b e will "leave his sons a hope, a name th ey, t oo , shame-- w ill rather die for than For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeattaffied of t edfromilseeedvienr w gs o ir n e 2 t , o son, Though (From t he Anglo-Americen Tim es.) We learn th a t th e D an i s h agent is returning from the United St a t es, b u t n othing is said of his success or failu re regar ding the purchase of St. Thomas's by the Republic. Our own opinion is that he has failed, for the United States show the most unmistakeable disgust at the Alaska pur chase, and the means by which it was accom plished, and are sensible enough to perceive that it is not waste land s th a t the Union wants, con tinental or island, t ro pi c al or frigid, but the deve lopment of the demesne already possessed. The citi zensdesireit to be thoroughly understood abroad that no -Ministers have the power of negotiating such bad bargains for them, If foreign dealere in ice- THE POLICE. Mr. BRUCE said that the case of the person; Mac donald, who was stopped by a police officer named Coucher whilst delivering Treasury circulars to members of the house and charged him with loitering, had been inquired into, and had the man answered the question put civilly to him by the constable he would have avoided the short detention which be suffered. The police had a very difficult duty to perform, and it was but just that as much assistance should be given them as possible. NEUTRALITY LAWS. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Mr. Harcourt, said he hoped to introduce a bill founded on the Report of the Royal Com mission appointed to consider the laws of neutrality, na turalisaticn, and allegiance during the present session. THE REPEAL OF THE CORN TAX. Mr. GLADSTONE said with respect to the cessation of the payment of duty on foreign corn, it could not be given up until the approbation of the house had been given to the substantial principle of the bill which it would become necessary to pass before the duty could cease. Mr, AYRTON, in reply to Mr. Barnett, said the proper time to ask for further explanation on the subjects referred to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last evening would be when the subject was resumed next Monday evening. INDIAN FINANCES. Mr. G. DUFF in reply to Mr. Mitchell, said the Secro• tary of State would, on as early a day as possible recom. mence drawing bills for India. CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC SERVICES. Mr. FAWCETT roso to move that, in the opinion of the house, all appointments to tho civil and diplomatic services ought to be obtained by open competition. He contended that open competition for Government appoint ments would lead to the best results, and entirely abolish the demoralising effect of giving appointments for political services rendered. The system at present in practice was that a member of Parliament was waited on by an influen tial member of his constituency, and this person solicited an appointment for his son ;the member at once proceeded to the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury, and told .him it was important for him to secure the support of such and such a person, and that if he was not obliged more than likely he would go over to the other side, and the seat would be imperilled at the next election. The Patronage Secre tary, who was always very obliging, on being appealed to in such terms, eventually said he shall be too happy to put the name down for the appointment, which, of course followed at no distant day. Now, when the less influential of the voters saw that Mr. So-and-so had got a good appointment for his son or nephew for his exertions at the last election, and they had got nothing, how could it be expected that these poorer voters would refuse a £5 note when it was offered them ? (Hear, hear.) To such an extent had the nomination system been carried that it was on record that Sir William Hayter publicly boasted at one of his electioneering campaigns that he had been a good working member for the borough he represented, and that he had succeeded in getting no less than 300 appointments for his constituents. (Loud laughter.) Another case which showed the advantages of open com petition was that which had occurred at Cambridge, where a person of high connection had been publicly expelled from his college for falsely filling up an examination paper, and committing other disreput able acts. But that was the result of the nomination sys tem, and that person, on the strength of his family con nection, had obtained a Government appointment, and now ho was representing his country at a foreign court. Such a circumstance never could have occurred had open competition been the rule. (hear, hear.) He thought the most beneficial results would follow the adoption of the system he advocated, and ho concluded by moving the , resolution. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the subject was one of great importance and difficulty, and he for one could not be classed amongst those who were op posed to open competition, but to say that all appointments for the future should be by open competition alone was an arrangement to which he could not consent. He thought that great hardship would result front the passing of such a resolution as that now submitted, and further he thought it would be unjust to the Government, because they had not even had time to consider the subject. They bad been overwhelmed with work since they had been in office— (hear, bear) —and knowing that there were some of the warmest advocates of open competition in the Govern ment, he did hope the honourable gentleman would feel satisfied the subject would not escape consideration, and that under the circumstances ho would withdraw his rosolution. If pressed to a division ho could not give his vote for the reasons he had stated in favour of the motion. Lord STANLEY also urged the withdrawal of the motion, as the pressing it to a division on the present oc casion would place many of the warmest advocates of the 'system is a false position. _lf a division was taken he should not oppose the hon. gentleman, but he should no give his motion his support. The house divided. when there appeared— For the motion . Agair.st it Majority 281 ... -251 The house then went into Committee of Supply, and a sum of £1,586,000 was voted on account of the" Civil S:•r vice Estimates, which would be equal to a supply for two months. Mr. AYRTON said the first intention of the Governmem had been to take a vote for four months. Mr. W. HUNT took exception to the original proposal for taking a vote for four months, and reminded Mr. Glad stone that last year, when in opposition, ho had objected to the Government taking votes for more than six weeks, Mr. GLADSTONE retorted that Mr. Hunt had omitted altogether the cardinal point upon which the Opposition last session had resisted the attempt of the Government to take votes on account for more than six weeks. That was the circumstance that the Government stood condemned by a vote of the House of Commons on a question which the late Premier declared to be productive of consequences more formidable than foreign conquest. The objection now taken was frivolous. Mr. DISRAELI defended the course pursued by the late Government, and said the explanation given by Mr. Glad stone was not fair.and candid. It was quite evident that the right hon. gentleman, when he made his rash and reckless accusation against the late Government was in perfect ignorance of tho fact that they had introduced and passed a bill which remedied the very grievance of which he complained. After some further conversation the vote was agreed to, and the house resumed. After a considerable discussion 'Royal Commissions were issued to inquire into corrupt practices in the boroughs of Sligo and Beverley. The house then adjourned. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 12 11 ... 12 11 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 3 ... 12 3] Antwerp — ... 25 371 ... 25 45 Brussels — ... 25 371 ... 25 45 Hamburgh - ••• 13 11 ... 13 111 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 1201 Vienna — ... 12 70 ... 12 80 Trieste . 12 70 ... 1 2 80 .. Petersburg - 311 Copenhagen... ........ Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz . 49 ... 49+ Leghorn Milan ... 26 471 ... 26 55 Genoa .. Naples Palermo — ... 26 471 ... 26 55 Messina Lisbon ... 521 ... 521 Oporto ~ 52k ... 521 Rio Janeiro , New York An Englishman relates that he recently dined in Nevad:i with an editor of that commonwealth, who inquired after the health of Tennyson and "Thomas T. Carlyle," remarking—" Them men kin sling ink, they kin." L ADVERTISEMENT.] - lion° way's Pills.—Bilious affec tions and stomach complaints induced by atmospheric beat or too liberal diet, if not early checked, aro often at tended with serious consequences. When any one finds his ideas less clear than usual, his eyesight dimmed, and his head dizzy, while he is indisposed for all exertion, physical or mental, be racy be quite sure that he is in im mediate need of some cooling and purifying medicine. Let him send at once for a box of Holloway's Pills, after a few doses of which his head will be clear again, his spirits be elevated, and all his energies restored. Printed directions for the guidance of patients iu the use of this admirable 1119aCillt7 are affixed t 9 9yery box. small amount in what, in slang phrase, is termed " cheek" on Mr. Conkling's part to present it ; but we suppose a short apprenticeship at Washington will supply even a modest Congressman with an unbounded amount of that commodity. Fernando Wood has gone in for the encouragementof yacht ing, and has got a bill for the purpose referred to the Committee on Commerce. Altogether there is abundant evidence to show that the citizens are about to make a strenuous effort to revive the ocean carrying trade of America, but not before such legislation was needed. One of ex-President Johnson's last acts was to direct the issue of $2,400,000 in bonds to the Cen tral Pacific Railroad for advance work, but Grant got in in time to save a million, which he stopped. The Secretary of the Interior asked for legislation to fix the point where the Central and the Union is to meet. Ogden, says the Central; Promontory Point, says the Union ; the former being in Salt Lake Valley, the latter at the head of Salt Lake on the north, and the two seventy miles apart. But the Union has worked up to Ogden, and is now actively laying rails beyond it. Unless some one it: authority interferes, both companies will have tracks running into Salt Like City, as the contention is for the traffic of that city as well as of Southern Utah. On the 24th of March the Union Pacific Railroad had been extended to Ogden, 85 miles west of Evanstown, and the Central Road to Lucca, 74 miles east of Wells, thus leaving a gap of only 82 miles to be filled, in order to complete the two Pacific railroads ; and it is now asserted that the roads will meet in May. The nominations to the .New York offices, on the 25th March, checked the persistent attacks of the office-seekers, as the mpst alluring prizes had then disappeared; but office-seekers are naturally of a sanguine temperament, for no man otherwise could pursue these phantoms, so they brightened up on re calling how many tempting morsels still remained. As for the high posts, the mission to England,it was positively said, would be offered to Mr. Motley, while Mr. Francis, of Troy, New York, was named for Bel gium and Mr. John Jay, of New York, for Aus tria. These are the great prizes, and we only hope the nominations suggested may be made. Edward S. Plumb goes to Cuba as Consul-General. It is said that Generals Sickles and Cochrane will be offered Foreign Missions. Mr. H. M. Williams has been assigned to the head of the Bureau of Seizures, , 18th Division. Among the 48 Deputy-postmasters appointed are Miss Julia P. Woolfolk and Miss Champlin—no great concession to women among so many ; the name is a misnomer. Secretary Boutwell has carried consternation into his Department, but the great flutter is among the " females." The lady clerks have been asked to give their names, residence, by whom appointed, and to state whether they had a father, brother, sister, or mother in the department. In the Cur rency Bureau, on the 26th Marcb, alone, fifty were informed that their services would no longer be required. In no department has there been more bitter complaints of nepotism and favouritism than in the Treasury, and the Secretary's action is well calculated to cause dread. It appears that the lives of 36 miners were lost in Nevada last Wednesday by extensive fires in the shafts of three silver mines. We are at a loss to understand how this catastrophe could have hap pened, unless the miners, to escape the cold above, had descended into the mines. The suffering at White Pine had been severe, as the snow lay ten feet on the ground, and the owners of claims feared to move lest their landmarks should be obliterated and their rights invaded. There was little shelter, while the popul t ation continued steadily to increase. The letter from " M.," which will be found in another column, is worth a careful perusal. It is written by a gentleman who thoroughly knows the country, having been born and bred there. The European and North American Railway is a link so Important in the international communication as to make it of equal importance to America and Etrope. What our correspondent says shows this in a nutshell. This railway means, in lessening the distance from shore to shore the saving of two business days in time, reducing 3,000 miles of ocean to about 1,700. The day nears when Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand will have an equal interest in this ; indeed, our corre spondent could not exaggerate the importance of a line whose value is now but little understood in Europe. - • - - The elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island have been held, and the Republicans have been tri umphant in both States. In Connecticut the en tire State ticket was carried by a majority of 500 ; be ing for Governor, Marshall Jewell ; Lieut.-Governor, Francis Wayland ; State Secretary, Hiram Apple ton ; Treasurer, David P. Nichols ; Controller, James W. Manning. The Republicans returned two of the four Representatives to Congress. Mr. Statkweather was the only Republican in the Connecticut Congressional Delegation, and we may take it for granted that he has been re turned ; but who the other is we have no means yet of knowing. W. H. Barnum is the only Democrat of the last Congress who runs for this; the Congressional gain as regards Connecti cut to the Republicans is one Representative, and it is said that that party will probably secure a majority of the Connecticut Legislature on joint ballot. The Republicon State Ticket of Rhode Island just elected is—Seth Padelford, of Providence, for Go ' vernor ; Mr. Burnside having declined another election ; the remaining officers were re. elected. Pardon W. Stewart, of Newport, Lieutenant-Go vernor; John R. Bastlett, State Secretary; Wm. Sales, of Providence, Attorney -General ; and Samuel A. Parker, of Newport, Treasurer. That party have also succeeded in returning a majority of the Legislature. Messrs.Jenckes and Dixon, the former Representatives of the State (both Re publicans), had already been re-elected to Con gress. In these late elections but little interest was excited, as they have lost their national importance, and they failed even to command much local atten tion, the votes being very light. On Thursday night the House of Commons listened to the Budget for the next financial year, as expounded by Mr. Lowe. He proposes a penny to be taken from the Income Tax ; the shilling duty on corn abolished ; at midsummer next, the Fire Insurance duties to be removed : hair powder will in future not be taxed ; stage-coaches, omni buses, and four-wheeled cabs, whether for profit or pleasure, henceforth; being on the same footing, I will pay two guineas a year; foreign beer to be placed on the same scale as home-brewed ; the tax on male servants is fixed at fifteen shillings ; horse dealers in London and in the country are placed on the same footing ; the license for selling tea is also abolished. The cabs will cease to pay the duty of one shilling a day, and the omnibuses their mile age rates. On the whole, the House was agreeably surprised on learning that the country could afford to make these reductions. The President received a number of mixed Con servatives and Republicans from Mississippi on the subject of the reconstruction of that State. He said he thought the best plan would be for Con gress to authorize the Constitution to be again sub mitted to the people, a separate vote to be taken on the features objected to by the Conservatives, , and that meantime the present Military Comman der should control the State. There is a great difficulty in ascertaining the true position in Cuba. Private letters received in Washington represent the insurgents as in posses sion of more than half the island outside the prin cipal towns, and they constantly receive reinforce ments from America. The Daily News of Charleston announces the arrival of an expeditionary force in Cuba, composed of both officers and men who served in the Northern and Southern armies during the war. Captain-Gen. Dulce issued a proclamation on March 21, which concluded with a flattering address to the citizen volunteers. Twenty-five insurgent leaders had been captured and executed, and two towns bad been burned by order of Cavada. Castellanos, a noted chieftain and blockade runner, had been captured. The impression prevailed that Santiago de Cuba had been taken by the rebels, and it was known that a severe action had been fought. On the 26th March Mr. Banks, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint resolution declaring the sympathy of the people of 1,.- - " the United States with the people of Cuba in their patriotic efforts to secure their independence, and to establish a Republican form of Governmen t guaranteeing the personal liberty and the equal political rights of all the people, and that Con* gress will give its Constitutional support to the President of the United States whenever he .map deem it expedient to recognize the independenc e and sovereignty of such Republican Government . Recommitted and ordered to be printed. Tha Spirit of the Times publishes the following extract, which it has received permission to print, from a private letter of Mr. Ashbury :-- "Although I stipulated English, or Thames, measure' meat, I am open to an equitable arrangement, assuming our system is unfair to the American vessel, and I am hopes a run from Cowes to New York will be settled to the satisfaction of all concerned." The Spirit concludes tbat there will be a grand match and a grand time this summer among the yachtsmen of England, America, and France, to be followed by one or more ocean races from Cowes to New Yort between English and American yachts. Notwith standing the gay times predicted and the interesting events to come off, the most exciting by far will be the contest between the Dauntless and the Cambria from Cowes to New York. The Spirit contends that though the Dauntless is a little larger it will make no difference in the weather likely to prevail; indeed it goes further, and asserts that size gives little if any advantage. The yacht Challenge would have been backed against the whole clipper tea fleet from China to England, notwithstanding the ad vantage of the tea ships in point of size, which the Spirit maintains would only have availed them in the heavy weather around the Cape and in making Europe in winter. This journal gives Mr. Ash' bury much credit for his fairness and enterprise. Congress adjourns to-day, and we presume that a great number of appointments will be shortly announced as confirmed. Among them will be that of Mr. Motley, as Minister to England. I‘ ll ' Reverdy Johnson's resignation will have reached Washington, and been acted on ere this. We a' pest that Mr. Johnson's work will be better appre' ciated hereafter. The fact that he has been actuate by an earnest desire to promote good feeling be• tween the nations, in which he has been singularly successful as regards England, will tell in hiS favour ; the more so if it be found that he got all that England will concede without war, which the unanimous testimony of the English papers scci3 lo to declare. General Butler's Bill, providing a provisional Government for Mississippi, we learn by a tale' gram sent from Washington, on Thursday, has passed the House of Representatives. The Bill as follows : "It authorizes the reassembling forthwith, on the call of the President, of the Constitutional Convention hereto' fore elected under the Act of March 2, 1867. If the Pre sident declines to issue the call within 30 days, the Coln manding General of the Fourth Military District is t° summon the Convention by proclamation. The Coo' vention is empowered to appoint a Provisional Governor; to authorize him to remove and appoint Registrars mo Judges of Elections, and to provide for forwardieg the votes OR the Constitution to the Provisional Governer, to be counted in hii presence and that of the General cora mantling the Military Division of Mississippi, &c. 'l ,e Convention shall not continue in session for more than 6 ° days, and the Constitution framed by it shall be submitted to the people within 90 days after adjournment. The (Us' tricts unrepresented at the time of the last adjournme nt ' shall proceed immediately to elect delegates under the direction of the Commanding General. Any one or mor e previously may be submitted to a separate vote. Th e ordinances that may be passed by the Convention shall be in force until disapproved by Congress, or until the State shall have adopted a Constitution and it shall have be e° , approved by Congress. The right of the trial by P l. .' shall not be taken away by this act. The Military CO Y mander shall, on the requisition of the Provisional GO vernor, give aid to tho officers of the Provisional Govern" ment in preserving the peace, &c. The Provisional GO,' vernor may remove officials in the State and appoint tbel successors, &c., subject, however, to the orders and dire' tions of the President of the United States, who may r e ' move the Provisional Governor and appoint his sae' cessor." BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—General Scott former residence at Elizabeth, N.J., has been sold 0 $9,750.—Ex-Senator Conuess was married to Miss 31 611 , Davis, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, March Emma C. Stebbins, of lowa, has vindicated woman' rights by getting herself appointed a Notary Publie.! Ex-Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire, it is $ Ol will be nominated for Consul to London by P re side° Grant.—President Whit e o f C orne ll i s sa id t o g ive a l, his salary for prizes to the students of his University / Mr. Connell has expended in all on the University , s2,soo,ooo.—There aro 550 American students in the 1-3- rious German universities, and over 1,000 male and fonifi ll) American pupils at first-class boarding schools. At the Musical Conservatory, Stuttgardt, there are 25 Americ°,, students.—Twenty of B r igh am Young's wives are 0 " a journey East visiting their friends. They were at cil Bluffs, lowa, on the 23d March. Two of his sons ft r43 travelling about Europe, whore the American papers 0 % they are regarded with such suspicion that the Datil', police have orders to arres t th em .—G enera l M'Clellen 1)3 " declined the Presidency of Union College, New Yol ./.1 being engaged in other business enterprises of high portance.—Mrs. Bainbridge, mother-in-law of Gene ra Reynolds, has been appointed Postmistress at IlanaPt ev ' Virginia.—General Grant has received from Connec t ' . cut a cigar six feet long, weighing sixteen pounds." Vice-President Colfax, with his wife and sister, has l ei : Washington for a few days, for Ad ove r, Ohio, his wif e, ' former home, and Senator Anthony officiates in the 11015 e in his stead. Baron Schlozer, Minister from the Nor° German Union to the United States, arrived at New V r t by the Westphalia on the 24th March, and is stopping the Brevoort House.--The President has appointed Jam e W. Haines, Frederick A. Tridle, and William Sheri°, ll ; Government Commissioners to examine and report on t", completed sections of the Central Pacific Railroad of C° 11 ; fornia, and the Western Pacific Railroad, in place of J° 4 3 Bigler, Frank Denver, and Thomas J. Henley, remov e —Prince Metternich's butler receives the same salary President Grant; wo wonder what the Prince's cook gets? Mrs Capt. Maguire,who recently brought hersick h u sband; vessel safely into port at New York, has been presen te` with $l,OOO by the underwriters.—Congressman IL L Dawes has declined the Judgeship of the Messachuse tts Supreme Court, offered him by Governor Olefin/3 Report says General Pleasanton is to be appointed Unit e States Marshal at New York.—Gen. Merritt, nomina tej for naval officer, was formerly on Governor Fenton's st° ff, and is not the cavalry officer of that name.—Presid ee Grant's old partner in the real estate business in St. Mr. H. Boggs, died' in that city on the 13th March .--- -P , Bruin has been appointed Consul-General of France at 6 ; 0 Francisco.— Secretary Borie, like a true denizen of t a o " City of Brotherly Love," asks for power to transfer th e Navy-yard at Philadelphia to the Navy-yard at Ltiag tj Island. Each State is earnestly anxious to have a RePr' a ' sentative in the Cabinet, and we congratul a t e P enn sylva°; on Secretary Borie, whase first effort is to abolish i t ; navy-yard ;if Boutwell and Hoar do as much f ° :, Massachusetts, the citizens of that St a t e w ill h ave r eas o ' to rejoice at their good fortune. The Italian papers are lavish in their praises Mr. Pierce Francis Connell 's work which we recent l / 6 noticed, which h e h as name d "H onour A rres ti n g °- Triumph of Death." L'Opinione Nazione, Gazzeta del P.; polo, La Riforma, Gazzeta D'ltalia, and L'llalia Artistica fL I unanimous in considering the grouping a work of g rel :, merit, involvin g ar tistic difficulties, which have been o°. mounted with entire success. New Orleans is a hotbed of political exciterael i Governor Warmouth appointed Mr. Delayze auditor, v i be Wickliffe, removed; but on his presenting himself a t t 3, office on the 25th March, Mr. Wickliffe refused hint' mission until he was himself ejected by the Superint,o4, dent of Police. He then notified the public against 10 9 3 4 acting business, as the auditors office had been itieg tv i i4 seized by the Governor, and the financial department t l3 virtually suspended. ftl f Mr. Binckley has been fined $lOO and costs his assault on Thomas A. Harland. He pleaded g re to provocation in the publication of the letter so injurioo: id his character, which Judge Wylie fully allowed, but oe he had his legal remedy. Births. ei CHUBB—On the 9th lust., at Radcliff House, Brixton -I ' the wife of John Chubb, Esq., of a son. g ll LEWIS—On the Bth inst., at Ashford Lodge, Putney, Frank Lewis, of a son. Marriages. BURRELL—PORTAL—On the Bth inst., at Streatham - Burrell, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Mary, second ( I °. ll l V ter of Richard B. Portal ; Esq., of Tonge House, Norwood. 10 1 GREEN—TAUNTON—On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's. stone, Colonel Malcom Green, C. 8., Bombay Staff 09 0 01 to Elizabeth Caroline, only (laughter of Waßernal ° Esq., of Boulogno-sur-Mer. s. "'p ia c BLOUNT —On the 9th inst., Death at 37, Gerrard-street, "'- Thomas Blount, aged 58. v• CoALEs—On the Bth inst., Daniel Coales, of 15 2 , Gr 4 4 inn -road, aged 54. ,„1 of DAVIES —On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham , Lieut. - C pl John Davies, aged 79. 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