The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -4, - The Times does not envy the new Lord-Lieutenant the reception of deputations to present addresses. It is not wonderful that he should be anxious to get over so trouble some a task as soon as possible. Lord Spencer's difficulty is not diminished by the fact that two rival sets of politi cians are eagerly watching him and recommending each a different policy. If no man can serve two masters, how in the world is a Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland to please two opposite political parties? The Times advises Lord Spencer to take a hint from General Grant's recent reception of a deputation from the South, who wanted the assistance of the Government in improving the levees of the Lower Mississippi. We do not think very much would nowadays be lost, even as regards "con ciliation "—that will-of-the-wisp to so many Irish states men—by introducing into Ireland a little of General Grant's style of diplomacy. One of the General's" points" we specially commend to the new Viceroy's considera tion as likely to prove peculiarly useful and appro priate on many future occasions to admiring deputations. " Let them (the levees) overflow, and let them stay under water," said Grant, " until their owners are willing that Northern men and Northern capital should some in and protect and improve them. Northern men with ample capital are ready to make a garden of your State (Louisiana), and you won't let them do it." Sub stitute Ireland for " Louisiana," and for " Northern men" Englishmen, and Lord Spencer has all ready to hand an admirable answer for the endless deputations which will soon begin to besiege him, proving to demonstration that the whole prosperity of Ireland and Great Britain—not to say the civilised world depends upon Government money being spent freely upon this or that most desirable and practicable scheme. Or, if the American General's language is a trifle too plain, could not Lord Spencer put the same meaning into more " diplomatic " garb, and delicately hint that there is " ample capital " in England ready enough to find its way to Ireland if Irish men will only " let it come " by the simple expedient of making life and property secure? As we saw the other day, English landlords have a prejudice—narrow-minded, perhaps, but still strong—against being shot ; and capital, the most cowardly of all created things, is even more timid than capitalists. The Post believes that the decision upon the Norwich election would be interesting if it were only for the fact that it is the first which has been fought out to the end, but it is also important as having elicited an authoritative view of what constitutes " agency," which is the turning point of all election petitions. It will perhaps be said that the common-sense view demands no less a conclusion than has been drawn ; indeed, Baron Martin seems to have had the common-sense people in his eye, for he says : " I stiould be bring this tribunal or any other tribunal into utter contempt if I failed to draw the con clusion that that man (Hardiment) was acting under the authority of t•ir Henry Stracey in doing what he did." Perhaps common - sens 6 views and a fear of " utter contempt " may be carried too far in deciding as to a point which brings with it such grave consequences ; but, at any rate, the decision in the present case is made, and must be assumed to rest upon a strict and precise reading of the rule which it is proposed to apply to the proof of agency. As such we commend it to all candidates, and recommend them to be extremely careful what persons are engaged in canvassing for them, though it seems impossible to suppose that they will always be able to keep their cause out of imprudent or corrupt hands in its lower and less known ramifications. One feature of this Norwi h bribery which deserves mention is the fact that, as Baron Martin says, " Up to the middle of the day everything seems to have gone on honestly," and that the whole of the bribery took place as the poll approached its close, or between three and half-past three o'clock. This would appear to be a new and strong illustration of an old argument in favour of the Ballot; for it is clear that, if it had not been known how things were going, the bribery to redress the balance would not have occurred. The Herald cannot understand the conduct of the fifty Ritualistic clergymen who have announced their intent ion of continuing the use of altar lights, leaving it to those it authority to interfere or not as they may think fit. Those who submit under protest, who endeavour to procure a reversal of the judgment, or who conscientiously leave the Church, deserve respect. But publicly to notify the intention of disobeying the law is a different thing. This is no time for putting forth the " non-natural" interpreta- tion of the doctrine of the Royal supremacy, for the men who advance "non-natural" interpretations are condemned beforehand. Nothing was said as to the incompetency of the Judicial Committee while the case was pending. It is too late to repudiate its decision because it happens to be unfavourable. No doubt its deliverance would have been joyfully accepted and endorsed if it had sus tained the judgment of the Court of Arches, as was the case when it gave a substantial victory to the Ritualists in the Knightsbridge churches case. These clergymen must be taught that it is not permissible for them to comply with or violate the law of the land according as it may chime in with their caprices. The guarantees under which our civil rights and our civil order are secured would be disastrously impaired if it were to be tolerated that the law should be set at nought by a kind of organised revolt. We are thankful that the number of these mal contents renders their action so comparatively insignifi cant, but they have told " the authorities" publicly that they will not comply with the law unless it is enforced against them individually ; and it rests with " the autho rities " to answer the challenge promptly and decisively. The Standard considers that the Drogheda petition has tested the new Bribery Act most satisfactorily. That the new system of trying elections has so far worked effec tively in Ireland is a matter of great moment. This trial lasted four days, all the principal actors in the election were produced on the spot, and the decision is not that of some unknown tribunal to which every kind of political influence might be attributed, but of a single judge whose whole life and career is familiar to his countrymen. The calm judicial investigation of the election proceedings by an unprejudiced tribunal on the spot, and the prompt decision so soon after the election, cannot be without their effect in pointing out both to candidates and electors the folly as well as the guilt of the practices established at Drogheda. The general characteristics of Irish elections are two—mob violence and undue influence, chiefly exercised by the Roman Catholic clergy. The Drogheda election must have borne the palm amongst Irish elections for both the one and the other, and the singular fact in the case is that there appears, however acquired, to have been all along a good working Liberal majority. The partisan decisions of the Waterford and Tipperary election committees in the last Parliament did much to shake the confidence of reasonable men in the possi bility of constitutional government in Ireland. Now, however, the Drogheda election is an earnest that mob violence at least may be found a very unsafe resource for a candidate or his supporters. It is to be hoped that the new system will be equally efficacious in bringing to light and rendering dangerous the more secret forms of clerical influence. If these evils are seriously checked, the result of the new system in Ireland will be very remarkable, for bribery there is but an inconsiderable element compared to those two great engines of elec tioneering power—generally, too, as in this case, acting together—the mob and the priests. If candidates are obliged for the future to keep clear of both, a most salu tary revolution will have been wrought in Irish politics. The Telegraph refers to the calculations set forth by Mr. Dudley Baxter, at the Statistical Society, on Tuesday, and it considers that_his statement will not banish the dis trust with which most people read statistics. Mr. Baxter will not, we fear, produce any wide-spread feeling of con tentment by the argument that the burden of taxation is laid with a close approach to fairness on the several classes of society. An idea has long existed that, in proportion to their means, the poor contribute a larger sum to the Exchequer than do the upper and the middle classes. And how does Mr. Baxter refute that opinion? Appealing to the famous chapter in which Adam Smith states the principles of taxation, he first lays down the maxim that men should " con tribute in proportion to their income." It is rather unfor tunate to find a statistician tripping on the threshold of the inquiry ; but the fact is that Adam Smith really says nothing of the kind. The great economist argues that men should contribute in proportion to their " abilities ;" and, as Mr. Baxter himself presently admits, no other system would be tolerable. At first sight it might seem fair to exact 10 per cent. upon the income of every citizen, whether the gross amount were £50,000 or £5O. In reality, such a system of taxation would prodnce unbearable hardships. As Mr. Mill observes, in his lucid and masterly chapter on the subject, an income may be so small that it will afford the necessaries of life, and no more. If we assume that in London a working-man cannot feed and clothe himself, his wife, and his two chi'• dren on less than £7O a year, then every pound which the payment of taxes deducts from that sum inflicts actual privation. Such a workman, therefore, cannot afford to pay a shilling into the Treasury ; and if a charge of 10 per cent. be exacted on his income, Le may be plunged into misery. THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL OCEAN YACHT RACE.—The Cambria, Mr. James Ashbury, is now hauled up at West Cowes, undergoing such alterations as may be deemed conducive to her greater speed for competing with the American yachts at New York, in the autumn. The Cambria is to have the hallow of the bows filled up. Her masts will be lengthened by three feet, which will give her greater spread of canvass, and three tons of lead will he placed on the keel. Among her interior decorations will be four large paintings, representing incidents of her taatclit_dwipg 1400, THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER. William Sheward, the man charged, on his own conies sion, with the murder of his first wife, Martha Sheward, at Norwich, in 1851, was again brought up for examina tion before the Mayor (Mr. E. K. Harvey) and magic •rates, on Wednesday. Dr. Dalrymple, M.P., deposed : In 1851 I was a prac tising surgeon in Norwich. In June 1851 I examined some portions of human flesh and bones, at the police-station. I examined them first by myself, and then in company with Mr. Norgate and Mr. Nichols. On referring to a deposition I made on oath on the 26th of June, 1851, before Mr. Woodcock, the mayor, I am enabled to say that the bones examined by me consisted of one hand, part of a thighbone, which had been sawn in two, two small bones and one large bone of the leg, one knee-cap, a part of the large bone of the arm, Scc. I have no doubt they were the bones of a female. The pelvis bone appeared to have been sawn through. It was not sawn through as a practised anatomist would have sawn it. I have no doubt the thighbone was the bone of a female. The pelvis and the vertebrw are also the bones of a female. I made no examination in 1851 to shew the height of the female. The bones were unquestionably the bones of an adult. One day last week—yesterday week — I was present when bones were exhumed from a vault in the Guildhall, now used as a coal cellar. I recog nised the same class of bones as I examined in 1851, and I believe in the identity of some of the bones of the vertebra-, but the means taken to preserve them have so destroyed the identity of the other bones that I cannot undertake to say that they are the same. Since the last examination I have not taken pains to discover the height of the female of whom the bones formed part. My opinion is that the subject was about sft. or sft. lin. in height, but without further examination I decline to state this positively. The bones were those of a perfectly adult subject, I am quite sure ; but the entire disappearance of all ligament, cartilage, and other guides for recognising age prevents my forming any precise opinion as to the age of the subject. In 1851 the carti lage was on the heads of the bones ; this would have enabled me to form an opinion then as to the age of the subject. In 1851 I formed an opinion that the subject was a youngish adult female. I would not undertake to fix the age within ten years. In 1851 I made an examination with Mr. Nichols and Mr. Norgate. I heard Mr. Nichol's evidence before the magistrates, and I agreed generally with it. I don't remember that Mr. Nichols said in his evidence that the remains indicated youth and health in the subject at the time of death. The habits of life, nourishment, and constitution of a subject would have some effect upon the appearance of the cartilage, and as regards conjectures as to age. In the absence of surrounding circumstances, I could not certify as to age, except that the remains were those of a full-grown adult. Mrs. Hannah Lawes, wife of John Lawes, of St. Faith's, deposed : I know the prisoner. He married my aunt. Her name was Martha. She was a twin ; her other sister's name was Mary. She is dead. I recollect the prisoner living in Norwich. I went to the house where my aunt lived in St. Martin's-at-Palace some time before the Exhibition of 1851. I only went once. She was Mrs. Sheward's sister. My aunt never came to me at St. Faith's after I visited her at St. Martin's-at-Palace. I have never seen her since, nor heard from her since. I have been to a house in King-street, Norwich. I don't know where the prisoner lived between the time when he resided at St. Martin's-at-Palace and when he lived in King-street. It is about twelveyears ago since I went to see him in King-street. He was then living with his present wife. I did not ask him any questions where my aunt was. Dorothy Hewitt, a widow residing in Belvoir-street, deposed : The prisoner's first wife was my sister. She was older than I. I can't say exactly how much. I visited my sister when they lived in St. Giles's. I saw my sister in Ber-street after they left St. Giles's. That was the last place where I saw her. It is about 17 years since I saw her. I never heard from her after I saw her in Ber-street. I had an aunt named Fisher, who died and left Mrs. Sheward, my sister, some money. In consequence of this legacy I went to the prisoner's house in King-street. I said to the prisoner, " Will you be kind enough to tell me where my sister is ? I should like to know where she is. I wish to know par ticularly." He said, " Your sister can write to you if she pleases. She knows where you are." I have asked the prisoner where my sister is more than once. He has made the same answer to me. The prisoner has never come to me and asked me where my sister was. I got some money which my aunt Fisher left me. When I went to see the prisoner in King-street, his second wife was living with him. I don't know whether he was actually married to the woman. He once told me she was his wife. Eva Elizabeth Hewitt, daughter of the last witness, deposed : I live with my mother, and am a single woman. I know the prisoner. His first wife was my aunt. I recollect their living in St. Giles's. They afterwards lived on Richmond-hill. I visited them at both those places. I don't know where they lived after leaving Richmond-bill. I never saw my aunt after she left Richmond-hill, and I never heard from her. I have been several times to the prisoner's house in King-street. The first time I went with my aunt Nunn ; it must be sixteen years ago. My aunt Nunn went to ask the prisoner about her sister, but I did not hear their conversation. I believe she had some conversation with the prisoner. I saw a woman in the prisoner's house. I have been to the house several times since, and have seen the same woman there. I fancy I saw her in the prisoner's house at St. Giles's once. I was then quite a child ; I was staying in the house. My aunt was not at home at the time. My uncle got over the counter and went to the woman, and I said would tell my aunt. I never questioned the prisoner as to where my aunt was, but I heard a question once put to him by my aunt Nunn. She said to the prisoner, " Mr. Sheward, I have come to ask you about my sister ; what have you done with her?" He replied, " I don't know. I have done nothing with her. She left me quite penniless. She cared nothing about me." This was said at St. Faith's, where Sheward was a visitor. My aunt Nunn said, " Sheward, you are a false man ; my sister never left the country." I don't think Sheward ever came to my house after this. My mother and her sister had a few words, and she never saw her after the differ ence. I don't know whether Mrs. Nunn and Mrs. Sheward were on good terms. _ . _ Mr. W. P. Nichols, surgeon, deposed to having inspected some portions of a human subject at the police-station in 1851, portions of which were those of a female subject. There was little to guide in judging as to the age of the subject. The portion of the bones from which might have, been more particularly determined the age of the subject were not before us. The remains did not enable him to come to reliable opinion as to age; but the fullness of the adipose tissue over the hand, and the narrowness of the foot indicated youth. The foot increases in width as it more walked upon. He afterwards saw another hand an 4 foot. They were in a considerable state of decomposition, but they were the opposite foot and hand of those he had before seen. On Tuesday week he saw some jars taken up from a vault underneath the Guildhall, with Dr. Dalrym ple, and be was satisfied they were the same remains he saw in 1851. Cross-examined : Had said in his deposition before Mr{ Woodcock, •in 1851, " from the general appearance of the flesh, there is evidence of youth and health at the time of death." The extreme age of "youth," he should say," would be under thirty years. The first foot found had the appearance to me of the foot of a young. person ; the foot of an old person would have been broader in proportion to the height than that of a young person, but this would be influenced by various considerations. He could not undertake to swear that all the bones he saw in 1851 were the bones of one and the same person. The prisoner was again remanded. The Hyde Park and City Railway has been abandoned for the present session. The course it was intended to take was through Oxford-street, and no doubt the strenuous opposition which has been offered to the scheme by the Oxford-street tradesmen has had the effect of inducing the promoters to adopt this course. DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Mr. Horace Waller writes to a contemporary :—" In letters received, bearing date November 20, from Zanzibar, I am informed that no intelli gence whatever has come to hand for a long time respect ing Dr. Livingstone. The latest news from our traveller reported him in Cazembe's country a year ago. Letters written previously to the despatch which announced this are still missing. By your kindly inserting this, a good deal of misapprehension as to the Doctor's movements will be done away with. I quote Dr. Kirk's words, `There is no knowing where he is.' With these remarks I should wish to couple the belief I hold that there is no actual need for much anxiety on this account. Those who know Livingstone will feel the least alarm. They will remember his indomitable perseverance ; they will recol lect he has in all probability now in his hands the solu tion of the grandest geographical problem, and they will feel thamkfud that the last positive information reported him sound and well, and within reach of fresh stores, medicines, &c. Au reste, Africa is a large place. Dr. Kirk informs me that Moosa (who so cleverly murdered Dr. Livingstone in our imagination) has been handed over to him at Zanzibar from Johanna. Finding that he had already passed eight months in Leavy irons, the autho rities vary humanely considered this time sufficient for the reflective' powers of the mischievous scamp to reconsider the merilti.; of truth and falsehood oo Dr Kirk Jags set ilk; iritt.t2; TAE SUN, WISDOS, OREIGN NOTES. TURKEY AND GREECE. The details already given respecting the result of the Conference are correct. The Ambassadors have signed a note containing a declaration against Greece on the three points of international law touched upon, in the first three demands of the Turkish ultimatum. This Platonic declaration will be presented to the Athens Government, and if its adherence be secured the Porte will withdraw its ultimatum. In case Greece continues refractory, the Liberti says that the most complete neutrality will be ob served by all the Powers, and the disputants must take their own course. The Independance Beige says that a proposi tion was made at the Conference, with a view of enforcing the good behaviour of Greece, but the English Ambassador strenuously opposed this policy. The state ment that such a proposition was made decidedly requires confirmation. Some waifs and strays of warlike import still float in the news currents of the various capitals. The statement that Turkey continues to arm comes from so many quarters that its accuracy can hardly be doubtful. The Liberti says that the behaviour of M. Rangel:4 has so animated the Greeks at St. Petersburg that they have sent the daring Ambassador a congratulatory address, and have resolved to raise a subscription in aid of the " patriotic war." The Russian press, however, not wish ing to commit the Czar's Government, are very quiet. It remains to be seen whether Greece will hazard anything after the fortuitous collapse of the insurrection in Crete. Peaceful signs come from other quarters. A tele gram from Vienna states that the Prince of Hesse, brother in-law of the Emperor of Russia, has given on behalf of the Czar the most pacific assurances to the Austrian sovereign and Count Beust. Another symptom is significant. A few days ago Count Beust was present at a soiree . at the Prussian Embassy. He was absent from one given a little while ago. tains at least Fires men wno are not tnecno=vai partisans, THE TIME,: Trnr) - --- Mr. C. G. Prowett, of the Temple, writes to the Times that "it is impossible that we should shut our eyes much longer to the disintegrating influence which is at work on the Church of England. There are now two parties in the Church. On the one hand, we have those who see in the Eucharist the communication of the element of Christ's humanity to the members of His Church--a doctrine which, whether you term it Real Presence, or Consubstantiation, or Transubstantiation, is assuredly of such high signifi cance that it may well become to those who are impressed by it the central feature in the Christian life. On the other hand, we have those who bitterly impugn this doctrine as downright idolatry, and whose whole sphere of religious thought must be dis turbed by a notion so contradictory to the Calvinistic aspect of Christianity." 1s it possible, is it desir able to retain these within the same communion ? Mr. Prowett contends that " there is not, and never has been, at all events since Eng land was a nation, any such spiritual body as the ' Church of England.' Our forefathers, at the Reformation, never designed any such separate constitution for themselves. They meant to remain members of the Catholic Church, only seeking their coercive jurisdiction from the King's courts instead of the common centre of spiritual authority at Rome. Consequently, the ecclesiastical organisation which they set up is not, as in Scotland, that of a Church, but simply that of an establish ment." This being the case, it would greatly s i m plify the matter if the Establishment Pwhich already includes Episcopalians south, and resbyterians north of the Tweed) were made to comprehend various religious bodies in England. The Ritualists, on the one hand, and Lord Ebury's " reformed " on the other, might then group them selves into separate " Churches " for spiritual purposes, according to their genuine sympathies. Such would be voluntary societies, like the exist ing Nonconformist bodies, or the new sect which Bishop Gray wants to found in South Africa." The Establishment might recognise and employ all, only stipulating that those who might take clerical func tions under it should abide by its laws, which must, of course, be adapted to the new aspect of spiritual affairs." Mr. Prowett does not say what advantages he offers to the Ritualists by way of inducing them to subject themselves to the State. " Consistency," writing on the same subject in the same paper, contends that the Ritualists will be guilty of dishonesty if they do not leave the English Church. He argues that even if they should obey the judgment, they disapprove of, they mean to teach the doctrine which they say is impugned by it, and as they mean if they can to effect a reversal of that judgment, they cannot in the interval remain in the Church without a suppression of that doctrine, which they would think heresy, or an enunciation of it, which he thinks dishonesty. " Consistency " does not explain how the Church of England could have been reformed 300 years ago if all the Reformers had left the Church instead of remaining in it to reform it. " A Catholic (Roman) Layman," formerly a clergy man of the English Church, writes to the Daily Telegraph to remind Mr. Mackonochie that when inducted into the incumbency of St. Alban's he took the oath of supremacy, and thereby acknowledged the Queen id be " in all matters and causes ecclesiastical supreme." The writer cannot understand Mr. Mackonochie's strong objection to the Privy Council as a court of final appeal. It comprises two archbishops and a bishop, it was by this court that Archdeacon Denison was res tored to his preferments and ecclesiastical status as an archdeacon. The writer adds that there is a solution for Mr. Mac!iono chic's problem. He (the writer), rather than be bound hand and foot to the Queen in Council, dis endowed and disestablished himself by seceding, and renouncing social position, a moderate professional income, and reasonable prospect of promotion. He adds : " I have since then suffered much tribulation. I have been ' buffeted and per secuted,' but ' not forsaken.' I have 4 wandered about,' if not in sheepskins and goatskins,' almost denuded of any skin but that which nature gave me; but yet I enjoy the consciousness of having done this for Christ's sake, and that having forsaken all' to follow Him, He will recompense me by not 'forsaking me in the day of trouble.' I assure Mr. Mackonochie of the completeness of the remedy for the disease." RUSSIA. The Russians have christened 1868 as " the year of railways." During the last twelve months no less than nine separate lines, some of them very lengthy, have been opened, and eleven others commenced, a few being now considerably advanced. The vast Muscovite dominions will speedi y have a great and continuous railway system. Greater ~ r more praiseworthy efforts were never made by any Government or nation, especially as they are made at our expense, English capitalists having provided Russia with the money which will enable her to carry on a war against the Western Powers, with very much greater prospect of success than on the last occasion. AUSTRIA. A very important decision has been given by the Supreme Court of Prague. The Archbishop of Schwarzen berg had been condemned by a civil tribunal for issuing a pastoral letter exhorting bis clergy to disobey the new laws. This decision has been confirmed by the Supreme Court. The days of the Concordat are now numbered. It has been condemned in the Legislature and the judicial courts, and the last fragment of its influence will shortly be destroyed by the vote of the Chambers. ROME. Tha General Council will bear the name of the First Council of the Vatican. Stalls are being erected in the right transept of St. Peter's for above 2,000 persons, the expense being defrayed by subscriptions from all Catholic %ountries. The Council will open on the Bth of December. SPAIN. About ten days must elapse before the official report of the recent elections can be made known, but in the mean time estimates have been published ;which seem to approximate to the truth. According to these the Monarchists have decidedly the preponderance, but the Republicans have gained a respectable minority. The whole number of deputies is 352, and of these the Republicans, according to a Reuter's telegram, number 68—a calculation which coincides with that given in the Paris journals. Considering that the Republican party scarcely existed at the time of the Revolution, this is by no means a meagre, nor is it likely that it will be an unin fluential return. The Republican leaders, however, had calculated on winning about a hundred seats. According to a French telegram, the Bourbon party had returned from fifteen to eighteen representatives, the remaining deput:e3 belonging to various shades of the Monarchist tarty. The first day of the elections was devoted to a pre liminary operation, the appointment of the Mesas, or electoral boards. These consist of a president and four councillors, to whom is confided the management of the elections, the receiving and counting of votes. A certain number of electors meet at each of the polling places, of which there are 17,000 in Spain, and choose these impor tant functionaries. Their nomination would be of conse quence even if they were strictly impartial, but under existing circumstances it is all important ; for," says the Times correspondent, " the general opinion is that the boards are boundless in their influence over the issues of an election, and that they are equally unsparing in the use of it. So far as the result of the first trial of universal suffrage in Spain can he known, it has worked on pretty much the same principle as in England. The immense army of voters has not attempted any electoral revolution, and at the same time it has not shewn itself wholly indifferent to politics, as is evident from the growth of a party which a few months ago was not in existence. Still, it is desirable that the free and independent electors should have known what they were doing, but this primary condition was by no means fulfilled in all cases. In Madrid there were three separate lists of candidates—the Monarchists, headed by Prim ; the Republicans, headed by Orense ; and the Moderates, by the still suffering Marquis de Novaliches. These lists were printed and distributed to every elector—that is, to every passer by ; and as some of them got a multiplicity of lists, and were unable to distinguish one from the other, the question of political principle was in many instances reduced to a lottery decision. The vote was given by written or printed papers. The Spaniards are far in advance of the English in this respect. Their voting places were very numerous ; so numerous that no one need walk more than a hundred yards to record his decision. but in no case was any of the booths in or near a drinking establishment. The correspondent of the Star says that a fusion of the Progressists and the Republicans was seriously contem plated a few days back. As Prim is head of the Progres sist party, such a union would have been irresistible, but the Republicans declined it. The Times correspondent mentions a rumour of a pro jected Monarchist expedition organised in Spain to sail from Gibraltar in favour of Count Girgenti. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. A telegram received at Rio Janeiro from the seat of war says that Villeta was captured on the 11th December, after three hours' fighting. Sixteen guns and 3,000 pri soners, as well as great military stores, fell to the victors. The battle, however, was very severe, the official estimate placing the loss of the Allies at 1,500 men. The head quarters of General Caxias have been established on the scene of the conflict. A desperate conflict had previously ensued on the sth, during the march on Villeta. The Paraguayans had 3,000 or 4,000 men, and were, say the Brazilians, completely routed. The Buenos Ayres journals confirm the accounts of the disasters which have befallen Lopez. There were two separate battles—one on the march, and the other at the key of the Paraguayanposi tion, the Allies triumphing in each instance. It is believed that Lopez has taken refuge on board an American gunboat. MISCELLANEOUS IVEIVS. The " tenant-right " party in Ireland are cm.: plaining bitterly of a new instance of the injustice of the present land laws. At the Belfast Sessions the Presbyterian minister of Lisburn was summoned by the Marquis of Hertford, as trustee of certain houses bnat by:a Captain Bolton some time back, on ground belonging to the marquis, for which the captain had not acquired a lease. Believing that "tenant right" would be respected, when Captain Bolton died he left the rent of these houses to a school in the neigh bourhood. The marquis now wants the land, and in the absence of any law to the contrary is able to take it, and the houses with it. He thus adds about £:2O ner annum to an income already above £60,000. The Freeman's Journal declares that what is wanted is long leases. " Long" here means, according to a landlord who writes to the Times, sixty years, shorter leases being despised. Said landlord argues that gold is steadily but surely decreasing in value — land isincreasing in worth. Why are Irish land lords, then, to be asked to alienate their properties for thirty years at the same rents—that is to say, to the value of their land when the value of every thing else is riling as gold falls ANOT ITER RITUALIST MEETING. If the Church .flews is to be believed, there is to be another Ritualist demonstration. It is to be a meet ing of clerics and laymen at St. James' Hall, in order to protest against t::e " unconstitutional and unfair, as well as anti-Catho:.;e judgment, recently delivered in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie." The object of the meeting will be "to convince the public that Churchmen will not easiry tolerate any interference with the rights of conscience and the doctrine, discipline, and ritual of the Church by other than Church courts." It seems to be forgotton that " Churchmen "—I ligh Church men, too—were quite content to accept the decision of Sir Robert Phillimore, who is a layman, whatever his coil - It may be. We are inclined to think that a Church court, com posed of men like the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Durham, Manchester, Carlisle, ard Ripon, would be even more unsatisfactory to lligh Ch tirchni en +1,4 nye:gent Court of Final Appeal, wh ;.ch con-7 PLURALISM. - - - The new Bishop of London's first appointment is causing some dissatisfaction. H . o has appointed Canon Cook one pf his chaplains, although Mr. Cook is already Canonof Exeter and Preacher at Lincoln's Inn. The gru mble is scarcely jus tified. A bishop generally g!;tlects as his chaplain an able man who has distinguishes himself in some capacity ; and the pay of a chaplain :..t= not so large that the man selected would be inclined to give up other preferment for it. Canon Cook - is Zni doubtedly an able man ; would probably have been Bishop of Cornwall if any of the recent Govern ments had had the courage to found a new bishopric. But he has signally failed in one matter : the new (" Speaker's ") Commentary on the Bible, which was projected some seven years ago, is not yet even in the press. LONDON ALDERMEN IN COUNCIL. The Court of Aldermen, London, has just been discussing the propriety of allowing a Roman Catholic priest to hold divur service on Sundays for Roman Catholic prisoners in iN ewgate. Some of the Christian aldermen vigorously resisted the proposal. A certain Alderman Wilson predicted that if the application were granted they would soon be called upon to fur nish " a pool for the Baptist, aharem for the Mormon, and a dancing girl for the Shaker "—a sapient remark, implying, in the first place, that Mormon and Shaker are as numerous as Roman Catholic prisoners ; and next, that harems and dancing girls are essential parts of Mormon and Shaker religion. It was re served for Alderman Salomons, a Jew, to demand liberty of conscience for the pri soners w h om s ome of their fellow Christians refused to tolerate. Fortu nately, there were an equal number who accepted his arguments, and the resolution was carried by a majority of one; but notice to rescind it has already been given. ADMIRAL ROLM AND TIM TURF. It is Admiral Bous, and not John Day, who has " bent under." John . Day is in high feather, and writes to the Times giving the Admiral's " with drawal." It is very brief :—" As the legal proceed ings pending between us have b een s t op p e d by you, I now withdraw m y letter published in the 7'imes newspaper 10th of June, a n d th e f ac t of my o n the having addressed second letter to th e Editor on the same day, requesting him not to insert the first, is a proof that I did not consider m y se lf j us tified in desiring it to be published." So ends—and unsatis factorily enough—the famous scandal of "The Earl year. SHEFFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. At the annual meeting of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Hall, one of the vice-presidents. spoke of the restrictions of legislation upon female labour. He thought it was a mistake to legislate for adult female labour at all, as in many cases the restrictions pressed heavily on widows who had families to main tain. Mr. Hall thought, too, that it would be neces sary to watch future legislation with regard to capital and labour, as much sentiment had been introduced into the deliberations on the subject. The uncertain effect of the -Workshops Regulation Act, which does not practically control the smaller factories, gave rise to some discussion. THE LAW COURTS AND THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. Sir Charles Trevelyan has written to the Times again on the subject of the New Law Courts, and observes that the sum already expended on the Carey-street site is more than £BOO,OOO, and the further sum required is £700,000, but these will not complete the arrangements. By the time all is planned £2,300,000 would be spent, and after all the Law Institution and King's College Hospital would have to be bought up. The Thames Embankment site is so much better situated, that light, air y and approaches are all comprised in 1,500,000, which is the estimated cost of the site. The aim has always been, in the discussions which have taken place, that the principle of consolidation should be adopted, and this was often used by Sir G. Lewis's com mission. This end would be answered if the Law Courts were placed on the Embankment site, for their entire eastern side would face the western side of the Temple, and their entire western side would adjoin the eastern side of Lincoln's Inn in its new position at Somerset House. Sir C. Trevelyan declares that we ought not to be content with anything short of the best practicable arrangement, and with regard to the Carey-street site the resources of art would be thrown away, because the building would be wanting in the primary condition of being seen. " V A Lawyer " writes to the Daily News on this subject, and condemns the " Embankment" plan in the strongest terms. Ile thinks that Sir C. Trevelyan has been misinformed, and that great inconvenience and injustice would arise from the courts being erected upon the new • site that is proposed. He considers that the Law Courts on the Embankment would be as unsuitable for business as the Grand Stand at Epsom on the Derby day. We believe there is some prospect of the new courts being erected either in Carey-street, on the Thames Embankment, or somewhere else by the year 1970. ➢IORTALITY AND THE WEATHER. A green winter is a bad time for doctors and undertakers, coalowners and railways. The deaths in London last week were no fewer than 340 below the estimate; the thermometer was more than four degrees above the average. The temperature being so high, the consumption of coals is far less than usual, and consequently the coal traffic on the various lines has fallen off remarkably. Yesterday saw a frost in London early in the morning—the second frost of the year, and about the fourth of the winter, but by sunrise the slight patches of ice in the roads were thawing. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21; 1E69. THE UNIVERSITY DOATRACF,, It was stated a few days ago in Land and Water that the Cantabs were backing out of the race for this year. The announcement has caused no little astonishment at Cambridge, where the news was new indeed. It is, however, we believe, quite true that one of the Cambridge crew fell down stairs some little time ago, and so seriously hurt his back that his doctors positively prohibited him from training. Thus a second time is Cambridge unlucky, for last year one of the crew died. Easter falls very early this year, so that it will be difficult to supply a substitute for the injured man. With reference to the race, it is asserted that Cambridge will never win until the crew are able to get over the difficulty which their shallow river presents. The Isis allows the Oxonians to use all their strength on the boat, but the Cantabs use no inconsiderable portion of theirs on the oars. SAVING LIFE AT SEA. Vice-Admiral Elliott has published aletter respect ing the saving of life at sea, and he expresses a hope that some of the members who represent seafaring populations will call the attention of the new Parlia ment to it. The general opinion is that the ship owner should be made responsible for any neglect of available means which can be provided for limiting the risk of life employed in his service. It has been said that an action at common law would hold good in such a case, though it has never been tried. Admiral Elliott thinks that it exceeds the province of legislation to point out what particular appliances shall be provided, but so many improvements have been effected by science that there is no excuse for neglect. As matters now stand, the inspection of merchant vessels before putting to sea is insufficient, and the responsibility for loss of life through want of proper equipment can nowhere be attached. A parlia mentary inquiry on the subject is much needed. GIBRALTAR AND CF.UTA. A correspondent of the Times, in writing on the proposed cession of Gibraltar, thinks that Admiral Grey's condition of ten years' delay in the exchange of Gibraltar for Ceuta would be as mischievous to the pocket of the British taxpayer as to the dignity of the Spanish don. The ten years' clause, in the opinion of this writer, closes the question ; for what guarantee could we give that ten years hence Gib raltar will not be absolutely necessary to us ? Where are we to find the guarantee that the stupendous works which Admiral Grey proposes will be com pleted in that time, and how could we proceed with the great works of the same kind which we have undertaken at home ? " WITHIN THE CABINET." The dull season of the recess is usually prolific of rumours of dissensions in the Cabinet, and although the present Government has been in office but a few weeks there is already some speculation respecting divided counsels in their midst. The subject is taken up seriously by a new evening journal, which pro fesses to give it publicity for the purpose of " strengthening the hands of Mr. Gladstone." On the question of the Irish Church it states that the Government have not as yet agreed upon their policy, " and that to some extent they are waiting upon Providence." The idea of a compromise is scouted by our contemporary, and it urges upon the Premier the advisability of dismissing those members of his Administration who are not firm at this important crisis. Going on to speak on the subject of retrenchment, the same journal declares that if Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell " are thwarted in carrying out their promises," and " evince in the business a shameful tenderness to extravagance in high places," they deserve expulsion from their seats of high authority. " If," we are told, " Mr. Childers will dismiss the useless captain-superintendents of the dockyards ; if Mr. Cardwell will obtain the resignation of the Duke of Cambridge as Com mander-in-Chief, and issue a minute to the effect that no military officer may draw half -pay or any soldier's pay while he is receiving a salary from the Crown, we will assert that they have given us some tangible assurance of the fulfilment of their promises." In regard to foreign policy, our contem porary asserts that " there is a Turkish party in the Cabinet, which, influenced by the traditional foreign policy of England, would have placed the country in a posture even more hostile to Greece than that which Lord Lyons was instructed to adopt in the Conference," and which would have enforced the decision arrived at in Paris by the threat of occupy ing the Greek capital. The names of those members of the Cabinet are not given, and the story may be looked upon as apocryphal. The article concludes by entreating Mr. Gladstone to reconstruct his Cabinet rather than abate his programme, and to trust the people as the legitimate and real source of his power and strength. ELECTION EXPENSES. Though it is to be hoped that the day is passed when the longest pocket wins a parliamentary elec tion, yet the purse is still a mighty agent. Mr. Cw.lue, a defeated candidate for the Tower Hamlets, seems to have had faith in it, for he, as he himself sets forth in his return of expenses, paid £B,OOO for being defeated. We nmy be quite sure he did not spend less. Common rumour says he spent about £12,000 more—a neat little sum, t , ..)0, was expended on the electors of Hackney. The two winning men—Reed and Holms—spent respec tively £1,400 and £2,Boo—the latter just double the f or mer. Some of the items of Mr. Holms's account are rather vague, as, for instance, a matter of £BOO g i ven as " preliminary expenses." What pre liminary expenses would amount t o 800 ? Did an y " interest" stand in the way that had to be compensated ? £1,400 looks rather a large amount for messengers. Mr. Homer's " little bill," amounting to £2,500, contains a matt er o f £B9 as having been paid on account of bo ar d s an d " trans parencies," the chief merit of the latter being that they cannot be seen through by amateurs in elec tioneering matters. Mr. Butler has to put his hand into his pocket for something like £3,200, while Col. Dickson found £2BO enough to w o rk u p on . Mr. Webb returns himself as having spent £412. We hope that some of the candidate s w ill r e ti r e into private life, convinced that it is not money that makes the " M.P." DROGHEDA ELECTION. We hail with joy the decision just given by Judge Keogh in the case of the Drogheda election, and that all the more readily as it is given in the teeth of two decisions of the House of Commons. Only a few sessions back, the Committee of that House—with, of course, unerring instinct—declared that rioting, though accompanied with loss of life, did not invali date an election. Drogheda and Waterford differ only in detail. There were the same inflammatory addresses by the priests, the same "red-hot Irish" broadsides, the same rioting, and the 'Dane intimida tion of respectable voters. Only in one case the judge and jury were afraid to lay down a damaging precedent ; m the other the judge had no personal interests to serve. Mr. Whitworth is therefore unseated. Thus the second Liberal has been thrown from his horse in Ireland, against one Conservative in England. NOTES ON MELAND. veputations have begun their work of addressing the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. From this time he must expect no rest. Men seem to search their heads upon every conceivable topic, from the Irish Church to bottle-nosed whales, that they may join in letters or deputations to the various officers of Government. The best man to receive a deputa tion is one who can " bow out " his addressers. Lord Kimberley was noted for his cleverness in this particular. He generally managed to please the would-be reformers, and to pledge himself to absolutely nothing. In answer to two ad dresses of congratulation presented to him on Monday, Earl Spencer seems to have said very little. The gist of it may be summed up in the phrases, " loyalty to Gladstone," " anxious to please." lie thought the Irish Church ought to be removed, hoped that a new era of confidence and prosperity would be ushered in, promised to study deeply the various questions which would come before him as Lord-Lieutenant; and, as to the political prisoners, declared that the subject of their release involved the first duty of constitutional government —the preservation of order and liberty; but he would " consider the matter." What more did the corporation expect ? WHITE PINE. (From the San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press.) The ores found on the top of the high hill which has recently become famous under paragraphic headings of " White Pine"—the location of another city of the interior—are very pure chlorides, found in irregular deposits under a thin stratum of lime stone, and filling crevices, caves, and variously shaped openings, in dolomite. Such is the most re liable information that has come to us. As chloride ores are always surface ores, it is not at all impro bable, however, that the regular veins will soon be discovered, leading down to greater depths, where the ores will assume the character of sulphurets. Richness, to $16,000 a ton, is nothing very wonder ful for chloride deposits, but the extent of some of these deposits at White Pine makes their occur rence a matter of interest in the history of mining. The Eberhardt deposit is from 40 to 50 feet wide, and from 80 to 100 feet in length. The depth has not been reported, but it is the opinion of the miners that the distance in that direction is greater than the dimensions horizontally. Similar rich deposits have been found in all new silver mixing countries, and some of them have been described very fully, so that we can make comparisons as to the nature and in fluence of the country rock upon such deposits, and the character and relationship of the minerals associated therewith. Surface infiltrations, such as these will probably turn out to be, would not be influenced, however, iu any manner by the country rock, except as to the existence therein of a ten dency to cave-formation, and the consequent offer ing of suitable receptacles for infiltration or preci pitation. Shermantown and Hamilton are the names of two new towns in the vicinity of the Eber hardt and Keystone mines. This rich locality is on the top of a wooded hill 9,000 or 10,000 feet in height, having gradually sloping sides—distant easterly from Austin 120 miles, and southerly from the overland stage road (as near as we can learn) about 45 miles. In the ravines where there has been considerable denudation of the dolomite it is observed to be 400 feet thick, and overlying a formation of slate. Down in the valleys where silver ores have been discovered they are not so likely to be chlorides, but sul phurets and combinations with the sulphu rets of lead and antimony. How it hap pens that these extensive deposits of chloride are found mainly on the top of the hill, and not in the valleys, is a fair question for the local geologists. As the dolomite is found teaming with fossils, there will be no difficulty in determining the age and relationship of this formation to other sections, and possibly that of the slates as well. Great simi larity has been found to exist between the White Pine and the Reveille district, which is more in a southerly direction from Austin. Everywhere along the borders between the dolomite range and the granite or slate rocks the veins and deposits are said to be found only moderately rich. It is not probable that White Pine chloride deposits are con tinuous, either in a vertical or horizontal direction. Locally, they may extend sometimes for a consider able distance under the limestone capping, like the copper and iron asenlauefer mined in many parts of the world ; but nothing so continuous or regular as these has ever been found elsewhere in the case of silver ores. Speculation and adventure are more likely, therefore, to reap the first rewards than capital. The chloride is said so be mixed with a little darkish silica, but to be otherwise very clearly parted from the country rock. Assays go up as high as $5,000 to $lO,OOO. The highest authenti cated assay that we are aware of was one made by Boalt and Stetefeldt, at Austin, which reached $16,000. As it would certainly not require more than 15 to 18 cubic feet to make a ton, some of these deposits, it would appear, must range from 2,000 to 1.000 tons. The Eberhardt mine, it is said, has already produced more ore containing $l,OOO to the ton than either the Mexican Ophir, the Gould and Curry, or any other of the mines on the Comstock lode. Mining at White Pine is not entirely a new thing. The mines were discovered three years ago on the west side of a range of hills, and the build ing of a will was commenced last year. In June, 1867, an Indian came to the carpenters' camp, and said they were net at the i ight place, that there was more silver on the other side ; and as an evidence of the truth of his assertion he showed a piece of rock worth $2,700 to the ton. It was not until No vember that the claims were located and the im portance of the discovery made public. The snow in the canons does not disappear till May. Three mill, are under way, and that of Captain Page will be completed in less than a month's time. At so considerable an altitude winter sets in about the end of November. As wood is very plen tiful cabin quarters accommodation will not be want ing ; and the winter promises to be a gay one at Sher mantown, and Hamilton, and the surrounding branches. The Virginia Enterprise, Oct. 25th says " there is no getting around it, the White Pine mines are rich —wonderfully rich. All the letters received here from there, and alt the men who come in from there, tell the same story. Parties who have exa mined the mines say that they are doubtless the richest ever discovered in any part of the world. Mr. Win. Woodburn, of this city, who spent some days in the mines, says he believes there is enough silver in the one small range of mountains in which the White Pine mines are situated to pay off the National debt—large as it is. His account of the nature of the silver deposit agrees with that of all others who have visited the mines, namely, that it appears to be a vast stratum of limestone, as wherever shafts have been sunk through this limestone cap the rich ore has been found. In some places the rich ore has been forced up to the surface through crevices, while in others shafts must be sunk to the depth of from 10 to 30 feet before the ore is found. The depth of the deposit is not known, no shaft having been cut through it. The Eberhardt Company, the oldest in the district, have drifted in one direction a dis tance of 180 feet, with cross shafts 60 to 70 feet in length, and all in a solid mass of ore worth from $2OO to $20,000 per foot. On Chloride Flat, on the same mountain, the same kind of ore has been found by every shaft that has passed through the limestone. All the miners who have struck ile' have piled about their shafts large heaps of ore ; ranging in value from $2OO per ton up to the fright ful figures we have ventured to mention above. We might make out a long list of the lucky ones, but as it miet create an inconvenient excitement among their poor relations we refrain. It is enough to say that men who were about our streets four months since without a cent are now worth so much silver that neither they nor any of their friends can calculate its value." The Rev. A. F. White, State Geologist of Ne vad.i, is examining the mines at White Pine. The Virginia Enterprise, Nov. 18th, says :—" A corres pondent at White Pine writes as follows :—The rich specimens that go abroad from here are from the Eberhardt and the mines in that vicinity. It is a fabulously rich mine. But little work has been done in it, and yet there are now in sight many millions worth of ore. I was through the mine to day ; saw it ali ; but it's nu use for me to describe it to you, for I can't do it, and if I could it wouldn't do any good." Fifty thousand miners are expected in the White Pine district of Nevada to begin operations iu the spring. REPEAL OF 711 E TENURE-OF-OFFICE ACT. General BUTLER has, we presume, fulfilled his expressed intention of pressing the repeal of the Tenure-of- Office Act, when Congress met, hav ing before its adjournment introduced a bill to effect that purpose. The telegram from Wash ington last Monday says the bill had been passed by the House of Representatives on that day by 119 votes against 47. All the mino rity were Republicans, and •all the Democrats voted with the majority, so we have the General surrounded again by his old partisans, if it was his bill they thus unanimously aided him to pass. The Tenure-of-Office Act can be justified only on the plea of an absolute necessity, if it can be justified at all. Those who passed it allege that Mr. JOIINSON openly threatened to set Congress aside in recon structingjhe South, and to use his appointing power to further his policy. Congress replied by passing the Tenure-of-Office Act, and Mr. JOHNSON met Con gress by removing Mr. STANTON, then Secretary of War, the man the Legislature had more particu larly in view in enacting the bill. This drove Con gress into Impeachment, and Mr. JOHNSON but scraped over the shoals without an inch to spare. Though defeated iu this move, the progress of the fight answered the purpose of the Legislature, for it disabused the South, as well as the PRESIDENT himself, of the notion that he could contend against both Houses, almost unanimous in their opposition. This Act was the symbol of the quarrel between the Legislature and the Executive ; the end of both draws nigh ; and the desire is get rid of it, as Indians bury the hatchet as a sign of peace. There is also the wish that the new Congress and the new PRESIDENT may step on the stage unshackled by the quarrels of their predecessors, the Executive untrammelled by restrictions injuri ous to the public service. That a party existed among the Republicans who desired to keep the Act in operation is evident from the division, and it is well known that the extreme Radicals are far from placing entire confidence in the President elect. One of their leaders treated last New Year's Day, the sixth anniversary of Emancipation, as one for humi- r - . , '"` II liation for sackcloth and ashes. " General GRANT, said Mr. WENDELL Pinup's, " will be untrue tO the cause," and that saying has found an echo in many a Radical's heart. The New York World published a conversation which a Western member of Congress had profes s ed to hold with Ge neral GRANT, wherein it was asserted that the end vie°lci be a split between the General and his party, wh en his course would be much in the same direction es that taken by President JOHNSON. These are mer e inventions, for no such conversation ever was held. Indeed, leading party organs lend themselves too readily to the circulation of such libels. Yet the smoke shows soma fire, and doubtless the " ,3. ' Horse" party are justified in thinking their views find little favour with the man about to occupy th e White House. With this suspicion in their which the Democrats do all they can to fan, i t not surprising that 47 Representatives should thin' it advisable to wait till the PRESIDENT Elect began to show his hand before they repealed a law vib le would exert over him so strong a check. The people, however, having faith in their elected one, desire to place in him no stinted meed of Cow fidence, and the House has but given expression t° the general wish. The law was believed to be 11° ' constitutional, and known to be injurious. It Iva : framed for an emergency, and to regulat e vf ; " cuss." Matters of policy affecting the very ," t of the nation may or may not have justified it ; " n , this we know, that under its operation the "ri n g s' have grown into powerful corporations, and g en/3 ; drels of all degrees have fattened on the plunder e; the public. When America asks, who is to blame for placing all these bloodsuckers on the bodl litic, the PRESIDENT replies by pointing to t , Senate, declaring that the Tenure-of-O ffi ce Act ,de prived him of the power of removing the ra sc al s from the offices obtained through their agency. l b Senate maintained that the blame rested wholly with the PRESIDENT, who unscrupulously rewa rded ed political support by place, and not only sustain the fraudulent holders, but stood between them A n , the law, remitting sentences on convicted crimi nals, and so using his pardoning power as to lay hi m self open to the charge frequently made that, he desire. to bring Congress into contempt by showing t he ell, influences fostered by its acts. The Springfield Re: publican, a paper, we must confess, far from friendif to General BUTLER, attributes his zeal for the re' peal of the Tenure-of-Office Act to his desire o stand well with General GRANT before the distribtici tion of offices. So far as the House is con cerned the Act is now repealed, and BUTLER must rely °d. the favourable impression he hopes to have er ent o e l y But it is very certain that he does not wholly on the generosity of any man, for it has been % 0 habit to appeal more to man's fear than to yean to love ; and this he announced distinctly in ans wer ,„a a remark at his election, saying -that, if proved unfriendly, he woul.l find him with P e " of work for his term. Clever as General BU TL E R t is we doubt his ability to d o this, because in Wr a p ing against the President Elect—he has not oalf insecure base, bur, what is of more importance, het./1 furnishedi no point of attack. ANDREW JOHNSON fished 'i 0, hiswith one against himself by bringing f ° " lB l,is " My Policy," and putting his foot down 013 uld interpretation of the Constitution, but it Nr ° ch puzzle BEN BUTLER, ingenious as he is, tO es to GRANT in such mistakes. He would have th en . /0 attack his acts, not his opinions, and these nilfrthe speak for themselves, however distorted, so tha t nation sooner or later can fully comprehend then..At the same time if BUTLER has got the bill he i lle , dated through the House for the repeal of the h ' nure-of-Office Act he has held out the olive b race and GRANT is too good a General and too wise +g man not to prefer BUTLER'S friendship to BUT LE nr e enmity. We think the news interesting, and from its pacific and conciliatory indications, as a proof of the tack BUTLER is on, than f° l. o o intrinsic importance, for the A c t n ow repealed 0 00 have been a dead letter on the installation of new PRESIDENT. —Anglo- American l imes. If The Price of Gold. l'ne quotatini of gold at Paris Is about at P — , ' 4l O. Vie short exchange on London is 251. 174 c. per £ 1 Bte i ' m Of On comparing these rates with the English hint pr — tho i t;s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appo.ird gold i , the same price in Lon ion and Paris. The course of exchinge at New York on London for b ll 7, at 60 days' sight was on the last date about 1 01 P erc ,::l4 At this rate there is no profit on the importation °I from the Uni , cd •-tates. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. i• 3°. a.nstralia and New Zealand. via Southampton .... , Jo 35 Ditto, via Y•trseilles Ditto, via P.— ama Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and . 14. Ditto, by French packet . ............ c o. 3. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet .. . . . . 31. Cape of Good El .ppe. Asoension. and St. Helena.• . " To. 3 6 • Jan 6 China. Penan g , and Singap o re. via tionthamP. „„ " .. j a u • 1 titbraltar. via Southampton . .......... India. via Sou th ampton ...... • •••••••• • ...JO. id uttto, via MarseiLea / Malta. o:gypt, . ............... Ditto, Marseilles... ........................... Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope. and Natal. V ia Southamji ton .................................. s o, l a , Ditto, Marseilles ......................... „ . F 3 ewfoundla c . ••• •.• ..... s•e2. eortugal ..... •••• ... .00 Unitedcket States anada. California, dzo.. by Br , 1. , .S ° 1 a .... Ditto, by Canadian packet ...• .. • • ....... Ditto, by L sited tates paoket .............. •' . 6 Ditto ditt, (Baltimore) ....... . • ...... West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ..... .; West ladies and Pa..dtio texcept Mexico and BallA:sau mas) ................................ • Feb 31. Fatkland islands...—. . ..... • • .Jo l/ ' Cub. and +lexico .... •• • • Feb. Bermuda, via Ha1ifax.......... Bahamas, via New York eeeee • • ...... . ...... . Isll / 4v The Pall' Mall Gazette says—lf the " dlo rights" women are sometimes rather hard on 09 1)(7 ; OW, ventures to question their discretion, at any is fo make up for it by the most affectionate etatheela" (diet their supporters. Mr. Mark M. Pomeroy, for ° ° p tb ° editor of on,e of the New York papers, has wri tte n : of great cause, and is canonized accordingly. •A nt . 4 — t - ° tributes of love and admiration, his life has been 1/ ': ri le g " A : gushing lady named T ucke r. From this curious vrc" . ',. ° ten that Mr. Pomeroy measures 43 in. round the elle g "ds ° five feet eight inches from the ground, and "ba g ge , as high a position as an editor as it is possible i°` 0 3: 11 : 4 1 (Mrs. Tucker does not go the length f ttYi ll g i e r ° ti e d to reach." " He has a tremendous brow, saying to ° " t ebe ;t l- 1 fine and white as that of a girl ;" lips ' "full, b t. te n era t i: andpure;" his "ears are large and indicate the de l-. 16. element in his character ;" and "in the 0 10 11115ti b a i l l eye there is a red brick which rows darkpruspnel r re v i ; when Mr. Pomeroy is politically g excited." e It t - 1 1 0 from this visual peculiarity that this gifted being familiar style of 4 , Brick," which is his nom dephon,iiiVA In i di ADVEUTISEMENT.I—HoIIo way's Ointment ane s p . uta l b f I n e s remedies for bad legs, old wounds, s °ll o - et e ;, ulcers. If bad d d l according to directions given with tlien :(o/ er ° O 6 curativest inateo p r ro l on yield to their ne;00 Pro, Numbers of persons in R evea l ° '". t beS / 40 1 , hospitals properties. g-standing, or bad breasts, 11° , 03 g Ji g s under the care of eminent hysicians. riving the lightest benefit, have been thorough l Y Care t , " loway's ointment s pills. For glandular swellings, that o f scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no rea ctic ,,lfe rte , e il l ' be used with so good an effect. In fact, in the o° ".bese 1 " -e disease, en dependent on the condition of the blood , " es are irresistible. ill Births. , Os llooLm—On the 19th inst, at 30, Russell-Sclllll'-' 64 of E. Boole, Esq., of a daughter. 00 lust y at 50ut , 0 ,,, bel` l a —on the 17th 1 - 1 - : tv if ) SHEPPARD Capt. H. Sheppard, 67th Regt., of a eon. t THOMPSON—On the 19th inst. at at Friern Nu ll- ' of M. Thompson, Esq., of a * daughter. „ f'' Marriages. e iborg. o 7 MAXWELL the 19th inst., at g us t la., A ti.- ,,11 °' Maxwell, Esq., of Gribton, to Adelaide ii° o f '' ter of the late Rear-Admiral James il'O r ' olle ..a. tO East Lothian. , See' " c ior , d i STENC;ER WINTGENS —On the 20th inst., a' of 1,,0r! t oe' nish Prussia, Augustus Stenger, Esq..„ , A. - Ti ll' Emilie Julie, youngest daughter of 1 1 ' - . Esq., of doers, Rhenish Prussia. 9 0 Deaths. Fors Pi ° FERGUSON—On the 18th inst., at Cardiff, 11°1111 Dog/ late of Sunderland, aged 66. .I° lo - FLETcHER —On the 18th inst., at Ventnorl - lo p S . Fletcher, Esq. Vet LUND —On the 19th inst., at Manor Park, ci, oro ilifi Lund, Esq., of 41, Cornhill, aged 62. SEWELL -- On the 20th inst at 25, Gilstotr r° ` C °°• Do• , ton, W. B. Sewell, Esq., a ged 75. John TREW - On the 19th inst., at Cheltenh am ' mon Trew, D.D., aged 77. 7' 4 IP' 13 ' ..., 14 4' ~ ; - 40 - London : Printed and Pablished by W 1 ode II of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at • ruß SuS tltio Strand, in the Precinct of she 13a col, Middlegn.—Thuroday, Jo,nualy 21,10'