The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Irish Church Bill, says the Saturday Review, has really passed. After so much fierce discussion, after so many perils, it has become law, and this great success is not alloyed either by an access of religious bitterness, or by the imminence of a constitutional con flict, or by a good bill being made a bad bill. A compro mise has been effected, but it is not a compromise which in any way goes to the principles of the bill. England has made a great sacrifice to Ireland, and has made it in the only way in which a sacrifice can do good, by making it boldly, generously, and without hesitation. The general result is in every way satisfactory. Dises tablishment is complete, and disendowment is complete, excepting that where there was a point, not of principle, but of detail, fairly open to doubt, the leaning has been, as it ought to have been, in favour of the disendowed Church. The unexpected escape of all parties from a position of much embarrassment is mainly due to Lord Cairns. It is true that the Government have shewn moderation, judgment, and a conciliatory spirit in the final negotiations ; but then they have substantial'y got all that they wanted, and people who triumph ought to be in a good humour. But Lord Cairns had a very diffi cult task to perform. He had at once to reinstate himself in the leadership of his party, which had passed away from him since his defeat on the second reading, and he had to act for and lead his party without consulting it. He acted in the right way at the right moment, and he was rewarded by the applause of men of all parties. He ren dered a great service to the Conservative party, for he once more gave them a leader in the Lords, and they bad begun to feel how much they wanted one ; and he ren dered a great service to the House of Lords, for the peers had begun to long for some gentle and dignified means of getting off the high pedestal on to which they had worked themselves on Tuesday. There can be no doubt that things were beginning to look ugly for the House of Lords. A dangerous spirit was beginning to gather strength and find utterance, and the Lords had the sense to know this, and to yield in time. Eut they would not have known how to yield if Lord Cairns had not stepped in and shewn them the way. So everyone was more or less contented and happy, and the Irish Church Lill was passed, to stand, we trust, as a lasting record of what England is willing to do for Ireland, and of what can be carried in a few months by a strong and resolute Ministry, backed up by a nation anxious to do right and justice at any cost. The Spectator declares that the House of Lords is get ting quite an adept in the sensation drama. On Tuesday night the curtain fell on a most stormy and exciting scene. It seemed to everybody that their lordships were about to be logical, and act in real consistency with the strong language which they have been using fur months past in relation to the disestablishment and disenclowinent of the Irish Church. When the curtain fell, the attitudes of various noble lords was in the highest degree dramatic. There, in the foreground, was the tall dark figure of the Marqmis of Salisbury, shaking the finger of scorn in the most contemptuous manner at the Prime Minister, attri buting all the mischief to the perverse disposition of his one " arrogant will," and giving grating utterance as he did so, to the scoff, "In the labyrinth of that mind I am lost." In the background, on the same side, was the austerely rebuking figure of Earl Grey, stooping mena cingly forward, and asserting with that characteristically earnest and tragical scowl of his at the Ministerial benches, that her Majesty's Government were all acting a part ; that their motive was a petty desire for triumph over the House of Lords ; that they were "comparatively indifferent as to the passing of the bill, unless they can pass it in such a manner as to gain a triumph over this House, and subject it to humiliation and degradation in the eyes of the public." On the other side was the Duke of Argyll, proud, stern, defiant, with his hack set. like James Fitz-James's, against a rock, crying in effect, "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I!" —and there was Lord Hatberley, weighing Lord Salisbury, with severe mien, in thescales of justice, and referring him to Sbakspere's scornful remedy for the cure, orrather for the suffocation, of a "gibing spirit." A little apart from the group—something like where the exulting little boy stands throwing up his cap and occasionally standing on his head in delight during a London street row—was the Earl of Winchilsea, screaming out that Mr. Gladstone was in effect the Jack Cade of the moment, " the master of the moment was not always a wise man—Jack Cade, for example, was once master of the moment." When the curtain rose again, on Thursday, all was changed. In the interval it seems that the same thought had struck Lord Cairns which struck the young lady in the burlesque, "Let us swear eternal friendship !" The House of Lords was once more at peace with the country, in concord with the House of Commons, in amity with the Ministry, in love with itself. Lord Granville, beaming forth his usual placid radiance, explained that the Cabinet— had not thought it right to take so formidable a step as dropping the bill on a mere amendment in the preamble, and after intimating that he had come isa some arrangement with the leader of the Opposition, he made a formal motion, and left Lord Cairns to explain. Then burst forth Lord Cairns in all the splendour of a conqueror who had achieved that greatest of conquests, the conquest over himself. He threw himself on the favour of the House for a somewhat irregular statement. He explained that he had concluded a sort of Villafranca convention with his noble friend on the morrow of the great Con servative victory of Tuesday night. He, like Napoleon, was scared at his own triumph. He, unlike Napoleon, was so scared at his own triumph that lie was going to give up all he had gained rather than persist in claiming it. 'e net result of the peace appears, then, to be this--that the Ministry have abated their price by an infinitesimal sum to make a loophole for the dignity of the Lords, and the Lords have accepted the loophole with enthusiasm, and crept through it with unaffected joy. Well, that is a profoundly English end to a menacing situation. The English people thoroughly enjoy an all-but catastrophe which fails of being a catastrophe because principle breaks down under the strain, and that is what they extol as statesmanship. We have no objection at all, so long as the principle which breaks down at the last moment is not our principle but the principle of the enemy—and that is the caae in this instance. It will in any case be an im mense relief to the country to have got this big question settled after some fashion at least, and virtually settled in a single session. The Economist thinks that the acceptance of Lord Cairns's compromise by the Government is quite a legiti mate occasion for the congratulations which have come from the majority of all parties concerned. It should end happily a long and bitter agitation which was almost getting too trying for the temper of our publ i c men. Extreme partisans on both sid e s w ill p ro bably b e dissatis fied, but English parties are mainlycomposed of moderate and almost neutral men, and the more violent members will be discouraged in criticising and opposing the settle ment. The country is heartily tired of the controversy, and will hardly mind the few drawbacks, if any, to the completeness of the triumph which has been won for the national policy. The friends of the Irish Church, in the first place, should be very well contented. Detest ing the bill as Lord Cairns still says he does, they must know very well that no farther fight could barnacle for their cause—that they had carried resistance to the utmost limits of a fair constitutional struggle, and it had becom e on l y a quest i on w h at shape their defeat would take. When the Government resolved on Tuesday to consult on their future• course no one doubted what the end would have been, though the exact measures to be adopted were uncertain. The last moment had come then for making conditions; if an unconditional defeat very soon after was to be averted ; bat that they have been able to make conditions at all, when the conflict had been carried to so extreme a length, is a success for which they cannot be too grateful. lint, secondly, the promoters of the bill may rejoice in their triumph, since after all they have not conceded anything essential. The bill as much as ever disestablishes and disendows the Irish Church—puts an end to Protestant ascendancy, and does not by any trickery re-endow the disestablished body. There is thus no deviation from principle, although the Irish Church, if there is enthusiasm and public spirit in it, will have a chance of partial re-endowment. We.shall be much surprised if the settlement is in any way carped at even by the Irish Catholics. At the same time the form of a compromise is a matter for satisfaction, as the mode in which the bill finally passes. It proves the new arrang'ment to be not wholly unacceptable to the Irish Protestants—that they will not in r, ality be alienated by a measure of justice to their fellow-subjects. Had the measure been forced to the last against the votes and protests of its opponents, the danger of alienatin g ; them might perhaps have been appreciable. We do not think the bill improved, but there is evidence that the points yielded are mainly in form. The positive direction will be considered binding —a settlement to which both sides can suc cess f u ll y appeal, and which future party leaders, afra id of irritating disputes, will be unwilling to disturb. The outli ne o f t h e b ill is blurred a to use Mr. Lowe's phrase, but it will serve the pur pose now that the fight is over. The John Lull thinks that the importance of the com promise cannot be exaggerated. The co-ordinate authority of the two branches of the Legislature is declared ; the dictatorship of Mr. Gladstone and his myrmidon, Mr. Bright, i 3 repudiated by Constitutional Whigs as well as Conservatives ; and the most arrogant Minister of our time is taught that however great his majority in the Lower - House, measures must be prepared with a know ledge that they will be thoroughly sifted in another place. It may be said that dissatisfaction all round proves how true a compromise it is ; but we believe that, as far as a , serting the dignity of the Horse of Lords is concerned, the comrroinisc is in favour of the Constitutional patty; f, , r the Pc^rs will think twice before, by their own act, tie y are compered to acce! , t such a compromise. But 1, most iltertA L-rd Cairns Las has heel, in alh,wim z 11 : e _ ::s, inferentially at, le,:st, to coromit of Lords to the secu!ar;sation of Church revenues. 'When such a bishop as the prelate who voted with the Gott normW, rg-sinst his brethren on Tnes,lay, to the inexp;.essihle grief of hi, Let friends, can overlook the importance of maii.taining this solemn principle, Lord Qairns may Le excuse ,1 for not seeing that the only prin ciple for which it was possible to contend, after the second readily, was in seeing that double distilled sacrilege was nit sanctioned by the Horse. flow far in the clause it is h t id down is a question we have for casuists ; but we can assure ti,e noble and learned lord that many. peers feel keenly that their solemn pledges have beers violated by an arrangement which, however well intended, was not authorised. We cannot hold with many of our friends that the authority of the llouse of Lords has been jeopardised by Lord (.'airns ; hut a solemn principle has been yielded through sheer inability to appreciate its importance. Instead of glehing a!! round, dishing all round seems to be the end of this atrocious bill for rob. Plug LktRIAAPPY .krikk Qhl3r9ll. r. her: THE PEABODY MEMORIAL. The unveiling of a memorial to Mr. George Peabody, which took place on Friday, was made the occasion of some interesting speeches, one from the Prince of Wales, another from the American Ambassador. The statue is unanimously praised, and the sculptor, Mr. Story, universally congratulated. The Roman toga is discarded, and Mr. Peabody is represented sitting in the common dress, in a library chair. The likeness is what is called a "speaking" one. Sir Benjamin Philips, as chairman of the Memorial Committee, did the honours, and pro nounced a eulogy on the great philanthropist. The Prince of Wales in his speech said : " The name of George Pea body is too well known for me to do more than merely pronounce it to you ; at the same time it affords me the deepest gratification to pay a tribute of respect to that great American, to that great philanthropist, to that—l may say—great citizen of the world. England can never adequately repay the debt of gratitude which she, and London especially, owes to him whose wonderful charity has been so liberally distributed. For one not born in this country to have given, I believe, more than a quarter of a million pounds sterling is a thing unequalled, and his name will go down to posterity as that of a man who has tried to ameliorate the sufferings and to elevate the social, and therefore moral, character of his fellow creatures. Let me thank Mr. Motley, the American Minister, for being present to-day, and let me assure him how glad I am to take part in thia—l may almost say national—ceremcny, because it gives me the opportunity of paying a tribute to his distinguished countryman. I can assure him that my feelings towards America are per sonally the same as they ever were ; nor can I ever forget the reception I experienced nine years ago in that country. My earnest wish and hope is that England and America may ever go together hand in hand in peace and prosperity."—The American Minister praised Mr. Peabody no less warmly. " Most fortunate and generous of men, he has discovered the secret for which misers might sigh in vain— the art of keeping a great fortune to himself as long as time shall last. In this connection I have often thought of a famous epitaph inscribed on the monument of that old Earl of Devonshire who was termed the Good Earl. Said he, ' What I spent that I have ; what I saved that I lost ; that which I gave away remains with me.' So may we say of Peabody. During a recent residence in Rome 1 had the good fortune of seeing this statue which has just been unveiled in the busy heart of England's great metropolis by the royal hands of England's Prince, and grown day by day under the plastic fingers of the artist. I saw Mr. Peabody and his statue, sitting as it were side by side, and often debated within myself, with out coming to an accurate conclusion, whether on the whole the statue were more like Mr. Peabody, or Mr. Peabody more like the statue. Both seem to wear the same gentle, sympathetic smile, the same genuine and manly presence. It is a delightful thought that the pass ing thousands who go through this crowded mart will see George Peabody almost as accurately as if in the flesh ; and that future generations long unborn—the, I fear, never-ending procession of London's poor—will become well familiar with the features of their great benefactor." Mr. Story, the sculptor, being called upon to speak, came :orward, and very impressively said, pointing to the statue, "This is my speech." LAW AND POLICE. THE NEW BEERHOUSE ACT.—On Friday, at the Cler kenwell Police-court, Henry Payne, of the Cross Keys beerhouse, Holloway, was summoned for opening his house for the sale of refreshments before one o'clock on Sunday morning. The summons was under the New Beerhouse Act, and the defendant, being convicted, was fined 50s. and 2s. costs, or, in default of payment, twenty one days' imprisonment ; and the magistrate told him that if he was again summoned for a similar offence the highest penalty that the law would allow would be inflicted. ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.-At the Stafford Assizes, a day or two since, a boatman, named Thomas Vaughan, was indicted for attempting to murder his wife. It will be remembered that the prisoner, who had been drinking, attacked his wife on the canal boat in the most savage manner. Her life was in danger, and her deposition was taken, but she has since recovered, and endeavoured to retract her former evidence and to exonerate her hus band. The prisoner was sentenced to fourteen months' hard labour, SCENE IN A LIVERPOOL CHURCII. St. Margaret's Church, Liverpool, has lately been the scene of outbreaks and disturbances. The services in con nection with its orening were continued on Thursday, and the congregations were largo both morning and evening. Lord P. G. Osborne preached in the evening, and at the conclusion of his sermon he addressed some °beer- vations to those present on the subject of tolerance. Ile begged them to he charitable to those op posed to them in doctrine. Should a competent court decide that the teaching of the real presence was not the teaching of the Church of England ho was willing to minister no longer, but there was no fear of his going to Rome. It was most un-Christian and un-English to condemn a man while he was on his trial. They, the Rituali.sts, should nct be called dishonest now when a judi- cial opinion had not boon given. After the sermon the officiating clergymen and choristers, bearing c•osses and binnerets, walked in procession down the sista chanting the hymn. This was very distasteful to some of the congregation, who were heard to mutter their displeasure, while others walked out of the church. While this was going on inside the church an excited scene was taking place outside, and the murmurs and hootings could be heard by those inside the sacred building. When; the doors were thrown open for the congregation to depart, a mob of about three hundred persons collected and hooted the worshippers. Mr. Horsfall, by whom the church was built, bad to make his escape by tLe back door of the vestry, and it was some time before the clergymen could leave the vestry. A force of police was present, and also a number of detectives, but they could do little in such a mob, and had great difficulty in clearing the streets. It is expected that the police authorities will shortly adopt more stringent measures to put a step to these disturbances. A letter from St. Petersburgh states that Komisarow, the peasant who saved the life of the Czar, did not commit suicide, but was murdered by being hanged in his own house, and that several persons have been arrested as accomplices in the crime. THE FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The total number of persons killed in the explosion at llaydock, near Wigan, at present amounts to 57, and not 58, as stated. Two men, named Pickton and Yates, still remain in a very precarious state. '1 he 'three bodies which were not identified on Wednesday night have since been claimed. They were the remains of John Rogers, aged 27, who leaves a wife and two children ; John Davis, aged 25; and James Westhead. MORE THREATENING IN IRLAND.—A Dublin correspondent writes, under date Friday evening :—"A surveyor, who went yesterday evening on the lands of Lisobehare, near the town of Tipperary, to mark the boundaries of two estates, was pounced upon by four men armed with revolvers, who searched him, took away his papers, and, firing shots, told him if he did not at once quit the land they would shoot him. They supposed he was making a survey to increase the rents. A large police force was sent to the spot, but no arrests were made." POWERS OF JURIES.—A singular judicial power has been conferred on juries in an American State. A recent statute enacts that " in all cases of felonies which by existing laws are punishable with death it shall be com petent for the jury empanelled to return with their ver dict of guilty, and as part of the same, either that the prisoner shall suffer death by hanging, as now provided by law, or that he be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life, or for a term not less than fourteen years, as they may decide.—Law Times. VELOCIPEDE RIDING.—An extraordinary feat of velocipede riding is now being performed. Messrs. Newton, Wilson, and Co., of 144, High Holborn, started one of their velocipedists, Mr. Clemworth, at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, to perform the journey from London to Edinburgh on a bicycle. He calculates reaching the latter city in the course of five or six days,in time to attend the opening of the Highland Agricultural Society's Show on Thursday next. He will proceed by way of Huntingdon, Peterborough, Lincoln, York, Northallerton, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Alnwick, Berwick, and thence to Edinburgh. Edinburgh it is expected will be reached in the course of Wednesday. Should he succeed in reaching it, he will have performed the most extraordinary feat of velocipede running on record, not more than half that - distance having as yet teen accomplished. ...TOTECEII BOAT ACCIDENT, —A serious boating accident has happened at Cheltenham. The youngest son of Major Showers, of Pitville-circus, Cheltenham, and a pupil at Mr. Wallace's school, Berkeley Hall, named ' Nixon, together with another companion named Roberts, proceeded to Tewhesl,nry on a fishing and boating excur sion, When on the return journey —they had arrived within a short distance of their destination—Dixon, in the act of changing his position in the boat, slipped and fell head foremost into the water. Showers, in endeavouring to rescue him, was also pulled in. The youth Roberts, who was still in the boat, stripped himself, and asked if he should jump in, but both replied "No," and he could, therefore, do no more than call for assistance. The struggles of the drowning lads were of but short duration, and the poor fellows, in each other's embrace, sank to rise no more. A man, hearing the screams, came up, but he was too late to render any assistance. DIPERIAL LARLI.A MEN T HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. INDEA. The Duke of ARGYLL occupied the entire of the early part of the evening with a long statement relative to the state of the finances and the position of railways in India. An interesting conversation ensued, in which Lord Hadifax, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Lawrence, Lord Lyveden, and Earl Fortescue took part. On the whole, whilst little expectation was held out of a material reduc tion in the expenditure, a warm approval was expressed of the policy of the Government with respect to the pro secution of public works, and especially as regarded the construction of the railways. The report of the Endowed Schools Bill was brought up and agreed to, the third reading being fixed for Monday. Lord CHELMSFORD inquired if the Government in tended to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to conclude an extradition treaty with the Emperor of the French. The Earl of CLARENDON replied that he was sorry to say ho could bring forward no bill of the kind referred to, as so great was the suspicion and jealousy that it would bo made use of for obtaining possession of political offenders, that there was little chance of being able to pass it through the other house this session. Several other measures were advanced a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COM MONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. GLADSTONE said he rose with a deep sense of the importance of the occasion to move that this house do agree to the amendments made in this bill by the House of Lords without exception or reservation. The Govermnent assented to the erasion of the words which were struck out by the Lords in committee, but an alteration of the 68th clause which made certain directions with re spect to the ultimate distribution of the surplus fund was agreed to. 'With respect to the date, the reason for the tenacity of the Government for the original date remaining was th it it was the best period that could be fixed, and although its original date finally appeared in the bill, it did not appear there as a token of victory, but as the expression of the joint and harmonious opinion of the two Houses of Parliament. With respect to the next amendment, that of the deduction for curatts, from the stipends of the incumbents, alte rations had been male from the the original pro position, but they were such as would entirely avoid any serious difference between the two branches of the Legislature. With respect to the surplus clause, it would appear that after all the demands of the act had been complied with the remainder should be devoted to objects of unavoidable calamity—(Hear, hear)—according to the direction of Parliament. He had to say that the preamble asitnow stoodrnet with the approval of the Government, because it would have been impossible to have carried the bill out if they had passed it as it came down first amended from the House of Lords. He did not wish to utter a word of reproach to any person, be cause they had now arrived at a very solemn point in the history of the nation, and it was most im portant that all harsh expressions should be for gotten and forgiven, in order that the act might give the peace it was intended. To show that he was sincere, he begged to express his deep regret for having used an ungainly figure of speech which he had been told had given pain in another place. With respect to the main amendment, the commuta tion clause, a change had been made of a very impor tant nature, yet the Government had conceded the point—one of great importance—and therefore he recommended the house to agree to the amend ments made in the house of Lords. His great de sire was that the measure should pass during the present session, in order that good faith might be kept with the nation. It was not often that a great question like that which had led to the introduction of that bill was submitted to the nation for its decision, but, that having been done, and the nation having made its wishes known, it was the solemn duty of the Government to carry it out to the utmost of their power. (Cheers.) That great duty had been accomplished in accord ance with peace, and be did not feel ashamed of sly ing, in deference to the wishes of another branch of the legislature. (Hear, hear.) He could not allow the matter to pass without paying his tribute to the noble earl (Granville) who had so admirably executed his tusk in the other house. Neither could he refrain from acknowledging the conduct of the Opposition—they had not attempted to clog the course of the bill by unfair advantage—(hear, hear)—but bad carried on the debate in a spirit that was to be expected from English gentlemen. (Hear, hear.) In the House of Peers the same magnanimous spirit had been displayed, and it was at last with feelings of no ordinary kind that he assumed that the Royal assent would be given to a bill which the Government hoped would be one of the first steps towards producing increased prosperity and peace in Ireland. To the Roman Catholics, by the bill, they gave nothing but what was their strictest due; to the Presbyterians they gave equal justice, but to the Church which was now disestablished they all felt the utmost regard, and she had their heartfelt wishes and fervent prayers for God-speed in her new career. (Loud cheers.) Sir R. PALMER eaid it would not be for the inte rest of the Church that those who had differed from the course pioposed by her Majesty's Government should carry on their opposition to any unreasonable length. There were limits to everything, and those limits had been attained with respect to the opposition that had been given to the bill. That being so, it was the true course of states men to bow to the decision which had carried the bill against their greatest strength. (Hear, hear.) He had to urge upon all to pursue a course of forbearance and peace, and increase in every way the power that might be required to carry out the provisions of the measure in the most entire and perfect manner. He felt quite certain that the right hon. gentleman at the head of the Government had, during the long discussion that that had taken place, been from the very first actuated by purest motives. (Loud cheers.) He had in the course of the debate displayed temperance, moderation, and dig nity ; no single member in that house could complain of the strict and undeviating manner in which he had ad hered to the first principles of the bill, which he looked upon as a measure that would work well for the Church in Ireland. With respect to that Church, he felt that it was far to be preferred that disestablishment should take place now rather thin that the proposition should be de bated from year to year. (Hear, hear.) He therefore could only say that he accepted the present position, and hoped that the noble aspirations of the right hon. gentle man might be perfectly fulfilled. (Cheers.) Sir J. ESMOND expressed his satisfaction at the solu tion of the great question, and he felt certain that Ireland in consequence would become to England, not a weakness and a danger, but a glory and a strength. Mr. DISRAELI said if there had been a difference of opinion between the two houses in the principles of the bill it would have been wise to have postponed the further consideration of the bill, but the great difference of opinion happened to be on matters of detail, and it would have been much to have been regretted that the obstinate per severance fn one of those details should have prevented the passing of the bill for the present session. The chief points of difference between the two.house amounted to but four items; upon three of these modifications ha•l been made, amounting to almost an entire change of character, and that being so, he could not titbit that it was correct to ray their agreeing to the bill, as it stood uow, was an uncondi tional surrender. He considered the arrangment that had been come to was a wise and conciliatory settlement of the question, and that the compromise that had been made was a fair and honest one. (Hear, hoar.) Had the Government refused to enter into any consideration of tho amendments, the bill would have been lost and the ses sion wasted on mere points of detail and not principles of policy. (Hear, hear.) He was glad such was not to be the case, and if he had any matter of regret left it was that the right hon. gentleman had not been able to be a little more liberal towards the clergy and laity of the Disestablished Church it would hare been far be+ter. But the principle had been decided, the House of Commons had assented to the disesteblish reent of the Church in Leland, and the House of Lords bad done the same, and however much he might regret that circumstance, which he did deeply, it was not there fore the duty of the house to take advantage of matter of detail to impede the passing of a bill, which it was said would give increased peace fled prosperity to Ireland. Mr. C. FORTESCUE also expressed the pleasure he felt at the accomplishment of the great task of the Govern ment, which he looked upon as one of the greatest acts of justice ever accomplished by Legislation. Ile did not think any person iu that house could truly call the arrangement that bad taken place an unconditional sur render, but on the contrary he hoped it would be looked upon as a compromise fair and honourable to both sides. (Hear, hear.) After a few observations from Mr. Miall and Mr. Ser geant Dowse, expressing their gratification at the passing of the bill, it was then agreed that the house should not 4 THE SUN, LONDON, S TURDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1869 , insist upon its disagreements with the Lords' amend ments. (Loud cheers.) The SPEAKER then directed that a message be trans mitted to the House of Lords to that effect. SUPPLY. On the motion for the house going into Committee of Supply, Mr. NEWDEGATE brought under discussion the sub ject of the Murphy disturbances, and impugned the con ducted of the liom3 Secretary, which he (Mr. Newdegate) called an attack on the greatest safeguard of freedom in preventing free discussion.. The matter occupied the attention of the house up to the hour, at which its sitting was suspended. At the evening sitting, Mr. MUNTZ drew attention to the way in which con tracts wero entered into by the naval authorities, and asked for information as to recent Admiralty changes. Mr. W. E. BAXTER explained that the Admiralty, having found the inconvenience of having the staff of clerks connected with their department divided between Somerset House and Whitehall, were gradually bringing them all under one roof, so that they would have the pur chase department under one responsible head ; and all the clerks, who would be thorough business men, would be directly under his supervision. The subject then dropped, after a somewhat voluminous discussion. The remaining ord.-Irs of the day were disposed of, and the lious3 adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. GERMAN UNITY. There is at least one German in the Southern States who is so deeply impressed with the advantages of the North German Confederation that he pays the Federal taxes without being asked for them. This individual, who is a Wiirtemberger, sent 100 thalers to Bismarck last year, stating that it was a tax levied upon himself, in acknow ledgment of the great benefits conferred on the whole of Germany by the Confederation, and which he was unwil ling to share without also sharing the expense. This year a similar sum has been forwarded in the same way. THE ALDERMAN ABROAD. The peasantry in the neighbourhood of Kiel, ..he port recently acquired by Prussia, have set the British rate. payer an example. The Kielites, like ourselves, are blessed with municipal functionaries, and these, like our own, are inveterate "guzzlers." Some time ago the 'nun'. cipality of Kiel gave a breakfast to t'ne King of Prussia, and charged the cost to the local account. The peasantry would not pay it. The functionaries might bear the cost of their own patriotism. The question was submitted to the provincial president, who decided that the peasants ought to pay, but the taxpayers have appealed to the linister of the Interior. The Prussian peasants, who are liberally trampled upon at times, clearly possess a spirit which is lacking in this favoured land. There is some excuse for charging a breakfast given to a king on the public funds, but there can be none for making the ratepayers answerab!e for the private eating of aldermen, vestrymen, and members of the Metropolitan Board of Works. A RATHER FREE PARAPERASE. Mr. Muntz, M.P. for Birmingham, giving in a late debate the substance of a speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury, said that the Primate had spo'ien of the Irish Church as " the cesspool of the English Church. Whatever was most foul and degraded, and low, that was sent over to Ireland." This statement has been taken up by the local politicians, the Arch bishop of Canterbury has been written to, and Mr. Muntz himself called to account. The Arch bishop of Canterbury denies that he has given forth any sentiment corresponding to that attributed to him, and expresses his belief that there must have been some mistake. Mr. Muntz's reply is to the effect that the facts are known to himself, that the Archbishop of Canterbury to some extent corrobo rated his statement, he quoted him and others to shew himself right. In other words, what Mr. Muntz thought and the Archbishop said—two very different things—Mr. Muntz made one. TIIE HEAD AND TIIF. Dr.ocx. When a wag was told that Lord Winchilsea was willing to lay his head on the block for the prezer vation of the Irish Church and the maintenance of the authority of the House of Lords, he observed that the noble lord would still have a good chance, for it would be difficult for the executioner to distill guish between the head and the block. EXACTING CONSTITITF.NTS. The Liberals of Halifax will have no turning either to the right hand or to the loft. Their member, Colonel Akroyd, voted for the postpone ment of the surplus. The advan:ed party in Halifax were much incensed at this proceeding, and bills were posted throughout the town proclaiming that their member had gone against Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party. " Liberal electors," said the poster, " note and remember this. It is a vote contrary to your clearly and Etrongly-e7preFsed instruc tions, and for which a stern mid strict account must be demanded." The ➢larquis of Salisbury will probably note this as an instance of the tyranny of constituencies. MR. WITALLEY AGAIN. Everyone knows that an advertisement if repeated sufficiently often, and Posted sufficiently conspicu ously, will shake the unbelief of the reader, however incredible it may be, however incredulous he may be. Mr. Whalley seems to be of opinion that he will produce an effect upon the stubborn unbelief of the House of Commons by repetition of the monstrous statement that the Jesuits are the originators of the Maori rebellion. It would be well if any member who is likely to experience the effect attributed to sape cadendo would as'c the member for Peterborough for particulars as to the relations between the Jesuits and the Maories, and fox proofs that there are any Jesuits at all in New Zealand. It will be of no use for Mr. Whalley tc reply that Jesuits always work in the dark, are always under disguise. Some facts he must have tc support his assertion, or he has no right to make it. TII 1; cums. The two club meetings which were anticipated with so much interest, at all events in London, have bad dissimilar results. The Reform Club has to s certain extent caved in to the two Ministers. The secession of Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster was a stigma upon the club which it could not endure, and se it has taken them back upon their own terms An apparent concession however is made. The Ministers withdraw their resignations,' and the com mittee of the club is to examine and alter the rule which regulated the admissi on o f f ore i gners . Of course the end of it will be that the rule will be so altered as to admit Mr. Bright's friend, whose exclusion was the cause of this disturbance. As for the Conservative Club, no one w ill be surprised or will complain that it should have refused Mr. Murray the luxury of resignation, but should have expelled him. The evidence given before Mr. Knox shews that if he was not the responsible editor of the Queen's Messenger he was closely connected with it, and neither the Conserva tive nor any other club, however Liberal, could con sent to have among its members a person who wrote of a statesman, so universally respected as Lord Stanley, under the name of "Lord Barabbas.” SIR CHARLES DILIKE ON EMIGRATION. Sir Charles Di M.P. for Chelsea, was requested recently to preside over a meeting for encouraging emigration, and for calling upon the Government to assist in the work. Sir Charles, in declining to take the chair, entered into some explanation of his views on emigration. Ile could not take part in such a meeting, he said, unless certain questions should be left open which the Emigration Aid Society seemed to treat as foregone con elusions. Ile thou ght it question able whether emigration should be carried out at State expense, and especially the emigration of paupers. A national system of emigration would infallibly lead to great jobbery. . If emigrants were sent to the colonies it would be a sign the colonies were in want of them, and in that case the colonies, and not the mother country, should be called on to pay for their journey. . PIONEER S. -- - It is stated that the proprietors of the Thames Tunnel have been " fortunate enough " t sell their property to a railway company for one-third of its cost, and that a new tunnel is now being constructed under the Thames at about one-fiftieth of that cost. Simultaneously we are told recent experiments prove that all the great guns upon which we have been lavishing million after million during the past ten years are useless, and that the India Government will have the benefit of our experience and expense, and begin where we are leaving off. So it ever must be with pioneers. They are the martyrs of enterprise, and, having sunk fortune, they do not get even the compensation of fame, for if they ar e remembered at ell, it is only that they may be laughed at for their clumsy efforts and awkward attempts. ANOTIIIM ATLANTIC CABLE. Another Atlantic cable is .proposed. What will arise out of the suggestion—whether anything will be done--is not very .clear, but a plan has been made public for running a line from Milford Haven direct to the American coast, without touching any intervening island. a The cable is to be light in struc ture, and. - to be manufactured, it is said, at very much less than the cost of the e :isting cables. As a result of this economy, the promoters express a belief that they will be able to send messages at the r,;te of a shilling a word, thus making a message of twenty words cost £l. A ROW ABOUT A TOLL-GATE. Last year, about this time, the Dundee papers contained day by day most alarming accounts of fights about a toll-bar at Dunheld. One day the bar was destroyed by a mob seeking excitement, or wishing to free the public from a tax; the next klaarit stralukliyely sceact QA tie Qgc.44jo.4_9Lthe erection of the bar. The same was re-enactea con tinually. After a time it seems to have occurred to the authorities that these occurrences were not altogether the right thing, and the magistrates were in some sort responsible for keeping the peace. A few men fined soon set the district at rest, and the bar has since been doing its duty. But now the old spirit has broken out afresh, and we hear of another attack upon the bar. Last year the whole place was in excitement in a very short time. We would suggest, therefore, that this year the magistrates should do their duty before the " general rising," not after. Lawlessness is con tageous, and the harm such outbreaks, unchecked, may do is incalculable. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It cannot be denied that grave difficulties are in the way of theßepublican party, in Civil Service Re form. The time approaches when the party supre macy will be threatened, and when the struggle is for existence, they cannot afford to dispense with the distribution of the prizes which give the energy and life and zeal to their advocates. A delegation of Pennsylvania politicians lately arrived at Washing ton to consult with the President concerning the close campaign in that State. They anticipated a struggle which they cannot hope to make success ful, unless the President, in his selection for offices, recognizes the men who do the party work. If the Democrats would not avail themselves of whatever patronage they could command through their city ma jorities and fight the battle of opinion, not of loaves and fishes, the reform Mr. Jenckes advocates might be inaugurated ; but they gather every scrap, by any means, and use it unsparingly to further party purposes. The only plan is for Congress to deprive the ExecutiVe of the power of selection, throwing the service open to all Americans who, after a rigid exami nation, prove themselves to be best qualified. These delegates assert tbat the Federal office-holders are but lukewarm friends, and that unless they are whipped up, and prizes offered to those who do most for the party, it will be impossible to succeed against the excellent and unscrupulous organization of the De mocrats. This appeal to the President in support of a party, is most objectionable on principle, and it will be found injurious in proportion as the country grows, that the ruler of the nation should be but the chief of a party. The lion. Ben Wade, in a speech lately made in California, advised the people to substitute green backs for gold. Mr. Wade is not an authority on economic science, but there may be more in his ad vice than at first sight appears. If the Californians had retorted, " we recommend you Eastern people to get rid of your paper currency and return to the standard of the civilized world," Mr. Wade might, with truth, have answered, though we dare say he would not, " we wish we could ; you can come down to us, but we cannot get up to you ; and the great object is uniformity." There is an interest ing article in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, " On the basis of National Wealth," in which, it is said, Mr. Chandler, the well-known Philadelphia jour nalist, when lecturing on Italy, attributed its want of prosperity and life to the similarity in products, pursuits, and habits of the various sections, wherein union was precluded, and jealousy rather than friendship created. Hence, it is argued that a va riety in produce tends to knit a nation together ; mutual dependence proving to be the best cement fur friendship. The Ledger looks for peace by the assimilation of the people throughout the United States to each other, and Mr. Wade would recom mend the descent of the inhabitants of one section on so important a point as the currency to obtain a uniformity therein. It may be advisable to culti vate a diversity of produce over the country, for the very purpose of assimilating and knitting the people together, while at the same time sacrifices may be necessary by one portion for the sake of a national uniformity, as, in facilitating the interchange of the commodities tus raised, the circulating medium is an important element. The closer the Pacific slope is connected with the Atlantic States, and the more important the trade r the greater will be found the inconvenience of the one working on a specie basis, and the other one of paper. Marvin H. Bovie has published a handbook in America, which he terms " Christ and the Gallows," epitomizing the reasons for the abolition of capital punishment. We have not seen the work, but the author, we believe, ably defends the same position as the one taken by Mr. Win. Tallack in England. That gentleman maintains that certainty of punish ment is by far the best deterrent ; that the capital sentence is the most uncertain of all in a ci‘iiized land by reason of the impossibility of jiu ies and the public generally divesting themselves of hesitation in awarding the irrevocab!e sentence of death. The severest secondary penalty, bang more certain, is more deterrent, a truth other nations have expe rienced and acted on. Admitting the b.lsis of his argument, that certainty of punishment is the main element in deterring from crime, not severity of punishment, Mr. Tallack's reasoning is almost un answerable. According to the judicial statistics of the year 1867-68, he remarks there were in England— " T wo hundred and fifty-five verdicts of wilful murder at coroners' inquests, 94 committals for trial for wilful murder, 27 convictions for the same, followed by L 7 com mutations, and only 10 executions. Seeing, then, that some nineteen-twentieths of our murderers either escape, or are safely shut up in really penal, life-long detentio n , as convicts or State lunatics, reason and expediency de mand that the remaining twentieth fraction should not stand in the way of a policy of comparative certainty-- and consequently of really increased dotorrence." It is undeniable that the " Lost Cause" is still upheld ; it may be generally indirectly, but some times in a way quite the reverse. For instance, in New Orleans a society has been formed to preserve the records of the rebellion, and to vindicate the "Lost Cause" from calumny. New York has as good a society in Tammany, in truth we mi g ht almost say a better. There, on Independence Day, prominent citizens gathered and discussed the sub jugation of Sovereign States under the armed heel of Congress, a worse tyrant than George 111., and as unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Liberty has been torn away, while Americans are drugged with Grant and military glory. Since the date of their partisan victory, meaning the Union triumph, the Radicals have deliberately engaged in the attempt to deprive the people of their power of local self government. Thus Tammany, indulging in these reflections, passed the glorious Day of Independence. Major Oakey Hall, feeling inspired, became pro phetic, foretelling that General Grant would be turned out of the Republican party in less than four years, as was his predecessor Andrew Johnson. An American paper replies, " Yes ; certainly, if he becomes an Andrew Johnson" —a change so highly improbable that it ventures the following remark : —"lf Oakey, as his name implies, is descended from the Ancient Druids, his prophetic powers do little credit to his ancestors. We think that he must have come from the Misletoes, and that he is not really an Oakey at all." Judge Nutt has decided in the Court of Claims at Washington that the Treasury printers were not civil servants, but contractors, and therefore not entitled to the benefit of the joint resolution of Congress, whereby 20 per cent. was added to the wages of Government employe's. The case was brought by forty-five bank-note printers employed in the Currency Bureau to recover this 20 per cent. The decision of the Judge was of great interest, as it went over all the ground whereon stand those work ing for the Government, which he divided into artisan and mechanical labour, wherein wages were fixed by the market rates of other employers, and the regular Government officers, whose salaries have scarcely been altered since the offices were created. The difference is strongly marked, for many of these offices date upwards of three-quarters of a century ago, when money was about a third of its present value comparing a greenback with the coin it represents. The salaries then, re main nominally the same, becoming in course of time very badly-paid posts, where the original intention was that they should be very highly-paid posts, while the pay of labour in its manual and mechanical forms had doubled and trebled. Thus it came to pass that the pay of these workmen ex ceeded that of the officers who superiutended their labour, the receipts of one, equalling the salary of the Comptroller of the Treasury, a high officer of State; of three, exceeding that of the Chief of the Division, all being beyond the stipend of the Super intendent of Printing, under whom they worked. If the Comptroller, whose salary was fixed when, the office was created in 1789 at $3,000, received an increase in proportion to that of members of Con gress, he would be the recipient of $lO,OOO annually in currency, instead of which Congress had awarded him, in common with the others, an increase at the rate of 20 per cent., which raises his salary to $3,600, though members who once got $1,500 a year now get $5,000 a year, exclusive of mileage. The whole sub ject requires revision, and Judge Nott's decision has called attention to the injustice of which the officers of the Civil Service have been the victims, to re medy which the 20 per cent. is wholly inadequate. A message from New York states that prominent Radicals are adopting measures to induce the Go vernment to nullify the Virginian election on the ground that the negroes were coerced to vote the Conservative ticket. Some of these politicians appear to be fossils, petrified things which cannot change, being utterly regardless of and remaining insensible to every external influence. It is too late to take any such action ; indeed the nation would not tolerate it, although the Republican party may begin to be sensible that this election is not in their interest, and would bode ill for their supremacy were not the Democrats greater fossils still. It is now an ascertained fact that nothing but the blun ders of the Democrats themselves have kept the Republican party in power, and they seetn to fear that the nation, weary of this lengthened party rule, may break it down, for the mo:nent they get the opportunity they begin beating their tam-hung, which is enough for the people who hear, to bolt. Ohio held its Democratic State Convention at Co lumbus on the 7th instant, and after nominating Gen. S. Rosecrans for Governor, T. G. Godfrey for Lieutenant-Governor, W. J. Gilmore for Judge of the Supreme Court, Stephen Bulzer for Trea surer of the State, J. M. Connell for Attorney- General, resolved— " That the exemption from tax of over $2,500,000,000 Government bonds and securities is unjust to thbpeople and ought not to be tolerated, and that we aro opposed to any appropriation for the payment of the interest on the pub lic bonds until they are made subject to taxation " Afraid that this would not be enough, they also resolved—. " That the claims of the bondholders that. the bonds which were bought with greenbacks, and the principal of which is by law payable in currency, should nevertheless be paid in gold, is unjust and extortionate, and if per sisted in will inevitably force upon the people the question of repudiation." Any one but a Democrat could see that party inte rest was not likely to be advanced by taking as champion and blowing life into dead issues, which in their best day maintained but a feeble fight, and were then ignomiuioualy knocked on the head. While the Rev. Paul Bagley is exerting himself in London to procure the release of the Fenian pri soners, Colonel Warren and other Fenians are working in Washington in a way more detrimental than favourable to the object in view. Warren, after seeing the President, has had several inter views with Cabinet Ministers, and on last Wed nesday appears with some Fenian leaders to have seen the Cabinet, waiting on several of the Secre taries to urge immediate action for the release of llalpin and other Fenians and Irish-American pri soners. The report is that Mr Boutwell and Mr. Robeson acquiesced, while Mr. Hoar took:a highly unfavourable view, strongly denouncing Fenianism, asserting that the raiders against Canada were chiefly thieves and desperadoes. From Paraguay, through a Brazilian source, two victories of the Allies are announced. They com mand the whole of the railway from Ascuncion to Villa Rica, and Count d'Eu was about to assault the head-quarters of Lopez. Two thousand Bra zilian horsemen, under Gen. Portinks, crossed the upper Parana without resistance, to effect a junction with the army. The rear-guard of the Paraguayans had received a che:k, and the Paraguan position in the Cordilleras was surrounded. The work lately published by an English officer, formerly high in the service of Lopez, confirms the account of Bliss and Masternaan, and appears to leave little doubt about the character of the Dictator, who has now declared the French and Italian Consuls to be deserters. Genera' I\l'Mahon is on his way to Washington, and what he says will go far to decide the character of this extraordinary man. The rebellion in Uru guay has not yet been crushed, but tranquillity pre vails in Montevideo. President Grant and family are on their promised visit to Longbranch, and will remain a fortnight. Fenian Father Al‘Mahon has been panic:l:led by the Canadian Government. The only other items of Cable news are that several brokers and money lenders of New York have been indicted by the grand jury for violation of the usury laws ; that the inter..‘st on the debt of the State of Virginia will not be paid until January; and that the Bureau of Agri culture reports that the grain crops throughout the United States are greatly above the average. The apppointment by the Czar of a Special En voy to Washington has attracted some attention in America :--A. Russian journal, the Viest, states " that England regards with great apprehension the Russo-American alliance, not because it fears the invasion of India, but because the proximity of Russian dominion will have a strong influence on the minds of the people of India, who already see with joy the approach of a European Power to which they can apply for assistance in case of necessity." If the news telegrar hed from Bombay last 'Tuesday is true, the Russians are in much greater jeopardy, and more than the Indians re quire assistance. " It is confidently asserted that the Kirghiz tribe, south and south-west of Orenburg, have risen en masse against the Russians. Turkestan is believed to be in a disturbed condition." It will take half a century for the Russians to establish themselves in their new conquests, and when they are established they will be even more hated by the inhabitants than now. His Excellency Russell Jones, the United States Minister at the Belgian Court, in succession to General Sanford, who resigned, arrived at Brussels last 'Wednesday. On that day the retiring Minis ter had an audience of the King, when he presented his letters of recall ; and his successor also bad an audience, when he presented his credentials. Capt. Evan R. Jones, of Milwaukee, Consul to Newcastle upon-Tyne, ought to have arrived there, as he was entertained at a farewell banquet, June 29, at New York, by many of his friends, all Welch-Americans. On the 15th inst., Mr. Shellaberger, the new Ameri can Minister to Portugal, presented his credentials to the King in a special audience at the Palace of Adjuda. The new Envoy was very graeiously re ceived. The Secretary of the United States Lega tion in Spain, H. J. Perry, occupies two columns of the Tribune in reply to Minister Hale. He attempts to prove that Mr. Hale did smuggle goods under his diplomatic franchise, for sale at a commercial house in Madrid ; and, finding the fact undeniable, he seeks to throw the blame upon the Secretary. Mr. Perry contends that Mr. Hale understood the lan guage sufficiently to know what was said, to make others know what he said, to read and translate Spanish without assistance. Hence he was not ignorant, as he pretends, of the documents placed in his hands by the Secretary. Mr. Perry has never known him to sign any paper without a knowledge of its contents ; and it was a boast of the Minister that throughout life he had never done so. It cer tainly is not a little scandalous to find a gentleman in Mr. Perry's position endeavouring to convict his superior of such an act ; but it is at least as scan dalous to find that superior attempting to fasten the infringement of diplomatic propriety and of the laws of Spain on his subordinate. 11 is better for ,all parties that the affair should be dropped, and that the cars of Amet jeans should not at least by it be made any longer to tingle. The American reception of the French cable is a proof how slight is the impression made on the public by the greatest of services. One paper; talks of Mr. Field and his British stockholders,writing throughout as if the Anglo-American Company was purely Eng lish and the French Company the rival line of a rival nation. We doubt whether the Anglo-Ameri can Company is as English as the French Company. Indeed it is not ; for an American was the origina tor, the constructor of a considerable portion, and the indefatigable agent who pushed the scieme to a success. The French line, however, is the pro perty of an English Company, organized in Eng land,_ chiefly with English money, to lay a cable made in England, of English material, shipped in au English vessel, and laid by Englishmen, Through the " old" cable comes the news that Secretary Fish has permitted the landing of the " new" cable upon the company conforming, until Congress meets, to the terms of the Telegraph Bill, reported last ses sion by Mr. Sumner from the Congressional Com mittee on Foreign Relations, which the agent has pledged the Company to do. There never was a doubt but that the end would be, as the end is, landed where it was intended to be landed ; the Company agreeing to conform to the restrictions Congress imposed. The reason is obvious enough. The cable is a boon to the people on both sides of the ocean, and five or six more will be equally wel come. However much they may admire Cyrus W. Field, they do not allow their admiration to stand in the way of business ; and the hope is, that the cost of sending messages will be further reduced, and greater facilities furnished; the Company there fore were justified in continuing their operations, notwithstanding Judge Hoar's opinion, relying on the selfishness of mankind. President Oliver Ames, of the Union Pacific Railway, reports an expenditure of $4,272,277 on the road, leaving but $2,499,453 to be disbursed fully to meet the requirements as estimated by the Commissioners. For rolling stock, Mr. Ames says there arc 40 to 50 locomotives too many, as well as a surplus of box freight cars, and only a few pas senger cars will be required in case two through trains start daily. There is, however, to be a large in crease of passenger cars and ten other new Pullman Silver Palace cars, which will be more than suffi cient for the rapidly increasing traffic. An expen diture of less than $500,000 only is required to make the Union Pacific 'conform to General War ren's idea of a first-class road, and Mr. Ames states that they have deposited $1,600,000 of their first mort gage bonds with the Treasurer of the United States as security for the completion of the line in accord ance with the law of last April, which sets at rest the story circulated by Mr. Morris. The following is the Commissioners' Report : " San Francisco, June 28, 1861 "We have been over the two Pacific Railroads from Omaha to Sacramento, almost all by daylight, at the rate of 30 miles au hour and more, and we find them to be as good as any new roads ever made in this country. Whore they are not perfect, as from Echo Canyon to Humboldt, hundreds of labourers aro now perfecting the works as fast as possible. We are satisfied that all has been done in goal faith. "B. F. WADE, "JAMES BROOKS." The President's active measures have stopped the proceedings of the Cuban filibusters. The remant of Ityan'sband was captured nearllobokee, New Jersey, last Monday night, by that Upright and energetic official, the U. S. Marshal, at New York, who telegraphed to the President that be believes that to be the end of Cuban operations in his city. The President had ordered the naval and military commanders fully to sustain the Marshal in enforcing the Neutrality Laws, and thus aided he soon suppresssed 200 fillibusters encamped at Gardener's Island, who refused at his command to disperse, bringing up a detachment of Marines, who captured 140, and sent them as prisoners to the Brooklyn Navy-yard. The only regret is that in his last haul he did not get hold of Ryan an d Byron, and other enterprising Irishmen, who have escaped. The sympathy between Cuba and D r ew York is remarkably shown by the effect following on the President's action. Insurgent prospects in Cuba became dim, as no expedition had got awaY from New York for many weeks. Both contending armies were sick and sorry, and scarcely any fighting is reported. One gleam, however, of sunshine was still on the gloomy horizon, in the decided action of the Washington Administration in Speakman's case , ironclad rapidly following ironclad to strengthen lloff's squadron. There was a report that the Go vernment did not approve of the Admiral's course as being rather against the insurgents; but this, as usual, is untrue, as he not only acted in conformity with his instructions, but as the Government de sired, and as the Cabinet has acted. The officers of the army and navy of the Gulf Stat es ' headed by Admiral Farragut, left for Long Branch, There; day, July 8, whore tboy dined in the evening. The n° l meeting is to be held in Boston, August 5, 1870, in honour of the capture of Mobile by Admiral Farragut. The fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Pre sident, Admiral Farragut ; vice-presidents, Admiral BaileY, Generals N. P. Banks, B. F. Butler, Phil Sheridan, Emery ' Franklin, Grove r , W e it ze l, A rno ld , Canby, Sherman' Reynolds, and Au gur; recor di ng secretary , Colon el Christenson ; treasurer, Colonel H. Barrett ; historian: Colonel Deming. The oration was delivered by Colono Walker ; the dinner was given at the Stetson 000 . 5 ; General Fran c i s P. Bair happening t o be di ning with some friends in the nei g hb ou rhood, a comm it " waited on him to invite him to the banquet. In his sP ee o c , General Blair caused some disappr o bation by a eulogy far Generals Lee and Stonewall Jackson, saying that, 5o they had only hoard of Farragut and Sheridan, butPjof time would come when much more would be h eard 'vooit these great Confederate leaders. Doubtless Frank h is had been dining to some purpose, indeed most of ro, companions were hotel proprietors, who probably P T o duced very seductive drinks. We more highly aPP r° , llB the courage and independence of the late candidate for:in_ Vice-Presidency, than his good taste, but the very dis he ir guished officers, with the first Admiral of the day at t,O„ head, could well afford to allow General Blair to talk h . ' . at self into fits on such a subject. We may here a dd General Banks has arrived in Europe. Apropos of tket;_ . 035 mocratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency nu legi c : t ice rebel Generals at a meeting of Union officers, we may t he what the successful Vice-P res id en t go t a t the hand s °f joa irrepressible Sprague, as well as a distinguished u General. The Senator found his opportunity on the n' tra _ v,rsary of Independence Day. The Vi c e-Preside nt ' b iro veiling and speaking through the country, remi nded f t he of the ass who stole the habiliments of the Icing ° to forest, but we fear the Senator will never be disguise himself, and Mr. Colfax may find some e l ' o w tion in the fact that he is not likely, therefore, to b: 030. .. taken for the Rhode Island magnate. It was not u mot ral for an ass thus fortunate in his attire to tak e e , tta te cheerful view of things in general than his less for 7 o f brother of the Upper House, and it was the ea:pros:o,s this view at Providence which drew on him Mr. o th censure, who sees ruin before the Republic, with rzeoo' but a brilliant young Senator to save the country' _`" - 0 a nd ral Burnside was again charged with incorapstelle cowanlice. able thoussow " that. Minister Motley is going to show his Pa tel 0 ,10 An American paper learns, by way of CalifOortio by using American wines at all the entertainm ents be en. given by him, and that a large invoice has alr° 3 shipped to him from California." vnle tiu' Du BARRY'S Delicious health Restoring oft bei Arabian, Food, which contains three times the nourislita---retstote ,, best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies' l i v er, r e ; perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy the 0 0 , freslting sleep, functional regularity, and energY (dY B r pepsin), habitual arbeimtuoaylincgonsspteipeaditiloyn,anddiaerffrhecectau,ally indigest.l;, complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliouslinteemss°,rr ie,v o neor L e s o og throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the hes" `" eu raltl rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hyste bes irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, hearthdlisTeicueso, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, itu sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient el s rollO c s scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the out of „„ 0 e are_ . between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out of F ,u'6 ur e Dly r —The Pope's health restorei by T Du Barry' 68,413. "Rome, Jul2l, 1866. The health of the lIoIY s ystbf e is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other re]; ms ,bi o has confined himself entirely to Du Barr Y's Re vs ' e n si. Food, of which he consumes a plateful at evorY d his produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his he ni a,! t ,„ b :, , ....- tW itf,.l Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too ‘ l , liB;llifiy yfo", the Gazette du Midi, July2s. Cure No. 49,832: to tbf? l3 : indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervounte stoncog. cough, eonstipation, flatulencY, and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortharn, Ling, near 14 : 1 ; vi or tiou, v Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazi n n Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousness,. ant e s u gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. spasms, sickness InlP°r elopPY —Beware of the many unsavoury and more th , IP _ sin s i 0 tions to which, without authority, Baron Liebig s 22 0; audaciously attached. ihs s 11s, '` In tins, at Is 11d; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21b5 4s 6d ; 51h cu ps 21 lbs 40s. - Also Do BARRY'S REVALENTA AltA/31`-' POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups o a r t 2 ; 3 6 , e fo u r po .4 . 4 at_ e s ,l at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 300, for ~f, t i n s at c l e b r. .. —being about one penny per cup. The 30s an 0u,;,.„,,, or free of carriage in England on receipt of Poste,-7',udon ;ail RARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stre t all Grocers and Chemists .BIRHS. . A B e N r T G — ti O ar nth t e of 2 a gat 2dinst T . taert.Ki n drochit, Blair -c&,, 0 l td the W. 13 the wife of Lieut.-Colonel ' G. 0/111n1011t, lato PAGET—On the ds 21st instHcxne tho liev• nrs. Edward Paget, of a . son. BENTLEY- TAYLOR— On - .111 ARRIA 2 G 2 E a S i c ist Ge o rg' B ' ~ Hanover-e u Edwin th e of _ q are, son of Robert Bentley, ~,e5 St. John's-wood-park, d f < • Marian,• tlae e '' oo -par , to Lmma daughter of Walter Taylor, Esq., of Pimlico. STEDMAN BRUMAGE —On the 22d inst., at St. Saviou,o Southwlet 0 .--,,: t „, ti , eld • ' ' , James Stedman of Woolwich, t -r-alii;rts est daughter of the late A. Brumage, Esq 7 ° f mouth Dockyard. at St. sq., DEATHS. late JOCELYN—On the 22d inst. the lion. Jolla Jocelyn, Capt 7t . h Bussars, aged d 4. fl 3 lent LEIGH 0 n the 22d inst., Joseph Leigh, Esq., 0 - - e Ball, Cheshire, aged 39. ea Loup —On the 20th ' t Margate, Charles Lord , i t u• ins t., at 51. NTD OS' London: Printed 31 B and Published b y WlLLlAafrod of No: 112, Stra, Pri, at THE SuN Office N 0.112. in the Precinct nd of the n Savoy, in the Vottnty of Dlici dle°— SaturOy, July 24, 1.369.