The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-06 00:00:00

ORANGE MOVEMENTS IN ULSTER. With the exception of the riot at Portadown there does not appear to have been any actual disturbance in Ulster on the Ist of July. The Orangemen, however, hoisted their flags on almost all the churches, and in some places varied the cus tomary programme by burning Mr. Gladstone in effigy, with the Church Bill in his hand. AtKilleaven, county Monaghan, they are stated to have been under the leading of the Rev. Mr. Flanagan, rather violent "defence" orator, who ad dressed them on "the perfidy of the House of Lords, and in particular on the treacherous doings of the. so-called Con servative peers." There were groans given at this place for Lord Cairns; "the English Fuseyite bishops;" with " three in particular for tho Bishop of Oxford" and the " renegades of the House of Peers." It is reported that at a muster of Roman Catholics near Banbridge, where Mr. John ston of Ballykilbeg was burned in effigy, much excitement was manifested, and volleys of musketry discharged. At Btewaitson the effigy-burning of Mr. Gladstone was similarly gone through, and many shots were heard on the bills during the night. At Downpatrick tar-1 arrels were kept burning and airs were played, tut "not," accord ing to the Northern Whig, "of a party nature." The princit al "drummirg" occurred at Omagh, where I:kewiso the effigy of a bishop "with a Iligh Church bat" was con sumed. The police attempted to prevent this, and between them and the people the "man cf straw" was torn to pieces ; but the mob gathered the fragments and burnt them, with shootings. In the town of Monaghan, where a riot occurred last year, the rector, the Rev. Dr. Bailey, prevented flags being placed on the parish church. ACTION AGAINST A BILL BROKER. In the Court of Exchequer on Monday the case of "Foster v. Foster" was tried. The plaintiff, George Alavoine Foster, was formerly a sworn broker and a mem ber of the Stock Exchange. The defendant was George Foster, a bill broker. They were not rela tives. Early in 1867 the defendant came to the plaintiff, and asked him to open on his behalf a " bear account for a fall" on the Stock Exchange. He produced a cheque for £40,000 worth of foreign stock and bank shares, and his bank book to show that he had ample means to meet his engage ments, and gave him the names of several relations and friends as a proof of his respectability. Tho plaintiff consented to open the account, and by the end of May the transaction amounted to nearly £400,000, upon which, in consequence of a rise in the market, there was a loss of £9,000. On the 31st the defendant called upon the plaintiff, and told him Olathe was unable to meet his engagements, and that he (the plaintiff) must write a letter to the committee of the Stock Exchange, stating that plaintiff must be declared a defaulter. At the same time he told the plaintiff that his own friends would assist him with advances, and that he would ultimately pay the plaintiff. The defendant dictated the letter, and it was duly forwarded to the Stock Exchange. Afterwards the plaintiff was made a bankrupt, and it was discovered that his hooks had been abstracted from an iron safe, of which he had allowed the defendant to have a key. The defendant denied having got them, but they were found in his possession. Proceedings bad been taken against the defendant for perjury, and he was now out of the country. The plaintiff sought to recover £9OO for com mission, and .£4,000 for money advanced to the defen dant. Until ho met his engagements in the Stock Exchange he could not, of course, recover frcm the defendant the amounts for which he had rendered himself liable. Dur ing the examination in chief of the plaintiff the parties agreed to the withdrawal of a juror, subject to a private arrangement. LAW AND POLICE. THE CASE OF MISS SHEDDEN.—On Monday, in the House of Lords, the case of Miss Shedden came on, when the Lord Chancellor declared the arguments for the appellants to be finished, and the further hearing was adjourned sine die. SELLING BAD MEAT.—At Marlborough-street, Charles Walters, butcher and sausage-maker, of Seven Dials, was charged by Mr. Dixon, inspector of nuisances, with having meat on his premises for sale unfit for human food. He found in a cellar where sausage-making was carried. on a quantity of meat all unfit for human food. It was stated for the defence that meat would be found in a state of decomposition in every butcher's shop at this season. Mr. D'Eyncourt said there was a previous conviction against defendant, and he would given him the full penalty of £2O ; but he hoped that if brought again to that court the magistrate would lie inflict any fine. A DISPUTED LIVING.—In the Court of Common Pleas, the court delivered judgment in the case of " Morris v. Ogden." The plaintiff was suspended by the Bishop of Manchester, and the suspension had never been revoked, but he claimed the temporalities of the living. The court gave judgment for the defendant. The marriage of Viiiconnt Petersham, Eon of the Farl of Harrington, with Lady Eva Caringtort, daughter of Lord Carington, was Ey lerrnifed at St. .lartio's-in-the - Fields Church on Monday morning. THE HULL ELECTION PETITION.—Mr. Baron Martin, on Monday, at tEe Jutlges' Chambers, made an order in the Hull election petition that the £l,OOO deposit for costs be withdrawn, without prejudice to any claim b the sitting members for costs. A telegram from Ire'and :ays that 111 r. Tov nEend, age nt of Mr. Dyas, of AtLI ey, Las been attacked on the road and warned to lease the conntiy.— Au op( n air meet ing on the land question was held on Sunday at Bagena's town, county Carlow. Its object was to denounce the evic tion of families from the lands of Oloneen and to pc ition Parliemcnt for refeim in the land laws. Several Roman Catholie'clergymen spoke. Superintendent Jones has discovered the re mainder of the jewellery stolen from the Bangor Railway Station, concealed in the ground Letwceu Gored-y-Git and the Gtorge Hotel, on tLo tanks of the Menai Straits. It consisted of fifty-seven watches, and the whole of the gold chains. The missing geld watch horn the eight that were taken from the Dublin lox was found in Hughes's (one of the prisoners) house on Monday last by a workman. The whole of the stolen property has now been discovered. IRELAND AND THE CROPS. —Tlieweather Burin; the entire of this week has been most favourable to the crops, and our correspondents, without an exception, report that the cereals and potatoes have wonderfully improved within the past eight or ten days. The hay-cutting has made rapid progress throughout the country, and, should the present fine weather continue, it is hoped that the harvest will not be more than a week later than last year. —Dublin Post. STEALING GRAND STAND TICKETS AT ASCOT.— At the P,eiks Midsummer Sessions, held at Reading, the chairmen (Mr. Benyon, M.l'.) and a bench of magistrates were occupied some time with the trial of Alexander Cummings, an officer of the S Division of Metropolitan Police (32 years) ; George Gettings, aged 35 ; and William Gurney, 59 years, who were indicted for unlawfully combining and agreeing to steal check tickets to the Grand Stands at Ascot, value ss. each, the property of Captain Thomas Bulkley and others, trustees of the said stand, on the 9tl Jwe last. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned to hard labour for a term of four months each. I be case of the Joint-Stock Disccunt Company v Brown and others was Lea rd in the Court of Chancery before Vice Chancellor James on Monday. The suit was instituted by the official liquidator of the company, to ecrapel its directors and two of its officers to refund to the shareholders £30,00 - which had been paid out of the, company's funds in respect of 3,5C0 shares which, without the authority of the shareholders, had teen purchased in Earned's ranking Company.—The Vice-Chancellor held that the purchase of the shares of a breach of trust on the part of the directors, and, with the exc , vim of Mr. John Gillespie, who Lad become a director after the negotiations for the purcLase of the shares, his Honour ordered the directors to ray to the plaintiff £30,000 with interest at £5 per cent. The sadly depressed state of the cotton trade Los led to the holdirg of meetings in different parts of I anenshire, for the purpose of calling upon Govern ment to take active measures for the removal of duties in - Toad on cotton yarns and manufactured goals imported into India ; the encouragement of the growth cf cotton in India, and the appoint ment of commercial men as members of the Indian Council. Meetings to plot:note these objects have just leen Lcld at Burnley and Rochdale. At the It. chdale ineetir g it was represented that since the cornmeocement of the American wra. India Lad product d an average of a mil kon bales of cotton per year; that before the war the amount of cotton pr«luced by America was four millions of bales St ally, and since tho war only two and a half million,. THE EXTREME DOCTRINE OF TIIF, ROYAL SUITEITLCI".— If any one v. ants a proof of the lengths to v Lich the doctrine of the Royal Supremacy may be carried we are prepared, if necessary, to supply legal evidence of the following remarkable fact :—" A parish clerk on the Sunday before last found himself embarked upon the enterprise of reading the responses in the cento, substituted on that day in honour of the Queen's acces sion for the Venite,exultenius." The Prayer-book was an old one, the clerk knew that changes had been made in the sex of the sovereign since it was printed, and being thoroughly penetrated with the spirit of the institution to which he belonged, he read the last verse but one as follows :—" And blessed be the name of her Majesty for ever ; and all the earth shall be filled with her Majesty. Amen and amen." If anyone has a mind for a nice little ecclesiastical prosecution, we cazi furnish him Partictillo. OF WHAT PARTY. IS THE "NA TION?" (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) The New York Nation tells the story of a Mr. JACKSON, a lawyer formerly in good practice in a Western State, who entered the army in 1861, fought through the war, constantly in front, and returned with broken health to find his business gone and his brain so affected that for two years he was kept in a lunatic asylum. Emerging in 1866, some admiring friends obtained for Lim a post in the Auditor's Bureau, wherein his extraordinary ability in examination of claims secured his rapid promotion. In April, 1869, on Mr. BOUTWELL'S advent, he was peremptorily dismissed because he " had been appointed under JOHNSON and endorsed by Democrats, and was intimate with Judge WOOD WARD (of Pennsylvania) and Mr C. DENISON." But Mr. STETSON announced to the third auditor that Mr. JACKSON'S services were of such a character and so indispensable in the bureau that his departure would paralyse its business; he was therefore re tained, while two young men were placed with him to leant the work, and the sight is now onview at Wash ington, says the Nation, of this war-worn, broken down soldier fitting these two men to oust him from his post. The Sation comments in its two following notes of the Week with great severity on the fore- going, the truth of which it has taken much pains to ascertain ; blaming Mr. BOUTWELL, who it pro nounces to be " a remarkably good specimen" of what it evidently considers a remarkably bad class. It objected to his appointment because he was " a thorough-bred politician of the old school. . . . After thirty years of caucus, wires, and stump, a man could not be a real administrative reformer, The stuff of a reformer has gone out of him. ' Fi. delity' and' claims' have entered into the very mar• row of his bones." The correspondent of the Nen York Tribune attacks the Nation in his letter, from London, of June 5, asserting among other charges that it is not a Republican journal. Mr. SMALLEY alleges that the general ignorance on American affairs in England enables the enemies of the Republican party and the cause it has upheld for eight years, to make people believe that the Nation is a Republican journal. We are rather inclined to think that Mr. SMALLEY is now right, in his assertion that the Na tion is not Republican, for there is internal evi- deuce that it is not, at least on all points, in har mony with that party. It is indisputable that it formerly was a Radical organ, for it was founded to uphold the cause of the negro, one of the great issues whereon the Republican party was formed. But what happened in England when the Whigs gained the objects they strove for is happening on Radical success in the Republic; its issues being attained, the parties assimilate and have to re-form on others. The Tories merge into the Conservatives in Eng lard, the Whigs into the Liberals, and for want of definite questions fight the battle of slow versus rapid progress. In America there are great and direct issuJs to be contended for, affecting every man individually, and consequently of prodigious importance to the nation collectively, and it is around the standard erected for then, that parties must hereafter rally. Mr. SMALLEY calls the Nation " a paper written by a little clique of discontented doctrinaires for each other's reading," and he sneers at ascribing to it a weight which he declares to be purely imaginary. He insinuates that the English press is deceived, aad the more readily because it suits. it to assume that the Nation does speak the sentiments of many Ame ricaup. It is, however, the fact, that English editors judge the paper by the matter they find therein, and not by the opinions of this or that person. Theyallude to it as of the highest class intellectually, even while condemning it, as did the Saturday lie- view, for never being able to discuss an English sulject without displaying a blind and hysterical hatred of England. But while accepting it ou its merits they do not pretend to judge of its circulation or of its influence in its own country, of which they can know little or nothing. Still it cannot but be amusing to compare what the leading English Tory weekly paper says, with what the correspondent of the leading American Republican paper says when dis cussing the Nation; the one writing of its fanatical dis like to England and the °llia. of " the squeals of delight" with which these very Tory journals seiLe upon its injurious comments, on its country in ge neral, and on the Republican party in particular; and this is not a bad instance of the difficulty ex perienced in endeavouring impartially and bias to discuss Anglo-American queaious. But our object here is to inquire—of what political stripe is the Nation ? for, though not Demociatie, we Lic:ine to the belief that it is not now Republic tn, and that Mr. SMALLEY is justified in repudiating it as an organ of his party. What seems to have had most effect in swinging the Nation round was the ap pointment of Mr. BOIMVELL to the Secretaryship of the Treasury ; and it is worth while to seek the cause, for whether written by a little clique of doc trinaires or not, the paper is unquestionably con ducted with the honest intention of benefiting the country. Judging alone by the internal evidence it furnishes, for we know nothing of it beyond its weekly issue, we would say that it earnestly de sires to break down the system on which offices in the United States are at present distributed, and to inaugurate the Civil Service Reform, whose most conspicuous advocate is Mr. JENCKES, of Rhode Island. It strenuously upheld GRANT for President during the election campaign, under the belief that he would accomplish this Hercu lean task, and it appears to have deeply grieved over what it considers his conspicuous failure. In an article of its issue on June 10 it discusses this subject in a tone of which our readers may judge by the following extract : " it is safe to say that when we were discussing Mr. JENCKES'S bill last winter, nobody had the remotest idea of the startling illustration of the value of the measure which the incoming of GRANT's Administration would afford. Few people -few of his supporters certlinly— were prepared for 'the clean sweep' which he has made, and fewer still had an ad equa t e id ea o f w h at a c l ean sweep means in these days, when the Government employes are numbered by tens of thousa n d s . W e k new w h at rotat i on in office meant under Pomc. and BUCHANAN, but wo did not know, till we saw it, what it meant since the war oovered the land with a swarm of functionaries. More over, even those of us who had anticipated extensive changes amongst the officers of the Government had not pictured to themselves th e p oss ibili ty of the vacancies being filled by means of Congressional and other 'recom mendations,' in the old style- th at i s, o f every off i ce in the gift of the Government being offered to the competition of between two and three hundred thousand of the least reputable portion of the community— t h a t portion, in short, which in the country, of all, in which an honest 11 , an finds least difficulty in making a livelihood, had failed in getting any place for which character and skill or industry were essential requisites." In its number of June 17 it tells the story with which we commenced this article, and in its first leader discusses the decline of the Republican party, which it asserts to have been losing its hold on the popular affection since 1865. Nothing but the " ob stinacy and stupidity of the South, and ANDREW JOHNSON'S folly" enabled it successfully to carry out Reconstruction, a measure in itself sure to damage the reputation of any party. It has had to collect and disburse enormous sums for eight years with out adequate machinery, and, in consequence, to shoulder the responsibility of great abuses, while receiving into its ranks a prodigious number of knaves and adventurers, whose plundering and peculation added to its burden. These, together with the weariness which comes over the public of any party long in power, would have led to its de feat in the last Presidential election had not the folly of the opposition and the energetic action of the Chicago Convention postponed the evil day. Had the Republicans discarded GRANT, and the Democrats accepted CHASE, the former party would have gone to pieces, and even as it was, if the elec tive machinery had admitted of a direct popular vote, GRANT would have barely escaped, defeat. We may judge from this that the Nation has very little hearty Republicanism in it, and we direct attention to the change, bec tuse it is a per ceptible straw on the current of public opinion to show the turning of the tide. The Nation is nothing if not original and it is nothing if origi. nal, unless its ideas are deeply considered an , matured. The mass of journals are eddied about round and round, more following than making public opinion, taking the tone from the few really original organs. As one of these few the opinions of the Nation are important, whether or 110 t those THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1869 of a clique of doctrinaries ; while the fact is very evident that they are " discontented." The subject, however, resolves itself into this, that the parties will have to re-form, for they may with truth be said to be getting into confusion when the leading Radical paper is the leading Protectionist organ in one State, and the leading Radical paper is the leading Free-Trade paper in another State, the platforms around which the new parties must form being. Free Trade and Protection. This the Nation un doubtedly sees, taking its stand on the former, and commencing the war by attacking the Secretary of the Treasury, regarding that post as the most im portant in the Administration, and condemning the selection of a Protectionist, while perhaps inter preting it as a sign of hostility to its Free-trade platform. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. " QUITE OVERLOOKED." Early in the year there was a ball at Willis's Rooms for the benefit of the Great Western Railway Provident Society. It was extensively supported and patronised by the nobility and by the directors of the company. The company danced with an assiduity which shewed at once the warmth of their nearts and the agility of their legs ; and the pleasure which shone in their faces shewed how inspiritin g is the thought that you are sacrificing yourself for the good of others. But someone, we do not know who, has forgotten to send the proceeds of this admirable and self-denying act of charity to the institution on whose behalf it was performed, so that as far as the Provident Society is concerned all this zeal and all this mus cular energy have been thrown away. We fancy that this is not an unusual result of charity balls. The preparations are on the most liberal scale, the dancing is most praiseworthy, but the balance-sheet somehow or other gets quite overlooked. llowever, no good deed perishes, even though its fruits are not seen. As the poet has said— " The actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom from the dust,* anct we have no doubt that someone benefits even from the dust of the ball-room. requent resignation or Din Bright and Mr. rorster, will suggest to some persons the question if the Ballot is so perfect an instrument of election as it is pronounced to be by its advocates. The theory of vote by ballot at the clubs is that any man may blackball a candidate without any reasonable cause, and yet that no one will have the . right to complain of him because no one knows who has put in the black ball, or what his motive was in doing so. Jones may blackball Smith merely because Smith squints, or wears a white hat, or omits his h's, or has a vulgar wife, and neither Smith nor his friends ought to complain, because they are theoretically ignorant of the person who has committed the offence. Practically the case is far otherwise. For instance, at the present time every member .of the Reform Club knows, and a good many outsiders know, who were the gentlemen that blackballed Mr. Smalley. More than that, their motives are known, and they have to stand the fire of angry criticism. Now of two things one : either the Ballot is intended to allow men to give a secret, irresponsible vote, or it is not. If it is, what right has anyone to say that Mr. A and Mr. B ire the persons who excluded Mr. Smalley, much more what right has anyone to blame them ? If it is not, cu i bozo the Ballot ? WHITE RACES IN AMERICA. Last week we touched on the perplexing problem to be solved by A merican statesmen i❑ the coloured races of the United States, and we purpose now briefly to glance at a lesser though great difficulty— the management and the amalgamation of the white races pouring in from Europe. In judging the course of the Washington Administration on ques tions of foreign policy, the peculiarity of its position _ _ should not be overlooked. The institutions of the country offer to all who qualify by a short residence the privileges of citizenship. Of these the ballot is a direct and effective instrument in giving power to a band unused to its exercise, and the result has been to impart into American polities questions destitute of everything American, though replete with the animosities, prejudices, and political dis- likes imported with the immigrants. Many cir- cumstances have tended to make the Irish the Re- public's white difficulty, as the negro is its black difficulty ; and if it has given such a sombre hue to the political connection between America ani Great Britain, England should never forget that the colours were mixed by her. The immigration into the States has been mainly British, but unfortu- nately not merely Irish, but from that purely Celtic part of Ireland imbued with a fanatical, unreason- ing hatred of England. The Irish on becoming American citizens discovered the value of political power given by combination. To combine on ques tions of which they knew and for which they cared nothing was impossible ; but there was one whereon they could readily be united, and it mattered little to them that it did not benefit, but, on the contrary, was injurious to the country which bad so gener- ously and liberally adopted them. Irish agitators and American politicians quickly availed them selves of the rallying shout, Down with England," and as the Irish multiplied and were always ready to respond, gathering wish extraordinary unanimity on the cry, they became a great power in the land—a power for intense mischief, to strengthen the seeds of hate already existing in America, and to split the two great sections of the Anglo-Saxon race, the two great Protestant and progressive powers into an attitude of endless hostility and ceaseless danger. Thus it happened that England and the United States, notwithstanding their holding in common all that ought to combine them, became alienated in a way incomprehensible to other countries, and kindred peoples sacrificed the rule of the world and the propa gation of doctrines dear to both, to indulge in a sense less enmity alike disastrous to each. Indeed we go further, and assert that but for the Civil War the power attained by the Irish in the United States would lave culminated in an outbreak of hostilities between the two countries. Here then is a great trouble in the way of American statesmen which is England's own work, and one for which she should therefore make great allowance when dealing with America on international questions. While com plicating foreign relations, the influx of European emigration has a still more direct influence on domestic affairs. Germans now enter the Union in their thousands, and whole States are becoming German. Fortunately for America that is the race which now predominates, or the excitable, gregari ous, and seer,:t'y conspiring Celt would have worked as much mischief as benefit to his adapted country. But though a good man and an excellent settler, the German is not an adept in using institutions differ ing widely from those under which he was reared. The freedom acquired by centuries of struggle, of failure, repea.ed trial anti success, cannot be exer cised free from d:lnger with uutrained risen, and ins'itutions which have grown up with the Anglo- Saxons are being suddenly and without any teach ing transferred to German races. The Ger mans go West and busy themselves in estab lishing their settlements, to the exclusion of politics; but, by degrees, as they become easier in their circumstances a more dreamy and idealistic people than those who created the institutions will make their power over them tell, with what result remains to be seen. Meanwhile absurd embarrass ments arise ; such for instance as that which lately caused a commotion in New York. The Puritan idea of keeping the Sabbath does not harmonize with the habits of the German. The enactment is that places of amusement be closed, and the sale of liquor prohibited on that day. The German cus- tom, on the contrary is to go to his lager-bier gar dens to drink, smoke, dance, and generally amuse himself on Sunday. In the eye of a strict Metho dist his action is as much an abomination as is ham to a Mahommedan ; and when the anger of the German is aroused at his amusement being inter- ered with, he is told that he came uninvited to the country which received him hospitably, that if he does not like it he can go back, for it objects to alter laws grounded on a Divine command to suit his low tastes. The immediate effect is to teach the Germans the value of that combination by which the Irish have become so powerful. They gather, pass resolutions, elect delegates, and let wire-pullers know that they will vote in a body against the political party which upholds the Divine command. The value of education and early political training is shown in the supremacy maintained by the native American among the conflicting races, and the able manner in which they have not only kept control, but so quickly moulded the new material into Ame ricans. But another difficulty has arisen out of this very skill in handling the ignorant incomers so as to suit their purposes. Unscrupulous men, who found they could readily organize the Irish on the anti- English platform, organize.l and used them as a means for plunder. Take the great metropolitan city of New York ; take the Government of the Empire State ; analyse the whole political ma chinery, and it will be found that the wealthiest, most populous State of the Union rests on a sub stratum of Irish fresh from the bogs of their wet dreary Isle, voting as directed by au unprincipled clique. Such laws as those on which the Republic is erected require for their successful exercise honest and educated men. You cannot have a Re public without Republicans, and the last person who could be called a Republican is the Pat just naturalised. When such as he has a voice in electing even Judges, there is danger to the in stitutions from the amount of corruption sure to be bred, and this is a danger now perplexing American statesmen, while creating in the minds of many gloomy anticipations. We do not hesitate to state our belief that the Irish famine and the sub sequent influx of untaught Celts was a great mis fortune for America, that the overwhelming rush from Europe to the country is hazardous, and. although it may add to the material prosperity and immediate wealth of the United States, we would prefer to see the waste places more gradually filled, and perhaps it would even be beneficial for the Republic and institutions of the first import ance to the world to preserve, that the country should be barred for a period to all immigration, and time be thus given for the present inhabitants to be educated up to the Republican mark. But our e e a r i d n e a r n s n r t the object p e r h p e l e r e x i n is g t r .: r o p b o l i e n tu t s o e u n t e t n o n n o t u e r r e E d u g b l y i s A h statesmen at every turn, which o ften force them to act on other than their o wn convictions, and oblige them occasionally to assume a tone which they heartily dislike, but is neces s a r y if the y would successfully settle some intricate intern ational ques tion.—Anglo-American Times. I)utiviLLE awl Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the worid. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfa.t; cr 4, Beaufort -by , Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad A MEMORABLE DAY. Monday, July 5, 1869, will be celebrated in Court annals. It will be told in after days how the first gentleman of England undertook the noble and heroic task of reforming and beautifying the hideous evening costume which until then unfortunate men were condemned to wear. It will be said that, having held a Cabinet Council with his chief adviser, Poole, his Royal Highness appeared at a ball at Marlborough House in all the splendour of a blue dress-coat with gold buttons, a white silk waistcoat, and black breeches. Young men will rejoice, old men will recall the halcyon days of the Regency. Altogether, the day will be marked with a white stone in the royal and sartorial calendars. EARLY CLOSING. An "Indoor Servant" writes to the Times on the Saturday half-holiday, and refers to the meeting at Stafford House on the subject. He considers that the claims of servants should not be overlooked, very few of whom ever have an Easter Sunday or a Christmas holiday. In nine cases out of ten indoor servants are on duty far too many hours, and their constitutions are ruined in consequence. A great deal may be done by judicious management to give servants more outdoor exercise and rest, and ladies and gentlemen would find themselves better served by a better class of servants. They would confer a great benefit on others, and in the end on themselves, by obtaining what they say is now so difficult to obtain, namely, " a thorough good servant." ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN. Mr. Boulnois, chairman of the Schools Committee, has written to the l imes with respect to the educa tion of Catholic pauper children. He states that the guardians of Marylebone have made arrangements for the visitation and instruction of the Catholic children at the parochial schools at Southall, and have never received any complaints from the Roman Catholic priest, having, in facygranted all he asked for. _ _ A letter on the same subject from Archbishop Manning was read on Sunday in all the churches of his archdiocese. Dr. Manning requested all persons who were acquainted with orphan pauper children to take care that they were classed as Catholics in the workhouse, and make their casts known to the priest. TILE PIGEON-SLAYERS. Hurlingham Park was fairly besieged on Saturday afternoon by the pig -eon-slayers and their friends. Four thousand persons were present at the sport, the Prince of Wales among them, though the fact is not chronicled in the Court Circular. All the drags of the Four-in-Hand Club went down, and the road was blocked with patrician carriages ; 242 birds were killed, the slayers including several peers and honourables and sic members of the house of Commons. Captain Pritchard carried of the principal prize, a beautiful silver vase wmked with allegorical figures, including., no doubt, Pity. Cups were then filled with cham pagne, and quaffed, whether in solemn silence to the memory of the deceased birds is not stated. The betting was very lively indeed. There was one sub ject of great complaint. The sun would shine into the eyes of the marksmen, and interfered s !clly with their gallantry. No doubt it was owing to this fact that 111 birds had the meanness to escape. THE FENIAN DI•;JIONSTRATION IN LONDON. The Fenian demonstration on the anniversary of imerican Independence took place on Sunday. It was not a very formidable affair. The Irish find the Americans thought to go to Rye House, but the pro prietor, having had his attention called to the character of the meeting by the police, refused to receive them, and the vans were driven to high 13cech, Essex. hero about 2,000 persons listened to The c7zprcssion of some very advanced opinions, and a memorial was agreed to, praying for the release of the Fenian prisoners. MR. CIIII.DERS. The guests who were so fortun•ile as to be invited to the recent garden party given by the First Lord of the Admiralty speak in the highest terms of the manner in which he has made the wilderness to rejoice and blossom like the rose. There is a garden attached to the official residence at Whitehall. Previous First Lords have been so much engrossed by their duties that they have shamefully neglected to develope the capacities of this parterre. Mr. Childers having to fulfil the painful task of sending clerks adrift when they thought they had been provided for for life, has been al ,solutely compelled to relieve the anguish thus inflicted upon him by the amenities of gardening. True, he did say that he would surrender this official residence for the public service. Ile has done much more wisely. He has retained it, and he has reclaimed the garden. Ilow much better second thoughts are than Erst. This garden is national property. It had licen allowed to run waste by Mr. Childers's extra vagant predecessors. Mr. Childers has turned it to good account, has weeded and planted and adorned it out of the money saved by dismissing superfluous clerks. The nation has now the satisfaction of knowing that there is another oasis in the desert of London, and that once or twice a year a few hundred of the aristocracy are admitted to see with their own eyes how well the public money has been laid out. F.MIGIIATION. The question of emigration is being continually forced upon the Government. The National Emi gration Aid Society have not, however, been success ful in their application to Earl Granville for loans. To their memorial the Colonial Secretary replies that he is fully alive to the advantages of well-considered and well-conducted emigration ; but he fears that any project for carrying it out by means of loans will disappoint the expectations of the promoters. The Duke of Manchester, in acknowledging this note, replies that the society do not urge the adoption of any specific seheme until the Govern ment shall have inquired into its feasibility. He urges Lord Granville to press the Government to take up the subject, and devise some well-considered plan in conjunction with the Colonial Governments without delay. AN INTERESTING DECISION. An interesting decision as to railway tickets has been given by the Greenwich magistrates. One, Pr. Armstrong, had taken a shilling ticket by the cheap train frnm nrarpscAnd—to " London," and had alighted at New Cross, upon which Is. 6d. more was demanded and refused. The doctor, having been summoned, pleaded. that he had a right to alight at any place short of the station to which his ticket carried him ; or, if not, New Cross being within the limits of the metropolitan Acts, was "London." The decision went on both pleas against the doctor. There was printed on the ticket a special endorse ment to the effect that if used for any other station the ticket was cancelled. The magistrate, therefore, decided that the defendant had no right to alight elsewhere than " London." New Cross was not 1 London. TIIE CLERGY IN PARLIAMENT. The question has been asked, Will the disestablish ment of the Irish Church remove the disability by which the Irish clergy are now forbidden to sit in Parliament ? It has b een assu med that this dis ability exists only by v i r t ue o f the persons whom it affects being the officers of a State Church, and that if it is to be conti nue d, th ere must be a special Act of Parliament passed for that purpose. The Morning Star, however, thinks differently. It quotes the first section of the Act passed in 1801, which provides " that no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon " shall be eligible to the House of Commons. This would seem to settle the matter, though whether it will be considered a satisfactory settlement by the clergy is doubtful. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. It is satisfactory to find that the bleak and cloudy weather which Londoners complained of so sorely last week was confined for the most part to them. Accounts from various parts of the country speak of brilliant skies, and in some places, especially Ireland, of a sun almost too hot. The crops promise well, and if the promise is fulfilled, 1869 will be noted alike for its hay and for its corn harvests—two pieces of good fortune which do not often occur in the same year. Taking a long leap and passing to India, we find that the heat there has been something terrible. Some benevolent and ingenious person has invented a covering for horses, so that their bead may be protected from the fierce sun. TILE BALLOT. The storm which has been aroused by the rejection of Mr. SmilatY.lt tl49_RdarDiSlub._aud.by the can, PRIZE-1 7 :GIITING IN AMERICA. Prize-fighting has left England for America, and it has not lost in danger or brutality in its journey across the Atlantic. Two amateur worshippers of the " noble art of self-defence" were recently engaged in a " rattling mill " (as the sporting papers call a fight), and they fought until one of them fell dead. We have now the account of another combat, a ring encounter between Allen and M'Coole, an Englishman and an Irishman. The English man, we are told, had the best of it, for his opponent's face was " g ashed and furrowed like a ploughed field; " as early as " Round 5 " he cannot see where to hit for the blood that streams over his face and the passion that blinds "him." Coming on to the finish there is a cry that Allen is gouging M'Coole, and then the ring is broken and the spectators draw knives upon the referee to give a decision for the giant or take the consequence. The referee, however, manages to escape from the spot, and on his arrival at St. Louis, to everyone's astonishment, delivers judgment in, favour of the Irishman, on the grounds of a foul. This is another instance of the nobility ani manli ness of the ring. THE POLITICAL POSITION. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that one cause why the Duke of Cleveland's proposal for concurrent endowment was rejected was that many Conservative peers having ascertained from Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Mansion house that this proposal would not be accepted by him, and seeing well that a collision between the two Houses on this point would greatly strengthen him, and enable him to appeal to the country with the cry of "No Endowment for Popery," thought it better to sacrifice their personal wishes to political prudence. What is now wished by this party is that the clauses for appropriating the surplus may be postponed; for they hope, as the Marquis of Salisbury believes, that the principle of concurrent endowment will grow and become popular. The same correspondent says that the amendment giving glebes to the clergy, though carried by such an overwhelming majority, will cer tainly be struck out by the commons. It is other wise with regard to the fourteen years' commnta tion and the senatorial privileges of the existing bishops. These amendments will probably he ac cepted. Lord Talbot de Malahide writes to the Times on the late division in the House of Lords on the Duke of Cleveland's motion, and says that many minor causes contributed to the result. There can be no doubt that the ominous declaration of Lord Granville, that it would be rejected by the Commons, was the death blow to the motion. Lord Talbot Wnks that political hypocrisy is very profitable in the present age, and suggests a scheme for testing the sincerity of the Liberal benches. During the reign of Louis Philippe there was a provision for taking the votes in Parliament on important questions by Ballot. What if the Liberal supporters of the Ballot were to try this experiment on themselves during the progress of the Irish Church Bill ? ESTABLISHMENTS. The question of religious establishments is being freely discussed just now by the Liberal clergy and press. Out of the Irish Church has arisen the query, Ought religious establishments to be main tained ? The many prosecutions for heresy now being carried on are calling forth the inquiry, What ought a National Church to be.? The former question is answered by the Pall Gazette, by the Daily News, and by the Bev. Baldwin Brown in the negative. The Gazette does not like voluntaryism, is anxious for a National Church, but does not sec how, when opinion is so divided, there can be such a Church main tained ; it regards dogma as. necessary to the exist ence of a religious organisation. The Daily NeWs re-echoes much the same argument. Mr. Brow' thinks there was a time when au establishment was necessary; but, inasmuch as the people no longer look to the clergy of the Establishment for truth, seeing that from the columns of a weekly con temporary (the Srecla.'or• ?) men arc now taught more of religion, he feels that the light, though it may not have left the Church,• has broken forth so freely into the world that the Establishm en t is necessary no longer. The great argument of the bishops has been the rural districts. Here (Mr. Brown points out) ignorance, gross vice, squalor and misery prevail; and where Hodge does emerge from these disadvan tages to think of religion he choses in most cases Nonconformist teachers. Many of the Liberal clergy, on the other hand, and a small number of Nonconformists, still hold to the idea of a National Church, a Church without dogma, or the smallest amount possible. Dr. Samuel Davidson, the eminent Nonconformist biblical critic, writes in support of that view. Ile regards the Voysey prosecution as a mistake. All such prosecutions, he thinks, injure a Church ; this particular one brings into promineme " certain delicate and difficult questions about which the minds of thinking men are more or less disturbed," and so, Dr. Davidson thinks, is likely to do special harm. The manner of Mr. Voysey's criticism (the doctor goes on to say) is not to be admired ; ho has hardly studied profoundly or reverently, but he speaks boldly and candidly, is easier to be answered and more to be admired than less plain men. But the clergy do not like reason ; it is easier to denounce than to answer, and they invoke the aid of the law rather than use per suasion. Dr. Davidson argues that such a prosecu tion is most impolitic in a State Church. Such a Church should open wide its doors. "A national Church should be, as far as practicable, co-extensive with the nation, allowing free scope for many varieties of opinion. Were she thus liberalised, the various Dissenting bodies would dwindle, became all their best elements would be absorbed into the great body, leaving a residuum of little account." He likes a State Church, and details some of its undoubted advantages, which, he thinks, overweigh the advantages of voluntaryism. TIIE PROSECUTION OF MR. LOWDER. We are informed that the prosecution of Mr. Lowder is not to toe proceeded with. No reason is yet assigned. Mr. Lowder has until now used lights and incense, and carried out the ritual which he observed prior to the Cairns judgment. We would fain hope that, on the one hand, the incumbent of St. Peter's, London Docks, has been persuaded to make a con cession to the known wishes of his diocesan which ho would not make to a secular court; and that, on the other, even the Church Association has shrunk from prosecuting a clergyman who has done more to evangelise the heathen of Eqstern London than a the members of that society put together. MR. JOUNSTON, M.P. AND TIIE IRISU ANNIVERSARIES. Mr. Johnston, M.P., or, as he is called,"Johnston of Ballykilbeg," has chosen the present time to protest against the Party Processions Act. He speaks of that measure as oppressive and tyrannical, and urges those who regard it as such to raise against it their continued constitutional protest. lle adds that in spite of all that has been done this year he sees no reason to despair of the Protestant cause. "If Ireland," he goes on to say, "is to cease to be the shuttlecock of parties, the people of all creeds must learn toleration. If the industry and enterprise of Ireland are to be developed and protected, let it be clearly understood that we must, first and before all, have complete political and civil freedom. Union for Ireland nll . profess to desire ; such union is simply impossible till justice be done to the Protestants and Oranzemen of Ireland." (from the Anglo-American Times.) BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—Our readers may remember the shooting of Henry O'Neil, a convict (who escaped from Sing Sing), by a keeper, Charles Sullivan, who has been acquitted ; and four of the Sing Sing con victs who murdered one of the guards while effecting their escape were brought up for trial.—John 11. Surratt has gone into business in Bat timora.—Professor John Le Conte has been elected President pro tern. of the University of California.—Blacque Bey, the Turkish Miniskr at Washington, and his staff, have engaged their summer quarters at _White Sulphur Springs, Virginia.— _- Anna, now residing at Puerto Plata, St. Domingo, is said to contemplate removing to Staten Island to spend the remainder of his days.—Gov. Baker of Indiana is con fined to his room by illness. Wm. 11. Seward and family and several members of the House Committee on Ways and Means,arrived atOmalia,Jiine 16,enroute to San Francisco.— The remains of Captain Henry A. Wise, late Chief of Ordnance of the Navy Department, who died in Naples about two months ago, are to be taken to Ame rica in the steamer Palmyra. They will be brought to Boston for interment at Mount Auburn by the side of his father-in •law, Edward Everett.—Rev. W. Merely Punchon is suffering from bronchitis in Toronto.—A son 9i the late general Albert t sidney Jobneea it, a pupil at -Santa General Lee's College in Virginia. Miss Fannie Lyons is a notary public in Kansas City.—General Hamilton, in his canvass for the Governorship of Texas, declares that if elected he will never pardon a fairly convicted criminal.--William S. Dodge, Mayor of Sitka, has teen lecturing on Alaska in several New England towns.-- Commodore Winslow, of Alabama fame, is in nom- mand of the Navy-yard of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.— Mr. Speaker Blaine meditates a trip to Alaska.—lt is said that John E. Owens is the richest actor in America.— Lewis IL Green, of tho firm of Sturges and Green, millers, Zanesville, died suddenly June 16.—Capt. F. C. Wagner, invalid and pension agent of Now York, Las been super seded by Col. G. M. Van Buren, late of Washington.-- Mons. Chevalier was to make another balloon ascent from Landmann's Park, Juno 18 ; a Japanese prince, accom- panying him.—Tho banking house of John F. Darby and Co., St. Louis, suspended, on the 18th June.— Vice- Admiral Mundy, commanding the British fleet on the New York station, has been promoted to be full Admiral and will return to England. He will be succeeded by Vice-Admiral Wellesley.—lgnacio Morisco], the new Mexi can Minister to America, wai formerly Secretary to Ro mero, awl he married in Washington the daughter of Mrs. Smith of Thirteenth-street, in whose house Gen.Selicuck long had his home.—Mr. Cyrus Field has been visiting Springfield, llassaehusetts:—N. Russal! Davis, son of Wendell N. Davis of Greenfield, has been appointed on the United States geological exploring expedition in the north-western territories, and has been as- signed the corom•ind of an expedition to explore the Great Salt Laße. He is acco:npanied by a botanist, pito tographo-, &c.—John G. Toot, assistant cashier of the - • American National Bank, has been appointed treasurer of the Hartford Trust Company.—The late Consul-General of France in New York recently arrived in the United States, and is now travelling over the Pacific Railroad, by order of the French Government, for the purpose of tho roughly examining the line, and of afterwards writing a report upon its international importance. Among the arrivals in the Scotia, from New York, were Mr. and Mrs Clarence A. S ward ; and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stoughton ; in the Idaho, Mr. A. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker and family, and Mr. Giguoux, the painter, and family. The Bremen steamer Donau has brought to Europe the Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, Minister to Russia, his wife, and two daughters; Mr. Robert H. Gratz, his private secretary, and Mr. Titian J. Coffee, Secretary of Legation, and their families. The party were convoyed on board at Now York by a 'United States steamer, and escorted by many leading men of Pennsyl vania. The Usion League Club of New York entertained the Minister at a grand banquet, the first given by the League to a citizen of Pennsylvania, and tendered as a mark of the high esteem in which Mr. Curtin is held. The late Henry Jarvis Raymond, of the New York Times, was born in Lima, Livingston County, New York, on the 24th of January, 1820. Ms father was a farmer of that village, and there he received his earliest education, performing the usual labours of a farmer's son and attending the Lima Seminary, an institution of some note ; graduated at the University of Vermont; studied law under Edward W. Marsh ; contributed to the New Yorker, Mr. Greeley's first paper, receivin,•, $8 a week ; made a speciality of reporting, then in its infancy ; became first assistant of the Tribune, when started in 1811, re- maining seven years; went then to the Courier and In quirer, proceeding to Europe in 1851. Started the Times on the Bth September of that year; in 1851 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of New York, refused in 1857 to stand for Governor, was elected for the Assembly in 1861, and the following year was president of the Union State Convention at Syracuse, though defeated in 1863 by Gov. Morgan for U.S. Senator, but was elected in Now York for the Lower House in 1861. On the afternoon of the 17th June Mr Raymond, accompanied by ono of his daughters, visited Greenwood Cemetery, where he designed purchas- ing a lot for the interment of a member of his family who died last spring. Leaving the cemetery he returned to the Times office in Printing-house-square, where he remained until about six o'clock. At that hour he went to his resi dence, N 0.12, 'West Ninth-street. After tea he remained in the house until nine o'clock, when he wont out, as ho said, to take a short walk. As nearly as can be ascertained he returned home at about eleven, and, after locking and bolting the door, was seized with apoplexy, and fell to the floor. He was found breathing, but unconscious, and at five o'clock next morning ho died, the news creating the greatest excitement and regret throughout the city. Mr. Sumner did not go to California with the Ways and Means Committee, who have already started; but he hopes to go some time during the summer. He will bo heartily welcomed whenever he does so. Mr. Colfax and a party of personal friends go early in August, and after a visit to the Yo Semite will probably make the tour through Oregon and up the Columbia, and back through Idaho to Salt Lake Valley, as laid out for the in telligent traveller in Mr. Bowles's " Pacific Railroad — Open." We wonder whether Mr. Bowles's book can bo procured in England, where the tour will grow into fashion, and produce a good effect in making the people acquainted with the country, and throw a good class of English tourists in contact with Americans. POLITICAL ITEMS.—The TVashington Star, of 12th June, says :—George W. Childs, proprietor of the Phila delphia Ledger, is spoken of for Governor of Pennsylvania. WO doubt if he would accept the poslion if tenlered him, but should lie so ho would make.things move while Le occupied the Gubernatorial chair. He has energy and vitality enough for a dozen ordinary Governors ; but Gel. W. B. lhomas, of Philadelphia, has been placed in nomi- nation as Independent Reform candidate.—The Vermont Republican State Conventiol met at Rutland, June 16. Three hundred and four delegates were present. Gen. Peter G. Washburn was nominated for Governor, and George Whendle, of Morrisville, Lieutenant-Governor; John A. P. Page, of Montpelier, was nominated State Treasurer. The RApublican State Convention of Texas met at Houston on the 7th June, and with great unanimity nominated the ticket as follows :—Governor, General Edward J. Davis of Nueces ; Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel J. W. Flanagan of Rusk; Commissioner of Land Office, Jacob Keuchlor of Parker ; Treasurer, William D. Price of Travis. • LITERARY ITEMS.—Mrs. St. Clair gave a lecture at White Pine, on the sth June, ou "Whom Shall 1 Marry ?"—Mr. John Mitchell has been lecturing in Cin cinnati on the Irish Church. The Tribune says, "He has as much right to regard himself as an Irish than as an American patriot ;" that is, that he was on the right side as a rebel in 1848, but he was on the wrong side as a rebel from 1861-65. DR. MARY 1.1. WALKER. —The Dubuque Herald has given an amusing sketch (which we condense) of one who has made herself of late more than ordinarily conspicuous. Mrs. Dr. Mary E. Walker was first heard of West of the Mississippi, in the spring of 1860. Mrs. Walker was an incessant talker chiefly on one topic—herself. What her age was it was difficult to thtermine, as it was hard to re concile her account of her experiences with her appear ance. At the age of 15 shs said she commenced teach ing, and continued to do so for five years ; she after wards taught five years in a seminary ; was a milliner five years ; worked at a printer's trade five years ; studied medicine three years ; practised it two years; was an invalid five years; cured by hydrop ath y ; this led her to study the system, which she practised five years ; &c., &c. Her various occupations, including a residence in Florida, as amanuensis to the Senator of that State, must have occupied 120 years of life ; but with all her study and experience as a teacher, the writer from whom we glean these particulars remarks :—" It was something of a shock to U 9, by the way, after leaving been, at first acquaintance with the lady, informed that she had been associate editor of a leading magazine for five years, to discover, in receiving communications for publication, ho w triumphantly and unconsciously she overrode all rules of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, &c. On meeting her afterwards wo led the conversation to botanical and medi cal topics, and discovered that here, too, she differed equally widely from the commonly received authori ties." About this time two advertisements appeared in two newspapers; one a notice from Mr. Alfred E. Miller that he petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Mary E. Miller ; the other, a notice from Mrs. Mary E. Miller, that she petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Mr. Alfred E. Miller, with right to resume her maiden name of Mary E. Walker. Then commenced the war, during which she was always conspicuous; afterwards she visited London, and made no small sensation. The writer concludes : " She is enthusiastic, quick witted, quick tempered, out spoken, unmalicious, exceedingly vain, sensational, ener getic, willful, self-asserting, irrepressible, loquacious, and everything else necessary to constitute a sort of George Francis Train in petticoats, if we were sure she wore petti coats." Regarding this lady an American paper says: - There is happiness in store for the dispensers of office at Washington, Mrs. Dr. Mary E. Walker contemplates going to Europe." The Hamburg- American Company's new screw steamship Silesia left Hamburg on Wednesday, and Havre on Saturday last, on her first voyage to New York. She was built and engined by Messrs. Laird and Co., on the Clyde, and her dimensions aro as follows:—Length at load water line, 342 feet; breadth of beam, 40 feet; depth of hold to spar deck, 33 feet ; gross tonnage, 3,150 tons; nominal horse-power, 600, capable of work ing up to 3,000 indicated horse-power. Her engines are direct acting with inverted cylinders. The great screw shaft is of cast steel, by Krupp, of Essen. By a patented process, communication is maintained betty eon tho officer in charge on the bridge and those engaged in the wheel house steering. The principle is hydrauli , , the fluid used being vegetable oil,.and by its action orders are con veyed from the bridge momentarily, while a dial at once indicates whether the order has been understood and obeyed. The Silesia is fitted with all the modern appli ances, and her cabin and steering accommodations are of a superior order. On the trial trip of the Silesia at the mea sured mile the speed attained, with 52 revolutions and a moderate consumption of coal, was 15 knots. The Silesia is commanded by Captain Trautmenn, an officer of expe rience and high reputation, who has been successively in command of the company's steamers Allemania, Cimbria, and IVestphalia. With the Silesia the company's fleet now numbers 11 steamers. This new steamer will be due off Plymouth on her return voyage on the 23d July. g A series of earthquake waves were recorded on the earthquake indicator at Fort Point, San Francisco, .•••••••‘• It • •••"... early on Tuesday morning, Juno I. Intelligence from Japan, the Sandwich Islands, and the South American coast was in consequence anxiously looked for. The Hon. W. W. Murphy, of Jonesville, Michi gan, after eight years of service as Consul-General at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, has surrendered his post to W. P. Webster, of Massachusetts, and is about to make a tour in Norway and Sweden previous to his return to America. The Detroit Tribune awards to Mr. Murphy a large measure of praise for the administration of the important trust con ferred on him by the country, and that praise we endorse. Frankfort has become the financial centre of the European continent, and in no other place out of America do Ame rican Securities stand in such high estimation. Mr. Mur phy did all that lay in his power to uphold and improve in that city the financial credit of the Republic, with what effect is best shown by the result. We do not pretend to say that he did more than aid in effecting this, but we assert that that aid was material, as it was given persist ently and with good judgment. Nor did his services pass unappreciated by the Administration at Washington, who would have gladly retained him at a post where he had made himself so useful had not other influences in tervened. Gmerica has been getting up a more genuine alliance with Prussia than the sentimental one with Russia. That North German influence should be great in the States is natural when the vastness of its emigration is considered, and the eminent Minister who now upholds American in terests at Berlin has even undertaken to prove that the poli tical institutions of the countries are almost identical. This attempt we believe to be a positive fact ; though one which will tax the ingenuity even of a Bancroft to achieve. Count Bismarck, however, just now, stands out in American eyes as the most prominent European figure, and we believe Bismarck, or some of his coadjutors, bad the littleness to make it a point with the Washington Administration to include Mr. Murphy among the superseded Consuls. Of course, if the Consul-General was obnoxious to the Berlin Government, the Washington Government would not raise so silly a point as to insist on his retention, the more so perhaps because it was the post of all others below that of Minister most striven for, and it furnished one more prize in the Government lottery. The 'cause of offence to the Prussian Administration was Mr. Murphy's efforts to shield American residents at Frankfort from having troops quartered on thorn, while the city was occupied by Prussian forces in the German war of 1866. Frankfort was regarded as a hostile town, and Mr. Murphy sym pathized with the inhabitants, and was, to a certain extent, their friend and supporter. This was not likely to be forgotten or forgiven by a Government like that of Berlin ; but Mr. Murphy has, if he chooses to exer cise it, claims on the Administration at Washington of no ordinary charact'r. Among these we may mention that ho was one of those most prominently selected for denunciation by the celebrated M'Cracken ; and the men now in power feel much inclined to endorse AVCracken's in vestigations, accepting his strictures as an undeniable proof of merit in the persons he attacked. According to the Detroit Tribune Mr. Murphy has in contemplation a work on grape culture and the wines of the Rhine, and it says his fellow citizens in Michigan will receive him back, after his long absence, with a warm welcome. The proposed improvements in Portland harbour (Maine) are going o in earnest. General Thorn of the United States Engineers, who is stationed there, has contracted with Messrs. Morris and Cumming of New York for an excavat'on across the bar. The work is to be completed this season,. The contract provides for a channel beginning near Atlantic wharf to deep water opposite tile Breakwater Light, some 300 feet in width, and to have at least 20 feet of water at mean low tide. This will give a depth of 28 or 29 feet at average high tide—sufficient for the largest steamers of the Allan line, and enable them to come at once to their docks without difficulty. TAE INDIAN WAR. The Oregon Indians have been renewing their depredations in Arizona, and the message received on Wednesday was to the effect that they were arm ing and leaving their reservations. Arizona is in a very unsettled state, large bands being on the war path perpetrating such atrocities that unless troops be despatched, the territory will Le abandoned. With the small force there at present it is impos sible to take the field, therefore the Indians act with impunity, except when they come across well armed settlers and teamsters, who make them pay dearly for the loss they inflict. A circular has been issued to the superintendents and agents of the Indian Department informing them of the Govern ment's decision to treat as outlaws all Indians who insist on leaving their reservations, while those who remain wi!l receive every care the Administration can bestow. The agents are en joined to impress this on all the ti ibes, as the system will no longer be endured of allowing roving warriors, after perpetrating all manner of atrocities during the summer, to claim help and protection, as peaceable and well-disposed men, during the winter. Every assistance in cuitivating the habits of civilized life is promised, of clothing, provisions, and agricultural implements, with ample lands even for hunting, with the alternative that, outside these reservations, the United States trool,s will treat them as the Indians treat settlers, which means, simply, " shoo' ing on sight." It is evident that the Administration had no other course to pursue, without permitting the connection with the Pacific slope across the continent to be severed, and further settlement westward to be barred. The Detroit Free Press tells how Delos G. Sandbertson, of Monroe County, New York, lost his scalp at the battle of Washita. We may add that he has been in inmate of the Laramie Hospital since that event, and has only just been discharged. " I was in the infantry. Custer had command of the troops. There was quite a force of cavalry with us, but they were about a mile in the rear when we first disco vered the reds. Some of the troops had been sent around so as to attack from the other side. The reds were camped in a sort of valley, and we were within 80 rods of them for half an hour before day-break. Just in the grey of the morning the firing commenced on both sides, and we had it all our own way for a few minutes, the cursed snakes being much confused, and not knowing what was up. At length they rallied, and we could hear Black Kettle shouting and ordering. The vermin got into boles and behind rocks—anywhere they could find a place, and began to fight back with a will. We fired whenever wo could see a top-knot, and shot squaws—there were lots of them—just as quick as In dians. When it was fully daylight, wo all gave a big yell and charged right down into camp. The lodges were all a standing yet, and lots of Indians in them. As we run through the alleys, a big red jumped out at me from behind a tent, and before I could shorten up enough to run him through with my bayonet, a squaw grabbed me around the legs and twisted me down. The camp was full of men fighting, and everybody seemed yelling as loud as he could. When I fell I went over backward, dropping my gun, and I had just got part way up again, the squaw yanking me by the hair, when the Indian clubbed my gun and struck mo across the neck. The blow stunned me ; the squaws kept screeching and pulling my hair out by handsfull. I heard some of our boys shout ing close by, and the squaw started and ran, one of the boys killing her not three rods off. The Indian stepped one foot on my chest, and with his hand gathered up the hair near the crown of my head. Ho wasn't very tender about it, but jerked my head this way and that, like Satan. My eyes were partially open, and I could see the bead work and trimming on his leggings. Suddenly, I felt the awfuleat biting, cutting flash go round my head, and then it seemed to me just as if my whole head had been jerked clean off. I never felt such pain in all my life ;it was like pulling your brains right out. I didn't know anything more for two cr three days, and when I came to I had the sorest head of any human being that ever lived. If the boys killed the viper, they didn't get back any scalp ; perhaps it got lost in the snow. I was shipped down to Laramie after a bit, and all the nursing I got hain't made the hair grow out on this spot yet." [A nvransEmENT.j—Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brohan, of seven years' liver complaint wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafness. Im portant Cantion—Beware of the many unsavoury and more that sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is lAd ; Ilb 28 9d; 21bs 4s 6d 5 lbs lls 12 lbs 228 ; 21 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ABABIOA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 5.55 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of Carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order, - RAitior Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. HUNT -On the sth inst., at 5, Rutland-gate, the wife of the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt,lll.P., of a daughter. WILLIAMSON—On the sth inst., at 101, Eaton-placA, the lion. Lady Williamson, of a son. MARRIAGES. MOORSON—CHAPMAN —On the 31 inst., at St. Darnabns, Pimlico, Henry Manvers Moorson, Lieut. Royal Artil lery, son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Moorson, to Ada Plot cure, only daughter of the late Thomas Hall Chap • man, Esq., of Whitby. MULLINGS—TtiDWAY—On the 3d inst., at Twickenham, John Millings, Esq., Cirencester, to Georgiana Poppsa, second daughter of Clement Tudway,Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London. DEATHS. CASTLEMAINE —Oa tho 4th inst., Richard, third Baron Castleniaine, aged 77. GOLDSMITH —0 n the 2d inst., at Gad's Hill, Kent, Captain Goldsmith, aged 65. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Aliddlesex.—! ) Tuesday, July 6, 1669., L 9e n~ di g n 3