The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT,' OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times refers to the "humble address" presented to her Majesty against the disestablishment of the Irish Church by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, and says that it pushes the characteristic doctrines of the Orange creed to preposterous extremes. It is asserted that dis endowment " will be the means of withdrawing the pure worship of God from many parts of the country," and of silencing the continual protest of the Established Church against Romish errors. We reply, that if it has this effect, the disgrace will rest with Irish landowners, who, possessing, as we are often told, six sevenths of the soil, and having received something like a very large bribe from the State, will, upon this supposition, fail in doing that which their Roman Catholic neighbours do without a subsidy, and after paying tribute to an alien Church. If Protestantism cannot hold its ground against Romanism without State favour and assistance, it is high time for it to confess its inferiority in moral power. What has made Roman Catholicism in Ireland more " subver sive of loyalty " than elsewhere is simply the fact of its being persecnted, and the existence of a party like the Orangemen conscientiously determined to identify English la .v with religious h.equalit3-. The profanity of represent ing an abandonment of Protestant ascendancy as "calcu lated to call 4'own the judgment of God on our land" is more venial than holding out a threat, "in all loyalty and respect," of a repeal of the Union. This is really the only construction that can be put on the conclusion of the address, and yet we are loth to believe that such was the deliberate intention of its framers. Had it been, we feel bound to say that we should have regarded it as a very hollow and unscrupulous form of intimidation. It would have been unscrupulous because no one can seriously imagine legislative independence to be for the happiness of Ireland, except those who entertain views and designs which Orangemen emphatically disavow. It would have been hollow because no class would more cordially dread the assembly of an Irish Parliament than members of the Orange Association. The Standard thinks that Archbishop Leahy's pastoral is of a quality superior to the ordinary addresses which issue from the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the spirit and style of it indicate that the Roman Catholics of Cashel have for their spiritual head a leader not only of considerable intelligence,but of a worldly wisdom superior to that of his fellows. We are by no means inclined to doubt that Dr. Leahy is a man of perfect sincerity and benevolence of purpose. It is equally evident, however, that he is tolerably well versed in the political craft so essential at the present time to one of his position. The Cashel Pastoral is, in fact, not so much a call to peace and good fellowship as a laboured defence of the policy of the Gladstone Government. In this respect it is worthy of more attention than is usually given to the manifestoes of the Roman Catholic bishops. Archbishop Leahy does not tell us what is the particular measure of justice between landlord and tenant which he himself desires, but he says enough to shew that nothing will suffice for the tenants but to overturn the "traditions of internecine warfare" dating from the Cromwellian set tlement. It is clear, therefore, that his confidence in Messrs. Gladstone and Bright is based on the idea that they will reverse those traditions, and undo what was done at the Cromwellian settlement. In other words, he expects an entire agrarian revolution to come from the Liberal Government, without which revolution there is to be no peace in Ireland. This is a state of the case, we contend, which is quite as serious as any we have ever put forth, and which sufficiently justifies all that we have said of the present disorders of Ireland being due to the policy, present and prospective, of Mr. Gladstone's Ministry. The Post says that the postponement of the withdrawal of the remaining regiment from New Zealand must not for a moment be accepted as an indication of a faltering policy. In the present state of alarm, panic, and unpre paredness in the colony, common humanity alone would prompt and justify the temporary retention of the small nuclei of regular troops. But there is absolutely no reason whatever for entertaining a proposition to hold the country and to assist to subdue the rebels by imperial troops. The colonists are in numbers more than four to one to the Maories. They are by no means poverty-stricken. They have over and over again contended that they can do their own fighting. When they have fairly and honestly made their effort, and have failed--when they are in dire extremity, after the exhaustion of their resources and efforts, then it will be time enough to entertain the idea of stepping in as before to their support. But as yet they have paltered with the question. They have chosen to neglect the most palpable precautions and measures. They have not striven to rise to the occasion. Evidently the spur of adversity is necessary to rouse their dormant energies. Fear must work where prudence was denied a hearing. Our duty is at all events clear. We must, for a little time longer, give the terror-striven settlers at the exposed stations the limited support they have so urgently requested. But we must chew no - symptoms of wavering in carrying out the policy deliberately entered on. The results of the supineness of the colonists, disastrous though they be, are no arguments in favour of an extensive or long-continued occupation of New Zealand by imperial troops. The Herald comments upon the magisterial and judicial tenderness shewn towards those who have committed crimes against the person, as compared with the Draco nian severity with which it is the custom to punish crimes against property. For proof of this we turn to Monday's police reports. No fewer than four of the metropolitan magistrates had to deal with cases of aggravated assaults. At three courts the victims were policemen, and at all four the punishments meted out were precisely in harmony with the remarks we have made. Comment is unnecessary. The facts are too eloquent to require either application or improvement. At three police-courts, each compre hending a large proportion of the riotous and unruly within its district, the penalty for aggravated assault upon a policeman is declared to vary from a maximum of two months to a minimum of twenty-one days. If the criminal classes know their own interests, they will keep clear of Marylebone, lest they should be sent thence to trial, but by the same rule they will locate about Lea bridge, and linger round Worship-street, where they can commit an assault, join in a riot, and attempt a murder, with a very good chance of not being caught, and with the certainty that, even if the fates go against them, they will get off with a month, provided a policeman is in the witness box and Mr. Newton on the bench. That the scanty protec tion afforded by such a punishment will quicken the zeal of the police one cannot expect. That it will tend to diminish the safety of the public everyone must anticipate. The Daily News thinks it is necessary to protect the policeman against the violence of others without giving him impunity for violent uses of his own power. He is not to be the master of the public, but its servant ; not to be a terror to honest men, but to evildoers ; and sufficient guarantees for his good behaviour must be preserved. What is needed is to shield him against the violence to which his duties expose him, without giving him impunity in little acts of despotism to which his position tempts him. As the servant of the public and the representative of law and order it should be clearly known that any violence used towards him in the execution of his duty is an addi tional crime against the law, involving additional and special punishment, but that he is himself exactly as respon sible for the exercise of hispowers as an ordinary citizen. It believes that, as the law now stands, the policeman is pro tected somewhat less than other people, rather than more. At any rate, the law utterly denies his person any special sanctity, even in the execution of his duty. Our English habit of regarding a policeman is, and must always be, so entirely the reverse of that of continental peoples, that we are apt to rush to the other extreme. He is a public servant, and we are too apt to regard him as paid to take the risk of dealing with the criminal classes. The popular idea is that the policeman is paid to take the chance of kicks and beating, just as the soldier to take the risks of war. We are not sure that this feeling has not insensibly influenced our legislation, and that we have not taught the roughs of society to think lightly of law by failing to protect those who, to such roughs, represent law. If a ticket-of leave man knew that in resisting arrest he was doubling the penalty of the crime for which he was arrested, he would probably learn a little more respect, not for the law's representative only, but for the law itself. But whether such a result may come of it or not, some more cevere punishment must be attached to these assaults on the police, and we may perhaps more confidently appeal to them to protect us against ruffianism when we have better protected them. The Telegraph, in commenting upon the fifty-third con ference of the Peace Society, says th a t s i nce its founda. tion four first-class wars, and innum era bl e s l aughters of . a minor sort, have put to scorn the amiable hopes of the society's founders. But, looking more closely, we shall find that wars have been prevented, and are at this mo ment prevented bythe ex,tension of agen c i es w hi ch are new to the world. 'he enormous increase of commerce, the gradual intermingling of races, the growing community of knowledge and feeling among the working classes of all nations, have brought us a wonderful way towards what once seemed a ridiculous Utopia--a federation of the civi 'Ned world. The traders of mediaival Europe gave the Continent freedom; and the traders of modern Europe will, by and by, give her disarmament and lasting peace. The worst thing- you can do with a customer is to kill him or pay for killing him. That truth at least we have attained, and it most seriously spoils the plans of the war makers. By and by we may go further, and ask ourselves whether there was ever vet any int e rnational question which could not be settled - as honourably and justly in a back parlour as amid bloody heaps of men—butchered, forsooth, like the victims of the ancient augurs, to KO whether the will of God were nut to be learned from their entrails. • In due time we may even witness the sublime spectacle of nations internationally refusing to massacre, and be massacred—because diplomatists have been blun derers. The Peace Society did not avert one among all the recent wars, and it will not bring on the Millennium either this year or the next. But the list of the blessings won by the champions of our race is a list of hopes once pronounced ludicrous and chimerical. Even now, if the mere talk of war between England and America has out raged civilisation, the protests and deprecations heard on both sides of the Atlantic revive our faith in the humanity of human kind. "It is proved that" the peacemalers are wise and blesse3; and surely "it willgo_near to be thought so shortly - - • THE MAY MEETINGS. I .t.".AJ most important May meetings are now nearly over. In the place of the religious anniversaries which were so frequent last week, charitable institutions are holding their annual demonstrations. The Aborigines Protection Society, the Society for the Protection of Young Girls, and other similar institutions, called their patrons together on Wednesday. THE FRIENDS OF THE CLERGY. There are still some religious associations which have to hold their festivals however. The Corporation of the Friends of the Clergy held its meeting on Wednesday, at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of the Duke of Abercorn. Lord Clanricarde, Major-General Sir G. Lawrence, Major-General Sir. J. Coffin, Sir J. Ray, Archdeacon Hale, and other gentlemen of distinction wet e a:so present. The object of the Corporation is two fold--first, to provide pensions, not exceeding £4O per annum, for the widows and unmarried orphan daughters cf clergymen of Ate Established Church ; secondly, to afford temporary ass=istance to necessitous clergymen and their families. With re_•..r.rd to the first object, since the foundation of the charity in 1849, 161 ladies have been admitted pensioners, and they have received a total of .E,14,275 15s. One hundred and seven ladies are now receiving pensions of from CIO to £4O per annum, the less amount increasing to the greater with advancing years ; and the payments to them during the past year amounted to £4,000. With respect to the second object, the sum of £10,045 has been granted to clergymen and their families at times of great trial and suffering. No fewer than 200 appeals for special aid are now before the committee ; and the particulars stated in some of these applications place beyond doubt the fact that some of the working clergy are in very necessitous circum stances. The chairman, in eloquent terms, advocated the cause of the charity, and mentioned that it bad the patronage of the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and of the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh, and Dublin. .%BORIGINE•S PROTECTION SOCIETY. The Aborigines Protection Society held its thirty-second annual meeting at the London Tavern, Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., in the chair. The annual report entered at con siderable length into the proceedings of the society during the past year, especially with reference to slavery in the Trans-Vaal Republic, where Kaffir children, who are captured by the Boers in their marauding expeditions, are used as domestic slaves, and figure in the Dutch trader's books as " black ivory," or as " ivory tusks." The society w,,uld continue to prosecute its labours in this matter until the practice of kidnapping had entirely ceased, and the Boers had been compelled to liberate the natives whom they now held as slaves. The conduct of the Governor of the Cape in ceding to the Boers the most fertile valleys of Basutoland, although he had declared that if the natives were cooped up in the moun tains they could not possibly exist, was severely criticised. The society had memorialised the Government in favour of making provision for the settlement of the Indian tribes of the Hudson's Bay territories on ample reserves. With reference to the Queensland traffic in Pacific Islanders, the report said :—" If to kidnap human beings is a form of the slave trade, then is that trade prac tised in the South Seas. If to sell human beings at so much a-piece for planters and squatters, and to coerce them into the performance of their daily labour, be to treat them as slaves, then slavery has a local habitation in Queensland." Resolutions approving of the objects were put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. NATIONAL SOCIRTY FOR TAE PROTECTION OF YOUNG GIRLS. This excellent society was instituted in 1835, and has established an asylum for young girls at Woodhouse, Wanstead, in Essex. The object cf the society is to save young Cris (not thieves) between the ages of 11 and 15, whether orphans or otherwise, who are from any cir cuinstance in danger of becoming abandoned, and to feed, clothe, and prepare them for future usefulness as domestic servants. The report, which was read by Mr. J. B. Talbot, the secretary, stated that since the commencement of the society 1,629 young girls had been received into the institution, of whom 900 had been sent to service and 120 returned to their friends. The average number in the house during the past year had been CO; 29 had been admitted, 10 sent to service, and five restored to their parents. The discipline of the establishment had been remarkably successful. The far greater proportion of those who had been educated at the institution and sent to situations had conducted themselves well, and given great satisfaction, Though the donations had declined the subscriptions had increased, so that the society had now an annual list of upwards of £7OO. The report was adopted, and the meeting was briefly addressed by various gentlemen. LAW AND POLICE. A COUNTY MAGISTRATE hirRISONED.--At Hereford, on Tuesday, Mr. Lechmere, a justice of the peace, residing on his own estate, was charged with having assaulted his wife. Mr. John Cleave, clerk of the peace for the county, deposed that on Monday Mrs. Lechmere visited him professionally, and was followed by her husband, who came in intoxicated, and asked her to go home with him. She refused, and he struck her a blow on the head. He had often assaulted her before. The defendant did not deny it, and was committed to prison, in default of finding sureties for good behaviour. CONFESSION OF MURDER AT BIRMINGIIAL—On Wed nesday, an old man, named Rogers, was charged on his own confession with being concerned in the murder of George Tullett, who was found dead in the suburbs of Birmingham last July. At the inquest on the deceased medical evidence proved that he had died from prussic acid. Rogers gave evidence at the inquest, and a verdict of suicide was returned. He told a friend that he had committed the murder, but when charged with it by the police he denied the confession. He was remanded, FURIOus DRIvING.—At Reading, on Wednesday, a case of furious driving was tried, which excited considerable interest in the neighbourhood. A young - ma n named Machin, the son of a respectable trades man in London-street, drove to the village of Theale with a young man named Dunn, connected with the Beading Mercury. It was said Machin was racing with another vehicle, when he came into collision with the chaise of agentleman drivinghome. Both vehicles were smashed, and the occupants thrown out. Dunn died from the accident the day after. Machin was committed for trial at the assizes.—A similar case has been heard in London, at the Worship street Police-court, where a car man has heen charged with causing the death of a woman by rapid driving in the Mile-end-road. A remarkable journey on a bicycle has been per formed by Mr. Chime, of Devizes, from that town to Shaftesbury, a distance of forty-five miles, in six hours, including stoppages. He returned on the same vehicle. TEE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.—The Marquis of Westminster's statue, from the studio of Mr. Thomas Thornycroft, of London, has just arrived at Chester, and in a few days will be placed upon the pedestal which has been prepared for it in the Grosvenor public park. In accordance with the expressed wish of Lord and Lady Westminster, the unveiling of the statue will be of a strictly private character. The pedestal of the statue has the following inscription in gold letters :—" Richard, second Marquis of Westminster, K.G., the generous land lord, the friend of the distressed, the helper of all good works, the benefactor of this city. Erected by his tenants, friends, and neighbours, A.D. 180." THE NORTRU3IBEELAND VASE.-- Among the many valuable articles spoiled at the fire at Northumber land House, in October last, when the roof of the grand ballroom fell in, burying in ruins all beneath it, the magnificent Sevres Vase, presented by Charles X. upon the occasion of his Majesty's coronation to Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, then Ambassador Extraordinary from Great Britain to France, came t o grief. Its shattered fragments were carefully collected, but in so dilapidated a s t a t e were they that they appeared to defy all attempts at resuscitation. Nothing, indeed, could have seemed more utterly hopeless than the endeavour to raise again to its originalN peeurfßecotniodn. of beauty and elegance this colossal work of cerami c art. It was, however, confided to Mr. Daniel, of street, who has effected its complete restoration, perform ing the task entrusted to him with such exquisite' skill that the most critical eye would uow be embarrassed to detect the slightest trace of injury in what but a few months ago was one mass of flaws and fractures. TILE VALUE OF A NOSE.—A Paris correspon dent writes that the Imperial Court of Rouen has just been called on to decide the value of a nose. "A gentle man was thrown out of a cab some time ago, and had his nasal organ smashed in such a manner that half of it had to be amputated. He brought an action against the cab driver for 'damages, on the ground of negligence. The counsel for the defendant made a very humourous defence. He admitted that it was very disagreeable to lose one's nose, but argued that the harm done to the plaintiff was not so great as if he had been 1:0 years of age. Physical beauty at that time of life was priceless ; many a conquest, many a rich marria , e bad been made by a fine Roman nose. In the plaintiff's case, however, it was very different. He was married, tiller aV ,A' well o ff , and hads.hildren ; n e ith er hi s wife nor his children would love hint any the less. Therefore, .the damage done was very insignificant, and could not possibly affect the p'aintifl's prespeets. The plaintiff's counsel contended that his learned friend was entirely wrong in his reasoning, and that the husband who had no nose (n'arait pls de nee) nas good for nothing. The judg es , Leing no doubt married men, thought so also, 444 ga the plaintiff £240 damageqZ, - - - - THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1E69. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding the Alder shott Division, inspected the batteries of Royal Horse Artillery at the Camp under the command of Colonel Smyth, C.B. The batteries were in readiness to turn out in complete marching order to Eelmoor-hill, but in codsequence of a heavy fall of rain, the men and horses were inspected in the vicinity of their quarters and under the covered way of the barracks. The Lieut.-General after wards inspected the rooms and kits, and expressed his approbation of the efficient condition of the cleanliness of the quarters. 'The 97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment left Alder shott Camp by detachments on Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday, proceeding by march route via Guildford, Reigate, and Redhill to Sevenoaks, whence it will be conveyed by rail to Dover, There to be stationed. On Monday the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot was exereiscd as a division in the Long Valley by Major •General 11. 1). White, C. 8., two batteries of Horse Artillery covering the flanks of the divi sion. The corps on the ground were the sth Dra goon Guards, 7th Dragoon Guar3s, 6th Inniskill ing Dragoons, and the 10th Hussars. Colonel V. Baker, 10th Hussars, acted as Brigadier. The re giments were put through a series of brilliantly executed field movements. The screw gun vessel Lee, 5 guns, Commander Charles IV. Andrews, arrived at Spithead yester day morning from the West Coast of Africa. She went into Portsmouth harbour to coal, and will leave again to-day for Woolwich to be paid off. The Lee brought home a few naval and marine invalids from different ships, who were transferred to the Duke of Wellington, flagship of Vice-Admi ral Sir James hope, K.C.8.. Commander-in- Chief. MISCELLAA'EOUS NEWS. present reluctance is caused by the belief that the disestablishment of the Irish Church will lead before long to that of the English Church. But even then private patronage will not be touched, and life interests will be respected. NON-COLLEGIATE STUDENTS. Cambridge has followed the good example set by Oxford, and henceforth university instruction will be given and degrees conferred at the first-mentioned seat of learning upon persons who may not be members of any college or hall. An Order in Council has been issued approving of this statute. It is to be hoped that this concession will be largely used. It has scarcely received the attention at Oxford which it deserves. Prussian Government, and the Paris Temps says it has caused a great sensation at Berlin. THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY. The Swiss Federal Government has taken up the stupendous project of a railway through the central Alpine region of Switzerland with great energy. It was necessary before proceeding with the scheme to obtain the consent of the various local governments of the cantons. A great majority of these have alreadyreturned an answer favourable to the St. Gothard line, and the Federal Government has accordingly entered into negotia tions with North Germany, Italy, and Baden. Delegates from these States have been invited to a conference at Berne. Here the terms of an international treaty will be agreed upon. PARLIAMENT AND THE BILL. The statement that Lord Derby means to move the rejection of the Irish Church 13111, originated by the John Bull, seems to be disproved by the announce ment now made in the Daily News that the Conser vative peers will meet in conclave after the Whitsun tide holidays to consider the course which it will be best to take with respect to that measure. The Daily Neres, discussing the leaders in the Upper House, considers that Lord Cairns will not be able to hold that post ; that Lord Malmesbury is, of course, out of the question ; and that Lord;;Derby will have to come to the front again, and will find in Lord Cairns as able a second as Mr. Disraeli has found in Dr. Ball. The Conservative Whip, Mr. Noel, has issued a circular to the members of the party in the Lower House, urging them to be present at the third read ing of the bill, which will be opposed by Mr. Holt, M.P. for North-East Lancashire. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DISIIOPS IN IRELAND. An Italian paper says that there is va ;lie talk of a negotiation between the English Gol ern:nent and the Papal Court, its cbject being to induce the latter to recommend the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland to use all their influence for putting an end to agrarian assassinations. From another quarter we learn that Cardinal Antonelli has actually written such a letter. Poth these statements were made before the publication of Archbishop Leahy'spastoral, and that pastoral seems to confirm the truth of the reports. It will be remembered that similar inter uid 17,eruyb “overnment, we believe, in (srd , n• to .lorri the Fenian conspiracy. Ml. 3.I‘I,AREN. The Stow lard makes a severe attack upon Mr. M•Laren. the senior member for Edinburgh, lensing, him and his colleague, Mr. Miller, "of having fore sworn all their pledg( s and falsified the whole t e n or of their political lives." This is one of those general statements which the S'/aiidard would find very difficult to ",justify" if prosecuted for libel. The article goes on to affirm that the Edinburghers have always been Intensely opposed to any grant to Maynooth, and that it was for this reason they rejected Mr. Meculay, the historian, in favour of Mr. Cowan, the papermaker. But twenty years is a long period in modern political history. Edinburgh has moved on like the rest of the world, and it no longer suffers the farthing- piece of May , nooth to be held up to its eye and hide the whole universe of politics. There has been no meeting of electors to denounce Mr. _M Laren, even though he has, in the opinion of the Standard, been bought over by the gift of a public office worth £GOO a year best. - .,wed upon Mr. 3l'Laren's son by Mr. M'L'lren's brother in -I,w, Mr. Bright. FIR rOBEDT CL'FTON. The Nottin!;hriin ,:r;r rt:7l states that Sir Hobert Clifton is so serioudy ill that he is able to sec no one but his wife and his medical attenrdant. Ho is suf fering from bronehitis,whit-fa has been aggravat4d by exposure to the recent eastern gales. Nothing but some such urgent cause as this would have kept him from voting against tho Perpissive Bill. THE STAFFORD ELECTION. Mr. Edmond Beales has not yet done with politi cal life. lle comes to the front again, with an address to the electors of Stafford—" especially those of the working classes." He prays the working men to be superior to the slavish and conventional idolatry which worships rank and wealth ; and advises them to slim how proud they are of labour—the real support and strength of the nation. They may shew that by the election of George Odgers, the agi tator of the Reform League. Said George Odgers seem to possess all the virtues which ono erring man could unite in himself. Intimately conversant with the artisan mind, gifted with great soundness of judgment, possessing great power of self-control, cool and unruffled under the most exciting circum stances or the most irritating personal attacks, experienced in public, irreproachable in private life, and most h onoura bl e, h e has self -denial, delicacy of feeling, relined nature, is anxious for public good—is, in fact, specially qualified to be a member of Parliament, according- to Mr. Beales's idea of such a member. It is not surprising that the working men of Stafford have received him favourably. THE MODE OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS. Some important reforms in the mode of con ducting elections are proposed by the Liverpool Liberal Association. It is suggested that the Post Oilice—with the view of reducing the cost of elections—shall reduce the charge for delivering the candidates' addresses to each of the electors ; that it shall be illegal to hire rooms except for bond fide committee-rooms or for public meetings ; that public-houses shall not bo used as committee-rooms; that paid canvafsers shall be illegal; that public nominations shall be abolished; that vote by ballot shall be adopted; that the state of the poll shall, in any cr se, be withheld ; that muni cipal and borough elections shall be assimilated as regards the register, the mode of proceeding on election, and unseating for corrupt practices. AN ILLUSTRIOUS LITTLE VISITOR. If the Gaulois be correctly informed, we are soon to have an illustrious little visitor in England. - Our Parisian contemporary asserts.. that the Prince of Wales has invited the Prince Imperial of France to run over. His Imperial Highness has lately entered his thirteenth year, and to a lad of his age even ugly London will offer something in the way of amusement. Nor is London the only place which the Prince is likely to visit shortly. His father is about to build himself a villa on the Palatine Hill at Rome, having purchased the site from the ex-King of Naples. Building operations have been begun already. The Pontiff, we presume, will have no ob.jection to the presence of such a visitor. If the Emperor becomes a Roman householder he is likely to view the Garibaldians with even less favour than he viewed them two years ago. Victor Emmanuel may take a different view of the matter, perhaps ; though even he must have by this time abandoned the idea of seeing himself crowned on the capitol. CIIMICH PROPF.RTY. - • The depression in the value of church property, which was shewn so strikingly at the time that the Duke of Norfolk's livings were sold, appears to con tinue. The next presentation to the rectory and vicarage of Westborough, with that of Dry Doddiug ton, Lincoln, lately bccame vacant by the death of the incumbent. The trustees in whom the patronage is vested have no power to sell during a vacancy. So they nominated a clergyman, aged 73, whose possession of the living would give " a prospect of early presentation." The auctioneer said that if the living ‘v ere in actual possession it would be worth £lO,OOO ; and considering that it would in all human probability soon become vacant, it must be worth not much less than that amount. One of the ad vantages which it offered was, that it had been usual to have services alternately at each church, so the work was not very hard. The income, after de ducting the curate's stipend, was £OOO a year. He asked, therefore, for a bid of £5,000 to start with. At first 4,000 was offered, and this was increased very slowly to £4,800 when no further bidding could he obtained, and it was announced that the property had been bought fn. Admitting that such tales as this ought to be allowed at all, it is difficult to . see why there should be so xualA ke3ita tali-bk oimaunig....nyoutin MR. DUCKSTONE ON SABDATARIANISM. Mr. Buckstone's declaration that actors would not work on Sundays has attracted the attention of the Secretary of the Lord's Day Best Association. The theatrical manager's opinion has been requested on the subject of the opening of museums on Sundays. " If you want to rest," says Dr. Hill to him, " why Should not the attendants at museums be allowed to do so " Mr. Buckstone's reply is not such as the secretary evidently hoped to receive : "Thie object of the Lord's Day Rest Association is avowed to be the securing on Sunday a day of rest for everyf)ne. I Much doubt of that, being_. the pure and simple reason ; it appears to me to emanate from a gb , only and sectarian desire to make everybody as miserable as possible on one day in the week. With respect to a kindred question—the entire closing of public-houses on Sunday—this would be a gross injustice, and an undeserved tyranny toward the working classes, especially as the existing regulations are found to work so well, and do no harm to anybody. Should this tyrannical course be adopted by the Government, there would ensue such an uproar throughout the country as would not be very pleasant to the promoters of the Lord's Day Rest Association, while to be just you should propose to close the clubs on Sunday, neither waiters nor cooks to be employed ; shut up the Zoological Gardens ; stop all railway trains, so that no clerks, no guards, no porters should be in attendance. People who now go to church in their carriages should walk, so that coachmen, footmen, and stablemen should not be called upon to work. Families who keep a cook should go with out hot dinners, and so on ; indeed, this sort of argument could be continued ad infinitum." VIE PEACE SOCIETY, The fifty-third anniversary of the Peace Society was held on Tuesday. Such a gathering could hardly have failed to have been interesting at this juncture. And it was made especially so by addresses delivered by a United States citizen. Said United States citizen—the Rev. Mr. llall—and Mr. Newman Hall had a little friendly battle on the subject of the Alabama claims. Those who had preceded them had advocated peace at any price; Mr. I )all came forward saying that Mr. Sumner's speech had been misinterpreted. The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the American Senate had great faith in gentle force. He did not mean war. He only presented his side of the case, not as being unimpeachable, not as being necessarily the correct one, but for the judgment of equity. Th e R ev . N ewma n Hall, who followed, dissented from this. _He had received letters from an eminent American clergyman, who declared that unless England were prepared to give satisfaction, the thunder of Armstrong guns and the rattle of Millie balls might be expected. Mr. llall, though not taking direct issue with those who had already spoken, yetevidently hardly endorsed the peace at any price theory. P eace , h e sa id, was Christian. It would be a disgrace if two countries, profess in g th e knowledge of God, went to war before the heathen. But the restraint must be on both nations alike. While England, if in the wrong, would confess it, and pay the damage, the rev. ge ntleman protested that she must not be bullied. Mr. 11. Richard, M.P. for Merthyr, and Mr. W. Fowler, the member for Cambridge, with other speakers, congratulated themselves that peace principles were spreading , not only in this country, but on the Continent. CENTENARIANS. Another centenarian case has just been investi gated, and with the usual result. It was stated that an old soldier of Bath was in his 105th year. A Mr. William Ti. Shaws, being an unbeliever in such cases, looked the matter up. Ile found the man very shaky, w ith a go o d m e mory as to places, but with no memory at all as to dates. lie elicited from him, however, that he was dischvrged in 1818 with 18 years' service allowed, his previous service being dis allowed because he was then under the age of 18. It is therefore clear that he only attained the regula tion age of 18 in 1800, and consequently must have been born, not in 1704, but about 1782, and, conse quently, is not 104, but somewhere about 87. OBITUARY. We regret to announce the death of the Rev. Alexander Dyce, known to all lovers of Shaks pere and of the Elizabethan dramatists. Mr. Dyce was born in Edinburgh in 1708, NV a S educated at the High School in that city, and at Exeter College, Oxford. He served as curate in Lanteglos, Corn wall, and afterwards at Nayland, Suffolk ; but in 1827 took up his permanent abode in London, and gave himself up to literary pursuits. He is known chiefly by his editions of Shakspere, Peele, Greene, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Marlowe. He wrote the lives of Pope, Shalspere, Akenside, and Beattie for the Aldine edition of the British poets. Ile was one of the founders of the Percy Society. We have alsp to announce the death of Mr. Matthew Henry Feilde, one of the chief promoters of the Public Libraries Act. The' Times obituary contains likewise a mention of the death of Thomrs Collin at the age of 80, who for fifty-five years had been the faithful servant of Lord Hotham, late M.P. for the East Riding. Such instances of prolonged faithful service are too rare to pass unnoticed. LATE lIONOUIt. A subscription has been started to do honour to the memory of Arthur Young, the eminent agricul turist. The originator of the movement is the Rector of Bradfield, near Bury St. Edmunds, Young's native place ; and the proposed memorial is, we need hardly say, a painted window for Bradfield Church. Arthur Young was born 128, and died 41 years ago, so that the proposed memorial is rather tardy, and would, probably, never have been thought of but for the fact that Bradfield Church has, ust been restored, and is in need of an east window. But Young deserved the suggested honour. Ile it was who first made agriculture a science, and who connected it with political economy. His famous saying with respect to the peasant proprietors of France, " The magic of property turns rocks into gold," has been abundantly illustrated since then. It would be immensely interesting to know what he thinks of the Irish land question. THE LAW OF ASSAULT. The judges and the magistrates have been very Much censured of late—and justly sc—for punishing offences against the person with fines. If a man steals a chain he has Eeveral months' imprisonment. If he is prevented . from com m itti ng th e cr i m e of theft, and nearly kills a m an, d epr i ves hi m o f a n eye, or reduces considerably the number of his dentals, be has a very good chance of escaping with a fine. If he assail a policeman in the execution of h's duty, he seems to have license to commit any offence upon him short of murder, provided ho comes down promptly with money the next day. This, if we may believe the chief constable of Staf ford, is not the fault of the administrators of the law, but of the law itself. A bench of magistrates in petty sessions has summary power to award an imprisonment without the option of a fine for a period of two months for a common assault on a civilian. For an assault on a policeman in a borough the imprisonment is limited to one month ; in the case of a county policeman it is the same as for a civilian—two months. In either case, however, of a policeman being the victim, the bench cannot award the imprisonment without giving the ruffian the option of paying a fine. The imprisonment is only in default of payment. Surely some alteration is required. FOREIGN NOTES. TLIR FRENCH ELECTIONS. The period assigned by the law of France for the hold ing of public election meetings terminated on Monday 'evening without any further disturbances. The authori ties, however, seem to have been apprehensive. The guard at the Tuileries, says the correspondent of the Daily News, was increased by 500 men, who slept in their accoutrements, with loaded Chassepots at hand. But they have not been required. The political effervescence caused by M. Emile 011ivier's meeting last Wednesday lasted only forty-elght. hours. The polling earanleaces on Sunday. DEFEAT OF THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IN HANOVER. A very exciting election has just taken place in Hanover. The capital city of that Prussian province has hitherto been represented in the Parliament of the North German Confederation by Herr von Munchhausen, formerly one of King George's Ministers. This deputy resigned, and a fierce contest for his vacant seat has just terminated. The national Liberals, or Prussian party, put up a lawyer, Herr Brande; the Socialists supported a workman named York ; and the old Hanoverian party had as their can didate no other than Heir Ewald, the Gottingen Pro fessor, who was recently acquitted on a charge of high treason, brou2llt against him by the Prussian Government on account of a pamphlet, in which this eminent scholar vigorously denounced the annexation of Hanover. As might have been expected, a stirring agitation preceded the polling. Many of the Hanoverian party, afraid to oppose the Prussian candidate, and not liking to support him, did not vote at all. Nevertheless the Professor was returned by a large majority. Of 21,000 electors only 15,000 voted. Professor Ewald was elected by 8,832 votes; Herr Brande obtained only 3,900, of whom 3,000 were Prussian employs ; and 2,400 electors polled for the Socialist. The result, n face of King SPAIN. The Madrid correspondents of the Times and Ind.4pen dance Belig both state that the scheme of a regency under Serrano has been finally determined on, and will be submitted to the Cortes as soon as the debate on the form of government terminates. This is fast drawing to a close. Numerous amendments by the Republicans have been rejected by large majorities, and the decision of the Spanish Parliament in favour of a monarchy is therefore assured. (17:7-1. It isexpectcd at Madrid that the resignation of General lce, the Captain-General of Cuba, will he received in the course of a few days. The insurrection is virtually over, but public opinion in Spain condemns the measures of confiscation taken by General Dulce. GENERAL LEE AND THE SOUTH. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, one of the best Ameri can authorities, says tha General Lee's visit to President Grant was by no means a mere complimentary ceremony. The state of the South, and especially the question of readmitting Virginia to constitutional rights, were the topics of discussion during the interview, which lasted an hour. General Lee considered the constitutional question as of the first moment. It was of the utmost importance that the several States should be brought into practical relations with the Federal Government at once, in order to secure representation in both branches of Congress, and when that was accomplished he was sure all other questions would readily adjust themselves. Re-establish the Southern States in their proper position as integral por tions of the Union, and the greatest difficulty would be overcome. AUSTRALIAN PAUPERIS3I. The Immigration Establishment at Sydney has been broken up on account of disuse. New South Wales is a very long way off, there is a bad land law in force there, and so emigration from the old country has virtually ceased. It is a remarkable fact that, scanty as is the copulation of New South Wales, boundless as are the opportunities for labour and capital, the amount of poverty in the settlement is great and increasing. The 2'imes correspondent says that pauperism in the colony is becoming so serious that the adoption of a poor rate is no remote contingency. Nevertheless, immigrants are much wanted. There is abundance of room for them. Why, then, this pauperism and impending poor rate? The Times correspondent has no hesitation in ascribing it to one single agency—the bottle. NEW SOUTH WALES V. vrcTona. The Australian children of the great Anglo-Saxon parent are beginning to feel the ill effects of restrictions on commerce. The pressure of ad valorem duties is found to be n:o3t injurious both in V:ctoria and New South Wales. What is required is a system of taxation which will raise a revenue without interfering with commerce ; but what is also required is a strong government with the ability to devise, and the courage to propound, a: u" table plan. In New South Wales, at least, it does not seem feasible to substi tute other taxes for the ruinous duties on commerce, unless a considerable reduction be effected in public expenditure. The more farsighted portion of the Australian community live in the hope of a Customs Union between New South Wales and Victoria ; but this hope is by no means unchequered. The fact is that young as the colonies are, a sort of rivalry has already sprung up between them ; the object of each is to draw to its ports the rapidly-increasing commerce of the Southern Seas. The Sgdney Morning Herald urges the people of New South Wales to try to win the race by adopting the lightest possible system of Customs' duties, by abolish ing, in fact, all levies except upon a few articles of general consumption. The people of Victoria, knowing full well that their commercial system, which is one of Protection, would speedily throw them behind, are growing alarmed at this feeling in the neighbouring colony. It is not improbable that the rivalry of the two settlements may secure the adontk• " ''re'- Trade in both THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, MAY 13. The news of the day is that the ex-King of Naples announced last night to Cardinal Antonelli his intention of leaving Rome for several months' absence in Germany and Switzerland. His Majesty has never left Rome save to go as far as Albano since the fall of Gaeta, and the change of purpose has made a great sensation. The Car linal desired him to reflect very seriously before leaving, as the affair was a very grave one. The Prince replied that he had perfectly decided on the course he meant to adopt. His Eminence probably alluded to the difficulties of returning, which will pro bably be raised by the Emperor Napoleon at the instance of the Court of Florence. It is, however, his Majesty's intention to return to the Council, and he will spend the summer at Munich, Vienna, Frohsdorff (the chateau of the Comte de Chambord), and, with his sister, the Duchess of Parma, near St. Gall. The Queen's health imperatively requires absence from Rome during the hot season, and the use of mineral waters. It is also sur mised that the ex-King is not sorry to break up the Court of the Farnese, with which known spies of the French police and the Italian revolution had contrived to obtain an understanding, so much so that very recently the Prince's private papers were stolen from his desk and sold to the Italian Cabinet. A temporary absence is the best means of breaking up the establishment; but there is, on the other hand, a certain amount of discouragement at such a step manifested by the Neapolitan emigration. MY own opinion is, that King Francis does very wisely, as his partisans of weight are not those who form his Court here, but those who remain on their estates in the Two Sicilies. It is to these the King must look for support, and not to the needy courtiers of the Farnese, whose jealousies and treasons have been of vital injury to him, and who have done all they could to disgust his most devoted adherents, the French royalist noblesse. Some details of the disastrous collision in the Mediter ranean have arrived, and the survivors of the catastophe, thirty-nine in all, have arrived in Rome from Leg horn. The Abattucci was run down by a heavy Norwegian brig just before daylight, and while all her passengers were below decks. The crew deserted their captain and made off with the boats, leaving him and his passengers to their fate. The Norwegian brutally refused assistance, and made off, as she was herself slightly injured in the concussion. The cap tain, with the aid of one of the Legionaires—an ex-sailor-- took the wreck in band, getting up steam and going in chase of the brig, hoping her captain would relent. The Abattucci plunged, as best she might, with a broken waist, through a heavy sea for two hours, the soldiers and passengers in many case jumping overboard and trying to reach the shore by swimming, an attempt in which most of them, and all the women, perished. The packet at leng' h foundered, and thirty-nine of her survivors were picked up by the Norwegian and brought into Leg horn. O'Donoghue and Crowley, Zouave recruits, are among the fifty-nine drowned, as are the Papal Consul at Marseilles, Signor Ferraris and his wife and family, a French colonel returning to his regiment at Civita Vecchia, and most of the military. The captain's courage and heroic self-forgetfulness were admirable when deserted by his cowardly Genoese crew. A consistory will be held in June, and another in Sep tember. At the latter, Mgr. Chigi and Mgr. Falcinelli, Nuncios in Paris and Vienna, will probably be raised to the purple. The Pope went on Monday to Castel Gandolfo, and was admirably received. He walked down the Corso yester day, and looked remarkably well and strong, walking with the greatest firmness and rapidity. The crisis of the Italian Government seems to give the King very little Motor Erpma.nual hest left Florence for Val dieri, in order to spend the summer hunting chamois. A nephew of Cardinal Antonelli has just entered the Pontifical Artillery as a simple soldier. He is son of the Governor of the Roman Bank. The King and Queen of Naples leave this clay week, Th urs d a y, vici Marseilles and Lyons, by Geneva and Zurich, for St. Gall. THE ALA DAMA DIFFICULTY. (From the Aulo-Amcrican Timr3) Numerous letters have appeared in the English pipers on the relations between England and Aine rica. The Rev. Newman Hall wrote to the ,Star to give his opinion on Senator Sumner's Speech, as he had heard that Americans in London much de sired to learn it. Mr. Newman Hall is a thorough New Englander, although an Englishman ; man after Senator Sutnner's heart, and, to a cer taia extent, endorses what his model says, which he asserts to be but a repetition of a more exciting, and even more explicit speech delivered in 1863, when the cruisers were carrying on their ravages. Mr. W. S. Lindsay denies, in the same paper, that any .leading men, or party, or any other pergoa than he had anything to do with the motion so long standing in his name, for the British House of Com mons to recognize the independence of the Confe derate States. That sin and folly--he almost admits it to be such—was his own bantling ; opposed alike by the most prominent Whigs and Tories, and scouted by the House, wherein he thinks he could not have obtained 25 supporters. Mr. Roe buck's motion, made later, fared as badly ; the sense of all Englishmen being dead against any such move at any period of the war. A very able letter from an " American Citizen" appeared in the Times last Wednesday. He enumerates seven points, all of which we en dorse. The first is, that for fifty years there has never been less disposition to go to war than at present :—the vote of the Senate did not signify agreement with Mr. Sumner's argu ments, but with his conclusion : —the removal of the injunction of secresy is always granted to a Senator on his request, and this was an elaborately pre pared speech, taking weeks for its composition. Sonic unwise declarations made in the British Lega tion in Washington conspired to secure the rejec tion. England's offence is, that the Alabama was never anything but a British vessel, built, manned, equipped by England. She sailed from an English port and was supplied by English ports, where hos pitality was denied to American cruisers ; her only home was Liverpool, her original port of departure, and in law and conscience she had no other till she sank beneath the waters of the Channel. This is the grievance ; all else being the embellishment of the advocate and orator. The next statement is worthy of special notice, for it is that the North Western States desire the annexation of North British America, to control the St. Lawrence, and get un interrupted water communication with Europe, but for that reason some of the Atlantic States oppose it. The West, believing the colonies to be an ele ment of expensive weakness to Britain know that England will eventually tire of the connection, and that the colonists really desire, and will express the 'lesire, to enter the Union when their public men, who derive all the benefits coming from Europe, cease to stand between them and the free expression of their opinion. There is not a respectable minority, the writer adds, of any party in any State who would attempt to wrest the Canadas by force. The latest news bears out " An American Citizen" in what he believes to be Mr. Motley's instructions. They will be of the most pacific character, but it may be that he will not be empowered to take the initiative in negotiating a new treaty. Following this is a letter from R. De Tracy Gould, an American citizen, though we believe practising at the English bar. He deals with Mr. Sumner's speech and Mr. Goldwin's Smith's letter, and, although he does not mince matters in discussing them, we are constrained to say he is justified by the facts. Mr. Sumner he calls an impracticable theorist, though gifted with great eloquence, one to be listened to, but not followed, whose " splen did madness" was to be heard, but never obeyed. This is the American's estimate of that great orator, and lie explains how Mr. Goldwin Smith might be deluded into the belief by the praise and admira tion they expressed, that praying, God-fearing New Englanders, might be so bereft of sense and conscience as to follow such doctrines to their inevitable consequences. He shows that " printed by order of the Senate" means nothing, giving no official character, " Sensationville " friends being always at hand when a member speaks to " Bun combe" to move that the speech be printed. As to Mr. Sumner being a personal friend of the President, or i❑ any way representing him, Grant's views are too decided, his will too strong, to be led by any one, and he is too prudent, too deliberate, and above all too great an enemy of " tall talk " to be influenced by the wild imaginings of Mr. Sumner. The chief magistrate and the people are pre-eminently prac tical, and are the last on earth to permit themselves to be drifted into the false position erroneously sup posed in England. Mr. De Tracy Gould lost no time in expressing a very decided opinion on Mr. Goldwin Smith's letter, for he wrote on the Bth inst. when it first appeared. He terms it singularly ill-ad vised, and calculated to produce the state of feeling he professes to deprecate, while strangely inconsis tent. The folly of supposing that a position is to be reached wherein there is to be an exodus from America and from England is well exposed, as it is evident Mr. Goldwin Smith had no idea about what lie was writing. Mr. De Tracy Gould then sketches an outline of what war between England and the United States means. There was a curious article in the Times last Tuesday on the action pending in the Court of Queen's Bench, wherein the United States attempt to recover property as successors to the Confederate States, their only means of success being in estab lishing the de facto character of that Government. The difficulty is that the Union can only sue as the representative of the Confederate States, and the defendant, knowing the weak point, has pressed it to the utmost, putting twenty very awkward questions. He asks who the plaintiffs are, and in what capacity they sue him ; and if his questions were permitted in an English Court, the legal right would be argued in London of the Confederate States to separate from the Union, and erect a Go vernment of their own. In suing Sir Peter Tait the Republic had first to prove that the Confederate States were a de facto Government, and to do this they handed into Court her Majesty's Proclamation of Neutrality. The Lord Chief Justice of course ree-gnized the Queen's Proclamation, taking the fact as there stated ; " but," retorted the Queen's Counsel, " the United States will not, and ought we to be bound by it w hil e they are not so ? " Three question are admitted by the Court for the plaintiffs to prove : the duration of the de facto Government —its termination—and the authority of its agents. The 7 imes can not conceive how the American Govern ment cm succeed both in its suit with Sir Peter Tait and in its controversy with the British nation. If it establishes that the Confederate Government could invest its successor with the rights now claimed, Lord Clarendon will have arguments made by it ready to use against it ; for it will have proved to the satisfaction of the Court of Queen's Bench that the Confederate States constituted a de facto Government competent t 3 make contracts and acquire rights by its duly authorised agents ; that a state of war occurred, and the United States subdued that Government, succeeding by right of conquest to its property, and that held in its behalf. OPINIONS OF TIIE AMERICAN PRESS. The Round Table considers it to be altogether improbable that any better settlement of the Al a bama claims—any settlement more favourable to the substAntial interests of American citizens—will ver peaceably bi effected by Mr. Motley or any one else. The general persuasion of the London press, which has been of late put forward with con siderable bluntness, is that Mr. Reverdy Johnson cajoled the English Government into granting bet ter terms than were strictly consistent either with the rights of the case or with the honour of the English nation. The news of the rejection would, it considers, be received in England with profound astonishment, and it anticipates correctly the course likely to be taken by the English journals. If American-8 want war at any price they can without doubt be accommodated, but Mr. Chandler, of Mi chigan, would in such a case be a more suitable Minister than Mr. Motley. A peaceful settlement, more advantageous than that promised by the re jected Treaty, cannot be looked for, by means of a line of offensive diplomacy the opposite to that by which it was negotiated, through which .Dig land holds she wa,s wheedled into undue concessions. While acknowledging the unjustifiable arrogance with which England has often treated America, and the animosity it has generated, the Ifoulid Table would prefer, if enmity must lead to war, the United States should have a sounder cause of quarrel than is now likely to grow out of the Alabama claims. That astute journal foreFLes that English obstinacy will interpose a very considerable difficulty to a more advantageous settlement than the one offered, indeed it rather anticipates that Mr. Motley, clever as he undoubtedly is, will fail to make any better, if as good au arrangement, as did the much-reviled Mr. Reverdy Johnson. The Albion thinks Mr. Galt's speech in the Do minion House of Commons on the 26th April to have been ill-advised, though his assertions were based oe facts. Mr. Chandler is unworthy, even of the brief notice vouchsafed, and Mr. Sumner's arguments can be disposed of by the British Parliament. The United states laugh at the wild utterances of Mr. Chandler, though there is sufficient indiscreet talk in the Union to afford an example to the Canadians, who ought to see that it is best to allow their Arne rican cousins to enjoy a monopoly of it. " Cer tainly, neither the laboured eloquence of Mr. Sumner, nor the senseless fanfaronade of Mr• Chandler, are a sufficient excuse for embittering the relations of two kindred nations, whose oral interest points towards peace. . . • It would have been more consistent with the dignity of th e Dominion Government had they cuff. red the utter ances of the sanguinary Chandler to pass Inr noticed." A Nova Scotian, writing in that journal, strongly advocates annexation, which he maintains to be the desire of most of his countrymen. The New York Trihtene, which publi,hes a colum n and a half of extracts from the British press of the 30th April on Mr. Sumner's speech, thus commen ts upon them :-- " We are not surprised to find the English journals unani mous in their condemnation of Mr. Sumner's speech on the , AlabAma claims. It is not the first time they have gree ted with unqualified condemnation positicns they have after' ward found it convenient to accept. To call his vies° unreasonable is the least they could say. To protest thst they will never acknowledge that they were in the wrong is only to be British. To admit the danger of leaving th e, question open is to show that, notwithstanding all Wit bravo words, they comprehend the situation. It is more to their interest than ours to have the question settled' They are in the wrong, they cannot afford to remain 0, and they see in the action of the Senate an assurance th at t delay only increases their difficulty. They protested O f long ago that the idea of any payment for the damages et the Alabama was preposterous, and were soon after tleg ° : tinting for payment. They protest now that our ter m? are preposterous, and will soon after be ready to consider them." Among these extracts is the following account Of . , a Cabinet meeting :—" At a Cabinet meeting bel l ' yesterday the subject of the speech was informal'l discussed. Mr. Bright declared that this ember rassment served England right, but he agreed that he would not consent to entertain the terms fore. shadowed in Mr. Sumner's speech. Lord Clare lv don expressed his belief that the actual negotiatioae on the part of the American Government would be, far less extreme in character than speeches O i l Senators and articles in the press. He hoped to fin Mr. Motley as courteous as Mr. Johnson. T b° present Administration, he said, is as eager as tb ° last for the continuance of friendly relations. g t. Gladstone professed to have good assurances fO rn reliable quarters that the rejection of the Alabal° Convention was purely a political stroke. T he present Administration will endeavour to settle the question on liberal and honourable terms. T he popular feeling here is anti-A mer i can , an d it b 3 ", increased since the publication of parts of M r ‘ Sumner's argument." MORE TERRITORY AND WAR. (From the Philadelphia PicJlic Ledger.) For years past there have been a class of peoPl s in this country who have an idea that the United States would be vastly benefited in some way 0r other by a foreign war; and another class who ha ve a notion that the highest evidence of our progre e : and development is furnished by continually add great expenses to our territory. Sometimes these ideas meet with but a small degree of popula r favour, but there are other seasons when th e f spread rapidly, and take strong hold of considera ble numbers of our people. Just now they seem to have a good many disciples ; but a close observatio n will show that they are more active and demonstr e c i tive than numerous. Some of them talk a n act as if they believe that th e b es t wa y to sett le the Alabama difficulty is to have war with E"' land. Others of them speak as if it would be a ebe e l: way of getting Cuba if we can fi n d some prete st for a war with Spain. These idea s genera lly urigh,l, nate in the excited political atmosphere of ington, and there are always a sufficient number o' restle,s spirits about that city to spread them al the newspaper correspondents, and to promulga te them through the lobbi es o f G overnmen t depar t ments. To these influence s we a tt r ib u t e t h e ruirlo tl i ," 4 ". which prevailed during th e ear l y par t o f last vice:,' to the effect that g rea t p ressure was b e i ng b ro ugh t to bear upon the Government, not only to reed; rise the independence of Cuba, but to bring a be d an armed occupation of the island by the Uni te States. These rumours did not reach the masse s °f the public as fully as they did some o f those O a are obliged to keep themselves thorou g hly inforll' e as to what is going on in the national capital. It w ss not only claimed that such a pressure was in OW g o operation, but that it was becoming effective. VP ° , inquiry we could hear nothing to justify this assui l l n , tion of success. It was clear that there was war ti sympathy for Cuba pervading nearly all circles e a at Washington, as there is nearly everywhere am ong the people ; but the idea of an armed occupat le ti ll did not seem to have any practical headway at 111 ; A Senator of more than twenty years' experien c e in the national councils, speaking privately on this subject, expressed his strong belief that the (I° _, 4 vernment of the United States could not be indu ce : to depart from the honourable course it has here t ", fore observed in its relations with foreign povver e ,. ; and he put his view of the case very tersely by saY ll3 l What the country wants most of all is continue peace; it should not think of war, nor of ad.l e g any more territory just now, especially if t addition to our territory will involve us in wa r ".„ The Senator referred to is a distinguished Itepub l i t e can, but we do not know how far he expressed t i. ll o sentiment of his colleagues. However that tnaY " he spoke what ought to be the sentiments of tilts all, and of the other side of the Chamber, too. 05 citizens, in their individual capacities, have a P er, feet right to express their sympathies with eve r t ? oppressed people. It is natural and commendable in them to do so. It is not at all to be wondered at that we all have warm feelings in favour of the struggling Cubans, and that a desire for their su e ' teas shows itself in a hundred ways. But the G e ‘ vernment of the United States, acting as a memb er t of the family of n a ti ons, h as to b e more e i rcums Pec. in its actions. It has always observed a decent r e ' spect for the opinions of mankind in its intercourse with other nations, and all citizens should wish it to continue to do so. It has a most honourable re' cord, which 43 hould be maintained unsullied, si l o which it should never think of staining becaus e few restless people have a hankering after more te r ritory, or who think they can make most nlon el when the country is at war. It is a bad day ,r both nation and people whenever either gets accus_ tomed to looking upon war in any other light ding a dr.'adful necessity, only to be resorted when there is no other mode of settling a difficulty. [ADVERTISEMENT. tr)00 j— Holloway's Pills ara the - fte r gentle yet most effective aperients, and therefore Die, Ilya calculated for a family medicine than any other drug. 1 : 1 always set the stomach right, rinse the liver, s timulate r i o p kidneys, and thoroughly cleanse the whole system. t be loway's pills are most useful in chronic weakness o f or stomach induced by luxurious living, sedentary liabit s 'ith other causes. They have restored the emaciated to after every other means had failed. While they are pu g B ra ing they are strengthening ; while regulating they au increasing nervous and muscular power. These piilgsre not excite any violent action in the body, hence theY. tv specially suited to the young and f ee bl e , w h os e ten, st „, l e tion may be irretrievably inj ure d b y more powe rful dicines. M. GREEN— On the 18th i ns t. 3 131RT1 at 6, St. George's-road , A-- ° f stow-Fquare, th e w if e o f Si r H enry 'l o d e s Green, daughter. wife 13' o PRESCOTT— On the 18th i ns t. , at Sydenham, the Iva - G. Prescott, E sq ., o f a son. 111A1?RIAG ES. I9 COTTON--ROPCRAFT -On the 18th inst., at Penge, Th°l77i... Jas. Cotlob, Lieut. Madras S.C., son of the late Lir,it'',o General W. c oi ;,:rn, to Ada, second daughter of 111" lioperaft, E, q., of 1.,;.1 1 :: Lawn, Anerl9y, Surrey. WooLsTEsnuLmE - Dfloos- On the 18th inst.:at ANT 0 , ( , gre,n, Thomas John Woolstt.nhulme, Esq. of o%d b l H , Lancashire ' to Mary, youngest &lighter of ' o- Br .114 - 1., of Christ's Hospital, London. DEATHS. F. Du VERxrr —On the 16th inst., at Bath, Colon el John Du Vernet, late 87th Regt , aged 64. eg t, SALTOUN On the 19th inst., at 9, Great Stanbor-st, -a Marjory A. Louisa, second daughter of thefo rd al' Lady Saltoun, aged 14 -..0 vs. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDO,d of No. 112, strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0 .112, St %' --, in to Precinct of the Savoy, in the Le l m t y of Itiddleo Thursday, May 2), 1869. fis 1N A. I Thin ecOel prize Yt elal Sold in R( be A gentl Olmqsrve ti htn's Lt W Ii " relic I{ ETmt TIO —4 u us each. K E TJ'r 14, Rtr, A.DVAN r 0111 or TA lie week: n - rns fre R OY Mr TT A.ll' Mr FRET Mr L'STC. The MU Miss A' Miss. 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