The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-08 00:00:00

1 l! THE CONVEI4T CASE. 9neen's Bench was still engaged on Saturday in the case of " Saurin v. Starr," the action by a Sister of Mercy against the Superioress of her convent. At the sitting of the court, the Solicitor-General, 'addressing the Lord Chief Justice, reminded his lordship that on Friday he stated that an offer had - emanated from the defendant's counsel tending to a settlement of the case. He was in hopes that that offer might have been Acceptable to all parties, but obviously there were interests involved on the other side which could not be disregarded in any settlement that might be come to. The Lord Chief Justice : I was quite sensible of that, and•therefore I was anxious that the fullest opportunity should be allowed on Friday for coming to a just conclu- sion. Mr. Hawkins asked his lordship to be allowed to retire from the court for a few minutes with his learned friends to confer with the bishop of the diocese as to the possibility of coming to a settlement. He was quite Eine the time would not be thrown away. Counsel having retired from the court, and remained in consultation for About twenty minutes, Mr. Hawkins on his return a nnounced that as persons not in court must necessarily be consulted before the terms of settlement suggested could be accepted, the case must proceed. The cross-examination of the plaintiff was thereupon resumed. It was conducted by Mr. Hawkins, who went very minutely into detail. But " Sister Scholastica " adhered very firmly to the points made in her evidence in chief. She illustrated her idea of propriety by expressing extreme disgust at the conduct of one of the sisters, who had gone Out with a gentleman unattended. She had intended to complain td the Superioress about it. Mr. Hawkins : Then why did not you inform tae superwr Plahritiff : Because she was at Hull. Mr. Hawkins : Was there no local superior? Plaintiff: Yes. It was the local superior herself that did it. (Loud laughter, in which the judge heartily joined. There were some hisses, and it was some time before the decorum of the court was restored). The court was evidently in an excited state, for the unusual bracketed phrase " applause " appears several times after the remarks of the Lord Chief Justice. Miss Saurin repeated her assertion that some passages in the letters gin to her were obliterated repeatedly. Particu larly she referred to some letters from her sister. Mr. Hawkins here remarked : You know she had the right to do it. Plaintiff : I am sure no sister of mine would have written anything unfit for me to read. The Lord Chief Justice : "Power " would be a better word than " right." Right means a thing rightly done. We are nqt inquiring into what power the superior has, but whether she has exercised it honestly and faithfully, or for the purposes of oppression, in order to drive this lady out of the community. (Loud applause.) That is the charge. The charge is what power had she by the rules—and has she used it for the purpose of driving this lady from the convent! Mr. Hawkins : I will undertake to shew it was honestly done. - The Lord Chief Justice : Power may be given for the best of purposes, but it might be abused if it got into bad hands. (Applause.) Mr. Hawkins endeavoured in the rest of the examina tion to shew (from the plaintiff's own statement) that she had habitually broken the rules of the couvent. The case was adjourned. TRADE AND FINANCE. The foreign exchanges having continued adverse to this country, the shipments of bullion to the Continent have been large, but, owing to the enormous amount of capital still lying idle here, their influence has been very little felt. Foreign bonds generally have continued buoyant, in consequence of the postponement of the Eastern question, although more flatness pre vailed on the announcement that the War Party was again called to power in Athens. Had the export of bullion ceased, and the exchanges proved more favourable to us, a considerable rise in Consols would have been the result; as it is, the quotations have remained almost stationary. The cotton trade continues in a most anomalous posi tion. Heavy speculative purchases have been made, both on the spot and to arrive, and the quotations have been daily on the advance. The rise in the price of Manchester goods, however, is not nearly proportionate to that of the raw material, and great distress is beginning to be felt in Lancashire in consequence. There is scarcely any demand for export, as, owing to a variety of causes, nearly all the foreign markets show a decided loss on all shipments from this side. The heavy exportations to the India and China markets which took place early in the year are now beginning to make themselves felt in those quarters, and are having a most adverse in fluence on the market. Notwithstanding the rise in the value of the raw material here, news of which had reached China, grey shirtings had given way in price both in Hong Kong and Shanghai, ac ' cording to our latest advices, owing to the prospect of heavy importations. While, however, our shipments to the East have been more than usually extensive, those to the Western Hemisphere exhibit a marked decline. Nor are they likely to be resumed on their ordinary scale until the return of peace in South America affords scope for the legitimate operations of trade, and until the removal of the high protective tariff in the United States allows a more extended use of our manufa;tnres. One great point to be considered is the fact that the direct shipments of cotton from the United States are becoMing more general. However unwilling we may be to acknowledge the fact, it is very evident that a large portion of the goods which were formerly completed in the country are now manu factured by foreign spinners, who have a great advantage over our own manufacturers in the comparative cheapness a labour on the Continent. It appears that while the shipments of cotton from the United States and Great Britain shew a decline of 54,000 bales as compared with fast 'year ; the shipments to the Continent shew an in nrease of 71,000 bales, and that, too, notwithstanding the cry about the falling off in the receipts at the outports in the United States. The total exports from the other side, to the date of our last advices, shew an increase of about 17,000 bales over last year. With regard to the extension of the manufac ture of cotton goods on the Continent, the Dutch appear to be making prodigious strides, and are gradually superseding English.manufactured goods in the Dutch colonial markets. The shipments of cotton goods Batavia shew such a decided falling off as can be accounted for in no other way. We notice also that the new Commercial Bank of Vienna has under taken the direct importation of cotton from Bombay rid Suez and Trieste. The bank will, by arrangement, use the Brenner line of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway Com pany for conveying the cotton to Switzerland and South Germany, which have hitherto depended on Marseilles for their supplies. It is evident, therefore, that the Con tinental spinners are making great inroads upon the cotton goods trade, which we have for so long a time been accus tomed to consider as peculiarly our own. Wages, however, must rise on the Continent in accordance with the increased demand for labour; and if our manufacturers are awake to their own interests they will take care that the article they produce shall be in every way superior in quality to that of their opponents. As we ventured to predict but a short time back, the corn market has been very inanimate, and prices have given' way for all descriptions of produce. The late reaction in the market appears to have been due to a temporary combination amongst factors for the purpose of checking the rapidity of the downward movement. The combination, however, has totally failed to effect its object, as the slight improvement that was forced upon the market has since been altogether lost. In the face of the very favourable weather and the prospect of renewed importa tions, owing to the probable re-opening of the Baltic ports, there is every prospect of a still further decline m prices. A large number of grain-laden vessels have arrived off the ports of call during the past fortnight, and these heavy arrivals of produce here naturally had a most adverse influence on the market. Instructions have been received at Colchester, from the Horse Guards, directing that until further orders the standard height of all recruits for the infantry is to be rift, Bin. Two MEN SUFFOCATED IN A BEER VAT. —A shocking occurrence happened at Trowbridge on Thursday and formed the subject of an inquiry before the local coroner on Friday. On Thursday a man named Usher, who was employed at a public-house called the Dove, pro ceeded to clear out a large beer vat on the premises there, and had placed a ladder inside for the purpose of descend ing into it. Although it is well known that noxious gases arise from these vats when empty, no test was applied, the only precaution being that Usher placed a rope round his body, and his father held the other end.. When Usher reached the bottom of the vat the fumes overpowered him, and he instantly fell. His father endeavoured to save him by means of the cord, but was unable to do so, and called loudly for assistance. In the meantime the cord broke, and Mr. Soley, the landlord of the Dove, ran to the brew house, and, without reflection, decended at once into the vat, when he fell down on the body of Usher. This double catastrophe debarred anyone else from making the attempt, and it was some time before the lifeless bodies were recovered. A surgeon was promptly on the spot, but the poor fellows were beyond his aid. A ver di c t o f " Acdi dentklly Buff9cated "ivm returripla A. 13 USES AND REFORM Are the Anglo-Saxon race the greatest thieves among mankind'? If this question can be answered by the amount stolen we would unhesitatingly say " Yes ;" but it is evident that other people only steal less because they have less to steal. It is all very well to prate of honour and to enunciate high moral sentiments, but we now know by a sad ex perience that this is the very guise most successfully assumed by the thieves. If we want men to be honest, we must leave as little temptation as possible in their way, for it is an undeniable fact that that temptation will breed corruption. The British Go vernment, by long experience, perfected a Civil Service system by which the checks are too efficient to admit of theft, the punishment too severe in de tection, and the inducements to remain honest too considerable to fall—at least before the small temptations only left open. Great ones have been placed beyond their reach, and little ones are too well fenced to be touched, so the service is thus far at least honestly administered. But look at what occurred in the commercial world when the chances offered of cheating wholesale. Never before weresuch gigantic operations in swindling carried through. The two great trading centres of London and Liverpool became hot-beds of villainy, and the wrecks and ruin spread around attest how well the work was accomplished. Never had a better instance been furnished of the lengths to which men of posi tion, character, and influence will go when strongly led by temptation, and if this epoch of English history proves anything, it proves that there are no class of men in England qualified to be en trusted with the unchecked control of vast sums ; and if not in England, we have no hesitation in saying there are none elsewhere. America imagines that she can work a Governmental system much on the same principle that English shareholders worked the Limited Liability Act. Men are thrust into office with the maximum amount of inducement to cheat, and with the minimum amount of checks and punishments. Under the circumstances the surprise is that the nation has taken so long to reach the unbearable point, not that it now approaches it. Mr. - WELLS says that a fourth of the revenue is 1 stolen. Everything becomes a job; no railway bill ' is passed except by underhand meansand chicanery ; even no territory ispurchased without some such deal ings as those used by Baron STCECKL, who gave the Hon. ROBERT J. WALKER a large fee in gold to carry through the Alaska busiufts; and forthwith his eloquence soared into the clouds, even above the eagle, from which elevated position he gave a fas cinating description of that charming region bor dering on the North Pole. Who could have sup posed that these airy flights were taken with pockets well ballasted by one of the heaviest of metals ? How could the innocent hearer believe the ardent patriotism, the philanthropy and love of his species, which induced the orator to urge with the fire of liberty brightly burning in his bosom the extension of the area of freedom, that the inspiration had been derived from a little business conversation with the Russian Baron. The writers were paid who ad vocated the cause and the newspapers which in serted their productions. But around all hung that atmosphere of high moral ideas through which the gaze of the uninitiated could not penetrate. If Legislatures and courts of law are tainted, it would be something worse than folly to expect individual officials to be honest; and if officials, paid to guard the public, use the trust to cheat, can the outsider be free from the prevailina. corruption ? The revenue system comes to the aid of the thief, in eases, indeed, compels a man to join a ring or be'rifined. Thus rings are fostered; thus lobbyists grow powerful ; thus interest is pitted against interest in the scramble of protection ; each step gained by one inducing a desperate effort in the others to attain the same level, and a giddy height it is to which some of them have risen. Yet each step carries the manufacturing industry of the States further from the consumer, and the country which ought to be the cheapest in the world is ra paidly becoming the dearest. The men who suffer are the masses, and almost in direct proportion to their poverty. While particular interests are fos tered, and monopolies created inimical to the national welfare, the lobbyists and corrupt legislators thrive, and the people permit inducements to be offered to carry measures by dishonest means. If the source whence laws emanate be impure, the courts in which they are administered are not likely to be pure. The system of election has lowered the legal profession in its highest places, and a writer in Harper's Weekly advocates the passage of the Act, making two-thirds of the Supreme Court neces sary to declare an Act of Congress unconstitutional, because the day has gone by in the United States when the Bench of the Supreme Court can easily be filled with eminent and incorruptible lawyers. A writer in the Round Table attacked the Senate, de claring that men sent there poor returned to their States after their term, with wealth that could not have been hones:ly acquired. We all know how the vote of the seven " recreant" Senacore was at once attributed to bribery by those whose plans that vote defeated' ethe belief not yet being wholly exploded that bribery only could explain so erratic a course. An English paper, alluding to New York the other day, said—" It is seriously proposed to establish a Vigilance Committee in that city: A gang of murderers are at work, and the police fail altogether in checking their crimes. But it is not alone the failure of the police which encourages the bringing appeal to Judge LYNCH. The impossibility of a culprit to justice, in consequence of the wholesale corruption of the Judges, is the worst evil against which the people have to contend. A murderer is arrested, and somehow or other bribes hfs way out of prison, or escapes with nominal punishment. The Judges will not sentence a man who has influential political friends at his back, the wire pullers of the ward." On the same subject the .Nation of the 21st January observes, " In States as old and orderly as Ohio and Indiana (so inefficient is the administration of criminal justice), supple mentary lynching and hanging of robbers and mur derers on a great scale has had to be resorted to within the last year, nomenon in Western We .:Tew h ave York.h a d I t n h e t h i s .s a i c n i t e yr al though the police is perhaps as good as any in the world, their vigilance and faithfulness are rendered wellnigh worthless by the low character of the police justices, the abuses of the District Attorney office, and the maladministration of the prisons all over the State. The facility with which escapes are effected - from Sing Sing shows that the official asupfaerrcveisiloanndofit prs - be e l x .t p tl ected i t# of o e seer. be otherwise, when we consider that the wardens are back politicians, changed every time a new party comes into power, even if the reports of the Prison Association did not tell on this subject one of the most sorrowful and disheartening tales of the day." In the working out of the motto, that ' 4 to the victor belongs the spoils," we see the source of the demoralization which has spread its baneful influ ence over the country. The victor is the loudest and most energetic of the unscrupulous ; the spoils are the plunder of the nation, and it is his direct interest to make the system as corrupt as possible, for therein lies his best chance of gain. The ex- ample spreads through all departments, and reacts on the public till the vice becomes unbearable, when a sharp reaction sets in, a great reformer arises, backed by the good sense of the people, and hard work purifies the Augean stable. This point, we are happy to say, has been reached as well in the United States as among the English commercial community. If the President Elect does not belie appearances, his will be an Administration of Re form—in the Civil Service, in the Judiciary, in the Legislature, and in the general administration of. the law. It is a hard task that lies before the General, but he is, perhaps, better qualified for such work than any other man who has risen to emi nence in the United States, from the dogged per tinacity with which he fights out the battle on the line of duty, alike regardless of the howl of indigna tion and the cry of suffering. Great as are the heights to which corruption has gone, it is easy to see how sound is the heart of the nation. Were it otherwise GRANT'S task would be impossible, as it is it will he comparatively easy, for although the abuses make a great show, and really in a measure retard the growth of the Republic, yet they are but parasites which cling to the tree, without real connectioh with the trunk.—Anglo-Anierican times ' THE SUN, LONDON, YONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Reform - al* he still thofight the Eriglish Ginirch to be a part of the kingdom of God. The Church had a perfect right to suppress monasteries, to drop the issue of indulgences, to allow the clergy to marry, and to alter her creed. The question therefore was whether Archbishop Parker was properly conse crated, whether through him the Church received apostolic succession. No denial of her apostolic succession was raised until seventy years after the consecration, and we have historical evidence to prove that Archbishop Parker was legally and canonically consecrated by four other bishops who were themselves consecrated by the Pope. They might, therefore, boldly declare that the Church of England possessed apostolic authority. Nor was the Church guilty of heresy, seeing that she held the Nicene Creed. Moreover, as to Christian worship, the Church—as such, and distinguishing it from the State—had never abolished vestments, lights, the mass, or the other practices of the - Universal Church. It is difficult to conceive of that state of mind in which the right of the clergy to teach the Word of God and to administer the Sacraments was thought to be dependent upon the decision of antiquaries as to whether an Elizabethan prelate was properly consecrated or not. If the Church of England depends solely upon the solatioa of that question for the validity of her mission ; if she has established no claim upon the affection of the people; if she can shew no proof of the soundness of the tree in the shape of the fruit, the sooner she is cut down as a cumberer of the ground the better. Father Ignatius has greatly scandalised the Roman Catholics, by stating that he has lately received the Holy Communion at the hands of a Roman Catholic priest in a Roman Catholic church. The " Father" rather gloried in this achieve ment, we presume because he considered it a step towards the reunion of Christendom. We can see small occasion for gratification. Mr. Lyne must have known well enough that no Roman Catholic priest would have dared or wished to administer to him, if it had been known that he was not a member of the Roman Church. If he com municatisd he did so under false pretences, and how that will advance reunion we fail to see. At Glasgow a similar piece of deception has led to a rule by which every intending communicant is obliged to exhibit a ticket signed by a priest before he is allowed by the vergers to approach the rails. deny that it would be advantageous to seriously consmer the policy of accepting the Paris declaration. But they. urged that their previous line of conduct was such as to place an unconditional submission out of the question, and they therefore offered their resignation. Several attempts were made to find a set of politicians who would be willing to take office and adopt a conciliatory policy ; but such could not be found. The King made another appeal to the patriotism of his Government. A compromise was the result, and Delyannis was instructed to draw up a reply which should give explicit adhesion to the declara tion of the powers, and yet preserve for the future the national rights and aspirations of Greece. But the repre sentatives of the Powers, sounded apparently beforehand, declared th is reply inadinissible. They might h ave urged that acquiescence in a condemnation of the Greek violators of international law, accompanied by a reservation of the right to violate such law in future, was a contradiction in terms. The Ministry have again offered its resignation, and King George was compelled to accept it. This state of affairs is not necessary. All the members of the Cabinet were not opposed to a policy of peace; the Minister of Finance especially was decisively in favour of such a course, a n d the inability of this statesman to form a Peace Cabinet is incomprehensible save on the supposition that public opinion is with the warlike Bulgari9 and his followers. In leG4 the Cretan malcontents offered to rise on condition of receiving the secret but effectual assistance of Greece. The courage and prudence of some Greek politicians secured the rejection of this offer. What has become of this pacific element ? Later advices state that the difficulty of forming a Ministry is so great that a further delay of eight days has been granted, THE QUEEN. It is now positively announced that the Queen will not open Parliament. Her ill health (so runs the announcement) will not permit her to do so. The Telegraph, however, gives another reason for the absence of the Queen on the reading of the Speech. In the Speech from the Throne: reference will be made to subjects calculated to evoke strong party feeling ; and since those topics of debate will in some degree affect the Rogal prerogative, they will have a close bearing on the privileges of the Crown. To almost any sovereign actuated by a keen sense of responsibility such a juncture would recommend a conspicuous abstinence from even the show of personal interest in the measures at issue. Queen Victoria now desires to exhibit more strik ingly than ever an absolute neutrality in political matters, in accordance with the whole of her previous career. Concerning her Majesty's health, the correspon dent of the _Lech Mercury thus writes : ' I under stand that her - Maje,sty's health is anything but good; and she herself contemplates the public duties awaiting her with a nervousness approaching to dread. All indoor ceremonials produce a very depressing effect upon her, and standing for any length of time leads to violent attacks of sickness and faintness. At one of the drawing-rooms held last year she was obliged to quit the throne room hurriedly, and had no sooner reached her retiring chamber than she was seized with a terrible attack of vomiting, accompanied by utter prostration of strength. The tendency to such attacks is happily passing away, but her physicians have advised her Majesty that it is essential to her health that she should as much as possible avoid all lengthened public ceremonies. It is well that this circumstance should be known, for even ladies moving in the highest circles are somewhat unmerciful in the demands which they make not only upon the Queen's time, but upon her health and strength." POLITICAL ITEMS. A rumour prevailed in London on Friday night to the effect that the Premier was suffering from sud den indisposition, and was therefore unable to leave his room. This statement is now authoritatively denied. ➢lr. Gladstone, it seems, is in good health, and able to attend to the business of his office. That he will not want a policy those who have so valiantly challenged him to bring forward one may be well assured. Not to mention the Irish Church, the criminal question, and the County Financial Boards, measures on which the country has been promised "action," the Government, by its very con struction, is pledged to carry on several other reforms. The Star is enabled to state that they have resolved to adopt the Universities Tests Aboli tion Bill of Sir John D. Coleridge. The John Bull says that the proposed banquet to her Majesty's late Ministers has been postponed owing to Mr. Disraeli's inability to attend consequent on the death of his brother. In default thereof, Com mander Pym is devoting his festal energies to getting up a dinner to the honour of Lord George Hamilton, M.P. for Middlesex. The gallant officer has, much to the regret of our contemporary, chosen a Wednes day in Lent as the feasting day. Mr. Disraeli's be reavement, we may add, permits him to continue the policy of silence he has so discreetly observed since he left office, the policy which led Lord Stanley and Mr. Hardy to disappoint the Cardiff banqueters by absenting themselves from their table. The silence policy was much condemned at Glouces ter the other day. The Liberals of the town, when they held their banquet, had Mr. Lowe to " draw ;" but not one of the Conservative gods would come down when the Conservatives had a dinner. The diners had to be satisfied with Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Sir George Jenkinson, M.P., and one or two local magnates. These, however, appeared . to be in very good spirits. Th e y h a d no idea of giving up the Irish Ch urc h as immediately lost. A large number of Governments would probably rise and fall before Mr. Gladstone's measure would pass. There was a grea t impression, however, that the Chur c h w o u ld u lti ma t e l y go . Sir M. Beach described the present Government as Jews and Infidels, Papists and Puritans, Ritualists and Dissenters, every form of .unbelief and extreme belief, banded together in an unholy alliance for the perpetration of a special piece of plunder. The description was not original, b u t it was "t e lli n g," and therefore, we suppose, fulfilled its end. Colonel Lees, who was defeated tit the last Gloucester election, offered to fight the battle again when required. Mr. Powell, the Conservative candidate who defeated the Adullamite Lord Andover at Malmes bury, has been celebrating his victory in the cus tomary way. In an after-dinner speech, the new member denied that there had been intimidation, and challenged Lord Andover to petition against him. He said that the Liberals were " going ahead too fast," that they "wanted to deface everything, the House of Lords, the Ho use o f C ommons, and the Constitution, and, to tell the truth, " God only knows l tp l ath v olealo h ra‘Dv a ;e t aeettlbi t .hilt l e‘ye l .w e eer, they do ssi w d sli aendoetbeh:sv:iri!rchc.o, good member satisfactory vrom H :dt De w rtt ehhodnia i si ttda resistcamefn wleloitotir: explain. to etd:c:l pass is o nkrfellow-diners the t shlow h ttean a enon M on oisl r yvit . The a -A t il: w a ic : o / k d n. things as he described. state ment that Mr. Trevelyan resigned his post at the speech Admiralty of d : to his n e not did verydiscreet accept not the resignation, and Mr. Trevelyan thereupon sleq'amuPeYrn.cGeGalzaette confirms the expressed. to the Commander-in-Chief his regret in a manlier which was at once accepted by his Royal Highness. THE LATE GENEEAL ELECTION. The amount of "m )ral" that has been got from the general election is something astonishing, especially when the diversity of it is borne in mind. Mr. Dudley Baxter draws one conclusion, while his opponents draw a totally opposite one. To one mind the present system fails in that it does not return the lower class; to another it is defective because all the great men are not returned. Mr. Mill has the mind of the first -named class; Lord Campbell of the second. The one would provide machinery for turnin out workin men M.P.s ; th e o th er would like for more certainty that men of genius should be returned. Mr. Mill's plan has been communicated to the public through the Legislature, and in. various other ways. Lord Campbell is now propounding his in a series of letters to the Pod. Ills complaint is this : that a small constituency can, and i n some c a ses does, prevent the return to Parliament of a man whom the public (as a whole) wishes for. The state, with " unmeasur e d liberality," imparts t o every constituency the power of appointing representatives—and these for the empire at large—without retaining any veto. Thus, a popular Premier, a Secretary of State, an Attorney-General, &c., &c.,. are kept out of office simply because of a local whim. This same uncertainty is an evil in another direction. Politics are a life-long study. A good M.P. can be ob tained only after years of training. Yet, by limiting this training, by excluding a promising man from Parliament, just when his education ought to be carried on, the class from which statesmen must thpring erefore, is ota niccaodreding small.to Lord Campbell, our present system, the public will is trained, and the result is that there exi s t s a genera l ncarried out. M.P.'s are not p roper l y desire to obtain what (as in the case of non-aristo cratic members of the Cabinet) the present system prevents. AfIMY AND NAVY NEWS. The Earl of Lauderdale will succeed Sir Thomas Pasley as commander-in-chief at Portsmouth on March 1. Sir Alexander Milne will succeed Lord Clarence Paget as commander-in-chief in the Medi terranean on April 22. Sir Frederick Grey will succeed Sir William Martin at Devonport, and probably Vice-Admiral Warren will succeed Sir Baldwin Walker as commander-in-chief at the Noro on April s.—The Army and Navy Gazette says that if Mr. Childers ever entertained the intention of superseding the various superintending officers at the different dockyards he has now abandoned it.—The sum of money devoted to experiments in the navy will be reduced from £12,000 to £2,ooo.—That famous old ship, the Victory, Nelson's flagship at at Trafalgar, is at last about to end her llailcbeouj:stahnindk of her bel retirein toip4 brokeniva telife.up i On: th-jes ,thli7t. breaker's yard. It is stated that tne coming reducticii% in the army staff are so numerous that few appointments will be vacant this year or next. The same condi• tion of things applies to the Army Medical Staff. THE VOLUNTEEIL CONTROVERSY. ry The Army and .21ravy Gazette will not undertake t.,1 say if the Volunteer is worth only the 30s. capitation grant he now gets, or the 60s. which Lord Elcho asks. But there is great room for improvement in the force, especially in the officering of the corps. At present no provision is made for securing efficient officers, and many of them are notoriously incompetent. The state of discipline is, to say the least, doubtful; the officers are frequently elected by the men, who practically have the power of dismissal, since they can, and sometimes do, for very trivial causes, resign in a body and break up the C.Olll/4. FATHER IGNATIUS. Father Ignatius, has come forward to assure us of the orthodoxy of the Church of England. In a lecture at Store-street he propounded for himself the question whether the English Church cut itself off from the Church of Christ at the Refor mation. While . taking into consideration all the wickedness of Henry VIII., and the tyranny he em ployed in carrying out his work ; while remembering h aw rplicrinn was blasphemed at the petiod A the A WORD TO RITUALISTS. Ono of the Roman Catholic clergy in London has been preaching against—not Ritualism, but the Ritu alists. He denounced their movement as being utterly wanting in the first great mark of Christianity—obe dience. The Ritualists, he said, call themselves Catholics, but they obey no bishop on earth, only their own respective wills, and yet the clergy of this school exact from their flocks an obedience utterly unknown in the Catholic Church. " Three hundred years ago," said Father Oallwey, " the Court and a great portion of the nobility and clergy of this land rebelled against the Vicar of Christ, and said they would acknow ledge no authority but Caesars. To Caesar they went, and Cesar has them still, and Caesar defines what they must believe and what reject." A CASE OF RETROVERSION. A short time ago two curates of St. Mary's, Soho, " went over." One of them came back again after a few weeks' trial. The Weekly _Register explains this retroversion in the following manner :—" After the two curates in question were received into the Church, they both took up their residence at the Oratory, with a view of entering the noviciate of the order. .But by a rule of that order, before any one can even become a novice he must reside a month in the house, and he is then balloted for by the Fathers, so as to see .whether the opinion of the community is that he would be a credit to them. The two ex-curates went through the usual ordeal, but not with similar success. At the ballot, after they had been a month in the Oratory, one was approved of, and is now a novice at Brompton ; the other was black-balled, and has since been received back into what the cor respondent of the Standard—by way of a grim joke, we presume—calls 'the one fold of Christ,' in which by the:way (if the Church of England is meant) the rams cert a i n ly b u tt a good deal at each other.' This is not quite the whole truth. The Register does .not explain why one of the two gentlemen was black balled. We are assured that it was because heput the rev. fathers of the Oratory more questions than they could answer. There is a case of reversion here as well as retroversion. The curate was black-balled because of his evident tendency towards Anglicanism. Ife did not return to Anglicanism because he was black-balled. CARDINAL MANNING. Archbishop Manning is to receive the red hat next month, according to the Rome correspondent of the Weekly Register. With him Monsignori Ferari, De Merode, and Chigi will have the same honour bestowed upon them. Nothing is said about Mon • signor Darboy, Archbishop of Paris. COM3IERCIAL MORALITY, The Overend, Gurney, and Co. case is bearing fruit. Directors are beginning to understand that there is such a thing as the law, and they are becoming very good indeed. Take the Credit Fonder for instance. A few months ago the directors indig nantly denied tbat they had taken any moneys other than those they were legally and morally en titled to. Mr. Albert Grant, however, has been persuaded into a better mind, it seems ; and at the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders on Friday, it was stated that he had consented to hand over to the company " a fair and reasonable amount," which is to be raised on a mortgage of his property. It is expected that the other old directors will follow Mr. Grant's example without mueli further delay. • SPONGII G-710178E5. A decision which will excite some interest has lately been given concerning sponging-houses, and the system may be said to have received a final blow. The sheriff's officer, Sloman, brought a debtor to trial for having escaped from the lawful custody of the sheriff. The warrant directed that the debtor should be taken to Whitecross-s treet, and as ho was instead conveyed to Bream's-buildings, whence lie effected his escape, the Recorder held that it was not a lawful custody, and that the prisoner was not in keeping of the sheriffs. Jr. Sloman will not inspire much pity for his fate in having had to pay the five hundred pounds debt himself, when the enormous expense to which the debtors are put in the sponging house is taken into consideration. Lane, the accused in the foregoine , case, stated in evidence that he was charged seventy pounds for the three weeks he was in Bream's-buildings. Such a system of extortion cannot fail to defeat its own pur pose in the long run, and the sympathies of the public will certainly be on the side of the debtor. A REFOI IN OUR PAPER MILLS. A correspondent of the _Morning Post brings under public notice a very great evil existing in our paper mills. The rags which are torn up into shreds for the manufacture of paper are often extremely dirty and unwholesome, and the girls employed on them suffer in consequence. In 1833 the cholera broke out in the Beaconford Paper Mills simultaneously with the arrival of some goods from a foreign hospital. The proprietors, startled at the outcry that was made, made inquiries, and found that the rags could be thoroughly cleaned by a simple and inexpensive process. Yet the scheme has never been carried out, and while many of the m as t ers h ave rea li se d large fo r t unes , the girls who work in their mills are still exposed to this painful and needless risk. THE INDIAN TELEnnApH SCHEMES. Cite of the two rival schemes of telegraphic com munication with. India appears to have fallen through. The company which started it applied to the Admi ralty for the loan of two 3-deckers, and obtained their request under the usual conditions. Possession' was actually offered, but at the last moment the transaction broke down, owing to the want of funds on the part of the promoters of the undertaking. _ FOREIGN NOTES. ADIERICA. The New York Times and the Tribune affirm that General, Grant is opposed to the Alabama claims treaty. He is reported to have said : " The treaty is unjust to the United States because it assumes to measure injury inflicted upon this country by money value of ships actually destroyed, whereas the chief damage to our commerce was in our ships being driven from the seas by Anglo-rebel pirates. In addition to this, the sympathy extended by the English Government to the South prolonged the war at least a year, and for all lives lost and money expended, for this time, - England is directly responsible." Englishmen will be equally astonished and disappointed to learn that General Grant r e ally h as b e en W ilts of this fo o li s h expression. CUBA. The New York papers give pacticulars of the recent outbreak at Havanna which by no means justify General Dulce's decision that it "was not worth mentioning." There were several very serious riots, and on more than one occasion the Spanish s,,hli(•rs and armed volunteers fired upon the people, who returned the fire. Business was suspended. TURKEY AND °Ram The period of deliberation accorded to Greece was to expire, unless it were further extended, on Sunday even ing. - The Paris official journals hold that no more than eight days-have as yet been allowed. Calculations of this kind, however, depend wholly upon the date at which the eight days were supposed to commence ; if they began from the first announcement there can be no doubt that the time has been exceeded. In point of fact, the original eight days ran out on Friday at latest. The Independance Beige gives some interesting details respecting the deliberati ons which took place between King George and his councillors on the arrival of young COMA, WtiIOWdELAWK4riS 4%1 l 4 .904caneft_did not SPAIN. The Spaniards are suffering from the embarrassment of too rapid progress. In the early days of the revolution a mob assembled in Madrid and burnt the garotte apparatus with great enthusiasm. Now the instrument of capital punishment is required for the benefit of the Burgos mur derers, all Spain cries aloud for justice. As the perpe trators of the atrocity might have foreseen, the deed has served only to strengthen the hands of the Provisional _ Government, which is now receiving hourly telegrams expressing the confidence of the people in all parts of the country. These manifestations daily fill several columns of the official paper. Nor are they confined to expres sions of adhesion ; with one accord they demand full punishment of the murderers, direct and indirect, of the Governor. Capital punishment has not yet been repealed, and there is much reason to believe that this great revival will give it a new tenure of existence. The murdered man was exceedingly liberal to the poor, and some time before his death had announced his intention to divide his salary amongst the starving inhabitants of Burgos. Don Henri de Bourbon seems to have a delight in advertising himself in the gazette of political bankrupts. He is now getting up a wretched correspondence, in which be alternately bewails the adversity of fortune, and vilifies the Orleanist family. Of these latter the Duke of Mont pensier, according to Don Henri's account, is the general utility villain—guilty of clap-trap, sleight-of-hand politics, machinations, mercenary ambition, and all the other offences wilich can be hit off by Don Henri's bound. less vocabulary of hard names. A quarter of a century ago this Spanish prince was the Progressists' candidate for the hand of Isabella. He did not obtain that choice• prize, and he attributes his failure to the Orleanist family. The eldest living representative of the Orleans family writes from Teddington to deny this, asserting that the error of his family consisted in treating Don Henri too well. _ _ _ The Times correspondent says that the Progressists are gradually lending their support to the Duke of Montpensier. Every day some Progressist organ which was vehe mently opposed to the Orleanist candidate on the day before comes out as his uncompromising advo cate. This change does not arise from choice so much as from necessity. If Progressists do not have Mont pensier, they must almost perforce join the Repub licans. Serrano has been in favour of the ex-Queen's detested relatiie from the first, and if Prim's party joi n him, three-fourths of the Cortes will then be secured. On the other hand, a large party of Democrats, Republicans, and ultra-Progressists hope to defeat this scheme by bring. ing forward Espartero as dictator. The correspondent of the Star telegraphs that a clause in the draft of the new Constitution prohibits slavery in the Spanish .posiessions._ tip GERMANY. Certain old relics of the German feudal system have been abolished by the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. Thesevenerable fragments of legislation not only enjoyed a lingering existence, but were often put in force by the magistrates and clergy, and were productive of much trouble. The Siles'an Gazette gives some curious examples. An individual of noble descent, who occupied the aristocratic position of a hawker, wished to marry the daughter of a wealthy peasant, but the old law would not sanction this eligible match unless the hawker gave up the " von," the distinctive prefix of Prussian nobility. He esteemed the syllable above his intended and her dower; the marriage was not permitted, and the noble hawker ended his clays through hard drinking. Another aristocrat, a shoemaker, thought the " von " not indispensable to the prosperity of the last, and accordingly gave it up to become the husband of a rich butcher's daughter. In the neighbourhood of Berlin, the scion of an aristocratic family was desirous of marrying the daughter of a plebeian landowner. The Royal consent was refused him until he proved that the great-grandfather of his betrothed had been a gardener at Potsdam in the King's service. These functions were considered equivalent to letters of - nobility, and so the union took place. On this principle it is difficult to see why the feudal relics should have caused any trouble. A plebeian maiden who wished to marry into the nobility need only clear-starch two or three dozen of the Kine, linen in order to gain full privileges. ITALY. The Duke of Sutherland, who is cu route to l'e,.ypt to join the Prince and the Princess of Wales, has not been an idle traveller. He has carefully studied the Indian route question, and has examined Brindisi with a view of fairly ascertaining its qualifications as a port of call. His grace concludes that the triumph of Brindisi over Marseilles if assured, and needs only the co-operation of the English and Italian Governments. The Duke and his companions made the voyage from Brindisi to Alexandria in an Italian steamer, the accommodation of which, as well as the skill and attention of the captain, they highly praise. The passage was remarkably rapid, in spite of bad weather. One of the greatest obstacles in the way of Italian. pro gress is the amazing indifference to public affairs shewn by the deputies. Day after day two-thirds or more of the members of the Chamber are wanting. The names of all absentees are published in the official paper, but they care nothing for this species of rillory. THE ALABAIIA CLAIMS CONVENTION. - - (From the Anglo American Times.) The text of the Alabama Convention is now pub lished, and has put an end to conjecture on the subject. Substantially this Convention has been given to the public in the American papers, and with the terms before them the impression gains ground that the Senate will delay action until after the inauguration of the new President. It is true that Mr. SEWARD, who has many friends, earnestly de sires to settle all subjects of dispute before his term of office ends ; and it is not an unworthy ambition for an old statesman to entertain ; indeed it is one with which we can fully sympathize. The general view taken by the American press is that the United States can wait. They regard the claims for the depredations of the Alabama, as a whist player regards the best trump, disliking to part with it even at a gain in consideration of the com mand it gives. England, it is argued, is afraid to wait ; she presses for the settlement because she knows the danger of delay, her commerce being the most open in the world, awl her privateering ex ample the most hazardous ever set to the interests of a trading community. Though no objections are entertained to the Naturalization Treaty or to the San Juan boundary, yet the case of the Alabama Claims Convention is scrutinized in this narrow and hostile spirit, and may, to cause trouble and create delay, be rejected. Two dis tinct objections are made—the one against the pro vision by which all claims that have arisen since the ratification of the Convention of Feb. 8,1853, are ad rnissable, for this is considered to be a British ruse to get up cases as a set-off to the A labama depredations ; the other, that no mention is made of that question which is held to be most material—England's pre mature recognition of belligerent rights. Under lying this istliedislike of the Senate, and we mayadd of the country generally, to ANDREW jotiNsoN and his Administration, supplemented by the annoy ance so widely felt in the Union at the course pursued by the American Minister, who, on the part of the United States, signed the Convention. It is idle to ignore the fact that nations as well as individuals are, in no small degree, ruled by sen timent. Were it not so, most of the great national iniquities would never have been perpetrated, and war would seldom be resorted to. Americans are perhaps the most sentimental of all people ; hence thin convention may, for the present, be rejected without any substantial objection being made to it. There can be no reason why the claims of ten years back should not be settled as well as those of five years back ; and by the terms of the Convention, all evidence is adatissable, therefore Great Britain's premature - recognition of belligerent rights to the Confederacy may be itnpugned and argued before the umpire. Indeed the second paragraph of Art. 11 may have been introduced with especial reference to the discussion of this subject ; therefore one of the objections raised in the United States disappears, and the other could never stand in equity. Our object is not, however, to discuss this Convention, but to show the error so generally entertained in America that the best policy of the United States is to wait. Men are right to forecast the future as well as they can, but they are wrong to act on their predictions as if they were facts. In doing this they intrude into the place of P Ito VIDENCE, while the mar - vellous way in which the most clever are deceived ought to. be a caution to the rest. It is taken for granted in America that England must soon be in volved in a foreign or a domestic war. It is also taken for granted that the States are comparatively secure from the liability, and from this comes the conclu sion that the Republic can make her own terms when England's time arrives, or repay Britain in her own coin with compound interest. Mean while the claims can be used in retaliation to hamper and degrade this country. They are not wise people, according to our view, who give the nation this advice. The rejection of the Con vention might be taken by Europe to mean that the Union reserved the power of employing privateers to burn vessels on the high seas, or to equip and sell such vessels to belligerents which could be com missioned from other than the ports of the nation at war whose flag the cruisers flew. Would the establishment of such an international law be in harmony with the future the same men predict for the United States? whose shipping trade is about to take a rapid turn upwards. Its danger must be in proportion to that trade, for it evidently strikes a fatal blow at a genuine maritime power, placing an inland country like Austria or Russia on a betterfoot ing at sea than nations like France, Britain, or the United -States. Suppose, for instance, that the Republic became involved in a war with Austria. While the Empire was safe from attack, the EM PEROR could send men with Commissions in their pockets to France and England tofitoutAlabantas and cruise against the commerce of the States. What oc curred during the rebellion would again take place, and the knowledge that this wouldeurely occur in case of such a war would strengthen materially the in land power at the expense of the maritime power. If England became involved in such a contest she would have to drink to the dregs the.bitter cup of which the Americans so justly complain. The two nations most vulnerable on this point are the United Kingdom and the United States, and it would be little less than suicide for the one to establish the precedent and for the other to insist on perpetuating it. Suppose, then, that the Senate rejected, or even retarded, the settlement of .this Convention, and a war did arise which involved England; in spite of the United States Government cruisers might be fitted out to act against English commerce, and a most injurious precedent be finally and dangerously established. Indeed two rams, the Oneota and Catawba were sold in the United States, and very nearly got to sea, the object being to bombard Havaunah if the inhabitants did not subscribe a large sum to save their city. There is another point which ought not to be overlooked by the genuine American element. Why increase, intensify, and enlarge the area of the dislike already felt, which may do harm, but cannot do good ? Let any one read SEMMES'S ac count of his cruises, and learn the real feeling of the Southern gentlemen to what they call the Puritan element. The same feeling is very widely entertained on the other side of the St. Lawrence, and may grow up in the Pacific States. A Yankee who supposes he is a favourite in Ireland ought to go there and have a talk with any class above the most poverty-stricken,..ignorant Celt, who knows I nothing about him. Are there not seeds enough of bate already sown and vigorously sprouting with out deliberately increasing the crop? The Puritan element ought to find its best friend and sup porter in England, whence it originated, and as it is the element which has conquered and rules in the United States it will find that power will, as it always does, raise up against itself jealousies, feuds, enmities enough to combat, even to endanger its existence, without intentionally adding to the ranks of its enemies a great country which ought to be its ally. Now is the time for settling these vexed questions, which will remove a bitter bone of con tention from between the nations. Nor that only, for it may be followed by a law making pirates of cruisers like the Alabama, and guarding commerce so far as human means can, against such outrages for the future. No sentiment ought to be per mitted to stand in the way of so great a benefit ; nor can we think when the good sense of the nation is brought to bear on the subject that America will permit such a feeling to delay long a final settl e ment on the terms proposed. An extraordinary scene occurred in a Chicago Police-court on,the 15th of last December, which is likely to lead to further consequences. Mr. Justice Milliken was Presiding, and ex - Ju d g e Aaron Tyler defending a cli en t charged with keeping a disc:all - orb house. A young woman he was examining for the prosecution answered evasively, and, the question was repeated, when the Justice said she I need not again answer the question. Tyler's remarks I thereon the judge deemed offensive and ordered him to sit down, but there being no seats near, the counsel said he would if a chair was brought. The order was repeated, the judge pointing to the benches away from his client, at the same time inflicting a fine of $5. Still Tyler refused, when the judge ordered the police to take him from the room, and they seized the counsel and executed the order with such violence, bruising his face, so that the stairs were covered with blood, that the judge when released from the cell into which he was cast had to place himself in the hands of a physician, who attended him till his death, which ho certified to have been caused by the injuries he then received. The Chicago bar Laving taken the matter up have appointed a committee to indict an d prosecute Milliken and the policeman for man slaughter, and Mr. Tyler's children are advised to insti tute a suit for damages, the bar conducting it gratuitously. George W. Whistler, writing from St. Peters burg, in answer to the Springfield Republican's remark, "Nobody seems to care anything about Cassius M. Clay, the present Minister at St. Petersburg. lie has no friends, and is supposed to have no feelings," and implies that if they do not, at least they ought to carp about a man who waged a most determined war against slavery, and for the right of free press and free speech during malty years preceding the war, and at a time when he could not have hoped to be rewarded by place or preferment. Nor Les he believe that his past valuable and disinterested services in the cause of freedom have been or will be forgotten by the people. Mr. Whistler contends that not only has the Ambassador deserved well of the people at home, but that he is held in the highest esteem by Ame ricans in St. Petersburgb, and by all familiar with his diplomatic career there, and wo feel strongly inclined to throw in our testimony with that of Mr. Whistler, and to protest against the ungrateful way in which some persons seem inclined to treat an absent diplomatic servant whose value was long since proved. Indeed, the remark of the Republican was intended to show his Excellency had cause to complain of the attempt to pitchfork another into his place. But while acknowledging his brave and honest service, it considers fighting, not diplomacy, to be his element. Among recent important appointments are Na thaniel P. Langford, of Montana, to be Governor of that territory, and William W. Dixon to be associate justice; John A. Gadsden to be secretary of legation in Mexico ; William D . :Wisner to be collector of customs at New Orleans, in place of Perry Fuller, whose name is with drawn; John L. Deer to be naval officer at New York; and Robert C. Buchanan and A. C. Gillem to be Briga dier-Generals in the place of General Rousseau, deceased, and General Hooker, retired. The Court of the District of Columbia declines to replace Lawyer Bradley upon its list of practising attorneys, and is waiting to see whether Chief Justice Chase will issue an order compelling the court to do so. Commissioner Rollins has prepared an amend ment to the.tax law, exempting newspapers from the tax now imposed upon them as manufacturers. Honolulu had a torch-light procession over the election of Grant and Colfax with fireworks and speeches. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER on DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers, Depot 266, high Uolborn FIRST WARWICKSHIRE (BIRMINGHAM RIFLES. The annual meeting of the members of this bat talion has just been held at Bingley Hall, Birming ham. There was a very, large attendance. Colonel RATCLIFF, in proposing the adoption of the accounts submitted, congratulated the men• bers upon arriving at the ninth anniversary, and heartily complimented the Ist Warwickshire on the manner in which they bad performed their duties during the whole of the year. It was gratifying to tell them at Wimbledon they had won thirteen prizes during the year, which proved that the Ist Warwickshire, when in.ccrmpetition with other battalions, were able to carry off some of the honours ; if not the number they desired, still they could not on the whole feel disappointed. (Hear, hear.) Since the commencement of the competi tion in 1860, up to last year, 1868, the battalion had carried off in open competition at Wimbledon 75 prizes. With respect to the review at Windsor, be was sure they would all be delighted to know that, whether as regarded the conduct of their battalion or whether as regarded the conduct of their bat talion and its movements, their soldier-like bearing and the manner in which they had generally con ducted themselves, the men had been spoken of in the highest terms. The attendance at b 11 ( 3 rifle ranges at Bournbrook had been better, than during any previous year. It was gra tifying to refer to the manner in which th marksmen and extra-efficients also came nil and it was also ple asan t t o h ear t h e words o f praise: t which had fallen from Col. Sir Edward Campbelli on the occasion of the annual inspection. O s , high approval had been endorsed by Lord Leigh- The roll of the battalion showed that it had gone on increasing yearly, and at the present time they were 1,119 strong. On their roll they had 900 efa" cieuts, 138 extra efficients, and 81 who had not made themselves. A short time ago a deputation' s of commanding officers, headed by Lord waited upon the Secretary of War, Mr. Cardwell, in order to obtain an increase of the capita- tion grant. That had been refused, and there fore they would not be able to obtain any further assistance. It was a matter to be regretted, but they must now exercise the most rigid economy Everybody was impressed with the desirability of training the whole nation to the use of arms, not for the purpose of aggression, but for the defence of the happy homes and hearths of Old England ; but the Government had had placed befor e them, from some source or other, matters which had induced them to consider that the capitation grant already allowed was sufficient to meet the existing expenses of the various bat talions. From this source, then, there was little or no hope of increase of the funds. It had also bell, pressed upon th e G overnment to a l tar the arr as 0 1 the volunteers. The defective state of the rifles had been pointed out, and the Government woul d not take the slightest notice. At one time there was a hope that the breech-loader would be given t o 0e volunteers, bat now that idea was abandoned, an d they would have to do their best with the rifles th e y already possessed. That was a ma tt er th a t they a ll very much regretted, b ecause th e b reec h-l oa der Wa o the weapon of the day; and if they were called upon for active service they might have a weapon Pia_ c e ,, in their hands whi c h th ey wou ld no t be 7 . well acquainted as they w o u ld b e w ith th e Eufiel, The nations, however, were at peace—they wer e 1 . 11 a peaceful condition the mse l ves ; still it was th eir duty to make themselves efficient as citizen soldier* ready at any moment to perform their duty to their Queen and country. (Hear, bear.) In conclusiou, he urged them to be as attentive to their dutie s ,. during the pr e sent y ear as th ey b a d b een the past, and then they cou ld congra t u l ate themselves on the fact that the Ist W arw i c k s hi re was one ° f the best battalions in the country. (Appl a use.) The accounts were then adopted unanimousiP, Captain MOLE moved a vo t e o f th an k s to tuv worthy and gallant Colonel, which was carried by acclamation. Colonel RATCLIFF, in ackno w l e d g i ng it, said if a the members of the corps did t h e i r duty he was s al. , that the officers und er hi s command would do t heir'' and make the battalion one of the first in the kleg dom at the end of 1869, (Cheers.) Foreitga Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &uetrall& and New Z ealand, via Southampton ..... Fe- 27. ,z Ditto, via I.v Amines ............ ........ ..... . Feb' .^". Ditto, via PI-, ntr.a Brazil. B mar• "uenos Ayres, and M on t e Vid eo '22. Ditto, by French packet Fes. DT. 7 :ape Verde, by Brazil pao. , zet • • ••• ... •D . (Jape of Good 1.1,pe, A aeena i on , an d St . Helena. • Feb'" ix China, Penany„ and Singapore, via Southampton. • Fc b ' 6 Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb , . g India, via S ou tb amntou V itt°, via Marseiles Feb.' Malta, a, Egypt , & o. . •••• FEU 6 Ditto, Marseilles ru b.. NlaLritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via Scuthaml ton Feb. 15. Ditto, Ararseilies ~ Fib 10, Newfoundland...... .... ....... ..•.... Portugal .... United States, i anada, California, &c., by British packet .. •••• "Feb 6 Ditto, by Canadian packet .. . Ditto, by 1. iited States packet F e b 3 Ditto dittc (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Fe b ' West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- ~ 1:1 Fe. mas) mar • • .. Falkland Islands • 1. Cuba and ilexico ...... mar. .. 0. ..- Bermuda, via Halifax • • y .. . e. ' 1 Feb Bahamas, via New York . Vfr LADVERTISEMENT.I Twofold Extraordinary en?: fected by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—Mr. Jjrolool boot and shoemaker, Chapel-street, Cahirciveen, too writes, under date, January 10, 1863, that he badastb afflicted for seventeen years with a most dreadf ul s ak e matic cough and shortness of breath, and latterly'l ` pith subject to benumbed sensations in the limbs, attend ( ' e • fit• le ° . heavy drowsy feelings, which threatened an ape') °l fessioo. a In alarm he consulted the most skilful of the 10,rll an d within many miles of his residence without avl' r 'io fruitlessly used every means recoti,mended by 5 0 ' till he heard of the repute of Holloway's roil:tee" ' t oe; resolved, with death staring him in the face, to giv e cn rea a trial. 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From the " Gazette du Midi, July 0,11,0 e, No. 53,216, of the Marchioness, de Brehan, of seven YeY' a rs'ea complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with .._00; ard palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeples:7i ; Lo i ;; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. fly YO,is Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of to o r: fT)f, dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable egy„ tt lice li c a dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , C u re _ r s' spasms, sickness, and vomiti ng .—M ar i a . JolY: , Yel i cl 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, o f F r i m l ey, S ur rey, O' pot, ' - ; 31 diseased lungs, spitting o f bl oo d , li ver derangeT o se e ou t partial deafness. Importa n t C au ti on .—B ew are of t w ish e a unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to wh i , ell 'attS c llo, authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audacious l y • 1 1 40' In tins, at Is. nd.• lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 45. 6d.; 5 lbs, 1 1 A " C0;.14 22e.; 24 lbs., 40s.—Afso Du BARRY'S REYALENTA ARA B' S 26., C l f° p o LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups s; or b76 t i o 9 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at tis., for 288 cups at 305., 550 Aw e at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30$. a, n p o st °To are sent free of carriage in En land on receipt of t - ree t, (Pram —BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. , e''' FARR—On the 6th inst., at 20, West-e uare, S. G e er roa, the wife of Dr. Farr, of a son. q , , 'sti le " HASTINGS-PARKER —On the sth inst.,, at 14, OlieSue• tiag9" Balgmve-square, the wife of Commander G. F. 1166 , Parker, ~ of a so.T• XO STIRPFTI.D 7 R.N n On the 3d inst., at Oundle, the wife of Shepherd, of a son. Marriages. E 1p 3g BADDELEY—BARNES—On the 4th inst., at : „-I Foro -mte: Greenwich, Jonn Baddeley, Esq., of Hurstville,or. JO. hill, to Eliza Webb, eldest daughter o f the la te li Barnes. JESSON—DE CAEN—On the 4th inst., at Maryleboaebth ° elf church, Thomas Jesson, Esq., Royal Artillery t` Marguerite, eldest daughter of John De Cae ll ' Waverly Villa, Jersey. Daths. GuIFFITHs—On the Gth ins e t., at 3, Camden - r o sv_,,, _„,hi J.'nget well, Robert E. Griffith, Esq., of the S tock aged D 49.Step p NEALE—On the Ist inst , at Sutton Venn 11711t6 Neale, Esq., aged 69. • T ./ PI ROSE —On the sth inst , in London, Arthur lie n— 0"e"' youngest surviving • son of the late Right Bon' 6if Henry Rose. - WEST On the sth inst., Mr. James West, of 3 3, " park-road, aged 51. London : Printed and Pu.blished by NTUALI A , 3 !.r„ 14 0 of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at L ' ie) StTs u•'"'iposti Strand, in the Precinct of the s avoy, in i ll° Aliddleatix,7249n,day, February 8, 1869. 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