The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-30 00:00:00

sriurrOF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times discusses Napoleon's speech, and observes that the time has not yet come in which the task of drawing up the Imperial Speech may devolve on the Sovereign's advisers. Had even the Emperor really meant to resign his functions as his own Prime Minister, he deemed it due to his dignity to make the announcement of the intended change in his former capacity . . At the very moment of putting an end to Imperialism he was more than ever anxious to appear every inch an Emperor. He made no direct allusion to the subject which is uppermost in the mind of some members of the Opposition the delay in the convocation of the Legislature. But he dwelt on the excesses committed by public journals and at public meetings as a justification of the measures he had taken to protect society and gua rantee liberty. He shewed the advantages reaped by a policy of forbearance in the reaction already setting in against culpable exaggeration. 'By delaying liberty, he seemed to say, he had disarmed revolution. That being achieved, there was now no occasion for further procrastination. It was at last his wish to establish the regular and peaceful exercise of liberty; but what a hard task that was ! What Franca wished was freedom united with order. The Emperor him self would be responsible for order ; but to save liberty he needed the help of the national representatives. It was not, in our opinion, by any means necessary that the Emperor's concessions should forestall his subject's demands. It is quite enough that, whether spontaneously or on compul sion, he should be ready to make them. For one who feels confident that "he can answer for order," andwho has shewn that this is no idle boast, it may be allowed that he surrenders with a wonderfully good grace. There are other interests in France besides those of the reigning dynasty which depend for their very existence on the preservation of public order. When the Emperor said, "For order I will answer," loud cheers, we are told, resounded from all parts of the hall. In the fear of revolution haunting a large class of the population is the citadel of the Emperor's strength. He hardly knows yet to what extent he is acquitted of that task of saving society which he from the beginning imposed upon himself. That he seems to us to say plainly, is his especial business ; but he is no less willing to come to terms with those who think that mission compatible with the exigencies of modern progress and freedom. --- • The Standard thinks that Giulia Grisi's death will be mourned in the world privileged to concern itself with the glories of the opera, none the less because the time has gone by at which it would have been felt as an unexpected blow at Covent-garden or Her Majesty's. Many years have passed since the great prima donna was a real presence on the stage, and her mantle, not altogether, perhaps, but to a very great extent, has fallen on other shoulders since then. The generation which enjoyed her genius in its prime has almost passed away; though hundreds of veteran opera lovers, who hear of her death to-day may find their recollections of her still as fresh as if she had been singing last year. We may feel a touch of sadness, however, at many events which inflict no positive loss, and the close of Grisi's life is one of these. Hardly any reward comes so promptly, when it means to come at all, as that which is given to a great singer. The greatest poet, the greatest novelist, the greatest painter, must work through years of toil before they earn their renown ; but Grisi, by divine right of her gifts, stepped forth to the footlights a young girl of twenty, and was crowned Queen of Song then and there, and the world did homage to 1 ear. And up to the last how grandly she played the grandest operatic parts, filling for nearly thirty years the foremost place on the lyric stage—that wonderful result of civilisation, where the sweetest of all arts, inter preted by the most prized of all personal gifts, is wedded to the pleasure which has been ranked amongst the greatest since the days of ancient Greece. Her physical powers declined towards the last, but to the end the genius which inspired her acting was unimpaired. No artist ever before was all to the world that she was, and it is hardly possible to imagine that anyone else will ever be quite the same again. The Post says it would be difficult to overrate the importance of the step taken by Lord Ducie, as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, in inviting the trustees of the Endowed Grammar Schools of the county to a con ference upon the Endowed Schools Act. Not before it was wanted, that Act was passed. Many endowed schools that once fulfilled the intentions of their founders have long ceased to do so. The Commissioners can only have one desire—namely, to supply the great want of middle class education which confessedly exists, and there can be no surer guarantee for their doing this efficiently than a previous thorough discussion amongst the local trustees of the extent to which the funds at their disposal may be better utilised for educational purposes than at present. Nor should the trustees be blind to the advan tage of taking some part in the reorganisation of their trusts, and of the plan on which their funds are to be ad ministered for the future. Mr. Dickinson put it to the conference whether the trustees should leave it to the Commissioners to :operate upon each separate school, or whether they should endeavour to mould their schools so as to keep them under their own government, and yet pro vide a sound education for the middle classes by going to the commissioners with a scheme acceptable to all the schools. There cannot be a moment's hesitation in decid ing in favour of the latter course. It does not follow that when they have devised their scheme the commissioners will accept it ; but there can be no question that they will be more or less influenced by the recommendations of men who have hitherto administered the endowments, who thoroughly understand the wants of their country, and from whom a thorough candour in stating them may be expected. The Telegraph comments upon the cattle shows which summon agriculturalists in turn to Birmingham, Leeds, York, and London, and hopes that the councils and meet ings of the agriculturalists, which discuss rural topics at this time of year within sound of the lowing of their fat kine, will bear in mind the expediency of reinvigorating these shows. Like Sertorius in Spain, "we have come too far "—we have got too much out of the bovine capacity for fattening ; we ought to make these shows now and henceforward assist us in discovering how meat instead of tallow can be made, and with what least expensive nutriments. Why should not prizes be given for the pig which has cost least to fatten, for cottagers' pigs, and for the poor man's soli tary steer and scanty flock of sheep, which tell up so much in computing the resources of the country? For, in truth, this meat question must be always a matter of vital con- 1 cern to the population; and if he who causes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, assuredly the same acknowledgment is due to the man who makes a bullock yield half as much again as its ordinary weight. The foreign meat-fields are already coming to the assistance of the population, as the foreign corn-fields have done. There will be cheap meat, as there has been cheap bread ; and this point ought also to engage the attention of the agricultural councils, for these knightly "sirloins " and lordly " barons" which are now produced are truly " magnificent, but they are not war "—they are luxurious beef and mutton ; but they don't count practi cally in the struggle for life. It will be necessary that farmers and graziers should manufacture meat cheaper than ever, since good sound beef will assuredly be brought in quantities from the Pampas; while beef and mutton will soon come by ship-loads from the Australian scrubs. The thing is an affair of practice and demand only; for it is idle to suppose that so simple a question as the preserva tion of the flesh is beyond the resources of science. While the farmers survey the mighty chines and well clad short ribs of their favourities, let them not forget, for their own sake, or ours, that they must soon prepare to compete with " the cattle on a thousand hills." parties of men, tanned the county O'Dcncvm R ~„.. •---, -• ...A they were already pledged, were warned that if they gave their vote for the opposing candidate they would be marked men. Placards, reiterating these threats, were also posted extensively. In one it was set forth that the man who betrayed his country at the poll would not be forgotten by the people ; while another stated that the elector who voted for O'Donovan Rossa gave his voice for the freedom of political prisoners, and that all who voted against the popular voice would be re gard;id as the enemies of the people. These placards and CAL: verbal warnings given could, of course, have no other effect than to deter numbers of Mr. Heron's supporters from coming to the poll. - Both candidates together polled only a little more than a fifth of the cojatitlcAcy, • - The Daily _Yews remarks that the Dublin Freeman has an explanation of the election . of O'Donovon Rossa, which has at least the advantage of being Irish. It is that the voters for Tipperary had read or heard of the leading articles published in the Mmes and other Londo n journals, g to the effect that Parliament would not and should not grant their demands, and that Ireland should be put off with miserable expedients; and that, not being given to newspaper controversy, they adopted this singular and striking means of replying to them. Rut the impression we had gathered from the reports from Clonmel was that Rossa's election had far more to do with the refusal to release the Fenian prisoners than with any schemes of land policy whatever. The correspondents of the Cork and Dublin journals sufficiently explain the election of Rossa, without the supposition that all Tipperary sympathised with the Fenians. His election was gained by intipaida tion, practised for four days before the election, to prevent votcn from exercising the franchise, so that the result rni;!:1:t be in the hands of the minority. During that time according to the Cork Examiaer, y, canv. assn o -, en behalf of 11 acetor3 who declined to r.E FINDING OF THE BODY OF JEAA KINCK. The Times publishes a letter, signed by G. Hermannn Brath, describing the finding of the body of Jean Kinck. The date of the communication is November 26, and the writer says :—" Yesterday M. Gourras, private agent of the Service of Public Security and Police, who the day before returned again from Paris, where he received his last instructions from M. Claude, according to the revela tion of Trauppmann, made arrangements with a body of travellers to find out the grave on the mountain called Herrenfluch, situated about five miles from the village of llffholts. Trauppmann was sincere when he gave his indications. About 100 feet from the ruins of the old Castle of Herronfluch, and under a very high tree the remains of Kinck, the father, were concealed. By accident a man called Heguette, who was at one time a sous-officier in the army of France, was going here and there knocking down the branches of trees to see if the wood would soon be dry. He saw a tin button lying on the ground, and intended to pick it up; but he found it resisted, and a piece of linen remained in his hand. Looking nearer, part of a human foot pro truded from the sand and stones. There was no doubt a body was buried there, and ho called to the rest of the men and police that he had found the corpse. And it was true. All night a guard kept the place clear, and to-day the Juge d'lnstruction and medical men appointed by the court came to the spot to identify the poor victim. And it is curious to think how Trauppmann could bring Kinck to such a spot ! It took two hours to climb to the rock. Heguette, the man who made the discovery, and so re ceived a sum of .£soof. from the heirs of Kinck,— Heguette, I say, was allowed to continue his work, and with a small pick he carefully put aside the small and large stones thrown on the body. Three months had passed since the day of Kinck's death, and it was no wonder that only his skull was found. Yet the remains were very soon recognised by his friends and relations, as his linen was preserved, and his name was on his shirt and under garments. His pipe and tobacco box were also other proofs. Doctors Bernard and Hauser made the autopsy ; and although Trauppmann said that he killed Kinck by prussic acid, yet it is certain that he stabbed him too in the left side, and gave him a violent blow on the forehead. The night coming on very quickly amid the woods, the remains of the victim were laid in a coffin, and will to morrow be taken to Paris, when Trauppmann will be brought before the Court of Assize to answer for his crime.— vernay, Nov. 26, 5 p.m." ST. PANCRAS INFIRMARY. THE ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUESTS• The four adjourned inquests on the bodies of Mary Brown, James Plant, Mary Smith, and John Fox, who had died in St. Pancras Workhouse Infirmary, were resumed on Monday afternoon before Dr. Lankester and the jury who have already in three other cases, namely, those of Julia Condor, Jane Harrison, and Jane Hayes, returned their verdicts that death was accelerated by the foul atmosphere of the ward in which they died. Dr. James Ellis, surgeon of St. Pancras Infirmary, said : Deceased (Brown) was found dead in her bed in No. 16 ward of the infirmary, in which she was placed on the morning of the 6th November. She had ulceration. Patients in that ward suffered most from want of sufficient air. I made a post-mortem examination and found the brain very much congested, and the ventricles filled with dark blood. The lungs were also congested. I think these symptoms were brought on by the state of the ward. Had no doubt that the atmosphere of the ward accelerated death. Jane Masher, day nurse of the ward sworn: I never had orders to close the ventilators on the sth or 6th of Novem ber, but on the night of the Ist of November, Dr. Ellis came in and said he would not have the ventilators open on November nights. On the night of the sth there were seven patients lying in the ward. Mr. Robertson, a guardian, came into the ward and told me to open the ventilators. I did so, and have opened and shut ventilators by order of individual guardians without consulting Dr. Ellis. I supposed that guardians had the power to dismiss me unless I obey their orders. There had been no inter ference with the ventilators till that month. Mr. Joseph Smith, a guardian and member of the visiting committee, deposed to being present at a meeting of the visiting committee, when it was resolved to take no action on a report made by Dr. Ellis, because Dr. Edmunds was not present. Mr. Robertson and Mr. Busby were present, but he opposed it. He had understood until lately that the number of patients in the infirmary was limited to 144. The greatest number he understood that had ever been there was 168. In reply to the Coroner, Dr. Ellis said that there were at present 190 inmates.---Dr. Edmunds, a guardian, on being examined on this point, entered into a defence of the board, and said that the Poor-law Board had certified that 212 patients should be admitted into the infirmary. As to overcrowding there were many patients who had no business in the infirmary. He had just left a ward where a number of men were smoking and playing at backgammon. He said he and his brother guardians had been shamefully libelled by these proceedings. The Coroner protested against this language- being used in this court. Dr. Edmunds and the guardians had had the greatest indulgence. Having briefly addressed the jury, the evidence in the three other cases was then taken, so that the verdicts in each case, which were of the same character, might be at once given. The two cases of Mary Smith and John Fox were ordi nary cases. The jury returned the following special verdict :—' Eni that the deaths of James Plant and Mary Brown were accelerated by the unsanitary condition of the wards of St. Pancras Workhouse, in which they died. The jury further wish to express their undiminished conviction that the deaths of the said deceased were traceable to the neglect of the Poor-law Board and the board of guardians to provide proper sanitary arrangements for the inmates of the wards of St. Pancras Infirmary." ." We LAW AND POLICE. Ax Ancnmer's COMPENS.ITION.—In the Court of Queen's Bench an architect named Peachey has brought an action for compensation for alleged breach of contract. The Rev. Mr. Girdlestone, formerly vicar at New church, in the Isle of Wight, was a member of a committee for erecting a parish church at Ryde. The plaintiff's attention was attracted by an advertisement offering a premium of £lOO for an archi tect's design for a church with 1,100 sittings, to be built at a cost not exceeding £B,OOO. The plaintiff competed, and his design was selected, but not carried out. The defence was that the builder chosen by the plaintiff declined to execute the works for less than £ll,OOO. After a great deal of evidence, the jury returned a verdict fox the defendants. A NATURALIST'S STORES.—A naturalist, and dealer in curiosities ranging " from a hippopotamus to a tame cat," brought an action in the Bail Court for com pensation against his landlord, who had opened a drain in his house, whereby a pestilential vapour had filled his premises and damaged his wares. He claimed among other items £BO for preserved bird skins, £lOO for paper lacquer goods, and £l2 for 200 paper Japan umbrellas. Verdict for defendant. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE.—A cashier in the Charing-cross branch of the Union Bank at Charing-cross, brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas against tho keeper of the Railway Tavern, near Putney station, for injuries inflicted on the day of the great boat race. The plaintiff was crossing the footpath, and the defendant, who was riding, knocked him down. Verdict for plaintiff. Damages £lO. THE CAMBRIDGE. ELECTION.—An action was brought in the Court of Exchequer arising out of the Cambridge election. The defendant was atradcsman at Cambridge, and the plaintiff had been in his employ for twenty-five years. At the last election they voted on opposite sides, and socn afterwards plaintiff received notice to leave, the defendant giving him to understand that the step was taken in con sequence of political disputes. The learned Judge held that the action could not be sustained, as there had been no threat previously to the election. BREACH OF PROMISE.—Miss Margaret Johnstone, for merly matron blWandsworth Union, Sued Mr. Wright, a cement merchant of Old Ford, for breach of promise. The plaintiff had resigned her situation, which was worth £4O a year, besides board and lodging, on the faith of his promise, No reason for the non-fulfilment was given by the defendant, and a verdict for the plaintiff, with £3OO damages, was given by agreement, without costs. ALLEGED INcEximenis3l.—George Brown, a labourer, was brought before the magistrates at Doncaster charged with incendiarism. An extensive fire broke out on the farm of Mr. Bainbridge, of Tickhill Spittal, on the night of the 4th inst., by which twelve stacks and other property, valued at D,200, were totally destroyed. Suspicion attached to the psisoner, who was seen crouching near the burning stacks. He was remanded for further inquiry. SEIZERE OF ILLICIT §FIRITS.—At the Bolton Police court, Mary Ann Dawson wes summoned for having thirteen pints, and George and Alice Boardman for having nine pints, of illicit whiskey in their possession. Tho magistrate imposed the mitigated penalty of £25, which ho reduced to £4 in the first case, and to £0 in the second- Reverdy Johnson has been celebrating his golden wedding day in Baltimore. Mr. Johnson's age is 74, and his wife's 67. They have 12 children Mule, 48 grand children, ailcl 4 gmt-gtiasisdaildrs-Ae - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1860 FOREIGN NOTES. EXPVLSION OF GOVERNOR M‘DOTTGALI, Great indignation has been excited by the news %tat Governor I,l9Dougall and party had been expelled from the Red River country, A despatch received at Toronto says that Mr. M'Dongall had advanced two miles beyond the frontier, and stopped at the Hudson Bay Company's port, sending Mr. Provencher forward to parley with the insur gents, who were five hundred strong. Mr. Provencher was made prisoner, and Mr. M`Dougall beleagured in the fort. He was subsequently escorted across the line, and encamped near Pembina, in Dacotah territory. Additional letters have been received from Pembina, which afford further particulars of the Red River rebellion, Governor M‘Doug,all remained one night in the second Hudson Bay stockade, and was then desired by the rebels to leave British territory, which he declined to do. The rebels marched into the stockade, and the Governor and his party marched out in haste, and took refuge in the Uni`ed States territory. Tho rebels are very determined, and the inaccessibility of the country and the near approach of winter render doubtful the success of military operations. The rebellion is a temporary triumph, and further development is expected. The cause of the uprising is opposition to being annexed to the Canadian Confederation under the New Dominion, and a determina tion on the part of the people of the British Red River settlement that they shall be allowed to remain indef. endent of the British colony and subject only to the Government of England. The insurgents have established a provisional and demand a territorial government after the American fashion, with a Legislature chosen by the people, and a fluid for internal improvements. MISCELLANEOUS IVETVS. THE MARCH OF EVENTS IN FRANCE. The opening of the French Parliament, which took place yesterday, was preceded by a meeting of the Moderate Liberals, at which no fewer than 165 members of the Legislative Body attended. This is the largest meeting of independent deputies ever held under the Empire, and 165 is considerably more than half the whole House. This great party has resolved to bring the Government to bay; by questioning it on the illegal postponement of the opening of Parliament. crpnne ae mat extravagance will be difficult, The enllaira has eortainls a gpnd airrilbefnmit, TEE LATE BISHOP OF CARLISLE. The form of the memorial to the late Bishop of Carlisle has been determined at Penrith. The pro posals before the meeting were (1) the restoration of the cathedral; (2) the building a wing to the county infirmary ; (3) a memorial window in the cathedral; (4) the erection of a monument. The last mentioned proposal was adopted. In the diocese itself doubtless much will be done—and in no party spirit—to make the monument a worthy one. But if the Low Church party has any of its old esprit de corps left, the movement will become more than a local one. The late Bishop Waldegrave was a man after the very heart of the section of the Church to which he belonged. The members of it will hardly forget to honour his name. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. The agitation about St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and-the discussion on the right of the public to inves tigate the affairs of endowed institutions, re call some remarks of Mr. Gladstone on the very institution which has so lately been brought into prominence. Mr. Gladstone in May 18(33 made a stirring speech in favour of the taxation of charities. In referring to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he laid down some principles, which have a far wider appli cation:— One of the great evils of the present system is that while you bestow public money on these establishments you dispense with all public control over them, and thus annul all effective motives for economy. Endowed institutions laugh at public opinion. The press knows nothing of their expenditure ; Parliament knows nothing of it. It is too much to say that hospitals are managed by angels and archangels, and do not like the rest of humanity, stand in need of supervision, criticism, and rebuke. Therefore, even in the case of St. Bartholomew's, I object to an exception which, by its very nature, at once removes the principal motive for economical management. When the managers tell me that the exaction of £B2O will compel them to dismiss 500 patients, I am entitled to ask —why, then, do you spend £220 in a feast? What right have you in an hour to eat up 150 beds? CUBA. News has been received in New York by well-known Cubans that the insurgents have recently burned four large sugar estates near Matanzas, one of them the Austra lian plantation, the property of the brothers Mara, but confiscated by the Spaniards. From Habana it is reported that the Rosarita and Flora plantations near Cienfuegos have been burned. A battalion of mobilised volunteers has gone to Cineo Villas. THE ALTSTRLLN CLERGY. There appear to be increasing divisions among the Austrian clergy on the subject of the Roman Council. Alois Auton, a priest in the diocese of Linz, has addressed a letter to his bishop stating that he cannot conscientiously fulfil his spiritual functions at a time when the clergy seem bent on bringing the Church into conflict with the spirit of the age. He, therefore, lays down his office. Bishop Rficligier, in reply, expresses his esteem for Father Anton, but he has not succeeded in shaking his resolution. Other attempts to dissuade him from his purpose have been made, with no better success. Father Auton has volun tarily laid down his office and emoluments, and has betaken himself to the profession of a journalist. The Bavarian journals state that in an inter view between the Archbishop of Prague and the celebrated Catholic theologian Dollinger, the Archbishop declared himself a decided opponent of the doctrine of Papal infallibility, adding that he should resign if it were adopted by the Council. The Vienna journals, in quoting this story, assert that all the Austrian prelates hold simi lar views, and will act in the same way should the Council proclaim the dogma of Papal infallability. According to the Augsburg Gazette, the Bishops now on their way to Rome are already divided into two hostile camps, the prelates from Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia being strongly opposed to the dogma, while the Ultramon tane party of France and Italy, some few Germans, and all the Jesuits, are openly in favour of the new article of belief. This journal gives currency to the report that the resolutions submitted to the Council will be carried by acclamation. AFFAIRS IN DALMATIA. The North-East Correspondence publishes despatches from Trieste and Vienna on the 27th, which state that General Auersperg has made it known at Vienna that it will be scarcely possible to subdue the Dalmatian insurgents, who are entrenched in the mountains of Krivoscie, without a military occupation of the Montenegrin territory on the north of those mountains. No decision can be made on this point until the return of the Emperor. It is stated in the telegram from Vienna that the Russian Government have declared that they will not oppose the partial occupation of the Montenegrin territory by Austro-Hungarian troops, so long as that occupation is restricted to the repression of the outbreak. The Gazette of Vienna publishes on the 27th a telegram from Cattaro confirming the news that the prosecution of the campaign had been abandoned, on account of the inclemency of the weather, but that the two positions which command Risano were still occupied. Fort Dragali has been provisioned for ninety days. EAUTHQVAKES fl GERMANY. Earthquakes aro still being felt in several parts of the Continent. A correspondent of the Mainzer Zeitung, writing from Gross Gerau on the 23rd, states that the earth appeared to he in a continual state of intestine commotion, and that occasional heaving; of great violence were felt. A letter from Darmstadt of the same date, says that shocks had been felt through the whole of Adenwald. and great anxiety prevailed. At Riedesheim and Wiesbaden repeated shocks had also been felt. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN SWEDEN. Sweden is still, morally, a century behind its time ; it has not yet learnt the futility of religious intolerance. It is hard to believe, yet official documents attest the fact, that a poor agricultural Baptist has had four kettles, a cart, a sledge, and a clock taken away from him because he had spoken heretically. The simple farmer said openly that he did not believe in infant baptism. He was thereupon taken before the magistrates and fined $75. He did not pay the money. Distress was levied on him, and he finds himself minus some domestic utensils, and without the means of satisfactorily carrying on his labour. The abstraction of the cart and sledge is a cruel persecution, and we believe illegal; for the law of Sweden agrees with that of England in forbidding implements of industry, by which .a. debtor earns his bread, being taken on behalf of a creditor.. ANOTHER KEROSENE CALAMITY. During the performances at the Gaiety Theatre, Mil waukie, a kerosene lamp exploded, setting fire to the building. The flames spread to the audience-room, and before those in the building had time to escape, the premises were enveloped in fire. A number of persons were saved by jumping from the second-storey windows. Several lives were lost, and fifteen or twenty persons were badly burned. It is thought that the bodies of others are still in the rubbish. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Letuplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst sickness, akin, or billiary affections. Pleasant, palatable headaches,and i. i gorating. Sold by all Chemists. —[Advl.] RAILWAY NEWS.—It is estimated that by the end of the year 1869 there will be laid in the United States, in round numbers, 110,000 tons of steel rails, equal to 1,100 miles of steel road; and of this amount about 36,000 tons (equal to 360 miles) will be laid during the pre sent season. Thesa rails are in use on more than fifty different roads, and are partly of American, principally of English, and to a small extent of Prussian manufacture. — The earnings of the Western Pacific Railroad for October were $105,000 in coin, and the Central Pacific, $622,000, coin. The coal found in the Monte Diablo range has been tested in the locomotives of the Western Pacific Road, and found to work well. The special Pullman hotel train to San Francisco now leaves Omaha every Thursday morn ing, and San Franciso, on returning, every Wednesday morning, and by its aid passengers go through now with great ease and comfort, in six days between San Francisco and New York. Leaving San Francisco Wednesday morning they arrive at New York early the following Tuesday morning, or Boston on Tuesday noon. Going west, in order to make the connection, passengers must leave Boston on Monday afternoon or New York and Springfield on Monday evening. Sacramento Union does not concur in the estimate which places the first year's earn ings of the Union Pacific Railroad at $8,000,000. " The road," it says, " will be blocked by snow during parts of January, February, March, and April. The Secretary of the Central Railroad (from San Francisco to Promon tory Point) reports the gross earnings of that road, for the six months ending September 30th, at $3,300,000 in gold, or $4,400,000 in currency. This half of the year includes April, which, the Union remarks, "is probably the month that offers greatest obstructions to trans portations over the Sierra Nevada. The first half of May might also be included as not much more profit able than April. Land slides and snow slides are frequent during these ail weeks. In March, February, and January, there are unusually heavy snows, and last winter was no exception to the rule." Making the neces sary deductions for interruptions on the two roads during these four and a half months, the Union thinks the an nual gross earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad will be 85,940,000 in gold, or $7,920,000 in currency, and those of the Union Pacific Railroad $5,000,000 in gold, or $6,660,000 in currency, making the total gross re ceipts of the entire lino for the year ending June Ist, 1870, $14,580,000 in currency. BREAKFAST.— Errs's COCOA.— GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The ve . ry agreeable character of this prepara tion has rendered it• a general favourite. The (Nail Serrice Gazelle remarks : —" The singular success which Slr.Epps attained by his homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap plication of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled JAMES Errs and Co.,llomceoiAthio Chemists, London. ILLNESS OF PRINCE LEOPOLD. His Royal Highness the young Prince Leopold is, we regret to announce, again ill. He seems to suffer from perpetually recurring weakness, and is ailing more or less continually. On Friday, when the Queen and suite removed from Windsor Castle to Claremont, it was not thought advisable for the Prince to accompany her Majesty. Several doctors are in attendance upon him. TEE FENIAN M.P. The High Sheriff of Tipperary has declared O'Donovan Rossa to be elected to represent the county in Parliament. The question of his eligibility must therefore be dealt with by a higher authority. It becomes more and more clear that the contest was in every sense of the word an unreal one. Up to the day of the nomination Mr. Heron and his friends had regarded Rossa's candidature as a species of hoax, and had made no serious preparations for a contest. No local agents were appointed, nor any organisation arranged for bringing up voters to the poll. It was only when Rossa had been actually nominated and formally accepted that the reality of the Fenian design became apparent. Meanwhile the Fenians were hard at work, and had got an excellent start of their competitors. That intimidation was largely practised the Nenagh polling . sufficiently shewed. There, nearly every vote was given for Mr. Heron. The reason is not difficult to discover. There were 300 police, a squadron of hussars, and two com panies of foot in the town. An evening contemporary understands that a new election will not be necessary ; that notice was given before the election that O'Donovan Rossa was ineligible; and that a petition will be laid and. Mr. Heron declared seated. ANOtitER CANDIDATE FOR SOUTHWARK. Whilst the Southwark working men are battling about the respective merits of Mr. Odger and Mr. Bradlaugh, Mr. Robert Coningsby has crossed the rubicon and issued his address. He is a well-known representative of artisan interests. He has been a journeyman engineer, and is the author of a work upon the Habits and Condition of the French Working Classes. Mr. Coningsby was deputed by the Society . of Arts to visit America and report upon the state of the artisan class in that country. He does not appeal for support to the working classes of Southwark, but to the entire body of the electors, because he believes it i s really desirable to abolish and not to perpetuate cas t e . At the same time, he says, it is universally admitted that men who are intimate with the wants and wishes of working men should occupy seats in the House of Commons. Mr. Layard has issued a valedictory address. It is stated by the Echo that Mr. Bradlaugh has retired in favour of Mr. Odger. THE WEST STAFFORDSHIRE CONSERVATIVES. The Conservatives of Eccleshall and district have Just held a demonstration, at which Mr. Meynell- Ingram, M.P., and other gentlemen were present. aue memoer lor %v est btanordsnire made a speech, in which he noted that there was a whisper that the Government had already prepared ah Irish Land Bill which would give satisfaction to neither party. If that were true it would go to shew that the measure to be submitted next year must be fair and impartial, which would not satisfy extreme demands, but be really beneficial to Ireland. Mr. Meynell-Ingram is strongly opposed both to fixity of tenure and compulsory leases, as each is more or less a measure of confiscation. He thinks it will be a mistake to separate education from religion. 'WOMEN AS TOWN-COUNCILLORS. The enfranchisement of the women as burgesses has not' to their thinking been altogether complete. A Mrs. Thomas, baker and confectioner, of Totnes, has been stopped in her aspirations by the stern barrier which the law of man has placed across her path. She wants to become town councilloress of her town ; obtained a nomination for the place, but the Town Clerk has declined to insert her name, "as (he says) he Act of Parliament is clear on the point that although women can vote, they cannot hold the office of town councillor." There is at least one thing ladies at our local boards might do— they might perhaps shame our councillors into mode ration of language—a consummation devoutly to be wished. EVICTIONS. Lord Lucan imagines he has settled the land ques tion, or at least a great part of it. In answer to the statement that there is no legal protection for the Irish tenant, his lordship affirms that by the Land lord and Tenant Act, better known as Mr. Card well's Act, " every defendant in a civil bill ejectment is entitled to every defence at the hearing of such civil bill which he might have had at law or in equity." Lord Lucan adds that during the thirty years that he has owned and managed an Irish estate the Assistant Barrister's Court has tried 99 out of 100 eviction cases. Lord Lucan seems to overlook the main point at issue. It is not so muc h a ques tion whether a court exists for the trial of eviction cases, as whether the power possessed by that court b e reasonably sufficient. It is a fact that noo suchaward a r i n t a l as has at present the power t compensation for unexhausted im provements • and therefore the ex i s t ence o f the tt ? e As sistant Barrister's Court proves nothing. NARROWING THE ISSUE. According to another letter in the Times from Mr. Buxton, M.P., the conflict of rival schemes for the settlement of the land question has been materially simplified. Mr. Caird's plan, the Ulster custom, not to speak of fixity of tenure and the like, have been disposed of. There remain now in the field only the proposal for tribunals of arbitration, and of preasr.os i Butt's all cases of occupation t , e scheme, assuming the existence ex tending over three years. U,nder the former plan the State gives legal secu r ity o f t enure f or terms of years, but provides machinery for its premature extinction in certain specified cases. Under the tribunal scheme the State does not give legal security; what it does is to provide machinery for re straining improper eviction. The trib un al system looks preferable at first sight, but Mr. Buxton thinks it would not really prove so. The security of tenure would be for a fixed term; the landlord would know exactly what was before him. But he would never know what the Arbitration Court might award. Its o p era tion would be attended with perplexity, uncer tainty,but not least—p u blicity. Land lordsnd such interference intole would find intole rable. Moreover, as the Economist sagaciously remarks, if Tribunals of Arbitration are really to give security of tenure by, so to speak, cancelling evic tions where they think fit, it will be a vital necessity of th e sc h e me that the landlord should also be for bidden to raise the rent - without the consent of those tribunals. Otherwise, the law would be a mere dead letter. All the trouble and expense which must attend this plan would be avoided by the alternative of converting a tenant-at-will into a leaseholder for a term of years. THE BRISTOL STRIKE. A Central Press Telegram informs us that the istrike at the Groat Western Cotton Works, Bristol, is believed to be at an end. Mr. S. Morley, M.P., has acted as mediator, and decided that the one thousand operatives now on strike ought to accept ten per cent. reduction. It is thought that the workmen will abide by this award. If they do not go in, the mill will be closed for three months. ANTI-NEPOTISM. Dr. Wilberforce will be praised evenby his enemies for one feature of the administration of his diocese. His lordship has studiously avoided nepotism. He leaves the diocese of Oxford, after holdinc , the head pastorship for twe n ty-four years, with not° a single relative beneficed in it. The Bishop's son, the Rev. Edward Wilberforce, w as rector of Middleton Sto n y ; but the rev. gentleman becomes his father's domestic chaplain at Winchester, and Oxford is now without a Wilberforce holding place within it. TEE TWELVE DAYS' MISSION. Some of the more advanced Churches have some what unfairly been made the example by which the Twelve Days' Mission has been characterised. It should be remembered that in no other church but St. Alban's, Holborn, did the ceremony with the candles take place, and some of the churches were "Low." It has been said that a Book of Missions was adopted by the whole of the clergy who took part in the revival • and this work contained a form of con fession. Here is another mistake ; for Canon Gregory, the proposer of the Mission, declares that no form of service was issued by his sanction ; he himself did not enjoin confession ; and each clergy man did that which was right in his own eyes. KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD. The new college erected at Oxford as a memorial to the late Mr. Keble is to be opened in October, 1870. The warden-designate has issued an adddress describing the advantages it will offer. Those advantages will not be counterbalanced by the college being a, party one ; it will be that in no sense. Yet, Mr. Talbot says, it will differ in some material respects from the older institutions. Its most prominent feature will be its cheapness. Not, however, that it it is going to outbid all other attempts at the same object. It will simply provide all the advantages of college life, at the - lowest possible cost—the fees will be about L7O per annum ; it will make arrangements so that wow= may bgacqueumaL_And—axiargisa--aiwx 414"' THE TORNADO CASE. The public will be astonished to learn that the Icoreign Office has advanced a little in the Tornado case. The Spanish Government has made an offer. It proposes to award £1,500 to the officers and crew of the vessel, and, considering that the ship's company in March 1867 estimated their losses at £1,093 7s. 2d., the worthy Ministry of Madrid comes to the conclusion that it is acting with singular liberality. Mr. Forbes Campbell thinks differently. In a letter to the Earl of Clarendon he points out that the actual losses of the crew were £1.093 7s. 2d. If this sum be deducted from £1.500. there remains £406 12s. 10d., or £4 33. Gd. for each able-bodied seaman, as compensation for 'six months' imprisonment. Such an offer, says Mr. Forbes Campbell, is a mockery. If the men had not been ill-treated, the Spanish Government would never have made an offer at all. Why not, then, do justice P One hundred pounds per man would not be too much for such injuries. The Spaniards deny that the seamenwere robbed of money or clothes. But Mr. Forbes Campbell says that the testimony of the British Consul at Cadiz, irrespective of the crew's affidavits, is conclusive. ANOTHER BIT OF REAL PROPERTY. The Americans are about to buy another estate. The great West India island, which has at diffe rent times gone under the name of Hayti, San Domingo, and Hispania is now divided between two Republics bearing the two former titles. Rumours have for some time back been floating about to the effect that the United States intended to purchase Samana Bay, which lies within the San Domingo territory, for a naval station. Mr. Hartmont, Consul- General of San Domingo, now makes the important statement that a treaty has been negotiated, and that it has in view, not only the purchase of the Bay, but the annexation of the entire Republic. San Domingo occupies the eastern part of the island, and con tains two towns of about 15,000 inhabitants, If the Americans get one-half the island, the pos sessors of the other half may reasonably quake. PRE—HISTORIC sIIAN,, The " blood-thirsty Italian "-Has his - detractors call him—has, if the professors of human archEe ology may be relied upon, sprung from a very savage stock. Professor Capellini, of - Bologna, has made a discovery in the Island of Palmeria, which proved that the progenitors of the southern nation were man-eaters, cannibals. The Professor has been making researches in the island. A grotto, strewn with stone implements, " which proved that the.period to which the grotto belongs is that of the earliest of the stone age," was found to contain human bones, mingled with the bones of animals. The condition of these human bones, Professor Cappellini says, " would justify the in ference that the. grotto had been inhabited by anthro pophO, and that Italians of that epoch were cannibals, like their contemporaries of Belgium, France, and Denmark." "Among the human bones," he goes on to say, " I found those of women, and part of the jawbone of a child some 7 or 8 years of age. Some of these bones were entire, others were partially calcined. In the centre of the cave it was possible to discern traces of a fire-place. Who ever has busied himself in pre-historic researches, whoever has read Spring's excellent work on the Chauvaux cavern in Belgium, and the writings of other authors on the subject of the caverns in France, will not hesitate to admit that the discoveries in the Island of Palmeria prove that the Italians were, as I have said, man-eaters. For the present, it will bo sufficient for me to direct the attention of naturalists to the subject. The Cyclopeans spoken of in the fable were probably these cannibals." THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, The Gloucestershire endowed school authorities seem to have awakened to the importance of doing something themselves to reform the institutions under their care, before the Legislature steps in to do their work for them. A. meeting of trustees of public schools has been held, attended by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, by Lord Ducie, by some high county magnates, and several schoolmasters. A few of those present seemed to be in favour of perpetuating the present order of things; but the majority did not listen to their reasoning. Resolu tions were passed to the effect that the trustees would themselves take the reform in hand ; and another meeting is to he held for the appointment of a Com mittee to devise schemes. SEWAGE. The British Association at its Norwich meeting appointed a committee to report upon the treatment and utilisation of sewage. This committee made some progress during the year 1868-9, and were re appointed at the Exeter meeting, it being thought desirable to enter more fully and practically into the subject. It is proposed to obtain all the information which is procurable, and to make experiments, analyses, and observations. But though the committee desire to give their per sonal attention to the inquiry, their expenses will be so heavy that the attempt must be abandoned unless a fund be raised. An application is therefore being made to the authorities of all the towns in Great Britain and Ireland for a subsidy according to pupu lation. The sums which will be asked are at the rate of five guineas where the inhabitants do not number more than 10,000 ; between 10,000 and 25,000, £lO 10s. ; between 25,000 and 50,000, £2l ; between 50,000 and 75,000, 30 ; between 75,000 and 100,000, £5O ; above 100,000, £lOO. Surely an inquiry of such importance is worth this assistance. CO SI SIC MINES. The Marylebone guardians deserve a good word amongst parish officials. They administer their funds with a liberality which in no wise trenches upon economy. They are disposed to work in harmony with the Poor Law Board, and the ex - Oicio members of their body aro welcomed, instead of being coldly repelled. Their infirmary has just been regenerated, and every rea sonable accommodation has been made for the poor. Dr. Bridges says it is difficult to speak too highly of the new arrangements. " The proportions, general arrangement, space allotted to each patient, the lava tories, and the whole system of ventilation, are excel lent." The guardians are now taking into considera tion Mr. Goschen's minute—the document which urged the proper combination between Poor-law and private charity and private charity, so that the one may not interfere with the province of the other. The Board has constituted itself into a committee to con sider the recommendaions of this Minute. THE YORKSHIRE STATUTE FAIRS. Yorkshire agricultural life has been disturbed to its depths during the last three weeks. All has been change and unsettlement. This state of things has been caused by the holding of statute fairs through out the county. The last fair of the season was held at Malton on Saturday. In the market place young men and rough girls mingled together, ()tiered them selves as servants to the farmers who chose to take them. The fairs became a nuisance long ago ; they have always been a sou rce o f t h e greatest mischief to all who take part in them ; the demoralisation of the young women is something deplorable ; and still they go on year after year working the same sad evil. Efforts have been made to suppress them, but with out effect. The qu i e t er girls, however , are talcing to the register office s , an d w i t h tho growth, of a healthy opinion amongst the most respectable agricultural servants, they at least may be brought to avoid the public hiring places. It is also proposed to limit the fairs to one week, instead of three, for the boys, and to separate the girls ; the latter to be hired in May. The Wivern, 4 guns, double-turret sloop, 1,900 tons, 350• horse power of engines, is ordered to be completed with all possible speed, at Portsmouth, for active service, and, when ready, to proceed round to Hull for coastguard duties on the liumber, BOL7OIV'S TELEGRAPH C. Of all countries the United States is most inte rested in the improvements of the telegraph. It matters not how cheapness is attained so that it he attained, and cheapness in telegraphy practically reduces itself to time. The post means weight; the ,elegraph time. By post the Government contracts .o carry written or printed papers at a regulated rate of speed at so much per ounce, while the dif ference in the telegraph is that the sender contracts with the owner of the line for its exclusive use dur- ing the period taken to transmit the message. The communicator then requires the monopoly of what may be an enormously costly machine, hence both to him and to its owner time is the very essence of the contract. Anything, therefore, which economises this, cheapens the telegraph and enables the public more freely to use what must otherwise be too expensive for the masses. It is i❑ ocean cables, or in the long lines traversing the North American Continent, that the benefit would be most felt. Whether the ma'erial and the mode of stretching the wire b; improved, whether the instruments or the arrangement of messages, it matters not, so long as this object is achieved. The value is now very great of the lines laid throughout the world, and it cannot be affected favourably by any ha- provement in the material and laying. The brain of the inventor has been busy in perfecting the in- strument, and now Major BOLTON submits to the public a system of working a telegraph code through which as much can be done in au hour, as in three or four by the alphabet at present in use. If BOLTON'S Code can do for telegraphy what is asserted, the question naturally arises, why has it not been adopted? Those interested in existing arrange ments, and who have the greatest power either in opposing or in advancing a change of system are certain in the first instance to be ranged in the van of the opposition. The cables now stretched across the Atlantic do not get work sufficient to oc- cupy them, and the immediate effect of introducing the code would be a material reduction in that. It would be too much to expect the directors of these costly enterprises voluntarily to strip the share holders of profits already limited enough, and this weighs not only with the great ocean cables, but with the proprietors of the land lines, and even with the Government about to take charge of those of the United Kingdom. A reply to the inventor is—" Wait till we get choked with work "—and it is vain to retort that the true way to get work is by adopting such a Code ; for the proprietors are then placed in the position of having to stand the result of an experiment, which none willingly do. In the United States, however, such an objection has less force, the distances being great, the people scat tered over the Continent, and their demand for full and late information imperious. If a small town rising in the waste can be amply supplied with news through one wire by means of BOLTON'S Code, whereas two wires would have failed to do the work without it, then the cost of a second line is saved to that town, and the gain to the United States in the course of a few years, in this way alone, would be enor mous. As telegraphy is more freely used throughout the country than in any other (perhaps, indeed, than by the combined nations of the world) this Code cannot fail to be of vast benefit. It will re quire all the space we can give to an article to de scribe it, therefore while sketching the system we will reserve details for our next number. The Code substitutes figures for letters. Up to 5 the numerals are represented by dots, from 6 to 0 by dashes. Hence a dot means 1, a dash 6, a dot and dash 16, and so. Nothing could be more simple than this, but codifying so as to make it applicable was the difficulty. The marvel is, that what ap peared so complicated was really capable of a simple solution. The book, when completed, will be divided into five parts. The first will contain 210 signals, comprising the alphabet, marks for punctuation, and telegraphic signals to direct I the operator, of which ten are expressed by one figure, a hundred by two, and another by three, Part IL consists of 900 signals, limited to three figures, being the spelling code, so that any lan guage having the Roman character can be spelt by syllables. Part 111. provides for 10,000 signals of four figures, of commercial and political intelligence, names of places, mouths, days, and words of fre quent occurrence. Part IV. contains the vocabu lary and sentence code in 100,000 signals, limited to five figures. It comprises every word of the English language, alphabetically arranged, the sentences being selected from various message forms extracted from the best signal books. Part V. provides for 127,000 signals, in six figures, ex pressing the known places of the world. As every page contains two columns each of fifty signals it follows that the book must consist of 2,382 pages, and its magnitude might frighten the uninitiated; but it is marvellous to observe the ease and simplicity with which messages can be codified by the sender and translated by the receiver. If the group consists of five figures it must belong to Part IV. ; if of three to Part 11. The first figure of Part 111. heads the page, the other two are among the numbers of the ninety-nine on that page. Where the group consists of five numerals, the other two are, as in the former case, to be found in the ninety-nine of that page. Thus a group of figures indicates the place in the book and can be turned up more quickly than can a word in a dic tionary. In transmitting messages relating to com merce or the ordinary transactions of life a single group alone is required. For instance, 1029 means "Advise us of state of market ;" 1068 "Market continues very quiet, and scarcely any business doing ;" 0789 " You may draw on our account." One group may decline a verb, as, for instance, 1900 means " He cannot have," the noun is supplied by another group, " the apartments," " the credit," " the advance," anything. In the transmission of such messages the saving is enormous ; but in re porting a speech, a letter, or the text of any docu ment, the gain is less, although still great. Mr. CYRUS W. FIELD, among many of those best acquainted with telegraphy, asserts a saving of from half to four times, according to the nature of the message ; that is, the speech would be sent in an hour which took two hours by the ordinary way, and a series of the usual messages, re quiring five hours by the latter means, could be transmitted in one hour by BOLTON'S Code. A trial was made on a line between Birmingham and London, when 100 messages were dispatched, aver aging 12.86 words. By MoßsE's system they occu pied 2 hours 12.25 minutes ; by the code, 59.75 minutes. This point of speed being settled, the next regards accuracy. In the Birmingham trial the errors in the code were one per cent. ; by the MortsE system seven per cent. Experience has proved that even the most practical operators will receive their impression, and jump to a conclu sion from the context. Five hundred times they may be right, but in the next wrong, and the error is likely to lead to mischief. Figures are simpler as symbols, and less liable on this account, as well as on that before-mentioned, to mislead. While fewer errors are made they are not of the seri ous character of the others, because in making non sense, it can immediately be detected and traced to the right group, in which case the operator replies, 047, meaning " Signal group is not understood, although numbers are read." Hence the mistakes are not only fewer, but they are more easily discovered and remedied. Another point is of great importance to the public. These signals are secret, or can be readily made so, by agreeing to a key signal. Suppose 3 to be added to every message sent ; it makes the words utter nonsense to the ordi nary reader with the code book in his band, but the receiver, who deducts the three from each group, easily translates the figures. Each person can judge for himself of this advantage, but it is likely to prove the greatest the smaller the town wherein the sender or receiver dwells. A telegraph operator is human, and, knowing something of the individual, takes more interest in the message than may be agreeable to his townsman. The introduc tion of the Code, we think, will show that the tele graph but for this would have been far more used. A General BUTLER, for instance, might pour over the Code in vain without the key figure, when in pu►-suit of " recreant " Senators or other victims. We have reached our limit, but the subject is of so much interest that we will continue it next week.— Anglo-American Times, AMERICAN PRESS• " Riverside," writing from Washington, Nov. 4th to the Citizen, says :—" There is some doubt whether the story started by some revivalists, that all operatic music proceeds from his Satanic ma jesty, is true or not. On the evening of the 27th ult. a daughter of Bishop Simpson, of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, was married at a fashion able Methodist Episcopal Church in that city. Pre sident Grant and family, John ' Govode,' Bone, Cattell, and many distinguished Radicals, were present; for it is known that the Bishop is a poli tical parson. Immediately preceding the entrance of the wedding procession the organist performed the air of Miserere,' from the opera of Trova tore.' My attention was attracted in the Stltlinler of 1861 to the announcement that two a dditional verses had been written by John Howard Payne t° his original exquisite song of H ome , Sweet home'„ the matter then, owing to the surging elements of civil strife surrounding us, escaped my notice. Of late it has been revived. About thirty-five years ago (I believe it was in the winter of 1833- 1 ) Payne was on a visit to London. He was a wel come guest at the table of an American banker, re siding in that city. To the estimable wife of the latter he then presented a copy of his Home, Sweet Horne,' set to music, with the following two add l. " tional verses addressed to her : "'To us, in despite of the absence of years How sweet the remembrance of home still appears, From allurements abroad, which but flatter the eye , The unsatisfied heart turns, and says with a sigh, Horne, home, sweet home ; There's no lace like home, There's no place like home. "'Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow, While mine has been checkered with many a woo ; the Yet though different our fortunes, our thoughts are same, And both, as we think of Columbia, exclaim, Homo, home, sweet, sweet home; There's no lace like hcme, There's no place like home.' Although I have examined several books of Ameri can poetry issued since that period which contain the original song, the additional verses are cnn They certainly have the ring of the old metal. ']heir authenticity is unquestionable. I have been credi bly informed that a well-known citizen of Nel York, then on a visit to London, copied them 3 , the time from the original in the hand -writing Payne, and that he once gave them to the pub lic ' but somehow they have passed unnoticed. It is 3 subject worthy of ,revival." In 1855 there we t. " among others, two applicants for County Engr neer of St. Louis County, Missouri, viz., Captain itted. U. S. Grant and C. E. Solomon, Esq. The Coun t / Commissioners rejected the pretensions of the W . mer, and appreciated the latter. The em olument° of the office were not over a thousand dollars Per annum. This was fifteen years ago. The re j ected applicant is now President of the United State,°' and the successful Solomon has retained his PCIS'' Pa tion ever sine, but has been lately ar raign- a before the Court for malfeasance in offic e ' 311 , the St. Louis papers positively assert will he ;- posed. Ofttimes " truth is stranger than 1.1 , 7; tion." It is known the late President Lineell'of Congressional term expired with the outg oing. g President Polk's Administration, and the in een lv of General Taylor's. It is a fact n ot very geuer3d.. known, however, that he was an unsuccessful aPP e• cant for Commissioner of the General La nd Othc ia Of President Taylor and his Cabinet who four sat ar e judgment upon his claims and pretensions, a deceased and four survive. Of the latter, one Conservative Republican, two Democratic Coe ese,ii vatives, faithful to the Union during our i ' : o struggle, whilst the fourth was a Gener al in so Confederate army. So it is reasonable t o suPP° n „ that if the late President had been appointed C°--tai missioner of the General Land Office ill 1 869, President Grant County Engineer of St• 1-4°- County, Missouri, in 1855, that neith er of 0 tl e would have been President of the United States. The Washington correspondent of the Cincilvia... , Gazette gives the follo wing interesting informatiePed —" A comparative statement has been preP ar to at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, showing s t amount of grain on collections in many o f the nlcist, important districts of the country for July, A n g u l o and September of the present year, over the ss months last year. Of these the Ist Illinois (Ch ic .„V t h District shows a gain of 23 per cent. •, the Indiana (Aurora), 87 per cent. ; the Vth ICentn-ki (Louisville), 7 per cent. ; the Vlth 'Cent° (Covington), 174 per cent. ; the Ist Loni si ,st, (Now Orleans), 40 per cent. ; the Ist Missouri kb.i. Louis), 37 per cent. ; lid Ohio (Cinc i nn ati), i t. ; per cent. ; the Xth Ohio (Toledo), 16 per ; the XXIId Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), 81 per e-tifor the Vth Tennessee (Nashville), 8 per cent., for the following districts the comparison is innu e n iv • the months of July and August of each year only.; IVth Illinois (Quincy), 72 per cent. ; Vth 1 1 " i ), (Peoria), 15 per cent.; IVth Kentucky (Legge 1O 619 per cent. ; Vllth Kentucky (Lexin g_t 01 3 ) , t. ; per cent. ; Vllth Ohio (Columbus), 60 per „,,cerinper XXIIId Pennsylvania (Allegheny City) cent. ; Ist West Virginia (Wheeling), 25 P„,e r :: n et Ist Wisconsin (Milwaukee), 7 per cent. -"" c ar ter receipts from revenue stamps for the first q,,,esr of the present year over the same period les t J t. have increased $292,206, or 8 and 6.10 per ceti t eet " Shirley Dare" writes to the Tribune to co c as , the account in the Galaxy of the bnperialist o°l'ol paper and the T.C.1.0. The Citizen and 11 ' a n d Table associated it with General Logan's nan;..„,e1031 the Grand Army of the Republic, while the tpo of wrote of the founders of that paper as gentlenlibree position and culture, but the writers " ar e yeti` young men, tolerably well known in No v , foe newspaper offices. Two were Americans and te rry to va , gade Republicans. One had gone so far as torches in Union League processions, and ta r e d triotism fiercely at the kerbstone, and atteniPt.e/Of enlist in the war, but the protestations of his T e a ia especially his lady friends, held his loyal arced biS check. During the last campaign he occull'e,v,- for fertile pen with writing editorials alternate,'Jto id Grant and Seymour, with a possible consu ls bis view, which he fondly hoped to secure i.sviti• disinterested labours, whichever side Inig h "a The list of consulates was filled, but hiso-,alr ITas not on it, and the death of hope from la bs Bean Government left him an ardent 11 11 1l, s e ': bet The second is an Engli s h man , who has claim to sincerity of belief of any one of the T o te virate. His position at the time was a suhei.r''oalf one in the freight business. Ile, h ow ever, is t' h e o dis; one of the three who deserves in the least tees of tinction of culture. The others are gradna"rse o e fresh-water colleges, with a post graduate roe ditli' bad French novels, and provincial Italian. 30 65 1 third is the working editor of a small paper, a very young man—so young that it is ore cult to characterize him further. All thre,e,,,,reeS Bohemians of „Bohemia, in the eminent degrees of debt and discontent. The proinis Wg to rio nS that a paper could force its way to n e " nrie itsri success, by the " undraped" odiousness of ciples was suggested to the first of theseocrat. after an apprenticeship on Pomeroy's De nied 13° t ' The writer thinks that the youngest des and bi toriety, that the others were hard UP , o f on a good advertising device : Such u it the press of England and America as sav v ,ptib le f , defiance of a party strong enough to inal`e thus, its aims and plans,' will be pleased to 10° adver it was the neat little advertising scheme ef tutors, irresponsible, unprincipled Bohenl i3 r t ta c it borrowed a hundred dollars or so to st a , oo ad quack political idea, and who would have ' ot if the unpleasant to have had to refund that It 1 1 American public had been less credulous. the an d wrecked as an advertising dodge by the the tort conceit of its projectors, one of whom told 000 1 to a party of journalists at Delmoniast o ut, sr io himself by stating that it was sure to come damage him unless he told it in his own NI ° a l ,°;" left the paper to secure a post at half til e , s a gr' d another, but the expense of a newspaper h;orlcinoo irony of its own in taking the fun ont, °f , tri al such an organ as a joke. The " cb a9 kept up, but who is to pay the weekly bills • re de ° BIRTHS. BRoDRICK —On the 28th inst., at 20, BOallfort-g '6(l. the Hon. Mrs. Brodrick, ' of a daughter. P POW ELL—On the 29th inst the w ife of Dav id - of 20, Grosvenor-square, of a son. MARRIAGES. BAILEY—CoLEs—On Alfred Bailey, Esq , barrister-at-law, to rtl Y f,ltuf le ret, eldest daughter of George Coles, Escl' , ° 1 , Al - Streatham. GREEN —HAYDN —On the 27th inst., at Christ C1 1 , 1 . 1 13 ' e, 00 , the 27th inst., at Stroathatr, S3lll,r,rql bany-street, Frank Green, of Little Trinity-Ij to li ate, daughter of the late Joseph Haydn. j E. 4 TIJ S. rn ,for 4 ' BtrilcitA3l---Ou the 27th inst., at Sunnyside, Chr,.slsis' Essex, Thos. B. Burcham, sq , late stip:lloa) 1 , trate at Southwark Police Court,. aged 62. f OP - MuRRAY—On. the 27th inst., Thos. 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