The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUINALS, The Times thme_s tsat the Married Women's Tropes.: Bill is too extreme in its nature. Flagrant evils ensse Under certain circumstance;, from the principle of the present law ; the bill proposes to meet the difficulty by abolishing the principle and substituting its direct oppo site. In an old established society like our own, it is evi dently preferable, if it be possible, to provide special pro tection in the circumstances in point, but to leave the main principle of the law unaltered. This view of the case was recognised by the opponents of the mea sure, but justice was scarcely done to it. We cannot conceive a more complete change of prin ciple than the bill contemplates. The present law goes upon the understanding that the family is a kind of unit, under a single head, who is solely responsible for it, and who is, consequently, invested with complete control over it. This bill would render a married woman as independent in respect of property as an unmarried woman. The married state would, therefore, become a contract between two equal partners, irresponsible to each other, and neither wholly responsible for the family. In its present form, indeed, the bill would leave the husband under his present responsibility, while depriving him of the corresponding authority. It would be impossible, however, if the bill were accepted, to maintain so unfair an arrangement, and Mr. Shaw-Lefevre on Wednesday ex pressed his readiness to place husband and wife on an equal footing in that respect. But the more completely and the more fairly this equality is carried out the more complete becomes the social revolution the bill proposes. As a rule, the husband must always be the person who con tributes most to the family, and who is its principal support and its chief protection. Is it fair, under such circumstances, to deprive him of all control over the expenditure of his wife? Is it right she should be told by the law that she may act in complete disregard of his swishes ? We grant it is not just that he should have abso lute power over his wife, but is it just that he should have none? Looking at the character of the relation and to the facts of life, it appears to us that our law has followed nature, and has laid a just foundation, in - recoinisinrthe husband's supremacy and responsibility. It is only in conditions of society more or less unnatural that a diffe rent principle has been or ought to be recognised, The amendments to the Irish Church Bill of which Mr. Gladstone has given notice are, says the Post, distinguish able from those of the leader of the Opposition in this very material respect, that their object is to extend the application of the principles on which that bill is founded, and not to render them completely nugatory. It is material to observe that none of Mr. Gladstone's proposed amendments affect the general tenour • of the bill, nor can they be construed as conces sions to any objections taken to it by the Opposi tion. That some concessions may ultimately be called for is not impossible, and the Premier declared in the debate on the second reading that he was prepared to entertain any proposals honestly brought forward by the Opposition with the view of improving the bill. But, for the present, Mr. Gladstone's task has been confined to making corrections which are suggested by the additional information he has received, and a more attentive conside ration of the possible operation of certain clauses of the bill. The amendments of the leader of the Opposition, .s we have already had occasion to point out, attack the foundations of the bill, and must be rejected without exception by everyone who approves its principle. The principal amendments of which the Premier has given notice in no degree militate with the general principle of the bill, and can scarcely challenge the hostile criticism of any save those who are opposed to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. The Standard declares that Sir Massey Lopes did good service in calling attention to a very grave evil which for years past has exercised a most injurious effect upon the administrative system of the Church of England. In a word, there is no legal provision for the voluntary or enforced retirement of prelates who are, from age, ill health, or other causes, admittedly incapacitated for the discharge of their duties. It may happen that, for one or other of the reasons we have indicated, a bishop may for years have been totally unable to attend to the affairs of his diocese, even so much as to go outside the walls of his palace, or to write a- letter. We do not foramoirnent assume that any member of the episcopal bench would voluntarily consent to retain his post under circum stances fraught with such obvious detriment to the inte rests of the Church throughout his diocese ; but it is a simple matter of fact that there is no provisiop known to the law by which he can resign his office, and hand over his trust to a competent successor. The system under which the Established Church is at present administered takes it for granted that under any circumstances the bishops will die in harness. Whatever is now done in the way of remedying this obvious anomaly is done by a side wind. What is wanted is an enactment by which bishops who may be presumed to be permanently disqualified for the discharge of their duties, may be enabled to resign their sees with a fair provision for the remainder of their lives. There should be no difficulty as to this latter point. There should be but one bishop of one diocese. Even the idea of a dual jurisdiction should be avoided, and we doubt whether there is any case now extant in in which the absolute avoidance of the see would not be required by its special circumstances as well as on the ground of the inadvisability of establishing a divided authority. It might be fraught with hardship in some in stances, but we believe that on the whole the interests of the Church would be most effectually secured by the establishment of the rule that a prelate who requires per manent aid should give place toa capable successor. The Herald asserts that Mr. Howard's petition was a blunder. He gave the late Premier another opportunity of shewing that in the exercise of his patronage he was guided by an undeniable zeal for the public interests. But, from the point of view of the Radicals, the hon. member for East Cumberland did his party a very ill service. If he bad not provoked the discussion of Tuesday evening, the Radical newspapers and Radical speakers might have continued to declaim against the shower of appointments which fell in the beginning of last December, and instance the nomination of Mr. Lowther to the lieutenancy of these two counties as a flagrant illustration of their impropriety. Now, however, even the most pertinacious of the assailants of the late Government will be abashed and silenced. Mr. Howard, sacrificing himself as Mr. Charles Buxton did the other day, for the vindication of Mr. Disraeli's reputation, elicited from the right honourable gentlemen a statement which must satisfy everybody that these appointments were not only in accordance with constitutional precedent, but were the result of an earnest desire to consult those local interests which would be affected by the choice of a lord-lieutenant. About the constitutional right of a Minister in Mr. Disraeli's position to recommend such an appointment to the Queen there can be no question. Of the perfect propriety of the parti cular recommendation no doubt can be entertained after the discussion of Tuesday, and Mr. Howard may be credited with having performed a service, which he never intended, in the sig na l ill us t rat i on which he was the instrument of giving to the public of the fairness and d fitness of the appoint men t s ma d e b y the Conservative Government. ICE. PROFESSIONAL DEGGARS.—A t Westminster Police-court, on Wednesday, a sturdy-looking man was charged with begging. The magistrate took the opportunity of referring to a recent letter in the Times, in which it was stated no constable could interfere with a beggar unless given into his charge by a civilian. Mr. Arnold took occasion to correct that impression. If a policeman saw a vagrant in the act of begging, it was his duty to arrest him, and, as a rule, such cases were dealt with in the absence of corroborative evidence. A FATAL ACCIDENT. - At Clerkenwell, on Wednesday, a carman, named Stephen Ford, was charged with causing :he death of a solicitor, named Ware, of Chard, Somerset shire, and Arthur-street, London Bridge. It appeared from the evidence that the accident was not due to the prisoner, as the deceased fell under the wheels of his cart while in a state of intoxication. Ford was accordingly discharged. THE ELECTION PETITIONS. Three petitions are now in hearing, and in all a certain amount of progress is being made. Mr. Justice Black burn is at Hastings, Mr. Baron Martin in the South-West Riding of Yorkshire, and Mr. Justice Willes at North allerton. HASTINGS. At Hastings the first witness for the petitioner was a man named Gallop, landlord of the Dorset Arms, Tivoli, and a voter. He stated that on different days he received instructions to provide certain men with refreshments, and to pay some of them 4s. a day for their time in attending the Revising Barrister's Court to prove their claims in Sep tember. The men had ale, porter, and cigars,the bill for which amounted to about £2. At his house there was a committee room. Alderman Clement was chairman of the committee, and Langridge was deputy chairman. Some of witness's charges were paid by Mr. Poole, and others by Langridge. When he sent in his account he had to divide it, charging part of it as election expenses and part of it to the regis tration committee. In answr to the judge, witness - Said he was not told to make out the accounts separately until after the election, when he sent them in as one bill.— Frederick Sisley said he was present at last witness's house about six weeks before the election, and saw refreshments provided, in the shape of ale, porter, and cigars. As the pots became empty they were refi,led by the landlord. He saw none of the things paid for. He had some beer himself. Witness had no vote.—William Hall, luggage porter, who voted for the Conservatives, said that he also was present at the Dorset Arms, and took part in the enjoyment of the good things there provided. Lang ridge took him by the shoulders and said, "You are all right, aren't you?" To which he replied, " Yes ; I never flies from my colours for no man." He did not, however, tell him what his colours were.— William Kenward, gardener, gave evidence to the same effect.—Thomas Bean, labourer, a Conservative elector, said that Gallop and Langridge solicited his vote for the Liberal candidates, He told them he had promised the other side. The day before the polling, Langridge came to him again, and said he had a little job he could give him, and asked him who he intended voting for, and he said Calthorpe and Thruston, upon which Langridge asked him to split his vote between Brassey and one of the Conservatives, but he declined, and he did not then get the job which had been promised him. — Thomas Knight, a butcher, said he saw Mrs. Brassey go into a beerhouse by the side door, and afterwards disco vered her in a back room with the landlady, andoverheard a conversation between them. The landlady said it had been a bad time, and Mrs. Brassey said she would write her out a ticket for some blankets and coals. He also saw her put down some gold on the table. The door was locked, and what he saw he saw through some glass panes in the door. He heard Mrs. Brassey say, "I don't give you this for your husband's vote, but as you study my husband's interest I shall study yours."-- John Brissenden corroborated last witness as to Mrs. Brassey entering the public-house.—Mark Martin said that on the evening of the nomination Mr. and Mrs. Brassey came to see a voter named Burt, who lived in the same house as he did. He saw Mr. Brassey had a pane in her hand, and she gave it to Mrs. Butt, saying, " Here's a parcel I'll leave with you." He was at the Pelham Arms on the polling-day with another man fur four hours, and only a portion of the beer they had was paid for. At the Royal Standard, on the (lay of the municipal election, he and two others had tobacco and beer, for which they did not pay. He also spoke of further treating at different Liberal houses. He voted for IN orth and Brassey. Some further evidence to the same effect was called. One of the principal cases, however, for the petitioner broke down. Mr. J. W. Davis, silk mercer, carrying on a large business in Hastings, was examined as to the amount of Mrs. Brassey's dealings at his shop, and it appeared that whereas her bill in 1867 amounted to only I:78 10s., it amounted in ISCB, the year of the election, to sonic £ll3. He denied, however, that this circumstance influenced his vote, as he was always a Liberal. SOUTH (WEST RIDING) YORKSHIRT.. The petition against Mr. Beaumont, of the South (West Biding) of Yorkshire, is being conducted to the end. It is. now attempted to be eleven that Mr. Stanhope, who claims Mr. Beaumont's seat, has vitiated his chance by illegality. Evidence of the screw being put on by a rate-collector and a land agent was given, and a case of alleged bottling was investigated. William Gledhill, a small farmer, of West Scarr, Scammonden, had never voted before, he said, but at the last election, he meant voting for the "yellows," though he did'nt know that meant Milton and Beaumont. The night before thepolling day he slept at his son-in-law's. At two o'clock in the morning a lot of men called him up and took him in a cart to a "blue" inn. Something to drink was given him, and he fell asleep, for when an old man is " wakkened" out of his sleep he'll soon sleep again. In passing a policeman he called out that they were taking him like a prisoner. After he had been asleep at the " bluer' inn he was put into a carriage and taken to Huddersfield. He never got to the poll. He could not remember the name of the hctel to which he was taken at Huddersfield. They must excuse him ;he was not very sober. It was also sheen that railway fares were paid by the " Blues." In reply to this, however, Mr. Maule, who appeared for the petitioner, said it would cost the voters 2s. each to return from Sheffield to Penistone by an afternoon train in time to vote, so that, in fact, it - could only be said that they had been provided gratuitously with a penny each. To contend that that was something illegal would be a reductio ad absurdum. The voters were all pledged before hand, and strictly as to language no money was given, but only some convenience. Nobody had given any money to these people to vote; they got no money. Nothing passed in the ordinary sense of giving. They got a ticket each, which franked them to Sheffield, and it cost them 2s. each to get back, so that absolutely only a penny each were they in pocket, but nothing was given—no money, at all events. It would be straining the statute to say that they received money for the purpose of voting, they having previously pledged themselves to vote. His lordship would not decide the point. The Starcannot doubt that Mr. Hughes's Trades Unions Bill will receive frank and friendly consideration from the Government and from the majority of the House of Com mons. It believes that nothing could more tend to the development of a healthy life in the great associated trade societies of this country than their recoguition by the Legislature as an integral part of our social system, and theiradmission —without any attempt to impose humi liating conditions which would certainly prove inopera tive—within the pale of the law. Ignorant pre judices have had time to subside, although they yet linger in the report of the majority of. th e Trades Union Commissioners. It is not proposed to legalise that which is dubious or unjust—least of all to give sanction to outrage or to the threat of outrage. All Dr. Crum Brown has been appointed Professor that eiate i together for the legitim a t e purpose of m ower working u m t al protec- en to asso- of Chemistry in Edi n b urg h U n i vers i ty. tion and assistance, and at the same time to secure to em- THE SIZE OF " SANDWICH " BOARDS.—The Chief ployers similar rights. Abnormal acts have been the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has consented to natural consequences of an abnormal position. But even bad deeds, which all right-minded men must deplore, have modify the order regulating the size of the boards to be leen so far exaggerated that the offences of a coeval - a _ carr i e d through the streets by those who .are known as tively few black sheep have been visited on tens of thou- "sandwich" sands of honest working m en , w h o regar d ed them with undisguised horror. While crime is punished the innocent mission for the use of the size asked foe by the advertising should be Protected ; and when we speak of the innocent agents, who promise that every care shall be taken to in this connection we have in view all the great trade avoid the slightest infringement of the regulations. Th e o rganisations of this country. summonses against several of the agents for having broken The Daily News asks if it is not Byron who writes, the rule previously in force have therefore been with " Thou, the vain lord of luxury and ease, Whom slumber soothes not, pleasure cannot please ;" and w as it not L or d drawn. Stanley who, the other day at Glasgow, spoke of "pleasure MASONIC CELEBRATION AT FREEMASONS' HALL. that is not pleasure ?" Not only their sentiments, but their expressions, on this head, are almost ideet;cal. When —The metropolitan building dedicated to the Freemasons two such contrary spirits arrive at the same conclusion a has very lately been rebuilt. The dedication service of strong probability arises that it is a sound one. " Pleasure the new building was given on Wednesday. The cere that is not pleasure." What is pleasure? Millions of men was people performed by the Right Hon. the Earl o f are pursuing it, and have been doing so for an y unknown number of ages. It is strange, trerefore, that we Zetland, M.W. G ran d M as t er of England. Th e attend should not by this time have arrived at some definition, or ante of brethren, not only belonging to London lodges at any rate at some notion, of what it is. Yet have but the provinces also, was very large, and there has not we ? Do not Lord Stanley's five simple words express, as been so brilliant an assem bl age o f cra ft smen for many far as grown-up people are concerned, a most incont ro• vertible, if a most melancholy, truth. But may we not years past. The Grand Master, preceded by the possibly get nearer te, our object by not consciously and grand officers, attired in the garter, blue and incessantly concerning ourselves quite so much about it gold collars, and jewels, of their high rank, entered The man who stops to count the milestones only lengthens his journey, an d h e w h ose m i n d perpetually dwells upon the great hall o f th e b u ildi ng soon after half vleasiire only lengthens the distance between it and him. past four o'clock, followed by a great number of craftsmen," in the conv en ti ona l li g h t bl ue and silver. Pais ton fait ; th a t i s t h e w h o l e secre t. If the thing that ~ lies nearest and roost imperative be work, do that ; and the res u lt w ill lik ew i se b e somewhat of happiness. In each The Grand Master, having tak en hi s seat on t h e throne, cage, and in each case alike, if Sou do it when it is not the lodge was opened in solemn form, after which prayer the thin; you are called upon to d o , not pleasure, net was offered up by the Grand Chaplain. The Grand happineee, but tedium, disappointment, an -I self-reproach Superintendent of Works handed to the Grand Master the will he the result. That lofty birth or boundless ' wealth, need not and does not exempt anybody from this l plan of the buildings, which was followed by an explana rele, may be seen in the instance of Lord Stanley or , tion and statement in reference to the progress and corn that' Prince Paul Demidoff,ofw'ho o se doings we gave I an account the other day, and wh o has pletion of the buildings by the Chairman of the Building pr i e n - - ciceas collection to better the fortunes of sempstresses. justsoldhis Committee. An anthem was then sung. The Grand fe e et the r i c h er and the more potent peop e are, the more Master went through the formal ceremony of dedication, rkvious are the t as k s waiting for them to perform. The . es a littl e p er pl exe d ; but assisted by his officers, and, having resumed hi s sea t, poor and l ow l y may be somet they, to o , s h ou ld do what is m im st pressing, an d th e sense o f declared the bu ildin g dedicated to p ure a ncient masonry, oppressio n w ill b e lifted from &eir hearts. Thus, pleasure universal charity, and benevolence. Afterwards the Rev. which is really pleasure, and which everybody is that which anybody will , find satsaileninaral it can be found, must desire, H. J. Simpson, Grand Chaplain, delivered an oration. by the very simple method of ab stainin g from solicitously ~_ .. , Another anthem was sung, at the conclusion of which the seeking it. .. . ,Grand Lodge was closed. NORTIIALLERTON. When the court rose on Wednesday the result of the Jay's scrutiny was that six votes were taken off Mr. Mutton's majority, and that two were taken off the number polled by Mr. Johns, and one added. Three votes were at the same time declared doubtful. One of the doubtful votes had been refused for Mr. Johns. Mr. Hutton's iajority at the election was 14. MISC. NEWS. nun, Intl rnnsbrank and tne Brenner ram - .travellers will thus have an opportunity of seeing one of the most beautiful portions of boCi Austrian and Italian Tyrol. Tho joutney from Inr.sbrack to Verona over the Alrs and down the valley of the Adige is, experto crack very well worth taking, VIE COILING COTE T. Mr. Pitmen's amendments of the Irish Church Bill having been thoroughly discussed, Ministerialists expect that the measure will pass through the Commons even more rapidly than they had at first hoped. They consider the amendments so absurd and impracticable, they hold that Mr. Disraeli has bungled so tremendously, that every one of his proposals will be rejected by a large majority. More than that, they believe that his own party will be broken up in consequence of the nature of the amendments. These virtually admit both disendow ment and disestablishment, and so the "No Sur render" section, of whom Mr. Newdegate is the type, find themselves betrayed. At the same time the moderate section whom Lord Stanley represents, and who consider that a considerable portion of the funds ought to be taken from the Church and applied to other than ecclesi astical uses, will be unable honestly to support propositions which actually leave no surplus at all, if even they do not make the Irish Church a creditor instead of a debtor. It is noteworthy, by the way, that both Mr. Newdegate and Lord Stanley were absent from the meeting at Lord Lonsdale's. Mr. Gladstone himself proposes some amendments to the bill, which, of course, do not involve any concession of principles, but are intended only to carry out those principles more effectually. According to the Owl, Ministers, after consideration of Mr. Disraeli's amendments, " confidently believe that by Whitsuntide the measu re , w ith ou t any material alterations, save what may a r i se f rom concess i on on their part, will be ready for presentation to the House of Lords." TRADES UNIONS AND TEE GOVERNMENT. The Telegraph announces that the Government has declined to take any legislative action upon the report of the Trades - Union Commission, but that it has given its support to a 'Leasure which has been introduced by Messrs. Hughes and Mundella. This bill was issued yesterday. It contains sixteen clauses, repeals the Combination Acts, and gives protection to the funds of unions. In the place of the Combi nation Acts the bill makes associations for the corn sion of of'fences against tie common law illegal. Various other alterations axe made with the object of giving greater freedom to the unions, and facility for registration. THE SUN, LONDON, TklttSliAY EVENINO, APRIL 15, 1869. According to the Times correspondent, Mr. Johnson is preparing for his contemplated political campaign in Ten nessee, and has already entered into several speech-making engagements at various towns during April. His poli tical career is not ended. THE ST. JAMES'S HALL MEETING. The lay meeting for protesting against the Irish Church Bill promises to be nearly as influential as the famous clerical demonstration of last year. In the place of the archbishop, bishops, and deans, on May 3, we are to have dukes, earls, viscounts, M.P.'s, and notable laymen. The Earl of Harrowby takes the chair, and is to be supported by the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis of Mimilton, Viscount Sandon, M.P. for Liverpool; Sir Joseph Napier, the Hon. D. Plunkett, and Mr. J. C. Colquhoun. But though the attendants of the meeting stand so high, in raison d'être it is very far below the meeting over which the late Archbishop had to exercise his control. Then the question had hardly been discussed to the full ; now the very name is weariness. Then the opinion of the country had not been tested, was hardly, perhaps, properly formed; now a House of Commons sits elected almost solely to deal with the Irish Church. THE KNIGHT OF KERRY ON THE HUSH CHURCH. The Knight of Kerry writes a very ingenious letter to the Times on the Irish Church question, referring generally to the disendowment scheme, and particularly to the question of tithes. He protests against the tax being used for other than religious purposes ; laying down as an incontrovertible propo sition " that if on any particular description of pro perty the State shall impose a special charge for a special purpose, so soon as the State shall decide that the special purpose shall no longer be maintained, the charge should in justice cease also." Sir P. Fitzgerald points out that in return for the charge the Protestant was pro vided with religious instruction. It was evidently unfair for the Roman Catholic to have to pay it because he could not attend the ministrations pro- vided by it. But it is now equally unfair to require the Protestant to pay his money, and give him no adequate return. The hon. knight proposes instead that the tithes as such shall, after a manner, cease, but that provision shall be made for the pay ment by Roman Catholics to their Church, of Pro testants to theirs, of Dissenters to theirs. In effect the scheme is one for equal endowment, the plan propounded by Dean Stanley and definitely accepted by no party in the State. MR. CHARLEY OJT DISESTABLISIIMEN T. Mr. Charley, who told his constituents at Salford that he was sent into the world to be the scourge of Mr. Gladstone, writes to the:Telegraph explaining the policy of the Conservative party with reference to disestablishment. Our sanguine contemporary thought that the Tories had accepted disestablish ment. By no means, writes the agent of righteous vengeance • if they had, the party would be deserving of political annihilation. We will not, nor do we intend, to accept the principle of the bill. The rejection of the second clause, the very root of the bill, Mr. Disraeli proposes to omit altogether. RELIGIOUS SELFISHNESS. Some of the Low Church party in London are very angry because grants are made from the Bishop of London's Fund to all parties. The Low Church men think that they alone ought to receive the money. They forget that it is contributed to by High Churchmen as well, and that if these got nothing, they would give nothing. The loss of their gifts would be all but fatal to the existence of the fund, if we are to judge from the disgracefully small collection made in behalf of the fund last Sunday at a very well-known fashionable West-end church, whereof one of the most popullr preachers of the Low Church party is incumbent. ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THE FF.NIAN PRISONERS. On Tuesday a deputation from the English Amnesty Committee waited on Archbishop Manning to as him to reconsider his decision not to allow petitions on behalf of the Fenian prisoners to lie for signAure at the doors of the Catholic churches and chapels throughout London. The Archbishop, after hearing their arguments, said that his feelings and sympathies were strongly in their favour. Ile distinguished political offences from all other forms of offence, and on the ground of profound sympathy with Ireland no one would be ready to go farther on behalf of those poor men than himself. He was only limited in that by his duty and his conscience. Ile promised to reconsider his decision, and to communi cate it to them in writing. If his reply should prove adverse to their wishes, he begged they would under stand that it was not in the end to be gained that they differed, but in the means which ought to be used. In the course of his address Dr. Manning said that when two years ago he had been asked to permit the same thing on behalf of two condemned prisoners he had told the applicants that they would do more wisely to dis engage themselves from the Catholic Church, and place themselves upon a much wider, because national, sympathy. In the present case he had expressed his sentiments in his letter to Lord Grey on the subject, and he had spoken in the same manner to the leading statesmen of the day. LAW REFORM. The Owl makes the important announcement that the first report of the Judicature Commission will very shortly be published. Among its recommendations will be found a proposal for the consolidation of all the courts, both of law and equity, into one supreme court, which will be divided, after the Scotch plan, into chambers or divisions. It will also propose that pleadings be simplified, and official referees attached to the various courts as scientific assessors, following the recommendations of th e P a t en t Law ommission of 1864. The Home Circuit is condemned, and the remodelling of other circuits is proposed. A new Court of Appeal is to be constituted to take the place of the Exchequer Chamber, Privy Council, and Chancery Appeal Courts. Lastly, all the recommendations of the House of Commons' Committee of last year on Common and Special Juries are adopted. We believe that the most important features of this scheme are due to Lord Cairns. An attempt is to be made to obtain for the whole of the legal profession a share in the funds of the Inns. of Court, which are now appropriated entirely by the barristers. To this end an inquiry will be urged into the nature of the grants under which the legal universities hold their property. NAVAL ITEMS. The Owl states that the flying squadron will leave England about the 10th of June for Bahia, where it will be joined by the Phoebe, from the Neat Indies ; thence to Rio de Janeiro, and on to the Cape of Good Hope, which it will leave about the end of September for Melbourne and Sydney, visiting New Zealand about the middle of January, reaching Japan in March, and Vancouver's Island at the end of April; thence home, touching at Honolulu, Tahiti, Valparaiso, and the Falkland Islands, so as to reach England by the middle of October of next year. EMIGRATION. do Tuesday a remarkable scene took place at the St. Pancras Station of the Midland Railway, when a body of artisans and labourers took their departure for Canada. This movement was in continuation of -an experiment made last year, when some artisans from the East-end were despatched to America. In consequence of a favourable report from Mr.Dixon,the emigration agent to the Canadian Government, the committee appointed for the purpose resolved to further the work this year. Great care was taken in the selection of the emigrants, the can didates being greatly in excess of the means of the committee. It was satisfactory to find that all the travellers were delighted at the prospect before them, and seemed full of confidence. As many as 327 persons started on Tuesday for the New World under the auspices of the committee. As the train left the station, a ringing cheer burst forth from the emigrants, which was returned from the crowd on the platform. A second party is expected to follow very speedily. THE OVERLAND ROUTE. The French Government has outwitted itself. By its interposing vexatious delays in the way of passengers travelling over Mont Cenis, and so seeking to check the rivalries between Brindisi and Marseilles as ports for travellers on the overland route, other Govern ments have been induced to offer facilities. Arrange ments are complete, and the requisite conventions have been signed for running a through train, without a change of canines, from Qstenito IRM- THE CORN DUTY. Mr. Frederick S. Corrance, the hon. member tor East Suffolk, is very angry with Mr. Lowe for seeking to repeal the duty on corn. After claiming to be the promoters of free trade, the Conservatives could not in all conscience raise again the cry of " Protection.' Mr. Corrance does not do so, but argues that the proposed repeal will not benefit the consumer. If it simply goes to increase the incomes of corn dealers, Mr. Lowe is legislating for a class, and doing harm to the community. This, Mr.Corrance says, he is doing ; and, writing to the Times, calls up on th e p a y ers o f income tax to protest aga i nst it. CAPITAL PPNISIDIENT. The first session of the Householders' Parliament is not to pass without an attempt t o procure th e aboli tion of capital punishment. Mr. Gilpin, Mr. Had field, Mr. M.Laren, and . Sir John G ra y h ave p re p are d a bill on the subject, which seeks to substitute a life sentence for the one of death. The case of Wilt shire, who, while in prospect of death a week thence, attempted to murder his warder, is not likely materially to aid these reformers. MISCELLANEOUS. The Marquis. Cadorna has accepted the post of Italian Minister in London, after it had been refused by the Marquis Pepoli and Signor MinghetLi. - Mr. C o sta, the musical com poser, is to be knighted, by way of compensation, we suppose, for ceasing to conduct the opera.— The Albert Medal, of the second class, has been conferred upon Mr. James Crowden, one of the chief officers of Coastguard in Scotland, for great gallantry displayed in saving life on more than one occasion.—Mr. Wilfrid S. Blunt, of the Legation at Berne, is to be married to Lady Ann Noel, only daughter of the Earl of Lovelace, and granddaughter of Lord Byron ; and Mr. Hard castle, M.P., to th e e ld es t d au ghter of the late Lord Campbell. THE DURATION OF FUTURE WARS. - Colonel Hamley's letter denying that future wars will be short, has attracted some attention, and has been much criti c i se d . Th ose who deny his conclu sions point to the gr ea t preparations which have been made of late for battle both on land and sea, call attention to the various improvements and the wonderful inventions which will in future make war so very terrible, and ask if the blow when struck w ill not b e one of such tremendous Impact that the nation which receives it must inevitably collapse. To this Colonel Hamley replies that it will be absurd to deny that a strong Power will be able to subdue a weak one more speedily ; but he did not refer to an unequal contest in saying that wars would still be long ones. lie illus trated his meaning by speaking of France and Prussia. If either of them endea voured to give th e t rem endous blow, the other would be ready t o ward it off, and to strike back again with more effect on the exhausted adversary. What, then, is the use of these great improvements ? The answer is obvious. War cannot be controlled beforehand by agreement as to what weapons may be used. Each b e lli geren t mus t obtain and use the best it can get ; otherwise it would be better perhaps to have less destroying arms. Or it would be as well to have the question fought out by a duel, by the most expert swordsman on each side. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The little bill of the Bombay Government against our own for managin g the Abyssinian expedition amounts to to 8600. Of this modest sum £3,250,000 is charged for the hire and fitting up of transports, and £850,000 for coals, commissariat. and stores. FOREIGN NOTES. SUCCSSS OP THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. In the Spanish Cortes, on Monday, Marshal Serrano, in reply to a question, acknowledged that the Government had received unfavourable news from Cuba. The situa tion was becoming worse. The great distance of the island from Spain, the emptiness of the Spanish Treasury, the rugged nature of the country, and the aid given by the Americans, are doing their work. The Spanish Government is evidently preparing to part with the pearl of the Antilles. THE POPE'S JUBILEE. The Queen of England, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia were amongst the non-Catholic sovereigns who sent messages of congratulation to the Pope on the occasion of his jubilee. In the list of Catholic sovereigns occurs the name of the " Empress of Mexico." On Monday his Holiness received more than fifty telegrams of congratulation from the principal dioceses, convents, or Catholic committees abroad. The Nuncio at Madrid forwarded th e comp li men t s o f th e chiefs of the Spanish Government. In the morning the Pope visited the hospice of Santa Anna, and prayed in the church where he celebrated his first mass; then he received several of the older pensioners of the establishment. In the evening his Holiness went to St. Agnes Without the Walls, where a memorable a cc id ent occurred on the 12th April, 1855. In returning, the P ope passe d t h roug h t h e city, which was splendidly illuminated in commemoration of his return from Gaeta on the same date in 1850. The Osserratore says that enthusiastic ovations greet his Holi ness everywhere. He is in excellent health. The German Catholics have been conspicuous in their demonstrations of respect on this occasion. Very large donations of money have come from Germany. An address has likewise been sent. This monster testimonial is signed by the King of Saxony and his family, fourteen other princes, 150 nobles, and about one million names of lesser note. The sheets on which these signatures are written havebeen bound in a magnificent volume. T HE STRIKE IN BELGIUM. The great strike at Seraing, near Lie g e, still continues. The men employed on some of the minor works have resumed their duties, but those engaged in the Messrs. Cockerell's establishment still hold out. Bands village, but no further dis of workmen hang about the turbances have taken place. A. strong military force, under the command of a general, is on the ground. The Independance Beige says that symptoms of a settlement present themselves. When the affair is at end, we may, perhaps, learn the cause of it, for at present it is a mys tery. The reports of men killed seem to be incorrect, for hitherto but one man has died of his wounds. xsaIAsHMEN PARAGI4AY. Mr. Lowe's amusing allusion in his Budget speech to a possible "war with Paraguay" must have been half serious. At all events it seems that some British subjects are detained by Lopez against their will, and an attempt is to be made to rescue them. According to the latest intelligence, Lopez had fled to the Cordilleras mountains, and a column of Brazilians was preparing to follow him. Captain Parsons, of the gunboat Beacon, with a strong body of marines, intended to accompany this expedition in order to rescue the captive Englishmen. It is probable that an eminent Paraguayan citizen will assume the Presidency of the vanquished Republic. Nobody knows what has become of General MacMahon, the American representative in Paraguay. 11/1118IONARIZS IN CHINA. Mr. Berger, the honorary director of the Inland China Mission, furnishes the Times with a detailed account of the missionary Outrage at Yangchow. But though the particulars are given at greater length by Mr. Berger, he has nothing sub s t an ti a lly new to report. He argues that the missionaries were not responsible for the dis turbances. The Chinese population are hostile to foreigners, but not to the extent of violence. It is when excited by priests and others in superior stations of life that they become excited, and give vent to their feel ings. The outrag e at Yangchow was wholly caused by he Chinese literati and military officials. From the time that the missionaries entered Yangchow up to the date of the disturbances—about a month—the missionaries had not commenced any public efforts, nor had they preached against the religion of the people, nor rendered themselves obnoxious. The "literati," who fear that if Christianity spreads in China the religion of Confucius will be de. stroyed, excited the people to the " siege " of the mis sionaries' house. It is unnecessary to repeat the rest of the story. Mr. Berger's narrative is in no respect likely to influence public opinion. It is quite natural that the literati, and the governing classes in China generally, shotild be. jealous of the introduction of a faith which they think likely to weaken their authority. It is natural tit:A they should enlist the people on their side. These pr4idices should not be violently thrust aside—indeed, th .y cannot be—but gradually overcome. Hence it would be wise if the missionaries followed in the track of trade and civilisation. But if they decline to do this, they must not expect armed intervention. MR. ANDREW JOHNSON. The ex-President of the United States is out of danger, and recovering. He has, however, been very seriously ill from neuralgia and calculus. But he holds that " there is a mod deal of life in me yet," And so it amears. OFFICE-SEEKING IN AMERICA. The place-hunters have laid President Grant up. The American ruler has had f 3ur weeks of " power," and he has found, indeed, that " uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." His Cabinet has been rudely assaulted, the Senate has maintained a disagreeable contest about the tenure of Office Law, and members of Congress have con tinually badgered the unfortunate general. But worse than all this is the plague of office-seekers. A vast crowd of parasites of every station in life, and candidates for every gradation of place, besiege the President and all his Cabinet. There are seekers for private secretaryships, and negro women applying for clerkships. In one day the collector at New York received 13,191 applications. 715 were for one post. The aid of the police was called in to protect this unhappy man from the mob. The President was unwell for three days, but some of the office-seekers forced their way through all barriers, and laid their appeals before the man who vows he will never again pass through the first month of Presidency. THE WORKING CLASSES OF NEW TORK. Tho New York 7'i,nes has an exhaustive article on this subject, one daily rising in importance, as thereis no city wherein "strikes" are more general or likely to cause more mischief, as may be seen from the following account from the Philadelphia Ledger : "The German cabinetmakers of New York have struck for an advance of wages. In that city there are 107 shops, in which the cabinetmakers, num bering about 2,500, and belonging to an associa tion, are employed. The journeymen are now earn ing from eighteen to twenty dollars per week. The strike is for a general advance of about 15 per cent. The men employed in each shop, *however, will de termine the price to be paid. The gas and steam fitters of New - York, it is stated, will on March 22d strike for an increase of fifty cents upon the pre sent rate of wages, $2 50c per day. The stone rubbers' strike in New York still continues, the un employed men being supported by the hands who have work. The printers' strike in New York is not yet settled ; eight bosses decline acceding to the demands of the men, and it is asserted that the men must establish a co-operative printing estab lishment, in order to obtain the contracts now held by the employers." The New York Times says : " ' The rich are becoming richer, the poor poorer,' is the graphic expression by which Commissioner Wells, of the Internal Revenue Service, pictured the condition of the America n peop l e generally. 1 1n no part of the country has wealth more rapidly accumulated and concentrated in the hands of the few, or poverty become so general and extended, as in this city. Nowhere are the poor becoming more rapidly poorer than •in the wealthiest city of the Union. This is, as some argue, undoubteily due to the fact that, against all reason and their own interests, the labouring classes insist on adopting mechanical rather than agricultural pursuits, and, in search of occupation in these branches, crowd into large cities, instead of remaining in the rural districts, where, if wages are less, the cost of living is also proportionately less. The labour market of many mechanical branches in this city is often glutted—there is no denying that ; and at this time of numerious strikes in various branches of industry this over-supply of labour is a principal source of trouble and the cause of the non-success of many strikes. But, aside from this fact, there are other causes affecting the prosperity of the most skilful labourers, who are in the greatest demand, and which tend to keep all grades of the working classes in poverty ; so that while the • general prosperity of the country increases with the grati fying rapidity of past periods, the majority of the mechanics are not so prosperous as they were before the war. In a few of the less crowded and most active trades workmen are realizing profitable wages as compared with the ante-war rates. For instance, a goodly number of coopers are doing about as well at $24 per week as they did in 1860 at $9 per week ; but there are three times as many shoemakers as coopers in this city, and these are half-starving on $l2 where they got $9 before the war. The plasterers and brick layers, in this time of active building operations are making more money at $3O per week now than they did in 1860 at $lO and $l2, but ten times as many tailors are losing money and living poorly at $2O instead of the $l4 which they received before the war. Our careful inquiries and observations into this subject, while revealing that a few of the trades requiring skilled workmen are paying profit able rates, aad a few others are affording what are living, but barely living wages, the majority of the trades, and those e m pl o ying the vast majority of working men, are conducted by employers at star vation wages to the workmen. From the elaborate and valuable table which accompanies this article, and which has been compiled with great care, em bracing the comp ara ti ve wages of all the principal trades, computed in various articles of constant and necessary domestic use, it will be seenthat—lasl: Bricklayers, ca r pe n ters, coopers, masons, at plas terers, rs, receivingp ri t printers s comparatively (daily), painters, printers, i r - p b r u o i fi l dt profitable s t a i r -builders, tin-roofers, n a - g r e o s o; e r a s n , average of $26 10c. weekly. 2. Blacksmiths, bookbinders, brassfounders, (book), slate-roofers, tailors, are receiving bare l y living wages— an av erage of $2O 57 c. weekly. 3. But the vast army of bakers, boiler - makers , cabinet makers, engineers, iron-moulders, labourers (com mon), machinists, paper-stainers, shoemakers, tin workers, are receiving starvation wages—an average of $l6 10c. per week. Thus it will be seen that while a few trades, giving employment to a few workmen only, are prosperous, or, at least, well to-do, the majority employing large numbers of mechanics, are unprofitable. That the cost of living has advanced about 90 per cent., while the advance in wages has been only about 60 per cent., and that, as a consequence, the great majo rity of the poor are becoming poorer. The most reliable statistics collected by individuals and asso ciations interested in the vital questions of work and wages and the welfare of the working classes fully corroborate the figures and sustain the theory of Commissioner Wells. The secretary of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, in a report of its operations of 1868, calls attention to the evidence of increased destitution among all classes of working men, including the skilled labourers and some professional men. He says :—" Notwithstanding the high wages for labour, the seemingly ample remunerations of in dustry have failed to put the labouring class in so favourable a position as they possessed before the advance of wages in 1860. The present large wages compared with those in ante-war times are consumed by the exorbitant expenses of living, leaving a smaller margin for accumulation than when wages were lower. The purchasing power of their earnings in many cases, even with full em ployment, is scarcely equal to their expenses, so that they have little or nothing in advance. Hence, when labour slacks or fails, they are brought to suffering, and to dependence on charity. This readily explains how it is that so many of the tem perate, the frugal, and industrious, are brought into straits and need temporary aid, and it shows, moreover, why large demands for relief are acquired at a time when both the capital and industry of the country are in a broad view tending to resume their wonderful career of progress and development. In looking over the visitors' returns, among the recipients of relief we find persons representing almost every form of industrial and professional pursuit. La bouring persons of both sexes and mechanics con stitute, of course, the great b u lk o f the needy but there there are also two arti s t s, c i v il engineers, schoollt ertse,anciilslesiros,narmieesr,chtraancttsd, isntiriinbiusttoerrss: physicians,teachers, 111 1a u :v i 3 c ' Bible readers, and others of similar culture and moral grade." The death of a very well-known gentleman is announced. Sir Edward Cunard, the head of the firm which owns the celebrated steamship line, died suddenly in New York of heart disease. His wife died two years ago as suddenly. To the last ho regularly attended his office, working as hard and keeping the same hours as his clerks. He was still in middle life, and apparently in good health, when he was thus suddenly cut off. THE TENCIRE-OF-01710E ACT. (from the Anglo-American Times.) The debate on the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office Act was resumed on the 20th. March, Senator Thayer making a long speech. He modified his substitute to thirty days after the commencement of a session in which to receive the President's re port of the names of the removed, and the causes why, during the recess. The substitute was offered to get a direct vote for repeal. No good reason had been given in the long debate why the act should not be repealed. It was passed to check a dishonest Pre sident, not to put manacles on an honest one. His knowledge of human nature told him that the Pre sident must desire the repeal, as would any Senator in his place. One of his own reasons for desiring the repeal was that the President might be free to turn out the Johnson men and Copperheads still in office. The Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schurz) had denounced the system of distributing patronage in the interests of a party as a curse ; but he (Mr. Thayer) believed the true doctrine to be that the patronage of the Government rightfully belonged to the party in power by the verdict of the people. Ile knew it was fashionable to decry this view, but lie would like to see the Senator who did not seek to exercise the right of dispensing patronage to his friends. The man who would not do so would soon be without friends, and would deserve to be so ; and the political party that refused to reward its own supporters and followers would soon go to the wall, and would deserve to do so. Senator Thurman knew of no Copperhead party ; the Senator meant the Democrats, and he could scarcely expect them to vote for the repeal as a means to facilitate the removal of their few office holders. In his State (Ohio) there were but two in Federal posts ; both distinguished_officers, and one with a wound That would afflict him for life. Senator Drake favoured repeal, but not suspension, which was but saying to the President, we will try you till next session, and lie was not one that deserved such treatmeat. He also desired tosee corrupt officers and those unfriendly to the Republican party turned out, for he was a party man, and as his party saved the country, and in power would promote its wel fare, he would use all Executive patronage in its support. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, would modify rather than repeal or suspend. Every Senator who had voted for the impeachment of President Johnson, on Article 111., had in that vote shown the judgment that, in violating this law, the President had violated the Constitution. How, therefore, could these Senators now vote for the repeal ? It was not passed as a temporary de vice, but as a permanent policy. He dissented from the last speaker with regard to Government patron age. It was unquestionably true that the party in power might at any time properly take to itself the chief offices of the Government, yet it was just as certain that the system which changed every public office of Government at the end of every four years was a great evil. Senator Casserly said he thought the question was, in whom is vested the power of removal, arguing to show that it was not vested in the Senate, nor in the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but in the President alone. Nor was this merely constitutional, but also the only reasonable view, as the sole means of insuring a faithful administration of public affairs. Regarding the doctrine implied in the Act as a dangerous heresy he would vote for an absolute repeal of the law. This closed the debate on the 20th ult., and the anti-repealers met in caucus on the 22d, in the hope that the repealers, without the Democrats being in a hopeless minority, would be committed by the resolution of the caucus. Grant and his friends Went strongly for absolute repeal, and the hungry office-seekers raised a clamour for it in every part of Washington, as they believed it to stand between them and that for which their souls thirsted. It was proposed to suspend the law during Grant's term, but nothing less would satisfy the Grant party than total repeal, and those who favoured that finding it hopeless seceded amid a storm of excite ment. Another caucus was held in the afternoon, and the majority decided to send tho bill and the amendments discussed back to the Judiciary Com mittee, in the hope that Grant might be prevailed on to accept an- othfication. Considering the position in which the Senators who favoured the retention of the power conferred by the bill were placed, their obstinacy showed how difficult it is to wrench power, from an assembly, even temporarily conferred. Here was a powerful President, in the height of his popularity who had set his mind on its repeal, b hind him was a House of Representa tives which had voted almost unanimously for a total repeal ; around them were crowds of office-seekers clamouring for them to give way, leaving the Pre sident's hands free to create vacancies and to give them the posts. When we reflect on the position with the knowledge we have that this bare majority in the end overcame all opposition, and actually carried off the bone, in spite of the world and the best men of their own body, we are surprised at the strength with which such a clique can fight. On the 24th Senator Trumbull, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported the bill as follows An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices,' passed March 2, 1869, bo and the same are hereby repealed, and in lieu of said repealed suctions the following are hereby enacted : " That every parson holding any civil office to which be has been, or hereafter may be, appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall have be come duly qualified to act therein, shall be entitled to hold such office during the t erm f or which he shall have been appointed, unless sooner removed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the appointment, with the like advice and consent, of a successor in his place, ex cept as herein otherwise provided. " Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That during any recess of the Senate the President is hereby empowered in his discretion to suspend any civil officer appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, except Judges of the United States Courts, until the end of the next ses sion of the Sen a t e, and to designate some suitable person, subject to be removed in his discretion by the resignation o f another, to p er f orm the duties of such suspended officer in the meantime, and such person so designated shall take the oaths, and give the bonds required by law to bo taken and given by th e suspended officer, and sh a ll, d ur i ng t h e time he performs his duties, be entitled to the salary and emoluments of such officer, no part of which shall belong to the officer suspended. And it shall be the duty of the President within 30 days after the commencement of each session of the Senate, except for any office which in his opinion ought not to be filled, to nominate persons to fill all vacancies in office which existed at the meeting of the Senate, whether temporarily filled or not, and also in the place of all officers suspended, and if the Senate during such session shall refuse to advise and consent to an ap pointment in the place of any suspended officer, and shall also refuse by vote to assent to his suspension, then, and not otherwise, such officer at the end of the session shall be entitled to resume the possession of the office from which he was suspended, and afterward to discharge its duties and receive its emoluments as though no such suspension bad taken place." Various motions were made to defeat the Bill, but in vain. On the morning of that day the Republi can Senators had again met in caucus to hear the report, and had agreed on the amendment known as the Conkling modification. It had beer submitted to the President by a sub - committee, to whom Gen. Grant had stated that his principal objection to the law was the provision preventing him from making removals during the recess of the Senate. As the proposed modification contained none of the features to which he objected he was satisfied with it, and hoped there would be no further delay. Hence the vote was now a foregone conclusion, the chief difficulty being remove d. A debate, however, followed, which was made remarkable by the sayings of Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island. A few days before he had expressed an opinion against the pre ponderance in Congress of men of one profession, as unfitting it to control the appointing power of the President. Though he had carefully avoided reference to any individual, Senator Nye had attacked him, he said, personally in reply, and raised a laugh in the galleries. Turning to that quarter, the Sena tor remarked he felt justified in addressing to them a few words. They were better clothed than the masses, but each might judge for himself whether there was more virtue under these gaudy habili- ments. He did not wonder that they laughed at hip warning. " The teaching of the past had educated them to make light of serious things, and had made them of a frivolous, thoughtless, senseless disposition. They reminded him of the idiotic inmate of a burning dwelling, who laughed at the warning and perished in the flames. He would, nevertheless, repeat hi s warn i ng. The affairs o f the country were being mismanaged and ruined by men 0 ' the class ho bad spoken of before. The people of E n g ' land would not tolerate such a state of things. T he men who controlled the affairs of England—Gladsto ne and Disraeli —were not lawyers, they were men of wid er , culture, with the i ns ti ncts of statesmen, fit to con tra, the destinies of a great nation. He had felt deeply interested in th e success of the Republican 10,,,' in the past, an d h ad contributed to it, he thOuP” as much in character, and a good deal more in t ong than other Senators ; indeed, lie believed that contribution of the latter kind had been -greater tbAu those of all the other Senators combined. When t he war broke upon th e peop l e without warning, and fou nd them unprepared, he had been among the first to rush the support of the Government; but now there wee great danger pending, and ho felt it his duty to warn the people of it. Ile read a long account of the character and career of the notorious Judge Jeffreys and of th e condition of England in his time, which, he said, was ve r i the condition of this country at the present time. F ifer ) ears ago America had come out of a great civil $ 4.31. Since that time the great work of Congress had her o ' or should have been, to restore harmony and prospgr! to the country. how had that work been call"' on ? Is there, he asked, peace at the South ? Is ther e ? prosperity or contentment among the people there, Are they not rather in a state of chronic revolutio n ' Is there justice in the land? Who that is a r el. man dare attack ono that is rich in any court in th ie f land ? Is there protection for the rights or liberties 0 the citizen in thin boasted land of freedom ? The imp . gration to thi s country had fallen off 30,000 during the I ° year, and would continue to fall off, because the industd and agricult ure o f t h e country were so prostrated a t the West that immigrants could not find remunerative ems ployment, and if they went to farm in the West thei could not sell their products for enough to supply thef t with the necessari es o f lif e. Whenever any ouein , Senate, or elsewhere, asked the reason of the degre e ' sion of our commerce and maniffetures, he was O re to be met with the answer that it was owing to the fact that we were rot paying specie ; but the real re r son was that th e l eg i s l at i on and...the administration °f the Government were so shaped as to encourage OP!: tal to speculate upon every industrial occup 6 t i e," in the count r y. If t hi s course was to be continuo' in less than five years there would be a clamour O r a tariff to keep out foreign cotton. Rut great as W eg the mismanagement of our national affairs iu every de' partment, the greatest abuses were in our financial polid' I That policy was directed and controlled by the bankerei They no doubt g a v e as goo d a d v i ce as they could ; bu experience had always shown that dealers in moues knew little or nothing about the relations of money other occupations and interests. The bearing of all thw upon the pending bill was this:—lf the legislators a the country had done their own work so badly, how CO' they d are t o assume t h e powers and duties of the Biel tive also ? He had w i s h e d f or and a i ded in the electi o n General Grant to the Presidency, because he believed th at he (President Grant) had not been contaminated by tb: politicians, and had th e capac i ty requ i red to see thro ug and defeat their machinations. He had listened to th e inaugural address with intense interest, and had be an pleased by th e P res id ent ' s expression of his purpose 10 t , independent in the discharge of his official duties; h u when he heard the passage asserting the sacredness of th e public debt, he had gone away disheartened and sorror ful, because it had shown him that the canker that P 5 sessed the American body politic had got possession as the President also. Still he was not without hope. hoped that the President would yet discover the error into which had advisors had led him, and would tu r " away from this policy as from a charnel-house. Wit h 7, 6 interesting biographical s k etch of himself, Mr. Spra k finished his speech." The vote followed, showing 37 Senators for the bi lls as amended, against 15, all the minority being D e ' mocrats, including the Republican Senators Fess ely den, Grimes, ill‘Donald, Ross, Sprague, and Waal and the bill was passed. Its defeat in the House N ay due principally t o B en j am i n Butler, who canvass ed earnestly, while strongly opposed by Bingb 3l l; a member also of th e J u di c i ary Committee, to Wh ic t the bill was r e f erre d ; b ut it was asserted Butler and Logan had been, and were, supported' the President. Butler had been twitted by Oil; ham for joining th e D emocrats, but that part, went with Bingham i n vot i ng Butler down, when he endeavoured t o get hi s motion carried under it the previ9us question, a n d thi s ena bl e d him itio effect to retort. J u d ge N oah Davis made uj maiden speech a s a mem b er o f the House, 3 1" , arguing for absolute repeal. The fight was O r fined to the Republican party, the Democrats 04 ; inn little, tho ug h vo ti ng i n a b o d y for natleftt motion, by whi c h th e H ouse re f used to co oc" in the Senate's amendment. As our readers loc' if : the majority for the original bill was 99 a g ainst 70 ' but on a Joint Committee of Conference being 4; pointed, it was reported back substantially as tll3 adopted by th e S enate, and passed by both Hous , of Congress th us mo di f i ed ; the news received t bis week being that th e P res id ent had signed i t , and it had therefore become law. Senator Nye's reply iu defence of the lavil e l, l which S e nat or S prague termed a personal attli.e': greatly amused the galleries, and was the comi 0 . 1 :1 cident of the d e b a t e, sett i ng aside the most combf all Senator Sprague's .'peech. He alluded to A l '; Sprague as the Boanerges from Rhode Island. " 93 it never ent er th e S enator ' s mind that the danger,hoo to a Republic lies in the direction of knowing much. Danger lies in the direction of not kno 0: 8 enough. And a ga i n, " sa id Senator Nye, "I ll°.er, the honourabl e S enator ' s forebodings will en/ The lawyers will no t h urt h i m. If he does not to use them they will not charge any fees, and If ye does they will not charge him enough to mAe iC felt by him." A Deputy of the Cortes, now s i tt i ng i n Mad idf _AO has called for papers relating to the introduction into S 9 of goods for commerce by the Hon. John P. Hale, un his diplomatic franchise as A mer i can Mi n i ster, They probably no good feeling towards Mr. Hale in that sembly. t FADvERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—EnjoymAn ttl / Life. —When th e bl oo d i s pure, i ts c i rculaticn perfect, 000 the nerves in good order, we are well. These pills p OO o f a marvellous power in securing those great secrets 0.4 health by purifying, regu l a ti ng, an d strengthening 11110, and solids. Holloway's pills can be confidently reon .oo , mended to all persons suffering from disordered digest' „,be f or worried by ner vous f anc i es or neuralgic pains. 100. correct acidity and heartb urn, di spe l s i c k headache, co' t o the action of the liver, and act as alteratives and g erl 0 1 aperients. Th e wea k and del i cate may take them •kho fear. 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Food, as prove P thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, 0 1:0„ —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, htemorrhoids, liver conlP'olt flatulency, nervousness , bi l i ousness, fevers, sore throats, diP, 4 " ria, catarrh s , colds, influenza, noise s i n the head and eaTs,! t .ite matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia , A ' r ye d bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head s ' debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, shoe, pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tigit, tP", of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and betwve`,ll ), shoulders, &. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restor , Du Barry's Food, Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 186 6 ",0 0 ; health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, absf, ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely nola . ; 1 Barry's Revalenta Arabiea Food, of which he consumes 0 :0 1 1 ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bea4l:: 4 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this ex' C food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2 5 .1r i f No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Fr: 0 A Surrey, of -thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blooal, derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Lord' de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years ' dysf e vo; No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dys_Z s nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, Toly sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important C 51 1 004 Beware of the many unsavoury and m ore th an s l opp y bill, o e to which, without authority, Baron Li e bi g ' s name i s most , ciously attached. 15 In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. Pd.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d ; 5 lbs, 11s• ; c orgi 225. ; 4 lbs, 40s, Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA PICA fa? LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 1!:: 6 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at as. fox o ',,,t;et at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and b' t OW,j are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post l o : Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stre et ' don; and all Greet rs and Chemists. Births. isolv UOSTYN —On the 14th inst., a t 93 , Eaton-square, the Mrs. Mostyn, of a daughter. j or WILSON—On the 13th inst., at Meadowbank, Lower wood, Mrs. Adam Wilson, of a daughter. Marriages. „ Co' GIBBON—SKINNER—On the 14th inst., at Saint rat il' ,,,lit A rc e : vent Garden, Henry Gibbon of No. 6, Clarendowr,„ Maidstone, to Louise, youngest daughter of the late Skinner, of Clive House, Loose, Kent. HuottEs—WAßD—On the 14th i ns t., a t C ro ydon, Spy, Lund Hughes, Esq., o f St. Leonard's, Mortlake,_ to 00 - beth, fifth daughter of th e l ate Joseph Ward, Esq" hill House, Epsom, Surrey. Deaths. a ll GRIEVE—On the 13th inst., at Kilburn, Williano jjPf Grieve, Esq., aged 75. jo ol' HUGHES -On the 12th i ns t., a t hi s res id ence , Sta— hill, Isaac Hughes, eged 49. 4 0 0 SCOTT—On the 13th i ns t ., M rs. M ar k S co tt , o f in -Craven, aged 64. a, io London : Printed a n d PahHalted by WILLIAM AN pt 101 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tag Sox 0411 0, ,,.. t 0t1 Strand, in the Precinct of the S e v oy the ° Iliddlesex.—Thursday, A pal 14, 1869, T(rNArrA This celebrat Priknel:ll'n'infirartoel" Millll6 A gents in th, 8, GREA Observe the R h at's LL Whisk hold vr OU e r e irl kl U y a , s m hAaic o (Inca 14, R US SELL ADVANCES MC FOllllB free on r( IIoYAL It j_ r ...Ar i th e i c :r nt r i , n l n o ' IDl((el:ljui lsr l:lB7 : lB:g t itus t ni i re . a s ftli t :;t a n:CaiLe:e c rhn n telai::ryt i of •Ki n 2tice•—llr .-•,vue on xv man willf un( n take tit MA( MADAAI F A , LT A _ a m ays . ., 1 g tui Beautl and under ten, 6d , e ARGY - Ro NIN ems F;VE have bee' and Co. The ci attractiy Dance Itusi: ...__....__._____BlusicalWlDirl •• HE above for Luncheon, deviling Leg' .N O RIGINAL A A SIILE Very Fine Pale Old C rushed Pau Shipping), Vin Sparkling Oh m lerY, Qualite SI Sample cases bottles Sherry, t OAR] Co nsi . gne n e ex f t or tb / p B. RA' celebrated PALE Bordeaux Wines Whiskies, from also be seen at t' number of Hotel of others wanted SO E N N A T I EI IFIi 0 and Dinh sortrnent of VA Lake. Inkstands ece., in Italian, shire Spar, sm. TENNANT 1 W. 0., London. Mr. Tennant MINERALS a of Lyell's , tate the inter, GEOLOGY, al guineas each. PRACTICAI MINERALOG' 149, Strand. TUE LTV GI Offices -1, I The Invested Fire Revenue to The moderate r Bonus for the value as • SPE( render them p leave is granted thirty days ate] K ING'S street, APPE AL for penses. Assist F. JAI SEAMEN'S off Greenwi Na+icns, who aro The receipts f £879 less than t SUBSCRIPT. Williams, Deacc the Secretary ' al street, London" Qualification Governor, £lOll NATIONA" Richmond, Under the pat ron s Whereby a home Girls of all ages the kingdom. The objelt of th lish education, an and laundry, to ft wise provided foi suitable situation The Committee entirely sustained °face, 121, Pall- ORITISH JUP Mackenzie• Patron —He For the Brat destitute orphan and of all deny prosperous eirm One hundred stitution ; ample Increased sub endowed, and is assistance. Subscribers al Institution, and its peculiar clair The last Repc Secretary. Of f ices, 73, Oh Bankers —Mee lane , • and Mem HEALTH RESTO DII BARRI and Infan T H saves fifty times perfect digestion refreshing sleep, moat disordered effectually indig gumption, habits rangemente, ba nervousness, bili catarrhs, colds, rheumatism, go ralgia, irritabil heartburn, hea t nausea and Aida fits, bronchitis, th il I r ee nce : p e n man i most v l t roc oeo already doddttir Henceforth h a a : r n s nen t d c e b c heal ha e s.purinnartrnetiuditainuy,orßlrer.2tßtreenh:dtafrxtoi:hopsno:e.sse.ol cT jit been deemed hoi Pope, C C by it after thirty We quote from I l uici ! i 3 s ßt e; s l arc n 9 r4t s e r Y u l , o r : o f ifr, nervous agitation irritabilityge re medies, ia 3 3 4 t egeos shr i e j. e t f t 5 evß e l ti e o e ni,, C oosd:l t j o rfff to: iofa i ro g o, cat ford:_ : e stuney. s i Tfrr t :ee l f diges tio n, oNie sp: o .s4:sur n ciaf nT, s oil t r a l: ylebaT.r,hs4eds.Fiacorrdo.ha;oefii so . 211 dYspe • en". ?,„. r tinisterfs carriag ' l ° l ry s Revalent ti 4 eat, isters : Po O ?Ps at Cs., f or 2 E !tout cna penny free of carriageir ItY BAI I _ l _lßo at Portmur lyacechut oh-stre Nerth-raad,