The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-23 00:00:00

BERIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in discussing Sir Roundel' Palmer's argu ments against the disendowment of the Irish Church, observes that the property which has been devoted to the eastenance of Protestant ecclesiastics in Ireland is neither more nor less subject to State control, because it has been vested in corporations. " Corporation "is a word of charm which seems to have run away with the judgment of many statesmen and thinkers—Mr. Disraeli, as Mr. Lowe sheaved, played with it most dexterously—but the g round for the intervention of the State does not lie in the accidental form of tenure of the legal estate of eccle siastical property; it is to be found in the nature of the trusts under which it is held. National property has been applied to certain uses, and the partiality of the application is now seen to be prejudicial to the peace and harmony of the nation to a degree outweighing all pos- sible advantages resulting from it. This is not all, for the application itself is recognised to have been unjust from the beginning, and to be, in its maintenance, a violation of all the principles of free government, and of all the maximl of equity and justice. These considerations support and require the disendowment— for we do not scruple to use the term—the confiscation of revenues which, belonging to the fiscus, have for a time been kept apart from it. Nor has this resolution any necessary connection, as Sir Roundel' Palmer seems to have supposed, with the act of - _ . - - disestablishment. If we could conceive the Irish Church endowed with national funds, but not established, the necessity of resuming the endowment would be not a whit less strong than it is. In violation of all policy, of all justice, of all religion, the governing body of the nation .violently transferred, three centuries since, endowments se . Bich had been appropriated to the use of all to the use of a few. The Parliament of to-day wishes to undo this tranefer, and, the altered circumstances of the time no longer admitting the application of endowments to their formernses, they will be devoted to fresh purposes of general national utility. The Standard observes that the position from which Sir Boundell Palmer addressed the House of Commons was at once the most favourable and the most embarrassing 1 0 .1. a speaker. On the one hand, both aides of the House, rewecting his evident honesty of purpose and his noble sacrifice of his personal interests to his convictions, and curious, moreover, to know the exact nature of his objec tions to the Government measure, were prepared to give him the most attentive hearing. On the other hand, he had to perform that most difficult task for any speaker who addresses a popular assembly— to express views in which, as a whole, neither party could thoroughly agree, and whilst proclaiming his personal attachment for 8 Government, and his general sympathy with their princi pies, to denounce a measure to carry which they came e s eto office, and upon which they have staked their existence, as a scheme alike unjust and unwise violating every rule of equity, and fraught with the most mischievous consequences to the empire. Sir Boundell Palmer succeeded where many a man of great ability would have failed. He kept the attention of th. 'louse from first to last throughout a speech lasting mor than two hours, less by charms of oratory than by force of argument ; and much as has been said and written against the abolition of the Irish Church, be urged reasons against it new to the House of Commons, and of the utmost cogency, completely disposing in his speech of the assertion made the other night by Mr. Miall that there was nothing new to say upon the question, and proving the utility of a discussion which the advocates of the Government have declared to be superfluous. With much that the learned gentleman said we cannot concur, with more we heartily agree, and at this moment we are more concerned to find points of agreement than of opposition. We take leave of his speech for the present with an earnest recommendation to every man who cares to get at the truth, whatever the views he now holds, to read it attentively, to weigh its arguments carefully. It will add to Sir Bounden Palmer's reputation as a speaker ; it will enhance, if it be poesible, the respect universally entertained for him. The Post remarks that on Monday, as on Friday, the Irish Church debate was resumed by two lawyers. The place of the ex-Attorney-General of Ireland, Dr. Ball, was supplied by the ex-Attorney-General for England, Sir Roundell Palmer ; whilst that of the present Irish Attorney-General, Serjeant Sullivan, was filled by Sir John Duke Coleridge, her Majesty's Solicitor-General. But in many respects there were wide differences not only between the combatants, but between the circumstances under which they addressed the House. Sir Roundel! Palmer, who, having moved the adjournment on Friday night, followed Mr. Bright in the debate, is a Liberal the sincerity of whose political convictions no one would dream of questioning. In fact, in recent times no one has given so conclusive a pledge of that sincerity as the hon. and learned member for Richmond. It is no secret that had h. chosen he might have been presiding in the House or Lords instead of occupying a seat in the House of Cori mons behind the Treasury bench, and have secured the blue rihand of his profession, the custody of the Great Seal. But Sir Rounder, Palmer, though prepared in all other respects to go with his party, could not bring him self to assist in stripping the Irish Church of its endow ments, and rather than do so, he preferred to sacrifice, at least for the time, the prize which was within his reach. The intimation that such a man would reopen the debate. and bring to it all those resources of learning and persua sion which he is so well known to possess, naturally filled the House. Nor were those who came to hear the staunch Churchman and eloquent lawyer disappointed. In a speech of upwards of two hours' duration he explained with incomparable perspicuity the grounds on which he disapproved of the measure ; and if he did not gain con verts, he unquestionably proved that much more was to be said at least against one branch of the bill than any member on the Conservative side of the House had, apparently up to that moment, thought of. The Telegraph says that before the appointment of the commission the public had been startled by the atrocion outrages at Sheffield. That, for refusing to comply with the rules of a particular union, a man should be waylaid and beaten, should have his tools stolen, should find gun powder thrown down his chimney in a canister, or scattered loose in a work-trough exposed to the sparks from his lathe, should be shot at with air-guns, and, finally, killed —such a congeries of enormities bore a dreadful resem blance to the worst practices of Thuggee. But Sheffield presented the black side of unionism. The great majority of the unions were as innocent of such crimes as the London and Westminster Bank ; and, when society was horror-stricken by the Sheffield revelations, those bodies. came forward to make acharge against society itself. " We unionists," they said, " only use the privileges of English. men in combining for mutual protection and advantage. We do precisely what is done by lawyers, physicians railway companies, and limited liability shareholders. We seek the strength which lies in union." The orthodox commissioners would draw a hard and fast line between what they would sanction and what they would forbid. They would not hold a trades union to be illegal, nor would they refuse to say that it was "not illegal," merely because its rules might seem to restrain trade. But with that con cession they stop. If a unionist refused to work with any non-unionist, or with any number of apprentices, they would punish him. They would prohibit a combination if its aim involved a breach of contract, and they would punish the offence by a special law. When one union is on strike it often gets aid from others; but that also is a practice which Sir William Erle and his friends would sternly forbid. Into the work of discussion we do not enter at present. We merely point out, for the public edification, that, after listening to evidence for months, some of the ablest men in England are still as far as ever from agreement respecting the most elementary principles which must govern legislation on the subject of trades unions. A commission made up of rival theologians could not have presented a spectacle of greater discord. The Daily Rem declares that if America and American institutions are to be perpetually referred to in parlia mentary debates, it would at least be well if honourable gentlemen who make the reference would confine them selves to matters within their own individual knowledge or experience. On such a question as the adoption in Ire land of the voluntary system in religion there is, however, every excuse for references to the example of a country which took the lead in the adoption of that system several generations ago. A comparison of its results in that country with the results of the opposite system on the continent of Europe, and with the mixed system in this country might throw very little light on the road along which all civilised nations are travelling. It is evident that voluntaryism in the United States hay amply provided for the religious wants of the people. No such provision as this exists even in England or Ireland ; and so far as church accommodation is concerned America far outstrips us all. Nor does this give the full view of the voluntary activitywhich religion exhibits when nopolitical connections entangle its action. All this has not only been done without church rates, without tithes, with out parliamentary grants, without endowments, but with the cowurrent demands of voluntary provi• sion for universities, and for all the needs scholarship and learning. In these, of course, America cannot eclipse the older world, but she is fast treading o n our heels. American example is, in fact, full of hope for the future of Ireland. It is clearly not only, as Sir Ronndoll Palmer says, "not less religions," but better provided with the material aids on which religion leans. Religion, put out of politics, takes its own place, and fill:: it well. It is lifted at once into a calmer atmosphere, and lives more naturally its spiritual life. It may no longer " raise its mitred head in courts and senates," but it sheds it quiet influence over common life, and does an humble but effectual work in the byways of the world. An Alabama paper announces that it will not hereafter. take PPYMMIt in dogs. DEATH OP THE EARL OF WICKLOW, Sir William Howard, third Earl of Wicklow, Viscount Wicklow, and Baron Clonmore in the peerage of Ireland, also some time lord-lieutenant of county Wicklow, died at his town residence, 2, Cavendish-square, on Monday morning, the 22nd instant. The deceased Earl, who was born in 1788, and succeeded his father in 1818, was elected in 1823 a representative peer for Ireland. In 1829, at the request of Lord Aberdeen, his brother-in-law and intimate friend, he seconded the Address in the House of Lords in support of Catholic emancipation. From that time he took a leading part in all debates relating to Ireland, and spoke frequently on the subjects of the tithe rent-charge and of the Irish Church generally, whose interests he always warmly espoused, while at the same time he insisted that the State ought liberally to endow the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. His lordship supported the bill for the removal of the Jews' ci. f il disabilities, and took some part in the debate on the bill for repealing the corn laws. Since the Earl of Aberdeen's death Lord Wicklow has gradually be• come less regular in his attendance at the House of Lords, but wal usually in his place to promote the interests of the Irish on oncasions such as the recent Fishery Bills. He was knonvn in Ireland as a kind and liberal landlord, and while in health made a point !of residing on his estate in that county during some portion of the year. His lordship was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1808. In 1816 he married Lady Cecil Frances, daughter of John, first Marquis of Abercorn, by whom he had issue seven daughters, three of whom survive him. The peerage and estates devolve on Charles Arnold, a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers, and aide-de-camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, son of the late Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard, a brother of the deceased. ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS. After the lapse c: several sessions without a Dilapida tion!! Bill, the Archbishop of York has laid before the House of Lords another bill upon the subject. The bill proposes, like its predecessors, the appointment of official surveyors ; they are to be chosen, not for a diocese, but for an archdeacoury, and by the archdeacon and rural deans, subject to the approval of the bishop. The sur veyors are to be paid, not by salary, but according to a rate of charges to be fixed in each diocese by the bishop, the archdeacons, and the chancellor. An incumbent of a benefice may at any time, at his own expense, .have the buildings belonging to his . 3enefice inspected by an official surveyor ; his report is to be subject to appeal to the bishop or archdeacon. On the incumbent executing the works, he and his estate are to be free for five years from all claims for dilapida tions, unless the bishop, on a vacancy occurring within the five years, shall consider that wilful waste committed makes a fresh inspection proper. If the surveyor certifies that, in consideration of the antiquity of the premises, or for other reason to be specified, the cost of the repairs ought to be spread over several years, then with the consent of the bishop Queen Anne's Bounty Board may lend money for the execution of the repairs, to be repay able by instalments out of the proceeds of the living. On the avoidance of any benefice, the incumbent not being free from liability, as above-mentioned, the arch deacon is to order an inspection of the buildings. If the surveyor's report of dilapidations is objected to, the arch deacon may direct a fresh survey ; and the order even tually made by the archdeacon will be subject to appeal to the bishop. If the amount finally ordered to be expended cannot be recovered from the late incumbent or his estate, or if there are repairs ordered for which he is not liable, the new incumbent may, with the consent of the bishop, borrow from the Bounty Board on the security of the benefice, the amount to be repayable from the proceeds of the living by instalments. The new incumbent is to pay to the Bountyßoard the sum required to make good the dilapidations, and it will be paid out as the works progress. There are several clauses of an incidental or miscellaneous character. The incumbent of every benefice hereafter becoming vacant is to insure from fire, and deposit the receipt from time to time in the bishop's registry. The bill does not appear to relate to houses of residence of bishops, deans, or canons. LAW AND POLICE. DECEPTIVE DIVIDENDS.—A case was on Monday heard before Vice-Chancellor Mailing respecting the Mercantile Trading Company, which was established during the American war for the purpose of running the blockade and procuring cotton. The application now made was on behalf of the official liquidator, who sought to compel the late manager, Mr. Stringer, to return to the company his portion of a dividend of £28,000, which, it was alleged, was not the result of profits, but of a loan from the Agra and Masterman• Bank. The Vice-Chancellor commented severely on the impropriety of obtaining loans to pay a dividend, and ordered the return of the money. WITHOUT A FINE.— A shoemaker of Northampton, who las lately made a practice of buying up the carcases of diseased animals, and sending them to the London market for human food, was on Monday convicted of the offence at Guildhall, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, without the option of a fine. THE ABERGELE ACCIDENT.—On Monday, at the open• ing of the Ruthin Assizes, the grand jury found a true bill against the driver and stoker of the goods train at Aber gele, which occasioned the fearful accident to the Irish mail last August. An indictment against the station master at Llandulas was also preferred but the bill was ignored. MANSLAUGHTER.--At the same assizes two brothers, named Jones, were indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Foulkes. They knocked him down, and kicked and beat him about the head with stones for twenty minutes. A verdict of manslaughter was returned, and sentence was deferred. DEATH AT THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. —At the Cam ' bridge Assizes, on Monday, George Clark, a young shoe maker pleaded guilty to the charge of causing the death of Mr. Lofts, late porter of Christ's College, on the polling day of the last Cambridge election. A disturbance arose between some undergraduates and townsmen, and the former took refuge in Christ's College. The gates were closed, but stones were thrown ; and one of them, thrown by Clark, struck Mr. Lofts in the eye, and he died in con sequence. The authorities did not press for punishment. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour. THE MURPHY RIOTS.—At North Shields, on Saturday, an Irishman, named James Machin, was charged with taking part in the r i o t i n S av ill e - s treet West, on Friday night, durin g M r . M urp h y ' s l ecture . H e was remanded tor a week. THE NEW POACHING ACT.—At the Bridgnorth County Sessions, on Saturday, William Bowen was fined is. and 13s. costs under the new Poaching Act. A constable, meeting him on the high road at half-past eleven in the morning, suspected he had been poaching, and wished to search him. Defendant refused to be searched in the highway, and hence the fine. There is a widow in Nashville, Tenn., 111 years old, who enjoys the pensions of three husbands, all of whom served in the Revolutionary war. Her name is Dinah Vies. She has 400 descendants. FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEAsritts IN THE SEED TRADE.—A meeting of the Agricultural and Horticul tural Association waeheld at the Freemasons' Tavern on Monday; Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., in the chair. The absence of any promise of immediate legislative action with the view of checking the adulteration of seeds, &c., and punishing those who use false weights and measures was generally regretted. Resolutions were passed affirm ing that the practices complained of could be dealt with only in two ways —by the action of Parliament, and through the instrumentality of co-operative associations. THE NEW TEADES MOVEMENT.—The first meet ing of the newly-formed Board of Conciliation and Arbi tration in the North of England iron trade district was held at Darlington on Monday. A representative had been appointed by Cie men from each of the works during the week, which, with one master from earth works, composes the board. The business lasted from eleven o'clock in the morning till a late hour in the afternoon. A standing committee was appointed, and other preliminary business transacted. The meeting was private. The wages question was discussed at great length, and it was ultimately resolved that the meetin g o f the board should be adjourned ; the standing committee is, in the meantime, to verify the masters' contract prices, and to report upon them. Pending a financial scheme, the men are to pay a penny per month, and the masters an equal sum. SIGNALLING IN TUNNELS. —A new system, afford ing a great security to the platelayers in the tunnels, is used in the Blaisey tunnel of the Paris and Marseilles line. The tunnel, 13,600 feet long, is s metimes very smoky, and she men had great difficulty in being properly warned of an approaching train. An insulated wire has been laid by the side of the tunnel sft. over the ground. The ganger of the platelayers is supplied with a portable electric bell that lie must suspend to the wire in the neighbourhood of the place where his men and himself are working. The electric communication is completed by an iron wedge in serted between two rails of the line, and connected by a wire to the electric bell. As soon as a train goes into the tunnel, the signalman of the clock system at the entrance of the tunnel sends an electric current in the wire and rings the hell continually until the signal, " line clear," is received from the other end of the tunnel —7lO 41_22iniera THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH . 23, 1E69 THY Fl YE-TWENTY BONDS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) thD Times' correspondent at Philadelphia simply recanted all he had written last year, to prove th. at the United States would pay the Five- Twenty Bonds in greenbarA s , he might be permitted toslide .out of his false I,osition, however awkwardly, but he :es the recantation by a f a l se states vent of co t m t p e a circumstances. He says :--- ae D aring rjac months past there has been a great change of sentiment in the United States on the subject of paying the debt. Last autumn, repudiation was openly advo cate d by many leading public men of both parties, and the greenback payment theory seemed to have taken Jtaplete possession of the Western States. The taxa tion of the bonds found a majority to support it in the House at the close of the last session ; and in order to hold their own in the West, against tho Democrats who claimed to be the special champions of repudiation, the Republicans throughout the Mississippi Valley either kept silence or had to advocate the green back theory. Now, however, all has changed. The sen timent of the country is unmistakeably in favour of an . . honest payment of the debt. One of the leading advo cates of Reputliation last year, General LOGAN, of Illinois, has publicly recanted, end come over to the honest ride. The same House that in July voted by a majority in favour of taxing tho bonds declared almost unanimously against it in February. The Congress that could not be brought to declare in favour of honesty before, has, under the pressure of public opinion, passed General SCHENCK'S Bill by large majorities in both Houses. Senator SHER MAN, of Ohio, who last spring reported that the bonds might under the law be payable in greenbacks, and that this ought to held as a rod over the bondholders to compel them to reduce the interest, is now the author of the amendment of the Senate which makes the bill even a ,ronger declaration of honesty than when it passed the Hcuse. The country is evidently determined to honestly pay all its debts and all the interest, and, to do this, is de termined to begin an era of economy, so that the world may see there is a surplus revenue sufficient to redeem some millions of debt every year. The new President is one of the strongest advocates of honesty in the country, and he intends to use all his energy, ability, and power to repress abuses, promote economy, and stifle Repudiation, so that the good opinion the world is forming of American credit may be maintained and strengthened." If be did not, be ought to have known that the sentiment of the country is not changed, that the intention always was, honestly, and in the most liberal construction of the contract, to meet every liability. There was much discussion, and a strong effort made by unscrupulous politicians to gain votes by raising the question. Unfortunately for the bondholders, and for the credit of the United States, the great Democratic party incorporated Repudiation as a plank of their platform, and it was this appeal to rascaldom that gave the Fubject a vitality the Republicans feared so much that they were compelled to shuffle and manoeuvre. We have all along asserted that the sentiment of the country never favoured it, but the tactics of politicians, the best proof being that the subject came up with the elections the more prominently as the party strife approached a climax. There may have been men deluded into the belief that more of their fellow-citizens were dishonest !ools than honourable men of sense, and perhaps even the dweller in the " Cit•y of Brotherly Love" might have enrolled himself among the number. Tey miscalculated, however, as they are• now com pelled to acknowledge, for the discussion of the question brought out so completely the strength of the bondholders' position, and that an attack on it by the people would be but an attem pt to destroy their own strong fort, that common sense alone, independently of honesty, was sufficient to deter them. The sen timent of the country, then, never did favour repu diation; and had the Democratic writers for the London press not been actuated by ulterior motives they would not so grossly have misrepresented it. Those motives we have before alluded to, but it is as well here more distinctly to point them out ; and in this we are aided by the Philadelphia corre spondent, whose letter appeared last Wednesday in the Times. Alluding to the rise in the Bonds and the fall in gold in New York he says : "These movements result from but one thing—the in creased confidence that is felt abroad in the credit and honest intentions of the United States, for American prices always follow and are ruled by the quotations of Five-Twenty Bonds in London." Now, admitting this, what was their object during the crisis of the late political struggle in America in depreciating to the utmostthe price of the Bondsin London? The attempt was made byDemocratic writers of a marked stripe, and they were successful, for they commanded the Times, the Standard, and other s g t r r e e a e t t L r e o fi n e d n o t u s n t e w s i r t i p n e e rs i . n L I o f n t d h n e n prn ce i n fl i elnVcainllg this market they influenced all. The Democrats were pledged to the doctrine of Repudiation, and what told most in their favour was the disgust created in the American mind by the low value set in every Bourse on the " promises to pay" of his country. That a nation continental in extent ; the greatest exporter of the chief staples grown; with railroads equalling in length those of Europe ; with telegraphs exceeding those of the world ; with a population considerably greater thanthat of the United Kingdom and all her colonies • with a debt not so large, but a growingTt b a II y to pay infinitely larger, should have its Bonds on a par with bankrupt, dishonest , or c t • on emptible Governments, was gall and wormwood. The world's belief in American dishonesty wasthus outspoken ;that is, the creditor allowed the debtor who could at pleasure escape the liability, to feel that he was held to be a dishonest scamp. Predictions of repudiation tend to their own fulfilment; and nothing is more an in centive to throw off a burden than that the person for whom it is carried should count it as worthless. When Six per Cent. Bonds were quoted in the Lon don market at between 60 and 70 they were ap praised at a greenback redemption rate, and it strengthened the argument of the Democrats to point to a fact proving that this was the opinion everywhere held by the dealers. Each fall on this side was an extra inducement to repudiate on the other ; but, on the contrary, if there had been such a rise as the Bonds have experienced in Europe since the commencement of the year, repudiation theories would have been annihilated, and with them every Democratic argument and chance. For this reason it was essential in the party advo cates to throw down the price in Europe, more especially on the London Stock Exchange —and hence their persistent efforts. Happily there is more sense in th© United States than they gave the people credit for, and their endeavours egregiously failed. It is very well now for the Philadelphia man to say that the feeling in the country has changed, consigning into oblivion the elaborate calculation by which he sifted Congress and as signed to the Representatives of each State their places on his Repudiation ticket. Nations and Legislatures do not change with such marvel lous rapidity ; and it must be remembered that the members whom he thus analysed had been elected on party questions, prominent among which was greenback redemption. Upon what ground, except one of his careful surveys, can he assert that the change he alleged has taken place? There has been no election to show the feeling of the country since, but it was, as shown by an election, that he then de clared it. It may now suit his purpose to shuffle out of his false teaching as it can no longer aid his party, and to attribute to the fickleness of the people the fact that they refused to follow the dishonest lead he had predicted with such certainty. We leave the dweller in the " City of Brotherly Love" on the horns of his own dilemma, to explain to his countrymen as best he may that the majority in the United States were not rascals, only, because they are so fickle. GEN. GRANT'S HEALTH AND HABITS.--Walk log down Pennsylvania-avenue this morning I met Gen. Grant on his black horse, trotting quietly towards his headquarters. He was never looking bettor in his life, a,nd the sight of him reminded me to state a fact about him in this letter, which I have known for some time. The general's physical condition is bettor than it has been for twenty years. His eye is clear, his hand firm, and ho has every appearance of robust health. Some time ago ho came to the decisi,n that ho would not use intoxicating liquors at public dinners which ho is com pelled occasionally . to ac ce pt. NVh at hi s habits are lv when at s own table with his wife and children I do not know, nor is it any business of mine or the public's; but everybody who has seen him at a dinner within six months gives the same report—•. Gen. Grant doesn't drink a drop." At the last sot dinner which he attended, as is the custom, half a dozen glasses were each plate. In a short tim e th e genera l' s wore not tasting a drop, till, becomi ng anno y e d by t aa h lrl e raf n uy u lel inb hb e ey r, or because they were in his way, he asked the servant to be kind enough to remove them. This I have from a gentleman who sat near him at the table. — Washington Car Detroit Tribune. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. been itz.. the most part a Siam: fight, and that Mir. Bright's speech was the first to give it a loftier and worthier tone l and was sustained by the eloquence of political conviction inspired by moral and religious feeling. Whatever may be the opinion as to the merits of the measure under discussion, there can be no doubt as to which of these two speeches more conveyed the idea of sincerity. Mr. Disraeli was witty and brilliant, and covered what was virtually a surrender under a fine display of elocutionary fire works. Mr. Bright spoke with all the feeling and the force of one who finds himself at last in a position to give effect to the convictions of a lifetime. THE REFORM LEAGUERS. Messrs. Beales (MA.) and Howell will certainly not lose anything by resigning their connection with the now defunct Reform League. Mr. Beales, it is said, will get a county-court judgeship, which should be equivalent to his retirement f rom political life; and Mr. Howell, having failed to get a seat in Par liament, has become private secretary to a gentleman who has been more fortunate than he. THE REVIVAL OP FENIANISM. The Dublin correspondent of the Times attaches very little importance to the alleged revival of Fenianism in Ireland. It is easy enough to make a great show with very small materials. Paper and ink cost little, and as there is a keen competition among the " national" papers, there is sure to be plenty of seditious stuff forthcoming to meet the demand of the editors. The " national tribute "in behalf of the liberated Fenians has been a ridiculous fiasco. There is one subscription of £lOO, another of £25 (from the patriotic Mayor of Cork), and then a long list of subscripttons, some of them as low as 2d., and amounting altogether to £146. So that the total amount is under £3OO. There seems to be a quarrel among the patriots, and both parties are in want of funds. The Times thinks that the chief da n g er to th e com munity lies not so much,if at all, in a renewal of the Fenian excitement and a fresh impetus to the conspiracy as in the development of the Riband system and the increase of agrarian crime. Outrages are of frequent occurrence. SECRET SOCIETIES. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Armagh likes Fenianism as little as the Beresfords like it. The Primate of Ireland could not denounce Fenianism more vigorously than his episcopal brother (or competitor ?) has done. He declar es o f Ribb on i sm that it was " conceived in da rkness , nourished by intemperance, supported by violence, treachery, and bloodshed : that thehideous monster spreads desolation wherever A penetrates. It has been the most power ful instrument in the hands of the ex t erm i na t or —the most powerful aid of the c r u e l p e tty ty ran t —it demoralises society, and extinguishes the generous instincts of our nature." He adds that " all secret societies are branded with the anathema of the Church, and the crimes of agrarian outrage and murder are condemned by the natural and Divine laws. The Church has always condemned these crimes. Murder cries to heaven for vengeance, and agrarian outrages attack the fundamental laws of society. Our rights and our liberties are not to be promoted by violence and bloodshed. Evil is not to be done that good may follow. But what good could come from the violation of God's law ? Or what services could the members of secret societies render to their country ?" He concludes by caution ing the young men o f I re l an d h ow th ey are d e l u d e d by emissaries who, pretending to be friends, are in reality the worst enemies of the country. TEE LAST DRUNKEN DRAMA. Leyman, a Sheffield grinder, said to be a very intelligent man, got drunk on Thursday night, and lay in bed on Friday to sleep off his debauch. His wife sent him up a c up of tea by the hands of their youngest child, a boy four years old. A few minutes later the drunkard came down stairs, and saying "Go and l oo k at Harry —h e i s dead," went out of the house. The wife rushed up stairs and found the child, a f ew m i nutes b efore well and happy, weltering in his blood, and quite dead. His father had all but severed his head from the body. This tale moves even the not very susceptible Daily Telegraph to ask, "When will human creatures cease to put an enemy their brains ? " into their mouths to steal away The answer is Never, so long as the publican is allowed to make men drunk ; never, so long as . the fr ee d om of this traffic i s considered of more importance than the lives of the 50,000 persons who are ev indirectly, by ery Year slain in this country, directly or drink. After all, the chief victim in this case is the best off. For him one innocent life has been exchanged for another. For the murderer fatheri there is the gallows ; for the doubly-bereaved mother and wife life-long anguish and shame. MR. FROIIDE ON ;10DERN EDUCATION. Mr. Froude's installation speech at St. Andrew's University w as education now an eloquent attack on the system of pursued in the schools and the univer sities. Deploring that poverty and education no longer went hand in hand that that the universities were rather institutions for training in luxury than places where the young were taught to bear poverty, he went on to shew that the whole university system was rotten at th e core. Children are taught when young mechanically, are given mere facts instead of ideas. When they become older they are expected to learn everything. But general information is equivalent to nothing whatever. Learn a special fact, and learn that well. "You cannot learn everything," said he; "the objects of knowledge have multiplied beyond the powers of the strongest mind to keep pace with them all. You must choose among them, and the only reasonable guide to choice in such matters is utility." And so lawyers were told to leave Greek to the dogs, and to grasp Latin, IN'orman French and Scotch law; doctors were told to confine themselves to French, German, and the subjects of their own profession, &c. Mr. Fronde is undoubtedly a great authority on such matters ; but is there not a danger lest such a course of study would lead to contracted minds ? A. doctor who is a doctor et preeterea nail is not the highest idea of a man. Mr. Froude's special subject, history, embraces and requires a smattering of all the sciences and a knowledge of many languages. However, it is not so with all professions. THE SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL. As a whole, the Commission of the General Assembly of the Scotch Free Church seem to be well satisfied with the Scotch Education Bill. There are several objections raised to it however. It has been unanimously resolved, for instance, " 1. That the proposals of the bill with reference to the parochial schools are far from satisfactory. 2. That while the institution of a Scotch board is good in preference to a management in London, that, with the view o f commanding th e con fid ence o f th e country, the constitution ought to be considerably modified, and that the meetin gs o f th e b oar d s h ou ld be public. 3. That the provision which requires the consent of the Central Board to the branches of education, resolved upon by the local parties, is objectionable, unless it be carefully guarded, espe cially as regards the teaching of religion, according to the use and wont of Scotland. 4. That it is essential to the right Working of the bill, with reference to adopted schools, that the central authority of such a body as the Free Church be effectively recognised. 5. That it is also essential to the right working of the bill that the proposed power of the board to require managers of adopted schools to repair and enlarge their schools at their own expense should not be vested in the board. O. That the provisions in regard to testing the qualifi cations of teachers, and other matters affecting their interests, are not sa tisfactory," We have yet to learn the opinions of the General Assembly of the Esta blished Church, nIVAL BISHOPS. At the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, on Sunday morning, the incumbent, the Rev. R. T. West, spoke with great delight respecting the conse cration of Mr. Macrorie. He denounced Bishop Colenso as a " miserable man" and a " traitor," who had denied the divinity of our Lord and the inspira tion of Scripture. He announced that after the evening service the "Miserere," which was tohave been chanted., would not be sung, hut that the " Te Deurri" would be sung instead by way of thanksgiving for the consecration of the new bishop. It is worthy of note that in all the denunciations of Bishop Colenso which are dealt both from High Church and Low Church pulpits no shadow of evidence is ever given in support of the charge of treachery, in sup port of the assertion that the Bishop has denied the divinity of our Lord. It is assumed that he has done so, and he is condemned on that assumption. Doubtless he has said much that sober-minded Chris tians will regret and censure; but the charge made against him by Bishop Gray and his friends in Eng land is a specific one, an d should, if made, be sup • ported by chapt er and verse out of the Bishop's writings. The Times has a leader upon the state of affairs in South Africa. It attaches great importance to the consecration of Mr. Macrorie, because, having the power to ordain, he will be able to multiply the clerical representatives of his prine',lcs, and there will thus be a constantly-increasing &mud of clergy arrayed against each other, who will daily spread division among Church of England con gregations and nistic buildings p er petuate the schism in antago and hostile functionaries. In England this resort to extreme measures has, with all our wide theological differences, been avoided ; bit there are signs that the quar rel in Africa will extend to England. Sho u ld it do so, the Times believes that the end of the Established Church will soon come. State functionaries will refuse to be embroiled in the 1 quarrels of Churchmen, and the disestablishment movement, which is even now receiving a great impetus from the chief measure of the day. will become irresistible and complete. TUE HONOURS OF TIIE DEBATE. It is amusing to see how the political journals of both parties attempt to treat the Irish Church debate from the position of impartial spectators. Says the Mornin g Herat/ : " IN T e cannot think we are too confident in assuming that the result of the great debate thus far has been a substantial gain to the cause of the Irish Church. The honours of the debate unquestionably rest with the Conserva tives. Mr. Bright's declamation essay notwithstanding, it must be conceded that the Ministerialists have altogether failed to answer or argue clown the speeches of Mr. Disraeli and Dr. Ball." On the other hand, the Daily Telegraph declares that Mr. Disraeli bail -abandoned the Irish_ Church. that .thaidahatelas VOLUNTARYISM IN AMERICA. An American writes to the Times on the volun tary support of religion in the United States. He complains of the manner in which Dr. Ball disposed of the subject in the House of Commons the other night. He declares that his countrymen are a reli gious people, and the voluntary system has been successful among them. The various denomina tions meet the necessity of erecting churches to supply the wants of the increasing popu lation with promptitude and liberality. With respect to the salaries of English and American clergy, he is convinced that the voluntary system will suffer nothing in comparison. All the great denomi nations of America are in prosperity, and out of these have sprung the numerous colleges which maintain courses of instruction that would do no discredit to Oxford or Cambridge. The American does not assume to say what is best for England or Ireland, but if our questions are to be settled by suggestions which are furnished by American experience, he desires that such experience should be taken as it is. THE IRISH CHURCH. Lord Oranmore and Browne writes to the Daily Telegraph giving his objections to the Irish Church Bill. "I object to its provisions," he says, " because the powers given to commissioners are unprece dented and unconstitutional, because they are untrue to the preamble, dishonest as touching private endowments, and that, while they ignore the claims of the Protestant laity, they deal more favourably with the interests of those clergy who had no claims on Church funds than with the just claims of the clergy of the Church itself." His lordship chiefly addresses himself to what we may call the denominational objection. He points out that reformatory and industrial schools, institu tions for training nurses, deaf and dumb asylums, and refuges for those of weak intellect are carried on by the energy of the different sects ; the larger number of the population being Roman Catholics, a larger number are tended by friars and nuns. The end of the lives of these persons is to convert to Romanism. In giving the money to these people, 111 r. Gladstone will be giving it towards the propaga tion of Popery. The preamble of the bill declares that the endowment shall not be used for the teach ing of religion. The measure itself disregards the preamble. Lord Oranmore goes on to say that the measure will please the Catholics, but is a palpable insult to Protestants. He finishes his epistle by abusing the Roman Catholic clergy and extolling the virtues of the Protestants. While the latter are all that can be wished, the Roman Catholic priests, as a body, and the lower orders of Irish led by them, are now, as ever, religiously and politically hostile to the English and Protestant connection. They look for the establishment of a national and Socialist Republic, in which the Roman Catholic clergy expect to have a dominant influence. The more that is yielded to violence, the more will be demanded, backed by still greater violence, which soon will pro duce feelings of bitter hostility between class and class, and religion and religion, ending by Great Britain having again to reconquer Ireland. THE GOVERNMENT AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was waited upon on Saturday by members of the Meteorological Society, who asked for a participation in the grant of £lO,OOO made annually by Parliament to the Royal Society. Mr. Lowe, in return, gave the deputation what he himself called a lecture. Going out of the way usual on such occasions,he gave at some length his opinions on granting State money to voluntary II )cieties. He was entirely and altogether opposed to the Govern ment doing anything of the kind. They were economising ; that was one insuperable difficulty in the way. But even if there were plenty of money to spare he should be opposed to giving anything to the Meteorological Society. He would do nothing on the part of the Ministry which the people could do for themselves. "As long as people are left to their own exertions, they do most admirably well, and they make their money go far. People found schools, for instance, with the greatest enthusiasm and the greatest wish to promote the interests of education and of religious teaching ; they make great sacrifices, and do a great deal of most praise worthy work; but from the moment they begin to finger Government money, it seems as if it produces a revolution in their minds, and the whole object of the schools seems to be perverted froin the real intention of the people who founded them, and directed to the getting the greatest possible amount of Government money." He therefore advised the society to have nothing to do with such money, but if the public did not support them, to withdraw operations until their need was fully felt. THE REPRESENTATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION, At present this association, which has for its object the adoption of Mr. hare's scheme of representation, is making little progress. it has received several influential accessions to its ranks ; and Mr. Morrison is endeavouring to get one of its members, Professor Fawcett, added to the select committee of the House of Commons charged with examining into the mode of conducting elections. No doubt, under any circumstances, Mr. Aare will have an opportunity of explaining his system to the committee. It is no mere theory, but is actually in operation in Norway. The association considers that the present device for the representation of minorities is a misnomer. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. - - - (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, March C. George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times, arrived by the steamer Samaria, much improved in health, and lost no time in hurrying to Washington to keep Grant straight in his Cabinet and on the Alabama question ; for the editor of that sporting journal is far from confining himself to sporting mat ters. Col. M'Clure has published. a card in explana tion of his interview with Gen. Grant, about which he says the papers have given au erroneous impres sion. He merely went there to present a letter from the Hon. John M. Read, which evidently im pressed the General, and led to a conversation on the Cabinet. He urged no one, but earnestly bogged, that representative Republican politicians should be selected. Like Uriah Heap, he now turns out to be a " 'umble individual," who would not pre sume to insist on any partic u l ar man as the confiden tial adviser of the President. It was reported here, early in the week, that Mr. John A. Cisco would be selected for the Treasury Department, and he left those who questioned him under the impres sion that he had been communicated with on the subject. Among those who have started for Wash ington, whose name is "legion," are a number of pickpockets, who will, I dare say, be more success ful as pocket-seekers than the crowd who have gone as office-seekers. Central Park is to have another statue ; a marble monument of Alexander Von Humboldt will be erected on the hundredth anni versary of his birth, which will be the 14th of next September. Baron Von Gerolt is one of the Committee. We have had some bitter weather, so cold as to dispel the expectation of reaching Albany by boat as yet, and the ice is now reported to be very thick above West Point. Here, as elsewhere, the gas is complained of. When I was in London I was told that nowhere else was it so yellow, dim, and impure, and looking at a lighted lamp through a fog at night, I was compelled to admit the truth, while on one, bright and frosty, I was equally sure that 'Cockneys did their gas companies injustice. New Yorkers have male such a fuss about their illuminators that the State Legislature has sent a committee, who sit at the St. Nicholas Hotel, to inquire into the subject, and the gas is being analysed, and the pieces are to be held by the savans under the noses of the directors of the New York, Manhattan, and Harlem Companies. _These people, however, hold their noses so high that nothing gasa is t expected to come of it. By furnishing bad exorbitant prices they have accumulated great wealth, and we all know what the wealthy can do here. They have only to rob the public en masse and wholesale, and dole out to the public's protec tors a portion of the plunder. 'I here are a few philanthropists, seine people term them a nuisance, who are more than ordinarily active at present. Paul Bagley is one; but he, Congressmen rejoice to know, is on your side to get the Fenians liberated. May he make China his ultimate destination, n ow that the death of King Theodore has left no pri soners in Abyssinia for him to look up ! Mr. Bergh's philanthropy takes another direction ; for he is the friend of the beast. He wants to make smooth the path of the lamb to the slaughter and the horse with its load. He has just been making a tour of the city, and the drivers have bad a gentle hint that his eye was on them, and that the laws for the pro tection of animals would be enforced. WASHINGTON, March 5. We bad a week of great excitement, as we had to instal General Grant as President of the United States. Washington is literally crowded. The national imagination has been spurred by the secresy with which the Cabinet appointments have been kept, and every office-seeker is fired with the hope that his man may be brought in. We have fifteen new Senators, and a crowd of new Representatives ; we have nathering of Governors, naval and military men of distinction, among them Admiral Farra gut and General Sheridan ; we have editors, the most active of whom is Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent. Horace Greeley is also here, and George Wilkes, just arrived from Europe. The Union League of America is in session, and there are men of mark connected with that organization. They commenced business by filling posts as follows : —The Hon. John W. Geary, Governor of Penn sylvania, was elected National President ; G. W. Godard, of Brooklyn, Vice-President; and Thom s C. Baker, of New York, National Secretary. The following were elected to the National Executive Committee from New York :—Geo. H. Van Cleft, Waldo Hutchins, Geo. S. M'Waters, Wm. V. Alex ander, and Jacob M. Patterson, jun., with Messrs. C. W. Godard, Volney Green, and Joseph Reeve from Brooklyn. Washington is unlike any other place in the world, for there is no other city so wholly and purely political. At one time filled to overflowing and rampant with excitement, at an other dull, silent, and intensely stupid. At inter vals it boils up till it furiously blows off steam, but never have we been blowing away so much as within the last few days. Every corner is occupied, every hotel filled, the talk is incessant, for every little politician has his own Cabinet, and private but reliable information. The Rev. Dr. Punshon is in the crowd. Ex-Governor Hamilton Fish has. seen Grant, and men say that he will be Secre tary of State. Governor Cox has come up as the most likely for Ohio, but, strange to say, he is not here. Stuart, of Philadelphia, is, but it is doubted now whether he is Grant's choice. A. T. Stewart is also here ; the difficulty is not in telling you who is here, but who is not. It is hard to say whether the outgoing or the incoming President is most pestered with callers. Grant would be if the road were open, but it is not so easy to get an in terview, and when got it is generally very unsatis factory. Andrew Johnson is most worried for par dons. If half is to he believed of the loose talk picked up in the streets and at the bars, he must be driving a roaring trade in pardons; but few who coolly assert this believe it themselves. Callicott, after desperate efforts, has failed, and his friends say that it was because his funds were insufficient. Spangler and Arnold, implicated in Lincoln's mur der, have been released from the Dry Tortugas, which finishes the list of those connected with that tragedy. Numerous other pardons have also been obtained. The last reception was on Tuesday, and the White House was a picture. It was not a mov ing but a jammed, blocked up crowd. The carriage way was filled with ladies and gentlemen in evening dress, while the building was already occupied by those who had assembled early, and rushed iu when the doors were opened. The efforts made to get in were considerable, but nothing compared to those to get out. Hats, cloaks, wraps were lost, and a woman who went in elegantly dressed came out battered and torn. Several fainted, and it was im possible to procure an exit till some files of soldiers cleared the way, as the police were powerless. Scenes so congenial almost make an honest man turn pickpocket, but there was no necessity thus to improve the occasion, for those were there whose trade it was, and three were cap tured in the act. The refrain of John Brown arose from the outside, and it is passing strange that that should be the last tune that greeted Andrew John son's ear in the Executive Mansion. His daughter, Mrs. Patterson, left it next day for the house of the Secretary of the Navy, and the President becomes the guest of M. John Coyle of the lntelligencer. On the 4th, the crush and the excitement culmi nated. I suppose you will publish full accounts of what was done on Inauguration Day. Mad it not been for the rain the scene would have been worth coming hundreds of miles to see ; as it was, it im pressed every beholder, so stupendous was the gathering. To-day President Grant took Mrs. Grant to the White House, but admitted no visi tors to the Executive Office. There he awaited notice that Congress was ready to receive any communication, which he received from Commit tees of both Houses at a quarter past 2 p.m. Gene rals Schofield and Howard, and Admiral Farragut, however, managed to see him, as did Senator Joshua Hill, of Georgia. Commissioner Rollins has re signed, and received a very complimentary letter from General Grant. Ex-Senator Wade bid the President good-bye before leaving for Ohio. Ex- Secretary Welles ordered a general court-martial to meet before retiring ; his assistant Mr. Faxon returns to Connecticut. The crowds are now hurrying away with the same eagerness with which they came. Five thousand tickets were sold at the Baltimore depot in eight hours, extra trains were put on, but the impatient multitude made such dis turbance that thirty were arrested. MAIL PACKET SUBSIDIES. Mr. SEELY carried his motion to refer to a Select Committee the contract made by the late Govern ment with the Messrs. Cunard and the Inman Com panies for the carriage of mails to the United States. Throughout the speech of the hon. member was plainly marked by animus against a company which has done more within late years to uphold England's nautical fame in America than the British fleet. The contract had been cut to the lowest point by the close shaving of the Conservative Government; indeed to so low a figure that these two great com panies could not have accepted it, had not the exigencies of their position compelled them to kee p afloat the finest fleets, toward s the maintenance of which the trifle offered by the Government was but a help. The interference of Mr. SEELY appears to be wholly uncalled for, and had Parliament fully un derstood the circumstances, the agreement made by the late Postmaster-General would have been heartily concurred in. What Mr. SEELY wants is what we all desire—to get something for nothing. It would be very nice if the Cunard and the In man, the North German Lloyd, and the Hamburgh and American Companies, would, without expense to the national exchequer, keep vessels steaming across the ocean, at 13 and 14 knots an hour, carrying our mails, and forcing their way in spite of sea or weather. He seems to think that the nation can 1 get them to do so for nothing, an error which will soon be exploded. The Hamburgh line, which he justly says, have some of the fastest boats afloat, for a period ceased to touch at Southampton, when the subsidy was withdrawn, yet the hon. member dis cusses their vessels as if the Government could com mand them without payment. Mr. SEELY'S speech is replete with erroneous statements. The subsidy paid to companies and the postal rate have no connec tion. The nation may gain or lose; it may be more profitable to have a high than a low tariff, or a Penny may really return more to the Treasury than a sixpenny rate, but this is a matter with which the companies have nothing to do. What they undertake is to start a powerful steamer at a given hour on a certain day to and from England and New York, the passage to be performed, and the mails transmitted within a certain time. That this should be done with the utmost regularity and speed is the essence of the whole question to the com mercial community. A penny postage would be a boon to the people, but the other conditions are a necessity to both continents; indeed, rapidity of communication ranks far before the cost of postage. When Mr. SEELY therefore strikes at the subsidy he damages the essential point, for there must be an inducement, or no people in their senses would undertake to perform so expensive and onerous a task. The animus of his attack ou the Cunard Company is shown throughout his speech. From the Ist of January, he said, the commencement of the contract, to the Bth of Feb., sixteen voyages had bceu made by the Cunard and the Inman steamers, nine of which exceeded time. Why did not Mr. S&ELY add, that there never had been known in the „ ~.. Atlantic a period of such frightful gales? Wh at the companies undertook to do could not better be illustrated than by this period, for they h ad to drive their costly boats through seas which shook the vessels from stem to stern so as to test their strength and shorten their career, and that they performed the work so well is the marvel, considering the fe e quent accidents that happened to other vessels. Agol he says that the Messrs. CUNARD were n ot bui tell ldil any new steamers—and why here, also, did he not the reason ? being well aware that the ver y he was then making, had induced that con:weal to stop such expensive work. Had he said s o he viod have effectually answered his own remar ks ; for eve! the possibility of the contract being rejected Ab once put an end to the construction of fa st stearacvr: by the greatest of all steamship companies' without a will get as good a service, he maintains, motion subsidy ; yet the Hamburgh Con3paaY their fast line from Southampton whe n their OD sidy ceased, and the Cunard stopped building 1111°1 their contract was even jeopardiz pp ed. He co uld re fleet on the want of patriotism of the latter CI; pany and the novelty of a private firm placing i ts ' in opposition to the power of Parliame nt ; be t vi . o can assure the hon. member for Lincoln, Patri°.tia or not, that the firm alluled to have don e the patio! , our:service he little understands in upholding its reputation. English men-of-war do not ell' 2t ° il l York. For reasons into which some da y we we, inquire, Her MAJESTY'S ships seldom or nielx.. touch at ports of the United States. Wi til°l Lb e le ception, the Republic is the country most cable to impresswith the idea of England's nava l s treag yet it is the one maritime nation which never siei; her men-of-war. But if in New York 00 i l :lh a t frigate upholds the grandeur of the Unio n jae'' th, flag floats over vessels of unequalled size, etre 4 l) ° o3s . and beauty, belonging to this and otherEagli sliPr r der It is impossible to traverse the ocean in a C utia i - An d without being impressed with the might of Eng"rge on the sea. That vessels of such tonnaga and ho power, navigated by scientific gentlemen, a n ' 133 ,:0a taining the exactness of a naval discipline, sm°o3o t be owned by a private firm, con ve y passengers an exaggerated notion o f ivh°o the es, Navy must be of such a nation. These are a cts, not talkit little becomes a member (for an 3 : joa cultural place in England, too 1) 0 call in ( P e ' the patriotism of a company whose fa me is 'rand wide, reflecting no small credit on the country, afely who during so lengthened a period hav e S . transferred from shore to shore with extraordinary speed and comfort the greatest number of 17 . sengera and mail bags ever carried without ef u to dent. Nor would it become the Governmen_taii, throw overboard their most important Ocean 14i tile while enormous subsidies are continued tnwest Peninsular and Oriental Company an d the e s. ,r India Royal Mail boats.—Ang/o-American an ARRIVAL OF THE S 3 "INDIA" FROM NEW 1 u -- 0, —The Anchor line steamer India, Captain 11- D. gunr c eo has just returned from New York, bringing a large r a o r n 'a of American produce, 45 steerage and intern 23 saloon passengers. Cabin passengers: Miss Wi l e y' I O, Mollis b, Miss Cushing, Mr James Mollison, Mr WO' . Bob Mr Matthew Mollison, Miss Robb, Mr Jal tle ; A, WS Miss Mary King, Captain Meehan, Rev. Mr f,i o perr Ind and family, Rev. R. Shippers, Mr J'..,.' - v . ` s ong: Mr F. L. Messenger, Mr S. Carskey, Mr. Id. ' c ; , nO .O in ediate , Miss Catherine Hunt, Mr Alex. Lochhead. At a - rsa P re of the passengers, at which Joseph Shipper' it li. sided, the following resolution, offered by the Re v ' .. n y n S i h m ip o p u e s n iy , a p u a d ss se ed eo : Ile , d by the Rev. T. M. Ind, were ' ors tat' Pa see t to Resolved, that we, of the steamship India, tender our cordial than"beir Captain Munro, his fellow-officers, and crew, ior toe watchful care and courteous attention, wh ich _ a nd rendered our voyage across the Atlantic Safe trop , pleasant, and we heartily commend them to the e P a la te st ago of the travelling public. The India is th Or b addition to the Anchor fleet. This large a nd 61113 ' Win° in r s vessel is of iron, bark rigged, and built by gees- • e d the Simons and Co., of Renfrew, last year, being launch inches, 2d of July, 1868. Her length cn deck is 315 feet 6 . 10 and over all 330 feet 2 inches. She has a breadth oi he bt of 36 feet, a depth of hold of 22 feet 4 inches, a loader ettg_,,, of 20 feet 6 inches, and is 2,500 tons burden Brish Inthee'rA surement. She has three decks, the depth het ween f t hese respectively being 7 feet 6 inches. Upon each e" k is of no es decks are iron plate stringers of large si ze and bull is to materially strengthen them. The tic u berho tte 7 wrought iron plates 1 4 inches in thickness on which decreases but three-eighths of an inch l° iinY %%a tion. Her floors are of double angle iron, of ordinary doublewidt h r i a v n e d t ed. thickness , she s l ore t extentafintdtel:lewr with bix pla t e s are to 9 ' Pe at g,„t bulkheads, which are of iron, one-half and five-eighthirsh% an inch in thickness from engine-room to after hol d ' 11, water tanks are capable of containing 4,000 gallons ofeaacoo and the apparatus for condensaticn has a 01%00' ear erater-ilPf a g„gtl3- gallons and upward every 24 hours. The 6 teeri r has all the modern improvements and great streroced l'roperly rigged, one half being provided w ing ove r the lowering apparatus, are six lifeboats hangipg cife ctia; upper deck. She is fitted with compound inc hes direct-s la eines, aving four cylinders—two being of 72 ideS diameter- with a stroke of piston of three feet. T s " t iog these there are steam pumps, fire pumps, steam 11 , a r ' s od apparatus, and all else that vessels of this chas;oenoo service require in abundance. She has ample a c being dation' for 120 cabin passenr., the state rooma„rstol, roomy and comfortable, and th e ' saloon, richly de e " be ing is 90 feet in length, one of the articles of furniture „he an excellent piano. The American papers assert thlotlae Anchor Line will establish a conn ection hetvreen Mediterranean and the United States in summe r ' dpa A 1, 24th, meeting of the shareholders of the fi ll B Bay Company has been called for Wednesday, t'faersoce to consider Lord Granville's proposal for the trans„sosda. of the Hudson's Bay territory to the Dominion of hall sa r- Lord Granville proposes that the compani a-rotoent, render to her Majesty all their rights of g o vern'' of Drl property, &c., in Rupert's Land and other Partsd to th e tish North America, which will be tran,ferre Dominion of Canada upon Canada paYing the d comp ass. ri £300,000 in compensation for their territory a nd .. i ,htS It is proposed that the company shall retain their IT i b 'P ow ; of trade, their. stations, and blocks of land adjoineg_ 000 and they shall, moreover, be allowed to ctirWithiA twentieth of the land in every township or distr . . r set tle what is called the Fertile Belt, as it is set otlt I .°, ~,0 the ment. Nor are any exceptional taxes to be law '.' company's land, trade, or servants. # an d Pille d LADVERTISEMENT.I-110110Way'S ointment thes ge Many aggravating sores stand ready to pounce upon the when an accident weakens any part, or over -fatigue mou e _ u r ia itoll to wet or cold have irritated the nerves, rendered 131:partial sensitive by the distended condition of the veins, and t .,„ te or ill obliteration of their valves. This ointment is most g c,, a fter curing all cases of ulceration, abscesses, and bad ni e then' *ll every other means have faled, utterly unendurable. Soon after the applicaLion of t , Z at i e t coolness and comfort are obtained in the a ff ected part , i l u ope f t il, as finds himself more at ease, and daily becomes Mor t : ~,..,„ des and the sufferings frohe o,_tinent w fo i r tdeparting pains a visible growth of granal ;•11." • ado° COOP .24 [ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Dyspepsia(ln di g estion), oh, liver by Consumption, hiptieovne,ryinstigiellanreervoorinlys,abgilflocus, stonl accele rated by druo• graviavteedureanbra 1 , 4 17 , 0 , of every description, but per e 0 .. ~ a mo ve d °,.. 7 0 Earry's healerestoring Revalenta Arabic& Fo 41, t',Js. su , n ' O, thousands of cases which had been considered h0Pe00,09,10... °u g h, "alma, also diairhcea, htemorrhokls, Wei ts diP bt" - 11a.talency, nervousness, biliou-ness, fevers, sore tbros. _..., the ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza:noises in the beadneaaa,e%.' i...- Fttatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, . _ 7 ea dsc , . %lA.* aleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartoorm.„: e on 0 . . s icknlr t i g htvon a oility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofti2t.,„.ess thu of the chest, pains at the lof the stoniach an eeT tor od bY Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68 . 413—" shoulders, &c. We quote a few --The Popes heel'il-re.%66--The especially sinc, to Da health of the Holy Father is excellent, ing all other remedies, he has confined himself e u n ni tir; J a pi ate: tarry's Ilevalenis, Arabica Food, of which he el ls .,.br ebeneficla_t f e _l at every meal. It has produced a snort? nelt,o ex Caf e Erect on his health. and his Holiness caray! °f ". Car. food too highly.—From the Gazette " aukdi,' har t ` F ouleY , No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, 'lungs No. wood liver Rome, July V, Ifbandov, Surrey, of thirty yea-a' diseased lungs , sPittingn—Lord SOTS ded.pment, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,7 s , s , dypps!a• de Deems, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of inan.Y Y,F ,„ dyopePs' No. 49,8a—"Fifty years' indescribable agonY ir,°— apasras, sickness, e and vomiting.—Maria Joly.' nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flstuleq 0,403.--* D are of the many unsavoury and more than s op . p. , , is moat M um ' to which. without auth r't Ba n Liebig's Won' ciously attached. o ' y, ro i is • 12 11 °' linP°rit-anl iititatioLs In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb. 25. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbS• „,b000 0 " 225. ; •., 4 lbs, 40s, —Also Du BARRY's ItsvALENTA ARS LT 2 " B fo r 24 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisLers ; :or 13 cups 7 , I i cuPe 55s. —being C a s at 3s. 6d., fo-.• 48 cups at 65., for 288 cops et Os.; _e d 658. titiS 3.°T of Post Ogle! about one penny pee cup. The ent free of carriage in England on receip don; er. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Ord and all Grocers and Chemists. _____._-... Regent-street, Lon Births. GRENFELL—On the 22d inst., a t 29, South-street, Dire. 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