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Sets, 5,7, 10, and 15 uineas, warranted. For the cffica-y, utility, and success of Olt system, 'vide " Lancet. ' Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-para_e, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Szarbro'. _ - 'lc* 'No connection with any one of the saute name. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, sh. 25m.—Afternoon, sh. 45m. To-Moußow.-Morning, 6h. Om.—Aftemoon, Gh. 20m. • - 4' • 7 1 - 1 4. Wd l ifft (4,. tv-ppelo LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1865. --411. The Austrian Reichsrath makes a favourab e appearance when contrasted with the Prussian Chambers. The latter presented a series of alter cations and discussions alike injurious to the con stitution and undignified to the nation, whereas in Vienna a much more happy state of things has supervened. Yesterday both Houses of the Reichsrath were closed, and universal satisfaction seemed to prevail. The speech on the occasion was quite- a congratulatory one, and thus presented a striking contrast to the conclusion of the represen tative assemblies of the Prussians. The Archduke LCDWIG VICTOR read the address, which commenced by acknowledgment of the " patriotic zeal and inde fatigable activity" that had been displayed by the members. With one thing and another, they have had -to decide upon several important subjects during this session, but doubtless in the ceaseless whirl of passing events some of these may have been forgotten. A glance at this address will serve to refresh the memories of those who are not quite au fiat in these matters, and they will find that the period that has been occupied by the sitting of the houses has not been profitless and uneventful. On the 'contrary, it may be affirmed that it has been momentous as concerns public affairs, and highly creditable to those who have taken part in the discussions. Commercial matters have occupied a considerable time, and great progress has been made in this important item. The Austrians have improved very much in this respect of late years, and taken a stride that has surprised many who were accus tomed to their tardy management and prejudiced views on such subjects. The general prosperity of the country has testified to the advantages of such schemes of commercial intercourse and trade, and, therefore, the members of the Reichsrath have ap propriately devoted much time to their furtherance and fulfilment. A treaty has been entered into with the States of the Zollverein that has received the Imperial sanction, and promises well for the future. A well-grounded hope is expressed in this Speech that " this Convention will materially add to the welfare of the country," both by the exten sion of industrial powers and intelligence, and by the exercise of the advantages which it opens. The wants of the Administration have been met by the Budget of 1865, which end was attained by the united efforts of both Houses. In this respect likewise we may observe a difference between Austrian and Prussian management, for the Budget was the stumbling-block in the deliberations that took place between the Ministers and the Deputies, and at last the KING has adopted the unconsti tutional course of sanctioning the proposals rejected by the Chambers. In Vienna we find, on the other hand, that they have contrived to frame and pass a measure that has afforded universal satisfaction, and completely answered the expectations of its authors. Economy has been the prevailing feature in the efforts made by bothllouses, and it is here mentioned that it could not be carried to a greater extent, without " weakening the strength of the monarchy at home, as well as its position abroad." When the domestic matters have been duly com mented upon, the address goes on to say that the preservation of European peace will be the " con stant endeavour," as it has always been the aim, of the EMPEROR'S Government. The relations with Prussia are rather in an awkward state just at present, but the difficult subject is got over very successfully in the speech before Us. It is intimated that the EMPEROR will, in conjunction with his illustrious ally the King of PRUSSIA, " strive t o conduct the Schleswig-Holstein question to a ~olut ion compatible with the interests of entire Ger many, and with the position of Austria in the Ger manic Confederation." It is worthy of notice that we do not meet in 'the passage that touches upon this important topic, with the expression of a hope that the desired result will be gained, still less is there a glimpse of expectation visible. It is signi ficant, also, that the interests of " entire Germany " arc specially put forth, that being an aim quite beyond the margin of Prussian policy. The neces sary regard to tLe position of Austria is also neglected by the Berlin schemers ; and hence, con ciliatory as it may sound, this mention of the Schleswig -holstein subject in the speech is capable (4 a construction anything but friendly. Much will depend upon the manner in 'hich the intimation is received in Prussia, and the light in which they read the expression there. They may consider them as a warning and take heed to their ways, or they may look upon them as a mere Ministerial declaration to keep up appear ances at home without compromising themselves abroad. The address concludes with the expression of a hope that the best results may ensue by the " common treatment of the rights, duties, and in terests which are the same in all the provinces." There is reason to believe that the adoption of such a course will form a " firm tie of union between all the peoples of the Empire." If the statesmen of Austria follow the wise course that is here indicated, the result will no doubt be most satisfactory. It may certainly be affirmed that in many respects this speech at the close of the session of the Reichs rath has been a very successful one, and has adverted to labours that have been carried on with assiduity conducive to the general interests of the country, and important as testifying to the progress of the community in commercial enterprise and extended trade. The only plan in the affair, if there be one, is the allusion to the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, but as that knotty point is not likely to be speedily or satisfactorily settled, it was impossible to make mention of it in the list of successes at home or abroad. The motion, of which notice was given, was yesterday brought forward in the Federal Diet and referred to the Com mittee on Holstein affairs without discussion. The introduction of this new proposal into the matter will, no doubt, tend greatly to complicate the affair. The demands here made are reasonable enough, although it is not likely that Herr VON BISMARCK will accede to them in any respect, or with any modifications. The incorporation of Schleswig with the German Confederation is about the last thing to suit the purposes of Prussian policy, and, in fact, will be so inimical to them that its mention alone will occasion the refusal of the whole of the requests made. It was not to be expected that under the circumstances the Federal Diet would much longer remain quiescent after the many affronts it had received. The aspect which the negro question has assumed in America is becoming more and more unsatisfac tory. The rapid diminution of the number of blacks has become so remarkable that men are sepiously speculating whether the great social and political problem is not in a fair way to settle itself by the extinction of the ill-used and ill-fated race. In New Orleans, and its vicinity, the negroes are dying off so fast that the local journals have been discussing the chances of extinction. In the Southern cities the registries show the extent of the terrible mortality among them, but in the woods and wilds they perish unknown and unnumbered. The sudden removal of the protection, as well as the restraints of slavery in a time of deartt and scarcity, has produced most disastrous results. The negro has always been stigmatised for his laziness, but now, if he is willing to work, he has not the opportunity. All outlay is stopped by the severity of the official restrictions, and the seizure of property which has already begun further paralyses the energies of the Southern States. If the freedman is inclined to stay and work for his former master, who can scarcely find food for himself and his household, he is glad enough to be relieved from the charge of keeping him. He wanders about in search of food and work until he ends his miserable life in the woods of Carolina, or in some of the Southern cities. It has, therefore, become evident that the Govern ment must do something. They have incurred the responsibility by the abrupt and enforced liberation of the slaves, and by the wilful destruction of Southern produce, and the severity of their confisca tion clauses. The $20,000 exception clause has completely arrested enterprise in the South, and the establishment of the Confiscation Department at Richmond has given a form to men's fears which no assurance of official justice and moderation can alter. No one attempts to deny the melancholy condition of the negro at present, and indeed the accounts are so unanimous that it would be impossible to do so. It is little more than a mockery of sympathy and humanity to talk about giving the franchise to the negro while he is perishing of want and sickness. A series of regulations has just been issued on the subject, in which it is ordained that regular con tracts shall be necessary between master and ser vant, employer and employed, and the Government farms will give employment to as many negroes as possible. A monthly report is to be henceforth published on these Government farms ; but however successful they may prove they can only support a very small portion of the whole body of the negroes, and what is to become of the remainder is now a question more pressing than the restoration of the Union, or any other political problem. The Washington Government has work enough before it ; while the condition of the finances is sufficient to puzzle the most indefatigable and inge nious of financiers. The high price of the common commodities of life is a natural consequence of waging a gigantic war ; but the most alarming part of the history is, that while in the North large sums have to be paid for simple necessaries, in some parts of the South the necessaries are not to be had. Famine and pestilence threaten the afflicted dis tricts, and, without doubt, it is the duty of the Administration to take immediate steps to provide against them. Unhappily, the policy to be pur sued, and disputes of rival factions, occupy much more of the attention of the PRESIDENT and his Cabinet than the pressing questions of life and death in the Southern States. So far from endeavouring to restore tranquillity, to reassure the minds of the people, and to encourage the revival of trade and the import of food, the Federal Government has done all in its power to keep up the uncer tainty and anxiety which is doing so much mis chief. While no one knows whose property is secure, or how much he may really call his own, he is not likely to expend his capital or to under take new and costly works. Every great question remains unsettled until the meeting of Congress, which is expected very shortly to take place ; but how far wise and moderate men will approve this extreme measure remains to be seen. Anything like a wholesale measure of confiscation would bring ruin upon so many families in the already impo verished Southern States that the consequences would be such as no one could contemplate un moved. We must hope that President JOHNSON will judge more mercifully and more wisely than to persist in a course which will produce such alarming results. It is very much to be doubted whether great occa sions of public festivity do not give as much pain as pleasure to the sensitive feelings of the Corporation of London. Whatever be the object in question, or the event which it is intended to celebrate, there is always some drawback to the rejoicing or the satisfaction of the good citizens of London. " // n'y a pas de rose sans opines," says the Frenchman, and the English version of the proverb must cer tainly have' been studied on the eastern side of Temple-bar ; for the firstbusines o s r of ce t l h eb e ra C t o ioi r- , Cor poration after any ceremonial - is to find out the blunders andproclai them to the world A large. The mem bers do not belong to the bandlikoef the n worldameless martyrs who suffer in silence ; they at large to know the wrongs of the Common Council of London. The information is sometimes very necessa r y, f or th e i nnocent public often be lieves everything to have gone off well and all parties to be satisfied when the collective wisdom of the corporation Rea, grave cause for displeasure and offence. The laying the foundation-stone of the new Bridge at Blackfriars was supposed by the uninitiated to have been very well Tanaged, and an interesting ceremony was thought to have passed off well. But we now learn how mistaken was this conclusion, for two grievous errors were committed; errors so unpardonable in their nature, and so serious in their consequences, that it is only won derful that the foundation-stone remained in its place. The Common Council were not invited to a dinner given by the Bridge-house Committee, at Guildhall, to the Lord Mayor and others, and no carriages were provided for them in the procession formed to lay the stone of the Bridge. Can we hope that the Bridge will prove a success after such an inauspicious beginning ? Mr. Deputy BONE already sees the shade of the New Zealander in the distance, but his chief regret is that that adven turous savage will find an incorrect account of the proceedings of July, 1865, in the ruins of the Bridge. Perhaps it is not yet too late to remedy the error by inserting an erratum in some other part, say the keystone of the centre arch, to set the minds of future students right. Such an instance may well serve to convince us how little we can rely on history ! The gorgeous robes and stately figures of the 200 members of the Common Council were actually missing from a pageant, in which, joking apart, they ought certainly to have been, but the question is whether the fault was not their own rather than that of the committee. They were invited to come in due state, and might cer tainly have provided their own carriages if they attached any importance to the occasion. They are determined not to be left out next time, and have already issued strict commands about the open ing of the new bridge, whose first stone has just been laid, but they would have shown more regard to their own dignity by being less punctilious in the matter, and by joining heartily and unostenta tious in a great work of a public character. TIM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1865. Mr. Gladstone's Church at Seaforth. At a meeting in Warrington recently, in support of the Liberal candidates for the representation of South Lancashire, Dr. Smith called attention to a statement made by the Rev. A. A. Bridgman on the previous day at the Lion Hotel, to the effect that Mr. Gladstone had built a church in Liverpool that brought him in £7OO a-year, whilst he gave a poor parson £l2O to do duty in it ; and read a telegram which he had received from Mr. Gladstone in reply to a communication, saying that the statement was " grossly untrue," but that it was impossible to state the case by telegraph. Dr. Smith has since received the following letter from Mr. Gladstone : " Hawarden, July 23, 1865. "Dear Sir,—l had much pleasure in giving you infor mation on the subject of the church at Seaforth, first by telegraph, and secondly by letter; but it was done, as I think I mentioned, to prevent your being placed in a false position, and not to give encouragement to proceedings like those of Mr. Bridgman and the editors of one or more periodicals. I think that grave censure attaches to those who by speech or writing publish oa the authority of rumour, or on any anonymous authority, statements inju rious to any private character; and who hold up to blame matters of personal and private conduct without having had the courtesy—l might say the decency—to give the person inculpated a prior opportunity of explanation and defence. Bad in all cases, it appears to me that these pro ceedings become worse when they are carried on for poli 1 tical purposes at the time of an election. And worse, again, when the authors of them are clergymen and editors of periodicals professing to be religious. It is possible that the heat of party, or that the exclusive devotion to parti cular and limited objects which so effectually closes the mind against the view of broader and larger ones, may have led to the course of which I complain. And if it be due, to inconsidemteness only,' shall very gladly forget it. But at any rate, I will do nothing which may serve to en courage such proceedings hereafter, or may seem to ac knowledge the authority of Mr. Bridgman and his coad jutors to cite persons before their tribunal in this improper manner. 1 take my decision on the grounds I have stated. But I may add that the affairs of Seaforth Church have long ago been brought by me before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and those who desire information about them may, if they like, seek it at the proper time from that 1 public body. If either now or at any other time the com missioners think fit to give such information I have not the smallest objection. You are quite at liberty to publish this letter if you think fit. Thanking you for your oblig ing letters, I remain, dear sir, your very faithful and obe dient, " W. E. GLADSTONE. "Joseph Smith, Esq., M.D. " I have written under the belief that Mr. Bridgman has not condemned, but has made use of the rumours of state ments in question. If mistaken in this I should gladly withdraw what I have said of his conduct." GALLANT CAPTURE OF A SHARK IN THE BRISTOL C lIANNEL.—Last week one of the navvies employed on the Brean-down Works, near Weston-super-Mare, was looking down over the "tip," when he espied a large fish close on the shingles at the foot of the rocks. With all speed he made his way to the spot, and the fish remained within arm's length of the edge cf the water. The man, thinking he could pull it ashore, laid hold of its tail, but soon found that it had more power in its native element than he gave it credit for, and with a flap of its fins it pulled him knee deep into the water, and moreover turned upon him, show ing a pair of huge jaws armed with three rows of teeth, which savagely snapped at him. The navvy, however, was not to be scared so readily. Holding on by the tail of the creature, he sung out lustily to some of his comrades, and three others went to help to land the strange and for midable fish. It was fortunate for the man that it did not succeed in biting him, for the fish was nothing less than a shark from five to six feet in length, and an arm or a leg would not be worth much if once fairly within the reach of its jaws. The first man who arrived at the spot seized hold of the dorsal fin. Tho monster now became more violent, and pulled the two men further into the brine, and it was not until a third rendered assistance that they succeeded in dragging the fish ashore. The final struggle was fierce and exc iting. The shark,finding that it could not beat the men, snapped at every thing within reach. Catching hold of a large pebble, it ground it savagely, leaving the marks of its teeth in the solid stone, and breaking them with the violence of the effort.—Bristol Daily Post. CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING AT ROCHDALE.—At the Rochdale Police-court on Wednesday, Joseph Varey and Lydia Varey, husband and wife, were charged with having "unlawfully, and by force and fraud, enticed away and detained a child," named William Hunter, under the age of 14 years. The case has created considerable interest in the town, and the court was densely crowded. Mr. J. Lomax, solicitor, was retained on behalf of the prisoners ; who, throughout the hearing of the case, appeared to feel keenly the serious position in which they had placedthem selves. The paisecutor, David Hunter, stated that he re sided in Robert Town, Yorkshire, and that on several occasions the prisoners had enticed his son from home, and after considerable trouble and expense ho had been able to get him back. Last Tuesday week ho found that his son had again left him, and he succeeded in tracing him to Manchester, in the company of the prisoners, but while witness and the prisoners were quarrelling, the boy was got out of the way, and ho had not seen him since. On Monday night he took a police officer to the prisonet's house, in Castle-street, Rochdale, and the female prisoner then stated that she had not seen the boy for several days ; but he could prove by witnesses that the boy was with her the day before, and that the male prisoner had re moved him to Manchester on learning that his father was in search of him. Cross-examined by Mr. Lomax—He would swear the boy was under 14 years of age. Mr. Lomax wished the bench to take particular notice of the prosecu tor's answer to the question in reference to the boy's age, as it was intended to proceed against him for perjury. The prosecutor reiterated his statement that his son was under 11 years of age. Thos. Allison and Charles Hunter con firmed prosecutor's statement in the most particular parts Mr. Lomax then asked the magistrates to adjourn the case until the next court day, so as to give his clients the op portunity of producing the certificate of the child's birth which would show that he was above 15 years of age, which would render the case out of their jurisdiction. Tho case was adjourned till Friday. A MADMAN IN A RALWAY TRAIN.--The Journal de Rouen states that the passengers in one of the carriages of a train which left Lisieux for Caen two even ings since, made the unpleasant discovery, almost immedi ately after their departure, that one of their fellow-travel lers was a madman, and inclined to be violent. They ma naged, however, to keep him from injuring either him self or others until they reached Mezidan, when the poor man was given in charge to the gendarmerie, and placed in a chamber, where he passed the night quietly. The next morning the Mayor of Mezidan made the necessary arrangements for having him conveyed to an asylum. Be fore the carriage arrived, however, the lunatic broke a water decanter which he found in his room, and thrust one of the fragments into his neck so far ds to the carotid artery, and cause almost instant death. The deceased was identified as a man named Massert, holding a subordinate employment in the navy offices at Cherbourg. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. (Via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, JULY 20, Nom In consequence of the frequent disturbances which have taken place at Charleston between the soldiers, the citizens, and the coloured population, General Burnett haft issued an order directing the citizens to deliver up all arms, to refrain from as sembling in the -streets, and to remain at home after 8 p.m. Mr. Parry, the provisional governor of South Carolina, lately made a speech, in which he said that no one fretted more than himself at the humi liation and degradation of re-entering the Union. Failure in the revolution was due to want of perti nacity on the part of the Southern people. He paid a high tribute to Southern valour, patriotism, and statesmanship. The remainder of the assassination conspirators have been sent to Dry Tortugas to serve out their sentences, in order to place them out of the reach of the Habeas Corpus and the State Courts. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold, 1421. Exchange on London, 1541 ; on Paris, 3.65. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 941; Illinois, 1311 ex div. ; Erie, 82+ ; 5-20 Bonds, 1041. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 48. Flour steady. Wheat dull. Corn quiet. Provisions very dull. Coffee and sugar steady. Molasses very firm. Petroleum quiet ; crude, 32 ; refined, 51.. NEW YORK, JULY 18. The condition of the negroes throughout the South is still reported to be very bad. A friendly correspondence has been published between Mr. Seward and the Spanish Government, the latter surrendering the Stonewall to the Federal Government. The United States Consul-General in Canada has addressed the Detroit Convention against the Re ciprocity Treaty, urging that if trade were cut off from the Canadians, Canada would be annexed to the United States in less than two years. He is said to have stated that he expressed ideas con curred in by high members of the Federal Go- vernment. The New York Herald says that the .Mississippi cotton crop this year will not exceed 25,000 bales. The Hansa, City of Washington, North American, and Pennsylvanian, have arrived out. The Royal mail steamer China, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 8.40 a.m. to-day. She brings 202 passengers. After landing 126 sacks of mails and 30 pas sengers she proceeded at 9 a.m., all well. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JULY 18. Despatches received here from New Orleans assert that General Mejia has delivered to the Fe deral authorities the ordnance received from the Confederates. The difficulties arising from the seizure of the steamer by Cortinas have been settled. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 29. The elections in the 2d Circumscription of the Department des Landes have been appointed to take place on the 19th August. The interest of the Treasury Bonds has been fixed at 1- and 2 per cent. The residence of Count de Ch—, in the Parc des Princes, at Boulogne, near Paris, was two days since the scene of a shocking tragedy. The Count having given his concierge, Charles W—, notice to leave, the latter, before quitting the house, went to .his master to settle his accounts, and an he was inso lent and appeared inclined to be violent, the Count requested the Countess, who was present, to send a servant for the police. She had hardly left the room when the concierge rushed at the Count, and attempted to stab him in the breast with a large kitchen knife. A fierce struggle ensued, during which they both fell and the Count received four or five severe cuts with the knife. Meanwhile the Countess returned, and, seeing what was passing, shrieked out for help. The ruffian then left his master and rushed at her, but fortunately tho Count was able to rise and succeeded in wresting the knife out of his hand. The concierge then ran from the room to his lodge, where he seized a pistol which had been given him as a defence against robbers, and blew out his brains. There is every reason to hope that the Count's wounds will not be attended with any serious consequences. BOURSE, July 27.—Two o'clock.—The opening showed great firmness and prices have constantly advanced. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 60c. Credit Mobilier Shares have also re covered yesterday's loss, and are now quoted 740 f. The Italian Loan commands buyers at 65f. sc. Transactions in the new Municipal Loan are done at 2f. 75c. premium. Mexican Stock much firmer at 47k. Three o'clock.---The second despatch from London, announcing that the Bank of England has raised its rate of discount, has caused a fall in all the prices for the end of the Bourse, which closes as follows:- 4i per Cents 97 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 67 45 Do. end month 67 471 Credit Mobilier 730 Do. end month Bank Shares 3600 Ditto Threes ___ Mexican Loan 47i Do. Bonds — Russian — Austripen Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Roman Credit Foncier — Italian Loan 64 95 Do. end month 64 80 RAIL' Cash. Amt. •••• ... 832 50 ~•• ... 1042 50 •••• ... 845 ,••• ••• 568 75 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman --- - ... 2751 -- - - 42 50 - - ... 481 25 - - ... 187 50 - - ... 322 50 - - 217 50 THE ATLANTIC CABLE• The following telegrams has just been receivediby Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from A. K. Glass, Esq., managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance CompanY . 66 VALENTIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. " 350 nautical miles of cable were paid out from the Great Eastern at 12.50 p.m. to-day, and 350 miles were run at 4.50 p.m. Greenwich time. All well." " ON BOARD GREAT EASTERN, Friday Morning. " 500 nautical miles of cable were paid out at 10.50 a.m. to-day. "The distance run at 9.50 a.m. was 450 miles. " The signals are perfect. " Weather fine." DESPATCH OF TILE BOMBAY MAlLS.—(Reuter's Express.)— Southampton, July 27th.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, Capt. Christian, sailed this afternoon with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediter ranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal. She took out 20 first and 22 second class passengers, and on freight a full cargo, including sovereigns for Alexand ria, £4OOO, and jewellery for Bombay, value £345. Amongst the passengers are Ensign Aubertin, Colonel Ellis, Capt. Knox, Capt. Fraser, and the Rev. R. Neale. ANOTHER GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY. —Yesterday morning information was received by the metro polftan police that during the previous night the premises of Mr. Frederick Cohen, watchmaker and jeweller, Maid stone, had been burglariously entered, and property valued at £2,000 carried -off. The robbery is supposed to have been effected by London thieves, and a large reward is offered for their capture. LITERATURE, Christianity in Hindostan, Catholic Missions in Southern India—To 1865. By Rev. W. Strickland, S. J. ; and T. W. M. Mar shall, Author of " Christian Missions." One vol. pp. kO. Longman and Co. Of the severity of the ordeal to which the Christian missionary is subjected when preaching the Gospel of Peace in remote lands, among the idolatrous races, no matter whether of Asia or of Australasia, the world has had but very recently a new and appal ling illustration. The hideous death to which that good missionary clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Volkner was only the other day most inhumanly subjected by the fiendish barbarity of the Maori savages, came to us as a painfully vivid reminder of the perils environing the pathway of those whose Feet the lips of the inspired writer have tenderly apostrophised as —Beautiful ! Wherever the seed (" which is the word of God") hasbeen sown, by the wayside, among the pagan multitudes whether of old or in these our own days, the ground there, so to speak, has been fattened, to the bringing forth of fruit an hundred fold, by being watered plentifully with the blood and the tears of martyrdom. Happily, as Civilisation advances in the wake of Christianity—always in the wake, Christianity invariably being precursive of Civilisation, and never following simply in its trail—happily, we say, as Civilisation advances in the wake of Christianity in those remote regions, gaining material strength, there, and political autho rity, the peril to which the Christian missionary is exposed diminishes in proportion to the prestige of the aegis thrown over him by his protecting Go vernment—or, at any rate in proportion to the appreciation of that prestige by the heathenish popu lation appealed to by the persuasive voice of the missionary, or influenced by the visible puissance of his Government. Of this beneficent diminution of danger to the missionary priests in India, the pro foundly interesting records here collected together by Messrs. Strickland and Marshall afford eloquent and, in some instances, most affecting attestation. They relate (these records) to the experiences of the Catholic missionaries in that portion of Southern India, known as the mission of Madura, showing in a particular manner what has been there accom plished—but during the last dozen years more particu larly. There, in Madura, throughout, very nearly, one whole quarter of a century, the duties of a Christian missionary among a race of Asiatic idolaters have been discharged by the Rev. F. Louis St. Cyr, S.J., from whose notes, jotted down in French, the materials of this volume, we are told by its com panion Editors in their Preface (p. vii.) have been chiefly prepared. The volume is subdivided, in the arrangement of its contents, into some seventeen chapters : in all, six of them written by Mr. Marshall, the author of " Christian Missions ;" the other eleven chapters being all of them penned by the Rev. W. Strickland, S.J., who for these twelve years last past has been one of the Military Chaplains in Hindostan, under Her Britannic Majesty's Go vernment. From the first half-dozen of these eleven chapters, penned by Father Strickland, a very world of informationmay be derived. First of all, in regard to the position occupied by the English in India. Secondly, in regard to the idolatry prevailing throughout the peninsula of Hindostan, but more particularly in Madura. Thirdly, in respect to the original introduction of Christianity to the Hindoos. Fourthly, in regard to the position of Protestantism throughout the southern portions of Hindostan. Fifthly, in respect to the general history of the New Mission of Madura. And, sixthly, in the account here given by F. Strickland of the daily life and journeys of the Missioners and the consequent mortality there is amongst them. Familiar as most educated Eng lishmen are with the general condition of things in that the grandest of all our dependencies, it is curious to remark upon the air of freshneEs im parted to the information here compacted together for our instruction by the hand of this thoughtful and observant missionary. As, for example, where he takes occasion to realise to his reader's imagina tion, at the very outset, upon the very first page of the very first chapter of his volume, the fact hitherto so little thought of, that that immense country of Hindostan, peopled by 150,000,000 of inhabitants, consists of a number of different races and nations, " as distinct in personal appearance and language as the various nations of Europe." It is startling, too, and very noteworthy, when we find F. Strick land insisting upon it as a thing quite indisputable, that the division of the people of India into different castes, has, there " contributed immensely to the preservation of morality" and to the conservation of the patriarchial customs still existing in that coun try. Nay, to find him going on still further to remark, yet more emphatically, that " without the institution of Caste" the Hindoos must long ago have sunk down to the lowest depths of barbarism, and lite rally devoured one another ! Wonderfully eloquent as it seems to us in its epigrammatic force is the witty application by him of a verse from the Book of Mac chabees, as descriptive of the ways and means by which Great Britain has acquired her Indian terri tories—to wit—" Possederunt omnes terram concilio suo et patientia!" Fain are we, however, to believe that the reverend author is in error when he comes to the conclusion (aud wishes his readers also to come to the conclusion) that India as a nation has, in a material point of view, been a loser by reason of the English occupation—going so far as to insist (upon the authority of Dr. Russell, of the Times, note, p. 6) that the country is becoming every year more and more impoverished, the native manu facturers disappearing under the pressure of British competition. In a material point of view, alone, however, does he regard India as having proved a loser, thus, because of the English occupation. Otherwise, he declares India to have been a signal gainer from that occupation, if only in this--" that the people enjoy more peace and tranquillity, that law is administered with far greater ' justice, that wars cannot go on at the will and caprice of each petty prince as in former times!" A noble eulogium this, pronounced upon English rule in Hindostan—and pronounced, too, by the judgment, the heart, the conscience of a Catholic Missionary !It almost seems to us—if we may so express it---a tribute emanating directly from a gene rous sense of gratitude. As if in consideration, for example, of the fact attested in so many words upon page 11, namely, to the effect that—" The position of the Catholic Church at present in India is one of the utmost liberty." • F. Strickland adding to this, " She is entirely unaided and unsupported by the Government—but there arc now no exceptional restrictions, no penal laws !" As among the conse quences of which—to the material advantage of English Rule generally in Hindostan —there are now —among the Catholic body alone in Southern India, as the Government at Calcutta very well knows— as many as 30,000 able-bodied men always avail able, always to be counted upon in any emergency ! The Apostolic-Vicariate of Madura, to the history of which during the last twelve years the compilers of the present volume have more particularly directed their attention, is situated, by the way, in the southern most portion of British India, embracing within it part of the Carnatic, the whole of the provinces of Tanjore, together with the soi-disant independent ter ritory of the Tondimau, Marava, Madura, and the contiguous districts, down to the most southerly point of Cape Comorin ! It extends, this Madura Mission, in other words, within a width at the out side of three degrees of longitude, from about 7 deg. 57 min. to 11 deg. 50 min. North latitude. Its cli mate is such that even in the months of March and April, when the sun is going northward, the at mosphere is so intolerably hot that everything touched even indoors feels hotter than the hand touching it—exertion of mind or body being most difficult, excepting only very early in the morning or after sunset. The population, there, numbers altogether some 4 ,ooo,ooo—partly Hindoos, partly Mussulmans—about 150,000 of the former (that is of the Hindoos) being Christians. The Moslems in India as elsewhere obdurately refusing to hearken to any instruction at the hands of the Christian missionary. Especial note is here taken, as a mat ter of course, by F. Strickland, of the fact, that the Hindoos, even in their idolatrous belief, may, in some sort, be said to possess the rough outline, skeleton, or groundwork, so to speak, of the whole scheme of Christian Theology. The Trimurti or VATS. Triple Idol being, symbolically, a dim shadowing forth of the holy belief of Christians in the mystery of the adorable Trinity. The One Supreme God expressed under the sacred word On bearing the triple names of—Brahma the Creator, of Vishnou the Preserver, and of Siva, or Chirem, the Destroyer. Yet from this central core or heart of the national creed of Hin dostan diverge caprices of the imagination or of the passions so wild and portentous in their extravagance that, as the rev. author hints with an evident shudder of abhorrence (p. 16), " some of them are such as decency will not allow the mind to rest on for an instant !" As, in one instance, let us say, is notice able even upon the borders of Palestine, in the loathsome and degrading adoration of the Ansayrii ! The gross aggregate of the various divinities of Hindo stan amounting to such an almost inconceivable multitude of false gods as-33,000,000! Neverthe less, so calmly, so equably does the mild-eyed Chris tian missionary here view all these unreasoning phantasies of Pagan unbelief, that he gently refers (p. 21) to the morality of the Sacred Books of the Hindoos as higher than might be supposed, nay, as in several respects approaching to the Christian law ! Prayer, he evidently takes pleasure in re marking, is required by them —prayer, fasting, works of benevolence, patience in suffering ! And of the religion (so called) of which he speaks thus dispassionately and magnanimously, he is neverthe less constrained to say elsewhere (p. 24) that it authorises, nay for that matter even encourages a licentiousness so frightful that he will not venture to speak of it—adding, howbeit, with an awful em pliftsis, " But this, we may say, that nothing in the annals of Heathen Greece or Rome, nothing among the practices of the early heretics exceeded it." Besides the Brahminism of India to which all this more particularly relates, the other religions of that country are here also touched upon and incidentally delineated. Buddhism, for example, the sect called Djainas, the followers of Newik, and finally, Mahommedanism. Interspersed among the population of Hindostan, it is here remarked that there are a casual sprinkling of Parsees, the followers of Zoroaster, and—yet more sparsely scattered over the length and breadth of the Indian peninsula —a few thousand Jews ! Descended from Shem are these Hindoos, according to a popular tradition, and strange is it to find that amongst them there is record of a distinct prophecy of an expected Saviour, " a prophecy containing the very name of JESUS," and ' 6 one certainly," says F. Strickland (p. 28), " more ancient than the coming of our Lord." As to the position occupied by the Madura Mission, relatively on the one hand, to Paganism, or Brahminism, meaning idolatry, and on the other hand to the divine doctrines, ethics, morality, and theology inculcated by Christianity— it is important to take notice, first of all, of our author's conviction, avowed in so many plain em phatic words, that, there, "the influence of Pagan ism is on the wane," and then to couple with that his record of the fact, drawn from his own individual ex perience and personal observation, that, there, simul taneously, " the number of Catholics is rapidly, and in some districts sensibly, increasing." To :those who would dip yet further into the lucid current of this clear and flowing narrative, we must now content ourselves with earnestly commending the rest of the remarkable volume here submitted to our consi deration. And we are fain to do so all the more earnestly from our conviction that these pages are fraught with instruction for others (for other mis sionaries, even we will say) than such as are to be found more particularly among the author's co religionists. The effect of it, as a whole, we are here almost tempted to remark is as the echo of a clarion sounded from afar off by the lips of a Xavier or of a Robert de Nobili. It seems to bring within the range of our vision, and that, moreover, at the ex tremity of no very remote perspective, the advent of the time when India—no longer given up to a hide ous jumble of idolatries—shall take its place among the nations of Christendom. EXECUTION OF DR. PRITCHARD. (BY TELEGRAPII.) FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) EDINBURGH, July 28. Dr. Pritchard was hanged this morning at 8 o'clock, in presence of a large crowd of spectators, at the Gaol-square, Glasgow. The culprit has been in good health since his conviction. He slept from midnight till about 5 o'clock. He rose perfectly calm, and drank a cup of coffee. He was attended by Dr. Norman Macleod, Mr. Oldham, and Mr. Doran, the Prison Chaplain. Having been pinioned, he was conducted to the Court-hall, Mr. Oldham reading a portion of the Church of England burial service. He acknowledged to the magistrates the justice of his sentence, and then walked to the scaffold at a slow pace, and without assistance. Mr. Doran and Mr. Oldham also ascended the scaffold ; the latter engaging in prayer. Calcraft, in adjusting the rope and cap, was considerably delayed by the culprit's long hair and beard. Prit chard struggled a good deal on being thrown off, but died in five minutes. The body remained hanging three-quarters of an hour. Palmer and Pritchard• These men were both well-educated members of the medical profession. The poisons which they made use of were the same in many respects, inasmuch as antimony was employed by both, followed up by vegetable poisons of a more.subtle nature—strychnine being used by Palmer, and aconite by Pritchard. Both of these prisoners sacri ficed several victims. It has been pretty well ascertained that about fourteen persons died by the instrumentality of Palmer. There is room to fear that the double murder of which Pritchard was found guilty is not the whole cata logue of his fatal deeds. The murders by, these two wretches were chiefly near relations, and, curiously enough, both destroyed their wives and wives' mothers ; and Palmer, besides, is believed to have been accessory to the death of his brother, several illegitimate children, and at least one miserable victim of his seduction. The phsychological peculiarities of these miscreants also admit a parallel. They had both good personnel and many of the graces that mark a gentleman ; generous in civil and social life, and amiable and even beloved in private. Palmer's face and features indicated no ferocity, and nothing abhorrent ever appeared until his direful deeds were dis closed. It is the same with Pritchard. He has a delicate complexion, pleasant expression of face, and well chiselled features, which, if denuded of his beard and whiskers, would make him almost womanish in aspect. His manners are gentle and polite. He seems to have been beloved at home, confided in by his wife, and a witness said he was the idol of his mother-in-law. These soft manners and seeming virtue, of course, disarmed their victims of all jealous fears ; so much so that, under the cover of a good public and private reputation, Palmer and Pritchard for a length of time practised their diabolical arts without being suspected. In these two villains we trace their entire subjugation to a grand master-passion as the cause of their fall and utter degradation. They were both gross sensualists. The animal had run away with the better nature of the man. Tho will was subjected and dragged at the mercy of the dominant passion ; and so the imperial and all-absorbing sensuality produced the wildest anarchy, under which were committed acts of atrocity wo shudder to contem plate. The drama of the "Pritchard case" opened on the 3rd July, and lasted for five days, which were like the five great acts of a terrible tragedy. The disclosures of the plot showed slow, secret, and skilful poisoning. The articles were potent, but not dealt out in. "Such strong speeding gear As will disperse themselves through all the veins, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fir'd With hurry from the hasty cannon's mouth." No ; they were diluted and doled out in doses so as not to be easily found in themselves, and so as to obscure the symptoms they produced. But the ingenuity of law and the science of chemistry have been proved quite adequate to detect these poisons and prevent the escape of the hide ous poisoner. Such cases are a Ulysses-bow to try the strength and skill of medico-legal inquirers ; and, happily, the result has been most creditable to the medical profes sion and most satisfactory to filo - public.—" J. B. T.," in the Glasgow Citizen. MR. SECRETARY SEWARD.—The Secretary of State continues his duties in almost perfect health. The novel and extraordinary splint has been removed from his face, and proves to have been a marvellous success. Very few traces are to bo seen of the original accident or the subsequent attempt at assassination, with the exception of a slight swelling on the side of the right cheek. Mr. Seward dresses and shaves himself without assistance. He has en tirely recovered the use. of his arms, one of which was fear fully maimed when he was thrown from his carriage. When the wire frame was•removed from.the jaw.two more pieces of bone were extracted from the face, and this gave him additional relief.—New .York Times. g - . , ((i rut tc,.0,,„ Cirmlat ..,,,--- HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, July 27. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, accompanied by Mr. Alderman Reynolds, attended at Osborne yesterday as a deputation from the city of Dublin, with the Town Clerk and Sword and Mace Bearers to pre sent an address to the Queen on the birth of an infant prince. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey also attended. Her Majesty received the deputation in the Council-room. The Queen was accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. The Lord Mayor was introduced, preceded by the Sword and Mace Bearers, and presented the address, to which her Majesty having returned a gracious answer, the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Rey nolds were presented to the. Queen by Sir George Grey, and had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. The deputation then retired. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Gainsbo'rough, the Hon. Emma Lascelles, Major- General the lion. A. Hood, and the Master of the Household. 4.• Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will leave town early in the ensuing week for Germany, but the precise day for their departure is not yet fixed. In all probability the prince and princess will meet the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. Their royal highnesses are expected to be at Abergeldie on the 15th of September. QUEEN EMMA OF HoNomnuu.—Yesterday Queen Emma, accompanied by Sir John Bowring, Lady Franklin, Miss Cracraft, Madame Hoapili, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bowring, and Mr. Manley Hopkins, her Majesty's consul-general, paid a visit to the Bank of England, whore, after inspecting the different departments, they break fasted with the governors. The party afterwards visited the East and West India Docks. The Queen visited the Charter-house on Wednesday, and was accompanied by Lady Franklin, Madame Hoapili, Miss Cracroft, and her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner, Mr. W. W. Follett Synge. After having been conducted over the Charter house the Queen and her suite were entertained at luncheon by the master, the Von. Archdeacon Hale, at his residence, the Master's Lodge. Among those invited to meet her Majesty were Dr. Haig Brown, the headmaster of Charter house School, and Mrs. Haig Brown, the Rev. F. and Mrs. Poynder, the Rev. Fredk. Bloomfield, Scc. After luncheon the Queen went on the terrace overlooking the cricket ground, and witnessed a cricket match between I Zingari and the Charterhouse Eleven. The Earl and Countess of Derby will arrive in town to-day from Goodwood Park, and to-morrow will leave for Knowsley Park, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield return to town next week f4om visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood. The Earl of Harrowby leaves town in a day or two for his seat in Staffordshire. The Lady Augusta Poulett has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. Sir George Colthurst, M.P., and Lady Colthurst have left town for their seat in Ireland. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hawarden Castle. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel is gradually gaining health. We understand that a marriage has been arranged between the Hon. Hallyburton Campbell, second son of the late Lord Campbell and of the Baroness Stratheden, and Miss Beresford-Hope, eldest daughter of Mr. Beres ford-Ho pe, M.P., and the Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope. A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place between Major Darell, of Calchill (late of the 60th Rifles) and Isabella Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Vincent Eyre, of Lindley Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in America. (From the Chicago Times of July 11.) THE OPERA HOUSE. A full houso was the result of the announcement that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean would again appear before the public of Chicago on Saturday evening. Mr. M'Vicker had secured the use of the spacious Opera-house for the short engageinent of two nights during which these dis tinguished artists were to make their last appearance in this city. The play for Saturday night was the moral drama of " The Gamester," Mr. Kean taking the role of Beverly, and Mrs. Kean that of Mrs. Beverly. Mr. J. F. Cathcart appeared as Stukely, Mr. G. Everett as Lewson, and Miss Chapman as Charlotte. The other characters were distributed among the regular company of MrVicker's T heatre. Dining the one week's absence of Mr. and Mrs. Kean the theatre-going portion of our people have have had oc casion to appreciate the superior excellence of their repre sentations, by mere contrast with the performances of those who have supplied their places, however excellent in themselves these performers may have been. There is a nervous energy, a life-like reality about the acting of Charles Kean, which almost puts to shame the laboured efforts of meritorious artists, to say nothing of the ranting, strutting tyros who swarm upon the modern stage. In 44 The Gamester" there is abundant scope for the display of this peculiar power. It is a play which, poorly acted, would be absolutely unbearable. The most interesting situations are so highly drawn that a little over-doing would not fail to disgust an intelligent audience, both with the play and the players; while a lack of proper energy would render all concerned an insipid and borous dose. The death scene in the closing act was a grand impersonation. The bounding joy of Beverly, when his wife and sister aro ushered into his cell ; the wild throb of hope, when he learns of his uncle's death, and thus sees happiness once more within his grasp ; the dull pangs of despair, when a moment after he recalls the fact that all this prospective wealth has been sacrificed by his folly ; and then the terrible news that Lewsen had fallen a victim to the plots of his persecutors ; all this was pour trayed with an astonishing truthfulness. But then comes the malicious accusation which would lay the guilt of Lewsen's death upon his soul, the horror and agony at tending which is barely suffered to be depicted upon his countenance, before the entrance of Lewsen alive and well, going hand in hand with subtile poison, brinks on the last quivering agony of death. The role of Mrs. Kean was no less difficult, and no less admirably . rendered. Mr. T. F. Cathcart, as Stukoly, was also perfect in his imper sonation of sinister friendship and revengeful avarice. On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Kean made their last appearance at the Opera-house in Shakspere's celebrated comedy of " Much Ado About Nothing." Mr. M'Vickor himself appeared in his successful role of Dogberry. GOODWOOD RACES, 1865.—The Cup of this year is manufactured by Messrs. London and Ryder, of 17, New Bond-street, from a design selected by his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, and H. Savile, Esq., the stewards. The main object has been to show a meaning and purpose in the work; the spirit of a poem is here de picted, instead of recourse to the worn-out principles of race-horses running riot over handles, and exhaustless horns of plenty giving forth abundance beyond the dreams of avarice. The celebrated German poem of Burger's, " Leonora," and translated by Julia M. Cameron, is here rendered. The heroine, Leonora, and her spectral lover, form the group crowning the summit of the cup. " Tramp, tramp across the land they ride, Splash, splash across the sea." The sculptor and painter's great difficulty is confessedly the poetry of motion. We have here almost visible the spirit of life and motion—the demon horse amidst t 4 The airy rabble dance around." CURIOSITIES OF THE INCOME LISTS.—The income lists for 1864, now in course of publication, preseht some curious facts. One man who had no income in 1863 now returns $94,000. Another, under the same circum stances, returns $BB,OOO. One dry goods' merchant returns an income of $600,000 for 1864. His:sales were over $42,000,000. The next highest sales in dry goods were over $39,000,000 ; but the merchant through whose hands this immense amount of money passed returns an income of only $300,000. The previous year ho returned an income of $1,800,000, the largest in the city. This tremendous fluctuation startles everybody, and shows to what changes our business men are subjected. Astor was generally con sidered the richest man in the city, and people were asto nished when, in 1860, he returned an income of only $BOO,OOO, and was eclipsed by the dry goods' merchant with $1,000,000 more. But the present returns show that the merchant has fallen to $300,000, whereas Astor, whose property is in real estate and bonds, appeals at $1,300,000. A pork dealer who has recently eloped to Europe, and carried with him, it is said, $500,000 of other people's money, returned an in come of $15,000 in 1863, and of $30,000 in 1864. There are persons who live at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, keep their carriages, and have a box at the opera, and yet only return an income of $6OO. This is jocosely accounted for by the fact that every man has a right to deduct his house-rent from his income, and by the supposition that each one of these persons deducts the rental of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Matrimonial allowances are often based upon the income lists, some adventurer being willing to pay the tax upon $50,000 in order to get a rich wife. Sometimes the adven turer afterwards discovers that his wife's wealth rests upon an equally unsubstantial basis. The moral of all this is,, That the income lists give us no true idea of our citizens' incomes, but are an index to the pride, plots, and vanitiets of mankind.—New York Herald.