The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE ICED RIVER EXPEDITION. The Times is not much alarmed at the unfavourable predictions about the Red River Expedition, hut has great faith in the resources of a British Expedition, and though the route is undoubtedly difficult, the difficulties are not unknown. For some time past the Canadian Government has been directing surveys of the ground for purposes of reclamation and colonisation ; distances, heights, and levels have been measured, and various schemes have been projected for opening up the territory to migrations from the East. A favourable season has been selected for the enterprise, and if it does not turn out to be a mere week's journey, as the colonial engineers expect, we do not think it will take five weeks, as the Americans calculate, though they are good enough to allow that we shall rerch Fort Garry at last. At one point of the route the description of the country, not only in colonial but American reports, becomes most encouraging. Immense prairies of rich alluvial loam drained by vast navigable rivers offer a settlement to millions, and are, we read, obviously capable of sustain ing "as dense an agricultural population as any area of equal extent on the face of the globe." Yet, on the other hand, the very enterprise before us shews how much remains to be done before such lands can be made practically available for the purposes of emigration. At present they cannot even be reached by the ordinary emigrant, and to make them accessible must be a work of time. It is in progress of this kind that the Red River Expedition may be expected to bear its fruits. The work was necessary in itself, but it will be of great advantage to the Dominion to get such a knowledge of its own provinces as this enterprise must bring. When we have got to the Red River, and settled matters there, and got back again, we shall still have been only half-way across our continent. When the Americans drove their railroad to Utah from the east another railroad met them from the west, and their Continent was spanned; but a safe lodgment on Lake Winnipeg would leave us with as much more to do beyond. Between the Red River Settlement and British Columbia there would still inter vene an enormous tract of country unknown and unre claimed, and the day may come when an Expedition from Lake Winnipeg to the sources of the Saskatchewan may excite as much attention as the present march to Lake Winnipeg from Fort William. UNDERGRADUATE OUTRAGES AT OXFORD. We are sorry to say, says the Standard, that it is by no means a rare thing to see paragraphs in newspapers headed " Undergraduate Frolics." But an outrage to which we have already nfade allusion, and which we fear cannot be explained by any extenuating circumstances of its being a drunken freak or a boyish " lark ; " which was as deliberate as it. was wanton, was perpetrated last week at Christ Church, Oxford. As the offenders would not give themselves up, no other course was left for the collegiate authorities but to make an appeal to the law, no doubt much against their own will. Now that these proceedings have been decided on they have a public duty to perform, from the performance of which we do not suppose that the most earnest entreaties of distressed parents will divert them. The main point, however, is this, that if the culprits are indicted an d convicted under any of the three acts, which take cogni sance of their offence, the punishment will be imprison ment without option of fine. It is sad to think of the stigma which must attach itself to these young men—men of family and fortune as we suppose most Christ Church men to be—in after life if they are convicted of a criminal offence. It is still more sad to think that there is such a want of principle on their part in not declaring themselves, and such a want of manliness on the part of their associates in endeavouring to screen them. People naturally think that the most disgraceful act of barbarism which has ever been perpetrated in Oxford might have been regarded with rather stronger feelings than those of " regret " by Christ Church men, but we venture to think that, if Christ Church men wish to be considered in future the Elite of the members of the university, as they themselves claim to be, they will, now that affairs have taken such a serious turn, lend all the assistance in their power to the governing body in their endeavours to dispel the dark cloud which now enshrouds Christ Church. CHANGES IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Telegraph declares that a wonderful revolution is rapidly taking place in the Church of England. Parlia ment seems at length alive to the necessity of removing abuses which have alienated from it the affections and respect of a large portion of the community. A week ago the House of Commons, without a division, passed the second reading of a bill to stop that shameful iniquity— the sale of next presentations to livings. On Tuesday the House of Lords took the same step with reference to a bill to prevent the sequestration of benefices. The two measures relate to subjects apparently diverse, but in reality closely connected ; and the same principle underlies both -- that the parson exists for the benefit of the parish, and not the parish for the benefit of the parson. Mr. Cross's Bill to prevent the sale of next presentations seeks to repress simony --the vile traffic in the cure of souls which has done more perhaps, than any other cause to bring the Church into disrepute during the last two centuries. The Bishop of Winchester proposes to take away from clergymen the power which they at present virtually possess of pledging their benefices for the benefit of their creditors. One chief characteristic of the National Establishment is the adoption of the parochial, as distinguished from the itenerant, system. Other com munions—the Wesleyans, for example—prefer to station their ministers in towns for a few years, and to shift them periodically. However well that method may be suited to the particular wants and exigencies of the Wesleyan persuasion, undoubtedly it prevents the minister from gaining a strong local influence. The Church, on the contrary, attaches the highest value to such influence, and to the social power which belongs to an incumbent in the capacity of an old inhabitant. Surely she has an inherent right to mould her own system in the way which appears most beneficial for the people—to invest ecclesiastical offices with such legal incidents ads will best secure the faithful, zealous discharge of sacred functions. Earnest reformers will not be deterred from their task by vague denunciations that they are invading rights of property. Let statesmen in either House of Parliament be once thoroughly persuaded that the paro chial funds are trust property, held for the benefit of the flock and not of the pastors, and they will not shrink from the duty of terminating a false and vitiated- prac tice, which has given clergymen the power of misappro priating to purely selfish purposes the resources really destined for the cure of souls. INDIA AND ITS COUNCIL, The Post thinks that there are many signs observable signifying that a prominence never before accorded will shortly be assigned to Indian affairs. The failure of Indian finance, the opening of the Suez Canal, the entry upon probably the most colossal scheme of public works ever designed, the necessity for meeting the decline and inevitable ultimate fall of the opium revenue, the estab lishment of Imperial control over the country, and the enormous development—indeed, we may say the creation —of the cotton industry since the American civil war— these and other considerations have conspired to attract notice to, and demand attention for the concerns and prospects of our Eastern Empire. New industries have been fostered, new works of commu nication and irrigation undertaken, and, notably, the people have been carefully and extensively educated, to the end that they may take a more intelligent and active part in the development of the unbounded resources of their country. Those resources are capable of creating and sustaining a vast system of commerce. We say creating, because what trade now exists is really as nothing viewed in the light of the capacities of India. Undoubtedly the whole question of the Indian Council requires to have official attention directed to it. Not only does that body require to be rendered less cramped and more liberal as to its selection, but possibly the area of its usefulness might be extended, and the dis ability of its members to sit in Parliament removed. It is true that the Council is a revising, not an initiating, body, and fhat the true government of the country can best be carried out in India. But still the revising might be suggestively executed, and the matured and deliberate opinion of men thoroughly at home in all matters affect ing the welfare of India, as well as of the course of com merce generally, could not fail to be of advantage wherever expressed. Believing, then, that the affairs of India are growing not only in importance but in attrac tiveness, we think that those who are interested in the progress of that country have good cause to be satisfied with the debate of Tuesday. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS BILL. The Daily Hews refers to the Parliamentary Elections Bill just printed, and says that if the measure passes as it stands it will effect a great improvement in our elec toral system. But the House of Commons will, we trust, give it a form which will enlarge its range and effi ciency. It is open, in its present shape, to many criti cisms. It is something less than a Parliamentary Elec tions Bill, and it is at once something more and also something less than a Ballot Bill. As a Ballot Bill the measure is incomplete, for it does not extend secrecy of voting to the municipalities. Mr. Candlish has already put an amendment on th e no ti ce - paper f or supp l y i ng thi s omis sion. Without implying that the municipalities are vilia corpora suited for political experiment, yet there will be some advantage in allowing the working of the Ballot to be tried on them year after year, before a new general election. The defects of the particular system which may be adopted, the evasions to which it is open, and the means of remedying tho se evasions, will thus be di s closed. It is true that a Municipal Elections Bill is promised next year ; but" next year," lik e M ac b e th' s to morrow, is a shifting period; and there is no use in de ferring to the future what can be done now. The parti cular form of the Ballot chosen by the Government will naturally give rise to discussion. Will a measure which allows, under certain conditions, the iden tification of a voter's balloting ticket, give not only secu rity, but what is quite as important, the feeling of secu rity? Sir Charles Dilke had an amendment upon Mr. Leatham's Bill, providing for the destruction of the Ballot tickets after the election. It is of course equally . applicable to the Government Bill. We are inclined to think that this proposal takes unnecessary prec auti on against a very remote danger. But it may be well to have the subject thoroughly discussed. The second read ing of the Parliamentary Elections Bill is fixed for the 30th of this month. Between this time and that, and the still remoter day of going into Committee, both the Government and private membe rs w ill have ample oppor tunity of considering and reconsidering their position. THE PACENT OUTRAGE AT CHRIST CHURCH.— The unfortunate affair at Christ Church will, it is under stood, entirely put a stop to the Christ Church ball, which has hitherto formed one of the most attractive items in the programme of commemorative festivities at Oxford. It is understood that a warrant has been issued against the gentlemen who so mysteriously left Oxford on Sun day night, but up to the present time it has proved in gibytuid. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. WEDNESDAY. Now that we are half way through May the interest in parliamentary proceedings has become very much diminished, and although under the rule of our "earnest" Premier holidays are forbidden, the House is several times in the course of an evening in such a state that it might be counted out. As for the Peers' Gallery, it was left last night for a considerable time to one solitary Westminster Scholar, the Speaker's Gallery had but ten occupants, and even the Strangers', which has occupants though it is only a road bill that is being discussed—even this gallery was but half full. On the opposite side the Press Gallery had, indeed, its usual staff of reporters, but the " able editors " were as few as coroneted carriages in Pentonville. Can you wonder at it? Read the " questions "in last night's list. There was the old annual about Hamilton-place, that sacred street which all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men cannot get through, which not even an Act of Parlia ment can open, though it is a case of all London against six "swells." Some years ago the matter might have excited some interest; but we have long since submitted to our fate; we acknowledge ourselves beaten by Mr. Wentworth Beaumont and his neighbours, and it is only when poetic vengeance comes upon them in the shape of a great jewel robbery, that we are for a moment aroused from despairing apathy. That certainly was not amatter to draw a large attendance last night, either of M.P.'s or strangers. Akin to this was Mr. Denison's question as to whether cabs would be permitted within the sacred enclosure between the Marble Arch and Apsley House. There was deep design in that ques tion, however. Mr. Denison meant to force Mr. Ayrton into cutting through Hamilton-place by turning hansoms and growlers into Hyde Park. This was a horrible suggestion, so horrible that Mr. Denison thought it would frighten our most popular of YEdiles into doing something decisive. M.P.'s would seem to have been taking their walks abroad, for after the questions about Hamilton-place and Hyde Park came one about that great triumph of British art, the Guards Memorial in Waterloo- Place. Profane contractors have been piling up road stones on the base thereof, and all the vast and complex machinery of Parliament was set in motion last night by • Lord Claud Hamilton, in order to remedy this great and shameful wrong. Sir Henry Hoare made use of the same illustrious organisation to put Kensington Gardens in order. Sir John Hay, who ought to have been a canon so fond is he of great guns, had a question about Sir Joseph Whitworth's piece. There were some other ques tions of a different class, but is it not a terrible waste of time that the first representative assembly in the world should be compelled to pacify hon. members, whose anger is excited by a heap of road-stones ? Drowsy as this catechism was, it was liveliness itself compared with the debate which followed. Sir William Payne Gallwey--bald-headed, grey-moustached—M. P. for the populous city of Thirsk, who makes one speech in each Parliament, delivered himself last night of,an oration about the Folkestone and Boulogne and Calais and Dover packets. He began at five ; he went on for more than three-quarters of an hour, one word in every two seconds. The Westminster Scholar could not stand it, and fled. It was a welcome relief when Mr. Shaw Lefevre got up and rattled off his reply in true official style. The Channel steamers not being Government vessels, the Secretary to the Board of Trade did not feel himself under any obligation to de fend them. Still he was a trifle more eulogistic than he would have been hadhe been actually suffering the horrors of the middle passage. However, he gave us hope of im provement before long, and, after speaking for twelve minutes, sat down with an appeal to the venerable baronet not to go to a division. Probably Sir William Gallwey never meant to do so ; for, no one seconding his motion, he would have found the right hand lobby rather a forlorn place. However if he could not divide he could make a second speech, which was listened to or rather not listened to by a gossiping house. At last there was a cheer, the first which the Yorkshire baronet had excited. What was the good thing he had said ? That he would say no more. The next notice of motion was one by Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, praying the Queen to provide passages to colonies for emigrants at cheap and uniform rates of charge. But there's sometimes a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, and it was so on this occasion. Torrens is not a common name, but there are two M.P.'s who own it, and both sit on the same side of the House, and both take a great interest in the colonies and emigration. Now it so hap pened that when Mr. R. Torrens, the M.P. for Cambridge borough, two and a half months ago brought forward a similar motion, which was negatived ; this fact was not forgotten by the watchful Speaker. He has quite long hours enough, and so have Ministers, and he had no in tention of allowing a violation of the rule which prohibits a motion to be made similar in substance to one already moved in the same session. Of this he gave Mr. McCullagh Torrens due notice, and so instead of making his speech the M.P. for Finsbury was compelled to explain that he would not be able to make it, where upon up jumped Mr. Macfie to move the amendment which he had put upon the notice paper. He was received with shouts of laughter and cries of order—almost the first sign of life for the evening. The mover of the amendment was thus as badly off as the member for Finsbury. Both had intended to " orate," both were picked up short. The laughter subsided; the Speaker, vis pietate gratis, rose, expounded the House of Commons law on the point, and then called upon Mr. Graves. Now Mr. Graves is a great commercial autho rity, and he had an important subject, the want of a commercial member in the Council of State for India. He spoke well (barring an excess of quotations), and he was not too long, in facthe occupied less than half the time taken by Sir William Gallwey; and at twenty minutes to seven Mr. Crawford, M.P. for the city, as great a commercial magnate on the Liberal as Mr. (raves is on the Conservative benches, rose to speak on the motion. Judgi',2; from his statements, it certainly is not the fault of the vernment that com mercial men are not on the C0n:1,,1. They have been asked and they have refused; a case of nolo episcopari in fact. When Mr. Crawford had finished Mr. Eastwick had the parole. Mr. Eastwick understands Eastern affairs if any one does, and his remarks were fre quently applauded. In fact he is one of those new members who have gained the ear of the House, and to whom the House is always ready to listen. Not that he is an orator. He simply talks in a conversational manner, but he always talks well, and understands what he is talk ing about, a quality which the House values a good deal more than eloquence. While he spoke the Treasury bench was occupied by Mr. Gladstone (asleep I fancy), Mr. Ayrton who used to make India a specialit4, and Mr. Grant Duff, who ought to have been Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but who nevertheless is not doing badly at the India Office. The Marquis of Lorne entered the House while Mr. Eastwick was speaking, for the young nobleman naturally takes some interest in the de partment over which his father presides. The other mem hers who took part in this debate may be divided into three classes : there were the members representing great critics, and as such largely interested in the trade of India, viz., Sir Thomas Bazley, Mr. Muntz, and Mr. Graham, representing Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow, as Mr. Graves had represented Liverpool ; there was Sir Charles Wingfield, who like Mr. Eastwick has a special acquaintance with India; and there were members of the Government—Mr. Grant Duff and Mr. Gladstone. Fortunately for the House the Premier has learnt to tame that once most unruly member—Mr. Ayrton's tongue—by putting its owner into office, and so, though the First Commissioner of Works was one of the few Ministers who listened to the debate; and though, previously to December, 1868, he would have given us an hour's speech on the subject, he refrained, and after a debate of two and a half hours, in which the unanimity of the speakers was wonderful, the motion was with drawn, and nothing came of it, as is apt to happen when everybody is agreed. The purging effect of an Indian debate upon the House of Commons has been proverbial from the days of Macau lay downwards. Your readers will therefore not be sur prised to learn that by eight o'clock the House was very thin. This is the witching hour of dinner, and the • benches are at this period of the evening always in a rather forlorn state. Yesterday there were other reasons why they should have been more than usually empty ; the occur- , rence of an Indian Debate as already mentioned, and the fact that Mr. Fawcett had a motion coming on. Mr. Fawcett is a very clever man, but I am bound to say he is not a favourite. Conservatives look upon him as a second edition of Mr. Mill, thorough going Ministerialists think him a pragmatic doctrinaire, and if the Professor were to hear the remarks made upon him by those shrewd and generally impartial critics, the occupants of the Press gallery whenever he rises to speak, Ido not think he would be pleased. Let it be understood that I am passing no judgment upon him. I am simply recording the fact that he is not popular either downstairs or upstairs, and I do so simply to explain the catastrophe which happened last night. I said at the commencement of this sketch that our " earnest " Premier does not allow us the luxury of count-outs. There is no rule without an exception, and that exception happened yesterday. Soon after the Professor had risen, a member (one of those who are said to do good deed by stealth and blush to find it fame) stole up to the Speaker and suggested that there were not forty members present. The Speaker went through the usual preparations for counting heads, and. Mr. Glyn aid not think it necessary to use his• whip. Sir. Disraeli put his professor into a book, and thereby inflicted condign punishment upon Mr. Goldwin Smith (I think that by a slip of the pen I said Professor Rogers on a former occasion). Mr. Gladstone . punished his by allowing him to be counted out. This is only the second count-out of the session, and on each occasion Mr. Fawcett Ups keen the victim of it. Scarcely an un d es i gne d CtintiOnA 4in giinking* THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1870. IMPORTANT MEETINGS. NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE.-The annual meeting was held at Freemasons' Hall. The report stated that the number of persons taken by Sunday excursion trains in 1869 was 13,000, the amount paid to the London, Chatham and Dover and the London and Brighton Companies being nearly £l,BOO. As the London, Chatham,- and Dover, the South Eastern, and the Brighton Companies intend to run excursion trains on Sundays during the the forthcoming season, the League would not run their occasional trains. The Sunday bands were carried out as usual by the League in Battersea-park, and by . East London friends in Victoria-park. During the win ter the League had carried out "Sunday evenings for the people" on the original St. Martin's Hall basis. The re ceipts of the year from all sources had been 2,300 3s. lid., while the expenditxre left a balance of £62 2s. 6d. in favour of the association. BAND OF HOPE UNION.—The annual conference took place on Tuesday morning, in Exeter Hall. In the even ing the anniversary meeting was held in the great hall, and was very largely attended, the buildinc , being insuffi cient to accommodate the crowd attracted by the event. As at previous gatherings, the platform was appropriated to the Band of Hope choir of 600 voices. Mr. Edward Baines, M.P. occupied the chair, and was sup ported by Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., Mr. M. Dalway, M.P., and many well-known temperance advocates. The Rev. G. W. M'Cree, the secretary, gave an abstract of the report, which states that every year serves to establish the importance of the work, its intimate relations to the education, physical health, and morals of the people, and of its ultimate spread throughout the nation. The income for the year was £2,570 16s. 7d., and the expenditure £2,448 10s. 10d., leaving a balance of £122 ss. 9d. The chairman referred to his own experience of thirty-two years as proof of the advantages and benefits of teetotalism, and mentioned that Dr. Living stone, Mr. Cobden, and many other distinguished men had personally assured him of their conviction that the movement was a right one, and that they had virtually been voluntary abstainers themselves, under the most trying circumstances. RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The twelfth anni versary festival was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Lord Colville in the chair. The Duke of Richmond and many other distinguished men were present. A donation of 100 guineas from the Queen was announced. In propos ing the toast of the evening, Lord Colville observed that the enormous railway system of this country re quired an army of something like 300,000 men for its efficient working. How that army did its duty might be gathered from the fact that in the year 1869 only seventeen railway passengers met their death from causes beyond their own control, that was, supposing the number of travellers to have been no greater than it was in 1867, at the rate of one in seventeen millions. Unhappily the immunity enjoyed by railway passengers did not extend to railway employes, as would be seen by the dreadful catalogue of cases relieved by the society which had been circulated in the room. The object of the institution was to afford assistance to cases which were beyond the aid of the companies. That assistance it gave in the way of pensions or gratuities to members, or their widows and families, and of education to their children. The income from all sources in 1869 was £5,396; there was an invested capital of £25,200, and the number of men in the service contributing was 29,200. Donations amounting to the liberal sum of £l,lOO were announced. GENERAL DOMESTIC SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT INSTI TUTION.—The twenty-fourth annual meeting was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, Lord Ebury in the chair. The report stated that there were fifty-four pensioners now on the fund, seven of whom were receiving £2O per annum each, and the remainder £l5 per annum. The total number of pensioners elected since the formation of the society had been 103, who had been paid the sum of £10,500. Arranvements were in progress for the erection of an asylum for aged and decayed servants. The registry was working well, and gave general satisfaction to both employers and servants ; no servant being admitted on the registry who is not a member of the institution. The total income for the year had been £1,763 9s. 7d., and the expenditure, including £BlB paid to pensioners, £43 in temporary relief, and £416 invested, had been £1,694 2s. 3d., leaving a balance of £69 7s. 4d. Mr. Villiers has been elected chairman of the Convents Committee. The Levant Times states that Mrs. Lloyd's pension from the Greek Government is to be £4OO a year. The marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings and Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart., is to be solemnised the second week in the ensuing month. The new Roumanian Cabinet has published its programme. Its watchwords are to be " Morality, Le gality." It is stated that the pay of the Commander-in- Chief in Ireland is henceforth to be £2,000 per annum instead of £4,000. The account of the reception of the Rev. Mr. Jackson at Ledbury is incorrect. The parishioners gene rally took no part in the proceedings. Yesterday morning about 10.30 it was discovered that Mr. Firth, photographer, of Dudley-grove, Padding ton, had committed suicide by taking poison. He leaves a wife and six children with one child lying dead. James M'Donald, a young Irish labourer at Bolton while crossing the railway was knocked down by a goods train and had his head completely severed from his body. The real mystery of " Edwin Drood " is now sup posed to be the substitution of Mr. Fildes in the stead of Mr. H. K. Brown (Phiz) as illustrator of the work.— London Figaro. The lmera, a Greek journal published at Trieste, recommends as a remedy for the present condition of Greece to abolish the Constitution, and to put the power into the hands of King George. It appears from the return of Metropolitan Pau perism for the first week of May, which is published to day, that the numbers in receipt of relief amounted to 140,500, or 40,500 less than at the close of February. Mr. Zerah Colburn, the well-known civil engineer, died at Belmont, near Boston, U.S-A., on the 27th ult. Mr. Colburn was formerly editor of The Engineer and afterwards proprietor and editor of Engineering. Ile was also the author of a number of papers read before the In• stitute of Civil Engineers, of which he was a member. He was in his 37th year. Senor Madoz, the bearer of a letter from Marshal Prim to Marshal Espartero, stating that animportant frac tion of the Cortes wished to elect him as King, and asking for a statement of his views, has returned from Logrono with a letter from Espartero, declining to accept the proffered dignity on account of his age. The reply has caused much disappointment in Spanish political circles. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF PARIS,—The mor tality reports continue to shew an unsatisfactory state as regards the health of the French capital. The smallpox is increasing in fatality, no less than 179 deaths from that cause having been returned in the week ending May 14. The total number of deaths in Paris from all causes during the week was 1,210. The mortality of London during the previous week was 1,314, which, comparing the respective populations of tha two capitals, 3,214,707 and 1,825,274, gives a very disadvantageous prominence to the Paris figures. A practical illustration of the value of the new Torquay harbour in a pecuniary point of view has just been afforded, which is of considerable importance to the inhabitants. Hitherto only vessels of small tonnage have been employed in the coal trade, owing to the dpth of water not being sufficent to accommodate ships of a larger class, and the cost of the best coal has been at the rate of 245. to 255. per ton. On Monday night a large screw collier having nearly 600 tons of coal on board entered the new harbour, and lying alongside the quay in deep water dischargedher cargo into the stores close by, from which the best kind is retailed at 18s. 9d, per ton, creating quite a revolution in the coal trade.—Western Morning News. PROMOTION BY BRIGANDAGE.—There was a poor gendarme, who, for long, long years, aspired after the rank of a corporal. He was a good soldier, brave enough, and the least refractory in his company; but his only patron was himself. So he deserted, and turned brigand. Here he was able to display his talents. He was soon well known to all the heads of the gendarmerie. • They tried to catch him, and missed catching him five or six times. Giving up that game, they sent a friend to treat with him. " You shall have your pardon, and, to make up for your trouble, you shall be made a corporal to-mor row, and a sergeant in the course of the year." His ambition was satisfied. He consented to be made cor poral, awaiting patiently his sergeant's stripes. He had long to wait for them. One day, his patience was worn out, and he returned to the mountains. He had not killed three men, before they made haste to make him a ser geant. He afterwards rose to be an officer, with no other patrons than the persons he had put underground.— Dicken's "All the Year Round." A. NEW STIMULANT.-It cannot be too widely known that persons who object (whether for good or bad reasons) to take or to administer alcohol in cases of prostra tion, or in those numerous morbid conditions of the nervous system which are akin to the exhaustion of fatigue or innutrition, may avail themselves of an admira ble substitute of a perfectly safe character, against which neither the conscience nor the palate will rebel. The substitute is nothing less than Liebig's extract of meat, an article well known and in generaluse in respectable households, and frequently used in the preparation of beef tea, and for gravies, &o. As ordinarily used, the extract is certainly not to be regarded as a stimulant, except in so far as all nourishments are stimulating ; but when made into tea of very great strength it is another matter. A teaspoon fal mixed in a teacupful of hot water (the water need not be boiling hot), with a sufficiency of salt to render it palatable, acts as an immediate stimulant, being quickly assimilated, and affording an im petus to the circulation while actually nourishing the tissues. The drink thus prepared is of a fine dark brown colour, very nearly approximating to the colour of coffee, and is extremely palatable. In its effect it differs from alcohol ; it does not provoke the tongue to action, or dis turb the healthy action of the brain, but it gives warmth to the whole frame, tone to the nervous system, and a steadiness to the operation of the senses. It is, in fact, one of the most valuuable of restoratives, and especially useful, as above remarked, to those who need the aid of alcohol, but have an objection to take it, or to whom, perhaps, it may be repugnant. It is proper to remark that a constant use of strong i . nfusions of the extract by healthy people is not to be advised ; in fact, might prove injurious, just as the excessive use of alcohol must prove. In common with all other stimu lants, it must be used with caution, but many cases occur in which it would prove a real blessing, and a safe sub gtitute for brands, wine, &c.—Dr. IrDoNNEht,,- in Gardener's Magazine. THE CHELSEA MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST UPON THE REV. MR. HEULIN. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Diplock, the coroner for West Middlesex, resumed, at the Chelsea Workhouse, the adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of the Rev. Elias Heulin, aged 84 years, who was alleged to have been killed and buried by a plasterer in his employment, named Walter Miller. In front of the workhouse, in the board-room of which the inquest was held, a large crowd assembled, and a body of police maintained order. The court itself was densely crowded by clergymen and gentlemen. Mrs. Harriet Sydney, 6, Rutland street, Brompton-road, deposed that kbe had known Mrs. Miller by living in her house. On Sunday, the Bth instant, she took tea with her at her house, at 26, Seymour-place, Fulham-road. Walter Miller was then present. and Mrs. Middleton entered the room while they were at tea. Mrs. Middleton said to Mrs. Miller, "Mr Heulin is very well satisfied with the manner in which Miller has done his work, and he is to have the head charge of all Mr. Heulin's property." No details were mentioned as to Mr Heulin's property. • Ccroner--Were you there again on Monday ? Witness—Yes, sir, at half-past three o'clock. Miller was there then. He was in the kitchen when I arrived. He wore a pair of light grey trousers. He generally wore those trousers on holidays. His usual trousers on working days were cord ones. Miller was in his " usual joking spirits," and while eating he joked much. While Miller was at his tea Mrs. Miller ironed one of Miller's shirts, •which was rather unusual, for witness generally washed and ironed all Miller's shirts. She washed and ironed a shirt it was a full fronted one. A Juror Is a. 3 Mrs. Miller at all excited ? Witness— No ; but Miller said " I am going to Hornsey, for I think by going there it will be a deal better for me than remaining here." Mr. Stainsby asked the coro er to read an anoymous letter sent to him, calling him a " busy fool, who, by coming for ward to give evidence, wanted.to make himself notorious." He cautioned him not to tamper with the life of a fellow creature, and it was signed "A. Fi iend at present." The Coroner said that a man, who was ashamed to sign his name, was unworthy of notice. Harriet Middleton, who resides at No. 2, Sydney-mews Fuller's-road, deposed that she had known Miller three years. She then deserted home on the night of Monday week. Miller called at her house disguised as a Frenchman and gave her the keys of No. 15, Paulton-square, and after telling her that Mr ileulin had gone into the country, said that he was Mr Heulin's nephew, and that she was to go and take care of his house. In answer to the Coroner, the witness said that she had seen Mr. Huelin on the preceding Saturday, and that he had asked her what she thought of Miller; and she said, "I think he is an upright sort of man." Mr. Ruelin then said '• I have to pay him £l2 for that house in Wellington-square. It has cost me a great deal." Wit ness had been employed by Mr. Huelin to clean down the house in Wellington-square, and it was arranged that she was to take care of 15, Paulston-square while Mr Huelin was in the country. The witness created consider able surprise in court by saying "I'm very sorry he has boen murdered, for if he had not been I should have had a good summer's work. He promised to employ me all the summer, and I have lost all that." By a Juror—lf Miller were to come to me disguised as a Frenchman, shaking his head, and wearing a pair of spec tacles, 1 should not know him. He spoke •'like a broken Frenchman." The Corner said that he should not go into the question of Miller having taken possession of Mr. Heulin's house, for it was clearly proved that certain property belonging to Mr• Heuliu was found on Miller. Inspector Fisher said that there was a witness who could prove that Miller had on Monday week cut off a portion of his whiskers, and dyed the remainder in order to disguise himself. Inspector Prescott, of the T division, here stepped for ward, and producing a ring, said he wished to make a statement. Mr. Vincent, a watchmaker in the King's road, told him that on Wednesday morning, the 11th, Mrs. Middleton brought the ring to his shop, and said that she wanted it made smaller to fit her finger. In the evening a young girl came, stating her address as 14 Paulton's-square, and asked if it was done, and was told no. Next morning the old woman again attended, and said she must have it as uhe wanted it, and Mr. Vin6ent told her it was not worth _ a penny. She did not come again, and Mr. Vincent - took it to 14, Pitiilton's-square, where, from his discription, the women were recognised as Mrs. Middleten and heidaughter. The Coroner called the two women in separately, and they steadily denied that they had taken any ring to Mr. Vincent's, or that they knew Mr. Vincent or where he lived. The old woman declared that she never left the house on Wednesday. Mr. Sharp Vincent, the silversmith in question, was then called in, and positively identified both the women as having called about the ring. Other evidence was adduced, the effect of which has appeared in the course of the other proceedings, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Miller," recommending that the Home Secretary should grant Piper a reward. LIFE iT SEA. Mr. Plimsoll's Bill, which is just published, contains the following provision with regard to load lines, their position to be determined by the builder, and the surveyor's of the Board of Trade and of Lloyds : —" The load line shall be marked on the ship— L By cutting in a conspicuous position on the combing of the main hatchway, in legible figures or letters at least one inch long, the maximum proper immersion amidships, the maximum proper immersion by the head, and the maximum proper immersion by the stern. 2. By painting on the outside of the hull, either along the whole length of the load line on each side or along.. the load line on each side for a length of not less than four feet at the bows, a length of not less than four feet at the stern, and a length of not less than four feet amidships, a band of white or yellow not less than six inches broad, bordered, with black for a width on each side of not less than three inches, or a band of black not less than six inches broad bordered with white or yellow for a width on each side of not less than three inches, in such manner that the centre of such band shall through out every part of its length correspond with the load line. THE AAIRICAN FENIANS. The doings of the Fenians in America occupy some space in the New York papers received yesterday. The New York Times of the 6th says :—" There is everyreason to believe that the Fenians, to use their own expression, mean business this time. •The utmost activity prevails among the officials of all grades here and else where, although quiet seems to reign in and around head quarters. Men are being despatched daily to different points to facilitate the con concentration of the " I. K. A." which, it is said, already numbers 33,000 men, well disciplined, and fully provided for a long c a mpaign. General O'Neill says that he will not lack means to aid him in the coming tug of war, as he daily receives liberal contributions of money from all parts of the Union. Yesterday one gentleman alone placed 10,000 dols. at his disposal for the good of the cause. Men are only too willing to join in any expedition against England, so that, numerically speaking, his army is strong. The same paper, m its issue of the following day, says :—" The Councils of the Fenians become daily more frequent and secret. Yesterday pursuant to the call of General O'Neill, the members of the Executive Council of Nine, appointed by the late Congress, arrived in this city, to confer with him on the approaching expedition. During the day nothing was done at head-quarters, a quorum not having reached the city until a late hour. At a late hour last night, however, a secret meeting was held. The business transacted thereat did not, of ccurse, transpire, but it was ascer tained that its object was to decide upon the time when the movement shall take place. ' The council meets again to-day. THE MASSACRES IN GItEECE.-A fresh series of despatches (the 9th) respecting the tragedy in Greece has been issued frem the Foreign Office. It principally con sists of documents which have been presented to the Italian Chamber of Deputies relating to the murder of Count Boyl, the Secretary of the Italian Legation at Athens. In a despatch dated Florence, April 30, Signor Visconti Ve:iosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs alludes to the want of vigilance on the part of the autho rities charged with the maintenance of order in Greece, and says that it had violently excited public opinion. " The Greek Government," he adds, " has had a proof of it in the steps taken by all the diplomatic representives accredited at Athens. We have had a clear proof of it also in the haste with whi c h th e A us t r i an Government has let us know that it is ready to co-operate with us in any measures we think proper to adopt with reference to Greece. A similar communication has also been made by the Cabinet of Vienna in London." The letters from Mr. Erskine to Lord Cla rendon are four in number, and they are all dated May 7. In one of these he encloses a translation of the depo sition made by the guide of the military detachment which fell in with the tourists while they were still on the plain of Marathon. The guide distinctly de clares that he repeatedly warned the party through the dragoman Alexandros to drive slowly and keep with the soldiers. " This statement, as it appears to me," adds Mr. Erskine, is most conclusive against Alexandros, 'who indignantly denied in my presence that any such_ warning had been given to him." In another despitchi Erskine says it would almost look as if Alexandros was the person who supplied the information as to the travellers' movements to the brigands, and as if another person, named Costa, who is in custody, was the medium of communication with them. On May 7 all trace of the brigands had been lost. MINNESOTA AND ITS LOCAL PRESS. (From the Anglo-American Times ) We have before asserted our belief in the value to the emigrant of local papers from the most out of-the-way pacts of the district where he proposes to settle; for the information which can be extracted by those who know how, is little less than from an ac ual visit, though the general features of the coun tryshould first be known. The local journal does not write articles expressly to convey information, and if it did it would fail in ding that to which we desire to direct the attention of emigrants. It is the multitude of little facts unconsciously commu nicated, prejudicial to the growing district front one point; or from another telling, without being sen sible of the fact, of its rapid rise in material pros perity. Better still, it gives truthful little glimpses of the state of society, whether hat mony or dissension prevails, if the people are church-going, law-abiding, trading and enterprising ; whether the children go to school, the men to business, and the women to the it household work ; what they buy, eat, drink, and do ; whether their streets are paved, lighted by gas; their fields fenced, their cattle abundant, carriage cheap, and population increasing ;—infor mation on all such points can bast be gathered from the local papers, where they least intend to convey it. We have before us two cf a late date, the St. Cloud Journal, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, and the Alex andria Post, from Alexandria, in the same State. St. Cloud is a town in Stearns County, on the Mis sissippi, some distance above St. Paul, and Alex andria is away west, in Douglas County, almost as near to:Fort„Garry and " President" Riell, as to St. Paul. The first item the St. Cloud Journal gives tells of the departure of a surveying party to run three lines from the city for fifty miles west; the best to be selected, and continued to Georgetown oa the Red River, connecting with the first division of the St. Paul and Pacific, the work being really on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The .Journal con demns " the contemptible spirit of narrow mean ness " which had just induced the Minnesota House to defeat the bill for the erection of a Nor mal school at St. Cloud, and, as " the stupidity of the action is its own severest comment," the editor, who was at a loss for woi ds, was happily relieved. News, as might be expected, is neither plentiful nor, when not local, is it fresh. It is not, however, the little items of intelligence which interest us, but the spirit of the press. The people evidently take an interest in the leading magazines of the States, for there are short reviews of the Atlantic, the Galaxy, the River Side, Our Young Folks, and others, each succeeding notice being more compli mentaiy than the last, and as be carries us along we wonder to what climax the'editor will attain, or when the poverty of language will bring him to a stop. Intermixed with the local news are what printers call "puff pars," and they fall like snowflakes on our path as we run down the columns. At St. Cloud what is termed " Personal " has a strong smack of the personal; for instance, we are told that " Captain W. H. Hall and Mr. 0. H. Camp bell, two jolly boys froin Kingston, rendered their phizes visible in our office on Friday." This i s followed by the intelligence that groceries continue at panic prices at Boyd's. It is natural for us to con clude that Boyd's is the place to buy sugar, coffee, and tea • but a little further on crops up a para graph which raises a doubt :—" Huber gives from 5 to 7 pounds of sugar for $l.OO ; 4 pounds of good Rio coffee for $l.OO ; 5 pounds of nicest dried peaches for $l.OO ; lard, 22i cents per pound, and everything'else in proportion. Give Huber a trial." The reader could scarcely have made up his mind to -accept that invitation when he hears of a "re volution in the prices of groceries and provisions. Down to the bottom they go. At Limperich's." In large letters, Pickit and Abbott attract us thus— THE " REGULATOR," and our readers must remem ber that all this is in what are called the editorial columns. " A short time since people could only get five pounds of sugar for one dollar. Pickit and Abbott put in a stock of groceries, and imme diately six pounds for one dollar became the stand ard price. This house is not only the Regulator' in dry goods and clothing, but in groceries as well. It always keeps goods down to low prices, and is just the place for people to buy." Well, we must have got to the end of the groceries at any rate ! Not a bit of it. " Take Notice—Fresh groceries at J. B. Mills', cheap as the cheapest. Goods delivered, free of cost, in any part of the city." • Up crops Limperich again and' Huber, and others, one coupling drugs with his groceries, Edelbrock add ing, " Anything you want." Such items would be come dry reading to those who did not want any thing, but these paragraphs are interlardedwith per sonal notices such for instance as this : O. G. Wall, Esq ,the quill of the Caledonia Journal, has gone and got married. Good boy." Looking over the adver .tisernents we see the competition in St. Cloud it self, the competition between St. Cloud and St. Paul, and the competition of the State generally against tale eastern and foreign markets. Tne journal begins by declaring that at its office job printing can be done as well and as cheaply as at St. Paul, and it begs its advertisers to remember that its circulation is double that of any other paper in Northern Minnesota. But several busi ness men of St. Paul, New York,• Boston, and Philadelphia advertise, and goods of every descrip tion are evidently on salein the stores of St. Cloud. Winslow and Co. offer $lOO to any one who will produce a better axe made in the Union than their's, and as the American axe is the best, they must claim for their's the highest place. Sleds, waggons, bateaux are also manufactured. Bonham is re tdy for any tin, sheet iron, or copper work ; the St. Cloud waggon factory turns out every variety of vehicle. Owen, dresses lumber into doors, window frames, cornices, &c. Spicer and Carlisle, as fur niture manufacturers, ask the, patronage of their townsmen ; bankers, lawyers, doctors offer their services, and we may couple with the last under takers and monument makers. The restaurants prominently announce their ability to supply fresh oysters, which they offer to cook in any style ; and among the hotels the Fountain House gives a glowing description of the scenery around, the White Bear Lake being one of the most beautiful in the State, well stocked with fish and game, both row and sail boats are there, and the Hotel, for in door recreation, provides a billiard table The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad give their time-table for trains to St. Anthony Junction, Manotnin, Anoka, Itasca, Dayton, Elk River, Big Lake, Clear Lake, St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, and Forts Ripley and Abercrombie, stopping for dinner, 20 minutes at Crow River. The Milwaukee and St. Paul add to their time-table the intelligence that a full night's rest can be obtained in the Palace sleeping Cars. An estate agent offers for sale amongst others—" A good 1i story frame house with an L; a good well, and four acres of land, in the city limits. Price $1,200. Long time given if desired.-160 acres of land near the city with good building, suitable for hotel. Price $4,000." A con siderable number of announcements are advertised of complaint against citizens who had abandoned their homesteads, with notice of the cancelment of the entry unless the complaint be answered. One entire sheet of the paper is taken up with a Post office advertisement for contracts to carry the mails in all directions through Minnesota. Settlers were beginning to wove into the Otter-Tail county, and Mon goli a county is highly praised by the editor in an article. He states there are 15,000 acres there of Government land still vacant, -but the railroads have a great deal more, which can be had on favourable terms. A correspondent gives some items about Litchfield, where he says a beautiful park has been planted and laid out by the railroad company; and he takes the houses of one street, and thus gives a list of all the shops. This town evidently is so new that even the people of St. Cloud did not know where it was, and the writer desires to inform them how much it has grown in seven months. "Deputy" supplies a long account of the pineries on the Upper Mississippi, their extent and character; full of interesting information. He takes camp by camp, and firm by firm, and arrives at his estimate of the logs likely to be carried to market during the coming season, as 83,000,000 feet. The Alexandria Post is not so mature a journal, having as yet good space to grow with its town. Among its announcements, we are told, two prizes were to be given at the Spelling Match that night— one open to all scholars of the county schools; the other to " any one who participates." Musk rats are coming in, being quoted at 10 to 11 cents ; and by the 20th March the grade of " Spring rat" will be quoted higher by the fur buyer. "The fur trade is quite dull, but few pelts being brought in." The bounty for killing wolves has been repealed. The Minnesota Iron Works seen to be making a push, as attention is called to their advertisement in both papers. Although the Post devotes much of its 'pace to religious matters, it is not above the fol lowing quaint appeal to its readers : We (that is, the devil and the rest of us) have not, in our capacity of printers, received a mince pie or a dough nut this winter. We mention this with regret, because we had hoped that the custom of cheering the printer heart through his stomach, so successfully inaugurated last winter, would be continued indefinitely. Has the mince pie season closed ?" At a debating society this subject was considered: ---" That woman's suffrage would be a greater curse than whisky as it is.' Some twenty iniztvl duals participated in the discussion. Towering above the rest was Long Prairie M'Kinney, with a good display of hazel brush on his chin. 11 13 arguments were forcible, but not clear ; but thi s was DO damage to the debate, as Major Brown jumped up and pitched into the assemblage . a frightful atnouut of historical facts, in which Queen Esther, Charlotte Corday, and Joan ° f Arc, were brought out in full prominence." The graceful John Galbraith, when he took the floor, knocked things endways, and the timid feared a row ; but " the graceful" was allowed to " slop over" without harm to the debate. • The mathe matical Wymar" threw in some problems which so cooled things down that the judges arrived at the merits of the debate, and the question was decided in the affirmative. The weather at St. Cload on the 24th February was described as beautifully fine, the sun shining brightly, and furs at a discount ; but on March 5 it had become colder at Alexandria, aP: I the editor of the Post again urges loggers to take advantage of the late fall of snow to get thei r work completed, as " the sledding season is taper ing off," and no time should be lost. He also stirs up those engaged in ice cutting to hasen their work, as the snow was beginning to melt; and he noticed the first flock of wild geese from the south as having a few d iys before passed over his house. It is evident that Otter-Tail county is the fa vourite just now in Minnesota; that the whole State is making rapid progress ; that the people are well satisfied with their prospects, and that an air of prosperity and content reigns throughout ; and we could have no better indication of this than through the inspection of such journals. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. WASHINGTON, April 29. Mr. Cyrus Field has been here in company with Lord Walter Campbell, a son of the Duke of Argyll , and he was at the White House on Wednesday to introduce him to the President. Gen. Grant has left with his family to visit his son at West Point, and he will not return till Monday. A great ex cursion has carried off Messrs. Boutwell, Creswell/ Hoar; Senators, Representatives, many ladies, and guests to Norfolk, on board a new steamer, and they will not be back till to-morrow. The Presideut , the Vice-President, and the entire New York Re publican Delegation in Congress had a grand social entertainment here last Wednesday. No Cabinet meeting can Le held tillthe President's return. Dur ing the last, the route of the Winnipeg expedition was discussed at the inst ince of Mr. Fish, who had i 0" formally signified to the British Minister that it could not be permitted a right cf way through our territory. In this be is upheld unanimously by the Cabinet; and General Sheridan will establish his head-quarters at Pembina during the summer , wlu nee it is expected he will have to direct mili tary operations against the Sioux, who threaten an other Indian war in Montana and Dacotah, the troops beingalready on the move for Minnesota. Mr. Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, is here opposing Mr. Hubbard, who is advocating a postal telegraph scheme. Wye continue , to receive unsatisfactory accounts of the working of the telegraph by the Government in England. The naval court-martial on Commander Upcher has Nu; eluded its work, and the impression is that he wil l be acquit'ed. The Vice-President addressed the Order of Oddfellows last Tuesday, when they cele brated their fifty-first American anniversary. R. fl• Manly, once agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond, has been examined by the committee which is investigating the charges against General Howard, as has beet). Simon Wolf and Dr. Sutber lan I. Certain deeds are said to be in the office of the Recorder, bearing General Ho ward's name, and Manly cashed the Congregational lurch Bonds. The Investigating Committee who exatniued the patent brick was unable to agree upon a report ; that published not emanating front them. The President is looking out for a summer residence, and is said to be negotiating the purch se of the Bartholomew Farm, Prince George County, in Maryland, near the District line. General Mor gan of Ohio has proposed a Bill to reduce the Navy to three Rear-Admirals, six Cotutnodorc s, and other ranks in proportion, on the same principle as is embodied in the new Army Bill. There are but three Commodores at sea, and there are ten Ad mirals employed in Washington ; but that there are not more on the briny is no faith of the officers, wh o would be glad to be employed. For days and days a weary debate on the Tariff has been going out and every one is getting heartily sick of jute butts, pig iron, &c. The ventilation of the Hall of the Re presentatives was discussed, but, as usual, without reaching a result. Telegraphs, the River and Wate r Channel Communication, Steamship Subsidies, Consolidation of the Laws relating to the Yos t Office, and Land Grants have been considerbd. second Louisiana contested election has been declared invalid, and Mr. Stevenson was defeated in his strenuous effort to make another long speech on the subject, which much annoyed that Representative - Tile Post-office Department is issuing $lOO worth daily of the new series of postage stamps. Y° l-1 can hardly imagine the sensation caused by th e Richmond calamity. You will, I know, give the particulars, but at a distance you cannot realize the feelings it has raised. Mrs. Bre wis, wife of one of the victims, has died of grief, and other ladies are in a critical state. General Schofield's brother wa s among the killed. R. H.Maury, jun., is the nephew of the well-known scientific naval officer. Y. Aylett was alike distinguished as lawyer and jour nalist. Major Kelly, of Fredericksburg, was convers ing with him when the crash commenced, and saYs Aylett was killed by a beam from the gallery. S. Bocock, who was severely hurt, had been Speaker in the House of Representatives and in the Con federate Congress. The interest is absorbing, an d telegrams from all parts of the country keep pour ing into Richmond. Collectors of Customs have been informed that the new Dominion will stric.li enforce the Fishery Laws, that the licenses hereto fore granted have been revoked, and fishermen ar e to be warned that the United States cannot offer protection in case they violate the law._Ang/o- American Times. The Musical World is responsible for the alll lo4l f incredible statement th a t the Re v . C. T. P roc t er , vicar °_ Richmond, has refused to allow the choir boys of t h '; parish church to sing at a concert in aid of the Richn2o o _ Infirmary, on the ground that they might be, r equired t o sing secular music. The Gaulois publishes a telegram from Ni ce/ stating that Madlle. Eug6nie - and M. Auguste M .-- ",„j both well known in the literary world, have co mmit s suicide at that town. The cause assigned is heavy los es . at the gambling table at Monaco. They took laudann''' but, as this did not act quickly enough, they sho: - , thei r selves. The Gaulois suppresses the names. The Rev. W. Harrison, rector of Birch, and OOP; lain to H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, delivered i ' y address yesterday morning at the Church of St. Mary A- 1 ,, mary, Cannon-street, on the subject of Moravian 'ions. These missions have been established 138 y ea ti and occupy 87 stations in Greenland, Labrador, v"" Indies, &c. BIRTHS. Ou the 23d ult, at Barton, Staffordshire, the wife of Brook, Esq., of Port Elizahetb, South Afi:ica, of a son• e On the 13th inst., at Egerton House, Bolton-le-Moors , d i wife of Edward Ashworth, jun., of a son. MA RRI AGES On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Lewishan3, NV , i ; Caldwall Masters, Joseph ()limns, Esq., her Male s Victualling Yaid, Malta, to Agness Ellen, third daug o of J. IL Gibson, Esq., Lewisham, Kent. On the 17th inst., at St. Michael's Dawlish, Frank N iir t f o Panter, of 25, Maryland-road, St. Peter's Park, w Mary Jane, only daughter of Mrs. Mathews, Brunsw ic place, Dawlish. DEATHS. On the IGth inst., Wm. Ward Abbott, Esq., of Eyne Bblir9' Neots, and 26, Bedford-row, London, aged 76. , 1 On the 14th inst., at Bombay, from gastric fever, John NY I v Liam Macnamara, commander in the Peninsular and elle tal Company's service. On the 14th inst., at South Lambeth, Anne Maria, wif ° oo o ci Mr. Samuel George Redfearn, aged 38 years, el daughter of Mr. Richard Carpenteri-of May Lodge, tonstone-road, Essex. - - • , Loudnn : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDR - - E I WS I , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sim Offi ce , No. o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the OeuntY Middlesex.—Thuraday, May 19, 1870.