The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. Orders have been received at Woolwich to hold in readiness a supply of mountain service guns and equipment for disposal in the event of an expedition being resolved upon by the Government for the liberation of the Abyssinian captives. The expe rience gained during the past few years in which this species of artillery has been in use has called the attention of the War Department to the neces sity of its improvement. The guns are now being considerably reduced in weight, and their system of transport has undergone a searching investigation. One of the guns, made of brass, and formerly a 31b. smooth-bore muzzle-laoder, was on SatUrday mounted on the pack saddle on the back of a mule purchased by the Grdnance. Select Committee at Woolwich for experimental purposes, and was pa raded in marching order :for their investigation. Thclweight of the gun is now 2001 b., having been reduced by cutting a piece off the muzzle and paring down the outside. It has al:o been rifled on the Woolwich principle, and the calibre has been increased so as to fire a projectile of 71b. A number of photographic sketches were exhibited to illustrate the various modes adopted for the moun tain service in India. Capt. Fenn, a cavalry officer of much experience attached to the Military Store Department of Woolwich Arsenal, late of the 10th lluaars, who was present, suggested that . the method now in use of carrying the gun lengthways on the back of the animal was inconvenient, and should be discontinued. lie proposed that the pack saddle should be slightly readjusted, and the gun should be carried crossways. The weight, Ile said, would be thus brought down nearer the back, and the animal would be much relieved. The proposi tion was favourably received, and the alteration was ordered for consideration. Lieut. D. M‘Mahon, of the Military Train at Aldershot, has been ordered to attend at Woolwich by the Quartermaster -Gene ral, with i,he view of superintending the manufac ture of some pack saddles on his expanding prin ciple, adapted to the backs of animals of large or slntll size by siu'ply adjusting a screw in the frame work. The depot companies of the Ist battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regt. arrived at Chatham yesterday from Ireland, having landed at Gravesend from the Irish steamer which conveyed them from Cork. The strength of the depot is 5 officers, 159 non-commissioned officers and men; with 21 women and 50 children. On its arrival at Chatham the depot marched into quarters at St. Mary's Barracks, and joined the 3d battalion of Infantry, under the command of Col. the lion. J. J. Bourke. The flying column from Aldershot left Bourley Bottom on Friday, and returned to quarters in camp. 'The tents were struck at half-past 7 o'clock, and a quarter of an hour later the men breakfasted. At half-past 9 o'clock the whole 'formed up fur their march to quarters, and at 10 . o'clock were on the Inove: The incidents of their short campaign, however, had not quite terminated, for, as they reached the top of a hill, a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery disputed their progress, and opened a heavy fire. The C battery of the Royal Artillery attached to the column immediately responded, covered by the 54th and 70th Regiments. After a fire had been maintained on both sides, Gen. Renny, in command of the column, made skilful dispositions for a retreat, which was successfully accomplished, and the force reached camp shortly before 11 o'clock. The column had the advantage of beautiful weather during the whole of its sojourn in the open, and not a single casualty occurred either during the marches or field operations. In accordance with a divisional order issued at Aldershot, recruits in future will be put through the course of musketry instruction after having been two months at the gymnasium, returning for the third month's training after the completion of musketry instruction. The non-commissioned officers and men of D com pany, 44th Regiment, stationed at Aldershot, have presented.a silver cup to Private John M'Garth, of the came company, as a token of esteem, on his leaving the regiment. Although presentations of the kind are common enough in all regiments, there were some circumstances on this occasion which render it worthy of notice. M'Grath is referred to in the Times' Crimean correspondence of the 24th of October, 1854, as the man who assisted Dr. James Thompson in his humane endeavours to alleviate the sufferings of 700 wounded Russians left behind after the battle of the Alma at a deserted village on its n9rth bank. At what risks this task was per formed is related not only in the correspondence alluded to, but also in Carter's Military Records of the 41th Regiment. M.%Grath has served 22 years in the army, has five good-conduct badges, a medal fur distinguished conduct in the field, a medal for good conduct and long service, and the Crimean and Turkish medals. The sailing Indiaman Bolingbroke, Capt. C. Pryce, 11.N.R., arrived at Spithead on Friday even ing from Madras with 41. invalided soldiers, three women, and 18 children, from various regiments. She sailed from Madras on the 22d of March, and called in at St. Helena on the 23d of June. The troops were transferred from the ship at Spithead on Saturday to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, and at 2 p.m. the Bolingbroke sailed for London. The sailing Indiaman Surrey, Capt. J. Marshall, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from Calcutta, with 102 invalided soldiers on board, four women, and 16 children. The officers on board comprised Lieut. Marshall, R.A., commanOing ; Lieut. Hadden, Ist battalion 23d Regiment ; Lieut. Wynter, 104th Regiment ; Lieut. Lawless, 97th ; and Assist.-Surg. Wikely, Ist battalion 19th Regi ment. Her dates of sailing are—Calcutta, April 29; Sandheads, May 2 ; and St. Helena, July 2. The troops were disembarked on Saturday, and at 3 p.m. the Surrey left Spithead again for the Thames. Three prisoners tried by courts-martial at Devon port on. Friday and Saturday last pleaded " Guilty." William Wilcox, corporal, Royal Marine Light In fantry, charged with neglect of duty when sent on shore from the Lion in charge of an escort, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Lewes gaol. Mr. H. G. Dominy, carpenter of the first class of the Indus, appointed for service in the Agin court, charged with being drunk, forfeits his seni ority as carpenter of the first class, and is admonished to be more careful in future. W. Wright, private, Royal Marines, on board the Royal Adelaide, charged .with using insubordinate language, was sentenced to receive 48 lashes and to be imprisoned 12 months at Lewes. There were five courts-mar tial at Devonport last week, and it is probable that there will be at least two more this week. Orders have been sent to Rio de Janeiro for her Majesty's ships Spiteful and Dryad to proceed to Bombay from the Brazil station. Navigating Lieut. A. Hamilton was appointed on Saturday to the Fisgard, for surveying duties. News from Bombay, dated July .24, states that the crew of the Sacramento have been forwarded to America in the ship General Canfield. Double rates are in future to be charged on all telegraphic messages front Kurrachee to Great Britain and France, containing groups of figures, when the com modity to which they refer is not specified. During May over 89,000,0001b5. of cotton, to the value of upwards of £3,367,000, were shipped from Bombay. ELIDVEnTISEMENT.J— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, st Mach and liver complaints is every stage are only aggravated aeeelerated by drugs of every d escr ipti on, but perfectly by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalent a A ra bi ca F ood, as proved by thousauds of cases which had :been considered (dyspepsia,), cough, a s th ma, con hopeless ; suuh <s indigestion sum piien, ita,ntual cors'aintion, diarrhmt, all gastric derange -mts, hieni )rrholds, liver comilaints, flatulency, nervousness, bitionme::::, fevers, sere thrJats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fli.tenza, nokes in the head and ears, rheum ttisrn, gout, impu 'oel, creptions, hysteria., neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, , ,;easms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at i„ Sin:iOng tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few.—?'he Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cdre NO. 63,113. —"Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other teme-tics, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's waiente. .kiabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every ra. , af. It ' has pro bleed a surprisingly beneficial effeet on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this e7feellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi." Ju!y 2i. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Fri - alley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, seifting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— C:tre No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Vecies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—Maria Je I y." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and nv,ra than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Lieble's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at is. lid.; 1 lb.. 2s 9cl. 2 lbs., 4s. 64.1.: 5 lbs., lie. 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—Banav Du BAURY and Co., No. 77, :Ltegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Gracechurch-street• 4, Cheapside; 68, 150, and 289, Oxford -street 330 Strand; and all grocers and amigo, 03,u c r ~:n p. Miscellaneous roreiga News. The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 15, says : The city of Rome and all the neighbouring places have been smitten by the cholera. It has now reached the epidemic stage. Since my last letter the approximate number of deaths is reck oned at 300 in Rome itself, and as many in the country. The greatest number of cases have oc curred in the town of Albano, which, since the 6th instant, has been literally ravaged by the pestilence. A body of persons, numbering from 1,000 to 1,500, had fled from Rome to Albano, which is celebrital for the healthiness of its air. They thought to be perfectly safe there from the cholera. A great many of the visitors had, during the sth and 6th, been partaking of social and festive en joyments ; others had amused themselves with walks on the borders of the lovely lake. All at once, on the night of the 6th, the temperature sud denly fell, and without further warning the epide mic broke out. When people rose from their beds on the morning of the 7th above 140 cases had already occurred in the town. The confusion and panic were indescribable. The authorities sent off to:Rome in hot haste for medicines, doctors, and priests, the supply of these in Albano having failed. The aspect of the place was most distress- Every minute a window was thrown open in some house or other in the street, and a terrified inmate besought the passers by to send a priest or a doctor to some member of the family who had been seized. But what could eight or ten con fessors, and a couple of medical men, do in such an emergency ? People literally seized hold of them whenever they showed themselves in the streets. The single apothecary's shop in the place was be sieged. On the 7th, by twelve at noon, that shop did not contain a single drop of castor oil nor of solution of camphor ; and - the people had already obtained all that was to be obtained from the neighbouring one at Ariccia. Women ran hither and thither with dishevelled hair and terrified looks, supplicating the Iloly Virgin to come to their aid and to appease the anger of Heaven, and at least to obtain the grace of a good end for the dying. "To Rome !to Rome !" they cried ; " oh, for priests! oh, for doctors !" But the inexorable scourge redoubled his violence. We do not even now know the full number of his victims. ing. The Cardinal Bishop of Albano, his Eminence Monsignor Altieri, usually resides in Rome, where he has to discharge the offices of President of the Cons Ulla of State and of Arch-Chancellor of the University. When he received the telegraphic despatch informing him of the outbreak of the pestilence he was assisting at the annual examina tion of the Clementine College. He rose up and said, with that calmness which only true courage can give—" Gentlemen, a more urgent duty than the present summonses me to Albano. Godihath smitten myflock. Pray to Him with me that the life of the shepherd may suffice." He instantly entered his carriage and drove to the residence of his noble family, took all the money he had at command, gave orders for all the medical aid and medicines that could be obtained to be forwarded at once to Albano, and then, without taking any refreshment, started for Albano by a special train. In one hour his Eminence entered the ill-fated town. The people flocked round him just as if they looked for some miracle to be wrought for them by their zealous pastor. Alas ! he could work no miracle ; but he did his duty like a true priest and like a hero. For four days he was continually occupied in going from house to house, hearing confessions and giving medicine, assisting and comforting the survivors, attending funerals to the cemetery, and, in some instances, actually helping with his own hands to carry the corpse to the grave. The members of the Town Council are all either dead, or sick, or in flight. The infirmaries have broken down under the extraordinary pressure on their resources. Even grave-diggers could not be obtained. The Zouaves of the garrison worked as infirmarians and as grave-diggers. Three of their number are dead, and several have been seized with the malady. On the Bth, at noon, the Queen Dowager fell ill of the cholera as she was attending to her two children, the Princess Pia, and the Prince Januarius. The King was at the bedside of his illustrious stepmother, holding her head between his hands, and praying for her. At six o'clock the royal sufferer received, from the hand of the Cardinal Archbishop, the last Sacraments, and the Benediction in articulo mortis of the Sovereign Pontiff, which was asked and sent by telegraph. At eight o'clock her Ma jesty breathed her last, just as she had besought her royal stepson to take care of his own health, and exhorted him to forgive all his enemies. A few hours afterwards there arrived at Albano Monsignor Borromeo Arese, Maggiorduomo of his Holiness, who was unable to come in person, but had sent his high officer of State to console the royal family, and to convey to his Eminence the Cardinal Bishop the sum of 3,000 francs for the relief of the poor of Albano. On the 9th was announced the death of the Princess Colonna, chief lady of the illustrious family of the name, and of her youngest daughter. On the 10th and 11th, the violence of the pestil ence seemed to have reached its climax. On the 11th it snatched away the beloved and heroic Cardinal Bishop from his loving and admiring flock. He expired at 3 p.m. The good shepherd gave his life for his sheep. He was only ill about ten hours. The news spread consternation at Rome, where the Cardinal was held in great esteem ; so much so, that he was commonly spoken of as the probable successor of Pius LX. In five days after her death, the Prince Janua rius followed his young mother to the grave. The Holy Father (it may be easily conceived), is in great affliction. He has, in addition, been seized with severe pains in his legs, which have pre vented him from visiting the hospitals, and it is still uncertain whether he will be able the day after to-morrow to assist at the Mass of Requiem for Cardinal Altieri. The Iron Age calls upon Mr. David G. Wells, United States Commissioner of Revenue, to contradict a report circulated by the London Engineering, that his views and policy, as expressed to the editor, are that too great protection is already granted for the truo interests of American manufacturers, and that, lower duties should prevail. Ths Iron Age very naturally expresses the hope that the _Revenue Commissioner will authorise it to con tradict this statement. On the Ist of October Commodore Joseph Lau man will succeed Rear-Admiral Bailey as commander o the Kittery navy yard. A record of all his mercantile acquaintances kept by Amos Lawrence, of Boston, during his long life, shows that of every hundred of those who entered busi ness 97 failed of success. Mayor Norcross, of Boston, has appropriated his salary to works of charity, having given $2,000 of it to Old Men's Home, and smaller sums to various other chari table institutions. One day the last week in July George Papen dick was drawing the cork from a bottle, when it burst, and his hand was badly cut. Inflammation set in, and on Saturday, the 27th, he died at his summer residenco at Milton. Mr. papendick was a German, the consul of Mecklenburg at the port of Boston, and a member of the banking-house of Metcalf and Papendick at the latter city. He leaves a wife and three children. Rev. C. H. Ilanaford, of Athol Depot, having been obliged by ill heath to resign his charge, has opened in that town a wholesale and retail boot and shoe store, a line of business in which ho has had experience in the past. Ex-President Day, of Yale College, now near the close of his life, s.ys he is going on the eight-hour prin ciple, rising at eleven and going to ted at seven. The late Capt. John Gilman, of Stanstead, C.E., one of the (Erectors of the Connecticut and Passumpsie Rivers Railroad, bequeathed $5,090 to found an academy at North Derby, just over the Canada line. Henry Stevens, a distinguished citizen of Ver mont, died at his residence at Barnet, Tuesday night, July 30. his age was 73. Rev. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of St. Louis, has been elected president of the New Hampton Institute at Fair fax, to succeed the Rev. J. Upham, now ono of tlw editors of the Boston Watchman and Afiector. The Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, has recently re ceived from the Rev. Mr. Corning, the boating clergyman of Poughkeepsie, a present of a beautiful shell wherry, of the same pattern as that in which the latter has made seve ral trips clown the lludson and Connecticut rivers. In making his will the late Paschal P. Pope of Boston romemberod, out of his $700,000 estate, Qs iusti tutions of that city in the following gifts :—To the Boston society of natural history $20,000, to the temporary home for the destitute $lO,OOO, to the Boston dispensary $20,000, to the Sailors' Snug Harbour $30,000, to the Howard benevolent society $20,000, to the Boston provident asso ciation $lO,OOO, to the home for aged men 530,000. He left also to Harvard college $50,000 to found the Pope professorship of the Latin language and literature. James Haywood of Boston, who died worth $200,000, besides his private legacies, left $20,000 each to the American institute of technology at Boston. to Harvard college for an astronomical observatory, and the American Unitarian society, $5,000 to the Boston young men's Christian union, $2,000 to the Arlington-street church, and $l,OOO a-piece to almost every charitable institution at Boston. Colon3l Nathaniel Davi, of Sutton, formerly High Sheriff of Merrimack County, died suddenly at Contoocookvire on Sunday, July 28, while on his way home from Concord. Mr. P. Fiske Reed, an artist, of Chicago, is about to publish a volume of poems. Joseph Smith, the Mormon, left a translation of ;he Bible, which, it is said, will be published in the fall. After returning from a professional call the other day, Dr. Zalmon Hall, one of the oldest physicians of Stepney, Maine, was taken ill and died almost instantly. A complimentary dinner was given .at the Parker House, Boston, on Tuesday, August 6th, to Mr. John I. Blair, president of the Sioux City branch of the Pacific Railroad. Walter Brown has finally consented to accept Hamill's challenge to pull on the Hudson for the cham pionship of America. Miguel Lopez, the ➢lexican traitor who sold Queretaro and betrayed Maximilian, went to Puebla to see his wife. She called him a base coward and traitor to his face, and told him to take his son and leave her presence fur ever. The Rev. Robert G. Chase, of Philadelphia, who with his wife and six others was drowned at Mount Desert recently, was insured for $ll,OOO, a policy of $lO,OOO being a gift of his vestry. Romero, who has been Mexican Minister at Washington for eight years, has resigned his office, and will return at once to his native country. The Ministers of Nicaragua, Honduras, and New Granada, at Washing ton, have also resignsd. Major Rodman is enaged to_Miss Dahlgren, the daughter of the admiral. In M. Pierrepont's speech in the Surratt trial on Monday ho told the story of a premonitory warning of disaster that Mr. Lincoln had before his assassination. On the morning of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln there was a Cabinet meeting. Tho members of the Administration were joyous over the surrender of Lee. Mr. Lincoln ex pressed anxiety about Sherman, and when Grant assured him that Sherman was all right he replied by detailing a dream which ho had had previous to Chancollorsville, Stone River, and other defeats. Tho recurrence of the dream led him to dread the recurrence of disaster. It came ; but, instead of calamity to our armies, it was his own assassination. Dr. Prime represents the United States at the present session of the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam. At the conclusion of his address on Monday last he gave a hearty invitation, in the name of his American brethren to the Evangelical Alliance to hold their next conference in New York. The Austrian Consul-General in Hamburgh has received the necessary instructions for forwarding to their homes the former soldiers of the Mexican legion, who are shortly expected to arrive here. FLATTERING POPULAR DEMONSTATION TO MR ELIAS I10;1 7 E, JUN. Recently our city was the scene of a popular demon stration, such as has not taken place for many years. The occasion was the return of Mr. Elias Howe, jun., from Europe and the Paris Exhibition, bringing with him the gold medal awarded by the commissioners for his inven tions, and the decoration of the Cross of the Legion of Honour, presented by Napoleon 111. The honours and de corations, however, had little to do with the welcome that greeted Mr. Howe on his arrival here, but rather the univer sal respect for his upright private character, his compre hensive benevolence, anil his marvellous inventive genius. The fact, too, that he had been announced iu the public prints as very sick, and indeed as dead, added an extra zest to the pleasure with which his friends and fellow townsmen generally saw him return among them again. The demonstration originated with the em ployes of the Howe Sewing Machine Factory, who took the occasion to show their respect for their employer, and gratitude that he had so far reco vered from his illness as to be able to return again to his home. Learning that Mr. Howe was expected on the steamer Bridgeport at 4 o'clock, the employes in the factory petitioned the managers to bo "KT:flitted to stop work long enough to pay their respects unitedly to him, and urged the matter so strongly, that the committee finally obtained the following order from headquarters:— NOTICE. Mr. llowo will arrive on the steamer Bridgeport to-day about four (4) o'clock. At the request of tits enz ploy;s who wish to tender their respects to him, on his return, the engine will be stopped at three (3) o'clock for the remainder of the afternoon.— Per order of E. W. HowE, Supt. Accordingly the factory was handsomely decorated with flags, and a few minutes before the time of the steamer's arrival, a procession numbering about 200 men—all em ployed at the factory—headed by the Bridgeport City Band, marched to Naugatuck wharf. By the time of the boat's arrival some 1,500 persons had collected on the dock and surrounding wharves. On the arrival of the steamer a portion of the committee boarded her, and paid their respects to their guest, the band appropri a t e l y p l ay i ng " Home, Sweet Home. Mr. Howe, leaning on the arm of h's wife, and a mem ber of the committee, for he is still quite feeble, left the steamo • and entered his barouche with his wifo and Mr. Simon Howe and his lady. The procession, now number ing about 252 men, divided ; and, thus escorted, the party were driven to the factory. As they approached the place, a salute of 18 guns was fired from a brass cannon, under the direction of Capt. W. S. Hotchkiss. The young ladies employed in the shop, numbering about fifty, arranged themselves in a line in front of the factory, and thus seceived Mr. Howe. A general shaking of hands took place. Soon after the lino was reformed, and the pro cession escorted the party to their home at Iranistan. On the whole, this reception was most pleasing to Mr. Howe, more so than was the p`audits by the Emperor and commissions of France —for it told him more strongly than words could convey the esteem in which he is held by those who have served under him. It spoke volumes for the liberality and generosity which has always governed him in his treatment of those in his employ, in fact was a greeting that would cause the heart of any man to swell with honest pride and honourable emotion. The committee of arrangements appointed by the em ployes was as follows :—Messrs. Charles Inglish, D. S. Cole, W. Ingraham, M. Dimond, G. S. Hotchkiss, W. S. Dar ling, Marshal, W. S. Hotchkiss (secretary), E.W. Lawrence. Mr. Howe is still quite feeble, though looking much better than was anticipated. May the pure air of his own home restore him to health and give him yet many years of use fulness and happiness.—New York Paper. THE "TIMES" O.V THE NEW YORK STAGE A Now York correspondent of the Times has commenced a series of articles on the stage in New York. The " Etglish Playgoer," as he terms himself, commences by remarking on the ignorance in England of the standard by which Transatlantic theatrical fame is measured. Some years ago London was a common place of resort for American actors of inferior note, which tended to the formation of an unfavourable opinion there of histrionic talent in the New World. Lately, however, the American " stars" who have shone in England have been veritable " stars" in their own country. bliss Kate Bateman at the Adelphi reflects a triumph at all the leading theatres in the United States. Mr. Jefferson, the excellence of whose acting in Mr. Boucicault's "Rip Van Winkle," also at the Adelphi, was admitted, is a great man iu Now York. Mr. John S. Owens was unfortunate in the selection of his piece, for the old uncouth farmer of New Jersey, his re presentation of whom is pronounced by competent judges to be absolutely perfect, was a typo of character no Eng lish audience could appreciate. That actor is really ot,e of the magnates of his country. Till such actors appeared the Londoner was slow to believe that anything thea trically good could come from the opposite side of the Atlantic, with the exception of those purely national de lineations of character which were given with such ad mirable spirit by Mrs. Barney Williams, and her sister, Mrs. Florence. The writer observes that the amusements of one civilised nation are intimately connected with those of another. The link between the stages of London and Paris is notorious to everybody, and can be minutely observed by any one who will take the trouble of conning over some French theatrical newspaper, and now and then stepping across the Channel. The link between the stages of Lou don and New York is likely to become stronger every day, but the step across the Channel becomes a stride in the case of the Atlantic. Theatrically speaking, New York is as much the capital of the United States as London is the capital of Great Briiain and Ireland. Boston and Philadelphia hold a high rank, but they are not inclined to regard with enthusiasm an artist who has not already made a namo in the "Empire City." Before the war a particular renown attached to New Orleans as a place where "no end of money" was to be made, but Now Orleans, like the northern cities, re quired a New York testimonial of talent. The theatres of New York differ from those of London, resembling Astlev's as remodelled by Mr. Boucieault, who took the American typo as his pattern. The Americans go further in their encroachments on the pit, having no thing like one in the accepted sense of the word, but the portion of the ground area, which is not occupied by chairs, is appropriated to reserved seats, and bears the French name "parquette," which, however, is invariably pre/gnu:iced "parquet." lh trout of the parquette are the all-important orchestra stalls, which hold the same rank as a row of stalls placed in front of the dress circle, and called the "balcony." The seats in the dress circle behind the balcony hold the same rank as the body of the par quette. A tier above the dress circle contains the cheapest places in the house, and the price of these is sometimes stated in largo letters at the head of the programme, as if it were the charge for admission generally. The gods by this arrangement are kept out of sight, and among the rest of the audience little difference can be de tected. If there be less of the brilliancy of the London occupants of the stalls, there is none of the dinginess of the frequenters of London pits—the assembly generally presenting the uniform character of an opulent, highly respectable body. "The demeanour of the audience is quite in keeping with their aspect. They are decorous to a fault, and frequently so utterly undemonstrative in their approbation that a person newly arrived from England, observing the effect of a play upon the sp - .:etaters, would declare that it was a complete failure, though the treasury books would probably show that a thorough success had been achieved. When the English roar, the Americans merely smile, and even their smiles aro sparingly be stowed, as if they would not commit themselves lightly. That this stoical repression of hilarity indicates superiority of judgment lamby no means prepared to assert. The right s:nile does not always come in the right place, and even when an exceptional roar is at last produced, it would be hasty to infer that the best joke is its cause." IIAILIVAY INTELLIGENCE. The Western Railroad began on Monday, July 29th, to run its eastward trains over the new track between Washington and Becket. The track of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad is laid from the latter place to Bardwell's Ferry, and the bridge over the Deerfield at this point will be completed in about three weeks. It is expected that the cars will be running to Shelbnrne Falls in two months. In the reconstruction of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad for the six miles between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, 2,000 feet of trestle work, origin ally put in by Haupt, was taken down and solid earth embankments substituted. The contract which the State has made with Dull and Gowan of Chicago to complete 7,400 feet of the Hoosiae tunnel at the eastern portal, the rate of progress to be 100 feet per day, and to complete the central shaft, was to go into effect on the Ist of August. In nineteen days of July 98 feet were made, and in June 102 feet. At the west shaft they are running both east and west in order to make a drift to run off the " porridge" and stone debris, and it is necessary to advance 1,500 feet more to accomplish this. The claims for land damages by the Lee and New Haven Railroad, between Lee and the State line, have been settled, with the exception of two cases, for $20,000, or less than half the estimate of the engineers. Work on the European and North American Rail road has so far advanced that the company is en titled to the first instalment of the Government sub sidy, and all the heavy work of the road between Bangor and Lincoln, except laying the rails, will be completed this month. _ _ _ The negotiations between the officers of the Wes tern and Boston and Worcester Railroads, looking to a consolidation of the two corporations, are still in progress, but so many and difficult are the con flicting interests to harmonise, that no plan of union has yet been formed. The stockholders of the Bos ton and Worcester Road have already held a meet ing, and instructed their directors to ascertain what terms of consolidation could be agreed upon, and the Western Road will probably take similar action some time this month. At the annual business meeting cf the Old Colony and Newport Railroad, at Boston, on Thursday, July 25, the old Board of Directors were re-elected, with th e exce pti o n of Alexander Holmes, who retired, and was succee ded by John S. Brayton, of Fall River. A vote w as passed, authorising the issue of $1,500,000 worth of bonds, payable in 20 years or less, at interest not greater than 7 per cent., for the purpose of taking up or renewing the outstanding obligations of the Corporation, funding its floating debt, and completing its works. The stockholders of the Connecticut and Pas sumpsic Rivers Railroad held their annual meeting at Newport on Wednesday, July 31. The 22d annual report shows the receipts of the past year to have been $493,705 and expenses $309,053, leaving a balance of $184,652. The bonded debt of the road has been reduced in the year $31,900, two 3 per Cent. dividends, amounting to $115,080, have been declared, and $64,000 has been paid for inte rest ou bonds and to the trustees of the sinking fund and $2,672 for interest on notes. The road is 110 miles long, is well stocked, and efforts are now being made to build the Massawippi Road from the terminus of the Passumpsie to some point on the Grand Trunk near Lenoxville. This will in fact add thirty miles to the Passumpsic Road, and open a country of great richness in both mineral and agricultural products. The correspondent of the Standard says:—" Hotel cars," as they are called, have been introduced on nearly all the Western Railroads. In these ears one finds not only a passable, bed but all the advan tages of an ordinary restaurant. Chops, steaks, vegetables are cooked, and cold cuts furnished in 3f indigestible trash a t a way-side the train—so that there i s no stopping for a five minutes' gorging impatient Western Yankee, s a t nk a t i e o e n , . though' ' r rh i togland the " im provement"is as yet unknown. The new steamer Adirondack ; built for the shim suits of the New I';n Bur lington and Whitehall line, at an expense of $250,000, is said to be the most elegant boat on American waters. She made her trial trip on Thursday, August 8, and on Monday began to run regularly. The steamboat competition between Hartford and New York has been ended by the withdrawal of the Merchants' line, to run their boats between New York and the Delaware river. The fare, which for some time has been 50 cents, has been put back to the old price of a dollar. The New York Central Railroad earned of $57,000 for the decrease lllinois Central gained $ 8 alm,Be7Bm,ooonOthinlaJstulyye,ar a. The $30,000 in traffic the same month, and about 65 per cent. in land sales and collections. 7HE GRAIN AIVD CO7 TON CROPS. (New York Daily Republican.) The season has so far advanced that we are now in a position to predicate, with intolerable accuracy, the result of the crops of 1867. In the Southern States the harvest, with the exception of corn and cotton, is already secured ; while in the 'Western States the work of reaping is still in active progress. The accounts so far from the. South, with regard to bread-stuffs, are all that could be desired. The yieldtin l is ro e b x a t b re ly mely avoided the error in of d m e a v n o y tin y g e a a l r l s average of roost prosperous years. For' the first favourable and fully up to the t h t h e iorse energies States t o b a the v e cultivation of cotton. Taught by a bitter experience, planters and farmershave discovered that it is not pro fitable for them to purchase the corn and pork they require for consumption. They have therefore very sensibly devoted a larger breadth than ever before to the cultivation of wheat and corn, and the weather has been so favourable for these pro ducts that the total results are likely to exceed all former precedent. In Mississippi it is calculated that this year's corn crop alone would support the entire South for two years. From Alabama and Georgia the accounts are no less favourable. From Texas the reports are most cheering. A Houston (Texas) journal, after collecting reports from all parts of the vast State, concludes that it only re quired a few weeks of fine weather to render the corn crop of the State all that could be desired. Texas suffered least of all the Southern States from the war, and has therefore recovered more quickly. There has also been an extensive influx of Northern men and capital during the last two years, and favourable crops were all that was required to secure to that magnificent portion of the country the ele ments of an enduring prosperity. • From the other Southern States the accounts of the corn crops are generally satisfactory. Florida, next to Texas, is probably the most flourishing State in the South. At leait it has received large accessions of capital, and of both white and coloured labour, and the results are apparent in the in gathering of a most bounteous harvest. In the Carolinas and in Mississippi, 14911i5i5" and Ark"' sas, the grain crops were favourable. In all these States an unusually large breadth of land had been devoted to the culture of corn, and the South which, before the war, was dependant upon the West for food, will this year not only have enough for home consumption, but, for the first time, may even enter the world's grain market to dispose of its superfluous products. With respect to the Southern cotton crop the reports are less conclusive. It is, of course, however, too soon to predicate anything respecting the probable yield. The unusually large quantity of corn planted, and the unfavourable condition of the cotton in some localities may prevent the in crease that might otherwise have been expected. From South Carolina we hear that the Sea Island cotton has been seriously injured by the rain. Rains and floods have also seriously injured the prospects in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. But even now, with fair weather, a crop may be secured. Turning to the Great West, we find that we are fully warranted in anticipating a corn and wheat crop largely in excess of the most prosperous year that has ever been known. The season has now so far advanced that no unfavourable contingencies of weather or crop diseases are likely to diminish the estimated supply to any considerable extent. In the great wheat growing region, comprising lilinois, Indiana, lowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Minnesota, the average sown is largely in ex cess of former years, and in quantity and quality the products are all that could be de sired. It is estimated that the supply will be 40 per cent. in excess of the prosperous season of 1360. The hot weather that followed the rainy season, upon which so many injuries were apprehended, stimulated the growth to an extraordinary degree. From the same causes corn will be most exuberant in all the States named. In this and the New England States the corn and wheat crops promise remarkably well. California has secured a magnificent harvest, that will enable that State to sustain her newly acquired reputation as a grain exporting country. Indeed the grain crops in the golden State are so largely in excess of the wants for home consumption that the only difficulty seems to be to obtain remunerative markets for the superfluous stock. In certain localities in the various States the re sults may vary. But we feel fully warranted in the assurance that the corn, wheat, and cotton crops in the whole country will not vary to any considerable extent from the conclusions now presented. The harvest is bountiful beyond all reasonable expectations. Anxiety upon the subject may be dismissed. We have been spared the painful consequences of indifferent crops, at a time when a full harvest is of the most vital importance, owing to the exceeding short supply on hand. It is estimated that when the new harvest came in there was not in the whole country two weeks supply of food. What might have been a terrible calamity (for who can estimate the painful consequences to the nation and to in dividuals of a short harvest?) is turned into Heaven's choicest blessing. Owing to the short supply in the hands of farmers, millers will for some time to come be chiefly. employed in work for home or local consumption and the actual supplies of breadstuffs at the great commercial centres may be deferred to an unusually late period of the sea son. But the certaiuty of a bounteous harvest is telling rapidly upon prices, and the market is downward, with a demand limited to the supply of the immediate wants. In due time, however, the mass of consumers will realise the advantages of a probably large and permanent reduction of the cost of the chief staples of life. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIME;S.—Even in the dulness of the present season, a Spanish insurrection excites only a very languid interest. However sorely the world may . be suffer ing from the dearth of stirring news, it is impossible I to dignify any disturbance in the Peninsula into an event. A great general convulsion, or, as they call it, a " cat ac ly sm ," i s one o f those contingencies to which people in Madrid, cr people attaching import ance to Madrid politics, have been looking for ward to for years. It has been so long a time " inevitably corning" that we may almost begin to doubt whether it will ever come. An inroad, we are told, has been made by old rebel chiefs into Spain. Pierrard, Pajol, Contreras, and other Progresista Generals are reported to be at the head of armed bands. Catalonia is said to be on fire ; and the conflagration is described as spreading all over the mountainous districts of Aragon, Navarre, and the Basque Provinces. In sympathy with the North, Valencia and Andalusia are said to be heaving con vulsively, and the thrill of revolutionary excitement to have reached the borders of Estremadura. Some how we fancy there is nothing in all this we have not often heard before. It strikes us as the old story told over and over again. Such are the usual " things of Spai n ," an d , t oget h er w i t h the intelligence of the revolt, we are prepared to hear of rails torn up, wires cut down, mails not arriving, and the Government at Mad r id proc l a i m i ng t h e state of siege in the same breath as it assures us that "the whole kingdom is in the enjoyment of the most profound tranquillity." As we know, too, beforehand the whole plot and denouement of the sorry drama, we know the contrast between the broad farce and the deep tragedy of its various episodes. We can, for instance, appreciate the humour of Don Antonio M ar i a G arr i go, Governor of Vitoria, who brags of his " energetic strength of will" to put :down riots, of which, as we learn from himself, " his loyal Basques are incapable," or that of Don Pedro Estevan, Go vernor of Gerona, who describes his province as " overrun by two bands ten men strong, and the army in eager pursuit." We cannot, however, help looking upon these broad jokes as the prelude to that wholesale shooting and transportation of prisoners amid which the curtain generally falls on the Spanish political stage. We can hardly say whether we should hope or fear the success of such attempts as the one which has just now apparently failed. We do not know of any change at all likely to benefit such a country as Spain. That the Govern ment of Queen Isabella could not be worse is uni versally admitted, but this d oes not i mp l y t h at any other possible Government would be better. Prim, with his faithful and gallant Milans del Bosch, is said to be hovering on the frontier, ready to head the movement on the first turn of luck. O'Donnell, Serrano, Zabala, and Echague pre at Biarritz, watching events—i.e., waiting to see if others will get the chestnuts for. them out of the fire. But, with the exception of Prim, there is no candidate for power in Spain who has not been tried—long and repeatedly tried—and h e mus t b e a very sangu i n e Spaniardindeed who would risk life or limb, or pro perty.or personal freedom, for the mere chance of substituting the men of O'Donnell's Union Liberal for Narvaez's Moderadoes or Nocedal's Neo-Cat o - licos. Fifty years' unavailing and disastrous expe riment must wear out even a Spaniard's proverbial constancy, and shake his faith in the use of revolu tions. The trade of getting up and pulling down Governments ends by being left to the few adven turers who know how to turn it to good purpose for themselves ; and it is now impossible, if, indeed, it was not so at all times, to get the mass of the Spanish people to take half as much interest in a pronuncia mzento as they would in a bull fight or in the lottery. There are t wo maxims which the vicissitudes of the last half century have deeply rivited in the hearts of Sancho Panza's shrewd and prudent countrymen ; the one that they must not hope for good government; the other, that any 'Government is good enough for those who do not meddle with it. It is this con viction on the part of the multitude of the danger, no less than of the inutility, of interference in public affairs, which makes political change in Spa i in so frequent., and yet deprives it of allresults. community is a m .: re theatre, with millions of pas sive, silent, an d, on the whole, unsympathising spectators in the pit, and scores of more or less unprincipled actors and mountebanks on the stage. But ho.vever wretched the condition of Spain may appear to us, no consciousness of its misery or degradation afflicts the Spaniards. Great content ment may be found compatible with very little well being ; and a long spell of peace and even such order as those truculent Captains-General and their Civil Guards are able to enforce is not without its influence on the material prosperity of the nation. Good, had, or indifferent as the, condition of the masses may be, its improvement has hitherto never been th 6 object, we will not say of the endeavours, but even of the professions of any man in Spain. Party names and party leaders there are, but hardly a party measure. The insurgent bands now in the field shout " Viva Prim 1" but we have not forgotten how Prim himself eighteen months ago crossed the . country from end to end without gain ing a single recruit. It was only " Prim instead of O'Donnell," as it was before O'Donnell instead of Narvaez, or O'Donnell instead of Espartero. " The good things of- the State for self and friends", is the flag round which Spanish politicians, . or military, are ready to rally. The man in power has batons and grand crosses and titles to bestow, and he has on. his side general* and colonel*—the would-be marshals and dukes. His opponent has to seek his partisans among sergeants and corporals, and to dazzle them with the promise of a sub-lieutenant's epaulettes. Marshals and dukes have possession on their side ; corporals and sergeants have numbers. Sometimes it is the Ins, sometimes the Outs that have it ; it is a game of endless vicissitude, but, whoever may be the winner, it is on the nation that the costs invariably fall. There are bold innovators, indeed, who are supposed to harbour in their hearts anti-dynastic tendencies; and every one feels that little good can come of a Duke of Tetuan, of a Duke of Valencia, or even of a Marquis de los Castillejos, so long as the Court is a prey to the intrigues of nuns and confessors, under whose influence the sturdiest Minister must bend or break. Choose any three honest and intelligent Spaniards, no matter of what party, and they will be unanimous in their assertion that there can be no chance for their country so long as the present Sovereign or any of her family is allowed to occupy the throne. " Long live the Queen !" however, is the motto hitherto invariably borne aloft on every insurgent banner ; whether sincerely or hypocritilally, every party leader takes his start upon a great flourish of loyalty. Nor can we wonder at this, for among the lower classes, whatever opinion they may entertain, and also openly express, as to the public and private virtues of the Queen, the mere fact that she is as they believe, " very Spanish and very Catholic" overrules all other considerations. Anxious as all feeling men must be to see the end of the misrule which has so long weighed upon Spain, it is very -difficult to point out the means by which the nation may be made aware of the evil, and almost impcs sible to name the men at all able or willing to work out the remedy. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON NEWDEGATE REDIVIVITS. On Friday evening Mr. Newdegate made a long speech without motion, by way of " calling the attention of the House to ertain cir cumstances connected with" the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles and Roman Catholic Relief Acts. It was the first appearance for two years of the hon. gentleman on any subject con nected with Catholic affairs, and he spoke with modest pride of the self-restraint he had practised in order to achieve so long an abstinence from what has been the main pursuit of his life. We could give him more credit for his moderation if we did not retain quite so lively a recollection of his past favours towards us, and especially of his last performances, which, it will be remembered, were in the character of an assailant of convents and monasteries. We cannot quite forget his blind fury against the harmless nuns of Colwich, nor his persistence in attributingto them practices of secret cruelty and wickedness, charges in support of which he was unable to adduce even the faintest scintilla of proof ; nor lastly, his dogged refusal to accept the invitation of the Bishop of Birmingham and other gentlemen to inspect for himself the secret dungeons and torture chambers. After that crucial test of his fidelity to the delusions which he pro fessed to hold as the sacred dogma of his No- Popery persuasion, we should have thought that, satis sibi, sails glorix, might thenceforward hAve been his motto ; and that, having reaped so little credit on the field he had claimed as his own, he might have quitted for ever the arena, and allowed the mantle of his Protestant zealotry to descend gently on the shoulders of his Liberal colleague and successor, the member for Peterborough. As he has reappeared, however, though at the eleventh hour of the session, we will pay a tribute of such respect as we can render to an old and indomitable (we wish we could say a fair and honourable) opponent. We will give some account of his speech. Mr. Newdegate is, it seems, dissatisfied both with the report the committee and with the conduct of the Government in relation to it. He thinks that the Government pressed the matter on unduly, in spite of the lateness of the session, and in spite of the indifference of the House. He says it was not without repeated efforts and sundry " counts out," that a committee could be appointed at all. " It was only owing to the perseverance of the hon. member for Meath (Mr. M'Evoy), and one or two other Roman Catholic members, supported by the hon. member for Louth (Mr. Fortescue), and countenanced by the Government, that the motion was agreed to." Now, if the Government did countenance the measure, it must have been be cause they were so profoundly convinced of its urgent necessity that the extreme inconvenience of the time, and the opposition of their own party were outweighed by a. sense of their duty to the country. It is, then, with a very ill grace that Mr. Newdegate, who is a Conservative himself, attacks his own party on this score. He was, however, contradicted by Mr. Whalley, whci asserted, in op position to his leader, that the Government did not countenance the Bill, as, indeed, was self-evident; for had it done so the Attorney-General for Ireland, who was on the committee, would not have absented himself from the division, and so have allowed the finding of the committee to be partially neutralized by au equality of votes on either side. Mr. New degate endeavoured to disprove the statement of Mr. Hope Scott and the other witnesses, that the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the Catholic bishops is purely spiritual ; but his reasoning on the point was so circuitous (not to say unintelligible) that we despair of following it. He read volu minous extracts from the evidence before the Com mittee • statements which we can quite believe may have been irritating to his own prejudices, but which had no perceptible bearing on the point he undertook to prove. The replies of Bishop Mo riarty, cited by Mr. Newdegate, went to show that in countries where the Catholic Church is the State religion the authorities thereof are seconded by the secular arm, and that where the Church possesses no secular power, there (as in England or Ireland), her power is purely spiritual. The propositions are identical or convertible, and in disputable ; but their bearing on the proposed re peal of the Titles Act is not apparent. What is but too apparent is, the animus of Mr. Newdegate. He lets everybody see, through the gaps or chinks in his logic, that his real grievance is that the Catholics cannot be forced penally into a recognition of, and submission to, the " Church as bylaw Established." He is indignant that we will not bow the rn knee before the golden image of Anglican supremacy. Well, no more do the Dissenters, and he is not an assailant of theirs. True, but the Dissenters are stationary ; they do not grow ; they have within their body the seeds of weakness and of dissolution by their endless and self-reproducing divisions. But Catholiciim is progressive, whenever it is not persecuted, and even when it is. It shows signs of life. It gets on. It is united. It is consistent and unalterable. So Mr. Newdegate read to the House of Commons an add ress by their predeces sors of 1621, to the " British Solomon," in which those characteristics of " Popery" are stated as an enemy would state them, and evidently point at the adoption of fresh penal measures, in addition to those already in action, which deluged the cen tury with the blood of English and Irish Catholics. But Mr. Newdegate reminds us of the sleepers who slept into another generation. He has lost his reckoning. He needs to be awakened and reminded that the times are altered. When that address was presented to James 1., all non-conformity with, or non-recognition of, the established hierarchy and the royal supremacy Was a crime at law, partaking both of heresy and of treason, and was actually visited with the severest penalties of both offences. Now, liberty of conscience is firmly established. Now, milder principles prevail ; con formity is no longer a loyal duty, and Catholic liberty is as firmly established by law as is Anglican supremacy. It is, then, futile to quote the obsolete ravings of effete bigotry. ehey have no bearing on the question now asked—" Shall Catholics, or shall they not, be allowed to have their bishops legally, after it has been proved by sixteen years 'of ineffective but irritating legislation in the op posite sense that, anyhow, they must have them ? In the latter part of his discursive remarks, Mr. Newdegate quoted largely from a recent article in the Dublin Review, upon the Spanish Inquisition. The writer appears to argue that the Holy See is not answerable for the severities of the Spanish Inquisition, which he seems to admit to have been excessive. He says (as quoted by Mr. Newdegate) —" The only check upon its cruelty was the de termined perseverance with which the Sovereign Pontiffs interfered on behalf of mercy, .and by remonstrances, mandates of grace, and even excommunication, moderated its excessive rigour." The quotation made by Mr. Newdegate goes so far as to say that " the despotism of the Inquisition, from the time of its founda.idon until its existence ended, aimed - at crushing time influence of Rome in Spain." All this Mr. Newdegate calls " a mere quibble arising from the differences between the Papacy and the Dominican Order." The differences were rather with the Spanish Monarchy and Go vernment, which were . at open war with the Pope. But what is all this to the purpose ? Mr. N ewde gate's notion seems to be that the atrocities alleged to have been committed, by the Inquisition have, in some way, a connectio . a. - with the report to which he was calling the attention of the House. He did not exhibit very clearly that connection ; he only said (as reported) that " The Roman Catholic Church, while aiming at spiritual jurisdiction, would bear no limit with patience. - to its temporal exten sion, and he thought there was a spirit in those men which it would be u nsafe to loose." This, however, is - an argument n of against the repeal of the Titles Act, but against the repeal of the Penal Laws and the Catholic Disf,bilities. Mr. Newdegate seemed sensible of the we akness of his , arguents, and of the anachronism an. 3 ill iberality of his posi tion. He said that he " most deeply lamented the existence of religions aerenci3s, and sometimes he felt bitterly when he was compelled by a sense of duty to resist the encroachments proposed in that House by the Roman Catholics." We believe Mr. Newdegate to be, after all, a man of the nineteenth century, like the rest of us ' • but he is committe d to a party and to a line of political action which compel him to talk of encroachments that he well knows have no sort of actuality, about which he cannot even plausibly argue that they exist. There are (as every one knows) no encroachments on the part of Catholics. If there were, the resistance to them would not be left to Parliamentary oddities representing nobody but themselves, and the few other crotchetty individuals, the score or two of fussy parsons, and the hundred or two of good -hearted, but credulous old ladies who make uP the,rank and file of the No-Popery party. If there were any real danger of "Papal Aggression "in the sense that they mean it, no doubt the strength of England would soon be aroused to sterner action, the intellectual vigour, the moral energy , and the physical stamina of the country woul d bristle in battle array. Mr. Newdegate stands pretty nearly alone when he professes to see such a danger nigh at hand. Catholicism will shortly, he thinks, unless his counsels are adopted, bring about the state of things that existed in Spain in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Charles V. and of Philip 11. But that is a state of things which did not exist at all universally, even in the most palmy days of Catholicism, and notably never in England, Scotland, or in Ireland, for even i n Queen Mary's reign the bishops were but the un willing agents of the lay government in the perse cution of Protestants. There is plenty of docw mentary evidence that Gardiner and Bonner -were coerced by the Marquis of Winchester and the Council to do what they did; and that they did 35 , little as possible. Those who can read history wit h any superiority to the merest sectarian prejudices know that the proceedings of Mary's reign exhibit not the normal action of ecclesiastical authority, but that which is of all things most opposite to it , namely, the "wild justice" of a triumphant faction which had itself suffered the extremity of cruelty", injustice, and persecution in the two p r eceding reigns. Cranmer suffered neither more nor les s than just what Ire had himself inflicted on both Protestants and Catholics under Henry VIII., an d what he was preparing, by a more formal and effective ordinance, to inflict on Catholics, whe n his tenure of power was interrupted by the death of Edward. VI. The circumstances of the time were altogether exceptional. Before what gr' Newdegate affects to fear could become a realitY, in England, before the nation could be subjecte d to the exercise of temporal power on the part ° f the Church, the majority of Englishmen must, 0 course, have embraced cordially and enthusiasti cally the Catholic faith. That would be the pr d mary and indispenSable condition. But Nv ol -",, that be all that would be necessary ? By „ 11 " means, for there are nations heartily and loyally Catholic where the Church exercises no tempe r power whatever. Wherever the Church has po . !; sessed temporal rule, it has been brought about such a singular combination of political circus" stances and peculiarities of national character .0-7, do not exist anywhere now, and can hardly be expected to exist in this country at any Ma' , period. We assert, then, that all these fears a nd complaints about Catholic encroachment are th e ' roughly insincere. They are nothing else but the thin veil which sectarian jealousy assumes when it desires to crush —or, if it cannot crush, to coerc e ' impede, and annoy, a rival system with which I . r feels it hopeless to compete in the field of f 3l l , argument, and in the comparative estimate wh it the public is forming upon what that public se% for itself when it looks first on Establishmentaria v and then on Catholics. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICII—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 63s to 68s ' • red (lit (weighing 631 b), 58s to 61s per qr. Flour, 46s Od to 4 7 s " per sack. NOT T ING HAAT—SATURDAY. elf Old white wheat, 70s to 76s ; old red, 67s to 73s white, 65s to 70s ; new red, 66s to 73s per 36 stone. tow, fine, 30s to 365; new, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans , °, 06 —s to —s; new, 45s to 50s per 38 stone. Fino flour , ' to as per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. New white wheat, 68s to 74s ; now red, 60s to 68s ; , white, —s to —s ; old red, to —s per 36 stone. `, l lO ley, for malting, —s to —s per qr.; grinding, 3 5 s t o ', 2 4 per 30 stone. Oats, fine, 37s to —s ; new, 23s to 310 P0r... 0 , stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; new, 46s to 50s per 38 s tou Fine flour, 52s ; seconds, 46s to 48s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. 1' 36 White wheat, from 63s to 70s ; red, GOs to G4s stone. Barley, for malting, 39s to 40s per qr. ; gribdu've. 36s to 39s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 24 stl 3 , Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s v Flour, 49s to s per sack of 2801bs. DIVIDENDS. The New York Fire Insurance Company will pal of demand a semi-annual dividend of six per cent., free ° Government tax; the Greenwich Insurance Comptof; seven per cent. ; the City Fire Insurance CompanYt ! sr- o dollars per share ; the Irving insurance ComparlY7 per cent. ; and the Sixpenny Savings Bank their 'Oll dividend of six per cent. per annum. q . The stockholders of some petroleum companies are lising the fact that King Petroleum is not dead, but sal sleepeth. The Central Petroleum Company of NOW l i °l. 6 t had declared a dividend of 10 cents per share, paYa b l i iis the office of the company on the 15th inst.; the 31 000 7, o f Oil Company of New York have declared a divider w. O one per cent. ; and the Ocean Oil Company of Philads11)111 of 20 cents per share, both payable on demand. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 19 ' Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton S u P t ' 0. Ditto, via UnreelHeti S e p t. Ditto, via Panama ......... ........ ...... . . 3. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sep t " 0 Ditto, by French packet . Sept' Cape Verde. by Brazil pactet ......... Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helen- .... . .. . . ........... 3 7 2.' . 1 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton..Se?"; Ditto, via Marseilles . Cell toe .. • ° . r cep t. Falkland Islands ..., 4. iibraitar, via Southampton . Aug " 7. 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