The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON RACES.-THIIRSDAY. The West Moulsey Stakes of 5 sovs each. Seven fur• longs. Mr Sherwood's Thunderbolt—Duchess of Newcastle, 3 yrs, 7st (2300) Mr J. Woolcott's Detective, 3 yrs, 7st (2300) ~.Butler) 2 Prince D. Soltykoff's Jersey, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (2200) (Jewitt) 3 Westward Ho, Royal Lad, Equerry, Conntempt, South Hatch also ran. Won by a head. The Manor Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs. Half a mile. straight. Mr Roberts's Flash, by Thunderbolt—Miss Hinda, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b Mr T. H. H. Bayly's Lady Macbeth, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (in. 71b ex.) Mr Abron's Chilham, 3 yrs, Est 21b Wilful, Miss Thackeray, Rockers, Henriette, Pussy Cat, Antias, Thunderstorm, Bonnie Katie, Boquetiere also ran. Won by a neck ; the others running a dead heat for second place, a head in advance of Wilful. The Claremont Stakes of 10 sovs each. Straight half mile. Count F. de Lagrange's Croisade, by Monarque—Vivid, Bst 131 b (in 51b ex) Mr Kirk's Lady Scarlett, Bst 71b (Huxtable) 2 Baron E. Oppenheim's Colonia, Bst 71b ....... (Lynch) 3 The following also ran :—Chorister, Cheesecake, Alex. Hawthorn, and Althorp. Won by half a length. The Flying Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sovs each. T.Y.C., about half a mile, straight. Mr T. V. Morgan's Electricity, by Thunderbolt—Lady Kingston, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Hunt) 1 Mr G. Taylor's Lincoln, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Butler) 2 Mr A. Cristo' s Ch ere e t B e ll e , 4 yrs, Est 121 b (Wilson The following also r an :—Bismark, Simplon, Billy Pedder, and Shreckhorn. Won by three lengths. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes (Handicap) of 15 sovs each, 10 ft. Two miles. Mr R. Porter's Choral, by Wild Dayrell—Chantress, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Powell) 1 Mr York's Kennington, 3 yrs, Bst 81b (in 101 b ex) _ (Hunt) 2 Mr H. Wright's Ventnor, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b ...(Custance) 3 Sir Robert also ran. Won by a length. The Hurst Stakes of 5 sous each. About 5 furlongs. Mr Mortimer's Rhodomonte, by St. Alban's—Doralice, aged, 9st 61b (280) (Jeffery) 1 Mr C. Jones's Outp os t, 3 y rs , B s t 31b (X8O) (Killick) 2 The following also ran :—Ophelia, Lady Hertford, Am nesty, The Gift, Lady Grant,Viva n di ere , an d L a d y K ew . Won in a canter. The Nursery Stakes. Half a mile straight. Mr H. Goater's Our Tom, by Prime Minister—Pluck, 7st 51b Mr Nightingall's Olympia, 7st 41b (Wyatt) 2 Mr T. Steven's Lothair, 7st (car 7st 21b) ......(J. Clark) 3 The following also ran :—Lord of the Isles, My Queen, Sir Lionel, Lady Heron, Loadstar, Hilary, Fairy Gold, and Volcano. SCRATCHINGS. Visitors' Plate—Laird of Scotland. Garrick Nursery—Lapageria. Wolsey Plate—South Hatch. King Hal Stakes—Cheesecake filly, Golspie, Azalea by Dundee, and Delay. Out of all engagements at Hampton—Vulcan and all Mr. Buckenham's horses. NEWCASTLE RACES.-THURSDAY. The Lambton Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages ; winners extra. T.Y.C. New Course. Mr Dawson's Morphia, by Maccaroni—Wensleydale, 3 vrs, Est 121 b (War r i ng t on ) 1 Mr Dove's Lackland, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b (Cook) 2 Mr Hewett's Poinsettia, 4 yrs, Est 81b (Gray) 3 Prior and Calypso also ran. Won easily by a length. The Newcastle Handicap of 100 sovs. One mile and a half. Mr. John's Pretty John, by Handsome Jack—Geology, 5 yrs, Bst 81b Mr Martin's Moscow, 4 y rs, Bst 71b (Snowden) 2 Mr Kennington's Jarnac, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b (W. Gray) 3 Lord Hawthorn, Fleets, and. Silver Band also ran. Won easily by a length. The Seaton Delaval Stakes of 10 sovs each. New T.Y.C. Mr Merry's King of the Forest, by Scottish Chief Lioness, Bst 31b (in 51b ex) (J. Snowden) 1 Mr B. Plummer's Rebecca, Bst9lb (in 61b ex) (Chaloner) 2 Mr A. de Montgomery's Mdlls. de Mailloc, Bst 61b (Osborne) 3 Sauntress and Fusilier also ran. Won easily by two lengths. The Stewards' Cup. Nearly one mile. Mr W. Vaughan's Dark Cloud, by Cavendish—Maid of the Mist, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Warrington) 1 Mr Johnstone's Exciseman, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (in. 61b ex.) _ _ . IMT. Grays 2 Mr Kennington's Myosotis, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b ...(Chaloner) 3 Argyle, My Uncle, Lumley, Enterprise, Symmetry colt also ran. The Freemen's Nursery Handicap. Five Furlongs (New Course.) Mr A. S. Brigg's Trojan, by Cramond Hesion2,7stl.olb (W. Gray) 1 Mr G. Masterman's Brigand Chief, 7st 81b . (Kenyon) 2 Mr R. H. Jones's Petronilla, Bst Lady Temple, Sir Bertram, Cateress also ran. The Grand Stand Selling Stakes. Five furlongs (New Course). Mr Hill's Blucher, by St. Alban's—Marpesia, by Bay Middleton, 4 yrs, Bst nb (240) (Covey) 1 Mr Jackson-s Bonita, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (240)... (W. Gray) 2 Mr Hunter's Atreus, 5 yrs, 9st (.£4O) .(Snowden) 3 Light Cloud, Merry Girl, Eikah, Lady Sylvio, Rhys Jones, Callipcedia also ran. CARLISLE MEETI Acceptances for the Cumber IG-TUESDAY, July 5. Age st lb Kidderminster Lord Hawthorn 4 8 8 Good Hope.. Judge (in. 101 b ex) 4 8 5 Visceunt (in. 51b ex) 5 8 1 Prince 4 8 0 Stork Cap-a-pie 5 7 8 Annie Stewart 5 7 8 Blacklock Whalebone a 7 5 First Blood 5 7 2 land Plate. About is miles. Age st lb Hawthorndale 3 6 8 Chesapeake 3 6 8 Sweet Sound 0 by TimWiffiqr out of Calabria 3 6 6 Irregularity Disturbance 3 6 3 Silverband 3 6 3 Hebe Sensation...... 3 6 3 Official Assignee 3 6 3 FORFEIT LIST.—The forfeits of the following horses have been paid :—Cape Clear (Mr. Boyle's), Carperby, Sweet Annie, Sorceress. WARIC. —The objection to Diddington for the Tynedale Hunt Cup has been overruled. Winchester, 1871, will take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday after Chester, and preceding Salisbury. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Victori, , , cap. 82, for the week ending Wednesday, June 28, 1870. ' ISSUE DEP ARTRENT. Notes issued £35,580,480 Governmt. D0bt.£11,015,100 Other Securities.. 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £35,580,410 BANKING D. £34,580,480 ?ARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £13,017,279 Other Securities 19,240,889 Notes 13,042,695 Gold and Silver Coin ~. 969,185 £46,270,048 Proprietors' Capi- ta1£14,553,000 Rest 3,118,507 Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts 11,858,862 Other Deposits.. 16,341,433 Seven Days and othor Bills.. 398,246 £46,270,048 Prince Leopold is understood to be again seriously ill. The License Amendment League has held a con ference in Hull, which was attended by the may.or and the principal clergy of the town. Letters were read from the Archbishop of York, the Rev. Canon Brooke, and others, in support of the object of the meeting, and reso lutions were passed urging on Parliament and the public the necessity of amending the Liquor Laws. The death is announced of the Rev. Alfred Butler Clough, who fifty years ago wl,s well known at Oxford. He was educated at Jesus College, where he took his B.A. degree in 1818, when he was second-class in classics. He became Fellow and Tutor of Jesus, and in 1838 was presented to the college rectory of Braunston, Northamp tonshire, which he held up to the time of his death. A memorial, praying for an extension of the sixth temporary modification of the Factory Acts Extension Act, 186 1 4 whereby male young persons, of not less than sixteen years of age, may be employed in certain manu factures in the same manner as if they were eighteen years of age, is now in course of signature by the work men employed in Birmingham and the other iron-pro ducing districts. A private of the 9th Foot died on Wednesday at the Militia Barracks, Kingston-on-Thames, from the effects of sun-stroke. A detachment of the regiment had reguli.— marched from Stratford and West Ham to Kingston, en route for Aldershot, and had to endure, the full heat of the day. The men were greatly distressed by the march, several fell out, and the deceased dropped just as the halt was sounded near the barracks. MELANCHOLY AFFAIR AT HENDON.—lnforma tion has been given to Dr. Lankester, coroner, of a sad occurrence at Hendon, which has resulted in the death of two men. The other afternoon, William Pager, aged 37, and employed at the Hyde Brewery, H en d on , an d w h o also keeps the Brewery rap, for some p ur p ose d escen d e d a well which is undergoing repair. O n com i ng up aga i n to the top he fell back into the well, presumably from the effects of foul air. Some hours afterwards a man named George Brooks went down the well to endeavour to find the body of Pager. He succeeded in doing so, and was returning to the surface when the rope, by which he was being drawn up, broke, and he, with his burden, was precipitated to the bottom of the well.. At eleven o'clock at night another man went down, and brought up Brooks, who, however, shortly afterwards expired. Dr. Belgrave, of Hendon, had been called by Mr. Crook, proprietor of thg brewery, but his services were of no avail. Pager's body has not yet been recovered. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING, THE IRISH LAND BILE, IN THE LORDS. The Times says the ultimate success of the Irish Land Bill may be reasonably inferred. It is true the Go vernment was more than once outvoted yesterday, but the proposal to forbid conacre without a land lord's consent was a return to the first draught of the bill ; and the adverse majority on the most im portant issue—the revision of the scale of penalties —was small and uncertain, and will not withstand the resolution of the House of Commons to carry the bill. The alteration the Peers made was One of those mistakes which will do injury only to themselves, but in their iiV.,erest it is to be regretted. The essence of the bill is the third clause. The representatives of Irish tenants in the ouce of Commons complained in some instances that th rates of the scale were too low to prove repressive; and Mr. M'Carty Downi n g, re t urne d by the tenant farmers of Cork at the last election, went the length, upon a modification of the scale, to repudiate all further concern in a measure he pro nounced too mutilated to be effective. The Lords, how ever, led by the Duke of Richmond, yesterday further re.luced the penalties of the scale which had been thus condemned elsewhere as insufficient. The maxi na,:cm penalty of seven years' valuation was made ap plicable to tenants rated at £4 and under, instead of to tenants rated at £lO and under, tenants between £-1 and £lO being cut down to six years' ; while similar alterations were made.in other branches of the scale. We cannot but lament the perverseness of such a policy. The change effected would be pitiful even if it could be enduring: It will necessarily be ineffectual, and it can only serve to mar the grace that would have characterised a cheerful acceptance of the bill. The debate in the House of Lords upon the scale of com pensation under the third clause of the Irish Land Bill was, says the Standard principally remarkable for the as ;ertion of a new constitutional doctrine by that veteran constitution doctor, Earl Russell. The noble lord, in the debate upon the second reading, had declared that he would not agree to any amendment of the bill, what ever arguments might be offered in its favour, and it was, therefore, quite needless for him to have taken the trouble of appearing in the House last night. However, there he was, and there he propounded this wonderful dogma that, because the House of Lords is a house a good many members of which are landlords, it ought to accept without alteration the scale of compensation adopted by the House of Commons. An altera tion would, so said Lord Russell, give rise to unpleasant observations. Ergo the House of Lords —if the argument is to be carried to its proper conclusion—ought not to reject or alter this bill in the slightest degree. It is incompetent because its members are landowners, and anything they may do may be under stood as resulting from interested motives. The Marquis of Salisbury did justice to this wonderful discovery, which threw the front Treasury bench into ecstacies, in a few caustic words, and the House did justice to it in the division, by which it adopted the firms of the Duke of Richmond's amendments on the scale. THE EDUCATION QUESTION. The incessant assurances, remarks the Daily News, which are echoed from both sides of the House of Commons that the country demands religious education, show that tin House wants a good deal of assuring on the point. It is quite true that the country wants religious education, and will have it ; but there is a growing thubt on both sides of the House whether the country wants the religious part of that education to be given by the State. There is a pretty general belief that we shall come at last to something very much like what Mr. Richard recommends—State secular education, and volun tary religious education ; but at pres en t th e House is casting about to find some means of staving off this result. THE DENHAM MURDERS. Notwithstanding the reserve maintained by the prisoner now awaiting his trial in Aylesbury Gaol for these shocking murders, with regard to his real name and family, his antecedents have recently been discovered, and his true name has been proved to be John 0 wen and not John Jones, as he himself has stated. A portrait was taken on Tuesday last 'to the house of John Owen, a tailor, of Byfield, near Daventry, and it was immediately recognised by two daughters of Owen, who were on a visit to their father from Birming ham. An exceedingly painful scene is stated to have taken place. The sisters, on seeing the photograph, im mediately exclaimed, "Oh, it's our Jack; there is no dJubt about it now," and burst into tears. The picture was then shown to the father, who was also greatly over come. A great number of respectable persons living in Byfield and in the neighbourhood likewise at once iden tified the portrait as being unmistakably that of " Jack 0 wen." After they had somewhat got over the freakshock of the painful intelligence, they fur nished the police the following information relative to the antecedents of the prisoner : John Owen was 3S years of age on the Bth of this month. He was bound apprentice when he was 15 years of age, in 1817, to Thomas Mason, a blacksmith, of Byfield. While there, Mason and OWen were pulling down some iron fencing at the rectory, and while Mason was using a pickaxe Owen incautiously stooped down, and Mason accidentally struck him on the right hand side of the head, which nearly killed him, causing a severe wound, the scar of which he carried for years, and is believed to carry now. He did not serve his apprenticeship out, but ran away and went to Birmingham. Ho married a widow named Russell, who kept a confectioner's shop at Shipton-on-Stour. After they were married, he kept a beerhouse at the same place, but lost his license for l ar c en y. Hi s w if e i s now , ivinz with her friends. THE SUN, LONDON, FRI DA E ENING„I UNE 24, 1870 STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the cause and remedy for steam boiler explosions met on Thurs day for the purpose of taking evidence, Mr. Hick, the member for Bolton, in the chair. Sir W. Farnham, C.E., President of the Manchester Steam Users' Association for the Prevention of steam boiler explosions, was first called. and examined. He stated the circumstances which led to the formation of the association. About the year 1833 or 1834, when the high pressure sys tem first came into operation, it was foreseen that steam boiler explosions might become more frequent than under the low pressure. The association had worked extremely well from its formation, fifteen years ago, and it had been the means of inducing more care than would have otherwise been the case, and the results had been that there had scarcely been the loss of a single life through the explosion of boilers belonging to members, and had all associations acted on the principles which they had, there would have probably been very few accidents. They made no money and divided no dividends, but simply devoted themselves to the prevention of accidents and inspecting the various boilers of the members of the association, and secur ing them against the pecuniary loss arising from accidents. The honourable baronet, who spoke in so low a tone that it was almost impossible to hear a word distinctly, exhibited to the committee a portion of a boiler employed in a colliery which had collapsed at 100 pounde pressure, and said that, by an improved con struction of the flue, the boiler became three or four times as strong, because it might be constructed in such a man ner that the tubes could be reduced considerably in length, and therefore the tubes were better able to resist the pressure. A good deal of the boiler explosions took place in consequence of corrosion. There was another important point, and that was the very unsatisfactory nature of the investigations, which took place after an accident had occurred. The juries, as a rule, could form no correct conclusion, and he thought it would be advisable that all such investigations should be attended by some scientific person to advise them. He was of opinion that the mere verdict of accidental death was of no use whatever. By Mr. Fielden : The corrosion in the boiler end took place as well in those parts which were exposed to the action of steam as in those which were in the water. The expense of inspection ought to be borne by the owners. Periodical inspections alone would guard against corrosion. He would test a boiler a little over the pressure at which it was required to be worked and not subject it to any very large strain, because that had a tendency to weaken it. He was of opinion that the boilers should be inspected both exterior and interior every three months. He was in favour of voluntary association rather than Government inspection. He thought that the Government should lay down certain broad principles, and then that they should be carried out by voluntary associations. There was no difficulty in getting good and efficient inspectors. All that was wanted on the part of the Government was the passing of a law by which all boiler owners should have their boilers inspected by some competent persons. He had been president of the Man chester Steam Users Association for fifteen years, and he admitted that the number of boilers they inspected did not exceed 2,000, but he did not think that the voluntary system had failed. There were in the whole country about 50,000 boilers, and the only way that they could reach them would be to make a law of compulsory inspection. The expense ought to be paid by the owner. An owner of six boilers paid 31s. 6d. a year for the inspection. By Professor Lyon Playf air : He would be satisfied by the inspection of a competent engineer, whose competence should be judged of by the boiler owner. Competency would be easily ascertained, especially by an association. They could have no other evidence of general competency than the reputation of the engineer himself. Mr. Fletcher, the engineer of the Manchester Steam Users Association was then called and examined, and in reply to the chairman said that he had had great expe rience and paid much attention to the subject of steam boiler explosions since 1861, and had reported on them to the association. Steam boiler explosions were both fre quent and fatal. The number of those killed by boiler explosions exceeded all those killed on all the railways by three times, and there was no reason to suppose they were on the decrease. The steam boiler explosions arose from the simplest causes. Boiler minders were very often unjustly accused where the boiler maker and master were in fault. In point of fact, where the boiler minder was the cause of one explo sion the boiler maker and master were responsible for six. Out of fifty-eight explosions which occurred last year, no less than twenty-six were attributable to the malconstruction of the boiler. He explained that the mal-construction arose from the want of certain seams, hooks, and rivets. He also men tioned that a great many explosions had occurred in the Cornish boilers( which when well made and looked after were the safest in the world and never burst), in consequence of the obstinacy of the boiler makers, who refused to strengthen them with rings, where the manhole was cut through, and in Lancashire a large proportion of the boilers which burst were constructed on the Cornish principle. Among other causes of boiler explosion he also mentioned defective safety valves. _ _ _ Alter some further evidence the committee adjourned, THE NEW YORK PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. It will be the glory of Charles Dickens, when his fame comes to be fairly weighed, not that •he has created some of the most beautiful and by far the most humorous cha racters in English fiction ; not that he has drawn scenes of real life with a vividness no artist ever attained before, but that he has acquired such an absolute mastery over the human heart that we take his ideal men and women at once to our bosoms, and make every one of his books a gallery of our personal friends. Little Nell is not the most beautiful creation in our literature by any means ; but is any other loved so well ? " Oliver Twist " is not remarkably good as a novel ; but ever since we read it, thirty years ago, we have been crying for more. Bob Cratchit and his lame child, Bob Sawyer and Mr. Benjamin Allen, Betsy Trot wood and Mr. Dick, Pegotty, Micawber, Pickwick—dear old monarch of them all—these are not for us the airy fictions of the brain, but flesh and blood friends whom we love with all our hearts and hope to meet some day in this very world. It is the greatness of Dickens that he can inspire us with feelings like these, and no other man has ever done it in an equal degree. Ten or twenty millions of people keep a corner in their . hearts for Dickens, because he has seen so perfectly the poetry, the beauty, the hundred lessons which the life of the masses contains, and in all that he has done he has striven for their good. "I have always had and always shall have," said he on his first visit to this country, "an earnest and true desire to contribute as far as in me lies to the common stock of healthful cheerfulness and enjoyment. I believe that Virtue chews quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. I believe that she and every beautiful object in external nature claims some sympathy in the breast of the poorest man who breaks his scanty loaf of daily'bread." So in the faith that literature was not for the rich alone, and the noblest work was the work done for the poor, he bent himself bravely to his splendid task. Whether battling with the weapons of his wit for the release of poor prisoners or poor school-boys, or humanity for almshouse paupers, or relief for befogged and plun dered clients, and a public ridden to death by aristocratic office-holders ; or founding a great liberal newspaper in the interest of popular Government and free education ; or refusing with dignity an invitation to attend as an actor the court where he could not be received as a private man, Charles Dickens, without a suspicion of demagoguism, without the affectation of con descending, without uttering one insincere or flattering word, made himself as truly the poet and prophet of the people in prose as Burns was their chosen singer in verse It is for this reaso n th a t w h erever th e E ng li s h language is spoken Charles Dickens was cherished as a friend. It is for this reason that his death awakens to-day such universal sorrow, and that his name will be held in sincerely affectionate remembrance to the latest genera tions.—New York Tribune. "In the midst of life we are in death." How impres sively this solemn fact returns upon us as we read the brief details of the grim messenger's call upon Charles Dickens in the midst of the pleasures of a cheerful dinner party ! The news of the sad event in both hemispheres has fallen upon the public mind with the shock of an un expected misfortune ; and yet, considering the brain over worked and the body worn out from the long and exhaust ing strain upon it, this sudden dissolution is not surpris ing. It is rather to be wondered at that, with so many examples and warnings of this kind constantly occurring around us, we should still cherish the delusion that there are, or ought to be, certain exemptions from the inexorable laws governing this frail and uncertain earthly existence. Charles Dickens has gona the way of all the earth. His work is done ; he rests from his labours, but he leaves behind him the record of talents industriously employed in his wisely chosen voca tion for the e-eneral good of his fellow men, and especially for the amelioration of the sufferings and the righting of the wrongs of those too much neglected classes of modern civilisation, the story of whose lives, honest or criminal, is a desperate strugrle for existence. Dickens was a man of genius, but his was not the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare ; nor did he possess the exquisitely beautiful perceptions of character which we find in Walter Scott ; nor the polished sentimentalisms of Bulwer ; nor the analytical descriptive powers of Victor Hugo; nor the criticai faculties of Thackery ; nor the orientally poetical and philosophical mind of Disraeli. Compare the last work of Dickens, " Edwin Drood," as far as printed, with the latest novel of Disraeli, " Lothair, ' and the difference will be seen between the limited range of Dickens and the boundless field of thought, instruction, and philosophy opened by Disraeli. In another aspect the contrast between these two writers of fiction is very remarkable. It is the contrast between St. James and St. Giles ; for while the heavy atmosphere of St. Giles prevails in the novels of Dickens, the social air of. St. James prevails in the works of Disraeli. Dickens was in his element in his delineations of life among the English low classes, and. of the lowest his pictures are the best ; Disraeli is at home among the ruling minds and beauties of the aristocracy, and his range of vision embraces the ruling elements in the social, political, and religious world. The characters of Dickens are individuals, each confined to a narrow and insignifi cant walk ; the heroes and heroines of Disraeli represent the great ideas and questions—political, religious, and social—which are agitating the realms of civilisation. We may, in short, describe Dickens as the graphic, shorthand, verbatim reporter of scenes in low life, and Disraeli as the matured statesman an d philosopher, giving us his broad, political, and social views in the disguise of a charming romance. In what, lies the world-wide fame of Dickens as a literary genius? It lies in his graphic descriptions of low life, in his every day living characters among the struggling masses, good and bad, and in his never-failing purpose to encourage the good, to discourage the bad, to correct abuses against the weak and defenceless, and to create sympathy and kind ness, not only for suffering virtue, but towards the ignorantly or helplessly vicious and unfortunate. He laboured faithfully, though comparatively within a limited sphere. His mind was microscopic, magnifying small things into things wonderfully interesting ; and it is not in nature that an eye which is microscopic shall possess also the powers of the telescope. Charles Dickens, it may be truly said, employed the talents given him wisely and well. So far ,as we in America are concerned we can truly say that 'the mistakes of his first visit were fully, and to the general satisfaction, repaired in his second; that in this country his death will be universally lamented, as his works are universally admired for the good fruits they have borne and still promise to bear; and that many Americans can testify to the attractive social qualities of the man, and to the generous hospitalities they have shared in his house. He lived an industrious and useful life, and he leaves behind him a fame and a name which will live respected, fresh and green, for gene rations to come.—New York Herald. The eminent Englishmen of letters whose fame has been acquired, as it were, under our own eyes, and whose works are more or less associated with the events of our lives, are one by one passing away. New authors are - constantly appearing in the field, but the few great figures which have been before us almost daily for years past, L cannot be withdrawn without occasioning regrets like those which we experience when old friends are taken from our side. The death of a man like Charles Dickens seem to create a blank in our own existence. It comes upon us with the surprise which death in the household occasions when the one inevitable incident in our un certain lot seems ever new, unnatural, and startling. People of middle age cannot but feel that they have " grown up," as it were, with Charles Dickens. The appearance of each successive story from his pen is linked with a thousand domestic recollections, for he was emin ently the novelist of the household The very manner of his death deepens the sense of personel loss. Sudden death seems. indeed, the doom of the literary craft. It is but a few years ago that Macaulay was found dead in his room. To Thackeray, also, the last messenger came with out warning. Charles Dickens has been summoned in a moment, while still in the full exercise of his genius and while the early numbers of his last work are engaging the attention of the world. The genius of Dickens was an endow ment which sometimes seemed to surprise himself. He was like a man who finds himself in possession of an unex pected treasure. When still very young he went through much drudgery in a newspaper office, without suspecting that he was destined to achieve for himself a distinct place in English literature, and produce a series of books which would win for him an illustrious and an unfading name. It was clear that he had an amazing faculty for describing types of men. How many people we have all known exactly like the people who live and move in Dickens's novels ! We are almost convinced that it is our very acquaintance whom the novelist must have had before his eye Micawber, Pecksniff, and the rest of the portraits in that marvellous gallery—Shakspeare himself did not draw truer types of character. The fidelity of the model in each case is attested by the fact that it is found in all countries and among all people, and that there are hundreds of men whom we cannot better describe than by nicknaming them after one of the lay figures in Mr. Dickens' works. One secret of his success in this respect was the laborious manner in which he made his studies. At a certain period of his life there was no man in London better known to the police than Mr. Dickens. Except Sir Walter Scott, no writer of fiction has ever done so much to while away the weary hours of young and old as Charles Dickens. In lonely places of the earth his books have been an unfailing solace to many an exile, and they have shed hope and light in many a sick room, and comforted many an afflicted heart. Over the whole range of the domestic instincts Mr. Dickens possessed a thorough mastery. There, indeed, was his stronghold. His pictures of "interiors" will be famous while the world lasts. When he described a room, the mere mention of any character who had been intro duced to us in it would afterwards suffice to recall before us the whole picture, even though years might have passed since we read the novel. Who cannot remember his sketches of the cosy parlours in country inns ? He could tell us about a poor man's dinner in a way which was capable of imparting fresh zest to the most jaded appetite. When he touched the deep emotions of our nature, his power drew tears f rom th e l east suscept ib le of mankind. What mother will ever be able, while the world lasts, to lead the story of Little Nell or Paul Dombey with dry eyes ? Who that has lost a child can ever hear those names unmoved? Let us say what we will, the world is not quite the same after a man is taken from it who was gifted with a genius capable of setting before us almost all phases of human nature. There is a gap which time will cause us to forget, but if the loss to mankind does not create an abiding impression, it is only because we know that we ourselves are not abiding— that let the pictures be what they may, and let he who discloses them to us be ever so gifted, the show is one which must come to an end. But were this sense more deeply seated even than it is, we could not b u t rea li ze h ow much the world loses by the death of a man who possessed the power of laying bare so many secrets of the human heart, who could read every aspect of our nature—at once the most simple and the most complex of problems—and who after amusing us thirty years, died in the prime of life. Yet Mr. Dickens cannot airly be said to have been overworked for many years past. His closing years were spent, that beautiful part of his native land where many of tne scenes in his novels are laid, and where it was his wish when his time came, to die. In his youth he had chosen a home for his mature age, and determined to win it. He succeeded, but the days which are " swifter than a weaver's shuttle" left him little time to enjoy the fruits of his labours. He had known many sorrows, or how could he have written much that stands recorded in his name As for his faults, who are we that we should reckon them now ? He is gone, and we all feel that one of the greatest of our number has passed from time, with its defective judgments, to eternity, with its serene and unerring wis dom. Although Charles Dickens is henceforth but a name in the world's history, it is a name lit with imperishable renown, and it will be spoken with gratitude and affec tion as long as our language endures.—New York Times. CHARLES DICKENS ON LITTLE NEL A New York journal quotes a pa.sffe from o Charles Dickens's speeches at a Box banquet in Bosto during his first visit to America :—" There is one other point connected with the labours (if I may call them so) that you hold in such generous esteem, to which I cannot help adverting. I cannot help expressing the delight, the more than happiness, it was to me to find so strong an interest awakened on this side of the water in favour of that little heroine of mine whom your President has made allusion, who died in her youth. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in log-huts among the morasses and swamps and densest forests and deep solitudes of the Far West. Many a sturdy hand, hard with the axe and spade and browned by the Summer's sun, has taken up the pen and written to me a little history of domestic joy or sorrow, always coupled, I am proud to say, with sortie thing of interest in that little tale, or some, comfort o happiness derived from it ; and the writer has alway addressed me, not as a writer of books for sale, resident some four or five thousand miles away, but as a friend to whom he might freely impart the joys and sorrows of his own fireside. Many a mother I could reckon them now by dozens, not by units—has done the like ; ana has told me how she lost such a child at such a time, and where she lay buried, and how good she was, and how, in this or that respect, she resembled Nell. I do assure you that no circumstance of my life has given me one hundredth part of the gratification I have derived from this source. I was wavering at the time whether or not to wind up my clock and come and see this country ; and this decided me. I feel as if it were a positive duty, as if I were bound to pack up my clothes, and come and see my friends; and even now I have such an odd sensation in connection with these things that you have no chance of spoiling me. I feel as though we were agreeing—as in 'deed we are, if we substitute for fictitious characters the classes from which they are drawn—about third parties, in whom we had a common interest. At every new act of kindness on your part, I say it to myself : That's for Oliver—l should not wonder if that was meant for Smike —I have no doubt that it was intended for Nell, and so became a much happier, certainly, but a more sober and retiring man than ever I was before." "LOTHAIR"-A MASTERPIECE OF IMAGI NATION AND PHILOSOPHY. Aristotle gave the first place among works of imagina tion to tragedy, but that was in an age when the stage dealt with the great social, religious, and political problems which agitated the lives of nations.' He did not prefer the drama for its form, for its spirit, but for the conse quence and dignity of its themes, for its intimate relation with the higher intellectual life of the people, whom it instructed in the growth of such ideas as seemed great in the history of their race. But since tragedy was sepa rated from that original purpose it has gone downward in the scale. In this age people will not consent to be harrowed by woes with which . they have no personal or family sympathy and no deeper interest than that of casual spectators. Intellectually we are all Sybarites, and the stage is a sham. But the relation to popular life that anciently vivified tragedy has not departed from literature altogether ; it has only changed its place, and it has changed it in accordance with the conditions of our time. This change has carried it into the novel. In an age of wide-spread and teeming populations the print ing press is to the masses what the stage was to the far smaller communities of antiquity ; and thus when the poet appears he finds the agencies ready adapted to enable him to get a grander hearing than any of which antiquity could conceive. The use that may thus be made of the familiar form of fiction in vogue among the people is illustrated in " Lothair." Here we see a great thinker, who can write a novel without dwindling to the level of the novel writers in purpose or form, because he has a higher, grander view of his vocation ; and who can treat the loftiest themes of philosophy and statecraft in the easy, graceful, acceptable style that will not only carry them, but make them current and familiar, in places where the dry dis quisitions of the philosopher cannot enter, and the formal utterances of the statesman was unknown. In " Lothair " Mr. Disraeli personifies all the elements and forces of European society, not only as they are, but as they have been for ages. In his pages we see the contest that has rended every people of the Continent still in progress. These are the natural human longing for and tendency towards progress and improvement, and its parasites, the professional organizers of revolutions. There are also the natural religious sentiment and the great institution, the Church that thrives and lives upon it, also too much as a Parasite ; and there is society drawn and repelled from one to another, as each appears attractive or repulsive to its always coloured and prejudicial vision. All are intro duced in their ancient struggle. They struggle through the drama, and the drama settles no point of all that they struggle over, and leaves them struggling still, because it is for the poet ox the philosophic historian to present to us his impresssions of reality, to tell the great story and not to take sides, since he cannot dive into the secrets of fate to say who is right or who wrong. He can tell us that he does not always know who is the hero and who the villain, and riddle so wisely that the parsons shall thank him for a discourse against Rome, while Rome might as well thank him for the statement of her cause against her vilifiers ; and aristocracy shall be grateful for the ex posure of the revolution, and the revolution rejoice in his delineation of the crumbling and weakness of aristocracy. The novel is certainly the great form of the age for the teaching of any grand lesson or the delineation of any great character or series of characters in the religious, political, and social life of nations ; and, in this view of it, how pitiful by comparison with such a grand work of imagination as " Lothair " are the novels of men like Bulwer and Dickens. Bulwer has no more exalted voca tion than to picture the snobs of British society, evidently always supposing them to be gentlemen ; and Dickens plods on for ever, doing the same thing for creatures that are either brutes or clowns, according to the humour or the moment, becoming under the impulse of fury, com mon cut-throats, or melting in the warmth of coarse sen suality to all the varied comic phases peculiar to the greasiest vulgarity. But what are the elegant fops who dawdle up and down. the pages of Bulwer, or all the kit chen maids and thieves of Dickens taken together, with all their vanities, vices, passions, and appetites, that men should care for them or have patience over such pitiful pictures ? The contrast of " Lothair," a masterpiece of imaginative working in the great themes that are vital in every society, will set before the world at a proper value the books of authors without theme or purpose, who draw marionnettes rather than men.—New York Herald. An important novelty is announced at the Gaiety. Mr. Charles Reaie has written a new drama for the theatre, and Mr. Hermann Vezin, one of the very best actors on the stage, is announced to play the principal character.—London Figaro. LAW , EItriSsMENT. J—Avold Medicines—they always aggravate chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, 'which yields three times the nourish - ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—"R0me, July 21 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise biais excel lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, 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 Jolly." Cure No• 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.---Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s Vd; 2 lb 48 6d; 51b 121 b 225: 24 lbs 4 s.—A lso DU BARRY'S lIEVALENTA RABICA. CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups atGs, for 2&8 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at bbs —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 558 tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. SCOUNDRELS IN RAILWAY TRAINS, The Telegraph asks—Why should there not be railway carriages for ladies only ? Men can pass Acts of Parlia ment compelling railway companies to provide carriages for smokers with every train. Surely, to save an unpro tected woman from insult is as important, to say the least, as to secure for man that necessary of civilisation— the enjoyment of a cigar? A gentleman now sending a lady of his family on a journey alone cannot be sure that she will be free from some insult or other, unless he get a friend to accompany her. On railways like the American or the Swiss, where the guard walks occasionally through all the carriages, the passen gers have an authority to which they can appeal ; but in our trains there is literally no redress, no escape ; and a lady may be forced to travel for miles in disgusting company, afraid to complain lest she should be singled out for invective or assault. Oi course, women who are cool, calm, confident in their own modesty, firmness, and discretion, might, if they liked, travel in the other carriages, in the mixed society there to be encountered ; but schoolgirls, or nervous ladies, or ladies "owned" by fastidious or "nervous" men—for men, on women's behalf, are sometimes more nervous than the women themselves—could be securely , despatched to the ladies' carriage with a pleasant confi dence at parting. THE JAMAICA QUESTION. The Times considers the great point at issue in the case PhiHipps v. Eyre was the capacity of a Colonial Legisla ture to grant an indemnity for acts committed in the colony, so as to tske away the rights of a plaintiff in this country. The Exchequer Chamber has decided that the Colonial Legislature has this power, and that its Act protects the ex:Governor. On general grounds we wel come this decision as just and expedient. It is obvious that persons who had been entirely absolved by the community in which they lived, and who en joyed its highest esteem, might be harrassed and ruined by actions in this country, where the circumstances of their case were imperfectly understood. In fact, a judgment for the plaintiff in " Phillips v. Eyre," would put an end to the self-government of all the young and vigorous communities of the English race so long as tlpy remained under the British Crown. It is acknow ledged that if independent, such a power as is claimed for the English Courts could not be exercised, and, therefore, the supremacy of the Mother Country and the subjection of the Colony would be presented to every Colonist in the most offensive form. We must look forward to a time when the chief Colonies will be nnited in federations which cannot and ought not to be denied the most perfect independence of internal administration, and it would be toe much to sanction a principle which would nullify the acts of the Canadian or Aus ralian Dominions. This judgment places the relations of the various Legislatures of the Empire on a sound basis and an intelligible prin ciple, and we hope now to have taken leave of the Jamaica controversy for ever. THE BELGIAN QUESTION. The Post says that Belgium is allied to England by ties of the most various nature—perhaps more closely than any other country in Europe—and it is only natural that the movement of Belgian public affairs should be watched with a peculiar interest from this side of the water. In the last elections a great effort was made, and the result has been that the composition of the Chamber has been entirely altered, so that, instead of containing, as heretofore, a decided Liberal majority it is now as nearly balanced as possible between Liberals and Cleri cals. The Liberals will suffer no very great hardship by being deprived of power for a time. They have had a lengthened lease of it, and it is a most strengthening thing for a party which has been living long on the sweets of office to be relegated for a season to the hard and wholesome fare of opposition. They must inevitably, even in that position, have the greatest controlling power over the public policy, and that may console them for losing the control of the public patronage, The Liberals well know, too, that the real strength of the country is behind them ! and unless the Clerical Cabinet which seems to be inevitable should prove as false to its principles and traditions as the Tory party did under not very dissimilar circumstances in Eng land, they will soon render themselves impossible as a Ministry. M. Frere-Orban and his colleagues, have left the Administration more through an accident than from any other reason; they are followed by the regrets of the whole country ; and it cannot before they are again called to the posts they have filled so well. OXFORD COMMEMORATION. The Standard declares that the commemoration at Oxford, as it has been celebrated for the last two hundred years, is a ceremony peculiar to England, and which cannot be imagined as existing in any other country. A commemoration without the undergraduates' gallery would be perhaps a very decorous, but would certainly be a tame and dull affair. We do not know, indeed, that the fooling is not the most valuable part of the day's proceed ings. We would give up a good deal of the academical proprieties rather than lose this most characteristic and certainly popular adjunct of the ceremony, even with all its extravagance. In their own peculiar way the un dergraduates may be said in fact to discharge a most use ful public function on those occasions. They represent a very wholesome influence at the University. They are the embodiment of that turbulent spirit of liberty which we are old-fashioned enough to think is a thing of which to be proud rather than ashamed. The demonstra tions of the undergraduates' gallery reflect that tumult of public opinion which is the soul of British institu tions. There is one time-honoured possession of our country at least which we trust ever to retain, in spite of Sir John Coleridge and Lis allies, and that is the free, impartial, a,ndmanly voice of the youth of Oxford. Whatever changes threaten the University, it would be a serious loss to the public life of this country if anything happened by which the annual ceremony of the Com memoration was robbed of any of its characteristic fea tures. On the late occasion, at least, it could not be said that the undergraduates exceeded the bounds of rational and wholesome licence, or that their conduct was un becoming that of gentlemen having to maintain the spirit of our chiefest seat of intellectual and manly culture. A collision occurred a few days back at Charleroi, on the Great Central Railway of Belgium, between a pas sengers' and a goods train. The two engines and several waggons were crushed to pieces, and one carriage was thrown down the embankment, fifty feet high. Two persons were killed, and several others seriously hurt. IADVERTISEMENT.I - Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Colds, Influenza--Until within a very few years these complaints were treated with blood-letting, blistering, and emetic. Now a more rational method of cure has been adopted. Holloway's Ointment and Pills purify, heal, and strengthen. They never weaken the body, nor disconcert the nervous system. Depletion doubtless arrested these diseases, but at the same time it took away nature's means of restoration. Holloway's remedies, on the contrary, while w or ki ng th e cure are l ay i ng th e foun dation for perfect recovery, not only of the afflicted, but every other organ. Holloway's preparations are also the best preservatives against the whole list of winter ail ments ; they throw out impurities and preserve the vital principle from disease, or lead it back to health. THE PROPERTY LAW IN JERSEY. Persons who contemplate purchasing landed property in the island of Jersey will do well to meditate on the follow ing case, which was heard before the Royal Court of that island on Monday :—One Edward Mauger, a farmer, occupying his own land, having fallen into pecuniary dif ficulties in the year 1868, took the benefit of the law on the " Remise des Biens." By this law a person obtains protection from legal process for a period vary ing from three to twelve months, to enable him to pay his creditors. If he fails to do so two of the judges are appointed to sell the property, and pay all the debts due upon it. In virtue of this arrangement the two judges appointed sold a portion of Mauger's property to one Mr. Philip le Sueur, for the sum of £6O, and applied it in the discharge of a portion of the liabilities. Before they could sell the remainder, however, a d6cret (fiat of bankruptcy) was issued against the property by M. Hocquard, who had a mortgage on it. According to the Jersey law, all property purchased within a prescribed period anterior to a dkret must revert to the original estate for the benefit of all the creditors, no matter how safely the purchase may have been made. In this in stance Mr. Le Sueur purchased from the two judges appointed by the court to sell the pro perty, and naturally expected he was making a sure bargain. Not so, however. Mr. Hoc quard stepped in and asked the court to annul the deed of sale as being invalid in the eye of the law. The Court decided that as the remainder of the estate was not sufficient to satisfy the claims of the creditors, the deed must be annulled. The Attorney-General, who pleadedfor Mr. Le Sueur, asked what his clientwas to do to recover the purchase money which he had paid to the two members of the court. The bench made no reply to the question, and Mr. Le Sueur was left to meditate on the glorious uncer tainty of the property law of Jersey. MODERN BRIGANDAGE. The recent Greek affair in the matter of brigandage has compelled many persons to ask themselves the question whether there is any such thing as modern civilization ? It has induced others to put to themselves the question— a question, perhaps, more logical than the preceding— whether there is any hope of resuscitating a race once civi lised, but since reduced to barbarism? This latest Greek affair has done more to fix the Greeks as a barbarous race than all the sympathy and sentiment of the Philhellenists (Lord Byron and Mr. Gladstone included) ever did to give them a new lease of life. Spain has caught the contagion, and Spain gives fair promise to outstrip Greece in the downward course. The Robin Hood and the Rob Roy class of men had some re deeming traits of character. They came in their natural place. These Greek and Spanish brigands—and under the word " Spanish " we include all the hybrid races on the southern portion of our Continent—what better now are Greeks and Spaniards than the Indians of our forests and prairies ? We, perhaps, tell the whole truth when we say that Greeks and Spaniards, Italians and Indians have had the one opportunity which is given to a people. They are now down. Those brigand pro pensities reveal their character. What reason have we to hope for such people? Is not all our sympathy for the dying races more or less of a mistake ?—New York Times. It is stated that the Observer has changed hands ; and that the purchase money was £5,000. The Manchester Guardian says that the junior member for Salford, Mr. Charley, is suffering from " serious indisposition." Prince Arthur presented a new set of colours to the 69th Regiment on Tuesday, at Quebec, and made a speech complimenting it on its distinguished service. A woman named Mary Surtees, 105 years old ; died at her residence, in Silver-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; on Monday. _ 'Another young woman has died from the injuries she sustained in escaping from the premises at New `Wortley, near Leeds, which were destroyed by fire. The Spanish Cortes has passed the bill for the abolition of slavery. The Abolitionists will give a ban quet to Senor Castelar in acknowledgment of his recent anti-slavery speech. News received from the Red River settlements state that the insurgent leader Riel still withholds his assent to the provisions of the Manitoba Bill, but that no serious obstacles are expected. - The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have promoted Mr. Benjamin Bass Lee, of the Royal Victoria Yard, Deptford, to be Chief Clerk at Malta with an official residence. The total number of messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom during the past week was 200,294, being an increase of 22,771 on the previous week. A. notification has been received at Chatham of the intention of the authorities at the War Department to break up the military lunatic hospital at Fort Pitt, the patients, together with the whole of the hospital staff, being transferred to Netley hospital. The story which appeared a day or two since about three gentlemen being drowned on the night of the thunderstorm on their way from Richmond to London in a boat is not true. No boat was hired at Richmond under the circumstances stated. It is probable that the Lynn Town Council will offer the Earl of Derby the honorary dignity of the high stewardship of that borough. It is also expected that the day of the marriage of the noble earl will be celebrate in Lynn as a general holiday. It is said that all officers serving on board of ships in the Channel Squadron are to be relieved when they have served two years, and that where ships have been in commission over two years new crews will be appointed to them. The King of Portugal has conferred the title of viscount upon Mr. Francis Cook, the senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Cook, Sons, and Co., of St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Mr. Cook is the owner of a con siderable estate near Lisbon. A telegram from Toronto states that news received from the Red River Settlements assert that the insurgent leader Riel still withholds his assent to the provisions of the Manitoba Bill ; but that no serious obstacles are ex pected. The Epoca t of Madrid, states that the Queen of Portugal, has gained great popularity among all classes at Lisbon, because she is believed to be hostile to Marshal de Saldanha. But such is not the case with her husband, King Louis. As to his father, Don Fernando, he keeps himself completely apart from politics. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH TO INDIA.—Last evening a large assembly was held at Mr. Pander's resi dence, A rlington-street, Piccadilly, to inagurate the opening of the submarine telegraphic communication between England and India. The Prince of Wales honoured the party with his presence, and invitations were issued to the whole of the foreign Ambassadors and ministers in England, to a representative of every country, and to some hundreds of the aristocracy. During the evening messages were forwarded to the Viceroy of India, the President of the United States, and to many leading persons in Europe, to which replies were returned in a brief period. WAGES IN THE COTTON TRADE.—A meeting of delegates, representing the hands in fifty-five cotton mills, has been held at Bolton, to receive the answer of the employers to the demand for an increase of 5 per cent. in the wages. The statement made to the operatives was that no meeting of the Masters' Association had been held, but that they were, as a rule, unfavourable to the advance. A resolution was adopted, declaring that, in the opinion of tht operatives, the employers were in a position to give the increase claimed, and, further, that every legitimate effort should be used to obtain it. To this end a committee was deputed to take further action. THE POPE ON LIBERAL CATHOLICS.—The Univers publishes the reply of the Pope to the allocution which Cardinal Patrizzi addressed to him on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his election to the Papacy. In this the Pope expresses himself strongly against the Liberal Catho lics and against certain bishops' sentinels established by God to watch over the safety of the people who forget their duty to the Church, in order to follow the theories of the age. He adds that the evils and errors have not yet reached their limit. There are some who burn incense to the goddess of reason, and will not submit their judgment to faith, nor allow that science should be governed by revela tion, others who do not go so far as that live under the tyranny of certain men who revere what they . call public opinion, even when it is opposed to what is right, just, or holy, a great part of the errors of our time proceed from igno rance, but who can dissipate that ignorance or lighten, that darkness, except the Holy See and its devoted fol lowers? They alone can eradicate the errors which dwell in the minds of those who do not recognise the tendency of certain principles and the peril of certain doctrines. LAW AND POLICE. PENAL SERVITUDE.—SamueI Lyons, who was convicted at the last Middlesex sessions of stealing a gentleman's watch, at the Great Western Station, Paddington, has been sentenced at the Middlesex sessions to seven years' penal servitude, previous offences of a similar kind being on record against him. OMNIBUS DRIVERS. — Seven omnibus drivers in the ser viee of the London General Omnibus Company have been charged, at Worship-street, with conspiring to injure a small proprietor, by preventing him from running his vehi cles on the road. He began running two omnibuses between Old Ford and the Bank, and for a week met with no opposition, but in the second week the General Company put on six omnibuses to oppose him. These followed him up and down, preventing him from taking up passengers, and carrying on a system of " nursing." The case was adjourned till August, when it will be sent before a jury. SERIOUS CHARGE OF STABBING A HUSBAND AND SON. -Sarah Clarke, aged 59 years, of No. 47, Morris-street, St. George-in-the-East, was brought up on remand before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding her husband and son. The prisoner was in a state of intoxication on the night of the 9th instant, and without the semblance of pi - ov9cation made an attack upon her husband and stabbed him in the left breast, inflicting a dangerous wound, two inches in depth, perforating the lung tissues. The prisoner's son, hearing the noise, went into the room and said, "Oh mother, you have stabbed father," when she immediately attacked her son and stabbed him with a penknife .in the thigh. The prisoner was described as a very turbulent woman, and had often threatened to murder her husband and son, especially when drunk. William Leapingwell, house surgeon of the London Hospital, said that the father and son were brought to the hospital, the one suffering from a wound two or three inches in depth on the left breast just by the joint, and the other had a wound on the left thigh about an inch in length, taking a slanting direction. The wounds, he should say, were inflicted with the knife produced. Theprisoner was fully committed for trial. A LITIGIOUS SPIRIT.—The House of Lords has been engaged in hearing an appeal from the First Division of the Court of Session in Scotland. The simple question raised by this appeal is whether a triangular piece of ground, about eight square yards in extent, is the property of the appellant or of the respondent, both being proprietors of coterminous field, on the northern side of Kinnoull-hill, in the neighbourhood of Perth. The boundary is a straight line ; the ground falls within the property of the respondent. If it diverges to the west at a certain point and runs along a certain line it falls within the appellant's property. It is stated that the land in question is not of the value of ss. per annum, but the object of the appellant, however, is to have a line of road leading to his property of the uniform width of ten feet, otherwise the entrance to the appel lant's land will not allow of the free ingress and egress of waggons, &c., belonging to him. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND HIS LONDON MANSION. —The case of "Davis v. Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., Lord de Talby, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and others " has been before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. James. The defendants are trustees of the late Duke of Newcastle, who by his will left the London family mansion, situated in Carlton-house-terrace, to his trustees, with directions that the• use and occupation of it shoUldbe offered to his son, the present duke, during his life, on condition that he paid the rent and observed all the covenants apper taining thereto. The mansion had been offered to, and accepted. by, the present duke; but his lordship having omitted to pay the rent, it was contended by the trustees that a forfeiture of the tenancy had taken place, and the mansion passed to remainder. After arguments had been heard pro and con, it was stated that another case bearing on the same property was now pending in the Rolls Court ; and under those circumstances the Vice-Chancellor declined to give any decision on the question which had been raised, intimating also the desirability of both causes being brought on for investigation before himself simul taneously. A CURIOUS INSURANCE QUESTION.—The Court of Com mon Pleas has given judgment in a singular case arising out of the construction of a policy of insurance. One Thomas Humphrey was assured for £3OO in the Accident Insurance Company, payable, in the event of death, within three calendar months, from accident, such death to be the result of accident or injury by some external and material cause. Mr. Humphrey went into the sea to bathe at Hastings, and fell in a • fit in about a foot of water, where being unable to help himself, he was drowned. His executor, therefore, sought to recover the amount of the policy from the company, who disputed their liability on the ground that the cause of death was the fit and not the accident. An arbitrator, to whom the matter had been referred, found that the cause of death was "suffocation by drowning," but stated a special case for the opinion of the court on the question of liability, After hearing the arguments, their lordships gave judgment in favour of th plaintiff; who will thus recover £3OO for an accidental death. • Sir Joseph Neale Maenna, in reference to the statement that bills had been filed in Chancery against him and other former directors of. the National Bank, writes to say that he is prepared to prove the proceedings understood to be complained of to have been strictly cor rect, and that he undertakes to shew that every act of his in connection with the bank has been done for its benefit and protection, and will bear the test of investigation before any court in any proceedings to which he is made a party. BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Upper Tooting, Surrey, the wife of L?ku tenant-Colonel Sir William Anderson Rote, of a son. On the 20th inst., at The Cottage, Roehampton, Mrs. Spencer Chapman, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, E. T. Dowbiggin, Esq., late Captain 7th Dragoon Guards, to Lucy Frances, daughter of the late Major-General Poole, Royal Artillery. On the 21st inst., at Dunchurch, Warwickshire, Armand Temple Powlett, Commander R.N., to Horatio Frances, Janet, the only child of the late Frederick Armand Pow lett, Esq. DEATHS On the 21st inst., at his son's house,lB, Albert-road, Regent's park, Frederick Mullett Evans (late of Whitefriars), aged On the 22d inst., at Elm Lodge, Hampstead, London, James Powell, aged 90. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEE Sum Office ' No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Sav o y, i n the O.unty of Blicalonx.—Friday, dune 24, 1870. N o . KINAI Observe t.l han's " LL V This celeb Medal. 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