The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

I ar ` , ;F ~. 1 •,=?l * g • l • • ,F•r 40* • • • r,rf , • THE WIFE'S SISTER. "A Peer" addresses the following odd letter to the Pall Mall Gazette :—Among the many forcible objections urged the other night against the legalizing of 'Marriages with a deceased wife's sister, it struck me as curious that the following one was never men tioned, for it is a social one ; and in an assembly composed chiefly of married men, who were probably when bachelors subjected to unrelenting matrimonial pur suit, one would have thought that it would have appealed with great force to many minds and memories, It is this : " Place a man in the position of A widower with a spinster sister-in-law ; he will be under the absolute necessity of marrying her if he does not wish to subject himself to the withering contempt and hatred of all his familly. in-law. Use then, Sir, I beseech you, your powerful influence to preserve a rsecuted class from an impending bondage, which will render their present captivity even more hopeless and desperatz than it is at present" PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The second reading of the University Tests Bill is fixed for to-day. The rejection of the measure will be moved by Mr. Spencer Walpole. Mr. Monk also intends to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the courier, Alexandros Anemoyanni, Nyho accompanied Lord Muneaster's party to Marathon on April 11th, is the same individual whose name appears in the Foreign Office List for 1870 as a courier of her Majesty's Minister at Athens, and if so, whether he had been dismissed before the late massacre. , The Solicitor-General for Ireland will move for a bill to disfranchise the boroughs of Sligo and Cashel; and the House will again go into committee on the Land Bill.—On Tuesday a resolution,. praying for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales will be moved by Mr. Watkin Williams. On the same evening Mr. William Fowler will bring forward his motion for the repeal of the Contagious 'Diseases Act, and Mr. Somerset Beaumont will move for a bill to relieve Lords Spiritual (hereafter consecrated) from attendance in Parliament. The necessity for a bill to amend the laws relating to Horse-racing will also be raised by Mr. Hughes. On Wednesday the Clerical Disability Bill, and the Game Laws Abolition Bill, are among the orders of the day for second reading and upon the , introduction of the latter Mr. Hardcastle intends to move the previous question. On Thursday Mr. Stackpoole intends to ask what action the Government proposes to take with reference to the report of the commissioners who recently held an inquiry into the alleged corrupt practices of the freemen in Dublin. Mr. M`Laren will also move a resolution declaring the expediency of providing at an early period for the discon tinuance of certain annual grants now chargeable on the Consolidated Fund for the benefit of the Church of Scot land. The resolution will not attempt to interfere with any. existing life interests. Mr. W. H. Smith will move that an address be presented to her Majesty, praying that no buildings may be erected on the reclaimed land near the Thames Embank ment at Westminster. On Friday the Burials Bill will be taken in Committee, and the adjourned debate on the Public Schools, will be resumed. Lord Eustace Cecil will move a resolution expressing the necessity for some attention being paid by Government, to the defects in the laws regarding the use of false weights, and the punishment for adulterating articles of food. Finally, Mr. Fawcett intends moving a resolution with reference to the ill effects from an educational point of view, which follow from children being employed in agricultural pursuits. The third reading of the Irish Land Bill be moved in the House of Commons on Monday week, the 30th inst. LAW AND POLICE. A BEGGING PETrriori,—Two Nestorian priests—Andrea and Elias, have been charged at Marlborough-street with begging. An officer of the Mendicity Society had seen one of them go into several houses and shew a petition holding out his hands for money. Professor Amenney, of King's College, was sent for, and requested to interpret. He said the defendants admitted the statement was true. They asked for money, but they did not know it was against the law to do so. They had been sent to this country by their Patriarch, their villag es having been destroyed, their cattle carried off, an d their people massacred by the Kurds. They had come to Eng land to ask for assistance. The Patriarch had complained to the authorities at Constantinople; and Colonel Taylor recommended that some persons should ,be sent to En t ,oiand to collect money. Some gentlemen had applied to the Archbishop of Canterbury on their behalf, and a meeting had been held at Willis's Rooms, at which it was resolved to send out money through English clergy men. The Turkish Consul allowed them £2 a week, but they would rather starve than return with their object un accomplished. Mr. Knox said he would discharge them if the defendants had a reasonable hope of returning to their country, and asked the Professor to make them understand that begging was prohibited. They were then discharged. CHARGE AGAINST A YOUNG WOMAN.—Selina Skelsey, young woman of respectable appearance, has been charged at Leamington with stealing a cashbox containing money and securities to the amount of 1,400, the property of her uncle, Mr. Holmes, with whom she lived. The prosecutor is an independent gentleman and the prisoner, who is his wife's niece, left his house during the night in consequence of alleged ill treatment. She was arrested by Mr. Holmes's direction on a charge of stealing the cash box. A_ detective wno had been employed in searching the house gave somewhat startling evidence. When first he searched Mr. Holmes's house, after Miss Skelsey was taken into custody, he could find no trace of the missing box, but on a second inspection of the coal cellar be noticed that some coal had been disturbed since his visit and under that coal he found the box. On hearing this evidence, the counsel - for the prosecution threw up the case, and Mrs. Holmes loudly declared the detective had perjured himself. The magistrate severely reproved her, and it was said on behalf of the accused that proceedings would be taken for false imprisonment. FALSE IMPRISONMENT BY A FARMER.-At the Hasling. den County Court, a man named John Butterworth, lately a farmer, was sued by Catherine Fletcher, the wife of a labourer, for damages for false imprisonment. The damages were laid at £lOO, and the facts were briefly these : On the 4th January defen dant was at the Black Dog public-honse, Craw shawbooth, drunk. Mrs. Fletcher went in and called for a glass of beer; and the prisoner sat opposite to her, but she never went near him. He, however, charged her with having robbed him of a £5 note, a sovereign, 15s. or 165., and a purse. She protested her innocence, but she was detained, and stripped in the presence of defendant, another man, and the landlady, but nothing was found upon her. When the policeman arrived he insisted on her being taken into custody, and the officer, after cau tioning the deferidant, did so. She was locked up for three days, and the note was afterwards found by the pro secutor.—Damages £5O. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT ROCHDALE.-Mr. Stevens, the chief constable of Rochdale, received information of a dar ing robbery in the town. A servant girl in the employ of Mr. Wrigley, builder, stated that after Mrs. Wrigley had gone out to take her usual walk, while she was stoop ing in the kitchen to pick up the brush, two men came behind her and threw over her head a handkerchief, and threatened to murder her with an axe if she gave an alarm. They took her down into the cellar and tied her hands to an iron bar, and cautioned her that if she made a noise they would bury her in the coal. For upwards of an hour she remained in this position. The young woman was found tied up in the cellar, and the cash-box had been taken out of the drawers upstairs, and broken open with an axe, but strange to say the £BO in gold and notes which had been placed in it had not been removed, and nothing has yet been missed from the house. It is stated that Mr. Gordon Whitbread, of the Chancery Bar, who is at present the principal secretary of the Lord Chancellor will succeed the late Mr. H. R. Bagshawe, Q.C. as Judge of the Clerkenwell County Court. Mr. Whitbread was called to the Bar in 1840. A gentleman named Greg, an exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford, attempted suicide by cutting his throat on Port Meadow on Friday. He was taken to the infirmary and lies in a dangerous state. Over study and disappointment are said to be the causes of the act. The Solicitors' Journal states that a peculiar feature in the entertainment at the Inner Temple, was that the whole company after dinner smoked with great solemnity in the withdrawing room, in compliment probably, to the Prince of Wales, as inheriting the harmless penchant of his relative, the late Duke of Sussex. Intelligence has reached New York from Cuba that General Rodas has issued a proclamation declaring free all slaves of insurgents, as well as' slaves who have served the Spanish troops as guides or voluntarily aided the Government in repressing the rebellion. It is reported that there are only a few scattered bands of insurgents still in arms. The North British Daily Mail states that the man Chalmers has been fully identified by several witnesses as the person who is believed to have murdered the Braco tollman. Two youthful witnesses from Glasgow were algo confronted with the prisoner, and acknowledged that they had seen no one who was " liker" the man wanted for the Stockwell-street outrage.on a little girl. A painful sensation has been caused in Bombay by an accident that occurred to a picnic party at Bandora Hill, two or three miles distant. ,An omnibus carryi ng a number of the party came against the parapet of a deep well and upset, and two ladies (Madame Vmay and her niece, Miss Phillips) were thrown from the top, sheer into the well, and drowned. A number o f others were bruised, none seriously. Major-General Gallway Byng Payne, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines, died at Torquay on Thursday. He entered the army in 1831, and served in Spain during the Carlist war of 1838-39. During the Russian campaign he commanded a battalion of Marines at the defence of Eupatoria, and the 2nd Battalion of Sir Colin Campbell's (Lord Clyde) Brigade, in camp near Baidor. The Chair 'of Medicine and Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of Sir J. Y. Simpson, Bart., is already solicited by numerous candidates. The most favourably spoken of are Dr. James Matthews Duncan, Dr. Alexander Keiller, Dr. Alexander Simpson (a nephew of Si James), now professor of midwifery in Glasgow ; and Dr. J. G. S. Coghill, late of Shanghai, and formerly assistant to the deceased professor. TEE LOST BOOKS OF LIVY. From time to time a rumour goes through the press of certain lost portions of Livy having been discovered some where or other. ° lf we remember rightly a recent novel of Gustav Freytag turns upon this incident No*, however, it seems that a reel M.S.,containing not a lost po r ti on , b u t nearly the whole of the Fourth decade, was discovered a few days ago hi the Petro-Pauline Library at Liegnitz, in Silesia, by the Librarian and a Professor of the Gymna sium. It may well be that this is one of the many MSS. of Livy which were still extant in the fifteenth century, and which were unaccountably lost after the publication of the " Editio Princeps," in Rome, in 1469. We may remind our readers, to save them th e trouble of looking up their "Smith," that out of the 142 books (divided into decades), only thirty, with the largest portions of five more, now survive, em bracing the period from 201 to 167, and that among the fragments embedded in other works, Livy's " Character of Cicero" h conspicuous. There is no reason to doubt the genuineness of this discovery.—Pall Mall Gazette. COMPLAINTS FROM EMIGRANTS. On taking his seat in the Justice-room on Saturday, the Lord Mayor, addressing the reporters, said they would recollect that A few days ago he noticed a complaint he had received from emigrants who had been sent out to Omaha through an agency in London, and who stated that they earned barely sufficient to pay for their board and lodging. That complaint he handed to the Superintendent of Emigration for the Port of Lon don, and Captain Forster had made a very search ing investigation into all the allegations that had been made. The allegations were somewhat exaggerated, and the principal one the parties in London, did not and never had assented to, with regard to a charge of dollars made on arrival in America. That had been abolished. The Lord Mayor added that a few minutes ago, he had received a telegram from Omaha, in Nebraska, stating that the complaints of insufficient employment in that colony, were in a great measure unfounded, and that the emigrants were now doing fairly. FLAW IN THE MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. If the Married Women's Property Bill should, in its present shape, become an Act of Parliament, it will have the immediate effect of destroying one, at all events; of the proprietary securities now enjoyed by wives of the wealthier classes. It is notorious that marriage settle ments are, in the existing order of things, as frequently made for the purpose of protecting the wife's property against herself as against her husband. A woman may now by marriage settlement bind herself not to alienate her property, or-anticipate the income accruing from it, and like conditions may be attached to a . gift or brquest to her during coverture. When aai estate is thus modified it cannot be parted with or charged. But if a married woman were capable of contracting like a feint sole as the Recorder's bill proposes that she shall be, she would be able to execute bonds and covenants. These would not at once affect the settled capital. But they would fall on the rent or interest as fast as it came in, and the restraints upon alienation and anticipation, ceasing on the death of the husband—for they are valid only pending the state of matrimony—the capital would become subject to the_ debts created j? y them. This at any rate is a defect in the Married Rfomen's Property Bill which should not the unremedied, as it seems hitherto to have passed unnoticed.—Pali Mall Gazette. EPISCOPAL OPINION ON SPIRITUAL " IRREGULARS." The Manchester Guardian says the Bishop of Man chester presided on Friday at the annual meeting of the Asylum for Penitent Females, and delivered an interest ing address, which, however, brought him for the first time since his consecration into gentle collision with a por tion of his audience. His lordship's remarks on the depravity of human nature passed unchallenged, but towards the close of his address he ventured to criticise the quality of the religious training of the institution. The arrangem;nts for the Sunday services are not satisfac tory to the right rev. prelate, because they are conducted by lay preacher& in the morning and city missionaries in the evening. He admits that these preachers are actuated by the best motives, but he is of opinion that the work can be done better by "professionals" than by "experimenters" in religious matters. His lordship seems to think the regular clergy are of a higher spiritual type, and have more experience in dealing with cases in which " Satan has gained such a subtle mastery over the human soul" than common lay preachers and city missionaries. A lay preacher happened to be present at the meeting on Friday. He presented himself before the Bishop as a specimen of those by whom the services at the institution are conducted, and contended that the present arrange ment was a very wise one. He suggested that if his lordship would go down to the asylum some morning and quietly take the service, he would leave the institution a better man than when he entered it. THE ARMY AND NAVY. The United Service Gazette says :—A Greenwich Hospital pension of £l5O a year has been awarded to Admiral Sir James Scott, K.C.B. We understand that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and her Royal High ness the Princess Mary have signified their intention of honouring with their presence the annual general meeting of the Royal Cambridge Asylum at the -Royal Asylum at the Royal United Service Institution; Whitehall, on Saturday next. The correspondence relative to the reduction of the field officers in the Brigade of Guards, has been printed and laid before Parliament. Mr. Childers is certainly doing his best to render the Navy contented. Last year, seven naval sub-lieutenants, three engineers, and nine assistant paymasters were promoted. This year gives indications of a good time coming, for already twelve navigating sub lieutenants, fourteen assistant paymasters, one chief engineer, and ten engineers have been promoted. The Army and Nary Gazette says there is no. truth in the report that Lieutenant - Colonel E. Gordon, Town Major, Dublin, is about to be appointed to the command at Netley Hospital.— A captain's commission has been placed at the disposal of Mr. Childers by the unexpected death of Captain Dacres Bevan. Brigadier-General Donald Stewart is likely to have an Indian command. It is not improbable that the Indian brigade vacant b the death of Colonel W. Fenwick, C. 8., 10th Regiment, will be offered to Colonel H. C. Brewster, 76th Regiment. A vacancy has occurred amongst the aides-de-camp to the Queen by the death of Colonel E. Tomkinson. The final decision as to whether it is desirable to retain the Ist battalion 60th Rifles in Canada, rests with Major- General Lindsay and the Canadian Government. Up to the present time nothing has been heard from that officer upon the subject. It is understood that th 4 court-martial held in Jamaica on Purveyor Pooleje cashiering that officer has been confirmed. , A telegram from Coru n na says that the British squadron has left in a northerly direction, but it is believed that it will proceed to Lisbon. An ingenious American has discovered a nevripe to which old paper may be applied—namely, to the con struction of coffins. The paper is reduced to a pulp, rolled out to the requisite thickness, saturated with oil, baked, japanned, and polished. It thus becomes hard, and capable of resisting all ordinary destructive agencies, and is thought to be imperishable. Another American has made a dis covery which promises to be of more important—namely, that pulp for paper may be prepared from wood. Trees, after being denuded of their bark, are cut up into blocks an inch long and broad, and half an inch thick. They are then steamed and crushed into pulp, care being taken that they shall be so arranged that the fibre may be pre served.—Once a Week. A VALUABLE DISCOVERY.—A remarkable manu script has been found in the Imperial Library of Paris, bearing date May 13, 1665, the authenticity of which is vouched for, and which seems to establish a bitter repug nance on the part of Louis XIV. to the dogma of Papal Infallibility. The document describes an interview between the grand Monarch and the Pope's Nuncio, in' the course of which his Majesty raised his arm, clenched his fist, and threatened still more cogent argumerits ,• the provobation laving been an explicit , claim put forth by the Nundo to infallibility, and superiority over temporal Sovereigns in behalf `Orhis master, The pride and per sonal desires of Kings, from Henry VIII. down, did . . more than the enlightenment of their peopie,,to sap those lofty . pretensions, which even now shew:. sucti , wonderful signs of vitality.—New York Times. DISAPPOINTED PHILOSOPHERS. Mr. Carlyle, like Joeeph Mazzini, has resolved in the end of his days that it is a hard thing to make the world any better than it was when he knew it first, and that it is likely to go on in something of the old style for some come to come. His grand scheme of colonisation is only a theory as yet, the British Government preferring to go on with its parlia mentary palaver to the Day of Judgment." But Carlyle differs from Mazzini in one respect—he gives up any further speculation, and will worry himself no more about such a crazy world; while Mazzini, though with dimin ished hopes, works on as before over his weary correspon dence, and refuses to give up the ship. He will die, like Macbeth, " with harness on his back." Both know, what all old men must, that the world can get forward some how without them or their ideas ; though, no doubt, each in his m anner h as d one or sa id some no t a bl e thi ngs in the way of helping it along.—New York Times. AN AMERICAN JOKE.—The New York papers publish the following despatches :—" Indianopolis, May 4.—Yesterday evening the following note was dropped from a balloon, high in the air, moving in a south-east Apriladirl about ow e u c at t s i 2 o 08nn, fastened , ef n o e ra a n r dM Newoatn-o Yorkht p aa e l , f li p e rp pound , cm ß eue l nt a od c w k f : _f wt o hs r o d oaa ddi C l ve o aedm u nr s n dre t y f. r oiw ir , L i mo n nna fd t a h s: i soaStatewaweighing.s r n o ti n t b o y , ge a sudden movement of' the balloon as near as I n could determine, in t t h hr e o s w oU i out.theni I par of suppose, Michigan. Not knowing how to manage the ship, it has been tossed to and fro in all direc tions since he fell out. I am alone, and- earthly power cannot save me. I drop these lines, hoping some human will find them and communicate to my family tidings of my fate. To Heaven I commit my soul. Please send this note to Ralph Lawrence, Upper Canada. Signed, BERTHA LAWRENCE. Toronto, Ontario, May s.—No balloon started from here on the 28th of April for New York or anywhere else." THE bUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1870. THE SUCCESS OF THE SUEZ CANAL Notwithstanding the ersisteut opposition of English in terests, the misrepresentations of jealous foes and the scarcel ! less embarrassing hints of doubting friends, the great canal which unites the commerce of the Mediter. ranean and of the waters of the East is a complete success. For a time rumour after rumour came to us of this, that, and the other difficulty in the way of a noble enterprise which had been inaugurated amid the a plause of Christendom, and in the presence of some of its most distinguished repre sentatives. All this cavilling hai been practically set at rest by a statement which has recently been issued by the directors of the Suez Company. It yields striking evidence of rapid progress. The report eitends from the 20th of November, 1869, the opening day, until the Ist of March, 1870. in that time fifty-five large vessels had passed through the canal, their trips being subdivided as fol lows :—Cne in November, nine in December, six teen in January and twenty-nine in February. The tolls taken increased from about seventy-five thousand francs in the first to nearly three hundred and forty-one thousand in the last named month. The number of larger vessels is, exclusive of five hundred and seventy-five trading boats or barks, paying a smaller percentage of toll. Thus it will be seen that traffic on the new channel has grown nearly fivefold in the first quarter of its first year of exist ence, in spite of all drawbacks. March opened full of pro mise, and would at least double the work of Februry. In the meantime the French steamship companies at Marseilles, the Italians at Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples and the Aus trian Lloyds at Trieste, are establishing lines of service direct for the Red Sea and the further East via Suez, with every prospect of accumulating trade. French Oriental com merce amounts already to nearly 800,000,000 dollars to and fro per annum. 0 this a very large pro ortion, if not all, must be attracted to the canal; with what results for that work we leave our readers to conclude. One thing is quite evi dent—viz., that the Suez Canal, spacious as it is, will soon be crowded and another outlet will be needed from the At lantic to the Eastern marts. Visible testimony points with unerring directness to the proposed canal through the Isth mus of Darien. To restore equilibrium, adjust the differences of trade and open the natural charm is which commerce is seeking on all sides to accele ate her onward march ; that crowning work has become a ne essity for the present gene ration. Ten years hence our Southern in - lets and the Gulf of Mexico will be teeming with trade, and our Pacific co: st, encrusted with maritime cities, be flashing their steam and electricity, in continuous currents, to the marts at the mouth of the Amoor river and along the eager shores of (hina and Japan. With both Suez and Darien open the great republic would sit enthroned Upon the central seat among the nations, dispensing, on the right hand and the left, the ma chless in fluenc which, beginning in riendly and lucrative trade, becomes at last a fraternal boad between all tongues and peoples. - Weep York Herald. POSTAGE TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. A postal convention, establishing and regulating the exchange of correspondence between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, has been concluded and will be carried into operation on the Ist of July, 1870. It i)ro vides for a regular exchange of correspondence between the two countries by means of the United States steamers plying between San Francisco and Honolulu, as well as by occasional steamers and sailing vessels plying between Honolulu and San Frapciso, Portland, Oregon, or the ports on Puget's Sound, 'comprising letters, newspapers and printed matter of every kind originating in either country and addressed to and deliverable in the other country: San Francisco, New York, Boston, Portland, Oregan, Teekalet, Olympia, and Port Townshend, Wash ington Territory, are the offices of exchange on the side of the United State, and Honolulu and Hilo the Hawaiian offices of exchange. The rates of postage to be levied and collected in the United States, on and after July 1, 1870, on correspondence addressed to or received from the Hawaiian Kingdom will be as follows, viz. :—On letters, six cents per each single rate of half an ounce or under, to be fully prepaid at the mailing-office in all cases by means of United States postage stamps. If not 'fully prepaid they cannot .be forwarded. Letters received in either country from the other are to be delivered free of all charges whatsover. Second—On' newspapers sent or received the regular rates of United States domestic postage are to be levied and collected ; if transient papers two cents. per each four ounces or fraction thereof ; and if sent to regular subscribers the prepaid quarterly rates: Third—On other printed matter, four cents. per each weight of four ounces or fraction thereof, whether sent or received. Postmasters will levy and collect postage accordingly on and after July 1, 1870. MODEL GOVERNMENT. News is constantly arriving of the appearance of miser able little revolutionary bands in different parts, of Italy. These insurrectionary movements are very numerous, and though they make no progress they succeed very well in setting the authorities at defiance for a time. And, they may well do so. The Government seems utterly incapable of dealing with the widespread disaffection prevailing in the Italian dominions. Here is a specimen of its policy. A few days ago a revolutionary band attempted to do a little insurrection in the Tuscan Maremma. This band, headed by a person called Galliani, made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Volterra, and at tempted to gain over a number of miners employed in the mines of Signor Mayer, the late Mayor of Leghorn. By some extraordinary jumble of ideas the President of the Council, Lanza, was led to suppose that Mayer himself was the instigator of the movement, and announced this fact to the Chamber of Deputies, which of course felt a good deal of alarm at the idea of such a rising having receive the support of one lately holding the office of chief magistrate in a great commercial and maritime city. Well, the mistake was found out, and the President of the Council made his apology to the Chamber. The speech in which he did so is so singular a specimen of eloquence that it may be worth reading in full :--" I / ought to correct a mistake into which I fell yesterday, when giving to the Chamber the notice it asked of me,.respecting the appearance of a band in the neighbourhood of Volterra. Speaking of c document which I said was signed by one of the chiefs of the band, I happened—l do not know think that I pronounced a name names seen the report of the sitting, so that I am spealing from my impressions. Well —as I was saying ----- I don't know how - I don't recollect in shoit, I think that I pronounced the name of Signor Mayer, or of Ga.lliani.—(Cries—" Both the names. ) Both the names ? —well, Imay have done so I think -- if I am not mistaken that I also said that the document of which I spoke bore the signature of Signor Mayer. a mistake - in short I admit that I ought not to have said so but I have no recol lection of that. The fact is that if I pronounced first the name of Galliani and then that of Mayer, I ought on the contrary first to have said Galliani. If I first said Mayer, when I afterwards said Galliani, I ought instead to have said Mayer. The long and short of the business is, that the document bears only the signature of Galliani, and I cannot tell how, but a combination of indications ---- of circumstances led me by mistake to say that, it was signed Mayer." Nor is even this exemplary muddling the worst of its kind. It seems that the Minister of the Interior, on hearing of the troubles in the neighbourhood of Massa, at once assumed that the Massa in question was the Massa in the Modenese pro vince of Lunigiana. Troops were put in motion, and sent to this place, whereas the right locality was Massa Maritima, in the Tuscan Maremma. Such is the style of conducting government in Italy. The Presse of Vienna publishes the following in telligence from Constantinople on the 17th. According to orders received from Paris, the French squadron of the Levant, under the command of Real.-Admiral Chevalier, will not leave the Piraeus at present. The death is announced of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, at the age of 25. He was educated at Eton, was a Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistratefor Lanarkshire, and Lord of the Baronies of Lee and Carnwath. He is succeeded by his brother, now Sir Simon Lockhart, who was born in 1849. As Mr. George Tomlinson's assistant, at Kirkham, was about to Idll a cow, a man named Thomas Dowling went up to him and said, " Before tha kills that cow will to cut my throat ?" at the same time stretching it out and offering it to him. The assistant took his knife, and thinking that he was using the back of the knife, drew it smartly across his throat ; the back proved to be the edge, and a considerable gash was the consequence. With care there is not likely to be much danger of a fatal result. .4: Examination by torture is not y .`. ,xtinct. To r in the late Shoay Dah case, no less thaii , • " Innocent men were so examined, and will bear the o'ks thereof for life. One common mode is to twist fine cord round the ytrists and then to work the, hands over each other, Cropping sand on the cord while doing . so. This cuts through the skin, causing exquisite pain, and the sand prevents the wounds from closing for many months. The most ordinary mode, however, is as clumsy as it is effectual, beating the witness with a;thick stick.—Pioneer, April 22. , - - AN ASSISTANT TO A Fox.—One morning last week, a shepherd in the employment of Mr. Mitchell, Arnisdale, was shocked when on his rounds to find seven lambs worried, all within a few paces of each other. He at once set down the fox as the depredator, and despatched Neil Campbell on the track, having full confidence in his long experience and great success as a fox-hunter. But what was Neil's surprise at the end of his search to find, not a fox, but a wild cat just after drinking the blood of other three lambs. She bolted immediately to gain her stronghold in the rock, but Neil, who was never known to lose the first opportuity, raised the gun to his shoulder, and the next moment the cat received the due reward of her deeds. She-measured from nose to tail no less than 3 feet 9i inches.—lnverness Courier., AN INDIAN . RAID.—The Delhi Gazette has an account of another raid by a Black Mountain tribe into the Agra valley. On the 9th of April it is stated a strong party of Akazyes came over the crest, surprised the village of Burcha, slew its head lean, burnt some of the houses, and made off with all the cattle they could collect. This villarre, and several others, dot the face of the slope here and there, and cannot be protected by the force in Agra, 'as there can be no reliable information as to which is to be the point of attack. Almost every night troops were posted in the villages at the base of the hill, but the enemy did not dare to molest them. On the 16th they a a ain came over and plundered and burnt the village of 'imbleboote.S The villagers gave up their arms and goods unconditionally, and, therefore, no lives were lost ; one woman was wounded. Next day they plundered another village, and the rest were deserted by the inhabitants. They have actually driven off every inhalifthtit on the slope of the mountain. THE ORDER OF THE BATH.--It is customary upon her Majesty's birthday to publish in the Gazette a long list of officers elevated to companionships of the Bath in honour of the occasion., and in recognition of their services to the Sovereign. As the day for the celebration of the anniversary draws nigh speculation is rife as to the officers who are most likely to receive Bath honours, and the Army and Navy Gazette publishes . the following list as the result of many conjectures on that subject :—For G.C.B's : General Sir George Bowles, Ist West India Regiment, and General Sir H. J. W. Bentinck, 28th Foot, and General Lord Rokeby,, 77th 'Foot. For K. C.B's : Major-General E. C. Hodge, General C. M. Carmichael 20th Hussars, Major-General Collingwood Dickson, V.C., Royal Ar tillery ; Major :General H. D. White, Major- General R. T. Farren, Inspector-General of Hospitals, J. Mouat, V. C.; Lieutenant-General J. 'Alexander, Royal Artil lery • Major-General H. D. Griffith, Major-General A. ? Gorton, Major-General J. S. Brownrigg. For Companionships : Colonel E. H. Maxwell, 88th Foot ; Major and Brevet-Colonel W. Sankey, 9th Foot; Colonel G. H. L. Milman, Royal Artillery ; Colonel W. C. Hodgson, 79th Foot ; Colonel T. H. Pakenham, 30th Foot ; Colonel H. M. Hamilton, 12th Foot ; Captain and Brevet-Colonel Mark 'Walker, V.C.. 3rd Foot ; Lieutenant-Colonel A. Bunny, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Stokes, Royal Engineers ; Colonel W. Boyle, 89th Foot ; Colonel C. Adams, 49th Foot ; Colonel V. Baker, 10th Hussars ; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel G. Davis, V.C.,. Royal Artillery ; Colonel E. T. Gloster, 97th Foot ; Major and Brevet-Colonel A. Bassano, 32nd Foot ; Major and' Brevet-Colonel J. C. Gawler, 73rd Fr_... ; Colonel R. 3. Eagar, 31st Foot; and Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A. Renny, V.C., Royal (late Bengal) Artillery. THE NEW TERRITORY. Manitobah, which in the Indian tongue signifies the " Speaking God," is the name decided upon by the Cana dian Ministry as the official title for the territory just acqufred from the Hudson's Bay Company, and popularly known as Winnepeg or the Red River Country. In intro ducing the bill for the government of that region, Sir John A. Macdonald remarked that the appellation terri tory was unknown in the British Colonial system, and that the Cabinet had resolved to adopt the usual term " province," had availing themselves of the euphonious Indian dialect, and called the!new acquisition the prdvince of Manitobah, or " Speaking God." The boundary line of the province runs along the 'U.S. frontier, between 96 degrees west, and 98 degrees west from Greenwich, and along the 49th parallel on the south, and the parallel at a distance of 50i degrees north of the equator. The pro vince contains an area of 11,000 square miles, and includes all the settlements on the Assinboin and Red Rivers, and between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitobah. The local Legislature of the Province is to consist of two Chambers, a Council of seven members, ultimately to be increased to twelve, - and an assembly of twenty-four members, to be elected by as many districts, and their qualifications are the possession of a house and residence for one year. The executive department is to be composed of a Lieutenant- Governor, with an executive council of seven persons. The Province will be represented in the Dominion Parliament —in the Senate by two members, and in the House of Commons by four members, one to be chosen in each of four separate electoral districts. When the population amounts to 50,000, the Senators will be three in number, and when 75,000, be four. The same qualifications are required for electors as at the Provincial and Dominion elections. The Province has the power of amending its own constitution. The public lands not specially allotted belong to the Dominion, and for the purpose of extin guishing the Indian title, 120,000 acres ;are reserved for occupancy by the Indians. The Dominion Parliament is to grant a subsidy of eighty cents a head, and also $390,000 for other purposes. In the public proceedings' either the English or French language may be used, and the public records are kept in both.—Philadelphia Ledger. SAD SEQUENCE OF THE LOUISIANA VENDETTA. The concluding- chapter in the recent Catahoula- ven detta, wherein G-eneral Liddell, Colonel Jones and son were killed, has yet to be related. 4. few days ago Mrs. Charles Jones, with her two daughters and a young son, reached the mouth of the river in the German steamer. She had hurried from Heidelberg, Germany, where she had been residing for some time superintending the education of her children, expecting to meet her husband • and two sons in the city, entirely unconscious of their `sad fate. When the steamer crossed the bar, the pilot who came aboard was asked by Mrs. Jones if he knew Colonel Charles Jones, of Catahoula. The reply was that he had heard of him, but declining or evading any further conversation, the lady's curiosity was excited, and she was filled with gloomy apprehensions of impending calamity. These ap prehensions were very natural to a lady, who had been for so many years cognizant of the bitter feud which had so long existed between her husband and General Liddell, and who more than twenty years ago had witnessed the cruel and nearly mortal wounding of her husband in the incident which gave rise to this feud. The kindly pilot, who could not bear to communicate to Mrs. Jones directly the sad intelligence of her husband's fate, whispered it to some of the passengers, wno informed Mrs. Jones that skg must pre pare herself for some sorrowful ne s on reach ing the city. She retired to her state-room, and there remained in a state of distressing grief and anxiety until the steamer reached the city. On the arrival at the wharf, almost the first person who boarded the steamer was young Jones, the survivor of the awful tragedy at Harrisonburgh. He rushed into his mother's room, and was the first to communicate the terrible truth to his mother. We shall not attempt to describe the scene followed. Kind friends took charge of the afflicted lady. After remaining here but a few days, she left to return to Germany with her family, and devote the remainder of her life to the education of her children. May time assuage the great sorrows of this afflicted lady, and may her remaining' days, though ever so sorrowful, be undis turbed by further griefs and afflictions.—New Orleans Times, April 29. NEW IDEAS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The monthly meeting of the New York County Woman Suffrage Association was held, on the 7th May, in the read ing room .of the St. Denis Hotel. The usual number of ladies, elderly gentlemen, and reporters was present. Mrs. Blake opened the meeting, and introduced Miss Anthony as having just returned from her Western trip. In reference to the resolution of sympathy with the non-tax paying lady doctor of Philadelphia passed at tho last meeting, Miss Anthony observed that she hadn't rendered her tax-account, and didn't propose to do so. "If they want to put me in jail, I'll go. I haven't any property to attach except th e dress Anna Dickinson ,gave me on my birthday." She desired the women to protest against this taxation. The questiori of woman's right to vote, she th , ught, was to be settled through the Courts; proceedings to that effect had been begun in St. Louis. She had been convinced by her Westeru travels that women did desire suffrage. Sh e furthermore remarked that the framers of the Constitution had " no right " to ordain in that document that only men should vote. Mrs. Blake said that she wished women could be em ployed as census-takers. A strong argument, she thought, lay in the fact that women might more readily confess thei, real ages to a woman the to a man. She introduced the following resoltition, which was passed: 7 • " Whereas, by the recent action of the Superintendent of the Census, it becomes evident that according to the Act of May 23, 1850, women are not eligible to offices of takers of the Census ;" therefore, H solved —" That the Association protest against this enactment as unjust and oppressive, and earnestly calls for ita repeal." Miss Antho y observed that women are going to play the Ego now. She regretted that the whole twenty millions, have got to prove, one by one, by success :n some special . work, That they are competent to vote. She meant to have that vote by 1872; and more than that, an equal share of the offices, with easy work and good pay. She felt quite certain that the Democrats of Illinois will put the Women Suffrage plank in their platform at their next Convention.. While the Republicans don't dare to do it, they are trembling in their shoes for fear the Democrats, will. Prominent members of the Illinois Democracy had invited her to their. homes, and she had told them how to get ahead of the Republicans! Mrs. Summerby (gracefully brandishing her umbrella) You show your colours too much for a politiciau, Miss Anthony ! Miss Leggett spoke of the three ceases of women l e t( , m entioned by the Thibune—the women who want to vote, the women who don't want to vote, and the women who don't care a pin whether they vote or not. She thought that the worna of brains and intellect wants to vote, and as all women have common sense—[Miss Anthony - " That's awful !" those who don't want to vote must stifle that useful quality. Some of these undesirotus women were intellectual, but they . had all the luxuries they wanted, and were, in short, of "no account." She didn't believe there were any women who "don't caren pin whetherthey vote or not," because she never know a woman without a mind of her own. " Some don't care to vote, becauselhey think it is pretty not to know any thing about politics, and because men make fun of strong minded women. She thought that the woman who stands up to assert herself has more slrength of.mind than man ever had or ever will have. She wished men to understand that one. great cause of woman's not wanting to _vote is o that she has an innate desire to study the likings of others. She wa s glad that men had tyrants of wives, glad that they had to pay milliners' bills, and Mu; hoped that they might not have any beefstakes fit to eat for the space of three years. She thought that suffering women, working women, &c., would especially likeito vote. Mrs Blake said that it was'nt un h a p y women who most wished to vote. The members of the association were a happy band of women. Mr Beecher didn't desire that the slave should be freed because he had never been a slave himself. Miss Anthony though there. was "philosophy in all these things." She didn't absolutely wish that the women who werekepi like canary birds in gilt-wire cages should have a taste of the world's hardships, but she knew if they sltould tipsy would speedily demand to vote. The only child of Baron Alguier, a member . of the Corps Leg,islatif, was, by a mistake of an apothecary, poisoned on Thursday evening at Paris. The poor victim was a girl only twelve years old. NEW AMERICAN WORDS.—Not content with add in.- to the dictionary the word " Interviewed," the Alericans now speak of those who have received a testimonial as having been " Testimonialised." . LIFE IN TROPICAL AFRICA —The daily life of a `,` black fellow " has been very graphically described in a few words. He gets a large melon, cuts it in two, and scoops out the inside ; one half lie puts on his head, he sits °lithe othei half, and eats the middle. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, May 7. The President with his family passed through this city last week on his•way to NI eat Point, run after by a crowd, mostly composed of reporters. Before returningto Washington he paid hii brother in-law, Mr. Corbin, a visit; and last Sunday he attended the Methodist Epiecopalian Church at Elizabeth with Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Corbin, and leis daughters. Next day he was visited by the pro minent citizens of Elizabeth, and drove round the town with Dr. Carlton, his departure for Washing ton being witnessed by quite a number of l ersons. Our wharves are growing more busy each day with our own citizens leaving, either on business or plea sure for Europe, and immigrants, who now literally arrive by the thousand. Mr. Ruggles left for Havre in the St. Laurent with many men of mark, among whew.. was Augustus Maverick of the Even ing Post. Mr. Otis, of a Messrs. Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s Express, took his passage in the City of Brook lyn, as did 'l'. I'. Grinnell and family. The New York Standard made its apecarance according to notice last Saturday, and immediately dropped into a row with the Sun, which set to work to abuse Mr. Russell Young, Who *retorted on the personal character of the editor of the Sun. • As the sheets resemble each other closely:, and the abase is very much the same, unless you look at the headiii g you are unconscious whether it is the editor of the Standard or the editor of the Sun whO is being complimented. As was expected, General Butler is the Standard's model. Philip Cooney, who killed David O'Day, has been liberated, as it appears he not only acted in self defence, but wrought a good work, for which this city ought to be grateful, but the Eighth Ward roughs are not, as' they threaten to blow Cooney up. Jim Kerrigan gave bail $l,OOO to keep the peace, Jim being a pugilist under engagements to fight. The moving was commenced last Saturday, and was continued , on Monday ; but on the whole there have been fewer changes this year than formerly, many landlords having reduced the rent; few or none being able to increaseit, while a great number of houses remain unlet. Efforts are being made by the property holders, especially along Broadway, to defeat the Arcade Railroad Bill, and 'a meeting was held in the lower store of Mr. Stewart for this object. Although it was private it is known to be the impression that the Governor will veto the bill, but no one can tell what the Governor will do, considering what he has done. The way in which the Stock Exchange was treated shows what can be accomplished at Albany. A bill was introduced in the interest of the brokers, pass'ed, but the names all changed during the process which conferred the char . terrequired on men whoonly wanted itas a means of 'extorting money fr,in those in whose name it was originally asked. There was a: sensation in \'v all street,on learning that the Treasury had secretly sold $1,090,000, the interest due on the Sinking Fund Bonds, and turned the proceeds into Five-Twenties, the bonds being purchased in small lots throughout the day to. the great disgust of the speculators. But many doubt the propriety of • the course, as it opens the door wider for jobbery. The frightful accident at Richmond has been discussed in many pulpits, debated in many meetings, and has called forth general sympathy. The Chamber of Commerce assembled in the underwriters' building ou Monday, and it was resolved that a committee be appointed to receive subscriptions for the widows and children, and that resolutions of condolence be sent to the Mayor of Richmond: The caisson for the East River bridge has been sunk on the Brooklyn side. It was towed from Green Point by the Titan and five other steamers. An English burglar, named John Willams, was arrested by a Custom-house officer for . having in his possession $15,000 worth of diamonds, and the property was confiscated, but Williams was re-arrested by the police • and searched, when Ruseian and French Bonds, amounting to 60,000 francs, stolen in Paris were found on his person, and in default of bail he was sent to gaol. On the• 19th day of M'Farland's tiresome affair Mrs. Calhoun Runkle was examined, and this imparted to it an interest which crowded the court. " Brick " Pomeroy was also examined, and afforded no little amusement. He said that M'Far land called at the office of the Daily Democrat in 1868, and offered to sell certain letterS containing full particulars of the debauchery of his wife by Richardson, who was connected with the Tribune, where Greeley and others were milting a free love establishrm nt. They would create a sensation, and place Pomeroy even with Greeley, who had abused him politically, and he offered the letters for $lOO. iNfr:Totneroy did not care to publish such letters, and remarked that his quarrel with Mr. Greeley did not extend to reporters, for whose acts neither were responsible, nor did he care to pur chase letters from a man who, they said, re flected on his wife's character. INl‘Farland returued the letters to his pocket, while Mr. Pomeroy told him that it was the most singular offer Inehad ever had in his newspaper - experience. When cross examined the witness raid that he had, with his usual modesty, omitted to make a sensation in the newspapers, and he had mentioned this about five weeks before to Mr. Whittaker. On being asked if such communications were not shielded, as in con fidence, he answered they were, when concealment was requested. The witness observed that there was notmore ill feeling between Mr. Greeley and him self in 1868 than usually exists between Democrats ar:dßepublicans,for which he was censured for levity by the prisoner's counsel. " I don't call that wit," said Mr. Pomeroy. "Nor I either," retorted the counsel. Mr. Greeley had during the war called for his incarceration, and had published a bitter article against him in the Tribune. Mrs. Calhoun Runkle was examined at very great length, more espe cially as to her letters, and the Recorder ruled that she should state what certain words were. Mr. Graham bad objected, saying they were there to ,explain themselves, and it was not what the lady said she meant, but what the prisoner thought they meant, and the effect on his mind ; that were the points in question. The Recorder considered that no person was so well able to say what the words wereas the writer. The defence contended thatthree letters gave the initials of a gentleman inNew York ; while the prosecution maintained that they sig nified " you," which Mrs. Calhoun confirmed when questioned.. .When asked for the particulars of any - . l el, : avlierein she bad seen the prisoner belia;Z= to his wife, she .stated on one occa sion a inary, 1867, she took an article she hade written hastily to read to Mrs. M'Farland, and' finding her with her children in a small close room had got through fifty pages, when Mr. M'Farland came in unexpectedly, and she stopped. Ile spoke harshly, rudely, and thickly,• being the worse for liquor, and made the already stifling room still • more disagreeable, so she gathered up her MSS. and left, but she heard him turn vio lently on his wife, accusing her of having received a letter from her lover through that woman. Judge Davis desired to tender as evidence a letter from Mrs. M'Farland, ta which the celebrated one from Mrs. Calhoun was a reply; but the original had been lost, and the Recorder wouldnotpermit the contents, according to the memory of the lady, to he re ceived as evidence. The counsel said the letter had stated that Mrs. M•Farland lad been living in a state of torture with her husband, who had been intoxicated for several days. She maintains that Mr. M'Farland approved of his wife going on the st rge. In reply to a rigid cross-questioning she asserted th rt her motives for interference simply were to enable Mrs. M'Farland to earn a liv ing for herself and her children. Mr. Graham read portions of the intercepted letter,, on which Mrs.Rittikle observed that "it sounds so unlike Mr. Richardson thht, except on your authority, I would not helicon that he had written it." Mrs. Sage, ex amined iinkt4ty, called herself the mother of Mrs. Richardson,, Lao-Mts. M'Farland, to which the pri soner's counsel objeeted. She testified to the quar rels, and the prisoner's neglect of his wife. She believed her daughter's conduct to be perfectly good up to this hour, and saw nothing wrong in her going te Indiana for a divorce, that sbe might marry Mr. Richardson. Miss Lizzie Sage had fre quently eeen the prisoner intoxicated. On Wednes day the prosecution closed, and some rebutting evidence was offered by the defence on that and the following; day, while yesterday Mr., Graham summed up in a long and able speech, after which the Court adjourned till Monday. We are 'arriv ing at a fine state of reporting. Reporters now go to church in hat chts, and on Monday the most sensational of the Sunday sermons appear in the columns of the dailies. 1 he San brought the Rev. C. B. Smyth to grief, by an article which appeared April 11, wherein that pastor of the Eleventh-street United Presbyterian Chtirch was alleged to have taken hiS six reporters after the sermon to a well known refreshment saloon, wheite they had beef steak and oysters, which he washed down with five fingers of gin and as much milk, with evident re lish, recommending the reporters to . take some also, and having di-posed of the viand, the Re'r• M. Smyth turned to the bar-keeper, and cat - cies - 4 requested him to " hang that up." Mr. Smyth a d ; inns that he went to a respectable hotel, had heel steik, some gin and milk and black tea for lunch, wi.h taro gentlemen of the pi ess, b„th of whom a' oysters, and had also gin and milk, and as it was the Sabbath he requested the cashier to make 3 note of the amount, which he pail the next day that he lives four miles from the church, and that he •felt in need of lunch after a busy week. T he reporter of the Herald corroborated Mr. SinYt:ll',6 st tement. The reporter of the Bern had Ica , opanto Mr. Smyth to take notes of the historic tl parts f . the sermon, and he was courteously and liospita ll l invited to partake of therefreshinents. Mr. Smyth 6 son was sent to" assist hint in cppying the notes, and in the evening Mr. Stephens, of the Herald , came to the Sun office and got the MSS.. - wh et ; both talked of the hospitality they had r.ceivo before the City Editor, and tlex•. morning, to the re porter's astonishment, instead of kis report, the SO contained the article upon which the charge 09 • grounded. , The reporter repudiated the article/ • which, he slid, would have been in him a bre ach of hospitality and a viol ,tion of courtesy, and tlte • case was referred to two, who gave their decision on . Wednesday. The " and gin" 1. arson was censured mildly, but firmly, Mr. Sinytli receiving his rebuke and soleilin warning with Ineeknes 4 , Bl l washing it down, 1 make bold to say, when he net got home with some more gin and milk. and. milk has become quite fashionable, and wherever the clergy go they are asked to partake of new American drink. The sensation ,of the Wee has been the cable passage from Germany an nonlltl - that American Railroad securities Lad Le t ej stricken from the list of the Betliu hours- , , as the market had been flooded .with Amelican bonds 4i ' doubtful value. The details are not known, but it is said an agent from Berlin and Frank for, had beep sent here to investigate the solidity of the American loans put on those market's, and his report led t ° the action taken by the " Elders," a body, 1. ant i n " formed, corresponding to our Chamber of Cal merce. The impr. scion among the German houses, in this city is that only those of doubtful value W lll suffer, and that the market will soon recover its tone. The case of James Fisk, jun., tintinst the Union Pacific Railroad came up on Thursd iY be fore Judges Nelson at.d Blatchford, the p, itit being whether the issue shoal I bi tried by a U.S. pi s " trict Court or a State Court where the action was i originally commenced. A train has just arrive' ~ from San Francisco in six days 23 hours, bring in g many through passengers. District-Attorn e y Pierrepont has re.igue 1, tint his reasons are un known ; hi < predecessor and Mr. Barlow, the bite U.S. Marshal, are candidates for the post. dildg ° Pierrepont can make more by private practice thtili he receives from his place. Mr. Grinnell will also , it is thought, resign, and Mr. Orton, of the West Union Telegraph Company, has a good chanc e ° becoming the collector, if his own company will let him go, against which it may strungle hard. WASHINGTON, May G. Congress continues its inquiries, into the intpre per 'influences brought to bear on the Votes of Its members. The Senate Judiciary Committee is 111 ,7, -13 vestigating the means. used to defeat what is kne,,'v as.the Bingham amendment to the Georgia -" i and the proprietor Of the Washington Chronicle in been examined, as it is said that $l,BOO were Pa l ' to him nominally for printing and. aiivertisi n g e * Governor Bullock has to be examined before t b c Committee can report, but there are whispers e• great scandals connected wit the affair. The ra re ; guay Investigation is closed, and the reSolutions have been reported. Rear-Admiral Gordon censured for neglecting to aid Mr. 1-Vashbore" The arrest and detention of Bliss and Masterro to an violated the law of unions, and was au insult the United States; and the President's a ction 1° withdrawing General 11.‘Mahon, and decliuing further diplomatic intercourse, is approved. T he refusal or neglect of naval officers at the stations to render al reasonable assistance to diplomatic 00' cers in the discharge of their duties, or discourtesYi should be inquired into, and punished by the Nav,'„ Department. Mr. Swann further held that th e forcible arrest of Bliss and Masterwan demande d reparation ; that Minister Washburn ought not to have left them in, detention, but should have re fused his passport ; that the Minister was imnr °- dent in associating Bliss and Masterman with his ; and in error in his hostile and LW friendly attitude towards the Paraguayan Govere; ment. That Admirals Gordon arid Davis acte d t the best of their judgment, and also in accoi d'i' ce with the instruc dons of the Navy Department, receiv. ing its approval. We are in the midst of an exciting election. Two sets of delegates attended the Ile; publican Convention to nominate the Mayor ; ti t one candidate being the present incumbent, S . „, Kowen, the other Major Richards, Chief of 1 - i; lice ; so there is a split in the party, though i t I f rumoured that Richards will withdraw, ik favotir ° , M. G. Emery, the nominee of the Reform . ReP ub bc licans ; and this, if true ; will insure to hint t ti election, which will take place the first Monday ; o i June Emery is supported, by the Democrats , ` r ill , cannot hope to elect a candidate of - their own. voters are calculcated at 22,000, of whom B , v at are coloured, and the Republican majority 33 g . least 1,000. Captain Commerell, of Her B. steamship Monarch, has written to Secretary liZe, u he son of the Navy, forwarding an official from t he Lords of the Admiralty, who, in the name o f t i, Queen and the British Navy, acknowledge the il ;B form kindness and attention the crew of the it en e ,_ e r received in this country. 2 heconstruction of anotn.ea Paci. - fic Railroad along the 52d parallel is advoea,tiv by the sub-committee on railroads.and will prol'a° is be adopted by the House. The Northern Paei ae d advertising contracts for grading, bridging , A dd constructing the Minnesota sections of the r ' ic ie about 230 miles. Strenuous efforts are being 111 ` 0 , 1 1 to push the El Paso line. The Representatives I r at e Texas, Louisiana, and other States interested 5, moving in its favour. Mr. - Wheeler, the eilai l ? to of ohs Committee on Pacific Railroads, trio.' nie get laud grants for the Northern Pacific of ° de , 47,000,000 acres through the House witile°,l l o, .bate ; but he was stopped by bitter opponents , ng . though in a minority, secured delay by filibuste r n ts, Mr. Wheeler's object was to prevent atnendine,oe under the impression that if the bill was sent e vo t the Senate where it had passed, it woul d . 0 0 - ! again get through, as the Opposition has c agy t 3 - 1 greatly strengthened. In the Senate on Thur • o st - Mr Morrill, of Maine, struck a hard blow ag A t l i o o these grants when the Osage Indian Reserc ti ve re Bill came up. Twelve million acre s of lands : I t,S. to be allotted to a few railroad speculators at - 1 1 e ,`pe an acre, although worth nearly $5, and tin e rsi termed a robbery of the Indians by white freeb oo o Robert Bell, last 'Tuesday, helped himself , i nto 'French clock, worth $l5O, by simply walking i t to Mr. Sumner's house, and sendingawaytheservauos the Senator with his card, when, of course , h e • oa er arrested, and the clock recovered. Cotamissleos Delano is away in Ohio for ten days, reper t , o o with an eye to the Senatorship. G en eral S ll4 O O talks of retiring tit St. Louis as he will be 1 - 1 ! )5 be to live in Washington with his family if his tri•lopo reduced, as threatened, to $12,000. The /n ag' Pacific Railroad is menaced with a Receiver , . 1 0.- Howe proposing to hand it over to the tender 0 0 ties of such an official, unless the compsnY d , e ,f t inS t half a million dollars in court as a security ar t , ties any jadgment it may award to S. W. Davis fq to rilli he furnished. The Senate amended the ter° coos laws of Wyoming, so as to rule the Ch i el ois ia• Court ont---a most. objectionable process o f :', eo vY tion, sure to foster abuses. Orders were gig led the company to stop running if the Judge e'retire out his threat and put in a receiver. The Si gnlge ° Court adjourned last Saturday, and the are now on their respective circuits. BIRTHS. 1 1 1. On the 18th inst., at Buscot Park. Berks, the wife o f 4 0 Campbell,daughter. 8 0 of Att o On the 19th inst. q , , the wife of J. R. Valsay, Egli Halstead, Essex, of a son. MARRIAGES t o g° On the' Andrew 6th ult., at Sacramento, fir Young ‘ r Rebecca Watt, late of Engiand. ‘ On the 18th lust t Salem Chapel, Hitchin, 3.11:15.bte1. Franklin, of Stevenage, Iferts, to Martha , secona" of Mr James Ellard, Hitchin. DEATHS. 13016` • . On the 18th inst.., aged 70, William Robinson, son.' Mill Rochdale. 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