The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

THE EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS. The public has been startled rather than offended by the exclusion of "strangers" from the Honse of Commons the other day, at the instance of Mr. Craufurd. Pub licity rules supreme in our legislative and judicial pro ceedings, and there is such a confidence that it will con tinue so to rule that even an extraordinary exercise of privilege fails to give the least alarm. Mr. Crauftthi tells us candidly that his object was to exclude reporters ,as well as other strangers,' and to prevent any record of an unsavoury discussion being preserved by the press. But we feel confident that, even though reporters may continue to keep their seats at the sole discretion of M.r Craufurd or any ether fastidious senator, they will not often be disturbed, In the present day such a power as this can only be permitted to exist by being kept practically in abeyance. There is no class which has not a positive and immediate interest in publicity. The constituents uesire to know what their members are doing, and the members themselves have a great objection to hide their their light under a bushel. There is no one who enters Parliament but hopes in some way to distinguish himself. U not capable of long and eloquent harangues, he may gain the ear of the House by pithy remarks, and come to have it told in his borough that he has more sense in him than 'a score of talkers. He may be expert at asking questions which are inconvenient to answer, and which obviously irritate the Government. He may be an excel lent man on a committee, and two or three weeks of hard work may have been repaid by a complimentary speech from the Minister, which the local press duly publishes among his friends and foes. Is it likely 'that members who have this common interest would acquiesce in the exclusion of the reporters if it recurred even so seldom as to be described by the word " occasional?" As for the leading men who form the opinion of the House, the Press preserves their speeches in an almost perfect form, and they know that any suspension, even for a night or two, of the record which is thus produced would expose them to endless misunderstanding and mis representation. These considerations detract from the practical importance of the discussion which Mr. Henley originated on Monday night. There are excellent reasons for believing that the exclusion of " strangers" will be rather more rare in the future than in the past, and of the past we have accurate information. For the last in stance in which the power possessed by a single member was exercised we must go back 21 years. A child who was unborn on the day when the attention of the Speaker was last called to the presence of "strangers" might have taken his seat as a member when Mr. Cranford cleared the House the other day. It was on the 18th of May, 1849, that Mr. John O'Connell, in a general fit of spleen against the Parlia , ment, Press, and people of England, took the opportunity of annoying them all 'by shutting out Reporters. There was nothing in the subject to suggest privacy. The House was engaged in debating the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, and Mr. John O'Connell had on a former occasion delivered !a speech upon it which he considered had not been reported at such length as its' own merits and its author's reputation, personal and hereditary, demanded ; so he called attention to " strangers," and the Reporters were excluded for about two hours, during which time it is believed that Mr. John O'Connell inflicted on the House an oration more than usually intolerable. At any rate, be gained for himself no credit in the House or out of it, and his unfitness for the position to which he fancied he had a right to succeed was demonstrated to the conviction of every, priest and peasant in Ireland. On that occasion . a committee was appointed, as Mr. Gladstone told the House on Monday night, and its decision was that, as the usage had prevailed from a very early period of our Parliamentary history, while in instances in which the power had been exercised had been very rare, there was not, in the opinion of the Committee, sufficient ground for making an alteration in the existing practice. The decision was unanimous, and it must, be allowed that the event has justified its prudent conservatism. If " strangers " were certain not to be again excluded before the year 1891, we might be content to leave things as they are. Undoubt edly, however, there is something unreasonable in the possession by a single member of such an extraordinary psowr. A privilege which the House maintains for its own independence and the benefit of the State may be perverted at will into an insult to itself and the country by any, one of 658 men. Mr. Craufurd had a show of reason on his side, Mr. John O'Connell hadnone ; but each was completely despotic, and Must have been obeyed though every one else might differ from him. In fact, this usage comes down from a time when the proceedings of the Houses of Parliament were for the most part really secret. It is only in quite recent times that the publica tion of speeches has been even tolerated. The theory that the reporters are present without the knowledge of the House used to be consistent with the actual fact, for the reports were made almost surreptitiously by persons who had no recognised position. They were furnished some times from the memory of members or of officers of the House ; they were published timidly, with many blanks and dashes ; and every now and then a printer was brought to the bar to answer for some want of judicious reticence. The right of each member to speak in private if he pleased was unquestioned by the House, and this, more than any reason of State policy, seems to have been the principle of the usage. It is worthy of inquiry whether the time has not 'come when the rule might be modified. No one will ask that the right to debate in secret should be abandoned by the House of Commons. In cases of great danger to the State a secret session might be a neccessity. If a foreign army were on the shores of Kent, or a mutinous fleet at the Nore, Parlia ment might act more swiftly and effectively with out publicity. An inquiry into a great disaster while war was in actual progress might also possibly be more con veniently made in private. Thus, on the oocasion of Lord Porchester's motion relating to the Walcheren expedi tion, Mr. Yorke caused "strangers " to be excluded on the 2nd of February, 1810. But the act caused a great ferment among the Opposition, Mr. Sheridan being con spicuous in his denunciation of this attempt to shield the Ministry. Allowing, however, the expediency of secret debates on occasion, though, of course, there can be little real secrecy when a matter is known to more than 600 men, it does certainly seem that the House of Commons should have the opportunity of deciding foritself whether " strangers " should be excluded or not. There would be nothing unjust in providing that a member who de- , sires to exclude " strangers " should make a motion on the subject, and take the decision of the House. If it be said that there may arise matters personal to members or others with regard to which it is fitting that less than a majority of the House should have the right to exclude, then the power might be given to such a proportion of the House as might be thought convenient—either a fixed number, as forty, or a definite proportion, as a fourth or a third. But the veto on reporting enforced 'by a single member can hardly be regarded as reasonable on any prin ciple recogniseed in the present day. —Times. ANOTHER PROTEST AGAINST INFALLIBILITY. The Times Berlin correspondent forwards the full text of the important confidential letter which Baron Arnim, the Prussian Minister at Rome, has addressed to Cardi nal Antonelli, in support of the French memorandum on the (Ecumenical Council. Baron Arnim says the Prus sian Government has been asked to co-operate with that of France in this matter, and it does not hesitate to do so. " Serious apprehensions, indeed, prevail in Germany, and men are terrified at the thought that certain votes of the Council, passed against the all but G unanimous resistance of the erman Bishops, might pro duce painful consequences by causing endless struggles to tender consciences." Baron Arnim proceeds :—" But this is not all. It is well known that the German bishops, who in our eyes and in those of the Holy See, are the legitimate representatives of the German Catholics, as well as the bishops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, have found it impossible to adopt the views which seem to be prevalent in the Council. Through documents pub lished in the journals, and the authenticity of which has never been contradicted, our bishops have acquitted them selves of the duty devolving upon them, and pointed out the lamentable results to be apprehended were the supreme authority of the Church and the majority of the Council, heedless of a considerable minority, to enact certain decrees, which, in the shape of dogmatic defini tions, would alter the extent of authority belonging to each grade in the hierarchy respectively, and at the same time affect the mutual position of the civil and eccle siastical powers. These decrees, far from being a vague menace to be carried out at some indefinite time, seem specially intended to revive and invest with a new dogma tic sanction certain ancient claims .of the Papacy, long known to the world, and always repudiated by the secular society of all ages and nations. To proclaim these prin ciples to-day from the Papal chair, and maintain them with all the various means of persuasion at the disposal of the Church, would, we fear, disturb the entire relations between Church and State, and bring on a crisis which the Papal Government, being less able to judge the intellectual tone of our country than ourselves, has, notwithstanding its traditional wis dom, perhaps omitted to take into account." In Germany Catholic and non-Catholic Christians have been able to live peaceably side by side, and even a ten dency has arisen to unite the forces of Christianity in a struggle against common errors. " Now, it is to be dreaded that this movement of approxi mation between the different creeds will be for cibly interrupted, were events to prove that the principles combated by our bishops and public opinion alike, with all the arguments suggested by the necessity of vindicating our national existence against interference, could obtain the victory . in the deliberations of the Council to the extent of being imposed on the world as a guide in matters religious, and, as a natural consequence, in matters political also. In the triumph of these prin ciples our population—it is impossible to shut one's eyes to this fact—would see the revival of the struggles of the olden time. It would decline to have its apprehensions allayed by the argument that there is nothing to prevent its politics remaining independent of what is taught and inculcated as a duty of religion. In such a case the Federal Government, which has been already reproached with improper delay in opposing those which, rightly or wrongly, are called the projects of Rome, might no longer have that liberty of action in reli gious matters of which it has so long availed itself for the benefit of the Catholic Church." Baron Arnim concludes by saying that the Prussian Government have no wish to diminish the influence of the Pope, but on the contrary every desire that the position of the Catholic Church in Germany should be maintained. An accident occurred a few nights back between Saint-Claude and Morez (Jura). A waggon, containing ten persons, while advancing in the dark, fell from the road down a steep embankment fifty feet high. A man named Bourgeois and his wife were killed, whilst one of their sons and two young women belonging to the family. received serious injuries. The other five travellers escaped. THE SUN, LONDON, 'l'H URSDAY MORIN ING, JUNE 2, 1870. COMIC PAPERS. (Fro2n Punch.) A PARRY FOR MISS BECKER'S THRUST.-Mr. Love Jones Parry, who promised to vote for the Woman's Dis abilities Bill, has cruelly turned his coat, and voted against it. Miss Becker having charged him with the breach of promise, he has made matters worse by giving as his reason that, " though in Caernarvonshire the women are all Liberals in politics and Nonconformists iu religion, in Emgland, and particularly in boroughs, such as Bath, the women are Conservatives, under great clerical influence, which always tends to fetter freedom of thought. " Love Jones Parry !" says an advanced woman's right feinale of Mr. Punch's acquaintance—" I hate him !" BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF JEWS. Another attack upon the Jews in Roumania is reported by the Paris papers. According to a telegram communi cated by the Universal Israelite Alliance, the " Christian" population at Botuschany, on the night of the 29th ult., violently attacked the Jews, committing a terrible mas sacre. On the following day the attack was renewed, and a great part of the Jews fled from the city. The tele gram describes the fury of the populace as horrible, and implores help. MORE TROUBLE BETWEEN TURKEY AND PERSIA. A cloud is again gathering, the Levant Herald of the 24th ult. says, on the south-eastern frontier. Part of a Turcoman tribe, of doubtful nationality, recently made a raid over the border in the neighbourhood of Bagsai and after plundering some Turkish villages crossed back into Perisa with their spoil. To prevent a repetition of these adventures, Mithad Pasha, Governor-General of Bagdad, has sent troops to occupy Bagsai, Malakhtair, and Garbel—all three within the belt of No-Man's Land, which at this points separates Turkey from Persia. The Shah's Government considers this a violation of its terri tory, and a breach of the engagement entered into between the parties to maintain the status quo till the definitive delimitation of the border has been settled. Accordingly, on Tuesday last Hadji Hussein Khan, the Persian Am bassador, presented a note to the Grand Vizier, formally protesting against the action of Mithad Pasha, and de manding the withdrawal of the troops from the three points named. To this A'ali Pasha replied that he would at once Telegraph to Mithad Pasha for information, and on receipt of this will answer the Persian note. The Levant Herald discredits the notion that Russian intrigue is at the bottom of this affair, though Russian influence is paramount at Teheran, and it would not be exerted on the side of peace if a rupture were threatened. Later news says it is probable that the dispute will be referred to arbitration. LAW AND POLICE. A DERBY CONVEYANCE STOPPED.—Frederick Stone, of the Broadway, Lower Tooting, omnibus proprietor, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-stree olice-court, by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with working three ,horses in au unfit state George Young, an officer of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, deposed that about ten o'clock that morning he saw four horses attached to an om nibus, onlwhich was attached a placard, "Epsom Downs," in the Regent-circus, and on examining them he found three of them to have sores about them, very lame, and quite unfit for work, especially for such a journey as Epsom and back. Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary surgeon, said that the officer had rather understated the condition of the horses, which were in a very poor condi tion, lame, and totally unfit to go such a long and heavy journey as that to Epsom and back. They were well bred horses and would work to the last. The defendant said he had drove an omnibus daily from Tooting to the City, and had never been charged before. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a case where a fellow bought well-bred horses, knowing they would work till they dropped. He considered the prisoner's conduct extremely cruel, and it was evident that he either intended to have in flicted great cruelty on the horses by going such a journey with them, or to have cheated the persons he took by not getting them there. The prisoners would have to pay a tine of £5 and lOs 6d costs. THE NOBLEMAN AND THE GAS BILL. - The Earl of Perth was summoned to the Westminster Police-court to shew cause why ho should not pay the sum of £9 Hs. 3d., a gas bill due to the London Gas Light and Coke Company. Mr. Walpole, the collector of the company, stated the claim, which was for a quarter's rent, at his lordship's house and stables, No. 63, Eaton-square ; the summons bad been ad journed, and was fixed for hearing to-day. His lordship settled the claim by post-office or:er from Edinburgh, en closing a note expressing his regret that the proceedings and so much trouble had been taken. A TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN IN TROUBLE.— At the same Court James Smith was charged with assaulting the police and John Greeu with attempted rescue. The charge was proved, and although four witnesses were called for the defence, Mr. Arnold was of opinion that the evidence esta blished the charge. Inspector Humphreys said Gie,n was on a convict's licence for five years' penal servitude, and it was not up till November. Green put in papers to show that he had paid his passage money to America to start next week. Mr. Arnold said he could not help it, prisoner should not get into trouble; he must pay 20s. fire, and Smith .58. The police will communicate with the Home-office, asid it will rest with the Secretary ofState whether ke goes back to Milbank to complete his term. WHEN CAB MEETS CAB.—William White, a cab driver, aged 40 years, was brought before Mr Woolrych, at the Thames Police -court, charged with being drunk and furiously driving a horSe and cab to the common danger. Police constable Gordon, No. 163 H, said the pris ner was driving a cab at a furious and reckless pace last night in the Bow road a little after 12 o'clock, and run int another cab. The crash was terrific, and the panel of the cab the priso er drove was smashed. There was no fare in the prisoner's cab, but the other contained a lady and gentleman, who were very much alarmed and obliged to alight, Mr Woohych fined the prisoner is 6d, and ordered him to pay 30s damage. OPPOSING A BILL IN PARLIAMENT.—A motion has been made in Vice Chancellor Stuart's Court at the instance of two ratepayers of the bo.tough of St. Helen's, Lancashire, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough from applying any part of the borough funds or rates in payment of the expenses of opposing the St. Helen's Gas Company in Parliament. The Vice-Chancellor said that no doubt when a proper case was made for restraining a corporation from applying any part of its funds to the promotion or opposition of bills in Parliament the court would interfere. In the present case, the corporation having a continuing right of purchase over the undertaking of the gas company, it could not be said that it was unreasonable on their part, not only to watch, but to oppose the bill, unless a clause to that effect were preserved. The motion must be refused with costs. A COMPENSATION CASE. —An action has been brought in the Court of Common Pleas to recover damages for an injury received through the fall of a woolpack on the plaintiff. The case was tried originally in December last, when a verdict for the plaintiff was found for £350 damages. A rule nisi having been obtained, arguments have been heard on both sides. The rule was discharged. Some interest attached to the case from the fact that the jury coupled with their verdict a finding "that the safety of the public was not sufficiently cared for at the Irongate Wharf," where the accident happeaed, and the Chief Justice thought they were probably influenced by their knowledge of the place. "MARTIN V. JACKSON.—The appeal of the Rev. Mr. Jackson, the rector of Ledbury, against the decision of the Dean of Arches, has just been lodged at the Appeal Registry, but the cause, unless specially appointed, is not likely to be heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, from the arrears before their lordships, for about twelve months. THE WRONG WRIGHT.-At the Judges' Chambers, Master Gordon had before him an action, " Ambler v. Wright," which the plaintiff's attorney applied by sum mons to discontinue. On the other side an objection was raised, and it was stated that the wrong Mr. Wright had been served with the writ. After letter for payment a Mr. Wright paid the debt, but the writ was served on another Mr. Wright to obtain the costs. The Master professed his inability to deal with such a case, and recommended, unless they could agree, to make affidavits on both sides, and go before a learned judge to settle the difficulties. BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS.—The Court of Common Pleas has decided that where six Yorkshire musicians went a distance of six or seven miles to perform on a Saturday night, and were found drinking in a public-house during the prohibited hours next morning, they must be held to be bond fide travellers within the meaning of the act, being at a considerable distance from their homes in the pursuit of their calling. A conviction of the publican for selling them liquor was consequently quashed. FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT. John Conroy, who was charged at the Mansion House by the London Stereo scopic Company with pirating the photographs of Mrs. Rousby, the actress, and of the poet Longfellow has since been charged by Messrs. Graves, of Pall Mall, with pirat ing certain valuable engravings, the copyright of which was their property. The case having been proved against him he was fined £5 for each attempted sale of Mr. Go aves's five pictures, and for the sales of the portraits, £lO in addition, with the alternative of imprisonment. THE MALT DUTY.—An information against Mr. Stan bridge, a roaster of malt at Camberwell, has been heard at the Lambeth Police Court. Mr. Stan bridge was charged with mixing raw and un malted corn and grain with malt, contrary to the statute, and with being in possession of malt as a roaster contrary to the Act. The penalty for each offence was £3OO. The offence under the first count was with drawn, and the defendant fined a mitigated penalty of £75 on the second count. A SANGUINARY MISTAKE.—Yeo, the landlord of the White Lion Inn, Barnstaple, after several remand; has been committed for trial for an extraordinary assault upon two farmers named Newcombe and Jones, who slept at his house a few weeks ago. Newcombe, who was intoxicated, got out of bed in the middle of the night and entered Yeo's bedroom, upon which the latter attacked him with a razor, inflicting two wounds, twenty-five inches long, on his back, cutting off the end of his nose, laying open his cheek, and other wise seriously maiming him. Newcombe, eventually escaping, was followed by Yeo, who in the dark got into Jones's bedroom and began to hack Jones, who was in bed with the razor. Newcombe, whose life was at one time despaired of, has only just recovered sufficiently to give evidence before the Barnstable magistrates. THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA. —Lord Bloomfield has communicated to the Earl of Clarendon some papers relating to tilt) con vention of commerce between her Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, signed at Vienna, December 30th, 1869. It is pointed out that the products coming from Great Britain and her possessions were always, since the Commercial Treaty of 16th December, 1865 has been in force, treated similar to those of the most favoured nation, and as far as the duties levied on unprinted, close, woollen goods are specially concerned, theprinciples laid down in the regulations issued by the Prussian Finance Department on 25th June, 1866, and 19th M arc h, 1867, will be gen erally observed throughout the A us t ro - Hungarian sphere of customs, without reference to the origin of the goods. Although, therefore, a new notifica tion respecting the duties to be levied on unprinted, close, woollen goods did not appear from this point of view ; to be necessary, the Imperial Finance Minister has con firmed the regulations. (From Judy.) - - What the Greek Government must teach the brigands— The Grecian bend. Have Rimmel's perfumed playbills been found to answer ?—Certainly they have—they always give a scent. THE (RAILWAY) TICKET. —An important meeting of the ruling powers of one of the principal railway companies was held last week, the object being to decide upon " the best means of developing the passenger traffic." One obvious means of doing this does not seem to have sug gested itself. Let these dignitaries think less of their dignity and more of their charges, and also, just as an experiment—lower both. The result will follow. VERY LITTLE.—The Fenians are, it is said, up to another move. This time they are "moving on Canada," though where they are going to move it on has not yet transpired. The Canadians, however, are quite prepared for these enterprising gentlemen, who must make up their minds, if they are prospecting on future occupation of Canadian soil, that the present possessors are quite deter mined to see them hanged first. In that case, very little indeed of it will be sufficient for their requirements. (From Fun.) TIED TO TlME. —Watchmaker's apprentices. Why should the Suez Canal improve the visionary powers of Africa ? Because it makes it an eye-land. PUTTING THE DONKEY BEFORE THE BARROW.-At a meeting of the Golden-lane Free Ragged Schools and the Mission to Costermongers, Lord Shaftesbury is reported to have said :—" He saw they had a ,Costermongers' Donkey and Barrow Club, which he thought a very good idea, and it would give him ranch pleasure to become a member of it."—His Lordship did not say in which capa city he was qualified for membership. As an Earl he cannot claim entrance as a barrow-night. What then ? GOING TO SEE.—" Why, Mary, my dear, how is this, I find you sitting here so comfortably with your husband ; you told me this morning you had quarrelled, and he had gone for a sailor ?" "I, father ! I told you nothing of the kind." " Oh, nonsense ! lam sure you had some words together." " Yes, father, so we had. He asked me what o'clock it was ; I said I didn't know • and so he left the house, saying he was going to see. Vhat's all I told you." THE SAPPHO'S VICTORIES.—A second naval victory has been achieved by the American yacht Sappho. This time it was an easy triumph, for she scared the Cam bria off the course, the race being over almost as soon as it began. These two victories recall the proud times of the America, and revive memories of the yacht building genius of our country in the days of George Steers. They were the days when the mercantile marine of the United States stood without a peer upon the seas. We had the most splendid clipper ships, the fastest and most complete ocean steamers, the most superbly-modelled yachts, the ablest and most accomplished seamen, and an aggregate of mercantile tonnage that soon after stood at the head of a list embracing all the commercial nations of the world. Since then (and it was but a few years ago), what a vast change ! Now comes this agreeable indication that another forward movement has perhaps begun. Are we to date the revival of our ocean supremacy from the Sappho's victories, as we formerly dated from the America, the Collins Line, the Flying Cloud, and the Great Republic ?—Philadelphia Ledger. At midnight, in a street in Omaha, a black horse, bearing a ghostly figure clad in white, with long hair streaming in the wind, recently appeared. The few pedestrians in the streets fled at the near approach of the apparition, save one, who at length mustered cour age, and, seizing the bridle of the coal-black steed, en forced a halt. Then spoke the " sheeted dead," awakened by the stoppage, and explained. She was a somnam bulist, residing near the corner of Eighteenth and Web ster-streets, and having escaped from the precautions which usually interfered with her sleep-walking tenden cies, had actually saddled, bridled, and mounted her father's horse. Having explained, she hastened from her interlocutor, not exactly putting spurs to her horse, since that was under the circumstances impracticable. liy the time it is supposed she had returned to her father's mansion, the other pedestrians again made their appear ance on the street, armed with sticks, stones, and brick bats, with a view of attacking the ghost. The explana tion repeated by their braver comrade was ungraciously received. VALUE OF MINUTES AND PUNCTUALITY.--The shocking casualty on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, near St. Louis, the other day, by which nineteen persons lost their lives and about thirty others were badly injured, appears to have been caused by bad regulation of the watches of the conductors. At the moment of the colli sion the watch of one conductor was about five minutes past five o'clock, while the watch of the other was twenty minutes past five. On a single track railway such dis crepancies are fatal. There was more than usual neces sity for uniformity of time with the conductors' watches on this occasion, for one of the trains was behind, time, and trying to make it up. The lost minutes and the variation among the watches resulted in a list of casual ties as large as those shewn by some of the battles of the Revolution. It is a satisfaction to know that the great railways leading from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, 13 a lti_ more, Reading, and New York are free from this risk of disaster, as they are all double-tracked, so that trains running in opposite directions cannot run into each other, even if the conductors' watches should disagre e ,__ Philadelphia Ledger. There is a field for missionary labour a long way this side of " India's coral strand." That is, if the Rev. H. G. Bays, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his accounts of Logan's Chapel, near Marysvill e , Blount County, Tennessee, can be depended upon. He says he went thither on the Bth inst., in a buggy, with another gentlemen and two ladies, armed only with the weapons of spiritual warfare, and intending to preach in the church. He found the edifice barricaded and barred. A crowd of about 40 ruffians surrounded the buggy, armed with knives, pistols, and bludgeons, yell ing so as to frighten the horses and the ladies. Their leader, William Goddard, brandishing a formidable stick declared he would kill Mr. Bays if he attempted to alight. Finding the crowd deaf to remonstrances, Mr. Bays turned his horse and withdrew. This splendid opportunity is now open to missionaries, with a fair chance for the crown of martyrdom, declined by the rev. Bays. ACTUAL GASLIGHT OR THEORETICAL MOON LIGHT.—The present position of this question of light on dark nights is rather obscure. The Finance Committee of Councils are in favour of light in and after 1871'; but seem to think we can get on well enough without gaslight on the remaining nights of 1870 when the moon ought t o shine, according to notice in the almanacs. It is not easy to understand why this year should be kept in the dark, after it is conceded to be necessary to have light every night in future years, unless it is a question of keeping appropriations within the limits of the tax levy. This, we presume, is the case. It is a good rule, but the tax payers would like to see it applied more frequently to im provident appropriations, such as those to supernumerary supervisors, &c., and less frequently to essential reforms like this question of light on dark nights, the only effec tive way to ensure which is to have the lamps lighted every night, as they are in all well-regulated cities of the rank and importance of Philadelphia. —Philadelphia Ledger. DIE OLD PARIS STORY. —lt will do no good; it will not prevent the same thing occurring again ; but I must tell the story. An English lady living in Paris on a very convenient income for one who is not likely to be troubled with a husband, gives musi cal parties with propriety, ices, and tea. Foreign nobility honour her drawing-room, and she , becomes intimate with a gentleman connected with a banking house," and who is the younger brother of Count C--, one of the oldest families of France, as the lady informs her friends. One day the banking gentleman observes to the English lady, " My dear Mdlle. K—, why do you not keep a carriage ? " " Carriage, indeed ; my fortune does not permit me to do so." I am not going to tell a long story. The lady places a certain few thousands in the hands of the banking gentleman, sets up a carriage, and receives for two years a magnificent interest for the money she has placed in her friend's hands "to turn over and negotiate." One fine morning she is told that unfortunate speculations have occasioned the loss of her property and more. The descendant of one of the oldest families of France is off to Baden ; the lawyers can do nothing for her ; she must give upher large apartments, &c. This is no new history. Now, ought single English ladies of any age to be allowed to come abroad alone ? They always get into trouble if they do so. They marry a foreign scamp ; they turn Roman Catholic ; or get done out of their money. Something of the sort is pretty nearly sure to occur. —Paris Letter. SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.— At the annual vestry meeting of the Stockton-road Church, Sunderland, on Monday, the Rev. Canon Cockin (rector) presiding, Mr. Henry Ritson stated that on Easter day he observed that a sufficient quantity of the elements in the administration of the Eucharist had not been provided, and that the rector, to make up the insufficiency, cut the bread with a pocket knife ; the rubrics provided for such occasions in a short reconsecration service, and sooner than submit to a repetition of such an outrage, he would move that proper implements be provided for the purpose. The rector, in reply, deeply regretted that so serious a charge should have been brought against him at that meeting, and that an individual should have occupied himself during the solemn celebration with closely criticis ing what was being done. He explained that he generally estimated the quantity of bread which would be required for the Holy Communion, and that on this oc casion there were two pieces short. The general practice was to break one or two pieces, but that was attended with inconvenience ; so he retired as privately as pos sible to the Table, and cut with a penknife, as Mr. Ritson had said—two pieces into four. It was a very extraor dinary proceeding to have brought a thing forward which, in itself, he conceived to be perfectly harmless ; though he did not mean to say he would do it again if he could Irelp it. GUSTAVE FL OURENS. Have the plebeians got to the top and the aristocrats to the bottom in the French Empire ? We all know about Count Henri de Rochefort de Lucay, descendant of a crusader, &c., but it is quite a new sensation to find that Flourens, the magnanimous and the valiant, is the eldest son of a peer of France—one who was moreover a scholar and a philosopher. Gustave appears to have had a constitutional taste for revolution. At four-and twenty he went to assist the Poles in 1862; at five-and twenty he lectured at the College of France, and was the idol of the budding atheists of that institution ; a year later he was stirring up the fierce democracy of Belgium still later he was campaigning in Crete ; after that he turns up in Italy, which he soon made too hot for him, and return ing to Paris two years ago, he began that brilliant career which culminated in the great episode of the sword, the pistol, and the flight. What remains in store for him is uncertain. So far he has shewn no lack of prudence, and he does not seem likely to suffer the penalties which Rochefort has incurred. As for the story of the cor respondent of a contemporary being led into a plot by IL Flourens, no one believes a word of it. It is not at all certain that M. Flourens himself committed any greater offence than one of political indiscretion, while the corre spondent acted in the spirit of sincere friendship.—New York Times. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The April report from the agricultural department re• lative to the appearance and condition of winter wheat and rye pictures a small and slow growth, thinned in places by winter-killing, weak and unthrifty in spots from loss of vitality by long exposure under ice or to freezing winds ; but with these exceptions, vigorous, of good colour, and ready to start under the influence of a genial spring, into luxuriant and healthful growth. The appearance of wheat is not as promising as it was last year at this time, but this is due rather to late planting than to any positive injury which the fields have sustained. In New England the little winter grain which was sown is doing well, though the frost has visited with unfortunate results some of the northern counties of Maine and New Hampshire. In more than one-half of the counties of New York the reports are favourable, and the same is the case with New Jersey. In Pennsylvania the growth is more back ward, and in many sections of the State the wheat was winter killed. The returns from Delaware and Maryland are meagre, and report some damage to grain from ice and cold. From the Southern States the reports promise a crop of wheat on the whole above the average. West Virginia presents the worst account of damage from the winter frosts. In Kentucky the harvest promises to be much larger than usual. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois re port the growth as below the average in a majority of counties. The fact is explained by late planting and backward germination, and it is thought that a warm spring may improve the appearance of the winter cereals. The other Western States seem to expect about an ave rage crop, though some of them, as Kansas, send the most cheering returns. The report taken as a whole is to be regarded as favourable.—Boston Advertiser. OUR SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRATION. Among the many new features that have marked the enormous influx of people from European countries to the United States during the last three or four years the augmented number of Scandinavians is especially re markable. The Swedes, indeed, figured importantly in the early settlement of Eastern Pennsylvania, and our aspiring sister, the city of Philadelphia, traces some of her oldest family stock to Scandinavian origin ; but during a whole century past the delegation coming to us from the shores of the Skagerack and Cattegat, the Sound and the Baltic had been comparatively feeble until within the last ten or fifteen years, when Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians began to appear in goodly proportion on the lists at Castle Garden. Quite recently their numbers have increased so rapidly as to merit special remark, the quota cominc , in during 1869 amounting, in various chan nels, to more han twenty thousand. Hitherto lowa, Wis consin and, above all, Minnesota have been the States most favoured by their choice. The latter beautiful region has been the particular pet of the Swedes, who find in its noble pine forests, its romantic hills, its rich verdure and its numberless sparkling lakes, enchanting reminders of Sodermania and others of the middle provinces of their own picturesque country. Now the compatriots of Gustavus Wasa and the descendants of the ancient vikings are looking nearer to the sea coast of our Northern States for their new homes, and, as we noted a few days ago, a very considerable colony of Norwegians will this summer settle in Maine. Meanwhile other projects are on foot to bring out hundreds of families direct from the Danish ports to New York, and thence convey them westward and northward together. A Norwegian line of steames, just started and running from Christiana to Havre, France, will largely feed this channel of immigration. Only last week more than 1,500 Swedes and Norwegians landed at this port, and during the summer the aggregate will be raised beyond any previous season. In these facts we find a fresh source of congratulation. Throughout Scandinavia, but particularly in Norway, the system of popular education is such that ignorance of the rudi ments is an exception, and these sturdy Norsemen come to us, not only with the hale, hearty constitutions of their northern clime and rugged nurture, but intelligent and well informed mentally ; sound and clear in morals and politically imbued with an unconquerable love of free institutions and manly independence. They are seldom without a fair supply of means for immediate establish ment and rarely linger in our great cities. In fine, they are most worthy, desirable, and welcome citizens. Be neath skies less stormy than those that inspired the tradi tions of Thor and Odin they will find a broader develop ment for the solid virtues that have ever distinguished the old Norse race, and no doubt while largely augment ing our material wealth as a nation will discover incentives enough to put forth the same scientific, literary, and artistic genius which has made the Universities of Lund, TJpsala, and Copenhagen renowned, and has given to modern times a Limeus, an Ehlenschlager, a Thorwald gen the graceful pen of Christian Hans Andersen, and too America the practical skill of Ericsson, the engineer.— New York Herald. A VISIT TO GIBRALTAR. From the trite quotation, " Facilis descensus Averni," we learn that the infernal regions of clas sical paganism had at least one advantage over Gibraltar—namely, that they were easy of access, whereas the noted British possession is hard to enter and hard to quit. Having fought your way over by main force from Algeciras ? you soon begin to reflect and to entertain serious misgivings, that you might as well have remained at (say) Cadiz, or any other interest ing Spanish town. The Rock, of course, is an admirably picturesque object, and the galleries are wonderful works of military art. But these may be " done " in a day, and, these done, what is to be done next ? Nurtured in an atmosphere of railroads, you are always forgetting your situation, and asking yourself when the next train will start. Then, remembering that trains are not, you walk into the hall of your hotel, and your heart beats high if you read on a placard that in about three days hence the P. and 0. steamer will call at Gibraltar on her way from Malta, for you flatter yourself that you will be conveyed to,,Southampton. Battening on hope, you brace up you nerves to endure three days more, although each proves more intolerable than the one preceding. Of Spanish life there is scarcely a trace, save in the shape of one wretched water-carrier, who wastes his lungs in the national " cry" " Agva," and a sprinkling of melancholy Moors, who glide about in pairs, and seem to discourse solemnly about nothing. English fife is represented by the garrison and the Merles of the garrison ; that is to say, by a set of gallant gentlemen who are perfectly satisfied with each other, and have no desire for the society of strangers. At first, indeed, there is something exciting in the signal gun, which, fired from the summit of the Rock, shakes the whole town, and in the military music by which it is followed. You may likewise feel enthusiastic when, at a late hour, the National Anthem is played. But all this becomes terribly monotonous in a short time. The gun that startled you on the first evening has rather a lulling influence on the third the tunes that the band has borrowed from the music-halls and from Offen bach begin to acquire a funereal ring, and even the dulcet saunds of the Scottish bagpipes grow un pleasing to the ear. • But your greatest horror is the sentinel, who all through the night, at short intervals, is shouting " Who's there ?" to some inoffensive wanderer, and is sure to receive a satisfactory answer. You almost begin to wish that somebody may be shot, by way of creating a little variety, but your wish is even more vain than wicked. Everything is dreadfully secure. The impregnability of the fort extends to the whole population. Strict preservation of order, without the slightest fear of an attack, is the rule of the day. The lively knife of Andalusia is unknown in. Gibraltar. However, the third day is waning, and the hour of deliverance is at hand. The approach of the P. and 0. is announced, and you prepare to take leave of Gibraltar with a parting benediction. But a horrible telegram arrives, and you learn that, the steamer being completely full, a berth is not to be had ter love or money. The information that another P. and 0. will call a week hence is far from reassuring. In the course of the week you will be sorely tempted to commit some outrage that will induce the indefatigable sentinel to end your miserable existence, and if you conquer the temptation you are by no means sure that P. and 0. the second will not be as full as P. and 0. the first. I myself have gone through all the misery which I have inflicted on the impersonal " you." Delighted, therefore, was I to learn that on the day after the departure of the English vessel the noble Spanish steamship (say) Cid Rodrigo, coming down the Guadalquivir from Seville, would stop _at Algeciras and proceed to Marseilles, calling by the way at Malaga, Almeria, Cartagena, Valencia, and Barcelona. At each of these pla ces a goo d part of a day would be lost, and therefore the journey would be long; but all trivial considerations vanished before the intense desire to quit Gibraltar.— Times. TRADE IN THE SOUTH.—The merchants and planters of Southwestern Virginia and Tennessee are to hold a council of peace at White Sulphur Springs some time in June to establish closer relations with each other, and consider the state of the markets and general prospects of trade for the current year. One of the objects of the conference, as it appears from the comments in the Vir ginia newspapers, is to reestablish the trade of the Virginia cities, and persuade the southwestern buyers that it is no longer necessary for them to go to Baltimore and New York for their supplies. White Sulphur Springs is pre- Taring for a livelier season than has been known there shim the First Familids made their fatal mistake ten years ago.—Boston Adveraser. TRADES' UNION TERRORISM. A singular case, arising out of the Thorncliffe dispute, as heard at the Sheffield Town-hall, on Tuesday. A oilier named Benjamin Cooper was summoned by New ton, Chambers, and Co. for breach of an agreement to work by the colliery rules, and to give 28 days' notice before leaving their service. Defendant stated he was a union man, but dare not go to his work, his life being threatened by the men on strike, His house was sur rounded on Sunday night by a lot of men, who threatened to injure him and his house if he went to work. A lengthy cross-examination ensued, the man repeating he " dare not " work on account of the threats uttered by the unionists. The bench ultimately declined to punish the man for the breach of agreement, it being evident that his safety was threatened so strongly as to justify him in taking the course he had done BISHOP WILBERFORCE ON CHURCH MATTERS. 'Bishop Wilberforce ofi Ttesday preached at Basingstoke to about 500 of the North Hants Choral Union, who held their festival there. Subsequently at the dinner table he expressed his belief that God never intended his worship in this world to be dull and unisonous. He had not made his fields a drab colour, nor did His songsters sing one note only ; and he believed it was strictly in accord with the Divine will that the service of our churches should be bright and joyous. Mr. Wyndham Portal having subsequently expressed a hope that these festivals might supersede those which most of them had known too well about this time of the year, and .warmly • commended the unions to the support of the laity in the Church, the Bishop said it warmed his heart to hear a layman speak as Mr. Portal had, and he could not help thinking much good must result from his having so bravely spoken out the feelings of English laymen against, the old principle of confidential communications between the clergyman and clerk. He trusted that they were gone for ever. At the time of their disappearance they were threatened with another form not commend ably better certain gentlemen having exalted themselves in the galleries, and taken with them certain instruments, and devoted their efforts to doing something in which nobody else in the church could join --men who felt it was their business, and theirs exclusively, to carry on the service of song, and who, if an unlettered man like himself, for instance, ventured to join in, rather resented it as an intrusion, and regarded him as a poacher in a well protected preserve, and the sooner they were out of it the better. PROTESTANT NATIONALISM. The new sect of Irish Protestant Nationalists have begun to attact attention. They began their movement, says a correspondent, by contemplating only a Royal resi dence, the taxing of absentees, and special measures to extend Irish trade and commerce ; but a Federal Parliament is now the favourite specific. They have appointed a committee of their number, who reeommend that the objects of the organi sation shall be to obtain the " privilege of managing our own affairs," the Irish Parliament to have power, under a federal arrangement, to legislate for and regulate all matters relating to the internal affairs of the country, and control over Irish resources and revenues, subject to the obligation of contributing a fair proportion to Imperial expenditure, the Imperial Parliament retaining the power of dealing with all questions affecting the Imperial Crown and Government and the defence and stability of the Empire. The apostles of this movement refer in par ticular for their justiffcation to the statute passed in 1807, which consolidated into one Dominion the North Ameri can provinces of the British Crown. The present object of the committee is understood to be to ascertain personally the views of influential Irishmen on the subject - of Repeal Meanwhile, the Dublin journals continue'to refer to the matter. Saunders's News Letter, for example, says : "Many Protestants, clerical and lay, consider them selves free to act in the forthcoming agitation—for that it wiil come, we cannot deny. But, without in any way pledging ourselves to the Federal movement as proposed, we would warn those who have joined, or are inclined to join it, of two great difficulties they will have to encounter at the very outset, and which, although opposite in character, may injure their cause—the one by secret opposition, the other by open alliance—we mean Ultramontariism and Fenianism." DIFFICULTIES IN JERSEY. The promoters of the railway between St. Helier's and St.. Aubin, in the island of Jersey (an English company) have been brought into unpleasant contact with the States (the island Parliament). It appears that under certain conditions and restrictions the States had ceded to the company the ground occupied by the slaughter-house at St. Helier (at the head of the harbour) as a site for the railway station. The contractor for the railway proceeded to de molish the slaughter-houses, and had made certain pro gress, when he was ordered to desist at the instance of the chairman of the harbours committee, who claimed control over the slaughter-houses. The work was stopped, and a promise given that nothing more should be done till a proper understanding was come to. Acting, under advice, however, the contractor resolved to con tinue the work of destruction, and on Saturday morning, at the early hour of four o'clock, a triple gang of labourers was taken to the spot and proceeded in all haste to finish the work of pulling down the remaining portion of the building. Jurot de Quetteville, who happened to be in the neighbourhood about six o'clock, on being informed of the occur rence, hastened to the spot and raised the well known " Clameur de Haro," which consists of the person raising it falling upon his knees, and crying out, " Haro, Haro, h l'aide, mon prince ! on me fait tort." The astonished workmen immediately threw down their imple ments and desisted, agreeably to the law, which makes it a punishable offence for anyone to proceed with a work against which the " clameur ' has been raise]. A special meeting of the States was held on Monday for the consi deration of the subject, when, after a stormy discussion, it was resolved to prevent all further proceedings by armed force, if necessary, until a proper arrangement has been agreed to between the States and the railway com pany for the construction of new slaughter-houses. A NEW MOTIVE POWER. Mr. Galloway, who has for many years devoted his attention to the problem of how to generate steam quickly ana inexpensively, now comes forward claiming to have found the solution. He has invented an apparatus, the design of which is, not to supersede the existing steam boilers, but to be affixed to them, its operation saving 50 per cent. in the cost of fuel. The invention consists in the application of atmospheric air, which is first of all pumped down a pipe passing through the flue, the air being heated on its passage ; the pipe is continued under the furnace, and passing through returns on the back under the fire bars ; and the temperature of the air having thus become raised by the waste heat is driven into the boiler, and helps to- generate steam in the chamber, the action of the piston rod assist ing the process. Whilst shewing his invention to some savans the other day, Mr. Galloway entered into an ex planation. He said :—The use of atmospheric air, in com bination with steam, would seem to possess peculiar advan tages, inasmuch as atmospheric air, as soon as it is com pressed, gives out latent heat by the mere application of pressure. At a meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, held a few days since, this question was asked— " Whether combustion under pressure itself gave out greatly increased heat ?" Mr. Fothergill adding, " Sup posing the pressure of the atmosphere were, say 301 b. on the square inch, instead of 151 b., the usual pressure ?" To this Mr. Siemens, who is an acknowledged autho rity, replied, that in that case the temperature of the atmosphere would be raised to 210 deg., taking the original temperature at 60 deg. This would seem to prove that atmospheric air, if compressed before combustion, and afterwards allowed to enter into combustion under pressure, will produce greatly increased heat. And this result, I submit, takes place in respect to the use' of heated air, which may be said to be in a state of combustion, in the arrange ment of the air pipes which you see before you. Respect ing the uses to which this invention may be applied, and which I have contemplated in my patent, let me say that the great advantage is that it is not so much a sub stitution for the steam engine as a simple improvemerit that may be applied at a trifling cost to all kinds of en gines, whether marine, locomotive, or stationary ; and there are ulterior advantages which may not at first sight appear. First, though it may seem to be somewhat in significant, I hope that we may live to see the day when the necessity for horses drawing ponderous loads along the streets and roads will be pretty near ly, if no t a lt og ether obviated ; one beneficial result of which would be that a larger area of land would be left for the cultivation of food for mankind • and in the case of th e s t ree t s th e noxious vapours and nuisances inimical to health would be prevented by the substitution of air and steam for horse power. But there is another application of the in vention also contemplated, and to which I recently re ferred at a meeting of the members of the Institute of Naval Architects, in the presence of Sir John Pakington and other distinguished gentlemen, viz., its application as an auxiliary power to sailing vessels, requiring as it does less than half the ordinary room and stowage of fuel for the generation of the motive power, in connection with the fact that it will save upwards of sixty per cent of fuel ; I trust to get it up to seventy-five per cent. This will be of the utmost importance to shipowners, as it will greatly increase the value and efficiency of their sailing ships. and render them almost equal to screw steamers. Referring again to the properties of compressed air and its immediate application to this inven tion, the results may be expressed as follows : Assuming that by the circuitous mode by which the air after it has left the air-pump, traverses along, you will have observed that the air passes through the iron pipe along the flue, and is then conveyed in continuation beneath the furnace bars through the fire bridge, and re turns by the other side of the furnace. You will probably have felt on touching thebranch pipe that the heat was so intense that you were unable to bear your hand upon it for a moment. This intense heat, which otherwise would all have been wasted, may probably be estimated at. say about 100 degs. Should this be so, then two-thirds of the heat contained in the air will have been given off through the water in the boiler, and will have generated steam equivalent to what is generally called three steam pressures, 220 degs. being th e es ti ma t e f or th e genera tion of steam. Assuming this formula to be correct, it follows as a necessary result that a saving of three-fourths pro-rata of the cost of fuel by my plan must have been effected by what I may be permitted to call liquid fire forced in and through the water. FEMALE INGRATITUDE. We have already announced the overwhelming defeat of the suffrage women in Vermont, but here is a little incident of the campaign to which we fear the attention of the sisterhood has not been carefully enough invited' Just for the fun of the thing, a special canvass of the woman population was made in one district (that o f Royalton), and the following was the result : Number of women in the district Wanted the suffrage Didn't want it Didn't care Not at home The fact that only one woman out of 82 was not at borne indicates, we believe, that the Royalton district is on e ° the best and most virtuous in the State. The Royalton women must be accepted as representatives of the n oblest and wisest of their sex. If they don't want suffrage, w„,. 11 ,„Y can't our fair friends here let their sisters alone ?--ar"' York Tribune. THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN VIRGINIA' We.do not suppose that such a contrast was ever e);" hibited between two rival parties in this country as vi ° shewn in the contest for power last year between the Conservatives and Radicals. In numbers they were n' ) far apart. In sentiment, in character and intellige nce they were as distant as to the antipodes. On the on e hand, the great mass of the white population of Virginii l L comprising an accession of moderate Republicans,O n their coloured allies ; on the other, a set mainly The luded negroes, led on by designing adventurers. result was a triumphant victory for the Conservative s ', the election of a Governor acceptable to the people c' Virginia and the Administration, the admission of the State, and a rapid advance in the value of her bonds' Not satisfied with letting well enough alone' and endeavouring to harmonise the conflicting elemen ts as much as possible upon measures of State policy, irre spective of parties, some of our journals have made a per sistent attempt to force the issue of Federal politics on ir at an unreasonable time, and to revive the old Democratic Party. The result has been that it has played into the hands of the Radical Party most effectively. It 1135 driven off the moderate members of that party from the Conservatives, healed its dissensions, and made it a Nl* . different organisation from what it was last year. e hope that the Conservatives, in the election soon to t a l e place, will repair these evils as much as possible, by W t enlightened policy of conciliation and kindness. The - wor, i injury that we could inflict upon the coloured race w ow ' be to give them power, which they are incapable of us ing ; and which would soon pass from their grasp. But th course of the late Senator Bland shews that some of then.may be intrusted with office without injury or loss of dig nity to the Commonwealth.—. Richmond Whig. THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE LEVEES. We see the question of reclaiming the fertile flats of th e lower valley of the Mississippi is attracting the attentio n of Congress. It seems that the State of Louisiana, acti ng on the recommendation of the Louisville Commercial Colt" vention, has chartered a joint-stock company, charge'_ with the duty of reconstructing the embankments of t he river, in order to secure this prolific region from overfloWi The law incorporating this company gives it an wall, revenue for twenty-one y ears , d er ived from taxation c' t , the protected lands and th e i r p ro d uc ti ons , which is to 1 " 6 collected like State taxes and placed in the treasury the credit of the company. The main idea in the la v/ is to bring to bear on this matter of the lever' of Louisiana the energy, thrift, and economy of prisr enterprie. ,In its connection with the cotton supplY work of protecting the rich savannahs of the lower ,„ sissippi becomes a matter of absorbing interest. Wh e : we consider the immense effort which England has ma de ' especially during the last ten years, to grow cot to ' , throughout the world, we may well regard with favourei, enterprises to preserve that monopoly in the plant whl our Transatlantic friends are trying so hard to wrest fr o l l us. It is computed that an efficient system of lev ee ' would reclaim and protect from inundation in the State If f Louisiana about twelve million acres of land, one -113 r of which is suitable for sugar growing and the othet half adopted to cotton. All the developned that this fertile territory needs is to be gunr" e d rom the floods of the river. With such protection assure , this region is capable of producing one million five hull dred thousand hogsheads of sugar, and three million b a4 u , of cotton. Protect this country from overflow and tn labour question will settle itself. In a few years it become the most densely populated portion of Amery We hope Congress will lend a helping hand in tw t matter. For now over eight years this magnifieole empire—for it is one in its resources—has been at the mercy of the Mississippi floods, and all who cu ltiva„, there have have had to do so at their peril. It is not on ly the duty of Congress, b u t it is the interest of et: Government and of the people at la rge , that ev er ' aid should be extended to accomplish the great work."' New York Herald. ACQUITTALS ON THE GROUND OF INSANITY. The citizens of New York are petitioning Govern°. Hoffman, to place M'Farland under the restraints of n n Insane Hospital, on account of the evidence of his in sanity given in defence at his trial. They seem to nrg 6e , that when a man c h arge d w ith mur d er pl ea d s unsoun d ' ness of mind, to free him from accountability to the in /i t for the killing of his victim, that he should bo taken his word, and be placed in such custody as will protect others against the repetition of such insane acts. This: l logical enough ; but why not provide by law for s uch cases? ? Here, iu Pennsylvania, we have made s° 3lB wholesome progress in this direction. The insanity P lea was rather overdone here as well as in New V t ri i i but, at the instance of the Medical Faculty, " vj e Superintendents of our Insane Hospitals, and s° w other citizens who had studied the subject, our Leo ps. ture, in 1869, reformed the law applicable to such no s " . The act then passed provides that whenever any pers o t he l acquitted of homicide or attempted homicide, on ground of insanity, the jury shall declare that fact in t" or verdict, and the Court shall order the prisoner to be ° f a mitted to and detained in some place of confinement ,11 41 treatment and safe keeping, from which he or she s' l ; not be discharged for at l e ast three months, and not aid unless in the unanimous opinion of the superintendent, n i e managers of the hospital, and the Court which trio' A t case, the prisoner has recovered and may be safely se t a e large. In cases of acquitt a l on c h arges f or i n f e rior go t . of crime, the prisoners are to be confined, under tr e ,l s , went, for at least three months, an d no t th en to be ", charged unless entirely recovered.—Philadelphia Ledge' 4.. of There are complaints of drought from all pa - being the country. .In several counties the hay crop is burnt up. A child, ten weeks old, has been poisoned . f . ' i t e Brampton, near Chesterfield, by an over-dose of pareg ° ' incautiously administered to it by its mother. A man who had been fined several times succession for getting drunk, coolly proposed te t h a magistrate that he should take him by the year reduced rate. h THE REVENUE.—From April Ist to May 2 8 t 1 national revenue amounted to £9,270,428, or more tL £2,000,000 short of the sum received in the o "' correspoo r g 7 period of last year. The expenditure w as £10,087,8' t o £1,000,000, short of the issues from the Exchequer tsveAr months ago. The interest on the National Debt alre the amounts to more than £6,000,000, The balance il l Bank of England on Saturday last was £6,999,87 8 . oo d A DVERTIBE KENT. - Consumption, and all 'LK r' 0 019 bilious, stomach, atil lbw complaints in every stake ar c psi aggravated and acc3l3rated by drugs of every desCriptio ll, l oo perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Re c , i ii bee l Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had oafe' considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia ), c as tri° asthma, consumption, h .bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gIIeI derangements, hEemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulencY t4 opS , vousness, biliousness, fevers, • sore throat, diphtheria, c 3 goIA colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism , impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sic, c ;rap , ' ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility , c' 0 11 : spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea t ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti_htness of the chest, p_sins ; o w pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. e few: -The Pope's health restored by Du !lorry's Food. Cu 00 68,418 - -Rome, July 21, WO. The beelth ow Hwy rit e excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies , youti confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta .Arabieltoce, of which he consumes &plateful at every meal. It has Pl u ,.. i ives: a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his N'oelt` r cannot praise this excellent food too highly." , —From the li f e° du Midi,' July 2 Cure No. 46,:70.—Mr. James Roberts:, 1,04 merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disease" Cli c! . spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafreFs• `gate o p N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Ae sc , of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' In`', , able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, coug" stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting . „orolTh Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many un i 'd i or 2 " and more than sloppy imitations to whicb, without ," . Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. 1/1D 4$ In tins, at s lid; 1 lb 2a 9cl; 2 lb is 6d; 51b Us.; 000 1, , ,,, 24 lbs 4 s.— lso Du BARRY's E EVALENTA RABICA CO c 0250 PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1: cups at 2s, 1 .01. at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2rB cups at Its, for 576 CuPre Sy," —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tin s t Lrrier_:,(l free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Oftlen„ BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon" - ,„ all Grocers and Chemists. wrt nO London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN—.,;i g , 1 1 ; of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , a t T HE S U N Office ''ty Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avo y, in the ' o° i- Middlesex.—Thursday, June 2, 1870. BIRTHS. o °l On the 30th ult., at 58, Lowndes-square, the Marc hione Carmarthen, of a daughter. Ste c On the 31st ult., at Portsdowu-road, the wife of J. 13., Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. oP el l On the 30th ult., at Torquay, Devon, Edward j• Esq. of Norwood, Surrey, to Carlotta Mary, then. e to p daughter of Luke Redmayne, Esq„ J.P., of V Devon. On the 30th ult., at Holy Trinity, Southwark, fli ‘ c i:,rim second son of John Douglas, Esq., of Dalston, to A" eldest daughter of William rmstrong, Esq. DEATHS On the 29th ult., James Simpson, Esq., Bruce Grove, tenham, aged 74. On the 31st ult.. at 45, Claverton-street, Pimlico, .1". Bennett, Esq., aged 42. gill ten Ala the Pre vii rep sPe col, "D Die, be th e Tic: nex do n Ro o ehe to r , day C the Ref I Wi AN l'r4 Pr 4 _ c 'a-f, 1 Al. Cg