The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

Mr. Bright, M.P., and his Workpeople. MANCHESTER, Friday Evening. This evening a meeting of about 1,200 of the workpeople of Messrs. John Bright and Brothers was held in the public hall, at Rochdale, to present to the hon. member for Birmingham an address ex pressive of " their entire sympathy with and sin cere respect for him under the malignant slanders which had been urged against him as their em ployer." The address, which was moved, seconded, and supported by working men in Mr. Bright's employ, after speaking of the attacks on his private cha racter as base and unfounded, said he had always endeavoured to improve their moral, social, and in tellectual well-being ; while as a public character his best endervours had been made to raise the great wealth-producing class to the full right of citizen ship; it prayed that his life as an employer and statesman might be long spared. The address was carried, and presented to Mr. Bright, who was present by invitation, accompanied by expressions of warm affection and great cheering. Mr. BRIGHT, in the course of his speech, said—l thank you with an overflowing heart for the kind ness which has induced you to call and to form this meeting to-night, and for the most friendly and generous sentiments which you have uttered through the address which has just been presented to me, and which I accept with a gratification that I find no words properly to describe and express. (Hear.) This meeting is one of an unusual and noteworthy character. (Hear). lam not sure that on any former occasion in this district, or in this country, there has been a meeting like it, where a thousand persons, men and women, assisting in or employed in the business of a particular firm, have felt it their duty to meet for the purpose of con tradicting and overthrowing countless slanders uttered against that firm—(hear) ---and chiefly against one member of it, with a view to da mage his political influence. (Hear.) We are met for the purpose, further, of expressing our confidence in, and our friendship for, each other. (Hear.) About ten days ago a deputation from your body—the chairman was one of the depu tation—called on me to inform me that on the pre vious day a meeting had been held of persons in our employ who were anxious to make some public de monstration of the feeling with regard to recent statements; and they asked, on behalf of that meet ing, if I would come to a meeting like this to receive an address which they were wishful to present to me. I thanked them for their kind intention, but told them that I thought nobody whose opinion was worth anything could believe those statements, and that we could all, I thought, very easily outlive these slanders. But although in speaking to the deputation I rather discouraged their idea and pur pose, still I am bound to say, on considering it far ther, I believe you have done well to hold this meet ing--(hear, hear) —not as bearing altogether upon my position with regard to it as concerning your own; for rely upon it, the slanders that were uttered against me had the effect in some degree of reaching and damaging you. Clearly, if it were true that we were the oppressors of those who lived near us, and to whom weekly we paid wages, you were the op pressed, for there can't be the one class without the other. If we were tyrants and unjust, clearly you were slaves and the victims of injustice ; and if we were devoid of conscience, you were proved to be devoid of independence ; and that you suffered ani tolerated injustice from which you could not escape, and which you had not even the courage to resent (Hear, hear.) You know—and every man and woman in this assembly knows—every honourable man in Rochdale knows--that there is not a shadow or a shade of foundation for the charges that have been made against me. (Loud cheers.) To those who live in this neighbourhood, even, I should say, to a large portion of my countrymen, judging either from my life at home or my public career, they might have found a sufficient answer to these charges. Now 1 ask you, my friends, this question, because it is worth your while to consider, " Why all these slan ders against us and against mc?" There are 500 firms in this country whose business is carried on, who employ great numbers of people, many far more than w.! do, who have their transactions of every kind, who may have occasionally little or great dif ferences with their workmen, but of all these 500 499 are left untouched, and we and I alone am as sailed by these men. (Loud cheers.) Whence come these charges and these slanders ? They come, as you know, openly and chiefly from obscure men in the Tory ranks. (Cheers.) Occasionally you hear of them from some obscure man, who by accident or party has been raised for a few months into the position of a Minister of the Crown. (Hear, hear.) Our assailants, if you examine the matter for a mo ment, you will find are the monopolists of political power in the country, and the base creatures who for selfish purposes are found crawling about them. (Cheers.) What is my crime ? That I have re sisted this monopoly of power--that since the first hour that I stepped upon a public platform and took part in political questions I have pleaded for the rights of the millions of the people of this country. All I ask is that you may be heard in the hall where it is said the representatives of the people are accus tomed to assemble. I do not ask that you may change laws to overthrow institutions ; but I ask that you may be heard, and that when Parliament meets session after session, as it will meet the week after next, your great class, the most numerous and the most indispensable of all to the country, shall not be absolutely shut out. Now, I say without hesitation that I am sure, without chance of contra diction, that it is mainly because I put in this claim for the people that I have been thus assailed. You know perfectly well that I have been accustomed in all my public life to take an independent course, that I have not been a flatterer of those who are in power, nor have I been a flatterer of that great class on whose behalf I have mainly acted and spoken. I am no flatterer ; I have not bent my knee to any class of the community ; I have sought to be guided by a higher law than the prejudices or the passions of any section of the people. In this course of independence .it may be I have made errors, as other men make errors, for I profess to no kind of infallibility, even on political subjects which I have so much considered. Now, take as a proof of this a question on which those persons to whom I have referred have said a great deal—the question of the Factory Act. You know, many of you, that I was iii Parliament 20 years ago when the act passed ; that I did not feel it my duty on any occasion to support it. That I think a course which many of you, and many of those, your fathers, who are not now here thought wrong. I was against any inter ference by Parliament with the freedom of labour and of capital. I did not wish to trust a Parliament of landowners with the control and the disposition of labour and capital in this country. I knew by their infamous corn, law, which had lasted for 30 years, they had confiscated an untold and countless amount of the labour and capital of England, with the view of turning it into the channel of rent for themselves, and therefore I did not like this body of men to meddle with the question. But I rejoice as much as any one of you can rejoice that you now are working 10i hours daily, instead of 111 hours, as before. I believe that the establishment of free trade about the time when the Factory Bill passed caused so great au increase of trade and demand for labour that the Factory Bill its:;if ltai been made to work with'a success that in all probability it would not have met with if these changes to which I have ref.Tred had not been made. I think it quite pos siille—l hope it is certain—that at some period even the time now worked may be to some further extent shortened. (Loud cheers.) My own impres sion is that with an economical Government taking much less of taxation from the people, with laws re garding the tenure and the distribution of land in accordance with a true political economy, and with education generally and universally spread among the people, there will be economy, and with edu cation generally and universally spread among the people there will be a strong and rational disposition to work a shorter time ; that there, will be greater care taken of the earnings that are made, and thus that the comfort of families may not be in the least lessened, although the time of labour may be shortened. (Cheers.) But, re ferring to that question of the discussions of the 'THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1867. Factory Bill, I venture to say this ; and if any ' one of you will undertake - to look back to those dis cussions you will find that no word escaped my lips that was not friendly to the operative class of this country, and that I was as anxious to defend them as to defend their employers from the exaggerated and calumnious statements of those to whom 1 was opposed. Now, once more to the questions of public life and politics. I am one of those who believe that in a country people can't be happy, cannot have that which is their own, cannot be really free and really growing and improving, unless there be a wise legis lation and a just administration. of the laws. (Hear, hear.) An unjust law wounds every house in the country, and that most unjust of all laws, the corn law, penetrated every town and every parish and eTery village and every house, and it wounded and injured every man in every house ; and a just law, on the contrary, acts with universal influence. It is like the life-giving sun ; it is like a fertilising shower, it scatters good everywhere ; and there is no district in the country so remote, no family so humble, no occupation so unimportant, that it cannot feel to some degree the influence of a wise and of a just and beneficent law—(loud cheers) — but still we must never forget this—that laws, monarchs, Houses of Legislation, powers that be of any kind cannot do everything for us ; there will remain much for us to do ourselves, many duties to perform, and many efforts to make. The founda tion of all abundance and comfort is industry. You are, perhaps, about the most industrious people in the world. Mr. Bright concluded by saying it was not necessary that any people should work harder than the people of England, but he did not think they cultivated the virtue of frugality as those of some other countries. He also iulpressed upon them, besides saving, to take more pride, like the middle classes, in educating their children. Mr. T. B. POTTER and Mr. GOLDWIN S3IITII briefly addressed the meeting. THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION IN PARIS. OFFICIAL REGULATIONS FOR ADMITTANCES. SECTION 1. GENERAL RULES. Art. 1. In accordance with the general regula tions, settled on the 7th of July, and sanctioned by an Imperial decree on the 12th of July, 1865, the Exhibition will be opened on the Ist of April, 1867, and closed on the 31st of October following. Art. 2. The Exhibition comprehends three en closures. The first, named the Park, encloses the Champ de-Mars Palace, the park which surrounds it, and the bank of the Seine. The second, called the Garden, situated at the south-east of the Champ-de-Mars, encloses the garden destined to be the horticultural exhibition. - The third, called Billancourt, situated on the Seine at five kilometres from the Champ-de-Mars, encloses the agricultural exhibition and the experi ment ground in the isle of Billancourt. Distinct tolls are established at every enclosure. Art. 3. The entrances of the park enclosure are situated and designated in the following manner : No. 1. Grande Porte (principal entrance).—At the d'Orsay Quai, opposite the Jena Bridge. No. 2. Porte de l'Universitti (University en trance).—At the corner of the d'Orsay Quai and of the Avenue la Bourdonnaye. No. 3. Porte Rapp (Rapp entrance). No. 4. Porte la Bourdonnaye (la Bourdonnaye entrance). No. 5. Porte Saint Dominique (Saint Dominique entrance).—At la Bourdonnaye Avenue, and where the Rapp Avenue emerges into the Rue Saint Dominique. No. 7. Porte del'Ecole Militaire (Military School entrance).—Opposite the Pavillon de l'llorloge. No. 8. Porte Dupleix (Dupleix entrance).—At the corner of the Lamotte-Piquet and Suffren Avenues. No. 9. Porte Kleber (Kleber entrance). No. 10. Porte Suffren (Suffren entrance). No. 11. Porte D.:saix (Desaix entrance).—At the centre of the Saffren Avenue. No. 12. Porte de la Gare (Railway Station en trance). —At the &iffreu Avenue, and at the Branch Station of the Metropolitan RAilway (Chemin de Fer de Ceinture), near the d'Orsay Quai. No. 13. Porte de Grenelle (Grenelle entrance). —At the corner of the Suffren-avenue and of d'Orsay quay. No. 14. Porte de Billaucourt (Billaneourt en trance).—Ou the bank of the Seine and on the right of the Jena bridge. No. 15. Porte d'Orsay (d'Orsay entrance).—On the bank of the Stine and ou the left of the Jena bridge. There is only one external entrance for the gar- den enclosure— No. 6. Porte de Tourville (Tourville entrance). —At the corner of la Bourdonnaye and Lamotte- Piquet avenues. At the common enclosure there are four entrances, communicating on the inside with the park and garden enclosures. Art. 4. A weekly notice, published in the Moni teur and placarded at the entrances, will make known the hours at which will be opened and shut the entrances; first, of the three enclosures; second, of the palace, of the other Exhibition grounds, and of the private establishments standing in each of the enclosures. • The same notice will make known the hour of admittance specially reserved during the morning for study, apart of the hours for general admittance. Art. 5. The receipt of money for admittance, without ticket, will be made by means of turnstiles established at all the entrances of each enclosure. No change will be given. Art. 6. The bearers of tickets will be admitted through wickets near the turnstiles, at those en trances which will be specially designated for each class of tickets. Art. 7. The admittance tickets of every class will be strictly personal ; they will be signed by the owners, who will be bound also to write their signa tures in a book for the purpose whenever required to do so. However, the ticket owners shall be exempted from the verification by means of signature, by giv ing or sending two copies of their photographed likeness, one of which will be affixed to the ticket. Art. 8. Every owner of a ticket having lent will forfeit it. Every person having lent his ticket, and every person having used a ticket not belonging to him, will be prosecuted according to law. SECTION 11. ADMITTANCES WITHOUT TICKETS. Art. 9. Conformably with the deliberations of the Imperial Commission of the 4th of January, 6th of April, and 18th of December, 1866, the prices of admittance in the enclosures of the park and of the garden is fixed thus : On Monday, April 1 (inaugural ceremony of the Exhibition), for the two enclosures, 20 francs. From the 2d to the 7th of April (from Tuesday to Sunday) inclusive, for the two enclosures, 5 francs. From Monday, April 8, and for every day 1. Admittance in the park enclosure during the general opening hour, 1 franc ; during the hours reserved iu the morning, 2 francs. 2. Direct entrance in the garden enclosure through the Tourville entrance, from the general opening hour, 1 franc 50 cents ; during the hours reser...Ll in the morning, 2 francs 50 cents. 3. A lmittance front the park enclosure into the garden enclosure, at all times, 50 cents. Art. 10. The prices of admittance in the Billan court enclosure will be settled ultimately. Art. 11. The prices of the special tolls authorised by the Imperial Commission for certain establish ments will be marked in the weekly notice, and placarded at the entrances at every one of those establishments. Art. 12. Every person having left the enclosure will have to pay again at the turnstiles to be re admitted. SEC [ION 111. ADMITTANCE WI ill SEASON TICKETS. Art. 13. Season tickets, bearing the names of the owner and not transferable, and valid for the whole duration of the Exhibition, will be issued to the public. The price of the season tickets will be 60 francs for ladies, 100 francs for gentlemen. Art. 14. The subscriber who shall not show his ticket will have to pay the admittance fee, the amount of which will irrevocably belong to the Im perial Commission. Art. 15. The season tickets entitle the owners to assist at the inauguration ceremony, and to be ad mitted every day in the Champ de Mars Park, in the Palace, and in the garden, at the hours of gene ral public attendance, and at the reserved hours. To visit free the exhibitions with special tolls. To visit the Agricultural Exhibition and the ex periment grounds at Billancourt. Art. 16. The first subscribers will be entitled be sides to a numbered stall to assist at the ceremony for distributing the awards which will take place at the Industry Palace (in the Champs Elysees) on the Ist of July, 1867. The number of the stalls reserved to the subscri bers will not be under 5,000. Art. 17. The season tickets will be numbered. Articles 8 and 15, stipulating the municipal mutual obligations of the subscriber and of the Imperial commission, will be printed on the season tickets. The subscriber, by signing his ticket, assumes the obligation of fulfilling the stipulations thereon mentioned, and generally all the articles of the present regulation, which may concern him. Art. 18. The wickets to specially admit the subscribers will be established at all the entrances with the exception of these :—No. 4, Le Bourdon nape ; No. 5, St. Dominique; No. 9, Kleber; No. 10, Suffren. Conformably to Art. 7, the subscribers—bearers of tickets to which their photographs are affixed— shall be exempt from the verification by means of signing their names, and shall be admitted at all entrances without any exception. Art. 19. The season-ticket office will be opened at the Industry Palace (Champs Elysees) Gate, No. 10, from the 20th January, 1867 ; the plan of the distribution of the stalls for the awards ceremony will be exhibited there, in order to enable every one to choose his seat when asking for his season ticket. People not living in Paris can direct their de mands for season tickets to the general commis sioner ; the demands to be accompanied by the amount in bank-notes or post-office orders. They will receive in exchange a provisional receipt, indi cating the number of the season tickets and of the stalls reserved for them. Art. 20. Collective demands for season tickets, made personally or by letter, will be attended to, but every season ticket will be distinctly acknow- ledged. Art. 21. The definite ticket, in exchange of the receipt, will be delivered only to the owner, who will sign his name on the ticket. Art. 22. The season tickets will be delivered only from the Ist of March, 1867 ; up to that date only provisional tickets will be delivered. The season ticket office will be opened from the 20th of January, in order to insure to the persons who may wish for tickets personally, or by letter, the advantage of priority in choosing stalls. SECTION IV. WEEKLY TICKETS. Art. 23. Weekly tickets will be issued to the public. These tickets bearing the name of the owner, and not transferable, will entitle, during the week for which they will be issued, to the same admittances as the season tickets. The week will begin from the day of issuing. The price of a weekly ticket is fixed at 6 francs. Art. 24. Weekly tickets will be issued only to persons who may present themselves at the office with their photographs. The ticket will be affixed to those photographs. Art. 25. The owner, by signing his ticket, assumes the obligation of fulfilling the stipulations of Art. 8 thereon written, and generally all the stipulations of the present regulations which can concern him. Art. 26. The weekly tickets will be delivered at an office to be established for the purpose at the Champs de Mars, Pavillon of the General Commis sionership, iu la Bourdonnaye Avenue. SECTION V. EXHIBITORS' TICKETS. Art. 27. In accordance with Arts. 58 and 59 of the general regulations a gratis admittance ticket will be given to every exhibitor, and also to the agent whom the Imperial Commission admit to re present him or to watch over his goods. These tickets, which are to be signed by the owners, and not transferable, give admittance only to the enclosure in which are'the articles exhibited by the owners. The tickets to exhibitors whose exhibitions are only temporary are valid only during the time of those exhibitions. • Art. 28. Art. 8 will be printed on the exhibitors' or exhibitors' agents' tickets. The owner, by sign ing his ticket, assumes the obligation of fulfilling all the stipulations of the said article, and generally all the stipulations of the present regulations which may concern him. Art. 29. The exhibitors in the park enclosure and their agents will be admitted throught four wickets, to be opened at the following entrances :—No. 2, L'Universite ; No. 7, the Ecole Militaire ; No. 12, the Railway Station ; No. 15, d'Orsay. The exhibitors or their agents who avail them selves of the privileges conferred by Art. 7 will have free access themselves on verification, by means of signing their names, or by giving their photographs, at all the entrances of the enclosure. Art. SO. The exhibitors in the enclosure of the garden and the agents of those exhibitors will be admitted at a wicket for the purpose at the Tour \dile entrance. Art. 31. The exhibitor-ticket will be delivered to the exhibitors themselves. The agent ticket will be delivered only at the written request of the exhibitor, who will be re sponsible for any infringement. Art. 32. The ticket to exhibitors or to exhibitors' agents belonging to the French section will be delivered at the offices of the General Commis sionership. Art. 33. The tickets to the exhibitors or exhibit tor-agents belonging to the foreign sections will be delivered to the delegate commissioners, who will bind themselvas to deliver them iu accordance with the stipulations of Art. 31. SECTION VI. OFFICERS' TICKETS. Art. 34. Tickets for general or restricted admit tance, valid for the whole duration of the exhibition, or for a limited time, will be delivered according to the nature of the duties and the necessities of the service :- Ist. To the members of the Imperial Commission, and to the persons employed by it. The tickets to the members of the Imperial Com mission have been delivered in the sole view of making known their official rank, each of them having taken a season ticket. 2d. To the president, vice-president, and secre tary of each foreign commission, to its commissioner delegate at Paris, and to the persons belonging to its staff, fulfilling active functions in the interior of the exhibition. 3d. To the titular members of the international jury and to the associate members, in accordance with Art. 15 of the jury regulations; the tickets to associate members of the jury for temporary ex hibitions are limited to the duration of their func tions. Art. 35. Officers tickets for functions not belong. ing to the classes mentioned in Art. 3.1 will be de livered only with the special authorisation of the Imperial Commission. Art. 36. The councillor of state general commis sioner is entrusted with the execution of these re gulations. The Minister of State, Vice-President of the Im perial Commission, (Signed) RounEn. The Councillor of State General Commissioner, (Signed) F. LE PLAY. I General Wood reports a general improvement in the relations between employers and employed in Mississippi. The negroes are exposed to much hard ship on account of the unfavourable crops, but are preparing to work vigorously during the coming year. The interest in education is growing among both whites and blacks. Miscellaneous American News, There will be three public levees:at the White House during the present session of Congress; the first on Jan. 27, the second on Feb. 7, and the third on Feb. 22. The President has transmitted to Congress a message covering additional correspondence bearing upon the arrest of Surratt. It contains nothing of special importance. It is shown that St. Marie, the informer, is on his way to America, having been paid for his services ; it covers also a letter from the secretary of the authorities at Malta, declining to arrest Surratt on the ground of insufficient proof of identity. The following are the concluding words of the President's Message, vetoing negro suffrage in the district of Columbia :--4 4 There is a limit, wisely observed hitherto, which makes the ballot a privi lege and a trust, and which requires of some classes a time suitable for probation and preparation. To give it indiscriminately to a new class, wholly un prepared by previous habits and opportunities to perform the trust which it demands, is to degrade it, and finally to destroy its power, for it may be safely assumed that no political truth is better esta blished than that such indiscriminate and all- embrac ing extension of popular suffrage must end at last in its destruction." The Storrs School is the name of a house just erected for the education and religious instruction of the freedmen in Atlanta, Georgia. It cost $6,000, and is very complete in all its appointments. The society of the Itev. Dr. Storrs, of Cincinnati, were the chief contributors towards its erection. The Philadelphia Inquirer states that the freed men throughout the Southern States celebrated the Ist of January—the anniversary of emancipation— by processions, with banners, music, and speeches. It adds that it is to the credit of the Southern people that they did not interfere with these demon strations, although they were in some particulars fantastic. The plan for the central monument for the Gettys burg National Cemetery has been agreed upon. It is to be a white marble shaft 47 feet high, costing $47,500, with one or more statues by Rogers. A contemporary remarks :—" The letter-carriers of New York are out for the fourth time with their annual poetical address to the public, printed in a neat little pamphlet, which contains besides the verses a good deal of information on almost all points relating to the mail service in this city. We find, for instance, that, during the first nine months of 1866, the total number of letters from abroad delivered by carriers in this city was 7,683,222, and of city letters the number was 2,926,507. To this total of 10,609,729 letters must be added 1,008,778 of newspapers. For the same time, between January 1 and September 30, there were collected from the lamp-post boxes 9,609,646 letters, a much larger number than one would have expected. The Iron Age informs us that the United States Government is now having made at Hartford, Con necticut, 100 battery guns of a new invention. Fifty of them will have a one-inch bore, awl the balance one-half inch bore. This gunis quite a curiosity tolook at. The main characteristics of this terrible weapon are, that it has a series of barrels, with a carrier and lock cylinder, rigidly fas tened to the main shaft, and rotating simultaneously and continuously by means of a crank, the cartridges being fed into the carrier from the feed-boxes, thence driving end-wise into the rear ends of the barrels, then exploded and the empty cartridge cases with drawn, without any pause in the operation. The incessant loading and firing are produced by the simplest kind of mechanism, there being less parts about the gun than in the Springfield musket. This gun can be discharged at the rate of 200 shots per minute. One of its features is that there is no recoil which can affect the accuracy of the aim. When the gun is once sighted at a given object the same aim can be maintained at the will of the operator until thousands of discharges take place. A lateral train motion of the gun may be kept up if desired while the gun is being dis charged, so that a perfect sheet of balls can be made to sweep a section of any circle within its range. As there is no escape of gas at the breech all the force of the powder is expended in giving velocity from cartridge htohwe to the ball. A conside ra ti on w hi c h i s cl a i m ed t o b e of the very fir s t i m p or t ance i n t hi s gun i s t h a t every battle-fieldt e il i u th s e r p d r i e s e c lo l u i f a dG r i discharged yssu o b r eliii w r gri results ucl where t a s w a withdrawn ,r shown on be stehle, of the 28,574 muskets co ll ected after the 'battle' 24,000 were found to be l oa d e d , 12,000 of them containing two loads each, and 6,000 being charged with c arged with from three to ten loads each, the cartridges oftentimes being loaded without breaking them, and many inserted with the ball down first. The gun is light and easily transported. One of the sizes now being made at the armoury discharges 58 100-inch calibre balls, weighs 225 pounds. The other size discharges balls of one -inch calibre (nine Ounces in weight), and weighs between 500 and 600 pounds. The first-named has a range of about one mile, and the latter upwards of two miles. The Senate Commission on Railroads, in the city of New York, unanimously adopted a resolution in favour of one line of underground road from the Battery to the City Hall Park, under Broadway, with one branch connection under Chatham-street, Bowery, and Third avenue, to the Harlem River ; another running on the west side, under Park place (or Murray or Warren streets, or by the most feasible route) to Hudson street, thence under llud son street to Eighth avenue, thence under Eighth avenue to Broadway, thence under Broadway to Ninth avenue, thence under Ninth avenue to Har lem River. The line under Broadway, between the Battery and City Hall Park, to be constructed only as part of one or more of the through lines. The Commissioner of the General L an d Office, at IVashington, has received rich specimens of ar- Igentiferous galena from newly discovered veins in Colorado, within five miles of one of the finest coal veins in the territory. The discovery (says the ln telligencer) is important, as it indicates a continua tion of the precious metallic veins in a north easterly direction nearly, if not quite, to the plains, and in close proximity to the coal. General Grant had a long interview with Secre tary Stanton on Jan. 2 upon the effect of the recent decision of the Supreme Court upon military commissions. It renders the Feeedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Bill nullities ; and while it is allowed to stand, orders will be issued to prevent any conflict of authority under it. Secretary Stanton, General Geary, General Palmer, and all other army officers w h o h ave been upon military commissions, are hourly liable to criminal arrest and trial. Senator Trumbull, who drew up both the above bills, agrees with the Supreme Court. This decision creates intense excitement, and it is now claimed by the President that the Constitu tional Amendment, abolishing slavery, will yet be declared a nullity. We regret to add the following long list of fires to those announced last week, which have entirely or partially burned Winchester's petroleum refinery, at Brooklyn, N X.—loss, $30,000, while two men were fatally burned ; a clothing establishment on Church-street, New York—loss, $34,000 ; the pre mises on Pine -street New York, occupied by God dard and Edgarton—lnss, $15,000 ; Ivins' building at Philadelphia, used for manufacturing purposes—loss, $75,000; the paper -mills of Cole, Hall, and Denni son, at Bloomfield, N.J.—loss, $20,000 ; the crockery warehouse of W. O. Farnsworth, at Cleveland, Ohio—loss, $50,000 ; the slaughter house of Samuel W. Under, and several other buildings at Cincinnati—loss., $15,000; the Caswell Hotel and three livery s t a bles at Honeyoye Falls, near Rochester, x.y.-1033, $15,000; the Eagle Iron Works, the repair and paint shops of the Mil waukee and Prairie due Chien Railroad, and several other buildings at Milwaukee—loss, $50,000, with $20,000 inniranee ; 22 buildings at Warrensburg, Mo.—loss,s2oo,ooo ; the wago n factory of Hebron and Schraer, and an adjoining building of St. Louis, Mo.—loss, $15,000 ; Williams' Hotel at Chicago— loss, $40,000 ; the warehouse of Van Newman, Reed, and Co., the Deyton and Western Rail road office and the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Richmond, Ind.--loss, over $lOO,OOO ; twelve buildings at Stillwater, Minn.—loss, $25,000 ; and a hotel, storehouse, and , other buildings At Hull, C.W., opposite Ottawa,:a Mr. Mills probably perishing in the flames, as he has' not been seen since. The infirmary building near Lebanon, Ohio, has also been burned, all the 150 inmates escaping safely, and fires with smaller loss than those mentioned have also been numerous. During the year 1866 the number of permits issued by the Building Inspectors of Philadelphia far exceeded those of any previous year. The total number of permits for new buildings was 2,752. The number by month was— January ... 76 IJuly 327 February March ... April ... May 63 ... 267 ... 233 ... 181 Juno August ... September ... October ... November ... ... 313 • 293 ... 301 • 228 December The character of the new buildings erected were as follows :—Dwellings, 1,872 ; churches, 13 ; school-houses, 17 ; factories, 65 ; stores, 97 ; shops, 154 ; stables, 182 ; breweries, 16 ; offices, 55 ; store-hous?s, 21 ; foundries, 9 ; hotels, 2 ; bank, 1. There were also numerous permits issued for -dye houses, sheds, bath-houses, coach-houses, saloons, slaughter-houses, &c. The total permits for addi tions and alterations were 1,151. Ai one permit sometimes covers several buildings, the probable number of new structures erected was 5,000. The $60,000 in securities recently stolen from the Merchants' Insurance Company at Newark, New Jersey, have all been recovered by negotiations with the burglars at Montreal, and the securities stolen from C. P. Bayard at Philadelphia have also all been recovered except $ll,OOO. A sharp and very interesting letter in the New York Evening Post, in reply to some harsh stric tures of that journal on the management of the great New England mills, contains a good deal of novel information about these establishments. The most important fact revealed by it is that the workers are now nearly all foreigners, the native Americans having gone into higher and lighter oc cupations, and that their " manners and customs" are, therefore, very perceptibly lower than those of their predecessors. As might have been expected, the French Canadians are the best cooks, and have the most varied bills of fare in their boaiding houses. Mr. Atkinson comments with deserved severity on the ridiculous practice now so common, both among Protectionists and Free-traders, of asso ciating particular opinions on the tariff with moral de pravity. Some of the best and purest men and deepest thinkers in the world are Free-traders, and have reached through deductions both from the prin ciples of human nature, and from the facts of history, the conclusion that free trade is the best thing for all the nations of the earth, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of civilisers and enrichers ; and, nevertheless, it is the fashion with the 7 ribune and a certain set in Congress to treat all Free-traders as " scoundrels," " knaves," "cheats," " designing fellows," and, if Americans, they are denounced as hired. with " British gold." In like manner, some of the free-trade organs insist upon it that all attempts to raise the tariff are the result of a deep-laid scheme on the part of manu facturers, to live on the public and escape hard work and competition and grind the faces of the poor. It would, however, be impossible to show that there is one whit more selfishness at the bottom of Pro tectionist arguments than at the bottom of Free trade ones. Of the millions in this country who believe in protection only an infinitesimal fraction have any direct interest in keeping out foreign pro ducts. But in the months of December, January, and February, the debates in the newspapers on this point ar e apt to be more amusing than in structive. Now that the Bowery Theatre is burned down, we find that it was always considered so unsafe that it could not be insured. This fact will make the public more anxious concerning the actual facts with the Academy of Music, which has also been reported as in the same condition. According to a report just issued by a select committee of the Canadian House of Assembly the copper-bearing series on the north shore of Lake Huron extends over a surface of 2,000 square miles, and nearly the same extent of country on Lake Superior is endowed in the same manner. Iron is also found in consid era bl e quan titi e s. The Na t ion says that " summar ies of Mr. David A. Wells' report on the Tariff arc finding their Way into the newspapers, and from them it appears that he takes very much the same ground as Mr. George Walker in his recent letter : namely, that relief for the troubles from which manufacturers are now suffering is to be found not in higher duties, but in the reform of the currency and the lowering of the internal revenue taxes. In other words, he thinks the true remedy for our present ills is to increase the purchasing power of the com mun ity, while an increase of duties would only cause a general rise of prices, leaving everybody just as he is at present, and leaving manufacturers just the same arguments for more protection that they use now. There is a point at which protective duties, on any theory about them, cease to be a tonic, and become simply an unhealthy stimulant. You give the patient a dram to stiffen him up against the foreigners ; its effects pass, and he feels weaker than before, and calls for another ; and so he goes on, his craving increasing as his strength and endurance decline." Rebellion t) be "Stamped Out." The • increasing excitement, not to say alarm, which the Fenian movements in Ireland are pro ducing, is naturally suggesting the treatment to which they must be subjected. Every one at all informed upon public affairs in this country is well acquainted with the views of the Tories on the general 'subject of rebellion. The London Times especially had 'very clear notions, which it freely and candily expressed as to our conduct during the troubles we underwent in suppressing an in surrection within our own borders. A mild and Christian temper was inculcated upon the loyal people ; separation was • both advised and pre dicted ; the suspension of the habeas corpus and arbitrary arrests were censured in that " thunder and small beer" gravity which was so amusing to Thackeray ; and the ruin of Republican institutions was threatened with a complacent grimace at once consoling and encouraging -to a people struggling with a fierce, confident, and well-organised band of rebels. But that part of our experience'is hap pily passed, and, we can afford to forget the malice when we remember the folly of these oracular stupidities. But the Times, which we have before discussed, when its manifesto was quoted by the cable, in reference to the Fenian rebellion, retains its malice, and so far forgets its folly as to fall into an excess of violence. Its opinions are based upon a belief in the solidity of a movement which, as it confesses, has hitherto been generally deemed only the result of luxuriant Irish imagination. Money, arms, and " Irish Yankees" that have been seized, are too palpable evidence to be any longer disregarded, " and there really is reason to think that Stephens, if not already in Ireland, will soon be there, and that he reckons if not on success, at least on impunity." Now the remedy for these difficulties,—for, as the Times observes, with charming implicity,—" Even England has its difficulties,"—does not lie in that beautiful sublimity of charity or even of indif ference which was recommended to us as a specific for " the disease and disgrace," which, accord ing to the Times, now afflicts England and Ireland. The millennium has not yet come " When lawyers give what they would take, And doctors take what they would give," and the old school practice, with boluses of cannon balls and pills of lead with a mustard poultice of military government of several thousand men power, is the only hope for the patient who in America did not require even a little confinement, or attention to diet when fire-eating was so common, or even the sugar-coated globules which pro-slavery generals administered at the beginning of the war. The result of Fenianism makes the Times shudder to think of it. Not because it can or will injure the British nation in any way, but because the British nation must injure it in such a way as will preserve the reputation which Eng land has acquired among other people, " of know ing how to suppress a rebellion, if it can do nothing else." " The rebellion would be stamped out as we stamped out the cattle plague." A rebel in that country, it appears, is not the romantic personage which is imaginW to be in continental politics, and, we suppose, in American politics, too, if America has not yet risen in English opinion to the dignity of being considered a continent ; he is a mere robber and ruffian." "So should there be another Irish rebellion, there will be no false sympathy, nor even respect, for those who take part in it." The Jamaica rebellion and the Sepoy mutiny are referred to by the Times as fine specimens of England's handiwork in sup pressing insurrections, and evidently excite a degree of satisfaction in the perfection to which that nation has brought wholesale " murder as a fine act," that only the morbid hero of De Quincey's monograph upon this subject could thoroughly appreciate and enjoy. We will turn you out, substantially boasts the Times, as beauti ful productions of massacre and mutilation as were ever executed with our cannon in India ; and we will challenge ourselves to surpass the admirable and expeditious strangulation that established among the blacks of Jamaica our well-earned reputation for putting down rebellion. The hang man of Lous XI. could not have been inspired with greater enthusiasm nor extracted from his dying victims ampler testimonials of his skill and judgment in his peculiar line of business than the Times exhibits in behalf of a government, which, as an Irish contemporary calls it, is " the peda gogue of the governments which are not able to keep their houses in order." The general tone of public expression is scarcely less violent. The wrongs of Ireland are to be cured by " heroic treatment." Moxibustion which scarred and cauterised the back-bone of the Sepoy and Jamaica revolts is the only relief for the diseased de pendencies of Great Britain. Whether they are suffering from moral and political dyspepsia, or from a congestion of all the vital forces under a chronic exposure to oppression and Tory bigotry, burning the spine is the only resort for so emi nent a physician whose patients lie helpless in the India of both the East and West. That the doctor will not shrink, however much his patient may, in this case we have the full assurance of the Times. Indeed that potential voice urges that pro fessional control and coolness will probably be lost in the excitement of the moment, when the flesh is seething and crisping under this beautiful curative process. "No government on earth can tie the hands and restrain the passions of subordinates on the spot in the heat of the conflict and half maddened by the sight and report of recent atrocities. The Englishman and Irishman, the Saxon and the Celt of this day, are substantially the same as they were in 1641 and 1798, and it entirely depends, as we believe, on Ireland whether there is to be a repetition of those dreadful scenes. A rebellion it is always possible to stop in time , but not its suppression. That cannot be stopped, and most certainly will not." Experience justifies the prediction of the Times, and another suppressed rebellion will swell the list of triumphs which has crowned the English nation with the fame which the great journal of that nation raises - as its standard on the eve of the conflict. Englishmen can enjoy, like a man whose dwelling overlooks Newgate, the spectacle which intervening oceans have before forbidden them to realise. Mutinous heads extir pated from vile bodies as it were at their own doors, without the penalties of a hot sun and liver com plaint, and insurrectionists hung within a few hours ride of London will display the developments of English power which distance has hitherto confined to journalists and the reports of the War Office. If the Times betrays the governing public opinion, and we see no reason to think otherwise, the Fenians may expect no mercy. The Sepoys and the Jamacia negroes are the precedents which they may study with the most profit and the most prophetic accuracy. England knows how to deal with rebellion, and with a fearful and unusual meaning to the Irish insurgents, knowledge is power. So long as this accomplishment is esteemed as one of the noblest traits of that nation, it will, doubtless, be displayed with all possible effect and indulged in to all agree able excess. Whether Ireland will be any better for the rebellion is, unfortunately, doubtful. That England will be any better or stronger for its suppression, no one, with any real sense of the grievances of the common people, not only of Ireland but of England, can for a moment believe. And the penalties for striving to redress or mitigate this condition of things seem to be the special but specious strength of the great nation which knows so well how to suppress rebellion. If it is as suc cessful as usual, we might even believe that some countrymen of ours might be thankful that this Government is not yet proficient in the science, and take immediate advantage of its ignorance, by submitting to the terms which demand that they shall cease to treat the freedmen as Jamaicaplanters treat the the blacks, and English landlords the Irish peasantry.—Detroit Daily Post. Some very interesting details have been submitted to and approved of by the Emperor connected with the census which took place in the latter part of 1866 relative to the population of France. They have been arranged by the Marquis de la Valette, the Minister of the Interior. It appears that in spite of the evil influence of the epidemics which have prevailed during the last five years in nearly every part of France, in spite of the causes of indisposition which particularly affected certain regions, for instance, the silkworm disease and 'that of the vines, the cotton crisis, and other circumstances, the increase of popu lation was not reduced. The 89 departments of France contained, in 1861, 37,386,161 inhabitants. According to the census of 1866 it amounted to 38,067,094 persons, thus giving an increase in five years of 680,933 inhabitants. In this calculation the soldiers and sailors who, on the 15th of May, 1866, the date of the Army census, were employed in Algeria, Rome, Mexico, and in the colonies, and naval stations, amounting to about 150,000 men, are not included. The population is thus divided : Males 19,014,109 ; females, 19,052,985. Total, 38,067,094°. The increase during the five years (1856 to 1861) in the ancient 86 departments was 677,738. In 1866 it was 673,797, or a compara tive diminution of 3,941; but this small difference is more than compensated by the increased number of troops who were absent from France, and was, consequently, not included in the census. The three new departments give 787,392 inhabitants to the general increase, which thus amounts to 680,933. Fifty-eight departments are in progress, and give an excess of 787,392 inhabi tants. In the other 31 departments the diminution is 106,459. The chief increase, of course, was i n the department of the Seine, which includes Paris. It amounts to 197,256. The greatest diminution was in the department of La Manche, and amounts to 17,522. In the Bouches du Rhone there was an increase of 16,155. In 1861, of 86 departments, 57 showed an increase, and 28 a decrease. The proportion was about the same in 1866. The decrease is chiefly to be attributed to the emigration of the inhabitants to more in dustrial localities, where higher wages are paid. This change, however, does not exclusively refer to large towns, as the tables prove. As a summary these tables show that there has been a sensible amelioration in the movement of the popu lation after 1856. The increase in the last ten years (exclusive of the three new departments) was 1,358,671; whilst for 1846 to 1856 it was only 738,878. A comparison of the figures shows that the population • progresses, and is commensurate with the development of the general prosperity. From the last census it appears that there are eight cities in France with more than 100,000 'in habitants. Paris, 1,825,274 ; Lyons, 323,954 ; Marseilles, 300,131 ; Bordeaux, 194,241 ; Lille, 154,749 ; Toulouse, 126,936 ; Nantes, 111,956 ; Rouen, 100,671. Fifteen cities have a population of more than 50,000, viz., St. Etienne, Strasburg, Brest, Toulon, Havre, Roubaix, Amiens, Rheims, Nismes Mulhouse, Montpellier, Metz, Angers, Limoges, and Nice. The course adopted of abandoning discussion on the address has long been talked of, and therefore the later of the Emperor to M. Rouher has not taken anybody by surprise. 'There seeinti to be almost general concurrence in the arguments and explanations of the Moniteur upon the subject. The official journal says :—" Everybody has been struck with the fact that discussions on the address tend more and more to divert attention from the topics mooted by the hour in the speech." _ _ LAW IN tELLIGENCE, Jan. 25. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. (Before Dr. Lushington.) THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC. -- THE BEATRICE, OTHERWISE THE RAPPAIIANNOCK. This case was mentioned on the last motion day, and in consequence of a report being circulated that the matter had been compromised by the United States Government, a public statement was made iu court when the case was now called on. There were two suits in respect of the one vessel ; one was on the part of the American Government to obtain possession of the Beatrice, on the ground that she belonged to them, having been used by the Confederates ; and the other action was against the Government, far an equipment in the nature of cordage suppliei. Dr: Travers Twiss, Q.C., applied in the first suit for possession of the vessel to be given and for costs. lie appeared for the United States Govern ment, and wished to make a few remarks on the Government asking for costs, as it might seem to be unusual. His lordship asked whether the application was opposed, and no answer being given in the affirma tive, thought it was unnecessary for the learned counsel to go into the matter. He might be satis fied of the contrary. (A laugh.) Dr. Twiss had no desire to go into the matter of costs, as no opposition was made. He was, how ever, instructed to make a statement in consequence of a report in the papers that the matter had been " compromised." The United States Government wished it to be distinctly understood by the public that there had been no compromise, and he hoped the statement now made would go forth to the pub- lic, and that the impression would be removed. His lordship said, as the motion was not opposed, it was no use saying anything further in the matter than that it would be granted. The Court decreed possession of the vessel to be given to the United States Government, with costs against the defendants. The second action was then called. It was a suit against•the American Government. Dr. Travers Twiss, Q.C., said they were defend ants iu this action. lie had to ask that it might be dismissed with costs. Dr. Lashington—ls it opposed ? Dr. Twiss said he believed not. Mr. Brett, Q.C., mentioned that the suit was abandoned. His Lordship made an order for the dismissal of the suit, with costs, and thus the case of the Bea trice, alias the Rappahannock, which has been some time pending in the court, and in which the Arne' rican Government appeared both as plaintiffs and defendants, was brought to a termination with the disclaimer in their behalf that there had been no compromise made between the parties. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. Wheat trade dull, and to effect sales rather lower prices must be submitted to. in other articles there is no mate rial change. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. The show of wheat to-day was tolerably good, an d there was a fair attendance. With a dull demand, all but the best qualities were is p er qr . l ower . Of fi ne b ar ley the show was small, but there was a fair supply of other kinds' The inquiry for superior oats was steady, at late price s ' Oats came sparingly to hand, and moved o ff a t l as t week ° quotations. For beans late prices were paid. Peas sold at former prices. Now white wheat, 60s to 70s ; new red, 59s to 63s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 51s per qr ; grinding , 26s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 31s. Beans, 4 8 s t° 50s per 38 stone. DERBY—FRIDAY. of A t our market to-day there was an average supply wheat, which met with a limited demand, at late rates. There was a moderate supply of barley, the demand for which was slow, but late rates were obtained. Of oat and beans the supply was limited, and late rates were bupported. A 6 New white wheat, 60s to 68s ; old red, 65s to 68s per - stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 48s per qr. ; grinding' 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 27s to 295; old, 298 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 46s to 503 per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL.-FJUDAY. We had only a poor attendance at our market today' and it was generally dull and flat throughout. Wheat 11 6 declined 3d. per cental, and flour is per sack and ban' Indian corn 6d to is per qr. cheaper. Oats and slow, and rather easier. S TAUF ORD-FRIDAY. Our market was well supplied with wheat for the seaso n ' The demand was quiet, and last week's prices were dac„ lll 4 to make. Barley met a tolerable demand at last week's prices. There was a fair demand for oats, late rates. 86 New white wheat, 64s to 68s ; red do., 58s to 62s per stone. Barley, malting, 44s to 50s ; grinding, 27s to 0 " per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 28s to 32s per 24 Stow. Beans, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. which sold RIPON—FRIDAY. White wheat, 8s Od to 9s Od per bushel ; red, Gs Gd to Ss Od ; beans, 7s 3d to 7s 9d ; oats, 26s to 32s per qr ; barlol 34s to 42s Od. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. The market has been very quiet during the week, sad _ scarcely any business h as b een d one e ith er i n r aw or r e ' fined. Rum sells slowly at late rates. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. g. Bradyell's Hetton 2l 9 Heugh Hall ............ 21 Wylam 2O 0 ships at market, 19—sold. 19. The Memorial Diplomatique states, with an air of official authority, that in the Circular Note ad dressed on the sth of December to England, Franc e ; and Russia, the Porte accuses Greece of tramplino under foot the general rules of neutrality, and eve n the most solemn engagements. The Porte th en _ invites foreign powers to remember that whate ver' may arise, Greece is herself alone responsible for position which is no longer supportable. As to the island of Canaia, the Porte asserts that among the ran ks of the insurgents the re i s now scar cely on e na tive, but that the pa r ti a l s t rugg l e i s k e pt UP b,.7 emissaries from abroad. A decree, dated the 17th of January, is pnblitch Colonies, reo rgan i s i ng the corps of paym asters in the Ilioniteur f or th e Mi n i ster of Mar i ne and '-nf 13 - 0 the navy. Am ong th e new regu l at i ons i s on e to t effect that the p a y mas t ers s h a ll no l onger be ch nseo mi n , from among the officers and agents of the corps, which will f ac ilit a t e th e a d vanceme nt of fr e r t sons employed in the pay d e p ar t m e n t. An nt ' bo regulation is that writers shall henceforward subjected to examinations, so that only young iti v e possessed of a certain degree of instruction IV' enrolled. pIS", LADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and -1 elO - Ready to Hand.—Every good and generous person l e i, o ft natural sympathy in the presence of suffering, bu c oul d much more graceful would that compassion be if itoeovia s to supply the means of relief. Professor Holloway °P e- th° every one the never-failing power of thus rendering re' most essential service to afflicted humanity. His en s on , medics reach the seat of every malady, whether it we, the surface or hidden in the darker recesses of th e J o. rior of the system, and then extirpate it, if that be V s : 4 o Plainly printed instructions for the guidance of 11 ' envelope every package of these restoratives, the tion of which is not only European, but extends th re out the globe. Births. , St' LAWSON—On the 24th inst., at 11, Abb e y-garue n , John's-wood, Mrs. John Lawson, o f a son . DiDI PURSSELL —On the 24th inst., at Laura Rouse, Gi1: 0- Mrs. Alfred Purssell, of a son. 000 . SWINBURNE—On th© 24th . inst., Lady Swinburnof (9 " , - Marriages. ALDRIDGX—GOLDSMITH—On the 24th inst., the r y pei church, Clapham, Joseph Aldridge, jun., of 19 '„ of j. 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