The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

Brand, R.N., and Chas. Buxton, Esq., M.P. followirg is the correspondence between Lieut. Brand, 11. N., and Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., re ferred to by Mr. Bernal Osborne in the House of Commons on Thursday : Junior United Service Club, London, S.W., Feb. 14. " Sir, —The course of events in conection with the recent disturbances in Jamaica has been so far run that I feel I may now without dishonour, and with out the possibility of its being suggested that my present action is dictated by the idea of influencing those events, address you with reference to the cor respondence which passed between us some time ago, and which you considered yourself justified in pub lishing. You are perhaps aware that the publication of those letters led to my being superseded iu the command of one of her Majesty's ships. You are also perhaps aware that the worst that the party who disapproved the conduct of her Majesty's offi cers engaged in the suppression of the Jamaica re bellion could do has been carried out against me. You will thus see that I have nothing to bespeak by now writing to you in explanation of the letterwhich I formerly addressed to you. Nothing I now say can make any difference in the ultimate result of the action which has been taken ; the matter has been taken out of the hands of us both by the publica tion of the letters which passed between us. I con sider myself free, under the circumstances, to make a few remarks upon the causes which led to my first addressing you, and to express to you what upon due consideration I think is right, my regret at having written to you in a style which I frankly admit should never have been used by one gentle man to another, or indeed to any one. " Having said this much, let ma tell you the cir cumstances under which I wrote. The insurrection having broken out in Jamaica, and martial law having been proclaimed, it happened that I was senior naval officer stationed at ➢lorant Bay, and bad to take the office of president of the court-mar tial appointed to try those charged with participa tion in the insurrection. The duty was an extremely unpleasant one. I had no choice as to accepting it, and I discharged it to the best of my ability, and obtained the approval of those officers to whom I was immediately responsible, of the local authori ties in Jamaica, the thanks of the Assembly, the approval of the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the station, of the Lords of the Admiralty, who with held the expression of their opinion until after the publication of the report of the Royal Commission, and which report aiso compliments me upon the way in which the courts-martial at Morant Bay were conducted. It was when, conscious of having done my duty to the best of my ability, and strong in the approval of all my superiors, to whom alone I was responsible, that I received the report of your letter and speeches. I felt that to be accused of levity as president, of inhumanity, and of being lost to all generous youthful impulse, and to all sense of personal honour, and of being the common hang man, was hard lines. I felt these accusations very keenly, the more so that I could have no chance of answering them. I, therefore, being at the time unassisted by any friend, and being surrounded by those who, besides knowing all the state of affairs in Jamaica, were as conscious as I was of the extent to which your charges were incorrect, and were in dignant for me at the aspersions cast upon me, wrote the letter which I addressed to you in the month of August. I have since learned enough to convince me that you could not have been actuated by any other than an honest conviction that you were ful filling a public duty, and stating what you believed to be true. "I, therefore, regret that I should have written to you as I did, and I feel sure that if you are not already convinced that the heavy charges against me we►e not well founded, you will before long be assured of the fact by the issue of the proceedings which have been' taken against me, and upon which I will not now comment.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " 11. BEAND. "Charles Buxton, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-crescent." "7, Grosvenor-croseent, S.W., Feb. IS, 1867. " Sir,—l have received your letter of Feb. 14, and I cordially accept the very cordial find handsome apology which it contains. Let me assure you, however, that I hardly considered your letters in their relation to myself, but published them (with your express permission) solely because I thought they would advance the cause I had at heart. " Will you permit Inc to notice that on one point your memory deceives you. The expressions of mine, which you quote as having provoked you into writing your first letter to me, were uttered by me on the night of July 31, and appeared in the news paper reports of August 1, and could not have reached you until long after Aug :st 8, the day on which you wrote from Jamaica. In fact that letter only alludes to a remark addressed by me to the Jamaica committee in declining to share in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre. " The words you now quote were, I admit, ex tremely harsh, and my first impulse on reading your letter of last Thursday was to express my re gret at having spoken of you in such terms. But on reading the statement which wrung from me those expressions of indignation I Llt it impassible to withdraw, unless, indeed, you should be able to show that I had been misled as to the facts of the case. In your first letter to me you allege that what had been said against you was false, and iu your letter of Thursday you speak of the extent to which my charges were incorrect.' Now, I can assure you, that it would be an inexpressible relief, not only to me but to many thousands of English men, if it could be proved that the alleged acts had not been really committed ; cr that they were necessary in order to put down the alleged insur rection, instead of having been done (as Mr. Eyre's despatches seem to demonstrate), after every shadow of danger had passed away. I think, therefore, I had better subjoin the report of what I stated with regard to :our courts-martial, and if you will show me that I exaggerated or coloured any part of the case, or that I omitted any palliation which it would have been fair to mention, I pledge myself to offer you an ample and sincere apology. " I rp, Sir, your obedient servant, " CHARLES BUXTON. "The statement was as follows. I said : " Now, let us turn to what took place under the direct superintenlmce of the authorities. What a relief must it be to pass from the sickening scenes at Manchioncal and Moncklauds to the administra tion of justice under oil and experienced soldiers like General O'Connor and Brigadier-Gen. Nelson, nay, under the very eye of the Governor himself ? Here again, starting with Friday, Oct. 20, we find that on that day, at Morant Bay alone, 19 persons were hanged. The next day, Saturday, 18 were hanged. Oa Monday 19, including poor Mr. Gor don. On Tuesday 14, Wednesday 10, Thursday 13, Friday 13, and Saturday 11. On the following Monday, Oct. 30, 18 days after the outbreak, 12 ; on Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, and still late. 23 more persons were hanged. I say persons,' because I grieve to say 7 of those who were hanged were women. Now, it may be supposed that the 189 persons who day after day were sent to the hang man at Morant Bay alone had been guilty of aiding at least in the slaughter of Europeans. That was not so. Except 25, they w ere not so much as accused of baying been engaged in any murder, but onl , r of rebellion, and of these rebels three were women Mary Ann Francis, and L e titi a Jasti na Taylor, ri- 2 0iiegan. 'Well, now, boar in mind that these 160 more persons, men and tvoinui, consigned t o the gallows at this one plteeand by this one tribun 1, were simply charged with rebellion, were not eve n rebels taken r e d-handed, in armed resistance to authority, and their trial was conducted by three youths, Lieut. Brand, a: listed by Lieut. Errington or Liut. Taylor, and Ensign Kelly or Ensign Cele, 17110 commenced their proceedings at 11 in the morn in.., finished them in the afternoon, and then, says Brand, in his flippant and shameful evidence, he went off to his dinner,' while the pox' wretches whom he had been condemning were put to death, °Lea under circumstances of shocking torture. Lieut. Errington, who superintended 130 executions, describes how occasionally the sailors had to assist the poor wretches W death, pulling them by the neck or pushing the knot down closer to the neck, and we are told elsewhere, though not officially, that sometimes large stones were put upon their necks to put au eud to their fearful struggles. But now here is another frightful fact. On the 30th of October Governor Eyre officially pro - - claimed that ' the wicked rebellion lately existing in certain parts of the county of Surrey had been sub dued.' He adds— The chief instigators thereof and actors therein have been visited with the punishment due to their heinous offences, and I am certified that the inhabitants of the districts lately in rebellion are desirous of returning to their allegiance.' Now will it be believed that on and after the day of the publication of these words more than a hundred negroes were executed, of whom 61 were executed at Morant Bay with the express sanction and approval of Brigadier Nelson? It will be said, no doubt, these men who were put to death after this solemn proclamation of the Governor must, of course, have been murderers. That was not so. Of the 64 men hanged at Mo rant Bay after the publication of this amnesty, 46 were charged with rebellion only, not of any com plicity in any murder. But beside all these, 202 persons were flogged at Morant Bay alone, and great numbers were also condemned to long terms of imprisonment. Now in a very few cases it has been possible to discover that three persons were hanged merely for having taken a part in the petty local riot some time before the outbreak at Morant Bay ; three others were convicted on affidavits made behind their backs by persons who might perfectly well have given their evidence in open court. Five persons were convicted at Port Antonio on the un confirmed testimony of a man who had himself just been sentenced to death as a spy ; and actually one of the persons thus convicted on the evidence of the condemned man had been oue of the witnesses against him. In another case one of the grave charges brought against the prisoner was that he had latterly been much opposed to the respectability of the parish. This charge was made by a petty local officer. What a shocking crime ! Opposed to the respectability of the parish ! Possibly to Bumbledoin itself. And this man was hanged on the very day when Governor Eyre was writing that the rebellion had been got under long before. But now let me give a single specimen of Lieutenant Brand's administration of justice. On the 3d of November, some days after the proclamation of amnesty, Lieut. Brand's court martial tried seven men and hanged them. Not a single one of the seven was so much as accused of any complicity in any murder, but only of rebellion, and one of them of treason. Let us select the case of this traitor. We have an official minute of his trial. The leading witness against him was Mr. Georges, and Mr. Georges himself mentioned as part of his accusation that the prisoner had used some insolent words of himself. Now, Mr. Georges had been convicted on several occasions of assaults and other offences against the negroes about him. How ever, his main charge against Samuel Clarke was, that in July, three months before this outbreak, at one of the so-called Underhill meetings, Clarke used some words of a seditious character. The reporter who was at the meeting also came forward to give evidence against Clarke, and gave an account of his speech, which also might have been regarded as indicating disaffection, but then the reporter and Mr. Georges gave a perfectly different account of what he had said. But then, in addition to this, Mr. Georges declared that when Mr. Cardwell's reply to the Underhill meetings was posted up this man Clark() actually said of it, It's a lie ; neither the Queen nor Mr. Cardwell have ever seen the petition from the poor people of St. Anne's.' Lieut. Brand was forced by the commissioners to admit that this proclamation was not signed by the Queen, but only by Edward Cardwell ; so that in ' fact this poor fellow was hanged for treason because he had accused my right hon. friend the late Secre tary of State for the Colonies of telling a lie.' Why, what a mockery of justice is this ! The poor fellow appealed to Mr. Georges whether he was not an industrious man, a carpenter who often brought the canes from his little freehold to be ground at Mr. Georges' mill, and he further pleaded that at the time of the outbreak he was not living in the disturbed districts at all, or anywhere near them, and that on hearing he was looked for by the police he gave himself up, and had now been in prison for 17 days. When I read the minutes of the proceedings in this case I could hardly be lieve my eyes when I found that nothing else was charged against the prisoner; that there was not so ! much as the faintest hint of his having been in any way connected with the recent riots ; and yet that he was sentenced to be hanged for words used mouths before. What can add to the blackness of this black story? I blush to say there is more. I I am also ashamed to tell what follows. It was proved before the commission by four several witnesses that Samuel Clarke, this poor, industrious carpenter, was one of a batch of prisoners who were flogged the day before his execution by Provost-Marshal Ramsay, simply, as it was seen, as a kind of little gratifica -1 tion for that worthy after the labours of the day. After the flogging It unsay thus addrssed them brutes ! brutes ! lie down,' and then they were marched, as usual, to the hanging ground to see the dying agonies of their fellow prisoners. The Attorney ' General's clerk also swore before the commission that he was present when General O'Connor said to him Oh, Clarke, is that you? Your brother was hung three days ago, and you will be hung on one of those trees.' the witness adds that the poor fellow, on hearing it, trembled fearfully. Could anything else be added to the blackness of this story ? Yes ; in tracing it through the Blue-book I found, to my amazement, a despatch of Governor Eyre's., which shows that actually this man Clarke was one of a batch of prisoners who m h e sen t him self, on October 31, the day after his own proclama tion from Kingston, an unproclaimed district, to be tried, or rather to be executed, at Morant Bay. Such is a single specimen of the treatment of the 189 persons who were put to death by this one court-martial.' " " Junior United Service Club, London, S.W., Feb. 23. " Sir, —My reply to your letter of the 18th inst. is simply thjs. I sat as president of a court-martial consisting of three officers ; my vote as president counted no more than that of my colleagues, and if I differed with them their opinions would have pre vailed. " I sat as such president by the direct orders a my superior officers. "'The sentences of the Court were carried out by the orders of my superior officers. " With them, and not with nae, rested the ques tion of mitigation of sentence. It was their duty to decide whether their acts were necessary to insure the suppression of the rebellion. My duty was to obey their orders.— I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " 11. BRAND. " C. Buxton, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-crescent, London." Recent visitors to Fortress Monroe say that Jef ferson Davis's health is better than it has been for six months past. lie is allowed free intercourse with visitors, and the unrestricted range of the fortress. The New Yorker who won $-10,000 hy the Henrietta, the successful y-- - W. Jerome, the rich b: correspondent says touches seems to turn to gold ..;vv years ago he was the proprietor of the Rochester American, and so poor that he could hardly pay for his telegraphic despatches. He now measures his wealth with the richest men of the city. Ile is the most daring speculator in Wall-street. He drives ,the most fashionable, team on Central Park. Ho has the finest stable in the laud, and will have a house to surpass Stewart's. [ADVER TISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.— Windy Weather.—'Throughout the spring, and sometimes far into the Summer, the keen easterly winds sorely test the weak-chested, the rheumatic, and the neuralgic. To subdue the first indications of these maladies, Holloway's well-known remedies should be applied at once ; each day's neglect makes the treatment more difficult and the issue more dangerous. These pills throw off all impurities, clear the lungs, regulate the circulation, and overcome in flammatory tendencies, and the ointment well rubbed in near the affected part checks all errono us action, draws all surplus blood which is creation raise:def to the surface, and then gets rid of it by increasing th capillary circula tion of the skin and augmenting its exhilements, IHE SUN, WM ON. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 4 1867 SHE NEXT EXHIBITION. All accounts agree that the Great Exhibition Building to be opened in a month in Paris, is by no means a handsome structure. Indeed, it is said to be the fac-simile of a huge gasometer; and, how ever admirably constructed for the objects in view, not calculated to impress the beholder favourably as regards its appearance. We anticipate that the next " Great Exhibition" will be held in New York ; and it is possible that American taste and ingenuity will solve the problem, which old countries have attempted in vain, of constructing at one and the same time a building that will answer the ends in tended, and present a sightly aspect. A few years more will work a great change in the tide of travel. New York will become a central city on the way to great nations, and the means of reaching it from Europe, are day by day becoming more numerous and less expensive. It is hard to tell what the turn of events will be, but we are safe in prophesying this change in the direction of travel. It would probably have occurred earlier, had it not been for the civil war. Much will depend on the speed with which the Union Pacific Railway is completed, when business and the conveniences of fered by the route will force passenger traffic into this channel. Travel in Europe has become too commonplace and easy for young and energetic men. The ascent of Mont Blanc has lost its novelty, though not all its danger, and the enterprising, weary of first-class carriages and first-class hotels. The foot of the English traveller will soon be imprinted on the slopes and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Few have seen the romantic beauty and grandeur of the Great Falls of the Yosemite, or its dell of matchless cliffs and cascades, where water bounds over moun tain heights, and falls in feathery streams of 2,000 feet. This Californian landscape has formed the subject of an American artist's picture, and its merits have raised him at once to fame. The treeless prairies and the great sierras are objects that will soon attract more general travel, not to mention the natural desire so rapidly growing of forming from personal observation some knowledge of the mighty nation which is now exercising such an influence on the world. It is probable that many Americans who visit the Paris Exhibition, will use the opportunity for obtaining information to be utilised here after, when the " 'World's Show" will be held in their own country. At some not distant day there will be a gathering of nations in New York, and the sooner the idea is conceived and entertained as probable—the sooner will action be taken for its accomplishment. These " World's Fairs" are productive of more good than is shown on the surface. They tend to make man cosmopolitan. We would like to see a number of Crowned heads, the guests of the great commercial city of the Republic, and these English aristocrats, pronounced by Mr. MOTLEY as models of human perfection, there to be judged on the spot by their own bearings as gentlemen. Had Mr. M•CuAcKEN known as much of these men as the Minister at Vienna, he would hardly have described his celebrated countryman as a " thorough flunkey" for enunciating this opinion. Such proceedings as those of Mr. M'CrtAcKEs are simply the result of ignorance for which the best remedy is in these universal gatherings of nations. A New York rowdy's idea of an English nobleman is a person with a haughty and presumptuous manner ; while the first principle of the nobleman himself is, that an unassuming, courteous, and quiet manner is the marked attribute of a gentleman. It is thus that in their ignorance these rowdies cannot comprehend the influence the " bloated aristocrats" exercise on all around them. But let them come in contact with them themselves, and they will begin to understand the reason why. The popular idea of a Chinaman is the very reverse of what a China man really is, and so it is with many people and classes with whom contact alone can set the igno rant aright. No World's Fair can properly repre sent America unless held in America, and it is time that the third city of the Universe should assert its position, and claim for itself the next invitation to the woad, for the display of its industry, science, and art.—A nglo-American Times. be the effort to pass it without debate or amend ment, and every member who will not at the word of command open his mouth and shut his eyes, and swallow whatever is given him, is denounced as a traitor to his party. Thus what is called Legisla tion is transformed into a game of hocus-pocus, and free debate and personal independence are no longer tolerated. Do Congressmen know with what utter contempt the people look upon this substitution of brute force for statesmanship ? The American Minister to Buenos Ayres has of fered to the Argentine Confederation the mediation of the United States in the differences with Para guay. _ _ . The Nation of Feb. 14 contains these items • Twelve or thirteen years ago Mr. Douglas, Mr. Jef ferson Davis, and the " Democracy" generally, were fighting hard, and apparently they fought with success, to spread slavery over Nebraska and the other Territories of the Union. But on Saturlay last, in spite of Mr. Johnson's veto, Nebraska was admitted into the Union as the thirty-seventh State, and on condition that she should bind herself to make no distinction amongst her citizens on account of colour. On the 29th ult. the Committee on Fe deral Relations of the Territorial Council, to whom was referred the consideration of this condition, re ported decidedly in its favour. Practically we suppose it will be faithfully observed, and answer its purpose. The new State is nearly ten times as large as Massachusetts, blessed with a healthy cli mate, somewhat warmer than that of eastern regions in the same latitudes-40-43 deg.; the surface of the country is generally level or slightly roll ing ; the soil is excellent, producing wheat, maize, oats, hemp, sorghum, tobacco, hay, and clover. The vine flourishes ; iron, coal, and salt are be lieved to be abundant. Omaha City, the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad, is the capi tal, and is situated on the Missouri River. The railroad above mentioned runs parallel to the Platte, the chief river of the State, for three hundred miles, and Nebraska is connected with the East by a road which runs from a point on the Missouri opposite Omaha City across lowa to the Mississippi. With its railroad facilities, its excellent free-school system (excellent for so young a country, and sow. to be better still), Nebraska offers great inducements to emigrants, and is sure to grow rapidly. A vigorous discussion of the power of the Senate to suspend the President during his impeachment has been raging during the week. Madison is re ported, in Eliot's Debates, as having conceded the existence of the power; but Madison in his own report opposed, in express terms, the grant of any such power—for the very reason, too, which now makes General Butler and Wendell Phillips argue for its existence : that it would enable the majority " at any moment, in order to make way for the function of another who will be more favourable to their views, to vote the temporary removal of the existing magistrates." The proposition was voted down by Bto 3. _ _ _ Professor Dwight, of New York, has been making a careful examination of all the impeachment cases in English history, with the view of discovering whether this power of suspension during trial had ever been exercised, and has failed to discover a single example of it. On several occasions the Commons asked the Lords to address the Crown for a removal from office of persons under impeach ment, but the Lords uniformly refused, on the general principle that the innocence of a functionary must be presumed until he is found guilty. We see as plain as anybody the inconvenience of having Mr. Johnson in office during a long exciting trial ; but we are so well satisfied that if the power of suspen• sion of the President were once established it would be frequently used hereafter by a party vote to get rid of the President for the time being, when there was neither the chance n or expectation of having him convicted, that we hope no attempt may be made to put General Butler's theory into force. We have got to a point in the history of the nation when we must be careful what precedents we esta blish. Three years hence the South will be back in Congress, with the Northern Democracy at its back, and we should be sorry to see our Radical friends hoist by their own petard. George Peabody has given a million towards the education of the South. The gift is a ringnificent one, and comes at the right time. The danger is that the trustees will try to do too much with it, and, by diffusing it over too wide a space, make little impression with it anywhere. The best use that could be made of it would be to employ it in the education of teachers—a suggestion made, if we remember rightly, by the Evening Post. Bayard Taylor in his summer trip thus described Central City, Colorado :—" In this population of from six to eight thousand souls one finds represen tatives from all parts of the United States and Europe. Men of culture and education are plenty, yet tot always to be distinguished by their dress or appearance. Society is still agreeably free and un conventional. People are so crowded together, live in so primitive a fashion for the most part, and are, perhaps (many of them), so glad to escape from re straint, that they are more natural, and hence more interesting, than in the older States. Owing to the latter cause, no doubt, it is sometimes difficult to recognise the staid New Englander in the sun burnt individual in sombrero and riding-boots, who smokes his pipe, carries his pocket-flask, and tells any amount of rollicking stories. He has simply cast off his assumed shell, and is himself; and I must confess I like him all the better." . . • • " Perhaps the thin air and alkali water' may ac and lodes,' n o a f im th s' e community. count for seem e t o r a p g o e s s f e o s r s o a w l n C I ? a g s s ' ecs l Every man you meet has his pocket full of speci mens.' When you are introduced to a stranger, he produces a piece of ' blossom rock,' a sulphuret,' or a chloride.' The landlord of the hotel where you stop confidentially informs you that he owns 25,000 feet—' the richest lode in tho country— assays $1,300 to the cord, sir.' The clerk is the happy possessor of 10,000 feet ; the porter (where there is any) has at least 5,000 ; while the cham bermaid boasts of her own Susanna Lode,' or Bridget Lode.' fhe baker has specimens beside his bread ; the dispenser of lager beer looks impor tant and mysterious ; the druggist is apt to give you chlorides' instead of aperients; and the lawyer who takes his fees in 'feet' (money being scarce) dreams of realising millions after the Pacific Railroad reaches Denver.' " Mr. Peabody, in addition to his acts of unparal leled benevolence, has bestowed $1,000,000 Mis sissippi Planters' Bank Bonds, on which overdue interest has accumulated since 1840, for the pro motion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education in the South-Western States. We are authorised to state that in August last, when an appeal was made to the British public for the endowment of Virginia College, the com mittee of cotton bondholders, pursuant to the powers vested in them by the bondholders when ever a satisfactory arrangement of that loan takes place, agreed on behalf of themselves and their con stituents to subscribe bonds for the endowment of the said college to the amount of £lO,OOO, or $50,000, and their subscription is entered in the subscription list collected by the Rev. Mr. Stuart, of Staunton, Virginia, and is doubtless now entered in the archives of the College of Virginia. Dr. Mary Walker lectured on temperance last Monday night at Fetter-lane Chapel. There was no disturbance, and at the close of the lecture Dr. Mary received a bouquet, along with a vote of thanks. It is said that Charles Sumner is to retire from political life at the close of his present Senatorial term and spend several years in Europe; that ex- Governor Andrew will be a candidate for his place, and also Governor Bullock ; that Hon. John B. Alley will then be Governor of Massachusetts ; that Generel Butler will be the next nominee of the Re publican party for President, and that E. G. Walker, one of the coloured representatives in the Legislature, will run for Congress in Banks' dis trict when his term expires. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher does not favour the movement in the House of Representatives for impeachment. Mr. Cyrus W. Field will return to America in the Great Eastern, March 20. Charles IL Thompson, an American gentleman residing in Paris, by a contribution of £4OO has outained last year twelve young men in Milan in their studies, preparatory to the ministry, and will do the same for the present year. Mr. Thompson is from New Haven, Connecticut. The contest for the Boston collectorship is nar rowed down to Deputy-Collector Kingsbury and John H. Clifford. Secretary M'Culloch favours Kingsbury, who is his nephew. Gen. Dix does not take the salary of naval officer of New York, as reported, and has never taken any portion of it ; but, on the contrary, positively declined to do so. Mr. Morrell, of the Ways and Means Committee, has gone back to Vermont on account of the ill ness of his mother. This will delay the Tariff Bill a little, though the committee will go on with its daily sessions upon it. Harvey S. Deming and Andrew Fitzgerald, both formerly dry goods salesmen at Boston, were killed in the recent Indian massacre at Fort Phil Kearney, in Dacotah territory. Young Deming fought bravely, and shot seven Indians beore receiving his fatal wound. John Prentiss, who is in his ninetieth year, and edited the Keene Sentinel when John Adams was President of the United States, is the oldest member of the profession in the country. Sanford Conover, who gave the " testimony" that led to the publication of President Johnson's pro clatnation against Jefferson Davis, has been con victed of perjury. The well-known Professor A. D. Bache, superin tendent of the American Coast Survey, is dying. The Committee on Foreign Relations have re ported adversely on the nomination of Senator Cowan as Minister to Austria. It is reported that the President has offered the Postmaster-Generalship to Horace Greeley. The President has nominated General Joseph J. Bartlett as Minister Resident to Sweden, vice J. ➢l'Gicnis, jun. He has also pardoned John Let - cher, of Virginia, and that gentleman is a candidate for Governor of the State. The following is the dedication of " Swingin round the cirkle," by Petroleum, V. Naseby TO ANDROO JOHNSON. THE PRIDE AND HOPE UV DEMOCRISY, Who hez bin Alderman uv his native village, Guvner of his State, Member of the lower house uv Congress, And likewise of the Senit, Vice President and President, and might hev bin • Dicktater, But who is, nevertheless, a Humble Individooal ; Who hez swung around he entire cirkle uv offishl honor, without feelin his Oats much ; The first public man who considered my services worth payin for ; AND TO ALEX. W. RANDALL, POSTMASTER GENERAL, His most devoted Servant, Whose autograph adorns my Commishn ez Postmaster, This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY DEDIKATED. Congress Consistent in its Policy. -4. The foggy medium through which many English see American affairs, was shown in the general con demnation of the war to preserve the Union, and now in their disapproval of the measures of Con gress to exclude the States lately in rebellion until they ratify certain conditions. It is asked--Why fight to preserve that which you afterwards legis late to dissever? Northern writers explain--but in vain—the causes which led to the Civil War, and the causes which force on the reluctant Executive the measures now necessary to secure the objects then contended for. Those who do not, and will not, understand the vital necessity of maintaining the Union intact, and of preserving this Union hereafter intact, see nothing but a contradiction in the course taken, and in ignorance, condemn the Legislature for acts they do not comprehend. If they regard dispassionately the causes which led the North to fight so desperately for the preserva tion of the Union, they may perceive why Congress so pertinaciously perseveres in a course which seems to them only a contradiction. In the first place, it would have been madness in the nation to permit the Southern oligarchy to establish an Empire bordering on them for thousands of miles, and filled with elements which sooner or later must have produced an explosion. Such a separation would have placed their enemy in a position to have wrought their own destruction. An amicable separation would but have deferred the evil day, and have given a fresh impetus to the evils at work , 'which were destined to pro duce so much misery and suffering. It is the policy of the United States to place the Continent of North America under one central authority, and the majority of the people believe that if this can be accomplished much of the mischiefs will be avoided which have so injuriously influenced all old inhabited parts of the globe. The idea of dividing the Continent into States, with their local legisla tures and executives, while centreing the supreme authority in a President and Congress, is a grand and noble conception. To extend over a vast and fertile portion of the earth the same laws and liberty, the same language and government, em braces boons so innumerable to its inhabitants as to be almost beyond the imagination of Europeans. A great blow would be struck at the happiness of mankind if the United States fail in working out the magnificent scheme. What blow could have been more fatal than the establishment of the Southern oligarchy - founded on slavery ? The darling con ception of the Northern mind would in this have been annihilated, and the noble Union, its citizms delight to contemplate, would have passed away as a vision. The dream of generations, taken up from the father to the son, of a nation embracing an entire continent formed by the work of their hands from the wilderness, would have vanished, and in its stead there would have remained but a great fragment hereafter to take no higher place than that of Russia or of France, bordered to the north and south by other nations who might at any time be hostile, or even in alliance with European despots. When South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter the North awoke to the conviction that it must fight or surrender its cherished conception. No wonder that the whole people turned with impatience from the mawkish sentiment of English writers who ad vised a peaceful separation, and lectured them on the horrors and wickedness of civil war. It was not along the English borders that a hostile nation was being built up, having for its corner-stone the aggressive and wicked institution of slavery. The noble scheme which for generations had leavened the Northern being, had never penetrated into the mind of these writers. To the Federal the Union meant all that was great and good ;'it meant all that was grand and magnificent in the future—it meant the freedom of the human race and the triumph of democratic principles. It appeared incredible to him that any man born under this Union could seek to destroy it, for so narrow, selfish, and miserable a cause as that of slavery. The fact, was however, certain ; and he was compelled to gird up his loins and ex tirpate the poisonous weed which had grown to such vast dimensions as to endanger the very existence of his cherished Union. This he did at an awful expenditure of blood and treasure. The war preserved the Union for the time. But legislation only, can preserve it for the fu ture. The object of Congress, putting all the paltry exigencies of party out of the question—is to bring back the Southern States as loyal members of the community. It is not only necessary that they should take their former place in the Union,, but it is requisite also that they should take it, purged from the crime which had caused so much suffering. Congress holds that this cannot be accomplished by giving legislative power to unrepentant rebels whose avowed object is to undo the work of the war. In forcing the Southern States into such a position that they must ratify the conditions dictated by the Legislature before re admission to the Union, is, instead of being in con tradiction to the principles contended for in the war a direct confirmation of them. So fierce a contest had a deep cause, which is not easily removed; but removed it must be, before the Union reassumes its former aspect. In this the North is consistent, act ing on a simple and fixed policy—one dictated by the commonest principles of good eense, and main tained with the greatest forbearance and concilia tion. We hold it to be beyond all question that Slavery threatened the preservation of the Union— that the North fought to preserve the Union, and struck down Slavery as its great enemy ; that the people recognised their crime in sanctioning the evil, and felt that they were called on to expiate that crime in rivers of blood and the agony of millions. But is the nation which has endured so much, again to sow broadcast, the seeds of another harvest of misery ? People should view the whole breadth and depth of the subject to understand the rigid deter mination of the North not to permit any considera tions of profit, of present national advancement, of the mere peace and quietness of the moment, of nature wearied out with:the endless strife—to inter fere with their inflexible purpose to place the future, as far as human means can, on a firm and per manent basis. Many other questions are debated which tend to draw attention from the vital inte rests that underlie them all. Congress may be wrong in some of its act?, and in many of its resolu tions, but it has the righteous cause in view—to preserve the Union, and secure for the future uni versal freedom ; and if it attains these great ends it will deserve well of the citizens of the Republic. —Anglo-American Times. Miscellaneous American News. The President has laid before the Cabinet a veto upon the bill passed by Congress for the military government of the South. A resolution has been introduced in the House of Representatives asking the President for information respecting the estab lishment of a Canadian kingdom, which it declares would be hostile to the safety and peace of the Republic of the United States, which resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The United States Mail Steamer Arago, Captain Gadsden, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday night, with 50 passengers and 371,653 dols. Among her cargo were 200 packages for the Paris Exhibition, consisting of 12 cases of sewing macLine3, 9 of pianos, and 181 of various contents. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times gives the receipts of the current cotton crop at the Southern ports as 1,189,000 bales, up to Feb. 9. lie adds, not quite one-half of the cotton year has yet passed by, and the receipts are almost as large as those of the same period of 1865-6, and about 45 per cent. of the average crop, for five years be fore the war, for the corresponding period. It is a lmost certain the crop will be larg e ly i n ex cess o f the estimates given early in the season, and will show that Dr. Forbes, as alleged at the time by Messrs. Neill Brothers, was completely taken in. He also states, it is reported, that the nomination of Senator Cowan as Minister to Austria, and General Ewing as Minister to the Hague, have been rejected by the Senate. The chances are said to be against the confirmation of General Dix ; but Mr. Sandford, Minister to Brussels, is to be con firmed. We are iu hopes that the strong feeling manifested by all Americans in Paris in favour of General Dix will have an effect on the Senate, and induce them to pause before cancelling so popular an appointment. The Springfield Republican says:—" The freed men of Tennessee have the right to complain that the party in power " keep the word of promise to the ear but break it to the hope." They are to be allowed to vote, but neither to hold office nor to act as jurors. The privilege of voting for white men and committing their lives and property to the protection • of white men is not a very radical advance on the old slave system. With a law to compensate loyal men for losses during the war, while the disloyal and the negroes are excluded from juries; eight regiments of troops to protect the ballot-boxes against disloyal voters ; and no body but themselveseligible to office, Brownlow and his small party are likely to have their own way, and not only keep the offices, but have a free chance at all the property held by the disloyal. Two Republican and one Democratic Congres sional Conventions were held in Connecticut onThurs day, the 14th February. In the first district the Republicans nominated Henry C. Deming, of Hart ford, for his third consecutive term, giving him on the first ballot 71 of the 88 votes cast. In the second district convention at Bridgeport the contest was much closer, aryl on the first ballot the vote w"7 divided between seven candidates ; J. It Hub .,ard, of Middletown, receiving 44, and P. T. Barnum 41. The " great showman" proved, how ever, as successful as ever, and secured the nomi nation unanimously at the last. The Democrats of the same district nominated Julius HotchkisA, of Milllotown, throwing overboar3 the two aspirants, Colin M. Ingersoll and James Gallagher, of New Haven, who had worked the hardest and suffered the moat to secure the honour. Twenty-two Republicans in the House of Repre sentatives, including Messrs. Dawes, Bingham, and Raymond, voted against ordering the previous ques tion ou Mr. Eliot's Louisiana Reconstruction Bill, and the Tribune correspondent sneers at them as " half-and-half Republicans." Opinions differ about what constitutes Republicanism, but as to the pro priety of forcing a vote on a new proposition on the very day it is made, and before the members have seen it in print, there can be no difference of opinion among men of sense. It is an act of folly and des potism. It has come to be looked upon as a matter of course that the more extraordinary and important any proposed measure is, the more determined shall IMPROVED STEEL-BEADED RAIL. The Scientific American states that it is generally conceded by railway engineers that Bessemer steel rails will wear about sixteen times as long as com mon iron rails. If such be the fact, it is a matter of the utmost importance that railway companies renew their roads with steel rails or steel-headed rails as soon as those already in their tracts are worn out. Some of the first engineers in the country have expressed themselves in favour of steel headed rails, provided the steel head could be welded perfectly to the iron ; as in Ame rica the weather is so intensely cold in winter that rails made entirely of steel are very liable to break. It is well known to all that until quite recently steel-headed rails have proved a failure, because it is such a difficult matter to heat a rail pile composed of iron and steel mcording to the usual mozltm of piling ; as the iron requires about double the heat to bring it to a welding state that steel does, con sequently either the iron is not heated sufficiently to weld, or the steel is over-heated which destroys its properties altogether : in either case the rail is unfit for use. Generally the iron is not heated hot enough to weld to the steel, and the result is that in a few weeks the steel cap separates from the iron, and the rail is rendered worthless. S. L. Potter, Superintendent of the Wyandotte Rolling Mills, claims to have discovered a plan by which a pile can be made of iron and steel, and dis posed in such a manner that the iron will receive twice as much heat in the furnace as the steel ; con sequently they are both brought up to a welding heat at the same time, without injuring the pro perties of either, and a perfect weld is secured. A section of the file about five inches by four inches—having been previously rolled or hammered from ingots seven or eight inches square—is intro duced into the side of an ordinary rail pile, and charged into the furnace with the steel toward the flue, thus protecting the steel with the iron from the extreme heat. As it passes over the bridge from the fire chamber, the heat passes through the iron to the steel ; and it has been proven by actual experiment that the two metals are brought up to a welding heat at the same time time. The pile is then rolled on edge, working the steel in the head. In the first passages through the roughing rolls a portion of the iron on either side of the steel is worked down in the lower part of the head, allowing the steel to form the head. More than fifty different pieces of rails made after this plan have been subjected to one hundred blows from a two thousand-pound steam hammer, literally crushing them, without impairing the weld in the least degree. Some of these rails are now in the track of the Michigan Southern and Northern In diana Railroad, Michigan Central Railroad, and Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, and have ihus far given entire satisfaction. This plan is peculiarly adapted to re-rolling, as the old rails can be rolled into flat bars, then formed into a:pile of the iron and steel. The old rails can at a very moderate cost be converted into a steel-beaded rail, one-third of which being steel, and two-thirds iron, that will be as durable and much less liable to break in cold weather than au entire steel rail. If it be preferred a T-shaped piece of steel can be used instead of the square piece, and the same result obtained. This invention is patented in the United States, England, France, Prussia, and Belgium. A Deceiving Horse. "And what are you doing with the Oliver horse, sir ?' "Well, anything and everything; hack him and hunt him, and so on." " And can he jump at all ?" " Yes, that he can ! He is a good flying-fencer ; and nothing I ever put him at yet has either turned him or troubled him." " Come, sir, now I'll tell you what I'll do. He had hardly pace enough over the flat, though he would last for over. You send him up to my place, sir, for a month or two, and we'll see if he can't pull off a steeplechase handicap, or a hurdle-race. If he does, we'll divide it ; and if he don't, I'll stand you harmless for the wear and tear of his teeth." So be it. When will you have him ?" " The sooner the better. I suppose there's not a deal to get off him, for he never carried much flesh !" " N-o-o—he's just in good hard-working condition." The speaker who made this handsome proposal was our old friend Dominie, the trainer; while the other " party " to the dialogue was a country gentleman, who dearly loved a bit of racing, if there wasn't too much to pay for it. The Oliver horse had been rather a sore subject in this way; as he had run second, third, and fourth for a year and a half all over the country, until his very travelling bill was something considerable, but without oven the set-off of a solitary " fifty " to be placed against it. However, another such a chance at no cost was not to be resisted ; and the worthy owner, Mr. Wilson, left the Stand in which this conversation took place, determined to start the bay off again for Thisley Downs the very next morn ing, as he only was " eating his head off " at home. The Oliver horse certainly did not look in a likely way to accomplish this extraordinary feat; and his "hard working condition " had a good deal of literal truth about it, for he was little better than a bag of bones, as he had been by no means pampered on his return from that un profitable tour in the provinces. Still he would, of course, be all the readier to go on with ; and the odd man of the establishment was soon hunted up. " Here; Jack, I want you to take the bay horse up to Mr. Dominie's again. You had better start the first thing to-morrow morning. How long will it take you ?" " Be I to walk with 'un ?" " 0, yes ; go right across the country, you know." " Well, a couple of days—leastways we shall have to be out one night on it." " The deuce you will ! Then I'll tell you what you must do. Get on with him to-morrow aS far as Penty bwywn, and ask my friend, Mr. Carre, to give the horse a birth for the night, while you can put up in the town. You know Mr. Carre ; he keeps the hounds there, and we have got a puppy of his here now. One good turn de serves another." " Yes, sir ; and be I to take any clothes for the horse, or anything of that sort 2" " No, no ; Mr. Dominie will find all that. Only put on an old stable-bridle to lead him with." " Very well, sir," said Jack, who would have preferred a rug to ride him with ; but started next day as directed, and arrived in duo course at Pentybwywn. Mr. Carre's place was a good two miles out ; and at the close of a dull dark November day Jack led old Oliver up to the stables. " Mr. Carre at home ?" " Well, ho has not got home again yet. What may you want with him ?" " I as to leave this here horse from Mr. Wilson's— Mr. Wilson of the Fogge House." " Oh, ah ! I know ; him as has got one of our Dori monts. Well, you can leave him with me, and I shall take precious good care of him you may be certain. Would you like a horn of ale before you start again ?" Naturally Jack would like a horn of ale, or two, or three, if it came to that, before he wont in search of his own quarters ; soon after which the squire came in from shooting. " Anything fresh, Evans, since morning ?" . " Nothing particklar, sir ; Mr. Wilson, as has got Har mony at walk, has sent a horse in." _ _ . " That's all right—vary much obliged to hini, I'm sure ; just, too, when you'll know where to put him." And the Squire went in to dinner ; and Evans, who was huntsman, and foreman, and all that sort of thing, pro ceeded to make his arrangements for the morrow before it got quite dark * The Squire was an early. man, and in the kennels b: times the next morning, when Jack again turned up. "Morning, sir." " Good morning to you ; and what may it be you want ?" " For Jack's "personal " was not very prepossessing ; and Mr. Carre had too many hangers-on from the town to give much encouragment to any of the sort. " If you please, sir, I come from Mr. Wilson with that horse last night, and"— " Yes, yes, I heard of it. And how is Mr. Wilson, and !low is Harmony, eh ?" " Mea,ster is tidy, thank you, sir, and the little bitch as 'at as butter." " That's all right. Well, give my compliments and best thanks to your master, and " —as Jack still hesitated — "here is something for yourself." " THANKEE, sir," said Jack, with a very marked em phasis on his words ; for he had really got more than ho expected, however open he was to handling a half-crown or two. Still he readily put it down to his care of the puppy ; and went on to ask of Evans where he should find his horse ? "Your WHAT ?" said the Squire, utterly eclipsing Jack's own emphasis of expression. " The horse, sir—the horse I brought here last night." "Yes, yes, we lalow all that ; and what then ?" "Why then, sir, I be to take 'un on this morning to lvlr. Dominic's, at Thistley." "What in the world were you going to take him there for ? Dominie has no want for flesh." "No, sir, not as I knows on ; but they be going to put 'un to work again." Evans looked hard at the Squire, and the Squire looked as hard at Jack. "By Jove ! my man, I'm afraid we've put 'un to work again in a way you hardly bargained for. Here, do you think you should really know yuur horse now if you saw him?" " In course I should, sir," said Jack. And the Squire led the road to the boiling-house. Ere took up a leg of beef as he got there. -The Oliver horse had a white heel, and Jack turned deadly pale. The Squire said nothing, but beckoned him out into the pad dock, where, under the elms, amongst other relics, was the head of a horse evidently fresh slaughtered. The Squire commented on this in a low ominous tone of voice. " Once more, I say, young man, give my best thanks and compliments to your master. lam afraid there has been rather a serious mistake here ; but we were very short of flesh, and you were not over explicit as to what you wanted of us. However, it will be a satisfaction to your master to know that he will never drop another tenner over this poor beggar ; and so, anyhow, we have saved him some money, and you some trouble." Jack got through his message as best he might ; but he was in want of a situation on Saturday ; and Harmony, with five-and-sixpence to pay, was delivered by the carrier in the course of the week, with a parchment label round her neck, embodying Mr. Wilson's " best compli ments and thanks."—Tales and Traits of Sporting Life. PRYOR v. IHE YORKSHIRE CONSERVA- TIVE ASSOCIA2ION. At the Hertford assizes on Saturday the proprietors of the I orkshine Post and Leeds Intelligencer were sued with an action for libel, published on the 18th October, 1866. Chief Jnstice Bovill presided ; and Mr. Sergeant Parry, on opening the case, said that the plaintiff, Mr. Felix Prior, was a gentleman of large fortune, residing at Digsvrell House, near Welwy. Five years ago he purchased a stud of racehorses, and in June, 1865, he purchased a yearling colt at Mr. Blenkiron's sale at Eltham, which was after wards named The Rake, and which was at present a great favourite for the approaching Derby. It appeared that The Rake had won two races, ono the Althorp Park Stak es, Northampton, and the other the Middle Park Plat e at Newmarket. The last race was run in the month of Octo ber, 1866, and on the Saturday before the race a trial took place upon the heath at Newmarket, in or der to test the qualities of the horse before the actual ra ce • took place. On the 18th of October, after the horse h ad won the Middle Park Plate, an article appeared in the defendant's newspaper, signed " Observer." It s tated that " the manner in which the Rake was worked before he ran for the Middle Park Plate had given rise to mo re dissatisfaction and strong language than any ev ent that has occurred at Newmarket since the un fortunate Taragona affair." Sergeant Parry read the re mainder of the libel, which was to the effect that there had been a "flash" trial, at which Mr. Matthew Dawson, t he P trainer of the Duke of Newcastle was purposely i n vited and that ho was deceived as to th e we i g ht s , and was, consequently, made to appear a m uc h more moderat e animal than he really wa s , an d was so described to th e Duke of Newcastl e . Th e s t a t emen t won t on to alleg e that the result of this proceeding was that the plaint iff ' Mr. Pryor, had been enabled to get a large sum on the horse for the Derby, and that, when the real facts c ould longer be concealed, Mr. Matthew Dawson was told , that the trial had only been got up for the purpose oE throwing dust in his eyes. Although the defendants bad inserted an apology, and admitted that there was not the slightest foundation for those charges, Mr. Pryor fel t that it was due to his own character and to his friends to go into the witness-box and state upon his oath that the charges were false. He did not ask for damages. II !' Pryor was then examined as a witness, and, detailing W e facts as they had occurred, he declared that no foundation existed for the charge made against him. Mr. Montagu Chambers, for the defence, offered an ample apology for the misstatement, and consented to accept a verdict aga ins•, his clients, with £25 damages. Chief J ustice Bovill briefly addressed the jury, observiug that it was most serious libel, and expressing a hope that the apology would have as wide a circulation as the article complained of, and the jury returned their verdict for the amount agreed upon. Sergeant Farry subsequently stated that, as the action was not instituted by the plaintiff from pecuniary motives! the amount of the verdict would he given to the Hertford infirmary. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. Thorn was a fair supply of wheat to-day, in imp rov es condition. The demand was good, and prices 1700 of quoted 6d to is per qr. higher than last week. Pric es a malting and grinding sorts receded Is per qr ; the demon for the former qualities was still fair. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s • o ld red ctitto, (weighing 631 b), 60s t o 62s ; n e w red dtto (weig b g 601 b to 631 b), 60s to 62s ; best malting barley (weigh 521 b 521 b to 531 b), 46s to 48s ; runs ditto (weighing 51lb to um g to 43s to 45s • distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 3 1 63 40s ; oats, ' 2lB to 26s ; beans, '678 to 398 ; peas (maple), to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. At this day's market there was only a moderate E u PPI of wheat ; the demand was firm, and the prices of last Wee s were sustained. The supply of barley was by no mean.. abundant ; inferior was is per qr. cheaper. There was - s limited show of oats, and a fair inquiry, at recent price.: The demand for beans was limited, with little change prices. Old white wheat, 68s to 725; old red, 60 s to 665 ; ne,"! white, 62s to 70s ; now red, 52s to 60 s per 36 stone. °II old, 34s to 38s ; new, 24s to 32s per 24 sto ne. Beans, o'„ 54s to 59s ; new, 45s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 48D to 50s per sack. . LEICESTER —SATURDAY. We had a tolerably goo d supply of wheat at to - daY 'd market; the demand was steady, and prices underwent rte}, no material alteration. Abo ut an avera g e su pp l y of barl with a limited inqu ir y , at rather lower prices. Oats auo beans without any important change. Not much inquil for peas. New white wheat, 65s to 68s ; new red, 59s to 63s • 01d, white, 6 8s to 70s; old red, 64s to 66s per 36 stone. aA ; ley, or malting, 48s to 54s per qr.; grinding, 3 3 s to per 30 stone. Oats , old , 34 s to 36 s ; new, 28s to 3 0 3 s per ne. 2 4 stone. Beans, old, 56 s to 60 s ; new, 42s to 48s per 8 sto Fine flour, 50s; second; 45s to 46s per 20 stone. YORK—SATunDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat Best samples were about the same; inferior rather lower: A small show of barley, with a slow trade, and the r ate: of last week were difficult to support. Oats may qOt7 much the Sallie as last week. Beans in limited detuau 7 and prices were the turn easier. 36 New white wheat, 54s to 60s ; new red, 48s to 56s per stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ; gri nd le: 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 2?.3s per 24 Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to do Flour, 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. was linu HOUNDS AGAINST HORSES. —We understand a great match has been made for six hounds to run three hanters lit a four miles across country. for a heavy stake, and match will be run shortly in the neighbo urhood of ItArlild sor.—Bell's Life. Birhs. AGG—On the 28th ult., at I, t Oakley Villas, Cheltenle! the wife of Lieut.-Col. Agg, 51 st King' s Own Light in fantry, of a daughter. ifo GURNEY —On the Ist inst., at West End, the w of Frank Gurney, Esq., of a son. "' a yes, _pa SURTEES —On the Ist inst., at 3, Somers-place, Ilydo-r -the wife of Alfred W. Surtees, Esq., of a daughter. 0. SCOTT—O n the Ist inst., at Acton•vale, t he wife of Th° A. E. Scott, Esq., of a son. Marriages. OLAUlRTReEr—isTWorlLLwoloA,Mi,SOGN.—soOmnersthem2rdkei,nEsttn., at o f A o ll oc S k a: p n y t _:,-;.! street, Pall-mall, to Louisa Harker, youngest daugt of Thos. Williamson, Esq., of Savage-gardens, Trilll4 square, and Upper Norwood.me Church, Pangbourna, Rot h e .e rt HAWKINS—TANCRED — On ford and Glnturk, county Mayo, to Lucy Sybil, ?` daughter of Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart of Bose ' Nei Berks. 2sB.thmuovltk.,inast; FLETcnER—On the 28th Deaths ult., at 8, Gambier-terrace, Li'ler-- Pool, John Fletcher, Esq., solicitor. GILPIN— On the 28th ult., a t Christ's H os p ital, Lendourl Wm. Gilpin, Esq., of Palewell Lodge , East Sheen, u rey, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, aged 6 Villas, 13f0- 7. OAKLEY—On the Ist inst., at 7, Chepstow water, Octavius Oakley, Esq., aged 67. RICHARDSON—On the Ist inst , at W es t View, St• 3151.- . garet's, T wickenham, Lieut.-Col. James EichardsoPf aged 72. Smatt—On the Ist inst , at Leonard'son-Sea, A. Silli t !•4 Esq., of The Cleanings, Rochester, M.A., St. Fet an College, Cambridge, aged 40. London : Printed and Pablinhed by 11' LLL IA ISI AN Not : „ of No. 112, Strand, "'tinter at 'rims SUN the Coc o. oe, N 0. .. 1 , . 1 Strand. in tio Precinct of the Savoy, fa v faiddiefleX.—Nonday, Mtreh 4, 1867.