The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION. F3IR JOHN PAKINGTON ON EDUCATIO7I. A conference was held on Monday at the Society of Arts rooms to discuss " the best means for providing throughout the country a national system of education, where'll every child in the kingdom may have opportunities of obtaining elementary instruction, of a character at least equal to that which is within the reach of all in Prussia, Saxony, Switzerland, and other continental countries" The sir cular convening the meeting went on to say that the council of the Society of Arts is of opinion that it is of compara tively small value to provide means for the teaching of science and art, unless, in the first instance, the people are prepared to take advantage of it by an extended and im proved system of elementary or primary instruction. The piesent time is considered particularly fitted for a Confer ence, The Society of Arts takes no political or party view of the question, but sympathises with all who profess to provide for the national education of the people. Lord Hesine LENNOX, as chairman of the council, pre sided. He said the Society of Arts thought that there was no society which had a better claim to be heard on the subject of education than themselves. They were the first to establish the system of local examinations. They sympathised with the object of the Union and League, and subscribed to both, as their aim was to place within the reach of every child a sound primary education, but the Society of Arts went further, and said that it was possible for a child to have a second-class—a higher education. The speaker then went on to read a report prepared by Mr. Chadwick, which said that in Ealing and Brentford there was a drinking shop to every hundred persons, and the average taking was .C 360. In the former £B,OOO were spent per annum in chink, an d £750 in education, or 30s. per head in drink against thirty pence in education, and in Brent ford £20,000 was spent in drink against £l,OOO i n education, or £3 per head iu drink, and 3s. i n education. The society was in favour o f supplementing the present system. They did not wish to dictate to the Government on the subject, but only to strengthen it. They wished to extend the action of the Factory Acts already in existence. There should be compulsion in the case of the street Arabs, and though the expense would be considerable, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would find Veit eventually the amount would be saved. With refe• rence to denominational education, the Chairman said he was in favour of a conscience clause, and he found that public opinion had veered round to that opinion during the past few years. Sir JOHN' PAXINGTON, M.P., proposed the first melts tion, which was to the effect that a department of Government, responsible to the Government, be consti tuted, in order to secure the education of every child in England and Wales, and that the department should have large and general powers. Sir John hoped that the discussion would not be carried on in a religious, political, or exaggerated manner. He had never been on enthusi astic admirer of the present denominational system, and as a national system he looked on it as a " clumsy contrivance ;" but it was now so rooted in the country that he did not think any prudent man would wish to uproot that system. The duty of the Government in reference to it was to make it reach every class of the people. There were three great requirements to make the system a good one. First, there must be additional schools, though he did not think that so many were required as some people thought. The second requirement was that the present schools should be better _ than they are. The third and most important was that the attendance should be more regular, and the stay of the child longer. As to the question of compulsion, it was one that required to be cautiously considered and cautiously dealt with. He hoped that the Government would go for indirect com pulsion on the basis of the Factory Act, so that the child should not leave school till fourteen years of age. With respect to religious teaching, there could bo no objection for the Society of Arts to have said Aye or No whether there should be a religious teach ing in schools. He did not advocate that religious teach ing should bo banished from our schools. He did not believe that was the sentiment of the people of England. He would read extracts from a letter of Mr. Miall read at the meeting of the League at Birmingham, and also an extract from the speech of Mr. Bright, who said that love of truth, virtue, and God, and the fear of offending Him, every teacher should teach. Neither Mr. Bright nor Mr. Mall were Tories or Church nen; but they were Christiana. If the secular system were adopted, the suggestions would not be carried out. He thought that denomina tional schools must be left as they are; but whenever funds were given from the Government, there should be an indispensable conscience clause. If the system by which the children were taught the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments were adopted, he thought it would meet with approval. Sir John then went on to speak as to the necessity of a Government department in education. Lord de Grey was supposed to be the education Minister by some and Mr. Forster by others ; but they had no distinct power to originate measure, or to come down to a cabinet and say, "these are my views and must be carried out." He hoped the Coveinment would com mence its administration of this subject by the appointment of a department competent to deal with the question. As for himself, he should in this question know no party, but the millions of children of this country on whom in future the country had to depend. Canon Meeseeee seconded the resolution. Everybody felt that the question of religious teaching must be brought forward. He was desirous that the Church should be equal to the national demand. He did not want it to be narrowed into a mere denomination, to which the action of some of its members would lead it. He did not believe in dogmatic religious teaching; but would have the Creed, Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer taught. He did not believe in " top dressing" of religious teaching ; but without religious teaching, the master of a school could carry out no system. Mr. BUXTON, M.P.. supported the resolution. As long as there was no man who was responsible for education there was a loss of power. If he believed that the majority wished teaching to be separated from religion he should reluctantly bow to it ; but he held a totally different opinion, The religious difficulty, of which they used to hear so much, was rapidly vanishing. He believed that now all parties were in favour of a - stringent conscience clause where Government aid was given. There must be sufficient school accommodation, and they must take all the steps possible to make the children stop longer at school. With regard to the first the Privy Council would have to make searching inquiries, and.by liberal grants there would soon be additional schools. If that was not found practicable, he would go to the ratepayers, but he could not go with the League in the opinion that there ought to be educational districts. He thought, save in exceptional circumstances, appeals should be made to Government for supplementary grants. He was also opposed to throwing schools open gratuitously to children of all kinds, as it would take too much responsibility off the hands of the parents. By doing away with the parents' fees they would be acting disrespectfully to the working classes, in placing them,as it were, on a distinct footing from the other classes He would extend the Factory Acts, but gradually, so as to bring the employers to a sense of the extreme impor tance of having the children educated. Mr. CORRANCE, M.P., as representing the Union, was glad there was so little difference between theirscheme and that of the Society of Arts. He was in favour of Govern ment management an I Government aid instead of a rate on the ratepayers of a given parish. The Rev. W. ROGERS said the religious question had rot been imported into the question by the people themselves, but by enthusiasts. The people wanted religion; but certainly not dogmatical religion. Some people wanted to frighten them by saying that the schoolmasters would teach atheism; but he maintained that, as a class, they were a religious and moral class. Very few clergymen taught in the schools, but they ought to do. Mr. J. S. WRIGHT (Birmingham) heartily supported the resolution. They were all agreed on one thing—that there should be a Government department. It should be obligatory on a parent to provide the child with educa tion. They had no right to place, as the Factory A c t did , the obligation of educating the young primarily on the employer; the State and the parents had a right to do it. Dean ALFORD believed that the religious difficulty hail vanished. lie thanked God that the present diffi culty was one that would not endure. It was now whether the Government should support the school without sup porting religions. Mr. J. II BASTARD, a member of the League, advocated its principles. He thought that compulsion was made a bugbear of, and he really did not know how, without it, many of the children would get to sebool. If conipltlsi! n wore adopted, the school must be free. lle amted that the eacitingof the creed was the teaching of doctrine—a thing they wished to avnid. Dr. W. B. IloosoN was in favour of the motion, but thought that the speakers had not stuck to the resolution, but discussed general matters that arose from it. The resolution was then carried. Professor OWEN moved the second resolution, which was, "That the means of instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, with moral training, and, where practicable, in drawing, singing, and drill, bepi'ovided for all, and encour a,:;ement given by Government to the higher branches of pliant culture, science (especially that bearisig on health) and art, and that infant, primary. and secondary school►. colleges, and universities receiving Government aid be helped to act in union as far as possible, as parts of a system." The learned Professor felt that secondary edu cation depended very much on primary education. The study of natural history was well calculated to teach methodical arrangement, observation, and classification. The latter was a species of logic. Mr. E. CHADWICK seconded the motion, and pointed out the great want of technical education. He had heard it s lid that mere education would not sufficiently occupy r. Minister, and perhaps that would be so if they had only education ; but it was shown that a great number of deaths occurred among the children through bad school-houses; and the minister could see after health. Mr. GEORGE CAMPBELL, as one of the people, said he was glad the word "compulsion" had not been introduced into the present resolution. They must put the "three R's " within the reach of every child in the kingdom. llts advocated morals founded on religion as part of the primary education. Canon MELVILLE moved, as an amendment, to insert the words "religious instruction" just before the words moral training." The Rev. Dr. BARRY seconded the amendment. Ire thought that moral education without religious educatinn was impossible‘ Professor OWEN thought the rev. gentleman who had Proposed the amendment ought to give a definition of tha meaning of the word " religion." Dean Arson]) thought that the words of the amendment were badly placed. Mr. S. MORLEY, M.P., was of opinion that the majority of the working classes were not opposed to religions teaching. They objected to their children being used by any denomination to swell its numbers. That was his idea ; but he protested against any attempt to drive them out from any school where religion was taught. He wished the teacher, supposing a child had committed a theft, not only to say " You have committed a theft," but also to shew him that he had offended the law of God. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BUXTON, M.P., would not object to Government giving aid to secular schools where people like to have them. Mr. HOSKYNS asked for the word " unsectarian" in the amendment, after "religious instruction." Dr. BENNETT thought they were representing the working classes as they thought they were, and not as they really were. If they had invited some of the leaders of the working classes, they would have heard what they really thought on the subject. He knew a great deal of the working classes, and knew that they looked at the question from a purely unsectarian point of view. They were asking for a State education, and that the State should teach them religion. Mr. T. ID:ouEs, ➢I.P., did not think that was implied in the words of the resolution. Dr. BENNETT, LL.D., continued to contend that the words of the resolution conveyed the meaning he had at tributed to them. The opinion of the country was against State interference with religion, and the words of the resolution, as amended, would set the Council up as against the declared will of the people in this matter. If they insisted on the Bible being read it was sectarian edu cation. The Protestant version of it would be looked ea as heretical by the Roman Catholics, and thus many a conscientious Catholic would refuse to send his chil dren to school. They must also think of Ireland, and if there was denominational education in this coun try the Catholics would have it in Ireland. They wore told by Cardinal Cullen and the Irish Bishops what they meant by denominational education—• a thing different to what they understood. By the words of the resolution they approved either of an Irish grievance, or endowed in fact Catholicism. lie believed that the word " unsectarian " was not enough for the working classes ; they wanted "secular." (No, no.) II: spoke from experience. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON thought that Mr. Miall might be taken for as good an interpreter of the feelings of the working classes as the last speaker. A Conference of the sort they were ought not to go into details. They were assembled to consider prin.- ciples. They came to a broad principle—was or was not religion to be excluded from the teaching of the schools? He said, No; but did not wish that to be the least sectarian. He should be sorry fer a report to emanate from such an influential conference that they were oppogeci to religious teaching. He would suggest to Canon Mel ville and Dr. Barry that, instead of saying. "with religious instruction," they should say, "with due regard to religious and moral training." Dr. BITTLEI2 Viought the reliTious in-`ruction -ould best given by the master of the school, and it would be a bad day if they had to hand over tbo religious training to the ministers of the different denominations. Canon .11ELTILLE said that he vi void accept :air John Pakington's suggestion. Canon CROMWELL supported the amendment as sug Bested by Sir John Pakington. He held that the educe tion was not given by Government, but by the dcnomina tions themsclvc.3. The amendment, as suggested by Sir John raking ton, was put to the meeting and carried. Mr. EIR;Au BowniNo, M.P., moved a r‘ solution to the effect that no child be had for labour who is under a given age and not receiving satisfactory instruction, and that the attendance at school be compulsory, according to the principle of the Factory Act; and that indus trial schools, union schools, reformatory schools, and the like should be brought under one direc tion, and compulsory powers given to take and educate children of the vagrant and destitute classes. He had just been before his constituents and they were of his opinion. He was sorry that such a difference existed between the statistics of the League and the Union; for while the former said there were 2,000,000 of children who 'ought to be at school, the latter placed the figures at 300,000 to 400,000. The plan of indirect compulsion, as advocated in the resolution, was superior to direct com pulsion as Ile felt the English people would not like the fines and penalties that would necessarily be comrnitant with the enactments. Mr. ALEXANDER REDGRAVE seconded the resolution: Where the factory system had a fair opportunity it worked well. In answer to Dr. Barry, Mr. CHADWICK said in tho ag,icultural districts the system of children attending the schools on alternate days in lieu of the half-time system adopted in the factory districts had been found to work well. Sir JoHN PAKINGTON hoped that the system of half-time would be extended to the agricultural districts. He argued that penal consequences ought to be visited on the employers as much, if not more, than on the parents. Mr. ASHFIELD (a working man) did not see how they could find out whether the child had been to school. Ho did not approve of the half-time system. He believed that the compulsory aspect of the question would be the most difficult one on which to arrive at a conclusion. llr. REDGRAVE said there was a system by which it was easily ascertainable whether the child had been to school or not. Mr. S. MORLEY, M.P., thought the resolution a most important one, as it did not go very far in the direction of compulsion. The parents did nut care for the few pence paid for the schooling, but they thought of the few shillings a week they earned. They went in the right direction when they forbad the employers to pay wages. Sir JOHN rAKINGTON supported the system of parent fees. He did not think it right to, as it were, throw away the £500,000 yearly received from that source; and, secondly, the parents had a right to contribute. The resolution embodying this view was unanimously carried, and the Conference rose at half-past five o'clock, having sat, with the interval of half an hour, since cloven. Glasgow is said to be overrun with pickpockets, and robbery from the person to have greatly Increased. Im portations of thieves from England have taken place conse quent upon the operation of the Habitual Criminals Act in this country. The Blandford magistrates Imre committed for trial at the Dorset Assizes Henry Stickley, for obtaining money from Charles Hambro, gag., Ml'. for Weymouth, by pretending he wanted to rejoin his regimen{ at Bristol. The Liberte says :—" A subject of conversation in diplomatic circles is a scandal of which a Princess of the Imperial family of Austria has made herself the heroine. The Archduchess Elizabeth, tired of the monotony of conjugal life, fled recently from the chateau of Seclo vi•z, abandoning her husband, the Archduke Charles Ferdinand, and her four Children, in order to see the world. She was however overtaken at Harnburgh just as she was about t o em b ar k f or th e United States. The Archduchess is 30 years of age, and is a daughter of the Archduke Joseph of Austria, Palatine of Hungary, and consequently sister of the Queen of the Belgians. She was the widow, after two years of marriage, of Duke Ferdi nand of Modena, brother of th.-+ Countess do Chambord and of the Princess Nati•t of Bourbon, mother of Don Carlo: ; rlre subsequently married tli Archduke Charles Ferdinand. A dteighter by her first husband is the wife of Prince Luitpodil of Itavaria, and one of the most wealthy Princesses in Europe." Tut CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.- •Notice has been given in the official gazette, Ottawa, that an application will be made to Parliament next session for a charter to construct a railway from Ottawa to Fort Garry, Red River, and thence to the confines of British Columbia; also for the construction of a branch from Fort Garry to the most conveni•-•nt point in the United States, with power, also, to build steamers and other vessels and navigate the River Saska: an and its branches. and the rivers and lakes traversed by the rail ay - ; also, that the credit of the Do minion be extended in aid of such company by granting mortgagos on the wild lands of the Crown along the route in proportion as the work promeds. The name of the company will be the Canadian Pacific Railway a,ud Navi gation Company. THE BUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ENTIOITG, FEBRUARY 8, 1870. 7HE ENGLISH EXODUS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Standard can emphatically be said to be the poor man's friend, and its party gains, by being able to associate this feature with 'Toryism. Its columns are freely opened to all charities, to every thing which adds to the health and happiness of the most helpless portion of the community. When children are to have a Midsummer treat or a Christ mas dinner, foremost in promoting it is the Stan dard. It, does more to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to heal the sick, and to instruct the ignorant than any other newspaper in England. Latterly, following its old tradition, it has placed itself in a wise and liberal spirit at the head of the Emigration movement. The cold, heartless, poli tical economy of the Liberals contrasts unfavour ably with the direct and earnest effort of the Tory journal to benefit the oppressed masses. Recog nizing the fact that the families of tens of thousands of industrious workmen are pinched to the verge of tarvation in the absence of labour, it advocates their transport to lands where they can be profitably em ployed. It takes the broad ground that the people are in want, and that their wants can only be effec tually supplied by such a movement. Without help they cannot go ; but so vast is the assistance re quired that the necessary aid can only be given by the nation. The political economist answers with a string of axioms; the State is not bound to find work; what individuals can do ought not to be thrown upon the Government; emigration furnishes but a temporary relief, indeed encourages a chronic con gestion of labour ; or the present depression is tem porary, and if under its influence an exodus flows abroad a scarcity of labour will be the result, to be felt severely when prosperity returns. These and other wise saws received a forcible reply from the Standard last Monday. An argument used in favour of a natonal system of emigration, although old, remains irrefragable, that its tendency is to add to the comfort and increase the wealth of all ; those who go, those who stay, and those who receive the immigrants. But the Standard contends that emi gration to the United States is got the same thing for England as adding by it to the strength of her colonies, and the force of its argument is undeni able : " Speaking in round numbers, the United States with a population of 38,000,000, take £21,000,000 of British goods, or at the rate of lls. a head; the Dominion of Canada, with a population of 4,300,000, takes £7,000,000, or 335. per head ; the colony of New South \Vales, with a population of 450,000, takes £3,000,000, or £6 13s. ; the colony of New Zealand, with a population of 220,000, takes £1,700,000, or £7 14s ; the colony of South Australia, with a population of 170,000, takes £1,200,900, or about £7 ; the colony of Victoria, with a population of 700,000, takes £6,000,000, or at the rate of £8 10s.—the broad fact being that the Aus tralasian and American colonies alone consume more than six times as much of the products of British industry as the United States in proportion to their population. Emi gration to the United States therefore, however beneficial to that country and to the emigrant himself, cannot be said to be advantageous to England as compared with emigration to her own colonies." While recognising the formidable nature of this po sition, may not the difference in the consumption per head in a degree be due to the political enmity exist ing between the United States and the United King- dont ? Analysing the Standard's figures, we see that the colonies consume English manufactures in proportion to the period of their settlement, the youngest taking most,the oldest least ; which means that manufactures grow gradually, following on an established agriculture. This would, however, but partially account for the wide disparity, and we are constrained to acknowledge that the tariff of the United States is framed in a spirit hostile to Great Britain, and that the effect of directing emi gration to the United States would not at once be, as asserted by the Standard, so advantageous to Eng land in the way of trade, as emigration to her own Colonies. Perhaps no other manner of putting this could show so clearly the folly of the poli tical enmity and rivalry which still exists between the nations. The English emigration movement is gathering force with a rapidity to which there is scarcely any parallel, and far transcends in im portance either the Irish land question, or the edu cation question, or any other political cry of the day." Next to its importance to England, is its importance to the countries whither so ferti lising a stream is destined to flow. Our readers will do us the justice to acknowledge that we have foreseen this exodus, and endeavoured to impress on the iii:n is of those likely to influence the masses some truths which ought not to be overlooked, or the opportunity for making North America tho roughly English may this last time be los' for ever. The first truth is, that the United States embrace the finest portion of the North American Conti nent, and offer the cheapest, readiest of access, and best tracts for settlement. The next is that Eng lish settlement will swamp the enmity of the Irish clement, the one influence counteracting the other. 'Thirdly, that Protestantism, freedom, and Republi can institutions will by it be strengthened, and these two leading nations brought into greater harmony. Finally, that it is wise to accept the inevitable with a good grace, and when you have to give, to do so with an air that the gift emanates from generosity and goodwill ; otherwise, the grudged benefit may he accepted, while the reluctant donor is detested. Now in this great national movement, England has little choice ; for in transporting hundreds of thou sands it is essential that the best land lying nearest should be taken, and that land is the United States, whither the people will find their way—all prejudices notwithstanding —as water finds its level, for no artificial obstructions can perma nently divert the flood. '1 hey will go, but if they get to the Union, not aided by but in spite of their leaders, much of the beneficial influence we hope for must be lost. To send emigrants to Cana da is but choosing for them a circuitous route to the Western States ; to send them to Australia or New Zealand in the numbers demanded by the emergency is beyond even the national purse. Nor is it just to the people, who surely possess the right to have their interests consulted. It is not fair that because a political jealousy exists between England and the Union that the finest domain now open for the reception of man should be closed against the English. If the Republic has the best country why should it even so far be barred to the British poor, who will there find their own language spoken, their own religion flourishing, congenial tastes and habits, and the liberty they so love ? The United States want this emigration ; and not only want, but require it, to balance the Celtic and German influx ; and that on the one side there should be efforts to divert the stream from entering its natural channel, and that the other should go out of its way to furnish cause for this action, may.well appear incredible to the his torian, considering that both are working towards their injury, merely to gratify a blind, senseless, prejudice and spite. The Standard does not agree with us as to the destination, though sufficiently liberal to advocate emigration anywhere in prefer ence to no emigration, which we recognise as an advance in the right direction. The views so per sistently pointed out by us are now more frequently taken, and there is a gradual change in public opi nion, which we can see as plainly as we foresaw the English exodus. The former are from as true a point as was the latter, that point being simply this :—The English exodus must come, because English migration had hitherto been from the coun try to the towns ; these labour-centres being clearly overcharged, emigration and that alone could sup ply the relief, for there is no migrating back to the country; hence either the exodus, starvation, or revo lution. This exodus when it does flow must go to the United States, because that is the country easiest to reach, possessing the best, cheapest, and most attain able land, not only fertile, but blessed with a good climate, and all an Englishman requires in the way of freedom.•—Turn whichever way we will we see ,so competitor, and the verdict of Europe has em phatically ben given in favour of the IZepubho, Take Canad;i, and as we aFsert it is but a circuitous way to the West ; Mt-xieo is a community of bri gands and thieves ; Brazil the next barely habi able field for tl}e European, is shut up in its despotism and slavery ; the Arentitie Repu! , lics furnish the only place really open in South America, lot tin y are far away, under a rule totally out of synq achy with Engli,hinen, differing in religion, languaLp and institutions. Still we would give the Pampas the preference to the Cape, while Australia and New Zealand are beyond the reach of the masses. We mai❑tain that English emigration must go, and is going, to the United States, and that it would Le wise on the part of those who endeavour to aid and direct the exodus, frankly to accept and act on this truth. TRIAL OF THE TURRET-SHIP CAPTAIN. Her Majesty's turret-ship Captain, 4,272 tons, 900-horse power, twin screw engines, under the command of Captain Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., and the Valorous, 12, paddle sloop, Capt. W. Trem lett, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from the Mersey and Holyhead. The Captain steamed into Portsmouth harbour immediately after her arrival, and berthed alongside the dock yard in readiness for the usual survey and docking given to a new ship by the Govern ment officials on her being received by them from the hands of private builders. The Valorous anchored at Spithead, and it being her first appearance; there during her present commission saluted the flag of the Port Admiral. The salute was returned by the guns of the flagship, the Duke of Wellington The Captain and Valo rous steamed out from the Mersey on the morning of Saturday, January 30, passing the Bell Buoy at 10 50 a.m., and at 4 20 p.m. the same day pas,ed inside the Holy-head Breakwater, and came to an chor in the harbour. On the following morning it was blowing hard, with heavy rain and squalls, when it was decided not to proceed until there was a change of weather. 'Throughout Monday and Tuesday and the forenoon of Wednesday the wea ther maintained its rough character, but 0:1 the afternoon of Wednesday the wind moderated, and Captain Burgoyne determined to proceed. The ships weighed their anchors about 4 p.m., and steamed out in company, the rate of progress being necessarily regulated by the speed attainable by the Valorous—from Bto 9 knots. Outside Holy head the ships found a strong southerly breeze, with a heavy swell running from the south-west. On the following day, Thursday, February 3, the wind still further freshened, with a rather heavier sea. At 8 p.m. the Longships Light was abeam. The weather conti❑ued unchanged during the ensuing night and up to about midday on Friday, but with the wind gradually veering more to the eastward, and during the afternoon both wind and sea became much more moderate. About 1 a.m. the Start Light was passed, and at 8 p.m. the Bill of Port land was passed. At 2 a.m. on Saturday morning the ships were off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, and then stood off until daylight before running in for Spithead, where they arrived at 10.30 a.m. In the heavy beam seas found off Holyhead and the Laud's-end the Captain displayed most satisfactory sea-going qualities, being exceedingly buoyant and easy in all her movements. Very little water fouild its way on deck (the Captain is the low freeboard type of the cruising turret-ship, as the Monarch is the high free board), and at no time could any of the seas that at times threatened to break aboard over the low and bul warkless side of the ship have prevented the work ing of the turret guns. The engines of the ship did their work throughout the distance between Birkenhead and Portsmouth without a fault of any kind. Their speed was, of course, regulated by the pace of the valorous, except for a short time on Friday afternoon, when steam was given them, and their revolutions got up to about 70 per minute, at which rate they moved with perfect smoothness and efficiency. VAL EIFFAIRS A 7 NAL7'A. VALETTA, Feb. 1. A review of the Naval Brigade of the Mediterra nean squadron was held on the 26th ult. on the Floriana parade ground. The force landed con sisted of about 1,200 men, about 200 of whom com prised the field piece crews, under the command of Commander Fitzßoy, of her Majesty's ship Prince Consort, and 1,000 of the small arm companies, which latter were formed into two battalions, under the respective commands of Commander Pringle, of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden, and Commander Bridge, of her Majesty's ship Caledonia, the whole force being under the command of Captain Brandreth (flag captain), of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden. At the conclu sion of the review the Brigade was divided into its otigival formation, and marched through the town to the Marina fur embarkatini. his Exe - Alehey Sir Patrick Grant, accompanied by the Vice-Ad miral, and attended by the naval andmilitary Staffs, led the way, followed by the field pieces and by the two battalions, each with its own band. fler Majesty's screw troopship Striooin, Captain T. B. Lethkridge, left Malta on the 29th of January for Gibraltar, Queenstown, and England, with the 27th Comrany ltoial Engineers, consisting of Lieut. C. J. Rat sell, Staff Assist.-Surg. Hector (in ineeical charge), 70 non-counnissioned officers and men, 9 women, and 8 children ; Mrs. Collinson and 6 chil dren. She will embark at Gibraltar the 30th Company Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. Mont morency, for England. The 27th Company Royal Engineers has been relieved at Malta by the 26th Company, which arrived here by the Simoom. Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile, Capt. G. W. Watson, arrived on Sunday at 8 a.m. from Alex andria, with the 82d Foot, and resumed her voyage for England this morning at 7.15. The Naval Com mander-in-Chief inspected the Antelope, 3, steam vessel, Lieut. Commander J. Buchanan, on the 27th of January, and found her in a very satisfactory state. Mr. Ewen F. Doraville, midshipman, has been appointed to the Caledonia as part comple ment. Mr. Arthur W. Brabazon, supernumerary Sub-Lieutenant of the Bellerophon, has been ap pointed to the Antelope, vice Bayly, promoted. Mr. Duncan M'Vean, supernumerary engineer of the Hibernia, has been appointed to the Bellerophon, vice Williams, invalided. Some movements are anticipated by a squadron in harbour, and it is be lieved they are to go outside in a few days for exer cise and gunnery practice. The Swedish screw frigate Vanadis, 22, Capt. Odelstiernen, arrived here on the 29th of January from the Pirxus and Sal/tot - in, on her way to Toulon. On entering the port she exchanged the usual salutes with the for tress and flagship, She will probably remain here about a fortnight." BUDGET OF 11'1ISCELLANEOUS.—The New York Tribune made $163,000 last year.—Harvard University has forty-nine professors, forty-two other teachers, and eleven hundred and seven students.--A new brand of champagne has been introduced, which, in honour of General Grant, is called the "President's Cabinet."—A troupe of sixteen Japanese acrobats has arrived at San Francisco.—The London Directory for 1870 contains the names of eight hundred Browns, nine hundred Joneses, while the S myths, Smythe, tied Smythes muster sixteen hundred strong.— The editor of the Alabama State Journal modestly requests that some of his patrons will present him and his printers with a barrel of good whisky and a bushel basket of eggs, as a slight token of their appreciation.—Four tons of silk worms have just been brought by steamer to San Fran cisco from Japan. They are to be sent to New York and thence to France.—At a girl's school in Tennessee lessons in the use of the sewing machine are given twice a week —an example which might be profitably followed.—The suit of the United States Mail line against the insurance companies in Cincinnati, to recover for the loss of the steamer America, burned December 4, 1868, between Cin cinnati and Louisville, at the time of the collision with the United States, has been decided in favour of the mail line. —The product of 17 of the principal silver mines in Com stock Ledge; in Nevada, during the past year was $7,265,000.- A new lantern has been placed in the light house, Montauk Point, Long island, of nearly double the brilliancy of the former one.—The Chicago Post says that three-fourths of the U.S. Senate are interested pecunia rily in the maintenance of a high tariff.- One of the most intimate friends of Daniel Webster, at Boston, is preparing a volume which will contain incidents of his private and social life. -- The Arrapahoe Indians are awaiting the arrival of those Chinamen in Texas with anticipations of intense ei.j , yment in "lifting" the scalps so nicely prepared by the growth of pigtails.—The steamer Colorado sailed from San Francisco for Panama on Monday with $1,061,000 in treasure. of which $41,000 are for New York, $613,000 for England, 115,000 for Franc •' l $441,000 for Callao, and $20,000 for Panama. Total il , pttients of treasure since Jan. 1 were $2,90.5,000, including $030,700 sent to New York by rain he Glenhant Itott.l, in Fifth-avenue, Now Yolk. is tween 'Twenty-first au d Twouty-,t coud streets, which was opened in September last, is closed. The whereabouts and occupations of a number r.f not,ble Southerners are given as follows: -John C. llreckeebridge is practising law at Lexington, Ky. ,• Jas. M. Mason is on his farm, at Winchestor, Va. ; John Slidell was, at last accounts, living with his son-in-law, the great banker, Erlanger, near Paris; Judah P. Benja min is in full practice at, the London bar ; Pi.rre Soule was, at last accounts. a hopeless invalid ; R. M. T. Hunter is on his farm, in Virginia ; Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is practising law with great success; his colleague, Iver son, is a prosperous wood merchao t, at Macon ; ex-Gover nor Vallee is practising law in North Carolina; ex-Sena • tor Wigfall, of Texas, is in Paris; George N. Saunders in London, and Beverley Tucker in Canada ; Henry A. Wise, Thomas S. Bocock, J A. Seddon, H. A. Edmund• son, and Charles James Faulkner are still living in Vir ginia. AMERICAN CORRESPOADENCE. (From the Anglo Amertean Times) NEW YORK, Jan. 22. As our Postmaster-General has drawn the Ham burgh-American line into his arrangements, our tri- weekly mails will be resumed. That company's packets leave New York on Tuesdays, landing the English mail at Plymouth and the French mail at Cherbourg, the latter being also conveyed for six cents per ounce for letters. The Guion boats leave on Thursdays, and the North German Lloyd's on Saturdays. Besides these mails for Europe, the French steamers will carry a mail each alternate Saturday, and the Canadian line a weekly mail from Portland in winter and from Quebec in sum mer, while a semi-monthly mail goes from Balti more by the North German Lloyd line. I mentioned last week that the Rev. Henry 'Ward Beecher's salary had been raised from $12,000 to $20,000, and the report was that the rev. gentleman him self was at the bottom of his upward movement. He announced, however, to his congregation last Sunday that the first he heard of the advance was from the newspapers and he rejected any addition. Ex-Governor Salomon, of Wisconsin, a lawyer of high reputation in the West, has opened an office in No. 141, Broadway. A motion of attachment against General Butler was made by Judge Free man, as he failed to appear in the case of Rowena Florence. General Butler contends that the case is in the U.S. Courts, but the judge says the peti tion to that effect has not been sworn before any one authorized by Congress, and is therefore not receivable in evidence. Cushing and Otter v. John Laird brings forward the Alabama claims. Laird's property in America has been attached at the suit of the owners of the ship Sonora, burnt by the Alabama, and his counsel has moved to set aside the attachment. There has been a raid on Wall-street to send off the brokers who can give evidence on the gold gamble to the Congressional Committee now sitting in Washington. The Episcopal Bishop Coxs, of the diocese of Western New York, r.:- turned in the Cuba. He has been to Rome, and thinks the Pope will carry the dogma of infalli bility. Mrs. Isabella Huskins is being examined at the Tombs, charged with being a confederate of that nice young man W. E. Gray, of whom I lately gave you an account. She says she is 24 years old, born in New York, looks after her children, and is altogether very proper and respectable. The city has been all agog in expectation of Prince Arthur's visit. He went to the Brevoort House, Fifth aveuue, and the proprietors are doing their best to shut out the übiquitous reporters, who are equally bent on interviewing his Royal Highness. Such a chance does not often turn up, and the reporter will consider himself defeated if the young gentle man escapes a catechising. The Mayor and other city authorities have met to discuss what ought to be done, and the Union League Club talk of a grand banquet. He arrived yesterday, proceeding this morning to Washington, so we have bad but little opportunity to do lionizing, which is reserved for his return. Hewalked down Broadway,and went through Central Park. The private car of the president of the Hudson River Railroad was sent to Montreal for his accommodation. Our curious citizens who assembled at the different stations through which he passed were disappointed in ex pecting him to alight. It is here asserted that the Prince acts in obedience to his mother's command to visit President Grant ; but it is also his mother's command that Mr. Thornton should att e nd the ob tequies of Mr. George Peabody, and the ships have or will immediately arrive at Portland, so he has to be in two places at once. The Rev. M. H. Smith, writing from New York to the Boston Jour nal, accused his clerical brethren of driving fast horses, drinking at piblic bars, &c. ; but, his letter having attracted attention, he has been obliged to eat his words, or the editor for him. Fisk and Gould, I now learn after some hesitation, have left for Washington to tell some more little stories about their September gold panic sensa tion. They are firm against the Erie men on strike, who are g.Ating the worst of it. Perhaps the little fac's, if Fisk is to be believed, given by him at an interview last Wednesday, may be of interest in Etglaud, where the shares are largely held. Ile stated that the strike has cost the company a con tract for the transportation of 4,00 J soldiers, and entailed other loss's ; alse that the expenditure of the company reached ilaily $lOO,OOO, while the re ceipts scarcely amounted to SIO,OOJ. We continue to carry on the war between capital and labour ; the coopers are oa strike at Brooklyn against reducLd wag s, acrd the ha:lel-makers for more. The piano forte men are going in for a grand strike, which has commenced in Steinway's factory. A. fight is pro gressing among the express comp inies ; the Adams' Express desire to open' an office in Chicago, and work over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad. The American Merchants' Union want offices in Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and the Washington and Boston line to be opened to them. This the Adams refuse, tendering some thinginstead that the Union refuse,which may endin their running in opposition, and opening offices wherever they like. They tried to settle their dif erences at a meeting in New York, but failed. The old investigation has been resumed into the affairs of the Methodist book concern, the first report being pronounced unsatisfactory by all. The inquiry at any rate shows how loosely managed the business has been, which has led to the remark that it is no credit to its managers if there has not been fraud, every opportunity for fraud being left open. CustOms' frauds continue to be revealed in New York. A number of merchants have used two in voices, the one for the Custom-house and the other for the consignees. Twenty-five houses are im plicated in this city alone, mostly Germans in the upholstery business. The State Senate has passed two bills to incorporate the Lowell Museum of Fine Arts, with a capital of $1,000,000, as well as the American College, a Conservatory for the Blind, and to hold real and personal property. Mr. Charles O'Connor's new house on Fifth-avenue, bids fair to be one of the finest in New York. It is of stone, covering the entire lot, 100 feet deep. The library behind the parlour, which looks on the Avenue, will receive Mr. O'Connor's large law library. The mansion consists of four storeys, containing suites of apartments, which will be beautifully de corated, mirrors being a great feature. Mr. O'Con nor is now in Rome, and I presume he will bring back with him numerous objects of art and taste in aid of his already handsome collection. A miser has just ended his days after a long life of hoard ing in King-street. Thomas Ringrove died at 85 years of age, having accumulated $150,000. He lived for 40 years at No. 102, where he died ; his last directions were that he was to be buried in his old shirt and drcwers, and that his death should not be advertised, nor crape bought, nor religious cere mony performed over his body ; yet he did not leave a will, and his executors, whoever they arc, did not carry out his instructions, for he was laid out in a suit of broad cloth, deposited in a handsome rosewood coffin, carried to Greenwood Cemetery, and buried as other Christians. WASHINGTON, Jan• 22. Dr. Sharpe, who has arrived here from Europe, gave au encouraging account to a meeting of our branch of the Evangelical Alliance, at the Metho dist Nletropolitan Church, of his success in England, France, Switzerland, and Prussia in securing pro mises for a large attendance at the Evangelical Conference to be held in New York at the er.d of next September. General Butler arrived in haste to look after the reconstruction of Virginia, and has been actively engaged ever since. Among those here on baiirh.!ss ar.. C. K. Gariisnn, Geacral In galls, and other New Yorkers, hbout an Ameriian passenger and mail line of steamships to Europe, Aho desire to purchase and alter Government ver se's for the work. The managers of the American Ciilolll2 uion Society met last Tuesday - , when many delegates were present. This society has been esta blished to regenerate Africa by Christian Ameri canized Africans as an indemnity for slavery, through the colonization of Liberia ; and this was its 53d annual meeting. The Golconda, the last of the society's ships, sailed for Liberia in November with 160 emigrants, mostly farmers, and during the last four years 2,394 coloured persons have been conveyed to Africa. The Hon. Sam. Sheila barger, got back to Washington on Tuesday from Lisbon, for which place he seems to have no fancy. He regarded his Ministerial residence there as banishment, to be endured only for the benefit of his health, and his health not being benefited he tesigntd the appointment and returned. There is no lack of candidates, however, but Mr. Cumback, of Indiana, is likely to be the successful applicant, whose name would have better suited his prede cessor. Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa has been to the Executive Mansion urging the President to exert his influence for the release of hei husband. While expressing an interest in his fate, the Presi dent assured her he could do nothing officially fur ther than through the State Department directing Mr. Motley's attention to the case. There is, how ever, a rumour that she obtained a note to Mr. Gladstone on the subject, though I do not believe it. General Grant's dinner to ex-Secretary Boric was largely attended. Secretary Robesan does not relish the attack made on him by Mr. Dawes,• al though he does not much care about the letter of his predecessor, in which he is so severely criticised ; and he openly states that he is not going to be drawn into a newspaper controversy by Mr. Gi deon Wells or any other person. The Lingard troupe are here, and nearly caused a row by repre senting General Lee in their photographic scenes before General Grant. It was done purposely, and had the same effect as when St. Paul declared him self to be of the straitest sect of the Pharisees ; that is, they skilfully threw into the assembly an apple of discord. Some old comrades of General Fitz- John Porter are bringing influence to bear on the President to have the sentence of the Court martial set aside, which condemned him for the second Battle of Bull Run ; and they will probably be successful. Mr. Julian, of Indiana, having recovered from a severe illness, has re occupied his seat in the House ; the report was that his health could never be restored, but he says he is better than he was for a long period be fore. Mr. Clapp, the Public Printer, urges a❑ in vestigation into his conduct, as his integrity has been impugned, and his request is likely to be granted. Revenue Supervisor M'Donald is in this city, and reports things to be in a bad way in Western Arkansas and Northern Texas; ,the laws of the Union are set at defiance, and the revenue openly defrauded. Oue practice is to grow tobacco in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, and to manufac ture it in the Indian Territory, under the belief that it cannot there be taxed because of the Indian trea- ties. Mr. M'Donald seized all he could, and placed a half-breed, Boudinot, under arrest, who is coming here to contest the Supervisor's action. The Wall- Street specula ors have been examined by General Garfield's committee, the celebrated Speyer.; giving full and unreserved statements confirming the ac counts published at the time. Fisk and Gould de clined to obey the summons, au excuse being made in reply to the subrosna that the railroad business kept them in New York. A deputy sergeant-at arms has been dispatched to bring them before the committee nolens volens. Corbin as usual was sick, that gentleman having a happy knack of being a very live man in a speculation, and a very sick man when the consequence; become disagreeable and his presence is required ; better for him to come honestly to the front and acknowledge himself to have been the biggest toad in the puddle, if he wazi so, as Fisk says, though he must have been a very big toad if bigger than Fisk himself. But neither Fisk nor Gould thought it advisable to dare the Committee, and they are expected here to-night. The broker, ➢lr. Richard Schell, on his examina tion, laid the disaster at the door of the Gold Bank. lie asserted that the losses were terrible, inflicted on the most honest commercial houses throughout the county, many of whom have not got over it, and perhaps never will. Mr. Schell and General Harvey, of New York, have entertained about thirty of their friends to dinner. Our season has now fairly commenced, and receptions are every where going on or announced. Mrs. Grant had her regular Tuesday afternoon reception. Mrs. G. W. Childs of Philadelphia aided her, and among tbosc who called were Mrs. Fremont, Mrs. Thornton, Mr. and Miss Borie, Mrs. Belknap, Mrs. Cox, and Mrs. Babcock. The President and Mr. Childs were for a short time present. Mr. Creswell gave a State dinner to the members of the Cabinet oa Tuesd ty, and Secretary ItibUSXl has a dinner parry evening. General Cochrane is *here from Nev York, consulting with the leaders of the. Re publican party. tel. Bertherny, lately the French Minister at Washington, is to return, it is said, to settle the postage question, and that he will be authorised to adjust the French Cable difficulties. The failure to settle the French postal matters are attributed to the illness of the Emperor and the changes occurring at the time in his Cabinet. Au attempt is to be made to introduce the English postal system in New York ; the New York Post office absorbing that of Brooklyn and the numerous towns around. If successful, it is estimated that the Government will save $400,000 annually. The weather continues wonderfully mild, more like spring than the dead of winter, and tidings have been received from the country of early violets, and that buds are appearing on the lilac trees. The report is that General Hugh Ewing will be retained as Minister to the Hague, notwithstanding the efforts to displace him, but that the Foreign Relations Committee, influenced by Mr. Sumner, will report against the confirmation of Mr. J. Russell Jones to Brussels. At the Wednesday meeting of the Uni versal Suffrage Association the ladies in a summary manner tabled Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe. A fair one, irresistibly attracted to the subject, moved . a vote of sympathy to the lady, as she had been assailed for the honest performance of a sickening duty. A committee of five is to wait upon the President. Senator Pomeroy advised the experi ment of woman enfranchisement to be tried in the District of Columbia. The Secretary of the Trea sury intends to withhold the amount of the income tax from the pay of Government employe's, although it ended with the year, and cannot be reinforced excepting by an Act of Congress. •It appears that a clause relates to these salaries, placing the tax at the discretion of Congress, which must act before it can be removed. THE QUEEN'S COURT. The Queen will hold a Court at Buckingham Palace on Friday, the 25th of February, to receive the Corps Diplomatique, her Majesty's Ministers, and other official personages, with the ladies of their families, who will receive notifications of her Majesty's gracious intention through the Lord Chamberlain. The Queen will also hold Drawing. rooms at the same Palace on Wednesday, the 9th, and Tuesday, the 22d of March ; and a Levee, also at Buckingham Palace, on Friday, the 11th of March. Gentlemen in attendance upon the ladies of their families will be admitted to pass at her Majesty's Drawing-rooms. It is expected that ladies and gentlemen will not avail themselves of more than one occasion of paying their respects to her Majesty. A Levee will be held at St. James's Palace by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on her Majesty's behalf, on Thursday, the 3d of March, and another Levee in April, the date of which will be hereafter announced. s aggravate LADviChTISSIIHNT.J--Avoid Medicines they alway chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which .yields three times the nourish mentof the best meat, saves 50 timesits cost in other remedies. and Invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, ant' energy to the most ~d isordered or enfeebled. W e ex tract a few oat of the 68 . 000 cures The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Fool. 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THE RE-ADMISSION OF VIRGINIA A striking instance of General Butler's influence is furnished by the passage of the bill admitting Virginia into the Union. In his temporary ab sence from Washington,while prolonging his Christ mas holiday, Mr. Bingham of Ohio took the op portunity of passing through the House a measure to admit Virginia, freed from the obnoxious condi tions imposed by the Reconstruction Committee, of which Butler is chairman. Mr. Farnsworth, a lumber of the Committee, some state will not act up to his professions, and Mr. Bingham, after a resolute contest, succeeded, aided by the Democrats, in passing his amendment by a large majority. No sooner did General Butler learn what was going on than he posted as fast as an express could carry him to Washington, travelling on Sunday night, the 16th Jan. Thebill hadgot through the House, and it reached the Senate, where the subject had also been debated. At once General Butler set to work to have Bingham's amendment defeated. Mr. Stewart cal rigid the motion to lay the Senate Bill on the table, and to take up the House Bill by 25 to 23, all the Democrats voting with hiw,aud the debate at once turned on an amendment submitted by Mr. Edwards, toincorporate what was considered by the Democrats and the Conservative Republicans ob jectionable in the measure of the Senate. General Butler was as busy as a bee in the Chamber, ad vising Senators Drake, Morrill, and others as to their conduct on the measure, nor did he confine hisatten- Lion to the Senate, but worked so indefatigably in the House that he changed its sentiment, and, notwith standing Mr. Biugham's opposition—notwithstand ing the support of the President and of the majo rity in the Cabinet notwithstanding the vote which committed the House, the objectionable oath was retained, and the bill finally passed Congress with many of the features with which the Demo crats asserted they would prefer to see Virginia remanded back to military rule than to see retained as conditions of her readmission into the Union. Such appears to have been the influence of one man, and a most extraordinary man he must be. The President congratulated Mr. Bingham on his suc cess ; the New York Tribune, the consistent and powerful advocate of liberality and generosity in Reconstruction, thought Mr. Bingha►n's,' triumph foreclosed all successful effort to make the condi tions of restoration harsh or degrading ; the coun try appeared well satisfied to see the Old Dominion back in its place unshackled, but Ben. Butler thought otherwise ; and if he has not passed all the conditions he desired to attach to the readmission, it is clear that the main conditions have been incorporated. The debate gave rise to a sharp skirmish between Senators Trumbull and Sumner. On the 21st Jan. Mr. Trumbull replied to various innuendoes and assertions of a personal character. He bad read in the Congressional Globe remarks by Mr. Sumner, impugning his (Mr. Trumball's) ayes in assuming his position. Sumner• also asserted that Virginian loyalists had knocked at the door of the judiciary committee to give their version of affairs as existing in the State. Yet a messenger at the door had denied that any such persons had ap- proached,w bile the members of the committee had all ieclared that no Virginians hal been refused access. Still Mr. Sumner not only insisted that he was right, but inquired whether he (Trumbull) had not ad mitted his error. Mr. Sumner had held consulta dons with one Charles H. Porter, as the representa . . Live of Virginian loyalists, claiming for him the pri vileges of the floor, although he (Trumbull) had shown, by a published report of Porter's trial by court-martial for seditious language and other offences, the character of the man. Ile had been found guilty of being drunk and disorderly at Nor folk, and the language he had used was " that he would rather live under the Government of Jeff. Davis than of Abraham Lincoln, that the U.S. Government was a humbug," and such expressions. Then the Senator proceeded to apply the foregoing remarks to Mr. Sumner. After alluding to the untruthfulness and the injustice of these and other assertions, he said he would strip from one who could descend to Lhe use of such impudent assumptions all his self- assumed infallibility. Defending the Judiciary Committee ; vindicating from Sumner's aspersion the loyalty and p itr:otisiu of G - iveruor Walker, ha went en to prove that the recent eke don i❑ V irgi ni s a was not as alleged a huge fraud ; yet these were the assertions of the Senator from Massachusetts, and such was the effrontery to which from day to day the Senate had been subjected. That Senator was the single exception among Republicans in the Cham ber who had not voted to confer the right of suf frage on coloured men throughout the South, and it is remarkable that the same omission occurred when the bill was passed to submit the Fifteenth Amendment. If the Senator's assurance and effron tery was such that he could not resist his inclination CO assail others, he must gird his armour about him lest it bestripped off, and expose him to the American people as an impracticable obstacle in the way of legislation. Here the Chair interfered, " effrontery" personally applied not being in Parliamentary order. While disclaiming all intention to violate any rule, Mr. Trumbull would remind the Chair that his remarks had been denounced as preposterous and absurd. Mr. Sumner, who rose in an agitated state, after several former ineffectual attempts to reply, considered the Senator from Illinois to have run into the region of personality. A bird flew in the air, a fish swam in the sea, and he would not be drawn from the point by questions raised by that Senator. He had been absent on account of illness and fatigue when the, great measure passed securing the rights of the coloured people. He did not absent himself purposely, but forget ting the purpose he had at first avowed, of avoiding personalities, Mr. Sumner spoke of Trumbull as pouring out his venom. Again the Chair interfered; declaring such a remark to be a violation of parliamentary decorum. Senator Ed munds' amendment imposing the oath on office holders and legislators was passed by 45 to 16, and the bill began to assume the same shape as that introduced by the House Reconstruction Commit tee. At Richmond the people awaited anxiously the result of the debate, and the passage of Bing ham's measure through the House caused much re joicing. As they had no artillery to celebrate the anticipated event they got a battery of small pieces from Fortress Monroe, but whether the bill, which eventually passed, was greeted with wild demon stration, of joy iu the whilom Confederate capital, or received in solemn silence, remains to be heard. One Senator and three Representatives took their seats in Congress on the 27th of Jan., and we may here add that the House of Representatives passed a bill last Thursday to admit Mississippi to repre sentation in Congress on the same terms as Vir ginia.—Anylo-Anzerican limes. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by 31essis. DIINVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening TUESDAY 50 min past 6 8 min past 7 WEDNESDAY 30 min past 7 54 min past 7 THURSDAY... ...•....32..... min past 8 ' 0 min past 9 FRIDAY BIRTHS. COTTERELL—On the sth inst., at 54 ,Grosvenor-place, Lady Cotterell, of a daughter. FITZWYGRAII— On the Gth inst., at 89, Eecleston-square, Lady Fanny Fitzwygram, of a daughter. 111-4RRIAGES. CAMPBELL —AUSTIN - On the Sd inst., at Canterbury, Sir 14)uis Henry Dugald Campbell, of Auchiubreck, Bart., . to M:iry Ellen Edith, only child of 11. G. Austin, Esq., of tl e Arclibiihop's Palace, Cwiterbury. EDWARDS—BRADLEY— On the 1, lust, at Saint Mary's, Lambeth, William E. Edwards to Eliza Bradley, thu eldest daughter of the late Joseph Bradl.3y,of Islewortb, Middlesex. DE ,11713. BEVAN—On the 4th inst., at Highcliff Lodge, Brighton, Richard Bevan, Esq., aged 82. MILNE —On the sth inst., at Leamington, Oswald Milne, Esq., aged 88. WILKIN—On the sth inst., at 23, Gordon-square, Charles Wilkin, Esq., aged 46. 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