The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

PROSECUTION OF THE REV. W. BENNETT OF FROME. On Friday the case of Mr. Sheppard v. the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, came before Sir Robert Phillimore, as Judge of the Court of Arches. It will be remembered that the Rev. W. Bennett, vicar of Frome, was charged with offending against ecclesiastical law by publishing certain works, containing doctrines repugnant to the articles and formularies of the Church of England. The Dean of Arches ordered the articles to be reformed, by omitting all such parts as charged the respondent with contraven the 29th Article of Religion, entitled "Of the wicked which eat not the body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper." On appeal to the Privy Council the order of the Dean of Arches was confirmed, and remitted to this court.—Dr. Tristram, on mentioning the above facts, was interrupted by the Dean of Arches, who said : This case was remitted to me on the Bth of April. We are now in June, and no step whatever has been taken in this highly criminal case against Mr. Bennett ; and I am by no means certain that I should not be acting in accordance with the ancient practice of the Court by directing the cause to be struck off the book of the Registrar. However, I am not disposed to take this course as it is possible there may have been some misapprehension in the matter, but such an interval must not occur again before the mentioning of the case. You (addressing Dr. Tristram) must be aware that this is a highly improper proceeding. Dr. Tristram apologised by remarking that some misapprehension had arisen as to the exact judgment of his lordship, and what had been confirmed by the Privy Council. The Dean of Arches then went through the articles, and went through them with the learned , counsel, shewing what had been struck out of the original articles. The amend ment was substantially that given above with reference to the omission of the part relating to the contravening of the 29th Article.—The Dean of Arches then appointed the hearing, with articles as amended, to take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the week after next. Order made accordingly. LAW AND POLICE. SPIRITUALISM V. FACT.—In the Court of Vice-Chancel lor Sir R. Malins, to-day, a cause, the details of which curiously illustrated the superstition existing in the present day, was brought forward. A wife applied for the distri bution of a fund, the settlement of which upon her depended upon the death of her husband, who it transpired, left England for San Francisco, some years since. The applicant had received two letters from some San Franciscan friends, informing her of the decease of her husband, but a subsequent communication intimated that he was still alive, having been constantly seen for several weeks in succession. The wife, however, per sisted in a belief of her husband's death ; she entertained a fervent admiration for spiritualism, and having invoked the aid of the medium of communication with the distant regions, hence the firmness of her conviction. His Honour did not entirely agree with the conclusiveness of the applicant's reasoning, and ordered that the distribution of the fund was to be made subject to the receipt of positive evidence of the husband's death. THE CASE OF MRS. LUMLEY.—The long-pending case of Mrs. Lumley has been brought to a conclusion in Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court. The suit, which has ex cited much interest, was instituted by Major B. Lumley to impeach the validity of a settlement executed by him on Mrs. Eliza Lumley in 1864, whom he then believed to be his lawful wife. Major Lumley married, in 1847, a lady who described herself as Eliza Haynes, spinster, but who it appeared had married a French teacher named Victor in the island of Jersey some years previously. Victor deserted her, and she returned to her family and resumed her maiden name. Mrs. Lumley alleged that the plaintiff was informed of all these facts before her mar riage with him. In 1864 it was agreed they should sepa rate, the plaintiff allowing her £3OO a year, the plaintiff contemplating, it was said; another marriage. The case has been before the courts several times, Major Lumley's chief contention is that he was ignorant of Mrs. Lumley's prior marriage until 1868, when he took proceedings against her for bigamy. The verdict of the jury was then against the defendant ; but the conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal The plaintiff now sought to set aside the settlement of £3OO a year made in 1864. The Vice-Chancellor, without calling on the de fendant's counsel, held that the plaintiff's case had failed entirely. There was no evidence that Mrs. Lumley knew at the time she was executing the deeds that she was not the plaintiff's lawful wife. She had passed as such for seventeen years, and the description in the deed was accurate. It was evident that the plaintiff had heard a report of his wife's former marriage before making the settlement, and the circumstances reflected great discredit on the plaintiff. He was described in the bill as a military man, a member of the profession that takes honour for its rule, and in dealing with him on that footing he cut a very bad figure. Under all the circum stances the whole costs of the suit must be paid by the plaintiff. AN INSURANCE PoLIcY.—An appeal from a decree of the Master of the Rolls has been heard in the Court of Chancery. The case referred to a policy of insurance for £l,OOO in the British Nation Life Assurance Association, the plaintiff being the person to whom the policy was as signed. It appeared that Rigg, the insurer, in filling up the form of proposal, said he was " temperate generally," whereas it turned out after his death that he had suffered repeatedly from delirium tremens, having been at one time placed in alunatic asylum in consequence. The Master of the Rolls, notwithstanding, was of opinion that the assurance was bond fide effected, and made an order for the payment of the amount. From this decree the com pany appealed, and the Court of Appeal dismissed the bill with costs, the Lord Chancellor observing that there could be no doubt if a true avid fair disclosure of Rigg'a health and habits had been made in answer to the ques tions asked it would have materially affected the granting of the policy. THE STATUTE OF MORTMAIN. —ln the Rolls Court a case bearing upon the statute of mortmain was decided. It seemed that a Mrs. Eliza Springett, being desirous of establishing alms houses in her native place, Hawkhurst, Kent, devised the residue of a large estate to a gentlemen named Piper, on the distinct un derstanding that her charitable project should be carried out. The property was devised abso lutely, the testatrix having been informed that her desires could not otherwise be attended to without a violation of the law. The next of kin, however, now applied to the court, as a court of equity, claiming . the residue of the estate, on the ground that the devise in question was an attempt to defeat the Statute of Mortmain. Lord Romilly gave an elaborate judgment, and held that the devise was contrary to the law, and amounted in fact to a fraud under the statute. THE SHEDDEN LEGITIMACY CASE.—In the Divorce Court an application was made by Miss Shedden, in person, in the appeal against the refusal of the Judge- Ordinary to grant a new trial in the case of Shedden v. Shedden and the Attorney-General, wherein the jury found against Miss Shedden nearly nine years ago. She applied for a postponement of the hearing of the appeal until the matters before the House of Lords were finally disposed of, and there being no opposition on the part of the defendants, the application was granted. The case therefore again stands over. " MAGGIE MAY."—The well-known Christy Minstrels song of "Maggie May," has formed the subject of an action in the Bail Court. The plaintiff, Mr. Moore, affirmed that he had the sole liberty to sing the song called " Maggie May," and that the defendants had sung the same witnout his consent. The defendants denied the sole right, and also affirmed that the plaintiff had given them permission to sing the song in question. The plaintiff and Mr. Burgess were the proprietors of the " Christy Minstrels," and the de fendants belong to the " Christy Coloured Minstrels." Troupe, which had obtained great success in the provinces. The plaintiff maintained that the defendants had sung his song under the name of " Minnie Grey," the words and music being precisely similar. Evidence having been given for the plaintiffs that the defendants had sung the song at Plymouth and elsewhere, and for the defendants affirming that the song had been sung before the plaintiff came to London at all, the jury retired, and, after a short delay, found a verdict for the plaintiff ; 40s. damages. THE Loss OF THE NORMANDY.—Cross actions for damages have been begun in the Admiralty Court by the owners of the two steamers, the Normandy and the Maly, which came into collision last March off the Isle of Wight. The Normandy sank, with a loss of thirty lives, and the representatives of some of those who were lost, as well as the owners of the cargo, have instituted proceedings against the London and South-Western Company, who were the owners of the Normandy. An application has been made for an injunction to restrain these actions until the cross-suits are disposed of, but the arguments in the matter were not concluded when Sir R. Phillimore post- poned the case. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER IN A SMALL-WARE SHOP. —A singular case, arising out of jealousy on the part of the wife of a shopkeeper, was heard at the Liverpool County Court. The plaintiff, Agnes Adams, a young woman respectably connected and possessing considerable personal attractions, sued Robert Carnathers, a smallware dealer and hosier, carrying on business at 379, Scotland yard, for damages to the amount of £25, alleged to have been sustained through her wrongful dismissal, and the breach of an agreement to teach her the business in which the defendant was engaged. It appeared that mattershad gone on well for a time, until the smallware dealer's wife became ungovernably jealous of Miss Adams, and apparently without the slightest reason. For peace sake the smallware man had to send the young lady away. His Honour gave judgment for the plaintiff for £l5, with costs on the higher scale. - - A RECTOR REFUSING TO ACCEPT A SPONSER.-At the Boyd! Court of Jersey, an action was brought by Philip Ralph Becquet against the Rev. Phillip Guille, rector of the parish of St. Martin, for refusing to allow the plaintiff to act as godfather to a child in April, 1869. The baptismal party had assembled at the church, waiting the arrival of the rector, who on arriving a few minutes afterwards sent word to the plaintiff that as be was drunk he could not be allowed to take part in the ceremgny. The consequence was that the father of the child had to present it in the name of the plaintiff, who had already signed the customary document. Plaintiff claimed £lOO damages, and the court, after hearing twelve witnesses to prove that he was sober, gave judgment for £6 and costs. The defendant called no witnesses. M. Rcederer, the well-known champagne manu facturer, who has lately died at Rheims, has left £4,000 to the poor of that place. The Government of the United States, as well as that of Great Britain (says the North German Corresqon dent) has accepted the proposal of the North German Chancelry to engage in a common action against the Chinerge pirates. The fleets of the three nations will, consequently, take part in a general plan of ope rations. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. The London correspondent of the Manchester Examiner says that formerly, when Mr. Disraeli was absent, Mr. Hardy took the seat he usually occupies, and thus, as it were, filled his place. But now Mr. Hardy leads from his own seat, and carefully avoids going near that of Mr. Disraeli. If his former course implied, as it seemed to do, that he was only a deputy, does his present one mean that he is setting up for a leader on his own account ? I cannot help thinking that to some extent it does mean so. There is certainly, from all I hear, a screw loose in the relations between Mr. Disraeli and the party. The review of Lothair' in Blackwood may be a feeler, but it is one that chews how the wind blows." THE REVISION OF THE SCRIPTURES. The English Independent, on the Episcopal scheme for revising the English Bible, says it will be impossible for Dr. Newman to comply with the bishops' invi,tation. His name must have been put down on the list for,the sake .of fair seeming. And, before any Nonconformist divines could possibly accede to the bishops' request, they would require to be informed upon several particulars, and one very re mrkable omission in the " fundamental principles " would have to be supplied. They could never consent to join the " companies " unless the principle upon which eccle siastical terms are to be dealt with was strictly determined and defined. The Nonconformist considers ' that the bishops have chosen their helpers with great judgment and fairness. Theaccuracy and breadth of their scholarships will give the public confidence in the result of their labours. The general principles that have been laid down for the guidance of the companies also indicate great judgment, and if they should be faithfully followed, as will no doubt be the case, the work which will be done will be of inestimable value, and, in the course of time. of paramount authority. DEVONSHIRE VIEWS ON EDUCATION. A large and influential meeting of clergy and others was held at Newton Abbot on Thursday, to protest against any system of education being adopted by the Legislature which should not be connected with religion. The Earl of Devon in opening the proceedings, also expressed his entire concurrence in the movement, which was, as he understood, to express an opinion to the effect that in any measure of education that should be sanc tioned by the Legislature religious teaching should not be separate and distinct from general teaching. A resolu tion was proposed and carried accepting the Government bill as it at present stands, and condemning any interference with the present system except to the extent of enforcing the conscience clause. The Dean of Exeter, in moving a petition to Parlia ment on the subject expressed his opinion that no education would be complete unless it was based on religion ; but he did not think it advisable that the clergy should refuse to yield anything, for if they did lie believed they would lose a great deal if not all their influ ence over the education of the people. They might depend upon it that when rate-aided schools came to • work against voluntary schools the latter would go to the ground. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. The Athenceum says :—We are authorized to announce that Punch has been fortunate enough to find its second editor in Mr. Shirley Brooks, who, although he enters on office at a rather mature period of life, is in the fullness of intellectual vigour, and in every respect worthy to occupy the place so long held by Mr. Mark Lemon.—Mr. C. G. Leland, the author of the now famous " Breitmann Ballads," has been travelling in Europe during the last twelve months, for the benefit of his health, and is ex pected to arrive in London shortly. We trust he will meet with a warm reception at the hands of his many admirers.—We hear that the late Prof. Grote left his "Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy" complete. It had not, however, been finally revised, and has, there fore,been edited by , Mr. J. B. Mayor, who has illustrated the text by notes.—England in the Nineteenth Century, which has been advertised of late, is not a book, but a monthly magazine, edited by Mr. George Augustus Sala. It is designed to illustrate social features and to discuss social problems.—The art of publishing books by subscription seems highly developed in America, and some of the works thus brought out have attained a large cir culation. The Civil War has " furhished," says the Nation, " not only popular subjects for book-making, but a host of cripples to serve as agents." Between 1861-68 there were issued in this way thirty books at Hartford, Connecticut, the sale of which amounted to 1,426,000 copies. We understand that the Commissioners for the Interna tional Exhibition of 1871 have adopted the report of the committee recommending that the judges for the admis sion of pictures shall be three laymen and six artists, and that the Royal Academy, the Society of British Arts, the old Water-Colour Societn, and the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, have each been invited to name one artist, the remaining two being elected by the whole com mittee. WILLS AND BEQUESfS. The will of the Right Hon. Dowager Baroness Lyttelton, formerly governess to the children of her Majesty Queen Victoria, was proved, in London, under £lO,OOO personalty. Her Ladyship was the eldest daughter of the second Earl Spencer. The will of the Right Hon. Elizabeth Baroness Panmure (relict of the Right Hon. William Maule, Baron Panmure, and wife of Bonamy Mansell Power, Esq.) was proved under £1,500 personalty. The late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Ashe 'Windham, K.C.8., Colonel of the 46th Regiment and Commander in-Chief of the British forces in Canada, having died in testate, letters of administration of his personal estate and effects in this country have been administered to under £3,ooo.—The will of Sir Henry Light, K. C. 8., of Kim berley House, Falmouth, was proved, in London, under £3,000 personalty, by Henry Erskine Law Hussey, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and the Rev. Henry W. Haygarth, M.A., of Wimbledon, the joint acting executors and trustees. The will is dated Feb. 7 last, and Sir Henry died on March 3rd following, aged eighty-seven. Sir Henry formerly served in the Royal Artillery, and in 1836 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Antigua, and in 1838 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Guinea. His wife, to whom he had bequeathed an annuity of £250, died only a few hours before him. He has bequeathed to his daughters Lady Holmes and Charlotte Light, his share and interest in the Hetton collieries : he , also leaves them his cooks and MSS. The residue of his propery he leaves between his son, Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Light, of the Royal Artillery, and his daughter Charlotte. Amongst other wills was that of John Meeson Parsons, Esq., under £120,000. He has bequeathed to the National Gallery one hundred oil paintings, to be selected from his collection by the trustees ; and has left to the British Museum and the Museum of Science and Art many articles of worth and merit. The re mainder of his collection of antiquities and relics he leaves to his daughter and only child, wife of Sir Charles W. Athol Oakeley, Bart., and has made a large provision for her ' • and also, should she have a son to succeed to the baronetcy, a handsome provision is made for him, and bequests for any other of her children ; but, on the failure of issue acquiring a vested interest, then the property is left to the testator's two nephews. There are legacies to his servants and labourers.—lllustrated London News. THE WORKING OF THE NEW BANKRUPTCY LAW. In an application which was made to the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy on Friday an extension of an interim injunction granted at a former sitting, Mr. Bagley, in opposing the application, strongly denounced the abuses which had crept in under the arrangement clauses of the Act. Short as was the time during which the new Act had been in operation, it was well known, he said, • that those liquidation cases were fast becoming a scandal, and realising what Mr. Justice Wales had said of deeds under the Act of 1861, that they were a system of legalised plunder. The debtors who petitioned for liquidation were much more numerous than bankrupts : and if they had a hostile creditor nothing was more easy than to omit him from the list ; he was not summoned to the meeting ; and in this way majorities were obtained for any pro posal the debtor chose to make. Unlike bankruptcies, the proceedings in those cases were initiated by the debtors themselves, and whether they would ever be carried out so as to benefit the creditors it was impossible to say. Of all portions of the act that required to be watched with the utmost vigilance. Unless it were done the inte rests of creditors would be seriously compromised. Mr. Reed, though opposed to Mr. Bagley in the case before the court, agreed with him as to the necessity of the court regarding those arrangement-cases with a vigilant :eye; otherwise the bankruptcy law would be open to frauds of all descriptions. The Chief Judge said that it always had been so. He quite agreed as to the neces sity of the utmost possible vigilance being exercised in the working of this branch of the law. No doubt in the hands of dishonest men the law as it stood furnished means of attempting fraud, but they would always find that the law was quite strong enough to prevent the actual perpe tration of fraud. It had always been possible in bank ruptcy to attempt fraud, and sometimes the attempt had succeeded. It would be the business of the court to en deavour to prevent the success of any such attempt, if made under the present administration. He was glad the matter had been discussed, because it would let every one know that the court would exercise its own vigilance as far as it could do, and creditors would see the necessity of their doing the same ; but no doubt fraud might be attempted, and where was the branch of our social system in which frauds might not be attempted ? He was sure that the learned counsel who had brought the matter before him would do all in their power to expose and prevent such frauds. The Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse has just de cided a singular question :—" Is an elector who goes to vote compelled to take off his hat in passing the President and assessors ? If he does not do so at the request of the first, is he guilty of an offence ?" This point has been decided in the negative, after a suit set on foot by the electoral officers against a Mayor of Toulouse who had resigned. It appears from a return just published, that the quantity of coals, cinders, and culm shipped at the several ports of England, Scotland and Ireland, coastwise to other ports of the United Kingdom in the year 1869 was 10,452,135 tons, as compared with 10,575,275 tons in 1868. The quantity of coals, cinders, and culm exported was 10,588,452 tons, and the declared value £5,067,790 in 1869, as against 10,837,804 tons declared value £5,352,525, hi 1868. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1870. NO EXPLANATION YET. THE FENIANS IN AMERICA. The Daily Telegragh seems resolved to suppress a very important piece of evidence adduced on Wednesday at Guildhall : that is to say, evidence (in the shape of a re ceipt) tendered by a Mr. Orr to prove • that the proprietors of the Telegraph publish the advertise ments of the vilest quacks and impostors, on condition that these obscene practitioners pay hand somely for the use of that journal. Nor has the Telegraph a word to say this (Friday) morning in denial of Mr. Orr's evidence, although we were at some pains yesterday to chew what it really amounted to : nothing less than an agreement on the part of the proprietors of the Telegraph to establish and further Dr. Bruce's most odious and most filthy business, on condition that they shared his emoln ments : just as if a man should let his house for the purposes of prostitution, on condition that he be paid five or six times the rent he would have obtained for it if hired for innocent purposes. There is really no distinc tion between the cases ; and we do hope yet that the Tele graph will be able to rid itself of a stigma which to every honourable mind must seem quite insupportable.—Pall Mall •Gazelte. A despatch from Toronto says that General Lindsay_ has visited the camp of the troops engaged at Pigeon Hill and Trout River. He thanked them in the name of the Queen for their gallant services. At the latter place he said there were regulars at both engagements ; but that the work had been done by the militia and Home Guards. General Lindsay added The President of the United States issued a proclamation, but it was no use to you. A few United States troops were sent to the frontier, but they were nw use to you. they did not prevent the Fenians from entering your country, and gallantly your militia alone did the work." Prince Arthur was present on Wednesday, and thanked General WEachen and his force, making, the telegram says, a short and spirited speech. A conflict has occurred be tween a party of Fenian's and the United States troops. The Fenian, it appears refused to enter the car at Williamstown, New York , and were fired upon by the troops. Several were wounded. GREAT SUCCESS OF- THE POSTAL TELE GRAPH IN ENGLAND. General C. C.Washburn, of Wisconsin, has received the following letter shewing the satisfactory working of the government telegraph in Great Britain :—" General Post Office, London, May 2, 1870. Dear Sir—Long before this letter reaches you, you will have received a letter from me showing you that our scheme has not proved so com plete a failure as some of your adversaries have declared it to be. I send you a statement of the number of mes sages forwarded from all postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom in each of the four weeks to the 30th April. The statement also shews the number of com plaints of delay, inaccuracy non-delivery, &c., which we have received lately, and you will perceive that the proportion of complaints to business done is ridiculously small. There is no doubt whatever that we have already achieved a solid success. The absence of complaints from the general public shews that they are satisfied ; the Press are gradually allowing that we are working better for them than the telegraph companies worked, and the financial success of the scheme is beyond all doubt. Only the other day I received a return from our superintendent in Ireland, which shews that we are taking thirty-three per cent, more money at the shilling tariff than the com bined telegraphic companies took at a three shilling and four shilling tariff. Of course this enormous increase of business led in the first instance to a little confusion and a little delay, but we are gradually conquering all the difficulties against which we have had to contend, and I am perfectly justified in saying that the scheme may be regarded as a complete success at this moment.—Faith fully yours, FRANK IVES SC UDAMORE." A MAN STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING. 1 A severe thunder-storm has passed over New York. It was accompanied by very sharp flushes of "lightning, which did no damage hereabouts, so far as we have heard. In New Jersey, however, one man was killed and a boy was seriously injured. Robert Merryfield, a farmer, living on the Bound Brook road, a few miles from New Brunswick, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning. Mr. Merryfield was at work on the road, near his house, in building a fence, and was accompanied by a boy, who assisted him. When the shock came they were about ten feet apart. Both were thrown down, Mr. Merryfield being instantly killed. The boy was stunned, and continued for some time insensible. The body of the unfortunate man and that of the boy were taken up,. and were removed to the house, where the grief-stricken widow and children were. No effort that could be made, although many expedients were tried, could restore the husband and father to life. The boy recovered his senses after Lan hour of unconsciousness, but is now reported to be still in a precarious condition. The depot at the Springtown station, on the New Jersey Central Railroad, was partially destroyed by lightning at about the time this sad accident occurred. It was also , reported in New Brunswick that the house of Mr. John • Reynolds, beyond Bound Brook, was thrown down, and that one of the inmates was seriously injured. The truth of the report could not be ascertained. THE ARMY AND THE PLEBISCITE. The French colonels are still complaining of the conduct of their men during the plebiscitary campaign. The colonel of the 9th Regiment has issued an order of the day con ceived in,the following terms : " The colonel was only in formed yesterday that 20 musicians and non-effectives met clandestinely on the 6th of May last, at the house of a wine-seller near the Tuileries, and were presided over by a young man, an enemy to the Government, who boasts that thirty soldiers are devoted to him, and ready to obey his orders. This is the first time such an insult has been offered to the regiment. The colonel of the 9th knows the names of the bandsmen, what they said, and that they drank ten francs' worth of wine, for which they paid. The colonel, in the course of his career, has had to do with worse men, and out of pity refrains from handing over their names to the contempt and indignation of their comrades ; but let them understand " tas d' . . . et d' . . ." that from this day forth they shall be closely watched, and that the Colonel will not hesitate to take any measure, no matter how severe, and that he will not tolerate that the scum of the barracks men without probity, " lea forts en gueule," cowards during the combat, lazy fellows during the march and fatigues of war, should any longer com promise the honour of the 9th, and endeavour to destroy the excellent spirit which animates the regiment devoted to the Emperor. The Colonel directed this order to be read out to the troops on two consecutive days. TERRIBLE STORY. A dreadful case was heard at the Dudley Police-court, on Wednesday. Two men named Williams and Cox, besides another not in custody, were charged with an out rage on Emma Turner. Emma Turner, the prosecutrix, stated that she was the wife of John Turner a labourer, but lived apart from him, at a cottage in the Castle Fields. She had her daughter, a girl about four years old, with her, and they alone occupied the cottage spoken of. About one o'clock on the previous morning some men rapped at her door, and asked to be supplied with pop (ginger beer). She was in bed at the time on the ground floor. There was no other house within 100 yards. Upon being told that there was no pop ready, one man called to her to open the door, but she re fused. They again demanded admittance, saying that they would not hurt her, to which she replied that she did not intend they should while she could help it. A stone was then flung through the window and the men went away. She got up out of bed, and partly dressed herself, fearing the men might return. An hour afterwards, as near as she could judge, the prisoners and the other man again came and demanded admittance. She positively refused this, and tried to prevent their entrance by putting a chair against the door. They continued to strike the door, and said, " You may as well open the door ; if you don't we'll burst it open;" and one of them picked up a stone and threw it through the window. At that time witness was pressing the chair against the door, and the men were shouting to her to know where she was. The men began to strip the window, and, actually tore away the supports. Witness left the chair behind the door, and rushed to the chimney, where she picked up an axe. She was again asked to open the door, and upon her refusal they pelted her with stones through the window. One of these struck her on the side of the head, and caused a wound. One of the men then put his head through the window, and tried to force his way in. Witness rushed at him and struck him on the head with the axe. He fell back on the outside, and another man presented his head. She struck again, but she thought without effect, for the pressing against the chair behind the door and the loss of blood from her head had so unnerved her that the axe fell from her hand. Williams then got through the window. She struck him last because he did not fall back. After he was in the cottage Williams took hold of her and carried her to the door. A large stone at the moment broke away the lock and the other men came in. She was then knocked down and dragged out of the house by the hair of her head, into a field, by Williams and the man not in custody. Suffice it to say that the crime in question was committed. The prosecutrix gave her evidence clearly, although suffering much from weakness. The case was adjourned. AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE. Mr. Daniel Mathieu, 8.A., relates the following police grievance in a letter to the Times :—" On Saturday, before the Horse Guards, after the review was over, I was among a crowd, when all of a sudden I felt myself roughly apprehended by two men connected, no doubt, with the police, and carried away, despite my - resistance, to the neighbouring police-station in King-street. What was my guilt`? I had merely made a rather abrupt movement of my right hand along my trouser., and to these two infallible men that meant I had the real intention of thrusting it into the pocket of a lady who stood by me, but whom I had not yet noticed. However, when we arrived at the police-station, one of the detectives searched me, but to his great disappoint ment could only find a few reading-tickets from the British Museum and a copybook in which I had written down some notes on M. Villemain, whose necrologic and literary notice I wrote for the International, and also a few others relating to Miss Berry, of whom I had just read the `Diary and Correspondence.' Now, when that searching was over, my man seized with a firm hand the cuff of my coat, and took me along many streets up to Bow-street Police Court, where I was locked up, waiting to see the magistrate. It was then about one o'clock, and some time later I was told I could not on that day appear before the judge. Perceiving now that I should have unhappily to pass something like forty-eight hours before the sittings at court reopened, I naturally asked to communicate with my family, and inform them where I was ; but that most just and elementary right was denied me, and, even I asked in vain for a messenger to go and fetch me pro visions for the two days of my preventive detention. It was only on Sunday, about one o'block, that my wife came and brought me some food, for she had by this time been informed of my case, and had received the visit of two police-officers. At last, when Monday came, and I was ushered into an ante-room of the court, the very person who arrested me pre sented himself in my presence and said these textual words Don't fear, Sir, all will be right. . . We have good characters of you. . . That has been an un fortunate affair altogether." Is it necessary to say after all this tragic comedy that the court discharged me, and had not much to say in such a case, except to recommend me for the future to avoid crowds, and for more security, if possible, to keep at home on days of large gatherings ! Well, Sir, the advice may be good, as it was graciously given, and I may profit by it : but the facts, nevertheless are as I stated them, and they suggest of themselves, I should think, their own reflections." SKETCH OF A BRIGAND CHIEF. The Times Athens correspondent, who has enjoyed very speoial information on the subject of the late massa cres in Greece, furnishes a remarkable sketch of Takos Arvanitakos, the leader of the murderous band. He and his six brothers belong to the Vollock nationality. Takos and his brother Dinos were two of the inhabitants of Mount Pindus who joined the Greek officers in King Otho's service when they invaded Epi rus at the commencement of the Crimean war, and were put forward by the Greek Government as representa tives of the suffering Christians who were goaded into in surrection by Turkish oppression. When the Hellenic invaders retired into Greece carrying off 10,000 head of cattle and 40,000 sheep which were robbed from the Christian subjects of the Sultan Takos and Dinos became drovers and cattle stealers, like Rob Roy. In the year 1857 Takos was at Athens where he had a powerful protector. But at some period between that year and 1860 he went by another name than Arvanitakos, and was engaged as a brigand in lifting the sheep and cattle which his more peaceful brothers sold, and in robbing, murdering, and ransoming men, women, and children. Through the influence of the men who used brigands from time to time as the representatives of oppressed orthodoxy and calumniated Hellenism, he obtained an amnesty and was employed with good pay in the corps of guides, which accompanies the troops who are sent in pursuit of • brigands. As Takos knew very little of the topography of the Hellenic Kingdom at that time, the appointment was One of those jobs which have demoralised the civil and military administration - -of Greece. Takos was merely kept in leash to be let loose at a convenient opportunity as a bloodhound, to advance the party, political, or patriotic schemes of his patrons. After an interval he obtained his discharge, either because he thought he could do better by resuming the profession of a brigand than by continuing to serve as a military guide, or because lie was wanted by the agitators of "The Great Idea" to figure as an oppressed Christian when Epirus was to have taken up arms to aid the war of annexation in Crete. The dangerous charac ter of Takos was so well known that the shepherds of his own nationality secretly made anxious demands to an officer under whom he has served that his discharge should not be granted. This officer represented to the Minister of War that Takos was an amnestied brigand and a dangerous character, and stated that it would be well to refuse his discharge, and prudent to keep a strict watch over him. The recommendation of the officer was disregarded, and the influence of the patrons of Takos at at the War Office obtained his discharge. This is the career in Greece of a man whom the Government of M. Zaimis is telling us with noisy reiteration came into Greece as a chief of brigands from Turkey in the month of January of the present year. The French committee for the construction of a 'Monument to Lamartine at MAcon has decided upon erecting a statue in the Place. cl'Armes. It is to be 10ft 9iu, in height, including the plinth. STRANGE EXPERIMENTS. Some remarkable experiments on living animals are described by M. Taine in his lately issued book, "De l'lntelligence." The first is thus detailed :—" Insert in the back of a rat the end of its own tail, having first pared it raw with a bistourY ; it will heal and take root. As soon as the graft is complete, amputate the tail about one-third of an inch from the old root. The rat's tail will thenceforward grow the reverse way and out of the back. During the first three months the rat will evince very feeble signs of feeling when the tail is pinched. At the end of six or nine months the sensitiveness of the part will have much increased, but the animal will not yet he able to guess where he is pinched. After a year he will, however, be completely up to the trick, and will turn to bite,the pincers." Thus it is proved that experience must intervene before an animal can localize his sensa tions ; and that the irritation of the nerves which before the operation travelled in the centripetal, subsequently has effect in the centrifugal direction. The other experiment is similar, but still more ingenious :—" If you amputate the paw of a young rat, partially skin it, and introduce it through the skin of .another rat's side, it will engraft, take nutriment, grow, and acquire all the ordinary parts of its structure, as if it had remained with its former proprietor." M: Taine's conclusion is also worthy of note. " Such is the vital function; saving ulterior obstacles, that is to say, provided the medium is suitable, it works blindly, lets it aim be useful, useless, or even hurtful. It is the same with the mental function ; saving some impediment or paralysis in the cerebral lobes, as soon as a sensation is experienced, perception or affirmative judgment follows ; it matters not whether that judgment be false or true, salutary or hurtful, even although the hallucination which sometimes constitutes the judgment should lead on to suicide and destroy the normal harmony that adjusts our actions to the course of the universe." CONTRABAND CIGARS. The members of Colonel Whitley's secret service force have been actively engaged for some time past in ferreting out the operations of cigar smugglers, and have, in con sequence, caused lively consternation among a large num ber of Havana and Matanzas steamship men, who have heretofore enjoyed comparative safety in their schemes for bringing costly and fragrant cigars into New York without payment of import duty. For some time the de tectives were foiled in their efforts to detect the offenders in any actual offence against the Government, so carefully and systematically were the smuggling plans carried out. Recently, however, they succeeded in making several im poetant arrests, and in confiscating several thousand dol lar's worth of contraband cigars, besides communicating information to Collector Grinnell, which led to the seizure of the steamers Columbia and Cleopatra, on a charge of having been used for smuggling purposes. William D. Hempstead, purser of the steamer Missouri, running between this city and Cuba, was arrested on complaint of one of Colonel Whiteley's deputies, for having, it was alleged, assisted in introducing smuggled cigars into New York. It was claimed that about 1,000 loose and unstamped cigars had been found in his room at a search which was held on the previous evening. They were taken from drawers having false bottoms, under which they were concealed. It was reported that upward of 30,000 smuggled cigars, of which a large number were of the Henry Clay and Florida de Fuma brands, and been discovered on the vessel. Some of them were taken from false bulkheads and false scuttles. A large quantity was, it is said, secreted in bags under a heap of coal and wood in the hold of the steamer. The entire lot was seized, and was placed in charge of two officers. The room occupied by one of the mates was sealed up to wait fur ther inspection. It is understood that there is some likelihood of the Missouri's being seized and libelled by . the Federal authorities. Hempstead washeld by Commis sioner Osborn in 1,000 dole. bail to appear for examina tion. HUMAN POSSIBILITIES. The truth that there can be no obligation without the ability to fulfil it. it sometimes made an excuse for neg lect of duty. Many who are feeble in purpose, indolent in nature, or lacking in true self-appreciation, persuade themselves that they have no power to discharge various duties that present themselves, and deem themselves therefore exempt from the responsibility attached to their performance. They may go on from day to day under this delusion, and fill out a vapid and useless life, never attempting anything great or good, because they feel in themselves no present ability to perform it. Such per sons have failed to exercise a great principle lyin6- , at the foundation of human achievemen ts, that in all effort there is a constantly accruing ability. The most stupen dous machine ever constructed can never gain 4n iota of strength by use, but all the faculties of man are depen dent upon exercise for their development, and are thus constantly gaining fresh powers. Physical ability is only known in the degree to which we call it forth, and much of the physical feebleness so manifest at the present day, is simply the result of the cowardice that holds men back from trying to perform what their hands find to do. Within certain limits, muscular strength and ' en durance accrue in the exact proportion that they are needed, and great emergencies often reveal an amount of reserved power that asto nishes its unconscious possessor. The same is true of mental powers. If we would have them grow, we must task them. They are elastic, and will stretch to meet our exigencies. Every difficulty overcome, every new problem solved, every victory gained, gives an actual. ac cession of power to meet new difficulties and to achieve higher results. Every earnest worker becomes conscious of this daily accruing ability, and feels courage in under taking what may appear beyond his present powers, knowing that his capacity will be unfolded and enlarged in proportion to his efforts. Thus it is that the faithful student is able to learn with increasing accuracy and cele rity every year of his school life ; that the mechanic and artisan are able to produce results that would once have been to them impossibilities ; that the able merchant can consummate in a day results which weeks of toil would have failed to realise in earlier life. Equally is this prin ciple a law of our moral nature. The power of choosing the right and resisting the evil, of carrying out great and worthy purposes and fulfilling our obligations, is given in exact proportion to the degree in which we exercise it. Character is of slow but steady growth, and the smallest child and the humblest and weakest individual may at tain to heights that now seem inaccessible, by the constant and patient exercise of just as much moral power as from time to time they possess. The faithful discharge of daily duty, the simple integrity of purpose and purity of life ,that all can attain with effort and none can reach without, contribute silently but surely to the building up of a moral character that knows - no limit to its powers, no bounds to its heroism. There are those who shrink from making a beginning in religious life, becanie they conceive theat they lack the ability to pursue it. They would like to have strength, but refuse the only means of obtaining it. In. this, as in all else, power is only gained by action. He who avoids the water because he has no ability to swim, must forever forfeit that ability, and it is no less certain that he who shrinks from entering upon a religious life because of his deficiencies, will fail of attaining any higher point of excellence than that at which he now halt ingly remains. If this life is worth the living, it must be one of continual progress. We have loads to bear, under which if we trust alone to present or inherent strength we may well sink. Indeed, those who always feel them selves equal to every emergency, who have exaggerated ideas of their own powers, are often really the weakest in action. But while the vainest need never boast, the humblest need never despond, if this great principle be recognized and acted upon, that each is to begin just where he stands, putting forth every energy, and exerting every power, and trusting for the renewed strength and increasing abilities that will ever follow the persevering and faithful discharge of duty. —Philadelphia Ledger. A railway accident is reported from Tenby. As the Irish express was approaching the Whitland station, a man attempted to drive a waggon and three horses over the level crossing. He was unable to accomplish this mad venture, and the two first horses were knocked doh n by the engine and cut to pieces. The driver escaped. THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION. We may perhaps be permitted to doubt whether the Red *River difficulty has been so happily and entirely settled as the British Ministry seems to assume, though the expedition which has just been brought to a halt at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal is likely to encounter no more dangerous enemies than the bogs and pathless forests of the unbroken wilderness. The insurrection has been quieted by a compremise which may almost be described as an unconditional surrender o; the stronger party. The colonists rebelled because the Hudson's Bay Company sold the settlement to the Dominion of Canada without their consent, just as a Russian noble, before the libera tion of the serfs might • have sold his estates with all the people on them. The difficulty is arranged by practically recognising the independence which the insurgents demand, and bringing them into the Con federation as a distinct province, on equal terms with the other provinces, with an assembly elected by the people, and representatives in the Central Parliament. There are some points, however, on which our information is yet meagre, and on these there may be trouble. The fate of Riel, the case of Scott, whose execution was downright murder, and the terms on which the claims of the half breeds are to be extinguished—here are difficulties which may be embarrassing if not dangerous. So serious at any rate do they appear in Canada that the Dominion Go vernment refused to pay the Hudson's Bay Company for the territory unless a military force was sent there to preserve order. This is the meaning of the " expedition of peace " which is now on its way to the new province of Manitoba. Moreover, the dread of a Fenian inva sion, which is a sort of chronic disorder in Canada, has of late been very lively, and not altogether without reason. Riel has certainly .been coquetting with the brotherhood in the United States, and there are loud whispers of mysterious gatherings on our side of the line, and a sudden emigration of Irishmen to the West. That a movement of this kind would be the height'of folly is no reason for assuming that it has not been planned—en the conttery, is rather an argument for its credibility. Here then is another use for the expedition a peace. Under these circumstances the President's refusal to allow the expedi tion to pass through our territory' is justifiable, even though to a superficial observer it seems to place us in the ridiculous situation of recognizing Riel's ragged half-breeds as a belligerent power. But in reality the refusal implies nothing of the hind. The passing of a foreign armed force across our territory is a privilege which we are at liberty at all times to grant or withhold at our pleasure. We should have been pleased to see it granted in the pre sent case, for the use of the canal would have saved the British expedition a tedious and expensive march, and spared the soldiers probably much fatigue. We console ourselves, however, for the disappointment by the convic tion that the refusal springs from Secretary Fish's recent studies of the neutrality laws. These laws do not, strictly , speaking, apply to a case like the present, but the prin ciple which underlies them is the same which ought to govern the Sault Ste. Marie question. Mr. Fish has pro bably discovered that the obligations of neutrality are not exclusively for the henefit of recognised belligerents, but we are bound to treat impartially established Govern ments and revolted " peoples " and " districts " as the Act of 1818 expressly declares. If he had made this discovery before he released the Spanish gunboats, we should have been still better satisfied.—New York Tribune. BRAZIL. THIS MURDER OF GENERAL lIRQUIZA IN THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. RIO JANEIRO, April 24, The news of the murder of General Urquiza, in the Argentine Confederation, has come like a thunder clap in the midst of the peace rejuicings still going on here, as it appears to presage a general conflagration in La Plata by a union of the discontented " Federalistss " of the Con federation with the insurrected " hancos " of the Uruguayan Republic against the law enforcing rule of Sarmiento, which threatens speedy annihilation of the power of those restless Gaucho chieftians who, with the war cry of " federation not union " so tickling to the " provincial " palate, jealous of the wealth and consequent power of Buenos Ayres, contrive to parcel out the , majority of the provinces into family domains wherein they reign supreme. Two sons of Urquiza's—Ubaldino and Justo—were murdered with their father. The adherents of Urquiza had shut themselves up in Concepcion del Uraguay, and were defending themselves against the followers of General Jordan, who were besieging the town. Jordan had caused himself to be elected by the provincial assembly and had However, the himself Governor of Entre Rios. the same assembly had decreed funeral honours toUrquiza. To effeet the murder of Urquiza, the assailants came in the uniform of the Entre Rios cavalry, and so obtained en trance inside the courtyard. Urquiza defended himself bravely, killing one and wounding another of the assassins while retreating to his hall of arms, where the balls of his enemies finished him. Colonel Luengo, a Cordovan, com manded the party who followed him into the house and killed him. The other commanders were Major Vera, a Correntine, and Colonel Nicomedes, an Oriental. A report says that Luengo had been captured at Santa Fe. According to the Argentine constitution the general government cannot send troops into any of the confede rated provinces unless on receiving a requisition from the legal government of the province. However, Sarmiento could not recognise a legal government based upon the murder of a governor, and was resolved to put down the rule of Jordan. Consequently Sarmiento had declared all the Argentine ports on the river Uruguay closed, and had sent about 1,000 troops, with artillery, to! Concepcion del Uruguay, which still held out against Jordan. The troops arriving from Paraguay had orders to stop at Rosario and enter the province of Entre Rios from that quarter, and every effort was being made to raise forces sufficient to suppress Lopes Jordan and his supporters, in which undertaking no doubt the friends of Urquiza will efficiently co-operate. On the other hand it is reported that General Caceres, of the neighbouring and sympathising province of Corrientes, had raised 8,000 men and had entered Entre Rios, with the supposed purpose of aiding Lopes Jordan against the Central evernment ; but it was believed that even from the province of Buenos Ayres alone Sarmiento could easily obtain sufficient levies of volunteers in support of the cause of order to crush the forces of Jordan and Caceres. Don Emilio Mitre was to have the command of the troops sent into Entre Rios. Sarmiento has issued a proclamation .to the people of Entre Rios, of which the following are the principal para -graphs :—" Liberty does not use the dagger for its weapon. Let every Entre Riau who is honourable and not an assassin at heart withdraw himself from those who committed such a crime. The national Government will come to you with all its power to prevent the aggi a vation of the evil. Place yourselves at the disposal of the chief of the national forces, and days of tranquillity and safety will be your recompense. Do not listen to obscure and ignorant, ambitious men, for whom hate is a principle and crime a means." In the Uruguayan republic Carabello had been ap pointed commander of the Government troops. Parties of both forces kept scouring the northern regions, but avoided meeting. A Government report at the last moment says that Aparicio had been defeated by the troops, but it needs confirmation. Paraguay still continues an allied difficulty. The war is over, but a peace is not made, nor can the plenipoten tiaries agree with whom it should be made, whether at once with the provisional Government, or, hereafter, with a Paraguayan Government created in some constitu tional form, and the Minister of the Argentine Republic had returnd to Buenos Ayres to get instructions. It would appear, however, that the favoured course is that the Paraguayans shall proceed to elect a constituent Con gress, to form a Constitution subject to the approval of the people, and that the treaty of peace will be laid over until the election of a President under the Constitution, during which a Brazilian force of 2,000 men will remain in Paraguay, but stationed at Humaita, to protect the free dom of the river navigation, and probably to prevent internal fighting or plundering. With the exception of guards at Concepcion and San Pedro, and a small garrison at Asuncion, all the Brazilian troops in Paraguay were at Humaita, and they are being sent home by every oppor tunity. Up to the present, some 5,000 or 6,000 have returned since the death of Lopez. The Comte d'Eu was to leave upon the 16th of April, so that if he does not stop long at Buenos Ayres or Montevideo to receive festi vities there, he should be in Rio by about the 26th to the 28th instant. 1 08 A California Indian, whose wife had been bitten by a rattlesnake, sent for a bottle of whisky to counteract the effects of the poison. But the Indian, having first tasted the whisky, ended by getting drunk on it, leaving his wife to die, which she uncomplaingly did, The Select Committee of the House of Lords have met to consider the Bishop of Winchester's Sequestration Bill, and have agreed to report the same to the House with some amendments. On the motion of Lord Chelms ford a clause has been added to the bill providing that on a beneficed clerk being adjudicated bankrupt, the Court shall appoint a trustee, who shall, out of the income of the benefice, set apart for the spiritual charge of the parish nch a sum as the bishop of the diocese shall think requi site, whether the duty is performed by the incumbent or a curate. THE AGE OF GOLD. The Golden Age, if not of literature, of the literary profession, is the golden age we live in. Time was when the highest literary men were little better than beggars. Now we might name a host of them on both sides of the Atlantic who, in their estates, incomes, and expenditures, are among the nabobs of the land. Dickens, for instance, makes a pleasure excursion to and through a part of the United States, and from a series of evening readings of his own fancy sketches he returns to England richer than he was by two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And now Disraeli, as a diversion from.the cares of State, writes a novel, and for the English copyright pockets ten thou sand pounds, or fifty thousand dollars. " What's in a name ?" asks the simple-hearted Juliet. Why, Signorina, if it is a popular literary name there is a California gold mine in it in this golden age of light reading.—New York Herald. THE GREAT YACHT RACE. The long-talked-of, much-discussed, and with-great difficulty-arranged match between the American yacht Sappho and the English yacht Cambria has ended in a complete muddle, and we shall probably now have once more one yard of correspondence for every mile sailed. There were to be three heats, and in the first the Sappho won easily. The Cambria made some alterations in her bowsprit in preparation for the second, but asked the um pires in vain for " a dead beat to windward," instead of a half-point off the wind," and, growing sulky under pres sure, refused to. start, so the Sappho walked over the course. On the merits of the question we are not com petent to express an opinion, but it certainly seems as if a fair yacht race were one of the hardest things in the world to arrange. In horseracing the one inequality which has to be provided for is age, and this is readily met by weight ; but yachtracing seems to be somewhat like a race between lions, tigers, dromedaries, elephants, and buffaloes, and to tell whether the conditions of the race have been exactly the same for each competitor requires an amount of study, calculation, and familiarity with two or three sciences which few men possess, and yachting men apparently never, if we may judge from the length and unsatisfactory termination of their disputes. Nation. THE DARIEN SHIP CANAL. The reports from the Darien Canal surveying party are not very satisfactory. It appears that eight or nine miles from the sea, on the Atlantic side, hills or moun tains are met with, eleven or twelve hundred feet high, and no passes through them have yet been discovered, nor is there much prospect of finding such a pass or passes. From the well known energy of the head of the expedition, and the abilities of his assistants, we may expect a thorougn examination will be made, and the matter finally set at rest as to the feasibility of cutting a canal through that part of the isthmus. In the year 1855, the writer was on the isthmus, and had a conversation with Colonel Totten, the civil engineer who • lo cated and built the Panama Railroad, just then completed. The colonel was, as may be supposed, well informed as to all the explorations that had been made up to that time, and had obtained also a great deal of information on the subject from the natives of the country. He gave it as his opinion that the best location for a ship canal was along the line of the railroad. The highest elevation on that line is, I believe, 260 feet. Hav ing a railway along the line of the canal during the prose cution of the work, for the conveyance of men, materials, and supplies, is an obvious advantage, and becomes a strong argument in favour of that location. The harbour of Aspinwall, on the Atlantic, is a very good one. The western terminus opens on Panama bay, which is nothing but an open roadstead, but such is the condition of the climate that 'vessels may lie there without danger from gales or heavy seas. It is entirely out of the track of hurricanes. The survey for the railroad shewed the notion that the sea-level in the Pacific was higher than in the Atlantic was erroneous. At low tide the level is the same in both oceans ; but at Aspinwall the tide rises about three feet, while at Panama it rises upwards of twenty feet. It is plain, therefore, if a strait be cut through the isthmus, a strong current will rush through from the Pacific to the Atlantic, except during the small part of the day when the level is the same on both sides. The present city of Panama is located at the inner end of a reef extending three-quarters of a mile to seaward. The old, city—when Pedrarias was governor and Francisco Pizarro fitted out his expedition for the discovery of Peru—was situated to the south-east of the present town, and it was abandoned for the present site, as being more easily defended from sea attacks by reason of the long reef and shoal in front. To regulate the current and quantity of water in the canal, it would only be necessary to have gates at the western terminus opening iuto a basin connected with the bay, Probably the site of the old city would be the best place for• the position of this basin. •It is a question whether it be for the interest of the United States to have a ship canal built or not. Ail old captain in the navy, now deceased, used to say that he wished the Andes had by nature been extended the whole length of the isthmus at their highest elevation ; and, if he could have his way, he would pile up the isthmus mountains as high as Chimborazo. His idea was that in war we could not control the canal, as the people of this country would not be willing to sup port a navy powerful enough for this purpose, and that in peace it would be of more advantage to European governments than to us. Jamaica and the other islands lying near the canal would naturally get the trade in the Pacific which now goes by the way of Cape Horn. The West India Islands are filled with European commodities and are now resorted to by traders from the Atlantic shores of Mexico, Central America, and the northern parts of South America, as our western traders go to the Atlantic cities for their supplies. If the canal be built, we shall. find, I fancy, that England, Spain, France, and Hol land will get the biggest bite out of the cherry after all. With our railroads across the continent, connecting the growing Pacific States with the East, population will j increase there and manufactures will soon flourish as in 't the Eastern States, and we shall be able to supply the wants of the people of the adjacent countries ; and, in fact, control the traffic on the great Pacific ocean. It matters not to the nation at large to what section wealth flows ; so long as it does flow to any part, all sections will enjoy its benefits ' • and I repeat that it seems to me clear that with a canal, thrown open to the world, across the isthmus, particularly with the West India Islands in the possession of foreign powers, we shall be losers instead of gainers. In this connection it will be well to inquire if the possession of San Domingo, on easy terms, will not be a good' thing and an entering wedge for further advan tages. These facts and ideas are thrown out as interest ing at this time, but before we undertake such great enterprises with government aid, let us look before we leap.—Boston Advertiser. The idea of a self-acting velocipede is still occu pying the attention of the ingenious. In the West of England one so propelled has been running at the so-far promising rate of six to eight miles an hour. It requires two persons to manage it, one to attend to the miniature engine, and another to steer.—Builder. Kerosene, which means all manner of " harmless and non-explosive " illuminating fluids, continues to blow up and blast and burn to the death throughout this ex tremely patient and much-suffering land. We are not, therefore, surprised by the notable expedient of certain Western life insurance companies, which have their advertisements pasted on kerosene cans by special ar rangement with the grocers. There could not be pro perer places for their display. And yet the time may come when all well-regulated life companies will refuse to underwrite the lives of those who are ad dicted to this particular kind of evening oil. The worst of it is that, according to the report of Dr. Chandler, who undeestands the matter thoroughly, there is no necessity for " accidents "of this kind. It is only bad oil which is likely to explode, so that those " casualties " seem to he a matter of manslaughter, or something exceedingly like it. LADVERTISEMENT. j - Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and. liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve y description, but perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsial, cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrheas., all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti_htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413 - " Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,'70.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—. Maria Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins; at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb as 6d; slb Ils.; 121 b 225; 24 lbs 4 s.—.‘ lso Do BARRY'S 'DIVALENT& RABIC& CHOCOLATE PoWDBR is packed in tin canisters: for 1G cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2aB cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 350 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s awl 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. — BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTIIS. On the 31st ult.. at Wall House, near Lichfield, the wife of E. Ley, Esq., of a son. On the 31st ult., at Sloane-street, S.W., the wife of W. IL Palk, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 31st ult., at St. John's, Hackney, G P. Weight, sou of G. P. Weight, Esq., of Hackney, to Fanny, daughter of J. Long; Esq., Elm House, Hackney. On the 31st ult., at the parish church, Brighton, W. J. Cripps, Esq , of Cirencester, son of the late W. Cripps, Esq., M.P., to Maria Harriett. Arabella, daughter of J. R- Daniel-Tyssen, EEq., of Brighton. DEATHS On the 29th ult., Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr. George Broadbridge, 12, Wellington-street, Strand. On the 29th ult., at Willow House, Chiswick, Mrs. Frances Sanders, aged 80. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 1121 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.—Saturday, June 4, 1870. . - .....na.. K l, Sold i he Ag u ' 'VAIN d or able we' rr:fi f I neer-% 3 aturda spared f ernishi be seem at Mite]] music -6( 11 0; 0, , RoI Great , w-enga aherrin9 Petii ClYranas Cieorgin: kadaine Barrie w evening. 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