The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

13PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Although no outrage on a similar scale has succeeded the blowing down of the prison wall at Clerkenwell, it cannot be said that the apprehensions of the public have abated. The Fenians are supposed to,be numerous in the great towns of England. There is every reason to believe that they have a sort of organisation, and are directed by a feW unscrupulous men, who will shrink from no wicked ness to attain their ends, and people suspect that the leaders will at any time be able to find blind and reckless instruments to execute what they may propose. At such times there is necessarily much vague suspicion, and an undefined fear of coming evil unsettles men's minds and makes them ready to believe any and every report which may be abroad. Although there are, perhaps, half a mil lion of. Irish in England and Scotland, the opl -- 'on of the Times is that the Fenians, though übi quitous, are comparatively few. Active complicity in Fenian operations is probably confined to a small numl,er, who might gradually be tracked out by the police, and dealt with as they deserve, without prejudice to the mass of Irishmen. This discrimination, however, cannot easily be made by English employers and the Eng lish public ; and it is for this reason that Irishmen them selves should assist us in making it. Before any further atrocity frightens one part of the public and enrages another, it would be wise for the Irish of Great Britain generally to come forward and repudiate the Fenian con spiracy. Without distinction of political opinions or of creed, they might declare their abhorrence of the deeds which have been committed or attempted, and their resolve to stand firm by the Crown. Mr. Digby Seymour's letter, which was published a day or two ago, suggests such a course, and gives the same practical reasons which we have endeavoured to present. " A panic," he says, "is spreading, which, unless checked in its earliest stage, must tend to produce calamitous results among the industrial orders of Irishmen resident in the various centres of trade and commerce in England." Though the higher classes of Irish need fear no proscription for themselves, they may, by setting an example of loyalty, preserve others from the danger of unfounded distrust on the part of English society. They will certainly render a great service to their humbler countrymen if they can induce them to assert, and their employers to believe, their com plete alienation from the Fenian enterprise. The well disposed Irish, who are the great majority, would receive a moral support from such a movement by the educated class, and under such leadership readily give a pledge which might reassure the English public. In this matter the labouring Irish have had as yet no good advice, except from the clergy ; and yet in many instances they have, when appealed to, repudiated the notion of any treacherous dealing. Similar effects may be produced wherever similar means are used, but the work may be more easily done if loyal Irishmen of a higher class will take the lead. When the Post turns to the evidence of the circum stances attending the explosion, it is painfully struck with the conviction that at the expenditure of very little care indeed the design of the conspkators would have been frustrated. From the time when the barrel was wheeled on a truck to the foot of the prison wall an interval of from five to ten minutes elapsed. It dissects the evidence of the detectives, and from their testimony is therefore forced to reflect how very different the results would have been if a solitary constable had witnessed what any of these men, women, and children had seen on that eventful afternoon. Of the conduct of the detectives it has nothing to say in the way of censure. They watched the move ments of persons whom they doubtless rightly suspected, though not, as it seems, with sufficient care, and they allowed their attention to he diverted from the principal source of danger. It was only by a blundering kind of luck that the conspirators succeeded in firing the barrel of gunpowder ; it is, however, of the success of such blundering luck that the public has most right to .omplain. From the facts .adduced at the inquest on Friday, the Daily News comes to the conclusion that the guard placed outside the prison on the 13th instant was altogether insufficient, and by no means corresponding to that which Sir _Richard Mayne's warning led Captain Codd to esta blish. Inside the prison the story of an attempt to blow the walls down appears to have been believed, and hence a complete change in the arrangements, a constant watch, s distribution of firearms, and the additional security of double bolts. Outside, the oonttables wore not only in number unequal to their duty, but apparently ignorant of the nature of the danger against which they were to guard. Only on this assumption can we understand the conduct of the police in letting the persons they had been watching all the day at length deposit a barrel against the prison wall. If they, or anyone set over them, had heard as much as Inspector Thomson had told Captain Codd the day before, their negligence is inexplicable. The com pleteness and the efficiency of our police arrangements is a matter of the first importance at the present time. The Government have called upon the busy public to come in aid of the police, and are also most wisely making a sub stantial addition to the force. But we shall in vain re cruit the material and enlarge the organisation of the police, unless we provide for its efficient direction and command. Acknowledging most fully the value of the service which the force is now performing in difficult cir cumstances, and with every disposition to support it in doing its duty, we are compelled to come to the conclu sion that on the day of the Clerkenwell explosion it did net render that assistance and protection which the pub lic was entitled to expect at its hands. The ~;tar objects to the presence at the Irish Priv, Council of the judges, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Commander of the Forms. A proclamation was latel) issued, declaring that the funeral p rocessions were illegal. This very question, as the Star points out, is to come be fore a common law tribunal, at which one of the judges who signed the proclamation may preside. Our contem porary thinks the proclamation would have been just as respectable—certainly more constitutional—if the signa tures had been confined to those of the three recognised and responsible advisers of the Lord Lieutenant, and if the Archbishop and the judges, and even the Commander of the Forces, had stayed at home. Nor is this a matter of slight importance. We may crush rebellion by force--- we shall certainly never eradicate disaffection by any other instruments than those of law and justice. On referring to the case of Wason v. Walter, the Herald says that the press and the public, the bench and the bar, have every reason to be satisfied with the result of the re markable trial which occupied the Lord Chief Justice of England and a special jury of the City of London for a great part of last week. The issues raised, and the points involved, were of grave importance, and they have been determined in a way at which every one must rejoice who desires to see the press free and the bench pure. If Mr. Wason's position was correct, every time a paper goes to press its proprietors are in peril, if by any chance any noble or honourable member of the Legislature had said anything which " some one might torture into an accusation of libel." Truly did Sir Alexander Cockburn say that this would be utterly unreasonable, and most accurately did h. indicate the bounds of the journalist's privilege, by telling the jury that reports, summaries, and comments alike must be fair and faithful, " not garbled or mutilated in any sense." No respectable journalist would desire more, no friend of his country would wish to grant less. So much, indeed, the press had practically won for itself by the tacit consent of almost everybody, aml the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice comes as an authoritative recog-- nition,which "ought to be affirmatively enunciated," if the bench is to be in harmony, " with the larger and more enlightened views with regard to libel which have gradually developed themselves in our day ;" mainly, we may add, because the press itself has furnished the best evidence that by these " larger and more enlightened views" the public weal may be most effectually promoted, while the interests and reputations of individuals are in no degree jeopardised. An enterprise has been set on foot in the suffering =stern district of the metropolis which, as the Telegraph says, deserves especial notice and support. At the sug gestion of Miss Burdett Coutts, an association has been formed, based on the wholesome idea that wages paid for - work done are more welcome and really useful to the poor than gifts in charity. Men of various persuasions have met on a common ground, to perform a public service, and, with the unanimous vote of the di ssen t ers , the chosen president is the Bishop of London. The work is exactly that most needed in the Bethnal-green parishes—the cleansing of the streets, alleys, and courts, and the making or repairing of roads. Not that the association will super sede the bodieis specially entrusted with the execution of these duties. The labour performed willbe supplementary, and in excess of the ordinary proceedings under the local boards. In order to carry out the project, money will be needed, and the appeal to the public is certain to be answered. Miss Burdett Coutts, with her accustomed largeness of mind,. has und er t a k en t o pay t h e wages of two hundred and fifty persons for six months at P r eighteen oc" day ; dshe has guaranteed the rent of ground re qu;red for stone - breaking —employment suited to clock labourers—and has contributed £3OO towar d s the road making fund. So munificent an example must be imitated. When Miss Coutts says, ". I w ill be your leader, " fol lowers are secured by battal:oas. If, remarks the Standard, we make clue allowance tot the irritation caused by yet recent events, and for the pro vocation which no one can deny has been given by come of the more impetuous of French politicians, we are bound to confess that the general moderation of language held by the Italian Parliament is as commendable as it is perhaps amazing. It does not at all follow, because people are largely if not wholly in the wrong, that they will be temperate in justifying their conduct. The reverse is more usually the case. Though we have never concealed our opinion that Italy has not increased Ler reputation during the last two months for any of those qualities which make kingdoms either feared or respected, we have no wish to deny that her position, even before her late deplorable mistakes, was one that it would have taxed the soundest sense and the most undeviating patience to fill with dignity. But if such was the case before Garibaldi's last appeal' to force, how much harder is her condition now. She has the consciousness not only of having failed miserably for the time in what she attempted, but also of having failed in what she ought not to have attempted. To have, by the voices of her own representatives, to debate her consequent misery in the face of the whole world, is a _ _ trying t.A.14.4w.1, . THE LATV OP ARP. M 1 FOR TREASON FELONY. necent acts of violence to ponstables engaged in the arrest of persons charged with treason-felony, seem so ikely to be repeated for want of a clear understanding of the law, that a statement of the conditions under which sn accused or suspected person can lawfully be taken into sustody and detained for trial may be useful. Such a statement by " an eminent legal authority" has been pub ished. It lays down that the want or invalidity of a warrant does not justify a prisoner in resistance, or reduce us the least the offence of killing a constable ; nor does it entitle him to a discharge upon habeas corpus. A private individual is not justified in arresting for misdemeanour without a warrant, nor, indeed, is an officer, unless the )ffence be committed in his presence. For felony, bow ever, and treason, the law gives extensive powers of arrest without warrant, both to the police and private persons. A. private individual may justify an arrest for felony with out warrant if he can show either that a felony was in fact committed by the party arrested, or that a felony was committed by some one, and that he had probable cause from his own observation, or the credible information of another, to suspect the person arrested of being the felon. A. constable, has, of course, a larger authority than a private individual, as he must act on the charge and information of others. He is not merely justified in arresting, but is bound, under pain of indictment, to arrest any person whom he has probable cause to suspect, even from the information of another, of having committed a felony. The constable is protected in the discharge of his duty, even though in the end the person arrested is found not guilty, and even if it turn out that no felony was, in fact, committed by anybody. An absurd assumption has lately obtained that there was no common law power of arrest in one part of the king dom for an offence committed and to be tried in another, and that warrants must be backed in England for Irish officers to act here. This has raised other ques tions. Suppose a murderer were arrested in Ireland for an offence committed in Liverpool, the officer arresting having no warrant. Would he be justified in killing the officer? Might his friends lawfully storm the gaol? The law is not so absurd. The constable would assuredly be justified in arresting the accused and detaining him until a warrant, either under the statutes, or of the Lord- Lieutenant, or Secretary of State, as conservator of the peace, was obtained. The assumption to the contrary is without authority 3 applied to felonies, and inapplicable to arrest for treason or treason-felony, common to different parts of the kingdom. Even before the Union fugitives from justice might be and were arrested in England and sent to Ireland for trial, and rice versa. As to Scotland, Lord Sanchar, or Sanquire, in James L's time, having procured one Carlish to murder, in London, Turner, a fencing master, who had accidentally put out the said lord's eye, Carlish was, upon proclamation and reward offered by the King, taken in Scotland and sent to England for trial, and he and his noble em ployer were convicted and executed. Hence the supposi tion that there can be no legal arrest unless by some one who holds a backed warrant is erroneous. In cases of treason the law clearly lays down that every subject of the Crown is justified in arresting and detain ing for trial, without warrant, a person against whom there is a probable charge of treason, wheresoever com mitted. No distinction can be drawn between treason and treason-felony in any form which the latter offence may have assumed. The Treason-Felony Act was passed mainly to relieve the Crown from the necessity of cum bersome State trials, and it must not be forgotten that until the trial the charge against a treason felon is really treason (if arms have been resorted to), if the Crown chooses to treat it as such. Applying these rules of law to the case of Sergeant Brett, he was bound at his peril to retain the prisoners though their warrants were not backed in England. The law may be thus summed up : A per son charged with treason-felony, wheresoever found within the kingdom, may be taken and detained for trial upon probable cause of suspicion, without warrant ; and that if he resists to the death of a known officer of the law he will be guilty of murder. LAW AND POLICE. , IMPORTANT WILL CASE.--WALLACE V. ATTORNEY. GENERAL.—The Lords Justices have given judgment in the matter of Lord Henry Seymour's will. Lord Henry Seymour, who died at Paris, left a large sum to the " hospices "of Paris and London. About £60,000 was in dispute, and the question was whether " hospitals " were included, or whether the term was confined to charitable institutions, excluding the places for bodily illness. The Master of the Rolls had confined the term to charitable places, and excluded St. Bartholomew's and other hospi tals, about thirty in number. This was an appeal from that decision.--Theirlordships went fully into the evidence, and were of opinion that all charitable places, including hospitals, were entitled to share in the property. The judgment was reversed, and the matter went to the Rolls Chambers to include all hospital 3. All places would now be included. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FRAUD.-At the Stafford snire Assizes, before Mr. Justice Keating, Ann Craddock, 50, was indicted for having, in conjunction with her daughter, obtained certain goods by false pretences from the guardians of Burton-on-Trent. The prisoner was the wife of a sexton, and her daughter lived with her. The daughter, who passed by the name of Mrs. Clarke, was delivered of a female child. On the 15th of August Mrs. Clarke took the child to King's-cross Station, and left by train at four o'clock. About half-past nine she was seen parading the streets of Burton-upon-Trent, stating that she had found the baby against a lamp-post . She took it to the union, where it hacj been supported until its death, on the 14th of the present month, when it was buried at the expense of the guardians. This constituted the fraud complained of. The learned judge held that there had been no fraudulent obtaining within the meaning of the Act under which the prosecution was instituted, and the prisoner was discharged. - A DRUNKEN ENGINE DRIVER.—A heavy cattle train passed through Welshpool station the other day without any one in charge, and proceeded down the line at full speed. An explanation of the occurrence was afforded at the Welshpool petty sessions, when George Buchanan, the driver of the train in question, was brought up in cus tody, charged with being drunk. From the evidence it appeared that shortly before reaching the station Buchanan had disposed of his fireman by kicking him off the engine, and, being thus in sole charge of the train, had amused himself and mystified the signalman by running back wards and forwards between the distance-signal and the station for nearly an hour. The signalman going up the line to inquire what was the matter, arrived in time to see Buchanan fall off the engine on to the six-foot way, where he lay, while the engine, having the steam up, proceeded on its way down the line. The magistrates committed Buchanan to prison for two months, with hard labour, but subsequently agreed to fine him £5 instead. There were several drovers in the train in charge of the cattle. ALLEGED FRAUD ON A RAILWAY COMPANY,—At the Liverpool Police-court, Jacob Newston, a native of Russian Poland, perambulator maker, was placed in the dock charged with having defrauded the London and North Western Railway Company. It was charged against the prisoner that in August last he, acting in con junction with a man named Vineboom, procured a portmanteau from another man named Philph, filled it with rubbish, and handed it over to the railway porters ac passenger's luggage. At the end of the journey the portmanteau was missing, but how it became lost was not known. The prisoner commenced an action against the London and North Western Railway for £ll3 75., which he said was the value of the portmanteau and its contents, but the prisoner compromised the matter for £l5. The company had some suspicion, and placed the matter in the hands of the police, the result being the present charge. Prisoner was remanded. A GAROTTER'S MASK BLOWN OFF.—On Friday, at ...zadford, William Holdsworth was committed for tria] for having on the night of the 2nd of December garotted Mr. Robert Bryer, of Little Horton, and robbed him of £36185. in silver coin. Mr. Bryer had been out collect ing accounts, and was proceeding home, when the prisoner and two men with masks on garotted and robbed him. A puff of wind blowing off Holdsworth's mask enabled Mr. Bryer to identify him. PATENTS.—In the suit (Myers v. Newry) before Vice Chancellor Wood for an inujnction to restrain an alleged infringement of a patent for metallic clips, his Honour refused any relief on the ground that the plaintiff's patent was so similar to the defendant's that the former wa s bound to mention in the specification in what respect the two differed. Failing to do so the patent must be held in. valid. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—At the Stafford Assizes, on 6aturday, a young man named Lee, only 19 years of age, was tried for the attempted murder of his sweetheart. They were engaged to be married, and on the 28th of August were at a ball together, where, however, Lee'' fiancee gave more attention to another young man than was agreeable to him. On the next day they met, and had some words. Lee, who was eating a pear and had a knife: in his hand, suddenly, in - a moment of desperation, stabbiAl the girl in the breast. She lost a great deal of blood, ! and was now suffering from consumption brought on 'and accelerated by the wound. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. SOWING. —The Otago Times has an account tof a novel mode of seed sowing adopted by a farmer in•the Maungatua district. Mounted on horseback he irides along, one rein fastened to each foot for guiding the horse, and scattering " a perfect hurricane " of seed with' re_th hands, THE SUN, LOlsinoN. MONDAY EVENJNG, DECEMBER 23, 1867. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS. From the " Westminster Gazette." ROME, Dec. 14. The Holy Father went as usual to the Church of the SS. Dodeci Apostoli, one of the oldest founda tions in Rome, on the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception ; he sang out the first notes of the Te Deum with his usual clear firm tones, and afterwards gave Benediction of the most Holy Sacrament. The Church and Piazza were thronged, though it happened to be one of the few dull days we have had this winter, and I never remember to have seen the people give him a more_ enthusiastic reception. Ile has been giving a great many public audi ences lately, and none seem to afford him so great pleasure as those in which the young and devoted men of every class and from all countries, who have come to ltome to maintain his cause in arms are brought for the first time to his feet. There are occasions on which the naïveté of these earnest minded recruits is only to be exceeded by bis pater nal goodness and thoughtfulness. Many have been on the look out this week for tidings that the summons for the General Council had been issued on the day of the Immaculate Conception. This has certainly not been the case, however, and I am told there is a vast amount of work yet to be got in order first. It is expected a Consistory will be held very shortly at which the new Bishop of Bagnorea, the Bishop of Pernambuco, and the Coadjutor of Bo logna, will be preconised, and it is not improbable the Pope may pronounce an allocution on the state of affairs. He has lately pardoned Cavaliere Fausti, whose process it will be remembered made some noise in 1863, when he was condemned to twenty years' incarceration. It is thought the fact that he was led into the commission of the breaches of trust with which he was charged through the folly of having compromised himself, in unguarded youth, with dangerous men, whose secret orders lie was too weak to resist, when unexpectedly called on to act later in life, rather than through evil in clination at the time; his present advanced age and the term of punishment he has already undergone have afforded sufficiently extenuating circumstances to bring this about. The three months given Cardinal d'Andrea in which to appear in Rome are drawing near their expiry, and there seems little likelihood of his coming. He wrote to the Pope, but as the order to appear in person was peremptory in the Brief, the letter was, of course, not accepted. lam told it has been published in the papers, however ; and it would seem that he assumes to take a high tone, comparing his conduct and circumstances to those of St. Bernard, and endeavouring to show that he owns no opposition to the Holy See, but that his controversy is with Pius IX. _ _ He is reckoned by many to have been lost by ambition, and being son of a Secretary of State of Francis 11., to have entertained expectations of being made Secretary of State to the Pope. There are others here who excuse him by reason of an alleged excitable temperament, of which I under stand there have been other instances in his family, and which might be supposed to lessen his respon sibility over his own acts. I cannot say, how ever, that I have observed any solid grounds for this, though certainly, under the circumstances which led to his resignation of the office of Prefect of the Index, some years ago, his conduct was childish, to say the least. He has nothing to com plain of on the part of the Pope, however, who had always shown him great affection and regard, and had made him Bishop of Sabina, Perpetual Abbot of la Farfa, and Commendatory Abbot of Subiaco— l the different appointments from which brought him an income of about £2,000. A sale has been going on this week at the Palazzo of the late Cardinal Altieri, who fell so nobly a victim to his devotion to his diocese of Albano at the time of the cholera. It was melan choly to see curious strangers and Jew brokers turning over the effects which but lately adorned the scenes he abandoned so suddenly at the call of duty, never to revisit them. His will seems to have been dictated by a spirit of great generosity ; the family is by no means a rich one, and he had no large fortune to dispose of. A considerable share is devoted to the benefit of the poor, and several personal debts are remitted altogether in favour of relations on whom the payment might have pressed heavily. It is expected that Mgr. Deschamps, Bishop of Namur, will succeed Cardinal Sterckx as Arch bishop of Mechlin and Primate of Belgium. Two more cardinals have been very ill this week—Car dinal Ugolini, the oldest member of the Sacred College except the Archbishop of Toledo, and Cardinal Pentini, who only received the purple within the last three or four years, though not much younger, and whose uncertain health has often given his friends anxiety. Both are cardinal deacons. The prospect of a further decrease in the cardinalitial body has set men reckoning that in case these two should die now—a calculation which will, probably, not be realized in the case of the former ; at least as I heard last night from one who had just left his bedside that he was pro gressing very favourably—that then the Sacred College would be reduced to fifty, the lowest num ber reached during this century. But, it is said, the Pope wishes to establish an equilibrium be tween the Italian and the foreign elements in it ; and there are those who, building on the report of this, dream that it may ultimately lead to laying open the chair of St. Peteritself to foreign cardinals. The French troops are still absent from Rome, but order is perfect here, as, indeed, throughout the whole of the State. It is expected, however, that they will return ere long ; the arrogant con duct of Menabrea will drive on this movement. And, indeed, the weather is too cold for remaining with any comfort at Civita Vecchia, as there is no accommodation for half the division, and the men have accordingly to take it by turns to encamp in the open air. A company is said to have passed through Rome on the night of the 11th on their way to take up a position of observation on the frontier near Correse. The Roman Legion bids fair to become as popular with the French volunteers as the Zouave battalions, and an excellent spirit pervades it. The Archbishop of Besancon, Cardinal Mathieu, is at the head of the committee for receiving recruits, and only picked men are sent out ; about 700, how ever, have arrived lately, and by means of this accession the original legionaries who have finished the time they had to serve under the French flag can be allowed to return to their homes if they are so minded, while the corps is strengthened by the infusion of new blood. There was a report rife here last night that the Menabrea Ministry had already fallen. I should not think, however, the Chamber could have divided yet. There seems every chance, however, that the general will be out of office before you go to press. Many people seem astonished to find Rattazzi ranged on the side hostile to the French Emperor, reckoning that the advocate of Alexandria and the husband of a Bonaparte ought to belong heart and soul to imperial policy. But in all that he has hitherto done in furtherance of the schemes of Napoleon he has been furthering his own schemes also, only it so happened that all their plans for the spoliation of either the whole or part of the Pope's territory fell through, partly on account of the successful bravery of the Papal troops which they had not taken sufficiently into account, and partly because at the eleventh hour they discovered that it was Mazzini and not they who was likely to enter into the fruit of their labours. We may well interpret M. Rouher's speech to allude to this when he says that the Revolution has three stages —Rome, Florence, and Paris. Aud then, with re gard to Rattazzi's marriage : that was not calculated to render him more agreeable at the Tuileries. The antecedents of Madame Rattazzi's private life, both as Madlle. Wyse, daughter of Madame Wyse, son of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, and in her widowhood as Madame Solens, are known to the world. But many may not know that she has always been the strenuous enemy of Napoleon whom she accuses of not doing enough for his family. Her language was so intemperate at , one time that the Emperor had her arrested and conducted to the frontier, forbidding her to return upon French territory. Though her marriage may have afforded the ground for a certain kind of re conciliation, she has certainly not been received into cordial relations. It is not strange, therefore, that Rattazzi, having failed in his attempts to act in concert with the Emperor in developing the politics of Italy, should now try his luck at follow ing the adverse advice of his wife, and by giving public evidence of hostility to the French Emperor make to himself friends with the populace of Florence. This allusion to Madame Rattazzi leads me to mention a fact which shows how deep her husband was in the confidence of the Garibaldian party. When their " mercenaries " (we may as well use the term where it belongs of right) were over running the province of Viterbo, it was remarked that they scrupulously avoided meddling with any part of the property there which the Prime Minis ter of Victor Emmanuel holds in right of his wife. It is so clear to all now, indeed, that the Italian Go vernment had the chief direction of that invasion, that it is tedious to cite further proofs of it, though they are cropping up every day. I hope, however, Massari's speech in the Florence House, on Wednes day, will not have escaped you. He quotes a tele gram from Crispi at Terni to Rattazzi, dated 18th October, bidding him send no more " volunteers " to the depot there, as he found they impeded in stead of advancing the cause. So he knew at least that the First Minister of the Crown wished the cause of invasion advanced. The following letter to the editor, given in a late number of the Courrier de Lyons, shows what was in store for us had the invasion succeeded : "Sir,—l am glad to be able to put you in pos session of a fact which I hold from an unimpeach able source. " By the terms of the loan recently contracted in London by Garibaldi's son, Lit was stipulated that the sum advanced should be repaid in lVorks of Art, after the "taking of Rome" by the noto rious Condottiere. So, it was by means of an anticipatory alienation of the artistic treasures of the Church and of Rome that these " patriots " obtained the funds for maintaining their preda tory bands, and the Rome which they proposed to present to Italy to be her capital was to be Rome despoiled and shorn of her glories. . . . Late events have thrown this iniquitous conven tion to the winds, but the bond remains, and with it the hope, in certain minds, that it may be turned to good account yet. (Signed) " FONTAINE." _ _ I do . not like to withhold the account of a re markable incident which I have heard spoken of as undoubted more than once, and which, as it may be true, cannot be devoid of interest. It is said that on a certain day towards the close of October, when the determination of the Florence Govern ment to support the Garibaldians became evident, and it was clear that without the help which the French Emperor hesitated to send, the Papal army, already exhausted by its unprecedented fatigues and anxieties, must be swallowed up by the thou sands which Italy could pour out upon it, General Kanzler considered it his duty to state plainly to the Pope how matters stood, and explain the position of his men. The Holy Father, though moved even to hear of the recital of the sufferings of his soldiers, gave no word of opinionas to what should be done until he had retired into his ora tory ; then he returned, and without a !shadow of hesitation, directed a telegram to be sent to the Nuncio in Paris, desiring him to demand his pass ports without an instant's loss of time. The Papal Nuncio, of course, complied to the letter, and ob served, as he.did so, " Before I have been out of Paris five days, the throne will no longer hold its present occupant." Promptly as everything had been conducted, it was night before the news reached the Tuileries, but the lateness of the hour did not prevent the issue of an invitation to Mgr. Chigi to remain, or of a telegram to Toulon, ordering the immediate departure of the fleet. 'Within forty eight hours of General Kanzler's application to the Pope, the French troops were far on their way, Romeward bound. I give you the story as I have heard it, but without claiming credence for it ; perhaps its in herent credibility will do that. And now, while something like peace seems to reign for a time, at least, in the moral world, everybody is attracted southwards by one of those convulsions of nature which never fails to com mand a crowd of admirers. Vesuvius is in full play again, and as fast as our winter's visitors ar rive—and they are coming in pretty thick now— they are draughted off to Naples to enjoy this new sensation. The Benediction of the Holy Father has been again asked for the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, and granted with all his usual goodness of heart. The French contributor, for whose additions to my letters I am, as you know, often under obliga tions, and who supplied my place while I was on my travels, was admitted to an audience this week, and wished me to mention here that he thus re membered your journal. VIENNA, Dec. 14. While the moral decay of Austria is going on at a rapid rate (of Count Chorinsky's story I will spare you the details, for such scandals quickly run the round of all the papers)—while the mob of Vienna, stung to madness by th e i nven ti ons o f the Jewish press, hurry forward in masses to sign addresses for the revocation of the Concordat (the other day one of those who had just signed was asked what he knew about the Concordat, and his reply was- 46 Oh, don't you know ? That is the nickname for the Emperor's mother-in law, and she must be sent off. lam posi tively told !she is quite a worthle ss pe r sonage)," —whilst thus in the streets, in the houses, in the Chambers, and in the press of Vienna, the shriek of that eternal charivari, busily played off against the Concordat, is for ever splitting one's ears, the faithful here, last Sunday, mindful of the needs of their chief Pontiff, made collections in all the churches ; ladies of the first families were among the collectors of these offerings of filial love and fidelity towards the Holy Father. Nor did the Empress keep back. She made her offerings through the hands of the youthful Prince Rudolph and the Princess Gisela. The Protestant King of Hanover also, by a liberal offering, took part in this act of homage. Thus we have had, at least for a moment, a ray of sunlight in these dark and:dismal days. But the eye is not allowed to rest long on a pleasing ob ject. New infamies quickly press themselves on our attention, which we would gladly leave unno ticed, but which must be considered, if we wish to form a perfect and just conception of the move ment which is threatening Austria with a speedy . downfall. I will confine myself to-day to the history of how a member of the Chamber, an advocate, a certain Dr. Schindler, has contrived to save his honour ; that is to say, to save his honour, imperilled at the hands of justice, through the intervention of an Austrian Minister of Jus tice. Your readers , may, perhaps, remember the name of this Dr. Schindler, who last summer, as is well known, dexterously took advantage of a certain likeness he has—a Napoleonic profile—and with a forwardness that would take no denial, ob tained at last an audience of the Emperor, which he turned into a political speculation, reporting what passed between the Emperor and himself in the newspapers according to his own good pleasure. It is the same person who, as I wrote to you in my last letter, hid himself the other day behind a distinguished ecclesiastic and professor, Dr. Greuter, when in the Chamber, and cheered the abominable speeches of a Muhlfeld, so as to make it appear that the cheers came from the above mentioned worthy priest. Now, this swindling Schindler is it who has lately fallen into the hands of justice, from which he has been rescued by the Minister of Justice. The history is as follows : An Hungarian Jew, Karolyi by name, who kept an hotel in Alexandria, was accused of being an accomplice in an enormous theft, was convicted of the crime, and thereupon condemned to eight years' imprisonment. The Jew desired to have Schindler for his advocate, and upon his wife's writing to beg him to undertake her husband's defence, and at the same time enclosing thirty Napoleons as part payment in aclvenne po will ' legly undertook to do so, and gave her his word of honour to advocate the cause of her husband, the Jew Karolyi, to the best of his ability. He only called once, however, on the prisoner, and troubled himself no further about the matter until just previous to the trial, when being himself in Steyer, he wrote to his assistant, immediately before the appointed time for the trial, to demand the pay ment of 1,000 florins from the Jew, as a condi tionof his undertaking the defence. Karolyi was unable, on such short notice, to muster this sum, and the magnanimous Schindler left him in the lurch. On being required to return the thirty Napoleons he refused point blank to do so, and made no answer to the reiterated orders of the court to refund the money. At length compelled by the authorities to put in an answer, he alleged the money was received for other purposes un connected with the defence ; but, on his papers being subjected to a search, this was proved to be an utter falsehood. Upon this he at last refunded the money, but made a charge of 280 florins for preparing the Jew's defence ; one item was 152 florins for a journey from Steyer to Vienna ; but, on examination by the court, this allegation of a journey from Vienna also was proved to be a Schindler falsehood. It was further proved that Schindler had never written a line for the defence. More than half-a-dozen practising lawyers of high standing in the higher and lower courts main - t tined this to be a criminal offence ; they only hesitated as to placing it in the category of theft or fraud. But now, when the affair had been thus far brought to light, and the inquiry was in full course, lo ! two of the chiefs of the Liberal party —the Castor and Pollux of the Civil Marriage Bill, and other similar virtuous attempts—viz., Miihl feld and Berger, made their way to the office of the Minister of Justice. Thereupon, in rapid succes sion, three messages are sent down, each sharper and more peremptory than the other, to the official prosecutor to hush up the inquiry! At the same time any fresh proceedings in the case were for bidden. This is not the first time that this famous member of the Austrian Chamber has shown himself to be an expert swindler. Not long since he was convicted of having received from the Braunaucr Railway Company the sum of 50,000 florins to look after its interests, which, however, did not deter him from further demanding the sum of 5,000 florins from one of the members of the same company. This scandalous proceeding was made public some time since, and has never been contradicted. The history of this second scandal, which, on account of the Minister of Jus tice being mixed up in it, is of a far, indeed of an infinitely higher degree, is warranted by the Historisch-Politische Blotter to be drawn from docu mentary sources, a guarantee which is perfectly satisfactory to every man of honour. Nothing is more loudly called for, or would be easier, if this history were false, than to contradict and refute it. But this is not to be thought of. The Minister of Justice, with the rest of his party, will seek and find his strength and his consolation in his un blushing audacity. .f . 'rom the Anglo-American Times.) A supplemental report on Impeachment, contain ing the testimony of James M. Ashley, has been presented by the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Ashley was examined at length touching his accusation charging President Johnson with complicity in Mr. Lincoln's murder, repeated not only on the platform and in newspapers, but also in Congress. He ad mitted that his only evidence came from Canover, and that with Gen. Butler he visited the perjurer in gaol to ascertain what proof he could supply. He acknowledged the letters sent by Canover to the President were written by him. Mr. Ashley figures very disgracefully in this affair, and deserves the strong condemnation of all honest men. It is too much the habit in the United States for leading politicians to trump up such charges against their opponents, and the present case is one of the worst instances of this infamous practice. To the last he declared that Impeachment should be put through Congress in spite of the cowards. How he put it through the cable told us, and the sooner this little bantling is buried out of sight the better it will be for his reputation. The gross charges, supported by such miserable testimony, against the Chief Magis trate of the nation has been one of the heaviest blows to the Radical party. The injudicious course taken with the freedmen in several States is producing its natural and ex pected fruit. In Bullock County, Alabama, the coloured loyal leagues organised a government en forcing the submission both of blacks and whites. A strong force of the leaguers assembled at Union Springs, and threatened the extermination of the whites, who banded together for self-protection, when the war of races would have commenced had not General Swayne marched a detachment to re store order, who arrested 15 of the black insurgents. The negroes drove all the white men from the polls on some of the Sea Islands, destroying much pro perty. A mob of coloured men, armed, marched into Columbus, Mississippi, where they demanded food, but they were dispersed by United States troops, and their leaders arrested. In Louisiana the loyal leagues are armed, and a memorial from in fluential citizens sets forth that the negroes refuse to work—that they are waiting to receive the pro perty of the whites promised them by their leaders, and they are threatening, at the delay. If tha winter be severe serious disturbances are apprehended, the more so as the negroes will regard themselves as deceived, as the infamous promise, so generally made, to distribute the land among them, cannot of course be carried out. In Minnesota the Equal Suffrage Amendment was defeated by 1,298 votes. The California Legisla ture has commenced its session. The President of the Senate, Mr. Conness, is a Republican, acd the balloting for his successor was to have begun on December 17. The New York Con stitutional Convention was to adjourn about Christmas, leaving its unfinished business to a revision committee. The Tennessee House has passed an Act to permit coloured men to hold office and sit on juries, and the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly, in Session at Nashville, has re scinded the Act of last year excluding coloured men from the Ministry. The United States Supreme Court assembled at Washington on the 2d December. Chief-Justice Chase, Justices Nelson, Clifford, Davis, Swayne, and ➢Miller were present. The Chief Justice an nounced that the Court would adjourn and make the usual call on the President, when the Judges proceeded to the White House, where cordial greet ings were exchanged. Justices Grier and Field were expected at Washington on the following day. At a meeting of the Bar on the 3d, in memory of the late Justice Wayne, Secretary Browning pre sided, and the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, chairman of the committee to announce his death to the Court, delivered an oration. The Alabama Convention is getting through a considerable amount of African legislation, which, it is fortunate for the State, cannot be effective until sanctioned by General Pope. General Swayne, acting under his orders, endeavoured to induce the Convention to adjourn, urging, as a reason, the in calculable injury their legislative attempts were doing to Reconstruction, but they did not adjourn till Dec. 6, when all business was transacted and the new Constitution adopted. The Convention and General Pope will probably soon be at open war, as the me - nbers consider his interference insulting, and he has already disallowed the ejection of the present State Government, which they desire to re place by one of their own creation. They have no minated a State ticket to be voted for when the Constitution is submitted to the people on the 4th February, with William H. Smith, Superintendent of Registration, for Governor, and A. J. Applegate, of Ohio, for Lieutenent-Governor, with several Northern men for other posts. One Act provides for the organisation of a strong militia force of known loyalty, the officers to receive large salaries ; a second exempts a homestead and $l,OOO of personal property from attachment for debt; a third suspends a large part of the State's court; and a fourth stays the collection of debts till January ; and many still more curious Bills were before the .Convention. They have declared void all contracts made dur ing the rebellion, unless the monies paid were in the lawful currency of the United States, and have annulled all contracts for the sale or purchase of slaves. The Louisiana Convention has not done much beyond decreeing to its delegates $lO per day, and 40 cents for each mile travelled, to defray which direct taxation is imposed, and all acts repealed that obstruct the collection, while a resolution to reduce the pay of the delegates has been rejected. One was also brought forward to prevent the building of the Mississippi levees ; ano ther was laid over, thanking God for Radical vic tories ; and here is the text of one we are unable to comprehend :—" Resolved, that the loyal people of the State of Louisiana, from a long experience under the white man bondage in this State, present our thanks to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con-. gress ; and, further, that we endorse every delibe ration for the oppressed races of the State, and are also thankful to the Radical friends throughout the United States and elsewhere on the face of the globe. We furthermore pray that the Conven tion assembled to deliberate thoroughly upon the poor oppressed people under the same basis of Congress of 1867, that all men are created equal, and, therefore, citizens." A multitude of measures have been introduced, as the members labour under the same delusion as those at Mont gomery, that they are a Legislative body. It is also said that they have recommended that the present system of laws in the State should be replaced by the common law of England. The Virginia Con vention was organised at Richmond on the 4th inst., with Judge Underwood as President, who defeated the Conservative candidate Nelson by 65 votes to 32. The Judge made a moderate speech, advising the exercise of all Christian charity consistent with safety, and Congressmen have earnestly advocated moderation with the leading delegates, from which it is hoped that the Convention will escape the mis takes committed in Alabama. AMERICAN MAILS.—The United States' Post master-General having concluded a contract with the Hamburg-American Steampacket Company for the conveyance of a mail to Great Britain, that company's steamers will, on and after the 10th of January next, leave Southampton every alternate Friday, and New York on and after the 14th of January next every alternate Tuesday, up to the Ist of April. From the Ist of April the steamers will leave Southampton every Friday and New York every Tuesday. St. Thomas's, Mr. Seward's latest purchase, has been the scene of further desolation. On the after noon of the 18th November, after a few severe shocks of earthquakes, a wave rolled in upon the island, appearing suddenly from the ocean like a wall that threatened to sweep over the land. It was fortunately broken by the outer bays, and it flooded only the lower part of the town, where the sea rose above fourteen feet above its usual level As the marine monster' approached it sucked up all the water as a wave does before breaking on the sea shore, leaving everything momentarily dry ere it dashed in overwhelming destruction on St. Thomas. The structures that had weathered the hurricane of the 29th October were demolished, and the ruin completed. The announcement in the House of Representatives warning the world, and more espe cially Denmark, that the United States were not the purchasers of all cast-away territory, has been followed by a denial at Copenhagen that the Wash ington Government had taken possession of the Danish Islands, the Rigsdag not having yet con sented to the cession. It is reported in New York that the vote had been taken, and that the people of the island were in favour of annexation to the United States. The New York Citizen says—" Mr. Seward having purchased an iceberg, and secured the refusal of an earthquake, proceeds to negotiate for a volcano." Cuba has been terrified, know ing the fate of its little sister St. Thomas, by the rumour that Mr. Seward had turned on it his greedy eyes on that island. Spain, it is alleged, had offered to sell her possession for $200,000,000 in gold. The negroes are prone to superstition, and, judging by the experience of St. Thomas, they imagine that Mr. Seward's approach is heralded by earthquakes, hurricanes, and inundations. The alarm is prema ture, as the semi-official papers at Madrid charac terise the rumour as absurd, although Cuba is in truth the only island in the West Indies worth the while of the United States to make a strong effort to secure. Another suggestion is that Mr. Seward should negotiate the purchase of Ireland ! There can be no doubt that if the people of the United States desire to appropriate any bit of terri tory, that territory is the Sandwich Islands. We believe they would have cared little if their Foreign Secretary had been standing on the beach at St. Thomas looking at the ocean wall as it rolled in. But if that veteran statesman really desired to carry the people with him he should study the report of the committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce on the acquisition of the Sandwich Islands. It sets forth, first, that any strong naval power fortified on said islands would hold the key to the commerce of the Pacific Ocean ; secondly, that France, England, and the United States are striving for their possession ; thirdly, that a treaty appears to be the best if not the only way of preventing any hostile Power obtaining them and of securing them to us, and that it will effect the object desired ; fourthly, that the commerce of the Pacific coast and of the United States will be benefited immediately and largely by such a treaty. John T. Hoffmann has been re-elected Mayor of the city of New York by a majority of more than 40,000 over Fernando Wood, candidate of the Mozart Hall Democrats, Mr. Darling, the Republi can candidate being nowhere. The returns were as follow :—Hoffman (Tammany, Dem.), 63,000 ; Wood (Fernando Wood, Dem.), '23,000 ; Darling (Republican), 18,500. Fernando Wood boasted that he would be elected by a large majority, but the Republicans, knowing that they must have a Democratic Mayor, preferred Mr. Hoffmann to the well-know❑ Wood, and therefore aided in re-seating him. It is noticed that the Republicans cast 25,000 votes in the elections in the city of New York for their candidates. But on this occasion the number had dwindled to 18,500, a loss of 6,500. This is explained by the fact that it was known that their candidate had no chance. General Butler, having failed in his disgraceful plot against the President, has devoted his energies to carry to a success his plot against the credit of the United States. Massachusetts is not proud of its member, and its citizens are beginning to inquire how a per son failing so totally to represent its people could have carried the nomination. They find that he imposed himself on the Essex District, where he did not reside, in violation of law, and by an unblushing impudence deceived the electors into the belief that it was necessary for him to be returned to the House of Assembly, as he could prove the President to be an assassin, and make himself useful by sonic grand reforms. The collapse of the Impeachment charges, and the advocacy by their member of a measure they abhor, have shocked and disgusted his consti tuents, as well as the general feeling of the State, and the Massachusetts Congressmen repudiate the General at Washington, and declare that he has no constituency in their State to back him in his no tions. General Hancock's first measure, on taking over his command at New Orleans, has been to revoke Sheridan's order of August 24, providing for the exclusion of all unregistered voters from the jury list. He has reinstated several officials removed by General Mower, and announced that he will main tain the just powersof the Judiciary and that he will not permit the civil authority and laws to be em barrassed by military interference. Commenting on the paragraph he annuls, he states that it is an established fact that it has greatly shackled the administration of justice. Trial by jury will be henceforth regulated and controlled by the Consti tution and the civil laws, without regard to any military order hitherto issued from the Department head-quarters. It is clear that the proceedings of the lsegro Conventions are not without their in fluence on the District Commanders, who are all men of sound sense and ability. There has been a great fight among the pro prietors of one of the greatest and most successful steamship lines in the world ; indeed the only truly great ocean line the United States possess. The Pacific Mail Steamship Ctimpany have six vessels between New York and Aspinwall, and six between Panama, and Sala Francisco, all magnificent ships• From San Francisco, four of the largest and finest steamers ever built (two not yet complete) are ply ing, or will ply, between San Francisco, Japan, and Hongkong. Although the company is an immense success, some of the shareholders were so dissatis fied with the management, that the directors were so far compelled to give way as to admit to the board three elected by them. It has been noticed that the bullion import from San Francisco to New York has lately much diminished, although the yield of the mines is increasing. The reason, 53 already given in these columns, is, that San Fran cisco now sends the precious metal direct to China, instead of by the old lumbering route through London• The steamer which sailed on Wednesday, the 4th instant, for Hongkong, carried $1,360,000 in trea sure, besides $325,000 worth of freight. Indeed the line is creating traffic on both seaboards, and an opposition has been started by the North American Steamship Company from New York to Aspinwall, to which the Arago and Ft/Um have, 3t least for the present, been transferred. Red Indian outrages are still reported, though much less frequently than formerly. Red Cloud attacked a suttler train, escorted by forty so ldiers, at Peann Creek, 20 m il es a b ove F ort Phili p KW' ney, and succeed e d i n captur i ng s i x waggon?, con taming $20,000 wo r th o f goo d s. Li eut. Shirley was shot through th e f oo t, an d two of h i s men were killed. The Indians num b ere d a b out 300. O n the 15th November fourte en I n di ans, l e d b y a s on of Big Bear, took 70 h ea d o f h orses an d mu l es front within two miles of Fort Laramie. Major-Gener al Custer, Lieut.-Colonel of the 7th Cavalry, h as been suspended from rank and pay for one year, a sen tence which the President has approved. He was found guilty of being absent from his comman d without leave, and of not making an effort to rescue some of his men who had fallen into the hands of Indians ; also of making undue haste on his return march, whereby he damaged the stock, and preju diced military discipline. Generals Harper and Sanborn arrived at North Platte on November 27, via Cheyenne. Spotted Tail was there with 300 of his people waiting for the commissioners. He has expressed his willingne ss t o v i s i t W as hi ng ton if allowed to take five wives with him. The Indian Peace Commission has been broken up, and the Commissioner, Col. Taylor, has returned to Wash ington, and reports favourably of the peace being maintained. The chief danger he considers to be from white ruffians, who, disguised as Indians , commit outrages. The expenses of the Commission amounted to $150,000. The following is Mr. Greeley's card, published is the Tribune, in reply to his nomination and confir mation to the post of Minister to Austria, wa de without any intimation to him from either the Pre' sident or the Secretary of State : A CARD. I long ago resolved not to decline any office until r e ' sponsibly invited to accept or become a candidate therefor; and, as I have never had a word, or hint, from either the White House or the State Department that 1 had been °r would be nominated to the Austrian mission, I am not yo; at liberty to decline a commissio n w hi c h h as no t b e en 0 " may not be tendered me. In order, however, to stop ti le , waste of stationery by gentlem en w h o wan t th e post of Secretary of Legation, I am impelled to say that I purpo . s , e not to leave my own country at pres en t— cer t a i n ly not till after the next President is ch osen . P oss ibl y Gene° Burnside, were he in military command here, might 1 109 me through a court-martial; but, so far as may depend ° II my own choice, I purpose to stay on this side of the Atlantic. n. 0. North Carolina has elected Republican candidates, and given a large majority in favour of a Convert' tion. Of a total vote of 130,000, from 70,000 t o 75,000 were the ballots of white men. T he majority, therefore, in North Carolina were whites+ and fully half of their number voted the Republican ticket. The majority for the Convention is under stood to be 70,000, and for the Republican candi dates 50,000. the registration list bore the name s of 103,000 white and 71,500 coloured voters. l h the centre of the State one-third of the whites, an d in the western part nearly two-thirds, supporte d ~ the Republican cause. This gives the chance of at least one State showing a fair result of the Con' gressional policy of reconstruction. That policy is likely to be mainly defeated in other States, by the whites retiring in disgust from all political action. A letter from Richmond to the Springfield lie" publican says :—" The most surprising reaction has taken place to-day in favour of General Grant. His testituoll before the impeachment c•Antnittee has endeared bin , t° every Southern man. It is such little things as the Geri' ral-in-Chief says that makes us g ood U n i on men. A little bit of kindness goes a long way down here." The New Haven Journal denies that es-Governor Buckingham, of Norwich, is to head the Republican ticket next year, or that ex-Governor Hawley is certain to su e ' teed Mr. Dixon in the United St a t es S ena t e . John , Watt, of Norwich, and Charles Parker, of Meriden, a re mentioned as especially eligible men for governor, a nd " 39 for the Senatorship, New Haven, when the proper tinle comes, has a candidate to present w h ose c l a i ms and nle r , ii° will not be disregarded by the people of C o nnecticut, Nir" ° want a man of the highest order of talent and of thorough Republican principles.'' Nathaniel Brewer, jun., President of the Alton a Mining Company at Boston, and J. B. Wheelock, its seer () ; tary, are in custody charged with dishonesty and fra ud ' and the stockholders have instructed the directors to Pa r i ; sue those officials, at the company's expense, to the extent of the law. General Humphries lately eloped from Pittsfielai and it now appears that a few months ago he married young lady in Michigan whom he deserted, and was after wards known as General James H. Hardin, of the Conte' rate service. Colonel 0. F. Nims, formerly commander of 0 : 3 famous Nims's light battery, is a candid a t e f o r sergea ll at-arms of the next Massachusetts Legislature. Governor Brownlow, now Senator for Tennessee; has denied the testimony of detective Baker, who affirmed that Brownlow knew of a letter written by Andrew J° 13 2 1 ; son to Jefferson Davis, adding that he did not believe t 1 1; Mr. Johnson ever wrote to Davis or any other man, gi ll° , aid or comfort to the rebellion. The fact has excited 5 0111 r sarcastic comment that the libel has been circulated the country for more than a year, and that the denial 00V comes when all the trumped-up charges against Mr. .I.obri son have been shown to be utterly false. go The Springfield Republican, alluding to Ge °T a r Francis Train, whom it terms the " luminous indivi" who figures perennially in the newspapers, says ho as to , o nished Susan B. Anthony when he took up 'Wonl3l/ Rights by " talking like a windmill on all subjects." 113 ; h lady declared " he was a splendid specimen of a man, w , a magnificent physique, and in spite of eccentricities of most lovely disposition." The Kansas papers differ:6, from Susan as to to his "lovely disposition," but the 1 ' publican prefers the woman's verdict to that of an editor° 12 such a subject. in' Major Blodgett, of Augusta, Georgia, being a dieted for perjury, and taking the test oath, the 12 gra v y jurymen were challenged, and 11 confessed them guilty of the same crime. Mrs. Ba,dcock, of Warwick, Connecticut , 1/ : s arrested arrested on the 2d inst. for smashing the w ind , 6 , o o of Mr. Badcock's house, from whom she had Inte l )" divorced. Colonel Brayton Ives, of Hartford, Connee tiell e t ,: who served in the First Connecticut Cavalry, 1133 be promoted Brigadier, for meritorious service. Births. re th° CHAMP—On the 21st inst., at 26, Harrington-square, wife of Charles Champ, Esq., of a son. . toOf HAZLETT—On the 19th inst., at Addison-road, Nen° ll3s the wife of W. Carew Hazlett, barrister-at - lo'" a son. Hoormt—On the 20th inst., at Marehington, near ri tt°6- ter, the Lady Maud Hooper, of a son. Marriages. red!' a i utKE —ADAMS —OD the 19th iust , at St. James ',,, dilly, Charle:i Mansfield Clarke, L . sq , Captain 57th -"lift mont, to Gemina Cecilia, only child of . the late w Will i g i o ;u l " Adams, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Genera to the Republic of Peru. PoELL—SYmE--On the 19th inst., at St. Mall' s ' both, Charles Turner, elder son of James T. Powell,los of Lane downe-circus South Lambeth, and the 1": ii s or ter-General's Office, 'to Margaret Griffiths, sec ° , l viving daughter of Edward G. Syme, isq.7 pelier, South Lambeth, and the Adjutaut.-ue"" Office, Horse Guards. Deaths. 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