The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

Anthropological Eociety. At a meeting of this society on Tuesday evening —Mr. Bendyshe in the chair—two papers were read relating to the craniological peculiarities of the aboriginal inhabitants of this country. The first paper, by Dr. J. 1 hurnam, was entitled " Further Researches and Observations on the Principal Forms of Ancient British Skulls," in which he en deavoured to prove, by the results of recent re searches among the grave mounds of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire more particularly, the skulls of the earliest inhabitants were of the long form, and that they were succeeded by a race who possessed round skulls. The conclusions to which he arrived are that the skulls from the primary interments in the long barrows of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, and it is believed of South Britain in general, are of a strongly marked dolicho-cephalic, or long-headed, type, having a mean breadth index of .71, which is much lower than that of any modern European people. No objects of metal nor of decorated pot tery are known to have been in these interments, but implements only of stone, bone, or horn. On the other hand, the skulls from the primary inter ments in the round barrows of the same district are more or less round, having a mean breadth index of .81, which is much higher than is now found among the population of any part of England or Wales. Objects of bronze, some of iron, and richly deco rated pottery are often found in these barrows, with or without stone implements. Without asserting that there is any necessary connection between the forms of the barrows and of the skulls interred with them, the general relation between the two was strongly pointed out by Dr. Thurnam, who contended that those people with the long heads were the true primeval race, and that they were succeeded by a more pow erful and civilised people, who, gradually extend ing themselves, became dominant throughout the island. The sepulchral monuments of the earliest people show that they buried their dead without cremation, that they possessed herds of small short horned oxen, and that they subsisted largely by the chase of the red deer and wild boar, that some of their customs were extremely barbarous, and that they sacrificed many human victims whose cleft skulls are found in these tombs. The round-headed people buried in the round barrows seem to have been more civilised, as was inferred from the more common use of bronze implements, and the explora tions of their tombs show that the burning of the dead was with them the prevailing, though not ex clusive, mode of burial. The appearances are in deed consistent with what we are told of the fune rals of the Gauls by Caesar. Dr. Thurnam conjec tured that this more civilised race conquered the earliest inhabitants, and reduced them to slavery or drove them into the interior parts of the island. These two races thus made known to us by mo lern researches in their tumuli :may, he considered, be identified with the two peoples, strongly contrasted in their manners, described by C3ar in his " Com mentaries." The latter or brach-cephalic were the agricultural people of the maritime districts, believed to have emigrated from Belgic Gaul, and the doli cho-cephalic were the pastoral and less civilised people of the interior, whom Dr.l hurnam conceived were probably originally Iberic. In the second paper, by Mr. C. Carter Blake, some skulls from the round barrows near Blandford were described, which were considered to invalidate the theory of Dr. Thurnam as to the connection be tween the forms of barrows and of the skulls found within them, and the conclusions to which Mr. Blake arrived were that the state of materials at present at our disposal preclude any generalisation as to the pre valence of a bracho-cephalic type of skull in the round barrows of the south of England, and that a much larger series of skulls from the long as well as from the round barrows must be measured before any conclusions can be arrived at as to their cranial cha racteristics. A long animated discussion took place after the reading of the papers, in which the Rev. Dunbar Heath, Dr. Hyde Clarke, Dr. Hunt, Mr. Lmcprey, Dr. Charnock, Mr. Higgins, and other gentlemen took part. The meeting adjourned at a late hour. Na , Ml and Military Intellience. Capt. W. R. Mends, R.N., C. 13., Director of Transports ; Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy ; and Mr. James Luke, Surveyor and In spector of Contract Work, are at present engaged upon an official visit to the several steam transports now completing in the private building yards of the contractors for the Indian troop service. During the past week the Jumna was inspected at Jarrow, the Malabar at Glasgow, and the Euphrates at Birken head. TLis week the three officials named will con clude their present round of duty with an inspection of the Serapis and the Crocodile on the Thames. According to present arrangements the Jumna will be sent to Devonport to be docked and coated with preservative and anti-fouling paints, and afterwards put through her measured mile trials outside the breakwater of Plymouth Sound. The Euphrates, Serapis, and Crocodile will proceed to Portsmouth to undergo similar preparation and trials previous to being commissioned for active service. The Hector, 20, armoured iron frigate, 4,089 tons, 800-horse power, Capt. W. G. Luard, is ordered into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead, to dis mantle and pay out of commission, on the 19th inst. The Minotaur; 26, armoured iron frigate, 6,621 tons, 1,350-horse power, Capt. James G. Goode nough, is being hurried forward at Portsmouth dock yard for commission as the flagship of the Channel squadron of 1867, as rapidly as possible. It will, however, be nearly, if not quite, another month yet before the ship can be reported ready for commis sion, notwithstanding the energetic superintendence of Captain Goodenough. At present there are not a sufficient - number of seamen available at Ports mouth to form her crew. The Rodney, 78, screw steamship, 2,777 tons, 500 horse power, Captain A. C. F. lieneage, left Sheerness harbour yesterday morning for a trial of her engines, boilers, and machinery. She was under steam some five or six hours, and on her return an chored at the Little Nore, where she will remain till she receives her final orders for sea. The crew have now permanently taken up their quarters on board, but the vessel is still short of her proper complement by nearly 100 hands—the required number being about 800 officers and men. After leaving Sheerness she will stay a short time at Portsmouth, and there, it is anticipated, the proper number will be made up. The trial yesterday was made under the supervision of Capt. the lion. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., captain of the Steam Reserve, Mr. W. W. Williamson, chief inspector of ma chinery afloat, being also present. The Ordnance Select Committee resumed the trial of Major Palliser's 9-inch gun on Monday, at the proof-butt, Woolwich. The charges were slightly increased—namely, from 431 b. to 451 b. of powder. The shot were flattened cylinders, with gun-metal studs, and weighed 2501 b. each. Fifty rounds were fired, with complete success. The usual impression, taken in gutta percha, of the bore and rifling showed that the gun had not sustained the slightest injury from these enormous charges. The firing, which on such occasions —viz., on testing the extreme endu rance, is carried out in the bomb-proof cells, was witnessed by a number of persons interested in gun nery. The trial was brought to a close on Tuesday, when 38 rounds were further fired with charges cou sisting of 451 b. of gunpowder and 2501 b. shot. The gun has withstood the required test without mani festing the slightest symptoms of weakness. At the conclusion of the trial it was stated that if in time the gun would be sent for exhibition to Paris. :The wrought iron, or minor, portion of the gun was ma nufactured under the direction of Mr. Geo. Rendel, and the cast-iron-casing was run over it under the superintendence of Captain Noble (late Royal Artillery), both belonging to the firm of Sir W. Armstrong and Co. The success ful issue of the experiment is in a great measure due, it is acknowledged, to the cordial asssi,tance afforded by the firm to Major Palliser. Some of those who were present on Tuesday stated that they distinctly heard the report of each shot in Hyde-park on Monday, while the wind was easterly, and were able to count the rounds even at that dis tance. Vice-Admiral Boutakow, of the Mogan Imperial navy, attended by his secretary, yesterday inspected the manufacturing department of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, under a special order from the Secre tary of State for War to the heads of departments, to afford the gallant Admiral every facility to inves- tigate our newly-adopted method of warfare in its entirety. The following appointments were made on Tuesday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. K. Wilson, additional, to the Rodney, for instruction of Japanese ; C. W. M'Conachy, master, to the Fisgard, for service in the Nymphe; R. J. C. Grant, master, to the Rod ney, for instruction of Japanese ; and 11. Crauford, midshipman, to the Virago, as supernumerary. Spirit of the American Press. A PROPOSITION TO GRANT. We really wish that General Grant would issue a daily bulletin of his opinions. As things now are his authority is claimed in favour of every political scheme that any member of Congress, any editor, or anybody takes it in his head to propose. A short time ago he issued a sort of proclamation pro hibiting any one whatever from attributing any opinions to him, and declaring the utter impossibi lity of any one but himself telling what his opinions were on any current subject. But this only fur nished a new stimulus to the enemy. Since then General Grant has told every member of Congress, all the Senators, each Cabinet officer, as well as the President, that he entirely coincided with the opi nions of each, and considered them all gentlemen and scholars. As late as Thursday last the bill for the establishment of military despotism acquired great strength in the house by the declaration of Mr. Farnsworth that Grant favoured it, and the member who announced the news was regarded for the time being as an oracle to be respected. Owing to the importance of the matter, Grant took the earliest opportunity to inform a prominent member of the house that he had been misrepre sented—that he did not favour the erection of a despotism, with himself as chief despot—and that he was really surprised that such a notion should be attributed to him. It is now announced, however, that he has just given out that he is in favour of another scheme, all but quite as bad, and it is pos sible it may be enacted into law on the strength of this announcement. We see no way for the poor man but to issue a daily bulletin of his views on all topics of current interest—political, fashionable, moral, and African, with an occasional remark as to the proper price of rents and rations. He should sign his full name to each opinion, after the style of the writers in the French journals, and then he should be held responsible for the authenticity, consistency, legality, and logic of each. He would find that the scheme would save him a world of vexation and annoyance ; and if he should consider it too expensive and bothersome we will save him expense by giving him half of the Times for his daily use, and we will save him bother by sending to Washington a reportorial Boswell to take down his waking ideas and nightly dreams as fast as they are generated in his brain.---New York Times. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH BREMEN. It is most gratifying to us as journalists to an nounce that through the enterprise of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company another immensely important project, looking to the advancement and prosperity of Baltimore, has just been successfully terminated, which will secure the establishment of another line of steamships from this port to Europe, plying bettveen Baltimore and Bremen. This pro ject has been the subject of negotiation between the company and the North German Lloyd Steam ship Company for several months past, but owing to the European difficulties was not successfully concluded until a few days since, the gratifying in telligence being first announced yesterday by John W. Garrett, Esq., President, to the directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at their regular monthly meeting. It is agreed to run two large iron steamships of not less than 2,500 tons burthen, for a period of not less than five years. The vessels have already been contracted for at a cost of £700,000 ; and are now in actual course of con struction on the Clyde, in England to be completed in time to begin their voyages in February next, one year hence. For the purpose of providing . suitable berths for them in our harbour, and facili ties for receiving and discharging freights, the rail road company have agreed to erect immense covered piers, similar to those now in use in New York, which will not only add immensely to the commer cial prosperity of Locust Point, where they are to be erected, but will also afford ample accommodations for other steamships now in use. The affairs of the company in Baltimore will be confided to the able management of the firm of A. Schumacher and Co. We cannot express in too strong terms our hearty congratulations upon the success of this all-impor tant enterprise, the vast advantages of which are almost beyond calculation to our city ; and amid the present political fever, which seems to possess the public mind to the almost entire exclusion of all else, it is exceedingly gratifying to note that we have among us men of sufficient enterprise and pub lic spirited energy to still have thoroughly and en tirely at heart the welfare of our city. The project is one which must prove eminently successful, and we repeat our congratulations to the commercial community upon its successful termination.—Balti more Weekly Commercial. THE LAST CHANCE FOR THIS CONGRESS. Mr. Stevens did not get a vote of the house on his Military Government Bill on Saturday. Mr. Banks made a speech, and Mr. Raymond proposed to send the bill to a special committee of seven, but no action was taken. Mr. Banks opposed both the military Government plan, and that of universal suffrage and amnesty, and advocated such a recon struction of the Southern State Governments as will place them in the hands of loyal men, beginning the experiments with Louisiana. His plan is much less objectionable than that of Mr. Stevens, but it is equally exposed to the Presidential veto, and if passed over the veto, will have the President's op position, as in his opinion unnecessary, unconstitu tional, and oppressive. It would practically be worth nothing unless the President should first be superseded, and General Banks intimated that this must be done if the President does not give the action of Congress his support. There is no need of argument to show that it is desir able to complete the work of reconstruction without conflict. The true reconciliation of the South and the welfare of the whole country de pend upon it. Aud it would seem to be possible. For the protection of the white and black Union men nothing is required but the enforcement of existing laws. We do not know that the President has interposed any obstacles in the way of the Freedmen's Bureau or the enforcement of the Civil Rights Bill, but he has probably made no special exertions to help either. If General Howard needs more military support, it is his duty to say so, and of Congress to provide for and order it, if the Pre sident will not do it without such prompting. There is machinery enough already ; the motive power is what is needed, and this can be supplied without doing violence to the Constitution or bringing one department of the Government into collision with another. The second and most essential thing is to establish equal suffrage throughout the Union. Everybody sees that this can only be done surely and radically by a Constitutional Amendment. The President and his Southern friends have al ready given in their adhesion to the principle in their new scheme. Surely the Republican Con gressmen cannot allow themselves to be distanced by the Johnson party in this genuine Radical mea sure. Let Congress now propose this amendment, and make it the condition of the admission of the condition of the Southern States to Congress, and the work is done. We can conceive of no excuse they can render for neglecting this most auspicious opportunity to secure the great aim of all their efforts and struggles. These things achieved, there is but one thing more to be desired by loyal men, and that is the exclusion of the rebel leaders from office. Let Congress provide for this by law. There is no danger that the law will ever be repealed. No party will ever dare go to the people with such an issue as the restoration of the rebel leaders to power. These are the three vital measures, and they will be carried if Congress has but the courage and faith to say the word—Equal suffrage in the constitution of the United States. The exclusion of the rebel leaders from office. Enough troops in the South to enforce the laws.—Springfield Repubtican. The passage of Mr. Stevens's Force Bill, una mended, by the House, illustrates the facility with which a minority may be the lords of a majority by legislative process, and compel their assent to mea sures they disapprove. At least half the Republicans of the House, probably a majority of them, desired to vote for the amendment proposed by Mr. Blaine, which offered to the South representation in Con gress on their adoption of the Constitutional Amend ment and equal suffrage. This would have mitigated the project of military rule by offering a way of escape from it. Its adoption would have given the lie to the assertion that the Republicans are plotting to perpetuate disunion, instead of seeking restora tion on just principles. But Mr. Stevens, by a series of shrewd legislative manoeuvres, put his bill into such a position that it could not be amended by the usual process. Mr. Blaine endeavoured to extricate the majority from this dilemma by recommitting the bill to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to report it with his amendment. This would have been carried if the Democrats had not voted en masse with Mr. Stevens and his friends, and so overpowered the majority of the Republicans. Having thus cowered his party, so that they must either take or reject his bill as a whole and unamended, or defeat it alto gether, Mr. Stevens carried his point and his bill by a nearly two-thirds vote. Thirteen Republican representatives refused thus to be dragooned into supporting what they did not approve, and voted against the bill on its passage. They were Messrs. Banks and Baldwin, of Massachusetts ; Davis, of Kentucky ; Defrees, of Indiana ; Dodge, of New York ; Hawkins, of Tennessee ; Kelso, of Missouri ; Kuykendall, of Illinois ; Raymond, of New York ; Stillwell, of Indiana; Francis Thomas and John L. Thomas, juu., of Maryland. When the bill comes back with a veto there will be more dissenters, and the bill will not probably obtain a two-thirds vote. —Springfield Republican. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1867. PROTECTION. " Protect me !" is the imploring cry of a comfort able, well-fed, well-clad personage whom at first sight one would hardly take for a beggar. Pro tect me!! I own but ten thousand acres of land in the world. It is my all. It is full of coal ; but the Englishmen and the Nova Scotians have got coal too, and they offer to sell it cheaper than the price I want. Shut out this foreign coal and protect me, an American labourer." He looks even less like a labourer than like a beggar. " What makes coal so dear, when the weather is so dreadful cold? God help', us poor !" comes from between the chatter ing teeth of a toil-worn, care-worn, shivering woman, as she measures with stingy eye a scanty fresh supply of fuel to her waning fire. No cry from her to Government for protection. No protection to her from the greed of the strong, the cunning, the avaricious. " Work for yourself. Work or starve. Self-help. Every one for him- self. If Government gave bread, or clothes, or fuel to the poor, it would demoralise them. Take better care of the pennies you earn. Lay them up in summer for a wintry day." Such are the answers she would get if she asked for protection — if she turned beggar. No chance for her to put in a replication. The voices of the coal-owners are mighty to drown hers. If she could be heard she would say, " Ilow can I lay up my pennies when the strong arm of Government takes them from me, day by day, as fast as I can earn them, and hands them over to my richer neighbours ? On every spool of thread I buy Government takes from me a penny or two to pay over to the Woonsocket Factory Company, so that they may make dear thread and big dividends. On every garment I wear it takes pennies and shillings from me wherewith to fill the purses of the rich men who make cloth, and stockings, and shawls, and who cannot be content with less than fifty or one hun dred per cent. increase of their wealth every year to pay them for making dear clothes for the Ame rican labourer. When I buy a stove or a pair of scissors, I must pay some of my hard-earned pen , nies to support the wealthy iron-maker of Penn sylvania. I get no protection to my lab.ur, and I ask none. Let us both alone--me and the manu- facturer. As you let me work my humble way along as best I can, leave him to do the same. Give him no part of my earnings, and I am con tent with my little share of this world's goods." If it demoralises society for Government to give the poor food, and clothes, and fuel, is it not equally demoralising for Government to give to the rich and the strong ? Aud when it gives to the rich by taking from the comforts of the poor, is it not demoralising society at both ends ? " Mother, do give me another blanket, I am so cold," begs a shivering child, of a winter's night, on our northern frontier. " I have no more, child ; blankets, are so dear, and all sorts of clothes so dear. John, what makes woollen things so much dearer than they used to be?" "I don't know ; but they do say it's all done to purtect us poor folk A tonguey man told us the other night that the Government must purtect us from the blanket makers in England and other foreign countries." " Yes, but John, over in Canada they have nothing but English blankets, and you can buy two blankets there for what one costs here. The English blanket makers don't seem to be so hard upon poor folk after all." " Well, I can't tell the story exactly ; but the tonguey man made it all out clear. I think, he said, too, that wool wouldn't grow on our sheep unless they was purtected." " Why, John, you don't mean that they kiver our Air erican sheep with blankets to make their wool grow, and that's the reason blankets are so scarce and dear ?" " Well, I don't know about that; but he made out that the sheep must be purtected to git the wool, and then the men who made the wool into blankets must be purtected ; else we'd have to use the cheap foreign blankets, and then he said we'd be worse off." " John, don't you think the tonguey man was pull ing some wool over your eyes? If I could get two Vankets instead of one to keep the children warm the sheep would do well enough with their natural kivering. It seems to me that we poor folk, what don't have any natural kiver of wool growing on our backs, want purtection more than the sheep." " Well, that's just what Deacon Welloff says ; he says these high prices purtect us as well as the sheep ; and you know the Deacon subscribes a good deal of money for the poor." " That's all true, John ; but then the Deacon do n ' t seem to get any poorei for all he gives away; and the Deacon has got a good many sheep of his own ; and whatever is good for his sheep must be good for the Deacon's own pocket ; and they do say that he owns part of a big blanket -factory down in Rhode Island; and so, maybe, the Deacon wrongs us poor folk out of $lO and then gives us back $1 of it in charity ; maybe, if the poor had cheap blankets and cheap clothes, they wouldn't want any charity. You can't make me believe we're any better off for having only one blanket when, if they was cheaper, we might have two." The parable of Dives and Lazarus might be useful reading for those who are getting fat dividends from coal-mines and factories. —Round Table. THE TARIFF BILL. The iron Age says :—" We are quite aware that the Tariff Bill which has passed the Senate has many imperfections, and that the additional duties upon several articles are entirely inadequate. We laboured when the bill was before the Finance Committee to have it made as consistent and har monious as we could, frequently discouraging what we supposed to be unreasonable or excessive de mands of special industries, and endeavouring to present the just claims of others to increased duties, which appeared tc be understood. But now it has gone t o the House we I 'eel deeply assured of the impolicy of attempting iis improvement there. Within fourteen days of Ithe termination of the session, and with the vast amo , unt of work still to be done by Congress, it is imp, - >ssible that the bill can be con sidered in detail—the. • attempt to do so will certainly defeat it. We thereft +re appeal to those interests that may have been die 'regarded in the present bill to forego at this moue It any further effort to get the bill amended this seas ion, and to urge its passage as it is. As the effort to amend it must be unsuc cessful, so the postponement of the bill would be most disastrous. The failure to pass the bill last July cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars—a repe- tition of the same folly now may produce conse quences disastrous beyond computation. We there fore urge upon all who desire the promotion of our national policy, all friends of American industry, to unite in pressing the House at once, and without amendment or alteration, to pass the Senate Bill. Any change from that, our readers are aware, will necessitate a return to the Senate, and involve such unavoidable delay, either by debate there, or by reference to a committee of conference, as will have the certain effect of putting over the measure to a new Congress, when it will, of course, be quite un certain when it will be acted upon." IMMEDIATE RECONSTRUCTION A DUTY. The absolute rejection of the Constitutional Amendment by Mr. Johnson's State legislatures takes away all excuse for the thought of sanctioning his usurpations by recognising the validity of the governments organised by him. It is, in every point of view, as well that this has happened. The Amendment, though excellent in itself, would not be a complete settlement of the issues between the North and the South ; while the recognition of States organised by a bold usurpation of the Execu tive, no matter upon what conditions, would be a highly dangerous precedent. In offering such terms to the South, we believe that Congress obeyed the will of the people ; but we are confident that the people neither expected nor desired that, if these terms were rejected, Congress should do nothing more. Yet some influential Republicans in Congress seem to considerthe Amendment a finality, and to hold Congress bound to wait for the Southern whites to ratify it, even though months and years pass by. From this view we strongly dissent. The day of grace is past. All the Southern legislatures have met, and all have deliberately rejected the terms offered to them. If these legislatures should reconsider their action, ratify the amendment, and thereupon be recognised by Congress, it may yet be questioned in the courts whether such a ratifica tion is valid ; and after such recognition the amend ment would clearly have no validity if not ratified by three-fourths of all the States, including those newly recognised. Congress is not bound to run any such risks, nor has it a right to do so. The main reasons for further action by Congress are, however, to be found in the obvious dangers of delay in reconstruction, and the certainty that such delay will be almost indefinitely prolonged under the present policy. On this point we have frequently expressed our entire concurrence with the most earnest advocates of the Southern cause. It is absurd to deny that the unsettled condition of the South is prejudicial to the North. With no legitimate Governments tending to injustice, inequality, and insecurity, it is impossible that the South should prosper. Nor is it possible for the North to prosper as it should so long as this unsettled state of society exists in one-third of the common country, depriv ing it of capacity to produce or to purchase as it otherwise would. The labourers of the South have no security for their liberty or their wages. Capi talists have no security for their investments. How can they safely lend money to Governments wi►ich may at any day be overthrown ? How can they act under charters from such Governments ? We do not wonder that the Southern States have had to allow large discounts on their bonds. We only marvel that such obligations should be saleable at any price. The unpleasant situation in which Northern men find themselves at the South is notorious ; nor can it be improvel without a thorough reorganisation of the local governments. Under such circumstances the South cannot possibly contribute to the national wealth anything like what it would if law, order, and equality of rights were firmly established. The political precedent involved in indefinite delay is also worthy of consideration. Ten governments are in fact controlling the internal affairs of as many States ; and Congress neither recognises nor disavows them by any decisive official act. Yet, if they are not legitimate, it is the clear duty of Congre:2s to suppress them and secure to the people regular government ; while if they are legitimate, it — is — equally the duty of Congress to admit their representatives. A prolongation of the pcsent state of things would be an excuse to future Congresses for either weakness or usurpation, as they might feel dis- posed. Even from a merely partisan view of the case, the perils of delay seem intolerable. The is put at issue every alt erna t e y ea r. t would be irremediabl e ; f or if th e A w h s o i l n e g q l e u es d e t f i o e a n Southern States are once recognised, the act can never be undone. And every year would add to the strength of the existing Governments at the South ; since toleration would amount to a half recognition, and vast pecuniary interests would become involved with them. Add to these considerations the pos- sibility that at any moment the validity of these Governments, as the only ones in existence may be asserted by the Supreme Court, and the danger that delay will resist in a triumph for the South does not seem small. We therefore urge upon the present Congress the duty of immediate reconstruction. At the very least an experiment should be made upon one or two States. Conventions should be summoned forthwith, and all the machinery of government be put in motion. We have repeatedly shown that Congress has the power to do this, and that the co-ordinate departments of the Govern- Aleut are bound to abide by the decision of Con gress t g between an n set forthconflicting arguments to this effect, oai c benuse Congress no longer doubts its power, but only hesitates as to the expediency of exercising it. Those conservative Republicans who oppose further action on this subject, from fear of its effect upon business, are, as it seems to us, short-sighted. It must be far better, in a mere business point of view, to bring this controversy to a head at once, than to let it drag on for years. Uncertainty is the curse of trade, which can accommo date itself to almost any settled state of affairs, but is ruined by doubts and fluctuations. It is said by some that nothing can be done until ' Mr. Johnson is removed. But it is very plain that if an impeachment is to be had, an act of recon struction, imposing simple and unmistakable duties upon the President, will either compel him to sub mit or furnish ground for impeachment too clear to be a matter of dispute. Thus, he may be required to issue a proclamation, or to provide for an elec tion, or to do some other act involving a repudiation of the governments which he has set up. If he fails to comply by the day appointed, he will be so clearly guilty of a tuisdemeanour that no question can be raised other than one of pure law, upon which no argument need be made by the prosecution. Upon such a charge Mr. Johnson could be impeached, tried, convicted, and removed, within ten days, with the most perfect decorum, fairness, and legality, and with the general approval of the country. His trial upon an indictment such as General Butler presents would occupy six months or a year, while any attempt to supersede him meantime might precipi tate us into civil war. On the other hand, if Mr. Johnson obeys the law, his defeat will be so perfect that he can no longer have any power to interpose obstacles in the way of Congressional action, he will mortally offend his present supporters (if he really has any), and must submit to carr y out the whole policy of Congress. Whether, therefore, an impeachment be desired or not, it is evident that the interests of society, both North and South, de mand the early action of Congress upon reconstruc tion. However imperfect that action may be, it will at least establish something certain where all is now in doubt, and cannot, therefore, fail to be beneficial. But we have no fear that the measures of Congress upon this point will not be in the main judiciously framed. The principles which will govern it are well known, and are approved by the country. Now let it act, and act without delay. —The Nation. [ADVERTISENIENT:I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills. — Premature Decline. - The unwary and thoughtless may save themselves a sea of troubles in the future by an early recourse to these excellent curatives. All blotches, from whatever cause arising, all enlargements of the glands, wherever situated, irritating sores and debilitating dis charges, may be safely and certainly cured by employing Holloway's Ointment and Pills in accordance with the instructions wrapped round each pot and box. No timidity need doter the weakest from applying these restoratives, which exert the threefold qualities of purifying, regulat ing,and repairing , ithout disturbing the stomach, an noying the nervous system, or rendering confinement to the house necessary. Holloway's medicaments will stop the source of many maladies, IN hid], when neglected, per petuate misery. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is with feelings of regret, but hardly of surprise, that the public will hear of the Fenian outbreak in Ireland. The conspirators have hitherto inflicted the greatest amount of trouble on the Govern ment and of disquietude on all loyal people with the least possible exertions and exposure ou their own part. By meetings, drillings, importations of arms, threats, boasts, and, finally, by the petty rising in Kerry, they have contrived to keep in activity the considerable force which is at present stationed in Ireland, and to fill with "alarm the isolated house holds of the gentry. These rebels have shown them selves excellent at everything but rebellion. Still, menaces and feints could not last for ever. If false alarms were too often given, they would in time be disregarded, and then the chief power of the Fenian leaders would be gone. They who paid their money in America have been anxious for action, and have not failed to denounce the supposed irresolution and cowardice of their leaders. We may well suppose that the Fenian following in Ireland, which could not understand the delays of Stephens and his ac complices, have urged that something must be done. For some time past it has been evident that mis chief was at hand. The mysterious visit to Ches-- ter, which no one now can doubt was connected with the Fenian conspiracy, the premature outbreak at Cahirciveen, and, more than all, the plotting; of the last fortnight, which have been duly disclosed to the authorities, have been sufficient to keep the mili tary force on the alert. Lord Strathnairn returned to Ireland as soon as the first news of the Kerry affair arrived, and has been ever since fully prepared for action. His force is sufficient, and disposed in such a manner as to be capable of being moved promptly and effectively at the shortest notice. It has been for so many years necessary to study the prospect of insurrection in Ireland that there need be no doubt of the ability of the Commander-in-Chief to take military possession of the country, and deal successfully with rebellion wherever it shows itself. N‘ hile, however, there is no ground for alarm so far as the vindication of the Queen's au' ho rity is concerned, it would be wrong to disregard the sinister features of the present outbreak It has evidently been concerted. It broke out at the same time at many distant points. The despatch read. by Lord Naas in the House of Commons states that the rising around Dublin was general, and that at Drogheda the police barrack was attacked, though without success. We have since learnt that at two other stations the police were overpowered and made prisoners ; at Dermore the police barrack was burnt, and a Coastguard station near Kilrush was plundered of arms. At Kilmallock, however, a small body of police sustained for three hours the attack of a very superior force of Fenians, whom they defeated with the loss of three killed and 14 prisoners ' • and at Drogheda also the police defeated a body of Fenians estimated at 1,000, who had taken possession of the market-house, made 40 prisoners, and captured a large quantity of ammunition. " The military," by which we understand the force under Lord Strathnairn, had brought into Dublin 208'prisoners, and large quantities of arms and ammunition had been seized. Of what materials the Fenian force is composed some idea may be forma from the signi ficant fact that 105 young men are said to be miss ing from the Dublin drapery establishments. In and near Dublin, however, there is not likely to be even a temporary success of the insurgents. The city is well supplied with troops, and these are dis posed so as to act promptly wherever riot may ap pear. In the South-west the movement appears to be more dangerous. The telegraph wires have been every where cut; the railway bas been blocked and some of the rails torn up in the neighbourhood of Thurles. It must be borne in mind, too, that Munster is, and always has been, the most disaffected part of Ire land, that there the Fenian conspiracy was hatched and has grown up, and that, both in Ireland and in America, the rebels have put their chief trust in the men of Cork, Tipperary, Limerick, and the neighbouring counties. The " Generals" and leaders from America have also been especially.busy in the South-west. We are not surprised, there fore, to bear that in several parts of the South-west there have been isolated, but evidently concerted outrages, in pursuance of the plans of the disaffected. As in other parts of the island, however, the mili tary power is quite able to deal with any disturbers of the public peace. A large force is stationed in the South of Ireland, and can be moved to the un settled districts at once. Hitherto it would seem that the police alone had in most cases been able to resist and disperse the rebels. Though there is, consequently, no political danger, it is impossible to exaggerate the social calamities which this nefarious conspiracy is bringing on the whole of Ireland. The constant fear of disturb ance and outrage, the discouragement to industry and to the introduction of capital, and the stimulus to absenteeism must deeply affect the prosperity of the country. The lieutenants of counties and other leading people of the island are returning to their posts in the hour of danger, but no one can doubt that the effect of the alarms of the last two years must be to drive a still larger number of the owners of the soil to seek security and comfort in England. For this reason, if for no other, it is to be hoped that the suppression of the present disturbances will not only be speedy and complete, but that such con 4ign punishment may be inflicted on the leaders as to convince even the most ignorant that rebellion is not the safe and pleasant vocation it has long been considered in 'lreland. THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE 'ON THE " FOREIGN POLICY OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.' My last paper concluded with an account of the unprin cipled invasion of the Roman territory by the Pied montese, and with the perfidious acquiescence of the French Emperor in that act. I ask now, how can his advocates dare to defend the last-named potentate by alleging his inability to control his revolutionary allies ? Those who enter into part nership are responsible for the public acts of their partners. Those who have helped to aggrandise a weak ally have surely the right and the means of setting bounds to his rapacity and forcing him to observe the conditions of his contract? What a mockery is it to talk of the inability of Napoleon 111. in these transactions ! If now the revolu tionary spoiler, flushed with his recent success, a nd enriched by the acquisition of Venetia, the powerful French Emperor is able to check at the gates of Rome, is it not worse than folly to pre tend that the successive spoliations of the Romagna, and of Umbria, and the Marches, by an ally yet weak, yet unpractised in the arts of depredation, the same Emperor was unable to prevent ! What shall I say, too, of the policy since pursued by the French Government towards the holy Pontiff, despoiled of all . but a small remnant of those possessions which the gratitude and reverential piety of princes and emperors had once bestowed on the Vicar of Christ.?.. At one time the Em peror presses on him the adoption of that odious Code Napoleon, .which I have already characterised —an advice which betrayed an utter absence of all decorum, as well as of religious zeal. At an other time he suggests to the Sovereign Pontiff various political reforms, which the latter would have been under other circumstances too willing to carry out, but which the dismemberment of his territory and the intrigues and plots of revolu tionists within and without his dominions ren dered utterly impracticable. Now he nominates Ministers and sends Ambassadors to Rome favour able to the interests of the Pope. Now, again, he suddenly changes his tactics, and calls to his coun cils men most adverse to the temporal power of the Pope, and who engage in a series of intrigues with the revolutionary Government of Italy. A policy so vacillating is needs most harassing to the Sovereign Pontiff—most inimical to the well being of the Roman people—most conducive to political agitation and disorder in Italy, and most opposed to the peace of the Universal Church. This uncertain policy well betokens that trouble of mind which the Pope lately adverted to the struggles, perhaps, of a better conscience with that demon of Revolution whom this unfortunate per sonage formed a compact with in youth. This confusion—this distraction in his councils, manifest not only in Italy but in Mexico and in Germany, strikes like a judgment of God, and is one of the phenomena that usually precede a monarch's downfall. But, perhaps, if the Emperor of the French, by a something worse than acquiescence, has caused the . dismemberment of the Papal States, he has, at all events, by his Italian ex pedition, allayed dissensions in the Peninsula— been the means of forming its various kingdoms into one harmonious whole, and of consolidating the reign of religion, justice, order, and freedom, and of promoting the material prosperity of its inhabitants. Alas ! what sort of moral and politi cal blessings six years of Piedmontese rule have established in the kingdom of Italy, friends and foes alike attest. Let us hear the Sovereign Pon tiff in his allocution of the 29th of last October, describe 'the grievous persecution of the Church in the new:revolutionary state. "For, sad to say," he remarks, " prelates of the Church, most virtu ous members of the two orders of clergy, and other most upright Catholic citizens, have, by this Pied montese Government, without any regard to reli gion, justice, or even humanity itself, been driven into exile, or thrown into prison, or condemned to forced domicile, been harassed in every the most shameful manner; dioceses, to the great loss of souls, have been bereaved of their pastors, vir gins consecrated to God expelled from their con vents and reduced to mendicancy, the temples of God violated, the diocesan seminaries closed, un happy youth deprived of Christian education and entrusted to the teachers of error and iniquity, and the patrimony of the Church usurped anddissi- pated. The facts recounted by the Pontiff are too ' plomatical representatives abroad, and, amongst notorious to be called in question even by the ad- them, particularly Mr. Motley at Vienna, and Mr. vocates of the new order of things. Where such Murphy, the Consul-General at Frankfort-on-the - . numerous classes of citizens, and those the most Maine, with the Government at Washington. distinguished by their virtues, as well as by their dignity, are thus doomed to every species of oppres- After Mr. Seligm an h a d re f u t e d th ose di r ty slanders sion- and outrage ; whi I. religion itself, the great in a most sarcastic manner, he proposed three cheers ligament of society is thus wea kened, what for Consul-General Murphy and his amiable lady vestige of order, or freedom, or material prosperity —who was also present—in which the whole assem can long subsist in a country ? Hence, even the bi age most heartily joined. The fourth toast, — Times correspondent, favourable as he is to the "Our Army and Navy" —was responded to by Italian _Revolution, is compelled to admit that the Major E. S. Wharton, of Philadelphia, one of the quiet contentment and growing prosperity in the little remnant of the ecclesiastical States contrast gallant combatants of our last war, who declared most favourably with the ex c ess i v e taxation, the that it was very easy for him to speak in praise of discontent, the misery, the fiscal difficulties, the the American army and navy after the same had so venality and corruption, the discords, the riots, gloriously and bravely spoken for themselves. His the brigandage now reigning in the Kingdom of speech was spiced with many lucky and striking Italy. When the history of that saddest of all mo dern delusions, an united Italy, writes the Roman hits at the last German "seven-weeks' war," correspondent of a Catholic contemporary, comes and, the treatment of the city of Frankfort by the to be written, the following statistics may be Prussian Generals during the occupation. The useful. All over the kingdom there is murmuring Chairman next proposed, " Germany, an undivided, and discontent ;. the people of the corn districts are free, and independent Germany," and called upon starving, and that Italy of which only twenty years ago Massimo d'Azeglio could write :—A popular Mr. Augustus Glaeser, Secretary of the United revolution meets withmore difficulties in Italy than States Consulate-General here, to respond. Mr. in any other country; for the land is•so prolific of Glaeser cited the words of the deceased Henry grain, that hunger, the great instigator of popular Haine, the great lyrical Poet : risings, is a thing unfelt, is known no longer. The Government has laid out 250,000,000 lires this "Itis an old, old story, But ever is it true; past year in.getting corn from Odessa and Egypt, And to whom just it happens, • yet the 'condition -of •the land is truly miserable. It breaks his heart in two !" One hears day after day some new cry of distress. He confessed that as a native of Germany, an In contrast to all this and much more is the adopted A • American citizen, and a Republican of head state .of the little Papal territory. And to the and heart, he felt double the heart-breaking suffer same effect the editor of the Monde, parodying the famous words, " Italy is free from the Alps to ings of his beloved native country, which, in midst the Adriatic," has observed that now " Italy of a critical struggle for unity, could expect only a hungers from the Alps to the Adriatic." ' And such time full of trials and bloodehedding. He appealed a state of things is only what was to have been • to the patriotism of his American fellow-citizens , expected. As soon as those great fountains of na particularly of the American ladies, to assist, tional well-being, religion, justice, order, and freedom are dried, or even dammed up, then ma- morally and politically, in the realisation of, terial prosperity disappears. But, it may be said, the great aim of German unity and indepen how is the Emperor of the French responsible for dente, and proposed, " The American ladies, this state of things in Italy ?. I answer that his abroad, and their charming influence in favour of responsibility. is deep and manifold. First, why progress and freedom !" Dr. Townsend S. Brown, , did he enter into such close alliance with a Power, of Pennsylvania, tbauked, in his well-known, cava , - like Piedmont, that, contrary to the sentiments of the immense majority of its subjects, had for Tier-like and humoristical way, for the ladies, who some years evinced such deep hostility to the were numerously represented by sweet and beauti- Church ? Why did he attempt to further the in- ful faces, and elegant and dazzling toilettes. I fluence and enlarge the dominions of such a noticed amongst them Mrs. Sanford with her charm- Power ? Secondly, why, without any provoca , Mrs.Murphy,lady of lug daughter • tion, did he make war upon Austria—an empire whose amity he was bound by every motive of General at Frankfort ; Mrs. Dudley, lady o f our religion and of policy to cultivate ? Thirdly, Consul at Liverpool ; Mrs. Webster, lady of our why, not content " with crying havoc and letting Consul at Bradford, with her blooming daughter; slip the dogs of war," did he let slip, too, the hell- Mrs. Dan. G. Mason, of New York; two Mis ses hounds of revolution? Why did he aggravate Hastings, of San Francisco; Mr:a. Hett, with her the injustice of this unprovoked war on Austria . amiable daughter, of Baltimore •; Mrs. Rosenfeld, by the proclamation of revolutionary max i ms ? Mrs. Osterberg, Mrs. Rica, of New York, an c , l , Why did he talk of marching into Italy toestablish her unity and her nationality? Did not this declar- others. The seventh toast, ~ Our Fallen Heroes, ation strike - at the independence, not only of was drunk in silence, whilst the band played a the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and of the Principalities in Northern Italy, and of the Nea- dirge. Whereupon Mr. Max Becker-Netsche, late of Ne r wound politan dominions, but of the Pall, State also ? w Oleans, up the series of toasts b y and Since what period has the homogeneousness of one in honour of " Generals Grant, Sheridan, e race rather than prescriptive right , historical tra - Sherm a n, " who se ga l la n t and human e manner n' ditions, immemorial custom, and the force of fighting and conquering he brought into a very treaties constituted the basis on which kingdoms r drastic contrast to the bearing, during the last Ge .- and empires repose ? Again, at what period is man war, of commanders like Vogel von Falken" this Italian unity found ? Does not that beau- stein, Von Roon, and Von Manteuffel. tiful land which, as Ariosto says, " the Alps and the sea encompass, and the Apenn ine divides," As to the " gourman di s h" p ar t of the festival , 1 seem, like Greece, marked out by the hand of furnish those of your readers whO wish to enjoy an Nature for a diversity of States? As soon as his- after taste of it by the "Menu," as herewith :"-- tory lifts the curtain over this lovely region we see Potage t 10. Reine, Sammon au Rhine en WO° it possessed by Gallic Celts in the north, by fondu, Roast beef L la, broche Americaine, Ponu nes Etrurians further down, by Latins, Sabines, and de terre en robe du chambre et raiforts cru, Oh ° , u Samnites in the centre, and by Greek colonies fleur, Pan equettes, C -i ts , in the south. And if for a time the sword of Ro m e ores de mouton aux pe }. r Olgt forces it into a sort of artificial unity, making her Dindouncau roti,. Salade, Compots, Plum-pudd ing ' the vineyard of her luxurious patricians, we see Maizena, Glace panach6e, Dessert. The dinn er i was, indeed, first-r a t e , a nd I mus t say that the that as soon as that pressure is removed Ital y returns to her normal state of polycracy, or the ,-, txrand Hotel du Nord of Mr. Lang, a very atten plurality of States. And has not this condition , ; 1 0 rive landlord, can be well recommended to Anierie of things remained amid many vicissitudes down to our own times ? When, then, Napoleon IR de.. and English travellers. e of dared that he made war to bring about Italian na - Finally, I should not forget to state that on tionality and Italian unity, he struck a blow at the gentlemen present told me about that cracked all civilisation ; for if nationality is to be made al fellow, M'Crackeu, that he rememb e red him Y , the standard of political legitimacy, and every race we llwhen he is to have its separate government, then all great was loafing about the country las the empires, which without a plurality of races rarely summer, pretending to be a correspondent of exist, must be disjoined and broken up into their New York Times and a Chicago paper, and that he t several parts. But such a dismemberment would was in so broken-down a condition that be wen,..ccantrYbe, on the whole, fatal to civilisation, which, around begging of his travelling fellow generally speaking, can reach its full develop- men. The gentleman himself, who had his card 15 ment only in great States, or in a confederation , his o.sess ., ion gave him few dollars, of small ones. When the French Emperor, too, p - , a as he declared deed, a inscribed on his banner Italian unity, he pro- he had not had a dinner for two days. In claimed a principle that, as I have said, was in- " mecrackedly" fine " model of an American no with the temporal power of the Pope. man and of human perfection." For, in despite of all his reservations and am biguous professions, the Italian Revolution would be sure to carry out the logic of that principle. Again, the, close alliance of the French Emperor with the revolutionary Government of Italy is shown in the injunctions sometimes sent to the Catholic journals not to pass too severe strictures on the policy of King Victor Emmanuel, the Im perialally. Lastly, the disgraceful Convention of September, concluded between Napoleon 111 and that ally, and without the privity of the Pope, for the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome, is another proof, if more were wanted, of the close union between these two potentates. From all these facts, the deep responsibility of the. E mperor of the French, for the present misery and anarchy of the Italian Peninsula, may be safely inferred. His responsibility ends not there. The fatal doctrine of a politico-national unity has, in Germany, been recently carried out by a Power long noted for its schemes of aggressive ambition. An iniquitous war, ending in the spoliation of old German dynasties, and the subjugation of German races to a detested yoke, has given a tem porary success to the arms of Prussia. But so soon as the dissensions in Austria are allayed and her finances are re-established, the Prussian eagle shall - be - made to croak more harshly than it did at Jena, its talons plucked, and its pinions for ever maimed. May he, too, the author of so many calamities to France and to Europe—who has so sadly belied the promises he once gave—take heed while Providence gives him the time. May he observe the signs which forerun . the final de crees of Providence, and, observing, may he profit by them ! . The' handwriting is not yet fully written upon the wall ; but still we may observe, as it were, the shadow of a hand: COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH—TUESDAY. an d Our market was well supplied with wheat to-d B l , t 11 last week's prices were maintained. Factors were r,.10,1 buyers. Barley is lower than this day week. Oats beans in demand for seed purposes. • HIILL.—TUESDAY. of V pg lish At our market to-day there was a good show forel e r stf wheat, for which farmers asked an advance. little business was done. Barley was in slow requ kos Oats, beaus, and peas without change. Liosue d u c6 f r oici rather quiet, but no alteration price. RaP e ° .£4l 108 to £42 r ton. English white pe wheat, 60s to 66s • red, 52s to 62s ; T) 6-, 11 *, t ; 62 8 to , 6 , sic and Konigsberg, 67s to 72s ;' Baltic red, 6 5 0 to 0 , - 13 ; Danish and Hamburg, 58s to 60s ; Russian, Barley, English, 36s to 508; grinding, Mediterraue;,, 34s to 355,6 d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Bu ss os 26s to 275. Beans old English, 58s to 60s; foreigvWiiito, to 445. Peas, English blue, 42, to 448 Od ; for ei g n 44s to 45s ; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. UY.—TUESDAY. bort , At our market SALISBR to-day the supply of wheat Was s-ff a but the condition improved. Best qualiti es moved o r to last week's prices, but other sorts were d ull and eas ie , o f buy. Barley a slow trade, at a reduction in some cassod is per qr. Oats were pretty steady in price, and beau s re leas likewise maintained their value. F o r flour tilt! e° the quirements were not large, and prices remained ral same as a week ago. f•—d rog , - The following are the quotations :—Wheat realts. „,,,s 46 55s to 65s ; barley, 376 to per oats, 24s to 30s ; be‘ - id to to 58s ; and bushels;a 40s to 52s qr. Tares, from 4, , 56d per Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, 13J per 81b loaf. Flour, 45s to 49s per sack. --__—. MONMOUTIISIIIRE—TUESDAY. The various markets have been well attended, and thB ., supplies of wheat were in fair condition. Quotations Oa_ tinned to show a downward tendency. For English be" 13,.; which were scarce, there was a better sale, and there vflo a slightly improved trade in foreign. The barley tr rto was moderately good, and both malting and grinding s c ' t , maintained full values. A good demand for black n: and in other descriptions a tolerably fair business W''"' transacted. A .t. red , The toofllowing are the average quotations:—Whi fie 78 3d 7B 6d per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s Od ; in' e— in d.'. 6s Ud to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 46s to 52s per qr hagr-270 ing ditto, 31s to 34s Od; beans, 44s to 50s ; to 28s ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. white , Washington's Birth-Day at Frankfort, FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Feb. 25 On Friday last the Americans residing in this city and. neighbourhood celebrated Washington's birthday by a splendid dinner at the Grand hotel du Nord. The festival commenced at 7 p.m, and turned out in every respect worthy of the occasion. The large saloon was brilliantly decorated. In the midst of a forest of banners and flags, flowers and evergreens, was hung the full-length portrait of the " Father of the Fatherland," painted by the well known painter Angilbert Goebul, and crowned by a fresh laurel wreath in red, white, and blue ribbons. Over it a copy of the Declaration of the Indepen dence and the Constitution of the' United States, and right and left the portraits of Abraham Lin coln, Andrew Johnson, Seward, Sumner, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and others. The excellent music band of Director Spintler was in attendance, giving all the American national airs with masterly perfection, and even towards the end of the festival enticing the younger portion of the party to a dance. The first regular toast— " To the memory of George Washington"—was introduced by the Honourable William Walton Murphy, United States Consul-General at Frank fort, who was in the chair. He gave a short review of the history both of the great Champion of Freedom and of the origin and development of the young Republic, that critical time, so full of deter ring trials and bloody conflicts. In response to a later toast, " Our whole country," Mr. Murphy treated more fully, and in a very enthusiastic man ner, on the present political and financial condition of the Union , and her fast and flourishing progress. The second toast, " To the memory of Abraham Lincoln," was drunk standing and in silence, the band playing " Lincoln's March." The Chairman next gave " The President of the United States," and called upon Mr. Henry Seligman, of San Fran cisco, to respond, a task rather difficult at the pre sent time for a loyal American. But still Mr. Seligman discharged his duty most ably and eloquently ; he very strikingly pointed to the rising of Andrew Johnson from the lowest order of society, to use that expression, to the highest and most honourable stage, w hich a free man, elected " by people's grace," could arrive at ; he described our last bloody struggle for unity, independence, and equality ; praised the blessings of a free press and free speech ; and then very dexterously turned to the calumnia tions by which that " promising youngster,"• Geo. W. M'Cracken, had of late endeavoured to de nounce and injure almost all our consular and di- COAL MARKET. Price per ton at tae close of the market. a. IN s. d. Walls End Haswell 20 3 Eden M ain ............ 1 8 1 0 Caradoc l9 6 Repier Grange ......... 17 , A 3 Russell's Hetton... Harton l7 3 Ships at market, 21—sold. 20. TI: OS REPRESENTATION OF WORCESTER CITY.---J-w stated last week that Mr. Sheriff'Lycett has issued Al l 64 ; dress to the electors of Worcester as a candidate for til t ' city in the Liberal interest, in anticipation of the Otr e ; went of Mr. Padmore, one of the sitting member i t 1 0 been resolved to nominate Alderman T. 13,. gill as "" 0 Reform League candidate. No Conservative candidate hA yet been announced. Births. of * DORMER- - On the 4th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Dornier, son. EARLE —On the 4th inst., at 28, luverness-terrace, 0:1; sugton-gardens, the wife of Henry E. Earle, terraces of son. i 00 1. NlcuoisoN On the 4th inst., at Gibraltar, the wif e ° L. Nicholson, C. 8., Royal Engineers, of a son. ros d I Ft. PLUMPTRE— 0 n the sth inst., at 15. Belgrava- tre, Er b ~ John's-wood, the wife of Char les John Plualp barrister-at-law, of a son. Marriages. ~,,u r eb, SANFORD —HESKETH— On the sth lust., at St. Paul's 1./.yal Southampton, George E. L. S. Sanford, CaPtaiobt• Engineers, to Hamilton Maria, second daughter 01 Hesketb, Esq., of Southampton. ;„ 0 1 ! WALSRAM—SCARLETT—OR the sth inst., at ter or Church, John Waisham, Esq .+ Second Seeretarybter H.M.'e Legation at Madrid, to . Florence, only d Bti r' re y, of the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, C. 8., of Parkhurst, H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleiri;l°l.tell tiary at Mexico. Deaths. BLA.cx.—On the 4th inst., at Bo ston, Edward Black, ' l.(l ' aged 66. unr 0 COPE—On the 3d inst., at B ramshill, R. D. 11. ths. Cope, 9 ° son of Sir Wm. H. Cope, Bar t., aged 7 mon t • 3 . - COCHRANE—On the 3d ins t., at 46a, Pall-mall, Cap " Cochrane, late 91st and 19th Regiments. atheW, .. -v.,," Of Id ATH EW—On the sth inst , Nathaniel Di W ern , Carnarvonshire, aged 30. POLLOK—On the sth inst., at Pollok Castle, 31earne, 117e11. frewshira, Sir hew C. Pollok, of Pollok, Bart., age d . a WILMOTT—On the sth inst., at 14, The Terrace, B:ensinir ton-park, James W. Wilmott, Esq., age d GG. tevor , ~,,:ideu: Lanced and eubasne.l Oy %V IL lAL&ftilli.s V. ,— 02 . of No. tl2 1. , r.and, Printer at Tun ~(1, 4n tile vi•ec Co"iY of Strand, in th e Freotaat of the Savoy, i' Diiddleverm—Thursday, Idirch 7, 1567.