The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Aug. 23.—We are again without any mail from the fleet, which is supposed to be cruising somewhere in the neighbourhood of the northern coast of Italy. It was last seen off Genoa, but I be lieve did not communicate, owing to that town being in quarantine, with Malta. We have at pre sent here only the Hydra, surveying vessel, Capt. Shortland, which returned into port on the 18th inst. from Gozo, where she had been engaged fix ing the latitude and longitude of the lighthouse. Her Majesty's screw transport Simoom, Capt. Leth bridge, having on board the headquarters of the 10th Brigade Royal Artillery from Canada, which was expected here on the 18:h inst., has not yet made her appearance ; but a telegram, received by an offici^ of the garrison, says that she may be looked for about the 24th or 25th inst., from which it is presumed she left Gibraltar about Tuesday last. We also expect here soon the Himalaya, with the 14th Foot. This regiment is to relieve the 60th Rifles, which are to proceed to Canada in that ves sel. According to a telegram received by his Excel- lency the Governor she will prDbably arrive at Malta about the 28th inst. A good deal of fever has prevailed of late among some of the regiments in garrison. The Ist battalion of the Bth has espe cially suffered, and lost a considerable number of men. Scarcely a day passes without witnessing one or more funerals. There were two the day be fore yesterday, two others yesterday, and I believe there will be others to-day. The insalubrity of many of the barracks at Malta is well known. Most of them have been long since condemned by a sanitary commission, and yet we sec no active steps taken to improve their condition. The barracks of St. Elmo, from their low situation, bad drainage, and want of proper ventilation, are notorious for their insalu brity, and it is precisely here we see again this hot season men dying off so rapidly as to create almost a panic among those who are left. The mortality has become so serious that it has been determined to remove the troops from the lowerportion of the bar racks, and put them under canvas on Fort Manoel. This will do very well as a partial and temporary measure, but until the whole question of barrack accommodation at Malta is gone into, and healthy quarters provided for the troops we shall continue to hear of high death-rate. Three fast steamers for the Turkich Government--the Retimo, Candia, and Hainea—have lately touched here, en route to Con stantinople. One passed some days ago, and the two others left yesterday. They are said to be in tended to be used against the Greek blockade run ners, which have been causing so much annoyance to Turkey in her endeavours to quell the insurgents at Crete. A serious outbreak of cholera having taken place at Bona, that port and the rest of the coast of Algeria have been included in the common term of 30 days' quarantine. The First Lord's levee at Devonport will be held in the office of the Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The following named freight ships have arrived at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and have com menced shipping war stores :—Mr. Carr's Aginoria with Palliser shot (60 tons), for ships in commis sion at Portsmouth, and the War Department vessel Sir George Murray, for Dover. The Alma, from Leith, has commenced discharging a cargo of small-arms' chests for conversion. The Domarsund, from Chatham, with 150 arm chests, containing arms for conversion, and 14 32-pounder guns to be strengthened on Major Palliser's principle, went alongside the gun wharf, Woolwich, to discharge. The shipping shed, appropriated to the tempo rary storing of cargoes for foreign service, on the wharf at Woolwich, is stored with an enormous amount of Palliser 7-inch, 8-inch, and 9-inch shot and shell, destined for Quebec, Montreal, Halifax, Bermuda, Malta, and other of our possessions aliroad. Yesterday Major-Gen. G. J. Murray, who was accompanied by members of the divisional Staff, inspected the officers and men of the depot of the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment, which arrived •at Chatham garrison, on Sunday, from Ireland. The depot was formed on the general parade ground, where Gen. Murray inspected the arms, lilts, clothing, and accoutrements of the non-corn missioned officers and men, with satisfactory results. The following are attached to the depot companies of the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment :—Capt. A. A. Le Mesurier, in command, Capt. J. B. Frizell, Lieut. J. Ling, Lieut. R. Hull, and Lieut. W. T. Blois. Major-Gen. Murray likewise inspected at the same time the depot of the 2d battalion of the 22d Regiment, under the command of Capt. J. W. Trevor, which is shortly expected to leave Chatham garrison for Newcastle, there to await the arrival of the head quarters and service companies of the battalion, shortly expected to arrive from the Mauri tius. In consequence of recruiting for the 2d batta lion of the 22d Regiment having been for some time suspended—the regiment being under orders to re turn to England—the strength of the depot com panies has been reduced to considerably less than 100 non-commissioned officers and men. The bat talion embarked for Malta on the 11th May, 1859, and subsequently proceeded to the Mauritius, where it has since been serving. The Ist battalion Scots Fusiliers, commanded by Col. llepburn, will leave the Infantry Barracks, Sheet-street, Windsor, next Tuesday, it is expected, for London. A new rifle musket, the invention of Messrs Carter and Edwards, has undergone an official trial in the Woolwich Marsh, in competition with the Snider-Enfield rifle, with the following results : The Snider rifle was fired by Lieut. Lecky, assistant instructor of musketry to the Royal Marine division at Woolwich ; the time two minutes, when 16 rounds were fired, 14 bits were made, and 34 points were obtained. Carter and Edward's rifle was fired by Sergt. Bott, 27 rounds, 24 hits, and 54 points. The object was a 3d class target with a Wimbledon bull's eye. The superiority of the Carter and Edward's rifle over the Snider in rapidity of fire appears to be fully established, as the rifle, which is on the bolt system, cocks itself in the withdrawal of the cartridge. The lock is entirely concealed, and the weapon is fired with a needle through the centre of the bolt. An other advantage, equally important, and also an entire novelty in small arms, is, that a line or party of skirmishers, in the event of their being taken pri soners, or surrounded by the enemy at a disadvan tage, can, with a turn of a screw, take out the bolt and cast it away, leaving the arm as totally useless as the Armstrong field-gun without its vent-piece. For simplicity of construction it surpasses the Snider, as there are fewer springs. In fact, the only springs it contains are the main-Spring of the lock and the rear spring. The inventors, it is stated, are fitting up a spacious manufactory in Birmingham to con struct arms on their principle, in order to fulfil a large contract which they have entered into with a foreign government. They were disqualified from contending at the late competition at Woolwich by not having sent in their arms in time, according to the regulations. The new rifles above named are adapted equally with the Snider to use the Boxer ammunition, Enfield bore. Gen. J. di Elorza and three other officers of the Spanish Artillery, who have been furnished with permission to inspect the departments of Woolwich Arsenal, have been in attendance there for the last three days. They were each day accompanied in their visit by the respective heads of offices, as directed. The subject of their inquiries appeals to have been specially to ascertain the nature of the guns and projectiles used for penetrating armour clad ships, &c. The officers of the Woolwich division Royal Ma rines Lightlnfantry who have been promoted by the new scale, and have to he transferred to other divi sions, have obtained leave of absence until Sept. 1. The standard for recruits of the Royal Marine Light Infantry will in future be sft. 6iin. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiral: y :—Wilfred W. Glanvil;e, mid shipman, to the Liffey ; Edward F. Tyacke, naval cadet, to the Phoebe ; Thomas IL L. Bowling and Thomas N. Frith, paymaster, additional to the Octavia, for transport service in the Indian Seas ; George Metcalf, Robert Crosthwaite, and W. Kelly, engineers, to the Bristol, W. Sides, engineer, to the Indus, for Skipjack ; George Fabian, first-class assistant engineer, to the Fox ; W. G. Littlejohn, first-class engineer, to the Dee ; and Joseph Monk, second-class assistant engineer, to the Bristol. AN A.MERICAIV OPINIaN OF RUSSIA'S DES2'IIVY. The Round Table, in its issue of the 10th instant, discusses the two great Powers of the future— Russia and America•—devoting its first number to the Muscovite. The error in the argument is the danger to which, in the writer's opinion, India is exposed from the advance of Russian conquest in Asia. " Once on the Indus, the British dominion over India will be practically at the mercy of the Russians," says the Round Table. Once in London, England will be practically at the mercy of the conqueror—or once anywhere, which denotes defeat on the one side, and victory on the other, it is ret sonable to suppose that the position has simply been the reward of victory. It is very evident, how ever, that the Round Table has little practical knowledge of the position it writes of so fluently. Thete is no other country so guarded by a natural belt of fortifications as the Peninsula of Hindoo stan. From Kurrachee to the Bolan Pass the coun try is an impracticable desert, which no civilised army could cross even if unopposed. From the Bolan Pass round to the Bay of Bengal the moun tains extend in unbroken ridges, covered with eternal snow, through which there is but one known road for an army. Of that road—the way through the Kyber Pass—the English have had an experi ence they would be very sorry to repeat. From the fertile Valley of Peshawur to Herat and Bokhara, and further still, in other directions, the country is a mass of sterile rock—of gigantic heights—of nar row fertile gorges—inhabited by clans of warlike Highlanders fanatically attached to the Moslem faith. The hand of these tribes is, as a rule, against all others, and there is no possibility of combining them in a movement, except dictated by fanaticism, when the green flag is un furled and " Allah !" is the cry. A country more difficult for military operations it would be impos- sible for the mind of man to conceive, and a country for itself less worth invading it would not be easy to point out. We venture to state that if Russia devoted her whole energy to the conquest of Affghanistan that she would fail even against the mountaineers unaided. By conquest we do not mean the occupation of Herat, Candahar, Cabul, and Jellalabad, which any strong military power in the neighbourhood might take, and even hold as mili tary posts if the base of operations was not far distant. What we say is, that by no effort of Russia could she levy taxes in the Swat and other valleys, and obtain the recognition and true allegiance of the clans to the TZAR. Yet it is from this country as a reliable base only that Russia could attempt the invasion of India. Even supposing that such a conquest, or say a combination between the Christian and Mahommedan races was effected, the enormous difficulty of supplying the materials of war from Russia t') an army in Affghanistan would be like New York forwarding supplies overland to troops operating in Walrussia. We mean as re gards the difficulties opposed by nature alone, and without reference to the insuperable obstacles raised by the countless hordes of Asiatics whom no treaty could bind, who regard Christians as the enemies of GOD, and whose hands are ever raised where an opportunity to plunder offers. Russia, who was foiled for a quarter of a century at her own door by a weak band of Georgians and Circas sians in a comparatively easy country, would find the conquest of Affghanistan a task be yond her powers. It is not many months since the finest British regiments, under one of the most dashing Indian generals, got an unpleasant taste of, Affghan metal in a small campaign, where they lost fearfully. The attempt was made to root out a band of fugitive Sepoys who had or ganised themselves as a robber community in a strong fort of the country. There was no wish whatever on the part of the British to disturb the inhabitants, but they chose to resist the i t dru ers and to protect the dwellers on their soil. It is ab surd to suppose that Russian troops can achieve what the best English regiments fail in doing. Even the Russians would claim hut an equality, and however mismanaged may have been the war in the Crimea, it at any rate demonstrated that an English regiment was something better than a Rus sian in a stand-up fight. The Round Table goes on to say that " when on the Indus, the Russians can mass the necessary troops on the frontier, and avail themselves of all the ineradicable discontents of the native population to destroy the handful of troops that now controls the uncounted millions of natives. It would be strange when this time comes, and it is not far off, if England does not come to the con clusion that Christianity is better than Mahomme dan barbarity in Turkey as well as in India." We are surprised at the Round Table falling into so great an error as is shown by these and the few fol. lowing sentences. It makes Russia, the champion of Christianity, opposing England as the champion of Mahommedanisrn,yet it gives to Russia the support of the most bigoted Mahommedans in the world, while it opposes the Mahommedan champion with all the weight of Mahommedan enmity. The real danger of British India is exactly the reverse of the case as put by the Round Table. That danger consists of a Power like Russia placing itself at the head of a great religious movement that would combine and direct the races of Central Asia against the Kaffir rule in India. That is—that a Moslem invasion, organised and supported by a strong military empire, is the true peril of British rule in Asia, and this, we presume to be one of the reasons of England's great tolerance, which the Round Table by implication con demns. There could be nothing more easy at this moment than for England to raise these tribes against Russian conquests. Mission after mission from Bokhara and other parts have waited on the Indian Viceroy to suggest this movement ; and Sir JOIIN LAWRENCE has been compelled to withstand a strong pressure. Instead of Russia threatening India—if the Governor-General but held up his finger he might kindle Central Asia into a blaze that would roll back the Moscovite into his deserts of Siberia. Does the Round Table suppose that the Christian conquests of Russia meet with the sym pathy of the Mahommedan nations against whom they are directed. If there be an eradicable dis content in India against British rule—now one of the oldest powers of the Peninsula—is it reasonable to suppose that there is no disconten t in the Northern nations against Russian rule, that of a new intruder? The TZAR would indeed have a charmed sys tem of government if he could grasp the greatest continent of the earth without rais ing dislike and opposition. Yet this writer not only leaps over all natural obstacles, which are in truth the most stupendous known, but smooths away the still greater impediments arising from the enmity of the inhabitants. What the result would be of a contest on the plains of India we can not pretend to predict. But these facts are patent : —England's base being on the sea, is better far than that of Russia. Indian soldiers are mere mercenaries, to be procured in overwhelming numbers for any cause, provided the inducement of r ay is forthcoming. There are British ()likens in abundance who know how to organise and lead these levies. The railway system of India, now rapidly being completed, will place the ports of Cal cutta, Bombay, and Kurrachee in direct communi cation with the Punjaub. The two-thirds and more of Europe, and the whole of Asia, are but a dream of the writer, at which he may grow r' 11 ( 3, though they possess little terror for those who know the circumstances. Russia may, indeed, be ef t o illivef will one of t be by developing i i ev e t l w o o p greatfog the fo powers resources of t urc es li ew o ff o b rld, but e terri tory already in her possession, and not by wild and (via.2tgruaectcfonngqufersot, from w h l e i r ch s t e r a e n n g is t b u t . h a T v h e e t e o s e i t ff fo e o c t of of America is quite different. Her's is a mission to occupy and to civilise uninhabited wastes, not to conquer hostile tribes. We venture to say that Rus.sia's weakness will be in proportion to her ex tension of territory, and the Tzar: will be indeed giddy if he is so ill-advised as to attempt to grasp all Asia in his hand. We believe the Government at St. Petersburg is well aware that its real dander in Asia lies in the same cause as that o f G r e a t Britain—the danger of a great Mahominedau re vival, the uprising of 10,000 tribes under some prophet sent by GOD ; and as there is room for both the Christian nations, the day, instead of being near, is far distant when these Powers will act in enmity instead of in concord. The true policy of both is not to cla sh, but if they do clash, the danger to Russia would be greater than to England.—Anglo- Americao limes. WESTMINSTER PALACE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " PALL MALL GAZETTE." SlB,—After allowing nearly two months to elapse since my statement first appeared in the Building News, Mr. E. M. Barry meets the question by drag ging to light an old letter of my father's, dated September 3, 1845. This is his sole reply. We had a right to expect that the denial, if any could be made, would have come in his own words, as he is the architect employed to carry on his father's work, and must be fully cognizant of everything connected with it. What he fails to disprove, allow me, without further delay, to substantiate. 1. Mr. Barry is quite premature in supposing that my father's letter in any way contradicts my statement. He must surely be aware that the de signs for the Houses of Parliament were made at a period long anterior to the date of the letter, which refers to one particular arrangement made with Sir C. Barry, " with the approval of the Go vernment," for certain works connected with the internal fittings and decoration of the Houses. It bears no reference to anything my father had done ten years previously. It was in 1835 that he made for Sir C. Barry the designs which ob- tamed the competition. He had previously been engaged in preparing designs for the same com petition for Mr. Gillespie Graham, for which he received 300 guineas ; and he did not accede to Sir Charles's application until he had obtained Mr. Graham's consent. In order that my father's touch should not be detected in two separate sets of drawings, many of the designs were redrawn in pencil by Sir Charles, as Mr. Talbot Bury can testify. For these designs, which included the whole of the elevations and sections, together with some of the views, my father received 400 guineas. It is clear, therefore, that the arrangement spoken of in the letter of September, 1845, had nothing whatever to do with previous works. The origin of that letter will appear presently. 2. In confirmation of these statements I beg to refer to the eighteenth chapter of Mr. Ferrey's Biography, and to the following extracts from the diaries of my father. In the diary for 1836, amongst other entries, occur these : August 2.—Mr. Barry all clay. August 28.—Finished for Mr. Barry. In October he seems to have commenced work ing the detail drawings. During that month I find the following entries : Sent five drawings to Mr. Barry, King's Staircase Robing-room, Lords (2). These are referred to in Sir C. Barry's letter, given in Mr. Ferrey's Life, p. 245. Nov. 6.—A1l the week on Mr. Barry's drawings. Mr. Barry came. Nov. 12.—Sent eleven drawings to Mr. Barry, porch, hall, central lobby, stairs, witness room, King's tower (2), entrance hall (2). Nov. 26.—Eleven drawings to Mr. Barry, court-yard front, ditto water front, upper part of ditto, turrets, upper part of section of tower, Commons' entrance, Speakers' Court entrance. And later on in the year : Drawings done at Mr. Barry's. Two interiors of library ; compartment, river front (second time); compart ment, land front (second time) ; upper part of centre (second time) ; two great oriels, upper part above ditto, end towers, part above ditto, upper part of bell tower, lantern of ditto, angle turrets, south gables of West minster Hall, lower part of great tower, middle story of ditto, upper part of ditto, drawing on vellum of King's tower, entrance hall from water, throne and end of House of Lords, end of Speaker's chair, House of Commons, Peers' entrance hall and dining-room. These entries suffiCiently prove that my father's work embraced every portion of the new building. 3. Now then comes the real explanation of my father's letter. After all these designs were made and had passed into Sir C. Barry's possession, he called up from Birmingham the late Mr. J. Thomas, who had been working on the Grammar School from my father's designs. To Mr. Thomas was exclusively entrusted the execution of my father's designs, which were most ungenerously withdrawn from his control, and he was temporarily ignored and thrust on one side. This caused him so much aid, and l a i n n i a l b oy le an t c o e, pr tl o i c a e t ed wl l i N e . l i I t h o Sir ut C in h y arl f e a s th f e o l t . t ,s nd hmself renewed his application for a fresh supply of de signs, my father refused point-blank to work for him, except on condition of holding an indepen dent official position under Government, to secure him from any future indecision and caprice. This Sir Charles was compelled to concede, and it was in consequence of my father's appointment that reports which seemed derogatory to Sir Charles's position arose and were circulated. Hence the letter upon which Mr. E. M. Barry now relies, and which bears upon its very face unmistakeable evidence of being written at Sir C. Barry's soli citation for his own peculiar advantage. 4. In conjunction with these facts, it is worthy of especial notice that Sir C. Barry destroyed all my father's letters to him, and that seventy-six letters of Sir Charles's to my father, which were at his (Sir Charles's) request placed by me in his hands for perusal, previous to being made use of by Mr. Ferrey in compiling his biography, were retained by Sir Charles and never returned to me. Notwithstanding his repeated promises, all my applications to him were useless, and on one pretence or another evaded. One letter, however, dated October 22, 1836, remains in my possession. It is given in Mr. Ferrey's Biography, p. 243, and happily is quite sufficient of itself to prove the character of the correspondence, if not the very important fact which I have recently advanced, and now reiterate, that my father was the actual architect of the Houses of Parliament, that his was the master mind which conceived, and his the hand which por trayed, their manifold glories, but that " tulit alter honores." This statement would be incom plete without giving my father's reason for not competing in his own name. It was simply this, that being a Catholic he was under the idea that he had no chance of success. He all along aban doned himself to this impression, which, rightly or wrongly, I have heard him say, was fostered by Sir Charles Barry. In conclusion, I may add that no one regretted more than my father the period of architecture which was selected as the only one likely to take at the time, and be the means of introducing a better order of things later on. Nothing pained him so much as the sinking of the building to its present river level, and its featureless, shadowless ' front. "Itis a grand failure," he said, " but it was that or nothing." I need, however, scarcely c n e o n r tr t e h g e ab c l o e nt o e r n t ip h t e ib n l o e rt t h er w n i l n in g a w ti a o s n no of t is thealyy that father' N,ict o th i s e a , E. WELB PUG IN. Tower.—Yours faithfully, 21, Savilc-row, August 12. Mr. Pugin's rejoinder to Mr. Barry, which ap pears in another portion of our columns, cannot be allowed to pass without one or two remarks. The extracts from his father's diaries show that he worked upon all the details of the building, which is not denied. But what we want to know is, the extent of the work which he thus bestowed, which is not indicated by the extracts before us. For example : c 4 Eleven drawings to Mr. Barry, court yard front, ditto water front, upper part of ditto, turrets, Commons' entrance," &c., may mean that the actual design of these portions of the building was the work of Mr. Pugin, or it may mean that he merely carried out in the details of mouldings, foliage, and decoration, the general designs supplied to him for the purpose by Mr. Barry. No doubt it is most desirable that the question should be settled, both for the sake of Pugin's fame and of Barry's fame ; and as the reputation of every great artist is a matter of public interest, so far are the public concerned in the settlement. But Mr. Pugin's assertion, in which we have no doubt he is perfectly sincere, raises a question of far more importance, both to the architectural pro fession and to the general public. If it is really the fact that the elder Pugin was employed by Barry to design the whole of the Houses of Parlia ment, saving the ground plan, that he was paid 400 guineas fa so doing, and that Barry received the credit of the work, and was employed at the public expense, we have no hesitation in saying that the system which makes such an arrange ment possible among honourable men is simply scandalous. It is of course perfectly fair that every architect should send out designs pre pared in his own office, and under his own superintendence, without specifying the amount of assistance he may have derived from those who work under him. But this is something totally different. We are now told that one of the most eminent architects of the time, wishing to enter into the public competition for rebuilding the Houses of Parliament, and conscious of his own incapacity for designing a Gothic building made a private arrangement with the best Gothic architect alive to supply him with designs, which he then passed off as his own. As it is, the matter cannot rest here, and there must surely be some way of getting at a definite proof of the correctness of Mr. E. W. Pugin's statements. We venture to remind the architectural profession in general that their own honour is concerned both in ascertaining the truth and in putting a stop to all such arrange ments, as are alleged to have been made in this case, for the future.—Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. Welby Pugin has brought a very serious charge against the late Sir C. Barry. lie says that the Houses of Parliament, which made Sir Charles's fortune, were not designed by him, but by the late Mr. Pugin, who sold his plans to the rival architect for £4OO. Ile would have com peted himself, but was under the impression—quite correct, we suspect—that as a Catholic he would have no chance whatever of success. The draw ings covered nearly every portion of the building. Sir Charles was unable, when he got them, to carry them out without further assistance, and yet for twenty years he lived on the credit of another man's work. Mr. Barry, Sir Charles's son, will, of course, reply to this statement, which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette of Thursday, under Mr. Pugin's signature, and which is sup ported by some memoranda of the late Mr. Pugin ; but meanwhile the story looks decidedly an ugly one. Cannot Mr. Pugin recover the cheque by which his father was probably paid ?—Spectator. A controversy has sprung up in the papers as to the share Welby Pugin had in producing the de signs for the Houses of Parliament. There has long been a doubt as to the real authorship of these designs. It is high time that the mystery should be cleared up. From the correspondence which has appeared there seems to be a fair chance that the public at last will learn the truth. We are accustomed to see the genuineness of an ancient MS. disputed, or the authenticity of an old picture, and are often compelled to remain in doubt; but it is rather too much to expect the same equani mity as to a building of our own generation. In another column we give a letter from Mr. E. Welby Pugin, which appeared in the Pall Mall of last week, and the remarks which it has elicited in some of the papers. In the comments of the Spectator—so just and so much to the purpose— we fully concur. To the statements of Mr. E. Welby Pugin Mr. Edward Barry opposes simply a denial. In the Pall Mall Gazette of Thursday Mr. Barry confesses, however, that he has no personal knowledge of the matter, being, as he says, a mere baby at the time that the designs of the Houses of Parliament were prepared, but he relies on the recollections of a Mr. Wolff and of an assistant of fifteen years' standing in his father's office. Of the value of such testimony as against the letters of Sir Charles Barry and the diary of Pugin the public will have no difficulty of judging. We shall await with curiosity to see a real attempt on the part of Mr. Barry to produce corroboration of his denial.— Westminster Gazette. THE STANTON EMBROGLIO. The PRESIDENT, it is said, made up his mind last November to remove Mr. STANTON. THUELOW WEED and HENRY J. lisymoND persuaded him to forego his intention, although Gcncral SIIERMAN had been called to Washington temporarily to fill the place. When Congress met the Tenure of Office Bill was passed expressly to prevent Mr. JOHNSON from exercising the power of discharging Govern ment officers who opposed "my policy." When this bill was debated in the Senate the PRESIDENT'S power to remove officials appointed by his prede cessor was discussed, and admitted by the lawyers, Mr. STANTON being expressly named, coupled with the conjecture of his probable removal. On this occasion Senator SHERMAN said that " if either the Secretary of War, of the Navy, or of State, was so wanting in manhood, in honour, as to hold his place after the politest intimation by the President of the United States that his services were no longer needed, I certainly as a Senator would consent to his removal at any time, and so would we all." The honourable gentleman did not then contemplate the circumstances that appear now to have arisen—the PRESIDENT, irritated beyond endurance with the opposition of the Secretary, bent on getting rid of him at all hazards, and the Secretary iden tifying himself with the strongest party of the nation, the overwhelming majority of Congress, persuading himself it was. his duty to stick fast to the go. drag, a and displaying equal determinationln vain Mr. JOHNSON had informed Mr. S TANTON th at he would ac ce p t his res i g nation. No attention whatever was paid to State coach not a s to a the hints, the Ohio Senator considered would be sufficient for any gentleman. At last Mr. JOHNSON despatched the following curt communication, which he evidently considered would settle the question :- 44 Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 5. "Sir, —Public considerations of a high character con strain me to say that your resignation as Secretary of War will be accepted. —Very respectfully yours, " ANDREW JOHNSON. "To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War." To this Mr. STANTON, after consulting with his friends, returned the following reply "War Department, 'Washington, Aug. 5. " Sir, —Your note of this date has been received, stating that public considerations of a high chai actor constrain you to say that my resignation as Secretary of War will be accepted. In reply, 1 have the honour to say that public considerations of a high character, which alone have induced me to continue at the head of this department, constrain me not to resign the office of Secretary of War before the next meeting of Congress.—Very respectfully, "EDWIN M. STANTON. " To Andrew Johnson, President of the United States." The PRESIDENT appears to have taken the opinion of the Attorney-General on the recent act of Con gress, depriving him of the power of dismissing such officials. It was considered that the law applied only to those appointed by himself, and on the 9th instant the question was discussed in the Cabinet. Pending his definite action, the PRESIDENT ordered that no other Department should hold communica tion with Mr. STANTON as Secretary of War. As Mr. STANTON remained stedfast in his refusal to resign, the PRESIDENT eventually removed him and appointed General GRANT to act in his place. This episode gave rise to great scandals. In the first place, the correspondent of the Loudon Standard accuses Mr. STANTON of having played a villainous part in detaching from the papers of the Court's proceedings which tried Mrs. SuRRATT, prior to their submission to the PRESIDENT, a recommen dation to commute the sentence from death to one of imprisonment for lif?.. That correspondent openly declares that his information was derived from official sources. The New York Herald ac counts for the silence of the Tribune —the paper all expected to defend the Secretary—by GREELEY'S hostility to Mr. STANTON, who once made out an order for his arrest for nego tiating with rebels in Canada, which President LINCOLN would not permit to be enforced. The general feeling appears to be against the course taken by Mr. STANTON, although little interest is excited by the quarrel, which is reg arded as a per sonal affair. Neither of the principa ls stand well with the nation ; but, viewing the question in its abstract bearings, the opinion is widely held that no such dead lock should be possible , and that it is highly improper to deprive a President of t he abilit y of dispensing with Cabinet officers. It is manifestl y unjust to rob a ruler responsible to the na ti o n of the power of instantly removing an obstruction to the policy of the Cabinet. When a states man differs from Lis colleagues in opinion, it is his duty to resign without being asked, when he becomes free to oppose their policy by every legitimate means. If such a system as that adopted by Mr. STAN TON were tolerated there would be an end of Government—there would be an end of responsi bility of the chief of the Executive, and a Cabinet meeting would resolve itself into a debating society, or a bear garden, with the members growling at each other, instead of working harmoniously to a clear, well-defined end. This results from the ex traordinary spectacle presented by the United States. The party of Freedom and Progress, are placed in the unnatural position of forcing the prin ciples of Republicanism on a number of the States by means of a military despotism. It is almost im possible to conceive anything more contradictory in appearance, than the most advanced party of the universal rights of man, forcing their doctrines on unwilling millions, by means of an absolute military despotism. It makes them attempt to carry out their views by the very measures most opposed to those views, and while urging the first doctrine of the Constitution—that all men are born equal, and with a right to the pursuit of happiness, they deprive whole States of all civil rights, and place them absolutely at the will of a military lictator. They use the despot's weapon to enforce the most noble doctrines of liberty, under a pressure which leaves no other course. The task undertaken by the great Republican party has been one of overwhelming difficulty, increased vastly by the strong opposition of the chief of the Executive, through whom they were compelled to carry out their policy. That they should thus far have succeeded is matter for congratulation, and, although a dead-lock has arisen in this instance, it is no small surprise that much greater and graver complications have not resulted. Very few people sympathise with Mr. STANTON, as he has manifestly placed himself in the wrong ; but the sympathy with the PRESIDENT would have been general had he not drawn on himself the dislike of the great body of the American people.—Anglo-American Times. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, August 24, 4,597 births and 2,837 deaths were registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 19 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dub- lin ; 23 in Bristol, 27 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 29 in Manchester, 26 in Salford, 22 in Sheffield, 33 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 33 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 22 per 1,000 during the week ending the 17th inst., when the mean temperature was 2.4 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 24. The following proportions of the above rates were referred to diarrhoea in the different towns :---In London, 3.3 per 1,000 ; in Sheffield, 4.6 ; in New castle, 6.3 ; in Liverpool, 7.0 ; in Birmingham, 8.8; in Leeds, 9.0; and, the highest, 10.3 iu Man chester and Salford. In London the births of 1,154 boys and 1,101 girls, in all 2,255 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,972. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,247. It was the 34th week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,312. The deaths in the present return are less by 65 than the estimated number. The mortality exhibits a considerable decrease when compared with the number of deaths (1,391) in the preceding week. The more favourable re turn is not owing to a decline in the number of deaths from diarrhoea, as last week the disease proved fatal to 188 children and 8 adults. In the six pre vious weeks the numbers were 115, 170, 196, 217, 189, 200. Last week 43 cases occurred iu the west, 50 in the north, 13 in the central, l 39 in the east, and 51 in the south districts. Ten deaths from diarrlicea were registered in the sub-district of St. Mary, Paddington, 8 in Kensington Town, 10 in Islington West, and 6 in Lambeth Church, second 'art. In the other sub-districts the malady was not so fatal. The deaths of 13 children and 5 adults from cholera were registered. In the corre sponding week of last year the deaths from diarrhoea were 129, and from cholera 265. A plumber, aged 71, died Aug. 23, at 1, St. Ann's-road, Kensington, of coup de soleil, cerebral effusions. A journeyman gilder, aged 27 years, died Aug. 23, in the Middle sex Hospital, of acute glanders. Two females, aged 78 and 54 years respectively, died last week from shock caused by fright at the severe thunderstorm which occurred during the early morn of Tuesday, Aug. 20. Kensington, Town.—At 11, King-street, on Aug. 20, a porter, aged 43 years, cholera (9 hours). St. George, Hanover-square. —At 268 B, Oxford-street, on the 231 of August, the son of a harmonium maker, aged 2 years, cholera (English). Belgrave.—At 12, Belgrave-mansions, on Aug. 21, the daughter of a coachmaker, aged 6 months, infantile cholera (36 hours). Westminster, Golden-square.—At 2, Golden-square, on Aug. 17, the son of a singer, aged two months, choleraic diar rhoea. Marylebone, Rectory.—At 10, David-street, on Aug. 17, the daughter of a cabman, aged 8 months, choleraic diarrhcea (24 hours). Pancras, Regent's-park.—At 55, Stanhope-street, on Aug. 21, the daughter of a licensed victualler, aged 9 months, choleraic diarrhcea (7 days). Hackney, South. —At 7, Exmouth-place, on Aug. 15, the daughter of a pianoforte maker, aged eight months, choleraic diarrhcea (three days). Strand, St. Anne. —At 19, Frith-street, on Aug. 22, a target maker, aged 55 years, choleraic diarrhoea (seven days.) East London, St. Botolph.—At 78, Minories, on Aug. 18, the daughter of a carpenter and ship joiner, aged 53 years, cholera (16 hours). East London, Crip plegate.—At 35, Edmund-place, on Aug. 20, a com positor, aged 27 years, choleraic diarrhoea (9 days). Mile-end Old-town, Western.—At 4, Bromhead road, on Aug. 18, the son of a surgeon, 8 months, choleraic diarrhoea (7 days), convulsions (12 hours). Bermondsey,Leather-market.—At 50, Page's-walk, on Aug. 10, the daughter of a portmanteau-maker, aged 10 months, cholerainfantum (one week), con vulsions (21 hours.) Wandsworth ; Battersea.—At 8, Grove-terrace, on Aug. 18, the son of a labourer, aged one year, choleraic diarrhoea, exhaustion. Camberwell; Peckham.—At 12, Bell's-gardens, on Aug. 21, the daughter of an engraver on wood, aged 25 weeks, choleraic diarrhoea (two days.) tireen , with ; St. Paul, Deptford.--At 26, Manor-road, on Aug. 17, the son of an assistant manager of a bank, aged four months, choleraic diarrhoea (24 hours.) Greenwich ; East.—At 5, Lizban-street, on Aug. 15, the son of a coachman, aged six months, cholera infantum (three days.) In same sub-district, at the Union workhouse, on Aug. 18, a male aged 4 years, choleraic diarrhoea (three days), collapse (10 hours.) Greenwich ; Woolwich Dockyard.—At 14, Eliza beth-place, on Aug. 17, a shipwright, aged 65 years, diarrhoea (three days), English cholera. The deaths of seven persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. One of these unfortunate persons was au old woman, whose age is said to be 110 years. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.871 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 29.97 in. on Sunday, Aug. 18, to 29.73 in. on Thursday, Aug. 20. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 63.7 deg., which is 2.9 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Air. GlAsher.) The highest day temperature was 79.6 deg. on Monday, Aug. 19. The lowest night temperature was 49.5 deg., on Friday, Aug. 23. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 30 . 1 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 66.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 61 . 5 deg. The difference between the mean-dew point tem perature and air temperature was 64 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 80, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.59 in., of which 0.58 in. fell during the early morning of Tuesday, August 20, when violent thunder storms occurred, chiefly about 2h. a.m. and 4h. a.m. 04one was observed every day except Thursday and Friday ; it was most prevalent on Sunday. According to a re turn furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sew age pumped into the Thames at the southern out fall works, Crossness, was 47,591,996 gallons, or 216,232 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. AMERICAN RAILTVAI S. Large as are the dividends paid by the great majority of the American Railways, there can be no doubt that an honest system of management would have increased considerably the sums available for division among the proprietors. It is not to be ex— pected that railway administration would prove an exception to the general rule. Indeed it might be conjectured that where large sums were entrusted, and checks to dishonest expenditure so difficult, much irregularity would ensue. A vicious system has an invincible tendency to increase until arrested by radical measures. The Direction starts pure and with excellent intentions, till the seeds, always ready to sprout up, begin to take root. It is necessary that the principals and the servants of the Company should travel along the line free. By degrees passes are extended. If one Direc tor obtains an advantage for a friend, others claim equal rights—thus the weed rises from the soil, and it is surprising how rapidly the unwholesome fungus spreads. Insensibly the Board becomes a centre of jobbery and corruption. Bribes influence contracts ; unnecessary works are un dertaken to put money into the pockets of allies, and by degrees the dividends of the stockowners dwindle till they reach a point, where, in alarm and indignation, the property is taken hold of by the owners, and a clean sweep made of the offenders. Of course, it is the interest of those who have grossly mismanaged the pro perty entrusted to their charge to excuse them selves by decrying the line. It will always be found that their energy has been untiring, their ability unequalled, their intentions most honourable, and it is these professions which induce shareholders to suffer so long in the hope of im provement and reform. Such management has brought railway property in England to the verge of ruin, and prevented railway property in America from attaining that high place in public favour to which it is entitled. The American lines best known in England are the New York Central, the Illinois Central, the Erie, tho Atlantic and Great Western, and the Pennsylvania Central, of which the latter is the only one that has been really well managed. Among the rest there has lately been a great commotion. The New York Central and the Erie have given rise to much discussion on the other side, and the Atlantic and Great Western on this. A total change of management has been effected in the New York Central, General Baxter of Ver mont, being elected to the presidency. The road is now conducted for the benefit of the stockholders, who have hitherto been sacrificed to the interests of contractors and stockjobbers. Bad as ap pears to have been the management, the road is said to have fairly earned 12 per cent., while just half this sum has been divided among the proprietors. A similar movement is expected to result in a like change in the management of the Erie. That rail way last year earned $16,000,000, and it is thought will shortly increase these earnings to $20,000,000. But little good can result to the shareholders from such success so long as their profits are inter cepted, which has been the case for a long period. In the month of October the elections will take place, and the English and other foreign stockholders are uniting with the reformers in America to make a radical change in the management of the line. The example set by these leading railways is being generally followed throughout the country, and has already revived the value of railway property in America, and given a spur to investment in this most profitable direction. The Atlantic and Great Western has been generally taken by the English public as a sample of other American lines, prejudicing American railways as investments for IJnglish capitalists. People might, with more truth, take the London, Chatham, and Dover, as a fair sample of English roads. The Atlantic and Great Western is likely to prove what those who best know American railways confi dently assert, that it is next to impossible to construct a line in the United States that will not pay. However stupid or even dishonest may have been the mismanagement of some of these under takings —put them into able and competent hands, give them time, supply any pressing need, and we doubt whether a railway can be named in the United States which will not remunerate the investor. Nothing stronger could be advanced in favour of such property in America. In spite of the high price of labour and of railway material which has lately ruled in America, the construction of new lines proceeds with the greatest rapidity. The South is actively engaged in re-making the roads destroyed during the war, and grading new lines. In Maryland and Virginian great energy is displayed. At St. Louis a railway bridge over the Mississippi is about to be constructed at an estimated expense of $5,000,000. The Utica and Black River Railroad has contracted for extend ing the line to Lowville, to be completed by the Ist August, 1868. The Warren and Dunkirk Railroad will be commenced on the Ist September. The Schoharie and Catskill has just been projected. Subscriptions have been raised for a line from Bel fast (Maine) to Newport. The Iron Mountain Railroad is being completed to Belmont. The Baton Rouge and Pontchatoula (Louisiana) Railroad is marked out. The Oregon people have been raising subscriptions for 175 miles of a central trunk road. 'The New Orleans and Ohio Railroad Company have contracted for a line from Mayfield, Graves County, direct to Jackson, Tennessee. Ground, has been brokn on the Lebanon Springs Railroad, to be completed by June next. These are the items from a page of the Wall-street Journal, and are merely quoted in proof of the enterprise which animates Americans in this most profitable branch of indus try. As we announced in our last issue the Messrs. Bellot des Minieres have succeeded in raising in Europe £1,600,000 towards the construction of the magnificent line for which they are general contrac tors. All branches of the Pacific Railroad are pro gressing with unexampled vigour. From Omaha the road is in operation for traffic to Julesburg 377 miles, the track laid 410, the grading completed 450, the length in active progress being 517 miles to Cheyenne, near the base of the Rocky Mountains. On the Eastern Division of the Southern line from Kansas, an additional section of twenty miles is reported as completed, making 230 miles of the track. The last and longest of the tunnels of the Central Division, across the Sierra, was Nevada, finished on the 15th August. A locomotive and service cars have been hauled across the summit to the Eastern slope, where they are used in lay ing the rails upon portions of the track previously graded. Thirty miles will, within a month, be added to that now built, which will bring the way to the Truckle Valley, whence the further construc tion will be very rapid. Despite the high duties the exports of railroad iron from England to the United States continues to increase. The value for the first four months, ending with May, amounted to £1,104,416 compared with £1,094,278 in 1866, and £746,342 in 1865 for corresponding periods. Cheap money, and a very bountiful harvest, cannot fail to have a beneficial effect in increasing railway enterprise, and now that the United States have again fairly entered the paths of productiVe industry, we have little doubt that she will endeavour to com pensate herself for the temporary check from the war by the most vigorous action. There are those who endeavour to impress on others that the United States intend to shake off the public debt by repu diation ; but we honestly believe that there is greater danger of the national debt of Great Britain being thus dealt with than that of the United States. We know what Democracy means in America, but not in England. There they have taken no leap in the dark—here we have. There wealth is more generally distributed, and if all feel the burden, more feel the responsibility of property. Such a course would be suicidal, and the people are too intelligent not to know it. Nor does the debt weigh there as here ; for, though it chafes and galls just now, it will in truth hereafter be but a light load for such prodigious resources as the uti=►u is developing.— Anglo-American 2 bites. THE HOP GARDENS. MAIDSTONE AND ADJOINING PARISHES, August 26.—During the past week the weather has been to the satisfaction of the hop growers, and if it con tinues so we may be in better hopes. Some of the forward plantations will commence picking this week, and picking will in about three weeks become general. There are some plantations where there is not a hop to be seen, and others are as full as ever they can be. The latter plantations, however, are only in the possession of a very few growers, who will get a small fortune if they keep progress ing. The beginning of this week is very dull and rainy, which is not very favourable for hop-picking, as when hops are gathered wet they sometimes be come mouldy after they are stored away in the hop warehouses in London. We still want about six weeks' fine weather to get our small crops in. BIZENCIILEY.—Some of our plantations will yield a moderate crop, while others are so affected by blight that there will not be any. CRANBROOK, August 26. —The weather has been suitable for the flowering of the hop-plant, and some of the clean grounds ROW exhibits a magni ficent appearance. An excellent crop will be grown in the best gardens, and in those which were hardest " bit" with the blight more will be pro duced than could at one time have been thought possible. Altogether our yield will be by no means an insignificant one. The picking will not be so late as was anticipated. Some of our prolifics will probably be gathered ere another issue of the Journal comes from the press. FAIZNIIAM.—The grounds in this district present an improved appearance, and in several pieces We shall have a fair yield. Picking is expected to commence in about three weeks. OTFOED.—Even in the best grounds the crop here will be exceedingly light„and in some places no bins will be placed. TUDELY AND CAPEL.—In these parishes there is slight improvement to report in those pieces where the blight has not been in its worst stages, and there have been repeated washings. On the other hand, in those plantations where they have been VI bad, and but little sap left in the bine, the last week's sun has completely scorched them up, and no hopes of any hops left. Our average growth must be very small indeed, possibly as low as 2 cwt. to the acre. UCKFIELD.—A great improvement is visible here. Some gardens will grow a ton per acre, and one grower, Mr. John Kenward, is likely to grow 23 cwt. an acre on his Colgates, and about 15 cwt. on the remainder of his plantations. WATERINGBURY AND NETTLESHEAD.—We have two or three good looking grounds coming on well , but our general crop will be very small. WESTERHAM AND THE VALE OF HOLMESDAL . —Those hops which escaped the blight are doing well, but where there is or as been vermin thei are going worse. YALDING, August 26.--There is a great improve' ment, owing to the fine weather, in all kindly piec e° of hops ; even the blighted ones threw out a fel l hops, but they are gone too far to do much. The re must be a short crop this season, most of it po or and mean, as is ever the case in an aphide blight.-.' .Maidstone and Kentish Journal. COUNTRY MARKETS. BR IS T OL—TUESDAY. The corn market to-day had a fair attendance, and ibe r° r was little demand for wheat, at a decline of is to 2s per 6 1 0 on the prices of last week. Foreign is lower. Maio° i d dearer. Grinding barley unchanged. Weather clear se hot. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. We had only a moderate attendance of the town 8- Aa country trade at our market to-day, and the wheat tr au o ruled dull, prices declining 4d to 6d per cents' on ae week. The flour trade quiet, and the rates of last week tv dined 6d per sack. Indian corn in dull demand, and 3 ,1 6d lower since last Tuesday. Oats slow. °oatmea l in : active, and rather easier. Egyptian beans in good reque st, and 6tl to is lower. LEEDS—TUESDAY. Weather fine. 'We have no demand for old wheat t, ° ; day ; new sells according to quality, and ranges from bvd to 63s for reds ; whites, 65e to 70s. Barley, beaus, au other articles nominally unchanged. MELTON MOIVBRAY.-T UESDAY. White wheat, 68s to 74s ; red, 59s to 68s per 36 stout Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr ; feed, 32s to 3 83 Ct, 30 stone. Oats old, 30s to 345; new, 26s to 32s per 2 Beans, old, 52s to 51s; now, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. Red wheat, per load 01 3 imp. bushels....22s ed to 26s OA White do do ....3i BOd 3 3 s v o i New red do do ....20s Od '2 6a New white do do ....23s 6d 238 Beans do do ....19s Od 225 o d Peas, per qr Grind bet ley, per qr 35s Od 3Ss ( „f Malting barley, eo Oats, do 278 Od 30 F10ur....2s 3d to 2i 8d per 141 b. MARKET lIARBOROUGII.—TUESDAY• 3 6 Old white wheat, 67s to 72s ; new red, 62s to 67s Pe r o 0, stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per a 0 1 ( 1, Oats, new, 26s to 35s ; old, 34s to 35s per qr. 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