The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

~---~--v.~~~-. THE A]3ll EDITIOIV. (From the Saturday Review.) Abyssinia is an elevated table-land studded with mountains and rocky pinnacles, between which lie fertile valleys and broad forests, and it stands like a green island in the midst of the African deserts. All round it is a mountain wall that looks on the map like a surrounding cliff ; and indeed there would seem to be other signs, as well as the confor mation of its boundary, that the Red Sea once covered the space between the eastern barrier and the present shore, for a great part of the region still resembles, in its deep chasms, sandflats, and fright ful bairenness, the bed of the ocean. But the lice of the highlands is not parallel to the margin of the sea, which it approaches much more nearly at Mas sowah and Annesley Bay than elsewhere. Nothing that can properly be called desert forms an obstacle to an advance from this part of the coast, for every march can be timed so as to halt amidst verdure, shelter, and water. At Massowah, and along the shores of the bay, the water is deep, and suitable for landing ; transports could there ride in security; and joining these facts to the circumstance, so all-important, that the strip of intervening space between the sea and the highlands is here at its minimum, we cannot but infer that, of all the possible starting points which have been indicated, this offers most advantages, and will be selected, unless Col. Merewether can show more proof than we have yet met with in support of his opinion that Amphila Bay is to be preferred. Suakin, higher up the Red Sea, has found an advocate iu Sir Samuel Baker, whose preference seems to be founded on the single fact that he has himself advanced from that point, not into Abyssinia, but towards the Nile. Now, supposing an army to have advanced from Suakin to Kassala—a very marked and important point on the route, to which it must be transported on camels across the Nubian desert—it would leave behind it a long list of most precarious and costly communication with the sea, and would still be as far from Theodore and his prisoners as if it were at once set down at Massowah. Tajurrah, another seaport considerably to the southward, is separated from the nearest part of the highlands by a wide expanse of desert, so pestilential, so impenetrable, so devoid of water, and so beset with all the ob stacles that an insupportable climate and malignant inhabitants can interpose, that it may be at once rejected as impracticable for a base. We shall, therefore, assume that Massowah, or the head of Annesley Bay, or both of these places, will be the points of debarkation. All travellers who have visited Massowah agree that it is among the most unhealthy parts of the globe's surface. Fierce ultra-tropical heat, numer ous climatic diseases, and a barren soil, combine to render it dangerous to Europeans, while the absence of water, which is brought in scanty supply, and of bad quality, from a village at some distance, com pletes the objections against the establishment of a camp in its neighbourhood. In sele3tlng it for a base, therefore, sufficient preparation should be made to enable the troops to march forward imme diately on landing to the high ground which inter venes between this place and the table-land. To the westward are seen, 40 or 50 miles off, the moun tains that bound Abyssinia, and many routes lead thither from Massowah and the head of the bay, several of which might be used for expedition and greater freedom of movement. Soon after leaving Massowah we hear of plenty of wood and water-- roads, though difficult, yet "practicable for camels and even artillery," "running water found continu ally," " the hills dotted with dense wood and high grass," " the heat (in April) by no means excessive." Next we find "a steep ascent unsuited to draught artillery, easy enough for mules carrying moun tain guns, but difficult for laden camels, unless having light burdens." The plateau being reached, there appeared "hills densely clothed with verdure." and " a finer or richer country than this could not be desired." Such is Col. Merewether's report of an excursion made last spring, no doubt with a view to the present expedition. In January he struck off towards the mountains in another direction, making for Adowa by Ailet, "a fine plain covered with rich verdure," "an excellent place to locate a large body of cavalry on first landing, there being plenty of wood, water, forage, and meat," with a • perennial spring on the left side of the valley." Evidently there is no obstacle then to the movement of troops into the temperate region of the highlands, which may easily be accomplished, by several paths, in four marches. The first care of the commander of the expedition will probably be to establish thus far from the sea a fortified camp enclosing space for considerable magazines of supplies. And the col lection of these, as well as the transport of the field artillery, will be greatly accelerated by such improvements in the road as could easily be made by a band of pioneers, for all accounts go to prove that in that country roads may be mended, and even created, with unusual facility. Planted with his army on the plateau, in a cool and temperate region, with supplies at land suffi cient for the next stages in the campaign, and Mas - sowah with its heat and pestilences far below him, the General may look forward with a lightened heart. Yet many difficulties must still remain to be overcome before he can attain any kind of decisive success. Not the least of these is the difficulty of fixing on any point in the country as that in which success is absolutely to be found. Here is no capital, to seize which will be to hold a sure guarantee for compelling the foe to yield; no fortress, to cut him off from which will be to ruin him ; not even an army, with the defeat of which his obstinacy might give way; but a desperate chief, hemmed in by his own revolted subjects, and standing at bay with forces daily diminishing. It may be fairly doubted whether, for the accomplishment of our object, it would not be preferable to see him restored to his former power, offering to us tangible successes and substantial means of enforcing his submission. Cer tainly it is not easy to imagine that one in his situa tion will be influenced, as some sanguine people seem to suppose, by the threat that we are about to add to the nember of his alreadyoverwhelming foes. Of the politics of the revolted chiefs we know nothing. Any attempt to play one off against another can only be founded on coarse appeals to the mercenary nature of a savage. Fidelity to engagements contracted on such grounds can only be insured by fresh bribes ; and we can never be sure that jealousy of the foreigner may not pre vail over internal dissension, and unite all in a league against us. Meanwhile there is something almost ludicrous in the disproportion between the means we are amassing. —the thousands of disciplined troops, the scientific arms, the costly vessels, the droves of transport animals which will darken the Abyssinian pastures—and the object of rescuing a few captives from the broken power of this bank rupt despot. So glaring indeed seems the discre pancy, so unusual this complete and lavish prepa ration for any English military enterprise, that, if these were days when fresh conquests were deemed desirable, we might almost suspect that the func tions of this formidable expedition would not cease with the attainment of its ostensible object, but that a new and by no means unprofitable colony would be added to our empire. Nevertheless, all this considerable force will be needed, not indeed to fight, for the coup de grace may probably be given to Theodore by an advanced guard of cavalry, but to protect the long line of communications on which our troops must be, to all appearance, absolutely de pendent. The country is productive in a high de gree of food and forage and cattle, sustenance for man and beast; but the incessant wars of the pre sent and former reigns have restricted the labours of the rural population to the raising of what is in dispensable for their own support, and within these few years extensive famines have prevailed in many districts. Even were the crops and herds as abun dant as they might be, the absence of roads would still render them in a great degree unavailable to an invading force. Large depots must therefore from time to time be established, fortified, and gar risoned; and between these, and the sea on one side, the army on the other, long convoys must pass which must be strongly escorted, for even in a dis trict which calls itself friendly it would be impossi ble to say how long the most virtuous ally could resist the temptation offered by an unguarded train of stores, or how far a population that considers the art of plunder a necessary part of a liberal educa • THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING% SEPTEMBER 10, 1867. tion could be induced by mere principle to restrain its cupidity. A large part of the force must there fore be employed in protecting the long line between the army and the sea, any interruption of which would produce serious inconvenience. Besides the enormous burden of transport, the condition of the roads will be another cause of anxiety. There is nothing in the country that resembles a highway ; even the great caravan road to Gondar is in parts a mere sheep track, overgrown with thorns, and wind ing in places through narrow and precipitous passes. These will be the real obstacles, and not the cli mate, which is undoubtedly healthy ; nor the heat, which, according to Bruce and Harris, never falls below 50 deg. nor rises above 85 deg. But, in spite of all difficulties, we should have little doubt that the expedition would succeed could we but feel cer tain of what would constitute success. It must be admitted that 10,000 regular troops, with cavalry, artillery, and all munitions of war, led by an expe rienced general, will appear a very disproportionate escort to restore to us a dozen or so of rescued cap tives. We would fain hope, therefore, if it were still possible to hope, that the expedition might be rendered unnecessary by the attainment of our ob ject in a similar way. Nevertheless, if it is to take place, there are other considerations besides the support of our reputation which may help to recon cile us to the cost. To restore order and peace, and plant the seeds of civilisation in so fair a portion of the earth, would be an honourable task. The inte rests of science too would be furthered ; for we may expect that the spirit which urged French savants to accompany Napoleon to Egypt would induce our naturalists and geographers to seize the opportunity of studying a region so rich in interest and so im perfectly known. And, though we cannot expect to earn much glory, yet the general and the troops that penetrate to Bergemeder will have learned a most valuable lesson in the difficult art of supplying an army. MEMORIAL TO THE LATE BISHOP HOGARTH. (From the Darlington and Stockton Times) A monument, " erected by his Catholic flock and fellow-townsmen of every creed and party," has just been raised to the memory of the late Right Rev. W. Hogarth, D.D., Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, in the Darlington Cemetery. The basement of the memorial is composed of four steps of polished Park Spring stone. From this rises an obelisk of polished granite, the plinth being of a dark red colour, with mouldings of light grey, and a shaft of dark red, standing 13 feet high, and a carved capital of light grey, surmounted by a gilt cross. On the west side of the obelisk a carved pillar, in which will be placed a photograph of the deceased Bishop, is in course of erection. The monument reaches an altitude of about 31 feet, and is indeed a beautiful structure. The following are the inscriptions which are engraved in block letter on the panels of the obelisk :—" To the Right Rev. William Hogarth, D.D., Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, the Father of his Clergy and the Poor, who, by a saintly life, great labours, and charity unbounded, won love and veneration from all, this memorial was erected by his Ca tholic flock and fellow-townsmen of every creed and party. Born at Doddin Green, Kendal, March 25th, 1786. Died at Darlington, January 29th, 1866. Buried at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw. R.1.P." The column is from the design of Mr. E. Welby Pugin, of London, and the contract has been executed by Messrs. Priestman of Darlington, at a cost of about £3OO. This sum of money was raised by public subscription, in a very short time after the object to which it was to be devoted was announced. The monument blessed by the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle on Monday is but a faint, though a sincere, expression of the affec tionate veneration and respect in which Dr. Hogarth was held by every Catholic in the diocese, and by every Protestant who came in contact with him. His useful and blameless life, stretching beyond the span allotted to the race, was full of precisely those striking incidents, and was characterised by exactly those traits, which attract public interest and awaken public feeling ; for, whether in his career as a priest, or in his conduct as a citizen, Dr. Hogarth was especially remarkable for thorough ness and sincerity. In the numerous and varied duties of Vicar Apostolic of the northern district, and latterly in the onerous offices of Bishop of the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, he was always looked up to and trusted by his colleagues and associates ; while as a good priest, going about his Master's business, and bearing the gospel of faith and love, and the unaffected example of a single minded devotedness, to the dark corners of society, he was loved and revered by all. Dr. Hogarth began life when his beloved Church was on the eve of an important change, and when her position in England was about to be placed on a fairer and a more satisfactory footing than she had enjoyed at any time since the Reformation. From that historical point Catholics, desirous of educating their children for the Church, were obliged to send them abroad to get what they wanted. There, in the cloisters of Douai, Sala manca, and other kindred institutions, the best Catholic mind was formed, and to the influence of the foreign associations inevitably bound up with these colleges, may doubtless be traced that in difference to matters of purely domestic policy which was, too often, and with justice, laid to the charge of the Catholic clergy. But the French Revolution, which has overturned so many ancient land-marks, and which has exercised an imperish able and as yet an unascertained influence upon the history of the world, was destined memorably to influence the position of Catholics in Protestant England. Swept away from their familiar resting- places, and severed from their old associations, the emigration—the flower of la veille noblesse, the proudest blood of France, the most cherished off spring of the Catholic Church—landed upon Eng lish shores. They were received with open arms, comforted and caressed by the nation. From that time the distrust of the Catholic portion of the community, which had too long been entertained by society, began to wear off. Shortly after this Catholic educational institutions were founded in the country, and thus were laid the first seeds of the public feeling which led to Catholic Emanci pation. Among the earliest of these institutions was a modest establishment at Tudhoe, in the county of Durham, which shortly afterwards migiated to Crook Hall, near Consett, in 1793. Here Dr. Ho garth was a student, and he made such good use of the time spent that, sixty years afterwards, one of his masters, the late Rev, and Venerable John Perswick, said of him that he never " knew of any student who could give a more fearless or better account of the employment of his time to that Supreme Judge who sifts the evidence of every word, and poises the use we make of every minute, than the same William Hogarth." In 1808 the magnificent College of Ushaw was founded, in which foundation Dr. Hogarth took a prominent and interested part. His character was essentially English, and he clung with tenacity to English institutions. Contrary to the custom of Catholic bishops he never visited Rome, and never left Eng lish soil. Thus he considered English Catholic colleges to be best for English priests, who were to minister among the English people and to elect the English bishops. In 1809, at the age of twenty-three years and nine months, he was ordained a priest, and destined for the mission of Blackbrook, in Lancashire. The young priest's attainments, however, were valued by the heads of the college, the Blackbrook appointment was can celled, and he was elected a colleague. In the early days of Ushaw progress was made slowly and carefully, and everything was conducted on the most economical scale possible. So Dr. Hogarth did the work which is now done by three—he taught classes, he looked after the discipline of the house as General Prefect, and he administered he college finances. The office of treasurer to Ushaw was at this time no sinecure, " and often," said the bishop to his associate, the Rev. Mr. Coil, " did I tremble. whenever I heard the kitchen door opening, lest it should t e a creditor coming for his remittance, when all I had was a few shillings." In addition to the embarrassments of the exchequer, the young prefect had many other difficulties to contend with. But, looking back in after life upon the cares and anxieties im plied in the early struggles of the young colony at Ushaw, the associate and colleague of Lingard, the friend and the tutor of Wiseman must have had many pleasurable recollections. For seven years Dr. llogarth remained at Ushaw, at the end of which term failing strength warned him that re laxation was needed. He was accordingly sent as chaplain to Cliffe Hall, by the Rev. Dr. Gibson. At Cliffe he remained eight years, and on the 9th of November, 1824, he was transferred to the mis sion at Darlington. His flock, which at the time of his decease numbered 3,000, at that time only consisted of 200 individuals. here he laboured during forty years, until the day of his death, leaving mementoes behind him, in the kindly feel ing of the townspeople, which are now laid like flagrant flowers upon his tomb. Many anecdotes of his thoughtful benevolence, and many incidents illustrative of the regard in which he was held in Darlington, might be related. In 1850, for instance, when the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill was under dis cussion, demonstrations were made against the Catholics for the purpose of getting up petitions in favour of the bill. Such a meeting was held in Darlington, but a speaker, pointing out the unos tentatious and simple life led by Dr. Hogarth, the meeting separated without adopting any petition. For some years Dr. Hogarth filled the office of Provost of the northern district, and on the death of the Right Reverend Dr. Riddell, in November, 1847, he was raised to the post thus vacated, and in the following year was consecrated Vicar Apos tolic of the Northern Diocese, at Ushaw. On the establishment of the English Hierarchy, Dr. Hog arth became Bishop of Hexham; and in 1860, St. Mary's, Newcastle, having been consecrated as pro-cathedral, the bishop assumed the title of the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. How the episcopal duties of the diocese were performed by the late bishop, we may gather from the circum stance that an address of congratulation was pre sented to him on behalf of the Cathedral Chapter and all the clergy of the diocese, on the 28th of August, 1860, about ninety priests taking part in the gratifying proceedings. The address noted the interesting fact that since the time of Dr. Hogarth's succeeding to the mitre, there was not a chapel or church then existing in the four northern counties comprised in his bishopric, that had not been either first erected or rebuilt. The diocese, besides, is almost free of debt, and is looked upon by Catho lics as the model diocese. But the evening was drawing on, and the sunset of a beautiful life culminated on Sunday afternoon, January 28, 1866, when the bishop was seized with paralysis. Medical aid was called in, and the patient rallied for a few hours ; but nature was worn out, and the silver cord was broken at a quarter to four o'clock on Monday afternoon, Jan uary Francis of Sales, hi s patron aint,as 29th—the Catholicseaf S note. St. A profound im pression was created throughout the diocese by th e patron fsto death of the bishop, and in Darlington in particular his loss was felt most acutely. After lying in state in St. Augustine's chapel, from Tuesday evening until Thursday morning, a solemn requiem mass was celebrated by the clerical dignitaries and other priests of the diocese, and a funeral oration, ex pressive of the love and veneration felt for the late bishop by his flock, was appropriately delivered by the Rev. H. Coll. After this, the body was re moved, with all the pomp and magnificence of the Catholic ritual, and amidst the sincere grief of the late bishop's fellow-townsmen, whose sorrow found outward expression in closed shops and windows and suspended business, to Ushaw. There, in the precincts of the college he aided materially in raising, and where he so indefatigably laboured, within the peaceful shade of the cloisters he loved so well, they laid the gentle dust of William Hog arth to rest in peace. Shortly after the funeral a committee was formed, and steps were taken to get subscriptions to be de voted to some tangible memorial. The result of the subscriptions so gathered together is the beautiful monument blessed by the present Bishop of Hex ham and Newcastle, on Monday night. The cere mony took place under the most favourable auspices. The sky was clear and bright, the air calm and soft, and the stillness of the evening conduced to the success of an open-air gathering. The notice of the ceremony, inserted in the local newspapers, brought together a large throng of people, varying in numbers estimated from 3,000 to 5,000. Of these the majority were Protestants. A little after six o'clock, the bishop's procession, consisting of the bishop of the diocese—the Right Reverend Dr. Chadwick —Monsignor Canon Eyre, Canon Brown, the Rev. IL Coll, the Rev. W. Strickland, the Rev. M. Green (bearing the cross), and the Rev. W. Rigby, duly attended by acolytes, and thurifer shedding incense, followed by the Catholic schoolchildren and the Darlington Sax-horn Band, conducted by Mr. H. Hoggett, left the Cemetery Lodge. Slowly and solemnly the procession moved to the spot where the memorial cross is erected, and there it halted. Among those around the cross were Mrs. Middleton, the Misses Middle ton, Miss Eliza Kipling, Miss Nevin (from Edin burgh), Mrs. Heslop, Miss Strother, the Misses Ridsdale, Mr. 11. K. Spark, Mr. Fra. Mewburfi, Mr. Ornsby, Mr. Coffey, Mr. Smith, Mr. W. L. Dodd, &c., &c. The bishop took his seat upon a chair which had been provided for him, and the band played the magnificent "Kyrie" from Mozart's Twelfth Mass. The bishop then rose and delivered a most able address. After the ceremony of blessing had been per formed, the band played the " Gloria in Excelsis " from the same Mass. When this was finished the bishop left the dais. The Rev. H. Com, ascended the dais and said : My lord,--On behalf of the Catholics of this mis sion, I beg to tender you heartfelt thanks for the favour and honour conferred on us in coming at no little personal inconvenience, to perform the cere mony we have just witnessed. We are deeply in debted to your Lordship for a beautiful and able explanation of that ceremony ; an explanation which carried us back in spirit whole centuries ago, to the time when St. Cuthbert (whose successor it is your glory to be) raised in Fame Island the stone cross, near which he wished to be buried, and blessed it with the self-same rites and the same prayers. You have made us feel, too, that it was, indeed, a happy thought, a thought inspired by their very Christianity that prompted Our ancestors to erect crosses, and especially cemetery crosses. A burial ground is, naturally enough, a spot calculated to fill the mind with the gloomiest, the saddest reflections. But set up a cross in its centre, and there is at once a light and solace to the mourning survivors who may then scent "the sweetness of the violet" over "the mould" of their deceased relatives; for in the cross, the symbol of salvation, is our hope and comfort ; pointing (as your lordship remarked so well) to " heaven " —the home where we shall meet again and be happy for ever, without fear or sorrow, sickness or death. And this it is, my lord, makes us still more grateful for honouring us with your presence ; and because your blessing has imparted a sacred cha- racter to this tribute to the memory of him whom we loved from our heart of hearts. My lord— Dr. Irogarth was our pride and joy. 1 use the word " our " advisedly, for he made himself really the common property of this town. There are many monuments in this cemetery, whose inscrip tions are read with a cold lack-lustre gaze by the passer-by ; and the praise (however just) recorded in those epitaphs may be deemed ex- aggerated, or even extravagant. But no inhabi tant of Darlington will so regard this monument , every letter on its grey block cannot but meet with approval as most true. And the eyes of hundreds of his own flock will grow moistened as they read that inscription. They will see that it is all true that is there said of him, and that it does not sufficiently tell of the merits of the de- ceased. These hundreds certainly need no monu ment of him ; during two years nearly he has been " out of their sight," but never " out of mind ;" he holds a place in their grateful recol lection which can perish only with their frame. But still thankful are we, beyond expression, to our Protestant fellow-townsmen for helping us to give a more permanent form to our love of him— :or contributing so generously towa,r4 the erec- 'tion of this graceful monument, so that the memory of his rare virtues may be kept for ever gieen in this field of his labours. In the list of subscribers I find every creed and party repre sented Jews, Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Churchmen are there seen joining hands to hon our the memory of the Catholic Bishop, and echo the words of the poet : "Let us, let all the world agree, To profit by resembling thee !" It was a refreshing spectacle on that " day o'ercast" of his funeral, to see how they all suspended business and turned out in the rain, to form in files, resting on their arms, so to speak, in admiration, of his former life ; while the deceased was being conveyed to St. Cuthbert's College, followed by the thousands who wept their thanks to him ! And now it is a fine sight to have you lay aside all differences and cheer fully part with your money to perpetuate his simple name. True, he was a Catholic, and the head of Roman Catholics in the north ; but there is justice enough within the breast of Englishmen to admire, in whomsoever they see it, sterling goodness, which was indeed the "fruit" of his religion. Day after day, wet or dry, for forty years, had they not seen the " old Bishop " traverse the town, go into the filthy lanes, the slums and alleys, to sit in dingy houses, by the bed of pain, assuage distress, and "do good," in fine, wherever and whenever he could ? " His house, was it not known to all the vagrant train ?" And truly, "he chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain." Moreover, was he not a man of peace, so meek and humble, and pleasant withal ? What wonder they should gather together in such crowds this evening for the sake of the departed? I thank you from my heart for that, and in the name of my con gregation. And long may we join hands and hearts, despite all differences, and, looking up to the name carved deep on this monument, acknowledge the virtue and goodness personified in him to whom it is erected. THE REVOLUTIONARY NATIONS. " Seeing that the French Revolution is still con tinuing, I repent having had a hand in the work," wrote Tallyrand in his retractation—this clause of which, suppressed by the desire of Louis Philippe and the consent of the Holy See, has never as yet been published. How many men, who now are foremost in supporting the European Revolution, will not, like Tallyrand, live to repent of the work of their hands. The French Revolution is still con tinuing ; its principles are still at work, under mining all existing institutions, civil and religious, which are not of its own creation. Its results, in brief, are disregard of the law of nations, the tear ing up of treaties, alteration in the map of Europe, perpetual instability, dread of change, war, armed peace, and the keeping up of upwards of three millions of men under arms. Under the terror of revolutionary " ideas " no nation in Europe feels itself secure. It may be attacked either at home or from abroad under one plea or another put for ward by the advocates of the Revolution. Now it is progress which wishes to set aside existing insti tutions in Church or State in order to refashion all things anew; now it is the theory of nationali ties, which by the help of foreign armies annexes a smaller state to a larger one ; now it is the sovereignty of the people which overthrows an ancient and peaceful dynasty, and sets up a tur bulent and aggressive Republic, which in turn yields to a military dictator who, called in by uni versal suffrage, shoots down opposing citizens, and tramples life out of liberty. There is no security but in force, and force comes from numbers ; hence the tendency—it is but the instinct of self-preser vation—of the agglomeration of states. Thetheory of nationalities has reduced Italy to a state of anarchy and bankruptcy ; it served as a pretext to Prussia to annex Schleswig-Holstein in spite of treaties and of national law ; it was the sole jus tification of the war against Austria, and of the ab sorption by Prussia of independent states ; and on the strength of this theory there will never be peace again in Germany until every German nationality, either by force or fraud, is brought under the yoke of Prussia. It is the powerful solvent which the Revolution is now applying to the Austrian Empire —hitherto the great bulwark of Conservatism in Europe. It is the agent on which Russia grounds her hope for the establishment on the ruins of Austria, Turkey, and Greece, of a vast Pansclavonic empire. Again, it is the feeble pretext for Fenianism in Ireland. And France, the birthplace of the Revo lution, chafes under the victory which revolutionary ideas and forces have conferred on the rival at her gates. Poetic justice is being done on France. Retribution is overtaking the mother of the preceded her sword, and have Revo lution by the hands of her own children. She was the first in the field with revolutionary propa , of her arms. But her " ideas" are now no longer exclusively hers—they are become the strength of her enemies. In Russia, i to de ry as f ant spitethe of right, survived gands the i v e i r c aggrandizement will put an end Prussia, Italy, they are at work ex ; p b en u s t e it o i f s a ne w ig o h rk . p c i a c n k t in a law, and at once and for ever to the supremacy of France on the Continent. Prussia is already jbonfosustfrieeinfe-.gagnßgrantatinotdinhsze,efrinanedt her in the lead. outstripping g t the sight of the in a manner and with a magnitude g e a to nd th s e u Franceh e her i s h the t r u a n c boastful and ambitious rival on her frontier. They never before known in the world. What will be the are both arming issue of this terrible preparation ? We will not, for an instant, contemplate, even in thought, the horrors of a life and death struggle between, not two barbarous peoples, but two nations at the head of modern civilization ; we will not seek to estimate the crime, the bloody-guiltiness of either of these representatives of revolutionary principles. It is enough to contemplate the immediate, the actual consequences of this armed mutual distrust, the closest approximation to peace which the Second Empire, which the embodiment in Europe of the , 6 ideas " of 4i 89 " allows of. The material progress —the progress in wealth, in industry, in the spread of knowledge, in wider popular Sympathies, which Europe has enjoyed since, and we readily acknow ledge, partly in consequence of the French Revolu tion—of the abuses of power, that is to say, which were swept away by it—is now again arrested by the dangerous and sudden development of the moral evils which it introduced and sanctioned. Doubt, the enemy of commerce, has taken the place of confidence, trade stagnates, agriculture is injured by the transfer of such multitudes of men from the field to the camp. Debt accumulates in such a proportion as to tax the springs of industry. Popular liberty is crushed under foot on the pretext of the presence of fin ----nger, and mental culture is neglected in the excitement of angry passions, of fear and distrust. The civilizing arts of peace are withering in the breath of war. The revolutionary nations have overthrown the old principles of right embodied in treaties and the law of nations, and substituting material for moral force, have put their trust in the sword, and they are perishing by the sword even before it is drawn. We have said enough to show the dangers which await the revolutionary nations, without even touching on the impious principles of the Revolu tion and their effect on society and on governments. It is needless to recapitulate here how the Revo lution, by substituting human for divine sanctions of authority, attacked the stability of society itself, or how it loosened the most essential of social bonds by introducing civil marriage, and weakened the rights of property by confiscating the estates of the Church. Ina word, by f orm ally severing civil society and governments from God, the Revolution undid, as far as it reached, the work of Christian civilization, and inaugurated a political Atheism which naturally and forcibly reacts on private life, and lays but too sure a foundation for the spread of religious unbelief. Consequently in the revolutionary nations, in addition to the other dangers we have enumerated, there exists to a very wide and dangerous extent a fierce anti- Christian propagandism, a hatred of the superna tural, a lowering of the moral standards of life, a substitution of material interests and aims for higher motives and sanctions. In intellectual life, among the educated classes, belief in Christianity is giving place in the nations subject to the in fluences of the Revolution, to the materialistic philosophy of Auguste-Comte, or to the rationalistic theories of Protestant Germany. This intellectual defection from Christianity is not the least of the dangers which threaten the stability of modern society as it exists under the Revolution. Not to travel beyond Prussia and Italy, the two latest products of revolutionary fraud and violence, what principle of cohesion and stability do we find in these two kingdoms, ag grandized by the violent or fraudulent seizure of States only held in subjection to the aggressor by superior force? Italy, bordering on a state of chronic anarchy and bankruptcy, exists as a united kingdom only on sufferance : it depends on the protection of France. And the new Prussian kingdom —an ill-assorted congeries of subjected but recalcitrant States, without a principle of real union and cohesion, beyond the revolutionary theory of nationalities—is only held together by an enormous armed force. Based on revolutionary principles without faith—without national tradi tions or historic associations, what future has it— what hope? It is a military and aggressive state, and it represents no policy but aggression. It has not time to conciliate—it must conquer. Therefore is it hated in Germany. Its strength is all external—material only ; it has no moral force. Revolution, therefore, is the sure heir to all its ill gotten gains. Revolution cannot be " stamped out" in Europe like the cattle plague or the cho lera, for moral diseases are slower to be cured than physical. Catholic nations fall because they are untrue to Catholicism; but the Revolutionary nations perish the more faithful they are to the Revolution.— Westminster Gazette. THE REPORT ON RIIUALIS.II-A COMPROMISE. True to the hereditary spirit of the Establish ment, the Royal Commissioners appointed to inqiige into and report upon the ritual of the Church of England advocate a compromise. They are of opinion that it is expedient to restrain all variations in respect of vesture from what has long been the established usage in the Church of England ; but they are not yet prepared to suggest the best mode of giving effect to their conclusions. They avoid pronouncing an opinion as to whether the "Rubric," on which the Ritualists ground their right to use the novel ornaments and vestments, is rightly in terpreted or not. It can scarcely be expected that the Ritualists, in spite of the report framed in a spirit hostile to their practices, will forego the use of ceremonies and vestments which, though not in themselves essential, yet are the outward and visible expression of what they consider essential doctrines. As long as the holding of their distinctive doctrines is tolerated, it is idle to attack vestments which are looked upon as symbolical of these doctrines. It is leaving the root of the reputed evil untouched. But will the Royal Commissioners dare to recom mend an interference with the "Catholic "doctrines of the Ritualists ? and if the Protestant party, which so largely predominates in the Establishment, were to insist upon so unwise a step, would the House of Commons, in these days of religious Liberalism, consent to narrow the broad and expan sive boundaries of the national Church ? The hope of the Ritualists, and their strength, lies in the religious Liberalism and the wide toleration of differences of opinion as to essential doctrines which distinguish the Church of which they are members. Were the Anglican Church of a sudden to become intolerant of error and of the differences of opinion as to essential doctrines—were the bishops to insist upon uniformity of belief and practice, they would be confronted at once by the ambiguity of the for mulas of faith and the wide interpretations which the ecclesiastical courts, and the Privy Council in the last resort, would find themselves compelled to put on articles which were framed for the very purpose and intention of allowing, in the Estab lished Church, a wide divergence of opinion. Were it possible to imagine that the House of Commons could be induced to pass an act of uni formity which would in effect exclude from the Church the Ritualists and the extreme Broad Church party, it would raise such a discussion in the country as would endanger the existence of the national Establishment. There is no likelihood of such an unwise policy being pursued; both the Ritualists and the Rationalists may live in peace and in close proximity, if not in amity, without any fear of being called upon to forego their liberty of opinion. Even the Ritualists, in spiteof their yearnings for unity, have given up the hope —in this far inferior in Catholic principles to the elder Tractarians--of making their Church the faithful guardian and teacher of what they consider the essential doctrines of Christianity. They are content to remain what they are—one among many tolerated schools of widely-divergent opinions on matters of faith in a Church whose bond of unity is not unity of faith. But while such widely divergent doctrines are tolerated it seems in the highest degree not only absurd, but unjust and dishonest to attempt to suppress the outward symbols and expressions of these different and op posite doctrines. The Times—in this representing the mass of the people who are indifferent in the matter of doctrine —insists upon retaining an outward uniformity, so that the eye of the public may not be disturbed, nor the mind even of the most superficial observer awakened as to the divergences in belief which exist in the Protestant Church. It likes to see the sepulchre whitened. Whilst the Daily News, which in spite of its consistent Liberalism, is intolerant of what it considers religious errors in the Estab lishment, honestly and vigorously repudiates the notion of restraining, as the Royal Commission re commends, the use of vestments, so long as the doctrines of which they are symbolical are left unmolested, it declares that no report so arbitrary and halting—that no law merely restraining the clergy from the use of symbols—will satisfy the country that the real issue, carefully avoided in the report, must be honestly raised, and the matter of doctrine be discussed and decided, once and for ever, so that Englishmen may know what are the doctrines which the Establishment is authorized to teach. We shrewdly suspect that the Daily News is aware that if, as it urges, Parliament were really t o take the matter into its own hands, the very existence of the Establishment as a national Church would be endangered. The Guardian, although little favourable to the Ritualists, is keen-sighted enough to see this rock ahead, and wary enough to be anxious to avoid " that conflict between Parliament and religious liberty which, in the opinion of all thoughtful persons, must have such disastrous results." " Putting aside," it says, "on the one hand the Ritualists themselves, and Lord Shaftesbury's people on the other, we find a multitude of persons between these two extremes who have an objection, more or less decided, to see any change in the ornaments of , the minister' from those to which they have all their lives been accustomed." The Guardian is, in fact, as is natural to it, in favour of compromise. It agrees with the report in desiring that " churchmen in general should be secured against innovations which they dislike," against "an obsolete rubric being employed to force an unpopular ceremonial on the ordinary wor shippers in the parish churches of England," against any step that would lead to " a revision of the Prayer-book." On the other hand, it does " not venture to say that the idea of an exceptional ' Ritualistic' use is without precedent, nor to main tain the theory of absolute uniformity." The Guar dian is, in a word, like the Royal Commissioners, notagainst " Ritualistic congregations but Ritual istic aggressions." But in this also, like the report, it fails to suggest the mode in which this compro mise is to be elfected. The practical lesson, which we sincerely hope the Ritualists may draw from the Report of the Royal Commissioners on Ritualism, and from the discus sions which arise out of it, is to note that whenever differences as to matters of doctrine, or practices which involve doctrine, arise in the Anglican Church, it does not define its doctrines more sharply, but adds one compromise the more to the many which constitute its history and its origin. In this procedure, as in so many others, how unlike the Catholic Church, which, whenever new errors are broached, endangering the integrity of the faith, defines its doctrines and sharpens its teaching so as to preserve untarnished the mark which Christ has set upon His Church—unity of faith ! West minster Gazette. Miscellaneous Foreign News. The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 29, says : The violence of the scourge diminishes at Albano. Since my last letter, dated the 22d inst., the number of deaths from cholera in that town has never exceeded the average of twelve a-day. It is true that out of six thousand inhabitants, which it contained, it now comprises scarcely more than two thousand, the rest having fled or been carried off by death. Since the sixth of August, when the cholera made its first appearance, that unfortunate town has witnessed not fewer than eighteen hundred deaths. His Eminence Cardinal Sacconi, formerly Nuncio at Paris, has of his own accord taken the place of Cardinal Altieri in the episcopal charge of Albano. From the sedulous concern he displays in everything relating to the spiritual welfare of the population, all feel convinced that if circum stances should require it, he would exhibit the same self-devotion as his predecessor. There are still about one hundred and fifty persons sick or convalescent, lying for the most part in a lazaretto, hastily got up. His Eminence finds the most zeal ous co-operators in the secular and regular clergy. The Jesuits of Galloro, the Capuchins of Castel- Gondolfo, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood of Albano, have especially distinguished themselves by their self-devotedness. Mgr. Appolloni wishes to remain up to the last moment at his post. We have already informed you that, in the very first days, the malady or terror had utterly dissolved the municipality of Albano. Invested with extraordinary powers, which will cease only with the termination of the epidemic, the prelate in question is engaged in promoting the material wellbeing of the population. He provides that the town be supplied with the adequate number of physicians, of Brothers of St. John of God, of Sisters of Charity, and of grave diggers ; that the streets, the sewers, and the dwelling-houses be kept in a desirable state of cleanliness ; that prompt assistance be given to the sick ; that the disinfection of linens and of the mortuary chambers be carefully carried out ; and that the interment of the dead take place accord ing to the prescribed rules. The spectacle of the ravages committed by the cholera at Albano has strongly impressed the imagination of the inhabitants in the neighbour ing communes. At Genzano, for example, the population wish by all means, fair or foul, to pre vent people coming from Albano and other in fected localities, even if they do not stay, from traversing the country. The Papal Government, always so paternal, endeavours to dispel by degrees these exaggerated alarms ; but as revolutionary leaders are seeking for their own seditious pur poses to excite the popular discontent, the task of the Government is not so easy. At Rome the scourge continues its ravages. Since the day before yesterday we notice even a notable increase in the malady. There were sixty cases and thirty-nine deaths on the 27th instant, and sixty-two cases and forty deaths on the 28th. On the other hand, hope is entertained that the rains of September will purify the atmosphere, but as yet there is no sign indicative of rain. And besides, the course of the cholera this year is so irregular, that it is better not to indulge in any illusion. His Holiness celebrates Mass twice a week in behalf of Rome and of the other cities in his States which are visited by the epidemic. All priests recite at Mass the prayer pro tenzpore pes tilentia. In the name of his Holiness, the Cardinal- Vicar has enjoined certain religious communities to beseech of the Almighty, by fervent novenas, the cessation of the dreadful plague. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the principal churches, Particularly at St. Roch and at St. Sebastian. A police ordinance, published by formal order from the Pope, prohibits all assemblages from two to nine o'clock in the vine-yards where wine and eatables are sold in the environs of Rome, as well as in the public-houses of the city. Moreover, severer penalties than in former times are ordained against all persons introducing fruits reputed un healthy. The journal Osserratore Romano has instituted a collection in behalf of the families afflicted by the cholera. This has already produced fifteen thou sand francs. His Holiness sets no limits to his generosity, for his Eminence the Cardinal-Vicar has received the power of expending in his name, and charging to his account, all such sums as may be needed by the sanitary condition of Rome. A solemn funeral service was yesterday cele brated in the Church of the Holy Apostles for the repose of the soul of the Princess Colonna, born at Alvarez di Toledo, wife of the head of the illustri ous family Colonna, whose history is so closely connected with that of the Papacy. The testamentary dispositions of the Queen Dowager of Naples, and of Cardinal Altieri, are now known. The Queen prescribes that her body should be transferred as soon as possible to the burial-place of the Bourbons. She leaves her fortune to her eight children, to be divided among them, share and share alike. The cardinal expresses the desire that his mortal remains should be buried at Rome, in the church of Santa Maria, in Portici, or in Campitelli, where repose many members of the celebrated Altieri family. He remits to the Prince, his brother, all the arrears of the annual pension to which the younger sons of the patrician family are entitled at Rome. Moreover, he founds ten chap lainries ; he bequeaths to each of his domestics a life-pension equal to his wages, and leaves the re mainder to the hospitals, and to the hospice for the cholera orphans. By a codicil, his library is annexed to the seminary of the Roman diocese. A vigorous protest against the law of confisca tion in regard to the property of the Italian Church is shortly expected from the Pope. Pius IX., with an unalterable serenity, is taking measures for the convocation of the General Coun cil. He has named a preparatory Commission such as was instituted for the Council of Trent, It is composed of seven cardinals and fifteen con sultors, men well conversant with the religious in- terests of the East, as well as of the West. Nothing more is heard of the Abbe Passaglia, or of his retractation. Father Carnelli is still in prison at Santa Maria delle drazie. He has not yet been tried. The day before yesterday, we were put for a mo ment on the qui vine. Garibaldi, with three of his generals, was within a gunshot from the frontier, on the side of Radicofani. But nowhere were bands of volunteers in red shirts to be seen. The province of Viterbo, the most turbulent in the Pontifical State, is tranquil. The Government, without making any show, is taking sound precau tionary measures. The Pope has just sent 2,000 francs to the sick in the province of Frosinone. A TYPE -WRITING MACHINE.—A machine has been invented by a Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, by which, it is assumed, a man can print his thoughts twice as fast as he can write them, and with the legibility of a printed page. The alphabet, with figures, &e., is formed in a solid stereo type plate, with the bodies of all the letters uniform in size. Ho prints a letter by the blow of a minute hammer, of a size uniform with the size of the type body—stak ing the face of the letter, with a sheet of carbonised paper, and that on which he would print interven ing. Each letter, as wanted, is moved into posi tion under the hammer by compound levers, actuated by keys, like those of a piano. The subject of typo writing is an interesting one, and may be one of the ac complishments of the future; but it is hardly a thing that can spring fully developed into existence at ono effort. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Au infallible remedy for bad legs and all kinds of wounds. The surprising sale of these invaluable medicines in every part of the civilised world is the most convincing proof of their efficacy. They speedily cure bad legs, old wounds, scrofula, and diseases of the skin. Thousands of persons suffering from these dreadful maladies have been cured by them after every other means had failed, and it is a fact beyond all doubt that there is no case, however obstinate or long standing, but may be quickly relieved and ulti mately cured by these wonderful medicines. Their united action is irresistible. More need not be said in praise of these celebrated pills. Let those who doubt their excel lence give them a trial. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER-SETT. 7. This market was fairly supplied with wheat to-day. The trade was 112althy, and last week's prices current. Wheat, white 6's 76s Beans, 81azaE,ran......318 403 red 00s 7.5 Middle and small_44B 485 Barley... —s ,—s Peas, white. 38 3 425 Oats •.. ..... .. —8 8 grey ..308 425 CHELMSFORD-SEPT. 6. There were few samples of wheat on sale to-day, and prices advanced is to 2s per qr on the quotations of last week. There were a corsiaerable number of transactionS in Spring corn, at rather over late rates. Wheat, old white....sBs 72s Peas, Partsklge 4Cs 429 new COs 75s Whirr ..34s 38 ° old red '.63 66s BAling.. ...... 36s 4 09 new. 610 7Os bun—. ..... ...38s 4 " 8ar1ey..... 26s 33s dit.o, new... --s -- ": 4 Chevalier 1!s 53s Beans, Tick, old ......403 45° Grind.ng `..6s 32s new....30i 40 3 Malt 6llB 74s Harrow lieks.42s 46 s Chevalier 68s 76s new.. ..41s 459 Oats .•• 2os 26s Mazagan . 34)s 4" ABERDEEN-SEPT. G. Prices for all descriptions of grain nominally the same as last week. There was a quiet business dotie, with a thin attendance. No wheat in the market. --- White wheat 58s Od to 63s Od i 50s Od to 58s Od j •• 621 b lii b us hel. Red wheat Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od} 40lb ifi bushel. Common oats 26s 6d to 27s Od Bere 353 6d to 36s Gd i , 53/ 10 b u shel. Barley 35s 6d to 36s 6d j Oatmeal 20s Gd to 21s 6d iFt boll of 280/. Flour, fine 46s 6d to 50s 6d ? sack of 280,b. KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 7. Small supplies of wheat at our market to-day. TWO parcels of oats, and one of barley. Prices for wheat full is higher. Oats and barley same as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 62s Od ; 38s Od 338 Second 635 Od I —s Od •- sOd Third sOd ' —5 Od —s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s. d. s. d Holywell Main l7 0 Walls End Hetton 1 20 ; Hastings Hartley lB 9 H e tt on L yons ........ 8 North Felton Gas 12 9 Wylam Ships at market, 26—sold, 25. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Etailways. 1807. 1866. 1867 1866 991 2,572 2,5 59 441 795 760 36 2,999 2,747 ('8 1,433 1 , 4 ; 1 21 1 8,783 8,. 37 502 1 33.9; 9 32.773 130 3, 93 2,675 311 757 6 3 _, 20 439 49) 6 1 25 307 306 17 651 2,175 2 . 1=6 151 63 1,868 1.63 5 75 1,089 2, 0 21 35 3 0 27 8 107 4,263 3,97 9 30 4u7 . 8 ; 85 F,2t,6 5,3 29 £49 12,553 11,55 3 70.4 37,301 36,2 9 442 12.062 38,96 2 2 % 5 4,132 3, 96 2 831 78 419 t 10.060 9,47 ) 1292 84,5 .2 84,99 5 246 4,913 6,15 7 54 11 b 1,940 2,C 09 8 673 373 403 51,350 43.8 15 241 69 0 1 261 1-9 1 63 461 1,064 10 301 e 36 698 1294 1 133,886 131,7 46 6001 30,293 2', 2 11 2931 29 : 336 135 I 16,7u6 1 3 917 221 1 3,104 094 421 361 216 _9l Belfast and N, Counties . 99} Belfast and Count" Down.... 441 Blyth and Tyne 3B Brecon and Merthyr . ... 73 Bristol and Exeter 1314 Caledonian, Scottish Central 5731 Cambrian Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Illackrock, & Passage l3l Cork and Limerick Direct Cornwall 651 Deeside l7 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast J unction 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c B5 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E. Union Great Northern 441 Great North of Scotland 275 tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 834 'lLSoutlin. & Westn.(lrlud.) 4194 Great Western l3ll Highland Hoy lake 5l Irish North-Western 145 Isle of Wight . ...... ....... 12 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 Limerick and Ennis... 244 Limerick and Foynes 26 Llauelly 461 Llynvl Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 335 London, Chatham, & Dover ; i 1 0 6 all Metropolitan Extension f 131 D.. Kent coast L 5n., Tilbury, & Southend Londonderry and Coleraine 361 Slan.,Sheffield.&Lincolnsh Mauch. S. J un. & Altrincham 9l ilaryport and Carlisle 33 Metropolitan 4l Midland (inch N.-Western).. 695 Midland Gt. Westn. of 'rind— 2104 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 North British, Edin., Penn and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dail 1229 North London ll North Staffordshire 268 Pembroke and Tenby 27 Rhymney 224 Scottish North-Eastern ll3 Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern 330 Swatisea Vale fall Vale 63 Do., Penarth Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West C0rk..... l7f ‘% rexham ?Told, !cc ll W'haveu.Cleator,& Egrmnt lO FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 828 68 216 24,2 5 4 Bahia and San Franci sco Belgian Eastern J un c ti on 2 61 261 33 1 ~), Bombay, Baroda, & Len. India 306 306 6.0 n 6 .°" Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 7,349 - A , 3 6 ,1 ) Dutch Rhenish lOB4 1 08 4 2,9 6 7,"" Eastern of France 1593 1568 95 161 56.5 4 7 ' Eastern Bengal ... .. 110 110 2.105 2, 0J0 A 0 19ast Indian Grand Trunk of Canada -3 24 43 1377 1377 23,7 a , Great Central of Belgium 285 235 3 08 0 Great Indian Peninsula 852 7011 19,208 • ; , 6 3 Great Luxembourg 172 142 6,9,8 ve4os Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 349 845 13755 11 0 ~4 Madras Madrid. Saragossa &Alicant 863 778 19492 le It ' 2 ' Northern of Canada .......• 46 Northern of France Norwegian Trunk 44 14 (48 Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Meditera,.ean 2180 2016 173,914 iou ,-- 0 7.4 7 2 Paris and Orleans. Recife and San Francisco. &c... 774 371 760 I,w 51 5 Sc.nde 0 3 1 , Smyrna and Cassaba _, Southern of France Victoria 1 2 0 5 1 46 978 l 1307:3156 35, 682We11and West aud N.- West. of France 1261 1150 89,822 7u," 4i 6171 2601 732 12,7 2,3 2. 181 490 295 2 ,521 19, 9 ! ) , 1,926 1,6.8 1 . 629 , 4,119 62, 0 9 am, 9,088 4.9. 0 3.282 2.90" c 30, 19 ) : ? ' 0 14( 8 8,422 B,B ' 440 1 1,051 /,t5 llOi 319 104 10 31 77 1,362 O l t 5,'354 5, 19 .1 33,4,0 30.6 6 ° 481 4 e 6 6, lc. 3 6, 326 ', 1 5 631 8,0.4 2 883 229 23 ,1 537 s '" 1,551 1 . 637 91 11)1 aot 7'9 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Sept. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Ditto, by French packet .......... Cs)Seeoppt.tt.. 13 22. 4 . Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ......, ....... ,_. Oat. 4. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena— Sept. 27. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Sept. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 13. Falkland Islands Oct. 4 Gibraltar, via Southampton . Sept. 12. India.via Southampton Ditto, via klarseil.es Malta, Egypt, tto Sept. 1 1 - Ditto, Marseilles Sept. 13. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Sept. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 13. Newfoundland . ..Sept. 11. Portugal Oct. 1. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto . Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British packet Sept. if. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Sept. 13. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe BVt• 16 West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cubs and Mexico ,Sept. 2 8 - , Bahamas,, via New York Sept- 1 1 ' Bermuda, via Halifax A GALLANT ACT.—On Saturday a lady WM standing on one of the breakwaters at Marbate, when !li° suddenly fell into the sea. She sank twice before any assist ance could be rendered, when Mr. James Toole, son of 311. * Frank Toole, the toastmaster, jumped in and gallantly rescued her as she was sinking, and conveyed her on shore. Births. BARDSWELL —On the Bth inst., at Highfield, Surbiton, the wife of C. W. Bardswell, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son• FORESTER —On the 9th inst., at 28, Upper Seymour-street/ Portman-square, the wife of Cecil Forester, Esq./ °f son. WYoN—On the 7th inst., at 54, Hamilton-terrac e, pl ; John's-wood, the wife of Leonard C. Wyon, Esq., 4;4 - daughter. Marriages. LEWIS —Timms—On the 7th inst. at tho arish ch urch St. Marylebone , Joseph C. Lewis, architect, of Gr°" o hill, Woodford, to S a r a h A nn , e ld e st daughter of th e lat R. Rubins, Esq., of Hal o -o n d, W o odford, Essex. g WOODBRIDGE-ELLIOT-At St. Paul's, Hawley-road, Jitillef p _ Edward, eldest son of the late James 'W oo dbridge , °, Harrow-on-the-Hill, to Julia Ellen eldest daughter al Josiah Elliot, of Kontish-town. Deaths. _stree e t t DAVENPORT -On the 7th inst at 12 'I G re at Stanhope Mayfair, Arthur U. Davenport ,. Esq. , o f Caposth oll3 I Cheshire, aged 35. ELLIOTT—On the 6th inst., at Highlands, Ivybridge, D aY°l3l Wm. E. Elliott, Esq., aged 54. old ER—OnPALM the Bth inst. at at 23, Kent-road, Thomas Palmer,.r of the New Corn Excl iange ' aged 56. PRITCHARD —On the Bth inst., at 15, Warwick -lane, 00 William Pritchard, aged 43. at PROPERT—On tho Bth inst. at at 6. New Cavendish -sty e Portland-place John P .. •-' C S D e p uty' ropert, Lsq., M.R. . *I Lieutenant ' • of Cardiganshire, aged 74. ~f 66, P , n th e B t h z William 11. Glenvii_grove, ARSONS —,1 &Lie i nst. , ll. Parsons, -- Carter-lane, City, aged 44 . . _........! VO , London : Printed and Published by WILLIAU AN D ,, T I T of No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter at T ILE SUN 001 co, " - tv of Strand, in the P rec i nct of the Sc troy, :in the Coal' " Middlesex.—Tuesday, September 10, 1867.