The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. The loss of 178 lives in the Ferndale Colliery has been made the subject of an inquiry which will, the Times trusts, conduce in some degree to the more effectual pro tection of miners in their perilous trade. Complicated and technical as the report of this inquest may appear, it is nevertheless reducible to a few plain statements and an equally plain moral. The danger of coal-mining consists in the presence of inflammable air discharged from coal. This gas, or firedamp, will explode if brought into contact with flame, and yet flame, in the shape of light, is indis pensable to the business of the mine. The first source of this danger cannot be removed. Coal will always dis charge gas, more or less. Some seams arc far more " fiery" than others, and certain states of the atmosphere or other natural causes may lead to the unusual accumula tiCri or escape of gas at particular times. In general, however, it must be assumed that in every coal-mine there is a liability to this danger. The coal will give out the gas, the gas will be liable to explosion, and a catastrophe like that at Ferndale may at any time follow. This is the peril against which it is necessary to provide, and the provision, if proper pains are taken, can be made with almost complete effect. Of course, the first and most obvious duty is to carry off the gas before it accumulates in sufficient quantities to become dangerous ; in other words, to ventilate the mine. Collieries should be subjected more effectually to indepen dent inspection ; and this should be combined with some measures for ascertaining freely the views and opinions of the miners employed. It is shewn but too clearly in the very narrative before us that colliers are often reckless of danger ; but, on the other hand, we have been re peatedly assured that some of them, at least, are more careful of their lives, and that they would often be willing to indicate the unsafe points in the working of the pits if they were allowed proper opportunities of speaking their minds. It concurs with the regret expressed by the jury that a deputation from the Miners' National Association was not permitted to go down into the Ferndale pit, for it would have been, at least, satisfactory, and might possibly have been serviceable, to hear the opinions of such witnesses upon the catastrophe itself, and the general dangers which it represented. The fault of the present system appears to lie in a variety of slight defects at its several points. In theory it is complete ; at least, no addition is suggested to it ; but in practice it fails. The men have their safety lamps, but they find the means of neutralising the safe guard ; the owners ventilate the mine, but not always effectually, and there is no register of the air draught from day to day, as there might be ; the firemen are on the look out for firedamp, but there is no record of their reports ; and the outside, or independent inspection, which should keep all this machinery in order, is not sufficient for the purpose. The sources of danger are well known, and the requisite preventives are all presumed to be in action, but there is no security for the constant efficiency of the whole organisation. So the result is seen in catastrophes like that at Ferndale, and the remedy ought not to be long withheld after so terrible a warning. In the opinion of the Daily News, the attitude of the English people towards the misdeeds of the Fenian conspi rators exhibits the national character in a very fair and honourable light. The crimes which have shocked the world are not outrages merely upon law and authority, but upon society and human nature itself. They exhibit a depravity to which it would be hard to find a parallel. q'he cry of execration which they have raised has been universal. But the public mind has preserved its self possession in the midst of its just anger. It has refused to be urged - ky lawlessness into lawlessness, or to suffer the contagion of the Fenian frenzy to infect itself. In order that justice may he done upon the offenders, and that the stern retribution which public sentiment and the public interests alike require may be exacted, the limits and safe guards of law must be strictly observed. Its rules awl processes afford the surest means of tracking out the guilty and of shielding the innocent—ends which are inseparable. To let the blow fall swift and strong, no matter upon whom, is a course to which, notwithstanding some dis creditable incentives, neither the Government nor the public has displayed any proneness. The disturbers of society have nothing to hope from this temper. An out burst of wild awl fierce passion is likely, when it has spent itself, to be followed by feeble laxity. The steal) , sense of justice will not know the weakness of either extreme. The Standard urges on Irish fellow-citizens, both rich and poor, to lose no time in shaking off from themselves every suspicion of disloyalty, by joining in the common measures of self-protection against the Fenians. Of all the calamities which are in the catalogue of Irish grievances, certainly the worst would be the belief in the English mind that every Irishman of the Roman Catholic faith is a Fenian. Our contemporary continues : That am considerable number of them, even in Ireland, are of the same mind as that illustrious but mysterious . c!:ieftain whc styles himself " The O'Donoghue," we cannot bring our selves to believe. They may have been led away by an ill-regulated sentiment of romantic generosity to talk of the murderers of au English policeman as " glor!oul martyrs ;" but we are willing to excuse this as a fit of hysterics. Having had their cry out, and finished the " berrin'," we may hope that they will speedily return to their senses. The Clerkenwell outrage not have been altogether useless if it helps all honest Irishmen to reject this loathsome image whie„,h comes in the shape of Irish patriotism—whose favourite weapons are gunpowder and Greek fire--whose battle-field is the poor man's home — whose victims are women and children, and whose highest achievement is the slaughter of an unarmed policeman. The Telegraph writes : Let the spirit of the season pleat with all who have abundance for the good societies which grapple with the miseries and errors of our time. Let-the hand open largely and liberally towards the coffers which are emptied for the real poor. Charity covers a multitude of sins ; and none of us can look back from Christmas time along the vista of the dying year without accusing thoughts. Send a thumping Christmas-box towards some one or other of the thousand efforts made by worthy and energetic people for the good of the struggling and the suffering. Help the infirmary, the reformatory, the refuge, the ragged school, to close the year with a pleasant balance. It is astonishing how much easier the conscience will then feel respecting that dubious profit, that doubtful acquaintance, that questionable piece of conduct in the bygone twelvemonths which the moral sense has not yet digested. Pay what you must pay, but pay something to that which has no " must" at all in its silent and eloquent pleading ; and you will find that you take out of a " Christmas-box" something which you never put into it. We have not, says the Herald, as yet heard of deaths from absolute starvation in the Poplar and Stepney unions ; but where the extent of weekly relief is limited in the one to one shilling, and in the other to one shilling and sixpence for each person, it is easy to anticipate, should the scale not be altered, the consequences which must ensue. The benefit of the poor law to those who apply for relief under it mainly depends upon the disposi tion and conduct of the relieving officer, for his recom mendation cannot with safety be disregarded ; while the master can make the house a hell or a home to those placed under his control. We have endeavoured for yeare past to impre.9s upon the Poor-law Board the necessity of themselves directly nominating these two classes of offi cials, many of whom under the existing system seem to defy censure, and are insensible to the disgrace of exposure or the dread of punishment for their misdeeds. One thing we are convinced of—that, no matter what amendments may be effected in the law, its humane exe cution will never be ensured until the duty of searching out poverty, instead of waiting fur its appeal, be entrustec. as it is in France, to meek and Christian women, instead of being confided, as it is here, to brutal mannered and unfeeling men. The Star reminds us that Boxing Day has come to he quite a consolatory festival. There was a time when its odious obligations in the way of largess and its unpleasant license in respect of potations made it a rather unac eltable sequel to the great Christmas feast day. But now, when Christmas begins about the beginning of November, and when the whole reading of a man who depends upon ephemerals is compelled to liv-e a Christ mas tone for nearly two months before the 25th December, Boxing Day has come to be a great and welcome institu tion. Every one will agree with us when we say Ivhy. The 26th December is a great day because it is a panto mime day, and because pantomime is almost the only pub'ic mlnife - Aation now left of Ch r i s t mas as a t i me o f fun and jollity. The public ideas of Ch r i s t mas h ave neces harily become more gloomy, as " Christmas numbers" hAve become mlricrel=l, u,,t merely because of the \• the g , nnril ratic.r's conseienc ‘vith this Chriztrnas or th , .! ha 6 iiraTpuntled Yul , Aide and all its belunginzs, 1:10 , IAN CATHOLICS AND FENIANISM. —At a public of atcnt :';(10 of the culgregation of the Roman Catholic Church of :it. Peter's, Woolwich, just held, the Rev. J. Cotter presiding, the following resolutions were adopted, expressive of the abhorrence of the meeting of the recent diabolical conduct of a class of individuals calling themselves members of the Fenian Brotherhood :-1. " That, as members of the Catholic Church, and therefore ( o, e dient to her authoritative teaching, we cannot approve or be members of any association whatever which our pre lates condemn." 2. " That, as Irishmen, we love to see the evils of Ireland removed or redressed by lawful con stitutional means ; but we hereby express our abhorrence of armed violence and resisting the civil power, convinced that such resistance is evil, and that evil must not be done whatsoever good may come of it." IFIE SIDNEY MAL. This cause eilebre, after occupying the court for thirteen days, at length seems to approach its close. The evidence for the defence closed with Mrs. C. Bagot, who corrobo rated the evidence given by the defendant's witnesses, so far as her knowledge extended. On cross-examination she admitted that Bernard Bagot bad informed hey from day to day during the trial of the statements deposed to, and asked her what points she could contradict. She also admitted that her husband said to Bergin that her evidence would destroy the case of the defendant, and that Bernard Bagot was to blame for allowing the transac tions to be exposed instead of letting the defendant pay the bills. At the conclusion of the defendant's case, Mr. Bergin, Mr. Bloomfield, and Mr. Sidney were called for a rebutting case, and contradicted parts of the defend ant's evidence. The defendant was again examined, and denied some of the testimony given upon the re-examina tion of Sidney, and Mrs. C. Bagot, having been recalled, contradicted Sidney's contradictions of her own contra dictions of Sidney's statements. The parties having been thus confronted, and a brisk fusillade of denials inter changed, the evidence closed. Mr. Heron, Q.C., then proceeded to reply for the defence. After telling the jury that he should wish to appeal to their sympathies on behalf of Mr. Sidney, to ask them to restore him—a victim of a foul conspiracy— to his native land, the learned counsel deposed that his task was a very difficult one. It was a very painful one. He had to speak of great talents misused ; he had to speak of a life thrown away; he had to speak of reckless extravagance, insane and moat selfish ; of a wickedness that would sacrifice to that selfishness the happiness of young relatives growing up to manhood, the fortune of innocent girls, the last shilling of his dearest friends—a selfishness finally culminating in crime—crime of the darkest character, and on the part of one who during the present trial had shewn a keen and clear experience, pur chased after twenty years' walk inthe ways of the world. The learned counsel then proceeded in strong terms to de nounce Mr. Sidney, and taking up the story told by him in the witness box, said : It was told with . tears, told with sardonic smiles. and with a reckless, flippant, and strange manner—told by himself with all the lurid light which was presented to the suicide at the moment of death, with all the horrors of vengeance, hate, and shame, seemed to have been obtained from the very flames of hell. Was such misery ever before brought to light on a trial ? Hus band and wife arrayed against mother, sister, andbrother. Mr. Heron then gave a resumi of the evidence. The prosecution had charged his client, Mr. Bagot, a country gentleman and a magistrate, first with being insane enough to give Mr. Sidney unlimited authority to put his (the defendant's) name to the bills, and then with being base enough to deny that authority, and, singularly enough, to get up a conspiracy by means of an extorted letter to prove Mr. Sidney a forger. The case which Mr. Sidney had endeavoured to make out was that three or four men gave unlimited authority to sign their names upon bills. Mr. Sidney's whole endeavour was to imitate the signature of those whose names he used, and he was so far successful that even experts had been deluded. He asked his learned friend, Mr. Dowse (the counsel for the prosecution), to give an explanation of the motive of imitating the writing of Blake and Henry Hynes. The motive for imitating the handwriting of J. L. Bagot was apparent. John Lloyd Bagot was known at the banks. But Hynes was a boy just arrived at 21; and he (Mr. Heron) did not think that the name of James Blake would command much respect upon 'Change, according to his own account. He could not find any conceivable sup position of innocence. The first time John L. Bagot dined at Sidney's /souse was on the 18th of February, 1864, and the whole of the transactions which had occurred or were alleged to have occurred, were comprised within that time and the flight on the 10th or 20th of August, 1866. The whole of Hyne's liability on bills was incurred within a period of three months ; and he would venture to say that the entire of Bagot's liability, £2,700 or £3,000, was in curred within the same period of time. The learned counsel discarded the evidence of Mr. Sidney's wife, and at the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Dowse, Q.C., replied 'or the plaintiff. MURDER IN SHROPSHIRE. SHREWSBURY, 1/CC. 25. Yesterday—on the very day that the Alton murderer was adjudged to be hanged—a crime singularly resembling his in its character was brought to light in Shropshire. The victim in the present instance is a little girl named Catherine Lewis, 9 years and 8 months old, and the man now in custody on the charge of wilful murder is an agri cultural labourer named John Tapp. The scene of the outrage is a field situated between Longden Village and Longden-comm,on, a quiet agricultural district about seven or eight miles from this town. From the particulars already in the possession of the police, it appears that oil Sundaymorninglast the deceased left her home, which is situated on the common, for the house of a person named Davis, who lives in the village, and whose baby she occasionally nursed. She remained here till six o'clock in the evening, when she started to go to chapel. On leaving chapel she was accompanied by llapp and a woman, a mutual ac-juaintanc,, who lived at Longden-wood Farm. When the three reached the lane which lcd to the farm, this woman turned aside and went home, :Tapp and the deceased keeping on the high road which led to Longden-common. This was a little after eight o'clock, and the deceased was never seen alive again. _ _ On Monday morning Mapp went to his work in the field, as usual, and towards noon a ploughboy, who was working near him, called out that he had found a girl's hat all covered with blood, at the same time observing that there had been a row somewhere. Mapp told th• lad to put the hat in the furrow, and cover it up with the plough, but instead of doing so, lie threw it over the hedge into the high road. A woman named Hartshorne, who had been at chapel on the previous evening, and had seen the deceased there, happened to pass along the road shortly after, and, picking up the hat, recog nised it as the one then worn by the deceased and at once carried it to the father of the child. Up to this time no anxiety as to the absence of the deceased had arisen, either on the part of her parents or the Davises, the one concluding that she had stayed to sleep at the village. and the other believing that she had gone home. But when the hat, saturated with blood, was brought to him, Mr. Lewis at once started for the village, and learning that his daughter had not been seen since eight o'clock on the previous night, a diligent search was made in the neigh bourhood that lay between the two houses. Following certain traces found in the field where the hat had been discovered, Mr. Lewis went to an old and disused hovel which stood in an adjoining field, and on opening the door, a shocking sight was presented to him. Lying on her back upon the ground, with some of the latter covering her, was the body of his child, with her throat cut from ear to ear, and so deeply as almost to sever the head from the shoulders. A shawl, which she had worn on Sunday, was tied round her neck, and one end thrust tightly into 'aer mouth. There were several scratches upon her ?erson, but though there is no doubt as to the object of her murderer, it is not known pending the medical inquiry whether or not he effected it. On the discovery of the crime suspicion was at once directed towards the prisoner, who strongly protested his innocence ; but at the same time made several inconsistent and damaging statements, which will be duly deposed to at the adjourned examination. On visiting the scene of the murder yesterday, Superintendent Caerswell made an im portant discovery, which throws considerable light on the affair, and forms a strong link in the chain of evidence which connected the prisoner with it. It appears that on Satur day Mapp was engaged in spreading manure over the stubbe-field where the hat was found, and returned on Mon day morning to complete the job. Instead, however, of fol lowing on with the manure at the place where he had left off on Saturday, he commenced at a place fifty yards further on, and here be piled up two large heaps. On noticing this yes terday, Superintendent Caerswell raked away the manure, and underneath each heap he found a large pool of blood, and close by he picked up a veil belonging to the deceased. Following up this clue, Caerswell traced the path of the murderer, as he had dragged after him the body of the child along the hedgerow skirting the highway, through a gap in the hedge, and across a grass field up to the hovel, a distance of about five hundred yards. The trail of the body, which had become covered with soil from the ploughed field, was plainly discernible on the grass. The ploughed field is skirted by the highway, along which the prisoner and the deceased (who were next door neigh bours) would pass on their way home after leaving their companion at the farm, and the precise spot where the murder appears to have been committed is close by a gate which leads off the road into the field. The inference from the evidence already obtained clearly is that the murderer suddenly as;,aile,i the child in the road, and, gagging her by means of her shawl, carried her into the field, and fearing the consequences of the sure detectioe which must follow on her return home, had been led into the committal of murder. Supposing the prisoner to have been the perpetrator of the preliminary outrage, he had a special reason for keeping cut of the hands of the police, for he had only lately returned home with a ticket of leave after serving seven of a term of ten years' transporta tion, to which he had been sentenced for a rape on an old woman, committed under peculiarly atrocious circum stances. Map p was brought here yesterday in custody, and charged before the county magistrate with the wilful mur der of Catherine Lewis, but no evidence was taken beyond such as was necessary for a remand. On the usual ques tion being put to him, the prisoner made a statement to the effect that the deceased had been murdered but that he was not the man lie was remanded for a week. CONGRESS. SENATE. Congress closed its extra Session and commenced its regular winter Session at noon on the 2d Decem ber. The Joint Committee waited on the President, according to custom, at one o'clock, to inform him that both Houses had organised. The President's Message was received on the following day, with the Department Reports, giving a detailed view of the operations for the past year, and the sugges tions for the future. The Senate has abolished the prefix of Hon ourable to the names of its members, passed a bill making five judg s of the Supreme Court a quorum, and a resolution instructing the Fi nance Committee to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill authoring the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the redemption of the 5-20's forty-year loan on bonds bearing 5 per cent interest, both principal and interest payable in gold ; the Government to have the option to redeem them after twenty years. On the debate on the President's Message, Mr. lloward objected to its being printed ; Mr. Sumner agreed with him in considering it a libel upon Congress, an incendiary document calculated to stimulate rebellion and to provoke civil war, a 3 well as evidence of a coalition between the President and the rebels, proving Andrew Johnson to be the successor of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, for economical reasons, thought it ought not to be printed. Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, said that if Congress printed nothing it did not approve there would be great economy. Sena tor Drake, of Missouri, introduced a resolution censuring the President for those portions of his Message in which he condemned the course of Con gress, recommending Congress to express reprehen sion. The President was defended by Mr. Bucka law, of Pennsylvania, who considers the Recon struction Acts unconstitutional, and advised their repeal ; also of Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, who declared Mr. Sumner guilty of libel in calling the President a traitor. Mr. Wilson, although con demning the doctrines and temper of the Message, would nut depart from the usual practice of printing it. If Congress had exceeded its constitutional limits in Reconstruction, the President had set the example in his plan, and he closed his speech by asserting that the policy will in a few mouths be an accomplished fact, and that the Legislature would stand like a rock on its Reconstruction Acts, and not retreat an inch. Judge Thomas has taken his seat as Senator from Maryland. The correspondence between Mr. Seward and the late Minister to Austria, Mr. Motley, which ended in the latter gentleman's resignation, has been laid before the Senate in answer to its call. Last April Mr. Motley was somewhat peremptorily instructed to resign the mission. The letter announcing the withdrawal was laid before the Emperor on the 14th June. His Majesty expressed great regret at the departure from his capital of a representative who, during a most trying period, had maintained the most friendly relations with his Government, and he requested Mr. Motley to convey an intimation of his gratitude for the intercession of the Washington Government on behalf of his brother Maximilian. Mr. Motley writes bitterly in his last letter to his official superior. He accuses Mr. Seward of arraign ing him officially and peremptorily, on charges sup plied by an unknown informer ; and having failed in receiving a reply to his denunciation of those charges as false, calumnious, and contemptible, he thought it proper to place on the records of the Le gation and of .the State Department the fact that the author was absolutely unknown to him—that he believed he had never seen him nor heard his voice —and that he (Mr. Motley) had never heard M'Cracken's name until the publication of his letter. lie closes the despatch by reiterating that • the charges are false and vile. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; WHO WAS 7HE ART-ARCHITECT ()F THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT? (From the TVestminster Gazette.) Mr. E. Welby Pugin has done wisely in sub mitting this inquiry to the decision of the public. He had reason to anticipate that Englishmen would not be indifferent to the double question of his father's renown and the art history of a great national monument. They are accustomed to debate eagerly matters of less interest, and they generally contrive in spite of their proverbial slowness, to arrive at a just verdict. They are not likely to miss it in this case. Mr. Pugin has communicated to the jury to which he appeals all the materials at his disposal. If they are less complete than they might have been, this is not his fault. He would have gladly published more, if his adversaries had been as honest as himself. But he has given us enough, and it will not be difficult, even with evidence purposely obscured, to determine the question proposed by him, " Who was the Art- Architect of the Houses of Parliament ?" The family of the late Sir Charles Barry have attempted to claim this honour for their relative, by carefully suppressing the very documents which would have sufficed to prove, as the public will justly infer from so unusual a proceeding, that he had no title to it. We shall have something to say presently about this singular manceuvre ; but before dis cussing the documentary evidence, or the imprudent artifice which has veiled so large a portion of it from the public eye, we must notice certain pre liminary considerations which, if we are not mistaken, go far to decide the whole question, without any evidence whatsoever. (1.) We observe, then, in the first place, that no capable and impartial judge has the slightest doubt on these two capital points—that the late Mr. Pugin was, and the late Sir Charles Barry was not, competent to be the art-architect of the Houses of Parliament. No living artist, whether painter or architect, will question the first proposition. Mr. Pugin's works speak for themselves. It was pre cisely in such details as those which constitute the decorative features, both interior and exterior, of the Westminster Palace, and save it from the monotony from which it has barely escaped, that Mr. Pugin was so great a master. It was here that his genius was especially manifested, though it displayed itself equally, wherever the material conditions were favourable, in general conception and design. There are many living eye-witnesses of the prodigious facility with which that great artist threw off the original sketches of those ex quisite details in which he was probably unrivalled, either in England or elsewhere. And this is not all. His son notices, and there is perhaps no argument in his pamphlet which carries with it greater weight, that he has actually in his own possession, " several volumes of his original com positions, exquisitely etched by himself in 1833, which confirm the probability "—he might have ventured to employ a more emphatic phrase— " that the same mind which conceived them con ceived also the Houses of Parliament. In many of them the features and details are actual proto types or facsimiles of those of 'Westminster. One of them is literally the Victoria Tower, a second the Clock Tower in embryo. In others, are entire facades, court-yards, &c., identical with parts of the Houses of Parliament." (Pp. 3,4.) Without claim"ng judicial perspicuity, or anything beyond a knowledge of the elementary principles of evidence, we may easily appreciate the gravity of this decisive fact. No one will deny, nor tolerate the denial by others, that whether Mr. Pugin designed the artistic details of the Houses of Parliament or not, he was at all events qualified to do it. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House repealed the cotton tax, to come into force after the collection is made on the present crop. The Committee of Ways and Means re ported a bill stopping further contraction of the cz:rreney, which was agr l / 4 :ed to. Four members from Kentucky have been admitted, and three others will bc. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in troduced a bill to estab!ish free schools in the dis trict of Columbia, which was referred, and will pass, and he offered a resolution for dividing Texas into two or more States, which was rejected. The delegate from Nebraska petitioned to allow territo rial delegates to vote. Mr. Cullum, of Illinois, supported a resolution declaring that no claim of a foreign Government over naturalised citizens of the United States shall affect the right of such citizens to Federal protection, and that the Government shall at all hazards protect naturalised citizens both at home and abroad. The Foreign Committee decided that those Fenians who go to Ireland to stir up a civil war will do so at their own risk, and that the Government has no ground for interfering to save them from the consequences of their folly. It is thought, how ever, that action will be taken to protect naturalised citizens from claims made upon them for allegiance and service to their former Governments. A reso lution was also offered limiting the assessment of the internal revenue to $300,000,000 annually. Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, proposed a resolution to renew the contract with Mr. Penny, a coloured man who keeps the House restaurant, at $2OO per annum, and that he be allowed to sell beer and malt liquors. Speaker Colfax said the last part of the resolution —the beer and malt liquor—was not in order, being in violation of a joint rule. Mr. Elredge, of Wis consin, Democrat, suggested that, in view of the late action of Massachusetts, the rule should be modified. The resolution was referred to the Com mittee on Rules. Senator Wilson must keep an eye open, or tippling will get within the walls of the Capitol again. The House considered the reports on the subject of impeachment brought forward by Mr. Boutwell,. of Massachusetts. In an able and temperate speech he reviewed the provisions of the Constitution bear ing on impeachment, which were-Ist, the article giving the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment ; 2d, that which gives the Senate sole power to try ; 3, that which provides that judgment shall not extend further than to the removal from office of the party convicted. The Speaker laid before the House the following communication, signed by nearly all the corres• pondents of the press at Washington :-- Washington, Dec. 4, 1867. lion. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Repro- sentatives. Sir, —As the publication of the President's messago in many of the papers of the country, in advance of its presen tation to Congress, has been made the subject of comment and discussion in the louse, and as it is regarded as dis respectful both to Congress and the President, we, the undersigned, spacial correspondents resident in Washing ton, respectfully aak that the matter be referred to some appropriate standing committee for investigation, in order that the responsibility, if any breach of good faith, be fixed, and that it may likewise be known who acted from mercenary motives which are charged as being the cause of such alleged violation of honour and good faith. We have the honour, &c. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, said the communication was respectful in tone, and it had better be referred to A committee, and it was accordingly referred to that on the Judiciary. MISSING SHIPS. —The Herald sailed from Shields on the 16th of March for Hongkong, and has not since been heard of. The Enoch Bonier sailed from Liverpool ou the 22d of August, for Boston. She was off the Smalls on the 27th, and has not since been heard cf. "Gentlomen,—Allow mo unsolicited td send you a word if commendation for your Pain Killer. I have used it in my fatuity several years, and find it all it claims to be. For rheumatism, coughs, colds, burns, cholera, and dis eases generally that prevail in families, I regard it as be yond all price, and as efficacious beyond any remedy within my knowledge. We keep it as our chief family medicine, and find its use in ordinary cases worth more than any doctor. Many clergymen have spoken of it in the highest terms as a family medicine. Missionaries in repeated instances have said to me in person and in their letters that the Pain Killer was by far the best medicine used in heathen lands. This I say in justice to yourselves, and for the benefit of others.—Yours, etc., Rev. W. B. JACOBS, late editor of the Christian Chronicle. To Perry Davis and Son, 17, Southampton-row, Holborn (W. C.)" . . None genuine without their trade mark, PAIN KILLER, on the Government stamp. Gold by chemists generally.— (ADVT.) DECEMBER 26, 1867. On the other hand, Sir Charles Barry, who hardly professed to know anything but classical architecture, in which he displayedgreat ability, was notoriously incapable, as his abortive attempts in another field abundantly prove, of accomplishingthe work which his family unwisely attribute to him. An impartial writer in the Building News of Sept. 20, 1867, after doing ample justice to Barry as a classical architect, observes, " I was certainly struck by the plain question : " What, on the other hand, has Sir Charles got to show ?" And then, he continues as follows :—" 'When Mr. Pugin instances St. Peter's Church, Hatton Garden, and asks if it be possible that the same man could have designed the Palace of Westminster, he puts a question very much to the point, and one which can be answered by any one who takes the trouble to inspect the said church. It was consecrated in October, 1832. The style is perpendicular, of the worst kind, exhibiting all the faults that an utter absence of Gothic feeling could crowd into one building." Such was Barry's success in Gothic architecture, while Pugin had already completed the design of the future Victoria Tower ! But the same witness has more to tell us. In utter disgust I entered the church, in hopes that the interior might present some redeeming feature. In this I was disappointed. The very form of the arches of the nave, and the pillars supporting them, is of the most debased character ; and, as to the woodwork, the roof, galleries, pulpit, reredos, pin nacles, crochets, and panelling, are of the rudest and most ignorant description." We cannot be sur prised when this writer adds :—" I left the build ing satisfied that the man who, in 1830, or there abouts, designed this church, could by no possi bility have had anything advantageous to do with the Palace of Westminster." Of another church by Barry, which cost more than £ll,OOO, the same competent critic says : " Criticism upon these buildings is thrown away." Of two others, whose united cost exceeded £22,000, so that the architect was not hampered by want of means, he observes : —" They can add to no architect's reputation." "For his fame's sake;" he continues, " it were well if everything Gothic Sir Charles ever did, could be hidden from sight." Finally, he sums up his impartial observations with this unambiguous verdict —" The same hand could not have designed buildings of such opposite character as Barry's churches and the Westminster Palace." (2.) But if it is certain that Pugin was, and that Barry was not, competent to execute the work, which gives all their beauty to the Houses of Par liament, it is equally notorious, and this is the second point to be noticed, that no one conversant with the subject ever supposed that the latter was the art-architect of the 'Westminster Palace, or that he designed anything but the ground plan, leaving the elevations and details to the genius of Pugin. " This impression," as one of the witnesses cited by his son observes, " was so generally ac cepted by every one who cared for such matters, that it seemed almost a certainty, not requiring investigation or proof." Another authority, Mr. Chapman, confirms from independent observation this universal impression, " that Pugin, and not Barry, furnished the designs for the Palace of Westminster ;" while Mr. Voysey declares, after referring to the unanimous conviction of the pro fession generally :—" I was never more surprised in my life than when I read the other day in the Times that the fact had been called in question." "Such a tradition," exising among all classes of professional men, as well as among all lovers of art for wb om the question had any interest, could not, as MI . E. W. Pugin reasonably argues, have penetrate( 1 all minds, if it had not been based upon well-kno/ ,rn and undisputed facts. (3.) ce third preliminary consideration, which takes pr cedence of all documentary evidence, and goes few., as we have said, to render it superfluous, is the a oppression of the correspondence between Pugh i and Barry, and the manoauvre by which this susp; ,Lions act was accomplished by Barry and his rela Lives. If any additional proof of the justice of eu g in's claim, and of Barry's recognition of it, we wanted, the almost incredible proceedings of the latter have supplied it. As soon as the gre at architect was dead, the first thought of the ma n, who had profited so largely by his unrivalled ski 11 was to destroy every trace of his relations with him. His own confession was, that "he had deF AL'oyed the whole of the correspondence," as far. :as he had the power to do so ; and when he le' L .-, ned the unwelcome fact that the work of de sl suction was incomplete, and that " a vast num -1 Jer " of his own letters to Pugin were still in exist pice, and could, therefore, be produced against • ROCHDALE, 23d.—There was only a small attend ance of buyers in the flannel market to-day, and the business done in Yorkshire goods as well as flannels was very limited, as is usual at the markets just before Christmas. Upon the whole there was a tolerably cheerful feeling in the trade, and prices were steady, )Vools are nominally the same as last week, TLWAY. EAST him, " his confusion and distress," we are told, " were painful to witness." His first exclamation The report of the directors of this company proved his own knowledge of the testimony they s would bear—" Good Heavens!" he said, " I ticought tates that the Board had still much reason to be Pugin destroyed all letters he received." Barry had dissatisfied with the slow progress made in the con goodstruction of the Chord line, notwithstanding the reason, then, to wish that those letters should i be kept from the public eye. Can any one doubt rem onstrances addressed to the contractors on what it was? Can any one doubt thatithey would the subject. The requisite works for completing have proved who was the real art-architect of the the railway bas a double line between Khano Houses of Parliament? For this reason it was Junction and Seeterampore, and between Luckie - The semi and Allahabad, and all other general necessary that they should cease to exist. means were at hand. They were in possession works of completion, both on the main line of a youth of eighteen, candid and unsuspicious, and Jubbulpore line, were progressing satisfactorily. whom it was easy to beguile for fair words. From The iron superstructures for the second line of rails this ouch affecting a regard for his welfare and bis family which his own acts over the Keeul, the Hollohur, and the Soane bridges for the interests of y, were in course of shipment from this country. The opening of the Jubbulpore line for public traffic was belied, Barry was not ashamed to obtain the letters which he had inwardly resolved to suppress, postponed by agreement with the Government of giving a " positive assurance that they should be India from June Ito August 1 last, since which date returned." That promise, after various excuses trains had been regularly running; Messrs. Howard Brothers, of Mirzapore, having established a convey and evasions, was deliberately violated, first by Barry himself, and afterwards by his family. They ante between Jubbulpore and Nagpore, passengers hold in their grasp, or have destroyed, a mass of might now proceed from Calcutta and Delhi to letters which would assist the public to decide a Bombay direct, and vice versa via Jubbulpore. The entire journey might be performed in about question of great public interest, and they prefer five days, at a cost of about 231 rupees. The the dishonour of breaking a solemn pledge rather traffic on the Jubbulpore line must necessarily be than give them up. Such a proceeding is simply. small until a junction was effected between this suicidal. One can fancy the amusement and in-' company's line and the system of the Great Irdian dignation which would be excited in any of our law Peninsular Railway Company at Jubbulpore. courts if it should be discovered that one of the The locomotives and rolling stock continued to parties to a suit had suppressed the principal be maintained in good order. The per document by which its merits might be decided, manent way and works had been main after obtaining it from the other side with a so- tamed in efficient order during the half-year at a lemn promise of restoration. If Sir Charles Barry cost of 11d. per train mile. The working expenses had ever possessed the slightest claim to be consi had been 43.97 per cent., against 41.34 per cent. in dered the art-architect of the 'Westminster Palace, the corresponding half-year. The number of passen his own conduct and that of his imprudent rela: gers carried during the past half-year was 16,767 Ist fives would have effectually destroyed it. class, 40,024 2d class, 193,142 intermediate class, In presence of the facts at which we have now 2,199,353 3d class—total, 2,449,286, as against glanced, it may seem superfluous to enter upon a 2,099,737 in the same half of 1866. The tonnage in critical examination of the evidence upon which goods and minerals for the half-year was 515,404 Mr. E. W. Pugin founds his father's claim. That tons, against 399,435 tons in the corresponding half evidence consists chiefly of extracts from his diaries, of 1866. The gross earnings for the half year. and of such letters as the son has been able to ended the 30th June last was £1,213,069, against rescue from destruction. They abundantly c0n £1,067,542 in the corresponding half of last firm—and this is all we could fairly expect from year; and the net earnings £679,596, as com them—the truth which is antecedently demon pared with £626,218 in the same half of last strafed without their aid. There is no need to year. The net earnings had exceeded the gua quote them in detail, even if our space would ranteed interest by 11,21,844r5., one moiety allow us to do so. It will suffice to indicate their of which was payable to the Secretary general scope and tenor. The diaries show that, of State for India in terms of the con during the whole of 1835, 1836, and 1837, Pugin tract with the company. After providing for Sir was incessantly engaged on the work for which M. Stephenson's annuity from the other moiety, Barry was nominally responsible. What was he the balance, plus 7,783r5., brought forward after doing? He was already the most eminent archi paying the extra dividend in January last, remained tect of his time, and though he might be willing, from the passionate love of his art which distin- for division amorg the shareholders ; and the guished him, to undertake all the artistic details Board recommended the payment from this source, of a great national monument, he would have dis- in January next, of a dividend for the half dained to accept any meaner employment in con- year, in addition to the guaranteed interest, at nection with it. The diaries and letters show that, the rate of a half per cent. per annum, free 'of In in fact, he was occupied during a long series of come tax, leaving a small surplus to be years as the sole art-architect of the Westminster carried forward. The receipts for the first 17 Palace. Barry's own letters, few as they are, weeks of the current half-year were in excess of clearly recognize that he was dependent upon his those for the same number of weeks of the corre great ally for the execution of all the details, and sponding half-year by £5,532. The whole of the that he knew it. He was continually receiving from former period, however, had been marked by extreme depression tional drawings," but "working drawings," and for in trade, and the country had the latter, during a series of years, not only " sec been visited by such unusual floods as to render every kind of work, internal and external, " ele- the roads to the railway stations almost impas vations," "seta of exquisite details," and in such sable for heavy traffic. This company, in com profusion that, as Mr. E. W. Pugin observes, they mon with others, was suffering from these ca uses "make up the entire building," excepting only the in reference to merchandise, but the passe n g er traffic was steadily increasing. Acting u p on the mere ground plan. Barry seems to have felt—and borrowing powers of the company, the board had the memory of his former failures in Gothic work issued during the current half-year, for the pur would account for the admission—that Pugin poses of sanctioned works, £ 1 , 000,000 sterling alone could do for him what he was incapable of doing himself, and that without Pugin's aid he in debentures of 4 per cent. It would be neces would have been, as he expressed it, "in a regular sary to raise a similar sum for the same object , fix." Nothing but imperious necessity could have either in shares or debentures, early in the ensuing induced a man in his position to confess, by so six months. The sanctioned works here referred many unambiguous acts, his own incapacity, and to comprised those included in the estimates made to invoke, what he called, Pugin's " 50-horse power by Mr. Rendell and Mr. Power, in 1865 , and the of creation" to save the Houses of Parliament additional rolling stock referred to in the Board's last report. In that report the Board stated from the inevitable ruin which Pugin's genius that the Government of India had sanctioned was alone able to avert. The only plea which Barry's few partizans now an expenditure of £500,000, in addition to those attempt to maintain is one, it must be distinctly estimates ; But as the Board were entirely said, which reflects still deeper discredit upon their opposed to any expenditure which was not conclusively shown to be absolutely necessary to the proceedings. Pugin himself, they urge, did not successful development of the undertaking, and as claim to be the art architect of the houses of they had not been able to satisfy themselves that Parliament ; and they quote a letter, written long after he had actually completed a large part of the the expenditure in question came within th a t cate gory, they had requested Mr. Rendell, their con designs, and of which we fortunately possess his sulting engineer, to proceed to India, thoroughly own explanation, to support their assertion. Now to investigate the whole question on the it can be proved, by a multitude of witnesses, that spot, in communication with the officers of the Pugin did claim, again and again, all that his son company and the Government, and to consider, in claims for him. "He frequently stated to me (in regard to works in contemplation or in course of confidence)," says Mr. Thomas Grieve, "that he execution, whether they should be proceeded with was the designer of the Houses." He even, as many or stopped pending a reference to the board. The of his friends can testify, was in the habit, in con revenue account showed that £1,213,069 had been fidential intercourse, of ridiculing Barry's real posi received during the half-year ending June 30, and tion in connection with the work. "I remember £533,472, or 43.97 per cent. expended, leaving a on one occasion," adds Mr. Grieve, " he said — ' Is not this a regular joke ? Here are two rivals com - balance of £679,596. peting for one prize, and I am making the designs for both.' " Mr. Baldwin Wood and Mr. Francis Shaw confirm the same fact, and are themselves confirmed by other witnesses. Mr. Shaw, to whom Pugin read many of the seventy-six letters of Barry, which have been impounded by the treachery of the latter, declares, partly on the evidence of those letters, and partly on the confidential statements of Pugin himself, that the Westminster Palace " emanated from his conception." So well was this known, and so universally recognized, that the Rev. Mr. Voysey affirms, that " but for his religious be lief," he would have been the official, as he was the real, art-architect of the Houses of Parliament. One word, in conclusion, upon the letter of Sep tember 6th, 1845, upon which the relatives of Barry found their assertion. Mr. Mares, the well known contractor, has already stated in the Times how that letter came to be written, and what was Pugin's own account of it. " Barry is in an awful state," said his too-generous ally, " respecting the reports which have oozed out about my being the architect of the Houses, and he wants me to write a letter to save his reputation ; it is gone if I do not, and I have no alternative." The statement of the Barry family that the letter was a spontaneous act on the part of Pugin is, therefore, simply un true. The real meaning of the letter, which was elicited by Barry's despair, was perfectly under stood at the time by every one interested in the Houses, and implied no denial whatever of Pugin's contributions to them, but was simply a noble effort on his part to save the nominal architect from public confusion. It may be added that, as Pugin was the only living artist who at that time had skill enough to do for Barry what the latter could not do for himself, so he was, perhaps, the only one who had generosity enough to display the delicacy and forbearance for which Barry made so evil a return. This great genius possessed the heart of a little child, and sensitiveness which put him at the mercy of any schemer who chose to practise upon it. "Barry said I must write it," are his own touching words, in speaking after wards of his generous self-sacrifice, " and if I hadn't, the whole thing must have bee" aiven up ; the Houses would have been ruined, and Barry's reputation gone." But there is too much reason to fear that what he suffered from his relations with Barry was one of the causes which determined his final illness, and deprived England of her greatest architect. " I verily believe," says an illustrious artist, J. K. Herbert, whose name will also be associated with the Westminster Palace, " that it mainly led to that melancholy barred dwelling at Kensington, where I left him in the charge of strangers." It only remains for us to thank Mr. E. Welby Pugin for the udicious and temperate manner in which he has defended his father's honour, in which the nation is as much interested as himself. No one can read his pamphlet without being con vinced that his father alone has any claim to be considered the art-architect of the Houses of Par liament ; and we cordially agree with the Rev. Mr. Voysey that " the Barry's will, in the end, alone have to regret that the question has been raised." SCINDE RAILWAY. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Monday at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. P. Andrew in the chair. _ The report of the directors of this company, in• eluding those of the Indus Steam Flotilla, the Pun. jab and the Delhi railways, abstracts of which ap peared in The Sun, were agreed to. OPINION OF THE AMERICAN PRESS ON THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican gives the following admirable summary of the President's Message, which we take credit to ourselves is in substance the same as that we gave on receipt of Reuter's telegram: - " You have failed to restore the Union ! You have done your worst to destroy the Con stitution ! You havo violated your solemn official pledges ! You have passed laws which have been demonstrated to be unconstitutional! You have assumed powers not granted to you! You aro guilty of usurpation, the most dangerous of political crimes You have subverted and destroyed Republican Governments in the South ! You have established a system by which the blacks are to rule the whites! You have done your best to barbarise and Africanise the South ! You have inaugurated the reign of ignorance ! Your measures give evidence of something worse than madness ! And if you persist in them you will ruin the South and make bankrupt the whole country. Now go and repeal your unconstitutional acts at once! The elections show that the people are against you. Retrace your steps! At any rate take no further steps in the path of usurpation, for if you do I shall resist you at the point of the bayonet !" The Tribune is strong in its denunciation of the Message. " The President is charged with a wantonly, untimely, wickedly baleful appeal to out-worn prejudices and dying factions.' Also twice charged with an amazing recklessness in making assertions.' Also once charged with a manifest animus.' Also once charged with stat ing what 'is not the truth."' The writer asserts that 4,000,000 of Southern blacks are and have been true to their country, her authority, her unity, and her flag, and ends by exclaiming, " But why should we proceed to re fute, item by item, assertions and imputations so reck lessly made under the manifest animus of discomfiture and spleen ?" The New York Citizen considers the Message a document of more than average merit in style and diction, and as a State paper dignified, forcible, and lucid, evincing extraordinary spirit, self-reliance, and independence in the writer, and wishes it could also add extraordinary tact and sagacity. With very excellent qualities, Mr. Johnson is not a statesman nor a diplomatist, lacking adroitness, dissimulation, cunning, reticence, and the trained and far seeing vision of the skilled diplomatist. While the M os _ sage shows a plentiful lack of judgment, reading more like the frank and artless avowals of a scientific schoolboy, the logic is incontrovertible, the argument cogent and un answerable. As the whole subject was known to the country through the modern newspaper press, the worn out custom of furnishing annual Messages is useless, being a mere re-hash of stale and obsolete news. The New York Nation thinks " the Message, though it would bo very bad indeed from any one else, is on the whole, we think, the best statement of his peculiar opinions Mr. Johnson has put forth—in tone and temper by far the best; and we have no hesitation in saying that had he adhered to this mode of putting his opinions on record from the beginning, and, while arguing against negro suffrage, had given the smallest indication of a desire to do anything for the negroes except leave them in the power of their old masters, he would have not only served himself, but have made the position of the Repub lican party very much more difficult than it has been during the last two years." The Washington correspondent of the Pull Mull Gazette says the tone of the President's Message is believed to indicate that ho felt himself safe from impeachment at the time it was written. It has exceedingly exasperated Congress, and for the first time in the history of the coun try the motion. to print the usual number of the President's Message was met by a violent opposition. The ability of the Message is generally conceded, and the greater part of it is ascribed ,by the Radicals to the Hon. Jeremiah S Black, who acknowledged in his testimony before the Judiciary Committee to having written the greater part of the Veto of the Congressional Reconstruction Act. The Standard's correspondent asserts that " the bold po ition assumed by the President in threatening to defend ' certain rights' when assailed, has exasperated the extreme men, and the most disgraceful language has been used in speaking of the Executive. During the reading of the Message in the Senate the clerk (M‘Pherson) made grimaces, drawled out the words, indulged in ridiculous gestures, &c.—thus am sing the dignified Radicals—until Senator Johnson (of Maryland) rose and protested against such insulting conduct on the part of a mere servant. A few Republican newspapers are sufficiently candid to ad mit that the Message is an able State paper, and well con sidered, but the majority of the Republican journals are fiercely attacking it and its author. However, the judg meut of the public is that the President has the best of the quarrel." NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. In consequence of a confidential communica tion received by the naval authorities at Chatham. from Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in- C hief at the N ore, ex tra precautions have been adopted by Captain W. 11. Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, in conjunction with Capt. the Ilon. A. A. Cochrane, commanding the Steam Reserve, for the safety of the naval establishments and the various vessels of war belonging to the Steam Re' serve, as well as other ships in the harbour. Yes terday and on the previous days a number of sea men from the Royal Naval Barracks were draughted to the Glocester, 50, receiving ship, as well as to other vessels in harbour, for the purpose of increas ing the number of seamen on board in each vessel. The lieutenant-ship Diana, 42, has been removed further down the harbour, below the dockyard, for, it is understood, precautionary reasons. Increased vigilance is also observed by the river police belong ing to the dockyard, in conjunction with the river Medway police of the city of Rochester, in over hauling any boats seen rowing about the harbour after nightfall. No attack on any of the naval or military establishments at Chatham is expected, but the authorities are not relaxing any vigilance to guard against a sudden surprise. The screw gun vessel Espoir, 5, 80 horse power, Captain Mountford S. L. Peile, recently returned to England from the West Coast of Africa, having been stripped and dismantled, was yesterday put out of commission and paid off into the third division of the Steam Reserve in the Medway, under the su perintendence of the officials belonging to the dock yard and Steam Reserve, the continuous service men belonging to the crew being granted the cus tomary period of absence. The Espoir has been in commission rather more than three years, Captain (then Commander) Peile having hoisted his pennant at her mainmast on the Ist November, 1861. During the time the Espoir has been in coin mission she has been employed exclusively on the 'Vest African Coast, and was very successful in putting down the slave trade which is carried on along the Gold and Slave Coast, principally by vessels sailing under the Portuguese flag. From the length of time the Espoir has been in commis sion she has lost several of her crew, chiefly from sickness and from being invalided home. Of the officers who originally sailed from England in the Espoir only two besides the captain returned with her--viz., Mr. John Lambert, assistant-surgeo n, and Mr. Arthur M. Wade, assistant-paymaster in charge. Foreign Dian PaoEat List. MAILS DUE. - Australia and New Zealand. via Southamptos.......Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles ..... 13. Ditto, via Panama trivtit, Buenos A.yres, and Nlonte Video .... Jan. 5. Ditto, by French pack-. papa Verde. by Brazil pacxet - 5 . .papa of Good Elope, A.94eakon. and it. itoieita _DO; 13 hma, Peamt:4. and Slug spurt:. via Son• imptoa Jan 3 Ditto, via Ilarseithts •WO Doc. 23 Fatitiaad 151and5...... ..itbraitar. via Southaapton India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es Halts, ,4ypt„tr,tr,. ............ Ditto, Marseilles....... nauritins, Cape of Good ILipe, and Natal, via Southampton Ditt mart-ales J a n. 13. ewfouudla Lt. Jan. 13 Portugal Jan. 5 Ditto, by pr le ship to Oporto ... Ditto -tto to Lisbon United States, suada, California, Sac., by British racket _ Dec. • 6 Ditto, by I_ c ited States packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto 'l , 4w York) Ditto ditt t (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe......Jan. 3 West Indies and Pajfic (except Mexico and Baha mas) Dec. 3° ' Cub t and Alexico Bahamas, via New York Bermuda, via Halifax THE SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB.—This ultib ;1 1 / 4 still adheres to its old practice, that of giving a s" medal to be swum for in a 100 yards handicap, which toe 1 ‘ Ate place for the fourth time yesterday morning, when, de.9r„, the coldness of the atmosphere, no less than eight of t.'" eleven entered were game enough to start. J. liaison wh° had 15 seconds allowed him, held the lead for about thi rt y yards ; here W. G. Taplin, 12, came up, and they r ace together till within twenty yards of the finish, when thel t began to diminish their speed, and T. J. Collard, 1 2 , O a in front and eventually won by half a yard only;ii 1/73r • dge" 4, second, and Whyte third. Mr. Halsey officiat ed as Ju - and Mr. 11. Woodstock was the starter. [AnvmaisEmENT. j--Holloway's Pills and Oinan- - During the piercing winds and excessive variation of t.3,bet perature every one is more or less liable to disease e l ., et, in the interior or at the surface. Throat, chest, 11•_evei bowels, kidneys, and skin all suffer in some degree, 3by may be relieved by rubbinc , in this ointment aide, d f a il proper doses of the pills; ° for administering whie',olo directions surround every box; in truth, any on e th oroug hly masters Holloway's "instructions" will io *t o modying diseases exchange the labour of an hour for 1 0 ,3 profit of a lifetime. All bronchial, pulmonary, and resit disorders require that the ointment should be thoreeg it well rubbed upon the skin twice a day with great reg larity, considerable briskness, and much p e rsistence. v I, VERTISEMENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt the ,a' properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ar'io,s4 Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blesseeti it has already received from Invalids whose positio n hadv'oe• deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the , ea rs whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirtY.),,,ette of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " ( 1; 1 a du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The 10. 5 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandons rl B Der" other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to DO w eir' Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P. Ac i9 ,l at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bellr ,1 3 10 effect on his healtk, and his Holiness cannot prs,i'„ut excellent food too highly." We extract a few i '`,`„ o os B more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Mare iv ica y, do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting bah debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all 0' 7 % . fle a digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolers. Wevr vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Deell,ss l; Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N ° ' üb ae o l " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia., evoss, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, si eirp obe r ci, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James OOO., of Frimlcy, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spittin,%tiolic,o liver derangement, and partial deafness Important tf_, Lt it atior, Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy aeu" to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is 1 11 °° ciously attached 1 1 ° / 1 In tins at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s Od. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d:. 5 / 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BA.RRY Do BARRY and Cno,, itegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason , 182 r and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapsido; 63, 150istg Oxford-street: 330 Strand; and all grocers and clunn Births. Wi le FRASER—On the 21th inst., at 31, Rutland -gate, the of Captain Keith Fraser, Ist Life Guards, of a e ol3 ', the LAND—On the 23d inst., at 93, Cannon-street, Cit." wife of Mr. John Land, Q.C., of a daughter. ' tips SEDDON On the 24th inst, at MeclwayVilla,q NOW — sor ton, Chatham, the wife of Captain H. C. Se da° ° ' Engineers, of a son. Marriages. ~ v iCCcV CLARKE—ADAMS — On the 19th inst., at St. James'-: ftt.,.: t dilly, Charles Mansfield Clarke, Lsq., Captain 5 7 t. d i , l'i,' ment, to Gemma Cecilia, only child of the late Willft,',oll`' Adams her Majosty's Charge d'Affaires an d Genera ' l to the Republic of Peru. 1C .4 4.0 0 .,,0 IfuNTER —WELLS —On the 19th inst., at Sai ,, n , eo . -1- ,i ' Church, Well-street, 11. J. Hunter, Esq., li ter '''' .. o 1 J' - * barrister-at-law, to Louisa Mary, daug - Wells, Esq., of Lansdowne-place. . _ Deaths. , 2 )° s' ELLIS—Oa the 21st inst., Robert Ellis, Esq., 0, - le lo6 downe-crescent, Notting-hill, and the RectorY F• St. Michael's, Cornhill. , roa cl .,Tfl" HARTWELL—On the 23d inst., at 31, 13E 4 g °- e p - ;or P ' Hartwell, Esq., formerly of Laleham, and a J.' • ' dlesex, aged 83. ItoP's eh ROSSER— On the 23d inst., at Kensington, Elizabeth aged 89. , Oiti' 0 ,, TURNER— On the 22d inst, at 26 , Wormwood-sfre Mr. Samuel Turner, aged 67. -- - ,NVitii , London : Printed and Published by WILLT.A3I 4 " -- to ' o f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Titß SUN 01110°'00,04 Strand, in the Precinct of the Se.voy, ill 03° laiddloox.--Thuralu, DecOniber 26, 1847. AVI'E After L After I After A After After S After ,flier S After F _,*den Sin T ITE LUNCH] Iligh-cla &c. Privy SENT OFF 1 On and P.U L to On JIN Tuis eel Prize Medi, It is Fur cold in tho Ag.nn C Observe han's LL m UTI RUSSI D'ANCE'S : 1,110. or Le: able werkl2 Forms free ARGY This Inv having bee by Messrs. for the AU Solo Comae 111 AD / A Life-si; ABYSSINI. P.;l::.,ilud, A Boxing-day Holidays. f. Is.; childre All 1 PO: added to th in the morn the mornin; years of ag( rti I II ft During TION froi ENFERS, MERRY Principa henry; 111 Pull Band Pa . 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