The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Times has no doubt that Mr. Gladstone was per fectly justified when he said that, if the landlords of Ire. land were consulted on the course to be pursued with reference to the Irish Land Bill, their cry would be " Pass the Bill." The bill as it is, he declared, does so little violence to the feelings of the landowners of Ireland that they desire to have it passed, and the Government cannot consent to allow its principle to be in any degree attenu ated. We rejoice at the resolution. It is, indeed, an occasion for declaring that there is a limit to the indulgence to be accorded to conscientious unintelligence. The bill goes to the House of Lords, and will be passed by them without substantial alteration. There are some provisions f in it which must be amended, and others which will doubtless be expunged. but they are for the most part in the nature of additions, which have been hastily made to the original scheme, and are capable of being removed without injury to it. The main principles of the measure are few and un t alterable. The circum stances of Ireland compel an intervention of the Stat to protect the tenant 'from the conse quences -of his own improvidence. If this be recorg iakked„ the essence of the bill is conceded ; if it be not raognised, no necessity- for any bill whatever is proved. Ireland is at present under the system of free edutragt,.ws.t,h what conseq uences we see. I t h as b ecome 00 *.kra.4113 ) ' 140,re apparent that the I r i s h p eo pl e are not eLupi,liiied to possess this amount of liberty, and the bill accepts the confession, and provides a remedy for the evils it acknowledges. What the Government has pro posed is that the coercive restriction upon freedom of contract shall endure for 20 years, and " thereafter until Parliament "shall otherwise determine ;" but, though this in itself gives us little hope of terminating a condition in itself so undesirable, we may cherish the belief that the influences which have improved the state of Ireland— with certain vicissitudes, indeed, but still as a whole con tinuously and progressively during the last twenty years —will remain in operation, so that before another period of twenty years shall have elapsed the fetters imposed by the Act will have dropped off by natural disuse. The Standard says that the House of Commons has completed the most important work of the session in having read the Irish Land Bill a third time. The language of Mr. Gladstone in regard to possible amend ments in the Upper House was not of an encouraging nature. His tone was not like that of Mr. Maguire, actually threatening, but it was decidedly dictatorial, peremptory, and somewhat offensive. Indeed, he went as near as parliamentary decency would allow to an actual declaration that no amendment of importance would be accepted at the hands of the Upper House. It is for the leaders of that House to con sider how they will deal with a measure sent up to them in such a spirit, and accompanied by such a warning. Of one thing we are quite certain—that the tendency of such language as Mr. Gladstone addressed to an assembly of English gentlemen, so far as it has any in fluence at all, is not to discourage but to excite re sistance, that it rouses, not merely the passions but the dignity and self-respect of those who are so admonished against an insolent dictation ; and if a collision between the Houses should unhappily occur, and if the bill should thus belost,events which, till Mondaynight, we considered as lying outside the bounds of political probability— the 'thief if not the only source of that calamity will be the imperious temper and the overweening and overbearing spirit of the First Minister of Crown. THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BILL. Tile Poet considers the blot in the High Court of Jus tice Bill is that it confers far higher powers, and, in fact, leaves to the Privy Council to determine what shall be the nature 'of the High Court, its functions, and its pecu liar jurisdiction. The objections taken by the Lord thief Justice to such a course have not been met by any of the amendments introduced by Lord Hatherley, and the bill still remains open to the same objections as when first laid on the table of the House of Lords. When the bill was committed Lord Westbury and Lord Cairns quitted the House, and the various clauses were assented to witl. nit even the show of criticism or opposition. It is, qowever, apparent that a measure th us p asse d b y t h e Upper House cannot and should not command the confidence of the public. No one can ignore the services which those noble and learned lords would have rendered in dealing with the bill in Committee, and every one must feel that it was only under a sense of imperative duty that they took so exceptional a course. It is certainly unfortunate that two of the ablest lawyers sitting on opposite sides of the House should have entered so sielifi cant a protest against this most important measure, and it might be well for the Government to consider whether, looking to all the circumstances of the case, it will be wise to attempt carrying the bill any further this session. On the motion for the third reading Lord Cairns will un questionably move its rejection, and the circumstances under which it has been carried through Committee will not improbably induce many to give him their support. BLACKWOOD ON LOTHAIR. The Telegraph denounces Blackwood's criticism on " Lothair " as the most ungrateful production that ever illustrated the caprice of party men, and the fate reserved for all great natures who lend their talents to faction. A. hundred times in those same pages, the ability and eloquence, the policy and labours of " the leader of the Tory party " have been lauded in terms which were no doubt extravagant. They discovered nothing to blame, these time-serving critics, in their master's books, or their master's blood when he led them over the r u i ns o f Mr. Gladstone's. Deform Bill to power and pelf. They were silent enough when he ruled the coun try as Premier, entertaining Royalty, and seated, by his own audacious genius, in heights from which his splendour warmed the ranks to which he had lent the use of his brains ; but the creatures which thus plague a lion that has not lost his strength may yet find themselves taught decency. Mr. Disraeli's career is not ended ; and some once numbered in the ranks of his "party" have perhaps shewn him a little prematurely what fate is reserved among them for great wen worn out in alien duties. He cannot alter his name and extraction, nor take back the lavish gifts of eloquenet end generalship with which he has, in past years, en riched their losing cause ; but he may find before his close the occasion for a " noble penitence;" and, if that occasion come, to seize it would be but a ju s t an d honour able revenge, by which he might, perhaps, teach those who stand by " Church and State" a little more caution, reverence, and decorum, together with that which Jew and Gentile alike understand by the " grand old name of gentleman." COUNTY MAGISTRATES. The Daily News thinks that Mr. Gladstone's answer to Mr. Cross will completely remove the painful impression caused by the appointment of Mr. Fenwick and Mr. Schneider to the magistracy in the Duchy of Lancaster. The Government made only partial amends for a political blunder by immediately cancelling the appointments ; it has now made complete amends by abolishing the system which made such blunders possible. The ordinary method in the appointment of county magistrates is that they shall be recommended by the Lord-Lieutenant, and ap pointed by the Lord Chancellor on such recommendation. But in the Duchy of Lancaster, which has a Chancellor of its own, the recommendation of the Lord-Lieutenant has lately been dispensed with, and the Chancellor of the Duchy has made the appointments on his own responsibility. Mr. Gladstone now announces that the old system has been restored, and that henceforth the magistracy of the Duchy, like that of other counties, will be appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy on the recommendation of the Lord-Lieutenant. Lord Dufferin is to be congratu lated on the change. The Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, as a merely historical office, does not be stow on the politician who fills it any knowledge of the county and its needs. The Lord-Lieutenancy, on the contrary, is usually held by an inhabitant of the county, who has every opportunity of knowing something of the persons who may be recommended for the magisterial bench. It is therefore most desirable that so long as the Great Unpaid are nominated at all they should be nomi nated on the old custom ; and it is to be hoped that the custom will not be departed from till neither town mag nates nor country gentry any longer administer amateur justice for their own amusement, but town and country alike rejoice in a responsible and official magistracy. THE MODERN STAGE. Has the influence of the French school of acting, asks the Daily News, proved on the whole beneficial to the English stage during the last few y ears ? Wh en we spea k of French acting, we are too apt to forget that there is bad as - well as good French acting, and that between some English actingand some French acting the difference is in the kind rather than in the degree of badness, and, that there are conventional vices and absurdities peculiar to the French as there are others peculiar to the English tradition and school of acting. Nevertheless it cannot be be• doubted that the best dramatic art is to be seen in France, that is, in Paris ; though even in Paris the same causes which have operated to the deterioration of dramatic art in England have not been wanting. An eminent German actor, who was in London two years since, remarked that the most popular company in London appeared to imitate ama teurs performing a drawing-room charade. There was Cie same self-consciousness, the same indifference to dramatic illusion, the same familiarity with the audience, the sa me trivial disposition to burlesque. The observation, if some what hypercritical, was not unwarranted. There is a new school of young English actors who seem to mis take inartistic weakness for simplicity, the absence of all art for truth to nature, and languid impertinence for high-bred ease. In short, dramatic art they have none. Of the manifold requirements of that most difficult of arts, of the veritable instinct, the vivid sensi bilities, and the disciplined mastery of emotion in its in terpretation they have not the faintest idea. Not only do they commit absurd improprieties in attempting to realise their own conceptions of real life, but whenever they are not speaking they cease to act at all. As t o li s t en i ng, or filling up the scene with appropriate and intelligent by play, they think it much more natural to stare at the stalls or to " gag " for the gallery. In all these respects a lesson is to be learned from the leading members of the French company now performing at the Princess's, and we trust that it will be heeded. A f - lUSSIAN MILLIONAIRE. — The Russian noble man, Count Koucheleff, a man of enormous wealth, and a well-kn Own amateur of art, has just died suddenly at St. Petersburg, from the effects of an apoplectic attack. By his will his vast properties pass to his nephew, and his brother-in-law, the famous spiritualist medium, Mr. Douglas Home, derives no benefit from that document. CLOSE OF TILE REICHSRATH.—The North German Gazette has an article on the close of the Reichsrath, which states that the expectations of those who predicted the failure 'of that assembly have been disappointed. 1 t must be admitted that great progress has been made during the last three years with respect to new politic institutions. A backward glance at the measures which have been passed by the Federal Parliament can well I hpr a justify nt th has oome e remark of pommy," a Southern man of the people, ! LAW AND POLICE. EXCITING SCENE IN COURT.—In connection with the case of Roe, a lunatic, a very unusual scene occurred on Friday in the Irish Court of Chancery. A conditional order had been made some time since that an attachment should issue against Miss Ellen Roe, sister of James ROe, a lunatic, if she did not give him up to the guardian ap pointed by the court. Mr. Morgan Cavanagh argued that his client was always ready to give up the lunatic, and had him then in court for that purpose. The Lord Chancellor directed him to be given up to Mr. Nicholas Roe, the guardian appointed by his lordship. The poor fellow, on hearing this, clung to his sister, and wept bitterly. H e d ec l are d h e wou ld rat h er die than leave her. The guardian proceeded to remove him, and a desperate scene of dragging, pulling, and screaming ensued. The Lord Chancellor was obliged to leave the bench, and ordered the court to be cleared, which was done with great difficulty. THE RIGHTS OF YEARLY SERVANTS.—A case connected with the affairs of the late Marquis of Hastings came before Mr. Church, the chief clerk, at Rolls' Chambers. A claim was made by Mr. Ward, who had been the Marquis' agent in the management of his estates, at a salary of £350 a year ; and the contentiou was whether he was a yearly servant, and entitled to six months' notice at the end of the year. Mr. Church held that the hiring was yearly, and that Mr. Ward was entitled to proper notice at the end of the year, when he was entitled to the full salary. He allowed £5 ss. for costs. A CONVICTION THIRTY YEARS OLD.—A singular appli cation has been made in the Court of Queen's Bench, the object being to get rid of the result of a conviction for perjury nearly thirty years ago. So long ago as 1841 the applicant, who was clerk to an attorney, made a statement on oath in the course of some law proceeding which was untrue. He was indicted for perjury, and convicted, but strongly recommended to mercy by the jury, on the ground that he had been under pressure from his employer who was defendant in the cause tried. He was called upon to enter into recognisances to come up for judgment when called upon—the usual form for avoiding a sentence. The applicant had never been called upon, and the pro secutor now being dead, it was not likely he would be, as his representatives concurred in the application. The court granted a rule nisi. A curious feature in the case was that the case was uriginally tried in the same court as now, Mr. Justice Coleridge being the judge, while Sir John Coleridge, Solicitor-General, now makes the • appli cation. ACTION AGAINT THE COUNTESS D'ALTEYRAC. The case of Geoghegan v. D'Alteyrac ._was tried before Mr. Justice Brett, and a common jury, in the Court of Com mon Pleas, at Westminster. The plaintiff, Mr. Michael John Geoghegan, was the solicitor to the Countess D'Alteyrac, who went through the Bankruptcy Court last year, after her unsuccessful suit against the hereditary Grand Chamberlain, with whom she had lived for some years under a marriage, which was subsequently found to be invalid. Mr. Geoghe,, ,, an's bill of costs up to August last, when her ladyship changed her solicitor, amounted to £l2O 3s. 10d., and of this he had rece i ve d £25, leaving a balance of £95 3s. 10d. He now threw off three guineas for possible,error in calculating cab-hire, and asked for £92. The bill was presented in October, and in April last the defendant had promised to pay the balance, but had failed to do so. Some disappointment was expe rienced by the non-appearance of the Countess to defend. His lordship told the jury that they would not be much wiser if they saw the bill of costs, for no man living could understand such a thing unless he should be an attorney himself. He directed a verdict for the amount sought. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly. THE SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION PETITION.—The ques tion of the taxation of election petitions has been raised in the Court of Common Pleas. A rule was moved for on the ground that the master had allowed too much in his taxation of the costs in the Southampton election case. The Recorder of London had obtained a rule on the ground that too little had been obtained for his costs on petition. On the peti tion being heard, the Recorder and Mr. Hoare defended separately, and the petition was dis missed with costs. The petitioners now complained that the master had allowed too much on the taxation of Mr. Hoare's bill of costs. The whole claim was £5,643, the master had taxed off £3,539, and had allowed £2,104. He had allowed £367 10s. for instructions for brief. Mr. Hoare had subpoenaed 303 witnesses, 104 of whom had been disallowed as immaterial. One of the objections raised was that 45 of the Witnesses had been subpoenaed by the Recorder and Mr. Hoare, and the Master had allowed their full costs in both bills, so that they had been paid twice over. As it did not appear on the affidavits what sum had been paid these witnesses, the matter was adjourned until they had been awarded. The IDENTITY OF A MARE.—An action Was brought in the Court of Common Pleas respecting the identity of a mare which was stolen from the defendant more than a year ago. He prosecuted a "gentleman named Dredge" for stealing the animal, and obtained a convic tion. He afterwards got the mare back, and the plaintiff now claimed her as his property. The question was, was the mare in the defendant's possession was the one stolen from the defendant or one stolen from himself. The plaintiff called several witnesses, and said the mare recognised him when he spoke to her. A verdict for £25 was given for the plaintiff—the sum to be reduced to a shilling if the animal were given up. A TAILOR BUILT M.—A tailor named Thomson recently obtained £4O damages against Mr. Hill, a builder, fur depriving him of the light necessary for his trade. The case has now been carried to the Court of Common Pleas. It appeared that defendant had built a new house in the court in which plaintiff resided and had run it up some sixty feet higher than plaintiff's cottage. As the court was only seven or eight feet in width, the light was obstructed, and plaintiff's business fell off, so that from earning 455. per week he was reduced to penury. The Lord Chief Justice observed that builders frequently ran uy their houses in this way, regardless of the interests of neighbouring parties, and running the chance of mak ing some subsequent arrangement. The court sustained the verdict. IMPRISONMENT OF SUNDAY GAMBLERS. —Henry Hutchin son and Thomas Carr were charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court with playing at pitch and toss at Clerkenwell and St. Luke's. The police proved that the defendants were playing at pitch and toss and making use of bad language. The inhabitants complained greatly of the nuisance occasioned by Sundaygamblingin the streets. The defendants admitted looking on at the gambling, but denied that they were themselves tossing. Mr. Cooke said the cases were proved to his satisfaction. He then sentenced each of the defendants to three days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The defendants asked that a fine might be inflicted, but the application was refused. ILLEGAL FISHING. —A man named Zachariah Talbot has been charged at Windsor with using a " trimmer" to take fish in the Thames, contrary to the bye-laws of the Thames Conservators. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s. and costs. Two men were charged with a similar offence, and a small fine inflicted. The Conservators are anxious to put a stop to the illegal fishing that goes on in summer-time. WELSH " BUNDLING. "—A case heard at the Aberyst with County Court revealed a custom among Welsh ser vants that would be more honoured in the breach than the observance. Two young men, farm servants, sued Mr. Charles Jeffreys, a gentleman of independent means, for an assault. Each of the plaintiffs laid the damages at £5O. It appears to be the frequent custom for Welsh servant girls to invite their lovers to the houses of their employers after the family have gone to rest. In the present instance, Williams and Jenkins visited the housemaid and cook of Mr. Jeffrey's, and were smuggled up stairs into the girls' bedroom, at nine o'clock, the latter joining them -at ten. The men lay on the bed with their coats off chatting to the girls, which interesting occupa tion in Wales, goes under the name of " bundling," About three o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Jeffrey was awoke by hearing strange voices, and alarmed her husband, who on making a search, found the plaintiffs hiding under the bedclothes. On being discovered they rushed downstairs, followed by Mr. Jeffreys, who bela boured them most unmercifully, so much so, in fact, that the nose of one of them was broken, and both received such a castigation that they were obliged to seek medical advice and assistance. With some severe strictures on the immoral tendency of the custom, the judge left the case to the jury, who considered the plaintiffs bad been the subjects of unnecessary violence, and gave them £l5 each, with full costs. The. Huntingdon Race Committee have decided, in consequence of the action of the authorities with regard to the forthcoming Epsoni meeting, not to let any of the land on the racecourse for list betting. This will entail a considerable loss on the committee, the land so let having produced over £4OO per annum. The subject of " Union with other Presbyterian Churches " was discussed in the Established Assembly yesterday, a resolution being carried expressive of the Assembly's desire to promote the union of all Churches having acommon origin and adhering t) the same confes sion of Faith. The Assize Court of Naples has delivered its sen tence upon the band of brigands which captured Mr. Moens and Mr. Murray. The chief, Manzi, and two others are condemned to death, nine of the prisoners are sentenced to penal servitude for life, three to twenty-one years' imprisonment, and one to twenty years. The Derby Memorial Statue Fund is being sub scribed to not merely by his own political followers but by those who entertained different political views to those of the late earl. Many of the great city companies have already subscribed to the fund, and the Marquess of West minster has offered to subscribe the sum of £5O. At Leeds Police-court yesterday, Mr. Bruce, stipen diary magistrate, handed to the chief constable a threaten ing letter he had received, The letter accuses Mr. Bruce of not doing justice to the working classes; and states that he must " look out, or he may b e shot some fine day." Mr. Bruce expressed his belief that the letter had been written by some one of a higher position than working men. A. great sensation has been produced in Belgium by the acquittal of a writer charged with defamation against the managers of the Financial Societies, directed by M. Langrand-DumOnceau. At the close of the trial new prosecutions were entered into against the managers, and the books and papers of the incriminated societies were seized. This strange affair has excited the greatest curiosity in the Belgian capital. The action. for libel, brought by Mr. Edmunds against the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, the Right Hon. James Stansfeld, and the IZight Hon. George Alexander Hamilton, alleged to have been published by them in a Treasury Minute, arising out of the late arbitration in this came diet)). ,e will come on for trial at the sittings after the present Term, before a scial jury, at Guildhall, in the Co ur t o f Common Plea.g. The (Imago are laid at MOM THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1870 ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, referring to the Bill for the Repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, says : - If Archbishop Manning returns from Rome, as is expected, with a cardinal's hat, he will, on being presented at Court by the Duke of Norfolk, claim to take precedence not only of his Grace as premier peer of England, but of Archbishop Tait as premier prelate. As Prince of a foreign State, this would not so much provoke comment ; and as the law now stands it could only be in that capacity that he could be received. But the Government Bill L ow pending in the House of Lords will remove the style and title of Archbishop of Westminster ; and he will consequently present himself as Cardinal Arch bishop thereof. At present Cardinal Cullen takes pre cedence at the viceregal court and table of the Duke of Leinster, the primate, and the Chancellor of Ireland. But he is not recognised, and cannot be by the law as it stands, as Archbishop of Dublin. When the Titles Act shall have been repealed, he will as a matter of course assume that appellation, and thus the same question will be raised, in all probability on both sides of the Channel. CZECH NOTIONS OF AUSTRIA'S FUTURE. The New Free Press of Vienna says that a curious memorandum on the present Austrian crisis has been pre sented to Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne at Paris, by the well-known Czech leader, Dr. Rieger. In this document the political aims of the Czechs are described as the re storation of an independent Bohemian kingdom, comprising Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia, and the subse quent annexation to this kingdom of Prussia Silesia, the Lansitz, and the Slovak districts of Hungary. These objects, Dr. Rieger thinks, cannot be attained by revolutionary agitation, but only by a war in which Austria would become the ally of France against Prussia. The first consequence of such an alliance would, he thinks, be the restoration of the Bohemian kingdom, which would in that case be the natural ally of France, as they would both have the same enemy—Prussia, and the French armies could arrive in Bohemia more rapidly than those of Prussia could at Frankfort. SE WARDS BIRTHDAY. AUBURN, May 16. Some fifty young ladies of Wells College, Aurora, arrived here to-day, accompanied by Henry Wells, Presi dent, and other officers of the College, to visit Mr Seward, on this the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birthday. After a collation Mr. Seward dismissed the young ladies with a pleasant speech, and turning to Mr. Wells, and the friends who had assembled to witness the festivity, said : " Mr. Henry Wells—l give you my sincere thanks for this new and most touching demonstration of a life-long friendship. Many years—more than thirty years —ago, you came to me in the Legislature in Albany every week in your periodical arrivals from New York to 'meourage me in studies which seemed too arduous for one so inexperienced . as I was. On the other hand, I encouraged you in laying the simple foundations of a commercial institution which, under your persevering care and. management, has since crowned you with riches, while it has increased the wealth and prosperity of the United States and many foreign countries. How little did I know then, or for a long time afterward, that the riches you were then accumu lating were being laid up in store, not for your self, family, or successors, but for the nation and mankind, I knew you first as Henry Wells, the assiduous special carrier; I greet you now as Henry Wells, a public benefactor. This fact might teach, }is how hazardous are the judgments which we pronounce upon contemporaries in active life. What a crowd of tlitughts the very men tion of an improved system of fem'ale education suggests ! We are a people of forty millions, moving on to become quite soon four hundred millions. We are - classified in more than forty states and territories—theoretically fra ternal, but practically distrustful, sometimes inimical, and lately, I lament to say, hostile. We are separated from ' neighbouring countries byprejudices, jealousies, and hates ' hardly less than by mountains, lakes, rivers, and seas. We seem to be equally unwilling that they shall be united with us, or that they shall be dependent on any other Power, or even that they shall be independent. Our public councils are confused and passionate. We seem to be incapable of willing our national will without tur bulence, and working ohr national work without vio lence and war. Leaving'unsaid everything that concerns extension of the Republic, it is manifestly the mission of the United States to harmonise these several civilisa tions of the American continent and blend them into one. They have already attained great similarity. All the American States are Christian, and practically they are all Republican nations, with universal suffrage of all sects and conditions of men. Although some of these States still retain loose commercial and political connections with Europe, it is nevertheless true that only American ideas, generated and fostered in the United States, pervade the continent, and only American systems of commerce find a secure place upon it. We all know that Christianity is charity, and that republics re quire peace and fraternity. There must be a fault in our education. Everybody holds that intellectual education is an indispensable condition of universal suffrage. No education can be complete for our national purposes that cares for the mind only and leaves the heart untrained. Man may perhaps train the mind successfully, but the heart must run wild. That is denied the assiduous and tender care of women. That education, there fore, is not universal which unequally trains the two sexes. No education is effectual which is conducted exclusively in schools, colleges, and univer sities, leaving ignorance and prejudice,i bigotry and vice, at the fireside and in the family circle. It is there that the child is most - inquisitive, and of course it is the mother who always dwells there, who chiefly must give him the knowledge he solicits. The education of woman, however it may be allowed to differ in regard to the faculties cul tivated, must, nevertheless, be as extensive and as thorough, at least, as the education of man. Society is continually protesting against our inattention to these great but simple truths. We have everywhere, at home and abroad, questions of woman's rights, wrongs, powers and prerogatives, and of the proper balance of the sexes in social life and in the State. Whatever may be the course or end of these debates, I think you may rest as sured, Mr. Wells, that the proceedings which you have taken in founding a corporate university for the thorough education of women separately, to be conducted by women alone, is a practical, bold advance in the right direction. May your days be prolonged to witness its beneficial re sults of instruction and example." TRADE AND NAVIGATION. The accounts of the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom for the four months ending 30th April, 1870, have just been published among the parliamentary papers. They are divided under several heads—articles free of duty, articles subject to duty, computed real value of principal articles imported, exports of British and Irish produce, and their declared value, shipping and articles charged with excise duties. The variations in the import of corn are considerable. In the four months ending April 30th, 1868, the imports of corn were 1,796,431 cwts. In the same period of 1869 they rose to 4,179,910, and in this year they were 2,719,069, while barley and oats chewed little variation in the three pears. The import of raw cotton, which dimi nished by 700,000 in 1869 as compared with 1868, increased one million cwts. between 1869 and 1870. The import of paper, which was only 77,898 cwt. in 1868, was this year 109,833 cwt. The imports of iron and steel have some what increased, while silver ore has fallen from £36,416 value to £11,244. Silk has largely increased, and timber diminished. West India sugars shew fluctuations proving that the trade stands in need of the changes introduced by Mr. Lowe's last budget. The exports of British and Irish produce shew page after page of closely printed figures whose amounts and Whose declared money value are reckoned in many instances by millions. The total amount of cotton yarn exported in the first four months of 1870 was 0,475,167, and its declared value £4,876,900. The declared value of the 2,053,777 lbs. of cotton manufactures exported in the same time was £18,170,056. Less gratifying is it to find under the head of duty paid spirits that the total quantity "retained in the United Kingdom as beverage only" is steadily increasing being in 1868, 4,963,856 gallons, and in 1870 5,422,232 gallons. ACCIDENT IN RICHMOND PARK. On Saturday evening as a party of six gentlemen were taking a drive through Richmond Park, in a drag drawn by four horses, one of the leaders took fright, kicked against a tree, and twisted round towards the drag, which was overturned with much force. All the gen tlemen were.thrown out, and were more or less seriously injured. One who had fractured his leg, and another who was less seriously injured, were taken to the Castle Hotel. Another who had received a severe fracture of the skull, was taken to the Richmond Infirmary, where he still lies in a very dangerous state. The gentleman suffer'ng from fracture of the skull is Mr. G. Hodder. who is well known in literary circles ; the one who broke his leg is Mr. Allen, also a literary gentleman. Mr. Beales is the name of the other gentle man, who was taken to the Castle. The drag was driven by Captain Haworth, who, although injured, returned to to town the same night. Captain Haworth's son was also in the vehicle. The Rev. Joseph Baly, son-in-law to the late rector, the Bev. W. J. Coope, has been appointed to the living of Fahnouth, which is in the patronage of the family. SIR HARRY PARKES.—It is reported in the East that Sir Harry Parkes, the present British Minister for Japan, is likely to be accredited to Pekin. At the request of the Government of Victoria no newspapers, book-packets, or packets of patterns, ad dressed to that colony will, until further notice, be forwarded by the route of San Francisco and New. Zealand. THE LEADERS OF THE FENIAN RAID ON CANADA. —A. correspondent informs us that " General " O'Neill was apprenticed to the business of a house painter in Clonmel, and that " General " Gleason was in 1848 serv ing in the Irish constabulary and stationed at Donny brook. —Post. The dispute between the Blochairn men and their employers, which has brought about the lock-out in the Scotch iron trade, is to be referred to arbitration. The employers are said to be willing t o acce pt th e d ec i s i on o f the arbiters as final and binding, if the men will guarantee to resume-work as soon as it is given. LEGAL EDUCATION.—A law contemporary believes that the legal education scheme of the committee on which Mr. Quain,Q.C., and others are engacred is now virtually ready for issue, and may be expected to be placed before the public almost immediately. The committee recom mend a certain modification of the scheme, formerly pro posed by Mr. Jevons ; and it is intended to introduce a bill before the end of the present parliamentary session. "A strange movement" is said to have began in Ireland among the professional and academic classes in favour of the greater localisation of the powers of Government in domestic matters. A conference was held some days ago in Dublin, at which certain well known physicians, lawyers, and professors and fellows of Trinity College, with a score or two of landed proprietors were present ; and which resulted in a private circular being addressed to persons of similar position in life inviting their co-operation and advice. SDRIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POSTMAN.— On Saturday last Francis Ninnis, late a rural messenger a t Ludgvan, Penzance, was charged before the county magis trates, for having on or about the 12th of April last embezzled the sum of ninepence, the property of the Post master-General.—Mr. E. S. Boyns appeared for the prosecution, and stated that Mrs. Treglown, of Ludgvan, entrusted 9d. to Ninnis, as rural messenger, to register and pay the postage of a letter to her son in America. Instead of doing this he kept the ninepence, posting the letter as unpaid, and it had to be paid by the receiver. Upon these facts Mr. Boyns asked for a remand for a week.—Prisoner was accordingly remanded, bail being refused.—Western Morning News. A CURIOUS 'DROWNING CASE.—An inquest was held at Monk Bretton to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Jane White, an innkeeper's daughter, fifteen years of age, whose body wa s found in the Wakefield and Barnsley Canal. On the previous evening she was in company with a young man named Stephenson, who said that she seemed tipsy, and tried several times to push him into the water. They slept in a field together until daylight, and then she did actually push him into the water. He swam across the stream, and she exclaimed, " You look just like a drowned rat." Eventually he left her, and the next he heard of her was that she was dead. A verdict of " Found drowned " was recorded. TRADING IN DISEASED MEAT.—Not a week passes but brings before us more and more urgently the necessity for stricter regulations respecting the sale of diseased meat, From Leicester comes the case of a whole family poisoned, and with difficulty recovered, by eating putrid sausages. From Turvey, in Bedfordshire, we have a story of a cow being slaughtered in the last stage of disease, and sent up to the metropolitan market for the benefit of meat-eating Londoners. And we do not hesitate to say that for every case of the sort of which we hear there are twenty which do not reach us, but which are over looked or hushed up. We require a very much more stringent law to reach every person who dabbles in diseased meat. MANCHESTER NAVIGATION.—It is stated that the amount of earthwork required for the construction of this navigation would be about equal to one-third of the quantity of the rock and earth removed in making the Suez Canal. To shew with what facility large cuttings may be executed by tho powerful steam-dredgers of the present day it is mentioned that th e d re d g i ng o f th e Cl y d e has taken twenty-one years to accomplish, and that the Suez Canal Company have executed th r e e ti mes an d a half the same amount in one month, and at Toulon about the same result as in dredging the Clyde was accomplished in nine years. It is stated that Mr. Hamilton Fulton, the engineer, consider the Manchester Navigation may be finished under favourable circumstances, in three years. A SMUGGLER CAPTURED.—EarIy on Friday morning last Mr. Taylor, R.N., chief officer i n c h arge o f the Ventnor Coastguard Station, received intelligence that a sailing-boat was landing a number of casks in Steel Bay, about two miles east of Ventnor, and close to Luccombe Chine. Mr. Taylor instantly called up a boat's crew, and had a four-oared galley launched from Ventnor Bay, in order to pull round Dunnose Point, and, if possible, to cut off the supposed smuggler. In twenty-five minutes from the intelligence being reported at Ventnor station the Coast guard boat reached the spot where the tubs had been landed. The smuggler had taken his departure on the first alarm, and was now seen about fou r m il es f rom th e shore, standing off into the Channel with a fair breeze. It seemed doubtful whether the Coastguard boat could overtake him ; but she immediately made off in full pursuit, the men bending to their oars in fine style. After a very long pull, and a good deal of dodging on the part of the pursued, the boat was captured a good distance out in the channel, as far as the eye could reach from the cliffs. There was only one man, Noah Williams, of Ventnor, in the boat, but he was made prisoner, and brought back to Ventnor, about ten o'clock, in his own boat, by two of the coastguard men. Some other men who had not been able to regain their boat on being surprised when landing theirliquids in Steel Bay, had made good their escape by climbing the cliff. AN UNWELCOME PROMISE.—I. Paris corres pondent tells the following anecdote of the Grand Hotel, Paris. It must be premised that the prevailing epidemic has excited great alarm among the visitors. " A lady, rather excited, rushed down to the ' counting house,' and asked hurriedly of one of those small tight-clad boys who are on duty in the precinct, ' Have you the smallpox in the house,' and the boy, who `perfectly understands English, replied, 'No ; but we expect it every minute, 'and when it arrives I will send it up to the chamber of Madame ? " A NEW OCEAN CABLE. The prospectus of a new cable uniting England with the United States will soon be made public. It is a light one, patented, and it Li proposed to make Wales and Rhode Island its termini. The capital stock of the com pany, which is styled the ,New York and London Tele graph Company, is £650,000, or about one-seventh of the capital stock of the Consolidated Franco and Anglo- American Cable Company. This will, it is believed, enable the new company to do business at a much lower tariff than at present prevails. Lord Dudley is chairman of the company; Sir W. Canning, engineer. Ex-Senator Arnold, of Rhode Island ; William T. Blodgett, Eugene Kelly, H. G. Marquand and G. Ticknor Curtis will be the New York directors of th& undertaking. The cable is contracted for, and will, it is ,expected, be laid before September 1, 1871. Able cable men express the belief that great difficulty will be experienced in finding a favor able landing on the coast of Rhode Island, on account of the shoal water and an chorage, and some point in New Jersey, near Sandy Hook, has been named as most feasible for the American terminus. Connection could then be made with New York, the great centre of tele graph business, by means of a land line, thus avoiding the expensive tariffs over land lines in Rhode Island. THE WIDOW OF GENERAL THOMAS, It seems that the nation has another destitute widow on its hands, whose case appeals most strongly for sympathy and aid. Mrs. General Thomas is said to have been left in destitute circumstances, and her case calls for an exercise of the same liberalty which was extended to Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Rawlins. General Thomas was obliged to rely solely upon his pay during all the time he was in the army, neither he nor his wife having other resources. We can readily understand that under such circumstances the widow should be left poor. The Washington Chro nicle says :—" This is not a Government which provides munificently for the families of its heroes, and although Mrs. Thomas is far too genuine a lady to ever let escape a word of complaint, it is still apparent that her comfort in future will depend more than has been generally sup posed upon the generosity of her friends."—New York, Times. NEW AND OLD DELUSIONS. From America, the land of wonders, has come lately a healer of diseases by imposition of hands, who profess to work by love and by the help of the Holy Angels. The world is no wiser than it was, and any experiment upon its credulity, if made boldly, is certain to succeed. Dr. Newton, from America, is prepared to work miracles on something more than the apostglic scale ; and if he were to give twenty-four hours' notice of his visit to any town in England, the largest room in that town would not hold the patients that would assemble to be healed by him. He appeared lately in London, and the lame, blind, and deaf collected at Cambridge Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, and almost persuaded themselves that his touch relieved their sufferings. The room and the ap proaches to it were so densely crowded that nobody could get near the prophet except by pretending to need his help, and thus it happened that many persons who were perfectly well when they entered the room were also perfectly well when they quitted it, and were regarded by the multitude as proofs of a divine agency which had come among them. There were other persons grievously, and, according to ordinary practice, incurably afflicted with lameness or other disability, who could only have been brought to the Healer by great exertion of their friends ' and great suffering to themselves and these cases shew how wide and deep is the creduliOstavhich is ready to wel come any pretender to supernatural` power in the treat ment of disease. Sir Benjamin. .Brodie consoled his pro fessional brethren upon the spread of homeopathy by as suring them that, if this particular delusion could be banished, some other delusion would occupy its place. There seems to be no limit to the success either of quack doctors or of bolder impostors who set themselves above all doctors ; and it is hardly to be expected that any im provement of primary, secondary, or any other - education will render the great mass of the public less gullible than they are. The original followers of Mesmer belonged to the polished and sceptical society of Paris, and the Ame ricans are not more fertile in mechanical invention than in all the forms of delusion and imposture. They sent us Spiritualism, and now they have sent us Dr. Newton. To do the new prophet jus tice, he appears to believe firmly in himself, and when he said to a lame woman " Love me and walk," it is probable that he expected both pro cesses to be simultaneously performed. It may be allowed that some of the visitors to Cambridge Hall either may have been, or may have fancied that they were, better after their visit. The familiar description of the working of the homoeopathists "by faith and powdered sugar " embodied a principle which is . appli cable to all varieties of quackery. The scientific physician who has learned by much study the littleness of human knowledge does not promise more than he can perform, while the impudent pretender to science of which he only knows enough to misapply its language promises every thing, and if nature performs something he claims and usually gets the credit of it. There is no reason why the imagination, which is powerful in nervous disorders, should not be beneficially affected by a visit to Dr. New ton as well as to others who have claimed similar gifts before him. The medical advisers of railway companies consider that nervous disorders are frequently imaginary, and it is quite possible that • the cure, as well as the disease, may be produced by a mental effort. The inexhaustible credulity of the public can welcome Dr. Newton from America without wavering in its allegiance to the established miracle-workers of native growth. In gratitude for Dr. Newton's visit, we venture to express the hope that Morrison's pills are taken in America. The pretensions of Morrison to the discovery of a universal remedy have not in the least abated, and the proprietors of his panacea would doubtless assure Parliament that the Contagious Diseases Act might be advantageously to re du takec reduced i t s o p a single ills clause regularly. requiring n exchange i n - for the manipulations of Dr. Newton, we offer to America the pills of Morrison, although we believe that the manipulations would do no harm, which is more than we would venture to affirm concerning the pills. They are offered as a universal remedy, as appears from a recent publication, in which John Morrison, the son of the origi opponent.a te for v f informs s readers that in his youth he was attacked, after t n i a o l n h , y o g f e N i v s h t, ie r h eco h m e m is en a ds r t e l the pills, and he did trust in them. It was an affecting vaccina tion, with small-pox, and his father told him to trust in ro m lut a e s example of filial piety that was shewn by the youdger Morrison, in taking at the bidding of his father fifteen pills twice a day, by way of assisting nature to get rid of the poison of small-pox. He has now succeeded to the chief priesthood of the hygeian system, and he ought to honour the memory of its founder by singing daily the well known air, " The pill-boY, the pill-box, the pill-box of my ' sire." Ho opposes vaccination by Scriptural as well as scientific argument. He asks whether Our Lord ever mentioned that the Kingdom of Heaven was composed of little children who had been vaccinated. The highest authority for his system after the Bible is Shakspere. speak of a most instant tetter "on his body to h ave who is supposed, when he made the Ghost in " Hamlet " described in a prophetic spirit the evils which vaccination would inflict upou the human race. The memorial to James Morrison in the Euston Road is adorned with a figure of the British Lion, who ought properly to be taking a pill, and it has some lines of Shakspere inscribed on it. The belief in the efficacy of the pills appears to have been held as firmly by those whom James Morrison employed as by his own son. We are not aware that a traveller for a wine or beer merchant would be required to drink his employer's liquor except in the hours of duty ; but every one concerned in selling Morrison's pills seems to have delighted in opportunities of proving their efficacy in his own person. Thus we find an agent for the pills, whose sphere of duty was in Nottinghamshire, coming forward at a time when cholera was rife to assure the public that a certain remedy might be found in a prompt and plenteous exhibition of the extraordinary powers of the powers of the pills. And when this agent had, or supposed himself to have, cholera, he acted up to his own advice by taking portentous quantities of the pills. He was fully convinced that if the Universal Medicine could not reach his case, nothing could ; so he continued taking doses varying from thirty to fifty pills, and in less than a month he, or what was left of him, resumed the duties of the agency. Such is the story which is told in one of Morrison's publication, and unless it and other stories like it are fabulous, there must be, or have been, people capable of taking these pills by thirty or fifty a day for a month, and, as it would seem, of relishing them. There are other people who find the taking of a single pill a highly disagreeable process ; but tastes are various. Of course if you are seriously ill, and believe that Morrison's pills will cure you, they will be taken with a table-spoon or fire-shovel if necessary. The only difficulty we feel after after reading this and other descriptions is to conceive what would happen to a person who went on taking the pills after he got well. We suppose that such a person would get better than well. Ns the Universal Medicine has vanquished all other complaints, it might be given to the Irish to cure them of shooting landords. The Government is rednced to that helpless and hopeless condition in which individuals are ready to resort to quackery. It may well be asked in Ireland—" Who will shew us any good ?" - Saturday Review. The steamboat War Eagle was burned at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the persons on board were forced to escape by jumping into the water. A negro and a white boy were drowned. The fire communicated to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad depot and the elevator building, which were destroyed. The fire originated from a lamp dropping into kerosene leaking from a barrel on the steamer. THE GREEK MASSACRE. The London correspondent of the New York World sends over the startling rumour, which is circulating in England, that the late seizure and execution of English travellers by brigands in Greece was a shrewd political movement on the part of the opposition to the Greek ministry. It was thought that the responsibility for any injury to the tourists would fall upon the Government, and that public opinion in Greece and the demands of Great Britain would force the ministry to retire. Indeed, the War Minister has already resigned. If this rumour should prove to be well founded, the Greeks will certainly deserve the credit of devising the most profound piece of political strategy of which there is any record. The mea sures are a little harsh, it is true ; but as in love and in war, so in politics—all things are fair. Tammany must abdicate in favour of the Greek opposition.—Boston Advertiser. STEAMSHIP COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND CALIFORNIA. The public mind of the world is kept on the stretch of ex citement and anticipation by one great project after another to bring all nations into rapid communication with one an other. Atlantic telegraph ca! lea, the Suez Canal, the great continental Pacific Railroad, new steamship lines to different and the most remote parts of the globe, the proposed shi i , canal across the Isthmus of Central America, the Pacific telegraph cable project to connect China and the East gene rally with the American Continent, and .many other grand works, show the wonderful progress of the age. One of the latest of these great projects is the establishment of steam ' ship communication between Australia and California. The steamer Idaho, which arrived at San Francisco fr m Hono lulu, Sandwich Islands, on the sth of .this month, brought the mails and passengers that came from Australia by the steamer Wongawonga. There were one hundred and forty , passengers, nearly all of whom were en route to England. This is a new line, and is intended either to connect with the line betw en the Sandwich Islands and San Francisco, or tot ly directly from Sydney and Auckland to California. The Wongawonga was full of passengers, and the mails from New South Wales and New Zealand were very large. The time from Sydney -to San Francis o alas thirty-nine days, and from Auckland thirty-one days. Much better time than this will soon be made. We believe the passage has been made from Australia to England in forty days by this route and b , the Pacific Railroad and Atlantic steam ships. This as great progress in the commerce of the Pacific and in traversing so large a portion of the globe. The Wongawonga, was to be followed by the City of Adelaide and the City of Melbourne, two other steamers of the new line. A few years ago, just before the gold discovery in California, the Pacific Oceati,exceptalongthe Ameri an coasts, was little traversed by ships of commerce. There were only a few traders to the Sandwich Islands and the islands of the South Pacific and the whale ships that navigated that vast ocean. Now there are steam lines to China and Japan, to the Sandwich Islands, and to the different countri e s o f Australia. What a revolution within so short a time! But we are only on the eve of - still greater pro gress. By the aid of telegraphs and steam power the English speaking people on each side of the vast Pacific will soon cievelopo an extensive commerce between themselves and among the islands and countries in and bor dering that ocean. The dense populations of Asia will soon feel this too. But our own country is destined to obtain the greatest share by far of this commerce. San Fran cisco will become, probably, second only to New York in commercial importance We shall draw the surplus population of China and other countries of Asia to do our labour cheaply, and we shall increase largely our ex portations and importations. Indeed, we can hardly imagine what the next twenty years will develop in the way of trade and intercourse and in the march of civilization in Asia. Wv have no doubt that a largo portion of the 'ravel between England and Australia will come this way. If it be a little farther than by the Indian Ocean, Suez and the Mediterranean, it is more direct, with fewer changes, and probably less expensive. The Pacific is a delightful ocean to navigate, and with steamship and railroad co:,nections all complete we think the passage this way can be made in as short or in shorter time than by the other route. The one hundred and forty passengers in one steamer en route for Europe by San Francisco and the Pacific Railroad gives an idea of \Abet may follow. In view of these developments and prospects we recommend Congress and our enterprising merchants to turn their attention to the trade of the Pacific Ocean. A great future is before us in that part of the world if we will seize the opportunities that are within our reach.-- New Fork Herald. A LILLIPUTIAN SHIP ON THE ATLANTIC. A vessel is about to start from Liverpool for New York where it is expected to arrive within the next forty clays, which measures only twenty feet from bow to stern, and will be manned by two men—theowner, Captain Pimorez, and Captain J. C. Bulkley—whose skill is expected to guide the frail craft safely across the Atlantic. The only other living thing on board is a Newfoundland dog. The tiny vessel is called the City of Ragusa, and is rigged as a yawl, capable of spreading about seventy yards of can vass. There is also a two-bladed propeller, which can be worked by hand in case of necessity, but which may be hoisted ont of the water so as not to be a drag when the wind is favourable. The vessel is covered throughout its whole length and lined inside to the flooring, and has a cockpit amidships. The limited space below is fitted up with as much comfort as circumstances will allow. There is a patent book-stove on board, and provisions for three months. A snug sleeping-place is furnished for the skipper, when not on the watch. The tanks of the vessel are capable of holding one hundred gallons of water, which can be allowed to escape in case of necessity, and the working of the propeller acts as a pump to keep the hold dry. The owner of 'the Ragusa and Captain Bulkley have carefully studied their course and feel confident of reaching New York in safety. The Suez Canal, it is now contended, will finan cially fail, because the receipts are small and the expenses heavy, the single item of dredging out the desert sands drifted in by the winds eating fearfully into the tolls. But it will not fail ; for if necessary all the European States on the Mediterranean, having had a taste of its good fruits, will combine to secure the crop.—New York Herald. IMMIGRATION—STILL THEY COME.—Last week nine thousand Europeans were landed in this city from emigrant ships, in search of new homes. From Ireland and Germany came five thousand, in about equal propor tions, while England and Sweden had the bulk of the remainder. So ,we draw from the from the best physical and intellectual sources of the old world—and we improve all we get—New York Herald. TOO MUCH COTTON AND TOO LITTLE CORN. From the accounts of the Southern papers, in relation to the prospect of the crops on the second week in May, it seems that the universal complaint at some points is that too much land has been planted in cotton and too little in corn, so much so as to warrant the prediction that from prtsent appearances " cotton seed will have to take the place of corn for man and b e a s t nex t f a ll an d winter.' This is unfortunate. Before the war it was the great mis take of the South to be obliged to buy from year to year the actual necessaries of life and rely for payment thereof upon the growing staple, and when the crash came she was like an unprovisioned garrison, filled with brave men with empty stomachs. The South must rely more upon her own fields for her breadstuffs and provisions and less upon the grain and bacon of the great West. If a lesser breadth of cotton be planted the price of the staple will be correspondingly increased, in consequence of a dimin ished supply, and in any event, provided in the meantime plenty of corn and grain be planted, they will have plenty of food for man and beast without paying five-fold for the same to the West and California. , The danger of the South in the future lies in having too much cotton and too little corn.—New York Herald. . THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN missounr. Sr. Louis, May 15. The evidence More the coroner's jury yesterday plainly shewed that the extra freight train which came in colli sion with the passenger train at Eureka, on Thursday, was running outside of instructions, and had used from ten to fifteen minutes more of the express time than the special orders had alloted to it. The conductor and engi neer of the extra train swore that they ran precisely ac cording to orders, and if there was a mistake it arose from a difference in watches. The weight of evidence is strongly against them, however, and the coroner ordered the arrest of William Odor, the conductor, and he was placed in the calaboose. The fact that Odor, and his engineer, Tracy, left the spot instantly after the collision, because, as they assert, they feared personal violence, while the conductors and other employes of the passenger-train remained and worked nobly for the release and relief of the sufferers, is generally regarded as consciousness of having done wrong, and strengthens the belief that they alone were to blame for the collision. The wounded generally are doing well, and are receiving the care of some of the best surgeons and physicians in this city. The railroad company are doing everything for their comfort, and will recompense them for losses, so far as money can do so, w ith ou t su it or expense. The remains of the dead have been placed in metallic cases, and will be deposited in the cemetery vault subject to the orders of their friends. The pecuniary loss of the acci dent to rolling stock is about $30,000. The reported death of H. E. Fleming, the chief engineer of the Tabo and Acosho Railway, is incorrect ; he was in the train, hut left at Sedalia. All the bodies of the killed by the late accident, except two, have been claimed by their friends and forwarded to their homes. The coroner's jury will probably render their verdict to-morrow. Two grimly amusing incidents are also related, among several very painful ones. When news of the smash-up reached the U. S. Express Office in St. Louis, it was heard that the messenger, Mr. Warner, was among the killed. Directions were given to have a rough box made and sent at once to the depot, to receive the remains, and also ordered from the undertaker a metallic coffin. The rough box was sent to the depot, and on its arrival there the parties in charge found Warner, the messenger, sitting on the platform alive and well! He was not quite ready to be put into the box. He was waiting to receive the express money chest, which had been rescued from the ruins, and was in one of the cars. A German, lying' among the rubbish, called lustily for a doctor, and said his legs were broken off. He was lifted up, and then it was found that he had not received a scratch, but was terribly frightened. Another man was lying on his back, and he, too, wanted a doctor ; said he was sure he was killed. He was raised to his feet, and was as sound as a dollar. He had lost one of his shoes, and he begged Mr. Smizer to find his shoe for him. Mr. S. politely invited him to go to a certain hot place down below. One man who was but slightly injured was served with refresh ments, which so far revived him that he stole the napkin and fork that had been brought for his use. ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A terrible accident has recently occurred on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, near Mead's Basin. A construction train was passing over the long trestle work over the Pegannoc River, when the timbers gave away; precipitating the train into the river. The cars were smashed and several persons, em ployes.ef the company, were seriously injured. Two are reported to have been killed. The names of the injured persons and further particulars of the accident have not been obtained, there being no communication with the point where the accident occurred, except by the country roads and the half-completed branch railway, in the con struction of which the train was employed. A series of fatal accidents have occurred on this branch since the commencement of its construction. DRESS FASHIONS IN PARIS. Our special fashion correspondence from Paris of the 26th of April is particularly lively and attractive. It is pro gressive and hopeful in idea and expression. Fashion shrunk back somewhat from the rough facts and materialistic influ ences of the plebiscitum. Its inspiration remained, how ever. It was kept alive in the domestic circle, worshipped by beautiful eyes propagated from h ouse t o h ouse b y elo quent, lisping, and prattling tongues, and appealed to, and pleaded for, by elegant hands. Fashion is an etherial essence, particularly in the minds of refined and cultivated persons. So fashion remained, while the public agitation was almost forgotten in Paris. Napoleon had his triumph. The "yes" and "no" of the plebiscitum had been spoken and duly enumerated. The yes " or "no" of the young , ladies to one of the most important social questions of the world, as well as for their own individual earthly future, was just as difficult to arrive at as ever. They toyed with love billets loviugly, at the moment when the glittering name and overshadowing dynasty of Napo leon were being placed iu the balance against paper ballots. Style was struggling against the weather. April remained fitful at its close, and May was about to fight its way into sunshine and flowers. Oar special writer describes same of the most aristocratic toilets which were displayed at the French Court, enumerates the different dress materials which were most patronised in the city, and tells our readers how they were made up. From the same pen we have all animated report of the brilliant scene which was w,tnessed on the turf at Longchamps. John Bull and Brother Jona than, Turkey and France were well and gallantly repre sented. " Young' America was greeted in special compli ment by Nubar Pacha, and Lord Lyons joined hands with Minister Washburne. " Young" France was made jubilant by the fame and name of the American yachtmen, while the representative of ancient Egypt, speaking for the present ruler of the land of the Pharaohs, bowed his fezzed head in graceful and grateful compliment to the youthful representative of the free and independent news paper press of the young and giant nation of the West. French men-of-war's men and yachtmen gave a " God speed" to the Stars and Stripes. The memories of the early alliance of the naval ensigns of the two great nations, France and America, were active in their hearts and found vent on their tongues. The aristocratic and popular comminglement reported by our special writer- 5 meeting of aged diplomats, of the valiant soldiers, an d of the noble spirited y oung men o f th e t wo countries will g° far to render these memories enduring, and thus inscribe the esto perpetua in Paris and Washington.—New York , Herald. The Goloss received yesterday says that it has good authority for stating that it is Prince Orloff who is to succeed Baron Brunnow as Russian Ambassador in England. Prince Orloff was formerly ambassador in Belgium. I ADVERTISEMENT. I - Consumption, and all nervous bilious, stomach, ani lies: complaints in every shine are only aggravated and lcc3larAted by drugs of eve y description, bg t perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalente. Arabic°, Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b: ea considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), coug l L. , asthma, consumption, h bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, InemolTholds, liver complaints, flatulency, 00r vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs' colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, goat , impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless' ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, croMPe , • spasms, nausea and sickness even i n p regnancy or at sea, sink' ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti,:htness of the chest, pains at the pit'of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote 11 few: -The Pope's health restored by Du 1 arry's Food. Cure I ` l 9 68,413 -"Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father le heha s h excellent, especially since, abandoning all oth er reme dies, A confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revale n ta A ra hica of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produee",, a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Bonne , ' cannot praise this excell t nt food too highly." —From the" Gaze tte du Midi," July 2 , . Cure No. 46;270.—Mr. James Roberts, timbe r merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungl; spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cur N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterfol: d , of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,8 V. "Fifty years' indesoll" able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, eT, I , litipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness; and voiritlng.- 3111 ':., Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the ma t y unsavoury more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is 11c1; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6d; 51b Ils.; 121 b 225; 24 lbs 4 s.—Also Du BARRY'S BEVALENTA RABIC& CHOCOLA' s POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1.?, cups at 2s, for 24 cues at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2sB cups at 30s, for 576 cups 93 d ot —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are se . „, free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order•_d BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London all Grocers and Chemists. BIR7'HS. On the 27th inst., at Compton-place, Sussex, Mrs. Ce ci Foljambe, of a son and heir. Ou the 27th inst., at Heavitree, Exeter, the wife of O. li °W* tiler Crofton, Esq., of a son. RRIAGES. On the 26th inst., at Ipswich, Samuel Thomas Harwood, Of Battiswood Hall, oldest son of Thomas Harwood, E ,( 1" BeMead Hall, Suffolk, to Fanny Maria, eldest daughter of the late James Curling, Esq., Albert-square, Claph o. On the 26th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Paddington , F. Travers, Esq., son of the late Major-General Sir Travers, K.C.8.. to Eleanor Cecilia Anne, daught er the late H. Price, Esq. ; Commander R.N., of The 3 1 ° ° ings, Menai Bridge. DEATHS. On the 28th inst., at 7, Arlington-street, the Hon. Frtinci° Petro, aced 64. On the 27th inst., suddenly, at Westminster, Samuel Laiug jun.. Esq., barrister-at-law, aged, 27. —OO Loudon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE/Y4 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N o. 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