The Sun. — London, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

ENGLAND. This return comprises the births and deaths re gistered by 2,200 registrars in all the districts of England during the quarter that ended on Sept. 30, 1867 ; and the marriages in 12,975 churches or chapels ; about 5,663 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 641 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended on June 30, 1867. The marriage returns for the first six months of the year show that taking theincreaso of population into account the number of alliances formed has been below the average. The returns of births and deaths may be regarded with satisfaction ; during the nine months ending Sept. 30 the births have exceeded and the deaths have been below the ave rage numbers. M ARRIAGES. In the quarter ending 30th June the number of persons married was 99,924, or 6,122 fewer than were married in the same period of the previous year. The returns confirm previous experience, and show that times of commercial depression and higher prices of wheat and potatoes are quickly followed by a decrease in the number of persons contracting marriage. The annual rate during the quarter was 170 to 10,000 of the population, which is 1.4 less than the average of the season, and 13.4 less than the corresponding three months of 1866, when trade disasters and the consequent diminution of employment were commencing, but had not yet influenced the marriage returns. Each of the 11 great divisions of England contri buted more or less to the deficiency of marriages, as compared with the same quarter of 1866 ; in the counties the numbers exhibit fluctuations, and the following even show an increase, viz., Hants, Bucks, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Norfolk, Dor set, Rutland, Lincoln, and Cheshire. BIRTHS. The births of 190,255 children were registered in England during the summer quarter (July, August, September), a number greater than has been re corded during the same period, and 11,273 more than were registered in the summer of 1866. The average annual birth rate of the seasun is 335 for 10,000 of the population ; in the last quarter it reached the high proportion of 352. The increase is spread over each of the 11 divisions of the country, and the only counties which show a decrease are Northampton, Cambridge, Cornwall, Northumber land, and Monmouth. A comparison of the birth rates in certain large towns shows that the highest was in Leeds,where it reached 433 in 10,000 of population. In Sheffield it was 409, in Salford 396, in Glasgow 394, in Liver pool 383, in Birmingham 377, and in Manchester 376. INCREASE OF POPULATION. The natural increase of population, as represented by the excess of births over deaths, amounted to 81,793 in the quarter, or an average of 889 daily. A considerable number of persons, however, left these shores for various parts of the globe, and the returns from all ports in the United Kingdom at which tlyme arc Government emigration offie:rs, show that 45,278 (or an average of 492 daily) per sons of native origin emigrated during the three months. Of these 34,853 went to the United States, 5,310 to British North America, 4,155 to the Aus tralian colonies, and 930 to all other places. 17,983 of the emigrants were of English origin, 4,485 of Scotch, 22,810 of Irish. The number who left ports of the United Kingdom in the summer of 1867 ex ceeds by 8,651 the number who emigrated in the same period of 1866. PRICES, PAUPERISM, AND THE WEATHER. A marked increase in the price of wheat has taken place during the three months, the average price per quarter having been 655. 4d. as compared with 51s. in the summer of 1866, and 435. 3d. in the same season of 1865 ; this represents a rise of 28 per cent. and 51 per cent. respectively. Potatoes are also 31 per cent. higher in price than in the summer of 1866. Influenced by the cessation of the cattle plague, and probably also by a smaller consumption consequent on the diminished earnings of the labouring classes, the wholesale price of meat, at Leadenball and Newgate market, has fallen since the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1866 ; the average price of beef has been 5 4 ad. per lb., and mutton 6d. per lb. during the quarter just ended ; this is a de crease of 6 per cent. in beef and 11 per cent. in mutton compared with the same period of 1866. As some compensation for the higher price of bread and potatoes, it may be hoped that consumers will obtain the full benefit of the diminishedi cost of meat. Pauperism continues to show a considerable in crease in the number of persons receiving in-door and out-door relief ; the average numbers relieved on the last day of each week in three summer quar ters were— In-door. Out-door. Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1865 117,172 ... 719,589 77 77 1866 ... 120,955 717,553 1867 .. 129,838 ... 743,977 Many interesting facts on the meteorological character of the past summer are related in detail by Mr. Glaisher in his report, which is subjoined. He states that "the cold period, which set in on June 3, continued throughout July, and extended to Aug. 7 ; the weather was changeable and very un settled, there was little sunshine, and during the first week of August the temperature was unseason ably cold, and some of the nights frosty." The mean temperature at Greenwich was 59.7 deg., or about the average of the same season of 96 years. The rainfall was 11.3 in. in the three months, which is 3.9 in. above the average of 52 summer quarters. DEATIIS AND THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The number of deaths registered in the three months ended Sept. 30 was 108,462 ; and the an nual rate of mortality was 20.06 in 1,000 ; the ave rage rate of the season is 20.31, and in the same three months of 1866, when cholera was epidemic in London and other places, the rate was 2F82 per 1,000. Fewer deaths have been registered, and the rate of mortality has been lower than in any corre sponding quarter since 1862. The summer has been favourable to health, and there has been no recurrence of epidemic cholera, although its prevalence has been remarked in some continental cities. The death rate experienced by about 11 millions of people inhabiting the chief towns was 22 per 1000, while rather more than 9 million persons residing in ;inall towns and country parishes had a morta lity of somewhat less than 17 per 1,000 ; it is far from being the case that this latter population lives under conditions so favourable to health as not to be e:lpable of iinprovement, but the higher mortality in tcw s shows that much sanitary work remains there I( be performed before a satisfactory state of public llealth can be attained. In London and 12 other great towns in the United Kingdom the annual death-rate during the quarter was 23.7 per 1,000 ; it was highest in Manchester, 32, and lowest in Bristol, 19 per 1,000 ; in London it was.2l, Birmingham, 2G, Liverpool 29, Salford 28 ,Sheffiehl 21, Leeds 29, llull 2G, Newcastle-upon- Tyne 30, Edinburgh 23, Glasgow 21, and Dublin 23. The registrars in many of these towns allude to the prevalence of diarrhoea, measles, scarlatina, typhus, and whooping -cough. The unhealthy condition of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with its numerous unlaved streets, its cellars and THE SUN. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1867. any number of persons, even for literary purposes, without the special cognizance of the Govern ment? Oh, no, not in France. And in Italy everything is lawful for Garibaldi. What, then, shall we say—that Italy is powerless ! or that she is an accomplice ? She has not lost her :power, for then she would confess her incurable weak ness, and, as for yourself, you would have lost the remembrance of Aspromonte. Must we inquire if Italy is Garibaldi's accom plice ? I would fain not believe it ; but the longer I live the more my confidence is shaken. Do not tell me that the man of whom we are speaking is a mere puppet, who only excites ridicule, and that I unnecessarily exaggerate his strength. Once more, I repeat we are not now alluding to that part of his position in which he has made him self so ridiculous. I attack his conduct, and I qualify it by its real name when I call it criminal. The 9th of April, 1856, M. de Cavour wrote to an Italian politician from Paris, during the sitting of the Congress, in these words :—" If diplomacy is powerless, we ought to have recourse to extra legal measures, and in our day audacity is, in my mind, the best policy." What is audacity but falsehood ? The corres pondent answers M. Cavour by expressing as fol lows :—" You are right, extreme measures are sometimes necessary." This statesman was yourself, Monsieur le Corn mandeur, and just what M. de Cavour wrote to you, that he did. His policy of audacity, without principle and without law, was carried out, as we all know, by means of this very Garibaldi. His tory will remember it. Garibaldi did in those days just what he is now doing, raising a revol utionary expedition against Rome, and then, too, as now, he was allowed to go on. And when he set out M. de Cavour gave him money, which he afterwards denied in the face of Europe, and he even sent vessels after him to stop him ; but the admiral had orders to let him escape. These things are not forgotten, and it is just be cause I remember them that I appeal openly to your loyalty, and ask you the following ques- tions : What serious measures have you taken to pre vent Garibaldi from proceeding to Rome? Are you sure you will not yourself be tempted to fol low in his traces ? What means are you employing to counteract the language with which he stirs up the people to rebellion ? • Is this not the moment when it is imperative on you to answer these deeds by acts on your part, and such public words by vigorous words from your mouth, which all Europe expects and waits for. I do not imagine but that you have given good advice to Garibaldi ; but he intends to follow it as Italy did that which France gave her, and the re membrance of Naples has shown him that Italy knows how to make use of what she disclaims. When France agreed to sign along with you the Convention, she had no idea of being either dupe or accomplice. That is why lam determined to recall to you the right as well as the solemn en gagements which place Rome under the protection of Italy ; and I do this more especially on this date, because it is the anniversary of the 15th September. You will remember what lam going to recall to you, but I hold very much to repeat it again, in accordance with the maxim of Mon taigne :—" It is not too much to say a thing ten times, which ought to be repeated a thousand." You can hardly be surprised to hear again that this solemn Convention made with France, is binding on you. The first article runs thus : —" Art. I.—ltaly engages not to attack the actual territory belonging to the Holy Father, and to prevent by force, if necessary, any attack coming from without, against the said territory." The history of this Convention is well known, still I will repeat it :—M. de Cavour had proclaimed from his place in the House at Turin—" Rome is the capital of Italy," and the Parliament respond ing to M. de Cavour, issued the celebrated declare" tion of—" Rome, capital of Italy !" But the French were at Rome at that time, and to get there was not so easy. You then had re course to negotiations. For four years, to your knowledge, these negotiations were without any result, and why ? Because you insisted on your determination of going to Rome, and of course the French Government insisted on your consenting to its argument—" That the Sovereign Pontiff must always be master of his own dominions." These are the words of the Emperor Napoleon 111., in a letter to M. Thouvenel, of 20th June, 1862. In consequence of this letter our Minister, M. Thouvenel, wrote to our Ambassador, the Marquis de Lavalette, at Rome, the 31st May following— " I positively affirm that the Government of the Emperor has never breathed a word that could be construed by the Cabinet of Turin, that the capital of Catholicity might become at the same time, with the consent of France, the capital of the kingdom of Italy." On the contrary, all our acts and declarations prove undeniably our strong and constant " determination of maintaining the Pope in possession of that part of his dominions which our flag has enabled him to retain. Why, then, was the Convention signed at last in 1864 ? Oh ! it was because Piedmont began to think better of it, and said to France—You will not sign till we give up Rome for our capital. Well, then, we will take Florence ; it will form an excellent capital both as regards politics, ora admi nistration, and strategy. We gave credence to your word, and France signed the treaty. Now, sir, let me tell you that all that was nothing but a coun terfeit,France's signature. The I moment gave up her idea of making Rome her capital. Florence was ta Italian inGovernment oi : d t insure never f never more in your mind than the first step to Rome, and France learnt this the very next day after she had signed the Convention. Ido not believe that such conduct was ever heard of in the annals of diplomacy or in the Parliamentary regis ters of any country. No sooner had Pepoli and Nigra, the two Italian negotiators, got possession of France's signature, than they hastened to declare that the Conven tion " did not attack the national plan of the Ita lian Government, and that nothing in it was able to prevent the triumph of justice and the rights of the nation." Italian newspapers were full of such sentiments, and these constructions were everywhere put on the meaning of the Convention. The Moniteur showed frequently that all these commentaries were falsifying the actual sense of the Convention. Still, all were expecting the opening of the Ita lian Chambers, and perhaps, said we, we shall hear from the lips of the Government itself something to dissipate these commentaries so derogatory to our principles, to our promises, to our interests, and to our honour. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, on the eve of the opening of the Chambers, said to M. Nigra, the Turin representative at Paris, that the translation of the capital was a solemn engage ment made with France, and no provisionary measure, no halfway house to Rome, and he added —" Infringe the pledge, and you break the con tract." Now, see what happened ! Parliament met at Turin, and M. Lanza, Minister for the Interior, proclaimed the unshaken resolution of the Pied moutese Government to complete the unity of Italy by going to Rome, and you, sir, yourself— you declared in the Chamber that, as soon as the evacuation of Rome by the French had taken place, the greatest obstacle to your entering Rome would be removed. And filially, the declaration of the Chamber sanctioned all these words, and agreed that the transfer of the capital to Florence was in no way a guarantee given to France in order that the Pope might retain Rome. And all this has just now been re-acted in the Chamber at Florence, at its sitting on the 30th July. "No one," said M. Sella, the former minister, " has suf fered so much as I, in sighing the Convention ; but I signed it fully persuaded that it would lead us to Rome." M. Ferrari declared that the Con vention was " quite to the advantage of Italy, and it was France only whose hands were tied, and that by herself." Mazzini spoke, perhaps, the most sincerely of all of you when he said, after the Convention "The Italian Government has now no alternative but dishonour by treachery, or Aspromonte for ever !" It is true you have to choose between fear or disloyalty, and how ? I will explain. You have made an engagement, and you must keep it. Do you hold to it at this hour ? I answer, boldly, No, you do not. Every motion Garibaldi has made, every harangue he has pronounced, every step he has advanced, are so many open violations of your given word. The French were engaged to eva cuate Rome ; they have done so. They have kept their engagement. Keep yours. Do you think you deceived us by having 40,000 men on the frontier ? You know Garibaldi passed by Persano's squadron unharmed and unnoticed, and why may he not do so again here ? This is no guarantee. No. You must set a guard against the meetings, the enlistments, the collections, that would have at least a greater appearance of reality. A policeman who would stand by and quietly shut his eyes upon robbers laying a train of powder under a dwelling, and setting fire to the house, might well say, if the incendiarism took place, " Is it my fault? I mounted guard all night." Suppose Garibaldi set himself to realize his plan of Geneva against Victor Emmanuel, what would you say of the military governor of Florence, who would see him quietly overturning the country, making a rise in the faubourgs, and setting up barricades ? IWould you wait till you saw an armed rebel force attacking the Pitti Palace before you would arrest this rebel as a felon, and treat him as a traitor? Well, you are this very go vernor. We cannot bear this double dealing. We have a right to ask an explanation of all this. We must have yes or no. There are tremendous responsibi lities, and, believe me, you will have to answer for them. It is now nearly ten years, Mons. le Comman dant, that France has been allied to Piedmont by a treaty which we may call a " connubio," like your alliance with M. de Cavour. Now, out of this con nubio, or marriage, vi hat beautiful things were to grow ! Austria, driven back, trampled upon, and made exclusively a German Power. Italy, an indepen dent and confederate State ; Italy, peaceful, united, and contented ; Italy, a permanent ally of France ; Italy, no longer a revolutionary Power; Italy, assured of her religion ; Italy, developed into a financial, industrial, and maritime Power. Ten years have elapsed, and what do we behold of all this ? Austria is not so much a German Power as France would have wished it; but Aus tria's humiliation and Prussia's aggrandizement throw France out of her reckoning. All this is owing to the connivance of Italy, engaged against the interest of France, where France is disliked and her friendship despised. Our officers told us all this on their return to this country, and we neither could nor would believe them. But to-day no one doubts it. Italy is not grateful ! Is she happy? No. Is she united? No. Is she wealthy? No. Is she at peace ? No. Does she respect religion ? No. Has she subdued the agitation of revolution? No. Has she respected her public funds? No. We find already in the " political correspondence" of Massimo d'Azeglio, that a troop of hungry wolves have rushed upon the budget. The press, besides, at this hour reveals all the depre dations of which you are the victim, and that merely at the custom house of Naples the Italian functionaries there purloin more than 5,000,000 fr. every year. Surely here are predictions enough belied, but we are not at the end yet. These agitators of Italy and Europe, which you feel a burden and an encumbrance, boasted that they would free Venice, and affirmed that the Romans would revolt as soon as ever the French troops quitted Rome. I confess I never for an instant thought they would deliver Venice, which you got by a most unexpected good chance as a reward for your defeat. But I must say I did almost expect that Rome might have a commo tion, just as one expects to see a rock which, left to itself, would brave thousands of years, but might very naturally explode, when we are told that bar rels of powder and combustibles have been laid under it for months. Yet the Romans did not rise. They are people full of heart and deep faith, as well as good sense. Far the greater part are faith ful and devoted to the most noble of sovereigns, and the oldest and most venerable of sovereignties. The Italians say they are lying on a bed of thorns. The Romans do not, however, feel these thorns, and when they speak of the Italian conscripts they say, " They have no bed of roses either." Your revolutionists, for the last six years, have been undermining them in every possible way, but these bold swaggerers are not by any means all of them courageous, and they try their métier of agitator from behind a screen, and many fear de tection especially, too, the Sovereign Pontiff is surrounded by excellent and devoted soldiers always ready to fire, and that is awkward ! What ever may be the motive, it is certain there was no rise nor the least emotion. Garibaldi knows this well, and that is why he now says, "Since Rome will not come to us, let us, then, go to Rome." Enough of this. REPUDIATION AGAIN. (From the Nation.) The act of Congress known as the Legal-Tender Act, because it authorised the issue of $150,000,000 of paper money, ;declared to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, also authorised the issue of $500,000,000 of six per cent. bonds, redeemable after five years at the pleasure of the United States, and absolutely payable after twenty years from their date. These are the bonds which are now well known all over the civilised world as United States Five-Twenty Bonds, which are sold at all the principal European exchanges, and are almost exclusively owned by European capitalists. The interest on them has here tofore been paid in gold, and everybody believes that it is due in gold. Concerning the interest no serious question has ever been raised. But the five years after which the United States may at their pleasure pay off the capital of these bonds have expired, and Mr. Butler and his friends, in their deep anxiety to diminish the taxation of the people and increase their own political reputation, propose that the United States shall avail themselves of this option and pay off these bonds. Now, the safest and simplest way of diminishing the interest charge upon a debt undoubtedly is to pay the debt itself, and we belong to that class of taxpayers who would be very glad to see this or any other portion of the debt paid off as soon as possible and taxation correspondingly reduced. The question is not as to the propriety of paying it, but as to the money in which it shall be paid. Mr. Butler says that it should be paid off in legal-tender notes, claiming that the law allows this mode of payment and that the public welfare requires it. Does the law allow it ? The very fact that the question can be asked and seriously discussed proves that the law is not clear. In fact, the letter of the law leaves an open ing for doubt. The spirit of the law removes all doubt The letter of the law makes it possible for reckless dema gogues, and for a thoughtless people oppressed by :a bur den wilfully and knowingly assumed, to claim the right to redeem the bonds in currency. The spirit _of the law imposes a far different obligation. In July, 1861, a law was passed authorising the issue of $50,000,000 of paper money and $50,000,000 of bonds bearing 6 per cent. interest, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after 20 years from their date. At the time the law was passed there was no question as to the currency of the United States. It was a gold coin cur rency, and both the 50 million dollars of paper money and the 50 millions of bonds wore and aro payable in coin with out any stipulation to that effect, for the simple reason that at that time no other mode of payment had yet been dis cussed or thought of. The paper money issued under this act became known as demand notes, and has been gradually redeemed in coiu or its equivalent. The bonds became known as the Sixes of 1881. The interest on them has so far been paid in coin, and it seems difficult to imagine the slightest ground upon which either interest or capital eau be paid in anything else. Nor, as far as we are a•e are', has any one asserted that it can be paid in anything but coin In February, 1862, the law was passed authorising the issue of the Five-Twenty bonds. Nothing was said in the act of the currency in which the principal should be paid, nothing was said of the currency in which the in terest should bo paid. But it was provided that the receipts from customs should be specially pledged to the payment of the interest, and it. was specifically enacted that all customs should be paid in coin. The bonds were 6 per cent. bonds, precisely like those issued six months before. There was no distinction in the acts providing that capital or interest of either should be paid in coin. Only in the act authorising the issue of the Five- Twenties, to make the interest payment all the more sure, specific revenues wore in another part of the act pledged to the payment of that interest. And now, because ad ditional security was given for the payment of the interest iu Win) it ig . urg ed that it could not have boon intended to ' pay the principal in coin, or else the additional security would have been given for the principal likewise. The fact is that the same security actually was given. The same paragraph of the act which pledges the customs receipts for the payment in coi❑ of the interest on these bonds provides that a part of the coin so received shall be setaside as a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the debt. Yet in face of this the letter of the law is appealed to, showing that in the paragraph authorising the bonds nothing was said of the currency in which principal or interest should b payable. It is true that the same act under which these bonds were issued also authorised the making of $150,000,000 of greenback paper money thenceforth the legal-tender cur rency of the United States, and heroin lies the strong point of the repudiator's argument. It is first proved that the law does not declare in what currency the bond shell be paid ; it is then shown that the bond was sold for legal tender currency ; and it is next alleged that, as the law does not specify in what currency the bond shall be paid, equity demands that it shall be paid in the same currency that the United States received for it. The argument is plausible, but it is, after all, but special pleading. Granted that the law does not specify the currency in which the bond is payable ; granted that the strong infe rence drawn above in favour of the bond being payable in coin is unwarranted; granted tbat the bond is payable in the same currency that the United States received for it— granted all this, and we must still deny that the bond is payable in legal tender currency. In the first place, the legal-tender currency issued under the act of 1862 is no longer the legal tenderof to-day. The old legal tender which was paid back into the United States Treasury for these Five-Twenty bonds had at tached to it the privilege that it could be exchanged at par, at the option of the holder, for the very bonds in ques tion. The present legal tender notes have no such privi lege, and the old notes have been withdrawn. In the pre sent legal tender the bonds are worth 12 per cent. premium, whereas against the old legal tender they were, by the strict letter of the law, obtainable at par. Surely on this ground alone it would scarcely be equitable to pay the bonds in the present legal tender. In the second place, the old legal tender issue under the act of Feb. 25, 186 - 2, was limited to $150,000,000, and stood for a long time at par with gold, or at a merely nominal premium. At that time no ono yet dreamt of "the price of gold." At that time two or three Israelites and a few Christians of kindred spirit met furtively at the corner of William-street and Exchange-place, or in the dim base ments of a few professional money-changers, and, to the scandal of a loyal community, tried to persuade one an other that gold would be at a premium one of these days. But for months and months gold did not go there, and the legal tender notes, for which tho 5-20 Bonds were sold, wore, to all intents and purposes, as good as gold. Is this the legal tender currency in which Mr. Butler would redeem the bonds? On the 25th of May, three months after the passage of the Legal Tender Act, gold was at a premium of only three per cent. On July 11 Congress authorised tae issue of 9150,000,000 of additional legal tender notes, and in less than three months gold was at a premium of 30 per cent. On Jan. 17, 1863, Congress authorised the issue of further $100,000,000 of legal tender notes, and in 30 days gold was at a premium of 72 per cent. In which of these legal tender currencies would Mr. Butler redeem the bonds ? It is useless to go further in this direction. Tho facts are simply these : The United States has borrowed from its own citizens and from foreigners money on a bond. The letter of the bond does not specify how the money or what money shall be paid. The strict letter of the law cannot be appealed tu. Equity alone can decide by establishing the intention of the parties to the bond and their interpre tation of it at the time of making the agreement. At the time the contract was made not one person out of a hundred in the United States believed that we should have any other currency but a specie currency long be fore the five years' option matured, and all who thought so must have thought that these bonds were payable in coin. On the Ist of March, 1862, seven days after the passage of the Legal Tender Act, an act was passed authorising the issue of certificates of indebtedness drawing 6 per cent. annual interest, without stating whether the interest was payable in coin or currency. By an act of March 3, 1863, the interest on these certificates was declared to be payable in coin on all those issued to that date, and on all subsequently issued to be payable in currency ; a striking argument against the assumption that in the absence of an express stipulation payment is to be made in currency. On March 3, 1864, the act was passed authorising the issue of $200,000,000 of so-called Ten-Forty Bonds, bear ing 5 per cent. interest, principal and interest in coin. These Ton-Forty Bonds are the strongest card of the repudiators, and their argument is this: the fact that the Ten-Forty Bonds are made specifically payable, principal and interest, in coin, proves that it could not have been the intention of the Government to make the Five-Twenties payable, principal and interest, in coin, or it would have stated with equal precision. The very reverse is the case. The Five-Twenty Bonds early became popular in Europe and here, and it was thought that money could be raised almost equally well on a 5 per cent. bond, and thus 1 per cent. of annual interest be saved. Just at that time the question first began to be raised, especially abroad, whether the Five- Twenties might not perhaps be paid off in currency, and in order to avoid lost any such doubt might attach to the new loan, it was specifically stated that it should be payable principal and interest in coin. But, strange to tell, of all the loans issued during the war, the only unpopular and unsuccessful one was this very Ten-Forty loan. If any serious doubt had prevailed anywhere about the Five- Twenties, who would have hesitated to exchange a doubt ful bond for one which admitted of no question, although the interest were slightly lower? But far from this, these undoubted bonds wore not taken, and in less than three months the Secretary was compelled to seek authority for a further issue of the very Five-T wenty Bonds which it is now claimed were purchased with a knowl edge of the doubt adher ing to them. And from that time to this the Ten-forty Bonds have stood in the market at almost precisely the same figure as the Five-Twenty Bonds, taking into account the difference in the rate of interest. Is it possible to adduce a stronger proof of the conviction of bona _fide buyers that the Five-Twenties were payable, like the Ten-Forties, principal and interest, in gold ? We pass by, as not of binding force, the various letters from different Secretaries of the Treasury giving their in terpretation of the law, all of them in favour of our view. We waive all claim to our version of the law, but we lay the facts fairly before the people, and ask them what was the interpretation put upon the bond by borrower and lender alike when the loan was made ? We take it there can be but one answer to our query, and that answer the people of the United States will have to honestly abide by. It may require an effort to shake off the temptation, but the people of the United States have scarcely sunk so low as to yield up their consciences to the guidance of such spiritual directors as Messrs. Butler, Pendleton, and Val landigham. We have no space left to show how petty would be the advantages gained by so gross a breach of faith, and how enormous the loss, how incalculable the evil. Nor can wo now enter into the absurdity and impossibility of the diffe rent means suggested for the actual execution of this nefa rious scheme. The fuss and flurry which it has excited here and abroad are only another warning illustration of the extreme ease with which the influence acquired for one purpose may by some ram be applied to another. The best plan, indeed, of meeting Mr. Butler's sophistries is to remember that three-fourths of the difficult science of finance is made up of honesty, which all men can understand. Whatever cannot be understood by honest men is apt to. be "financiering," and something usually called by a worse name. The specific allegations as to the representations made by the Govern ment and its agents in this matter, by which Mr. Butler has sought to bolster up his plan, in his last letter to the Tribune, have been admirably met by a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, signing himself " W. E.," and we do not see anything better for Mr. Butler to do than to let the subject drop. His share in this discussion furnishes strong support to the prediction we have more than once ventured to utter, that a good many gentlemen, whose " opinions on public affairs" are now supposed to be of considerable importance, will, whenever the reconstruc tion problem is settled, have either to provide themselves with a new and complete mental outfit or let the unfortu nate country go to the dogs for want of their advice. The Springfield Republican says :—" The Adven tists find confirmation and comfort in an article by Pro fessor R. D. Hitchcock in the Bibliotheca Sacra, in which he argues that the earth contains in itself all the elements necessary to its desolation by fire, and cites instances of burning stars, which have apparently passed through the same experience that Peter predicted for this earth. No longer ago than ➢lay of last year a star of the eighth mag nitude in the constellation of the Northern Crown sud denly blazed out into a star of the second magnitude, burned brilliantly for awhile, and in twelve days returned to its original appearance ; and astronomers aro agreed that the planet was wrapped in the flames of burning hydrogen during the period of its extraordinary brilliancy." LADvEarisEmENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revelenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound longs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, am' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 6!.4.000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—""R0me, July 21, 1868. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has - produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the " Gazette de Midi, July 25. Cure No. 58.216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Curo No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. • In tins at ls. ld.; nb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 65.; 5 lbs., 12 lbs., 225.; '24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Do BA RRY and Co., No. 77, itegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Graceehurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 289, Oxford-street ; 330 Strand; and a,ll grocers and Chemists, TILL PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES. (From the Wall-street Journal.) SECRETARY M CULLOM'S MONTHLY STATEMENTS. Tko following is the Official Statement of the Public Debt of the United States on the Ist of October, 1867: DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. Five per Cent. Bonds Six per Cent. Bonds o f 1867 an d 1868 Six per Cent. Bonds of 1881 , 00 Six per Cent. Five-Twenty Bonds Navy Pension Fund ' 13,000,000 00 Total •• 51,715,196,141 80 DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST. Six per Cent. Bonds Three Year Compound Interest Notes Three Year Seven-Thirty Notes 365,489,100 00 Total 5461,074,680 00 Matured del - t not presented forpayment three-year seven-thirty notes, duo Aug 15, 1867 54,250,000 00 Compound interest notes matured June 10th, July 15th, and August 15th, 1867 $7.183,100 00 Bonds of Texas Indemnity Treasury Notes Acts July 17th, 1861, and prior thereto 164,511 64 Bonds April 15th, 1812 Treasury Notes, March 3d, 1863 Temporary Loan 5,012,203 5 5 Certificates of Indebtedn es s Total DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. United States Notes .• $361,164,841 00 Fractional Currency Gold Certificates of Deposit 14,867,820 00 Total 5405,897,377 37 Total debt 52,630,389,456 00 AMOUNT IN TREASURY Coin 5103,298,659 69 Currency Total 5135,112,009 24 Amount of debt, less cash in} Treasury - $2,490 - ,271,446 /6 The foregoing is a correct statement of the Public Debt, as appears from the books and Treasurer's returns in the Department on the Ist of October, 1867. HUGH 141‘CuLLocu, Secretary of the Treasury. A comparison of the statement of the Public Debt for the month of October, just issued, with that of tho last month, shows the increase of the Public Debt to the ex tent of 2,000,471 c. This increase is in consequence of the heavy payments on account of the War and Interior departments (the latter on account of pensions), and the small receipts from internal revenue during the past month. It is anticipated, however, that the receipts for the pre sent month will be considerably in excess of the pay ments, and that the statement on the Ist of November will show a reduction of several millions. A further com parison between the present statement and that mado on the Ist of September exhibits, under the head of "Debt bearing coin interest," an inc rea s e i n th e Si x per Cent. 5-20 Bonds of $29,670,230. Of the debt b ear i ng cur rency interest there has been a d ecrease o n th e Th ree -Year 7-30 Notes of $35,296,925. The national debt not presented for payment has de creased $1,219,119, while under this head there is au ex hibit of a decrease of the compound interest notes ma' tured Juno 10th, July 15th, and August 15th, 1867, of $5,189,630. Tho debt bearing no interest has decreased $4,122,339 GO. There is shown an increase of coin in the Treasury of of $2,034,639 69, while the amount of the currency has decreased $15,259,725. Wo annex the Statements for the respective months of Auglist Ist and September Ist. DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. Aug. Ist, 1867. Sopt. Ist, 1867. Five per Cent. Bonds ... $198,431,350 00...5198,431,350 00 Six por Ceut. Bds '67-68 14,932,141 80... 14,869,791 8 0 Six per Cent.:Bds. '81... 283,746,400 00... 283,676,100 00 Six per C. 5-20 Bds. ... 1,468,796,800 00...1,205,710,500 00 Navy Pension Fund ... • 13,000,000 00... 13,000,000 00 Total DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST. Six per Cent. Bonds ... $15,402,000 00... $16,346,000 0 0 3-Year Compound In terest Notes 3-Year Seven-Thirties 451,235,425 00... 400,786,025 00 Total $574,961,855 00 $493,971,625 00 MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT. Matured debt not pre sented for payment $15,636,815 87 ... $19,440,375 81 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. U. S. Notes $369,164,844 00 ... $365,164,844 00 Fractional Currency 28,554,729 72 29,202,172 9 7 Gold Certificates 19,457,960 00 ... 15,462,700 00 Total 5417,1; 7,533 72 $410,019,716 91 Total debt 52,686,685,896 39 $2,653,792,189 64 AMOUNT IN TREASURY. Coin in band 5102,906,174 00 ... $101,263,620 00 Currency on hand 72,474,296 33 47,073,074 59 Total cash in Trea sury 8175,379,470 38 ... $148,386,091 0 5 Net debt $2,511,306,426 01 ... $2,492,783,365 0 5 HUGH N. *C ULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. 00UNTB.Y MARKETS. COLCLIESTER—OcT. 26. This market was fairly supplied with wheat to-daft and the business done was more brisk, and generally at IS per qr advance on last week's prices. Barley was in good supply, and prices •1s dearer for malting sorts. Bog" and peas were unall ered. Wheat. white 74s 81; Beans, 81azagan......403 425 red 63s 72s Middle and 5ma11...44s 486 Barley ... .... 42a 49s Peas, white. 38 3 926 Oats ..... ... —s a grey ...36s 62S CHELMSFORD—Ocr. 25. There was a good show of wheat on sale to-day, and a fair amouct of business took place in all kinds at the quotations of last week. Barley, except the best samples, at a reduction of is on late rates. Oats and peas firm in demand. Beans the turn cheaper. Wheat, old white....66a 77s Yeas, Partridge 438 45i new .6Bs 798 White "..368 4 ?, 8 . old red 6 , 8 6eB B..iling.. ...... 340 ' l '', new. Os 728 Dun ..... .......408 4 4 : Barley.. 268 338 dit,o, new.— - -9 -- A .,; Chevalier 418 538 Beans, Tick, 01d......428 7„- - Grind.ng 268 32s new. ...39s Os Malt 668 74s Harrow rickB.92B 465 Chevalier 68s 7O Oats ••• 20,1 26s new.... 410 450 Mazagan. 393 448 ABERDEEN—OcT. 25. There was a dull business done to-day, with a thin attendance. Flour in good demand at is decline. White wheat 58s Od to 63s Odl r 621 b V bushol• Red wheat 50s Od t o 58 s Od i Potato oats Common oats 2 2 8 6 5 s 0 6d d t to o 30s 30s 0 0 d d} Bore 35s 6d to 36s Gd t 531b13 bushel. Barley 35s 6d to 36s 6d) Oatmeal 4olb 111 bushel. 20s Gd to 21s 6d 11 boll of 280113. Flour, fine 48s Od to 50s Od 11 sack of 28O'b KIRKCALDY—OcT. 26. Good supplies of barley, but small of wheat and oats, at the prices of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. s's Od 1 36s 6d 3os 6d beoend.... 62s Od I &is 01 :11s Od Third.-- 746 Od lls 6d 32s Od COAL 31 Price per Ton 'AR ET at the Close. s d Walls End Gosforth 20 3 Caradoc 2l 9 Haswell Brancepeth Cannel lB 6 Cowndon l9 0 Hartlepool Kolloe Wylam 2l 9 Ship at marks s Teos 22 3 , Walls End Rotten 22 Eden Main S. AlooriPelton Gas l3 iletton 20 Bradyell'slletton Wharneliffo 2O 3 1, C4—sold, P. !ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Pills.—With the Ad vane() of autumn the mornings and evenings become chilly, stop the Into free action of the skin, and give rise to disorders of the lungs, liver or bowels ; under such cir cumstances prevention should be looked to as well as cure. The first symptoms of cough, disturbed stomach, or de ranged bowels, should be removed by judicious doses of those Pills. The very finest alteratives, which act wit h certainty and success on any organ in which faulty action exists, whether it be perceptible or unknown, acting 35 gentle aperients, Holloway's Pills strengthen the wil° l° system, increase the appetite, improve the digestion, regil" late the bowels, exhilarate the spirits, and expedite the circulation to pure, healthy blood. THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS' ADDRESS TO Q 1 R TERLY RETURN OF MARRIAGES, underground kitchens standing seven or eight inches Blli7llS, AND DEA7IIS 1N ENGLAND. under water and liquid filth, has been referred to in previous reports, and, notwithstanding the sani tary improvements instituted by the newly ap pointed health committee, zymotic diseases have been fatally prevalent ; in the All Saints' sub-dis trict, out of 229 deaths registered during the quar ter, no less than 147 were those of children not exceeding five years of age ; the hard-working poor are described as crowding together, and in want of proper house accommodation ; diseased generated in these localities spread among all classes of the population. The local authorities of this important town will probably see the neces sity of appointing a permanent medical officer of health. Salisbury continues to furnish an instance of the advantages resulting from good hygienic arrange ments ; it is more than six years since the census was taken, and the present population of towns can only be approximately estimated, but, assuming that Salisbury has increased in population since 1861 in the same annual ratio as in the previous 10 years, then the mortality during the quarter has been at the low rate of 10 per 1,000 annually, a result as credit able to the authorities as it is satisfactory to the citizens,whose years of life are prolonged ; that the healthiness of this city is mainly owing to the sani tary system now in operation, and not chiefly to advantages of situation, is proved by the fact that during the 10 years 1841-50 the average annual number of deaths was 28 per 1,000 living, and in the following 10 years it was 24 per 1,000; it also suffered severely from epidemic cholera in 1849. The registrar of the Lockwood sub-district of Huddersfield states that " The health of the inha bitants is very much improved by the local govern ment boards of Lockwood and Linthwaite partially carrying out the beneficial provisions of the Local Government Act, 1858, and other acts incorporated therewith. This quarter there have been no cases of smallpox, measles, scarlatina,or whooping-cough." This gratifying result should incite the authorities of other towns to endeavour to place the inhabitants beyond the reach of epidemic diseases. Of the 11 great divisions of England the rate of mortality during the latter quar;;er was lowest (15.9 per 1,009) in the south-western counties, and highest (23.8 per 1,000) in Cheshire and Lancashire. The registers of the United Kingdom show that the births of 25.2,370 children, and the deaths of 142,150 persons of both sexes, were registered in the three months ending on Sept. 30. The recorded natural increase was 110,220 ; the native emigrants were 45,278. The registered marriages of the United Kingdom in the quarter ending June 30, 1867, were 56,239. The death-rate of the United Kingdom differs little from that prevailing in England and Wales. The several facts concerning the other divisions of the kingdom are set forth in the quarterly reports of the Registrar-General of Scotland and the Regis trar-General of Ireland. The resident population of the United Kingdom in the middle of 1867 is estimated at 30,157.239 ; that of England and Wales amounting to 21,429,508, of Scotland to 3,170,769, and of Ireland to 5,556,962. The corrected death-rate of the quarter is 1.952 per cent ; the birth-rate 3.470; the mar riage rate for the previous quarter 1.542. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Old Jewry—Mr. J. W. Larking, the chairman, presided. Mr. G. A. CAPE, the secretary read the report, which stated that the railway was at present in a perfectly satisfactory condition, and in the future that its prospects were highly encouraging. The entire railway comprised in the concession had been made and equipped for the estimated capital, to the satisfaction not only of the directors, but also of the Turkish Government, who had passed the accounts, and signified their formal approval of the line. The traffic manager reported "that the permanent way and rolling stock were in good working order, and the trade of the line was carried on with regularity, and gave general satisfaction to the Government and the public." The receipts, which at first, from the unwillingness of the camel-carriers to part with their trade, were somewhat restricted, had gradually and continuously, as the facilities and convenience of the railway had become mani fest, increased, until they had reached a point which afforded every assurance that the line would be self supporting and altogether independent of the Go vernment guarantee, and the railway would at an earlier date than perhaps could reasonably have been anticipated realise the large expectations upon which it was established. The receipts' on the line for the 13 weeks ending the 6th inst. amounted to £21,417, against £11,252 for the corresponding 13 weeks last year, showing, with the same mileage, an increase of £10,164, or about 90 per cent. ; and the last week's receipts, ending the 6th of October inst., which were the largest, amounted to £2,167, or £35 18s. 6d. per mile per week—a large figure for a line which had cost for construction and equipment £14,000 per mile. There was reason to anticipate that these receipts would be augmented. The rates for merchandise, which, to meet competi tion, were necessarily low on the opening of the line, had been considerably increased ; the new tariff was to commence on the 13th of the present month. The directors had arranged with Mr. La Fontaine, the director of the Smyrna branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank (with the sanction of the directors of that establishment) to represent the company in Smyrna, to take part in auditing the accounts, and generally to supervise the company's affairs for a moderate consideration. The accounts showed that the net earnings of the line for the half-year were £10,904, and that £9,096 was due from the Ottoman Government under the guarantee. The interest of the debenture debt had absorbed £8,050, leaving £11,950. The Imperial commissioner having certi fied the accuracy of the company's claim, the amount which would be available for interest and preference dividend would admit of a distribution among the ordinary shareholders for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. The directors could not conclude without expressing their sense of the readi ness and fairness with which the Government had received and adjusted the claim of the company under the guarantee. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the traffic receipts were increasing steadily, in spite of the competition of the camel drivers. This increase had taken place during a period of great commercial depression, and he there fore thought there were hopes that the traffic would continue to increase until it realised all the expec tations of those interested in its success. The in crease of traffic had been chiefly derived from agri cultural development, which had been heretofore retarded, owing to the difficulty of transport. The establishment of the railway would cause a greater breadth of land to be cultivated. It traversed one of the richest provinces of Asia Minor, teeming with wealth, but capital was required to develope it, and above all a good government. He thought that great progress had been made by the present Turkish Government, in spite of delays and prejudices. Ile had known Turkey for 35 years, and on looking back he saw that great improvements had been in troduced, and he believed that the aspiration of the Government was directed to the removal of all re strictions on trade and commerce. He felt that the time was not far distant when Turkey would have a strong and good Government. The Turkish Go vernment now knew that there was nothing like railways for developing the resources of the country. He had been informed that Fuad Pasha had said that it was quite a consolation to think that the concession - granted to their company had been car ried out for the Government without any difficulty whatever, and that he considered the Cassaba Com pany were entitled to great consideration for so doing. The appointment of M. La Fontaine, of Smyrna, to represent the company there, he thought, would result in great advantage to the company. Another favourable matter was that the Government had allowed the company the privilege of building a custom-house at their station, and thus save the cartage of goods to the Custom-house in Smyrna. This would be of great importance to the company in respect of goods traffic. (Hear.) _ _ Mr. GILPIN, M.P., seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. ASIIIIWIY said it was a great source of satis faction that the contractor had so far carried out the undertaking satisfactorily. Ile believed that when the trafik, was developed on the line it would become one of the best railway investments. Mr. BURCIIF.LL said he was well satisfied with the progress of the traffic ; and considering the moderate cost of construction, the line could not fail before long to yield them remunerative dividends on the ordinary shares. He hoped it would be the begin ning of such useful undertakings in Asia Minor, that would not only develope the resources of that country, but tend to increase their trade with England. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. D UNABERG AND WITEPSK (LIMITED). The traffic receipts on this company's line for the month of September amounted to 102,601 roubles, making the total receipts from the Ist of January to the end of September 614,964 roubles. M. RATTAZZI. The following extracts are from a letter of Mgr. Dupanloup to Signor Rattazzi, dated 15th Sept. : Monsieur le Commandeur,—Since the year '64, and the Convention of which this day is the anni versary, two great coincidences strike us as the effect of the progress of modern principles during this lapse of time. I will just cite them. One is the proposed statue to M. Billault, the Minister who solemnly pronounced—" It is impossible that we should abandon Rome." The other is the Peace Congress at Geneva, where Garibaldi has pro nounced with an oath, and that not the first, that he will overthrow the Papacy. The erection of a statue to a barrister raised to be Prime Minister is not an event. The adventure of Geneva is an event. The year 1867 will see and judge of,this— Kings in Paris, bishops in Rome, and demagogues in Geneva. After some good remarks on the utility of assem blies (generally peaceful and innocent enough), where persons able and fitted to do so may discuss in freedom subjects of enlightenment, with a view to disseminate knowledge and science, he expresses his surprise that the inhabitants of a free country like Switzerland, who have everything to lose iu case of a revolution, should encourage and har bour the most dangerous of revolutionists, when even avowed democrats (well advised) made excuses and thought better not to show themselves at the above Congress. Let us, he continues, try to forget persons and incidents, and dsaw from these objects some useful lessons. Among many, there is one which above all strikes us. It was already certain, and now it is notorious and evident, that a declaration of war to the King of Rome is a challenge to every other crowned head, and that, under a change of circumstances, it is an aim taken at the King of Italy as well as at the Emperor of the French, at the King of Prussia, and at the Emperor of all the Russias. There exists in Europe an interna tional confederation for the purpose of pulling down Kings. Its venom is not to be mistaken. It refuses—under the name of a mock free (political economy—to listen to the most natural and moral ameliorations for the advantage of the lower classes. It offers to its votaries immunities which carry on their very face the truth of its mendacity. Its approach reveals war, vengeance, and terror, while on its lips hang the endearing names of peace, love, and liberty. Its heroism comes before the world in quite a new form, for it chooses for its victim the weakest and least formidable of sovereigns. I do not pretend to say that you are responsible for all this, nor for all that this ridiculous and boast ing assembly has said, of its being the living repre sentative of peace, philosophy, and democracy. Peace, with a revolver in the hand ; philosophy, strutting about in a scarlet shirt; and democracy riding in a coach-and-four. No ; of all these demonstrations—some full of folly, some of madness, some dangerous, some guilty--but all of them instructive, and in this latter sense it is very well the world should know a little of that fermentation which is going on silently in the undercurrents of society, for such meetings as those of Geneva and Lausanne, like the ribald demonstration of the young men of Liege, force even the blind to see. But it is not only of this that I come to speak with you—not merely of Garibaldi's speeches at Genoa, but of his enterprise in Italy. As an orator, he may do his worst. No one need fear him. As a rioter, I will not deny he is dangerous. He has just asse verated in the hearing of a host of turbulent fellows from all the quarters of Europe, that he would dethrone the Pope ! It is on this audacious protest that I fix my eyes, and it is on this fact that I have the intention and the right to summon you to/answer, for it compromises your responsibility. We will leave this part of my argument, and go back farther and higher than the mere discussions of the press, or those of illegal assemblies (the assemblage of more than twenty persons in a room is illegal in France), let us take our stand upon the solid ground of principle and duty. You are at the head of the Government of a nation which calls itself orderly, which is recog nized by the Powers of Europe, which has its laws, its army, its alliances, and more than this, it boasts that it obeys the principles of all other civilized nations. Now, there are men in your army who bear the name of general—that name which even the great Bonaparte was proud to bear—that name which is so honourably borne among you by Gen. Menabrea, and among us by the M'Mahons, the Trochus, the Ladmirault, and so many others. Well, I say there is a man—a general, he is called who entices men to enlist themselves, and forms from these an irregular army, collected together under your own eyes, and destined to carry on a war which has never been declared by your King. There is in your assemblies a queer kind of deputy, who despises the usual and honourable mode of voting, who scorns straight and direct means, who mistakes the streejtor the market-place for the Chamber of Parliament, and there harangues the mob with cries of " Rome, or death !" " Down with the priests !" and this man carries agitation along with him from town to town, convokes meet ings :at Turin, at Treviso, at Bologna, and makes the eternal cry of " War to the Pope "in each. He opens a loan for this nefarious war, and it is announced in all your journals ! Now you have signed a treaty which I condemn, because it seems to me to place the lamb at the mercy of the wolf ; but still it is a treaty which binds Italy to respect Rome. You signed it in conjunction with France, to which Power you yourself owe Milan, which she took for you; Venice, which she gave you; and all you have, you have it only because she allowed you to take it. Now, France's Emperor is Napoleon 111. Well, this soi disant general—this queer deputy —caused the cry of Death to Napoleon" to re sound upon the open place without once recurring in thought to the fate of Orsini. Italy is a religious country, grateful and faithful to the Catholic belief. The priests are men—citi zens like each of you. Their goods are theirs as yours are yours. You are not content with covet ing their goods, merely because you want money ; but you tolerate the cry of " Death to the priests;" you continue these threats after confiscating their property. These priests and these Catholics of Italy have a Catholic chief—the Vicar of God on earth—the Sovereign Pontiff—acknowledged and recognized as such by Italy, France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and by the whole of the New World. This Divine authority, committed to the pure hands of Pius IX., is called by Garibaldi the plague-spot and the pestilence. He gives the name of good to evil ; he pronounces, with unre buked insolence, that he, whom you by your solemn treaty have declared free and in un disputed possession, is little better than dethroned. A man—by name Garibaldi, dares to pronounce of Pius IX. that he is a monster. And you, sir—you remain unmoved—and I add that never was the like heard or seen in a civilized country, and among a polished people. Suppose, for example, that a committee, working publicly, in the very sight of the Government, rais ing loans, and advertising these loans openly in our journals for the purpose of revolutionizing Ire land ? Why, not a day would pass before the whole would be seized, and the members impri soned, and the newspapers fined. Just imagine a French general going either to Lyons or Besancon, calling together men and arms, giving them rations and ammunition, and exercise on parade, and all this with the barefaced inten tion of taking Neufchatel. Wlg, not an hour would elapse before the police would have put their hands on such indignities, and have arrested the so-called general who, by the simple act, proved himself wholly unworthy of that appella- tion. We have been spectators of all this in Italy for more than twelve months, and in the teeth of ithese startling truths the Italian Government, over which you preside, sir, sit with crossed arms. Well, at least we in France know what to do, and how to act with those who displease the Go vernment. 1)o you think a man would be able to assemble Births. COCHRANE —On the lath inst., at the residence of her father , the wife of the Hon. E. Cochrane, of a daughter. EuEirrox—On tho 25th inst., at Grimston, Tadcastor, tb ° Hon. Mrs. Egerton, pr e maturely, of a daughter, still born. FAKE—On the 27th inst., at Heyford-hill, near Oxford, the wife of Capt. John A. Pane, of a son. Marriages. Kisiocx -Lose—On the 7th ult., at Nyneetal, Alex. A: A. Kinloch, Esq., Rifle Brigade, eldest son of Cofoul Kinloch, of Kilrio, to Constance Emma Mary, you rs{, daughter of the late Frederick Beckford Long, Esq. STOREY—BARRETT—On the 24th inst., at St. John 6 L Church, Wallutm-green, Fredorielc J. Storey, Esq., " 151. son of Mr.Stort,y, Oxford-street, to Mary, second d au g h ter of John Barrett, Wansdown House, Fulham. Deaths. ]lion--On the 20th inst., at Gravesend, Henry IL D i ! d ' Esq., of 1, Robert-street, Adelphi, civil engineer, aged o 0• ETCHES—On the 25th inst., at 34, Victoria-street, Derby' William Jeffery Etches, aged td. FITZMAURICE -On the 2Gth inst , at tho Coastguard S.W. tion, Bangor, N. \Vales, the Hon. Fred. ()Tryon 111°- mm-ice, Commander R.N, KILDAnE—On the 2Gth inst., Marprot, infant daug hter of .._... the Marquis and Marchioness Or Kildare. PACRE—On the 27th test., in Richmond-terrace, White hall, Charles W. Packe, Esq., M.P., aged 75 . 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