The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

aa.u. apt.. . •••••,/,•••••••••••.. SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review considers that Mr. Forster's speech at Bradford was the complement and corrective of Mr. Bright's speech at Birmingham. Mr. Forster, of course, spoke of Ireland. No Minister could at the present Moment speak at all and not speak of Ireland. We wish we could agree with him in his interpretation of the present sad state of things. He pronounces himself to be one of those who believes that this state of things is duo to the influence of agitators, who see that the good and wise measures of Mr. Gladstone are going to cut the ground from under them, and who are therefore obliged to agitate fiercely now, because they see that they will only be able . to agitate for a very short time. It needs to be a Minister or a very ardent Ministerialist, to accept this interpreta tion of Irish affairs. We really do not see one single sign or symptom to corroborate it. The gravity of the present crisis consists precisely in this, that it is not apparently the work of a few agitators. If by these agitators the leading Fenian advisers are meant, it is notorious that they are entreating the people to hold back, not to come into lollision with the soldiery, and to rest in confidence that the attitude of a nation in passive despair and lisloyalty will do slurs to overcome the resistance of :3ngland than any amount of physical strength. The state of Ireland is to all appearance the state of a people Tho have suddenly conceived wild hopes, who think they eau get anything they want by clamouring for it, who try lay by day how much they can defy the law, and who every day find the power of the law fading away before them. This is nit the work of agitators ;it is the conse quence of a wise policy being misapprehended by an igno rant people, and of that leniency in administration which civilised people prize so highly and so justly, being, for reasons not without great weight, applied in the case of a semi -barbarous, reckless, and lawless population, The greatest danger we have to fear is that the Ministry should shut their eyes and say there is peace in Ireland when there is no peace. We can only trust that they will be firm in future, and not allow a great measure of jus tice to be thwarted by the arising of one of those occasions when the fury and alarm of Englishmen sweep away all before them. The Spectator thinks that from their point of view, tne French Ministry are in the right in the prosecution of M. Rochefort. That satirist is not in himself quite so bad as it is the fashion in England to believe him, but he is avowedly an active Republican, and he did distinctly call on the workmen of Paris to establish a Republic by force. Opinions may differ as to his character, but no honestman can doubt that he tries to overthrow the Imperial Throne, that no form of constitutionalism will content him, and that in his effort to realise his ideas he has broken a just law. We say the course of events may be against the Ministry, but we do not feel by any means so sure as the Times does that it will be against them. Like everybody else, we suppose, competent to form an opinion, we hear, or think we hear, that sound in Pails as of shingle grind ing in the surf, that low fierce roar of hate which hitherto has preceded revolution. The long tyranny, the sudlen liberty, the grand scandal close by the thrcne, the • tendency to riot, the disposition to display cavalry, the shower of pamphlets, the foaming excitement, the laurel crown flung on an insignificant head, because its mouth is full of venom, the rush to an insane economy as a cure for more insane extravagance, every sign which has hereto fore portended the fall of dynasties is visibly present in the French situation, but the signs may, nevertheless, de ceive. History rarely repeats itself. The peculiarity of the situation as distinct from every one which has pre ceded it is that the wish of Vergniaud has been realised, that the gripe of the provinces is at last on the throat of Paris. The army which is not Parisian will apparently shoot down the populace which is. Wo cannot believe in the longevity in France of a system without lcgic, of a Throne without authority, or of a republic without ac knowledgment ; but if liberty and order are alike secured, oven Frenchmen can wait. The brutal epigram of the Mtn seillaise is the strongest defence for M. 011ivier. " Death is on the side of the Republic." In commenting on the allocution of the Bishop of London the John B I'll declares that it can never acquiesce in, or cease to reprobate the abnegation of all Catholic principle contained in this deplorable Allocution. The Church of England has rested her Episcopate since the Reformation on primitive Christianity. Her principle has been, in Hooker's words, the King places but does not make bishops. While rendering to Casar the things that are Ccesar's, she has repudiated with all hermight the calumny of Papists and Puritans, that she fails to reserve for God the things that are God's. This calumny the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the mouth of the Bishop of London, has now publicly accepted as the law to which his obedience and our own is due. Trampling alike on canons, protests. and arguments, these prelates have imposed on a particular Statute a private interpretation abhorrent to the fundamental notion of an apostolical succession. The very Statute which was enacted to release the Church from an uncanonical usurpation by a foreign Patriarch, they have adjudged. on no authority lrat their• own to create an absolutely unchristian supremacy, in the House of Commons. An Act which requires the chapter to elect, the Metropolitan to confirm, and the Bishops to consecrate "with all duo circumstances," — every ono of those processes being a well-known step in the canonical appointment of a Bishop—these two Pre lates, on the advice of some unknown lawyers, in the teeth of nine protesting or refusing Comprovincials, have interpreted to repeal all Ecclesiastical power whatever, and create in its place a succession of shams odious to every lover of truth. They have asserted for the Prime Minister an authority which Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth thought it unchristian to claim for the anointed Monarch. The Statute is bad enough, the new interpre tation is intolerable. We have always maintained the bark of the law:to be worse than its bite. A Dean with a little more backbone in his Puritanism, and a Chapter less Cla,dstonised than was discovered at Exeter, would have braved the snap with perfect impunity. But the Allocution in the Jerusalem Chamber gees to the bone, and is full of poison. If its deadly fangs cannot be extracted when Convocation meets in the same place next month—actum est : " In that Jerusalem shall Harry die." The Economist remarks that the characteristic energy of English capitalists has been newly shown in the extension of ocean telegraphy. We are expending on ocean tele graphs in a year about as much as the Suez canal cost all the independent shareholders in ten. Competition is already the rule. Geographically, there is manifestly no difficulty. There is not a coast which may not be ap proached in half-a-dozen different directions, even where it may happen that a single terminus, as in the case of the French cable, is conceded exclusively to one company. Whether a cable starts from Havre or Valentia, makes no difference in the competition for messages between Europe and America. It is the same on the other side. And the peculiarity of the matter is that iu telegraphy round aboue routes are as available as direct routes for purposes of competition. Distance does not count at all in the time of forwarding a message ; messages can be exchanged between London and New York practically as quick as between Charing Cross and the Bank. The longest line, therefore, may and will compete with the shortest if there is an opening at all. Of course, the shortest, if it is also the cheapest, should be able to work for a less profit, but that,: ill not prevent competition if the longer line by engaging in it can add anything to its receipts. And while there is no geographical difficulty, there is a condition of the trade singularly favourable to new schemes. The very fact that telegraphic construction has b e come a separate business, while it has simplified the work-mg of submarine companies by giving them powerful and competent contractors to make the lines, is a new danger when the present work is over. The construction interest will be enlisted in the promotion and manufac ture of too many cables. Unless a great change takes place, by which cheap cables can be laid so as to make an enormous increase of business possible--a change which would be dotrimental to the present companies in another way—a sufficient quantity of legitimate work for the con struction companies which the present spurt employs, is hardly to be looked for. We should deprecate, therefore, a longer continuauco of . the present run upon cable com panies, and any med dling with them at a ll b y quiet people. With the competition already probable, it is likely enough that many expectations of profit will be disappointed ; but if there is only a little more competi tion, good profits will be impossible. This would not be a deniable issue for the public any more than for the speculators, who are really doing a great service to busi 'less. When there is a monopoly, it is better for the com munity to have a rich sompany to deal with, which can satisfy demands for good treatment, :Ind net a set of nceay competitors, who mu;it unite to fleece the public to cpt even a small return. Tho 3rarseillaiee says that M. Ledru-Rollin will act as coainel for the Noir family at the Bonaparte trial It is said by tho Engineer that a new description of lava is being thrown from the crater of Vesuvius since the last eruption, consisting of crystallised salt. This beautiful phenomenon has hitherto been unknown in vol canic natural history. THE EXPLOSION IN A CELLAR IN LONDON.—The inquiry into the deaths of the two persons who lost their lives by an eN.plosion in the City terminated on Friday. A verdict of accidental death was returned, but it was recommended that a•safcty lamp should be used in places containing material of an inflammable nature. • aIIVASMOIIITERT Ifotioe has been publicly given of a robbery from an iron safo in the strong room of Messrs. Peek Brothers and Co., the well-known wholesale tea merchants in East cheap, on the night of Tuesday last, the 18th inst. The thieves succeeded in getting away with a cash box contain ing £196 in gold, £2l in silver, vouchers for £257 10s., cheques for £24 Bs. 3d., drafts for £527a receipt on account for £5O, and promissory notes, acceptances, &c., for nearly £1,400. All the securities have been stopped, and bankers and others cautioned against negotiating any of them. No reward has been offered by Messrs. Peek,but "infor mation tending either to the discovery of the thief or the restitution of the property will be thankfully acknow ledged.' The property stolen represents nearly £2,500. The case is understood to have been placed in the hands of the City police. TIIE INQUEST ON THE FIiNSBURY MURDER. The Finsbury murder inquest was concluded on Friday. The evidence firmly established the identity of the deceased as Cecilia .Aldridge. She had been in custody not long since and had given her name. She was undoubtedly "an unfortunate." Spinas, the night porter, in custody, on charge of murder seems to have been a very loose character. At night he was in the habit of bringing women from the streets into the hotel kitchen to sit up with him. One woman came for ward and stated that she had been with him frequently. She was, however, on the day of the murder given up by Spinas for "Sissy." He took her with him to the hotel. The body, according to the doctor's evidence was much injured. The nasal bone was broken, and several other bones of the head. A candlestick would have caused them. It was a candlestick which was found near the deceased, covered with blood. Ne motive for the crime was elicited. The jury having heard the evidence, after a few minutes consultation, returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Jocale Spinas for feloniously and maliciously killing and slaying Cecilia Aldridge. The Coroner issued his warrant for the trial of the accused. LAW AND POLICE. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A SURETY.—On Friday, in the Court of Common Pleas, judgment was given in the case of the Guardians of the West Mailing Union v. Graham, in which the question arose as to the extent of liability of a surety. The defendant became surety for one Assiter, who had been appointed assistant overseer, at a yearly salary of £2O, by the parish of Mailing. He was appointed on tae 3rd of April, 1865; but in March of 1866 the parish recommended the guardians of the Mailing union to appoint him as collector of rates. The guardians employed him, and the question now was :—Does the surety for the first employment artach to the second ? It had been contended that the employment was the same and continuous; bat the court held that there had. been an entire revocation of employment and constructive resig nation on the tart of Assiter, and that therefore the defendant was not liable, as surety, for any breaches of duty by Assiter. Judgment, therefore was given for the defendant. THE KELLY CASE.—The Rev. James Kelly finished his opening speech on Friday, having spoken in the aggregate something like a dozen Lours. He complained that the judgment of Lord Penzance had rendered him infamous throughout the land, and he had heard that even at Astley's pantomime he was introduced. His great points were that the judgment was against both law and the weight of evidence. When he had concluded, Dr. Deane, Q.C., rose to address the court on behalf of Mrs. Kelly; but Baron Channel said he would rather read the short hand notes of the evidence adduced at the original trial first, to see if it would be necessary for the learned counsel to address them ; and for this purpose the cause was adjourned to Wednesday. A "CHRISTIAN Br.orionß."--A man named John Thwaites was charged at Marlborough-street, on Friday, with obtaining money by means of begging letters from the Rev. Frederick Hall, curate designate of St. Ann's, Soho. The prisoner told Mr. Hall that he was a carpenter, and had walked up to London from Windsor in search of work. He twice relieved him, and then the poisoner sent him a letter • stating that he could get work at Messrs. Jackson and Graham's if he bad tools. Mr. Hall advanced him 10s. to buy tools with, and on Thursday received auother letter, which read as follows :—" My dear reverend Sir,—l trust this will find you quite well, as it leaves me much better than I have been, for the work made me feel better. I think, please God, I shall have three months' work. My dear reverend Sir, I could not get away this evening in time for the evensong. I purchased somes planes, tut had not enough for a rule. If you will lend me enough to take me through the week I will thank you, and will call for it in the dinner hour. Trusting you will oblige me, m y rev. dear Sir, I remain, yours truly, a Christian brother, J. HOPKINS.—Rev. Sir,—We are paid Sd. an hour overtime, and I make three hours every night." On inquiry at Messrs. Jackson and G raham's, Mr. Hall found that nothing was known of the prisoner there, and the whole story which he had told proved to be false. Mr. Knox said that a more disgustingpiece of hypocrisy he had never heard of. andsentenced the prisoner to three months hard labour. A CREW SAVED BY LIFEBOATS.—The schooner, John Steward, bound from Ipswich to Perth, laden with artificial manure, went ashore at the mouth of the Tay. The crew worked incessantly at the pumps from early morning until day light, when the dangerous position of the vessel was observed on shore. There was a heavy sea, but the Elanore lifeboat immediately put off, and was soon followed by the Droughty Ferry lifeboat. Through their united exertions the whole of the crew were got off in safety. PEW WARFARE.—Pew warfare has been earried before the magistrates at Driffield, in the case of a sum mons being taken out by a schoolmaster of the town, who charged two gentlemen, one of them a warden of the church, with assault. It appears that the complainant, on coming to reside in Driffield, found great difficulty in ob taining a seat for himself and wife in the parish church, and he wrote a letter to one of the churchwardens, saying that if a suitable seat were not provided, ho and his wife would accommodate themselves in his (the warden's) pew, where theie was plenty of room. Accordingly this was actually done, and during the performance of service the annoyance was alleged to have taken place. The defendants, in answer, said that a proper seat had been provided for complainant, to which the bold schooltaaster retorted by saying that he could not sit there, as a young lady occupied it, with whom he should be very sorry to have anything to do. He added that the churchwarden (one of the defendants) would be very sorry to have anything to do with her himself ; but here he was snubbed, by that gentleman declaring he would have the greatest pleasure in sitting with her. After hearing evidence on both sides, the magistrates dismissed the summons, and forced the complainant to apologise for contempt of court in complaining of their decision. WELSH AND ENGLISH.—The Usweatry Advertiser defends the Welshmen from the charges of stupidity and vindictiveness, and, in allusion to the recent stories about Welsh juries, says :—" We have known. English juries arrive at curious conclusions. The other day we reported a Shropshire case in which a notorious offender was lot loose on the world, although seen to go from a place he had broken open, and found with the stolen articles in his possession. The reason assigned by rumour for this was that as the culprit was an old offender he would probably have a very harsh sentence if - they convicted him ! We once heard of a Somertetshire jury who found a verdict of not guilty becaute the learned judge in summing up called the prosecuting counsel, who was a serjeant, 'Brother," and they thought it was a family job to convict the prisoner! And be it remem bered, the speeches of advocates, and the summing up of judges in Wales, are always conduct's' in English, whereas in most cases the jury have a \very imperfeet knowledge of the language spoken, and not a few instances are known of their not understanding a singe word that was said to them i Were their own language : Token, we will confidently assert that Welsh juries, in the main, would give more intelligent verdicts than English ones." Then as to the allegect lawlessness of the Welsh :--` 0 A threatening letter is found—or said to bo found—under .s door. Who put it there? No one in Wales really bdies es he was an s e ay in , evicted tenant, or a sympathisor ; but huadreds would rather i in 5,`.1.4:.ai ingencmy hath done this !' 'Air judges all e jnb that the 'Welsh an. less Oven to crime than the people of the lest of Great Britaii, and it is a notorious facs that the bulk of the con . 'talc as at Welsh assizes and sessions aro of English tram pr. Journalists must not believe all they hear about 'W‘i..3h doings Much that they publish is spiced fur the English market Take an instance. A short time since ag( o:: - Ieman wrote to the papers to say that during the last el• :ctici, in Cardi ganshire a Bible had been publicly bur. it, and ghat a Welsh minister, whom he named, had Sul evil ;tended the operation ! The minister indignantly denied the charge and demanded an apology. A reply stated that ;on further inquiry it was discovered that a crowd of peep] . e had burnt a Prayer-book. This also the minister denied , and when the matter was pressed to its source it was din loveredthat a lot of children had made a bonfire, an , 1 , be ing short of fuel, the poor ignorant little wretches ha fe4V l ie fl ames with a Standard newspaper, not knowin g O what valuable to THE Mit, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1670, wORTIION NOTTS. THE (ECUMENICAL comm. A Rome correspondent, writing on' the lith, says that the petition in favour of the definition has been signed by 350 bishops, at the head of the list being the names of the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Cilicia. Neither the Archbishops of Malines nor Westminster have signed the requisition list, although they have given their adherence to the dogma. The definition does not contain the word Infallibility, but it is identical in every way with the formula adopted by the provincial councils of Prague, Westminster and the rest. Some of the French bishops have wished to make it stronger, but it is held to be sufficiently explicit. A counter petition is under signature at Mgr. Dupanloup's, and about a hundred bishops have signed it, some of them with the reserve that they will submit to the decision of the Council, whatever it be. The real struggle is now only beginning, and the acceptance or rejection of the present requisition is the Rubicon of the Council. It , seems probable on reviewing all the circumstances that a decision on the groat question before the Council will be given in the next three weeks, and the great interest will, therefore, centre in the next week's sittings. There are, however, a number of Fathers who are timid about signing either requisition, and these will un doubtedly vote with the majority when the time comes for putting it to the test. The Spanish bishops have signed the requisition en masse, with their kindred episco pate in South America and the colonies. The Opposition is strongest in Bohemia and Hungary. THE FRENCH EMPEROR. The Paris correspondent of the Turin Gazette has rather strange notions of affairs in France. It is his opinion that the recent changes which have taken place are due to the machinations of the Emperor, whose scheme has been skilfully designed and ably executed. MM. Darn, Buffet, and Chevandier de ValdrOme are all men who are most unpopular with the Emperor, and may be ranked among his most determined enemies. The sovereign, who is well aware of this, does not mean to win with them, but wishes to render them unpopular by making them fail in their efforts to carry on the Government. He expects to profit hereafter by their less to dishearten the adherents of the Due d'Aumale, and to facilitate the resumption of arbitrary power. The writer thinks that between Imperialism and Radicalism the Ministry will never be able to hold their ground, and that the course of events has furthered the project of the Emperor Napoleon. The ultra-Democrats aro in such a state of agitation that any sudden or unexpected event may stir them up to rebellion. The result of such a conflict cannot be doubted, the army is more devoted than ever to the Emperor, and it will speedily quell any disturbance. From this confused state of things and con flicts of opinion, Personal Government will, according to this writer, emerge with increased strength. A TREATY OF COMMERCE. The North East Correspondence publishes a telegram from Berlin, stating that a Treaty of Commerce has been concluded between Prussia and China. Count Bismarck has approved the explanation of the existing treaties, given by Mr. Burlin,ghame, and has recognised China as a member of the family of nations having international rights. thanked btod, - however. - int trom a report wnien Convocation had published, it appeared that the clergy of the Church of England were beginning to take thought as to how they mi g ht j oin the laity in stayiug the dreadful evil. In his humble judgment they needed a more comprehen sive arrangement, in which there might be a good organisation, that should include in it total abstainers, who under certain circumstances favoured and helped what he would call temperance. Tie could only say that should God put it into their hearts to bring the subject in a comprehensive w a y before the -City, he should humbly ask to take part in so great a movement. THE NEW BISHOP OF ST. ASAPII. The Church Times announces the new Bishop of St. Asaph. Mr. Gladstone has fixed upon the Rev. William Basil Jones, Archdeacon and Prebendary of York and Vicar of Bishopsthorpo. Mr. Jones is de scribed as a High Churchman. " Better known as an antiquarian than its a theologian" (says the Standard), "it is probably owing to his papers and his works on Cymric antiquities that he owes the offer of the see.' His principal theological work has been the "Plain Com mentary," in the production of which he was asso ciated with Archdeacon Churton. The Archdeacon is the author, among other works, of "Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd," " Christ's College, Brecon; its History, &c.," " The History and Antiquities of St. David's," and several papers on Welsh antiquities. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) In Washington, it is poi-itively asserted that a Message from the President will be laid before Congress when it reassembles, explaining the Semana Bay lease and recommending the absorption of the whole Dominican country by the U. S. Government, and also the ratifica tion of the treaty with Denmark, which will give posses- siun of the Island of St. Tho:nas. The report from San Domingo was that $1,500,000 would buy the pubic build- ings and cover all the expenses of the San Domingo, transfer, the country coming in as a Territory not as a State. With regard to St. Thomas the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee have considered the propriety of ex tending the time for the ratification of the treaty, which the President has power to do. The committee. are di vided, but probably will accept Mr. Sumner's view, that Mr. Seward has in eome degree pledged the Government. The Committee has, we now learn, concluded to recom- mend the immediate payment in the terms of the Treaty to Denmark ; but from the tone of some New York news- papers it is'evident that the secret treaty with Baez will be opposed. The loans raised in England, for which pro- perty even on the peninsula of Samana has been pledged, are brought forward and an expla,natiOn demanded. The Tribune alludes to that negotiated by Messrs. Lawson and Co. as tbo work of a Mr. Ilarimont, " whose Ger man name is said to be Hersberg," adding some thing more we do not choose to reproduce. Through Havannah news was transmitted from San Domingo to the following effect :—" General Lnperon and Gene ral Cabral have issued a proclamation protesting against the sale of the town and Bay of Sernana to the United States, and declaring the act illegal and contrary to ti;e wishes of the nation and to the Constitution, which for- bids alienation of the national territory." A report that General Tate, the Haytian Minister, was negotiating the sale of St. Nicholas as a naval station, is contradicted, no part of Baytian territory being on sale or for lease. Tbo United States are to receive commercial advantages in return for guaranteeing the security of St. Nicholas, the famous mole being established as a free commercial entrepot. Mr. David Chadwick, M.P.,- addressed the New York Chamber of Commerce on the subject of silk on the sth inst. The value of the raw material exceeds two bun- drc d millions of dollars annually. In 1859 the United States purchased French silk manufactures up to twenty- seven millions. from the disease in the silk worm and the internecine war in China and Japan the price of silk Lad doubled within a few years. The Silk Supply Associa ticn are introducing from Japan an inferior class of silk resembling, but superior to, alpaca. Mr. Chadwick de monstrated the possibility of transporting silk in the cocoon state anywhere without damage. Turning from this subj , ct Mr. Chadwick discussed railway and other in vestments in America, of which he represented $30,000,000 He encountered great difficulties in endeavouring to col lect any portion of this capital. He described the dread of American investments which has taken possession of English investors, a want of confidence mainly arising from the bad character of the New 1 ork judiciary, and the decisions of the State Supreme Court, and recom mended the passage of a law referring- all railway matters to the Federal, and not the State Courts. Mr. Chadwick went to America we believeon behalf of the Atlantic and Groat Western Railway. Whatever may have been his influence this mueh is certain, that since his arrival the Erie clique have been less fortunate in their legal actions. The line has been recovered from the hands I of the clique, and Judge Hitchcock appointed Receiver throughout its entire length. The Erie is to pay the rental under the lease, 30 per cent. of all the year's proceeds, and litigation ceases. But it is easier to got promises to pay than payment, and the Erie has recently failed to observe its ohligaticui with the Boston, Hartf ot d, and Erie Railway Company, whose January coupons, endorsed by the Erie, have not been met. The Atlantic and Great Western elected 21 directors at their annual meeting to serve dur ing the ensuing year. Among them are Tatlow Jackson of Philadelphia, James M‘Henry, London, and S. L. M. Barlow, Rush C. Hawkins, William li. Taylor, and Joseph Larocque of New York. With the exception of two names the old board is re-chosen, notwithstanding the efforts of the Erie interest to elect a ticket of their own, In the case of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Mr. Ram say has had a judgment in his favour, and he has been installed with the old board in the direction-- the receiver appointed by the Governor pending the Judge's decision, which is very severe on the Erie, having surrendered his charge to these officers. Among the cable despatches to the New York press is one from Pat is, dated Jan. 7, announcing the arri val there from Lisbon of Captain S. B. Thompson and Mr. S. F. Van Choate, engineer, the authothel agents of the American Cable Company, having secur al the right to land and operate an ocean cable on the Azores. The wires _ _ of this company aro to proceed direct from New York, without intervening land lines, to the Azores; thence in a direct line through the English Channel to a point near Brie liton, England, and thence with two lateral branches, one landing eta poi.at near Havre, France, nearly opposite Brighton, and the other at a point on the coast of Holland, near the Hague. The American Company anticipates being able to transmit with more certainty and despatch, and as tt e cable runs direct to New York, from peint to point without land lines, it will be cheaper. The exclusive use of important inventions will, it says, enable one wire to do the work of two. The company is formed under anettet of Congress, and under the laws of the New York State ou the reciprocity principle too. Part of the stock has been paid up-in cash, and the rest will be forthcoming as re quired during the constriction of the cable, which, it is said, will be laid during the coming year. The establish ment of this company shows how vain the effort is to amalgamate existing lines, for no sooner is one gobbled up than another is projected. The report of the Special Congressional Com mittee on the U. S. Navigation interests will be worthy the attention of European shipowners, who ought to pro cure copies as soon as it is out. Besides the voluminous evidence taken in the chief shipping ports of the Republic, it will contain letters and reports from American shipowners and builders, and interesting details forwarded by the American Consuls from Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Canada. Thus it will not only give the rise and fall of the American Ocean Carrying trade with in the last twenty years, but the creation of the French steam marine, and its rapid and unexpected growth. Great Britain employs nearly 3,000 steamships, measuring 2,000,000 tons ; 134 lines convey mails and goods to every quarter of the globe, and of the vessels 400 are subsidised steamers available as required by English law for naval purposes, being convertible into cruisers or troopships, or both. The Hon. Freeman Morse, no doubt., has contri buted to this important Congressional Report, both as being well informed by previous study of the subject, and as the U. S. Consul-General in Great Britain. By telegram it is reported that Ohio, Kansas, Minnesota, and Rhode Island have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. There were grave doubts about Ohio when the mail left. The reformers, mostly from Hamilton County, were said to hold the balance of power in the Legislature, and to favour the Democratic side. What they would do about the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend ment appears to have puzzled the public; but as it seems to have hinged on them, we presume they voted for the ratification. The Missouri Legislature ratified the Fif teenth Amendment on the 7th January, the vote standing —Senate, 22 to 3 ; House, 88 to 34. The first act, how ever, of the New York State Legislature was to adopt a re solution in accordance with the Tammany programme rescinding the Fifteenth Amendment. The chief objec tion expressed in the debate at Albany was its undue inter ference with State Rights, and the objectionable claim of Congress to over-ride all other Legislatures. Surprise is expressed at the Democrats going so far, the expectation I being that they would have confined their action to mere threats. The power, however, is disputed of a State Legis lature being able to rescind a ratification when once made. Such cases before occurred, and a Bill has been introduced. in Congress to settle the matter henceforth. The New York Tribune says that Sir Curtis Lampson ought to have known better than to write to the London Times asserting Governor Hoffman's responsibility for James Fisk, jun., as the latter comes much nearer to being responsible for Governor Hoffman ; "and besides that, Mr. Fisk is a man whose moral attainments and . social excellences are alike the wonder and the envy of a city that is not worthy of him. Since the days when Englishmen expected to encounter buffaloes in Broadway, and the painted Comanches on the peaceful Delaware, we have seen nothing iu an English paper about America so absurd as this imputation upon the character of Air. James Fisk, jun." Although we have not heard much lately on the subject of the proposed Int3rnatioual Exhibition to be held at Washington, we learn that the arrangements are pro gressing favourably. A great meeting was to have taken place in that city on the Bth inst., at which the President had promised to attend, and, if necessary, he was prepared to double his subscription of 51,000. A banquet end ball are to be given at Washing ton on the 27th inst. in honour of Prince Arthur. Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, has engaged the Masonic Hall for that purpose. His Royal Highness was to leave Montreal last Thursday for New York, travcliiug in the private car of the President of the New York Central Railroad. The Daily News has an article en the subject. It considers the one thing wanting in Eugland's rela tions with the Uvited States is that the people of the two countries should lccoty more of each other. "Ties of consanguinity stretch f !ent every humble street in our great towns and cities to all parts of the Western world, and keep up a link of active sympathy between the two peoples. But the upper class's have no such ties. America is strange to them, and they are strange to Ame rica. It is this lamentable ignorance of the ruling classes on both sides which has caused the differences which have from time to time arisen between us." It is thought that the Prince after leaving Washington will visit Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New' York. The Erie shareholders held a general meeting yesterday at the Cannon-street terminus, to take steps for bringing their case before the Federal Courts of the United States. Mr. Henry N. Raphael wag called to the chair, and presented the report of the Protectiort tient- mittee. Among other things it stated that the shares were practically held in England, tbo number being 500,000 out of the 750,000, as the Americans are too wise to in vest money in so mismanaged an undertaking. An agent should be sent out to prosecute vigorously, backed by high legal authority in America. It was asserted justice could not bo obtained there, but it had not yet been demanded. The contribution of one shil ling a share would secure ample funds. Mr. Satter thwaite moved that the meeting adopt the report. In reply to a gentleman, who desired to know something about the agent, the chairman said he would have the highest introduction to influential houses ; also from the FOreign- office ; and the object was to preserve the pure English character of the case so as to test the rights of the foreign shareholders. Mr. Gowan, in seconding the resolution, observed that he felt sure justice would he obtained in the Federal Courts of America. It is not yet decided who the agent is to be. We highly approve of .he action of these shareholders, for it is more sensible to ,est the matter in a Federal Court than to keep up th,o howl in London that a foreign investor in the State of New York has no legal remedy. There is a report that the late discount firm of Overend and Gurney is to be resuscitated, as the City cannot get on without its pet bill-broking "house at the corner," as it was fondly termed. The name, too, is now so redolent of joint-stock enterprise that it ought to be preserved and set up as a monument in some conspicuous place within the golden circle. The difficulty of the com piler, say for an almanac, who undertakes to tell what great event happened on each day of the year, will readily be seen when he arrives at Maylo. Before him lies the puz- zling choice—" 0 uthreak of 'lndian Mutiny, 1857," •'Fail are of Overend, Gurney, 1866, and " Commencement of the groat fraud panic." Another pot London institution we learn is not dead at all, but only sleeping—the Qaeen's Messenger. Like the Owl, it merely awakes for the festivities of the metropolis, for the gay season, or rather, as its proprietor asserts, for, the Parliamentary session. No doubt the Lords will be glad to learn that the Meisenger is again going about, and as they have too quiet a time of it, no injury will be done in rousing them up. It is all very well to abuse a scurrilous paper, but those who ought to be abused, are its readers. if libellous or obscene literature prevails, it is due to the immorality of the public, and it is mere hypocrisy for a regular reader to denounce the pub ._ lication. The publication is so much wrapping paper, if not read, an I no one can continue to print who does not fii.d others to read, for the work is laborious and costly in the extreme. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Mr. Thornton, the Bri tish Minister, has written to Portland, Maine, that he been directed to visit that city as the representative of the Queen on the arrival of the remains of George Pea- body ; also that the Admiralty thought the Monarch and the Plymouth will be twenty-eight days on the passage. if 6J, the vessels will not arrive until Janu ary 18th.—The family of the late Mr. Stanton have gone to Steubenville, Ohio. Ex-Secretary Stanton's full name was Edwin Macy Stantou.—The Hon. D. W. Voorhees, M.C., is confined to his bed by an attack of rheumatism.— Jnige Haynes, of the Superior Court of Ohio, has ,re signed, for the purpose of entering into a law partnership with C. L. Vallaudighain.—Professor Agassiz has re covered from his illness and is ready to lecture again.— Little, the individual who three months ago attempted to force his way into the President's mansion, for the avowed purpose of taking President Grant's life, has since at tempted to murder his mother in Newark, New Jersey.— An Ohio glass-blower having inherited $1,700,000 in England, borrowed money and has gone after it.—The Hon. Thcop!lilus Parsons has resigned the Professorship of Law in Harvard University, which he has held for Vie last twenty-two years.—The yacht Sannysid3 belonging to Walter Hatch, of Portland, was recently wrecked at Beau- fort, South Carolina, on her way to Florida; she will be a total loss.—The Popo was once a missionary in Peru. — Among the appointments dated last Saturday, Jan. 15, made by the Queen to the most distinguished Order of St. Minhael and St. George, was John Rose, Esq., late Finance Minister of Canada, to be Ordinary Member of the Second Class or Knight Commander of the said Order. —Judge Sanderson of the Supreme Court of California has resigned.—E. Lopez, a eon of the Paraguayan Presi dent., arrived in Washington, Jan. s.—Generals Banks and Burnside arrived at New York in the steamer Java, Jan. 6.- Senator Wilson is going to write a magazine article about the late Edwin M. Stanton.—Governor Geary, of PeneSylvanitt, has appointed Brigadier- General Alexander L. Russel to be Adjutant-General, in place of General D. B. M'Creary, resigned.—Fernando Wood, who was re cently dangerously ill, has entirely recovered.—Madatne Ristori is said to have made 570,000 in Buenos Ayres.— The President was to hold his first public reception on Thursday, the 13th inst., between the hours of eight and ten p.m. Duo notice of his subsequent receptions will be given through the press. Mrs. Grant's receptions were to commence on the 11th itist„ and be held every Thursday throughout the season, between the hours of two and three o'clock p.m.- -R. B. Caldwell was discharged at Montreal, en a writ of habeas corpus, as Judge Coursol had no right to order his arrest in the Province of Ontario, but he was re-arrested, and will be prosecuted vigorously by the - U.S. authorities.—Rev. Dr. Carlton Chas.., Episco pal bishop of New Hampshire, is seriously M.—William Orton is at the Buckingham Palace lintel, London, but haves England on Tuesday next for New York. Mr. Cyrus Field is also at Buckingham Palace Hotel, and it is probahlo that he also may leave in the same steamer- Mr. Charles Bowles of Paris was iu London during the week, but returned last Tuesday evening. Mr. Perry, president of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, has arrived in Londoa from the continent, and will shortly return to America.— The Hon. A. P. Howard, Republican, has been elected to fill the vacancy" made by the death of the Hon. John Rus sell, in the Xlth Senatorial District of Ohio.—Treupmann, the Pantin murderer, was executed in Paris at daybreak on Wednesday morning, in the presence of an immense crowd.—Sir Samuel Baker reports that he arrived at Ber ber, on the Nile, on the Ist January ; all well. He per formed the journey from Suez in 26 days. The Mexican Congress and people are discussing plans for attracting immigration from Europe and the United States. Tho idea that any man in his senses could go to such a country is one of those extraordinary delusions which sometimes seize upon a people. A more degenerate, cowardly, thieving, lawless crew, a more ignorant and cruel, does not exist, except among the Apaches of Arizona, and a few other savages which dis grace human nature. A writer in the New York Tribune tells of the siege of Queretaro, from the Mexican point of view, and the Mexicans have an undoubted right to make their side heard. As long as the Argentine Republics, and the pampas of South America remain open, the pro posal to go to Mexico is simply preposterous. No civilized nation will voluntarily enter into relations with such apeoplo as the Mexicans, except the United States, which cannot help it. The Mexicans know what the result will be, yet they are so benighted that they cannot see that their Only chance of being elevated into civilized beings is to enter the Union. But as it would be impossible to govern them except through a military despotiim, it would be a sad day for the Republic which brought such a set into the Fede ration as citizens. Apprehensions were at one time felt that the Winnipeg trouble would cause an Indian war. In the Minnesota Legislature this danger was alluded to in the Governor's message, and the Legislature was recom mended to ask the general Government to station and maintain a military force in the vicinity of Pembina to protect the settlement. The advices from Pembina to Jan. 3, received via Chicago, were that a large band of Sioux had approached Fort Garry, and an attack on the insurgents was apprehended, or at any rate depredations on the outlying settlements; but this was coupled with the news that the insurgents had so zed £200,000 belonging to the Hudson Bay Company. Both statements emanated from the lively brain of the American reporter, for all danger ap pears to have vanished as far as the Indians are concerned, and the messengers despatched by the Canadian Govern ment have induced the settlers in arms to send a deputation to Ottawa to discuss and adjust any grievances. The per sons most surprised by the story of the £200,000 were the members of the Hudson Bay Company in London, who had a vision of £500,000 to be paid by the Canadian Govern ment, but were not aware they had the other mine of gold lying uselessly at Fort Garry. Mr.,MWougall attributes all the difficulties to the officials of the company at the set tlement, who were not consulted on the transfer, and their interestsleft unprotected. Some absurd statementsext racted from Now York papers have been circulating in England about an Annexation Aid Society, which is said to be organizing an expedition of 1,500 men to assist the insur gents, and pushing companies forward. The Washington Executive have gone to the trouble of contradicting a re port that a Proclamation of Neutrality was about to be issued, whereas no notice of the outbreak would be taken, unless the territory of the United Slates was violated, or hostilities spread over the border. The Canadian Go vernment Las decided on a policy of mediation, and on doing all it can to rectify any just cause of irritation, while firmly maintaining its right, if necessary, in the spring, by force of arms. JOURNALISM IN AMERICA. The "Washington Chronicle speaks enthusiastically of the effect which would be produced should England send John Bright to America to discuss and arrange the vexed questions at issue be tween the two couutries.—Mr. M. R.I. Noah, late of the San Francisco Alta California, has assumed the edibrial charge of the National Intelligences. —Some venturesnina New Yorker mec:itates publishing an A mo i c . , 2 Punch. He ev:dently does not heed the wrecks in that. hue before him.—The Evening 7itilame has just made its appearance on the San Francisco stage, supported by a brilliant troupe of gaily clad newsboys. THOUSANDS OF Pllr SENTS AT PARKINS AND G OTTO'S. —Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottl, s, cigar cases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for insne: shelf, drawing and library tables; begatelleboards. indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every type. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh. Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment. Catalog,uoe free. AN EDUCATION CONFERENCE. ---- Mr. Hastings, formerly Secretary of the Social Science Association, proposes that a committee of eighteen persons, chosen in equal numbers, from the Education League, the Education Union, and the Social Science Association, should meet and draw up an Education Bill, to be submitted to Parliament next session. Mr. Dixon, M.P., on the part of the League, has declined to entertain this strange sug gestion. What sort of bill would such a committee agree upon ? As the League and the Union repre sent the two contending schools, it is evident that the issue would entirely depend upon the opinions held by the six Social Science representatives, ?HE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Negotiations between the Transatlantic Cable Companies have resulted in an agreement whereby the proceeds from the three wires will go into a common purse, to be divided in the proportion of 63 1,3 to the Anglo-American, Atlantic, and New foundland Companies, and 36 2-3 to the Franco- American ; that is, a slight advantage to the French Cable over the other two connections with America, though practically the arrangement may be said to be share and share alike, or one-third each. The Anglo-American stock is to be increased from £600,00010£1,575,000,0f which a portionattrounting to £375,000, will be given to the Atlantic Eight and Four per Cent.holdei s,those com panics being thereby extinguished. These arrangements will b satis factory alike to the public and the shareholders, for they give promise of greater efficiency in the transaction of such important business as well as of economy in managing it, whereby, without mulcting the public who will benefit by the increased facili ties, the shareholders may receive higher dividends. We rejoice to see the original companies merged into the successful one, built up in no small degree at their expense, for it grated against the senti ment, to which we confess, to see in the daily quota tions those enterprising undertakings left out in the cold; and that eyesore will henceforth be removed. But the more practical question is what the gain will be in forwarding messsges. Supposing the French line to be occupied in transmitting a long message from America, it bars that Cable during the period, from the despatch of all communication from the oppo site direction ; therefore, if a long message took three or four hours, for that time, however urgent the necessity, no communication could be received from France. This might work a serious injury, would be obviated through the present arrangement, for the receiving officer of the message in Paris would say, " Our line will not be free for st.veral hours, therefore transmit this per Anglo-Ainerican." In the same way, if both the English lines were engaged in forwarding long communications to America, the French line would be kept free for transmitting short messages backwards and for wards. Or, if a storm prostrated the Newfound land shore line, as has occurred, and rendered the Anglo-American Cables unavailable, the French line would stillbe open ata uniform charge. The Standard, in its article of Monday, makes an extraordinary assertion. It says :—" Frequently telegrams, pail for in Auserici, have arrived later than the letters which were intended to follow them." Bat nothing so bad ever occurred, although a serious delay was once caused by a hurricane sufficiently violent to prostrate a considerable portion of the poles in the Milted States. Competition, like all good things, is an unmitigated evil when carried to an extreme. Then the rival companies not only ruin each other, but damage the business they were formed to transact, and thereby inflict an injury on the public, who pay dearly in the end for any temporary gain derived from low prices. The evening papers of London show what competition and low prices lead to, and the difficulty is to retrace the ground after the false step bas been taken. Instead of the sense less course the companies have wisely amalgamated their interests, and it only remains for the Franco- American to surrender their concession and meet the views of the United States to remove all pend ing difficulties. Should they not do so, their con tribution to the joint purse is likely to be very small indeed; and we still maintain, as always, and as we dare say Mr. CYRUS W. FIELD who is now in London can inform the directors, that the Wash ington Executive will close the office at Duxbury if the concession be adhered to. An attempt is noticed in America to controvert the statement in the PRESIDENT'S Message, hut it will not do, for the articles are too distinct to admit of denial, and the nation not only insists on reciprocity, but con tinues to regard the action of the French Govern ment in the matter as little less than au insult to the United States. This stumbling-block removed, to which we again desire to attract the ser ions attention of the French Company, for it is not a matter with which to trifle, the way will be clear for some such action as the Standard recommends-." There seems no reason why the telegrams should not be divided into first, second, and third class, like the passengers on a railway. The first class should consti tute a sort of telegraphic express,occupying one par ticular cable. The two other cables could be used for second-class telegrams at ordinary rates, and for mes sages at half-price, thelatte,r to be sent at night only." BOLTON'S Code, for instance, might find a place in the new arrangements ; and we feel certain that eventually an expeditious•method must be resorted to or the business will beat the lines. Touching this Code, the Philadelphia Ledger, in discussing our articles, objects to thii ponderous book and the dif ficulty of interpreting the numbers through it. But the Ledger is very naturally deleived on the point, for thereal merit of the work rests in its extraordinary simplicity. Those who have not seen it can scarcely help being deluded into the impression that it must be unwieldy and complicated, expensive to pur chase, requiring, first, study to unravel, and after wards time to decipher a particular message. But this is not the case ; indeed, if it were, the name of Mr. CYRUS FIELD would not have been among its endorsers. - Anglo-American Times. DU BARRY'S Delicious Health restoring Revalenta rabica Food, which coat ains three times the nourishment °fill he est meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the more enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dys pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea., hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sort throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities. eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient consumption, tcraula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders. &c. We quote a few out of , 8,000 cure rhe Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food, Cure No. 66.-113. Rome, July 21, 'NCO. —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 Fool, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 49,832: "Of Fifty year indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthmt cough, eon stipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortham, Ling, near Diss. Norfolk Cure No 47,t[1: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Naziug Vicarage -Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousness, indigestion gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. Important Caution —Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imita tions to which without authority, Baron Liebig's name is mos.t audaciously attached _ In tins, at 's ,d; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s Gd; slb 11s; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 41's.—Also BARBY's RDNALEN TA RABICA CrinCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 caps at Is 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 2,8 cups at 30s, for :.76 cups at 57n3 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555 tins are sent free of carriage in England ou receipt of Post Office Order. — BARRY Do limy and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and -Chemists. TUE JEWS IN ROUMANIA The Memorial Diplomatique says that the question of the Jews in Roumania is not a religious one, but really a national and economic one. The increase of the Hebrew emigration into tho Principalities, and especially in Moldavia, is assuming the proportions of a real invasion, which threatens to absorb the primitive element of the indigenous population before long. Statistical details have shewn. that the population of the Principality is two millions, and that there is one Jew to five of the native population, while twenty years ago the proportion was only one to twenty-seven. In no country has the Jewish race ever held a similar relation to the original inhabitants, or made such marked pro gress. Whether the Memas•ial considers this fact an excuse for persecution does not appear. THE AMERICAN OBITUARY FOR 1869. The American papers, in recording the deaths of dis tinguished men last year, consider that the most eminent names in the list are those of Stanton, Fessenden, and Peabody. The Nation thinks that Mr. Stanton died at the end of a stormy decade in which he had had perfect opportunity for the exercise of his peculiar powers, and when the country was entering on a period for which ho was less fitted. Mr. Fessenden, on the other hand, is lost to the nation at a time when his services in the way of critical and careful organisation would be most valuable. Mr. Peabody's name is as sure of immortality as Howard's. Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, is another of the eminent men who have died during 1869 ; and besides these, there are many whose names are mentioned in the obituary, but who have out lived public interest. Of these were ex-President Franklin Pierce, Admiral Stewart, General Wool, lind statesmen like the Hon. Robert Walker, secretary of the Treasury under President Palk; the Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy under President Buchanan ; and the Hon. Amos Kendall, Postmaster- General under President Jackson. Among the literary losses of the year we must include the name of James Harper, the well-known book publisher of New York. STRIKE OF A33ERICAN TELEGRAPII OPERATORS. The strike of the Western Union Telegraph operators has extended to the south, and is now general, A despatch from San Francisco says that the salsries of some of the operators were reduced in that city, as at Sac ramento. The strikers hold daily meetings in the various cities, and declare their deter mination not to yield. The Western Union Telegraph Company is transacting business at its main office with a reduced force of operators not belonging to the Protective League. The managers are confident that there will be no interruption to the business, as the operators on strike express their conviction that the company will be com pelled to consent to their demands. At St. Louis the Strikers' League are of opinion that their association has committed a great blunder. JUVENILE CRIMINALS. The Archbishop of York has been speaking in his cathedral city at a reformatory meeting, on the sub ject of juvenile criminals. his Grace said he wished that the public generally would subject such matters greater surveillance and criticism. The matter was of the deepest importance. They possessed an engine able to save no less than 80 percent. of the boys committed to it, who were hitherto given up to crime. The clergy . ought to "recognize it as a part of their duty to strive not only with the sin within, but the sin without." There was but one way of instilling pure and right opinions into the juvenile mind, and that was by educating, and conveying to them sound principles. It was because of our nen.- lect of education in the past that we had so much to regret in the present. "We have been taught," said the Archbishop, "and taught only recently, by practical results, that social evils are removable things; that these hundred criminals, who fifty years ago would have been left untouched, are, so far as eighty per cent. of them are concerned, per fectly reclaimable. And when we find that these things are removable, it is our duty to make efforts to remove them. •If we sit down and sleep—l don't speak of the clergymen alone, I mean the laity too— it our magistrates, tradesmen, merchants, and farmers sit down and sleep, then sin lies at their door." THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE LAND QUESTION. The agitation on the Irish Land Question has brought out many incidents which may be set off against the charges of oppression and the declara tions of discontent so loudly made. In the county of Londonderry there was a tenant right meeting, at which speeches were made, and resolutions passed, expressing dissa tisfaction with the landlord system. It has been followed by a demonstration of a different kind at Newtown Limavady, where the Kennaught Farming Society held its annual ploughing matches and dinner. The healths of Mr. Ogilvy, the lord of the soil, of the Marquis of Water ford and the Fishmongers' Company, and of the county members and resident land lords, were proposed in terms of high eulogium, and enthusiastically received. The latter toast was acknowledged by Sir F. W. Hey - gate, Bart., M.P. for Londonderry. He had been, he said, for many years a resident landlord, and his first duty and chief pleasure was to watch and contribute to the progress of the county. Ho deprecated the condition of being obliged to relinquish improve ments, and expressed his belief that great amend ments might be made in the present state of the law. He said that the greater number of landlords were as anxious as lie was that all irritation should be removed. He admitted that there had been some bard cases of eviction, and that it wu aid be right for the Legislature to apply a remedy to prevent injustice and wrong. A vote of thanks wa3 accorded to Sir Frederick for his " manly utter ances on the land question." BISHOP ELLICOTT ON INTEMPEIIANCE. Bishop Ellicott has addressed a meeting of work ing men, held on behalf of the Bristol Church Aid Fund, on the Church and the People. He spoke of the influences which had conduced to the Church of England losing her hold in a great measure on the masses. He would not say that the blame rested altogether with the working classes. The Church had not been sufficiently energetic in endeavouring to stay the evils which had brought about so lamentable a result. Chief among these was the prevailing habit of intemperance. He believed that this was the cause of causes in regard to the neglect of reliaion_ ot_ which the 44d heard 19 witch. Alt ERECAN PitESS. The Philadelphia Ledger says :—" The trial of 0 verend, Gurney, and Co. in the Court of Queen'ti Bench, England, has called the attention of the London journals to the defects of the Act of Parlia ment in reference to banks and joint-stock compa nies, which limits the liabilities of stockholders and members of private partnerships, and the ideas ex pressed on this subject may be useful in this coun try. The weak points of the English law in reference to banks, it is asserted, consists in the fact that all the capital is not required to be paid in before the in stitution commences business. Thus, ordinarily, an instalment of only 10 per cent. on the nominal capital is demanded, and the bank does business on the credit of the unpai I portion. While the undertaking pros pers the arrangement works smoothly, but when c nntnercial distress oppresses the public, then the larger , the amount left unpaid on the shares, the greater is the ruin overwhelming the stockholders. Another practical dilfiCuity consists in the appoint- Inentof unskilled managers, of melt who having made their money in other fields of labour have no experi ence or knowledge in the superintendence of a bank. No man can take up a profession at a moment's notice, and yet the subscriber to a large number of shares of a bank is considered as fully competent to ma nage the institution. The same objections are urged against the usual mode of selecting directors, and, it is contended in addition, that persons iu this po sition, who have opportunities not enjoyed by the stockholders, of learning the real condition of the bank, should be prohibited by law from parting with their shares, unle-s the fact be publicly an nounced at a general meeting, when a full and searching investigation can be ordered. It is fur- ther argued that the liability of the directors on their shares should continue for a longer time than in the case of an ordinary stockholder." The same paper remarks as follows on submarine cables :—" Shares in submarine cable companies are in every instance but one sold at a large advance above par. Thus the Electric International, par £lOO sterling, sells for 257 to 263 ; the Submarine, par £lOO sterling, for 245 to 255 ' • the Anglo-Ame rican, par £lO sterling, at 19.5 to 20 ; and the Anglo-Mediterranean, par £lO sterling, at 17.25. On the other hand, the French Transatlantic Cable, par £2O sterling, sells from 15.5 to 15.75, or at a discount of 21.25 to 22.5 per cent. This decline in the selling price is due to the apprehension that the permanent connection with the shores of the United States Maybe interrupted by the Government. It is however, asserted that arrangements have been negotiated either for the consolidation of the Eng lish and French lines, or for the maintenance of the present rates for the transmission of messages. The Fretich Cable, according to the official report furnished to the stockholders, cost about 6,255,0 00 dollars in gold, distributed amonc , the following items —Construction andlaying or cable $4,600,00 0 , payment to Reuter and Erlanger for the French charter $500,000, payment for American charter $50,000, miscellaneous and extraordinary expenses $1,105,000. During the thirteenth week the French Cable was in operation it earned $11,023 in gold, and supposing the same rate without any increase to be continued for a year, the annual earnings would amount to nine per cent. on the capital in vested. But the number of messages has been in creasing, so that the earnings have actually been much larger. From these circumstances it appears that investment in transatlantic cables are be- lieved to be profitable, and consequently the Belgo - American Submarine Telegraph Com pany has been formed. This company has just made a contract with cable manufacturers is England for the making and laying of a cable. The cost of the cable, 3,760 nautical miles long, will be $38,400,000, divided into the following items 3,609 nautical miles, 2,029 yards each of deep see cable, $3,420,000 ; twenty miles, light shore end, $23,600 ; forty miles medium shore end, $90,400 ; one hundred miles, heavy shore end, $307,00 0 . The conductor is to be of seven copper wires insu lated with four coatings of gutta percha aid four of compound, alternately, and covered with spun Manilla yarn eight strands each, soaked in tar; and the whole to be surrounded with gutta percha col*" pound and properly covered. The cable will then weigh about 1,000 pounds to the nautical mile. The laying of the cable will coat $500,000, so that i the cost of the line will amount to $4,341,000 n gold. This enterprise still requires the consent of the United States Government, but Belgium hae granted to an American Company an exclusive privilege for laying cables between the two eouw tries for twenty years." OBITUARY.—Hon. Benjamin F. Hopkins, mer.ll - of the U. S. House of Representatives from the Se; cond Congressional District of Wisconsin, died on lan. 3 u , at Madison, in that State. He was born in Washington county, N. Y., on April 22d, 1829, where he received a common school education. Ile next removed to Wis consin and engaged is mercantile pursuits. In 1856- 1 he was private secretary t• the Governor of Wisconsin, 10 1805 was a member of the Wisconsin House of Representa tives, an in 1862 and 1863 a member of the Senate. In 1866 he was elected to the Fortieth Congress, in whic'' he s ewed on the Committees of Public Lands and En" rolled Bills. In 1868 ho was elected to the Forty-firs , " Congress, and was chairman of the Committee on Public Build i ugs and Grounds.—Ematiuel C. Reigart, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who has just died, aged 74 years, firs t nominated Thaddeus Stevens for Congress.—Stephe n Dubois, President of the Hudson River National Bank , died at Hudson, New York, on Thursday morning, Dec.3 l ' aged 66.—The Hon. John Olney, County Judge of Greene County, New York, died on Thursday evening, Dec. 31.-" The Hon. William L. Goggin, for several years Represen tative in Congress from Virginia, and Whig candidate 1 0 1 Governor iu 1859, died at Richmond on Tuesday, Jan. in the 64th year of his age.—Mrs. Bathsheba Merton, the oldest inhabitant of Middleburg, Vermont, has just died , aged 99.—George Negley, youngest son of General Jame o S. Negley, member of Congress from the Pittsburgh (Pa ), District, died in Philadelphia, Jan. 7. His remains be sent to Pittsburg for interment. RAILWAY NEWS.—The Wall-street Journal sayS: —"lmportant changes in the management of the Great Western Railway of Canada are about to take place, which will virtually place the road under control of its America°, c onnecting lines. The committee of English di rec tors ca the Great Western Road, now in this country, afte r thoroughly examining the road, recently held a meetinff with James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Centre , Road, and other prominent American railroad officials coo' nected with the Central route. The result was, Mr. Joy obtains a controlling influence over the affairs of the Great Western Road, also over the Detroit and Milwaukee Road , which was also included ha the arrangement. The office of managing director, now held by Mr. Swinyard, abolished. William K. Muir, present Assistant-Genera " Superintendent of the Michigan Central Road, has been appointed General Superintendent of the Great Western Road. He assumes the duties of the office on January 1 ' About one hundred railroad bills are now pending the action: Congress; three are from Arkansas—one 3 0 miles long, one 900, and the third is projected from Cairo' to the Mexican boundary, near Presidio del Norte, on the Rio Grande. with a branch to Lawrence, Kansas. Lai' siana has three bills—one on the " Pacific Transit Rail way," from New Orleans to the Rio Grande-700 milee long, for which only the right of way with 8,400 acres per mile is asked. The Southern Pacific Road, on or near the 32d parallel, is 1,900 miles long, and asks 400 feet for right of way, and 40 sections to the mile ; a total of 48,685,600 acres, together with a guarantee of the interest, on $32,000 per mile—a total of $60,800,000. Mr. Nye, °' Nevada, has a bill for a road from Galveston, Texas, ter Fort. Gibson, with a branch at Little Rock, Arkansas' The distance is 700 miles.—The Utah Central Railroad 10 now built to within eight miles of Salt Lake City. -- Governor Hoffman has not turned over the Susquehanna Railroad to the Ramsey directors. He is said to be wait ing for an official copy of Judge Smith's decision. It 10 understood that further legal proceedings aro to be takea, by the opponents in the Ramsey interest.—lt is expect ed that the cars of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Rail' road will be running 50 miles from Jefferson by the Ist March, and, to Paris, Texas, by the middle of June.—The track of the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad is now laid over ten miles from St. Joseph, and the work is going on also at the New Buffalo end. Trains corn' minced running on the Peninsular Railroad between Battle Creek and Bellevue on December 1. The company has 1,300 tons of iron in Detroit, and 1,800 tons on the wa y. This, with what they have on hand, will iron the road to Lansing. The company will run trains from Battle Creek to Lansing in January. Arrangements have bee n made for the completion of the Holly, Wayne, and Monroe Railroad, to be operated in connection with 'the Lak e Shore and Flint and Pere Marquette Roads.—The Evans' vine, Terre Haute, and Chicago Railroad Company has been organised to construct a road from. Terre H au te, to the State line, in the direction of Danville, there to unit e with the Chicao Danville and Vincennes Railroad. It° northern connection the Chicago, Danville, and Vincenne° Railroad, is b e i ng rapidly completed. About 30 miles of track are laid and its builders will complete it to the Indiana State line during the present year.—The West Wisconsin Railroad Company has completed its track mil is nor running to A.ugusta, 70 miles. Forty miles beyon a Augusta are under contract, and it is hoped to finish the road to St. Paul during the com ing year.—The last re." of tho Utah Central Railroa ( lwa r st o o pr b i e at l e ie. laid at City on Monday, Ja n. 10, with appropriate BIRTHS. FORI3ES —On the 20th inst., Mrs. Forbes, of Nowe, of daughter. F.B.EuE- On the 19th inst., Mrs. Partle J. L. Frere, Boas ford-square, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BEARE — SPRINGFIELD On the 20th inst., at Caton, N°'' folk, Samuel Prater Boar°, Esq., of Thorpe-next-Nor wich, to Mary Louisa the second daugLter of ()sha ll Springfield, E sq .. oi Uatton. • 11 BRASIIER—BROwELL—On the 20th inst., at Feltham part s , church, Alf re d B ras h er, E sq., o f Ri c h mon d , S urreY , Charlotte Busk, the third daughter of E. M. 8r0w 0,2 Esq. DEATHS. BAILEY—At Norbury, near Sheffield, Samuel Bailoy, ESA'' aged 79. SEYmoult- On the 20th inst., at 115, Eaton-tquare, miral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour, G.0.Y 4 G. 0.11., aged 89. 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