The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-01 00:00:00

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY. It was exactly five o'clock when the Speaker put the question from the chair that the Irish Land Bill be read a third time. He was so quick, and went through the process se rapidly, calling upon the Ayes and the Noes to declare themselves, that the bill Was nearly passed with out a word. But Mr. Hardy was too sharp for the Speaker, and, amid much laughter, he got up to deliver, in the absence of his leader, the final criticisms of the Conservative chieftains. The Treasury bench was pretty full at this time—Mr. Glad stone in the middle, Sir R. Collier on his right, Mr. Fortescue on his left Sir J. Coleridge, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Glyn, the Marquis of Hartington were the others; and, fast asleep —nay, not fast, but loose asleep, for he kept on nodding ahOut and nearly falling off his seat—was Mr. Forster, who, I believe, has not made a single speech upon this bill. Mr. Lowe, who dbth not like the measure, was absent at first, so, . too, were the chiefs of the spending departments and that universal favourite, the First Commissioner of 'Works. Mr. Hardy had not much to say, and he did not attenapt to make a speech. His strictures were direcdto certain p o i n t s. H e sa i d he did not like the bill, mit he was not going to take any part in rejecting it, because he was very anxious that a measure of the kind should pass during the present session. Moreover," intimated Mr. Hardy, though not quite in these words, " there is another and a better House. Yes, thank God, thlre is a House of Lords. and they will do their duty; they will doctor the bill and make it palatable to the Conservative party." Sixteen minutes sufficed for the Conservative leader, —vice Mr. Disraeli, retired from business ?—to say his say. He was followed by Mr. Maguire who, throughout the debates on the bill, has kept silence even from good words. He was moved to speak by Mr. Hardy's refer ence to " another place." He warned the Conservatives in strong and weighty language that the speech just made was if seriously meant, full of peril. If it should embolden the Peers to seriously alter the bill, and return it to the Commons in such a state that. these could not accept it, their lordships would be responsible for an act most hurtful to Ireland, most dangerous to something besides Ireland. That country wanted rest, repose, and the Minister who could confer that gift, so as to allow the people to enjoy the full benefit of the bill, would confer the very greatest boon that it was possible to bestow. Mr. Maguire bore testimony to the generosity with which both English and Scotch members had treated the sister country, and giving heartfelt thanks to the Government for all their exertions, he sat down amid considerable ap plause, having spoken twenty minutes. Sir F. Heygate was the next to rise. He had a very different tale to tell. The bill was bad, all the amend ments moved by his side of the House had been negatived, and to shew how useless the measure was as a message of peace, he pointed to Canada at that present moment—a reference which elicited some very unmusical interjections. Mr. Bryan, who moved the rejec tion of the bill on the second reading, was there, natty and beauish as ever, with a red rose in his coat, and when he got up there was some curiosity on the Treasury Bench to know what he would say. Mr. Gladstone and his col leagues stretched their necks round to hear better what the leader of the forlorn hope would announce. He soon un folded his secret. He was not going to oppose the measure again. Other Irish members had said on the former occa sion that if it were not improvedthey should vote against it on the third reading. They were not going to vote against it ; therefore he was bound to suppose that it had been improved, and there was no longer any obligation on his part to offer any opposition to the bill. Captain Ithite, his associate three months ago, did not put in an appearance last night. In fact I have scarcely seen him in the House since that March midnight when, resist ing Mr. Gladstone's eloquent appeal, he persisted in forcing a division, and came back with his fellow-teller looking absurdly small. The debate had lasted fifty-one minutes when Mr. Gladstone rose. He answered Sir Frederick Heygate's complaint that the bill was a bill for the tenants, in very energetic language. " You have been legislating on behalf of landlords for generations, and what is their position. now? Is property secure ? Is life secure ?" The Go vernment held that in passing a measure which would give justice to the tenants, they were doing more for the landlords than any other measure could accom plish for them. The Premier then went on to praise the House of Commons for the in dustry which it had shewn by discussing this measure for nearly two dozen nights. Far from complaining of the amendments which had been proposed, he thought that the thanks of the Government were due to those who had made them, and though it was not to be expected that the Government and the Opposition would think exactly alike upon these, yet he could bear witness th there had been no factious obstruction. Then, wit good deal of ingenuity, Mr. Gladstone went on to shew that the favourable reception which, upon the whole, the Opposition, and also the Irish members, had given to the bill was a reason why the Upper House should not spoil it. The landlords themselves, Mr. Glad stone said, would, be was confident, declare that they woad rather that the bill should pass than that it should be lost, and great would be the responsibility resting upon those who frustrated the desired consummation. The Premier sat down amid loud cheers, after speaking twenty-one minutes. It seemed then as if the bill would be read without further discussion. But amid uncomplimentary sounds Captain Archdall rose to make a thorough ultra-Tory speech. The bill was wholly bad, it was the offspring of fear, and so mis chievous did he think it, that he felt bound to record his protest by dividing the House against it. There was a shout of expostulation at this announcement. This noise was succeeded by a cry of pain, an (" ooh ! ooh I " as though hon. members were simultaneously undergoing the application of the forceps at the hands of a dentist), when Sir John Gray got up. He was listened to for a few minutes with tolerable patience; but when he proceeded to denounce the bill as incomplete, unsatisfactory, and as affording no settlement of the question, he had an anything but gracious reception. At first there was a solitary cry of "'Vide." That was taken up by other members, and then there was a sort of sub dued refrain, in which several scores joined. It would die away for a time, like the sighing of the wind among the trees on a summer evening. Yet it betokened an approaching storm. But when Sir John proc ee d e d to pull .a quantity of papers out of his pocket, the gentle murmur became a tumult, and as he still persisted in speaking, the tumult became a downright roar, like the grand music of a hurricane, and not a word uttered by the member for Kilkenny could be heard. He appealed to the Speaker for protection ; but the Speaker did not seem to see it, tend the corpulent Soli citor-General for Ireland smiled thereat. All this while Mr. Gladstone was reading a heap of letters and, when read, putting them away in his despatch box. Mr. Forster had been aroused from his nap by the fearful noise, and blinked owlishly. Some of the absent ministers had taken their seats on the Treasury bench, so as to be ready for the *vision. When at last Sir John Gray sat down after a Venty-seven minutes speech and Mr, M`Carthy ,downing started up, an exceedingly loud and bitter cry of anguish arose from hungry legislators. How- ever the member for Cork county speedily let it be known that he had no criticisms to make, but he wished only to protest against the sentiments of Sir John Gray, and to thank the Government, in the name of the electors of County Cork, for the bill which was then before the House. Colonel Barttelot's appearance elicited another cry of agony, but he too quickly changed the note into one of approval as he appealed to Captain Arch dall not to divide the House, and denounced Sir John Gray, as the author of half the mischief in Ireland. The Government thought it necessary to answer the proprietor of the Freenzan'A Journal, and so Mr. Chichester Fortescue got up to repudiate altogether Sir John Gray's representation of the effect of the bill. He was followed by Mr. Henry Herbert, Pr. Brady, And Mr. Murphy, each of whom was greeted with a hoot. The two first spoke but for about a minute, and all of them agreed in disclaiming all connection with Sir John, and in thanking the Government. Mr. Murphy praised espe cially Mr: Chichester Fortescue, who raised his hat in acknowledgment of the compliment. By this time it was known that Captain Archdall could not find a seconder, and would not press a division. At last the Speaker put the question, That this bill be now read a third time." In answer to the usual invitation there was a shout of ayes, but alinost entirely from the Liberal benches. " Those who are of the contrary opinion say No," said the Speaker, and to that challenge' there was mita single response. ' The Ayes have it," resounded from beneath the canopy ; and then there rose up a hearty cheer that would have been longer, but that hon„ members were rushing out to dine. It was at six minutes past seven that the House of Commons read the Irish ',and Bill a third time nnaine contradicente. • The Commons sat for nearly eighthours after this event. I cannot say that I did. There was something going on i n the Upper House more attractive than gun licenses and stamp duties. There was some very sharp sparring between the law lords, who do know bow to hit hard. The Giiveru: meat are determined to carry through their High Court of Justice bill this session, and, on finding this, Lord Westbury made a bitter speech, and said th a t h e wou ld have nothing more to do with the nsure. Lord C a i rns was almost as anFry. He advised the Chancellor to post pone the bill until the Courts of Justice were finished— a remark which made Lord Hatherley rise from the Woolsack, and say that he had endeavoured to believe in the sincerity of the learned lord when he avowed his desire to expedite the measure ; but now his—the Chancellor's—heart sank within him. Eventually the bill passed through com mittee, and Lord Granville was just about to move the adjournment of the House when a wigged clerk appeared bringing some document which was hastily thrust by the leader of the Peer s i n t o th e h an d s o f th e Chancellor. Ajost of their lordships had left when Lord Hatherley rose, and asked, in his usual formal rapid manner, that this bill be read a first time. It was read; but what was "it ? " The Irish Land Bill; and in this undignified and silent moa ner that great measure which had just left the Lower House amid rejoicings, WAS intmlucic.l to the Upper branoh of thd Legislatted. CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. The select committee appointed to' inquire into the manner in which the Monasteries and Conventual Insti tutions in the country hold their property resumed their inquiry on Tuesday. The Right Hon. C. P.. Villiers occupied the chair. Mr. J. V. Harling, a solicitor conversant with the con veyancing of ecclesiastical property, was called, and in reply to questions from Mr. Matthews said he had been many years in practice and con cerned for various convents. He confirmed the state ment made by previous witnesses that convents were illegal, and in the Saurin trial it was contended that the intention of the 17th section of the Act of George 111. was to have them illegal, and a rule was obtained on that point, but it went no further. In 1800 a bill was intro duced into the House, of Commons in conse quence of the rapid growth of these institutions. It was passed by the Commons, but in the Lords it was opposed by two bishops, of whom Bishop Horsley was one, and he shewed that there were already two Acts of Parliament which were sufficiently restrictive. A good deal of discussion took place with respect to th e su bj ec t o f confession, and Dr. Horsley undertook to inquire into the matter, and found that it was the fact that two women, who had entered into their novitiate did confess, but that one of them had entered her novitiate in a foreign country, and Dr. Horsley was interrupted by the then Lord Chancellor, who declared the whole matter to be illegal It was singular enough that the words "nunnery" and "monk" are only used in one Act of Parliament, viz., the Act of Charles 11. in all the other Acts, including 10 Geo. 4, the words were "religious persons." There was no repeal of any penal statutes till 1846, except portions of the sections of Wm. 111, and the Act of 31st George 111., merely relieved them on condi tions, but not in terms. The Act providing for the registration of property deeds, the 22nd sec tion of the Act of Geo. 111., contains the only healing clause. He did not think that the 7th and Bth, and 9th and 10th of the Queen repealed the whole of the former statutes, but only relieved the Roman Catholics of certain penalties. At all events the 17th section of the 31st George 111. was not repealed. There had been a great change in the character of the religions, both had totally changed, and there was now no such thing as a solemn vow in England such as was contemplated by the penal statute. There had been a diminution in the contemplative orders after the French revolution. There may have been convents introduced from abroad, but they were not contemplative orders, not what our houses were before the Reformation. Of the whole 200 religious houses in England more than four-fifths of them were active, and not contemplative, and many of them were not really convents or nunneries. There had been no increase in the old English monasteries, but the increase against which the acts were directed were Jesuits, seminary priests and " disobedient " persons. Those were the words of the Act. He was thoroughly conversant with the Act of 1800, and had advised the registration of all the deeds which were registered. Convents were not charities because there was no endow ment. All that was required was the enrollment of the deed conveying the property without making a declara tion of the trust, and it had been decided in the case of Doe v. Lloyd, it was not necessary to do so. If the endowment were made for a school it would be legal, and it would not be rendered illegal because it was superintended by monks or nuns. If a deed coupled with the conveyance a trust that the school should be managed in all times by monks or nuns, it would be void and he should certainly not allow it to be registered ; the state of the law would not allow it to be. Property was held by individuals in convents absolutely whether acquired by purchase or gift, and there was no declaration of trust. It was quite discretionary to keep up any particular number; there is no obligation to do so though they do. Everything depended on their honour, and no obligation could be enforced against them either at law or equity. When one of the joint tenants died or resigned the property went to the others. He represented two hundred convents in England, and he and Mr. Arnold acted for the ladies of those convents. He also represented the Scotch convents—in all about two hundred and fifteen. If he told them the number of inmates and the number of convents, they would get at the number in the convents. He objected to state the number, because it might lead to results that were not desirable. If the inquiry stopped there, and no inquiry was made as to the property held, he could give it. As regards the real property possessed by nunneries, each nun would be entitled to two roods and thirty-four perches of land. All leaseholds above sixty years he had treated as freeholds. There was a very small portion of leasehold. That in cluded garden and the site of the house. He did not know of any case in which nuns enjoyed the benefit of land let to others. Very few had more than they occupied. There was one case where they were obliged to buy a piece of land to prevent an approach being made. With this exception their land was all residential. Taking the whole acreage of England, and dividing it among the population, it would be found that each person wohuld have 1 acres, whereas the nuns only had 2 roods, and 34 perches. In regard to the income of nuns,' he found that taking the nominal capital they pos sessed, and reckoning it at 4 per cent., the annual income of each nun, would be £6 16s. 3i. They were largely engaged in education, both in the' upper, and middle, and poorer classes, and in the care of orphan children. The results for the whole kingdom was that in England they educated in convents 990 of the upper classes, 3,115 of the middle, and 56,612 of the poor, whose education was given gratuit ous ly b es id es which there were in the refuges 379 penitent women who had been reclaimed and were provided for. In Scotland there were 36 young ladies receiving their education in convents, 377 of the middle class and 3,299 of the poorer kinds providing for 102 penitent women. On entering a convent a novice brings a dowry of various amounts, some are admitted without any, and indeed the propor tion who bring no money is considerable. Some have expectations. Some on th other hand, bring £l,OOO. The making of a will is simply required in order that if a legal representative were wanted he would be forthcoming. Wills of that kind rarely passed pro perty, and he did not know of any having been proved. He could not say that he had not made wills passing property. The old dowry used to be £l,OOO, but practi cally it is now much less, sometimes not more than £lOO. The portion of a young lady is always fixed before profession, and in case of anything coming to them through marriage settlements some friend would advance the money. In the case of minors they could not enter a convent without the full consent of the parents or guardian. There is really no solemn vow such as that which used to be known to the law. Mr. Villiers : What is afinal vow? Witness : In some order the members are almost all their lives in a probationary state. First they enter as a postulant ; they then become a novice, afterwards the are admitted as a quasi member of the associ a ti on , w hi c h asked for a further protection—sometimes seven years, some times nine—and which might be extended according to the discretion of the Superior, and according to the dis position or capacity of the aspirant, and it is very often many years before they become final members of the associa tion. The heir atlaw in a convent would be the last of the joint tenant. A resident in a convent might make a will in re spect to other property than that which they owned as joint tenants, but they could not leave it to the convent as such. That would be illegal. They could leave it to an inmate. He could not point to any statute since the Roman Catholic religion in this country had been legalised which had rendered convents illegal. By Mr. Jessel : The Jesuits are the only body known to us as a society. He had never heard of property being given to convents in consideration of teaching. He should not think £7 a year enough to support even a nun, but when they were dishoused they had only £4 a year. The remainder of the money required for their support was made up from teaching. The cost of their living is very moderate. He should like to see their property well secured and setttled, and the doubts enter tained put an end to. Monks, qua monks have no property. The property is of the individ ua l. B y th e Roman Catholic Relief A-ct Monks could not reside here, and they were liable to fine and imprisonment, but it said nothing about their property, so that he could not say as far as he knew that property would be liable to forfeiture under the enactments of the Roman Catholic Relief Act as regarded monks bound by vows. There was, in fact, nothing in that Act which touched their property. They wanted no alteration in the law if their property was treated as private property. It was a grhjvancp that monks were not allowed to hold property. Every other person in the State could hold it, and why should not they. hitherto they had no choice in the matter, and were obliged to hold it as individuals. By Mr. Newdegate : The statute of 31 Geo. 111. re lieved women of the penalties of transportation in curred by monks, but the act was simply decla ratory not prohibitory. It merely declared that women should not 14 subjected to the penalti es He admitted that the operati on o f this statute formed a restraint upon the formation of male orders of Roman Catholics in this country. The penalties under George IV. were new penalties, but there were many unrepealed penalties before that, such as the punishment of death and the forfeiture of goods. In his opinion the passing of the Act of George IV. was a re-enactment of the old penalties, l u t communities of monks exist in thi s coun t ry, and he oped they always would. There wer e a l so J esu i ts i n s country ; and he had seen letters attached to their names. He knew the Catholic directory, which so far as the Church offices are c9nperned is an authority. The words " permissive superior "merely related to the Church offices, not to the convents or monastic institutions. It is a useful book, and may be all true, but it i s o f authority. In respect to the list of the monastic institu tions (which the hon. member read) he had no information to give on the subject, but as soon as there was any legislative enactment declaring them to be legal he would answer the question. He desired that monastic institutions should exist' ligally in ngland in the spirit in whi c h th e y were contemplated by ilia Church of Rome, and to relieve them from restraints. There were one or two cases in which the ladies let a portion of their property, but a very small part. He included houses with land. The Committee adjourned at 4 o'clock. CALIFORNIAN SILK.—The silk manufacturers are looking forward to the time when raw silk can be ob tained from California equal to their demands. The specimens already obtained from Californian cocoons are pronounceed by experienced manufacturers as equal to thg best silk of I n di a or J apan, the fibre being very strong and fine ; free from impurities, and rematkably smooth and glossy. Thg difficulty hitherto has been in getting proper machinery fOr reelin g the cocoons in the districts where they are grown. When that difficulty is removed, as it is in a fair way to be, the silk growers and the small colony of silk manufacturers in the country look forward to a bountiful harvest.—Boston Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1870. LONDON GAZETTE.L.ist Evening, INDIA OFFICE, MAY 28. The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the fol lowing appointments to the First, Second, and Third Classes of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India : TO BE KNIGHTS GRAND COMMANDERS. His Highness Mohender Sing, Maharaja of Puttiala. The Nawab Salar Jung Bahadoor, K.C.5.1., Minister o the Hyderabad State. TO BE KNIGHTS COMMANDERS. His Highness Prince Gholam Mahomed. William Grey, Fsq., Bengal Civil ;Service, Lieutenan Governor cf Bengal. - To BE COMPANIONS. Alexander John Arbuthnot, Esq., Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras. Edward Clive Bayley, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Secre tary to Government of India, Home Department. The Rajah lye Kisken Doss, Deputy Magistrate at Allyghur. Colonel Michael Dawes, late Bengal Artillery. Colonel Henry Errington Lcngden, C. 8., late Adjutant- General of the Bengal Army. Colonel Henry Edward Landor Thuillier, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, Surveyor-General in India. Colonel John Cumming Anderson, Royal (late Madras) Engineers, formerly Chief Engineer at Lucknow. Colonel Martin Dillon, C. 8., Rifle Brigade, Military Secre tary to the Commander-in-Chief in India. Babco Shiva Persad, of Benares, Educational Department. WHITEHALL, May 28. TLe Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hou. and Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, M.A., Dean of Windsor, to be her Majesty's High Al moner, i n t h e room of theßight Rev. Dr. t amuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, resigned. BANKRUPTS. Notice of Adjudication and First Meetings of Creditors, To surrender under the Bankruptcy Act, 1861. In the Country. Walters, Emily, Gloucester-place, Liverpool, restau. rant keeper. To Surrender under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869. In London. Carvell, Joseph, Shoe-lane, City, dairyman. De Rin, Angelo, Westbourne-road North, Barnsbury park. It is expected that her Majesty the Queen will hold a Council at Balmoral on Saturday next. It has been mentioned during the hearing of the case of Boulton and Park, that there are between 3Q and 40 persons more or less improperly connected with this systematic adoption of women's clothes. Mr. John Stuart Mill, and Professor Carrara, of the University of Pisa, have been elected associates of the Belgian Academie Royale, in place of M. Sebastien Lenoxnand and the Marquis Laborde. SUBTRACTION.—Take two letters from money and there will be one left. We know a fellow who took money from two letters and there wasn't anything left. American Paper. Following the example of the Emperor of Austria, almost all the Sovereigns of Europe have sent to the Emperor of the French autograph letters, con gratulating His Majesty on the striking success ofd the Plebiscite. The inhabitants of Blackheath 'have refused the offer of the Metropolitan Board of Works to "plant it and beautify it." The common is to be kept under the management of a local board, who will keep it unen closed and in good order. The death is announced at Norwich of Lady Mary Hoste, in her eighti e th y ear. Sh e was the only daughter of the late James Burkin Burroughs, Esq., of Burlingham Hall, Norfolk, and was born in 1790. She married, July 9th, 1812, Sir George Charles Hoste. THE CnowN PRINCESS of PnussrA. Dr. Gream has left London for the new palace at Potsdam, to •be present at the confinement of her Royal High ness the Crown Princess of Prussia, which may be hourly expected. THE MURDER. OF PRINCE LOUIS D'ARENEERG. —The murderers of Prince Louis d'Arenberg, who was recently so cruelly assassinated in St. Petersburg, have been condemned to fifteen years hard labour in the mines, and to detention for life in Siberia. M. CERNIISCHI.—It is announced in the France that M. Cernuschi, the Italian banker, who was recently expelled from French territ or y for subscribing 109,000f.t0 the Anti-phibiscitary Fund, has received permission to return to France. AL LABOULAYE AND THE STUDENTS.--A large number of the students attending M. Laboulaye's course of lectures have sigued a manifesto denouncing the attacks made upon the professor, and calling on the whole college to unite in an emphatic protest. A female child has died at Bolton, its death being plainly traceable to the intemperate habits of the mother causing her to neglect it. During the time of this neglect the family was• in receipt of about fifty shillings per week. The borough magistrates have committed both parents for trial. THE SON OF COUNT BEusir..—Count Beust, the Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, has just had the mis fortune to lose his s o n, Count Frederick, who was attached to the Austrian Asiatic Expedition as naval officer. Count Frederick died in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, of malignant fever. He was 26 years old. The authorities of Southampton have determined on the adoption of the A, B, C process of utilising sewage and preserving the local waters frem pollution. The necessary works will be commenced at once. Leeds, Halifax, Bolton, and several other towns have decided on the same course. Dr. Newton is "practising" his miracles at Swin don. He still draws crowds of the sick and strong to see the miraculous cures which somehow he always fails to perform. The North Wilts Herald states that the Rev. F. R. Young, of Swindon, believes in his miraculous cures, and has openly published a statement to that effect. The Select Committee of the Commons appointed to consider plans for new refreshment and dining rooms for both Houses of Parliament have reported that the plan of the First Commissioner will afford the accommo dation required by the House of Commons, with reasonable economy, if her Majesty should be graciously pleased to authorise the same. An accident occurred on Monday at the Walthen House Colliery, near Wigan, which resulted in the loss of three lives. Robert Fairhurst, a collier, 40 years of age, was engaged in " holeing " beneath the cannel, in company with his two drawers—Richard Fairhurst, his son, aged 16, and Thoma s N ew t on , aged 14, when a stone, weighing seven t ons , f e ll u p on th em , immediat e ly crush . ing them to death. The dispute at AShton-in-Mackerfield has reached a new and interesting phase. The vicar pro posed :to preach in his, gown in the afternoon, if he might preach in his surplice in the morning. Th e parishioners would not allow this great ecclesias;ical question to be thus compromised, and the vicar then cut the Gordian knot by refusing to preach at either service last Sunday. • On Sunday morning a number of men were walking through a field near Wigan, in which there is a deep pond. On arriving at this, one of the party, named Rudd, offered to walk through if anyone would give him 6d. One of them said he had only 4d., for which Rudd consented to walk through. He took the money and jumped into the w a t er , but became entAngled in the weeds, and when taken out was quite dead. A telegram from Dungarvan, county Waterford, states that on Monday morning, during a southerly gale and in a heavy sea, the schooner Bertholly, 53 tons, John Williams, master, bound from Port ma doc to Cork, w ith a cargo of slates, struck on Dungarvan Bar. The lifeboat Christopher Ludlow, belonging to the National Lif e b oat Institution, put off to the vessel, which was in imminent danger of breaking up, and was the means of saving the crew of three men. The Droit, a French journal, publishes a letter from Madrid, stating that the bands of brigands have recently greatly increased in the middle of Andalusia, and woe be to those who venture far from the towns and other centres of population. This letter gives a slightly different version of the seizure of the Messrs. Bonnel. It affirms that they were taking a trip from Gibraltar, and had received permission from the Duke of Medina Coeli to hunt on his large estates in the neighbourhood. THE INpi4N QUESTION.—The meeting at Cooper Institute, to advocate p. pacific course towards the Indians, mainly indulged in reading letters and hearing speeches. A delegation from the Cherokee Nation was present, and explained the working of the governmental system of that tribe. They had been, many years ago, placed uppn reservations, and had kept their treaties with the Govern ment. Therein apparently lies the only peaceable solu tion of the Indian question. Let all the tribes go upon reservations, and keep their treaties, and there is no pro babiliV of trouble.—New York Herald. COUNT BEUST AND THE CISLEITHAN MINISTRY.— The Spenersche Zeitung refers to Count Beust's recant circular as a proof that he is in favour of the claims of the Gallician Poles, and thinks his reappearance on the scene, hand in hand with the Cisleithan Ministry, is a clear proof that he retained the direction of affairs while the citizen Ministry came and went, and it will be interesting to note what forms the constitutional life of Austria assumes, under the influence of the Imperial Chancellor. THE FLYING SQUADRON.—The Flying Squadron has arrived at Yokohama. The fleet consisted of the Liverpool, Phoebe, Barossa, Endymion, Lippy, and Scylla, and arrived in Japan after 56 days' passage from Australia which was marked by no noticeable incident. It was to stay at Yokohama, about ten days after which it was start for home, leaving the Barossa on the statiou in place of the Pearl, which accompanies the Flying Squadron to England. PROGRESS IN. THE EAST.—China and Japan, so long stagnant in the path of civilisation and progress, are now making rapid strides. Coal mines are to be worked in the Chinese province of Chihli and engines for raising the coal and pumping out the water are in process of con struction at Tientsin arsenal. An Imperial mandate has, moreover, ordered that measures shall b e i mme cli , ately adopted to deepen the Yellow River, and bring it back to its bed.. The most astonishing part of this in telligence comes, however, from Yeddo, where the tele graph has gained so greatly in favour that from sixty to seventy messages are sent on the daily average. STATUE OF LORD PALMERSTON. On Tuesday the statue of Lord Palmerston,inWestminster Abbey was unveiled in the presence of Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess Shaftesbury, the Dean and Lady Augusta Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Cowper-Temple, Sir Robert Peel, Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., and several other friends of the deceased statesman. The statue is placed in the northern transept, and to the im mediate right of the spot where Lord Palmerston lies. buried. The ceremony was of a very simple character. Directly the party had) arrived, the covering was removed, and after viewing the figure for some minutes, the friends left. As no announcement of the unveiling had been made, there were only a few spectators. Mr. Jackson, the sculptor, has executed his work with extraordinary success. THE SMALL-PDX IN PARIS The epidemic of small-pox in Paris for the moment takes precedence of political matters. Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne is ill with it, though his condition is said to be satisfactory, as the malady is following its regular course. The Duke de Caumont la Force has also been attacked. M. Jules Ferry, in the Legislative Body, on Monday, drew the attention of the Government to the alarming progress of the disease, which last week carried off 200 persons, and which is still increasing. He demanded the introduction of a system of gratuitous vaccination, the removal of the smallpox patients from the hospitals in Paris to the country, and a congress of medical men to consider the means of arresting the epidemic. M. Chevandier de Valdrome replied that the Government was anxiously studying the question in the sense of M. Ferry's proposals. DEATH ON THE ALPS. An account of a shocking accident, which happened at Lugano, by which a young Englishman named Royd, son of the well-known banker of Rochdale, lost his life, is given in a letter to the Times. The writer says : "Mr. Royd had arrived at the Hotel du Parc with his uncle, Mr. Smith, and others of his family, on the evening of Wednesday, the 25th, and set out for Monte Salvatore, accompanied by a sister and a cousin. The long-continued hot weather has made the grass very slippery, and the ill-fated young man missed his footing, fell over the perpendicular precipices of the mountain, and was killed, probably instantaneously. The poor young ladies, heartbroken, .pont 801110 hours with utmost peril to themselves, in searching for his body. When found, one of the two re mained on the mountain to keep watch over the corpse, while the other returned to Lugano for as sistance. It was far in the night before the sorrow stricken girl reached the hotel, and about 1 a.m. a large body of men with lanterns, and accompanied by a doctor, started for the scene of the accident. They relieved the solitary guardian of her agonising midnight watch, and conveyed Mr. Royd's remains to the hotel. The relatives are stunned with the suddenness of the calamity ; but all that the most con siderate kindness can suggest is beihg done for them by the proprietor of the hotel, M. Bella, and his excellent wife. Singularly enough, Ascension Day is the annual fester of the Monte Salvatore, and the mountain would be thronged with many hundreds of people within a few hours of the accident. It will be well if no fresh calamity occurs. The mountains are beginning to claim theft' yearly toll of human sacrifices very early this year." LAW AND POLICE. LORD HENRY SEYMOUR AND THE LONDON CHARITIES. — At the Rolls Chambers, before Mr. Marshall, chief clerk, the case of " Wallace v. The Attorney-General " was heard on an application for a further distribution of the estate of the late Lord Henry Seymour amongst the numerous charities of London admitted to a participa tion, under the denomination expressed in the will of his lordship of " Les Hospices de Londres." The appli cation was for a further payment of £B5 to each of the eighty-five London charities. The residue of the stock standing so the credit of this cause generally will also be divisible amongst the eighty-five charities, but not until the accounts have been adjusted between the " Hospices de Londres " and " L'Administrateur d'Assistance Publique de Paris." About £lOO will in addition, be shortly paid to the L on d on " H osp i ces, " so that under Lord Henry Seymour's will each of the eighty-five charities will receive nearly £7OO. A ROMANTIC CASE.—In the Divorce Court, before Lord Penzance, the case of "Plowden v. Plowden " was again mentioned. It will be remembered that the peti tioner, MrS. Plowden, is a daughter of Mr. Henry Taylor, the proprietor of the Maravilla, Cocoa, and the respondent is a captain in the army. It was originally a petition for a dissolution of marriage, on the ground of the husband's cruelty and subsequent adultery, and the case created great interest in consequence of its sen sational and romantic charater. The judge ruled that no legal cruelty had taken place, and allowed the case to 'stand over, so that the petitioner might apply for a judi cial separation on the ground of adultery. Mr. Searle now applied, on behalf of the respondent, for the petition to be dismissed. Sergeant Parry said he thought the application should be acceded to, and he should offer no opposition t o it. It was intended to appear to the House of Lords against his Lordship's decision, and unless there was a direct judgment, he feared his right to do so, would be imperilled.—Lord Penzance said of course all the while the case was left un decided, no appeal could take place. As no opposition was offered, he should dismiss the petition. THE BRISTOL ELECTION PETITION. —Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., applied to the Court of Common Pleas to fix a day for the hearing of the special ca se ra i se i n " R e t h e Bristol Electi on Ptition." The question to be decided was whether bribery affecting the test ballot was bribery affecting the election, and the decision of the Court upon this novel point was desired by Baron Bramwell before giving his judgment in the matter of the petition. After some coniultatioia, the Court agreed to hear the case on Thursday, June 9th, and inasmuch as the decision will involve the seat for the borough, it will be taken first on that day. PUBLIC RIGHT ON THE SHORES OF THE THAMES.—In the Queen's Bench their lordships decided that the public have an uninterrupted right of footway along the river side between Gre enw i c h an d Ch ar l ton, and that Messrs. Bessemer and Maudesley, whose premises abut upon the river wall, are not authorised in obstructing the passage of the public. The dispute as to the question involved in this case has subsisted for some time, and the de cision must be regarded as of considerable general import acne. The right of petition was exercised for the first time in the Corps Legislatif on Saturday last, when M. Rampont presented a petition from the Mayor of Sens respecting the Waters of the Vanne. TEE PORCUPINE OUT OF PRISON.—The Liverpool Daily Courier seems to imagine that the lines of Mr. Shimmin, who has just finished a month's imprison ment for libel, have fallen in rather too pleasant a place. "But now that it is all bver," says the Courier, " it may be worth while to ascertain the kind of punish ment Mr. Shimmin has undergone in gaol. There is a treadmill in Kirkdale—Mr. Shimmin was excused the unprogressive step; there are mat looms, oakum eels, and casemated apartments—Mr. Shimmin has acquired no knowledge of weaving, and has not ruminated on the separate system ; there are gloomy courts, where a blade of grass never springs, and the eye grows weary of dull bricks and dingy flags—Mr. Shimmin suffered from none of these depressing associations. lie was a first-class misdemeanant, and we are not sure whether this is not a desirable punishment. Just as a famished " arab" breaks a street lamp to get rations in prison, so an overworked editor may libel a merchant prince to enjoy a pleasant holiday." AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS.—The elections which will shortly take Place in Austria for the opening of the Reichsrath and the Provincial Diets will be carried out in accordance with the existing electoral law which has been condemned by nearly all the Diets. The bourgeoisee of Vienna sent a petition to Count Potocki begging him to grant the right of suffrage to all citizens who paid a moderate tax. Count Potocld a=cknowledged the justice of the request, but was unable to comply with it because a partial reform of the electoral law would only place him in a false•position, and interfere with the success of his scheme. The German Centralists are alarmed at the autonomist movement, which is spreading in all directions. At a meeting of deputies which took place at Brunn, a manifesto was prepared which bore the signatures of many members of the Reicherath. This set forth the dangers which would ensue if they departed from the constitutional path, and asked for the adoption of mode rate reforms. AN OLD OFFENDER.—There is an intelligent Irishwoman named Mary O'Neill, at Greenock, who, how ever, so often gets into trouble, that serious intenti ons o f committing her to jail are often contemplated by the magistrates. Mary OtNiel, or, as she has latterly been called, Madge Wildfire, has one great fault, namely, a lo ve of drinking, andwhile in a state of intoxication, as she is occasionally, she becomes amazonian in her strength, and vehement in her denunciations. The poor woman's appearance-in court always causes much amusement, and her sensible arguments and self-possession often lead to the modification oethe sentences passed upon her. Mary O'Neil was last in the Police Court on Saturday, when she was summoned, as usual, for a breach of the Peace. The accused woman pleaded Not guilty, and added, " I just took a wee drop on the Queen's Birthday, and I was danc ing the Highland fling in a ring, like this." Here she gave a specimen of her dancing, to the great amuse ment of the Court. She interspersed her dis course with a profusion of blessings and pious exclamations. While the evidence was being given and the long list of Mary's previous transgressions gone over, she rambled on w ith grea t volubility, "America wants me, and England and France wants me, but I'll stick to Scotland. Bailie, you must • get a mar' for me, for I cant protect myself. I'll make a good wife. (Laughter.) I like Scotland ; I get my meat and my drink. When they put me out of the jail Igo to the chapel, and when they put me out of the chapel I go to the jail. Listen t o th e ou t cas t i n t h e d esert. I've behaved myself for twelve mo n th s ." Th e B a ili e h ere said that as Mary had kept comparatively free from trouble since 1869, he would modify th e pena l ty f or h er misdemeanour to 10s. 6d. fine. Mary—You'll make me good yet. I've nobody but the bailies to protect me, everybody else is against me. Bailie—But I will give you a warning. and you must remember it, that if you come back here again and I am on • the bench you will be sent sixty days to prison, and ordered to find security for your future good behaviour, or go other thirty days to prison ; and if you come back again after that, you must be sent to the Sheriff as an incorrigible.— Mary : That's,two chances yet.—Mary then blessed the Court with great impressiveness, and, having curtseyed to the Bailie, disappeared. • A MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN NEW YORK. In the late municipal election in 1N ew York, the New York Tinzes says, there were more tickets in the urns than people who voted, and many more were counted than were put in the urns. This, it is said, was due to the system of " repeati ng "—that is, one person voting at many places, giving the names and addresses - of persons in the district, but of course without the latter's knowledge or consent. It seems there are still some difficulties to overcome in the use of the ballot. The Tribune says thatover 80,000 votes were polled for Mr. Church, and not more than 50,000 voted. The New York Sun, a violent supportdr of Church, admits these facts, and says, " Nev er b e f ore were our citizens dis graced by so corrupt and infamous an election. Repeating was the order of the day." In the Bth ward, 8,474 votes were polled for Mr. Church, says the Tribune, and in this ward less than 3,000 voters live, and of these a large pro portion did not vote. Fifteen dollars is stated to have been the price for a forged vote, THE CAPTURE BY BRIGANDS IN SPAIN. Very little is known of the second case of brigandage which has come upon Lord Clarendon's hands within the last few weeks. Authoritative details are wanting, and the whereabouts of the brigands is not known ; but of course the Spanish guardians of the peace are in • full search. Marshall Prim is said to be much distressed at the event, and promises that the Spanish Government will pay any ransom demanded. According to the account given by the bnparcial, of Madrid, it would appear that on Saturday, the 21st, Mr. John Bonell went out from Gibraltar on horseback towards Sabal, accompanied by his nephew, Mr. J. A Bonell. On entering the gate of the little inn at the latter point they saw a man dragging the woman who kept the inn towards a car bonera (coal-house) there was in the patio (court yard). The woman called out to Mr. Bonell, Don Juan- he is going to kill me !" Mr. Bonell went up to them, and remonstrated with the man, but to no effect, for he locked her up in the carbonera, together with her child of four years, and her servant, who were already th ere . Th e unc l e ' and nephew had hardly entered the inn (ventorillo) when another man closed the door to prevent their egress. Very shortly five men entered, one of them apparently very respect able. They represented to the Englishmen that they were in great want ; that they had a business trans ..ction of importance in Gibraltar for some time which they were unata to cwnpiobo f.. waiib ‘,4 and that they (the English) must help them or else the thing would be entirely lost. They proposed that Mr. Bonnell should go to Gibraltar for the money, his nephew to remain as a hostage until his return with the sum they required. Mr. Bonnell replied that he would not leave his nephew, even if they shot him. He begged them to be allowed to go both of them to Gibraltar so as to avoid alarming his family, and he gave his word of honour that he would send them the money. The robbers refused. Again they ordered him to go alone for the money, and again he refused to separate from his nephew. He said ' You may do what you like about getting the money ; I will not go without my nephew." While this was going on there was a knock at the gate, and one of the thieves opened it. A manservant of Senor Herrera was there on a mule. This individual they also shut up in the carbonera, and they did the same to a daughter of his who arrived shortly after. At eight at night they saddled the mule and placing on it some skins of wine, some spirits, and provision s , they made M r . B one ll' s nep h ew mount it, leaving hi s horse in the stable, and then with their two English p r i soners a ll set off in a direction un known. Before starting they threatened those they had shut up in the carbonera that if they broke the door or gave any, information all should be killed. The sum they de manded from the Bonells appears to have been $5,000. They took away with them two hammers from the carbonera, but they failed to notice a bar of iron there was in a corner, which served those incarcerated to break open the door, which they did shortly after the party had left. It is said these bandits had been hanging about the place for some days ; according to their own account they were waiting for smugglers. The two Englishmen had had negotiations with them in Gibraltar, respecting the purchase or sale of a horse. A few days before the event some civil guards asked them to shew their passports, which they did, and it appeared they belonged to la Hoya de Malaga. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Gibraltar, says that most well-informed people are of opinion that the robbers are the leaders of a well-known and numerous band of contrabandistas, whose speculations in smuggling tobacco have lately been very unfortunate, and that, consequently, they have been induced to have recourse to this means of repairing their broken finances. " Most people here blame the Spanish authorities for having dispatched troops in such active pursuit, fearing, no doubt, a repetition of the Greek tragedy. It is believed, however, that the Governor of Gib ra lt ar , h as strongly repiesented to the Spanish military authorities the absolute necessity of temporising with the bandits till the personal safety of the Messrs. Bonell is assured." It may be as well to explain that a ventorillo means a drink ing shop, or rather a house where the traveller can rest for an hour or so and refresh himself. A letter in the Tines says that Sir Richard Airey, the Governor of Gibraltar, has been active in taking measures to ensure the capture of the brigands. THE TIDE WESTWARD. When the student of history reads of the immigration of the Northern barbarians over the Roman Empire, of the stream of the Goths pouring from Scandinavia and Northern Germany into Southern Europe, or of the Van dals into Spain or Africa, he fancies that there must have been a movement of peoples then to which modern times afford no parallel. But, precisely as in geology we can hardly imagine that mountains of chalk are being formed now at the bottom of the ocean, and whole races of beings perishing, and land sinking and seas rising, just as,'and no less than, they did in ancient fossil periods,— so we do not perceive that ancient history renews itself in the nineteenth century. The " people's wanderings," as the Germans call them, are nearly as remarkable novas were five hundred years after Christ. A steady stream of " Northern barbarians " pours upon our coast—an immi gration like that in the time of the Roman Empire—with this difference, that it is well organised, and produces the most beneficial results. The descendants of the ancient Goths and Gauls, and what not, are invading our borders as their fathers did those of the Caesars. Into the blood of the conquering race Of this country they are infusing their new element of power, as their ancestors did into that of a more degenerate stock. Three hundred and fifty thousand of these vigorous " barbarians " will probably this year come into our ports, and scatter them selves over our territory; the Celts, like their fathers, sticking to the large towns, and the Germans going to the farms. But besidss this vast movement of for eigners to our coasts, a tontinual and un seen stream of population is coursing from the older States to the new. It is said that no experience of emigration in this country has ever been paralleled by that of Kansas during this season. Those who remem ber, a few years since, the pathetic appeals for "bleeding Kansas," and the cry through the Northern States for aid to the impoverished settlers who were nearly starving can hardly imagine that the El Dorado of the West is that once much abused State. In fact, no gold mine ever drew such a throng of industrious labourers as do the cheap, uncultivated fields of Kansas and the available Border States, So great is the throng that people have been obliged to live in tents, and every line leading to the region has been crowded with passen gers and crammed with freight. The peculiar advan tage of Kansas, which is thus attracting immigrants, is that she is almost the only State left where Government land can be bought, with good soil and nearness to market. Excellent land can even now be purchased from the Government, along railways, at s2'so per acre, and at $1 25 in the interior. The railroad companies sell at $8 The country is remarkably clear, the soil good, transpor tation easy, a variety of fruits grow, and the winters are milder than in the north-west. The drawback to be apprehended is drought, but the construction of railroads and planting of trees seem to be changing the hydrometric balance of the atmosphere, and occasion ing much more moisture. The society in Kansas owing to the character of its first settlers, is far superior to that of most Border States. A con siderable portion, however, of this incessant Western stream of population eddies aside into Missouri. Here, in the northern portion, are excellent lands, probably as high as $lO or $l5 an acre, but with great capacities and near to markets. In the middle and southern portion of the State are very cheap lands, but with poorer soil and more adapted to vine-growing. Good vine-lands within sixty miles of St. Louis can be got from $2 50 to $5 an sores but the objeutduus Unuughuul, the state are the ignorance and inertia of society; the results of slavery. A distinct branch of the great stream Always flows toward the North-west, and fertilises those new States. The amazing progress of lowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, during the last decade is due to this immigration, a valu able portion of which comes from the ancient " hive of nations," Scandinavia. The cool, bracing climate attracts the North Europeans. With population and wheat growing come railroads, and that region is attaining wonderful prosperity. Still, land is usually held some what high for an emigrant, unless it be very inaccessible. The winters also are cold and long, and fruits do not flourish so well as further South. The central West, too, continually feeds the side-currents of this river of immigration. The restless Yankee, hay ing• made the Prairie go ld en w i th crops, becomes tired of civilisation, sells his farm to the new-comer, and moves on to struggle with the wilderness. So land changes hands continually, and the van of the army of foreign settlers takes the places of the rear of the old army of pioneers, who are marching forward. Not as many of the waves of the westward tide touch our Pacific coast as might be desired. Possibly the news of the drought of this year in California has deterred the immigrants, as well as the overcrowding of useless hands in San Francisco. There is still, however, a boundless field open on that coast for farm labour, and if our Pacific Mail Company took the matter in hand vigorously they might lead thither a vast amount of profitable immigration.—New York Times. The Attorney-General proposes to introduce into the House of Commons on the 9th of June a bill for the protection of inventions exhibited at international exhibi tions in the United Kingdom. A few nights since a farmer named Graham, who resides in a house which he has built on an island near Newton Butley, was visited by three men with blackened faces, who dragged him and his wife from their beds, placed them bound in a boat, and did not release them till they had reached the opposite shore, where they left them almost destitute of clothing; and then returned to the island, where they demolished the house and all its contents. Three men, named Cosgrove, M`Donagh, and Goodana, have been arrested ou ouspicion, A CABINET SECRET. A correspondence of the. New. York- Times, dated Wash i ington, Mayl6th, says :—" M rs. G rant has sent ou t abou one hundred special invitations to a lunch and strawberrY party at half-past one o'clock to-morrow. At thr ee o'clock she gives her regular reception. When the Pre .. . dent was interrogated why he had a special Cabinet otee,',, in. , to-day instead of to-morrow, he said he wanted tu t Cabinet b to take strawberries and cream with Mrs. Gr,l ll . and himself to-morrow, and so he called their portfor e to-day instead. The curious reporters who trotted all , tu , afternoon to find out the occasion of the special meet l . l % are not any wiser in consequence, and the subject relic one of the numero us we ll-k ep t secrets o f G rant an d Cabinet. CARELESS CONDUCTORS. The coroner's jury investigating the Missouri pad Railroad slaughter hav e f oun d th a t it was a ll " cau sed , v the disobedience and negligence of William Odor, eon ductor of the extra frei g ht tr a i n ." T urn i ng aga i n tot 1 , 1 testimony of this William Odor before the jury, We e him confessing that, aft er th e collision, he left the so il ' of disaster and death, a n d ran away to St. Paul, " to re; port the accident." But, accor di ng t o hi s own s t a tement' this was not his only mo ti ve f or ge tti ng out o f t h e waY —or soon as possible. " I a pp re h en d e d , " h e sa id , " from the passengers ; they generally ge t exc it e d an d blail l i ; some one.' , What unreasonable passenger s ! li lt conductor like William Odor should, some time, lynched by the survi vors o f " an accident," perhaps, influence of an awful example might diminish the obedience and negligence" of conductors in general New York Tribune. THE WEST AND THE CAPITAL. The West is decidedly earnest in its effort to have th e national capital r e m ove d f rom W as hi ngton to some point „ nearer the geographical centre of the country. It is nob proposed to hold a conv en ti on a t Ci nc i nn a t i on the loth of October, to be composed of delegates from all the States and Territories, in the proportion of three delegates t° each Congressional District, together with six delegates at large from each State, and three from each Territory - 1' to be appointed by the Governors thereof. So large a body could not fail to possess considerable influence, although', is questionable if it could be brought to any harmoniell', expression, unless it should be packed in the interestt, of a removal. It is hardly to be expected that a projec t „ involving so large an expenditure will be adopted in tt''' Dr.sent financial condition of the country. It will e . many years befur. vv. .1..11 in po;:itinn fr. try. the ex" periment, and then it is probable we shall have made 6° , many additional outl a y s th a t th e cap i ta l w i ll b e rega rdec! as a permanency at Washington. The mere question 9 1 convenience of access is a matter of minor importance lu this age of railroads, and we doubt if the project will eve r be successful on that plea alone. Still, there can be 11° objection to giving the subject a full and fair discussion , if that be the wish o f a l arge proport i on of t h e peePl e " Such a discussion will probably strengthen the conviction that the proposed undertaking is quite impracticable. -- "Veto York Times. SEWARD ON MANIFEST DESTINY. The distinguished sage of Auburn on Monday mad e the first speech sinc e hi s re t urn f rom hi s A rct i c an", tropical tour that may b e cons t rue d i n any way to rode' the views he now entertains on the possibilities of th e nation he was so long and so ably engaged in engineering through its greatest crisis. He especially dwelt upon the mission of the United States to harmonise all the civilisations on this Continent and to advance steadi l y to higher noti ons , carry i ng our neighbours with us, of the social and political rights of man. It ma y be : feather in the c a p o f th e woman suffrage advocates e, know that thi s speec h was delivered on ,_tu t : occasion of th e vis i t o f a ladies ' college ; owing to the barberous and medimval notion s that prevail in our provinces these same ladies we re , all turned out of the •dining hall when the cloth w e r removed, and, therefo re , b e f ore th e speech was W. A number of male visitors, by reason o f bei ng physically better fitted to drink wine an d smo k e , alon e composed the audience to whom hp addressed his wor4 s . Mr. Seward has always had great, broad ideas of W e . future of the nation, and we are glad to see that his sixl ninth birthday finds him fully as broad and grand in 1° ideas as ever. He says that the Continent is.becogl every day more Ame r i can • that the practices a n d opini ° ,, of the people of th e United States are b ecom ing t'd common practices and opinions of the other States, 01 , that the Christia n religion and the influen ce o f republics Government are destined ere long to blend all the Gov meats of the Am er i can C ont i nent i nto one. Mr. Sew ard is the very best authority from whom these sentinien. could emanate. He demonstrated years ago his -trust in our manifest destiny, and much later has helped along th e a desirable consummation by the purchase of Alaska a n t the treaty f or th e purc h ase of St. Thomas. It is pleae n to note that the present administration share in the gran i , old statesman's id eas o f a un i te d Continent.—New 17°1.' Herald. THE LADY BROKERS OF WALL STRE-.- While the two hostile divisions of woman's r ighter under the belli geren t l ea d respectively of HenryNT3r Beecher and Th eo d ore Til ton, are passing all their tinl e in refusing to c oa l esce w ith eac h other and in flooding th e country with resolutio ns an d chatter, there are, a t least , two 'advocates of th e women movement that endeavour to shew by example and precept that their sex with oral nary fair play and i n d us t ry, can ta k e care of itself • We i r refer to th e l a dy b ro k ers w h o recently created a s" , among the bulls and bears of Wall -street by setting t 1 .1 )! so to speak, a c hi na s h op r i g h t i n the midst of that P , ci orderly locality, an d w h o h ave more recently ope oe i, the eyes of the slow old fogies w ho thin, woman not fit for much by starting an exec' lent weekly newspaper, under the e business.li ke title of Woodhull and Clajlin's T 6 eekly, r ight ,; the midst o f th e per i o di ca l s of Park-row. TP,; paper itself, of which th e fi rs t num b er only has been issued, already gives evidence of talent and aptness i t that most difficult of all arts, the art of jo urna lism. 'i n is a neat sixteen page paper, about the size and shape the usual literary hebdomadal ; but, in addition to th stories, essays, and poetry, inseparable from these papeT, it launches boldly i n t o politics, finances, o u tdoor spe. l and fashions, and even thus early rejoices in a cheerip,b, amount of advertiseme n t s . Th e W ee kl y, b ear i ng f o r motto " Upward and onward," strongly advocate: woman's rights, and ev en nomina t es and supports woman for the next P res id enc y. Th ere can, therefore l; be no reasonabl e d ou bt o f it s d evot i on to the wolo cause, and we would su gges t t o th e f ema l e ag i tators , waste their breath and their hearers' patience at conveP o tions and mass meetings, that, while the press is n ot noisy an organ as the tongue, it is heard much further' The example of M essrs. W oo dh u l l and Clafiin, if we prefix that titl e t o th e f i rm name is therefore a big' 0 commendable one, as th ey do more and talk less t 1 1 3 k the two divisions of females put together. —New V l ' Herald. PLEASANT TRAVELLI NG COMPANIONS.—" b TO' e I yellers s ee s t range things, " says the adage, and it mg added, oftentimes unpleasant ones. The correspond e o of a Manchester paper relates that on returning fr ° Scotland by express train, he was put in a second-c l° o carriage at Preston with a drunken man, and Dolt boy with a w i re cage f ull of rats. He did Dol, notice them at fi rs t, b u t on l oo ki ng up from a 1)() he saw the d run k en man, w i t h the cage on his kne e ' counting them. His disgust did not entirely deprive 1 ! 0 1° . of conversational po wer , an d hi s " e l evate d " C O panion informed him with the pride of profession, that th ere were twenty-five rats, all alive' The boy said he p urc h ase d a large number every Sag, day, and booked them. The correspondent indulges Iy e natural horror at the idea that the vermin might 1 15 escaped about the carriage, and denounces the railw g ' company for allowing such disgusting passengers. LAD EitTISEMENT. J—.AYOld Medicines—they always aggrar.'_ te , chronic complaints; but D u B arry ' s d e li c i ous health-res tor; Revalenta Arabica Food, w hi c h y i e ld s t h ree t i mes the noudirive mentof the best meat, saves 50 t i mes i ts cost in other rem-p of and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves,. s ° r e lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functiona l gularity, ant' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We re a tract a few out of th e 68 , 000 cures:— " The Pope ' s health re eto ,66, by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, L' e e, —The health of the H o ly F at h er i s excellent, especially s!:4) abandoning all other remedi es , h e h as confined himsel f e ntu to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he cons te llw o . a plateful at every mea l . I t h as produced a surprising l Y ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise ',his lent food too highly.— From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. 1 , - I,„ e s Nn 155,216, of th e M arc hi oness de Rrehan, of seven year 00 e complaint, wasting a wa y, d e bili ty, nervousness, with a ile",01 palpitation all over, bad di gest i on, constant sieeplessnes s,,„ o the most intolerable ner vous agitation.." Cure No. 1,77 1 ; " ) ; r e' Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many Se fr re o dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agora` dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria J oily." -- Cure ,eo s 46.270: Mr. James /totems, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 ) diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, s ay partial deafness. Import an t Caution.---Beware of the lout unsavoury and more than sl o pp y i m i tat i ons t o wh i c h , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously- att 6 s , 2s; In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2 lb is Cd; slb ID , L, A O 24 lbs 4 s.— Iso Du BARRY'S R EV AL EN TA RAB I CA CHOCYA;uIO Pownxß is packed in tin can i s t ers: for L cups at 2s, for 550 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups atfs, for 2t.8 cups at 30s, for 576 cups 'OO l —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins er e free of carriage in England on rec e ipt o f P ost Off ic e Or .01 BARRY DuBARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent- s t ree t, London all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at 55, Chester-square, Mrs. Henry Grerj fell, of a son. On the 29th ult., at 64. Warrior-square, St. Leonard's 00- Sea, Lady Oake]ey, of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 30th ult., a t S t . J u d e ' s, Mildmay-park, Cbarlo.s, lll s e t eldest son of C. M organ, E sq., to Martha Cecil i a, Y ouvge daughter of the late Captain Colepeper. rle 9 9 . - On the 28th i ns t., a t St . Mi chael ' s, Cuxton, Bent, u"to Grinrwade, Esq., Newark House, Tube - hill, Sarah Frances, eldest daught er o f th e l a t e J a mes Bl' h Esq., Blackheath. DEATHS On the 29th ult., at 49, Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, La wrence Sl'i'er, Esq e' On the 30th u lt., a t hi s res i dence. Margate, David Pry, E:q., M.D., F.R.C.S., J.P., aged 58. WS London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDR r., - 1 2 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, NO. o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the couati Middlesex.—Wednesday, Awe 1, 1870. guin tern ] M a y the i prep itar n .0, tl Rad: latt firem vaii ( repr, Spec: color Da , ues; be p the E Tick now Ti neat dot, ltee) Che,, tor, day C the ] 3acfr los 0.; E Phill ST Ilan ..\/1 ()rig deco exac 1001 T wit As s Pre Pre 1 w 1