The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

THEGR•EAT CHRISTMAS CAT SHOW. Their Royal Highnesses the Princes Christian and Leopold, attended by General Hood and a limited suite, visited the show yesterday, and it is hardly necessary to add that the successful "No. 2" of Class I. was one of the first objects of their scrutiny. There were only three animals of the Devon breed considered worthy to be classed with the . Windsor specimens ; but in the remaining classes a consider able excellence was maintained throughout. The first prize in the Herefords was obtained by Mr. Joseph Beach, of Dudley, Worcestershire, a gentle man who to the techuical°knowledge of the prac tical farmer unites the experimental acquirements of the analytic chemist. As a matter of fact, nearly all the prizeholders of this year are animals which have been fatted by some scientifically prepared compound, and it would be important and satis factory to the public to learn that the artificial food is likely to tell as favourably on the quality as on the quantity of the living beef. In the short horns, there is nothing this year worthy of special notice. They are as big, and as phlegmatic as ever. The first prize of £3O is carried off by Mr. Fol jambe, of Osberton-hall, Notts, but the success of the winner is as much attributable to the defects of his competitors as to any absolute excellence on his own part. In class 26 we come to the Black Lion of the show, the Scotch polled steer, which the judges have adjudged to be the best in all the chassses. This magnificent animal is the property of Mr. William M'Combie, of Aberdeen, N. 8., a per fect cormorant of prizes, and who had already, with the same ox, carried all before him at Birmingham. At former Smithfield shows suc cess at Birmingham was not found to be at all a sure passport to a similar result at Islington ; but this year the verdict of the capital of the " Black Country" is confirmed, and Mr. MiCombie's steer will have the gratification of going to the butcher's literally covered with laurels. Already there is a sharp competition for his bodily effects, but Mr. M'Combie has, we understand, intimated in the proper quarters his wish to present this splendid animal to the Queen, and awaits her Majesty's decision as to its acceptance before he entertains any trade proposals. Of the sheep this year, the finest pen is decidedly that of Lord Walsinghatn, which takes the first prize as South Downs. There cannot be the slightest doubt as to their superiority or as to the acumen and impartiality of the judges. The Duke of Richmond and Mr. Rigdert also exhibit in this class, but not with their usual success, neither get ting more than " commended." Next to the sheep come the pigs in the order of the catalogue. This year they are very few in number, and present their usual appearance, being neither worse nor better than in former exhibitions. The following is a complete litit of the prizes awarded : CATTLE. DEVON CATTLE. Class I.—Devon Steers, not exceeding 2 years and 6 months old.—First prize of £2O to her Majesty the Queen ; silver medal to the breeder ditto. Second prize of £lO to Mr. James Howard, Crediton, Devon. Class 2.—Devon Steers, not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old. —First prize of £3O to William Smith, Credi- ton, Devon ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; se cond prize of .£2O to Mr. John Overman, Burnham Mar ket, Norfolk; third prize of .£lO to Mr. William Taylor, Esstbourn, Sussex. Class 3.—Devon Steers, or Oxen, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to Mr. William Smith, Exeter, Devon; silver medal to the breeder, James Davey, Devon ; second prize of £2O to Mr. Walter Farthing-, Bridgewater, Somerset; third prize of £lO to Mr. James Faiquharson, Blandford, Dorset. Class 4.—Devon Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.— First prize of .£25 to Richard Burton, Devon ; silvermedal to the breeder, George Gibbs, Taunton ; second prize of £l5 to W. Barrington, Yarmouth, isle of Wight ; third prize of £lO to her Majesty the Queen. Class s.—Devon Cows, above 4 years old.—First prize of £25 to Walter Farthing, Bridgwater, Sussex ; silver medal to tho breJder, John Tapp, South Moulton ; second prize of £l5 to John Coote, Blandford, Dorset; third prize of £lO to William Taylor, Eastbourne, Sussex. 11E1tEFOILD CATTLE. Class G.—Hereford Steers, not exceeding 2 years and G months old.—First prize of £2O to Richard Hill, Ludlow, Salop; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to William Tudv, Leintwardine, Herefordshire. Class 7.—Hereford Steers, not exceeding 3 years ani 3 mouths old.—First prize of £3O to Joseph Beach, Dudley, Worcester; silver medal to the breeder, E. Edwards, Baw colt ; second prize of £2O to ht.r Majesty the Queen ; third prize of £lO to Benj. Cooks, Twyford, Salop. Class B.—Hereford Steers, or Oxen, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to Joseph Beach, Dudley, Worcester; silver medal to the breeder, Richard Shirley ; second prize of £2O to George Pitt, Chadnor Court, Here ford ; third prize of £lO to John Jones, Springfield, Here ford. Class 9.—Hereford Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.— First prize of £25 to Henry Belleridge ; silver medal to the breeder, E. Tanner, Salop; second prize of £l5 to John Arkwright, Leominster ; third prize of £lO to her Majesty. Class 10.—Hereford Cows, above 4 years old.—First prize of £25 to Henry Wontage, Burks; silver medal to the breeder, Samuel Griffith; Leominster; second prize of £l3 to Robert V. Groves, Berrington, Salop ; third prize of £lO to Arthur James, Hereford. SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. Class 11.—Short-horned Steers, not exceeding 2 years And 6 months old. First priza of £2O to the Duke of Suther land, Salop; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to the Earl of Aylesford, Coventry. Class 12. Short-horned Steers, not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to G. S. Foljambe, Osbertou Hall, Notts; silver medal to the breeder, exhi bitor ; second prize of £2O to the Earl of Aylesford, Coven try; third prize of £lO to Richard Stretton, Walls Court, Bi istol. Class 13.—Short-horned Steers, or Oxep, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First Prize of £3O to the Duke of Beau fort, Badminton; silver medal to the breeder, Wm. Butler, Badminton ; second prize of £2O to Lord Penrhyn, Ban gor; third prize of £lO to Rowland Wood, Thrapston. Class 14.—Short-horned Heifers, not exceeding four years old.—First prize of £25 to Richard Stretton, Wall's comt, Bristol; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Lord Faversham, Helmsley, York shire; third prize of £lO to the Earl of Hardwicke, Wimpole, Arrington. Class 15.--Short-horned cows, above four years old.— First prizo of £25 to Adam Dugdale, Rose-hill, Burnley ; silver medal to the breeder, E. Hales, Tonbridge ; second prize of £l5 to Richard Taylor, Maldon, Essex ; third prize of £lO to Thomas Mead, Tring, Herts. S L'SSEX CATTLE. Class 16.—Sussex Steers or Oxen, not exceeding 3 years old. —First prize of £2O to G. C. Coote, Arundel, Sussex; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to John Reesman, Arundel, Sussex. Class 17.—Sussex Steers or Oxen, abcve $ yrs old.— First prize of £25 to John Housman, Arundel, Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second pri.i.e of £l5 to Win. Bolting, Hurstperpoint, Sussex ; third prize of £lO to George C. Coots, Arundel, Sussex. Class 18.—Sussex Heifers, not exceeding 4 yrs old.— First prize of £2O to John Shoosmith, Lewes, Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitoi; second prize of £l5 to Edward Cane, Lewes. Class 19.—Sussex Cows, above 4 years old.—First prize of £2O to George Coote, Arundel, Sussex ; silver modal to the brooder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Thomas Gregson, llawkhurst, Kent. NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED CATTLE. Class 20.—Norfolk or Suffolk Polled Steers or Oxen, of any age.—First prize of £l5, withheld ; second prize of £lO to John Sewell, Swaffham, Norfolk. Class 21 . —Norfolk or Suffolk Polled Heifers or Cows of any age. - First prize of .£l5 to William 31. Bond, North Walshara ; silver medal to the breeder, Lord Sondes; second prize of .£lO to William Pestle, Norwich. LONG-HOUNED CATTLE. Class 22 . -- Long-Itorned Steers or Oxen, of any age.— The priza of £lO to Sir John Carew, Bart.; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor. Glass 23.—Long-Horned Tleifors or Cows, of any ago.— Tlio prizo of £lO to W. S. Cox, Dorby ; silver modal to tho breeder, exhibitor. SCOWL HORNED CATTLE. ClaFs 24. - Scotch Horned Steers or Ox.cu, of any age.— First prize of £3O to the Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £l5 to the Earl of Derby, Knowsley. - Cass 25.—Scotch lioraed Heifers or Cows, of any age. First prize of £l5 to Captain Gunter, Wetherby, York; buyer medal to the breeder, uukhown. SCOTCII POLLED CATTLE. Miss 26.—Scotch Polled Steers or Oxen, of any age.— First per,, of £3O to William M'Combie, Aberdeen ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of .£l5 to Andrew Loegmore, Rattie, Banff. Class W.—Scotch Polled Heifers or Cows, of any age.— First prize of £l5 to the Duke of Buccl9uch, Dumfries; silver medal to the breeder, James Graham, Langtown, Cumberland. IRISH CATTLE. Class 23.—Irish Steers or Oxen, of any age.—First prize of £lO to Robert, Wortley, Ayltshom, Norfolk ; silver medal to the breeder, unknown ; second prize of £5 to Lord Beruers, Leicester. Clams 29.—Irish Heifers or Cows, of any age.--}irst prize of £lO to Lord Berners, Leicester. WELSH CATTLE. Class 30.—Welsh Steers or Oxen (Runts) of any age.— First prize of £2O to Lord Penrhyn, Bangor ; silver medal to the breeder, Jr. B. Roberts, Trefarthen ; second prize of £lO to Capt. H. Platt, Bangor. Class 31.—Welsh Heifers or Cows, of any age.—First prize of £lO to Owen Phillips, Cardigan ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor. . CROSS OR MIXED BRED CATTLE. Class 32.—Cross or Mixed-bred Steers, not exceeding 3 years old.—First prize of £25 to James Stewart, Aber deen ; silver medal to the brooder, Thomas Garland, Ellen ; second prize of £l5 to James D. Allen, Salisbury ; third prize of £lO to Richard Barton, Broadclyst, Devon. Class 33.—Cross or Mixed-bred Steers or Oxen, abov.) 3 years old.—First prize of £25 to John Overman, Nor folk; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Joseph Bench, Dutiley ; third vize of £lO to Col. Lloyd Lindsey, \Vantage. Class 3.1. Cross or Mixed-bred Heifers, not exceeding 4 ycars old.—First prize of £2O to the Duko f Beaufor', Badminton; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to J. J. W. Martin, Aberdeen. LEICESTER SHEEP. Clam 35.—Fat Welber Sheep.of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 23 months).—First prize of £2O to Lord Berners, Keythorp Hall, Leicester; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to William Brown, Holme-on-Spalding ; third prize of £5 to Iron. Colonel Lowther, Oakham, Rutland. Class 36.—Fat Nether Sheep of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 23 months).—First prize of £2O to Lord Berners; silver medal to breeder, Lord Berners; second prize of £l5 to G. S. Foljambe, Osberton Hall, Notts; third prize of £5 to William Brown, Home-on-Spalding. COTSWOLD SHEEP. Class 37.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Cotswold breed, one year old (under 23 months.)—First prize of £2O to Mr. William Henry Hitchcock, Cirencester ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Thomas and George West, Bletchington, Oxford ; third prize of £5 to William Donne, Monkton, Glamorgan. LINCOLN SHEEP. Class 38.—Fat Nether Sheep of the Lincoln breed, on,; year old (under 23 months.) —First prize of £2O to This, Russell, Casswell, Spalding, Lincolnshire ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of .Cl 5 to James Pears, Bramston, Lincolnshire ; third prize of £5 to Thomas Gunnell, Milton, Cambridge. KENTISII OR ROMNEY MARSH SHEEP. Class 39.—Fat 'Nether Sheep of the Kentish or Romney Marsh 1 year old (under 23 mouths)—First prize of £l5 to F. Murton, Ashford, Kent; silver melal to the breeder, exhibitor; second priza of .£lO to James Newport, Ashford, Kent. ANY GTIIER LONG-WOOLLED SHEEP. Class 40.—Fat Nether long-woolled Sheep, not being Leicesters, Cotswolds, Lincolns, or Kentish, 1 year of (under 23 months).—First prize of .£l5 to F. Street, Har rowden ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of .£lO to Thomas Casswell, Spalding.. ►SOUTH-DOWN SHEEP Class 41.—Fat Wether Sheep of the South-DJsvn breed, 1 year old (under 23 months)—First prize of £2O to Lord Walsingham, Thetford, Norfolk; slyer medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to Sir W. Thzoek morton, Farringdon, B;rks ; third prize of £5 to Henry Humphery Hurst, Sussex. Class 42.—Fat Wether Sheep of the South-Down breed. 1 year old (under 23 months.)—Each sheep not to exceed 2001 b live weight—First priz3 of £l5, to Lord Braybroke, Audley Ead, Essex ; s ivor modal to the broetr, exhi bitor; second priza of ..£l.O, to Lard Walsinghtm,Thetford, Norfolk; third prize of £3, to William Ryder, Brighton. Class 43.—Fat Wether Sheep of the South-Down breed, 2 years old (above 23 and under 35 months.) —First prize of £2O, to Lord Walsingham, Thetford, Norfolk; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to the Earl of Radnor, Coleshill, Highworth ; third prize of £5, to William Taylor, Eastbourne, Sussex. HAMPSHIRE CR WILTSHIRE-DOWN SHEEP. Class 44.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Hampshire or WiltshireDown breed,l year old (under 23 months.)—First prize of £2O to William Brown Canning, Devizes; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to James Russell, Eyneford, Kent; third prize of .£5 to John King, Wallingford. ►SHROPSHIRE ►SHEEP. Class 45. Fat Walter Sheep of the Shropshire deed, 1 year old (under 23 months.) —First priz3 of £2O to Thos.. Nock, ShitTnal, Shropshire; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to Henry Matthews, Shrews bury ; third prize of £5 to Joseph Mach, Dudley. Class 4G.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Shropshire breed, 2 years old (above 23 and under 35 months)—First prize of £l5 to Lord Woolock ; silver medal to breeder, exhibitor ; second priz3 of £5 to Henry S.nith, Shiffual, Salop. OXFORDSHIRE SHEEP. Glass 47.—Fat Wether Shoop of the Oxfordshire bred 1 year oil (under 23 months.) =First prize of £2O to Samuel Druco, Eynsham, Oxford ; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to R ►lph Newton, Woodstock; third prize of .C 5 to Alfred Rogers, Bed ford. IWOUNTAIV SHEEP. Class 48.—Fat Weiler Sheep, of any White-faced Mountain breed, of any age. -Fiat priz3 of £LS to Mr. John Taff, South Melton ; silver mediJ to the breeder exhibitor; second prize of £lO to William Smith, Exeter, Devon. Class 49. —Fat Wether Sheep of any Black-faced or Speckle-faced Mountain brood, of any age.—First prize of £l5 to William M'Combie, Aberdeen ; Silver medal to the breeder, unknown ; second prize o 4 £lO to James Stewart, Aberdeen. RYELAND, CHEVIOT, AND DORSET SHEEP. Class 50. —Fat Wether Sheep of the Ryeland, Cheviot, Dorset, or any other pure breed, not specified in any of the foregoing Divisions.—First prize of £l5 to Herbert Farthing, Bridgewater ; silver medal to the breeder, exhi bitor; second prize of £lO to J. Downing, Hereford. CBOSS-BRED SHEEP. Class 51.—Long and Short-woolled Cross-bred Fat Wether Sheep, 1 year old (under 23 months). —First prize of £2O to John Overman, Burnham Market ; second prize of £l5 to George Hine, jun., Bedford ; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor; third Prize of £5 to Colonel Lindsay, Wantage. Class 52.—Long and Short-woolled Crots-bred Fat Wether Sheep, 1 yoar old (under 23 months). Each sheep not to exceed 2201b.—First prize of £lO to John Overman, Burnham Market; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prizo of £5 to Col. Lowther. PIGS. Class 53.—Pigs of any breed, not exceeding six months old.—First prize of £l5 to John Coote, BlandfOrd, Dorset; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to Samuel Stearno, 'Wickham Market, Suffolk ; third prize of £5 to Sir R. J. Clifton, Nottingham. Class 51. Pigs of any breed, above six and not exceed ing nine months old.—First prize of £l5 to Thos. Leslie Melville Cartwright, Lady Bank, Fife; slyer medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to John Kent, Chichester, Sussex ; third prize of £5 to Captain Warren, Basingstoke. Class 55.—Pigs of any breed, above nice and not ex ceeding 12 months old.—First prizs of .£l5 to John Tread well, Aylesbury; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second priza of £lO to Captain Warren, Basingstoke ; third prize of .£5 to her Majesty the Queen. Class 56.—Pigs of any breeJ, above 12 and under 18 months old.—First prize of £l5 to the Earl of Radnor ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to James and Frederick Howard, Bedford ; third prize of .£5 to John Pittman King, Wallingford, Berks. Suvzit, CUPS. Silver Cup, value £lO, to the exhibitor, and gold medal to breeder, for the best steer or ox, in any of the classes, to William M'Combie, Aberdeen. Silver Cup, value £lO, to the exhibitor, for the best heifer or cow in any the classes, to henry Betteridge. Gold Medal to Breeder, E. Tanner, Salop. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of Leieesters, Cotswolds, Lincolns, Kentish, or other long-woolled breed, in any of the classes, to Lord Burners. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of one year old South Downs, Hampshire or Wiltshire Downs, to Lord Walsingham. Silver Cup, va!uo .£2O, to the exhibitor, fur the best pen of Shropshire, Oxfordshire, cross-brod, or any other breed of sheep (not specified in priza 1:st) in any of the classes to Samuel Druce. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of pigs in any of the classes, to Earl of Radnor. EXTRA STOCK. Silver modal to the exhibitor, for the best steer or ox in extra stock; also £5 prize to John Overman. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best heifer cow in extra stock; also £5 prize to Lord Pe nrhyn. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best Leicester wetter sheep in extra stock, to G. S. Foljarobe. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the bast L e i ces t er ewe in extra stock, to G. S. Foljanle. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the hest long-woolled sheep (not Leicester) in extra stock, to J. fl. Uasswell. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best South-.:own wether sheep in extra stock, Lurd Walsingham. Silt' r modal to the exhibitor, for tho best South-down ewe in extra stock, to Sir W. Throcktnorton. Sliver medal to the exhibitor, fur the best short-woolled sheep (not South-down) iu extra stock, to John Coxon. Silver meJal to the exhibitor, for the best cross-bred sheep (long and short-woollud cross) in extra stock, to John Overman. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best pig in extra stock, to the Earl of Radnor. "After having been severely afflicted for over two year( with a distressing nervous debility, arising from excessive bleeding at the nose, which reduced my frame, and fixed an oppressive pain on the heart and left side, accompanied with dimness of sight and loss of appetite, with no rest day or night, enduring sufferings more than 1 can describe ; and after using all the means prescribed by the boot of the faculty with no benefit, I tried your Pain Killer, and am perfectly cured.—Yonrs, dye., ISAAC PurAJPs.—Dudley, Jan. 17, 1860. Perry Davis and Son, 17, Southampton-row, Holborn." Beware of fraudulent imitations. None genuine without the proprietors' trade mark, PAIN KILLER, on the Guyernment stamp.—TADTIA trIE SUN, LO 'D` N, TUESDAY EVDNING, DECEMBER 10, 1867. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks upon the strange scene in the French' Corps Ltislatif, with M. Thiers, the historian of the' First Empire, acting as Minister of the Second. Accord- ) ing to him a zone of petty duchies, of petty cantons, Ger , many parcelled out, an unarmed Switzerland, an enslaved Italy, an effete Spain, is what best suits France. Our contemporary cannot believe that France orthat the French Emperor is to be strayed by views of such refined selfish ness. The time was when every European nation looked upon our neighbour's gain as a loss to ourselves. There" were selfish men among us who held it as an article of faith that England should seek a quarrel with France at least once every score of years, so as to secure our shores from invasion by leaving not a single stick of the French Royal Navy afloat. But we have ceased to be jealous of France, not because we deem her a less formidable adver-: sary, not because steam navigation does not render our shores more vulnerable, but because, with the conscious ness of our own strength, our confidence in our neighbour's peaceful disposition has also increased. We think less of the power France may have to go to war, and more of the reasons she has to remain at peace. Why France should not be equally easy on the score of Italy and Germany we are unable to see. Were she to applaud herself for the generous impulse which won Solferino and for the wise neutrality which countenanced Sadowa, we think Italian and Ger man unity would rather add to than take away from that moral ascendancy to which it ought to be France's boast to aspire. As to Italy it is very evident that the breath that has made can also unmake her. M. Thiera dwells at full length on the sad spectacle of anarchy and bankruptcy: presented at the present moment by the Italian kingdom. France, who has long seemed to halt between two opinions, has, according to the Herald, resolved her doubts and those of the world by throwing her aegis defiantly and resolutely over the head of the Pontiff. It is not for the death of Pope Pius IX. that the Italians have to wait for the accomplishment of their scheme of unity. Nor will it make much difference to them who is the ruler of France so lcng as the majority of Frenchmen are, as they seem to be now, of the opinion of M. Thiers, that France must still be true to the worship " which has held her in its arms for twelve centuries ;" that it is monstrous " that she who has it in her power to be the protectress of 200 millions of Catholics should not be willing to exercise that power." The illpjudged enterprise of Garibaldi, the battle of Mentana, and the discussions and recriminations which have followed them, are now events of the past—sad memories which should be suffered to sleep. For the moment they have caused a deep estrange ment between France and Italy, and may in this way make themselves felt in the politics of the day. That Italy, when she has had time for reflection, will be ready to • confess that had she been in the place of France she could not have acted otherwise, and determine within herself that she must wait for the acquisition of Rome until such time as the necessity of the perpetuation of this temporal power shall have ceased to be an article of faith with Roman Catholic Christians. The rejection by the House of Representatives of the motion to impeach President Johnson has created sonic interest on this side of the Atlantic. The Post thus in terprets it. It was well known that a large number of the most bitter opponents of the President were averse from the employment of a measure which would strike a much more fatal blow against the office of chief maxis trate than against the individual who at the present moment happens to fill it ; and, on the other hand, it was equally notorious that many of the Demo crats who have given a consistent support to the President were not unwilling that their oppo nents should commit the serious blunder which . would be involved in the proposed impeachment. When, however, as an antecedent step, a resolution was sub • mitted having for its object the suspension of Mr. Johnson from office pending the inquiry into his supposed guilt, many who regarded his impeachment with disfavour supported that resolution, in order thereby to supply an additional argument against the adoption of the proposal to impeach. There was, in truth, no blinking the fact that if, after the resolution for suspension, that for impeach ment were carried, the office of Chief Magistrate of the Republic would henceforth become contemptible, since it would simply require the adverse vote of a majority, with a naked assertion of guilt, to procure the deposition of the President. Hard and fierce has the winter come upon us a season which is dreaded by the poor as an invading enemy. The vague eulogies of frost and snow as " season able," " natural," and " healthy," which proceed from portly and well-wrapped figures and rosy countenances, must sound like cruel mockeries in the ears of men who have no defensive armour against the attacks of cold and want. Thus opens the Daily News as article, painting in strong colours a terrible picture of the distress which exists in the East of London. That part where suffering is now most intense was a few years ago the centre of a thriving industry. In the Poplar district, and especially in the Isle of Dogs, lately the seat of an active shipbuilding trade, with ironworks and chemical factories, and great industrial establishments of various kinds, there are, a medical visitor writes, " hula, dreds of persons quietly and calmly dying by inches' Four thousand persons are at work where sixteen thousand once had employment. The tradesmen'— the butchers, bakers, grocers, drapers, publicans, who are the camp followers of the great industrial army—have shut up their shops and gone. The num ber of persons receiving outdoor relief is greatly in excess of what it was last year ; and the number of ( cases on the books of the medical officer is more than four-fold the average of the past three years. From many houses every article of furniture has been sold. The people sleep on the bare boards, with old sacks only for their covering. At Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Hackney, the same features are presented. In the East of London, north of the Thames, twelve thousand men, representing not fewer than fifty thousand persons, were a fortnight ago out of employment, and, with those dependent on them, starving. The increased severity of the past few days cannot but have increased the number of sufferers and the severity of their distress. The Poor-law system is quite unequal to grapple with this mass of misery. In an article on the annual display of stock at the Agricultural Hall, the Standard contends that we are eating up, notwithstanding all the loud pretence about a preference of green crop over wheat-growing soils, our stock-rearing lands—not in all districts, but in many, and those of an important character. Without assigning a general result to any single cause, we maintain that one influence of this process is seen operating in the-butcher's shop. As to the cattle plage, which suspended the Christmas Show at Islington for a season, the magnitude and gravity of its import were, from the beginning, fortrade purposes, grossly exaggerated. There was smne loss of property, some derangement of business, some interrup tion of fairs and marketFoome damage to dairy produce, but, with sixty millions' worth of live stock in the country, was a rise of thirty per cent. and more, in the cost of meat for public consumption ever, in the worst titne of the ,pestilence, justified? That, perhaps, is an old argument which need not again be pressed ; but we could wish that the Smithfield Club, now holding its annual splendid show, could ultimately tell us a little more about the most important system of husbandry in England, the means we enjoy of supplying a meat diet to the people, the protec tion of our rural economy from foreign infection, and the possibility of reconciling, with any number of incompa rably symmetrical oxen, sheep, and pigs on show, the profits of the trade with the necessities of the population. The Telegraph does not think that such processions as those which have lately traversed the streets of Dublin, Limerick, and Cork should be permitted if their tendency is to excite to a breach of the peace. There can be no doubt that Allen, Larkin, and Gould made a good end of it in a religious sense. There was no latitudinarian indif ference to the priest : they went to their doom chanting the sad psalms appointed by their Church, and consoled to the last by the ministrations of their spiri tual guides. This has in a manner endeared them to many thousand Roman Catholics who have as great a horror of Fenianism as any Protestant in the land. With some cunning the Fenians have played on this national and sectarian sentiment, this womanly tenderness, and their mock funeral processions have had a Catholic char:let:a- which has greatly helped their success. But the slight union between Romanism and Fenianism cannot last : it is the offspring of the emotion of the day. While it did last it was as well not to affront the feelings of poor pious souls by arrest ing even mock hearses or seizing even empty coffins ; but probably we have heard the last of Fenian funeral processions permitted by the authorities. If such sedi tious language as that recently delivered by a man named Martin were allowed to be repeated, the impunity would be interpreted as an incentive to license. Thus, we might have disturbances of such a character as to demand the exercise of lamentable severity. To save the country from such a melancholy necessity, the Government may have to invoke the agency of the law, and to punish sedition with a rigour which shall be merciful in its stern. ness i • -,J THE NEw GOLD MINES OF NEW ZEALA - Nii.-:- The discovery of gold on the western shores of the middle island of New Zealand has added much importance to the anchorages on the open and exposed coast.. The Board of Trade have published a pamphlet compiled from the re marks of Captain Charles W. Hope, R.N., commanding her Majesty's ship Brisk, 1867, from which it ap pears that the whole population on the west coast is at present estimated at from 40,000 to 50,000 colonists. Li 1850 not a single European resided on the whole lice of cqaate l :Ncw Zofansi Eva!;frig LAW AND '(LICE. PECIILIAR ACTI6N FOR LißEL.—ni case o Parker o. Thompson, which was tried at Westminster before Mr. Justice Lush, was an action for libel. The plaintiff was the vestry clerk of Fulham, and the defendant the pro prietor of the West London Observer. It appeared that at a vestry meeting complaints were made that one of the rate collectors had committed errors of account. At that meeting a Mr. Bryant, in the course of his speech, made use of certain observations which led to the impression that the vestry clerk had cooked the accounts. The speech was reported in the defendant's paper with an interpola tion, " It was believed that the vestry clerk had sent in his resignation." The plaintiff, seeing the report, instructed his solicitor to write the defendant a letter demanding an apology and a contradiction inserted in that. newspaper, but no notice was taken of it. The plaintiff was now ready to accept an apology and a verdict to carry costs, The defendant said he never received the letter, and that he never refused to insert an apology. Mr. Bryant said the report of his speech was a correct one. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff ; damages; £25. IXTORTANT CONVICTION UNDER THE SMOKE NUISANCE Acv.—At the Southwark Police•court, the Messrs. Hepburn, extensive tanners, of Bermondsey, were fined £5 and costs for using furnaces in their works which did not consume their own smoke. The inspector, after looking over the works, gave the defendants notice of the alteration required, and they promised to see to it, but at the conclusion of a month it was still undone. Twenty-one days more were allowed, and on_ the work not being then completed the present charge was preferred. ACTION FOB DAMAGES FOB A FATAL RAILWAY ACCT. DENT. —A case which was tried at the Manchester Assizes, raised an important question. It was an ac tion by' a widow against the Oldham, Ashton, and Guide Bridge Railway Company. The plaintiff's husband, on the 9th of February, took a London and North-Western ticket to go from Oldham to Greenfield. He was crossing the line to get to the platform from which the train would start, when 'he was knocked down and killed by a train belonging to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company. It was contended that the mode of conducting the station was so dangerous that it was not to be wondered at that the man was killed. Persons were obliged to cross the Jane and to run about to find where the train would start from. For the defence the point of law was raised whether, when the contract was with another company, and deceased was killed by another company's train, the defend ants could be made liable. His lordship was inclined to think not, but refused to stop the case on that account. Ultimately the jury were discharged, not being able to agree. His lordship said that he merely took the verdict for form's sake, as the plaintiff was poor, and it would save litigation. The point raised was a radical defect in the case. ANOTHER ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY. :.- 21,250 DAMAGES.—In another railway case tried at Manchester, the plaintiff, a cotton-spinner and manu• facturer, laid his damages at £4,000. While the plaintiff, wife, and children were travelling from Huddersfield to Todmorden, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, an accident happened, and plaintiff was injured, as he alleged, seriously. The defence was that his injuries were very small, but it was shewn that he could not attend market for three months, and Mr. Baron Martin said he was entitled to substantial damages. The jury returned a verdict for £1,250. AN ACTION FOR TIMBRELLAS.—Another case at the Manchester Assizes was an action brought against ashippee named Wehner, to recover £154 is. lid., the balance of an account on sale of 4,000 dozen umbrellas. The umbrellas had been ordered for the Calcutta market, at the rate of 1,000 dozen per month, but the deliveries being' behind time, the manufacturer agreed to a deduction being made in order that the goods might be sent by steamer instead of sailing vessel, to save the Calcutta season. The defendant, however, sent the umbrellas by the over-' , land route, and deducted the amount in question. The jury found for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. INCENDIARISM BY A GlRL.—Eliza Sparrow, a girl aged 15 years, has just been convicted at Norwich Assizes of setting fire to a coalshed, outhouse, and other premic.s of her master, Mr. George Bunn, at Acle. The prisoner confessed to the constable's wife that she had done the acts charged, not thinking that she was doing any harm, but tempted to do so. After the failure of one attempt she said she felt so bad she did not know what to do, and could not sleep ; that the thought came into her head again on the Simdr.y following, when she took a match and set fire to the straw. She was sentenced to a month's iza prisonment and hard labour, at the expiration of which time she was to go to a reformatory for five years. - ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN.—A young Irish.. woman, named Mary Quirk, was brought up at the Sal -1 ford Town Hall, charged with attempting to shoot a police man who is alleged to have seduced her. Police-constable Sowerby said he was on duty on Sunday night, and at about eight o'clock was going along the Crescent in the direction of the Pendleton Police-office, when the prisoner overtook Lim and walked alongside of him until he got to the office. He endeavoured to persuade her to go homo because he was on duty, but she refused to do so. After calling at the Pendleton Police- . office, at about a quarter to nine, he got upon an omnibus going from Pendleton to Manchester, and the prisoner got inside. He got off the omnibus at the corner of Oldfield road, and walked in the direction of the Salford Police office. At the corner of Bezley.square he saw the prisoner, and again asked her to go home. She replied that she would if she 'liked. He then left her and went to the police-office, where he remained from half-past nine until twenty minutes to two. He then left the office to go home, and was turning from Kirkley-street into Bruns wick-street, when he again saw the prisoner. She said to him, "It is the last time I shall come. You have two cartes de visite of mind ; will you give them to me ?" He replied that he would bring them to her. He then saw her raise her arm and at the same instant heard the report of a pistol, and felt a smarting sensation in his right arm and in his eyes from the effects of the flash. He did not see the prisoner again. She had repeatedly told him she would shoot bim. He ceased to keep company with her about two months ago. The prisoner cross examined Sowerby to chew that he had used her very ill, and was with another woman at the time when the pistol was discharged. The prisoner said the policeman had kept company with her for five years. Mr. Trafford advised the prisoner to reserve her statements with re-', gard to Sowerby's conduct to her, and committed her for' trial. TILE COMItERCIAL BANE CORPORATION.—An application to the Master of the Rolls in the matter of the above company, for consent to a call of £lO per share required to satisfy the liabilities of the old company, was opposed by the shareholders of the existing company (which was formed out of the old one) on the ground that questions were in dispute between the two companies, and therefore the question should stand over. His lordship, however, consented to the application. THE POWER OP A COMPANY TO ACCEPT BILLS.—In the matter of the General Estates Bank the power of - the directors to accept bills on the part of the company was questioned, there being no special power given to them in the articles of association. His lordship the Master of the Rolls held that the directors had the power. MR. CAVE, M.P. FOR BARNSTAPLE, IN THE COURT OT EXCHEQUER.—On Monday an action was tried in the Court of Exchequer, which throws considerable light upon the . unseen current of an election to the City shrievalty. The defendant was Mr. Thomas Cave, M.P. for Barnstaple, in 1863 Sheriff of London. The plaintiff was a Mr. Hayes, who had helped him to obtain that distinction, and now' claimed 100 guineas for his services, which he alleges that he specially stipulated should be paid him.. Plaintiff and defendant each appeared as witnesses, and contradicted each other so flatly as to make the case one of personal veracity. On the one hand, Mr. Hayes swore that Mr. Cave made a contract with him for the £lOO, and Mr. Cave as distinctly swore that 'what Mr. Hayes had said was false. Mr. Hayes stated that Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson was employed to act as orator on the day of the election. This also was denied. The jury, after a little deliberation, found for the defendant. FEARFUL DEATH. —Mr. Alderman Lioorge Job ling, of Tynemouth, one of the owners of Belside, Walker, and other collieries in Northumberland, and a borough magistrate in North Shields, met with a frightful death at the Irowden station of the Tynemouth branch of the North rastern Railway, on Sunday night. Mr. Jobling, on Sun day, had been dining with his cousin, Mr. Thomas Jobling, at Willington House. Ho appears to have gone on the line of railway at the west end of the Willingtou Viaduct, and was walking down to catch the train from Neu castle to Tynemouth at Howden. He had evidently forgotten that the train leaves Newcastle at a quarter to nine on Sunday evening; instead of nine o'clock as on week days ; and he had been walking within the down rails. He was overtaken by the quarter to nine train before he could reach the Howden station. His attention had been called to the noise made by the approaching train.. He turned round to look, and was immediately struck by the buffers of the engine and thrown under the wheels and crushed to death. The engine -man felt that he had gone over something, and as soon as the train stopped at Howden a party ran back to the spot where the accident occurred, and found Mr. Jobling's body dread. fully mutilated. It was removed to the railway station at Howden, where the coroner's Inquest will by held,— Eerthcro 1201 P igxProi IL IAI A NUTSIIELT. The November - number of the New York Fr& Trade journal, called The League, republishes an article first issued two years ago in the New York Evening Post, as it finds in the case commented on, " Protection in a Nutshell." The thread works owned by Hartford capitalists at Willimantic are the most extensive in the country, and at that time they had just finished a new mill 400 feet long, five storeys high, and built of granite—a work of great labour and cost, constructed out of the profits of the company without disturbing its capital, which, with this addition, was estimated at $1,000,000. These profits were over 300 per cent., and it was therefore an easy matter for Vie com pany to make this addition to its factory, and a wise expenditure in increasing the productive power of so profitable a business. The Hartford Tunes, boasting of these results, thus continued its comments :—" Thread that used to cost the needle woman four cents a spool, now costs ten—the same as the imported English thread of J. and P. COATS. One reason why COATS'S thread works more smoothly on the machine, and is better liked than our, is in the fact that the greater dampness of the English climate is more favourable than our dry air to spinning cotton. Again the highly electric condition of the atmosphere of the Western World is probably unfavourable to the necessary compactness and smoothness sought for in the fabrication of this article, the etrands and fibres being more inclined to rough up and fly off.' " This unconscious admission—though unseen by the writer—was quickly detected by the oppo nent 3 of the Protection system, and enabled them to condense the subject into a nutshell. Here is a manufacture, says the Free-trader,w hich, from physical causes, cannot be brought to perfection in America, but which, by enormous protection, has been made to pay 300 per cent. profit. The tariff on imported threads is equal to 70 per cent. in gold on the cost; the tax on the domestic article is 6 per cent. in currency. The effect has been twofold. The three—cord glazed threads, such as male by this company, cost much less in England, and are sold at lower prices than the six-cord goods. but the duty has raised them to the same price; and the sewing woman in the United States has to pay as much for the one as for the other. The price of the best ought not to exceed 6 cents a spool, even with gold at 140, while the price, as the Hartford Times observer, is 10 cents. The difference comes out of the pockets of the needlewomen and their customers. By thus raising the price 40 per cent., the Hartford capi talists are enabled to divide three timer their ori ginal capital per annum. The effect on the natiocal revenue has been to entail a loss of nearly $200,000 per annum, as spool cotton used to pay a yearly income of half a million, while now it gives but $300,000. Thus the revenue suffers in an equal proportion ; both the State and te poor being robbed of 40 per cent. to pay the lucky speculators 300 per cent. on their investment. We would like to know what the country gains by the Willimantic Thrcadworks. What the company gains is dis tinctly stated, and what the country loses is as clearly put. Though a factory has been established, which furnishes employment to a certain number of citizens, it does not follow that such employment must benefit either the country or the indi viduals. In the presence of a great emergency, when whole classes have been thrown out of em ployment, it may be necessary to set aside the rules of political economy, and furnish work without regard to its productiveness or necessity. No country can, however, habitually set aside these laws without increasing the evils it seeks to alle viate. In other words, there is a ceaseless danger in fostering manufactures for which a coun try has not a physical capacity, because the ten dency is to train hands and lead individuals to rely on a craft artificially supported, and thus rest ing on a false foundation, which may at any time give way, leaving them in the air. As the United States have not arrived at that stage which makes it even a temporary boon to labour to rest any indus stry on a false foundation, we cannot suppose that these Threadworks are beneficial to the hands em ployed. The question of gain thus becomes narrowed to the proprietors. It may appear absurd to assert that a man who receives 300 per cent. on his capital, has not made a judicious and lucky investment. Yet it may be so. Those who embark money in fostering industry not suitable to the country in which they live rest their capital on the same false foundation as the worker does his labour. Un doubtedly in such a case as the Willimantic Thread works the prudent capitalist can repl tee from his enormous dividends the sum he has employed, and thus if the pleasing phantom vanishes, remain as he was before. Experience, however, shows that few men act thus. Ile has stepped into a fortune, and he assumes the position in society to which he considers his judicious investment has elevated him, and henceforth commences the career of anxiety and worry which all must in some degree experience whose position rests on an insecure basis. The labourer, after a probationary period of suffering, can turn his hand to another employment ; his capital remains, although his peculiar handicraft may have disappeared from the industries of his country. But not so the capitalist, whose money sinks into the quicksand on which he has placed it, never again to be seen. Dreading this result, he becomes a frantic Protectionist. His mind is imbued with one idea to such an extent that a proprietor of the Threadworks may have persuaded himself that the prosperity of the United States rests, not on Protection generally, but mainly on the spe cific and ad valoreneluties piled upon theßri tis h fabric, which enables him to realise so enormous a return. The arguments of such a man are amusing to those who know better than himself how his mind has r e ceived the bent. "To elevate the lowest on the rung of the ladder, and to bring up the masses, ought to be the object of a commonwealth. Manu factures most tend to elevate labour, as a strong demand raises wages, and enables the workman to secure his fair share of profits. Protection is tee only means a'. establishingmanufactures on a perma nent basis. Therefore, the object of a Republic, in the interest of its poorer citizens, ought to be to protect industry." So arguing he puts his 300 per cent. in his pocket soothed with the comfortable doctrine that he is a true patriot, working for the interest of the toiling masses. This is, indeed, a royal road, and when he is jostled on it by a rude Free-trader, we cannot be surprised at the bitterness with which he resents the obstruction. Great Britain. is the country whose competition he fears ; and it is there fore against Great Britain that the Protectionist arguments are mainly directed. Unfortunately for England, the tone unwisely expressed by her press has enabled him to assume that her attitude during the rebellion was unfriendly ; and this has been so resented by the United States that a weight has been given to arguments they would otherwise not have possessed. Is the country, he asks, to destroy her manufactures to benefit those of our English enemies who will use the very strength derived from out folly to injure us. Thus he , backs his arguments by an appeal to pre judice, which, alike in nations as in individuals, often oversways reason and judgment. The League sums up in these words : " Protection" finds antagonism everywhere ;• Free Trade' believes in the harmony of all interests ; Protec tion' sets nation at variance with nation ; Free Trade' is a peacemaker. Protection' believes in the necessity of guarding labour against the tyraeny of capital ; Free Trade' teaches that labour and capital are natural allies, necessary to one another, and that but for the ill-judged interference of Go vernment, they would work in harmonious co-ope ration to their mutual good."--ele9/o-elinericen 7imes. The Philo-Drarnatic Society gave their eleventh entertainment at the "Polygraphic Hall" on the 28th ult., before a fashionable an't enthusiastic audience, the pc , rformance commencing with the farce " Retained for the Defence," followed by the drama " The Wreck Ashore," and concluding with the farce " The Unfinished Gentle man." The pieces were placed upon the stage effectually, the dresses and accessories were really capital, the per formers wore well up in their different parts ; and all contributed, in a greater or less degree, to the real success of a very clever amateur performance. STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LIST. —Faithless Sarah's forfeit is paid. MISCELLANEOUS NEIV3, Prom the Aniflo-Antaicad 77Nes.) On the 21st November Congress met at Wash ington, when the President was enabled to ignore its existence, as legally, the first Monday in Decem ber is the date on which the Session commences. He refrained from transmitting his Message till then, and Reports from the Heads of Departments could not of course be received. Practically there fore there was no business before the House, al though the attendance of members was large. Speaker Colfax presided at the Representatives, where .the Impeachment Committee was called on for its report, which it promised on Nov. 25. An unsuccessful attempt was in ole by the Democrats to have the loyalty of the Tennessee members in quired into, as were those from Kentucky, some of them being accused of having served in the Confe derate army. Mr. Brooks, who was the Democratic spokesman, considered it unfair that while Ken tucky Congressmen had been excluded on a charge of sympathy with the Confederacy, Tennessee mem bers, who had actually served against the United States, should be admitted. In one instance only did he prevail ; the excluded delegate having been a Major in the Confederate army, though he has now swung round to Radicalism. The House then ad journed till Friday. In the Senate the Hon. Ben Wade presided, with his head rather battered from his recent fall. Business commenced, as usual, by Mr. Sumner's bill to make negroes and whites equal in the District of Columbia. Senator Edmonds, of Vermont, introduced the following joint resolution, which was ordered to be printed, and is to be called op on an early day ; " Whereas, the public debt of the United States was, except when specialiy otherwise provided, contracted and incurred upon the faith and credit of the United States that the same would be paid or redeemed in coin or its equivalent, and whereas doubts have been raised as to the duty and pro priety of discharging such debt in coin or its equivalent, it is therefore— " Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States in Congress as sembled, that the public debt of the United States, except in the cases wherein by the law authorising the same other provision was expressly made, is owing in coin or its equivalent, and the faith of the Unite I States is hereby pledged in payment accordingly." It is thought that this resolution will be c trried by a large majority in both Houses, and the fall in the price of gold indicates, we believe, its favourable reception. If the Message of the President does not absorb Congressional attention, there will be a great fight between the advocates of contraction and inflation. It is believed that in the house the inflation:sts are in a majority, and the Senate is doubtful. The West strongly adveeate more money, and will op pose Secretary M'Culloch's scheme of contracting the greenback currency. He desires an increase, of h:s present power in this direction, .while his oppo nents propose to abolish the law under which he is enabled to absorb greenbacks at the rate of $4,000,000 a month. This subject is more closely associated with repudiation tha❑ is at first sight apparent. Let any one begin to tamper with his capital to meet his ordinary expenditure, and he takes what may prove to be a fatal step on the road to ruin. It is more pleasant to meet expenses by " doing a little paper" when credit is' good, than to retrench, to dismiss servants, sell horses and carriages, and take a downward step in the social scale. Yet such a course may be the only true so lution of a grave difficulty. Contraction means not only a national, but an individual retrenchment throughout the States ; inflation is the seeming prosperity a man has who is living on his capital. The true financial friends of the United States dread the Representatives shying at the bog they have to wade through ere they reach sound financial ground. " What is the uie of sticking in this mud ?" says the horse, who has pleasant clover pastures inviting him ou this side. " That grass may be very pleasant to eat," he is answered ; " but it will destroy your constitution. You will be blown out and burst." The position is a trying one, for the bog is plain enough, but the other evil, remote and obscure. Secretary M'Cul loch is, however, painfully alive to the danger ; and it will not be his fault if Congress overrules his opinion. The plan ha proposes is sketched in the report which has reached this country through the cable. Mr. Robinson, one of those rowdy Democrats who spring from the hotbed of New York, has in troduced a resolution in the House of Representa tives, charging Charles Francis Adams, American Minister at St. James's, with neglect of duty in refusing to interfere on behalf of American citizens arrested and tried in the United Kingdom. A com mittee of investigation is demanded, with a view, if the facts justify the course, to impeach the Mi nister ; and the President is desired to recall Mr. Adams by the Atlantic cable as the speediest method. Copies of correspondence ou the arrests and trials are also called for. It is a singular fact that the party who received British support and sym pathy is that which has always displayed the most bitter and unreasoning hostility against England. The Democrats derive a large measure of support front the Irish, and in return aid Fenianism. On the other hand, they received all the assistance the Southern oligarchy could give, and therefore sympathised with the rebels. The complications in which England has become in volved by the piratical acts of cruisers obtained in English ports, is in some degree due to them, yet they are prepared to fasten on England the conse quences, at the same time that they tender aid in fostering a rebellion in the United Kingdom, and endeavour to cover the agents employed, by the open protection of the United States. This is the party, with Mr. Johnson at its head, that com manded the sympathies of the well-informed Eng lish press. The Alabama Convention still in session rejects all counsels of moderation, and goes in for the extreme of disfranchisement and proscription. To the list of the disfranchised are now added those who will not swear to support negro suffrage. The members have voted themselves $8 a day, and the same amount for each twenty miles they have to travel to and from the capital, and in payment have appropriated funds set apart by the Alabama Legislature for the in terest On the State Debt, although the method of paying the members is provided by the Reconstruc tion Acts. The friends of the negro express great disappointment at this sample of African legislation, and have been constrained to admit that the present experiment is a failure. Ere long similar constitu tional conventions will be in session in other States, and unless greater wisdom prevails in their coun sels, there will be a speedy end of such Assemblies. As anticipated, the house of Representatives has repealed the tax upon cotton grown after the pre sent year. The feeling was almost unanimous, and the evidence conclusive against it. It was announced that Mr. Horace Greeley had been nominated United States Minister to Austria, and that the Senate had confirmed the appointment. were somewhat surprised at this news, as _ . Horace Greeley had declined the appointuent last year, when Mr. Motley's resignation, and Mc- Cra2ken's insolent report to the President were dis cussed. Mr. Greely had not only declined, but pub lished the grounds for his refusal. These have in no way changed, and we presume that if Mr. Gre e l e y last year refused the promotion, that this year, cir cumstances remaining the sang, he would refuse it again. By a telegram rent from New York, on Thursday, we learn he had refused it, but one would have supposed that his name would not have been submitted to the Senate unless his sanction had been first secured. Judge Shipman made some excellent remarks when opening the United States Circuit Court at Hartford, Connecticut, in his charge to the Grand Jury touching the cases of defalcations of bank offi cers about to be tried : " There are," lie Said, " men of good social standing, who aro raised by their salaries above want, and aro re moved from many of the temptations which assail those in the obscure and humble walks of life. To fail to punish them when they deliberately violate their trust and plunder those who have relied on their integrity, while at the same time the more ignorant and degraded offenders against law are visited with its penalties, shocks the moral sense, and is a bitter mockery of justice. It renders property inse cure, encourages fraud, and removes those wholesome checks which should guard and warn others from treading in the same path of crime. The position of the active officers of a bank, who are daily ern ployed in conducting i s affairs, is one o f p eculiar responsibility. They are intrusted not only with the property of the opulent who are able to bear losses, and who have usually a potent voice in selecting these officers, but they control the interests of the small stockholders." of widows and orphans, whose sole means of support are (often the small savings of a life of industry and self denial, carefully invested by those who have passed awns' as a security against want for friends who have sha red their affectio 7 and been dependent on their care. No m°rj d e li ca t e or sacre d earthly trusts can be committed tomo" than these. And yet they aro often shamefully violatel, and the public and the victims are told that the high P'' si " tions of the culprits, their attractive and manly qualities, their past unblemished reputation, or their eminent Pie* or all combined, are such that those who have the earliest and free access to the evideuee of guilt do not desire fuel: punishment, and cannot find it in their hearts to 3 l a in bringing them to justice. If-the moral sense of dies" most immediately interested in the management of these institutions is reduced to this sickly condition, it is qu itd time that a l aw was enacted declaring every officer, direc tor, or stockh o ld er o f a bank, who has no knowlede a that a fraud has b een comm i tted upon it, and fads to make lir, mediate compl a l u t to t h e off i cers of the law, au accesso?' after the fact, punishable by fine and imprisonment. miserable vendor of counterfeit currency passes a Vi gi l,' note at a bank an d i s d etecte d , he i s at once h an ded 0% to the officers of the law. It the bolder robber seizes - package of bills from its counter or messenger, he is s imme diately arrest e d, if poss ibl e, an d b rought to justice. Shall it be said that as officer of a bank who commits , coolness and delibe ra ti on a l ong ser i es o f c rimes, tu" smallest of which is more flagrant than counterfeiting ° ordinary theft, may, when he can pursue his guilty voca tion no longer with secresy and success, assemble in' partial friends, make his confession and apology, an d til i e r ri leisurely depart, w ith none to hi nder or molest him ? 4— c e i laws made only for the comparatively weak, ignorant, an. helpless? Is the w h o l e f orce o f society, operating O ren / the expensive machi ner y o f cr i m i na l j ust i ce, to be exP"de„, upon its obscure and w or thl ess mem b ers, w hile tLe conspicuous ones are acre- ned from punishment and tr eated as mere victims of mi s f or t une , ent i t l e d t o sympath isills regrets, and to every f ac ility f or concea l men t or flight? . "So demoralisin g h as th e sen ti m nt o f t h e co mmun it y on this subject becom e , th a t o ff en d ers o f t h e more resPec`; able class begin to dem an d exempt i on f rom pun i s hment ° a a right. It is not l ong s i nce a man o f e d uca tion ap a pro - ninence, notoriously guilty o f re p ea t e d an d extens ive forgeries, while tempor ar ily con fi ne d , or rat h er lodged, I . the gaol in this co un ty, h a d t h e e ff rontery to deuoea . c _ e . every one of his vi c ti ms w h o h es i tate d to tw it ° with in suppressing the evidence of his guilt. lie finally coe:, came all their scrupl es , an d i s now engage d i n oulight 4 bo log other commu n iti es on th e i r mora l d ut i es, an d in , t Pat enjoyment of th e p a t ronage an d f avour o f soc i e ty mark the contrast. Ab ,ut the same time, in the S a lO city, an obscure, uneducated day-labourer forged a a t° gd small cheque, presente 1 it at the bank, was detected 1,,n, speedily consi gne d t o t h e St a t e pr i son at W et h e rsfield tu' a term of years." What a splendid commentary on late cases in 13 . 8. ; land ! and more no!ably on that of the non vl3 t Wilkinson and th e L on d on Ti mes. Thi s cxceln judge could not h ave name d an offen d er United States whO hadmo re s h ame f u ll y wrough th3 „, the ruin accomplished by thi.3 man. Yet the etin ; vcrnment, the Judge, and a ll concerne d in m , out his punishment, had t o w ith s t an d a sev ero pressure, headed by th e mos t power f u l organ of public opinion in the world. Our correspondent at Naples tells us that the eruption of Vesuvius i s i ncreas i ng , an d becein tug i 08 daily more interesting. A new s t ream o f lava ' he been opened from the su mm it o f th e c one in t o direction of Torre del Grec o . F or t una t e ly the la at is flowing over that o f p rev i ous erupt i on s, so t ill visitors may enjoy the s i g ht w i t h out regret ting n o , destruction of valuable laud. The .weather CO finites bright and cle ar . N ovem b er h as been q uite an Indian summer. The Bishop of New York returned from Ei n g,, o 4 in time to speak at th e P ro t es t ant E p i sco pal ','" to vention, lately held in N ew Y or k. H e alluded to the very kind treatment a n d grea t hospitality h i e American clergy had r ece i ve d i n E ng l an d, and the remarks met with the warmes t rece ption by 15 , Convention. Resolution s were a d o pt e d hear t ' approving the acts of the Pan-Anglican Synod, 50 its Synodical letter rec ogn i s i ng th e esse ntialu n 'l, :of of the Anglican Chu rc h, an d app l au di ng the P r° tee sion by which the President of the United S t ' li ere will be associated with her Majesty in the Pr` l Y to of English continental churches and chapel s which American travellers commonly re sort' to copy of these resoluti ons h as b een tran smitted o f the Archbishop of C an t er b ury as t h e P re siden t the Synod. The report is a ga i n rev i ve d t h at G ene ral ' - ' -c or man is to command a large body of regulars a t ity , near Washington. H e i s not expected at th at e bbe till the Ist of D ecem b er , an d i n th e m eantime ' e a number of the regular troops has been in ereAs to from 1,900 to 3,000. Colonel Forney continues lit f a announce in both his pape rs , th a t th e Presidenti ali tends to subvert Co n u ress and a co up (r e , on the country. GeLeral Sherman can be' t obliged to the author of the se r idi cu l ous canara` nie , associating his name with this unlawful seh f e th e That officer has just address e d th e S o ciety ° l , jou Army of Tennessee, at th e i r annua l celebr P oi . , at St. Louis. lie ingeniously avoided Pe lit , vaguely recommendi n g a re t urn t o th e netit a ve lt tiou. lie became eloquent, however, when he °. n sse e. on the achieveme n t s o f th e army of Te n-c ,4 es He offered to welcome back the Southerne rs eon equals," but no t " su p er i ors, " prov id e d they t he " adapt themselves to the manifest destiny country." has r e- Judge Agnew, of the Supr eme Court, „„ h ily versed the decisi on o f J u d ge Alli son, o f the t he delphia Cou r t o f C ommon Pl eas, who charge'. a id • jury to return Mary Miles damages, which th e y ga r for $5OO, under the following circumstances•ted Miles, a respectable coloured woman, was ei g e eil' from a car of the West c h es t er (P enns yl v ania) "' h et road Company, because she refused to cha n g e S he seat when requested to do so by the conductor. bo ne sued the company, and obtained damages a s re ale stated, when the company appealed to the S u P r oll' Court. Judge Agnew rul e d th a t nev er in d o sylvania has there been au intermixture of the At races socially, politically, civilly, or religieus i ttbo the time of the all ege d i njury t h er e w is n- o yee n natural, legal, and c us t omary diff eren ce i!. e „ con: the black and th e w hit e passengers i n a puh,l-secnr" veyance, the subject o f a soun d regu l a tion In Pe order, promote comf o rt, an d p rese rve o ' 3 He therefore held th e con d uc t or t o b e justifie d ' I ' te 04 LADVERTISEMENT.)—Avoid Medicines: they alWal ,, ,;ot( o ir chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious healt o oer've, Revalenta. Arabica Food, which yields three times t ' — rero: o o, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other 0, 6',,,01. and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong ne rli f oet i 'Ve, lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleer',Dlere? regularity, anti energy to the most disordered or eme4 res; s 6o' extract a few out of 68,000 cures;—" The Pope's hea i i.; by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, Ju'i n ify 19 —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, esPe c ;if o' o o abandoning all other remedies, he has confined WV - eotO ae; to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which Llce l a plateful at every meal. It has rrodueed a surprila,ise,,,ao flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prate lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, Ju" ea rS: eo lq No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehm', of Bevel, ne'o3l complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, With tress palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sle..,eP le i 7111, c 0 4 _, the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure r+°;'ol y e Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, 01 0 , 0 0 v el dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribabl e sO, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatlecure . ,, e oro i spasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria July f 30 46.270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fri m ley, Surrey, ° diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derarl.fetbe goat partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware 1 5I 'Det" unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to W.T.„'at ol os.:,; uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audacio us ; vo., /o! 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