The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

The Arrests in Hanover. • BERLIN, May 23. The subjoined semi-official account of the recent agitation in Hanover has just been published here : " Several domiciliary visits and arrests have re cently taken place in Hanover, and further serious measures appear to impend. Our Government. had received intelligence that a delegate from the suite of the ex-King of Hanover had left Heitting (near Vienna) for Hanover with important documents. During this person's passage through Frankfort a sinces;:f al attempt was made to secure both the delegate and the carefully concealed papers, which afforded indubitable evidence thst treasonable plans were being carried out amongst the king's blinded followers. King G:!orge had calculated upon the apparently threatening war bc.tween France and Germany, in order to kindle di-sension and civil war in Hanover, and to restore the rule of the House of Guelph by the aid of foreign arms. A Hanoverian legion was to be collected in Holland ready to invade Hanover upon the outbreak of the war, and to encourage the enemies of Prussia in the province to rebel. Many zealous adherents of the King among the former Court nobility and the late Hanoverian army were initiated into the secret, and a few officers directed the recruitment. At tempts were made, by holding out false prospects, by leading ancient attachments and fidelity astray, and by offers of money, to enlist persons from the lower classes—especially reserve men and those bound to military service—for the aforesaid legion, and to get them secretly out of the country. The result has only corresponded to the expectations en tertained in a very feeble degree. If King George and his advisers were not impenetrable to all ex planation and the teachings of fact, they must have perceived the perfect hopelessness of their cause from the trilling result of their efforts. Notwith standing the net of temptation they threw out over the country, they could manifestly not have suc ceeded in gaining a sufficient number of partisans for any serious enterprise. The sound sense of the majority of the people has withstood these temptations. A slight exertion of strength upon the side of Prussia would, under any circumstances, have sufficed to crush the foolish undertaking in the bud. All tit: efforts of the Guelph party would only have led to bringing severe misfortune upon those who bad yielded to seduction. Meantime the rapid security of peace completely frustrated King George's plans. Although, however, immediate hope had to be abandoned, the intention appears to have been entertained of still keeping up the con nections that had been made, and making them available in every way against the consolidation of the new Government. The discovery of the trai torous combinations that has been made will serve to put an end at once for all to these ill judged schemes. The Prussian Government will act most immediately in the interests of Hanover itself by emphatically putting a stop to the incessant allurements to rebellion against the existing order of affairs, and to the desperate efforts of a party which does not even shrink from treason towards the country to secure its ends. The Government has hitherto constantly shown consideration and forbearance towards the ex-King and his deluded followers ; the latter have, however, only replied to its mildness with increased defiance. It is now, therefore, time that indulgence should give place to exclusive consideration for the public interest. The Government owes it to the Prussian monarchy, as well as to the population of Hanover, to op pose these ill-advised intrigues by every means at its command, and to restore to the country the security of undisturbed and prosperous develop ment. The ex-King, of Hanover, on the other hand, will have to consider whether he will finally submit with dignity to the fate which has overtaken him through his own fault, or whether, by further useless opposition and traitorous enterprise against Prussia and Germany, he will also forfeit the personal t , anaideration the King's Government has hitherto displayer. ~. gn large a degree toward.: one German sovereigns WIIO nave fallen sacrifices to the contest of the previous year. (4-teen Marie, whose continued re sidence at the NI .rienburg, near Hanover, if it does not serve as a soppirt to tin Guelph intrigues, yet contributes to encourage them, will, in case of her still desiring to remain there as the guest of the King of Prussia, undoubtedly have to submit to the forms and conditions upon which such hospitality is conferred. Mr. Motley's Diplomutic Correspondence during 1863 and 18 4. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is said that his Excellency J. Lothrop Motley bas been directed by Mr. Seward to hand over his portfolio as Minister at Vienna to the Chief Secre tary of the Legation, pending the appointment of a successor. The despatches of a Minister of his great literary celebrity will be read with interest by all, more especially by his fellow countrymen. A glance at these papers gives unmistakeable proofs of Mr. Motley's opinions on many important points. He shows, for instanco, that he is an advocate of Free Trade. In his despatch, dated Vienna, October 23, 1864, No. 78, he says—" There is a strong party in Austria who believe that the old ;system of ex clusive tariffs, and of what it is the fashion in many parts of the world to call Protection of native in dustry—that is to say taxation of the mass of con sumers of a country, for the benefit, not of the national treasury, but of a certain class of producers —is an error, and a very expensive one. But the production of beet-root sugar, of native tobacco, of spirits, wines, and many other articles which could be purchased far more cheaply and of better quality in foreign countries, has been immensely stimulated by protection, and the classes inte rested, are too powerful not to be able to oppose with success any sacrifice of their vested in terest." Writing in this despatch of diplomatic secrets he alludes with an evident sneer to a system by which ambassadors in former days endeavoured to add to their importance by maintaining a rigid silence while looking unutterable things, implying a fulness of information, it would be ruin to divulge. " lam not in possession of any State secrets," he says, " and certainly should never affect in this correspond ence to enjoy such an advantage, even supposing it to be an advantage to a representative of the United States Government, and supposing that there were really very many profound mysteries in the diplo matic world to be discovered. As .to the future settlement of the ' burning questions' of Europe I pretend to no power of prophecy. I doubt, too, whether there are many European statesmen who would be willing to hazard predictions with con fidence. There is logic in events, but the syllo gisms can with difficulty be comprehended, until they have been fairly propounded by time. Acade mic dissertations about Prussian ambition and its possible schemes of annexation and mediatisation, the chronic dualism between the great kingdom and the great empire of Germany, and their historic rivalry for the hegemony of the great people by which central Europe is mainly occupied, the embodiment of the German State-right prin ciple in the policy pursued by the middle and lesser powers, the re - modelling of the maps of Europe, and iu general, the possible future of the world in this century or the next, are interesting add important themes for philosophical and historical speculation, but have surely no place in a diplomatic correspondence, especially in that of a transatlantic power. I shall only say, therefore, that so far as my observation can reach, no political changes seem very imminent, and the immediate future eau b.; best expressed by negations." The references to Maximilian, then about to ac cept the throne of Mexico, coming from such a s?urco., have a peculiar interest. In his despatch, o. 34, Vienna, Sept e mbe r 21, 1863, he reports an interview with Count Rechberg. The Austrian Minister said that the Government considered the matter as a purely personal one, regarding the Archduke himself and his Imperial brother only, and that the Imperial Royal Government had not the means nor the inclination to send out forees to Mexico to maintain the new Empire. Mr. Motley appears to have spoken his mind plainly when talking unofficially ou the subject. He held with all loyal Americans that the act of overturning a republic, and substituting a monarchical Goveru- ment on American soil, and upon the United States frontier, by means of foreign armies and navies, would be not only distasteful, but even menacing, to the people, irrespective of section or party. " I suppose," .he says, " that the Archduke is going forth upon this adventure to improve Imperial institutions upon the ruins of a demo cratic Republic having weighed all the possible con sequences of such a step, and that he is not likely to have reckoned on the sympathy and support of the United States Government and people." In reply to a remark about the New Mexican Empire recognising the Confederate States, the Count ob served that it would be easy for the United States Government in a moment to make such a step ha possible. This meant, of course, that the Govern ment at Washington should themselves recognise the new Governm.2nt of Mexico, to which Mr. Mot ley's reply, ought to have carried more weight than it appears to have done, for it shadowed forth the undying hostility of the gre.tt Western Republic, which, in truth, meant the impossibility of eventual success for such an expedition. Mr. Motley an swered that the recognition by the United States Government seemed to him impossible, and without urging further his own opinions he placed in the Count's hand a despatch from Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton, of March 3, 1862, which appears to have given in very decisive terms the views on this sub ject of the American Government. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian received the Mexican depu tation offering him the throne, on Oct. 3, 1863. "Gentlemen,—l am deeply touched by the wishes which were expressed by the Assembly of Notables at Mexico, at their sitting of the 10th June, and which you have been charged to bring to me. It can only be flattering for our house that, at the first mention of the word monarchy, the eyes of your countrymen were at once turned to the race of Charles V. Although the task of assuring the inde pendence and well-being of Mexico, by means of durable and free institutions, is a very noble one, still I must acknow ledge, in full understanding with his Majesty the Emperor of the French, whose glorious initiative makes the regene ration of your beautiful country possible, that the monarchy cannot be restored, on legitimate and last ing- foundations, unless the whole nation of its own free will, ratifies the wish of the capital. Therefore, I must make my acceptance of the throne which is offered to me, depending first on the result of a vote of the entire country. On the other hand, my comprehension of the sacred duties of the ruler over the restored empire makes it necessary for me to ask for those guarantees which are indispensable to protect it from the dangers which threaten its integrity and independence. Should the assurances of a well-grounded security in the future ba obtained, and should the universal choice of the noble Mexican people fall upon me, I shall b 3 ready to accept the throne sup ported by the acquiescence of the high chief of my family, awl confiding in the protection of the Almighty. In case that I should be called by Providence to the high mission of civilization connected with this crown, 1 must, gentlemen, declare to you even now, my firm determina tion, following the wise example of my imperial brother, to open to the country the path of progress, founded on law and order, by means of a constitutional Government, and as soon as the whole realm has been restored to peace, to seal the fundamental fact with the nation lip my oath. Only in this way could a new and truly national policy be called into life, in which all parties, forgetting their ancient enmities, would help to raise Mexico to that con spicuous rank among the nations to which she would seem to bo destined, under a Government which held as its highest principle, to let moderation and law govern. Gentlemen, will you communicate to your countrymen these resolutions which I have freely imparted to you, and strive that it may be made possible to the nation to declare what Government it wishes to see established." The American Minister alludes to the Mexican question in his despatch, No. 108, Vienna, June 5, 1865, as occupying a large part of public attention in Europe. He informs Mr. Hunter, the acting Secretary of State, that he had had no conversa tion, official or informal, on the subject with the Imperial Government. "As 1 have often had occa sion to observe, the Imperial Government has ever hold itself aloof from the whole Mexican enterprise and disavows responsibility for its results. I sup pose that the United States Government continues its diplomatic relations with the Mexican Republic, and has no present intention of departing from the line of strict neutrality which it has laid down be tween the contending parties in that country, nor an Y * ---- --tinn of lending assistance by underhand ; means to either being,-1,,, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 27,_ 1867. It is interesting to observe the opinions expressed by Mr. Motley on the progress of the great civil war, as the despatches now before us were wrirtei, during its height and close. Europe was filled with Confederate emissaries, and every means were used to falsify news, to decry the useless and hopeless effusion of blood, to misrepresent the objects con tended for, and to bolster up a vicious and failing cause. " The opinions," Mr. Motley says, " held by the influential minority in Europe with re gard to the American War are manufactured for them by their public preceptors, who make up what is called the public opinion of Europe. Now there was a time when this tribunal was re garded by us almost with reverence. That day is, I trust, gone for ever. In regard to American affairs, the result of a final analysis of that opinion is simply this—lt is desirable that the great Ameri can Democratic Republic should be destroyed, an energetic and admirably organised domestic insur rection is attempting its destruction, therefore that nsurrection should be encouraged in every possible way." He adds, "In Europe, to be powerful, is to be venerated ; to be weak, is to be trampled upon ; therefore the public opinion of Europe is and ought to be, of comparative indifference to us." " The thinkers of Europe, so far as I know, without a solitary exception, and the labouring classes, wish success to the American Republic. The dominant classes, with individual and illustrious exceptions, together with the idlers who are unwilling or unable, to form opinions for themselves, desire the success of those who are attempting its destruction." He ,held that the great unrepresented voiceless mass of humanity, the toiling millions, whose part in life, according to the European scheme, is to be go verned, and to hew wood and draw water for those who govern, dimly perceived their own interest in the struggle of the American people to uphold the principles of freedom against the slave oligarchy. Though he writes bitterly of the general opinion of the upper classes, he pays a generous tribute to the working men of England. In his despatch, No. 36, Oct. 5, 1863, he says, "The heroic attitude of the working classes of England, steadily withstanding the acts and misrepresentations of demagogues, will ever be cherished as a manifestation scarcely less sublime than the heroism with which Ameri cans of all classes have been ready to lay down their lives that their own country might live ; nor shall we ever forget that the journalists who have defended our cause atno ng a host of enemies have been unsurpassed in the whole history of the periodical press for knowledge, ability, and nobility of sentiment ; that sonic of the most eloquent and honoured public men of England have spoken worth which have echoed in every American heart, and that the loftiest and most ear nest thinkers, both of England and of the Con tinent, the true and permanent guides of public thought, with scarce an exception, have expressed themselves, in regard to the great revolution now going on in America, with a wisdom, breadth of vision, that do honour to the age." In almost every letter a sentence appears which shows the strength of his own belief in the future of his country. In one he says :—" I may be over sanguine, but a doubt has not yet crossed my mind that the American Republic, based upon constitu tional law, popular self-government, and the rrr:ett principles of reason and justice, will, suppress an in surrection made for the perpetua,tien and extension of African slavery, and for the abrogation of the first principles of freedom. I expect as much to see the sun set at noon-day as to witness the destruc tion of our noble commonwealt h and it s dismember ment into a jarraig, warring Europe, without the historical excuses of Europe." His opinion that the Americans had something worth fighting for is frequently and strongly given. "A contemplation of European politics leads us to the sincere prayer that America may never be Europeanised." Mr. Motley was greatly troubled by the infamous m ann e r in which telegraphic summaries were con cocted of American intelligence. "It is no exagge ration to say that since I have been here we have always been under the influence of some perversive, exaggerative, or absolute fraud, perpetrated by the telegraph worl:ing in the interest of our enemies." He urged on Mr. Seward the necessity of sending a telegraphic summary twice a week from New York to London, thence to be telegraphed to the Legations on the Continent. He notices an admirable objec tion made by Mr. Seward that his Government should beware lest, by sending intelligence which might be sometimes mischievous, inaccurate, or in sufficient, it should lay itself open to the charge of misleading public opinion in Europe. His answer was conclusive, the intelligence was not prepared for, nor would it reach, the foreign public. In closing his despatch, he added—" A telegram just pub lished in the Vienna papers, New York, July 27. A desperate battle was fought near Atlanta on the 22d; the result was indecisive. General Sherman took a position in the fortifications. Hunter has been beaten, and retreated to Harper's Ferry. A new invasion of Maryland was expected." The retirement of a Minister so celebrated, leads us to glance over his despatches, where we find matter of such absorbing interest that it is not easy to relinquish a subject better calculated for the pages of a quarterly. It is probable we may soon again revert to this record of Mr. Motley's facts and opinions during a period which will ever be re garded by the great Republic, as its second vital struggle for liberty embracing a war beyond all comparison greater than its first, and involving interests scarcely less in political importance. Spirit of the American Press. " THE GENIAL CRITIC." We receive occasional remonstrances on what is considered the severity of our rivews of books from the friends of what is known as " genial criti cism," that is, of praise with just enough faint cen sure in it to make it seem that the writer is really balancing defects against excellences. Under the shelter of this " genial criticism " there has grown up a great crop of pretenders in all walks of literature and science, who deluge the . country every year with their books, and secure a ready sale for them, to the great depravation of the public taste and to the great hindrance of real scholars, real poets, and real scientific men. We have endeavoured to the best of our ability to do something to check this evil by providing a channel in which men of real culture' may say what they honestly think about the claims of the numerous applicants for public atten tion who now make their appearance every week. Without going into the vexed question of the use of criticism in its highest aspects, there is one aspect in which its utility will be denied by no body, and that is as an aid to book-buyers. The American public contains more book-buyers than any public in the world, and the American and foreign press teems with books. Now, the majority of book-buyers have neither the time nor the money to buy or read the one-thousandth part of what is published. It is of the highest importance to them, therefore, that they should have some guidance in deciding what books of the thousands they had better buy, and read, and digest, and put away on their book-shelves ; and it is to supply this guidance, however imperfectly, that what are called " literary notices " are published in the newspapers. Without this object in view, two thirds of them would be an idle flow of words, and the time spent in writing them utterly lost to nearly everybody but the writer and a few of his friends. But, for the book-buyer, the first essential of these " notices " is honesty and independence. The writer of them—certainly of those which appear in the weekly papers—professes to be a third party, a judge of books, standing between the bookseller and the public, without interest or bias on one side or the other, and occupied solely with the task of giving the book-buyers a fair idea of the literary value of the wares which the publisher offers for sale. The publisher is, of course, interested in selling, and in nothing else. Caveat emptor is even more empha tically the rule of the book market than of the horse market. Of course no publisher of respecta bility selects works for publication which he does not honestly believe to have merit. But having once selected a bOok and put his name on it his whole and sole business is to push its sale, to recorn mend it, and induce others to recommend it. The public is perfectly aware of this, and is consequently not in the least affected by what the publishers say of their own honks in thoir advertisements or else where. Those funny little sheets, containing ela borate notices of the works they have for sale, which some of the booksellers have lately taken to circu lating, and in which so much philosophy, sociology, " knowledge of human nature," and wide and various reading are brought to bear upon the corn. mendation of the last novel or poem, are very enter taining, but nobody is deceived by them. Every body makes allowance for the motives of the writers, and, having laughed, lays them down. When a man not very familiar with books wants to know what is going on in the book world, and whe ther he had better buy the latest novelty, he looks at the reviews of it, probably at that which has ap peared in his weekly paper—most probably, in this country, in his religious weekly. " Here," he says to himself, "I shall get the opinion of an honest man of some literary acumen who has read the book who has no interest in promoting its sale, and by his opinion I shall be guided in deciding whether I had better expend in purchasing it any portion of the too small sum which I can afford each year to lay out in this way." Now, if the reviewer is pecuniarily interested in the sale of the book, as the publisher is ; if he is not an impartial judge, disguised but as vi a rtu er a i l t ly ie, a a n nd ag r e e n w t ,s o rd f reviews eavl ui eew ofs or be he i n e I d bv i ro r e ot c ke ts forya are e f t o hn r co pulling t ce ffi a o n n f g d tdh his e e s buyer, wares uitny earte,s b ; h ed the by di rectly publisher of vertisements, in the guise of reviews, a t the d- e ut for the benefit of the publisher, and intended to induce the reading public to purchase the book--then, we say, the re viewer and all who aid and abet 11 . un are guilty of an odious fraud, which is not rendered one whit less culpable or less contemptible by the fact that most books only cost a dollar and a half each. A cheat is a cheat, let the amount be what it may. ' And we say, advisedly, that a very large proportion of the " genial criticism" of our popular periodicals is of this kind, and it is owing to the wide pre , valence of this fraud that the efforts of some 'journals to judge of books on their merits solely and speak of them as they deserve, are stigmatised as indications of a malignant and acrid nature. Let us not be misunderstood. We do not say that there is any paper of reputation in the coun try which does not often contain reviews of real merit and written with an honest purpose, and which does not occasionally take pains to procure such reviews. Nor do we say that the cor ruption of the Genial Critic takes the form of gross bribery ; that the bookseller gives him or the newspaper publisher a fixed sum to produce " a first-rate notice" of his last book. It is only the lowest order of humbugs and deceivers who can be seduced in this way. The process com monly in use is more complicated and a little more delicate. The bribe is " advertising patronage." P u bli s hers find that an advertisement in any paper is doubled in value by the appearance of a favour able critique, in the editorial columns or the book atuy and advertised ; therefore they very n the 'where y get very excusably adve r t ise most most favourable notices, and the Genial Critic, knowing their weakness , offers f avo urable notices in return for paying advertisements. Both parties in this way make money ; Vie author's feelings are spared ; his "profundity," his "lucidity," his " acute ness," his " wonderful grasp," and "rare powers" are proclaimed to the listening world ; and a few hundred persons are eased of two dollars apiece, " which they will never miss," and " where's the hat m of it all?" say the Genial Critic and the "en terprising publisher" of the " widely circulated and influential journal." The harm is the harm of all money-getting on false pretences, and the addi tional harm of lowering the public taste, hindering the reward and recognition of real merit, and tempting scores of people into authorship who would be much better employed in selling thread and • needles or raising cranberries. All this has, of course, been said before many a time. The reason why we repeat it now is that we have caught " the Genial Critic" iu the very act of making his bargain with the book publishers, and are thus enabled to fortify our judgment with names, dates, and circumstances —an advantage which few of those who have assailed his malprac- tices have enjoyed. We have before us a printed circular issued by the proprietor of the Independent, a religious weekly paper of this city, and addressed to "booksellers and publishers," soliciting advertise ments, and judiciously marked "private." He an nounces at the opening that the _lndependent is " unsurpassed in circulation and influence by any religious paper on the globe ;" that "in name and reputation it has no superior ;" that " in charac ter and ability" it has acquired " a fame thoroughly national ;" that its subscribers are "a reading class, a book-buying class," " in comfortable or independent circumstances," including " seven or eight thousand clergymen of all denominations." Much of this is, no doubt, true. The Independent has some excellent qualities, and has certainly a very wide circulation, but this only increases its responsibility in the matter of " book notices." But the views of duty on this subject entertained by the publisher of this wonderful " organ" may be inferred from the fol lowing paragraph :—" Books Sent for Review. — The managers of the Independent desire to make their paper in this respect as acceptable to book publishers as possible. All books sent for review are considered as candidly and favourably as pos sible. We cannot review every book sent us, as our space for book notices is limited. Yet all books of worth am reviewed and well treated." We have great pleasure in giving this notice the benefit of our circulation. Publishers will observe that it is only their " books of worth" that are favourably treated, so they had better send their poor books elsewhere. The Genial Critic never occu pies himself with the chaff. There is one question we should like to ask him, and we leave him to answer it at his leisure. He will be the last man in the world to deny that humbug is the great curse of our time. What we wish to know is, how he sup poses society is ever to be delivered from it if the press, and especially the religious press, which is the ex officio exposer of humbug, is to remain one of its most besotted worshippers ? Has he no bowels of compassion for the " best families, the people of intellectual culture and appreciation," even though they are " in comfortable and independent circum stances," and especially the " seven or eight thou sand clergymen," who every week have to read his " candid and favourable reviews ?"—The Nation. THB APPEAL FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has sent the Editor of the New York Herald documentary evidence whose authenticity he avouches, and which reveals a condition of destitution and woe posi tively startling. The accounts come from a great many districts, and it should be at once distinctly understood at once in the North and the West, where alone the means of relief are to be found, that the people in these districts are not simply in need, but that they are absolutely starving. We call upon the wealthy and benevolent in our great rich centres to come forward promptly, and out of their abundance to prevent such terrible calamity. It would be lamentable enough in a country like this, over-running as it is with the necessary sup plies,:if even a few should be suffered to perish for want of food ; but when such a catastrophe is threatening entire communities it were inexpressibly shocking as well as a national disgrace that it should not be promptly and generously averted. Public meetings should be held at once in all the great towns of thecountry, and the pressshould. unite in giving extended publication to the sad facts, so that none who can give aid may be ignorant of its neces sity. Governor Orr has done wisely in sending forth details of the pitiful situation in their naked simplicity. Appeals to public sympathy have been of late so numerous that many have habituated themselves to neglect them on the plea that they cannot possibly help all, and that they feel unable or unwilling to discriminate. But in a case like this there can be no excuse save genuine inability for refusing to contribute. Such a refusal from those who can pay their honest debts and still have a surplus is, in a contingency like this, nothing short of criminal. We beg our readers to consider the following accounts, bearing in mind that the Governor of South Carolina is authority for their truth : LANCASTER COURT-lIOUSE.—We have the and live hundred blacks, who must perish without help. Some have already starved to death. WATEROO, COLDETON DISTRICT.--I know of more than twenty families within a radius of less than four miles who are utterly destitute. I beg earnestly that help may be sent to us at once. " BARNWELL DISTRICT.—There are from two to three thousand persons, black and white, in Barn well, who must perish unless aid be afforded them. Our planters are drawing all their subsistence from f a ctors in Charleston, Savannah, and A ugus t a , an d are unable to afford relief to the suffering. Most of these destitute persons are old women and children and diseased persons. ci MIDWAY, BARNWELL DISTRICT.—W. Gilmore Simms writes as follows far as I can see, there i s n o possible escape from general famine, in which all will suffer, many perish. In a precinct of fifty miles in this district, there is not more than one planter in fifty who has corn enough to last him a single month ; not more than one in two hundred who has enough for two months ; none that have any that can last three months ; and of these there is hardly more than five in the hundred who will be able to supply themselves with p rov i s i ons o f any sort, unless by borrowing money on mortgage, not only of the growing crop, butof thelands, and at such a rate of interest that no crop they can make can possibly save them from ruin. A great many will almost or quite starve, unless they.can get help from some other resources than their own. Briefly, the famine which now threatens the land is all over the land, and no one region can help the other. The mules when owned by th e negroes , and horses, especi all y and upon which the hope for next year's crop must greatly depend, are dying of work without food. They literally drop down in the harness, and much the same sort of picture may be drawn of the humans, white and black. Life is prolonged solely by spasmodic efforts and all sorts of expedients, day by day, the parties not regarding any sacrifice which will yield the means of daily subsistence to their families. Unless the charities of the outer world are more prompt and more bountiful, I do not see what is to avert the fate of thousands to whom the peck or bushel of corn, which suffices for a week, must simply prolong the agony of a death by inches. " NEAR MACOY'S BLUFF, BEAUFORT DISTRICT. —Some raised in wealth and pride have managed to conceal their sufferings, which have now become unbearable. Widows and orphans have lived on charity thus far, but "that is being withheld from sheer necessity. Something must be done to avert the miserable fate of starvation. " SUMTERVILLE.—We have been requested by a meeting of the citizens of our district, held some days ago, to address your Excellency on the subject of the destitution which prevails in our district to an alarming extent, and the consequent suffering among a large class of our people. Already we are informed that two females have died in the upper edge of this district from starvation, and many others of both sexes, white as well as coloured, must share the same fate unless they are pro vided with food. Many employers have been compelled to dismiss their hands for want of food with which to feed them, and these people when discharged wander about iu a starving condi tion, and many of the labourers who have contracted to feed themselves and families are now utterly unable t ) provide food." These dreadful statements are but six out of a hundred equally piteous, and all are as eloquent re specting the perils of delay. In a matter like this. actions are emphatically louder than words, and he more than gives twice who g ives quickly. We trust that every individual in the community who can contribute even a single dollar to save the un happy people of South Carolina from the horrors which threaten them will do so without an hour's delay. —Pound Table. The grant of the Legislature of New York for a Franco-American Telegraph cable has been ap proved by Governor Fenton, and we learn that a certified copy will be immediately dispatched to France, where the Imperial Government is ready to promote, is the most substantial way, the new en- terprise, directly between Brest and the City of New York. The bill grants to Mr. William Orton and his associates, successors and assigns, the ex clusive right, for 20 years, to lay telegraphic cables from this State to the Empire of France, and to work the same ; on the condition that the grantees, within the period of two years, shall have telegraphic communication established and in successful opera- tion, with the reservation that the State of New York may at any time have reasonable precedence in the use of the cable, and the power to assign this right, from time to time, to the Government of the United States. We feel compelled to say that the shameful mismanagement of the existing cable has to a very great extent alienated public sympathy and favour, and will insure for this new enterprise the best wishes of the whole community. The management of the present line is narrow, illiberal, petty, and annoying. Its charges are excessive, and are ren dered still more burdensome by a systematic resort to very small excuses for swelling them beyond the rates announced. It is doubtless true of this, as of every other business enterprise, that there is no gua ranty for the rights and convenience of the public except in competition—and that we hope the new project will give us.—New York Times. THE DAVIS CASE. The misconception prevails to some extent that Jeff Davis is to be arraigned as a conspirator in the assassination plot, in Judge Underwood's Court, at Richmond. Not at all. The " bureau of military justice," by two years of indefatigable effort, has been unable to obtain a particle of evi dence tending to implicate Davis in so monstrous a crime, and its swift witness Conover has been sent to a felon's cell for his perjuries. If bavis is tried at all, it will be for treason, and the question is raised whether it shall be under the Act of July, 1862, which allows the Court to inflict five or more years imprisonment and a fine of $lO,OOO as the alternative for death, or under the previous law, of which death is the sole penalty. Whether he will be tried at all ; or if tried, convicted ; or if convicted, punished, are questions discussed with some interest. Facts will soon answer them. The latest treason law has the Dogberrish provision that the act shall not be con strued to affect any person guilty of treason before the passing of the act, " unless such person is con victed under this act"— as if the courts were likely so far to forget themselves as to convict a man under an act that did not exist when the offence was com mitted. Davis, however, can be tried under either law, as he has committed treason before and since 1862. Very little interest is taken in the matter, and people and Government alike would be only too glad if this " elephant" could be taken off their hands.—Springfield Republican. Miscellaneous American News. Two ladies have placed the dons of Harvard University in a fix by applying for admission as students. The answer the women received was, that " no provision " is made for female students. A similar application has been received at the Uni versity of Michigan from two other women. We have received a paper entitled " Rapid Steaming," containing all the correspondence ad dressed to the Daily Post on the voyages of the Cunard and Inman fl , ets. On looking more care fully over these letters we find that the voyage of the City of TVashington in March, 1866, which occupied 36 days 18 hours owing to an accident, had been omitted from the calculation, leaving a clear average, according to Mr. David M'lver's table, of the homeward voyage of 32} hours in favour of the Royal Mail line. Mr. Inman takes exception to the way in which the table is com posed, alleging that the best of the Cunard steamers, including the Persia, Scotia, &c., run to New York, and it is unfair to take the average of these vessels against double the number of his own, all of which ply to that port. He substitutes another table, and asserts that since the first of last November to the commencement of this month the average speed, mile for mile, of the Inman vessels has exceeded the Cunard speed outwards, and also on the general average out and home. The .voyage m— rs—a 4,t,0 aok.enti.. Halifax of the Cunard steamers is allowed where it is stated in the logs. The result makes the time 6 hours 17 minutes, mile for mile, against the Cunard in the passage out, and 5 hours 12 minutes in favour of the Cunard ou the passage home, leaving a balance on the round voyages against the Cunard of 33 minutes. Mr. APlver justly considers that it is impossible to allow for detentions at and off intermediate ports, such as Queenstown and Halifax. " Every sailor," he says, " knows that the actual loss of time in- volved in calling at such a port as llalifax is very inadequately represented by the item detention in the logs, which generally means nothing more than ' the time during which the vessels are lying along-' side the wharf." The fastest run out was made by the Scotia, as well as the fastest run home ; the former being accomplished in 8 days 4 hours 34 minutes, and the latter in 8 days 7 hours 10 mi nutes. The Scotia appears to be the finest ship afloat, which Mr. Inman evidently allows, claiming the next place for the City of Paris, " the average speed of which," he says, " has been superior to that of every other British steamer, paddle or screw, on the Atlantic, subsidised or unsubsidised, except the Scotia." That the Inman Line has been able to institute so close a comparison with such a fleet as that of the Cunard speaks volumes in favour of the energy, the enterprise, and indomitable perse verance of the company, for which results can only be obtained by a capital so large and so skilfully applied as to frighten even a combination of mil- lionaires. The Montana Post, published at Virginia City, asserts that Montana is the richest mineral country in the world. In 1866 the population was less than 40,000, and the yield of gold was $18,000,000. In the same year, Idaho produced $17,000,000, Colo rado $17,000,000, Nevada $16,000,000, Oregon $8,000,000. California, with a population more than ten times as great, produced $25,000,000. The growth of the territory has been very rapid. In 1860 Montana was almost unknown. In 1864 it sent no gold to the mints, while Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado each sent over $2,000,000. In 1865 it I ranked after California and Idaho. It should be noted also that the yield of these years came almost entirely from placer diggings. These began to give out last year. Many of the better class could not be washed for want of water. It is estimated that not less than 10,000 miners left the territory. The Salmon River mines will entice away several thousand more. In the meanwhile twenty paying gulches have been discovered. These, with the unexhausted places, will make work for every man in the terri tory. At the same time quartz mining is taking its legitimate place. There are now only thirty mills in the territory, of which fifteen arc good for no thing. But stamp mills will be rapidly introduced, and will be placed upon well-defined leads. Ten thousand quartz lodes have been recorded. Those which have been worked yield as high as $lOO per ton in gold. Most of the placers report sufficient water, and the prospect of a heavy production. The trouble is to procure workmen. MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN RAILROAD COMPANY.--An adjourned meting of the stock holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been held at Concert Hull. At the annual meeting of stockholders in February a resolution was adopted which provided for a committee of seven stockholders for the examination of the re port, and authorising and directing them to examine into and report upon the expediency of issuing addi tional stock and borrowing more money; and, fur ther, to examine into and report upon the operation and working of the system of discrimination, of free passes, and of private freight expresses, and to what extent the officers and employes are interested in the last, and the effect these have had, and still have, upon the earnings of the road and the rights and interests of the stockholders, with power to send for persons and papers. In order to give the committee time to make the examination, an adjournment was then had until the 30th of April, and the present meeting was . chiefly for the purpose of hearing the report and act., ing upon it. The stockholders were notified in the advertisement that at the meeting of the 30th the act of Assembly approved March 22, 1867, entitled "An act to repeal an act entitled A further supplement to the act incorporating the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, authorising an increase of capital stock, and to borrow money,' approved the 21st day of March, AM. 1866 ; and also to authorise the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by this act to increase the capital stock, to issue bonds, and to secure the same by mortgage," approved Ale 22d day of March, A.D. 1867, a proposed increase thereunder of the capital stock of the company by 300,000 shares, would be submitted to the stock holders for their action in the premises. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Mac michael, who, after stating hi brief its object, made a few remarks in reference to the appointment of the committee of investigation, and he had ex ercised the greatest care in the selection of the com mittee, and taking into view the high character of the gentlemen composing it, he felt that the stock holders and the public would be entirely satisfied with such report as they might make. Inquiry was then made of the chairman if the committee was ready to report. He replied that he understood a report had been prepared, but he had not signed it. As a member of the committte he had a state ment which he should in due time submit to the meeting. Mr. Israel H. Johnson, of the committee, then read the report. It sets forth that soon after their appointment they met the President and Board of Directors, who expressed a willingness to aid the committee in every possible way, in order that the fullest investigation might be made. The subjects referred to the committee were treated in the fol lowing order :- 1. The system of discrimination. 2. Free passes. 3. Private freight expenses. 4. Report of the Board of Directors. 5. Expediency of issuing more stock and of borrowing more money. On the first point, the report stated that the corn pany had no such system, and no discrimination had been made between partit s shipping freight under the same circumstances. The committee recognise the fact that equal rates are most productive to themselves and satisfactory to the public. In regard to free passes, it is a universal custom to issue them, to some extent, but when carried be yond proper limits it is unjust. The granting of these to all members of the Legislature and City Councils is of a pernicious tendency, and ought to be abolished. With this view, a resolution was passed by the directors limiting the issue of _passes to cases of charity, and those required by the in terests of the company. In regard to private freight expresses, there are none upon the road, but there are fast freight lines —two owned by incorporated companies, and run ning to and from Western States. These are run also over about 900 miles of other roads, and the effect is to bring over said roads to the Pennsyl vania Central much freight which would not other wise be obtained. They have, therefore, been posi tively beneficial. The committee found that the officers and em ployes of the road were interested in these private express lines to a very limited extent, while neither the president, vice-president, nor any of the direc tars are interested pecuniarily at all, and that by giving six months' notice, they may at any time ter minate the contracts. In regard to the expediency of issuing stock and borrowing more money, a sub-committee of three carefully investigated the financial conditicn of the company, while another sub-committee of three investigated the subject of original issues, but their investigations disclosed nothing in any way l at variance with the last annual report of the directors. The value of the rolling stock is much greater than the amount standing to the debit of equipment of road in the last annual report. The system of accounts is perfect and accurate. In conclusion, the committee referred to the ex tended trips which they had made over the various branches of the road, for the purposes of their in vestigation, and are more convinced that the policy of the managers has for its object the increase of the commerce of our city, the development of State resources, and the direct interest of the stock holders. But unless ample pecuniary means are provided, the policy cannot be successfully carried out. Be lieving that such means, if provided, will be so used as to conduce to the public good, the com mittee recommend to the shareholders the accept ance of the report of the Board of Directors and the a doption of the resolutions appended thereto. The report was signed by Israel H. Johnson, Henry Winsor, John C. Davis, Alan Wood, William P. Cresson, and Charles Wheeler. When Mr. Johnson had fini s hed the reading there was considerable manifestation of approval. The Eastern and Boston and Maine Railroads have finally come to an understanding, and fares have been returned to the old rate. In a good many towns tickets enough have been purchased at the low price to last the inhabitants for a long time to come. Before the reconciliation the Newbury port merchants, to stop the rush of trade to Boston, offered to sell at Boston prices, and where the pur chase was of considerable amount to allow in addi- tion the cost of a ticket to and from that city. Now that the project of uniting the Western and Boston and Worcester Railroads approaches con summation, the following facts and figures are of interest :—The Western Railroad was incorporated in 1833, and the first train of cars was run through to Albany, October, 4, 1841. The gross receipts of the road in 1842 (the first year of through traffic) were $512,683, in 1866 they were $3,932,017; working expenses in 1842, $266,620 ; in 1866, $2,525,226 ; net earrings in 1842,,5246,068; in 1866, $1,406,791. The shares of the company soil as low as $4O in 1842, and as high as $l7l in 1863. The Boston and Worcester Railroad was opened throughout its entire length on the 3d of July, 1865. The gross receipts of the road in 1842 were $349,206 ; in 1866, $1,914,729; working ex penses in 1842, $168,509 ; in 1866, $1,428,528 ; net earnings 1842, $180,697 ; in 1866, $490,201. The shares of the Worcester road sold in 1837 at $74, the lowest point since the completion of the line. In 1864 they brought $l6O, the highest point yet reached. In 1846 a proposition to unite the two roads—rating the stock of the Western at $lOO, and the Worcester at $l20 —was declined by the Worcester road. The stock of the Salisbury Branch Railroad, which is sixteen miles long and passes through three States, from Sheffield on the Housatonic to Millerton, New York, on the Harlem Railroad, is nearly all subscribed, and the road will soon be put under contract. The Connecticut Railroad Commissioners gave this report of the railroads in the State for 1866 : The expense of working the roads has been more than a million dollars greater than during the previous year. The gross earnings of the New York and New Haven road have increased to $2,164,502 ; more passenger cars are recommended on this road. The bridge of the Hartford and New Haven road over the Connecticut cost $272,463. The new stone bridge over the Farming ton is progressing. The receipts of the Norwich and Worcester road have increased $36,620, and the gross earnings of the Providence, Hartford, and Fishkill have been largely augmented. The Housatonic road has been judiciously managed, and has had an increase of travel and freight. The Naugatuck road is doing a fine business, the gross earnings being in excess of last year $74,557 —divi dends 12 per cent. The gross earnings of the New Haven and Northampton road are in excess 159,947 over 1865. The Shore Lino road has un dergone material repairs, much new piling having been required, and over 200 tons of new iron laid upon its track. PROGRESS OF MILITARY RULE.—It was sup posed that under the Military Reconstruction Bill the com manders of the southern districts would only interfere with the State authorities when it should be necessary for the correction of manifest abuses, but our Generals are content with no such barren sceptre, and every day brings new orders taansforring power to themselves. General Scho field has sustained the action of General Wilcox in forbid ding Pollard to lecture on outheria chivalry at Petersburg, Va., and the ex-editor will make his final appeal to Presi dent Johnson. General Pope has superseded Mayor Slors as Mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala., by Mr. Lemuel S. Cock burn. Mr. Slors was elected by two-thirds of the vote, white and black alike, and no reason is given for his dis placement, but his service in the rebel army is presumed to be the reason. Col. C. C. Sibley, commanding in G eor g ia, has prohibited labour in chain gangs as a punishment of cri minals, except in the case of those sentenced to the penitentiary. Colonel Sibley alleges that the authori ties have abused their power to inflict such punishment. General Sheridan has appointed as a new levee board for the State of Louisiana, in place of the one removed by him • Effingham Lawrence of the parish of Plaquemine, J. U. Oglesby of the parish of New Orleans, J. Burnside of Ascension, W. D. Smith of Jefferson, W. L. McMillen of Carroll. But the most notable of recent instances of the exercise of the military power is by General Ord, who has forbidden the re-assembling of the Legislature of Arkansas at the time fixed, and in accordance with his orders Governor Murphy has proclaimed the Legislature dis- solved. We extract the following item from the Round Table :—" Mr. Edward IL Hall, to whose movements on the Pacific coast wo have of late had several occasions to allude, as the result of his recent tour, has revised a nd en larged his guide-book of The Great West,' designed for the use of travellers, miners, and emigrants in the North- Western and Pacific States and territories. It will be published at the beginning of June by Messrs. D. Apple ton and Co., who will also issue within a fortnight the ninth annual edition of Mr. Hall's Hand-Book of Ameri can Travel' throughout the United States and British Provinces." Mr. Melancthon M. llurd, of the firm of Hurd and Houghton, sailed last week for England on a tour, we understand, among English publishers and authors. Mr. John Codnaan, of Boston, is about to publish a volume of travels, entitled " Ten Months in Brazil." Mr, Samuel Burnham, of Boston, has written, for private distribution only, a memoir of Dr. E. N. San born, formerly professor in the Medical Institution a Pittsfield and in the Vermont Medical College. The Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, D.D., is ,en gaged upon a memoir of the late Bishop Alonzo Potter, of Pennsylvania. Professor F. V. Hayden, of the University o f Pennsylvania, has been appointed to make the geologica l and mineralogical survey of Nebraska, ordered by Con gress. Exploration for coal beds will be a leading object. The new Turkish Minister Blacque Effendi is e%" petted soon at Washington, with his wife, and is expected to live in great state, the Sultan having provided plenty of money for that purpose, in order to dazzle and caPtl" vate the Yankees. Blacque is 'a Frenchman, and his Wife is a daughter of the late Dr. Mott of New York. Speaker Colfax is about to leave lecturing alto gether and 250 invitations unaccepted. Senator Doolittle will soon sail for Europe. lie intends to visit Russia, it is said, to transact some business for the State Department. Probably his mission has re ference to Russian-America. - Roberts, the Fenian President, will, it is thought' proceed to Europe. At a lecture on Thursday, the 9th, I' s spoko on the text, "The Freedom of Ireland Indi,spensabls to Universal Liberty." Harriet Beecher Stowe is back from Florida, at her home at Hartford. E. Sexton, of Monson, has invented a gang simple in operation, but cutting a wide swath. It carri . , ; es three plows at once, and can be used also as dou ble cab" vator. We extract the following from our young CO", temporary Echoes of the Clubs :—" American marriage; seem to be the order of the day. Mr. Horace Rureb°l; her Majesty's First Secretary of Legation at Berne, la about to marry a daughter of Mr. Harrington, unit,,, States' Minister in Switzerland. Mr. John Adair is short to marry Miss Montgomery Ritchie, daughter o f the ' 8 „ Federal General Wadsworth, whose sister also married a; Englishman, Sir Charles Murray, now her Maiestle Minister at Copenhagen. Mr. Henry Howard , s on of th British Minister at Munich, marries Miss Cecilia Riggt d a ughter of a well-known banker at Washington, 8 which capital Mr. Howard is attached." Mr. Cummings has decided on resigning the gover norship of Colorado, and on accepting the nidc s 0 , A s sessor of Taxes in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hun t, a Pere " crat, will probably succeed to the governorship :of territory. The Springfield Republican says Lieut. -Colo 11 l Conger, who delivered the contents of Booth's pocketsbte,s Secretary Stanton, says that the missing leaves of ne°t so diary were torn out by Booth while at Dr. M udd's h°ll Sic transit glories Butlaris. Mrs. flutter, wife of Rev. E. W. flutter, Philadelphia, has been appointed by Governor GearY_T er aminer and Inspector of Soldiers' Orphan Schools au ho new law. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. r ot There was a very limited supply of wheat at mo th s= to-day, and trade was firm at last week's rates. la articles little passing. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 74s ; red aitt od (weighing 631 b), 62s to 68s per qr. Flour, 45s Od to 46$ per sack. NOT TINGHAII—SATURDAY. A nd At our market to-day there was a steady denial-700 prices were is per qr. higher. Barley a small supply , d ut in limited supply, and made former rates. B eans s°' about previous rates. Peas nominally unaltered. ne vi Old white wheat, 69s to 74s ; old red, 62s to 6831,05, white, 66s to 73s ; new red, 62s to 68s per 36 stone. v o ld, old, 34s to 365:; new, 28s to 33s per 24 stone. Be aus : 49i Ms to 58s ; new, 54s to 58s per 38 stone. F ine 1101111 to 51s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. of At this day's market there was a tolerable SuPP old wheat, and a slow trade, at fully late prices. BarleY at late rates. Oats and beans sold at full prices. New white wheat, 68s to 73s ; new red, — s to . Dar white, —s to —s ; old red, 5 9 s to 68 s per 36 stone- go 4 ley, for malting, 42s to 48s per qr.; grinding, 30s w er / per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34 s to 38 s; now , 28s to 3 .4 s P sto ne• stone. Beans, old, 538 to 56s ; now, 44s to 49s per 3° Fine flour, ols ; seconds, 45s to 47s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. i narl' et There was a limited quantity of wheat a t our - a le/ I to-day, with a brisk inquiry, at extreme prices. ° ae , little doing. Oats at full prices. There was a ste° mand for beans, and fully late rates were obtained. r 36 New white wheat, 60 s to 68 s ; new red, 56s to 64111eogt stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40$ per qr. ; glittoo e : 33s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats , new , 268 to 30s per " 7 07 Beans, new, 44s to 48 s per 38 stone. Ma lt, 68s to Flour 47s to 495 Der sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. 1 9 ' June MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptol••••• if' Joa e Ditto, via Marseilles . . ......••• Ditto, via Panama • • • • ........ •• • 4, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... .. Ditto, by French packet . ........... ne 4. Cape Verdi, by Brazil packet ............. e Cape of Good Hope, Asoension. and St. Helena.• • . J ui . . a ll 5 China. Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. J.---e 2' Ditto, via Marseilles Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via southampton .. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es ........................... 4 1 , 11 2 2 : 9 gal 2 8 Malta, Egypt, dm gal Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via 1 9 ' ito Southampton JO!, b. Ditto, via Marsei les Jo°' 4, Newfoundland Portugal - • Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ..........• Ditto ditto to . Lisbon ............. • United States, Canada, Calitornia, &c., by British os i 3 1 • packet ................................ ... • .... Ditto, by United States packet .............. • • Ditto ditto (New York) .................... Ditto ditto (New York) ........... ....... Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... .... . ..yi Ditto, by Canadian packet ................... ;Toe . West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin .... `' West Indies and Pacific except Mexico an d Ba—ha- ionc 29 , ma s) • g a y so. Cub and Mexico • • . 5. Bahamas, via New York ......................... Bermuda, via Halifax _~/ / ~~ Births.lfii° t he CAMPBELL—Ou the 24th inst., at Swanage, D orset, of Lieut. T. M. Campbell, R.N., of a daughter* of Ole GUTHRIE —At 30, Portland - place, Mr s. Guthrie' °the lireKLEY — On tle 22d inst., at Ashcot, Somerset, of Captain Mickley, R.N.: of a son. Marriages. g J;' eel PouLDEX—GAWLEIt On the '24th inst at - I. ' t.> - of Southsea, Lieut. Edward Pould . R.N.,i 11.0" eta et lent, third son of the Rev. Jamescn'B.Pouldeu, e daftlit- Fylton, Gloucestershire, to K.:alirine you ge st P , I , v ~j), of Col. George Gawler, K. 13., late 52d Ligli t I 1 , 0 A lg ol SASS—WXLDON On the 25th iust., at S. i r t r v ili o: 6 : l of berth, Liverpool, Edwin Etty Sass, Es(l- , : - .o , '" le York-place, Portman-sare London, to riloo . l ,,,ea fed only daughter of J. 11. Weldon, Esq., of Oakley' '''' eaths. 0 110 11 _ b oy DENDAs— On the 24th in D st., at Dundas Castle, i lot 6ttr" m Dundas, Dundas, wife of James o f Dundas, 00" viving child of the late Admiral Lord Duncali• 0,10 HOPKINS—On the 24th inst., a t 15, Clareudol4 t. Maida-hill, W., Evan Hopki ns, 0.E., F-C1•8", 44, C gi lIELBY—On the 24th inst., at T he Wallauds, ii e " ' 4 • VP John H. Helby, R.N., aged 75. I D e W l iqte KENNEDY --On the 20th inst., at Leamingtou, ut t , ;be '` of the Hon. Robert Kennedy, and daughter ol of P Alexander Macomb, of New York, aged ro 9 1 . _, ,to nltt POLYBLANK—On the 21st inst., George ) 199, St. John's-road, aged 85. , zl O. ------------- m A lsil7 ll ' 1 0. London: Printed and Published by WILLIA. ,v , , No. Of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ti-'E SUN Olecooti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill t l ' Tiliddlespx.-Monday, Nay 27,1367. 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