The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT. OR. TP;:li s tllnaltATlOAlL 8, . ~;:; 'The Times, in diseassinp , .ihe moration of Mr. i3right's ipeech at Birmingham, declares that most instances of ,rational decay are dui to national weakness or faults of character. The people themselves are of necessity the material out of which all institutions in a country syring ; they possess, and always have possessed, the power, if they possessed the spirit, to modify their.own creations as they might need. Mr. Bright inVitir—s i If we could subtract from the ignorance, the poverty, the suffering, the sick *less, and the crime now witnessedamong us the ignorance, the poverty, the suffering, the 4okness, and crime caused by the single vice of drinking," would not the country be so changed for the better that we should hardly know again? That single improvement—a mere matter of morals which has been successfully effected in the higher and middle classes—would regenerate thonands of homes, and bring a new life and spirit to bear on public affairs. Is it quite impossible for the poor of England to acquire the habit, which the poor of some other countries possess in a far greater degree, of remembering that every summer is followed by a winter, and of not only making hay, but storing hay, while the sun shines? We are far from saying the poor are alone to blame. Employers are far too ready to throw off all responsibility for their workmen, and to act vs if they counted on palish and public charities to relieve them of any anxiety for the welfare of the families which depend cn them. But the middle classes, whatever their other faults, have at least possessed the virtues of independence and self-reliance, and it would bode ill for our legislation, as well as for the use which is to be made of it, if it were to fall into the hands of a class who expect things to be done for them, and are not reluctant to be assisted either morally or materially. What is the meaning, one cannot but some times reflect, of that tendency of working men to clamour for compulsory laws—laws to prohibit Sunday trading, laws to enforce education? Is it a confession that they are sensible of some moral weakness in their class ; and do they look to laws to supply them with the energy and stubbornness they know to be necessary ? It would be a much more hopeful sign if they displayed the old English repugnance to laws of this character, and felt they would sooner take care.of their own business than have the wisest Legislature in the world look after it for them. The Standard observes that the four great telegraph companies, whose systems of communication connect the New and Old Worlds, have wisely agreed to work together in peace, dividing their receipts in an equitable propor tion. A little over sixty-three per cent. of the aggregate revenue will be assigned to the Anglo-Arnerican, the Atlantic, and the Newfoundland Companies, while the remaining thirty-six per cent. and a little more, will belong to the fourth—the French Atlantic Company. It .is to be hoped that, with the great physical and commercial advantages possessed by these combined authorities, the directors will be en abled to effect some important reforms in ocean telegraphy, so as to develop° its capabilities in a degree hitherto unknown. There seems no reason, for instance, why the telegrams should not be divided into first second, and third class, like the passengers on a railway. We have every confidence that the intelligent men at the head of these companies will not be backward in the course of im provement. • They have given the best proof of their ability in agreeing to a plan of co-operation, The policy with which they have thus identified themselves is worthy of the,:enterprise for which the companies were formed. Of all commercial undertakings perhaps none is nobler than that of ocean telegraphy. The benefits which it is calculated to confer on the human race are great, and no body of men can be entitled to more, consi deration than those who have invested five millions of money in these cables, thereby rendering ocean telegraphy an accomplished fact, despite the great commercial risks which beset it at the outset. These telegraphic lines are really a goldenbridge, and it is pleasant to see three great nations, like those of England, France, and America, baiting in a scheme for effecting rapid and friendly inter course between the two hemispheres of our globe. The Unforeseen, says the Daily News, has often played an important, and sometimes a fatal, part in French poli tics. It has destroyed a good Government, and saveda bad one ; ruined the hopes of liberty, turned a peaceful into a violent revolution, and renewed for an indefinite period an expiring lease of arbitrary power. If ever an event was unforeseen, and of a nature to derange the soundest policy and the best intentions of honest men, such was the sanguinary "drama of Auteuil," as it is characteristi cally described. Have the Emperor's advisers acted on the whole with equanimity and discretion in this unex pected crisis ? Louis Napoleon, at all events, is en titled to congratulate himself en the progress of that "pacific revolution" 1 -- last July. Let hint suppose that instead of a responslhie anti united Ministry, consisting of honest and int'el endent men, committed to the cause of public libel ty and to Parliamentary institutions, a Rouher were still ruling over a silent Senate, an ab;ect Legislative Body, :Ind a mutilated press. Why all classes of French society would have risen as one man to call the Second Empi, to account for the savagery at Auteuil, and all Marsi, I Canrobert's Chassepots would scarcely have prevent;;, a revolution of disgust. •Ner was the Government of the Emperor unequal to the occasion. Their predecessors would probably have gone out to meet and to provoke an insurrection by way of simplifying the difficulties of the situation. They would have done wonders with the Chas sepot. M. Chevandier de Valdrome and his colleagues, on the contrary, acted as the freest constitutional Govern ment in the world would act in the presence of a perfectly sincere and justifiably popular manifestation. It had been proved to the gratification of all true Liberals, and to the disappointment of some Imperialists, that a Liberal Government could preserve order without provoking an insurrection and without provoking a state of siege. It was three hours, remarks the lost, after the fire at the Star and Garter was discovered before it was possible to obtain water, and it would not have been obtained even then if the chief turnkey had not despatched his deputy on horseback to Battersea to entreat the authorities of the Vauxhall Water Company to put on sufficient pressure to supply the engines. 'Week after week, though the vestry knew from their surveyor that the supply of water was de ficient, and that in the event of fire their stand-pipes would be as useless as their antediluvian engine, they do not appear to have made any complaint to the water company. It is all very well to say that the company was to blame. No doubt it was; bi.t the inhabitants of Rich mond look to the local authorities for protection in such a matter as this, and they have every reason to be dissatis fied with their conduct. It is possibly nearly a year since the vestry conceived the idea that it might perhaps be useful to have such a thing as a fire-escape in the town. As far back as August last they applied to the vicar and to Colonel Henderson to let them place one in the old church yard or at the police-station. When their application failed they did not become insensible to the fact that a fire-escape Is a useful machine, particularly in a town boasting many old and inflammable buildings ; but, though they were alive to its utility, they appear to have exhausted their power of suggesting any other stations for it than those which had been refused. In the same way, when they had covered Richmond with stand-pipes, they had no energy left to compel the Vauxhall Company to supply them with water ; and thus it came to pass that the manager of the hotel perished for want of a fire-escape, and that the h hotel itself, w i t h e i g h t eng i nes and at least one stand-pipe in immediate proximity to it, was burnt down for want of water. The 1(z Mall Gazette states that tho Cambridge Conser vatives -* have just published a declaration, or rather two decl arations, of their sentiments. The zeal of a fraction has. outrun that of a majority, and, 'as we shall presently 3, there is a gap between the irreconcilables and the • 'party which does not reject all thoughts of a compromise. The ... Liber al. Party published a similar manif es to a month ago, and a . comparison of the documents will throw some light upon the state cf o,inion within the university, as the signatures were in both cases obtained from the same class, namely, the heads of houses, 'professors, the resident fellows and es-fellows, and the officers of the colleges and university. It may be said with tolerable accuracy that public opinion at Cambridge •divided into three Parts. Half the university openly demands the abolition of all tests by a summary and com- Prehensivo measure. Considerably more than half the remainder, is willing to give up a share of the government hut wi,he s to re'ain ce r t a i n safe and the fellowsbil , 'guards, to be hereafter speaded. About a fifth of the whole number, (that is, 43 out of 237) is still of the opinion, which very lately was that of an overwhelming majority, that no more concessions should be made. This thoro can be no reasonable doubt that as soon as a Liberal Government choe.'es to insist Ilion the ra ;asuie, te,ts v - Lil be tdtofzethei. abo'lishe(l. A majority of four fifths ever. within the Lnivi'n;ity is in favour of some lase coneesr;:on, and we need nub run over the ec.nsidera- Lions which prove how futile and unsatisfactory any at empfi,nt satisfying the tierszarli are certain to be in this 4 1 many otb,er cases. THE GALWAY MURDER.—An application has been Made in the Court of Queen's r.ench, Dublin, for a I , .ange of venue in the trial of "The Queen against Bar t-44;C' The prisoner was indicted at the last assizes with !hooting Colonel Lambert, and the jury being unable to agree, were discharged. Serjeant Dowse wa - i fur the Crown, act the court having heard Mr. Heron, Q.C., against the plication, granted the motion. TOWN 7 ALK. (From the London Correspondent of the Western Mail.) An impression is getting about just now that the Gladstone Government will be brought to grief by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. That is the club talk. the financial system inaugurated by Mr. Lowe won't work. It is a mere snatching at Time's forelock. Even if successful as a ministerial ruse, it never could be repeated. But it has proved and is proving anything but successful. It has pleased nobody. From the first hour of its revelation it has been looked at askance ; and the more it comes to be examined the less it is liked. It bristles with as many paradoxes as the wildest theories put for ward by William Cobbett when he wrote as Peter Porcupine. Two and two, according to Mr. Lowe, make five—and so on throughout the whole be wildering haze and maze of his calculations. The Budget of 1869—now that 1570 has barely dawned upon us—is regarded with disfavour alike equally by taxpayers and by tax collectors. It shows the State as having for neither of them the bowels of compassion. From east to west, from Pall-mall back to the Poultry, there are beginning to be audible mutterings about Jonah, with a view to one at least of the ministers being thrown over board. Clubland, no less than the Tom Tiddler's ground of the city, has nowhere to be found upon it one single apologist of Mr. Lowe as a Financier. The discussion as to the Conservative Leadership may be regarded as having ended after all—for the time being at any rate—in what, for want of a better phrase, may be termed the compromise of a postponement. Lord Cairns is still, in one sense, master of the situation. According to the proverb, possession is nine points of the law—and that of ireAf gives him an advantage. But beyond this he has still fresh upon him the prestige of that master stroke of dictatorship, by which he severed the Gor dian knot of the Irish Church difficulty at the very caisis of the last session of Parliament. Besides which, there is a vivid conciousness among the Con servatives of the looming up of that other Irish dif ficulty, in dealing with which a skilled lawyer may be to themselves a matter of the very first import ance. The new Earl of Derby's hesitation to as - same the post of Leader has rendered the retention of that responsible office by Lord Cairns, for a little while longer at any rate, almost inevitable. A dull Duke certainly might have been substituted, but with so little advantage to any one that the party might just as well have reinstated the Earl of Malmcsbury. As for the Marquis of Salisbury being inducted at this moment into the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Lords, the notion involved in itself a complete political bouleversenzent among the Conservatives in both houses of the Legislature. Another Leader must, in that case, have been selected in the Commons, as a suc cessor to Mr. Disraeli—supposing, first of all, that the Tory peers could have accepted the guidance of Lord Salisbury. Able man as he is, Lord Salis bury has _a passion for sitting upon people—and the Lords, somehow, especially the Tory Lords, don't like to be sat upon. Yet, supposing even they did—how, in that contingency, about the Conservative Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons ? The marshalling of the Tory phalanx in the House of Peers, under Lord Salis bury, would have involved by necessity—it is im possible not to insist upon this—the substitution of some one for Mr. Disraeli in the House of CJM mons. Whoever that some one might be (Mr. Gathorne Hardy or any one else you may like to name) —imagine the happy time of it he would have had, with such a rival on the back benches, with such a withdrasVn Achilles, with so formidable a Parliamentary tactician, so keen an observer, so scatheing a master of irony as the member for Bucks, ever close at hand, and ever on the watch. Denied, for a while at least, the opportuity of test ing whatever advantages might have accrued from the assumption of their leadership by the fifteenth Lord Derby—the Conservatives have, to all ap.. p3arance, discreetly made up their minds to con - tinue in authority as their chief, for a little time longer at any rate, the sometime Lord Chancllor Mr. Thsraeli's Government. • Consequent,no doubt, upon the recent transfor mation of the Pall Malt Gazette—now doubly weighted as a twopenny morning and evening newspaper—the Globe, without any increase of price, will be enlarged on the Bth of February, and printed in entirely new type. Another instance of the courageous enterprise of the new proprietor, who might certainly adopt as his motto the familiar words of Addsou's Cato— " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Semprouius, we'll deservo it." Our palaces in Loudon, nowadays, are certainty our clubs—the last addition to which, the Junior Carlton, is, in every sense, pal itia/. The grand staircases are worthy of an imperial residence. The appliances throughout the building comprise among them every latest luxury in the way of im provement. The numerous bronze pendant gas chandeliers lighting up the double sweep (at right angles to each other) of the grand dining saloons —each cost 500 guineas. One marvels as to whether frost and thaw, alter nating with each other, produce more apoplexy than the dog days. For, only the other morning in a single issue of the Times obituary, now, in mid-winter, I counted up in rapid sequence, thirteen as having died in a few hours or sud denly ; five in a few hours ; eight suddenly or very suddenly. On Monday evening last, at New York, Fechter made his first appearance before an American audience at Niblo's—wisely selecting for represen tation on the occasion one of his very finest parts, that of Ruy Blas. It will be matter of curiosity to note how the Yankee critics take to the French- English actor. Mr. Fechter was born in Hanway passage, connecting Oxford-street and Tottenham court-road at right angles, so that with all If s broken English, he is a true Londoner. As for literary intelligence while there is little enough to remark upon just now of immediate in terest, there are three matters connected with it that are certainly not unworthy of passing mention here ; inasmuch as they refer to the three chiefs of our living literature. There are the expectations awakened in regard to Charles Dickens's new serial story, now in a few weeks forthcoming. There is the recollection of the brilliant success achieved by Alfred Tennyson's last book of poems, now running into its fiftieth thousand. And there are the astounding muddle and confusion into which the critics as a body have blundered in dealing with Lord Lytton's new comedy of " Walpole." The reviewers have altogether failed to recognise what one might have thought was sufficiently apparent upon the I very face of it, in regard to that elegant and radiant comedy, in three acts, with its pungently significant sub-title of " Every man has his price"—cer tainly not by any means the least original or the least remarkable among the multiform achievements of the Bulwer of old, or of the Lytton of nowadays. They have entirely missed —these reviewers—any recognition whatower of the fact that this same comedy of Walpole is the very first attempt that has ever been made to add to the varieties of English comedy the metre of Moliere! That of itself must of necessity, one might have thought, have lifted the work into instantly recog nised importance. But, together with the metre of Moliere, the dramatist employs here that treatment of large typical creations of character (cosmopoli tan, not local), that good-natured satire embodying philosophy and conveyed in epigram, together wi h that closely woven plot in which there is not a single superfluous incident, which belong to the pure classical comedy that Moliere may be said at once to have created and to have perfected. It would be no extravagance to assert, what I for one am certainly convinced of, that some day or other this comedy wid, for the reasons I have cited, assume a position of import ance in the records of our dramatic literature as having first accordLd to the comic muse of England what she has hitherto been entirely without, and with out which she can hardly, one might say, claim to be any muse at all—to wit—au appropriate comic rhythm. Blank verse in tragedy is, of course, un ri-ralled. In comedy it is simply detestable, or at any xate in the comic parts of comedy. And wby ? BRCAVSe it never lends itself to point and epigram THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1870. —and to the very abandon, and gusto, and verve, and vivacity, what the French call the espieglerie of real comedy. 'The obtuseness of the critics in fail ing to recognise anything of all this, is but another illustration of how very little of his fame Lord Lytton owes, as a rule, to the literary reviewers among his own countrymen. For the juster esti mate of his powers and of his achievements he has had all along, far rather than here at home in Eng land, to look to the subtler and more philosophic critics of the great German Fatherland. As whimsically illustrative of the Laureate's keen eye to tLe minutest charms of nature, let me men tion, now, upon the morrow of his having covered with a new glory of verse the mystery of the " Holy Grail," a seemingly trivial, but for all that, an emi nently characteristic incident which took place dur ing his recent journey upon the Continent. One of his two companions upon this journey having called his attention to a dragon-fly basking upon a rose—down upon his hands and knees goes the Laureate, hanging his bearded visage over the two, that is over the insect and the blossom, in rapt contemplation. After a lengthened pause, like that of Cortes— Silent upon a peak in Darien— the poet rises from his hands and knees, exclaim ing with a sigh of wonder and exultation, "I saw the colour of the flower through the wing of the fly! „ As for the green leaves of the greatest of our Eng lish humourists it will be interesting to all the ad mirers of Charles Dickens (and their name is it not legion ?) to know that the outer illustration, the design upon the cover, that is 'to say, will be from the hand of his son-in-laW, Charles Collins—the brother of Wilkie Collins, the novelist, sons, both of them, of William Collins, the late Royal Academi cian. But for the still shattered state of his health Mr. Charles Collins would have undertaken the illustration of the whole work, vice Marcus Stone, the very indifferent illustrator of " Our Mutual Friend." As it is, au entirely new hand will be em ployed in the embellishment of the new serial by Boz —one of the young artists who have already sprung to the fore from among the contributors to the Graphic, one whose limning of a group of casuals is as fine in its way, is certainly as " gra phic," as the famous delineation of those unfortu nates a year or two ago in the colutrns of the Pall Mall Gazette by the amateur casual pen of James Greenwood. A singularly able article on the " Diary of Henry Crabbe Robinson" appears in the newly-published number of the London Quarterly Reilleiv, in the curse of which the reviewer, while contrasting Robinson's Diary with Boswell's Life of Dr. John son, remarks very happily that the one book is a biographical 2Eneid, written to magnify a parti cular hero, while the other is an autobiographical Odyssey, telling of many men and many lands. Among the newest serials which have appeared with the dawning of the new year, there is a penny twelve-paged double-columned paper, entitled the News List and Index, giving in other words a catalogue of the contents of the daily and periodi cal publications and magazines. It is, as it pur ports to be, the merest news list and index, an ornnium gatherunt of tables of contents, but, as such, may serve upon occasion to aid in the disco very of the proverbial needle in the bundle of hay, as; by the presentation to the latter of a little pocket loadstone. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. DUBLIN DIOCESAN SYNOD. At an adjourned meeting of the consultative and advising committee, appointed at the late Diocesan Conference, there were more friendly relations evident which promised some prospect of the clergy and laity working harmoniously together in the reconstruction of the Church. A conciliatory letter was read from the Archbishop of Dublin to the Mar quis of Drogheda, expressing unwillingness to co operate in procuring answers to certain queries ad dressed to the clergy. After a long discussion, it was agreed that the Archbishop should be asked to send such queries to the clergy, and the secretary was directed to send them to the laity. cvnu - nu - IT Trite II IN _ =RIM() T. The Archbishop of Syra, seeing that he is the representative of another communion, is being well received in England. Tlie Premier has, it is under tooth, welcomed him; the English . Church Union has tvldressed him ; and the Bishop of Chester "signifies his regret" that he will not be able, on account of a severe domestic afliction, to be at the consecration of the Greek Church—the ceremony which the eastern patriarch is going to perform. The Archbishop's reply to the English Church Union was totally in favour of unity. The active desire for it which the English Church was expressing sheaved the spirit of Christ. I um fully convinced that the way in which you aro treading in your search for union is the surest one; it is tha way which will lead you to the desired end. Yva, by the Christian love which is burning in your hearts, as was already fully known to our communion here, and now like wise to myself, and also by a strict inquiry, having for its object simply and sincerely to ascertain the truth, your aim will be much sooner and more easily attained than by that overbearing arrogance which seeks, against the t -aching of the Gospel, to build up and consolidate an em pire within the Church, and forges now dogmas which not only have not the least found3tion in Holy Scripture or in the ancient traditions of the Churcb, but, on the contrary, being totally opposed to the spirit of Christianity, pollute our blessed Lord's divine teaching. Union cannot be far off one would think to read such a speech from an Eastern Archbishop. THE ATLANTIC CABLE COMPANIES. What is called a " fusion of the interests" of the English and French cable companies—announced as on the point of completion last week—has been finally arranged. For some time the parties could not agree. The English company wanted to retain two-thirds of the gross receipts, whilst the French com pany were willing to yield them only three fifths. Ultimately it was arranged that the dif ference between the two should be evenly split. In future the gross earnings will be divided in the pro portion of 361 and 6.33 respectively between the two companies. Under the terms of the proposed arrange ment the holders of the 8 per Cent. felegraph and the Original 4 per Cent. will receive between them £375,000, and the old company will be wound up and cease to exist. The amalgamation will, of course, be beneficial to the shareholders, by preventing reckless competition ; but how it will affect the public in the way of cheap telegraphy remains to be seen. ENGLISH FALSEHOODS ABOUT IRELAND. Why, asks the Spectator, is the Irish correspon dence of the London press so often a tissue of fables? We were told a little while ago that a Mr. O'Connor had been subjected to a brutal outrage, and that his nose had been cut off. Mr. O'Connor was afterwards seen in Dublin with a sound nose. It was said that the man Walsh had been murdered because he raised the price of eggs; whereas, though he had been killed, it was in mistake for another person. Thirdly, the Mallow Farmers Club was represented as passing a tremendous resolution about amnesty, repeal of the Union, and what not. The club considered the resolution, but rejected it. The Spectator complains that it was led into three serious errors by these falsehoods. So were others who relied on the information of the Times, and similar journals. Why represent the state of Ireland as worse than it really is ? of Aberdeen Univeitity, nas been comparing ancient with modern architecture, at the Edinburgh School of Art. The baronet thought that the old school had a decided advantage. The last twenty years have done great things in Paris, but the new build inFs cannot take rank with the old masterpieces. Miles of wide boulevards are very imposing, but they are likewise monotonous. "The great achieve ments of the Second Empire are the completed Tuileries and the Louvre and the renovated Hotel de Ville. Very noble works they are, but they are nothing more than a skilful repetition of notes struck out in the 10th and 17th centuries, in which the ideas of olden architects are reproduced, and the 11. and L. of the old French Sove reigns replaced by the N. of the Corsican, London has no very fine modern work, save the river wall which fronts the Thames. In painting the present age is equally . behind, though in landscape we have made infinite improvement, for a new era dawned when Turner first saw the sun. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STAR AND GARTER. The old proverb about " Shutting the stable door when the horse is stolen" may with truthfulness be applied to the local authorities of Richmond. After the terrible disaster which happened at the Star and Garter Hotel, resulting in the sacrifice of human life, they have held a meeting to "consider the startling circumstance." It is to be hoped the result of their investigation will be such as to prove that they are at least " wiser "if not "sadder men." Mr. Maxwell, who headed the requisition for the calling of the meeting, urged the 'appointment of a com mittee to report upon the present insufficient supply of water to the town. Some correspondence was then read of a recriminatory character on behalf of the authorities; but in the discussion which ensued it was shewn that the Board had erred in not looking up the Vauxhall Water Company, who received a rental of £5,000 a year from the town. That com pany, it was stated, stipulated under the Act that the directors should live in the town and hold a meeting every three months, but neither of these sti pulations had been carried out. The Board were denounced for not having taken the matter in hand, and thus prevented the catastrophe. The appoint ment of a committee was eventually agreed upon. be re/11 - Ma - itora the Court of Exchegtier' preside over the Court of Bankruptcy. Meanwhile there is no lack of judicial business, for Term has opened with a very heavy array of cases. The Divorce Court, in particular, has so much on hand that the Law Times regards the speedy appointment of an extra judge as an absolute necessity. MORTIFYING. The Dundalk Harbour Commissioners nave expe rienced a bitter mortification. They lately expended £20,000 in makin„, ,, an embankment from the quay to the mouth of the harbour. When it was completed Lord Roden claimed it, and set up placards warning trespassers. lie also put cattle on to graze. On ap plication to the Board of Trade, it turns out that the Commissioners have no right to the foreshore of the river. Their money has been spent only in im proving Lord Roden's property. But what must we think of his lordship for permitting the Commis sioners to continue the work, if he knew that the fore shore was his ? THE CONTAGIOE'S DISEASES ACTS. Mr. Mill writes from Avignon both against the ex tension of the Contagious Diseases Acts and against the Acts themselves as they stand. The economist thinks the abuse of power by the police the necessary consequence of any attempt to carry out thoroughly the plan which is now in operation at certain military stations. "If once examination is made other than voluntary, the police must try to prevent evasion of it, and this at once opens the door to innocent mistakes on the part of the police, and makes it necessary to entrust them with power over women which no men aro fit to have. lam opposed to the principle of the Act. I believe the medical etiicactof it to be doubtful, and I believe it to be impossible to carry it out without a degree of oppres sion which would more than overbalance any advantages that could be gained." The moral effects of such a measure Mr. Mill thinks must also be bad. The interpretation which will be put upon regula tions of this description, even if entirely false, must be mischievous. PAST AND PRESENT ART. Sir William Stirlinz Maxwell, the new Rector THE METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY. The discussion of this subject was resumed at the last meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Mr. Fowler reviewed the various schemes that had been proposed and disposed of by the Royal Commission. He said Liverpool, Manchester, Halifax, Bradford, Rochdale, Preston, and other large towns had ob tained a constant supply, and why should not the metropolis ? He thought the stringent provisions necessary would not be given to a trading company, but that a public company might obtain them. He 'believed a constant supply could be obtained without in creased burdens. Mr. Turner thought the Board should support the conclusions of the Royal Commis sion, namely, to purchase the existing companies. Mr. Elt said no city in the world was so well supplied. as London. He thought there should be a consolida dation of the different water companies, and that the Metropolitan Board should have a control over the whole, to see that the requirements of the Legisla ture were carried out. The discussion was further adjourned. THE VOLUNTEER ENGINEER. SERVICE. There has been a meetino• of the officers of this branch of the Volunteer service, to support its claims to an increase of the capitation grant. It was the opinion of all present that the Engineer branch of the service should act independently of any other arm. A. resolution appointing Lieutenant-Colonel M'Leod, Lieutenant-Colonel Comyn, and Captain Buchan a committee to embody the views of the meeting for submission to the Secretary of State for War, was adopted. THE MORALITY OF FIELD SPORTS. ➢lr. Ruskin takes up the field sports' discussion. Repeating strong opinion publicly expressed thirty years ago, on the subject of field sports, he says the reprobation of fox-hunting on the ground of cruelty to the ' fox is entirely futile, and asserts that more pain is caused to the draught horses of London in an hour, by avariciously over loading them, than to all the foxes in England by the hunts of the year. The real evils of fox-hunting, he contends, are that it wastes the time, misapplies the energy, exhausts the wealth, narrows the capacity, debases the tastes, and abates the honour of the upper classes of this country. Athletic training given by foxhunting, Mr. Ruskin admits, is excellent, but he adds that it ought always to be in real service to their country, "in personal agricul tural labour at the head of their tenantry; and in extending English life and dominion in waste regions, against the adverse powers of nature. Let them become Captains of Emigration ;—hunt down the foxes that spoil the Vineyard of the World; and keep their eyes on the leading hound, in packs of LORD HOBART ON DISARMAMENT. Lord Hobart. says the imperfect faith which lie placed in the proposal of a general disarmament by. France seems unfounded ; in fact if the report is spoken of to a Frenchman, he replies, "Of course, disarmament must be simultaneous.," and appeals to your sense of justice to say whether France or England ought to begin. His lordship admits the difficulty of England takinc , the initiative, after the increase of expenditure she has made in this direction, but adds, "Let France England, or any other of those great nations whose motto is Defence, not Defiance," unbiassuid by the weight of individual interests, set themselves seriously to con sider whether, by emptying the pockets and para lysing the industry of their people for the purpose of maintaining these mighty armies and fleets, they are really dOing that which is most effectual against hos tile aggression, and I venture to say that a general disarmarnentwill before long be not only proposed but adopted." NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. A not very intelligible telegram reports the com pletion of the Northrn Australia survey. The reports of the country and th 9 climate are favourable. The exploring party is healthy. Gold has been discovered. THE SPANISH THRONE. The latest statement about the Crown of Spain appears in rather a strange place—the columns of the .Railway Aews. That journal has received a telegram from Paris to the effect that Marshal Prim will give way in his opposition to the Duke of Montpensier, who will be accepted by the majority of the Cortes. The _Railway News thinks its authority very good ; and it is only to be added that less improbable events have happened. THE. HOMICIDE. IN PARIS. The Times publishes certain letters which go to shew that Prince Pierre Bonaparte is subject to ungovernable fits of fury, and that in shooting M. Victor Noir he gave way to a passion which he has frequently been unable to control. Mr. Cartwright states that on one occasion the Prince hired a boat to carry him from Corfu to the coast of Albania. On the boat arriving at a place called Sajades, on the coast of Albania, a Custom-house officer attempted to get onboard to ascertain whence the craft came, when, without any provocation, the Prince shot him down. Another gentleman, in whose words the Times has every reason to put implicit reliance, says : " When I was in Brussels twenty-five years since, the Prince was living in the Ardennes, where he got into a poaching scuffle with some gamekeepers. One of these was either killed or much injured, I really forget which." On what ground did the Prince escape punishment for these excesses ; or if not re sponsible for his doings, why was he not shut up in a lunatic asylum ? THE FRENCH HIGH COURT. Is there any reason why the High Court of France, which alone has jurisdiction over Prince Pierre Bonaparte, should not do justice P It is an exceptional tribunal, and the spirit of the age is against such. But it should bo remembered that if unlawful influ ence from the throne is to be feared, this court is less liable than any ordinary machinery for the administration ofjustice. Its jury is large, and is se lected by lot from the Councillors-general of two years' standing, who are amongst the ablest men in the country. The proceedings, says the Spectator, are of the ordinary kind, the accused can be interrogated, and his past life must be given as prima facie evidence of his intention in the act, a piece of evidence which in this instance will tell heavily against the Prince. It is of importance to notice that M. Fonvielle, the journalist who accompanied Victor Noir, was a witness, not a participator. His evidence, therefore, takes precedence in credibility over that of the Prince himself. The Daily News correspondent, besides others, thinks the circumstances all tell in favour of M. Fonvielle's story that the Prince fired the shot without provocation. And this M. Fonvielle is no disreputable journalist, but belongs to a good family, was born a marquis, and bears a good character. LEGAL CHANGES. Many important modifications in the personnel of the legal world are reported, on more or luss authority. First and foremost is the intention of Mr. Justice Willes to resign his office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas after the' Spring Assizes. His lord ship will then have completed his fifteen years of official service, arid will be entitled to a pension. The Law Journal, which announces the report, regrets Mr. Justice Willes's decision, regard ing it as premature. The Common Pleas ha scarcely recovered from the loss of two such valuable mem bers as Chief Justice Erie and Sir Edward Williams. The Law Journal thinks the retirement might be postponed to some more favourable period. Other metamorphoses are talked of. Tho Telegraph bepublishes rumours that Vice-Chancellor James is to elevated to the vacant Lord Justiceship ; that Mr. Commissioner Bacon Will succeed to the Vicf- Cbancellorshin.z. and that Mx. Baron Barnwell will THE TROOPS IN THE COLONIES. The troops are all to be withdrawn from our colonies during the present year; so that the unity hitherto boasted of, caused by the same army being in every part of the British Empire, will exist no longer. At only one place—Halifax — will a garrison be maintained at the Imperial cost. The A rms/ and Nary Gazelle declares, however, that a proposal has been sent to all the colonies to allow Imperial troops to remain in each, provided all the contingent expenses are defrayed by the Colonial Exchequer. THE REDUCTIONS. The ono important item on the reductions this week is very important indeed. It is supplied by the Army and Nary Gazette, which says that "it has been determined that the Army Estimates, when presented to the House of Commons, shall spew a diminution of about 10,000 combatants from the existing- establishments." How this large number is to be taken away our contemporary does not definitely inform us ; but it " believes " that in the infantry the men of two companies per battalion will be reduced, and the officers gradually absorbed ; in the cavalry each squadron will be reduced by a few files ; and: in the Artillery a cutting clown will be effected either by reducing two guns from each battery, or by the abolition of entire batteries. The Broad Arrow says that the result of the mili tary changes will be the extinction of the Army Agency system. The Paymaster-General's Depart ment is likely to be abolished, and the work will be taken by the Bank of England. The reductions at Chatham, which have been so long prophecied, have not been made yet. The dockyard still maintains its full number of hands. It is said that the rumour of changes was caused by the discharge of some temporary workmen engaged at the expense of the colony of Australia to do certain specific work, now finished. MR. BRIGHT AND WORKING MEN The Labour Representation League are, of course, disgusted with Mr. Bright's opinions respecting work ing men in Parliament. They have met and passed a resolution declaring in a good many words that,thero ought to be labour representatives in the House of Com mons, and that there shall be, notwithstanding Mr. Bright's opinion on the subject. The exclusion of working men through class prejudice is, they say, an iusult. Mr. Odger has again returned to the charge. In a speech made on Friday night ho excused the vigour of his expressions on the preceding evening on the ground that Mr. Bright always used the same style of language when referring to his opponents, and he did not think he would feel at all offended. The President of the Board of Trade has, in fact, met with condemnation from many quarters. In answer to his objection to class representatives it is retorted that the House of Commons is made up of nothing else, and that both he and Cobden during, the C orn Law fight had class prejudices. THE PERMISSIVE BILL. Mr. Dawson Burns, secretary to the United King doin Alliance, places the reply to Mr. Bright's objec tions to the Permissive Bill in a few words. Mr. Bright declares that the machinery of the bill is oNectionable and, in fact, impracticable. Mr. Burns retorts that all permissive legislation is founded upon the same principle. There can be no more objection to a Permissive Liquor Act than to the other laws the operation of which is now left to local choice. As to the advantage of the liquor traffic being under local instead of national control, Mr. Burns points out that the regulation is now intrusted to local boards of magistrates, who are supposed to represent (but do not) the wishes and interests of the people at large. Why not let the people have a direct voice in a question which is now delusively supposed to he regulated by them ? " Mr. Bright's apparent pre ference for Town Councils as the deciding authority is open to many powerful objections, not one of which applies to the suggestion of a direct popular vote : and as it is morally certain that the forthcoming Government measure will give local residents a power of vetoing applications for new licenses, the full power claimed for them by the Alliance cannot, we believe be long refused." HOMER ITS DORMIT.A NS. The logic of the Times does not improve in its old age. It urges the case of the Permissive Bill to combat Mr. Bright's objections to the minority clause. The advocates of the measure for repressing the liquor traffic hold the balance between the two parties in several boroughs, and they use their pOwer to compel candidates to promise their support by Yota against the candidate who will not uphold their scheme. " Can there be a more con spicuous instance of the way in which the machinery Mr. liriAt would call the representation of majorities is made subservient to the tyranny of a minority ?" And can there, we ask, lie anything more foolish than such reasoning? The titles Liberal and Conservative are, or might to be, something more than frames they represent priec;ples. If an advocate of the Permissive Bill considers the repression of the national vice the most pressing and momentous of reforms, and there arc very many who sincerely hold the conviction, why should he not vote for the side which will secure him the end he desires? What is the principle of voting for a candidate who promises second-rate reforms, but disdains this most momentous one ? Is " holding the balance " an unfair or an unconstitutional power ? Is it not as much in the hands of one party as another ? Surely the opponents of the Permissive Bill are at liberty to carry their suffrages over to the candidate who will vote against it ; just as the supporters of that measure take the reverse course. UNIVERSITY TESTS. Eighty-nine heads of colleges, fellows, professors, and officers of the University of Cambridge sign a de claration that they are " opposed to any enactment for relaxing religious tests in the University and Colleges which fails to secure the religious character and worship of those institutions in connexion with the Church of England." And forty-eight, who are largely represented in the list of the eight-nine, declare that the abolition of tests, either by permissive or general enactment, will impair the Christian character of the University; and, further, that they earnestly deprecate any legis lation by which the government or teaching: of the University will be transferred altogether or in part into the hands of persons who are not members of the Established Church. TIIE BISHOPS. The Low Church party are raising a great cry against Mr. Gladstone. The Premier,. they say, has not given them one prelate Tit of the seven he has created. Dr. Moberley (Salisbury) and Dr. Wilber force (Winchester), are High ; Dr. Temple (Exeter) and Lord Arthur Hervey (Bath and Wells), Broad ' • the Rev. James Fraser (Manchester), Dr. Goodwin (Carlisle), and Dr. Mackarness (Oxford), High. A. correspondent of the Telegraph, "An Evangelical Layman," mourns that there are now only three Evangelical bishops on the Bench—Drs. Beckersteith, Pelham, and Baring. The Record, in the same way, protests that the " Great Evangelical Party" is not properly represented. TIIE CANTERBURY SUFFRAGAN. The Ven. EdwarJ Parry, who has been chosen as the Archbishop of Canterbury's lieutenant, with the title of Bishop of Dover, is a son of Parry, the celebrated Arctic navigator. He was ordained in 1854, and after serving as chaplain and tutor to the Durham University, he became examining chaplain to the Bishop of London, who gave him, in 1859, the rectory of Acton, Middlesex, worth £1,050 a year. Shortly afterwards, on Dr. Tait be coming Archbishop, Mr. Parry received the arch deaconry of Canterbury, with a canonry in Canterbury Cathedral. The other name submitted to Mr. Glad stone was that of the Rev. P. W. Sandford, ➢I.A. FOREIGN NOTES. THE CECUMENICAL COUNCIL. A correspondent of the Times says that, notwithstanding rumours to the contrary, there actually exists an address to the Pope which requests that the dogma of Infallibility may be decreed. The movement Is being conducted with intense secrecy. Before the scheme was set on foot, a communication was made to the Holy Father who declared that to act on such an address it would bo necessary that it should contain 400 signatures. It is believed that Archbishops Manning and Spaulding had charge of the document, but they have observed such great caution that it has not been seen by the opposition bishops. Although the exact list is not known, it is thought that the terms of the address ask fur the most complete definition of Infallibility, and seek to invest every utterance of the I'ope with this attribute. Some cr. , nsiderable succ.ss has already attended this effort, and ;;s many as ZOO signatures have been obtained. Those who conduct the business seem very air.i9 us to settle the :lair at once. Cardinal Antonelli Las shown himself very eager to stop discussion in the Council, and carry through the necessary proposition with all possible haste. The address of the German Bishops has also increased the desire to ex pedie matters. Cardinal Antonelli is a strong partisan for the dogma of Infallibility, and appreciates its political importan-e with regard to the Italian clergy. THE CONVER,ION OF TILE JEWS, Some singular and interesting Lets arc recorded from Rome respecting the religious condition of the Jews. Two brothers, named Lehmann, who wcr distinguished among the authorities of the Synagogue for their learning and ability have becnirez and have consecrated therns.lyes to tile work of brineine Israel back from its darkness to the light of Erble Christianity. A most interesting work on the present state of Judaism has been published by them and laid before the Pope, who has addressed a brief of approval to them. The book goes through the different phases of Judaism, and attests that the Synagogue and its ordinances are falling into contempt, that it has ceased to expect the Messiah, and that while this state of incredu lity reigns among the enlightened members of the Jewiili persuasion, the lower classes are given up to the supersti tions of the Talmud, are splitting into sects and divi sions, and that, save the rite of circumcision and the dogma of the Unity of God, the Jews retain nothing of their primitive faith. The wall, which has for so many centuries separated them from Christianity seems to be crumbling away. One of the facts which the Abba Lehmann record is sufficiently significant of the perishing state of Judaism. Sixty-nine Jewish physicians of Vienna have protested against the rite of circumcision, and it is becoming almost the exception among the higher families in Austria, where the body is most numerous and influential. The appcal mice of several pretenders to the charac ter of the Messiah in Palestine has created a great sensa tion in the Jewish body in the East, and &most singular• and hopeful movement is setting in. The Abbes Lehmann are now in Rome busily engaged in intercourse with the Episcopate, and in the organisation of their work. SOCIETY IN ROME, Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 10th, says that the salons of the Barberine Palace were opened on Saturday with a ball from which all foreigners were rigidly excluded by way of privacy, "a contrast to the extreme facility of last season The ball, however, went off so heavily, and the Roman guests were so dull, that a return to the mixed system on proper presentation has been re solved on, as the jeunesse doree of Rome protested vigorously at the exclusion of the fair foreigners who render Roman ball rooms so brilliant. The sarcasms of the Prince de Valoii's witty sketches of Roman society " Les Lettres d'un Croyant (Dentie)" have been severely felt by the Roman noblesse, and the more so that they were fully merited, and they have done great good in the ridicule they have thrown on the pretensions of several of the parvenu Roman houses. Considerable discussion has been caused by the refusal of the Marquis De Banneville as senior of the Corps Diplomatique, to admit either Mr. Odo Russell or M. Capteist, the Rus sian consular agent, to the honours of a place in the diplomatic gallery at the Christmas ceremonies. The celebrated Parisian preacher, the Abbe Frappee, will, it is said, be raised to the see of Angers in a few weeks. Ho is a Moderate in opinions, and would be a welcome choice of the French Government, 'as well as being popular at the Vatican." ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OT A CROATIAN BISHOP. The Independence Beige states that Mgr. Strossmayer, the Croatian bishop who has so greatly distinguished himself at the Council, has nearly fallen a victim to an attempt at assassination. On returning from the Council last Thurs day he was attacked by several persons, and was only rescued by the interference of the passers-by. The male factors contrived to effect their escape, and the Roman police arc very anxious to hush up the affair. THE FO REIGN RELATIONS OF PRUSSIA. Count Bismarck has addressed a circular to the diplo matic body stating that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prussia is transformed into a Federal Ministry under the direction of the Chancellor. In case of any impediment he will be replaced by the Secretary of State, Herr von 'Mile. In any case a department of Foreign Affairs will continue to exist for the kingdom of Prussia, but it will no longer have to concern itself with the relations of Prussia with the Governments of the Confederation. JUDICIAL ORGANISATION IN EGYPT. The international commission which has assembled at Cairo, to examine into the judicial organisation of Egypt, has just held it fourth sitting. It has adopted (as was announced by Central Press Telegram), the propositions of the Austrian Commissioners to the effect that three primary tribunals should be established at Alexandria, Cairo, and Zagagig. The last town is the centre of native industry and has been called the Manchester of Egypt. The Memorial Diplomatique says that the members of these tribunals will for the most part be chosen from the Egyptian lawyers and paid by the Egyptian Government. The European judges who take part in then tribnnals will be nominated for six years. The Supreme Court will be held at Cairo, and the Court of Appeal at Alexandria. DR. LIVINGSTONE. The Bombay Gazette states that a copy of a letter from Dr. Livingstone has been received at Bombay. It is dated the 13th of May, 1869, but the name of the place where it is written is not given. Dr. Livingtone complains of the of potting faithful messengers. The Arabs of Unyanemlee, amongst whom he was, hate the English, and being engaged in the slave travo, they dread exposure through his letters, and will therefore neither carry letters for him thcuselves, :or will ',hey, if .hey can help it, allow others to do so. Respecting the work he has on hand, Dr. Livingstone says that ho wishes to establish a connection between the Nile of Spoke and Baker and the sources which he has himself discovered to the south of the point to which those explorers penetrated. In order to ascertain whether the outflow of one lake, hitherto unvisited, belongs to the Nile or to the Conge, he will have to pass through the country of a people called Manyema, who are cannibals. FEVER AND AGUE IN INDIA, Fever and ague are said to prevail to such an extent among the 21st Fusiliers, who are stationed at Kurrachoe, that only 200 men out of a force of 800 are fit for ordinary duty. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN INDIA. The limes of India of December 25th states that the Duke of Edinburgh landed in Calcutta three days pre viously, amid every token of rejoicing. The procession was imposing, and in the evening his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Viceroy, paid a state visit to the opera. The municipal corporation and residents of Calcutta have prepared an address to the Duke which bears 1924 signatures. The festivities in honour of the royal visit to Singapore were cut short by the death of Colonel Macpherson, Lieutenant-Governor of the Straits Settlements. Sir Donald M'Leod, Lieutenant-Governor .If the Punjaub, h.ts also been seriously indisposed. Th remains of the late Dr. Gilbert Ainslie, the Master of Pembroke College, were removed from Cam bridge yesterday morning to Ball Garth, the family seat in Lancashire. A committee was forme I yesterday, at a meeting at Manchester (presided ov,r br the mayor), to co-operate with the general zommittt o appointed at the recent county meeting in Lancashire., to provide funds for a memorial to the late Earl of 1)(»•1)y. SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS.—On Thursday, January 13th, Mr. IVyke Bayliss delivered the first lecture of the season before the Society of Fine Arts, on " Blessing the Cornfields, or Landscape Art in Poetry." Taking the word blessing in its simplest meaning—to praise, to glorify, to extol for excellencies—and the cornfield as a type of landscape beauty, the two words together de clare the subject, " Blessing the Cornfields," celebrating the infinite glory of the world around us, witnessing to the splendour of the natural creation. Mr. Bayliss shewed that the blindness of the early schools to landscape art was as marked in poetry as in painting, and that with the modern school of landscape painting had been developed also a school of landscape poetry—Milton andClaude,Turner and the Lake poets ,our living landscapists, whether in poetry or painting. These shew us the sunrise instead of sorrow, the fields instead of pain, the dark cypress beneath the moon rather than Diana stooping to kiss Endymion, the blaze of meridian light rather than Apollo in his chariot, the cornfields rather than Ceres. He shewed likewise that in blessing the corn-fields we bless the reapers also ; for there is scope for earnest thought, deep passion, playful imagination, tenderest memories, sweetest hope in landscape art, which includes all the cornfields that lie between the trees of the lost paradise and the white rose of the paradise to come. Mr. Bayliss's lecture was exceedingly well re ceived, one speaker after another rising to express their pleasure. An effort will be made in Congress this Session to bring Colorado into the Union as a State. Its rapidly increasing population, its great mineral wealth, its majestio scenery and salubrious climate, all now opened by the railway to Denver, have raised it in public estimation, and this timo the attempt will in all probability be success ful. Au effort, too, will be made by Western Congress men largely to Increase the representation under the apportionment for the coming decade. By the way, people err in counting the present year as the commencement of the new decade, whereas it is the last of the old decade. Mr. Judd's bill fixes the number of representatives at 300, and it is said that it will receive the support of the ma jerky in Congress. LAD VERTISEMENT.J—henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabic& Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, J my 21, 1866. - The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalcuta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plat e f u l at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highl," We extract a few out of more than 68.000 c::res:—Cure No. 58,216, of of seven yea rs ' li ver complaint t wastingthe Marchionessa away, d de h lit reau, nervousness with a nervous palpit a tion, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness , and the mos t in tolerable nervous agitati on. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria spitting of blood,constipation, Maris. Joly." Cure No. 46.270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimlev, Surre of 30 years' diseased lungs. sloppy portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than liver derangement, and partial deafness. lm imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liobig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at s d; Ilb2s M; 2lb 45 Gd; .5 lb 11s; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 4 S.— %is° t U BARDY's I: PICALENTA RADICA CIIO . COLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1 cups at 2,, for 24 cups at 3s 61, for .8 cups at 6s, for 2.8 cups at 30s, for , :76 cups at 5,s free of carriage about one penny per cup. The 30s and is tins are sent carriage in England on receipt of Post Of fi ce Older.— —being BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) ELECTION .NEWS.—The Governor of lowa, de clines to appoint a successor to Senator Grimes, as the Legislature was to meet last Monday. The three most likely candidates are Representative Allison, Judge Wright and Governor Merrill. The election took place last Tuesday. The contest, it is thought, will be so close that a new man will have to be chosen. General Amos has ordered the Legislature of Mississippi to meet on January 11th. The newly-elected States officers are ap pointed provisionally until their installation. General James L. Alcorn hasAeclined the position of provisional Governor, tendered to him by General Ames for the time intervening between this and the day of his inauguration, as Governor by authority of his election by tie people. Speaking of Alcorn's competitor, General Grant, his brother-in-law, says Louis Dent "is a carp t-bagger, pure and simple ; ho does not live in Mississippi. Ile claimed to live in Missouri, but he really belongs to Washington city. He is a carpet-bagger in the worst political sense, and I shall have an interest in seeing hint defeated." BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Nathaniel Brown Lee received the Republican nomination for Mayor of Salem-- Brevet Brigadier-General Adam Badettu, late Assistant Secretary of Legation in London, who returned to Ame rica several weeks ago, has been assigned to duty in Washington by order of the President.—Mr. A. T. Stew art is said to bo negotiating for a water front in Green point with a view to establishing a ferry landing and rail road terminus in connection with hin projected railroad to Hempstead Plains.—A well-dressed Chippewa gentleman. Mr. Vash Kong, tho chief of the Mille Lac baud, called not long ago at the St. Cloud land office for the pur pose of purchasing an addition to his homestead.—Al derman Dakin, of London, President W. K. Muir, Gene ral Superintend,nt Brackstone Baker and Amilius Irving, Directors of the Great Western Railway of Canada, have arrived at New York, and ate stopping at the Bre voort House.--Mr. Peabody's expenses for the last ten years did not average $3,000 per annum.—A member of the Russo-American telegraph expedition says he found a picture of Major-General Dix, cut from a New York pictorial newspaper, in the hut of a Kanak. General Dix was represented dressed in full uniform, and was wor shipped as a saint by the happy Kanak. -Ex-President Fillmore has ordered a Scotch granite family monument. —The battlefield of Chancellorsville has been bought by a Baltimore gentleman for 88,200.- General Hiram Wal bridge, of New York, it is said, intends making Rich mond his future home.—B. F. Reinhart, of New York, an artist well known in London art circles, has recently painted two remarkable heads, Helen of Troy and As pasia.—David Joseph, a merchant of Cincinnati, has been taken to New York, on a requisition from Governor Hoff mann, he being charged with procuring 660,000 worth of dry goods from Claffin and Co. by false representations.-- Ex-Minister Hale will, we believe, return to America next July.—Lyttia Thompson is in New Orleans, Susan Galton is in Charleston, and Edwin Forrest is in Indiana polis.—Mr. Bergh has brought a man before the /seW York courts for skinning a dog alive.—Senator Pratt, of Indiana, walked nearly all the way from Maine to the West, in 1832.—The lion. George W. Julian, M.C. from indiana, has a cerebral affection, and cannot sleep.—The Hon. R. B. Rift's advice to the people of Georgia is, "Do nothing, say nothing."—Fechter, the tragedian, arrived at New York in the steamship Blaine, December 31, and is at the Westminster Hotel. Last Monday he made a m ost , successful debut at Niblo's in the drama of Riiy Bias. —The lion. Horatio Seymour had his shoulder dis located by being thrown from . his carriage at Utica, New York, on the 29th December. That gentleman speaks in the highest terms of the cheese-producing capa city of his State, and anticipates its erection into a large and remunerative industry.—Generals Banks and Burn side were expected.back in America almost immediately.-- Mr. Seward and party left Mexico ou the 15th Dec., and arrived at Puebla ou the 18th. On the 19th they were at Tlascala, visiting the historic remains for which that place is celebrated. On the 21st they were to visit the tnonu rnents of Cholula. They go next to Orizaba, where they would arrive on the 23d. Minister Nelson accompanies the party on the excursion.—Mr. Seward was to sail front Vern Cruz for Havana, January 2.—lt is said that Mrs. Rose Eytings Butler, who married the nephew of General Butler the other day, will return to the stage. We thought the lady and her husband, who had been appointed Consul - General at Calcutta, were on their way to that city. -- Mr. Daniel G. Major, United States astronomer and surveyor of the boundary between California and Oregon, has ar rived in Washington with his report of this important sur vey.—Ernest Longfellow, a son of the poet, has adopted the profession of portrait painting, and opened his studio in Boston.—Gen. Sutton has lived in but one house, yet at different Hines has been a resident of Salem, Danvers, South Danvers, and Peabody.—Mrs. Robert Colt of Pitts field, and her daughters, Mary and Margaret. accompanied by her brother, Captain Lewis of Westfield, sailed for Santa Cruz, last week, where they are to spend the winter.- - Luke Bemis, formerly of Chicopee, has been appointed as sistant appraiser at the Boston Custom-house. For some months past he has been superintending the manufacture of the paper for Government use in greenbacks and currency in Pennsylvania.—Mr. Lorillard, captain and owner of the late Aincrican schooner yacht Meteor, wrecked off Cape Bon, returned to Malta with the crew of that vessel on Sunday, Jan. 2, in the screw steamer Lancefield.—The Berlin University will shortly confer the title of LL.D. on several distinguished American statesmen. —natter Hyacinthe brought to the United States but 2,000 francg, which were quickly gone. The Fifth Avenue Hotel gave him a home without charge, and the French Benevolent Society paid his passage to Europe.—The personal friends of the late Mr. Stanton had resolved to place $lOO,OOO to the credit of his family by New Year's-day.—Ex-Sub' Treasurer Cisco was married at Trinity Chapel, NeW York, Dec. 23. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Dix.—The steamship China arrived at San Francisco Dee' 26, with advices from Hong Kong to Nov. 19 and Yoko hama Dec. 2. She brought a heavy freight and a number of passengers, including 520 Chinese and Japanese, and General Van Valkeuburg and suite, late United States Minister to Japan ; also the following United States officers: C. W. Cushing, W. F. Thomas, L. Russell, T. J, Ilanscne, W. T. Arthur, and forty others. For Se'' York—Mrs M. G. Holmes and two children, H. Gelpilith B. Wagner, Rev. J. B. Morere. For Europe-LBaron Van Barsent, E. Witherbob, and John Paul.— The reappear' ance at Peking of Brown, Chief Secretary of the Burlite game mission, created considerable astonishment.—Bisholl Kingsley, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, left Peking on October 24, making an official visit to the mission stations of his Church in China, and was to leave Hong Kong about December 1, for America, via India and Europe.—The new American Minister to Japan w a s pre' rented to the Mikado on November 18.—It is rumoured that the Rev. Dr. Osgood, the eminent Unitarian clergy' gyman, has entered the Episcopal Church, and will at an early day apply for orders. The fact is now made pub lic in one of the New York evening papers. It is also stated that the reverend gentleman, previous to his de parture for Europe, retired from the Church of the Messiah with this end avowedly in view.—The American Consul at Naples, Mr. B. 0. Duncan, has been voted into the post of Vice-President of the British and American Hospi tal. 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