The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBI4O JOURNALS. _ The Irish fentrAl pro onions halm been tooted talron by come With fearand tiimblins.,. but, as the Times takes occasion to point out, the demonstrations of sympathy with the Manchester murderers would be felt to be a great failure if they did not prodnco unpleasant impres, sions and painful perplexities. If loyal people were to affect indifference and contempt they would not be be lieved, or, if believed, promised something more offensive, embarrassing, and formidable. Everything, indeed, is done to invest these funeral processions and rites with a factious and political significance, and to force us to read their meaning, whether we will or not. Bolder, or, rather, more favoured by the law, than the bravo of Italian fiction, the Fenian processionists do not confine themselves to biting the thumb ; they pro claim till they are hoarse whom they are biting the thumb at, and that they mean the worst that can be imagined. They mean to add a fresh sanction to that right of shedding blood which in all recorded history the Irish race has held to be the rightful resort of the aggrieved, the natural equipoise against artificial privileges and powers, and the palladium of public liberty, social confidence, and per sonal independence. They mean to assure us that as they have dealt with Sergeant Brett, so will they deal with all the ministers and servants of British authority when the occasion comes. They mean to force into a sort of sacramental union, sanctified by the blood of these so-called martyrs, all of their own race or creed who have not the courage to avow themselves on the side of order and authority. They mean to produce that idea of numbers and military organisation which the public attaches to processions before it has learnt to count them, and found them really impostures. They mean to put Government in the dilemma of either tolerating what they take every pains to render intolerable, or resisting what will be immediately justified as purely religions rites and the simple expressions of national grief. They mean the attainment of one more step towards that anarchy which might or might not end in the independence of Ireland, but which would certainly cause unimagined miseries both to Ireland and to England. They mean, if possible, to betray Government into indiscretions, and even breaches of the law, very advantageous in a contro versy of which all nations are witnesses. They care not if they provoke collisions or confusions, in which the presence of overpowering numbers and unseen weapons might possibly secure an advantage for the Fenian cause. The Metropolitan Streets Act, as the Post contends, ap pears destined to be a source of endless grievances and squabbles. It has been amended, but the costermongers declare that it is now worse than the original measure. The police have power to provide 5,000 stands, but the remaining 45,000 itinerant traders must be suppressed. Everybody is in favour of these travelling merchants, except the police, and it is in deference to those that the bill was passed, and in order to extend the sphere of the enlightened operations by which they had already im- Inortalised themselves in Westminster last year. There Seems every prospect that the power now given will be exercised to its very limits, for it appears that in Leather-lane the names of the traders have already been taken in order that they may be proceeded against. All this may be pleasing to the police, but it is ruin to the costermongers ; and it is much to be regretted that the House of Commons should so hastily have sanc tioned a piece of legislation aimed exclusively at the poorer struggling class of traders, who more than any others are entit!ed to indulgence, if not protection. It trusts that next session will bring a revision of the whole bill, and that cabmen, costermongers, brewers, carriers, and all those whose vocation calls them into the streets may bo dealt with on something like principles of equal justice. While the Herald praises Mr. Hardy for the ready way in which he has relieved the costermongers from their grievances, it believes that it would be a boon to the public if the Home Secretary were now to turn his attention to the frauds committed on all classes of the public by the use of false weights and incorrect measures, and legislate, even during the present session, on this very important subject after such a fashion as would not only ensure the publication of the names and residences of the un principled dealers who use them, but inflict upon them besides such punishments as might deter them from per severing in their dishonest practices. It is probable that if Mr. Hardy were to propose the adoption of the French mode of punishment for similar violations of the law— namely, the imposition of an increasing fine for each repe- tition of the offence, combined with the publication of the sentence in the local newspapers, at the convicted person's expense, and its exposure in his shop, he might meet with some opposition ; but he might adopt a medium course, which would be favourably entertained by Parliament, and be productive of satisfactory results, were it enacted that placards in large print, containing all the details, should be placed in the most accessible and public parts of the courts in which the convictions were pronounced, so that they might be visible to all who frequent them, and attract the attention of those desirous of learning the particulars of each case. This, connected with a proviso rendering a second offence punishable with imprisonment without the option of paying a fine, would probably put an effectual stop to practices which could no longer bo carried en with secrecy and comparative impunity. In an article on the position and prospects of our volun teer force, the Standard lays down one main question for consideration. That is, whether this fine, and, in its way, unequalled and unparalleled force, shall remain a mero mob of battalions, or be organised into an army capable of at once serving the country in the hour of need as it ought to be served. There is another contingency. Shall the volunteer force be allowed to dwindle into mere rifle clubs on a large scale? For there is danger even of that. The recognition it has received from his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief and his best generals assures us of his and their ardent approval of any scheme calculated to give it both permanency and efficiency. There is no fear of jealousy on the part of the army. Our army is far above such unpatriotic conduct. We shall not attempt to state what staff officers are necessary. This is a question for the War Office to decide. Probably a general of division, with one or two aide-de-camps, and a quarter master-general, with a brigade major for each brigade, would suffice. The cost would be nothing in proportion to the benefit to be derived. We havenow administrative battalions ; we want administrative divisions and brigades. We venture, with all due respect, to recommend this to the consideration of the authorities, and to say that in our iudgment the time for that consideration presses. Lord Elcho has placed on the notice paper the terms of the motion which he intends to propose when Parliament reassembles touching the formation of a real reserve army. He will suggest that a Royal Commission should be ap pointed "to inquire into and report upon our military organisation in so far as it relates to the establishment of a sufficient and economical army of reserve, and the means it offers of a speedy and efficient expansion to meet the requirements of war, more especially for home de fence ; and to consider, keeping these objects in view, whether it may be necessary or desirable to enforce the ballot for the militia ; and, if so, in what way this may be done so as to effect the desired end, and at the same time press most lightly on the people." Here, says the Telegraph, are materials for an excellent debate, and we trust that the question will not be met with indif ference. The expiring Parliament may very well render to its successor the slight service of paving the way for broad measures of military reform ; and the new Parlia ment will be in a much better position to sanction prompt and searching remedies, if the Government will grant Lord Elcho his commission, and assent to Mr. Otway's comprehensive motion respecting the administration of the War Department. Unless radical measures be adopted with goodwill we shall certainly suffer some severe disaster. Good as the policy of non-intervention may be in the abstract, there are occasions when it is objectionable in the concrete. The Star is unable to see why Lord Stanley should not have joined in the identical note sent by Russia, Prussia, France, and Italy to the Porte, on the relations of that Power with its Cretan subjects. It cannot compre hend this reticence. It is a development of non-interven tion wholly opposed to the principles on which that political dogma is based. Turkey is not in any sense an indepen dent State, and a remonstrance addressed to her for her conduct in Crete is a very different thing from a remon strance with !ranee in the matter of Rome, or with Russia in the matter of Poland. The present Government of the Sultan is, in fact, the creation of the foreign policy of England. Its falling authority has been propped by L'rifish bayonets ; its sinking credit has been buoyed by British capital. England, if any nation, has a right to see that her prolegé does not too openly outrage public morality. A DOUBTFUL HONOUR. —The King of Siam has conferred upon Sir John Bow-ring the title of " Phraya Siamitre :Naha Ire3a " for services rendered to the Siamese. This, we are informed, is the highest dignity that can he borne by a foreigner, and few Court newsmen, we may add, save those of Siam, would dare to spell it. GREAT ECLIPSE OT THE SUN IN 1868.—At the last meeting of the Royal Society, the President and Council had under consideration the means to be employed in making complete observations of the total eclipse of next year. The eclipse will be of the greatest possible duration, affording, therefore, more leisure than usual for such observation s as can only be made during the brief interval of the totality. The total phase will be visible in India, but elsewhere only in countries practically un• available. Recent observations on the spectra of the heavenly bodies render spectroscopic observations of the red protuberances and of the corezyk a matter of peculiar interest IABY FARMING-4 STRANGE' STORY. - - • A. else has just come to tight in the Vast-m(I34A roans a curious pendant to the discldsures in the notoriouS Jagger inquiry at Tottenham. On Saturday Dr. john Chambers, a practitioner living at Hackney-road, paid one of a series of visits to a Mrs. Cooper, of 10, Nelson- , street, Hackney-road, who was suffering from the effects of premature confinement. As he was leaving the husband of the invalid addressed him and said, "Don't you know that my child is dead ?" This ques tion astonished the doctor, for Mrs. Cooper had just told him that she never had had a child. He therefore asked, " What child ? I did not know you had one." Mr. Cooper, however, took him into a room and chewed him the body of a very beautiful boy, nearly two years of age. A blue mark over the lips and some other indica tions raised a strong presumption that death was the result of suffocation. Mr. Cooper stated that the child had been found dead in bed that morning. The coroner was com municated with,and inquiries were set on foot. It transpired that the boy was not the son of the Coopers. According to their statement, they did not even know who the parents of the child were. A young lady, they said, drov e up to their house in a cab on the 23rd of March last and handed the child to Mrs. Cooper, and left as mysteriously as she came, without stating her own name or that of the child, or her residence, or, in fact, any one single circumstance about herself or the child's father. Such further facts as have been elicited were got on Tuesday from a somewhat embar rassed witness at the inquest. It may be necessary to state, for the full appreciation of the evidence and documents which follow, that the Coopers occupy a very poor house in a very poor neighbourhood, and that the furniture of the domicile is in keeping with the general character of the surroundings. Mr. Cooper, who is a brush-maker by trade, occupies the position of foreman to a brush-making factory in Bethnal-green. The inquest on the body of the child " unknown " was held on Tuesday by Mr. Richards the deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, at the Oxford Arms Tavern, St. Peter's-street, Hackney-road. William James Cooper, foreman at Mr. Butts's brush manufactory, was the first witness examined. He stated that they became possessed of the deceased by advertising in the Clerkenwell News for a child to adopt. The follow ing letters, which passed between the parties, explain the nature of the transaction : " London, March 16, 1867. "Mrs. Cooper, 10, Nelson-street, St. Peter's-square, Hackney-road. "Madam,—ln answer to your advertisement in the Clerkenwell News respecting the adoption of a child, I beg to say I have a little boy, fourteen months old, that I wish to have adopted. I should feel obliged by your letting me know what premium you require, and wish full particulars as soon as possible.—l am, madam, yours truly, " J. C. L. " Address care of post office, 51, Fenchurch-street, City, C.C." The Coroner said that the jury had now got at the important fact that a premium must have been paid for the deceased child. They had also got some slight clue to the parents of the child in the initials `J. C. L.," and the fact that, .whoever the party was, he or she called at the Fenchurch-street post office for letters. It would be therefore advisable for Mr. Cooper not to keep anything hack, but to state all he knew. The following copy of Mrs. Cooper's reply to the fore going letter was then read : "Sir or Madam,—ln answer to your letter of the IGth, I beg to state that our decision in reference to the adoption is as follows :-1. Boy preferred. 2. Age of no consequence, so long as he is perfectly healthy. 3. Premium to be ade quate to the position of the parents, but we have decided on £2O if under six months, or £l5 if over. 4. The child to be entirely given up, and on no condition are either parents to recognise themselves to the child in any manner whatever at any future time. It is to all intents and purposes our child. 5. The strictest secrecy will be observed, if necessary. I may here observe that I have a good, kind husband, and holding a comfortable position, and having no children of our own, sincerely desire to adopt one. It will be well taken care of and respectably brought Np. I think I need say nothing further than that I shall be obliged by your communicating with me directly, as we have several respondents.—l am, yours truly, " M. A. COOPER." The next letter was written just before the child was brought to the Coopers : " London, March 19, 1867. "Mrs. M. A. Cooper, &c.—Madam, I have only just received your letter, and, in answer, beg to say I quite agree with all you say. lam sorry to say I can not afford so much as £l5, as the child is now over four teen months old, and of course getting very pleasant. I could give £lO premium and a very good outfit of clothes which he has got. He is a very healthy and a very good child, and of good birth. Of course I should require the strictest secrecy, and would give him entirely up. Wait ing your reply to know whether the £lO premium would do, believe me, yours truly, " J. C. L." It was ultimately decided to adjourn the case in order to give time for inquiries to be instituted in order to dis cover the parents of the child. It is hoped that the cab man who carried the lady and the child and the large bundle of clothes, on the 23rd of March, to Nelson-street, Hackney-road, may be found. LAW AND POLICE. RAILWAYS AND THEIR CREDITORS.—In the matter of the Cambrian Railway Company a motion was made before Vice-Chancellor Wood for an injunction to restrain suits against the company by landowners (whose purchase was unpaid) and others. The landowners pleaded that it was unfair that they, who were bound to give up their land to the company, should be restrained from pressing for their money. They contended that where the Act gave the court the power to restrain suits by creditors, the creditors were those who had voluntarily placed them selves in that position. His Honour thought this to be so, but said that though the creditors might bring actions the court must stay execution. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT A POLICE CONSTABLE.—At the Taun ton Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mellor, Frederick Hunt, a labourer, was indicted for feloniously attempting to dis charge a loaded pistol at John Chamberlain, a policeman, with intent to murder him. The affray took place in an attempt on the part of prisoner to release a man from custody. The jury threw out the intent to murder, and found him guilty of attempting to do grievous bodily harm. Sentence, twelve years' penal servitude. DAMAGES FOR THE Loss OF A HUSBAND.—The widow of a boat-captain named Shoebottom has brought an action at the Manchester Assizes against the trustees of the Bridgewater Canal for the loss of her husband. It appeared that on the 12th December last year the deceased was returning to his boat late at night, and, having just parted with a friend, was crossing a bridge of the canal near Liverpool-road, Manchester, when he fell through a hole in the centre. His friend, hearing the splash of the deceased falling into the water, ran to him shouting for help. Assistance arrived, and the deceased was found stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the canal, the water up to his eyes, and quite dead. The bridge was in a rotten and dilapidated state, and several witnesses deposed to having narrowly escaped falling through it into the water. The defence chiefly rested on the allegations that the bridge was private property, that the deceased had no business crossing it, and that he was drunk at the time. The jury found for the plaintiff ; damages, £4OO. STRANGE FREAKS OP A LAWYER'S CLERK.—Richard Wright, a lawyer's clerk, was charged before the Liverpool magistrates with burglary. Early on Monday morning the prisoner was seen passing along the roof of a public house kept by a Miss Shakeshaft, and enter the window of Mr. Cotton's office (solicitor), in Adelphi Bank -build ings, which adjoins the public-house. An alarm was given, and a police officer, having entered Mr. Cotton's office, dis covered the prisoner sitting at a table, surrounded by beer and whisky bottles,with his face blacked, andwearing avolun teer uniform. In a basket which was lying on the floor wero several things belonging to the public-house, and which Miss Shakeshaft identified. Wright, when questioned by the officer, said that he had been working in the office since Saturday night, and that he had gone to the public house to sleep. He could not tell how his face had be come blacked. Mr. Cotton, who was present, said the prisoner was not required in the office after three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Wright was committed to the assizes. TIIE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT CIIESTERPIELD.-At the Derbyshire Assizes Richard Lee, a clerk, was indicted on a charge of attempting to murder his daughter, at Chester field, in October last. The prisoner and his wife were having a dispute, when the daughter interfered, and so received the injuries. After committing the offence the Prisoner cut his own throat very severely. He was permitted to plead guilty to unlawfully wounding, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. TIIE SALE OF REVERSIONS.—On Tuesday an Act was printed to amend the law with respect to sale of rever sions. No purchase made bond fide, and without fraud or unfair dealing, of any reversionary interest in real or per sonal estate is to be hereafter opened or set aside merely on the ground of under value. The word "purchase" is to in clude every kind of contract, conveyance, or assignment under or by which any beneficial interest in any kind of property may be acquired. The Act is to come into force on the first day of next month, and is not to apply to any purchase concerning wo. hich a suit shall be then d nondinz. 11 A THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESOAV EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1867. SWITZERLAND AND THE CONPERENCE. BERNE, Dec. 4. Subjoined is the answer returned by the Swiss Cabinet to the invitation addressed by France to the Swiss Confederation to send a representative to the proposed conference upon the Roman ques tion :-- M. le Miuistre, —M. le Marquis de Banneville, the French Ambassador to this Government, has read to the Federal President a circular despatch dated the 9th November; and has left with him a copy of the same. In that despatch his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs addresses an invi tation to the Federal Council to allow Switzerland to be represented at conferences which are shortly intended to be held upon Roman and Italian affairs. The Federal Council has the honour to reply to this invitation that it thanks the Emperor's Govern ment for the friendly attention again displayed towards Switzerland in this matter, and that it has not failed immediately to direct its fullest atten tion to the important business of which the de spatch treats. Although the neutral position of Switzerland renders it incumbent upon her to ob serve especial caution in the treatment of European affairs, the Federal Council has yet no desire to withdraw itself from participation in the rights and duties which attach to Switzerland as a member of the European commonwealth of nations. As it, there fore, fully admits that great moral and political in terests are at stake in the present instance the Federal Council are ready to have itself represented at the conferences placed in prospect. It couples with this promise the sole condition that the conferences shall possess an universally European character, as participation in mere isolated questions in the case under consideration would hardly be compatible with the neutral and impartial position of Switzer land. The Federal Council, however, considers that it ought to add to this declaration a few can did remarks. Two great interests have for some time rast been opposed to one another in Rome— the one being of a religious nature, based upon the necessity of independence to the supreme Head of the Catholic Church ; the other of a political character, consisting in the efforts of the Roman people to decide itself upon the fashion of its state and form of government. It would not be fair to controvert the rights of these two interests, and it will probably not be possible to bring the exist ing conflict to a permanent conclusion other wise than by granting admission and satisfaction to both. The Federal Council is unable to judge whe ther previous negotiation of the Emperor's Govern ment with the parties chiefly interested would have been advisable for the attainment of this object. It is able, for its part, fully to accept the course proposed by the invitation of free deliberation without previous settlement of the programme. On the other hand, it appears to the Federal Coun cil that this last standpoint has its special conditions and consequences. Probably the first condition of free deliberation is that the European conference shall not have brought before it a state of affairs already partially prejudged. Owing to the speedy termination of armed intervention in the States of the Church announced by his Majesty the Emperor himself, the Federal Council considers need less to dwell longer on this point. It considers also, as a f urther consequence,the establishment of theprin - ciple that definitive resolution can only be invented with legal effect iu so far as such has been accepted by the parties concerned. Lastly, it would probably be free to every participant to withdraw from the conferences in case the negotiations took a course incompatible with the political principles of such a Power. The Federal Council feels itself com pelled even at present to declare that it can only operate in passing resolutions suitable to the principles upon which the political position of Swit zerland herself rests. The Federal Council assumes that in all these respects the character of free deliberation will be preserved to the conferences. Upon this understanding the Federal Council awaits further communication from the Emperor's Government as to time and place of the conferences, upon receiving which it will not hesi tate to appoint its representatives. You are re quested to read this despatch to his Excellency the Marquis de Mousticr, and, should he desire it, to kayo with him a copy. In the name of the Swiss Federal Council, Federal President DUBS, The Chancellor of the Confederation SC lIIESS ONTOLOGY. The Ontological system of Philosophy (as it is called) seems to have attracted notice in France in the first decades of this century, and has not been without its earnest supporters amongst our selves. Founded, as is alleged, in the teachings of the greatest intellects of the Church, imbedded in St. Augustine, shining steadily in St. Anselin, and animated by the rhetoric of a Bossuet, a Fenelon, and a Gerdil, it took possession of the mind of a Moigno and a Fabre, and with patient elaboration it has been reduced to system —so as to be taught from text-books in seminaries and colleges—by a Brancherau, au Übaghs, and a Hugonin. The advocates of this system have agreed, it ap pears, in maintaining that God is always present to the mind through a direct and immediate intui- tion ; that all truths which are eternal, being somehow identical with Mm, are seen directly in Him ; and that, inasmuch as in Him are contained these everlasting truths, He is the lumen intellectus, without which nothing whatever can even be con ceived by the intelligence. The works of Professor Übaghs received the at tention of the Sacred Congregation of the Index as early as the year 1843. In his " Theodicea," he taught, amongst other things, that no external metaphysical truth could be known without ex ternal assistance, and in its ultimate analysis with out Divine revelation ; that it is impossible to prove the existence of God; and that the proof of external metaphysical truth is reduced to the argument of " sensus communis." These proposi tions met with the displeasure of the Sacred Con gregation, and Professor Übaghs was instructed to correct his errors in the next edition of his works, and meantime to refrain from teaching them in the schools. Upon this the Professor addressed, on the 9th December, 1843, a memorial to the Sacred Congregation. With this memorial the Sacred Congregation was by no means satisfied. August Bth, 1844, it issued another declaration, pointing out errors in it identical with those already spoken of, and declaring the teaching of them to be unsafe. Meantime, a new edition of the " Theo dicea," was brought out by Professor Übaghs. He seems to have been little moved by the authority of the Sacred Congregation, for in this new edition the very same principles were to be found which had twice been visited with the displeasure of the authorities at Rome. Naturally, such a proceeding as this was not likely to act as a sedative in the minds of professors, or philosophers, or scholars. Louvain became a scene of great excitement and contention. The Archbishop of Mechlin as sembled his suffragans in solemn council to devise a method to put a stop to the irritating scandal. They determined to petition the Holy See to settle the question definitively, once for all. Meanwhile they addressed a joint letter to the Rector Mag nificus of the university, calculated to calm the ex citement which was at its height. But four of the Louvain professors had already presented them selves to Cardinal Andrea, who, in 1860, presided over the deliberations of the Sacred Congregation, and had expounded to his Eminence the principles of their school. In March of the same year the Cardinal issued a declaration that the doctrines of the professors could rightly be numbered amongst those which are freely debatable amongst Catholic philosophers. Naturally enough, this declaration was received as issuing with all the plenary authority of the Sacred Congregation. But nothing of the sort. It was the spontaneous and unauthorized act of Cardinal Andrea, and the Sacred Congregation had nothing to do with it. This element of confusion added fuel to the fire. The kindly and paternal letter of the bishops was entirely thrown away upon the noisy jangling of the disputants. Their lordships once more turned to the Holy See for a decision. A letter to the Cardinal Archbishop and his suffragans from the Holy Father, dated December 19, ' 1861, put a stop for a time to the fer ment. It declared that Cardinal Andrea was quite unauthorized to make the statement re ferred to, and commanded all parties to leave the question alone, till such time as the Holy See had examined its merits and had come :to a definitive declaration. The Holy Father appointed the Con gregations of Index and of Inquisition to fully investigate the matter. They did so. On October 11, 1861, they declared, as the result of their de liberations, that Professorlibaghs had not, amended his new editions, according to the mind of the Holy See, and that the condemned principles had not been withdrawn. The Cardinal Archbishop was instructed ,to warn the Professor most solemnly of his duty, and of the obligation upon him of conforming to the wishes of the Holy See. And the bishops were all advised to take especial care that none of these doctrines were taught in the colleges, universities, or seminaries of their dio ceses. Still the Professor seemed to be incorrigible. He brought out another edition of this unhappy " Theodicea "in 1865. The bishops, however, were ready for him. The book was sent to Rome. Again it was declared that the doctrines broached in the book could not be taught with safety, and this time the Holy Father confirmed the decision with his supreme authority. Still the philoso phic mind is very tenacious of its own. A new tack was taken. The words of the Sacred Congre gation were misinterpreted. It was declared that the principles laid before Cardinal Andrea in 1860 were neither condemned in this last act of the Holy See nor in those that went before. The Holy See again spoke. It authoritatively commanded those who held still to the condemned opinions to submit plainly, perfectly, and absolutely to the Holy See. Now another plea was made. It was doubted whether the opinions declared in 1860 were con demned doctrinaliter, or disciplinaliter. And, by means of this escape,'the dispute was stirred up once more from its embers. Those who raised this new difficulty, in order, theysaid, that they might clearly understand their duty, directed to the Sacred Con gregation, on August 1, 1866, four propositions, expressing their philosophical views ; and they begged the Holy See to declare if they were to be reprobated by Catholics or not. The bishops also sent a letter on the same question, begging for a declaration on the controverted point. A dignified rebuke was all the professors:got or deserved from Rome. They were told that already they had abundantly been answered, that their paper was a superfluity, and that the Sacred Congregation was exceedingly amazed that they should raise such doubts. They were reminded that Catholics, and especially Ecclesiastics, should rather subject them selves at once plainly, perfectly, and absolutely to the Holy See, and do what they could to remove all obstacles to such a consummation. The bishops forwarded this letter to the rather tenacious set of Louvain professors and their Rector Magnificus informed them that now the question was abso lutely settled, and that Rome had clearly intimated that the exposition of doctrine made to Cardinal Andrea in 1860, was condemned by the Congre gations of the Index and the Holy Office on the 2d of March, 1866. With this letter was a form to be signed by the professors, in which it was de clared that they plainly, perfectly, and absolutely, and ex animo, rejected the errors put forward by the four professors, and received ex conk whatever the Holy See thought fit to teach upon the con troversy in question. Thus ended these principles of the Belgian On tological School at Louvain. In France the collapse of Ontology is more striking still, because more wholesale. llugonin condemned his own book in 1866, previous to being made Bishop of Bayeaux, and Brancherau repudiated his in 1861. And in Italy the " Acta " for October of the current year, printed by the Propaganda Press, declare that the seven propositions which Ontologists imagined were directed against Pantheism alone are in reality condemned, " quatenus novam doctrinam Onto logisnztan appellatam continent." W hat do English Ontologists say to this? Is the system sound ? Westminster Gazette. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. (From the Round Table.) The rapid progress which this magnificent enter prise has made toward completion is a matter for national congratulation. There is something very grand and impressive in the idea that a scheme so stupendous as once to have been ridiculed as utopian has not only been commenced but is now actually on the eve of successful consummation. From the Missouri River to the foot of the Rocky Mountains —a distance of more than five hundred miles—the line is already completed. The company have literally worked like beavers to accomplish this result. Men certainly have never yet built so long a line of railroad within the same time. Over 500 miles in eighteen mouths—for it is no longer since ground was broken at Omaha—is, we believe, a feat quite unparalleled. We must remember too that it is not the eastern branch of the road alone which is apushed Thein rapid process of construction. Th e wes t ern division entral p i s flocny of energetically California.beingcom pby the Central two extremities are constantly nearing each other, and it is now confidently expected that the whole grand line will be open to travel early in the year 1870. The expenditures thus far of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, have been a little in excess of $40,000,000 ; and it is estimated that some $83,000,000 more will be required to complete the work. That this will be readily forthcoming there is not now the slightest doubt. Already in its unfinished condition the earnings of the road from way business are more than double the current expenses. We are credibly assured that these earnings for the three months ending July 31 amounted to more than four times the inte rest upon the bonds which could be issued upon the number of miles in operation. As the road progresses it comes nearer and nearer to the great mining regions of the central continent, and thus opens fresh sources of profitable traffic. We look to hear of discoveries of the precious metals within the coming two years which will entirely pay for the great railroad itself. The prophecy seems hazardous, but we are not without reasonable data to justify us in making it. But apart from consi derations of this kind, we have not the least mis giving of the ample financial success of the Union Pacific Railroad. That its bonds will go to as high a figure in the sequel as have those of the great steamship company trading t• the same terminus, we think there is every reason to anticipate. Westward, indeed, does the march of empire take its way ! In a very few years the extraordinary experience of our present most flourishing Western States will be extended straight across the conti nent, until from ocean to ocean there shall exist an uninterrupted succession of rich, growing, and, as we trust, happy peoples. Such a condition of things, probably inevitable in the long run, has been greatly facilitated and hastened by the wise action of our Government, and it is truly satis factory to be able in this respect unreservedly to compliment and applaud it. The main features of the Government concession may be usefully stated. They amount to $16,000 per mile for the first 517 miles on the plains; $lB,OOO per mile for 150 miles through the Rocky Mountains ; and $32,000 per mile for the remaining distance. To this is to be added the land grant, which amounts to 12,800 acres to the mile, and much of which will hereafter be of enormous value. In order to assure as far as possible the quality of the work, two Government directors by law take part in the direc tion of all the affairs of the company and reprt through the President to Congress. These gen tlemen are required to inspect each successive section of.twenty miles, andito pronounce it a first class road in construction and equipment before the section can be opened to public business or the bonds for that number of miles be issued. It is, therefore, very fairly claimed that these bonds represent not a prospective work which promises to be built, but a completed one in active operation. From "every point of view this stupendous work is honourable and important to the country, and it is undoubtedly to the interest of every member of the community that it should be rapidly and suc cessfully completed. It is also a great object to Europe. Throughout the vast plains heretofore occupied by savages, or lying vacant in solitary grandeur, a new and attractive expanse will now be opened, presenting the advantages of safety, fer tility, and ready access, which will make it inviting and remunerative to the immigrant. For sometime these lands can be had at comparatively low rates, although the rise in their price which will follow the completion of the railway will be very great. The entire population of Europe could readily be sustained in the country to be traversed by this line of rail without calling upon either the Mississippi Valley or the teeming coast of the Pacific. In this respect therefore, that it affords an almost exhaust less resource for the surplus and overworked popu lations of the Old World, the building of the Union Pacific Railroad is desirable for others beside our selves. We feel justified in recommending the bonds of this company to our European friends who may seek profitable investments as well as to friends at home. Few securities offer such substantial safety, coupled with a probability so apparently .limitless of future appreciation. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of St. Mary and Centreville, Elk County, Pennsyl vania, was recently held for the purpose of awaken ing the people to the importance of immediate action upon the question of a proposed railroad to connect the most extensive bituminous coal region of Pennsylvania with Buffalo, Rochester, and North-western New York, and the continuation of the same southerly down the Little Toby, to an intersection with the Alleghany Valley Railroad. The reorganisation of the Ohio and Mississipp Railroad Company is now complete. The new Board of Directors are William H. Aspinwall, Joseph W. Alsop, Allan Campbell, William White wright, Jr. S. F. Odell, William W. Scarborough, Larz Anderson, William D. Griswold, Alexander H. Lewis, John H. Ross, Samuel Gaty, and Lewis B. Parsons. William D. Griswold has been elected president, Alexander H. Lewis, vice-president, John W. Conlogne, general superintendent. The new corporation have had a settlement of all the difficulties with the city of Cincinnati, and have secured all desirable accommodations in the city. The stockholders of the South Side Railroad Com pany, of Virginia, are requested by the president to meet the directors of the company upon matters of unusual interest, at the City _Hall, Petersburgh, Virginia, on December 3d next. The interest due January 1, 1868, upon the mort gage bonds of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company and the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railroad Company will be paid upon presentation at the office of the .company, 25, William-street, less seven per cent. per annum discount for the an ticipated time. The annual meeting of the first mortgage bond holders of the Vermont Central Railroad Company was held at Boston ou November 14. The annual report showed the total receipts of the road during the past year as $1,783,991 44 ; expenditures, $1,300,862 99 ; leaving a surplus of $483,128 24. Übe debt of the road has been reduced $146,000 by the surplus earnings of the road during the past seven months. Out of the surplus, however, is to be taken the amount to be paid for the use of the Vermont and Canada Railroad, $90,000, and $97,553 10 for interest on mortgage bonds. The trustees expect to reduce still further the debt of the road during the coming year, and represent the business as constantly increasing, and more now than they have rolling stock to accommodate. We learn that the prospects for the rapid and successful progress of the Toledo, Logansport, and Northern Indiana Railroad are very good. The Whitely (Indiana) Republican of the 31st ult. says : —" The rate at which stock is being taken in the Toledo, Logansport, and Northern Indiana Rail road indicates that the enterprise will be a complete success. Full returns have not been received from the committee, but we are informed by the chair man that the subscription is much heavier than was anticipated." Articles of Association have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Indianapolis, Indiana, for the incorporation of the White River and Wa bash Railroad Company, to extend from Worthing ton, Green County, to Merom, Sullivan County; a distance of 36 miles. The stock cothiist,s of 6,000 shares of $5O each. The annual meeting of the Indianapolis, Cincin nati, and Lafayette Railroad Company was held at Indianapolis on November 4th, and the following board of directors elected : —Wm. Dwight and D. A. Dwight, Boston ; H. 0. Lord, Nathaniel Wright, George K. Schoenborger, and W. W. Smith, Cin cinnati; L. B. Lewis, Lawrenceburg; A.R. Forsyth, Greensburg ; and T. A. Morris, Indianapolis. The only new members are D. A. Dwight and W. W. Smith. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Treasury Department has, it is believed, decided that unless the holder of 7-30's shall pre sent them for conversion into 5-20 bonds at matu rity, the option to make such conversion is lost, and the 7-30's will afterwards be paid in greenbacks. Presidential tickets are now flying over the Union, raised and eddied around by every wind of opinion. General Steedman was talked of at the informal Democrat Caucases at Washington, with young Mr. John Quincey Adams for Vice. The Washington Union gives General Sherman the first place, and Commodore Stockton the second. Pro minent members of the party state that they will run Horatio Seymour if the Republicans run Chase. A Chase club is to be farmed in Washington, and Southern loyalists intend to re-assemble the Con gress they held in the capital last winter to forward Mr. Chase's interests. A Connecticut paper sug gests General Grant for President, and Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, for Vice. The Rocky Hountain News of Colorado prefers Speaker Colfax either to Grant or Chase. It is now announced that General Grant has been sounded, and declines a Democratic nomination. By the cable news re ceived yesterday the General was nominated, at a mass meeting, national candidate for the Presidency, by the merchants and bankers of New York. The moderation, the prudence, the reticence, of Grant are telling in his favour with the class most deeply interested in suund legislation ; that class, which when they do speak in the States, speak with an authority almost national in its weight. The Rev. Dr. Hawley, of Auburn, New York, it is now said, proceeds, by direction of Secretary Seward, to the West Indies to "stump" the Danish Islands, lately purchased to secure the vote of the inhabitants in favour of the transfer. This is a very different mission to that before chalked out for him to the Eternal City, to offer a home in America to the Pope; but perhaps Garibaldi's defeat has removed the necessity. The purchase conditional on the transfer being ratified by the popular vote has been completed with Denmark for St. Thomas and St. John; the sum being $7,500,000. Late experience may throw doubts on the value of St. Thomas as a harbour, which its known unhealthi- ness tends to increage. The Royal Mail Company are endeavouring to avoid all further connection with the port, as the hurricane of Oct. 29 has caused a very natural prejudice against it as a central point for the: r traffic. Thaddeus Stevens has promised to use his influence in the Ilouse for the necessary appropriation, though coldness towards the scheme is anticipated in the Senate. The Nation says that the preference of the American people seems to be for the Sandwich Islands.. The Round Table thus alludes to the autobio graphy of the Rev. Edward Mathews, who is well known to our readers from his correspondence in these columns. "A work just published in England which is not without interest here is the autobiography of the Rev. Edward Mathews, who is the 'Father Dickson' of Mrs. Stowe's Dred.' Mr. Mathews, who is a cousin of the famous Father Mathew, came to this country while a young man, and, after living as a clerk in New York for a few years, studied for the Baptist ministry, and wont ou missionary duty to Wisconsin. He then became an agent of the Illi nois Anti-Slavery Society, and from that time pursued in Kentucky and other Slave States the life of heroic mis chief-making of the active abolitionist of the time. To the exciting incidents of this life, and to the general history of the anti-slavery movement, his book is chiefly devoted." The Saturday Review considers the New York Nation the ablest paper in America This is saying great deal, particularly, as we venture to say the writer had not seen one of every fifty papers published in the country. We dare, however say, he was not very far from the mark. An " American Fenian" has written a letter to the Pall-Mall Gazette, which we have read, and an article in Tinsley's Magazine, which we have not read. We are glad to see the advocates of Fenianisru ventilate their opinions in such organs, and we are glad that the editors give them the opportunity of stating openly and boldly to the English people the objects for which they contend. A cause is not worth fighting for that cannot bear such a dis cussion, and if Ireland has wrongs which can only be ;a dressed by a total separation from England, it is right that the English should know it. A very strange theory runs through the "Fenian's" letter. He seems to consider that England is not justified in inflicting death do those who kill to gain a political end. If ho carried out such a theory the United States were not justified in execut ing the assassin of President Lincoln. Nations hold that tne greatest crime is that of rebellion ; as it leads not to only individual but to wholesale slaughter, and the robbery not being only of the person, but of the community. There may be a difference between killing a ruler and killing a policeman, but the law regards both as a murder, and a nation might have as little right under the extradation treaty to refuse to sur render such a culprit as Surratt as to decline to surrender the man who openly boasted of having shot Sergeant Brett. The policeman may have been killed by accident, but others were wounded who had boon deliberately fired at. Supposing one thus wounded had died, England ought to demand the person who fired the shot with the intent to kill from any country to which ho had escaped. This American explains that ho writes so passionately in_a cause for which he says the Americans have comparatively little sympathy; preferring the Irishman in Ireland to the Irishman in America, by stating that it is a " most effec tive means of agitating the English Government ;" but he should add that he speaks only for a section of his coun trymen. There is no denying there is a party in America hostile to England, but it is a party more noisy than strong, and composed entirely of Irishmen. The feeling of Americans toward England presents a curious com pound of the sweet and the bitter. Ireland is a country generally regarded in the Sta:es with contempt—England with respect and admiration. Socially, morally, commer cially, these feelings have force, but not politically. It is in politics that the bitterness of Americans is ex pressed, and as it is in politics that the nations come into intercourse the bitterness thus obtains an undue pro minence. The "American Fenian" sets a good example in giving vont to his opinions, and we wish that journals devoted to Fenian propagandism would follow the example of the New York Free-Trade and Protectionist journals of discussing the subject pro and con. in the same paper. This would be the way if they merely wished to redress a grievance ; but we fear that the object is, as expressed in this letter, to inflict an injury. It is said that Mr. Bonner has offered Mrs. Yelverton a good thing as an inducement to furnish contributions to the Ledger. Kelley's Weekly, a new illustrated paper, devoted especially to light literature, has made its appearance. The Atlantic Monthly has paid its present pro prietor 8200,000. Five hundred thousand copies of " Macaulay's History" have been sold in America alone since its first publication by the Harper Brothers. Senator Wade met with an accident while return ing to Jefferson, Ohio, in a buggy from Ashtabula. The horse took fright, upset the buggy, and the Senator was thrown on some stones, receiving several painful cuts on the head. Mr. Wade has expressed his determination, notwithstanding the accident, to be present at the opening of Congress. He arrived at Washington little the worse, and ready to take his place as President of the Senate. The Hon. David Davis, administrator on the estate of Mr. Lincoln, has just made a final settlement, from which it appears that, after all debts are paid, there remains to Mr. Lincoln's heirs 8110,294 62. Of this sum Mrs. Lincoln's portion is 836,765 30, which invested at six per cent., gives her an annual income of about twenty-twc hundred dollars. David Dudley Field returned to New York on the 20th Nov. from his tour in England, to attend the Social Science Congress. John Folgate, of Jefferson, Ohio, is the oldest man living. He was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in 1759, drafted in the war of 1812, and discharged because he was too old to serve. Judge Bullock, of Kentucky, has ruled that coin is the only legal tender of that State. It is a mournful fact that both the late Charles G. Loring and Governer Andrews were to deliver an ora tion on the unveiling of the Everett statue, executed by Story, which was erected on the 18th November, in the public garden at Boston. The statue is nine feet high, and represents Mr. Everett dressed in the clothing in which ho always appeared—a frock coat and trousers, his right hand raised, the shoulders thrown back, and the head erect, as if in the act of speaking. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial says that General Grant denies wholly the truth of old Bun Wadu's twaddle abort his talking horse to him. He never talked with Old Ben but once, and that was at one of Speaker's Colfax's receptions, when Wade called West Point a "nest of damned traitors." " This," said the General, "vexed me a little. I told him it wasn't so ; that while it was true that a good many West Pointers had joined the rebel cause, it was also true that the proportion was much smaller than had been turned out of the cradle in which he (Wade) had been rocked, meaning the capitol. I showed him that every Southern man in Congress, with one or two exceptions, joined the rebellion, while less than half the Southern West Pointers did so. I didn't talk a word of horse to him from beginning to end." Assistant Attorney-General Binckly having given an opinion that the President has power to order a now trial, it is thought General Fitz-John Porter will be again tried, when much fresh evidence will be brought forward. Some Confederate officers will testify that, had Porter made the movement he was condemned for not making, his command would have boon annihilated. Colonel Messmore demands an investigation into the charges which resulted in his removal as Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Mrs. Stone, sister-in-law of Governor Stone, of lowa took poison by mistake for cough medicine, and died in an hour Mr. Jefferson Davis has left Canada, and arrived on the 22d November at Richmond, without a demonstra- tion. His counsel deny the report that he had protested against the trial taking place before Judge Underwood. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens occupied his seat in the House of Representatives on the 21st November. lie is reported to have said that "a partial defeat in the Northern States was inevitable after the adoption of negro suffrage in the platform, but the present reverses aro but a mere tremor of the nerves, and with a little wisdom and much courage the Radicals can hold all they have won." We have had just this combination all along. What we need now, with the "much courage," is more wisdom. A "little" is not enough. Professor Julius Degmeier, of Erie, was arrested November 17, at Nashville, by the United States Deputy- Marshal of Pennsylvania, for having emlß.zzled 560,000 in 1865, when deputy collector at Erie. The charge is admitted, and the statement alleged that ever since, ho has been unsuccessfully endeavouring to refu nd. The Rev. Newman Hall addressed 3,000 blacks at the African Church, Richmond, November 19. Governor Pierpont and Governor Browne were on the platform. The Joseph H. Delano, of Marion, Massachu s,etts, whose marriago to tho daughter of a Russian admiral at St. Petersburg, was recently announced, went thither as an ensign in Farragut's fleet. Theodore C. Woodman, of Bucksport, will probably bo elected Speaker of the House of Representa tives of the State of Maine without opposition, and Josiah Crosby, of Penobscot County, and Frederick Robie, of Cumberland, will contest tho Presidency of the Senate. Most of the Maine State officers will be re-elected. except Ephraim Elint, who, for four years Secretary of State, will be transferred to the Executive Council. Franklin M. Drew, of Brunswick, John J. Perry, of Oxford, and General Sheldon Connor, of Fairfield, are condidates for the prospective vacancy. _ _ Mrs. Cady Stanton addressed a large audience at St. Louis on Woman Suffrage, on her way to the Eastern States from Kansas. Edward Cooper, of Tennessee, is Assistant Trea surer of the Treasury, vice Chandler resigned. On the 14th November, at St. Paul's, Minnesota, a daughter of General Sibley was dangerously injured, and a servant girl killed by the explosion of a kerosene lamp at a party given by General Sibley. General Stoneman is President of a Court of Inquiry granted to Colonel Rosa at Richmond to investi gate the charges against him as conductor of elections by citizens. The three leading candidates for the mayoralty nomination at Boston are Mayor Otis Norcross from the Republicans, Dr. N. B. Shurtleff from tho Democrats, and Alderman George W. Messenger, whose chances are good with either party. . General Barry, United States Artillery, is to com mand Fortress Monroe and to superintend the artillery practice at that post. Brigadier-General J. Roberts and Brigadier-General William llayes, with four batteries of artillery, have also been ordered to the fort. it is stated that Commissioner Rollins will be re moved if he does not resign, and General Wisewell, a New Yorker, formet]y Military Governor of 'Washington, is to be his successor. Generals Howard and Gregory, of the Freedmen's Bureau, are to be mustered out as Majors-General of Volun teers, retaining their rank of Colonel in the regular army. General Stone has been set free from Lis long imprisonment, and though discharged without a trial there is a report that ho will be granted a Court of In quiry. General Cary was serenaded at Washington by the working men on the 19th tilt., as a supporter of the Eight Hours' Bill. General Steedman is now proclaimed as the Demo' cratic favourite for the President, and young Mr. John Quincey Adams as Vice. Major-General Sickles and Brigadier-Genera l Scott are to be mustered out with the year 1867. Dr. E. 11. Ludlow, one of our well-known and successful physicians of New York city, and who has prat' tised in that city for about half a century, is spending the winter at Stuttgart. " Ex-President IL P. Tappan, formerly the poP I4 lar Chancellor of the State University of Michigan, and one of the finest scholars of the day, is staying at Can nstadt Bad, near Stuttgart for the winter. The university seas never so flourishing as when Dr. Tappan was at the head of that institution. Guizot once reproached Dr. Tappan for living so much in retirement, arguing that he ought to be at the head of one of our great American Universities. Dr. Tappan is quietly pursuing German studies, and is also en gaged, we hear, in writing some works. Young Rutledge, whom we warned our readers against in a late number of our paper, has lately turned 11 P at Stuttgardt, under the name of Perry, claiming to be 3 son of Governor Perry, of South Carolina. He swindle d some gentlemen there on his worthless New York Bad cheques. Mosby, the guerilla chief, visited the Gold Board at New York, on the 19th November, where he was received with marked coldness. Baron Magnas, the Prussian Minister to Mexico , and the Prince and Princess Salm Salm left Elavanva l ' on the 20th November in the steamer Panama for Nazaire. The members of the court-martial upon Genera l Santa Anna have been sentenced to four years' imprison' mont for improper leniency. Senor Garcia, the new Prussian Minister, Pre sented his credentials to the President on the 20th of November. Gen. Hancock has been hurried to New Orleans to assume command of his department, as Gon. Mower hag been exercising his powers too freely in removing Sta te officials from Louisiana. He has received directions from the President, and in compliance has rescinded his remova l orders. N. P. Jacoby, United States Consul-General at Calcutta, has gone to Detroit, United States, on a visit t° his home. A Mr. Lewis, an American artist, has been AP pointed United States Consular agent at Dusseldorf._ Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, h a s been making a tour through Germany with his daughter. While at Frankfort-on-the-Maine he visited the grea t wine-collars at these points. _ Mr. J. P. Hall, the Minister at Madrid, has been making quite a stay in Paris. During his absence th e worthy and popular Secretary of Legation, Mr. IT. Perry, is acting as Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Perry di e charges his duty to the satisfaction of the Government; and is highly esteemed as an officer. Mr. Perry Tann ic ' a Spanish wife, and speaks the language familiarly. R. N. Rice, the popular superintendent of the Michigan Central Railroad for some 20 years, has returned from a visit to Paris through Germany. He 154 1 accompanied by Colonel Julius Menus, formerly gen e° agent of several of the western railways over since their construction, and who resigned his position from 1 ) 614 nearly worn out by his arduous labours. The Hon. George Bancroft, America n Ministe r at Berlin, has his receptions on Sunday evening. Henry Sherman, a clerk in the Third Auditor Office, wrote an article which appeared in the Sationa! Intelliyencer, giving an opinion against the legality both e.t the extra session of Congress last summer a n d the prese nt one. It caused some excitement, as it was at first attri buted to Attorney-General Stanbery. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. Southampton, Nov. 28.—Arrived the Lady Wodehou se, steamer, from London and l e ft for New York. Sailed tho Atlantic screw steamer for New York. Custom House, Nov. 29.—Entered inwards, the Ont'' ri° from New York. Liverpool, Nov. 30.—Sailed, the Russia, screw steall iert for New York. Kingroad. Nov. 29.—Arrived the Guisoppe BaccaricA from New York. Queenstown, Nov. 28.—Arrived the Ottawa, from N e/r York. Gravesend, Dec. 2.—Arrived, the Jessamine, from N e/Ir York. Liverpool, Nov. 30.—Arrived, the Bertha, from I s r esci York. Kingroad, Dec. I.—Arrived, the Star of Devon, from Now York, for Gloucester. Holyhead, Dec. I.—Arrived, the Lydia Williams, f r°lll Liverpool for San Francisco. Milford, Nov. 30.—Arrived, the Fanny Cly, from IC e/f York. Clyde, Nov. 30.—The Glcncune, from Now York. Antwerp, Dec. I.—The English barque Maximilian from Philadelphia, ashore at Zontebtud. Clyde, Dec. I.—Arrived, the C a sild a , f rom N OV Y°rk"... ,f N w York, Nov. 21. —The Asi a , Shi e ld s t o San k 1.3,, cisco with coal, went ashore ou B urneve l t I s l an d, east Cape Horn, August 21; crew arrived at Valparaiso, Oct' 16 • vessel total loss. karnsgate, Dec. 2.—A large American vessel was 0 , 3 North Sand Head this m orn i ng, an d was seen t o c ut away fore and mainmasts. A London tug towed her off. Bog' ton. Dec. I.—Put ba c k, the Java steamer for 1 3 °,''.; ton. Dec. ` 2.—Seven men came ashore on a raft from the Guardian Angel, which was wrecked on Ponsarn. Hamburg, Dec. 2.—The Peter Joynson, Bremerhaven' to New Orleans, aground at the Nord, opposite CusaVe ll. She refused assistance, and remains. to Dec. 2.—According to telegrams from Havannah uP yesterday, published in tne newspapers hero, a severe sil S t. of earthquake, with volcanic eruptions, occurred at tis Thomas and the adjacent islands Nov. 19, ca using seri° loss of life and much damage to shipping. tiallf Dec. 3.—The Consul ship, bel ow S avanna h, par burnt. London Custom House, Dec. 3. Vessel entered wards, the Jessamine from New York. Itamsgate, Dec. 3.—Arrived, the Missouri, from I sl°V York. 0 0 Deal, Dec. 3.—Sailed, th e No w B runsw i c k, for 7 • 1 -- 00 York. Dec. 4.—Arrived, the A m e r i can C on gress, fl New York. Liverpool, Dec. 4.—Arrived, the Helvetia, Chicago, steamer, the Sidon, and the City of Baltimoorxt. from New York. Sailed, the City of Boston, for New r qr. Southampton, Dec. 3.—Sailed the Union for Now ; °l OO , Liverpool, Dec. 3.—Sailed the Tinto for San Fraucis.J, the Chillianwallah for New York, the Anticello for O i " veston, and the Milicite -T he o Orleans. ore Amsterdam, Dec. 3. Humboldt, from Banjul 0 . for this port, is stranded on Vlieland ; crew and 1 3336 e steamer, thee gers saved. Deal, Dec. 4.—Anchored—The George Gilroy, fr : 0 111 0 Dundee for San Franci sco; th e L or d B yron, from d 10 , ) for Philadelphia, has been suppli e d w i t h anc h o r and fathoms chain in lieu of others lost. Deal, Dec. 4.—Arrived, the Bessie Simpson, from - delphia. Portsmouth, Dec. 4.—The Horatio Harris, Alne ri t be ship, was in contact, off Yarmouth, on Dec. 2,wit h bag Al on, London to Goule, the master of which (get ch) ao ri c been landed here by a Cowes pilot f rom the Ani e for vessel, which has lost two anchors, and was procoeding this port. n iert Plymouth, Dec. 4.—Arrived, The Bellona screw stea from Now York; the Royalist, from London to r ill delphia. Tortola, Nov. 19.—Fourteen bales of cotton ha" d ol saved from the Rhone, steame r , wrecked on Salt I sla" Oct. 29. , n tO Vessel Spoken With.—Th e C e ll a , s t eams hip, Loil" °- New York, Nov. 27, lat. 47 N. ; long. 89 W. [AnvERTISEMENT.]— Consumption, and all nervous , a l pte stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only ag‘'l fe ctlf and accelerated by dru gs o f every description, but pe F oal curable by Du Barry' s h ea lth- res t or i ng R eva l enta , Arabica. o reet as proved by tho usan d s o f cases w hi c h h a d b e en coos' or hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthrosl:oge sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric ' 3° 0 0 4 ments, haemorrhoids, liver com pl a i n t s , flatulency, n erv l43o, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, cc: opw flueuza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, 6 0 9 9s tivg if rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleer'Aropeil acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility , Or a cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregoorj' sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of t" oLl' pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoultilierar'dj We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored byT23,s4bolth 11 Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866. n iug 0 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abando nary other remedies ' he has confined himself entirely to Du ~datef'S Revalenta Arabica, Food, of which he consumes aa - n efictr o at every meal. It has proluced a surprisingly tl l ,, effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot p ro OA _ excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette d July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, tiroLT 100 .na chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disear - Ness' f spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial oca..,ant Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, L o rd Lieut e ',, Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,831 2 . .. v00 0n years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, n o se asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, s ic f glee° vomiting.—MariaJoly. ' Important Caution.—Be ware ° unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to Whie lt e?• authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously ab s., In tins at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d ; , b /O. 11. 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY an d ategent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 1 82 L; a nd . 2° and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 'nos, Oxford-street: 330 Strand; and all grocers and chein Births. ~„ th e MOSELEY— On the 7th inst., a t Edenhurst, F ol"--1 wife of A. Moseley, Esq., of a daughter. su 9 'g' RUSSELL—On the 9th hist , the wife of Cecil gar.,v sell, Esq., of a daughter. ' svii 4i SCOTT-4i3Ams—Ou the 9th inst , at Brook liaise, — 3 ,bter• the wife of Captain W. It. Scutt-Adams, of a doll' Marriages. BA KER. —WHEELWRIGHT—On the 3d inst., At 1 3 ?' e _toll i ' ward Whitley Baker, Esq.. R.N. to Maria E1.t0., scl, eldest daughter of the late William Whoelwrigh4 of Leeds. of R JoDAN —SHAW—On the 7th inst., oulyi..o 6 ; r i e tt, William Jordan, Esq., of Chari n g-cross, t o of XO9 eldest daughter of John Jones Shaw, Esq., minster. Deaths. llng e4 GOUGH—On the 9th inst , Frederick Will iani, Y 1 ° 4' oa son of A. D. Gough, Esq., of Tollington - p ark, , Lancaster-place, Strand, aged 19. 0 00 11 ' KNIGHT—On the 9th inst. at 5, Willow-terrace' bury, John J. Knight, Esq., aged 73. ti lel ol PEYTON - On the Bth inst , at Penzance, Lie ut.-,,e Peyton, Bombay Army, • aged 48. h pe-P la ' ee' WILLIAM . SON- On the Bth inst , at No. 8 , Sta n e - Ilyde-park, James Williamson, Esq., aged 4'." - ---->--140°: London : Printed and Published by WILLLOI A' No 111 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TH E SUN 04e°',,,, v 0tl 42. 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