The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-30 00:00:00

THE RUBLIO JOURNALS, T114148t thought 0 pi* itersons on reading the ae ooulo of Saturday's explosion will be and has been " Is this the work of the Fenians ?" The Times hopes and believes that the question may be answered in the nega tive. ,After the experience of what a single barrel of gun powder 'can do, :no one will suppose it impossible that many hundreds of barrels should destroy three nearly con tiguous buildings in each of which explosive material was stored. If the concussion was felt in a city ten miles off, it is not difficult to undetstand that a building at three hundred yards, also containing the ingredients of gun powder, should be sacrificed. It may be true that the manufacturers had not a larger quantity of manufactured powder in stock at the time than is thought to be safe, but it is admitted that the stock was large. The short interval between the explosions—half a minute —shows that the disaster was communicated from one building to the other by natural means. If we assume that the powder was accidentally fired in the corning-house, we can have no hesitation in believing that the other two, filled also with destructive compounds, would have perished. The distance of 300 yards would not have saved them. One spark was sufficient to have caused all this disaster. If it be possible, it must be ascer tained whence this spark originated. The Messrs. Hall acknowledge that they "have no reasonable suspicion of anything felonious connected with the catastrophe." They have had warnings of mischief, like many others, as they truly say, but they hope that the " coincidence of the explosion with these anxieties and fears will prove to be a coincidence, and nothing more." This manner of treat ing the calamity will commend itself to the better sense of the community. Fenianism may be driven to desperate expedients, but we must remember that no attack has yet been made, or outrage committed, except with the view of releasing imprisoned Fenians. The crime has always hitherto been perpetrated for a direct and specific purpose, and that purpose the liberation of alleged Fenians in or on their way to gaol. The slightest act of carelessness—and the most prudent workmen sometimes fall into the commission of such acts —might easily have caused the explosion at Faversham. There may have been warnings and threats scattered on every side, but when once the note of disorder has been sounded there are always numbers of the idle and the mis chievous to spread the alarm. Fenianism must be con demned for what is proved against it, and the vigilance of authority in every quarter, public and private, must not be relaxed ; but there is not the least necessity to encourage a sense of insecurity by ascribing to Fenianism accidents which might have happened at any time, and which are susceptible of ordinary methods of explanation. Referring to the threats of assassination so freely made by the Fenians, the Post bids us remember that Providence watches over kings and governors so that something t, always goes wrong with those who want to.kill them. It is a national humiliation to us to give a handfurof disor ganised ruffians like the Fenians all the advantages of a successful campaign by paying serious attention to their antics. The cord, the whip, and the gaol are the only proper arguments for murderers and incendiaries and peacebreakers of this kind. Let the first batch of Fenians caught be soundly flogged punctually every frosty morn ing of their imprisonment, and Ministers may put an end to all danger at once. No pot-boy ever fired at the Queen as a means of attaining celebrity and a State trial, after it was once generally known among the fraternity that traitors would be scourged. The birch calmed their trucu lent ardour directly ; for your true ruffian is always a craven. The best thing possible for the Government to do is to try the old experiment again with the utmost promptitude, and order the only punishment which black guards seem to dread to be applied with all salutary vigour to the Fe_.ian backs'and shoulders. Constables, not soldiers, are the lads to deal with Fenians, and break up all their secret society nonsense. There is nothing to create a panic in such trumpery. In Ireland, as the Herald tells us, we have the constitu tion suspended and a virtual state of siege now existing. If this state of things would be too intolerable in this country we must strike at any branches of the conspiracy which our Irish resources bring within our grasp, and that with no faltering hand. The palliation hitherto alleged for the conspiracy, that its outbursts had been unaccom panied by any personal outrages, since the Clerkenwell explosion no longer exists. The utmost powers of the law must for the future be employed against the conspirators. With these properly exerted we do not fear anything tha may now happen in Ireland. There the conspiracy v continue, as long as it exists, to produce the most effects on the trade, prosperity, and resources of tha' happy land ; but that it has acquired any pecur y formidable powers and is likely to exert any unus' al y baleful energy, we see no signs. Our real danger at pre. sent is that the conspiracy may for a while produce here that suspension of public liberty, that interference witl. the confidence of the community, which already exist in the sister country. We see nothing in the events at Cork but a crafty attempt to keep up the interest of the mass of Irish sympathisers whom the events of the last few weeks in England have probably rather astonished and excited than actually pleased. But if we can come at the authors of these manceuvres we must deal with then sternly. The Telegraph considers that the continuance of sedi tious writings in Ireland undoubtedly imposes on the English Government the duty of considering whether it would not be right to place some more effectual check on those who perpetually provoke the very feelings that lead to actual insurrection. As we detain by way of precau tion individuals whose guilt is morally though not legally clear, the analogy would justify us in calling to imme diate account those Irish newspapers that offer weekly encouragement to treason. The safety of the people is the supreme law, and that law may dictate acts unnecessary in England, where political agitation is carried on peace fully and within legal bounds. It is natural enough for Irish writers to attack the Union, or to suggest any new measure for the redress of Irish grievances ; but expres sions of admiration for Allen, Larkin, and Gould are clear provocatives to crime. The three men were not only convicted, but confessed enemies to the Queen ; they wer• caught red-handed, after killing one of the Queen's officers and leading articles in their honour plainly incite others "to go and do likewise." It seems rather foolish that we should allow such writings to circulate by thousands through the English or Irish post, and yet afterwards imprison or hang the poor dupes who act on the teachit they contain. The Daily News tells us that the year now to rapidly closing has been in no respect favourable to commerce. As in 1848 the revolutionary movements on the Continen+ followed close on the panic of 1847, so in 1867 Fenianism and the Abyssinian war have followed close on the col lapse of 1866. Apart from these questions, however, the experience of the present year will be long and widely felt. It is true that we have had no gigantic failures like that of Overend, Gurney, and Co., and of other great companies, which in an instant reduce hundreds of families from afflu ence :to poverty. Still, on the other band, the classes affected by "these calamities form but a comparatively small portion of the community. Besides, the shock, if terrible, is at least decisive. The worst is known at once, and there is none of that wearing anxiety—the " suspense worse than death "—which is far harder to be borne. In that respect the year 1867 will bear a sad pre eminence. The holders of hundreds of millions in railway investments have seen their property gradually wasting in value, obligations set aside which stood so high in public opinion that the most cautious trustees eagerly competed to purchase them, unknown liabilities disclosed to the extent of half a million or a million at a time ; and, of course, the usual results of profitless and uncontrolled expenditure. It is hardly too much to say that for months past railway shareholders, even in the best lines, have been dreading some new revelation—some fresh scandal against which they have never even attempted to take the trouble to guard. Their carelessness comes home to them now. In noticing the importance of extending sugar cultiva won, the Standard remarks that up to the commencement of the American war Louisiana produced on in average 180,000 tons annually, while the United States imported for home consumption no less than 200,000 tons annually. It may well be doubted how far Louisiana will in the future maintain her average supply, or be supplanted by a country cultivated by the skill of her own former owners. In any event our merchants and shipowners may fairly anticipate great advantages from the growth of this staple commodity and of such important articles as tobacco and coffee in English possessions. If the events shall demonstrate that the Southern planters have neither miscalculated the resources of British Honduras nor the effect of their energy, British capitalists will speedily show their sagacity in recognising this new channel of profitable employment. Our own opinion of the courage, perse• verance, and skill of the people of Southern States has been of ten expressed., and no doubt n ee d b e entertained that so far as the iiiiiiiigrants are concerned nothing will be want ing on their part to ensure the success of this interesting experiment. The Imperial Government also is ready Li, second their efforts so far a.; is consistent w ith the princi on wliich our colonial empire is based, In this favourable combination of elements it will be strange if within a reasonable period of time the settlers of British Honduras do not take rank among the first producers of some of our staple articles of consumption. In commenting on the present state of our relations with the Washington Government, the Star tells us that we might have wrapped ourselves up in a mantle of obsti nate pride, and refused to submit any part of our conduct to the judgment of any one. This would neither be wise nor no'ble, but it would have a cl ea r an d intelligible prin ciple to rest on. When, however, we offer to submit cer tain things done by us to the review of arbitration, one can hardly understand why there should be so much rigidity as to the exact limits of the space which the arbi trator's survey is to compass. As it is hardly possible to imagine two sane nations going to war on a point of eti quette worthy only to be decided by the rapiers of two Spanish hidalgos of the old Castilian school, it is, after all s on ly a question whether the dispute is to be settic„ promptly and cheerfully, with mutual concession, of whether one or other of the two disputant s w ill have '1 r• dily and grumblingly to give way. I t would be to E 1 land's honour not to allow a false dignity to stand in the way of international good feeling and the great principle of peaceful arbitratioi EglY lAN 001440EtS:. LETTER FROM HER MAJESTY. some anxiety having been felt by the inhabitants of the town of Cowes for the personal safety of the Queen, who is now staying at her marine residence of Osborne, the local authority last week, through its chairman, Mr. Moore, wrote to Colonel Grey expressing regret that the necessity had arisen to take more than ordinary measures to ensure the safety of her Majesty, and stating that nothing would be more gratifying to the inhabitants of West Cowes than to join in any act or deinonstration which would be the means of evincing their determination to secure her Majesty's personal safety. If, the writer added, Colonel Grey could point out any mode, whether by acting as special constables or otherwise, in which the people of Cowes could be made available, he was sure they would most unanimously join and heartily accede to the suggestion. To this letter Colonel Grey immediately made the following reply:— " Osborne. " Sir,—l have had the honour of receiving and of sub. witting to the Queen the letter written by you as chair man of the local board of health, in the name of the inhabitants of West Cowes, expressing their regret that any necessity should have arisen for the adoption of extra precautions to ensure her Majesty's safety while resident at Osborne, and proffering their services, either as special constables or in any other way that may best prove their loyal devotion to her Majesty's person and family. " Her Majesty commands me to say that she is deeply touched by these loyal assurances on the part of her sub jects at Cowes, and very grateful for them. She has her self never entertained the slightest apprehensions as to her personal safety, though she has thought it right to yield to the representations of her Government by giving her sanction to the precautionary measures which they thought it prudent to adopt. It will be for the Government to consider whether any thing more is necessary than has been already done, and I haVe therefore, by her Majesty's command, forwarded your letter to the Home Secretary, who will judge how far it may be desirable to take advantage of this offer of their services by the loyal inhabitants of Cowes.—l have the honour to he, sir, your very obedient and humble servant, " To J. Moore, Esq." "C. GREY. The Queen practically proves her concurrence in the _.,atiment contained in the above letter, for she takes her drives through the island quite as frequently as usual, and only on Thursday last she visited West Cowes for the second time during her stay at Osborne. Two hundred picked men of the Scots Fusiliers were last week quartered in East Cowes Barracks, and in a temporary barracks erected for them in East Cowes Park. Her Majesty's ship Irresistible is the guardship in Cowes Roads, and on board this vessel a seaman is in irons for evincing Fenian pro pensities. The foolish fellow, it appears, refused to obey orders, and on being asked his reasons for doing so, he avowed himself a Fenian and a Catholic. The authorities seem to have had reason to believe that an attack would be made upon Woolwich Arsenal in the course of Friday night. Telegraphic messages were sent there from various departments of the Government, informing those in charge of the arsenal of the meditated attack. Troops were at once marched into the arsenal and dockyard, and every preparation made to receive whoever might come in hostile fashion. The water police were armed. It is stated that two vessels, suspected to be Fenian ships, came up opposite the arsenal, and, on being hailed, could give no very clear account of themselves. They remained off the arsenal for some time, and then dropped down the river again, closely watched by the river police. It is very strange, however, if the statement be true, that the authorities did not make a close exami nation of these vessels. The guard on the arsenal is strictly kept up, and it is stated that the powder in the magazines along the bank of the river is to be removed in order to avoid the necessity of guarding the magazines. On Saturday evening there was an alarm raised Wey mouth of an attack on the convict prison at Portland. An alarm gun was fired from the prison, and a messenger came in hot haste to Weymouth for the military, who were instantly sent off. It turned out that the alarm was a false one. Various suspicious circumstances have oc curred in connection with the prison lately, and a parti cular watch was kept over it. On Saturday the prisoners were marched from their work to their cells earlier than usual. A little later the authorities of the prison heard firing at sea, and as they had been warned of the possi bility of an attack from the sea, they took the precautions we have mentioned. At last accounts everything was quiet in the prison. It had been stated that MlTr. Finlen intended to convene a Sunday meeting on Clerkenwell-green. lie does not seem to have taken any such step, but the police were placed in force about the green to prevent the holding of a meeting should the attempt be made. Several persons gathered on the green and avowed their determination to lynch any one who should get up a meeting. No attempt was made. LAW AND POLICE. IMPORTANT TO CABnIN.—It has been decided by Mr. Mansfield, at the Marylebone Police•court, that the Metropolitan Streets Act does not enact that the cabman's fare shall be a shilling for the first mile, and sixpence for every additional mile ; it really provides that the fare for two miles, or any distance less than two miles, shall be a shilling, and for every additional mile beyond that six pence. FORGING DIVIDEND WARRANTS.—John Lancaster, clerk, was finally examined at the Westminster Police court on a charge of fraud and forgery. The prisoner was clerk to one Edmonds, a contractor, who, in 1864, gave Mr. Joseph Emerton, the contractor, of Chelsea, a bill at a month for £l4 odd. Edmonds was bankrupt, and scheduled Emerton for the bill. A dividend of 7s. Bd. in the pound was declared in 1865, and prisoner was sent to get it. He defrauded Mr. Emerton of nearly £5 of the money received, alleging that he had received ls. Bd. in the pound, instead of 7s. Bd. When another dividend of ls. sd. was declared this year, he went to the Bankruptcy Court, forgedEmerton's name, and, receiving the dividend, appropriated it to his own use. Prisoner's defence was that he did not know how much he received on the first occasion, it was so long ago ; and with regard to the second dividend, he declared that Emerton gave him the bill, and made him a present of it. He was committed for trial. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A FATHER.—A shock ing termination to a family quarrel took place at Islington on Saturday. A respectable shoemaker, named Ballisat, was sitting down to dinner with his son and daughter and son-in-law. The two younger men quarrelled, and had what in the evidence is called a " tussle." They were parted, and Ballisat junior (a man of about 38 years of age) left the room. The remainder of the party then resumed their seats, but had hardly done so when the accused returned, seized his father by the head, pulled it over the chair back, and drew a knife across the throat of the old man, who fortunately was able to put up his hand and thus saved his life, as the wound on the throat was slight. while three of his fingers were nearly cut from tho hand. The prisoner made use of some expressions which appeared as though what he did was the result of premeditation ; but on being taken into custody he made no defence. He was remanded. THE SHROPSHIRE lrfunDEß.—John Mapp, the man arrested on a charge of having murdered the girl Lewl. at Longden, near Shrewsbury, was taken before the magistrates at the county gaol, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, and was committed for trial. THE MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—On Saturday, the two prisoners, James Inwood and William Emerton, who were apprehended on Christmas Eve on a charge of having murdered John White, a gamekeeper, in Wavendon Wood, were taken before the county magistrates at New port Pagnell. Emerton was discharged, and, being placed in the witness-box, gave evidence against Inwood, who was again remanded. THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICE CONSTABLE NEAR FILL.—Two men named Hicks and Bryant have been arrested and taken before Colonel Burrowes charged with an attempt to murder Police-constable Ogbourne, near Pill. It will be remembered that the officer was on duty early in the morning, and when on the common he heard sounds proceeding from a farm. He proceeded to the spot and met two men coming from the rear of the premises, carrying bags full of poultry which they had stolen. Hy chall,nged them, and one threw down his bag and ran, but the other stood and pulled from his belt a pair of largy pistols, which he pointed at the officer. Ogbourne rushed; in upon the burglar, hoping to close with and secure him, but before he could do so the villain firel at him, and tht charge lodged in his abdomen. The would-be murderci ran off a few yards, returned and levelled the other pisto at him, and then made off in the direction of the ri'jer. The wounded man with difficulty crawled to the farm and .roused the inmates. For many days his life was despaired of, but he has of late somewhat improved. It appears that some of the feathers thrown away by the robbers and picked up near the place, have been found to fit precisely some found in Hicks's house. The prisoners were re manded. CLEANING BOOTS BY MACHINERY.—An Augusta (Maine) gentleman has recently invented a machine for dressing and blacking boots, which is operated by foot power. It is stated that this machine can do the work of ten men, ithag will Savo much labour in, hoot and shoe factories. • - - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, Mt. THE CONTRACT CORPORAHON. -0- - To the mass of the middle classes in England last Wednesday, we fear, proved but a dreary Christ mas. Many have been wholly ruined, still more half ruined, and but few, if any, have escaped through the last two years without loss. With Christmas gaieties come Christmas bills, and hun dreds have to solve the problem how to pay inevit able expenses out of the receipts from property which, instead of giving, may have taken away the little left. If we put our finger at random down the Miscel laneous List, which each day tells its tale of ruin in the papers, we could scarcely fail in hitting on a company whose history is a warning. Taking the last announcement of an official liquidator as an instance, and the end of the Contract Corporation is seen, in whose career we learn how such desolation has been spread over the country. In January, 1864, this company succeeded in establishing itself ' by the issue of 2%000 shares of the nominal value of £lOO each, on which £3 were in the first instance paid. The Board was said to be composed of well known men of business and gentlemen of position. Its chairman was JOSEPH ROBINSON, Esq. ; its de puty chairman, OCTAVIUS OMMANNEY, Esq ; and the members were WILLIAM LATHA3I BAILEY, W. MONTAGU . BAILLIE, ANTHONY KINGTON BAKER, JOSEPH BOYCE, TAUROS DILBEROGLUE, W. SMITH DIXON, and THOMAS Goocu, Esqs.; besides the two members of Parliament G. S. BEECROFT and Capt. H. S. W. JERVIS, and the Alderman THOS. DAMN', At the first meeting, held in the London Tavern July 26, 1864, a dividend was declared of 15 per cent. per annum, and Mr. ROBINSON submitted a most satisfactory statement, which Alderman DAKIN corroborated, assuring the assemblage that such was the flourishing state of the business that the directors entertained a confident hope not only of keeping up the dividend, but even of increasing it on future occasions. Towards the close of the year the directors retired with the exception of Captain JERVIS and Messrs. BEE CROFT and ROBINSON, and the Alderman who had given such an encouraging account of the future pro spects of the concern kindly left these gratifying re sults to be realised by those who confided in his statements. Mr. DAMN, Mr. BAILLIE, and Mr. OMMANNEY retired on the plea of being directors of the rival contractors, SMITH, KNIGHT, and Co., from which we hope they were able to effect as timely a retreat. Early in the following February it was announced that the Corporation had made arrange ments with the firm of WATSON and OVEREND to purchase their business, the partners of this business filling up the vacancies in the Board. At that time men believed in the announce ments made by directors, and fully expect ing that what Alderman DAKIN predicted would be realised, the shares of the company rose to 5 premium. But the reflecting portion on 'con sidering that but £5 had as yet been paid, and £95 remained to call, concluded that it was a farce to call the company one of limited liability, as they might be involved in nineteen times the loss of the capital paid up. On press ing their shares for sale the premium was quickly lost, and the price receded to 6 to 7 dis count on the announcement of a further call of £5 per share. The holders during 1865 showed their uneasiness by writing letters to the newspapers, but on June 17 of that year they were somewhat re-assured by an article in the Money Market Review, explaining the reasons of the extreme depreciation in numerous in stances of joint-stock undertakings "in which the merits are considerable." " The property called up from the shareholders is now absolutely intact, inas much as there are, we are assured, £20,000 in pos session in hard cash, and £lOO,OOO in good securi ties. While therefore the market value of the shares indicates a positive loss of £120,000 to £140,000, there is, in fact, according to the information fur nished to us, not only no loss at all, but a good business and a handsome interest for the money employed." It is probable from these words that the Review received its information direJt from the company, and wrote on them without suspecting that facts had been grossly perverted. The fall in the market price of the shares is mainly attributed to a " syndicate," who had speculated largely in then. " But," goes on the Money Market Review, "as we have shown, the position of the company appears to be sound, and there is every reason therefore why permanent investors should not be frightened by the special causes we have named affecting the market value for the moment. Qn the contrary, there is every reason to induce a bona fide investor to retain his interest, and even to add to it at the de preciated price of the shares." Towards the close of the year the embarrassment of many contracting houses became apparent, and inauguarated the grand smash which will render memorable in the history of disaster the years 1866 and 1867. One of the first of these to go was OVEREND and WATSON, and the style of business the Contract Corporation had been doing gradually became known. Indeed, it would have been impossible to have divulged it at once without petrifying its shareholders. Nor could the directors have done so, for they in reality knew little of their own folly and of the rottenness and dishonesty around them. The helpless pro prietors, soothed by the assurances of the directors and by the Money Market Review, were caught un prepared in the whirlwind ; and although the reve lations of the Joint-Stock Discount, with which they had been connected, led them to look for bad news, they could have had no conception of the extent to which the company was involved till the statement made by the official liquidator when an nouncing the necessity for the full uncalled balance of £55 being paid up. Of course when a company fails for the whole amount of its nominal capital, at a time when nee-seventh only of that capital is paid, there will be many defaulters, and the sum realised will be but a small proportion of that due. On each of the 20,000 shares when the sus pension occurred, there remained a liability of £35, of which £3O were first demanded, but on Friday, the 20th instant, Mr. C. F. KEMP, the official liquidator, applied to the chief clerk of the Master of the Rolls to have the remaining uncalled liability of the contributories, amounting to £55 per share, paid up. His affi davit was read showing the state of the company's liabilities and.assets to be such as even if this call were fully met the creditors, it was thought, would receive only two shillings and sixpence in the pound ! Mr. KEMP advised forbearance in the in terest both of creditors and shareholders in enforc ing the call, for if peremptorily levied it would produce a much smaller sum than if tims were given to the contributiors to realise their assets to the best advantage. It may be asked—how was it possible for this company Co be so mismanaged that on the whole of its nominal capital, so large as to have led to the erroneous impression that its liability was in effect unlimited, being paid among its creditors, still that but one-eighth of its debts would be discharged? Remembering that that capital was two millions sterling, we confess that we have little idea how this stu pendous result was reached. If "mediums" could be made to give information, there is no place where they would be more required than at the meetings of Joint-Stock Companies' share holders. Could a spirit have been " rapped up" to be questioned by an inquisitive proprietor in stead of such prophets as Alderman DAKIN, the science might be turned to a practical account. Suppose, for instance, after the Directors had said all their agreeable things, to these victims gathered at the London Tavern on the 26th July, 1864, a shareholder had extracted the information from a spirit that in two years there would be an end of the company—as far as the hopes of the proprietors were concerned and that after another year there would be an end to the hopes of the creditors the hair of all would have stiffened with horror. Doubtless Mr. ROBIN SON would have explained, that the spirit was malig nant and said impossible things—that the nominal capital of the company being £2,000,000, it was a manifest absurdity to imagine such a sum could be lost. The spirit would have replied that not only would the company fail for that amount, but for four times the sum ; and so incredible would have appeared the story,jhat even the word of an angel could scarcely have carried conviction. Yet it has hap pened, and so deadened are the feelings by the re peated blows received by the public, that however agonising may have been.the announcement to those involved, scarcely a word of comment has followed. We hear a great deal of the dishonesty of the na tional banks of America. Correspondents—more especially he of the London Standard—. are fond of dilating on this subject, and advancing it as a proof of the commercial immorality in the United States; but let him match, if he can, this sample of an English concern. The worst feature is the silence with which the details were received. Some years ago an outcry would have rung over the world. Now, even this case of hideous mismanagement is taken as a matter of course, and the victims may die in ditches while these men of grand ideas go on their way rejoicing, having achieved what the world demands as respectable—a mighty smash.— Anglo-American Times. THE HISTORY AND OBJECTS OF I'ENTANISM. -0-- The columns of the Tinies furnish a proof of the extent to which the Fenian conspiracy has taken possession of the British mind. Two or three of its three or four leading articles have lately been devoted to a discussion of the subject. The most interesting of these appeared last Tuesday, based on a pamphlet " published with considerable reserve at Philadelphia, and not easily procurable even in the United States." We have not had the advantage of reading this pamphlet ; but the general know ledge we possess on the subject satisfies us from the evidence given in this summary that the history of the conspiracy is there faithfully told. Mr. JAMES STEPHENS, the father of Fenianism, studied conspiracy in the school of SMITH O'BRIEN, and was engaged in the rebellion of 1818. He escaped to the Continent, where, in a period of revolutionary excitement, he qualified himself to found a school of his own. He saw the blunder of striking at English power on the soil of Ireland, whila such a grand field was open to him as that furnished by the Irish in the United States. In 1858, three years before the outbreak of the Ameri can war, he began his work, laying the foundation of the organisation which has since assumed such large proportions. At first it took a military chara6ter, remaining almost unknown to Americans until the second year of the war, when it began to assume consistency. The members enlisted freely and Buf fered so heavily that it was considered in the Fede ral army " unlucky to be a Fenian." Up to Novem ber,lB63, Fenianism remained a military institution, but in that month a Congress met at Chicago to give the body a civil constitution and shape. The idea appears to have been originated by Mr. JOHN O'MAHONY of founding a Fenian Republic within the Republic of the United States, the one being a coun terpart of the other. In proposing the Congress, the Head Centre announced his conviction that the mili tary organisation was a mistake, and that it should be reconstituted after the model of the free institutions of the United. States. Its first step was to publish a declaration of the nature and objects of Fenianism for the information of the public. At that time little or nothing was known of it in America, and it was not till long after, that the name fur nished a discussion in the United Kingdom as to its origin and meaning. " We are," said the members in Congress assembled, "for the most part, citizens of the United States of America, of Irish birth and descent, though ready to welcome jet° our ranks other dwellers on the American Continent." It is noticeable in this declaration that no allusion was made of any organisation of the order being ex tended to Ireland, and it was distinctly announced that.Fenianism was then confined to the Irish popula tion of America, whom it described " as holding a more powerful position among the peoples of the earth in point of numbers, political privileges, social influence, and military strength, than was ever held before by the exiled portion of any na tion." It did not appear to strike these sorrow ing exiles that such advantages weri enjoyed by scarcely any other people in the world ; that they were freely open to their countrymen, aNd that it would have been much more becoming to have met together to have thanked GOD for the asylum He had prepared for them, than to conspire against the peace of the very nation to whom they owed the blessings they described. The object was then proclaimed to be " the resurrection of Ire land to independent nationhood." Fearing, on the one hand, the hostility of the American Government, and, on the other, that of the Roman Catholic priest hood, they passed a resolution of dutiful obedience to the laws of the Union, and a declaration that they were not a " secret, oath-bound, or illegal society." The former they qualified by a second resolution, to the effect, that under these laws they were entitled to do as they chose, and the affirmation was in each instance untrue. On the 11th January, 1865, the progress of the conspiracy was shown by the proceedings of the second Na tional Congress, which was held at Cincinnati. The former meeting was during the most disastrous period of the civil war ; the second was just pre vious to its triumphant close, and the Congress ap pear to have reckoned confidently on a war between the United Kingdom and the United States. The operations were extended so as include not only Ireland but England and its dependencies, and the constitution was amended to extend the brotherhood to the provinces of the British Empire wherever situated. • It was then that Fenianism began to attract attention in England, although, as yet, there was no regular organisation of the order in Ireland. In addressing the Congress, the President stated— " This American institution, called the Fenian Brotherhood, does not exist in Ireland as an orga nised body." During the progress of the Southern rebellion, Irish soldiers in the Federal army Often boasted of what they would do, when enabled by the downfall of the Confederacy to turn their attention to their native country. Shortly after the Cincin nati Congress, the civil war ended, and it was then that Fenianism assumed au active form in Ireland, but before the organisation was effected the Irish Re public was proclaimed as virtually established. The President was elected, commissions issued, bonds offered for sale, and Americans looked on—half amused, half annoyed—at. what they considered the farce of Playing at Governments. It is doubtless difficult to organise for good purposes, but it is easy enough to organise for evil. Subscriptions flowed into the treasury of the Irish Republic, regiments were formed; and as it was necessary for the order, tc secure a base of operations outside the United States, as they could not otherwise be recognised as a belli gerent power, the invasion of Canada was planned. UNCLE SAM allowed the conspirators to proceed to the infringement of the law, and then stretched out his hand to suppress the invading army. At two different points, and on two different occasions, the Fenians however, succeeded in penetrating into Canada; but finding the Government at Washing ton determined not to permit the proposed infringe ment of national law, and seeing the determined hostility of the Canadians, the efforts of the orga nisation were directed to Ireland itself. In 1865 Mr. STEPHENS, the Head Centre, and his coadjutors, proceeded to the country they proposed to liberate, and worked with great zeal, but the Government were cognisant of their movements, and on the 15th September of that year both he and his assistants were arrested. The abortive insur rection followed ; and the Fenian leaders were constrained to admit that, unaided, they had no chance of effecting an) thing in the island. Driven from Ireland (where the Habeas Corpui had been suspended) by the vigilance of the Govern ment, the leaders turned their attention to Eng land, and determined that if they could not braak up the empire, they would at least establish a ter rorism, and, if possible, a disruption of society. The first plan which came to light was the attempt on Chester Castle--a scheme so audacious in con ception as to convey more of incredulity than fear to the public mind. The outrages which followed, and the impunity of their perpetration, gradually changed this feeling, which became intensified by the catastrophe of Clerkenwell. It is probable that the object of the leaders was to create a panic and a sense of national indignation, which, as may readily be believed, would lead to a public irritation dangerous to the amicable relations between Great Britain and the United States. The one grand point for which Fenians strive is to embroil these nations in a war. With this object, they have lost no opportunity of misrepresenting English feeling towards America during the Civil War. Having aided to excite an animus in the United States, they have now laboured to treat this animus in Great Britain. If the two countries are sufficiently foolish to be made a cat's-paw of, the Fenians will eventually gain their end. It is about time that both branches of the Anglo-Saxon race should clearly recognise the object of the murders, incen diarism, and other outrages, which would otherwise appear aimless. Whatever may be the ultimate end of Mr. STEPHENS'S conception, we cannot imagine that it ►would be gratifying to New England Puritans, to the Southern descendants of the Cava liers, to the Pennsylvanian Quakers, to become in volved in a horribly destructive war, to punish the living generation of English, for the very political crimes their own forefathers were equally instru mental in perpetrating.—Anglo-American Times. THE WHITES AND THE BLACKS IN THE SOUTHERN SLATES. --I*- The Rev. T. W. CONWAY, writing from Mont gomery, Alabama, after an extensive tour through the South, says, " that from the moment he got on board the boat at Washington, till he reached Mont gomery, he did not hear k i kind word uttered 11 any of the former rebels (rebels still) concerning the Government of the country." Mr. CONWAY'S letter shows what the PRESIDENT asserts, and the district commanders, we have no doubt, confirm, that Reconstruction is working badly in the South, and that Congress must so modify its measures as to carry the white people with it, or fail in its policy. It must either come to this or to a war of races. There are tens of thousands of the proudest and most arrogant people in the world who would elect to die in preference to be ruled by their for mer slaves—a race they despised, but did not dis like, but whom now they are growing both to fear and to hate. Mr. CONIVAY states that, while writ ing, the expressions around him were, " The niggers must die or leave the country"—" The white niggers who are among them must be put down anyhow, at any cost." This is the feeling that Congress finds such difficulty in working against. Mr. JOHNSON'S policy would replace the planters in power and re-enact slavery, though in a modified degree. The Con gressional scheme makes SAMBO master in the Southern States. Can no American statesman con trive a middle course, giving to the whites the position their intelligence, property, and training de mand, 1% hile securing to the freedman the liberty won for him by the war ? The objection to Mr. JOHNSON'S Message lies in this,,that, while demolish ing the acts of Congress, he proposes nothing in their stead, and ignores the essence of the difficulty in the connection hitherto existing between the races. And when he argues on the impropriety of giving the suffrage to the negro while the intelligent foreigner is forced to reside in the country for five years, and establish a good character, before being admitted to the ballot—he fails to deal with the fact that there is no desire in the citi zens to reduce to slavery the foreigners, who are recognised by them as equals. The relation with the negro is totally different, and in the difference is the difficulty. Therefore Mr. JOHNSON'S argu ment is like a theatrical piece. It may lead to a denouement, presenting as it goes on - a series of graphic pictures, calculated to captivate the imagi nation, while the author's perplexities are hid in the blanks between the acts, no glimpse of which the spectators get. How are the liberties of the freedmen to be secured ? Congress says—by ad mitting them to the suffrage ; and the effect is that the whites retire in disgust, and the 'legislative functions pass into the black hands of SAMBO, who, fresh from cotton and cane fields, makes a debating assembly which correspondents take a cruel delight in reporting verbatim. It is perhaps scarcely pos sible for Englishmen to conceive the abhorrence with -which the Southerners regard the spec tacle. It would give but a faint idea to suppose the Fenians supreme in Parliament and in Do mning street, legislating and acting for the British empire. Nothing but the utter exhaustion of a contest car ried to the extremity almost of annihilation could have so crushed Southern spirit as to prevent a rise in arms against what is held to be so bitter an injustice. Yet what is Congress to do ? and what are even the negroes to do? It is not pleasant to be told that you must either die or leave the country, and that your friends, the white niggers, must be put down anyhow, at any cost. Legislatures of white men in the Southern States would perchance enact laws to reduce the negroes to servitude. Legisla tures of black men are passing measures which, if enforced, will surely lead to a war of races ; and the blacks and whites will not act together, wherein might be the only remedy. The Norman baron in the days of RICHARD CCEUR DE LION, seated as an equal by the side of his serf legislating for England, presents but a faint comparison, for whatever were the prejudices of these conquerors there were no distinctive features of race. A discussion has been carried on in New York by the World and the Tribune on the question of intermarriage between the whites and the blacks. The Nation, in com menting on it, alludes to a fact noticed by DE TOCQUEVILLE, that "in all countries in which class pride forbids intermarriage between porsons of different classes, the women of the lower are a constant easy prey to the passions of men of the upper." The Nation believes that it could be readily shown that the mixture of blood goes on more rapidly under a system of prohibition than one of marriage. The question has been raised by Democratic philosophers to devise a plan of keep ing the races separate by legal prohibition of marriage, and it is thought the effect would be directly the reverse of that intended. The Nation argues that political equality may, in raising negroes to a higher estimate of their own value, make their women moral in proportion . as they seek to be re spectable, and thus do all that can be done towards preventing an intermixture, and it asserts that the worst enemy 'of purity of races is he "who seeks to keep the negro women as low in the social scale as possible. The causes which' will continue to keep the races distinct are beyond the control of Congress, or even of the sovereign people, and " will probably outlive most, if not all, the political organisations now in existence in any part of the world." In Hungary and in European Turkey three or four races have for generations lived side by side without intermarriage, and the Jew has maintained his purity of blood through centuries of difficulties in every quarter of the globe, though it may be living among people presenting little or no difference in physique or manners. Why, therefore, should not the African and the European races live side by side in the United States peacefully and prosper ously under the same Government ? Doubtless they can, if the social and political relations be once firmly established. A. letter from Mr. MASON, ex-Envoy of the Confederacy in Europe, has lately been pub lished in the Virginia papers. In reply to Colonel GRAHAM, formerly of Texas, who invites him to settle in Jamaica, Mr. MASON declines for himself or to advise others, in the " hope and belief that a time must come when the reckless and unscrupulous party in power at Washington would be over thrown, and the Southern States again remitted to full and exclusive control over their respective popu letions without foreign intervention." He goes on to express his confidence that " the intelligence, wisdom, and, more than all, the experience of our people in regard to negroes would in tke them de vise some system of legislation by which, without again reducing them to slavery, they would be made to discharge the incumbent duties of the labouring class." It is a pity that Mr. MASON did not sketch a plan. We hold that the negroes can only rise to a higher place in the social scale through hard labour, voluntarily undertaken, and education. But in whose hands is to be entrusted the legislative rower during the process of regeneration ? This is the question which it is incumbent on some states men to solve.--Anglo-American Times. The Boston and Albany Railroad suffered a loss of $12,500 in notes and bonds by a robbery in Springfield. On the night of the 30th November burglars entered the vault by blowing open the lock, and left no trace when the theft was disco vered on Monday morning. The road loses $6,6u0; the general ticket agent, T. M. Griggs, $3,500, and Albert Holt and other employcis the balance. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. • - , r From the Anglo-American Times.) The rivalry between the United States Express Companies bas virtually ended in a grand amalga mation. Hitherto these companies, competing against each other, have spread a useful ramification from ocean to ocean, and from the great lakes to the Rio Grande. Consolidation appears to be the order of the day in Wall-street, and one of the biggest schemes is that which unites the Express Companies. The capital of the Corporation is fixed at $35,000,000, of which the Adams get $10,000,000 ; the Merchants' Union $5,000,000, for three and a half millions of dollars paid in; and the remainder is divided between the United States and the Ametican companies. However beneficial to the proprietors, grave doubts are expressed as to the effect of this amalgamation on the interests of the public. Still, there will be one check to a monopoly, in the ac tion of the railway companies, which are even now discussing the institution of the Parcels' Delivery system. The line from Boston to Nashua, New Hampshire, will commence the experiment on the Ist January. The Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, having returned to America, has shown to the President the specimen model, struck by the French Government, of the gold 25-franc piece, proposed as the common coin for Christendom. Twenty-four millimetres in dia meter, it is only slightly larger than the British sovereign and the American half-eagle. On the ob verse is stamped " Five dollars, twenty-five francs.' It may be hoped that this coin will be adopted by the three leading countries, when it will find a wide circulation throughout the entire world, with out any inconvenient disturbance of the existing coinage. By the cable the news is that Congress had ad journed on the afternoon of the 20th inst. until the 6th January. No action had been taken with re gard to the cotton tax. The steamers leaving New York for Europe, December 21, took $1,000,000 in specie. California is about to establish a University. In this object the State is aided by the College of California, and both that institution and the Col lege of Agriculture, Mining, and the Mechanical Arts, lately formed into a National School of Science with a grant of 150,000 acres of land, favour an amalgamation. The College of Cali fornia offered 150 acres of land, distant about five miles from Oakland, to the State for the Agricultural College, and the board of managers having visited the spot,. unanimously accepted the offer as the most advantageous place. The trustees of the Col lege of California then proposed to the Government to donate the 450 remaining acres of their land on condition that the Legislature would there establish a first-class University. Such an institu tion is 'required by the Constitution, and provided for by a University Fund, which now amounts to a considerable sum. The Legislature of California enacted that the School of Agriculture should not be united or connected with any other institution of learning in the State. But a plan has been de vised to favour the combination while keeping within the limits of this restriction. Great efforts are being made in Virginia to pay the interest on the State Debt on the Ist of January. It is asserted that, under any circum stances, the obligation will be met. But as about $700,000 must be raised for the purpose, many con sider that these laudable efforts will be in vain. On this subject Virginia has always shown the finest feeling, and even if the Virginians failed in paying on the date due, no taint of dishonour could attach to a State which more than any other bore the burden of the war. General Scholelleld will do all in his power to aid in the object, and the sheriffs and other officers are making strenuous efforts to collect the.money. The American war steamer De Solo, reported to have been lost at St. Thomas, has arrived safely at Norfolk. The loss of the war steamer Monongahela is confirmed. A severe storm raged in New York on the 12th, preventing the departure of the out ward bound steamers. The Borussia from Ham burg, and the Caledonia from Glasgow got safely in and landed their passengers without accident. The storm continued on the 13th and caused a partial suspension of business. From Sandusky, Ohio, it was reported that the water had been driven into the Bay so as to cause an inundation, floo3ing the warehouses and damaging the ships, having risen 5 feet above its usual level. The United States debt on the Ist December stood thus : Debt bearing interest in coin ... $1,840,367,891 80 Debt bearing interest in paper 379,292,460 0 Debt ou which interest has ceased 14,178,363 83 Debts without interest... 405,543,857 5 Total debt, December 1 ... $2,639,382,572 68 During the month of November, owing to the ex traordinary draughts upon the Treasury, the public debt increased $13,879,724 66c. ; on November 1 it amounted to $2,625,502,848 2c. On January 1, 1867, the debt amounted to $2,675,062,50543c., so that in the 11 months of the year that have since passed it has been decreased $35,679,932 75c. The Secretary converts the debt into coin-inte rest bonds as rapidly as possible, and increased that species of debt over $62,000,000 during November He withdrew less than 1,000,000 greenbacks from circulation during the month, and announced that he will not contract the currency during December. The greenback issue now amounts to $356,212,473, and the 5-20 issue to $1,324,412,550. On, the Ist of December the amount of money in the Treasury was $138.176,821, of which $100,090,645 was gold. Since the Ist of November the gold in the Trea sury decreased $11,500,000, while the total amount increased $4,250,000. The true nature of Fenianism is best shown by the following little incident, which occurred last Thursday in Dublin. The cowardly resort to such means of injury indicates a gang so reckless where their bolts may fall—firing their poisoned arrows at random, in the mere hope that some may chance to strike an object of enmity—that they can only be regarded as enemies to the human race : " A man passing the sub-post-office in Church-lane this afternoon observed a bright light in the letter receiver, and gave an alarm. On opening the box four tin packages were found about the size of a pen or match box, tied with twine, and having two postage-stamps on each. They were directed to Colonel Lake, Police Commissioner, Superintendent Ryan, the Hon. G. Dillon, and another member of the Viceregal Court. The police were sent for, and one of the packages exploded and burnt his hand. The others were brought to the College-street station, and means taken to prevent explosion. No arrest has been made." The States bordering on Canada are moving in the matter of the Reciprocity Treaty, as may be seen in the bill introduced into the House by Mr. Ransom, of Minnesota. Canada is uneasy about Fenian action and at the tone of the President's Message. Mr. Cartier, under a pressure, has - pre pared a militia bill providing for the organisation' of a force of 150,000 men. Parliament has also been discussing the question of the annexation of the Western British Territories to the Domi nion. It is thought if they do not move in the matter the Hudson's Bay lands will be absorbed by the United States. Letters transmitted within the Dominion have been fixed by the new postal bill at three cents per half ounce, payment being com pulsory. On newspapers sent from a known office of publication after Jan. 1, 1869, one cent for three papers ; on newspapers now scut, one ceut each ; o❑ books, pamphlets, &c., one cent one ounce ; on periodical publications, one cent for four ouncts. The loan of £3,000,000 in aid of the intercolonial railways has been considered ; and in the Lower House it is proposed to authorise the Government of the Dominion to raise another million without the imperial guarantee. On Dec. 7 the following financial statement was made :—The province of Canada during the past year ended June 30, 1867, received $16,400,139, and expended $14,729,090. The do minion of Canada, from July 1 to November 30, 1867, received $7,427,673, and expended $5,322,685. The statement of the chartered banks of the pro vinces of Quebec and Ontario shows liabilities $43,455,209, and assets $78,370,726. The members of the late Convention in Alabama are "stumping" the State, upon the subject of the rights granted by the new Constitution, and enlist ing negro support previous to the vote which will soon be taken upon the instrument. The Union Loyal League adopted a resolution that this Cou stitution, as framed by this State Convention, was an infamous fraud, tending to debase the white and to destroy the black race. Senator Wilson moved in Congress to re-enfranchise 284 Ala bamians, among whom were Governor Patten and General Longstreet. At Montgomery there was a meeting of Conservative negroes, when resolutions were passed, opposing the new Con stitution. In the Louisiana Convention the de legates' pay has proved a bone of contention. Some of the members endeavoured to obtain unrea sonably large salaries, and one, on the 7th inst., gave utterance t 3 a ferccious threat that, if neces sary, the negroes would maintain the rule now established with revolution and blood. In Georgia a negro mob threatened au attack on the student:, of the University at Athens, but were dispersed by the United States troops. The Reconstruction Con vention of that State had assembled, and a disagree ment had occurred, as the negroes claimed a more than due share of the offices. A number of the delegates of the Virginia Conservative Convention had proceeded to Richmond, where they passed a resolution, declaring this to be a white man's go vernment, and pledging the people of Virginia to perform all their constitutional duties on their re storation to the Union. Senator Wilson addressed a caucus of the Convention, advising moderation in council, and the Convention had memorialised Con gress to continue the Freedmen's Bureau, and re commended the removal of the present State officials in Virginia. General Ord has appointed January 7 for the Arkansas and Mississippi Conventions to assemble. The register of voters is complete in Taxas, and shows 56,666 white and 47,430 blacks, giving a white majority of more than 9,000 in a registry of 104,496. The Reconstruction elections will, in that State, soon be held. The treaty for the cession to the United States of the Danish West India islands has been sent to the Senate for ratification, and handed over to the Committee for Foreign Relations. It is announced that there is a difference of opinion both in the Committee and in the Senate as to the wisdom of expending so much on islands so insecure and lately the scene of such great disaster. It is thought that the treaty will be rejected by the House, in view of the small majority by which Mr. Butler's resolution regarding Alaska was defeated. St. Thomas' is rejoicing at the annexation, but the joy may be premature. Mr. Washburne, of Wisconsin, spoke in the House against the appropriation for the pur chase of both Alaska and St. Thomas. From that island adv ices have been received that Admiral Palmer and the Danish commissioners were completing their arrangements for the transfer, and it is said that this ceremony is to take place on the Ist January. The Spanish Government expressed anxiety about the rumour that the United States desired to get possession both of Cuba and of Porto Rico, and Mr. SEWARD denied that such was the desire of the Government. It is, however, reported that he has re-opened negotiations with Baaz for the purchase of Samana Bay. There are four treaties now be fore the Senate—the Russian, Danish, a commercial treaty with Madagascar, and a reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands. It is now stated that the value of the produce, chiefly breadstuffs, frozen up in the New York canals is not less than popopo, and some esti mates range much higher. It is ascertained that among the items are 12,0u0 barrels of flour, 70,000 barrels of apples, 10,000,000 bushels of grain, and 100,000 bushels of potatoes. To move this, would double the price —to leave it, causes an advance ill the cost of food. Already a rise has taken place in corn and flour in the Paris market, and the upward movement of two francs last Saturday was attri buted to the news from New York announcing the interruption in the canal navigation. The Lord Brougham arrived at New York from Hamburgh, December 6, with cholera on board. She started with 383 passengers, among whom the disease broke out the day after she left, and raged malignantly during the passage of 46 days. At one time a hundred were attacked, and during the voy age 73 died. The ship presented a shockiug appear ance on her arrival, when she was placed in quar antine, having still 2() cases on board, and the health officers affirm this to be the worst instance recorded at the port. We have given almost in extenso Mr. Robert J. Walker's letter on Finance, as that gentleman ob tained a good reputation as a financier when Secre tary of the Treasury. He framed and brought into practice a successful revenue tariff, never losing sight of the principle that currency should bebased on coin, and that all other systems were false. Ills letter speaks for itself ; but there is a singular statement which the Round Table notic es, that 10 Germany the United States can sell 6 per Cent. Bonds at par, although by going to any banker at Frankfort other United States 6 per Cent. Bonds can be purchased at less than 80 cents on the dollar. The Reconstruction Committee was revived in the House on the 10th inst., and Thaddeus Stevens appointed chairman. It is stated in the .New York _Herald that that gentleman has announced that be will introduce a bill to Congress providing loyal provisional governments for the Southern States. The following are announced as the reasons given by President Johnson, in a message to the Senate , for his removal of Mr. Stanton :—The lack of proper respect shown by the Secretary, who attempted, in defiance of the President, to retain office under the provisions of the Tenure of Office Bill, which Mr. Stanton, with the rest of the Cabinet, bad previously denounced as unconstitutional. Fur' hermore, that Mr. Stanton was the cause of the New Orleans riots, by withholding from th e President the information that the Federal cow mander at New Orleans asked for special instruc tions relative to the anticipated riot. It is re ported that President Johnson further states that Mr. Stanton's successor has already saved the coun try millions of dollars, and that the Cabinet are now entirely harmonious in reference to the reconstruc‘ tion policy. The Fenians held a . meeting in Faneuil Boston, on the 7th of December. The procession formed on Boston Common, and bearing torches , with banners flying, they marched to the meeting. Sympathy was expressed for the Fenians executed at Manchester ; Great Britain was denounced ; Sec retary Seward and the Minister to St. James's wer e charged with " being faithless to their trust, care less of the honour of their country, and accessory S e the judicial murder of Gould and Larkin, American citizens, who were tried, condemned, and hung a fFi e British subjects, without interference on the part of the American Government." A similar affair cane off at St. Louis on the same day. At all these meetings the demand is made on the Governm ent to interfere on behalf of the Fenians in British PI; sons. The Irish-Americans claim the right as Ir is citizens of kindling a civil war in Ireland, at the same time that they reject the right of the Go vernment to treat them as Irish citizens. Births. BLOIS—On the 26th inst., at Cockfield Hall,Suffolk, 1,3" Blois, of a son. LLOYD—On the 27th inst., at Rhyfoldy, near RhaYacar' ~ the wife of R. Lewis Lloyd, Esq barrister-at -law, 01- daughter. rt 0* MILES —On the 26th inst., at Exeter, 11 the wife of T. 0.. Miles, Esq., of Cheshunt, Hertz, late Captain 13th P- sars, of a son and heir. Marriages. ARNOLD—LITTLEWOOD —On the 27th inst ,at the -„° church, Edington, Wilts, William Vernon. Arnold, of Croydon, Surrey, to Mary Anna Hayward, oral daughter of the Rev. Samuel Littlewood, Pe r P e curate of Edington. BROOKSBANK CAREY—On the 26th inst , a t the V W :, Church, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Thomas Brooksb 3 P e , of the Inner Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Iseatric daughter of Sir Stafford Carey, Bailiff of Guernsey'. Deth. BLUNDELL—On the 27th inst a ~ a t Balham, S. henry 3311111 dell, Esq., aged 79. BOWER—On the 27th inst., at Tollington-park, Londoo, Robert Bower, Esq., M.D., R.N., aged 78. IjIBBONS—OD the 27th inst., at Bath, Sills Gibbons, EA*/ formerly of Winehmore-hill, Middlesex, aged 7 8 . t et , HARRINGTON—On the 27th it.st., at 3, Richmond-erra Whitehall, the Countess arrington. Croyd. ge ° ll _ SILTER—On the 26th inst. at Park Ro use , William Silver, Esq., of ' H Trinity College, House', brici M.A., aged 63. , - -----:------__-_---- ra, 1 70 London : Printed and Published by WILLISAL AND-- „; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tae SUN Once ' No of Strand, in the Precinct of the Se 'Toy, in the County Midellesex..—Monday, December 30, 1867. ,:~ t :~ Hi :~~ LU] &c. Fa:NT P.m.