The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

THE FENIANS. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) LIMERICK JUNCTION, Thursday Evening. It was difficult in passing through Dublin to-day to believe that the city had but yesterday been threatened by an armed insurrection. The banks were open, the jewellers' shops displayed their richest stores, and business seemed to be carried on as if the Fenians had been menacing Dublin as usual from New York instead of from their " camp atTallaght," within half-a-dozen miles of Dublin. You saw lID anxious, preoccupied faces, and no eager groups talk ing over the events of yesterday. The inhabitants seemed disposed to treat the outbreak as a failure which would for ever dispose of Fenian pretensions. " They have done their best and their worst, these people, and have shown some power of mis chief, along with a still greater power of making themselves and their cause ridicu lous." This was the prevailing opinion among those with whom one had an opportunity of talking. Everybody knew that when the Fenians rose they would be defeated ; but few, even of those who most despised the Fenian movement, thought that the rising would be so very contemptible as it has proved in the neighbourhood of Dublin. I had not time to visit the prisoners, but am told that they are mostly lads of from 17 to 18 and upwards—apprentices, shop assistants, clerks, and a dirty, ragged following with which a soldier would beloth to march through Coventry, much less Dublin. The most manly and the best set-up among them are the Irish Americans. It does not appear, however, that they showed the spirit that might have been expected from men who claim to have fought in the New World, not with out glory When "General" Massey was arrested by a policeman on the platform here he swooned away, and remained in a dead faint for ten minutes, only reviving after liberal applications of cold water. Massey is said to have been the generalissimo-desig nate of the Fenian army. He had two revolvers in his pockets when captured ; and of course he may have swooned, not from mortal fright, but from mortification at so ignominious an end to his mar tial career. The Fenian plan, no doubt, was for a simultane ous rising in the home counties and the south. Away from Dublin, Cork and Tipperary were to take the lead, while Clare, Limerick, and Waterford were to assist in giving employment to the soldiers and constabulary, and a diversion at Drogheda, north of the capital, was to alarm the Government for the safety of Louth and Meath. The rendezvous for the disaffected in and around Dublin was Tal laght-hill, rather more than four miles to the south west of the city. Many hundreds left Dublin by twos and threes on Tuesday night for this place ; and similar gatherings took place at the small towns or villages in the outskirts, such as Kilmainhain, Crumlin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham. At seine points near the rendezvous a quantity of arms had been provided—pikes, rifles, ammunition pouches, and a cheap weapon of homely appearance,which has been dignified by the title of a Fenian dirk, but is better known among the people as a pig-sticker. As usual, the Government were perfectly well informed by those who were in the secrets of the brotherhood. The constabulary either patrolled the roads or were waiting in their barracks, and the insurgents had no sooner formed themselves into something like martial array than the troops were in pursuit. There is a police barrack at Tallaght ; and near this barrack, at midnight on Tuesday, Sub-Inspector Burke and two constables met a party of about 40 armed men, who were convoying a cart with ammu nition. Not daunted by the disparity of numbers, the sub-inspector called on them to surrender. The leader of the insurgents aimed a blow with his sword at one of the policemen, who parried the stroke cleverly with his rifle and sword-bayonet, and with the latter gave his assailant a mortal thrust in the abdomen. The Fenians then withdrew, taking with them their wounded leader. Soon afterwards the sub-inspector, whose party had by this time been re-inforced, fell in with two large bodies of insurgents, each numbering some hundreds. As you have heard both these parties fired upon the police without effect, while one of the insurgents, an attorney's clerk of Dublin, named O'Donoghue, was shot through the lungs and is since dead, and a work man named Bernes received a flesh wound i❑ the thigh. There were only about 14 policemen, and, as the saying is, the Fenians were numerous enough to have eaten them. But these ardent patriots seem to have thought that personal liberty was, after all, a thing which concerned them more nearly than political liberty. They became panic-stricken, threw away arms, ammunition, and such equip ments as they could boast of, and dispersed. The roads were strewn with ball cartridges, percus sion caps, and arms of every description. I need hardly say that the troops under the command of Lord Strathnairn met with not the least show of resistance. The great Fenian army which was to have taken Dublin was scattered by a handful of constabulary. Nearly 200 prisoners were taken by the military and the constabulary together. These haggard, miserable youths had not the strength or stamina to support the fatigues of a single night's campaign, and broke down utterly under the trial. Around Crumlin, another point south-west of Dublin, there was no evidence of the same panic. among the people, and the police patrols found large quantities of arms and ammunition, which the per sons to whom they had been dealt out seemed to have got rid of in this way as soon as possible. At Glencullen the Fenians seemed to have had some what better heart. They summoned nine police men in one barrack to surrender to the Irish Repub lic. The policemen refused to surrender to the Irish Republic, and the Fenians did not press the point, but withdrew to the appropriately named village Stepaside, where there was a barrack with less than nine policemen,—namely, five. Here they fired a few shots and made preparations for burning out the garrison. Owing to the construction of the building they were unfortunately able to do this with impunity, and Constable M'llwaine, the com mander of this very pregnable citadel, then offered to surrender, on condition that life was spared. These terms were agreed to by the Fenian leader, and the police accordingly delivered up their bar rack and their arms and ammunition, and were marched along with the rebels, in company with four of the metropolitan police, who had been cap tured near Donnybrook. A scout who had been Rent forward to inquire into the chances of an attack upon Bray brought back an unfavourable report, whereupon the party seized about 200 loaves at a baker's shop, and breakfasted without payment, giving their prisoners a share of the bread. Another police barrack at Glencullen was then visited. There were five constables here, who also refused to sur render, whereupon, says a correspondent of the kid' Times— "The order was given for riflemen to advance, and 50 men, armed with rifles, came to the front. They drew up before the barrack, and just as they fired into it the police fired out and wounded two of the Fenians. The Fenian riflemen were then ordered to take cover, and having done so several volleys were exchanged. Finding the resistance so stout, it was proposed to place the'nine policemen who were prisoners in front of the attacking party, and expose them to the cross fire. Constable Al'llwaine objected to this as a violation of the terms of sur render. After some discussion, in the course of which the commander said he would force the po lice to the front if Constable O'Brien did not sur render, Constable M.'llwaine was sent forw.a.d to communicate with O'Brien. He still refused, but ultimately, to save the lives of the prisoners and of his own party, agreed to surrender, on condition that all the police were set at liberty. Thi s was agreed to, the release not to take place for two hours. The arms, ammunition, &c., at the Glencullen bar rack were taken, and the Fenians went off through the mountains towards Killakee. A party was left behind to guard the prisoners, and after two hours set them free and followed the main body. They frequently spoke during the march of going to the " camp atTallaght." They appeared to be all sober, and in perfect obedience to order. The commander was a tall, respectable looking man, about 24 years old. lle wore a suit of dark tweed. The second in command wore a sword, and had a feather in his cap. The party left a green flag on the road near Stepaside, and it is now in the poaseabion of Emma- nuel Bailey, J.P. It was got up in very handsome style, and bore upon it the words God and your country—Remember Emmet.' The flagstaff was quite in keeping with the appearance of the flag it self. :The party had with them a van like a grocer's van, and also an outside car carrying guns, pistols, ammunition, pikeheads, provisions, &c. They had more arms than the party wanted. Numbers of pikes fitted with handles, pistols, two guns, car tridges, &c., were found on the road between Mill town and Stepaside yesterday morning, and brought to Dundrum police station." The snow was falling heavily during great part of my journey from Dublin to this point to-day, and there was a bleak wind, against which no railway wrappe: s seemed to be proof. such weather will do more to rout and scatter the already disheartened Fenians than a whole army. They appear to have been in the Tipperary mountains in considerable force last night. At Thurles, a station on the Great Southern and Western line, 87 miles from Dublin, the inhabitants were in great fear of an attack from them. Limerick junction, at which I am now writing, is 107 miles from Dublin on the same line of railway, and 22 miles from Limerick. It was held out until to-day by a force of infantry; but two companies of the 62d Regiment have been sent from here to Kilmallock, and the station is now guarded principally by cavalry. I have telegraphed this evening some particulars of the attack upon the Kilmallock police-barrack, and of the spirited de fence by its little garrison of constabulary. I hope to visit this little town to-morrow. The district around here, from Mallow junction to the Killarney side to Templemore on the side of Dublin, is thought now to be the most dangerous, or, at all events, the most disaffected in these parts. On Tuesday night the rails were torn up at Knocklong, a little station about midway between here and Kilmallock, and the night mail train from Cork ran off the line, but without any accident to life or limb. When the news of the disaster was received here a train was sent to the spot under the protection of a small de tachment of infantry. The mails and passengers were then transferred, and the mail returned to Limerick junction, on its way to Dublin. Near Thurles, however, the rails had been torn up again, and the engine again ran off the line. A number of soldiers' wives and children were among the passen gers, but happily again no one was hurt. The rail way officials were not to be baffled, and at Thurles set to work to extemporise another train, which took in the passengers and mails, and arrived in Dublin 10 a.m. yesterday morning, five hours after time. The rails were also torn up in other places between Mallow and Cork—at Rathduff, at a point near Blarney, and at another part of the line. Great activity, however, has been shown by Mr. Ilbery, the traffic manager, and the officials of the line in repairing these breaches with the least possible delay, and in preserving a line of communication, which is all-important for defensive purposes. In Milistreet, halfway between Killarney and Mallow, about 20 Fenians called at the railway station on Tuesday night, and, after cutting the electric wires, took the telegraphic instrument from the office, and (as they thought) smashed it on the platform, but they only smashed the case, so that the clerk in charge was soon able to begin work again. They also took a gun belonging to the stationmaster. Before visiting the railway station they called at Capt. Leader's, of Mount Leader, and took three swords, three guns, and a large quantity of ammunition. The same search for arms was made, as I have already said, at most of the houess of the resident gentry in this neighbourhood ; but where the arms were given up no personal violence was offered. This is one re deeming feature in the present outbreak, as in the last ; hitherto there has been no burning or plunder, and no outrage to person. Friday Night. The village of Kilteely, about 13 miles from this point, were occupied in force by the insurgents yes terday. They took away the arms kept by the well disposed inhabitants, and compelled many of the young men to join their ranks. Some of the party got drunk, but they paid for all they consumed, and committed no personal vialence. The Fenian leader wore a green uniform. The population generally fraternised with the insurgents, who remained in the village till 7 o'clock last evening. Troops were sent from Limerick and from this station this morning, but the Feniaus had disap peared. Parties of insurgents were seen this morning on the Galtee range of mountains near Tipperary. An attack on that town is still apprehended, the inhabitants being extremely disaffected, and re-en forcements are expected there to-night from the Curragh. Detachments of the 31st Regiment, with Horse Artillery and cavalry, are at present stationed in the town. At Kilmallock to-day all was quiet. Mr. Bourne,. the Bank manager who was shot by the Fenian leader for refusing to give up his re volvers, is not dead. DUBLIN, March 8. The Cork papers of yesterday supply full details of the Fenian operations in the south. The first out break in Cork was at Knockadoon, about six miles from Youghal, on the coast. A Coastguard station, occupied by five men and a chief boatman, was at tacked by a body of armed men numbering about 60, led by a horseman. They were well armed. The Coastguardsurrendered in the face of overwhelming numbers, and they were, with the exception of one sick man, taken prisoners and marched off, the Fe nians carrying with them all the arms and ammuni tion in the station. They then marched towards Mogeely, on the Youghal Railway, a distance of 14 miles, and there set the prisoners at liberty, pro ceeding themselves in a north-easterly direction. At Middleton the Fenians drew up in the street four deep. When the constabulary patrol passed a little beyond them they were challenged by Daly, their leader, and called on to surrender in the name of the Irish Republic. When the police did not obey the call, Daly, their leader, seized Sub-constable O'Donnell's rifle, and presenting a revolver at his head fired. O'Donnel at the same time pushed Daly slightly from him, and thus caused the pistol ball to glance round the back of his head, the flash singe ing his hair. At the same moment the party of Fenians fired a volley. A ball entered Sub-constable Sheedy's breast, and after running a short distance ❑p the Chapel-road he fell, and probably bled to death. The other policemen fled in the same direc tion, and O'Donnell, who was woundel in the head, took shelter in a house. As the police fled the Fenians fired after them. They got round by Mr. Green's house and, having taken shelter there till morning, got back to the station, escorted by Mr. Green, who has great influence and popularity in the town. After Sheedy fell he was stripped of his rifle and accoutrements. Daly took sub-constable O'Donnell's rifle with him. The gate and wall in front of Mr. Green's residence were thickly marked with the bullets fired by the insurgents, and, subse quently, a dozen revolver cartridges were found on the footpath there, as well as two large hand gre nades with fuses attached. An orderly having given information of these events in Cork, a company of the 14th Regiment, under Major Grogan, Cattaio Jackson, and Lieut. Blois, (and accompanied by Assistant-Surgeon Cherry, were despatched to Middleton, and 80 men of the 14th Regiment, under Capt. Crosbie, to Castlemartyr. In the course of the day head-constable Reardan and a party made three arrests in Middleton of persons said to have been among the insurgents. These were Michael Daly, a military ma❑ ; Thomas Ruddy, a weaver; and a labouring man named Laughton, employed in the Middleton distillery. A search was also made for Mr. John Murphy, who had been for several months in Mountjoy prison, but was liberated on heavy security. At Castlemartyr the arrival of the Fenians, who (it is believed) included the Middle ton party, took place about 2 o'clock on Wednes day morning. A haggard belonging to Mr. Walker, near the village, was set on fire, it is believed as a ruse, but the police—five men under constable O'Connell—having reconnoitred, thought they saw more than a mere fire in the affair, and, declining to render any assistance, returned to their bar racks, where they made every preparation to resist an attack. They had not long to wait for it, when a large body of men—some say as many THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1867. and most tangible consequences of that " inflated paper currency" to which all our financial evils are now supposed to be due. We may, then, safely assume that production has not materially increased since 1860. In the four years from June 30, 1861, to June 30, 1865, the debt of the United States in creased in round numbers 2,650 millions. During that period the Government levied by taxation say only 850 millions. During the same period the Government of the so-called Confederate States raised by taxation and loans say only 1,500 mil lions; 4naking a total of 5,000 millions of money levied ) and expended by the Government of the United States in four years, at the rate of 1,250 millions per annum. We have seen above that, before the war, of the 8,000 millions worth of pro perty produced annually by the entire labour of the people, 7,360 millions worth was purchased for consumption by the people themselves, and consumed or destroyed by them. Since the outbreak of the war the Government has appeared in the market as a purchaser of property to the extent of 1,250 mil lions annually, almost all of which property so pur chased was consumed or destroyed. The ordinary consumption of the people before the war was 7,360 millions per annum; the consumption of the Go vernment has been 1,250 millions per annum addi tional ; the consumption of the people and Govern ment together, 8,610 millions per annum. The ordinary production of the people before the war (and not materially increased since then) was 8,000 millions. The annual wants of the people and Government combined, therefore, exceeded the total annual production by 610 millions. It may be objected that the consumption of the people during the war was correspondingly reduced. But every one knows that this was not the case. Indeed, the reckless extravagance of the whole people during the years of war has become proverbial, and, like the " decline of industry" and the " diminution of products," is incessantly brought forward as both proof and consequence of the paper-money infla— tion. There was no diminution in the people's con sumption. The people consumed as much as ever, they produced less than ever, and of this diminished production the Government consumed more than the people had ever saved before. The whole coun try has been engaged in eating up its capital at the very time it was congratulating itself upon its pro sperity. It is scarcely possible to doubt that the people of the United States as a whole are to-day poorer than they were six years ago. The na tional debt (hence called a national blessing) has until now disguised the fact from us. The internal revenue demands are gradually disclosing it to us. The last balance-sheet at the end of December has shown most people that in order to pay their taxes they must spend less money for other things. In fact, this process of " spending less money for other things" has been going on for some time past, and it is this process, and nothing else, that in our esti mation makes business bad. The process itself is likely to continue for some time to come, and to produce results far more serious than a panic in Wall-street or a temporary suspension of business throughout the country. But in the meantime it is quietly repairing the great damage done to the national property by the war, and teaching the peo ple the great lessons--that no national advantage can be gained except by individual sacrifice ; that war cannot be carried on except at a loss of comfort and wealth, sooner or later, by non-combatants, as well as of life and limb by the soldier in the field ; that the expense and burden of this generation can not be shifted from our shoulders on to those of the generation to come, but that the duty of to-day must be done to-day, or twice done if left until the morrow.—The Nation. as 500, but it was impossible to state accurately, the night was so dark—drew up before the sta tion, after having been directed by some per son, in stentorian tones, to attack the police station at once. Some persons called upon the police to surrender. The party had come in with baggage; all the meu seemed to wear haversacks containing provisions, and, as well as the police could see them through the windows, they had rifles and fixed bayonets, which they carried " sloped," in true mi litary style. They knocked several times at the door of the barracks ; receiving no reply, they com menced firing, the bullets entering pretty thickly through window shutters, &c. The Fenians called out to the villagers, who looked out of their win dows, to keep in their heads. The police returned their fire with interest, and it is thought with effect. The Fenian leader, Timothy Daly (who had come on from Middleton), was found when the party bad departed lying dead about ten p , rches from the bar rack, in the line of retreat. He would seem to have been shot through the body, near the heart. He wore grey trousers, blue jacket and vest (all plain), and a square-peaked cap. Round his waist was a leather belt and case, intended for a revolver, and over his shoulder was a strong canvas haversack, containing bread. It was fastened with a gilt button, bearing a harp. He had dropped a seven chamber revolver where he was shot. The party retreated immediately after Daly was shot, and were pursued towards the bridge by the police, but they made a stand, forming a breast work at the bridge, and the police thought it more prudent to return to their quarters. After leaving Castlemartyr the Fenians called at the houses of the Rev. Mr. Halloran, Mr. Newton (farmer), William Ahern, and Thomas Gould, from all of whom they demanded and obtained arms. They took a pistol from a man named Thomas Hen nessy at Lady's-bridge. The line of retreat of the united Fenian forces of this district is concluded to be over the hills south of Killeagh, near which station the railway telegraph wire was cut. The point for which the insurgents are supposed to have departed is Tallow, in the county of Waterford, but beyond Killeagh there are no tidings of them. On Wednesday morning a young man, named Thomas Cullinane, rode through this village mounted upon a horse which one of the coastguard has identified as that ridden by the leader of the Knockadoon Fenians. He was at once arrested, and in his possession were found some coffee, a bag of salt, some biscuits, and 39 bullets. He is supposed to have been proceeding to the Fenian camp. He was conveyed to Middleton, where he is at present confined. The four prisoners arrested in Middleton were brought before a number of magistrates, in cluding Messrs. S. French, T. Garde, C. O'Brien, &c., and remanded. An attack was expected on the town of Tipperary, the telegraph wires betwee❑ it and the Limerick Junction being cut. Major Greene, who commands at the latter point, despatched last night some horse artillery, escorted by cavalry and infantry, to rein force the garrison of Tipperary. There is nothing more about the fighting at Clonmel than what I sent you last night by telegraph. Why Business is Dull. For the last two years we have grown •so accus tomed to our " unexampled prosperity " that we are loth to admit the possibility of any change, and are slow to give heed to paragraphs like the following, culled almost at random from the newspapers within a week or two :—" The principal corporations in Lawrence, Massachusetts, have notified their em ployes of a reduction in their wages of 10 per cent." "Sixty bookbinders in Hartford, Connecticut, struck yesterday for higher wages, their pay having been lately reduced 25 per cent." " The coal-miners of Pittsburgh have quit work on account of an attempt to cut down their wages." " The Lowell Manufac turing Company are running their mills on time." "All the rolling mills of Wheeling have stopped work, and 1,000 persons are consequently thrown out of employment." " The wages at the Wamsatta Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, have been re duced 10 per cent." At the same time the complaint is ever 3 where general that business is bad, prices are declining, Wall-street is in a chronic state of discomfort, the internal re venue receipts are falling off, the reduction of the national debt has stopped, the failures for the year have again increased to more than double the amount of any year since 1861, the railroad re ceipts are growing less, and gold has again advanced from 1314. to 139. In short, business matters and business prospects generally, are in a very unsatis factory condition, and the whole country, but recently engaged in a grand chorus of glorifica tion over our prosperity, is now getting ready to indulge in the corresponding fit of depres sion. It is worth while asking, What is the matter ? Answers are plentiful, but none seem to us quite satisfactory. Contraction of the currency, says one. True, the currency has been contracted about twenty millions since June 1, or about two and one half per cent. in eight months. But it is likewise true that business continued extremely good, in spite of contraction, until near the end of the year ; that money, in spite of contraction, was always easy ; that there w as no contract i on i n January, y lN e ' t al Wall-street, t Janu aryreet , and we that in witnessed thesam ethemonth o n great f January,panic i n in which there was no contraction, business was worse than ever. The fact is, that as inflation had nothing to do with the improvement in busines, so contraction had nothing to do with the depression in business, except by its effect upon the imagina tion of thoughtless speculators. Another answer is : the impulse of the enormous expenditures by Government is wanting. But the heavy expendi tures of Government ceased nearly two years ago, while the country has been unusually " prosperous" until within the last two or three months. The friends of Mr. Johnson point to Congress as the cause. The Radicals say the President's policy is to blame. Free-traders throw the responsibility upon the tariff. Protectioni s t s argue : our b us i ness is ruined by the competition of the products of pauper labour in Europe. The real cause of the depression in business is, in our opinion, as follows : the mischievous system, born of national ignorance and national selfishness, of raising money by loans instead of taxation (thus creating the national debt), has deluded us into the belief that we were prosperous and were increasing our wealth, while we were in reality eating up our capital. From this delusion we are being gradually but surely awakened by that great, stern, silent, but impres sive teacher of finance, the tax-gatherer. We are not going to trouble our readers with statistics, but we must use a few figures (correct ones though) for the sake of clearness. In the year 1860 the people of the United States possessed and used an aggregrate capital of 16,000 million dollars worth of property, by the aid of which the combined labour of the whole people produced annually addi tional property to the value of further 8,000 millions. This annual product sufficed to furnish the whole people with food, shelter, clothing, and such luxuries as each one, according to his individual gains, could afford, and to leave a surplus besides. This surplus or annual saving amounted to about eight per cent. of the total capital, or to about 640 millions worth of property. In other words, the whole people of the United States produced annually property worth 8,000 millions, consumed annually property worth 7,360 millions, and saved annually property worth 640 millions. Had the annual production of •a pro perty increased since then ? We have no reliable data in the shape of figures ; but when we know that one-third or one-fourth of the entire number of males of the chief producing ages were under arms for from one to four years, and one-tenth of them were killed or permanently disabled, it is safe to assume that production has not increased since then, but that it has actually diminished. Apart from this assumption, there are many scattered in dications that production has really diminished, and of these indications the most striking certainly is that " the decline of industry" and " the diminu tion of products," which play so important a part in Mr. M'Culloch's report to Congress, in Mr. Well's report on the tariff, and Mr. Morrill's recent speech on our finances, are, by almost universal consent, accepted as facts, and are daily quoted as the worst Char cter of the West. One of our contributors recently remarked that the sceptre of political power is rapidly passing from the East to the West. The statistician and the traveller alike sanction this statement. Like Jonah's gourd, cities rise in a night ; and States start up, full grown, in the lonely wilderness, ere we hear of their existence in the East. There is no parallel in history to the wonderful and continuous advance of the West. Take Chicago as an example of this ex traordinary progress. Twenty-six years ago its population numbered 4,470. It has increased nearly fifty-fold since that date, and to-day boasts of its two hundred thousand inhabitants. It is already the New York of the West. A century hence it may rival London by its magnitude. Every care ful reader of history and human nature is aware of the fact that climatic and social influences mould and vary the mental and moral characteristics of men. The East and the West—New England, for instance, and Illinois—are subject to influences which produce permanent and distinctive traits in the habits of life and of thought of the people of the two sections. Let us illustrate this difference by comparing Chicago, the representative of the West, with Boston, the representative of the East. Meet two perfect types of these two typical cities in any part of the world, and you could not possibly con found them. Both are emphatically American in their character, tendencies, and sympathies ; but each is distinct and peculiar in his expression of these national birth-marks. The Western man laughs at the Boston boy as the native of the North of England laughs at the Cockney. He looks upon him, when perfectly developed, as a snob in social life, a man-milliner in dress, a dilletante in litera ture and art. The Yankee, on the other hand, re gards the Western man as coarse, slovenly, and un cultivated. He retorts by the term " upstart," to the epithet of "paper-collar fellow." Boston is essentially an aristocratic city. Whether we use the phrase in a complimentary or in a disparaging sense, that tsocietycliques in " the mo d ern and classes, itA Athens" is rather than a Democratic community. It is welded equally is a confederation true o together by interests and tradition, not fused by identity of ideas and aims. It is a mosaic, not a quarry. It is, at the same time, the brain of Republicanism in America, and a colony of Euro pean scholars and "fanatics." There are classes in Boston who think as much of blood as the younger Barnacle of the circumlocution office. " Race" is their countersign, and Winthrop is its prophet. They are proud of their lineage. They compile costly genealogies, tracing backward to Pilgrims and to European ancestors. There are other classes whose creed seems to be that not Great Nature, but Harvard College, is the true creator of men. Less precious in their sight is the " scul of flame" than the university's diploma. Their pass-word is " culture," and Emerson is its prophet. Then, again, we have Radicals in political philosophy, in the light of whose ideas the Radicalism of Europe fades out and becomes Conservatism. They stand up for their ideas in the face of every social, and political, and mercantile influence, and count these potent forces as mere whirling dust, that may annoy, but can never impede, the onward march of a resist less army. Their battle-cry is progress, and Wendell Phillips is its prophet. In every society these ele ments exist, but in Boston they are marked and mar shalled; and, in the language of the New Testament —" the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." In Chicago and the West it is quite different. So ciety there is a huge floating unity, the particles of which move and mingle in every possible form. There is really no universally recognised class. Dives to-day may be Lazarus to-morrow, and Lazarus to-day may be Dives to-morro w ; with the important, and in fact, the essential difference, that Lazarus will not beg or accept alms from Dives, or consent to sit at his gate—or even at his second table. The West is to-day the only perfect democracy in the world. The hindrances of European etiquette, the rigid forms and ceremonies of introduction, are oftener honoured in the breach than the observance. If the poor man wishes to speak to the rich man, at any time, or in any company, he does not hesitate to do so—and in a manner that indicates obliviousness to any thought of inequality of social position. There is no servility in the West. There is hero-worship, however ; but it fluctuates like the currency. It is issued on real or supposed values, and recalled when a cheat is discovered. Noble birth is of compara tively little " account." Lady Clara Vere de Vere would find a very limited field for her flirtations there. Her coachman would either resent her coquetries, or accept them without undue elation as the tenders of a true affection. The Mayflower is held in no special reverence. It does not add an extra cubit to a man's stature in social or in political life to prove that he descended from a Plymouth Rock pilgrim. Culture has no fictitious value. Merit, in whatever sphere it may show itself, is promptly acknowledged. These observations are not, like the German's cavil, " created out of our interior consciousness." They are drawn from memories of the West, acrd almost every sentence could be illustrated by an incident. It is needless, however. We have done enough if we have shown that a true Republicanism has little to fear in the coming Western ascendancy ; and that the people of that vast region are entitled to a higher regard than we have hitherto been inclined to pay them. The Western citizen is the " coming man" in our national politics ; and we should rejoice that his Radical, Democratic spirit is to succeed the Radical, Aristocratic rule with which the South cursel the country for a couple of generations.-11 7 utchntais awl litjlector. THE HABITS OF BUFFALO GHOSTS. The Buffalo (New York) Express contains the following extraordinary communication : " I have reasons for not signing my name to the following statement, and for withholding it from every person living, although I can pledge the word of an honest man that every word 1. am now about to relate is, as far as I am capable of judging, as true as truth itself. " On the night of Christmas-eve, then, as I was returning home after attending Divine service in a certain church in this city, on nearing my residence became suddenly aware that a stranger was walk ing close behind me, and keeping step with me in a manner which I considered to be some what familiar and offensive. Influenced by the sacredness of the place I had just left, feeling that I should soon be relieved of such unde sirable company, I said nothing, but hurried my pace until 1 reached the steps leading to my own door. At this point I halted for a moment with the intention of scrutinising the stranger more closely as he passed, when I became sensible at once, that although it was snowing rather fast, from the time I became cognisant of the stranger's proximity up to the time that I reached home none of the snow fell upon either ide of us, but seemed to have been repelled about two feet all around from each of us, we both, as it were, walking in a sort of vacuum. Although I saw this palpably at the same time of its occurrence, and was quite aware that not a particle of snow touched either of us while we were together, yet strange to say, it never struck mess being singular until I had mounted the steps and found the flakes falling on me once more. At this junc ture 1 became very much alarmed, and the more so from the fact that, when I turned round, on the upper step of the flight, to endeavour to get a peep at the stranger's face, he was gone. Ile had dis appeared with the velocity of light, and under cir cumstances the most incomprehensible, leaving a strange impression that I had seen him before, but as to when or where I was totally unable to deter mine. " Completely astonished at an adventure so strange, I entered my residence, where to my sur prise I found an old frie.nd seated in my study beside a cheerful coal fire that burned in the grate, and whom I had not seen for years, although I was iu the habit of constantly corresponding with him. We were mutually delighted at the meeting, and I was happy at making him at home in my bachelor's quarters-4 having passed into the sere and yellow leaf without having been fortunate enough to make a favourable impression upon any one of the fair sex. At the novelty of my position, and the grati fication it afforded me, all remembrance of my ad venture in the street was completely lost sight of, and I addressed myself to conversation and the meagre hospitalities that I could offer him at so late an hour of the night —my housekeeper having gone to bed. " After supper and a single glass of ale each, we retired to our respective apartments, to renew our conversation at breakfast and spend a happy Christ mas day together. Somehow or other I did not sleep very well ; but as I am rather abstemious, and quite unused to late suppers, I fancied that my restlessness was occasioned by even the single glass of ale and the few mouthsful I had eaten. As the day began to dawn, however, I sank into a deep refreshing slumber, from which I was aroused about eight o'clock by the well-known voice of my aged domestic announcing the breakfast ready. I was soon up and dressed, and, as was always my wont, passed into my study before going down stairs. " Here, to my utter surprise, I perceived stand ing on the table at which my friend and I had supped two glasses—one empty and the other filled with ale—beside a plate, the contents of which ap peared not to have been touched. I was astonished and confused beyond measure at this, for, before retiring to rest, I had locked a door leading out into the hall at the head of the stairs, which effec tually cut off both my study and my bedroom from all intrusion. Unable to account for this strange condition of the table, I instantly hastened to the apartment of my friend, and knocked at the door. Receiving no reply, I entered the room, when lo and behold ! it was empty, while his bed bore all the evidence of its not having been slept in the night previously. I ran down stairs in great consternation, and learned from my house keeper that she had not made up any beds that morning, and that not a soul had left or entered the house that morning. " Utterly bewildered, I was about to make some inquiries when my attention was arrested by a knock at the hall-door. It was the postman. He handed me a letter. I opened it and sank into a chair. It con tained the announcement of my friend's d ea th , w hi c h had occurred at Washington a few days previous. After having perused the sad contents, the recollec tion of my strange adventure in the street rushed in with great force and distinctness upon my memory, while my subsequent experience in my study abso lutely, for the time being, paralysed all my reason ing faculties, although I am far from being a stranger to mysterious sights and sounds, in the reality of which I never believed, nor do I fully yet. But what conclusion can I arrive at in this instance ? As may be presumed the subject has been present with me ever since, and I now give it to the public in the hope that sonic explanation m ay b e o ff ere d i n con nection with it, rather than from any desire to make it notorious." MILITARY EXPENDITURE ON THE COLONIES.--• The Army Estimates now before the House of Com mons contain charges amounting in the whole to £3,193,278 for military purposes in the colonies. This large expenditure is distributed thus :—Canada (including a small sum for British Columbia), £635,604 ; Nova Scotia, £218,615 ; Newfoundland, £21,441 ; Bermuda, £167,819 ; West Indies, £275,898; Australasia, £170,696; China, £228,749 ; Ceylon, Straits Settlements, and Labuan, £239,964; Mauritius, £132,112 ; West Coast of Africa, £103,820 ; Cape and Natal, £289,379 ; St. Helena, £41,188; Gibraltar and Malta, £667,973. This statement is exclusive of the cost of arms, accoutre ments, barrack, hospital, and other stores, the greater portion of which is supplied from this coun try ; and it is also exclusive of any portion of re cruiting expenses, head-quarter administrative ex penses, and non-effective charges. The sums that will probably be repaid by the colonies amount to only £34B,7oo:—Ceylon and Straits Settlements, 1220,000 ; Australia, £43,N0 ; Mauritius, £45,000 ; China, £15,000; Cape and Natal, £19,500; Malta, £6,200. A meeting of the Neutrality Laws Commissioners was held on Wednesday, the 27th ult., at 2, Victoria-street, Westminster. Present—Lord Cran worth, Lord Houghton, Lord Cairns, Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, Sir William Erie, Sir R. J. Philhnore, Q.C., Sir Roundell Palmer, M.P., Q.C., Travers Twiss, Esq., Q.C., W. V. Vernon Har court, Esq., Q.C., Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., W. H. Gregory, Esq., M.P., and W. E. Forster, Esq., M.P. Mr. C. S. A. Abbott, and'Mr. F. P. Onslow, secretary to the commission, were also present. The Queen's Speech sent by the Atlantic cable consisted of eleven hundred and sixty words, and cost the American press $2,900 in gold or $3,973 in currency. Miscellaneous American News. A partial classification of the Congress now in session shows that it contains of lawyers, 112 ; merchants, 8 ; farmers, 6 ; manufacturers, 6 ; bankers, 5 ; editors, 4 ; physicians, 2 ; 1 clergy man, 1 teacher, 1 professor, 1 printer, 1 lumberman. The railroads in America employ 200,000 men, and at least 1,000,000 men, women, and children depend wholly for their support upon the railroad interest. AMERICAN COLONY AT JAFFA.—The newspapers have made frequent reference of late to this colony, but few are aware of its real character and origin. It in fact, one of those singular religious delusions that are constantly arising, of which Mormonism is the most striking and familiar example. Some four years ago a man named Adams came to Rockland, Maine, and delivered several lectures on the Jews. He was a tall, bony man, with a wild look in his eye, a rapid flow of words and immeasurable assurance. From lectur ing he went to preaching, giving himself out at first as a spiritualist, and gathering that class about him. Gradually he announced a peculiar system of his own. He was sent by God to establish the church of the Messiah. The principal doctrines of this new church are Universalism and the restoration of the Jews. After baptizing a few converts at Rock land, Adams went to Addison, Jonesboro', and there succeeded in attaching a number of followers to himself. Believing that the Jews are soon to repossess Palestine, and that all the elect are to be gathered there, Adams and his followers have gone forth to secure the best places and be ready for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. They will probably return in a year or so—those, at least, that survive—wiser and poorer men and women. A SUMMER ExcunsioN.—Some gentlemen of New York and Brooklyn propose to charter a first class steamer, capable of accommodating at least 150 cabin passengers, to leave about June Ist, for an excursion to the Holy Land, Egypt, the Crimea, Greece, and intermediate points of interest. It is expected that the voyage will occupy from four to five months, and the price of the passage is fixed at $1,250 currency for each adult passenger. Appli cations for passage must be approved by the com mittee before tickets are issued, and can be made to Charles C. Duncan, 117, Wall-street, New York. It is understood that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and family will join the excursionists. FARM IVAGES IN THE UNITED STATES.—The February official report on agriculture contains an elaborate compilation of the statistics of the wages of farm labour throughout the country. The ave rage rate of wages for white labour, -without board, is made $2B per month ; $l5 50c. per month with hoard. The average rate of freedmen's labour is $l6 ; with board furnished, $9 75c. The highest rate for States is in California, which is about $45. Massachusetts pays the next highest, $3B. The average rate for the Eastern States is $33 30c. ; in the Middle States, $3O 7c. ; in the Western States, $2B 90c. ; in the Southern States, for freedmen, $l6. The increase in the price of labour since 1860 is about 50 per cent. ; since 1835, upon Carey's estimate, 70 per cent. The rate of wages, with board, of the States forming the belt from Peon sylvania to lowa varies but 24c., ranging from Bsl 72c. to $lB 96c. The Times correspondent says that a curious suit has been begun in Boston against a firm of that city, by a Miss Charlotte Ilough, an actress, for money due to her for cotton speculations during the war. She claims that she was employed by this firm during the war to buy cotton in the Southern States, and to manipulate Government employes so as to secure its passage iu safety through the military lines. General Butler is one of her coun sel, and she alleges that the firm made $lOO,OOO by these speculations through her agency, and they now refuse to " divide." This case gives au excellent chance for some of the Congressional "investigating" committees now perambulating the country to do some useful work. Some curious statist has found that since 1821 Mexico has bad 23 Presidents, seven Dictators, two Emperors, one Vice-President, and one General issimo, or an average of one ruler every 16 mouths. Maximilian has had the longest reign of any of Norwich (Connecticut) has a couple of steam fire engines, just completed, which have just been con structed to throw salt water equally well with fresh. One of the New York papers gives some statistics as to the production of valentines to supply the vast and growing demand. A single firm, we are told, has a capital of $50,000 at least invested in this manufacture, and this year produced 1,000,000 comic valentines at 3c., 1,270,000 sentimental valentines at from sc. to 25c., 209,000 at from 30c. to $l, 2,570 at $1 50c., 4,500 at $2, 1,500 at $3, 1 ; 200 at $4, 500 at $7 50., 400 at $lO, 100 at $l5, 50 at $2O, 30 at $25, 30 at $5O, 10 at $75, 2 at $lOO. This gives a total of over two-and-a-half million valentines, ranging in price from 2c. to $lOO, the whole value of which, as sold at retail, is more than $300,000. And this is the production only of a single firm. The Salt Lake Vedette speaks of Colorado and her prospects in the following glowing terms :—" Eight years ago the first handful of white settlers sank their picks in the sands of Cherry Creek, in Colorado, and to-day that great and growing Territory commands a civilisation second to no State in Old New Eng land. Its mines and mining enterprises have at tracted millions and millions of American and Eng lish capital. Its free schools are respectable among the average in the Republic, and its scores of hand some churches are a glory to the great Far West." There are such wonderful natural resources in the country, such boundless wealth, only asking for the capital and industry of men to make it acceptable. The stream of emigration is still settling westward, and the Pacific Railroad, a scheme of continental greatness, is being pushed forward with wonderful rapidity. The valley of the Platte, through the plains is the natural highway across the continent; it is on the line of our great cities and our great industries east and west, and it is the lortgest and most continuous route in the country. The Iron Age observes " that the United States has thrown off another shackle that has heretofore bound it to England. Bessemer steel rails of American manufacture, and of the best quality, way now be purchased of the Cambria Iron Com pany and the Pennsylvania Steel Company, two of the most vigorous and substantial manufacturing firms in the Union. The Cambria Iron Company owns the well known establishment at Johnstown, and has now the largest capacity for producing rails of any mill in the country, and employs some 3,000 men. The Hon. Daniel J. Morrell is the able ma nager. The Pennsylvania Steel Works have an extensive establishment near Harrisburgh, Pa., and are represented by such men as S. M. Felton, the eminent railroad president and financier, and Dr. Lamborn, who is personally known to many of our readers among iron and steel men. The high character of all parties connected with the new ma nufacture, and the vast resources at their command are ample guarantees for its vigorous prosecution and the excellence of the article they offer the public. It also says:—The " Free Traders " object to every addition to the Tariff, as necessarily involving au addition to the cost of manufactured goods, and increasing, as they allege, the burdens of the farmers. We have again and again exploded the fallacy of this position, and shown that the certain effect of seeming to the domestic producer his own market will be to stimulate such a home competi tion as will necessarily reduce the price of com modities to the lowest point at which they can be made. But it is all in vain ; experience and facts are of no account in the estimation of these pro- British theorists, and in spite of all the evidence we have given of the falseness of their position, they still continue to maintain it. _ . The Y Washington Star has the following : The meeting of Conservative Republican Con gressmen, friends of the President, and promi nent Southern gentlemen now here, at the Metro politan Club Room, seems to have been of a con versational character, and intended to ascertain if by some slight mutual concessions, not amounting to any sacrifice of principle, a measure of recon struction could not be agreed upon that would meet the views of both the Legislative and the Executive branches of the Government. The com parison of views expressed served to cause the belief that the interview may lead to practical results hereafter, though no definite steps were taken last night. The water during the recent freshet in Vermont rose as high as the second storey of a hotel in West Hartford, and a daughter of the proprietor Was drowned. The wall of a paper mill at Greenville, Connecticut, was undermined by the freshet and fell into the river on Tuesday. The damage by.the heavy rains in the south-eastern portion of Connec ticut is estimated at $200,000. Cambridge has appropriated $12,000 for the erec tion of a fire alarm telegraph in that city. In lowa the rain storm was furious to the west of Dubuque, flooding the prairies and breaking LIP rivers. A long bridge at Dyersville has been swept away. The loss is very heavy. A race for a distance of seventy-five yards and a wager of $lOO was run at Cayuga Lake, New York, the other day, between a man on skates and a man without skates. Two thousand people saw it, and bets ran high in favour of the skater, who was a " champion," but the skateless man Won by ten feet. The bark Pioneer, the first steam vessel that ever engaged in the whaling fishery, is refitting at Nov London, and will leave on her second cruise about the middle of this month, under command of Capt. Ebenezer Morgan, of Groton. The winter fishing along the coast has been un usually good. this season. Some of the fishermen have realised as high as $65 for a single day's work. From St. John's, Newfoundland, we hear that, owing to the partial failure of the fishery, and the almost entire loss of the potato crop, great destitu tion prevails. ' There were 46,608 barrels of mackerel inspected in Maine last year ; 8,000 less than in 1865. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. Fine wheat was in fair demand, and in some cases is dearer; all secondary qualities nearly unsaleable. Barley dull. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. There was not much wheat on offer. Sales were made steadily, and fine sorts were is per qr. dearer ; other kinds unaltered. Not much demand for barley, malting sorts were is per qr. lower. Oats sold at former quo tations. Beans a fair trade at late prices. Peas a slow trade. New white wheat, 69s to 72s ; new red, 54s to 6 4 s p e r 36 stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 54s per qr ; grinding', 32s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 365. Beans, Os to 50s per 38 stone. DERBY—FRIDAY. Our market was moderately supplied with wheat, and the demand was firm, at rather more money. A Illidd li°6 show of barley. No material change in the price of oats. Not much passing in beans, and prices were about 016500 as previously. New white wheat 6ss to 68s ; old red, 60s to 6 5 s per 36 stone. Barley formalting, 38s to 52s per qr. ; grin din g' 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 27s to 29s ; old, 29s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 58s to 60s ; now, 41s to 513 per 38 stone. L IVERP 0 0 L.—FRIDAY. We had a moderate attendance at our market to-daYt and wheat experienced a rather better inquiry at full rate B d Flour quiet and unchan ge d. I n di an corn con tinues in V c ' demand at higher rates. O a t s an d oatmea l i n fair requ est, at slightly improved prices. RIPON—FRIDAY. White wheat, 8s 6d to 9s 3d per bushel ; red, Gs 6d to 76 9d ; beans, 7s 3d to 7s 9d ; oats, 25s to 33s per qr ; barleY 35s to 44s Od. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat on offer, the demand for wh,„i c , ll ,, was improved at rather higher prices for best sorts. trade in barley was heavy, at rather lower quotationr- Oats sold at last week's prices. Beans at recent cu 63s per SG rencies. New white wheat, 64s to 66s ' • red do., 58s to stone. Barley, malting 50s to 535; grinding, 27s to 353 per qr. Oats, new, 24s ' to 28s ; old, 28s to 32s per 24 stoae• Beans, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. There has been a better feeling in the market for sugar this week, and a fair business has been done, at steady prices. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Walls End Haswell... 21 0 Eden Main Walls End Helton ... 21 0 Itradyell's Hettou 2O 6" Ilolywell Main l6 6 Helton Lyons ........ 18 Tunstall Ships ut market., 33—sold. 26. Foreign Mail Packet List. -- ~ MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa Mar. 21 Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16 ' Brazil and Capz Verds, by British packet April 7. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Rope, Ascension, and :it. Helena Mar. 30 China. Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton Mar. 6. Ditto, via Marseilles . . Mar. 16 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 6. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton M. ir. 6 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 6 Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mar. 10 Shins, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 6 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. jO, , Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via MarseiLes, Mar. 16 Newfoundland ... .... Mar. 11 Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ....... United states and British North America, by Bri tish packet. .•.....• . ........ • ..Mar. IS. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, py Canadian packet, via Londonderry _Mar. 8 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) ............. ....• •...... Mar. 16. April 4 Baharm..4. via New Y ork. ........................ Cuba aid Mexico .................................. April 1 Bermuda, via Halifax ....... ... .... .. ............ Mar. 13. . West Coast of Africa, Madeira. and Tenerifre ....April 3 The Lancet mentions that in 1865, 9,4001 b. of coculus indicus was imported, into England, enough to adulterate 120,000 barrels of beer. It is not em ployed as a medicine, and is known to possess most deleterious qualities. The suspicion is that it is used by the brewers surreptitiously. THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE.—A great many people are said to be planting the Chinese sugar cane in Texas this year. One gentleman living a f ew miles from San Antonio planted half an acre with it last year, and made from its yield thirty gallons of molasses. [ADVERTISEMENT:I — HoIIoway ' s Pills for Indigestion, Stomach, and Liver Complaints.—Persons suffering from any derangement of the liver, stomach , or the organs of digestion nonmedd have recourse to Holloway's Pills, as there is . icine known that acts on these particular complaints with such certain success. Its peculiar pro © strengthen the tone of the stomach, increase.tho appetite, and purify the liver. For bowel complaints it is admirable, as it removes every primary cause, thereoY restoring the patient to the soundest health and strength. Nervous or sick-headaches and lowness of spirits niaYially recommended as restoratives of constitut ions shattered an broken up by excessive mental labour , intem p erance, 1A" ordinate indulgence, or other hardship s. cured by taking these pills ; they a re also confide rs t, Births. BLANTYItE—On the 6th inst., in London , Lady Blantyre, of a daughter. RASHLEIGH—OR the 7th inst., at Farningham, Ken t, the wife of W. B. Rashleigh, Esq., of a son. WARD—On the 6th inst., the wife of E. M. Ward, BA" R.A., of a daughter. oth - WALLACE—On the sth inst., at Springfield Cottage, well, N. 8., the wife of Captain Wallace,Ger'"— Highlanders, of a son. Marriages. S' intS ' ' BULMER—BROWNE—On the 7th inst., at All --- Rotherhithe, J. Bulmer,Esq. of The Warren, L o ughtor j l, Essex, to Sarah Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the 15t0 R. Browne, Esq., of Fornham All ,":.aints', in the county of Suffolk. hill SHARPE—PARKER—On the 7 th ins t., at Ross , 51"3,”-- Chapel, Hampstead, Sutton, yo un g er son of a ,A,• 1. 5 1 Esq., of Hampstead, to Anne, e ldest (laughter a ' J Parker, Esq., of 23, Clialeot-erescent, Regent's•park: • Deaths. Fin cbleY , ATcuELER—On the 7th inst., at Sel ina Villa, Middlesex, John Ateheler, Esq. BYCROFT—On the 7th inst., at 68 , Edgware-road, Mr. JOll3 Byeroft, aged 53. BON SEY —On the 7th inst., at Belle Vue, Slough, William Bonsoy, Esq., aged 76. f• a 0 CLEMENT—On the sth inst ., at Teddington , the Wif George S. Clement, Esq. MARTIN —On the 7th inst., a t Wicken Bonhunt, Essel' Joseph Martin, barristar-at-law, Lincolu's-inn, aged 9 1 . PELLEW— On the Gth inst., at Upper Norwo od, the 10°' Mrs. Edward Be. STAFFORD—On the llew Gth inst., at 31, Hyde-park - sq uare, Robert Stafford, Esq., aged 73. TAYLOR—On the Bth inst., at 9, Lansdowne-road Nurtb7 South Lambeth, the Rev. M. C. Taylor, aged 46. sf' London : Printed and Published by NV IL L lAII of No. 112, Strand, ranter at TILE SUN Olroc, SO. 1 12 : Strand, in the PreClaGt of the Savoy, in the COUlti of 51iddleeex..—Saturclity, aluch 9, 1867.