The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

Sheffield Trades' Union Commiss►on. MONDAY. Mr. William Bragge, managing director of the ironworks of John Brown and Co. (Atlas Works), gave evidence of a strike of the puddlers in their employ, against a reduction, in February and March last. Other puddlers from a distance were brought to take the place of the men on strike, and the puddlers' union picketed the works, and the men on strike assaulted a number of the new (uon-union) men. In consequence of this witness had to employ policemen to guard the place, and to establish a commissariat and provide bedd for the new men. Witness had since abstained from employing union men, and had been able to obtain a sufficient num ber of non-unionists. There were from 800 to 1,000 men employed in this branch, and more than 3,000 at the works altogether. Neither witness nor any of the principals had been assaulted or threatened in any way. James Dunhill, a puddler, said that in February last he was working for Messrs. John Brown and Co. lie was not then a union man. When the puddlers had struck, witness continued to work, and he was molested " with a good hiding." About three weeks after the men went out .he was at Tryer's, and a man named James Harris, who was one of seven or eight, struck him. The others then fell on him, calling him a " blackleg," and saying that he was taking the bread out of their mouths. Ile and a companion were shortly afterwards assaulted again by the same men. He proceeded against them before the magistrates, and they were bound over to keep the peace. Edmund Higgott, another non-unionist, gave evidence of the same occurrences. He also was as saulted, and was unable to work for nine days, and John Skidmore having given evidence of ordinary intimidation, Thomas Rock, a puddler, said he came from Derby a little before Easter to work at Mr. Brown's, and was met at the station by some men, whdP told him he was doing wrong to go there, took him to a public-house, paid for his bed and breakfast, and then booked him back to Derby. Mr. Overend then stated that he would answer applications for certificates. Mr. Sugg applied for a certificate on behalf of Mr. Broadhead. Mr. Overend said the Court considered that Mr. 1 Broadhead was entitled to a certificate, but not to his costs. Where a witness had come forward in the first instance, and had told the whole truth, he would receive a certificate and his costs ; but where be had committed deliberate perjury, and had then made a full confession in order to save himself from the consequences of that perjury, he would not re ceive his costs. Mr. Overend further stated that each certificate would contain a list of the offences on which the holder bad been examined. Mr. Sugg then applied for a certificate for Mr. Thomas Smith, secretary to the Sawmakcrs' Society, and an accessory after the fact to tbe Hereford-street outrage. The certificate was granted. Mr. Sugg applied for a certificate for Mr. George Peace, late a farmer at Dore, who had confessed to employing a man to shoot Elisha Parker. Mr.o verend said the certificate would be granted. Mr. Sugg applied for certificates for the secretaries of the file trade, on the ground of the papers having raised a question whether picketing was not an of fence within the act.—• Certificates were granted. Mr. Sugg asked for a certificate for Eenshawe,the man who blew up Wastnidge's house.—Granted. In the matter of certain secretaries who had do- stroyed books the Court held that a certificate was not required. The certificate of Joseph Thompson, secretary to the Scissor Forgers' Union, was withheld, ou the ground that he had not made a full disclosure,. Skidmore and Barker, the former president of the Saw Makers' Union, and the latter secretary to the Saw Handle Makers' Union, received err, iiieates. Certificates were promised for Hallam and Crookes. George, alias " Putty" Shaw applied for a certi ficate for raaening, which was granted. Joseph Copley, William Fearnley, and Tucker Clarke received certificates for the various offences to which the; had confessed. The decision in the case of Samuel Cutler, concerned in the Acorn-street affair, was deferred till Tuesday. There being no more applications for certificates, Mr. Overend said— We have now discharged the duties imposed upon us by the Commissioners when they appointed us to make the investigation into the outrages in Sheffield, and we cannot conclude our labours without offering our thanks to the mayor and town council of the borough for the kind manner in which they have granted us this room, and rendered us assistance in every way. We are also exceedingly obliged to the watch committee for granting us the services of the various policemen and others whom we have required. All of them—the mayor, the corporation, and the watch committee—have been of great service to us in the work which we have had to carry on. We think it also right to make an obser vation as to Mr. Barker, our secretary. We feel under considerable obligation to him, for he has dis charged his duties with the greatest possible ability, and has assisted us in every possible way. Without him Ido not know how we could have carried on the inquiry—at all events with the same expedition as we have done. We think that we, and not only we, but the town and country also, are greatly in debted to him for the manner in which he has dis charged his duties. There is another gentleman, the Chief Constable of this town, to whom also we are under very great obligations. Ile has shown great zeal, he has shown great discretion, he has shown great intelligence, and throughout the whole of this inquiry he has afforded us the greatest pos sible assistance. We think he is an officer of the. utmost value, and that not only has Sheffield cause to be proud of such an officer, but without such an officer a town subject to such lawless conduct as this would be in considerable jeopardy. Mr. Shrubsule has also been very useful to us ; he has saved us a good deal of trouble, and facilitated the progress of the inquiry. It is not our intention to make any ob servations as to what conclusion we have arrived at from the evidence that has been laid before us. Our duties are first to the Commissioners, to whom our report, which is now in pre paration, will be handed. No doubt it will be put into print and then circulated, and the town will have ample opportunity of considering our conclu sions. We do not, therefore, think it proper on our part to make any observations on those conclusions, but we purposely abstain from stating what the effect on our minds has been. We are not only obliged to the various gentlemen whose names I have mentioned, but we are also very much obliged to the press for the manner in which it has reported our proceedings. We have found great advantage from having, from day to day, short-hand writer's notes in the press, and from having the opportunity of seeing at once everything done. We have received great support from both the leading papers of this town by the way in which they have sustained us in this inquiry. No doubt there have been very serious revelations made of terrible crimes, things the country never in any degree anticipated, and although it has been a great disgrace to the town, I trust the fact of there having been these revelations will be the means of improving the position of the Unions, and will enable the Commissioners to pre sent such a report to the Legislature as will enable it to provide laws and regulations to put the Unions in a better position. At all events, not only the crimes of murder of the character we have heal d, but also the other various crimes it has been our duty to investigate, have now come to light, and I believe, and my colleagues believe, great good will come of this (lio sever painful the inquiry has been) to the town and the country generally. These are the only observations we think it right we should 'bake. As to the result of the evidence, as I said before, we abstain from saying anything, because in the first instance it is our duty to communicate with the Commissioners. At the conclusion of the learned Chief Commis sioner's obse rvat i on i there was considera bl e a p p l ause from the spectators, which was not checked. Mr. Chambers —These proceedings having now been concluded, if you w ill a ll ow me, sir, I wish to offer my th an k s for the courtesy re ceived at the hands of ' I have yourself and of your I learned colleagues.may express my sorrow that the gentleman for whom I appear (Mr. Fretson) was prevented by a serious affliction of Providence from conducting the labours I have en deavoured to fulfil. I am also requested on the part of those gentlemen for whom I appear to tender their thanks for the very successful and impartial manner in which you and your colleagues have con ducted this inquiry. Ido not intend to make any observations except to express a hope that your re port will be followed by a useful act of legislation that will confer great benefits on this town and on the country. I may venture to express the opinion that upon no body of men will greater benefits be conferred than on the working classes themselves. Mr. Sugg.—On behalf of the Defence Committee, I can only cordially endorse all that has been said by Mr. Chambers. I quite believe with him that this will be the means of purging the town of Shef field and the neighbourhood from a great many hor rible crimes. I also hope it will reform in a great degree the Trades' Unions, that they will be put from the date of this inquiry upon a sounder basis than ever, and that it will make them what they ought to be—unions for their benefit, and that alone. There are other matters connected with the trades which we shall be glad to have the opportunity of speaking upon, and I hope you will mention in your report that some of the Trades' Unionists of Sheffield wish to have the opportunity of explaining their ob jects more than they have been able to do here. Mr. Overend—Our duties were to inquire into the outrages connected with the Trades' Unions. We have gone also into certain facts we could hardly avoid, but the condition of Trades' Unions generally is for the Commission in London. We have con fined ourselves to the to the part allotted to us. Mr. Sugg—l will only add in conclusion that my clients, the Trades' Unions, have not the least re gret that they assisted in applying for the granting of this Commission. Mr. Overend—l now hereby close the inquiry. The proceedings terminated at half-past 3 o'clock. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The large amount of unemployed capital depo sited in all the banks in Europe prevents any down ward movement in Stock Exchange securities ; the bullion in the Bank of France has reached:the large sum of £34,800,000, and the Porte-feuille has fallen from £19,280,000 to £19,040,000. This decrease has taken place principally in the country branches of the establishment. Business has been rather flat of late, but a return of greater acti vity is expected, as there exists no apparent reason for a fall in prices. Money is cheap and abun dant, and political questions are less threatening. The speech of Lord Stanley is still looked upon as a guarantee of peace, and the publication of the papers referring to the London Conferences, which were only laid on the table, in France, last week, are now looked upon more as events of the past than presenting any new feature. Thom docu ments have no kind of influence on men of busi ness, as it is expected that the discussion that will take place in the chambers on that subject will not cause any awkward incident. The news from Italy is still full of uncertainty. The Budget is discussed in a spirit which shows that there remains no kind of Conservative prin ciple in that country. The committee is still of opinion that there is no other mode of raising the £94,000,000 but by the spoliation of the Church, and that the best plan is to leave the Government free to carry out in the best way they are able that measure. So it remains to be seen if Parliament will allow their privilege to be broken without any opposition. In Rome all is quiet. About 400 bishops are now surrounding the successor of St. Peter, to celebrate the eighteen hundredth anni versary. It is from that quarter alone that the moral power of the world can hope to receive any help. Other negotiations have taken place betweeu the Courts of Rome and of Florence to try to come to some better understanding; but nothing has taken place beyond a few visits be tween Cardinal Antonelli and General I)urando. In Spain the principal preoccupation is the ro posed law for the settlement and conversion of outstanding debts. Several modifications have been proposed by the committee; and it is said that they intend to increase the pecuniary aid to railway companies. Although the discussion of the budget is over, M. Bazzanallana has not as yet ma le known the measures by which he intends to carry out his financial plans. In Prussia the return of the King to Berlin has been followed by another political success. After a protracted discussion, Bavaria has given in and agreed to the new cus tom laws. The Emperor of Austria has returned to Vienna after receiving every mark of sincere friendship and devotedness from his subjects in Hungary, and he has given orders to suspend the works of fortification at Vienna. The Sultan is now in Paris. Before leaving Constantinople he promulgated the law to enable foreigners to pur chase freehold property in Turkey. It is said that his visit to Paris will cost half a million sterling. There is a report that the Viceroy of Egypt has been unsuccessful in obtaining a loan in Paris. In France Parliament has sanctioned the proposed arrangement between the Victor-Emmanuel Rail way Company and the Italian Government to Le carried out, so as to place that line, which unites the French lines with the tunnel under Mont Cenis, in the hands of the Paris and Lyons Railway Company. However, the measure is only to be carried out provided the shareholders give their consent, and a general meeting will be called for the purpose. Although the report of the com mittee on the budget does not speak of any loan, it is possible that a loan will become necessary, as the floating debt is now 887 millions of francs, or £35,480,000, against £35,680,000 on the Ist of June, 1866. Government cannot safely increase this debt, and they will be compelled to bring out a loan if more money is required. Already the committee, in their report to the Chambers speak of extraordinary and supplementary credits amounting to 158,592,719 fr., or £6,353,708, for the Ministers of War and Marine. Of this sum, £3,520,000 are for the pay and maintenance of the army, and £1,280,000 for the Artillery and Engi neers. The Marine takes £1,291,474, and nothing is said about the conversion of arms into needle guns, which, no doubt, will require a further cre dit. it is expected that a loan will be brought out in France in November next ; but the com mittee, in their report, give no explanation as to the ways and means, so there is no clue to show what will be the probable amount of the loan. The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company held their half-yearly meeting on Friday, the 28fh of June. The chairman explained that in November last year the losses were £205,000 ; that on the 11th of March, which is the date of the recon struction of the company, the profits were £llO,OOO, and the net profits ascertained since that time up to this date have been £45,000 more, so that in less than ten months £155,000 have been recovered, with every prospect that the entire loss will be made up by the 31st of December next. The bank has adopted the prudent measure of restoring the alth e o n u t g i h r e theprofits capital year w an i lyl not, it t dividend, is aenxd pected, be so Inge as thi s ,there that the bank w ill b e able t is a everyffair ir dividend, prospect o N p v a h r. enrit,llcerepraircee 4150 f t a l l i l e are s i l l l o a it re l s will ers, up and o go o taga in wet y t° - four have not paid u p th e i t calls. The gross amount unpaid is £15,475, which is charged 10 per cent. A Chilian Loan has been issued for £1,109,700, of which £483,000 have bee n su b scr ib ed in Chili, 7 per cent. at 92, in nine i ns t a l men t s, extending to the Ist of April, 1868, to be redeemed by half yearly drawings, at par, in about twenty-one years, to commence in October next. Allotees will have the option of paying up in full, on allotment, at 89.5. There is nothing in the prospectus to show upon what guarantee this loan is raised, nor what may be the resources of the country ; and no kind of compensation is offered to the holders of the per cent. which was subscribed at 92, with a sink ing fund of only 1 per cent. to be employed by purchases in the open market ; also, the stock is unsaleable. There are rumours of a new railway loan for the Russian Government. The object is to purchase THE SUN, LONDON, TUESOAY EVENING, JULY 9, I&7. the present line from St. Petersburg to Moscow, with a view to advance the development of rail way enterprise throughout the dominions of the Czar. It is rumoured that the sum required is £16,000,000. A drawing has taken place of 275,950 Bonds of the Peruvian Five per Cent. Loan of 1865, to be paid off at par. Nerbudda shares are now quoted discount to premium. With regard to the establishment of the through railway route from Bombay to Cal cutta, the Bombay Gazette states there is very little doubt that it may be obtained by the beginning of the next year, with the exception of the break at the bridge over the Towa (a tributary of the Nerbudda), if the Government would urge the con- tractors not to mind waiting for the bridge, and Would sanction the running of trains from Calcutta to Bombay, to either side of the river. The respon sibility, however, of coming to such a decision rests with the Government of India, not with the Go vernment of Bombay. English railway shares have been'very flat of late. All suffer from the want of confidence brought about by the fiction of past accounts. In future, each line will have to stand upon its own merits, as directors will no longer be allowed to carry to capital account what ought to be placed against revenue account. No permanent rise will take place in railway property until the next half-yearly accounts are published, as the public will only then be able to judge of the intrinsic value of each company. Foreign stocks have generally been dealt in at lower values, each new loan brought out depreciates former loans, and when it is considered that almost every kingdom in Europe is in want of money, it is not surprising that foreign stocks remain so low, although discounts are at 2} per cent.—Westmin ster Gazette. LOUIS VEUILLOT'S LETTERS ON ROME. In Paris are sometimes to be seen, wearing a costume half Parisian, peasant girls who pretend to be Neapolitans or Romans, but who do not put one at all in mind of the Madonnas of Raphael. They have now and then a remnant of picturesque ness about them ; God grant that they have a remnant of virtue in their hearts, but chi lo sa 7 Such as they are, shod in boots trodden down at heel, and wrapped in a plaid cloak, living by inendicity, or still more wretched labour—slaves, into the bargain, of a master who trades on their vices and makes a harvest of their misery —these poor exiles afford us a true picture of the Italy of Victor Emmanuel. The male of this species is _ _ _ especially conspicuous in the neighbourhood of Flo rence. At the station of Pistoja, I came across a remarkable type of this kind. He was a fellow' of about thirty years of age, magnificent in stature, face, and beard, with dark eyes—an Antinoiis in moustachios and light- coloured waistcoat—and yet his whole person, even to his elegant and fashionable dress, bore a ridiculous appearance. This pretentious simpleton amused himself by walking beside a long file of carriages filled with priests, muttering grotesque invocations, full of insults to the names of Jesus and Mary, and making game of the faith of the travellers. Beside him was a poor devil of an official, who smiled with forced complacency. A significant look, and a word still more significant, made him understand that he was observed ; on which he hung down his head and was silent ; but, as soon the train was in motion, he looked up again, stroking superbly his superb moustache, with the air which General Fracassini might have put on had he witnessed the Austrians in flight. The journey across Italy is poisoned by the fre quency of such apparitions. Priests who have been insulted, have been insulted, not by the people, but by such gentry as these, who hold offices of all kinds, which have been created for them here as elsewhere. They end by drawing down upon them selves some severe rebukes, which they richly de serve, and then they become very cautious. For, even in their war against the priests, which is their chief glory, the heroes of new Italy keep a careful loot-out to save their rear. So spadone a glue ganthe always forms a part of their equipment, and skeddadling is their principal manceuvrre (la pourdre d'escampette est la principals de leurs munitions). Neither the grossness nor the swaggering imper tinence of the Italianissina have as yet debased the ancient, noble physiognomy of the Roman people. Italian courtesy has taken refuge in Rome. No trait of irreverence is to be seen ; the walls make no obscene grimaces, and utter no shouts of death. The whole city wears a look of cordial good hu mour, strangely pleasant to see. The coachmen, as busy as everywhere else, neither blaspheme, nor strike, nor make a row, nor refuse to drivo, and generally ask no more than their due. I have very many other Peculiarities to note, but this is enough of surprises for a day. Progress must needs, however, enter Rome. It is there already. I have just come across it; it cost me a baiocco. In the Piazzetta di San Carlo al Corso, a little table before the door of a café, placed in the air and the shade, enticed me irre sistibly to breakfast. A cup of cafe au fait, little roll, two delicious fresh figs, dropping pearls of honey—two o those figs which the Emperor Augustus loved so much—a large glass of spark ling water—the animated spectacle in the street —the sight of a neighbouring balcony hung with _ _ brilliant cloths, now silent, but which spoke to me, for I have seen there life and death—how mach do you think all this cost me ? I paid five sous, and that was too dear. It was a baiocco too much—the baiocco of progress. But to speak seriously. You cannot imagine the abundance of life which flows at this moment through Rome. The splashing and leaping foun tains which make glad the city are but a faint image of this torrent. At Paris you have move ment ; it is not wanting here. You may regale yourself with the noise of carriages like the waters in the gardens of Conde, they are never quiet, day or night—but here, of three of those carriages which drive by with such noise, you may reckon that one at least, and often two or three, carry ideas. This is what Paris does not offer in the same measure. All the visitors at Paris are there out of curiosity or for worldly matters ; all the visitors at Rome are there for the sake of its gran deur, its beauty, its holiness—on account of spiri tual things, matters of eternity. One may well be intoxicated with the wonders of the Universal Exhibition. I will not deny their beauty ; but it is one thing to visit the Chinese department, or even the gallery of the history of industry, and quite another thing to visit the Vatican, the Colosseum, the Mamertine prisons, the Appian Way. The imposing presence of Kings, surrounded by their generals, does not inspire thoughts of so high an order as the sight of Pius IX. surrounded by his bishops, all impressed with a consciousness of the Divine Presence. And, again, it is quite another thing to speculate on the secret views of the masters of human policy, and on the effect of the last conferences of London, than to estimate the effect of that divine policy which convokes an (Ecumenical Council to reinstate the disquieted reason of mankind. The council is the subject of general conversation. It puts completely aside a quantity of minor questions and of miscellaneous topics which engage atten tion at other times. Anecdotes and reminiscences are forsaken, to enter upon universal history. At this very moment is being written one of the grand and noblo pages of the world's annals. The most important event which the nineteenth century will bequeath to the future is this council. Dc Ronald said that the Revolution, which began by the proclamation of the Rights of Man, would end by y e the ras a proclamationlmest to of mt madness, ne s s Rights to o f a ss eGod.rt thatwould e dra w i ng ßevolution is near its ' end ; but the day when the council shall be fixed we may say the counter revolution has begun, and liberty ought to rejoice thereover, for the Revolution is the great enemy, the very negation of liberty. A path will at last be opened for us to come out of anarchy without falling under tyranny ; and all just and honest minds, now cast down by their fatal isolation, will know the ground where they may and ought to unite. It was an idea en- tertained by Rossi in the last years of his life. One day, on the eve of 1848, talking with an eminent priest of Rome, he was induced to recount to his friend all the struggles and misgivings of modern thought which he had experienced. At the end of this kind of confession, he added :—" I can say that I have seen all things except a General Council ; and Ido not despair of seeing one yet." lle would, indeed, have seen one had it not been for the dagger of the Revolution. But the dagger of the Revolution is powerless against the designs of God. The eminent man who listened to Rossi was very much struck at what he said. It was twenty years ago, and it was not then generally thought that the world would so soon be ripe for a council. Rossi was no ordinary man. He had known something of the Church, and he had for gotten it, but he learnt to know it again, and to know none better. One of the offices often Divinely imposed on the devil is to teach the catechism ; and he does his work well. Instructed by the reviving light of faith, Rossi perceived that the Church alone was capable of pronouncing the fat lux which should extricate the world from the chaos into which it had fallen. The moment is come. Amidst all its marvels, human skill has not been able to produce a light house capable of guiding the mind of man. In the face of this want Pius IX. speaks, and the mighty word, the fiat lux, passes his lips, and we may almost see the light rising above the dark horizon. To my mind, many men who may have desired to have lived at another epoch, ought now to rejoice at living in this ; for it will be one of the famous turning points of history ; it will witness, at the very least, the laying of the first stone of the reconstruction of society. There is here, ' , will not say a hope, but a kind of unanimous convic tion, that Pius IX. will open, preside over, and sanction the council whose name, now about to be inscribed, will last as long as the world lasts, beside, or perhaps above, the great names of Nice and of Trent. Once again, in this memorable Pon tificate, the astonished world will see events arrested, or their tumult calmed, so that the Vicar of Jesus Christ is enabled to do that which he wishes to do to the glory of God and for the welfare of the immortal Church of Christ. Europe has now some reason to count on about two years of peace, because it is necessary that the council should be held whenever Pius IX. shall day. We i nv it e F ree -thi n k ers w h o still venture th think to consider this : From th e windows of the Vati can Pi us IX . can see the tents of the Piedmo n t ese—the tents of barbarism —pitched upon his usurped territories. He is, without arms and without frontiers, protected against the powerful enemy who wishes to take from him Rome itself ; he hears the cries - which welcome the impending fall of the edifice of Christianity ; he may ask himself, as every one else does, by what miracle it is that he has not yet succumbed ; and it is at such a moment that the bowels o f the earth are moved at the voice of the Pontiff to beget anew the civilization of the Cross. It was said that St. Peter's should be demolished ; and we find the vast Basilica is become too small for the crowd of the faithful. Its dimensions ought rather to be enlarged to admit the world to assemble around this immutable and immortal ,omb. I am so filled with admiration at the fine things which the newspapers are relating about me, as not to be able to resist a feeling of vain-glory. According to the Memorial Diplomatique, the Im perial Government condescends to be uneasy at the systematic opposition with which I persecute it, and makes complaints on this head to the Ponti• fical Government, which, no doubt, will let me know that I am .doing wro n g. In such an anxious moment as this, in the midst of the Universal Exhibition and of the centenary of St. Peter, I am troubling, it appears, the Pope and the Emperor, who are awaiting the arrival of the Grand lurk and the Convocation of the Council. What a wonderful position for an insignificant journalist of 8,000 subscribers to be in ? My fellow-labourer in the press, M. Auguste Vitu and his abbis, perhaps, less innocently prepare for me another crown. They cannot imagine that I have left my grand office in Paris decked with names of 8,000 sub scribers,Th within an e asy drive o f th e E xhibition, in the sole view of kissing the f oot of the statue of St. Peter, fore andthe Crossofreciot of the C a il/oilre a and i 1 wanted, it seems, to prevent the Pope from coming to the Universal Exhibition, and to dissuade him from convoking the Council. This is by far too much ; these gentlemen are really too good to me. I should have thought that they wou l d not have imputed plant of such importance but to men such as M. Havin and M. Girardin, entitled to have implicit confidence in themselves. It costs me not a little to dissipate illusions which our profession, somewhat in ill -repute, might stand in need of, at a time wken M. vitu himself is compelled, in order to get himself read, to make use of gossip and aampfleurism. I should be only too happy to raise the credit of these poor jour nalists, by exhibiting to all the world a journalist so well up in the affairs of the day. By such means, people will learn to appreciate better these ques tionable personages. this would explain, in a general way, w hy photographers invest them with such proud airs, and exhibit them always with as many orders on their breast as Abd-el-Kaxler or Alexander Dumas. Unfortunately, the truth must be told, and the truth is, that all these tales are wrongly laid on my shoulder. lam at Rome, it is true. I am all right here— nothing more certain ; I have not come here for nothing--so much I also confess. But what ought also to be added is, that nobody here is a more in significant personage than myself, not only in my own eyes, but in the eyes of others. I live in a small room at the far end of a back staircase, which is not trodden by the feet of earthly potentates. I hold no council there as to what direction ought to be given to the affairs of the-world. I go out to visit influential friends, and to learn their opinions : but to tell them what I think myself I wait till they condescend to ask my opinion. I have not yet seen the Holy Father, and I do not know whether I shall have that pleasure, on account of the multitude of persons more important than I who have solicited an audience before I did, and who have more to say than I have ; and as the churches, moreover, are not shut to me, and as the bronze foot in St. Peter's is always within reach of my lips, and as, also, I am atliberty to go down on my knees in the street be fore the Blessed Sacrament, and before the Pope whenever they pass, so is the purpose of my journey fully accomplished. Among the numerous reasons on account of which I . am a Catholic, and all of which completely satisfy my reason, there is one which is especially dear to me, and that is, that the Catholic faith absolutely destroys in me any desire of governing my Church, and, by way of parenthesis, let me observe I cannot comprehend why so enlightened an intelligence as M. Guizot's does not submit to such a reason. lam now making my eighth pilgrimage to Rome, and please God it shall not be my last. I should not have visited Rome so many times in spite of its incomparable beauty, nor should I feel such a joy as that which irresistibly attracts me hither had I to bring here advice and warnings. It is proposed to Catholics to maintain and to de fend, even to the shedding of their very blood, the belief in the infallibility of Peter. For my part, I have long ago taken this vow, and 1 look upon it as one of the baptismal vows. It cannot be renewed explicitly, but I see no way of being a Catholic without fulfilling it. But I am only at Rome to hear ; to hear is to believe, to believe is to obey. I am told journalism is essentially a calling which consists in giving advice. I r eadily grant it, and in truth I do not abstain from giving advice. I profess even to give it in case others should not give it. I should be the more inclined to be proud of it since I know what it costs ; but it is not in Rome that I find it necessary to give advice. Though estimating my profession, and the manner in which I wish to practise it so high as to prefer it to every other, and to sacrifice much to it, yet I flatter myself that I know its limits, and how to observe them. I write a Catholic newspaper, not as having a mission, but because I have permission. I wish this very pointed difference to be perceived, and if the permission should be extended so far as to give me leave to mix myself up in the govern merit of the Church, then I would pass the permis sion to the bold spirits of the abbe's of the Etendard. Sooner than make use of it myself, I believe that I would cut off my hand, or do literary business in the Revue des De.ux Mondes, between the prosaic M. Mazade and the poetic M. Pailleron. I have still more singular scruples. Even in politics I recognize limits, so that when the Me'mo- rial Diplonzatique accuses me of offering systematic opposition to the Imperial Government it is again an honour which I do not deserve. I cannot even understand its mistake, unless in supposing that the writer does not read the Unicers, and that he is ignorant of the obligations of the Christian con science. Systematic opposition is to be guilty of injustice, is to be guilty of untruth. I have not asked permission to do this simply because we are not permitted to lie. This is what I told the Mi nister of the Interior after the authorization had been given to me to revive the Univers, and we are all firmly resolved to follow this line, which in for mer times also we had strictly observed. It is not a very favourable one for the development of lite rary talent, and injures, also, the popularity of a paper, but the conscience under such . a restriction finds a kind of tranquillity which gives it strength for other purposes. If, then, I should have the happiness to see the Holy Father, and to hear a word from his lips especially addressed to me, I am almost certain that it will have no reference to the complaints of the Memorial Diplonzatique, and I can tell before hand to the abbjs of the Etendard all that will pass. I shall kneel down ; I shall kiss the foot of the Holy Father ; I shall tell him that I have been audacious enough to rob him of a moment, because the leper in the Gospel had praise given to him be cause, after he was cured, he came back to give thanks for the good that had been done unto him. The Pope will advise me strictly to follow truth, to love uprightness unswervingly, to observe charity. He will deign to bless me, myself, and my brethren, and all those whom he kindly remembers are dear to my heart. I shall kiss again the hem of his royal robe, and I shall go away full of gratitude, of cou rage, of joy, and of love. MAXIMILIAN IN MEXICO. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The New Monthly Magazine, which gave in its June number a paper on Russian-America, favours its readers in its July issue with another on Mexico Inder Maximilian. The thoughts of the periodica are fixed on the United States while discussing the ice -bound, barren land of rocks to the North, and the wealth of fertile soil teeming underground with mineral riches, of the country to the South. The colossal Republic that lies between these lands of glaring contrast is far more attractive to the reviewer than the hunting grounds of a fur- ,raciing company, or the scene of human de generacy, which is all that makes Mexico at present of any interest in the world. " Thero can be no question of the ulterior views entertained by the partisans of the Monroe doctrine in the United States in thus giving their support to the party of anarchy in Mexico as opposed to that of peace and order,' Thus writes the New Monthly, and any American can tell instinctively what the next sen tence is—" It is that the country may fall to pieces, and that they may gather it up within their grasp, fragment by fragment. There ought not to be either ignorance of, nor indifference to, the fact that the Mexican question constitutes with that of British America the basis of a new order of things which is about to arise in the New World. It is the " Question of the West," which is of infinitely more serious import than the " Question of the East." The United States constitute the American Colossus, just as Russia constitutes the Asiatic Colossus. Mexico, as a " sick man," has nothing to envy Turkey. Maximilian, left alone, woul I unquestionably have given a good account of his rebellious satraps and plundering pachas of the West, but, backe•l by the United States, they have become successful partisans. The aim and objects of the Monroeists aro as openly avowed at Washington as are the Oriental projects of the Muscovites at St. Petersburg and Moscow. The Americans not only foresee the absorption of all North and Central America by the annexation of Mexico, but also of the Empire of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The acquisition of Russian America, of the Alutian Islands, and of the North Pacific Ocean, is thus shown to be a step in a given direction towards a long foregone result." And a very good step too, as we hail the ad vance of the Americans towards the realisation of their darling project the oneness of the North American Continent. The dream of the Monroeists is a splendid vision, which we fully be lieve, some, will wake to find a reality. But what we cannot see is• why Europeans should view with such jealousy the growing might of the great Re public. The opinions of the New Alimtkly may be gathered from the following paragraph : " Viewed in this light, it will be understood how any support given by Europe to Maximilian's em pire would have become the means of averting a future Crimean war upon a vast scale, and of post poning that war in the New World, and that formid able struggle for the supremacy at sea which must inevitably one day arise between the Old and the New World, and which at present the timidity and irresolution of European Governments serve rather to hurry on than to postpone for an indefinite pe riod." We discuss this question in our leading columns, and as we can scarcely afford space for the extracts from the interesting article before us, we will not here allude to it further. The following account of the fortress taken by the Republicans on the Ist June is given ;—" Cha pultepec, besieged and devastated by the rebels, in which we find, as in common in Mexico, the Orien tal word teppeh, ' a bill,' is a chateau built on the summit of an isolated hill by the Viceroy Don Mat teo do Galvez, and it was the Emperor Maximilian's habitual residence. Tradition says that the Aztec kings had a palace at the same place, and some dis coveries have been made which give colour to the tradition. In the park there is an aged cedar, of phenomenal dimensions, which bears the name of Montezuma. The building, half palace, half for tress, had been converted into a military school, and when Maximilian first fancied the palace both it and the park were in a sad condition, most of the wood in the latter having been cut down on the approach of the Yankees in 1847 ; but Maximilian set to work with characteristic energy, and in two years' time he made it a residence worthy of an emperor. The place could now be approached by good roads, the park was adorned with pavilions, statues, and flower beds. Chanultepee was indeed admittedly a little marvel. The city of Mexico is solidly constructed, inter sected by long, wide streets, and encumbered with convents and churches, built on a lake very much exposed to inundations. This lake—Texcoco—is the only one of live which is below the level of the city ; but as it receives the waters of all the other lakes it is liable to floods, and at these times the capital is laid under water. Many works have been carried out to do away with this inconvenience; among the most remarkable of which is the canal of Ilurketoca, constructed by Surrigarry in 1807, but which, like everything else, has been allowed to fall into decay and ruin. Of all the works undertaken —canals of dessication and embankments to pre serve the city —none have been kept in good condi tion. One of the first public acts of the Emperor Maximilian was to adopt proceedings by which this inconvenience would be for ever abated, and the lake so far drained that it was anticipated twenty square leagues of rich alluvial soil would be gained to agriculture; which would more than repay the expenses of dessication. The houses in Mexico are very pleasant to dwell in, and are well suited to the climate. They have always a yard or garden, with a gallery running round it, decorated with flowers and enlivened with birds. The rooms are large, clean, and well-f ur nished, and the whole is pretty, cool, comfortable, and well-aired. But the streets were in an execrable condition when dry, stoney and dusty to excess ; when wet, the leperos earned a livelihood by carrying the pas- sengers across on their backs, sealing their bargains sometimes half-way. The municipality voted a sum equal to £B,OOO a year for the repair of the streets, which money, as is usual, went, with the exception of a few piastres, to the strong boxes of the officials. Since Tregueros was placed at the head of the administration of the town this was no longer the case. Under the immediate superintendence of the Emperor, not only were there streets being repaired, but the whole city was undergoing embellishment with surprising rapidity. Since the beginning of 186(3, Mexico, according to an eye-witness 'Monsieur Dot:acne* chaplain to the French expeditionary corps, has undergone a sur- prising transformation. The Emperor, indeed, it is stated, had done more in six months for the welfare and convenience of the inhabitants than the Republic did in half a century. The d cul t thing here, as in all other matters, was to find men of integrity to carry out the Emperor's designs.. This difficulty was all the greater, as there were customs to uproot and privileges to break down. In Mexico the officials, being inadequately remunerated, had been long in the habit of turning their position to profitable advantage. Thus the Municipal Council adjudicated the paving, lighting, and all other public works, either to the councillors them- selves or their friends, or to those who bribed them most largely. The contractor on his side took care to repay himself for what he had to disburse with out at all prejudicing the benefits realised by the contract. The lamps were not lit when the moon shone, they were consequently often_ not lit when the moon did not shine. The Plaza Mayor, one of the finest squares in he world, was also being embellished by the Em- peror. The National Palace, which constitutes; after the Cathedral, one of the most striking edi fices, has also been repaired, and Maximilian dwelt there when not at the Alcazar of Chapultepec. So also of the Alemeda. The Empress took the latter under her personal charge, and converted it, at her private expense, into a delightful promenade. It was, indeed, high time that an energetic and intel .. ligent hand should come to Mexico to assume the reins of Government. The country was indebted to the Spaniards for all that it possesses in the shape of monuments and public edifices, and since they have been in the hands of the Mexicans they have been allowed to fall into decay and go to ruin. Ancient customs and ancient monuments alike have gradually disappeared before modern civilisation, as it is called, but in Mexico nothing takes the place of what is destroyed ; for in that unfortunate country there is no time to rebuild. Men have done nothing but bleed and ruin the country under the name of civilisation and liberty. 'the accounts given by Monsieur Domenech of the population would be amusing, were they not pain ful to read. The lower classes, leperos or peones, are, he says, brutalised, ignorant, superstitious, and idle, indifferent to everything save luxury and gambling. Of the citizens he says little, except that they live in a certain degree of comfort by industry, or by other means more or less honest. As to the colonels, generals, official prefects, governors, and ministers, they profit by revolutions, and speculate upon their position to acquire wealth. The aris tocracy is solely composed of Creoles, that is to say of half-caste European and Indian blood. The men who are marked by talent, patriotism, or high social qualifications, belong to this class. The Metes, or descendants of Mexicans and Indians, have all the vices of both races, without having any of their good qualities. The same thing is indeed said of them throughout South America. In Mexico they are, according to M. Domenech, " en vious, greedy, proud, vulgar, and cowardly." The Indians have many faults, but whatever energy or good is to be found in the lower classes it is met with among them. They are kind, polite, laborious, and less vicious than the Mexicans. When they have arms they defend their villages against the bandits called Liberals in Mexico, but for the most part they are enrolled and forced to fight under the flag of some successful insurgent. Hence they were naturally to a man, in favour of the Imperial Go vernment, which held out promises of stability and protection. The Emperor on his side interested hiMself very much in ameliorating the social condi tion of this badly-used class. They are sometimes ill treated by Europeans as well as by Mexicans. A savant who went to collect skulls met an Indian with a remarkable head, and shot him to add his skull to his collection. This story is probably bor rowed from the Maori legend, when that race ta tooed themselves, and a trade was driven in pre served heads. One, remarkably well tatooed, was sold by a chief to a collector, though on the shoulders of its owner, who was despatched at once to deliver the article purchased. The Mexicans are said to dislike European 4 because they feel morally inferior in their presence ; but the ladies prefer Europeans for this reason, and because they are better informed, less demoralised, more courageous, and less envious. Mexico is a land of robbers. Santa Anna had his ink stand purloined at a Council of Ministers, and the room was darkened to enable the thief to return it undetected. The chapels and altars are all protected by iron railings. A French marshal was robbed of the decorations on his breast at a military mess. At court balls there was a general scrimmage for gloves—shoes, fans, brace lets, brooches, and other trifles, an d anything that is laid by or that falls is at once pounced upon. At a ball given by the French officers, tile guests cut the gold embroidery from off the curtains of the room. If a Mexican has no pockets, he finds it natural to put his hands in his neighbour's ; if he has pockets, he likes to fill them with other peoples' simply from the h orror of a vacuum. A mounting the scaff o ld w i th a malefactor, priest, property, le ft his hat in the hands of a spectator, who at once went off with it to a pawnbroker's, leaving his reverence to go home bareheaded. Mexico is overrun with swarms of priestly drones. The property of the Church was estimated at 179,163,000 piastres, of which 1 49,132,000 piastres were productive capital; that is to say, invested in land and houses, farmed or rented, and 30,038,000 piastres were unproductive, comprising churches, convents, plates, &C. Between the rival factions this wealth has been dissipated. The clerical -conservative element in Mexico is, according to M. Domenech, nineteen twentieths of the population. Mexico is essentially a, clerico-reonastic country. • The clergy held, under the Spanish Government, about three-fourths of the territory. The population, poor and idle, sought admission into the convents or the priesthood. The Indians were at once their scholars and their chil dren, and they, as well as all the women, belong to the same party. The majority of the conser vative party ought, hence, to have been over whelming in Mexico. • These Roman Catholic priests marry I and many have large families, who receive from the bishops, on their pastoral rounds, blessings, much to the disgust of M. Domenech, who says that the clergy are ignorant and cor rupt ; adding that. religion in Mexico is a singular mixture of powerless devotions, shameful igno rance, unwholesome superstitions, and hideous views. The Indians go to mass with their dogs and poultry ; the glu-glu of turkeys, the ki-ki of cocks, the barking of dogs, the mewing of cats, the shrieks of birds which nestle in the roofs, and the biting of fleas, put all attempts to pray out of the question. In Southern Mexico to receive the last sacrament is equivalent to a condemnation to death ; for if the patient shows signs of recovery, he or she is put out of the way, so that they can no longer offend the Creator. Grown-up people are buried in Mexico like dogs, but children are dressed up with wings of geese to re present " angelitos," and their bodies are let out to dealers in pulque —the in toxica . inn drink of the coup - try—to attract customers. As to church decorations, the less said of them the better. The Saviour is in Mexico mostly adorned with a crinoline Saint Gabriel and Saint Michael arc dressed in white satin bodies and short petticoats. The late Emperor is described as being lofty in stature, well-made, and wiih features expressive of mildness. His manners were exceedingly winning and conciliatory. He is said to have wanted energy at first, but this has not extended to late events. The Empress Charlotte was formerly the soul of the Court and the prop of the Throne., Dignified, yet kind and generous, she used on an average to spend ten thousand francs a week on charities. She founded no end of public charities._ things which were before her time unknown in Mexico. The difficulties she met in Mexico over taxed her brain, and the malady inflicted a fatal blow on the Empire. Juarez is an Indian. He had been servant at a lawyer's, who gave him some education. Hence it was that he became a judge, then vice-president of the Republic after the flight of Commonfort in 1858, and finally President. Ile is said to be a man of 1,, ,••• talent, intelligent, and firm, or, rather, obstinate, but having neither political nor administrative abilities. His courage is as little to be depended upon as. his capacities as a statesman. Juarez is now a myth, a flag of opposition. Individually he has no influence. lie is scarcely even consulted, nor has he any partisans. Ile is a mere tool in the hands of Escobedo, Diaz, Corona, Alonrez, and others who find their profit in anarchy and dis order. Ortega, the last legal President of the Republic, before he became General and Governor of Tyuntas, was an obscure " chevalier dinthistrie." Fle made his debut by exhibiting learned monkeys on the highway. But even at that time he gave him- self up to such 'flagrant highway robberies that it was found necessary to put him into. prison. The future general made the acquaiatance, when in gaol, of a number of bad characters, who afterwards helped him to make his fortune. Thanks to forced loans, contributions, exactions, and robberies of churches, Ortega has the reputation of still being very wealthy. Mexico is very rich, yet the people are very poor. For half a century the country has been torn by revolutions, and the antagonist bands have alike ravaged the land. Had it not been rich there would not now have been an inhabitant or a piastre left. But while the mineral wealth is unbounded, and the soil of inexhaustible fertility, there is little or no commerce, and hence the people are excasively poor. The Emperor devoted his attention to ameliorating and cheapening the means of trans port. Great efforts have been made to restore the old Spanish roads and to keep them in repair. But in a tropical country, where it pours for six months in the year, this is often found to be beyond the actual means of Government. Railways offer the best guarantee of success, but for a time they will not be remunerative ; for even the chief line—that from Vera Cruz to Mexico—the transport does not exceed 20,000 tons in the year. For some time the American system of railways, with light teams drawn by horses, would have been best adapted to the difficulties of the country and its financial re sources. Thb Emperor had organised an Imperial Mexican company to carry out railways in the provinces of Queretaro, Guanoxuato, Aguas Cali entes, San Luis Potosi, Zacateras, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Matehuala. The capital was fixed at 20,000,000 of piastres, - which, though divided into shares, was in reality sought to be raised by a tax peculiar to the country. What Mexico wanted were colonists, to cultivate land, develope the mines, and build houses. But while Brazil was encouraging emigration, Mexico was unfortunately setting its face against it. Under the Spaniards California was as unproductive as the northern province of Mexico remains in the present day. Under the Americans it has become in ten years one of the most nrosperous and commercial countries in the world. So would it be with the northern provinces of Mexico colonised by the Ame ricans. A territory which produces nothing isof no use to its proprietor, to the commonwealth, or to the State. The sooner, then, according to our author . , the Americans take the country the better; for If the benefit would be so great from their colonising it, it follows that it would be greater when the Go vernment and country alike fell into their hands. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER-JULY G. Tile supply of ivbeat was again barely sufficient for con sumptive demand. Prices were firm, and in some caseS is per qr advance was obtained. Iu spring corn notbiug doing. Wheat, white. Ms 74s Beans, Mazagan......3ls 3 S red C43 ;8s Middle and 5ma11...443 48 9 Barley •• •• -• • l2s 433 Peas, white. 38s 4.: Oats ... 8 s grey ...Us 42$ CHELMSFORD—JULY 5. This market was very poorly supplied with wheat, and little business was done. Last week's prices were fullY, made. Spring co rn o f a ll d escr ipti ons g e n e ra lly brougbb the prices of last week. Whest, old white 52s 67s new bas 71s old red its 618 new. 53s 639 Barley.... 26s 339 Chevalier its 538 Griud.ug •_6s 328 Malt.. 669 748 Chevalier 688 78a Oats Peas, Partridge 40s 4 26 White ..34s B Bing.. ...... 36s 40 9 Dun.... ditto, new....--s Beans, Tick, 01d......40s 4 ,," , new....39s 10 , Harrow tieks.42 3 40 9 nne7. o ....tis s 4 9 mazaga 430 ABERDEE: 1-JULY 5. At our market to-day there was a quint business done, with a thin attendance. Prices for all kinds of grain were slightly below last week. White wheat 58s Od to 63s Od) 621 b it bushel. Red wheat 50s Od to 58s Odi Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od} 401 b V bush el ' Common oats 26s Gd to 27s Od Bore 35s 6d to 36s 6d -531 b 111 bushel. Barley 35s Gd to 36s 6d) ~. Oatmeal 20 s Gd to 21 s 6d Il boll of 280.. tour, lino 52s Oil to sMs•od it sack of 2801'. KIRKCALDY—JULY 6. Small supplies of all kinds of grain, which sold slowli at fully late rates. Wheat. Thu ley. Oats. First...— Gls od ' 33s od 32s 6,1 econd 6.'s 6ti —s 0,1 33s 03 Turd 64s Od —s Od —s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closed the market. s. d. 0. 4 :, West Hartley Haswell Hetton Lyons ........ 17 3 Hartlepool Walls End lietton ... 19 6 East Hartlepool Heugh Hall lB 0 Triindon Grange l7 6 9 Bradyell's;lletton l,B 3 Eden Main Wharnd 9 iffe l7 3 Hastings Hartley l7 " Frarnwellgate l7 3 Russell's Hetton...... I ,q 6 Buddle's W. H art l ey l7 9 C ara d oe lB Ships at market, 69—sold. 63. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. nnetralia and New Zealand, via Southampton MY 20. Ditto, via Uarseilles July LI Ditto, via Panama ....... ......... ........ Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video • Aug. 5 . Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil packet ...... Aug. b' (lap° of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena July 23 ' China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton, July 2 0 Ditto, via Marscilitts ...... ....... July 11 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton July 2° ' Ditto, via Marseil es July 23 ' Malta, Egypt, dm July 13 ' Ditto, Marseilles... July ;14' Mauritius, Cape of Good. Hope, and Natal, via Southampton July 23 ' Ditto, via Mane! les July 14. Newfoundland July 11 ' Portugal Aug. 5 ' Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &a, by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) . Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ... Ditto, by Canadian packet July 13 ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo -- 17. July • West Indies and Pacific ;except Mexico and Baha mas) Cub t and Mexico Bahamas, via New York July Bermuda, via ditto Mr. Carleton, the publisher, is about to bring ° ll the first of two volumes of the writings of Artemus Wrg r ,.. 4 It is made up of letters to Punch, some early letters, several pieces written in England. The book will be trated from designs of Mr. J. H. Howard. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and P.O.'S': Physical Strength.—For the proper development to nourishment of the human body, it is essential that functions of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels •, performed with order and regularity. Holloway's retuou_, l " readily remove both. The powers of the stomach "; greatly augmented and good gastric juice secreted in 0 1 0 dance when this ointment is diligently rubbed twice s over the pit of the stomach. 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