The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The report of the directors of this company states that there had been an increase in all descriptions of traffic upon the railway for the past half-year ; the receipts, compared with those of the correspond ing period of 1866, showing the following result, viz. :—An increase from coaching of £23,816; from cattle of £7,319 ; from merchandise of £2,810 ; from minerals of £24,677 ; total increase, £60,682. The gross amount of the traffic for the half-year was £1,365,833, to which had been added £74,787, taken from the balance due to revenue from the amounts received from the Great Western Railway Company under Mr. Phipson's award, and from English and Scotch traffic obtained under the decision or the Court of Chancery, which had not been included in the weekly traffic returns. The working expenses of the half-year had ex ceeded those of the corresponding period of 1866. The excess had arisen partly from the payment out of revenue for the reconstruction of the Apperley Viaduct ; for the repairs to other works damaged by the floods which occurred during the autumn of last year, from the increased expense incurred in working the traffic over the lines of other compa nies, during the interruption occasioned by the fall of the viaduct referred to, and by the great landslip at Bugsworth, which occasioned the closing of the new line to Manchester after it had been opened for goods traffic, and to the continued advance in the cost of labour and mate rials. The balance available for dividend was £500,034, including £6,551 from the previous half year. The directors were enabled to recommend the declaration of the following dividends, less in come-tax, payable on the 2d day of September next : £2 15s. on each £lOO consolidated stock; £2 Is. 3d. on each £lOO consolidated Birmingham and Derby stock ; £3 upon each £lOO consolidated preferential stock; £3 upon each £lOO consolidated Erewash Valley stock ; £2 ss. upon each £lOO consolidated 41 per cent. preferential stock; £2 upon each £lOO Leicester and Hitchin preferential stock ; £2 ss. upon each £lOO consolidated irredeemable 4f per cent. preferential stock, together with dividends of 5 per cent. per annum on the A and B stocks and other stocks. The dividend recommended was less than that declared for the corresponding half-year of 1866. This diminution had been occasioned chiefly by the continued large outlay upon new lines and works not yet productive, the amount under this head during the half-year having reached about £5,000,000. The Rowsley and Buxton Extension to New Mills was reopened in February last, the traffic was progressing satisfactorily, and on the completion of the company's merchandise and mine ral station in Manchester a large increase of traffic would no doubt accrue. The Furness and Midland Railway was opened in June last, and already a considerable traffic has been exchanged. Although the bill for the amalgamation of the Midland and Glasgow and South-Western Railway Companies received the sanction of the house of Commons after a prolonged investigation, yet the Committee of the House of Lords, to whom it was referred, came to a resolution " that it was not expedient to proceed further with the bill." Much as the directors regretted the loss of the bill on that occasion, they believed that it was only a question of time as to when the companies would be thus closely united. The directors had negotiated an agreement with the Metropolitan Railway Company for the use of the railway between the St. Pancras branch of the Bedford and London Railway and Moorgate street, including the stations at King's-cross, Far ringdon-street, Aldersgate-street, and Moorgate street. The object of the agreement was to enable the Midland Company to run its own trains to the heart of the city of London, and to connect the Midland system with other railway companies south of the Thames, and with the meat and poultry market at Smithfield. The terms for the use of the railway were a mileage proportion of the passenger fares, 91. per ton for goods, and 41 per ton for minerals up to 50,000 ; 3d. per ton for every ton beyond 50,000 tons in any one year; the receipts from the traffic to be not less in amount than £-1,000 for the first year, £5,000 for the second, £6,000 for the third, and £7,000 for the fourth and subsequent years. The rent of the Moorgate-street station was to be £4,000 for the first year, £4,500 for the second year, £5,000 for the third year, and £6,000 for the fourth and subsequent years. The rent for the use of all the other stations was to be £5OO per annum, subject to revision at the expiration of three years, and to cease if the Midland Company ceased to use those stations. LONDON AND BLACK WALL. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. Macnaughten in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said in these days of railway depression, when many lines paid very small dividends, and some none at all, he thought the shareholders might be congratulated on possessing a well secured in come of 41. per cent. per annum. They would see by the report that an attempt bad been made to impair that security, but it had proved abortive. On the other hand, the directors bad incurred ex penses to protect their just rights, and he was quite sure that the shareholders would incur further ex penses for that purpose. The directors were not in a position to distribute freely the balance to the credit of profit and loss. They had repeatedly brought the subject under the notice of the Great Eastern Board, and there was every probability that they would soon come to a settlement. The report was then adopted, and after a formal resolution by Mr. Parsons as to holders of Great Eastern stock forfeiting their seats at the Board, the dividend was declared, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company - was held on Saturday at the King's-bridge station, Dublin ; Mr. W. liaughton, the chairman, pre sided. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in 7he Sun, was read by the secretary. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he hoped they had all carefully exa mined the statement of accounts, as they contained everything essential to give correct information with respect to the affairs of the company. It was sa tisfactory to find a substantial increase in the traffic for the past half year, and it was the more satisfac tory as it was unexpected. If they had known when they last met that an insurrection would have broken out in the country, extending over every portion of it traversed by their railway, they would scarcely have expected this increase. However, they had an increase in the traffic of the line, from which he inferred that the parties engaged in that insurrection had no influence over the trade and commerce of the country. (Hear, hear). The cattle traffic, which had gone back for several years, had suddenly sprung up to its normal condition. The goods traffic was the largest they had ever had on the line ; so also was the pig traffic ; the sheep traffic was also increasing, but not in the same pro portion as the others. In military traffic there had been an increase of £3,400, but a very large portion of this had been absorbed in additional expenses attendant on the Fenian insurrection, in conse quence of which they had been obliged to send out pilot engines, and keep relays of men along the line. They had also given gratuities to every servant of the company who had performed his duty with fidelity. (Hear, hear.) Ile was happy to say that, with very few exceptions, they had done so. He ought to mention, as an instance, that during the Fenian insurrection there bad never been any delay in the conveyance of the military from one station to another. In fact, he believed that the benefits conferred by their company, and by the Magnetic Telegraph Company, had been incalculable, for without their aid it might have required a large army for many months to accomplish the same ends, and that with great loss of life. The loss in the fish traffic had been exceptional. It did not arise from any deficiency in the ordinary fishing arrange ments on the coast, but from the mackerel and iu the u sua l quantities. /11 other fish not coming the capital account £6,000 was charged as portion of. subscription to the Parsonstown and Portumna Railway ; and, in addition to this, the outlay in capital for the last six months amounted to £20,000. Of this, £11,306 had been expended on the Cork and Youghal line, £l,lOO on the purchase of goods stores in Kilkenny, and the balance had been ex pended on rolling stock and works along the line. balance on the credit side of the capital ac count had increased from V5OOO to £94,000 in the past half-year. This was a subject which they had inquired into, and it would not he allowed to continue any time. However, they could not issue their stock at par, and they had the greatest disinclination to issue preference stock, so that they had agreed still further to delay making any appli cation to the piopeictary for p3wers to issue pre ference stock in the expectation that, after the panic had subsided, the stock of the company would gain that position in the market which it was entitled to occupy. The present debt of .04,00) would be in creased in the current half-year by the expenses of the Cork and Youghal line, and also by the cost of additional rolling stock. In the revenue accounts there was an increase in the working expenses, a portion of which arose from the working of the Cork and Youghal line, and the repair of . the per manent way. Extraordinary revelations had come to light in connection with the financial position of some railway companies. Those revelations, added to the revelations which had taken place in 1856, had caused consternation throughout the United Kingdom, and had brought ruin to many a share holder. The position which their company occupied in the railway world was, that the directors had no engagement of any kind with which the proprietors were not acquainted. The only sum which they would charge to the capital account would be the expenses of the Cork and Youghal Railway, and the expenses of the rolling stock, and the greater por tion of this would be included in the current half - year, after which he believed the charge against the capital account would be exceedingly light for years to come. He would be very much surprised if in the course of a few years the directors would not be able to pay a dividend of 6 per cent. on the or dinary stock. Mr. MURLAND seconded the motion for the adop- tion of the report, which was carried unanimously. After a discussion on various matters a resolution declaring a dividend of 4 per cent. on the preference stock, and 5 per cent. on the ordinary consolidated stock, was unanimously adopted. The retiring di rectors and auditors were re elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman ter minated the proceedings. Civilised Warfare in Savage Lands. The reputation of a famous General is in jeopardy when in command of an expedition to subdue war like tribes of widely scattered savages. It matters not how high his ability, how just his renown ; he may outlive the detraction but as he is pretty sure to fail, the first effect is to injure his prestige. The reason is that those judge him who cannot un derstand the position. People smarting under disappointment, and annoyed at the display of their own impotence in the presence of a cruel and contemptible enemy, feel angry at the heavy drain on their purses. A nation likes to have a result for a huge expenditure, and dislikes a display of its own powerlessness to accomplish what is regarded as an almost paltry end. Although the United States is far more just than England to its commanders, appreciating more truly and making more general allowance for their difficulties, yet it is almost impossible for a Democracy carrying on such a war to be really fair. Easy as it may ap pear to the Britisher or Yankee to comprehend the situation of civilised men in a waste without an atom of civilisation, yet unless travel has brought him into such localities, or that he is gifted with a keen imagination, he will fail in appreciating it. Therefore, with few excep tions, the critics are unqualified to discuss the subject. After dwelling long in large cities, men become so accustomed to all their conveniences as to be unable to realise their helplessness if deprived of these advantages. The facts are criticised as they occur, but material items are omitted which neutralise the General's advantages, and turn the very weakness of the enemy into the most embarrassing strength. The number of that enemy is accurately ascertained and stated, the command of the General is fully detailed ; the one is pitted against the other, and the conclusion cannot but be favourable to their own side. On the one hand there are 10,000 or 20,000 highly trained and well armed soldiers backed by the power of a mighty nation ; on the other, per haps, a smaller body of untutored savages badly armed and ill supplied with the munitions of war. Comparing man with man their own soldiers are superior. The country is as open to the one as to the other. If the savages can move about and exist, why not the soldiers ? but the scalp of every Red Man costs a fortune and the lives of ten white men. The argument deduced from such premises is against the conduct of the war, yet the superior skill of the commanding General defeated an enemy equal to himself in all that makes campaigns formidable ! The nation frets and grieves over the accounts of losses by ambuscade, by positive defeats of detached parties, by murders of travellers, by sickness, by disasters in fording rivers, &c., and these are the only apparent results of an enormous expenditure. The General finds himself almost as helpless as would be the commander of a formidable battery erected to destroy a fleet, if, instead of the fleet, nothing but a few mischievous row boats ap pear. It is in vain for him to discharge his immense projectiles, which, hurled through the air, skip and flash in the water as they tear along harmlessly on a course that would be truly formidable to anything interrupting their progress. The powerful battery is impotent, and its force wasted in the presence of so contemptible a foe. So it is with organised brigades when operating in wilds where there exist no points of attack. The General's difficulty is that he has positively nothing in his front, no object on which to concentrate his efforts. lle might as well be in pursuit of a set of jackalls, and he would have a chance against beavers. If the United States determined on the destruction of the prairie buffalo these noble beasts might easily be exterminated. But to destroy the Red Men or the wolves is a task of enormous difficulty. It is not that the wolves or Red Men are individually formidable, but they are next to impossible to get at. The whole system of war is based on the sup position that man is a civilised being, who accumu lates property, dwells in houses, which, when grouped into cities, are points that must be de fended. There are the women and children, the machinery of his government; the fixed positions which cannot be moved and must be defended. If man reverts to the state of jackalls his civilised brethren are positively helpless in presence of the des picable savage. The very strength of the savage lies in what to a civilised army would be a most dan gerous weakness—he is operating in tho air with out any base. A General is compelled to build up an advance as an architect builds up a house, securing storey by storey till he reaches the height ainael at. If the base be insecure the whole is liable to tumble down in ruin, and the higher he gets the weaker becomes the structure. If the General erects this costly edifice, and secures no re sult, the people who pay for the building naturally object. But he is comp.:llcl thus to operate, br he cannot isolate himself in the wilds of nature, where there arc absolutely no means of living with out keeping open his communications. If his opera tions be conducted in a cultivated land the c )untry supplies him with fool, but his difficulties in the Territory of the Red Indians is immeasurably in creased by the fact that not only is he unable to place his hand on the foe, but he is unable to feed his cumbrous force unless sustained by au enormous effort of his Government. It is in vain for General SHERMAN to rub noses with General HANCOCI" • ,they cannot alter the circumstancs. however formid able they might be in Canada or Mexico, they are helpless in Western Kansas, iu Arizona, in Colorado —and experience will teach them what it has taught the colonists of New Zealand that they will have to bid for the scalps of their enemies, employing the hunters and trappers and other wild spirits of the Far West who detest Indians with a deadly hatred, and who would freely risk their seal, s if they could THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESO , AN EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1867. laying down the law, ably, as it would appear to any one who had not seen the Times. It is said we all get our opinions from what we read, and it is very natural that the average Englishman should take his opinion frcm the Times, but the objection is that society is barred from discussing great public topics unless a few be present who get their opinions from some other source. The Horse Guards knew that before Thursday closed the judg- _ meat of England was that Captain JERVIS should be re-instated, and Sir WILLIAM MANSFIELD re moved from his command. Whether it be of advan tage or not to the average Englishman that his ideas on public affairs should be borrowed from the 7 imes, it is of great advantage to a Government or any department, for they know exactly from the tone of the newspaper how they ought to act on difficult points, or what they must expett if they do not thus act. Many say that the 7 imes derives is opinions from the general tone of sentiment, nerely expressing what the majority had before pelt. But although this is partly true, it is in a still greater degree false. The Times cannot resist the general tendency of society. For instance, we are rushing along to Democracy—a career that would be quickly checked if the limes could check it. The ; lime; is the sovereign of the present ruling class of England ; but the Times is not the sovereign of the ruling class that is to be. Whether it may become so or not we cannot predict. We .think it would if it reduced its price to a penny. It is the three-penny class that now rule—it will be the penny class a short time hence. The movement that has given so great an impetus to Democracy is the work of a class not reached by the Times, but though the great journal may have feelers which render it peculiarly sensitive to the tone of the body politic, beyond this—we are convinced it makes opinion in England. And we are bound to say that it makes this opinion because its arguments aro most forcible ; and its decisions most just. Look at the case of the Fenian convicts. Scarcelyhad the Government committed itself to the decisive statement that they must be hanged, when the whole fabric on which they stood was degnolished, and they were flashing messages to Dublin of reprieve to the condemned. The Lord Lieutenant had just been informed of the firm determination of the Government, who re mained unmoved in the presence of powerful depu tations, and must have been amazed atLordDERBY's sudden conversion. Last night the judgment had gone forth that the culprits must die—this morning messengers were hurrying to reverse the decree ; but it was not till the next morning, when the Viceroy arose, and his Times was unfolded before him that the reason was given. if he was a shrewd governor be might have guessed. Printing-House-square is a poor place, in a back alley, somewhere off Lud gate-hill, but what is printed there, is often the fiat of the present ruling class of England, and it is marvellous in our eyes that it should be so. An unknown writer through the columns of a common newspaper issues a decree to which nations bow. He may be some literary I scamp--for a great many scamps are literary (possessing no vote himself that could procure for him a pot of beer) —who directs that mass of wealth and respectability in the House of Commons how they are to act on certain questions, and the rea sons why they are thus to act. Self-constituted, unknown, and irresponsible, and yet the judgment has an awful weight. It shows haw strong is ab stract truth when clearly put. For the Times, after all, has nothing more than the prestige of truth for giving weight to its decisions. That prestige, how ever, is a great strength. Its force is derived from measures, not men ; from argument, not names; from a strong belief in the incorruptibility of a journal whose revenue exceeds that of many prin cipalities. Its influence is akin to that of a judge charging a jury, who being supposed to have weighed patiently all the facts disclosed in a case, lays down the law for the guidance of his country men from a mind stored with learning. If the l imes were not national in its weight, and was supposed to be influenced by the Government, any party or clique, its influence would be immeasurably de creased; but the general body, either right or wrong, hold that it decides questions absolutely on their merit, and that it is the most impartial tribunal in the country. As a general rule we believe it to be true, and to this the Times owes its influence, and not, as the Broadway states, on the reliability of its general news, a mere adjunct which it shares in common with a dozen other papers.—Anglo-Ameri can Times. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—An able report has jast been printed 'or the House of Commons upon the supply of gaS the metropolis. The Session ends as it liegan so iar as concerns legislation on the subject ; but the long and careful inquiry of the select committee on the Metropolis Gas Bill will not have been in vain. The difference between the gas companies and the consumer has been narrowed ; the rights of the companies are more fully recognised, while ample justice is done to the consumer's wrongs ; the good faith of Parliament is upheld ; and the basis of a future compiomise is, we hope, established. The select committee, of which Mr. Cardwell was the chairman, explain at length in their special report the provisions of the Metropolitan Gas Act of 1860, which was passed after long inquiry and protracted discussion, and now regulates, as far as it extends, the action of the 13 gas companies which, in the words of the act, have " districted" the metropolis between them. The act sanctions the " districting" but does not in any manner guarantee to the several companies the monopoly of their districts. It fixes, as is well known, a maximum price to be charged for gas, a minimum intensity of illuminating power, and a maximum profit to be divided among the shareholders, but contains no provision for regulat ing the working expenses of the companies, or for a periodical revision of the standards of price and illuminating power at the instance either of the producer or the consumer. The profits, after dividing not more than £lO per cent. among the shareholders, are, by the Act, to be applied first in providing a reserve fund equal to one-tenth of the nominal capital of the companies, and then to the general purposes of the undertaking. Parliament may have been in a generous and con fiding mood, and have trusted the companies too much ; but it is undeniable that on the strength of these provisions a large portion of the capital of the companies has been subscribed, and it would be a gross breach of faith for Parliament now to in terfere and say to the companies, as the Board of Trade this year proposed, " We gave you too much in 1860 ; we will reduce your dividend now from £lO to £7 per cent." The grievance of the con sumer is that the arrangements intended for his benefit by the act of 1860 are slow in bearing fruit. lie finds that while the companies generally, under the system of competition which prevailed for some years before 1860, paid moderate dividends, every Company under the new arrangements has paid, with rare exceptions, the maximum allowed, and in many cases large sums have been paid besides, in the name of back dividends, to make up for divi dends which, under the former system, had fallen short of the maximum. lie finds that the sale of gas has increased very largely from year to year, and with that increase there ought to have been a comparative diminution in the charg e for working expenses; but he still pays nearly the maximum price allowed by the Act, and a comparison with the price of gas in other towns shows him that he pays too much. The total capital of the Com panies is at present £6,853,539, and the annual amount required to pay interest on loans and the maximum dividend on shares is £605,156, while the grnss receipts for gas sold cannot fall far shot tof £1,730,705. Surely, the consumer argues, this annual surplus of £1,125,000 ought before this, after paying all the yearly outgoings, to have pro vided the full reserve fund, and to be now appli cable idreducti.in of the cost of gas? Ile is con firmed, too, in his repugnance to the settlement of 1860 when he finds that the Corporation of the City of London are anxious to compete with the existing companies, and supply him with gas at nearly half the peke he is now paying. The committee point out very clearly that the removal from the companies of the motives of self-interest, without the substitution of external control, has had an ill effect upon the general expenditure. One cpmpany pays 50 per cent. more for fuel than another ; one company pays its directors four times as much as another—wages and salaries vary in like proportion ; and in an elaborate table it is shown that the expenditure on general charges, ex clusive of fuel, for every 1,000 feet of gas sold varies in the different companies from 17 pence to 27 pence out of the four shillings which the con sumer is compelled to pay. Under these circum stances, we agree with the committee that " it cer tainly cannot be expected that the consumer will be satisfied with a system under which no ono appears to have an overruling interest iu reducing the ag- gregate expenditure to a minimum, except himself ; and under which no one who represents his interest has any share in, or control over, the direction of that expenditure." There are only two ways in which Parliament, consistently with the under standing arrived at in 1860, can interpose its para mount authority in favour of the consumer. It may concede to the City of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works competing powers within the dis tricts of the 13 companies, or it may, with the con sent of the companies, regulate the monopoly they now practically enjoy. The bill which the Board of Trade introduced in the present session proposed, in breach of all good faith, to force unconditionally a new arrangement upon the companies. It was impossible that the sanction of Parliament could be obtained to such an invasion of constituted rights. The evils accruing to public traffic from the intro duction of new companies were one of the chief causes of the failure of the City of London's Bill in 1866. It was felt that every effort ought first to be made to come to terms with the existing com panies, and that necessity alone would justify the measure then proposed. Accordingly, the select committee of this year have endeavoured to arrive at an arrangement by which the claims of the com panies might be reconciled with the just expecta tions-of the consumer, and had nearly, as it seemed, attained their end, when the treaty was broken off upon the question of price. The companies offered to supply gas at 45., with an illuminating power of 14 candles ; the committee stipulated for 3s. 9d., with a power of 16 candles, coupled with statutory provisions for a periodical revision of price through the agency of arbitrators appointed by the Board of Trade, and for insuring the purity of the gas by a system of administration under the superintendence of the same board. Neither party would yield, and the negotiation has come to au end. Had the companies been more reasonable, the Metropolis Gas Bill of this year, as amended by the select committee, would have secured an im proved amalgamation and reduced expenditure by the amalgamation of the companies, and an efficient audit of the accounts ; the consumer would have obtained an immediate reduction of 28 per cent., with a prospect of further reduction from time to time; and the companies would have been benefited by their present monopoly, as regulated by the new agreement, being practically secured to them in future. We trust the companies will during the coming process review their position calmly. If they will revise their present system of manage ment, and reduce the wasteful expenditure now in curred on fuel and general charges, they may lower their prices to the standard the select committee re commend, and so avoid all Parliamentary inter ference. If they refuse to make the concession, or incur the necessary labour and odium which a re duction of establishment requires, they cannot hope for the quiescence of the consumer; they will ob tain no fresh powers from Parliament for the exten sion of their works ; and they will not long avoid the rivalry of competing interests. We trust they will be wise in time, and seek at once their own in terest in consulting the interest of the public. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON WOMAN'S PLACE IN CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.---The history of civilization presents no greater contrast than between the position which woman occupied in heathen times and the place she fills under the Christian dispensa tion. Throughout the antique world the tradition ran that she who was destined to be the helpmate of man had become his destroyer, and that through her evil had come into the world. This idea is to be found in the sacred books of India and of Greece, as well as in the traditions handed down by the Jews from the primeval revelation. Woman was looked upon as the enemy of man, and as ifa heavy curse lay upon her head. In the heathen world she was under a miserable bondage, alter nately the slave and the plaything of cruel and unrelenting master. Cut off from all civil rights, banished from social intercourse, she occu pied the lowest position in the family. Dishon oured by polygamy and divorce she was man's drudge and bond-slave, bound by the necessity of her condition to surrender herself to his man dates or to pander to his passions. Woman under the heathen law was a mere chattel to be bought and sold. But when she rebelled against her heavy lot—when her blood rose against her de graded condition—what means had she to work out her emancipation •, what weapons to forge for her deliverance but the charms of her beauty ? Armed with irresistible fascination, she went forth from her house of bondage to conquer the world. Warriors, poets, philosophers fell under her yoke:; beauty became their queen ; they worshipped the ground on which she trod ; they set her up as the idol of their hearts. But this triumph of the power of beauty was to woman but a new disgrace and a deeper fall. She escaped from a degrading bon dage only to reign as a Phryne or an Aspasia in shame. Sare under the veil of the vestal:virgins —a dim recollection of the primeval revelation that the world was to be redeemed by a virgin— there was no alternative open to woman in the heathen world, more especially at the period just anterior to Christianity, but domestic slavery or personal dishonour. Unchastity was the condition of all public and private life in Pagan times ; philosophy was utterly powerless against the on sweep of overwhelming sensuality. Sensuality handed over Greece, corrupted to the core, an easy prey to the stranger; it sapped the founda tions of mighty Rome. But in the depths of its social degradation the heathen world never utterly lost the idea that virginity was pleasing to the gods—casta placent Superis ' • with the Romans the v estal virgin was ever held in honour. But Christianity alone was capable of restoring woman to her rightful position. When a Virgin brought forth the Saviour of the world, woman was de livered from the shame which had been laid upon her by the tyranny or the passion of man. In spired by Divine grace, woman rose from her degradation. The patrician daughter of a Scipio, or of a Marcellus, or of a Paulus 2Emilius, put off her purple garments, and her precious stones, and as St. Jerome tells us, associating with the slave who the day before had stood trembling in her presence, said to her :--" 4 Come, sister, let us live for the heavenly bridegroom ; ' and she who had been borne about by slaves seeks for the sick in the streets, and carries them on her shoulder to her home to tend to their wounds.' Christianity, although it redeemed the whole race, brought a special deliverance to woman ; if under the Christian dispensation woman took no part in public life, yet she enjoyed all civil liberties. Her rights of property and of inheritance were recog nized ; her freedom of choice as to marriage, and her proper position in the family were secured to her. Her special office was to train up Christian children, to relieve poverty, to watch over the sick and assuage pain. A wife of free choice, s h e was a queen in the family circle, and as Ter tullian tells her, an apostle to her husband. Since her regeneration under Christianity, in everything great and good the influence of woman is every where visible. In the beginning she was seen among the martyrs in the amphitheatre, among the anchorites in the wilderness. If Constantine planted the Cross on the Capitol, St. Helen raised the sacred symbol over the ruins of Jerusalem. Clovis was converted by Clotilda, and the conver sion of St. Augustine was due o the tears of St. Monica. Women founded orders, drew up rules, and regulated conventual life. As time went on their influence did not decay; the Margravine Matilda strengthened the temporal throne of Gre gory VII. ; the wisdom of the Queen Bianca was visible in the rule of St. Louis ; the Maid of Orleans saved France ; Catherine of Sienna boldly went to the throne of the Pope at Avignon and summoned him to return to Rome • Isabella of Castile aided in the discovery of the new world, and later times witnessed St. Teresa working with bishops, and learned orators, and founders of orders at the interior regeneration of the Church. As long as woman fills the office which Christianity has assigned to her, as long as she is true to her secured, for th e mission, not only her own happinessguarantee is but it is the best pledge and well-being of society. As her influence is great, so is her responsibility. She may mar man whom she was sent to help, and degrade Christian society which she ought to be the last to assail or weaken. To assert the rights of women, meaning thereby the right of woman to compete with man in all the active and public businesses of life ; to assume, at the expense of womanliness, masculine qualities of labour and endurance ; to exchange her home for the public mart, and her retiring womanly modesty for the bold and out spoken haviour of man ; to be the bread winner and the master, if chance or skill put it in her power, would, if ever successfully attempted, lead to a conflict between the sexes, in whichtlic weaker would have to go to the wall. If women forget their true dignity and forsake their high place in the Christian scheme, they will fall again under the bondage of lust and cruelty. It was only in the most degraded period of Greek and Roman his tory that women of position, emancipated from all restraint and modesty, repudiated the peculiar distinctions and customs of their own sex and assumed the habits of men. Women, mascu line after such a fashion, are even more revolt ing than effeminate men. How truly Schiller says :—" Des Weibes schonste Zierde ist die Weiblichkeit." But in their desire for distinction and fame, women ran another danger, as was exemplified in that period of the middle ages when chivalry had degenerated into an unmeaning or corrupt institution, and when tournaments and gallantry and courts of love made the possession of beauty or fascination of manner, and the homage of multitudinous lovers, woman's highest aim and ambition. From the frippery and adula- Love is a weapon it tion, as tawdry as unreal, of which woman was then the object, and on which she set her heart, the revulsion was not unnatural which led to the cynicism that declares— The loves and the graces In sweet women's faces Are but a poet's idle dream ; Love's truest nurses Are long, heavy purses, Pearls from the ocean, gold from the stream. dangerous plaything ; like a two-edged may chance to wound the wielder as well ,;ainst whom, in cruel pastime, it is haply rected ; but *hen it is allowed to become an all ibsorbing passion, what does it bring at best but disappointment and sorrow? A modern poet truly says: And was there over tab of human love That was not also tale of human tears ? Why is it that the sweetest draught in life Must ever taste so bitter at tho dregs ? Died not sweet Desdemona, sorrowed not Fair patient Imogen ; and did not she, Of golden lyre, Sapho silver-voiced, End all her sorrows in the multitudinous seas ? Neither the Pagan nor the utilitarian, nor the 44 romantic " idea befits the dignity or suits the character of the Christian woman. Whilst her highest ideal is the consecrated virginity of the cloister, her ordinary place is in the family circle. Thoughtful for others' weal, self-forgetful in her nature, man's constant friend and best companion, the inspirer of noble deeds, his fellow-worker, or his stay and solace in the battle of life, woman completes the man, and in filling the place assigned to her by Providence best consults her own happi ness. Modern society, if it value its own safety, must look to it that no lolver ideal of woman's calling than the Christian be introluced or per mitted. Virginity is the salt of the earth—God's best gift to Christian civilization. The cloister, visibly reminding the world of a virtue which Pagans knew not, is the need of our day. If the tone of public morality is relaxing—if in Paris, or Florence, or Vienna, or London, mothers of Chris tian children, daughters of Christian parents, are to be found, even though few in number, to ape in heedless obedience to the dictates of frivolous fashion, the manners or costume of a Phryne or Aspasia—it cannot be too strongly put that such a dereliction is the first step to the forfeiture of the high place and of the holy influence assigned to woman in Christian society. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. Tho corn market to-day had a thin attendance, and under the influence of not, forcing weather there was little or no demand for wheat, at the prices of last week. Maize is is dearer. Barley very scarce, and 3d to Gd dearer. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We had a good attendance of the town and country trade at our market to-day, but the extreme fineness of the weather caused trade to rule dull for wheat, and last week's prices were about supported. Indian corn more plentiful, and barely maintained previous rates. Oats and oatmeal in slow request, and prices same as last week. Beans were scarce, and fine sorts rather dearer. Flour in dull demand, at Friday's rates. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Wo have a moderate attendance at our market to-day. On account of the fine weather our millers will hardly look at a sample of wheat., and the rates of last week were nominally unchanged. Barley, beans, and other articles were rather dearer. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TuEsDAy. White wheat, 68s to 745; red, 59s to 68s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40a to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats old, 30s to 345; new, 26s to 32s per 24.0 t. Beans, old, 52s to 545; new, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was only a moderate business transacted to-day in the corn trade, with a good supply of old wheat, and prices were not materially altered. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....2ls Od to 26s 0.1 White do do 26s Od 29s Od New red do do cos Od 21s 61 New white do do 23s 6d 2.58 6d Beans do do l9s Od 228 0.1 Peas, per qr. Grinding ba ley, per qr 35. i Od 338 Od Malting barley, ( o Oats, do 27s Od 328 Od F10ur....2s 4d to 23 8d per 141 b. MARKET HARBOROUGII.—TUESDAY. Old white wheat, GM to 72s ; new red, 62s to 67s per 36 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per 30 st. Oats, new, 26s to 35s ; old, 34s to 35s per qr. Beans, old, 46s to 535; new, 42s to 47s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kustralia and New Zealand. via Southampton Aug. 21 Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 18 Ditto. via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3. Ditto, by french packet Aug. 22 Cape Verde. by Brazil packet ...... . Sep t. 3. Cape of Good !lope. Ascension. and St. Helena Aug. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug.:2 4 . Ditto, via Marseilles. . • • Aug. 1S Falkland Islands Sept. 3 Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 24. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Aug 14 . Malta, Egypt, am Aug. 21. Ditto, Marseilles Aug. 13. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via Southampton. . Aug. 21 ' Ditto, via Marseiftes Aug. lb. Newfoundland Portugal Sept. 3 . Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British packet Aug. 2 1 . Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) •• Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug• l S. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin Aug. 17 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Aug. 13. Cnba and Mexico Aug• 28 ' Bahamas, via New York , Bermuda, via ditto CRIMINAL LAW IN AUSTRIA.—A trial for m urder has lately been attracting attention at Vienna. o ' l Easter Monday a young woman about 20, named Elizabet h Kolb, was killed in the absence of her family. After muc h, research a servant girl, employed in the same house, an d called Petersilka, and hor lover, a workman named Troll, were arrested. The girl ultimately confessed the crime, but the man persistently denied it. They were both found guilty, and the girl was sentenced to death, while the rus l3 l who had evidently been the principal, was condemned t° • a hard labour for life. The cause of this discrepancy is provision in the Austrian law that the capital sentence can only be pronounced on the testimony of two witnesses so d the oonfessicrn of the culprit. Thus the obstinacy of Troll has saved his life, while his more feeble companion is Bev tenced to ascend the scaffold. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, biliotleci stcmach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravate and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectll oau blo by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ambles , Fee d d as proved by thousands of cases which had boon consider° hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, e () _... lY sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric dera nB ; ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervossn e t: biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, e m ess, rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessile', acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, d rorl iN cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy 9,. r sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the cu e ke . pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, '",,0 We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du ' te nt Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 21 , 1866 . — The beau' of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning other zemedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du 13 ef,,fal Revalenta, Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pie fi "" c ial at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene.,i4 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du 31".0... July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts , tim ber re, s , chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased bur, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafnes or Curs No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuten?Tifty Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. e OB, years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervouso„,cl asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness !„3, vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Be ware of then'o';, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, No w ,. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attacheilti.; In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 7/, 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., 14:';i0y; ~tegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182 , Picea 289, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, ol d Oxford-street 330 Strand ; and all grocers and chemists Births. CLIFFORD—On the 13th inst., at 2, Cranky-pine% Onsl°lr square, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Clifford, of a son. ;o r X-t'r GEDDES—On the 12th inst., at Aldershot, the wife of Geddes, 44th Regiment, of a daughter. n ieS HOGG— On the 11th inst., at 1, Bedford-square, M rs..' Hogg, of a son. . Marriages.. 1 A N• HILL—CAMPBELL —0 n tho 10th inst , Captain Cilftr` v , - r of Hill, 69th Regiment, to Elliuor Jan . e, eldest daugl'°- Major-General G. Campbell, C.B. 1, MAIN —POWNALL —On tho 10th inst , at the parish c.- Reigate, Robert Main, Esq., of thei Admiralty', t°• far- of riett Mary, youngest daughter of Wm. rowuall, BA" Reigate and Stapleton. Deaths. qi 0,, S' BURTON—On the 10th inst., at Chedgrave, No rfo l k, - h Burton, aged 83. n ot,' anrE—On the 11th inst., at Clietwynd Park, in the c ot Salop, Robert H. Clive, aged 71. doh MAYO—On the 12th inst., at 18, Clevoland-s qua ro, le 3ll Robert, fifth Earl of Mayo. Thos.zE y p O u n s o t y h , o o f l 2 53 t h , B re inset., ad - a s t t r G e e a t, y houhrosatpLs ioddera,a.Se du 7 3• rbi P u THORNE—On the 11th inst. Jose Joseph N. Thorn e, of 5, 0 , 0 dine Villas, Hackney, late . Commander of Messrs. Oe° ship Anglesey. white, Noon—At .65 Hungerford-r d N Edward Geo. , ea , N. crOU .. the elder son of E. G. Wood, of 74, Chespside , a'a _.....---- London : Printed and Published by WEL•LIA3I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at VIE SUN Oface, r 4° *,,, o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the 00u" Kiddlesex,.—Wednesclay, August 11, 1867. make the pursuit of such an enemy a profitable business. The humanity of the Eastern States is radically opposed to such a system of warfare, and will never adopt it unless driven by the sternest necessity. Congress before adjourning passed an Act appointing a mixed commission of soldiers and civilians to make another great effort to secure peace by concession. The Commissioners are in structed to set aside a district sufficiently large to receive the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains. From this territory the Act excludes all others, except officers commissioned by the United States Government to reside there. If the Indians can be induced to accept the asylum, a liberal provision will be made to supply them with necessaries. If, however, they refuse, and all efforts to induce them to enter such a district fail, then 4,000 of the voltitit,!, - ..rs we have described are to be called out to exterminate the savages. The difficulty of deal ing with them lies in the contempt with which they lear❑ to regard the efforts made to suppress theta. They see the formidable machinery put ill mo tion by UNCLE S'ut, but they count scalps against their white foes, anti dance in triumph on find ing the gain all on their side ; when experience shows them that the formidable monster is in reality unable to inflict any material injury. It may be very disagreeable to the strong to find their strength is often vain, but it is a wise provi sion that so constantly makes the very weakness of a foe his best defence. Anglo - American 7 intes. TIIE PARKS REGULATION BILL. Last night a meeting of the secretaries and dele gates from the whole of the metropolitan branches of the Reform League and other Reform associations, and delegates from trades, friendly, temperance, and other societies, was held in the Sussex Hotel, Bou verie-street, to consider the action of the Govern ment with respect to the Parks Regulation Bill, and the proper course to be adopted for expressing under the circumstances the feelings of the inhabitants of the metropolitan districts. Mr. BEALES, the chairman of the League, was loudly cheered on taking the chair, in which he was supported by Col. Dickson and Mr. Baxter Lang ley. He said he had a mingled report to make to them. The Parks Regulation Bill was not aban doned, but as yet no division had taken place on it. Their friends in the House of Commons had that day spoken from two o'clock to seven in the most admirable and argmentative manner. (Cheers.) The only speaker on the Ministerial benches was Mr. G. Hardy. The other demonstrations on that side were cries of " Question" and " Divide." Two members on the Liberal side spoke in a manner which was most disgraceful to them—Lord Elcho and Mr. Neate. (Oh, oh, and " Tho Poor Man's Friend.") There had been on the part of the Go vernment nothing shown but a determined obsti nacy to pass a bill which they themselves knew to be wrong. If the Government really believed that the meetings in the park were illegal, would they not long ago have arrested him and tried the ques tion at law ? He had again and again asserted the right of the people to meet in the park, and was it not common sense to say that if the Government believed they were in the right, they would not have asked Parliament to pass an act to make that legal which was now according to them illegal? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Taylor had spoken admirably on the question that the Speaker leave the chair, and he was followed by Lord Elcho, who said that the bill was no infringement of the right of public meet ing. (Oh, and laughter.) Why, Hyde Park was the only place fit for a public meeting in London, and yet Lord Elcho said the bill was no interference with the right of public meeting. (Oh, oh.) Fur ther, Lord Flcho said that when he (Mr. Beales) first went to the park and endeavoured to enter it, but retired when refused admission, that he had given up the right. Why, he went there to assert the right, and he had done so often, having repeat edly held the most numerous and orderly public meetings in that very park, and had thereby no doubt mainly contributed to the passing of the Re form Bill. Lord Elcho went further;and said not only that the League did not care about the bill, but that he had been informed by a member of the League that he t 'Mr. Beales) did not represent the feelings of the working men of London on this subject. (Oh, oh.) If that was the case he would at once retire from the position he occupied. (No, no, cheers, and "lie's a liar.") If that member of the League were present he challenged him to come forward and make that assertion in public. Lord Elcho ought to be asked to give up his name, in order that he might be dealt with accordingly. (Cheers.) Mr. Beales went on to enumerate the speakers against the bill, all of whom he highly eulogised, including Mr. Whalley, who, he said, spoke admirably. It was brought out clearly that the middle and trad ing classes were not opposed to these meetings, because they said if the people were deprived of the parks they must be driven into the streets. In fact, h o wever, the whole discussion in th e h ouse th a t day h eh a e ra r c e t a e d r p an as d sa t g h e e a c f h te a r ra p c as te s r ag of e turnedL eague. upon I Ao r h d i s E e l h th a e d from his speeches and those of Colonel Dickson, and other members of the League. Now, the people had their character and reputation to uphold, as well as the Government and the House of Commons, and he pledged himself to maintain their character and honour against both to the uttermost. Mr. Gathorne Hardy, in his speech, quoted from a letter which he had sent to him, embodyin g the opinion of a special pleader on the subject, an d while admitting that he had been perfectly frank throughout in the matter, said that be could not be looked upon as a lawyer, but as the President of the League, with a strong one-sided opinion, and that therefore he was misleading the people on the subject. In that letter he had asserted their right in as distinct terms as he did at the meeting at Radley's Hotel early in the year. Mr. Mill said that the Home Secretary had done himself no good by using that letter. The result was their friends in Parliament strongly urged the impolicy of forcing the bill this year at the end of the session, when members were out of town, and whether it would ,not be the best course to suspend further proceedings, and appoint a committee to in quire into the matter. In coming away from the house after thanking as many of their friends as he could, he was advised by them not to counsel any decided or hostile proceedings at that meeting, but to call upon the Government to accept the proposal of a committee. By taking that course they would place themselves in a stronger position ultimately to carry their views, and that was the course he advised them to take. (Cheers.) Mr. WHALLEY, M.P., said the question at issue appeared to him to be of even more importance than the Reform Bill itself. (Cheers.) The use of the park had largely contributed to the passing of that bill, and now that the people of the metropolis were about to have a larger amount of political power placed in their hands, it was more essential than ever that they should have every facility for consult ing each other, and of demonstrating their opinions on public questions. Mr. Beales' character and dis cretion in times of great emergency had been amply vindicated in Parliament that day, and though he (Mr. Whalley) had not hitherto been much asso ciated with the League, he now wished to be allowed to throw in his energies into the cause, satisfied that his honour and character would be safe in the keep ing of their president. (Cheers.) Mr. MANTLE moved—" That this meeting baying heard the statement made by the president of the League, and others, of the discussion and proceedings to-day in the 'louse of Commons in the attempt to re commit the Parks Regulation Bill, resolves to sus pend further proceedings,in the earnest hope that the Government will yet withdraw a bill so opposed to the wishes of the great bulk of the people, and so in consistent with the spirit of the general legislation of the session, and respectfully but earnestly urges the suspension by Government of all further legislation as to the right of public meeting in Hyde-park until, if necessary, a committee has been appointed and re ported upon the subject." In supporting that reso lution, he said they were acting upon the advice of their best friends in the House of Commons, and in accordance with a sound principle of action. They could have no desire to humiliate the Government, but rather, on broad and permanent grounds, to come to au amicable agreement with them upon a question of great public importance. if the Govern ment at this late period of the session accepted the compromise, the question would be referred to a committee of the house next year, when the passions of the present moment would have passed away, and when the point at issue could be calmly considered and wisely settled. They would do right in offering that compromise in any event. If it was accepted, they would virtually triumph ; if rejected there must be open warfare between them and the Government, and they must never desist from their efforts until they had placed upon a broad and indisputable ground the right of public meeting in the parks. lle hoped they would act in a statesmanlike and judicial spirit in dealing with this matter. Mr. GuEDELLA seconded the resolution, and con curred in the eulogium passed by the chairman on their friends in the house for the manner in which they had acted that afternoon. He believed that, looking to the short time that must elapse beforethe prorogation, the bill could be thrown out by merely parliamentary tactics. But at the same time he thought it would be wise to yield to the advice of Mr. Peter Taylor, and offer this compromise. They had not a stauncher friend in the house, and he said if they were to hold another meeting in the park at present it woul.l rain the chance of the oppo:iition in the house. (Oh, oh.) It would be quite time enough to declare open war against the Government if they persisted in their course. Colonel DICKSON supported the resolution, which he hoped would be passed as soon as possible, in order that he and Mr. Beales might at once take it down to the House of Commons, as a proof that the League adopted the policy which their Parliamentary friends recommended. Mr. RICHARDSON said the Government had thrown the gauntlet down to them, and they would be cowards if they did not take it up. He therefore proposed as an amendment that they hold a meeting in Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon at five o'clock. (Cries of " No, no," and " Monday.") Well, people could not leave their work on Monday without ex pense to themselves, whereas it would be easy to hold one on Sunday. Mr. CHARLES WARREN seconded the amendment amidst considerable interruption, on the ground that if the League proposed the appointment of a committee, they would in fact surrender the right they contended for. (No, no.) Mr. BEALES said that pending the inquiry of that committee the people would have a perfect right to meet until the committee made its report, if they ever did so. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MERRIMAN deprecated a hasty decision on this question, and though he intended to vote for ' the resolution he regretted • osee the impatience shown by the meeting while speakers who took an opposite view of the matter were addressing it. It was of more importance that their deliberations should be mature and calm than that the chairman and Col. • Dickson should be at the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PF:RFITT errnestiv urged the immediate adop• tion of the resolution, which did not in the slightest degree abandon the right of meeting in Hyde. park The resolution had been drawn with no less blood by the executive than that meeting had, but it had been drawn with di:scretion, with a full view of all the circumstances, and with a decided conviction that its acceptance must in any case secure them a victory. (Cheers.) After some remarks from Mr. NIEASS, Mr. BAXTER LANG LEY sa id that he was in favour of the resolution, as suitable to present circum stances. But at the s ame tune he could foresee that circumstances might arise which would make a de monstration in Hyde-park absolutely necessary, and if that necessity did arise not all the Guards nor all the policemen in London would prevent that demon stration being made. (Loud cheers.) There were loud cries for the withdrawal of the amendment, with which Mr. Richardson at length complied, and several speakers attempted to address the meeting, amidst tremendous cries of " Vote, vote," " Question, question," and " Order." Spe cial objection was made to Mr. Finlon addressing the meeting on the ground that ho was not in the room when the resolution was moved. Mr. Finlon, h owe ver, persisted amidst a sc ene of great confu sion, saying that he wanted to move an amendment. The chairman repeatedly called him to order, and there was a general rush of members of the League to Mr. Finlon to counsel him to obey the chairman, who put the question to the meeting whether they would hear Mr. Finlon, which was met by a decided negative, and the resolution was then put, and car ried with two dissentients. Col. DICKSON then moved a vote o f thanks to PA. Taylor, lo Esq., and other members of Parlia mentperseveringly resisted the progress who of the Parks Bill. r, have Mr. CUNNINGTON seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE LONDON ', 7131E5." There is an article in the new monthly magazine, The Broadway, on the Times, in which the great in fluence of that newspaper is attributed to its won derful theu obtaining sc success news, on the perfect reliability ss of the journal has been founded. I n our o p inion the Times in by no mmachinery a good newsp a p er. It is in ferior to the p enn y p a pers the Standard and the t elegraph, that is , in ac o h f which,erY for reports of every-day occurrences over the world. Where the Times is superior is in its ability to obtain the very best information when great events ' are occurring in any part of the globe. Its wealth is so great that it can employ the best pens. Its prestige is so high that its passport to correspon dents is an open sesame, therefore its news on such occasions is not on l y reliable, but conveyed in the most captivating form. As a newspaper we believe it to be behind some of its daily contemporaries in London, and to be beyond comparison behind the New York Herald, whose columns are almost made up of telegraph despatches, and whose agent in Europe in less than a year disbursed for the trans • mission of messages £20,000. If the meagre tele graph reports of the London daily papers be compared with those of New York the assertion of some Americans will be shown to have foundation, that New York is the headquarters of news. Scarcely an event of any importance occurs in Europe that is not reported as early and as fully in New York as in London. The Times in no way aids in mak ing London the great centre of news, and in this we consider it unfair to the people who give it so liberal a support. Where the real influ ence of the Times is seen is in its decisions on various public questions on which Parliam ent may be divided, and the Cabinet split. It is then that the Times steps in as a self-constituted umpire with an irresistible weight of argument, with an earnest and clear exp os iti on o f the circumstan ces, with a judgment so conclusive and reasonable that the matter is at once disposed of, and nothing more is heard of the subject. On Tuesday night the House of Commons decided that Captain JERVIS should not be reinstated—at least by any action of theirs ; the ground being, that, though acquitted, he was not honourably acquitted of the charge of pecula tion. On Thursd a y morn i n g the Times discussed the subject, showing that the minority were right, the majority wrong; therefore the Government, backed by the llDuie of Commons, is opposed in this question to the Times, and we venture to pre dict that the 'limes will win. Nor will it win only, but it will exlctly reverse the present position. Captain JERVIS will return to Win., and Sir WIL LIAM MANSFIELD will return to England.liad the witten in this s tyle before the divisi▪ on, Mr. Burr's motion would have been carried. When the great bell-wether is enveloped in a fog or bidden by scrub, the sheep scatter, not knowing the way to go; but when the b e ll of the wether ri▪ ngs de cisively, and the direction is clearly indicated, there is no hesitation or distraction in the woolly flock. They get the cue for which the innocent things so earnestly look, they are relieved from doubt, and are enabled to act wisely and. well. The fact is that a great part of the English people have placed their public conscience in the safe keeping of this journal. It saves them from all trouble of think ing out a subject for themselves, and furnishes them with admirable arguments in favour of the conclusion which it puts into their minds ; they go into each other's society primed and loaded, almost uncon sciously reproducing the opinions they had just read. It is often amusing to hear old gentlemen