The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT. The Saturday Review thinks even Sir Roundell Palmer's authority will fail to persuade Parliament or the country that the Greek Government ought to be held formally responsible for the murder of English subjects, or even of a member of the Legation. " Historicus," who lately quoted a text-book to prove that ambassadors are excep tionally sacred, was probably right in his opinion that the person of Mr. Herbert was as inviolable as that of Mr. .Erskine • but the safety of an ambassador or of a king can only be secured by the ordinary law which provides equally for the protection of the humblest alien sojourner. Two or three years ago the Emperor of Russia, during a vist to Paris, narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a Pole; and a French jury returned a verdict which exempted the criminal from capital punishment. No attempt was ever made to hold the French Government responsible for the insufficiency of the precautions which had probably been taken for the security of the Emperor ; nor would ordinary negligence have fur nished a ground for diplomatic reclamation, unless it ap peared that it was exceptionally displayed in the sse of the Imperial guest. The robbery which lately occurred at the house of the American Minister in London, though it caused general regret, was never supposed to raise an international question. If the burglar had aggravated his crime by the murder of any member of the Legation, in vestigation and punishment would still have belonged to the ordinary tribunals. To make a case against the Greek Government it would be necessary to prove either active complicity, or refusal to allow to English subjects and to the Secretary of the English Legation whatever protection is afforded to the Greeks themselves ; yet it is notorious that Greek robbers select their victims without regard to race or language, except indeed that they suppose foreigners, and particularly Englishmen, to be enormously rich. Unless national honour imperatively requires formal satisfaction it is not altogether desirable to provide the Greeks with a new excuse for neglecting their duties. The attempt to distinguish the case of Mr. Herbert from that of his companions would not even have the advan tage of expressing English feeling. The Government of Italy, with exactly the same cause of complaint, will not be disposed to press hardly upon Greece. The possibility that a foreign diplomatist might be seized by robbers in Calabria or Sicily would alone be sufficient to restrain the zeal of Italian Statesmen. It is said that some English travellers whe were a few years since seized by robbers and held to ransom were mistaken for the Prince of Wales and his party. The precedent of holding the Govern ment responsible for private crime would be dangerous to a State which, notwithstanding vigorous and partially successful efforts, has not suppressed the trade of open robbery. The whole matter may be safely entrusted to the prudende of Lord Clarendon. THE DEATH-BED REPENTANCE OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE. We sincerely congratulate the Government, says the Spectator on its tardy conversion to the belief which for so many years we have expressed, through little but evil report from all our Liberal contemporaries, that the nation is proud in its heart of hearts of its colonial Empire , and will not, so soon as it clearly understands the issue r allow it to be broken up for the want of just and considerate treatment from home. For this, and we are most anxious that it should be so understood in the colonies—is the only reasonable interpretation of what we may call the death-bed repentance of the Colonial Office in relation to New Zealand, and we are very confident that that it is the true ore. When it came to the point, and it was well understood that th e niggardly offer of the Government, of which we gave the detail last week, would not be recommended by the New Zealand Commissions, and had little or no chance of being accepted in the colony—when, further, it was clearly understood that a widespread conviction had long been growing up in the colony that the connection with Eng land was becoming, not only a pure incumbrance and dis advantage, but even a special source of estrangement and bitterness between England and New Zealand —the Government had to consider carefully both the political wisdom, and the expediency in a merely Ministerial point of view, of allowing this great quarrel to pass into a rupture. There can be no manner of doubt that the ob vious interpretation of their decision is the true one. What the colony wants to know is that the old country is not really indifferent to the connection, that a feeling of genuine grief and dismay would be evoked at home by any rupture, The blunders and sins of the Colonial Office, however grave they may have been, Rill weigh but littleif it be once known that they were the blunders and sins only of the Colonial Office, and not of the people of England. Lord Granville, indeed, is not only a brand plucked from the burning, but the very heart of the disas trous conflagration. Could anything have turned him aside from the broad and easy downward way which, with so laughing an imperturbability of resolution, he has now steadily pursued ever since his entrance upon office, except a sudden flash of conviction that it was a way lead ing within u very . few months to Ministerial destruction ? If New Zealand is to accept the offer in the only spirit in which it can be usefully accepted, the spirit of cordial desire for reconciliation - and hearty unity in time to come, it is of the first importance that it should clearly under stand that the British Government has really been con verted at the critical moment and that it has been con verted by the most impressive of all arguments—the argument that the people of England, and especially the Liberals of England, are thoroughly hostile to a policy of colonial disintegration. THURSDAY NIGHT IN THE LORDS. The John Bull says the Upper House was on Thursday night once more its old brilliant self, except that the Peeresses did not in any numbers put in an appearance. Since the fierce struggle on the Irish Church Bill of ten months ago it had not until two evenings back presented so full an attendance, so animated a spectacle. Minis terial, Opposition, cross benches were all fairly filled; but the chief sight was the phalanx of lawn sleeves, nearly a score strong, who sat on the Lord Chancellor's right. We need scarcely say that the subject which had brought down so many peers—spiritual as well as temporal—was one affecting morals rather than politics. It was nothing less than a bill to overturn the whole law of affinity. This Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill has been called jocosely a measure for the abolition of aunts ;it is that, and far more. It is a denial of the statement made in man's first innocence, and confirmed by - the founder of Christianity, our Divine Master Himself, that a man and his wife shall be one flesh. It is a fatal blow at the root idea of marriage—the identity of the wife's and the husband's interests. This being so, we must express our regret that the majority by which the bill was rejected was so small. The debate was not unworthy of the subject, though it would have been better had the arrangement of speakers been con sidered before hand. For able as was the Bishop of Ely's speech, we incline to the belief that many who did not come back from dinner would ha. , e been induced to do so, had less theological argument been used earlier in the debate. The subject is scarcely one perhaps offering room for much eloquence, and certainly there was none of that brilliant oratory which astonished and de lighted the whole kingdom last year. There was also t Do much of what we may call black-letter argument. The cry of anguish to which Lord Houghton referred, and which he said was being raised by the women who had married their brothers-in law, is a matter for which we may be sorry, but which we cannot help. There was no necestity to contract these marriages, and if women have' deliberately chosen to enter upon them, they must bear both the blame and the punishment. On the other hand, a far louder and more universal cry would be raised, if this bill were passed. It would amount to banishment for all those devoted women who have been hitherto doing their best to supply the place of one, whose loss has involved them and the household they are consoling and aiding, in a common sorrow. It would, all the Lord Chancellor said, banish the sister-in-law from ninety-nine families in order to give a step-mother to the hundredth. We say that this would be as cruel to man as it would be displeasing to God. COMMERCIAL MEN IN THE INDIAN COUNCIL. The Economist doubts the appropriateness of Mr. Graves's remedy for the difficulties of ruling India. He would like to admit a considerable number of merchants (say six) into the Council, and hints that they ought to be retired members of Indian firms. Unfortunately, that device has been tried, and has failed. English merchants might be useful, but to appoint them by election, as Mr. Graves seems inclined to do, would be to revive Mr. raeli's exploded idea of ruling I n d ia by Chambers of Com merce, while the difficulties in the way of selection are very great. The department has not an unreasonable jealousy of allowing a member of the Council to continue in business, and no merchant worth consulting will quit his business for £1,200 a year, obtained by a p ermanent disability to sit in P ar li a ment, to appear before the pub lic, or to obtain honours from the Crown. We believe we aro correct in saying that no member of the Council has ever received in any form any recognition o services per formed within its walls. Competent men will not convent to work under such conditions, and incom petent men would only hamper the existing Finance Committee, which wants nothing but a little more vigour and freshness of spirit to be a very effective body. No Chancellor of the Exchequer, for example, could have raised the credit of his country much higher. For a dependency like India to be able to raise money at four per cent., while France pays over four and America six, is a very great and verycreditable commercial success, -which ought not to be forgotten when Parliament con siders the merits or demerits of the Indian Council. What is required is a financial Under-Secretary, a man who could bring to the work a knowledge of business, a fresh and statesmanlike mind and the authority . whieh comes from parliamentary position. He would be an invaluable aid to the secretary of State, while he could supply_the miss ing link between the daily work of the India House and the commercial progress of Great Britain. It is, more over, _no slight argument in favour of this suggestion that it could be carried out without revolutionising the existing system, or raising the extremely difficult and corn- . plicated question of the proper composition of the Indian Council. A SIMPSON 111.EmonieL,-7-We are glad to hear that there is a proposition on foot for placing a bust or other monument of Sir J. Y. Simpson in v estminster Abbey.—Medical Times and Gazette. Editors appear to fare well in Turkey. The Sultan was so much pleased with a leading article on hi* speech from the throne which appeared in the Teraki, that he has conferred upon the editor, Ali Bey, the grade of cahnacam. (lieut.-colonel), and given him a baksheesh of £5OO. RISK ALLAH BEY.--This person, whose trial in Belgium caused so much interest some time since, is about to appear again before a law court in the c haracter of a plaintiff. It appears that Risk Allah took passage ou board the steamer Teverino for Beyrout, but the vessel was wrecked and his baggage was lost. He has made a claim to a large amount upon the Messageries Imp4riales, and this being repudiated by the company, he has com menced a suit in the First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal pi Paris. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Abyssinian expedition, of which Mr. Candlish is chairman, resumed their sitting yesterday. The witness was Col. Marriot, the military secretary to the Govern ment of Bombay, who took a principal part in fitting out the expedition, under the immediate command of Lord Napier of Magdala. He said that it was very necessary to take up as many vessels as could be ob tained in order to hasten the expedition, and to provide against any loss that might .be occasioned by storms which might reasonably be expected. In order to provide against such accidents, every effort which was necessary to be made was obliged to be made at Bombay, because there was no timber available at Annesley Bay. Re ferring to the total cost of the expedition, he said he had seen General Jameson's estimate,' and it was in his opinion as good and correct a-one as could be formed at that time ; and in point of fact, so far as the freight and tonnage was concerned, it turned out to be tolerably correct. Every care was taken by the Bombay Government that while the expedition should be efficient no unnecessary cost should be incurred, and, in his opinion, there was no re flection to be cast upon any single department concerned. The only difference in the scheme' originally submitted to Lord Napier by , the Government and that which he ultimately determined upon was as to the increase in the number of the expedition. The disorganised state of the transport was due principally to the epi demic which prevailed in Zoola among the mules, the worthlessness of the Egyptian drivers, the want of proper tethering gear, and the necassity which arose for their being used at once. • The evidence of Colonel Marriott lasted the whole of the day, and at its close the committee adjourned. GENERAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. The Spring General Meeting of the National Rifle Association washeld yesterday afternoon, atWillis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, President of the Association, in the chair. His Royal Highness, in opening the proceedings, said he had very little to tell them, and he thought there was very little which required discussion. He told them at the last meeting that the annual shoot ing at Wimbledon would take place on the 11th July . , and that _ the camp for . the meeting would be formed on the 9th of the same month. In regard to the regula tions they would fmd that with regard to the prizes, &c., they were very much the same this year as they were last, there being only a few exceptions. In Regulation 10, which excluded 577 breech-loading rifles at the Enfield Pool and Enfield Cartoon target, that had been cancelled. In the prize list very few alterations would be found. In the "Army Rifle Nursery Prizes" the disqualifications had been limited to two years. Another alteration was with respect to the Cartoon Prizes, which had been re arranged, and three prizes had been added in the shape of awards given for the highest scores made in seven shots in one day. The Breech-loading Prize had this year been divided into two classee—one for rifles of a minimum bore of 45 and open to all comers, and one for rifles of 577 bore restricted to volunteers. He had now a very satisfactory an announcement to make, A prize of a hundred guineas had been given by the proprietors of the Graphic illustrated newspaper-55 guineas in money, and 25 volumes of that work handsomely bound, and he was much pleased to see so much interest taken in the association by those connected with some of the best of the public journals of the present day. He hope 1, if pos. Bible, they would be imitated by others. He was sorry to find that in answer to the letter of Lord Elcho inviting manufacturers and tradesmen to give prizes the response had not been so large as it should have been, but he might, at the same time, state that the list of extra, prizes contained several new contributors. It was pro posed that there should again be a review on the last day of the meeting and, as before, a flying camp. It certainly was a success last year, and there seemed to be no ob jection to it this year. He did_ not think anything would be said as regarded the expense, of course he meant by the Secretary of State for War, on whose department the cost of the flying column would fall. He hoped the meet ing would fall in with the views of the Council, who had on every other occasion had their confidence. General Boileau pointed out that the old small bores were 451 bore. and enquired if they would be admitted to shoot under the altered rules? Lord Elcho said the intention was to admit all small bores, so that those having the old pattern would be able to shoot. In reply to a subscriber, who said , he should like to see a Snider competition, Lord Elcho said he did not see the object of it. The Snider could be used with the other Enfields, and they must remember it was not yet the arm of the service. When it became so the Queen's prize would of course be competed for with it. In the Ely prizes the Snider would be admitted, and he hoped next year the volunteers would have them in general use. 1\ o doubt when the question of the manufacture of arms came be fore Parliament in the estimates either himself or some one else would again raise the question. A few minor details were discussed, and the proceed ings terminated with a vote of thanks to his Royal High ness for presiding. THE MOHA.WKS AT OXFORD. The one topic of interest at present at Oxford is the senseless act of vandalism which was perpetrated on Tuesday, the 10th. The affair is the most Aoolish and disastrous of the many ridiculous practical jokes which " educated " men at Oxford have from time to time coinmitted. Its perpetrators seem frightened at their own folly. The scene of this outrage is the Peckwater Quadrangle. Christ Church Library, a stately eighteenth century edifice, stands on the south side of Peck water Quadrangle; and the building appears to have been entered through the end window, from which a large pane had been cut clean out. The library is rich in paint ings, principally of the early Italian schools, arranged chronologically from Cimabue to the Caracci; and it is still richer in books, the collections of Archbishop Wake, the Earl of Orrery, and Dean Aldrich, the architect, being included among these " assembled souls of all whom men hold wise." The pillage, however, seems to have been limited to works of sculpture. There was a marble statue of Venus, and there were marble busts of Dr. Thomas Gaisford, some time Dean of Christ Church, and other former deans and pro fessors. These memorial objects, to remove which from the library must have been a labour of time and trouble, were ranged in mock order of display about the quad, Dean G-aisford's bust being in the centre. It would seem that, being left in this position, the busts and the figure of Venus were found by another paity of revellers, who piled the art-treasures in a heap, covered them with mats, and set fire to their outward coating, which smouldered till the marble had received irreparable injury. The matter is now before the governing body, who are, it is said, determined on visiting with heavy punishment all those against whom the charge of having taken part in these doings can be made good. " The Oxford Undergraduates Journal,"' an organ of the University, which is published weekly in term; came out on Thursday with an article strongly cm demning the conduct of those young men. Says the Journal " Pare love of mischief, and an infatuated reck lessness in its pursuit, alone could have dictated such an outrage, the senselessness of which must preclude the possibility of any semi-rational motives, such as anger or revenge, however ill - founded, being as signed to the act in question. To break a man's windows, and to screw up a don, are actions which may be the result of some dislike or indignation founded upon a real or fancied grievance, and in this ease we see a certain element of reason. But to wantonly injure and destroy the property of a society to which you yourself belong, and in which you have, or ought to have, a certain amount of interest, without any rational pretext whatever (if any pretext could justify such an act) is to all intents and purposes a suicidal action and bespeaks a madness that has no method in it." LAW ANT) POLIO% COMMITTAL OF AN ALLEGED RECEIVER.- -George tosh, a general dealer, was finall examined, charged with feloniously receiving a large quantity of jewellery of all kinds, valuable diamond rings and Watches, as well as some valuable meerschaum cigariaolders and pipes, which formed part of the proceeds of an extensive burglary at the shop of Mr. Grunebaum, cigar importer, 14, Edg ware road. The prisoner was committed for trial, bail being refused, and Mr. Arnold declined to make an order for the restoration of any part/of the property not identified. _ . THE PUBLIC AND THE POLICE.—At the Stratford Police-court, Mrs. Wilson, the prosecutrix in a case' recently brought against a policeman, named Moriarty, made an application to the magistrate, Mr. King. She said that she had been - •persietently and continually annoyed by Mena of the policeman, and that serious wounds had been inflicted -upon her by his partisans. The magistrate at once granted summonses against the assail ants of the applicant. SHARES IN OVEREND AND GURNEY.—A case arising from the sale of ten shares in Overend and Gurney has been brought the Exchequer Chamber. The plaintiff, Mr. Max.t.ed, bought, through his brokers, ten shares in Overend, Gurney, and Co., the defendant, Mr. Paine, giving on the same day the name of Goss as the ultimate buyer. It was afterwards discovered that Sir Samuel Spry was the undisclosed principal, Goss being a man of no means. Calls were made on the shares, and the plaintiff was compelled to pay, and could not recoyer fromGoss,so he brought his action against de fendant. It was ilea in the Exchequer that Goss was an ultimate purchaser wiihin the Meaning of the term on the Stock Exchange, and that in the absence of fraud the defendant could not be made liable. Judgment was 'giVen for him. Error was then brought. The Court took time to con sider. Spme modifications of the curriculum of study laid dowii by the Colltge of Surgeons were effected by the council of that' bei:ly at its last meeting. The principal points touched by the neW rigulations are the introduc tion of the examination of aotual - patients by the candi dates for the membe rs hip, an d a mo dification of the sys tematic teaching of surgery, by which the second course of theoretical lectures now demanded will be supply , - mented by a more practical one, including the applica= tion of apparatus, the performance of operations on the dead body, and the study of the relations of external anatomy to surgical diseases and injuries. The first regulation will be in force from March, 1871, and fthe latter dues will apply to students entering next October. THE SUN, . LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1870 THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The Archbishop of Canterbury left Addington-park on Thursday, for his marine villa, Stonehouse, ,in the Isle of Thanet. r It is thought that a month's residence at the seaside, at this time of the year, will be of great use to the Archbishop. His health has improved greatly during the last few weeks, and several friends have visited his Grace in succession. Amongst them have been the Bishop of London and Mrs. Jackson, the Dean of West -minster and Lady Augusta Stanley,the Dean of Durha m, the Dean of Ripon, and Mr. J. Hassard. THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION. The New York Herald of May 6 publishes a long account of the British expeditioa against Fort Garry from its correspondent at Montreal: " There seems," he says "to be an impression prevailing generally in Canada that the expedition fitting out for Red River will not meet with any serious resistance, but will prove to lee only a sort of escort to officers proceeding to establish law and order; that when the command reaches Fort Garry the settle ments will receive it in a friendly manner, and that the only questions to be settled will be the responsibility of Riel for the shooting of Scott. Of course this is all only conjecture on the part of the confident Canadians, who have an idea that the mere rumour that an expedition would be sent against Fort Garry would strike abject terror into the souls of every Winnipegger." - The Harald correspondent is less sanguine, being, perhaps, not alto gether disinterested. The French Catholics in Canada, numbering 80 out of some 180 members, sympathise with their Red River brethren. The conscientious people of the Dominion are also averse to it as they " realise what a ras cally operation the whole business of the transfer" has been. The natural enemies of the party in power are also against it, being glad to avail themselves of such a weapon against the Ministry. The Fenian scare in Canada, continues this correspondent, is subsiding, but the Red River pre parations still keep the military on the qui 'vire, and occa sion a vast deal of chilling, parading, brass-banding, &c., while the hotel registers are filled with colonels, majors, captains, &c., to a degree that forcibly suggests to a Yankee the scenes in Washington in 1862. After en;ume rating the regular troops now in Canada, the writer goes on to describe the Canadian Militia, which includes all the male inhabitants of Canada between the ages of eighteen and sixty, with certain exceptions, such as judges, clergy, schoolmasters, the only sons of widows, &c. The militia is divided into two classes, active and reserve, and the law provides for annual paid drills of 40,000 fficere and men, in addition to the reserve militia, numbering 656,500. The expedition is to be drawn from both the regulars and the militia. Very little is known of the country to which it is going, and not a publication about Red River can be had in Mon treal. It is marvellous that no American publisher has been enterprising enough to produces something which would be eagerly bought by the hundreds who are anxiously seeking details. The expedition will contain about 2,000 men, 1,000 of them being regulars. A large number of Indians, half breeds and other men familiar with woodcraft and wilderness travel, will be employed as canoe men, scouts, and guides, and the expe dition, when ready to set out on its march from Fort William, on the western side of Lake Superior, will pro bable- be the most complete military organisation ever formed for such a campaign. Boats capable of holding twenty men each will be taken by the expedition for the navigation of the small lakes and water courses between Lake Superior and Fort Garry. It was intended to send forward men with provisions to form depots at various points along the route, but this idea has been abandoned On the ground that their possible destruction by theft, or accident. or surprise, might ruinously affect the expedi tion. Stores are being collected, blankets purchased, and steamers chartered, and it is hoped that the expedition will be afloat by the 10th of May. If, however, the Ist of June finds them started, there will be no cause for com plaint. To transport 2,500 men, with two months' pro visions, horses, cattle, and artillery, will require a big, flotilla, and the march will necessarily be slow and toil some, probably requiring all of July to reach Fort Garry. Lieutenant-General Lindsay, commanding the British troops in Canada, has the charge of the fitting out of the expedition, and Colonel Wolsley, the commanding officer, is described as " a very magnificent soldier," who has seen service in New Zealand, Caffraria, India, the Crimea and China. lie wears seven medals, including the Victoria Cross. The military rendezvous of the expedition is established at Toronto. The use of the Crystal Palace at that city has been given by its managers to the Dominion Government fee barracks, and the troops, as fast as they are collected,) ill be Concentrated there and organised into com paniee. The route of the expedition is a long and painful one. The first 540 miles, however, are comparatively easy of accomplishment. Steamers will transport the expedition from Colling 7 wood up the Georgian Bay and through Lake Huron, 250 miles, to the entrance into Lake Superior at the St. Marie Canal, concerning the use of which the piney of the government at Washington has been so closely scrutinized. At this point the navigation between Lake Huron and Lake Superior is conducted by means of a canal- about 2,000 yards long on Michigan soil. It is generally understood that the United States Government will not permit the Red River expedition to pass over any of its territory, and that the canal will be closed against the steamers of the expedition. This imposes upon the command the necessity of disembarking and marching a short distance on Canadian soil to Lake Superior, and with all the supplies and paraphernalia of the campaign to unload, carry and reship, in view of which the in convenience to the expedition seems to be very great. Indeed it is not improbable that the supplies, &c., are now quietly going through • that canal, and all have passed comfortably on to Thunder Bay before Uncle Sam is aware of it. From the St. Marie canal to Fort William, in Thunder Bay, is a sail by steamer of 238 miles. Here the expedition leaves the steamers and strikes out into the uninhabited wilderness. The chief difficultiem begin at Fort William. The Domi nion papers are some of them inclined to represent these in their worst possible light. The Montreal News of April 29 says it is taken for granted that horses or oxen and fodder will be provided at Thunder Bay, because neither hay nor oats can be produced at that spot. The expedi tion we shall imagine landed at Thunder Bay. It will then have forty miles land travel. At starting the ground rises abruptly three hundred feet within the first half mile, and keeps ascending for ten miles, when an altitude of 1060 feet will be attained ; it then descends slightly until the river Kaminitiquia, is reached, when the road sinks rapidly. It is a toss up whether the spring freshets have not swept away the Kaminitiquia, bridge, but, supposing it to exist, the oppo site bank offers a sharp ascent of 750 feet. From that point to Lake Shebandowan twenty miles of mountain roads must be traversed, and over the entire forty miles the boats and all the food supplies, hospitals, and war material must be dragged and depots established. There will be needed, at the lowest estimate, a hundred horses and carts, because the cattle must transport their own food. • Lake Shebandowan is twenty-nine and a half miles long, hence its further extremity is sixty-nine and a half miles from Thunder Bay. The traverse of the lake will not offer any difficulties, but between that lake and Lake Kaskaboiwe are three short sharp portages. If horse transport is to be employed the cattle must be brought on in special boats with stores of fodder ; if no cattle are pro vided, then everything must be portaged on men's backs; the camp line must come into requisition. The expedition cannot hope for any fighting for the first three hundred miles, because the country is so denuded and bare that no enemy_ can conceal themselves. The difficulties will consist in the natural impediments of the country—a road-broleen by incessant portages, so that at each break a fresh system of transport must be organised. A land route, however wretched, can be repaired, but this mud turtle one will be something unknown in military move ments. We hope Colonel Wolseley is even-tempered and not given to swearing, because his patience will be sorely tested, and his hardest trial awaits him when he reaches :the shores of the Lake of the Woods. That lake is ninety miles from Fort Garry, and near it Riel will make a stand if he means to fight. Our reasons for so thinking are, that he will be close to his base of supplies, with prairies in his rear, by which to escape, and thick evergreen cover for his riflemen. The Lake of the Woods is an impostor ; it is not like decent lakes that know their bounds ,• its excuse is the depressed character of the land. One tries to reach shore, but no shore can be found, and, after push ing and pulling till no further progress can be - made, those who wish to continue their journey must jump out of the boats; they- will find themselves on what Mr. Dawson poetically describes as a " lake-like marsh." They must not be discouraged when they discover that they cannot reach the sandy bottom until they are waist deep or shoulder deep in slush. No animal can venture on its sur face. A canal could be dug or fascines laid ; but then. Riel might object to so obvious an assertion of proprie tary rights. There will be one advantage in wading for several miles through this " lake-like marsh "—only half of the body can be exposed to the demands of the mosquitoes. Such is a short sketch of the road to Fort Garry. The description is not an attractive one ; but Colonel Wolseley will find the realities more serious." . • The correspondent of the New York Herald reports that ma ny persons predict hard fighting, Garry by the time as it is believed 3,000 Fenians will be co ncentrated at Fort the expedition gets there. It is well known that O'Donohue, Riel's right hand man, is a zealous Fenian, and that he has not only been a constant writer for Fenian Papers in the United States, but has been in close communication with the Fenian leaders ever since the Red . River troubles first commenced. Last winter a n accredited and trusty agent of the Fenian headquarters was sent to Fort Ga,rry to arrange for Fenian co-operation in resistance to the authority of the Dominion Govern ment, and when it is taken into consideration that the Red River flag is half Fenian, that the late Fenian excitement along the Canadian border was caused by the Fenians for the purpose of blinding the authorities respecting the real plan to throw men and mate rial across the Minnesota frontier into Red River, and that the Fenians have always _ been on the look-out for just such an opportunity to make-a descent upon British territory and establish an Irish Republic, the prospect of lively times at Fort Garry seems to be pretty clear. Information from Chicago and St. Paul, and the whispered rumours hi Canadian official circles, clearly indicate that the Fenians will not be idle when the Red River crisis approaches, and the expedition may find its long and wearisome march through swamps and over precipices the least of the difficulties to be encountered in its, occupation of Rupert's Land. The Dominion Govern ment expects to have the - friendly co-operation of - all the Indians in the Red River country, but with the stores and other property of the Hudson Bay Company at his com mand, Riel may be able to purchase as many Indian allies as the expedition. Such is an outline .of the expedition drawn from an American point of view. No newspaper correspondents are to accompany it, i which is rather a re prieve for them, as the undertaking s thus summed up : Crossing the Red River, about, 300 feet wide, the expe dition, will at last, after 538 miles by steamer, 349 k miles by boats, and 144 miles of marching, reach Fort Garry` 1,031 1 2 miles from Collingwood." Crylr. SERVICE.—The great opposition to the Civil Service Bill arises in Congress. The people at large have no objection to see the, public departments filled with capable and honest men. But to ask members C o ngress to pass a measure depriving them of patronage an d influence is like inviting people to cut off their own heads. Mr. Schenck and other gentlemen are, however, in favour of Mr. Jenckes' bill, foreimeing that the want of some reform such as it embodies must yet work serious mischief. Mr. Jenckes must persevere. No great change of this kind was ever accomplished without patience and hard flgliting.—Neiv York Tones. MR. SE WARD ON LAKES AUBURN, NEW YORK, May 6. A delegation of twenty of the prominent citizens of Skaneateles paid a complimentary visit to Governor Seward, at four o'clock this afternoon, at his mansion. A collation was served, during which the Rev. Mr. Palmer addressed Mr. Seward in behalf of the delegation, tender ing their hearty thanks for the privilege of the interview. Mr. Sewerd responded in the following words :—" Gentle men,-1 our owe Skaneateles was the first lake I ever saw. I have since seen many others in North America, and some c lsewhere. Nevertheless , I still think your little lake, with the smiling village .of Skaneateles re flected in its blue waters, is about the finest one I ever saw. Owasco is a trifle nearer me, but neither more admired nor more loved. All our lakes are beautiful, and when I meet an old settler I seldom think, and I don't at all care, whether he comes from the Owasco, the Skan eatelee, the Otisco, the Cazenovia, the Onondaga, the Otsego the Oneida, the Seneca or the Cayuga Lake, 'or from Lake Ontario, or Lake Erie, or Lake George, or Lake Champlain, the dwellers on the shores of all the lakes are so much alike, and I have been so long in the habit of feeling as they feel, thinking what they think, and doing, unless I can shew a good reason to the con trary, what they command. Sometimes a visitor drops upon me here. I never fail in that case, whether my guest is from an Eastern city, from Mexico, the West Indies or the Pacific Coast, from an European capital or from Pekin, to shew him the. houses of my neighbours, that he may see the independence and comfort in which they live—their Republican simplicity and their devotion to progress and civilisation. Is it a conceit of nitric, gentlemen, that the lake countries inspire arid elevate — that they stimulate - loyalty and patriotism, philanthropy and religion ? When the wandering Aztecs of the North reached the summits in which the green valley of Mexico is set, their priests affected a revelation which directed that the capital of the future Montezumas should be built in the waters of the Tezcuco. The won derful city thus created by savage hands remains the enviable metropolis of civilised, Republican Mexico. A like pretended revelation received by Brigham Young on Vision Rock determined the site of Great Salt Lake City, .at once an anomaly and marvel of civilisation, and ultimately to become, as.l believe, a great social and moral power in the centre of the Rocky Mountains. Is there any poetry yet living in England that was not born at Windermere? What Ins there ever been of moral, political, or religious reform in Scotland that is not associated by history, romance, or song with Loch Latrine and Loch Lomond ? Did not Pliny find on the beach of Como the literature, philosophy, and manners which he loved and taught ? and was it not here that Garibaldi organised the Republican revolution against the intrusive Houses - of Bourbon and Hapsburg ? We trace to the shore of Lake Leman with equal certainty the Iconoclas tic Republican religion of Calvin, and the social contract theory of Rousseau. I think that the patriarchal history would lose much of its instruction, if all mention of the cities of the plains and the Dead Sea, had been suppressed. And what would remain of even our blessed Christi anity itself if the writets of the Gospel had omitted the narrative of Gennesaret, its waters and winds, picturesque villages and humble fishermen. I sit upon my door-sill here, and I look upon the travellers of Europe and Asia, passing by day and by night over our central railroads, and upon an inland trade, exceeding all our forejgn commerce, ever moving on from the interior of the continent to the ocean tides, on a canal which is nothing more than the gentle overflow of our own beau tiful lakes gathered into a long and deep artificial river. The thought then arises that the places in which cur lives are cast are not only pleasant and inspiring, but they are also a seat of empire. I came back, after a long and wearying absence, to this my ancient house, not unlike one of our native mariners, who, having for forty years buf feted the winds and waves of many climes and seas, finds rest at last upon the sunny shore where his' early life was passed, content and thankful to God that no ship that was intrusted to his care has been wrecked ;.no crew lost ; no owners ruined. A thousand thanks, then, my friends, for this generous welcome. May our Heavenly Father grant us to live affectionately while we are permitted to live together, and to cultivate always the charity and the sympathy with other men and other nations which, while they bring cheerfulness to ourselves, are at the same time the chosen means of Providence for the amelioration of human woes throughout the world." A. COUNCIL OF REVOLUTIONISTS. The special correspondent of the New York Herald lately furnished that journal with an account of a congress of the "Nationalists and Radicals in London." This sin _ _ gular meeting, which has already been alluded to in these columns, deserve some further description. The report is given by the correspondent of the Herald as representing the " actual working progress of the great European democratic movement, having for its object the attainment of a general Confederate system of Republican government by the Old World peo ples." Where it took place we are not told ; but the gathering was of a most comprehensive character, no important country in Europe being ,unrepresented. The president was a French journalist, who is very decidedly " wanted " at the present moment by the Paris police. The secretary was an Italian. The American correspondent then describes their anticipa tions :—" It seems certain that during the autumn of the Present year there will be a general rising of the ' reds' throughout Europe. Their object is to create. a number of Republican States—as many as there are nationalities bound together by one federation, the capitpl of which is to be Paris. Two things surprised me very much in what I heard. The first is that the revolutionary party throughout Europe does not regard France as by any means the mos ' advanced' in political opinions, nor by any means the most wealthy as regards the money at the disposal of their party. France, indeed, seems to be their chief *diffi culty, for, according to what I heard, the industrious and the moneyed classes, without exeeption, are all in favour of things remaining as they now are. But, still more curious as it seemed to me, the chief hope of the revolutionists in France is the highest nobility and the oldest families. Those who hope and wish for a return of the Orleans or the Bourbon family to the throne would help, so they say, gladly to overthrow the empire and create a revolution in the hopes that during the confusion, or after a certain amount of chaos, they and their friends might seize the power. The French representatives at this Congress laughed grimly at the idea, and said that once the ' reds ' Were in power it would be a very long time before the ' whites got the upper hand again. And still more was I surprised with the great confidence expressed by the German re -presentatives from all parts of that country, par ticularly those from Prussia. The latter is now, as they said, one huge kingdom that will help, and was, indeed, intended, to pave the way for a large German Republic. Of Austria and Bavaria there was equal confidence displayed ; but the bringing about of a Republic in Southern Germany was declared to be more difficult than in the north. Of all the countries respecting which their future was discussed, by far the most confidence - was expressed respecting the kingdom of Italy. It seems that from Milan to Naples the plans are not only matured that will overturn the throne, but that the whole army is with the Republican movement, and the only fear expressed by those present was that the flame should burst out in that country before the rest of Europe is ready. Of Rome it was feared that the Catholic feeling, so prevalent in France and Southern Germany, would insist upon the Pope remaining king of the Pontifical States, or, at any rate, of Rome itself. Spain and Portugal are equally ready to declare for a republic, and are only biding their time. Switzerland is to be the basis of operations, and from that country will the first notes of the trum pet be heard ; and when in each country upon the Continent of Europe the people have overthrown the reigning family and formed themselves into one great federation of States, then is the ' regeneration ' of Ireland and the ' conversion ' of England to commence. Of the latter country very little was said ; of the former a very great deal, but not more than is heard about the - wrongs of Ireland everywhere save in England, for some how or other Englishmen never do believe that Ireland has any just cause for complaint. Whether it was because those present did not wish to compromise themselves too much by what they said concerning England, or whether their plans respecting this country are as yet somewhat undefined, f cannot say." It did not seem at all clear, however, how the great work of regeneration was to be carried out. At any rate the New York correspondent heard no details. " Those pre sent spoke—and I quite agree with them—that there is groWing up day by clay in England a stronger and a more decided feeling in favour of Republicanism, and a desire to do away with the Crown as a luxury which is far too expensive for the present day. In Ireland, it is confidently anticipated, a Republic will be established before the end of the year, every country was carefully investigated, and the difficul ties in the way of success were debated with the greatest liberality : From Russia there were three delegates— two Russians and a Frenchman. If these gentlemen are to be believed Russia is not only ripe for a huge revoluticei, but the nobility of the land, nay, even many of royal, or rather imperial, blood, will be the leaders thereof when the tmao or rising comas. Abell of what I heard I am bound in honour not to repeat, but this much I may say—namely, that proof of the delegated from" Russia speaking the truth was not wanting. In most lands it is the poorer classes that commence a revolt ; but in Russia it would seem that the nobles have for a very long time been 'educating ' themselves, as Mr. Disraeli would say, for liberty. and they are now ready to put the lessons they have been learning into practice." The writer concludes thus :—" After all that I heard at this meeting, much of which I repeat I am not at liberty to publish, I am • quite of opinion that the autumn of 1870 will not pass • away without a rising throughout Europe. Whether it I will succeed or not it is impossible for me or any one to say. But there seems to be in every part of the Old World a feeling as if men were not only tired of the pre sent state of things, but still more tired of makeshift changes. And what are all our reforms in Europebut the most palpable makeshifts? As the London Times once said, England, the most reforming country in Europe, is governed by compromises, and no radical alterations are possible among us." of Tho Hoosac tunnel, it is reported ) is*now progress ing at the rate of ten feet a day—four feet from the west end, and six feet from the east end. The central shaft is descending at the rate of a foot a day, and it is asserted, will be completed in about four months. The tunnel has been excavated 11,765 at both portals, that is 6,946 feet at east side, and 4,819 feet on the west side. MR. BRIGHT'S LAND SCHEME Mr.. Bright's plan for enabling Irish tenants to purchase their holdings by the assistance of a loan from the State, which has been passed by the House of Commons, is objected to by the Law Times on account of certain economical reasons :—Foremost of these was the danger of imposing upon the State the duty of collecting the quarterly instalments of the pur chase-money ; the certainty of unpopularity attendant upon the process, and the strong pro b a bility that success ful endeavours would be made to obtain relief from the burden, as in all former instances of State help, and so, eventually to convert the loan into a gift. It is unfair to extract money from the pockets of the poor English taxpayers for the purpose of lending it to' Irish tenants, who are better off than themselves, to enable these latter to become land owners, with the almost certainty that it would never be repaid. It is suspicious that it should have been accepted without even the formality of a debate. Can it be that the landowners on both sides of the House concur in a liberality, the results of which will be to enable them to obtain a high price for small holdings, which they will be only too glad to part with at any price ? If Irish tenants are to be provided with English money for the p ur p ose of enabling them to become landowners, why should not the same be granted to English tenants ? or are our people to be worse treated because they are well behaved? MR. SPURGEON AT DUNDEE. We are often preaching sermons to the working men which are insults to them—(applause)—but I have been thinking of taking this hall and preaching only' to rich men—jute manufacturers, for instance—(laughter)— the west-enders—intimating that nobody will be admitted except he declare that he is worth £40,000. What a mass Of iniquity there would be in this hall I doubt not. (Great laughter.) Well, well, I believe all classes are pretty much alike. The credit is always given to a-man that he is a deep thinker if he starts something that is quite off the track, and away from the true line. It is well they should tell us they are thoughtful, for we should not have known it if they had not informed us of it. You may depend upon it, brethren, that all the best philosophy in the world is to be found in the old Calvinistic doctrine — (loud applause)—and I believe that there are in the Confes sion of Faith nipre of the true elements of moral and spiritual philosophy than in any other work in the English language. (Applause.) Some people fancy they are holy if they make their faces extraordinarily long, and their words long . too. (Great laughter.) You never see them laugh, for is not the thing ninth commandment " Thou shalt not laugh ?" (Laughter.) They are always very proper, these kid-glove Christians—(laughter)—always very, very, very proper—(laughter)—always very pre cise. (Laughter.) There is considerable difference be tween vinegar and and wine, and there is a difference between holiness and acerbity of temper, and morosity and excessive propriety. (Laughter, and " Hear.") Holiness is not something cold and lifeless, like a statue ; it walks down from the statue full of life, with a living and quickeninc , spirit within it. Do you know that lam persuaded that M`Cheyne ought to have been a Baptist? Laughter.) There are believers in this world who lam glad are not Baptists. (Laughter.) I have no desire to have them in the same boat with me—(laughter)---and had much rather live with them for ever in heaven than one hour on earth. (Great laughter.) But there are holy men whom every denomination would delight to have within their folds. ART AND LITERATURE. Mr. Mark Lemon is stated to be seriously iIL The Rev. E. O'Meara, A.M., is preparing a catalogue of Irish Diatomacm. This catalogue will appear in the form of a report to the Royal Irish Academy, and will, we presume, be published in its Transactions. A Berlin correspondent writes that Baron Liebighas re covered from his recent severe illness. _ _ _ The London, Figaro says :—M. Regnier and Madlle. Madeleine Brohan, both from the • Francais, made their first appearance in London on Monday next, in " L'Aven turire," a play which is well known as the original of Mr. T. W. 'Robertson's Haymarket comedy called " Home." Talking of_ Mr. Robertson, it is satisfactory to know that he is fast recovering, and is now able to drive out. - - --- We (yature) regret to learn that Mr. Archibald Geikie, who recently left England to investigate the Geology of the Lipari Islands, was prostrated by fever as soon as he arrived there, and is in such a weak state of health that he has been ordered back to England. _ _ _ Miss Lydia Thompson has re-appeared at Niblo's Gar den, New York, in a play by M. Alexandre Dumas, written, it is said, especially for her. This piece, which is entitled " Mosquito, is a melo-drama of the most ex rava,gant kind.— -Mr. Compton .only goes to Manchester for a season.. - - - - The Atizenceum says :—We believe that Mr. Swinburne, in his new volume of poems, Which bears thi somewhat mysterious title of " Songs before Sunrise," deals in a bold manner with the speculative questions of the day.—A biography of the famous, or infamous, Lady C'aslemaine, is in preparation. The Cob den Club are said to . be planning a volume of Essays on International Relations for January, 1872. — Mr. _Disraeli's "Lothair " seems attracting attention on the Continent. The Augsburger Zeitung has criticised it at length, and other German papers are doing the same thing. The Bibliogralia Itatiana announced beforehand, " Lord Disraeli publicliera it 2 ma,ggio in sub nuovo romanzo, intitolato " Lothair."—M. Frdmy, writing Cosmos, says that science is declining in France owing to the want 'of sufficient endowments. — Mr. W. R. S. Ralston has just started for Russia, with the view of collecting further materials for a work on Russian Folk-Lore, which is likely to appear in the autumn.—" Literature !" was a toast that was to have been given at the Theatrical Fund dinner on Monday ; but, as Mr, Dickens was not able to attend to propose or reply to it, the toast was omitted altogether. TAMPERLNG WITH LETTERS. The Boston correspondent of the Stamford Mercury states that irregularities in connection with the Boston Post-office were recently brought to light. Miss Meeds, of the West-street-road, reported that letters passing be tween herself and a lover residing at Banbury were tam pered with. in some instances they were intercepted altogether • in others they were opened , inte r p ola ted , resealed, then delivered or despatched, as the case might be. The report of the case led to an inquiry, which terminated in the dismissal of Charles Day, the letter carrier. Day asserted his innocence, and his friends, believing his statement, prepared a memorial to the Postmaster-General. The Marquis of Hartington declined to re-open the inquiry, A LISBON STORY. --- - A strangetragecly is announced from Lisbon. SenhorViera I de Castro, formerly Deputy, and an author of some note, has strangled his wife. He found that she was carrying on an underhand correspondence with Senhor Maria de Garrett, who was ponsidured one of his most intimate friends, and in the end she confessed her actual guilt. The husband then half smothered her with chloroform, after which he completed her death by strangulation. De Garrett, to whom he afterwards sent a challenge for a duel et l'outrance, declined to fight him, but intimated that he was willing to lose his life as an expiation for the injury inflicted, aiding that he should pass a certain spot at such an hour. The injured man, how ever, did not carry his revenge further, but went to the Prefecture of Police and constituted himself prisoner. The other has, it is rumoured, entered a Trappist monas tery. The murdered lady was only nineteen. At the Preston Petty Seasions a j uryman in one of the cases was " caught napping." Mr. Addison the counsel for the defence, said he trusted that those of the jury who had been asleep during the hearing of the case would not endeavour to influence the decision of those who had been awake. - - • The last term before the Long Vacation corn 7 y-mences on Thursday next. The-anticipations respecting business of last term were not fulfilled, and stagnation is loudly complained of throughout the profession. Trinity Term does not promise any improvement; and the Long Vacation will, it is thought, shew no signs of improvement. The Irish Times mentions a report that the Lind- Lieutenancy of Londonderry, now vacant, will be offered to Mr. Baron Martin, who has property in the county to the exteilt b.A:ween 23,000 and X 4,000 a year. The learned judge, who has been for twenty Years on the Bench, expreswd the wish last year to retire from active judicial service. yv Summonses for amounts due on rates on the pro perty of charitable institution's have been taken out by the Birmingham overseers. The summonses are returnable for Thursday next, but as the second reading of Mr. Muntz's bill exempting charitable institutions from the payment of rates comes on in the House on Wednesday for a second reading, it is probable that the application for distress warrants will not be enforced. Mr. Edmund Yates, in the Western Mail Bay, has the following in reference to the Newspaper Benevo lent Fund dinner :—" Your readers will perhaps have observed that no report of the prcieeedings - was given by the Times. That journal has been resolutely, opposed to the Newspaper Benevolent Fund since its institution, and, true to its usual practice, carries out a sorry spite by ignoring the existence of thii charity. Dr. Russell, hew ever, thinks differently from his colleaguesonthis subject, and makes a point of attending the anniversary festival." A. diabolical act was committed at Bromley on Thursday. It appears that some person contrived to throw doWn the chimney of a house in Market-street a canister of gunpowder, which immediately on reaching the fire ex ploded with a loud noise. • The force - of the shock threw the servant girl onthe floor, burnt a portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her severely. Had the outrage been perpetrated a -- few minutes . earlier the Come glicsees NlrOiittlikroba,bly have been more disastrous, as the 'y had been sitting near the fire with an infant on THE NORTH-WEST QUESTION.- The excited character of the debates in Dominion Par ..ament on the North-west question shews that ,s(,)101 members feel very sore about what has been done. 'III .s hardly surprising. Ex-Governor McDougall was ilia"' 1;o retire from the Re'd River Territory s which reflected littre credit for sagae.itY bun. -oresight . upon the Ministry which sent 4 _ o course he resents the conduct of ally dis who is even suspected of planning. his comfiture. Probably the most curious Part of the matter, and the one which will strike outside •? servers the most, is the evident suspicion with Wil le m under circuur certain gentlemen are regarding each other. They se e - in the condition Of angry men who are 'compelled to keel', secrets, and long to blurt - them all out for the sake oi making mischief. Mr. Wllougall charged Mr. Ifowe, the Secretary of State, with aggravating the Red lt,ir e f, troubles, and he called for a Committee of Inquiry. r f would be great propriety in the appointment of su c fA committee, and the facts it might bring to light Ivo probably be interesting as w ell as instructive.— New Times. ance THE ,INIARSEILLAISE. Whenever there is - a " strike" of dissatisfied workPs non in any city of France, the strikers give exprcs;_;eotsll to their feelings by marching through the st e. v • ina•i" singing the. " Marseillaise." Whenever an - 4 , t ho dual in any part of France suffers wrong oc.e s hands of a, judge or public functionary, t ` the revenge by singing, or attempting to Sing, l i efl l " Marseillaise." When the students of a nlV:,tto school in Paris quarrel with a professor, they innii their feelings in the premises by driving him fr°ll,'ie— chair and singing the Marseillaise." - In short, ever a Frenchman, anywhere in France, is subjectix! a, any indignity or outrage, or feels very much disconteratlic or gets highly excited, lie betakes himself to a highway or private apartment, where he sings, or "'for about singing the " Marseillaise." It is a happy thing ell Frenchmen that Rouget . de Lille composed for thero a stirring revolutionary hymn as the " Marseillaise• Any York Tribune. GREAT BANK ROBBERY AT ROCKLASP' MAINE. 4. • ROCKLAND (MAINE), Iv t The vault of the Lime Rock Bank was broken into lt night, and the safe blown open and rifled of most ot.i„„ contents. The burglars effected an entrance by t his into the Western Union Telegraph office, 'adjoininted Bank, and digging through the brick walls that sepa rf 'e the Telegraph Office from the Bank vault in preci s ely . lir same manner as when the attempt' was made last SePnhe her. The door of the safe was blown entirely off, an` l i r e brick wall between the Bank and the Telegraph ch was badly cracked and bulged by the :explosion; two took place before four o'clock a.m., and was heard by or more persons, who did not understand the cause. ill this robbery the Bank loses about 1 , 100 dole., andsPeF:ed depositors about 19,500 dols, on which payment is staPi.),,,, to the amount of 15,000 dole. The whole amountis was 22,400 dole. Twenty-five hundred dollars colla teral held as security for the notes . lost. Ad t d i ,i:s. V. Keiser, formerly on our polioe forc e ; Lichfield, a trader in this city, and J°-a-' Adams, a New York cracksman, have been arre',4l ' for complicity in• the robbery. Adams was arrestma Lichfield's house, where he was hiding. .John junior, another of the gang, has been arrested in lielfai+ la and a fifth confederate took the steamer for PorttaLi where the officers were telegraphed to be on the loolc"° t he for him. Keiser gave information to the. o fficers on which they acted. Two other New York cracksman w`le engaged in. the robbery, one of whom is Charles .% Brooks. One of these men was taken out of th e city AI, waggon by Keiser and the other by one Black. stolen property was taken along with them and accoraiii,D; to Keiser's statement was buried in the woods in a c°; vas bag. Brooks and his confdderates are still at 15 '...; but it is hoped they will be taken and the proPer'Jher covered to-night. It is probable that one or two parties are implicated in the affair. • - ROCKLAND, M 33" The two Now York professionals engaged in the Rock Bank robbery, who were taken out of the 'civr, yesterday morning by Keiser and Black. W e ' arrested last night and brought here. Keiser 11 ' 11 , left them with their plunder at a place the woods on the Warren-road, four or • five miles fr ° . a , this place, and promised to meet them with a te;col,,, eight o'clock last night and take them to a place of sr , fe,',:, After his arrest he consented to guide the officers to o t s ti s place of rendezvous and secure his confederates. A str posse accordingly started with him, and the force w 3 li lbk , disposed as to allow Keiser to meet the rogue s and ,-",,ey them into his waggon as agreed upon, after which rtio we arrested without resistance. All, or nearly all, stolen property wis recovered with the robbers. M'Allister, a policenian and night watchman, was last night; also Black was taken into custody this ing. All the parties to the robbery except Rand,wh.. allowed to escape the officers in Portland, are now in' custody. The names of the New York burglars Joshua Daniels, alias Healms, Charles Haight, and don W. Moore, alias Charlie Adams. The latter is oils the most notorious robbers in the country and wio cerned in the Norwalk Bank robbery. It is said that confederate, who is at large, is John W. Rand, Wais Rand, of Boston. The amount of bonds and currt recovered is a little over 20,000 dots., which is believe' be every dollar taken. MINISTERIAL COURTESY.—iih! Me:lib:TS of Government, in the House of Commons, c a nnot as a iv ho complimented upon the courtesy or dignity "f 1 hearing when answering questions that are either dist: ful, or that imply too keen- a spirit of, inquiry, 110 E. to cast a reflection upon their particular depart m ents. h i Lowe and Mr. Ayrton are the two most serious -offeude'6, this respect. To a certain extent hon. members have ti,, io content to tolerate the former in consideration of epigrammatic smartness of his answers, which alw:t, amuse, notwithstanding the amari aliquid whosev`,/, they are always mingled. Not so Mr. Ayrten,h 'it), hand, curt, and contemptuous method of replying Mildest interrogatories has more than once elicit ed a its t,. strauce; so much so. that gentlemen having itiquiricio make relative to matters that come within his oll:1;1110 cognisance have preferred to address them to the Secretary or some other Minister, from whom the} look for at least Parliamentary courtesy. Hitherto hers of the Conservative Opposition have .3xclus".feft been thus honoured, and that to the • and occasionally marked satisfaction of the section of the Ministerialists. Last night, however, the 0 .0 play of arrogance on the part of ono of these gentleneTo,io not directed to a political opponent, but to a thick,atto„se,,, supporter of Mr. Gladstone, a lordly scion of a lordlY cuts"' the heir to one of the wealthiest eirldome, and 111 , ( 1„oa for a great English county. Lord Milton ha d placeo4o. the •business- paper a. notice that he should ask th" that`' cellor of the Exchequer a question with regard to _0; , cial arrangements with the Hudson's Bay and the question was put in due course. Mr' ~, Nil"; was present, but, instead of replying, ho ' l v e sea Stansfeld discharge the duty. Lord Milton int,'lPll,3, with the remark that he had asked his question of 0 0 sellor of the Exchequer and not of the Secretary to 01 ` ) ,, /for ) sury, and was met with a vociferous shout of e order the Ministerial benches. The Chancellor of the Eicl it l e titt .who seemed to enjoy the " situation," retained Eyede Compr,aooo and , his subordinate continued his reply. Whfba os , Lord Milton took up his hat, and, turning Ate2J cs", on the Treasury bench, walked slowly and saolo of the house. Instead of a roar of laughter, w hich ‘ s 6 ,,lt have inevitably attended the flight of a Conservativo 5,11,1,1101 circumstances, a striking silence pervaded tho benches, and the looks of blank dismay with whi c ,.. a marked the incident sufficiently indicated that the ion?, ``el in this ease been espied a little too far, and that Wi.„,) 3 ;dics sauce for the Tory gander was not sauce for the ILH goose. A few minutes after Lord Milton returned place, and gave notice, amid the cheering of m any s) te Misers, that ho should this day again put his qu estion Chancellor of the Exchequer. — Standard. o ADYZRTISEMENT. I Consumption, and all bilious, stomach, and' liver complaints in every stag'? r,,e, t ' t ; aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve y deserlP!' - o ic , a pod° tly curable by Du BAnaty's health -restoring le n .a Ars.bica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which 1 ,- , 0 05„ einsidered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsW;, oasti asthma, consumption, 11,bitual constipation, diarrhceil, P z o de.augemerits, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulen%irit; vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria,• nI colds, iufiuenza,- noises in the head and ears, rhenmatiserlo. impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability:, sicral6c ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debilitY , sit: o spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or r- t Y m y st,.„ tog fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti,htness of the e s tie F st oo P:Z:; .4 o ' pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, W. , ' ;; t iroi few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Parry' 68,4 1 .3 - "Rothe,. July 21, 1866. -The health of the 111, - D o ! , .L a , excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remet eT es , confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta -Ara rod' of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It ","1-1 0 "' tte a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and hiss ~(01,,,,c cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—Fre=ds t it du Midi,'- July 2 Cure No. 46,40.—Mr. James 110 13 0-' 5 l lute merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, at thirty years' c l - 15° ,?,.1 5 5. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial doa," - N str i tel'„,4l) N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant 0 1 , mdse o' of malty years 'dyspepsia.—No. 42,8 V. "Fifty years 0,10,.,c401 able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma , stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomit-17000,g Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the ManS, 00 11 °' and more than sloppy imitations to whioli, witho u " 4;5 fr- . Baron Liebiges name is most audaciously attache d. - 0 0 •In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s pd; 2 lb 45 6 d; 51h 00 Cci uP g 24 lbs 4 s.— tlso Do BARRY'S REVALIAN TA RABE"' for PoWDEn is packed in tin canistersl.? cups at 2 8 , t . , t t at is 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2:4 cup:. at 305, for 576.r.1'90.5P1r, —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 65s ,7, 0re.0 0. 0 free of carriage in England on receipt of Post 0 . 1, ,. 1u ,; ( Ic,:, BARRY Du :army and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lo do:, Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. . l': if . On the 18th hist, at Fairfield , Liverpo ol, the wif' °f ''''). KetitiAt Bari:es, of a son. t. i ' 0 viP On the 1 tit inst.. at Worthing Cottage, Worthing, of Mr Charles Hide, jun , of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ~ .00( 1 On the 17th iust , et the parish aureh, -I '"' 0 19 D ai o ni v g e h r, tei M o o f ne t tto e i n a . t(3, V A h l i g t i o r , noSnt::mAasibut,t,rns',l3,olto 14:ditl:%. On the 18th inst., at the parish church, SephteT;;ltiZo,i 'ilt7oo,:\‘'r• T., eldest Sun of Thomas Wuod, Esq., of I?atras ,;,,,,toct," to Agnes, eldest daughter of David Rae, Esil , 0f 100, Liverpool. it • ' DEATHS. .ij or On the 1411 inst., ay hid residence,. in BertuoodseYi long illness, William Henry Roberts, cast; 3 6 , mori co On the 17th in!..A., at GlaQeoed, rear Oswestry Bibby, third eon of Win. EvanS, 11. n., aged 3 j.* _„---" • . ___------....,,1T:7, London: Printed and Publisliod byWILI,IA-N1 of No. i 12 ; Str:ind, Printer. tit THE SUN OtliCel4A• Strand, in the Preeinc t of the SAvoy, tt , e '• Sn,turdit4 . , limy 21, 1879, drily e 5, - . 4 . 3elfsb",' , r tliol oolc - ° ll ' ;0„ tile . en `e ries ity i n rillil4) :COrd ilg 11 a Cil. It 1 511p ' i e. erl . vo t. oth er Isi t'' le L igi° -be 'c itY ' wer e 1 , r bat' '` ill tile Les fron, l . - 0 1 te f „ie tot ~ e' Ea. stress e was ' 5 ,n(1 tsk :3 ich the}' 1. of 111° ' Ifi• P i axretec. is ni or.,.-., ; Nvhcel, ,vino'. 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