The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

I P ,-- NEIVSPAPE/4 ~(-/"•-;,___‘----,,‘:_....e.......0{, 7___ ~.- .. .., :. ,, z, - -- - -... , ---" A , ...... t.,,lcvitp -1.•' , .. ttsq . 0 1. 1 ~ •-„,.._, . . i continentalhighway--should be fully It In five years, 1861-6, the traffic had inc eas 47P _ c , ,i w e l z -: N., .' ,-,,, 'N • , , per cent., or from 217,700 to 226,092 per week. , \.-___ ,- ..0.:., -,,....: .0-4. ie t.. .o ,__..f:t s l: : ';,- :',", :\ l - a V i l s;. -.100 "''' AIL VI • • i - ' ' j.- .1)118- 'S - . I‘.l (( , • .._ f i; , . - - __°`-- ~..,, -4- . Such a rate of increase was almost without example. ~ -p" ,:i , ;' ..-e. - N 110 ~i . ~ ( A F._l7. : / et. ; 4*.,. ..... , - ,, g ;.... -- :-.14 1 -4,ira. i , • -- ur- . , -, , ~.f( -7\'. T's- ' , 4 ‘,.,.' ..' \l :-.., z. - - : ,:E.7. 1- .l l ta - ..., 0 141-* A- ' iii , , D -AL :zoi - T• cl q 0, .--, • -- - - ,...J - V., . i ,b, „ i ::- I f.: Friendly interviews hadrecently taken placebetweert 4c411,4 i t.w, ..,.. _ i '' e' 411 0 ,, ..*i, , ''' W( c ‘, c.7 . ' t . V 14 , I .•••• - i t '" • '-_____,,-- ) . ,-. 4. deputations from theboards of the Grand Trunk and { ' ''''• .1 II ':' \ , 7 , . ' Ai mp.s- , - ..;., L .. cil , ..,7 N .. , ,..---"' Great Western of Canada, and propositions for a --__ _. _ _ , DIE, t,. - . t, , ar , l i o Y" - t w e../‘ \ •,.:.... ' filo 6 . `''' Z 4 :.`, 1 . i _ _ ,• ~ :: tj) ' 4 r I i rr If. A FTER SUP. Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to After Drury-lans Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Adelphi Theatre After Olympic Theatre . ....... ....EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre,....EVAN' to SUP. After New Royalty Theatre-...... EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre . . to SUP After Prince of Wales' Theatre ....E VANS' to SUP . . London Singing and Supper Club, n VANS'. Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. more cordial and complete interchange of traffic had been discussed. It was hoped that those discussions might lead to some practical issue. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1867. No. 23,346. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. K IN A.HAITS LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXIT TION, 1g65. This celebr a t e d OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the hlin Prize Medal. Itls Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- Som" Sold in Bottles, 3s. Rd., at the Retail Houses in London ° Y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wh2lesnl n nt THE NEW NOVEL. Nov ready at all the Libraries. In 3 vols.. RAYMOND'S HEROINE. . A Novel. Hurst and Blaeett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.- 'the FOURTEENTH ANNU aL EXHIBITION of PIC ru RES, the Contributions of Artists of the french and Flemish Schools, IS NOW OPEN. Admission, Is. Ottilogne, rd. sect of Freemasons, and other societies of the same kind,which, though in appearance different, day by day are forming themselves, and labouring openly or secretly against the Church or legitimate autho rities." The Church hereby dezlares, by the voice of its head, that all conspiracy, whether against the Church or the State severally, is sin. Against the Church it cannot be without heresy, schism, or apostasy; against the State it is rebellion; and apostacy and rebellion are each and severally mortal sin against God. The same is declared in the Encyclicals of 1846 and 1849, in the Allocution of 1847, and the Apostolic Letters of 1860 ; and finally in the Encyclical of 1864, which condemns the proposition, " that it is lawful to withdraw obedience, and to rebel against legitimate sove- quiet, you shall be saved : in silence and in hope shall your strength be." And again : "Be still, and see that I ant God." DIPERIAL GAS. The report of the directors of this company states that the balance of profit and loss for the half-year amounts to £57,499, which is insufficient by £7,809 to pay a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half year. That sum, therefore, must be taken from the reserve fund to enable the shareholders to divide at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum on the old capital, and 7 per cent. upon so much of the new capital as was paid up on Dee. 31 last. The directors deeply deplore the depreciation of gas property consequent upon the agitation which has existed during the past 12 months ; and they further regret that the Govern ment should have introduced a bill into Parliament which proposes to d. repeal the Gas Acts of 1847 and 1860, upon the faith of which so large an amount of capital has been invested. The directors are per suaded that Parliament will not sanction such a breach of good faith. Application has been made to Parliament to raise more capital and hold more land upon which to erect new works at West Ham marshes, with a frontage to the river Lea. 17 OHN GO:7.N ELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOO I'll PAST& is greatly sure.ior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and 'esparto a pleasant fragrance to the breath Pri-e la. 6.l—Red Bull Wharf, v 3, Upper Tharnov-stre,t, Lowinn. And may the God of peace abundantly bless you, and your people in every place, above all in the land so dear to. our hearts, and fill it with every bene diction of Ms Grace through Jesus Christ. R. GRE %'r WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. " ObsorvA I,IIA RM. 941.1, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL hisky." MR. DIXON'S NEW WORK. Now ready. In 2 vols., Bvo., with illustrations, :los., SIXTII EDITION OF NEW AMERICA. By WILLI.I3I T HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC lIOUSES, awl BUSINESSES. 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All goods carriage tree to all putt of London. Observe—PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents. Sugars are supplied at market prices. 31 A I D Author E N ot H ,,C o hro lD D . es of DBay S rt Tuoo. A r,'' &o. MARSH. Maidenhood' contains pleasing incident and minute painting of character."—Athenreum. "Full of life and interest" Observer. Hurst and Blackett 13, Great Marlborough-street. NturruAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION • r incoroor‘ted by Act of Parliament, MM. •' IUS SELL-STREET. VT-(iAltijEN. LONDON, I "uv tNoms Itr)NEY noon Personal Security, Bills of Salo Freehold or Leasehold Proner y, for one, two, or three yea's, repayable week y, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. reigns." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., SYBIL'S SECOND LOVE. By JULIA. KAVANAGH, T H E OXFOR 6, OXF ST ORD-STREET Is , T HE MUSICAL EABLHKENT , W. OF LONDON. OPERATIC BELE(' [`IONS. —Principal artistes, Mis. , s Russell, Barrie. and PitZlienry ; Ee.srs. A. St. Albyn, Conductor, Er. Evans, and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus k , onauctor, Er. P. Jonghmsns Solo Co rnet-a-Piston. Er. REYNOLDS, of the Coldstream Gus ds' Band and A. Eellon's Concerts. COMEDY, by M essrs. HARRY SYDNEY, G. W. ROSS ; the celebrated JAPANESE JUGGLERS; the Brothers BALE, the Wonders of the World; 111.111 e. GERTRUD and her .Vrotwe of Pirfo-ming Dogs, this Evening. WI% ROB C. FRASER, Comedian. with his °roc of comical!. ties and his new song. •• THE BOY AT MI:MITT." NOTICE.—The Brox. HANLON% the celebrated American Acrobats, will make their re-appearance THIS EVENING. M ADAME TUSSAI7D'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDI riot% —Life-size Models of the KINGS and QUEENs of ENGL AND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN VICTORIA. Open from 11 a..m till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra rooms. 6d. ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASI NO, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luca CURTL Manager, M. GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. WESTO N' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand Selection from Donizetti's favourite Opera of u LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOIL" Principal vocalists— Edgard°, Mr. H. De B renner ; A rturo, Mr. Douglas Mellon ; Henrico, Mr. P. Corri; Lucia, Miss Annie Tremaine. Also a Selection from Verdi's favourite Opera, "IL TROVA TORE," at 9 o'clock. Principal vocalists —Manrico, Mr. Douglas Mellon ; Conte di Luna, Mr. P. Corri ; Leonora, Miss Annie Tremaine ; Azucena, Miss Ellen Read. ARTHUR LLOYD'S Burlesque Drama, entitled "MUGGET'S BROOK ; or, the Wicked Squire ;" Jolly Nash, Emma Bruce, Paddy F ann i n , Patrick Sellers, Frank Elhnore Jig Dancer ; J ean an d Vi c t or, t h e Sensat i on of London. Band of 30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Hoeses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI. Prices of admission—Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evening at 7 o'clock. NIANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). London. EAU -DE-VlE.—This Pnre PALE BRANDY, 1 83. per zallon, i s yr ry superlo " to recent importations Of (o tB'. recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 3 1 35. per dozen. or in a case 395., railway carriarre DaIt—HENRY BRETT awl CO., Old Farnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1821. ____ "THE RUIN OP THE FEW I S THE GALN OP THE MANY. " THE Panic of '66 an d i ts consequent depression of the Colonial 314r.rets enables the "EAST INDIA TEA. CIDIIPA.NY" to oTer TICAS 1.0 WER TEIAN EVER. Six Pounds of Good Tea for gii. Ad can't be dear. The Compel:Ws KAISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really deltion 4. 9, Greit St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate street, Jan. I. 1867. UJust published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles an d means used for imorovinz Lothend a ppearance. By ALEX , R OSS, 248, High Elolborn, on. QPAITISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S OANTRAR ID ES OIL. which speedily Produces whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 6d, 5s fld, and los M; sent by post for 64.84, and 144 atataps.—.A.LNX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn. London, and all Chemists. OND ERFUL DISCOVERY C W in one day by us i ng ALEX. ROss's o CHlit c o u i r . e o d This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn r emoving the very ro ot. Price 4s; sent by pos in a few hou rs, t fo —248, High Holborn, Lo n d on, and all Chemists. r 60 stamps. fR- CURLING FLIJID, 248, High Holborn London.—A.LßX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID owl,, Ladles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is appkiect Sold at as 11(1.58 Bd. and 1086 d ; sent tree for Ss, 81, and 144 stamps ~bad of all Chemists. daREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn A. LEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE: produces a perfect on colour Immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perteAly na tural in effe t. Price 38 ed. 5a ad. and .o 8 Id; sent by poet for 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chenthta. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALl4A. ROSS'S DPIPILATORY removPs OnDerituous hair from the lace, neck, and arms, wit , hout effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 64, and 10s 6d; sent for 51, and 144 stampt—Had of all Chemists. IP I MPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are Improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S IirRqETABLIt SKIN prm,s. They remove rednree, eal lowness, Sco. ?s 9d and 7e ad % or enet for 40 and MO stamps . W-AL. EX. ROSS, 248, Iligh Holborn, London, an d a ll C he- ats IFTA head IR COLOUR autifully WASH.—By washing the with this be prfumeil Wash, in seven or ten day s th e hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an oce•slon Ho l bo r n , iessd don,ent for stamps.—ALLX. ROSS, 243, High Lou and all Chemists. D R. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLB.—A. NEVER FAILING REMEDY.-- pared without without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. S.fttt, of Bromley, Kent. will be found Invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver somplaints, iniigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizzineta of the eyes, &a For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, an d strengthen the whole nervous system. W Prepared only and sold b y W . Lambert, Chemist, 8, King illiana-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug gine, in boxesjs. lid., and three times the quantity in one, .U. 9d. Be dilke to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The carmine are a square eveec paeltaae. with '' William Lambert." engraved an the stamp. ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN DESTITUTE ORPHANS are being maintained in the ALI3ERT ORPHAN ASTLUn. Coßingwood Court, Bagshot, Surrey. FUNDS greatly needed for their support. Offices, 96, Cheapside, E.O CHARLES A. WALKER , Sec. ------ BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie stituted 1827 Park, Slough, Bucks (form er ly a t Cl apham-risel. In- PATRON—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Sec AID tl this Institution will b e g l a d ly received by the retary, at the Offices, No. 73, Cheapside, E.C. HENRY SYKES THORNTON, Treasurer. THOMAS TILSON, J.P , Chairman of the Board. STEuHEN REED CATTLEY, lf.A., Hon. Sec. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. 'HE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the LONDON HONICEOPAT FRC HOSPITAL wish to Pall the attention of their friends t its position—during the Past year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and the drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently been great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of ho-pm .pathy, both in town and country, will rally round them, and thus prevent the necessity of curtailing. the use fulne.ts of the Hospital by the admission of fewer Patients. SU IiSC RIPT lONS earnestly needed. Banker s Mesi , rs. Pres-ott and Co., Threadneedle -street; and Union Bank, Argyll-place, Regent-street. No. 52 , Great Ormond-etre Jet,OHN R. WARREN , C lerk. W.C. OUR SHIPWRECK ED SEAMEN amel their BEREAVED WIDO NS and ORPHANS. —Uw 00 ards of 4,00 / British vessels are annu a ll y wrecked, about 2,0 poi A hich are on the British Isles 1 There is no part of the coast where the SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY is not represented by an Hon. A - :ent, who 41whes (when naked) and sends to their homes shipwrecked persons of all n Mons. and is the channel of its charity to the bereaved wi tows and orphans nt the drowned. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for HELP. The dis tress is always instant. The society relieved 11,221 person s last year, viz , shipwrecked men, widows, and orph ans. Don , tions and subscriptions thankfully received by Messrs. 'Williams, Deacon, and Co.; and by the undersigned, FRANCIS LEAN, Secretary Hibernia -chambers, London-bridge S.E. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another . th , . 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer - , elt 155 poor, friendless, young females were ref ected from eh of FUNDS an d room, mak i ng a to t a l o f 11,587, who have De A. sent away in five years. The new home the Committee wish to form wonid be ter onng Zirla, almost children, frem the sge of 6 to 15, who ave been led astray from the path of virtue. ontributions will be received gratefully by the Secr et ary' . Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen•streot, Cheapelde; or by Meow. 641.0 3 1 5 Y and Co, Lombard-street Author of "Nathalie," "Adele," &c. " Miss Kavanagh has written no more interesting or cha racteristic novel than • Sybil's Second Love.' " L'ost. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now published at 3d., per post 4d., PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION ; or, Anaesthesia Locally Applied. By A. ESKELL, Surgeon-Dentist, Author of •• Dental Surgery," " Pare Dentistry," &c. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; all . booksellers ; or of the author, at his resideuce, 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. IIUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY. BELFAST. London Offi3es and Stores, 4. BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and sanest drink in the world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, 8.C., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, t/ Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupiedby the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria.," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch Bd. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 601. a ease over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ye y old mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, su; , plied on the most reasonable terms. YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE. H YAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD -ST. HYAM & Co.'s rn-----71—rOVERCOATS, HYAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS. HYAM & Co.'s FACED MELTON OVER COATS. WADI & Co.'s SUFIS. HYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. HYAII & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE, JJYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. HYAAI & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. HYAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. H YAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. T[YAM and Co.'s PRICE LIST for GENTLE MEN. 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Tweed Overcoats. 21,5. to 30s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Overcoats Hyam & Co.'s Spring Reefer 2ss. to 555. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Suits Hyam & Co.'s Spring Jackets Hyam & Co.'s Spring Frock Coats 3os. to 70s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Vests 6s. to 14s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Trousers l4s. to 255. HYAM & Co.'s BOYS' SPRING CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Boys' Sandringham Overcoate """""'• 15s. to 355. Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer l s s. to 30s. Boys' Overcoats for Littl e Boy . s 10s. to 30s. Boys' Knickerbocker Suits- Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425. Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. TTYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 4. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM and Co's ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON -66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM -21 22 and 23 NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE, andsDEWSBURY—WESTGATE. AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN ILA EFFECTUAL REMED Y , without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly ef ficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases ot asthm a , anti incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allaya the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. I napproaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for tear takingotion, may depend ourelief in a few minutes after it .- .. reparea on,y and sold by lliam-street, Charing cross, London, and by 11 di W. L A IslB ERT, rug gi ngg, three quantities in one, 28. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask in bottles, 13 6 d., and for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. PR TIN G. —TO PROP RIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.--The Print ing and Machining of Newbpapers, •&C,, done cu exceed ingly favo u r a bl e terms. U se o f Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sue Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.O IXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBI TION, who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can bo obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has -a- URGENT NEED of FUNDS.—Donations and Sub scriptions will be thankfully received by licssra. Dtmsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Nte&sre. Drummond and Co., Ch aring cross ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet-street ; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital, Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec. HELP for the DESTITUTE Sle K.— M ETROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. Devon shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratu:tons Relitfof the Sick Poor of every Nation aud Creed, without letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed to maintain its efficiency. BA/midis—Messrs Barnett, Hoares. and Co.. 62, Lombard street. JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman. GEO. CitoxToN, Secretary. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, isimaon, N. Supported by Volunt try Contributions. This Hospital h..ts relieved 481 V , M P 954 patients since t was est ablished at King's-cross in I.ttieM,s ars ad i mitted free. BANK ERS — Aressrs. Barnett, Lloyds, and CO., 60, Lombard street; Messrs. Ransom and Bouveric, 1, [" 11-mall. HoN. sEc.—F. Smith, Esq. GEORGE REID, Sec. itOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the laamediate vicinity of the Great northern Bali way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron —Her Most Gracious Majesty the QlJEliat This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de- Pendent for support on voluntary contributions and i:4acLes. It affords relief to a large number of in-pa unto, and, i n a ddition to this, th e average number of attendance of the Jestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. l'he an ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr ses of this Hospital are capable of coetatning several h.ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite !nude to maintain them. Contr ibutions are received by their bankers, Messrs. B rown, Janson, and C o., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coatts and Co.; Druminono and Co. • Gl.yu and Ca.,. 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The Agna Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from indiviinals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Goinell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. PASTORAL LE TTER OF THE ARCH- BISHOP OF WESTMINSTER. HENRY EDWARD, by the Grace of God and the Favour of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster, to the Faithful of the said Diocese. Dear Children in Jesus Christ, On this Feast of St. Patrick I speak to you with a mixed feeling of joy and sorrow. The festival of your great Apostle and Father brings vividly before us the grace which through him has descended upon you, and upon your children, and likewise his glory which through your faith is always increasing both on earth and in heaven. Excepting the Apostles of our Divine Master, there is perhaps no saint whose spiritual children are so faithful and so fer vent, so numerous or so widely spread. They are in Ireland, England, and Scotland, in Canada, throughout the United States, on the shores of both their seas, in the West Indies, in India, in Australia, in the islands of the Pacific. It is a wonderful fact in the providence of God that when the English tongue began to contradict the Catholic Church, the children of St. Patrick took it as if their own, and have spread the Catholic faith wheresoever the English speech is heard ; not only throughout the empire of Britain, but wheresoever the Anglo-Saxon race and language have extended. North America and Australia are evidently marked out for a great future. Empires will one day rise out of them ; and in their destinies the children of St. Patrick must bear largeproportion. that St.th the people bma,hsomlefGt God record a his confidence had given him, in the ends of the earth, would never be lost to his inheritance ; and that confi dence has been signally justified. The children of St. Patrick have continued faithful to their saint and father with a fidelity not surpassed by any nation of the Christian world. This day bears wit ness throughout the world that you are steadfast to the faith he taught you, and to the laws which he delivered to you. You love him as the great and powerful intercessor Who is praying for you before the Throne of God, and as the Spiritual Father through 'whom you have passed from death to life. It is he that made you heirs of the kingdom of heaven. You owe to him a great debt of gratitude ; and I know that you faithfully fulfil towards him the obligations he has laid upon you. He has taught you to believe the Holy Catholic Faith, to hold fast by the Catholic unity, and to adhere, even at the cat of life, to the Vicar of Jesus Christ. By his example and by his words he has taught you the duty of mortification, of detachment from the world, and of peacefulness. This is the inheritance of the children of St. Patrick, and these are the fruits he will look to find in return for all his toil. And I bear witness that in steadfast adherence to the Catholic Faith and to the Catholic Church, and in close filial union with your pastors, you show your selves to be the true children of St. Patrick, throughout this great city and iu all the world. This then is the cause of my joy. But 1 have also a cause of sorrow. It is because the country we love so well is at this moment in affliction. You have a right to know my thoughts at such a time as this, and I have a duty to warn and to guide you. God forbid that I should be silent when I ought to speak, or that I should in mistaken prudence keep back from you what you ought to know. I do so the more freely because ever since I was of age to know the history of Ire land, all the sympathy of my heart has been with its faithful, noble, and martyred people. If my prayers or my efforts can avail anything, they shall never cease for Ireland. The centuries of conflict of race against race, embittered seven-fold by conflict of religion against religion, have left upon Ireland an accumulation of evils and sufferings which genera tions alone can remove. But removed they must and will be, if only the gradual and onward move ment of England and Ireland to perfmt unity and equality be not hindered by violence. The past is past, and cannot be recalled. Spain was once divided into many peoples and dynasties : it has been fused and united into one kingdom. France was once many states and monarchies : it is now one indissoluble race and people. England was once seven king doms : for 1,000 years it has been a monarchy. Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland were once three king . dome they are now one incliiriale realm, what God has consolidated by .ges of time no human hand can dissolve. The onward march of Divine Providence has accomplished this fusion of races, in their higher and mightier unity. There is no re turning upon the past. The wheat in the ear can not go back into the stalk, nor the stalk into the blade. As the world moves onward, the provi thnce of God calls into existence new social orders ; and out of them arise right, justice, and sove reignty. For tiii3 reason the Apostle says—" Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God ; and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation." In these words S. Paul is speaking of the heathen empire of Rome : of a civil power always active in persecuting the Church. He declares the government of the empire to be from God, and to have a claim upon the conscience of Christians to obey it. If so, the empire of Great Britain has the same rights and claims, the same obligation on our conscience, and on our obedience. To rise against it, is to resist the ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselves not only the penalties of man, but the judgment of God. We have long ago warned those who praised, flat tered, abetted, justified, glorified the revolutions of the continent, and above'all the revolution in Italy, to take heed lest their own principles should recoil upon themselves. They have recoiled upon us now. The same anti-social, anti-Christian principles, which have been conspiring in the dark against the Government of the Sovereign Pontiff, have now con spired against the English monarchy. We have always condemned these principles everywhere, and equally, as intrinsically sinful. The temporal power of the Pope, on the lowest ground, rests on the same providential ordinance as the British Empire. The British Empire, on its highest base, rests upon the same foundation. We have consistently defended both upon the same laws and principles ; and we likewise condemn all conspiracy, and all excitement to sedition from neighbouring States, whether in Italy or in Ireland, as anti-social and anti-Christian. I am the more watchful to warn you, dear chil dren in Jesus Christ, because at this moment the principles of rebellion have been openly and syste matically published among you. The first number, of a Paper' has Ikt,#:o3At tore, addresscii especially to my flock L . 9nclol), and intended Is a means of uniting others3n a common cause : throughout Eng land. It is my duty to declare s to you the nature of that paper, and my ludg,raent . upon it. Whatever be the good intentions or patriotic virtues of its authors, I am bound not to suffer errors to enter among you without warning. In the first number, then, published on March 16, I find the following words " As long as prelates and priests, when from the pulpit or the altar they preach to their flocks, con fine themselves to spiritual topics, to subjects purely religious, so long should not a layman criti cise their sermons, exhortations, or discourses ; but if the bishop or the priest discourses ethics, then we have the right to criticise the subject under consi deration. And for the good reason that, with very few emendations made by the Church, the morals or ethics of Cicero or Aristotle—Pagans—are those now in use. Their principles a learned layman can apply to the analysis of any theme, just as well as the most exalted ecclesiastical dignitary." That is to say, bishops and priests are to be listened to when they preach the doctrines of faith, but not when they preach the doc trines of morals ; their authority is confined to the faith alone. But the Church is infallible both in faith and morals ; and bishops-awl priests are bonnet to preach the infallible truths and laws both of faith and morals, under and by the authority of the Church. Now " ethics" are morals ; and the first laws of politics are a part of morals. It was as a teacher of political morality that S. Paul enjoined obedience to the powers, and condemned rebellion as a sin. This proposition is therefore at least erro neous ; but if it be intended to deny to your pastors the office to teach and guide you in these first principles of political morality, it denies the office of the Church as the teacher of morals, it is there fore heretical ; and for either or both these reasons it is scandalous. It was in this way that the leaders of the rebel lion in 1848 against the authority of the Holy Father began their insidious course. One of the foremost in assurance addressed to the Sovereign Pontiff the supercilious warning to " withdraw from the turbulent affairs of the world- to the serene sphere of dogma, and there to pray, bless, and par don ;" that is, to be silent, to deliver over the Chris tian world to revolution. But politics are a part of morals, because they are the morals of society. S. Paul was teaching both morals and politics when he said, "There is no power but from God ;" and S. Peter when he said, ‘, Be ye subject there fore to every human creature for God's sake : whe ther it be to the king as supreme, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of the good. For. so is the will of God, that by doing well you may silence t h e igno rance of foolish men : as free, and not as making liberty a cloak of malice, but as the serva nts of God." Again, in the same paper I read as follows: "Now we have closely read the Canons, Bulls, Decretals, and Rescripts of Popes, respecting 'Secret and Oath bound Societies,' and we have not been able to dis cover any' sentence iu any' of them —not even of Pio Nouo—which could be interpreted as bearing upon Fenianism, which we have been discussing on its abstract merits. Fenianism is consequently not opposed to, much less is it for, the overthrow of Catholicity." This affirms 1. That Fenianism is not condemned by name, and is therefore not condemned at all. 2. That the condemnation-of the Church applies to " oath-bound societies," and that it therefore does not apply to Fenianism. 3. That Fenianism is not opposed to Catholicity, and is therefore not condemned. These three propositions are alike erroneous and false. 1. First, it is not necessary that a Secret Society should be condemned by name. All seditious societies are condemned by definition, by description, and by indentity with those which are 'condemned by name. In the Allocution of Sept. 14th, 1865, the Holy Father, after renewing the condemnations of Clement XII., Benedict XIV., Pius VII., Leo XII., declares that the last named Pontiff condemned all the clandestine societies which had been specifi cally named, and " all others whatsoever, by what soever name they might be called, which conspire against the Church and civil power, and prohibited them to all the faithful under the severest pain of excommunication." 2. Secondly, oaths are accidents. This is as serted in the Encyclical of 1864, by which it is de clared that "all clandestine societies, whether any oath of secrecy be exacted in them or not, together with their followers and abetters are condemned." This condemnation falls upon all societies cr con spiracies, open or secret, against the Church or the civil power. In order to perfect certainty upon this point, the Archbishop of Dublin, in 1864, consulted the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, which, on June 7th, 1864, answered in these words, " The secret societies, of which there is question in the Pon tifical Constitution, are understood to be all such as purpose to themselves anything against the Church or the Civil Government, whether they require on oath of secrecy or not." 3. Lastly, all such conspiracies, whether directed against the ChtuTh an d Civil Power, or a g ainst the Church alone, or ag3,i;. l st th e State alone, are b y the s.une Allocution condemned. ,The words of the Holy Father are these 1---" We confirm the before. cited Constitutions of our predeee.6sors.; and by our Apogtolioal authority ve reprobate and condemn the Let no man then deceive you. Trust to no guides or teachers who contradict the voice of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. Their words make anarchy. His words make law. They . are not the interpreters of canons, bulls, decretals and rescripts ; but the So vereign Pontiff is. They are not the expositors of the Pontifical law. He is both expositor and legis lator. You have it, therefore, dear children in Jesus Christ, not from my lips but from his, that all con spiracy, open or secret, with or without oaths, against the Church or the civil power is - mortal sin. Lay this to heart, and make it known to all who may be in danger of being misled. Dissuade, exhort, and beseech with all love, earnestness, and patience, that no man may be carried through natural but misguided emotions into a sinful path. .My heart bleeds for the Catholic people of Ireland. I know its history, its sufferings, its wounds, the sting which has been planted in its conscience, its heart, its faith, its highest, noblest instincts. I know that in the past the wound has gone to the quick, that the iron has entered into its soul. I know, therefore, the present danger of its sons. Much that is good in them rises up in behalf of their homes and of their faith. It is their higher, purer, most human and deepest instincts which are worked upon ; and the past has ripened them to take the influence of evil counsels coming from abroad. Letters from Ireland tell me that many who have become entangled in this sinful rising have done so in full belief that it was a holy cause. They were men who loved their faith, who went, before meet ing the hour of danger, to make their peace with God : tiricoliscious of doing wrong, misled, con fused iu mind by the consciousuetis of4ll that Ire land has suffered, and: over-persnaded by evil voices and the false principles I have here exposed. Even in this -there is a pledge of better things. If the Irish people ever lose the Catholic instinct of obe dience to the powers ordained of God, what shall restrain them from giving way to the temptations to insubordination which the history of Ireland un happily ministers, and to the influences of American sedition which are profusely at work? I have said this before, and I say it now again, to open the eyes, if opened they can be, of those who think to pacify and to tranquillise Ireland, or even to calm and govern it, while they put public dishonour and legal contempt upon the faith and the Church of Ireland. They who would undermine the faith of Ireland by mixed education and by mercenary conversion are the worst enemies of the peace of Ireland, and of the union of the two kingdoms. In the measure in which they succeed, in that measure they weaken over the Irish people the mightiest power of obe dience, faith in the Church of God. At this mo ment much that is noble, generous, pure, unselfish, manly, humane, and even religious in the heart of Irishmen, is alienated by the wrongs of the past, and wounded by much that survives both in the letter and in the spirit. And this alienation is the invitation to foreign sedition, and the predisposition to all manner of moral and social disease. It would be an ill day for a kingdom if the highest and noblest instincts of its people, if the manhood and the faith of its sons, be estranged from its allegiance and run wild in sedition. While I am compelled by duty to publish the authoritative condemna tions of the Church upon all such as break the Christian law by rebellion, I grieve for those who are misled by an affection which England counts one of its chief virtues, the love of our country. But the words of our Divine Lord are clear : " All who take the sword shall perish with the sword." There is a higher and mightier power, and weapons against which the world cannot stand. It was not by force that the Christians won the empire of the world. It was not by the sword that S. Patrick subdued Ireland. It was not by arms that your great leader and counsellor, forty years ago, to whom, more than to any one man, you owe your Christian emancipation, vindicated for you the free dom we now enjoy : it was his rule that no political changes were worth one drop of blood. The only violence you can use without breaking God's law is the violence of faith ; that is,:of justice, reason, patience. This is the invincible power of the king dom of God. - Wheresoever the violence of this world enters it destroys those that use it. The revolution in France sacrificed Ireland in 1798. Bloodshed, misery, executions, widowhood, social hatreds, and thirty years more of penal law were the conse quence. The revolutions of 1848 all but sacrificed it again. For nearly twenty years peace and a better order has been coming, slowly but surely. God avert that America should sacrifice Ireland for the third time. Press on as in the last twenty years, and Ireland will be like the Provinces of the Rhine, or like Belgium, fertile and peaceful, with their thousand towns and villages, their ten thousand industries and busy ploughs, mountains covered with cattle, and fields rich with harvest. Listen to the gospel of sedition, and the land we love so well may be like the Southern States of America, wrecked and desolate ; or, far worse, like Russian Poland, bleeding and crushed in freedom and in faith. Why should Ireland be always between the upper and nether millstone, between England and France, England and Revolution, England and America, broken and ground to powder? Work together with the wise and peaceful providence of God, and all is before us. There is a tide in time as in the waters of the sea. All things are moving onwards, and no human band can turn the current -back. Two things are certain : the one that these three kingdoms are indissoluble ; the other that they must all be equal. Scotland has been lifted to the prosperity of England: Ireland must be lifted to equality with both. Every badge of oppression and of perseQution must be effaced from the statute book, from die face of society, from the heart of the people. The Church and faith of the Irish people must be the Church and faith of Ireland. The Catholic Church in all the amplitude and dignity of public recognition, right, and law must be acknow ledged by man as it is constituted and honoured by God. It was a senseless illusion to ignore the breadth of Ireland beyond the pale. It is a more senseless fiction to ignore the Catholic Church which alone is recognised by Ireland and by the world. It is hard to kick against the goal It is harder to contend against the providence of God. Catholic, Ireland was, is, and always will be. Thwart or vio late its faith, and it can never be at rest. Honour and cherish its dearest treasure, and it will be peace ful, loyal, and content. When the faith of a people has free expanse, society prospers. And society springs from the furrow ; labour builds homes, villages, towns, with all the acts of life and grada tions of social order so fine and closely knit that the commonwealth is one, with one action, heart, and will. Commonwealth is a common welfare ; and such Ireland will be be if the god of this world do not enter in to mar the work of peace : if our rulers be wise and just, and if you, children of St. Patrick, keep his word and are true to his example ; steadfast in the faith, submissive to the Vicar of Jesus Christ, united to your pastors, self-controlling, peaceful, and makers of peace. Then you may confide in the promise of , God to His chosen people ; " If you return and be Messrs. C. E. Stewart, Mr. G. P. Bidder, Mr. J. D. Birchall, and Mr. J. Chadwick, having been de puted by a meeting of the principal holders of the preference and ordinary stocks in this company to consider and advise on the course to be adopted for the preservation of their property, reported :—That the net annual revenue of the company was suffi cient to pay all the preference interest and divi dends, but, from the distrust now affecting all rail way securities, the company had been obliged to employ that revenue in meeting capital obligations ; hence the non-payment of the two last half-years' preference dividends. To meet the dividends now due, and to liquidate the existing engagements of the company on capital account (other than the Metropolitan Extensions, which would be sepa rately provided for), would require one million and a half sterling. The interest paid last year upon £BOO,OOO of temporary loans exceeded £6:),000, which would represent the interest upon £1,200,000 of the debenture stock subsequently referred to. They deemed it essential to the restoration of the company's credit, and to the permanent security of the preference holders:—" Ist. That, in "order to meet the interest on the debentures and debenture stock, and so afford absolute security to the inves tors, there shall be paid, under Parliamentary obli gation, week by week, to the credit of the three trustees, to be nominated by the Governor of the Bank of England such a proportion of the traffic receipts as will meet the current interest on the whole of the debentures and debenture stock of the company : 2, that three trustees, to be appointed by the preference shareholders, shall be vested with power to veto any further capital expenditure or liability beyond that now existing which they may disapprove ; 3, that in order to provide for thedivi dends now due, and to meet the pressing require ments on capital account, there shall be created, under Parliamentary sanction, one million and a half of debenturestock, bearing interest at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum, to be offered to preference share holders, and such persons as are willing to receive it in satisfaction of their claims, and to be payable by instalments ranging over three years from the present time, having the dividends or sums now due written up in part payment." They confidently recommended this arrangement for adoption. As an example of how it would work, it was shown that a holder of £l,OOO of 5 per cent. stock, with one year's dividend (£5O) unpaid, would receive scrip representing four years' dividend, or say for £2OO, of which £5O would be written up as paid, leaving £l5O to fall due, by instalments of £25, on the Ist of September and the Ist of March in each year, until fully paid up. There was no obligation on the holder of preference stock to keep the scrip. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The report of the directors of this company states that the gross receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, upon the whole undertaking, including the Buffalo and Champlain lines, had been £719,370, and the ordinary working expenses £413,608, or 5749 per cent., leaving a balance of £305,762, From this was deducted £72,392, the proportion of renewals of the permanent way and works debited to revenue, leaving an available net balance of £233,370. Out of this was deducted £174,891, including £20,722 for postal and military service bonds, £61,826 discou'it on American cur rency, £32,786 rent of Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway, £11,250 rent of the Detroit line, £10,779 interest on equipment mortgage, and £31,580 for proportion of Montreal and Champlain and Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company's traffic, leaving, with £2OO from the preceding half-year, a balance of £58,680, which would provide for a cash divi dend on the first preference bonds, leaving a balance of £326 for next account. This dividend would be payable on and after the 22d inst., and cer tificates for the arrears of interest to be capitalised on the second preference bonds and on the third and fourth preference stocks would, under the terms of the Act of 1862,be subsequently issued. The increase in the aggregate receipts for the half-year, as compared with the same period of 1865, was £4,500, the total revenue being the largest yet received in any one half-year. The decrease of net revenue was caused by an increase in loss on currency, an increase in legal charges, the debit of a sum under award to the Brantford Gas Company, and a larger outlay in the locomotive department for new engines and cars to maintain the existing stock in an efficient state. The two last items, together about £16,000, accounted for the increased working expenses. In appropriat ing the net revenue £5,359 had been paid to the postal and military bo ndholders, in excess of the sum due to them in the corresponding half of 1865. This had .risen from increased receipts for the con veyance of troops and stores arising out of the Fenian raid. The receipts from passenger traffic, mails, &c., showed an increase over the corresponding period of 1865 of £5,165, or 1.67 per cent. ; but the merchan dise receipts showed a falling off of £420. The dimi nution of revenue in the freight traffic was entirely in live stock, and was in consequence of the United States tariff laws which came into operation on the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty. The live stock receipts in the corresponding half of 1865 were £36,011, while those for 1866 were only £16,333. The average receipt of passengers per head was 7s. 2d., against 7s. 10d. in 1863, and the average per ton was 15s. 11d. as compared with 15s. sd. in 1865. The working expenses were 57.49 per cent. for the past half-year, 55.35 for the same half of 1865, 59.68 per cent. for the same half of 1861, 5711 per cent. for same half of 1863, 59.68 per cent. for same half of 1862, and 68.64 per cent. for same half of 1861. The total loss on the American currency since June, 1862, amounted to £290,384, the loss for the past half-year being £61,828. The enormous loss occasioned by this wholly extraneous cause had altered the entire aspect of the recent finances of the company. The price of gold fluctuated during the six months ended Dec. last between 154 in July and 1314 in Dec. The continued inflation of the prices of labour and materials in the United States, con sequent upon the state of the currency, still led to an excessive cost inmanydepartments. The amount expended out of the revenue in renewals of perma nent way, from 1862 to 1866 inclusive, had been £621,543, and of the extremely large expenditure in the past half-yearof £97,392 the board had charged £25,000 to capital account. The debit for stock of stores in hand had. been reduced from £245,419, the amount in Dec., 1865, to £202,357. The reciprocity treaty with the United States ended in March, 1866. The full results of its repeal had, however, been more apparent in the past half-year, and while the local traffic had kept up in a very satisfactory man ner, the interchange of traffic between Canada and the United States had suffered. All accounts with the Government of Canada and her Majesty's Go vernment were now settled and disposed of. Looking to the heavy loss which had during the last fiveyears arisen from the condition of the American currency, to the pressure of the excessive outlay for renewals of the permanent way, to the impossibility of the railway earning even the amount of revenue now obtainable without an increasing quantity of rolling stock, and to the realisation of the expectations, so long formed, of the construction of the lntercolonial Railway, the board considered the time had arrived for maturing a plan under which the progress of the traffic and the resources of the undertaking —no w , destined to become an integral portion a a great RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in the House of Lords' Committee, the Northumberland Central Bill was passed. In the House of Commons' Committee, in Group 3, the Ilfracombe was adjourned until to-day; the Devon and Somerset and Bristol and Exeter Bills was proceeded with and adjourned ; and also the Devon and Somerset and the Devon and Somerset (Extension) Bills were adjourned. In Group E the promoters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Bill proved the preamble. Fenianism in America. result to Fenianism is producing disagreeable a thriven. the United States, where it has grown and The military organisation of a strong band of foreigners for the accomplishment of an object in which the country is no way interested is more likely to be injurious to the nation which shelters it than to that against which it is directed. England can meet Fenians as enemies, and repel them by force of arms; but the United States cannot sup press within her boundaries such a body. It may be very patriotic for the Irish, while freely received into that land of promise, to use their liberty for the benefit of their native country, without any regard to the injury their proceedings may do to their adopted country. But, however flattering such a course may be to Ireland, it is the reverse of flattering to the United States. The native-born American can scarcely be gratified at seeing his country used as a tool by a set of rowdy Irish con spirators, whose avowed object it is to involve the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race in war, to give an ascendancy to a party in his native island. Americans are beginning to be impressed with the fact that there is no American object or interest whatever involved in the proceedings of these Fenians. Processions are formed, military displays made in the streets, and much buncombe talked, but all on questions of no concern whatever either to North or South, Democrat or Republican. Why should Irishmen be encouraged to slay and rob native Americans because they are born on the left bank of the St. Lawrence? Surely the ties of their great father-land should be stronger than the professions of a political creed ! But if Americans look with indifference or approval at these proceedings directed against their brethren across the border, they are beginning to learn that it is unpleasant to experience the aggression themselves, and the weapons of these marauders are as ready at their own throats as at their neighbours, They had a disagreeable proof of this on St. Pat rick's Day in New York. A - grand procession dragged its long length through the centre of the city, cutting it in halves, and impeding the traffic. All communication between the upper and lower portions was suspended ; none dared to cross the living barrier except those who held their lives in their hands. The mail waggons have, by law, the right of way, and the driver of one, as in duty bound, attempted to make good his passage. He was pulled down from his seat and cruelly beaten, and his horses fared no better. Long lines of cars blocked up the roads, detained while the Irish flaunted in the face of " New America" their Hibernian patriotism. " Fancy our indignation," exclaims the American correspondent of the Stand ard, "at being ordered about by drunken, brutal Irishmen, whose only titles to authority were the green badges they had placed in their button-holes and the swords and clubs they carried." Fancy the feelings of the passengers with their baggage on board the ocean steamers, starting at noon, as they watched the interminable procession, hour after hour, slipping by. Imagine their annoyance on reaching the place of embarkation to see the smoke of the steamer in the distance, with their forfeited fare and their wardrobe on board. But all were not prepared to endure with patience the interruption. A fight, o'f course, was the consequence, and 22 policemen were the victims. So long as they came up by ones and twos they fell an easy prey to the mob, bat experience taught wisdom to the myr midons of the law, and at last a solid phalanx marched down Grand-street with a front that showel they were bent on mischief. The mob in stantly scattered, leaving on the ground the bodies of the adventurous men who, single-handed, had thrust themselves on the scene of action, all badly wounded. Playing with edged tools is proverbially dangerous ; encouragement to filibusters may be a policy of expediency, but can never be one of wisdom. The ascendancy of such a lawless party as the Fenians can work nothing but evil. It is suicidal to encourage the large and growing Celtic party to band together for the accomplishment of a purpose purely Irish, and to seek interests separate and apart from those of the nation. By such means a community is formed in the United States, but not of the United States. The nationality is main tained where true policy would direct that that nationality should be abolished—that the natural ised Irishman should cease to be an Irishman and become an American. Even where the objects are sought peaceably such organisations should not be encouraged, but where sought by force of arms the impolicy becomes a danger. The imperium in imperio assumes then a threaten ing aspect, and the combination accustomed to demand what they assert to be their rights with arms in their hands may, when baulked or success ful against a foreign Power, turn on the Govern ment of the country which has harboured them. The United States should not trust too much to their powers of absorption, for this party Las a tendency to grow at a quicker ratio than any other in the Union ; and it might become a very dan gerous one, if led, as it surely will be led, by greedy and unscrupulous men. The Americans may depend upon the fact, which has been proved by the pages of history, that the Irish are not an te ost ext easy people to govern. From out h the m mass menraor of the moat brilliant capacity, of Binary intellect, of genius, arc constantly stepping, but the mass delight in secret association and in shiploads directed open violence, who m no benefits can concili a t e, no l aws control when the spirit of opposition i s f a i r l y e g t r h a a n t t s it thrown should in be rouse d. It is for the benefit of this pa r ty , as well and controlled — in one word 7 goy • f erned. By such o as n o t e A the h e numerous u s soil, emigrants means the Irish will become a most valuable class to the Union, but if left to th • eir own devices they may yet form its most dangerous element.—Anglo- A merican Times. The Life and Labours of the late John Camp bell, 1).1)., we learn, are in cours of preparation, under the editorship of the Rev. Dr. Ferguson, and the Rev. Dr. Brown, of Cheltenham, assisted by his sou. The work is largely from the doctor's own pen, and the material prepared by his own hand. It will be shortly published by John Snow and Co., of Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row, London. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " CASTE." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., Y SON'S By the Author of " Caste," k 7 IF E. . This novel is a gool one, and will be a general favourite. There is great interest in the tale."—Observer. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.