The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE P.RESS. MORNING. THE RESIGNATIONS AT TUE ADMIRALTY. LITERA TITRE. The Times, in commenting on the changes at the Ad miralty, says that both Mr. Childers and Arr. Baxter have been prompt in acknowledging the value of i Sir Spencer Robinson's services as an able and zealous reformer. He has, indeed, by reason of a certain hastiness of temper. and intolerance of criticism upon his ships, given great offence to naval officers who have been brought into contact with him ; but it may be granted that on the whole he has done good service at Whitehall. The obligations between him and the First Lord of the Admiralty are, however, to say the least of it, mutual ; and if it be true that, after four months' hesitation, he has chosen a time when his chief is ill, and in temporary need of relief from anxiety, not only to give in his own resigna tion, but also to threaten the resignation of Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, unless the recent Order in Council be repealed or specially relaxed in his own case, he has adopted a course which no public services can altogether excuse. Ability will never pass unrecognised in this country, but temper and conduct in public men are of still higher estimation. We trust that some public explanation may soon be given of this obscure and la...entable disyute. Why Mr. Reed should threaten to resign because the C Introller of the Navy is debarred from future service afloat is a ridicule difficult to solve. We have always been ready to do justice to Mr. Reed, and have no desire to see him transfer his abilities to the domain of private enterprise. He may or may not have his individual grounds of complaint. He may or may not think his merits are insufficiently appreciated. To the outside world he seems to be the most prosperous of men ; his salary is always rising ; he absorbs place after Place, and his power of digestion grows by what it feeds on. There are many avenues open to him in private life, through some of which, if he is to be always resign ing and never resigned, he would do well to select his course. He is thought to control the Controller, and the versatility of his talents is the admiration of all who know him. But if he cannot cultivate the lowly virtues of a public servant we think he would do better to retire at once from a position for which he is too great. Acquitted : a novel. By Mrs. Gordon Smythies, author of "Cousin Geoffrey." 3 vols. Tinsley Brothers. This is one of the most attractive novels we have yet seen from the pen of the accomplished author of " Cousin Geoffrey." The opening scene, in a poor fisherman's cottage, is very effectively described. There, amid the roaring of the tempest without. poor Nat Lynn and his wife are weeping over the death of their little first born. Very tenderly and naturally is the little homescene depicted, what follows is of a more romantic character. The poor fisherman at last tears himself away from the sorrowing mother, and going along the beach almost im mediately after, discovers portions of a wreck cast ashore by the storm, and a little child still retaining signs of life. Ho takes the motherless child to the child less mother, and with joy and gratitude the little stranger is adopted in the fisherman's cot. We do not propose to reveal the mysterious history of the supposed Mary Lynn : it can not but prove attractive to the lovers of romance. Mrs. Gordon Smythies, however, does not rely upon the sen sational element (of which the terrrible Dan Devrill is a fitting representative). The story of " Acquitted" has higher claims to our attention. We cannot more accurately explain the purpose of the book and the meaning of the title than by giving the interpretation in the words of the writer. " Without venturing," observes Mrs. Gordon Smythies, in the closing pages of her story, "to dwell long in a novel on that Highest Court, at whose bar we shall all be one day judged, and from which there can be no appeal, we, in justification of our title, venture to remind our readers that, even as far as this life is concerned, we are, from our childhood to our graves, on trial before two courts—the inner one of conscience (that solemn secret tribunal, from the verdict of which none can escape) and the public one which, whether we call it opinion,' society,' or the world,' is all-im portant to the many, and is really disregarded by none." Paul Penrhyn, the impoverished master of Penrhyn Manor, a well-meaning, weak-minded man, who can never say " No, " is over-persuaded by the arti fices of one Sligo Downy into embarking a sum of trust money in a bubble speculation. The unfortunate trustee is heart-broken at the failure of the enterprise, but happily the secret becomes known to his young son Paul, who, abandoning all ambitious dreams, takes a post in a merchant's office, and devotes himself to the repayment of his father's debt ere the defalcation shall be come known. How he struggles and how he succeeds we shall not say; the story is full of interest andis very forcibly told, and it is a happy day when the poor father by the self-sacrificing exertions of his noble-minded son finds himself " acquitted" of the crime in which his culpable weakness had involved him. Contrasted with the eager active career of the enterprising Paul Penrhyn, the touching story of the youthful Jasper Ardennes, slowly sinking into an untimely grave will be read with a melancholy interest. It is depicted by one who, as the very touching dedication to Dr. Hastings reveals to us, has experienced all the agony of hopes and fears that wring the hearts of those who watch the fading away of the victims of that deadly, and so often to the very last delu sive disease, consumption. The death scene of the gentle Jasper Ardennes,which softens even his iniquitous father, will be perused with especial interest. " Acquitted " may certainly be regarded as the best novel from the pen of the author of "Cousin Geoffrey." Eastern Pilgrims : the Travels of Three Ladies. By Agnes Smith. Hurst and Blackett. This very interesting book records the travels of three adventurous ladies, who journey to the East unaccom panied by friend or brother, unattended even by courier or maid. The three ladies, however, prove themselves equal to the occasion. They agree at the outset to a division of labour. " Violet makes herself responsible for the management of hotels, and for the direction of the party in general ; Edith examines the accounts ; Agnes studies the guide book and sketches routes for the approval of her com panions." Thus prepared they depart from Lon don on a dull morning of August 1868, and proceed t-ia Ostend to Munich, thence to Con stantinople, Cyprus, Alexandria, Asouan, Cairo, and Jerusalem. They visit many places of interest in the Holy Land, tarrying by the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and return by Damascus to Greece, admire the Bay of Salamis, pause by the field of Marathon, and finally return by Venice and Corfu, rid Basle and Paris, to London. From this brief sketch of the route it will be seen that the travels of the three fair pilgrims are not deficient in the materials of interest. Every little incident likely to amuse the reader, even chance conver sations that illustrate the manners and customs of the various people with whom they mingle, are set down by the lively pen of the fair chroni cler, Agnes Smith. One peculiarity of these Pilgrims is somewhat remarkable. They let us know in every word and look that in their travels they aspire not to learn, but to teach. We must confess that at the outset we were not prepossessed by the idea of a journey to Jeru salem in company with a traveller who could exclaim about those who are eager to go to the Holy Land, "As we were not taught in our youth to worship any particular spot of earth, we can hardly understand what benefit they expect to derive from visiting it." On arriving at Jerusa lem, however, different sentiments prevail, notwithstand ing the critical spirit with which every detail is investi gated. A. Journey to Rome and Back. By William Evill. One vol.. pp. 164. Edward Stanford. As a well-looking fellow-mortal is said to carry a letter of recommendation in his face, so might it be said, in regard to this daintily-apparelled volume, that it entices the reader to dip into it from the mere allurement of its external appearance. We have yielded to the temptation, and have found the author a very delightful and exhilarating eompanion. The title of the work grows upon us from the lettering on the back when examined edgeways—the designation of the book, there, being simply as we have given it above, viz., " A Journey to Rome and Back." Turning tolit, as it is elegantly expanded upon the upper side of the volume when displayed to view as a table book, we read the additional words "With an account of the Opening of the CEcumenical Council." While, still further, on looking to the title-page, we read yet more, as follow :—" And glances at Milan, Florence, Naples, Pompeii, and Venice." Enough, surely 1 But it cannot be said—enough and to spare ! For having readthe book through from cover to cover—of itself an eulogium from any reviewer—we could certainly not spare Mr. Evill's always animated, oftengraphic, and more than once or twice really eloquent descriptions (among others) of the Cathedral at Milan, of the galleries at Florence, of the grand piazza at Naples, of the ghostly, silent ruins at Pom peii, and of the gliding gondola-life and the gorgeous art treasures at Venice. Any more than we could spare his account of the wonderful pageantry of the papal functions in Rome and of the marvellous masterpieces in sculpture and painting scattered among her palaces and basilicas. The author at once puts himself upon the best possible terms with his readers in the very opening passages in which, with a good deal of quiet humour, he describes the discomforts attendant upon his journey's commencement. He has an intense appreciation of the ludicrous, and an instant eye for its detection. His description of the clock at Strasbourg, his account of the Yankee who had gone " right along " by Mount Ceniss (Mr. Evill himself having crossed the Alpine barrier of North Italy by the glorious Splugen, which he very finely describes), his record of the dilemma in which he found himself near the Vitt Mala, seated among his luggage, somewhere in the middle of Europe, and in the blackness of midnight, these and a variety of other incidental sketches, touched off with a flying pen, one cannot possibly read with out being interrupted every now and then with a burst of laughter. The via comica is the "go" or chic of the whole narrative. Yet, for all that, the finest passages in the book are thosewhere our author is at his gravest. His casual de scription of the catacombs, for example, is, in a mere page or two, singularly impressive. Sunset on the Lake of Como, the white marble glories of Milan Cathedral, the pano ramic view of the Alps, with which he was favou red from the summit of that exquisite edifice, the dream-like life of decaying Venice, th,e awful spectral ruins of Pompeii, the sumptuous magnificence of st. Peter's, of St. Paul Without the Walls, of St. John Lateran, and of the other grand basilicas, the solemnizing grandeur of the Coliseum—these and kindred themes the author of this radiant little book expatiates upon in words expressive of enthusiastic, but most appreciative admiration. With many of the most vitally important conclusions he arrives at, we have no sympathy whatever. But we regard the evident sincerity of his own convictions with the profoundest re spect. As a graphic delineator of the superb scenery and the renowned cities through which he made this winter journey during the season of last November and Decem ber, he has acquitted himself admirably well—the style in which the whole book is penned being as fresh and ani mated as the very external look of it seems to give a pro mise of beforehand. The recent reports received from the principal moors iA Scotland are (according to Land and Water) of the most cheelinz description. The "anti-surplice demonstrations" at Ashton-in- Makerfield have led to proceedings before the magistrates being taken against several of the persons fmplicated. On Friday seven men and two women were fined in the aggre gate £2.6 10s., on information laid by the police, and eight other persons were committed for trial for riot. In the case of three of the persons, who were described as ring leaders, the magistrates refused to accept bail, and they were accordingly removed in custody. REVISION OF THE AUTHORIZED VERSION.—The revisers of the authorised version of the New Testament will meet for their next session on July 13, at the Juru salem Chamber, at eleven o'clock, and will sit for three days. The session just past has given much satisfaction to all present. Several questions of anature to test the charac ter and composition of the company have been discussed with perfect harmony. The progress has been quite as great as could have been expected, A large number of preliminary questions, involving general principles of criticism and interpretation, and affecting the whole course and conduct of the work, were necessarily raised by the emendations proposed, and have now been agreed upon. [ADVERTISEMENT. j—Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Maternal solicitude.—What anxiety, pain, and discomfort would be avoided were these invaluable domestic remedies ready at bend. In the nursery Holloway's preparation's provpinvaluable. Quinsey, sore throat, diphtheria, measles, and scarlatioa4 aro cured by it. The Ointment must be diligently rubbed upon, the affected parts till a large proportion has been absorbed 1)37 the pores. Its cooling and sedative qualities soon relieve all min, arrest all inflammation, subdue all serious symptoms, and Safely. reconduct the sufferer back to health. The Ointment heals ulcers, sores, and scurvy. When Holloway's Pills are taken to augment the healthful action of the unguent few diseases in the young or adult can withstand their power, and none can entirely rest it. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, UNE 27, 1870. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. First on the list of the 'orders of- the day for to-day comes the re-committed Elementary Education Bill, on which progress was reported by the committee on Friday. Next comes the University Tests Bill, as amended to be considerel, and several bills of less importance, such as the Extradition Bill, the Gun Licenses Bill, and the Clerical Disabilities Bill, are also down for con sideration in committee. Second readings of the Game Laws Amendment Bill, the Proces sions (Ireland) Bill, and the High Court of Justice and Appellate Jurisdiction Bills, are fixed. Ques tions will be put to the Secretary for War by Mr. Dent and by Sir P. O'Brien respecting the deaths from sunstroke on the march to Aldershot. —On Tuesday the Ballot Bill comes on for second reading, and the Burials and Public Prosecutors Bills, both of which are re-committed, are also on the list. Mr. Sclater Booth will move that the Public Prosecutors Bill go into committee on that day three months. The Attorney-General has a similar notice against the Married Women's Acknowledgment Bill which is down for the second reading. On Wednes day the Sale of Liquors on Sunday Bill is to be read a second time, and the adjourned debate on the Medical Acts Amendment Bill will be resumed. Mr. Alderman Law rence has a notice of motion against the first, and 111 r. Brady against the latter. On Thursday the orders of the day are comparatively uninteresting to the general public except -the New Zealand loan. The Factories and Workshops Bill is on the list for the second reading, Mr. Potter moving its rejection. On Friday the order of the day is the Mines Regulation and Inspection Bill for re-committal, while among the notices of motion are two naval ones. Mr. Hanbury- Tracy will call attention to the report of the committee on the Naval Reserve, and Sir John Hay will have a motion on the great loss of men which has resulted from the enjoyment of the Flying Squadron. The will of Sir Edmund Aritrobus, Bart., of The Abbey, Amesbury, Wilts ;..Lower Cheam, Surrey ; the Terrace, Piccadilly ; and 59, Strand, was proved in the Londori Court, on the 10th inst., under £300,000 personalty. The executors are his sons, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., and Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, Esq., The will is dated October 4, 1861, and a codicil, June 24, 1864. The testator died, at his residence, Piccadilly, on May 4 last, aged 78. To his wife he has be queathed an immediate legacy of £2,000, with a residence and an annuity that will, with her settlement and other provisions, inaks up £4,000 a year. To his' sons, Hugh Lindsay and Robert Crawford, he leaves each a legacy of £lO,OOO, in addition to like sums previously given to them, and also leaves like legacies to his daughters, in addition to similar, sums given to them on marriage. Having, in conjunction with Mr. E. Marjoribanks, some time since purchased of the Duke d'Aumale the domain of Chantilly, and the forest, woods, and residence at Clermont, in France, be longing to his Royal Highness, he has devised his right, share, and interest in such estates to his son Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, and has also bequeathed to him his estate at Cheam. He has left to Miss Burdett Coutts, as a mark of respect, a legacy of 100 guineas to purchase a ring. He has bequeathed to each of the partners in the banking-house a legacy of £5OO, to each clerk a suit of mourning, and legacies to his servants. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his eldest son, the present Baronet. The will of Charles Holland, Esq., merchant, of Liverpool, and of Liscard, was proved at Chester, under £200,000 personalty.—The will of Mrs. Frances Drake, widow, formerly of Walthamstow ' and late of Harlow, Essex, was proved in London, on the 9th inst., 'under £60,000. personalty. The will of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Rigmaden _Park, Westmoreland, was proved under £350,000 person alty.—lllustrated London News. THE FENIA.NS IN CANAD Some of our Canadian neighbours are exercising them- ' selves in a rather unnecessary manner about the duty of the United States in regard to the late Fenian"invasion." It is difficult to see what these gentlemen would have be yond what was effected by this Government in their be half. The interposition of Union troops would have been improper before the commission of some overt act, and indeed might have roused a feeling along the border from which greater trouble might have arisen than actually was.created. We on this side think we - did our best for the Dominion people, and the complete collapse of the expeditions is a sufficient comment upon the measures taken by General Grant and the War Department. The probability, however, is that the complaints we hear of, chiefly at Montreal, proceed from some political motive in connection with future independence. At least, the scold ing administered to Mr. Thornton for thanking President Grant, looks like striking at the Imperial Government, and is, perhaps, intended to prove the existence of a de r sire to break loose from it. Why not say as much in plain English ?—New York, Times. THE MONARCH AND CAPTAIN. The Standard says the public are generally aware that the Monarch and the Captain, two ships of war of peculiar construction, have lately been added to the British navy. `l 'o a certain extent these vessels are on their trial, and it is a matter of particular importance that their merits should be clearly ascertained. The Captain has cost about £350,000. The Monarch, including incidental charges, is understood to have cost £450,000. Thus we have a total of £BOO,OOO, expended on two ships, constituting -a grand experiment in naval architecture— and yet the House of Commons and the country are to be kept in the dark as to the results ! It is certain that this cannot be allowed. The expenditure of millions of money, and the safety of the nation in time of war, may be said to depend on the collection of proper data for the con. struction of our navy. We presume that the report scot in by Admiral Symonds shews the comparative behaviour of the turret ships and the broadside vessels composing to gether the Channel squadron. We look, therefore, not merely for a comparison between the Monarch and the Captain, but for some account of the relative merits of turret and broadside ships—a controversy by no means at an end. Any conclusions on this point must materially govern the expenditure for creating ships of war. We are taking another step in naval artillery. The first 35-ton gun is now being made at Woolwich, and if it proves suc cessful, we ought to turn it to the best account. The big gun is the child of the turret ship, and it would seem natural that the two should remain associated. We know it is argued that a very large gun necessitates a great diameter of turret, and therefore requires great breadth and tonnage in the vessel. But surely Mr. Reed could conquer such a difficulty as this if he were determined upon it. A question also remains as to the precise kind of turret ship which we should employ. The turret ship of Captain Cowper Coles is not that of Mr. Ericsson. Neither is the turret ship of Mr. Reed the same as that of Captain Coles. The Monarch has a high free board, while the Captain has a low one. That which the country demands is a fair trial for the turret ship of whatever form it may be. A fair trial involves a fair hearing. Reports, whichever way they lead, must not be suppressed ; and the Chief Constructor of the Navy must be a thorough eclectic in the exercise of his impor tant functions. THE ORLEANIST PRINCES. In spite of some evil omens, says the Daily .INews, we yet trust that the Emperor of the French will feel himself strong enough to be just and generous, and that the demand of the Orleanist Princes for liberty to return to France will be conceded. In this instance, justice and generosity coincide with the truest prudence. In France the Orleanist Princes would simply be illustrious French citizens. To use the words of Louis XVIII. on his re storation, they would be only so many Frenchmen the more. In England their relation to the country from which they are shut out yno means expressed by saying that they are so many Frenchmen the less. They are the representatives of a rival dynast3 P and this character is forced upon them by their exile. So long as that exile is protracted, it is evident that the Emperor and his advisers view them in this light. The representatives of a former constitutional monarchy in France ought not to be ex cluded from France while the same experiment is being tried anew, unless Napoleon 111. fears that their return would recal to people's minds at once the duplicity of statecraft, which discredited constitutional monarchy two-and-twenty years ago, and the generous protests of the younger mciP.bers of the then reigning house against the sinister pi which brought about its failure. It is short-sighted to banish his teachers. THE PEERS AND THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Standard says the Peers may not insist upon every one of their amendments but they will maintain the principal ones, and the Government and the House of Commons, whether they like it or not, and the Standard believes the majority of the House of Commons will at heart welcome the change, will have to accept them. But the language used by the Government organs, and, the Standard is sorry to add, by some members of the Government, is significant of the temper of the chiefs of the Government and theit ex trema followers. It illustrates the tactics by which they gained power and seek to preserve it, and it is a lesson to the House of Lords that it should never attempt to conciliate Radical goodwill by the sacrifice of its inde pendence and convictions. To pretend that the amend ments are against the principle of the bill, or that they will impair its successful working, is absurd, unless those who so pretend will admit that the principle of the bill is the confiscation of the larger portion of the property of the landlords for the benefit of the tenants, and that it will not work well unless the Landlord is leprived of all control over his property, made a ward, in fact, of the assistant barristers, and driven to be an absentee. If the bill is an honest attempt to remedy, by rweptional legislation, an exceptional state of things, to ~•ectire the tenant, but to injure as little as is possible the I,,ndlerd, these amendments of the Peers ought to be unarndgingly accented. THE LAND BILL. On the whole, the Telegraph is rather inclined to regret that the Opposition did not boldly oppose the second read ing of the bill, instead of mutilating and destroying it piecemeal in committee. As it now stands, it is a worse measure than that proposed by Lord Derby's Government some years ago. When the bill is returned to the House of Commons, therefore, the Government will restore it to its original shape in respect of those amendments which are incompatible with its purpose and principle—reinstituting the scale of damages under Clause 3, again enacting the length of lease which shall entitle a landlord to con- Tract himself out of the penalties inflicted on eviction, declining to accept the irresponsible Consent of the land lord as a condition barring the claim of the assignee, and abolishing Lord Salisbury's amendment to narrow the limit of the retrospective penalties. These amendments will all be struck out of the bill by the House of Commons, and what will the Lords have gained by introducing them? Is it wise to force the great body of the people to the con clusion that it is in vain to expect generosity or pa triotism, or even pru.lent statesmanship from the House of Lords in any question that bears ou the 14terests and privileges of landed proprietors? TEE FATAL MARCH. The Daily News says it is clear that the soldiers of the oth and 94th Regiments were treated with a cruel indiffer ence, born of stupidity and routine, to their comfort and lives which no man would shew in the case of an animal that he cared for, or whose pecuniary value he wished not to depreciate. Benevolent people are doing what they can to Fat a stop to the barbarities which often mark the transit of cattle by steamship and railway. The sufferings which accompany the transit of soldiers are surely worth ns rnileh consideration. THE POLICEMEN'S GRIEVANCE. The Telelraph says the latest police grievance is doubly galling to the force, and irrivating to the public, because it was at first presented under the guise of a reform, and even of a boon. On the issuing of the order which raised the pay of the police, people outside saw for the moment only an admission that there was ground for the com plaints of under-payment, and an implicit promise that further measures would he taken to secure the efficiency of the force by making its members satisfied with their position. When the constables are obliged to give, for the extra shilling in the week, the handsome quid pro quo of a day's service in the fortnight, the "boon" will be clearly seen to be no boon at all, but a positive sacrifice for the men. In truth, the men themselves really did not want the money, which their chiefs have actually forced upon them. They wanted to retain that privilege of one day's rest in the week which is denied to no other branch of the public service and to no class of the community. Thus we find our police authorities in the unenviable position of having driven a hard if not actually an unfair bargain with men who wanted to make no bargain of .the kind at all. Can any one by surprised if those on whom the bargain has been forced appeal in such numbers and with such energy from the acts of their rulers to the judgmeut of the public) 'whose servants those rulers are ? TEE STEAMER DACIA.—A. despatch from Kings ton, Jamaica, June 12, says :—" The Dacia has grounded in harbour. She received no damage. It will be necessary to transfer two hundred miles of cable to Consort. There is no cause for alarm." THE AUSTRIAN ELECTlONS.—According to a tele gram from Vienna, the result of the elections in Vienna and Lower Austria has been in favour of the old Centralist party, but the others have gained some triumphs, even in the capital. The former Ministers, M.M. Giskra and Brest 6, have been re-electea without difficulty. The Czechs are making great efforts to become reconciled with the Germans in Bohemia, and have called together various meetings, in order to persuade these latter that they ought to consider themselves citizens, and seek to obtain the recognition of public right in the kingdom. These efforts at reconciliation have hitherto been most unsuccessful, as the Germans have rejected all the overtures which were made to them, and will not attend the meetings to which they are invited. IEFUSAL TO CONSECRATE A CHURCH. A most unusual scene of excitement occurred on Friday forenoon at a new and elaborately finished church at West Derby, about - three miles from Liverpool, which has just been erected at the sole expense of Mrs. Reade, a wealthy lady in the neighbourhood, and which was to have been consecrated by the Bishop of Chester. It had been officially announced for about three weeks that the ceremony would take place on Friday, which was the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, the patron saint to whom the church is dedicated, and the highly ornate character of the interior and the elaborate painting, gild- ing, and general decorations had the effect of attracting a very large number of persons who wished to be present at the ceremony. At the last moment, however, in conse quence of what is explained below, the bishop refused to consecrate the edifice ; but this determination on the part of his lordship was only officially made known to the general public in the local newspapers in the morning, and it was too late to prevent considerable numbers of persons making, their way to the church. Shortly before the hour announced' for the com mencement of the proceedings a large. portion of the intended congregation arrived in rapid succession in carriages. On arrival, however, they were unexpectedly disappointed on reading a notice which had only an hour or two before been placed on the church doors, simply stating that the consecration had been unavoidably post poned. It appears that the cause of the postponement is a visit which the bishop, in company with the archdeacon and some of the local clergy, has paid to the church within the last day or two. As already stated, the walls, roofs, and almost every other part of the church are most artistically decorated, together with full length paintings of the apostles, prophets, and other characters in Scrip ture history, as well as large numbers of allegorical figures. The nave is divided from the chancel by a mag nificent oak screen, which is richly decorated in gold and colours, whilst the roof and walls of the chancel itself are evon still more elaborately decorated, and the altar piece, which rivals in itP costliness and beauty the best works of mediaeval times, consists of richly-carved and gilt wood-work, with scenes from the Passion of our Lord, from His betrayal to the visit of the Marys to the Sepulchre. The bishop is said to have expressed his strong disapprobation of these decorations, as out of place in such an edifice, more especially the altar piece, to which he strongly ob jects, and refuses to consecrate the church until it is removed, as well as several other portions of the decora tions. The course taken by his lordship has been a general subject of conversation, and it is stated that the donor of the church declines to permit any of the decorations to be removed, and threatens to resort to measures to en force the consecration of the church as it now appears. It may be stated that the cost of the edifice amounts to about £30,000, and has been erected from designs fur nished by Mr. G. F. Bodley, architect, of London. DR. TEMPLE ON. EDUCATION.. On Friday afternoon the Right Rev. Dr. Temple, Bishop of Exeter, distributed prizes to successful students in the last examinations of art's and laws at the University College, London. In the course of a long address which he afterwards made, his lordship said :—I desire to con gratulate the college upon the evident prosperity which is attending its work, and upon the value which the country at large, more and more every day, is attaching to the work, and in all probability will attach to it. The college, as a place of education, has been from the beginning distinguished for the very wide range of its studies ; and the success of many of its sons has shewn how judicious it was to widen the range of studies so much as to encourage young men to endeavour to cultivate, not only one particular branch of knowledge, but, as far as possible, to make themselves acquainted—and that with no shallow knowledge—with a large extent of all that can elevate the mind, that can train the intel lect, that can supply information for future use. This width and range of studies has always distinguished this college from the cammencement ; and now, I think, we must consider it an additional service that this col lege has taken the lead in doing something to provide a similar education for women. (Cheers and hisses by some of the students.) They, too, have been encouraged to cultivate their faculties—not only by the cultivation of graces and accomplishments, but by the cultivation of their own understanding till they can take a part in all that interests man. I congratulate the college on its great success and the work it is doing. You have been studying what is commonly called " arts," and some of you have made such progress as to obtain the prizes here given. And this word " arts " has always been used to signify that sort of study which not only prepares a man for a particular employment or profession, but which makes him truly a man, by cultivating all his faculties by giving him a command of his whole intellect, by training and disciplining his mind—in fact, by, as it were making him what his nature intended him to be, and so fitting him to go forward ; and, whatever pro fession he may choose, enabling him to master it by the advantage belonging to thorough previous training and thorougl. previous discipline. It is well worth our while to consider for a moment what is the advantage of these different studies. If I speak of mathematics, it is trite thing to say that, by its study, the mind obtains a sense of the importance of clear definitions, of just postulates, of impregnable reasonings, such as can not be obtained from any other study we can pursue. And you will see, generally speaking, the effect of this study upon those who have followed it. The man who has studied mathematics always endeavours to see clearly what he is saying. He shews a remarkable de sire to keep to the point, and an impatient— sometimes a downright—dislike to everything that is irrelevant. But the study of mathematics has deficiencies. While it teaches the intellect, it never teaches the moral side of the nature at all, a man who is a mathematician and nothing more, -is cold and narrow in his sympathies. He has not a wide contact with human nature. He is very often narrow-minded ' • because all that he knows of other. men is simply derived from his own personal experience, and that personal experience has not been enriched by the study of history and of biography. It is certainly true of the great mass that the exclusive study of mathematics must fail as a complete discipline for the human under standing. Let me go to another great branch of human study—that of natural science. Here we find a newset of the faculties of the human under standing called into play. It has been well remarked that almost invariably the student of natural science by the mere result of the study is a cultivated man. It is pdssible for a man to be a great mathematician and yet to be uncultivated as a man ; but it is very rarely indeed that you see such a result in the student of exter nal nature. Therefore, this study must rank by the side of the other, and must hold a place in no way inferior to it. Yet we may well ask what is the reason that this study still hangs back ; and, why is it, for instance, that in so many of our great schqols there is difficulty in intro ducing these studies and carrying . them forward? The answer we must give is one that might very likely surprise those who are the masters of this science. It is because in so very many instances and to a very large degree those who are endeavouring to pro mote the study of natural science as a part of education have made the great mistake of omitting altogether that which is essential to a true study, viz., scientific method. I pass to another branch. In reality the study of literature and classics is philosophically a branch of the study of nature. When you study a lan guage you have to exert the same keen observations, evento minute details ; you have to exercise the same combina tion, and you have to put together laws of various kinds for the solution of problems of the same character as those which are presented by the study of natural science. You will find that in studying, for instance chemistry, you have in your hands a certain mixture which you are to examine. You apply various tests, you apply to it the various laws of chemistry, and by that application you succeed, at length, in analysing the mixture into its component parts, and saying, " Here we have so much of this substance, so much of another, and another." Precisely the same thing is done when you set the student down to a Latin sentence which he has never seen before, and desire him to make out what it means. The process of the mind is exactly paralleled in the two cases. having been for many years a teacher myself, I may say that a great help in giving real instruction to the intelli gence of his hearers is a sort of of healthy scep ticism, always distinguishing between that which is merely laid down by authority, and that which is proved by evidence, and requires evidence before it gives full assent. In conclusion, his lordship observed : That which educates a mnn above everything else, as it seems to me, is the student's contact with minds greater than his own. That it is which makes it worth while for the sfudent not Only to study in books, but under the eye and face of the living teacher. It is that which makes such a college as this of real value, Tho Bishop of Sierra Leone (the Right Rev. Dr. Crowther), accompanied by his son, the Rev. Mr. Crowther, left Liverpool on Friday in the African Royal mail steamer Biafra, for his diocese. Amongst the other passengers by the same steamer were the King and Prince Charles of Bonny andsuite, which consisted of one c, • nigger. • FLOATING HOTELS Mr. Fisk's steamer, which is to carry passengers to Long Branch, is also to furnish them with meals and lodgings. It is to be, that is to say, a floating hotel. Floating churches have existed for many years and on the Mississippi and elsewhere we have heard of floating theatres; but a vessel which offers to supply food and apartments, not to passengers only, but to all corners, is something new under the pun. " The ex periment once tried, it may occur to the pro prietors of the Great Eastern to 'turn her to similar account. At present she seems of little use to anybody, except when a cable is to be laid. Securely moored off Long Branch, with suitable bridges and shift ing platforms to make her easily accessible in all weathers and tides, the monster ship would make a hotel that would rival, if not surpass, any of its neighbours on terra firma. Balls, concerts, and other entertainments could be given with admirable effect on board ; the airiness of the dormitories could be hardly attainable under other circumstances, and the mosquitoes—which theore tically never appear at Long Branch, but in practice are sometimes less obliging—would probably decline to cross salt water when they could banquet so richly on shore. The scene might be occa sionally varied by getting under way in the night, so that passengers on waking would find themselves, let us say, off Cape Hatteras, or in some other exciting locality, famous for fighting or ship wreck. Such an enterprise as this would excite all adventuroUs spirits, and some one of our celebrated Com modores, who is also a capitalist, could hardly do better than to take the Great Eastern off the hands to which she seems as troublesome as a white elephant, and put her to the use we suvest, at Newport, Coney Island, or Long Branch.—New York Times. THE PRICE OF TELEGRAPHING. A published correspondence between the New York, Newfoundland and London, and the International Ocean Telegraph Companies, furnishes some facts not at all creditable to the• latter organization. The I. 0. T. ,Company charges for a telegram from Habana to any office in Great Britain, Ireland or France, 15 dols. for 10 words ; but 'a telegram from Great Britain or France to New York and thence to Havana is but 12 dole. 50 cents. This unjust discrimination against the messages which cross the Atlantic is so great that it is con siderably cheaper to send a telegram from London to Salt Lake City, and thence through this city to Habana; than directly through the two cables. To a request that this injustice be remedied the I. 0. T. Company makes an offer to reduce its tolls if the other companies will reduce theirs in the same proportion. But, as everybody knows, the cost of a message by the Atlantic cable has been reduced already from 100 dole. to 7 dols. 50 cents. A computation shows that if the Cuba tariff were based on the same proportion to cost of construction of its cable as that of the lines crossing the Atlantic, the I. 0. T. Company, where it now charges 6 dols., would only receive 20 cents ; if based on length of lines, only 45 cents. Rut having an exclusive right by Act of Congress for 14 years to connect the United States with the West India Islands, the I. 0. T. Company take advantage of their monopoly. The price limited by Congress was 3 dols. 50 cents., undoubtedly meaning currency and exclu sive of date, address and signature ; but even this liberal tariff was deemed insufficient by the I. 0. Ts., who demand gold for every word, and charge as much on a European despatch over their short line as the cost of sending it across the Atlantic. We have a gentle hint for this Cuban Telegraphic Company. If it cannot act with decent regard for its charter, and for the rights of the people under it, Congress can find a way to quicken its perceptions, and the way may prove costly to its stock holders. If they are wise, they will take the hint. —New York. Tribune. THE BEETHOVEN JUBILEE. New York is keeping the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth with great éclat, and although the com poser was not born until December 1770, they are already holding inaugural concerts and celebrations. The New York, Herald of June 14th gives the following account of the proceedings at the first concert on the previous night : —Wonderful as was the energy displayed in completing the preliminary arrangements for the Beethoven festival, the success which attended the opening last night was far more surprising. Beyond question it was a grand musical triumph, and it is no exag geration to say that the first programme was splen didly rendered and hailed with enthusiasm by an appreciative multitude. All things considered, no comparison can fairly be made between the Beethoven festival and the, peace jubilee held in Boston. The former was gotten up with the most astonishing rapidity, and it would be unjust to the managers not to give them the greatest credit for the zeal, spirit and enter prize displayed by them in the gigantic undertaking. At Boston there was perfection itself; but it must be borne in mind that the time for preparation was long, and the most ample opportunity was afforded for the minutest details of the jubilee. Altogether the Beethoven festival was a splendid success, and clearly proved that musical triumphs in this city are not by any means impossibilities. And what a noble subject was the grand basis of the undertaking ! How many composers of memorable works pale before the glorious name of Beethoven ! Admittedly the greatest that the present cen tury has produced, his memory will live in whatever part of the globe true music is appreciated. One hundred years ago he first saw the light. As most people are aware, Louis Von Beethoven was born in the pretty little town of Bonn, on the Rhine. His career was wonderful, and fully illustrated that his gifts were as natural as those of Shakespeare in their way. Haydn was, perhaps, the man that first understood his mighty genius, having in 1785, been shewn a cantata of Beethoven's composition, with which he is said to have been enchanted. In 1792 Beethoven left Bonn and pro ceeded to Vienna, where he studied under Haydn. It is unnecessary to follow his magnificent career. His works will not only be admired to the end of time, but will even be regarded as the great standard towards• which the present generation looks with awe for the sublimity which characterises them all. Beethoven died on the 25th of March, 1827. The appearance of the Coliseum was very impressive, and looked to the best advantage. The lights burned brightly, and towards eight o'clock the crowds began to fill the building with great rapidity. Gradually the different societies took their respective places on the stage, and in a short space of time there was not a vacant seat on either side of the massive organ. And now the interior of the Coliseum presented a scene to be remem bered, brilliant and imposing as it was. As the conductor appeared a long continued round of approbation arose from all sides. A general feeling of anxiety prevailed. It was known that everything had been hurriedly organ ised, and few anticipated the triumph that was at hand. The baton fell and a burst of harmony resounded through the building like the thundering roar of the tide washing high upon the beach. Soon the audience felt the thrill, and when the programme was fairly under way gratifica tion was universally apparent. By the request of the several conductors the decorations throughout the entire building were very limited, owing to their inter ference with the harmony, but those displayed were unos tentatious and appropriate. For the short space allowed for the completion of the details in connection with the interior of the Coliseum the managers deserve much com mendation. As the evening advanced the audience in creased, and at half-past eight o'clock over 13,000 persons were comfortably seated. The stage was crowded to the walls. In the centre was the organ, and on either side and extending to the extreme end of the stage were the different societies. The orchestra was composed as follows :—First violins, fifty-six isecond violins, fifty six ; violas, thirty ; celli, forty ; bassi, forty ; flauti, twelve ; oboi, twelve ; clarionetti, twelve ; fagotti, eight ; horns, sixteen ; trumpets, six ; trombones, eighteen ; saxtuba, six; kettle drums, four, making altogether 325 performers. The grand chorus was composed of about 2,500 performers. The balcony over the main entrance was particularly crowded, but the acoustic properties of the building generally were excellent. VIOLENCE TOWARD RAILWAY PASSENGERS.— Are the directors of some of our suburban railroads wise in permitting their conductors to resort to violence toward passengers ? One would suppose that as a matter of business they would render their lines as little disagreeable as possible. The time will come when New York City will have independent systems of communication, and then the outrages now so common will be remembered. Indignation meetings may be powerless at present, but they do undoubtedly create a strong public feeling the effects of which will be apparent some day. It will not always be possible for chartered companies to act like organised banditti.—New York Times. THOMAS CAItLYLE COMING TO AMERICA.—One of our late cable despatches has it that the veteran author Tom Carlyle is coming on a visit to this country. It is not impossible that the despatch may be founded on mere rumour. At the same time we know no reason why such a visit should be deemed improbable. Carlyle is an old man, it is true. Ile is now in his seventy-fifth year ; and examples are not numerous of men at his age making transatlantic trips. Still, all our late accounts agree that he is hale and hearty and full of work. If Carlyle does honour us with his presence ho will have a hearty . welcome. No living author has exercised so much in fluence.on the intellect of his age as the author of " Sartor Itesartus ;" and his disciples are as numerous, proportion ally at least, on this continent as in Europe. A personal inspection of our American progress might lead to a new and improved version of one.of his latest papers, "Shoot ing Niagara."—New York Herald. A FOREIGN VIEW OF LONDON. M. Charles Hugo, son of Victor, who has been paying London a visit, describes his impressions in the Rappel. He found there " 4,000,000,000 men, and not a single lounger. A feverish and phlegmatic circulation in a fog. Everyone rushing in pursuit of business, for time is money ; the second is worth a shilling, the minute a guinea. Everything circulates pell-inell—the penny • boat on the river, the waggon in the street. One has a railway overhead, another under-foot ; a railway to the right, a railway to the left. The Thames runs between two trains, one of which passes over, the other under the river. The penny boats have a locomo tive under the chimney and another under their wheels." Ws are then told that St. Paul's looks as if it were built of sugar, Westminster of pasteboard, and the Tower of London of dominoes. The police are dressed in green. Now and then there is a red soldier with his hair parted behind and a stick in his hand. High over the trees of Hyde Park rises the equestrian statue of Wellington, with his cocked hat under his arm. "Sugar all this over with 300,000 women of bad character, and you have London a prodigious nightmare, where everything is of iron, mud, coal, and rain, where tunnels are suspended and bridges are sub terranean, whose houses are tombs and shopkeepers phantoms. ' Chinoiserie de l'4picerie, Sodome de la bank note, Gomorrhe du coton, Babylone de la eassonade !' " The note of admiration which follows Babylon of brown sugar is by M. Charles Hugo, who then proceeds to tells us how he visited Louis Blanc, who lives in one of the best quarters of London, and- had to pay five shillings for half an hour's- mad gallop—" that is, 7f. 25c." He dined with Louis Blanc and met Mr. Smalley, who is an amiable man, " and an amiable American is worth two charming Englishmen." The conversation turned on Rochefort and Flourens, and M. Louis Blanc assured his guests that the latter had always expressed the greatest re pugnance for political assassination. It was remarked,how ever, that Napoleon 1., founder of the present dynasty, had installed the statue of Brutus in the Tuileries when first consul, and had left a sum of money in his will to Cantillon, who had fired at Wellington. The next day M. Louis Blanc took M. Hugo to the Tower, where they saw all the Crown jewels but the Koh-i-noor, that famous diamond stolen from India which the Queen keeps hidden in a drawer so as to have 100,000,000 f. in her pocket in case of a revolution. In the courtyard the spot where Anne Boleyn was beheaded was pointed out. " And they reproach us with '93 " sighed Louis Blanc.—Pall Mall Gazette. THE CHARITY OF CHARLES DICKENS. In presiding at a meeting of the friends of the Royc Free Hospital, erected in Gray's Inn-road, Mr. Charles Dickens made a speech some years since Which was never published. The following is an extract from a report taken down by a shorthand writer who listened to him "Ladies and gentlemen,—lt happened some years ago, immediately after the close of the great Crimean war, that I was walking in the neighbourhood of Blackheath with a civilian just come home, who had greatly distinguished himself in connection with that event. The conversa tion naturally turned on the incidents he had lately wit nessed, and my companion remarked that the ground upon which we happened to be standing was sufficiently like the ground on which one of the most memorable of the Crimean battles was fought, to give me a very good idea of the field. " Put behind every one, even of the least of the furze-bushes on that heath," said he—" put behind every patch of shelter before us which could possibly conceal a crouching human form, one—at least one—wounded soldier, and you will have a very clear idea of the field, supposing that soldier dead, as I saw it myself on the morning after the fight." " I suppose," said I, " that the badly wounded men crept behind those bushes when they were struck, to get out of fire ?" " Well, in part for that reason," he said ; " but I think only for a very small part, because I have noticed that it became a kind of instinct in a badly wounded man to creep away and crawl behind any little bit of shelter, and crouch, and die alone, like some of the lower animals." Gentlemen—ladies and gentlemen—that picture impressed my fancy very much at the time, and since then, when I have passed through any of the crowded byways of this vast London, or of any other great town or city, I have hoped within myself that it may not be in peace as it is in war, and that many of the stricken among us may not retire to their miserable places of refuge—may not coil themselves up in their wretched places of shelter, and die in the midst of us, untended and alone. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the most prosperous and best cared for among men and women know full well that whoever is hit in this great and continuing battle of life, howsoever vast the gap may be that is made, howsoever dear the companion may be that is down, we must close up the ranks, and march on, and fight out the fight. But it happens that the rank and file are many in number, and the chances against them are many and hard, and they necessarily die by thousands, when the captains and the standard-bearers only die by ones and twos. How those privates live, and how they fight, and how they die, are questions of immense moment to the whole social army. If they were not felt in these later times—if they were not felt honestly and thoroughly to be so—there can be no doubt that our own ranks would contain within themselves the certain elements of swift de struction and dissolution, and that we should need no enemy to ruin us utterly, but our own misdeeds. Accord ingly, ladies and gentlemen, and because people in general are, thank God ! disposed to be humane, and to do right and to do good, this, great capital 'teams with institutions for the relief -of the indigent sick. They are not, it is true, by any means equal in number to the dire need — they are not equal in capacity to the heavy demands made upon them—but they are great institutions never theless, many of them richly endowed, all of them nobly remarkable for the great medical science and skill which is freely placed at their command. Now, as I have to entreat your active interest in behalf of one of these, it may be right that I should try, always without deprecia tion or the shadow of disparagement of any of the others to shew in whatits peculiar claims consist. Happily for me, ladies and gentlemen, the task is an easy one. The distin guishing character of the Royal Free Hos pital is amply expressed in its simple name. It is a free hospital —no recommendation is needed by the suffering creature who seeks admission; no letter from a governor or subscriber, or what not, has with difficulty to be hunted out. " Look at me, look at me ; I am sick, I am poor, I am helpless, I am forlorn." Those are the patients' credentials. This is no case of a Chateau en Espagne—a castle in the air—a hospital of good intentions that may or may not be built some day of fragments rescued from the infernal pavement. There it stands in solid bricks and mortar. It is as real as the poor suffering creature who lies at your feet at the door-step as you pass home in , the dark. The means of assuaging the suffering is at hand, if the public will only supply the requisite funds. There never was so strong or so hopeful a case. I believe there are in this great town hundreds of well-disposed people so struck to the heart by the spectacles which the streets of this great city present, and still more by the dreadful spectacles they hide—that they would gladly do anything to set those thing s right, if they knew how. In its extent and its degree this is how. Set up and main tain 500 -beds, and it is positively certain that five times 5,000 human creatures will have laid their wretched heads upon them, to recover or to die, within five years. Oh ladies and gentlemen, I cannot but think, in speaking of this hospital to-day, how little the poor need to be done for them, when all is said and done. I have spoken of 500 beds. When we talk of beds we think of a well-appointed and long-eitablished dome—we think of a luxurious room, grown to be an old and dear companion--we think, perhaps, of a number of pretty rooms, surrounding it, where we have watched our children sleeping from their cradles upward. The hospital bed is a poor little frame cf iron, some four feet wide, in a great bare ward the patients never saw before—a little space not much larger than a grave, in a long perspective of un rest and pain. But to the body stretched upon that little bed, come the ready hand, the soothing touch, the know ledge that can relieve pain within that suffering body ; and to the softened mind within it come, at the best time the words of the Great Friend of the sick in body and the sick in spirit, who never raised His hand on earth except to heal: Ladies and gentlemen, for His sake remember—for God's sake remember—these are the things that evoke the gratitude of the sick poor ; these are the things that do men lasting good—these are the blessings we can bestow upon them, at so little cost to ourselves, and by which after all, we can bridge across that great gulf between their beds and ours, as we all tend to that common-road on which we must be equal travel lers at last.—Morning Advertiser. THE FRANCO-SPANISH TREATY.— A despatch from Madrid gives the result of an interpellation from Senor . itios Itpsas on the subject of the famous Franco- Spanish Treaty. The Minister replied that the treaty in question had actually been 'signed, according to the ad vice of the State Council, who thought it unnecessary tp have the intervention of the Cortes. THE AMERICAN PREACHERS ON CHARLES DICKENS. In several of the New York churches on Sunday, the 12th, allusions were made to the death of Dickens and eulogies pronounced on his genius and works. Dr. Bellows, at the Church of the MesSiah, in an eloquent discourse, declared that that the end for which the great novelist worked " was invariably exalted, noble and high," and that " his words reached hearts preachers could never touch." In a sermon on joy and love delivered at the 'Church of the Divine Paternity, Dr. Chapin referred to 'Dickens -as one who had been instru mental by his writings in softening our hard human hearts toward the numberless poor, and who had been the means of bringing light and cheerfulness to many a dull and dreary abode, Even Mr. Frothingham was moved . to speak of the lamented " Boz " as an artist drawing " from all ranks of life and all fields of industry pictures which will never cease to touch the heart by their wondrous individuality., truth, and warmtct of life." THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, ON THE DEATH OF MR. DICKENS. At the weekly prayer-meeting of Plymouth Church, on June 10th, after the preliminary exercises, Deacon Bell arose and said, in substance, that the sad news had come to-day over the Atlantic Cable, that Charles Dickens, one of the great men of the present generation, was dead. The deceased, he said, was widely known— known probably as a writer throughout the civilised world, as one of the greatest writers of fiction and useful works, which would live long after this time. Though there was little to hope for as to his Christianity, still it was better to hope than to despair. Mr. Beecher said that in some respects the death of Mr. Dickens was more of a per sonal loss than that of almost any other man of mark in the literary world that could be named would be. Mr. Dickens was a genial gentleman, and by his works as well as by his manners, he had taken a deep hold upon the hearts of the lower and middle classes throughout all countries where the English language is spoken. The speaker continued : " Whether Mr. Dickens was a Christian or not. God knows, Ido not. Would that be fore his death we could have put that question beyond a peradventure." It was difficult to judge of men, because every one was placed in such different circumstances. We could not, he said, compare such a man as Mr. Dickens with Byron, Bulwer, and others that we might name. Mr. Dickens, in his works, had portrayed life as he found it among the lower classes of the City of London, and as he might find it to-day in, perhaps, all the great civilized cities of the world. He had done well and nobly. The only exception that could be taken was that he opposed temperance—total abstinence from all that intoxicates. It may be doubted, said Mr. Beecher, whether his works in the next generation will be regarded in the same light they now are. When last. Mr. Dickens was in this country the speaker had au interview with him in a room adjoining Plymouth Church, after he (Dickens) had delivered one of his read ings there, and the latter said, " Mr. Beecher, never think of having another or different church as long as you live ; this is one of the best constructed churches and the best room to speak in, which I have ever known." In conclusion, Mr. Beecher said he could not but be grateful to God for Charles Dickens. He had performed a great and a good work, which it seemed God had sent him to do. He had fulfilled his akotted part in the great cause of human progress—well, bravely, nobly. Peace be to his memory. WORK FOR THE HOUSE. The prospects of the appropriations grow more favour able, and there is hope that they may be completed at an early day. The River and Harbour Bill was passed yes terday, and the others are in good legislative shape. So much of important legislation which ought to have been finished has been neglected, and so' little time remains in which to repair that neglect, that we had hoped to hear the proposition made to thin out that immense House Calendar by a general sweep of the many personal bills .and unimportant mea sures • but with a singular perverseness the House,throng' h this session as the last, and indeed session after session, has chosen to delay and postpone, until finally the vital measures will have to be disposed of in the most summary manner. It is painful to see days and nights wasted in such idle discussion as the one on the Mission to Rome when we know that Appropriation bills or Funding schemes will in consequence of that wasted time have to be debated and decided upon in the few hours of a closing session when members' minds are fixed on other matters, and only Chairmen of Com mittees talk or think of the public interests. The Appro priation Bills are not the only ones before the House on which, during the current month, action must be had. We trust members will not fail to remember that the debt is to be funded, the franking privilege abolished, Georgia admitted, naturalization regulated anew, and navigation interests revived, besides dozens of other measures which demand immediate attention and action. —Hew York Tribune, June 14. THE BOSTON " IRREGULARITIES." BOSTON, June 11. In the United States District Court, this afternoon, Justices Clifford and Lowell on the bench, and a crowded court-room, Charles Mellen and Charles H. Ward, two of the principals in the State-street irregularities, of which they were convicted over a year ago, ap peared for sentence. The third party, F. Hart well, was represented by his counsel. Mr. Morse, who said that at at the time he received notice of sentence Hartwell was in Philadelphia, or some part of Pennsylvania, as agent of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company. He immediately wrote him, and had just received a reply that it would be impossible for him to be here this afternoon, and he had no hesita tion in saying that Hartwell would be present at any futurej day he might be required. 'District-Attorney Hillard requested his presence Tuesday, when he should moved for sentence. The District-Attorney then moved for sentence on Ward and Mellen, remarking that it was a most painful duty ; but as it was one made by virtue of his office he must discharge it. After stating the nature of the indictment under which they were convicted, he said that the amount that the jury had found to be embezzled was 100,000 dols. Under the statute the prisoners would be required to pay a fine corresponding to this amount, but the Government did not expect that either of them would be able to pay this large amount, and at the expiration of their term, if he still held office, he should deem it his duty to ask the Executive to remit the fine, and if not in office, he thought his successor would cheerfully do so. As to the term of imprisonment he had nothing to urge on the Court. _ _ Mr. Paine ' their counsel, introduced testimony shewing the excellent character hitherto borne by both defen dants, and closed with an appeal to the clemency of the court. _ _ Judge Clifford reviewed at length the nature of the case of which they had been convicted. The court could not think that they had been unjustly convicted, nor could it take into consideration the fact that they had aided the Government in its investi gations. The question of fine was not discre tionary with the court, for the act of Congress had provided that it must be equal to the amount embezzled. The term of sentence, however, was dis cretionary to a certain extent. After dwelling further upon the law, the court ordered that Mellen be sentenced to two years imprisonment in the State jail at Greenfield, and to pay a fine of 100,000 dols., and that Ward be im prisoned in the Suffolk County Jail for the same term, and pay a fine of like amount. Mellen received the sentence with composure, but Ward wept bitterly. Their friends crowded around them to express sympathy until they were removed from the court-room by the Marshal. LAD v ERTISEMENT.f—AvoId Medicines—they always aggravate chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gnlarity, an energy to the most disordered ot enfeebled. We ex tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—"R0me, July 21 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise dais excel lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agopy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Marla Jolly." —Cure No' 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years • diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; Sib 118.; 121 b 225: 24 lbs 4' s.—Also DU BARRY's ERVALENTA. 1 R.IIIICL CHOCOLITI POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cup■ at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2tB cups at 30s, for 676 cups at Us —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555 tins ere sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. — BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., Viscountess Emlyn, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Shooter's-hill-road, Blackheath, the wife of C. W. Bourne, of a son. On the 23d inst., at The Oaklands, near Birmingham, the wife of George Graham, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 23d inst., at Old St. Pancras, Peter Marshall, Esq. of 5, Bow churchyard, to Catharine Shewring, widow of the late Mr. Mark Shewring, and elder daughter of Mr. W. Bing, of Corsham, Wilts. On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's, Battersea, Arthur Howlett, Esq., of Kingston-on-Thames, to Alice Eugenie Jane, only surviving daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel John Wood, DEATHS On the 21st inst., at Ashwell, Harts, Mr. Thomas Chapman, aged 91. On the 23d inst., at Blackheath, Kent, Jacob Wm. Luning, a native of Hanover, aged 1 3 years one month and four days. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sur: . Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.—Monday, June 27, 1870. Kii Obsel han's " This Medal. Sold Agents W ADV Freeha repays c ounte C" nuns. Pa Or Oi Bi Cc Or Fine Flowe: Veit and in Not so mu, 11 ,_` CB BEAU Full ducte4 No one si secure B' G' Stirlib C il Dispb tains, Gra disph the h unsut into i when give t Ad Stall seats No ~ 1 of early MET Mr. on G PIN Thor 557.19 At attra °rob Ad now Rom Batu spar furni be si M rrius Box, e-( She] Le Gyn Geo: Mad Ban ever Dal dm a.m. pa • BM Pc