The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. THE EDUCATION BILL The State, observes the Times, in discussing the Edu cation Bill, finds a work to be done, which it must do in some fashion or other. Tne religious people will not act in concert by merging their differences ; nor is there any body willing or able to do all the work. So there are thousands, and teats of thousands, and, what seems a still more hopeless case, scores, and tens of scores, of children growing up without instruction, or with instruction which is a name and not a thing. Where this is the case, and where evidently a burden is thrown on the State, the only conclusion yet dis covered is that the ratepayers shall be empowered to provide schools. But here comes the specific form of the difficulty upon which good peoole are at once so sen sitive and so useless. Ratepayers are a well known in stitution. They have managed to put themselves rather forward of late years, till there are men who would have no objection to face a line of battle, a battery, a House of Commons, or a town hall, but who would rather not make an observation in a parish vestry. The ratepayer is the terror of the age ; he is the only being who achieves victories without cost, and exhorts surrender without compromise. Everything gives way to him, and the only bounds to his successes are the enjoyment he evidently derives from the sport itself, apart from the value of the prey. If a new tax is to be imposed on the ratepayer, nothing is more certain than that it must be for a purpose entirely and to every jot and tittle in accordance with his wishes. Unless ratepayers are quite agreeable, and unless they first agree among themselves, it will be simply impos sible to make them maintain a school. They have carried this point as to the higher institution, the Church itself and the school follows as a matter of course. THE CASE OF MB. EDMUNDS. Mr. Leonard Edmunds, says the Standard, having com menced an action for libel against Mr. Gladstone and other Treasury officials, has been arrested at the suit of the Crown for the amount of the award given against him and lodged in Whitecross-street Prison. We will say nothing for the moment of the apparent abuse of power by the representatives of the Crown in a case which is practically still undecided. But it is clearly to the public interest that the question whether the Crown has any extraordinary powers under the Debtors' Act of 1869, should be at once set at rest. By that statute it was enacted that "after the Ist of January next (1870) no person shall be arrested or imprisoned for making de fault in payment of a sum of money." Certain exceptions are provided for in the act, but none of them, it is alleged, touch Mr. Edmunds's case. A summons, we understand, has been taken out to try the validity of the arrest ; and it will no doubt lead to an important discussion in full court. For the present, it would certainly appear that the prerogative of the Crown has been cruelly strained against Mr. Edmunds, and that the liberty of the subject is very little considered by Liberal Ministers when it is an object to get rid of a troublesome assailant. A SPEAKER FOR THE LORDS. The Daily News considers it is desirable that the House of Lords should have a Speaker with powers analogous to those possessed by the House of Commons. But it is ex ceedingly undesirable that the Lord Chancellor should be that Speaker. As Lord Hatherley himself remarked, the Speaker of the House of Commons is chosen by the house itself, from among those of its members who possess its confidence as being well acquainted with its forms and customs. The Lord Chancellor, on the other hand, is nominated by the Crown ; he is often entirely new to the House of Lords, and is necessarily for some time ignorant of its forms and customs. The Speaker, moreover, after his election, always exhibits a decorous neutrality in politics. The Lord Chancellor is a Cabinet Minister, and may often be a strong partisan. These are arguments for relieving him of the duty of sitting on the Woolsack, of disembarrassing him of his suffwating wig and his troublesome gown, and allowing him to sit with his colleagues in the Cabinet on the front Ministerial Bench. The Lord Chancellor on the Woolsack, in fact, as little presides over the debates in the Lords as the mace on the Speaker's table presides over the debates in the House of Commons. They are both venerable but grotesque symbols. The Lord Chancellor only recovers political animation when he steps to the left of the Woolsack, to his place as a peer, in order to address the House. The change for which Lord Stratheden asks is undesirable ; but a larger change in the direction which we have indi cated would be of use. It is for the peers, however, to decide. If they chOose to keep a disorderly House, they incur no other penalties than inconvenience and a certain amount of discredit. ADMIRALTY STORES. The Telegraph thinks the plain English of the new contract and purchase system at the Admiralty is, that our great and costly naval department can now go into the open market, buying what seems most profitable, without the trammels of long contract, and certain that, in its offers, it commands the entire range of supply ; without restricting itself to a small section of pro ducers who may combine to extort high terms. And official documents will show that this improve ment of our position as purchasers has not been effected entirely or even chiefly by resort to the open market--since most of the supply under the new system has been procured, not by direct purchase, but by employing some one of the other three methods that we have instanced. However this may be, a commercial country like England can only approve the enter prise and economy of a Government which, securing good judges of work or material as its buyers, goes boldly down into the common market to purchase for the public service as cheaply as it can. As regards the imputation' of favouritism and corruption, we need only remember who are the trained and wearisome grievance-mongers from whom it comes, to pass it by at once as the too familiar cavil which, blindly and indis criminately, assails with equal contumely corruption and reform. BRISTOL LIBERALS. The Standard says that the Liberals of Bristol have selected their candidate for the vacancy which was yester day officially declared. Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, who was second to Mr. Robinson at the now famous test ballot, is the choice of the majority of the party, and although Mr. Odger complains loudly of the decision arrived at to his disadvantage, it is hardly probable that he will protest against it in the i polling-booths. So we may take it, that Mr. Hodgson will enjoy in the forthcoming contest the support of the " great Liberal party" in the capital of the West, and that if he is defeated--as we hope and trust he will be—the personal disappointment he must experience will be but a small matter compared with the sense of discomfiture and dis aster which will come over the Liberal managers in Downing-street. The Conservative candidate has not yet been announced, but that there will be one is a matter beyond all question, and there can hardly be any doubt that if Mr. Sholto Hare will only wage again, and under so much more favourable circumstances, the fight he so gallantly undertook last March at the eleventh hour, his candidature will be cor dially welcomed by the Conservatives of Bristol, and, so welcomed, will prove successful. The Conservative cause has the best prospect of success at Bristol, and its chances will not be damaged by the disunion which its enemies have imagined. Our Liberal contemporaries will have another occasion in the poling at Bristol of proving the rogress of the Liberal cause from the diminution of Liberal strength in the large constituencies. MINORITY CLAUSE. The House of Commons, after a tie, in which the Speaker's vote was so given as to afford opportunities for a second division on the merits, has, says the Daily News, rejected Mr. Hardcastle's bill for the repeal of the mino rity clauses of the Reform Act of 1867. Nearly every eminent parliamentary authorhy is opposed to the prin ciple of these clauses. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Henley condemned them. On the other side were found, running in strange couples, Mr. Morrison and Mr. John Hardy, Mr. Newde?ate and Mr. Fawcett. The minority scheme in its best form, which is certainly not that partially adopted in. the Act of 1867, is little better than an ingenious philo sophical toy, better fitted to amuse the leisure of a Laputan philosopher than to engage the labours of practical states men. Those who favour it talk of Representative Govern ment, but they are thinking only of representation, and leave government entirely out of their minds. They lose sight of the end in the means. In their desire to give an ideal symmetry to the instrument, they entirelyignore the work which has to be done. If the House of Commons were a mirror, with no other function than passively to reflect the feeling of the country, Mr. Hare's scheme would be a wise one. It is not, however, a look ing-glass, but a lever which bas to lift a heavy weight ; and its efitiency is not likely to be increased by diminish ing the force that can be applied to it. The combination of a few members, whose votes say ditto to Mr. Mill, with the Tory antagonists of democracy, has given a few months or years additional existence to the blundering application of a doubtful principle, which cannot perma nently enter into our electoral system. THE IRISH LAND BILL IN THE LORDS. The Post hopes that before the bill has passed through Committee, the Marquis of Salisbury will be able to realise its true character, and to divide its provisions into somewhat less invidious categories than those of "white, grey, and black." Of those provisions which he charac terises as " white" he approves ; and we doubt not that upon further consideration he will find its " grey " and " black" provisions neither so grey nor so black as he is at present disposed to paint them. We are con fident that before the Land Bill is returned to the House of Commons many of the disparaging comments which were made upon it on Tuesday will either be re called or will not be repeated; and looking both to the arguments which were advanced by the Opposition in re spect of this bill, and to the spirit by which they were animated, we have the fullest confidence that in a few weeks, at the outside, it will not 'only be incorporated in the Statute book, but will carry a message of peace to the homes of the Irish people. The New Independent College at Taunton, Somer- Betshire was opened on Tuesday. VALUE OF PROPERTY IN IRELAND.—A. number of properties have just been sold in the Landed Estates Court, Dublin. They brought high prices. Several con siderable lots were sold at twenty-four years' purchase. EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS IN VIENNA.—The 19th German Educational Congress was closed on the TOth inst. It was attended by 5,000 - schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. Many able Addresses on the subject of education were delivered, and liberal resolutions passed. As regards the important question of religious education, the prevalent feeling was that religion, as such, should be taught in national schools, but that there should be no dogmatic teaching—that the principles of religion in general, and not some particular religion, should be taught, WORKING INI EN AND EDUCATION. The education meetings come thick and fast. On Tues day the land resounded with talk on this great topic. At Manchester the Nonconformist ministers met to protest against the inadequate character of the Government amend ments, and the Nonconformist Sunday-school teachers of Lancaster, Chester, and Derby, held a conference which resulted in favour of the unsectarian education being given in rate-supported schools. At Liverpool the United Presbyterian Presbytery also declared against " sectarian formularies "in rate-supported schools. At Stafford the Government Bill and its amendments were condemned. At Nottingham, the branch of the League met, and it is needless to say what conclusions it came to. At Romsey the Nonconformists met, and repeated the performances of their brethren at Manchester and Liverpool. Then there was the meeting of three Nonconformist denomina tions in London, with their declarations against leaving the decision of religious teaching to the school boards, and against permitting any denominational teaching in the rate schools. But most noticeable of all was the working men's gathering at Exeter Hall. Several members of Parlia ment, and most of the well-known speakers amongst the working classes, took part. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon presided. He expressed his preference for every child being compelled to go to school, for he did not believe a national system would be of much use unless it were compulsory ; and he was happy to find that the working men them selves were in favour of that compulsion. A national bill was required for the rural districts as well as the large towns. Nothing but the Day of Judgment would reveal the extent of the oppression of the peasantry of England. If they had had one tithe of the spirit of the working men in large towns, they would never have submitted —as they had submitted for years—to a condition little better, after all, than that of the Russian serfs. The fact that they could be bought, as it were, to any religion, was a proof of this. He would like them to read the newspapers, and to learn that wages were higher in the neighbouring towns or in more distant places, so that they need not bow and cringe before the squire and priest in order to earn the pitiful dole with which they try hard to keep body and soul together. National edu cation, then, was wanted, and it must be made compul sory. Granting this, he thought there could not have been a much worse national bill than that before the House of Commons. If it passed, a society would be needed for emancipating education from State patronage and control. He prayed they might not have to fight over again the battles they had fought and won for con science sake. If he could persuade the Government to pass a bill for teaching the doctrines which he preached, or even for teaching infallible truth, he would earnestly pray that he might not be led into the snare. What right had he to compel his fellow-countrymen to pay for the sup port of his religion? He wished no man to do that, nor would he wish to be forced to do it himself. He believed the Government intended to do their best, but he could not agree with them in trusting the Bumbledom of a dis trict to legislate on this question. The House of Com mons had said it was a difficult one, and had therefore left it to the vestries. What were members sent to the House of Commons for ? To decide difficult questions. The House must face the difficulty, and not leave the people to fight for days and nights with vestries. The question could not be left to Bumbledom ; that would not do. Nor could it be left to sects. There was another point of great difficulty. There were many persons, and he was one of them, who believed it to be the proper thing that those children whose parents wished to have the Bible read should be permitted to read the Bible in schools. He would have a conscience clause, not by which persons might apply to be exempted, but might apply to be permitted to read the Bible. It would not be a penalty, but a privilege, and he did not see how any man's conscience could raise an objection.— Then the working men had their turn. Mr. Cremer (carpenter) moved a resolution, regretting that the Government bill did not exclude denominational teaching from the rate schools, and make attendance absolutely compulsory, but expressing no opposition to the reading of the Bible, with a conscience clause. He said that Mr. Gladstone owed place and power and position and influence to the people, and of this he might be assured, that they would never allow him to hand over the education of their children to the clergy of the Esta blished Church, or any other denomination.—The other speakers were mostly moderate. Mr. Guile, ironfounder, in seconding the resolution, bore testimony to the many obligations working men were under to the voluntary system, and hoped this bill would not dry up that source of educational means.—Mr. Mottershead, silk weaver, declared that working men, if they could, would not exclude the Bible from their schools. They not only loved it too much for that, but believed it was the grandest school-book that could possibly be put into the hands of a child.—An amendment absolutely excluding the Bible, was proposed. but it met with little favour.—Mr. Savage, die-sinker, contended that the Bible was the basis of all our freedom, and working men would never give it up.—The show of hands was then taken, but scarcely half a dozen were held up for the amendment, and the original resolution was carried amidst loud cheers.—Other speakers were heard, and resolutions put, the proceedings passing off most harmoniously. COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) FENTANS' TELEGRAM TO THEIR FRIENDS—Veni Mus, vidimus, victi sumus. NEW BOOK FOR THE SEASON.—Shortly will be pub lished, as a companion to "Juventus Mundi," "Juventus Wednesday, or How We Went to the Derby in 1870. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Correct Cards for Goodwood, with Portraits. The Gladstone Hamper, the Gladstone Dustcoat (reversible), in preparation for the Brighton and Goodwood. Early application necessary. VARIATION ON MACBETH.—The Home Secretary talks of bringing a measure, to check the adulteration practised by fraudulent tradesmen, forward next session. Ah ! Next session, and next session, and next session, Creeps in this petty pace from month to month, To the last syllable of late August's time ; And all our Ministries have promised bills, And wasted gusty breath. SONGBIRDS OF BEAUTY.—A young lady has, by the ex cellence of her singing, acquired the title of " The Nor wegian Nightingale." This may be considered an honour to the nightingale, but why should that warbler (S. Phi lomela luscinia) engross all such honour ? Norway is too far north for nightingales, and a celebrated vocalist of that country had better be styled the Norwegian Redwing, whilst we might term a popular songstress of our own the British Blackbird, or the English Bullfinch. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, J UNE 16 1 1870 L LORD BUTE'S REVERSION. COMPULSORY PILOTAGE. Monsignor Capel writes to .the Times, under date 14th June :—The contemplated return of the Marquis of Bute to the Anglican communion, which you have reported from the John Bull, appeared in the columns of a French journal so long ago as th e middle of April. It was shown to Lord Bute.. He deemed it unworthy of formal contradiction, and trusted that its best refutation would be that he 'had but a few days previously spoken publicly in favour of the Pontifical Zona - yes, that he was about to send a large donation to the Pope, and that it was well known he was a regular communicant in the Church to which he hadsubmitted after long and deep consideration. Your contemporary is pleased to ignore these facts, and spread a report which has not the smallest foundation. This is the more ungenerous, as it must know that Lord Bute is travelling in Spain, and cannot, therefore, promptly defend himself. Had the John Bull remembered the young Marquis was never a member of the Established Church, it might have perceived its " reliable authority" was leading it astray in announcing the return of Lord Bute to the Anglican communion. The select committee of the House of Commons ap pointed to inquire into the merits of the Government bill to abolish compulsory pilotage, was engaged on Wednes day in the examination of witnesses from Fahnouth and Grimsby in favour of the bill. Mr. Shaw Lefevre occupied the chair, and the cross examination of the witnesses. was as usual led by Mr. Greaves-.'ori the part of Liverpool, which town was opposed to the bill. Mr. Henry Fox, a gentleman who is connected with an emiueut .mercantile and shipping firm of the . port of Fahnouth, mid who is a -prominent member of . the Chamber of Commerce in that town, stated in reply to questions from Mr. Lefevre, that in the course of the year probably three thousand foreign vessels touched at the port of Falmouth and entered the harbour, where they either lay for orders or for shelter, Falmouth being one of the safest harbours in the world. The consequence was thatin the fine weather the pilots under the compulsory. system made so much money that they absolutely refused- to go out to sea (luring the winter months, and he had known of cases in which vessels had been known in dark and stormy weather to enter the harbour with the flag flying for a pilot, while all the time the pilot boats were lying idly at anchor in the harbour, the men positively refusing to go to her assistance. He also read a letter from Lloyd's agent in that town, shewing the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the shipping by the delay in getting pilots, and expressing a conviction that the work would be far better done if the compulsory system were abolished, and the men thrown on the voluntary system.. He added that the Chamber of Commerce of Falmouth fully supported that view of the case. Evidence wad then given from the port of Grimsby to the effect that the shipping and mercantile interests of that port were seriously damaged by the compulsory system, and one witness, M. Henri Wos6, shipowner, said that he repaid £l,OOO for pilotage, and he estimated that at least one-half of it would be saved if the compulsory system were abolished. He complained that it was a great injury, not only to the coasting, but the foreign shipping, and that if it were abolished, although there might be fewer pilots, the men themselves would be benefited and the shipping in terest better cared for, and this evidence was confirmed by Mr. Oates, a merchant of Grimsby, after which some evidence in favour of the bill was given by Captain John son, of the coastguard service, who had a great general experience and a particular knowledge of the Bristol Channel. He was against any exemptions.. The committee then adjourned. (From Ju6ly.) THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW.—From a recent number of the Law Journal we learn that of a batch of nine appeals from the decisions of the Vice- Chancellors, five were reversed, and four only confirmed. What more uncertain than the law ?—unless, indeed, it be Chance-ry. A LESSON FROM RUSSIA.—We are informed that a strange regulation for the punishment of intoxication exists in Russia. Persons found drunk and incapable in the public thoroughfares are taken into custody and con demned to work for a day at sweeping the streets. Judy doesn't know whether the author of "Free Russia" is responsible for this statement, but, judging from the state of • the metropolitan thoroughfares, the practice would bear introductioh into free Fngland. Better have the streets swept by drunkards than not swept at all. IT MAY BE so.—A contemporary calls attention to the habitual neglect by the dustmen of the exhibition of the big letter " D," which it is now the custom to put in the window when their services are required ; assigning the curious reason that most of the men " don't know one letter from another," and that their employers are afraid to teach them to read for fear they should get better places. This is rather amusing. Is it possible that the ingenious artist who originated the scheme hit upon this special letter D because it was about 500 to 1 that, when it was shewn, no one would pay any attention to it? (From Fun.) RIGHT ABOUT. —Polite Bandsman : " And what shall Monsieur vish us to play ?" Irate Briton : " A quick march—and step it !" WOMAN'S RIGHTS.—This is from an American paper : " Women prisoners in lowa have all the rights of men. They are set to breaking stone." We should like to give the silly creatures who go about talking women's rights nonsense a taste of this kind of rights. A FLIGHT.—We commend the following paragraph to the notice of naturalist historians :—" Numbers of Fenian leaders are said to be proceeding to London and other parts of England." Geese are not usually observed seeking our coasts about this season. Possibly the new-comers are kite's in goose's feathers. LIGHT OR DARK?—An American paper says :—" An astronomer predicts the coming of a comet, this year, of such brilliancy that night - will be turned into day, and gas companies will be ruined." •We don't know what sort of stuff American gas companies supply ; we only know that the comet's displaying " brilliancy " is the last thing likely to interfere with the monopoly of our gas companies. Their monopoly is darkness. "I WOULD I WERE A BlRD."—Here's something to make the weary brain-workers envious :—"Voit has recently proved the production of the cerebral tissue in the pigeon, and the coincidence of this reproduction with almost complete renewal of the cephalic functions." Henceforth instead of wishing for the wings of the dove, one will feel inclined to sigh for the brains of a pigeon. Literary aspirants will long to be tumblers, and disap pointed students to be pouters. Mr. W. C. Leng, the editor of the Shdield Tele graph, will be prosecuted at the next Leeds Assizes for the alleged libel on the Earl and Countess of Sefton. The rumour of the charge being abandoned is, therefore, incorrect. Amongst the Parliamentary papers just issued are the following :—A bill to declare the stamp duty chargeable on certain leases ; s bill to facilitate transfers of ecclesiastical patronage ; and a bill to amend the Acts relating to the export of unseasonable salmon. SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF ELEVEN LIVES.—A telegram was received by Messrs. George Thompson and Co., Aberdeen, on Monday, regarding the loss of the ship Walter Hood, 100 miles south of Sydney. It stated that the ship and cargo were totally wrecked on the 26th April, and that eleven persons were drowned—namely, Captain Latto, Mr. Haynes, a passenger, Sinclair, Ashton, Julian Branson, Coombes, Moyes, Simon, Daniel, and Harvey. Two passengers named Smith, three officers, and eighteen seamen were saved. Captain Latto and one or two of the crew were Aberdonians ; all the other men belong to London, No particulars have been received as to the manner of the wreck. The Walter Hood was the oldest ship of the Australian White Star Line. —Glasgow Citizen, THE FENIAN ORGANISATION. The organisation of the Fenian Brotherhood, which has been hitherto kept as secret as the Rosicrucian mysteries, is well detailed in the Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday. The writer has, we have reason to know, peculiar sources of information, and although some of his statements may be open to question, there is reason to believe that on the whole the article is trustworthy. The writer says :-- " The present instructions to circles and districts from the centres are said to be to ' arm and wait.' No doubt their arms are not highly finished as to stock and polish, but they are effective weapons for all that. Their weak point is neither arms nor numbers, but the loyalty of the brethren. They are divided in their councils, and a con siderable minority is eager to sell the rest. In America the division seems, for the present, hopeless. Leaving out subsidiary factions, which are too numerous to men tion, the two great bodies which divide the brotherhood in America are the Senate faction and the O'Neill faction. The facility with which the Fenians sell each other is surprising. They are merely dancing in a net in the full sight of the Government and the police authorities. To Stephens is due the main credit of the Fenian organisa tion. But it is a mistake to suppose, as the Femans,do suppose, that Stephens was ever in the pay of the Govern ment. He is in Paris now, and in poverty ; whereas Corydon, whom the Government did buy, has his pension for life. Stephens, having lived much in France, formed his plan on the system of the Marianne' secret societies, There are districts' communicating with circles," circles' communicating with centres and centres communicating with the head centre, who confers with the Senate. Few but the head centre and the Senate know what is going to be done. In fact, the rise in the brotherhood is very slow from a district mem ber to a circle member, and from a circle member to a centre. Yet with all their caution, the Fenians are con stantly admitting spies, who only come in to let the Government know what they are doing. It would, per haps, wean many from their guilt and folly, if they could only know that men high in the Fenian Councils both here, in Ireland, and America, are in the pay of the Government authorities. Some of the most important of these are only known to the authorities by their initials. It was one of these, whose warnings are now always attended to, who gave notice of what was to be done at Clerkenwell, and a simi lar warning has lately been given in regard to other designs which are or have been in contemplation. When one of the chief informers, who had given evidence at several trials, was brought to London, the Senate detailed a man, whom we will call C., to shoot him. In mistake, however, C. shot a bandsman in the Guards who had a striking resemblance to the informer. C. got away and is now safe in America. The Senate next entrusted the informer's destruction to a man named F. F. used to follow his desiginated victim home, but never mustered courage to fire. F. was fainthearted ;he was watched, and as it was found he had had a good chance of shootin g his man near the Milbank Prison and had not availed him self of it, the task was taken from him, and given to Barrett, the man who was hanged for what the Fenians call the Clerkenwell example.' Barrett waited for three weeks about Scotland-yard, but the informer was fully warned, and kept away while Barrett was there. It may be asked why did not the police arrest Barrett at once ; and the answer is very simple. To have arrested Barrett would have been to disclose the whole source of their in formation, and it was a, matter of very small importance whether Corydon shot Barrett or Barrett shot Corydon compared with keeping the whole threads of the plot in their hands unrevealed. The arms seized at Paddington were never intended for Ireland, they were meant for use in tho London districts. How they were to be used we cannot say, but we can say how they were got together. In the districts the men composing the members subscribe twopence to sixpence a week. These subscriptions are forwarded to the circles, and by them again to the centres, who decide upon the weapons to be bought and the foremost members to whom they are to be given. A. shocking case of impalement has happened at a Fever Hospital near Liverpool. Whilst a man named Finney was attempting to escape he fell on the spikes, and met with instantaneous death. About a quarter of an inch of rain was measured during last week in Manchester and Liverpool, and rather more than the tenth of an inch in Sheffield, Hull, and Newcastle. Scarcely any rain fell in the other towns. The agitation fur an advance of wages is kept up by the operatives in the cotton trade. The Bolton Spin ners' Association have just forwarded a circular to the employers in that district asking for an advance of five per cent. on the present prices. Le Gaulois states that it is Prince William Alexander of Orange W l lO is the candidate for the crown of Spain, spoken of by General Prim. The three months' interval is to be devoted, says the same paper, to consider ing the proposal of an Iberian union. The annual meeting of the friends and subscribers of the Royal Alfred Aged. Merchant Seamen's Institu tion has been held at the City Terminus Hotel, Canon street, under the presidency of Lord Clarence R Paget. Among others present were, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Thomas Brassey, M.P., and Mr. Frederick 'Puckett. The Eastern Budget says the electoral meetings of the German party in Austria have resulted in an agree ment to pursue a conciliatory policy towards the other nationalities, and to agitate in favour of a system of direct elections to the Reichsrath. This programme is in actor dance with that of the Government. AN EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.---A remarkable trial is about to take place in Hungary, which, it it believed, will be one of the most extensive on record in modern times. No less than three hundred prisoners are to be tried, all of them brigands, and it is thought that most probably two-thirds of them will be put to death. The Marchioness of Queensberry has sent another cheque for £2O to the editor of the Irishman, for the re lief of the wife of a Fenian prisoner, and in a letter accompanying the bequest expresses a wish to see the union of all Irishmen for the attainment of self-govern ment by peaceful means. Lady Margaret Brooke, wife of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, Knight, M.D. F.8,.5., the eminent telegraphist, and late Superintendent -General of Telegraphs in India, died on Sunday. Her ladyship, who was the daughter of Francis O'Shaughnessy, Esq., of Curragh, county Clare, was born in 1807. In lieu of the prohibited Christchurch Ball, arrange ments have been made for an Eton and Harrow Ball, to take place at Oxford in the Commemoration week, namely, on Tuesday, June 21. The Public Schools Ball will be in addition to those of the University, masonic, and college balls. The Attorney-General for Ireland has decided the question as to whether there should be a new theatre in Dublin. He considered a patent ought to be granted under certain conditions, respecting prices of admission, accommodation, ventilation, &c., and said he would so re port to the Lord Lieutenant. The Eastern Budget understands that the new Austro-Hungarian Minister of Finance, M. de Lonyay, has determined, with the concurrence of the Minister for War, to make considerable reductions in the forthcoming Austro-Hungarian military . budget. The total expenses caused by the Dalmatian insurrection amount to about 3,000,000 florins (2300,000). .Rebecca Lady Egeston died on the 11th inst., at the great age of 90 years. The venerable lady was the daughter of Mr. Josias Du Pre, of Wilton Park, Bucks, by Rebecca, sister of the first Earl of Caledon. She married 14th September, 1804, the Rev. Sir Philip Eger ton, of Oulton, and by him had issue a numerous family, including the present baronet, Sir Philip De MalpaP Grey Egerton, M.P. The following circuits of the judges have been fixed :—Western (Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes.)—Winchester, Wednesday, July 13; Salisbury, Tuesday, July 19; Dorchester, Friday, July 22; Exeter, Tuesday, July 26 ; Bodmin, Monday, August 1; Wells, Friday, August 5;• Bristol, Wednesday, August 10. Home (Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Mr. Justice Black burn)—Guildford, Monday, August 8. Slight rain is reported to have fallen at some sta tions, and in the western district the sky continues cloudy. Temperature materially altered during yesterday. In Lon don, at six o'clock in the morning, the thermometer registered 65 degs., but at noon it had risen to 86 degs. in the shade. Readings at other stations are also reported to have become higher. The wind is still very light and variable, principally from the south-westward. The sea is calm. At an adjourned inquest held by Mr. Humphreys on the body of Isabella, Hugon, aged 25 years, a married woman, who was an actress at the Alhambra Theatre, in Shoreditch, and who died recently after having prema turely given birth to a child, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown. Mr. William Harding, a retired medical practitioner, has been arrested by the police, and remanded on the charge of having caused the death of the deceased. - - The shooting for the National Rifle Association Bronze Medal for Middlesex has commenced at Worm wood Scrubbs, by the selected representative marksmen of the Rifle Voltutteer Corps of the county. In addition to the bronze medal there are twenty-eight prizes in money, in sums ranging from £1 to £lO, th 6 highest aggregate score at the 200, 500, and GOO yards, taking the bronze medal and £10; the second £7 • the third £6 ; the fourth and fifth, each £5 ; the sixth £4 ; the seventh and eighth, each £3. LAW AND POLICE. ESSEX WAGGONERS.—Two Essex carmen were brought up at the Thames Police-court on a charge of being asleep in their waggons in the Bow-road. It seems that the men come up to London three or four times a week, with hay, straw, and vegetables, and work from two to seven days' without getting any more sleep than they can obtain in the carts or in the stables. They had been attending the Whitechapel hay-market and said the horses were sure to find their way home. However, the magistrate told them they must not go to sleep while in charge, and fined them eight shillings each. A CASE FOR THE HtII4IANE SOCIETY. —A woman named Esther Heale, fifty years of age, was fined 40s. for throw ing herself into the Regent's Canal. She was saved with great difficulty by a man named William Darrell, who stated that he had saved twenty lives within the last twelve months. THE SHAM INSURANCE COMPANY.—The charge against William Henry White of having, in his capacity as a director of the Manchester Insurance and Banking Com pany (Limited), unlawfully published a false prospectus, has been again under investigation at the Mansion House. A number of witnesses who had been induced to insure in the company were examined, and ultimately the defen dant was remanded. SHEFFIELD TRADES' UNIONS.—Four Unionist colliers have been charged at Sheffield with molesting and intimi dating five non-Unionists. The non-Unionists were em ployed at Thorncliffe, and were passing through Chapel town, when they were assailed by a mob of Unionists, stoned, beaten, and otherwise ill-treated. Some of them were unfit for work for some days. Two of the prisoners were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and two to two months', the bench expressing their opinion that the Thorncliffe reign of terror should be put an end to. CHARGE OF MURDER.—Thomas Warburton, labourer, of Poynton, has been charged at Macclesfield with the wilful murder of Daniel Eccles, collier at Poynton, on the 18th ult. About five o'clock in the morning of that day the prisoner took possession of an empty house in German's-square, Poynton, and whilst standing behind a window with a gun in his hand, deliberately fired through the window just as the deceased was passing on his way to work. The marble with which the gun was charged entered the poor fellow's back, and he lingered until the sth of June, when his injuries terminated fatally. The prisoner has been committed for trial. THE COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER.—The case in con nection with the non-payment of poor-rates by the so called Countess of Derwentwater, has been heard at the Gateshead County Police Court. The defendant was not present to answer to the summons requiring her to present herself hefore their worships. The clerk stated that the case arose out of the non-payment of certain rates amounting to £4 13s. 9d. on a house in Blaydon, due from Lady Amelia Matilda Mary Tudor Radcliffe.— Mr. Ramsay : She is no lady.—The clerk stated that she was so called in the rate-book, and they were bound to use the names in the rate-book. —Mr. Ramsay said all the magistrates could do was to give an order to seize her "ladyship's" goods and chattels.—The clerk suggested that Mr. Bennet could take a distress warrant, and If she did not pay him, he could try to have her committed in default.—An order was accordingly made.—Northern Express. CLAIM UNDER AN ALLEGED INVALID MARRIAGE.—The part heard cause of " Hill v. Hibbet " was continued before Vice-Chancellor James. A gentleman of large means was married, and there was issue by the marriage. He deserted his first wife, and subsequently con tracted a bigamous marriage with a woman who, as well a,s himself, soon afterwards died. He died intestate, and the sister of the second wife now claimed to be the heir-at-law, and entitled, con sequently, to the ilroperty, the value of which amounted to something like a quarter of a million sterling. An enormous mass of evidence was produced ' • but the Vice- Chancellor, in an elaborate judgment, held the first mar riage to be valid, and the second bigamous, and discharged the bill, with costs, which, it is supposed, will amount to several thousand pounds. THE ALLEGED LIBEL ON A POOR LAW GUARDIAN.—III the Court of Common Pleas Mr. Serjeant Robinson moved for a rule for a new trial in the case of Edmunds v. Eyre, tried on Friday last before Mr. Justice Byles. The grounds on which the application was made were, that the verdict.was against the evidence, and that there was surprise. Dr. Edmunds was a guardian of St. Pancras, and at the late election a pla card was published, charging that he had conspired with the surgeon of the hospital to discharge uncured paupers, in order that there might be empty beds in the workhouse infirmary, and thus defeat a motion to erect a new building. The jury found a verdict on Friday for the defendant. The ground of surprise was abandoned, and the court intimated that they would consult with Mr. Justice Byles before deciding whether they would grant a rule or not. MR. D'ARCY IRVINE.—A commission de lunatico in g uirendo to inquire into the state of mind of Henry Mervyn D'Arcy Irvine has been held in Dublin. Mr. Lefroy, Q.C., appeared for the petitioners, Messrs. Francis and John D'Arcy, brothers of the alleged lunatic, who assumes the name of Irvine by royal licence. Medical evidence was called to shew that Mr. Irvine was suffering from great mental excite ment, and that it was necessary to keep several attend ants constant with him. Major D'Arcy, brother of the alleged lunatic, deposed that he had one son, Henry Huntely Mervyn D'Arcy Irvine, who was his only child. He.would be seven years of age in August. Witness had been receiving his brother's rents as a receiver for the last two years. is rental was £5,844 odd. He had besides his castle gardens, saw-mills, &c., which were worth £1,500 a year. He had also jewellery, plate, and furni ture which were worth £50,000. The jury found that Mr. Irvine was of unsound mind, and incapable of managing his own affairs. DEFRAUDING A CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—An accountant named Banks, his assistant, and a solicitor named Law rence, have been charged at the Guildhall with conspiring to defraud the Society for the Relief of-Pereons -Impri soned for Small Debts. The prisoners, it seems have been carrying on a system of taking people through the Bankruptcy Court in forma, pauperis, for the purpose of bringing them on the funds of the society, and then taking a considerable share for themselves by way of commission. Another charge was that they created fictitious debts and got the debtors arrested on them in order to bring them within the jurisdi6tion of the Bankruptcy Court, and that in order to carry out that purpose they suborned the bankrupts to commit perjury. A man named Hill, who had been through the Bankruptcy Court with the assist ance of Banks, gave evidence that Banks told him of the society and drew up a petition for him. He arranged to give Banks £5 if he received £5O, and £lO if he received £6O. He also promised to give him an extra guinea. Mr. Hill received fifty pounds and gave Banks five pounds, but Banks wanted the guinea, which he refused. The next day he received a letter from Banks saying that unless the guinea were at once paid he should see Hill's creditors and explain the particulars of his arrest and bankruptcy, and get the bankruptcy annulled, as he was not to be " humbugged " with impunity. After some more evidence had been taken, the prisoners were re manded. MR. DICKENS AS A PEDESTRIAN.—At one time of his life Mr. Dickens was a great pedestrian. That he was a great walker is borne witness to by much that he wrote. In the wanderings of Little Nelly and her grandfather, Mr. Dickens's own experiences crop up. The Punch and Judy men , and the scene in the inn, are manifestly photographs of people the author had met and of places where he had been. The same may be said of the account of David Copperfield's journey on foot from London to Kent ; and the inimitable paper on " Tramps," which we are never tired of reading, could have been written by no man who had not had opportunities of closely studying the begging fraternity, their habits, and modes of expression. Indeed, scattered through his works are scenes and allusions that bespeak the practice of pedestrianism, if not of humbler modes of travelling . It is hard to be lieve that the description of the journey in that night wagon in " The Old Curiosity Shop," and the morning picture, the passengers cheerless, cold, ugly, and discon tented, with three months' growth of hair in one night, was not a realistic sketch that grew out of Mr. Dickens's own personal experience.—Bath and Cheltenham Gazette. M. LABOULAYE. .There is no better instance of the ingratitude of red Republicans than' in the treatment which M. Laboulaye is now receiving. This gentleman deserves everything at the hands of the Liberal party in France. He has been one of their most consistent, wisest and coolest friends. He is too wise and cool to help build barricades or to incite to murder and rapine an excited mob, speaking from the top of a hearse. But his services have been of the most valuable character. They have been such as to attract into the ranks of the intelligent Opposition the cultivated and wealthy men whose character and standing add strength to any party. We in America have special reason to be gTateful for his unvarying friendliness to our country and to the cause of the Union. In short, he has used all his great talents as a brilliant journalist, a great lawyer, and a succesful novelist, to add strength to the party which demanded larger liberty—from the Empire, if it could be so obtained, and if not so, through a change in the Government. But Laboulaye was guilty of the unpardonable sin of advising that Frenchmen should secure a good placed within their reach by voting for the plebiscite. The indignation of the irreconcilables knew no bounds. They began to charge the man whom they had trusted all his life with the most unworthy motives in his new line of conduct. They went so far as to demand the return of a silver inkstand which had been given him as a testimonial of respect and esteem when he was, in 1866, defeated in an election to the Corps Legis latif from Strasbourg, and on his refusal to restore it, have brought a suit to recover it. The new hostility to him has penetrated even to the students in the University of France, to which he is a lecturer, and lately he was hissed by his pupils in the law school, forced to leave the hall, and made his escape with great difficulty. There will be plenty of people to applaud this lawless and ungrateful conduct toward a life-long friend, who has done more to help the cause of liberty than forty Roche forts, Flourenses, or Gambettas, but to those who can look at the transaction from a disinterested point of view, and can look at it, as no hot-headed Frenchman can, in its bearings upon the future of the Liberal party, it seems disgraceful in every aspect. —Boston Advertiser. THE TWO FENIAN RAIDS. Although there is at first glance much similarity between the two miserable Fenian affairs of 1866 and 1870, there is a contrast worth noticing in the essential elements of their histories. The same point was chosen for the rendezvous and for the crossing into Canada • the same inflation was attempted by absurdly exaggerated reports, and the same humiliating conclusion came to the enterprises combining wickedness and folly in a measure matched by no other incidents of our day. But in 1866 the abrupt termination of the raid, which might otherwise have assumed more serious and tragic proportions, was due almost wholly to the interference of the United States Government. The Fenians starred with high hopes. The sup posed magnitude of their order had induced many fawnin g politicians to shew them marks of respect, and to give them half-promises of a forbearance which would amount to co-operation. The audacity of their enter prise had fascinated a few men of character and military ability, unsatiated with glory by their experience in our own war, who had joined their cause and lent it a tinge of respectability. The suddenness and mystery of their coming had spread alarm through the threatened section of Canada. While the regular troops marched toward the line the inhabitants fled from their homes and sought safety in Montreal or on the American side of the frontier. A wide region was deserted and left open to the ravages of the Fenians. They swaggered about Canadian soil for -days, stealing horses, plundering farms, con fiscating silver ware and bedclothes, fright ening women and taking unarmed prisoners. When they did encounter a picket of British troops, the retreat of the enemy generally enabled them to call them selves victorious. The main body of regulars and volun teers waited respectfully in strong positions for their further advance. A skirmish of serious proportions was only prevented by the general seizure of arms and ammu nition by the United States authorities ; the invaders were left with absolutely nothing to fight with ; and when they came back wretched across the line, they were at least able to say that they had been defeated by the President and not by John Bull. But this year no such shadow of a boast is left them. No lack of arms or ammunition has been reported. Full and careful preparation of this kind has been made in advance. The Canadian farmers, having learned better the calibre of their assailants, have thought it worth while not to abandon their homes without an attempt at defence, and a single volley from their muskets Ihas sufficed to burst the bubble. The point of crossing selected, above Frank lin, is most ineligible for an advance likely to meet with resistance, and not supported by artillery. The raid was checked on the border itself, as it might have been checked before ; and though the civil officers of the United States were ready to follow up the overt act with an arrest of the leaders, the Fenians cannot attribute to their action their own complete and speedy failure. We might call the whole affair a farce but for the blood which stained the few feet of British soil upon which the in vadels ventured to tread ; but the sacrifice of life which has been made turns tne prevailing feeling from ridicule at the supreme absurdity of the plan and its execution into indignation at the villany which has led deluded men to death for its own profit. The Irishmen most interested will distribute the blame for themselves. Nothing is more evident than that somebody has pushed thiii senseless scheme forward for gain. For our part we should first suspect a commander who would cross a boundary line with blatherskite about returning victorious or dead, and then would step back opportunely after the first shot to be " captured ' by a civil officer with no weapon but a writ. But certainly it seems as if -the whole affair had been so clear to all men's eyes that not an Irishman can be left in Amerisa who will again sign a Fenian roll, nor an Irish woman who, even four years hence, will contribute a penny to a Fenian funds. The curtain which falls this week should never rise upon such another lamentable display of folly, with deceit and delusion in the first act, and disgust and death in the finale.—Boston Advertiser. THE NORTHERN FRONTIER. GENERAL DONNELLY COMMITTED IN DEFAULT OF BAIL. S; ALBANS, VERMONT, June 1. General Donnelly was to-day brought before United States Commissioner B. B. Smalley, of Burlington. He waived an examination, and in default of $lO,OOO bail was ordered to be committed in this place. Owing to his wound it was not deemed prudent to confine him in gaol, and he now remains at the Weldon House in charge of Deputy Marshal J. M. Smalley. The following is the reply which Deputy Marshal Smalley received when he asked permission, in behalf of Rowe's friends, to remove his body : " Camp Eccles' Hill, May 31, 1870. " Sir,—l have great pleasure in acceding to your re quest to permit the friends of the Fenian Rowe to remove his body, now buried in our lines.—Yours obediently, "W. OSBORNE SMITH. " Lieutenant-Colonel, D. A. G. Mil., Canada, command ing field force on Southern frontier. " J.M. Smalley, Deputy Marshal, Vermont." United States Marshal Foster and his deputies found in Franklin over six tons of ammunitions left by the Fenians, 136 boxes of which had not been opened, and six waggon loads were brought here to-day and placed under a guard of the United States troops. The destina tion of the company of United States troops that left here this morning was Fort Preble, Portland Harbour. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 1. General Starr was arrested at his hotel here this after noon by a Deputy United States Marshal, and taken before United States Commissioner Gorham, and in de fault of $lO,OOO bail was committed to gaol. Bail will be tendered in the morning. The Irishmen of this city are very indignant at the hurried manner in which the arrest was made, and bitterly denounce the Deputy Marshal as being governed by the mercenary 'motive of obtaining heavy fees in running the prisoner to Canandaigua. Three hundred Fenians from Malone passed through here this evening en route for New York. Their trans portation was ordered by Governor Hoffman, of New- York, who also ordered meat and bread for them at this point. COLLISION BETWEEN UNITED STATES TROOPS AND FENIANS. UT4CA, N. Y., June 1. • A special dispatch to the Morning Rena, dated at Rome, half-past seven o'clock this evening, says—" There has just been a collision at Williamstown, north of Rome, between the. Fenian and tha United. States trnopo. The troops fired on the Fenians and drove them into the cars, wounding several of them." MORE SECRET HISTORY. The New York Times special correspondent at Ogdens burg, in a letter giving some important additional secret his tory of the recent Fenian raid, says :—" I wrote you in March in relation to this affair. At that time O'Neill was here getting his arms and equipments to the front, but no one outside of the Fenian organisation took stock in the rumours then in circulation. He told the Brother hood here that he wanted no men to fight from this country, but at the proper time he wanted them to furnish transportation, which they agreed to do, and they per formed their agreement well. This thing, though now ended for all time in a great failure, was well planned, but most miserably executed. The intention was not to fight at either Richard's Farm or Trout River. Both were intended as feints. The plan was to get across the line at both places and entrench. They intended to have the line close behind, and hoped to be able to draw the whole available Canadian forces—volunteers and regulars —to their front. For this purpose every railroad in Canada was left intact. Had everything worked well up to this point, another force, by steamer and rail and every mode of conveyance, would have come to Ogdensburg, crossed the St. Lawrence, seized the Ottawa Railroad, and started for that city. With the crossing of the St. Lawrence the. rail roads would have been torn up all over the Dominion. Ten men, on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night, could have crossed the river, both above and below Pres cott, and cut the Grand Trunk, so that a single soldier could have passed up or down w ith ou t th e l eas t d anger of arrest or bodily injury. Up to Tuesday night last no one here but the Fenians suspected a raid that day ; they received their orders, and before midnight two hundred teams were moving down the river. They had in this section and in Vermont arms enough for 30,000 men. There is now secreted somewhere in this direction a splendid battery of six guns. About 5,000 stand of arms have been seized near Fort Covington. The result' again shews that " The best made plans of mice and men gang aft aglee." It requires some stamina to be an Irishman on this frontier now. It has been a worse crime for them to fail than it was to embark on their unlawful mission. Had the plan been successfully executed this whole people would have been completely demoralised and oblivious to the obligations of good citizens, and shouted " Go it, Fenians 1" As long as there was any prospect of a good snug fight we kept drifting away from our duties, PRESBYTERIAN IRRECONCILABLES. The Presbyterian General Assembly held a meeting at Philadelphia on the Ist of June, when the delegation appointed by this Assembly to visit the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church, lately in session at Louisville, presented a report and communication from the Southern Assembly in reply to overtures of this body. The delegation had been sent to procure mutual friendly correspondence. The communication froM the Southern Church states that that Church does not approve of union with the Northern Church, because it is a total surrender of all fundamental doctrines, and embraces all shades of belief. The Smithern Church is the only surviving heir of true, unfailing testimonies, and there are impassable barriers to official intercourse between the two Churches. The delegation bringing the communication also sub mitted their own report, shewing what action had been taken at Louisville. Several of the representatives then present made 'speeches shelving what the spirit of the Southern Assembly. had been. . It was thought that the ()Onion of that Assembly was not the opinion of the Southern churches. The report was received, and the committee was discharged. THE CAPITOL. The Capitol removers had a sorry defeat in the Senate while the legislative appropriation bill was pending. Mr. Harlan of lowa made the issue against a provision for the extension and improvement of the capitol grounds, offer ing the resolutions of the legislature of lowa to the same purpose as his text. Mr, Yates of Illinois came to the relief, and predicted as " future history that not one soli tary member of Congress from any north-western State could be returned this fall unless pledged inviolably to the removal of the capitol to the Mississippi Valley." With this exception the voice of the West was on the other side. Senator Carpenter of Winconsin thought if they were to change the capitol at all " Milwaukee was the only place where it ought to be ; and yet, General Paine of the House and himself were probably the only men who would agree upon that location." Senator Drake of Missouri said that he would not wish any ma& in that State a more sure and speedy oblivion as a public man, than tO•advocate the givin g up of the city of St. Louis to the nation for a capitol. Ne vada and Nebraska entered'a protest against the absurd notion of removal, and one of the new senators from Texas drew a kaleidoscopic view of the time "when the stars and stripes would float with credit, and honour, and glory, as in the proud old days of Rome, over Mexico, Cuba, and all the islands adjacent," as a reason why he would make the present capitol " according." Oregon also put in a good word for Washington, and was disposed to favour the suggestion of Mr, Stockton of New Jersey, that when the future pilgrim from the distant West ap proached her magnificent hill he should salute her as the great twin brethren saluted their favourite city floating in the midst of the Campagna, " Hail to the great asylum ! Hail to the hill-tops seven ! Hail to the fire that burns for aye, And the shield that fell from heaven !" —Boston Advertiser. GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION FOR FENIANS. No one can pity more sincerely than does the writer, the misled victims of this at once ridiculous and bloody delu sion of Fenianism. But is this a case in which Govern ment is justified in basing official action, even on such praiseworthy motives as that of compassion for the deceived? However deluded into believing that their cause is just, these men set out with the avowed object of making war from. our borders upon a peaceful and freindly nation. Unless justified by such success as shall make them one of the recognised powers of the earth, can there be a greater crime ? Having thus deliberately outraged and defied the laws of the Government under which they live, it now appears that their nefarious design has been frustrated more by their own cowardice than either by Canadian or Government troops. This being so, it certainly seems to the writer that the cool ness of those who now expct Uncle Sam to bring home these would-be malefactors side by side with the soldiers just sent against them, is only surpassed by that of 'the English cotton bondholders who presented their little bill to the United States for money advanced in support of the rebellion. Putting foreign opinion out of the question, and regardipg only the outrage and defiance offered to our own laws, is the proposed offer of a free ride home consistent with a proper and dignified attitude of the Government in regard to these men?- It was certainly to the surprise and regret of many then in the service with the writer that the Government saw fit to adopt this measure at the time of the last "invasion," but it was certainly not supposed that a like indulgence would be shewn to a second offence. In another point of view, is it well for those who at some future day may plot a renewal of this wickedness, to be able to assure their victims that, in case of failure, they will not be left to extricate themselves, but may rely upon Government transportation to their homes as soon as they shall have thrown away gun and equipments.—Correspoll dent of the Boston Daily Advertiser. The Memorial Diplomatique contains the announce ment that the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne has definitely accepted the post of Ambassador to Vienna. The state of his health, however, will prevent his going there at present. An Omaha editor refuses to publish a communica tion reflecting upon Beecher and Greeley, because it does Lot sympathise with the views of the writer, because the article is badly written, and because the grammar is worse than the chirography. If the gentlemen referred to are to be satirised, it insists that it shall be done in good English. The Fenians have returned home disgusted, leav ing only their leaders behind them. These are in the hands of the United States authorities, and to all appear ance they are likely to remain for some time to come. The Government, to the surprise of many, do not look upon the raid as a joke or holiday excursion, and prose cutes the leaders with rigour. Though this may be ,greatly to the discomfort of the leaders, it is indirectly for the benefit of the masses of the Fenians, who will thus have fewer Head Centres and Treasurers to deceive them in the future.—New York Tribune. THE CATPAIN OF THE BOMMAY.—The captain of the Bombay is irrepressible. He demanded a new trial and revision of his sentence of suspension for sinking the Oneida, and when refused by the English Board of Trade, in a letter which plainly intimated that he was guilty not only of gross breach of duty, but disregard of the calls Of humanity, he threatened to publish a statement. Captain Eyre wishes to explain, or to be tried and have full ustice done him, let him apply in this country.—N° 2ll York Tribune. THE FRENCH TROOPS IN ROME.—The Memorial Diplomatique has persistently refuted the statements which have been made with respect to the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome, and has asserted that the French flag would wave there until the Italians could furnish guarantees for the maintenance of the Pontifical throne. It now quotes the speech of M. Visconti-Venost a the Minister of Foreign Affairs as an unanswerable argil' ment in support of its theories. In reply to a questiog which Count Mamiani put to him in the Senate M. Visconti Government with explained the policy of the with reference to the Council, and then proceeded to state that nothing had taken place which would load to the supposition of a change in the policy of the Emperor of the French with respect to the maintenanc e of the troops in Rome. He could not see that anything had occurred which would lead to a modification of the declarations which the Emperor Napoleon and his Ministers had made when they sent the French troops to Rome. At any rate they had received no official commu nications on the subject from France. 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Cure 149 68,413 —" Rome, July 21 1866. The health of the Holy Fath er ': excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he lA confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica F ooo i of which he consumes a plateful at every meaL It has producet a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gszet,„r du 'Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,'e70.—Mr. James Roberts, merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lun, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cie N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Water fo of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrin' able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, ,e ° , 4o , stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. -3 ' Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the many un savo!..z, and more than sloppy imitations to which, without author Baron Liebi g mime is most audaciously attached. 225: In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4e 6d; 51b Ils.•, 1 21 b. rs 24 lbs 4:s.—Also DU BARRY'S REVALENTA A same. Cuocou_o POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cii, at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at It —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins c e d e r a free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office O,a BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London D'm all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at 65, Rutland-gate, the Countess °f Strathmore, of a daughter. f On the 10th inst., at Fallodon, the wife of Major Groy, 0: son. MARRIAGES. On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Stamford, Frederick Muntout of Springfield Villas, Kilburn, to Amy, fifth daughterno/ John Paradise, J.P., editor of the "Stamford Mercury- On the 14th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Chester-square the Rev. Charles James Hamilton, vicar of Dover id g e, Derbyshire, to Alice Catherine, daughter of Elliot 3 11 " - naghten, Esq. DEATHS On the 13th inst., at 40, Portland - pla c e , Jame s DuPre, Esci° of Wilton Park, Bucks, aged 92. On the 12th inst., at Modbury, Devonshire, John Andrews Esq., aged 82. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW Elt of No. 11 2 , Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 1 14 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County 0 ' Middlesea.—Thursday, June 16, 1870. s .----- u......... ~i _ Ob ban'l - . Th Med; So'' Ages Al Free rep s Cour arm : Sew th/ Dog tic Gra At=