The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-14 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. MR. BRIGHT. The case of the Board of Trade President is ista proving. His health is much better, and the Times 14 brio:Lined that there is no apparent reason why Mr. Bright should not return in a few weeks to his place in the House of Commons and his official duties at the Board of Trade. He has left London _ and will go to the seaside for a few days( ENGLISH SEATS. The writ for Bridgnorth has arrived, and the nomination is likely to take place on Tuesday. Mr. W. IL Foster is at present the only candidate, and there are no signs of opposition. He is an independent sapporter of the Government. At Nottingham it is considered certain that Mr. Dighy Seymour will ivr:iin try his luck. On the death of Sir Robert Cli ton, h© contested the seat with Mr. Seely, jun., and though beaten, ran a good race. Two Conservative candidates aro mentioned—Alderman Rose and Colonel Nassau Lee. ELECTION EXPENSES. The strange discrepancies in the costs of our eke tons are continually staring us in the face. ,An official return chews that in North Durham, where there were three candidates. tie expenditure was a little over £27,000. At Downpatrick, Mr. Keown, who was not opposed, paid only £9,158 for his seat. Things are of course different in a county and a small borough; and a contest greatly multiplies expenses ; but most returning officers would be amazed at having to do business for less than ten pounds. In Southwark it is interesting to note that the struggle between three candidates in 1868 cost £507 ; whilst the High Bailiff has estimated the forthcoming battle, also between three candidates, at £625. At Glasgow the expenditure was £1 for every 30 voters ; at Belfast the same ; at Birmingham it was £1 for every 21 ; at Merthyr Tydvil, £1 for every 17 ; at Dundee, £1 for every 15; whilst at Windsor it reached the sum of £1 for every 41 , of the electors. THE LICENSING SYSTEM. The Spectator summarises what it considers ougnt to be the chief points in the new licensing measure. It believes that some day there will be a very strong effort to suppress the trade altogether; but'at present the feeling of the country is to limit the supply to the real needs or fancied needs of the people, so that the trade should not 'also be the temptation, and to ensure the respectability of the dealers. "In other words a maximum shall be fixed by Parliament, beyond which houses shall not be multiplied. Licenses are to be granted only by responsible and disinterested officials, and the opinion of the inhabitants shall ha accepted as important evidence for or against any such grant." The Spectator holds " that the London stipendiary magistrates and, in the country, the Judges of the County Courts would be the most eligible persons. But it says nothing about the limitation of hours, or the other reforms which would make an act of this kind of even tolerable effect. Revolutions are not made with rose-water, but drunkenness, it seems, can be cured by knocking off a few licenses. At the same time the principle of the Permissive Bill is admitted by accepting the opinion of the inhabitants as "im portant evidence." NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS. There are not many important items of Horse Guards or Admiralty news this week. Mr. Childers has announced his intention to bring forward the navy estimates in the House of Commons on the 24th instant. It is expected that the long desired scheme of naval retirement will then make its appearance. The United Service Gazette says that Mr. Henwood, who some time ago proposed a scheme for utilising our screw line-of-battle ships, by con verting them into coast-defence monitors, has suc ceeded in proving the desirability of such a trial being. made, by which a saving of two hundred thousand pounds would accrue to the country. The reductions are no myth. All the depot battalions, with the solitary exception of one Indian depot at Chatham, are to be abolished at the end of the present financial year. The junior majors of both infan try and cavalry regiments will in future be borne as supernumeraries to the corps, and orders have been sent to officers commanding regiments to reduce their establibhments by the discharge of men who have served eleven years, and do not wish to remain in the service, and also to weed out bad characters. CIIATIIAM DOCKYARD SRIPIVRIGHTS. Some 200 hired, not established, Chatham ship wrights have not fallen victims to the reduction scythe, but are fearful lest they may. They have accordingly 'sent a deputation to Mr. Otway, asking him to place 'their case before Mr. Childers, in order that they • may be dealt with less harshly (as they say) than ,some of their unhappy fellows. Mr. Childers, how- . ever, declines to submit to "parliamentary pressure.' The men must make their grievance known through the heads of their department. The Pall Mall Gazette, which tolls the story, would, nevertheless. like to know whether there is any truth in some of the statements they make—whether, for instance. there are some thirty men who are being discharged without compensation, although they have been disabled by accident while in the dockyard to such an extent as to have scarcely any chalice of getting employment elsewhere whether it is true that most if not all the men who were en cm-red for the Achilles in 1802 were brought to the a ockyard at the expense of the Government with 'a promise that when discharged they should have free passes to return, and that in consequence of the free passes being now withheld, numbers of the dis . charged hands are unable t o remove f rom Ch a th am; whether it is a fact that the men w e re g i ven t o un d er . stand a certain sum per we e k was deducted from their wages to form a fund to a s si s t h an d s di sc h arge d without pensions, and if so, what has become of the money. ,) THREATENING LETTERS. The triumph of anarchy pursues its way in Ireland. In the Dublin Landed Estates Court, the sale of an estate in Roscommon, west of Ireland, was postponed, on account of the low bidding. A gentleman, who was believed to be an intending purchaser, received a threatening letter. In Westmeath things are no better. Lord Castlemaine and a number of the county magistrates have signed a requisition for addi tional constabulary. Two tenants who Were asked for a higher rent, and were willing to pay it, received threatening letters, and in consequence retain their - farms without any addition. Resistance tG increase of rent, no matter what may be the nature of the lands, is becoming wide-spread. BISHOP TEMPLE AND "ESSAYS AND REVIEWS." --- The Bishop of Exeter is still the subject of contro versy. Several of his late friends are com_plaining bitterly that h e h as d eserted them. The Pail M ale Gazette is most deeply aggrieved. It reads in his speech to Convocation nothing but a confession that ho did wrong publishing a contribution to an heretical work. The right reverend prelate has been (our contemporary says) overawed by bis brethren of the lawn sleeves; his faint heartedness must be deeply deplored. The Standard sings a song of triumph. The Bishop is not a heretic after all; he has turned out a very commonplace person. The Times approves thoroughly the Bishop's speech. The Daily News, on the other hand, thinks Dr. Temple's position " almost humiliating." He was silent long enougb for his own personal dignity; but ho would not, remain so long enough for liberty of opinion. The Spectator has an article rather beside the mark, inasmuch as it denounces the mode in which tha announcement of the withdrawal was made ; Dr Temple has himself disapproved the mode. Otherwise the Spectator entirely sympathises with the Bishop UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION FOR WOMEN. One.scheme amongst the many now set on foot for the education of women may not be generally known. The Syndicate of the University of Cambridge have made provision for the examination of women over eighteen years of age, and for the award of certificates of merit of various degrees. Regulations are published stating the conditions on which an examination will be granted, and it is required by the University that in any town where an examination is desired to heicl,.a local committee .of ladies shall be formed to superintend it. One of their number is to act as local secretary. Those candidates who are strangers to the place will be assisted with regard to suitable accomodation and oth er ma tt ers by the ladies' committee. The first examination of this sort was held last year in London and Leeds; the next commences in London, Leeds, and probably other places on July.4th. Of 35 candidates present at last year's examination 21 obtained either passes or certificates of honour, and the syndicate in their report express themselves satisfied with the results obtained. The advantages of the scheme are these : a standard by which to test the amount and soundness of knowledge acquired and a guide for further study ; to teachers especially, au opportunity of o bt a i n i ng a certificate of proficiency to which the authority of the University is attached. a.id which may bo made year by year, inclus:ve of fresh subjects. The regulations of the examinations for women may be procured from the secretary to the Syndicate of Cambridge. THE NORTHERN IRON TRADE, The dispute which was submitted to the arbitra tion of Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., has been settled without further inquiry. It has been agreed that the men should have an advance of 10 per cent. in their wages for twelve months, ending January next. The agreement is to bind both parties for this period. Thus another trade dispute has been ami cably settled. THE WELSH FASTING GIRL Thp oymil folk; of efirMarthAll RYA in a state of uncertainty ,- as to the Government inten fi ons in the fasting girl prosecution, but all of them who had any dealings with that unhappy child wish them selves well out of the trouble. A. Unitarian Minister, who acted as secretary to the watching committee, has been waited upon by an official, and has supplied the names of the committee. They are fifteen in number, and it is believed that all will be tried for conspiracy, as well as the medical men, though none of the surgeons were on the committee, but were simply appointed in order to give warning upon the appearance of fatal symptoms in the girl. There is one little problem in connection with this case : the Government have not stated on what ground they prosecute the father of Sarah Jacobs and the watching committee, and yet refused to inter fere in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. affair. TIIE GREAT BANK NOTE ROBBERY. The Bank of England is lending its aid in the recovery of the £lO,OOO in bank notes, which were stolen from Masrs. Barnett and Co. They have issued a new series of £l,OOO notes, dated 1870, whereas all paper of that denomination now in circulation is dated 18E8. As the average existence of a note for £l,OOO is not longer than about a week, it is likely that within a few days the whole circulation bearing date 1868 will come back to the Bank with the exception of the stolen notes, which will thus be easily detected. Robbery on these terms can scarcely be very profitable. POSTAL DELAYS IN LONDON. A deputation, headed by two members of Parlia ment, has waited upon the Marquis of Hartington, Postmaster-General, to complain of the great incon venience experienced by the public consequent upon alterations made in the delivery of letters in South London. It seems that in 1868 the Post-office authorities promised that a new sorting office should be opened in Kennington. This promise had never been fulfilled, and it was stated that nearly every vestryman from Westminster Bridge to the Crystal Palace had felt the inconvenience. South London is sharply defined by the Thames, and when the Southern District Office was established, it was a matter of rejoicing, insomuch as letters posted in the South had not to cross the water as formerly before they returned to their destination. This advantageous plan has since been done away with, the result being that a decrease of four has taken place in the number of daily deliveries, and of three in the collections. It was also stated that a saving of L 20,000 would be effected by proper altera tions. South London is a great seat of manufac ture, and it is to be hoped that the Post master-General will see the force of the arguments of Sir James Lawrence, who stoutly denied the notion of the Marquis of Hartington, that the letter "S" was a sentimental grievance. The matter is to hay:, his lordship's consideration. TELEGRAPHS AND THE GOSPEL. Electric telegraphs are very good things in their way; but a goniliman who has written a pamphlet on behalf of submarine cables, Dp eroes a little too far. This " impudent attempt to bolster up a specula tion," as the Railway News calls it, enlarges upon the great work which submarine cables can do in the way of propagating the Gospel. He says the British Indian and other lines in connection with it will be " the means of disseminating the Bible and of making Christianity known amonc , the heathen " and he asks, "If St. Paul had been able to communicate from Rome to Ephesus by tele graph, how many more thousands might he not have'made converts to the faith of Christ?" This con nection between the wire and the Gospel would be incongruous under any circumstance in a commer cial pamphlet. But the writer makes matters worse by a violent attack upon land telegraphs in general, and especially upon the Indo-European line. His theory is that submarine cables are the salvation of mankind, land lines are heresy, whilst the Indo- European is the Beast itself. "PRACTICAL VALENTINES." Tha Telegraph last year conceived one of its brilliant ideas. We do not allude to the flower-girl brigade—though that notion was hopelessly fine, but to practical valentines. Instead of sending skewered hearts, cupids who have been guilty of over-eating, dyspeptic doves, and the conventional lady and gen tleman walking up the regulation gravel path to church, why not, asked the Telegraph, send some- thing useful? This hint in the materialistic direction has been followed up. One Lon don firm has embowered a packet of gloves amid the perfumed groups of flowers, delicate grasses, butterflies, and hoc gpnus onzne. Another encloses pencil-cases, pins, Mooches, patterns, &c. So the 'Telegraph rejoices. It is to be hoped, how ever, that the fourteenth of February in England will not resemble the first of January in Paris. There the practice of younc , gentlemen giving presents to their lady friends all ° round has grown into a rigid and most burdensome custom, imposing a sever.. fine upon the less well-to-do classes. TIIE SUEZ CANAL. The entire removal of the Serapeum rock obstacle leaves twenty-nine feet of water in that part of the canal; and thus, M. de Lesseps announces, the largest vessels can now pass from sea to sea. Meanwhile, the Austrians, who expected to gain so much traffic by this new route, are not making great progress. The screw steamer Apis, belonging to the Austrian Lloyd's Company, of 1,200 tons burden—a first-rate vessel, whose departure fox Bombay was largely and widely advertised—sailed with a cargo of only 130 tons. The tariff fixed by the company is R 3 10s. a ton, the vessel pays a toll of 480 to the canal, and consumes 400 tons of coal on the voyage. This beginning, therefore, cannot be deemed promising. But new branches of commerce are not built up in a day, and the company have resolved to start another vessel. Half the cargo of the Apis came from Italy. M. de Lesseps has pro mised to publish regularly a detail of the receipts, but he warns shareholders that a remunerative traffic will take some time to accumulate. THE PARIS DISTURBANCES, Of the leading weekly papers two assail the conduct of the French Ministry, and one defends it. The Saturday Review regards the persistent prosecution of Rochefort as foolish. He is only one amongst many turbulent journalists, and yet M. 011iviei makes him the single exception to a system of absolute tolerance. "Three days of disturbance and uneasiness aro a heavy price to pay for the privilege of having M. Rochefort under lock and key." The Economist says it looks as if M. 011ivier were pedantically anxious to fulfil all his obligations to the Emperor. "Would it not have been far wiser to have treated M. Rochefort, once sentenced, as an offender of the least possible importance ; to have let him choose his own time and place of imprisonment; and to have turned away from him and his treasonable designs to the steady prosecution of the great work to whi3k M. 011ivier had set himself before these unfortunate poli tical distractions occurred?" The Spectator , on the ()the' hand, holds that M. 011ivier has passed through six weeks of disturbance greater than any that has threatened the Empire, and has effected divers reforms, throughout assuming the full responsibility of action for the Ministry, and withdrawing the Sovereign from the scene. FREE TRADE. A correspondent of the Econoamt says that M 01livier's speech at the conclusion of. the debate it the Corps I.46gislatif on the Commercial Treaty has greatly disheartened the French Protectionists Everywhere the cause of free trade looks promising. The Republican newspapers in Paris, whilst they proclaim that the late debate could interest only the 7, ourgeoisie, shrink from raising the Protectionist flag. Some of the Paris Republican deputies abstained from -.oting with the Government on poli tical J grounds, but others did vote. The speech of J. ules Simon, who knows more about the artisan class than any man in Europe, is calculated to advance the cause of free trade throughout the Con tinent. THE THORNCLIFFE RIOTS. As we have stated by telegraph, a threatening letter has been received by Mr. Chambers, of the firm of New ton, Chambers, and Co. The following is a copy of it " Mr. Chambers, 1870. "Sir, —Prepare to meet thy God, as I insist on thee been a dead man before long if thou means to keep us out this winter. We are determined not to let you see the end of it, if thou means to let us clam and starve. We mean to have it out of you, you —, as thy days are numbered, so prepare to meet thy God.—Yours truly, and one who wishes you in hell fire." The letter bears the Sheffield and Barnsley postmarks, and no signature. This gross attempt at intimidation was the subject of discussion by the magistrates and counsel at the proceedings on Friday, the fifth day of the exami nation of the twenty-nine men charged with participation in the riott. It was urged that it would be unfair to allow the letter to be read in court, as it might tend to prevent the course of justice, and injure the cause of the accused men. The prisoners have been in custody since the 24th of January, so that it seems impossible that the letter could have been written by one of them. The bench, in discharging the five men, Ibbeson, Pratt, Pickering, Nash, and Tipping, said they wished it to be understood that by so . doing they did not in any way invalidate the testimony of the witnesses who respectively swore to their identity; but in a case of this kind they did not feel justified in committing for trial those prisoners who were sworn to by only one witness. With regard to the remainder, the bench had come to the conclusion that if the evidence in each case against the prisoners appeared conclusive, even if an alibi were sworn, that they should not feel justified except in committing the prisoners. In such cases they considered it their duty to submit the evidence on each side to the judgment of a higher court The examination was again adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY it 1870. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE HUSH LAND BILL, The Times considers that the mere fact of the Imperial Parliament addressing itself in earnest, during two ses sions, to purely Irish questions must at least allay that morbid sense of neglect which has long rankled in the minds of Irishmen, and has not been sufficiently appre ciated by English statesmen. It was not so much hos tility to England as the fear of sinking into a province which animated the opponents of the Union, and the same feeling has been the mainspring of the Repeal movement in all its phases. Now, the hearty co-operation of English and Irish membee.i in passing measures for the good of Ireland, and the very great labour bestowed of late on the study of Irish affairs by Englishmen of education and influence, ought to tend, and has tended materially, to neutralise this feeling. The Irish people are beginning understand that they are no longer subjects of a British Government, but partners with the British people, and it will not be long before they perceive how far nobler a destiny it is to be a part of a great nation than to cherish the pride of a discontented nationality. Far be it from us to claim or expect gratitude from the Irish people in respect of the blessings which they may derive from remedial legislation. Gratitude is called forth by favours, whereas the relation between Great Britain and Ireland essentially rests upon a community of interest. In spite of disturbing forces, the conviction of this community has long been gaining strength in Ireland, and will be immensely fortified by a parliamentary settlement of the land question. Thenceforth by far the most important class of the Irish population will hold an independent stake in the country, and have something to lose by revo lution. There will still remain abundant elements of discord in Ireland, and -urgent symptoms may recur once and again requiring decisive treatment ; but the healing process will have commenced, and before the end of next year we may probably witness a marked change for the better. CONVOCATION ANDWITE GOVERNMENT, In the Lower House of Convocation, on Friday, an amusing scene was witnessed. Archdeacon Denison formally moved the appointment of a committee for the purpose of considering the Government proposals on education when they should he laid before Parliament. —The motion was seconded by Canon Hopkins.—After some furthe.: discus sion, Dr. Jebb vehcmentiy dencunced the manner in which the Government had sought to force the national system upon Ireland, and urged the clergy to imitate the constancy of their reverend brethren in that country, even if martyrdom should stare them in the face, which, in these degenerate days, was not improlable. He hoped he should not be called to order, but he considered that, after the measures of her Majesty's advisers last year, they ought not to pay them the slightest constitutional respect, for the only principle on which they had acted was that of yielding to the demanes of tho mob.—The Dean of Westminster: I rise to order. I submit that this is n)t a proper mode of speaking of her Majesty's advisers. (Cheers.)—Dr. Jebb said the Government did not occupy its proper constitutional position in this country. We had a right to look to the Crown itself, and we had no reason to respect its legal advisers.—The Dean of Westminster : I must again rise to order, and ask if this is proper ?—The Prolocutor : I must request Dr. Jebb to abstain from further allusions of this kind to her Majesty's advisors. — Dr. Jebb : I say that they claim a great deal more power thsn the Constitution gives them. They consider them selves the directors of the conscience of the Sovereign.— The Prolocutor : By virtue of Standing Order No. 1, the prolocutor, if he bears any member of this house using language which he conceives to be dangerous, is to inter rupt him. I interrupt Dr. Jebb. (Loud cheers.)—Dr. Jebb : Then I will conclude my speech. (Hear, hear.) You don't know what lam going to say. (A laugh.) I thoroughly agree in the expediency of appointing a com mittee, but I trust that it will consider the question of principle, and not matters of detail.—The resolution was ultimately carried unanimously. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo- American Times.) The Supreme Court of the United States decided on Monday that contracts made prior to 1862 aro payable in coin. Four Judges, including Chief Justice Chase, con curred, throe dissenting. This decision does not directly affect the constitutionality of the Legal-Tender Act, but other cases yet to be decided involve that question, as it must then be pronounced whether it holds with contracts made since the act was passed. What the majority of the Court now say is, that Congress cannot make greenbacks a legal tender for debts between man and man, incurred before the Legal-Tender Act was passed— a very different question to debt incurred after greenbacks had been de eared lawful money in the United States. Apropos of legal decisions we may mention that there is something brewing in the profession in New York City, which may involve such Judges as Barnard in trouble. A secret circular, very cautiously worded,. has been rent round to many barristers, signed by the leaders of the New York bar, inviting a conference in relation to matters wherein all are much concerned. We can only draw cur own inference, but this falls ominously close on a very telling article in the Now York Notion calling upon the bar to do that which the outside public cannot do, but which it can ; that is, purify the New York courts from the stigma which recentproceedings have attached to them. It is not unlikely that out of the evil wrought by unjust Judges may come good, in drawing the New York bar into a more compact body, with influence sufficiently strorg to preserve the Bench from cotamnination, which really moans the degradation of their own profession. The latest telegram is dated Washington, Feb. 10.---In to-day's sitting of the Senate, Mr. Morton made a speech in favour of recognising the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The House of Representatives, by a strict party vote, has given the seat of General Foster, a Demo crat, to Mr. John (Jovude, who had been a candidate in she Radical interest. The House also adopted a resolution calling upon the Government for information concerning the recent murder of American citizens by Spanish volun teers at Havana. We hear a great deal about the Erie ; the pro ceedings of Fisk and Gould, and the losses entailed on the unfortunate shareholders; but no one says anything about Illinois Central, although the latter represents a genuine American railroad, while the former represents nothing but Gould and Fisk, and the powers they exercise through bribery. The rise in Illinois has been going on for months, but latterly its upward tendency has been by jumps, spurred by a demand in America, and the report that new shares are to be distributed to the extent of 30 or 40 per „cent. on the holdings of the original proprietors. We do not approve of the inveterate American habit of " watering" stock, but this distribution is based on profits, and is a very different affair from many New York proceed ings. The shares yesterday reached 114, having risen 10 within the lust few days. The Erie, honestly managed, would do as well, for there is no country equal to the United States for profitable railroad enterprise, which has been deeply injured through the Erie, and Atlantic and Great Western being constantly held up as a warning to English investors. There never was any doubt in the mind of a rea sonable being that the President was grossly maligned by those who endeavoured to associate his name with the gold gamble. The Committee on Banking and Currency, who have lately concluded their inquiry into the gold panic, assert that the statements purporting to be the sub stance of the evidence given, published by the press, are not only unauthorised, but to a large extent inaccurate. Still we venture to assert that the long accconnt profess ing to be what Fisk said is almost literally what he did say; and although Mr. Corbin's evidence is supposed to be a secret,we can tell also, very nearly, the words he used. His evidence was taken on the 27th Jan., the day after his arrival at Washington, and although he desired to exculpate himself, he was constrained to acknowledge that he had deceived the conspirators, pretending an in fluence ho did not possess, and using his wife's relation ship to further his own speculative ends. Probably, said he, I did deceive people, us is common in Wall-street; in deed, part of the business of money-making. It was not his fault, however, if Fisk and Gould believed ho could control the President—a false inference, for which he was not responsible. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Corbin had no connec tion whatever with the scheme, and knew nothing about it. Ilis examination went over two days, the cross-examination in the first lasting through 6 hours, when he followed the history of the affair from its commencement in Septem ber until it culminated in the Wall-street panic. Although he endeavoured to discredit the testimony of Messrs. Gould and Fisk, for this purpose producing all the evidence in his possession, he did not disguise his own part in the affair, admitting the money-making weakness, common with mankind. Of course the celebrated letter to tho Pre sident, to which Fisk so touchingly alluded, was inquired after ; but he declared there was nothing in it that might not bo read at a town meeting. Altogether Mr. Corbin was right in keeping out of the President's way, preferring a residence instead at the house of another brother-in-law on Capitol Hill. Considering, too, what a good member he is of his congregation, it is refreshing to learn that he has finished his revelations by informing his curio - as ques tioners that he bad sworn to enough sink a chip. We may, however, hint that a ship now freighted with Mr. Corbin's character could afford to take in a good deal of ballast. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Corbin, we are glad to hear, will not be examined. Mr. Smith, of the firm of Smith, Gould, Martin, and Co., had been cross-questioned, anl General Butterfield soon will be. The Free-trade versus Protection con test daily grows in importance. The effort made by the Protectionists in Congress to prevent the printing of the report written by Commissioner D. A. Wells brought up the subject. Some opposed it on the score of economy, and denounced the attempt to scatter over the country such stuff at a cost of $10,009. Most of the Protectionists, however, were personal in their attack, Pennsylvanians leading as representing the principal Protectionist State. Gen. Cooke foresaw Mr. Wells as the miserable Secretary of the Anti-. Republican Free-Trade League if he continued in public life at all after the appropriation he had got on a special appeal ; a League kept alive by the gold of British ironmasters and manufac turers. He had no doubt, and many held with him, that Mr. Wells had been bought up by this League, and he was almost in despair when ho thought of the terrible enemy the industry of the country had in it. Mr. Kelley professes quite as much belief in the British bribery gold as General Cooke, and he pointed out how the League had got hold of and published the substance of the report before it had been issued. Mr. Kelley went on to denounce the proposal for putting on enor mous taxes on articles, such as spices, tea, and coffee, which protected no interests, and were direct charges on labour, intended to subvert the interests of the country. Perhaps we may bo permitted to observe that Mr. Wells's principle is that taxes might be im posed on articles of luxury for the sake of revenue, but not for the sake of protection. The Representatives, how ever, insisted on having the report printed, and Mr. Wells found many warm defenders in the House. The Nation remarks on the fact that the Committee of Ways and Means are for the most part interested iu the articles brought up for taxation, and that when such gentlemen as Mr. Kelley patriotically denounced Jr. Wells as being in the pay of England, they are directly inspired by the interests of their own pockets. The appearance of Fisk and Gould in the national capital iu some measure directed attention frcm Prince Arthur. Fisk was gorgeous, contrasting with Gould as much in style of dress as in his manner of giving evidence. The latter quiet in deportment, reserved and silent; the former flashy in loud colours and jewellery, noisy and gar rulous, going ahead like a steam engine. He had striped pantaloons, brown velvet coat, a square yard of shirt bosom, half a rod of gold chain, a diamond as large as a N‘ aluut, and a necktie of the latest and loudest swell pat tern. His hair was carefully parted in the middle. There was an airy grace about the man, an easy, impudent, self ' ossession, showing pretty clearly that the Committee had caught a Tartar ; still Gould was evidently the more dangerous, sharp, subdued, and resolute ; a man not to be caught unaware, and having few vulnerable points, with an affable, gentlemanlike manner. He was examined first, and much to Fisk's annoyance they would not let him hear what his inseparable companion and coadjutor said. But nothing could daunt the indomitable Fisk, who poured forth his volume of words at so many score per minute, and when he had deluged the Committee, who could not realize at the moment he had really told them little or nothing, he whisked out his cigar case, helped himself and handed it round, at the saute time that he invited the Committee to a " spread" at Welker's. Gould dis tinctly exonerated the President and every member of his family as having anything to do with the conspiracy, but Fisk artfully endeavoured to convey an impression that there was some indiscreet connection, although his evidence went to disprove this. At last the Senate has acted, rejecting the nomi nation of Attorney-General Hour as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by 33 against 24 on the 4th inst. We regret this move towards antagonism between the Upper House and the Executive. it was anticipated and dis counted, still this positive decision of a Senate strongly Republican against a Republican Executive tends to com plicate the relations of the party, which would seem in truth to be breaking up with the settlement of the great questions which it was formed to carry. Two other nonii nat:ons of importance remain for decision ; that of General Sickles as Minister to Spain, against whom there is a powerful Malty, and of Mr, Jones as Minister to Belgium, against whom no one has anything to say. We cannot see %vit . } , Ministers abroad for several mouths, pa:forming their duties in capitals to which they were accredited, should be disturbed, nor do wo think it probable that either of them a ill. The Erie Railroad suit against Commodore Van derbilt to recover 55,000,000 came up ou the •25th January in Judge Blruard's Court. Some few weeks ago the case had been partially heard, but Mr. Field, the Erie counsel, had to attend the trial of the Susquehanna affair at Roches ter,and it was postponed. The court was densely crowded, many leading railroad men being there, among them the Railroad King, against whom the suit was brought, Com modore Vanderbilt. We can quite imagine Barnard peep ing through a crevice at the expectant throng with the HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening MONDAY 40 min past 12 8 min past 1 TUESDAY 30 min past 1 56 min past 1 WEDNESDAY 20 min past 2 4 imin past 2 THURSDAY... ..... • • 0 mill past 3 21 min past 3 FRIDAY„ .... .,42 min past 3..., 4 min past 4 SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL MASSES. On Friday a deputation from the union of Lanca shire and Cheshire Institute, and others, waited upon the Lord President of the Privy Council and Mr. Forster to present the following memorial : " The memorialists, while generally approving the recent changes in the system of State aid to science instruction , submit the following considerations :—That, as to the most important change, viz., that in respect of mathematics, it is impossible for new classes to take advantage of it in time for the examinations of 1870. The requisite number of lessons could not be given, as i ll most of the Institutes, classes for mathematic s could not meet more than once per week. The minute referring to the non-deduction of claims above £6O will only benefit the teachers of large classes. The abolition of a third class' will act injuriously with regard to the money results' of the examinations in May next. The time fixed for the introduction of the changes in the scheme affects teachers most Pre" judicially. Their engagements had then been made with committees, and classes had bee n in actual operation for two months. The Science Directory, revised up to September last, upon which the arrangements of the teachers were based, gave no intima tion whatever as to any alteration, and it was not until December, when one-fourth cf the lessons bad been given, that the minute of the Council issued. The Memorialists therefore earnestly urge that the minute be reconsidered, and the examinations conducted on the footing that a candidate who would under the old minute have obtained a " third class," receive a second class, or that the minute in the matter of payments do not take effect until 1871. They further pray that in future adequate notice be given of any important alterations intended to be introduced." Several gentlemen having addressed his lordship in sup" port of the memorial. Earl DE GREY AND RIPON said that, with r espect to the main argument that had been brought before theye, that this minute was inconsistent with the usual practice of the department, he desired to say that so far as the of Mr. Forster and himself wont, the practic e of the department would bear them that there had been no breach of contract in the issuing of it. Particular pains had always been taken when publishing the "Direcory " to state in three different parts of It , that the rules were subject to revision. I t had been held that it was a distinct notic e and it was so intended—that it was open to the depart ment at any time to make any changes which might be deemed necessary in the rules of the Directory. And such alterations had been made from time to time. Mr. FORSTER : Quite recently. Earl DE GREY and RIPON: Mr. Forster and himself very carefully considered the minute, and they did not. think they were acting inconstantly. Therefore, h e did not think the deputation was justified in asserting there had been any breach of contract. Respecting th e changes themselves, he was glad tp find that so far as the general scheme went, they were able to assume that this important deputation approved of it. The quo" tion which arose was whether the changes would irlin" riously affect the teachers in consequence of their having been made after the opening classes for the present year. Mr. FORSTER : They found that this aid for scientific in struction was becoming larger and larger, so that they boa to look very carefully into the principles upon which this payment was given. It appeared to them that these changes, in themselves, were admirable. Teacher s were acting in the knowledge that changes wer e to be made. But they would be very glad to have facts, if there were any, to shew that they were rills' taken. If they could prove that the loss would fall on one important set of teachers, that would be a very serious matter for consideration. The framers of the minut e thought that the advantages and the disadvantages were offered to all. After some further discussion the deputation withdrev 6 with the evident' impression that the minute would b e reconsidered. SCIENCE, ART, AND LITERARY GOSSIP' The Atkenteunt has some interesting items :—The firs t three volumes of Professor Joweit's translation of the " Dialogues " of Plato are expected to appear in the c ourse of the present year. Professor Jowett is also preparing an edition of the text of " The Republic," with English notes—The second and greatly enlarged edition of gr. Ilensleigh Wedgwood's " Dictionary of English Etyrae" logy" will go to press next month. It has been thoroughly revised by the author and the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, the author of the ‘, Cleveland Glossary."—Dr. Von Dollinge r has received an address of thanks for the attitude he assumed on the InfalEbility question from thirteen professors of Prague, five of whom are ecclesiastics! News has this week been received from . Mr. C. Tyrwhitt Drake, of Trinity College, to whom last autumnthe University of Cambridge made a grant out of the Worts Travelling Bachelors' Fund to enable him to c ollect zoological specimens while accompanying Mr. E. W' Palmer, Fellow of St. John's College, in exploring the 'O 3 country—the " Wilderness of the Wanderine ' s." Th e Arabs, by no means prepared to find Englishman travelling without the luxuries to which they are accustomed, were suspicious of their object in visiting the country. It is to be hoped, however, that the explorers will accompli sh their plan of reaching the Jordan by the route traditionally. followed by the Israelites.—Diamonds have been discover e d near Plague; in a sandy bed which had previously yielded tourmaline, sapphires, and other precious stones.—Steering' by steam is again being experimented upon in the United States, and seems likely to come into use to some extent._, Madame Rossini has allowed the performance of severe' unpublished works by her late husband, at a concert given in Paris for the benefit of an Italian charitable association . —When the six new theatres for which the Lord Chan' berlain has granted licenses are open, London will have more places of dramatic entertainment than any other city. At present, the number in Paris and that in London closely approximate. . Nature, in its notes, says that the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society is to be presented to M. De launay, the president of the Paris Academy of sciences . —A new office has been constituted under the Public Works Department, and Mr. Douglas Galton, C 3 31 F.R.S., has been appointed to it with the title of Director of Works and Buildings.--Th e purity of the metropolitan water supply has been seriously affected by the winter floods. Professor Frank land, in his last monthly report, states that the watFr. supplied by the East London Company was very turbia and contained vibrois. This is the first occasion on whic h Dr. Frankland has detected these organisms, which ar e abundant in putrid sewage, in the London water. The Grapbic says :—The Bookseller, with a view to pro: mote the study of bibliography, has offered a series o.f prizes for the best papers upon given subjects. The fir prize of ten guineas is for the best bibliographical list of works connected with paper and other materials for writing and painting, printing and its accessories —bookbinding , bookselling, and booksellers—and literary history generallf. —The author of " Friends in Council," has a novel n early , ready, entitled " Casimir Maremona."—Mr. James Ander' son, of the Middle Temple, is preparing a work for Messrs. Edmondstan and Douglas, which will be called "Alemorial 4 of the Temple."—The late Mr. Thomas Thompson was a° eccentric American : and, what is more, he was a rich one. His ruling passion was Art, and he contrived, during not very long life, to collect two enormous gallerie s of pictures. His first collection was destroyed hi the fire • which took place in the Fremont Temple; Boston, his native place, in 1852. The . work s thus lost were valued at a hundred and 01 thousand dollars. If the building was not fireproo f Mr. Thompson's love of Art. was ! In a few short years his second collection was greater than the firell. Unfortunately for the Bostonians, they contrived tt offend their great art patron, and Mr. Thompson turned his back upon his native place, and would never see of hear of it any more. His pictures, which had been designed as a gift to the town, were shut up, and never saw dayiight again. They were stacked away in a. ware house. Mr. Thomson died in New York a few months ago, and by order of the executrix his collection is to be sold by auction this week by the well-known house of Leeds and Miner, of New York. It consists of more than seventeen hundred pictures, including specimens of the English, French, Italian, and Dutch schools, both . old and modern, and is estimated. to be worth half a million of dol' lars.—An experiment is to be made to establish in Eng' land a journal called the Music Master on the model of the musical s h ee t i ssue d b y th e great firm of Messrs. Firmin, Didot, Brothers. Each number will contain 0 , classic pianoforte piece ch osen f rom th e b es t o ld a nd modern composers, and will be accompanied by a music lesson, which is to enable the pupil to play the music according to the composer's intention. If this is faith fully carried out, the composer will indeed boa happy Ma& General Robert E. Lee says he believes that regular and constant labour in Virginia can be secured only by the introduction of a respectable class of labourers from Europe, saying that, although a temporary benefit might be derived from inportation of Chinese and Ja panese, he fears it would result in eventual injury to the country and her institutions. [ ADVERTISEMENT. 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"Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, col? stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. - Maria Jolly " 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 t a d; 11b 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; 5 lb Ils ; 12 lb 225 : 24 11H 4 s.—Also )13 BARBY'F! RDNALENTA a RABICA CIIOCOLATS PoWD ER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 62, for 18 cups at Gs, for 258 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 553 —being a b ou t one penny per cup. The 30s and Fss tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Olden- - Aunt Du BARRY anal Co., No, 77, Regent-street, London; and a Grocers anal Chemists. REVISION OF THE BIBLE. The Daily News observes that to congratulate Convocation on the prospect of its becomirg really useful, is a satis faction as profound as it is novel. We think we shall not be premature in offering these congratulations after the speech which Dr. Wilberforce delivered in the Bounty office last Thursday, and in which he persuaded his epis copal brethren to bestir themselves to obtain a " revision of the Authorised Version of the Old and New Testa ment." The debate on the Bishop's motion was, if we may say so without disrespect, unusually straightforward ; we mean that their lordships for once laid aside the periphrastic style, too common in epis copal utterances, and consented to speak of facts in something like the language of daily life. We do not know why they should have spoken otherwise. The authorised version of the Bible greatly needs revision. The time for a perfect text or a perfect translation may not have come, may never come ; but that is no reason why we should not have the best that is attainable of each. Let us be content to move in the spirit of the old church-builders who, while doing much for their own time, were not unwilling to leave some thing for posterity to continue and complete. This work must be taken up as a necessity. The private versions of scholars, which have prepared the way for revision, will begin to do harm if that revision is too long postponed, for they will undermine the reputation of the popular Bible. The Bishop of St. David's need not fear that the Nonconformist bodies would throw any obstacle in the way of revision undertaken in a truly national spirit ; the studies of such a scholar must have made him aware of the fact, not unrecognised by one of his most eminentbrethren in last Thursday's debate, that the Nonconformists of England have contributed a full share to the progress of Biblical learning in this country. We are glad of this improved state of feeling, and will only add, in the words of a living bishop, "Let there be not false fears about a loving and filial revision of our present Authorised Version." THE BISHOP OF EXETER,. The Post remarks it must be a source of great satisfaction to all friends of the Church to find that at last there is peace between the Bishop of Exeter and his opponents. It was painful to see an able and eminent man, who had been selected by his Sovereign for an important bishopric, received by his Episcopal brethren, an by a large of his own clergy, with disapprobation and distru u m b er the painfulness was not relieved by the feeling that the distrust and the disapprobation were unwarrantable. The best friends of Dr. Temple could not but confess that he had laid himself open to the opposition which he had encountered. His silence has been misunder stood. It has been taken for consent, and hence the oppo sition which has gathered round him on his elevation to a high post in the Church. In reviewing all the circum stances it is impossible not to see that the Bishop has brought a great deal of this resistance on himself. He might have done what he has only just now done months ago, and there would have been an end of strife. This is what Bishop Wordsworth besought him to do, after his confirmation, when he might have done it without the loss of a particle of his dignity or honour. But now that it is done all parties will con cur in forgetting the whole business and in wishing the Bishop of Exeter a prosperous occupation of his honour able and laborious office. Some of our contemporaries have been hard upon the Bishop for giving way, and have not hesitated to have recourse to that last resource of feeble journalism—the imputation of bad motives. But the public will give him fairer play, and readily believe that when he saw —from demonstrations en all sides—that his essay and its company with the other essays were doing harm, and must infallibly weaken his own administration of his diocese, he—without retracting anything that he had said, or compromising his own belief—withdrew the stumbling-block out of the way. HARD POLITICS FOR THE POOR. There is a time for all things, said the Wise Man, and this the Standard ventures to think, is not exactly the time for preaching hard politics to the poor. Just when distress is at its height, when the season is most bitter, when inquests in starvation cases appal us day by day, and when tens of thousands, in the metropolis alone, depend upon benevolence for a meal, a fire, or a bed, symmetrical doctrines of social economy are declared, and the public are rebuked for alms giving. Now, roundly asserted, the truth is that these miser able people never, in the best of times, earn more than sufficient to exist upon, and that, situated as they are, tiley must always be, in a certain measure, depen dint upon the assistance of their neighbours. To this fact the union returns, even of the summer season, year after year, testify. It is 'very easy to sneer at incumbents of parishes for soliciting aid from without; but are these gentlemen, after exhausting their own means, and seeing their parishes swept by hunger, and sickness, and cold, to stand by silent, while solemn theories are debated between Mr. Goschcn and the political economists ? Happily, their notions of Christian duty are different. They are in the presence of calamity, and they strive to alleviate it. Say what you will, who would care to tra verse this huge city, from north to south, from west to •ast, in all its labyrinthine maze, and see all that would be of the poor ? Why, to begin with, there would be pestilence. seen were charityabsent, and the guardians the sole protectors We are generous in our own interest. Unless we ministered to the destitute sick, otherwise than in the parish infirmary, a perpetual epidemic would prevail. It is high time that a stop should be put to pestering appeals from soft hearted incumbents ; that the poor should be taught, if there be no room for them at home, that there is no room anywhere else ; that frost and snow, and want of employ ment, and semi-famine are natural incidents which must be endured ; that we cannot all be rich ; that charity stimulates mendicancy ; and so forth. But the disciples of charity will go about their mission, nevertheless. EDUCATIONAL PERPLEXITIES. The Pall Mall Gazette finds some serious difficulties in the supplementary programme of the National Education Union. The eighth resolution declares that " the general principle of parental responsibility " should "be maintained by the payment of school fees.' The theory of parental duty held by the Education Union is certainly peculiar. They will not hear of the parent being compelled to send his child to school ; that object is pro vided for by a complicated system of " indirect " com pulsion applied to employers of labour. If, therefore, a father can afford to dispense with his child's earnings, he may let him grow up in absolute ignorance without parental responsibility sustaining any injury. But if he sends him to a free school this tender flower of re sponsibility will at once wither and die. It is as if the law were to determine that though parental responsibility does not oblige a man to give his children necessary food, it does oblige him to refuse them leave to eat food which is gratuitously provided for them. The twelfth resolution, when read in the light of the argu ments commonly used against free schools, is hardly less remarkable. It declares that " provision shall be made to meet all individual cases of real poverty, as distinct from pauperism, by the payment of suitable school fees by the local anthorities." The theory of the Education Union seems to be that it will pauperise a man to send his children to a school supported by an education rate ; but that it will not pauperise him to send them to a school supported by school fees, although an education rate has to be levied all the same to give him the means of paying the fees. If we have failed to make this reasoning clear to our readers, it is because we ourselves are unable to appreciate its sup posed force. DR. TEMPLE'S SERMON. The Telegraph declares that Bishop Temple's sermon at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, was the sensation of Sun day. Although the most regular of churchgoers might have been tempted to stay at home by one of the bitterest north-east winds which London has felt for years, the great banqueting hall of Charles was filled to overflowing. Ministers of State had come, with less known worshippers, to hear the prelate whose name has for months been ringing through out England as that of an heresiarch. Perhaps there was an expectation that the Bishop of Exeter would say something about his own position in the Church. If so, the anticipation was disappointed ; for he kept close to the purpose of his discourse ; which was an appeal for pecuniary help on behalf of the poorer clergy. In stinct with homely force, intensely earnest, filled with direct appeals to the heart and conscience, and occasionally rising into pathetic eloquence, the discourse threw a vivid light on the secret of Bishop Temple's personal influence. But it naturally said nothing about " Essays and Reviews," or Convoca tion, or the theological aims of the Broad Church party, or the grounds of the Bishop's disagreement with the ecclesiastical teaching of Archdeacon Denison. For light on these subjects we must go to the last discus sions in Convocation ; which have, indeed, been so im portant as to mark an epoch in the history of the English Church. The American papers are filled with accounts .of Mr. Peabody's funeral and Prince Arthur's move ments. His Royal Highness was present during the final ceremonies, - which took place at the village of Peabody last Tuesday, and are thus described in the telegraphic rep :rts —" The remains were removed from the Peabody Instilute, where they had Lin in state since the 2d inst., to th Congregational Church. ILre, after the usual re ligious ce:mnonies, the Hon. Ruben C. Winthrop delivered an eloquent address, highly eulogistic of the vii toes of the deceased. The coffin was then borne to the Harmony Grove Cemetery, near the town, followed by the relatives. Prince Arthur and suite, Mr. Thornton (the British Minis ter), Admiral F.it:ragut, Captain Commerell, and other British and American naval officers, the Governors of Maine and Massachusetts, the officers of numerous edu cational institutions endowed by the deceased, and delega tions from several State Legislatures and municipalities. The funeral procession comprised over 200 carriages and 5.000 persons on foot." Mr. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, congratulated and thanked Captain Commerell by letter for having performed the task allotted to him by the Queen in conveying the remains to America, and ex pressed his regret that the arrival of the Monarch five days earlier than expected had prevented the assembling of a larger fleet for her reception. THOMAS CARLYLE. The Loudon correspondent of the .Dumfries Standard writes:—" l am sorry to inform you that the condition of Mr. Thomas Carlyle is giving a great deal of uneasiness to his friends. He has long been known to be an unhappy man, although, when in the mood, he is the most delight ful company imaginable. Still it is not often that he is in the mood, and then with his bitterness and fierce sarcasm he makes it bad times for those who are beside him. Of late, too, his glcom, moodiness, desire for seques tration, and irritability when disturbed have much in creased. Friend after friend, who had borne with him long out of respect for his real nobility of soul, have been gra dually alienated by his capricious temper, and now the grand old man may be said to be almost alone in the world with his old Scotch servant from the hill-country of Dum friesshire. Mr. Ruskin was the longest suffering ; but he too knows no longer the way to Cheyne Row. I heard the other day an amusing story of Carlyle. An American author of eminence came over bearing a letter of Introdao.l tion from Emerson, one of Carlyle's special favourite. and warmest admirers. Carlyle has a habit of answering his door himself, a practice rather disconcerting, I should say, to hawkers, beggars, Arc., and indeed to applicants of another stamp. This particular Yankee knocked and Carlyle opened unto him. The man, taken aback, for he know Carlyle well by his photographs (as who does not ?) asked hesitatingly, 'ls Mr. Thomas Carlyle at home ?' Tho sage's reply was a loud and emphatic 'No,' followed by slamming the door with so much abruptness that the American's nose made a very narrow escape. Ho has a large room at the top of the house lighted from the roof, where all his favourite books are, and pasted on the wall are portraits—some fine, some very common— of those whom he regarded as his heroes—Frederick the Great, Gustavus Adolphus, and a number more. This room is his sanctum, and few there be who are admitted into it; I have never known more than two, besides his secretaries, whom he was wont to change very often, and to whom he did not always behave, it was said, so considerately as he might. There is something peculiar in the tenure of Mr. Carlyle's holding of bis house in Cheyne Walk He has not the iemctest conception itbo is his landlord. He saw the advertisement of the house to let, with directions to communicate with Messrs. Coutts and Co., wrote and re ceived a reply accepting his offer, and directing that he should annually pay in his rent—if convenient—to Coutts and Co. account Cheyne Walk.' Further, the rent is fixed so low (X 2.5) as to induce the idea that the arrangement sprung from a desire to accommodate the great author rather than to profit by him as a tenant. THE FAIRLIE RAILWAY SYSTEM. Further trials of the Fairlio " bogie " engines and roiling stock have been made at Hatcham, in the presence of a commission from Russia, a representative from the Swedish Government, another from Norway, the governor of the Bank of England, the chairman of the Great Indian Railway, and other gentlemen from all parts of the world. The Fairlie system of placing the carriages and engine upon trenches or "bogies," has excited universal interest. It is designed to solve that difficult but most important problem for the future of our railways—of how far it -is possible to reduce the dead and unprofitable weight upon railways, to make the locomotive earn more than it does at present, and thus to secure for the pro prietors in them a larger portion of the gross receipts of our railways. The latest experiments at Hatcham have proved entirely successful. A double "bogie" engine, just completed for the Swedish Government, was first tried, with satisfactory results the course being round the " Cabbage Garden" which has become so famed. The steam carriage, which consists of an engine and carriage, running on a double bogie—the carriage 47 feet in length, and with about 40 of the visi tors comfortably seated in it, was next brought out, and its performance was not less successful. Standing in the centre, as the conductor of an equestrian circus might do, the machine travelled round the circle, gradually in• creasing its speed until something like 20 miles an hour was attained. As it passed along, it presented its broadside full to view ; the next instant the front bogie had swung round the curve, and it seemed as if the whole machine were coming full upon the spectator, the front of the bogie being nearly at right angles to the body of the carriage. Following the curve, in an instant the train was on its way along the short portion of the straight permanent way, instantly to meet with another curve equally as sharp, and to be overcome in the same successful manner. The straight lines of the carriage were almost as long as the chord of the arc traversed by the bogies, and the effect was not unlike that of a constant attempt to construct polygons in the interior of a circle, the steam carriage forming at every stage one of the sides of the polygonal figures. The motion of the carriage was singu larly smooth and even, as might be expected, the perma nent way, laid only for a temporary purpose, did not present that evenness of surface which would be obtained upon a well-ballasted road. The next trial consisted of attaching two ordinary ballast trucks,lent by Messrs. Kelk, Waring, and Co, the contractors, to the engine, and running these round the circus with the steam horse. These trucks were fitted with curved heads, so as to admit of their adjusting themselves to the curves as they passed round, and were attached by drawbars secured to the centre of the trucks, instead of by the usual form of couplings. The train, made up in this manner, passed round several times with complete success. Not a wheel left the rails, and the confidence of Mr. Fairlie and his many friends was shewn by the readiness with which they accepted seats in the trucks as they were dragged round th e Hatcham circus. But when an ordinary truck was tried, it got off the line immediately. " Everyone present could see at a glance the manner in which trucks fitted with the usual axles and couplings act on sharp curves, and how frequently accidents must occur to trains while passing round sharp curves." Col. Milward, R.A., has been nominated to sue - coed Col. Boxor in tho Woolwich Arsenal. A PLURALIST.—The Rev. J. H. Sparke, who died a few days ago, was one of the last of the pluralists. He was the sou of a Bishop of Ely. He was prebendary of Ely, rector of Stratham (X 756), vicarof Cotterham (£770), sinecurerector of Littlebury,Chancellor of Ely Cathedral,and rector of Lever ington (.£2,100). These preferments came from his father. He was also rector of Gunthorpe with Bale (£584), to which he was his own patron. The stall in Ely Cathedral is valued at £307, but this seems doubtful. Accepting it, however, and putting the sinecure rectory of Littleburg at its actual value, £24, Mr. Sparke's income, apart from the Chancellorship, was nearly £4,500 a year. Littlebury is mentioned in the paragraph whence we quote as a " sinecure vicarage." There is no such thing. Of sinecure rectories there are, we believe, sixty-two, with an average income of £3OO. lid of benefice is certainly an anachronism.—Clobe. We understand that Earl Brownlow intends to appeal against Lord Romillfs decision in the, Berkhamp st,ad Common case, which, if necessary, ho mill carry to the louse of Lords.- Law Times. rADVEHTISEMEXT. —Holloway's Ointment alid Pills.— Lives Saved.—How happy would those sufferer-a be whose whole system is in danger of breaking down, through the daily druin of discharges from ulceration and skin dis eases, if they only knew that a day rarely passes without new cases of cure being brought to the knowledge of the discoverer of these peerless remedies. For ulcers, sores, burns, bad legs, skin diseases, and similar maladies, the insufficiency of ordinary applications is admitted by all, but none thus ailicted have been disappointed in their ex pectations when a fair trial has been given to Holloway's Ointment Pond Pills. The pain and swelling usually at tending this class of ailments will diminish daily under the cooling and soothing unguent. exclamation, "Bold! again," on his lips, for a note was brought in announcing that he was too ill to attend, and had postponed the trial till the first Monday in March. Thereupon the Railroad King began to dance an Indian war dance and exhibit symptoms of raising Fisk's hair; we say this figuratively, but in truth, Mr. Vanderbilt was too indignant for silence, and loudly declared that the Erie side never intended to try tho case, and kept up this humbug. The New Jersey Legislature are moving to repeal the rights granted to the Erie in that State, and lawsuits continue; however tho strike has failed the strikers forfeiting putlic sympathy by their attempts to bully and coerce the new men engaged. The Erie Railroad has just issued its annual report to the State engineer, showing the amount of stock issued to be $78,536,910, funded deb $23,398,800, total cost of road and equipments $65,131,959 total earnings $16,721,500,t0tal payments,except construc tion, including transportation, interest on mortgage debt, rent cf railroad, &c., $16,245,878, surplus, Oct. 1, $475. Fresh indignation has been unjustly excited against the Erie Railroad Company by a telegram from New York announcing their refusal to receive for transfer into the names of their proper owners the first parcel of shares sent out by the Protection Committee from this side, and the closing of the transfer books without reason. The agents of the committee, Messrs. Devon, Hoff man, and Co. levied a notarial protest, and W. H. A. Michael, the London Secretary of the Committee, addressed a letter to the Stock Exchange, which was there posted last Tuesday, conveying this intelligence. Mr. Michael says :—" Certificates for about 105,000 shares have already been sent out to Messrs. Devon, Hoffman, and Co., of New York, for registration in the names of Heath and Raphael. The names of those gentlemen have further been endorsed on about 84,000 shares preparatory to their being sent out ; but these latter are still in the committee's hands. These 84,000 shares my committee purpose to lodge at a bank in London for the present, and to issue, pending the comple tion of the transfers, certificates in respect of these, of the shares already sent out to New York, and of all further shares which may be lodged for registration. The agent of the committee has this morning sailed for New York, and on his arrival will at once take steps to compel the completion of transfers: , An American points out that the Erie Company are per fectly right to refuse the transfer into the names of Messrs. Raphael and Heath, simply as trustees; the railroad laws of New York, and other States requiring the stockholders' names to be recorded on the company's books. If, he says, the names be forwarded, till shares can he trans ferred into the names of the trustees, each shareholder having a separate account opened in the stock lodger of the company, though all might be represented by the same trustee:. He indicates the error of mixing up the legal and illegal issues of shares, as it is first required to have the illegal issues declared invalid. He laughs at the agent who takes out letters of introduction from the Foreign office as if those or any others could influence the Courts which administer justice outside New York as they do in England, both blowing hot and cold on the same question, but dealing according to the laws of equity. Some of the errors attributed to Mr. Dawes in his great speech against the extravagance of the Executive aro appearing. His assertion was that the estimates of the present Administration for 1870 were $331,000,000„ while those of the late Administration for 1869 only amounted to $303,000,600, though Secretary Boutwell's estimates were but $291,000,000, being twelve millions less than those of his predecessor, instead of $28,000,000 more, as asserted by Mr. Dawes. The way in which Mr. Dawes fell into this grave error was that he took the esti mate book without inquiring minutely into the details, and therein the Post-office expenditure is entered in the gross, whereas only the postal deficiency is included in Mr. M'Culloch's figures. The attack, however, has brought to light some curious errors in the accounts, which deserve the censure of Congress. Not only was the esti mated gross expenditure added to the estimates, but the estimated deficiency is also added to this, and the blunder is further exaggerated by a typographical error of $7,000,000. Mr. Boutwell, in his annual report, correctly gave the estimated expenditure; and it is also, wo uuderstaud, true that even that includes a sum of $5,520,000 for interest on the Bonds purchased by the Government, which will itself bo used towards extinguishing the debt. The at tack by Mr. Dawes on the Executive was commented on and extensively circulated in England, but wo venture to say that there are few English papers that will give the correction. It is true th t this was a matter of contro versy between Mr. Butler and Mr. Dawes, the latter skil fully defending his own figures, but the facts remain that the estimates sent through the President to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury were for $291,000,000, and not $331,000,000. This controversy, which received from General Butler a tone of personality, excited much interest through out the country. Mr. Dawes was dignified and reserved in reply to the attack on himself individually—an attack which did much to mar the eloquence and vigour of But ler's speech. Mr. Dawes took time to reply to the general onslaught with regard to his figures and facts, but he rose instantly to answer the personalities. Where he was bitter was against a Washington newspaper, one of Col. Forney's two, "both dailies." Ile said "A newspaper in-this city, whose praise and censure are alike made to order and for pay, and which never fails to lick the hand that feeds it, wlietherits pay be in gold or the currency of the country, has notified me that lam no longer wanted in the Republican party." Mr Dawes rose to eloquence iu his retrospect of his career in the House, forced from him byßutler's unfair allu sions to his anti-slavery record. "The time that I have served here goes back of the time when these galleries were filled with armed men frowning down on the freedom of debate in these halls; beyond the time when, with re volvers in hand, it was expected to crush freedom of ex pression in these balls. . . . Ido not know that there is any better time for me than now to retire from association with a party which I love so well, and whose principles, to the utmost measure of my ability, I have sustained. I have been here for 14 years, and probably it may be as well that I retire now as at any other time ; but I would rather that some other people should settle that question." Al though Mr. Dawes has given a rude shake to his party, and to the Administration, and consequent annoyance to a strong section, he has lost nothing in public estimation. - M'Culloni's Bill to punisb polygamy is progress ing towards law at Washington, and creating all the ele ments of a storm in Utah. There was a meeting of women in the New Jerusalem to let the world know how the Mor mon ladies regarded that institution. Some of the speakers upheld it as Divinely appointed -as the great safe-guard for woman's chastity—as a practice ordained by nature. They had not met to prate about the Rights of Women, to bring charges against their fathers, brothers, a ons ; they had met in defence of their sacred rights, which they would only surrender with their lives. The orators went on to contrast themselves with Gentile women, very much to the disadvantage of the latter, against whom all manner of shocking charges were brought. The meeting. as ex pressly held to condemn the bill of Mr. M'Oullorn ; but there are other meetings going on in Utah, chiefly at Ogden, where a spirit of rebellion is strong. What is about to happen we cannot pretend to predict ; but we consider there is more chance of a fight in Utah than in the Red River settlement. Indeed the Gentiles of Utah are preparing to contest the supremacy, and one of their schemes has an ugly look for .Mormondotn. They propose to cut off the northern district of Utah and annex it to Idaho. This would go down to within eight miles of Salt Lake City, and add about 25,000 inhabitants to Idaho, two-thirds to three-quarters of whom are Mormons. All the villages of Utah on the Pacific Railroad, the whole of the uppor part of Salt Lake Valley, and the whole of the Cache, Weber, and Boar River Valleys would be included in the transfer. Mr. Ward's amendments were adopted by the House Committee on Territories on the 27th January, and this also looks "ugly" for Brigham, for they autho rize the President to send troops to enforce the laws against polygamy ; but if sufficient troops cannot be at the time be spared, then to employ volunteers ; the property of con victed Mormons, or those who have fled from the Terri tory, to be used in providing for the destitution caused by the breaking up of the Mormon system. The Ways and Means Committee gave a most unexpected vote on the 25th January with regard to the importation of coal. There was a long and warm debate before it was agreed that all kinds of coal should be put on the free list, by 5 against 4. Those who voted for the proposition were—Messrs. Hooper of Massachusetts, Al lison of lowa, Maynard of Tennessee, Marshall of Illi nois, and Brooke, of New York. Those who voted against the proposition were Messrs. Schenck of Ohio, Kelley of Pennsylvania, M'Oarthy of New York, and Blair of Mi chigan. Much surprise was felt when the vote became known, and a reconsideration of the subject was demanded. Nor in vain, for after another protracted discussion bitu minous coal was placed on the list, where it is at present, $1 25 per ton, anthracite coal remaining on the free list The tariff as amended now stands : anthracite coal to be free; the duty on cigars reduced from $3 per pound and 25 per cent. ad valorem to a specific duty of $2 per pound; the duty on tea reduced to 20 cents per pound, on coffee to 4 cents per pound, on sugar from 3,4, and 5 cents to 2,3, and 4 cents per pound ; the duty on steel in all forms changed or consolidated from previous rates to a specific duty of 3i cents per pound; the duty on pig ircn reduced from $9 to $7 per ton, and the duty ou scrap iron from $8 to $G per ton; the duty on tin plates altered to 24 cents per pound; the duties on drugs not materially changed ; the duty on linseed raised to 20 cents per bushel, on lin seed oil to 30 cents, and on cash for beans to $l. 01) books, sewed or stitched, not otherwise provided for, and on all printed book matter, in sheets or otherwise, 25 cent,: le.r pound; on pamphlets, and on periodicals in pamphlet form, except as lawfully transmitted by mail, 15 cents per pound. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be called •"The Royal Irish Distillery." BIRTHS. BATHURST—On the 11th inst., at 6, Eaton-square, Mrs• Ilervey Bathurst, of a son, I_ENY - On the 11th iLst., at Dalswinton, th© wife of W. Macalpine Leny, Lg., of a son. MARRI A CIE. DAMIAN' —PATER— On the 10th inst., at f. t. Paul's. Cam den-square, Thotnaa, son of A. Parham, Esq., late of ( h ,vening, Kea, to Anne Matilda, second dtingiVer Of W. F. Pater, Esq., of 3, Hilmarton-road, -roltd• lIEIXRICII—IIAIItoTE—On the 10th inst., at. Ormest , y St. Margaret's, John L. Heinrich ' Esc'., of Loyton, Essex , to Ellen Augusta Hanrott, of the above place, younges daughter of the late Henry A. Hanrott. DEATHS. GRANT—On the Bth inst., at Tours, France, Lady Isabella Catherine Grant, only daughter of the seventh Earl of Kintore. PAGAN—Ou tho 11th inst., at Glasgow, Mr. James Pagan , Editor of the Glasgow Herald. London : Printed and Published by WILLIANI ANDRE W 9 of No. Strand, Printer, at TRH SUN Office, ZO. 11'2, Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex -- Monday, February 11, 1870 "TAk.