The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-20 00:00:00

lIIE FRWAN OUTRAGE. four CI 111mi: 1 'F t,4 thief) O'clock this morningm en, , ‘" 'whO, it is 'said, are leading members of the Fenian Brotherhood, were brought to the Police-station in Marl „borough-mews, and formally charged with treason-felony. The names of three of the prisoners are respectively English, Esmonde, and John Mulvany. . GeO - ide Smith, the'man who was arrested on Wales "day night, has been for some time suspected and watched by the police ; but it was not until Allen gave information to the police that Smith was supposed to be implicated in the attempt to blow up the House of Detention. He is a shoemaker by trade, living in Dudley-street; St. Giles's, and is an Irishman, as are most of the residents in the street. Several witnesses were brought to identify him on the night of his arrest. He was placed among a number of mcn taken out of the street ; but none of the witnesses identified him, and he was at length discharged from custody. Yesterday Dr. Jenner, physician in ordinary to her Majesty, forwarded to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's inn-road, by special command of the Queen, who is pa troness of the hospital, a large quantity of hot-house grapes and other fruits, for the use of the sufferers from the late explosion, and also expressed her desire to know how the sufferers are progressing. Up to a late hour last evening all the patients were doing well, with the exception of the old man, Humphrey Evans, who in the opinion of the surgeons, Dr. Alexander Marsden and Mr. Gant, was not likely to live through the night. Another sufferer, Anne Chalice, was admitted yesterday, seriously in jured. A letter from Mr. Robert Paget, vestry clerk and hon. secretary to the Clerkenwell Explosion Relief Fund, was received in the course of the day by the hospital authorities, stating that the homes of the sufferers would be restored to them, and that the committee would do everything in its power to mitigate the sufferings and repair the losses caused by the explosion. The gratifying intelli gence was at once communicated to the patients. The damage done in such a place as Clerkenwell by this explosion is almost incalculable, for within the district the most costly time-keepers in the world are manufactured, and the best class of jewellery is to be found here. The name which Clerkenwell bears for democratic associations is to he ascribed to its unlucky " green " rather than to the working population generally, for the workers in Clerkenwell , are as industrious and peace-loving a body of men as any body of artisans in the kingdom. They have no trade unions and no rattenings. Clerkenwell is known as a " poor" parish ; hut it is a well-known fact that the poor who claim the paupers' relief are chiefly of the class who lodge:in the parish and work in the City, and not of the staple ,trades of this ancient suburb. Among the reports circulated through Westminster was one that the gasometers at the Chartered Gas Company's works, Horseferry-road,were in danger of being blown up; upon this the manager called together the men, the majority of whom are Irish Catholics and north country men, and having addressed them, and endeavoured to ascertain their political feelings, was pleased to find that they one and all expressed their abhorrence of the recent outrages, and volunteered to be sworn in as special con stables. In the course of yesterday many were appointed, under the Act of Parliament, for six months ; so that in 'Westminster those first open to suspicion hare turned out the least to be expected and the first to act in any emergency. The Irish tailor Desmond, now in custody for the Cler kenwell outrage, was one of the journeymen who took an active part in the late tailors' strike. He was in custody at the Clerkenwell Police-court, charged with picketting, and was committed for trial. It was very well known at the time that what is termed a Fenian Centre was esta blished in Soho, and that money was sent from Dublin by Fenians for the purpose of carrying out the ulterior views of those who organised the strike. The i .mbent of Clerkenwell, in acknowledging the receipt of subscriptions, gives examples of the necessities created in " the outer circle of this disaster" :—" Women, he states, who used to gain a livelihood by mangling have lost their work because their customers will not entrust their clothes to them, for fear of another catastrophe ; a teacher of writing (Waterloo -place) cannot gather his class of boys ; a woman (Woodbridge-street) who will lose her lodgers if she does not refit the house. I would also men tion that as many as sixteen cases of confinement, many of them prematurely brought on by the shock, are in the hands of one lady visitor. We send out more than a gallon of beef tea, strong and good, every day to these. Nearly all these persons had lost the little clothing they had prepared for the children when born, and we have been enabled to supply them with everything abso lutely necessary for the occasion, besides nurses to anent" them." The vestries of LzLmbetli, Marylebone, and Padtliqgton met yesterday, when resolutions strongly expressive of abhorrence of the outrage, sympathy v ith the victims, and readiness to assist in the preservation of the peace by offering facilities for swelring-in special constably, were adopted. For the last day or two an ail ress to the Lord Mayor of London with reference to the Clcrkenwell outrage Las been lying for signature at the Glasgow Royal Exchange. The address expresses abhorrence of the crime, and requests his lordship to convey to the sur viving sufferers the deep sympathy of the subscribers, and to apply the sum raised by them in subscriptions of half a-crown each towards the relief of distress occasioned by the catastrophe. When the list was closed on 'Wednesday afternoon it bore the names , fif 1,280 gentlemen, the amount contributed being £l6O. SPECIAL MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. Yesterday a special meeting of the Middlesex ma gistrates was held at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, to consider the necessary steps to be taken in consequence of the recent desperate outrage at the House of Detention Mr. Henry Pownall in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, said they were all aware of the circumstances of the recent outrage, and therefore it would not be necessary for him to detain them with any lengthened observations upon it. On Thursday evening, on his return home about six o'clock, he received a communication from the Home Office, the details of which he did not think it necessary to state ; but he con sidered it of so much importance that he immediately went down to the House of Correction, where he saw the governor, and requested him to send some of his warders to the House of Detention. He then made some arrange ments with the governor whereby the safety of the Fenian prisoners was guaranteed. He had adopted measures which had defeated the ends of the plotters. In the ordi nary course the prisoners would have been exercising in tt yard at the time the explosion took place. Lord RANELIGH said he should not have presented him self upon any ordinary occasion to the court thus early, but he wished to draw their attention to some facts to enable them to come to a right decision that day. He trusted his friend Mr. Henry White would move a resolution approving the conduct of the governor, the chaplain, and officers of the prison. In order that they might know some of the real facts, he would state, in tl e first place, that the chairman, as he had already informed them, had received a communication which, he believed, was addressed to him from the Home Secretary, Mr. Hardy, informing him of the intended attack. He believed there was a similar letter sent to Sir Richard Mayne informing hir; that an attack was contemplated on the House of Deten tion, and Sir Michard Mayne informed the governor of the House of Detention of the fact ; and if he was not wrongly informed, the governor replied that he would protect the inside of the prison if Sir Richard Mayne would protect the outside. The information that was communicated by the Home Office of the intended rescue was received from Ireland. It was known in Ireland, it was known in Paris, it was known in London at the middle of the day ; and that being so, he wanted to know how it was that the Chief Commissioner of Police had not taken those precautions that were necessary for the safety of the people. Sir ALEXANDER SPEARMAN (interrupting) said he should like to know whether Lord Ranclagh was about to make an attack upon Sir Richard Mayne—Sir Richard was not there to defend himself. Lord RANELAGII said he should be the last person in the world to attack a man behind his back, but, at the same time, there was serious blame somewhere. It was not with the magistrates, and if it did not rest with the Com missioner of Police, he would like to know with whom the blame did rest. The CHAIRMAN said that nothing had occurred that was not perfectly satisfactory to themselves, to the Home Office, and to the public. (" No, no.") Lord RA NEL.% CH then moved the following resolution : " That the magistrates of the county of Middlesex, in scions assembled, this 19th day of 112 c: ember, 18G7, desire, after full inquiries into all the, circumstance 3 of the cri minal attack made upon the Houle of Detention on Fri day last, to express their unanimous opinion that every available protection within the prison for the safety of the building and the custody of the prisoners was taken, but at the carne time to record the opinion of this court that efficient measures were not adopted by the Chief Commis sioner of Police to guard the exterior of the prison and the approaches to it ; and, moreover, that if such measures had been taken and the previous information given by the Home Office to Sir Richard Mayne had been acted upon, the diabolical attempt would probably have been frus trated, and th-tt at all events the chief authors of the outrage would have been discovered. This court is of that an investigation into the reasons for the pas sive conduct of Sir Richard Mayne should be immediately in-itituted by the authorities empowered to make such an investigation." mr.w. P. BODKIN brought up the report of the visiting justices, which stated the facts of the outrage as already before_ the public, They Paid a cemPlhuent to the geoterna Mul officers of the prison for the ablif tiituitfer itf which they discharged their duties. Major LYON seconded the resolution of Lord PArieligh. , Mr. HENRY WHITE moved an amendment to the effect that the magistrates desire, after full inquiry, to express their unanimous opinion that every available protection for the safety of the building and the custody of the pri soners had been taken. After a few words from Mr. LAURIE, Mr. Alderman ROSE expressed a hope that Lord Rana• lagh would withdraw his resolution. Mr. HARVEY LEWIS, M.P., was sure that a full and searching inquiry would be made by the Government into this atrocious affair, and, further, that if the conduct of Sir R. Mayne called for investigation such would be made. He requested Lord Ranelagh and the mover of the amend ment to withdraw their motions. Mr. KEMP held the opinion that, if an inquiry were deemed necessary, they were not in a position to criticise the conduct of anyone beyond those wally.. Captain liasLEr. considered it a pity that Government did not prohibit the sale of petroleum and phosphorous to all persons but chemists. Mr. STANSFORD said the Government had a very serious and widespread conspiracy to deal with, and lie hoped the meeting would not separate without pledging themselves to give the Government all the support in their power. Lord CADOGAN trusted the meeting would not lose sight of the object for which they had met—the relief of the sufferers by the explosion, and expressed a hope that Lord Ranelagh would withdraw his motion. Lord RANELAGH could not upon his conscience see how he could withdraw his resolution. Mr. LAURIE then moved the following amendment : That this court desires to express their abhorrence of the atrocious act perpetrated at the House of Detention on Friday last, by which so many persons have been killed and maimed, and to record their determination in every way to support her Majesty's Government in their due suppression of all such diabolical and treasonable outrages, and in the maintenance of law and order ; and the court is convinced that in recording their sentiments they are giving expression to the feeling of the community at large. The court also desire to express their deep sympathy with the unfortunate sufferers who have been victims of this wicked and unparalleled crime." Mr. Alderman SALOMONS entirely disapproved the course adopted by Lord Ranelagh. They had met there to ex press their conviction that everything under the circum stances had been done, and not to question the conduct of any public officer. Lord RANELAGH said that as a matter of duty he could not withdraw his resolution. Sir R. Mayne knew of the contemplated attack on the Thursday, and in not adopting measures to prevent it he had not done his duty. Some discussion then arose relative to the amendment of Mr. Laurie, when Lord RANELAGII said that he hoped the public would see whether he had adopted a right or wrong course, and out of respect to the court he would withdraw his resolu tion. (Cheers.) Mr. Laurie's amendment was then read over. Mr. HENLEY seconded it, and it was carried unani mously. Other resolutions were than proposed and carried, ex pressing a vote of thanks to the officers of the prison, to gether with the grant of an additional week's pay, as ale appreciation of their conduct in so trying and exciting a scene, and, further, that a report of the damage done should be reported to the bench. The mag,istrates of the county then passed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and the meeting separated. THE EXPLOSION AT NEWCASTLE'. The Northern Daily Express reports at length the inquest on the seven persons who were killed by the explosion of nitro-glycerine at Newcastle. The coroner deemed it necessary to inquire into the death of Mr. Mawson, who had the direction of the proceed ags. The principal witness as to the events was Sub-inspector Wallace. He gave a very clear statement, which re capitulated the facts already recorded. The following statement in reference to nitro-glycerine, however, is of great public interest : Isaac Lowthian Bell, sworn, said : I have made che• mistry my special study for many years. I am proprietor of chemical works. Nitro-glycerine is not used in our iron mines. We made the attempt to use it, but abandoned it, owing to the effect it had upon the health of the men. I have been in mines in Norway where it was used. The existence of nitro-glycerine has been known for twenty years, yet it has only recently been introduced to public notice, only since 1861 ; consequent'y but a small practical acquaintance has been gathered of it. The chemical affinities of nitro-glycerine are so slight that very trifling circumstances, such as the variation of only a few degrees of temperature during its preparation, is sufficient to cause a considerable change in the nature of the product. As : may be supposed, its component parts separate with ins ! me:visa-able velocity. Hence the violence of its explosion, which has been calculated at ten times that of gun powder. I think gunpowder, gun-cotton, &c., are most properly excluded from storage in towns, yet their pre ! Bence is comparatively free from danger as compared with nitro-glycerine. Fire alone can ignite gunpowder, and although gun-cotton can be ignited by percussion, it must be of great intensity. Nitro-glycerine, on the other hand, particularly if impure, is liable to spontaneous combustion at ordinary temperatures, as was found to be the case with some exploded in a room where the tempe rature had never exceeded 86 degrees. The gas, as given off, if confined to the vessel containing the nitro glycerine, exercises pressure upon that remaining. Unless you continue nitro-glycerine under set pressure, it is liable to explosion. It was found by Kopp to be liable to explosion under the least shock or slightest movement. Again, if this substance is brought from a cool place and exposed to a temperature of 68 to 75 Fahr., decomposition takes place, pressure ensues, and, on removing the vessels containing it, ex plosion may be the consequence. To this cause has been attributed several explosions at Stockholm. Exposure to a temperature of 46 degrees Fahr. causes nitro glycerine to crystallise, and the result in solid matter is liable to explosion on the slightest disturbance. Upon one occasion, in Silesia, a workman attempted to separate a portion of nitro-glycerine ; explosion took place, and he was blown many feet into the air. Nitro-glycerine also, when exposed to a temperature sufficient to cause ebullition, is also very prone to explode. It is said that the presence of two spirits deprives nitro-glycerine of its explosive qualities. To separate the two spirits from the nitro-glycerine, water is added, and the nitro glycerine resumes its explosive character. If, as 1 am informed, the blasting oil as manufactured by Nobel (Harbruch) is diluted with wood spirits, it would appear from the evidence we have heard that cold, by ponderat ing, is capable of preventing the nitro-glycerine from becoming wood spirit. He had a copy of the instructions, on page 5 of which it was stated that nitro-glycerine could be stored for an indefinite time without loss in weight or deterioration in qua!ity. He thought that such an inti mation as that was very likely to mislead persons who were in the habit of using it. He knew chemists who affirmed that nitro-glycerine as found in commerce W-3 more or less subject to decomposition, and consequently liable to produce the results he had just given. It also stated that the peculiar property of blasting oil was, that it would not explode, and even while in an explosive state its carriage was safe. He thought, so far from that being true, it was liable t ) explode while being brought into contact, and consequently should not be carried by any railway company, as they well knew the shocks it would sustain in the truck. It also states that the blasting oil is liable to crystallisation in cold weather. It certainly does state that you had not to heat it upon a stove, but it does not give any precautions for it when it is frozen, nor about its explosive power when in that state. I think the thirty canisters originally stored in the town, if each contained two gallons, would hold about 960 pounds of liquid. Had it been pure intro-glycerine, it would have been equal to 4 tons of gunpowder. Percussion, motion, or moderate temperature might have caused the explosion of it at any time. Its explosion would have been sufficient to blew down 115,000 tons of solid rock. The effect or. buildings so frail in structure as houses, when viewee in comparison with solid stone, is fortunately only matter fur conjecture. The component elements o: nitro-glycerine are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxy gen ; it is, in fact, similar to gun-cotton. Glycerine is used instead of cotton. Glycerine is used as the "base." I would suggest that nitro-glycerine should be manufactured at the place where it is to be used. Having heard the evidence given as to the explosion,my opinion is, that after the empty tins had been conveyed to the second hole, either by movement or possibly . by spontaneous combus tion, the crystals of nitro-glycerine had exploded. Com bustion had possibly been caused by the stuff slipping or moving a little. I believe the article is not manufactured anywhere in Britain. The Coroner, in summing up, said they had had the whole of the evidence brought before them, and he proc ee d e d to inform tin-in of the bearings of the law CM the subject of nit:.,-glycerine. An Act was passed in the 3-car 1866, and, having reference to the previous one passed in 1862, rt,latin ! , -, to the state of petroleum, should be incorporated with that. He thought that when the Government heard of this inquiry they would perhaps take more stringent measures towards its safe storage. There was an Act which imposed a fine of i,"20 per day upon any one storing petro leum without the license of the local authorities. In 1866 another Act was passed by special reason of this nitro- glycerine. Such goods are to be kept marked, and notice of their character given to the local authorities. Such was the law. He did not think it was necessary for them to inquire into the proceedings of Mr. Spark, as the aff a i r was out of hi s h an d s a lt oge th er . If the explosion had occurred in the White Swan-yard the inquiry would be- - assumed another aspect. Mr. Spark rose and was going to speak to the coroner, who told him to sit down. The Coroner, at the request of the jury, read several excerpts from the Acts of Parlia ment. The jury retired, and after an absence of a quarter of an hour returned the following verdict :—" That death has been caused by the explosion of nitro-glycerine acci dentally, and the jury are unanimously of opinion that the law in reference to the storing of nitro-glycerine in tlris_cgc_ia.4 Won grossly violated." • THE JOINT -STOCK COMPANY MANIA. The history of the Joint-Stock Company Mania, when written, will prove interesting and instructive . to the careful student, for it will give a record of English life more loaded with dishonesty and crime, more widespread in disastrous results, than the annals of any other country could furnish. Indeed, on it the story should be based of " All for Greed—and Nought for Love." The mania was commenced by a gang of unprincipled impostors, it was continued by the foolish and unscrupulous, and it is now being wound up by the cruel and vo racious. The Act of 1862 limiting the liability of shareholders in a company, opened the gates of trade to all classes. One of its first effects was a curious alliance between men fertile in imagination, unprincipled in action, and as deceitful as needy, with those who possessed names and characters, to be used as decoy-ducks to allure the public into the snare. The revolution in trade inaugurated by the Act was almost instantaneous. There were lords and baronets ; there were admirals and generals ; there were M.P.'s and professors, who, through the opened gates, saw bright visions of wealth, heightened by every illusion the promoters could devise ; and how this combination worked, all Eng land can tell. Prospectuses filled the columns of newspapers, the creations of the fertile imagina tions of the unprincipled gang, and lay on the breakfast-table of every man who had any means. New things came thick, promising fabled wealth to those who would invest small sums, and even the sceptical were beguiled by the array of names whose possessors vouched for the truth of the attractive state ments. At last, England, after a career of a thousand years, had hit on the Royal Road to Fortune. Our blundering forefathers had shackled trade, while society, built on the effete notions of feudal times, had degraded it, but a new era had opened. Gentle men who had never done anything useful, who had hitherto been rather an obstruction and a nuisance in the world, now came forth to solve most intricate problems of finance—to construct and conduct gigantic hotels—to rebuild cities—to colonise wastes —to reclaim submerged districts—to open out new channels for barter—and all on a scale so vast, with means so simple, with a return so immense, that the imagination of every one was captured. Those who held back saw their more adventurous neighbours pass over their heads in the scale of society. The un believing BROWN beheld the believing JONES move to a better house—a more fashionable neighbour hood—start a carriage, and keep a footman. The explanation was easy. JONES had embarked in a good thing. His 4 per cent. was now 20, and his capital doubled. Henceforth BROWN'S natural jealousy was aided by the comments of his women folk at home. JONES was a man of enterprise, of ability, everything he touched prospered ; but they who were hampered with the foggy, obstinate ideas of BROWN remained in the dark, and thus spurred, he began to read more carefully the allur ing prospectuses which appeared in his newspaper, awaited him at his club, or covered his breakfast table. His first timid step met with so gratifying a result that more bold ones followed, and BROWN presently again became JONES'S neighbour, and the ladies in their own equipage haughtily recognised their old neighbour. There is nothing more fasci nating or more demoralising than making huge gains without any exertion. Money to these lucky ones loses its value; labour loses its dignity ; vanity takes possession of the mind ; for the strokes of for tune are conclusive proofs of the excellence of his judgment and of the enterprise of his character. Nor can it be wondered at, as the world grants the pre mises. BROWN and JONES, everywhere spoken of as shrewd, excellent men of business, go ou their way rejoicing, having simultaneously made a for tune and a character by a few investments in " good things." That society should run mad when such instances were numerous is not surprising. Com panies came out like mushrooms. The proprietors of every concern on the eve of insolvency, by the simple conversion into a Joint-Stock Company, retired men of wealth, taking in exchange for the load of their debts, the hard coin of their unhappy dupes. The gorged promoters became reckless in the under takings they launched in proportion as the voracious public showed the inclination to swallow all. But there is an end to the gorging capacity even of a boa constrictor. Ihe cooks who had hashed up the dishes knew what an indigestible mess JOHN BULL had bolted, and that when he awoke to conscious ness, after his intoxicating feast, he would open his eyes to a griping reality. So they prepared for ano ther phase when the symptoms became apparent, for another little game remained, to play. The stuffing may be the more agreeable and profitable, for the victim i 3 in a fool's paradise, but there was for the cook still a scarcely less remunerative part. He may call on the suffering patient with spectacles on nose, and gold-headed cane in hand, learnedly to discuss the evils of a surfeit, the folly of a disre gard of the laws of health, the wisdom of modera tion and abstemiousness, and administer pills and draughts. The men who had been most active in promoting these companies were the foremost in smashing them. Those best acquainted with the utter rottenness of the institutions combined merci lessly to destroy them, and it became their interest to work the reaction from the greatest height, down to the lowest depth. In the first place, their profits were in proportion to the rise into the clouds to which they could float their balloons ; in the second, it lay in the depth into which they could sink them in the ocean of ruin ; and in both they were aided by the folly of mankind. The most sanguine are the most desponding. Those who rush with the greatest credulity into the danger rush most panic-stricken to get out of it ; and the same fertile imaginations that had pictured such gratifying results were those that spread the prognostications of evil. The na tion has made the notable discovery that a title, is no proof of a man's qualification for business—that an act of Parliament does not alter the laws of trade —and that profitable and successful undertakings are gounded on the necessity for their creation, and the honesty, the economy, the industry, and the ability of their management. If a private firm fails to conduct a business to a success, that success is not likely to be attained by Tom, BROWN, and HARRY combining to work it. We have now arrived at a third stage of the disastrous period we have attempted to sketch. Another gang of harpies are at work on the wrecks left by the storms of 1866-67. 'The law which smoothed away all obstructions on the road to ruin conducted the vehicles which ran over it to the Court of Chancery. So lined was that road with plunderers that few of them arrived there with much left ; but that little is being carefully sifted and gleaned. The machinery of the Court leaves nothing to be desired by those who live on plunder, and as little to be hoped for by those entrapped in its meshes. Over its portals should be written, " All who here , enter, must abandon Hope." It is sure to be the interest of some to avail themselves of the obstruc tion processes, which Chancery technicalities invite, and it would be an instructive lesson if the history were given on reliable data of the cases adjudicated upon during the last eighteen months. The Joint- Stock Discount, Barned's Bank, the Contract Cor poration, are noticeable instances. Every penny for which the shareholders were liable has been called up. Failing the existing proprietary, it is contemplated to go back through the list of those who held shares during the twelve months preced ing the stoppage. The case of the Contract Cor poration is absolutely astounding. 'The liability was for £lOO per share, of which £lO had been called up when the concern stopped. By an order of the Court a call of £55 per share either has been cr will be made ! Who can wonder at the utter stagnation which has marked this disastrous year, when such companies can run such careers—almost without comment ? Meu are too apt to set it down, when the course of dishonesty appears to be uni versal, that it is in obedience to a law of nature —that they are victims to their ignorance of this law—and that they would only display their own folly, by entering an indignant protest against it. —Anglo- Ainerioan Times. The Postmaster-General has accepted offers for carrying the mails during 1868 from the United States t• Great Britain from the Hamburg American Packet Company, the North German Lloyd, and the Inman line. A contract is also to be made with the Cunard Company, and four mails weekly will be sent from America during 1868. ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1867 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The efforts of Colonel Wood, of the Treasury Department, Secret Service Bureau, have, after much labour and by the aid of detective Nettleship of Newark, been successful in discovering the coun terfeitors of the 7-30's and other forgeries. William Spencer, alias William C. Brockaway, and Hannah Seymour, his reputed wife, assisted by five other persons whose names are withheld, formed the gang. Paulsboro', Gloucester county, New Jersey, is the village where the work of engraving and cir culating the legal tenders was done. Spencer and his wife were arrested in St. James's Hotel, New York, Nov. 15, when preparing to leave for Europe. they were taken to Newark, before Commissioner Whitehead, and bailed in the sum of $40,000 to appear for an examination, and the amount was readily produced by Hannah, who had the sum in her pocket. It appears that the establishment was in operation as long ago as 1865, and the business is estimated to have netted upwards of $1,000,000. Of the 7-30's it is, however, stated that only notes amounting to $lBO,OOO are afloat, and that none were issued till the middle of September. They were made from lead impressions of the genuine plates at Washing ton, secured by a confederate. All engaged having male their fortunes now reside in different parts of the country. Secresy was maintained till the Go vernment officers felt secure of their prey, and it is believed that the whole gang is in custody. Spencer, who is a tall, intelligent, gentlemanly-looking man, is the owner of a handsome residence in Philadel phia, worth, it is said, $200,000. The opening of the Union Pacific Railway to San Francisco would be a most propitious time on which to hold at New York the next Grand Exhibition. Americans are fond of " big things." Their minds receiving the impress of the natural features around them, reflect the gigantic. When the greatest un dertaking the world has yet constructed is com pleted, it would be worthy of the occasion to in augurate it at one of its termini with an ovation such as the world has not yet seen, and invite man kind to the Show. A communication from Omaha, dated Nov. 24, tells us that the railroad now runs 525 miles west of that city, and that in January the track will be laid to Evans's Pass, the highest point between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and 30 miles beyond the distance now reached. It is worthy of remark that the steepest grade of the rise is but 80 feet to the mile, while on many of the Eastern roads the slope is over a hundred. The design has is it a grandeur and magni tude sufficient to seize on the American ima gination, and to divert attention from political squabbles, which injure all and improve none. Writing on the World's next Fair, the San I rancisco Mining and Scientific Press says :—" Al though Vienna has been prominently spoken of as the locality for the next World's Fair, there seems to be a very strong disposition, on the part of the French and English, that New York should be se lected. It is thought that the experience furnished by the Paris Exposition will be better utilised to wards making a grand success in New York than in Vienna. It seems to be conceded that no people grasp at an idea so quickly, or work it out with such practical vigour, as the Americans do. The most casual hint thrown out by a journal is often sufficient in their hands to give birth and material to a mighty design." The cable news this week has been unusually im portant, having told us of the defeat of the resolu tion for the Impeachment of President Johnson by 108 votes against 57. The bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means, suspending Mr. M.‘Culloch's authority to contract the currency, has passed the House. On the Ist inst. the debt of the United States was $2,639,000,000, and the cash in the Treasury was $138,000,000. If the news from Mexico, dated the 29th ult., be true, President Juarez has declared war against Guatemala. General Butler has been addressing a committee of the whole House in behalf of his plan of paying off the 5-20 Bonds in greenbacks. He took two days to give the members the benefit of his financial knowledge, and a rehash of the cold shoulder to which he has been treating the country. No one backed his arguments; even Thaddeus Stevens was silent during the debate. Mr. Blaine (Republican) from Maine demolished Butler's reasoning, and his statements carried the greater weight, as they are known to be inspired by Senator Fes senden. Mr. Brooks's speech was remarkable for a statement that during the passage of the 5-20 Loan Bill he withdrew an amendment to make the Act expressly state that the Bonds were payable in gold, only upon an assurance from the Republican benches, then as now ruling, that such was the distinct understanding. He further stated that the Democratic party would not take up the cause of repudiation in the coming Presidential campaign. The Washington correspondent of the Standard alleges that the Pendleton-Butler theory is growing in favour with the people, giving as a reason that the Government is annually robbed of £23,000,000 by defrauders of the Internal Revenue Department alone. The effect is alike disastrous on the Government, and on thos.3 who do not desire to defraud it, as the discontent produced is of the sort that inevitably breeds dis honesty. It must be acknowledged that so gigantic a school for swindling must turn out some. apt pupils, and repudiation is the child of dishonesty. " The secretary of the Treasury," says the Wash ington Correspondent, " has documents establishing the existence of a vast secret society of revenue swindlers, with officers and agents in every State of the Union, with a code of laws, a system of signals and cyphers—in fact, an organisation as complete as that of the Revenue Department itself." On the 25th November a great Fenian meeting was held in New York to express indignation at the execution of the Manchester prisoners. This action was denounced as a violation of international law. Government was invoked to move for the release of naturalised American citizens imprisoned in England for political offences, and to claim indem nity for such outrages. A committee was elected to proceed to Washington to bring the subject be fore Government. The most prominent speaker was Horace Greeley ; and letters were received from Generals Butler and Banks expressive of sympathy. On the 28th a great Fenian funeral procession took place, when upwards of 13,000 members of Irish societies followed three hearses, each containing an empty coffin bearing the names of Allen, O'Brien, and Larkin, and the words " We mourn our loss." John Savage, Stephen's successor, delivered an oration. He asserted that the blood of the martyr is more inspiring than the red wine of tyrants. So inspired became the orator that it is probable he danced on the platform, for it is reported to have come down with a crash, and Savage's blood was near being poured into the vat that contained that of the other martyrs. There seems to be a diffe rence of opinion as to who are the Manchester martyrs—for a committee called on Superintendent Kennedy, requesting an escort of policemen for the funeral procession, and met with a stern refusal. " You come," said Mr. Kennedy, " to me—a policeman, for an escort of police for sympathisers with the fate of men who murdered a policeman." Many citizens urged the Police Commissioners not to grant an escort, but, as the New York Herald observes, there was little need of any urging, and the following order appeared :—" A parade intended to do honour to the murderers of the Manchester policeman having been projected for to-morrow you will on that day hold your whole command on duty, your off platopu in reserve, subj ,, ct to future orders.—Jonx A. KENNEDY." We may here state that proclamations have been issued prohibiting , funeral processions in Ireland, that that in Liver pool has been forbidden, as well as another in Glas gow, and that Mr. John Martin, the chairman, and Messrs. Waters, Scanlan, and Lalor, secretaries of the committee which organised the Dublin procession, have received summonses to appear on Monday, as the Government has instituted prosecutions against them. W. E., whose letters in the Boston Advertiser, in reply to General Butler and others, have obtained so wide a publicity, has been examining the United States National Debt to discover the truth of the allegation that it is " an intolerable burden." His research leads him to the conclusiouthat if the debt were equally divided, the proportion to each would be $69 50c., on which the interest would be about one cent a day. Against this he calculates the in crease of property, taking the two States of New York and Ohio alone, and he finds that if the rate be continued for three years at the present ratio it would be sufficient to pay the entire debt with three hundred millions of dollars to spare. The hardship to the labouring classes grows out of the inflation of the currency, and all schemes for re pudiation involve an expansion, and therefore act injuriously on them. It is suggested that a simple solution regarding the 5-20's would be for Con gress to order a certain amount of the bonds to be paid off in gold, and then to let any one try to make a distinction between these and the re mainder. [\V. E. is Mr. Endicott, a Boston mer chant.] if the Nation is right, we are wrong in asserting that the excursionists in the Quaker City enjoyed an agreeable and instructive voyage. " Nobody who hail any experience of human nature on a journey," observes the Nation," ever expected that you could shut up together 60 persons of all ages, sizes, and of various callings and antecedents, in a steamer for six months, without making them miser able and their trip a failure." After a vast experi ence, we assert it to be possible with travelled persons who have learnt in some degree to accommodate themselves to circumstances, who have an acknow ledged leader. Had General Sherman and Henry Ward Beecher accompanied the party as intended, such leaders would have been provided. As it is, we are told, the passengers have come back furious. A committee was to have sat to consider the applications for tickets, and to discuss the social position, refinement, and culture of the applicants' and, moreover, each had to provide a credit at his bankers of $1,250. " The promised musical instru ments consisted," a mal-content informs the Nation, "of a husky-voiced clarionet, a poor piano, and a melodeon." The modified billiards' were disks of wood on the deck, pushed about with forked poles ; and the library was made up of a few hymn books of the Plymouth collection, and two volumes of Harper's Weekly." Thus, reduced to their own re sources, the heavy hours were wiled away by cri ticism on fellow passengers; materials being accu mulated by the critics in the simple way of lis tening at the key-holes. The remarks based on such intelligence do not appear to have been received in a " kindly or docile spirit," or to have exercised any improving influence on mind or character. The Nation hopes that this second experiment of Mr. Oscanyan may prove a warning. It recalls that of the year 1865, when he tried to get up a similar enterprise, promising a large crowd, " select society, and a variety of pure delights" on board his steamer, besides the unusual facilities for " seeing things" in the Levant, to be secured through his " high connections in the East." Weston has successfully accomplished his great walk from Portland to Chicago, having reached his destination on Thursday, the 28th of November, at 10 a.m., doing his 1,237 i miles in 26 walking days. He made five attempts while performing this extraordinary feat to walk 100 miles in 24 hours, but he failed each time—coming nearest on the last occasion, when he made 86 miles in 21 hours 15 minutes. By this failure he loses $6,000 of the $lO,OOO he would have otherwise won. A Cleveland paper gives the following account of him : " The ordinary physical laws which govorn men aro at a loss when applied to him. He eats daily enough food to sustain three ordinary men. He rarely, in the warmest weather, or when walking fastest, perspires a drop. If he grows nervous and excited he must either shed tears or bleed at the nose. After the most severe exertion ho is never out of breath. Pedestrians usually lag toward the end of a day's walk. Weston is capable of six miles an hour till he drops—if, indeed, it should ever happen. A paradox throughout, wilful, timid, wayward, manly, de voted to principle, it is not strange that a man who sets at defiance the ordinary weaknesses of the flesh should per form extraordinary feats. People from every walk in life, from the village minister to the scape-grace school boy, whose father is a shoemaker, men, women, and chil dren, seem to share a common mania to get within touching distance of 'the boy.' The carriages crush and jam together, ladies scream, horses kick, but still the place of honour, a place sought by every vehicle, is close to the right or left of the white hat dimly seen at times through clouds of dust. We noticed one aspiring female, with a huge red-faced baby in her arms, driving a plethoric old mare geared to a rheumatic buggy, while the colt,' a graceless stripling, with a tail and mane knotted with burrs, ambled behind. Notwithstanding baby, colt, and the shouts of small boys, the woman held her place in the procession for nearly ten miles. To keep the walker free from the pressure of such a constant throng is a work of herculean difficulty." The Alabama Convention made an attempt to disfranchise those who did not aid in reconstruction, but the measure was defeated by a few votes. The common-school system has been adopted, but separate schools for blacks and whites prohibited. All State officers—Judges and Executive—are to be elected by the people ; the present Constitution remains, for the most part, unchanged ; and Con gress will doubtless revise the Suffrage clauses. The Louisiana Convention met at New Orleans on Monday, the 25th Nov. ; two- thirds of the delegates are blacks. They commenced by appointing coloured men to all the offices, with the single ex ception of the President, Judge Taliafero, a white man of great influence. There was a close vote re garding the newspaper office the Convention was to patronise for printing. The black New Orleans Tribune, however, gained the day by one vote over the white Republican. Following the example of Alabama, and not content with the large measure of power thrust into their hands, they resolved in caucus to l i remove the present State officers, and to elect a new set. There must be something peculiar in the air of New Orleans, as it appears to create a removal mania, as it generates yellow fever. The resolution ' is clearly illegal, and when General Hancock floats off the mud bank, which we now learn he has done, he will probably put his heel on it. It is scarcely likely that Sambo will be permitted to do that which one of the most renowned of Northern generals was removed for attempting. The Standard, in an article on Tuesday last on recent purchases of territory by the United States, observes, " that the notion of buying a whole coin - munity en bloc, masters and servants, whites and niggers, men, women, and children, just as if they had been a herd of cattle, is hardly reconcilable with the principle of a Republic, still less with that. of the Government of the United States. It is a proof of how utterly the whole basis of the American Constitution has been altered, when we hear not a word of protest against the present purchase from any of the Americans themselves." In the same paper the following intelligence is given by the Washington correspondent, writing on the 26th Nov.:—" Mr. Seward's magnificent schemes for the acquisition of territory have suddenly come to grief. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 93 to 43, has suspended the rules, and adopted a resolu tion declaring that any further purchases of terri tory are inexpedient, and that the House will hold itself under no obligation to vote money to pay for any such purchases. Mr. Washburne, in offering the resolution, said that he intended it as a warning to Denmark and to all the world." It is no won der that people who read the Standard have con fused notions of American politics. The Spring field Republican finds fault with the Washington Government for allowing but $l,OOO each to only ten members of a commission number ing 40, detailed for duty at the Paris Exhibition. Alluding to the Reports of Committees that are of real value, it speaks of those of Dr. Thomas W. Evans on sanitary reforms, and of Colonel Norton, of the Paris banking firm of Norton and Co., State Commissioner of New York, who prepared a very complete report on the materials of war exhibited, which it describes as " a gem of its kind, illus trated with elegant sketches, and full of valuable, graphic information. It holds also many practical and appropriate points as to breech-loading arms, field and heavy ordnance, projectiles, fortifications, iron -clads, &c. Many other gentlemen have shown the same praiseworthy enthusiasm as Col. Norton, and have been willing to work for the Government's good at the great Exhibition, even though not paid one-half what their expenses must be. A few of the State Commissioners have been sneaks, and, in stead of remaining at their posts, have rambled about Europe, enjoying simply their dignities ; but they belong to that class who say, No pay, no work.' " A. 0, Brewster has published a petition addressed to Governor Bullock of gmeachusetts for a gene ral gaol delivery of violators of the Prohibitory Law. The advocates of drink seem to be moving with energy in support of delirium tremens, as the Pall-Mall Gazette says, in allusion to a new weekly called the Scottish Advertiser, " announced from that focus of Scottish inebriety, Glasgow," The Lushing tons of Maine and other New England States have hitherto imbibed their alcohol in cellars driven underground by the indignant cry of the teetotallers. General Neal Dow has just returned to America from "stumping" England in the cause of total ab stinence. During his absence there has been a great backsliding in his New England strongholds, and the temperance apostle has no sooner quitted the shores of Old England than the Scottish Advertiser arises to counteract the attack on the dealers in spirituous liquors and companies, who, it says, are " constantly assailed, not only by the fair weapons of fair argument, but by the grossest exagge rations ; teetotallers having reduced their assaults to a system, and their slanders to a science." The pro jectors count upon a hearty support in this popular and useful field of action. The Pall-Moll considers the name to be a servile plagiarism from the Morning Advertiser, and suggests the Early Purler, which "would combine a connection with the powerful English organ to which Messrs. Parlane and M'Callum seek to affiliate themselves with a suffi ciently clear indication of the spirituous and com posite nature of the interests our newly-born con temporary proposes to advocate." The Manchester Alliance News has an excellent acrostic and telestic on Neal Dow, which will be found in our miscel laneous column, and Frank Leslie has one of its most telling pictures, the Saturday night prepara tions of the Irish at the whisky vaults for their Sunday's entertainment. The San Francisco Bulletin alludes to the pro bable transfer of the Australian steam line from 1 3 anarna to San Francisco ou the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Referring to a letter written by Mr. Crosbie Ward, the original promoter . of the Panama Line, giving the figures and the reasons which make the change desirable—as they appeared in our columns some weeks ago—it speaks of that gentleman as being in Australia. We are sorry to say thilt Mr. Crosbie Ward died last month in Lon don, and our contemporary, though right in other respects, is so far in error. On Monday, the 25th November, Speaker Col fax announced the committees in the House of Representatives. Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, is ap pointed Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, to the astonishment of all, as no one was aware of his knowledge of finance. Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, who was second on the committee last year; and looked to the chairmanship this, was re moved to that of Military Affairs. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens remains Chairman of the Committee o n Appropriations ; but as he is not likely to prove strong enough to serve, Mr. Washburne, of Illi nois, will in effect act as chairman. The constitu tion of the Ways and Means Committee is said to favour high tariff and inflation, and Mr. Colfax de fends himself by stating that such is the temper of the house, and it is his business not to represent his own views, but those of Congress. The blindness of the Radical leaders to the change of opinion in the United States is not surprising, when they have failed so egregiously in ascertain ing the feeling of their own House, instanced by their calculations as to the division on the question of Impeachment. On the 27th of November a careful count was made, which gave a majority of ten against Impeachment. The leaders, Messrs. Boutwell, Lawrence, and Ashley, considered that they were certain to carry the motion. Now that we know there were 57 Yeas against 108 Nays, we may well wonder how any doubt ever existed on the spot. Recent events in Italy appear to have stimulated emigration, and the drift is to the United States. It is something new for Italians as a nation to take to emigration, but the movement is so marked that it cannot be overlooked, and may perhaps be taken as a sign of reviving energy with greater freedom. The route is via Hamburg or Bremen ; and during the last three weeks upwards of 4,000 have passed through Germany to take shipping to America. The fall iu the pricy of gold has been heavy in New York, and shows a growing confidence both in the political future of the country and the finan cial legislation of Congress. A large amount will be disbursed from the Treasury on the Ist January on 5-20 coupons, and a loan of £1,900,000 con tracted in 1847 then becomes due. The shipments to this side will increase, as a considerable portion of the sums are owned in England. INTERNATIONAL LAW OF J'RI VA- TEERIN G. - --~- The war between England and Abyssinia may again raise the question of privateering. If cruisers bearing letters of marque from King THEODORE can legally issue from any port and prey on British commerce, the speculation will be too enticing for some adventurous spirits to refrain. It is alleged in New York that commissions have been applied for from the Emperor of ABYSSINIA to fit out such vessels, and proceed iu his name against the trade of the invaders of his country. Were such a step taken, the Alabama question would receive further complications, and perhaps lead to very serious re sults. The law regarding privateering is at pre sent in an incomplete and unsatisfactory state. The Declaration of Paris, April 16, 1856, agreed to the following points :—That privateering should be abolished ; that neutral prOperty under an enemy's flag, not contraband of war, should be exempt from capture; that enemy's property under neutral flag should be equally exempt ; that a blockade to be binding should be effective. The Maritime Powers of Europe, excepting Slain, adopted these, but the United States refused to join. The Government at Washington desired that the third point should be extended to exempt all private property from capture. The principle was advocated in a Circular Note, dated July 28, 1856, by Mr, MARCY, and was favourably received both in Paris and iu London. Before, however, any practical measure could be based on the theory, a change of public feeling occurred both in England and in the United States, and the subject continued to be discussed until Mr. BUC HANAN'S Presidency, when the negotiations were broken off in consequence of certain concessions referring to the right of blockade being demanded by his Secretary, Mr. CASS. In 1859, at a great meeting of shipowners and merchants at Bremen, the principle advocated by the United States was adopted, and warmly supported in Germany, France, and England. It is possible that the Bre men resolution might have been favourably re ceived by all Governments but for the outbreak of the American War. When the Washington Cali net saw that the rebellion of the Southern Confe deracy was inevitable, they resolved to accede to the four points of the Paris Declaration without reservation, but in separate conventions, and for warded instructions to the Embassies abroad to that effect. The march of events, however, was too quick for the slow process of diplomacy, and the question dropped. Hitherto England has been opposed to the change. Her immense fleet of fast vessels gives her an advantage in acting against the commerce of her enemy. But, on the other hand, her enormous trade, spread over the seas, makes her peculiarly vulnerable to the attack even of an insignificant foe. It is urged by those who oppose the exemption of all private property from capture that it is unwise to deprive war of any of its losses and terrors. When nations engage in hostilities, the citizens must make up their minds to bear the penalties. As it is they are too prone to quarrel, and it is advisable that breaches of the peace of nations should be accompanied by disas trous waste to the warring countries, and thus a great weight be thrown into the scale of moderate coun sels and concessions. It is also alleged that the most effective weapon of weak maritime States would be lost with the change. But this is scarcely in keeping with the course taken by the English Government, which has, on the whole, although the strongest of maritime Powers, opposed the prin ciple. Again, it is urged that necessity knows no law, and when a nation fights for existence all considerations are subordinate to self-preservation. This means that cruisers on the, high etas will pay little attention to such resolutious, but adopt high r handed proceedings in positi ons beyond the Pyl e of controlling influence. When the fight becomes hot and passions st r o ng ly exc it e d, th e m ost effect ual means will be taken to cripple an enemy. The principle that all private property is sacred_whetbe: on land or at sea—may have met with the nle s forcible arguments in a gathering of philanthropists in New York, but its most forcible illustrations are given in SHERMAN'S destroying march, and the Ala ; bama's fiery cruis e . Th us , it i s sa id, that war O s be enacted, however pacific may be the thcoriA and their adoption by nations will but restrain the more conscientious, and give an advantage to th e l unscrupulous. If th e wor ld wou ld by ithiversa cccisent resolve that all p r i va t e property en the high seas sh ou ld b e exemp t f rom ca pture, th er " , would of course be an end to privateering, and e°111 ; coerce would be freed f rom a grea t danger. v ° , whether such a measure co m es i n t o practice or net' the international law on the subject of privateer 31 should be disti nc tly enunc i a t e d , an d ma de twiver s o a i What constitutes a reg u l ar ly comm issioned sh i p war? The Alaba ma c l a i me d t o b e o ne, altho u g' belonging to a St ate i n re b e lli on, i ss uing foul i port friendly to her enemy, and flying the colou r " of a Confederacy unknown diplomatically to nations: into one of whose harbours she had never enteredbuppose a vessel were fitted out in New York , P r°: fessing to be a cruis er o f hi s mos t Christian A la, jesty the Emperor of ABYSS INIA , how is B ' l° l l vessel to be regarded ? It i s manifest he Pa " neither a port, a ship, nor a sa il or , but he ne a p' by making his mark at th e b o ttom of . a s heet of parchment, create a fl ee t, a lth o ugh he be but a mere inland African savage. Indeed he w °l/1a have little trouble in finding some patriotic Eng : lish ship-builders, ready to supply—for a cons i d e , ration—all required, for proceeding against 13ritisn. commerce. The emissaries of the Confederate G f,, vernment found no difficulty in dealing with t he most eminent of English firms, although their pi t / gains were purch a sed a l mos t a t t h e expense ° f , war between the two great branches of the Angl t Saxon race, and cruel loss and suffering to all. is clear that such a state of things cannot be P er t milted to continue ; a n d w ith the settlemen t ° the Alabama claims, ought to come a clear state ment of the principles which great mar itime Ir . , tions will be prepared to enforce regarding properi l a at sea. Although we would regret to learn that privateer had escaped from any port bearwg e letter of marque from King THEODORE, we h ellev .,h that nothing would more tend to quicken Engl sensibilities as to the real nature of the Alabauld' outrages than a taste of the bitter cup others "! re g forced to swallow. We g o d r ifti ng along, w riti fi li ts despatches and receiving rej o ind e rs, while eve . n - s t are progressing towards a state of things ag al 7 o until which they are intended to provide, an awake among the breakers, when all is hurl - confusion. of The Abyssinian expedition is itself an insta nce this. THEODORE'S letter actually offered the opP a t tunity of conciliating and making a friend o f barbarous and energetic monarch. Throug h " ii d gross and culpable negligence of Lord RUSSELLSAt Mr. LAYARD it became the cause of the War' a° this moment the British Government might P.- T . O , been exchanging friendly communications an d P: 0 , scuts with the KING, and perhaps exercising n u i ss fluence for good in Abyssinia, if common pa tell ,, e o, and consideration bad been shown. Instead '" a heavy tax is being levied on the English P e % to send soldiers into a most unhealthy country cut the throats of a wretched set of barbarians' . se d more paltry cause never led to a more ill -ad° ap war, and we can only hope that the operations be confined to the districts over which King Til t he DORE rules. Let us, however, take time hY. 03 1 forelock, and urge to a settlement, the Intern atie Law of Privateering.—Anglo-Anierican Times. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. tuatralia and New Zealand, via Southampton. J 14' . a n ' Ditto, via Marseilles . . ....... 30. Ditto, via Panama ....... ........... De' ire zi I, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video ........•• Jan °27 . Dec Ditto, by French packet ...... .... 3. Care Verds. by Brazil packet .... ..epe of Good Hope. Ascension. and -it. tieleu - ... .• ... . . ..... 2 20 3 . l'eaang., and Sing Ip , lre, via SouJoamptoa • • I)°e. 25 ee. Ditto, via Karaali:•.s p 5. Falkland Islands ... ..• . Jan 20. liibraltar, via Southampton .................. 9cG. India, via Southampton • ........ . v• . Ditt, , , Nis 3lareeil es lialta, Egypt, ~t%, Ditto, Marsdiies Mauritius, Cape of Good 11lie, and Natal, via 0. Southampton ....... ....................... •• • ' 4- IS Jan' Ditto, Martel les :•• ewfoundla .................................. Ja n " 5. Portugal Jan' Ditto, by pr . la ship to Oporto .. Ditto • -tto to Lisbon United States. k anada, California, Ste., try British pe 1 6 O• packet .. .. Ditto, by L ited states packet ............... • Ditto ditto 'New York .................... Ditto ditto iNt.w York) • ....... Ditto di tt (Baltimore) .... . Ditto, by Canadian packet • ................... 1 1 7 ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ...... Went Indies and Pa...dfie (except Mexico and Baha .. De' 0 mas) Cuba and Mexico ,Jan. ..... Lisliamao; via New York Lienatitla, via Halifax THE FATAL COAL-PIT EXPLOSION IN -FR kis 00gri The Courrier de Saone et Loire, in referring to the c rp se9 explosion of fire-damp at Bl anz y, s tates Ulla 57 ° ,, s ed ..opw . have been already got out, and th a t 34 more are s'i-terea• to be in the galleries which have not as yet beet' eu , and M. Schneider, director of the Crouzot establishme" rto lbe president of the Legislative Body, has sent 10,000 families of the persons killed by the explosion. a so I - ADVERTISEMENT.] --Holloway's Ointment hri .°ll,, tis , r oa Lumbago, derangement of the kidneys, rlaeura 3 doloreux, all excruciating pains of the musc les a dof are relieved with astonishing rapidity by the 'is:l4osli extraordinary Ointment. The affected parts, visa, fomented with warm water, have only to be ruhbe'voilP with this soothing ungent to obtain instant egr e e ' ro vel the Ointment cures the local ailment, the ri lls r „lire whe constLutional disturbance, and regulate eve r J„dy. ";, 0 t function of every organ throughout the humanrniau cure is neither temporary nor superficial, but p er fect ,et and complete, and the diseases seldom recur , soil ) b ia been the purification performed by these sottre 1916 harmless preparations. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Henceforth no one will deubt n th . : iisS . g s properties of Du Bar r y' s h e alth- r estoring Reo ie n i hien e eti Invalids' and Infants' F oo d, since to the thousands;,;, bauope. it has already received from Invalids whose pos,i., s h„ot° deemed aopeless, we may now add that of his ID; i i ,r t hirtpttl whose health has been perfectly restored by it alte' to "(lib 0.: of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote froti i - e ; bca e do Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.--' the Holy Father is excellent, especially since , pu tof" - other remedies, he has conilned himself enti:ely to Revalenta, Aranica Food, of which he consumesyoueuoiS at every meal. It has pioduced a surpi'isiproag, of effect on his healtk, and his Holiness canWi e sv excellent food too highly." We extract a garci-ocarA more than 68,000 curas:—Oure No. 58,216, of the_ st iug de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint,. , 11 o ve?2 v et, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitatitT : o i e rabi j of` l , digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in' im eiesm si3l; vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart d? Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dysPePt' u. t iervl s , fli j „ " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dysPeP s ! - ' s icla'` - o bel): asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, S1)1, 01 '3,00 D ioo,, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: .3-tr• „ it ting o „ t iot'',, s of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs , % an t liver derangement, and partial deafness IMP G I . in'. ow' . Beware of the many unsavoury and more than s °F; l uoP ~ to which, without authority Baron Liebig's mi lli ciously attached A slb I1°: 1 lie 1 ' 6 In tins at ls. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs. , 4s. :0:(1 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY DU BARRY - 182 Pi nd Ltegent-street, London; also For tnam and Masai:, 1 50. °' and at 61, Gracechurch-street; ,4, Cheapside; ..%euiists Oxford-street: 330 Strand; and all grocers ant" BYRON.—On the 17th Births.. 3 ~.._ A , i gto l6 inst., the Hon. Ir 6. Byron, of a son. terrac e, CHAMBERS—On the 18th inst., at 2a, Sutherlana-te. S.W., the wife of Thomas Chambers, Esq. , 0f ri 6t : : :eil' 4 WILD ES —On the 19th inst at 16, Elvaston-plce, '''' gate, the wife of Capt. G. H. Wilder, of a So u ' Marriages. r 03 ,- BILLING —BROGDEN —On the 18th inst., at Manchelgarl, thedral, William Billing, Esq., of Manchester, ~ .4 , , 0 ). _ Jane, _youngest daughter of John Brogden, , Sale, Cheshire. P e ' LEIGH —BuTLEB.—On the 19th inst., at St. Ju nlel :7/. A " cadilly, Allesloy Boughton Leigh eldest sun °' Jr' t° B. Leigh, Esq., of Brownsover Hall, WrarwicKstes"lo Ellen Caroline, daughter of the Lion. Chu rl° Butler, of Coton House, in the same cottnty• Deaths. .i DiP rrei CA RNWATH —On the 14th inst, at Ba,neres 0,.,1 Ratites Pyrenees, the had of Carnwa'th, uge d l i . COP CLAY—On the 19th inst., in Eaton-square, 1)34 wife of Sir Wm. Clay, Brt., aged 67. . 9 6 1 , DYNELEY—On the 15th inst., at Bath, Chas. P.l oele?;/ Call' Deputy-Registrar of the late Prerogative Court terbury. ~ gucle MUDGE—On the 13th inst., at Malvern, Zao lul* ' v rtuia Esq., of Sydney Plympt on, Devon. r SHARPE—On the 18th inst. , at 48, York-s'breet., -. o s gea square, Henry E. 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