The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-10 00:00:00

SPIAIT or TILE 1 , 013L10 JOURNALS, The Times remarks that while the representatives of the National Emigration League have been elaborately proving " that the surplus hands in the labour market could be abundantly provided for in the Colonies," and deducting from this almost self-evident proposition the Irrelevant conclusion that the State is bound to supply means for the transfer of population from England to her outlying possessions, the significant silence of the Queen's Speech on this important question has given the definite answer to those demands which Mr. Glad stone, with sensitive delicacy, seemed to shrink from giving to the deputation that waited upon him a few days ago. We are profoundly astonished that colonial poli ticians of repute, and even former representatives of the Imperial Government like Sir George Grey, should so far misconceive at once the temper of the colonists and of the English people as to imagine that the latter would claim or the former concede the right of pouring thousands of unskilled labourers, without any resource against a possible failure of work, into a new country, where the security of a poor law does not exist. Nor can the element of cost be wholly disregarded. If, as some advocates of Emigration desire or imagine, the Colonies would gladly aid in the importation of able-bodied workmen from the teeming labour markets of the Old World, will they give practical proof of their good inten tions by supplying the necessary funds for the expenses of the outward voyage ? The state of opinion in the Australian Colonies does not, for the present, at all events, encourage us to hope so much. On the other hand, when we turn to the British settlements in North America, we find special reasons why the Govern ment of the Dominion of Canada should be disinclined to spend money on such an enterprise. Meantime, in the direction of private effort, an appeal has been made to the liberality of the public; but, whether it be that the exigency of the case has been insufficiently perceived or for some other reason, subscriptions have hitherto flowed in a very scanty stream. The Lord Mayor, on Wednesday, at a meeting of the British and Colonial Emigration Society, was compelled to confess that " the sinews of the Society were Lehr; formed very slowly," and it appears that, although £25,000 was required for the deportation of 4,000 emigrants as contemplated by the society, only about £5,500 had been received. This fact does not testify very strongly to the activity and depth of the emigration movement. The Government are wise in requiring some more substantial and satisfactory evidence that a great public need is felt before they attempt to meet an exigency which seems likely to disap pear before the improving prospects of trade. The Daily 2tiews declares that the latest and, it is to be hoped, the final act in an unworthy drama was performed on Wednesday in Convocation. In the Upper House the Bishop of Lichfield entreated the Bishop of Exeter to dis avow responsibility for the opinions put forth in the volume called "Essays and Reviews." It would, of course, be perfectly easy for Dr. Temple to declare that he is in no way responsible for any opinions save those which he has himself expressed. But this is understood by every man of sense. No doubt he knew nothing of the contents of the volume of "Essays and Reviews" before he saw it in print, Possibly there is much in it from which he altogether dissents. But, as a scholar and a theologian, he knew very well the tendencies of the school of thought and criticism of which that volume was an ex treme expression. If he did not, he was more ignorant of modern theology than a clergyman, or, indeed, than a cultivated English gentleman ought to be. The inti mate personal friend of Dean Stanley and Professor Jewett could scarcely avoid acquaintance with the tendencies of free criticism and specula tion. If there were room for doubt on this point, the fact that in the dedication of his Commentary on St. Paul, Mr. Jowett avows his obligations to Dr. Temple for " numberless thoughts and suggestions," would be deci sive. The phrase, though it does not involve identity of opinion, yet points to a free interchange of ideas on the great subject with which the book deals. The tone and spirit of the debate in the Upper House of Convocation were commendable. Bishop Temple deserves honour forthe firmness with which he has clung to his own integrity, and has held fast the Christian freedom both of himself and of others against winning and seductive appeals. No one was ever at once more gentle and more resolute than he has proved himself. The bluster of the Lower House was less trying probably than the melting entreaties of the Upper. Archdeacon Denison's long string of resolutions in regard to the appointment of Dr. Temple to the Bishopric of Exeter produced nothing but an idle and intemperate discussion; for they were not even allowed to be put. We hope that fhe end has now been reached of an agitation which ought not to have'had a beginning. In the Queen's Speech Parliament, says the Telegraph, has been recommended to consider the expediency of re vising the system on which licences are granted to public houses, beerhouses, and other establishments of that description. ,Few more important subjects could occui)y the attention of the Legislature, if drunkenness he—as we have no doubt it is—so largely auswerable fur crime and vice throughout the country. We de line any further discussion on the propriety of taking action upon the matter in one form or another ; for we hold that public opinion is ripe for the change. What we do ask, however, is, that those who are anxious for improvement should look the evil boldly in the face, and make up their minds at once that there must be a fundamental change in the system. All reasonable regard being hal to vested inte rests, which are really entitled to consideration, we flatly deny that there is any such thing as a vested interest in the drunkenness of the country. To make our meaning clear, we deny that the brewers and distillers have any vested rights in tho perpetuity of the present system. Some device could assuredly be found to obviate any real injustice, and we think little doubt will be enter tained that the existing police tribunals constitute the best machinery for working the new Act. Above allthings, let any man say of them what he will, they are incorrup tible and beyond suspicion, which is certainly not the case with the present boards of licensing magistrates. There must, then, be a total change of system ; there must be a separate bill for the metropolis ; and in the present stipendiary magistrates we have found our proper tribunal. Wh e th er or no t i t would be well that the ratepayers should be allowed to exercise a concurrent jurisdiction —or whether they should merely declare how many houses were wanted, leaving the magistrate to decid e t o w h om th e li censes should be grantd—is a point of detail which we would rather leave open for discussion. Would any stipendiary magistrate dare to resist an appeal made by a deputation of the really influential and respectable inhabitants of his district, who told him that more or fewer houses were wanted ? Lastly, we would say, let the judgment be without appeal. To grant an appeal to the justices at sessions is simply to perpetuate the present abominable condition of affairs. The Standard thinks that the Ministerial chiefs are not remarkable for their felicity in after-dinner speeches, but considerable allowance must be made for the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland when called to a task of this kind. Officially, the person principally responsible for the dis asters of Whig rule in Ireland, while these disasters are still fresh in the memory of the public and in the feeling of his auditory, hi s task at the Lord Mayor of Dublin's banquetb was t o pour out the usual quantity of formal ngs which constitute Viceregal utterances. To Lord Spencer's credit be it said that he did not seek on Monday a refuge from his unpleasant position. in vague or frivolous discourse. With a heroism worthy of a better cause he faced the difficulties of his position and attempted to overcome them. His speech is a manly defence of his policy, or rather of the policy which his colleagues have adopted, and if it is utterly ineffective this is due to the nature of the case, not to the mode of handling it. When the awful catastrophe of 1317 was ap proaching—when all the sufferings, and miseries, and struggles of that period of Irish history were gradually culminating in the tragic period of 1848 and 1849, agrarian murder was nothing to be surprised at, awful as it is. Then the landlords were almost as help less and desperate as the tenants, and both foresaw the doom of famine and confiscation which awaited them. It is now that the crisis is past; that landlords are no longer a set of bankrupts, but have passed with heavy loss through the drastic process of the Encumbered Estates Court; now that all classes of the community are accumulating wealth and enjoying comfort, that we find agrarian crime, in Lord Spencer's words, increasing very much, and without being dealt with. This is really the difficulty which Lord Spencer has been powerless to explain. All that wealth, all that prosperity, have only given fuel to the flames of disaffection enkindled by the reckless words of politicians. Lord Spencer has candidly admitted the facts which Irish affairs present, and he has not attempted to evade them. Explain them he cannot without the condemnation cf the policy which he represents. The Post considers the accounts of the Rochefort dis turbances given in the French papers —even in those which might be expected to colour the narrative in a manner favourable to the rioters —merely record a series of the broadest kind of burlesque attempts at in surrection. The programme was throughout the same. In this ignoble way has collapsed the " Revolution" which M. Flourens declared he was about to begin when he bade his friends seize the solitary Commisssary of Police who was present at Vie meeting where the whole affair originated. A little broken glass, a few broken heads, and ignominious flight at every point, not before guns and bayonets, but before handfulls of police, are all that the Rochefortists have to show after. their boasts. The Government have acted with the greatest possible moderation. The necessity of pro secu ti ng R oc h e f or t in the first instan ce was al solutely forced upon them, and so also vas the necessity of actually arresting him. To most French Mi n i sters so pa l ra bl e a n opportunity of enforcing ,respect by severe measures—which might have been fully justified, and of which none could have complained—would have been most tempting. But M. 011ivier and his colleagues have been calm throughout, and have sliewn to he would-be insurgents an unpreco den-ted indulgeece,. It is of good augury that they should so temperately have used the power confided to tnem, and they will have their reward in the increased confidence which must attend them in the task of constitutional govern ant. 'There has seldom been an attempted.risin,g in Paris or so much pretension disposed of with equal facility, and tha fact is the best proof that could be given by the Ministry that it is conscious not only of strength in itself, bat also of deserving the confidence reposed in it by the people upon whose support it rests. France knows that 011ivier is, as he rays, contending "not for order but for liberty," and it will assuredly not fail to give him its co operation in dealing with the mere handful of madmen who affect to refuse Liberty without Revolution. CONGRESS. SENATE.—Jan. 14—Mr. Willey introduced a bill to abolish franking, and to establish the letter carrier system in cities of 5,000 inhabitants. Mr. Cole spoke in explanation of a joint resolution in regard to the seizure of 4,000 barrels of whisky in San Francisco last August by -the San Francisco authorities, and the probability of their release by the Internal Revenue authorities at Washington. The resolution directs that the whisky be held sub ject to determination by the United States Courts. After a defence of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by M, ssrs. Hamlin, Sherman, and Morrill, the Virginia bill was taken up. Various amend ments were offered, when the House bill was pre sented, and moved by Mr. Trumbull as a substitute. After a night session, lasting until half-past ten o'clock, the Senate adjourned until Monday, with an understanding that the bill would be voted upon that day. Jan. 17.—Mr. Sumner, from the Foreign Committee, reported a bill for the adjustment of the old French spoliation claims. Mr. Ramsey in troduced a Lid providing that where full pestrge is not paid upon letters, the balance shall be col lected on delivery. The bill prohibiting retired officers being assigned to duty which would entitle them to full pay was passed. Mr. Sumner, from the Foreign Committee, reported a substitute for the bill relating to foreign telegraph cointnunica on. It!e Virginia qtn was taken up, and tat, t) of Air. SLtwart, was fhe 11,juse babied by -a vote of 25 to 23, ' taken up. on motion the and read a second time. Pending its consideration, the Senate went into Executive session, and soon after adjourned. Jan. 18—Mr. Drake introduced a bill to provide for transportation of imports in bond to interior ports of entry. Mr. Abbott intro duced a bill. to promote the efficiency of the army. 'The Virginia Bill w.ts discussed until adjourninont. Jan. 19—The consid,ration of the Virginia Bill was resumed, and Mr. Edmunds' Amendment, requir ing officers to swear that they are eligible under the Fourteenth Amendment, was agreed to, by a vote of 45 to 15. The Republicans voting no, were Ferry, Fowler, Kellogg, Ross, Stewart, and Trumbull. Mr. Nye voted in the affirmative, but afterwards changed his vote, making the negatives 16. Jan. 20—The House Census Bill was reported, with a substitute. Bills were introduced to preserve the harbours of the United. States against encroach ment, to prcmote the distribution of public lands in California, and to establish a postal telegraph system, incorporating the United States Postal Telegraph Company. The Virginia Bill was con sidered, and the House adjourned with the under standing that it will be voted on to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. --Jan. 14—They ir ginia Bill was taken up, and, after discussion, Mr. Bingham's substitute was adopted —yeas 98, nays 95, and the bill as amended was passed by a vote of 142 to 49. It admits Virginia without imposing any further conditions. Mr. Myers voted for the bill as amended, and Messrs. Kelley and O'Neill against it. The House adjourned until Monday. Jan. 17—Bills were introduced to repeal the ton. nage tax ; to adjourn Congress on April 12 ; to annul all Acts of Legislative, Executive, or Judicial officers labouring under political disability ; to abo lish franking and establish a postal telegraph sys tem. Mr. Lawrence offered a resolution giving the hall of the House for the delivery of an address on he principles of the Na tional L tb: , ur Union, the iamb, r , of In Ilott,e to Ou present, ant moved :he pi,Lvions qu , stion. Thi- House refuse:i to second tne arid the re-uluiion went over. On ,notion of Mr. Beck, the Cnurniss•o;,er of Liter- Thvenue was asked for information as to the increase or decreasa in the manufacture of distilled spirits other than high wines during the present season. Mr. Oi•th offered a res,lutiou, which was adopted, declaring against increasing salaries of public officers. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, offered a resoluton looking to the withdrawal of the National Bank notes, and substitution of legal tenders, to be used in liquidating the public debt, also disapprov ing the Treasury purchases of Five-Twenties at a premium, &c. The previous question was moved, but not seconded, the yeas being 39, and the nays 76, so the resolution went over. A resolution by Mr. Cox, making eight hours a d.,y's labour for Nvorki. - 14 men in (I)verunwnt. Wa3 referred. Mr. 11 I ‘:Coely offered a rt so:utiou looking to the substitution of greenbacks for national bank cur rency, but the House—yeas SG, nays 113—refused to ruspend the rules for is consideration. Mr. Judi's bill to apportion Representatives iu the Fo; ty-second Congress was cousi lered. After some further business, the Hons.) adjourned. Jan 18— Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, made a speech against the biii to remove the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League Island. Mr. Judd's Appointment Bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole, and after some further business the House adjourned. Jan. 19.—0 n a motion of Mr. Brooks, of New York, the General of the Army was directed to state by what authority military officers are acting in the Georgia Legislature as a committee to adjudicate the quali fications of members. Mr. Peters introduced a bill to exempt from the provisions of the Bankrupt Act certain laws relating to life insurance policies. On motion of Mr. Ferry, the Pension Committee were instructed to consider the propriety of providing that nvalid pensioners shall be paid pension for such time as they may have been in the civil service between March 3, 1865, and January 6, 1868. The League Island Bill was taken up, and Mr. Randall offered an amendment that the pro ceeds of all sales in transferring the Navy-yard shall be conveyed into the Treasury. Mr. Kelley also made a speech replying to the statements of Mr. Dawes. The bill went over at the expiration of the morning hour. Mr. Schenck, from the Ways and Means Committee, reported a joint resolution declaring that tax should be paid upon the incomes of 1870, to be collected in 1871. The Pension Bill, appropriating $30,000,000 was passed, and the House soon after adjourned. Jan. 20—Mr. Bing ham asked leave to introduce a bill making it punishable by fine and imprisonment for any per son to propose the repeal of the action of any State Legislature ratifying a proposed constitutional amendment. Objection was made by Mr. Eldridge. Resolutions were offered declaring the power of the House in regard to concurrence. in treaties where appropriations are required. A bill regulating the appraisement and inspection of imports was reported and recommitted. The League Inland Bill was considered. The Printing Committee reported a resolution fur the printing of eighteen thousand extra copies of the report of Special Revenue Com missioner Wells, which was adopted after some dis cussion, and the House then adjourned. MR. DA WEBS' ATT ACK ON THE EXECUTI VE. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, startled the House on the 18th January by a speech on the Bill for the transfer of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League Island. Mr. Dawes did not object to the transfer itself, believing that ultimately it must be made, but be took the opportunity to Criticise severely what he considered the reckless expenditure going on at the other side of the Avenue. As Mr. Dawes frequently alluded to the other side of the Avenue and the other side of the Capitol, we may inform our Engli-li readers that he meant the Pennsylva nian Avenue, at one end of the occupied portion of which is the Executive Mansion and many of the Government offices, and the Capitol at the other. When Mr. Dawes then:fore spoke of the )thee end of the Avenue he meant the Executive, ::nd when he spoke of Ihe other si:le of the Capitol. he meant the Senate. The bill brou -ht him directly in con tact with the Navy Department, and the Chairman set to work to bela&m r it unmercifully - . He thus prefaced his remarks : As peace prevailett there was no necessity to enlarge navy yards ; that 90 per cent. of the British Navy work was done in private yards ; that Admiral Porter recently tated that $485,000,000 had been expended on the Navy during the war, there being nothing now to show, America having no Navy, and :he sug gested the purchase of mail screw sten iers as a substitute. It appears that Mr. Dawes flit bIYN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, rEBItUARY 10, 1870, bad been going about from Department to Depart ment, interviewing clerks, and gathering informa tion to fit him fur filling the vacant place of Minis ter Washburne. He therefore bristled -with figures, and kept the attention of the House keenly alive. He contrasted last year's estimates for the Navy yards with this; and the result shows a startling increase. Still, if weight is to be attached to Gen. Porter's evidence, Mr. Dawes, in quoting it, quoted the Secretary's reasons for the increase. At the same time in showing that some £80,000,000 ster ling had been expended during the war on a navy of which nothing was now left, Mr. Dawes justified his own onslaught. He showed that the Secretary proposed an expenditure of $3,607,304 against $451,000 last year, lie said that the Secretary, in his estimates, promised $2,000,000 in coal alone, whereas the total cost of coal for the last two y..ars had been $150,000; and having thus demolished Mr. Robeson, he turned on Postmaster-General Creswell. This achievement in mathematics, ob served Mr. Dawes, is only equalled by the latter, who proposed to save $5,000,000 a year by abo lishing franking, while the franked matter would not produce $200,000. The estimates for the next fiscal year contain appropriations of $24,625,173 for public works against $5,493,000 last year, yet the Administration of Andrew Johnson had been condemned and overthrown on the charge of profligacy in expenditure :—" Andrew Johnson, in the last year of his Administration, bad estimated that he could carry on the Govern meet fie $303,000..000. end that amount had been \Vint .1;.1 their ow„ Administration estimate that it would carry on the Administration of the Government for a year for? —5311,097,174; an increase of over $28,000,000 beyond the amount required by Andrew Johnson, and an increase of $49,628,537 over the amount appropriated for the present year. But this in- ' eluded an error of ovlr $7,000,000 in th- footing up of the Post-office Department, winch would re- , duce the increase to $42,000,000. But be believed that not entering into the estimate was the little sugar-plum of $BOO,OOO for League Island ; and back of it also were the Bay of &maim and the Island of St. Thomas, at $7,500,000 in gold, and back of it too were the millions that would be added by the Senate to the appropriation bills as they passed the House. In this House alone the pledge of the Republican party was to be redeemed." Not withstanding its professions of economy, the Exe cutive had increased the expenditure in all the de partments except one—" The exception was the poor, unpopular Attorney-General, and he hoped it was not because of that remarkable trait in his character, and it was contemplated at the other end of the Capitol to relieve him from further pub lic service and drive him into private life." Mr. Dawes desired to tell his friend from Maine that is was the pennies that he had overlooked in his vain search for the dollars, taken in taxing spikes, cord age, and rigging, that made the shipping of Maine and the commerce of the country decline. It was by a reduction of expendituree alone that the people could be relieved from their burden of taxation and the public debt paid. This speech created a sensation, for Mr. Dawes is a leading Republican of the New England stripe, and the attack riveted the delighted attention of the Democrats, and split the Republicans in the feelings it generated. The country in a inesure sustains any man who honestly and with a single minded purpose proposes to fill Mr. Washburne's vacant place, and many who are careless as to poli 'icel party are earnestly desirous to enforce rigid economy on the Executive. The President did not conceal his antiornic;e, nor hesitate to censure the iejestice. Where tie remarks were correct the Itult lay in Congress, not in the Executive, for if Congress decrees that sueh and such action shall be taken. that departments most estimate the ex pen,es and demand the appropriations, and the question then isnot " were these measures necessary as applied to the Executive," but " were the means the Executive proposed the best and most economical `or their ac._:,nnplislitnent." Where Mr. Dawes at tacked the mtasures, he attacked Congress, not the Executive ; where he attacked the means and figures he was for the most part incorrect, and this the beads of Departments will presently prove by publishing the facts. The speech, however, serves the party purposes of the annocrats, and it has been distributed over the country as a campaign documen t.—Angle-Amectican Times. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TIIZ 'WELSH P'AS'TING GIRL. The case of the unfortunate Sarah Jacobs is to be thoroughly gone into. The Government have resolved pon the completest possible investigation. The Daily News says the Treasury has already given instructions for the prosecution of the father of the girl, and also of the self-constituted committee who combined to keep her without food. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., will be the counsel for the Crown. The pro secution of the committee will be a warning against undertaking dangerous inquiries for the benefit of science. TILE INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING. A rnost exciting scene was afforded last Tues day in the Agr;cultural Hall by the unlooked-for result of a wrestling bout, in th • French fashion, between Wright and Dubois. After the usual pre liminary exhibition of well-matched strength and skill, for the purpose of illustrating the two very dissimilar modes of national wrestling, the chief English and French professors of a really " manly art" encountered one another. First, Jamieson, the champion of the Westmoreland and Cumberland school, was matched with Le Bceuf, the grey haired Frenchmen, whose strength is gigantic, and whose weight exceeds that of his opponent. Their first bout being in the English fashion, no great surprise ensued in the overthrow of Le Bceuf, whom Jamieson conquered with singular ease. Dubois and Wright thou wrestled, also in the Cumber land style, and Wright was the victor, though his triumph was not so facile. Le Bceuf and Jamieson next tried a French fall, and the victory was, as everybody ex pected it would be, reversed. It is fair to a numerous body of the English public to say that the applause which now greeted Le Bceuf was to the full as hearty as any that had previously been bestowed on Wright and Jamieson. On Dubois meeting the first-named of these two men, in • a French match, a long and severe grApple took place. The Gaul, whose ungainly figure turns the enor mous weight of nineteen stone, has a peculiar method of using this inert advantage by bearing down upon his opponent ; but, despite such formid able tactics, the Englishman had once managed, when wrestling Cumberland fashion, to throw the huge form over his head. Wright had now to exert himself to the utmost, in order to keep his own feet, and the contest was far too evidently arduous for any looker-on to doubt for a moment its very serious good faith. After a while, Wright threw the Frenchman on his back, but could not succeed in bringing both the shoulder blades at once to the ground. The attempt was so credi table, however, that cheers broke forth from all parts of the hall. Soon afterwards Dubois was again thrown, and this time Wright, by dint of "sticking to him," and amid shouts of encouragement, completed the victory. It would be impossible to exaggerate in describing the enthusiasm of the people who witnessed the Englishman's hard-won triumph. He himself looked astonished, and made no concealment of his intense glee. But Jamieson, who led the conquered French man forward, sccmed by his actions to protest against the excessive demonstrations of delight at the signal victory of the English colours. Mr. Fowler's plan of cominunica; ion with France provides for the railway gauge being the same on both sides of the Channel, so that the train may b. trans ferred without difficulty from one line of rails to the other. LADVERTISEMENT.j—IIenceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalents. Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Itome, July `21,1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Do Barry's Revalento Arabica Food, of which ne consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent fuod too highly." We extract a few mit of nicre th :a 66.001 cores:—Cure Nu. 56.216. of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia, No. 49,832: "Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Im portant 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 d; Ilb 2s Yd; 2lb 4s 6d; slb 11s; 12 lb 225: 24 lbs 4 s.— tlso BA.RBy's RDNALENTA \RABICACIIOCOLATE PONDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 313 6d, for 8 cups at 6s, for 258 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at sis —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.— AItRY Du BARRY and Co., 7.*Zu. 77, Regent-street, London ; and a Grocers and Chemists. THE STATE OP IRPLAND. At each annual recurrence of the Lord Mayor's banquet in Dublin much interest is attached to the opimons expressed in the speech of the Lord Lieutenant. Earl Spencer, speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet the other night, before touching on those points of the Irish question which are so pro minently before the public at the present time, quoted statistics to shew that the country was improving materially, as a proof of which he referred to the deposit of twenty mil lions of money in the Irish banks. Ho did not, however, allow the more painful parts of the late history of the sister country to be forgotten, even in the face of commercial prosperity. With regard to quasi-political disorder, he considered that the Femans still in the country might damage the welfare of its inhabitants, and that it was necessary that the greatest firmness should be shewn them. The agarian outrages were a dis grace that had cropped up more than once in this century. In the year 1845, under Sir Robert Peel's Administration, there were three times as many violent outrages as there have been in the past year. His lordship did not enter int) this subject ihrther than to say that it has been urged on one hand that these crimes have been got up by those who are afraid of remedial measures, and on the other by those who seek to enforce a more sweep ing Land Bill. Both parties were in error. It was impossible to drive England faster than she could go. The Lord Lieutenant concluded by advo cating the spirit shewn by Mr. Bailey and his sons in a late outrage, remarking that such a course on the part of individuals would do far more to pre serve order than if all the army and police of Eng land were sent over. MR. DRlk;i.. L. The illness of the Board of Trade President has given rise to some grave surmises as to his probable resignation, should his recovery not be speedy. The Times deals seriously with this report, remonstrating against any hasty step of the kind. Mr. Bright's value is not to be judged by the work he can do at the Board of Trade. That department is not overworked, and, moreover, ➢lr. Lefevre makesa very able deputy. There is, says the leading journal, no reason for any proximate retirement, which would be a misfortune. "Mr. Bright is the representa tive of advanced Liberalism—some say of Radicalism or Democracy—in the Cabinet ; and he thus consti tutes a potent and perfectly recognisable element in its composition. From this it obtains a good deal of its popularity from the classes which Mr. Bright has been accustomed to address, and which look to him as their leader and representative. There cannot be a doubt that the character of the Cabinet would undergo a change by his retirement. At present this would be a great evil. It would be likely to disquiet the classes which have given Mr. Bright their confidence, and will receive contentedly almost any measure which emanates from a Cabinet of which he is a member." The Daily News, on the other hand, looks for no serious results from the present attack. Mr. Bright will take a month's holiday, which probably will be spent in his favourite pursuit of fishing, " and at the close of that period it is confidently expected he will be back in his place in Parliament to take part in the coming debates." THE DIFFICULTY IN SOUTHWARK. The High Bailiff of Southwark has made himself a somewhat conspicuous personage by refusing to allow Mr. Odger admission to the hustings, or ac commodation in the polling booths, unless the candi date prepaid the whole of his share of official expenses —4200. Mr. Odger deposited ;0100, but the High Bailiff 'would have the whole amount, and hence the dead-lock. Mr. Odger has forwarded a petition to the House of Commons setting forth the facts, and praying that the issue of the writ may be suspended, until an inquiry has been made into his allegations. The matter is to be brought before the House by Mr. Eykyn. Sir Sydney Waterlow's com mittee, too, have generously interfered. They have forwarded a communication to the High Bailiff, regretting his refusal, and suggesting that the expense of constructing booths for three sets of check clerks can little exceed the cost of accommodation for two. THE BALLOT. A correspondent of the Daily News tells a story of grievances arising out of the last contest in Dum frieshire. Every one will remember the gallant fight made by Sir Sydney Waterlow in that county,•• The City knight won by 1,100 to 1,050, but was dis qualified. The result of the polling took everybody by surprise. There had been no contest in Dumfries shire for the last hundred years, and - the influence of the Buccleuch house seemed to forbid the hope of competition. Sir Sydney Waterlow was received with derision and contempt, but he won neverthe less. For this victory some of th© local Liberals have paid dearly. From the village of Canonbie, every acre of which belongs to the Duke of Buc cleuch, one gentlewan of position • has been virtually expelled through voting for the Liberal. Another gentleman, Dr. A.l'Aulav, who hollt his appointment as colliery surgeon at the pleasure of the Duke, has this week received intimation that Lis services will not be required after the mouth of May. He, too, has been obliged to leave the parish. The correspondent of the Daily News says that these " evictions " are owing solely to political causes. SCIENCE AND ART. Sir Stafford Nortlicote yesterday presided and distributed prizes to the successful candidates at the Bloomsbury School of Art, and in the course of his address, he said that some years ago just blame was attached to the Government for the inadequate provision .made by it for the maintenance of schools of art ; but out of the mistakes made formerly on both sides of the controversy was now evolved a great improvement in teaching, of which ho advised the scholars before him to take advantage. It was in the power of scholars of art to improve very much the manufactures of this country ; and when . the great and im portant question of teduncal education came to be practically carried out, he did not see why scho o l s of art and schools of technical education should not work together in unison. But a better literary edu cation was required to attain excellence in either school, as had been proved by ex perience in France. Sir Stafford Northcote after advising the students to try to create, as well as copy, works of art, concluded by regr e tting the loss the country had sustained through the present very general waste of the intelligence and power of the female part of our population. THE TELEGRAPHIC STOPPAGE. The strange interruption of telegraphic communi cation on Monday night has been overcome ; and we have the satisfaction of knowing how the block on the line was caused. It was not the atmosphere nor any natural phenomenon that gave rise to the difficulty, but simply the mistake of a workman. Whilst making some alterations in a local office, this artisan displaced a bundle of wires, which unfortunately proved to be the channel of communication with the North and West. The error was not discovered for some time, and a temporary suspension of communication was its result. MU. MADDEN. Mr. Madden having been removed from the Irish magistracy for "using language of studied insult to her Majesty's Government," is to be the subject of much Parliamentary struggling in the coming session. The Conservatives take very good care not to forget him; he is a godsend to them ; without him they would have very little private grievance left to pro test against. Two members have given notice upon the subject : Sir Thomas Bateson, the member for Devizes, comes first with a long question ; Lord Claud John Hamilton, the member for King's Lynn, follows with a shorter in quiry. The notice put upon the paper by Sir Thomas Bateson is an argument ;, it occupies nearly a page . of foolscap. It asks whether the same Mr. Madden did not attempt in October last to prevent an illegal procession, which procession was, by com promise between its leaders and the Irish Chief Secre tary, allowed to take place. The notice goes on to inquire whether Mr. Heron, a Queen's Counsel, had not re peatedly used seditious language,.yethe has been re tamed, not only as Q.C., but as justice of the peace; the same also with regard to Mr. Butt; and query is especially made concerning Lord Granard, who pre sided at a meeting where landlords were denounced and Fenianism taught, and has notwithstanding been retained as Lord-Lieutenant of the very county of which Mr. Madden was a magistrate. THE IRISH CHURCH CONSTITUTION. Some of the lay delegates are getting up opposi tion to the Irish Church draught constitution. They argue that as the general convention is appointed to meet within a week, there is not sullicient time for the consideration of matters of euch high moment. The draught, moreover, completely nullifies the con stitution agreed upon at the lay conference. There has been a misuaderstand* about the voting, and it is complained that the just influence of the laity in the appointment bishops and the filling up of parish vacancies has been almost ignored. MONEY. The new Russian loan has gone off' with éclat, the five per cent. application deposits being so numerous as to more than cover the additional fifteen per cent. payable on allotment. Altogether, the applications in this country have exceeded forty millions, whilst the share of the loan to be distributed here is only four millions. The allotments will thus average ten per cent. As the loan is issued at 80, the four millions represent only R 3,200,000 in cash, so that the money market is not in the least affected. The drain in the present state of plethora / is hardly felt, • FARM HORSE DUTIES. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue have given an important decision touching the use of farm horses. The manager of an estate in Lincolnshire had repre sented that the tenants were bound by contract to give the landlord the use of a waggon and team one day in the year, and the question was whether the horses so engaged would be exempt from duty, as the service given by the tenants was an equivalent for rent, and therefore a purpose of hus bandry. In reply the Inland Revenue commissioners say that " they will not insist upon payment of duty for a horse kept solely for agricultural purposes, which may occasionally only be employed in drawing coals, bricks, &c., to its owner's house, or to the house of the farmer's landlord, in conformity with any provision in that behalf contained in the lease under which the farm is held." SIR GEORGE GREY ON EMIGRATION. At a meeting at Derby on the subject of national emigration, Sir George Grey said that it was admitted on all hands that at present there was a greater want of employment than had been known for years. The consequent destitution, it was urged, might be relieved by a judicious system of emi gration being organised, and a further system of colonisation. A great amount of destitution could thus be diminished ; the eruig-ramts would be wealthier and happier, and matters would be better for those left behind. The prevalent objection to emigration was that in leaving England people leave all that is valuable to them as Englishmen behind, and go away to encounter all sorts of difficulties. But they could go to countries where they would speak the same language, and enjoy the same favours as they do in England. Indeed the aspect presented by any British territory would be much the same as that of our own country. They would only be deprived of destitution and poverty, and they would look in vain for beggars. If there was a want of employment now, the hon. gentleman feared there would be a greater want of it yet. Immediate relief was now offered in the shape of emigration, which all thinking people would do well to accept. tNWOItKED COAL mnrEs IN SCOTLAND. At a meeting of an Institute of Mining Engineers at Dudley, a paper has heen read containing remarks on what is said to be a vast and fertile coal field oxistiting on the coast of Fife, North Britain, between the towns of Dysart and Leven. The writer of the paper is Mr. Walter Ness, a mining engineer of Scotland, who says that an intimate knowledge of this coal-field is possessed by only a very few. In the locality mentioned, he said that there were twelve square miles of coal with a thickness of a hundred feet, which would produce total weight of 844,000,000 tons, a quantity equal to about the aggregate amount taken from all the collieries in Great Britain in the last ten years. There was thus sufficient to last that part of the kingdom for 5,000 years, and, calculating the profit at one shilling a ton, the gain would be forty-two millions of money. F ur th er , th ere we re other beds in the neighbourhood which altogether would yield over 12,000,000,000 tons! In other parts of the country there were collieries which, if utilised, would assist in bringing in the enormous sum of nine hun dred and fifty millions. In short, the National Debt was to be paid off, and a handsome surplus left. CO-OPERATION ON THE CONTINENT. A striking instance of the beneficial effect of a reconciliation of labour and capital is shown by the state of a co-operative company . at Berlin, formerly the firm of Messrs. Borghert. In the beginning of 1808, when the establishment was valued at 300,000 thalers, it was divided into 6,000 shares of fifty thalers each, and every man engaged in the business for more than a year had a right to buy a share, paying six thalers the first month and four thalers monthly during the rest of of the year. There were no objections to a man buy ing several shares, and a committee of three members was elected from the whole body of shareholders. llerr Borghert remains director at a salary of 3,000 thalers. All expenses being deducted, what remains is equally divided between the shareholders and the enzployes. At the end of 1808 there were thirty-two working-men shareholders who received. 5 per cent. upon their capital and 8 per cent. divi dend ; and a bonus of 10 per cent was divided among sixty-three working men. MR. RUSEIN ON THE FINE AHTS. In his new office of Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Mr. John Ruskin, M.A., has delivered his inaugural lecture in the Sheldonian Theatre, at Oxford. Ho said the course of lectures he was to give would commence a new exa in University education: the study of the fine arts was now to be introduced at Oxford. He enlarged on the beneficial effects of that study, the proper direction of which was of much importance. In England our artists did not excel in the sublime style on account of the grossness of our nature, our greatest men never having bad such an abhorrence of what is foul, as Dante had. We have too much care and anxiety to give our minds up to highly-finished designs. At the same time we shew great excellence in painting. With a view to the development of this art, the lecturer intended arran g ing a collection of paintings in the Taylor Gallery. He hoped soon to make some of the youth of England prefer looking at a bird to shooting it. It was for England to educate her sons in everything that will make them men, and those sons should remember that England still expects every man to do his duty. PIGEONS. " The National Peristeronic Society," established to improve the breed of pigeons, has held an interesting show at the Crystal Palace. Some 800 birds, of all varietres, were arranged together. The greatest interest appertained to the carriers, some of whose exploits were detailed on their cages. A. blue chequered cock and light red cock had performed the journey from London to Verviers, a distance of 300 miles. Two others, the remnant of a brave band, had started from Ostend and voyaged over the Channel, while their companions perished in th . e attempt. Other carriers had done great things within the United Kingdom. The cleverest pigeons were the least striking in appearance, but the beauty of some was a remarkable testimony to what can be done by careful breeding. Bank of France. PARIS, Feb. 3. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. --- .iiin:27. Feb. 3. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 41,593,771 45 42,658,224 97 Treasury account our rent creditor 164,620,483 52 158,035,018 76 Current accounts, Paris '279,586,821 50 311,892,864 04 Do. branch banks 42,484,011 45,828,490 Dividends payable 3,145,143 2,631,008 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 1,305,522 15 1,305,522 15 Surplus of receipts not distributed - - Sundries Total CREDITOR. Feb. 3. Jan. 27. Lash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 333,320,156 91 326,011,727 80 Do. branch banks 318,470,024 313,182,182 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks 1,630,000 2,212,700 - Do. on French Public Securitios 20,926,400 20,992,400 Do. by branch banks 8,211,450 8,718,950 Do. on railway shares and debentures - Do. branch banks - Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re- _ _ . -------- -- ... serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable [lentes Inunobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the 131,nk and landed property branches.,. 9,07.1,396 9,074,384 Expenses of manage ment 224,124 17 39,918 02 Sundries Total GI A.ND VOLUNTEER BALL Mt LONDON', VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. On Wednesday the Hon. Artillery Company gave a grand ball at their barracks, City-road, Finsbury, when they were honoured with the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Colonel and Captain-General of the Regiment, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The entertainment was the most mag nificent ever given by the volunteer force, all the arrangements being of a splendid character. The I large dancing room was beautifully ornamented with flowers, and military trophies. A charming boudoir was fitted up for the Princess, and there were special rooms for the principal guests. The entrance hall was decorated with flags and stars of bayonets and swords and suits of armour, which had been lent from the Tower. The field pieces of the Artillery Corps were ranged at the sides of the passage. The Royal visitors, who arrived shortly after 10 o'clock, were received by the lieutenant-colonel and officers. There was a guard of honour furnished by the infantry corps, the regimental band playing the national anthem. A supper-room, capable of holding the seven hundred guests, had been erected for the occasion. Supper was served at twelve o'clock, the chair being taken by the Prince of Wales, who wore the uniform of the carps. The band of the Light Cavalry played during the entertainment. Two toasts were proposed, the health of her Majesty the Queen, and that of their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. While respond ing, the Prince expressed the pride which he felt- in being the commanding officer of such a fine regiment. Amongst the other guests, were— His Serene Highness Prince Teck ; the Duke and Duchess of Manchester; the Marquis of Hamilton; Lord Colville, of Culross, and Lady Colville; Viscount Bury, M.P., and Viscountess Bury; Lord and Lady Londesborough; Lord Napier of Magdala, Lady Napier and daughter; Lord Abinger, Lady Abinger, and Miss Ashley ; Load Frederick Paulet, C.B. ; Lord Carring ton; Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, V.C., M.P., lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, and Mrs. Loyd Lindsay; Sir William and Lady Knollys; Sir Frederiok Arrow, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, nd Lady Arrow ; Lord J. H. Taylor; Lieut.-Col. Teesdale; the Lord and Lady Mayoress ; Alderman and Sheriff Sir J. Causton and Lady Causton ; Alderman Sir James and Lady Duke ; Alderman W. Lawrence, M.P., and Miss Lawrence; Lieutenant-Colonel and Alderman Sir William Rose and Lady Rose; Colonel Frazer; Colonel Wilkinson; Captain Shaw. &c. THE KELLY CASE The full Court of Divorce sat on Wednesday to hear the appeal, " Kelly v. Kelly." Lord Penzance and Mr. Berea Channel' took their seats. Mr. Baron Channell said he had been charged by his learned brethren to deliver their joint opinion on the case. He proceeded briefly to state its leading features. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were married in Ireland in the year 1841, and had issue a child deceased and a son now living, who was born in 1845. They lived under the same roof till January, 1809, since which time they had ceased to cohabit. Mrs. Kelly left her husband's roof, and com menced proceedings in this court, which resulted in a decree of judicial separation, from which the respondent had appealed. The main question was whether, though there was not actual physical violence used by the hus band towards the wife, there had not been shown to be such an amount of cruelty exercised in another fashion as would justify the sentence of judicial separation pronounced by the Judge Ordinary. The appellant grounded his appeal first upon the Judge Ordinary having erred in point of law, and secondly upon the insufficiency of the evidence to bear out a charge of cruelty, The Judge Ordinary, in giving his judgment, said that the peculiar distinguishing fact of the case was the harshness and cruelty towards his wife, such as had crushed her spirits and broken her health, it being clearly shewn that the troubles of the wife were not owing to her own misconduct. The Judges of Appeal were of opinion that this passage contained a correct, and so far as was necessary for the understanding of the case, a com plete statement of the law on the subject. Modes of cruelty were various, and as often as perverse ingenuity invented a new mode, the law was bound t) afford pro tection against it. The law regulating this subject and defining the conditions of cruelty was laid clown by Lord Stowell, and other judges since his time, in the well-known cases of Evans v. Evans, Harris v. Harris, and Holden v. Holden. They were of opinion that the judgment now appealed against was in conformity with the law as pre viously laid down. They were satisfied likewise that the acts imputed to Mr. Kelly as stated in the judgment of the Judge Ordinary, were established by the evidence adduced and now before the court. He told his wife that no modest woman would behave as she did or would associate with her; he refused to sit at table with her, and desired her not to attend to the ad ministration of the Sacrament, besides a great variety of other acts of petty and galling tyranny. What ho did was not in the fair exercise of marital authority, but for the gratification of unfounded passion and malig nity. After her return from her absence from home in October, 1868, the same course of unfeeling harshness and bad conduct was pursued. She was debarred the use of money, her steps were watched, she had doors shut against her, and so on. The conseque!:ce was to break down her health, and bring on paralysis of the nerves. The re spondent's charges against Mrs, Kelly were of abetting her son to leave his father's house without his permission, for the purpose of obtaining a situation, of promoting disagree ment between the father and the son, and making excuses for her son's misconduct. The court could not enter on an inquiry whether Mrs. Kelly was justified in taking her son's part on - the first occasion, but there was no satis factory proof given as to any of them. On the whole case the judges were of opinion that there was no ground for refusing to carry out the decrees of the court. They had no doubt whatever as to the fact of persistent cruely on the appellant's part being fully established by the evidence, and they therefore held that the appeal must be dismissed. The judgment occupied nearly an hour in delivery, entering minutely into the particulars of the various facts which formed the matter of the appellant's 'Charges against his wife, and the hearing upon them of the evidence adduced at the trial. The Judge- Ordinary said the appellant had complained that the alle gations of the numerous charges brought by him against his wife had not found a place in the judgment now appealed against. This was not needful, because the particulars stated wore, in his opinion, either justifiable, or, at least, such as should have been readily pardonable, and wholly insufficient to justify the treatment of which the petitioner complained. After the full review of the circumstances in the judgment just delivered, he felt it only necessary to advert to the charges of the appellant against his wife for the purpose of shewing that they were either unfounded in fact or frivo lous in their own character. Having examined the 18th and 20th charges, his lordship proceeded to say that it was certain Mrs. Kelly had nothing to expect from her hus band's leniency, as ho had declared his conviction that he was acting in the discharge of a religious duty. How many months of the same discipline might be necessary to fulfil the expectations of the medical attendants as to Mrs. Kelly it was impossible to say, but the ()Curt was bound to inter fere for the protection of a woman who would otherwise be left penniless or dependent on the bounty of her friends Nothing had struck him more throughout this case than the complacent manner in which the appellant had from the beginning left out of view the inevitable result of the course he was pursuing. In his view the case embraced every principle on which the court had ever decreed judi cial separation.—The appellant inquired if there was any further appeal.—The Judge-Ordinary informed him there was not. THE LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STI - .7:XLE- CllASE.—People seem at a loss what to think about Grand National prospects, and betting on that exciting contest gives as yet but little satisfactory clue to the finding of the winner. At present the business done about last year's victor seems to be quite genuine, and the horse won so easily in 1869 that it is not easy to pitch upon anything likely to lower his colours in 1370. It is not a t a ll un lik e ly that Lincolnshire may send him an unexpectedly dangerous opponent, and he, or whatever else wins the Liverpool Steeplechase, imy have to put the best leg forward to beat Gardener, whs. strikes us as b e i ng an o ut s ider whose merits are oven looked by the many. The Metropolitan, according tc custom, has not yet been touched upon ; but it is evi• dent that a great deal of business will be done on the City and Suburban before long. Those horses most fancied by the critics when the weights appeared have all found their way into the market, and Walter, as was generally anticipated, has been made the favourite. The stable in which he is trained is, however, so rich in favourably weighted representatives that it would be dangerous as yet to take it for granted that the son of Th orman b y an d Lava will really carry the Fyfield money. Astolfo wean all the appearance of being a remarkably strong favourite for the Guineas, and mayhap for the Derby also, and judg ing from what has reached us, it is quite on the cards that Orlando's career as a sire may end as gloriously as it be.. gan.—Bell's Life. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening TIIURSDAY... ..... - 32 min past 8 0 min past 9 FRIDAY SATURDAY 50 min past 10 35 min past 11 SUNDAY 0 min past 12 6 min past 12 MONDAY 40 min past 12 8 min past 1 TUESDAY.. 30 min past 1 56 min past 1 MI. .toUls ANb fits Cld-1103. (From Me Anglo-American Times.) The Spectator repudiates Mr. Louts, and calls his application for American citizenship, as well as / 14 i reason for making it, " silly," while it cannot but acknowledge the fact that eleven years ago he Was au editor of that paper, and ten years ago a pro prietor. It says, too, that Mr. Louis' opinions are new; that wh en h e e di te d i t, the Spectator was mor e bumptious in its Impe r i a li sm t h an the ,!•;tandard. The Spectator does no t appear to b e aware t h at in this it advances a strong argument against its as' scrtion that Mr. Louis had done a silly thing. Front the period when he ceased to write for the Spectator he was, as he announces, studying the Colonies, and the lands wherein English is spoken, as well as theco lonists,and various parts of the Empire ; that is from the date when he left his chair in the Wellington street office to the time when he submitted his views to the PRESIDENT, he was training himself by special course to form an opinion on the subject ou which he has expressed his views. While Mr. Louts looked over the dreary street to Somerset House, he held ideas differing widely from the Mr. LOUIS who had spent years in Australia, New Zealand India, and other countries, but who (except the man now occupying his seat) will assert that hie former opinions were wise, and his latter opinions " silly ;" yet this is what the Editor does, which simply amounts to maintaining that it is folly to learn. The Standard reproduces our words in a " chaffy" style, expressing the wish that we and others, who, as it asserts, magnify America at the expense of England, would flit away to the belauded land after our valued pioneers, Mr. Louts, GOLD WIN SMITH, and BROADHEAD ! We are not going to retort in the to quoque style ; we have no fancy for seeing the place of the Standard vacant, the more so as we care nothing for Whig or Tory, Radical or Copperhead, believing them all to be useful in their way; that the jarring, the striving, and the pulling against each other are still in the direction of pro. gress. But it is not our fault that America is so big and England so little, as we did not make either the island or the continent. It would be just as senseless to drive us out of the land where we have made a home, because we state that the Republic is very large, rapidly growing in population, in great ness and power, and therefore that the seat of An glo-Saxon dominion must soon centre there, as in con fining GALILEO in gaol, because he asserted that the earth went round the sun. He merely stated a fact; and we merely state a fact, which, whether palatable or not, ought to be generally nue'. rstood in England. It is because the English du not pro perly comprehend it that it is unpalatable. No one will dispute that the Republic spreads over the richest part of a productive continent, well adapted by climate for the settlement of the Anglo-Saxon people, that Britain in comparison is but a small place; or, in admitting this, that the vast expanse when occupied by the same energetic race must become much more powerful than the smaller tract already overcrowded. Suppose that instead of an English-speaking people, the French, the Spa niards, the Italians, or the Chinese were to oc cupy that continent—Does any Euglishinau iu [Lis senses imagine that there would be a gain in this to England ? Yet, carrying the argument of the Standard to its legitimate conclusion, a gain, it can only be considered. North America must be in habited; the people that can occupy it as one nation, whether of the Latin, Celtic, or of the Anglo-Saxon race, cannot fail eventually to become the greatest of Powers. England has had the good fortune to have stamped au indelible impression on the nation destined to occupy it, in union, and therefore to become the greatest of powers; but if the argument of the Standard points to anything, it points to this as being a misfortune to England. We are sneer ingly alluded to as men of grand ideas; might we not with more truth allude to the Standard's people as men of small ideas ? We simply recognize and adapt ourselves to events, rejoicing in the beneficial direction they have taken for our race, preferring that the Anglo-Saxon should rule on earth, though the rule be from America, where the dominant power must centre, than that that rule should be in the hands of the Spaniards or the Muscovites. It iS worthy of remark, that those whose travel over the countries occupied by the English-speaking people has been the widest, are those who have all more or less arrived at the conclusion of Mr. Louis. Tney learn that race is of more importance than locality ; that the proper study of mankind is man ; and con sider it above all things important that if one race oust he predominant, the dominance should pass into the hands of that family which has already developed the highest intelligence and made most progress in civilization, which has proved itself the ,fiest industrious and equitable. Will the Spectator inform us what is silly in the assertion that with two similar people, the one of 40,000,000 must have an advantage over the one of 30,000,000; that if the country of the 30,000,000 be over-crowded, and its inhabitants hastening to occupy the vacant places of the country of the 40,000,000, that the difference in favour of the latter will very soon be largely in creased ? Hence, that the more important section will be the United States, and that Anglo-Saxon power must there centre. The Standard may chaff ; the Spectator may pronounce the man who says this and acts on it to have done a silly thing, although once an editor and proprietor of that journal, show ing, at any rate,.that a man may edit the Spectator and still have a spice of the silly ; yet we assert that facts and the forecast of the future are with Mr. Louis. We cannot have a better illustration of this than in the island of Great Britain itself. Formerly county was arrayed against county ; we had Highlanders cutting each other's throats, and combining to cut the throats of the Lowlanders, and both joining against the English. We bad the English harrying the Welsh, and a bitter warfare carried on along the Scotch Border. Now this island formerly of such an tagonistic elements is as a unit of population. The English, as . the larger and wealthier portion of the inhabitants, absorbed the others; not as the superior, for we never heard any race assert a superiority over the Scotch, and we are not aware that the Welsh have ever acknowledged any inferiority. Here, then, we have the greater number drawing in the smaller, and centreing the power in their own capital, and this will be found, where the nations are similar and speak the same language, to work in the same direction, the greater making its influence very strongly felt on the lesser. Such an influence will most assuredly be exercised on England by the United States when the population of the latter doubles that of the former, a disproportion which will actually be the case a few years hence. What was our little brother whom we used to thrash will then have grown big and strong, and can thrash us. But why howl over the inevitable, in stead of being thankful that the powerful animal is our brother, and does not want to thrash us, unless we exhibit towards him a vicious disposition. We recognise the facts as they exist, and are likely to exist, and wish to live in harmony and brotherhood, believing it to be wise to cultivate such relations, and the act of a maniac on the contrary to provoke and to keep alive ill blood. PRICE OF GOLD. l'hc quotation of gold at Paris is about at par ,and t!ie short exchange on London is 251. 15c. per £1 sterline. )ncomparing these rates with the English Mint price of t'ss.lo4d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that :old at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than Lindou BIRTHS. Cocas—On the Bth inst., at 11, Leinster-square, W, the wife of John Coles, Esq., of a daughter. HosELY—On the 6th inst., at Woodside, Croydon, Mrs. Mosley, of a daughter. MARNA G ES. IIAvILLAND J osEs —On the Bth inst., at St. James's Paddington, Lieut.-Colonel James do Haviland, R. A. to Caroline Rainier. eldest daughter of the late Lieut.- Colonel E. Jones, Kuolton Hall, Overton, Flints. PALMER--DAY - On the Bth inst., at Stepney, William H. Palmer, of Weston Colville and Cambridge, to Ann Eliza, only daughter of John Day, of Stepney. DEATHS. BAINBRIDGE —0 n the Bth inst., at Down Hall, Epsom Thomas Drake Bainbridge, Esq., aged GG. BENBOW —On the Bth inst., at - Richmond, Mrs. Benbow, sen. (lato of Ham-common, aged 93. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, r 0. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex Thursday, February 10, 1870. 0 han T 1 Pri So the 2