The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

THEGREAT C !ATTU SHOW. Their Royal Highnesses the Princes Christian and Leopold, attended by General Hood and a limited suite, visited the show yesterday, and it is hardly necessary to add that the successful "No. 2" of Class I. was one of the first objects of their scrutiny. There were only three animals of the Devon breed considered worthy to be classed with the Windsor specimens ; but in the remaining classes a consider able excellence was maintained throughout. The first prize in the Herefords was obtained by Mr. Joseph Beach, of Dudley, Worcestershire, a gentle man who to the technical knowledge of the prac tical farmer unites the experimental acquirements of the analytic chemist. As a matter of fact, nearly all the prizeholders of this year are animals which have been fatted by some scientifically prepared compound, and it would be important and satis factory to the public to leain that the artificial food is likely to tell as favourably on the quality as on the quantity of the living beef. In the short horns, there is nothing this year worthy of special notice. They are as big, and as phlegmatic as ever. The first prize of £3O is carried off by Mr. Fol jambe, of Osbertou-hall, Notts, but the success of the winner is as much attributable to the defects of his competitors as to any absolute excellence on his o an part. In class 26 we come to the Black Lion of the show, the Scotch polled steer, which the judges have adjudged to be the best in all the classses. This magnificent animal is the property of Mr. William M'Combie, of Aberdeen, N. 8., a per fect cormorant of prizes, and who had already, with the same ox, carried all before him at Birmingham. At former Smithfield shows suc cess at Birmingham was not found to be at all a sire passport to a similar result at Islington ; but this year the verdict of the capital of the " Black Country" is confirmed, and Mr. M'Combie's steer will have the gratification of going to the butcher's literally covered with laurels. Already there is a sharp competition for his bodily effects, but Mr. M'Combie has, we understand, intimated in the proper quarters his wish to present this splendid animal to the Queen, and awaits her Majesty's decision as to its acceptance before he entertains any trade proposals. Of the sheep this year, the finest pen is decidedly that of Lord Walsingliatn, which takes the first prize as South Downs. There cannot be the slightest doubt as to their superiority or as to the acumen and impartiality of the judges. The Duke of Richmond and Mr. Rigden also exhibit in this class, but not with their usual success, neither get ting more than "commended." Next to the sheep come the pigs in the order of the catalogue. This year they are very few in number, and present their usual appearance, being neither worse nor better than in former exhibitions. The following is a complete list of the prizes awarded : CATTLE. DEPOT CATTLE. Class I.—Devon Steers, not exceeding 2 years and 6 months old.—First prize of X2O to her Majesty the Queen ; silver medal to the breeder ditto. Second prize of £lO to Mr. James Howard, Crediton, Devon. Class 2.—Devon Steers, not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to William Smith, Credi- ton, Devon ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; so- cond prize of £2O to Mr. John Overman, Burnham Mar ket, Norfolk; third prize of £lO to Mr. William Taylor, Eastbourn, Sussex. Class 3.—Devon Steers, or Oxen, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to Mr. William Smith, Exeter, Devon; silver modal to the breeder, James Davey, Dovon ; second prize of £2O to Mr. Walter Farthing, Bridgewater, Somerset; third prize of £lO to Mr. James Faiquharson, Blandford, Dorset. Class 4.—Devon Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.— First prize of £25 to Richard Burton, Devon ; silver medal to the breeder, George Gibbs, Taunton ; second prize of £l5 to W. Barrington, Yarmouth, isle of Wight ; third prize of £lO to her Majesty the Queen. Class s.—Devon Cows, above 4 years old.—First prize of £25 to Walter Farthing, Bridgwater, Suss-x; silver medal to the breeder, John Tapp, South Moulton ; second prize of £l5 to John Cooto, Blandford, Dorset; third priz) of £lO to William Taylor, Eastbourne, Sussex. HEREFORD CATTLE. Class 6.—Hereford Steers, not exceeding 2 years and 6 months old.—First prize of £2O to Richard Hill, Ludlow, Salop; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prise of £lO to IA illiam Tudge, Leintwardine, Herefordshire. Class 7.—Hereford Steers, not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to Joseph Beach, Dudley, Worcester; silver modal to the breeder, E. Edwards, Baw cott ; second prize of £2O to hcr Majesty the Queen ; third prize of £lO to Benj. Cooks, Twyford, Salop. Class B.—Hereford Steers, or Oxen, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to Joseph Beach, Dudley, Worcester; silver medal to the breeder, Richard Shirley ; second prize of £2O to George Pitt, Chadnor Court, Here ford ; third prize of £lO to John Jones, Springfield, Here ford. Class 9.—Hereford Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.— First prize of £25 to Henry Belleridge ; silver medal to the breeder, E. Tanner, Salop; second prize of £l5 to John Arkwright, Leominster; third prize of £lO to her Majesty. Class 10.—Hereford Cows, abovo 4 years old.—First prize of £25 to Henry Belleridge, Woutage, Berks ; silver medal to the breeder, Samuel Griffiths, Leominster ; second prize of £l5 to Robert V. Groves, Berrington, Salop ; third prize of £lO to Arthur James, Hereford. SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. Class 11.—Short-horned Steers, not exceeding 2 years and 6 months old.— First priz•, of £2O to the Duke of Suther land, Salop; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to the Earl of Aylesford, Coventry. Class 12.—Short-horned Steers, not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old.—First prize of £3O to G. S. Foljambe, Osberton Hall, Notts; silver medal to the breeder, exhi bitor ; second prize of £2O to the Earl of Aylosford, Coven try; third prize of LEO to Richard Stretton, Walls Court, 13i istol. Class 13.—Short-horued Steers, or Oxen, above 3 years and 3 months old.—First Prize of £3O to tho Duke of Beau fort, Badminton ; silver medal to the breeder, Wm. Butler, Badminton ; second prize of .£2O to Lord Penrhyn, Ban gor; third prize of £lO to Rowland Wood, Ttirapston. Class 14.—Short-horned Heifers, not exceeding four years old.—First prize of £25 to Richard Stretton, Wall's couit, Bristol ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Lord Faversham, Helmsley, York shire ; third prize of £lO to the Earl of Hardwick°, Wimpole, Arrington. Class 15.—Short, horned cows, above four years old.— First prize of £25 to Adam Dugdale, Rose-hill, Burnley ; silver medal to the brooder, E. Hales, Tonbridgs ; second prize of £l5 to Richard Taylor, Maldon, Essex ; third prize of £lO to Thomas Mead, Tring, Herts. SUSSEX CATTLE. Class 16.—Sussex Steers or Oxen, not exceeding 3 years old. —First prize of .£2O to G. C. Coote, Arundel, Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of .£lO to John lleasman, Arundel, Sussex. Class 17.—Sussex Steers or Oxen, abcve 3 yrs old.— First prize of .£2.5 to John Ifeasman, Arundel, Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prim of .£l5 to Wm. Batting, Ifurstporpoint, Sussex ; third prize of £lO to George C. Coote, Arundel, Sussex. Class 18.—Sussex Heifers, not exceeding 4 yrs old.— First prize of £2O to John Shoosmith, Lowe; Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £l5 to Edward Cane, Lewes. Class 19.—Sussex Cows, above 4 years old. —First prize of £2O to George Coote, Arundel, Sussex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Thomas Gregson, Hawkhurst, Kent. NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED CATTLE. Class 20.—Norfolk or Suffolk Polled Steers or Oxen, of any age.--First prize of £l5, withheld ; second prize of £lO to John Sowell, Swaffham, Norfolk. Class 21 . —Norfolk or Suffolk Polled Heifers or Cows of any age. -First prize of £l5 to William M. Bond, North Walsham ; silver medal to the breeder, Lord Sondes; second prize of £lO to William Postle, Norwich. LONG -HORNED CATTLE. Class 22 .—Long-Iforned Steers or Oxen, of any age.— The prize of .£l.O to Sir John Carew, Bart.; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor. Class 23.—Long-Horned Heifers or Cows, of any age.— Th e prize of £lO to W. S. Cox, Derby; silver medal to thy breeder, exhibitor. SCOTCII HORNED CATTLE. Class 21. - Scotch Horned Steers or O;en, of any age.— First prize of £3O to the Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to the Earl of Derby, Knowsley. - Cass 25.—Scotch Horned Heifers or Cuws, of any a ge . —First prize of .£l3 to Captain Gunter, Wetherby, York; silver medal to the breeder, unknown. SCOTCH POLLED CATTLE. Class 26.-- Scotch Polled Steers or Oxen, of any age.— First prize of £3O to William M'Combie, Aberdeen ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Andrew Longmore, Rattle, Banff. Ckss 27 .—Seeteh Polled Heifers or Cows, of any age. -- First prize of £l5 to the Duke of Bucetnich, Dumfries; silver modal to the breeder, James Graham, Langtown, Cumberland. IRISH CATTLE. Class 23.—Irish Steers or Oxen, of any age.—First prize of £lO to Robert Wortley, Aylshorn, Norfolk ; silver medal to the breeder, unknown ; second prize of .£3 to Lord Bernerr, Leicester. Class 29.—Irish Heifers or Cows, of any age.—First prizo of £lO to Lord Berners, Leicester. WELSH CATTLE. Class 30.—Welsh Steers or Oxen (Runts) of any age.— First prize of £2O to Lord Penrhyn, Bangor ; silver medal to the breeder, H. B. Roberts, Trefarthen ; second prize of £lO to Capt. H. Platt, Bangor. Class 31.—Welsh Heifers or Cows, of any age.—First prize of £lO to Owen Phillips, Cardigan ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor. CROSS OR MIXED BRED CATTLE. Class 32.—Cross or Mixed-bred Steers, not exceeding 3 years old.—First prize of .£ . 25 to James Stewart, Aber deen ; silver medal to the breeder, Thomas Garland, Elton ; second prize of £l5 to James D. Allen, Salisbury ; third prize of £lO to Richard Barton, Broadelyst, Devon. Class 33.—Cross or Mixed-bred Steers or Oxen, above 3 years old.—First prize of £25 to John Overman, Nor folk ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £l5 to Joseph Bench, Dudley; third prize of £lO to Col. Lloyd Lindsey, \Vantage. Class 34.—Cross or Mixed-bred Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.—First prize of £2O to the Duke of Beaufor', Badminton ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to J. J. W. Martin, Aberdeen. LEICESTER SHEEP. Class 35. —Fat Nether Sheep of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 23 months). —First prize of £2O to Lord Berne', Keythorp Hall, Leicester; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to William Brown, Holme-on-Spalding ; third prize of £5 to Hon. Colonel Lowther, Oakham, Rutland. Class 36.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Leicester breed, 1 Soar old (under 23 mouths).—First prizo of .£2O to Lord Bernors ; silver medal to breeder, Lord Bernard; second prize of £l5 to G. S. Folkimbe, Osberton Hall, Notts; third prize of £5 to William Brown, Home-on-Spalding. COTSWOLD SHEEP. Class 37.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Cotswold breed, one year old (under 23 months.)—First prize of £2O to Mr. William Henry Hitchcock, Cirencester ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to Thomas and George West, Bletchington, Oxford; third prize of £5 to William Donne, Monkton, Glamorgan. LINCOLN SHEEP. Class 38.—Fat Wother Sheep of the Lincoln breed, one year old (under 23 months.) —First prize of f2O to This, Russell, Casswell, Spalding, Lincolnshire ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of .£l5 to James Pears, Bramston, Lincolnshire ; third prize of .E 5 to Thomas Gunnell, Milton, Cambridge. KENTISH OR IZOMNEY MARSH SHEEP. Class 39.—Fat `Nether Sheep of the Kentish or Romney Marsh 1 year old (under 23 months)—First prize of £l5 to F. Murton, Ashford, Kent; silver metal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to James Newport, Ashford, Kent. ANY OTHER LONG-WOOLLED SHEET'. Class 40.—Fat `'Nether long-woollod Sheep, not being Leicesters, Cotswolds, Lincolns, or Kentish, 1 year old (under 23 months).—First prize of £l5 to F. Street, liar rowden ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to Thomas Casswell, Spalding. SOUTH-DOWN SHEEP Class 41.—Fat Nether Sheep of the South-Down brood, 1 year old (under 23 months)—First prize of £2O to Lord Walsiugham, Thetford, Norfolk ; silver modal to the brooder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to Sir W. Th:ock morton, Farringdon, 13Jrks ; third prize of .C 5 to Henry Humphery Hurst, Sussex. Class 42.—Fat Wother Sheep of the South-Down breed, 1 year old (under 23 months.)—Each sheep not to exceed 2001 b live weight—First prize of £l5, to Lord Braybroke, Audloy End, Essex ; silver medal to the breeder, exhi bitor; second prize of .£l.O, to Lord Walsingharn, T hotford, Norfolk; third prize of £5, to William Ryder, Brighton. Class 43.—Fat Wother Sheep of the South-Dawn breed, 2 years ohl (above 23 and under 35 months.) —First prize of £2O, to Lord Walsingham, Thetford, Norfolk; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £lO to the Earl of Radnor, Coleshill, Highworth ; third prize of £5, to William Taylor, Eastbourne, Sussex. HAMPSHIRE OR WILTSHIRE-DOWN SHEEP. Class 44. —Fat Wether Sheep of the Hampshire or WiltshireDown breed, 1 year old (under 23 months.)—First prize of £2O to William Brown Canning, Devizes ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of .£l5 to James Russell, Eyndurd, Kent ; third prize of £5 to John King, Wallingford. ►SIHROPSHIRE SHEEP. Class 45.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Shropshire beod, 1 year old (under 23 months.) -First prize of £2O to Thos. Nock, Shitfnal, Shropshire; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to Henry Matthews, Shrews bury ; third prize of £5 to Joseph Beach, Dudley. Class 46.—Fat Wether Sheep of the Shropshire breed, 2 years old (above 23 and under 35 months)—First prize of £l5 to Lord Wenlock ; silver medal to breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £5 to Henry S:nitb, Shiffnal, Salop. OXFORDSHIRE SHEEP. Class 47.—Fitt Wether Sheep of tho Oxfordshire bread 1 year old (under 23 months.) -First prize of £2O to Samuel Druce, Eynsham, Oxford ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of £l5 to R tlph Newton, Woodstock; third prize of .£5 to Alfred Rogers, Bed ford. MOUNTAIN SIIEEP. Class 48.—Fat Wether Sheep, of any White-faced Mountain breed, of any age. -First prizo of .£l5 to Mr. John Tuff, South Molton ; silver modi.l to the br:!edor exhibitor; second prize of £lO to William Smith, Exeter, Devon. Class 49.--Fat Wether Sheep of any Black-faced or Speckle-faced Mountain breed, of any age.—First prize of £l5 to William M'Combie, Aberdeen ; silver meal to the breeder, unknown ; second prize of £lO to James Stewart, Aberdeen. RTELAND, CHEVIOT, AND DORSET SHEET. Class 50.—Fat Wethor Sheep of the Ryeland, Cheviot, Dorset, or any other pure breed, not specified in any of the foregoing Divisions.—First prize of £l5 to Herbert Farthing, Bridgewater; silver medal to the breeder, exhi bitor ; second prize of £lO to J. Downing, Hereford. CBOSS-BRED SHEEP. Class 51.—Long and Short-woolled Cross-bred Fat Weaker Sheep, 1 year old (under 23 months). —First prize of £2O to John Overman, Burnham Market ; second prize of £l5 to George Hine, jun., Bedford ; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; third Prize of .£5 to Colonel Lindsay, Vantage. Class 52.—Long and Short-woolled Cro , s-bred Fat Wethor Sheep. 1 year old (under 23 months). Each sheep not to exceed 2201b.—First prize of .£lO to John Ov , rman, Burnham Market; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of X 5 to Col. Lowther. PIGS. Class 53. —Pigs of any breed, not exceeding six months old.—First prize of £l5 to John Coote, Blandford, Dorset; silver medal to the brooder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to Samuel Stearne, Wickham Market, Suffolk; third prize of £5 to Sir R. J. Clifton, Nottingham. Class 51.- Pigs of any breed, above six and not exceed ing nine months old.—First prize of .£l5 to Thos. Leslie Melville Cartwright, Lady Bank, Fife ; siver modal to the breeder, exhibitor; secoa•l prize of .£lO to John Rout, Chichestor, Sussex ; third prize of £5 to Captain Warren, Basingstoke. Class 55. —Pigs of any brood, above ilia° and not ex ceeding 12 months old.—First prize of .£l5 to John Tread well, Aylesbury; silver medal to the breeder, exhibitor; second prize of .£lO to Captain Warren, Basingstoke ; third prize of £5 to her Majesty the Queen. Class 56.—Pigs of any brood, above 12 and under 18 months old.—First prize of £l5 to the Earl of Ruiner; silver modal to the breeder, exhibitor ; second prize of £lO to James and Frederick Howard, Bedford ; third prize of £5 to John Pittman King, Wallingford, Berks. SILVER CUPS. Silver Cup, value XlO, to the exhibitor, and gold medal to breeder, for the best steer or ox, in any of the classes, to William 3,l‘Cornbie, Aberdeen. Silver Cup, value £lO, to thz: exhibitor, for the best heifer or cow in any of the classes, to Henry Betteridge. Gold Medal to Breeder, E. Tanner, Salop. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of Leicesters, Cotswolds, Lincoins, Kentish, or other long-woolled breed, in any of the classes, to Lord Berners. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of one year old South Downs, Hampshire or Wiltshire Downs, to Lord Wulsingham. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of Shropshire, Oxfordshire, cross-bred, or any other breed of sheep (not specified in prize list) in any of the classes to Samuel Druce. Silver Cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of pigs in any of the classes, to Earl of Radnor. EXTRA STOCK. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best steer or ox in extra stock; also £5 prize to John Overman. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best heifer cow in extra stock; also £5 prize to Lord Penrhyn. Silver modal to the exhibitor, for the lost Leicester wether sheep in extra stock, to G. S. Poljambe. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best Leicester cwe in extra stock, to G. S. Foljambe. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the host long-woolled sheep (not Leicester) in extra stock, to J. li. Casswell. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best South_ own wether sheep in extra stock, Lord Walsiugharn. modal to the exhibitor, for the boat South-down cwo in extra stock, to Sir W. Throcxmorton. Silver medal t i the exhibitor, for the best short-woolled sheep (not South-down) in extra stock, to John Coxon. . Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best cross -bred sheep (long and short-wooded cross) in extra stock, to John Overman. silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best pig in extra stock, to the Earl of Radnor. " After having been severely afflicted for over two year( with a distressing nervous debility, arising from excessive bleeding at tho nose, which reduced my frame, and fixed an oppressive pain on the heart and left side, accompanied with dimness of sight and loss of appetite, with no rest day or night, enduring sufferings more than 1 can describe ; and after using all the means prescribed by the boat of the faculty with no benefit, I tried your Pain Killer, and am perfectly cured.—Yours, &c., ISAAC PHILLIPS.— Dudley, Jan. 17, 1860. Perry Davis and Son, 17, Southampton-row, Holborn." Beware of fraudulent imitations. None genuine without the proprietors' trade mark, 1"41,ZT 41,444.8 ca the G9man_leht ptemP.—GUlrd , TUE SUN ) LOADuN, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1867. BPI3IT OP TIE PUBLIC ZOITANdLO. The Ti+nu remarks upon the stranie aces e i the Irriiiß (orpe Legislatif, with M. Thiel's, the biskilait of 00 First Empire, acting as Minister of the Second. AcedrcP ing to him a zone of petty duchies, of petty cantons, Get), many parcelled out, an unarmed Switzerland, "an enslavect Italy, an effete Spain, is what beet suite France. Our contemporary cannot believethatrraice ortbat the French Emperor is to be swayed by views of such refined selfish ness. The time was when every European nation looked upon our neighbour's gain as a loss to ourselves. Theis' were selfish men among us who held it as an article of faith that England should seek a quarrel with France at least once every score of years, so as to secure our shores from invasion by leaving not a single stick of the French Royal Navy afloat. But we have Gamed to be jealous of France, not because we deem her a less formidable &dyer.' nary, not because steam navigation does not render our shores more vulnerable, but because, with the conscious. pess of our own strength, our oonfidenoe in our neighbour's peaceful disposition has also increased. We think less of the power France may have to go to war, and more of the reasons she has to remain at peace. Why France should not be equally easy on the score of Italy and Germany we are unable to see. Were she to applaud herself for the generous impulse which won Solferino and for the wise neutrality which countenanced Sadowa, we think Italian and Ger man unity would rather add to than take away from that moral ascendancy to which it ought to be France's boast to aspire. As to Italy it is very evident that the breath that has made can also unmake her. M. Thiere dwells at full length on the sad spectacle of anarchy andbankruptcy Presented at the present moment by the Italian kingdom. France, who has long seemed to halt between two opinions, has, according to the Herald, resolved her doubts and those of the world by throwing her aegis defiantly and resolutely over the head of the Pontiff. It is not for the death of Pope Pius IX. that the Italians have to wait for the accomplishment of their scheme of unity. Nor will it make much difference to them who is the ruler of France so long as the majority of. Frenchmen are, as they seem to be now, of the opinion of M. Thiers, that France must still be true to the worship " which has held her in its arms for twelve centuries ;" that it is monstrous " that she who has it in her power to be the protectress of 200 millions of Catholics should not be willing to exercise that power." The ilbjudged enterprise of Garibaldi, the battle of Mentana, and the discussions and recriminations which have followed them, are now events of the past—sad memories which should be suffered to sleep. For the moment they have caused a deep estrange ment between France and Italy, and may in this way make themselves felt in the politics of the day. Bid Italy, when she bas had time for reflection, will be ready to confess that had she been in the place of France she could not have acted otherwise, and determine within herself that she must wait for the acquisition of Rome until such time as the necessity of the perpetuation of this temporal power shall have ceased to be air article of faith with Roman Catholic Christians. The rejection by the House of Representatives of the motion to impeach President Johnson has created somt interest on this side of the Atlantic. The Post thus in• terprets it. It was well known that a large number of the most bitter opponents of the President were averse, from the employment of a measure which would strike a much more fatal blow against the office of chief magis , trate than against the individual who at the present moment happens to fill it ; and, on the other hand, it was equally notorious that many of the Demo crate who have given a consistent support to the President were not unwilling that their oppo nents should commit the serious blunder which' would be involved in the proposed impeachment. When, however, as an antecedent step, a resolution was suli' mitted having for its object the suspension of Mr. Johnson from office pending the inquiry into his supposed guilt, many who regarded his impeachment with disfavour supported that resolution, in order thereby to supply an additional argument against the adoption of the proposal to impeach. There was, in truth, no blinking the fact that if, after the resolution for suspension, that for impeach ment were carried, the office of Chief Magistrate of the Republic would henceforth become contemptible, since it would simply require the adverse vote of a majority, with a naked assertion of guilt, to procure the deposition of the President. Hard and fierce has the winter come upon us a season which is dreaded by the poor as an invading enemy. The vague eulogies of frost and snow as " season able," " natural," and " healthy," which proceed from portly and well-wrapped figures and rosy countenances, must sound like cruel mockeries in the ears of men who have no defensive armour against the attacks of cold and want. Thus opens the Daily News an article, painting in strong colours a terrible picture of the distress which exists in the East of London. That part where suffering is now most intense was a few years ago the centre of a thriving industry. In the Poplar district, and especially in the Isle of Dogs, lately the seat of an active shipbuilding trade, with ironworks and chemical factories, and great industrial establishments of various kinds, there are, a medical visitor writes, " hum. dreds of persons quietly and calmly dying by inches? Four thousand persons are at work where sizteen thousand once had employment. The tradesmens— the butchers, bakers, grocers, drapers, publicans, who are the camp followers of the great industrial army—have shut up their shops and gone. The num ber of persons receiving outdoor relief is greatly in excess of what it was last year ; and the number of ; cases on the books of the medical officer is more than four-fold the average of the past three years. From many houses every article of furniture has been sold. The people sleep on the bare boards, with old sacks only for their covering. At Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Hackney, the same features are presented. In the East of London, north of the Thames, twelve thousand men, representing not fewer than fifty thousand persons, were a fortnight ago out of employment, and, with those dependent on them, starving. The increased severity of the past few days cannot but have increased the number of sufferers and the severity of their distress. The Poor-law system is quite unequal to grapple with this mass of misery. In an article on the annual display of stock at the Agricultural Hall, the Standard contends that we are eating up, notwithstanding all the loud pretence about a preference of green crop over wheat-growing soils, our stock-rearing lands—not in all districts, but in many, and those of an important character. Without assigning a general result to any single cause, we maintain that one influence of this process is seen operating in the-butcher's shop. As to the cattle plage, which suspended the Christmas Show at Islington for a season, the magnitude and gravity of its import were, from the beginning, fortrade purposes, grossly exaggerated. There was ssme loss of property, some derangement of business, some interrup- tion of fairs and markets, some damage to dairy produce, but, with sixty millions' worth of live stook in the country, was a rise of thirty per cent, and more, in the cost of meat for public consumption ever, in the worst time of the ,pestilence, justified? That, perhaps, is an old argument which need not again be pressed ; but we could wish that the Smithfield Club, now holding its annual splendid show, could ultimately tell us a little more about the most important system of husbandry in England, the means we enjoy of supplying a meat diet to the people, the protec• tion of our rural economy from foreign infection, and the possibility of reconciling, with any number of incompa rably symmetrical oxen, sheep, and pigs on show, the profits of the trade with the necessities of the population. The Telegraph does not think that such processions as those which have lately traversed the streets of Dublin, Limerick, and Cork should be permitted if their tendency is to excite to a breach of the peace. There can be no doubt that Allen, Larkin, and Gould made a good end of it in a religious sense. There was no latitudinarian indif. ference to the priest : they went to their doom chanting the sad psalms appointed by their Church, and consoled to the last by the ministrations of their spiri tual guides. This has in a manner endeared them to many thousand Roman Catholics who have as great a horror of Fenianism as any Protestant in the land. With somo cunning the Fenians have played on this national and sectarian sentiment, this womanly tenderness, and their mock funeral processions have had a Catholic character which has greatly helped their success. But the slight union between Itomanism and Fenianism cannot last : it is the offspring of the emotion of the day. While it did last it was as well not to affront the feelings of poor pious souls by arrest ing even mock hearses or seizing even empty Coffin., ; but probably we have heard the last of Fenian funeral processions permitted by the authorities. If such sedi tious language as that recently delivered by a man named Martin were allowed to be repeated, the impunity would be interpreted as an incentive to license. Thus, we might have disturbances of such a character as to demand the exercise of lamentable severity. To save the country from such a melancholy necessity, the Government may have to invoke the agency of the law, and to punish sedition with a rigour which shall be merciful in its uteri. _ nes% THE NSW GOLD MINES OF NEW ZEALAITD. - 7 -7 : , The discovery of gold on the western shores of the middle island of New Zealand has added much importance to the anchorages on the open and exposed coast. The Board of Trade have published a pamphlet compiled from the 're marks of Captain Charles W. Hope, R.N., commanding her Majesty's ship Brisk, 1867, from which it ap pears that the whole population on the west coast is at present estimated at from 40,000 to 50,600 colonists.. In 1850 not a single European resided oil the whole !Luca khit.--40. Mad 1 .44 W. AND ZOLIQX, mk *4le f. %loritplio; which Was Cried N'tetstminstei before hsticePiab, irita an action for libel. The plaintiff wa s the iestitelerk of Fulham, and the defendant the pito inietork,l the West London Observe: It appeared that at vestrrnleeting complaints were made that one of the rate colUsctors had committed errors of account. At that meeting-s Mr. Bryant, in the course of his speech; made inte:of certain obeervationi which led to the impression that the :retry clerk had cooked the accounts. The speech was ri;perartod in the defendant's paper with an interpola tion, " It was believed that the vestry clerk had sent in his reeigTiation." The plaintiff,seeing thereport, instructed his Solicitor to write the defendant a letter demanding an itialogy and a contradiction inserted in that newspaper, but no notice was taken of it. The plaintiff was now ready to accept an apology and a verdict to carry costs. The defendant said he never received the letter, and that he never refused to insert an apology. Mr. Bryant said the report of his speech was a correct one. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff ; damages, £25 IMPORTANT CONMOTION UNDER TnE SMOKE NUMMI , Acr.—At the Southwark Police-court, the Messrs. Hepburn, extensive tanners, of Bermondsey, were fined £5 and costs for using furnaces in their works which did not consume their own smoke. The inspector, after looking over the works, gave the defendants notice of the alteration required, and they promised to see to it, but at the conclusion of a month it was still undone., Twenty-one days more were allowed, a n d on th e wor k not being then completed the present charge war preferred. ACTION FOR DAMAGES TOR A FATAL RAILWAY ACM DENT. A case which was tried at the Manchester Assis,s i iaised an important question. It was an ac ti on by a widow against the Oldham, Ashton, and Guide Bridge Railway Company. The plaintiff's husband, on the 9th of February, took a London and North-Western ticket to go from Oldham to Greenfield. He was crossing the line to get to the platform from which the train would start, when he was knocked down and killed by a train belonging to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company. It was contended that the mode of conducting the station was so dangerous that it was not to he wondered at that the man was killed. Persons were obliged to cross the line and to run about to find where the train would start from. For the defence the point of law was raised whether, when the contract was with another company, and deceased was killed by another company's train, the defend ants could be made liable. His lordship WAX inclined to think not, but refused to stop the case on that account. Ultimately the j ur y w ere dis c h arge d, no t b e i ng able to agree. His lordship said that he merely took the verdict for form's sake, as the plaintiff was poor, and it would save litigation. The point raised was a radical defect in the case. ANOTHER ACTION AGAINST A BAIINAT COMPANT:i £1,200 DAILAGES.—In another railway case tried 4 . Manchester, the plaintiff, a cotton-spinner and mann• facturer, laid his damages at £4,000. While the plaintiff, wife, and children were travelling from Huddersfield to Todmorden, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; ; an accident happened, and plaintiff was injured, as he alleged, seriously. The defence was that his injuries were very small, but it was shorn that ho could not attend market for three months, and Mr. Baron Martin said he was entitled to substantial damages. The jurpreturned a verdict for £1,250. AN ACTION Yon Minn num.—Another case at the Manchester Assizes-was an action brought against a shippet named Wchner, to recover £154 is. 11d., the balance of an account on sale of 4,000 dozen umbrellas. The umbrellas had been ordered for the Calcutta market, at the rate of 1,000 dozen per month, but the deliveries being behind time, the manufacturer agreed to a deduction being made in order that the goods might be sent by steamer instead of sailing vessel, to save the Calcutta season. The defendant, however, sent the umbrellas by the over: j land route, and ded uc t e d th e amo u n t in qu es ti on . Th e jury found for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. INCENDIARISSI BY A GIRL —Eliza Sparrow, a girl aged 15 years, has just been convicted at Norwich Assizes of, setting fire to a coalsh e d, ou th ouse , a n d oth e r p rem i ses o f her master, Mr. George Bunn, at Acle. The prisoner eoriibssed to the constable's wife that she had done the acts charged, not thinking that she was doing any harm, but tempted to do so. After the failure of one attempt she said she felt so had she did not know what to do, and could not sleep ; that the thought came into her head again on the SUnday following, when she took a match and set fire to the straw. She was sentenced to a month's im: prisonment and hard labour, at the expiration of which time she was to go to a reformat o ry f or fi ve years. Arraurr To MURDER • POLICEMAN.—A young Irish, woman, named Mary Quirk, was brought up at the Sal ford Town Hall, charged with attempting to shoot a police man who is alleged to have seduced her. Police-constable Sowerby said he was on duty on Sunday night, and at about eight o'clock was going along the Crescent" in the direction of the Pendleton Police-office; when the prisoner overtook him and walked alongside of him until he got to the office. He endeavoured to persuade her to go home because he was on duty, but she refused to do so. After calling at the Pendleton Police; office, at about a quarter to nine, he g o t upon an omnibus co d the prisoner got Corner i nside. going H from e Pendleton e t to Manches ter, omnibu s a tthe rne of OldfieW and road, and walked in the direction of the Salford Pace. office. At the corner of Bezley.square he saw the prisoner, and again asked her to go home. She replied that she would if she liked. He then left her and went to the police -office, where ho remained from h a lf- past n i ne unt i l twenty minutes to two. He then left the office to go home, and was turning from Kirkley-street into Bruns wick-street, when he again saw the prisoner. She said to him, "It is the last time I shall come. You have two cartes de visite of mine ; will you give them to me ?" He replied that he would bring them to her. He then saw her raise her arm and at the same instant heard the, report of a pistol, and felt a smarting sensation in his right arm and in his eyes from the effects of the flash. He did not see the prisoner again. She had repeatedly told him she would shoot him. He ceased to keep company with her about two months ago. The prisoner cross examined Sowerby to shew that he had used her very ill, and was with another woman at the time when the pistol was discharged. The prisoner said the policeman had kept company with her for five years. Mr. Trafford advised the prisoner to reserve her statements with re:, gard to Sowerby's conduct to her, and committed her for I trial. THE COMMERCIAL BANE CORPORATION.—An applicatiot to the Master of the Rolls in the matter of the above; company, tor consent to a call of £lO per share required to satisfy the liabilities of the old comp any, was oppose d g company (which Wwarfboynfor m ed the ed shareholders e o h f ol thede r o s l d o f one)t the on h x i t st ino ground that questions were in dispute between the two companies, and therefore the question should stand over. His lordship, however, consented to the application. Tun POWER OP A COMPANY TO ACCZPT BILLS.-12 toe matter of the General Estates Bank the power of the directors to accept bills on the part of the company was' questioned, there being no special power given to them is the articles of association. His lordship the Master of the Rolls held that the directors had the power. Mn. CANT, M.P. FOR BARNS/APIA IN THE COMM 07 EXCHEQUER.—On Monday an action was tried in the Court of Exchequer, which throws considerable light upon the unseen current of an election to the City shrievalty. The defendant was Mr. Thomas Cave, M,P. for Barnstaple, in 1868 Sheriff of London. The plaintiff was a Mr. Hayes, who had helped him to obtain that distinction, and now' claimed 100 guineas for his services, which he alleges that he specially stipulated should be paid him. Plaintiff and defendant each appeared as witnesses, and contradicted each other so flatly as to make the case one of personal veracity. On the one hand, Mr. Hayes swore that Mr. Cave made a contract with him for the £lOO, and Mr. Cave as distinctly swore that what Mr. Hayes had said was false. Mr. Hayes stated that Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson was employed to act as orator on the day cf the election. This also was denied. The jury, after little deliberation, found for the defendant. FEARFUL DEATH. —Mr. Alderman Ueorge Job ling, of Tynemouth, one of the owners of Belside, Walker, and other collieries in Northumberland, and a borough magistrate in North Shields, met with a frightful death at the Howden station of the Tynemouth branch of the North- Tastern Railway, on Sunday night. Mr. Jobling, on Sun day, had been dining with his cousin, Mr. Thomas Jobling, at Willingtoa House. He appears to have gone on the line of railway at the west end of the Willington Viaduct, and was walking down to catch the train from Newcastle to Tynemouth at Howden. He had evidently forgotten that the train leaves Newcastle at a quarter to nine on Sunday evenings, instead of nine o'clock as on week days ; and he had been walking within the down rails. He was overtaken by the quarter to nine train befor he could reach the Howden station. His attention had been called to the noise made by the approaching train. He turned round to look, and was immediately struck by the buffers of the engine and thrown under the wheels and crushed to death. The engine-man felt that he had gone over something, and as soon as the train stopped at Howden a party ran back to the spot where the accident occurred, and found Mr. Jobling's body dread. fully mutilated. It was removed to the railway 'station at =re the eqpa:sutell 14 44/ PRO7ECTION 1N A NUTSHELL. The November' number of the New York Free- Trade journal, called The League, republishes an article first issued two years ago in the New York Evening Post, as it finds in the case commented on, " Protection in a Nutshell." The thread works owned by Hartford capitalists at Willimantic are the most extensive in the country, and at that time they had just finished a new mill 400 feet long, five storeys high, and built of granite —a work of great labour and cost, constructed out of the profits of the company without disturbing its capital, which, with this addition, was estimated at $1,000,000. These profits were over 300 per cent., and it was therefore an easy matter for the com pany to make this addition to its factory, and a wise expenditure in increasing the productive power of so profitable a business. The Hartford Times, boasting of these results, thus continued its comments :—" Thread that used to cost the needle woman four cents a spool. now costs ten—the same as the imported English thread of J. and P. COATS. One reason why COATS'S thread works more smoothly on the machine, and is better liked than our, is in the fact that the greater dampness of the English climate is more favourable than our dry air to spinning cotton. Again the highly electric condition of the atmosphere of the Western World is probably unfavourable to the necessary compactness and smoothness sought for in the fabrication of this article, the strands and fibres being more inclined to rough up and fiy off.' " This unconscious admission—though unseen by the writer—was quickly detected by the oppo nents of the Protection system, and enabled them to condense the subject into a nutshell. Here is a manufacture, says the Free-trader,w hick, from physical causes, cannot be brought to perfection in America, but which, by enormous protection, has been made to pay 300 per cent. profit. The tariff on imported threads is equal to 70 per cent. in gold on the cost; the tax on the domestic article is 6 per cent. in currency. The effect has been twofold. The three—cord glazed threads, such as made by this company, cost much less in England, and are sold at lower prices than the six-cord goods. But the duty has raised them to the same price; and the sewing woman in the United States has to pay as much for the one as for the other. The price of the best ought not to exceed 6 cents a spool, even with gold at 140, while the price, as the Hartford Times observer, is 10 cents. The difference comes out of the pockets of the needlewomen and their customers. By thus raising the price 40 per cent., the Hartford capi talists are enabled to divide three times their ori ginal capital per annum. The effect on the national revenue has been to entail a loss of nearly $200,000 per annum, as spool cotton used to pay a yearly income of half a million, while now it gives but $300,000. Thus the revenue suffers in an equal proportion ; both the State and the poor being robbed of 40 per cent. to pay the lucky speculators 300 per cent. on their investment. We would like to know what the country gains by the Willimantic Tbreadworks. What the company gains is dis tinctly stated, and what the country loses is as clearly put. Though a factory has been established, which furnishes employment to a certain number of citizens, it does not follow that such employment must benefit either the country or the indi viduals. In the presence of a great emergency, when whole classes have been thrown out of em ployment, it may be necessary to set aside the rules of political economy, and furnish work without regard to its productiveness or necessity. No country can, however, habitually sot aside these laws without increasing the evils it seeks to alle viate. In other words, there is a ceaseless danger in fostering manufactures for which a coun try has not a physical capacity, because the ten dency is to train hands and lead individuals to rely on a craft artificially supported, and thus rest big on a false foundation, which may at any time give way, leaving them iu the air. As the United States have not arrived at that stage which makes it even a temporary boon to labour to rest any indus stry on a false foundation, we cannot suppose that these Threa , tworks are beneficial to the hands em ployed. The question of gain thus becomes narrowed to the proprietors. It may appear absurd to assert that a man who receives 300 per cent. on his capital, has not made a judicious and lucky investment. Yet it may be so. Those who embark money in fostering industry not suitable to the country in which they live rest their capital on the same false foundation as the worker does his labour. Un doubtedly in such a case as the Willimantic Thread works the prudent capitalist can replace from his enormous dividends the sum he has employed, and thus if the pleasing phantom vanishes, remain as he was before. Experience, however, shows that few men act thus. He has stepped into a fortune, and he assumes the position in society to which he considers his judicious investment has elevated him, and henceforth commences the career of anxiety and worry which all must in some degree experience whose position rests on an insecure basis. The labourer, after a probationary period of suffering, can turn his hand to another employment ; his capital remains, although his peculiar handicraft may have disappeared from the industries of his country. But not so the capitalist, whose money sinks into the quicksand on which he has placed it, never again to be seen. Dreading this result, he becomes a frantic Protectionist. His mind is imbued with one idea to such an extent that a proprietor of the Threadworks may have persuaded himself that the prosperity of the United States rests, not on Protection generally, but mainly on the spe cific and ad valoremduties piled upon theßritish fabric which enables him to realise so enormous a return, The arguments of such a man are amusing to those who know better than himself how his mind has r e- ceived the bent. "To elevate the lowest on the rung of the ladder, and to bring up the masses, ought to be the object of a commonwealth. Mann. factures most tend to elevate labour, as a strong demand raises wages, and enables the workman to secure his fair share of profits. Protection is the only means o.e. establishing manufactures on a perma nent basis. Therefore, the object of a Republic, in the - - interest of its poorer citizens, ought to be to protect - - industry." So arguing he puts his 300 per cent. in his pocket soothed with thecomfortable doctrine that he is a true patriot, working for the interest of the toiling masses. This is, indeed, a royal road, and when he is jostled on it by a rude Free-trader, we cannot be surprised at the bitterness with which he resents the obstruction. Great Britain is the country whose competition he fears ; and it is there- fore against Great Britain that the Protectionist arguments are mainly directed. Unfortunately for England, the tone unwisely expressed by her press has enabled him to assume that her attitude during the rebellion was unfriendly; and this has been so resented by the United States that a weight has been given to arguments they would otherwise not have possessed. Is the country, he asks, to destroy her manufactures to benefit those of our English enemies who will use the very strength derived from our folly to injure us. Thus he backs his arguments by an appeal to pre judice, which, alike in nations as in individuals, often over Sways reason and judgment. The League sums up in theso words : " Protection" finds antagonism everywhere ; ' Free Trade' believes in the harmony of all interests ; Protec tion' sets nation at variance with nation ; Free Trade' is a peacemaker. Protection' believes in the necessity of guarding labour against the tyranny of capital; Free Trade' teaches that labour and capital are natural allies, necessary to one another, and that but for the ill-judged interference of Go vernment, they would work in harmonious co-ope ration to their mutual good."—An9lo-American The Philo-Dramatic Society gave their eleventh entertainment at the "Polygraphic Ilan" on the 28th ult., before a fashionable and enthusiastic audience, the performance commencing with the farce " Retained for the Defence," followed by the drama " The Wreck Ashore," and concluding with the farce " The Unfinished Gentle man." The pieces were placed upon the stage effectually, the dresses and accessories were really capital, the per formers wore well up in their different parts ; and all contributed, in a greater or less degree, to the real success of a very clever amateur performance. STEEFLECRiBB FORFEIT LlST.—Faithless Sarah's forfeit is paid. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, (From the Anglo-American Times.) On the 21st November Congress met at Wash ington, when the President was enabled to ignore its existence, as legally, the first Monday in Decem ber is the date on which the Session commences. He refrained from transmitting his Message till then, and Reports from the Heads of Departments could not of course be received. Practically there fore there was no business before the House, al though the attendance of members was large. Speaker Colfax presided at the Representatives, where the Impeachment Committee was called on for its report, which it promised on Nov. 25. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the Democrats to have the loyalty of the Tennessee members in quired into, as were those from Kentucky, some of them being accused of having served in the Confe derate army. Mr. Brooks, who was the Democratic spokesman, considered it unfair that while Ken tucky Congressmen had been excluded on a charge of sympathy with the Confederacy, Tennessee mem bers, who had actually served against the United States, should be admitted. In one instance only did he prevail ; the excluded delegate having been a Major in the Confederate army, though he has now swung round to Radicalism. The House then ad journed till Friday. In the Senate the Hon. Ben Wade presided, with his head rather battered from his recent fall. Business commenced, as usual, by Mr. Sumner's bill to make negroes and whites equal in the District of Columbia. Senator Edmonds, of Vermont, introduced the following joint resolution, which was ordered to be printed, and is to be called up on au early day : " Whereas, the public debt of the United States was, except when specialiy otherwise provided, contracted and incurred upon the faith and credit of the United States that the same would be paid or redeemed in coin or its equivalent, and whereas doubts have been raised as to the duty and pro priety of discharging such debt in coin or its equivalent, it is therefore-- "Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States in Congress as sembled, that the public debt of the United States, except in the cases wherein by the law authorising the same other provision was expressly made, is owing in coin or its equivalent, and the faith of the United States is hereby pledged in payment accordingly." It is thought that this resolution will be carried by a large majority in both Houses, and the fall in the price of gold indicates, we believe, its favourable reception. If the Message of the President does not absorb Congressional attention, there will be a great fight between the advocates of contraction and inflation. It is believed that in the house the inflationists are in a majority, and the Senate is doubtful. The West strongly advocate more money, and will op pose Secretary M'Culloch's scheme of contracting the greenback currency. He desires an imcrease of his present power in this direction, while his oppo nents propose to abolish the law under which he is enabled to absorb greenbacks at the rate of $4,000,000 a month. This subject is more closely associated with repudiation than is at first sight apparent. Let any one begin to tamper with his capital to meet his ordinary expenditure, and he takes what may prove to be a fatal step on the road to ruin. It is more pleasant to meet expenses by " doing a little paper" when credit is good, than to retrench, to dismiss servants, sell horses and carriages, and take a downward step in the social scale. Yet such a course may be the only true so lution of a grave difficulty. Contraction means not only a national, but an individual retrenchment throughout the States ; inflation is the seeming prosperity a man has who is living on his capital. The true financial friends of the United States dread the Representatives shying at the bog they have to wade through ere they reach sound financial ground. " What is the use of sticking in this mud ?" says the horse, who has pleasant clover pastures inviting him on this side. " That grass may be very pleasant to eat," he is answered ; " but it will destroy your constitution. You will be blown out and burst." The position is a trying one, for the bog is plain enough, but the other evil, remote and obscure. Secretary M'Cul loch is, however, painfully alive to the danger ; and it will not be his fault if Congress overrules his opinion. The plan he proposes is sketched in the report which has reached this country through the cable. Mr. Robinson, one of those rowdy Democrats who spring from the hotbed of New York, has in troduced a resolution in the House of Representa tives, charging Charles Francis Adams, American Minister at St. James's, with neglect of duty in refusing to interfere on behalf of American citizens arrested and tried in the United Kingdom. A com mittee of investigation is demanded, with a view, if the facts justify the course, to impeach the Mi nister; and the President is desired to recall Mr. Adams by the Atlantic cable as the speediest method. Copies of correspondence on the arrests and trials are also called for. It is a singular fact that the party who received British support and sym pathy is that which has always displayed the most bitter and unreasoning hostility against England. The Democrats derive a large measure of support from the Irish, and in return aid Fenianism. On the other hand, they received all the assistance the Southern oligarchy could give, and therefore sympathised with the rebels, The complications in which England has become in volved by the piratical acts of cruisers obtained in English ports, is in some degree due to them, yet they are prepared to fasten on England the conse quences, at the same time that they tender aid in fostering a rebellion in the United Kingdom, and endeavour to cover the agents employed, by the open protection of the United States. This is the party, with Mr. Johnson at its heat, that com manded the sympathies of the well-informed Eng lish press. The Alabama Convention still in session rejects all counsels of moderation, and goes in for the extreme of disfranchisement and proscription. To the list of the disfranchised are now added those who will not swear to support negro suffrage. The members have voted themselves $8 a day, and the same amount for each twenty miles they have to travel to and from the capital, and in payment have appropriated funds set apart by the Alabama Legislature for the in terest on the State Debt, although the method of paying the members is provided by the Reconstruc tion Acts. The friends of the negro express great disappointment at this sample of African legislation, and have been constrained to admit that the present experiment is a failure. Ere long similar constitu tional conventions will be in session in other States, and unless greater wisdom prevails in their coun sels, there will be a speedy end of such Assemblies. As anticipated, the House of Representatives has repealed the tax upon cotton grown after the pre sent year. The feeling was almost unanimous, and the evidence conclusive against it. It was announced that Mr. Horace Greeley had been nominated United States Minister to Austria, and that the Senate had confirmed the appointment. We were somewhat surprised at this - news, as Horace Greeley had declined the appointment last year, when Mr. Motley's resignation, and Mc- Craeken's insolent report to the President were dis- cussed. Mr. Greely had not only declined, but pub lished the grounds for his refusal. These have in no way changed, and we presume that if Air. Greeley last year refused the promotion, that this year, cir cumstances remaining the same, he would refuse it again. By a telegram eent from New York, on Thursday, we learn ho had refused it, but one would have supposed that his name would not have been submitted to the Senate unless his sanction had been first secured. Judge Shipman made some excellent remarks when opening the United States Circuit Court at llartford, Connecticut, in his charge to the Grand Jury touching the cases of defalcations of bank offi cers about to be tried : "There are," he said, "men of good social standing, who are raised by their salaries above want, and are ro- moved from many of the temptations which assail those in the obscure and humble walks of life. To fail to punish them when they deliberately violate their trust and plunder those who have relied on their integrity, while at the same time the more ignorant and degraded offenders against law are visited with its penaltioa, shocks the moral sense, and is a bitter mockery of justice. It renders property inse cure, encourages fraud, and removes those wholesome checks which elundd guard and Imo, others from treading in the same path of crime. The position of the active officers of a bank, who are daily 0131- ployed in conducting is affairs, is one of peculiar responsibility. They aro intrusted not only with th e property of the opulent who are able to bear losses, an d who have usually a potent voice in selecting those officers, but they control the interests of the small stockholders-• of widows and orphans, whose sole moans of support ar e often the small savings of a life of industry and self denial, carefully invested by those who have passed away' as a security aga i nst want for friends who have s bare ra their affectio.: and been dependent on their care. No m e ' delicate or sacred earthly trusts can be committed to than those. And yet they are often shamefully violatel, and the public and the victims aro told that the high P °si : tiens of the culprits, their attractive and manly nua lil `, e ; their p as t un bl emished reputation, or their eminent P IN ' or all combined, are such that those who have the earliest and free ac cess t ) t h e ev i dence of guilt do not desire their punishment, an d cannot find it in th e ir hearts to aid in bringing them to justice. If the moral sense of thos e most immediately interested in the management of th e° instiiuti ons i s reduced to this sickly condition, it is q uite time that a law was enacted declaring every officer, dire' tor, or stockholder of a bank, who has no knowledge t hat a Laud has been committed upon it, and fails to make il 3v mediate complaint to the officers of the law, an access e s / after the fact, p un i s h a bl e by fine and imprisonmen t. 11 miserable vendor of counterfeit currency passes a sP nri°ll° note at a bank and is detected, ho is at once hande d over to the officers of the l aw . It the bolder robber seises package of bills from its counter or messenger, he is imme dia;,ely arrested, if possible, and brought to justice. Shall it be said th a t an off i cer of a bank whe comm i ts , with : coolness and delib era ti on a l ong series o f cr imes, t ": smallest of w hi c h i s more flagrant than counter f e iting r , ordinary theft, may, when ho can pursue his guilty voce' tion no long er w ith socresy and success, assem ble 13 partial friend s , ma k e hi s confession and apology, an d then leisurely depart, w ith none to hinder or molest h i m ? laws made only for the comparatively weak, iguerant, 81 / 11 helpless? Is the w h o l e f orce of scc i ety, operat i ng throne o. d the expensive machinery of criminal justice, to be expen d° upon its obscure and worthless members, while tLe more conspicuous ones are scre-ned from punishment and treat ed as mere victims of misfortune, entitled to syrallat bisi°s regrets, and to ever y f ac ili ty f or concealment or flight? "So demoralising has the sentiment of the community on this subject b ecome , th a t o ff enders of the more respect able class begin to demand exemption from punishmen t sij d a right. It is not long since a man of education an prominence, notoriously guilty of repeated and extea si f: forgeries, whil e t em p orar il y conf i ned, or rather l o dged/ the gaol in this county, had the effrontery to denotlay' every one of his victims who hesitated to unite with blm in suppressing the evidence of his guilt. He finally og ee came all their scruples, and is now engaged in enlightehil; ing other communiti es on th e i r moral dut i es, an d in tut enjoyment of th e p a t ronage an d f avour of soc i e ty. """ 6 mark the contrast. About the same time, in the sal e city, an obscur e , une d uca t e d d ay- l a b ourer forge d a ai ll g d small cheque, presented it at the bank, was detected 81 , i speedily consi gne d t o th e S tate pr i son at Wet h er sfield 1 0, a term of years." What a splendid commentary on late cases in land ! and more notably on that of the enn v ' nt e Wilkinson and th e L on d on T imes. This W elil % judge could not h ave name d an offen d er in ti United States who hadmore shamefully wrought b ,, the ruin accomplished by thi s man. Y e t the Go vernment, the Judge, and all concerned in I netil3 r g out his punishment, h a d t o w ith s t an d a sele e pressure, headed by th e mos t power f u l organ of public opinion in the world. Our correspondent at Naples tells us that the eruption of Vesuvius i s i ncreas i ng, an d becounog daily more interesting. A new stream of lava been opened from the s umm it o f th e co ne in t direction of Torre del Grec o . F or t una t e ly thelt v3 is flowing over that o f prev i ous erupt i ons , so t" at visitors may enjoy the sight without regretting any destruction of valuable land. The weather CO tinues bright and cl ear . N ovem b er h as been clu. an Indian summer. The Bishop of New Y or k re t urne d from Eng 3li „d in time to speak at the Protestant Episcopal C° vention, lately held in N ew Y or k. li e allude the the very kind treatment and great hospitality h is American clergy had rece i ve d i n E ng l an d, and ,h 0 remarks met with the warmes t recep ti o n by l Convention. Resolutio ns were a d op t e d beartltlv approving the acts of th e P an -A ng li can Synod, all its Synodical letter recogn i s i ng t h e essen tial un it y of the Anglican Church, and applauding the provi sion by which the P res id en t o f t h e U n i te d Sta tes will be associated with h er M a j es t y i n the praye rs of English conti nen t a l c h urc h es an d chapels to which American travellers commonly re sort. to copy of these resoluti o n s h as b een trausl uitted „f the Archbishop of Ca n t er b ury as t h e P res ident - the Synod. The report is again revived that General Sher; man is to comm an d a l arge b ody of regu l ar s at or near Washingto n . He is not expected at that elty ~0 till the Ist of December, and in the meantime the number of the regular troops has been Wer e % from 1,900 t o 3,000.4 C o l one l Forney con ti n ues . announce in both his papers, that the Presiden t , lll ; tends to subvert Congress, and practice a coup or d'tie on the country. G enera l Sh erman can be littl e obliged to the author o f th ese r idi cu l ous can ards associating his name with this unlawful seh ef f he That officer has just addressed the Society of . 1 " Army of Tennessee, at their annual celebrat.lcse, at St. Louis. He ingeniously avoided P° 14 . 1 ,, vaguely recommending a return to the Const" eit tion. He became eloquent, however, when he dw ee . on the achievements of the army of Tenn ess „ He offered t o we l come b ack the Southerners „ ae bi equals," but n o t " super i ors, " provided they cool " adapt them se l ves to t h e manifest dest i n y of the country." Judge Agnew, of the Supreme Court, ha ere : versed the decision of Judge Allison, of the Phi the delpbia Court of Co mmon Pleas, who charg ed di d jury to r e t urn M ary Mi les damages, which they o f for $5OO, under the following circumstances. l ua te d Miles, a respectable coloured woman, was ej v ec i i, from a car of the Westchester (Pennsylvania) l ie road Company, because she refused to chang e he seat when requested to do so by the conductor• b'-'OlO sued the company, and obtained damages as 3 ec oe stated, when the company appealed to the SI- 111 : 40 - Court. Judge Agnew ruled that never in ' t o Sylvania has there been an intermixture of the At races socially, politically, civilly, or religiousll.oo the time of the alleged injury there w as ,„cea natural, legal, and customary difference b e ''', o o. the black and the white passengers in a publi c : c are veyance, the subject of a sound regulation to s'eace. order, promote comfort, and preserve the He therefore held the conductor to be justifieu• - I.ADvERTISRitiENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always egg a r gi es chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-reoarisly Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times th e rE ntesit e° i ment of the best mea t , saves 50 t i mes its cost i n o ther re s eal ) ! and invariably restores perfect di,s,estion, strong Ro ves 'e tie° lungs, healthy li ver, p ure bl ood, refreshing sleep' ,fuv.d. regularity, anti energy to th e most di sor d ere d o r enfeep; a tore extract a few out of 63,000 cures ;—" Th e P ope 's health„; 18 156,;* by Du Barry's F oo d. C ure N o. 63,413. "Rome, Jul —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, espeeittr en tire`l o abandoning all other remedies, he has confined h h n sei co ol , to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Foccl. of which he, e Ql y bee a l a plateful at every meal. It has produced a ' ea u re t his Cs° tidal effect on his health, and his HolineEs cannot pra..i. ears'. a lent food too high:y." From the Ga;ette du Midi , No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Breisan, of serei t nerva complaint, wasting away, debili t y, nervousness, withsass, palpitation all over, bad digesqon, constant sleeples 711; 1,o;;; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure N°• l ' o ,ny l e° Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of In 0 ",,y Ire, fl dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty y ears ' i n describable eg a o taietle4,, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , spasms, sickness, a n d vom i t i ng. — M ar ia Job , : , yesp 46,270: Mr. Jam es R o b erts, o f F r i m l ey, S u rren e i ,„ e nt, f o l o diseased lungs, spitting of blo o d, liver derang9;l o nt partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of w ith... A. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to „ t taer, authority, Baron Li e bi g ' s name i s mos t a udaciously ,: s.. ; In tins at ls. 14d. ; 1 lb., 2 s 9d. 2 lb s ., 4s. 6d ; kjo : ,:; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY end pieest l 7o, ziegent-street, London ; als o F or t num an d Mason, 1 82 i 0, a nd and at 61, Gracechur c h- s t ree t ; , 4 , Ch ea psido; 63, li,ists Oxford-street; 330 Strand ; and all grocers and ehe Births. Fie BURNABL—On the sth inst , Plumstead, Se nt, the of Captain A. D. 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