The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. DROUGHT NEVER BRED DEARTH IN ENGLAND.' Six years ago, says the Times, we had an alarming drought. The waters of the Upper Thames shrank in places to the dimensions of a brook. The pastures had utterly failed in July, and cattle were kept upon dry fodder. Nevertheless, the wheat harvest of the year was good, and corn was considerably cheaper than it is at this moment. A more famous drought occurred thirty-eight years earlier. In 1826 the summer was one of the hottest and driest ever known. Then, we are told, springs and reservoirs actually failed in England as they sometimes do in the East. Little pitchers of water were sent from neighbour to neighbour as acceptable presents, and the richest meadow lands in the country were scorched and parched as -if by a passing fire. Yet in that case again, though the alarm was so great that Ministers suspended the laws regulating the imports of grain, the wheat crop proved to be a good average yield, and the potato crop was excellent and ample. Drought, though of the severest kind, bred no dearth on either of those occasions. Meanwhile, the "fine weather" has been really most enjoyable. Long sunshiny days, with everything looking bright, have followed each other in unbroken succes sion, often with a canopy of cloud to vary the sky scenery, and seldom with heat so great as to be oppres sive. That is probably because we are in June instead of August, and so have had the drought tempered by some of the incidents of spring. But it would be really alarming if a summer drought supervened on a sring drought—if a rainless July should follow a rainless June. The calamity, however, need not be gratuitously antici pated. As we write the weather has changed, and " there is a sound of abundance of rain." It is, therefore, far too early yet to set down 1870 as a year of drought, though we have certainly had a very dry spring. Saint Swithin is still a month off, and we may have floods be fore as well as after that critical day. We have un doubtedly lost our early hay crop, but we may get another, and if rain should fall copiously within the next fortnight there may be no great reason, after all, to re pine at the harvests of the present year. The Telegraph thinks the education plan of the Govern ment will succeed. The more it is examined the better will it be liked, both by those above and those below the gangway. In the debate on the second reading Mr. Gladstone distinctly and pointedly stated that one way to meet the religious difficulty was to banish all distinctively sectarian catechisms and formularies from the rate-aided schools. That is a plan which we have constantly held before the public as at least feasible, and as worthy of the most earnest consideration in committee. Manifestly, also, it was the only concession which the Government could make to the League, if it stopped short of absolute sur render; and absolute surrender had been placed out of the question by the repeated declarations of Mr. Forster. Mr. Gladstone justly laid great stress on the fact that if the school boards were forbidden to define what religious instruction should be given, their meetings would be free from the risk of interminable and angry disputes. On the other hand, by retaining the Bible as a class book, the Government meets the views held by the great majority of Dissenters. On the religious ground, the only difference between the Ministers and Mr. Winterbotham is, that, although the member for Stroud would have the Scrip tures read, he would not have them taught. But the reading, without the teaching, of the New Testa ment, is a mere mockery, as the great body of Dissenters heartily admit. When the amendments have been studied, the arrangements will satisfy the country and the House; for, if not ideally perfect, it is at least practicable, and thus it imposes the heaviest responsibility on those who should impede the progress of the measure to final enactment. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT. The Post remarks, that it cannot be repeated too often that the very essence of a rule that is to be applied in emergency is that it should be absolutely simple. The existing shipping code not being so, and it being proposed nevertheless to adopt it in the Merchant Shipping Code Bill, nothing can be more natural than that amendments should be proposed to this part of the scheme. Sir John Hay has taken the matter in hand, and has proposed an alternative set of rules which, while they would be to some extent an improvement in the right direction, are yet, to our thinking, not sufficiently so in one respect, and too much so in another. He retains, for instance, for sailing ships the exception in favour of a vessel closehauled, while on the other hand, in laying down absolutely that a steamer having another on her port side shall " starboard and stop," he makes too iron and inflexible a rule which might in a very conceivable Case actually bring about a collision that might otherwise be avoided, and yet leave no responsibility for it. We would suggest the following steering and sailing rules as calculated to obviate these objec tions. 1. A sailing ship having the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of any sailing ship with the wind on the starboard side. 2. A. sailing ship with the wind on the starboard side shall keep her course. 3. A steamship having another end on sh.lll port ; on her port side, shall keep her course ; on her starboard side, shall keep out of the way. These, we think, would be sufficiently simple to admit of no kind of mistake, and at the same time they would not unduly interfere with the freedom of action of either vessel in any of the cases provided for, and would not, therefore, which is most important of all, so act as to enable the captain to avoid his proper responsibility under the mere plea that he had obeyed the absolute direction of an inelastic rule. THE EDUCATION BILL. The Times observes that if the extreme Liberals desire a broad national system of education, they must, whether they like it or not, make terms with the religious bodies. The triumph of secularism would practically be the triumph of Denominationalism pure and simple. What ever the course taken by the Conservatives under Mr. Disraeli's ill-judged guidance, if the extreme Liberals will accept Mr. Gladstone's proposal a settlement will be effected, and that in the only satisfactory way—by a united Liberal party. But if, by the obstruction of the extreme parties, we are forced into secularism, we must at the same time abandon the hope of a national system of elementary education. It is clear we have a difficult dis cussion before us next week, and there will be need of great forbearance on all sides if it is to be brought to a satis factory conclusion. Mr. Gladstone's speech affords a striking view of the numberless complications to be dis entangled, and we hope it will have the effect he desired, of deprecating any peremptory or abstract treatment of the question, and encouraging a spirit of mutual conces sion, The Standard remarks that the Opposition came down, as Mr. Disraeli said, to support Mr. Forster's bill. That bill was suddenly exchanged for something totally different, and there should have been no question whatever about the postponement of the discussion. As it was, the Government had the air of conceding to pressure that which ought to have been offered as a matter of course. The amendments, simple as they are considered by Mr. Gladstone, slight as Mr. Forster, perhaps !inadvertently, called them, go to the very root of the most important portion of the bill. Mr. Gladstone declined to accede to Mr. Vernon Harcourt's amendment, saying, with great truth, that unsectarian religious teaching is a thing that can not be enforced by legal compulsion, or defined by act of Parliament; and that an attempt to carry out such a principle would render it necessary that Parliament should either lay down a religious code itself, or entrust to some tribunal such powers of theological definition as Protes tants have never consented to vest in any authority whatsoever. In fact, the Prime Minister in a very few words dispelled for ever the delusion of an unsectarian religion capable of being enforced on men or taught to children. For the rest the amendments sufficiently prove the weakness and indecision of a Mini stry whose strength has been the boast of its sup porters and their consolation under a tyranny of all but insupportable. How they will affect the interests of religious education is a question which no party in the House could venture to answer on the spur of the moment, and which we must reserve for another occasion. THE PEERS AND THE LAND BILL. The Daily News says that the peers often complain that they have nothing to do, yet when business of importance is entrusted to them they sometimes seem unable to deal with it satisfactorily. Last night the adjourned debate on the Irish I Land Bill was postponed for an hour, in order that a Railway Bill should be discussed and a division taken. Railway bills certainly merit careful consideration : but there is a time, as well as a place, for everything ; and the discussion night might as well have been postponed to a more convenient season. They manage these matters far better in fhe House of Commons. The entire speech of Lord Cairns was vitiated by his de termination to pick holes in the speeches of his opponents, and to point at minute flaws in their scheme. The speeches of Lord Derby and the Duke of Argyll, however, raised the debate to a higher level than that on which Lord Cairns and Lord Grey had placed it. We only realise the extent of the revolution which has been brought about during the past few years when such a measure as the Irish Land Bill is practically accepted with little more than verbal protests by the House of Lords. VALUE OF PROPERTY IN IRELAND.—A number of properties have just been sold in the Landed Estates Court, Dublin. They brought high prices. Several con siderable lots were sold at twenty-four years' purchase. _ _ _ The number of messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom during the week ending June 11 was 177,523, a decrease of 13,920 on the preceding week, when the number was 191,443. Whitsun week has been devoted to pleasure; the Epsom race week to business. No Ministerial modification in Spain, it is believed will be made during the summer. The establishment of the civil marriage registers will require two months ; nine thousand registers are to be opened. The publica tion of Queen Isabella's abdication is not expected for some time. The Woolwich Board of Health have resolved to send a deputation to the Premier, to point out to him that the retaining of so large a portion of WoolwichDock yard by the War Office, for almost a profitless purpose, would be bad policy, and injurious to the interests of the working classes of the district. The 1 emps published a short time ago an account of an accident which had occurred to some members of a choral society near Vevey, Switzerland, by which some twenty persons were said to have been drowned. That journal now states that it had been made the victim of a hoax, as no such event had happened. The final heat for the Oxford University_ challenge oars resulted in Moss, Balliol (bow), and Leslie (Pem broke (stroke), having first position, their opponents being Veasey, St. John's (bow), and Mair, St. .Alban 's ball (stroke), who rowed best throughont and won easily in eleven seconds. THE EDUCATION BILL. Extra Parliamentary operations in connection with the Education Bill proceed with undiminished vigour. After the conference of the League's council and delegates on Wednesday morning, a large public meeting was held at Exeter Hall in the evening. Mr. George Dixon presided, and was supported by several M.P.'s The Hon. Auberon Herbert, M.P., spoke in favour of absolute, as opposed to permissive, compulsion. He also demanded that the new national schools should be free. He considered that when the householder had paid his rates his children should be allowed to attend school without further charge. He knew that poverty in this country was a great crime against society, perhaps one of the greatest crimes, unless it were to hold heretical opinions about the land question. That was a greater crime, but he thought they would allow that, at all events, they might ask that whatever might be the difficulties a man might have to struggle through in life his children may be ensured that g ood education which shall fit them for the struggle of life in their turn. Then arose the question— Are you to have religious teaching in your national schools ? He ventured to say that the State was the great organisation of the land to attend to our material wants; and the churches of this country were organisa tions to attend to our spiritual wants. When he found the State anxious to take upon its shoulders business which did not belong to it, he could not help remarking that the State had not fulfilled so very well its own business as to entitle it to take this new work upon itself. If it would turn its hand towards making our army a national institution, our universities. national institutions, and our public schools steps by which a man might climb, he thought it would be better occupied. The conscience of one man was as good as that of another, and if any man could rise and say you were making him subscribe to an education in which he did not believe, so long as one man could do that he said they had an unjust law upon their statute book, and he called upon the State to remedy it. —Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., felt sure that the money raised from rates could not justly be expended in teaching dogmatic theology.—Mr. Winterbotham, M.P., spoke in favour of postponing the Government Bill to another session unless further amendments were introduced. The bill, as it stood, would give nothing but denominational schools. Opponents were to be found who ob jected to religion being taught by the State, but did not object to its being taught by the parish. They objected to religion being taught by grants, but they did not object to its being taught by rates. The difference was all on the wrong side. It was said that Parliament was unable to !decide these questions, but the local vestry was able to 'decide. The parish should sit it out and fight it anew every twelve months. He believed that would be the effect of the bill. The majority of the vestry could say whether Mahometanism, Judaism, or any form of Christianity should be taught in the school. The League objected to that scheme. The only conclusion that seemed to meet with general acceptance was that a certain num be of sects should agree together and dictate to the rest. T ey sought to form a new State religion out of these se ts, and to make that the religion of the whole. He di not think that this was fair, and he was sorry to see th t some of the Nonconformists held to it. He sh uld object to having his religion toned and watered down to whatever the State would pay for. The conclusion they must ultimately come to was that secular teaching must be given by the State, and that voluntary zeal, which has never been wanting, and which was burn ing as brightly in England now as it ever was, would supply the rest.—Mr. Beales spoke in favour of the League, as did others, the Rev. J. Barham Zincke, chap lain to the Queen, protesting against making the minority pay for the religion of the majority.—Mr. Fawcett, M.P. declared that the State Church should shortly be assailed by those who loved religious equality. Although he was an unworthy person to raise such a question, he would give this pledge, that the question of State esta blishments shall, before the end of another session, be raised on the broadest possible issue. No measure of education could be satisfactory, or worthy of the accep tance of the country, which does not guarantee the education of every child. We had not yet, in this country, felt the influence of democracy—that was to diminish, as far as possible, the advantages of birth and of wealth, so that every man should feel he has a chance off developing his abilities, and that, if he has intellectual pciwer, there is no position in this country to which he may not aspire. He warned the Government, that although they might, by the assistance of Tory votes, triumph over those who represent the people, that would be a dearly-bought victory. Other meetings were held in different places. In the TOwer Hamlets there was a strong gathering in support of the religious clauses of the Government Bill. Mr. Octavius E. Coope presided, and said that the religious difficulty had been much exaggerated. He hd never found in it the East-end schools with which he was connected, because he had respected the religious convictions of parents. He was now ready to adopt the conscience clause, and, although he might make a wry face at it, to swallow the time-table clause.—Other speakers followed, but ultimately some members of the Ihternational Workmen's Society interrupted the pro ceedings, and violently broke up the gathering.—At Cilmbridge the Nonconformists met and passed a resolu tiOn, declaring that no system of education ought to be established in which religion was to be taught at the expense of the ratepayers. !The Wesleyan sub-committee appointed to consider the Government amendments has maintained the objections fdrmulated by the General Education Committee ap pOinted by the Wesleyan body. The General Committee, a short time ago, reported divers defects in the bill, and the sub-committee declare that these amendments do not rnmove those defects. The following are some of the points on which the Wesleyans are determined to oppose Mr. Forster's Bill :-1. They desiderate the formation of sdhool boards in every district immediately on the Act cdming into force. 2. They ask for the exclusion of all de nominational formulas, such as creeds and catechisms, from rate-aided schools. 3. That no person except the sdhool teacher shall give instruction in religion in the School Board schools. 4. That in any inquiry a to educational deficiency to be made under the Bill, nO school shall be considered to give efficient imtruction which does not offer education on con ditions fair and equal to all, and accept the Conscience Clause prescribed by the Bill. 5. That Go v4rnment grants for the building of denominational schools shall be discontinued. 6. That no clergyman pfiest, member of any . religious order, or minister of any religious denomination should be appointed school teacher in any public elementary school within the meaning of the Act. 7. The wording of Mr. Forster's amendment, discontinuing denominational inspection, was not considered satisfactory, as it Would permit the inspectors, in their private capacity, to inspect the schools in their peculiar department of deno minational religion. 8. That no by-law of any School Board affecting religious instruction shall have force unless it receive the sanction of the Education Depart ment. 9. That no by-law of the School Boards should prohibit the reading of the Scriptures or instruction out of the Scriptures by the school teachers. Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, Governor of Cey lon, will probably succeed Lord Napier as Governor of Madras. • LONDON PAIIPERISM.—In the first week of June there were 134,096 persons in receipt of parochial relief in the metropolis, of over 33,212 were in the workhouses, and 100,884 were out-door paupers. This was an increase of 4,379 on the numbers in the corresponding period of last year, but a decrease of 47,000 on the figures at the end of February. DESTRUCTION OF A WORSTED MILL.—On Wed nesday morning a fire broke out in Messrs. Fallow and Shaw's worsted mills, Wakefield, and in about two hours the whole of the contents were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £lO,OOO. Several persons narrowly escaped with their lives, and the adjoining buildings, including the West Riding prison, were only preserved by great exertions. ONE BOY DROWNED BY ANOTHER.—An inquest has been held at Pleasington, near Garstang, on the body of a lad named John Pairing. It appeared that the lad had been an inmate of Pleasington Reformatory, and had soiled his trousers. The governor instructed an elder lad to " duck " him in the pond, and during the " process" the deceased got out of his depth, and was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from misadventure." THE WESLEYANS IN IRELAND. The annual religious conference of the Wesleyans in Dublin is ex pected to have more than usual interest. It is believed that one of the subjects discussed will be the position of the Wesleyan Methodists with reference to Irish national education. Some years ago the body, which previously had been opposed to the mixed system of education on Eretty nearly the same grounds as the Episcopal Church ducation Society, placed its schools under the National Board, and is now as strenuous in supporting the existing system as are the Presbyterians of Ulster. THE Loss OF THE EARL OF ELGIN.—The Court of Inquiry, investigating the circumstances under which the Earl of Elgin was lost in a collision with another vessel—the Jesmond, in May last, off Staithes, have decided that although the greater weight of evidence is in favour of the Jesmond, neither of the ships were entirely free from blame. The Court is further of opinion that the masters of neither ship can be held responsible for the collision, as, in both instances, duly certificated officers were left in charge of their respective vessels. The Court further find that everything was done that could be, on the part of the Jesmond, assisted by a portion of the crew of the Elgin, to save life after the disaster. —Northern Daily Express. THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY. - The Berlin papers refer to the interpellation of M. Mony with respect to the St. Gothard Railway, and those who ordinarily incline to Count Bismarck's policy are eager to shew that the affair has no political signification whatever. The North German Gazette, in order to prove that French susceptibilities need not be aroused in regard to the projected railway, points to the terms of the Berne Protocol, which requires that the Swiss Federal Government should give its consent to any transfer of the St. Gothard Railway, and also states that Count Bis marck's speech on this subject in the Reichstag of the 25th of May, has been misrepresented in certain quar ters. His exact meaning was that the Confede rated Governments were convinced of the necessity of creat ing a communication between Germany and Italy, which would depend entirely on the intermediate neutral country of Switzerland, and would not be interfered with by any of the great European Powers. France is anxious that the great international communication should depend entirely on the neutral State through which it passes, and as Prussia is equally desirous to secure the neutrality the North German Gazette does not think the good understand ing between the two countries will be compromised. E GOVERNMENT AND THE EDUCATION BILL. The Leeds Mercury publishes the following telegram from its London correspondent :—" Mr. Gladstone will, I hear on the highest authority, make considerable conces sions to the Nonconformists upon the education question. Mr. Richard's amendment has been placed on the paper at the suggestion of Government, in order to give them an excuse to yield. GENERAL BANKS ON SPANISH OUTRAGES. The New York Herald publishes the full text of ,the re port from the Committee of Foreign Affairs on Cuba, drawn up by General Banks. It is a very lengthy docu ment, and points strongly against the Spaniards, setting forth a long list of outrages inflicted on the Americans Cuba by them, and condemning the timidity and hesita tion of the policy pursued at Washington. The general feeling at New York is strongly against the Spaniards. THE S UN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1870. LAW AND POLICE. AN EARTHQUAKE.—A case, originating in an earth quake, has been heard in the Court of Queen's Bench. The plaintiffs had contracted for a cargo of nitrate of soda to be shipped at Valparaiso and to arrive by a cer tain ship. The cargo was destroyed by an earthquake, but another cargo was obtained by the defendants, and this the plaintiffs claimed under the contract The court, however, gave judgment for the defendants, holding that the contract didnot apply to the second cargo. THE NEW DEBTORS' ACT.— IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. — 'Mr. Justice Willes has made an order upon a debtor who came before him for the payment of £5 per month. The debtor was examined on oath, and stated that he had been in the army, but was now without means. The plaintiff's attorney asked that a term of imprisonment might be expressed in default of payment, as had been done by other learned judges. Mr. Justice Willes de clined to make such order, being of opinion that he had no power to do so under the Act. In default, an applica tion could then be made for commitment. ESSEX WAGGONERS.—Another Essex waggoner has been charged at the Thames Police-court with sleeping in his waggon. When stopped and roused he said the horses knew the way home. In the court he said he had only had six hours' sleep this week, and could not keep awake in this hot weather. The magistrate said he must not allow his pity for the men to prevent his fulfilling his duty to the public, as accidents frequently happened. He fined hitri Bs., but subsequently reduced the fine to 55., on hearing the man would have to pay the costs of the greenyard. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—Henry Armytage Picker den has been committed for trial at the Richmond Petty Sessions, for embezzling several sums of money the pro perty of his employer. It was proved the prisoner had received several sums which he had not accounted for, and his employer, having the greatest confidence in him, did not suspect that anything was wrong. A professional accountant, however, who examined the books, found there were several false entries. The amount embezzled was not known. CONTEMPT OF COURT.—An application has been made in the Court of Exchequer to commit Lord Lismore for con tempt of court. An action had been brought against him for the recovery of a debt, and the plaintiffs obtained a judge's order requiring him to file an answer to certain questions, which he had neglected to do The counsel for the plaintiffs, therefore, moved to commit him for contempt of Court, the judge's order having been personally served, and a peer being no less liable to pro cess for contempt of Court than any other person. The Court granted a rule to shew cause. ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF A " CHIGNON" PATENT.— Vice-Chancellor Sir R. Malins has given judgment in a case in which a dispute had arisen respecting the manu facture of chignons of a particular description. A chignon and frizette maker, of Manchester, named Rushton, brought an action to restrain Messrs. Crawley, Cheapside, shirt collar; ladies' chignon, and hair pad manufacturers, from infringing his patented process for making artificial hair in imitation of human hdir. His Honour held that the invention must be new if a patent were obtained. The plaintiff's was not in reality a new invention, but a new process for arriving at a result which the defendants had previously made peculiarly their own. The bill was dis missed with costs. A " POETICAL " DISPUTE.—Mr. Frederick Locker com posed a set of poems, which were published by the Messrs. Moxon. The poems ran through two editions, when the composer issued a new book, under the title of " Locker's London Lyrics," containing sixty-one poems, fifty-six of which were in the previous volume. The publishers now applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain Mr. Locker from proceeding with the sale of the second work, on the ground that it was a colourable imitation of the former, and that the defen dant had been guilty of violation of agreement, the agree ment giving him liberty to republish on a particular event, which had not happened. The defence was that the agreement had been repudiated by the plaintiffs, but Vice-Chancellor James, before whom the application was made, thought otherwise, and granted the injunction. THE FIRE AT THE WESTMINSTER RAILWAY STATION. — At Bow-street a ragged ill-looking urchin, named Henry Weatherley, was charged with having set fire to the Westminster Station of the Metropolitan District Railway Company on Monday night. George White, inspector on duty at the station, stated the damage done was not very great, but the fire might have been a very disastrous one if it had not been so speedily discovered. The police superintendent said it might have endangered the Houses of Parliament if the flames had blown over the road. A person in court suggested that it might have set the Thames on fire, for the river was even nearer than the Senate House. (Laughter.) Mr. Flowers remanded the prisoner for a week. ROUGHS AND THE POLICE.—Wm. Jones, a rough-look ing fellow, was charged at Marlborough-street by W. Newton, with assaulting the police. Police-constable Joseph Bull, 189 E, said that on the previous night he was called to Cumberland-street, and saw the prisoner and others fighting, and also some women. He took a woman into custody, when he was immediately surrounded by a crowd of about 200 roughs, and the prisoner caught hold of the woman and rescued her, and struck him a blow on the temple, and as well as others in the crowd, while he was on the ground, most shamefully illused him. He took the prisoner into a public-house so as to secure him till other constables came, who then took him to the tation, having to draw their truncheons to protect them selves from the roughs. The evidence having been cor roborated, the prisoner was committed for 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour. CRUEL CASE OF DETENTION.—WiIIam Harris, a man of about thiry years of age, was brought to the Westminster Police-court by detective Shaw, on a warrant for disobe dience of a summons charging him with detaining a chest of drawers, table, chairs, looking-glass, pictures, bed and bedding, and other articles, the property of his father- in law, George Hughes. The complainant said he sent the goods to the defendant to take care of, and when he sent for them he refused to give them up. Defendant admitted the possession of the drawers, the bedstead, bed and two pillows, but declared that complainant gave everything else to a girl who moved the things. He did not want to keep anything, and the fact was his father-in-law was a nasty " dispositious " old man, who got drunk and would not keep a home. Mr. Arnold said it was odd that if defendant did not want the things he did not give them up. He had no right to keep them, awl he should adjourn the case for a week to give him that opportunity. A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE.—A very singular and sensa tional case has been brought before the Cheltenham Police Court. Application was made by a Mr. Field, a large draper in the town, for the discharge of an order granted to his wife last November by two Cheltenham justices for the protection of her goods. The Court was crowded, and the bench was unusually full, great interest being excited by the proceedings. The story told by the applicant was a most extraordinary one. He said that in December, 1857, being then quite sane, he was taken from his house at the instigation of his wife, and put in the Gloucestershire Lunatic Asylum as a pauper lunatic, though he had left his wife in possession of his business and stock-in trade, on which she and her family had since lived. He escaped twice from the asylum, but was re-captured and sent back, though persons he spoke to acknowledged him to be rational. He obtained by some means a copy of Charles Reade's " Hard Cash," in which he learned that the power of the asylum authorities to recapture a patient ends after fourteen days. He, therefore, on escap ing a third time remained hidden till that time was past. Afterwards he called on the author, of " Hard Cash," who assisted him, and last November he returned to Cheltenham to claim his business, but found that his wife had a few days before obtained the protection order complained of on the ground of desertion by her husband on the 13th of February, 1869, the day after his escape from the asylum. The defence main tained that there had been a legal desertion, and that the applicant, who was admitted to be now sane, had accused his wife of horrible crimes without the slightest ground. Mrs. Field gave evidence to this effect, and after some discussion on the legal point the Bench refused to dis charge the order, and the applicant's counsel intimated that further proceedings would be taken. REWARDS TO INVENTORS. Amongst the Parliamentary papers just issued is one which gives copies of reports and correspondence as to the rewards to inventors proposed in the army estimates for the current financial year. These rewards are as follow :—A grant of £lOO to Mr. C. F. Guthrie for an ingenious and efficient rolling bridge applicable to defensive works. It is proposed to pay the sum of £5OO to Mr. S. A. Goddard for his improvements in breech-loading cannon. In the case of Mr. Parsons, who alleged that the Palliser gun was really invented by him, the matter has been referred to Mr. Gregory, the President of the Institute of Civil Engineers. The Trea sury has sanctioned a grant of £5OO to Commander Columb, as a final reward on account of his signals for naval and military use. The Treasury has also resolved to ask Parliament for £1,700, to be granted to the repre sentatives of the late Jacob Snider, for his invention of breechloading rifles. THE ENGLISHMEN CAPTURED BY SPANISH BRIGANDS. An account of the adventures of the Messrs. Bonell, who were captured by Spanish brigands near Gibraltar is given by a correspondent of the Standard. It contains some interesting information. At daybreak on May 22nd the party halted in the neighbourhood of Castellar, where the captives got some food. Most of the party lay down to rest. One, however, was constantly on guard, and at no time was either of the captives allowed to move a couple of yards away. During the halt Don Antonio (the brigand chief) said to Mr Bonne'', "Don Juan, when we took you at the ventorillo near Gibraltar we merely asked you for 5,000 dols., but now we have carefully considered the subject, and we must have 30,000 dols." Mr. Bonell replied such an amount was quite out of their power to give, and that the best thing would be to kill them at once. Both he and his nephew were prepared to die courageously ; they only supplicated that the manner of their death might be one attended with the least possible suffering. This style of answer seems to have met the approbation of all the brigands, for from that moment they were treated with more respect and less harshly addressed. A day or two afterwards an incident occurred which is worth recording as highly characteristic of the peculiar relgious ideas so often held in Roman Catholic countries by even the most lawless robbers. The room in which they were confined was ornamented by those pictures of the Vi rain and Holy Family so common throughout Spain. Mr. Bonell observing one of the rob bers bringing in some candles, asked him what he going to do. The bandit replied that the lights was for the purpose of illuminating one of the pictures, and returning thanks for the protection so far vouchsafed to them, and at the same time imploring the continuance of Divine aid till their enterprise was finally completed. For seven days this style of life was continued, the monotony of the prisoners' existence being agreeably varied by tales of violence, robbery, and blood shed in which the bandits had been engaged. From the scraps of conversation which the Messrs. Bonell picked up, they are confident that the whole band must number upwards of thirteen or fourteen men. The only inhabitant of the house in which they were kept whom they saw was a decrepid old woman who cooked the victuals, but they were not allowed to speak to her. The brigands at length ascertained that they would get twenty-seven thousand dollars, and determined on the release of their prisoners. Mr. Bonell, sen., was blindfolded, and, accompanied by two robbers, removed from his nephew. He rode for some six hours, but he is confident that he was taken backwards and forwards and round the house, for the handkerchief being somewhat loosely tied he was enabled to recognize stones and marks on the road. When they halted, the bandage was taken from his eyes, and he found himself at the entrance to Xeres. They entered a fonda for refreshment, the captain of the band warning his captive to appear as much as possible like an ordinary traveller, and that on his discreet conduct depended not only his own life but that of his nephew. From Xeres Mr. John Bonell went to Cadiz, and the story of his arrival here and his depar ture with the ransom money has already been told. A REMARKABLE WILL CASE. A very singular will case, sufficient in itself to furnish materials tor several sensational romances, has been heard before Vice-Chancellor James. The proceedings, which occupied nearly five days, were founded on the claim of a young woman, named Sarah Angus Hay, to a share in the estates of a Mr. Wight, of Blakely Hall, Northamp tonshire, who left real estates worth about £2,000 a year, and a personalty of £60,000, He bad no brother, but six sisters, two of whom died unmarried before him. A third has since died unmarried, a fourth is now living. The other two, who were married, died in the lifetime of their brother, one leaving a son and the other a daughter, Harriet Wight Hay, who now claims her share in the estate of her uncle, who died intestate. Miss Hay's claim was founded on a certificate of marriage of James Hay and Harriet Hibbit, on the 31st of November, 1843, at Newburgh, county Orange, New York, and upon a certificate of her own baptism in May, 1845, as having been born on the 9th of April, preceding the child of James Hay and. Harriet Wight. The genuine ness of these certificates was undoubted ; and it was also proved that Mrs. Harriet Wight Hay died in America in March, 1852. The identity of the claimant with the Sarah Angus Hay, and the certificate, was ques tioned, but her history was pretty clearly made out. Her story was that after her mother's death she continued to live with her father until his departure for Scotland, when she was left in charge of a German family. On his somewhat unexpected return, circumstances, not further stated, induced her to leave his protection, and she lived at various residences until 1866, when her father sought her out and succeeded in getting her into a reformatory for young women. She afterwards obtained a situation, but seems to have returned to the " Home," where, upon Mr. Wight's death, she was found by Mr. or Captain Arthur St. George Cuff, merchant, of New York, who supported her claim, and instructed her solicitor, Mr. Schultz ' of London. Miss Hay was taken from the Home, and after residing for a short time with Captain Cuff and his wife at their house, was sent to England. Her identity was not substantially in dispute. Her father, James Hay, is still alive, and in 1869 he was examined as to the origin of his acquaintance with Miss Harriet Wight, but it was now stated that his mental faculties had become too feeble to allow of his being again examined. He was born in Glasgow, but went to America as a silk merchant's agent. He said he was the founder of an association in New York called the Cosmo politan Church. " I first saw Miss Harriet Wight in the year 1840 or 1841. I had come home from America for the purpose of seeking a wife. I first saw Miss Wight when I was standing on a wharf at London-bridge, and a boat was coming up the river. There was a number of men and women in it ; the boat was full. I noticed this girl ; I thought she was a sober-looking girl. When the boat came in, and Miss Wight was coming up the stage, I spoke to her. I had never• seen her before. I took her to have some refreshment, and conveyed her part of the way home, and she agreed to meet me the next day. I did meet her ; we walked and talked, and I asked her how she would like to go to America. She said she would like to go, and I offered to take her at once. The next day afterwards we met again. I went to the house where she was stopping, and we made a bargain then and there that she was to go to America and meet me at 133, William street, New York, and I promised to marry her then, and I did marry her there and then by this agreement." The marriage ceremony, however, seems only to have consisted of striking hands, and a day or two after Mr. Hay went to Scotland for a week, but was detained there several months. He had not his wife's address, nor had she his, so they did not correspond for some time. He did not return to London to look for her, but went by Glasgow and Liver pool to New York. He was a long while in New York before Miss Wight made her appearance, and he began to give up hopo when one day he met her on the road to Williamsburgh, where she lived. He did not ask how long she had been in America, nor what she had been doing, but took her home and introduced her as his wife, going through the regular ceremony of marriage, of which the certificate was produced a few days later. Two questions immediately arose upon this —one, whether the woman whom James Hay married at Newburgh was identical with the woman whom he said he met iu London • the other, whether the woman whom he so met, if he did meet her, under the circumstances stated, was Miss Wight Hibbit, the intestate's sister. Strange to say, both facts appeared to be established. But another difficulty arose,,a prior marriage on the part of James Hay, in Glasgow, being maintained by defen dants, the intestate's other relatives who resisted the claim. Several members of the Hay family in Glasgow supported this plea, and a letter was produced stating that this first wife, Eliza, Phillips, was en route to New York to join her husband. After a great deal of evidence the Vice Chancellor held that the fact of the Scotch mar riage was proved, and the claimant had failed to establish her right. A life of Charles Dickens, by George Augustus Sala, will be published on Saturday. The price of the volume is to be a shilling. TEE PRINCESS ROYAL'S FAMILY.—The infant Princess born at Potsdam •on Tuesday increases the family of the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia to seven. Their Royal Highnesses, who were married on the 25th. January, 1858, have had the following chil dren :—Prince Frederick William Victor Albert, born 27th January, 1859 ' • Princess Victoria Elizabeth Augusta Charlotte, born 24th July, 1860 ; Prince Albert William Henry, born 14th August, 1862 ; Prince Francis Frederick Sigismund, born 15th September, 1864 (died 18th June, 1866) ; Princess Frederika ilhelmina Amelia Victoria, born 12th April, 1866 ; Prince Joachim Frederick Ernest Waldemar, born 10th February 1808. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. An Account, lursuant to ti • Act 7 and 8 Victorir, cap. 82 for the week ending Wednesday, June 15, 1870. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £34,917,020 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £34 917,020 BANKING D £34,917,020 Proprietors'Capi tal Rest Public Deposits (including E xchequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. :PARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... E 13,017,279 Other Securities 20,209,952 Notes 12,313,145 Gold and Silver Coin Accounts 11,166,165 Other Deposits 17,342,775 Seven Days and other Bills 367,154 £46,541,189 £46,541,189 The New Independent College at Taunton, Somer setshire was opened on Tuesday. The complete returns of membership in the Wes leyan Methodist Connection . give a total of 348,359 per sons "in society." The net increase in the year is 2,833, and under the head of "net loss by removals," is set down the very large number of 16,188. The election, by household suffrage, which took place at Birmingham to the chaplaincy of St. John's Church, resulted in favour of the Rev. W. C. Badger. He won by 3,898 against 2,309. Everything went off quietly. At the last election, about 25 years ago, scenes of gross debauchery took place. MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN AUSTRALIA.—The Melbourne Argus, of the 23rd of April, in an article on theatrical matters, says : " Unquestionably the greatest event to be chronicled this month. , is the ap pearance of the versatile actor and comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, who arrived in, the colony safe and well about the middle of March, and opened here at the Theatre Royal on the sth inst., to a crowded house. Of his success on the Australian stage, there can be but one opinion. The doubts of those who, having seen him a score of years ago, questioned the possibility of his retain ing the qualities which then made him so acceptable, have been entirely dissipated, and his coming here can hardly fail to improve public taste, as it will promote a healthy emulation in our own young actors." DETAILS OF, THE GREAT FIRE AT QUEBEC. The Canadian papers just arrived are full of details of the great fire at Quebec. The Quebec Chronicle gives the following account of the origin of the disaster and the destruction of the two ships : Owing to the confusion which prevailed when the fire originated, and for a long time afterwards, it was impossi ble for our reporter to ascertain, with anything like accuracy, the exact spot where this great fire started, but we now learn that it was upon the premises of Mr. Lortie, baker. It would also appear, from reliable information received, that it had been burning fully half an hour, and had communicated to two or three dwellings, before any person rung the alarm from the box. This neglect, no doubt, happened through the excitement usual with per sons whose properties are in danger from fire, but it is a neglect which will prove serious to the unfortunate unin sured householders. We are inclined to think that, had the fire brigade received prompt notice •of the breaking out of the fire, it would have been extinguished with the loss of perhaps one or two houses. One thing is certain, that it would have been effectively checked berore it could have communicated with the buildings on the opposite side of Crown-street, which is at least fifty feet wide. This was generally commented upon by those who were present at. its origin. MORE WATER. The popular fire cry could have been heard at all quarters. The Corporation brigade, as well as the volun tary firemen, worked well throughout, and with great per sistency and determination, but their labour was all in vain. It is true, a number of jets were in use at the same time, which considerably diminished the force of the water. This, however, cannot now be urged as an excuse for the imperfect and next to useless condition of our fire system for these purposes, and the sooner the City Council takes this matter in hand, the better for persons enjoying real property in this city. We want for the moment two good steam fire engines, available at a mo ment's notice. Had we the use of two such engines on Tuesday morning, the burning of two splendid ships would not have occurred. MR. BALDWIN'S SHIPS. One of the most lamentable associations connected with this disastrous fire is the loss of Mr. Baldwin's two mag nificent composite ships, which he intended to launch in the course of a few weeks. The loss of these vessels will not only entail the most serious consequences, in a mone tary point of view, upon the builder, but is a great mis fortune for the city of Quebec. The best proof of their quality is, that Mr. Baldwin's ships would have classed eleven years at Lloyds, an unheard-of classification for Quebec ships. He has watched the construction from day to day with great anxiety and pride, determined to offer to the English market a ship which would not only com mand ready sale, but would prove that Quebec could. compete with the world in naval archi tecture. The fire communicated to the shed under which the ships were then , being built, from the roof of a blacksmith's house, about six o'clock a.m., and burnt with such rapidity and fierceness that an hour later , nothing but the iron beams, knees, and bolts remained. It is very much to be regretted that the water was not concentrated on this point for about half an hour, and if such had been the case, the vessels would have been undoubtedly saved. It was also remarked that out of three hundred men who received from Mr. Baldwin their daily bread, only about fifty turned up to assist in saving his property. When the fire had fairly seized upon this great mass of woodwork, the sight was awful to contem plate. The persons who had been more closely engaged in trying to stop the communication of the fire were com pelled to leave the yard with the greatest haste, to avoid being scorched, so intense was the flame from the burning wood. Many of our young men from the city gave valuable assistance, but as one or two of them have ex pressed a wish to withhold their names from publication, .we will apply the same rule to all. The Toronto Globe says :—At one o'clock on Tuesday, May 24, the alarm sounded from the box in the vicinity of St. Roch's Church, which called the Fire Brigade promptly to the spot. Before the water could be ob tained into the direction of where the fire was going on, the flames, fanned by a strong easterly wind, had com municated to a number of houses in the vicinity of Crown and Queen-streets, and it became evident to the spectators then that no effort could save St. Roch's from a conflag ration equal, if not of greater extent, to those of 1845 and 1866. Our reporter lost no time in reaching the spot, and on his arrival he found the house of a Mr. Berube com pletely enveloped in flame, and burning w,th such fierce ness as to drive the fire to the opposite side of the street. The people residing in the vicinity had at this moment commenced to fully apprehend the dan ger of their situation, as many of them could be seen hurrying to and fro through the streets, carrying with them such articles of furniture and wearing apparel as could be con veniently removed to places of safety. The sight, in some cases, was most appalling. Poor women, with barely a stitch of clothing on their backs, were met at every turn—most of them carrying their children—rush ing in a wild and insane-like manner. As the wind rose, the flames gathered strength and intensity, leaping with fearful violence from one building to another—sweeping before it everything of a combustible nature. The wind blowing at the time from the east, directed the tendency of the flame towards the Marine and General Hospitals—running through Qneen and King-streets, down as low as Prince Edward-street, which is near on a line with the water's edge, and at the time our re porter left, half past three a. m. , fears were entertained of the burning of the Marine Hospital. In an upward directien the fire had gained as far as the walls of the Jacques Cartier Hall, on St. Francis-street, and in this direction had carried everything before it up to the street known as " Vieux Pont," or Old Bridge-street. The projecting eaves of the Jacques Cartier Hall caught fire in several places ; but owing to its height from the ground, a sufficiently strong pressure of water could not be obtained for a long period of time to reach the spot where the fire had caught. After considerable difficulty, ladders were spliced together, and lifted to the side wall of the Hall, upon which' the hose was raised, but not be fore a great deal of time had been lost. When we left this section of the fire, the water was playing on the burnt cinders, and there remained a probability of saving the building. The forces of the fire brigade were next con centrated on Old Bridge-street, which runs from Valier street to the River St. Charles. Here, a number of citizens, aided by some clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church who were present directing, set to work and tore down all the temporary fencing and other small buildings, galleries, railings, &c., that could be disposed of by the hand. The fire had also, in its ravages, continued to sweep along with terrible force through King and Queen streets, wrapping up in its embrace over fifty houses at a time. OTHER SCENES. In Crown street, a number of daring and reckless vaga bonds had collected, with the view of plundering the goods and effects, which people had been trying to save. We noticed a gang of four boys, not over 18 years of age, in a half-drunken condition, reeling on the sidewalks, draining the contents from brandy bottles. Everything at the time was in confusion and disorder, and of course these worthless beings escaped arrest and punishment, which they so richly deserved. Another resident had re moved from his honk a life size plaster statue of the Virgin Mary, which we believe became afterwardsbroken up in the confusion. In the shipyard of Lane and Co., hundreds of persons had congregated to protect their effects ; and, as we left, they might be seen clustered around them in groups of five and six. Another poor creature without legs had, in his anxiety to save his few worldly possessions, crawled the length of a room in the opper story, out of which he had to be afterwads re moved by force. Had such means not been adopted the unfortunate fellow would have lost his life. CAUSE OF THE FIRE. It is clearly established, beyond the shadow of a doubt that the unfortunate people themselves have been the principal and only cause of this terrible calamity over , taking them. Had our municipal authorities carried out the law, relating to the construction of wooden buildings with effect, this burning would not assuredly have taken place. The moment the fire commenced to gain headway it would exceed superhuman effort to control or check it. The streets in some places exhibited the most awful appearance. Perfect — whirlwinds of fire might be seen in every direction—there being no efficient obstacle to offer as a barrier to the progress of the terrible devastation. The fire can be traced to but one cause—wooden buildings; and while this particular description of tenement is tolerated, we must only expect occasional occurrences such as the one we are called upon to relate. A correspondent, writing on May 27, adds the following details :—" I learn through Mr. Tremblay, M.P., for Chicoutimi, who has just returned from the burning dis trict at Saguenay, that the fire in its ravages swept every thing before it, and has left the large number of families already reported in absolute poverty and ruin. The fire travelled in a circuitous direction, covering over 1,500 miles in superficies, and 100 miles from one extreme point to the other, from Lake St. John to Chicoutimi. Poor people who were so unexpectedly driven from their happy and comfortable homes, had to seek shelter in swamps and underground places, as every building standing within the march of the tire was levelled to the ground. Some instances of the suffering which the inhabitants had to endure are painful to contemplate. One poor woman who had only passed through the pains of child-birth a few hours before the fire reach ed her domicile, was removed, with her new-born infant, by her husband to a swamp, where she passed the night alone. Her husband had returned to the house to save some of his wearing apparel, but found in the meantime the fire had cut off the communication with the swamp where his wife had sought shelter. Another man, finding escape impossible, jumped into his well, where he passed the whole night and part of the following day, while the fire swept over his head, where the heat at times became so intense that he was compelled occasionally to slip below the surface of the water to avoid being scorched. A number of families sought shel ter on the lake shore, but were compelled to wade into it over the waist, as the fire in its ravages had burnt up everything down to the very edge of the water. The Ministers of the local government have been applied to for assistance, and it is p ro b a bl e th a t a s t eamer will be despatched to the scene of the fire with provisions and other necessaries to supply the temporary wants of the unfortunate people. Mr. Tremblay states that, as far as can be ascertained, six grown up persons and two children have lost their lives." The rumour that the Small Arms Factory at Enfield is to be removed to Woolwich turns out to be unfounded. The present situation of the factory, where it has grown from a mere workshop is most incon venient ; but the expense of removing its enormous and intricate machinery will not permit of the proposed change. AN AUDACIOUS ROBBERY. One evening at the end of May two foreigners registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel as Carlo Dejalis and Josef Cheval, Philadelphia, and the first being assigned to Room No. 450, the latter was given No. 449, both on the fifth floor. The men were travel-stained, and had no bag gage except a common black carpet-bag. Both spoke with a foreign accent, and both were of about the same height, five feet eight inches. Dejalis was about 40, with dark complexion, and dark moustache and goatee mixed with gray, while Cheval was only about 27 years old, but also was of dark complection with jet black moustache and side whiskers. The next day, about two o'clock, Dejalis called at the office of Joseph E.. Isaacs, diamond broker, at No. 57, East Thirteenth-street, and stated that he had lot of diamonds and jewelry at the St. Nicholas Hotel, which he had brought from Cuba, which he desired Mr. Isaacs to call and examine with a view to purchasing them. This Isaacs promised to do. According to the appointment one morning he went to the hotel, and, spewing the card which Dejalis had left him, was shewn up to No. 450 by one of the hall boys. Dejalis was in the room when he entered, and, asking him to be seated, went out, saying he was going to get the stuff. Presently he re turned with a carpet-bag, and fumbling at the lock with a key, pretended he could not open it, and at last proposed that he should call on Isaacs, at his office, at eleven o'clock. To this Isaacs answered that, having come there, he pre ferred to examine the articles there, whereupon Dejalis, asking to be excused for a moment, went out again, but almost instantly returned with ChevaL Isaacs now for the first time became alarmed, and started for the door with the intention of leaving, but was intercepted by Cheval, who displayed a large dagger and threatened to kill him if he made the least outcry. At the same moment Dejalis seized him, and made any noise upon his part impossible by thrusting his fingers into his mouth, while the other man clapped over his mouth a towel, seemingly saturated with chloroform. At the same instant he was thrown to the floor, and stupefaction immediately ensuing, he remembers nothing more of the proceedings of his assail ants. When he recovered consciousness, which was after a lapse of about twenty-five minutes, he was alone in the room, and lying on the floor, bound hand and foot. The gag, however, was off his mouth, and by making vigorous use of his voice for about ten minutes, he attracted the attention of the carpenter of the house, who happened to be on the floor fixing the locks. This person coming to the door of No. 450, found it locked, but the cries for assistance continuing, he burst it open, and found Isaacs in the condition described. Upon an examination he found that 200 dols. in money and a dia mond ring had been stolen from his person, but the desperate thieves, singularly enough, lrft him his watch and chain and a diamond brooch, which was in his pocket. His personal injuries were not serious, being confined to a swollen lip and a slightly-injured eye. The case was immediately reported to the hotel authorities, and Detec tive Kealy, the house officer, made instant search for the desperadoes, but they had long before departed, leaving their bag behind them, which, being opened, was found to contain nothing of value. The case was reported to Captain Kelso, of the Central Detectives, who imme diately started experienced officers upon the trail of the thieves, but as yet without any success. MERCY FOR MURDERERS ! The Fenian campaign of 1870 may now be said to be over. It has been a short and, to the invaders, a most inglorious one. We are not, however, in the ridicule with which our enemies have managed to surround themselves, to forget the atrocity and unmitigated wickedness of the whole proceeding. For years. these men have been la bouring, with a zeal worthy of a better cause, to organise an armed expedition against a peaceful people who are not even charged with having done any of them wrong ; or with having, in any way, given a colourable excuse for such murderous and predatory designs—except in being connected with the British Empire and owning the autho rity of the British Queen. Had their programme been carried 'out according to their wishes, blood would have flowed in torrents, peaceful, prosperous homes would have been laid desolate, and many of Canada's daughters would have been insulted and outraged. If things are moving on to-day as quietly as before, no thanks to them. They have done their best or their worst to make the state of affairs very different. There is not one extenuating circumstance in their whole conduct which can by any means be discovered. A few of the cut-throats have fallen into our hands, and they have scarcely had time to learn the character of their prison accommodation before we have homilies on mercy read to us by the American press. Nay, we actually hear of efforts being made by influential-Fenians (save the mark !) to enlist the Presi dent of the United States in their favour and the talk goes that already the Secretary of State is in communica tion with the British Minister on the subject. The force of impudence could no farther go. There is not a felon in any of our gaols but has a better plea for being dealt gently with than they have. No doubt it would be quite in keeping with the late miserable conduct of Minister Thornton to have the whole affair gravely discussed, and a strong appeal made to the Imperial authorities to use their good offices with Canada ;—but it is to be hoped things will not come to that pass. These men are prisoners, charged for the second time with high crimes and misdemeanours ; and we have in Canada tribunals perfectly competent to deal with them. To these tribunals let them go. What may be their decisions we seek neither to anticipate nor in any way to influence. Let the ruffians have justice, fair, full, and complete; and let every outside influence, seeking to sway that, be repu diated with indignation. Leniency was carried to a very undue extent in 1866. The liberty of men like priest M`lVlahon was sought and obtained on the plea that they had no Connection with Fenianism ; but the conduct of that priest in this second raid, is the best commentary on the true position and the solemn asseverations of him and his associates. There must be an end put, once and for all, to the idea so prevalent among even those who should know better, that a Fenian incursion into Canada for the purposes of plunder and bloodshed, is no more than a plea , - , sant summer jaunt ; and that, after it is over, the " boys have merely to be patted on the shoulder and told to go home quietly. People must be taught that such proceed ings are crimes of the deepest dye, and that it is intolerable impudence to seek to excuse or justify them under the plea that they are mere political offences. A horse thief or an area sneak, a burglar or a brigand, may have each some peculiar argument to palliate his war against society; but the force of his argument has not generally been ap preciated ; and he who urges it has not passed into the ranks of the innocent or the heroic, except in the pages of a novel or within the circle of his own predatory asso ciates. There are times when mercy is the very reverse of mercy, and when lenity is only regarded as prompted by timidity and a sense of weakness. We, as a nation, are the very reverse of terrified, and have no need to press for undue harshness in the punishment of the gulltY• But, if any criminals ever deserved to be left to the simple, unbiassed course of the ordinary administration of justice, these marauding Fenians are such persons ; and if there ever was a body of men who shut themselves out totally from giving their neighbours advice as to the extension of clemency to convicts, it is the conductors of the New York Tribune, and that portion of the American Press who encouraged the Fenians in their work, who shed mawkishly sentimental tears over the failure of their attack, and now have the unparalleled audacity to read us homilies on mercy and forgiveness.—Toront o Globe. The Baltimore American states that J6rome Bona parte has for some months been confined to his house in that city by cancer in the throat, but that for a few days past he has been much better than he had been for some time previous. The Enterprise says six Fenian recruits from Canada, who were ordered to report there, arrived in town a few days, disguised as labouring men. Their destine' tion was the Red River country. They were powerful- 1 Y built fellows, and looked as though they might do some service, either in the Red River expedition or in the battle of pork and beans. They did not prolong their stay. LAD v BitrrszmENT. j—Avoid Medicines—they always aggrava te chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-restori n g Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish' mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies; and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sout' lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, anti energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We (3 tract a few out of the 68,000 cures :—" The Pope's health restor ed by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. 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