The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. Orders have been received at Woolwich to hold in readiness a supply of mountain service guns and equipment for disposal in the event of an expedition being resolved upon by the Government for the liberation of the Abyssinian captives. The expe rience gained during the past few years , in which this species of artillery has been in use has called the attention of the War Department to the neces sity of its improvement. - The guns are now being considerably reduced in weight, and their system of transport has undergone a searching investigation. One of the guns, made of brass, and formerly a 31b. smooth-bore muzzle-laoder, was . on Saturday mounted on the pack saddle on the back of a mule purchased by the Grdnance Select Committee at Woolwich for experimental purposes, aid was pa raded in marching order for their investigation. The7,vcight of the gun is now 200!b., having been reduced by catting a piece off the muzzle and paring down the outside. It has also been rifled on the Woolwich principle, -and the calibre has boon increased so as to fire a projectile of 71b. A number of photographic sketches were exhibited to illustrate the various modes adopted for the moun tain service in India. Capt. Fenn, a cavalry officer of much experience attached to the Military Store Department of Woolwich Arsenal, late of the 10th Hussars„ who was present, suggested that the method now in use of carrying the gun lengthways on the back of the animal was inconvenient, and should be discontinued. He proposed that the pack saddle should be slightly readjusted, and the gun should be carried crossways. The weight, he said, would be thus brought down nearer the back, and the animal would be much relieved. The proposi tion was favourably received, and the alteration was ordered for consideration. Lieut. D. M'Mahon, of the Military Train at Aldershot, has been ordered to attend at Woolwich by the Quartermaster -Gene ral, with the view of superintending the manufac ture of some pack saddles on his expanding prin ciple, adapted to the backs of animals of large or small size by simply adjusting a screw in the frame- work. The depot companies of the Ist battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regt. arrived at Chatham yesterday from Ireland, having landed at Gravesend from the Irish steamer which conveyed them from Cork. The strength of the depot is 5 officers, 159 non-commissioned officers and men, with 24 women and 50 children. On its arrival at Chatham the depot marched into quarters at St. Mary's Barracks, and joined the 3d battalion of Infantry, under the command of Col. the Hon. J. J. Bourke. The flying . column from Aldershot left Bourley Bottom on Friday, and returned to quarters in camp. The tents were struck at half-past 7 o'clock, and a quarter of an hour later the men breakfasted. At half-past 9 o'clock the whole formed up for their march to quarters, and at 10 o'clock were on the move. The incidents of their short campaign, however, had not quite terminated, for, as they reached the top of a hill, a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery disputed their progress, and opened a heavy fire. The C battery of the Royal Artillery attached to the column immediately responded, covered by the 54th and 70th RegiMents. After a fire had been maintained on both sides, Gen. Renny, in command of the column, made skilful dispositions for a retreat, which was successfully accomplished, and the force reached camp shortly before 11 o'c!ock. The column bad the advantage of beautiful weather during the whole of its sojourn in the open, and not a single casualty occurred either during the marches or field operations. - In accordance with a divisional order issued at Aldershot, recruits in future will be put through the course of musketry instruction after having been two months at the gymnasium, returning for the third Month's training after the completion of musketry instruction. The non-commissioned officers and men of D com pany, 44th Regiment, stationed at Aldershot, have presented a silver cup to Private Jchn M'Garth, of the same company, as a token of esteem, on his leaving the reginynt. Although presentations of the kind are common enough in all regiments, there were some circumstances on this occasion which render it worthy of notice. M'Grath is referred to in the Tidies' Crimean correspondence of the 24th of October, 1854, as the man who assisted Dr. James 'Thompson in his humane endeavours to alleviate the sufferings of 700 wounded Russians left behind after the battle of the Alma at a deserted village on its north bank. At what risks this task was per formed is related not only in the correspondence alluded to, but also in Carter's Military Records of the 11tA 'Regiment. M'Grath has Served 22 years in the army, has Live good-conduct. badges, a medal for distinguished conduct in the field, a medal for good conduct and lend service, and the Crimean and Turkish medals. The sailing Inc - Raman Bolingbroke, Capt. C. Pryce, R.N.R., arrived at Spithead on Friday even ing from Madras with 41 invalided soldiers, three women, and 18 children, from Various regiments. She sailed from Madras on the 221 of March, and called in at St. Helena on the 23d of June. The troops were transferred from the ship at Spithead on Saturday to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, and at 2 p.m. the Bolingbroke sailed for London. The sailing Indiaman Surrey, Capt. J. Marshall, arrived at Spitheal on Saturday morning from Calcutta, with 102 invalided soldiers on board, four women, and 16 children. The officers on board comprised Lieut. Marshall, R. A., commanding ; Lieut. Hadden, Ist battalion 23d Regiment ; Lieut. Wynter, 104th Regiment ; Lieut. Lawless, 97th ; and Assist-Sarg. Wikely, Ist battalion 19th Regi ment. ;Herdates of sailing are—Calcutta, April 29; Sandheads, May 2 ; and St. Helena, July 2. The troopslWere qisembarked on Saturday, and at 3 p.m. the Surrey left Spithead again for. the Thames. Three prisoners tried by courts-martial at Devon port on Friday . and Saturday last pleaded " Guilty." William Wilcox, corporal, Royal Marine Light In fantry, charged with neglect of duty when sent on shore from the Lion in charge of an escort, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Lewes gaol. Mr. 11. G. Dominy, carpenter of the first class of the Indus, appointed for service in the Agit:- court, charged with being drunk, forfeits his Beni -061 as carpenterof the first class, and is admonished to be more careful in future. W. Wright, private, Royal :Marines, on board the Royal Adelaide, charged with using insubordinate language, was sentenced to receive 48 lashes and . to be imprisoned 12 months at Lewes. There were five courts-mar tial at Devonport last week, and it is probable that there will be at least two more this week. Orders have been sent to Rio de Janeiro for her Majesty's ships Spiteful and Dryad to proceed to Bombay from the Brazil station. . . Navigating Lieut. A. Hamilton was appointed on Saturday to the Fisgard, for surveying duties. News from - Bombay, dated July 21, states that the crew of the Sacra»zento have been forwarded to America in the ship General Caulfield. Double rate; are in future to be charged on telegraphic messages from Kurfache - e - to Great Britain and France, containing groups of figurer, when the com modity to which they refer is not snecified. During Nay over 89,00f),0001bs. of cotton, to the value of upwards of £3,367,000, were shipped from Bombay. [ADVET:TISMMENTI Consumption, and sal nervous, bilious, st emach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated an I accelerated by dra;rs of every description, but perfectly Me 1;y Da Iltrry's 11, , ,ve,!nnte, Ambles, Food, f t',•,irsan-I4 C 1,03 wail: . l.l. had caaalitorc(l con- • 113,La1 , 3n.v, w;rvoa-in d;3 range. ' ,:, • • trl 11J Irapu. 1 • iFritztbiiity, : , ..IZ(3 ?ICP,sn - tr:,.1 , 1.3,c1 o, iity, do°, • 't be' v-ts , sn &c. • re.st,r-td by Du ltarrys • ; • • • —The health of lio:y Fa: 14!=o, abandunin4 a'l other 1001'311,5, he h t ; if eatiro,ly to Du. Dirty's Revalenta, .Ira,bica I'oo I, of which he consames a plateful at every moat. It has pro 1ue43,1 a sarprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi." J y 25. Core No. 4‘;,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chflo"., of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty yelr:4' diseased lungs, cliittiog of filootl, liver derangement, and partial deafness. — i,:171 No. 1;171. Lord Stnart (13 Docies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterfor 1, of many yoars' dyspepsia.—No. 49,8:12. " Fifty Y :Irs' ind;Ys,riba‘tle agony from dyspepsia, ncrvousness, as!thmi,, cos' h, constipation, spasms . , sickness and .—B Important-Cim tioneware of the many ul:i - t , ro.siv an 111i , re. than sloppy Itn'tatioll.3 10 Which, without otTo nr au attitched. tin . s 1,111.; 11b. 2s 9:1. 43. 61.; 5 the.. lls. 2 ?'.; 495.-11.;RAY Du" 11.1;;It.i C , )., :co. 77, also Fort:tam ait. 1 Mttion. 182. ; ana V at , Gracechureh-street; 4, Cites *de• 63, 0:50. and 289, Orford-street 330 Strand and all grocer: anti chemibtB, Miscellaneous Foreign News. The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 15, says : The city of Rome and all the neighbouring places have been smitten by the cholera. It has now reached the epidemic stage. Since my last letter the approximate number of deaths is reck oned at 300 in Rome itself, and as many in the country. The greatest number of cases have oc curred in the town of Albano, which, since the 6th instant, has been literally ravaged by the pestilence. A body of persons, numbering from 1,000 to 1,500, had fled from Rome to Albano, which is celebrated for the healthiness of its air. They thought to be perfectly safe there from the cholera. A great many of the visitors had, during the sth and 6th, been partaking of social and festive en joyments ; others had amused themselves with walks on the borders of the lovely lake. All at once, on the night of the 6th, the temperature sud denly fell, and without further warning the epide mic broke out. When people rose from their beds on the morning of the 7th above 140 cases had already occurred in the town. The confusion and panic were indescribable. The authorities sent off to:Rome in hot haste for medicines, doctors, and priests, the supply of these in Albano having failed. The aspect of the place was most distress- ing. Every minute a window was thrown open in some house or other in the street, and a terrified inmate besought the passers by to send a priest or a doctor to some member of the family who had been seized. But what could eight or ten con- fessors, and a couple of medical men, do in Buchan emergency? People literally seized hold of them whenever they showed themselves in the streets. The single apothecary's shop in the place was be sieged. On the 7th, by twelve at noon, that shop did not contain a single drop of castor oil nor of solution of camphor ; and the people had already obtained all that was to be obtained from the neighbouring one at Ariccia. Women ran hither and thither with dishevelled hair and terrified looks, supplicating the Holy Virgin to come to their aid and to appease the anger of Heaven, and at least to obtain the grace of a good end for the dying. "To Rome ! to Rome !" they cried ; " oh, for priests ! oh, for doctors !" ,But the inexorable scourge redoubled his violence. We do not even now know the full number of his victims. The Cardinal Bishop of Albano, his Eminence Monsignor Altieri, usually resides in Rome, where he has to discharge the offices of President of the ConSUlta of State and of Arch-Chancellor of the University. When he received the telegraphic despatch informing him of the outbreak of the pestilence he was assisting at the annual examina tion of the Clementine College. He rose up and said, with that calmness which only true courage can give —"Gentlemen, a moreurgent duty than the present summonsesme to Albano. Godihath smitten my flock: Pray to Him with me that the life of the shepherd may suffice." He instantly entered his carriage and drove to the residence of his noble family, took all the money he had at command, gave orders for all the medical aid and medicines that could be obtained to be forwarded at once to Albano, and then, without taking any refreshment, started for Albano by a special train. In one hour his Eminence entered the ill-fated town. The people flocked round him just as if they looked for some miracle to be wrought for them by their zealous pastor. Alas ! he could work no miracle ; but he did his duty like a true priest and like a hero. For four days he was continually occupied in going from house to house, hearing confessions and giving medicine, assisting and comforting the survivors, attending funerals to the cemetery, and, in some instances, actually helping with his own hands to carry the corpse to the grave. The members of the Town Council arc all either dead, or sick, or in flight. The infirmaries have broken down under the extraordinary pressure on their resources. Even grave-diggers could not be obtained. The Zouaves of the garrison worked as infirmarians and as grave-diggers. Three of their number are dead, and several have been seized with the malady. On the Bth, at noon, the Queen Dowager fell ill of the cholera as she . was attending to her two children, the Princess Pia, and the Prince Januarius. The King was at the bedside of his illustrious • stepmother, holding her head between his hands, and praying for her. At six o'clock the royal sufferer received, from the hand of the Cardinal Archbishop, the last Sacriments, and the Benediction in articulo mortis of. the Sovereign Pontiff, which was asked and sent by telegraph. At eight o'clock her. Ma jesty breathed her last, just as she' had . besought her- royal stepson to take care of his own health, and exhorted him to forgive all his enemies. A few hours afterwards there arrived at Albano Monsignor Borromeo Arese, Maggiorduomo of his Holiness, who was unable to come in person, but had sent his high officer of State to console the royal family, and to convey to his Eminence the Cardinal Bishop the sum of 3,000 francs for the relief of the poor of Albano. On the 9th was announced the death of the Princess Colonna, chief lady of the illustrious family of the name, and of her youngest daughter. On the 10th and 11th, the violence of the pestil ence seemed to have reached its climax. On the 11th it snatched away the belo.Ved and heroic Cardinal Bishop from his loving and admiring flock. He expired at 3 p.m. The gciod shepherd gave his life for his sheep. He was only ill about ten hours. The news spread consternation at Rome, where the Cardinal was held in great esteem ; so much so, that he was commonly spoken of as the probable successor of Pius IX. In five days after her death, the Prince Janua rius followed his young mother to the grave. The Holy. Father (it may be easily conceived), is in great affliction. He has, in addition, been seized with severe pains in his legs, which have pre vented him from visiting the hospitals, and it is still uncertain whether he will be able the day after to-morrow to assist at the Mass of Requiem for Cardinal Altieri. 'The Iron' Age calls upon Mr. David G. Wells, Uuited States Commissioner of Revenue, to contradict a report circulated by the London Engineering, that his views and policy, as expressed to the editor, are that too great protection is already granted for the true interests of American manufacturers, and that lower duties should prevail. The Iron Age very naturally expresses the hope that the Revenue Commissioner will authorise it to con tradict this statement. On the Ist of October Commodore Joseph Lau man will succeed Rear-Admiral Bailey as commander of the Kittery navy yard. A record of all his mercantile acquaintances, kept by Amos Lawrence, of Boston, during his long life, shows that of every hundred of those who entered busi ness 97 failed of success. Mayor Norcross, of Boston, has appropriated his salary to'works'of charity, having given $2,000 of it to Old Men's Heine, and smaller sums to various other chari table institutions. One day the last week in July George Papen dick was drawing the cork from a bottle, when it burst, and his hand was badly cut. Intlamniation set in, and on Saturday, the 27th, he died at his summer residence at Milton. Mr. • I'apcndick was a German, the consul of Mecklenburg at the port of Boston, and a member of the banking-louse of Metcalf and rapendick at the latter city. Ile leaves a wife and three children. Rev. C. H. Hanaford, of Athol Depot, having been obliged by ill heal.li to resign his charge, has opened in that town a wholesale and retail boot and shoe store, a liuc cif Inminess in which ho has had ex verieueo in the Ex-Prehideut Day, of Yale Culler, 11 . 0w1 . near the close of his life, says ho is going.on the eight-hour Fin dlay, rising at eleven and going to led at seven. • The late Capt. John Gilinful, of Stanstead, C. E ., (me of the d:reciors of the Connecticut and Passunipsic Riven.; Railroad, Iwilucathed 55,010 to found an academy at North Derby, just over the Canada line. Henry Sevens, a distinguished citizen of Ver. !flout, died at his residence at Barnet, Tuesday night, Jul 30. His ago was 73. Rey. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of St. Louis, has been elected president of the New Hampton Institute at Fair fax, to succeed the Rev. J. Upham, now one of th© editors of the Boston. Watchman and Reflector. The Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, has recently re ceived from the Rev. Mr. Corning, the boating clergyman of Poughlieclisio, a present of a beautiful shell wherry, of the same pattern as that in which the latter has made save rzd trips down t`•he Hudson and Connecticut rivers. 1 . 11 making his will the late Paschal P. Pope of Boston remembered, Out of $706,00) estate, tho insti- tutions of that city in the following gifts :—To the Boston society of natural history $20,000, to the temporary home for the destitute $lO,OOO, to the Boston dispensary $20,000, to the Sailors' Snug Harbour $30,000, to the Howard benevolent society $20,000, to the Boston provident asso ciation $lO,OOO, to the home for aged men $30,000. He left also to Harvard college $50,000 to found the Pope professorship of the Latin language and literature. James Haywood of Boston, who died worth $200,000, besides his private legacies, , left $20,000 each to tho American institute of technology at Boston, to Harvard college for an astronomical observatory, and the American Unitarian society, $5,000 to the Boston young men's Christian union, $2,000 to the Arlington-street church, and $l,OOO a-piece to almost every charitable institution at Buston. Colonel Nathaniel Davi4, of Sutton, formerly High Sheriff of Merrimack County, died suddenly at Contoocookvire on Sunday, July 28, whilo on Lis way home from Concord. Mr. P. Fiske Reed, an artist, of Chicago, is about to publish a volume of poems. Joseph Smith, the Mormon, left a translation of the Bible, which, it is said, will bo published in the fall. After returning from a professional call the other day, Dr. Zalmon Hall, one of the oldest physicians of Stepney, Maine, was taken ill and died almost instantly. A complimentary dinner was giyen at the Parker House, Boston, on Tuesday, August 6th, to Mr. John I. Blair, president of the Sioux City branch of the Pacific Rail ri ad. Walter Brown has finally consented to accept Hamill's challenge to pull on the Hudson for the cham pionship of America. Miguel Lopez, the Mexican traitor who sold Queretaro and betrayed Maximilian, went to ruala to see his wife. She called him a base coward and traitor to his face, and told him to take his son and leave her presence for over. The Rev. Robert G. Chase, of Philadelphia, who with his wife and six others was drowned at Mount Desert recently, was insured for $ll,OOO, a policy of $lO,OOO heing a gift of his vestry. Romero, who has been Mexican Minister at Washington for eight years, has resigned his office, and will return at once to his native country. Tho Ministers of Nicaragua, Honduras, and New Granada, at Washing ton, have also resignsd. Major Rodman is enaged to _Miss Dahlgren, the daughter of the admiral. In M. Pierrepont's speech in the Surratt trial on Monday he told the story of a premonitory warning of diiaszer that Mr. Lincoln had before his assassination. On the morning of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln there was a Cabinet meeting. Tho members of the Administration were joyous over the surrender of Lee. Mr. Lincoln ex pressed anxiety abDut Sherman, and when Grant assured him that Sherman was all right he replied by detailing a dream which he had had previous to Chancellorsville, Stone River, and other defeats. The recurrence of the dream led him to dread the recurrence of disaster. It came ; but, instead of calamity to our armies, it was his own assassination. Dr. Prime represents the United States at the present session of the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam. At the conclusion of his address on Monday last ho gave a hearty invitation, in the name of his American brethren to the Evangelical Alliance to hold their next conference in New York. The Austrian Consul-General in Hamburgh has received tho necessary instructions for forwarding to their homes the former soldiers of the Mexican legion, who are shortly expected to arrive here. FLATTERING POPULAR DEMONSTATION TO iii ELIAS HO WE, JUN. Recently our city was the scene of a popular demon stration, such as has not taken place for many years. The occasion was the return of Mr. Elias Howe, jun., from Europe and the Paris Exhibition, bringing with him the gold medal awarded by the commissioners for his inven tions, and the decoration of the Cross of the Legion of Honour, presented by Napoleon 111. The honours and de corations, however, had little to do with the welcome that greeted Mr. Howe on his arrival here, but rather the univer sal respect for his upright private character, his compre hensive benevolence, anal his marvellous inventive genius. The fact, too, that he had been announced in the public prints as very sick, and indeed as deal, added an extra zest to the pleasure with which his friends and fellow townsmen generally saw him return among them again. The demonstration originated with the em ployes of the Howe Sewing Machine Factory, who took the occasion to show their respect for their employer, and gratitude that ho had so far reco vered from his illness as to be able to return again to his home. Learning that Mr. Ilowo was - expected on the steamer Bridgeport at 4 o'clock, the employ6s in the factory petitioned the managers to bo pen - nate:l to. step work long enough to pay their respects unitedly to him, and urged the matter so strongly, that the committee finally obtained the following order from headquarters: — NOTICE. Mr. llowe will arrive on the steamer Bridgeport to-day about four (4) o'clock. At the request of the em ployds who wish to tender their respects to Lim, on his return, the engine will bo stopped at three (3) o'clock for the remainder of the afternoon.—Per order of E. W. llowE, Supt. Accordingly the factory was handsomely decorated with flags, and a few minutes before tho time of the steamer's arrival, a proces,ion numbering about 200 men—all em ployed at the factory—headed by the Bridgeport City Bawl, marched to Naugatuck wharf. By the time of the beat'. , arrival some 1,500 persons had collected on the dock and surrounding wharves. On the arrival of the steamer a portion of the committee boarded her, and paid their respects to their guest, the band appropriately playing "Home, Sweet florae." Mr. Howe, leaning on tho arm of h's wife, and a mem ber of the committee, for he is still quite feeble, left the 6toamo - antl_entered his barouche with his wife and Mr. Simon Howe and his lady. The proceSsion, now number ing about 252 men, divided; and, thus escorted, the party were driven to the factory. As they approached the place, a salute of 18 gums was fired from a brass cannon, under the direction of Uapt. W. S. Hotchkisl. The young ladies employed in the shop, numbering ,about fifty, arranged themselves in a line in front of the factory, and thus Deceived Mr. Howe. A general shaking of hands took place. Soon after the line was reformed, and the pro cession escorted the party to their home at Iranistan. On the whole, this reception was most pleasing to Mr. Howe, moro so than was the plaudits by the Emperor and commissions of France—for it told him more strongly than words could convey the esteem in which he is held by thoso who have served under him. It spoke volumes for the liberality and generosity which has always governed him in his treatment of those in his employ, in fact was a greeting that would causo the heart of any man to swell with honest pride and honourable emotion. The committee of arrangements appointed by the em ployes was as follows : —Messrs. Charles Inglis!), D. S. Cole, \V. Ingraham, M. Dimond, G. S. Hotchkiss, W. S. Dar ling, Marshal, W. S. Hotchkiss (secretary), B.W. Lawrence. Mr. Howe is still quite feeble, though looking much better than was anticipated. May the pure air of his own home restore Lim to health and give him yet many years of use fulness and happiness. —.New York Paper. THE "TIMES' O.V THE NEW YORK STAGE A New York correspondent of the Times has commenced a series of articles on the stage in New York. The " English Playgoer," as he terms himself, commences by remarking on tho ignorance in England of the standard by which Transatlantic theatrical fame is measured. Some years ago London was a common place of resort for American actors of inferior note, - which tended to the formation of an unfavourable opinion there of histrionic talent in the New World. Lately, however, the American " stars" who have shone in England have been veritable " stars" in their own country. Miss Kate Bateman at the Adelphi reflects a triumph at all the leading theatres in the United States. Mr. Jefferson, the excellence of whose acting in Mr. Boucicault's "flip Van Winkle," also at the Adelphi, was admitted, is a great man in New York. Mr. John S. Owens was unfortunate in the selection of Lis piece, for tho old uncouth farmer of New Jersey, his re presentation of whom is pronounced by competent judges to be absolutely perfect, was a typo of character no Eng lish audience could appreciate. That actor is really ono of the magnates of his country. Till such actors appeared the Londoner was slow to believe that anything thea trically good could come from the opposite' side of the Atlantic, with the exception of those purely national de lineations of character which were given with such ad mirable spirit by Mrs. Barney Williams, and her sister, Mrs. Florence. The writer observes that the amusements of one civilised nation are intimately connected with those of another. • The link between the slases of London and Paris is notorious to everybody, and can be minutely observed by avy one who will take the trouble of conning over some French theatrical movspaper, and now and then stepping across the Channel. The link between the stages of Lou den and New York is likely to `ecome stronger every day, but the step across the Channel becomes a stride in the case of the Atlantic. Theatrieaily : , peaking, New York is as much the capital of the United States as London is the capital of Great Britain and hole,. d. Boston and Philadelphia hold a high rank, but they are not inclined to regard with enthusiasm . an artist who has not already made a name in the "Empire City." Before the war a particular renown attached to New Orleans as a place where "no end of money" was to be made, but New Orleans, like the northern cities, re quired a New York testimonial of talent. Tho theatres of New York differ from those of London, resembling Astley's as remodelled by Mr. Bucicault, who took the American typo as his Pattern. The Americans go further in their encroachments on the pit, having no ' thing like one in . the accepted sense of the word, but the portion of the ground area, which is not occupied by chairs, is appropriated to reserved seats, and bears the French name "parquette," which, however, is invariably pronounced "parquet." in front of the parquette are the all-important orchestra stalls, which hold the same rank as a row of stalls placed in front of th, dress circle, and called the "balcony." The seats in the dress circle behind the balcony hold the same rank as the body of the par quette. A tier above the dress circle contains the cheapest places in the house, and the price of these is sometimes stated in large letters at the head of the programme, as if it were the charge for admission generally. The gods by this arrangement are kept out of sight, and among the rest of the aulience little difference can be de tected. If there be less of the brilliancy of the London occupants of the stalls, there is none of the dinginess of ' the frequenters of London pits—the assembly generally presenting the uniform character of an opulent, highly respectable body. "The demeanour of the audience is quite in keeping with their aspect. They are decorous to a fault, and frequently so utterly undemonstrative in their approbation that a person newly arrived from England, observing the effect of a play upon the swctaters, would declare that it was a complete failure, though the treasury books would probably show that a thorough success had been achieved. When the English roar, the Americans merely smile, and even their smiles are sparingly be stowed, as if they would not commit themselves lightly. That this stoical repression of hilarity indicates superiority of judgment lamby no means prepared to assort. The right smile does not always come in the right place, and even when an exceptional roar is at last produced, it would be hasty to infer that the best joke is its cause." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Western Railroad began on Monday, July 29th, to run its eastward trains over the new track between Washington and Becket. The track of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad is laid from the latter place to Bardwetl's Ferry, and the bridge over the Deerfield at this point will be completed in about three weeks. It is expected that the cars will be running to Shelburne Falls in two months. In the reconstruction of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad for the six miles between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, 2,000 feet of trestle work, origin ally put in by Haupt, was taken down and solid earth embankments substituted. The contract which the State has made with Dull and Cowan of Chicago to complete 7,400 feet of the Iloosiac tunnel at the eastern portal, the rate of progress to be 100 feet per day, and to complete he central shaft, was to go into effect on the is of August. In nineteen days of July 98 feet were made, and in June 102 feet. At the west shaft they are running both east and west in order to make a drift to run off the " porridge" and stone debris, and it is necessary to advance 1,500 feet more to accomplish this. The claims for land damages by the Lee and New Haven Railroad, between Lee and the State line, have been settled, with the exception of two cases, for $20,000, or less than half the estimate of the engineers. Work on the Ettropean and North American Rail road has so far advanced that the company is en titled to the first instalment of the Government sub sidy, and all the heavy work of the road between Bangor and Lincoln, except laying the rails, will be completed this month. The negotiations between the officers of the Wes tern and Boston and Worcester Railroads, looking to a consolidation of the two corporations, are sti in progress, but so many and difficult are the coil flitting interests to harmonise, that no plan of union has yet been formed. The stockholders of the Bos ton and Worcester Road have already held a meet ing, and instructed their directors to ascertain what terms of consolidation could be agreed upon, and the Western Road will probably take similar action some time this month. At the annual business meeting cf the Old Colony and Newport Railroad, at Boston, on Thursday, July 25, the old Board of Directors were re-elected, with the exception of Alexander Holmes, who retired, and was succeeded by John S. Brayton, of Fall River. A vote was passed, authorising the issue of $1,500,000 worth of bonds, payable in 20 years or less, at interest not greater than 7 per cent., for the purpose of taking up or renewing the outstanding obligations of the Corporation, funding its floating debt, and completing its works. The stockholders of the Connecticut and Pas sumpsic Rivers Railroad held their annual meeting at Newport on Wednesday, July 31. The 22a annual report shows the receipts of the past year to have been $493,705 and expenses $309,053, leaving a balance of $184,652. The bonded debt of the road has been reduced in the year $31,900, two 3 per cent. dividends, amounting to $115,080, have been declared, and $64,000 has been paid for inte rest on bonds and to the trustees of the sinking fund and $2,672 for interest on notes. The road is 110 miles long, is well stocked, and efforts arc now being made to build the Massawippi Road from the terminus of the Passumpsic to some point on the Grand Trunk near Lenoxville. This will in fact add thirty miles to the Passumpsic Road, and open a country of great richness in both mineral and agricultural products. The correspondent of the Standard says:—" Hotel ears," as they are called, have been introduced on nearly all the Western Railroads. In these cars one finds not only a passable, bed but all the advanL• tagcz of an ordinary restaurant. Chops, steaks, vegetables are cooked, and cold cuts furnished in the train —so that there is no stopping for a five minutes' gorging f indigestible trash at a way-side "station." T his suits the i mpatie nt Western Yankee, thoug h to him of New Eng l a nd the " im provement" Whitehall line, at an expense " is as yet unknown. s t e amer Adirondack, b u ilt for the Bur lingtonp rorrvieletrinew and $250,000, is said to be the most elegant boat on American waters. She made her trial trip on Thursday, August 8, and on Monday began to run regularly. The steamboat competition between Hartford and New York has been ended by the withdrawal of the Merchants' line, to run their boats between New York and t he D e l aware river. T he fare, w hich for some time has been 50 cents, has b een put,bheackNototvhe price y oldorkCe ntral of a dollar. i Railroad earned $1,878,000 in-July, a decrease. of $57,000 for the same month last year. The Illinois Central gained $30,000 in traffic the same Mouth, and about 65 per cent. in land sales and collections. IHE GRAIN AND CO7 TON CROPS. • • _ • (New Fork Daily' Republican.) The season has so far advanced that we are now in a position to predicate, with intolerable accuracy, the result of the crops of 1867. In the Southern States the harvest, with the exception of corn and cotton, is already secured ; while in the Western States the work of reaping is still in active progress. The accounts so far from the South, with regard to bread-stuffs, are all that could be desired. The yield is extremely favourable and fully up to the average of most prosperous years. For the first time probably in many years those States have avoided the error of devoting all their energies to the cultivation of cotton. Taught by a bitter experience, planters and farmers have discovered that it is not pro fitable for them to purchase the corn and pork they require for consumption. They have therefore very sensibly devoted a larger breadth than ever before to the cultivation of wheat and corn, and the weather has been so favourable for these pro 7 ducts that the total results are likely to exceed all former precedent. In Mississippi it is calculated that this year's corn crop alone would support the entire South for two years. From Alabama and Georgia the accounts are no less favourable. From Texas the reports are most cheering. A Houston (Texas) journal, after collecting reports from all parts of the vast State, concludes that it only re quired a few weeks of fine weather to render the corn crop of the State all that could be desired. Texas suffered least of all the Southern States from the war, and has therefore recovered more quickly. There has also been an extensive influx of Northern men and capital during the last two years, and favourable crops were all that was required to secure to that magnificent portion of the country the ele ments of an enduring prosperity. From the other Southern States the accounts of the corn crops are generally satisfactory. Florida, next to. Texas, is probably the most flourishing State in the South. At lcart it has received large accessions of capital, and of both white and coloured labour, and the results are apparent in the in gathering of a most bounteous harvest. In the Carolinas and in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkan- sas, the grain crops were favourable. In all these would-be marshals and dukes. His opponent has to seek his partisans among sergeants and corporals, and to dazzle them with the promise of a sub-lieutenant's epaulettes. Marshals and dukes have possession on their side ; corporals , and sergeants have numbers. Sometimes it is the Ins, sometimes the Outs that have it; it is a game of endless vicissitude, - but, whoever may be the winner, it is on the nation that the costs invariably fall. There are bold innovators, indeed, who are supposed to harbour in their hearts anti-dynastic tendencies ; and every one feels that little good can come of a Duke of Tetuan, of a Duke of Valencia, or even of a Marquis de los Castillejos, so long as the Court is a prey to the intrigues of nuns and confessors, under whose influence the sturdiest Minister must bend or break. Choose any three honest and intelligent Spaniards, no matter of what party, and they will be unanimous in their assertion that there can be no chance for their country so long as the present Sovereign or any of her family is allowed to occupy the throne. " Long live the Queen !" however, is the motto hitherto invariably borne aloft on every insurgent banner; whether sincerely or hypocritically, every party leader takes his start upon a great flourish of loyalty. Nor can we wonder at this, for among the lower classes, whatever opinion they may entertain, and also openly express, as to the public and private virtues of the Queen, the mere fact that she is as they believe, " very Spanish and very Catholic" overrules all other considerations. Anxious as all feeling men must be to see the end of the misrule which has . so long • weighed upon Spain, it is very difficult to point out the means by which the nation may be made aware of the evil, and almost impos sible to name the men at all able or willing to work out the remedy. TIIE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON NEWDEGATE REDIVIVUS. On Friday evening Mr. Newdegate made a long speech without motion, by way of " calling the attention of the House to ertain cir cumstances connected with" the Committee on the EcclesiastiCal Titles and Roman Catholic Relief Acts. It was the first appearance for two years of the hon. gentleman on any subject con nected with Catholic affairs, and he spoke with modest pride of the self-restraint he had practised in order to achieve so long an abstinence from what has been the main pursuit of his life. We could give him more credit for his moderation if we did not retain quite so lively a recollection of his past favours towards us, and especially of his last performances, which, it will be remembered, were in the character of an assailant of convents and monasteries. We cannot quite forget his blind fury against the harmless nuns of Colwich, nor his persistence in attributingto them practices of secret cruelty and wickedness, charges in support of which hie was unable to adduce even the faintest scintilla os proof ; nor lastly, his dogged refusal to accept the invitation of the Bishop of Birmingham and other gentlemen to inspect for himself the secret dungeons and torture chambers. After that crucial test of his fidelity to the delusions which he pro fessed to hold as the sacred dogma of his No- Popery persuasion, we should have thought that, satis sibi, satis glorie, might thenceforward have been his motto ; and that, having reaped so little credit on the field he had claimed as his own, he might have quitted for ever the arena, and allowed the mantle of his Protestant zealotry to descend gently on the shoulders of his Liberal colleague and successor, the member for Peterborough. As he has reappeared, however, though at the eleventh hour of the session, we will pay a tribute of such respect as we can render to an old and indomitable (we wish we could say a fair and honourable) opponent. We will give - some account of his speech. Mr: Newdegate is, it seems, dissatisfied both with the report of the committee and with the conduct of the Government in relation to it. He thinks that the Government pressed the matter on unduly, in spite of the lateness of the session, and in spite of the indifference of the House. He says it was not without repeated efforts and sundry " counts out," that a committee could be appointed at all. "It was only owing to the perseverance of the hon. member for Meath (Mr M'Evoy), and one or two other Roman Catholic members, supported by the hon. member for Louth (Mr. Fortescue), and countenanced by the Government, that the motion was agreed to." Now, if the Government did countenance the measure, it must have been be- TIMES.—Even in the dulness of the present season, i cause they were so profoundly convinced of its a Spanish insurrection excites only a very languid urgent necessity that the extreme inconvenience interest. However sorely the world may be suffer- lof the time, and the opposition of their own party ing from the dearth of stirring news, it is impossible were outweighed by a sense of their duty to the to dignify any disturbance in the Peninsula into an I country. It is, then, with a very ill grace that Mr. event. A great general convulsion, or, as they call Newdegate, who is a Conservative himself, attacks it, a " cataclysm," is one of those contingencies to his own party on this score. He was, however, which people in Madrid, or people attaching import- contradicted by Mr. Whalley, who asserted, in op ance to Madrid politics, have been looking forward position to his leader, that the Government did not to for years. It has been so long a time " inevitably countenance the Bill , as, indeed, was self-evident ; coming" that we may almost begin to doubt for had it done so the Attorney-General for Ireland, whether it will ever come. An inroad, we are told, who was onthe committee, would not have absented has been made by old rebel chiefs into Spain. i himself from the division, and so have allowed the Pierrard, Pajol, Contreras, and other Progresista finding of the committee to be partially neutralized Generals are reported to be at the head of armed by an equality of votes on either side. 11.. New bands. Catalonia is said to be on fire; and the degate endeavoured to disprove the statement of conflagration is described as spreading all over the Mr. Hope Scott and the other witnesses, that the mountainous districts of Aragon, Navarre, and the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the Catholic Basque Provinces. In sympathy with the North, I bishops is purely spiritual ; but his reasoning on the Valencia and Andalusia are said to be heaving con- point was so circuitous (not to say unintelligible) vulsively, and the thrill of revolutionary excitement that we despair of following it. He read volu to have reached the borders of Extremadura. Some- eninous extracts from the evidence before the Com how we fancy there is nothing in all this we have mittee ; statements which we can quite believe may not often heard before. It strikes us as the old have been irritating to his own prejudices, but story told over and over again. Such are the which had no perceptible bearing on the point he usual " things of Spain," and, together with the undertook to prove. The replies of Bishop Mo intelligence of the revolt, we are prepared to hear of riarty, cited by Mr. Newdegate, went to show that rails torn up, wires cut down, mails not arriving, in countries where the Catholic Church is the and the Government at Madrid proclaiming the State religion the authorities thereof are seconded state of siege in the same breath as it assures us by the secular arm, and that where the Church that " the whole kingdom is in the enjoyment of possesses no secular power, there (as in England the most profound tranquillity." As we know, too, or Ireland), her power is purely spiritual. The beforehand the whole plot and denouement of the ipropositions are identical or convertible, and in sorry drama, we know the contrast between the disputable ; but their bearing on the proposed re broad farce and the deep tragedy of its various peal of the Titles Act is not apparent. What is but episodes. We can, for instance, appreciate the too apparent is, the animus of Mr. Newdegate. He humour of Don Antonio Maria Garrigo, lets everybody see, through the gaps or chinks in Governor of Vitoria, who brags of his " energetic his logic, that his real grievance is that the Catholics strength of will" to put down riots, of which, as cannot e forced penally into a recognition. of, and we learn from himself, " his loyal Basques submission to, the Church as bylaw Established." are incapable," or that of Don Pedro Estevan, Go- He is indignant that we will not bow the knee vernor of Gerona, who describes his province as before the golden image of Anglican supremacy. " overrun by two bands ten men strong, and the ' Well, no more do the Dissenters, and he is not an army in eager pursuit." We cannot, however, help i assailant of theirs. True, but the Dissenters are looking upon these broad jokes as the prelude to that stationary ; they do not grow; they have within wholesale shooting and transportation of prisoners their body the seeds of weakness end of dissolution amid which the curtain generally falls on the Spanish by their endless and self-reproducing divisions. political stage. We can hardly say whether we But Catholicism is progressive, whenever it is not should hope or fear the SucCeEs of such attempts as ' persecuted , and even wen it is. It shows signs of the one which has just now apparently failed. ' life. It gets on. It is united. It is consistent and We do not know of any change at all likely to unalterable. So Mr. Newdegate read to the benefit such a country as Spain. That the Govern- House of Commons an address by their predeces ment of Queen Isabella could not be worse is uni- sors of 1621, to the " British Solomon," in which versally admitted, but this does not imply that any those characteristics of " Popery" are stated as other possible Government would be better. Prim, an enemy would state them, and evidently point with his faithful and gallant Milans del Bosch, is at the adoption of fresh penal measures, in addition said to be hovering on the frontier, ready to head to those already in action, which deluged the mu the movement on the first turn of luck. O'Donnell, tury with the blood of English and Irish Catholics. Serrano, Zabala, and Echague are at Biarritz, But Mr. Newdegate reminds us of the sleepers who watching events—i.e., waiting to see if others will slept into another generation. He has lost his get the chestnuts for them out of the fire. But, reckoning. He needs to be awakened and reminded with the exception of Prim, there is no candidate for that the times are altered. When that address power in Spain who has not been tried—long and I was presented to James 1., all non-conformity repeatedly tried—and he must be a very sanguin e with, or non-recognition of, the established Spaniard indeed who would risk life or limb, or pro- hierarchy and the royal supremacy was a crime at perty or perional freedom, for the mere chance of law, partaking both of heresy and of treason, and substituting the men of O'Donnell's Union Liberal was actually visited with the severest penalties of for Narvaez's Moderadoes or Nocedal's Neo-Cato- both offences. Now, liberty of conscience is firmly licos. Fifty years' unavailing and disastrous expe- established. Now, milder principles prevail ; con riment must wear out even a Spaniard's proverbial formity is no longer a loyal duty, and Catholic constancy, and shake his faith in the use of revolu- I liberty is as firmly established by law as is Anglican tions. The trade of getting up and pulling down supremacy. It is, then, futile to quote the obsolete Governments ends by being left to the few adven- ravinas of effete bi g otr y . The y have no bearing turers who kno w h ow t o t urn it to good purpose for on tlie question now asked—" shall Catholics, or themselves ; and it is now impossible, if, indeed, it shall they not, be allowed to have their bishops was not so at all times, to get the mass of the Spanish legally, after it has been preyed by sixteen years people to take half as much interest in a pronuncia- of ineffective but irritating legislation in the op miento as they would in a bull fight or in the lottery. posite sense that, anyhow, they must have them? There are two maximsevhichthevicissitudes of the last In the latter part of his discursive remarks, Mr. half century have deeply rivitediu the hearts of Sancho Newdegate quoted largely from a recent article in Panza's shrewd and prudent countrymen ; the one the Dublin Review, upon the Spanish Inquisition. that they must not hope for good government; the The writer appears to argue that -the Holy See is other, that any Government is good enough for not answerable for the severities of the Spanish those who do not meddle with it. It is this con- Inquisition, which he seems to admit to have been viction on the part of the multitude of the danger, excessive. He says (as quoted b y Mr. Newdegate) no less than of the inutility, of interference in —" The only check upon its cruelty was the de public affairs, which makes political change iu Spain terniined perseverance with which the Sovereign so frequent, and yet deprives it of all results. The Pontiffs interfered on behalf of mercy, and by community is a mere theatre, with millions of pas- remonstrances, mandates of grace, and even sive, silent, and, on the whole, unsympathising excommunication, moderated its excessive rigour." spectators in the pit, and scores of more or less The quotation made by Mr. Newdegate goes so far unprincipled ac t or s and mountebanks on the stage. as to say that " the despotism of! the Inquisition, But ho sever wretched the condition of Spain from the time of its foundation :anti' its existence may appe ar t o us , no consciousness of its misery or ended, aimed at crushing the influence of Rome in degradation afflicts the Spaniards. Great content- Spain." All this Mr. Newdegate calls " a mere merit may be found compatible with very little well- quibble arising from the differeices between the being.; and a long spill of peace and even such Papacy and the Dominican Order." The differences order as those truculent Captains-General and their were rather with the Spanish Illonarchy and Go- Civil G needs are able to enforce is not without its vernment, which were at open war with the Pope. influence on the material prosperity of the nation. But what is all this to the purpose? Mr. N ewde 'Good. bad, or indifferent as the condition of the gate's notion seems to be that the , atrocities alleged masses may be, its improvement has hitherto never to have been committed by the Inquisition have, been the object, we will not say of the endeavours, in some way, a connection with the report to which but, even of . the professions of any man in Spain. he was calling the attention of -the House. He Party names and party leaders there are, but did not exhibit very clearly that connection; he hardly a party measure. The insurgent bands now only said (as reported) that "The Roman Catholic in the field shout " Viva Prim !" but we have not Church, while aiming at spiritual jiurisdiction,would forgotten how Prim himself eighteen months ago bear no limit with patience to its temporal exten crossed the country from end to end without gain- sion, and he thought there was a spirit in those ing a single recruit. It was only " Prim instead o f me n w hich it would be unsafe to loose." This. O'Donnell," as it was before O'Donnell instead however, is an .argument not age di Ist the repeal of of Narvaez, or O'Donnell instead of Esparteru. - the Titles Act, but against the repeal of the Penal "'The good things of the State for self and friends" Laws and the .Catholic Disabilitios. Mr. Newdegate is the flag round which Spanish politicians, civil, seemed sensible of the weakness of his arguents, or military, are ready to rally. The man in powe r and of the anachronism , a , ndillib eiality of his posi has batons and grand. crosses and titles to bestow , t i o n. He said t h at lie_ most deeply lamented the and he has onhis side generals and colonels--the existence of religions dluerenCes,,placl sometimes he States an unusually large breadth of land had been devoted to the culture of corn, and the South which, before the war, was dependant upon the West for food, will this year not only have enough for home consumption, but, for the first time, may even enter the world's grain market to dispose of its superfluous products. With respect to the Southern cotton crop the reports are less conclusive. It is, of course, however, too soon to predicate anything respecting the probable yield. The unusually large quantity of corn planted, and the unfavourable condition of the cotton iu some localities may prevent the in crease that might otherwise have been expected. From South Carolina we hear that the Sea Island cotton has been seriously injured by the rain. Rains and floods have also seriously injured the prospects in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Bat even now, with fair weather, a crop may be secured. Turning to the Great West, we find that we arc fully warranted in anticipating a corn and wheat crop largely in excess of the most prosperous year that has ever been known. The season has now so far advanced that no unfavourable contingencies of weather or crop diseases are likely to diminish the estimated supply to any considerable extent. In the great wheat growing region, comprising Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Minnesota, the average sown is largely in ex cess of former years, and in quantity and quality the products are all that could be de- sired. It is estimated that the supply will be 40 per cent. in excess of the prosperous season of 1360. The hot weather that followed the rainy season, upon which so many injuries were apprehended. stimulated the growth to an extraordinary degree From the same causes corn will be most exuberan .n all the States named. In this and the New England States the corn and wheat crops promise remarkably well. California has secured a magnificent harvest, that will enable that State to sustain her newly acquired reputation as a grain exporting country. Indeed the grain crops in the golden State are so largely in excess of the wants for home consumption that the only ditficu'ty seems to be to obtain remunerative markets for the superfluous stock. . In certain localities in the various States the re sults may vary. But we feel fully warranted in the assurance that the corn, wheat, and cotton crops in the whole country will not vary to any considerable extent from the conclusions now presented. The harvest is bountiful beyond all reasonable expectations. Anxiety upon the subject may be dismissed. We have been spared the painful consequences of indifferent crops, at a time when a full harvest is of the most vital importance, owing to the exceeding short supply on hand. It is estimated that when the new harvest came in there was not in the whole country two weeks supply of food. What might have been a terrible calamity (for who can estimate the painful consequences to the nation and to in dividuals of a short harvest?) is turned into Heaven's choicest blessing. Owing to the short supply in the hands of farmers, millers will for some time to come be chiefly employed in work for home or local consumption and the actual supplies of breadstuffs at the great commercial centres may be deferred to an unusually late period of the sea son. But the certainty of a bounteous harvest is telling rapidly upon prices, and the market is downward, with a demand limited to the supply of the immediate wants. In due time, however, the mass of consumers will realise the advantages of a probably large and permanent reduction of the cost of the chief staples of life. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. felt bitterly when he was compelled by a sense of duty to resist the encroachments proposed in that House by the Roman Catholics." We believe Mr. Newdegate to be, after all, a man of the nineteenth century, like the rest of us ' • but he is committed to a party and to a line of political action which compel him to talk of encroachments that he well knows have no sort of actuality, about which he cannot even plausibly argue that they exist. There are (as every one knows) no encroachments on the part of Catholics. If there were, the resistance to them would not be left to Parliamentary oddities representing nobody but themselves, and the few other crotchetty individuals, the score or two of fussy parsons, and the hundred or two of good -hearted, but credulous old ladies who make up the rank and file of the No-Popery party. If there were any real danger of " Papal Aggression " in. the sense that they mean it, no doubt the strength of England would soon be aroused to sterner action, the intellectual vigour, the moral energy, and the physical stamina of the country would bristle in battle array. Mr. Newdegate stands pretty nearly alone when he professes to see such a danger nigh at hand. Catholicism will shortly, he thinks, unless his counsels are adopted, bring about the state of things that existed in Spain in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Charles V. and of Philip 11. But that is a state of things which did not exist at all universally, even in the most palmy days of Catholicism, and notably never in England, Scotland, or in Ireland, for even in Queen Mary's reign the bishops were but the un willing agents of the lay government in the perse cution of Protestants. There is plenty of docu mentary evidence that Gardiner and Bonner were coerced by the Marquis of Winchester and the Council to do what they did ; and that they did as little as possible. Those who can read history with any superiority to the merest sectarian prejudices know that the proceedings of Mary's reign exhibit not the normal action of ecclesiastical authority,' but that which is of all things most opposite to it, namely, the "wild justice" of a triumphant faction which had itself suffered the extremity of cruelty, injustice, and persecution in the two preceding reigns. Cranmer suffered neither more nor less than just what he had himself inflicted on both Protestants and Catholics under Henry VIII., and what he was preparing, by a more formal and effective ordinance, to inflict on Catholics, when his tenure of power was interrupted by the death of Edward VI. The circumstances of the time were altogether exceptional. Before what Mr. Newdegate affects to fear could become a reality in England, before the nation could be subjected to the exercise of temporal power on the part of the Church, the majority of Englishmen must, of course, have embraced cordially and enthusiasti cally the CatholiC faith. That would be the prl; mary and indispensable condition. But wo uld that •be all that would be necessary ? By no means, for there are nations heartily and loyallY, Catholic where the Church exercises no temp oral power whatever. Wherever the Church has pes - temporal rule, it has been brought about 1)9 such a singular combination of political circany stances and peculiarities of national character as do not exist anywhere now, and can hardly be expected to exist in this country at any future period. We assert, then, that all these fear s tniu complaints about Catholic encroachment are tho - roughly insincere. They are nothing else but the thin veil which sectarian jealousy assumes when it desires to crush —or, if it cannot crush, to coerce, impede, and annoy, a rival system with which 1, feels it hopeless to compete in the field of argument, and in the comparative estimate wine': e c the public is forming upon what that public s: for itself when it looks first on Establishmenta riam and then on Catholics. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 63s to 68s ; red cat t :j (weighing 631 b), 58s to 61.8 per qr. Flour, 46s Od to 470 per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. 1 Old white wheat, 70s to 765; old red, 67 s to 735 ; 11,° white, 65s to 70s ; new red, 66 s to 73 s per 36 stone. old, fine, 30s to 365; now, 28s to 3 6 s per 24 stone. Beaus, o,ag —s to —s; new, 45s to 508 per 38 stone. Fine flour, to 515 per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY; Q New white wheat, 68s to 74s ; new red, 60 s to 6. 5 ; ol6ll Tb a.• white, —s to —s; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. 12$ ley, for malting, —s to —s per qr.; grinding, 35s to per 30 stone. Oats, fine, 3 7s to ; new, 28s to 34s p er ' stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; new 46s to 50s per 3 8 s tep Fine flour, Us ; seconds, 46s to 48s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. White wheat, from 63s to 70s ; red, COs to 64S P e — e, . . -rindipv stone. Barley, for malting, 39s to 40s per qr..; gr..-„, 0 0. 36s to 395 per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28 s to 30 s per 21 st" 43, Beans, new, 46s .to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 66 s to Sts Flour, 49s to s per sack of 2801bs. DIVIDENDS. The New York Fire Insurance Company will P 3l demand a semi-annual dividend of six per cent, free ° Government tax ; the Greenwich Insurance Cer° ,ol3 2o seven per cent. ; the City Fire Insurance Compaq? .-Avi) dollars per share ; the Irving Insurance CompanY, 7 .0 1 per cent. ; and the Sixpenny Savings Ba nk their 11' dividend of six per cent. per annum. rel y The stockholders of some petroleum companies o'o using the fact that King Petroleum is not dead, lietn; sleepeth. The Central Petroleum Company o f NeW 10°0.1 had declared a dividend of 10 cents per shar e, paY3l)",-,io the office of the company on the 15 th inst.; the 3 1°°° ,, - ( i of Oil Company of New York have declared a divi°"iii:l one per cont.; and the Ocean Oil Company of Phila d of 20 cents per share, both payable ou dem and. eIY foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. ,t. 19. I.ustralla and New Zealand, via Southampt on - -•e2" , 13. S Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama ........ ......... ........ •• • „t• 3•b Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video S e i' t, 2' 3 Ditto, by French packet Scl" 3 ........ • • .. SO" 2/ , Cape Voids, by Brazil packet . ..... ... ~,,,,,t. Cape of Good hope. Ascension. and St. Helena. •-- P'' t , 7. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southarapton•• S e ' t , 3. S ep t. , 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept' 4. Falkland Islands A '' AJI , ..:ibraltar, via Southampton . 1. .......... t. India, via Southampton ............... . ......... S e p,„ t . 5. Ditto, via Marseil es ...................... •• • •S er i .7. 4.14' 6 , Italia, Egypt, &c. Se pt. Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via , 0t ,1 9 ' Southampton DIU ), via Marsci les ......................... P e r e , $ O. .Alh 3. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British Mr, , ' ,t3. 5 ' packet Ditto, by United States packet ............... Ditto ditto (New York) .................... Ditto ditto (New York) ........... . ........ 0 , Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... Ditto, by Canadian packet ...................•, 34,4. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff.i.• •• • ' bt ' M g, West Indies and Pacific, (except Mexico and Bab a " og , ",. A .zz. mss) Cuba and Mexico • • '''' Se pt' l . ............... •• • • . l 6, Bahamas, via New York ......................... • Auf , ' . " Bermuda, via ditto [ ADVERTISE3IENT.I —Holloway's rills are tit° A . most in repute for curing the multifarious nisl, 3 . ,„ l fi ly g ' of, beset inahkind where dry sultry weathers lia"`":,os place to dilly drenching days. In fact thess P Av ' p e relief to, if they fail of proving an absolute revie","oue the disturbances of digestion, circulation, and tt er i 0 3 16 which occasionally oppress a vast portion of th' s ,oo o o o , tion. Under the genial purify' g and 60. 1 ' 1 '1,0 0 o cli powers exerted by this excellent mineTclicine, tbe tc i - jcV1 3 05 4 comes clean, the api •.ite improves, digestion 1 0 11 $ pniro and assimilation is rendered perfect. These 13'`,,0 the highly estimable property of cleansing .`; df mass of blood, which in its renovating co of purity, strength. and vigour to every tissue of t -------- Cop t. Births. . goof ca CumiNG —On the 22d inst., at Portsmo uth, the II P i , j o ol COFF IN- On Gg, Roya the l 231 inst., Artillery, oatf a 51, dau O x ford-t o rrighter. V ; - ,11 10 ,°#l, park, the wife of Major-Gen. Sir Isaac Co 0 1 rt io of a son. PHILLIrs—On the 22d inst., at Cranfo rd Lode' D 3 the wife of (Mond J. o:Phillips, of a see' B t Gt Ti: to George's-square, T ga : 0, - - si3 S O : t o t t T h x y, square,_ fo' he=2. Mil thearr 22diagienss. Cleatham, i n t cotueuntt.y- youngestCo o f 1 daughter.Du rßurdett,ha.i. trc i l BAR.Low— FULLER —On the 24th inst., at Chris t Cl'4l ll l4l° . E.t e ling, George, eldest son of Fred flarlo,'vlor of ai:mond, Surrey, to Clara Ann, sistli dat2tl;oi. 1 Henry J. Fuller, Esq., of St. Ifelier'e, Jc` t at St. Sa.:.•llll..'eel B uT c vicar,u E , D o , lt° 00 . I A' AI r f s o w n o ti ß o T g i d t o - n O si n iii t e h , e t2l22l)inneosayt.t.,hTaStf:tohme as dins °1 olfar ,-I.o37ittsti, fo ..1 0 0 11 r T oo o ' OM n a fO d n s3 tlie 29th June, at Cape Toss's , ' - ' 6 s ad Butcher, Esq of the firm ' of J. .1. Dutillier f . t 0 v i, or, r e vtr i" sli r Gt a N g G e E d LL 4 - 7. On the . 22d inst., at Hastings, -.a-lA[llO5l, --° the late E. Gingell, Esq., of Fulhatu-ros rtorl' ton, aged 77. So uth MONDAY—On morre the 12th inst.. at Free fl ,e, Edward Monday, Captain R.N., aged 85. ~e , ,, 1/ 0 . 1j .:5. limutr. —o.:Nt:eagle::.ast., at Tylattyew'scuco` ;ad° AV Ingham, Berks Beatrice, the Wad: , ° f O. Dot;< i __—____-- -,TAAL A., NJ ' s 1 ' I London : Printed and Published by W'""," ~,,, O. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TO SUN v"-61'00011 Strand, in the' Precinct of the Ss voy, . 111 til° • XiddieSa.,■atceday, August 26,. 1567. StiN, LON ON. INIONDNY EV E.NING, AUGUSr 26 1807. I i