The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. UNSECTARIAN EDUCATION, The Times thinks it is impossible to prescribe an un sectarian education by Act of Parliament. It is probable that the desireS of many of those who have clamoured for it would be satisfied if a rough-and-ready order Were issued, "No parson in the schools," hut they have been ashamed of so palpable a confession of their secret wishes. A conscience clause, a time-table conscience clause, no catechisms or formulas' the Bible without note or comment,- -these are the device.; that have been suggested, among many, to insure the un sectarian character of the schools contemplated by the bill. We talk of driving a coach and four through an Act of Parliament, but as for these guarantees of unsec tarianism, a resolute teacher could drive any sectarian creed he pleased through the whole of them. If religion is forced into a corner, it is apt to become virulent ; if we banish public and recognised text-books, we open the way to the unchecked liberty of private teaching. Mr. Disraeli was perfectly right wheli he talked of the new order of sacerdotalism of schools teachers. The school mistress who taught her pupils, " Two and one make three, except in the case of the Trinity," com bined religion and arithmetic in a formulary of her own construction. Those who trust to the clauses of an Act of Parliament, or even to the supervision of the Privy Council, for the security of unsectarianism rely upon broken reeds. MR. EDMUNDS. The case of Mr. Leonard Edmunds has, says the Standard, twice been before Mr. Justice Wiles, and twice his lordship has taken time to consider whether the Clerk of the Patents has been properly arrested. But the very fact that the matter is so doubtful that one of our ablest judges feels himself in so much difficulty as to how he ought to decide it is sufficient to condemn the pre cipitancy with which the Government has chosen to avail itself of a questionable right, in order to crush an inconvenient opponent. Mr. Edmunds's position is that of a debtor against whom a successful plaintiff has obtained a judgment. Only by contending that it had engaged a servant at a salary of less than no thing could the Crown maintain that it was entitled to succeed, and only by holding Mr. Edmunds to the hardest letter of his bond could it win a victory which was more damaging than a defeat, inasmuch as both employer and employed had acted on a contrary supposition for the many years during which the dismissed clerk had vainly tried to have his accounts audited- Even supposing the Crown's right to incarcerate its debtor to remain unaffected by recent legislation, there was no reason in the world for resorting to it until after the pending action for libel had been tried, for a debtor who cannot pay his debts ought not to publicly branded as little better than a heinous criminal, and then deprived of his liberty just as he is endeavouring to vindicate his reputation. THE SECOND READING OF THE LAND BILL. Without a division, says the Telegraph, the Irish Land Bill last night—or rather early this morning—passed the second reading in the House of Lords. The debate, which has lasted three nights, has not been concluded without convincing evidences of the Peers' power as an assembly for discussing and checking measures which originate with the more popular body of the State. Lord Cairn's elaborate assault on the Bill, however, and Lord Hatherley's vigorous and conclusive reply, are, after all, matters of less public interest than the speeches of one or two other noblemen who have taken part in the debate. Last night's accept ance of the bill by the House of Lords emphatically proves how accurate is the estimate which both Lord Derby and Lord Cairns have made as to the feeling of the country ; and the measure goes into committee with the highest certificates from the Conservative chiefs that, with greater or minor carpings at detail, the substantial and fundamental principles of the bill must be frankly accepted and honourably carried into effect. The Daily News says it must not be assumed that in all respects the bill is entirely safe. Many of the speakers who have accepted the second reading as a necessity of the situation have suggested amendments which would hardly be consistent with the efficient working of the measure. Per haps the prolonged debate, in which so many hereditary legislators who are unknown to fame have delivered their souls on the measure, will be favourable to a speedy passage through committee. It must, however, be dis tinctly understood that any amendment hostile to the unity of the bill will be fatal to it. Amend ments which make a bill more a perfect machine for its work, or a completer exponent of its principle, are the best contributions a non-representative House can make to legislation. We are by no means sure that a practised ingenuity of amendment may not find plenty of work even on a bill which has occupied the House of Commons for half a session. Should it be so, we hope the House of Lords will occupy itself in making the Irish Land Bill as perfect as possible. The good sense, we will add,. the intelligent patriotism, which ac cepts the bill in principle may surely be .relied on for ac cepting it in detail. The Lords have made up their minds to make a concession, and they must snake the concession in the most generous spirit. What they grant they must grant fully and completely. Noblesse oblige. VIE ASCOT MEETING, Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the Ascot meet ing, declares the Post, was the favour—amounting almost to enthusiasm—with which the great successes of Lord Falmouth and Lord Zetland were received by the public. In the case of these owners there is no necessity for asking such questions as—ls this or that horse meant to win, or is the money on? The most perfect straight forwardness ever marks their racing transactions. In this respect they are conspicuous. And their silent example is calculated to greatly assist the efforts of those striving to eliminate from the Turf the objectionable elements that have debased and corrupted it. A few other owners of horses there are who also race as ]nglish gentlemen should race. But it is humiliating and some what dispiriting to reflect that they bear so small a pro portion to those of the opposite category. It is to be hoped that the sentiment unmistakeably prevalent at the late Ascot meeting on this subject may exert a bene ficial influence. It could not be difficult, and it would seem to be a laudable object of ambition, to attain the reputation of running horses to win stakes, cups, and plates instead of bets—to race for sport and excitement, and not for mere gain. Those who cannot afford to do this should simply not race. .Mr. E. Howes, M.P. for South Norfolk, is seriously indisposed. Fishing in the French rivers began on Tuesday. The banks of the Seine were crowded—indeed, there were more men than ash, says the Figaro. _ was The schooner Zephyr, of Durham, was blown up on Thursday through the accumulation of gas in the cabin. Only a boy was on board at the time, who was blown twenty yards from the vessel into the water • 444 was picked up with his head partially bl own off ; he' died soon after. The Republican County Convention, which closed its session at Wilmington, N.C., nominated a coloured man for the Senate, and three coloured men for the Lower House of the Legislature ; also, a coloured candidate for sheriff. Great dissatisfaction is expressed by many white and some coloured Republicans, and a new Convention will probably be held. The negroes of Ohio have held a meeting in. Cincinnati to determine their future course in regard to politics, or, rather, to decide whether they shall continue to submit to their present bondage to the Radical party, as they did at the late municipal elections. The result of their deliberations was an agreement to disagree, but they ;resolved, almost unanimously, not to support any party which advocates a high tariff. The French Government has concluded a treaty with the Societ6 du Cable Transatlantique Fran9ais, which grants the Soci4t4 the right of amalgamating with other companies. The exclusive privilege landing has been relinquished, and in its place the French Govern ment have assured the company at equal rates, all public And. private mesages not specially directed togo by another route. - - - - Meetings of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science have been held at 6, Old Palace-yard, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, during the present week ; present the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S. ; Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth, Bart., F.R.S. ; Mr B. Samuelson, ALP. ; Dr. W. Sharpey, Sec. R.S. ; Professor Huxley, F.R.s. ; Dr. W. A. Miller, Treasurer R.S. ; Professor Stokes, Sea. R, S. ; and the Secretary, Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. Rain has fallen everywhere, and the sky remains cloudy, with every promise of more showers. Thunder ;storms have taken place in the south, south-east, and n orth-east of England. The barometer has again fallen. Temperature has now risen a little in the west. The winds have varied considerably, and are nowsouth-westerly inlreland, north-westerly in the west of Great Britain, and chiefly south-westerly in the east. The sea is moderate in the Channel, calm elsewhere. At eight o'clock yesterday ; morning the thermometer in London registered 61 deg. ,A-TTE3IPT TO MURDER AT MANCHESTER.—On 'Thursday morning, at Manchester, a pensioner, named Joseph Consterdine, aged 74, whose wife had separated from him in consequence of his brutality, attempted to , murder her in Every-street, as she was proceeding to her work at a cotton-mill, about six o'clock. He took hold of her by her right shoulder And said he had come to finish her. He held in his hand a razor, and attempted to cut her throat, but she successfully reaisted him until assistance came, but received a gash under the chin about half-an-inch deep, On being taken before the magistrate he was committed to the Assizes. THE BELGIAN ELECTIOUS.—News of some im portance arrives from Belgium. The elections which have taken place this week for half the Chamber of Represen tativeshaveprovedvery unfavourable to the Liberal party, -which has been for many years in power. Two members of the Fiore.-Orban Cabinet, the Minister of the Interior A nd the Minister of Foreign Affairs have not been re elected. What is more, the Catholics have carried a grea t number of seats which were hitherto held by Liberals, so that the Government, which hitherto had a m ajority of 24, is now likely to belin a minority. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE MEETING ON THE PER MISBI, V EBILL.—On Thursday evening a meeting of electors payers of Marylebone was held in the Cambridge and rate,. manstrest, Oxford-street, and notwithstanding Hall, New", - state of the weather there was a large at the threateni,ng tendance. Mr. J. A. Nicholay (representative of St. Marylebone at the Metropolitan Board of Works) occu pied the chair, and varieus resolutions were enthusiastically adopted, including a petition to the House of Commons, in favour the Permissive Bill, an.d a request to the borough members to support that measure when ,the second read ing is discussed on the 13th July next, THE WEATHER AND TIIE CROPS. A very severe thunderstorm which visited the Metropo lis and many of the country districts on Thursday evening and Friday morning, was received with universal welcome. Should the favour be repeated the benefit will be incalculable. The rainfall on this occasion was very heavy, but intermittent and disappointing. In London at about half-past seven on Thursday evening rain fell in heavy drops, but soon ceased, much to the regret of those who knew and felt how much moisture was needed in the country districts. The clouds, _ _ however, again lowered and thickened, and shortly a;ter eight o'clock the rain descended in torrents, accompanied with vivid clashes of lightning'and heavy peals of thunder Heavy showers, with thunder and ligetning, continued at intervals long past midnight, the storm at about one in the morning being tremendously severe. At Newbery the 'ightning was very vivid and the peals of thunder very ud. The rain fell heavily for some time. The storm of the same kind in other parts of the country. On Friday morning the sky was still cloudy, and the atmosphere much cooler. Meanwhile complaints do not cease to flow in from all parts of the country, some statements being so exaggerated as to need considerable discount. From Bedford an account says :—" It is believed that rain cannot now save the light land wheat crops should it come plentifully at once, whilst the heavy soils would be greatly benefited by it, and might yield a fair average crop. The barley is doing very badly, indeed, and under any circumstances must be put down as well-nigh a complete failure. The winter beans, which have for several seasons done so well, appear to have ripened before the pod is formed, and will, in consequence, be valueless. The hay crop is a complete failure, and is not worth the expense of gathering." From North and East Yorkshire comes the complaint :—" Vegetation is literally parched up. Pastures are like broWn paper in colour, and the stock is fed with corn cake and other artificial foods, hay, and potatoes, all of which are getting dearer. The meadows aro bad, and the hay crop must be a failure. Old hay has risen considerably. The first turnip crop is completely lost, and the condition of the land is preventing farmers from sowing the white turnp, although for this variety there is yet time for a good crop should sufficient rain fall in June. Stock is suffering much from drought." It is to be hoped that the rainfall will continue, and alleviate this state of fright. In France the price of provisions continues to augment daily. Bread, meat, and vegetablei are creeping up in price. Corn and fodder have risen in proportion to the continuance of the drought. The extreme heat and pro tracted drought have so parched the undergrowth in the forests near Paris that, like tinder, it will ignite from a spark. At Fontainebleau a few days since a portion of the forest was burnt, and ,it was many hours before the progress of the flames could be arrested. On Tuesday a fire broke out in a portion of the Bois de Md, situate not very distant from Versailles, and about a mile from Bibvres. The Pompiers from the neighbouring towns were sum moned, but their efforts were useless, the trees burning rapidly and fiercely, while of water there was not a drop to be procured. A large body of work men were sent from Versailles, who with 120 artillery men, set to work to cut down the trees and dig trenches in order to arrest the flames. Subsequently 60 Hussars and two brigades of gendarmes arrived and took part in the work, but late on Tuesday night the fire was still burning fiercely, and about fourteen acres had been completely devastated. Letters from Algeria confirm the news that the grain crop is extremely good, and that the meadows have given an abundance of hay. However, the country skirting the desert suffers from locusts. The corn crops in Arkansas and Mississippi have been severely damaged by a tornado. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEIN INC , JUNE 18, 1870. MAZZINI AND -G-ARIBALDI: The Roman correspondent of the Tablet says that a dis sension between Mazzini and Garibaldi is said to be the cause of the halt in the revolutionary plans. Garibaldi will not leave Caprera, and will hear of nothing save an attack on Rome at any cost or hazard. Mazzini, on the contrary (as in 1867), says the hour for Rome has not yet come, and insists on beginning with the destruction of the Italian monarchy. Mazzini is also at issue with most of the revolutionary committees on account of their rapacity, their hatred of order and low vice. His followers are almost all young enthusiasts of the student class, and workmen who accept his theories blindly and hold •him to be a prophet. Garibaldi is,• however, far more popu lar in Italy, where Mazzini's idealiiim is at a discount; and where the far quattriiii" theory is the " primum mobile" of the greater part of his followers. An expedition on Rome, therefore, and prospects of " looting" the churches and convents, are far more easily understood than the Utopian theories of the old conspirator of Lugano. A. reconciliation is, however, en train, and will be very dan gerous to the peace of Italy this autumn. iNOTHER STRANGE WILL CASE. The hearing of " Goss v. Hill and others," which closed in the Probate Court on Thursday, developed some in teresting features. The case is an inquiry into the validity of the will of Mr. Moreton, a solicitor of Liverpool, who died last March at the age of 70. By the will the property of which the deceased was possessed at his death; amounting altogether to about £15,000, was given to the Right Rev. Alexander Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, the plaintiff. It was pre pared by Dr. Fisher, Dr. Gross's vicar, from verbal instructions given by the deceased in his last illness, and was executed the day before his death. The deceased was in bed at the time, and was very weak, and it is alleged by the defendants and intervener, who oppose the will, that he was then incapable of understanding any instrument and that he was so feeble that he had to be helped to sign the will. In support of the plaintiff's case, which closed on the 4th instant, Canon Fisher, who is vicar to Dr. Goss, deposed that the testator Was per fectly conscious when he signed the will, and that he did it without assistance. Ellen Chatterton, a servant in the house, who attested the will with him, deposed to a like effect, and maintained that she had never stated to any one that Dr. Fisher had helped the testator to sign the in strument. Evidence was adduced in support of the pleas filed by the defendants and intervener. Dr. John Stock port Taylor, who attended the deceased for eight years, stated that on the morning of Tuesday, the 23d March, 1869, he was sent for to see the deceased ; that he saw him about half-past ten o'clock ; that he was then iu a comatose state, his disease being an advanced stage of senile bronchitis ; that he was utterly incapable of trans acting any business ; and that from his appearance in the evening, when witness saw him again it was utterly impossible he could have rallied in the interval. Dr. Tay lor further stated that in coming down from the sick room he met Canon Fisher, and informed him that the deceased was then dying, Two friends of the deceased, named Rushworth and Shaw, saw him immediately after the will was executed, and affirmed that he was then quite un conscious. They further affirmed that Ellen Chatterton informed them of the execution of the will, and that the deceased was so weak that Canon Fisher had to guide his hand. Mrs. Moreton, the widow, also deposed that she saw the deceased, her husband, shortly after the execution of the will ; that he was then insensible, and remained so until his death. She added that he was dissatisfied with the will, that she thought a portion of the property —£2,ooo—whiCh she had brought to the deceased, should go to her friends, and that she had withdrawn her oppo sition to the instrument on being secured £2OO a year. In addition to this evidence the defendants relied on the appearance of the document itself, the signature of the testator being in no respect like to his Signature in any other paper. Lord Penzance said plaintiff had to es tablish to the satisfaction of the court that the paper which he propounded as the will of the deceased was well exe cuted, and that at the time the testator signed it he was of sound mind, memory, and understanding. The burthen of proof lay upon him, and the question was whether he had satisfied the requirements of that burthen. It might be admitted that the deceased who was a Boman Catho lic, contemplated leaving his property to spiritual pur poses connected with his rehgion ; but it was strange that he, an attorney, should have confided to a clergyman the task of preparing his will. One Would have thought that if he had made up his mind to carry his intention into effect, and to make his will, it would be necessary to get Canon Fisher to put it into writing fcr hire. He had two clerks who were in daily attendance On ; and he might, if he had been dis posed, have dictated the will to them. Having detailed the history of the execution of the will as given by Canon Fisher, and the evidence on the other side—especially that of Dr. Taylor—his lordship observed that the plaintiff had failed to satisfy the court that the deceased was of testa mentary capacity at the time he signed the paper. The appearance of the paper itself, he added, confirmed that conclusion. The signature was different from every other signature of the testator. The "S" of the Christian name was a loop " S." The testator invariably, as ap peared by his books, used the simple "8" enlarged. The letter " "in the surname was still more remarkable. The deceased always used the . capital " M ;" in the will it was the smaller ni." enlarged. A habit invariably be came stronger with age. The weaker the mind the stronger the habit, and it was inconceivable that in his then condition the testator could have departed from his habit in the matter of his signa ture. The circumstance, therefore, pointed to the conclusion that the hand of the deceased was guided either by Ellen Chatterton, or—what was more likely, he being the more intelligent person, by Canon Fisher. It might be said that, if the Court surmised that, it should also sur mise that Canon Fisher had perpetrated a fraud in using the hand of the deceased to make his will. But that did not follow. In many cases testators had been assisted to sign their wills, and the whole of the transaction depended on the condition. in which the testator might then be. The plaintiff had failed to discharge the burthen of proof resting on him, to satisfy the 'when the deceased signed the instrument he was in full pos4essicin of his senses, and the Court should therefore pronounce against the will.—The question of costs was reserved. SCIENCE FOR ENGINEERS.—It is reported that the Secretary of State for IRdia has determined upon estab lishing in this country a coinpletz college of science for civil engineers, for the education 'of those who are to be employed on the extensive Government works of India. A BRACE OF ODDITIES.--One of the witnesses examined before the Coventry Election Committee said that he had partaken of no refreshments at Mr. Johnson's expense, and this arose from the fact that " twenty years ago be had made a declaration that he would never eat or drink at any one's expense but his own." Another was certain he had never eaten a breakfast at the expense of the member, because he, had never eaten a breakfast in all his life ; he always took his morning meal in the middle of the day i AN lnisrr SCHOOL S.CENE.—As an illustration of the quick-witted humour of the Carrick boys the follow ing incident is mentioned in an official report was examining the school at Carrick, in presence of the School master and schoolmistress, the priest, and my car-driver, who took special interest in schools. Before me stood a little barefooted Irish boy, of about 12 or 13, with a bright intelligent face, fine dirk eyes and black hair. His name was Moses Erskine. I asked him to spell " excellent," which he did. I asked him what it meant. The boy hesitated. But the priest said, "Do you know anybody who is excellent at anything ?" " Yes." "And who is it ? " rejoined the priest. " Myself," was the prompt retort. " And what are ycu excellent at ? " continued the priest. "At dancing, Sir." I fcuud that Moses was celebrated for his polders at an Irish jig, and that he was by no means shy of giving strangers' a taste of his quality. Being asked whether it would be " indecorbus " to see Moses in action, I said certainly not. Presently the `zest cf the scholars were allowed to go. The door was shut, and Moses was left alone with us. But I observed that the windows outside were filled with the eager faces of his schoolfellows. At first there was a difficulty about music, but the schoolmaster whistled an admirable jig, and Moses set to work with a - vigour and a natural grace which did him infinite credit; and as one step succeeded another, increasing in quickness and compliCation ' the little wretch's feet looked, as one of • the Party said, like "electrified drumsticks." When Moses stopped he was duly congratulated and rewarded. THE FAROE COD FISHERIES. Intelligence from the Faroe cod fishing has been received up to the close of last week. In the early part of the season the fishing was greatly interrupted by very rough weather, during which a number of casualties occurred. Three French vessels were wrecked, and their stores and fishing materials lost. The crew of one made its escape, after suffering considerable privations. Another vessel struck on the rocks, but the whole of the crew, except a boy who was asleep below at the time, got ashore. In the case of the third, most of the crew were ashore at the time, and the rest swam to land. Since the early part of May the weather has been excel lent,- and the fishing prosecuted regularly and with great success. Most of the Shetland vessels have made splendid fishing, namely, from 12,000 to 17,000 cod. Seeral have come tome, discharged their cargoes, and returned to prosecute the fishing again. The quality of the cod caught is reported as excellent, many weighing from 301 b. to 401 b. each. APPLICATION FOR A WIFE. One Enoch Bailey, who has settled somewhere out in America, where women are scarce, finds himself in need of a wife, and so he addressed a letter to the chairman of the Mansfield Board of Guardians, asking him, on his honour, to find for him a wife of moral character, who would on arriving in America, find a " good home, and a kind and affectionate family." The letter having appeared in one of the Sheffield papers provoked the following reply which was read at the Board meeting on Tuesday : To the clerk of the Mansfield Board of Guardians.—Parkg,ate, May 31st, 187. Sar i Saen in the Shefeld endependent a advrsment for a Wife to Go to america you humble servent Will actcept the offer of Enoch Bailey. Park Gat, Ner Rother ham, York Shier." The report does not state whether the Board took any further steps in this matrimonial agency business. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT MAIDENHEAD. On Thursday a coachman and his wife and, a groom, in the employment of Sir William Clayton, were proceeding in a trap from Marlow to Ascot, when the horse took fright on the Marlow-road, and started off at full gallop. The coachman was immediately thrown out, and his leg was broken. The horse, still continuing his flight, rushed at great speed through the town of Maidenhead, and came in contact with a horse and trap which was standing at the door of Dr. Montgomery's house. The trap was torn from the shafts, and the horse, whose head was dashed against the stone-work under the rails, was killed on the spot. At this point the coachman's wife was thrown out of Sir William Clayton's trap, and was dreadfully cut about the face and head. The horse still continued on its course at full gallop, until he got to Queen-street, where he dashed into Messrs. Mason and Neat's auction mart, smashing the plate-glass window in that establishment. The groom, who kept his hold up to this point, was then thrown out, and was severely injured. The horse was stopped at' last, but not before he had kicked the trap to pieces. Those who were injured by the accident are progressing favourably. LAW AND POLICE. DR. EDMUNDS' LIBEL CASE.—A rule for a new trial in the Court of Common Pleas, has been refused, in the case of " Edmunds v. Eyre," in which Dr. Edmunds com plained of the publication of a placard satirising him as one of the guardians of St. Pancras. FLIGHT OF A STATION MASTEIL—An application has heen made at the Police-court, Oldham, for a warrant to apprehend Alfred Ernest Allen, who for s - bme nine months has held the post of station-master at Glodwick-road, Oldham, prior to which he was for three years clerk at London-road Station, Manchester. Allen had absconded with £l2O. THE MONARCH INSURANCE COMPANY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the motion of Mr. Giffard, Q. C., a rule for a certiorari has been granted to bring up any indict ment that might be found at the Old Bailey against the directors of the Monarch Insurance Company, who had been committed for fraud, with a view to its being tried in this court. THE NEW CROSS ACCIDENT.—Another case arising out of the accident at New Cross last summer, on the occa sion of the Licensed Victuallers' fete at the Crystal Palace, has just been settled. A publican named Shaken, in the i'dgware-road, sued the railway company in the Court. cf Common Pleas for injuries sustained. The compan resisted the claim on the ground that he was not in t e train at the time of the accident. After hear ing his evidence, however, they consented to a verdict for £lOO. THE NOMINAtION OF CHURCHWARDENS. —The case of the " Queen v. Stephens," in which a rule had been ob tained respecting the nomination of a churchwarden of the parish of Dolgelly, has come before, the Court of Queen's Bench. It appeared that a meeting had been held in the vestry at Dolgelly, at which the rector claimed the right, by immemorial usage, to appoint two churchwardens, which he did. But at the same meet ing the parishioners claimed the right to nominate one, and chose a gentleman whom they declared to be duly elected, but when he was presented to the Chancellor of the diocese, he declined to admit him on the ground that the office was full. The court considered the parishioners prima fade right to elect one churchwarden ought to be tried, and made the rule absolute. - - THE BROCOLI CASE.—It may be remembered that some little time since a man of good character named Stephens, was convicted at Ramsgate of stealing brocoli. He was seen cutting it, and on the owner remonstrating with him, it turned out that he had been sent by his master to cut it in a neighbouring garden which belonged to him, and had gone into the wrong garden by mistake. Never theless he pleaded guilty, and was convicted of theft. A rule was afterwards applied for in the Court of Queen's Bench, and has now been made absolute. The Lord Chief Justice remarked that when the man explained his mis take, which he did after the case was closed, the magis trate ought not to have held him to his plea of guilty; but should have told him to retract it and call evidence. A COMPROMISE.—In the Court of Exchequer, an action for £7OO on a bond was heard. The plaintiff's were the trustees of a society of Foresters, and brought an action against a publican at Camberwell, under somewhat singular circumstances. The Secretary of the society had a deficiency of nearly £2,000 in his accounts which it was resolved to compromise on the secretary paying £l,OOO down, and £7OO by a bond. Afterwards eight indict ments were pieferred against him at the Old Bailey, and the defendant disputed his liability on the ground that he signed the bond on condition that all prosecutions against the secretary should cease. The plaintiffs contended that all prosecution did 'cease on the part of the executive, and the indictments were pre. pared by some dissentient members of the society. The verdict of the jury held that the condition was that all prosecution should be abandoned, and the Lord Chief Justice confirmed this view, refusing the application. SCIENCE AND ART GOSSIP.—The case of _Robert Hard wicke, the well-known bookseller and publisher of Picca dilly, has come before the Court of Bankruptcy. The liabilities are stated at £30,000. An order was applied for to direct the registrar to register a resolution passed at a meeting of creditors. They resolved to wind up the estate by arrangement, but when the resolution was presented to the'registrar he refused to receive it, be cause some small amounts, chiefly for advertisements in connection with science and art gossip, amounting to a few shillings each had been omitted from the debtor's statement. The Chief Judge said if he made such an order it would furnish a precedent which might be used in other cases. There niust be an affidavit that the whole amount of the debts which were omitted would not have affected the carrying of the resolution. The bankrupt's solicitor said that was so, and also that a trustee was carrying on the business. The Chief Judge thereupon made the order. A GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE.—III the Divorce Court yesterday, before Lord Penzance, the case of "Yeatman v. Yeatman and Rummell " was heard. It has several times been before the court in different shapes, and the petitioner now prayed for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. The petitioner is a practising barrister, and it appears that the marriage took place when the parties were young, and before the marriage law of Scotland was altered. They followed a plan which was well known in those days--they went to Gretna Green and declared themselves in the presence of witnesses to be man and Wife.' Thigs WaSthen a recognised marriage, and the parties lived together as man and wife. Some time after Wards the respondent, who is a Beautiful woman and a German, went abroad and it is alleged lived in adultery with the .co-respondeut, who is a German baron. The petitioner conducted his own case and proved his marriage. The evidence of adultery was all documentary, it having been taken by a commission in Germany. His lordship reserved his judgment until he had read the evidence of au alleged desertion of the husband prior to the wife going to Germany. The French Emperor is now restored to his ustni health. The indisposition of Lord Justice G-iffard (remarks the Law Times) has presented the sort of emergency in which the fallacy of G i o - vernment economyis made plainly manifest. He is ill ; the appeal business comes to a standstill. The truth is that the work was too much for his lordship. Should the illness of Lord Justice Giffard prove sufficiently serious to cause his retirement the coun try will owe him heavy compensation. The recently appointed Vicar of Bradford (the late Bishop of Mauritius) attended for the first time a public meeting in that town, in connection with the Church Institute. Speaking briefly on the subject of education, Dr. Ryan narrated his experience in other parts of the country, and observed that, to his mind, the idea of leaving religion out in the instruction of the young was simply preposterous. - - - A letter from Constantinople respectinc , the fire at Pera says the English insurance offices which will suffer the most are the Royal, Sun, and Imperial ; the estimated amount of their lossea will exceed 2100,000. The foreign offices are in for a much smaller sum. It has been ascertained that more than 1,200 lives were lost, but there is no reason to believe that that number by any means express the real fatality. PETEI?f3 PENCE.—Cardinal Cullen writes from Rome directing the vicars-general of his diocese to remind the faithful that the 'period' has come round for their annual contribution to the Papal treasury. They are expected to give " another emphatic expression of their devotion to the Holy rather by generous contributions," the " vast and extensive preparations " that had to be made for the General Council, " and the unbounded hos pitality of the Sovereign Pontiff towards the assembled Fathers," !laying pressed heavily on his already over taxed TesourccS ; - • LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. The Atheneum says the pictures and other objects of art which belonged to Mr. Dickens are to be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson.—" Lothair," it seems, will have to undergo the fate of other names that are often on people's lips. It has been registered as the name of a new perfume by an Irish firm.—Mr. Neill, United States Consul at Dublin, has in the press "Patrick Copland," based upon manuscripts and original autho rities.—At the recent sale of Dr. Todd's library, Wace's works, with his manuscript additions, fetched 2450, the highest price ever given for a book in Ire land.—Professor Mahaffy, of Trinity College, Dublin, is engaged upon a history of the wars of Alexander the Great, which will shortly appear.-- On the withdrawal of " Mary Warner" from the boards of the Olympic, a new drama, founded on the romantic poem of Undine," and written in verse by Mr. Robert Reece, will be produced.—Herr J. Wagner, the well known Vientse actor, is dead.—Mr. Walter ontgomery has reached San Francisco, and has appeared in "Hamlet." —Mr. Woolner is to execute, by request, a bust of Mr. Charles Dickens ; he has the advantage of a mask which was cast for the purpose. —lt is rumoured, but we hope incorrectly, that the Crystal Palace Company is going to let the most secluded and enjoyable part of its grounds for building purposes.—A memorial is to be raised in France in honour of the late M. Niepce, whose inventions have done so much to advance photography. THE STANTON MEMORIAL FUND. It appears that the movement set on foot in. New York some time since for the collection of a memorial fund to the late Edwin M. Stanton, to be applied in aid of his family, has culminated in the amount raised for tho pur pose being invested by' the respective treasurers, Mr. Alexander, T. Stewart and Hon. Moses H. Grinnell, in Government bonds, and deposited in trust with the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. The following is the final correspondence on the subject with the, widow of the late Secretary Stanton : -NEW YORK, May 27. " My Dear Madam—By direction of the Union League Club, I have the pleasure to inclose one of the triplicates of the trust deed executed by the New York Life Insur and Trust Company with Hon. Moses H. Grinnell and myself. The fund collected has been invested in the five twenty bonds of 1862, amounting to s4B,2oo—interest at six per cent., payable in November and May. Hoping that this disposition of the fund and the conditions attached thereto, will meet with your approval, and ex pressing my deep gratitude for the invaluable services of your late husband.—" I have the honour to be, with sincere regard, yours truly, " ALEXANDER T. STEWART. " Mrs. Edwin M. Stanton." " Washington, May 28, 1870. " Mr. A. T. Stewart,—My dear Sir : This morning I received the trust deed enclosed by you to me. Ido not know how to express my obligation for the generous action of my husbarid's friends ; but I have great gratification and pride in the assurance given me by the kindness shewn Mr. Stanton's family, and of the high regard felt for him, and accept the testimonial as a grateful tribute to his memory. To yourself and Mr. Grinnell I shall always feel a personal indebtedness for the interest you have taken in the matter. Whatever arrangement you think best could not but be perfectly satisfactory to me. " With much respect yours truly, "ELLEN H. STANTON." MR. CHARLES DICKENS. The editor of the Graphic relates some particulars of his personal acquaintance with the late author as follows : " The first time I saw the idolised Boz in the flesh was at a fancy fair in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hos pital, held, I think, for the benefit of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society : He was then a handsome young man, with piercing bright eyes and carefully arranged hair, much in fact, as he is represented in Maclise's picture. The last time I saw him was a few weeks since, when I had the pleasure of meeting him at dinner. To all outward appearance, he then looked like a man who would live and work until he was four score. I was espe cially struck by the brilliancy and vivacity of his eyes. There seemed as much life and animation in them as in twenty ordinary pairs of eyes. I was also struck by his sailor-like aspect a peculiarity observed by many other persons. Yet, except his two voyages to America, he had not been much on the sea, and was not, I believe, a par ticularly good sailor. But we all know his sympathy for seamen, and I think, without being fanciful, that his nautical air may in part be attributed to early Portsmouth associations. On this occasion Mr. Dickens conversed with me chiefly about Mr. Carlyle's writings, for whose " French Revolution " he expressed the strongest admira tion, as he has practically shewn in his "Tale of Two Cities ;" and he also related some interesting anecdotes, one of which I may venture to transfer to print. It was related to Mr. Dickens by the late Mr. Edwin Stanton, the famous Secretary of War in the United States Cabinet. On Good Friday, 1865, there was a Cabinet Council at Washington, and Mr. Stanton chanced to enter the council chamber some time after the other mem bers had assembled. As he entered he heard the Presid'ent say, " Well, gentlemen, thisis only amusement. I think we had better now turn to 'business." During the meeting he noticed that Mr. Lincoln was remarkably grave and sedate ; and that, instead of strolling about the room, as was his usual wont, dealing out droll remarks, he sat bolt upright in his chair. On leaving the Council Mr. Stanton asked one of the other Ministers why the President's manner was so peculiar, and received the following expla nation :—" When we assembled to-day Mr. Lincoln said, Gentlemen, I dreamt a strange dream last night fora the third time, and on each occasion something remarkable has followed upon it. After the first dream came the battle of Bull Run [Mr. Dickens could not remember the second event], and now the dream has come again. 'I dreamt that I was in a boat on a lake, drifting along without either oars or sails, when—' At this moment you," said the Minister, addressing Mr. Stanton, "opened the door, whereupon the President checked himself, and said, ' I think we had better turn to business." So we have lost the conclusion of the dream." And it was lost for ever. The Council met at half-past two, and on the same evening President Lincoln lay dead, slain by the pistol shot of Wilkes Booth. I cannot avoid drawing a parallel here. We shall never know the end of Mr. Lincoln's dream, and the " Mystery of Edwin Drood " remains also an inscrutable mystery, parted from us by the im penetrable curtain of death. Posthumous fame is but a poor thing, when it is based simply on intellectual achievements. Charles Dickens' fame rests on a surer basis. His chief merit, to my thinking, lies in the fact that in all his creations, humorous or pathetic, he irresistibly drew the sympathies of his readers towards the cause of the humble, the suffering, and the oppressed,. and I firmly believe that much of the beneficent legislation of late years is due to his teaching. If he had entered Parliament, he would probably have made but an indifferent figure, for he cared little for mere party-politics; but at his desk, pen in hand, he wielded a power superior to that of a whole House of Commons, and it is to his eternal glory that this power was uniformly exercised for worthy ends. It is no small matter in an age when the contrast between wealth and poverty, between inordinate luxury and utter destitution, grows daily more startling, that a man of genius should, for a whole generation, have used his mental gifts for the pur pose of bridging over those terrible gulfs in modern civili sation." A very large number of honorary degrees will be conferred at the ensuing Commemoration at Oxford. The list includes among others the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lowe, and the leader of the Conservative Peers, the Duke of Richmond. Among smaller details of the grand ceremony of installation, it may interest the pageant-loving public to learn that Lord Salisbury's two little sons will probably form an early connexion with the University by supporting the train of their father — the new Chancellor's—magnificent robe of office. The Duke of Richmond has given notice of some amendments to the Medical Act (1858) Amendment Bill with a view to insure that a diploma shall be granted only after a complete course of study. Lord Cairns desires that the names of the successful candidates shall be published, together with the number of marks assigned to each. He also wishes to provide " that no person to whom any qualification is granted by any university shall be entitled to practice medicine or surgery for gain without having been registered under this Act." THE ITALIAN PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. — The Italian journals give interesting notices of Charles Dickens. The Turin Gazette says that the publication of " The Pickwick Club " was the foundation of his reputa tion, and he thence acquired the name of a first-rate romancist. From that time his fame increased, it ex tended to foreign lands, and his works multiplied a thou sandfold. The Diritto believes that Sam Weller and the Modern Tartuffe in " Martin Chuzzlewit " will be im mortal, like the characters in the " Promessi Sposi." The Nazione thinks Dickens was the greatest of all modern English novelists, and has no doubt England will regret his death as a national loss. Though he had worked long and well, there still remained much for him to do. It admits that his style was occasionally faulty, but this was only to be regarded as the specks on the sun, which do not detract from the warmth or light. For thirty-five years he remained the most popular man of his day, and the greatest social reformer of the age. Monu ments to his honour may be erected, in marble or bronze, but his most lasting memorial will be the recollection of the services he rendered to the dif ferent classes of the community by calling forth an exchange of sympathies. The good which might be done to the poor and the conversion of material progress to moral ends chiefly engaged the thoughts of Charles Dickens, and reflected themselves in his works. COMPULSORY VACCINATION. Our jealous preservation •of individual freedom has hitherto prevented our submitting to a general ordinance of compulsory vaccination for small-pox. The efficacy of Jenner's method has survived all popular clamour against its enforcement in Europe, and by cable telegram we find that it has proved a thorough prophylactic during the late visitation of the disease in Paris. It is somewhat startling to learn that the Health Board of Brooklyn report fifty six cases during the month of May, and since that several deaths have resulted from small-pox alone in that city. The deaths have occuared chiefly among the German families of a section of the Eastern District, and the utmost difficulty has been experienced by the officers in inducing the friends of the patients to allow their removal from the crowded accommodation of their homes to the public hospitals. The course of a malady so dreadful ought to be carefully watched and no exaggerated senti ment of " independence " allowed to interfere with measures fer its prevention. —New York Times. THE STORM. An enormous destruction of property and loss of life has resulted from the storm on Thursday night. A short distance from the town of Croydon is a village Called Coulsdon, in which stood a large range of farm premises belonging to Mr. G. Smith, a farmer, who employed a number of agri cultural labourers. The estate was called " Stoat's Nest Farm." The proprietor had been for the last few days speaking to his neighbours as to the great good a thunder storm and a heavy shower of rain would do to his crops. Unfortunately the electric fluid struck and set fire to one of the stacks cf hay containing 50 waggon loads, three straw stacks each of 20 loads; a corn shed, 50 feet long and 20 wide ; two stables, of 20 feet and 30 feet long, and another 40 feet by 30 ; also a granary, certainly only one floor high, but 50 feet long, and something approximating to 25 feet wide. The wind drove the flames into the pri vate residence of Mr. J. Kent, and before an engine had time to get to the spot the premises were burned for the greater part out, and the remainder fell with a crash to the ground. Fortunately the whole of the horses had been rescued, but at no little danger to those who were bold enough to ven ture into the stables. It is reported that a man named Joshua Martin was struck down by the lightning close by and killed, and that a girl near Foot's Cray had shared a similar fate. A private residence belonging to Mr. T. Charman was also seriously damaged by fire. Another fire was caused at Bridge Wharf, Harrow-road, the property of Mr. Putney, a timber merchant. Owing to the violence of the storm the rain fell in such streams that a number of lime sacks beca me ignited. Fortunately, owing to the timely arrival of assistance, the fire was soon subdued. At Liverpool it rained nearly all day on Thursday, and the disturbed electrical condition of the atmosphere inter rupted the working of the telegraphs so much as to cause serious inconvenience to the newspapers, whose intelli gence from London was much delayed. A Cambridge telegram states that several fires were caused by the lightning in that county. A highly beneficial change has taken place in the weather in Norfolk, the rain having fallen rather copiously. In Somersetshire the tempest was accompanied by a hailstorm. A telegram from Win canton in that county states that in that district thou sands'of panes of glass were broken by the hail. Masses of ice fell• which measured 5i inches in circumference. THE ST. DOMINGO TREATY. The Washington correspondent of the New York,Herald writes as follows on June 1: " The St. Domingo question becomes more and more mixed from day to day. President Grant has sent to the Senate another message urging a ratification of the treaty of annexation; but at the same time are started new grounds of opposition, fresh reasons why our Govern ment should not act hastily, if at all, in negotiating with Mr. Baez and Co. The latest information given to influ ential senators would lead to the conclusion that Baez is not a man to be trusted in any sort of degree, and that Gautier, Cazeneau, Fabens, Jerry O'Sullivan and all the people surrounding the Dominican President or con nected with the annexation project including even General Babcock, are no better than they should be. Senator Sumner, who has all along opposed the scheme, has been let into the secret of recent proceedings in St. Domingo which decidedly ought to lessen confidence in the good faith of Mr. Baez and his ministers. The sixth article of the treaty, signed by Mr. Gautier, the Dominican Secre tary of State, and Mr. Raymond H. Perry, our Consul to St. Domingo, provided that after the execution of the convention between the two parties no land grants, min ing rights or other concessions should be given away by the Dominican government. Notwithstanding this very plain provision, it appears that Mr. Gautier approved pe titions of Messrs. Cazenau and Schumaker, asking for enormous grants of land for mining, emigration and rail road purposes, and recommended their passage to the Dc minican Senate. Cazenau is said to already own about one-half the public lands of the country, and in his new petition he modestly begged for a cession of 200,000 acres more, with a reservation to his exclusive use and profit of all the mining wealth that might be discovered thereon. Mr. Schumaker's petition was for the privilege of building a railroad between St. Domingo and Agua, 130 miles in length, with one mile of public land at each side of the road—in other words, 200 miles of what, I am told, constitutes some of the best land in that country. These are both very moderate and cool requests in the face of the unmistakable provisions of the treat. But it is alleged that Mr. Minister Gautier viewed the scheme with favour ; indeed, it is asserted that he was directly interested in their scheme, and that he had arranged with the Dominican Senate for a day and hour to meet them in secret session and jointly consider the proposition. Three of the Dominican Senators, feeling that to pass such grants would be a violation of the treaty, and yet fear ing to oppose openly what they believed to be the de sires of Baez and Gautier, went to Consul Perry and informed him what was going on, at the same time, urging him to protest in the name of the United States Government. Mr. Perry met Mr. Gautier soon after, and asked if it it were true that such schemes were before the Dominican Senate, to which Gautier answered in the negative. This did not satisfy Mr. Perry, however, and he wrote a note direct to Presi dent Baez setting forth the information he had received, calling attention to the sixth article of the treaty, and respectfully asking for copies of the Cazeneau and Schu maker petitions for the use of the United States Govern ment. Instead of receiving an answer from Baez himself, he was honoured with a curt note from Gautier, 'by direction of his Excellency the President,' in which Gautier denies the right of Mr. Perry to demand such information, and suggests very plainly that he (Perry) had better mind his own business, and not presume to address a diplomotic note to the mighty Baez President of Dominica. Mr. P e rry sharply replied to this note of Gautier, taking the ground that his appointment as plenipotentiary to make the treaty of annexation gave him full power over the whole subject, and that he felt it to be his duty to guard jealously the interests of the United States, and considering the schemes in question hostile to those in terests and in violation of the treaty, he had respectfully asked for all information on the subject. Why it should be denied, or why any secrecy should be observed if the schemes were perfectly right and proper, were things that he could not cDmprehend. About the same time Mr. Perry had a spicy correspondence with Mr. Cazeneau on the same subject. He asked Cazeneau to give him copies of the petitions, but Cazeneau replied `No,' in pretty much the same style as had Gautier. Perry replied in a sharp and pointed letter, warning Cazeneau that he knew all about his schemes, and that he would most certainly expose them. He believed that improper use was being made of President Grant's name to carry out disreputable jobs, but he would see to it that the fair fame of the Pre sident would not be thus disgraced. Cazeneau sent another reply to this, suggesting to Perry that perhaps Grant's character did not require any protection at Perry's hands, and hinting that he (Perry) had (by his injudicious conduct) spoiled certain plans to which the United States Government was privy, and which were desired by the United States Government. That those plans should have been kept a profound secret,but werenow made pub lic and ruined. No further correspondence occurred. The protest of the consul,however, caused the Dominican Senate to reject the Cazeneau Schumaker schemes. Further, it appears that on the last trip made by the Tybee to St. Domingo she carried with her a large quantity of arms and ammunition,_ as well as 100,000 doll. in gold, from the agents of the Hartmont loan. Mr. Perry protested against its acceptance by the Bae Government, and in ponsequence it was returned to New York on the voyage back. It is alleged that Baez wanted Mr. Perry, at one time since the treaty was signed, to receive into his house 100,000 dole. offered by the Hartmont people ; but Mr. Perry refused. The object of Baez is supposed to have been to have a fund on hand in case of trouble with which he could flee to parts unknown. Now Fabens is said tobe in the interest of these Hartmont people, and Fabens, it is asserted, was sent here as agent of Baez at the special request of General Babcock. Does not one interest clash with the other? Fabens, it is said, caused the recent load of arms and money to be sent to Baez by the Hartmont people. Cazeneau, Gautier, Fabens, and Babcock are said to know something about a grand emi gration concession from Baez, which was nipped in the bud by Perry. Nov, if all these things be true, would it 'not be well for the President to halt a little before pro ceeding any further in this annexation business? It may be some will say, that these are mere stories trumpedup by enemies of annexation ; but I have seen and read the corremondence, and to that extent at least I am confi dent there is something in it." CHINESE LABOUR.— The Chinese of Koopman pchap and Co., are taken to Massachusetts as shoemakers, of course without the consent of the numerous Knights of St. Crispin, who control the Trades Unions of that State. The results of the introduction of this element there are likely to be very deplorable. Numbers of the same race are sent by the same firm on five years contracts to Texas and Lousiana as common labourers. The consequences of any contract system by which the Chinaman binds himself for a number of years cannot but be dangerous to the society in which such system of labour is permitted. The South Carolinians and Georgians, are also enamoured of Chinese labour and Koopmanschap's system of importing it. Against that system Congress has already proposed, and ought to take early action. — New York Tribune. THE NEW YORK TIMES ON GOLDWIN SMITH. Mr. Goldwin Smith probably never did a more foolish thing in his life than when he took home to himself the skesch in Mr. Disraeli's " Lothair " of an " Oxford Pro. fessor." Mr. Disraeli simply makes a fool's cap, and labels it " For an Oxiord. Professor." Mr. Goldwin Smith cries out, " It's mine," and puts it on his own head amid the laughter of the spectators. The Professor supplements his performance by writing a letter to Mr. Disraeli, call ing him a " coward." Well, it does not need much courage to write a letter of that sort. Mr. Disraeli has been fighting a battle of one man against All England for upwards of thirty years past, and even Mr. Goldwin Smith knows well enough that he is no coward. His letter will, we fear, be regarded only as another proof of the identity of the Oxford Professor—for Mr. Disraeli describes that per sonage as a man " unable to profit even by his limited experience of life, from a restless. vanity and oxerflowing conceit, which prevented him from ever observing or thinking of anything but himself." • PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN SHIPPING INTERESTS. The following is Senator Chandler's bill for the revival of American navigation interest : A bill to encourage the building of ships for foreign trade, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled :—That from and after the passage of this Act, when any imported materials are used in the construction or equipment of iron ships, built in the United States, for the purpose of being solely usel in foreign trade and com merce, there shall be allowed and paid to the parties t building such ships, under such regulations as the Secre- ' tary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money equal in amount to the duties which have been paid on such materials at the time of importation, and in case materials of domestic growth, manufacture or production, enter into the construction and equipment of such ships, there shall be allowed and paid to the parties building the same, under like regulations a sum of money equal in amount to what the duties on such materials would have been had such materials been imported from foreign coun tries. Provided, however, that any ships built under the provisions of this section shall be allowed to engage in the coasting trade of the United States upon the repay ment of the moneys which have been paid by the United States on the construction and equipment of such vessels only. Section 2. And be it further resolved, That all ship stores and coal to be used and consumed by any vessel on its voyage from any port of the United States to any foreign port, may, in such quantity and under such regu lations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, be taken in whole packages in bond, Ind disposed of for such purposes, free of impost and internal duty and tax. Section 3. And be ft further enacted, That for and during three years from the date of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorised and empowered to issue American registers to iron-built ships of all kinds purchased by citizens of the United States in foreign countries, and owned by them, with the conditiou contained in such register, however, that such ships shall not be used or employed in the coasting trade. THE BATTLE OF THE BRICKS. Not to be outdone by the Yankees in anything, England has treated herself to a civil war, to which she points us with a good deal of ccmplacency. It has taken the form of a siege. The Brickmakers' Union is the attacking force ; the besieged "a party by the name a Johnson." The siege of Troy and the long investment of Jerusalem pale their ineffectual horrors before the remarkable details of this modern beleaguerment. It is true, the bloody conflict is compacted within a small space, but it has gone on now for a twelvemonth, and is fully endued with all the pomp and panoply of glorious war. There are the two independent, belligerent powers; there is Mr. Johnson, fortified in his back dining room ; there are the brickmakers, like the fiery Huns, deploying under ",their sulphurus canopy ; there are perpetual pale sentinels of chamber maids and stable-boys upon the ramparts ; there are bombs ' • there are infernal machines ; and there certainly will be human gore. A heroic constable, such as he who erst descended like avenging Fate upon General O'Neil and bore him off by the breeches from amid the deadly host, would probably put a summary end to this carnage ; but England remains neutral as in our own civil war, and declines to form any alliance either with the serried ranks of the brickmakers or with Mr. Johnson. The history os this first year of the battle of the bricks is as follows :—Mr. Johnson is a builder and a Briton. Being, like all Britons, an epitome in minia ture of the pluck and doggedness of John Bull, he was resolved to build in his own way, and that the most direct way to furnish him with bread and butter. The Manchester Union issued an edict forbidding the shaping of stone in the quarries or the manufacture of brick by machinery. Mr. Johnson disregarded the ordinance, and went on quietly with his business in these two methods, as usual. Upon which he was denounced and placed under the ban. For more than a year he has lived in dread of assassination. He is compelled to steal from p l ac e to place like a convict, under cover of the night. " I have not dared," he says, " to go home in my own carriage for twelve months. No one, at present, knows where I sleep. My servants dare not remain in my house ; my friends are afraid to come near me. If I go to bed, it must be for dog-sleep, and always on the alert." His timber yards have been fired ; daily attempts are made to assassinate him; bottles filled with explosive materials, and packed in clay, are thrown into his premises ' • a train of powder, about a month ago, wag laid under his house, which, if it had not been accidentally discovered, would have blown him and his family to atoms. So extraordinary is the whole affair, and so closely allied to an actual siege, that the police refuse to interfere, unless "paid for work outside of their duty." Mr. John son, " before proceeding to hire armed men, under his own control," appeals to the Home Secretary for protection, but so far without effect. The press, denounce violently the inaction of the Government, an d compare the recent outrages of the Trades Unions in Sheffield and Manchester with the brigandage in Greece; but brickmakers and police continue calmly on the ir course, without interfering with each other. Truly,” says Mr. Johnson, " my case is a hard one." which is e t least a mild way of putting it. Joking apart, the affair is a most remarkable one, and affords us a curious glimpse into the action and reaction of the English Governmen t and people against each other. That any body of men should be permitted for a year to thus make open war upon an individual for legally pursuing a legal business seems incredible to Americans. Symptoms of weakness such as this will soon lead u s to doubt whether John Bull is not stronger everywhere els e than at home. When he makes war against the Russians the Indians. or Chinese, he moves as a unit ; the son of 1 1 peer commands the regiment, and builders and brick makers fill up the ranks ; the glory of Old En g' land incites the whole body. But it ie curious question whether Old England at home is not in the condition of that body of which IEsoP tells us when legs, arms, and stomach fell into dissension , and conspired against the head. '• Why should it rul e over us ?' said they. " Whatever brains it had once are, worn out now." We would be loth to suspect a para lle l case on the other side of the water. But the Brills 0 1 contempt with which royalty is put to the test now and then, as in the Mordaunt case, are ominous ; and so No.! the haste with which the House of Lords lately got out of the scales into which they had placed themselves to be weighed. But the astounding respectwhic h the Govern' ment pays to the belligerent brickmakers is a more sig nificant sign than all, and one which he who runs may read. —Now York Tribune. [ADVERTISEMENT. Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, add liver complaints in every stage aro ooli t aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, perfe •tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalents Ara,bica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had beef considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsial, wog,, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrho3a, all derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, o ,.. er g vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, oata rr '„i' colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, g ° ' - ' impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep les ! ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, crsuit!! spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sia% ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti, , htness of the chest, pains at wib pit of the stomach, and beitween the shoulders, &c. We few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cur° Nil 68,413—"R0me, July 21 1866. The health of the Holy Fathq • excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, ho confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic& F o ,l;d of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pr odw fa, a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health,' and his .Holillts cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " G'"ebeit du Midi," July 2.5. Cure No. 46,:10.—Mr. James Roberts, tiro „ merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased ht; spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Gi n N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterfofi; of many years dyspepsia. —No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indesc i ,;„ able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, ( c a w r io, stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and yomiting.- 3 ' Jolly " ' lmportant Caution.—Beware of the many unsa`N ti l and more than sloppy imitations to which, without au thors Baron Liebig sname is most audaciously attached. 22° ' In tins, at is led; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 48 6d; 5 1 b Ils.; 12th 24 lbs 4 S.—A ISO DU BARRY'S REVALEN TA RABICA (iIIOCO' POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2 s, fo r 24 o, 5001 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 578 cups ai,ol —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins sre, free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Orao!d BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London '- all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at Lucknani, the wife of B. taint 11.4' Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst., the Viscountess Adare, of a daughter: MARRIAGES. On the 15th inst., at St. Michael's, Chester-square, Cots Hugh Mackenzie, 15th Foot, to Julia Vero, daughttirer the late Donald Cameron, of Lochie], and L ad y Cameron. On the 15th inst., at St. Peter's, Belsize-park, E. G. L ine / Johnson, of Henley, Surrey, to Ada Fl or e nce, the sec°lld daughter of Augustus Mordan, of 17, Finchley New-NA and The Stone House, Reigate. DEATHS On the 15th inst., at Clifton Lodge, Dalston, Jane Sitarnoo/ aged 93. of On the 14th inst., at Battersea , Robert Blun t, Esq., ha' Chelsea, aged 79. —.......! London: Printed and Published by 'WILLIAM ANDREI of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEE SUN Office, No. f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County ° Middlesex.—Saturday, June 18, 1870.