The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-30 00:00:00

OUR COTEMPORARIES.—This Morning. THE ABDICATION OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. The Times considers that beyond the fact that another Nominal Queen is joined to the band, already sufficiently numerous, of dispossessed Sovereigns, the abdication of Isabella in favour of the Prince of the Asturias possesses no importance. The Emperor of the French may consent to amuse the gossips who sur round Isabella's Court in the Champs Elysees with sug gestions of assistance, but nothing but the free will of the Spanish people can bring back the house of Bourbon to the Spanish Throne, and there is no systsm as yet of any movement towards such an end. Queen Isabella may for a time keep here son's claims foremost, just as the poor Princess who died the other day asserted the pretensions of her son,• the Duc de Bordeaux, but the progress of nations is unfriendly to the claims of exiled Monarchs, and their lives and deeds exact daily less and less interest, until they are lost in entire obscurity. THE LAND BILL IN THE HOUSE OP LORDS. The Standard says that the questions which have arisen during the debate have been, perhaps, not of minor im portanee than those debated during the consideration of the first, three clauses of the biil, but they have been questioa to the discussion of which both sides could come in a more conciliatory spirit, and most of them quer tions of degree and manner, in which union might be without difficulty attained, or defeat sustained with good humour. If the measure should work beneficially, and realise any portion of the sanguine anticipations in which the Ministers and their supporters indulge, it will be due in a large part to the judicious altera tions on Monday and Tuesday evenings, most of them against the obligato protests of Lord Granville and his colleagues, but against their convictions. For, strange to say, there was hardly one of these amendments which they opposed but submitted to, the justice of which they did not, whilst opposing, admit, their purpose seemingly being to resist these amendments, with the view of setting off their subsequent acceptance of them in the House of Commons against their insistance in that assem bly, upon the original provisions of the bill, or to speak more correctly, upon the provisions of the bill when it left the House of Commons. There is some ingenuity about these tactics, and that is all that can be said for them, but they will not succeed. The Peers will not be blinded by such a petty attempt to throw dust in their eyes. They will, of course, weigh very carefully what they determine upon. and yield, if at all, where concession is necessary or expedient, butt they will certainly adhere to the principal amendments they have made. THE LAITY AND THE CHURCH. The Telegraph does not perceive that Lord Sandon's scheme of , parochial councils is necessarily a one-sided - aleasure. Jaw powers which he desires to grant might be used for or against either of the two chief ecclesi astical parties. There are many places in which the Ri tualists would be glad to accept the authority of elected sidesmen, because they believe themselves strong enough to secure the election of men belonging to their own party. Throughout the debate of Tuesday the admission came freely from both sides of the House, that something should be done to repress the miserable dissensions which even minute changes of- ceremony and decoration provoke in a parish. The causes for which parson and people are occasionally set together by the ears are incon ceivably trivial. Some Sunday morning, without previous announcemen_t, he appears in the pulpit in a white surplice. Half of the congregation there upon rise from their seats in a rage, and quit the church with noisy show of anger. The cause of quarrel is pitiful in the last degree. The robe that was good enough for the prayers may be accounted good enough for the sermon ; while it is not the colour of the garment that can much matter, one way or the other. Yet many honest people work themselves into the belief that in fighting for the black gown or the white surplice they are hearing witness to some sublime truth. The Daily News thinks the weak point of Lord San don's bill is that it makes no provision for the, case of the minority of a parish. At present, in towns sufficiently large, a Churchman persecuted in one parish may flee to another. But there are towns where there are laymen enough to form a good congregation, whose preferences are not shared by a majority of any one of the parishes into which it is divided. It is idle to suppose that they will not take some measures for supplying what they want ; but this bill does nothing for them. It is not certain that the rule of a majority in a parish, perhaps a narrow majority, which there may be a hope of.supplant ing at an early date, will be more tolerable than that of an individual who has an interest in conciliating all parties. Of course, a state of divided opinion cannot be allowed to arrest all collective action; and practical decisions must be taken. But the News ventures to think it would be well for Lord Sandon and those who agree with him, to consider how far it is wise in these days of divergent opinion to group Churchmen of the most oppo site viows together according to a mere territorial circum scription ; or if the parochial system be deemed too valu able for administrative purposes to be abandoned, how far the rights of minorities might be secured without greater danger to unity than exists at present, by recogmsing a modified congregationalism in the Church of England. THE GRIEVANCES OF INDIAN OFFICERS. The grievances of Indian officers, says the Times, have once more been the subject of a warm debate and an eager Division. The personal difficulties incident to an organic change in a great system of administration have never been more signally illustrated than in this inveterate quesbion. Twelve years have passed since the old Indian. Army was transferred to the Crown, subject to a provi sion that "individuals should have transferred to them all the rights, privileges, and expectations which they were led to form at the time of their admission to the service." Eight years later, afterreports from two Commis sions, Lord Cranborne, now Lord Salisbury, proposed an arrangement by which it was believed at the time this guarantee would be effectually fulfilled, and that, as far as the House was concerned, this thorny and disagree able subject " was closed. Yet after the lapse of another four years Colonel Sykes is still with undiminished ardour demanding redress for his clients, and another address to the Crown is carried against another Government, in which it is roundly . asserted that " her Majesty's orders have not been carried out in the sense of the address " of 1865. Such a state of things is neither creditabfe nor advantageous to the country. It is impossible to satisfy every one in effecting such an extensive change as that of 1858 ;" but we owe it to ourselves and to a numcer of gallant public servants to remove all sub stantial ground of dissatisfaction, and after every allow ance has been made for misconceptions, the fact of such An address as that of Tuesday night having been carried is sufficient indication that some substantial grievance still remains. If the actual position of the officers be considered, it will be seen they have more than a " slen der case," and it concerns the credit of the Government and the nation to fulfil the promise made to them, that their "rights, privileges, and expectations" should be re served. NEWARK ACCIDENT. The Telegraph observes that the verdict of the coroner's jury in regard to the terrible Newark railway accident stamps the disaster as the direct result of, existing arrangements. So far, it shews that we erred in allowing an exceptionally just use of the word " accident ' as applied to the event • but we do not regret the fact, that the warning to be gleaned from experience should have been enforced by a public authority, rather than by any stern construction on our part. The jury has found that the breaking of the axle which caused all the mischief was " accidental ;" but to that verdict they append certain codicils which must engage the careful notice of all railivay companies. The luggage train, they say, was driven at too great a speed ; the axle had been too long in use • and it was in a state unfit for use. They recommend that there should be a maximum period fixed for the running of axle-iron and wheels, and that some means should be devised for applying to both a periodical test. They beg that their recommendations may be forwarded to the Board of Trade ; but we should hope that, for their own sakes, those lines which have old rolling stock will not wait for the Government to order a thorough inspection of axles. The evidence has proved that the efficient cause of a collision may exist under conditions which should render detection easy,. yet without being detected; and the public has also learned that many carriages and trucks are running with axles of an old pattern, thinner by half an inch than the kind now manufactured. After such information, the loss of more lives by the snapping of an old-fashioned axle must entail serious consequences to railway managers who cannot prove that the duty of careful examination has been fully per formed. THE SUNDAY LIQUOR BILL. The Post says that Mr. Ryland's Sunday Liquor Bill was talked out before the arguments on either side had been exhausted. An entertaining, if not otherwise use ful, series of moral exercitations has thus been lost; but they would doubtless have been of a kind which is only too well known, and we need not greatly regret being de prived of them. We may say at once that we do not believe it to be contrary to the dictates of religion either to purchase or to drink liquor on a •Sunday. It is not considered to be so in any Christian country of lurope, and the attempt to maintain that it is so is abso lutely confined to one narrow and gloomy section of English Protestants, who strangely mistake the declared character with which Christianity invested the Sabbath. This is a question which peculiarly affects the poorer classes, for the rich could easily evade or avoid the pressure of a Sunday Closing Act. Accord ingly our old friends the working men have been broght upon the scene to support once more a narrow and shortsighted policy. We do not believe, however, that the poorer classes wish to be deprived of the opportunity of purchasing liquor on Sundays. They would, on the contrary, regard a law to that effect as a gratuitous and selfish piece of oppression. There is little enough that they can do as it is on the Sunday. Mr. Ryland's bill, in short, is founded upon no case, would work no good, and has no friends but those who desire to impose on their countrymen by law the views which they cannot advance by argument. Sir Shafto Adair has fifty labourers daily at work in preparation.for the opening of the People's Park, his principal gift to the Ballymena commmunity. Bell's Life says, " we are given to understand that a full declaration of the views of Admiral Rolls on the turf of the present day will appear on Thursday in the forth coming number of Daily's Magazine. In •Conseguence.of the late proceedings in Calcutta in connectic , with the 'conversion of a Hindoo widow, an influential native at .Lucknow has forbidden the Zenana teachers to enter his house any more. - The Rev. Abbe Guin , at Trinidad, had been led . by night to an uninhabited place on an excuse to visit a sick person, and4there niuniered, out of revenge. The body was found frightfully mutilated. The murderer is unknown. . THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1870. LAW AND POLICE. THE BABY-FARMING -CASE. ENGLISH AND IRISH COURTS.—A suit was instituted in Vice Chancellor Malins' Court for the purpose of setting aside two deeds compromising the plaintiffs right under a settlement respecting certain large estates in the county of Mayo. The principal defendant filed a plea stating that the plaintiff was resident in France and the defendants in Ireland, that the estate to which the settlement related was in Ireland, and that this court had therefore no jurisdiction. The Vice Chancellor said there were properly established courts in Ireland for the determination of questions relating to land in that country, and there was no reason why such a suit should be brought in these courts. He therefoae allowed the plea of the defendants denying the jurisdiction of his court in the matter. DISTURBANCES IN COURT.—Several persons, both men and women, have been summoned at Bow-street for interfering with the officers of the Court in the discharge of their duty. They were fined or com mitted, the magistrate observing that this kind of offence was very much on the increase, and he intended to deal with it severely. The court and its approaches are very insufficient for the amount of business which is daily carried on there. A new court is much wanted, which, in addition to other advantages, should have a good yard for the prisoners' van, where the prisoners could be taken into the court without risk of obstruction by their associates. RAILWAY FARES.—Thomas Vernon and Augustus Potter, both described as gentlemen, of Lewisham, have been summoned at Southwark, by the North Kent Railway. Mr. Vernon was charged with attempting to pass the barrier at London Bridge, without having first paid his fare, and Mr. Potter with obstructing and assaulting the officers in the execution of their duty. The particulars of the affray having been given by the ticket-keeper, Mr. Potter said he had taken a return ticket at Lewisham, and he supposed the return half got clipped by mistake. Mr. Vernon said he saw his friend in trouble, and went to help him. The officer said it was well known that no clipped or cancelled ticket was ever allowed. Vernon was fined £5, and Potter £3, with the alternative of imprisonment. - - On Wednesday information was forwarded to Mr. Carter, he Surrey coroner, of the discovery of the body of a dead child under the arches of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, at Camberwell. It appears that on Tues day afternoon, while some men were removing a heap of rubbitth from under one 'of the railway arches near the ballast-holepond, a large piece of .water situated close to the Brunswick-road, Camberwell, they found, wrapped up in a bundle of rags, the dead body of a child, in a dread fully decomposedcondition. The police were instantly sent for, and they removed the body to No. 4. Frederick's terrace, Brixton, the residence of the baby-farmers, Waters and Ellis. Several Of the witnesses in the baby-farming case were then sent for, to see if they could identify the child by means of its clothing as having been one of the infants that had formerly inhabited the house, which is situated within a quarter of a mile of the scene of the discovery of the nfant's body. It may be stated that the ballast hole pond is a piece of water of about two acres in extent, and twelve feet,in depth, and it is believed in the neigh bourhood that a number of children's bodies have been thrown into it. THE MONARCH INSURANCE COMPANY. OnWednesday, at the Mansion House, the preliminary in vestigation in the case of the directors of the Monarch Insu ance Company was brought to a close. It will be remem bered that the directors, and Mr. W. Hodges, the younger, are charged with conspiring to cheat and defraud the public, and also with publishing a false balance sheet, with in tent to defraud. The defendants who surrendered were the Hon. A. G. Jocelyn, Mr. G. E. Bulwer, and Major W. Carnegie. Mr. Joseph Taylor, who appeared at the former. examinations, and who was admitted to bail, himself in £2,000, and one surety in £2,ooo—did not now surrender, and Mr. Lewis, the solicitor for the prosecution, asked that his re co,gnizances be estreated, remarking that he was credibly informed that he did not intend to appear, and that he was probably on the Continent with Messrs. -Wright, Harward and Hodges, the three defendants who had not surrendered at all. The application was granted, and the necessary steps ordered to be taken. The evidence of the various witnesses was then read by Mr. Oke, the chief clerk. On one of them Mr. Hales Swetnan, a brother-in-law of Mr. Taylor's, being called, he did not appear. The charges against the defendants were then read, and in reply, Major Carnegie explained with reference to the balance sheet that he was asked to sign it by Mr. Taylor, the managing director, on the day previous to that fixed for holding the general meeting, and he did so, but having thought over the matter during the night he went to the ' office and desired that a note of explanation should be added with regard to the 30,000 but he was informed that the balance-sheet was not to be printed, and he was perfectly horror-stricken when he found that some copies had been circulated. He added that he had never been a director of any other company. Major Jocelyn said he looked forward to the result of the trial with the utmost confidence, because he felt that he was perfectly innocent of the crimes laid to his charge. The prosecutor, Mr. Dumas, then entered into his re cognisances in the amount of £5OO to proceed with the .case at the Central Criminal Court, ''and the proceedings then terminated, the defendants being, as before, liberated on bail. STEALING PHEASANTS.—TWO men, described as labour ers, have been charged at Huntingdon with steal ing fifty -four live pheasants from the aviary of Colonel Duncombe, M.P., Waresley Park. Colonel Duncombe is the chairman of sessions, but did not preside. The pheasants had been stolen and taken off in a cart, being afterwards sent lo London. Several of them died on the road through close packing. Evidence having been given which identified the prisoners with the crime, they were sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY AT HUDDERSFIELD. —At the Court-house, Huddersfield, William Kitson, about 60 years of age, cloth finisher, Berry Brow, was charged with having in his possession an illicit still. Mr. Bright, supervisor, stated that they had received infor mation of Kitson carrying on an apparatus for the Manufacture of illicit whisky, and his house was watched, but appearances did not warrant its being searched. On Saturday, ho*ever, a police-constable (Charles Wilson) saw the prisoner leave his house, and accosted him. The prisoner, who exclaimed, "It is all up with me," had in a basket two bladders containing whisky. On his house being searched by Inspector White, there were found a still, still head and worm; two casks of wort in a state of fermentation, &c., all of which were seized. The wort was of a very fine description ; and the still was capable of distilling about five gallons, representing about £3 every time it was charged. The prisoner had been twice previously convicted of the same offence, and was fined in the full penalty of £3O. THE SALE OF BANKRUPT'S STOCKS BY TENDER.—A case of great importance to the drapery trade, containing a point affecting tenders generally, was argued in the Court of Common Pleas. A London firm issued circulars to the wholesale trade, stating that they were instructed to offer for sale a stock-in-trade, valued at £2,503 13s. ld, to be sold at a discount in one lot and paid for is cash. Tenders sealed and en lorsed were to be sent to defen dants. Plaintiff's tender was the highest ; but defendants refused to accept it, and the present proceedings were thereupon commenced. Plaintiff contended that the issuing of that circular was an implied contract to accept the highest tender ; but the Court held that no such construc tion could be placed upon the circular, in the absence of an express stipulation. The highest tender might only amount to half the ascertained value of the goods, and to accept such a tender would be selling at a sacrifice instead-of a discount. The circular was merely an invita tion to tender without any undertaking, and the judgment of the court must be for the defendants. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The drought in France has become very serious—in fact almost unparalleled. Three months of uninterrupted fine weather have hardened the soil and scorched up the roots of the forage crops. The harvest of these crops has been of the scantiest, sort in the most fortunate places, and has amounted to nothing in those districts which suffered the most severely. Already it is predicted that the' oats will fail as well as the hay and thus the horses will lose another source of supply. The grain will be more scarce and dear than 'ever, and the chances are no better with respect to the root crops. Such a want of provisions has led to a reduction in the number of cattle, while a general cry of distress is heard through the districts, which are the most affected. Beasts have been sold for next to nothing. Proprietors and farmers not knowing how to feed them have got rid of them as best they might; in some cases abandoning them to their fate. Such a reduction in the price of cattle would lead, one would suppose, to a diminution in the price of meat, but on the contrary, the butchers are resolved to turn the general loss to account and derive from thence an individual profit. During the last month ; while the prices of cattle have been rapidly decreasing in value, the cost of meat has increased, although it was previously raised to an exorbitant sum. , The public natu-, rally feel indignant and make protests against the extor tion but to little purpose, since all end in paying the ex travagant sum which is claimed. • A correspondent of the Eastern Budget has the follow ing : `` The prospects c f the corn harvest in all parts of Austria and Hungary are still excellent, but the news from the vineyards are not so good. It is expected that the vintage will be only a middling one as regards quan. titY ; what will be its quality cannot be determined until the autumn. Whether the favourable harvest will cause a large exportation of corn must depend solely on the state of the French market, now that the English crops have been so much improved by the recent Change in the weather. Hungary will have a large quan tity of wheat and maize to dispose of, but she will not be in a position to sell at low, or even moderate prices, for wages in Hungary, especially in favourable years, are much too high, and the charge for the conveyance of corn by rail is very heavy. Oats, which would probably fetch high prices in England with the present scarcity of green food, are comparatively little cultivated in Hungary, but large quantities will doubtless be exported from Bohemia and Moravia." The Belfast News Letter gives a very cheering account of the state of the crops in the North of Ireland, and states that, simultaneously with the promise of an abundant harvest, there has been a decided improvement in trade during the last three weeks. The Cornish potato crop is turning out remarkably well this .year. ESTABLISHING A PRECEDENT.—The case of Ingram v. Lowrie, which came before the Court of Common Pleas, raised the important question of the status of Colonial Courts. The Supreme Court of Jamaica, had given judgment in two actions between the parties, and the defendant applied to have these judgments set aside on the ground that they were obtained by fraud. To this the plaintiff demurred that such a plea was not a competent one ; and Mr. M`Nair submitted that there was no case in which such a plea had been allowed. The Colonial Court was one of her Majesty's Courts, having concur. rent powers with this Court, and, therefore, he contended, this court had no right to interfere with its judgments, which could only be set aside by appeal to the Privy Council. The Court, however, decided that the matter should be tried before a jury, as prayed for by the defen dant, in older that they might have the facts of fraud properly before them before delivering judgment. If an injustice were done by fraud, it was clearly the duty as well as the right of an English superior court t o interfere upon the facts being legally proven. The defendant would have leave to amend his plea by declaring that the alleged fraud was practised upon the court as well as upon Limseif. The principal item of fraud WAS said to be the falsification of memoranda. THE CARDIFF ABDUCTION CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, the case of " Lyons v. Thomas " was again heard. The plaintiff, Mr. Lyons brought an action at Cardiff Assizes against the Rev. &.[r. Thomas, a Baptist minister, and others, for having taken away his daughter, he thus losing her services, and converting her from the Jewish to the Christian faith. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with fifty pounds damages against some of the defendants, but not against others, the rule having been obtained to enter a nonsuit or a new trial on the ground of insufficiency of evidence of enticement or loss of service. Mr. Giffard now shewed cause. He should assume that there was a relation of master and servant between Esther Lyons and her father prior to the taking away of the former ; and he should con tend that there was an actionable wrong in enticing the girl away. The learned counsel argued from the circum stances that the Thomases induced the girl to go away, and kept her from her ' father `s home. Mr. Grove, Q.C., and. Mr. Turner, in supporting the rule, submitted that there was not any evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas having induced the girl to leave her home. She left her home of her own free will, and that being so, no action would lie against the defendants. Though denying that there was a slight inducement used, still he contended, if it was used, it was not an actionable offence.—The court made the rule absolute for a nonsuit on the ground that there was no evidence to submit to the jury ; but at the same time they commented strongly upon the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, from which the jury might reasonably, though not legally, have in ferred the guilt of defendants. STREET PREACHING. — A case which excited great inte rest has been tried at the Farringdon Petty Sessions, Oxford. Samuel Insull, agent to the United. Kingdom Alliance, a yeoman named Belcher, and two Nonconfor mist Ministers, were summoned for causing an Obstruction in the Market-place,' Farringdon. Mr. Insull was lecturing in behalf of the United Kingdom Alliance to some 500 persons. A police constable said that it was almost impossible to pass, and the crowd seemed irritated, buckets of beer being handed amongst them. He afterwards saw the 'defendant Belcher followed by a crowd of 100 persons, and he asked witness to protect him. The witness was cross-examined with the view to prove that the noise and obstruction complained of were caused chiefly by the beer being given away. A brewer who was driving past was called to prove the obstruction, and a shopkeeper and surgeon gave similar evidence. The counsel for the defendants contended that they were on private property and therefore should not have been summoned. He called the lessee of the tolls of the manor who proved letting the ground for the meeting. It was often let to cheap Jacks, showmen, and others. Witnesses were called to prove that before the beer was distributed there was no obstruction, but vehicles were trotting past. When the beer was brought out the crowd rushed tcwards it, and this caused the confusion. The bench was of opinion that the case should have been made one of indictment, and dismissed the complaint making no order for costs. COMIC PAPERS. (Front Punch.) MORE FEVER THAN FODDER.—A physician, advertises a book on " Hay Fever." This work has run to a sixth edition. Hence it would seem that Hay Fever is a pre valent complaint. But has not that disease been named in a niistaken idea of its cause ? The fever may be raging now; but where is the hay ? WORKING MEN AND TALKING MEN.—The collective wisdom in the House of Commons is kntwn by its much speaking, which commonly keeps our loquacious legis lators up till past three o'clock in the morning. What, it is asked, is the work of the hardest worked working man when compared to that of a member of Parliament ? Little enough in point of duration ; but work is one thing and talk is another. MANNING THE SHIP. —ln the debate on the Gun Licence Bill, when " Mr. Henley inquired who was to pay for arjns, such as muskets, &c., carried in a vessel — the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he had , often heard of a man being termed a chosen vessel, but never of a vessel being termed a man. However, the Government would look seriously into t he q uestion. " Suppose, on looking seriously into the question the Government should discover a man-of-war?" What would Brightßob say then ? (Front Fun.) ROUGE ET NOlR.—Captain Waddylove has fired off a round or two of blank to propitiate "'Little Pitcher." —Little P. Oh, let it off again—do !" Captain : 7 --" I have no more powder." Little P. :—" But Cousin Emma, won't that red pOwder in the box on your dressing-table do ?" SUCH A GETTING-UP STAIRS.—WeII may you open your eye ! But don't stair—it's rude :—The Earl of Stair will succeed to the lord-lieutenancy of Aryshire, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Ailsa. The Earl of Stair has clearly got a step. But we don't see what it leads to. A stair thas's raised in Ayr must come to nothing—unless it has a landing-place in Skye. THE LAW OF HARMONY.—We are informed by a con temporary Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has accepted - the dedication of the " Wandering Jew," the poem by Mr. Charles L. Kennedy, of the Inner Temple, the music composed by Mr. James L. Molloy, also of the Middle Teniple." .And yet people say that the law does not con-. duce tb harthOny ! ,M r. Kennedy is clearly skilled to address the " Wandering Jew "-ry, while Mr. Molloy as a bar-rest•er, supplies the do, capias—or whatever it is— and runs up the scale from John Do to fi-fa. The Chief Justice takes notes. FRAUDULENT CONVERSION OF RUSSIAN BONDS.-At the Marlborough-street Police-court, Mrs. Ellen Jemima Downs was chargedwith having fraudulently converted to her use eighteen Russian bonds, of the value of £9OO, and of which she was bailee. Mrs. Mary M.'Keon, wife of a bcotmaker, deposed that in 1867 she was in posses sion of eighteen Russian bonds of £5O each, left under her mother's will, and which she kept in an iron box. During an illness last year she went to stay with the prisoner, whom she had known for thirty six years. Witness then went into the country, and on returning the prisoner told her she had taken the coupons off the bonds. She had no authority to do so. Witne.ss went with her to Rothschild's, and she said she had got the interest of the bonds, but witness could not tell whe ther that was the case. On going to the defendant's house witness saw the box containing the bonds, but she fell asleep, and on awaking inquired about the box, and the defendant told her she had put it on t he rafters f the house. Afterwards, when she demanded the bonds, she was told that they were in the custody of a clergyman. That was in August last ; and since then she had been unable to get at them. In cross-examination the prosecu trix, who frequently lost her temper, said she had never heard of another will of her mother leaving property to the prisoner. She never signed any agreement f6r the prisoner to sell the bonds. Her husband knew nothing of them. Mrs. Margaret Morris deposed that the prisoner had said to her (witness) that she was in trouble for having interfered with the papers of the prosecutrix ; that she pledged the bonds at Mellish's, in Duke- street, for £ 6 or £7 ; and that one of them, worth £5O, was lost. The prisoner also said, " You come up to dinner, , and we will enjoy ourselves. I will then kick up a row with her (the prosecutrix), and I will throw the papers at her and say, `Now go out of my place, you and y our papers,' and you take her to where she came from. I will afterwards come to you with Mr. Lee, a lawyer's clerk, and I will say, `Here's your bonds. Just shew me the bonds and papers, and then I will miss one, and, as they will have been once out of my possession, all will be right ;" and on her suggeSting to the prisoner that she might get into trouble, the prisoner said she would get her out of any she might get in. The prisoner was eventually remanded, bail being accepted. Letters from Munich announce that Baron von Liebig, the celebrated chemist, is now completelyrestored to health. - - The funeral of the late Earl of Clarendon will take place on Saturdaynext, at Watford, in the neighbourhood of which town isthe family seat, the Grove. Daniel O'Connor, formerly an elastic web manu facturer at Derby, was tried at the Derby borough ses sions on Tuesday, on a charge of fraudulently and unlaw fully-leaving England and taking with him £2,800 which ought to have been divided among his creditors. He was found guilty, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. Amongst the last batch of Parliamentary papers are the bill as amended in committee for regulating postage ; trade and navigation returns ; copies of Orders in Council relating to the. War Department; a return respecting in-ovisional orderS and certificates ; a return respecting the fellowship otTrinity College,'Dnblin; and a report touching the abandonment of the South Wales and Great Western District-Railway. According to the New York Herald of the 18th the latest news from Fort Garry is that Riel can muster 300 fighting men, which could be swelled to three times that number provided there is no fighting,. but, plenty of plunder. The prevalent opinion in the settlement is that Riel will not make any determined opposition to the British and Canadian forces. THENEVir ARCHBISHOP OF AGRAM.—In the recent consistory which was held by the Pope, Mgr. Michalowitz was to have been made Archbishop of Agram. The Vienna journals had said that Mgr: Stross mayer would be the new Archbishop, as a reward for the energy he displayed in the midst of the Council. There. were, however, objections to this scheme. , on the part of the Hungarian Cabinet, because of the opposition .dis played by Strossrnayer to the annexation of Croatia to Hungary. Mgr. Michalowitz, on the contrary, has always shewn' great sympathy for Hungary although he belongs to the Croatian race. .CRITICISMS. ON DICKENS. Would that there were a Dickens left to treat as they deserve the foolish and arrogant teachers who stand in high places to slander Dickens dead, and exalt their own vanity by assaults on his fame ! Only such delicate scorn such biting humour, mingled with ever-present cisarity, as was his, could fitly chastise such outrages upon human nature as have been thought appropriate to the death of the great writer for whose loss millions of. hearts are aching,' Such violations of the essential spirit of Christianity might indeed be more seriously to be re gretted were they conceived in apparent candour and ad dressed in reasonable arguments. But when their authors barb their shaft against a great man struck with unconsciousness leading directly to death, with the absurd taunt that "no word of hope or trust was uttered in his " last moments ;" when they assign to " the world of fashion" a man as far from that sphere as the most earnest missionary on the globe ; when they convert, the quiet family meal in a country house into a " fashionable dinner-table " in a " gilded chamber ;" when they attri bute the height of worldly and frivolous happiness to, a life chastened by almost every affliction that Providence can send ; they create a disgust which only reacts against themselves and the cause which they seek to advance. It is for this reason only that we refer to a matter in which the press usually leaves the pulpit to speak its sentiments without contradiction. We wish to defend the pulpit against itself, and to point out that such words of folly as, have been spoken in a church here and there - are by no means to be taken as repre sentative of the feelings of the Christian com munity or its leaders. No portrait of Stiggins or Chadband or .Murdstone, were they drawn in infinitely darker colours than they are, would do half as ranch harm to the ' interests of Christianity as ode such sermon, were the impresAion to become gene:. el that it . faixly represents the body of believers for whom it assumes to speak.. There will always be such exceptional instances to be deplored, as when Abraham Lincoln fell there were some who find in that life and that death no better lesson than a sermon on a judgment against theatre-goin... But in our age of the world we believe they may fan be treated as exceptional, and as growing rarer am rarer every day. And with this protest in behalf of t sat •;entle religion whose first principle is charity, we car_ .sfiord to let alone the silly slanders against the teacher of .A.arity, the - enemy of hypocrisy, the friend of the fallen, who has just gone to his reward. They may safely be left to find their antidote in the simple words of faith and trust and consciousnese of duty done which we have printed from the pen of Charles Dickens, and in the tributes to his great service from the leading clergymen of the land, who, however great their congregations, however • lofty their pulpits, swayed all together a power for good less mighty than his. In an swer to those who accuse him of associating religion with the lack of all the genial affections, with repulsive and forbidding sternness, with avarice and meanness, we call to mind the words of the dead and defenceless author describing the good old clergyman in " The Shipwreck." " So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation as true practical Christianity ever is ! I read more of the New Testament in the fresh frank face going up the village beside me, in 'five minutes, than I have read in anathe matising discourses in all my life. I heard more of the Sacred Book in the cordial voice that had nothing to say about its owner than in all the would-be celestial pairs of bellows that have ever blown conceit at me." flow unfair ' and ungenerous to charge the author with attacking reli gion, when the blow is aimed at the wolf within its fold ! --13gston, Advertiier. THE SENATE 4 ' RELIEVES " A RAILROAD COMPANY. The passage by the Senate of the bill for the relief of the central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany again takes out of that body one of the questions about.which there has been a long and bitter controversy. One relief bill was passed two years ago, but failed in the-House. The present bill will go into that branch with the support of its own railroad committee, and seems likely enough to succeed. This road got certain rights under the sots of July, 1862, and July, 1864, of which it claims that it has been deprived by the rulings of the Interior Department under the act of June, 1866, against the passage Of which it formally protested. It has built its line from Atchison to a point 100 miles north west out in Kansas, and now asks such legislation as will enable it to form a connection with the line of the Union PaCific just west of Fort Kearney. It asserts that it is entitled to a subsidy of Government bona, but now pro poses to compromise on a gift of 20 sections of land per mile fOr its completion. The peculiar feature in connection with the grant is that it will largely give the road the even-numbered instead of the odd sections. This result is due to the fact that the odd-numbered ones have,been given to the so-called. St. Joe and Denver-road which lies to the northward at a varying distance of from 12 to'3o miles from the proposed line of the Central Branch. The bill was opposed on four grounds, =viz: By those who object to any further railroad grants at 'present ; ; by 'Mr. - Ross, who wants the Central Branch to make other connections than those it proposes to make ; by Mr. Thayer, who wanted the lands it would get in Nebraska for companies in which he and his people are directly interested ; and by Mr. Sherman and others, who objected that all the land in a strip 50 miles 200 miles long, except such as is now in the hands of settlerS ' would pass into the control of railroad corpora tions. Mr. Howard produced a paper .shewing that . the Central Branch and St. Joe roads had come to such an agreement as would prevent any clashing there, and Mr." Tipton secured a little amendment, which, he said,-would prevent any trouble With the Nebraska roads. The bill was carried through, on the ground that the Central, Branch is entitled to some relief. If it passes the House, the road, when finished, will furnish a feeder to the Union Pacific from St. Louis and Southern Illinois, liadiana and Ohio. POSTAL REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES. While the bill to abolish the franking privilege was pending, Mr. Sumner took an advantage of the opportu nity to give the reasons for a reduction of letter postage to one cent for all distances, in connection with which all franking should be dispensedwith, and all business through the post office be done by stamps. The argument is un answerable ; and when the public mind does come to the serious consideration of cheap postage, as England came to it twenty-five-years ago ; Mr. Sumner's speech, though made to an indifferent Senate and to a country not yet specialty interested in the subject, will he referred to as one of the most striking and effective in the course of this debate. Fortunately the efficacy of cheap postage has been vindicated by the most striking of examples. The experiment has been tried, and, in the face of predictions of failure the most sweeping and the most despondent, it has proved successful, both as a measure of economy and of general public beneficence. Nobody would now return to the old rates if it were pos sible, and no rising man with prospects of advancement would dare to suggest it. If any descendant of the scep tics who at the outset submitted unwillingly to the change were now to propose a return to the old rates with any hope of carrying it, it would create a revolution in Great Britain strong enough to sweep every advocate of the change from power forever. But cheap postage was a plant of slow growth in Great Britain, and it will be of slower growth among us. It took three years after Rowland Hill got his commission of inquiry to make the change there. It would take a longer time here. The field is larger ; and the interests to be consulted much more diverse and complicated. The present rates are not felt to be peculiarly oppressive, and the need of a sweeping reduction has not taken a very strong hold upon public opinion. Are we to wait for public opinion to be aroused and public men to be convinced upon the wisdom of this whole scheme of reform before correct- ino• the confessed abuses which have fastened themselves upon our postal system ? The frank ing privilege as it is now used is a burden for which the country gets no adequate return. It is a costly luxury which through one channel or another helps to swell the tax levy where all currents of expenditure and waste meet at last. The old theory that it was compen sated for by the advantage of having free intercourse be tween constituents and their representatives is a fanciful one in these later times, when the means of communica tion have been multiplied a thousandfold, and when it is impossible for a representative to take an important step affecting the special interests of his constituents, or the general welfare of the country, and conceal it from them for a single hour. The new avenues for the diffusion of intelligence and sound information have conveyed the substance of all important intelligence to and, from the capital, while the public printing-office is pouring out its waste of printed paper, to be scattered abroad at the public charge. The people are no longer infants to be nursed and coddled in this way. Leave them to their own devices and they will get what they want, and in the long run all that will be of use to them. Mr. Sumner argues that the post-office should not be made a source of revenue. It should not be ; and there is very little danger of its' be coming so, while our mail routes have such vast distances to traverse, and while tracts of newly-settled country, large enough for empires, are awaiting to be developed.. But the service should be made self-supporting. The first step is to take off the leeches. Reform the abuses first, and correct the system as rapidly as possible:—Boston Ad vertiser. Alarming symptoms of suffrage fever :—Little girl in Wyoming : There, dolly, you must be still and sleep all day, 'cause I've dot to do and vote." Despite the opinion delivered by King Richard in an exigency as to the value of a horse, the noble animal may be an unwelcome visitor. A Mr. Clarke, of Chico, ('al., while recently taking a drive with his wife in a 1 on a road near Little Butte Creek, found that a drove of wild horses had completely surrounded them. One of these horses actually attacked the buggy, kicking it with his heels, while the otlierssought to make acquaint mice with the horses of the buggy. Mr. Clarke struck the attacking horse with the whip, whereat the animal became terribly enraged, ran in front of the carriage horses, kicked them with vigour and viciousness, and was driven off with great difficulty. Mrs. Clarke thifiloi she has since seen him as a nightmare. A bill recently introduced into the Senate may facilitate the chances of promotion in the army by en couraging its of eers to depart this life. It enables any commissioned officer to assign part of his monthly pay to any life insurance company in the United States in pay ment of dues upon an insurance on his own life, so that the company shall be paid direct. It further enacts that a policy,. the dues of which are so provided for, " cannot in any event whatever be suspended, rendered ineffective, or in any in anner, made forfeitable." If this bill becomes a law, and the class of whom, at present, " few die and none resig2/ " insure under it, they may take great com fort in the knowledge that any moment the amount of their policies can be obtained for their families, since suielde cannot work a forfeiture. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE- LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST END. WEDNESDAY, Midnight. The principal, and indeed the onlyfeature in the course of the evening, was the further advance of CapitaliEte the Goodwood Stakes, 8 to 1 being several times taken about him. Otherwise there was no disposition evinced to anticipate the publication of the acceptances, 10 to 1 being the highest offer bar one. Some little betting took place on the Hurstbourne Stakes at Stockbridge, for which race Digby Grand was made favourite at 2to 1, while Bicycle and the Lurley filly each met with some support at 4 to 1, 6 to 1 being offered bar those three. CITY BETTING—WEDNSDAY. 10 to 1 agst Capitalist (taken and offered) r 100 to 8 agst Revenge (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Indian Ocean (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst John Davis (taken) 100 to 7 agst Moccolo (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Miss Sheppard (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Prince Henry (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Toby (taken and offered) !ST. LEGER. 500 to 30 agst Captivator (taken and offered) BIBURY CLUB MEETING—WEDNESDAY. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. About five furlongs. Duke of Beaufort ns Lady Annie, by Trumpeter— Chiffioniere, 3 yrs, Bst 61b (Cannon) 1 Lord Vivian's Alma Mater, 2 yrs, Est 121 b (Jewitt) 2 Sir F. Johnstone ns Nudity, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ...(Crutcher) 3 Johannisberg, Noisy, and Talavera also ran. Won by two lengths. The Bibury Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sovs each. Last mile and a half. Mr Saville's Neuchatel, by Parmesan—Middleton Maid, 4 yrs, 10st 81b . (Mr Crawshaw) 1 Lord St. Vincent's Violet, 3 yrs, lOst 101 b (Mr Bovill) 2 Lord Poulett's Glenfalloch, 4 yrs, list 121 b (inc 71b ex) (Goater) 3 Judge and Cornet also ran. Won by a length. The Champagne Stakes of 10 sovs each. From the Bush in (about five furlongs.) Duke of Beaufort's f by Prime Minister—Lurley, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1 Mr Payne's Jester, B st 101 b (Maidment) 2 Lord Vivian's Bide-a-Wee, Bst 101 b (T. French) 3 Eau de Cologne, Dulcibella, Wandering Breeze, Sunny, Prudentia, and Clotilde also ran. Won by a neck. The Scurry Welter (Handicap) of 5 sovs each. Five furlongs. • Mr Payne's Adelaide, by Young Melbourne—dam by Teddington-Maid of Masham, 4 yrs, list (Mr Bevill) 1 Mr Mortimer's Robespierre, 4 yrs, 12st 41b (Col Knox) 2 Won in a canter by ten lengths. A Plate of 50 sovs ; weight for age. From the Bush in (about five furlongs). Sir J. Johnstone's Desert,iby Promised Land—Worth less, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (250) (Crutcher) 1 Lord Anglesey's Minytus, 2 yrs, Est (250) ......(Jones) 2 Mr G. Jones's H W armony, 3 yrs, 7 and a hast 91b (250) ...(Page) 3 on by a length lf. A Selling Welter Plate of 50 sovs. Old mile. Mr. A. Yates's Ring, by Bel Demonio--Asparag,us, 3 yrs, list 21b (Owner) 1 Sir F. Johnstone's Smallhopes, 3 yrs, list 21b (Captain G. Johnstone) 2 Lord St. Vincent's Invicta, 3 yrs, 11st 21b (Mr. Bevill) 3 Won by a length. The First Year of the Twelfth Biennial of 10 sovs each. T. Mr. Merry's King of the Forest, by Scottish Chief — Lioness, Bst 101 b (Grimshaw) 1 Lord Anglesey's Oricklade, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 2 Captain G. F. Day's The Count, Bst 71b (Wyatt) 3 Hood, Pallas, Northwood, Avalanche, and Scrubbing Brush also ran. Won by a neck. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. ST. LEGER. sto 2 agst Kingcraft (taken and wanted) 1000 to 80 agat Palmerston (taken) 100 to 6 agst Normanby (offered) 20 to 1 agst Captivator (offered) 25 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered) 3000 to 100 agst Camel (taken—after 2000 to 80 had been laid) STO CKBRID GE MEETING. . ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. Bigby c, Blandford, Bellone, Benbow, Chevisaunce, Cranbourne Chase, Chassepot, Detective, Gift (The), Herculaneum, Maid of Athol, Mortimer, Our Mary Ann, Pat 6, Rigby c, Rambling Katie f, Sir Robert Napier, Sunlight, Sunflower c, Sulphur. SdRAriCHINGS. Beaufort Handicap. —Newsman, Jeoffrey. Visitors' Plate.—Departure, Amara, Vulcan, Detective, Westward Ho. • Croome Produce Stakes.—Roe f, Stockwater, Pallas, Scarlet Letter, Sir Thomas, Rose Chere f. Stockbridge Cup.—Bridgwater, Decollete, MesaMance Roe f, Martyrdom, Red Rice, London Pride, Church Militant, Vespasian, Miss Anne c, Chaucer, Prince of Wales, Friponnier, King Offa, Magdala, See Saw. Hurstbourne Stakes.—Steppe, Lcetitia, Lurley f, Roe f, Arrowflight, Naaman, Dancing Girl, Hag f, Stockade c, Miss Lavinia, c, Miss Goldschrnidt f, Pallas, The Wizard's dam f, Nymph f, King Maak, Ysolt, Avalanche, Crinon, Lady .Colsterdale, Rose of Athol, Rifleman, Anonymous, Sir Thomas, Arbutus c, Cerintha c, Lady Augusta f, Hepatica f, Feronia. NEWTON MEETING.-WEDNESDAY. The Trial Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 40 added. One mile and a quarter. Mr J. Barlow's Hunter, by Commotion—Mrs Hark away, 4 yrs, Bst 81b Mr Dawson's Scottish Rose, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b ... (Hudson) 2 Mr J. Barber's Sensation, 3 yrs, Bst (Gradwell) 3 Catalonia and Heart of Oak also ran . Won by three lengths. The Golborne Park Stakes of 60 sovs. About half a mile. Seven subs. Mr P. J. Jackson's Mulatto (late Maccomo), by Lambton—Little Savage, Bst 131 b (inc. 31b extra) (Huxtable) 1 Mr . T. Steven's Lothair, Bst 71b (J. Clark) 2 Mr C. Trotter, jun's., Ruffian, Bst 101 b (Osborne) 3 Won in a canter. The Maiden Plate of 40 sovs ; weight for age. Once round (about 1 mile 1 furlong.) Mr Dawson's Painkiller, by Van Galen—Thane, 3 yrs, 7st 31b Sir E. Buckley's Surprise, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b (Wood) 2 Capt. Turner's Discretion (11 b), 3 yrs, 6st 111 b (Edwards) 3 Won cleverly by a neck. The Manor Cup of 100 sovs in specie. One mile. Mr John's Pretty John, by Handsome Jack—Geology, 5 yrs, 9st 21b (inc 101 b ex) ... ..• (J. Osborne) 1 Mr W. Saunders's Indian Ocean, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Mordan) 2 Mr Raworth's Edinburgh, aged Bst 121 b (Britton) 3 Kellogg, Maid of Mickley, Recovery also ran. Won cleverly by a neck. The Makerfield Handicap of 100 sovs. About half a mile. Mr C. Trotter's, jun., Saratoga, by Adventurer—Sum merside, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b. (Platt) 1 Mr Robinsou's The Mayoress Mr. Legh's Rejoinder, .6 yrs, Bst 101 b ...... (J. Osborne) 3 Lumley,Stamford, Soubrette, and Emily also ran. Won cleverly by a neck. The Copeland Purse (Handicap) of 40 sovs. One mile. Mr Ambery's c by Chevalier d'lndustrie--Lad,y de Trafford, 3 yrs 6st 131 b ' Mr Hudson's Lady Highthorn, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (J. Osborne) 2 Mr Drake's c by Caractacus—Eugenia, 3 yrs, 7st (Fox) 3 Bright, General Prim and Eloquence also ran. Won by a length. A. Mr. Lindesay, of Loughry, Tullyhogue, Ireland disputes the right of Lord O'Hagan to assume the title of Tullyhogue. JUDICIAL REFORM IN EGYPT.—The commission which was sitting at Florence has approved of the pro posals with respect to the judicial reforms in Egypt. The consent of Austria and Italy has been given to the arrangement concerted between Nubar Pacha, and the French Government, and England, Prussia, and Russia have rlready virtually agreed to the conclusions arrived at by the International Commission of Cairo. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The Times un derstands that the directors of the Metropolitan District Railway, at their board meeting on Tuesday, decided to adopt the plans and recommendations of their engineer. Mr. Fowler, for their city station. The station will be at the junction of the Queen Victoria-street and Cannon street, with the entrance at the corner of Cannon-street, and in view of the Mansion House and the Royal Ex change. The contractors will commence the work forth with, and it is anticipated that the station (which will be called Mansion House Station) will be completed and opened for traffic in the beginning of the next year. It is intended on the opening of this station to run trains in each direction at least every three minutes. ANNIVERSARIES IN BERLIN.—On the third :of August the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick William the Third, the father of the present King, , will be celebrated. The Municipal Council have refused to take part as a body in fates which will have an exclusively military character. It appears that at first the Prussian authorities wished to associate this festival with the memories of the Holy Alliance, but this scheme was abandoned in order that the French jealousy might not be aroused, and because Austria might not have readily consented to take part in a fete which commemorated that event. King William• the First, in making war on Austria, de parted from the text of the clause of his father's will, which forbade his successors to make war on Russia and Austria. As this alliance was broken through by the war of 1866, Austria could not assist in celebrating its original formation. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—The most popular and the most effective medicine in the world for the cure of female complaints. After many years' experience it is proved that there is no medicine equal to Holloway's Pills for the cure of diseases - incidental to females. The invigorating and purifying riroperities of these Pills render them peculiarly valuable for functional disorders • implying delicacy of constitution. They may be taken by females of all ages, at any, time, for any disorganisation or irregu larity of the system. They speedily remove the cause and restore the sufferer to robust health. As a family medicine they are unequalled, and may be taken by old and young with perfect safety. They are as mild as they are efficacioun.---(Anrra SOCIAL SCIENCE. The late meeting of the Western Social Science Asso ciation at Chicago was moderately successful, though the attendance was not large. The papers were on fresh topics, and the proceedings were decorous, except when the MTarland case was introduced—a case which led to a lively discussion in the convention. The chief comba tants were the two Colliers—Robert Laird• on the AlTarla,nd side, and Robert on the side of Richardson. Quite sharp personalities were exchanged between these two distinguished preachers. Goldwin Smith was the star of the occasion, though his paper on " The Political Crisis in England," was hardly up to the standard of his productions. It seems somewhat unnecessary for a person to argue, as Professor Smith did, that the sovereign of Great Britain is now a " mere lay figure." He would not exclude religion altoether from our form of government, for he thought "atheism was inflicted with imperialism." This is not unlike General Butler's argument that gold and silver are the currency of despots. —Boston Advertiser. MR. DISRAELI AND " LOTHAIR." The controversy over Mr. Disraeli's novel grows more fierce and bitter as it proceeds. It was always so with everything Mr. Disraeli did. People set to work tearing and rending each other about him in a way which some times suggests the thought that a sinister influence is exercised in Mr. Disraeli's lot, and that he is doomed to be a " bone of contention " all his life. Blackwood's Maga zine has signalised itself by publishing an attack on him which journals of all parties con - cur in describing as infa mous. The Spectator is an old foe of Disraeli, but even that protests with energy against the freshly furbished-up in sults directed against the Conservative leader on the score of his Jewish extraction. " Sprinkling vitriol," says the Spectator, "is not war, but attempted murder; and the practice should be left to the ruffianly lads who in vented it, not as a weapon, but as a means of insulting the weak." The truth is that the vile attack in Black wood bears internal evidence of being the work of a man. whom Mr. Disraeli once oalled a literary louse!"—amost ob jectionable epithet, we admit, but it was generally thought at the time to be very descriptive, like most of the Dis raelian epithets, of the person on whose back he pasted. it. The parasite " in question never forgave Mr. Dis raeli, and it is pretty clear that he has been trying to pay off his old score in Blackwood. At such a moment an article conceived in a very different spirit in the forth coming number of Putnam's Magazine, will be read with interest by the public. It corrects two or three popular misconceptions relating not only to Mr. Disraeli's latest novel, but to his life and character. The writer in Putnam is able to express an intelligent opinion, because he has obviously been at the pains to make him self acquainted with the facts concerning Mr. Disraeli's life, and with his speeches and writings. Many in this country have taken up a cry against Mr. Disraeli at second hand. They have accepted the aspersions of his enemies as facts fully proved—not knowing or not remembering, that this man is more bitterly hated in England than any . living statesman. He has offended the aristocracy by treating them with scorn. He has of fended his own party, the Tories, by constantly advocating liberal measures. People here forget that England is indebted for the last Reform Bill to Mr. Disraeli. The English Tories, however; will never forget or forgive it. The Liberals do not like him because he is too clever, and is fond of exposing any " shams " in which they may be interested. Thus it happens that in England Mr. Disraeli is friendless, so far as the press is concerned. Every new writer begins his career with an attack on " Dizzy. This may be deemed fair play in England, but in'this country it would only be natural for people to inquire for themselves into Mr. Dis raeli's career before joining in the hue and cry after him. The able writer of the article in Putnam has done this, and the result is that he has produced the best criticism of "Lothair " which has yet appeared in any of our periodicals. He points out that the novel " suggests, where it does not positively embody, the results of well-nigh half a century of hard thinking on all the perplexing proplems that have entered into the recent political and religious agitations of England and of Europe." On one point only is the writer mistaken. He is under the impression that Mr. Disraeli took side against the North in the recent rebellion. The truth is that he carefully avoided this error. While Mr. Glad stone was declaring that 1;.• Jeff. Davis had made a nation," Mr. Disraeli vcat treating the question in a spirit worthy of a responsible public man. Perhaps the certificate given by Mr. Bright on this point will satisfy even the most implacable opponents of Dis raeli. In a speech delivered in the House of Commons on March 13, 1865 Mr. Bright told' the Tory party to " learn from the example set them by the right hon. gentleman, (Mr. Disraeli.) With a thoughtfulness and statesmanship which you do not all acknowledge, he did not say a word likely to create difficulties with the United States. I think his chief (Lord Derby) and his followers might learn something from his example." People have objected to " Lothair" on the ground that it " toadies" the British aristocracy. That shows how tho roughly they have misunderstood the book, and how ignorant they are of all that relates to Mr. Disraet. He has been " chaffing" the aristocracy all his life, and he renews the pastime ur "Lothair." Do those who accuse him of worshipping rank remember that he refused a p e erage the other day—a peerage pressed upon him by the Queen herself? Do they forget that when he was Premier - everybody in England went about making merry over the way in which Mr. Disraeli " snubbed the Duke ?" Did he not dismiss the Lord Chancellor much as other people turn kitchen maids out of their employment ? The Spectator disposes of the charge we have referred to in a passage which we commend to the notice of those who call "Lothair " " snobbish ": "As to his snobbishness, if there is a speciality in his intellect, which shines out in every book he ever wrote, it is his deep concentrated scorn for those parochial gran dees, these county magnates, acred up to their lips, con soled up to their chins,' his certainty that their one real claim to distinction is their cash. He has said over and over again that they are barbarians, men without blue blood, who 'did not conquer the land and do not defend it, and who, are, as in ' Lothair," feeble dandies as to ideas, as their forefathers were feeble dandies as to dress ; who ' excel in athletic sports, speak only one language, and never , read.' So deep is this scorn, so incisive, and so peculiar in tone—for it is not, the reviewer will pardon us for saying, the scorn of envy, but rather the scorn of a white noble for a Hindoo rajah, of a Chinese mandarin for a white officer, a scorn leading each to exaggerate ceremonial reverence to the other—that it has been attributed to Mr. Disraeli's aristocratic pride, pride in the only pedigree except that of the Roman nobles, and perhaps that of the Koreish, which in his eyes has any validity, any claim to the pre ferential reverence of mankind, to a certain loathing of men so meanly born as the Percies or the Seymour Con ways whom he has held up to ridicule." Perhaps the article in " Putnam's " may lead some people to read " Lothair" again in an intelligent manner. If it also induces the readers of the novel to study Mr. Disraeli's life for themselves, the writer will have served the cause of justice, withoutinjuring the cause of liberal ideas.—New York Times. It has been remarked that in the adverse division on the Irish Land Bill, which took place in the House of Lords on Monday night, the Bishops of Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Down, Exeter, and Manchester voted with the Government. No prelate went into the lobby with the Opposition. A RASH VENTURE.—The City of Ragusa, an ar gosy twenty feet long, manned by two sailors and a dog, and bound on a voyage across the Atlantic to New York , has put into Queenstown for repairs, having sprung aleak. It is to be hoped the necessary plugging will give the ad venturers on board time for consideration, and that they will abandon their foolhardy purpose. If they meant to risk their lives in a new attempt to find a convenient North-western passage, there would be some justification for the enterprise. But• as it is, the voyage is simply an outrage upon the confiding nature of the Newfoundland dog.--/V ew York Times. LArivEwrisExtEur.i Consumption, and all nervous bilious, stomach, aril liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and acc3lsrated by drugs of eve y description, but perfe.tly curable by Du Bistav's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti-htness o f the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few; -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's. Food. Cure No 68,413—" Rome, July 21 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abindoning ell other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2.1. Cure No. 46,270. —Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,83•2. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maris Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is 14d; Ilb 2,3' 9d; 2 lb Is 6d; 51b lie.; 121 b 225: 24 lbs 4 , s.—a lso Du BARRY'S REVALENTA A RABIC/. CHOCOLATB POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at as 6d, for 48 cups at s e for 2tB cups at 30s, for 576 cups at Us —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555 tins are sent free of carriage in England_ on receipt of Post Office Order. — BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 27th hut., at. Ewell, Surrey, the wife of Walter G. Hanbury, Esq., of a daughter. On the 27th inst., at Hartford, Northwich, Cheshire, Lady Piers, of a son. MARRIAGES. . . On the 25th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Thomas Bon field to Lizzie, y o ungest daughter of George Perren, Esq. of Holly LodgO;Briiion. On the 25th inst.. at. Holy Trinity Church, Islington, Chas. Benson, sox, of the late Tamerlane Scott, BK., to Kate, daughter of the late Richard` Snelling, Esq. DEATHS -- - On the 27th inst., at No. 36, Great Winchester-street, city, Francis Stephens, Esq., aged 58. On' the 27th inst., at Chet,tertou Villa, Red-hill, Surrey, Samuel Riles, Esq., aged 72. . . London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tim Sun Office, No. 112„ Strand, in the Preeinct of the Savoy, in tho Oointy of Middleaux.—Thursclay, June 3e, 18TO. f