The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-04 00:00:00

AN EVENTFUL CAREER. The death of a man who played an important part in the late political history of the United States has just been announced by telegraph. The career of Pierre Soul 6 might serve for a chapter of romance, and though he was by birth and education a Frenchman, he may naturally be regardrd as an American. He was born at Castillon on the Pyrenees during the first consaulate of Napoleon, and studied at Toulouse and Bordeaux, being destined for the Church. At the age of 15 he was detected as a o)nspirator in a plot against the Bourbons, but escaped to Navarre, and became a shepherd. Present yhe appeared (n Paris, and under the patronage of Armand Carrel, Victor Hugo, and others, wrote for the Republican journals. ti 1821 Z he was among those who were tried for advo eating Republican sentiments, and his trial attracted great attention. His counsel pleaded his client's youth in extenuation, but Soulti indignantly rose and rejected such an appeal, speaking warmly and elo quently in behalf of his opinions. He was Imprisoned in Ste. PSla-rie and escaped to England ; but not knowing a word ortlie language, he came back to France. Fortunately for him, he met an old friend, who, being in the navy, assisted him to reach America. In New Orleans he found Frenchmen, but at once exerted himself to master English,though he always retained a strong French accent. He became a lawyer, and took no active part in politics for twenty years. fn 1847 he was sent to the Senate, and at once became a prominent leader of the Southern ranks. Curiously enough, the ardent Republi can espoused the cause of the slaveholders, though his resistance to Federal centralisation was more in accordance with his earlier theories. In the great debate on what was called the " Omnibus Bill " the last great compromise between the North and South, Pierre Soul 6 made powerful and impassioned speeches, and excited the greatest enthusiasm among his followers. In 1853 he resigned his place in the Senate, having been appointed Ambas sador to Spain. He strongly advocated the purchase or annexation of Cuba by the United States. During the war, when Butler held New Orleans, Souls was im prisoned for disloyalty by his order, but after a few months in Fort Lafayette, he was released on condition that he should not return to Louisiana until the close of the rebellion. Since that time he has taken no part ill politics, but lived in comparative retirement, surrounded by a large circle of friends. Theodore Parker once said of him that his support of slavery prevented him from becoming one of the greatest men in America. TOE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT IN ITALY. The last outbreak of the Mazzinians is a serious affair. Several authorities, and especially the Daily News state tht the army is mucl , t tinted with the revolutionary spirit. The agents of Mazzini have long tried to corrupt the forces,and at length their efforts have been successful. The Daily News says that according to information re ceived by the Government it would appear that Sig. nor Mazzini has been making one of his professional tours in Italy, and that on his return to Lugano he transmitted to his partisans in the Peninsula the fol lowing snot d'ordre:— They were to abstain from any general rising, but as often as they heard of a partial movement in one locality they were at once to imitate it in another, giving to each isolated movement a character of sympathy with the army, which, he had reason to believe, the troops would in some cases respond to. The attempt at Pavia last Thursday morning was the first public signal of the new plan of the revolutionary tactics, and on the two previous days bands of strange, sinister-look ing individuals were seen prowling in the streets. The Republican journal of Pavia La Libertcl, in its Wednesday's number coolly announced that it would cease any longer to appear, as the moment had arrived not for writing but action. Had the Prefect of Pavia, Signor Campi, been worth his salt, these indica tions alone ought to have put him more on his guard, and the requisite precautionary steps might have been taken in time. On the contrary, the Mazzinians were allowed to have matters their own way. Accordingly, two parties, each numbering from thirty to forty persons, attacked the barracks of San, Francesco between tho hours of three and four in the morning. The barracks were occupied by a portion of the 42nd Regiment of the line. The assailants summoned the sentinel to surrender the barrack, but were refused ; almost immediately on the alarm being given, the soldiers poued out to oppose the assailants. Shots were exchanged. One officer was mortally wounded, a non-commissioned officer killed, two of the aggressors killed, and it is believed, many wounded. The serious part of the business, however, is that on the person of one of the assailants was found a revolver belonging to the Carabineers; that on examination it appeared that more than seventy revolvers had been ab stracted from the Carabineers' barracks, and that four Carabineers have disappeared, who, there is little doubt, were in the plot. At exactly the same hour in Piacenza a similar band appeared before the Piacenza Treasury and barracks, the latter likewise occupied by a detachment of the 42nd, but the attitude of the soldiers was from the first so menacing that no attempt was made by the revolutionary party to commit actual violence. In Piacenza, as at Pavia there is a Mazzinian paper, L'Agitatore, and it had given the signal for action the day before by an article of extraordinary violence, aimed directly at the King, whom it denounced as " a traitor." The chief movement on the same day was intended to be that of Bologna. Armed bands assembled at Brisighella, not far from Faenza, and, making their way through the passes of the Apennines to Bologna, evidently hoped to meet with encouragement on their arrival there. They were disappointed. Before reaching the city they received intimation of their being likely to get so warm a reception that they thought it more prudent to stop short. A ROYAL TIGER HUNT. Tiger hunting has formed a rather exciting feature of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to India. A letter in the Times from the camp on the Mohan, Nepaul. says : " Jung Bahadoor and the Duke's party, mounted on elephants, crossed the river, and the Rajah of Bhulo ra.mpore, who was encamped close by , accom p anied the Duke. From our side of the river were mustered 130 elephants ; in the Maharajah's camp there were 275. At a short distance from the camp the 400 elephants, carrying about 1,200 men, were formed into line, extend ing more than a mile and a quarter. Jung Bahadoor, with the Prince, placed himself in the centre. With a trum peter behind him, mounted on a small elephant, he directed the movements of the line by the British trumpet calls. It was a stirring sight to see the line advancing grandly across the plain, then part of, it entering the jungle, the elephants crashing down the trees that opposed their progress, and reappearing and again completing the line on the further side. Then the whole mass of elephants gradually closed in towards the centre, and the circle had become very small, makiug some think they were going to draw a blank, when suddenly a tiger sprang up close to the duke's elephant. The first shot wounded him, and he made a dash to escape, but foundhimself surrounded by a wall of ele phants, stamping and snorting, with their trunks in the air. He made an attempt to charge the line, but was knocked over by another ball and despatched. After dinner Jung Bahadoor's presents for the duke Vete pro cueed. The first brought into the mess tent was an ele phant, a small two-year-old, but highly educated. He saluted his new master with a salaam with his trunk, at the same time falling on his knees. He was sent off to Calcutta for conveyance to England. The other presents consisted of silver articles, silks, elephants' tusks, and tiger skins, and, finally, a little tiger about a month old. Jung Bahadoor placed himself and his elephants at the duke's disposal during the remainder of his Royal Highness's stay , and would accompany him back to Lucknow. This determination makes rather a heavy demand on the Commissioner's com missariat, as the gallant Nepaulese has six wives with him and about 7,000 followers, including a regiment of infantry." In commenting upon the recent trial for bribery at the Taunton Assizes, the Law Times remarks The aununings up Of Mr. Justice Hannen have been justly the Subject of universal admiration. There was but one 3pinion of them at the bar—that they would have added reputation to the greatest of our judges." . _ Intending exhibitors at the Workmen's Inter national Exhibition, which is to be opened in July next, should take notice that the 25th inst. has been fixed as the last day for sending in forms with particulars :)f articles for exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. We, Lancet, understand that the Royal College of Burgeons, Ireland, has given its adhesion to the reform recommended by the Medical Council—that a single examining board in each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom should be substituted for the numerous examining bodies which are now in existence. The Captain-General of Cuba, Caballero de Rodas, has published at Puerto Principe a proclamation to demonstrate the weakness of the insurrection and to announce that what remains of it will be put down with an extreme vigour and severity. The General then offers an amnesty to all the insurgents who shall make a prompt submission, the chiefs excepted. The proprietors of the English and Foreign Trade Gazette echo the protest against the new postal arrange ments for the transmission of printed matter abroad. They affirm that their profits will be reduced 10 per cent. Nor do they think that such a change will add to the revenue, for henceforth the bulk of printed matter will be shipped as freight to be distributed by agents. The visitors of the Queen's University, Dublin, have decided that Mr. Melville, who complaned of unfair treatment in being rusticated and deprived of his scholar• ship, had been guilty of a gross breach of discipline, but had not offended against morals. They have reduced the term of rustication to one year, and ordered the certifi zates withheld to be granted. A number of improvements are about to be made In the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, with a view of economis ing labour and reducing the cost of superintendence in the various departments. The idea is to concentrate more thoroughly each distinct branch of industry in one iepartment only, instead of each particular trade being represented in the whole of the departments as at present. Admiral Belcher still believes that the steamship 'City of :Boston is safe. He says :—" If she stood soutl-K.iiterly, and fell into. the Horse latitudes—whe re !ew ships care to go, or have any businns—ancl hs dis abled, she may, like a transport I recollect be detained :;here, from one hundred to one .hundred and fifty days, And would eventually find her way, by the trade winds rata some port in Florida or the West Indies." A second Channel Islands telegraph cable is pro jected. Befor e the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Jompany are ready with the cable which they have pro alised to lay - in the course - of a few weeks, .Mr. Henley, ;he engineer of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company !s about to lay another over precisely the same course, lamely, from Start Roint t4l Guepuiset i ansUbanc9l9 ersev. - THE NORTHAMPTON MEETING, --- Of the thirteen meetings of the week, the one most re luiring attention is that at Northampton. But this gather ing, like most of the other early spring meetings, will be shorn of much of its ancient fame by the absence of two year-old racing. There is no gainsaying the fact that the rule against two-year-old competitions in the early part of the year, good rule though it is, has wofully affected the spring racing. The Northampton. Meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, Fortunately for the success of the Great Northampton shire Stakes, Sabinus is not amongst the forty-seven still left in, and as no good thing can easily be spotted it is probable that a fair field will be got together. Bell's Life prefers the Briton, Midsummer, Douglas and Free Trade. Midsummeris a good horse when in the humour,though that is not a very usual occurrence with him. The Briton has only 7st. 21b. to carry, and therefore must possess some !lances of retrieving Wednesday's overthrow. Douglas and Free Trade are decidedly the best among the three-year olds. Douglas ran in the City and Suburban like a stayer, and struggled gamely to the end, whilst Free Trade's defeat of Jarnac in the Liverpool Spring Cup entitles him to high respect. Of the four mentioned Bell's Life prefers Douglas and the Briton. The Sporting Life observes that Midsummer (4 yrs. Bst. 31b.) is fairly handicapped on his best form, and will take an immensity of beating over this long and severe course. No horse has done better at Newmarket for a long time, and Baron Rothschild's friends, as well as all the concentrated talent at head quarters, have been send ing east-west, north, and south endeavouring to back him. Free Trade's Liverpool Spring Cup penalty increases his weight to 6st. 91b.,. the same with which Sabinus won the Metropolitan in such rare style. Estimated through Jarnac, however. The Briton should defeat Free Trade and as nearly win as possible, as it was clear to all the lookers-on that The Briton was a long way second best to Sabinus had Butler thought fit to persevere. On the whole, therefore, the Sporting Life prefers The Briton and Midsummer. The Sportsman's opinion of Midsummer is not a high one. He is, it thinks, a coward .in a severe struggle. The Sportsman therefore prefers The Briton or Mr. Brayley's representative. Douglas cannot stay over such a severe course as that at Northampton. The Field says :—" If we reserve Midsummer, The Briton, Siderolite, and Douglas, it is more than probable the winner of the Northamptonshire Stakes will be named ; and as two of them have recently appeared in public—The Briton and Douglas—they are entitled to the preference." With respect to the other races the Sporting Life has the following :—" There are a large number of speedy animals engaged in the Delapre Free Handicap (half smile), which almost defies criticism, as the acceptances are not declared until this evening, but at present Tibthorpe, Flower Girl, and Roderick Dhu most take my fancy. The Whittlebury Stakes (one mile and a quarter) has 15 subscribers, and will be won by King o' Scots, who has a fair opportunity here, with his allowances, of winning his first public race. The County Cup (two miles) may be won by Cock of the Walk or Mysotis, and the Sulby Handicap by Tibthorpe or Laird of Scotland. The Stand Plate I shall award to April Morn." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1870. THE POPE ON PRIVATE JUDGMENT. The llfonde has published a letter from the Pope to the Abbe de Solesines, of the Benedictine congregation of France, and one of the most ardent defenders of the dogma of Infallibility. He says it is much to be regretted that there should be found among Catholics men imbued with corrupt principles, who ad here to them with such obstinacy, that they no longer know how to submit their under standing with docility to the judgment of the Holy See when it is contrary to their views, even when common assent and the recommendations a the Episcopate com bine to confirm it. They go still further and endeavour to make the Church bow to their sentiments, while they do not blush to give the name of " Ultramontane party " to all the Catholic family who do not think as themselves. They even undertake to reform the Divine Constitution of the Church, and to adapt it to the modern forms of civil government, in order more resdily to lower the authority of the Supreme Chief whom Christ Himself has appointed, and whose preroga tives they dread. They are thus to be seen putting forward most audaciously as doubtful, or at least as completely free, certain doctrines many times condemned again discussing in the same manner as the former de fenders of those doctrines historical frauds, mutilated passages, calumnies directed against Roman Pontiffs, and sophisms of all kinds. Their object is to agitate men's minds and to excite the faction to which they belong. By this means they reduce to street discussions the gravest questions, and oblige us to deplore their folly as well as their audacity. If they believed firmly with other Catholics that the (Ecumenical Council is governed by the Holy Spirit, that it is only by the inspiration of that Spirit that it defines and appoints what shall be believed, the thought would never have entered into their mind that things not revealed or hurtful to the Church could be defined there, and they could not imagine that human manoeuvres could arrest the power of the Holy Spirit, or prevent the defi nition of things revealed as useful for the Church. They could not have persuaded themselves that the Fathers had been forbidden to bring forward the -difficul ties which they met with in the various definitions. If they were influenced only by that motive, they would ab stain from all the tricks by means of which they are ac customed to obtain votes in popular assemblies, and they would await quietly and humbly the effects which would be produced by light from above. The Pope then expresses his sense of the services which the Abb4 has rendered to the Church by undertaking to refute the assertions of the opponents to the Council. He declares that the task has been executed wsth so much completeness and skill that their allegations have been stripped of all pretensions to wisdom. The Pope concludes his letter in these words In re-establishing the truth of the faith, of right, and of history you have acted in the interest of the faithful, as well of those who are not. We therefore express to you our special gratitude for the homage you have paid to us by this book, and we predict a great and happy success for the fruit of your labourers. As an au g ury of that success, and as a proof of our paternal affection, we' bestow upon you the Apostolic benediction." A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLE. The Journal Officiel contains an account, several columns long, of the discovery and character of the in scribed Moabitish monolith, recently discovered in the ancient territory of Moab, near the Dead Sea. The writer of the article is the French gentleman who dis covered the stone, and made some attempts to get a com plete copy of the inscription before it was broken by the jealous and superstitious Arabs. The language of the inscription is almost pure Hebrew, and the arrange ments of the words into verse, &c., suggests the exact counterpart of an inedited chapter of the Biblical Book of Kings. This is not to be wondered at when it is remembered that the Moabites, as indicated by the Book of Genesis and in other places, were near akin to the Hebrews, and in constant iNtercourse with them, friendly or hostile from the first appearance of the People on the borders of the Promised Land. The Scriptures, in fact, contain numerous traces of a near con nection between the Moabites and the Israelites. Ruth, for instance, was a Moabitish woman. The author of this inscription was a Moabitish Mesa, who, after the revolt of the ten tribes shook off the yoke of Israel, and though Joram, King of Israel, and Josaphat, King of Judea, waited to subdue him, they were not successful. The . inscription on the monolith is nothing else but a veritable proclamation of Mesa glorifying his deeds, and praising the supremacy of Chamos, the Jehovah of the Moabites. It commences :—" I am Mesa, King of Moab ; my father reigned thirty years, and I reigned after my father.,' It then goes on to thank the Lord for the protection which he unceasingly accorded to His servant, " whom he sheltered from all attacks, and to whom he gave repose." Mesa proceeds to recite the oppressions which Moab had endured from Israel,alludes to the great revolu tion which led to the revolt of the ten tribes, recalls the usurpation of Omri the father of Achab, and incidentally refers to the construction (probably reconstruction) of the Moabite cities of Beth Baal; Meon, and Kiriathaim, re-conquered from the territory seized by the tribe of Reuben. Then follows an account of the fight at Kir and the capture of great spoils, including an object not specified, which he consecrated at Keroth " before the face of Chamos." This battle probably took place in the campaign of the combined expedition of Joram andJ osaphet. Messa next mentions some of the incidents of a campaign against the King of Israel. Ili this passage, as in the others, the phraseology is strikingly biblical. " And Chamos said, Go take dominion over Israel. . . went in at night, and fou r ght with him from the rising of the sun to mid-day." He slew 7,000 men in his battle, and made sacrifices to Astar-Chamos, the feminine emanation of Chamos. He adds, that after he carried off the sacred vessels of Jehovah, he consecrated them " before the face of Chamos." This passage probably relates to the incursion of the combined Moabites and Ammo nites against Josaphat, mentioned in Chronicles 2, chapter xx., although the Hebrew account speaks of the total defeat of the invaders. " The King of Israel," continues Mesa, " built the city of Yahas (a Rubenite town) and dwelt there when I made war against him, And he fled before Chamos. . . ." Those words relate to the invasion of the ancient terri tory of Moab, in which the tribe of Ruben had estab lished itself, and the expulsion therefrom of the Israelites. Next comes a long and pompous description of the cities built by Mesa in the newly-annexed territory, and the establishment of garrisons therein ; as well as of the cities of Yahas, Beth Molech, Arser, Beth Bamoth, Beser, Beth Diblathaim, Heronaim, Dibon, &c, which he "levelled to the ground." The inscription ends with an account of a battle at Horonaim, under the order of Chamos, and by the mention of a year which is apparently that of the erection of the monolith. That year must be some few years later than 897 8.C., for the latter is the date of the death of Achab and the revolt of Mesa. The in scription will be 27 centuries old, and is thus one of the oldest as well as one of the most interesting known to antiquarians. TICE MILITA UV SYSTEM IN BAVA ItlA.—The dis cussion of the Government bill for an extraordinary mili tary credit has been concluded in the Bavarian Chambers, the proposals of the committee being adopted almost unanimously. The War Minister made a speech oppos ing the reduction of - the time of active service. " The Bavarian army," he said, " should be of a strength equi valent to that of the other German armies. A change of system, while the reforms have hardly begun to bear fruit, would be the disorganisation of the army. Bavaria cannot get the start in the introduction of the militia system." Vine Deal boatmen are remanded, charged with hiving boarded a Dutch pilot cutter in the Down, and th19312t6111, AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) In response to a resolution . in the Senate, the President laid before that body a report from Secretary Fish, showing the official list of the States which have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The Secretary has confined himself to giving the list, without anticipating the action of Congress in defining the relations of any State to the Federal Government. The fol:owing are the States named :—North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Con necticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Now Hamp shire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Georgia, lowa, Bausas, Minnesota, Itht.de Island, Nebraska, and Texas. Last Wednesday the President issued his Procla mation announcing the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, which be then declared to be part of the Constitution. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times says that he sent a special Message to Congress stating that the "amendment makes four millions of peo ple voters; that the newly enfranchised race ought to strive to make themselves worthy of their new privilege ; that the race more favoured heretofore should withhold no legal privilege of advancement from the new citizens; and that the framers of the Constitution believed the Republican form of Government could not endure with out intelligence and education being diffused generally among the people. The President calls on Congress to take measures to promote and encourage popular educa tion, and urges people to see that all possessing political rights shall have an opportunity to acquire knowledge, as by such means only can the benefit contemplated by the 15th Amendment he secured." The Times blundered in its punctuation of the fol lowing message, and was servilelycopied by its contempo raries,unaware that there was anything peculiar in the con struction of the sentence :—" The President to-day issued• his proclamation declaring the 15th Amendment, enacting negro suffrage, to be ratified. And part of the Constitu tion Bill, admitting Texas to the Union on the same con ditions as Virginia, was passed by Congress and sent to the President." Of course the full stop ought to have been after " Constitution," not before " And." The bills admitting Texas and Georgia were all the President waited for, to issue his Proclamation, and to let the coloured citizen 3 have their grand jubilee for which they have been preparing; and henceforth the 30th of March will be a great day in the calendar of the African race. The other cable items are, that a telegram from Texas reports a raid by the Comanche Indians on the western border of the State, and a massacro of more than 40 families. Last Sunday a furious rainstorm broke over New York, Brooklyn, and the vicinity. Many buildings wore blown down, and several persons were killed or injured. It is reported that Prince Arthur will visit California, via the Pacific Railroad, iu the middle of April. Mr. Pierro Sou 74 is dead ; he was born in France ; educated for the Church, was driven from his native coma _ try for the part he took against the Government ; pro ceeded to America, reaching New Orleans in 1823. Sat in the U.S. Senate iu 1847, to which he was returned in 1849; became a leader of the extreme Southern party, was ap pointed Minister to Spain in 1853, and took part in the celebrated Ostend Manifesto. He has not mixed in politics since the outbreak of the war. From Cuba the news is that a sev,re engage. went has taken place between the Spanish forces and the insurgents near Lastunas. Both sides claim the victory. General Rock's has issued a proclamation at Puerto Prim cipo announcing that the operations against the insurgents will now be conducted with increased rigour and seve- rity, but offering an amnesty to all who shall speedily surrender, except to the principal leaders of the revolu tionary movement. We are not aware that anything could be added to the severity, unless the prison .rs were tortured to death, after the Indian fashion. The sym pathy in the United States with the Cubans is as strong as ever, though Secretary Fish upholds the Spaniards, maintaining that no cause whatever has been given by them for any interference on the part of the United States, but that they had observed every international obli gation. There now seems to be no doubt that Rielle has shot a Canadian, named Scott, for having been Engaged in Bonbon's late movement for upsetting the insurrectionary Government after his release on parole from Fort Garry, for the news has been confirmed by the confidential agent of the Canadian Government. The effect must be to com plicate seriously the relations of the insurgents towards the Empire. When the day of reckoning arrives, Rielle •'' must be judged ou the broad facts of the position. Though in the eye of the law Scott's execution was no less than delibJrate, premeditated murder, yet the ne cessities of the Provisional Government established in the Red River Settlements might compel it to carry out the decree of the court-mattitti. The law not withstanding, the question must be wLether the self-con stituted Government had been recognised as established by the settlers. It is, however,as well for Rielle that the United States frontier is close, for very soon, if he holds . Fort Garry, it will be against a steel battery, throwing what there will be a nove:ty in the way of projectiles of which the half-breeds have no conception. Secretary Boutwell seems to have much confi dence in the passage of the Funding Bill, and is so eager to put his bonds on the market at once that the Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with his engravers has been busily engaged on new models for the new bonds, so as to be ready for action. Tho first fight over it in the House was between the Ways and Means Committee and that on Banking and Currency. If the latter gut hold of it, the House knew that the clauses affecting the National Banks would come to " grief ;" while the Ways and Means Committee, though some of its members dissented from points in the bill, would, it was thought, defer more to the Secretary of the Treasury. General Schenck and Mr Garfield are popular, but Schenck carried the day, having the bill referred to the Ways and Means Committee by 79 to 65, though it does not seam to have progressed very favourably since. The latest accounts indicate that the Funding Bill will be defeated in the House of Representatives, and the bonds have risen in anticipation. We believe that the better course would be to throw out the bill altogether, and leave the credit of the country to strengthen, when the Six per Cents., rising over par, might be funded at a 16Wer rate of interest; but as there seems to be a strong prejudice against paying the coupons in Europe, and a. belief that such a course would lead to the usual jobbery and plunder accompanying all bills with money in them, we cannot imagine that the time will soon arrive when any material lightening of the burden can thus be achieved, for it is not probable that so favourable an opportunity as the money market of Europe has of late presented, will soon recur. Mr. Boutwell has ordered the sale of two millions of dollars in gold, and the purchase of four mil lions of dollars in bonds during April. The battle which has culminated in a thousand policemen clearing out and taking possession of Tammany Hall was, we fear, but a fight for plunder, not for the eradication of abuses. This split in the Democratic ranks has for some time been widening ; but we do not profess to be able to follow the Tammany intrigue, which some dignify by the name of politics, nor could it be expected when even New Yorkers and Democrats, too, do not pro fess to comprehend the movements. For instance, the Citizen devotes a leading article to prove to the World how gross was its error in calling the Citizen the organ of Peter B. Sweeny, while it is the mouthpiece of the Democratic Union, whose watchword is "Defeat to the Ring; and Success to Local Democratic Independence." Here is the leading national Democratic organ classifying a leading local Democratic organ as the supporter of the very politician against whom it is in strenuous opposition. The rebellion inside of Tammany is the inferior strata against the superior; that is, of those who have not got place against the voracious old leaders who swallow all ; and the Citizen alludes to the help given by the World to the outsiders as being aid to those struggling for place, given under the delusion that it was helping a struggle fora better and purer municipal government. There is a newpolice law directed against the present police board, with Mr. Brennan at its head, which proposes to replace that board with five Democrats, each appointed by a New York City Senator. To this Mayor Hall adheres in consideration of being re-nominated Mayor. That bill was expected to be immediately passed, and the Commissioners appointed, when the power would be centred in Senators Genet, Nor ton, and Creamer. The Croton Board is to be composed of four members, that is a place to each Senator,except Mr. Tweed, who remains Street Commissioner. The arrange ments are said to leave Sheriff O'Brien and John Mor rissey out in the cold, and of course Peter B. Sweeny in strenuous opposition. Moreover, Senator Creamer aspired to be Mayor, and other people considered they had earned other offices. These struggles fur lucrative posts are the Tammany "politics," which have, we suppose, culminated in the fight in Tammany Hall, reported by Cable. General Logan continues his attack in t ha Home of Representatives on General Sherman. Logan has always been the leader of the Volunteer officers, between whom and the regulars much jealousy has prevailed. Logan's attacks in Congress on an officer like Sherman, whose hands aro tied, and has not the same means for reply, is like an editor using a powerful journal against his personal enemy ;—it is not fair, for the terms are notequal. Notwithstanding the extraordinary assertion of the Lon don Standard, both Generals Sherman and Sheridan have b3en ferociously attacked for upholding the action of Colonel Baker in " butchering," as it is called, the Piegan Indians; and this affair tends to weaken Sherman. A leading Boston journal says of Sheridan's order upholdicg Colonel Baker, that "ii is a disgrace to the American military service, and a❑ outrage on the Americana nation. Ho ought to be severely punished for daring thus to befoul the reputation of a humane people." The Hibernian procession in New York on St. Patrick's Day was one of the grandest over seen in that city. For hours it passed along Broadway, with bands ing, colours flying, and the whole town decked with The side walks were crowded with Irish girls, and 1:11 traffic on the highways stopped by the Irish boys with their bands, their banners, and their rosettes. The Hon. S. S. Cox spoke at this, the ninth annual dinner of the Knights= of St. Patrick, at Delmonico's, and abused the British policy and the British Parliament. " Twelve of our citizens," he said, "are now confined in British dungeons for no other crimes than daring to speak for their rights, and rubjectod to indignity and outrage." When a party leader in the British Parliament thus publicly speaks of America his remarks aro treasured up as proof of the bad feel iug in the old country towards the new. Mr. O'Clor- man alluded to the flippant tongues that talk so glibly of the " foreign, element," as they call it, with almost a sneer, and pointed to what the Irish and Germans bad done for the Union generally, but more especially for the City of New York. Of courEe, George Francis Train "did a deal of talk" on this occasion, speaking for hours at Cooper . _ Institute. He was astonished to find the press there, hough the reporters were friendly enough, but the " blackguard editors" hate the Irish, and would rather do anything than give the demonstration a fair show. tt is re volting, hemaintained, to the refined:taf.'es of Fifth-avenue to see the Irish come out in such a parade. Undoubtedly there is truth in that remark, for the I;,d'es have no fancy for seeing the Bridgets wearing their silk gowns, nor the gentlemen for finding the streets blocked by these w:tose strong small of whioLey show that they hold Father Mathew in far less estimation than St. Patrick. . Mr. Greeley, at this dinner at Delmouico's spoke on the "Abuse of the Press." There were doubtless "upright, honest journalists in New York—while perhaps no city was more widely accursed by men who make the Press an instrument of calumny, of malignity, and of every kind of abuse." According to the Tribune, however, New York has not the unenviable distinction, for Connecticut alone enjoys the privilege of being "infested with a journal which can compress more deliberate, wilful, wicked vil lainous lies into a square inch than any other that is or ever was printed." To do Mr. Greeley justice, although he does give vent occasionally to impetuosity, it never takes the repulsive form he justly censures in the following words:—" The Press may legitimately and fairly canvass public men and measures, and there is very little attention paid to it. Very little harm follows that course ; but let a journal commence to-morrow, resolved to slander every one ; to drag secret things to light ; to make itself spicy by calling every shrinking parson before the gaze of the multitude, and that journal will fly on the waves of the wind, boast of its circulation, and it 3 power will become the terror of the public and the fortune of its proprietors." In returning to the Nevada, Freehold Properties Trust Co., attracted thereto by the remark in our article (March 5), "that we have not fun enough in us to see the joke," the Wall-street Journal asks, What will our con temporary say to the following facts?—"Some thirty years ago a book (which was a reprint from a London edition) was published in Philadelphia, by Carey and Hart, entitled, George St. George Julian the Prince,' by :enry Cockton. .The purpose of the book was to put the inexperienced on their guard against the specious designs of ingenious knaves, and to show that however firmly a man may adhere to an honourable course, however well armed he may be against contamination, an association with disreputable men teams with so much peril, that he may at any hour have Lis reputation destroyed and his prospects in life for ever blasted.' The writer describes the different ' banks," associations,' societies,' and companies' of every description, gotten up to 'rope in' persons for the sole purpose of plundering them. He de scribes the Poyais Loan, and giVes in full one of the bonds of " Gregor M'Gregor, the First Sovereign Prince of the Independent State of Poyais and its Dependencies,'' &c. Upon these bonds or mortgages, some $150,000 were in a short time actually raised in England. Although this was nearly a generation ago, yet a few days since, a Banking House in this city received a letter from London, England, enclosing one of these Poyais Bonds described in • The Prince,' with the inquiry how mach it was worth ? as the bond was about to become due !" Instead of Rich Joke,' tlia Wall-street Journal heads the article, from which we have extracted the above story, The Fools Are Not All Dead Xet." If they were, we doubt if there would be a man left to recite Campbell's poem, " The Last Man." Our contemporary pays us the high compliment of being " reliable ;" but though the editor of this paper never held any bonds of the " lnde pet:dont State of Poyais and its Dependencies,"' he has held o' hers a great deal worse. How he came to purchase them, is what puzzles him, and often ho is inclined to think, that at least one fool is not dead yet. Lately some bonds and shares have been placed on the London market which people might imagine no fool would buy; but, in that case, no fool would advertise them for sale. As they have been brought forward, the only conclusion we can reach is, that there must be purchasers. When American railway loans are not offered through well-known houses connected with America, such as the Barings, the Morgans, Morton, Rose, and Co , it does not follow that they may not be good things; but it does follow that no one should invest in them who has not means of acquiring informa- tion altogether apart from those who bring such loans for ward. Sometimes they appear to be launched with an utter disregard to the character of the persons associated with them ; and a striking instance of this has lately been furnished. If investors set aside every rule of prudence, after the experience of the last few years, the only conclu sion must be, that mankind are growing greater fools than ever. It was but the other day that a very finely got up Bond for £3O, bearing the name of "Major Buttz, was shown as a sort of curiosity as not being worth half-a crown, and it recalled the floating of a Nevada mine on the London . market some two years ago. " This is my experience of Nevada," said the holder. How is it that the most trusted financial journals and men of business in the States express satisfaction at the rejection of that clause in the Funding Bill providing for the payment of coupons at the offices of authorized agents iu foreign capitals? Evidently, to judge from the tone of the remarks, because any bill with agencies and commissions in it is regarded with the utmost suspicion aft the work of a " ring" nursing a fat job. The rejection of this clause has been hailed as the defeat of a ring scheming to extract plunder out of the nation. "If London and Frank fort want the bonds they will send for them, and it is not for the American people to get on their bended knees to the financial Shylocks of Europe." The point is altogether missed, for it is not European hclders who want American bonds, but the Union which wants European and other holders to surrender tho bonds they own for others bear ing less interest. It is neither more nor less than absurd to suppose they will voluntarily exchange a six per cent. bond for a five per cent. bond without an equivalent ; and it is equally absurd to suppose that they will buy a five per cent. bond at par in gold when they can get a six per cent. bond under par. Mr. Boutwell is in a great hurry to get his bill passed and to commence operations with the new bonds. Why ?-- who in their senses are going to buy them except the unfortunate banks which will be com pelled, if the Senate's measure passes, to exchange $300,000,000 of six per cents. for four-and-a-half per cents. In time the United States may be able to achieve such a financial operation, but not in Mr. Butwell's day ; for, though, the Wall-street Journal contends, the fools may not all be dead, yet we do not think that they should be looked for among the purchasers of Five-Twenties; nor,,indeed, that any body of men could be so idiotic as to exchange the Sixes for the Fives, Four-and-a-Half, and Fours; or to purchase at par lower interest-bearing bonds, while the higl.t r they hold do not fetch par in any market in the world; for it must not be forgotten that the present quo tation represents nearly three per cent. accrued interest. The view so generally taken in America may be correct from one aspect, of which we know nothing, but singu larly incorrect—indeed, childish—from the genuine busi ness standpoint upon which the transaction ought to be based. - A pretty little quarrel is progressing in Rich mond because Governor Walker, who under the enabling Act appointed a new City Council, and the old City Coun cil. Mayor Cohoon refused to surrender the police-sta tion houses to Ellison, who was elected Mayor by the new City Council, and who took posSession of the City Hall and other buildings, and besieged the old Mayor in •ns of the station-houses. Governor Walker backs Ellison, and ex-Governor Wise is one of Cohoon's counsel. Judge Underwood, of course, hurried up to the fray. Ellison slut off Cobobn's gas, food, water, and telegraph wire, but some negroes purchased a bakery and emptied its con tents into the station-house, throwing the leaves through the windows. General Canby has sent troops to be used in case of disturbance, which is not likely to occur. The quarrel arose under the supposition that the troops would be withdrawn when Virginia was admitted into the Union, and an Act was passed by the State Legislature authorizing the Governor and the City Councils to ap point and elect State and City officers to replace those to be withdrawn. The election is alleged to be unconstitu- tional, and a representative in Congress talked of recon- structing Virginia, in consequence of this paltry dispute. We were premature in predicting that there would be no disturbance, for the troops raised the siege, and Ellison's police, being stoned by the negroes as they retired, fired on the mob, killing one and wounding three men, and this complicated the quarrel. The Council backs Ellison, ordering a levy of spezial constables, for whose payment they provide, and two Mayors now act in the capital of Virginia. The debate in the Senate on the San Domingo annexation treaty has developed the fact that its ratifica tion is impossible, and the pet measure of the Executive has been, or will be, defeated. The Pi-esident sent a message signifying that ho had obtained from President Baez thirty days' extension of the time. 'rho subject was debated by the Foreign Affairs Committee on the 15th March, and reached the following vote :—Nays, Senators Sumner, Patterson, Cameron; and Casserly ; Yeas --Senators Mor ton, Harlan, and Schurz ; and the Chairman was directed to make an adverse report. A proclamation of President Baez had been received, stating that, as it seemed to be the desire of the Dominicansto join the United States, a vote was ordered, the places at which it was to be taken named, as likewise the mode of making the returns. The pio- clamation was accompanied withan official bulletin, show ing the political and commercial advantages to be gained by annexation. It is evident that General Grant will be deeply disappointed at the decision of the Senate, though he may live to learn the wisdom of the action of the Chamber. On the 17th March the President assembled the Republican Senators in his room of the Senate wing of the Capitol, excluding the members of the Foreign Re lations Committee, known to be unfavourable to the pro ject. Most of those who came at his call expressed them- selves favourable to the scheme ; and Senator Cameron, who had voted in Committee against the ratification, changed his mind. It was then thought that the treaty was progressing favourably, but it requires a two-thirds majority, and the bugbear of " rings" stands in the way. One of the Erie cases has been tried in the New York Supreme Court, at special term, before Judge Bar nard. The directors brought an action to recover from Mr. Vanderbilt $1,000,000 in money, and $3,500,000 in stock paid to Lim in settlement of ihe first great Erie war, on the plea that it was a fraudulent arrangement, and that Mr. Vanderbilt was particeps jraudis. The testimony of Mr. Jay Gould has been given in lull, and is not calculated even on his own showing to raise the character of his transactions in the estimation of the public. According to Gould's version the proceedings seem all to have been based on the pleasant rule that two parties are to fight, while a third party bears the blows. The railway kings made all the II orld resound with the noise of their battle, but all the time there was an unseen current of strategy by which the losses incurred on the grand operations wet e adjusted and fixed on the shoulders of the shareholders. We closed our arrangement, said Gould, with Vanderbilt to take $5,000,000 of his stock at $7O, and to settle his loss in the pool, abort $1,000,000. "The company had already settled with Schell and Work, and were to settle with Drew; we wore to guarantee another million, and the Erio Company were to purchase $5,000,000 of stock at 80, and were to pay him $1,000,000, and he was to have two seats on the board. In evidence was tendered a receipt by Mr. Schell of $429,250 for the settlement of his loss, as also for $25,000 for counsel fees.. Also two cheques, one for $460,000 and the other for $540,000. payable to Mr. Jay Gould, and indorsed, Pay C. Vanderbilt.' Also, a note announcing the sending of 50,000 shares of Erie Railway Stock to Work, Davis, and Barton, to be delivered to Mr. Gould on his payment of $2,500,000. Also, a cheque for $2,500,000 by Smith, Gould, Martin, and Co., payable to Work, Davis, and Barton." We have no right to discuss this case on Mr. Jay Gould's ex parte statement, but the fact is clear that the very persons who made the arrange ments with Mr. Vanderbilt now charge him with partici pating in a fraudulent transaction, and endeavour to make him disgorge. The testimony of Mr. Fisk was, in a high degree, amusing, and made all New York laugh. Closely cross-examined, as he was, little could be got from him, except what be wanted to tell. He went on the prin ciple that the whole thing was "a gigantic swindle ; an almighty robbery," for which the State prison ought to be built larger; and after Vanderbilt's proposal to divide the profits and losses bad been accepted, after the papers had been passed round and signed, "I told Gould that we had sold ourselves to the devil." When questioned as to the time he entered the Erie board, he said he remembered the 13th Oct., 1867, as it was an episode in his life. " Why, Sir ?" " Because 1 had no grey hairs at that time." The old man Drew was no better than a batter-pudding ; Eldridge had got demoralized,and there was no head nor tail to the concern. His descriptions of his interviews with Van derbilt were amusing. In one the Railway King was sitting on a bed, and Fisk noticed the four buckles on his shoes, thinking that if great men wore those shoes, he might want a pair like them. The thing which most impressed him, however, was the " almighty robbery by that man Vanderbilt." From the zin.ment he signed the first paper ho describes himself as going with the robbers, and keepirg with them up to now. How many more of the fraudulent papers he signed, he does not know. In cross quest:oning him on the space left for the conspirators (as Fisk called them) to sign, the counsel desired to know if he had had a glass of wine ; and some fencing followed. "Can not remember what ?" asked the counsel. " What you are going to say, probably ;" answered Fisk. When pressed as to what he meant by joining the robbers, he said, " after signing those papers an entire change had come over the position we had occupied, and the acts we had done towards this corporation." He was asked if he meant that from then till now he bad joined the rob bers, and he said that before he had no lot or part with them, but that after having done what he ought not to do, he had sold himself to them, standing thenceforth on their basis. He enumerated the robbers as Schell, Work, Van derbilt, Rapalo. It will he observed that throughout the evidence Fisk took up the position that he had been be trayed by Drew's tears and Vanderbilt's entreaties into a nefarious transaction injurious to the corporation he repre sented. Jobbery he was by that suit endeavouring to undo. It is probable we will hear more of Mr. Burt's proceedings on behalf of the English shareholders in Erie before going to press, and the reason of the false report that he had resigned the agency. The mail news left him busily engaged in contending for their rights. He had retained Messrs. Barlow and Tracy as counsel, and the case was to be heard before Judge Ingraham of the State Court, and Judge. Woodruff of the Federal Court. If the decision be in favour of the English shareholders they can elect the three next directors, and three in the following year, which will eventually give them a majority in the board. Meanwhile, however, the books are closed against the owners of the English shares, and watch and ward are kept at the Grand Opera House,which has, however, in vain tried to prevent writs being served. Mr. Frederick A. Lane has arrived in' England, but his business is a mystery. Rumours, too,of a gigantic conspiracy are freely circulated from the Opera House, representing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the New York Central as having engaged the English shareholders in a conspiracy to rain the Erie,whereby the formidable competitor of both for the Western traffic would be removed. It appears by the papers now to hand that, on the 17th March, Mr. Burt addressed the New York Senate Committee on Railroads in a speech spreading over three closely printed columns of theimorning papers. His arguments were ably delivered, but the opinion was generally held that he would not suc ceed, as he could not without the lobby expenditure of a large sum, which he was not authorized to make, and perhaps would not on principle. His aim is the repeal by the present Legislature of the Act of May, 1869, which continues Gould, Fisk, Lane, and Tweed in the manage ment of the road until 1874. Through Mr. Tweed's in fluence that law was passed, and his influence now is even stronger than it was then. Mr. Burt evidently intends to fight it out to the last, and the trial, of which we sketch Fisk and Gould's evidence to recover from Commodore Vanderbilt what they allege to be the plunder resulting from a nefarious plot, must strengthen Mr. Burt's cause, while it is for the direct interest of New York that he should succeed. The Presse announces the departure last Thurs day of Prince Pierre Bonaparte from Havre for America. We hope that irritable gentleman will, while residing in the Republic, be on his good behav►our, for the citizens do not like being shot, and are apt to act hastily in antici pation of any hostile movement when they get into an argument with a notorious fire- eater. The Prince has been mulcted in £l,OOO for the benefit of Victor Noir's family, and though acquitted of the criminal portion of the charge, ho has been banished from France by a decree of the Emperor. The Princess and children have gone to Switzerland. Charles H. Lewis has been confirmed as Minis ter Resident at Lisbon, and John Russell Jones at Brus sels. Doubts had been expressed touching the latter, but they were baseless. C. C. Andrews of Minnesota was at the same time confirmed as Minister Resident, Stockholm; Robert C. Kirk, Ohio, Minister Resident, Uruguay ; Gus tave Jaraeke, Pennsylvania, Consul at Augsburg. The nomination of General Sickles was discussed and strongly supported by Mr Sumner, but opposed by Mr. Trumbull Though the opposition was powerful it availed nothing, and General Sickles was confirmed in his appointment. The following consular appointments have been confirmed: James R. Weaver, at Antwerp ; D. J. Williamson, at Callao ; and A. A. Thompson, at Goderich, Canada. Eugene Schuyler is to be Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, green MONETARY REPORTS.-SATURDAY. In floe Stock Exchange to-clay a quiet feeling has been noticed. For railway stocks there has been a healthy inquiry, and a further rise has taken place in prices ; but foreign bonds have been depressed. Consols have been firm, but not active, at previous quotations, viz., 93a, 9312 far money and the 7th instant, and 931, 93g - - for the May account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 91i, 9?. Exchequer Bills, par to 4s. prem ; India Five per Cent?, 113,1134; and India Bonds, 20s. to 25s..prem. As yegards Colonial Government securities, the prin cipal transactions have been in New South Wales, but prices have been without change. In the market for English railway stocks there has-been a continuance of firmnes), and an almost general advance has taken place in prices. Great Eastern . has risen ; Great Northern, •1 ; ditto A, 2 ; Great Western, -1 London and Brighton, 2; Metropo litan, / ; Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 1 ; North Staffordshire, 2 ; Shropshire Union, 1-; South- Eastern, ; and ditto deferred, 1. For Indian stocks there has been a moderate demand, at about previous quo tations. Canadian shares have been firm, and Great Western have risen *. As regards foreign bonds, Dutch- Rhenish have risen / ; but South Austrian and Lombardo- Venetian have relapsed In the market for foreign bonds very little business has been doing. Egyptian have been flat and 12 per cent. lower. Spanish have been without change, and Peruvian have maintained previous quotations; but Turkish have been rather weaker. American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty (1885 and 1887) Bonds have fallen and Erie shares Bank shares have been in limited requegt, but prices have ruled firm. Chartered of India, Australia, and China have risen Telegraph shares have been more freely dealt in, and the movements have been favourable. Anglo-American and Anglo-Mediterranean have advanced ; British Indian Submarine, Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, and French Cable, West India and Panama shew a rise of Telegraph Construction and Silver's Indiarubber shares have been in request, and have risen 1. Hooper's Telegraph Works have been firmer in sympathy, and have been done at 1 to dis. Business in miscellaneous securities has been only mode rate. Royal Mail Steam have receded 1. Owing to the approach of the 4th of the month, there has been good demand for money to-day. Money, how ever, has been plentiful, and three months' paper has been negotiated at 2,1 to 3 per cent. Paris s advices state that at a meeting of the Suez Canal Company the directors shewed that on the 31st of December last, they had in, or coming in, from different sources 20,000,000 francs, but that the expenses for the present year for supplementary works to the canal and -for the coupon of January will require 30,000,000 francs. No dividend, therefore, will be paid in July. The Bank of England have given notice that, on and after. Wednesday, April 6, the standard weight of gold will be computed on assays to 1-3000th part, expressed in, thousandths and thirds of thousandths. _ _ _ - A prospectus has appeared of the General Marine Insurance Company, with a capital of £200,000 in £lO shares. We (the Railway News) understand that the report of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, to be issued in the course of next week, will recommend to the proprietors the payment of a cash dividend on the First Preference stock for the past half-year. MARKETS-SATURDAY. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, SATTIRDAY.—Privately the produce markets have been quiet to-day. For tea there has been very little demand, but prices have been unaltered. In sugar„ both raw and refined, the transactions have been restricted, at about previous quotations. Coffee has been dull of sale, on former terms. Cocoa and rice have been quiet, but rum has sold at full rates. LONDON METAL MARKET, SATURDAY.—Iron has been in fair request, at full prices. Tin has been firm, but copper and spelter have been dull. LONDON OIL MARKET, SATURDAY.—Linseed oil has been quiet, at 32s 3d spot. Rape has been firm. English brown, spot 42s Gd. Cocoanut and other oils have been dull. LONDON TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—TaIIow has been, quiet, at 45s for Y C spot. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The market has been firm. Sales 12,000 bales. Imports 3,875 bales. CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAY. —Ordinary firsts, 1303.; seconds, 130 s. ; thirds not quoted ; fourths, 745. ; fifths, 555.; and sixths, not quoted ; 350 firkins in the market. Mild cured— no change. 20 firkins in the market. Edwin Phelps, son of the celebrated tradegian, dropped down dead in Edinburgh on Saturday morning. The consumption of horse-flesh has been con stantly increasin ,, in Paris. In 1868 2,241 animals were sent to the butchers, including a few asses and mules, the whole producing 484,200 kilogrammes of meat. In 1869 the number of horses slaughtered was 2,758, which gave over 550,000 kilogrammes of meat. AN EXAMPLE FOR THIEVES.—A case of con science in which Charles Yellowplush might have been the principal, has occurred at Milwaukee. Some years ago, a gentleman there was robbed of a $lOO bond. The thief has now sent it back, with the information that it has " layed on his stummuck ever sense." His reason for taking it was simple : " i tuk it for i wanted munny." His reason for not selling it is rather more complicated : Evry time i went to sell the thing sumthing told me not. to, and i did n't. His surrender of the security is uncon ditional : " Here it is for i can't keep it no longer." Excellent, if not grammatical ! praiseworthy, if not ortho graphical ! There are men who can spell a great deal better than he can, who might follow the Milwaukee hief's example.— Tribune. UAJOLERY.— We all know :ttAv often the current meaning of a word has e'. .t to be wideiy different from that implied in its derivation. The word at the head of this article is a case in point • for "to cajole" originally meant (says Menage) to treat a person as you do a caged bird—to play with and pet him, and make him learn tricks tor your amuse ment. There is, indeed, a hint in the etymology books that, like the similar word enjoler, cajole may have an unpleasant connection with gaol ; but the weight of authority leans to cage. Anyhow, the word was early used of love-making, to which primitive use we will now restrict it. Cajolery, then, will be flirtation with a difference, and a most' important one. Flirtation proper is a game in which both sides know what they are about, a mere trial of skill ; or else it is a bit of more or less cruel play on the part of one who uses the other party as the Roman fencer did the dummy on which he practised his cuts and thrusts. We say more or less cruel, though we believe it is generally less ; for no one, if not very green and very foolish withal, was ever much hurt by mere flirtation. It is a far more innocent game than they would have us believe who never were able to play at it. The danger is, when the element of real passion comes in, when the flirt, intent on con quest, gets to be ever so little in earnest. Then at once the playful joust is turned into a combat d l'outrance, and what was mere fun becomes reprehensible—becomes, in fact, cajolery.—. Press and St. James's Chronicle. LADvERTIsEmENT. i Consumption, and all nervous, baious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfe_tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabic's. 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 of 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—"R0me, July '2l, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta A rabica 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 25. Cure No. 46,170.—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). "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con. stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Aaria Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; 5 lb 11s; 12 lb 22s 24 lbs 4 s.— Also D U BARRY'S REVALENTA A RABICA. CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 558 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s 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. COOPER—On the 30th ult., at Deal, the wife of Captain H. F. Cooper, R.M., of a daughter. MACKENZIE -On the let inst., at Mountgerald, Mrs. Mac kenzie, of Findon, of a daughter. MARRIA GES. KINGSCOTE—EIDLEY —On the 31st ult., at Holy Trinity, Alarylebone, Henry Bloomfield Kingscote, Esq., R.H.A., to Louisa Katherine, eldest daughter of the late Majot- General Charles W. Ridley, C.B, _ _ RAWLE —`WATT—On the 2d inst., at St. George's, Cam berwell, Edward Frank Rawl', to Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of John Wyatt, Esq., of Coburg-road, Camber well, and the Bank of England. DEATH& BLAKE - On the 31st ult., at 47, Piccadilly, Charles Titconab Blake, aged 52. CvnzoN—On the 31st ult., at Cdldwell, Tenbury, Mr. Henry Curzon, aged 75. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of MiJdleeetcr - ' Monday, April 4, 1870,