The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-13 00:00:00

THE LATE CHARLES DICKENS. The public regret for the sudden loss of so widely popular an author as Charles Dickens is vividly displayed in the eagerness to obtain every scrap of intelligence which his friends or associates can furnish. Many sin gular and touching incidents have been mentioned in con nection with his unlooked-for end. A melancholy signi ficance now attaches to the last words in the last num ber of " Edwin Drood," in which the story, in the anthor's words, " Comes to an end for a time." It is related of him that when startled and distressed by the news of the death of Thackeray even more sudden than his own, Charles Dickens said, " I wonder whether I shall be missed as much." If he could have foreseen the universal expressions of regret from the Queen herself downwards, which are current to-day, he would not have doubted the answer. Her Majesty always prompt in expressing the sentiments of her people when those sentiments most deserve the expression, has lost no time in communicating her regret to the bereaved family, and the following telegram has, through the agency of the "Central Press," been forwarded throughout the country : " Mr. Arthur Helps, on becoming acquainted with the death of Mr. Charles Dickens, telegraphed the lamentable intelligence to the Queen at Balmoral, and immediately received the following sympathetic reply : " From Colonel Ponsonby to Mr. Helps, Council Office. "The Queen commands me to express her deepest re gret at the sad news of Charles Dickens's death." This feeling message was at once transmitted to the family at Gadshill, and will doubtless tePd. More than any other expression of human sympathytould possibly do, to soothe them in their distress, The Daily News states that when Mr. Dickens visited the Queen a few months since her Majesty was personally occupied with the consideration of some means by which she might, in her public capacity, express her sense of the '.value of Mr. Dickens's services to his country and to literature. The Queen was ready to confer any distinction which Mr. Dickens's known views and tastes would permit him to accept, and after more than one title of honour had been declined, her Majesty desired that he would, at least, accept e, place in her Privy Council. A pleasant anecdote of the Queen's kindly appreciation of his works has been told. When Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, was last at Balmoral, her Majesty called him into her own private library, and shewed him the complete set of Mr. Dickens's works which he had recently sent to her among her chosen authors. She directed Mr. Helps, knowing his friendship for Charles Dickens ; to tell the author where she had placed his books. She little thought the kindly message would come too late, for it did not reach Gads hill till • owner lay unconscious. The following particulars of the circumstances attending Mr. Dickens' death have been supplied :—Some particulars are sup phed to Us of the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Charles Dickens. He was at Rochester on Tuesday the 7th inst. ; on Wednesday he was employed at his literary labours until dinner time. When at dinner he was seized with a violent pain - in the head, and fell down becoming totally unconscious. He was placed on a sofa in the dining-room as it was not considered advisable to remove him upstairs. Mr. S. Steele, of Strood, his local medical adviser, was sent for, and found him labouring under a severe form of apoplexy. Stertorous breathing had taken place, and the extremities very soon became cold. Mr. Steele remained with him until near midnight, when Mr. F. Carr Beard, surgeon, of Welbeck-street, London, an old personal friend of Mr. Dickens, arrived with Mrs. Collins, and Miss Dickens, daughters of the great novelist. Mr. Beard immediately consulted with Mr. Steele, but they had little hope. Mr. Dickens was still unconscious, and remained in that state up to the time of his death. Mr. Beard remained with him all night. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, the eminent physician of Grosvenor street, was telegraphed for, and arrived on Thursday afternoon. He agreed with Messrs. Beard and Steele, in considering the case a hopeless one from the first. The death took place at a quarter past six. The deceased was well on the Wednesday, and wrote a great deal during the day. He had lately had no premonitory symptoms of an affection of the brain. He had not been ill since his indisposition, about twelve months since, arising from the fatigue of travelling. A post-mortem examination has been talked of, but seems uncertain. The day of his death was, strange to say, the anniversary of the Staple hurst accident, in which it will be remembered he was in great peril, and from which some of those nearest to him consider he received a physical shock from which he never really recovered. The friends in the habit of meeting Mr. Dickens privately recall now the energy with which he depicted that dreadful scene, and how as the climax of his story came, and its dread interest grew, he would rise from the table, and literally act the parts of the several sufferers to whom he had lent a helping hand. Now that he is gone it is re membered, too, with absolute pain, that one of the first surgeons of the day, who was present when this Staple hurst story was told soon after its occurrence, remarked that " the worst of these railway accidents was the difficulty of determining the period at which the sys tem could be said to have survived the shock, and that instances were on record of two or three years having gone by before the life sufferer knew that he was seriously hurt." But the medical testimony as to the imme diate cause of Mr. Dickens's death is definite and precise. Apoplexy—an effusion of blood on the brain, the cause an overstrained system, and the result one which was only staved off twelvemonths ago, when he was induced to obey his doctor's injunctions and to suspend his readings in public—has carried him away at a comparatively early age. Several of our con temporaries give interesting details of matters which have come specially under their individual observati an. The Daily News, with which Dickens was so intimately associated, tells us how he carried his habit of thorough energy and earnestness, even into his amateur theatricals. " Charles Dickens was eminently dramatic in his genius and his tastes. Some of his dearest and closest friends were actors, and from the time of Mr. Macready to that of Mr. Fetcher his chosen intimates included many of the chief lights of the British stage. As an amateur actor he himself was unsurpassed and unsurpassable. Those who remember the performances on behalf of the Guild of Literature and Art; those given privately at Tavistock-house about a dozen years ago ; and those held on behalf of the Douglas Jerrold Memorial Fund, know that the dramatic readings which took the world by storm of late years were the ripened fruit of a long and intense admiration for and leaning to the stage. The most powerful and the most painful of Mr. Dickens's impersonations—Fagin, the Jew—Bill Sikes, the murderer, and his victim—had their germ in the delineation of the light-house keeper, in the drama written by Mr. Wilkie Collins expressly for his friend ; and some of the most competent judges have declared that the English stage lost an orna ment, which would have revived its brightest days, by Charles Dickens succeeding as an author and making literature his profession. But Mr. Dickens's earnestness was such that he not only took upon his own shoulders the most arduous tasks connected with the amateur performances for charitable objects with which he so often associated himself, but superintended the minutest detail, and often worked with his own hands to en sure what he held to be the necessary effect. There are men living who remember his occupying himself for a whole day with hammer and nails on the stage of Miss Kelly's Theatre, while it was matter for playful jocularity among brave spirits who have gone before that Dickens had converted himself into an amateur cheek-taker, and sat in the receipt of custom with Arthur Smith all day long at the Gallery of Illustration, when the Jerrold performances were about to be given. This is not the place' to speak of the intense and laborious care he bestowed upon the performances given at his London house, or of the days he devoted to the superintendence of stage effects. The only place at which there was a chance of seeing Dickens at this time, said his intimates, was on the amateur stage, and there, absorbed in the subject of the hour, he would be found, resting one arm in the hand of the othe r, lookin g at the drops, and cogitating upon their effect for the coming night, or working like any scene-shifter at the properties. This was Dickens all over. He never rested, and never seemed to tire. His active mind has, alas ! worn out his frame, and he has died, like Kempenfelt, pen in hand, literally from over-work." This activity he carried into everything. It has been remarked that " Thackeray in Houndsditch, Thackeray in Bethnal-green or at Camden-town, would have appeared anomalous ; as well could we picture Carlyle at Cre morne, or Tennyson at Garraway's ; but Charles Dickens, when in town, was übiquitous. He was to be met, by those who knew him, everywhere—and who did not know him ? Who had not heard him, and who had not seen his photographs in the shop windows ? The omnibus conductors knew him, the street-boys knew him ; and perhaps the locality where his recognition would have been least frequent —for all that he was a member of the Athenaeum Club—was Pall-mall. Elsewhere he would turn up in the oddest places, and in the most in clement weather ; in Ratcliff Highway, on Haverstock hill, on Camberwell-green, in Gray's Inn-lane, in the Wandsworth-road, at Hammersmith Broadway, in Nor ton Folgate, and at Kensal New Town. A hansom whirled you by the Bell and Horns at Brompton, and there was Charles Dickens striding, as with seven-league boots, seemingly in the direction of North-end, Fulham. The Metropolitan Railway sent you forth at Lisson-grove, and you met Charles Dickens plod ding speedily towards the Yorkshire Stingo. He was to be met rapidly skirting the grim brick wall of the prison in Coldbath-fields, or trudging along the Seven Sisters-road at Holloway, or bearing, under a steady press of sail, undernath Highgate Archway, or pursuing the even tenor of his way up the Vauxhall Bridge-road. He seemed to prefer the. lengthy thoroughfares of our exterior boulevards to narrow and intricate streets. They offered, perhaps, a better opportunity for • fair and honest walking, and for the performance of that self-appointed task of pedestrianism which for so many years he had undertaken, an ! which well-nigh undeviatingly, and wherever he was—in London, at home at Gaxishill, in France, in Italy, or in America—he performed to its last rood and furlong. Where he- had travelled longest, where he had looked deepest and learned most , was in inner London. He was no Regent-street lounger ; he scarcely ever mentions Pall Mall ; he rarely alludes to Piccadilly : he is not much at home in fashionable squares ; he is not to be found in the Ladies' Mile ; he is not at home at Brompton, or in the Regent's Park, or in Great Gaunt-street, or at Green wich, or Richmond, or any of the localities so well be loved by Thackeray. But he knew all about the back streets behind Holborn, the courts and alleys of the Borough, the shabby sidling streets of the remoter suburbs, the crooked little alleys of the City, the dank and oozy wharfs of the water,side. He was at home in all lodging-houses, station-houses, cottages, hovels, Cheap Jackie caravans, workhouses, prisons, - school-rooms, THE S U , LONDON, MONDAY' MORNING, JUNE 13. 1870. chandlers' shops, back attics, barbers' shops, areas, back yards, dark entries, public-houses, rag-shops; police-courts, and markets in poor neighbourhoods. And, curiously, from these localities, unseemly and unsavoury as they might be, he brought pictures of life and manners, and produced characters of men and women and children that have been the wonder and delight and edification of millions, not only of his own countrymen, but of strangers, at the uttermost ends of the earth." This experience he turned to profitable account, and the Times in defending him from the charge of vulgarity says, "In one sense he was vulgar ; he delighted in sketching the characters not of dukes and duchesses, but of the poor and lowly. He had listened to their wants and sorrows, seen them in their alleys and garrets, had learnt their accents and dialect by heart, and then, with a truth and liveliness all his own, he photographed them in his immortal works. In that sense alone was Charles Dickens " vulgar." He was of the people, and lived among them. His was not the close atmosphere of a saloon or of a forcing-house. In the open air of the streets, and woods, and fields he lived and had his being, and so he came into closer union with common men, and caught with an intuitive force and ful ness of feature every detail of their daily life. His crea tions have become naturalised, so to speak, among all classes of the community, and are familiar to every man, high or low. How many fine gentlemen and ladies, who never saw Pickwick or Sam Weller in the flesh, have laughed at their portraits by Charles Dickens. How many have been heartbroken at the sufferings of Oliver, been indignant at the brutality of Bill Sykes, wept over the fallen Nancy's cruel fate, and even sympathised with the terrible agony of Fagin in the condemned cell, who but for Charles Dickens would never have known that such sorrows and crimes, such cruel wrongs, and such intensity of feeling existed in those lower depths of London life, far above which, like the Golden Gods of Epicurus, they lived in careless' ease, till this great apostle of the people touched their hearts and taught them that those inferior beings had hearts and souls of their own, and could be objects of sympathy as well as victims of neglect." An artist, who painted his portrait while at his work, was astonished at the trouble he seemed to take over it. Even the quaint surnames he gave his characters were the result of systematic care. It is said that when he saw a strange or odd name on a shop board, or in walking through a village or country town, he entered it in his pocket book, and added it to his reserve list. Then, runs the story, when he wanted a striking surname for a new character, he had but to take the first half of one real name, and to add it to the second half of another, to produce the exact effect upon the eye and ear of the reader he desired. " The Mystery of Edwin Drood," his unfinished work, gave its author, it is said, more trouble than any other book. in connection with this subject we may quote a letter written by the author the very day of his fatal seizure in reply to one venturing to call in question an allusion in the tenth chapter of "Edwin Drood." Strangely enough the letter touches on those sacred topics which were most fitting thoughts for the last few days of his waking life : " Gad's Hill-place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Wednesday the Bth June, 1870. " Dear Sir,—lt would be quite inconceivable to me— but for your letter—that any reasonable reader could pos sibly attach a scriptural reference to a passage in a book of mine, reproducing a much abused social figure of speech, impressed into all sorts of service, on all sorts of inappro priate occasions, without the faintest connection of it with its original source. lam truly shocked to find that any reader can make the mistake. I have always striven in my writings to express veneration for the life and lessons of our Saviour; because I feel it ; and because I re-wrote that history for my children—every one of whom knew it from havinc , it repeated to them, long before they could read, and almost as soon as they could speak. But I have never made proclamation of this from the house-tops.— Faithfully yours, " CHARLES DICKENS." THE PURIFICATION OF THE BALLOT BOX. The bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment has finally passed the house, and will in all likelihood be ap proved by the President. Thus it becomes a law after a long and thorough ventilation in both branches of Con gress, and by the general press of the country. It pro vides substantially a thorough protection of the ballot box from frauds. It imposes heavy penalties not only on fraudulent voters, but on all aiders and abettors in fraud at elections ; on the judges and inspectors who knowingly refuse to receive honest votes or knowingly receive dis honest ones ; on any person who attempts by bribery, intimidation, or threats to prevent any one from voting or from doing any of the acts necessary to qualify him to vote, and on any person who shall oppress or injure another on account of his vote. It gives to United States marshals the power to arrest persons for such offences, and United States courts the power to try them, and it gives the President authority to enforce the execution of judicial processes under the Act by the employment of the naval and mili tary forces. It provides that any person, a candidate, who has been deprived of his election by reason of the denial to any citizens of the right to vote, may bring suit to recover his office in Federal or State courts, as he may choose. It provides also penalties against persons who accept offices knowing themselves to be ineligible, and abolishes special State taxes on Chinese immigrants. The bill, it will be seen, is broad as the linion in its provi sions. It protects the darky down South, the Chinamen on the Pacific coast, and the honest vote in New York city. While it is purely a party measure and has been passed in both Houses by a purely party vote, it is broad enough and long enough to cover both parties, and will in its provisions operate impar tially and faithfully for a pure ballot box, without re gard to political complexion. The penalties imposed by it are severe, but they are aimed at crimes which need severe punishment. We have so long been under the rule of the party roughs of this city that we shall have reason to rejoice if the bill becoming a law is rigidly enforced, and none but the party roughs or the political organisations dependent on fraudulent elections for success are apt to regret it. Especially will the bill serve to secure the purification of the ballot box if the uniform Naturali sation Bill now pending in the Senate is also passed. The latter 'gives the power of naturalisation into the hands of the United States courts and specifies that a foreigner cannot vote within less than six months of the date of his naturalisation. The two bills, it is therefore obvious, are admirably calculated, besides the service they may render the newly made voters of another race and complexion, to rid New York of the infamous frauds so long imposed on honest voters by the hurried naturalisation of all the newly arrived foreign element a few days before election, and the repeating and intimidation practised by ruffianly voters and ruffianly inspectors at the polls.—New York Herald. GENERAL O'NEILL INTERVIEWED. The New York papers just received are full of details of the closing scenes of the Fenian raid. They are unani mous in ridiculing it as a complete fiasco, and although they are inclined to be a little satirical at the expense of the Canadians, " whose bodies fright has no doubt made as blue as their noses," they waste very little sympathy on the discomfited Hibernians. An anecdote is told of an Ameriean unacquinted with the broguewho stood read ing a Fenian placard headed imposingly " Erin-go bragh." " Good Heavens !" he exclaimed, mistaking the word "they have precious little to brag about." The morti fication of a group of Irish bystanders was very great. The New York Herald of thes3oth ult, says : The great chieftain O'Neill is still in the Burlington jail, and the chances for his obtaining the requisite $20,000 bail are exceedingly small. If, however he should be given his liberty he would fare hard if he fell into the hands of the men whom he so stupidly betrayed. Some of them when leaving St. Albans last night, after cheering the citizens here, indulging in a song of the John Brown refrain, with the words os " We will hang General O'Neil to a sour apple tree, as we go marching home." As a matter of course, O'Neill, having attained such sudden celebrity, has been " interviewed " by a corre spondent of the adventurous New 1 ork Herald. General O'Neill, says his visitor, is apparently about 36 years of age, is short and strongly built, has an unreadable, impas sable countenance, denoting determination, and a very gentlemanly and quiet demeanour. He speaks with a strongly Celtic accent and measured deliberation. About the first words the General uttered were a severe con demnation of the reports of the engagements at Franklin, where he was made a captive by United States Marshal Foster, as the accounts were published in the New York papers. He stated emphatically that these reports were erroneous in many particulars. Correspondent : General, you can give me a brief sketch of the initiatory proceedings whence sprung the invasion ? General O'Neill: Yes, sir. This movement on the Canadian frontier has long been contemplated, and I have carefully considered the subject for two years. You re member the attack and battle at Fort Erie in 1866, in which the Fenians were victors. I saw at that time that Irish troops on Canadian soil would fight with desperatio and courage, and that carefully organised and properly disciplined they would prove valiant soldiers. At that time we failed because our men did not have arms and ammunition. That was all they needed ;so since that date I have been busy collecting twenty thousand stand of arms and in perfecting the organisation of the Bro therhood to get the entire order throughout the country to understand that we must have troops, means for trans portation, and quick, decisive movements up to the inva sion. All the territory was carefully mapped out and every projected movement was so timed that the occupa tion . of Canada was to be simultaneous and general along the line. I expected on Tuesday last to have had sixteen hundred men at Franklin, by Wednesday noon over 1,000 more were to report there. Every precaution had been taken to impose secrecy, and though the country is flooded with a sea of British spies, not one detail of the plans was divulged. Thus both Governments were blinded. It was as much our object to evade the United States authorities as it was to battle with the Canadians, The assertion of General Sherman that we intended to compromise this country with England is therefore untrue. We had no such ob ject most of us having fought in the United States armies. Our end was simply to liberate Ireland, through Canada as a base of operations. I was to begin the assault on Canadian territory with 1,600 troops. Even if only 800 arrived I foresaw that they would be ample to take a position with, and this was all we wanted at the outset, as many of the promised troops were veterans. I knew that they would make a good beginning. This, you see, was all that we wanted. Once established a permanent footing in British America and in trenched in a strong position, and 100,000 Fenians will rush to the front. It was my duty to form the nucleus, and the service was very critical, and the slightest mismove would prove disastrous. This I foresaw, and planned accordingly. To begin a military enterprise of this kind one thing should be kept in mind —the influence of the results upon public sentiment. A brilliant beginning promised us much from the American people, who have generally been very friendly to the movement. I then decided to move on Franklin with 1,600 men, this point to be the main objective one. Minor and supplementary movements were to be made at Malone, and they were simple decoys. The Red River detachment was included in the campaign under my direc tion. Well, on Tuesday last, the Fenian Brotherhood began to send men forward, and the country was soon aroused. Instead of the one thousand men I expected at Franklin from Boston, one hundred and forty came, and instead of the six hundred from Northern New York and Vermont, only sixty-five reported for duty. In time the local authorities offer various explanations and excuses for being dilatory. They say that they could not transport the men. The troops did not come as they should. In stead of 3,000 on Wednesday T had 300. With these men (emphatically) I had to move forward, for the United States authorities were at my heels, and Marshal Foster was in my camp, watching me closely. I planned an immediate advance. The Marshal came into camp, but he dare not undertake to thwart me. Surrounded by my soldiers I would not have submitted to an arrest. I regretted very much the necessity of having to act with such an insignificant force, but I could not help it. The men were not at hand, and before me was a hostile country with hostile troops, and behind me the United States authorities, each waiting to overthrow us, and here you see the fault of the entire expedition. The men and those who forwarded them did not have a proper appreciation of the value of time. Every moment is victory in such an emergency. Soldiers must always be prepared at least twenty-four hours before an important march. Of course, then, I did not expect or desire a fight ; but I wanted to intrench on Canadian soil, and get our material across the line, then to find out the number and position of the Canadian troops, as we had no considerable force. A general engagement was out of the question. My plan was to execute a flank movement, by falling on the enemy's left with 200 veterans, and then attacking him desperately in front. Could we have done that, as we would with'a sufficient force, we would have whipped or captured the Canadian troops. The troops I had were mostly raw, not fit for a flank movement. When within a short distance of the enemy, who was advanta geously posted on a hill in front of us, I sent out a skirmish company to draw his fire and ascertain more correctly his strength and position. In a few moments most of the skirmishers returned under a brisk fire from the enemy. I was then at Richardson's house, close by the skirmish line, with some sixty men. About one half the command was ordered up a steep hill to the left of the road'facing the enemy, and returned the fire, but without effect. I then left the house. Leaving General J. J. Donnelly in charge, I ascended the hill under the enemy's fire for the purpose of keeping the men in order and directing their fire. If they' had been old soldiers I wou l d have at tempted the flank movement with them, but they were not, or at least they did not appear as if they were, and after having them fall back a short distance I sent two messengers closet o hu b r r y y . up Fearingthe thatf rom t h New edwe delay wouldr k, who rive l I the enemy time to bring up his reinforcements I started myself, in company with Boyle O'Reilly, to hurry our men up, in order to give a speedy and decisive turn to the conflict, which was nothing more than a tussle between the skirmish lines. Just about half way between the lines in front and the men coming up, and on the road I was arrested by Marshal Foster and his deputy, who called the citizens about the vicinity to assist him. All other accounts of my arrest are false. The Marshal told me he had pre-arranged for my arrest, and that he had sought for the assistance he jiad employed before the fatal event took place. This unfortunate accident was decisive for bad. Had it not occurred, I believe ten thousand men would flood Canadian soil to'-day. The events that fol lowed were even more disastrous. General Donnelly was badly wounded and incapacitated for service. Then the ranking officer should have commanded. But nothing of the kind was attempted. There was lamentable want of judgment and military decision with those remaining in charge, and our success at St. Albans and vicinity was killed. Correspondent : How about the charges against you by the Fenians and press? General O'Neill : They are false. lam devoted to Ire land, and my record proves how much of a coward I am. Every reporter on the field sent me this letter. Mere General O'Neill drew out a letter signed by the reportere present at the fight, in which they affirmed his' military capacity, order, good judgment, watchfulness, and exem plary conduct.] As for the men, they don't understand matters. They know nothing of organisation and law, and suppose it the simplest thing in the world to invade a hostile country. Soldiers need patience as well as courage. I simply ask the American people to suspend their judgment of my actions-, and await investigation, which will be soon. I tell you " emphatically " the facts are not known. They will transpire in their own good time. Correspondent : What was the ultimatum of this inva sion? General O'Neill : The liberation of Ireland. Canada was to be our fortress and Ireland our field. Had we effected a permanent hold at Franklin, got our troops to gether in fine condition, 50,000 men would surely have followed. We would have subsisted upon the farmers and products of that country. Many promises from Irishmen of wealth throughout the Union were made tendering large sums of money in case of success. No campaign ever had a more auspicious promise. Correspondent: You say there was no intention of complicating the United States authorities, diplo matically ? General O'Neill : None. We wished to avoid precisely that, for this was important in order to secure public sympathy. Evasion of, and not resistance to, the United States was our policy. Correspondent : Is the Fenian cause killed? General O'Neill : Not dead. it can never die as long as Ireland is what it is. True, men will not gather weak ness and disgust from this invasion, but, profiting by mistakes will await a renewed effort against British tyranny. Time will bring wonders. This invasion will teach a severe lesson to England. It shews she has powerful and confident foes. Let her take care. I shall soon publish an official report of the whole proceedings, and address Americans as to the feasibility of conquering Canada. This is the only authentic statement I have made, except to a reporter from Chicago this morning. Your correspondent here submitted the interview in manuscript, and General O'Neill pronounced it correct in every particular. From what I could observe, I judge General O'Neill to be a cool, clear-headed, executive man, who is under-estimated in the public mind. In pawn and wawa in retion bjea General Grant, LAW AND POLICE. THE ALHAMBRA, LEICESTER-SQUARE. — The Lord Chan cellor has heard an appeal from a decree of the Master of the Rolls respecting the Alhambra, Leicester-square. Sir William Foster, mortgagee, with power of sale, was de fendant. The plaintiffs were the Birmingham Banking Company, who had entered into an agreement with Pasley, another defendant, for an assignment to them of his contract with Sir W. Foster for the purchase of the Alhambra, for £22,000. The company wished for the con tract as securityfor a debt owed to them by Sir W. Foster. The solicitor of the bank sent Sir W. Foster notice of the transfer, but nevertheless Sir William completed the sale wiia Pasley and received the balance due of the pur chase money without communicating with the bank. The banking company was wound up in the year 1866, and the year after the suit was instituted against Sir William to obtain compensation for the loss. The Master of the Rolls held that he was liable, and from this decree the appeal was made. The Lord Chancellor was of a diffe rent opinion, and said all future vendors of property would be greatly embarrassed if their contracts of sale and pur chase were to be arrested by notice of rights between the purchaser and third parties. He thought the suit a wholly new attempt, and there being nothing to justify it, dismissed the appeal with costs. LORD H. SEYMOUR'S WlLL.—Proceedings have been expedited in the Court of Chancery to make an additional payment of £B2 to each of the 85 London charities, under the will of the late Lord Henry Seymour. Already £4OO has been paid to each, and, in addition to the £B2 to be paid in a few days, a further sum of ' £lOO will be paid to the " Hospices de Londres " under the will of his lord ship. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A HUSBAND AND SON.— A woman, named Sarah Clark, has been brought up at the Thames Police-court, pn the charge of attempting to murder her husband and son. She was in the habit of drinking and being very violent when intoxicated. She began quarrelling with her husband, who is an old man, and who tried to avoid her. As he was going-out of the room , she ran at him with a knife and stabbed him so severely that he is not expected to live. Her son, who was in bed, jumped up to assist his father , and was severely, if not dangerously wounded by his infuriated mother. She was remanded for a week. ----•- --- - MAIL BAG ROBBERIES.—SeveraI daring mail-bag rob beries have of late taken place in the Midland and Northern districts, the latest being at Derby, on the 2d instant. Three men are now in custody for being con cerned in this robbery, as well as that of the Leicester mail-bags, a few days previously. Two were arrested in London, and on being brought up at Bow-street, sufficient evidence was given to warrant a remand. THE ROBBERY IN PICCADILLY.—FrankIin and Wilson, the men charged with being concerned in the great jewel at Mr. Beaumont's, M.P., have been discharged, as the police were unable to strengthen the case against them. ALLEGED SERIOUS FORGERIES.—At Glasgow, on Thurs day, a commission merchant, named Samuel Watson Dempster, was apprehended by Superintendent Brown and Detective Wilson on a charge of having forged the signature of the firm of Messrs. H. Murray and Co., shipbuilders. Port Glasgow, to a bill for £9B 10s. on the National Bank of Scotland, dated June 1, 1870, and of having caused it to be presented at the bank for payment. The bank deferred payment until inquiry should be made as to whether the signature was genuine, but a small sum is said to have been advanced. When brought to the Central Police Office another forged bill s stated to have been found in his possession. It is believed that, following a practice which appears to have been in operation in other quarters, Dempster had been using, in the way mentioned, the names of several firms, although probably intending to meet the bills when they fell due, and before the persons whose names were employed should be made aware of the transaction. The alleged forgeries, it is calculated, will extend over several hundreds of pounds. THE ROMANTIC DIVORCE CASE --In the Court of Pro bate and Divorce on Saturday it was intimated that Mrs. Plowden, the petitioner in the case of Plowden v. Plow den, has appealed to the House of Lords against the de cision of the Judge Ordinary dismissing her petition, and further that Captain Plowden has entered a fresh suit for restitution of conjugal rights. Application was made for an order of court inhibiting the removal of Captain Plow den's child to the Continent, which was stated to be in contemplation. Lord Penzance directed the respondent to take out a writ of habeas corpus, the court having no power to make an order respecting the children in any suit for restitution. The lady, it will be remembered, is the daughter of Mr. Taylor, the extensive cocoa mer chant, and the defendant an officer in the army. The marriage was the result of an elopement. PAYMENT OY SUCCESSION DUTY.—A case bearing on this question was brought before Vice-Chancellor Malins under the following circumstances :—A Belgian gentle man came to reside temporarily in England. Whilst here he died, and in his will bequeathed to a Madame Water low a sum of £12,000, with remainder to her children. The question was whether the legatee was liable to the payment of succession as well as legacy duty, this being dependent upon the fact whether the bequest was in such a form as to create succession. His Honour held that the manner in which the property was bequeathed created succession, and that succession duty must therefore be paid. THE TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.— Vice- Chancellor James has had before him a petition of the Telegraph Construction, &c., Company, • praying for liberty to reduce its capital from £750,000 to £450.000. Mr. Wickens, who appeared in support of the petition, said the company was a thriving one, and did not require so large a capital as £ 750,000. The creditors of the company had assented to the proposed reduction of capital. The learned counsel said the court would probably think • that the company should be allowed at the expiration of a very short period to remove the words " and reduced " from its title. The Vice-Chancellor granted an order permitting the proposed reduction of capital, and allowing the dropping of the words " and reduced" at the end of a fortnight. A PRISONER CONVICTED BY A NEWSPAPER REPORTER. — In the Court of Criminal Appeal, judgment was delivered in a case under the following peculiar circumstances : Mr. Giffard, Q.C. was acting as Commissioner of Assize at Glamorgan, When a John Davis was indicted for receiving goods knowing them to have been stolen. At the trial a notice under the 4th section of the 32nd and 33rd Vic., chap. 99, was proved to have been duly served upon the prisoner ; that he had been previously convicted of larceny ; and that the goods in question were stolen. The learned Commissioner then told the jury that the prisoner must be deemed to have known such goods were stolen until he proved to the con trary. Mr. Giffard had read a newspaper report where Mr. Justice Keating was made to say that under such circumstances " it was evidence and quite conclusive " of a prisoner's guilty knowledge, whereas the words really used by that learned judge, were " that it was evidence, though not conclusive." The Court now quashed the con viction, remarking on Mr. Giffard having been led to charge the jury through this mistake, and against his own view of the law. A CHURCH-RATE CASE.—The Court of Queen's Bench gave their decision in a very important case affecting the liability of parishes in which church-rates had been re . fused for the repayment of Government loans. The Public Works Loan Commissioners had advanced £4,510 for the partial rebuilding of Wigan parish church in 1849 on the security of the church-rates ; but after three instalments had been repaid, the rate , payers refused to pay church-rates, and had ever since refused to pay them. Besides, the parish had since been formed -into ten or twelve separate ecelesias ; tical districts, and the question was raised of liability • after the lapse of the time originally contemplated for • the repayment of the loan. The Compulsory Abolition of Church Rates Act provided for the repayment of such loans by special rates, and the Court made a returnable rule for a mandamus, calling upon the present church ; t wardens of the old parish and the overseers of the various Inew townships to make annual rates for repayment, • dating from 1866, the date of demand, and simple interest on the sum unpaid since that time. , 1 CHARLES DICKENS'S FUNERAL. The funeral of Mr. Dickens, in compliance with his most precise instructions, is to be of the simplest and most private character. The mourners will be confined entirely to the members of his own family and one or two intimate friends. Even the well-meant assembling of his many other friends at the place of burial will be prevented, for neither the time nor place of interment will be known beforehand, except to the members of his own family. It is said that by a codicil in his will, dated seven days before his death, Mr. Dickens bequeaths the whole of his interest in All the Year Round to his acting editor and eldest son, coupling the bequest with such private in structions as would, he believed, ensure the character and merit of the periodical remaining unchanged after he was gone. The Temps of Paris, says that a telegraphic despatch has informed them of the death of the most powerful and popular of English novelists, Charles Dickens. There never was a more prolific writer, nor one of more sustained power. Mr. Dickens willbe regretted throughout the world where his works have been trans lated into many different languages. He died in the full vigour of his intellect. THE WEEKLY PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. The Saturday Review observes no writer can undertake the melancholy task of noticing the loss we have sustained without feeling how large a blank is made by the sudden death of an author whose compositions have furnished one of the chief sources of intellectual wealth to this generation. The language of Mr. Dickens has become part of the language of every class and rank of his coun trymen. The characters of Mr. Dickens are a portion of our contemporaries. It seems scarcely possible to believe that there never were any such persons as Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Nickleby and Mrs. Gamp. They are to us not only types of English life, but types actually existing. They at once revealed the existence of such people, and made them thoroughly comprehensible. They were not studies of persons, but persons. The characters of Mr. Dickens exist almost entirely in what they say, and this is the highest and rarest form of the art of the novelist. It is this peculiarity which perhaps has made the writings of Mr. Dickens so popular with persons of all classes, and all types and degrees of education. The sayings of the characters in them are recollected, but these sayings are themselves the constituent elements of the characters, and thus the characters of themselves become to the public a part of the public itself. The Spectator says that the greatest humourist whom England ever produced—Shakspeare himself certainly not excepted—is gone ; and though we have no intention here of making one of those hasty estimates of his great achievements which journalists too often compose in haste to repent at leisure, it seems the fittest of all moments to call attention to one of the least calculable of all effects of a great humourist's career, the wonderful influence his writings have exerted in softening the strong lines of demarcation between the different classes of English society, and the extraordinary stimulus they have thereby given to the various great efforts of the day for ameliorating wretchedness and reclaiming crime. He has taught us by his humour, as nothing else could have taught us, how full to overflowing what is called " vulgar " life is of all the human qualities, good and evil, which make up the interest of human existence. And he has given a greater impulse than any man of his generation to that righteous hatred of caste-feeling and class-cruelty which more and more distinguishes modern society, though he did not quite rise perhaps to that " enthusiasm of humanity" which some regard as the essence of Christi anity itself. The John Bull thinks it is impossible to regard the death of Charles Dickens in any other light than that of a national loss. Very often he took a different view from ourselves on questions of the first moment, whether ecclesiastical or political, but it is impossible not to feel that many men, with more professions of religion, have done infinitely less to exalt the tone of morality in their generation than the humorous author of " The Pickwick Papers." His deep love of honesty, his hatred of hypocrisy, and his bold denunciation of the shams will ever command the respect of Englishmen ; while this deep love of domestic life, his tender pathos in describing scenes of sorrow, will shew that the keen satirist had a tender heart, and that, if he could wing from his bow an arrow venomed with just indignation, lie could also write with the spirit of one who had a " love passing the love of woman." So proudly, and yet gently, we lay Charles Dickens to his rest. He has won the national heart, and, like Horace of old, we welcome even the friendly scourge of his satire. Tangit et admissus circum prmcordia ludit. When we gather again around the Christmas hearth, and read once more the genial lessons of charity hidden beneath the surface of his Christmas Tales, we may not irreverently apply to the great satirist the words of Holy Scripture—" He being dead yet speaketh." THE LIFEBOAT INSTITIITION.—The inhabitants of Kingston and Surbiton have contributed, through Mr. J. A. Dow, of the Admiralty, the liberal sum of £l3O in aid of the general fund of the National Lifeboatt Institu tion. Mr. Dow had previously collected, in conjunction with Mr. Malcolm Goldsmith and other gentlemen, the cost of the Civil Service lifeboat stationed at Wexford, on the Irish coast, which has already saved a considerable number of lives from various shipwrecks; and the annual support of which is exclusively subscribed by gentlemen in the Civil Service of the Crown. TELEGRAPHING}.—Those who witnessed some ex periments on the 15th of May in the office of the Western Union Company in this city believe that the limit of the capacity of the telegraph wires is not yet known. A com bination of circuits was formed, varying in length from 3,000 to 5,000 miles, through which Mr. H. C. Duncan, chief operator of the company in this city, and one of the most accomplished of the profession, sent messages with great ease and rapidity. The first circuit formed was from Nev Orleans, vie/ New York, to Plaister Cove, Nova Scotia, the terminus of the Atlantic Cable, a distance of 3,000 miles. The operators, thus widely separated, chatted toge ther with perfect ease, the signals coming rapidly and with great distinctness. After a few moments' conversation, another circuit of still greater length was made up, and we are informed that it was the longest land circuit through which intelligible signals were ever sent. Nine repeaters were used, one each at Rome, Georgia, Lynch burg, Virginia, New York City, Pittsburg, two at Cinci natni, one each at St. Louis, Chicago, and Memphis. The writing was returned to New Orleans almost as clearly as when leaving the office, having passed through eighteen States and 0ver . 4,800 miles of wire. The electric current traversed the distance in about three-quarters of a second. The writing was transmitted as rapidly as an ordinary short wire,—NcW Chleani TOM THE DARIEN EXPEDITION. It seems that not a little of the time and expense of the Darien Expedition might have been spared,' had the projectors referred in the first instance to the archives of Bogota. A document is preserved in those archives called " A Description of the Province of Santo Domingo del Darien, with its principal rivers, ravines, streamlets, and villages, &c." This was. compiled in 1754, and con tains a great deal of information that much research and money have lately been devoted to procure. The only doubt is as to how far it is safe to trust the calculations of the Spanish engineers, but as these have been verfied in other instances —by recent surveys on the coast and in the interior of California, for example—it might have been prudent to have credited their accuracy in this. At all events, it was hardly wise to embark, without regard to these sources of information, in expenditures which they clearly shew would be thrown away.—New York Times. EASILY SATISFIED. It is rather diverting to read in a Chicago newspaper that the Fenians of that city are in excellent spirits, and that " the news of the capture of General O'Neill will not check their operations nor diminish their ardour." We do not see why they should .be in the least depressed by the captivity of the warrior; on .the contrary, we fancy that, if we were Fenians, the effect upon us would be rather exhilarating than otherwise. Instead of disbursi ig 30,000 dols., to get the O'Neill out of ' the calaboose, as the Fenian Philadelphians propose to do, our opinion is that it would be better to pay 100,000 to keep him where he is—permitting him, of course, to send out proclama tions, pronunciamentos orations, general orders, exhor tations, and appeals without stint —everything and any thing, in short, except plans of campaigns, which are evidently not this noble General's forte..—New York Pribu 11 e. DECORATION DAY. The custom of decorating the graves of the dead is as old as human affection, and it is as beautiful as it is ancient. How many thousands day by day, in the privacy of their great sorrow, visit the cemeteries throughout the country, and there, quietly and unseen of men, lay upon the graves of the departed those tributes—which most resemble life in the proximity of death—bright flowers that woo the sunshine, and• evergreen shrubs, emblamatic of that enduring life which the grave cannot extinguish ! But it is on such public occasions as this that we see how the sympathy of the people is expressed for those whose memory has become public property by dying in the cause of their country. The celebration was grand in all its features, and exhibited a sorrowful sublimity that was not equalled in the yearj which have passed since the war. With sounds of martial music, with solemn hymns chanted above the graves, with religious discourses be fitting the ceremony, the living comrades of those who sleep in a hundred cemeteries, almost from one end of the land to the other, paid that homage which shews that the dead soldier, though passed away, is not forgotten.- The people generally participated in the feeling by abandoning business to a great extent. In this city the Custom House, the banks, and the public buildings were closed. Even Wall-street was affected with a touch of human sympa thy, and, although the day was not a legal holiday, , the money changers ceased to clink their gold out of respect for the solemnities which were being performed at Greenwood and Cypress Hill. The flags on the public buildings floated at' half staff, and guns from the forts in the harbour announced, that honours were being paid to the heroes who had died that the nation might live. Similar scenes occurred in Washington, in Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati , Buffalo, Providence,: Lowell, and many other cities. Congress on Saturday adjourned over until Tuesday in honour of the day, and the Government departments were all closed, while thousands of soldiers and citizens proceeded to the cemetery of Oak Grove, and the soldiers' cemetery at Arlington, to pay the annual tribute of this floral month to the fallen brave. This is just as it should be. We hope that the custom will be continued and become more honoured in the ob servance as years roll on. Let the dead soldiers be hon oured while the memory of their services remains with us, and that will be as long as we value a united country. Bright be the flowers above them ! " Requiescant in pace!" New York Herald, May 31. " Decoration Day "—or " Memorial Day," as we are asked to call it in the general order of the Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic—as observed yesterday was emphatically a festival of floral tribute, evidently expressive of feelings both deep and tender, and there fore removed from the shadow of vindictiveness which is so apt to mar the sacred ceremonial. The tone of the speech-making seems everywhere to have been of a cha racter to lift the mind above the irritation and the ran cour which the recollection of a great national struggle may arouse, and to fix it upon the self-sacrificing heroism whose memory and honour will endure when all the bitter feelings of the time are forgotten. Let the tone which so happily distinguished the proceedings of yesterday be but preserved, and " Memorial Day " will keep an honoured place in the calendar of our national holidays.—New York Times, May 31. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FENIANS. The English press admits that the United States Government has acted promptly in its endeavours to stop the Fenian raid. This is all very well, but we think the feeling is becoming very strong throughout the country that some means ought to be devised of putting an end to the present Fenian mode of liberating Ireland—not so much on account of the Fenians although the rank and file of *ern, being both poor and ignorant, are entitled to as much protection at our hands as we can reasonably give them ; nor yet on account of the Canadians, though as civilised neighbours they are entited to expect security and peace, as far as we are concerned--but on our own account, the United States cannot, with common decency or self - respect, permit a third per formance of this farce. We go as far as any reasonable men can expect, in allowing the Fenian Republic to be set up within our borders, and letting it raise money, enlist men and collect arms and munitions, and loudly proclaim its intention of declaring war against foreign Powers. We do not say the Govern ment is entitled to any great credit for permitting all this, for we do not know that there is any way of preventing it ; but then neither the Fenians nor anybody else can expect it to permit more than this. We cannot allow the new Republic actually to erect forts, or to keep troops under arms within our territory, but every thing short of this which it can muster funds to do, we allow it to do. But then, the impunity which attends these attempts to invade Canada involves us in a more serious responsi _bilitY. It, in the first place, encourages the adieu turers who prepare them in adhering to ' this mode of gaining a livelihood ; and it enables them to persuade the poor people who supply the money, that the assemblage of large armed mobs, for the purpose of fighting, plundering, and spreading terror through large and populous districts, is no great harm, if some one gives it the name of " war," and represents that the liberation of Ireland is the object aimed at. Amore shocking out rage than the raid three years ago was never seen in a peaceable community, but nobody was legally punished for it. Nothing whatever happened to those who took part in it, except failure—but as failure happened to Pompey, Lord Cornwallis, and Napoleon Bonaparte, it naturally has no effect whatever in convincing the common rim of Fenians that there is anything criminal in these enterprises. Moreover, we owe something in this matter to civilisation. No sane man believes that the Fenians are capable of conquering Canada, or even effecting a for midable lodgment on the soil. Even if they were able to conquer Canada, nobody believes it would produce the liberation of Ireland from British rule. It would be just as sensible to expect Russia to liberate Poland if she heard that our- Polish fellow-citizens had overpowered the gar rison of Alaska. The great body of the Canadian people hate the Fenians : a considerable body of the Irish people hate them ; so that really an invasion of Canada has no more title to excuse as a demonstration againgt England than the murder of a bar-keeper as a testimony against intemperance. Means must . have some relation to the end, in order to entitle them to the benefit of anything that may be considered praiseworthy in the end. The assassination of the British Minister might be considered - by some Fenians a good way of bringing pres sure to bear on the British Government ; but should we, on that account, pass it over as simply a foolish outburst of patriotism? It is all very well, in judging other people's actions, to try and put ourselves in their place; but, then, in doing so, we are bound not to take leave of our own judgment and moral sense. In so far as we wink at these invasions, or allow them to pass with impunity, we not only help the Fenian chiefs in their work of imposture, but we do serious injury to our own political system. We ought, therefore, to help to put an end to the disgraceful swindle, and save at least our own side of the border from being overrun once every two or three years by an armed rabble, and our own citizens' property from destruction, either by bringing the leaders of these expeditions to justice, or stationing such a force on the borders as will prevent their being attempted. It is clearly not enough to issue a proclamation and put troops in motion after the Fenian armies have appeared in the field. By that time, whole counties have been filled with alarm ; women and children driven from their homes, telegraphs cut, trains stopped, tracks torn up, and the business of large towns actually suspended, and thousands of men called away from their legitimate occupations. New York Times. TENDENCIES OF EUROPEAN POLITICS. —TO a superficial observer the contempoiary movements of European history appear to be absolutely contradicting. On one side we have a tendency to unification, and on the other to diversion ; here a passion for rational agglom eration, and there for separate and independent existence. More closely regarded, the two forces are seen to come together, and to be carrying the Empires of the old world to the point of feederal organization, where both are reconciled. The Hungarians have revived the ancient independence of the crown of St. Stephen's, and now the Czech leaders are reported by cable to be desirous of placing that of St. Wencesilau's in the same position. The autonomy of Bohemia would only bring the Austrian Empire more completely into the position of a federation of kingdms, which the North German Confederation pretty accurately represents,—New York A SPECIAL PLEADER. John Bazar, having killed a rival in his love affairs was tried and sentenced to death in New Orleans. A petition for clemency was at once sent to the Governor on his behalf, the reason for it being the prisoner's " ignor ance," and the fact that he only murdered a man in a quarrel about a woman." This was rather striking, but John Bazar, himself, sent a similar request for mercy based upon the ground that " he was not ready to appear before his Maker." He added—" Let me remind youthat it is written in the Sacred Volume, in emphatic language, binding on man and society, ` Thou shalt not kill.' " John Bazar conveniently forgot that injunction himself, but he evidently is of opinion that it ought not to be forgotten when his own neck is in jeopardy. He should have beep. a criminal lawyer. —New York Timm DEATH OF NATH ‘.NIEL WILLIS. BOSTON, May 27. Nathaniel Willis, aged 90 years, died in this city yes terday. He was the son of Nathaniel Willis, a publisher well known in the days of the Revolution, who was an apprentice with Benjamin Franklin in the printing-offic e which was situated upon the spot where the Daily Adver tiser building now stands, and was also a member of the Boston "tea party." His son, the subject of this sketch, was also a publisher and journalist. He founded the Eastern Argus of Portland, and was the original pro prietor and for many years editor of the Boston Recorder , which was established in 1816, and was the first religio us newspaper in the world. He also started the Youth's Companion, the first youth's paper. Two sons, Nathaniel Parker Willis, the poet, and Richard Storrs Willis, fol lowed the profession of their father and grandfather, and one of his daughters, Mrs. Parton, is well known as an author and a lively newspaper writer. THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL. The capital movers got another black eye on the 27th of May. It was a square stand-up fight between the Senators pro and con, and the Senaturs pro ought to feel satisfied that it is perfectly useless for them to provoke a contest any more for some time to come. The question came up while a proposition was before the Senate to appropriate 500,000 dols. for the improve ment of the Capitol grounds. Harlan, Ross, and Dick - Yates were the special advocates of capital moving, and opposed strongly expending any more money upon the improvement or adornment of the city of Washington. Nearly every other Senator, however, took ground against the removal project, though some of them argued that the country was burdened with too much debt just now to justify any appropriation for any unnecessary work. Howard, Stockton, Stewart, Drake, Davis, Morrill of Vermont, Tipton, and Corbett spoke very sensibly on the folly of agitating removal, demonstrating clearly that it could never happen, and was only calculated to do mis chief, without doing good to any human being except certain land-jobbers. Stewart well said that if a nythini ever did grow out of the agitation to remove the c a p ita one thing was certain, and that was that it would g o o New York, the seat of the commercial glory and powter of the country, and not to any city out West. The pro position to .make the appropriation was carried by the overwhelming majority of 42 yeas to 10 nays. MORMON POLYGAMY. The New York Herald of May 30th publishes a long and well written document in the shape of a letter addressed to us by Orson Pratt, Sr., in reply to a sermon delivered by Dr. Newman in the Metropolitan Methodist Church, Washington, on Sunday, the 24th of April, and whic h was printed in full on the following day. The letter, sg s the Herald, will no doubt be read with interest by our mil lion of readers; and it is certain to be reproduced in ever paper of any consequence throughout the length and readth of the land. There are those who will symlw thise with the views advanced by the Mormon Apostle. Most men will admit that they are clearly put, and that Mr. Pratt has made as good a case as it is possible to make. Unless, however, we greatly mistake, the ar ments of the Mormon Apostle will fall flat on t he great mass of the American people. It was felt 1:.) all who heard or read Dr. Newman's discourse tha t he had exhausted the subject, that he had stated the whole case fairly, that his arguments were conclusive i and that he had proved that Mormon polgamy Wit s only sanctioned, but condemned by Scripture. we e i n not see that the argument built up by Dr. Newman has been shaken in the least by all that Mr. Pratt has writtend On this subject, indeed, our minds are all made up, aIL it is not possible for any Mormon sophistry to stem th tide . of feeling which is setting in against the remaining " relic of barbarism." Mr. Pratt concludes his letter IV an appeal to the ladies of the United States ; but we ques tion whether, if our women's rights women were ev e ' more numerous, more foolish, and more powerful than they are, they would give these Mormon doctrines am substantial support. It is our opinion that both Newman and Mr. Pratt would do better if they Nv° ll n look at the question more exclusively from a New Tesn, - ment standpoint. In the New Testament the teaching I" clear. In our Christian civilisation no place is left for polygamic institutions. CENERAL FOSTER AND " MR. O'NEILL ." " The King of France, with forty thousand men, , Marched up the hill and then marched down ag ain.' But this was nothing to General O'Neill's last invasion of Canada. He likewise marched up the hill ; but he got into a fight, and while the battle was going on he carne down on the side of the hill, and, entering a house, pea haps for some refreshment, was claimed by the Un it States Marshal for the District of Vermont as his prisone r ' file Marshal and his deputy being on the ground and O' a the look out for an overt act against our neutrality ld General George P. Foster is the name of the Marsb sl ' " Sir, I shall resist your arrest," said General O'Neill' "It will be useless, sir," said General Foster. " But , I am armed," said "So am I," said F oster. " John, open the carriage door. Now, Mr. O'Neill (` 31/. ; O'Neill' is good), get into that carriage or I will put V o .,_ in. lam going to take you to St. Albans right thron the midst of your men, and if you make the s li g ht at outcry I will shoot you dead." " Mr. O'Neill" saw i th e " the game was up," and so he surrendered, obey ed orders of his superior officer, and was carried off, his 11- 0 expected adventures at the expense of the United State, culminating in Burlington jail. Now, of all the practire: jokes ever played upon the commander of an army crisis of a battle, this joke upon O'Neill is the flinr °- I) That United States M ars h a l Foster is not only a trull'rel but he is a wag ; he has not only the coolness, tact, so 311,, courage of a first-rate officer and soldier, but he h e as e le nt vein of wit and humour that would make him an x comedian. The capture and abduction of " Mr. O'Seljny, from his army in the crisis of its first battle b eate flhe curious thing produced in military science by Foxt ° bea ts Olympic, or the nigger minstrels. In point of fu n it be ay the surprise and flight of Jack Falstaff from his higl t the plunder. This remarkable capture, however, n ,i s '4 Fenian General carries with it a good moral, and it is t:,5 3 when in command of an army engaged in battle on , tile frontier enter no house for rest or re f res hment 'cl" a out first ascertaining who is inside.—New Fork Sera How TO MAKE A BIG ARMY.—If three huncir7 men start for Canada in three parties of a hundred e9fis; by different routes, and their passage is reported at au - t oo large towns they go through—say tn towns on each O a i t t —this will make thirty despatches in a city . paper, Diibits each despatch we shall hear of a hundred men. c i three hundred will at or ce become three thousand, a n Fenian army may be cheaply raised. „ co te tAbvSnTissmENT.J—Avoni Medicines—they always aggro D 8 chronic complaintE; but Du Barry's delicious health-re s ", - ,rish" Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the u ° '"Ajee' mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other ras e v oci and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong functi nervs , s j re y, lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep , on_, o $ a gularity, anti energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. _toro tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope' by Du Barry's Food. 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' 0 yes' j f 3 o p 46,270: Mr. James Roterts, of Frimley, Surrey, s' _,,y diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver deralige n ' h ` e partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware o f t unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to 1 whieb, o lo l. , , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously aL:111) In tins, at Is 11d; Ilb 25 9d; 2 lb 48 6d; 51b 115.3,4000f4 21 lbs 4 s.— Iso Do BARRY'S REyALEN TA RABICk Po weEtvis packed in tin canisters: for cups at 2 5 ; l u s ‘- at Is 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2cB cups at 30s, fur 576;c2uorotit —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s ta .u r. or dero free of carriage in. England on receip t of Post Offi`fdoli BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Le all Grocers and Chemists. - - On the Bth inst., at Brighten, the wife of John Stapleton, M.P., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., Lady Gertrude Roll e, of a daughter' BIRTHS. MA NU A GES. of t he On the 9th inst., at Maidstone, Henry Powell, Bs c ilpitri e° Middle Temple, to Jane, youngest daughter of Ellis, Et•q., J.P Rocky-hill-terrace, Nfaidstono- Psr icel s ' On the 9th inst.., at Halstead, Essex, James ifn"t'lichelln-- Esq., late of the 3d Buffs, and o f Beddow Ho se, / w o ) ford, to Mat y Cecilia, eldest d au g hter of the Rev' Fraser, vicar, and Hon. Canon of Rochester. DEATHS -' Ou the 7th inst., suddenly, at I.ferfierki Hotel, betleliJ.,l3,llt jor-General Thomas Williams, G.B late Cowman( ii-Lb , ' Luckuow, aged 6G. ~ VslTi gla On the 9th inst., at To llin g ton- p ark, N Mr. Clarke Tomatin, aged 81. 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