The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

-lire by no means _ ai,icinal perplexity. Not ., ~ .:- . Aness with which the principles of ..Aie been affirmed by the House, there is a Knot of " irreconcilables " with respect to it. The Government observe that the country is not profoundly concerned for either of the methods proposed, but is ex• tremely . anxious for the results, and their proposal is per fectly simple and fair. They say in effect, "Gentlemen, produce the results. We will give you perfect liberty to produce them by either method. It is for the persons with whom you have to deal to say in each case which method they prefer. We will pay you for your results and for your results alone, and we will take care that we will confine our aid within such limits as may make it plain we hold ourselves entirely aloof from your respective methods." What is there in this either to provoke Mr. Harcourt into agitation or to throw Lord Robert Montagu into despair ? The bill allows the two princ iples of Voluntary Denominational ism and Compulsory Undenominationalism perfect fair play. It neither " establishes " Denominational nor Undenominational Sohools. It only insures that one or other shall be established, and it rests entirely with the people which it shall be. By all means let Mr. Harcourt agitate if he likes. But let it simply be to persuade people to leave off subscribing to denomina tional schools. If he succeeds in this, his whole aim will be attained. Similarly let Lord Robert Montague de vote his energies to the encouragement of such subscrip tions ; and so long as voluntary schools do the work of education, he need not fear lest Parliament should cease to pay for the results of education. If both parties could thus realise that the bill allows them fair play, they would abstain from such barren contentions as that of Tuesday. At all events, if they . did not, it would indi cate a consciousness that their principles are deficient in popular support. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Daily News says that the House of Lords has prac tically done its work upon the Irish Land Bill. It is of such a sort that it will require to be undone by the House of Commons. The Marquis of Salisbury was very angry with the Earl of Fingall for telling him the truth on this matter, in what he was pleased to consider a disorderly way. The fact is that the Bill, in the form which the Peers have given to it, cannot be accepted by the Government and the House of Commons; and if it were accepted by• them, would not be ac cepted by the Irish people. Conservative peers represent the measure as a doubtful experiment, responsi bility for which they lay with profuse eloquence and emphasis on the shoulders of its authors. If this be so, they should allow the experiment to be tried under con ditions which will at least allow it a chance of 'success. To predict a failure, and then to set to work to produce it, may be clever party tactics, but is not honest or safe statesmanship. The peers are, we hope, beginning to have an inkling of this truth. Lord Grey argued on Tuesday night against that part of the measure which is known as Mr. Bright's, Lord Carnarvon shook his head over it, and Lord Malmesbury babbled and blustered about it as foolishly as is his wont, but in assenting to the 40th clause of the bill the Lords assented to the principle of the scheme for facilitating the acqui sition of the land by the tenants. They will do well to be as wise when the Commons' inevitable reasons for dis senting from the greater part of their Lordships' amend ments come up for their consideration a week or twe hence. The Post says that the Lords have distinguished them selves by remodelling the Irish Land Bill with a boldness which may have been agreeable to an assembly whose proceedings are generally deficient in the characteristics that interest a spectator ; but their policy will not in the long run be vindicated. 'Unfortunately, though not for the bill, it has been far more damaged than improved. The Commons cannot accept it in the shape in which they will receive it from the Lords. That is simply impossible. The Lords must abandon their amendments, or the bill must become a dead letter but only for a time. If, through the perversity of the Lords, it cannot be carried this session, it will be presented to them next session, not with stronger provisions in favour of the tenant, for we believe that in that direction it has done all that is necessary ; but we need hardly point out how undesirable it is that the Lords should find themselves constrained to pass next session a measure which they have so mutilated in this that the Commons must reject their amendments. No one who wishes well to the House of Lords can help regretting that they have taken up a position it is impossible for them to hold ; but neither can it be denied that they have done so with their eyes open. If they are not sensible that the country is determined to support the Irish Land Bill in its integrity as sent up from the Commons, we may regret their inability or their unwillingness to look facts in the face ; but the facts are there for all that, and nothing can efface them. THE ORLEANIST PRINCES. The London Figaro says the decision of the Emperor Napoleon and his Ministers respecting the demand of the Orleanist Princes, for the withdrawal of the decree of exile, is such as most of us would have anticipated. The Emperor admits that if old antagonisms could be forgotten —if the politicians who openly or furtively acknowledge the Orleanist as the legitimate dynasty could be content entirely to forego the claim, accept the empire as an incon trovertible fact, and Napoleon as the chosen of his people— then the return to France of men so politicallyand personally honourable as the Count de Paris, the Duc d'Aumale, and the Prince de Joinville, might be accepted as a proof of the real consolidation of the Empire, the fusion of separate interests in a patriotic desire for the happiness and prosperity of France. But even if the Primes them selves desired to avoid political discussion, to live in France as they live inEngland, private gentlemen devoted to social duties and literary pursuits, it would be almost impossible to control the zeal of partizans, and prevent a continual exhibition of feeling adverse to the best interests of the country, so long as the princes re mained in France. It is, we are convinced, on public grounds only, not from private feeling, that the Emperor says, emphatically, " The time has not come" for the admission of the Orleanist leaders into France. " The time has not yet come." It may come, when old passions are forgotten ; when now-living politicians and would-be agitators have passed into his tory ; and the Princes of the House of Orleans will, we believe, best show their patriotism by abstaining from de mands which cannot wisely be granted, but which may pro duce embarassment and ill-feeling. They are Frenchmen here ; may be as patriotic and devoted to their country, living in England, honoured and respected as they are, as if permitted to return to France. They may help France by abstention, and by showing that their best wishes are for her moral greatness, not to be perilled by rash inter ference with the progress of national consolidation. QUEEN ISABELLA'S ABDICATION. The Standard is of opinion that of all possible future Sings of Spain the Prince of Asturias would probably be the best. His accession would entail complete separation from his mother ; but the latter could scarcely object to making a sacrifice which she permitted to be made by her own mother for herself. The feeling in favour of connec tion with Portugal is doubtless strong, and if the scheme by which the succession to the crown of Spain would devolve upon the young son of the King of Portugal, with Don Fernando as Regent during his minority, could really be carried out, it would have much to recommend it. An objection 'of some force is, that the child is only three years of age ; but a difficulty of still greater magnitude is involved in the seemingly invincible repugnance of the Portuguese to what they would regard as the first step towards their annexation to the larger portion of the Peninsula. The aged Espartero, the worst of candidates, is the most sensible, and has already per formed the gran rifiuto. The Duke of Montpensier's chance, never great, may now be considered extinct. Prim has exhausted his list of candidates. The Cortes will not meet again till October, and meanwhile nothing will be done. If the Prince of Asturias could but absolve himself from ancestral folly and Papal patronage the act of last Sunday might not be unattended with excellent results. THE BLOCK IN CHANCERY. The Telegraph, says that at the very busiest season of the whole legal year, when lawyers and clients are most anxious to get their causes heard before the Long Vaca tion, the functions of the highest equity judicature are entirely suspended. If this were the first occurrence of the same kind, it would be regarded as an unfortunate acci dent for which nobody in particular deserved blame; but the "block" in the Appeal Court has now become chronic. It requires some practical experience of Chancery work to form an adequate idea of the mischief and misery that result from closing the old hall of Lincoln's Inn. Analo gies with Common Law al 3 altogether insufficient. In Westminster Hall there is little or nothing of that preventive jurisdiction to which we have adverted—the procedure by injunction. A de layed appeal to the Exchequer Chamber may be a hardship, but it can scarcely produce the irrepa rable mis chief which may result from the wrongful issue or refusal of an injunction. If we would realise the supreme im portance of keeping the Equity Appeal Court at work " pari passu" with the subordinate courts, we must re member, that where the coercive or preventive jurisdic tion is exercised erroneously, the mistake, unless speedily corrected, produces consequences which are irrevocable. THE CORK STRIKES. The Dublin Freemaa of to-day (Wednesday), com menting on the strikes in Cork, says ;—" Peace has been restored in Cork after an interval of violence and an amount of injury to person and property, which reveals a social condition the reverse of satisfactory. Men have a right to combine for the protection of their labour, which is their only capital. If they are dissatisfied with the conditions on which that labour is remunerated the law empowers them to exact better conditions. But then it must be by respecting the rights of others. Though tranquillity is re-established a good understanding has not been restored between employer and employed. Dublin was never remarkable for strikes, and it never lost any branch of trade from that cause alone. It is now, and has long been . , as free from trade disputes as any city in the United Kingdom. Harmony prevails between capital and labour, although the 'United Trades Association occasionally re minds the public of transgressions on the part of some employers more self-seeking than the rest, the best under standing prevails between masters and workmen, and Is not likely to be interrunted." rAYMENTS ON PROMOTION IN THE ARMY.—Th• Royal Commission to inquire into over-regulation pay ments on promotion in the army met at the War-office on Tuesday. GEO. GILFILLAN'S LIFE OF SCOTT.—We under stand that the Rev. George Gilfillan's new work, "The Life of Sir Walter Scott," will be in the hands of the publishers about the middle of July.—Dundee Courier. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EV EKING, JUNE 29. 1870, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• BIBURY CLUB MEETING (STOCKBRIDGE). HORSES ARRIVED. Border Knight, Bonny Swell, Brown Duchess f, Brother to Lancet, Bob, Ben Macdui, Cast Off, Colum bine f, Chivalry, Bonita, Cornet, Clotilde f, Digby Grand, Dulicibella f, Dragon, Golden Horn, Glenfalloch, High Church, Harmony, Hobart, History, Johannisberg, Jester, Judge, King Offa, King of Clubs, King of the Forest, La Rose, Mias Roland c, Neuchatel, Nymph f, Nudity, Procession, Prudentia, Ripponden, .Elaxana, Scrubbing Brush c, Scarborough, Soucar, Small Hopes, Sunny, The Bell, Violet, Venus, Wandering Breeze, Worthless f, Avalanche, Adelaide, Annie Wood, Alma Mater. J. Day's, T. Day's. Haynes', and Holden's train here. G-oater's train in the neighbourhood, and will walk over in the morning. SCRATCHINGS. Champagne Stakes.—Queen Isabel, Steppe, Naaman, Outsider, Dancing Girl, Lassie, Middleton Maid. Biennial--Hurstbourne, Gopsall, the Roe f, Stockwater, Albert Victor, Cassiope f, Maybird f, Miss Goldschmidt f, Bonnie Marie, Knightley, Nymph f, Colonel Ryan, Sauntering Alma, Rifleman, Chaucer, Archer, Flurry, Mornington, Columbine c, Clairvoyant c, La Mechante f. Handicap Sweepstakes.—Calypso, Sulphur. Bibury Stakes.—Stockdale. NEWTON SUMMER MEETING. HORSES ARRIVED. Mulatto, Lumley, Painkiler, Scottish Rose, Bonita, Discretion, Kellogg, Recovery, Josephine, Stamford, Blue Ruin, Acceptance, Plush, Superstition c, Alarm Bell f, Studious, Staffordshire, Nan c, Breakwater, Rejoinder, Flying Sap, Charnock, Truth, Pretty John, Lady Highthorn, Bright, Saratoga, Catalonia, Ruffian, Vichnu, IPera f, Eugenie c, Maid of Mickley c, Hunter, Jack of Diamonds, Lady de Trafford c (3 yrs), Sallie, Black Duchess, Indian Ocean, Edinburgh, Masquer, Emily, General Prim, Lothair. ISCRATOFIINGS. Out of all Newton engagements : Whinyard, Wanderer, Apemantus, Ploughboy. ODIHAM MEETING.—TIIESDAY. The Greywell Hill Plate (handicap) of 50 sovs. Straight half a mile. Mr H. Bird's Juliet, by Cavendish, Julia, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Dewitt) 1 Mr G. Taylor's Lincoln, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (Butler) 2 Mr Beadman's Agnes, 3 yrs, Est 111 b (Skelton) 3 Spitfire, Luna, Challenge (late Qui Vive), Masquerade, Kaupai, Heirloom also ran. Won easily by three-quar ters of a length. The Dogmersfield Park Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sovs each. Straight half a mile. Mr H. Goater's Our Tom, by Prime Minister—Pluck, 7st 111 b (inc. 51b ex.) (Butler) 1 Mr C. Clement's Woodland Maay, 7st 71b (Sydenham) 2 Mr R. J. Woodman's Olive, 781 (Powoll) 3 Hippodrome, Moscow also ran. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Odiham Handicap of 10 sovs each. One mile and a half. Mr G. Clement's Rover, by Oxford—Hopeful Duchess, 3 yrs, Est 81b Mr E. Rickard's La Sorrentina, 6 yrs, (G 6st 41b . Jarvis) 2 Mr Mortimer's Robespierre. 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Jeffery) 3 Choral, Elsham, and Valentine also ran. Won by a length and a half. The Manor Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr G. Trimmer's The Skipper, by Orest—True Blue, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b Mr Spinks's Satellite, 3 yrs, 6st 81b (Newhouse) 2 Mr T. Goddard's Victress, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b (Wyatt) 3 Kaupai, April Morn, and Traveller also ran. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Stand Plate of 30 sovs. Straight half Mr Martin's Delusion, by Thunderbolt—Mirag by Wild Dayrell, 2 yrs, Est 41b (.£6O) (Dewitt) Mr Arnull's Ada Byron, 2 yrs. Est 71b ......(Newhouse) 2 Mr H. Goater's Carry, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (oar Bst 31b) (X6O) (Cannon) 3 Romance, Nutmeg, Wistaria also ran. Won by a length. The Hurstbourne Welter Handicap of 5 soya each. About one mile. Mr H. Temple's Fitz-Ivan, by Ivan—Dia of Chase, 6 yrs, list 101 b (Capt. Geo. Johnson) Mr H. Goater's Deansfield, 3 yrs, lOst 51b (inc. 71b ex) (J. Goater) Mr Clement's Maggie, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (Mr rewind) Victress also ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. ST. LEGER. 2to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) 7to 1 agst Macgregor (offered) 25 to 1 agst Captivator (offered—take 33 to 1) CITY BETTING—TUESDAY. GOODWOOD STAKIS. 100 to 8 agst Capitalists (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Moccolo (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Miss Sheppard (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst John Davis (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Revenge (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Indiun Ocean (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Newsman (taken) 25 to 1 agst Strathnairn (offered) 100 to 3 agst Toby (taken) 100 to 3 agst Jarnac and Cherie coupled (offered) 6to 1 agst Jarnac, Revenge, and Acaster mixed (taken) ST. LEGER. 6to 1 agst Macgregor (taken and - offered) 20 to 1 agst King o' Soots (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 7 agst Revenge (taken) 100 to 7 agst John Davis (offered) 100 to 7 agst Capitaliste (offered) 200 to 12 agst Indian Ocean (taken) 200 to 12 agst Acaster (taken) 20 to 1 agst Bertha (offered) ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Kingcraft (taken) sto 1 agst Macgregor (taken and offered) REPORT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE. M. Henze, the French Minister of Agriculture, has just published a report on the best means of mitigating tha effects of the drought on the forage crops. The prefects have been directed to distribute this document to the agricultural associations, and to give it all the publicity possible. M. Hourt, after remarking that on the deeply ploughed soils the crops have suffered less than on those superficially cultivated, advises the sowing of maize for summer forage. He recommends, too, the cultivation of nettles. M. Maize expresses great apprehension that the drought will continue, and is especially uneasy respecting the turnips. He recommends that they should be sown mixed with Tartary buckwheat. Vine-leaves, observes the minister, make good autumn forage, and in Lower Languedoc sheep are allowed to bronze in the vineyards after the vintage. This year he expects acorns, chestnuts, and beech nuts will be in demand. The report goes on to enumerate several other resources for the cattleowner, such as Jerusalem artichokes, the stalks of several cereals, and the small leafy branches of several trees, the elm, birch, poplar, &c. Agriculturists are advised to sow rye grass, winter oats, colza ' and turnips, along with the autumn rye. In default of straw, the report suggests ferns, rushes, dead leaves, heath, and dry turf. Coming to the question of the scarcity of water, M. Henze pur poses to purify the contents of the ponds and pools by filtering them through charcoal. CONSUMPTION IN AUSTRALIA.—The Melbourne Age discusses at some length in a recent number the curative influence of the Australian climate upon diseases of the lungs or pulmonary consumption. Arguing from statistics furnished by the colonial hospitals, the writer concludes that'the long sea voyage acts as an invigorating tonic where the disease is in its earliest stage, and that in such cases the changes of habits which life in a new country involves may also be productive of considerable benefit. But in every case where the malady is established it is mere cruelty to expose a patient to the certain discomforts of life on shipboard, and to an early death in a distant land, if its shores be ever reached. Whether from " empirical restlessness, a desperate throw for health, or the desire of getting rid of troublesome patients," the system of encouraging the emigration of in curable as well as curable cases, prevails largely among English doctors. During the past four years one out of every sixteen patients entering the Melbourne Hospital has been consumptive, and the chances of recovery may be estimated from the fact that 52 per cent. die there. THE FENIAN PRISONERS' INQUIRY COMMIS SION.—In the course of the present week it is expected that the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the treatment of the treason-felony convicts in English prisons will commence their sittings. The Commissioners, of whom the Earl of Devon is chairman, have made the following provisions for conducting the inquiry :—The prisoners will be afforded full opportunity for making oral statements before the Commissioners respecting their treatment. A private room will be provided, in which the prisoners can make their statements in the absence of any prison officer, and after a distinct intima tion from the Commissioners that the prisoners shall in no way be prejudiced as to their future treatment by their statements so made in private. Full opportunity will be given to the prisoners to make any written statement they desire, and the Commissioners will receive any written or oral statement from any of the prisoner's friends, or from any person acting on their behalf, which shall be revalent to the treatment of the convicts. The evidence of a released prisoner, in this respect, will also be received. The Commissioners have recommended to the Home Secretary that access should be given to the prisoners by their friends at reasonable hours and under proper regula tions, for the purpose of assisting them to prepare thbir statements. The report and evidence will be made public at the close of the inquiry, which will be held at No. 3, Parliament-street, Westminster. One of the first wit nesses will be the notorious O'Donovan Rossa, who some months since was returned member of Parliament for the county of Tipperary, but whose election was declared void by a resolution of the House of Commons. LAW AND POLICE. A GENTLEMAN KILLED IN THE STREET.—On. Monday a French gentleman named Remont died in the Royal Free Hospital from the result of injuries he sustained through being knocked down and run over by a Hansom cab on Saturday night. The driver of the cab, James Stanley, was brought up at Bow-street and remanded, on his own recognizances only, the magistrates thinking that the evidence spewed he was not to blame. THE LIABILITY OF COMPANIES.—An action has been brought, in the Court of Queen's Bench, against the Thames Iron Works Company. A young man, named Passmore, was killed by the falling of one of the iron girders over the Metropolitan Railway, while the train, in which he was seated, was passing. His father, brought an action against the company, th girder,having been hoisted into position while the train was in motion. The defence set up by the company was that the negli gence was that of the contractor and his men. The ques tion was reserved for the Full Court, the damage being conditionally settled at £lOO. OLD PORT WINE. —An action has been tried in the Court of Exchequer between two wine merchants, the matter in.dispute being a pipe of port wine, described as " superior old port," which, instead of improving with keeping, turned sour. It was contended that such an accident will occasionally happen, but the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff (who bought the wine which turned sour), damages being £ll5. Leave was reserved to move for the verdict to be set aside. OMNIBUS DRIVERS IN TROUBLE.—NO less than thirty omnibus drivers and conductors were summoned for the Lord Mayor for stopping in front of the Mansion House, and looking out for passengers. The proprietors had pre viously been warned. Twenty-seven of them were fined 108. each, and two others 4s. 6d. for infringing the Traffic Act. The Lord Mayor told them that on another occasion he would double their fines. The men chiefly belonged to the General Omnibus Company. Twenty of them paid their fines, but nine being unable to do so, were locked up in default. CHANGING CLOTHES.—A young man from Gloucester shire, named Mansfield, surrendered himself at the Wellington Barracks, and was charged at Bow-street with wearing the uniform of a private in the Coldstream Guards. He had been out drinking with a soldier, who asked him to change clothes for a joke, to see how he would look in uniform, and then taking advantage of the prisoner's intoxicated state, went off and deserted. His dupe was remanded for a week. A RIOTOUS ORATOR. —A man named Morritz . Perper was charged at Cleikenwell with threatening to shoot Detective. Renners of the A Division. The defendant made a speech at a meetine , of the Land and Labour League, held at Clerkenwell, in which he said he had suffered six months' imprisonment, and that a constable named Remmers had given evidence against him, also that he had bought a pistol and intended to shoot him. The detective stated that the prisoner had often been to Scotland-yard in an excited manner. He was remanded for a week to ascertain the state of his mind. THE ATHENS AND PIR/EUS RAILWAY COMPANY.—A case connected with the Athens and Pincus Railway Company has been tried in the Court of Exchequer. Some interest was felt in the matter, as Mr. Lloyd, who was one of the victims of the massacre at Marathon, was managing director of the company. The case was rather an involved one, but the point at issue was, whether a sum paid on certain bills of exchange had been paid by the plaintiffs, Messrs. Pickering, at the request of Mr, Edward Pickering, their brother, who was con nected with the company, or at the request of the late Mr. Lloyd, managing director, and Mr. Hutchinson, secretary of the company, in their official capacity. The jury, after hearing arguments on both sides, found for the plaintiffs, Messrs. Pickering, for £l,BBl, and interest. THE SCOTCH WILL CASE.—The remarkable will case in the Scotch Court of Session, has come to a close after a trial of six days. The action was brought to set aside the will of the late Mr. William Maxwell Stewart, of Lochnagar, on the ground that deceased, when he made the will, was of unsound mind. A sum of about .£30,000 was involved in the action. Some curious evidence was given in the course of the trial in proof of insanity—. one or two of the witnesses taking exception particularly to Mr. Stewart's conduct on Sundays. The will will be set aside, the case having resulted in favour of the pursuers. THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. in Rolls Chambers the case of Bubb v. Yelverton, being a suit for the administration of the estate of the late Marquis of Hastings, came before the chief clerk on a summons for the production of documents. The order made in the previous instance was now partly complied with, but application was made for a further adjournment until the 25th of July, for the production of the remainder. The solicitor to the estate, in reply to a question by the Chief Clerk, said the income of the estate was about £6,000 a year, and that there would be enough to satisfy all the creditors. The Chief Clerk said the interest for the period of adjourn ment applied for would, at 4 per cent., amount to £2O, but granted the application. AN ALLEGED " PIRATICAL " GUN MAKER.—Mr. Pryse, gun and pistol manufacturer, of Ashton-street, Birming: ham, was the owner of a patented invention by which the hammer of a gun or pistol constructed on the central fire or needle principle, after striking the percussion cap on the nipple, returned to half-cock, and only re quired to be raised to full cock by the hand prior to a second discharge. Mr. Stanton, who carried on a similar business at Birmingham, seeing the value of the invtntion, contrived to arrive at the same result, though by an entirely different process. He was thereupon sued by Mr. Pryse for infringement of patent. Vice-Chancellor James, befoee whom the case was heard, was of opinion that, although the defendant's process appeared to be an improvement upon the plain tiffs, it was a colourable imitation ; and he therefore granted the injunction to restrain as prayed. A FAMILY LITIGATION. —The Master of the Rolls delivered his judgment, yesterday, in the case of Barker v. Barker. The bill was filed on behalf of five sisters, and the chief object was to obtain a declaration that they were entitled to a charge on freehold estate and cotton mill situated in Yorkshire, under the provisions of the will of their father. The defendants were the brothers of the plain tiffs, and they contended that, according to the terms of the will,the latter had no claim to the property in question. The testator left £2,000 to each of his daughters, which legacies were to be paid out of his estate. He appointed one of his sons and a daughter his executors, and they con-. veyed the property to a third party, the four sisters con senting to the conveyance. The question for the court was whether, under the circumstances, the property as conveyed was liable to the legacies of the daughters of the testator. His lordship regretted that he could not give the plaintiffs any relief. Their bill must be dis missed. INTERRUPTING A TELEGRAPH MESSENGER —At the Chel tenham Police-court, Thomas Tibbles, a lad about 18 years old, was summoned, on the information of the head postmaster, for assaulting Thomas Lawrence Cox, a telegraph boy employed at the General Post Office. The lad Cox said that he was a telegraph boy at the Post Office, and on the 16th of May he was taking a message to Lansdown Parade on a bicycle. He saw the defendant, who pushed him off the bicycle, put a child on it, and went away with it. He asked the defendant for it, but he refused to give it him, and said he would punch his head if he did not get away. He was delayed twenty minutes in delivering the message. The defendant denied that he pushed the boy off the bicycle, but said that, seeing it at the door, he merely put a child on the bicycle and went off with it. Mr. Harford said they wished it to be understood that her Majesty's messengers—for really the telegraph boys were so—were not to be interfered with in the discharge of their important duties ; and to mark their sense of the defendant's conduct, they would fine him £l, with 7s. 6d. expenso, or twenty-one days' impri sonment. THE WAY TO CHECK WIFE BEATING. -Wm. Harper, a car man, living in Little Pulteney-street, ;was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough-street Police Court, yester day, by Jeffrey, one of the warrant officers, charged with assaulting his wife.—The complainant said that about seven o'clock the previous morning, while in bed, the pri soner, without any words having passed between them, struck her a violent blow in the mouth, loosening her teeth.—ln reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said the prisoner had assaulted her before, and she had had him before at that court. She had four little children to keep, and the prisoner did not do anything towards their support. He had made use of dreadful paths and threats towards her, to the effect that he would rip her up, throw her out of the window, and that he would kill her, and a few days ago he threw some cold water over the baby, which was ill with the measles, Mr. Tyrwhitt said when it was known that a man did nothing for his family a magistrate's course was clear. The pri soner would be committed for three months with hard labour, and at the end of that time he would have to find bail for another three months. A DISGRACE TO THE ARMY. —Henry Longley, a stalwart young fellow, who is a private.in the Grenadier Guards, was charged at the Westminster Police-court, yesterday, with violently assaulting Pitt Tarleton, an inspector of the T-division of police, in the execution of his duty. Mr. Tarleton, whose face bore frightful marks of a cut with a soldier's belt, said at 20 minutes to 12 last night he came out of his own house smoking a pipe, and saw the prisoner and a woman conducting themselves in a very dikssceful manner. Witness expostulated, when the , :ironer, belt in hand, attacked him, striking him first in the eye ; his hat fell off, and before he could recover it, prisoner inflicted another frightful wound on his head and then ran away, but in doing E 0 he picked up a brick and struck the inspector on the shoulder with it. Prisoner said he did not know the complainant was an inspector ; the blow on the eye was done with the fist and not the belt. Mr. Arnold said he intended to commit the prisoner, but he was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon, A RESPECTABLE BOY.—Alfred Collins, aged 14 years, of 6, Church-terrace, Cubitt-town, errand boy, was brought before Mr. Lushington, yesterday, at the Thames Police court, charged with stealing a watch, the property of Mr. George Till, tailor and draper, carrying on business at No. 5 York-terrace, Commercial-road, near the rail way bridge, Stepney. The prisoner was recommended to Mr. Till, a few days ago, as an honest boy. The parents were respectable. The boy was only in Mr. Till's employ twenty-four hours, when he absconded, taking with him a silver watch. The watch was pawned by a woman, who received it from her son. Her son received it from the prisoner. The mother of the boy said she had always found her son a good, honest boy, and was quite surprised when she heard of this robbery. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Lushington said the boy obtained a good situation in the house of a respectable tradesman, and w immediately commenced robbing him. Whatever the boy might be at home he was a, very dis honest boy out of doors. He sent him to prison for two months. AN IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. In the Irish Court of Exchequer, on Monday, the suit of " Mary St. Lawrence v. Michael Skehan," for alleged breach of promise of marriage, was heard. Serjeant Armstrong stated the case for the plaintiff, who was, he stated, a member of a most respectable family, and .daughter of Mr. St. Lawrence ' a gentleman, who carried on an extensive business in Limerick as a hat manufacturer. She was of prepossessing appearance, and was a perfect lady in manner and address. The defendant, Mr. Michael Skehan, was a native of Ireland, and pos sessed of considerable property in the county Clare. He had been married before, and was between 40 and 50 years of age. In the month of April, 1869, he met Miss St. Lawrence, and then commenced to pay her marked attention. No secret was made of their engagement, and his proposal for her hand was accepted by the lady's family. The only matter suggested in reference to the postponement of the marriage ceremony was a desire of the defendant to have his sons settled. Shortly after being accepted the defendant appeared to change his mind. • And he (counsel) would prove to the jury that the defendant's only pretence for the change was that he could not get married while his unmarried daughter was in the house. It would be established in evidence that no stipulation on this point was made between the parties. After full and ample time had passed the lady requested the matter to be brought to a close, and he (Sergeant Armstrong) thought the best way in which he could explain the position of affairs was by reading some of the correspondence which took place between the plaintiff and defendant. Counsel then read some letters from which the following are extracts :-- " 20th May, 1869. "My dear Mary,—l received yours, and I cannot tell you how delighted I was for the first time. As I said in my last letter, do not mind what other folks say ' • treat them with contempt, and let them guess about what is to come on, and it will be a mystery to them when and where we will spend the honeymoon. Do not shew the white feather ; dress and walk with better airs than ever you have done.—l remain yours faithfully, " MICHAEL SKEHAN." " Gth July. 1869. "My dear Mary,—l wish to let you know that Delia will be married on Saturday ; this is stri , ...tly private. I have nothing to say, only it is a good job Excuse haste, my dear Mary.—Your us, ond " MICHAEL." " 23, Clare-street, Limerick, " 14th Sept., 1869. " My dear Michael,—Your note reached me on yester day; I am very jealous with you for not coming down on Friday ; indeed, it looked rather strange, no matter what friend may have been with you, you could very easily spare time to come down if you only wished to do so. Now, this business of ours is going on a long time, and I think the sooner it is arranged the better it would be for all partiks. Now that the boys are gone, and Delia mar ried. I don't see the reason why you should defer it any longer.—Yours affectionately," MARY ST. LAWRENCE." " 17th September, 1869. "My Dear Mary,—l received yours, and am sorry to tell you that I am laid up with a very bad cold ; and I can assure you that the tone of your letter gave me great pain, for you want me to do what I have no notion of doing—that is, as long as my daughter is with me. lam doing what I can to get her married, and I am more anxious than you are. You must have a poor opinion of me when you say lam bantering with you: You cannot say that. You said to me that you should be mistress of your house if you got married. I can assure you I will lose no time in trying to do so. So you are aware such thin g s cannot be done in a hurry. — My dear Mary , your fond, " MicHA FL." " 23, Clare-street, Limerick, 23rd October. " Dear Michael,—l received your letter on Saturday, and, indeed, I must say it was almost time for you to write. lam very much surprised that you did not come to see me during your stay in town, according to promise. At the time you proposed for me I was led to un derstand that our marriage would take place in the course of a few months after. That was in April last ; but then you seemed anxious to have the boys gone be fore you came to any arrangement about it. The boys are now gone nearly three months, and, as that was the only obstacle which appeared to be in the way, I don't see why we should defer the matter any longer. You never said a word to me about Norah until after the boys had left ; and I don't think you should let her or any other person dictate to you. lam placed in a very unpleasant position, particularly since the races. I have to request that you will make up your mind, and let me know what you really intend doing ; it is now six months on hand, and I don't wish to have my name any longer before the public.—Yours sincerely, " MARY ST. LAWRENCE." " sth November, 1869. "My dear Mary—l received yours, and I have nothing to say only what I said over and over, and I do not see for the life of me what anyone has to say to you on my account. I can assure you I will never bring in anyone as mistress over Norah as long as she is with me, let it be short or long. It is no use for me to tell you that lam doing my best to try and get her married, but I never will sacrifice my child to gratify the wishes of others. — Yours faithfully, " MICHAEL SKEHAN." Serjeant Armstrong continued to say that the plaintiff and defendant were to have been married on the 26th of April, and the action was brought on the 2d of May in the present year. The defendant then wrote to say that he would marry the plaintiff and settle the action. She accepted the offer, but in consequence of a statement made by the defendant, in reference to two gentlemen of his acquaintance, the match was finally broken off. Mary St. Lawrence, the plaintiff, was examined—l reside with my father in the city of Limerick. My fathar has retired from business. I first knew Mr. Skehan when he came from Australia some years ago. He first began to pay me attentions in March, 1869, when I was staying on a visit with Mrs. Hare, at Kilaloe. I believe Mr. Skehan has five sons and eight daughters. On the 30th of March he asked me to marry him, but there was no suggestion that the marriage would depend on any of his daughters ; he only alluded to his two sons, Michael and Peter ; the sons went to Australia some time in July ; it was in Limerick I accepted him ; I told him at Killaloe I would take a month to consider —to consult my friends ; that was on the 30th of March he said he would only give me a fortnight ; I con sulted with my friends, and he came to me in about three weeks from the 30th of March ; it was then finally arranged ; he told me when he proposed that his income was about £6OO a year; he said he would make a settle ment on me; when he came the second time he said he had only £4OO a year; he came to Dublin soon after, and I corresponded with him ; I wrote to him on the 14th of September a letter complaining of his not coming to see me ; in another letter I wrote to him telling him it was reported in Limerick that the marriage was not coming off ; some time after, at the time of the Limerick rac es, he said, "If I don't you I shall have no one else; but my daughter does not wish me to marry." I never saw him after that. On the 4th November I wrote to him telling him of the talk of the people of Limerick. I told the ° defendant that I had receive d a proposal from another gentleman from Cork. I knew he had twelve or fourteen children. How often did you see Mr. Skehan after the engagement? I could not say ; I have certainly seen him six times ; I was always willing to marry him if he made a settlement. How much did you expect ? I suppose about a £lOO a year. When you said in your letter— If you don't hurry I'll go into a con vent," were you serious ? I don't know (laughter) ;it was in November I first consulted my attorney, Mr. Molloy. Mr. Heron then opened the case for the defendant. He said it was true the defendant had gone to Australia some thirty or thirty-five years ago, and that when he came back he purchased a small property in the county Clare, but it was heavily mortgaged. This was not an action of the ordinary love-making nature between parties of the same age or position. The defendant would tell the jury that Miss St. Lawrence was fullyapprised of his intention not to get married to her until his daughter, Norah, should be settled. The reason so many of this kind of actions were successful was because a great many women have at some period of their lives behaved badly towards men, and fancy it is a cheap way of having re venge by putting their hands into a fellow man's pocket to make him pay damages as reparation to her sex. The defendant was in no hurry to get married, and he (Mr. Heron) believed that the plaintiff herself had postponed the ceremony from disinclination to marry . the defendant. He submitted that Skehan, forced into a corner as he was, was willing all through to marry the plaintiff, and if the court would but adjourn he was quite willing to do so still. (Laughter). Damages in such a case as this could only be given for the loss of the man ; but she had not lost the man, for he was was still willing to marry her. He did not think that from the 26th of April to the 2nd of May was a reasonable time to elapse for the com pletion of the promise, and he would ask the jury to say this lady had a very happy escape from mar ryinc, this aged widower with twelve children. Mr. Michael Skehan, the defendant, was then called and examined. He deposed that he had twelve children, and that all he derived from his property was £3OO a year. From the very first he was sincere in his intention to marry the plaintiff. I suppose you were head and ears in love. (Laugh ter) ? No answer. I was engaged to the plaintiff in May, '69. lam not engaged to any other lady. I don't know of any little rich widow. Since the engage ment Mrs. St. Laurence borrowed money from me on every occasion that I went to her house ; I keep a wag gonette, brcause I am unable to walk any considerable distance. His Lordship having charged the jury, the latter, after about an hour's consideration, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £lOO damages. THE FATAL MARCH.—A. memorial has been signed by the vicar, magistrates, and other inhabitants of Kingston-on-Thames, in which the memorialists pray that the churchwardens will take such steps as will ensure the holding of an inquest on the body of the soldier be longing to the 9th Regiment of Infantry, who died at the Militia Barracks, Kingston, after a day's march. Mr. Carter, the coroner, stated on Saturday that, if called upon by the churchwardens, he would hold an inquest. AMUSING INNOVATION IN A SHEFFIELD CHAPEL. —ln one of the chapels at the West End of Sheffield on Sunday night the officiating minister announced the result of a special collection which had been made in the morning. The sum realised was a very respectable one, and perhaps several of the members of the congregation were a little surprised, but one youngster in the gallery expressed his astonishment and admiration by utterance of a long low whistle. Notwithstanding the seriousness of the preceding- discourse, many of the hearers had their gravity thoroughly upset by this unexpected and involun tary demonstration. GENERAL BANKS ON CUBA. The special correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following description of General Banks's great speech on the Cuban question. Writing from Washington on June 14th, he says:— " It is very refreshing to hear once in a very long while a speech fromthe heart—one of those spontaneous, unela borated pieces of eloquence which a real orator, under the inspiration of the moment, gives free vent to. It is very seldom we get such luxuries here. Senators and members have got so much in the habit of reading somniferous es says that it has come to be a sacred rule now almost never to attempt a speech, unless of the most ordinary kind, without the most extravagant destruction of foolscap in advance, and, altogether, the most exhaustive prepara tion. The result is that generally one is most profoundly overcome by learning and sleep combined in the effort to follow debates in the Senate or House. But now and then these drowsy spells are broken ; something comes up that sets the fullest preparation at defiance and we get a. speech, a real one, such as rouses people and makes them recall the days of Clay and Webster, and Henry and Burke, and Cicero and Demosthenes. Grant's message yesterday on Cuba furnished such an occasion to-day, and General Banks delivered a speech which, though it may not read in print like a finished piece of oratory, was certainly in delivery the most effective thing I have heard here in over three years. It is not the habit of General Banks to write out his speeches in advance, but he generally studies up his subject beforehand and trusts to luck or inspiration for the rest. No doubt he had thus fortified himself to sup port his report on Cuba, but the message of Grant, of Fish, or Cushing, as the case may be, intervened and operated to modify his entire plan. The result was that when he spoke to-day before a full, excited, and sympa thising gallery he found himself obliged to treat of the President's message more than of his own report. He found himself thrown upon his own native strength of in tellect and fertility of resources, and, discarding all pre conceived plans of argument, he launched into a strong impromptu address, which made -4 in fire and vigour what it may have lacked in study and preparation. I have never seen the members themselves, as well as the spectators in the galleries; so thoroughly worked up. Several times the excitement and en thusiasm found freedom in applause, clapping of hands and stamping of feet, and murmurs of approbation from members themselves. This is a rare compliment in these days, but it was richly deserved by Banks. His ad dress throughout was a very thinly concealed criticism of President Grant's message. It overflowed with sar castic references to the authorship of the document, the singular similarity in thought and expression with diplomatic notes of the Spanish Minister, and the pusillanimity of our foreign policy. It referred to Caleb Cushing, not by name, but so plainly that everybody on the floor and many in the galleries knew who was meant. When the orator allowed to escape some bitter, deeply cutting words about a la w y er w h o might be in the employ of Spain, and Grant and Isabella at the same time it sent a shot, not an occasional one, at President Grant and Congress both. When it declared the administration was not to blame, because the national L eg i s l a t ure had taught it was dangerous to have a policy ; but for the American lawyer who could send such a document as the message of yesterday to Congress nothing but everlasting disgrace could follow him. It chewed up the barbarities and outrages committed by Spain in Cuba, the insults to the American flag, the impunity with which our citizens were murdered there, and the protection enjoyed at the same time by the subjects of Great Britain and then it' declared that the cowardly policy of our Government was the cause. In words of stirring import it threw forth the noble idea that to be safe as a nation we must be brave as a nation ; we must be firm and just ; only cowardly, pusillanimous people were imposed upon and abused. It shattered to atoms the pretence that the Cubans were not belligerents because they held no towns and had no seat of Government, and brought down a hearty laugh by remarking that man made the town, but God made the country, and that no seat of government was needed or could be fixed by a people car rying on a struggle for independence, if, in dealing with international objections, it was equally fortunate, demon strating that should we proclaim neutrality we would only be following in a juster and more discreet manner the example of Spain herself and all the nations of Europe. When, at its conclusion, General Banks related an alleged remark of Minister Roberts, to the effect that he (Banks) was actuated in his advocacy of Cuba by . improper mo tives, and when Banks declared that a Minister who could say that deserved to be drummed out of the country, he had his listeners at a pitch of sympathy and enthusiasm that was quite remarkable. Cheering, which Speaker Blame made little effort to suppress, greeted General Banks when he took his seat, and members of both sides of the House crowded about him to offer their congratulations. After thus congratulating General Banks the members scattered over the hall and went into the cloak-looms to discuss the merits of the speech. Judge Orth, who fol lowed as the representative of the minority of the com mittee, advocated the bill of Senator Morton, which simply provides for a strict enforcement of the neutrality laws. He laboured under great disadvantage, coming upon the heels of an effort like that of Banks. The mem bers did not listen. Many of them went out of the hall and others were standing here and thire, in corners, dis cussing the points of Banks's speech. The audience in the galleries left, not seeming to wish to have the good effect of the speech to which they had listened disturbed. Orth was followed by Farnworth, who made a rambling attempt to sustain the minority report. Governor Swann, of Maryland, who represents the democrats on the Foreign Affairs Committee, read an elaborate written speeeh in favour of Banks' report. Mr. Ambler, of Ohio, made a short speech in favour of the minority, after which the House took a recess until half-past seven." THE DOMINICAN NEGOTIATIONS. The Senate Investigating Committee in the case of Hatch in St. Domingo continued the examination of General Babcock to-day. The testimony was chiefly in reply to Perry's statement that Babcock wrote to Baez to appoint Mr. Fabens to represent the Dominican Government at Washington. This General Babcock denied, but admitted that he did suggest the appointment of M. Gautier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. As fur ther bearing upon the case of Hatch, General Babcock presented the report of Commander W. W. Queen, of the cruise of the Tuscarora after the revolutionary steamer Telegrafo, giving an extract as follows :—" The policy of the Government of the Island Tortola in relation to the Telegrafo has been extremely vacillating, caused, no doubt, in a great measure by the persons interested in the vessel, many of whom are at present here. Having accompanied Governor Pine from Antigua, the Governor himself has developed that the sale of the vessel was a sham. The officer effecting the sale has been dismissed, and the money paid into the colonial treasury, and the commission in the sale has•been returned. The only paper which the vessel was enabled to exhibit at Tortola was a bill of health furnished by one Hatch, an American, at Barahona, a Dominican port, not a port of entry. A certificate dated August 6, 1869, also states that the vessel put into Tortola under the Dominican colours, produced at the custom-house a clear ance and bill of health from the port of Barahona, St. Domingo, and no other documents to prove her nationality and ownership were exhibited." A letter was presented regarding some 6f Perry's trans actions while acting as consul, that when the Tybee was in port at St. Domingo, in March last, a Danish subject prosecuted an American sailor belonging to that vessel ; that Consul Perry went into the Court-room, and during the trial of the case slapped the plaintiff, who was a coloured man, in the face : th a t th e cour t broke up and Consul Perry fled to the consulate and hoisted his flag for protection. The letter of the Dominican Government was produced in which the conduct of Consul Perry was complained of. The laws of the country in such cases required imprisonment and a fine. The Government adopted a pacific course, and merely requested the recall of Consul Perry. A very long letter from Mr. Hatch to General Babcock was also read. The above account is the Babcock version. The Perry ites have a slightly varied account. They say that Babcock was cornered several times, and that he admitted that he t.)ok Fabens with him to Samana, and told the men he left in charge of the American flag in that place to look to Colonel Fabens. They also say that it was proved that Babcock recommended the Navy Department to appoint .Fabens to take charge of the coal station at Samana, and that he admitted having procured the release of an Ame rican sailor guilty of murder, although he refused to in terfere in Hatch's case. The following is the note of Gautier, which admits that Hatch was confined for hos tility to the annexation project : _ " ST:VomiNaoCITY,Xeb. 19, 1870. " MR. CONSUL,—In virtue of the evidence produced pending the trial of Mr. Davis Hatch, he was condemned to death, when President Baez appealed to the honourable body of Senators, asking them by means of a special message for their co-operation to save the life of that indi vidual, and for no other motive than that of his being a citizen of North America. According to our insti tutions the grace of life which is accorded to one condemned to death does not prevent, by any means, his being consigned to perpetual imprison ment ; but the President directs that his pass ports may be given him as soon as circumstances will permit, so that he may enjoy full liberty in any place wherein his acts will be inoffensive to us. The repeated and urgent solicitations which you hnve made in favour of the said Hatch, united with the desire which my government has to please that of Washington, should have persuaded •us to concede his passports at once had it not been for the irrreoncileable enmity with which he attacks the government in all of its acts through the newspapers and their agents, inventing calumnies to divert the public mind against annexation to the United States, which desire has been manifested so loudly and publicly by the people. I desire that you will be good enough to assure his Excellency, the Secretary of State, in W as hi n gton, the prolonged sojourn of Mr. Hatch here has been only to punish his hostile action in New York, assuring him, at the same time, that if this reason will not satisfy him, and that should he insist on his (Hatch) being permitted to go to the government which has had no other aim than that of preventing falsehood, and the misleading of public opinion in the United States, we will be very glad to satisfy his wishes. I avail myself of this occasion to reiterate to you the sentiments of my most distinguished consideration. " M. M. GAUTIER, " Minister of Foreign Affairs. " To Raymond H. Perry, U. S. C. A." • This letter was written in answer to a peremptory de mand for Hatch's release, made by Consul Perry. The latter made another demand after receiving thii note, and failing to accomplish his object immediately sent for Admiral Poor, accompanied by whom he went to Presi dent Baez and requested the release of Hatch forthwith- This belligerent demand was instantly complied with. This letter of Gautier's was read before the special Senate committee, and is said to have produced quite an impres sion.—New York Herald. MR. DISRAELI. Mr. Disraeli has something of the merit of Sir John, Falstafi, who was not only witty himself, but the cause!of wit in others, for his late literary activity has stirred up Blackwobd's Magazine from its lethargy into something like the spirit of the days of Wilson and Maiinn, when literary men in.opposition laid about them for the amuse of half the country, and the chagrin of the other half. It is true that Blackwood for June does not shew the old pungency, but it laughs rather cleverly for all that, and predicts the passing over of Lothair to the Jewish creed. in Disraeli's - next work, as confidently as Bickerstaff pre- dieted the death of l'aitrid,7„e, the astrologer. The hint about the existence of the Hebrew Messiah, now on earth, at the ripe age of sixty-five or thereabouts, is very much in "the Dean's" manner. But Mr. Disraeli is too much used to attack to be very angry over this sudden onslaught of a partially galvanized Blackwood.—New York Times. THE GENERALS AND THE ARMY BILL. . It is a suspicious circumstance when individuals take personal offence at the result of national legislation. General Sherman is indignant at the passage of the Army Bill, and, it is said, means to resign. General Farnsworth feels outraged because General Butler has succeeded in Committee in having the Bingham amendment stricken out of the Georgia Bill. Common people wonder at this rage against legislation made for the benefit of the whole country, and not intended to work to the disadvantage of any individual. We beg that Generals and all others concerned will learn to curb their temper on these occa sions. It looks too much as if they were hurt. —New York Tribune. MONUMENT TO DICKENS. Thousands of persons will esteem it a privilege to con tribute for some enduring and outward manifestation of the love in which they hold the memory of Charles Dickens. This wish can in no way be better gratified than by a popular subscription to secure a memorial of the novelist of humanity in Central Park. It may take the form of statue, or some other shape which after thought may deem preferable; but whatever it may be, there can be no more appropriate place or more fitting means for its erection. Dickens was near and dear to the people, and out of their means should come the memorial to be placed in their favourite resort —New York Tri bune. LITERARY RESPONSIBILITY. The extraordinary and melancholy interest excited by the death of Mr. Dickens has yet hardly at all abated ; the newspapers still come to us full freighted with notices of the departed novelist. No literary man has died in our time whose loss will be so generally regretted. Indeed, Mr. Dickens's fame quite stands out from ordinary literary success—certainly since Voltaire (who was quite a different writer) we suspect that no one has had so many readers ; and yet between the number of Voltaire's admirers and that of Mr. Dickens's it would be absurd to make any comparison. For the purpose of any such .com putation the two men are not to be named together ; for Mr. Dickens was fortunate enough to live in an age •of universal reading and of a light and portable literature which has made reading universally possible. • When Sir Charles Grandison came, with his ineffable grace and his inexpressible goodness, he came in so many volumes that only rich people could afford to buy his biography. Smollett, we think, set the example of publishing one of his novels in cheap monthly parts, but even this expe dient could not compensate for the small number of ordi nary people who preferred a book to beer. Compare this state of things with the hordes, the swarms, the countless caravans of readers which Mr. Dickens has had. What a tremendous power has been his, and how faith fully and honourably has that power, on the whole, been exercised ! If there be here and there in these novels a few things which have made people no better, how few are there which have made them. worse. Now, knowledge may be power, but it is not always peace of mind or even temporal pros perity. There is a Knowledge of Good and there is a Knowledge of Evil. There are books which confuse the moral perceptions, bewilder the heart, and make truth and virtue seem but empty cheats—popular books, fas cinating books, which the Devil himself might have writ ten, and then scattered broadcast to work an infinity of misery and wo and degradation of body and mind. There is one book in the English tongue written by a man of singular literary dexterity, which has done infinite mis chief—a book not to be named, and for the writing of which, if the author was not condemned to unquenchable fires, he must now be at least in Purgatory with but infinitesimal chances of getting out. This was the kind of Popular Literature which was once supplied for the reading of the poor in England ; and it may be sold there to some extent still. But the differ ence is that there are now better chances, if one chooses to seek them, and inexpensive chances at that. We question whether Mr. Dickens's works are so much read in England as in America ; but even there they must have had a most refining influence. He is not " goodyish ;" he can call a spade a spade upon occasion ; but he is a sin gularly clean writer, 'and absolutely free from pruriency of thought, though employing occasional coarseness of expression; and the moralty of his books is always healthy, robust, and benevolent. But we are not intend ing a criticism of Mr. Dickens's books, nor specially a notice of their author. What we desire to point out is the immense responsibility which the general addiction to reading has imposed upon the literary class—upon the writers particularly of poems, dramas, novels, and newspapers. We do not think that there is so much bad and cheap printed matter in the market as there was a few years ago—but there is enough to do a great deal of mischief, though fortunately much of it is too dull for the general endurance of mankind. But in the heat and hurry of fugitive literary labour. even the cautious may lapse into the promulgation of error or into offences against good taste and sound criti cism. It isn't a pleasant consideration that you may be in danger of misleading a fellow-creature, who, in his turn, may mislead one of his fellow-creatures, and so on, ad infinztun. It makes one see a deadly weapon in his pen, and all Tartarus in his inkstand. Mr. Carlyle once humourously said in a preface to a new edition of his own "Life of Schiller," that it was a book whirh deserved "to be knocked " on the head :" yet a book once printed tmfortunately couldnot be knocked on the head, but went up and down doing all manner of mischief. This is true of much printed matter, though (during a scarcity of rags) the paper mills have sent quantities of folly to oblivion. But we have often thought that the old verse about dying and leaving no line which one would wish to blot out, had in it a good deal of pathetic significance. It is easy to be wrong. It is so difficult to comprehend the exact wants of the reader. It is so hard even with the best intention, always to avoid the suggestion of the false. Well, God grant that all honest gentlemen who are plying their pens may make no mistake of matter or manner. As for the dishonest writers in the back slums of literature, they are past praying for.—New York Tribune. American papers just to hand state that the offer of the Cunard and Inman lines (which has been accepted) was to carry the mails between the United States and Great Britain for the amount of the sea-postage on the mails conveyed. LADS RUTISRmENT. J—Avoid Medicines—they always !aggravate chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few out of the 68,000 cures :—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous Talpitation. all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agopy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure No' 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. 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 is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; 51b 11$.; 121 b 225: 24 lbs 4'6.—Also Do BARRY's REVALENTA RABICA CROCOLA TR PowDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at Us —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Orden,- BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 27th inst., at 14, Chesham-place, Mrs. Dixon-Hart land, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at Mottingham, Kent, Mrs. Alexander M. Ewen, of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 25th inst., at Stockcross, Berke, James Burn, of 16, Gresham-street, London, solicitor, to Anne, the youngest daughter of the late Henry Adams, Esq., of Kilkhamuton, Cornwall. On the 25th inst., at St. Mary's, Kilburn, Robert Henry Howard, second son of the late Major Fenwick 86th Re giment, to Alice Emma, daughter of the late W. Ingram, Esq., of Rawcliffe, Yorkshire. On th• 25th inst., at Ballysax Church, co. lildarc, George Lyddon Morley, Esq., late 75th Highlanders, and now of her Majesty's Commissariat Staff Corps, to Mabel, daugh ter of the Rev. George B. Wheeler, Rector of Ballysax, Curragh Camp. DEATHS On the 27th inst., at his residence, Tottenham, Josiah Forster, aged 88. On the 26th inst., at her residence, at Ohertsey, Mi ss Re becca Young, aged 88. 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