The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-14 00:00:00

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Perry's Wine and Beer Preservative will prevent acetous fermentation taking pace. The Preservatives are sold in casks and jars at 3s. 6d. per gallon.—Depot, 86, St. John-st, eet, West Smithfield, London, E.C.—Agents wanted. PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND AND BONUS. —rhe 'UNITED LAND COMPANY (Limited).—Notice is Hereby Given, that the Dividend and Bonus for the financial year ending November 39 1889, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, declared at the Annual General Meeting of the Share holders on the 2d inst., will be Payable at the Offices, 33, Norfolk street, Strand, on and after MON, AY, the 14th inst. SECOND ISSUE OF 10,000 SIIARE!I. -A Igrgeprc portion of the Second Issue having been already taken by the Shareholders, the remainder is now offered to the general public. Shares, 45 each; Deposit, Li per Share payable on ap plie t don. No further call to exceed £1 per Share: an intert al of three months to elapse between each call. Interest at .5 per cent. pei annum allowed on calls paid in advance. Applications to be made either to Messrs. ',ferries, Farquhar, and Co., St. .lam-3 W-street, S.W.; to the London and Westminster 13 ink, Lothbury, and Temple-bar; or at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street. Strand, London, W.C. By order. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEtSE)", Secretary. rpm; PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. 11.. NIL REAL NICKEL SILVER, Introduced more than 3; years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when PLATED by the patent process of Messrs. Elkimlton sad Co., is, beyond all comparison, the very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such, either use fully or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be distin guished from real silver. A small useful set, guaranteed of first quality for finish and durability, as follows : — riddle or Old Beal Thread Silver King's Patterns I I IX s. d. .E R. (I. V! Table Forks , 1 1 . ... 2 1 ... 12 Table Spoons 121)ossert Forks 12 I>PSs,•rt Spoons 12 Tea Spoons . , l4 l9 . 6 Egg. Spoo.is. gilt bowls. •... 9 ...'... 12 ... 2 Sauce Ladles • 6 ' 8 1 gravy Spoon ' 6 i 8 6 2 Salt Spoons, gilt bowls '... 3 ...... 4 ... 1 Mustard Spoon, gilt bowl ... 1 G... 2 ... 1 Pair of Sugar Tongs ' . 2 6... 3 Gi 1 Pair of Fish Carvers.... r... 19 6 1 3 ..i 1 Butter Knife 1 Soup Ladle ' . 10 ...... 12 ...; 1 Sugar Sifter .£ S. d. ; .£ S. d. 2 2 2 5 ... 2 '2 ...I 2 5 1 10 1 11 ... 1 10 1 11 ... 1 1 ... 1 2 ... .. 17 ...L. 13 ~ 4 ...!. 4 6 • 2 _l_ 2 3 6j.. 4 i 3 ...1 1 :3 . 14 ... Total. 1 9 1 Gll 15 0,12 S GU 2 Any article to be had singly at the same prices. An oak chest to contain the above, and a relative number of knives, &c., .£2 15s. A second quality of Fiddle Pattern Table Spoons and Forks ... £1 2 per doz. Dessert 0 is Tea Spoons ... 010 46 TEA and COFFEE SETS, Electro Silver, in great variety, from. is Vs to .£2l Irs—DiSli COVERS, Electro Silver, from £9 the I Set of Four to .C2g— , :ORNER DISHES, Electro Silver, from .£7 10s to £lB 18s the Set of Four; Warmers. 17 Is Si to .E 15 15i_ RITET and LtQUoa FRAMES, Electro Silver, &c., at proportion ate prices —DESSERT KNIVES and FORKS, Fish-eating ditto, and Fish Carvers, in cases, at proportionate prices —ILL KINDS of RE-PLATING done by the Patent Process. IV I L N L I ! T V G S S. R B o l "AT ) O N G N I!, R G E b y N E . p R p ° A i , L t in F e R t; ic. if. the Prince of WAL KS, sends a CATALOGU K gratis and post Laid. It e.mtains upwards of 700 IllustrAtions of his unrivalled Stocks, with List of Prices and Plans of the Twenty large Show Rooms, at 39, Oxford-street, W.; 1, IA, 2,3, and 4, Newman street; 4,5, and 13, Perry's-place ; and 1, Newman-yard, London. With the present railwayfaeilities the cost of delivering goods to the most distant parts of the United Kingdom is trifling. WILLIAM S. BURTON will always, when desired, undertake delivery at a small fixed rate. y'B COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAT. J LW —A.MSTERDAIt EXHIBITION, 180, FIRST PRIZE, Laing ABOVE the Gold Medal. Supplied t o th e B r i t i sh, French, Prussian. Russ'an, Italian, Dutch, and other Governments. One pint of fine flavoured Beef -tea at 21d. Most convenient and cononile "stock." CAUTION.—OnIy sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron Liebig, whose signature is on every genuine Jar. Ask for LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT, and not for LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of Mi:AT. riIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. E. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, WILLIAM TELL : Messrs T. C. King, J. Neville, M Intyre, Moreland; Misses Edith Stuart and It. Yokes. After which, at 9, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: or, OLD MOTHER BUNCH: Misses Jessie Vokes, Victoria Vokes, and Rosina, Vokes, Messrs. Fred. Vokes, W. F. 'Yokes, Brittain Wright, and Harry Boleno. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING, at 7. A KISS IN THE TURK. After which, at 20 minutes to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckstene, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Rogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Uwynne, Miss C. Hill, &e. Concluding with DE kF AS A POST: Mr Compton and. Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. Box-office open daily from Ten till Fivo. riIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. SolE , Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs. Leigh Murray, At 8, TH NIGHTINGALI,'. Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Hiss Furtado, Mrs Alfred ellon, 11 lee Eliza Johnstone, NTrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with D`)MESTIC ECONOMY. Mr Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Pisces can be secured a fortnight in advance. UYA 1 , PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr. Benjamin WO-sten lIT lIS EVENING, at 7, FORMOSA : M essrs. J. Rouse, Rig nold Ashley Taylor, Lin Rayne, Phillip s , L eeson, Eburne, , , Romer, &c. ; Nfesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, M. Brennan, E. Barnett, L. Grey, &c. With AI TER DARK; Messrs Rignold, Ashl e y, 't ong°, Lee son, Phillips, Rayne; Misses It. Leclercq and Barnett. liYCEUM THEATRE (under the managem en t xi of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by Ma c i ntosh), THIS EVENIN G , at 7.30, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A. TIGER: MessrsCoghian, Odell, and Wilmott; 3lesdanies uold and Morgan. Aft r which, CHILPERIC, by I - Terv: Messrs AL Marius. G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghian. tint! 11. Hem", Mesdames Dolan.), nizlnman, Romznelli, Nelic Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. 1 . 1 OY AL STII AND THEATRE Sole I egsee and '.rana,T.eress. Mrs Swanborough. TRH EVENING, at 7, TIMIL IFt AT L sr3 S. Clarke, D. Jame,, Crouch; Alesdames Bufton and Claire• Fonowel by THE TOOULES: it Clarke. After wllich, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, Turner Most lames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH S, 30, Boer-street, Covent-garden. NEWSPAPER.—G. P. G,,EN lE, sport!ng Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgcwa:e•road, Idivers the LATE I,DITrON of "TUE SUN " as soon ko3 p:o)llshed. I_--ifE LATEST EDITION o f " TI IE SUN " to be seen Every Evening by 8 10 at Ur. ROBERT MEACOCICS, Lt.itaullia, liens al New-town, RTING.—J OHN ROBERTS supplies the LATES I' EDITION of " THE SUS " as soon as pub i she 1.-4, Bath-street, City-read. le C. " TIIE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN." BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. 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Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Buil Wharf, Angol passsage, 93, Upper Thames itreet London. E.O. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, WILLIAM TELL: Messrs T. C. King, Neville, M•lntyre, Moreland; Misses E. Stuart and Yokes: At SO BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Messrs. Fred. Yokes, Brittain Wright, Harry Boleno; Misses Yokes, ece. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tim EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Messrs Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, &c. ; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F.j Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF' AS A POST. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. TUTS EVENING, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs J. Rouse, Rignold, Taylor, Philips, Leeson, Eb':rne, &c. Mesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, Brennan, Barnett, Grey, &c. Followed by AFTER DARK: Messrs Rignold, Ashley, Rouse, &c.; Miss Rose Le clercq and Miss Barnett. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. TFITS EVENING, at 7. OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. itephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs L Murray. At 8, T tiE NIGHTINGALE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John stone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs Leigh Murray. LYCEUM THEATRE. Trrrs EVENING, at 7, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER. And CHILPERIC: M. Marius, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. 11 , srve; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzitunan, Ro manelli, Nellie Nesbit, anti Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongly Tuts EVENING. at 7, THE HEIR LAW: Mr Clarke, Mr James, Miss Baton, ecc. With THE TOODLES. Concluding with I N O. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SK ETCH BOOK Egyptian Bail, Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) a S; Saturday 3loinings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. CEIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G NRDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays 6d. Children tinder twelve, 6(1. ROYAL AL II AIM!? A PALACE. THREE BALLET- Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. 18. Box-office open fromll to 4. 711: , 4 ) 4'lli) CY:I , ^rk • i-"'N 11 lk 14, 1870. 'Pint Speech made by the Bishop of EXETIIR in the tipper House of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury on Friday is certainly no exception to the latter half of the rule that "speech is silver but silence is golden." We fear we could notjsay as much as to the first half. The Btsuor has taken a step whose importance we frankly admit we did not at first understand. His justification of that step reveals at once how important, inopportune, and indeed unfortunate it is. If Dr. TE3IPLE previously to his nomination to the See of Exeter, had felt misgivings as to the tendency of "Essays and Reviews," and had declined to withdraw his contri bution from that volume solely from considerations for his colleagues, then, while acknowledging his delicacy, we sh)uld be compelled to say that he had sacrificed a much higher duty to a much lower one —the interests of Christianity to those of six friends. But the BISHOP expressly disclaims any such idea. 4 :; 4 lle will not admit tkat the volume is a dangerous one. On the contrary he thinks it did good service. Thenwhy in the name of all that is reasonable does ho practically condemn it, by withdrawing from all con nection with it ? Simply and solely, so far as we can understand, because he is no longer FREDERICK TEMPLE but LORD BISHOP Of EXETER. In fact, if we may be pardoned a jest on so serious a matter, he has undergone a see change which has wrought effects fully as remarkable as the " sea-change" of the poet. This change is not for the better. It has brought the BISHOP into a position neither dignif.ing nor safe—which we take to be a euphemism for a seat between two stools. The BISHOP has withdrawn his essay because it has given offence to certain well meaning and pious persons, and most offence to those who, like the Bishop of LICIIFLELD, have never read it. This is yielding to the weaker brethren with a vengeance. Unfortunately it is stultifying the stronger brethren who, by their recent support of him, had even greater claims upon the BISHOP'S consideration. The BISHOP says that the volume was written for a definite object. Young Oxford had doubts, but pl 'oun g Oxford was reticent. We should have thought ;that so long as young Oxford had doubts, reticence was a very proper position, .not to say a binding duty. Not so, says the LORD BISHOP Of EXETER. It was the duty of young Oxford to speak out, and it did. speak out in these seven "Essays and Reviews." ut when an essayist and a reviewer becomes a BISIIOP he is no longer young Oxford, he is, we sup yose, old Oxford, or at all events middle-aged Oxford, and, as the French say when one comes to that age cwt ae range. Now we make bold to assert that if the BISHOP'S account of the origin of this famous volume be con ect a more unnecessary, a more unwarrantable work Nras never issued from the press. We all know the wmds of the LA UREA E. He fought his doubts, he gathered strength; He would not make his judgment blind He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them." But Dr. TEMPLE, instead of "fighting," "facingrAnd "laying" them, paraded them, drew them up in :im posing military fashion, reviewed them in both senses of the word for all the world to see. It; .7sas ',impossible to have made a more lamentable mist ake. It would have been well if he who made it, had remembered other lines by the same poet :--! " Leave thou thy sister when she pray; Her early heaven, her happy views: Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days." Of ono thing we are quite sure : the other c esayists would decline altogether the BrsuoPs account of their enterprise. It was not because i hey had doubts that they wrote, but because ti. cy had certainties. It was because they felt that t here was need of a new reformation, a new onslaught apcn the eidula of the mind, because they saw that t ho Bible had been treated with superstitious revere] tce , born of the letter which killeth, that they set they 'selves to assert the right of a free and reverent Ins ndling, which should give full play to the spit it that quickeneth. It was not negations, but positive had to mak e . If,* tl my had assertions, which they merely doubted they would not hair( ,een so Weakly incontinent of speech as to /rut h into Priiit, They had a far uobler potil e and ' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1870. object. They had to stand up for the rights of conscience, and of the intellect which some per sons seemed to suppose were gifts bestowed upon men by the devil in order to ensure their destruc tion. They would no more have thought of yielding to weak brethren than WYCLIFFE, LATImEn, and CRAWIER would have yielded to those who thought indulgences, transubstantiation, and the Rood of Bexley sacred things, which must not be touched. But like lIAZAEL, we never know what we may come to. One thing we know, that if Archdeacon DEmsoN is wise he will memorialise Mr. GLADSTONE to appoint all the other living clerical Essayists and Reviewers to bishoprics. In that way he will eliminate some of the, to him, most objectionable, as he has just succeeded in eliminating the least. As for ourselves, we say it, in all sorrow, and with every consideration for the strain and worry to which Dr. TEMPLE has been subjected for so long, and which ho so long resistedright nobly, that we are almost tempted to think his position as Bishop of EXETER and a Peer of Parliament less enviable than that of Dr. ROWLAND WILLIAMS, who has just been laid to rest beneath the churchyard sod of a little Wiltshire village. FOREIGN NOTES. THE POLISTI Mtn. The Chamber of Deputies of the Austrian Reichsrath is much interested in the reforms which are called for by the Polish Diet. The object of these changes is to confer on the Poles a political existence, which will be nearly as independent as that enjoyed by the Hungarians. The Austrian Empire is divided into two parts. On one side is Hungary, which has a Parliament and a distinct Ministry, holding their seat at Pesth, and on the other, all the States and provinces on one side of the Leitha, having also their distinct Ministry, the Cis leithan, and a Parliament, the Reichsrath of Vienna. The affairs in common with these two portions of the Empire are confided to the Crown Ministry, of which Count Beust is the head, and to a central Parliament composed of delegates from the Hungarian and Cisleithan Parliaments. Many of these provinces have complained of this organisa tion. which has centralised in one place peoples and com munities that have hitherto bad each an independent existence. The chief difficulty which now awaits the Austrian Government, is to settle the differences which prevail between the German Centralists and the Autono mists of distinct nationalities. The Czechs, not having obtained their independent existence, have refused to allow their deputies to sit in the Reichsrath. It was feared at one time that the Polish Delegation would adopt a similar course, which must have completed the disorga•- nisation of the Reichsrath. They only relinquished the idea because they hoped to obtain the concessions which are embodied in the resolution now submitted to the Reichsrath, and about to undergo scrutiny. The chief points of the resolution are the demand that the Gallician Diet shall alone decide the method of the elections to the Reichsrath, and that the kingdom of Gallicia and the Grand Duchy of Cracow should have a Government which is responsible to the Gallician Diet for the settlement of interior affairs, and a Minister in the Crown Council. The Vienna Gazette has given some details of the first sitting of the Commission which discussed this measure. The President of the Council of Ministers declared that the Government could not accept the entire resolu tion, and as for its particular points they did not seem called for by the state of the country, nor in the interests •f the Empire. From this commencement it does not seem as if the differences between the Ministers and the Polish Diet will be adjusted in a satisfactory manner. EMBEZZLEMENT AND BIGAMY. The Liverpool Mercury reports that Mr. Barker, the agent and goods manager of the London and North- We,torn Railway at Milverton, has absconded from Leamington under circumstances which will give rise to serious and painful inquiries. Mr Barker was suspended about ten days ago for some slight act of indiscretion, but, in consequence of something which transpired, suspicion was aroused, and the audit clerks of the company made an examination of his accounts. Up to the present time a deficiency of upwards of £lOO has been . discovered. Mr. Barker has only been goods manager at Milverton for about five months, but was previously for some time in the service of the com pany at Birmingham. It is stated that he has a wife in London, and has contracted a second marriage with a young lady of most respectable family, whose relatives reside in Birmingham. A warrant has been issued for his apprehension on the charge of embezzlement, and placed in the hands of the Leamington police for execu tion. ITEMS OF IRISH NEWS THE LONDONDERRY ELECTION. Mr. Serjeant Dowse, Solicitor-General for Ireland, arrived in Londonderry on Thursday night about twelve o'clock, and was met at the station by about 5,000 persons. He received a most enthusiastic reception. The populace unyoked the horses from his carriage and draw him to the hotel. He addressed the electors on Thursday evening at great length, dealing especially with the subject of the Irish Land Bill. His return is considered certain, The election takes place early next week. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—Feb. 12. Vary alarming rumours have prevailed during the lass day or two respecting Mr. Bright. Ido not care to repeat ill that is said, but I fear there is no doubt that he is hors de combat, and that during the present session he will 'tot be able to give any assistance to his colleagues—a sore disappointment to anyone so intensely interested as he is in Irish legislation. He has been ailing for some time, but refused to see any medical man until the Queen herself besought him . to do so. Absolute rest is now prescribed. He wished to go to Scotland, but it was held that so long a journey would be most prejudicial, especially in such weather as this. In order to avoid the numerous inquiries which were being made at his houso in Hanover-street, he was taken to.Nor wood, and will go thence to Brighton. Everyone is noticing the extraordinary coincidence by which so many of our public men are laid up at the same time. In addition to Mr. Bright, there are Lord Granville, Lord Clarendon, Mr. Disraeli and Sir Robert Collier, all on the list of ill or wounded, and Sir John Coleridge has had a narrow escape of being added to the list. Almost at the very time that the Attorney-General was being shot the Solicitor-General was nearly thrown out of a carriage. Lord Cairns is leaving England for Mentone, where he will remain until Easter. He came over merely to be pre sent at the opening of Parliament, and to shew himself as leader. He is not likely to be wanted this side of Easter, and he has some very heavy judicial work on hand, con nected, I believe, with the Judicial Commission, which he is anxious to complete, free from the distractions of Lon don and political life. There is a weekly paper published here called Latest News, belonging, I believe, to Mr.Maddick, the advertising agent, and edited by Mr. Tom Hood, the editor of Fan. In its number of to-day it makes a very conspicuous announcement, which after interpreting the involved peri phrasis which is thought proper on such occasions, amounts to this, that the Queen is going to marry a certain Dane • German Duke who has been much over here lately. Mr. Hood must bear the responsibility of the announce menoNo one else that I have seen knows anything about it. The fashionable world is greatly interested by the an nouncement that the recently-widowed Marchioness of Hastings is to be married to Sir George Chetwynd. The Marchioness is about 25; her very youthful fiancé is not yet of age. The Marchioness has made it a condition of marriage that her future husband will pledge himself to have nothing to do with the turf. This is not an unnatural condition, considering her ladyship's past experience, and it is the more prudent because Sir George has already taken an active interest in matters equine, and, being a youth of very considerable wealth, would be a very plump pigeon for the pluckers. Captain Batchelor, formerly proprietor of the now defunct Glowworm newspaper, is going to be the lessee of new theatre in Sloane Square, Chelsea. It is to be hoped that this building will have a more fortunate history than that in which the gallant captain's last enter prise was established. It had been a shop, then it was the office of the paper whose title very aptly described it : then, when that paper was transferred to Mr. Beeton, a short time before its feeble light was extinguished, it was opened as a sporting house, called after the ex-Conservative leader and sport3man,theßentinek ; and then,when Mr. Bruce made his raid upon the betting-houses, it was once more closed. It is now being converted into a thCatre. Mr. Horace 'Wigan has taken the Holborn Theatre, which Mr. Barry Sullivan found so unfortunate a speculation. It is to be hoped that there will be no occasion for the former gentleman to be grateful to the munificent lady who paid the losses of the latter gentleman to the sum of five figures. Your readers are aware that under Mr. Forster's En dowed Schools Act of last session, three commissioners, Lord Lyttleton, Canon Robinson, and Mr Arthur Hob house, Q.C., were appointed to carry out the in tentions of the Act, and see that school endow in?nts are properly applied. An association has now been formed, in order to obtain for girls a larger share in the endowments than they have hitherto enjoyed. The association feels that thero is little chance of women obtaining any considerable portion of the school endowments which have hitherto been appro priated to boys, however clearly it may be proved that the original purpose was to give them to both sexes. The association rather hopes to have some of the charitable doles, marriage portions, and other mischievous kinds of charity diverted from their at present noxious use, to the high purposes of education. The committee consists of Mrs. Bruce (wife of tho Home Secretary) Miss Clough, Miss Bostock, Miss Davies (who has taken so active a part in the establishment of the Ladies' College at Hitchin), Miss Smedley, Miss Bonham Carter (the Secretary), Mr. Bryce, and Mr. Fitch, late assistant commissioners to the Royal Commissioners on Education, Mr. Herbert (one of the authors of "Religious Republics") Mr. Gorst, late M.P. for Cambridge, and Mr. Green. It is probable that the subiect will be brought prominently forward very shortly, amtliOt of alt to Y oricsniro, wnere there are a number of useless and hurtful charities. Mr. Crampton, late a partner in the well known and unfortunate firm of Peto, Betts, and Crampton, has lately made a very valuable discovery. He finds that he can make use of the very smallest coal dust in the smelting of iron, and he has constructed furnaces at Woolwich Arsenal,where this process is being carried on most successfully. The result is, that material which was looked upon as waste, and was treated as such at all the pits, is now having a commercial value, and at the same time Mr. Crampton is doing something towards solving the problem with which Professor Jevons startled us a little while ago—How are. we to prevent the approaching exhaustion of our coal beds? Mr. Jeafferson's "Book about the Clergy" is already going into a second edition. The very favourabla review of it in the Tiazds was, I believe, written by Dr. Dasent. Mr. Tennyson had intended to call his new book " Sir Perceval." It has been written for some years. Mr. Horne, author of " Orion," has returned to En;land after siiinteen years rambliing in Australia, and is lecturing at St. George's Hall on Sundays, and has brought out saiiiw editionof his tragedy. " The Death of Marlowe." There are several additional passages, but the whole of the original matter is retained. We regret to announce another death from the effects of the recent colliery accident at Pendleton. The number of deaths now amount to mine. Mr. Heron, who was defeated by O'Donovan Rossa, has issued his address to the electors of Tipperary. He advocates fixity of tenure, denominational education, and an amnesty to the Fenian prisoners. An Indiana newspaper asserts that an Indian is at present officiating in that State as a Methodist minister, and that after his sermon he regularly dismisses his congre gation by giving the war-whoop and executing a scalp dance. Mr. George Hogarth, for many years well known in connection with the London newspaper press, and as the author of several popular works on music (Memoirs of the Opera, Musical Biography and Criticism, &c.), died on Saturday morning, having passed his 86th year. In his early life Mr. Hogarth was a Writer to the Signet at Edinburgh, where ho was much associated with the literary celebrities of the day, including Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart, ete., mention being made of him in Pro fessor Wilson's "Noctes Ambrosiane3." In 1830 be came to London, and was engaged on the Morning Chronicle as a writer both on political and musical subjects; and was afterwards appointed musical critic to the Daily News on the establishment of this paper in 1841;, under the then editorship of his son-in-law, Mr. Charles Dickens. This office Mr. Hogarth assiduously fulfilled until his failing health led, iu 1866, to Lis resignation and retirement from the active work of a daily paper. He also held for many years a similar appointment on the Illustrated London News, besides having contrilruted to magazines and periodicals, and edited various works, both musical and literary. For a few seasons Mr. Hogarth was secretary to the Philharmonic Society. He married a daughter of the late Mr. George Thomson, of Edinburgh, whose name is associated with that of Beeth oven, by the commission which he gave to the composer for arrangements of Scotch and other national airs with 'accompaniments. The kindly nature and genial tempera ruent of the late Mr. Hogarth rendered him universally .iked and esteemed. PRINCE HOHENLOHE. Before the vote on the address in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, Prince Hohenlohe made an important speech, in which he declared that he had sufficiently explained his German policy. Its object was to main tain the union between North and South Germany and preserve at the same time the independence of Bavaria. He could not believe that the majority were under the influence of frivolous motives, and he must, therefore, conclude that they did not share his wishes. The consequences of their resolve would lead them further than they expected or desired. His speech was received with great applause. The Augsburg Gazette reports from Munich that the resolution of the King not to accept the address of the Reichsrath Chamber has caused general satisfaction in the capital. THE SALT TAX IN ITALY. It appears from the accounts furnished to the Italian papers that the receipts of the salt tax have risen in 1869 to £8,218,000, which forms an increase of £220,000 on the receipts of the previous year. It is stated in the same journal that reductions will he made this year in many items of the budget. They will not be very considerable, but they will amount to some hundred thousands sterling, By the increase of the receipts on one side, it will be possible to diminish the expenses on the other side, and the Italian Government is anxious to realise such a policy, being fully convinced of the necessity of improving the state of its finances. SANITARY COMMISSION IN THE EAST. The Journal Officiel has announced that the Ottoman Government has carried out the instructions of the Sani tary Commission, which assembled in the Turkish capital in 1866. A Commission had left Constantinople in the Betthymo for the Red Sea. A despatch from Cairo declares that the Betthymo has arrived at Alexandria, and that the President of the Commission had been received by the Viceroy, who promised him the protection of his Govern ment to enable him to carry out his mission. In conse quence of this assurance the Betthymo has started for Port Said, in order to pass the Canal and reach the south coast of the Red Sea, where the Commission will choose a spot for the establishment of a quarantine or a convalescent hospital for those Mussulmans who perform a pilgrimage to Mecca. GOVERNOR FENTON ON AMERICAN FINANCES. Governor Fenton has made a speech in the Senate, at Washington, against Sherman's Finance Bill, strongly denouncing the evils of an irredeemable currency. The difficulties of resumption cannot, ho thinks, be avoided by postponements. On the contrary, they will increase. Credits are constantly expanding, and individual indebtedness is steadily increasing; and if the country shrinks from the effort of a return to specie pay ments now, it will recoil with still greater repugnance another year. Mr. Fenton advocates a gradual change, citing the example of England, where six years were required after the Napoleonic wars to attain specie payments, though her currency was less depreciated. After declaring it to be an error to maintain that a high rate of interest shewed a necessity for an increase in the currency, as money was often cheap and plen tiful when currency was limited and dear, and scarce when it was excessive, the speaker proceeded to discuss the ques tion of how to make paper and gold equivalent. Sherman's bill did not, in his opinion, advance that end. Is it not, he asked, the depreciation of the currency with its consequent inflation of prices that makes the Union not only a poor market to buy in, but a good Market to sell in, and,if true, must not the adjustment of the currency precede the adjustment of trade ? He would not, however, increase the present volume, but curtail instead, with a view to early resumption. "If a system of banking based upon the proposed new securities or Consols, entirely free, with only such restrictions as are essential to absolute security, and to make every note redeemable in gold, is adopted, then every section, as we reach the specie basis, can have the amount of currency it needs. In the meantime, it is my desire that we should hold as nearly as possible to those just and salutary maxims, the observance of which is more than ever important in a period of derangement like the present." THE LATE PRESIDENT SALNAVE. The American papers give a sketch of the career of Pre sident Salnave, the news of whose capture and execution by the Haytian insurgents was published a day or two since. Sylvan Salnave was born in the City of Cape Haytien in 1832. He entered the army as a common soldier, and gradually rose to the position of captain of cavalry of the North, which position he retained after the establishment of the Empire under Souloquue, though he held Republican principles. In December 1858 Giffrard raised the standard of the revolt, and declared for a Republic. The Imperial guard were mustered to quell the insurrection, bvt owing to Salnave's influence the whole North supported Geffrard, and the Empire was overthrown. The Republic was established, and Geffrard rewarded Salnave, to whom he actually owed his position, with the position of major in the-army. Soon-after Spain -declared the annexation of the Dominican portion of the island, and sent a strong force to take possession. Salnave headed the move ment against the invaders and succeeded in expelling them. Afterwards he commenced a revolutionary movement against Geffrard, who, in March 1867, fled from the country, Salnave being proclaimed President. The Republic of Hayti remained in a very disturbed state, and two rival Presidents were in last December proclaimed in the North and South. The events of the last few months are well known. In person Salnave is described as of a commanding presence, six feet in height, with regular features, and dark complexion. He had received a fair eduction, and displayed remarkable sagacity in his official correspondence. THE DICTIONARY CLUB.—The members of this literary club held their first dinner this season at the United Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's-square, on Thurs day evening. Among those present were Dr. William Smith, Mr. John Murray, Bev. Francis Garden, Professor Swanison, Mr. George Grove, Mr. F. Pratt Barlow, Mr. Brunel Mr. Deutsch, Mr. Shaw, Mr. W. C K. Clowes, Mr Clowes, Mr. Young, &c. The Right lion. John Bright, me weeks ago, le t Rochdale Railway station by tha 3 20 train through Oldham to Stockport, with the intention of Arriving at Birmingham that evening, where he had an en gagement. IN hen he reached Stockport station he had the disappointment of witnessing the last train for Birming loon de fart before he was able to take a seat. Ilis only course was either to spend the night in Stockport or return home to Rochdale. Ile chose the latter alternative, and returned to Mumps station, Oldham, where the train ho was in was shunted on a siding, to wait for the arrival of the train from Manchester, ria Miles Platting to Oldham.' The night being foggy, tho train was delayed a considerable time, and after the right hon. g,ontletnan aad patiently sat in the carriage three-quarters of an hour, he put his head out of the window, and inquired how long they were to be kept waiting. A porter, whose ear it hap pened to catch, not knowing who spoke, replied in tb• Lancashire dialect : " Sit thee still mon, it'll be off directly." The circumstances becoming known to the directors of the London and North-Western Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, they decided to run trains direct, to prevent a recurrence of the accident, and additional trains have commenced run ning,-which are a groat boon to the public, by whom they are denominated " The Bright trains." AN ELECTION FRACAS AT WATERFORD.; The Conservatives held a meeting on Friday at Water ford—Sir Robert Paul in the chair, Tne Marquis of Waterford was also present. Aiter some discussion a resolution pledging the meeting to support an eligible Conservative candidate was adopted, and another resolu tion asking those not present to remain unpledged was passed. Sir John Ennis has not commenced his canvass yet. He was obliged to go to Athlone. His son, Mr. William John Ennis, represents his father here. Messrs. Osborne, Crean, and Smyth are all busy canvassing. Both the latter had an open-air meeting on Thursday night. On Friday night a crowd of several thousand persons had assembled to listen to Mr. Smyth, when a number of men with a band tried to create confusion. The consequence was that a great row ensued; the knife was used, and one man was stabbed. Several arrests have been made. The city is in a very excited statr, TIIE IRISII CHURCH REORGANISATION. A meeting was held on Friday at Dublin of the clerical delegates (19) of the united dioceses of Dublin, Kildare, and Glandelagh—the Archbishop of Dublin in the chair. Mr. Galbraith submitted a report of the hon. secretaries, which gave a summary of the results of inquiries, and a plan for maintaining the Church services in future. IY the united dioceses the. Church population is 110,000, with church accommodation for 50,000; the average at tendance is 32,000. Leaving out the clergy supported by proprietary churches, the g um required to pay the clergy, church officers, and requisites is £42,000. If the comma iation fund of £465,000 was invested at 4 per cent., the proceeds would be .£lB,OO, leaving a balance of £23,400, which it was proposed to raise by a penny weekly subscriP tion from each member of the Church. LAW AND POLICE. LAND CItEDIT COMPANY OF IRELAND.—In the suit of this company against Lord Fermoy, the Rolls Court made a decree last year requiring the directors to refund a large sum of money, which they bad expended out of the com pany's funds for the purpose of buying in the market shares. An application has now been made by Mr. Munster, M.P., for a rehearing of the case for him to prove that he was not cognizant of the proceedings of his fellow-directors. Lord Rotnilly doubted very much whether the court would per mit a re-hearing of a case because witnesses were ready to come forward and falsify their previous evidence. On the ground of public policy a director ought not to be allowed to say that be did not know for what object money, belonging to the company of which he was a director, was ordered at a public meetinf of his fellow-directors, at wbich he was present, to be expended. A DESIGNING FEMALE.—On Saturday the case of "Jones v. Jones, Ross, and Myers," came on for trial in the Divorce Court. The opening speech of Serjeant Ballantine dis closed some very peculiar facts. The petitioner sought a divorce on the ground of the respondent's adultery with three persons, but the only co-respondent against whom damages were sought was one Hamilton Ross, a married man of considerable property, a broker and merchant at the Cape of Good Hope. The reason why damages were not sought against the other co-respondents was that at the time their connection was formed the respondent was avowedly so worthless and abandoned a woman that beyond the fact of proving the adultery, there was no ground for damages. Mr. Gilbert Jones, the petitioner, seems to have been brought up with very little knowledge of the world, and had acted very foolishly in marrying the woman. He met her in the streets, of St. He'_ier's, Jersey. The lady made signs to him, which led hith to believe she was smitten with his'personal appearance, and they immediately became acquainted. She represented herself to be the widow of an officer, with a small ir.cDme of her own. She bad a guardian, Mr. Hamilton Ross. The end of it was that they were married in 1865, and after some time the peti tioner was led by foice of circumstances to doubt the fidelity of his wife. He discovered that her former husband, whom she said she had married 6)0 miles inland from the Cape of Good Hope, was a myth. Ross, her "guardian," was in reality her " protector," and had been in collusion with her to effect her marriage with Mr. Jones. It was now stated that the respondent was the daughter of a groom; at the age of 14 or 15 she left one family in consequence of her loose morality, and the same thing had occurred in other families. Ross was living with her only a few days before her marriage, and after the • mar ria4-e he still continued to perform the kind offioa of "guardian." At a later period the respondent was found living as the wife of a venerable Israelite, at Exeter. After the evidence for the petitioner had elicited the above facts, Mrs. Jones and Mr. Myers were both placed in the witness-box, and denied in tote the evidence that had been given, and denied that any adultery had taken place. The jury, after a long deliberation, found that the respondent had committed adultery with some person unknown at Starcross, and also with Mr. Myers. but Lord Penzance refused to grant a decree nisi until the point was thoroughly investigated as to whether the petitioner had separated himself without cause from the respondent. BRF,ACII OF PROMISE; DAMAGES, £l.—On Sattrrday, in the Bail Court, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a jury, a girl of 19, named Leukenck, brought an action against a young man, named Folic, a beadle, with a salary of .2107 a year. They became engaged in February 1869, and in consequence the plainquwas dismissed from her situation. The defendant promised to marry her on the Ist of August. plaintiff's mother, who was very deaf, affirmed that she distinctly heard the promise made, which the defendant now denied. The solicitors for the plaintiff offered to compromise the matter for £5OO. The jury, after consulting a minute or two, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages twenty shillings. LIE LEEDS BANKING COMPANY.—In Vice-Chancellor Malins's Court an application to set aside a compromise of a claim of £9,000 against Mr. Blakey, one of the con tributories of the Leeds Banking Company was made. The official liquidator had agreed to accept £520 in satis faction of the claim. On behalf of theapplication, it was alleged that Mr. Blakey had failed to make a full disclosure of his property. Mr. Blakey denied this, but, as his father had recently left him some property, he offered to pay £2,000 more. The Vice-Chancellor directed that this offer should be accepted, all imputations against Mr. Blakey being withdrawn. THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY.—N . O less fiveth ft- actions against the Brighton Railway? Company for injuries received in the New Cross accident have been heard in one day. In one of these tried by the Under-Sheriff of Surrey and a special jury - , the plaintiff claimed £3OO compensation, but after he had been cross-examined, lie was awarded one farthing. Two actions were tried in the Court of Queen's Bench; in which verdicts for £BOO and £450 were given, and two others in the Exchequer, in which the damages were respectively £3OO and £6O. A THEATRICAL DISPUTE.—The well-known scene painter Mr. Callcott, has brought an action against . Mr, Barry Sullivan, late of the Holborn Theatre. The defen.;'. dant was engaged by the plaintiff for a year. at £l2 a week, but dismissed on his refusal to paint a particular scene. An action to recover damages for wrongful dismissal was tried before the Lord Chief Baron in Surrey, when the verdict was for the plaintiff, damages £lOO. A rule for a new trial, in the Court of Common Pleas, has been applied for, but dis charged. THE Loss OF LUGGAGE—An action to recover the loss of luggage by a passenger by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, has been tried in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff, a Jew, who lost a box containing clothes, a diamond ring, two books,, • two papers en route from Hamburg to London, valued his pro perty at £ll9. It seemed that on his ticket a caution was printed that the company was not answerable for loss or damage. The Lord Chief Justice said ha would nonsuit the plaintiff, giving him leave to move the full court ; but the defendant's counsel said he wished to lay some further evidence before the jury. The company brought emigrants from Ger many at an extremely cheap rate, and many of these persons were of such a character that robberies were fre quent among them, and therefore they declined to be answerable. When the plaintiff wrote to the company complaining of his loss, he did not mention the diamond ring, nor the receipts which he now valued at £32. The case was not concluded. DR. EDMUNDS AND Sr. PANCRAS.—An application has been made in the Clerkenwell Police-court for a summons for libel against Dr. Edmunds, one of the St. Pancras Gaardians, whose name has been brought prominently forward durin ,, the late inquiry. The application wis made on behalf of Ellen Pells, a professional nurse w:lom 1)r. Edmunds hat accused in a letter to the- poor law inspeet , )r of conspiring with Dr. Ellis and another nurse to pla , .:e cases of contagious fever in the wards in order to introduce an epidemic. The magistrate advised test the application should be adjourned until the now nding poor law inquiry was finished. CITAIME AGSINOT A SOLICITOR.—A solicitor, at Hackney, has been committed for trial from the WorAip street Police-court, on a charge of having been in unlawful mssession of four clectro-plated spoons, the property of Messrs. Spiers and Pond, the well-known coi.b..actors for supplying refreshments. THE ACCIDENT AT STAFFORD RAILWAY STATION.—At the Shire Hail, Stafford, Thomas Earley, was charged with sending bottles containing oil of vitriol, by the Stafford shire Railway, without labelling the same or giving notice in writing to the company's servants. A further remand was made, in -order that the magistrates might consider the matter. It will be remembered that one of the bottles exyloded and did great damage. 17. -4, fir I •. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 12. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounda this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, also went out. Feb. 13. The (ueen drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty and the Royal Family attended Divine service at Osborne this morning. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove oui on Saturday. LATEST INTELL MEM (RE UTE R'S TELEGRAMS.) _ F RANCE. PARIS, Feb. 12. M. Ulric Fonvielle has been provisionally released from prison. Seven persons on the editorial staff of the Reforme have been ordered to appear before the Correctional Tribunal on the 18th inst. The France of this evening says that the motive which induced the authorities to make several of the recent arrests was the discovery of a plot against the life of the Emperor. It is rumoured that very compromising letters from M. Rochefort were found on some of the individuals arrested. The Patrie also announces the seizure of some im portant papers of a compromising character, which will serve as the basis of a minute judicial investi gation of the recent disturbances. The Pattie adds that the public hearing of the case which will fol low will enable every one to see the legal correct ness of the indispensable repressive measures to which the authorities have resorted. M. Rochefort has written a letter to M. Schneider proposing that the Ministry should be impeached for inciting to civil war. The departure of General Castelnau for St. Petersburg is denied. In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body bt Glais-Bizoin introduced a resolution for the esta blishment of an ad valorem duty on wine. M. Ordinaire commenced reading a letter from M. Rochefort, beginning with the word " consider ing." The hon. member was, however, interrupted by the President, who objected to the letter being read. M. Ordinaire maintained his right to read it, whereupon the President put the question to the House, and the latter decided that the subject should not Le proceeded with. M. Ordinaire then wished to deliver the letter to the Presi dent, but M. Schneider refused to accept it. The interpellation upon the measures to be adopted with a view to give effect to the propo sals made at the agricultural inquiry was then resumed. PARIS, Feb. 14. A letter from M. Rochefort to the Prefect of Police has been published, in which the former de mands that, despite the regulations of the prison, his letters or articles he may send out shall be exempted from examination by the director of the prison. Immense cold prevails here. M. Jules Favre delivered a lecture yesterday upon the duties of a citizen, in which he stated that liberty ought not to be defended by street disturb ances of any kind, but solely by the moral force of liberal ideas. The lecture was a great success. BOURSE, Feb. 12.—Three, o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4i per Cent. 3 per Cent End of month._ 73 45 Credit Mobilier 200 Transatlantic 217 50 Bank S}iar©9 2885 Ited'an wives 54 60 Austrian Fivt;s 64 25 Ottoman Loan 323 50 Do. Debt 44 30 Spanish Threes 26 Home Debt 22 25 Deferred . RAILWAYS redit Foucier _1737 Paris Gas 1677 Suez Canal 340 Cash. Orleans Western Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 612 }55 Sardinian Austrian 7BU Lombard 5lO North of Spain 62 Saragossa Roman 45 PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 12. The Royal Mail Steampacket Company's ship La Plata arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day with 37 passengers for Southampton £6,356 in specie, 422 packages of cotton, and 109 of sundries. The Douro, with the outward Mail of the 10th January, arrived at St. Vincent (?), Pernambuco, on the 26th January. ITALY. GENOA, Feb. 18. The corvette Vedetta bas sailed for the Red Sea to take possession of a point on the African coast, situated between Dossier and Massowah. Several scientific explorers are on board the ship. ROME, Feb. 13. The preparations for the exhibition of objects of religious art and workmanship are not yet com plete, but the opening will probably take place on Friday next. AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Feb. 12. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1191 ; the highest quotation dur ngthe day was 1201 ; the lowest, 9. Sterling Exchange on London lO9. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll 4 i. ft 11 1885 ll4l. " 1867 ll3 . 10-40 66 112. Illinois 145. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2slc. Petroleum —Standard White 3ole. Flour, extra state, $4.90c. to $5.50c. Corn, old mixed, sl.6e. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 14. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of New York arrived here at 11 o'clock yesterday. She em barked mails and passengers, and proceeded for Halifax at 10.20 a.m. to-day. All w ell. .11 strong easterly gale is blowing. OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. MARSEILLES, Feb. 14. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Nyanza, which should have started yesterday morn ing, only left at 7 a.m. to-day, having been de tained by heavy we„ther. The Springfield I?epublican says :—" It is well known that the eloquent and faithful minister at South Hadley Falls, Rev. Richard Knight, is of English birth, and dwelt on the "tight little isle" for many years. He had au admirable likeness taken by Alden, the photo grapher, the other day, and narrated there an incident well Illustrating British ignorance about this country. lie said he was going to have pictures taken of his wife, a good American woman, to send to his English friends to disabuse them of the ideas that she was a negress. He was dining at Scarborough, his old home, during his recent visit across the water, when a lady leaned over the table and asked him, confidentially. "Is it true, Mr. Knight, that your wife is a negress ?" " Why, no," ho said; " why do you ask such a question ? " And it came out that she had heard so much said about slavery and abolition, and tit:, weakness of the latter party, that she thought nearly all the people of the United States were negroes, and that somehow Mr. Knight must have married one of he despised race to assert his devotion to freedom." 211 E SPIRIT OF 711 E MUSE 1.1. V CONGRESS. --~-- (From the Anglo-American Times.) Fighting BEN BUTLER . ' furnishes a very good specimen of the debater who fills the Ole' ries of the House. He is quick, happy, for ' cible, and earnest ; his words are all the stronger because they are few, and the idea is not diluted ; but his great forte is impudence. There never was a man with a more undaunted front, or a more brazen face. Who but he could have been seen grasp ing the hand of the man he had but a few mouths before stigmatised as " the greatest criminal of the age," when ho had led in the attack to hurl him from the Presidential Chair. Yet, there he was iu the White House, in his usual earnest way wishing ANDY JOHN SON many happy returns of the day which commenced the year 1869. BuTLEe has lately returned to Wash ington from his Christmas holidays, like a giant re freshed and brimming over with pugnacity. Not content with flooring ; his enemies, he is knocking his friends down right and left. An account of his tussle with Mr. BINGHAM and Mr. FARNSWORTH . , leaders of the Pepublicau party, will be found in the letter of our Washington correspondent. Not confining his assaults to them, he, as its self made champion, attacked Mr. DAWES in defence of the Administration. More than half his speech was not with the figures of the Chairman of the Commit tee of Appropriations, but with himself. Mr.DawEs' relation to Government was that of Chancellor of the Exchequer, yet he presented his Budget without explaining an item, except in saying that the esti mates were extravagant and corrupt. As a part of the administration his colleague ought to have sought an explanation, instead of coming into the House with incorrect statements to make a false impression on the country. He had watched his colleague, and he knew him to be constitutionally Conservative, and Radical only by location. Mr. DAWES disliked forward steps, and, as the elephant on a bridge, refused, without a careful examination, to trust the planks, but, unlike the elephant, he did not pass over the bridge when satisfied. Ile had seen him during the crises of ten years held by Conservatism as by bands of new withes. So it was,with him in the 14th Amendment ; so with the 15th; so with the Reconstruction Acts. Mr. DARES very properly replied that the matter was not personal. But it is iu downright sparring that BUTLER is in his element. He flies at anything, from the Press and the PRESIDENT down to his col league, as he proved when the bill was pass ing through the House to abolish the franking privilege. The Representatives had been fright ened by the unanimity expressed in the peti tions from all parts of the country for its abolition, and they are said to hope that the Senate will throw it out, though members who have to face their constituents dare not. B U TLER had this question to ask—Does the Bill cut off free newspapers ? and when assured it did, he ex claimed "All right." In discussing this privilege in a former speech, he expressed his desire to see it abolished as an impediment and nuisance for every body and everywhere ; above all, after the impu dent howling of certain newspapers. " Ile wanted to see every newspaper pay the postage for their use of the franking privilege, in having the mails loaded down with, in many instances, deleterious sheets, spreading advertisements of quack nostrums and abortion medicines all over the land. When the New York Tribune paid at the same rate by weight for the circulation of its blanket sheet that the poor man paid for his letter, then the abolition of the franking privilege would be nigh at hand. But while newspapers withi4.l the county were sent free, and weekly newspapers nearly free, he desired a little modesty on the part of editors in demanding the abolition of the franking privilege for other people." Another instance of the courage with which the Representatives can fly in the face of the world is supplied by the speech of Mr. VOORHEES, in the same debate. The doctrine on Which that gentleman placed himself regarding repudiation, with an absolute faith in its legality and justice, was that embodied in the t 4 noble and upright" resolution of the recent Democratic Convention of ludiana—" that the debt should be paid in strict compliance with the contract, the 5-20 Bonds being payable in greenbacks. The law which authorised the issue of the national currency said in very plain and simple words that it is legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Therefore, if the people owed anything else beside duties on imports and interest on the public debt, the greenback currency was a legal tender for its payment." The case of Virginia shows bow quickly and how boldly the members can turn round, for they passed BINGHAM'S Bill, admitting the State without con ditions, by an immense majority, and afterwards, by a majority quite as large, passed the Senate's Amendments, which admitted the State under wholly different circumstances. There was a fight, too, over Georgia, about the interference of the military in election affairs, raised, of course, by BUTLER, who has acquired the soubriquet of " Fighting Ben." Indeed, judging from the pro ceedings in the Senate, as well as in the House, we might well suppose that the pugnacity of Con gress had been stimulated by the bad weather, and that everybody was in a quarrelsome mood. Some pent-up indignation was expended on the bead of the absent Commissioner WELLS, over the printing of whose report there was another struggle. Having let off some of the steam-pressure, and the weather improving with spring, affairs in Congress will assume a more genial tone, and business will thereby be accelerated. One bit of " chaff " against Senator SUMNER is that he cowes all oppo sition by his threat, when thwarted, to speak for two hours on the disputed subject. The first Fox Club dinner of the season took place at Brooks's, on Saturday. Among those present were the Most Hon. Marquis of Normanby, Right Hon. Earl of Dartrey, Right Hon. Earl of Charlemont, Right Hon. Lord Mostyn, Right Hon. Lord Abercromby, Right Hon. Lord Castletown of Upper Ossory, Sir Edward M. Buller, Bart., M.P., Sir Hedworth William son, Bart., M.P., Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, Hon. Hamilton H. A. Duncan, Hon. Edward S. Russell, Lieut.-Colonel lion. W. Edwardes, M.P., Lieut.- Colonel H. F. Custance, Colonel T. C. B. Challoner, Lieut.-Colonel John D. Ferguson Davie, Mr. Augustus Keppel Stephen son, Mr. Edward A. Sanford, Mr. George Ridley, Mr. Michael liiddulph, M.P., Mr. W. B. Beaumont, M.P., and Mr. J. St. Aubyn, M.P. Prince Arthur left New York, for Boston, last Saturday week, and on his arrival proceeded to the St. James's Hotel. After the funeral of Mr. Peabody he departed last Tuesday afternoon for Montreal direct. His visit to the United States can be truly said to have been a great success. One of the errors he helped to dissipate was the idea in America that the Royal Family are much more educated and highly trained than intellectual. There is a general opinion among Anglo -Saxons that Princes neither have nor require much brains, and when ever one attains to any responsible position, it is always supposed to be through interest, not merit. This mistake has been best removed by sending the young gentleman alone into the depot of American brains. At Washing ton he was an object of curiosity to great statesmen, orators, and soldiers, who, while he little thought it, were accurately measuring his mental capacity. From this trying ordeal he bas emerged with flying colours, Genera Sherman prenouncing the universal opinion that he is a ye ry clever lad. Nor clever only, for he is modest yet dignified, sprightly and good-natured, as easy to please as difficult to ruflite, with a manner and bearing of a most polished gentleman. Hence ho leaves a pleasant impression behind and alike with women and men, for ho had two other good qualities which told with each, being an indefatigable dancer and a good sight-seer. RAILWAY NEWS.--The earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad for the six months ending December last, amounted to $4,611,16133. The stockholders of the Lit tl Miami and Columbus and Xenia Railroads ratified at Gin ciunati, Ohio, on January 25th, by an unanimous vote the perpetual lease of those roads to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad, guaranteed by th Pennsylvania Central Railroad, beginning December Ist, 1859, at an annual rental, free of tax andassessment, of $480,010. The stock of the Little Miami Railroad will be increased by a 17 pa • cent. stock dividend, making the total stock of both roads $6,000,000. This arrangement gives the stock holders 8 per cent. annual dividends, payable quarterly, less expenses of organisation. The Wilmington and Man chester Railroad, of North Carolina, together with all the property of the company, has been sold to W. T. Walters, of Baltimore, for $525,000—5250,000 being pail for the South Carolina end and $275,000 for the North Carolina end. The sale was - for cash, but certain preferred bonds will be received in payment. Of these preferredsecuritie o the purchaser holds $1,975,828. f;4, ; ditt due Exc ditt Cep MI( 4N 14; 12; No Ea nai An 17 Fa: vi' c 1 ba