The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-23 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• HAMPTON MEE IIN G.—THis DAY. SCRATCHINGS. Claremont Stakes—Feronia, Barometer f, Lady Inglis Azalea, Dora, Olympia, O'Toole, and Delay. Manor Plate—Anarchy. Nursery Stakes—Vicary, Antwerp. Squibb, Royal Ex change, Sephy, Hobson's Choice, Prince Henry, and Review, out of all engagements at Hampton. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS, Candour, Cymbal, Cawdor, Defender, Delusion, Deforma tion, Guilford, Hammerton, Juanita, Lady Hertford, Soucar, Lecturer, Lisette, Maud f, t xford f, The Gift, The Sheans Vivid, and Victress. Several horses from Epsom and Windsor are expected in the morning. WINDSOR RACES,—WEDNESDAY. The Windsor Stakes of 20 sous each. Half a mile straight. Mr Graham's Sauntering Alma, by Saunterer—Alma, by Flatcatcher I(Fordham) 1 Lord Anglesey's Stepp e , B s t 81b (Cannon) 2 Mr Moreton's Black Gown, Bst 121 b 3 Won in a canter by three lengths. Nursery Handicap Plate of 50 sovs. About half a mile - - straight. Mr Case's Anton, by Atherstone—The Twin, 7st 31b (Jeffery) 1 Mr H Goater's Our Tom, 6st 61b (Wilson) 2 Mr Brayley's - Tartuffe, 7st 61b (C. Page) 3 Bonny Bell, Minstrel, Sweetmeat, Conscript, Bill of Fare; Appeal, Helios, and Kuightley also ran. Won easily by three lengths. The Welter Cup (Handicap) value 200 sous. About one mile, Mr G. Payne's Departure,Ei Brother to Bird on the Wing, dam by Young Melbourne; 4 yrs, 9st 21b _ . (Mr Bevil) 1 Mr G. Angell's Scarboro' 3 yrs, 9st 21b (in Gib ex) (Parry) 2 }Egean, Fitz-Ivan, Countryman, and Thundercloud, also ran. Won in a canter by six lengths. Tha Windsor Handicap of 100 sovs. About one mile and five furlongs. Mr Merry's Lady of Lyons, 3 yrs, Est 111 b (Batters) 1 Mr W. S. Crawfurd's Skipjack, 6 yrs, 7st 71b (Butler) 2 Lord Jersey's na Wamba, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (Finc) 3 Our Mary Ann, Chawbacon, Bay Roland, Miss Caudle, Disturbance, also ran. Won easily by three quarters of a length. The Manor Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap). About half a mile, straight. Mr Garforth's Lady Macbeth, by Glenmasson, dam by Malcolm—Fama, 3 yrs, 7st 61b Prince Soltykoff's Jersey, 3 yrs, 7st ......... 2 Mr G. Taylor's Lincoln, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Killick) 3 Rodornonte, Bismarck, Perambulator, Luna, Review, Minnie Warren, Panada, Lady Louise, St. Theodore, also ran. Won by two lengths. The Surly Hall Handicap of 5 sovs each. About five furlongs. Mr Rowland's ns Juliet, by Cavendish—Julia, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b Mr P. Herbert's na Master Dick, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Aldridge) 2 Mr H. Goater's Miss Laura, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (car sst 121 b) (Dewitt) 3 Constantine and Defamation also ran. Won in acanter by four lengths, The Royal Cup, value 300 sovs. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. W. Goatees Barrier, by Citadel—Gentle Kitty, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Goater) 1 Count F. de La t ,o-range's Henry, 2 yrs, 6st 111 b (Jewitt) 2 Mr. Brayley's Mornington, 2 yrs, Est 111 b (Butler) 3 Sauntering Alma and Herculaneum also ran Won by a neck. Match ; 9st 51b each. Five furlongs. Mr. H. Custance's Lad of Scotland, by Rattle— Freckle, 4 yrs (Alcloroft) 1 Mr. H. Mauser's King Theodore, 3 yrs .. (Mauser) 2: Won in a canter. NEWCASTLE RACES.-WEDNESDAY. Corporation Plate Handicap of 60 guineas. From the Blue Post, New Course, nearly one mile. Mr. G. Boynton's Honesty, by Young Dutchman— All's Well, aged, 9st 51b (in 91b ex) (J. Snowdon) 1 Mr. G. Silverside's Promptress, 3 yrs, 6st 81b (Dorrety) 2 Mr. M`Nair's Hebe, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Gray) 3 Lady Zetland and Algerie also ran. Won cleverly by half a length. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Second Year of the Fourth StephensOn Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each. One mile'and a half. Mr. Johnstone's The Exciseman, by Saunterer—Lady Elizabeth Mr. A. de Montgomery's La Risle, Bst 31b...(Chaloner) 2 Etruscan also ran. Won easily by a length. The Tyro Stakes of 5 sovs each. New T.Y.C. Thirty six subs. Mr. F. Mouncey's Shannon, byLambton, dam by New minster—Rigolette, Bst 131 b (in 71b ex) (Snowden) 1 Mr. J. Hodson's Rebecca, Bst 131 b (in 71b ex) Mr. J. Johnstone's Orator. Bst 101 b.... ...... .....(Hudson) 3 The following also ran :—Sir Robert Napier, Fusilier, Queen Mab, and Eikah. Won easily by three parts of a length. The Gateshead Selling Stakes. Five furlongs. course. New Mr Hunter's Hugo, by Joey Jones—Henrietta, 3 yrs, Bst (£SO) (Lawrence) 1 Mr. W. Cowen's Annabel, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (250)—(Hunt) 2 Mr P. J. Jackson's Bonita, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (259)_ (Hudson) 3 The following also ran : Mary Bell, The Sea, and Rice Jones. Won by a short head. The Northumberland Plate (Handicap) of 500 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 25 sovs each. Two miles. 53 subs, 30 of whom declared. Mr T. V. Morgan nd Kennington, by Oxford—Poly nesia, 3 yrs, 7st (Hunt) 1 Mr Kennington's Myosotis, 4 yrs, Bst 31b ...(Chaloner) 2 Mr Lincoln's Kidderminster, 6 yrs, Bst 121b,_ (H. Taylor) 3 Mr Johnstone's Lord Hawthorn, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Osborne) 0 Mr Bowes's Silverband, 3 yrs, Est llb (Gray) 0 Mr W. H. Scott's Cap-a-Pie, 5 yrs, 7st 41b...(Cameron) 0 Mr W. A. Baker's Fleets, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Platt) 0 Mr J. Hodson's Lackland, 3 yrs, 6st llb (Cooke) 0 The Town Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs. 5 furlongs, New Course. 15 sovs. Mr G. Boynton's My Uncle, by Kettledrum—Corrival, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (J. Snowden) 1 Mr W. Brown's Callipcedia, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (W. Chaloner) 2 Mr G. Silverside's Produce, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Dorrety) 3 Blair Athol, Atreus, Poinsettia, First Blood, Lady Temple, Filou, also ran. PARTY PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND. Efforts are being made in many parts of Ulster, a cor respondent 'writes, to induce the Orangemen to make no offensive displays on the approaching Twelfth of July. In particular the hoisting of flags on church steeples is objected to, and the exhibition of other emblems is to be confined ? in many places, to the club-rooms. There will be large gatherings, however, throughout the provinces, at which the new Processions Bill will be the chief topic discussed.—At a meet ing in BellaSt to take into consideration Mr. Fortescue's Bill to suppress Processions in Ire land, an Orange working-man occupied the chair. and contended that such a. bill would not be borne with for twenty-four hours in England. " The people would rise en masse against such an interference with personal. liberty." They would (he said) give to the Roman Catho lics every right they themselves enjoyed, but from neither Whig nor Tory would they bear legislation opposed to' individual liberty. , THE FATAL FIRE AT LEEDS. The fatal fire at Mr. Mann's cap manufactory, Leeds, was marked by some peculiarly distressing circum stances. The fire broke out in the room in which the cap-boxes were kept, and the flames spread with great rapidity to other parts of the building, in which several women and girls were employed. A panic ensued, many of the girls preferring to leap from the third storey windows of the building, rather than wait for a slower descent by ladders and run the risk of bein g burnt to death before they could make such means available. In deed, so rapid was the spread of the flames that the alter native to many of the poor women was either to jump from the windows or to perish in the flames. The various fire brigades in Leeds were telegraphed for and were soon on the spot, but from a short supply of water their efforts were of no avail. When the fire was got under the dead bodies of two women, whose features were unrecognisable, were found in one of the water-closets. Not being able to muster courage to jump from the windows, as urged to do they had evidently taken shelter there and met with the most horrible death. Beds were obtained by some of the neighbours for the women to jump upon, but such was their haste to escape that many of them could not be per suaded to wait. The result, therefore, as might be anti cipated, was that several persons received severe injuries, and one has since died, from the fall. The names of those who were injured ? so far as could be ascertained, are Agnes Steel, a single woman (since dead), and Maria Spence, both of whom jumped from the top storey ; an elderly woman named Elizabeth M`Day, and Ann Paley. The rumour prows again that Cardinal Cullen is not to return to Ireland as Archbishop of Dublin, but that he is to be kept in Rome as a special adviser. The Rev. Robinson Duckworth being about to retire from the office of governor to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, the Queen, to mark the sense which her Majesty entertains of his services to the prince, has been graciously pleased to appoint him to the chap laincy m ordinary vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Prothero. THE KHBDIVE'S SON.—When the Crown Prince of Prussia visited Egypt, after the ovening of the Suez Canal, he was received with the greatest hospitality by the Khedive, who placed one of his own boats at his dis posal to make the voyage in Upper Egypt. The Prince was very sensible of the attention shewn to him, and has invited Mohammed Temfilo Pacha to pay . him a visitat Berlin. It is the intention of the young prince to proceed to that city on his departure from Vienna. Ho will als6 pay his respects at the Court of the Tuileries. THE 6 UN, I.4OI\TbON, THURSDA EVENING, JUN E 23, 187 u. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The Liberte, a Paris paper, observes that the French temperament is irritable, mobile, and easily accessible to panics. "It is for us and not for our neighbours, that Rabelais wrote his admirable chapter on the sheep of Panurge. This irritability and absence of sang froid count for a good deal in the rise of the price of provisions, especially in the rise of flour. Paris is, in a measure the regulator of the European grain market, and because the drought has effected the har vest, every one hastens to exaggerate the evil, and to buy at any price, as if the famine were at our doors. Thanks to this panic, the price of bread has reached 45c. the kilogramme. Foreign markets, where cereals abound, are increasing their demands every day, owing to the chorus of lamentations in Paris. In 1785 the crops of cereals were seriously affected, but the drought was excessive, not one drop of rain having fallen in the months of April, May, and June. Wine was plentiful, and of excellent quality. There are other examples of extremely hot summers, from which we may infer that before the harvest is seriously affected the drought must last three months." The Alsace papers announce that every . evening sheets of rain fall in the Vosges and the Black Forest. At Arras there has been rain, but of insufficient quantity. In Augouleme there has been a heavy storm, which has done great damage. The zinc roof of a ware house was torn off, and flung on the highway. The loss is estimated at 10,000 f. The neighbourhood of the Orleans railway and of Balzac have suffered severely from storms. The Journal Officiel publishes the following inform ation :—ln Southern Russia, the fields are magnificent, and prices have slightly fallen at Odessa in consequence of the good yield promised by the standing crops. In Belgium, Holland, and Prussia, there is sup posed to be sufficient to meet the requirements of the population without having recourse to importations. Advices from Bohemia in relation to the prospects of this year's harvest state that, after a severe drought of more than three weeks, there have been copious falls of rain, and that, in consequence, it is now believed a better crop on the whole than that of last year may be secured. The Minister of Agriculture in order to reduce the current reports to their real value, is preparing a report on the state of the crops which will shew the public the true state of the case. We may say that up to the present time the deep soils and those that are well naanured have not suffered at all. On the light soils the returns will perhaps be a third less than that of the last harvest. Whatever comes, however, it is likely that the highest price which flour will attain has been seen last week, for free trade and other causes will soon effect a reduction. The Courier de Saone et Loire says that on all sides there are complaints of scarcity of water and fears of a continued drought. In 1775 there was also a long drought, and the wells were dried up, but the rain fell in June, and crops of all kinds were plentiful. The Phare de la Loire says that it believes the har vest is saved. In some places the rye is ripe, and ready to be cut. In spite of the great drought which has pre vailed, the wheat has preserved its fine appearance, and where it was forward it has nearly reached its full growth. In Albi the harvest is in process ; the stalks are not high, but the ears are very full and a magnificent harvest is expected. From Clermont (Oise) we learn that great uneasiness has been felt, but it is hoped that the crops will be less seriously affected than was anticipated. Here, as else where, the deep soils have not suffered, but the cereals sown on light lands will be very poor. The Union, a paper of la Reole, gives a favourable account. The harvest is just about to commence, and the crops are expected to be very fine. The wheat is expected to be of the best quality. In the Dauphiny fields, near Lyons, the rye harvest is completed, but it is poor, and it is feared the wheat crop, which is about to be gathered, will not be much better. The ears are thin, and the stalks not more than 20 or 30 centimetres in height. From other parts of the country the accounts are very similar. Forage crops are the great failure. In Moulins (Allier) they are very scarce, and oats are seriously affected, but the wheat looks well. In Toul (Merthe) th e forage crop is very unsatisfactory, and the best that could be hoped is that it will be one-third of the usual amount. From Algeria, on the other hand, the accounts are most encouraging. The European grain is splendid, and in some favoured spots they return 25 grains for 1. The oats are also very fine, and will be the best of all the cereals. The rising price of oats in France has stimulated their cultivation in the colony. Barley is also good, and Algeria promises, as during the Crimean war, to supply a great part of the deficiency of Europe. COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) NEW DIVISION OF TIME.—" The Rest of the week.' Sunday. A PuOVERB or NO VALUE IN JUNE, 1870.—" Make hay while the sun shines." Can't. GRINNING AND BEARING IT.—" We all owe something to our country," said the Briton who went abroad without having paid his income tax. Astronomers are the sun's "pod-natured friends." They are never tired of talking about him, and pointing out his black spots. PEERS PECKING AT PEERS.—EarI Granville, the other day, had occasion to remark that the law lords always had a tendency to pull each other's bills to pieces. Doves bill and coo ; but a different sort of billing is natural to birds of prey. LONDON ANATOMY.—The Metropolitan Railway will now take country visitors into the very " heart of Lon don." Not much to be gained by that, even if it exists. At all events, so many things have run right through the heart of London ere now, that it ought to be pretty con siderably like a dead heart by this time. MRS. RAMSBOTHAM ON LAws.—A gentleman of repub lican tendencies observed to Mrs. Ramsbotham that in England there was one law for the rich and another for the poor. "Of course there is," returned Mrs. Rams botham, who has been lately reading history, " there's the Poor Law, and the Sumptuary Law ; and quite right too." LAW AND POLICE. ACTION BY MR. TENNYSON.—An action has been raised in the Court of Session, at the instance of Mr. Tennyson and his publishers, the Messrs. Strahan, against a Glas gow bookseller named Robert Forrester, in which £550 is sought to be recovered as damages for the illegal sale by the defender of pirated copies of the Poet- Laureate's works. DOGS ANb SERVANTS. —Serjeant Wheeler, judge of the Liverpool County Court, has had a curious case before him. A servant, who had gone on a month's trial, objected to the presence of two dogs in the kitchen. The lady declined to assign the animals any other local habitation, and the maid left, and sued for two months' wages. His Honour gave her a verdict in full, as he held that the kitchen was not the proper place for dogs, and a servant had a perfect right to require all unclean animals to be removed. THE TRENT AND HUMBER SHIPBUILDING COMPANY.— An application has been made in Vice-Chancellor James's chambers for a final certificate as to the winding-up of this company. It seemed that all the assets; amounting to nearly £13,000, had been gathered iu, excepting a sum of £9O, which was owing by four shareholders, who, being in pecuniary difficulties, were unable to pay. There was a balance of £6O inlhe bank. The Chief Clerk said there was a difficulty in the way of granting the certificate, in asmuch as until the i;aoney from the four shareholders in question was known to be past all recovery, the affairs of the company could not be said to be completely wound up. Another difficulty arose with respect to the balance at the bank, and until that was ordered to be disposed of by the official liquidator he must decline to grant the final certificate. AN ABSCONDING SOLICITOR.—A first sitting has taken place at the Court of Bankruptcy before Mr. Registrar Roche, in the matter of William Henry Cotterill, solicitor, of 32, Throgmorton-street, City. He absconded about thee months ago, leaving liabilities, it is said, of not less than £150,000, , consisting chiefly of money which had been placed in his hands by various clients for the purpose of investment, but which he had appropriated. There are no assets. A petition for adjudication was presented in April last by M. Emile Boudonneaux, photographer, of Regent-street, a creditor for £B2, and the adjudication was made on the 2nd inst.— Mr. Linklater now appeared to represent the creditors. Debts of between £15,000 and £200,000 were proved, and Mr. Waddell, accountant, of Poultry Chambers, was chosen trustee, and two creditors were named as inspectors. THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY AGAINST A SURGEON.—Francis Horne Scaife, 31, described as a surgeon, was brought up on remand before the Richmond bench of magistrates, charged with embezzling the sum of £sl3s. 6d. and a cheque for £7 10s. 6d., the property of doctors Anderson and Hassan, his late employers of Richmond. The prisoner was arrested in Liverpool on the 11th inst. , by police-constable Heath and on his portmanteau being searched forged cheques for £323 7s. and £2BO were found, purporting to have been signed by William Anderson, M.D., and payable to Francis Scaife, or bearer, and a counterfoil, No. 26, for £370. on the back of which were figures shewing £1,718 7s. 9d. Mr. Smith, solicitor of Richmond, appeared for the prosecution, and stated that his clients had received a letter from the prisoner ex pressing his regret, and entreating them not to press the charge. The letter was read, a,s.was also another from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, stating that the prisoner's name did not appear, on their register as a surgeon. The bench retired for consultation, and after wards committed the accused for trial. LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKS.-At the County Police-court, Strangeways, a young man of respectable appearance, named. John Brewer, was charged with breaking into a house in which his sweetheart, Alice Ann Chhppel, re sided, at 134, Ashton New-road, Bradford, and threatening her with personal violence. The com plainant and the defendant had ' known each other for some time. Ultimately the complainant told the defendant that he must cease visiting her. Things passed on satisfactorily until last week, when the com plainant went with her brother and sister to the Prince's Theatre, On returning home the complainant was surprised to find the house in a state of great disorder, and the defendant sitting in the parlour. Upon an explanation of his conduct being demanded, he threatened to " squeeze her to death," and to "smash her to pieces" unless she immediately restored his presents, and some property be longing to him. She was so terrified that she ran up stairs to escape him, and, upon being pursued, threw up the bedroom window and leapt out into the street, but fortunately escaped without serious injury. The defen dant was bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself in £2O and two sureties in £lO each. A SINGULAR CASE.—A man, named Burke, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, for stealing several articles valued at £3O, as well as several sums of money, the property of Morris Pinto. It appeared that the prose cutor was a commercial traveller, and, the prisoner and his wife were fellow lodgers. The prosecutor's wife had some conversation with, the prisoner about the rates, which she had received a summons to pay within fourteen days. The prisoner told her she was very foolish to have acknowledged that she owed them, but she replied that as her landlady, who had promised to pay them, had not given her a written paper, she was liable. However, the prisoner advised her, as a means of security, to put some of her things in his room, telling her that if the rate. collector saw only a few things in the house he would be more likely to give her time to pay. The prosecutor's' wife, believing this, put a number of articles into the pri soner's room, and he afterwards persuaded her to put there a bag containing money, a box, with a watch and earrings, &c. A day or two after the woman saw the prisoner bring a van to the door, and then with the assistance of several Irishmen put her goods into it. She went to ask him the reason, but he told her not to interfere, and went on removing them. His com panions knocked her down, and tore away the goods she tried to stop. They drove off fast with the van, and she could not follow. She informed the police. The prisoner, against whom several previous, convictions were proved, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. RUFFIANISM AT KINGSTON.—At the Kingston-on- Thames borough sessions, a young man, respectably dressed, was charged with assaulting Mr. F. Gould, an alderman and justice •of the peace for that borough. On Saturday night Alderman Gould was riding along by the promenade when he saw a number of young men surrounding a man and woman. Seeing a blow aimed at the woman he rode up and found that she was receiving a blow intended for her husband, whom she was shielding in consequence of some of the ruffians having said they would " make a corpse of him." Alderman Gould interposed to protect the man and his wife, and immediately was set upon and violent nttempts were made to unhorse him. Stones were picked up, and two of the men tied their handkerchiefs together and tried to throw Mr. Gould's horse with a jerk. At last the cowards made off, finding that they could not suc: ceed in their endeavours ; but one of the ringleaders was' followed and tracked from place to place, and in spite of his efforts to escape, Alderman Gould succeeded in hand ing him over to the police. He was fined 40s. and 6s. 6d. - costs, which was paid by his friends. Neither the man nor his wife came forward ; it is said they feared to pro secute. Is A WIFE'S NEPHEW HER HUSBAND'S NEPHEW ? An extraordinary will case has been argued before the Court of Error on appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. John Grant, a marine store dealer at Rugby, left certain premises to a person described in,his will as my nephew, Joseph Grant," The testator had married his own cousin, and had adopted his wife's nephew; Joseph Grant, who assisted him in his business. It was not disputed that it was the testator's intention to leave the property to this young man,as he had said so to the solicitor who drew up the will ; and it appeared that up to the time of his death he was not aware that hit eldest brother, William Grant, had a son named Joseph. The latter, however, as the son of the heir-at-law, con tended that he was L entitled to the property, being the legal nephew of John Grant, and he brought an action of ejectment against the other " Joseph," which the Court of Common Pleas decided in favour of the present holder. The Court of Probate had also decided in his favour. The question now was whether the will was to be construed according to the testator's ascertained intention, or was to be, strictly interpreted in its limited meaning of " the son of a brother or sister." Other be quests to nieces and a nephew, daughters and son of another brother of the testator were relied upon as giving colour to this interpretation. It was contended that the plaintiff was the only " nephew Joseph" of the testator, according to the strict interpre tation of the will. Mr, Quain, Q.C., cited three cases as being analogous ; but in none of them was the status of a nephew defined. The court, without calling upon the defen dant's counsel to rep:y, unanimously upheld the deCision of the court below, holding. that the ordinary and popular signi fication of the word " nephew " included the son of a wife's brother or sister, and ; thus it was competent to admit evidence shewing the testator's intention of making the devise. The St. Paul, Minnesota, Press's Pembina corre spondent, of the 30th ult., says :—" Indians are concen trating in the vicinity of Lake of the Woods for the pur pose of giving fight to the Canadians when they penetrate the swamps. Riel's picket line extends from Lake of the Woods to Pembina Mountain." On the night of the sth of June the Black Ball packet ship William F. Storer took fire as she lay at her dock in the East River, New York, and burnt till she settled at the bottom of the slip. The vessel had arrived from Liverpool on the 17th of May, and was receiving cargo for Europe. She had just taken on board about 250 barrels of lard. A Prussian military detachment having lately crossed the Bohemian frontier into Austrian territory, the Eastern Budget says, the Prussian ambassador, General von Schweinitz, immediately forwarded explanations to the Austrian Government, which were accepted as per fectly satisfactory, especially as that Government had from the first looked upon the affair as purely accidental. HORRIBLE DEATH.—The Liverpool coroner has held an inquest on the body of a man named John WlCenna, who was employed at Messrs. Walker's.distil lery, Vauxhall-road, in that town. Whilst cleaning a corn-shoot he fell into a large mash-tub filled with boiling liquid, and was so horribly scalded that he died the next day in great agony. THE POOR LAW DEPARTMENT.—The number of paid officers locally employed in the administration of the Poor Laws in England and Wales in 1869, exclusive of the metropolitan district, was no less than 13,849. 618 were clerks to the guardians, 3,906 medical officers, 1,336 relies ing officers, 629 masters of workhouses or superintendents of schools, 636 matrons of workhouses or schools, 307 schoolmasters, 489 schoolmistresses, 1,521 collectors of rates, 227 assistant overseers, 460 porters, 98 male nurses, 689 nurses, 2,933 assistant relieving officers, industrial trainers, and other officers and assistants. In the course of the year 1869 53 of this host voluntarily re signed in order to avoid inquiry, &c., and there were also 70 forced resignations and 74 dismissals. A REMARKABLE INVEN TION. We were present at the foundry of Messrs. Barrows, Savery, and Co., at the corner of Reed and Front streets, to witness the practical operation of Messrs. Whipple and Dickerson's new process for converting petroleum to the production of motive power. A large number of persons interested in a discovery so pregnant with importance as affecting the whole question of fuel in the future, were present, and were perfectly well satisfied of the value and feasibility of the same. The new process does not bring the petroleum in contact with the fire at all. By a most ingenious and exceedingly simple machine, it is first eva porated into hydro-carbon gas or vapour, and that gas is conducted to the fire-box by ordinary pipes, and there burned as you would burn ordinary gas under a kettle in a gas stove. The process of evaporation, and its product, - is the secret of this new discovery. The objection which was urged in 1867 by the Secretary of the Navy that in all tests of the value of petroleum as a fuel it had been discovered that carboni sation resulted to such an extent as to stop up the tubes used in a short time, cannotbe raised against the present mode of burning petroleum, as the fire does not come in contact with the crude petroleum, but merely with its vapour, as stated. In regard to its perfect safety, also, there can be no question for the same reason. At the foundry which we visited, and in which this process is in operation, there has been a saving of 'nearly one-half in coal, with an increased efficiency. The same boiler is in use as before, and while by the use of coal a pressure of not higher than forty pounds to a square inch could be obtained, with a great decline in this pressure when there was heavy work being done in the foundry, with the use of petroleum by this process a constant pressure of sixty pounds is attained, never varying, no matter how great the call upon the motive power. These engines, aggre gating sixty horse-power, are driven by the steam gene rated in this way. This will shew the great demand for a large and invariable supply of steam, and also the efficiency of the newly-utilized fuel. Of th e solid value of the invention we have no doubt, and believe that the new process is destined to revolutionise the entire question of fuel, at least as a generator of steam.—Philadelphia Press. AN ART AND SCIENCE ➢IUSEUM FOR ALL NATIONS. A meeting has been held in New York at the house of Professor Dorremus, for the purpose of considering pro posals for the establishment in New York of an Art and Science Museum, of a permanent character, for the exhi bition of works of science and art. A number of letters were received from prominent gentlemen of the city approving of the scheme, and also from the representa tives of foreign governments volunteering their practical aid in the development of the proposal. It was decided to issue the proposal in a printed foina, so as to give the scheme a wider publicity. From the influential support that the scheme has already received there is no doubt of its ultimate success, and that in New York will very shortly be formed the nucleus of a museum worthy of the great continent of America. Dr. G. Naphegyi read a paper embodying the details of this proposal, from which we select the following prin cipal characteristics :—After obtaining a charter of incor poration, it is proposed to make a solicitation, in the name of the society, to all the resident and accredited foreign Ministers at Washington, so that through them each of the foreign Governments may forward objects of interest. Memberships in the organisation of the executive of this museum is to be obtained by defined subscriptions in money and objects for exhibition. It is proposed to make it a demonstrative and pictorial atlas of the American .continent. For the cultivated mind a source of learning, for the layman a source of pleasure. The chemist, the botanist, the mineralogist, the geologist, and the orni thologist are to find in it a new field of labour. The pro posals were received with considerable enthusiasm, and it was said that early in the fall the scheme would, in all probability, assume a practical shape, and would be sub mitted to the publie with great confidence of establishing a museum equal in its nucleus to that of many European countries. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. THE NEWARK ACCIDENT. The Times, in referring to the disastrous accident at Newark, says a heavy excursion train, a heavy goods train, a dark night, and a sudden collision are among the commonest ingredients of these disasters, but here the col lision was not caused by a quick train overtaking a slow train, nor by a crowd of trains on the same line, nor by want of punctuality, nor, as far as we can yet see, by any neglect or imprudence whatever. The excursion train, which was fairly appointed and carried four guards, had kept its time all through, and was exactly where it ought to have been when the accident occurred. It was not going at any excessive speed; only, as it was not timed to stop at Newark, but to run straight through the station, its full pace of some twenty-five miles an hour was main tained at the moment. On the other hand, the goods train was equally punctual, and equally in its place on its own line. The catastrophe was caused entirely and ex clusively by the breakage of an axle at a particular mo ment. Had the fracture occurred one minute earlier or one minute later, it would have produced no mischief. Unhappily, it occurred in that very nick of time which brought one train abreast of the other. It was the work of an instant for an up train to pass a down train at some point or other between York and London. At that very instant a truck was hurled from the up train on the down line, and the crash ensued. 'Excursion trains are uniformly sources of danger, but this train, so fearfully wrecked, might have seemed practically safe. The only train before it was the Scotch express, not at all likely to be overtaken, and behind it there was probably no train at all. The time was a mild midsummer night, with only an hour or two of darkness in prospect. The engine was powerful enough for its work ; the driver was an old servant of the company. Punc tuality was observed from first to last ; there was nothing wrong in signals, points, or orders. The only mischief destined to happen was the fracture of an axle in a certain train running on the up line, which the excursionists would just be one second in passing. In all the hours of the journey there was, save for that single second, no peril ahead, and yet that particular instant proved fatal. We are certainly not furnished, in this instance, with the ordinary grounds of complaint ; on the contrary, we must acknowledge that we do not at pre sent see who can be 'blamed, but, for all that, so deplor able a calamity is an ominous and alarming beginning of our excursion season. The Standard says that the excursion season has been inaugurated by one of the most fearful casualties in the history of railways. A train of thirty carriages, filled with passengers returning from a trip to town, has been shivered into matchwood by an accident without precedent or parallel. The Blackheath and Clayton tunnel collisions were immediately fatal to a larger number of unfortunates than are yet reported to have lost ther lives at Newark. The New-cross disaster, which made the Li censed Victuallers' annual festival memorable, may have given a greater aggregate of sufferers than any mishap of the like nature. But the fatality of Monday night stands out from among all others on account of the startling total of both killed and wounded, no less than for the singular nature of the mischance by which so many were over taken. The causes of this fearful tragedy are under investigation, and we forbearlfrom anticipatiug the result of an inquiry which ought to be peculiarly searching. At a time when railway companies are moving the House of Commons to limit their responsibilities, and complaining bitterly of their liability to compensate sufferers from their negligence, the fortuitous occurrence of so fearful a calamity is singularly suggestive. A PERMANENT EDUCATION BILL. The Telegraph remarks that Mr. Miall assails the Educa• tion Bill with an objection, which has a strange sound in the mouth of a Liberal. After stating that the measure trusts partly to denominational and partly to national machinery, he asks whether such a settlement of the question is likely to be " permanent," whether it would last for "20 years ?" What measure can any honourable member propound as " permanent," what scheme could he Lsubmit for the acceptance of Parliament, on the condition that it must last for ever, or at the very least for 20 years without re consideration or amendment? By the bounty of Providence, we English people do not live under a system of "paternal Government," empowered to issue dispensa tions which we must accept as final, " permanent," too perfect for correction. On the contrary, there is no statesman on the Conservative side of the House who would not tell Mr. Miall that nothing which can be passed in the present session can be held to bind the legis lative rights, the judgment, or the will of a future Parlia ment, or even of the present Parliament in a future year. But even supposing Mr. Miall's position to be sound, what does his claim imply? It implies that he would not ipass a measure until it should be what he considered perfect; in other words, rather than pass a bill which should not be so perfect in all its parts as to be absolutely" permanent," he would delay the education of the untaught multitude for another twenty years. For such a scheme as he demands, indeed, we should have to wait till doomsday. The people of England—the poor of England—cannot afford to wait until the Greek kalends. Their children are perishing for lack of knowledge, and if there be any further waste of time the guilt will lie on the heads of well-meaning men like Mr. Miall. WEARY MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. The Daily News thinks that the lines of the celebrated ballad, . - -" `we are tired, "Said Gilpin, 'So am I,' " express the feelings of the House of Commons as the de bates creep on towards the small hours in the morning, and the spirit of the resolution on Tuesday night by the senior member for the borough of North ampton. Pigliament has practically adopted the convivial sentiment of the poet, which declares that the best of all ways to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night." The prudence of this course may be doubted. An old couplet associates health and wisdom with the practising of early rising, and the correlative practice of early going to bed. The health of members suffers by their nocturnal debates ; and, perhaps, their wisdom suffers too. One effect of these late hours must be bad. The true and permanent cure for the evil is, however, to be looked for, as Mr. Bouverie hinted, in a rearrangement of the parliamentary machinery, and in the separation of local business from the work of Imperial legislation. As a provisional remedy, Mr. Gladstone's undertaking not to bring for ward opposed Government business after twelve o'clock is deserving of praise. He suggested that private mem bers might allow themselves no more than an additional hour's grace. Acting on this hint, and flushed with vir tuous resolution, the House of Commons refused to pro ceed with certain opposed bills which came before it, and adjourned a little after one o'clock. Mr. Gilpin has had a real, though not a formal success. THE DROUGHT. The expectation which was created by the break in the drought made by the storm of last week ha ;a, says the Post, been utterly disappointed. The clouds which had previously from day to day massed themselves overhead have again dispersed, and we are now in a second stage of earthly and atmospheric dryness, which is worse as regards crops and vegetation than the first. The prospect which existing phenomena thus place before us is somewhat gloomy, and it is the more so because each year of late has exhibited indications that there is a change going on in the seasons which we may have to meet permanently. Had we been anything more than' the merest empirics, or had we possessed ordinary foresight, we might have met the state of things which we have ourselves created by storing our supplies of rain water in large tanks as is done in India, and have dealt it out to the lands in periods of emergency such as the present. But we have neglected all precautionary and counterbalancing measures, and we are now reduced to the condition of waiting upon the weather. THE BISHOPS IN THE LORDS. The Dublin Freeman of to-day (Thursday), commenting on the motion for excluding spiritual peers from the House of Lords. says :--" The lords spiritual had better look out. Their places in the House of Lords are likely to be vacant before many years roll over their right reverend heads. The Nonconformists are resolved to carry out the policy of their forefathers before Charles the First's time, and relegate the Bishops to their sees, where they are more useful than the Upper House. Mr. Beaumont opened the trenches on Wednesday night. The Conservatives do not appear to have felt much interest in the motion, for they mustered only 158. The Liberals were not very anxious about it, for they knew that the removal of the Bishops is only a branch of the far larger question, viz., the disestablish ment of the Church. That the Liberal party will gird themselves for the encounter as soon as circumstances are allowed, we have many indications ; but the time has not yet come, and meanwhile such motions as Mr. Beau mont's are uremature. THE FIRE AT OONSTANTINOPLE.—A statement of the number of persons left houseless by the late fire at Constantinople, and sheltered by Government in tents on the Armenian Cemetery, the Place d'Artillerie, and near the Artillery Barracks of the Taxim, gives the following classification :—Armenians, 6,447 ; Greeks, 1,722 ; Latins, 449 ; Italians, 285 ; Frenchmen, 47 ; Austrians, 40 ; Englishmen, 25 ; Russians, 13 ; Turks, 6 ; making a total of 9,034. The number who have been burnt out and are provided with provisions by the Government at the Taxim is 15,000, making an aggregate of 24,034. The Mormons at Plano, Illinois, who claim to be the true Church, do not recognise polygamy. They have recently addressed a memorial to the President and to Congreas, asking that they may not be confounded with the " Latter Day Saints ' of Utah in any legislation upon the question of polygamy and disloyalty. The memorial presents evidence to prove that the doctrine of plurality of wives was rejected by Joseph Smith and Hiram Smith, the original presidents; and that the revelation on the sub ject was hot known until 1852, and was then announced in Utah. The paper also contains an epitome of the faith and doctrines of the Plano Mormons, in order. as they say to place themselves right upon the record, both theo logically, socially, morally, and politically. The Government of Paraguay has made a demand upon Brazil for the surrender of Madame Lopez and the large amount of treasure said to be in her possession. It 'is said that Madame Lopez was the accomplice of the Dictator of Paraguay in his cruelties and robberies, and that the goods found in her carriage when captured were the property, of his victims. The Brazilian Minister, however, refuses to surrender Madame Lopez, and says that whan she is released her accusers can take such steps as they might . think 'fit in tlib courts of law, and can recover the damages out. of the proceeds of the estates belonging to her, which have been seized by the Provi sional Government of Paraguay. The Brizilian Minister also states that the effects of Madame Lopez, seized in her coach, were of no great value, as is proved bythe inventory of them taken by the committee of officers on the; Brazilian man-of-war at the port of Asuncion, on -Which she is-now held as prisoner. . (From Fun.) FUN'S" GIIIDE TO SHOPPING. —Ready money and early hours. A PEN-FEATHERED NOTE.:—Our prisons should never be built with wings —the gaol-birds might fly. SURE AS A GUN.—We are glad to believe that the 20s. gun-tax will appear a " stiff ' sum to the hedge-poppers. Many a little feathered friend to the farmer will be—not stiff—but blithe in consequence, and we heartily hope that effectual means will be taken to make all gun carrying prowlers of country lanes exhibit their s'tiffi cates. ( From Judy). HOP GARDENS.—Cremorne. Why not send a letter by telegraph ?—there are lots of telegraph posts. Where would Mr. Gladstone like to send the Conserva tives?—To a Reform-a-tory. BROTHERS OF THE MYSTIC TIE The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York has commenced its annual session, and will probably adjourn on Saturday. It is composed of several hundreds of delegates from the various lodges throughout . the State, among whom are many of the most prominent and influential citizens of the interior. To day will be laid the ccrner-stone of the new Masonic Temple to be erected at the corner of Twenty-third-street and Sixth-avenue. The occasion has called together a large assemblage of Masons from various parts of the country, and the public display promises to exceed any thing of the kind witnessed in this city for many years past, several thousand visitors from abroad being in attendance. During the past twenty-five years the Masonic fraternity in the United States has increased in strength and influence very rapidly, and it is now the most powerful and numerous secret Order among us. It can boast of at least 500,000 members. After the abduc tion of Morgan in 1827 the Order fell into disrepute in the N orthern* States, and most of the lodges were discontinued for nearly ten years, until the poli tical excitement created by that event had died away. It was not until about 1840 that Freemasonry began to revive, but since then it has steadily prospered, until now it extends into every county, and into the great majority of towns in the State. Freemasonry flourishes very extensively in other countries as well as our own. There are various traditions as to the origin of Free masonry, the most generally accepted among the Order being that it was founded by King Solomon at the build ing of the Temple. Some writers trace striking analogies between it and the cabala of the Egyptian priesthood, the Eleusinian mysteries and the Essenes ; but the best authenticated tradition is that the Order was founded by the roving architects and masons who went about Europe during the Middle Ages, building Gothic cathedrals, monasteries, bridges, and other great works. These subsequently merged into guilds, which finally dropped the operative, and took on what is now known as specula tive masonry. This was the foundation of modern Free masonry, and upon it the work and traditions of the Order, as they exist to-day, have been constructed. It is a great fallacy to suppose that there is any political or sectarian purpose sought to be accomplished by the Order, or that there is any unlawful bond of protection to criminals who belong to it. It is simply a moral, social, and charitable institution, which has prospered because it responds to the natural instinct of brotherhood, and because it is the means of accomplishing a vast amount of good, in an unpretending manner.—New York Times, June Bth. The Newcastle Daily Express says on Monday night the village of Catchaate, situate about half a mile from Annfield Plain was the scene of considerable excite ment, consequent on a report that a person named McMoyle, a miner, had been murdered. Upon inquiry it ,was ascertained that the deceased hadstruck the daughter of an engineman employed at South Derwent Colliery, named Robert Blackburn, and that Blackburn, who had witnessed the assault, immediately came forward 'and struck McMoyle, who fell to the ground and never moved afterwards. Blackburn, who is in custody, is said to be a respectable man. STRIKE IN THE TIN-PLATE TRADE.—An inef fectual attempt has been made to settle a long-standing dispute in the tin-plate trade at Cookley, near Kidder. The men offered. to go in at 10 per cent. reduction, but their employers declined to accede to these terms. New hands have been imported from Wales, and the works are guarded by a detachment of county police. The Welsh workmen live in the works, and have not been outside them since their arrival. Nearly all the old workpeople are persons who have worked at the Cookley tin-plate works from their youth, and the case is one in which arbi tration might be tried. SOUTHERN LITERATURE. Can anybody tell us what is " The Poesque ?" Of Poe, per se, most of the old habituds of newspaper offices in New York have a very distinct remembrance as an exceedingly seedy, ill-conditioned individual, who wrote, when sober, some genuine poetry, and when drunk a great _deal of laboured trash. The few real poems are there to speak for themselves ; unhealthy and powerful as some poisonous growth, yet giving evidence of a unique, absolute genius, both tempting and impossible for mere talent to counterfeit. Lately, however, he has gone up among the gods of the South. Every new aspirant for literary honours, below Mason's and Dixon's line, is now approved or condemned as Poesque or non-Poesque. The new adjective troubles us. If to be Poesque means that these people are out of money, and out at elbows, trying to make their daily bread or morning bitters by scribbling verses or slanders upon men who befriended them, the case is lamentable enough ; but if means that the mob of gentlemen and ladies who write with such alarming ease in the South all design to draw their inspiration from " the scoriae rivers that roll their sulphurous currents down Yaanek," the state of affairs is appalling and must be looked to at once. The Wertherian and Byronic epidemics in our fathers' days were dis astrous ; but what are we to do if the Southern school girls and boys instead of going into well-conducted offices or shops, permanently abandon themselves "to the mad pride of intellectuality," or to wandering down ghoul haunted woodlands with Psyche their soul ? Such a catastrophe , really seems imminent. A crop of novelists, poets, and essayists has sprung up in the South since the war thick as mushrooms after a rain. There is, too, a constant boast ful attempt to parade and thrust them en masse upon our notice. The latest compilation contains two hundred and forty writers, all living, and with the great majority of them Poe's Poems seem actually to have constituted the sole literature with which they were acquainted. The compilation is worth attention, as it gives very fairly an insight into the present intellectual condition of the South as developed in literature. The editor indulges, from preface to finis, in a perpetual cackle of delight. He marshals his host, from Mrs. Southworth to the callow fledgling who has chirped feebly once or twicein the county newspaper, as the Immortals at whose coming the ancient masters, Greek as well as English, will hasten to yield their long-held thrones. When we know that this Mrs. South worth and the author of St. Elmo (as the "De Stael of America ") lead this troop we can have a very fair concep tion of their rank and quality. There is something pitiable to us in all this. We cannot laugh at the proud display of " keen satires written by yming ladies as gra duating odes," at the wild confusion of "scintillating gleams—zephyrs freighted with perfume—horror-glares— magnolia blooms—the tragedies about Greek maidens, Scandinavian gods, or Aztec prophets," that rush pen men out of the brains of this people when the first outlet of pen and ink is given them. If now and then a glimpse of plain natural feeling appears, the editor hastens to apologise for the homeliness, and turns us to some author " intensely Southern ;" by which he means, he tells us, "abounding in uncontrolled emotion, clothed in tropical drapery." What can be done with these people? Is it worth while to sit down and reason with them ? to tell them that vague gaspings for thought, without definite thought in the brain, and the utterance instead of a weak dribble of flamboyant adjectives, is not literature ? Can they understand that " never to have spent more than two hours in writing the longest effort of his muse " does not " speak volumes for the genius of Mr. Flash," but accounts for the effusions so worthy of his name. Are Bombast and Gush ineradicable in their nature ? When, in the language of one of themselves, " the amber-hued Falernian of Truth and the aromatic Tokay of Passion are set before them," must they always choose the Tokay ? We cho ose t o be more hopeful about our Southern brethren, and to reject this book, and in fact any recent offering they have made to literature, as a fair sign of their intellectual status. Surely the experience of the last ten years has taught them sterner and nobler lessons than this mawkiah sentiwentality. During the war their ac tions proved them to be brave men and resolute, long enduring women. " They learned in suffering," says our editor; " what they here teach in song." Suffering such as theirs ordinarily teaches very little song, but a large amount of sound common sense ; and however much their literature may belie them, we believe they learned the lesson. "It was Ares who led them to Athenw," says their eulogist, explaining the sudden appearance of Southern writers after the war. Heaven forbid that the dragon's teeth should yield another such crop ! But the truth is, we believe that the books whioh have inundated us are no exposition of Southern thought or feeling, but so many attempts to make money. The first mode of money-making to which an educated person turns when thrown on his own resources is almost invariably author ship. They would shrink from attempting to make a table or a chair, yet they go to work boldly at novel, essay. or poem, without materials, tools, or knowledge of even the rudiments of art. Our Southern friends, we trust, as more ways of earning a livelihood open to them, will see their mistake; and then, when time has made real their new and broader views of life, we may hope for a literature from them that will be as genvine and strong an exponent of their condition as these crude efforts are frothy and worthless.---New York Tribune. A WASHINGTON RIOT.—The late election riot in Washington chews that the n a ti ona l cap it a l can ma k e itself as famous in this line as New York was accustomed to be in the days of its unsophisticated and untutored youth. We conduct our elections here now without any trouble. The fifteenth amendment goes smilingly to the polls and returns unharmed. Although there are always candidates of different parties on the tickets, people can vote for their choice without getting broken heads or join ing in a row. The electionajot in Washington, however, which was rather a serious 'affair—shooting and clubbing and bloodshed being in the programme—was all about nothing, for both candidates for Mayor were Republicans. It was, therefore, more of a faction than a respectable party fight, and, upon the whole, was a very silly proceed ing indeed.—New York Herald. EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. In all the schools of Ontario religious instruction is pro vided, and taxation for school purposes is voluntary on the part of the various municipalities. The " common schools" are thus constituted :—The several townships are divided into school sections, each of suitable extent for one school, and, in each, three trustees are elected to manage school af fairs. In cities, towns, and villages the schools are managed by a board of school trustees electedby the ratepayers. The same general dispositions apply to the Catholicc separate schools. According to the last report there .were 4,496 common schools in operation, and 4,900 teachers em ployed, of whom 2,859 were males and 2,041 females. Attending these schools there were 401,643 scholars, of whom 213,019 were boys and 188,624 were girls. This large majority of boys is fully counterbalanced by the greater number of girls attended private schools. Is it to be regretted that the _number of children reported as not attending schools amounts to 39,515. This is the more noticeable, inasmuch as no less than 3,912 schools are entirely free, while in the remaining 584 the highest fee charged is 25 cents. per month. The Ontario School Law also provides for the establishment and mainten ance of Roman Catholic separate schools. There are 161 of these schools in operation, in charge of 210 teachers. Total number of pupils, 18,924, the average at tendance being 10,857. THE BEAUTY OF MEMORY. Frederick A. Goodall, a respectably attired man, was brought before Justice Dowling on the following charge : Mr. Robert Clark, No. 51, Wall-street, said that he was cashier to the firm of Clark, Dodges and Co., and that Goodall presented to him a check for forty-five dollars drawn by S. Stansbury, payable to the order of James R. Rushmore, on the Long Island Bank, dated April 22, 1870. Clark paid Goodall the forty-five dollars, and de posited the check in the National Bank of New York, where it was proved to be worthless,—Mr. Howe appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty.—Justice Dow ling You got the best of me the last time you Were here, Goodall.—Defendant : I don't know what you mean, Judge.—Justice Dowling : Well, let bygones be bygones ; but you were arrested before us, " Whiskey Jim," alias Wilkinson, about three years ago. I was persuaded to make you a witness, and when you got on the stand you didn't know anything, although you told me a very glow ing story.—Defendant, who was evidently staggered by the accuracy of the Judge's recollection, said he would waive an examination. He was then formally committed, and held to take his trial at the General Sessions.—From the New York Herald of June Bth. THE APPEAL OF THE RED MAN. We might search in vain through a month's file of the Congressional Globe for a speech so interesting as that delivered by Red Cloud at the Indian Council. The chief comes to the point without any periphrasis, and states his grievances without ambiguity. " Whose voice was first heard in this land ?" is a question wrung from the depths of a nature more finely touched than we are apt to ascribe to the red man. " Our nation is melting away like the snow on the side of the hills when the sun is warm," be- spealzs the mournful presage of coming doom. " Tell the Great Father to remove Fort Fetterman," is the chief's mode of redressing what he believes to be a great wrong, and is as concisely stated as his demands to keep " Black Hill" and " Big Horn" free from the invasion of the rail roads, and to remove the stakes that have already been driven into the ground. The chief firmly rejects the proposed reservation on the Missouri, since he has learned by experience that his children and old men die there like sheep. With a certain quiet dignity he refers to the man —Gen. Mitchell—who, 18 years ago, dealt truthfully with him, intimating at the same time his conviction that various subsequent tra n s ac ti ons h av e scarc e ly deserved a similar compliment. A plain and dispassionate statement of the Indian view of the standing problem between bar barism and civilisation is precisely what most people re quired, and it is what this oration of Red Cloud, endorsed as it was by his companions, affords. It is not a little startling to hear the bold reminder of the Chief, " You are the people who should . keep peace," and one-sided as it is, there is in it much matter for reflection. The clear conception which this unlettered savage possesses of what he claims as his rights, and what he is disposed to resent in his wrongs, shows very plainly the necessity for treating with the leader of the aboriginal " nations " on some straightforward and intelligible principle. The attempt to cajole and bamboozle them, as if they were deficient in intelligence, ought to be abandoned, no less than the policy of hunting them down like wild beasts. Whatever may be the theories we hold about the ultimate future of a decapng race, we cannot fail to recognise the wisdom of meeting Red Cloud and his people in a spirit of frankness and firm ness. In this respect we need not be above learning a lesson, even from the savage.—New York Times. THE UPTON EXPEDITION. Were we to believe the numerous reports of Spanish successes in the island of Cuba which are forwarded from Habana almost every day we should have little hesitation in regarding the revolution of the Cubans against Spanish oppression at an end. Though the accomplishments of the revolutionists in the field have not been remarkably brilliant it is impossible to lose sight of the fact that they haye all along aimed at harassing their opponents in small bodies rather than depending on the chances of regular engagements. It i 8 true that the Cubans have been unsuccessful in many of their armed expeditions, and that the attempts of the Cuban sympathisers to furnish the men battling for independence on Cuban soil with arms and ammunition have been frequently frustrated ; yet, not withstanding the glowing telegram of Captain General de Rodas "that the filibustering expedition which sailed from New York on the George B. Upton " has proved sa failure, and that the men, arms, and ammunition intended for the Cubans were captured by a Spanish force of one hundred strong, we are inclined to the belief that the ex pedition of the - Upton was as successful as the truest well wishers of the Cuban cause might desire. In fact, the Spaniards knew nothing of the landing of the expedition until five days after it had taken place. Advices received in this city from Nuevitas and Habana confirm this view of the matter. Five days after the landing had occurred the fact was known in Nuevitas, and that space of time elapsed before the troops or the gunboats were placed in readiness to move. It is only natural, from these facts, to infer that the relief which the Upton brought was in the interior before the Spaniards arrived. Besides, the Cubans in and around Porto Brava are in considerable force, and the Captain General's " one hundred men arrested by two gunboats" would not have so easy a task to perform as the reading of his Excellency's despatch would lead us to suppose. Coming close on the news of the Upton's expedition we have the news of the sailing of the armed vessel Chieftain from London, England, for Cuba, and in aid of the Cubans. What will De Robas say to this ? If he would be on the safe, side this time he had better order his cruisers to sea in anticipation of the arrival of the Chieftain, capture her within five days' sail of the island, and thus make good the low occasioned by being five days too late for the capture of the Upton.—New York Herald. The Record is informed that if the Bishop of Winchester persists in moving the third reading of his Sequestration Bill, Lord Cairns will be supported by the Government in the opposition to its passing. • The Eastern Budget says it is reported at Vienna that every branch of the expenditure of the War Depart ment there is being carefully examined, with a view to future reductions. All surplus stores are to be sold, un necessary articles of equipment abolished, and the uni forms of the various corps made as simple and inexpensive as possible. LADVERTISENENT. I Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough' asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric, derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, crainPB; • spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, 5101,' ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti.,htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure IC() 68,413- "Rome, July 21 1866. The health of the Holy Father Is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he b" confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produce a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness; cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the c; Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,i70.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs' spitting of blobd, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford of many years dyspepsia. -No. 49,8:32. "Fifty years' indescris able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, C°ll stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—.dare Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavotal and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority; Baron Liebig name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is 14d; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6d; 51b lls.; 121 b 228 L, 24 lbs B.—A Iso Du BARRY's REVALENTA RABICA CHOCOLAT° POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 elblPb! at 38 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 7 —being about one penny per cup. The 308 and Me tins are son free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.-; BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London an w all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 20th ina.,at 9, Ovington-gardens, London, the Hon' Mrs. Trotter, Of a son. - On the 20th inst., at Addiscombe, the wife of H. Miller , Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 20th inst., Thomas Gaisford, Esq., of Offington , Sussex, to the Lady Alice Mary Kerr. On the 21st inst., at Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire, B' T. Brandreth Gibbs, Esq, ofPelham-crescent, Brompton, London, to Catharine Mary, elder daughter of B. Gibbs Jackson, Esq., of Everton, near Liverpool. DEATHS On the 20th inst., George Fred. North, Esq., late of Palace road, Lambeth, aged 61. On the 21st inst., Jas. Barrow Palmer, 112, Lower Thames street, aged 73. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office , No. 1 12 , Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avoy , i n th e County 01 Middlesex.—Thursday, June 23, 1870. KINA Observe han's " LL This eelE Medal. ] Agents in AF T ADVAN Freehold repayable counted. I "1 -4 C RY No which del the Empe nards, th Pyrenean mans, sh , C RY _ _ admisE free ; ch Guinea S., Dog Sh, Fete, 0 County until 31s Fine A Busts, B 1 ‘ The Show or exhibiti Daily Ti CRI NOTE race at CR . Par( - 4, R 1 Palai Dog Orch Terr Para Fest t f N. Thl durir Hs usual seas° G CRY June and Bak( Brix Cam Chao Chap Chel