The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-10 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. WEDNESDAY EVENING. M. Ernest Picard is again the hero of the hour. He has replied to M. Gravy's letter in his journal the Electeur Libre, which also publishes a manifesto of the Seventeen, and an article from its editor's ready pen. The manifesto is naturally the most important of these documents. It is very brief. The Seventeen declare that, without intending it, M. Gravy has imposed on his colleagues conditions which their dignity will not allow them even to deliberate upon, and gives apparent cre dence to rumours whose falsity he is fully acquainted with. The new party will never enter into any compromise with personal power. That is not the ground of its diffe- rence with the old Left. The difference is that M. Grevy and his friends wish for a limited party. M. Picard and his friends would throw open their doors to anyone who fights for public liberty, on the ground occupied by the Left between 1857 and 1869. The seventeen are still members of the Left, but, faithful to its traditions, they cannot unite with M. Grevy. M. Picard's note, addressed to the public rather than to his cor- respondent direct, asserts that the Left has lost none of its number. The only change will be that the gathering in the Rue de la Sourdiere will have fewer members. The new party have never claimed the title of Radical; they only wish to retain the name of the Left, without any epithet attached to it. The article by M. Picard is in a similar strain, and makes constant reference to the antecedents of the party. M. Nefftzer, of the Temps, in commenting on this cor respondence, says, sensibly enough, that it is not qnite plain what the dispute has been about, 'lnd considers that M. Picard has made the mistake of breaking with his party withont sufficient motive. M. Villemessant, of the Figaro, is enjoying his joke at the expense of half Paris, and, I suspect, of a good many English readers as well. His device of issuing a Red Republican number of the Figaro, announcing the change of ownership and editorship, and imitating most successfully the style of all the leading Republicans in prose and verse from Victor Hugo downwards, has surpassed his expectations. It is still the talk of Paris, and the town is divided between laughter and indignation. Those who were not shrewd enough to detect the imitation might if they had looked closely at the fourth page have discovered the truth in plain print. M. de Villemessant (in the Tuesday num ber) recounts that while dining with his collaborateur Jules Richard, at the Lac d'Enghien, the idea of a surprise number was mooted, and M. de Villemessant recounted a conversation he had held with a functionary high in office. " Wlit is the difference," asked the official, " between a good and a bad paper ?" "Monsieur le Ministre," replied the editor of Figaro, " if you would like me to shew you through the medium of Figaro you would be a good deal surprised." This con versation led to the elaboration of the scheme, the ligaro staff was summoned to a breakfast at Enghien, and two hours later they were back in Paris, each with his contri bution to the compound. It is analysed as consisting of extract of Socialism, 13 grammes ; essence of Atheism, 14 grammes ; corrosive sublimate of all established power 30 grammes, syrup of falsehood 43 grammes, &c. Such is M. de Villemessant's explanation, and he asks what would be the consequence if the Figaro were actually transformed? Nothing less,certainly, than the conversion of the most peacable citizens into wild Bonnet Rouges. It is fair to tell you that another version of the story says that the editor of the Figaro was a little annoyed at a remark made at the Prefecture,and claimed consideration on the score of the support he has generally given the Government. Upon this the official re plied that the authorities knew no difference between a good and a bad paper, whereupon M. de Villemessant put their lofty impartiality pretty sharply to the test. The stories told concerning the hoax are absurd enough. Figaro itself publishes a host of documents, which, after Tues day's experience, we must accept cum grand salis. There is a telegram from Rouen forbidding the manager to send an other number of his execrable journal, and declaring that M. de Villemessant had made a melancholy close to an honourable career. This furious message is, how ever, supplemented by an apology and a congratulation in one, the writer having discovered the corner of the fourth page ! Next in order comes a message from the Duc de Luynes ordering a copy regularly on the strength of the Republican numbers. Cernuschi was thought to be the capitalist who had found the funds for the sale,which was so readily believed in, and so universally de nounced. One subscriber declared he should prosecute the proprietor for not having consulted him in the sale. Altogether M. de Villemessant may rejoice in the success of his literary coup d'etat. M. Laboulaye has written a letter in reply to that of the students, to which allusion has recently been made. He offers them his thanks, and says that they completely understand him. He has been receiving tokens of esteem and sympathy from all parts of France, but not one has touched him so much as that of his pupils. Time, he de clares, will do justice to him, and shew that in supporting the Constitution he was in reality defending the rights of the people. His only error, he considers, consists in being in advance of his day ; but time would dispel all these mistaken notions. The law on the Conseils Gdn&aux was voted by the Corps Legislatif with scarcely a dissentient. It signalises important changes and improvements. He ad mits the principle of open sittings for the Genera Councils, and gives to these meetings the right of express ing political views. In consequence of this change, the elections which will shortly take place, assume far more importance. Politics will again be introduced into these assemblies whence they have been too long banished. Louis Blanc writes from London to the Temps on the subject of the Universities Tests Bill, and says he differs from the opinion expressed in the Times, to the effect that the Church Rule in the Universities was over. He doubts the House of Lords, and remembers it is not the first time the Liberal party have thought the end was reached, but proved mistaken. The Rappel announces that M. Cernuschi has not been permitted to re-enter France, but has decidedly taken up his residence at Geneva, whence he will promulgate his views through the medium of the Rappel. There is some talk of the immediate introduction by Government of a scheme of electoral law, but it is added that there is no idea of an impending dissolution. The proposal will increase the nnmber of deputies by about 260. Another rumour says that the Senate will not regard the new law on the press with a favourable eye. " MGR. CATESBY." The London correspondent of the New York Herald says :—Monsignor Capel is one of the most estimable of men, and is, moreover, entirely self-made. He was a very poor boy, educated at one of the Catholic poor schools in this city. When about twenty years of age he went to the Catholic training college for poor schoolmas ters —or, I should say, for masters for poor schools—at Hammersmith, near London. There he finished his edu cation, and conceived the wish to become a Catholic priest. The late Cardinal Wiseman thought he had dis covered in the young man the germs of something above the common, and sent him to Rome, where his health gave way. He was ordained a priest, but could not get on in England, owing to a tendency to chest complaint. He was then sent to Pau in the Pyrenees, where there are every winter a number of invalids, and where the English and American Catholics wanted the services of an English speaking priest. There he remained some years, during which time he made the acquaintance of the Marquis of Bute, and was instrumental in causinc , that nobleman to become a Roman Catholic. Of late years he has resided in London, but it is only within the last twelve months that he has become celebrated as a preacher. And certainly in this line he has few equals. I heard him once last summer. His sermons are as if composed and corrected when in type by a master hand of the English language. There is not a word misplaced, not a comma wanting, not a stop unheeded. And yet he preaches extempore, without even notes. He makes no theatrical display whatever, but rivets your attention by the extraordinary exactness and preciseness of his lan guage. He has con verte l many persons to his own Church, Americans as well as English. In private life he is much respected, and lives in the most unostentatious manner possible, although a welcome guest whenever he likes at some of the most difficult houses in England to enter. A STRANGE DUEL. A strange story, which we certainly cannot bring our selves to believe, comes to us through a correspondent who has every title to our confidence. It relates to a duel at Berlin. A ballet-dancer of the name of It—, belonging to the Royal Opera of Berlin, had got into a quarrel with the Graf von S--, an officer in the Royal Guard, and had insulted his adversary in the presence of several of the officers of the Guard. But the officer was much too fine a gentleman to fight a man so much beneath him in social standing as a ballet-dancer. A duel, if it can so be called, was accordingly agreed on, by the terms of which the first of the two opponents who was seen without a glove on his left hand was to kill himself. It may easily be imagined that for seve ral days neither Count von S— nor R-- took off their left hand gloves either by night or day. At last the un fortunate R—, having gone out for a walk with a young lady to whom he was engaged to be married, his com panion teased him so much about his obstinacy in keep ing his glove on that in a fatal moment he bared his hand. Just then Count von S-- passed, accompanied by two friends, and immediately called their attention to the fact that 11— had forfeited his life. The same evening the unfortunate dancer shot himself through the heart, in accordance with the conditions agreed upon, —Pall Mall Gazette. LAW AND POLICE. SHOOTING A YOUNG WOMAN.—A young man named Walter Bliss has been committed for trial at Lambeth, for firing a pistol at a young woman named Emily Bachelor. It was the old story of a lover's quarrel, but fortunately the young woman escaped unhurt. A BAKER'S WEIGHTS. —The vexed question of how to sell bread has been discussed in the Bail Court, when it was decided that a baker must not only sell his bread by weight, but that the act of weighing must be at the time it was sold, not when it is made. The appellant, a baker of Daventry, who had been convicted of sellin g loaves of different weight, was in the habit of wei g hi ng the dough and making allow ance for evaporation, and other reducing influences. OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.-At the Central Criminal Court, Joseph James Rusk Ruinbelow, 32, Cornelius Edwards, 38, described as painters, and Henrietta Edwards, the wife of the last-named prisoner, were indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to obtain goods by false pretences. It was alleged that the prisoners had pretended to carry on business at Notting-hill and elsewhere, and had thus succeeded in defrauding a number of persons of goods of various kinds, which were imme diately turned into cash. The male prisoners were convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment each. The female prisoner was acquitted. THE NATIONAL BANK AND THE LUNDY GRANITE COM PANY.—The Master of the Rolls had before him a claim of upwards of £16,000 on the part of the National Bank against the Lundy Granite Company (now in course of liquidation) in respeet of loans for the purpose of carrying on the business of the company. The claim was resisted on behalf of the official liquidator ; first, on the ground that the directors had no authority to borrow the money ; and secondly, on the ground that the money was not ex pended for the purposes of the company. Lord Romilly allowed the claim. INJURING TELEGRAPHS.—Three men named Stead, Hudson, and Lancaster, have been charged at Thirsk Petty Sessions, with willfully breaking ten telegraph insulators on the line between Thirsk and South Kilving ton. Another man charged with the same offence had absconded. The four had been drinking together in various public houses and then went alongthe road to Thirsk. The identity of one of them was clearly proved, and he was fined 20s. and 30s. 6d. costs. The others were dismissed with a caution. At Notting ham two boys aged fourteen and twelve were fined 10s. each for throwing stones at insulators on the posts near the Trent Bridge. • WATERTON'S BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of the bank ruptcy of Edmund Waterton, of Walton Hall, Wakefield, son of the late distinguished naturalist, the public examination was fixed to be heard before the chief judge. Mr. Bagley applied on behalf of the trustee for an adjournment, on the ground that certain requisitions, which had been served upon the bankrupt with the view of ascertaining the disposition of the income arising from the estate in Yorkshire, had not been satisfactorily answered. The bankrupt's unsecured debts amounted to £9,418, the secured debts to £14,099, the only assets being furniture at Walton Hall and Ostend, valued at £3OO ; the Walton estate was mortgaged up to the hilt, and a suit for foreclosure was pending in the Court of Chancery. Mr. Reed said the bankrupt made no opposition to the application. The judge ordered an adjournment to the 7th July. THE VENEZUELAN LAW.—In the Rolls Court, Lord Romilly gave judgment in a cause which arose under the following circumstances :—Two gentlemen, who were relatives, possessed a large interest in a mine at Venezuela. They died, and bequeathed their property in different ways. Subsequently the mine was sold to a railway com pany for £75,000, but after the death of the testators a deed was found under very peculiar circumstances in London, which set aside the devise of the wills and gave the property to the plaintiff. The question was whether the Venezuelan law took effect, and the plaintiff was thereby precluded from assert ing his right. His lordship was of opinion that the Vene zuelan law ought not to interfere with the deed, which must overrule the original devise accox ding to the princi ples of English law. A division of the property must, con sequently, take place in the way indicated by the deed. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—At the Clerkenwell Police-court John Woodes was charged with being drunk and assault ing Mr. Richard Stannard. On Wednesday night, about twelve o'clock, Mr. Stannard, who is a solicitor's managing clerk, was walking in the Holloway-road with his wife and daughter, having been to St. James's Hall, when the defendant and another man, who were both drunk, rolled up towards them. He put his hand out to prevent the defendant from falling against his daughter, and the defendant aimed a blow at his head, kicked him, knocked his hat off, and kicked it about the road. The defendant said that Mr. Stannard took hold of his wife, as he thought at the time. to insult her, but he now thought differently. He called - his sister in-law, who swore that Mr. Stannard pulled the defen dant's wife's shawl. Mr. Cooke said he believed the sister-in-law had committed wilful perjury, and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 23, or in default to be im prisoned for six weeks. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—An action, in which judgment was allowed to go by default by the Court of Exchequer—" Huet v. Duke "—was heard before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a jury, at the Sheriff's Court. The damages were laid at £l,OOO. The plaintiff was Annie Huet, a young woman of about 26, and defendant was a young man, who had been manager to Messrs. Spence, Turner and Co., draper, Lisson-grove. The evidence went to show that the parties became acquainted in 1861. The marriage was fixed for December last. Dresses were provided, and on the 13th December he wrote to the plaintiff to break off the engagement, and in three days afterwards he was married to a widow who lived at Camden Villas, Ealing. Mr. Lewis remarked that he had married a widow with lots of children. The witness who was under examination, the plaintiff's brother-in-law, replied, " And lots of money." Mr. Talfourd Salter submitted that it was a case for fair damages, after an engagement of nine years. Mr. Lewis said it was happiness in some cases to break a promise of marriage. In this case there was only poverty before the parties if they had married. It was a case for very small damages. The jury assessed the damages at £2OO. DISTRESSING CASE.-At the Central Criminal Court, Ellen Wallis, 27, widow, was charged with feloniously attempting to drown John Chapman. There was a second indictment which charged the prisoner with at trmpting to drown Jane Chapman. This was a case of a very distressing nature. It appeared that the prisoner had cohabited with a man named John Chapman for several years, and she had two children by him. He had recently expressed his intention to separate from her, and this had caused her a good deal of excitement. On the day mentioned in the indictment they happened to meet upon Blackwall Pier, the man Chapman having one of the children with him, and the prisoner the other. She became very much excited, and expressed her intention to drown herself with the children, and, according to the prisoner's statement, he taunted her, and said, "Do it, do it." Chapman positively denied having made use of this expression, but the prisoner declared that he did so, and a witness was called by the prisoner, who said that she distinctly heard Chapman say to the prisoner, "Do it, do it." The prisoner then appeared to have jumped into the river from the pier head, the water at this place being twelve feet deep, with the two children, and it was with great diffi culty that they were saved. The prisoner had been drink ing at the time the occurrence took place, The jury, in the course of the case, expressed their opinion that the conduct of Chapman had been most disgraceful. Mr. Justice Blackburn said he concurred with the jury in this opinion ; but this was not the question they had to decide which was whether the prisoner at the time she jumped into the water really intended to destroy the lives of her children, or whether she was in such a state of frenzy and excitement as not to know what she was doing.— The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. The second indictment, which charged the prisoner with attempting to murder the other child, Jane Chapman, was not proceeded with. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to the charge of endeavouring to destroy her own life, and for this offence she was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM.— On Tuesday evening con• siderable alarm was created in Hammersmith by the dis covery that the residence of Mr. H. R. Capes, Ravens court Park, was on fire. A number of persons were early on the spot. and by their efforts and those of the Fire Brigade and the Salvage Corps, who were very promptly on the scene, the fire, notwithstanding the deficient supply of water, was soon got under. It was observed, however, by those who were first to arrive, that the fire was issuing simultaneously from all the rooms in the house, and there were other strange circumstances which induced the police at once to arrest a servant who had been left in charge of the house on suspicion of having wilfully set fire to it, and on Wednesday she was brought up at the Wandsworth Police-court, before Mr. Ingham, charged with the offence. The name of the accused is Sarah Ann Nash, 18. Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared that on Tuesday evening last the prisoner was left in charge of the house, her mistress having gone to the Horse Show, and late in the evening joined her hmsband at a dinner party. They returned home about twelve o'clock at night, and found the house in charge of the firemen and the police. The furniture in the dres sing -room was entirely destroyed, and the beds and furni ture in the other rooms were seriously damaged. On open ing the wardrobe the prosecutor found that there had been a fire within it, and that the drawers were empty, A further search was made, and a large quantity of wear ing apparel was missed, and between £3O and £lO in gold and bank notes, and some jewellery. The fire was disco vered about six o'clock in the evening, when smoke was seen issuing from all the rooms. A bundle, together with some pictures, and other property, was also found in the garden. The bundle was opened, and it had in it the missing jewellery and bank notes. When Mr. and Mrs. Capes arrived the prisoner was under the charge of Detec tive Blake, who, having. noticed that the bundle in the garden was tightly fastened, asked the prisoner if she had tied it. She replied, "No." She was pressed further as to whether it had been tied by a woman, and she said it had been tied by a man, who had been with her for an hour and a half. She said she had no money, but on being searched £3los. in gold and 7s. in silver as well as her mistress's thimble, were found in her pocket. It ap peared that the prisoner was under notice to leave her situation on Monday next, and that she had told her mistress she was about to be married. Mr. Ingham, at the request of the inspector, granted a remand. NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. The Times gives a list of members of Parliament who have been elected since the commencement of the present session, with a few particulars relating to them. They amount in all to fifteen. Colonel Marcus Beresford, of Putney-hill, Surrey, was returned for Southwark in February last, upon the appointment of Mr. Layard as Minister at Madrid. Mr. Ralph Bernal Osborne, was elected for the city of Waterford in the Liberal interest, in the room of Sir Henry W. Barron, who had been unseated on petition—Mr. Samuel Boteler Bristowe, the new Liberal member for Newark, was elected in March last in the place of the late Mr. E. Denison.—Mr. George Browne, of Brownes town, county ,Mayo, was returned in the " National " interest, for the county of Mayo, 'in May last, in the place of the late Mr. George H. Moore.—James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, Marquis of Bowmont, the new Liberal member for Roxburgshire, was elected in March last, in the place of Sir William Scott, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—Mr. William Henry Forster, was elected for Bridgnorth in the Liberal interest in February last, in the room of Mr. IL Whitmore, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. — The HOn. George Frederick Nugent Greville-Nugent succeeded in May last to the seat for county Longford, which was held for a short time previously by his brother, the Hon. R. Greville-Nugent.—The Hon. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert was returned for Nottingham in the Liberal interest in February last; in the place of Mr. C. I. Wright, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. — Mr. Denis Caulfield Heron, L.L.D., Q.C., was returned in the Liberal interest for Tipperary, in February last, in the place of the Fenian J. O'Donovan Rossa.—Mr. John Henry Kennaway, the new Conservative member for East Devon, was elected in April last upon Lord Cour tenay accepting the Chiltern Hundreds.—Sir John Lubbock, the new Liberal member for Maidstone, was eleeted in February last in the room of Mr. William Lee, who had accpted the Chiltern Hundreds. — Arthur Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, was elected for East Suffolk in the Conservative interest a week or two ago, upon the succession of the Hon. J. M. Henniker Major to the Upper House.— The Hon. David Robert Plunket, Q.C., was elected in the Con servative interest for Dublin University in Feb ruary last, in the place of Mr. Anthony Lefroy, who had accepted the Chiltern -Hundreds.— Mr. Elisha Smith Robinson was returned as the represen tative of Bristol in March last in the place of the late Mr. F. Henry F. Berkeley.—Mr. George Waters, Q.C., the new Liberal member for Mallow, was elected in May last in place of Mr. Henry Munster, who was unseated on 'petition. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 10. 1870. MYSTICISM IN MODERN POETRY. With the rise of Wordsworth and Shelley a passion for peering into the unknown took possession of our poets. It is to Shelley above all others that this tendency is due. With him the unseen world predominated over the seen, or kindled it with the radiance of un imaginable suns. His voice comes to you out of the abyss ; it trembles with the weight of inti mations obscurely understood, of promptings that are half darkness and half light ; it staggers under the two-fold burden of knowledge and of ignorance. There was cer tainly nothing of like character in the older schools of English poetry, unless in a few faint and doubtful pre ludings. Acertain affinity to it may probably be discovered in the Vedas, and from a similar cause—that is to say, from the prevalence of that Pantheistical spirit which, identify ing. the universe with the Deity, is intoxicated with the splendour of creation, and leaps about the altar of the world, shouting half-intelligible hymns. There are some special tendencies of the present age which foster and develop the mystical spirit, and give to it the peculiar complexion of sadness which is felt by many as an unhealthy symptom. No one can read Mr. Tennyson's " In Memoriam," and other poems from the same pen, without perceiving that they express, in language of transcendent beauty, one of the most marked intellectnal habits of our time—the union of pro found religious aspiration with a haunting curiosity as to the insoluble problems of philosophy and human life. But it cannot be questioned that these feelings have been carried to a very unhealthy excess. After all, we need not be continually looking out to sea, watching the visionary line that fades for ever before our advance. There are definite joys and sorrows about us which might be treated with something of the clearness of apprehension belonging to the great masters of a former day. We should be none the worse for study ing a little more attentively the cheerful vitality of Chaucer, the tangible creativeness of the Elizabethians, the vigorous sense of Dryden, and the terse exactness of Pope —not for the purpose of imitation, but for the cor rection of our own faults. —Daily News. THE IRISH LAND BILL. Now that the Irish Land Bill has passed the threshold of the House of Commons, and is about to be discussed. by the Upper House, the Special Commissioner of the Times thinks it a fitting time that he should declare his opinion of its merits, and point out any provisions of thebill which he believes are still open to improvement. He has no doubt that the Peers will be pressed to consider many objections against the measure, two only of which appear to him to be plausible; namely, the one to Ireland may be made the theatre for repeated lawsuits in the settling of claims to tenant right, and the other the liability of the new .A ct to check the operation of " free contracts ' between land lord and tenant. These objections Mr. O'Conn'or Morris dis misses from his observation as trivial, inasmuch as he does not believe, in the first case, that the bill will, as i s f eare d, be a fruitful source of bickering; and, in the second, he considers that, although the measure may serve to make contrasts less free and open, it will give a preponderate advantage by causing them to be more just and equal to both parties. Mr Morris does not think that the bill is perfect, although the House of Commons have amended its main structure considerably by defining Ulster Tenant Right, and by making it clear how all claims under the right are to be vindicated • by causing landlords counter claims in respect to the demands of the tenant for im provements to be more fully recognised and by bringing down the power of " contracting out of the bill " to tenants of £5O instead of those of £lOO. The Special Commissioner is of opinion that the bill is still open to improvement in its style and language. The House of Lords will also, he believes, have to decide whether the elaborate safeguards provided for the Irish tenant may not, as they stand, be open to evasion by an unconscious landlord. The Equities clause ought also to be recast, and made less ver bose; so also, ought the sixteenth clause, by which a head landlord may in certain cases be made liable to sub-tenants on account of disturbance. Some definitions in the bill, he contends, are also imperfect, especially the cardinal one of a " tenant," which would include leases removable for ever--a tenure probably not contemplated. The Commissioner, finally, holds that Mr. Bright's proprietary scheme ought to be discussed in a liberal spirit by the Peers. Although believing that the success of Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill will not be perceived at once, by making a desert blossom as a rose, yet he hopes that this new act of settlement will gradually make the Irish peasantry feel that trey are no longer outlaws in their own land, and that law is not an image of wrong to them, that it will gradually eradicate evil habits of violence, disorder, and ruthless combination ; that it will in some degree cement and unite the ill compacted frame of Irish society ; that it will tend to attach a generous-hearted people to institutions no longer hostile to them. THE BRISTOL ELECTION PETITION. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Justices Willes, Byles, and Smith, the case of " Britt and others, appellants, v. Robinson, respondent," came on for decision. Mr. Justice Bramwell had reserved for the Court the question whether bribery at the test ballot would vitiate the election. The special case sent up stated that at the last Parliamentary election for Bristol, Mr. E. S. Robin son was returned. On the vacancy occurring in the repre sentation, three candidates came forward in the Liberal interest. To avoid a Conservative being returned, it was arranged that one Liberal candidate only should stand, and a test ballot was taken to ascertain who it should be. The persons to vote at the test ballot were to be all the voters for the city, except those who on former occasions had plumped for a Conservative. On the ballot Mr. Robin son had a large majority, and the two other candi dates thereupon retired. A Conservative candidate after wards appeared, but on the poll Mr. Robinson was re turned. He received the support of many voters who had preferred one or other of the retired candidates. On the occasion of the test ballot, two agents of Mr. Robinson gave trifling sums to induce- persons to vote for him on such ballot, and one agent gave drink to voters for the same purpose. Some of the voters so dealt with voted for Mr. Robinson at the test ballot but his majority on that occasion was great compared with the number of votes given by these persons. Some of them at the elec tion voted for the Conservative. Both the giving money and the giving drink, if given to induce persons to vote at the election, would have been corrupt practices. The gifts, however, were in reference to the test ballot only, and there was no bargain expressed or implied as to the votes at the election. The question for the Court was whether both or either of these cases constituted a case of bribery within the meaning of the Act. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, and Mr. Ffookes appeared for the appellants ; and Mr. Mellish, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr. Chandos Leigh for the respondents. Mr. O'Malley submitted that the cases referred to were bribery, within the meaning of the second and fourth sec tion a thg Bribery Act of 1854. It was stated in the statute that it was passed for the purpose of pre venting corrupt practices at elections, and the second section said that any person would be guilty of bribery who should `f directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, give, lend, or agree to give or lend, or should offer, promise, or promise to procure, or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable con sii.eration to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of a voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting, or should corruptly do any such act as aforesaid, on ac count of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election." Then the section concluded with a proviso that its enactments should not extend to any money paid on account of legal expenses at the election. The fourth section said that any can didate who should, by himself or his agent, either before, during, or after an election give any meat, drink, entertainment, or provision, to or for any person, or for the purpose of corruptly in fluencing such person to vote or refrain from voting, should be guilty of tho offence of treating. The learned counsel argued that the present case came within both these enactments. It was not material that the majority on the test ballot was large compared with the number of persons bribed ; and it was justifiable to assume against Mr. Robinson that the majority was obtained by bribery, notwithstanding the statement in the special case. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., for the appellant, submitted that the sections being penal,- must be construed literally, looking at the letter, as well as the spirit of the Act. He contended that the words only contemplated voting at the polls ; and were it otherwise then any influence used for securing a show of hands at the nomination would be punishable. The agreement between the parties was as to the test ballot alone, and the voters were free to vote as they pleased at the subsequent election. The influence referred to in the sections was - clearly that of purchasing seats, or the exercise of a wholesale influence by a landlord. The Court held that the test ballot was a step in the election ; and inasmuch as the candidate heading the bal lot was almost certain of election, the bribery to place him in that position was sufficient to influence the elec tion at the poll. It was bribery within the meaning of the Act. The effect of the judgment will be to deprive Mr. Robinson of his seat. MR. GOLDWIN SMITH AND MR. DISRAEI.I.—The Times says :—Mr. Goldwin Smith has in his letter shewn his accustomed unwisdom in appropriating to himself one of the least flattering characters sketched in " Lothair." Public curiosity would be much relieved if the prototypes of Mr. Phcebus and Mg. Pinto would also reveal them selves. THE FE NIAN BRAVES.—The New York Times says that only once during the late Fenian expedition did " The Grand Army" show any unanimity of feeling, and that in their desire to get cut of Canada directly they had got into it. The New York Citizen says contemptuously, "We have have had a fine Fenian raid this week. It was quite a Fenian success, and the festivities wound up as usual." One half "the Fenians blame General O'Neill, the other half General Spear, and both are fierce in out cry, LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. Life is full of surprising contrasts. At the very mo ment when our Fenian fellow-citizens were letting loose the dogs of war to harry the Canadian borders, and break the slumbers of valorous volunteers, the Universal Peace Union was resolving at Dodworth Hall to do away with fighting altogether. The leader of the new movement is Mr. Love, in odd contradiction of the popular notion which of old made Venus the bride of Mars, and still re joices to couple the brave and fair. We regret that Mr. Love's following is not so gigantic as his scheme. In fact not more than a corporal's guard, perhaps we might more fitly say a baker's dozen, of sympathisers, joined in his aspirations. The contrast we have spoken of, however, suggests a remedy for this lamentable deficiency. Let Mr. Love and his coadjutors simply annex the Fenian Brotherhood. Recent events have proved that under all their martial fury, they are secretly men after Mr. Love's own heart. General O'Neil, if he ever gets out of jail, would be a worthy Vice-President of the Universal Peace Union, and the heroes who benevo lently ran away from Pigeon Hill, most zealous prophets of the new dispensation. The collocation of names, too, in the chiefs of the amalgamated organization would be at once touching and effective. Love and Savage—the lion and the lamb—have we not here a foreshadowing of the millenium ? By all means let Mr. Love exert at once his charms to soothe the savage breast, and bring the F.B. under his philanthropic wing. Votes unnumbered will thus be his, and power, it may be, to effect the de signs he cherishes against the Constitution. He can then give us a Seventeenth Amendinent, abolishing war and making it a penal offence to interfere with the noble red man in his favorite pastime of scalping his .pale-face brother. Or why not repeal the Constitution at once, substitute Dr. Watts's hymn as the law of the land, and condemn all army officers to perpetual exile in Philadelphia, with the exception of General Sheridan, who is to be delivered over to the Piegans with a recom mendation to mercy ? We commend these suggestions to Mr. Love's consideration, and meantime we shall await with anxiety the future developments of his Arcadian scheme.—New York Times. WOMAN'S IDEA OF GOVERNMENT The public have during some months been interested, and perhaps edified, by the ideas and impressions put forth by Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull upon the broad, general subject of human government, as- well as by her subsequent nomination of herself as a candidate for the Presidency in the election of 1872. The articles in which she has an nounced these views and purposes have from time to time appeared in the Herald, and to-day we present a further communication on the question of the " Limits and Sphere of Government." It is evident that Mrs. Woodhull is imbued with at least one very sensible idea, and that idea is one which it would be well for large numbers of aspi rants for public positions to emulate—viz., that fitness is the first prerequisite of qualifications entitling the seeker to enjoy the position sought for. This it is, doubtless, which has led her not only to study and perfect herself in the name of the functions she seeks to exercise, and their effect, and, in the honest belief that she does understand the question, to give her opinions to the people, that they may judge of her ability, and the correctness of her views. At the same time it was somewhat difficult to see what good will come out of this particular Nazareth. Mrs. Woodhull offers herself in apparent good faith as a candi date, and perhaps has a remote impression, or rather hope, that she may be elected, but it seems that she is rather in advance of her time. The public mind is not yet educated to the pitch of universal woman's rights. At present man, in his affection for and kindness toward the weaker sex, is disposed to accord her any reasonable number of privi leges. Beyond that stage he pauses, because there seems to him to be a something which is unnatural in permitting her to share the turmoil, the excitement, the risks of com petition for the glory of governing. There is therefore but one position that may be taken in considering the aim of this ambitious lady, and that is that, perceiving and fully appreciating the natural obtusen ess o f man , s h e h as boldly put herself forward with a view to wearing down these scrupulous angles in his sympathetic character and nature, and that she will, after all, be content with the knowledge that she has done her full share in educating him for the new order of things which shall supervene when woman in all matters has equal rights and duties with him.—New York. Herald. THE GREAT FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The following are further details of the great fire in Constantinople. The conflagration commenced in the Validd Ischesme-street, at the corner of Dzambar-street, and destroyed the whole quarter comprised within the following boundaries :—Valide Ischesme-street, Dzambar street, Kayasse Bashi-street, Tatavola-gardens, Kissini Pasha's-gardens, Hamali Ischesme-street, the English Embassy, Hamal Bashi-street, High-street, Pera, and Paksim-street. This quarter, which was about one square mile in extent, contained nearly 20,000 houses, one -tenth of which were built of stone, the rest being of wood and plaster. About 50 stone houses leading from the Hight-street, Pera, to the left were burnt, the spread of the flames being facilitated by the strong north wind. Takeim-street and Ildikiar, Misk, Imam, Sckyz, and Agatch-streets, and others were almost all inhabited by rich Armenians, who that day were celebrating the tenth fete of the constitution, and had formed large pleasure parties and gone into the country. They were all, there fore absent, and have lost everything. Many other in habitants were also absent in the country, the day being Sunday. Almost the whole of the Italian ,working class inhabited one of the quarters destroyed, and have greatly suffered. Among the superior class of resi dents the English and Armenian are the greatest sufferers, though it is impossible to state with certainty the amonnt of their losses. Dead bodies are being found every moment, two hundred and fifty having been dis covere d u p t o th e present. Detachments of sol diers are in the streets to stop the passage in severalplaces, in consequence of•the falling walls, as several persons have already been killed in this manner. Since Sunday the flames reappeared at the back of the French Hospital, but were extinguished by the commander and crew of the Messageries Imp6riales steamer. The Government has erected tents, and provisions are served out to all appli cants. All precautions were taken at the English Em bassy one hour before the fire approached, but it was impossible to prevent the destruction of the edifice. The flames darted upon the roof from a distance of 60 paces, and several men were seriously burnt. Sir Henry Elliot was so absorbed in his efforts to save the building that he took no care of his personal effects, which were in consequence all destroyed. Lady Elliott left the Embassy only just in time, as she was nearly suffocated. The archives and documents of the Embassy were saved. Con siderable sums of money have already been received from high personages and several capitalists for the relief of the sufferers by the fire, and it is stated that subscrip tion lists will be opened in most of the European capitals. The Empress of the French has sent 10,000 f. to Constan tinople, and the Duke de Grammont 5,000 f. Eight gunboats are at present being built in France for the Turkish Government. They are of very light draught, and are intended for coast service. THE CANADIANS CLEARING OUT.— We have reports in the Montreal papers that there are between two and three thousand vacant dwellings in that city, in dicating a decrease of population to the number of ten or fifteen thousand. In short, the Canadians are rapidly leaving the Dominion for the United States. Over two thousand French Canadians left Bonaventura station in one batch for the United States. Perhaps this evacuation of Canada by the Canadians may aocount for the Fenians going in. - STREET °Ans.—Our English friends have been very slow in adopting our street railways, but the Direc tors of the first one laid down in London have suggested an improvement in their managem en t w hi c h we s h ou ld like to see adopted in this country. The first cars--say at five o'clock in the morning —are run not only more fre quently, but at cheaper rates than in the less busy hours of the day. Thus the artisans who go to work at sunrise arc charged two cents. per trip, while the merchant who rides to his business at eight or nine o'clock has to pay four cents. This rate after prevailing through the day is again reduced at sunset, and the labouring classes find cheap transportation home again. Of course, the London Street Railway Company does not do this of its own accord. It is compulsory accommodation there as it ought to be here. If Tweed and Company had the wel fare of the working classes really at heart instead of that of the railway corporations, who rob and tax them with out mercy, they would require similar regulations for the street lines in New 1 7- orig.—NO York Tribune. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Republican Party is now in a critical position. Filled with impulses of progress, it finds itself with an accomplished mission, but without any settled or affirma tive issues upon which to construct a new ground of action for the future. The elements of which the party was composed still- retain their old characteristics, and cannot remain in perfect combination in a state of rest. A very large section of the party requires a broader field of action, and is unwilling to delve any longer among the political debris of the past four years. Having wrought out the principle of emancipation, and fortified it beyond all possibility of harm in the future, it desires to move forward and grapple with the political necessities which are rapidly being developed. The negro has ceased to be a central figure, and the animosities and revenges of the past have to a very great extent died out. The impulse of progress still remains as strong as ever in the party, and it will surely find exercise in some direction. Within the last few months a very curious phenomenon has appeared. That section which, five years ago, was thought to be dangerously inclined to progress, is now clinging to past achievements: while the Conservatives of that time are clamouring for the adop tion of new issues, and the enunciation of a broad national scheme of future action. Congress affords a striking example of this anomalous condition of the party. Both Houses are arrayed in two factions, the one seeking to inaugurate new and harsh measures toward the South, and the other to secure pacification, and to construct some wise and prudent policy independently of the old issues of the war. There is no question how the great body of the people stand as between the two. They are tired of the struggle which has so long existed with regard to the negro, and desire to march with the times. The world does not stand still, although the Republican Party may. We must deal with the live questions of the hour. How this can be accom plished is the problem which is pressing for a solution. Although we do not believe that the policy of a great party can be suddenly formed, we are sure that it is the part of wisdom promptly to grapple with all difficulties of politics and government. It is idle to attempt to evade .or post pone action. It is not to be denied that the. Republican party lacks a broad national policy with regard to finance, taxation, and imposts. For six months Republican leaders in Congress have been at loggerheads on those sub jects, and the country is apparently no nearer a solution of any one of them than it was at the beginning of the session. Yet the approaching campaign will probably largely depend on these issues, and the whole nation is anxiously waiting to have them cleared out of the way in order that it may comprehend its true position and pros pects. It is to be feared that the people will refuse to wait much longer.-IVew York, Times. LECTURE BY WENDELL PHILLIPS ON TEMPERANCE. Wendell Philips lately delivered a lecture at Boston on the subject of Temperanco. A large audience was pre sent. There is one singularity about the temperance movement, Mr. Phillips said, and it is this : All that class which arrogates to itself the name distinctively of the educated class, the rich, or upper and influential class, looks down on the temperance movement as something not only vulgar and narrow, but as confined to the very warm zeal of a few unthinking men and women ; rather ignorant than otherwise of the limits of legislation ; presuming that law can do a great•deal more than it ever did or can effect,—men and women that never studied science ; have no acquaintance with the human body, it weakness or its needs, and altogether the children os their own excited imagination, who exaggerate a superfif cial evil into a great social disease; alarming themselves with an overdrawn picture of its strength, and of its evil results. You can hardly probe what we call the rich or book educated men without detecting this flavour of con temptuous indifference. On the other hand there never was a cause, probably,—certainly I know none in the last fifty years, full as they have been of all sorts of agitation —which has gathered behind it the endorsement of so many different types of public authority ; so full and perfect testimony to its far reaching importance as the same temperance movement. From all sides, in one unbroken channel ; from the scholar in his study, the judge on the bench, the philosopher in his speculation, there comes the same unvarying testimony that the grave social evil which threatens the civilisation of great cities, when you reduce it down to its ultimate analysis, is more nearly intemperance than anything else. In considering the cause of this we must take into account two elements ; one is fashion, and the other is habit. That fashion which is stronger than literature, than the church, than com merce ; stronger even than the money power of the com munity, inpalpable, indescribable, not to be located, filling the air, flavouring the intellect, touching here and there apparently only at outside points of life, yet it governs all, grapples ; undermines, and makes a tool of all. Then habit, that second nature that not only binds the physical appetite in its chains, but dulls the intellect, shuts up the eyes, changes the aspect of affairs, turns argumen t i ns id e out:defeats logic. Considered from the one point of social condition, the temperance question is the most ter ribly important of all questions we have to discuss, be cause it is the dry rot in the timber of State; it is that which underlies the possibility of free governments. We live in a country whose absolute superstructure, security, and progress depends on the virtue, the self-control, and self-respect of the masses. In England and France the masses are governed by the magistrates of the land ; but in America we have nothing that answers to that description. We have no fulcrum outside of the million where power can plant itself, and by inde pendent vigour in its own attitude hold back the passion of the hour. The first thing for an American to understand in dealing with social questions is to know the institutions under which we live. Here when the magistrate is brought in opposition to the masses the magistracy dis solves like a dream. In ordinary times we do not feel this power of the masses, but when the strain comes on the chain we call government, when angry and conflict ing- parties defy the Government, then the question is, how much strength we have to fall back upon. For thirty years, on this belt of continent we call the United States, it has been the sneer of Europe, and the sad confession of students at home, that we never yet ruled a great city on the theory of universal suffrage. Why is it that univer sal suffrage cannot rule great cities ; that with a million of men massed together in a community, the theory of the Declaration of Independence falls powerless? Let us analyse it. In the city of Boston there are about 200,000 inhabitants. In such a mass of men there are two classes of minds. God seems always to mingle two inevitable and indispensable elements in governing the world ; one a curb and the other a spur • one conservative, the oth er progressive ; on e ti m id an d the other over bold. Both are loyal to their ideas ; honest servants of conviction. In the midst of that mass in Boston, according to the chief of police, seventy millions of dollars are invested in the manufacture and traffic in intoxicating drink. That is a frightful element in a Yankee community where the sin of not being rich is only atoned for by a life devoted to getting rich. In front of that mass stand three thousand open places for the sale of liquor, every one of which re presents a man and a vote. Should I exaggerate if I said the three thousand places of sale represented five thou sand votes ? Call it four thousand. Four thousand taken from one side and put into the other, and you have eight thousand votes, which would and have governed in every political crisis in our city. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. The politicians in either party seek to obtain the support of these voters and they have recourse to compromise, which is the devil of American political gospel, and availability follows close at its heels. The result of this during the last twenty years is that the mayor and aldermen of our city, which does not stand at the bottom of the list of cities, have been nothing less than a standing committee appointed by the liquor shops of the peninsula. (Applause, and one hiss.) It is not the individual fault of this matt or the other ; with the present arrangement of civil elements it could not be otherwise. In New York there are two millions of dollars invested in the liquor traffic, and from five to nine thousand places of sale. The facility which this immense power has for manipulating the weak, and marshalling them together at any critical moment, enables it to overweigh the State. To destroy this power is not the exclusive business of temperance societies, it should be the effort of all good citizens to bring it to grief. If prohibition fails at the State House the present year you are not to sneer and say the narrow minds are bought ; but on the contrary you are to remember that this great evil of intemperance has been recognised as such so long that a license law was placed on the first volume of the Statutes of Massachusetts and it has been followed by more than one hundred children. Recollect that mankind have tried license for two thousand years, and at the end of that time the judge on the bench says four-fifths of the crime in the com munity is the result of intemperance ; social science says four-fifths of the pauperism comes from intemperance ; the student of insanity says one-third and perhaps one half of the insanity of the world is traceable to intemper ance. License has failed and every man acknowledges its failure, now let us try prohibition, mid if that fails, I think the Yankee race will be equal to the emergency, and will invent some other way of grappling with this social evil. We are a race whose central temptation is the love of animal stimulant. Every race has its peculiar weakness or vice, and the normal weakness of the race to which we belong is intemperance. License claims that we have the right to regulate this evil ; the human race has de cided it cannot be left without chains ' • the only question is how much and how efficiently shall it be curbed ? The evil lies not so much in the liquor seller as in the community at large ; in those strong men who, being able to resist temptation themselves, do not set a good ex ample to their weaker brothers. Who can expect the police to execute a law which the judiciary of the State pours contempt upon by its'example ? The cure for the evil lies in special education; men are to be taught the terrible significance of this vice. Then there should be associated example to stem public opinion, and to strengthen legislation. We should broaden our views, and enlarge our feeling of responsibility, and all obstacles in the way of reform will be overcome. TRAIN GIVES FIVE DOLLARS.—George Francis Train has come forth to claim, no doubt, all the honour of the Fenian plan of campaign ; for of course he must have made it. He has also announced his readiness to give five dollars towards °rushing the British empire —and he can afford it, as he is supposed to be worth several millions. How IT LOOKS I/sl LONDON.—In London General Grant's proclamation to the Fenians " seems to be satis factory." This expression of opinion is less remarkable for anything in itself than for the indication it gives that the Londoners were reading the, President's proclamation at the same time that people here had it at their break fast tables. 'When man has thus overcome the obstacles of time and space how long will it be before he shall so overcome the difficulties in the way of good government as to make Fenianism unnecessary? THE FENLA.N FLURRY NUMBER THREE. This is the third Fenian invasion of her Britannic Majesty's North American possessions. The first was at Campo Bello, a sea-coast island on the line between New Brunswick and Maine. The second was at Ridg way, below Buffalo, across the river, near Fort Erie (where they had the fight at Limestone Ridge), and the third, on a far more extensive. scale than either of the others, appears to comprehend a plan of invasion extend ing from Minnesota and the Red River of the North, or Winnipeg basin, eastward along the frontier to Vermont and even to Maine. In the points chosen this time for a lodgment on British soil, however, the Fenians at St. Albans and at Huntington have avoided the difficulty of putting a river or an arm of the sea between them and the soil of the United States, so that in the event of an attack and repulse by the enemy they could have a convenient line of retreat to the safe side of the line. The results of the operations of these fighting Fenians, so far , have shewn the wisdom of this precaution and the wisdom, too, of the old couplet, that " He who fights and runs away, • May live to fight another day." , According to the reports of the Fenian gatherings along , the whole line of the frontier, from Red River to Maine, the sum total of their able-bodied men moving upon the Canadians, or preparing to move, is about six thousand, distributed as follows :—Around Huntington, two thou . sand ; about St. Albans, five hundred; along the border, near Buffalo ' fifteen hundred; between Detroit an d Chi cago, fifteen hundred ; and on the Minnesota border, Red River, five hundred ; and there are said to be from five to ten thousand fighting Fenians in the interior cities of our Northern States awaiting an outfit and transportation. If the managers of this invasion of Canada have been guided by anything like a plan of operations we presume it was this :—To make a lodgment in the enemy's country at some convenient point and to en , trench and hold their position till sufficiently reinforced from other points to make an advance upon some con venient town, the capture of which would furnish sup plies and reinforcements for ano th er fo rwar d movemen t. We supose, too, that, like Lopez, when he invaded Cuba these Ii enian leaders counted upon a rising of a host of allies in the enemy's country, and though, like Lopez, they have failed, it is still probable that, with the con tinuance of these annual forays, Canada, like Cuba, may become a hotbed of rebellion. It is probable, however, that the miserable collapse of this latest Fenian ascent upon Canada for the independence of Ireland will result in drying up the streams which so far have supplied the Fenian treasury, and that accordingly more than a year will elapse before there will be another Fenian army put . in motion heading for Montreal. In fact, it must now be evident to the ,most hopeful of the Fenian leaders and to the mass of their followers that they can do nothing in Canada without the support of the United States, and that only " England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." They see that General Grant, in good faith and in down right earnest, is enforcing and will enforce our neutrality obligations ; that he will not even wink at their violation in any way, and that, as he says in his warning proclama tion, he will leave all hostile invaders of a friendly neigh bour's territory to the consequences of their own acts. While General Grant is thus effectively acting for the suppression of these warlike Fenian movements, the Cana dian and the British journals appear virtuously indignant that he has permitted these troublesome Fenians to gather on the border and has failed to guard the outraged Canadians with a standing army on the frontier sufficiently strong to keep the peace. These reflections and suggestions are very refreshing, considering the active sympathy of these same Canadians for Jeff Davis in our terrible struggle to maintain our national existence ; and the advice from the leading British journals to our government is exceedingly cool, considering the disastrous consequences to our com merce resulting from the piratical depredations of those Anglo-rebel privateers, such as the Alabama and Shenan doah. Absurd and ludicrous as these Fenian forays may appear, however, they will serve, perhaps, to teach some wholesome lessons to the Fenians themselves, to the Canadians, and to England—first, t o th ose h ones t, credulous, Irishmen and Irish women w ho have furnished the funds for these Fenian enterprises in Canada, that money for such senseless forays is money thrown away ; the Canadians ought to learn that one good turn from a friendly neighbour deserves another from them, and England will be apt to see that so long as the United States on a thirty days' notice can muster two hundred and fifty thousand Irish volunteers for the invasion of Canada or Ireland peace with this country, on such reasonable terms, Alabama claims included, as our Government may propose, is the only alternative of safety for the British empire.—New York Herald. The seat of war on the Canadian border is transferred from the scene of inglorious failure at Franklin, to the west side of Lake Champlain. The forces of General O'Neil have been scattered in every direction, and now beg their way homeward. Their arms, sold to the country people, have been seized and gathered up by the Govern ment troops, of whom two companies preserve the peace on the border at Franklin. Further west General Gleason, with 2,000 men, is four miles across the border at Trout River, a short dista nce nor th- eas t o f M a l o ne, and has intrenched his position to await, instead of moving forward in search of, an enemy. What is to be the result of this inaction is not difficult to imagine. The failure of Gleason may not prove as absurd as that of O'Neil, but it seems certain to be as complete. Reinforcements hurry forward to Malone only to augment the inevitable disaster, not to prevent it. It was evi dently the design of General O'Neil to seize the two rail roads to Montreal. What the plan now is cannot be con jectured from the reported movements. --New York Tribune. The Fenian raid appears to be as destitute of cohesion as of success. At St. Albans the men who were lately under fire are crowding the roads homeward, weary, hungry, and footso re ," according to the testimony of our correspondent. Arms are being disposed of at a heavy discount, and the short-lived fighting ardour is thoroughly damped. But at Buffalo bombastic proclamations have been issued, and the organisation, not having passed through the disenchanting ordeal of the bullet, sees things through rose-coloured media. In the West there is the same absence of concerted plans of even a common purpose. The Chippewan Indians, of whom reports speak, appear to have owed their existence to an over-fertile imagination, and there is no proof as yet that the Winnipeg expedition is either more formidable or better planned than the others. Hitherto the only people who appear to have profited by the movement are the farmers, who have let out their teams at very good prices, and have, it is to be presumed, been paid in advance. The Administration has taken a very prudent method of getting the dispirited campaigners, whom sheer hardship might drive into fighting, out of the way, by ordering a free passage homewards for them on the Vermont Central Railway. The sanguinary disposition of the Canadians, to allow a partial advance for the purpose of taking a con clusive revenge, will cause the fugitives to appreciate the ready means of retreat placed at their disposal. —New York Times. A Board of Trade inquiry was opened at New castle on Wednesday respecting the collision of the Earl of Elgin and the Jasmond, off the Yorkshire coast, by which eight of the crew were drowned. Some witnesses were examined, and the inquiry was adjourned. The Government Bill relating to the Jewish United Synagogues, prepared and brought in by Mr' Foster and Mr. Bruce, was published yesterday. The preamble refers to th e sc h eme se t. f or th b y t h e - Charity Commissioners last year, and the Act consists of the words :—" The said scheme shall be confirmed, and take effect." THE WISCONSIN.—The Wisconsin, built at Jarrow by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company (Limited) for the Guion Line, left the Tyne on Saturday to take ber station between Liverpool and New York. This splendid vessel has arrived at Liverpool after a most successful passage, her average speed for a considerable portion of the distance being 14 knots per hour. The working of the machinery gave every satisfaction. LAW , EltrisamENT. 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