The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE ru BLIO JOURNALS. The Times, in referring to the commercial aspect oUthe year just ended, observes that it is impossible to peruse the reports from the various departments of trade without discerning the effect still produced by the disasters of 1366. The influence of the panic survives to this day, and leaves unemployed capital still helplessly confronted with unemployed labour. In fact, there is more labour un employed and more capital unemployed than in 1867. At that time money, as it accrued from savings was wanted for obligations still outstanding. This drain has now beer stopped, and yet confidence has not fairly returned. Joint stock enterprise is in these days the main aliment of industry, and joint-stock enterprise has been rendered all but it impracticable. Neither the money ncr the mechanism is now to be had. The public will not take shares, nor if the shares were taken, would any responsible parties join a board of management. If shareholders have been ruined oy directors, they, in their turn, have been thoroughly frightened by shareholders. Yet still the savings of th , nation do accumulate, and are accumulating, indeed, at an increased rate. The money is ready in abundance, bu; nobody knows how to set the money-mills going again. 11ut if there was one fact clearly shewn in the Trade Re ports of 1869, it was that under no circumstances can it be for the interest of this country to throw obstacles in the way of Free Trade. What are the complaints from the various centres of British industry ? They amount simply t;) this—that the markets of the world have partially failed us owing to the accidental impoverishment of ow various customers. What, then, if these markets them selves should be lost by the resolution of each country to become " independent of the foreigner " and establish "protection for native industry ?" Carry oat this doctrine to its legitimate conclusion. and see to what it leads. It would lead to the limitation of native industry to native markets ; and what propor tion, let us ask, of British workmen would British markets alone suffice to keep in work ? Of all cries, the cry for Protection is the most foolish in a nation like ours. There have always seasons when trade was bad and em. ployment scarce, but there never was a time when trade could have been made better by putting artificial limits on its expansion. The Telegraph discusses the religious difficulties of the National Education League, and says the scriptures are so bound up with all that is greatest in the religious history of modern England, that they hold a position in these islands which the people of Continental countries can scarcely comprehend. On the other hand, the present generation of Englishmen has witnessed a growing dislike to sectarian education— an increasing desire that all religious bodies should have fair play. The fever for proselytism has died out, and the spirit of toleration dictates the words even of men who try to be bigots. The National Education League therefore, has to keep clear of two dangers. On the one hand, it must not shock that deep and true in stinct which makes Englishmen seek a religious education for their children ; on the other hand, it must respect the equally deep and equally true feeling, that national edu cation must be free from sectarian bias. On the whole, we believe, it has struck the mean between the two en tremes ; yet, as shown by the commotion which accom panied the question whether Mr. Dixon would keep the Bible out of the national class rooms, the League is menaced with breakers ahead. The truth is, that the rival parties do not understand each other. All but a handful of the community admit that the educa tion of the young should be religious as well as secular; unless Scripture lessons be available in school, many children will never receive them at all. At home the sons and daughters of the poor get, in a great majority of cases, no religious training whatever. If they do not learn the tenets of Christianity at the day school or the Sunday school, they grow up as ignorant of the Christian religion as the family of an unconverted Zulu Caflir. Supported partly by rates and partly by Imperial funds, a National school must be as open to the Roman Catholic, to the Dissenter, and even to the Pagan, as tc the member of the Church of England. Such religious teaching as it may offer must necessarily be unsectarian, and also be given at a time which will avoid every risk of religious contention. That is tho aim of the National Education League, and Parliament, we believe, will admit that the effort has been attended with success. The Standard congratulates the colonial reformers on having at length found a body and a name, under the designation of the " National and Colonial League." With such a programme as that which was agreed upon at the last meeting tho advocates of the maintenance of our colonial empire are now in a fair position to test the public opinion of the English people upon the question in agitation between Lord Granville and themselves. It is a movement which men of all parties and of all classes. whether directly interested in the colonies or not, may join withont offence to any political creed. To Con bervative3 there cannot be a more legitimate cause, for it ss one of the conservatism of the empire. To all true Liberals there cannot be a finer opportunity for testing the value of their principles. Our desire to see some kind of real connection between the trunk and its mem bers—to have a living empire in place of a formless, dis jointed confederacy, without any definite law or scheme of union—hanging together upon the unwritten traditions of Downing-street, and no part of it knowing at any time whether it is joined or separate.• This is the problem which our statesmen have to solve—a problem before which all other questions —of Ireland, of land, of edu cation, of emigration —are trivial and secondary. What shall be our gain, after all, if we save Ireland, and lose the empire? How can we serve the land question better than by opening and securing the road to the millions of acres now lying waste in our colonies better than the land which is coveted at home? Of what avail will it be to educate our poor by force, if we are compelled to keep them at home? And is not emigration to British territory better than emigration to a foreign land —better to add to the number of our citizens than to the number of our enemies—better to enrich what is our own barren territory than to fatten our rivals'? What madness in a nation ever equalled the madness of England in neglecting to provide for the Iture of the empire by the only process which nature , ermits her, at the very time when every other of her vals and competitors is seeking by all possible means ',a enlarge its borders and add to its dominion? The Daily New 3 declares that nothing which has been aid of the difference between the old and new laws of sankruptcy discloses half so eloquently the opinion of :he insolvent portion of the community on that subject as the list of bankrupts published in the newspapers of Wed .tesday last. The Gazette of the first Tuesday in January, 1870, contained the names of 524 bankrupts; that of the ;orresponding day last year contained only 89. The ild system has had a fair trial, and its lesson as been burned into the minds of all who 've credit. We are now going to be, not severe, but • rid. The new legislation reinstates the old doctrine, Ay discredited of late years, that debts must be paid. _nother effect which may be hoped for from the new law till be the earlier suspension of the trader who finds that sings are going wrong. Hitherto the unsuccessful trader as been encouraged to continue a losing concern at the epense of his creditors. The hope, however baseless, that sings would mend might be safely indulged at the expense 1 others; and if at last it were perceived that failure was .evitable, he might as well fail for a respectable as for a dtry sum. The new Act comes into operation at a time of eat interest. We have advanced nearly half through se term at the end of which, if past experience is to be ken as a guide, another period of inflation will be due, id when the operation of a law of bankruptcy may say• from great evils. What is wanted is confidence, and it hoped that this new law of bankruptcy will contribute inspire and strengthen that feeling; that it will give curity and tone to trade partly by the penalties it pro aims, but in a far greater degree as an emphatic expres on of the commercial morality of the country, and the pudiation of those lax principles which, under the nction of false legislative ideas, had been permitted to ow up. If tho Pall Mall Gazette may from em the angry at Mr. Lowe' ttcrs to the Times, the taxpayersYsC Love's arrangemeantismalielaanitl id puzzled as ever explanations and consolations which have been offered them have not yet succeeded in making them unlet and what it all means and that it is 1 r the best. is just beginning to dawn up o n ' 8 01113 of them :at when they have paid all their 1. assessed taxes advance, with incense tax, house tax, and land ix in full this month, there is still a further char be made upon thens for taxes due f or a portion of he financial year ending the ilist of March last. A tax ;;lector who is one of the Times' correspondents, natal ,.;ly observes that Mr. Lowe should have allowed the ,c,tion under the chi system to be completed before he :sugueLted the new. There can be no doubt this wout! ve been the wiest course. No argument, no persuasive oquence, eau n,ake reople comprehend a 1 . 0 illich they arc to clear off liabilities fur the futlae .ride weeks before they are called upon to clear elf ;heir liabilities for the past. They perhapfz, Lc-t -ea li3e their position, as regards uses ;ed. talcs, by ;he following illution. `;;uppose Lowe to lie theit .;ailor---he comes to them this new year with Isis bill, not 'or the clotheil they have had, but for the clothes they in tend to have between now and next new year. When they have settled this account lie will bring them another - "y had between September, 1338, and ;o unusual for a tradesman to send in .hat it is not surprising that many of uld labour under the impression .g with him up to the present date, sens that he makes no charge for the sad between March 1869 and January finitely prefer the ordinary busineEs t method of paying their just debt, claims made in advance, claims in 'tor adjusted, and claims not to _be ;;;tlreClo .- 6CStl;e; April, 186 D. It is sc 's bill in advance tl customers shot are se he tells till ii they Id infi ;ward of c METROPOLITAN GO3SIP—Jau. 6. A. meteorological journal says that a calm always pre cedes a storm. If this be true politically we shall have a very stormy vacation ; for a more stagnant recess I never remember. M.P.'s, both official and non-official, seem afraid to open their mouths. Meanwhile, the one topic of the political world is the leadership of the Conservative Peers. It is again asserted to-day by the London correspondents of several provincial pap era, both Liberal and Conservative, that Lord Derby has declined the post. This is absolutely untrue, and it is, therefore, of course, equally untrue that the Duke of Marlborough has assumed the important office. The position of affairs is just this. The great bulk of the Conservative party desire Lord Derby to lead, and they are so anxious for him to do so that, as he has shewn some hesitation, they say that they will not press him, but that they will give him fall time to make up his mind; -but they are sanguine that he will decide as they wish. On the other hand, there is a section of the Conservatives, including two well known bishops, who believe that Lord Derby will not suit them, so far as ecclesiastical questions are concerned; and these are endeavouring to get the Duke of Marlborough appointed. Mr. Disraeli, who is friends with both the Earl and the Duke, favours the first, and those who ought to know, believe that in the end he will be the man. At the same time it is so probable that his leadership will induce a partial schism in the party, that it is just possible he may decline the responsibility at the last moment. At the present time Lord Cairns is still de facto leader, and he will, according to present arrangements, give the dinner to the Opposition Peers at the opening of Parliament. Some importance has been attached to the retire ment of Mr. Whitmore from political life. As he was one of the Conservative whips, the surprise wasnot unnatu ral. It is rumoured that he was induced to resign by disgust at the abandonment of Conservative principles by the leaders of the party. It is possible that this fact may have had some influence upon the ex-Lord of the Treasury; but his retirement from Parliament is due also to family reasons. He was the representative of the Apley Park in terest, and as his nephew, the late owner of the estate has parted with it, Mr. Whitmore feels that his locus standi as M.P. for Bridgnorth is cut from under him. One under stands now how it was that Sir John Acton (now Lord Acton) was defeated at the two last elections. It was not the electors of Bridgnorth, but what " Dod" calls " the influence of the Whitmore family," which returned the retiring member. The decease of the Morning Herald suggests recollections, d ding not very long back, when that paper was really a power in journalism. It is quite true that the Herald suffered a serious blow in 1340 by refusing to follow Peel in his conversion to Free Trade. But it recovered itself in a wonderful manner during the Russian war by its splendid letters mitten from the camp in the Crimea. They sur passed those of any other journal, and the ability with which they were written induced the proprietors of the Times to offer the writer a permanent engage ment. It was accepted, and the gentleman in ques tion has ever since then been on the staff at Printing- House-square. Everybody will remember John Leech's picture of Mrs. Gamp and Mrs. Harris in Punch. The first worthy represented the Herald, and as the paper was constantly quoting the Standard, a paper which at the time was hardly ever seen, the latter was admirably represented by the mythical Mrs. Harris. In fact, to call the Standard by that name was a n - a 1:. and Betsy Priggish way of inti m sting a doubt as to the existence of any " sich a person.' Bat time brings about strange changes. The days of penny journalism arrived. The proprietors of the Standard, which was then an evening paper, determined to see if they could not resuscitate their journal by lowering its price, and making it a morning paper. There was not much risk in the venture, for the value of the property at that time was almost nil. So with great spirit the pro prietors distanced the Star and the Telegraph, by bringing out a double sheet. Then followed a long and weary struggle; a sheet of paper so thin that it would not h )1d together; and type wholly illegible, and transferring its ink to the hands of the reader. The Carlton Club came to the rescue, and found funds, and relying upon these, the Standard could afford to sup port its party in denouncing Mr. Gladstone's impious attempt to abolish the paper duty. At last the duty was abolished, and the Standard and its other cheap London contemporaries became as readable as its provincial contemporaries. In the race with the Daily Telegraph, the Standard enlarged its sheet, and offered to its readers fifty-six columns for a penny, while the Herald was offering 48 for 3d. The result was inevitable. The raid's circulation was confined to the clubs and the news-rooms, and some five or six years ago was only about 3)0 a day. So long as advertisements came it Wll9 worth while to continue the paper in existence, since all its news was the Standard's stereotyped, and, therefore, cost nothing to set. But of late even advertisements have so greatly fallen off that it became useless to publish the paper any longer. Thus the mythical Mrs. Harris his proved more substantial than the prosperous Mrs. Gamp after all. Another journalistic enterprise has disappeared, the Chita ch News, and the Church Press Company (Limited), which was started to publish High Church books at a low price, is being voluntarily wound up. It was originated chiefly by Mr. Colin Lindsay, the late President of the English Church Union, and his secession to Rome has, I believe, led to the present collapse of the association. Lately the association bought the paper above mentioned, but did no good with it, and it has now been discontinued. The price of the Church Review, however, has been reduced to twopence, so that something has been gained. I have no definite information about the new Bishop of Manchester. The friends of Mr. Bardsley and Arch deacon Sandford are pressing their claims with the Premier. The selection of the first is not a very probabre event. The Archdeacon has a better chance, for he warmly supported the disestablishment of the Irish Chnrch. It is his son whom Bishop Temple has just chosen for domestic chaplain. Dean Howson and Dr. Miller are also spoken of for Manchester. Dr. Short has actually resigned the Bishopric of St. Asaph. There is no doubt that Dr. Gilbert, of Chichester, ought to follow his example, The Keble College at Oxford has made great progress during the past few weeks. The Principal, Mr. Talbot, is a brother of the member for West Kent, and took a double first, and many other honours. Two of the tutors were also double firsts and prizemen. Mr. Edwin Palmer, who is considered the most probable successor of Professor Conington, is the brother of Sir Roundell Palmer. Lord Portman, who owns a great part of the parish of Marylebone, has for many years refused to sell a site to the Rev. C. Gutch, of St. Cyprian's, because that gentle man was an advanced High Churchman. Mr. Gutch has, therefore, all this time conducted service in a mews. Lord Portman's scruples have at last being overcome, and thus before long we may expect to see Marylebone, which at present is wholly in the hands of the ultra-Low Church party, possessing a Church which will suit High Church men. Charles Mathews's farewell performance at Covent Garden will be quite an historical event in dramatic chronicles. Rarely has any theatre been crowded as that house was. Mr. Matthews is just 66 years old, rather an ad vanced age to be commencing life again at the Antipodes. It is, perhaps, forgotten now that he was a protégé of the Earl and Countess of Blessington, and accompanied them and Count d'Orsay to Italy, where he made many sketches. Infact, he began life as an artist, and exhibited a picture in the Royal Academy in 1835. A littlA later he took to the stage and married the celebrated Madame Vestris, who was six years his senior and was lessee of the Olympic Theatre. She died in 1857. A year later he married Mrs. Davenport, the American actress. He was at one time lessee of Covent G trden, and at another gave an entertainment. He has also visited America and Paris as an actor. I have reason to know that, notwithstanding the state ment of the Home Secretary that he sees no ground for interfering in the matter, the friends of Dr. Shorthouse are sanguine that the term of his imprisonment will be shortened. The actual writer of the article which con tained the libel on Sir Joseph Hawley, pricked in his con science, has offered to pay the fine of £5O, which formed a portion of the severe sentence passed upon the doctor. I am told also that he finds London somewhat too hot to be comfortable, and that having lost his situation at a West end wine merchant's establishment, and experienced the "cut direct" from so many of his friends, he intends at oace to emigrate. The exhibition of Old Masters at the Royal Academy is oae of the most remarkable collections ever seen outside the National Gallery. Of course, for an exhibition of this sirt, promoters are dependent upon the generosity of private perscns, and it is no discredit to the defunct British Institution that the owners of valu able works were lees likely to lend them to that bJdy than they are to the Royal Academy. It pleasant t , r) find that the fortunate l ossersois of there master pieces are willing to let the public share for a time the delight of ]coking at them. None Lut great lords and merchant princes can afford to purchase such pictures, just a; none but they can afford to buy parks. It is, therefore, their duty to let their less fortunate brethren share to a c:rtain amount their 1 rivileges. Where nearly all are groat works, it is impossible to deal with over 200 pict;:res in a. paragraph. It must suffice to say that of English artists, Reynolds is represented by 8 works, Gainsborough by 10, including that most charming picture 'The Blue Boy," which belongs to the Marquis of Westminster; Lawrence b; 1, West by 1, Wilson by 3, Wilkie by 2, Leslie by 30, and Stanfield by 4.5. Among the principal foreign pictures Eicre are 1 by Michel Angelo (a Holy Family formerly attributed to Ghirlandajo) ; 1 by Annibale Caracci, 2 by Ludovieo Caracci,..4 by Claude, 1 by Da Vinci, 1 by Del THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7,!1870 Sarto, 1 by Dow, 2 by Diirer, 6 by Holbein, 7by Murillo, (including The exquisite, "The Good Shepherd," belonging to Baron Lionel de Rothschild), 1 by Paul Potter, 1 by Gaspar Poussin, 4 by Nicholas Poussin, 2 by Raphad (A Predetta, belonging to Sir William Miles, and The Virgin, Infant Christ, and John, belonging to Mrs.Bankes, of Kingston Lacy); 7 by Rembrandt (one of them a land scape) ; 9 by Rubens (including his own portrait); 3 by Tintoretto, 4 by Titian (including a Portrait of a Doge lent by Mr. Ruskin); 4 by Velasquez, and one by Veronese. The number of new books, like the number of railway passengers, slackens after Christmas, and there are very few announcements to make. The Rev. John S. Watson has in the press " Biography of John Wilkes and William Abbott." Macmillan are just publishing another volume of Essays and Reviews, entitled, "Science and the Gospel, or the Church and the Nations;" a series of esssays on great Catholic questions ; also essays on the system of land tenure in different countries which are being brought out by the Cobden Clv.b. Miss Martineau, the author of the letters in the Daily News on the Contagious Diseases Act, is writing her autobiography. Dean Lake's sermon, preached at the consecration of Bishop Temple, has, lam glad, to say, been published by Rivingtons. Mr. Grant is writing the life of Sir John Sinclair, which will contain several letters from the mother of the Princo Consort, who was divorced from her husband, and also letter.; from Lord Byron. Mr. Philip Hamerton's new novel reaches me while I am writing. I hear great things of it, and notwithstanding the Athenaum's partly unfavourable review, lam assured by Lancashire friends that it is a most admirable and faithful representation of Lancashire life. It may interest your readers to know that Shayton " stands for Bolton and " Sootythorn " for Blackburn. The writer is said to have rather under than over-coloured life in the cotton country. .MLS'CELLANEOUS NEWS. VIE BATTLE OF GBANAED. The fight at Granard on the Longford election polling-day, resulted in no great loss; but it appears to have been a remarkably fine piece of mob strategy. Everything was conducted on the most scientific principles. In most of the towns in the county the supporters of Mr. Greville-Nugent (Liberal) were in greatest force ; but the hosts of Martin the Nationalist were deemed stronger in Granard. With great tact, accordingly, the Grevillites drafted off a strong contingent from other towns to reinforce their Granard army. Operations commenced very early with a strong fire of artillery from the Martinites, resulting in smashed windows and doors. Then one or two arges were made, ending in the defeat of the Grevillites, before the police anti military, who were very numerous, could interfere. But as the day wore on, theGreville host augmented to 2,000 against 1,600 in the opposite camp, and retiring to a place outside the town, battle was offered. The challenge was accepted, notwithstanding the disparity of numbers, and the 'contest was kept up with spirit for a consi derable time. The Martinites endeavoured twice to break through the line of their opponents, but without success. They then, with admirable strategy, retired to a piece of rising gr ound in the neighbourhood, whither their opponents followed them, and the posi tion being in favour of the less numerous party, the struggle was conducted on more equal terms. The Scots Greys interfered, and the two parties retired to their respective positions. Shortly after wards the mobs again got into collision, and the Martinites were brolsen and dispersed, many of them being subjected to brutal and savage treatment. The troops interfered again, the Riot Act was read three times, and two volleys afterwards fired, the second wounding one man in the shoulder. This put an end to the campaigning. At Longford nothing happened; but at Ballvmahon several small fights took place, and it is pleasant to learn that in this land of freedom the Oreville voters had to be escorted into the town under the wing of a powerful mili tary force. On the whole, Longford election is re markable for the extent and regularity of its mob operations. vies° more than 5U aro members or tne nouse or Commons, and nearly 600 are ministers of religion. On November 6 the funds reached the total of £21,230; and now they are £46,881. TIIE PRIVILEGE OF AN M.P. When the Duke of Newcastle's bankruptcy was befofe the Court of Chancery, it was remarked that the privilege hitherto extended to members of Par liament of freedom from bankruptcy, would, with out doubt, expire with tho year 1869. The change has been accomplished by the new Bankruptcy Act. By this law it is provided that if a person, having privilege of Parliament, becomes bankrupt, he may be dealt with under the Act as if he had no such privilege. It is also enacted that a member of Parliament adjudged a bankrupt shall not be capable of voting ; and that if at the end of a twelvemonth the debts be not paid, or the creditors satisfied, the Speaker shall deem the seat vacant, and issue a new writ. over again ; ana no goes tnougn tne aiscom fort, overcrowding, and extravagance of attending and givincr evening parties. A supernatural appetite is assumed, a ferocious thirst begotten, and voracious stomachs are filled with meat and heated with strong liquor. Plum puddings are the great institutions of the hour. This "characteristic" incident is recalled : " A house in Sandwich-street having taken fire, six persons were burnt alive, because the landlord forgot to give the alarm. His only thought, on sight of the flames, was to run to the cupboard and save his plum pudding. Can you (M. Blanc asks) conceive any thing at once more absurd and more terrible ? Our French correspondent concludes by ridiculing the waste of bon-bons, toys, and dainties which are now so freely lavished. JEREMIAH'S FRIENDS. The Mallow Farmers' Club has passes a resolution declaring that its members "hail with satisfaction the return of J. O'Donovan Rossa, Esq., as repre sentative for the shire of Tipperary in the Englisl Parliament, and that they thoroughly approve of the manner in which our brother farmers of the premiet county supported his candidature," &c. By "premier county " it may be presumed that Tipperary is meant , and there can bo no doubt of the claims of that salubrious region to the distinction. For many years past Tipperary has been the premier district in anarchy, violence, and outrage, and its pre-eminence in this respect not only places it above all Ireland, but equally superior to the rest of the civilised world. The resolution contains much more besides the above quotation, requesting, amongst other things, that tht Government will almit J. O'Donovan Rossa, Esq., 1, his seat, and will let his injured brethren out of pr . —in order to join him, no doubt. A SPECIMEN IRISH OUTIIACE. It has been already 1/11:10 timed that John Walsh, a dealer in eggs, was shot on New Year's Day whilst going between Tuam and Shrule, and that he is since dead. The circum stances connected with this murder furnish a striking illustration of the state of society in Ireland. w alsh's business was that of buying eggs to send to England, and it a?pears that he was shot because he bought his wares at too high a price ! lie was of a speculative disposition and would often make large purchases in order to gain command of the market, and in this way he not seldom distanced his competitors. No other cause for the murder can be assigned. Walsh was not hard to his poorer neighbours who were in his debt. He did not even employ the agency of the law to enforce his rights where money, as was often the case, was due to him. He is said to have only once used a legal process against a defaulter, and even then to have forgiven him. And yet not only was he murdered, but no detestation for the crime, nor pity for the victim has been shewn by the populace of Tuam. A correspondent of the Daily News says,—" Chance afforded me remarkably good opportunities of observing how the intelligence of this assassination was received throughout the country. The herds, labourers, and small class of tenantry heard the intelligence with unqualified delight; some of the larger tenants, who correspond more closely to the English idea of farmers, appeared somewhat staggered by the news." Tuam has been "rising" of late in respect of political excitement, and it seems that a murder was needed to make it an Irish town of the true type. But a dealer in eggs is a strange object to mark out for vengeance. STILL SULKY It seems that some of the Irish clergymen who are disendowed by the Irish Church Act are still feeling "wrung in spirit" about it. That they should abhor Mr. Gladstone is only what might be expected; but it appears that some of them have not yet for given the Queen. They feel it a hardship to pray for her. One parish minister, who officiates near Belfast, surprised a correspondent of the Northern Whig the other Sunday morning by omit ing from the Litany the prayers for the Queen and the Royal Family. And he did this not to shorten the service, or to avoid vain repetition, but of malice aforethought, for when he reached the Communion Service he pointedly read " the Queen " instead of " Our Queen." Yet again afterwards this teacher of loyalty and goodwill, at Christmas time, preached a sermon whose aim was to shew that he need not petition the Almighty on behalf of his sovereign. The Northern Whig contributor says that he made a lame defence for his conduct. He quoted an opinion he had re ceived from a barrister of high standing to the effect that he had as much right to leave out the said prayers now as he would have in 1871—an opinion which is probably correct, for in neither case will an individual clertrym . an have liberty thu s to m u tilate the Prayer-book. 'this kind of thing has been going on for a long time. The rev, gentleman who fills the parish pulpit has been continually for months past abusing her Majesty instead of preaching the Gospel. LEGISLATIVE IDEAS. Mr. Palmer, the Liberal member for Lincoln, has just made a speech to his constituents which is an excellent sample of the small and vague stock of ideas that enables our legislators to jog along with comfort to themselves and satisfaction to their electors. On the matter of education, Mr. Palmer isindepen dent. He d oes not support either the National League or the Union ; but he believes that out of the two the House of Commons may find a solution of the problem. Then ho proceeded to say :—" There were two points to which he must object until ho was further informed as to the state of public feeling respecting theM : the first was the proposed entire abolition of all payments by parents for their children's education, and the other was the compulsory attendance of children at school." A little inquiry would have convinced the hon. ineirb3r that, in rejecting these two demands, he repudiates the most important part of the League scheme, and becomes, in fact, a Unionist. Besides being free and compulsory, there is only one other quality that the League . insists upon for the education of the people— tehll ta e leaves N t t., e_lssihrtai Palmer as b le e mtt el t ns s a c e i c nd t t a n i o i of a t 8.0 the 1. a n n dNt question eds p i te a iso r s t n o ot the wisdom of the Go vernmen t. ad d , tl e TIIE LEAGUE. The National Education League announces that it is getting on. The number of members reported at the central office ou the 31st December was 4,670, an increase of 1,695 as compared wtth the return of November, and of 834 as compared with those of December. About 4,000 members have been also enrolled by the several branches—making a total ALIA bor to this date of _ nearly 0,000. Of THE MINERS' CONFERENCE. The later proceedings of the Conference of miners' delegates at Wigan have resulted in a determination tocommence the eight hour' system of work on the first Monday in April. The Conference has also passed resolutions in favour of continuing the agita tion for a general amalgamation of the unions, and in favour of establishin.,, ,, a miners' newspaper. Mr. Alexander Macdonald, president of the Miners' National Association, delivered an address to the Conference, urging the eight hours' system, and setting forth the superiority of the New World as a field of labour. THE LOSS OF THE SPINDRIFT. The result of the inquiry into the loss of the Spindrift has given rise to a rather warm correspon dence on the part of the Board of Trade and the Trinity House. A. fine merchant vessel was run ashore in the English Channel a few hours after . commencing its voyage, though the night was clear and moonlight, and an experienced captain and a pilot were on board. The only punish ment awarded by the Greenwich police-magistrates and the assessors, was the supension of the pliot's certificate, the captain being let off on the ground that whilst a pilot was on board, the master was not responsible. The Trinity House disagrees with this opinion, holding the captain to be jointly responsible with the pilot ; but it appears to have no jurisdiction to do more than record its view. The Board of Trade very strongly expresses the opinion that, when a merchant captain takes a pilot, he does not thereby relieve himself of responsibility. They are supported in this view by the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, who give the follow ing dictum :—" That in well-conducted ships the masters do not regard the presence of a duly licensed pilot in compulsory pilotage waters as freeing them from every obligation to attend to the safety of the vessel ; but are of opinion that, while the master sees that his officers and crew duly attend to tho pilot's orders, he himself is bound to keep a vigilant eye on the navigation of the vessel, and, when exceptional circumstances exist, not only to urge upon the pilot to use every precaution, but to insist upon such being taken.' Common attention on the part of the Spindrift's commander would have enabled him to escape the danger which the pilot's blunders incurred. ME . PE AB OD Y. In connection with the news that the Monarch, with Mr. Peabody's remains, arrived at Madeira on the 30th of December, and that the voyage must now approach termination, it may be well to mention that the spot selected by the philanthropist for his burial is a beautifully wooded rising ground, situated upon the north-western boundary of Salem, in Massa chusetts, bordering upon the line of the town now called Peabody. The latter place was formerly called South Danvers. The principal street still contains the house with the small shop in front, in which, as a boy of a village store, Mr. Peabody spent much of his early life. TILE LAITY IN THE CHURCH. A pamphlet on "Lay Power in Parishes the most needed Church Reform," by the Rev. Mr. Fremantle, a metropolitan rector, is a noticeable contribution to this important ques tion. Mr. Fremantle fully endorses the jus tice of the complaint that the clergy possess far too much independence in the administration of their parishes and in the performance of Divine Ser vice. This state of things he considers dangerous to the national character of the Church; for if the Esta blishment lose its hold upon the people, how can it justly continue an Establishment P The remedy he pro poses is the institution in every parish of .a lay council, consisting in ordinary districts of some fifty or sixty members. These should be all worshippers at the parish church, but should be elected by all the parishioners without distinction. Ile would then propose that in all matters not actually prescribed by statute, any course should be allowed on which the council, the incumbent„ and the bishop might be agreed. Any one of the three parties should have power to make a proposition, and any ono should be able to veto it. At present the bishop only has dis cretion in matters of doubt ; but there is no legal power to help the prelate, and practically the clergy man does very much as he likes. THE EMIGRATION QUESTION. The Emigration League has at last definitely incor porated itself. The Duke of Manchester is to be its president ; Sir William Denison, the Lord Mayor of London, Mr. Eastwick, M.P., dolonel Maude, C. 8., and Mr. Potter its chief supporters. It will steer clear of the Colonial League, which has been holding its numerous meetings of late, and confine itself to its own definite objects. A meeting held in London yesterday resolved to use all efforts to obtain the aid of the Government, and the co-opera tion of other societies in 'London and the pro vinces for the relief of the unemployed; and by esta blishing corresponding committees or agencies in the colonies, to receive contributions from persons desirous of helping out friends and others residing in the United Kingdom, and co-operate with the local authorities in providing temporary accommodation upon the arrival of the immigrants. A large meeting in aid of the Association is to be held in Exeter Hall. A PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR ISLINGTON. The men of merry Islington have met to consider the propriety of setting up a public library in their territory under the Act of 1855. They are rather late in the day, but there is always time for social progress. ft is gratifying, too, to find that our old acquaintance, Mr. Lueraft,. whose energies have sometimes battled in less worthy causes, is one of the ,leaders of this movement. Yes, Mr. Lucraft not only came forward as the mover of a resolution to secure a library, but made a sensible speech, plainly declaring his opinion that want of culture on the part of the working man was one cause why trade was depressed. "He had counted that day in seven clockmakers' windows It 7 clocks, and not one of those clocks was of English manufacture. This was not in consequence of the lowness of price, as some of these clocks were ticketed fourteen guineas. Did they mean to say that an Englishman could not make as good a clock for fourteen guineas ? He could ; but his design would not be so tasteful, and his work would, therefore, not be so attractive." The meeting resolved to have a library, though the motion to that effect was carried by only _a narrow majority. Will no one help Islington ? Manchester got a good start from Sir J. Potter, who gave £5,000 and 30,000 volumes when its library was established; and Sir William Brown presented Liverpool with £20,000 and a free site. The heavily-rated London parishes want help quite as much as the provincial towns. ADVANCE OP MATRIIiONIAL SCEINCE. For calm assurance in well doing commend us to William Eburne, of Coventry. This individual, who is evidently much in advance of his time, has a wife who is insane, and an inmate of Hatton Asylum. For several years Eburne has contributed nothing to her support, and she has been chargeable to the parish. The Coventry board of guardians thought this an unnecessary burden, and accordingly made an application to the husband. They received a reply, of which the following is the main portion I beg to say I have not lived with my late wife Jane Eburne this 8 or 9 years and on my last Visite to Hatton the Dr told me there was no Chance of her ever getting well Concsequently I do not consider aney longer a wife of mine and haveing meet with a woman with whom I can be happy with and we ware aquanted some time and it was reported we lived together which injured her in her work, and haveing three little children depending on her for a liveing I felt myself in duty bound to Marry her and I have done so to take all Stain from her and we are both at the present time out of work and no prospect of any. The latter admissions do not make it appear as if the worthy man's efforts to " take all Stain from her" had met with their just reward. But Mr. Eburne may take heart about the prospect of work, for he has committed bigamy, and he may soon have to exert himself in the service of the State. It was suggested that the board of guardians should take proceedings on account of this offence; but they sa7 . ely resolved -to prosecute only for time maintenance of the insane wife, leavin: , ' the bigamy to ho dealt with by the public prosecutor who is " coming." LOUIS DL'ANC UPON CHRISTMAS, The Pall Mall Gazette and the Saturday Review, which so assiduously assault Christmas year by year, have got a now ally in the person of M. Louis Blanc. That gentleman, in his latest letter to the Paris Temps, shows us what a Frenchman's opinion is of our English custom. He is not at all complimentary to us. The Englishman, according to him, takes mirth out of his pigeon-hole at this season of the year, and makes up his mind to be happy. He submits for the time to - , children—something like a crime in M. Blanc's eyes; ho provides work for the doctor; he gets stifled at the door of the theatre to _ see a spectgle he ha 3 NOLL over _and JUNI US. It isnow maintained that conclusive proof has been sound of the identity of Sir Philip Francis with the author of the celebrated Junius letters. The new evidence has been gained in a very odd way. When certain facsimiles of Junius's feigned hand were published, a Mrs. King recognised the handwriting a 3 that of an anonymous note which she received in 1770, inclosing a copy of verses. This note she had always believed to come from Sir Philip Francis. The story attracted little atten tion at the time ; but about two years ago, upon the publication of the "Life of Sir Philip Francis," two lines'of the verses in question were found quoted. in a letter from Richard Tilghman, of Philadelphia (elder brother of the late Chief-Justice Tilghman), to Francis, dated September 29, 1778, in a manner plainly implying that Francis would recog nise them. This led to a renewed exami nation of the original papers, when it was 'found that the copy of verses was in Tilghman's handwriting ! Now, Tilghman, as appears from the " Life of Francis," -while a law student in the Temple in 1769 and 1770—the two most important years of the Junius period—was the intimate friend of Francis, who was his near relation, and was with him at Bath at the time the verses were delivered. The London experts made_ a most careful examination of the original note referred to by Mrs. King, and their undivided opinion was that it was written in the "feigned hand" of Junius. Either Sir Philip Francis or Tilghman must, therefore, be Junius, and as the latter could not be the famous personage for many reasons, the former must. SLAVE TRADE IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Mr. Douglas, Agent-General for the colony of Queensland, writes another letter on that bad kid napping business in the South Sea Islands. In answer to the charge that the colony itself had taken the initiative in get(ing up this trade in slaves, he says that at first the bargains between the planters and the South Sea Islanders were perfectly reasonable and legitimate. For several years after 1863 the natives came to Queensland and departed at will, receiving good treatment. It is of late, since 1867, that the traffic has assumed such formidable propor tions. The Polynesian Labourers' Act was passed without any representations from this country, and it proved beneficial in diminishing the traffic, though on the other hand, it certainly has given a colour of legality to the trade by authorising the issue of "licenses to recruit," which, as in the case of the Daphne, have been turned to bad purposes. But Mr. Douglas does not see what there is to be done, except that the British Government exercise supervision by means of a squadron. "It is now suggested that Government agents should be despatched with each ship. That, in my opinion, would be still worse for us. IVe should then become directly re sponsible for our agents actin.- under a rov ing sort of a commission, and the kind of men who could be got to undertake such duties would not, in my opinion, be the sort of men whom a Government would be very well satisfied to autho rise on missions of such a peculiar character." But surely it is possible, by means of interpreters, to ques tion the natives employed in Queensland as to their treatment, and send them home if they are dissa tisfied. DISMISSAL OF BARON ITAUSSMANN. Baron Haussmann, the famous demolisher and re builder of Paris, has been forcibly dismissed. He refused to resign, though his retention of his post under the new regime must have been an anomaly. He had faith that the Emperor could not do without him, and that•if he refused to go he would be kept on. He has been superseded, however, by the Pre fect of Lyons. FOREIGN NOTES. TILE KHEDIVE'S REFUSAL. The North East Correspondence publishes a aespatch train Trieste, dated January 4th, announcing fresh com - plications in Egypt. The Viceroy refuses to cede his armour ships and his Chassepot guns to the Turkish Go vernment. Two journals appearing in Constantinople have been suspended for having published articles in favour of the Viceroy. We learn from another source that the Governor of Bagdad, Midhat Pasha, has been summoned to Constantinople, and replaced by Mehemet- Ruchdi Pacha, the Minister of the Interior. This change is duo to the revolt of the Arab tribes against Midhat Pacha, but it is thought to be favourable to the interesis of the Viceroy, to whom the present Minister of the In terior has always been strongly opposed. AI STRIA AND EGYPT. It is stated that a marked change has taken place in the relations of the Khedive with the Western Powers since the visit of the Emperor Of Austria to the East. The French influence at Cairo has considerably decreased since France took the part of the Sultan in the Turco-Egyptian dispute. Austria, on the other hand has risen in favour, and her commerce with Egypt will, it is expected, increase considerably. The Khedive has until recently favoured the French traders beyond those of other European nations, but this state of things is now altered. But is it certain that the influence of France in this settlement of the late quarrel was exerted on the side of Turkey ? England had the largest share in propping up the Porte. THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY. A telegram received in Paris from Vienna states that the Ministerial crisis is terminated, as the Ministers have withdrawn their resignations, and will retain their offices. Fresh submissions have been made in Dalmatia, and a , eneral pacification seems probable. GERMANS AND POLES. The Eastern Budyet says that another instance has just occurred of the conflict of nationalities in Austria. The German professors of the Univel sity of Lemberg have petitioned the Government to transfer the University to some German province of the Empire. The reason of this demand is that, under the new arrangements sanctioned by the Government, the language of education in Galicia will, like that of the Government offices, be Polish, instead of German. The Poles naturally protest against their national university being sacrificed to the interests of a few individuals, and the Minister of Education has expressed his disapproval of the petition. THE CROWN OF SPAIN. The most contrary statements are being put forth with respect to the decision of the Cortes as to the candidature for the throne of Spain. The partisans of the Duke of Montpensier are greatly excited. The Imparcial states that it was the Duke's intention to proceed to Madrid, and that he was only prevented by the advice of his friends. The Gaulois has received a communication from Madrid, speaking of a definitive resolution which cannot be entrusted to the telegraph. ATLANTIC CABLES. Mr. Sumner has introduced a bill into the American Senate with reference to ocean cables landed in the United States, providing that the• American Government shall enjoy equal privileges with any foreign Government in the use and control of such cables, and shall be entitled to transmit Government messages, which are at all times to take precedence of others. The bill was discussed in the Senate on December 21st, and Mr. Sumner proposed an amendment, making it applicable to cables already in existence as well as to future ones. There was a strong opposition to it, and one speaker said he supposed its object was to provide specially for the case of the French cable, which had been landed on the shores of Massa chusetts. He, therefore, proposed the enforced removal of the French cable, unless the regulations imposed on others were complied with. Senator Sumner advocated a uniform system in dealing with ocean cables, and said that the jurisdiction over telegraphs belonvd to the Na tional Government. A Republican speaker from Wiscon sin thought that popular liberties were endangered by the growth of rnonoplies, and that Congress ought to extend regulations over the telegraphic and railroad systems of the States. A modification of the bill was proposed, giving the Government exclusive control of the cables for one hour in twelve, instead of for an indefinite period. The French Company had, it was observed, a certain monopoly, but they had been of great service in reducing charges. Another amendment was suggested, pro tecting the rights now enjoyed by the New York, New foundland, and London Comr any; and finally the bill was referred to the Foreign Committee. The agents of the French Cable are naturally very uneasy, and have sent a representative to France on the subject. PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE RECOGNITION OF CUBA. The Washington correspondent of the Ni•tc York Tribune says that President Grant has resolved to recognise the Cuban insurgents. A debate on the subject took place af, a Cabinet Council last September, and the President wrote down his opinion. It contained directions for the issue of a proclamation of belligerency. It is believed that the purpose of the Administration was changed through the Spanish threats of war, and a belief that England and France were supporting Marshal Serrano. Mr. Sumner has virtually said _that a recognition of Cuba would have involved a war with Spain, which would nave been most embarrassing under existing circumstances. Since General Rawling's death the Administration has been unfriendly to Cuba. The papers relating to these matters will not be published, " because their appearance would not be conducive to the public interests." THE RED RIVER REBELLION. The Toronto Globe publishes a despatch from St. Paul, which states that Governor M'Dougall had succeeded in raising a body of Indians, who were marching to the Stone Fort. The St. Paul Press says that Governor M‘Dougall has assumed fearful responsibility in subjecting the settlement to the risks involved in Indian war. The Governor, it appears, has not called on Canada for troops, but relies on the people of the territory themselves to quell the outbreak, and believes they will do it without bloodshed. Later accounts from Winnipeg declare that the insur gents are still very strong, and have taken possession of the fort near Pembina, hitherto held by Governor M`Dougall's friends, and driven the latter into the United States. Public sympathy seems largely with the insur gents, and at a public meeting held at Buffalo indignation resolutions were passed against Governor M`Dour, PAYING MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, ~...gislative Assembly at Melbourne has mssed a bill for the payment of members. It is proposed to give, each member £3OO a year, and• a sum of £3,000 annually is appropriated for the purpose. Ihe bill was strongly opposed by some members, who declared that it would introduce a class of pauper politicians, who would pay themselves by plundering the State and would sell the patronage. , The supporters of the measure maintained that members should be compensated for the expenses to which they were put. The second reading of the bill was carried by 26 to 17, and, after passing through committee and being read a third time, went to the Upper House. Mr. Disraeli is reported to be almost convalescent from his severe attack of gout. The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a very kind letter to Dr. Hayman, congratulating him on his appointment to Rugby. Viscount Milton, M.P., was, on Monday, initiated a member of the Sheffield District of the National Indepen dent Order of Oddfellows, at Wentworth House. It is generally believed in Dublin (says the corre spondent of the Pall Mall Gazette) that the freeman fran chise cannot surviv,e the report of the commissioners upon the evidence given during the last few days. The death is announced this day of Lady Louisa Greville, sister to the late and aunt to the present Earl of Warwick. Lady Grt-ville died on the 31st ult., at her re sidence in Eaton-place. A commercial treaty will (the Eastern Budget bears) be shortly concluded Letwecn Austria and Spain, by which each Power wia be ;rented on the•footing of the most fa voured nation." A similar treaty is about to be made with Portugal. The enthronement of the Right Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey. D.D., recently appointed Bishop of B.tth and Wells, took place to-day in the old cathedral of Wells, with an elaborate ceremonial. It Was announced that the bishop will hold a general ordiration in Wells Cathedral on Sun day next. The Guardian, criticising Dr. Temple's sermon at Exeter Cathedral, says:—"lf it does not dispel altogether the hazo which has seemed to hang over his theology, it is at. any rate that of a pious man and fervent Christian, who accepts the ly Scriptures as tho paramount guide of con duct and rule of faith." The Eastern Budget, on the strength of informs,- Con derived by telegram from CorMautinople, declares that the feeling against the Khedive is increasing in official circles there. It is feared that a conflict will be inevitable, unless the Powers interfere to induce the Kh-dive to fulfil all the stipulations of the finnan ad lresseil to him by :he Porte. James Malcolm, lately pointiman and telegraph officer upon the No th British Railway, wi,s hrought before Sheriff Hamilton, st E inburgb, on Mon 'ay, charged with having been found in a stat or into= cation whit. on duty Tr'uity Junction o the 81,t it. The Stier ff 1 flicted a flue of .£2 10g., •ail ng p t to su r fi tee days' ini prisc•nment. At the Coleraine quarter sessions opened on Satur day, a rather novel application was made by a juror to bo excused from serving on the jury on the ground that he had a " religious qualm of consciet.co" against condo tuning any human being "temporally or spiritually." The chairman felt surprise at the application ; but respected the peculiar scruples of the juror, and excused him from attending. We recently reported a .hocking case of judicial torture in the Swiss Canton of Zug. The Cantoral As sembly has lest no time in prohibiting such barbarities for the future within their jurisdiction. If the Messenger of W into thur is to be trusted, a similar reform is impera tively demanded in tie historically renowned Canton 0' Uri. the cradle iu former (Lys f Swiss liberty. The new warrant for the formation of an Army Working Corps is now being fully carried out at Woolwich. The Scotch papers report that Lord Barcaple is seriously ill. Overwork is assigned as the cause. The foot-and-mouth disease is spreading• in the Manchester district. A rumour, says Saunders's Newsletter, has reachea Castlobar that on Saturday night a bailiff of Lord John Browne's was shot dead. Many iron puddlers engaged in works near Glasgow have struck work in consequence of the refusal of their em ployers to concede a rise of wages. The Christmas decorations this year at St. Mary the-Loss, Lambeth, which were of a very chaste description, aro said to have been done by vrs. and the Misses Glad stone. Mr. Childers and Captain Lord J. Hay left Lon don yesterday for Portsmouth, on a visit to tho Royal Cla rence Victualling Yard, at Gosport, and the Royal Marine Barracks at Forton. Messrs. J. M. Johnson and Sons, of Castle-street, Holborn, announce their intention of bringing out a new periodical called the lbod Journal, to be devoted entirely to the subjects of food and public health. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by the coroner's jury against two women named M'Nameo, mother and daughter, accused of inflicting fatal injuries on Patrick O'llounell during an Irish row in Liverpool on Christmas Eve. Colonel Akroyd, M.P., presided yesterday at the annual soir6e of the Brighouse blechanics' Institution, and delivered a speech, in which he advocated the cultivation of technical education by the working classes, and the encou ragement of voluntary effort in education generally. Mr. IL W. Ripley also spoke on educational topics. The Cardigan magistrates have just discovered a series of systematic embezzlements in regard to provisions for the gaol; and at the same time tho imbecility, through intemperance, of the governor —or, as he himself called it, "torpor of the functions of the brain." The governor Las therefore been dismissed. The Globe says that the several " absurd" ru mours started to the effect that the General Commanding in-Chief was throwing obs'aeles in the way of the final set- tlement of Army administration are totally devoid of foun dation. "His Royal Highness is sincerely desirous of fur thering any scheme for the benefit of the service.' Rumours have been circulated to the effect that. M. Ay' ton was about to deprive the park of its flowers. These rumours are now contradicted. The Echo declares that Mr. Ayrton intends to have the subject of park garden ing inveEtgated by a skilful horticulturist, who will report upon the bad means of producing good effects without waste. Last evening Messrs. Turner and Cross addressed a meeting of their constituents in the Volunteers' Hall, St. Helent% Mr. Turner contended that the only present effect of the Ministerial policy on Irish questions had been the reverse of pacifying in Ireland. Mr. Cross confined himself to a criticism of the creation of peers, baronets, &c., by the present Government. A split has occurred in the National Education League, if we may believe the Eirmirzghata Gazelle, which says:—" Many earnest men in the cause of education who gave in the'' , adhcrt nee to the first programme of the League, had no idea to what measures that adherence would make them appear to assent." Writing from Richmond, Mr. A. If. Safford rays ;—,, flav;ng carefully considered the draft bill prepared by the League, I feel that I cannot continue a number of your body." The Liverpool council is divided on the subject of street trarnw:iys. The local company has sought to extend ttzeir system. It has been resolved to of pose the further extension of their powers, CO far as the streets of the borough are coneorne.l. The company premised to experimenti,lise i for eighteen months with thei r p resen t po wers, and it s looked upon as prematur e f or t h em to see k per mission to cut up the streets till th e system h as h a d a more ti ial. practical A robbery was committed last night at the London : residence of the Iron. J. Lothrop Alotley, the American ' Minister. There is every reason to believe that the thief or thieves must have concealed themselves on the premises seine time before the robbery took place, and that they escaped by the back way. Property to the amount of about £l,OOO is said to have been carried off, the property consist= ing of jewellery, &c. The thieyee left behind them a "jemyalong ..,..' .. , „?.. , z 2 . 7. .._ ,_ . " and rope .....____. __ THE RED RIVER AFFAIR. -~--- The Toronto Globe publishes the following despatch from St. Paul, dated 18th of December : " A letter received, dated Pembina, December 6, says that Governor M'Dougall had succeeded in raising a body of Indians, who were marching to the Stone Fort under Colonel Dennis. A letter of the same date, from Governor M'Dougall, says that on December 1 the GoverntLent of the Queen was announced through its Canadian representa tive. On the same day a force of loyal men occu -1 ied the Stone Fort, and the loyal white and half breeds began rapidly to rally and organise. The insurgents were beginning to disperse, and had withdrawn their forces frcm the printing-office and other places in the town of Winnepeg. Louis Riel, the chief of the insurgents, still remained in posses sion of Fort Garry, with 400 of his followers. Another letter says :—The mail just in from Fort Garry brings the news that Colonel Dennis has a force of 300 men, consisting of Swamp Indians and their half-breed relations. They have garrisoned the Stone Fort, and are expected to form a junction with the Canadians and the Sioux Indians of Portage La Prairie, and march against the insurgents of Fort Garry. Riel, the insurgent, had called out his re serve, who were temporarily absent, and 300 men reported at his headquarters in a few hours after issuing his call. A collision was soon looked for. The reportcurrent that Governor M'Tavis had been taken by the insurgents from his bed, and together with his subordinates had been confined in prison, and that the insurgents had helped themselves to the property of the Hudson Bay Company, was not generally believed. The St. Paul Press of this morning, editorially on the Red River trouble, says :—" Governor M'Dougall has assumed a fear ful responsibility in thus subjecting the settlement to the terrible risks involved in Indian war. It is but just to say that as our correspondents at Pem bina evince a natural sympathy with the insurgents, and obtain their information doubtless from the in surgents side, it is possible they may be to some extent misled by parties and representations." To day's Press says further that there is the possibility of an Indian war on the North-west frontier, and believes it the protective duty of the United States Government to send troops to Pembina for the pro tection of her citizens. Another Pembina letter says the English-speaking inhabitants prefer the continuation of the old Government of the Gover nor and Council of Assinaboia. On the contrary, the French say the old Government originally esta blished for the administration of the affairs of the Hudson Bay Company is inadequate to the wants • of the present extensive community and for the administration of the laws in strict justice. The editor of the St. Paul Press received a letter from a Canadian gentleman, dated Pembina, the 6th instant, in which he says Governor M'Dougall has not called on Canada for troops, but relies on the people of the Territory themselves, when appealed to quell the outbreak, and believes they will do it without bloodshed. The letter contistues as fol lows :----‘ On the 12th of December [qy. 2d] a force equal to the malcontents occupied the Stone Fort, and their numbers were rapidly increasing by acces sions of loyal inhabitants, of English, Scotch, Canadian, and French origin, with a large band of our Indians, rea ly to defend the flag of their Sove reign and restore the reign of law.' The insurents under Statsman had made tracks for Pembina, , while Riel holds Fort Garry with about 40 men." I The New York Times publishes information received from Chicago on the 21st of December that accord ing to a despatch from St. Paul "news had just been received that a company of mounted insur gents appeared at the Hudson Bay Company's fort near Pembina on the night of the 9th instant, and took possession. The greater part of Governor M'Dougall's agents and emissaries, including Schultz, Cowan, and Hatch, had been captured. Colonel Dennis was skulking about until he can reach the American territory. Governor M , Dou - r gall is absolutely without even a faction, save some fifty Swamp Indians. The balance have de serted him." RAILWAY _INTELLIGENCE. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 18th of December amounted for the conveyance of 25,089 passengers to £7,632 for mails, &c., to £1,233 ; and for live stock and the carriage of 23,189 tons of freight to £21,227—" total, £30,092; and for the corresponding week in 1868 to £27,958, showing au increase of £2,134. The total receipts from the Ist of July to date amounted to £758,441, and for the same period last year to £728,015, showing an increase of £30,425. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. The gross traffic earnings on this company'e line for the month of November last amounted to $367,714, the working expenses including renewal° to $193,163, or 52.62 per cent., and the net earn' ings to $174,550; and for the month of November , 1868, the gross traffic amounted $306,067, the working expenses, including renewals, to $162,44 9 ' or 53 07 per cent., and the net earnings to $143,618; showing an increase in the gross earn' ings of $61,647, in the working expenses of $30,7 14 ' and in the net earnings of $30,932. BUENOS AIRES GREAT SOUTHERN. The total traffic receipts on this company' line, 71 miles in length, amounted from the let of January to the 31st of October, 1869, to £102,23 0, and for the same period in• 1868 to £78,067, shoal' ing an increase of £24,163, or 31 per cent. MONT CENIS. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending the 31st of December, 1869, amounte d to 30,113 f. (£1,204), and for the correspondiol week in 1868 to 21,703 f., showing an increase 0 ,, 8,410 f. The total traffic receipts for the year 18 6 9 amounted to 1,580,227 f. (£63,200). PRICE OF GOLD. file quotation of gold at Paris' Is about at par, 04 t , te short exchange on London is 251. 15s. per Et sterna l On comparing these rates with the English Mint price cis tis. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.t's t" . „, gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than 1 " . London. UAD[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Henceforth no oue will doubt the valuably properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta. Arabi !: Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessing" 1 it has already received from Invalids whose posit i on had )c deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the i , o1 0 !; whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years f, unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette (, Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866 . - The health of the 00' ; Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reU dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's "a ... evaieli Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every xuaai It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, 0 4 0 his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly: . o f extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,21 6, 7 0 y the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years ' li ver coulPi t ",,, wasting away, debility, nervousn ess, w i t h a nervous palpitati? - , all over, bad digestion, constant s l eep l essness, an d the most P i ', tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1,771: Lord Stuart ;. Decies, Lord-Lieutenant o f W aterfor d , o f man y years' dyspella!, No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspel oi o , y, y, nervousness, asthma , cough, const i pa tion, flatulency, sPal t , sickness, and vomiti ng —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: James Roberts, of Frimle Surre of 30 years' diseased 11, 10 4;, spitting of blood , liver derangement, and partial deafness. r ‘ ,o portant Cantion—Beware of the many unsavoury and more tu‘',o sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Lieb i i; name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at 's i d; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; 5 lb Ils ; 12 lb 2 F,. 0 24 lbs 4 s.—Also I u BmtßY's lONALENTA a RADICAL CrtoC oo `o Powuka is packed in tin canist ers : for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 eT;O at 3s 6cl, for 48 cups at 6 s, for 2cB cu p s at 308 , for 876 cups at , n t —being about one pen ny per cup. The 30s and `ss tins are free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Ord er 4 BAkity BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; dp all Grocers and Chem i s ts. ✓ BIRTHS. DALSTON—On. the 4th Jan., a t th e U pper T errace , 1 1361 r: s t e ad, the wife of Henry Maxwell Daiston, of a daught ° o f JAcons —On the 22d Nov., at Graham's Town, Calr Good Hope, the wife of Simeon Jacobs, Esq., Solicit° General, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Grxs—Mon.i. -Ou tho 4th Jon., at the parish Cler larylebone, Georg e lliggiu, Meni Ins. C.E., to l if ; l oo Pattison de I3ert o d ano, secon d d aug h ter o f the ' Marquis del Moral PALIN- CLARKE—On the 4th Jan. at at St. Peter's Walworth, Ch ar l es J . A. Palin,.of Cheapside, to C" t ":4 rime, youngest daughter of William Clarke, EST' Alpha-square, Walworth. 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