The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

MR. NEWDEGATE ON HIMSELF. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review says some of the leading Conserva tive organs seriously assert that the Government will get a majority at the elections, and that Mr. Disraeli will have the command of the new House of Commons. It may be iso ; the issue of the elections is in the womb of the future, and the country, which at present appears modestly to conceal its preference for them, may be heart and soul on the side of the Conservatives. But if we are to discuss the new Parliament at all, we must discuss it on the basis of what is known to the world at la r g e, and not on the basis of secret Conservative information. So far as outsiders have the means of guessing, there will be an incontestable Liberal majority. Whether the majority reaches one figure or another is not of much importance. The one great aim of Liberal constituencies seems to be to get representatives who will go with their party and do what Mr. Gladstone wishes them to do. What they want is to avoid the reproach uttered last session against the party by Mr. Bouverie, as a party without a leader to lead or followers to follow. It is the Liberal constituencies that are backing up, or rather creating, the paramount autholity of Mr. Gladstone, and stipulating that the men they return shall be true to him. Tea-room parties, and Caves of all kinds, are an abomination to them ; and they hate strategic movements to support Mr. Glad stone's flank. The only question is, not whether they will succeed, but whether they will not go too far, and turn out honourable and independent men in order to return mere delegates and party tools. here and there, it is to be feared, this may happen ; but no oue can doubt that, if it is the object of the Liberal party to carry out the principles it professes, this interference of the consti tuencies was, to a certain extent, very natural and very proper. The party fidelity of the Conservatives is carried to the last extreme of excess. A few Conservatives, indeeed, shewed independence in the last two sessions, some of whom were honourable men of good fortune and with safe seats, and some of whom were young men who deliberately threw away all their chances of parliamentary distinction in order to maintain their self-respect. But, as a rule, Conservatives have no independence at all. They need not consult their constituents, they need not like or trust their leader, they need not stick to their principles, but they must go with their party. They all vote in a lump directly any question is declared to be a party question. It has become a part of their creed and tradition to do so, and recent experience has shewn that they will move altogether in a body, even when they are suddenly called on to undo and unsay all that they have been doing and saying for years. In face of so compact and so unanimous an Opposition, the Liberals are natu rally doing all they can to introduce compactness and unanimity into their own ranks. The Spectator thinks that Mr. Gladstone missed a great opportunity on Thursday. The single incident in his career which his followers would gladly forget, and which every now and then suggests a doubt whether his Liberalism is world-wide, is the attitude he assumed towards the Southern rebellion. He believed that it would succeed, that a slave empire could be founded, that it was possible to elevate a caste of slaveholders into a nation ; that in fact, as he said, the work had been accom plished ; and he expressed his belief as if in some way it brought him pleasure. His speech upon the subject gave deeper offence to English Liberals than even to Americans, for it suggested that there was at least one subject upon which the moral vision of their leader, usually so clear, was dimmed by prejudice ; one corner of his mind in which his sympathies for the oppressed, usually so despotic, were not dominant; one region of politics in which his foresight, usually so keen, was arrested by some failure in his mind. He has, we doubt not, since then received light, has perceived not only, as he says, the enormous energy nations derive from extending popular privilege, bat the enormous suffering which any compromise with slavery, any tolerance for that supreme wickedness, brings even upon States otherwise wisely organised ; but he should have taken the opportunity afforded him by the banquet to Mr. Reverdy Johnson to announce the change, and clear his political character from its solitary stain, to prove that there was no point upon which men who love freedom could regard Mr. Disraeli as superior to himself. It is conceivable that his reticer ce may have proceeded from an exaggerated courtesy towards Mr. Reverdy John son as a Marylander, or from a mere reluctance to enter at such a banquet upon a personal topic; but it has disap pointed, not to say wounded, some of his best supporters, and we shall be delighted to find that, before the election comes on, the ill-timed silence has been amply explained. Even had slavery not been in question, Mr. Gladstone's false estimate of American forces would have been a blunder ; but it was one committed by politicians as saga cious as himself ; by one, for example, as coldly watchful as the Emperor of the French. No apology was needful for an error so widely spread, but sympathy with slavery is a mental taint of which a leader almost worshipped by English Liberals, and worshipped for the sincerity of his belief in freedom and in man, ought to avow himself wholly free. The London Review holds that when Mr. Mill first put himself forward as a candidate for Parliament, there were those who feared that the peculiar bent of his mind and the habits of his intellect would incapacitate him for the particular kind of service required in the House of Com mons. A philosophical thinker is sometimes too much in advance of his time, and at others too singular and way ward (or at least apparently wayward) in his views to suit the rough and necessarily imperfect work of a legislative assembly, which is compelled to reflect rather general opinion than special opinion. It is to be regretted that some of Mr. Mill's proceedings during the last year or two have given a degree of confirmation to the judg ment thus expressed. We are not insensible of the advan tage that is to be derived from the utterances of an intelli gence such as that of the member for Westminster. But this order of mind has its special liabilities tcr error, and those of a nature particularly unfortunate in connection with political subjects. No one will deny that Mr. Mill has delivered in the House of Commons some very thoughtful and suggestive essays on the first principles of statesmanship ; yet many, even among the most advanced Liberals, look with distrust and aversion on his crotchety views with regard to the representation of minorities and the rights of women. We are afraid that this feeling of distrust in Mr. Mill as a representative of the Liberal party will be greatly increased by the singularly impru dent course he has recently been taking with respect to the elections. According to the Imperial 11l view, the remark that there is " nothing in the papers" has acquired a fresh signiff• cance since Mr. Gladstone has monopolised a page or so in them every day. The ingenuity that contrives to string together column after column of well-rounded periods, and carefully exclude from them all original thought, is, doubtless, very great. The performance, it would be thought, must be an exhausting one to a man of Mr. Gladstone's undoubted intellectual capacity. It certainly is very exhausting to mere observers. One of the most terrible tortures of the old Inquisition was that which allowed a stream of water to trickle cea se l ess l y , d rop b y drop, on the head of the victim. The result was idiocy. And a similar result would probably have attended anyone who was exposed to the ceaseless drip, drip, drip of Mr. Gladstone's eloquence. The most striking characteristic of Mr. Gladstone's series of speeches consists, of course, in the fact that he should have talked so much and yet have contrived to say so little. The reticences that are observed by the twoeLiberal leaders, by both Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, are very significant. On the great question of the Irish Church Mr. Gladstone has announced a definite policy, and has appealed to the nation to restore him to power in order that he may carry that policy into effect. The nation has a right to know the details of the plan by which it is pro posed to accomplish so great and revolutionary a State. The as the destruction of the union of Church and The explanations that Mr. Gladstone hesitated to give in the House of Commons were, it was hoped, only . reserved for the hustings. But they have not yet been given, and there is now little probability that:they will be voluntarily afforded. Th ose w h o ma i n t a i ne d th a t they were withheld because they were not of a kind to prove acceptable or even endurable, have been thoroughly justified. And it is essential that Mr. Gladstone's reticence on the subject, and the causes which alone will satisfactorily account for it, should be urged on the constituencies. The Radical electors of South-west Lancashire will doubtless be gratified ; and not ignorant of Mr. Gladstone's past, and mindful of his probable future, they may be tempted to remember and apply the in genuous avowa l o f t h e American politician " These are the sentiments of an honest than and an honest politician ; but, gentlemen and fellow-citizens, if th e y don't suit you they can be altered." The John Bull criticises Mr. Gladstone's definition of national property. Will Mr. Gladstone open the statutes at large, and point to the date and to the chapter of the Act which endowed the Church with so much national property? We are ignorant of any such statute ; we have not so read the history of England. Parliament has, it is true, now and then voted money for church building, and even for the endowment of poor ben e fi ces ; b u t the amounts have not been large, and the remem brance of the Acts, which gave such moneys to the Church, are fresh in the memories of men. But Par liament never gave the tithes as an endowment to the Church, and they never were at any time, or in any sense of the word, a State income. The tithes were given to the Church by private persons of piety and liberality, for the support of the clergy, before a Par liament existed in England—before the complex idea. now called "the State," had obtained either form or expr,7ssion. They were given as a free gift ; and they became the property of the clergy, or the corpo. rations to which they were given, by a prescription of centuries. The violent transfers which were experienced by other property in England die not affect them. The rights of the owners of tithes to the enjoyment of tithe were untouched by the Roman Conquest and by the wars of tho Roses. Indeed, the very phrase " national property " is a legal absurdity. We know of no such Cling as " national property." But by what is now a legal fiction, though it is based on the character of the ancient feudal tenure of land, all the landed prop,.rty of England, it may be urged, is the pro. pertv of Vie Crown. It is true that this is the legal view and Cie landed possessions of the Church are the only case in which the doctrine does not apply. The endowments of the Church, at least those of the parochial clergy, are not, and never have been, held by feudal tenure. They were held in frankalmoyne, or free alms and, therefore, by an ancient constitution, they were not liable to the same burdens that other landed property lay under by virtue of its tenure. It was on this account that, until a comparatively late period in our own history, the possessions of the ciergywere not taxed in ParliaineLl Mr. Newdegate thus concluded a speech he made on Thursday to some of his constituents in North Warwick. shire :—" Gentlemen, I have heard the queerest reports. I was told that I hadbeen married. I am told that some people say I have got a concealed wife. Other people have said, Look how that fellow Newdegate works ; he must make a good thing out of it.' However, I can say this, I have never touched one shilling of public money in my life, except my pay as a member of the Yeomanry force, to which I belong. My attempt to serve you honestly these five-and-twenty years have cost me tens of thousands of pounds, and also the best years of my life. As Parliament is reforming, and as there will be many new members, experience will be of some value. I ask you to send me back this time to serve you, and if you do, I hope I shall not betray the precedent I have set in your service hitherto." MR, .ROEBUCK ON THE RATEPAYING CLAUSE. Mr. Roebuck on Thursday delivered an address on capital and labour. He repeated many of the arguments he had already adduced. Afterwards (as the custom is) he answered any questions put to him. Being interro gated about what he would do in the matter of the ratepaying clause, he ventured on prophecy : " I think there is a misconception about them. My idea of the matter is this, that so long as the suffrage was confined to £lO I objected to the ratepaying clause being added ; but when every person rated to the poor, down to the poorest householder in Sheffield, was entitled to vote, I thought it a very proper precaution that you should add who paid his rates. I acknowledge at once that that is an exclusion to all who don't take a real interest in the State, and persons who are not by their position likely to know much about politics. I have seen a good deal of it in this town. I should not like to see those persons at the polling booth, and I will not, and Mr. Gladstone wont propose it—mark what I say—Mr. Gladstone won't propose it. My opinion is that we have passed a great bill. We have largely increased the consti tuency. We are making an experiment. That experi ment ought to be followed through. There ought to be no tinkering—no paltry opposition— and there won't be when they get into power. The whole thing then will drop ; but I say to the people here —I say to the people in the country—that the experi ment has been proposed. We are making it now, and let us make it fairly. Do not interfere until they have tried the bill. If the bill work well, then will be the time to say, ' Now you can fairly increase the suffrage to the poorest and least educated class of the community.' I don't think you could do that now safely. Let us try the experiment, and when the experiment has been fully rnd fairly tried, I will do all I can to extend the franchise." MR. BOUVERIE AND MR. MILL. 'We have now the reply of Mr. Bouverie to Mr. Mill's long letter, in the matter of Mr. Chadwick and the Kil marnock Burghs. Mr. Bouverie writes to the Times by date October 23 : I have seen in the Times of to-day an extremely long letter addressed to myself ,by Mr. J. S. Mill. I have received no copy of it from him, and so, not wishing to pursue a controversy which seems likely to assume the aspect of a squabble, I write a line to you to correct one mis-statement in that letter, and to make one observation, to conclude the matter. It turns out that I am the object of so much righteous indignation because I am alleged to have said in the House of Commons that the leader of the Liberal party was " incapable of leading," and I called the Liberal party a rabble." I never did say the leader of the Liberal party west " incapable " of leading ; I spoke, on the sth of March, on the weakness of the Government, and said it was the fault of the Liberal party in the House; I spoke of "leaders who would not lead ;" and, speaking of the state of the Liberal party in the House of Commons, I said " we were I ;ttle better than a rabble." Here is the description of that state by Mr. Mill himself, rn the closing paragraph of his letter: " It is in the renewal of the tactics which made the last House of Commons a spectacle of dissension and want of principle—shewing us representatives trying to slip out of the engagements their constituents conceived them to be bound by, and others yielding a shameful obedience when called to order by the dread of losing their seats ; while in cases where this powerful motive was not in operation, men elected under the same banner proved by their conduct that there was as irreconcilable a variance in their intentions and political feelings as if they had sat on opposite sides of the House. What gave this deplorable character to the last House of Commons was, that its so-called Liberal members were rallied under the cry of supporting Palmerston, as we are now told they ought to be rallied under the cry of disestablishing the Irish Church." I leave your readers to judge of the difference between Mr. Mill, who graphically describes the thing, and myself, who ventured to give it a name. They will remember— " That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy." At the last assizes the Judges attended service at St. Mary Tower, Ipswich. The other day the Under. Sheriff said that the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Keating resolved that they would never enter it again, be cause they there saw ceremonies foreign to the Church of England. THE COUNTESS OF DERTVENTIVATEE. —At the general quarter sessions for the county of Northumber land, held at Hexham, and at which there was a large attendance of magistrates, Earl Grey, referring to the encampment of the Countess of Derwentwater on the highway at Dilston, inquired of Major Brown (the chief constable) what he had done in the matter. Major Brown said that the police bad not interfered. Earl Grey said it was the police officers' duty to deal with any one infringing the law. It was the duty of the police to apply the same rule to the lady as they would to anyone else. Major Brown : She is summoned now, and if she does not appear I suppose there will be a warrant issued. LORD ATALMESBURY AND HIS TENANTRY.—The Earl of Malmesbury sends to the Bournemouth Visitors' Directory a letter which he lately wrote to Mr. Harland Burke, the Liberal candidate for Christchurch. Mr. Burke was reported to have said at a public meeting that several of Lord Malmesbury's tenants looked upon them selves as personally bound to vote as " my lord " would wish. He mentioned the name of a Mr. Elliott, who, he was told, was the agent of Lord Malmesbury, and was working against him as the agent of Sir H. Drummond Wolff, the Tory candidate. Lord Malmesbury at once wrote to Mr. Burke, demanding to know as to the accu racy of the newspaper report, and calling fur information respecting the alleged victims of landlord tyranny. To this no answer had been received up to the time Lord Malmesbury sent his letter to the local paper. Mr. Elliott writes to deny that any undue influence has been used. TEE ABORIGINAL BLACK CRICKETERS.—Having completed their programme (which included no less than forty-seven matches, extending over a season of unprece dented length, viz., from May 25 to October 17). these interesting strangers left London on Sunday last for Ply mouth, where they joined the ship Dunbar Castle, direct for Sydney. During their stay in England the demeanour of the blacks has been most becoming, and all their en gagements have been fulfilled (frequently three matches per week) with undeviating punctuality. This is the more commendable when the fact is stated that they had frequently to travel immense distances ; for instance, from Rochdale to Swansea between Saturday night and Monday morning, and from Swansea to Bradford (York shire) between the cessation of play on Wednesday even ing and Thursday at noon. The expenses of the expedi tion have been so heavy as to leave but a very small margin of profit to the enterprising gentlemen, Messrs. Hayman, Graham, and George Smith, who, however, are hoping to recoup themselves in the colonies on the arrival of the blacks, who have now earned, and deservedly so, a European reputation. TRANSLATIONS OF IRISH AND ENGLISH PRELATES. —The translation of the Dean of Cork to the sec of Peter borough has drawn attention to the fact that translations of dignitaries of the Church between Ireland and Great Britain have been very rare since the Reformation. It is just 300 years since the earliest recorded example occurred. Between the years 1567 and 1693 four Scottish bishops were translated to Ireland, three to Itaphoe and one to Killala ; six Irish bishops also were translated to English sees, but they were all Englishmen, or at all events of English extraction, and men who appear to have used Ireland and the Irish Church merely as a stepping stone to advancement. Such a man was one Hugh Curwen, who gave up the Archbishopric of Dublin for the (at that , time) far easier post of - Bishop of Oxford. It appears that there have been four translations from English and Welsh sees togrish ones. Bishop Evans, in 1716, was translated from Bangor to Meath ; two years later Bishop Nicholson went from Carlisle to Derry ; and the Primacy tempted two prelates to cross the Irish Channel—viz. Hugh Boulter, Bishop of Bristol, in 1724, and the Hon. William Stewart, Bishop of St. David's, in 1800. In the latter case it is remarkable that a bishop gave up a permanent seat in the House of Lords for an occasional seat about every fourth year at that time, as one of the Irish represen tative bishops. COTtNT AND COUNTESS OF aIRaEN2'L The Ca oat and Countess Girgenti arrived at Newhaiiit !rom Die ppe yesterday, by the steampacket Marseille'. the steamer left Dieppe at four o'clock a.m., and arrived at Newhaven at twelve o'clock. The count and countess were accompanied by five Spanish gen: tlemen. Not one of the party, however, spoke English, and, what is much stranger, only one of them under': stood anything of French, and this gentleman spokd it butimperfectly. The party were bound for Brighton; out .had evidently undertaken a hasty journey, as they did not know at what hotel to stay at there. Mr. Dolan, the collector of customs at Newhaven, however, recom raended them one. They seemed obliged for the attention he shewed them, and thanked him for his courtesy as well as that of his officers. The party was not expected, and there was no train for Brighton till half-past two. They therefore waited in the London and Paris Hotel, New haven, until that hour. They arrived at Brighton a little before four o'clock in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to the Grand Hotel, where they now are. They brought a considerable quantity of baggage of the ex-Queen of Spain, some of the trunks bearing in large brass characters the name "Itegna Isabella." Captain Payne, of the Mar seilles, tells the following little circumstance with reference to the Countess Girgenti :—Early on the morning he left, an elegantly-dressed lady, apparently not more than twenty, came on the bridge of the steamer. Captain Payne, somewhat surprised at the courage of so young a lady, told her that he feared she would get wet with the spray in so exposed a position, devoted only to the officers of the ship. The young lady, with a sweet voice, and pretty broken English, said, " Is it forbidden?" The captain, although ignorant that it was the daughter of Isabella of Spain that was addressing him, was not proof against the charms of so graceful a young lady, and allowedher to remain in the place of her choice. The captain called for cushions and rugs, and made the countess a comfortable couch on the bridge, which she occupied until the boat arrived at the haven, when he for the first time learnt the name and position of his fair passenger. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1868 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-Amer s iean Times.) The Central Press is coming out in an enterprising way, which the English public ought to encourage. They have supplied within the last few days many telegrams from America. One of these gives the result of the great boat race which was run on Wednesday on the Connecticut river at Springfield, the Ward brothers against the New Brunswick crew, who distinguished themselves by whipping Europe at the Paris Exhibition regattas. The Ward brothers were supposed to be the best oarsmen in the world ; but this honour really belongs to the four oars of St. John's, New Brunswick, for in a course over six miles they beat the Ward brothers by forty lengths, doing their work in 39i minutes. The extraordinary nature of the convulsions in the greatest of the volcanic belts has received fur ther illustration by an earthquake which last Wednesday wrecked the lower portion of San Francisco, and was felt throughout the whole of California and other States. According to the Cen tral Press telegram — "The town in many parts is a complete heap of rubbish —houses, stores, churches, and other buildings being razed. The lower part of the city has experienced the greatest amount of damage. The fissures loft in the ground in many places are from seven to eight feet in width. Tho effect on the water in the bay was very striking, but as yet no word has been received relative to any damage to shipping. The loss of life is thought to bo inconsiderable ; but, of course, no correct idea can be formed as yet of the number of persons who are missing. The damage to property is estimated at over a million dollars." The advices which have reached Messrs. Campbell, Heatley, and Co. are so far reassuring that busi ness has not been interrupted, their correspondent advising them that the loading of ships continued, of which one was to sail on the following day. There has not been much business of late before the Washington Cabinet, hence we are not surprised that the session of the 9th inst. was passed in dis cussing whether a marble statue of Washington sent for safe keeping from New Orleans during the rebellion, and stored in the Patent Office, should be returned on the demand of the State of Louisiana. The President, Mr. Welles, and Mr. Randall joined in the discussion, and eventually concluded that the statue should be sent back. The Foreign measures of importance before the Cabinet were the re cognition of the new Government of Spain, and the protocol signed by the American Minister with the British Government regulating the rights of naturalized citizens. There was little question as to the course to be taken in the former case, for the Cabinet rather enjoyed the opportu nity of paying Isabella back in her own coin, re membering that she was the foremost Sovereign in Europe to urge the recognition of the Confederacy. She has, we are told, $2,000,000 invested in Philadel phia in the name of the Duke of Riansares, accu mulated during ten years, and George M. Dallas was a trustee at the time of his death. The nature of the protocol had only been communicated by the cable, and therefore the particulars were unknown further than that the compact was similar in feature to Mr. Bancroft's treaty with the German Powers. General Gordon Granger has arrived at Memphis, where he has established the head-quarters of the department of the Cumberland, in relief of Gen. Thomas, who has, as we last week announced, been appointed by Mr. Johnson, president of the Court Martial, which is to sit on General Dyer. We may here mention that Dyer has been relieved from the charge of the Ordnance Department, and he is to be assisted in his defence by Colonel S. V. Ben nett. Granger's friends are pressing strongly for his promotion for the Brigadier-Generalship in the regular Army, vacant by Hooker's resignation. Granger is now a Colonel of Infantry, and though the Senate could reject the promotion, yet, as in the case of Rousseau, that Chamber is slow to interfere with the appointment of the President as Commander-in-Chief. General Sherman is blamed for neglecting the in terests of the exposed settlers in Kansas, who be came the victims of the late Indian raids. " The savages have, however, re3eived severe punishment ; the affair with Forsyth, the 9th Cavalry action near Fort Davis, Texas, and the pursuit of 2,500 Arapaho warriors beyond the Arkansas river by lcavalry, all show activity on Sherman's part. Rein forcements have been telegraphed for to Washington, and the following is an authentic despatch from that city :—" Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan, in their dispatches from the frontier, are both of the opinion that there will be a serious war with the Indians from this time until winter sets in. The latest in telligence shows that the Arraphoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Comanches have all cut loose, and are ready for robbery and murder. The Kiowas and C already Fort swept across the country from rt Dodge. The total force lr to r of these tribes is about 4,500 warriors. Fortu inan Fort ehes have z a Fortu nately we have a larger force to meet them than last year, though still not large enough to punish them as they deserve. General Sheridan will take the field in person, and lively work may be ex pected in that quarter very soon." The speculators have had a fine time lately in New York and Chicago. In New York they got some banks, and it is also asserted, tbough strenu ously denied by Mr. Van Dyck, the sub-treasurer of New York, that officers of his department joined in the scheme, which was to sell gold from the New York Sub-Treasury, while the banks locked up all the greenbacks. In this way 17 mil lion dollars were withdrawn from circulation, per haps half the amount afloat in the city ; the banks called in their call loans, while the bears not onlysold largely but threw on the market a quantity of speculative stocks. Gold fell five per cent. ; Go vernment securities on an average 2 ; the deprecia ton on shares ranged from 2 to 5 ; while discount immediately doubled. This lasted a week, when the "bears" themselves began to take fright, and the market recovered its natural tone, but not till after great loss and some failures. The intention was to catch those who had large obligations to meet, and who, una ware of the plot, trusted to their credit and securities to realize what they required. On going to the bank at the last moment to make arrange ments, the answer is, " No money." They then fall back "upon the street," but all the greenbacks have been cleared away ; when they awake to their " tight" position, having to raise funds or to allow their bills to be dishonoured. Then they hurriedly press for sale whatever securities they have ; down goes the whole line of Governments, Railways, Ex press and Miscellaneous Shares , helped at first by the clique, who wait till the securities touch bot tom to buy and realize profits on the rise. In Chicago it has been a " corner in corn," and both these events are fully noticed in the comprehen sive money article we publish from the Springfield Republican. The defence of the sub-treasurer, Mr. Van Dyck, of himself and the Treasury officers, has been generally criticised. He asserts that Govern ment held between eighty and ninety millions of gold, but less than thirteen millions of greenbacks, and for their increase it was necessary to sell gold, which he the more readily did on an easy money market, at from 141 to 143. On finding that the speculators had grasped the opportunity to forward their own ends, he at once stopped sales. Various plans have been suggested for turning surplus coin into currency, but all are liable to abuse. The best is to sell in the open market at the current price, but the discharge of these duties brings the Treasury officers into collision with the selfish and speculative interests in Wall street by whom their characters are aspersed. He goes on indignantly to deny any connection with these jobbers who have circulated this scandal be cause their schemes have been defeated. By figures he shows how well and favourably for the nation he and his chief have managed the duties entrusted to their care, and he closes his letter in the follow ing words :—" All this payment, purchase, and ex- Change, involving incessant labour, vigilance, and responsibility, has been carried through with scarcely the slightest disturbing influence on the monetary or business interests of the country. While claim ing no particular praise for these results, accom plished under trying circumstances incident to the deranged state of the currency and the business de pression resulting from an exhausting war, it is respectfully submitted that they ought at least to shield the officers of the Treasury from continued reproach, even if they did not entitle them to the confidence and gratitude of the community." Among the surmises anent the Chinese Embassy is its desire to co-operate for a ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien, to which it is said China is willing to contribute $15,000,000. That his Ex cellency Anson Burlingame may have given the full weight of his diplomatic influence while in Ame rica to forward such a scheme is highly probable— valuable as it must be to all countries of the Pacific. We know that the President used the controlling influence of the Washington Government to urge the necessity of this work, and by a telegram from New York on Wednesday it is announced that Mr. Seward delivered a long speech at the meeting of the company now definitely formed to effect the object, strongly advocating its interests in the per formance of a service so beneficial to the maritime world. The rumour spread by the New York Herald that a movement was in progress to nominate Chief Justice Chase in place of Governor Seymour, and General M'Clellan for Frank Blair, has been so far confirmed that the National Democratic Committee convened a meeting to consider its propriety ; hut finding, we presume, that this would savour of what the late President Lincoln so quaintly condemned in his saying that " the time to swap horses was not when crossing a river," they have determined to abide by their ticket. They took the opportunity of the meeting•to issue an address urging the most earnest support for the Democratic candidates, which they will surely require, as even the Times Philadelphia correspondent announces the demoral ization of the Democratic party and Grant's election as secure. The Royal International Coinage Commission has published its report, with the following signa tures affixed :—Halifax, C. P. Villiers, Stephen Cave, J. Wilson Patten, M. Longfield, John Lub bock, Thomas Baring, L. N. Dc Rothschild, J. B. Smith, Thomson Hankey, John G. Hubbard, Thos. N. Hunt, G. B. Airy, Thomas Graham, and C. Rivers Wilson, Secretary. The gist of it is, that in view of the probability of a much larger measure of change than that now proposed being hereafter required to be carried out, they cannot recommend the mere adoption of a gold coin of the value of 25 francs to bo substituted for the sovereign. They consider the English sovereign and pound would form the most convenient basis and unit. It repre sents the greatest interests which would be dis turbed by the change ; but as there are many considerations upon which all nations must be agreed before a universal system can be adopted they are disposed to think that authorized repre sentatives of the different countries should meet in conference before action be taken. Mr. J. B. Smith, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Hubbard made supple mentary reports. Meanwhile the French decimal system of coinage spreads,having now been adopted by Spain. Secretary Schofield congratulated Grant on his nomination by the Chicago Convention to the Pre sidency, but though the letter was written on the 25th May it has only just been published— "I have always believod that the Union could be fully restored only by the men who put down the rebellion, while I have not been without serious apprehensions that by forcing upon the country extreme Radical theories the stability of the Government might be endangered. Great reforms require time for their full development—time in which theories may be analyzed, and that which is sound and of practical utility separated from the unsound and chimerical. Wisdom and moderation in Congress will now give the country restoration and peace. Your elec tion to the Presidency will be the end of our political troubles, as your accession to the command-in-chief of the army was the end of the Southern rebellion." John Quincy Adams has accepted an invitation from Wade Hampton and other prominent Southerners to visit South Carolina and deliver some lectures. His letter has been published, and I it expressed the sentiments of all his party, many Americans who are now Republicans would not be sorry to see the Democrats in power. Mr. Adams intends taking the opportunity of expressing opinions which may be little palatable to the South ; but if they desire to hear him, he will not shrink from honestly stating what he believes to be facts be cause they may be distasteful to his hearers. This letter is one which well becomes the future repre- sentative of the family, and shows how narrow is the line between the Conservative Republican and the Liberal Democrat. On passing through Gains boro', North Carolina, on the 7th inst., he was met by the citizens of both races en masse; he then stated it to be untrue that so atrocious an outrage was contemplated by the Democratic ,party as the re enslavement of the negro, which the North would never permit, when unanimous cries arose " Nor the South either ;" he had learned more of the Southern people during his two days in the South than he could during his lifetime in Massachusetts, and he was astonished and pleased at the amicable relations between the two races. Indignation is expressed at Brooklyn against the board of supervisors for their appointment of in spectors and canvassers to serve at the coming elec tion. By some shuffle, if a Radical authority is to be believed, they have managed to obtain this re sult. "ln the 22 wards of Brooklyn there ara 102 election districts. In 40 of these districts, all of which are Repub lican, the inspectors of election are divided equally be- t ween the two parties. In 50 districts, mostly the same, the canvassers are divided evenly. In t wenty-nine districts,' all Democratic, all four of the inspectors of election are Democrats ; and in 20 of these districts we have no Re publican canvasser. In one in five of all the districts in Brooklyn, 20 in all, and these the worst and most Demo cratic, the Democrats have all the inspectors and both the canvassers, the Republicans having no official moans whatever of checking fraudulent voting." The citizens are invited, innocently enough, with- out distinction of party, to assemble en masse at the Academy of Music to express their indignation. The town elections of Connecticut show large Republican gains. They were held on Monday, the sth instant, and had just been officially published, when the mail left on the 10th, all but 9. Out of the 164, 86 went Republican and 69 Democratic. The net Republican gain in 110 towns out of the 164 was 2,626, a result scarcely looked for in that State, preceding as it did the great elections on the 13th instant. That Grant's influence has been pretty strongly felt by his enemies, is apparent from the fact of Ashley's defeat in Ohio, and the tight position in whichßutler finds himself to be placed in lassachu setts. Ashley of Impeachment notoriety, when the " War-horses" were in the ascendant, not only endeavoured to impeach the President, but to force a measure through Congress for the impeachment of the General. Butler is said to be roaring like a mad bull, and he is down horns, and after any thing which shakes the red rag of Congressional defeat before him. His two weak points are his former virulent hostility to Grant, and his financial heresies. The Congressional Committee on retrenchment sat, as announced, at New York. One of the first witnesses examined was Solicitor Binckley himself, who was closely questioned by General Van Wyck of New York. For a long time ➢lr. Binckley re fused to be sworn, urging many reasons why he should not be, but finally yielded and was examined at length. He refused to answer questions as to his authority and instructions from the President. Without concluding his testimony the committee adjourned. By a telegram received this week from New York we learn that, on the further hearing, the case was not only dismissed against Commis sioner Rollins, but M'Henry, one of the witnesses, had been arrested on a charge of perjury. It ap pears, then, that Binckley has so completely broken down as to have placed himself in a very awkward position. Au American paper of the true Republican stripe illustrates the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans by an incident in the life of a subscriber, the truth of which is vouched for, although it sounds uncommonly like a campaign paper brought out at a very auspicious moment, for there was but an interval of three days to the elections on the 13th instant. The family de scribed sought to set up a business in a New York village which had much to recommend it in position and facilities. A few weeks residence showed that the dra wbacksso swamped its advantages that the family moved on. They " found it a place of no churches, dilapidated school-houses, and run down buildings and fences. Every third how) was an ' hotel' or groggery. No woman called on the wife during ' their entire stay; none offered the new, corners little neighbourly kindnesses that are so plea sant to a stranger—the only tender of hos pitality was in the shape of frequent invitations to 'take a drink,' the only social gatherings were held in the bar-rooms, and the end of the evening's entertainment was often anything but healthy for the participants, or pleasant for the other residents of the place." The town to which they removed was in comparison a paradise, con trasting strangely in its churches and schools, in its being clean, orderly, and cheap. 'tasteful houses, highly cultivated farms, fruit in abund ance, every necessary readily procurable, made up a picture to be placed in juxtaposition. All this we can easily understand, but what was the cause ? That is the rub ; and one word supplies the ad swer to the satisfaction of our authority—" Cop perhcadism." " The inhabitants of the former are some of Governor Seymour's friends,' who still believe the war a failure, 'APClellan our greatest general, and who always vote ou the same side as the plug-uglies and Water-street roughs of New York city. In the latter Grant and Colfax will have almost the unanimous vote." Who can say that the wicked do not meet their deserts even in this world, and that the good are without their reward ? If the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times likes eating his own words ho must lately have had many feasts. The Times had but published the " dismal prospect" state ment a few days ago, when it was followed by this an nouncement from its correspondent :--" During the month of September the public debt increased $1,645,275 80c., and since January 1, 1868, there has been an increase of $1,575,307 33c. A large amount of money, some nine and a half millions, was paid out of the Treasury during Sep tember forinterest. The total sum in the Treasury on Oct. 1 was $110,257,841860. ($96,891,847 being in coin), as com pared with $107,641,971 98c. on September 1 ($92,570,901 in coin). During September the disbursements of the Go vernment wore $30,027,731, and were about one million less than the receipts. The gold in the Treasury, and also the total sum, show an increase. This exhibit is much more favourable than was anticipated, and has been grate fully received by the country, which has of late got into the habit of expecting only bad news from the Treasury. The secretary will have no interest to pay out during October, and as he anticipates less disbursements than during September, with quite as much revenue, it is be lieved that the next debt statement, on November 1, will shot , / a marked decrease in the total." It will be amusing to watch him floundering out of his other predictions. Part of the sea-wall at San Francisco is sliding out to sea, and we are not surprised at its betaking itself to the sea, as the Bulletin declares the city to be a lazar house, the small-pox having increased, and no precautions taken to check it. A new weekly paper, the Sentinel, has beenstarted at Worcester, Massachusetts, published by E. S. Gould. It is Republican in politics, and aims to be the special organ of the soldiers. The editors of the Williams' College Quarterly, chosen by the class of '7O for next yew:, are : Robert B. Hall of Ashfield, Arthur Robinson of North Adams, W. H. H. Hollister, jr., of Coxsacksio, N. Y. ; C. A. White of Wardsboro, Vt., and Robert G. Fitch of East Sheffield. The chief subjects before the annual meeting of the American Social Science Association at the old South Chapel, Boston, Wednesday, the 14th, were, besides the ordinary business routine, addresses in opening by Prof. W. B. Rogers, president; on "The Relations which Law holds to Social Science," by Judge Washburn ; on "Re cent Phases of Thought in Political Economy," by Prof. A. Perry of Williams College ; on " The Connection of Civilization with Health and Longevity," by Dr Edward Jarvis ; and on "Recent Educational Progress," by J. D. Philbrick. Two questions of great importance were to be brought before the meeting : the appointment of a general agent, with a salary and an office, which will fix the head quarters of the association ; and the limitation of the field heretofore assumed by the association, but soon to be en tered by a Western organization of kindred purposes. At Laramie City they have a live paper called the Frontier Index, 14 by 16 inches, which is published in a house on wheels, and keeps at the terminus of the rail road. The Spirit of the Times tells us " Fanny Janauschek has come back from Germany, where she has papered her drawing-rooms with Five-twenty Bonds, and has set seri ously to work to similarly adorn the rest of the house. The henchmen of Mayor Hoffman turned out in festival strength to welcome their gifted countrywoman, and the fair Fanny. had on the opening nights over sixteen hundred dollars, the largest receipts on that night of any theatre in the city. The circus is back in its old place on Fourteenth-street—horse, foot, and brass band. The Theatre Comique is as well patronised a s e v e r. Lingard has introduced new imitations; Alice Dunning wins hearts by her yellow hair and pretty face. Miss Susan Gallon and the Comic Opera Troupe, formerly al Wood's, are among the additional in ducements to spend money with Charley White. Law rence Barrett, having failed to find a leading lady disengaged to fill the position in the new Cali fornia theatre, of which be and ll'Cullough are lessees, sails to-day, October 10, for England, in quest of that very necessary personage, together with other talent. Jerome Ravel, with the " Great Leotard," has arrived in New York, and will soon present his acrobatic protegd to the public. The Bowery thinks it about time to revive the "Black Crook," and is doing a piece called the "Crim son Shield"—twenty coryphees, forty female warriors, and thirty corps de ballet. Zavitowsky directs the ballet. Harry Raynor, the Australian comedian, appears at the San Francisco Minstrels next Monday evening, Oct. 12. Professor Cronnell's Stereopticon at Irving Hall presents lovely views of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, and local views." George W. Jamieson, a well-known actor, was run over and instantly killed at Yonkers by the express train on the Hudson river road. He had been engaged to play a part in the new drama at Niblo's of "After Dark," wherein he was to save a friend from death by a coming train. General Pope has established the headquarters of the " Department of the North-west" at Milwaukie. Mr. J. W. Ewer, senior editor of the San Fran cisco Mining and Scientific Press, is on a visit East for his health. He will probably be absent for several months. Mr. William Schall has come to Europe to join the banking-house of Messrs. blarcaurd, Andre, and Co., of Paris. The firm of Messrs. Schall and Co., in New York, is succeeded by Messrs. A. Goettel and Co., of which Mr. W. Schall and his brother, Mr. Charles T. Schall, are made special partners. The Canadian delegates have arrived in Eng land, with a view to enter into nego3iations relative to the North-Western Territory. Professor Coleman, Professor of Natural Science in the Female High School of Louisville, Kentucky, was recently nearly blinded by nitric acid, while making ex periments in the presence of his class. None of . the class were injured. John 11. Young, of the New York, 7? ibune, has been left half a million of dollars by an uncle he had never seen, and seldom heard of, who died in the East Indies. Lion. Charles Fisher has been appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Now Brunswick, vacant by the elevation of Judge Wilmot as Governor of that Province. Prince Nicolaus of Nassau is about to visit the United States of America. The absence of the Prince from Europe, it is said, will bo for several months. Thomas Hansbrow, a much-respected citizen of California, died at Sacramento of paralysis, August 31. Ho was, in 1856, Superintendent of the San Francisco City Waterworks; in 1860 and 1861 a member of the Board of Supervision for the Second District • member of the Legislature in 1855-6, and represented the State of California by appointment of the Governor, at the World's Fair, in London. Mr. Hansbrow was Superintendent cf the machinery department at the State Fair of 1867. He was the inventor of " Hansbrow's Challenge Pump," " Hydrostatic Engine," " Amalgamating Pan," and other inventions suggested by the wants of the community. The President has appointed Jas. Barnes to be Commissioner to examine the entire road and telegraph lines of the Union Pacific Railroad, vice J. L. kVilliarns, resigned. Chief Justice Chase, who has lately been on a visit to his son-in-law at Rhode Island, is going South to hold Court. Baron Von Gerolt has officially announced that the States recently merged into the North German Con federation aro now represented by North German Con suls. M. Alfred Paul, the French Consul General at Havanuah, is dead. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, who was severely injured a few weeks ago, by the falling of a horse on which ho was riding, having on) of his legs fractured in three places, is rapidly recovering, and is now able to take out-door exercise every day. Mr. Z. Eastman, American Consul at Bristol, is at present at Chicago, where wo perceive his system of street rails is attracting attention. Thomas Ball, of Boston, the sculptor, intended to sail for Liverpool on the 15th, and on arrival at Florence will at once give his attention to the marble statue of John A. Andrew, which he hopes to complete in two years. The equestrian statue of Washington by Mr. Ball, now casting at Chicopee, will bo ready for dedication on the next Fourth of July. Judge Munson of the Montana territorial courts, accompanied by his wife, will probably spend the winter in Springfield, New Haven, and Washington. He reports Montana as not having gained much in population or mineral development within the last year, but holding sure and rich promise for the future. The salaries of the four professors and of the financial secretary of the Hartford Theological Institute have been placed at $2,500 each. Dennis C. Wilcox, of Meriden, Connecticut, has sold his home, near the State Reform School, together with the furniture and sixteen acres of land, to his brother, Horace C., for $90,000. Dennis has purchased a residence on Madison avenue, New York, for $lOO,OOO, where he will become the resident representative of the Meriden Britannia Company. A. P. Marble, formerly professor of mathematics in Wayland University, Wisconsin, has been appointed superintendent of schools at Worcester, Massachusetts, in place of Colonel Chonovath, resigned on account of ill health. The pay of the executors of the Pollock estate, at Pittsfield, who presented a bill of over $36,0u0 for their first year's services, has been fixed by thejudge of probate at $B,OOO or $2,000 each. A beautiful volume containing the resolution of thanks to George Peabody, adopted by Congress at the last session, has just been finished. The book is bound in blue morocco, tastefully paneled and gilt, with a splendid raised monogram of solid gold and silver on one of the panels. The covers are lined on the inside with watered silk, and opposite the title page is another neat monogram in colours. It does credit to the Government and to those who prepared it, and is to be forwarded to Mr. Peabody through the State Department. The senior class of William College ('69), Western Massachusetts, have held their class-day election, with the following result :—President, Henry C. Lowe of Day ton, Ohio; Orator. Horace H. Leavitt of Lowell; Poet, Rodney L. Tabor of San Francisco, California Ivl Orator, J. L. Ketchum, jun., of Indianapolis, Indiana; Library Orator Edward H. Cole of Nyack, New Yolk; Orator to the lower , Classes, James White of Godman chester, C. W. ; Historian, S. P. Winslow of Pittsford, Vermont ; Prophet, C. D. Howk of New Albany, Indiana; Marshals, Samuel Knox, jun., of St. Louis, Mobile, and H. S. Smith of Tioy, New York; Chairman of the Cora mitten of Arrangements, Avery L. Billings of Rutland? Vermont. Miss Harriet Hosmer, the artist, arrived at Lenox , Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, from a long Profes sional sojourn in Rome. J. Lothrop Motley, our recent Minister to Aus tria, is one of the lecturers in the Parker Fraternity course at Boston, and was to speak in the Music Hall ou t he evening of October 20 in behalf of Grant and Colfax. It was Wendell Phillips's evening, but he postponed lecture for one week in favour of Mr. Motley. The litter calls his subject The four great questions before the people." - - James D. Martin was found guilty on Thursday' Oct. 8, of defrauding th e Hid e an d L eat h er B an k and ? r , deceiving its officers, but no t gu ilt y on s i m il ar c harges:" regard to the Northampt on B an k, an d th a t one a t Angasft Maine. Judge Lowell's c h arge was very l ong , and tile ' jury were out an hour a n d a h a lf. Th e case w ill go to Supreme Court of the United States. t of William 11. Dail. the son o f M rs . C. H. Dal', ks Boston, reached San Fr a nci sco , S e pt ern b or 25 , f ro m Alas and British Columbia, with two thousand specimens for t the Smithsonian Institution a n d th e Chi cago Academy Sciences, including eggs, bird s , fi s h es , an d an i m als. I , Sir Roderick Murchison sa y s t h a t th e l e tters Dr. Kirk has received fro m D r . Li v i ngs t one we re writt en in October and December l as t a t M arangu and Caze rehe ' places which lie to the S. and S.S.W. o f Lake TanganY ik.'" Dr. Livingstone had bee n li v i ng d ur i ng th ree mon with friendly Arabs, and w a iti ng f or th e c l ose o f a nati v e war before proceeding on hi s wa y t o Ujiji , an d he told tb Arab messenger who took hi s l e tt ers t o D r. Ki r k that lift er exploring Lake Tanganyika he intended to return to Za n ; zibar. Sir R. Murchison thinks that weeks may el el3 l before we can know o f D r . Li v i ngs t one ' s arr i va l a t Zan „ bar, and that he may, indeed, b r i ng th e news himself: a t ' T enable his admiri ng coun t r y men t o g i ve him hen' welcome before Christmas. The Hon. Thurlow Weed, whose health, we regre t to say, is still delicate, an d hi s d aug ht er are a t Edward : Royal Hotel, George-street, Hanover-square. field , The family of Mr. B. K. Bliss, of Spring — ,ia have removed to New York for the winter. TheY - occupy the house of Mr. Decius Beebe, of North W, ham ham and New York, who, in turn, will occupy theirs in Springfield for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Abel D. 011 , n r d o r have sailed for Europe, and intend to winter in southern France on account of Mr. Chapin's health. '-'" e i va eldest son accompanies th em .—M rs . St oec kl, w ife of " c d, Russian Minister, and he r s i s t er , Mi ss F ann y flo sca t he formerly of Springfield, were to go in the same steamer/ Vile de Paris, on the 19th, and will winter in Rome. The Baltimore Commercial says ‘4 Artercl e : Ward's last joke was his will ; one of his executors sa,_ that he left no money to carry ou t th e p ro visions of dal will. After paying the expenses of his sickness and bun nothing is left. Artemus was flowing over with wit humour even in his last moments, and no doubt his si':;d was made partly to show what he wou ld have done !i' sr , his fnnd3 been sufficient to carry out his wishes:" can certify that he was coining money at the Egyptian" had Piccadilly, just before he died—that o n e o f his executors 0 the whole management of the entertainment, b u t that eo et the account Artemus Ward owed this newspaper has no t ?; been paid. We can a l so b ear t es ti mony to the fact the humorist lived i n a qu i e t, unpretending lotlgig'n3ers, if he expended m one y i n any way it was i n newsParnor With which his room was genera ll y l um b ere d. Even itb posing that he did not bring a penny to London vi and him, the charges to hear him were very high' g ar' dozens were turned away daily, so that a large,,, e 3s plus must have accru e d w hi c h hi s su b seque nt t"" fo r could not much have affected. It would be advisableisbs the executors to stop such scan d a l by a pl a i n , unvarn t to statement of the circumstances. W e w ou ld be the las the make any claim on the estate of Artemus Ward ha d ., to assets been in the state th e ex ecu t ors d es i r e the pub ll believe. But we know what we have stated to be can on and that our applic a ti o n h a s no t me t even the COi n civility of a reply from the executors. aos 0 0° A. T. Stewart's legal adviser is said to get Id ill a year. This information, we presume, was obts',l'ol consequence of the row at his store between Mrs. G'' ta tr• Mrs. Spinola. It appears th ese l a di es me t at that e s nd lishment, and, as one seemed to have a better under stn alt iug with the other's husband than with herself, the , sp s, was extremely unpleasant for everybody except, pe r " t bat for the injured lady. If women insist upon ma king do t great house the scene of th e i r con fli c t s , we ca nnot w ° " that the legal adviser of the firm is so liberally paid. gio l3 ' The Vermont Legislature began its annual Se e- no ll October 8, and both Houses p rom ptly an d harmen , ," si ers organized. In the Senate Henry Cl ar k, o f Rutlan" elected secretary ; Major Jam es S. P ec k, o f Moilt,,Pe„at assistant secretary; and Rev. D. C. R o b er ts, a , - o - rg e pelier, chaplain—all unani mous ly. I n th e H o use CI 0. W. Grandee, of Vergennes, was chosen speaker; n of Flagg, of Wilmington, clerk ; and Rev. Isaac APA I Va Montpelier, chaplain. Mr. Grandey received 195 To 11 for Waldo Bingham, Democrat, and 10 scattering' he s( The marble statue of Commodore Matt oo Colbraith Perry, unveiled at Newport, Rhode 'sla n r- Thursday, October Bth, is modelled from a bust and n ':, trait taken from life. The costume is intended to accurate representation of the naval uniform, the 43 701' being relieved by a military cloak thrown over the s h yre ders. It stands upon a granite pedestal, upon Wh ic ro lin e the simple inscription of the names of August and Ca' dat es S. Belmont as thepersonswhoerected the statue, th e e nd' of Perry's birth and death and his name , an d also the,' e 'e Its " Africa.lB43; Mexico,lB46; Treaty with Japan, 18°4. 0 6 ' cost was about $20,000. D r . Vi n t on, i n hi s a ddreSsc speaking of the kind of men who aro worthy of s ne coo ; inorials, gave an account of th e lif e an d serv ices c mender Perry, and more especially o f th e importsp e ge - his negotiations between the United States and JaPa n i i icb also treated at some length of the admi ra ble style in wt e the Commodore's reports were written, and said "As' attained it by a careful study of Addison. While 3 4 0 midshipmen were idle, he was buried deep in the of the Spectator or of the Tattler, some of which 1 3 .?., c 0rl mitted to me Dory, furnishing a rare example of culture in a seaman. A s tolh At the recent town cattle shows at Hubbar" st 's,S Massachusetts, the report of the committee on swirl e as follows: No swine to-day, not even one, We know not what it means ; We hope that those who slight these shows Will get no pork and beans! No swine to-day, oh what a pity— And five old mon on the committee. A condensed statement of thd number of e in the various departments of the Berkshire a ril , 1 00, fair recently held at Pittsfield is as follows :—Fr n w or o bread and butter 119, cheese 11, floral department 14roatic; of art 65, agricultural implements and mechanical P c tur e tions 41, vegetables and seeds 87, househo ld m anuts so iee 237, cattle 43, cows 90, bulls 23, herds 2, sheep 55 9 1 00 10, poultry 27, crops 314, orchards 14, fruit trees _, 14, dairies 3. THE BIBLE IN SPAIN. —The Honorary Segr oi e o t of the Financial Committee of the Edinburgh in th Evangelization Society, Mrs. R. Peddie, publishes ;as fr. Edinburgh Courant an adv er ti semen t so li c iting fi l ' - ‘ , O l the printing and circulation of the New Testaw' re d Spain. It states thai " General Prim has det s burg li Senor Cabrera, one of the agents of the B"`"oilet t Spanish Evangelization Society, an d o ther tvit',,„. th ey that they may enter Spain with their Bibles and arms to preach its doctrines." r [ADyERTISEMENT.] -Holloway's Ointment a nd -- i 0101 P,lO ° ill Throughout the year, whether summer heats or wintry ea if the atmosphere, these remedies are always applicable, effr never fail to reward those sufferers who give a trial to th:100.10, ciency. 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Important Caution.—Beware i t ) rfi unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to Whi, n authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audacious t Y pe., 5 1 4.13 10 In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. A All 0 12 lbs , 225 ; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALE ,4 % 01'0 0 . 4 CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For I't tt"„ 25., for 24 cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 cups at Gs., for 2 88 C T D ;ce,W., for 576 cups at 555. Being aoout one penny per cut up and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in Englan,% of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chenals"' MB. BROADHEAD IN PUBLIC. At a public meeting in the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, Mr. G. Austin moved, and Mr. Tyler seconded, a resolu tion in favour of the Trades Societies Bill. Mr. Broadhead rose to move an amendment. He was received with con• siderable cheering, which he acknowledged by saying that it made his heart glad to find that he was so remembered. He read his amendment, which was very long, and was to the effect that the proposed bill was incomplete and unsatis factory because it contained no powers to enforce arrears of contributions, which powers were required in Sheffield, as stated in evidence before the examiners, as providing a remedy for the evils exposed before the commission of inquiry. Mr. Broadhead protested that he came before that great assembly with as pure a heart and as thorough a desire to render service to trades unions as any man in existence ; and he should have been glad for any one else to have moved that amendment if he could have got any other man to do it. It was entirely his desire to do service that caused him to come there. Surely they had not passed the great phase they had in Sheffield to neglect the opportunity of repairing the wrongs and evils that had been committed when it presented itself to them. Three of the four candidates before the town had expressed themselves in favour of the recovery of arrears, and the fourth candidate (Mr. Hadfield) had not yet been seen on the subject ; and he besought them to let the question stand over until the trades committee which had been appointed had issued its report. Before Mr. Broadhead concluded his speech the meeting began to recover its senses, of which his unexpected appearance seemed to have deprived it, and hisses and other signs of disapproval began to be heard. Mr. Mitchell, who seconded the amendment, was not allowed to finish his speech, and when the amendment was put, only four hands were held up for it. One of these being seen to belong to Mr. Broadhead, a storm of hooting broke out. The resolution was then carried by the meeting en masse, and Mr. Broad head left the room, a continuous howl of execration cele brating his departure. LAW AND POLICE. RECENT LEGISLATION AND ITS EFFECT UPON THE SALE OF DOGS' MEAT.—A dealer in dogs' meat, who during the hearing of a summons at Bow-street Police-court was asked why he did not make a more liberal provision than six shillings weekly for the support of his wife, pleaded the great falling off in his business returns " in consequence of recent legislation." If matters went on at the present rate, his solicitor said, there would soon be no available market for horse flesh, unless the sausage makers, or the gentlemen who dined at the Lang ham Hotel, could create a sufficient demand. A GENTLEMEN'S QUARREL —Two gentlemen of the legal profession—the City Solicitor being the complainant, and Mr. De Castro, of Mortlake, the defendant—on Friday appeared at Wandsworth Police•court, in a case arising out of a dispute in a railway carriage. It bore upon the right to have one of the windows open or shut, alid in the course of the contention angry words were used, and Mr. Nelson, who had risen for the purpose of closing the window, was forced into his seat. The hearing was terminated by an explanation, and, at the sugges tion of the magistrate, an apology on the part of the defendant. SMUGGLING.—A heavy case of smuggling has been heard at the Southwark Police-court. A waterman's apprentice was convicted of having been unlawfully in possession of 2951 b. of foreign manufactured tobacco, the value of which, with the single duty, amounted to £76. A fine of £lOO, with the alternative of six months' imprisonment, was inflicted. The death is announced of General Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas. The gallant officer entered the Indian Service in 1805, and has since served in the Bengal Presi dency. He was elevated to the rank of General in 1865 and in the same year was created a Knight Commander of the Bath. He died on the 18th instant, at Stonebyres Lanarkshire. Salvator Taglioni, uncle of the celebrated danseuse, has just died at Naples, aged 78. He composed more than 200 ballads, the most remarkable of which aro his " Esme ralda" and "Faust." During the disorders in Italy, in 1848, Taglioni, who was a great friend of the King, was taken by the insurgents and shot. He, however, survived in spite of fourteen wounds which he bad received. From inquiries which were made yesterday morn ing, it has been ascertained that the health of the Arch b shop of Canterbury has gradually though slowly improved, and that it is hoped he will be able to resume the active duties of his episcopate in the course of a few days. Ilia lordship was to have held a visitation of the clergy of the diocese in the course of the autumn, but that intention his grace will not be able to carry out. The death was announced yesterday of the Lady Adino Fane, second daughter of the sixth Earl Cowper and granddaughter of Viscountess Palmerston. Her ladyship was born in 1843, and was married in 1866 to the Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane, second Earl of Westmoreland, who has been Attache at Berlin and Vienna, Secretary of Legation at Vienna and St. Petersburg, and Secretary to the Embassy at Pais since 1866. THE " GAZETTE."—SeveraI appointments already announced appear in the Gazette. Mr. J. S. Lumley is gazetted Envoy Extraordinary to the King of the Belgians ; Mr. A. G. Bonar succeeds Mr. Lumley as Minister to the Swiss Confederation ; and the Hon. E. H. Lytton is appointed Secretary to the Embassy at Vienna, in succes sion to Mr. Bonar. The appointment of Dr. Manse' to the deanery of St. Paul's is gazetted at the same time. THE DIOCESE OF NATAL. —The Rev. W. H. G. Lloyd, the senior clergyman of the Church of England in Natal, having read in the Church Times that the seaport of Durban is without a resident clergyman, writes that he is still alive and still resides at Durban, adding : " Though I begin to feel the weight of advancing years, yet I hope to be prepared to resist to the uttermost the attempt of the Bishop of Capetown to violate the order of our Church in which he still holds office under her Majesty, by intro ducing a schismatical bishop and a body of schismatical clergy into his diocese." A POACHER OFFERING TO "WORK OUT " HIS FINE.—At the County Hall, Lewes, before G. Molineux and B. Godlee, Esqrs., Thomas alias " Totsey " Newn ham, a notorious poacher, has been charged with snaring a pheasant. Defendant said he had not been right for the last two months, and could not help going after a pheasant. He was fined £l, and £1 10s. 3d. costs ; in default, six weeks' hard labour. " Totsey," upon hearing his sentence, very coolly remarked that if lie was allowed " one night" he would be able to pay. The magistrates, however, could not see this, and sent him to prison. UI7II.DER MADE EASY.—A ghastly scientific ate covery is reported from Turin, where Professor Casturani, the celebrated oculist, has, it would appear, found a way of killing animals by forcing air into their eyes, within the space of a few seconds, and, it is thought, almost without causing them any pain. Experiments were made at the Royal Veterinary School, and it is said that they have fully proved the truth of the professor's invention. Within the apace of a few minutes, four rabbits, three dogs, and:a goat were killed in this manner. The most remarkable thing about this " killing made easy" is the fact that it leaves absolutely no outward trace, and it can be as easily applied to men as to animals ; if so, it is to be hoped the method b_ . 49t easy of application, Births. P of iCi FABMER—On the 21st lust . , at Blackheath, the ifif° Captain Farm er , 11. A., of a son. tii e RENDEL—On the 24st inst., at 45, Lancaster-ga te ' of Stuart Rendel, E sq ., o f a daughter. Marriages. , 0 , v • Or THOMSON—BAKER On the 22d inst., at St. Gee A re lP t i) ft over-square, Alexander Thomson, Esq., of N e e 13v e street, to Mary, youngest daughter of Georg- 94, Esq., of Upper Clapton, Middlesex. SteP ll , l l ;' WALKER —Woon —On the 20th inst., at St. ~,o t al",ta Westbourne-park, Leslie John, thirds ,n of ntie' C. F.Walker, R.N., to Helen, second daughter ° f Wm. Chas. Wood, Esq. • Deaths. aid VI ` ' llill ' BUTLER —On the 21st inst., at Margate, Williare a Butler, Esq., of Savage-gardens, Tower-hill, 511 0 1P side, Balharn-hill, aged 43. f N IT ' DRY —On the 22d inst., at Oxford, Ann, wife ° 0, Dry, Esq., of Beaumont-street. s *'s ° EVANS—On the 21st inst., at Norwich, Charle occe a Esq., dl barrister-at-law, and Chancellor of t he oe it' - 7g... . DO LANGFORD —On the 22d inst., at 9, The Aven -,., el r e park, Blackheath, Sarah Langford, aged 88. v oir9 WHITELocx—On the 19th inst., at 22, Upper -pl'" Al f ' place, Kensington, William E. Whitelock, '- 68. o$ t, or 1. 1 London : Printed and Published by WILMA-Al It go 0 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tar SON On lcl 'opt o Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e blidcllega t —_-W,turday, October 24, 1868 Al bolt abl ( For F lee fie t i witt , 9 le sE W e , bi t , est,