The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Timex has no wish to represent the attack on a Greek blockader runner by Hobart Yasna as a very unto ward event, or to forebode serious Eastern difficulties as the sequel of it. Indeed, so far as we can judge at present, it may have a permanently pacific tendency. These two cannon shots may quicken diplomatic action, and spew the protectors of Greece their responsibilites. A good many illusions may be dissipated by the energetic action of the Turkish commander. The first of these will be that the Porte has no will of its own, and that it will content itself with remonstrating to the last, sending its ironclads to cruise lazily in the Arthi pelago, the imbecile representatives of a naval power which it is afraid to exert. It will now be seen whether the Greeks are able to maintain the conflict they have challenged. Of their maritime skill and enterprise there can be no doubt, and the islands furnish sailors whom no one will accuse of want either of courage or skill. But the little sailing vessels of the Levant trade, and the half dozen steamers which the Greeks might bring together to support them, are not likely to be a match for the navy of an empire which still reckons great resources in men and ships. In fact, Turkey has been preparing ships and guns and all the means of naval warfare for years, and though the fleet may have been purchased by an outlay out of proportion to the revenue of the empire, still here it is, ready to maintain the Sultan's claims, and Greece has nothing which can be opposed to it. Another illu sion which will probably pass away within the next few days is, that Greece will find active support from some continental Power, and especially from her great Northern ally, in resisting the Porte by force. We believe the opinion of Europe is so settled on this subject, that even if Russia were inclined to encourage the Hellene aggressions she would be compelled to desist by the strong opposition of the other Powers. The Greeks have, indeed, tried the patience of the world too far. There has been every wish to deal generously with them, and it need not be said that their cause, so far as it is really that of the Christians of Turkey, has the sympathy of the most enlightened minds and the most noble hearts in every country of the world. But, Philhellenes as we may be, we will not be made accessories to the stirring up of civil war in a friendly State. Strongly as appearances justify the belief that the advice and assurances of Russia, and perhaps of Prussia, are not entirely foreign to the otherwise reckless determination of the Greek Government, the Herald cannot believe that either of these Powers can have deliberately sought to create a conflagration in the East. For we must assume that if Russia and Prussia have advised Greece to force Turkey into a war, they have undertaken to sustain it, and that, whatever may be the desire of the Western Powers to avoid a war, will infallibly provoke a general one. Austria cannot possibly look on whilst the Turkish Empire is being broken up by Russia and Prussia, and France can hardly hold aloof from the fray longer than Austria. So we shall assume, until we have evidence to the contrary, that the Greek Government has acted under no promises of support from Russia or Prussia, but has followed its own devices in defying Turkey. If that be the case we entertain little doubt, as we have said, that it will not venture to turn a rupture of diplomatic relations into war, but will soon find itself compelled to offer to Turkey the satisfaction it has now refused. If, however, we should be deceived in this anticipation, if the war which Greece has done enough to provoke should break out,we trust that the Great Powers will not attempt to make up for their weak conduct towards Greece by bullying Turkey. It was in their power to have compelled Greece, which only lives by their protec tion, to fulfil its duties a neutral Power. It will be a scandal and a sin, the punishment of which will fall in large part upon them, if they should intervene to secure Greece immunity for misconduct which they have themselves reprobated, and give it a glorious triumph for disregarding all its international duties and their counsels. The Daily News holds that in her demands Turkey is strictly within the limits of her legal rights ; and Greece, unfortunately for herself and for the race of which she is the champion, has not, during the forty years of her national existence, acquired the title to appeal to that higher law which sometimes justifies the violation of ordi nary rules. The kingdom of Hellas is not the Piedmont or the Prussia of the Eastern peninsula. The sympathy of Western Europe cannot be given unreservedly either to Greece or to Turkey. Neither seems to have within itsel° the germs of a healthy development, or to be the nucleus of a new organisation of the East. The great Christian Powers will probably feel that their proper atti tude is one of neutrality. The turbulence of Greece repels sympathy almost as much as the decrepitude of Turkey. If the apprehended struggle clears the ground for a more worthy occupant than either of the contending Powers, some negative good will at least be done. It is not probable that England, under an Administration of which Mr. Gladstone is the chief, and of which Mr. Bright is an important member, will be tempted by old Foreign ° (lice traditions either into armed meddling or into scarcely less dangerous diplomatic muddling. The Post observes that though Greece may possibly think that the European Powers will interpose to prevent Turkey from crushing her, this idea must, if acted on, lead to results disastrous to Greece. In the first place, Turkey is very well able to vindicate her rights, and in the next place any attempt to overawe her would at once call into existence a coalition quite as powerful as that which fifteen years ago protected her from Russia. We must wait some days, if not longer, before we are made acquainted with the language addressed to the Hellenic Government by the pro tecting Powers, although there can be no doubt about its purport. Even now it is not too late to avert the threatened disturbance of the peace of Europe, and it is to he hoped that the representatives of the Great Powers at Athens will give the Government of King George dis- tinctly to understand that in the event of a war with Turkey they must not rely on the assistance of States whose sole intention was to maintain the independence of Greece. The Standard says the significance of the present bold attitude of Greece consists in this, that it is assumed in the teeth of the joint attempts at mediation made by the protecting Powers—by Russia, as well as by France and by England—joined on this occasion, as we learn from the semi-official press of Berlin, by Prussia. Now it is clear that Greece, single-banded, has no possible hope of over coming a Power like Turkey. No one believes for a moment that the Hellenes, with all their high aspirations and their fine sentiments, would be able to sustain, of their own resources, a war with Turkey. They never have been a match in the field for the Turks, even man to man. They certainly have not increased in mili tary prowess since the days of the war of liberation. They are no better able to maintain themselves, as an independent Power, against the Sultan, than they were able to win their independence against the Sultan's prede cessors. They have neither army nor navy--neither money nor arms—neither credit nor spirit. Pitted against Turkey, in a fair field, there cannot be a doubt but that the smaller and weaker nation must go down, unless sustained by some friendly arm. How, then, have the Hellenes dared to provoke this quarrel with Turkey ? What are the chances on which they have relied to help them out of the consequences of their foolhardiness ? A war between Greece and Turkey is simply ludicrous. If the combatants are left alone there can be but one issue. But it is impos sible to believe that Greece accepts the challenge on her own account solely—that she relies upon the intrinsic might of the Hellenes to conquer in the struggle. There must be an impression, more or less distinct, in the Hellenic mind, that Greece is not to be left to fight Turkey singly ; that some superior Power will watch over her, and keep her from harm in the end, even if it does not aid her actively in the battle. The Telegraph notes that recent scientific observations — and every observation taken by those interested in the welfare and safety of our collieries is nothing if it is not scientific—have proved that certain conditions of the atmoshere forerun and foretell certain exceptional liabilities to calamity. The coincidence may not be m omentaneous—the abnormal state of the outer air may not be followed for days by the exceptionally perilous character of the air in the pit. But it is as certain as anything need be for our guidance where the saving of human life is concerned, that when the pressure of the atmosphere, as indicated by the barometer, is low, it is urgently necessary to send down the pit a greater body of air, in order that the light and noxious vapours of the coal may not overpower the atmosphere or the pit, and rush up into fatal combustion. Several days before the deplorable explosion near Wigan, Mr. Negretti gave a public warning which should have put managers everywhere on their guard ; and the consequence of insuf ficient attention at llindley-green pit to the atmospheric c.nditions has served to show that predictions of danger in the mine may be given with practically as much trustworthiness as predictions of storm upon the main. If that is not the case, the scientific men whose duty it is to investigate such matters—and who are, in fact, paid by the State for that work--should make thorough examination, and set at rest any public suspicion cf laxity and indifference to the safety of our poor miners. If, on the contrary, a distinct relation between certain atmospheric states and certain colliery risks can be clearly established, it is not less the business of the public servants to make science available in mining as in other branches of industry—and thus to prevent a useless sacrifice of lives which often lies heavy on our hearts and consciences at this season of bright fires and bright faces. The late Mr. John Bairstow, a wealthy cotton Fpinner, of Preston, bequeathed the bulk of his largo for. tune to religious and ch aritable purposes. Th e aggrega t o mount of the bequests is about £lOO,OOO. IMPORTANT TO TRADES' UIdIOZ;49. . man named William Blackburn, a bricklayer, treasurer tc an operative bricklayers' lodge in Shoreditcb, was on Thurs day charged with stealing .£l7 3s. Oid., the moneys of Joseph Derry and others, members of the lodge. The prisoner had been treasurer from December, last year, to June 27th of the present year, when the deficiency was disco vered. He admitted that he had appropriated some part of the amount, and lost the remainder, and he promised to make good the amount, but he absconded on the follow ing day, and was not apprehended for a few months. Vha question was whether the offence was committed before or after the passing of Mr. Russell Gurney's Act " to amend the law relating to larceny and embezzlement." The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. IMPORTANT PROSECUTION BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. Charles Marsh, police-constable, 462 N, was on Thursday charged before Mr. Cooke, at the instance of the Com missioner of the Metropolitan Police, with having been guilty of neglect of duty as a police-constable of the metro politan police in not patrolling his beat for three hours and forty minutes on. the morning of the 14th inst., whereby a burglary was effected thereon at the parish of Islington. The case was proved by the evidence of other constables. Inspector Taylor, N division,having remarked that these proceedings were instituted by order of Captain Harris, said that if the beat had been properly worked by the defendant, a burglary which was committed in Union square would have been prevented. The defendant's plea was that he had to work three beats instead of two and a half, and that he had been mistaken in the time. Mr. Cooke said the case was very satisfactorily proved, and he therefore sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of £5, or to be imprisoned for a month, adding that this was probably not the worst part of the punishment the defendant would receive, as he supposed that after his conviction he would be discharged. A ROMANTIC BANKRUPTCY CASE. At the Taunton County Court, Miss Catherine Govier, dressmaker, North-town, Taunton, a bankrupt, came up for the last examination and discharge. The bankrupt was engaged to be married to a young man in India, and some time since he sent her a considerable sum of money to proceed to India to be married to him. A portion of the money she spent in purchasing an outfit becoming a lady about to be married, and gave up her business. Just as she was about to leave this country she received a letter from her lover stating that he had changed his mind, that he should not marry her, and therefore it would be useless for her to think of coming to India. To make matters worse, he wrote to his friends in England and gave them the money he had sent to Miss Govier. She refused to give it up, and they brought an action for its recovery at the last Wells Assizes. The verdict passed against her, the learned judge who tried the cause ob serving that she had good grounds for breach of promise of marriage against her gay deceiver. The cost of defending the action amounted to £5O, and this, together with the loss of £2O she had lent her father, who had since become bankrupt, had entirely ruined her. There was no opposition, and his Honour granted the bankrupt her dis charge. THE MURDER NEAR WIGAN. The murderer of Annie Houghton is still at large. The description which the police have been able to obtain of the perpetrator of the foul deed is manifestly so indefinite that their immediate success in their search could hardly be looked for. One difficulty under which they laboured has been promptly removed by Mr. Superintendent Ellison. This arose from the fact that the tragedy was committed only a few score yards from the boundary between North and South Lancashire ; the murder was committed in the Wigan police division, which is in the southern half of the county, and the bulk of the popula tion in the district live on the other bank of the Douglas, which is under the charge of the police in the northern division. On Thursday Mr. Ellison despatched a message to Chorley, and the services of Inspector Barker, who formerly was stationed in the district, were promptly placed at his disposal, and he is now assisting Inspec tor Dickenson in the task of discovering the mur derer. It was at first a general belief that the crime had been committed by a madman, but it is now pretty plain that the murderer visited the house in the hope of obtaining valuable booty. In his capacity of farm bailiff Houghton frequently paid small sums of money to the labourers employed on the farm, and therefore he had some loose cash in the house, the amount 4,1 f which may have been magnified by report. From the hour at which the murderer visited the place it is clear he must have been some one acquainted with the habits of the family, while it is also thought probable that Houghton has been seen to take money from the chest of drawers which was the first object of the murderer's attention. In the struggle in the kitchen, a lamp which stood on the table was knocked over, and the partly hidden staircase may nut have been noticed in the dim light from the fire. When the parents left the house the children locked the door, as they were ordered ; but when the fellow approached the doorway it was open, as the deceased had just been out to fetch some coals. The dear girl has three fearful wounds on her head—one over the right eye, another in the centre of the forehead, and a third at the back of the skull. Apparently any one of these would prove fatal. The sister, Kate is progressing favourably. LAW AND POLICE. LUNATICS.—Another action for illegal detention in a lunatic asylum has been commenced in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff is a gentleman resident at Padbury, in Bucks, and he sued his brother-in-law, one Mr. Glennie, and a policeman named Rae, for damages, for having seized him and carried him off to a private lunatic asylum at Peckham, where he remained from the 3rd July to the Ist October. MEEICAL TREATMENT.—Mr. Popplewell, a surgeon, practising at Mile-end, has surrendered at the Old Bailey to take his trial for the manslaughter of Hannah Clifford. The deceased was a married woman, about thirty years of age, the wife of an eating-house keeper in Bethnal-green road. She was confined on the 13th of November, and the allegation on the part of the prosecution was that the de fendant, who was called in to attend her, had, by grossly unskilful and improper treatment, caused her death. The defence was that there was no such negligence as was imputed to the defendant in the transaction, and that the fatal result was solely owing to accident. He Ws acquitted. FRAIID.—An important case has been for some days in course of hearing at the Lambeth Police-court. The accused is a man named Synnett, and the charge is that he has received several sums on a policy of an assurance com pany which, it was stated, was now being wound up in Chancery. The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial, saying that he considered the case one of the utmost importance. THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION INQvims.—With reference to these inquiries it may be mentioned that the petitioners having lodged the £l,OOO required by Act of Parliament, or security for that amount, are bound to pro secute the inquiry unless a special application is made to a judge at chambers, who has then power to determine whether the inquiry should proceed or not, and upon that decision the reimbursement of any part of the £l,OOO depends. STRANGULATION EXTRAORDINARY. —A man of the name of M'Cunningliam has been found dead within about thirty perches of his own house, near Castlepollard. The deceased, in company with another man, left Castle pollard about ten o'clock on Saturday night for the purpose of stealing potatoes, and returning home the deceased left his companions and went towards his place of residence, and in coming to a gate which was open and had a paling on one side, he rested his sack on the paling, which slipped of! and the cord by which he carried the sack got about his neck and choked him. Verdict " Accidental strangulation." PENNY POSTAGE TO AMERICA.— We are glad to learn that the advocates of a cheaper postal service between this country and the United States are endeavouring to carry out a much-needed reform. A petition in favour of the reduction of the rate of postage to one penny on letters sent across the Atlantic may at first seem rather an Uto pian document. It is, however, anything but that. Mr. Hadfield, the member for Sheffield, is taking a great inte rest in the proposed measure; the petition is being nume rously signed; and amongst the signatures, we are assured, those of a large number of members of the House of Com mons are already to be seen. —Dundee Advertiser. Within the last few days, while her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family were at Windsor Castle, the magnificent bell captured at the siege of Sebastopol by the Allies, and presented to the Queen, has been hung in the round tower or " keep " of the Castle. The hell bears the inscription "Sevastopol, Nicolas Sanctus. Weight 54.5 ponds" (17 cwt. 1 qr. 211b5.) Upon its arrival at Windsor it was placed upon the north terrace, where it remained for some time. It has now been hung in the shaft of the staircase leading to the top of the Round Tower. Its precise position is just over the steps which lead from the landing near the cannon to the apartments in the centre of the tower. The bell has a rich and very musical tone, and from its elevated position (just above the lower battlements of the tower) will, when sounded, be heard for some distance round Windsor Castle, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. of terms, the latter would not the less make common cause with Austria incase another war should break out between the two German states. The North German Gazette tartly responds that Hungary owes its independence to Prussia, and that the latter Power is now the only safeguard against the centralising aspirations of the Austrians. On whatever side may be the right of this quarrel, the efforts of the Prussians to break up its newly consolidated neigh- bour are as discreditable as the action of the Greeks tlandia. ITALY. I.OIIDILYTTELTON ON NEW ZEALAND. In the course of an address at Stourbridge, Lord Lyttelton gave some interesting information on social and political affairs in New Zealand. His lord ship, who made an expedition to the colony during the present year, has arrived at the conclusion that much of the political difficulty in which the New Zealanders are involved arises from their defective system of government. Local and divided authority, and the want of centralised political action, are the great obstacles to the pros perity of the islands. In the early days of the colony, the imperfect means of communication and thepaucity of the English population rendered it necessary that each settlement should have its separate government. But with the progress of population and inter-com munication, it would be a sign of weakness rather than strength that such independence should continue in a country of less size than Great Britain. There could be little doubt that the ultimate aim of New Zealand statesmen, now generally stated (for the details would require the most careful adjustment), should be the establishment of a strong central government surrounded by municipalities. Alluding to the extraordinary prevalence of drunkenness in the colony, Lord Lyttelton expressed his belief that it resulted in many cases of insanity. ITV, SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1868. An imposing funeral ceremony in honour of Rossini was held at Florence on Monday. The Ministers were present, besides a large number of members of Parliament, foreign ambas , ; dors, councillors of F a..e, civil, municipal, and marine authorities, and an immense concourse of the populace. MILITARY PRISONS. Sir Charles Trevelyan writes to the Times to recommend a change in our military system, and founds his recommendation upon the annual reports of the Inspector-General of Military Prisons. It appears there, from causes of drunkenness, desertion, and vice generally, that some soldiers spend most of their time in military prisons. There is a large increase of commitments of men between seven and fourteen years' service, and this upon a diminished force; whereas since 1863, there has been a progressive decrease of commitments of men under seven years' service. Sir Charles accounts for this result in this way. At first the young soldier is suffi ciently occupied in feeling his way in his new scene of life, and qualifying himself for his professional duties, which have become more scientific since the introduction of arms of rapidity and precision ; but the time sooner or later arrives when he has nothing more to learn, and he then begins to suffer from the impossibility of gratifying two feelings which are the mainsprings of this period of life. One is a desire to better his " condition," and the other a desire to marry. By reducing the term of the soldier's service, and opening to him the promotion of the army, the administrative departments of the army and the civil service, the soldier would be placed in the natural condition of hopefulness which supports the health of mind and body of other men, and the military profession would be made so attractive to all classes of our population that an abundant supply of recruits of good character would be forthcoming. MILITARY EXPENDITURE. A correspondent of the Times ridicules the present elaborate system of army returns. Every month we are suffocated with an amount of elaborate informa tion, even including the number and character of religious books in the possession of each soldier. Once every six months would suffice for this. Huge mistakes are continually made in these returns, and never discovered. The present tendency is to overdo the system of concentration a system which within honourable limits will work well enough, but may be carried to ridiculous extremes, making work where there ought to be none, and leading in the end to nobody feeling any responsibility. If a return is wrong, no one is any the wiser. Everyone thinks that somebody else has checked, or will check it ; consequently, the chances are that nobody checks it, and everybody is con tented. There are not wanting signs of a coming war against red tape. Welcome, then, to the pioneers of the expedition. NEWSPAPERS AND TIII: POST OFFICE. Mr. A. S. Page, of King's Lynn, writes to the Times upon the subject of the restrictions upon the circulation of newspapers caused by existing post office regulations, and he recommends Lord Harting ton to signalise his administration by a reform. Mr. Page, though a country newspaper proprietor, does not wish to give the Post Office increased labour without a corresponding increase of revenue ; but he thinks there is, at least, one restriction which might be abolished. A rural post man is allowed to carry other parcels, but not newspaper parcels, the idea being that the revenue would suffer were such permission given. That idea was right enough when all papers had to be stamped, but when the circulation of unstamped papers is so great, there is not the least ground for supposing that papers which publishers would send by rural postmen are sent through the post. They have to be got to the subscribers' hands by means of carriers' or bakers' carts, or they are sent to the nearest railway station. Mr. Page says : " I would allow rural postmen (a hard-worked and a badly-paid class) to be newspaper agents to carry papers to any customers they could find on their beats, and to pocket any little commission they could make by such transactions. Perhaps I may be allowed to notice one other fact, and this is, that while the Post Oilice charges one penny for the transmission of a news paper, the railway companies (or some of them I know) issue halfpenny stamps for a single paper to any station, without regard to distance." The example of America we might follow with advantage for this i nstance,w here the facilities are unusually great, and the results satisfactory. The establishment of our own penny post is another argument to shew that reduced postage is more than compensated by increased circulation. A SEVERE JUDGE. The criminal who appears before Baron Bramwell is an unlucky man ; the community which has its criminals tried by that judge is equally lucky. The other day, at Worcester, a man was indicted for shooting with intent to murder. A dispute having arisen between the prisoner and his landlord about the settlement of his bill, the prisoner fired a pistol in his landlord's face, severely injuring him. The wounded man is now out of danger. The prisoner's defence was to impute an improper intimacy between his wife and the other man. This was not proved. Had it been, the judge held that it would have added proof of his murderous intention. Prisoner received an excellent character. The jury, thinking " the quality of mercy is not strained," recommended its application to the man. Baron Bramwell took no heed, but sentenced him to penal servitude for life. A strange contrast this to a case tried at Taunton lately. A man came home at night in a state of intoxication, and was heard to quarrel with his wife. Next day she was found severely injured about the face, and although she rallied for a time, she suc cumbed to concussion of the brain and apoplexy. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. After all, the sharpest Justice is the most merciful to the com munity at• large. There are enough unknown murderers amongst us without loosing those caught red-handed. THE REPRESSION OF CRIME. The repression of crime bids fair to be one of the most prominent subjects of the ensuing session. The morning papers give up a considerable portion of their space to correspondence on this subject. Mr. T. L. B. Baker, of Hardwick Court, Gloucester, writing to the Tim es, proposes five measures in order to deal with our criminals. Two of these are identical with those which Sir Walter Crofton recommended at the deputation to the Home Secretary on Monday—viz., a central office and register in London, in com munication with the provincial police, so that a ticket-of-leave holder might be traced from counter to county ; and police supervision of habitual offenders, so that those who had been twice convictee, of felony, might be brought before any magistrate and have thrown on him the onus of proving that he is earning an honest livelihood. The other measures recommended by Mr. Baker are—that it should bzi left to the judge to direct what portion of the penal servitude sentence should be necessarily passed in priso: , leaving the convict, by hard work and good condiA, to gain his license as soon after that term as he can ; that remissions of license to prisoners in common gaols should be granted, so as to keep a long hold on twice-convicted prisoners ; and lastly, that the reformatory system should be extended to adult house and a small farm being accepted as a prison. HUNGARY. Notwithstanding the great social progress of the Hungarians, brigandage is still carried on in their territory to such an extent that the royal post refuses to carry articles of value on account of the insecurity of the routes. Trains are frequently stopped by tearing up the rails. The New Free Press recommends this crying evil to the atten• tion of Government. Bad administration, defective education, and the isolation of dwellings, all contribute to foster this social plague THE NEW POOR-LAW INSPECTOR. Almost the last official act of the Earl of Devon as President of the Poor-law Board was to appoint Mr. Henry Longley Poor-law Inspector in place of Mr. Gulson, who has resigned. Mr. Longley is the son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury. MR. COBDEN'S LETTER. Mr. F. Milnes Edge writes to the Star to say that the letter written by the late Richard Cobden upon the subject of the Alabama depradations, which has recently appeared in the newspapers, was addressed to him. He did not authorise the publication of it, and is at a loss to know how the editor of the Boston Advertiser obtained possession of a copy. The original is in Mr. Edge's possession. The letter is certainly not addressed to an American friend, as stated in the Boston Advertiser, for, says Mr. Edge, " however strongly Mr. Cobden felt in regard to our short - sighted policy as a nation during the American war—and his conversations with me were far more emphatic than his correspon dence—he would, as an Englishman, have adopted a widely different tone when discussing the question with an American." Unless Mr. Cobden retained a copy of this letter, and his executors have parted with this copy, the only conclusion for Mr. Edge is that he has a spy in his confidence. RELEASE OF SIR. CULLING EARDLF.Y. Sir Culling Dudley, Bart., who in January last was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for bigamy, has been released, through the influence of the late Government. For some time past his state of health was such that the medical authorities of the House of Detention ordered his removal to the infirmary. Representa tions on the highest authority having been made to the late Home Secretary to the effect that unless he were released his illness would probably terminate fatally, a free pardon was granted by the Crown, subject, it is understood, to the proviso that until the expiration of the original sentence Sir Culling shall absent himself from England. In accordance with this stipulation he has already left for Madeira. THE S.P.C.X. It is not to be wondered at if a meeting which broke up in such " admired disorder " as that of the late S.P.C.K. meeting should cause some dissatisfac tion and dispute. The irrepressible Archdeacon of Taunton has written to the secretaries to complain, as one of the tellers, that there were nine boxes for collecting the " Noes," and eight only for the " Ayes." He hears that it was very difficult to obtain access to the " Ayes" box. After the contents of the boxes had been entered a tenth box of " Noes" was added to the column of votes. He believes that if the votes of all who attended or tried to attend the meeting for the purpose of voting had been collected, the amendment would have been carried by a considerable majority. He also thinks that some members voted under a mistake. He gives notice that he will propose the introduction of voting papers in future. A secretary replies to Archdeacon Denison that an equal number of boxes were provided, though only seven were used on one side, in consequence of the crush, and that some members who were unable to record their votes by the boxes came up to the table afterwards and voted. A sub-committee is to be appointed to consider the expediency of introducing voting papers. It is too late now to remedy any mistake which may have occurred. The room at the London Tavern was much too small for the number, especially as that number, though chiefly clergymen, signalised themselves by conduct little less violent than " free and independent electors " on nomination day, or a body of " Nottingham lambs," THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROBLEM. The Times has a second leader upon the disesta blishment of the Irish Church, and promises a third. Mr. Bright's scheme for calling together a general assembly at Dublin, to determine the future consti tution of the Church, is declared to be full of insu perable difficulties. It is the Imperial Government and the united Parliament which must undertake the labour, with such light respecting the wishes of Irish Churchmen as is forthcoming. There is no reason to suppose that Irish Churchmen desire a change in the articles cf..C' liturgical forms of the Church; therefore it would be easy enough " to vest the reserved ecclesiastical property of Ireland in com missioners for the common worship of the congre gations attending the Episcopal Churches according to the liturgies prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer of the English Church, and for the edification of such congregations in the doctrines defined by the arti cles and formularies of the Lnglish Church. If in after times events should arise to inspire . Irish Chu rc h men with a desire for a change - 4 they should think the old truths insufficient (:)r incomplet e , th e y wou ld have but to ask and obtain their fre e d om ; b u t th e duty of the English Legislature at this j unc t ure i s t o consult Irish opinion as it exists, and not to shrink from defining the doctrines and worship of the disestablished Church of Ireland by reference to the Established Church of England, if such be the desire of Irish Churchmen." The Times adds : " The Establishment will be disendowed. Its clergy will be reduced to the rank of their fellow priests and bishops of other communions, and the Imperial Legislature will have achieved a great act of justice both to the Irish nation in what it shall have taken away, and to Irish Churchmen by the guarantees of order and respect for their wishes it will have maintained." FOREIGN NOTES. TURKEY AND GREECE. The enthusiasm of the Greek populace in favour of war is the most unfavourable symptom of the dispute between Turkey and Greece. They are disposed to forget all the evils of the inefficient government they have suffered so long, and are ready to encounter the disasters of war, pro vided they are led on au expedition which holds out some hope of extending their dominion. A war must be the ruin of many of their countrymen, for the number of Greeks who live under Turkish rule is very considerable, being not less than a quarter of a million. In Constanti nople there are 27,000 Greeks, in Smyrna 18,000. Further, notwithstanding the enmity between the two countries, each carries on more trade with the other than with any other State. Two-thirds of the whole mercantile marine of Greece is engaged in commerce with Turkey. Next to Turkish vessels them selves, the coasters under Greek colours are the most numerous in Turkish ports. What do the Greeks hope to gain to compensate for the loss of this trade? It is all but impossible, too, that they can succeed in a war unless they have aid from other quarters. Whilst the Greek forces of all arms do not number more than 20,000, the Turkish army on a peace footing consists of 148,000 regular troops, besides very numerous irregulars and auxiliaries. Nevertheless, the smaller State seems bent upon an appeal to the sword. The arrival of 1,000 veltw4eers in Crete, which is announced by telegraph, is almost equivalenk to a declara tion of war. Greece has one powerful argthnent in its favour. As the Temps points out, it can suffer no loss of territory by its temerity, for although it may not be desi rable that Turkey should be broken up, the Powers would never tolerate Ottoman aggrandisement. In France the general belief is that peace will yet be preserved. Most of the official journals still rely upon diplomatic interference to prevent war. As Greece is a protected State, being taken after the battle of Navarino under the guardianship of England, France, and Russia, those Powers are justified in exercising greater pressure than would be possible in the case of a State wholly independent. The Independance Belge says that the recall of the ambassador was brought about by a communication which the Greek Government sent in reply to the Turkish ultimatum. This reply conceded many of the demands of the Porte, but it was so offensively worded that the Ottoman Government at once ordered its representative to leave Athens. The Belgian paper, how ever, believes that a war will not ensue from a m ere formality. If the two States can agree about the substance, they ought not to quarrel about the shadow. At the time of the Crimean war, Greece was prevented from attacking Turkey only by the occupation of Athens by English and French troops. A similar expedient is not wholly out of the qlestion now. SPAIN. The Gazette de France states that simultaneously with the outbreak in the South of Spain, the leading partisans of Queen Isabella were summoned by telegraph, and met at her residence in Pads. General Pezuela and Count Cheste were amongst the number. It has been decided that the reactionary movements shall be encouraged and continued. Funds have been forthcoming, and General Pezuela has left for Spain, full of hope that the issue will be favourable. The LibcrU has received information of a very gloomy tenour. The suppression of the revolt at ;Jadiz has by no means put an end to all agitation. Great excitement prevails throughout Andalusia, and even beyond it. Seville and Malaga are ready once more to pronounce." THE MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. The Viceroy of Nankin has consented to make some reparation for the outrages upon the missionaries at Yang chow, but he has not yet been persuaded to concede all that our consul demands. The Chinese do not believe in sentimental grievances ; the Viceroy accordingly does not see the necessity of paying more than the cost of the property which was destroyed, and of the medical attendance on the missionary who was injured ; and he declines to hand over an indemnity for any thing beyond the material part of the injury. He has degraded and removed from office the Prefect and the magistrate of Yangchow. He con cents to issue a proclamation setting forth the rights of missionaries to reside and teach in the interior ; but he refuses to carve on stone, as the English Consul demanded, a brief history of the present riot and of the punishment inflicted. Now, as the Chinese have not hesitated to engrave proclamations on stone against the Europeans, there is no reason why the same principle should not be exercised for once in their favour. As the Times correspondent remarks, the authorities will post up a bill containing the leek-eating announcement ; but matters more agreeable to Chinese tastes are permanently engraved. The whole compensation demanded was £650, and as £350 of this must go for actual injuries, it is not a heavy price to pay for the treatment to which the missionaries were subjected. The Consul demands also the punishment of some literati—retired officials of high standing, one of them an ex-viceroy— who instigated the riots ; but he is not likely to carry this point. The " defeat" which we are supposed to have sustained in the Yangchow business has emboldened the natives. They are greatly opposed to a treaty clause which frees British-owned produce from taxation at the inland Customs barriers by one payment of 21 1 per cent. ad valorem. Native traders who have to pay the higher rate are placed at a disadvantage. Three servants of a British merchant, who were in charge of some produce, have been flogged and imprisoned. A remonstrance by the British Consul was treated as a forgery, and the bearer of it im prisoned. The Rodney, an eighty-gun ship, and two other vessels have been called in to arrange these matters. The amount of arrangement that awaits them seems to be very considerable. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Mr. Dixon, Canadian emigration agent, calls attention to an important Act passed by the Government of Ontario in the early part of the present year. This Act provides that allotments of one hundred acres each should be given free of charge to all settlers in the province. The system has worked remarkably well ; sometimes more than 300 applications for lots have been made in a single day. The Government of Ontario proposes to set apart other districts for free settlement. The Clerkenwell Emigration Society have applied for 40,000 acres. TURKEY AND GREECIS. The nature of the answer which Greece ha's returned to Turkey is now beyond denlk. The Athens Government has conceded some of the demands of the Porte, but has rejected others of vital importance. Turkey does not seem disposed to rest satisfied with this partial compliance, and her attitude in this respect meets with general approval. Even the Constitution net, which is unswerving in its belief of a pacific solution, says that Turkey has very justly rejected the " concessions" of Greece. Eniless rumours take the place of definite information on the subject of the diplomatic movements of the Great Powers. At his ley& on Saturday Lord Clarendon is said to have expressed his belief that the peace of Europe was in no danger, and that the present quarrel was a mere feu de paille. The Paris correspondent of the Standard mentions as a report that France is trying to get up another alliance with England. Lastly, the Berlin papers say that England and France have remonstrated with Austria respecting her attempts to provoke a war between Turkey and Greece. The official papers, both at Paris and Berlin, still conclude in favour of the chances of peace. SPAIN. The correspondent of the Post endeavours to furnish a key to that perplexing problem—the recent insurrection in Cadiz. The people of the great Spanish seaport are re markable for their Liberal tendencies, and especially for their advocacy of Free Trade. They are greatly discon tented because the Finance Minister has not fulfilled all that he promised in this respect, and their Republican sympathies have been not a little outraged by the frank declaration of the Provisional Government in favour of monarchy. It was while this discontent was at its height that a question of wages to workmen, who were doing an apology for work in the neighbouring town of Puerto de Santa Maria, was agitated ; the municipality of the place declared their inability to go on paying the same rate of wages ; the workmen came to discuss the question rifle in hand, for they had profited by the revolution, as their brethren in Madrid did subsequently, to get a supply of small arms from the arsenal. " The military governor of Cadiz, instead of sending a strong body of soldiers to the place, and disarming the population at midnight, surprising each armed mutineer in his bed, as Narvaez did the armed National Guard in 1843, foolishly posted up a proclamation, and gave the lawless popula tion time to organise a successful resistance." Then, instead .31 asking assistance from the Conservative inha bitants, the Governor declared the seaport to be in a state of siege, and thus the soldiery and the populace were brought into contact. Unfortunately, the infantry employed in establishing the state of siege belonged to that very regiment which but three months ago signalised itself by the most shocking barbarity in putting down the insurrection of the Andalu sian town of Bejar. Some petty quarrel caused the volunteers of all political creeds to rush to arms, and the most desperate fighting followed. " Even the Cadiz ladies, with the outrages of Bejar fresh in their memory, fought like female panthers." The repression of this revolt reflects much credit upon the Provisional Government. In a very trying emergency they have exercised the most commendable foresight, wisdom, and moderation. Their rejection of the Duke of Montpensier's assistance does not promise much for his chance of the crown. • This insurrection is likely to be the cause of the first press prosecutions that have been instituted in Spain since the revolution. The Discusion and the Igualdad are to be cited for having encouraged the rising in Andalusia. AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Great Country; or, Impressions of America. There are books which caricature a nation, and yet do good ; for, though an exaggeration of the truth, they are still so grounded on it that even those burlesqued, recognize the likeness. The pain is in proportion to the truth; but, if wanting in that, the caricature becomes a stupid calumny, which shows animus without ability, and may do harm, but cannot do good. Such is this book, ap parently written by an English buffoon, whose grimaces failed to attract in America, and who re turned home to make faces at those who could not see the fun in their own country. Poor Arthur Sketchley was dismissed from New York with a little soothing ointment from the kind-hearted Tribune, which attributed the failure of his Enter tainment to the mismanagement of his agents. He is very grateful to the Tribune forbeing thus gently let down, and writes of it, the Round Table, and two or three other newspapers, as if they were the only respectable journals in America. Indeed, they are in this exceptions, not alone to journalism, but to everything in the United States. New York is de. scribed as filthy in reality, and mean in appear ance. From its churches to its theatres all are alike bad. Its Government is the most corrupt in the world; its merchants are swindlers ; and almost all that remains of the society is composed of " beats," "bummers," "loafers," and "suckers." Even their Presidents are seldom gentlemen, often scarcely able to read or write, or, like the present incum bent, who is described as drunk, not only when he addresses the people, but when he takes a part in au imposing ceremony—as if there could be an hn posing ceremony in so vile a country. The men sit with their heels at a higher elevation than their heads, whittling and spitting, with the invariable plug in their cheeks. The knives are plated, to permit of their being stuffed with less danger half down tobacco-defiled throats, whence they often go into the mashed potatoes. The women love beads and feathers, resembling in other respects Kea In dians. They clean their nails with penknives table, call shrimps, bugs, and are otherwise little attractive. After d.eplsiting the white of an egg on her plate in a way not allowed in polite society, one is thus described :--" She subsequently ate ham and eggs, awl sausages, liver and bacon, fried potatoes, and other delicacies, finishing up with cakes and molasses, all of which she washed down with coffee and several tumblers of milk, into which lumps of ice are put, which render it very agreeable." The women are immoral, without even the excuse of attraction in the men, who are " frights." Indeed they them selves, as if impressed with so much ugliness, CHILDREN ' S DINNERS. Lords Shaftesbury and Ebury, Dean Stanley, and others appeal to the benevolent for funds to help them to give children's d inners. The amount received in answer to their public appeal in December 1867, was about £1,200. The sum expended in grants to various localities where great distress prevailed, during the first six months of this year, was £844. The number of dinners given during the same period at eighty-seven dining-rooms opened in connection with their society was about 85,000. The weekly dinners were resumed in October last; and since that time grants to the amount of £302 have been made, representing nearly 30,000 dinners. The total stun disbursed has, therefore, been £1,146, and the total number of dinners has been 115,000. The wants of the poor are urgent, but the operations of the charitable are everywhere restricted by want of funds. The news papers are full of appeals for charity as winter approaches. Private charities, well directed, may yet do something to mitigate the horrors which set our poor-law system at defiance. GERMANY. The Magyar newspapers have joined in the fierce journalistic war now going on between the Austrian and the Prussian press. The organ of the Dealc party has rejected the advances which the Berlin papers have openly made towards Hungary, and which are at least one great cause of the existing coldness between the two nations. The Hungarian journal says that although Prussia and Hungary are on the best rapidly follow suit, and at the age of twenty-five cease to possess the charms with which mother nature endowed them. Mr. Rose might have summarized his in the sailor's account, who was directed to de- scribe the manners and customs of the tribes the vessel visited. " Their customs are beastly, and, as to manners, they have none." But we may thank goodness that so much vice is being punished by nature, as it deserves. The climate of New York, and of every other part, according to Arthur. Sketchley, is a compound of all that is bad, each nationality which sends emigrants contributing the vilest portion of its climate. It is insufferably hot; it is unbearably cold ; it is dry, parching, dusty ; then it rains in waterspouts, but wet or dry, hot or cold, the streets remain the abiding-place of filth. This is a fair sample of Arthur Sketchley's descrip tion of the' Great Country," and we daresay Ameri cans will readily recognize the Empire City as thus painted. But he Las not yet half done. The food was, we presume, very like his own playbill, as contrasted with the entertainment, for he saygthe carte is such as to induce aldermen to hurry to America, yet he never tasted anything fit to eat in the country. The meat is bad, ill-cooked, and always tepid ;—every- thing is tepid. Even the oyster—he is particular in speaking of it in the singular—as one is more than enough for any man—is a huge, tasteless, disgusting object. But what could it matter, he asks, to these tobacco-chewing, whisky-drinking Americans what they got to eat. It is impossible that they could have any taste left, and if they had, their habit of bolting their meals would neu tralize, as far as enjoyment goes, the best effort of any cook. "Ah !" we exclaim, as we see the rush to the bar, at any rate Master Sketchley can have nothing to say against the drinks there concocted. " Why, sir," he answers, " they are bad brews of vile spirits ; deleterious in a high degree, and maw kish concoctions of sugar and lemon with their exe crable whisky, which ice alone redeems while disguis ing the rest. Some may imagine that this is a joke —that Arthur Sketchley is in a comic vein, and goes in for a rather disgusting display - of buffoonery. But the book is as dull and heavy as ditch water, without a particle of fun. The man thinks he can play the role of a Dickens ; first, caricature the country, which pays in England, and then go back to kiss and be friends, which pays in America. In deed he hints at his return if the opportunity offered, but we would strongly recommend him not—al though few will ever hear of his book, and those few, as a rule, will care little about it. Still it is calculated to do harm on this side in the prejudice it creates and keeps alive, as:a mass of people cannot see even through so shallow an effort to disparage, and are ignorant of the low motives which have led to the exhibition of such spite. The Mississippi drains a valley which will yet feed more inhabitants than there are in Russia, but Mr. Rose's comment is that little credit was due to the discoverer of so muddy and uninteresting a stream, and in deed, for that matter, as little cre•lit was due to Columbus ; observations which show great grasp of thought. Having disposed of New York, Mr. Sketchley goes to Washington, and it is amazing what he sees and hears there, as everywhere else. He was fortunate in the time, as the trial of the President was progressing. Our readers will recollect that a " slang wanging" took place between Ignatius Donnelly and E. B. Washburne in th,; House of Representatives—a scene con demned as severely as universally by the American press. So incensed were the people, that the fact only of Mr. Washburne's being in the path of duty, and the victim of the attack, perhaps saved him from sharing Ignatius Donnelly's fate and being rejected from the incoming House. But such a scene was just the thing for Arthur Sketchley, who appreciated it far more highly, than these stupid Yankees appreciated his entertainment, and so he has transferred the whale bodily to his book, a cheap and easy way by the same token, of book-making. We are glad he has done this ; because from it may be extracted a lesson for the benefit of such " wild Irishmen" as Mr. Donnelly. When it occurred we wrote in strong condemnation, pointing to the fact that it would everywhere be used by Tories as an example of the style of men sure to be returned by unrestricted suffrage. Our readers may recol lect our correction of a little mistake made by the Revolution in eallingJohn Bright " the Honourable.' As members of the House of Representatives are termed Honourable, it Might be supposed by Ameri cans who had even heard Bright speak in the House of Commons that the same title was given here as in America. The author illustrates Jonathan's gross ignorance of England by the fact that a paper had called John Bright the Honourable, another, mistaking the office to which the Great Seal is at tached. He might have added, with a truth which would have humbled Uncle Sam, and made him cry, " Spare me ! oh, spare me !" that none knew of what a judge's wig was composed, or what was the material of the powder, which whitened John Thomas's head. Indeed, we are surprised that there is not a little story of a Yankee's asser tion that it was flour, and that he knew it, because he once saw a John Thomas, who had been kept out in the sun on a very hot day, whose powder had mixed with the grease, and had been baked into pie crust. Now we, whose business it is to read what American papers say on England, and what Eng lish papers say on America, unhesitatingly assert that the knowledge of England in America is beyond comparison greater than the knowledge of Ame rica in England, and no better proof of this could be found than in this dull, heavy volume before us, where a man, animated with the bitterest spite, can only gather such instances. In fact he might, had he reallybeen a keen observer, have got something much more telling than this. The author asserts that the English feeling is one of pure indifference, that the two races are wholly unlike, that Johu Bull can have no sympathy with Jonathan, and that a Britisher would be much more comfortable and at home in St. Petersburgh than in New York. Now not only is there no truth in this, but the case is the reverse. A large section of Englishmen bitterly dislike Americans, and they have managed by such books as that of Mr. Rose to create a prejudice. But why are such books written?—To neutralize the senti ment, and to repel the strong British ten dency towards the same course as the great Re public. It is a Tory device against the thing they most dread on earth, the march of Ame ricanism. If the nation was in truth indifferent, such rubbish as Arthur Sketchley has written about the " great country" would find no readers. But is the author a Tory? We know nothing what ever about Mr. Rose, still there is a dedication on the first page of the book to the Duke of Norfolk, to whom the author inscribes it as " Affectionately" his. Now this term -affectionate, from a showman to the premier peer of England, argues that he is either his cousin, or has been his valet, for a ser vant-may have an affectionate regard for his mas ter, even in aristocratic England, or, a cousin, although he went to America, to entertain Repub licans, who had the bad taste not to see any entertainment in the performance even so degenerate a scion may call his great chief affectionately his. But, in either case, and judging by the internal evidence in the book, we cannot but suppose that the author was a hanger-on of the nobility. We regret that the name of this peer should have been inscribed on this poor slander of " the great coun try," and the only thing which will be remembered in America about Arthur Sketchley and his work is that the first of England's nobles had the folly and bad taste to allow the work to go forth en dorsed with his name. As to Arthur Sketchley him self, if he can pick up some of the crumbs in Eng land by pricking and goading Jonathan, which he failed to get in Americ a by tickling and amusing him, why both will laugh, and little harm will be done, for the thing lasts but a day and has no in fluence on any one. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.-MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perituners Depot, 266, High Holborn THE RED INDIANS OF THE PLAID'S. The author of " Greater Britain," from which we we purpose hereafter to extract and discuss many ideas, says that the first thing which struck him about the Red Indians was that they were not red. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs put their total num ber within the United States, exclusive of Alaska, at about 300,000, of whom fully one-half are hos tile. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes have clearly violated their treaty promises, made scarcely a year ago to the commissioners sent to treat with them, which he accounts for by their innate love of plunder and revenge, under a feeling of dissatisfaction, caused, it is presumed, by the non-delivery of guns and ammunition promised them by the commis sioners, but withheld because the Cheyennes had not kept peace. General Sherman's army does not exceed 10,000 men, and the field force under Sheri dan was estimated at 3,ooo—some 1,500 regulars, with 1,500 volunteers. After providing for garri soning the forts and the protection of the outlying Kansas districts, his strength must be under 3,000, while that he is preparing to attack was over 7,000 war riors, well armed and mounted; indeed, one of the Governors telegraphing to Sherman declared the Indians to be better equipped than his men. Letters from Fort Hays, Kansas, give an interesting ac counts of these forces moving against the hostile Indians, who have fallen back south of the Ar kansas river in order to build lodges for their winter quarters. The principal tribes at war in the district mentioned are the Araphoes, Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. There is also a band composed of out laws, both white and copper-coloured, called Dog Soldiers. These " Dogs" are reported to be scat tered about among the head waters of the strealis north of the Smoky-hill river, along the valley of which the Kansas Pacific Railroad runs. The ex pedition against the Indians is moving towards Sand Plains, south of the Arkansas river, and will probably make that point the base of supplies. Sherman's plan is to attack the Indians in winter quarters, and after inflicting punishment to compel the sur vivors to live on the reservations in the Indian terri tories. It is feared, however, that the Indians may break into small parties, and, returning north, attack the Pacific Railroad, and settlements. As the race now excites interest we extract the account given of them in " Greater Britain" " Low in stature, yellow-skinned, small-eyed, and Tartar-faced, the Indians of the plains are a dis tinct people from the tall, hook-nosed warriors of the Eastern States. It is impossible to set eyes en their women without being reminded of the dwarf skeletons found in the mounds of Missouri and Iowa; but, men or women, the Utes bear no resem blance to the bright-eyed, graceful people with whom Penn traded and Standish fought. TheY are not less inferior in mind than in body. It was no Shoshone, no Ute, no Cheyenne who called the rainbow the " heaven of flowers," the moon the " night Queen," or the stars " God's eyes." The plain tribes are as deficient, too, in heroes as in poetry ; they have never even produced a general/ and White Antelope is their nearest approach to a Tecumseh. . . . Indian civilization, through the means of agriculture, is all but a total failure. The Shawnees are thriving near Kansas city, the Pottawatomies living at St. Mary's Mission, the Dela wares existing at Leavenworth; but in all these cash there is a large infusion of white blood. TheC anadiee Hurons are completely civilized ; but then they ar e completely French. If you succeed with an Indiaet to all appearance, he will suddenly return to his un tamed state. An Indian girl, one of the most orderly of the pupils at a ladies' school, has been known, on feeling herself aggrieved, to withdraw te her room, let down her back hair, paint her face, and howl. The same tendency showed itstlf in the ea° of the Delaware chief who built himself a whit e man's house, and lived in it thirty years, but the° suddenly set up his old wigwam in the dining-room in disgust. Another bad case is that of the PO" nee who visited Buchanan, and behaved so that when a young Englishman, who came out soon after, told the President that he was going West he g we him a letter to the chief, then with his tribe in Northern Kansas. The Pawnee read the note , offered a pipe, gravely protested eternal friend" ship, slept upon it, and next morning scalped his visitor with his own hand. Hitherto the whites have pushed back the Indians west ward; if they would rescue the remnants frool starvation they must bring them east ; away fro °, Western men and Western hunting grounds, eau let them intermingle with the whites, living, farm ing along with them, intermarrying, if possible. The hunting Indian is too costly a being for Or . age, but we are bound to remember that ours 15 the blame of having failed to teach him to be some thing better. After all, if the Indian is mentally, morally, and physically inferior to the white ma n ' it is in every way for the advantage of the nit generation that inhabits Colorado that the peoP I„, .° should consist of whites instead of reds. That thl result should not be brought about by cr uelty e l : fraud upon the now existing Indians is all that we need require. The gradual extinction of the infe rior race is not only a law of nature, but a blessing to mankind."—Anglo-American Times. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Nervous D Ire bility.—No part of the human machine requires 1 % 13 , watching than the nervous system ; upon it hangs l lee ",a and life itself. 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