The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. T n he Timests glad to find Lord Nap ier con the 1 statement of Mr . Blandford that the Gobazye firmand Kauai Are on friendly terms, and will unite to keep in order the restless, turbulent tribe of petty princes with which Abys pinia is cursed. There is no reas on now why the country should not enjoy more repose and security than it has enjoyed since Theodore first raised himself undisputed supremacy. The Times had feared that to when the British force left Abyssinia these two chiefs would fly at each other's throats, and every small chief seize the opportunity for plunder and oppression. 'We cannot, indeed, agree with some of our French critics that England could have been held responsible for this =desirable state of affairs, or that, having gone into the country against our will, we ought also to have remained there against our will. Indeed, the views of these gentle. then were of a kind calculated rather to create amuse ment than to command respect. When the Expedition was at length reluctantly resolved on, they indig nantly and clamorously maintained that, on the paltry, transparent pretext of releasing half a dozen obscure citizens, " perfidious Albion " was about to seize Abyssinia in the jealous hope of counteracting French influence in Egypt. Yet when " perfidious Albion," having the tempting prize actually in her grasp, resolved to forego it, these very critics asserted no less vehemently that to leave Abyssinia a prey to intestine wars and anarchy would he an act of cruel, cold-blooded selfishness, disgraceful to a civilised nation. Although we cannot agree with our French friends that England would have been responsible for anarchy, yet we rejoice to find the coun try has not suffered. The favourable state of affairs is mainly due to Lord Napier's diplomacy. The Times then refers to the state of affairs in India, and thinks it a sub ject for congratulation that his lordship is going out there. Although the disturbances on the Huzara frontier may be magnified into unnecessary dimensions by the military autho rities, yet there are certain signs in the Indian horizon which may possibly indicate the slowly-coming storm ; and, if so, it will be no slight satisfaction to us at home to feel that we have on the spot a pilot of Lord Napier's experience and skill, more especially if by that time he has secured the advancement to which his services and worth so fully entitle him, and to which the country would gladly call him. In referring to the boasting of Sir Stafford Northcote on the administrative ability of the present Government, the Post compares the different members to those who would probably succeed them in a Liberal Ministry. It would be a public gain were Sir Stafford himself replaced by the Duke of Argyll. We may safely leave our readers to judge for themselves between the present Prime Minister and him whom the public voice designates for his successor. If the two were to be judged on their past characters of Chancellors of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli, who never paid serious attention to financial duties, but left them to be performed by the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, would not stand a moment's comparison with the brilliant and laborious financier who was the master mind of economy and made revenue grow as if under the enchantment of a wizard's wand. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer is a diligent, acute, and thoroughly honest public servant. His party could not supply a better; but it will not be said, when a change of Government may happen, that Mr. Childers would be an inferior successor of Mr. Ward Hunt. Lord Clarendon or Lord Kimberley could worthily take Lord Stanley's place, and Lord De Grey follow the Duke of Abercorn. Lord Hart ington and Mr. Cardwell have no reason to fear com parison with Sir John Pakington and the Duke of Buckingham ; and the appointment of Mr. C. Fortescue to the Secretaryship of Ireland would be a decided advan tage. We will not further pursue minute comparison; suffice it to add that in Mr. Lowe, Mr. Goschen, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Stansfeld, the Liberal party possess others of administrative capacity which will not be doubted. The preceding remarks will shew, we trust, that we do not judge harshly or uncharitably the members of the present Administration. We are entitled to speak freely of its weak points. The Duke of Richmond is, as every one knows, what is called in the counties a good man of business, and a thoroughly amiable and respectable man in addition. He was fitted for the post of nominal Prime Minister, which modesty or devotion to Mr. Disraeli is understood to have led him to decline ; but he is not the right man in the right place at the head of the Board of Trade. It must be frankly said that no change from the present Vice-President of the Council could be for the worse. We have reserved to the last the leader of the House of Lords. It is, to say the least, incomprehensible how Mr. Disraeli could have assigned that high function to Lord Malmesbury, after eagerly—indeed, uncourteously—dis pensing with the services of Lord Chelmsford, on the plea of strengthening the debating power of the Government in the House of Lords. It will indeed be national matter of congratulation when the leader of the Government in the Upper House is again the highly-cultivated and able Lord Granville. The Herald says : Not the least remarkable feature in the Rachel-Borrodaile inquiry is the extraordinary way in which it has affected the journalistic mind. The trial lasted till too late on Friday night to suit such weekly journals as are obliged to go to press early, and hence on the day when the end of the investigation was made 'public, the Saturday Review came out with an article in which acquittal was assumed as certain, by an ingenious theoriser who had probably finished his lucubration some time before the facts he was criticising had secured a convic tion. Apropos of Madame Rachel, however, the Times has ventilated ideas more remarkable even than those of the Saturday Reviewer. Does our contemporary mean to tell us that Madame Rachel, or any one in her position, is legally " compelled" to produce evidence ? And would not the policy of allowing a prisoner to produce just such evidence "as might suit his case" be at least doubtful? Above all, how does it become "perfectly clear" that be should not be compelled to produce any evidence at all, unless he can give "what play suit his case?" Even if we construe this to mean such evidence as he himself can give, why should he be relieved from the necessity of proving important facts by the testimony of disinterested witnesses, who would speak with far greater weight than himself ? Take a charge of murder. A prisoner in the dock might swear to an alibi with the utmost solemnity, and by continental practice might be cross-examined upon it in a way which might either sustain or destroy it. But he would assuredly be very ill-advised if he petulantly refused to produce wit nesses who could establish it unless he were at liberty to give evidence on his own behalf, and he would be entitled to very little sympathy if, being innocent, he were con• demned in consequence. The Herald is satisfied with the verdict. The Daily News draws attention to a pamphlet in which " A Democratic Tory" has lately been justifying Mr. Disraeli's claims to the confidence of his party and of the nation. There is much in the pamphlet " Benjamin Disraeli : the Past and the Future " which deserves careful consideration. In its pages, as in a divining crystal, the average steady-going Conser vative may see to what manner of shore the currents of the political ocean are steadily bearing him on. "A Democratic Tory's" estimate of his hero interests us not so much for its intrinsic truth though it is not without its share even of this quality —as for the light it sheds on the character of those whose conception of the heroic is here formulated. We see what the new shool of Conservatives worship, and we may be sure that their whole moral being will take its tinge from the object of their veneration. The cardinal doctrine of this new religion is, that there is no such thing as principle in politics. The politician and the moralist occupy entirely different grounds. Mr. Disraeli is corn mended as possessing the capacity of governing. The " Democratic Tory" deprecates too much zeal on the part of Mr. Disraeli's followers, and commends him for his neu trality and impartiality. The Telegraph thinks that if the two volumes of Mr. Bright's speeches, edited by Mr. Thorold Rogers, which were published the other day, had been issued half a dozen years ago, they would have been greeted with s shout of indignation throughout the length and breadth of patrician England. After the mannes of that model English gentleman who was horri. fied by some of Brougham's Whig sedition i n the Edinburgh Review, any fine old Tory would have kicked the two thick packets of Radical poison down stairs, with the heartiest of Constitutional imprecations and the full vigour of a squirearchical toe. For at that time, to such people, Mr. Bright was the most dangerous man in England. He was a " peace man., and as such he imperilled " the balance of power.: He was a Radical, and therefore an enemy of public order. He was a, friend of household suffrage, and therefore of anarchy. Well, the honourable gentle• man still professes tbe same creed. Where he was twenty years ago he is still. It is the squires that have been coming up to the dreadful incendiary, and at last they are treading on his heels. Speedily, perhaps, they will have to complain that he is block• lug the way, and must beg that he will move on. Or—stranger things have happened in the recent career of the great Tory party—they may invite him to lead the country gentlemen of England, as a mark of their confi. deuce in that load of strong Conservatism which lint always steadied the progress of the great Revolutionist. Then, with Mr. Bright as the leader of the Tories, and with Mr. Disraeli as the leader of the extreme Radicals, the irony of the situation will be complete. Our contem• porary then proceeds to compare Mr. Bright's style of oratory with that of our historical orators, and the result is in favour of the modern orator. Tories, when they read hip speeches, will be astonished to find ,how they pee with him. FEMALE MEDICAL SOCIETY. The fifth annual session of the Medical College for 'Women was inaugurated on Monday, at the Concert Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square, by an address of peat interest and ability from Dr. George Ross, the society's lecturer on diseases of infants. . -- _ Dr. OZORGE Ross, who delivered the inaugural lecture, commenced by stating that he should speak in the same spirit in which he should talk to a class of male students. He should not assume any inferiority in the sex. He then descanted on the greatness and importance of the science of medicine, which, he said, was equal to tha exercise of the loftiest intellect, and embraced within itself every branch of physical science. It was the sum and glory of all the sciences. The special purposes of the college were entered upon. The lecturer said that throughout Europe women were, so far as they knew, the only midwives until the period of the revival of learning and the separation of the arts and sciences from religion. Then the surgeons, having segre gated themselves into a community, and striving earnestly to improve their art, gave their attention to the subject of midwifery, and as manual labour was sometimes necessary to relieve a parturient woman, they began to regard such interferences as part of their art, and the necessary aid as a surgical operation. It was certain that for a long time surgeons intervened only to perform surgical operations, whilst the practice of the art in ordinary cases was left to women. Man midwifery:as now practised was a modern innovation. It was the general cry of an unreflecting public that women were not fit for the duty, that they were timid, i ignorant, unrecognised by the law of the land, and should 'be discouraged. In reply there was this unanswerable argument, that there were hundreds of women throughout the length and breadth of this country already practising the art, some of them acting independently in small hamlets or large towns, others officiating as subordinates to the medical officers of lying-in charities and dispensa ries. Was it not, then, both right and necessary that these women should be adequately taught and trained for their duties? BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEYS. A meeting of the Leeds Law Society, and of deputations of the law societies of neighbouring large towns, was held at Leeds, a day or two back, to consider the remarks of Mr. Justice Hannen at the late annual meeting of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association, on the subject of the amalgamation of the two branches of the legal pro fession. Deputations attended from the law societies of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Hull. Mr. John Bulmer, of Leeds, occupied the chair. A paper was read by Mr. Jevons, of Liverpool, advocating the establishment of a law university, common to both branches of the profession, the degrees of which should be the sole basis for determining the status and rank in the profession of all practitioners alike. After considerable discussion on Mr. Jevons's paper, in which reference was frequently made to the speech of Mr. Justice Hannen and to the speech of Mr. Field, Q.C., at the same meeting, and likewise to the Report of the Inns of Court Commission of 1855, and the professional practice in America and the several States of the Continent and the colonies, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to :—Moved by the Vice-President of the Liverpool Law Society, and seconded by Mr. Roberts, mayor of Hull : " That the present status of our branch of the legal profession, and their exclusion from all offices of honour and distinction, is unsatisfactory and injurious to the interests of the public ; especially having regard to the fact that, before admission to our branch of the legal profession, examinations of a stringent character as to knowledge of the law are required, while in respect to the bar no test of legal knowledge is necessary." It was moved by Mr. Lowndes, of Liver pool, seconded by Mr. Saunders, of Birmingham : "That the tendency of modern legislation to continue and extend the exclusion of attorneys from various offices and appoint. ments, for which their education specially qualifies them, calls for united action on their part to remove this in justice, and that it is only necessary to call the attention of the bar and the public to the matter in order to ensure their co-operation in devising a remedy." It was moved by Mr. Jevons, of Liverpool, seconded by Mr. Thomas Marshall, M.A., of Leeds : " That this meeting is of opinion that the time has come when provision should be made for the foundation of a law university, which should be open to both branches of the profession without distinc tion, and that the means of providing an institution already exist in the funds at the disposal of the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery, which were originally common to both branches of the profession." Moved by the President of the Manchester Law Society, seconded by the President of the Newcastle Law Society " That the foregoing resolutions and the paper of Mr. Jevons be referred to a provisional committee for consideration, with instructions to invite the co-operation of the bar with our branch of the profession generally, and to report to a future meeting to be summoned in such mode and at such place and time as they shall determine." LAW AND POLICE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORGERY.—At the Mansion House, Arthur Edward Bolton was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for V;63 Gs., purporting to have been signed by Mr. Willing, the well-known advertisement contractor. It seemed that the accused gave the cheque in question to an errand-boy, and that person went to the Union Bank to get it changed. When the prisoner wa,- apprehended, two cheques purporting to have been signed by his father were found on him. The prosecutor, in cross examination, stated that he knew the prisoner's father well, and had given orders to the cashier to pay the cheque if presented, as witness intended charging the prisoner's father with the amount. The prisoner, whose mind was said to be affected, was committed for trial. NEW GAMING Acr. —The Court of Queen's bench having decided that cards and coins were not instruments of gaming within the meaning of the Act, the following clause has been since passed, and will come into force on the Ist October : "Every person playing or betting by way of wagering or gaming in any street, road, highway, or other open and public place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, or any coin, card, token, or other article used as an instrument of gaming or means of ouch wagering or gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond within the true intent and meaning of the recited Act, and as such may be punished under the provisions of that Act." THE SURPLUS PLANTS OF THE PUBLIC PARKS. —The First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, &c.. intends to have distributed this, autumn among the work ing classes and the poor inhabitants of London, the surplus bedding-out plants in Battersea, Hyde, the Regent's, and Victoria Parks, and the Royal Gardens, Kew. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN AND HER CHILDREN.-MO correspondent of the Star says there is no sympathy ex pressed for the Queen. Unfortunately for her, she has neither an attractive person nor a graceful manner. Her mind is utterly uncultivated. She is known to have en deavoured of late years to expiate the gross faults of her early life by abject submission to the priestly party, and of latter years to have thrown herself and her Court into the practice of a superstitious bigotry worthy of a Torque mada, but unredeemed by the undoubted genius of that arch fiend. THE EATENT COFFIN. The inventor of the patent safety coffin has given his complicated apparatus another trial, this time in New York. About 500 persons were present to see Mr. Vester buried. A grave six feet deep had been got in readiness for him, an d Mr. Vester stepped into the coffin " with more alacrity," says the New York reporter, " than could be expected of a man about to submit to so grave an experiment. Having arranged himself comfortably, a young lady put a wreath of flowers on his head, the coffin lid was screwed down, the pipe communicating with the outer air was fixed into its place, and the whole machinery was lowered into the grave. Mr. Vester remained buried for upwards of an hour, and then climbed up through the tube and stepped forth. "He did not appear to be at all decomposed," adds the reporter, who seems to have a proper appreciation of the invention. Seeing that each of the spectators paid about ls. 6d. for admission to the ground, it is evident that Mr. Vester may live very handsomely by his coffin. A LONDON CABMAN'S LIFE.—At the time of the late cab strike, a cabman with his wife and children had to take refuge in the Holborn Union workhouse, but lately left the house and obtained permission to leave his wife and family behind for a few days until he could obtain employ. ment, and has since addressed a letter to the guardiant, asking to be allowed to leave his family a little longer, on account of the state of the cab trade. He says : " Since I left the house I have had three nights' employment with a horse and cab. To give you some idea of the state of the trade, I must inform you that on these three nights my earnings were 103., the master's money being ss. 7d., and the horsekeeper's 3d. per night. I managed to pay the first two nights' demand, lls. Bd., leaving my existing and paying lodging out of the scanty pittance of 4s. 4d. for three nights and days, and having only earned on the last night Is. 6d. all night. So the third night I was not in a position to pay the master ; hence my discharge. Surely 18s. or 20s. per week at any kind of employ would be to me a princely income in comparison to the anxiety and misery attendant upon so wretched a life as that Qf I CANAAN'P, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1868 ?HE IRISH CHURCH REPORT The Report of the Commission on the Irish Church presents itself with all the solemnity of a funeral, not to say the silence of a spectre. Observing the strictest rules of decorum, and shaping itself to common imaginations, it is exactly what was expected, and irreproachably what it was to be. The reduction of scale is perfectly uniform, only fine by degrees and beautifully less." In all its prominent features, it is simply to Lord Derby's Irish Church Re form what that was to the previous state of things. Less primates, less bishops, less cathe drals and chapters, less archdeacons, less pay for the above, less sinecure—or almost sine cure—benefices, less sinecure staffs, less parish clerks and public worship charges, less to be demanded for the redemption of rent-charges ; and, on the other hand, less burdens, charges, repayments, and so forth, on the clerical, capi tular, and episcopal incomes. The Commis sioners take a kindly and sensible view of £3OO a year, which they consider not too much for an educated gentleman who has waited for it a good many years, and who in return for it has to reside—actually reside, the Commis sioners insist—in some out-of-the-way place. So below this the changes are in favour of the clergy, who are even to be better paid where they have work to do, except where the Pro testant population falls below a hundred, when the extinguisher is to fall, and the Church to be disestablished and disendowed. Besides these pecuniary changes, the Commissioners condemn numerous corporations and dignities, without either emolument or office, but simply kept up for the preservation of titles and hon ours. A few pregnant words betray the doubt whether the bishops will retain their seats in the House of Lords. Otherwise, the report might have been drawn up a year ago, or might have been ten years in almost any Ministerial portfolio. Indeed, that is the only novelty in the whole document, so exactly is it otherwise the very creature of anticipation. Some years ago Mr. Bernal Osborne made a clever and amusing speech about the Irish Church, pro posing nothing more than a fairer division of its revenues within its own pale. He might or might not be quite sincere in the modesty of his requirements, for the state of things he incidentally disclosed tended naturally to a much more advanced measure. If he was sin cere, the present report would have certainly satisfied him. Of course its recommendations are such as were to be made when the Com mission was appointed. Unless it be in the allusion to the House of Lords, the Report has not a single express and direct allusion to the political developments which have totally altered the situation. But is such a report, so destitute of novelty and originality, so ob viously a matter of course, and one by an almost mechanical process of diminution, with out its significance ? Surely hope is a more suggestive and inventive spirit than that which animates this cheerless reproduction. There is not the slightest attempt to surprise, to put the public on a new scent, to alter the aspect of affairs or even to compromise. The last, indeed, was not within the instructions of the Commission, but Commissioners, before this, have made exceedingly good use of their oppor tunities to represent the state of things as they wished it to appear. There is something like a bid for support to the holders of Church leases and to the payers of tithe rent-charge, but otherwise the Church of Ireland, as seen in this picture, exhibits only that mixture of obstinacy and humility which makes up into vulgar resignation. It is drawing its robe about its limbs. It proposes to cast a some what shallow shadow over the land, and so leave its enemies less excuse. Who can charge pride on a Church that itself throws primates, bishops, deans and chapters, archdeacons, and cathedrals by the score overboard ? It is the second time the sling has been set to work to empty the overloaded hold; the second time the bulwarks have been lifted to roll the deep cargo into the raging sea. It is true that nothing solid is given up. The offerings of the altar of conciliation are mitres, tithes, vestments, thrones, stalls, names, and additions. It is the embroidery and furniture that are filmg out to the pursuing foe. In place of splendour, the Church of Ireland is henceforth to exhibit more internal symmetry, so that its domestic anoma lies and inequalities may no longer scanda lize its own friends and give occasion to its enemies to blaspheme. It sets its house in order that it may surely live. Outsiders see another significance. Indeed, in the very midst of these careful adjustments that are to smooth away all inequalities and meet all complaints, one huge scandal crops up and becomes more intolerable. Is it possible, is it conceivable, that the Roman Catholics will quietly allow the rent charges, now at all events local, and obliged to be spent on the spot, to be taken from the native population of the suppressed benefices, and to be transferred to the less native and comparatively foreign population of distant parishes—from the South and the West to the North, from Catholic to Protestant, from poor to rich ? This objection lies on the very threshold of any scheme for internal redis tribution. A large income, representing and in truth existing in the fruits of poor Catholic labour, is to be carried off—so it is here pro posed—to Dublin, or to Belfast, or to London derry, or to any Protestant congregation some what beyond the average number, in the care of one English " clergyman. The case o' any individual parish where the Catholics con siderably outnumber the Protestants becomes the case of the whole Church. No plan of internal redistribution and adjustment will meet the case of one such parish as we have mentioned, and therefore no plan of this sort will meet the case of the whole Church, or the question between the 700,000 Protestant Churchmen and 4,500,000 Roman Catholics. Such a report is not even an addition to the materials of the question. Its value has not even been discounted ; it has simply been an ticipated, and taken for what it is worth — which is, indeed, very little. It neither helps towards the general decision, nor yet towards the disposal of the numerous difficulties con fessedly in the way of any settlement. The one object to be aimed at is that the Roman Catho lics of Ireland shall no longer have a single religious grievance on which they can found a charge of persecution, or which they can call a badge of subjection and a mark of inferiority. This word is to be taken out of their mouths at any cost, for this empire cannot afford to practice at home any injustice she denounces, and even assists to overthrow, in other coun tries, far or near. England believes herself to have no small share in setting the public opinion of the civilized world, and religious freedom, even to religious equality, is one of the benefits she boasts to have conferred on some of her neighbours. When this is the case, she must look at home and " remove the beam from her own eye." She has no choice in the matter, tardy as she, like the rest of the world, is in seeing herself as others see her, and applying the lesson she reads to unwilling scholars. Then, will such a plan as this remove the griev ance, and satisfy the pride of native and Catholic Ireland ? Will it be enough for them that no Irish Protestant bishop sits in Par liament, and that there are fewer Protestant bishops and other dignitaries, and that all the recommendations of this Report are adopted and carried out ? That is the great question before us, and as yet we see no reason to believe Ireland will be thus satisfied. Cer tainly the two Primates give us no encourage mllavreegnalettrh; wealthy, n o , dr more w l o i r e me y e b ne o td t ui l ad t t u e e l ed l o u a s tnhde plainlysuperior,momore e vigorous that t o h re e race and communion ; leaving the inevitable inference that the existing endowment is a badge of Irish inferiority.—Tintes. A report was spread that Robert F. Lincoln, son of the late President, favours the Seymour-Blair ticket. In reply to a gentleman who mentioned the rumour, Mr. Lincoln acknowledged to have heard it, but treated it as unimportant. He denies its truth, and although not tak ing an active part in the political campaign, asserts that no one more earnestly desires the success of Grant and of the Republican party than himself. ON UP. Eccentricity and a love of jobbery are two of the most marked features of the English character. We rejoice in being unlike the rest of the world, in doing things that other people do not, and in not doing things that other people do. There is nothing about which we are so jealous as our title to eccentricity, and if this be granted we care not if we are charged with breaking treaties innumerable, or any amount of commercial dishonesty. Indeed, from any point of view, these things are de cidedly eccentric, and on that ground, capable of defence—as tending to keep up our national character in the eyes of foreigners. But we are somehow not so proud of these things as we might be, and prefer, as we take care to tell everyone, taking our stand on the open Bible. It is on this somewhat narrow platform that the chief of the Conservative party has elected to stand, and the cry of the Church in danger has again been resorted to to rally Englishmen, as of old, round its leader. But the cry is feeble and meaningless, and, save the oppor tunity it has given for the display of fanaticism on the part of a few incendiaries like Murphy, it has, we are thankful to say, produced no evil results. The time has gone by when a Catholic was considered an alien and a neces sarily disloyal subject, and Mr. Disraeli can only get a very few ignorant people to believe in his cry of "Wolf!" Considered from his standpoint, to use a German expression, it is a besides showing y sin tra ' t has to resort to the e ng w e e r a o k u n s e e s x s p o e f rim a experiment, such a cry, he will be considered, by the many, to have demonstrated the slight hold the Church of England has over the body of the people. For it is plain, since he has identified his party with that Church, that if he suffer defeat the Church of England is not the Church of the greater mass of the people, and even if he gain, as there is sure to be, in such a case, a large liberal minority, that there is a very large portion of the people which is not in communion with her. He is not wrong in appealing to the passions, rather than to the reasbn of the people, but any one at all acquainted with the state of parties amongst us, must consider his attempt at incendiarism as the dying effort of the Tory party to keepout the hateful Whigs. We will not insinuate that a huge piece of jobbery is being done at Portsmouth for elec tion purposes, because we do not know that such is the case, and are anxious to give every one his due —even Mr. Disraeli. Still the announcement which appears in the Naval and Military Intelligence in the Standard of the 16th inst., is sufficiently interesting to tax payers to make them anxious for more par ticulars. Seven men-of-war are to be broken up at Portsmouth as soon as practicable, " not being considered worth the expense of repair ing."::Breaking up is a very expensive ope ration, and always a loss. We believe that something like the following takes place on such an occasion. The ship is sold with her stores, &c., for a mere nothing—often less than the value of the latter—which are bought back again by the Government at nearly full price. Seven ships are proposed to be treated in this way, whose large tonnage show them to be comparatively new ; their names are the Cygnel, five screw gun vessel, 428 tons ' • Sutlej, twenty-eight, screw frigate, 3,0 66 tons; Griffen, brigantine (coal depot at Portsmouth); the Agamemnon, seventy-nine, screw, 3,102 tons; Algiers, seventy-three, screw, 3,340 tons ; Queen, seventy-four, screw, 3,249 tons ; and Shannon, thirty-five, screw frigate, 2,667 tons. This means that, exclusive of the Griffen, whose tonnage is not given, we are going to make a sacrifice of efficiency in our navy to the extent of 294 guns, and 15,852 tons ! And for what ? Are these ships really not worth repairing, or is . . . . ? We hope the Admiralty will give us a satisfactory answer on this point. We take. occasion, from these ships, to call Mr. Disraeli's attention to an old hulk, which ought long since to have been broken up, and which, though useful in vindicating our claim to eccentricity, is dangerous to those it carries, and if not abandoned in time, must sooner or later founder with all hands on board. We refer to the Irish Church, which even its friends admit is a failure, and whose main tenance they do not attempt to justify on any grounds but those of expediency. If ever there was an alien Church, the Irish Church is one. Its only possible mission was to impoverish, and that it has faithfully accomplished. There is no doubt of its being a standing insult to the Irish people, but there is equally no doubt of its being a standing profit to us, and for that we find we can occasionally tolerate an injus tice. We have liberated the blacks in Jamaica, and made ourselves nuisances in the cause of freedom to every Government in Europe. Is it possible for us to find time to do an act of justice at home, and free a sister country from a hateful wrong, or do we in effect declare, with the Yank ee p oli tician, that in the cause of right we "are ready to sacrifice every able , bodied relation, but had rather be excused ourselves ? Since Mr. Disraeli's Government is engaged in breaking up, here is a hulk to which we would direct his attention. Mr. Glad stone seems inclined to bid for it : let the Premier sell it, then, and it will be the most profitable sale that his Government ever has made.—Westmlitster Gazette. THE TREATY BETWEEN CHINA AND TILE UNITED STATES. Though the full text of this treaty has not been published in the English papers, nor any of the speeches by which his Excellency Anson Burling ame, in America, explained and answered antici pated objections, yet it has been made the subject here of a hostile criticism which is as general as it is inexplicable. On the 2d September the Times re viewed it at length, and again on the 11th. We confine our remarks to the first review, wherein the treaty is discussed article by article. The reviewer asserts that these articles are so harmless and so need less, as to awaken suspicion, and that he rose from the perusal with a conviction that there is more un derneath them than appears on the surface. His posi tion was that of one dealing with another of whose wily design he was convinced, and whose power to injure he dreaded, while unable to detect any- thing but a plain, hearty, open offer of the inter change of friendship and privileges, and the spirit of his writing is naively shown in these remarks. Convinced of a plot he earnestly endeavours to forewarn the nation against the crafty strangers, and he succeeds only iu as far as he perverts the truth, making what is frank and open appear deceit ful and treacherous. We will not here pursue this portion of our subject, which is discussed in our leader ; at present we desire to deal with the re viewer's remarks on the articles. In the first he strangely confuses territory with people ; the Em peror of China has relinquished jurisdiction over the persons of certain foreigners residing in certain por tions of his empire, but he has not relinquished the right of dominion over the soil, as the article asserts; but the reviewer does not perceive the difference, and mixes up men and places in such a muddle, as might be expected to follow from such a mistake. This article further, and as a sequenCe of the Em peror's assertion of his right, maintains the neu trality of the waters and territory under his juris diction in case of war between foreign powers. To show that this was a purposeless clause, intended to raise a phantom of war in the hope of " scaring" the Western Powers into acquiescence, the reviewer asserts that the Chinese territory, not having been violated during the Russian war, would never be violated at all, and is sufficiently guarded by Inter national law. No capture was there made of Rus sian vessels, because there were no Russian vessels there to capture ; but our reviewer is ignorant of the fact, or suppressed it, that Prussia actually cap tured a Danish ship in these waters, and that the British fleet, when the Trent affair threatened war, was so distributed and prepared that, international law notwithstanding, but few American vessels could have escaped ; and if this be doubted, Admi ral Sir James Hope, to whom remonstrance was made, is on the spot to deny it. The second Article reserves to the discretion of the Chinese Govern ment matters relating to trade not expressly pro vided for by treaty. Those only who actually come into contact, as officials, with an Asiatic Govern ment, and see the representatives of other nations in like contact, can understand the force of this Article ; and it is our wish here the more distinctly to state the reason as it runs through every clause of the treaty, which we desire our readers to recollect. It matters not whether we be French, American, English, or German, we meet the representatives of Eastern nations with a haughty assumption of superiority, with a dictatorial tone, in instances approaching to, and even running into, the grossest insolence. An Envoy from China knows that at Peking the Minister of a civilized Power, if he gave way to the pressure of the trading community, would assert an authority unauthorised by the Treaty, and extend its limits at his own discretion, so as to embrace objects not within its scope, and do this with his band almost on the jugular vein of the nation. The Embassy keenly alive to this, and aware that without an express stipulation reserv ing these rights, they are at the mercy, the forbear ance, and the judgment of the Ministers of Foreign Powys, attach the highest importance to this secu rity, as would the English or the French under similar circumstances. The reviewer simply sneers at the particular pains so to guard the United States that it parts with neither privilege nor con cession. Neither this nor the previous article has any more to do with the United States thin with other Powers ; but should another Power think so, the desire of the Embassy is to accept the same conditions from them, the intention being to pro tect Chinese officials and territory from the domi neering influence of foreigners. 'What the United States relinquish is protection to their officers in such conduct, and it certainly is not much for an honest and true-hearted nation to grant—nor for another to ask. The reviewer then proceeds to show that the Chinese Government recognizing in 1860 the impossibility of closing the door which shut them in from the world opened it wide, and this was in truth the reason for their present con duct. This is precisely the fact, for they recognize not only the impossibility, but the folly of keeping , it closed. Yet the reviewer here making this asser tion, elsewhere declares the mission to have emanated from a foreign brain, and to have started with the one Chinese object " to stop all progress ; as to the rest carte blanche," or, in other words, to shut the door. The reviewer shows by the Russian Conven tion that the question of jurisdiction was not of pro minent importance in the eyes of the Chinese, but he overlooks the fact that the Russians are mere indi vidual traders moving through the vast interior and along the extensive borders of China, and therefore to refer disputes between them and the Chinese where the Chinese are all-powerful to a mutual understanding between the Russian Consuls and the Chinese functionaries might readily be conceded. But the case is widely different at Canton, at Shanghai, at Takoo, where the foreign consuls are in communication with men of war, and fly their flags under the protection of open. ports. From three to seven inclusive the Articles appear to the re viewer " objectless, since their provisions are already engrafted into former treaties." No assertion could have better displayed his ignorance, and he actually places these Articles in defiance of his readers side by side with the former provisions to which he alludes. The present Treaty gives the Emperor of China the right to appoint Consuls to the United States' ports ; that is—as the Mission hopes to make the Treaty universal—to all foreign ports. The old Article gave the United States—that is, foreign Powers—the right to appoint Consuls to the open ports of China ; but these provisions the reviewer considers to be identical, the more so as the Treaty was one of reciprocity. We would like to have seen a Chinaman erecting himself into a Chinese Consul at San Francisco, and claiming to administer to his countrymen Chinese law, to the exclusion of the State law. Whatever may be the ignorance of the English as to the force of our remark, it will come home pretty strongly to our own readers. The fourth Article, quoting the 29th Article of the Treaty of the 18th June, 1858, which the review places in juxtaposi tion further agrees that every religious persuasion, not simply " the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches," to which it was formerly restricted, shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience in both countries. The reviewer appears to be blind to the wide dif ference between this and a provision embracing the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches only. The former treaties were intended to guard the citizens foreign countries in China ; this Treaty is in tended to guard the Chinese in foreign countries. But the man cannot understand that there is any difference in toleration being extended to a fol lower of Confucius in New York, and to a Quaker in Peking. Our space is too r,s'ricted to act as does the Times, and to place these Articles side by side, or the folly and bigotry of the remarks would be more apparent than we can hope to make them. We will, however, contrast the concluding clause of Article 4 with Article 12 of tha old Treaty, which the reviewer declares to be exactly similar. " Art. 4. Cemeteries for " Art. 12. Any desecra sepulture of the dead, of tion of the cemeteries by whatever nativity or na- natives of China shall be tionality, shall be held in re- severely punished accord spect and free from disturb- ing to law." ance or profanation." Those who know the Chinese are aware of the value they attach to such a provision. To preserve their dead and to carry the remains to the land of nativity is, with them, a passionate desire, but the old treaties took care, as usual, only of the Chris- MERELY A SPECIMEN. SlR,—Protestantism is appearing in true colours at last. Not long ago an exhib ition took place of the superiority of Protestant psalmody over the " doggrel and trash of Hymns Ancient and Modern." Vide Record, December, 1867. At a Protestant " place of worship " not far from Oxford, a " Sabbath" school anniversary was being held, and the presiding genius, after several lively chants had been sung by the children, arose, and having stated that they " would now worship God by singing one of Watts's children's (1) hymns,' gave out the following : There is beyond the sky A Heaven of joy and love, And little children when they die Go to that land above. With the chorus -0 that'll be joyful, Joyful, joyful, Joyful ; 0 that'll be joyful, There to meet to part no more ! So far, good. Then came the second verse : There is a dreadful hell Of everlasting pain, There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. Then we have it -0 THAT'LL BE JOYFUL, Joyful, joyful, joyful, 0 that'll be joyful THERE to meet to part no more ! There, Sir, is a specimen ! Fancy such an exhibition in S. Alban's, Holborn, or even in a decently respectable village school. The whole of the hymn was sung most lustily, chorus and all, and few seemed to notice so slight a Protestant eccentricity. H. J. YOUNG. Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 1868. —Church News. News from Rome, Sept. 23, state 3 that the Official Journal publishes a letter from the Pope to the Bishops of the Eastoru Rite not in communion with the Apostolic See. His Holiness laments the division, and in vites the Bishops to the (E nuneuical Council in order to re move tha existing differences and effect a union with Rome. LADVERTISEMENT.I-11olloway's Ointment and Pills aro the most appropriate remedy fit the blotches, pimples, biles, and carbuncles, which are annoying, sotnetinies dan gerous, and always disfiguring when summer heats alter cate with wet wintry weather. The subtle permeating powers of this ointment, by repressing inflammation and irritation, reduce the skin to its actual temperature and colour, while radically expelling the cause of the blemishes from the system. The pills assist the cooling and purify ing influence of the ointment by dispelling all that is gross from the bowels and by thoroughly rectifying digestion. Under this treatment every organ of the body is forced to cast off both irregularities and impurities, whereby the health. becomes robust, the feelings joyous, and the akin soft and silky. tian, and left the Chinese out in the cold. Yet College in 1855, and was afterwards a tutor at the Wash this critic cannot see the difference, and actually ington University at St. Louis. He is a practical farmer invites the attention of his readers to the similarity. also, and every way fitted for his new position. Art. sis to the cooly portion of the Chinese popu- Consul-General R,oessing, who has been al )- pointed by the Prussian authorities to treat with t he p s lation a sort of habeas coy pus. Those who do not understand the system of cooly traffic can form no sailed dto America. Government in respect to emigration h a conception of the importance of the object at which Among the names of those invited to speak at the mission drives. Article sof the British Conven- the Salisbury Beach gathering, Massachusetts, about to tion of 1860 gave an unintentional sanction to a come off are Ex-President Pierce and Hon. Henry Wilson, Slave Trade. It ordained that the Emperor should Hon. Caleb Cushing and Hon. William Pitt Fcssenden, proclaim that Chinese choosing to take service Colonel John Quincy Adams and Governor Bullock: beyond sea are at liberty to contract engagements General Schouler and General Butler, General Robert and depart for that purpose. Such contracts made by L an e d e a p n r d G G e ener e al ß E. Lo W.. Rinks, ng in a ks, Hon. George H. Pendle ton coolies in ignorance were enforced in foreign coun- M rs. O'D g onovan ri ßos ' sa is about to issue a volume tries in a way so brutal as to lead to frightful catas- of her poems, published by P. 11. Haverty, of 5, Barclay trophes and loss of life, and no man who has re- street, New York, in aid of the fund she is endeavouri n g sided for any time in China but is familiar with through her talents to gather, to ba employed in defence stories of kidnapping which equal in atrocity any- of her husband. • thing in Western Africa. With a knowledge of The " Poems of Charles G. Halpine" are in course what occurs in Peru, and on the South West coast of publication by the Messrs. Harper, Nebraska, and will of America, in Panama, in Cuba, and other parts, appear following within a few weeks. The n t h y are the names of the revenuee super the mission drew up an Article which repro- visors n th e re bated other than an entirely voluntary emigration, cen t A c t o f Congress, and which Commissioner R ich are now in u int ndr the hands of and is England the country to set its face against Secretary M'Culloch, waiting his action: these philanthropic efforts ? The contracting par- Charles Hudson ; Connecticut, Henry G. Hoyt ; California, ties agree to make it a penal offence to capture and James G. Greene; Indiana, John L. Smith; New Jersey, . carry away citizens, and we earnestly hope that such Ira M. Hamson ; Eastern Pennsylvania, D. P. SouthwLoeruth..: laws may not only become universal, but be rigidly slags,Western aod Pennsylvania,Arkan Arkansas, James Ja A m . O P. S B utt w on ; tMisNsisstiphperi,n Newi enforced. Again, in Art. 6, the reviewer makes the —Massachuset ts, Yor, J. A. Sherman ; Tennessee, R e . s .F. Patterson ; Ilii same mistake of not seeing the difference between nois, John Olney ; Delaware, Indiana, and District Co- Chinese in the United States and Americans in lumbia, Alexander Fulton ; North Carolina and South China. Does he know what goes on in California? Carolina, John Cramer; Southern Ohio, William F. Corn and something might be told for his information, ley; Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, M. J. Saffold;_lT; ginia and West Virginia, Thomas R. Laird ; Maine , , although now beside our subject, of what occurs Hampshire, and Vermont, John Legro ; Kentucky, D. °' in Australia. Is he aware that a Chinaman Goodloe. Seven remain to be nominated. cannot actually bear testimony in a Californian Ex-President Roberts, of the Republic of Liberia, court of law—that he may be assaulted, robbed, has arrived in Washington on business connected with aye, even murdered, almost with impunity ? the Liberia College, of which he is President. He reports Surely he is ignorant that there are tens of everything in the republic of coloured people as going ° t ' thousands of Chinese in that State alone—that prosperously. At the trial of Whelan, the supposed assass in the steamers between San Francisco and Hong of D'Arcy M'Gee, which was continued at Ottawa, Oa" kong carry at each trip between 800 and I,ooo tario, on Wednesday and Thursday, two detectives test i : for can he in the face of this fact assert it to fled that Whelan had acknowledged to them that he h ad A be objectless to provide that " Chinese subjects shot M.‘Gee. Turner, another witness, swore that he lia ' visiting or residing in the United States shall hoard Whelan several times threaten to take M'Gee's life; enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and ex- There was other evidence highly unfavourable to W ed itahrisoner. e case o Th n T e h prin d cipal line of the defence, etnptions in respect to travel or residence as who may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects the Crown witnesses, especially w es a p s ec t ial o i l mp t e h a a c t h of La a e Croix ari d of the most favoured nation? If the sth Ar- Turner ; and an attempt to prove y that the barrel of NO' e tick is the cooly's habeas corpus at home, the lan's pistol had been accidentally discharged a short tim e Gth is the cooly's habeas corpus abroad ; and it f before the murder, by which they account for the cartridg e° appears almost incredible that a nation professing freshly put in just after Mr M'Gee's death. The deferst.D° such principles as the English should not receive so far assumedis v o e n ry th l e am fi e r . st d Whela f n th has e t I . o l st the d defia 0 a appearsn 0 - with open arms a mission whose object is to defendv a t anxious and uneasy. It 3r is supposerdiatatanthe defence the defenceless. Article 7 throws open the educe- occupy about a week, and there is scarcely any d° tl/2 tional institutions under Government control in about a conviction being obtained. the United States to Chinese, as those under the An abstract of General Meade's report on O . n i Chinese Government are open to Americans, and Ashburn murder has been published, and General Ifea t a t e o having teceived the authority he demanded, is ago trial in each country schools may be established for the publish its history, with the evident© taken at n o benefit of the residents of either nationality. These before the military commission. It will, it is said, e 01 '„„ are the Articles which the reviewer asserts he has the guilt of the accused persons ; that the murder w'l shown to be of no perceptible value; but the Bth cold-blooded and unprovoked, and that the sympathy Article embodies the real and sole object, accord - the people of Columbia with the criminals w as such as i ing to him, of the Americo-Chinese mission to make conviction almost impossible. Europe, though his exposition of it proves much Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Tucker of Lenox! _ t s b : more clearly the imprOpriety of his attempting Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor of r 31 . f tou , to enlighten the British public on such a subject. chusetts, nus_ _ is l a B3 B 2 e rk H s e hi e r n e te m re a d n iv b f o ll r . n in s CGolrfeeateßandrl;oo. " That article is intended to pledge—and, in the aced in 3/ el in the class of 1851. In college he tvgas'araoog the minds of the Chinese rulers, it will pledge—the Western Powers not to introduce the subject of most popular men of the class. After graduating ,u,s studied law, was admitted to the bar, and was emploYeraolsi. railroads or telegraphs until, of their own motion, practice until the outbreak of the rebellion. Whe t ' p _ e o, the Chinese avow their willingness and invite dent Lincoln issued his call for 300,000 nine months c° counsel, which they, of course, inwardly resolve he. aided in recruiting the 49th regiment, an h d e w _ 4 dd i e , of first lie l u ih te e n y a s n a t il o e f d Co ir D, aom bout the I:1:d were shall be never." Our readers are aware that the 11 SePtembe d r as l862 Western Powers came into personal communication engaged in the siege of Port Hudson in 1863, near vc ‘i b l o c st with the Chinese Government only since the capture place, at Plains Store, he was severely wounded an' re ., of Peking. By that act they broke through the a leg, and was not long after mustered out, havinwg war be wall of Chinese exclusion, and the barbarian viously been promoted for gallantry. Since the re bate of Chinese imagination then in his proper person has filled various public offices—in the Court I ' ; o 6 froal 1'.5 for Berkshire county, as representative in 1865- . ...„ the entered on the Chinese stage. Eight years have been district, and as a senator the following year trw sufficient to change the most extravagant distrust Southern Berkshire district. v nk into such confidence that the Emperor's Govern - Died suddenly, on the 16th September , at x ° toe ment actually selected from the foreign Ministers fort-on-the-Maine, after two days' illness, of ioll: su i. and employes an Ambassador and two Secretaries of tion of the lungs, Count Francesco T. de Bar, left po Legation, and associating with the foreigners a General of Italy at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. ll° native Representative of each of the great races of family- '01 1)6" China sent them on a mission to the Powers of the Patti is in Paris. Her last representatt ilieo, los 13A World. Here was an act of extravagant trust and the twelfth at the Opera-house in Homburg the most extraordinary compliment ever paid to when the " Somnambula" was performed. Longfellow passed a week lately at Lake C° l°. , civilization. But it was a personal confidence gene- ato a met rated by contact with the individuals. Whilst show- Atmong t ax he appointments already c ell: veil, per theu-AlcovxeanleproiKnteedeiEl .. williae, TA. A d s er, ing a marvellous advance and the frankness almost sonal property clerk; of a child, this feeling could only be generated man, Simeon Hazeltine, Achilles Swaine, Jas. fl• '''' among those with whom the Envoys came into per- son, and John Goiter. sonal contact. They influenced the rulers, and the The Hon. John Morrissey lost $27,000. 153? the rulers more or less the nation. But such a confi- de?eat of the Atlantic Base Ball Club on the 7th:l _l' to dente was not achieved without labour, and a rigid Major-General Lorenzo Thomas, now 3 °e• full list of performance of every act dictated by equity, of inspection of Union soldiers' graves, give and it could not be extended throughout the c the t ni f in t i h ber e v in n e o a u c s h G S o t v a e t r e n . m T en h t e ee to m t e a teries is $3,5 ,39, t 9 000 300,000,000 of Chinese. No ; a leaven of suspi cion remains in the nation, aye, even in high places, or iron fences around all, and iron or stone heads° _ se e : o and nearly another million will be required top laccens each and the fight is between those persuaded of the grave. The greatest number of graves is, of c it ' advantage of Progress, and the Reactionists, a con- Virginia, where they number 73,065. Goill d ' York, We tention to be treated with the greatest delicacy and General Patrick and Mr. JohnN Stanton ju st forbearance. The electric wire—the railroad— cattle commissioners of t i h n e w S h tt i l e t h e of New s w ay p of ub f l n i sf infected d a report the market:lll sg2i7v9eso43, and t 9111,, many Chinese consider to be the forerunners of their cattle bas been effectually stopped, a nd th at ol d subjugation, and are we, who know the folly of the the meat now sold In New York is far more soenaae_• supposition to make no allowance for Chinese ig- healthy than it was before the outbreak of this die ! bire norance and prejudice when we see this sample of The Governor and Council of New HaraP.,„o Anglo-Saxon ignorance and prejudice in the leading York, state geologist. . journal of the leading metropolis of the world have appointed Professor Charles A. Hitchcock, a .1.- is 1 5 44 General Huger, well known in Baltimore, The Article is a concession to Chinese prejudice. By ma king this declaration the enemies of progress t- By Levi S. Humphrey, formerly of ge li I are robbed of their principal weapon, and the hands ser u io e u n sl e y ra ill at St. Catherine's, Canada. of those strengthened whose desire it is tp introduce these very improvements. We rise from this re- el official ier, railroadaVuedrnion t,an de contractor, n o t n r c a e e t o a r loading ed at State wr syn a e, n cilsi fFeheidge; August 23, aged 71. firra of view with feelings of surprise that such an argu- From Havannah the news is that the e. _ 4 , ment could have found a place in the limes, and Senor Zuluena, of Trinidad de Cuba, has suspends. al' still more that it could have so injuriously influ- went with liabilities reported at six million doll . the enced the people in their reception of the Embassy. Two American companies are at work WO —,....-- petroleum districts in Italy. Sufficient In . .s t o the been subscribed to test the matter thoroughl9.! :6 u oif w hich It ' extent of the existence of petroleum, found in considerably quantities. , that °ll , Secretary M'Culloch gives of f icia l net''''_ tes Os! and after Monday, Sept. 14, all Seven -Thirty la i u_ d ptee be forwarded direct to the Treasurer of the ifn i ' v ~, 0 61 ‘ at Washington for redemption. The Hon. S. S. Cox, lately on the t in:1 3 1 ;1o% dressed the Democracy in Granite Hall, Aug.llllo gOn ° The Commissioner of Indian .Affalre4" 00' from Washington to the West, leaving 0 0100 t of missioner ad interim. Charles Franklin Robertson, the niS h f C :F e h i t l ee rc .v l the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, is Rector: oo d at . il 0 Batavia, in the State of New York. B e g r , a ors t pa° College in 1859, and took charge of h is cal Thomas Spriggs, a coloured f oottn Malone in 1862. ;ft at pattibiieli, the I - , ploy of Lord Milton, M.P., was apPre -hell , b a rge c l-col alide'd ham last Saturday, on the charge of stealin t t e sot of rotor tity of jewellery at Wentworth /louse , , ue d a 01 / 4 00, Fitzwilliam. In the prisoner's box w ere a nd silve r 0 , ; (8 ,0 of massive gold pins, valuable rings, gold ats Thera °/(1 ' studs, brooches, locket; and other trial° "_-,•ots ° f den also found in his possession six or seven u 6•5 Paid to have l3;° one of considerable size, all of which a re s Amene,. ..i collected by Lord Milton during a tour ill prisoner is about 18 years of age. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ( From the Anglo-American Times) Frank Leslie is evidently of the opinion that a mild thing in writing constitutes a libel while a strong thing in illustration does not. Some time ago he gave a picture of Chief Justice Chase's dinner, at which the con spirators were assembled who were to defeat the ends of justice, and to carry the President harmless through Im peachment. His Excellency Reverdy Johnson was there well sketched, together with the " doubtful" Senators, at that time termed recreants, though no such dinner bad been given. The Boston Post announced Mr. Leslie's arrival at Richfield Springs with a lady and two fast horses, for which be brought a suit for libel against the paper. Among the passengers who arrived at Southamp ton by the Germania last Sunday are C. de Varigny and family, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hawaiian Islands ; Madame C. Bourgoing, Hawaiian Islands ; A. O. Aldis, United States Consul at Nice ; and Major John Wilkinson, Royal British Army, Bermuda. General and Mrs. M , Clellan left Liverpool last Saturday in the Cunard Company's steamer Cuba for New York, after a residence of two years in Europe. Judge Boynton, of the United States District Court for Florida, has denied an application for a writ of hp.beas corpus in the case of Dr. Mudd, imprisoned in the D►y Tortugas on the charge of being implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln. Enoch Train, a prominent merchant of Boston, died Sept. 8, in Saugus. He was at the head of the house which established the lino of packet ships between that port and Liverpool, and was always noted for his liberality in advancing.commercial enterprise. Births. f 3 i er o AIEXBOROUGH John's-wood, , r oad , • borou g—, of a son tree• STEWART-0 * a the 27th inst., at 50, 80u13094, At we_ ter-at-law, of a sou. thewif wife of sthseteCv C o SIBLEY—On the 27th inst , at 12, New Durlfog-11 the wife of Septimus W. Sibley, Beck, of II s°ll. Captain Charles Bryant, of Fairhaven, Massa chusetts, the new deputy collector for Alaska, will leave for his post in a week or two. He is a veteran in the whaling service, and being a naturalist will be of graat service in giving us a knowledge of our new territory. FOWLER- o M wl A e T r lgE— Ly I s l h a e r e y m L eo o sf u s is a Alfred Mayne, Mayne, $ ll O a t t o b i i ;:f c r d . Church, Richmond, James viler, WI cite isfr • a:AoloffouatTrieiajFe:: i. A t l o l Saints,me Regis House , ia()l(7rEthteielAtPe° ° iEioanil,ioll Emily s Customs. THOMPSON HocE)lurArli teaphi I—d — A C hti . , 7 . 0 3 c oo ~° s ' r '$ • 26th nst., at rStt 0 , 0 youngest daughtertt Ackland, 'of h x Sophia,l i ll o o t u l i s e e r hilwitoibdtheo,evir7ittf..7.o late ' 3' HOOPER— ~cl' dower,k IST' f tii denly, the Hon. Bernards T. Howard, third 0 0 0 Cn n out t hn h et e es 2 2s 6 5 t ot h hf isDniutiefistatotia!:Ct 9hsatrolktoen:aor.tis,e, 000elato: 9- tY As J. W. Hooper, Esq.,' aged 44. vi a I ‘ , , °I . - itailJ , ti d' HALL—On the 26th inst., qt. Brixton, Da c et, '-' late of Northwick,liatroi;, and 44, 13rea d-str 1 0 1 0 aide, aged 49 nitr e ' lsAAcs— On the . 27th 'tat 5 Devonshir?:srl el Isaacs, Esq., formerly of Lanc'aSter, aged,7l.2.rage,ls° MARSHALL—On,Marshall,Esq., t, h a e g 2 e d 7 t 9 h oi.nit., at,Py i. rto n ' /et' 0 0°1 i OA . '" PORTER—On the 27th inst., at Stoke l ' '' TØW I) Miss Amelia Ann Porter, aged GO, Speaker Colfax and party arrived at Omaha, Nebraska, on Thursday morning, Sept. 10, homeward bound. The Springfield Republican says —" The condition of ex President Pierce is such as to prepare the country for the news of his death any time. Ms age—nearly 61 —and his mode of life am unfavourable to his recovery. He has many personal and political friends to mourn his loss, but as a national event his death would occasion no sensation. He has long outlived the period of his political consequence." In accordance with an Act of Congress, Rear- Admirals Stringham and Ball and Brevet Brigadier General Simpson have been appointed a board to ex amine into the subject of bridging Boston harbour, and will meet for that purpose at Charleston, Sept. 16. Thomas Power, a well-known citizen of Boston, died at South Framlingham on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the age of 82. Philip Cordova, Deputy for Caltagirone, in Sicily, died at Florence, Sept. 16, of heart disease in the 55th year of his age. , 3 0 4 1 London : Printed and Published by VALLIA-4,, o- 341 of No. 112, Strd, at TR& SUS °;,. 0 01 Strand,. in the Precincts or the Sa 'la , ddlesex.—Tuesday, September 29, idt* Professor Willard F. Bliss bas been appointed professor of agriculture in the Agricultural College of Il linois. Mr. Bliss is a native of Vermont, but has for many years resided at the West. He graduated at Harvard KrNAH) Thia colebra prize Medal. 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