The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

_-, -- TECHNICAL EDUCATION. A conference on the subject of Technical Education, was held under the auspices of the Society of Arts yesterday. The president was Mr. William Hawes, F. G. S. , chairman of the council, and invitations to attend the conference were issued to the Mayors and Chambers of Commerce of the principal towns throughout the country. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, stated that he assumed the office of president purely as a matter of duty. The following was the programme which the coun cil submitted for discussion : _ . _ . "1. The necessity for improved national educationforthe working classes generally. (a). Improved primary educa tion, and the measures necessary for securing the same. (b.) Additional facilities in primary schools for affording the elder children the means of learning the elements of Scientific knowledge. 2. The necessity for the establish ment of schools for technical and industrial education in relation to science and art, in which pupils after leaving the primary schools may obtain instruction suited to the special indnitries with which they may be connected, as workmen, foremen, er managers. 3. The best measures for securing the foregoing object. 4. How far technical education can be promoted by the aid of existing educa tional endowments. 5. To request the council to appoint a standing committee of members of the Society of Aria and others, to take whatever steps may be required to advance the objects approved by the conference, and to send deputations to the Government to support such appli- cations as may seem desirable." —The first resolution would , be moved by Dr. Lyon Playfair. It was : " That to establish - and maintain a system of technical education adequate to the requirements of arts, manufactures, and commerce to the United King dom, the following educational reforms should be effected :- 1. That in the universities, grammar-schools, and other educational institutions for the upper and middle classes of society, instruction in science and art should • placed upon the same favourable foot ing as studies. 2. Efficient means of primary and secondary instruction should he brought within the reach of the working classes everywhere, and encouragement should be given to the study of science and arts in the upper classes of all schools receiving Govern ment aid. 3. Special institutions for technical instruc tion, adapted to the wants of the various classes and to the various industries of the country, should be established throughout the United Kingdom." Dr. PLAYFAIR, in moving the above resolution, cited various instances of, the deficient arrangements which ex- isted for the spread of technical education in this country, and urged that, though it ought not to supersede the classics, the study of physical science cught to occupy a prominent place in the curriculum of the grammar school and the university. Earl RUSSELL rejoiced to second the resolution proposed by Dr. Playfair. Happily, the'nation was in connection with the question of technical education in a far better position than it was a few years since. As Cobbett observed of one of the works in which he was en gaged, " the straw moves ;" for although it was not perhaps complimentary to compare it to a rat hunt, it was a pleasant fact that the subject of techni cal education was arousing attention in all quarters. At Harrow he rejoiced to know the authorities had. adopted the scheme of teaching physical science, though it had not yet been made a part of the regular curriculum. Still what had been done was a move in the right direc tion. It was necessary, however, to be cautious. In Oxfo:d exertions were being made by some of the most eminent professors to adopt measures for making the study of the physical sciences a part of the recognised course of instruction, and before long he trusted that those who proved themselves efficient in them should receive rewards equal to those who attained proficiency in- classics and mathematics. In Liverpool, his lordship bad heard that young men about to proceed to Oxford had imme diately their attention turned away from the study of physical science and manufactures, because at Oxford the highest honours could only be obtained by classical scholars. By and bye—andbefore long, he hoped—the universities would become really national ; and surely it was necessary for a nation not only to be acquainted with Xenophon and Thucydides, but also Hallatn and Macaulay. Lord Brougham, referring to Pope's well-known line, " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," had on one occasion con tended that half a loaf was better than none. And so it was, and many at the universities, if their course of stduy were properly regulated, would be able to gain much knowledge of useful writers, though, perhaps, from want of funds or ability, unable to take advantage of the higher studies of mathematics and classics. The noble lord then proceeded to state that in the House of Commons he had some time ago con tended that it was an indisputable axiom that it was the moral right of every child to have education brought within its reach. That axiom was becoming more and more clearly recognised, and_ as it was developed, the duty that, as Milton had it, belonged especially to England, of teaching ;,other nations how to live, would be fulfilled. There would no doubt be some difficulty in the matter 43.! compulsory rating and voluntary effsrt. To dovetail the two would of necessity be a very nice task. Wishing Mr. Bruce every success - in his proposed scheme to be brought forward in the House, hit lordship congratu lated himself that the task did not devolve on him. It would not, he thought, be asking too much that Govern ment, when the Abyssinian expedition, about the success of which he had no doubt, was concluded, should devote some of the immense sums which it was able to raise to the kind of education under dis cussion. Having done their duty to the captives at Magdala, they should not refuse to do it towards the thousands of children who were captives in the prison house of ignorance. Having referred to -the disclosures contained in the pamphlet lately issued by Mr. Samuelson, his lordship concluded by seconding the resolutioq. Mr. Dixon, M.P. for Birmingham, dwelt upon what he conceived to be the duty of Government in connection with technical education in the manufacturing district's. Mr. gamumscts was of opinion that it wa s s a great error to underratetvhat England had done. She was, he was persuaded, still keeping the lead in all those branches of industry in which she had of old excelled. She had, however, maintained' her position at an immense cost, which cost was caused by the ignorance of manufacturers, to whom the advantages of technical instruction had not been afforded. Mr. Samuelson warmly urged the establishment of special schools for technical education. The Right Hon. Mr. BRUCE believed that the meeting would agree that hard work was cut out for those who proposed to push the suggestions con tained in the resolutions. The most important question was how to provide for the education of the middle classes, and for the solution of that question he (the speaker) anxiously looked for the report of the Commis sioners on I:chic:lslam. It was a question whether Govern ment should take the initiative in founding schools in large towns, bat Government should at once announce the it would cordially and liberally support those schools which were founded. If asked how the middle-class schools were to be supported, he would answer at once, by the application of local endowments. A good use of these would furnish nearly enough schools in the great centres of industry. With regard to the aid the State could give to the education of the working classes, he thought it must be conceded that the voluntary system had shewn that it was not and could not be sufficient, and that some sytteia Of local taa-s.tien must be adopted. The effect of the Revised Code on many of the schools had been excellent, but it still left 'latch to be done. Mr. Bruce then proceeded to urge the n ecess ity t h at existed for children being kept at school a sufficient time, at least until they were 14 years of age ; and argned that unless they could be,thus kept at school, it would be useless to give them advanced instruction, and the science classes might be looked upon as worthless. Mr. ROUNDELL explained that Within the last few years the University of Oxford, of which he was a Fellow, had done much for natural science. At his own college one of the open Fellowships had been offered for natural science. Before long, it might be hoped, the example would be fol lowed by the other colleges. Care must, however, be taken that in the introduction of those studies which did not of necessity demand a liberal education, the ancient dignity of the universities was not lowered. -EArl GP,ANVILLE observed that there were two great prac tical objects in the meeting—the one to ascertain the opinion of the public on the subject of technical education, nttthe other to stimulate the public to new and in creased exertion. It was of the extrernest importanc that those wh o the case shoul e d st were" really well versed in the necessity of seek to influence the public, and, he would add, her Majesty' s f; also. With regard to the universities, grammar"a moven schools, and other educational esta blishments, y teat e in the direction desired could only be brought about b w ere fashions in educatie forne of public opinion. leers n some of which were some thou sand years old, and were apparently becoming worn out ; and it was of importance to what was the fashion that the nation desired. of the study th of the n atural sciences into introduction n l i o versiti e s, he believed, would tend to raise, rather than n lower, standard of learning. The noble lord said that Norris, late a retool inspector, had stated that those the where the ructio le tt est were just reading and writing of the scholars were given, those where the higher branches of inst which nould do away with a fear existing se sortie Zorti,iiarters that the higher course of instruction would tend from the lower. Earl Gran %dile rejoiced to know that arr e a tr n an ,e; t tie-snts had been made at Harrow for the proper pursuit of scientific study in that school. It had not been fai r l y tested hitherto, because it had never been actually included ri the curriculum. Professor ROGERS, without depreciating the value of classical studies at the universities, strongly urged the claims of natural science, and argued that the various charitable funds and en•lowmsnts which were now rnisap , pr , x ate , ' , " e ht applied to providing the means and e , • ---- tar rehards fur such studies. M ' . I;,),LIING agreed with Dr. Playfair that a goon soastratem of primary education was essential to the e:f,etual carrying out of the object of the resolution. Mr. FIELD, President of the Chamber of Commerce ch I:irluingharn, argued that the sepplanting of the English manufacturer in the United States of America by the demestic manufacturer was due to the growing intelligence of the American workmen. Mr. Field proceeded to port out that the schools in the United State: were generally free, and were divided into Oreh. classes—the free, the grammar, and the high schools. In Boston, Mr. Field had found from Mr. Philbrick that such a thing as compulsory education was almost unkown. An American citizen looks upon education aa his dearest right, and never fails to cause his child to tak , . advantage of it. In Boston almost the only persons t* whora compulsory education applies were the Irish and Eng,lish residents. - ‘" , s•-• The PROVOST of Durrpzx expressed his adhesion to the proposition contained in the resolution. The discussion was adjourned. 211 E HOME OFFICE AND CORONERS. A dispute has frequently atteri between a coroner and a bench of magistrates as to the right of the former to have a prisoner brought before a jury during the progress of the inquest. It has now been settled by Mr. Gathorne Hardy's deciding that the coroner has no right to make such a demand, and that the Home Secretary has no legal power to grant it. Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, has just held an inquest at the Bank of England Tavern, Cambridge-Place, Paddington, relative to the death of a child, the illegitimate son of Ann Wickens, a domestic servant. The jury having been empanelled, the Coroner said the mother was apprehended by the police, taken before a police magistrate, and remanded. Since he had been coroner it had always been customary in cases of supposed murder or manslaughter to apply to the Secretary of State to allow such suspected persons to be present before the jury, in order that they might hear the evidence against them. That was the ancient system, and revived in modern times, after the introduction of stipendiary magis trates and justices of the peace. He had accordingly applied to Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the Home Secretary, to have Anne Wickens brought before the court on the pre sent occasion, but had met with a refusal, although his application was sent on one of the printed forms which he possessed. He would read the letter he had received : " Whitehall, Jan. 20, 1868. Sir, lam directed by Mr. Secretary Hardy to acquaint you that his attention has been called to the practice which he understands has pre vailed for some years of producing before coroners' juries persons in custody of the metropolitan police on charges of murder and manslaughter. It appears that in cases of this kind the coroner makes an application to the Secretary of State to authorise the person charged to be brought before the inquest (which is always fixed for the day on which the prisoner is to be taken before the police-magistrate for:fur ther examination) on his way to or from the police court. Seeing, however, that the Secretary of State has no legal authority to give any such orders, and that he, therefore, in every such case steps beyond the law, he is of opinion that the practice in question, which exists only in the metropolitan police district, cannot properly be continued. I am directed, therefore, on general grounds, and without reference to any special case, to intimate to you that after this date Mr. Hardy will not feel it to be his duty to give any instructions to the metropolitan police for the production of prisoners at coroners' inquests. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Ja2azs FERGUSSOII.—E. Lankester, Esq., Coroner's Office, Great Marlborough-street." The Coroner said that it re. gained now to be seen whether Mr. Hardy was right o r wrong. He felt that there was an intention on the part of :he present Government of the country to withhold a pri soner under the hands of the police from coming before a coroner's court, which afforded special opportunities both to the accused and the jury. He was of opinion that the police and the coroner's courts clashed with each other, and the sooner a member of Parliament should bring this case under the consideration of the Legislature the better as the matter then would be settled. The j try expressed their extreme dissatisfaction at the letter read. THE VOLUNTEERS. On Thursday night the prizes won in the various Enfield competitions of the past year by members of the St. George's Rifle Corps were distributed in the Duke of Wellington's Riding-school at Knightsbridge. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. H. LINDSAY, M.P., eaid that a more intelligent and more military organisa. tion was about to be given to the reserve forces of the country, through the instrumentality of the new War Office Controller. What that control would be he knew not ; but it was clear that the volunteers ought to receive the assurance, first that they would be armed with breech. loaders as loon as possible ; secondly, that their equip ment should be completed as soon as possible, and stored :or immediate use when necessary; and thirdly, that the capitation grant should be increased, according to the desire which had been expressed to the Secretary of State for War Oy various commanding officers of volunteers throughout the country. The communication of those three assurances would be hailed with intense satisfaction, because it would ive additional life and vigour to the movement, and would assist materially in recruiting the ranks of the ser ve did not presume to give any decided opinion at present on the new system about to be introduced ; but if it was to be a success there must be but one ruling mind for the government and control of all the military foroes of this country, both regular and reserve. The organi sation of the reserve force was a matter of very great importance, and it could not be separated from that of the regular army. The two must be so linked together that at a moment's notice unity of action may be realised and the usual discreditable confusion avoided. Much had been said with regard to forming district brigades, with staff machinery and reserve force. Great advantage would be gained by so doing, and additional advantage would be derived from the two forces working together when possible. But great discretion would be required vice. ,in carrying out such a system to prevent too severe a tax on volunteers whose time was not their own. Any decided interference with the regular conduct of business would militate against the interests of the volunteer ser vice. With regard to the general staff of the reserve force, he thought it ought to be a permanent military body, with power of unlimited extension in its working ma chinery. There was a difference of opinion as to what should be the system of carrying on the new organi sation of the military forces of the country ; but he felt that any distinction between the regular and the reserve forces would be impracticable, because volunteers, if %Idled out, would beconie part and parcel of the regular truly, and therefore there should be but one controlling power in each department, no matter whether in trans port, in commissariat, hospital, or provost - marshal. Each department should possess power of expansion to an unlimited extent in the working of its machinery. Otherwise there could be no perfect organi sation. Some decided action was decidedly pressing, first, because the efficiency of the reserve force, and he might add of the regular army, was not _equal to their cost ; and, secondly, because the reserve force would have to be con siderably increased. He entirely coincided with Lord Elcho in regard to enforcing the ballot for the militia, the only exemption being an effective membership in a volun teer corps. Considering the military organisations going on on the Continent, he thought that step would soon be come necessary. Its adoption would increase the numbers and efficiency of the volunteer force, and enable a reserve volunteer force to be raised on the plan suggested by Lord Truro, the members of which would not be required to procure uniforms till it became necessary, though they would be made an efficient body so far as military training was conoerned. AN IRISH TRAGEDY. The Dublin correspondent of the Post, writing on Thurs day, tells the following story :—" A frightful domestic tragedy—happily a rare Occurrence here -- occurred in this city yesterday wording. At about two o'clock a.m. a ter rified boy rushed breathless into the Summerhill Police station, and announced to the officers that his mother had just been murdered by his father. Inspector Freny and Acting-Sergeant Keegan went immediately to the house No. 10, Guildford-place, on the bank of the Royal Canal: On entering the back parlour a horrid scene presented itself to their view. The floor was covered with patches of blood. The furniture was thrown about, and on the bed a woman lay speechless, her face and head shewing marks of great violence, and her body, which was entirely naked, a mass of blackened bruises. Her husband, Peter Reilly, was in the room, and they proceeded to arrest him. He offered some resistance, but was secured. Inspector Freny then had the woman wrapped in a blanket, and carried in a cab to Jervis-strect Hospital, where she received every attention that surgical skill could suggest, but she died about an hour after her admission. The case is a terrible example of the evil results of intemperance. It appears that the unhappy pair had been married for about sixteenyears, but as Mrs. Reilly was a slave to indulgence in drink, their life was an almost unbroken series of quarrels, sepa rations, and litigation. On th ree or fouroccaairs Reilly i —who is said to be a hard - work in g and industrious man, a cooper by trade, and earning a decent income —had brit obliged to separate from his erring wife, allowing her a separate maintenance. She h ad several times been arrested for being drunk in the streets, and he had been obliged to bring her before the magistrates for making away with his property to pro cure the means of indulging in her debasing vice. Each separation was followed by a reconciliation, brought about by the intervention of friends, and attended by promises of reformationon her part, made only to be broken. The last reconciliation was effected only a short time ago, but t s u Tu e she had no stoner returned to her husband ' s roof than she r forme r h a bi ts. R e ill y hi mse lf , di s t rac t e d by domestic hail Reillylatterly . t become otiml the theatre, edadtircet,e from to oi n drink. oelm ed her s m da7 y n r igh t he returned late at night, to find his wife in a state of intoxication. A quarrel arose, which lasted until one o'clock, when he turned upon her, koocked her down by - blow of his fist on th e h ea d , i n the presence of his s 4, Philip Reilly, a boy 13 y ears ,f age, and kicked her about the head and body in a fearful manner. The unhappy couple have another child, a d aug ht er , 15 years of age, Nv'm is being educated in a convent in the West of Ireland, and was thus spared the anguish of witnessin g her niotller':; degradation and miserable end. the secretary of the English Church Union re quests us to announce that the statement regarding the resignation of the presidency 01 that society by the Hon. Cohn Lindsay, and the election to the office of the Hon- C. L. Woods is wholly iLcoaect, —Poet. THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1868. RAILWAY IN rELLIGENCE. NORTH BRITISH. The report of the directors of this company, to be submitted at a special general meeting on the 81st inst. at Edinburgh, has just been issued. It states that in convening a general meeting of the shareholders for the consideration of the heads of a oint purse agreement between the company and the Caledonian Company, to endure for 20 years from the Ist of February, 1868, the board desire to place before the shareholders the fullest information on ,he subject, that they may be enabled to form an independent opinion of the merits of the proposed arrangement. The document is accordingly given in extenso, and the board do not doubt it will receive at the hands of the shareholders that careful consi- deration which its great importance calls for. It is not too much to say that this is the most important agreement either of the two companies have entered into, and ou its fair and equitable working the future prosperity of both undertakings in a great measure depends. Tho agreement has been adjusted by a committee of directors of each cam- pany, and it has the approval of both boards. having regard to the larga interests involved and the peculiar circumstances of the North British Company, the directors have been careful so to regulate its provisions that under any contingency North British interests shall be properly guarded. Neither company is in any way bound for the en gagements of the other; and as the whole scope and tendency of the agreement is to develope to the fullest extent the two systems, combined as one for traffic purposes, the Board look with confidence to an imme fiate and very material increase on the traffic receipts, and at the samc time a reduction of the working expenses. The agreement will also enable both companies to abandon lines which will be unnecessary ; and as both companies are bound for the next 20 years not to promote new lines without the sanction of the other, a cessation from the policy of competition and aggression, which has too long been pursued by the two companies, must necessarily be beneficial to the shareholders of both concerns. The heads of the joint purse agreement between the Caledonian and North British Railway Compa nies provide that a joint purse agreement shall be entered into between the two companies, on the basis of the proportion that the actual gross traffic receipts, without deducting cartages, earned on the Caledonian Railway for the 18 months ending with the 31st of January, 1868, and the actual gross traffic receipts, without deducting cartages, earned on the North British Railway for the same period, bear to the actual gross traffic receipts of the two companies for the same period. The gross traffic receipts earned are to be ascertained by the officers of the companies ; and, in the event of their failidg to agree, the same shall be fixed by a committee of the two companies, and, failing agreement, by the arbiter after named. Before fixing the proportions to be awarded to the companies, it is agreed that the competitive traffic between England and Scot land which might have been carried by the Waver ley route in the 18 months to 31st Jan., 1868, but for the English and Scotch traffic agreement shall be estimated by a committee of the two companies ; and, failing agreement, the arbitrator shall decide what amount of additional revenue from traffic, if any, shall be fairly credited to the North British Company, over and above the revenue for traffic actually carried by the Waverley route, on the snp• position that the English and Scotch traffic agree ment had not existed in the 18 months to 31st of January, 1868, and that the companies south of Carlisle had given the same facilities and advantages in every respect to the traffic via the Waverley route as those companies afforded to the route of the Caledonian Company ; the arbitrator taking into account the position and statutory powers of the North British Company with reference to the Scottish Ncrth-Eastern line, and also the position and powers of the Caledonian Company with re ference to the railways south of Carlisle, pro vided always that neither company shall plead any agreement with any of the companies south of Carlisle in bar of advantages which the other com pany could claim before the arbitrator for facili ties over any of those lines. And, in like manner, the arbitrator shall also decide what amount of traffic, if any, shall be credited to the Caledonian Company for al.: 18 months of January, 1868, if the Mriland and other English companies, exclud ing the east coast companies, excepting as respects the Newcastle an l Carlisle section of the North- Eastern Railway, had given the same facilities and advantages in every respect to the traffic via the Caledonian route as such companies afforded to the Waverley route of the North British Company. The arbitrator shall also consider what additional re venue from competitive traffic, if any, shall be credited to the Caledonian Company on ac count of the amalgamation of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway Company with them, which traffic the Caledonian Company allege has not yet been developed, and which, they also allege, would naturally accrue to them from their being the owners of the Scottish North-Eastern line. The arbi trator shall, however, take into account the position and statutory powers of the North British Com pany with reference to the Scottish North-Eastern line. The east coast route shall be maintained in the fullest efficiency, and all the facilities and ad vantages which the east coast companies have hitherto enjoyed in working their traffic and other wise shall be fully secured to them ; but on the termination of the English and Scotch traffic agree ment, or on the opening of the Midland Company's line to Carlisle, or when that company may be'work ing into Carlisle over the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, the arrangements with the east coast companies will necessarily fall to be revised. A joint traffic committee, consisting of four direc tors from each board, shall be appointed with full power and control over the traffic and the fixing of rates, and the routes for conducting it, but that it be an instruction to the said committee so to regulate the traffic that each company's lines shall convey as nearly as possible their proportion of traffic which would yield to each company their proportion of revenue as fixed by this agreement. That all routes shall be kept open, and that the working expenses (including cartages) for the excess of traffic carried beyond the fixed proportions shall be 30 per cent. If either company at the end of any half-yearly balance have not earned their pro portion of the revenue awarded to them, the joint committee shall be bound to direct the traffic for the following six months, so that such company shall, in addition to their proportion, carry the amount they were short in the previous half-year, and the joint committee shall be bound to regu late the conveyance of the balance of traffic to be so made up, according to the request of such company. The appointment of chairman of tie joint committee shall be made half-yearly, and shall be filled up alternately by a member from each board, who shall have a deliberative but no casting faft vote. aaop pltlihotn eiogn S , eta h ehgb o dary u ei ar l eadn:ndte arbitratoruhni ff ae ln e ol ryf to ot n bh c ye e a s a t tshwtaeraoipsnj appointed these ioiniumutztpeda shall anrbibyecommittee,ist,tr the a b et no e Bdr referredßoard wfat rothdhobe they of my Trade. The meetings of the joint committees shall be held in Glasgow or Edinburgh, according to the domicile of the company whose director is chair man for the time being of the joint committee, or at such other place as may from time to time be agreed upon. The revenue from the traffic of the two companies shall be published weekly in one sum. Each comp lily shall efficiently maintain and work their respective undertakings, excepting the Forth and Clyde Navigation already provided for. Statements of the gross traffic receipts on the two companies' railways shall be furnished monthly by them to the joint committee, and the one co:npany shall, at all reasonable times, have access to the books of the other company for examination and transcription. Rents of houses, traffic depots, stores. sto ,ag,,, :t:A 1 1, La -duties. i , ,tere6t. on road bonds, Newport ferry receipts, gas work re eoipts, telegraph receipts, transfer fees, and other items of the like nature shall be excluded from the agreement ; but the dividends received on the sub scriptions to other undertakings, the interest on which may be a charge on the joint purse, shall be paid to the joint committee. The statutory rights of all companies and parties shall be preserved, and all agreements, except as provided for in this agree ment, affecting the two companies shall be respected ; and in the event of this agreement terminating at any time, nothing done under it shall affect the rights of the two companies or existing agreements to which they respectively are parties. As between the two companies interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum ou the amounts expended at the 31st Jan., 1868, as on the amounts still to be expended (when expended) in connexion with the specified lines and works in course of construction—but such amounts shall not exceed the total estimated expenditure res pectively stated opposite to each railway or work— shall form a first charge on the gross earnings of the companies, before division : —On 17 of the Cale donian lines an estimated expenditure of £1,063,600, of which there was expen led to the 31st of July, 1867, £704,731. On six of the North British lines a total estimated expenditure of £711,000, of which there was expended to the 31st of July, 1867, £526,192. The companies agree not to oppose, directly or indirectly, each other iu obtaining the sanction of Parliament to an extension of the time for completing all or any of the lines afternien tioned :—Caledonian Lines.—The Aluirkirk branch, £160,000; Lanarkshire branches, —viz , Clitnpy Extension, £5,000 ; Hamilton and Feruiegair, £45,000 ; Heywood and Addiewell, &c., Branches Act, 1867, £l4o,ooo—total estimated expenditure, £350,000. North British Lines.—Carlisle Citadel Station branch, £33,000 ; Glasgow and Coatbridge Railway, and so much as is necessary for this rail way of the Coatbridge branches, 1866, £280,000 ; Dunfermline and Inverkeithing, £25,000 ; Devon Valley branches, to the extent of say £15,000 ; Lasswade branch, part of (as may be deviated to save capital), £95,000 ; Langdale branch, £30,000 ; Stobcross branch, £270,000 ; total estimated ex penditure, £748,000. As between the two com panies, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the capital from time to time expended on the above lines, but not exceeding in each case the £350,000 and £748,000 respectively, shall also form a first charge on the gross earnings of the companies before division. As between the two companies, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the capital contributed by the Caledonian Company shall form a first charge on the gross earnings of the companies before division. Callander and Oban, £200,000 ; Crieff and Comrie, £20,000; Crofthead and Kilmarnock, £140,000; Crieff and Methven, £55,000; Wemyss Bay, £42,000 ; Busley, £36,048; and Solway Junction, £60,000 ; total, £553,048, of which £224,268 was contributed to the 31st of July last. Also the North British subscriptions of £BO,OOO to the Berwickshire ; £47,000 to the Blane Valley, which may be increased by £25,000 ; to the City of Glasgow Union, £300,000 ; and to the Devon Valley, £60,000 ; total, £512,000, of which £241,947 was contributed to the 31st of July last. In the event of either of the companies electing to abandon certain lines and works specified, they pledge themselves respectively not to oppose, directly or indirectly, each other in obtaining sanc tion of abandonment, including seven of the Cale donian lines., involving a total capital of £1,122,000, and ten lines of the North British, involving a total capital of £1,639,370. The companies respectively shall work the traffic on or over the new lines which are to form a first charge on the gross traffic before division, and receive therefore an allowance equal to the cost per train mile of working. During the currency of this agreement no new line or work shall be promoted, directly or indirectly, by either company, without the consent in writing of the other company, under their common seal ; and neither company shall subscribe to, or undertake the working of, any other undertaking or scheme, or enter into any agree ment with any company or party, in reference to the interchange, division, or the rates for the con veyance of traffic, or for the lease of or amalgama tion of either company with any other company, without the like consent, with some specified ex ceptions. Sir William Erle, whom failing, Lord Cranborue, whom failing, Earl Granville, shall be the arbitrator under this agreement. A general arbitration of all differences shall be provided for. This agreement shall subsist for the period of 20 years, from and after Feb. 1, 1868, with the option to either company to call for a revision as at Feb. 1, 1875, of the proportion of receipts to each CJIII - fixed under this agreement, on giving six months' previous notice to the other company ; but if such revision be not then called for, the power to being called f or , a n d the require the same shall se. In the eve n t o f a re of e the a li n g t o agreement ag be awarded to each, the arbitrator shall fix such. This agreement shall be subject to the approval of the shareholders of both companies, to be expressed at special general meetings to be held simultane ously on January 31, 1868. The companies shall concur in applying for Parliamentary sanction of this agreement in session 1869 , and the expenses of the application, and incident thereto, shall be borne bytheconifniesila proportion to th e i r gross t ra ff i c receipts. formal agreement shall be immediately prepared by the solicitors of the two companies, and be settled, iu case of difference of opinion, by Mr. Lloyd. ment the funeral ceremony of Colonel Orcutt, the murdered Sheriff of Kalamazoo, which took place on Monday, Dec. 30, the mourners tried to lynch the murderers. A horrible tragedy was committed on board the American whaling bark Eagle, at Honolulu, No vember 11th. A Portuguese boy, named Manuel Dall, about 14 years of age, who was sleeping in the main hatch, was killed by the cutting of his throat by a negro seaman named Daly. The latter, after committing the deed, went to the forehold and cut his own throat. Charles H. Dryden, of 279, Holland-street, Balti more, late Justice of the Peace, shot himself through the heart almost in the presence of his wife. He was s') years of age, and had no chil dren. The Chicago Tribune of the 30th Dec. vouches for the truth of a horrible story concerning a man who, had been accused of stealing a gun iu Elkhart, Indiana, and who was taken from the officers of the law by two ruffians, and subjected to the mst cruel tortures. To make him confess, he was seized and hung up by a tree; but after a few seconds the rope broke, when he was again hung up, the rope, however, breaking a second time. " Next," says the Tribune, "the men dug a pit in the ground be neath the tree, and then built a roaring fire. They then doubled the rope, placed it again about Sey mour's neck, and gave him a last opportunity to make a confession. He still refused, and a moment after he hung from a stout limb by a strong cord, immediately over a blazing fire. In another moment he was literally ablaze, and then gave token by looks and signs that he was ready to confess. lie was immediately cut down, considerably the worse for the fire, and then he made a full confession." Mobile (Alabama), on the 28th Dec., was tbe scene of a tragedy of unusual character. Richard Busteed was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court by President Lincoln. L. P. Martin, United States District Attorney, had been indited for fraud and extortion in the collection of the revenue. lie met the Judge in the street, and, accosting him, said, " Will you allow that indictment to stand ?" The answer was the only one without infamy the Juige could make, and Busteed replied, "The law must take its course." On this Mr. Martin drew fro.n his pocket a revolver and fired at the Judge, wounding him in the right kg, and a second shot entered his breast. Mr. Busteed continues in a precarious state, but the wounds are not considered mortal. Arail way employe on the Lake Shore Line tells an affecting incident in connection with the catastrophe at Angola. A babe, scarcely old enough to talk, was picked up near one of the wrecked cars by a brakes man, seemingly unconscious of what had occurred. It showed some signs of life, however, and the moment it discovered that an arm encircled its waist, it nestled up closely to the man, uttered the words, " papa," " mother," and died with out the contraction of a muscle. Only a few minutes elapsed from the time it was taken up until it died. A b3antiful smile encircled the lips after death, such as would have been the case had its last sweet words upon earth been utterel in the quiet circle at home. A NEW CHICAGO SENSATION.—For four years past a party of Spiritualists in Chicago have been diligently boring a hole in the earth, on the western edge of the city, in quest of oil. A "medium," led by an invisible spirit, promised that by the exercise of much faith and a small augur the well would spout oil ; but the more the deluded borers bored the less signs of oil they saw. A depth of 790 feet was reached—and there was a prodigious artesian well, with plenty of water, but no oil. A few days ago, however, a phenomenon actually occurred. The Chicago Tribune tells the story : "It seems that, not satisfied with their previous experiments, and the ricti flow which has followed their explorations, they have been boring still deeper. All concerned were startled a day or two since at finding one of their holes monopolised by a gaseous emanation as plenteous as the water which was expected to flow from it, and noxious enough to threaten to poison the atmosphere for miles around. It is described by those who have seen it as a dense gas, which burns red, with a slight blue tinge, not at all flickering, and with a full carbona ceous blaze." As this blaze cannot be put out, the Tribune proposes to utilise the miniature volcano, by placing around it a set of reflectors, for the pur pose of illuminating the city from the direction of the setting sun. A Nevada miner recently had his leg caught under a rock, and being rendered helpless was eaten by a panther. An occupant of the Debtors' Prison at Chicago caused a great ghost scare. Ile found that the end of an unused gas-pipe terminated in his cell, so he Inserted a par or funnel in the tube and made the corridors below resound with the wail he produced. Consternation reigned among the inmates of the gaol till the trick of the joker was discovered. There has been another sensation at Chicago, as four citizens have lately mysteriously disappeared, and nothing has been heard of them. SAN PAULO. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 86i miles iu length, amounted, for the week ending the Ist of December, to £587 for passengers, &c., and to £4,196 for goods, &C.—total, £4,785. For the week ending the Bth of December to £463 for pas sengers, &c., and to £4,401 for goods, &c.--total, £4,864. For the week ending the 15th of Decem ber, to £445 for passengers, &c., and to £3,871 for goods—total,making the aggregate re ceiptsf or th £4, r e ewe 3 e l k 6 ; weeks £13,965. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's railway, 507 miles in length, amounted, for the last week in December, to $97,428, against $98,318 for the cor responding week in 1866, showing a decrease of P9O. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the following railway bills came under the consideration of Messrs. Frere and Paigrave, the examiners of standing order proofs :—ln the Committee-room presided over by Mr. Frere the standing orders were declared to have been com plied with in the unopposed petitions of the Glas gow and South Western, the Caledonian, and the South Eastern, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Companies. In Mr. Palgrave's Court, which was held in Conanittee-room No. 17, the examiner declared the following unopposed petitions to have passed the standing orders :—The West Riding and Grimsby, the Great Northern, the Lon don and South Western, and the Ilfracombe. SENSATIONAL ITEMS. Chief Justice Slough, of New Mexico, was mur dered in the principal hotel at Sante Fe on the 15th Dec., by Captain Rynerson, member of the Terri torial Senate. Judge Slough came from Ohio. He was colonel of the Ist Colorado Cavalry, and com mandant of Alexandria, Virginia, during a portion of the war. His wife is a near relative of Chief Justice Chase. Rynerson was a captain of Cali fornian Volunteers, and at one time held the ap pointment of Quartermaster at Santa Fe. Joseph Brown and his wife, of Canaan, New York, have been fully committed at Hudson for the horrible murder of their adopted daughter, an the subsequent burning of her body with their house to conceal the crime. Charles 11. Parker, a rtilroad conductor, was mu r dered at Johnston, Pennsyl vania, by a passenger whoa" he was ejecting from the train for refusal to pay his fare. Charles Lordell, associate editor of the La Crosse Democrat, who was buroed to death by the Angola disaster, was on his way to Connecticut to get married. Three men have been arrested at New York for the great robbery of upwards of $3,000,000 in owes and bonds from a bank clerk in the streets of .New York. H. H. Colby has been arrested at Corning, New York, fur the robbery of $B,OOO from the Steuben county safe, and one man has been arrested at Toronto and another at New York for the recent .murder of Sheriff ()mitt of Kalamazoo, Michigan. BY way of winding up with an excite- TERRITORY AND POPULATION. The great difficulty against which the United States has to contend is the enormous extent of its sparsely peopled or unoccupied territory. There are two main causes of demoralization at work in the Union, which act and react on each other, and require the exercise of no small amount of national virtue to withstand. Along the Atlantic -sea board are:the populous States in a high position of culture and civilization. But this Belt is more or less acted on by barbarism, both from the East and from the West. Judging by the tone of the people of New England, of Pennsylvania, and such States, acts of violence, disregard for human life, and gross corruption, would not be the crimes supposed to prevail. Yet the criminal records and the columns of every newspaper afford abundant evi dence that they do. Tracing the history of such States as Massachusetts, founded by a body of religious fanatics, down to the present day, when the customs, manners, habits, and thoughts of the people are cast in the mould derived from their forefathers, the prevalence of these crimes in the midst of such a community might well puzzle the careless observer. if, however, the position of these States be considered, it will become apparent that without a strenuous exercise of morality and reli gious propagandism, these communities would be smothered by the inroad of gross ignorance from Europe on the one side, and by the still more dan gerous savagery of the wild settlers of the West on the other. If grouping mankind into dense masses leads to immorality, scattering them widely over a waste leads to barbarism, because the civilizing in fluence of religion, of literature, of people's action on each other, is, to a great extent, lost. The law ceases to protect, and each man becomes a law unto himself, and the guardian of his own life and pro perty. Such a state will doubtless generate some virtues. It will make the individual ready, deter mined, and courageous in action ; strong, self-re li int, and enduring ; handy, and generous. But, on the other hand, it creates a contempt, in one word—for civilization—which involves more than at first sight is apparent. A man who " shoots on sight" his enemy, learns to despise the slow pro cesses of the law. lie who judges off-hand a ques tion of equity, and acts on his decision, would feel little inclination to await the ruling of a judge, or the verdict of a jury, Where reason and argument fail, and even right be but a feather in the balance— might, becomes the g,oal of his idolatry—the might of a true eye, a steady hand, and quick action. Whoever p33sessos the qualities that best fit him for the circumstance in which he is plac ;d, will most sway those around. If strength be all powerful, the aim of all will be to be strong. Brute force then usurps the prerogative of intellect and virtue ; and in proportion as it gains the ascendancy will be the ratio of col Iterupt in which the latter are ii,,1,1. File first teu ieucy is to cite ',pen the value ,if human life. :Veil who take the law in their own hands, and indict where they are plaintiffs on the defendants its. extre.ne penalty learn to re gard a man's life as. a small matter. Just as the South sank in the Ecale of civilization, this fright ful habit gained head, and there can be little doubt that with the 7(aore general intercourse which the extension of railways into the Far West has produced the habit is on the increase in the north. Like all noxious weeds, its tendency is to grow rapidly. If a man is aware that the stranger who enters into conversation with him has a loadel re volver in his pocket—that this stranger may drink himself into a fighting mood and fasten a quarrel on him—and if he knows that his own life may de pend on the celerity with which he may shoot his companion, although a peaceable member of society, abhorring the necessity which drives him to such an extremity, or that forces him to carry this expedi tious means of death—yet he is compelled to do so. Thus the habit which, confined to isolated commu nities—where men are obliged, more or less, to fulfil for themselves the duties of police, may not be without excuse—is introduced into the densely peopled tracts of the Eastern sea board, where the citizens are driven iu self-defence to adopt the same custom, and thus it becomes general. A greater curse could scarcely be entailed upon society. Duel ling in Europe was felt to be a wicked and injurious custom. But duelling was right and honour itself, when compared with the habit that has obtained so pernicious a footing in America. A man who sets no value on another's life is not likely to set mach on his property, his reputation, or any other thing else he possesses ; and with this, all the great checks are severed. The consequence is a perpetual terrorism. A judge administers the law with the pistol of the offending ruffian at his head. The orator may, in denouncing a crime, speak his death-sentence; and the editor, i❑ showing up some villany to cublic scorn and indignation, may write away his own life. To the ordinary incidents which tell so heavily against the human race is added another, that more than all, is dangerous to society, for it is not the effect of blind chance, but is generally aimed by vice against virtue. No doubt the greater sufferers are brawling ruffians, who shoot each other without re morse in their drinking booths ; but the danger lies more in such worthless members not only being able to pit their lives against the best, but in doing this with all the chances on their side. Take the case of Judge BUSTEED, shot by District-Attorney MARTIN at Mobile, for declaring that the law, he had sworn to administer justly, must take its course against MARTIN as against others, and the ruffian, aware of his guilt, and when he had lost all that makes life valuable, shoots down the inexorable Judge. In New Mexico a Chief Justice is murdered by a member of the Legislature. At Nashville, Ten nessee, Eugene CORRY, who was nominated Judge for the Circuit Court, was knocked down in the Convention by Judge BRIEN, and CORRY, doubt less congratulated himself on having escaped being shot. Such habits are wholly opposed to New England sentiments, and if time and custom had not in some degree smoothed away the edges of their barbarity, they would be regarded with the horror and disgust similar crimes would excite in England. To withstand this demoralizing tendency on the one side, and to elevate the ignorant and poverty-stricken immigration from Europe on the other, is, in truth, the most difficult task ever in trusted to a community, and the world will here- after owe a deep debt of gratitude to those States which have been mainly instrumental in maintain ing the morality, justice, and respect for right; in one word—the religion of America. These considerations might well induce American statesmen to pause ere adding to a territory already too large. Extent is no guarantee of strength, or Russia might roll itself over Western. Europe, and China over the world. For some years the South will beasource of weakness to the Union. Alaska de- tracts from instead of adds to the might of the United States, and Canada is not only a heavy burden, but a source of danger to England. Detached posses sions will be found incunnbrances in time of peace and points for attack in time of war. There are many even who doubt whether the empire of India be not a weakness to the British Crown. If Eng land's colonies react prejudiciously on the mother country, as they undoubtedly do, though separated from Great Britain by the breadth of the world, how much more must the outlying territories of the Union react on the highly civilized States with a barbaric influence. The acquisition of territory is a false policy, weakening the State and demoralizing society. It is a useless policy, for if the Union holds together, it will absorb all North America, as a gigantic estate absorbs the small freeholders around ; therefore the question does not depend on what Mr. SEWARD can now purchase, but what is to be the future career of the United States. For the present and many succeeding generations, the pity is that North America is so large, and Mr. SEWARD shows anything but a true appreciation of the posi tion when he wastes the nation's resources to add to what he must at any rate allow to be a tempo rary evil, alike morally and physically.—Anglo- American Times. HELL OR CONNA UGHT. We were under the delusion that Oliver Crom well was no more. But history is a mere news monger. Two hundred and ten years after his recorded decease, Cromwell rises from the grave and writes, to the Times. An anonymous letter appeared from him in that journal last Wednesday. Cromwell is indignant that Drogheda, Wexford, and other exploits of his Ironsides should have so scantily fulfilled their mission. He urges, in phrase less involved, and with a fainter smack of religion, than he used in the seventeenth century, a renewal of such Christian methods of conciliating an estranged people, as were practised in Ireland under his own eye. It is true, that, being more outspoken in terms than of old, the Protector has , the wisdom not to sign his name. That grim cog nomen, which has made the " curse of Cromwell' a speaking reality in the sister island, would have been a little strong, even for the Times. Accord ingly, he adopts a nom de plume, and signs him self " Aliquis." But the spirit is the same. There breathes in every line of the letter of '• Aliquis" the old, fierce, Cromwellian temper; the haughty assump tion of the ascendancy of race in a nominally united Empire. Give " Aliquis " (would he had written himself " Outis") his swing, and he would bring back to-morrow the essence of English rule in Ireland two centuries ago. We should have every social injustice, every overt atrocity, under as specious names, too, as those which the history of Ireland presents, from the landing of the Eng lish Commonwealth troopers, to the stamping out the embers of the Irish Rebellion. As we trust " Aliquis" will never thus have his swing, we, at least, will secure to him his say. He upbraids the Times for its over-mercifulness. It is too soft-hearted, and therefore reticent. Far from being the sanguinary, organ which O'Connell described it, it is, like Macbeth, in the opinion o f his truculent partner, too full of the milk of human kindness : " Why," says this somebody or other, "do you stop short in your treatment of Ireland ? Why do you hesitate to tell the truth? The truth is this—we must revert to the old " plantation" days; we must gradually replace a people who hate us, and won't understand us, by a race which appre ciates us and likes us. Or, as this is imme diately impossible, we ought to counteract the former by spreading all over an impracticable, almost lunatic, community, such little colonies as we could of sane men." • The little colonies of sane men are to constitute the first step, because immediately possible. Partry evictions, Achilli missions, local Orange lodges; bright spots dotted up and down the country, weere, from the centre of some favoured oasis of in tellectual and moral culture, the roofs shall be taken off the homely homes of malignant an.l recusant cotters around, who are insensible, through any other means, to the light of day. A salutary process in Jauuary weather, analogous to the treatment of such other " lunatics " as, in the days when good King George was King, wer e drenched with cold water to bring them to their senses. A process that symbolises, in tie phy sical order, the train of other oppressions and wrongs, social, educational, financial, spiritual, thickly recorded on every page of Irish history. These pioneers to the great march of progress in Anglicised Ireland would be followed by the advance of the main army. Nor is " Aliquis " at any loss for his recruits. He describes them with much more complacency than Falstaff did his; though we sincerely think Sir John had the advan tage in the materials of his regiment : " Australia's road to greatness was paved by con victs. We are now more than puzzled as to the disposal of our convicts. London and all our large towns are swarming with men, women, and chil dren—honest or dishonest, industriously or idly inclined—who don't know what they can do. Every day we have soldiers, sailors, policemen, Irish con stabulary men, and others discharged on sorry pen sions, for whom the British public feels that it is bound to provide further extraneously." Then, after proposing that this colluvies gen- tium should be discharged upon the " millions of acres," the bogs and mountains, the coasts and fisheries of Ireland, he winds up as follows : " There are many other opens' in Ireland for a statesman who knew how to treat that country as it ought to be dealt with, namely, as an ill reared, spoilt child —some rod, and a fair equiva lent im sugar stick." All this, with the unquoted portions of the letter, is about the coarsest and most ill-conditioned growl of the bull-dog that we have ever listened to. We are not prepared to say whether in sweeping heartlessness it goes beyond the Times' own savage exulting comments on the extensive emigration resulting from Ireland's miseries ; or beyond the calmer statement of a noble lord in his place near the " Wool-sack," that the Irish were " aliens in race, aliens in language, aliens in religion." But in these things manner goes almost as far as mat ter; and, reasoning from such specimens of the sugar-stick of " Aliquis," we have no wish that Ireland should have a taste of the other stick which he hides out of sight for the spoilt child. Ireland has no reason to accept him as a Tpqxi'c' cIXX' eiyciOq KovporpOOor. Some pages of Anglo-Irish history, illustrative of " the old plantation days" for which this writer sighs, plead with us to quote them. They cast a singular light upon this otherwise stupid letter. For the present we forbear, though we may return to the subject again. But what if we endeavour to represent as an enthymeme, with premiss and conclusion, the acknowledged qualities and condi tion of Ireland, side by side with the treatment which such theorists would deal out to her ? Thus it would run ; and the history of genera tions affords only too sad a practical comment on this precious example of logic : " I have a younger sister, of many noble quali ties; but sensitive, impressionable, tending to way wardness ; one of those characters whom a word can excite and a deed of affection can soothe again. She is grateful, romantic, self-sacrificing, to a degree to which I make no pretence : accessible to so much as a kind look, or an expression of sympathy, but otherwise possessing no common faculties of hatred, even of revenge. Family ar rangements in the past, family traditions extend ing into the present, have constituted real ill usage, and thus tended to sharpen and aggravate the less favourable characteristics of my sister's state. They have brought about, not unnaturally, a chronic irritability, which needs delicate and considerate treatment, and which has been proved abundantly to reward it, whenever even partially tried. " Therefore, I take every pains, on ever y occa sion, to show my sister that I consider her vastly my inferior ; that I more than doubt her possess ing any claim to share my blood or family name ; that she does not, nor ever shall, have the least part in my sympathies, or even an equitable share in the family income. Having myself (notwith standing some alleged flaws in the title) inherited the family place, I am always endeavouring to make the house too hot to hold my sister. I take away her cherished books and work, keep her on short commons, treat her as a lunatic, surround her with servants against whom every feeling in her nature rises. I laugh at her complaints; I ignore or denounce her appeals for family justice; I make her home intolerable; I am always asking her will' she does not go, why she does not accept the warn• invitations of other and more distant branches of the family. I wind up, at last, with more than a broad hint that her room is wanted for another inmate ; and an intelligible threat that, if she does not take herself off, she must look for worse treat ment, and even physical coercion." Such may be the reasoning of " Aliquis," and Of "Si quis alius." We do not stay to felicitate him on his head and heart: on the generous impulses and sympathies of the one, or the capacity evinced by the other of understanding a crisis, and saying a word in season. It suffices to record our con viction that the Times, in admitting such a letter at such a moment, has been guilty of what Tal leyrand used to describe as " worse than a crime — a blunder." 'We feel that neither the journal nor its correspondent belong to the category of those who (says Napoleon III.) " comprehend their epoch." And we derive some comfort from the conviction that neither " Aliguis " nor his editor represent, in this heartless and brainless dealing with the life-interest of millions, the sentiment or the logic of the great mass of fair and thinking Englishmen.--Westminster Gazette. Forwigii i Lall l'acliet List, MAILS DUE. ustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton. .. Feb. lg• Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama ••••••. ...Jan. 8 - i . zizii, Buenos Ayres, .tad Monte Video ~.. ••• • • Feb. 3 . Ditto, by French packet ;ape Verdi, by Brazil paoket ........ . Feb 3 . Jape of Good dope, Asoeusion, and it Helena Jan 4 Jima, Penang, and Siugapore. via Southampton.. Feb. 2 Ditto, via Mar5ei11e5.............. . Jan 2 7 Falkland Islands ••• Feb. 3 . ..ribraltar, via Southampton • Jan. 23 tudia. via Southampton .„y an . 25 Ditto, via Marseilles . ••••• • •.. Jail. 21. Malta, 6gypt, &0... Jan. 2 3 . Ditto, Marseilles.. Jan..2 7 ' Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Feb. V. .Ditto, Marseilles Feb. i 3. N ewfoundla n c ... ....... .... Feb. 1 2 Portugal Feb. 3 Ditto, by pr tv2 to ship to Oporto Ditto i •tto to Lisbon United States, i anada, California, &c., by British packet , Jan. 21. Ditto, by L tilted States packet Ditto ditto 'New York, Ditto uitto Ntw York) Ditto ditt. (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Jan 24 ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe tell 3 ' West mules and Pazilie (except Mexico and Baha mas) Jan. 2 3 . Cub t and nexieo ....Jan. 21 . Bahamas, via New x - Feb. 3 . Jermuda, via Halifax ........ ..... . Feb 12' [ADVERTISIMENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt the valua.,. properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabs:. Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of ble ssi o it has already received from Invalids whose position had tw` e , deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the l'eP r o whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirtY Ye D t o of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Ga yer of du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The health 11 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bar r io Revalenta Arabia). Food, of which he consumes a PD'r at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneatetio effect on his healtk, and his Holiness cannot praise of excellent food tuo highly." We extract a few out more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the March ion ; de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting e'C„l,,il debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, ei digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable 13:ra vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,6000, " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervonsOited, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicknes s, vomiting.—Maria July." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Re , -;,,,j, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of 1310_".... liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cautio.nc;_, Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitan "a; to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most Ou ciously attached 11 0 ' ; In tins at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, • lbs. 7 1, 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—RiltnY Du BARRY and ' Co., Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piec 9 "i' i o9, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, an d Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chemists. Births. HILL—On the 22d inst., at 3, Queen's-place, Southses, th wife of Captain Hill, 34th Regiment, of a daughter. Iv WORTLEY On the 20th inst., at Wath-upon-Dearne ,Y°r shire, the lion. Mrs. F. Stuart Wortley, L,f a sou. Marriages. c b, HOOKE—GIFFORD—On the 22d inst., at the parish chur Suwbridgeworth, Hurts, Joseph Hooke, Minories.. ° don, to Caroline Emma, eldest daughter of Geo. Of EA., Shingle Hall, Sawbridgewor.h, Herts. e 'd liontam —HoTnAm—On the 22d iust., at St. Gof. or, Hanover- square, Win. Hotham, E,4q., of Fulford - 1 ; yo l near York, to Matilea, widow of the late Lie ut.-C°'° Augustus Hotham. Deaths. 0 1" 11111 GoNNE—On filo 20th_inst., at Heywood Lodge, Thomas G. Gonne, Esq., aged 60: 10 91 ' IlooTox On the 22 , 1 iust., at Ivy Cottage, Stre, r at .:icot common, James Hootuu, Esq., formerly of x lged 68. ~, llonsoN—On the 22d inst., Ann, the wife of O. ITods"'" Una-stre,t, Artinery Crround, aged 76. ii:EAN—Ou the 224 inst., at 47 Qurenborough-tel Charles John Kean, F.S.A., F.11.U.5., aged 57. 0 . VENTICY—Ou the 18th iust., the Lord Voutry aged London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.:II AVD E 11 1, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB SUN WWI A.l .‘t y O h , Strand, in the Precinct of the SP Toy, in t he 0°"- Middleeez.—Friday, January 24, 1868. '~~...