The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURRLLS, The Times declares that the untiring spirit of our public men is a matter of standing wonder to the rest of the world. Any ono who would direct the course of political life and shape the destinies of his age must be above re. taxation. He must never shew sign of satiety or of weakness. He must always be ready to confront new difficulties, to defy new dangers. Last night Mr. Dis raeli told the guests in Merchant Taylors' Hall that just twelve months since he had returned thanks there, when his health was drunk in connection with the house of Commons, and the reflection might have suggested the terrible sameness, and iteration of a politician's existence. But Mr. Disraeli seemed to feel nothing of the sort. No sooner bad he referred to his position last year, and exulted over the nearly approach• ing end of the Reform legislation upon which the House of _Commons was then hotly engaged, than he proceeded to address to his audience a manifesto with the evident object that this time next year be may still return thanks for her Maks.sty's Ministers in the hall of the Merchant Taylors' Company. He talked bravely of the great principles which have made this country so great, and discoursed, with a dexterity which no one but himself can hope to rival, upon the springs of society and the life of States ; but the central figure of the picture left upon the mind—the one thing constant amid a whirl of inconstancy—is Mr. Disraeli returning thanks year after year in Merchant Taylors' Hall to a crowd of constitutional citizens. Mr. Disraeli's manifesto is worthy of his ingenuity. If it is flimsy, what could be expected from his materials ? If his principles be somewhat incon sistent with each other, how is it possible that he should be able to reconcile his position with himself ? A general election is at hand, and Merchant Taylors' Hall is the accepted place for the vindication of the party newly called Constitutional, and Mr. Disraeli did his best to be worthy of the occasion. The nation is warned of the issues before it, and bidden to choose whether it will follow the. right or the wrong. We have said that Mr. Disraeli takes great credit to himself and his colleagues for the work they have done, and it is, indeed, admirable to see how he contrives to place himself right at the outset in the eyes of his countrymen. The leaders of the Constitutional party hav e accomplished the most diffi cult of tasks, they have carried a reform of the House of Commons. The next generation will approve labours which will have left the people of England more fully and more completely represented in Parliament, and will bless the controlling spirit which succeeded in recon ciling the traditions of the past with the require. meats of the present. Parliament has been recon structed; and the great reconstructor, the man who bore the heat and the burden of the day, was speaking at Merchant Taylors' Hall. It has ceased to be strange that the Constitutionalists who heard the speaker should vehemently applaud his boast that he had accomplished, through their supple obedience, the transfer of poer they had so long • and -stubbornly resisted. But though Mr. Disraeli was willing to claim all credit for the past, he was more anxious to raise a war-cry for the future. "The Churth is in danger." "The sacred union of Church and State is threatened." " Men seek to divorce authority from the principle of religion." These are Mr. Disraeli's warnings, and he modestly adds that he traces " the baud of Providence" in the fact, or, as •he calls ; it, " the awful dispensa. tion," that the rejuvenescence of • the Constitution should be immediately followed' by an attack upon , its integrity. We may appeal from the Mr. Disraeli of yesterday to the Mr. Disraeli of a freer life, to enforce the prudence of being cautious in tracing " the hand of Providence." In one of - his most brilliant novels he lavishes his.sarcasm on Bishop Blomfield for seeing the " hand of Providence " in some good news which arrived from West Connaught one year, and voting within a twelvemonth fOr the suppression of an indefinite number of Irish .bishoprics. Nobody will be surprised if Mr. Disraeli proves hereafter capable of an inconsistency similar in kind, perhaps greater in degree, and hie prophecy last night was gratuitously imprudent. The ro3t, criticises the action of Sir Robert Napier before Ma.gdala. It feels grateful to Sir Robert Napier for his foresight and military sagacity in so truly estimat. ing the necessities of the expedition, and for his firmness in resisting proposals for a reduction of his force; and all the more so as the balance of opinion was decidedly in favour of a much smaller army. It is, indeed, much to be hoped that we have learned, and for ever, the wisdom, nay, the absolute necessity, of leaving the commander of an army every possible latitude in arranging and conducting his enterprise according to his own views. As regards Sir Robert Napier insisting upon the surrender of Theodore himself, whatever may have been previously thought as to the necessity of his adopting that course, the fact stated in the despatch that Theodore's troops, recovering from their fright and confusion after Arogie, were re-assembling at Mae-dela, completely vindicates his decision. And although at present we may not be able to see so clearly the propriety of burning Magdala, still no doubt Sir Robert Napier will be able to show good cause why, upon political grounds, he ordered the destruc tion of the town. The Herald reminds us that the official despatches tell ns nothing that we did not know before ; but they enable the Govern:nent to ask the acknowledgments of Parlia ment for the good work which has been so well done. It is a work of which the country may justly be proud, and the more so as it has had the happiest effect upon our reputation on the Continent. We know that in France particularly officers of the highest rank and experience have expressed themselves nothing less than astonished at the masterly organisation with which the expedition has been conducted, and the courage and devotion of our soldiers in kcing known diffi culties to arrive. at unknown dangers. That our physical superiority is estimated far more highly in Europe than it was before our success in Abyssinia, we are well assured, and it is equally important, too, to have proved to our continental neighbours that England, although reluctant to interfere in foreign quarrels with which she has no concern, will go to war even for an idea when that idea is her own and is identified with the cause of honour and humanity. The Daily News comments on the annual meeting of tue English Church Union. It shews, our contemporary says, sports and the severer pleasures of the turf to be incapable of satisfying the redundant energies of our young nobility and gentry in this moving age. Young Liberals and young Tories of high degree are disporting themselves in a new field of volunteer ecclesiastical war. fare. Nothing can be more innocent or more worthy of respect than this emulation of the clerical party in France. It is curious and diverting to note how the president of the meeting took the pleasing and kindly tone of the Ultramontane bishops and journalists over the water when he spoke of Bishop Colenso. It seems, indeed, that " the party of Catholic truth " is not quite at unity with itself. The Rev. Dr. Lee objected to a paragraph in the report which repudiated lay politics, and being interrupted in reading it to the meeting, he remarked that " if it were after dinner he could understand the gentleman's interrup tion." The speech of Dr. Pusey seems to justify in some degree Dr. Lee's honest objection to the repudiation of all political motives by the Church Union, although it dealt with 4.'ee political question of the Irish Church in charac teristic ecclesiastical fashion, as one merely of the dis posal of so much surplus revenue. There is nothing id' all this that is not as innocuous as a game of clerical croquet. It hurts nobody ;it promotes universal flirtation. And we heartily acknowledge that it is far better that young laymen of distinction should atuuse their leisure with this dilettante crusading than like the young French nobles of 1832, in revenging themselves on liberal age by invent. ing the cancan. The Standard says that the delegates from Nova Scotia cannot be congratulated on their choice of a champion for their cause in the Imperial Parliament. Mr. Bright has a powerful tongue at the command of those who employ his services ; but of all advocates in behalf of such a cause as that of the separation of Nova Scotia from the North American. Confederation, he is perhaps the worst that could be chosen. It is impossible not to regard Mr. Bright's action in any matter of this kind without refe rence to his own political opinions, and especially to his known leanings towards the Government of the United States. It is true that Mr. Bright has formally repudi ed the character of an admirer of American institutions, and that he has done so with a warmth which seems to imply that he considers the' allegation to be a kind of insult. But we cannot forget that the whole course and tendency of Mr. Bright's teaching has been to refer us to the United States as a model of good government—to approve of every step taken by that Government in the extension of its boundaries, and to justify the destiny which he believes to have marked out all North America for one Democratic Republic. The Tdegraph warns us that if We do not mind what we -tout Nova Scotia may become a portion of the United The sullen dislike which Nova Scotia entertains to her enforced alliance with Canada might certainly dis appear in course of time. But, unfortunately, one AmPrican colonists have an 4..li.ernative, and do not tate, to tell in that they will have recourse to it, if we do not consult their deep-Seated convictions. They assert openly that they prefer to join the -- United States. It is possiLle that there may. be exaggeration in these threats, but no prudent statesman will deny that they challenge notice, and that it is most desirable to ascertain their exact value. A cintnission of inquiry, therefore, is not by any means so " insane " an idea as Mr. Adderley seems t o suppose. 1 - 3tatel, The inhabitants of roacw..ter gave decided to adopt - the Eno Libredis Act. THE GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHS BILL. A. deputation of newspaper proprietors waited on the C:ancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, to urge upon him the importance of passing the Telegraphs Bill during the present session. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Clay, M.P., and was accompanied by Mr. Norwood, M.P., Mr. Ramsay, M.P., Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., and Sir John Gray, M.P. The Duke of Montrose, the Postmaster-General, was present, and also Mr. Scuda more, the assistant secretary to the Post Office. Another deputation of bankers, merchants, and traders in favour of the bill subsequently waited upon the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, THE ROYAL VISIT TO OXFORD. The Crown Prince of Denmark received the diploma of the D.C.L. degree from the hands of the Vice-Chancellor on Wednesday morning, amidst great enthusiasm. The Prince of Wales was present. The undergraduates expressed themselves freely upon public men and public questions, and were vociferous in their demonstrations in favour of Ex-Governor Eyre. Th( proceedings were of the usual kind. An intimation having been received that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince would, upon the conclusion of the proceedings in the Sheldonian Theatre, meet the mem bers of the corporation at the Corn Exchange, The Mayor read the address, which was one of cordial welcome to the Crown Prince of Denmark on his visit to Oxford. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince having received the address from the mayor, read in a clear and distinct voice the following reply, which was afterwards handed to his worship :—" Mr. Mayor, I look back with mixed feelings of pleasure and regret to the time which I spent at Oxford—of pleasure because I recall the memory of peaceful and happy days ; of regret, because those days were so few, and were so suddenly interrupted by a call to rougher and sterner duties. To=day I have received a high honour prom the University of Oxford ; it is no small addition to that honour that the mayor and bur- gesses of this ancient and loyal city deem me worthy of a special address. Mr. AlayFr and gentlemen, I thank you heartily for this mark of good opinion, and more especially for the kind and generous words iu which you have ex. pressed your feelings towards myself, towards my august parents, and, above all, towards my beloved sister." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. ISLE of Miriam—Sir John Simeon contradicts the report that he intended to retire from the representation. AL 4 .NCHESTEII. —lt has been decided to take steps with out delay to secure the election of Mr. Ernest Jones as third member for Manchester. SOUTH SHIELDS.—Mr. C. M. Palmer (L.), has declined to come forward for this borough, thus leaving Mr. J. C. Stevenson, a rather advanced Liberal, the only candidate in the field. CAMBRIDGE.-It is finally settled that Mr. R. R. Torrens (L.) will he o.le of the candidates for the borough of Cambridv ; and it is probable that the Hon. G. C. Brodrick will b.; the other in the Liberal interest. THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES. - Mr. A. Campbell Swinton, LL.D., is a candidate for the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Tlln BORDER.—The Hon. George T. S. Elliot (L.) has issued an address " to the future electors of the border 113 urghs." It is stated that a requisition to Mr. A. R. Clark, advocate, sheriff of Berwickshire, to come forward for the border burghs, is being signed. Nrxrucow.—Mr. Feter M`Laga,n (C.), the present member, will offer himself for re-election, and a move ment is on foot in the county to place Mr. John Pender 714.) in the field against him. LEITRIM COUNTY. —Captain Francis Nisbett, of the Royal Artillery, will come forward as a t andidate for this 3ounty at the coming election. HADDINGTON.—Lord Elcho has issued an address to the electors, in which he contradicts the report that he will lot offer himself for re-election, and he promises that, as won as he is free to return, he will complete the entire :mind of the constituency. MERIONETHSHIRE.—Vigorous efforts are being made in favour of Mr. David Williams, of Dendrath Castle, Port madoc, as a Liberal candidate. CARDlFF.—Lieutenant•Colonel Stuart has signified his :ntention of again offering himself. BnEcoN.—An opposition is talked of in this borough to :Jr. Gwyn (C.), who was returned at the last election by a small majority. HEREFORDSHIRE.—It is stated that the senior member, :qr. King King (C.), does not intend to seek re-election. EAST SUSSEX.—It is believed that Mr. J. G. Dodson, Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, and Lore E. Cavendish, the sitting members, will again comp forward in the Liberal interest. BUCKINGHAM.—The report that Mr. J. G. Hubbard, the Conservative member fur this borough, would not again offer himself to the constituency is authoritatively contradicted. WICK BURGHS. — The result of Mr. Loch's canvass of Wick and Pulteneytown is.thAt he has received the pledge of six-sevenths of the voters in eue and in posse not absent at the western fishing. LEEDS.--Mr. Baines, UP., has been selected unani mously by the Liberal Registration Association as one of the candidates for this borough at the approaching election. DENIOGIISIIIRE.—it is mentioned that no opposition will be offered to Sir Watkin W. Wynn (C.) * The other seat will be contested for by the Liberals, Mr. Watkin Williams having consented to stand. Mr. Samuel Mor ley's name is also mentioned. MONTGO3.IERYSIIIRE. — The seats are likely to he undis lurbed, no announcement of any opposition to the present members—the Hon. Charles Hanbury Tracy (L.), the member for the Montgomeryshire boroughs, and Mr. C. w.w.Wyzin (C.), the county member— being spoken of. A great fire has taken place at Sheffield, resulting in tie destruction of a timber yard, and causing a loss to the owner of many thousands. One of the local papers says from £IO,OOJ to £15,000. • The Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Jeune) has had a severe attack of illness. His lordship is progressing favourably, but is extremely weak, and will be compelled to take entire rest for some time to come. it is understood that Mr. Serjeant Cox has been nominated to succeed to the recordership of Portsmouth, and that Mr. C. G. Prideaux will succeed him in the recordership of Helston. Mr. Justice O'llagan, when opening the City Commission in Dublin on Monday, congratulated the juries on the great immunity from crime late!' enjoyed. There -was (sail his lordship) absolutely no indication of seditious excitement or social disorder. TEE COBDEN MEMORIAL AT CAMDEN TOWN. - The committee for erecting the statue to the late Mr. Cobden have determined on its inauguration on Saturday, the 27th instant, the anniversary of the repeal of the Corn Laws. Mr. Harvey Lewis, has been invited to perform the ceremony of—unveiling and delivering an address upon the occasion ; and a number of distinguished gentlemen have promised to take part in the pro ceedings. An action was brought at the recent Cornwall Assizes against the South Devon Railway Company on behalf of Miss Alford, who received severe injuries in an accident which occurred at Launceston. Miss Alford was awarded £9OO damages, there being, as usual in such cases, a contention that the injuries received were not so severe as represented. Death, however, has endorsed the decision of the jurors, as Miss Alford died on Satur day, fifteen mouths after the accident.—Western Morning New:. EPIDEMIC A mosa GEESE.—The poultry-higglers and geese-feeders on Walton, Chobham, 'Woking, and Mitcham commons are sustaining great loss by the out break of disease among geese during the week, and many valuable lags of early-hatched goslings have been destroyed by a type of. disease not hitherto known in the poultry. yards. . The geese are attacked as if by cramp, and roll and plunge about in giddiness, and within an hour of being attacked by the disease die in apparent convulsion. The old brood geese escape the disease. FRIGHTFUL FIT OF MADNESS.—Mr. Sullivan, one of the sanitary inspectors of the parish of Paddington has been attacked by such a frightful fit of madness—sail to be in consequence of sunstroke—that he has been placed under restraint. On Monday he frightened his wife and children by declaring that he would murder them, but they at once male their escape from the house, which is in Irongate Wharf, by the back way. lle then rushed into the street with nothing but his shirt on. Ile was at last secured and taken indoors and partially dressed, but the fit broke out a second time with greater violence, and, seizing u pon a carving knife, he pounced upon the pet dog he had hitherto been very fond of and hacked its head off. A policeman was called in, and the madman was about to attack him with the knife, but upon the comtable drawing his truncheon in eelf-defeuce, Sullivan allowed himself to be secured. He was taken to Malay's Hospital, and from thence was ta - the • . rmairortrNiildin atm ,worklases THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Registrar-General in his usual ret'irn states: In he week that ended on Saturday, June 13, 5,093 births and 2,709 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000 in London, 2G in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 19 in Bristol, 20 in Birmingham, 25 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 25 in Salford, 30 in Sheffield, 17 •n Bradford, 22 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 21 in Newcastle iron -Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 34 per 1,000 during the week ending the 6th inst., when the mean temperature was 12.8 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 19. In London the births of 1,175 boys and 1,088 girls, in all 2,273 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 185867, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,035. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,195. It was the twenty-fourth week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,268. The deaths in the present return are less by 73 than the estimated number. The average rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000 in West London, 18 in North London, 19 in Central London, 22 in East London, and 20 in South London. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JPNE 18, 1868. MINING INTELLIGENCE. The Silver Bend Reporter, May 9, Nevada, says : —" A year ago Manhattan District was visited by eager prospectors as the place above all others in this vicinity where rich lodes were to be found and speedy fortunes made. Daily for a period of several months were excited men to be seen githered to gether upon our streets in lithe groups examining rare specimens of rich silver ore, and listening to the tales of the exhibitors as they pictured the wealth and facilities of Manhattan District whence it came, and hundreds went thither who worked for a season until some other excitement carried them to more remote localities, and for a time only those directly interested gave to Manhattan a single thought. But though a suspension of work occurred from lack of capital the district was by no means abandoned. There were those interested who were competent to judge of the great wealth of the silver veins coursing through the hills, and who were de termined to develope them. A few men purchased the principal claims, and consequently were enabled to handle them, and they offered inducements to capitalists to engage in their development, One of the . very best and most promieing veins of the district upon which work has been done is the Ophir situated upon the crest of the hill at the head of Silver Spring canyon. This lode, together with others, became the property of Messrs. Bauer and White. The former named gentleman, Mr. J. C. Bauer, left here last fall, went to England and formed a company for the purpose of developing the Ophir, and the prospect at present is that a company of English capitalists will soon have an agent at Manhattan who will commence extensive operations there. Mr. Bauer arrived here during the week, and is now engaged in surveying timber lands, water privileges, &c., in the district for the benefit of the company. Mr. J. H. Boalt, a well-known mining engineer, will shortly arrive and report upon the property. The district certainly presents many advantageous fea tures, and any company that commences operations herein and adopts, a thorough system of develop ment—as our English cousink aie always in the habit of doing—cannot fail of success. The dis trict is magnificently wooded, there is a fine mill site close at the mine, and the surface indications promise much for deep explorations. We are glad to learn that our section is attracting the at tention of which it is pre eminently worthy, and can promise those who invest ample returns for all expenditures they may make. In another portion of the paper will be found an account of the discovery and organisation of Sheridan Dis trict furnished us by a correspondent. Since that was written we have seen and conversed with one of the original locators, who has shown us some of the ore, and also imparted additional information. The discovery was made about the pikddle of April, I and several claims laid by John Benj. Evans, Henry Raymond, and others,tof Pahranagat. The principal locations are respectivaly named Nevada Giant, 10 feet wide; Potosi, 6 feet; and the Evans ledge, the two first named running parallel and cropping boldly for a distance of five miles. Along the immense croppings at intervals, large ore chim neys occur of such magnitude that thousands of tons of rich ore are said to be revealed to sight. Many persons have rushed thither from different places wads the immediate vicinity has been pretty generally overrun and a great many locations made. The ore assays from $lOO to $3OO per ton. Th e location of the new 'district is about 10 or 12 miles south-west of Penoyer's spring on the Pahranagat road, and perhaps nearly 45 miles south-east of Rsveille District. Water and timber is not plenti ful in the immediate vicinity of the rabies, though there is a plentitu le of both these commodities upon Timpiute mountain, which lies about 12 miles from the district in a south-easterly course. The fortunate locators of this new field for enterprise are sanguipe that they have the big thing of East ern Nevada. " GOOD Ass AY.—Yesterday an assay was made by Cahill Brothers of a sample of the chloride ore taken by Leon and Co. from the surfae,e of their El Dorado South, which gave the enormous yield of $19,365 67c. of silver per ton." NEW MINING DISTHICT.—A correspondent, who signs himself L. S. T., thus writes us from Iliko, under date of April 28th, concerning the discovery and organization of a new mining district at the South-East : —Within the past two weeks some of the finest lodes of silver-bearing quartz have been discovered and located that exists in any portion of this State, and will give rise to a new district that will not have its superior. The district has been christened " Sheridan," and is about 35 miles west of the town of Ihko. Samples of ore are now on ex hibition, which excite the admiration of all old pro spectors. It is of slate formation, with well-defined appearances of true fissure veins, with a width of sixteen to forty feet, and a northerly and southerly course. Wood and water of easy access. The principal locations made have been by Messrs. J. H. Ely, H. Raymond, Ben. Evans, and W. J. Haynes, and their immediate friends. The first named gentleman is one of the original locators of the Pahranagat District ; Mr. Raymond is inti mately connected with the development of this camp ; Mr. Ben. Evans is so intimately known that those knowing him will feel certain that there is a " big thing" found when he assures every one that be has not seen iss equal anywhere ; Mr. Haynes is a practical and experienced miner, and he asserts it is the " best thing" he has ever seen. Assays are being made from the samples, and as soon as I ascertain the results I will communicate to you a synopsis of the same, with such particulars as will appertain to the district." A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MINES.—The American Journal of Mining has the following upon this sub ject :—" Such an institution would increase the production of bullion in three ways ; first, by send ing forth educated engineers, able to meet and overcome the growing difficulties of gold and silver mining and reduction ; second, by affording infor mation to thousands who are too old or too busy to reeeive thorough instruction, but who, being actively engaged in mining, most urgently require that counsel which will save them from unnecessary losses and disappointments ; and, finally, by making the capitalists of Europe, as well as America, acquainted with the mineral resources of our coun . try, and drawing to our great mining regions that capital which (next to knowledge) is their prime necessity." The Reese River Reveille, April 20, remarks : " Reveille district, about•lso miles south-east from Austin, will in all probability become the scene of considerable activity in the course of the present year. Negotiations are on foot between some of the oldest locators in the district and a New York company, which mayresult in the transfer of a large amount of valuable ground. If the late should take place, it is the intention of the company to erect an efficient mill in the district next fall. The district has produced large amounts of ore from the surface of a quality rarely equalled, and an efficient and well-managed mill would make it a valuable bullion-producing region. Heretofore nearly all of the ore produced in that district was hauled to the mills for reduction, and we have yet to hear of the first instance where the ore did not pay all the ex penses of mining, transportation, and milling, and leave a substantial remainder for the miner." There were shipped by Wells , Far g o, and Co., of Austin, Nevada, during April, 187 bars, weigh ing 13,411 pounds, of the value of $189,959 24. Since the burning of the Keystone Mill the Man hattan has been the only mill at work in this sec tion. The bullion product, under the circum stances,ohnA. p is bet ter ax tonand Co.,than could o have A b u e s e teo nsi consigned anticipated. ne John $52,089 22 of the above amount, and Paxton and Co., of Belmont, $22,352 55. Among the reports from Nevada is the following curious statem.nt of footfalls upon the rocks : In Carson Valley, Nevada, near the town of Day ton, there are many curious and interesting geolo gical vestiges of ancient fauna and flora. Petrified palm trees, coniferm, and many extinct tropical plants, are found in abundance, but the most notable object in that region is the " foot printed rock." At the mouth of El Dorado Canyon, on the north-east side of the Carson R'ver, a waggon road passes over a plain of naked IQ*wLich4%o Wiroaat 4l , - 444 is 1044 SHOCKING CASE OF MATRICIDE. A shocking case of matricide has occurred at the little village of Ardingly, about three miles from Cuckfield; Sussex. It appears that about seven o'clock in the morning George Blackshall, a labourer, bo4owed his brother's razor to cut a corn from his hand. He then put it in his pocket, and walked a distance of about two miles, to his mother's house. He entered the dwelling, and, it is sup posed, at once threw his mother to the ground and proceeded to cut her throat, which he did so effectually that the head was nearly severed from the body. It is said that only about two minutes elapsed from the time of his entering the house to the time of his leaving it. Nobody actually witnessed the murder, but the woman's grandson, a little boy about 12 years of age, entered the house by the back door, and saw his grandmother and her son on the ground. The murderer walked quietly away, his hands covered with blood, and an alarm having been given, he was soon apprehended. The statement he made was, that "he meant to kill her, and they would know all about it by and by." He is in custody at the Cuckfield Police-station. The unforiunate woman, whose name was Sarah Blackshall, was 70 years of age, and the wife of a farm labourer. The prisoner's motive, if any, for committing the crime is unknown at present, and the act is rendered the more singular by the fact that he seems always to have been a good son, and the deceased had said of him a few days before the occurrence that hi WAS the best son she had. LAW AND POLICE. A PAIVNIMOSER FINED.—At Worship•street Police court, Lewis Symons, a pawnbroker, was charged with neglecting to provide a duplicate for certain articles pledged with him, and subsequently with taking 4id. for a ticket. The magistrate, after hearing the evidence, which sheaved that the pledger could neither read nor write, fined . the defendant £5 in each case, and also ordered that he should pay the costs. - - ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANT.—In the Court of Common Pleas, the case of Button v. the South Easter! Railway Company came on for hearing. - It was an action brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for the non-delivery of certain barrels of beer which had been sold to them and which the company refused to deliver unless paid money owed by their father. The plaintiffs had kept a public-house at Belvedere, in Kent, and they said that although the beer was bought by their father it was ordered for them and paid for with their money. It was sent directed to Mr. Button, and as he owed the company £1 Gs. 3d. they claimed a right to detain it until that sum was paid. Whether they were justified in so doing was not the question, because the plaintiffs had to make out that the beer was theirs in order to succeed in this action. After a protracted trial the jury gave their verdict for the defendants. ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE TO MARRY.—Before Mr. Justice Keating, the case of Patrick v. Wood, which was an action for breach of promise, was tried. The de fendant's first wife died in April 1863, and he soon sought out the plaintiff. He wrote to her frequently, visited her friends with her, took lodgings for her, and she passed as his wife. In March 1864, the plaintiff had a child by the defendant, and the connection continued for some time afterwards. The defendant married another woman in March ISCS. The promise to marry was proved by the plaintiff's sister. The jury awarded the plaintiff £2O damages. ANOTHER ACTION FOR LIEEL.—In the Court of Ex chequer the court was engaged in trying the cause of Hudson v. Scott and another, which was an action brought for the publication of an alleged libel in the ReTnrter newspaper. The libel was contained in an answer to a correspondent, and imputed to the plaintiff improper conduct in reference to his management of a public com pany of which he was the secretary, particularly in hie advertising the company in the Tomahawk and in no other newspaper, which it was insinuated he had done because he was the owner of that paper. The plaintiff was put into the box, and denied the truth of every imputation upon his conduct. The counsel for the plaintiff offered to withdraw the case if a promise were given that the offence should not be repeated. The defendant re• fused to give such a pledge, and the case went to the jury, who assessed the damages at M. DAMAGES FOR Loss OF HUSBANDS.- - In the same court the jury were called upon to give damages in the case of Larken v. the Monmouth Railway Com pany- The plaintiff brought the action as administrator of his brother to recover damages on behalf of the widow and children for the death of his late brother, who was killed under the following circums.tances :—The deceased, w ho was a carpenter on board a Norwegian vessel then lying at Newport, in Monmouthshire, was on the night of the 2Gth of October, 1565, going from the town to his vessel, and in so doing had to cross a level crossing over which the defendants' railway ran : There were gates at the crossing ; but the gates, instead of being across the road, or across the line, were locked back to the fence, so as to leave both the road and the line open. In crossing the line the deceased was knocked clown and killed by an engine. The defence was that the deceased was partly intoxicated, or else he would have seen the engine coming. This view of the case was not taken by the jury, who gave £6OO damages-1,200 to the widow, and £lOO each to the children.—Before Baron Pigott, Mrs. Mcore, the widow of a bricklayer, brought an action against Mr. Denton and others to recover damages for the loss of her husband. It appeared that in February last the defendant Shipney, a publican at Finchley, employed a carpenter to design a building, and employed the defen dant Denton, a builder, to carry out the design. In the course of the execution of the work a wall fell and killed the deceased, a working bricklayer. The defence was that neither of the defendants was liable, inasmuch as Shipney had only employed Denton, who bad employed the deceased, and Denton was merely engaged in carrying out the design of an architect. The jury gave £650 damages. THREATENING TO MURDEII.—At the Mansion House, Eli Ferni, a respectably-dressed man, aged GO, described as a publisher, was taken before the Lord Mayor, charged with writing and sending a number of letters threatening to kill end murder Mr. Basil Melas, a Greek merchant, in business in Old Broad•street. It seemed that the prisoner formerly published -shipping list, when another person started one in opposition, and the prisoner was so much enraged that he stabbed a Greek merchant who supported the competitor, and was sent to penal servitude for three years. Since his release he has frequently threatened to murder the complainant. Ho *was remanded. • REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—There is at present in the Great Yarmouth workhouse a pauper whose father was twice mayor of that borough, and whose grandfather was one of the principal landowners and proprietors of property in that locality. SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—AII inquest has been held in Essex-street, Strand, on the body of Mr. Watson, aged 43, whose body was found floating in the river at the Temple Pier. Upon searching the pockets £46 in notes and gold and a quantity of papers were found. The body appeared to have been from three to four days in the water. Deceased was a hat manufacturer, and was last seen alive on Friday evening. He had been threatened with being made a bankrupt, and he was very much depressed. There were no marks of violence on the body. The jury returned a verdict of Found Drowned. THE CROPS IN THE EAST.—The wheat crop upon the heavy lands about Newmarket is looking healthy and strong, and even upon the light lands there is a prospect of a good harvest. The barley and oats, except those grow ing upon stiff soils, are thin, and will fall short of nn average. The weather has continued bright and scorch ing during the past Week. The wheat fields are now Mostly in ear and generally in bloom, and the critical period of the next fourteen days will greatly affect the productiveness of the crops. The reports receivedcontinue very qualified. rently composed of the silicified volcanic ashes, or, at any rate, the product of some sort of volcanic matter. This stone is extensively used in Nevada for building material, and is considered superior to the freestone of the Atlantic States. From the ap pearance and markings of the rock about which we are writing, it is apparent that it was at one time in a soft plastic condition, analogous to mud or wet mortar. The surface of the rock contains innumerable footprints, or tracks of quadrupeds, all as distinctly defined as if they were recently impressed. .The most remarkable. of these -impressions is that which has been made by an enormous beast of the equine genus. Many of these ancient horse tracks measure 18 inches in diameter. The impressions are deeply cut in the rock, and have the precise form of the horse's hoof, except that the heel or heavy fetlock of the beast has also male an impres sion in the rear of the track. The s one rock surface contains tracks of the young of the same species ; these last being about the size of a full-grown modern horse track. In addition to these the rock is dotted with the footprints of enormous bears, elks, deer, and other animals. Two or three years since the skeleton of a large foil animal was exhumed in Nevada. The specimen when alive probably mea sured eighteen feet in length by about seven or eight in height. Although the specimen was in an advanced state of decomposition, those who examined it were satisfied that it belonged to the genus equus, and was probably the kind of creature which left the footprints above described.—Santa Clara (Gal.) Argus. THE CIVIL SERVICE BILL. Our readers are aware of the deep interest we take in this subject, which we regard as one of the greatest importance to the United States. It is simply impossible to attempt any reforthation in the political corruption so strongly condemned by the Chicago Convention before the Civil Service of the country has been wholly remodelled. What folly it is to put the greatest temptations in the way of the needy, and then to bewail the prevalence of theft. Mr. Jenckes's Bill has been frequently alluded to by us, and we cannot. do better than to reproduce the article which appeared in the New York Nation, May 28, on the subject.. Taking advantage of the comparative lull in the ordinary business of legislation, Mr. Jenekes, on Thursday week, May 14, introduced his bill to re gulate the Civil Service of the United States. He reported it from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, and he supported it by a speech which was reported in the telegraphic summary as having occupied an hour, but not one word of its contents or of the scheme of the bill was.given. The plan is substantially that of Mr. Jenckes's ori ginal bill on this subject. It creates a department of the Civil Service, to be presided over by the Vice-President, with a board of four commissioners, to be appointed for five years. Their duties are, first, to prescribe the qualifications requisite for an appointment into each branch and grade of the Civil Service; next, to provide for the examinations, and periods, and conditions of probation of all persons eligible and presenting themselves for Omission into the Civil Service ; third, to establish rules for appli cations, examinations, and appointments ; and, finally, to examine personally, or by persons by them specially designated, the applicants for ap pointment into the Civil Service of the United States. The Act then goes on to provide for the order and manner in which appointments to the Civil Service shall be made from those who have passed the prescribed examination and probation. The proposed law is clear and simple, short and to the purpose, free from preambles and provisos, and it is so plain that he who runs for office must hereafter read it and understand it. The army of office holders now in place, and of their prospective successors, must look upon it as their shibboleth, I and learn from it how to live and die in office. Of the greatness of the task which he has undertaken Mr. Jenckes shows a thorough comprehension. He proposes utterly to destroy the great American curse of party patronage. He says, on the eve of a Presidential election, that it is for the interest of the country to pass a law which will forbid the re moval of fifty thousand officials as the result of a change in the political complexion of the Govern ment. Not content with a theoretical discussion of the merits of a permanent civil service, Mr. Jenckes tells us that he has taken the testimony of the greater number of the chief officers in the ex isting civil service, and he gives us the result. The Committee on Retrenchment have received reports from 446 officers confirmed by the Senate, in all branches of the civil service, whose subordinates within the operation of this Act number 12,819, and of these officers 362, having 11,561. subordi nates, express themselves decidedly in favour of the proposed reform. Of the residue 12 officers, having 143 subordinates, express a decided opposition to it, and the remainder either do not answer the vital questions at all, or answer them evasively. With such facts, plainly and tersely put, as they are in this speech of Mr. Jenckes, it is easier to find forcible arguments in support of the measure than to educe them from our general and theoreti cal belief in its efficiency. What are the substan tial rewards which Mr. Jenckes promises for the fruits of his bill if it be made law? Double the amount of the present service at two-thirds of the present cost; a saving in the expense of the collec tion of the revenues of one-half the fifteen millions which it now takes ; and, finally, an addition of revenue from the subjects of taxation proposed to he retained by the Committee of Ways end Means of fifty millions in the internal revenue and twenty five millions in the customs. In short, the country will be richer by a hundred millioes every year if it adopt a law which will do more to elevate the politics of the country from the great Serbonian bog in which it is now bedraggled and bemired, more to make statesmen of our politicians, financiers and economists of our revenue officials, more to save the people from corruption, more to preserve the Government from mischief, more to renew, and re store, and sustain the virtues of the Republic than all the legislation of the last decade. With a Constitution purified from slavery, with a Government under it that has undergone the throes of civil war, of dissensions between its co ordinate branches, and with a people honestly and heartily in earnest to maintain both the Government and the Constitution, there is still a vice in the administration of the laws which almost palsies them. This mischief lies in the shifting, changing, uncertain, and gradually decaying condition of our civil service. Up to the breaking out of the re bellion it mattered little how the officers of the United States exercised their . functions, for the Government was seen rather than felt, it was an idea rather than a fact. All this changed with the rebellion, with the enormous efforts of the Govern ment to maintain itself, with the burdens put on the people by the success of these efforts, and with the taxes and the vast addition of revenue and out- lay that were then voluntarily, assumed. The task of adjusting these burdens to our capacity, to make sources of national income without destroying national wealth, has tested the fitness of our political system to do this work. In any other coun 4- ry than our own, with its youth, its wealth, its vigour, its unlimited expanse of territory, its growing tide of emigration, the Government would have broken down. That it will not do so now may call forth all our gratitude. That it may be strengthened and fitted for the work that it has yet to do, in developing the power and capacity of the country in industrial and in other directions, there must be a reform in that one thing which has hitherto been the pitfall of every political party, and the blighting curse of the young men who be longed to one or other of the great armies of our Government by parties. This reform is, as we be lieve, effected by Mr. Jenckes's bill—at least it is aimed at; and as tentative legislation has been the best thing that we could get in other matters, so it may be the best, or in the end it may. secure us that which is beat, in our civil service. As we have remarked ebewhere, every party and every politician is ready enough to denounce cor ruption iu the abstract. Nobody will ever have the hardihood to get up and defend the appointment of dishonest men to public offices, or the practice of Chain tho QMPUIAIts TWO Vta Wet bo a party avowedly and notoriously held together by " the cohesive power.of public plunder," and which it will be sufficient to turn out of office in order to secure purity and efficiency. Therefore, when a party passes resolutions against cor ruption in general, as the Republican party has just been doing, it merely fires blank cartridge. It makes a fine, exhilarating noise, but it does not hurt or frighten the knaves. Under the present system no party can be honest, because no party can change human nature. Therefore, the public ought not to be, and we trust will not be, content any longer with vague denunciations of fraud. It ought to demand practical measures of reform, set down in black and white. It ought not any longer to put up with windy abuse of Andrew Johnson or of the Copperheads. In this kind of work no knave ever is, or ever will be, found wanting. This bill of Mr. Jenekes's we hold to be the first and gre ttcst of the measures of reform now before the country--the one on which most is dependent not simply of money, but of public and private morality. He has worked long and hard at it, and it is a kind of work with which the regular party managers have, as a rule, little sympathy. He is not likely, we fear, to succeed without active and outspoken support from the public, and we trust he will receive it without stint, in season and out of season, especially from that large class of young men who are now interesting themselves in politics, under the influence of the wider knowledge and higher aspirations which the war has bred, We trust, too, that he will be of good cheer. If political progress consist, as we believe it does, in the greater and greater subjection of human affairs to the control of enlightened reason, the future be longs to him, and to such as he, and not to the windy declaimers who, while holding the great horn of humanity with one hand and blowing it lustily, generally hold with the other a leash of hungry peculators, to be let loose at every conve nient opportunity on the unfortunate tax-payer.- 4nglo-American Times. THE SU ORD OF THE LATE LORD NELSON. ----o-- - On Monday Mr. Coo Per, banister, accompanied by ..Mr. Thomas Evans, of 27, Queen-street, Brompton, attended before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion house, Mr. Evans's object being to make an affidavit in reference to a relic of Lord Nelson. In that document Mr. Evans deposed in effect, that, declining in years, he was most anxious to set himself right with the public with respect to the dress sword of Lord Nelson, which he had ever implicity believed to be a most in teresting relic of the great hero, and which, in or about 1816, was presented by Lord Saye and Sele to the Governors of Groenwich Hospital, with a view to its being placed with the celebrated coat and waistcoat there deposited. This the Governors had declined to do, under an impression which the deponent trusted to be able to show was entirely erroneous. lie also desired to remove the prejudice that the identity of the sword was doubtful, to enlighten the public mind with respect to it, and to show how he became possessed of it. He solemnly and sincerely declared that ho obtained the sword from the same lady froin whom Sir Harry Nicholas procured the coat and waistcoat, in the purchase of which the deponent was forestalled. That lady was Mrs. Smith, who was the wife of Mr. Joshua Jonathan Smith, Lord Mayor of London in 1810, who declared to witness that her husband obtained possession of the vest ments referred to with the sword, which was then covered with crape, which time and moths had partly destroyed. The relic, she said, had been given to her husband by the celebrated Lady Hamilton, who had been informed the sword was taken off Lord Nelson's coffin. In the affidavit sworn yesterday be fore the Lord Mayor a copy of a letter written by Wm. Ashby, apensioner at Greenwich Hospital, was embodied. That letter was dated Nov. 13, 1846, and in it Mr. Ashby certified that the sword which Mr. Evans purchased was the one which, with vari ous other honours, was placed on the coffin contain ing the body of Lord Nelson, when the remains lay in state in the Painted Hail of Greenwich Hospital for three days, and that he was informed Nel son wore the same sword on the day he received his mortal wound. To the identity of the sword Ashby spoke positively, having had it with the other insignia under his immediate charge for three successive days, he being then in his capacity of boatswain of the Palliser Ward of the hospital, chief of a special guard appointed with ex press orders to prevent the removal, or the public touch, of any of the relics. This letter was ad dressed to Mr. Evans, the deponent, at his then residence, No. 17, Maddox-street. Mr. Evans also solemnly deposed that from the time the sword came into his possession up to his disposal of it, nothing whatever bad been done to it beyond being simply cleaned, in which operation the workman so en gaged transposed the hilt, which at any time could be easily rectified. The affidavit, of which this is the purport, was made before the Lord Mayor, who thereupon appended bis name to it. 111ISCELLANEOUS _NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Tim u.) The Round Tuble, in reviewing the life of Jeffer son Davis, by Frank H. Alfriend, late editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, thus compares the great Northern General with his great Southern adversary :—" The lengthy comparison instituted between General Grant and General Lee by the author is not just to the former, and perhaps could scarcely bo expected to b i so. Grant has certainly not Lie's versatility, his resource, his doh, and very few of his imaginative qualities, but he was . pre-eminently the man for the situation. Ile is a limited-mint 4 stony-willed, in flexible soldier of the grinding school, with very little idea of chivalry, but a very definite idea of accom plishing what he undertakes. Of course, he dad more man than Lee in the final campaign; it would have been rather absurd to undertake the business with less. The movement was an offensive, an invasive one, contemplat ing no less than the encircling and capture of the whole opposing force; a climax which the evacuation of Rich mond only evaded in one way to bring about in another. Mr. Alfriend has a great many passages like this :—" The world was invited by the sensational press of the North to admire I he 'strategy' which had carried the Federal army from the Rapidan to the James, a position which it might have reached by transports without the loss of a man." Possibly, but with what damage to General Lee's army ? The critic's implication would be sound enough if Rich mond and not Lee's army had been the true "'objective point" at which 'to strike: Grant's losses, doubtless, were great, but his policy, once in Lee's presence, was clearly never to quit him. The Federal resources bore such a relation to those of the Confederates that the " hammer ing" process was the best that could be adopted. The battles of the Wilderness may not have been victories for Grant,,bat they were not less practically the knell of the Confederate cause. There was no getting away afterward to attempt brilliant strokes whereby disparity in numbers might be counterbalanced. The rest was all wary watch ing and hard pounding. The difference between Grant and - other Federal commanders —judging, of course, by their respective achievements — was that he went clear through his task to the end. Another general would have retreated, another have attempted something dazzling and failed, another have permitted himself to be surprised. Grant did none of these things. lie is, so far as humanity can be so, as impassive as destiny ; the consummate em boditneut, in a military sense, of hard, pitiless, unimagina tive resolution ; a man of iron, but iron without magne tism. Lee, we may admit, is a more knightly and gra cious figure than Grant, a man more capable of evoking enthusiasm, a man more like the heroic models of his tory.; but, after all, the simple fact is that Grant never failed, but quietly and thoroughly did whatever he at tempted. It is no disparagement to General Lee to say that, placed in the same situation, ho could not have done more and might have done less." The Spectator condescended to defend itself, and lamely we admit against the flaunting of the Standard on the prediction it so confidently hazarded that the Pre sident would be convicted and deposed. - The Spectator's reply amounted to littlo more than that the Standard's article was a " belated" ono. A result which ' deceived alike Andrew Johnson, the prosecuted, as well as Butler and Stevens, the prosecutors; which . was regarded as a cer tainty by Wade, the " heir apparent," and a host of those keen-scented individuals, the professional office-seekers of Washington—might well deceive the best informed writers in Europe. In fact people were deceived iti pro portion to their information up to within two or three days of the event, and no one appeared more contideLt that " the national crime," as he termed it would be com mitted of deposing Andrew Johnson, than th,s Washing ton correspondent of the Standard itself. That the Sp:War s larecii tad cmaitictioa wow 6 Foci of Up „, c5 knowledge than of its i gnorance o f A mer ican poi”' But it is not the Standard only that twits the Spectator on the result. This is what the Round Table says: —" ng ( i lisp comments upon American politics are always re ' with interest in this country, particularly when they 0 from journalists who have made a special study of oli! affairs. Th e y are nu t , per h aps, read so much w i t h 3 v ies to instruction—although that is often to be obtained fr° : 9l them—as from curi os ity t o see w h a t i n t e lli gen t and Cu ll f vated observers of our own race, looking at us from wit h t may bo moved t o say Mi s t a k es are f requen tly rel" l3 these observers, and that, of course, gratifies us in proper' tion to the average culture and sincerity of the blunde rer The Spectator of May 9 announces the conviction of Pros t ' dent Johnson as "certain, of course,"—an example is point. The Saturday Review repeatedly insists up'n the certainty of the el ec ti on t o th e P res id enc y o f Gene r a Grant ; we may possioly, in November, b 3 able to ea 3ke ,. the same reply whi c h we now f or b ear i n t h e ca se of t se Spectator." The Rowed Table forgets that, the Pi i r„ rs t published in England ma i n ly d er i ve th e i r i n f orma tion al''' . Arno. ica from the papers published in America, and t h : opinions of the Round Table may have influenced those s' el ' journals in forming the notions on which it comm ents , t Suppose now that the Saturday Review had read the article in the numb er o f May 3J, from which we obta ige this extract, headed " The Chicago Convention," aa' l,ini t ; pressed with the following words, had allowed them _ ii create au idea to whi c h it aft erwar d s gave u tt era nce, wc'" the American paper be justified in commenting ou the OW der of the English one ? " To the impartial observer thel appears, therefore, at this moment no doubt whatever ih 3t , R tae present ostensible acco r d of th a diff eren t b ra nches ef t"i Republican party can be maintained for five months, " d ,,, 1 they cau be brought compactly to be ar i n November, the election of their candidates (Grint and Colfax) is 3 eel' tainty. The collective strength of those b r anches is II I „ "' deniable ; their cordial unanimity is, fo r th e time, so ; and their triumph can only be p reven t o d by P° l : divisions which their leaders may or may not have sagacity to avert." Judy does not approve of the Tomahawk's Ft e tures, and expresses how deeply she was shocked PI t " it i representation of Satan driving a nob'eman to the infe rli n regions; and a sign-post with "To 11-11" inscribed 11 P% it, relieving the mind of a ll d ou bt s as t o th e true rneav ili : " of the drawing. "The follo w i ng wee k, i n th e same paP e lid says Judy, appeared a representation of S a t an i n his peo l s, regions, with flames and all, according to the received ides his Majesty and his surroundings. in an embryo P a P e ,,, C of the same class, which is just old enough to catch the li" of licentiousness, the eye is refreshed by the sight els poem entitled ' A Gallows Shame !!' In both of WI papers, Royalty, the Church, and the State are ridiculed 0 libelled on every possible occasion. A third publicatioa has selected the army for its attacks, and a criminal iW not mation against it has been applied for by the colonel a c ' t officers of a regiment of dragoons. Whether or such publications are subsidized by the Radical Pal i ; remains a mystery, but if they obtain a large and gea u : o support from the public generally, the matter is still 111(''t serious. Judy fears that there is really quite a taste at the present time for scurrility, and she is confirmed in this conclusion by a little incident which occurred to h )l.- self, and which she will relate. Conversing with aPI friend, whose mind is much misguided by the Ra dic influences of the time, Judy, of course, quietly floV her young adversary on every point of argument. t k fie subject of newspaper influence was reached, and the ('-; cussion waxed strong. Judy continued to put the r tip : gentleman (metaphorically) on his back ; but, at last, 6 7; Awns, she was put. completely hors de combat her ee ' r Speaking of a certain journal, Judy remarked, is a s ell rilous paper, and you can't deny it.' I like a scarr ilow, paper' (!!), thunderedjuvenis ; and Judy said not another word, but went home a sadder and a wiser woman' e A curious account is given in the Providenc Journal of a Bible printed in the language of the Massac btv , setts_ Indians, and all accomplished by one man knout`' the Apostle John Eliot, who laboured as a m issiaO'. among the Indians for a long period. He was many 9 41 : engaged in the labour of translation. It is at all tint o task of great difficulty to render the Bible into a fer'l i , language, even if the language is a written one ; b dr such a language as that of the Indians, which was Utif before written, the labour was gigantic. None but a ii ginus enthusiast, such as Eliot, would ever have atteMPtl , it. This Bible has also a value as a typographical carl°r, city. In the year 1663 New England was still a wil d i e be ness teeming with a groat Indian population, and the struggle for existence was by no means an easy one. 410 print a pamphlet was an event of importance, yet to 1 infancy of the commonwealth the whole Bible was prin to :l Cambridge in this strangelanguage,a monumentof aborig ill ; philology which has never been equalled, notwithsts edi all the efforts of our missionary societies to Christiania, and civilize the Indians for the last 200 years. The prin ti . , l l36 of this Bible was begun in 1660, and finished in Sept ber, 1663, thus occupying three years. Th e edition w' r 1,000 copies, of which not more than 15 are known to b e Pr o served in the United States. Twenty copies were sea t , England, in which there was a dedication to Charles i"., Second. But this is not all that is remarkable about till' Bible. A second edition was called for, and the work was reprinted at Cambridge by Samuel Greene , printer of the first edition, in 1635. The art of prili t t was still in its infancy. Tho proposition for printing' t- a edition was submitted to the commissioners of the uei te l colonies of New England for their consideration in 167 8-i by Mr. Eliot, who, among his several appeals, said try, King Philip had sent to him for books to read. The w° fr i which was commenced the following year, proceeded b 6, slowly, as there was but one man, the Indian printer, sllbia was able to compose the sheets and correct the proof. 1634, Mr. Eliot. writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle, sa93', "Wo have but few hands, one Englishman and a ii ; and one Indian." It was completed the following Seal , and 2,000 copies printed. The Indian title reads as f' s fows :—" Mamusse wunnetupanatamwe up-Biblura C er naneeswe Nukkone Testament kuk wonk waska Lament," &c. The following is the full D i e ts , ' • title :—" The Holy Bible : containing the old Tes- „ , ment and the New. Translated into the Indian guage, and ordered to be printed by the Coeolo sioners of the United Colonies in New England. t charge and with the consent of the Corporation in-r . ', 13 . " e ; land for the Propagation of the Gospel among the In d i - , in New England. Cambridge ; Printed by Samuel Gree:o and Marmaduko Johnson, MDCLXIII. (1663), 4to. leaves." Tho New Testament contains 129 leaves. r.lotd well known that there is no Indian living who can this Bible or even speak the language in which it is Oto ten. The Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford , li' ho Secretary of the State of Connecticut, is, we believe , c l only person living who understands the language ti ll . 05 able to read this Bible. Ho has made it a study f o r 103 , 3 a years, and has composed a dictionary of several thoul o ct words from it. We are glad to learn that fine and per 0 1 copies of both editions of Eliot'sßible and New Test e r i are in a private library in Providence, in which alTha little volume in the same ludiaa language, ca'le I Practice of Piety," and "Grammar of the Indian Piof guage," printed at Cambridge in 1666, both the sy cir r o , the indefatigable Eliot. The gramintir is far more 0.0 than the Bible. as not more than three copies are in the United States. 91 [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Consumption, and all nervous, ,1110,10,1 stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggrslote and accelerated by drugs of every description, but P er vo o :,i curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic s, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con swl 8 0f hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthals , fo ge sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de r 00 ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervo us s , is biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, eel d ir pf l fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, 0 0' titles, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, aleeple_, o o/ 01 . : acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, ' lr a cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy,,l l o o " sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the • pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the should We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du 135 01 Food. Cure No 63,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The he?'e tha Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandonel.64 other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du P,'",,te Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes u P' e aci, at every meal. It has prolneed a surprisingly he tly".. effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prais!:4, excellent food too highly." From the " Gazette du li t er July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber 00 chant, ,of Frimley, Surrey, of -thirty years' diseased • , n 0 , , ; spitting of blood, liver derangemgnt, and partial deafun 0 , Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutennof Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.,--No. 49,832. years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervo s _ 0 0.1 asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickne vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the Ttioa unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, 0, , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attach 11 5 •: In tins, at Is. 1 d.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s 6d ; 5 11 14 0 , 12 lbs , 225. • 24 lbs , 40s —:BARRY DU BARRY and CO g fel Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 1 87 4 1 dilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside; 63. 298, Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and cheuP___ Births. OOLD—On the 15th inst., at 22, Nottingham-plec e ' r , gent's-park, the wife of C. Gold, Esq., of a daught e EAST— On the 12th inst., at Rodwell, Weymouth , the ' of Commander James East, R.N., of a daughter. V(4 MILLAIs—On the 15th inst., at 7, Cromwell-plae e ltA. the wife of John E. Millais, Esq., R.A., of a daugu Marriages. ~ 1 6 : WATSON—CANNON—On the 16th inst., at St. Mary ' , Z o o. lington, Robert Henry Watson, Esq., of Malvell's4l 4 Dalston, to Helen, eldest daughter of C. 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