The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times finds faun wit'h the present mode of parlia mentary procedure. If there were any sufficient reasone for retaining the statute of Anne, the effects of it might be borne with patience ; but it is in fact never anything more than an embarrassment, and under favourable cir cumstances it shines as a unique expedient for causing trouble and provoking unnecessary expense. Sometimes, in spite of the feeling which exists that the practice is unfair, the temptation of worrying or of plunder. ing a candidate who has taken office is too strong to be resisted. Sir John Coleridge, for instance, was returned by a comparatively small majority for Exeter, and yet by a majority large enough to be decisive ; and it is inconceivable that the fact of his having become Solicitor-General and been knighted would alienate his supporters ; yet it was, we believe, debated for a short time whether his re-election should not be opposed. And all this for a statute the reason of which has passed away. Who can now pretend to appre hend danger from the power of the Crown? We can remember many instances in which uncertainty about re-election has hindered the accession to a Government of a member who would have been a valuable addition to it, but to whom the expense and labour of a contest would have been a serious difficulty. We can remember none in which the necessity of the sanction of a consti tuency to the taking of office has punished an improper combination ; we have never heard of any instance in which it has prevented it. There is, in fact, nothing but a vague and idle sentiment of Conservatism to oppose to its abolition ; and it must now be a matter of regret to all who consider it that the proposition to repeal the Act, when made in the Reform discussions of 1867, escaped attention in the multiplicity of topics which then engaged attention. The Standard says it must be accepted as rather ominous of the new state of things in Parliament that several of the notices of motion yesterday were of a nature to proclaim the advent of a novel influence. Evi dently members were in a hurry to shew how completely they were in accord with Mr. Gladstone in his latest mood. Motions to repeal the income tax unconditionally— to abolish the rating clauses in the Reform Act—to assimi late the laws relating to the succession to real property to those affecting personal property—to alter the system of registration —to cast the expenses of elections upon the boroughs and counties were among the first notified on the first day of the householder Parlia ment. Most significant of all was a notice of motion given by Mr. Maguire, bearing upon the question of cor porate property in Ireland. The intention of the member for Cork is to move that it is undesirable that corporations should be holders of landed property, and that it is the duty of the Government to relieve them of such property, in order that it may be sold to private persons, with special rights of pre-emption to the existing occupiers. We commend this motion of a supporter of the Government to the electors of the City of London. Here, then, we have, even earlier than we had anticipated, a precise realisation of what we had predicted as a necessary consequence of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church policy. No sooner is the new House of Commons formed, which was elected to serve Mr. Glad stone, than we have a distinct intimation that the property of all other corporations is to be no more sacred from assault than is the property of the Irish Church. " Con fiscation," as Mr. Disraeli said, "is contagious." We see bow quickly he has caught the prevaill-..g contagion, or, rather, how eager he is to pros' ,;.,‘.3 infection. The signal being given of a raid upon existing institutions, Mr. Maguire has only responded in strict logical sequence. The Herald observes that the means by which some of the private members mean to signalise themselves in the course of the coming year are instructive, if not important. Mr. Vernon Harcourt has lost no time in shewing that he means, if he can, to take a very active and influential position in the House of Commons. He intends to move for a committee to inquire into the laws relating to the registration of voters. Mr. Hardcastle, having lost his church-rates question, has taken up the game laws—not, however,*as it would seem, with a view to their total abolition. Mr. Locke King rides his old hobby, and proposes to assimi late the law of succession to real to that which obtains with regard to personal property. Mr. Fawcett, fresh from an expensive contest at Brighton, announces his intention to make another effort to throw the costs of elections upon the rates; and Mr. Sheridan, with the modesty which characterises him, intends to ask Parliament to repeal the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act. But the two most remarkable notices are those given by Mr. Maguire and an honourable member whose name the reporters do not give, but who is destined to remain but a few hours in the obscurity which now involves him. Mr. Maguire, who, it must be remembered, has the credit, according to the member for Greenwich, of having opened the Prime Minister's eyes to the real condition of things in Ireland, and whose patriotism and ability Mr. Gladstone, mindful probably of some fervid laudations pronounced upon him by the member for Cork, has guaranteed with a superfluity of assurances, proposes nothing less than the revocation of the charters of the City Companies which own estates in Ireland, and the sale of their pos sessions, a right of pre-emption being given to the tenants. The other notice is of an intention to call attention to the over taxation of the country, with a view to provide a remedy. Here is, indeed, a subject worthy of the largest powers. We admire the courage of the "great unknown" who has undertaken it, and all we hope is that he will get a very early day for introducing it. It would be a national calamity if Mr. Lowe should be compelled to frame his Budget before the honourable member has an opportunity of showing what remedy is to be found for over-taxation. The Daily News thinks that if the best sign of common wisdom is the recognition of a truer wisdom—if a nation and a representative assembly do all that can be reason ably expected of them when they shew a discernment of the problems that await solution, and pick out with sagacity the men who are competent to solve them, the Parliament of Household Suffrage and the men who have chosen it have not been wanting. The intellectual average of the House of Commons has been considerably reduced b'y the rejection of men like Mr. J. S. Mill, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Osborne, and other eminences of diffe rent kinds and degrees. But these gentlemen were r e j ec t e d not on account of the qualities in which they were supe rior to ordinary men, but for the unfortunate promi nence which they succeeded in giving to qualities in which they fell below the average good sense and right judgment of their constituents. The academic Liberals who have sat at the feet of Mr. Mill and Mr. Goldwin Smith underwent a great discomfiture at the last general election. But they chose to present themselves to small and corrupt constituen c i es , i n w hi c h they might have anticipated failure. The election of Mr. Parker for Perthshire, of - Mr. Fawcett for Brighton, and of Mr. Trevelyan for the Border BorouAs, is _proof that if the battle-fields had been' better chosen the academic Liberals might have made good their claims to parliamentary hononrs. m e d efeat of Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Austin Bruce, and Lord Har tington was due to local and passing causes from which it would be absurd to generalise. 'T hese and other eminent men, unfortunately thrown out at the general e l ec ti on, will probably find their way back into Parliament as vacan cies occur: The House of Commons as it now stands is fairly representative of the country. The beginning of a gradual change is visible in its composition. The direct representation of the aristocracy within its walls is appreciably, if slightly, reduced; other classes have gained a corresponding proportion of power. in terests of pure thought and high culture and the direct of the working classes are too sparsely represented, it is because pure thought and high culture have notyet entered in alliance as close as might be desired with common sense, and because the working classes have not had time to sift men truly representative, from the herd of pre tenders who on their own prompting have rushed to the front. The Parliament of 1868 cannot avoid judgment; but it may fairly protest against being prejudged. The withdrawal of the Greek and Turkish Ambassadors from Constantinople and Athens respectively suggests to the Post some di scuss i on on th e P ro t ec t orate of Greece by England, France, and Russia. The sole motive which directed that protectorate was the desire of affording to Greece, by securing her from -molesta tion, the opportunity of maintaining a respectable position among the States of Europe. Up to the present, however, even her most enthusiastic admirers must admit she has done nothing to justify the hopes which were entertained concerning her. Her domestic affairs have been wretchedly mismanaged. No attempt has been made to retriev e the disgrace which attaches to her in the money markets of Europe ; nor has she sought in any way to gain the respect or confidence of other States. She conceives, apparently, that her real mission is to drive the Turk out of Europe, and to substitute the Cross for the Crescent on the dome of St. Sophia. That this, however, is not her mission it is the obvious duty of the protecting Powers now to make her fully understand. If this pro tectorate is to b: maintained, it must be of a qualified, n)t of an absolute character. The consideration on which it is accorded must be observed, and that consideration is that Greece shall strictly abstain from meddling in the affairs of other States. England and France have as much. —nay, more—interest in the ?maintenance of the indepen dence of Turkey as they have in preserving hers, and if she would continue to retain her autonomy, she must manifest that respect f;:r the rights of her neighbours xvhich is dictated by the fundamental principles of inter n a ei al a.r. The resolution passed by the House of Representatives " all forms of repudiation," is, the To yraph thinks, an act of homage to European no less than A me rican opinion, and mf y help to reassure those holders of United States Bonds who feared the logical issue of the utterances which were made last autumn, in opposite camps, uy Mr. Pendleton and the valorous Butler. At the same time we nuist point out that, whatever its moral influence as a protest, the wording of the resolution by no means excludes the possibility of greenback redemption, should Congress see fit to propose that mode of paying off the Five-Twenties. All that the Representatives did on Monday was to declare that they would not offer to the national creditors "a less amount than the Government has contracted to pay." Secretary Nl`Culloch and General Butler would unite in endorsing this language, which does not touch the real point at issue. The question is, what has Government ' contracted to pay dollars in gold or dollars in currency? So far as the resolu tion is concerned, that difficulty remains just where it was. We have no reason to think that the new Congress will sanction any form of repudiation ; we merely observe that should its members hereafter, under external pressure, propose to pay off the Five-Twenties in greenbacks, there is nothing in the resolution to hinder their doing 50 w ith nerfect consistency, LORD CAIRNS AND LORD FO.RTESCUE. The follawina correspondence appears In the Times:— " No. 1. " Lord Cairns to Earl Fortescue. " 5, Cromwell Houses, Dec. 11. " My Lora,—i observe , in the Times of to-day it n reported that yeur lordship at a dinner at Barnstaple or the Bth inst., in acknowledging the toast of The Lord Lieutenant and Magistrates of the County,' and com , menting on the members of the late Government, statec you had yourself 'twice witnessed the detection of LorC Cairns in misquoting despatches and Acts of Parliament.' "I should be glad to hear from your lordship that thh report is incorrect ; but if it be correct, I take this mode — as the House of Lords is not sitting for the purpose of questions or debate—of asking you to furnish me with s reference to the despatches and Acts of Parliament' which you allege were misquoted by me, with a statement of the ' misquotations' to which you referred, and of the occasions when, as you say, you yourself witnessed the detection' of these misquotations. _ . " I have the honour to be, my lord, your most obedient servant, " C tIRNS." No. 2. " Lord Cairns to Earl Fortescue. " 5, Cromwell Houses, Dec. 12. " My Lord,—Since writing my letter of yesterday I have been furnished with a copy of the North Devon Journal of the 10th inst., in which your lordship is reported to have spoken, at the public dinner at Barn staple, on the Bth inst., in the following words : " g Then we hear a great deal about the admirable Lord Chancellor in the late Government. Undoubtedly he was a man of consummate eloquence and ability, but during the short time he has had a seat in the House of Lords I have been twice an eye-witness to his detection in the act of misquoting despatches and Acts of Parliament, and of his misquoting them with an effrontery and a dex terity painfully suggestive of a familiarity with such practices.' ` I now beg to ask your lordship whether this report is correct. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your most obedient servant " CAIRNS." "No. 3. " Castle-bill, Dec. 12, 1868. "My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge your lordship's letter of the 11th, inquiring whether the words attributed to me in a short report in the Times of the speech made after the dinner to Mr. Acland last Tuesday was correct, and asking me to furnish you with a reference to the despatches and Acts of Parliament which I alleged to have been misquoted by you. " I saw none of the reports of the Devonshire papers before their publication, but from their unanimity I fear I must have omitted to use the words ' misrepresentation or misquotation' as I ought on that occasion. It is with shame and regret I have to acknowledge that, while complaining in such strong terms of inaccuracy on the part of your lordship, I have been guilty of it myself, and I hasten to tender the apology due to you for my indefensible language about you in that speech. Your lordship did not misquote the despatches cited by you in your attempt to convict Lord Carnarvon of inconsistency and inaccuracy in the debate on the Irish Church Bill. You only, in my opinion, and I fancy in that of most of your hearers, seriously misrepresented their bearing on my noble friend's con duct. Your lordship did not, as I had imagined before referring to-day to the reports of the debate, quote, much less misquote, the Act placing upon the Consolidated Fund an annual grant of .4-20,300 for Church purposes in the West Indies. You only, as was subsequently shewn by Lord Carnarvon and the Duke of Buckingham in the House of Lords, and since verified from ' Hansard by myself, altogether misstated the time and circumstances of the in- troduction of that grant, and utterly misrepresented its character. Your lordship in the same speech assigned as a reason for your Government's proposal to discontinue that grant dispositions and intentions on the part of the West Indian colonists which, when challenged to the proof, you did not attempt to substantiate. "It was not so much these misrepresentations (for, as J. too well know, men are liable unintentionally to be led into them, especially by the excitement of speaking) as your lordship's marked omission to tender Lord Carnarvon one word of apology for them, an omission felt by many, and publicly complained of by Lord Granville, that left such a strong impression on my mind. It was that omission which suggested to me the not absolute impossibility of simi lar inaccuracy on the part of your lordship in your thrice repeated interruption and correction of my words when following your lordship in the discussion of the 31st and 32nd Victoria, c. 73. It was that omission which led me then to hurry out immediately to look at the clause under discussion (7th and Bth George IV., c. 73, s. 9), instead of accepting, as I otherwise should, at once the correction of a Lord Chancellor on such a point. I need hardly remind your lordship that there I found the very words I had used ; while what your lordship, with such unaccountable eagerness, thrice substituted, amid the cheers of your friends, was not in tlic clause. "Dec. 13. " I bad written nearly thus much before receiving your lordship's second letter this morning. I cannot, lam sorry to say, but acknowledge from my own recollection, confirmed by the reports in other Devonshire papers, that I used the words attributed to me in the North Devon Journal. I had already prepared before the post came a letter to the Times, which, with some corrections, I enclose for your lordship's transmission, should you think proper to send it in preference to publishing the correspondence. In that letter your lordship will see I fully acknowledge my misstatement, and own that my comments on those instances of your lordship's reckless assertion in the excitement of discussion were couched in terms which subsequent reflection, and still more the bitter lesson of my own inaccuracy, have convinced me I was not justified in using then, and ought publicly to retract and apologise for now, as I desire to do. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant, " FORTESCUE. " P.S.—I have not finished making a fair copy of my corrected letter, and the post is going, but your lordship shall receive it to-morrow," " No. 4. " Lord Cairns to Earl Fortescue. "Dec. 15, 1868. " My Lord, —I have to acknowledge your lordship's letter dated the 12th and 13th instant, and also another letter to the same effect, which your lordship offers me the option of transmitting to the editor of the Times. " As your lordship desires to retract and apologise for the statement of which I complained, your letter, had it contained no more, would have left nothing for me to do but to accept the apology and forget that the circumstance had occurred. " But your lordship adds to the apology an elaborate narrative, by way, as I understand it, of an excuse ; and I am forced to refer to this, lest I should appear to admit either its accuracy or relevancy. " As to a discussion which your lordship states to have taken place in the House of Lords during the progress of anAct of last session (the 31st and 32nd Victoria, c. 73), you do not supply me with any idea or words connected with it by which it could be identified. I have looked at the reports of the debates both in the Times and Hansard,' and I can find nothing whatever on the subject. lam sorry to say I have no recollection of, and I do not even understand, what you refer to. But if you had then any complaint to make of any statement made by me in debate, I apprehend that the House of Peers, and not an election dinner at Barnstaple, would have been the fitting place in which to make it. " You refer at greater length to the debates on the Irish Church Bill, and to an argument adduced in those debates, derived from the past and present position of the Church in the West Indian Colonies. I have no intention of reopen ing that subject in this correspondence. I cannot accept your lordship's version of either the condition or details of the argument, or of the facts on which it was founded. This, however, is matter of opinion. Your lordship is of course free to form your own opinion, and I do not expect you to concur in mine. But what I own is to me matter both of surprise and regret, is that your lordship should see in any view of that passage of parliamentary history, even the colour of justification for an attack made not in your place in the House of Lords, but at a public dinner in a country town ; not in self-defence, but wholly without provocation ; not in the heat of debate, but in ceremonious acknowledgment of a non-politlrlil toast ; an attack which, if your lordship understands it as I understand it, imputed rim-sonal dishonour and deceit to a member of a Government which you wished to discredit. " I propo3P, as your lordship anticipates, to request the publication of this correspondence, and I therefore return the letter addressed to the editor of the Tinies.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your most obedient servant, ` CAIRNS." THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —The report of the Crystal Palace Company shows that there is v. balance of £16,128 as the result of the year's working. There has been to sonic extent a falling off in the receipts on ordinary days—a fact which the directors attribute in part to the "unfortunate rise in fares" on the two lines of railway to the Palace. On the other hand, the number of visitors on the days of special attractions has been maintained, and the attendance of season ticket holders exceeds that of last year by 72,106. The restoration of that portion of the building which was destroyed by fire two years ago has been gradually pushed on, and the greater part of it will be "restored to the attractions of the coming Christmas season." The Palace is uow insured in the amount of nearly £llO,OOO. Tflq, SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1868. FOREIGN NOTES, TURKEY AND GREECH. The information of the Etendard enables it to preserve the hope of seeing matters set right between Turkey and Greece before the 17th. There is, as we have already mentioned, much reason to believe that the Greek Cabinet is disinclined to yield ; but the six Powers have not wavered in their determination to prevent a war. Why Greece should wish to fight it is impossible to divine, except on the supposition that, next to a victory, a sound beating is the most respectable mode of establishing national dignity. The Grecian army is very small. In June 1566 it numbered only 380 officers and 8,077 men, to which was to be added a body of 10,000 gendarmerie, to be under the orders of the Minister of War, and to be employed for military and civil purposes. The army has since been reorganised, but not increased. The Greeks could not, therefore, put more than 10,000 meu in line at any one point, and there is not the slightest reason for believing that the efficiency of this force is such as to counterbalance the superior numbers of the Turks. A telegram from Copenhagen states that both the King of Denmark and the Prince of Wales have urged King George to satisfy the just demands of Turkey, and thus ward off the danger which might otherwise menace his dynasty. _ . Later intelligence shews that the danger of an outbreak, instead of diminishing, becomes more formidable. The ambassadors of both nations have been recalled, and the Greek populace, with whom the prospect of a war is very popular, is indulging in enthusiastic demonstrations. The situation looks so warlike that little short of main force will be required to restrain the two neighbouring States. riddled with shot. Immediately the assassin was ar rested,who proved to be Grant,brother of the libelled lady. A strong feeling existed in Richmond against Pollard, who was a bully all feared. In his pocket were found three revolvers, and that he would use them on the slightest provocation he had often proved. Once he entered the hall wherein the Vir ginian delegates sat, and fired several shots at a member, who had run down his paper, the Southern Opinion. While he never hesitaten to traduce, he made others suffer who took the same course to wards himself, and had been engaged in half a score of such shooting affairs. Several persons in Richmond openly advocated the necessity of killing him, and Grant, when being conveyed to gaol, was cheered as he passed through the streets, and was soon released upon bail of $lO,OOO. The Coroner's inquest showed the feeling in Richmond, as the verdict was that the deceased died from the effect of a gunshot wound at the hands of some person unknown. On Thursday E. A. Pol lard arrived at Richmond, and published a card, wherein he alluded to the cheering of Grant, who was not even placed in a cell, but occupied the pri vate office of the chief of the police, where crowds waited on him to tender congratulations, and he ani madverted on the coroner's verdict, adding—" Let these things stand to the shame of their perpetra tors, and write their own commentary on the chi valry of Richmond. They shame not me, they shame not the dead. My heart is sufficient to hold him. No man can insult my tears. I came to claim but one thing—justice." After denouncing the cowar dice of the deed, the card concludes—" Let justice be done ; let all true people reconsider. lam far from defending the article which has been referred to in my brother's paper. I deeply regret, but my brother did not write it. The murderer never in quired for the real author. He never asked any word of explanation—he never applied to have the article corrected—he took not one single measure which the brave man, no matter how much wronged, always takes before he comes to the last recourse of blood. He went without one alternative to that recourse, and he went where no one, but the coward treads, on the path of the assassin." I may here mention that the Southern Opinion will will not again be published, and that Mr. E. A. Pollard has come down upon the Secretary of War, as General Schofield had refused to let him examine the archives of the Confederate Government now in the keeping of the War Department. He styles this despotism, and asserts that no writer should be " debarred from a bureau having the same relation to the public as a Government library or museum, simply and solely on the ground that he was a Southerner, or that he intended to write on the Southern side of an historical question." The Go vernment of the United States would, in giving Mr. Pollard his fling, furnish its bitter and declared enemy with weapons of attack. Mr. Pollard, with whom, under the circumstances of his brother's death, I sympathize, may write in reason what he pleases against the State, but it is no more reasonable to expect the State to furnish him with material than to aid him with money and to undertake to purchase and distribute his work when published. We have had a magni ficient fall of meteors. Professor Newton of Yale has arrived at the conclusion that a comet travelling at the rate of 2,000,000 miles a day has whisked its tail over the globe, and made us see stars which fully accounts for the meteoric showers. The filibustering expeditions threatened against Cuba are less active. The Spanish Minister, anxious on the subject, has been pressing it on the atten tion of the Government, and Secretary Seward as sures him that no such expedition will be permitted to leave the country. The organization for the annexation of the island has, however, extended to Chicago, where bonds of the Provisional Govern ment have been printed, dated Havannab, Nov. 3, 1868, professing to be signed by the Governor and Secretary of State, payable a year after the admission of the State of Cuba into the Union by Congress, and to bear interest from date at 12 per cent. What they sell for I do not know, but I think they would be a hazardous speculation for a large investment, though I would prefer them to 111 the bonds of the Irish Republic. I suppose your readers have heard enough of the Erie R iilway ' war. Here we have heard of little else. The ' speculative muddle which no " feller could under , stand, except the scene shifters, is now followed by a legal muddle which no one can understand except the lawyers who make it. The object of the directors is, of course, to tie the subject up in a tangle, but affairs have lately gone against the Gould party. Judge Sutherland, of the State Supreme Court, has set aside the order of Judge Barnard, directing all proceedings to be stayed. Mr. Davies has been appointed receiver, the Judge requiring him to execute a bond for $1,000,000 before awarding him the post. on Wednesday he panied by two lawyers, I pr r o m c e e e d d e dN't' i o t h t h e t o h ffi i s e , o a r e d c e o r m and demanded admission. The guard seeing Mr. Eaton, who had formerly acted as counsel for the directors, and unaware that he now acted for their adversaries, admitted the party, and it was not known that the enemy were in the citadel till they reached the private room of the directors, where they were consulting with their law advisers. The company's offices have been guarded like a fortress, with gates, bolts, and armed men, so the consterna tion may be imagined on the enemy's entrance into the sanctum sanctorum. At first the directors were polite, but afterwards rude, and the counsel inter fered to keep the peace; but Judge Davies, the new receiver, served a notice on each director of his ap poirtment, with a demand for the funds, books, and papers. The public are awaiting further de velopments, the Drew party remaining in posses sion, while the Gould party seek to be armed with other weapons from their own judges. Next Tuesday a mayor, corporation, council, and minor charter offi cers will be elected, and the newspapers seem to ho nestly urge the people to select the man of highest character independent of his political opinions. The running is between Col. Fred. A. Conkling and A. Oakey Hale, between whom there is little dif ference politically. I incline to think that Mr. Hale is the strongest candidate, and will be suc cessful, although having once been a Republican, and having gone over to the enemy during the civil war, he is disliked by that party. Mr. D. B. Eaton has been placed by the Republicans in nomination for the Corporation Council, and he will run against Mr. Richard O'Gorman, but I think with no great hopes of success. The Cole-Hiscock murder trial has been progressing for some days, but the court ruled yesterday rather unfavourably to the accused, though public sympathy runs strongly in his favour, and long od is are offered that he will get off. Your readers will remember that he walked up to within a few feet of Iliscock, who was leaning against a pillar in a hotel, and shot him dead. Chief Justice Chase proceeded to Richmond from Washington, and on Wednesday opened the Court, dispensing with the Test Oath for Grand Jurors, a discretionary power given by Congress. No special occasion, he says, now demands it, and its requirements sometimes hinder the cause of justice, by exclnding those best qualified to dis charge the duties of jurors. He addressed a few weighty and earnest words to the Jury on their duty to make vigilant search for frauds on the revenue. " Spare nobody," said the Chief Jus tice; "least of all those in the highest and most re sponsible given general satisfaction throughout the country. John Slidell, it is said, will endeavour to regain his confiscated property in New Orleans by au appeal to the cDurts there. her Majesty has been pleased to approve of M. Dorenee Atwater as Consul at Seychelles for the United States of Atuerica. TIIE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND CLOCK S. — A. most intereqing and instructive little work, describing briefly but with great clearness, the rise and progress of watch and clock makin -, has just been published by jr T. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam Factory, 58 and 63, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly valuable.work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint mcnt to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of the intending purchaser ANDREW JOHNSON'S LAST MESSAGE. Whatever may be the character recorded of ANDREW JOHNSON when he retires into the obscu rity wherein the lives of so many ex-Presidents have closed, those who read the history of his term will at least give him credit for consistency. His last Message to Congress reproduces the subject of Reconstruction, as if beginning the battle he had already fought and lost. The persistency, as well as the aggravating way in which this is done, recalls the story of the miller whose wife had so exasperated him by contradiction that he threw her into his dam, where she sunk, with hand raised, two figures representing the scissors, the bone of dispute, which she had maintained to this desperate extremity as the instrument used. Mr. JOHNSON is sinking out of public sight like the miller's wife, crying " Scissors !" in the face of the expiring Congress ; but now this obstinacy and want of pliability cannot work much further mis chief, for little importance is attached to what he thinks or says. But the incensed Senate will not even hear his Message read, and we regret to see the quarrel so bitterly renewed, and such a course adopted by so dignified a body. The " way of putting things" is well illustrated if the summary accurately abridges the Message. " The attempt to place the white population of the South under the domination of negroes has impaired the kindly relations pre viously existing." We always understood that the attempt was to take the negroes from under the domination of the white population, and the world held to some such delusion. The kindly relations were those that exist between an owner and his horse who makes it go with whip and spur, while feeling bound to house and feed it. The legisla tion of Congress is simply intended to turn the African chattel into an independent man, and it cannot be helped if the first effect is " to impair the kindly relations and prevent co-operation in indus trial enterprises." Even granting what Mr. JOHN SON alleges, that Congressional legislation has pro duced these baneful results, we deny his conclusion that "it should be abrogated." He was strongly urged to confine his remarks to existing issues, and not to bring forward sensational " novelties" to stir up the flagging strife between the Executive and the Legislature; but the President desired to fur nish a last historical Message, and to plan for the incoming Government the course he considers essen tial for the wellbeing of the country. For these reasons he determined, in opposition to his advisers, to declare Reconstruction abortive, and to urge a return to the plan of 1865, devised by the LINCOLN Government, and sanctioned by his own. He also resolved to condemn the Tenure-of-Office Act, and recommend the restoration to the Executive of the appointment and removal power, which, we believe, will be acted on for the benefit of the President Elect, but not for him. He was also advised to confine himself to a recommendation of economy, and afterwards to discuss financial affairs iu a sepa ' rate message, but being bent on producing a great document he decided on discussing the issue now denouncing the frauds upon the revenue, and call ing for a strict account, which Congress has removed from him the ability to obtain. From the telegram it is clear he has taken, as he intended, strong ground on the financial question, and with his usual boldness he advocates Secretary M'CuLLoca's plan to withdraw greenbacks and substitute coin as soon as possible. He represents commerce as having diminished, and manufactures as languishing, the only remedy being wise legislation and retrench ment ; and he alludes to the startling fact that the War Department has exceeded the estimates during the past three years by $175,000,000. It is asserted in Washington that the Treasury has been post poning the heavy claims against it to ba able to report fa i yourably, and that these have been accumu lating for upwards of two months ; but we feel cer tain that Mr. JOHNSON would not aid in such a scheme, for his object is to show how mistaken is the financial policy of Congress, and the Message unfairly inclines towards the " dismal prospect" rather than to the bright one. Still Mr. JOHNSON cannot ignore the fact that the army is reduced, as we a fort night ago announced, to 48,000 men and the naval force to 200 vessels, mounting 7,040 guns. Ile btlieves a further reduction of infan try practicable, asserting that if Congress would abrogate its Reconstruction laws soldiers would cease to be required in the South. It is, however, impos sib:e for a Finance Minister to estimate precisely what will be the results of the corning year. He may rightly calculate the Customs and the Inland Revenue as well as the ordinary expenditure, but some little but costly war throws out his figures, and then those who look only to the end say he was all wrong, exclaiming that the boasted anticipated surplus had proved a deficit. At this moment the United States are involved, perhaps, in two expen sive wars ; the one against the North American In dians and the other against the South American Indians ; for unless LOPEZ tenders an explanation, with satisfactory apologies, and reparation for his conduct towards the Minister and other American citizens at Asuncion, he will put himself into a " tight place ;" but we cannot believe, unless he has really gone mad, that he will court this de truction, though he may desire to bring another foe into the field to whom he could surrender with less bitterness of feeling than to the Brazilians. The Message touches on the Paraguayan difficulty, showing that LOPEZ will be compelled to explain his conduct. To England the most important part relates to the questions now open for adjust ment between the countries ; and the spirit of the Message contradicts the absurd opinions expressed by some London newspapers that the Ala bama question had assumed a new and alarming aspect. The tone of the American press, which the English acknowledge fully and fairly to represent American opinion, is far from being hostile to Eng land, and although, as might reasonably be ex pected, such delicate negotiations touching on seve ral points long in dispute could not flow smoothly to a conclusion, yet the interruptions are far from a nature to cause uneasiness. At Washington the English concessions are considered virtually to em brace the point in dispute. The question for America is simply one of honour, although many erroneously suppose that it is a money question, which, being decided against England, would trans fer a large sum from the British exchequer into the Washington Treasury. Nationally, by the settle ment of the claims in dispute both countries will lose heavily, though individuals will gain, and many, too, who have no right to gain; for the risks and liabilities were estimated and charged by in surance offices, by brokers, shipowners, and mer chants, in the carriage and in the sale of foreign goods, which safely reached port. The depredations of the Alabama and other privateers were fully dis counted, and have already been paid by the Ameri can public ; and if the British public are also to pay, some persons will greatly gain. On the other hand, if English claimants succeed in making good their cases, a heavy account will bare to be paid by America to British subjects. It is even asserted at Washington that a bill of $45,000,000 has been prepared by the British Go vernment for the consideration of the joint Com mission, for damage alleged to have been sustained by British subjects residing daring the war in Southern States. The public of both countries may be very sure that they will be the victims, and, were it not for the national questions involved, it would be well if all the correspondence on the sub ject were packed up with Mr. LAIRD in a box, and dropped to the bottom of the Atlantic half-way between Liverpool and New York. On the whole, the Message must be one of great interest, and would perhaps have given general satisfaction, more especially that portion exposing and denounc ing frauds, had the PRESIDENT taken the advice of his friends, and kept his anti-Reconstruction ideas to himself. Without doubt the document is ably written, for few State papers have expressed opi nions with greater force and beauty of language than the Annual Messages of ANDREW JOHNSON.-- Aogle-American Times. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL TIAIR.-MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Prico Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers Depot, 266, High Holborn G%R3IINY. A letter from Berlin states that Count Bismarck is exerting himself to the utmost to procure a settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question, and that his policy rapidly gains ground at the Prussian Court. There are some who wish to protract this difficulty, in order in the end to enable Prussia to keep all she has gained, but Count Bismarck is desirous of removing every pretext for war by fulfilling the Treaty of Prague. The relations between Prussia and France were never better than at present; but those between Prussia and Austria could hardly be worse. The journals of the two countries are carry ing on a pen-and-ink war of great activity, and even statesmen are not particularly guarded in their utterances. The other day Count Bismarck announced to the Prussian Chambers that the Chateau of Hietzing was the scene of perpetual intrigues against North Germany. Hietzing is at Vienna, and is the residence of the ex-King George, who is permitted to dwell at the Austrian capital notwithstanding the unconcealed displeasure of the Prus sian Government. A correspondent of the Liberte says that though there is no reason to apprehend a rupture between the two countries, they are, nevertheless, so unfriendly that it would not be surprising if the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin were to receive unlimited leave of sbsence. AMERICA. General Grant, says the Telegraph, is known to hold very decided views on at least one question—the resump tion of specie payments. He has avowed his intention of recommending to Congress a measure in accordance with the last report of Secretary M'Culloch, which fixed 1871 as the date for the final withdrawal of the greenback. It is even thought that Mr. M'Culloch will be invited to keep his place at the Treasury under the new President. Congress has already set aside in the most decisive manner all the various projects of repudiation. A telegram from New York states that the House of Representatives, by 154 votes against 6, has passed a resolution declaring all forms of repudiation odious to the American people. The national creditors will be offered all that the Government has contracted to pay them. General Sherman has sent to the War Department at Washington a long report on the causes and consequences of the difficulty with the Indians. His account of the manner in which the war now going on was brought about is simply a repetition of the old story. The frontier lino of American civilisation is continually widening and encroach. ing upon the hunting-grounds of the aboriginal tribes. In spite of all past experience, the thirst for gain, the eagerness to first • get possession of new land, the report of a gold discovery, or the prospect of profit in any shape whatever, impels the American to hazard his life and property in a district which is but nominally under the control of the Government. The authorities themselves encourage the invasion of these insecure wilds. The co-ordinate departments of the Government continue to extend the surveys of public land westward, and grant patents to occupants to locate and build railroads, to establish mail routes, with the necessary stations and relays of horses, as though the country were in profound peace and all danger had passed away. The difficulty arising from this source never diminishes, for as fast as one district is wrested from the Indians the white man follows them into another. General Sherman puts forth the advice of the Peace Com mission, which investigated this matter, as the only means of avoiding the frequent recurrence of Indian wars :- 1 "That to maintain a permanent peace with the Indians east of the Rocky Mountains, they shou'd all, at the earliest possible moment, be collected on reservations, as far re moved as possible from white settlements and lines of travel, and that there they should be maintained at the cost of the United States until they could wholly or partially provide for themselves." In a territory so vast that a district as large as England ranks but as a small province, there ought to be no difficulty in assigning the Indians a dwelling-place, and preserving them from encroachment. The estimates of their number vary considerably; but it is certain that all the tribes in the United States cannot muster a total of 40,000, the vast majority being located in California and New Mexico. Surely these might be left in peace until the end comes— until the red man is extinct. THE LOSS OF H.M.S. RATTLER. The officers and crew of the Dupleix, a rrench cor vette stationed in the Sea of Japan, have earned the gratitude of Englishmen by their efforts on behalf of the seamen and passengers of the Rattler. This ship was wrecked in the Strait of La Perouse on the 24th Sep. tember, and on the 7th October the intelligence reached the British Consul at a station to the north of Japan. He informed the commander of the Dupleix, who, though his ship was being repaired, lost no time in setting out. After a very stormy passage through a most dangerous part of the Pacific, the French ship arrived at the scene of the wreck, and, though the embarkation was very difficult. succeeded in bringing off every man in safety (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Saturday, Nov. 28. Some murders of an extraordinary character have lately been perpetrated. At Philadelphia, on Sunday night, Mrs. Mary E. Hill was killed by her son-in-law, George S. Twichell, with a poker. She was a wealthy, twice-married widow of 65 years, wealth Twichell and his wife, who was arrested as an accomplice, are alleged to have been instigated by the desire to possess. A servant arriving at the house saw the old lady lying below the window in the rear, and her cries brought the police to the spot. Twichell came up and looked with perfect coolness on the body, suggesting that she had fallen from the window. His dress being stained with blood the police arrested him, and further evidence showed that Mrs. Hill had first been murdered and then thrown from the window. The people of Philadelphia were greatly excited when the circumstances became known, and would, had they been permitted, have lynched both the prisoners. The trial is looked forward to with interest as the family is among the wealthy. It has already transpired that in a deed Airs. Hill had di rected Twichell to prepare had been executed in his wife's name instead of in that of his mother-in-law. On Tuesday night in this city, Felix Larkin, who had acted as bottle-holder to O'Baldwin, the pugi list, was murdered in a low oyster shop kept by a man named Campbell. It appears that at three o'clock in the morning Larkin, with two others, forced themselves into the shop and insolently ordered three oyster stews. Not being served suffi cently quick, Larkin, who was a strong man, got into a quarrel with Campbell, who in the struggle stabbed him repeatedly with a dagger, while the bar-tender and a woman servant joined in the melee, till the police arrived, when Larkin was found dying and the others more or less injured. Strange to ed pist a o l l ino: t t h t i r m nhu d r u t, rin t g hou t g h h e L sa Li C n am ha p d be fi ll red es l c r a is p struggle. Larkin was one of those Ward politicians to whose ruffianism New York owes so unenviable a notoriety. The tragedy, however, which has ex cited most interest in the country is that of Rich mond (Virginia), wherein James Grant was the mur derer, and 11. Rives Pollard, the victim. Pollard was a well known Southerner, the editor of the Southern Opinion, and a strong supporter of the South. He was the brother of Edward Pollard, the editor of the Political Pamphlet, and the author of the " Lost Cause." Last Saturday he offended the Grants, who are wealthy tobacconists, by hinting at immoral conduct on the part of a young lady of the house, whose alleged elopement he them gave an account, although the girl had simply gone to Philadelphia 'on a visit to a schoolfellow. Pol lard was alighting from his carriage on Tuesday morning at the door of his office, when a shot was fired from the upper window of a building opposite, and he fell, dying almost instantly, his body being 7HE AIVNUAL REPORTS. In continuation of the Annual Reports on the Army we may now summarize that of Inspector- General Schriver, on West Point, who says that the Academy was never in a better condition. The cadets are 224, but the law authorizes 290 when the Southern States are all admitted. He enters into the question of their increase, concluding that 400 can as well be educated there as 224, and re commends that number. The only additional ex pense will be for the board of students, there being teachers, books, and apparatus enough. The neces sity for an increase of specially educated officers all admit who have given attention to the subject. Congress should be requested to take action in the premises. The number of graduates to this time is 2,273 ; there entered, but did not remain to gra duate, 2,447. The total cost of the Academy to date is $8,236,372, including grounds, buildings, books, works, instruments, apparatus, the pay of teachers, and the board of teachers and cadets. General Schriver denies that the Academy culti vates aristocracy and is tinctured with disloyalty, and says that of living graduates in and out of the service at the beginning of the war more than three-fourths remained loyal ; and of these in and out of the service, born in or appointed in the South, one-half remained loyal. Of the graduates belonging to the States that actually seceded, more than one-fourth remained loyal. Of the graduates who served against the rebellion more than one-third were wounded, and one in five were killed in battle. He says, in conclusion, that the Board of Visitors recommend the Academy to ask for $65,000 this year for repairs and. improvements, and that the superintendent be raised to the rank and pay of Brigadier-General. The Hon. C.C. Cox has sent his report as Com missioner of Pensions to the Secretary of the Trea sury, and the following is an abstract of its most interesting statistics :—" The number of original invalid pensions admitted during the year was 9,325, at an annual aggregate rate of $628,227 70 ; in crease of pensions allowed, 4,854, at an annual ag gregate rate of $280,487 28. The average rate of original pensions granted is $67 371 or $1 35 less than the preceding year. The number of original applications, by widows, orphans, and other depen dent relations, is 19,242, being an annual aggre gate rate of $1,910,202 70. The increase of pen sions under this class is 27,053, at an annual aggre gate rate of $1,725,960. The whole number of invalid pensioners borne on the rolls on the 30th day of June, 1868, was 74,782, and these were paid in the aggregate at the rate of $6,828,025 26c., and the total number of widows, orphans, and other dependent relatives in this class was 92,243, who were paid in the aggregate at the rate of $12,065,068 94. The total number of both classes was 167,025, at a total annual rate of $18,893,094 20c. The original invalid pensions allowed num bered 135, at the annual rate of $12,890, and the same class was increased 50 at the total annual rate of $2,994. Widows, minors, and others admitted, 219, at the aggregate rate of $26,102, being an in crease of 72 at the total annual rate of $6,600. The total number of navy invalid pensioners on the rolls at the close of the fiscal year was 1,175, at an annual rate of $94,833 75, and of widows, minors, and others, 1,443 at $236,256, making a total of 2,618 pensions at $331,099 75. The total amount actually paid to invalid pensioners during the year ending June 30, 1868, was $97,340, and to widows and others, $255,043 21. The total amount of navy pensions paid was $352,388 21. Prior to the date of the last annual report of this office the sole surviving soldier of the revolution pensioned tinder the general laws had died. Of the two soldiers pensioned by special Acts of Congress then on the rolls, Jno. Gray of Ohio and Daniel F. Bakeman of New York, Nancy Serena, widow of Joseph Serena of Pennsylvania, still survive, the latter being the only representative on the rolls of that class of re volutionary widows who were married prior to the close of the war. Of those married. prior to Jan. 1, 1794, 55 survive ; of those married prior to Jan. 1, 1800, 45 ; and of those married since the latter date, 787—making a total of 888 Revolutionary widows on the rolls, being less by 109 than the number returned the previous year. There are on the rolls 1,303 widows and orphans of soldiers who served in wars subsequent to the Revolution and prior to 1861, an increase of 551 since the last re port. The total number of pensioners of all classes on the 30th of June, 1868, was 169,618, and these are paid at the aggregate rate of $19,214,183.95. Pensions granted during the year, 28,921 ; number dropped from the rolls, 14,752 ; number of increase during the year, 32,029 ; amount actually paid for pensions, including expense of disbursement, $24,010,981.99, an excess of $5,391,025.53 over the amount of the previous year." We extract from the Ti ibune the report of the Hon. Jas. S. Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land Office, which equals in interest that of 1867. In addition to the usual official topics, it will embrace a variety of valuable information, all arranged under thirty-six general heath, embracing the soil, climate, territorial configuration, industrial and commercial facilities, social progress and pre sent status of the different States and Ter ritories. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, in which the Government title to the soil has been practically extinguished by private appropriation under the land laws, are grouped together in a single article, showing, as the result of the beneficent land policy, their growth into a powerful and intelligent civili zation. Each of the other public land States and Territories is made the subject of a separate chap ter, showing the character and development of its resources, the progress of settlement and culture, the amount of public land remaining undisposed of, the areas of surveyed and unsurveyed lands re spectively, with such other topics as are judged of interest and value in bringing each portion of the public domain into public notice, thus facilitating its prompt disposal by settlement and sale. The pre-emption and homestead policy is discussed from a historical standpoint. The general and spe ;..al grants for internal improvements are re nearsed, and the proceedings of the executive authority in their execution are detailed, show ing the operation of this policy in building up and developing the industrial and com mercial interests of the great West. The land grants of the General Government in aid of educa tion form the theme of an article illustrating the importance of popular intelligence in a free com munity. The different grants of Congress in aid of public schools, of seminaries, and of colleges, espe cially of agricultural colleges, are analyzed, and statistics showing the extension and development of educational establishments of the country from the commencement of our national existence, are given. The following are some of the items from the re port :—" By the census of 1860 it is shown that in that year our whole number of educational establ lishments was 113,006, with 148,741 teachers, giv ing instruction to 5,417,880 pupils, the annua income being $33,990,482. In the absence of later general statistics, the latest reports of educational movements in some of the young Western cities are cited as illustrations of educational progress during the current decade. The grand totals of these grants, amounting to nearly 80,000,000 acres, are greater than the united area ofNew Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti cut, New York, New Jersey, andD e s la ta w t a e re a . n ß d o , u r n e t r y_ land grants, military reservations, ritorial boundaries receive a propriateno sp ti e c c e i . al The geological survey of Nebraska, under sta tute, is reviewed in detail, and the continuation of the geological survey of the Rocky Mountains re gions, subsequently ordered by Congress, under the superintendence of a capable geologist, is noticed with several important practical results. It is ascertained that the country for 200 miles West of Omaha is very fertile, and that beyond that point it is available for grazing. The presence of coal is clearly developed in very large deposits in different localities. Iron ores especially of magnetic charac ter abound. Extensive forests of pine timber were frequently met with, giving ground for an ex tensive lumbering enterprise. The peculiar cha racter of the parks of Colorado receives passing notice. The Commissioner urges the import ance of geological explorations of the public domain, and suggests that a public building be erected in Washington, with apartments ~for the accommodation of scientific memorials re presenting each Stile and Territory. The re clamation of inundated lands by practical pro cesses known to modern science is the sub ject of an interesting paper called for by the wants of different portions of the country. The amelio ration of barren lands by irrigation, tree-growing, and other processes, a problem whose importance is daily becoming more pressing, is discussed with the expectation that practical measures may be speedily adopted to render these widespread acres capable of supporting vegetable and animal life on an ex tended scale. The mining legislation of Congress is thoroughly considered, attention having been called to controversies in some of the mining districts growing out of conflicting constructions of the law. The report closes with a review of the area of public lands at different periods of American history, now amounting to nearly 3,000,00 0 square miles, or nearly 2,000,000,000 acres. The territorial limits of the Republic are given, its chorographic features and geographical relations, and the changes on the Eastern Continent conspiring to throw into our hands the sceptre of the world's commerce. An extensive corres pondence with State, municipal, and commercial, authorities has been condensed so as to present some interesting statistics from all parts of the Union. An interesting article on tree culture adds a special practical value to the report. The report further shows that there has been disposed of for cash, for homesteads and under the several laud grants, over 6,900,000 acres of the public domain, of which a large share is for actual settlement. 'the total cash receipts exceed $1,500,000. Th e lands disposed of for actual settlement add about 23,500 farms to the productive resources of the country. Of these 8,500 are within the limits of the Southern public land States. The grants for Pacific Railroads, military waggon roads, and other railroads, approximate 186,000,000 acres. The total area of public domain, including Alaska, may be stated in round numbers at 1,800,000,000 acres. To tal disposed of 400,000,000. Leaving undisposed of 1,400,000,000 acres. The annual earnings of the American people are estimated at $7,500,000, 000, and their domestic trade at nearly $6,000,000, 000 a year. The report also contains tables, showing the lands sold and disposed off for settlement der- ing the first and second halves of the fiscal year , the area of the several land States and Territoriegt how the lands in each have thus far been disposed off, &c. The geological history of the valley of the Missouri River and Wyoming Territory, and the theory and results of the railroad policy are fil lll shown, with the unifying effects upon our nation' ality, and considerations are presented in regard to the candidacy of the Republic for a full share of the Asiatic trade." The Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Secretary of the Treasury have agreed upon the appoin t ' ment of C. E. Creecy, Esq., as supervisor of the dis trict of Louisiana, an d H enr y Nil es succee d s hire $w the head of the appointment bureau of the Treasury Department. Supervisors have yet to be appointed for the districts of Now Jersey, Southern OW' Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. ' lll. Hon. Reuben Tomlinson, formerly of Philadelph ia ' has been appointed State Auditor of South Carolina, a nd is organizing the system of collection of taxes in that State with great efficiency.—The President has appein tej Coland Powell, of Tennessee, Consul at Port Still:del i Falkland Islands, to fill a vacancy.—John Savage is to he sent to England as Consul for Leeds, but we do not k o°// what John Savage is meant.—J. W. Byron, who has W I been on O'Neill's staff, has b een a pp o i n t e d by the President Brigadier-General in the U.S. Army. It appears that Germany is indebted to an Arn e rican for the establish me nt o f S un d a y S c hools. Eig ht years ago none existed, when M r . Wo o druff addres sed several audiences on the subject at Bremen, a Germ an merchant acting as interpreter. This gentleman has s ince devoted himself to Sunday S c hool work, and the r esult has been the formation of 66 of these schools, with 11,29 scholars, and in the German cantons of Switzerlan d 19, with 2,353 scholars. Mr. Justin M'Carthy, lately one of the lead ing editors of the London Morning Star, has become one o f the editors of the Independent. Ile is an able writer, and tbo roughly conversant with British politics. There is a story that Messrs. Raymond and Weed are negociating the par chase of the National In?elligencer, with the view of mak ing it the organ of the Government. The Tribune sneers at the idea of the editor of such a paper as the f elt York Times leaving the Empire City to take up a Wa sh ' ington journal, which, it says, would excite astonish' ment and derision. " These Washington organs' have generally been poor concerns, and the Administration does not want an organ. With one or perhaps two 431 ceptions they have been compelled to live upon Pu blie patronage—adverti-ing contracts squeezed out of C° n : gross—and such little drippings and jobs as have boe ! thrown in their way by lobby agents. A newspaper tlav_ cannot live except upon subsidies of the Government ()ugh' to stop." There may, however, be more truth in the re pert that Mr. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate, who ceeded Colonel Forney, with his two papers, "both wants at least to have one, and for this purpose desires to purchase the Washington Chronicle. General J. C. Abbott of Raleigh, N.C., la tel of the Federal Army, and now United States Senator, Ids! formed a law partnership with Colonel Edward Canty/01i' an ox-Confederate officer. Nehemiah Ball, of Concord, has been senten c ,` ;s to ten years in the State prison for forging the name o f 4 - - a uncle, Rufus Merriam, upon transfer blanks of Unite 0 States bonds and railroad stock, which had been stolen, 1C order to sell them. [ADvEßTlsEmENT.]—Holloway's „ + Dreary November is proverbial for its unpleasall sOl - 71 e.„ which may lead directly to disease unless some tonic , Ii " . it° these pills, be occasionally taken to sustain the alV t isg and relish for food. In all cases of indigestion, prod weariness, low spirits, palpitation, and feverishness, th u d famous famous pills should be resorted to as the gentles t surest corrective of the stomach, and the best antidotssits, its ailments. These pills dispel the cause of dysP e P, o cl Every one afflicted with it may rejoice at the safe satisfactory results which may be secured at so 510 a charge as the purchase of a box of Holloway's pills. Tr o , purify, strengthen, and remedy imperfect develop:tell growth and health in young persons. on [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Constipe, s n d Debility, Consumption, and all nervons, bilious, stovnee li ,l, o lo' liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and it, De rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable "•; . 1 111 Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as prove ,„ eg thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, stlei;to, —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver con l P l ilt hee flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, d i P ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and earsj..;tor matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia , !l o be, bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, heade d i 0 debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, e,',esg pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tip, to of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and betweeei 51 shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restore The Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 18 66 d ot' health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, sbae"Dis ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely tlor Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes 0, P ac jiii ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly be na 4ee t effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this e%e`cefe food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25 ' No. 46,270 —Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of ~ lt ae Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blooo2,, to ri derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Lor d de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dYeP e o f,si* No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dYeP,4 O 35f nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, ePl c o.-" sickness, and vomiting.—Maria July." Important Cat t ielie Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy it iv r a tictV to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is mo st ciously attached. 1 119 ' In tins, at ts. ; 1 lb. 2s. 93. ; 2 lbs. is. 61.; 51b3, lie.; „, ro c , o' 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYLLENTA. A.RADICA "F o r , 1 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at ' 2 1:: 6 ea; cups at 3s. 61, for 48 cups at As,for 283 cups at 305., for tie: at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and D.' o olo' are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Pe,', Doe' )rder.—BARRY no BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stre et, don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 010 GIBE—On the 10th inst., at Clevedon ' Somersat, th e of Lieut.-Colonel Win. Ed. Gibb of a son. MAxwELL---On the 14th inst., at , Lichfield House, o f 0 mond, Surrey, the wife of John Maxwell, Fs 3c l" daughter. Ecf elic PRICE —On the 15th in s t., a t Ch ess i ng t on of Surrey, the wife of R. Dans) , Green Price, daughter. Maiages .° CALDW ELL—CUST—On t he 33th i nst. , a t St. g° Hanover-square, C. B. C a ld we ll Es , of Nov G;:f co. Meath, I re l an d , t o Sophia Frances,l cl• daughte r - late Hon. W. C ust. ' 03 0' PERKS —GILLOT —On the 12th lust., Birmingb 3 3 T'ffol' l Perks, Esq , of Kirkstall Villa, Perry Barr, 0 ' I;i 4 l't shire, to Maria, second daughter of Joseph Gillett, of Westbourne-road, Edgbastou, Birmiughani• Deaths. BRANDE the 11th inst., at Sulliamstead Ifeus°, 13 ham-green, Everard A. Braude, Esq., aged 9 3 .SVi BROOKS —On the 13th inst., at Denmark-hill, S'-'4" Brooks, Esq., aged 48. n tf° r° COOMBS—On the 14th lust , at the Castle Hote l, We" it Charles Coombs, aged 70. jose.r.e EWA AT —On the 14th inst., at Broadleas, Devize,s'hcso Christopher Ewart, Esq., of Now Brighto n, late M.P. for Liverpool, aged 69. Twisixo—On the 14th inst., at L Kent, Cha s • T Esq., Q.C., of Halifax, N.S., aged 68. 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