The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times reminds its readers that a general election so late in the autumn as the month of November is of very rare occurrence. There has been sometimes a short session before Christmas following on an election, as in the year 1852 ; but, as a rule, elections occur in the spring, con tingent on an adverse vote of the existing House, or immediately on the close of the ordinary session. On the present occasion the constituencies will be called upon to choose their representatives about the second week in November, and we wish to call attention to a possible evil against which it would be as well to be forewarned. The municipal elections, which are held this year OD the second of November, will precede the more important contests by a few days only ; and under the Reform Act of 18G7 the borough franchise has been ex tended, so that the constituencies for parliamentary and for municipal purposes are practically the same. We shall thus have two contests within a few days of each other, in which the same furces may be marshalled on either side, under the same leaders and subject to the same influences. It would, no doubt, be a good thing if municipal elections were altogether unpolitical. We have seen within the last three years the sober conventional differences of Liberal and Conservative widen,. until there is now a real animosity between the more zealous partisans on either side, and political feeling even invades the relations of private life. What chance, then, is there of the borough householders judging the municipal candidates by the modest merit of fitness for their posts? At ,a moment when every imagination is heated by the prospect of the great electoral battle, the municipal can didates will receive more thorough support in their charac ters of opponents or defenders of the Irish Church than could be gained by any past services to their borough, or by the most proved devotion to their interests. In short, it is likely that the municipal election will be a sort of rehearsal of the parliamentary election, and that in many cases the same party machinery will be applied to both. The Post says the ultra form of Tractarian worship, which bas been irreverently described as " pernicious non sense," appears at length ►to have reached a climax which imperatively demands episcopal and legal interference an adequate nature. The Rev. Mr. Purchas, who pro% , fesses to hold a strictly private " cure " of doubtless many fashionable souls, is the gentleman who has been selected for the ritualistic scapegoat, and, to do him justice, he appears to have hurried on the vicarious sacrifice with the most unselfish devotion. Mr. Purchas at one period had the good taste and common sense to give up his extreme ritualistic service in deference to the expressed wishes of his congregation ; but within the last few months, apparently as a set-off against this temporary abstinence from what are considered by a certain party not only as the pieces de resistance, but also the bonnes benches of religion, he has plunged into still greater excesses. Few people consider seriously how damaging these petty squabbles are to the Church, few give due heed to the glee with which Roman Catholics and Dissenters cf every denomination regard and read of these dissensions, so forcibly suggestive of the house which, divided against itself, cannot stand. It is high time, however, that serious attention should be directed to this topic; and if the episcopal authorities are legally dis qualified to maintain something like discipline in the ranks of their ecclesiastical subordinates, Parliament must bestir itself to remedy such a crying evil. Ecclesiastical law is by no means an easy study, but, as far as we understand, it will probably take the Bishop of Chichester three years and as many thousand pounds to " suppress" the reverend proprietor of a Brighton chapel, even supposing that he promotes a successful suit, which is always problematical. This would be amusing were it not so thoroughly lamentable. Let Parliament look to it, and that speedily : but, if anything effectual is to be done, Conservatives must discard their leader's cry of " No Popery," and Liberals must make up their minds to treat the beam in their own eye, and not deal exclusively with their brother's mote. The Standard remarks that Mr. Gladstone a few months ago spoke of the National Church in terms of high respect and with a studied moderation ; in words not altogethet inconsistent with the natural feelings of a Churchma3 compelled to sacrifice the interests of his Church to public principle or to the exigencies of party policy. Now h, pours forth upon her the vials of contempt and hatred, and speaks of her with the bitterness of a mortal enema or the rancour of an apostate. Mr. Miall himself could hardly be more unsparing in imputation ; Mr. Brad laugh could hardly speak with a more offensive ane. insulting levity. His weapons are no longer those of grave argument, but those of bitter ridicule and angry invective ; he no longer affects the kindly spirit of the surgeon who knows that the knife and the cautery are the truest kindness, but openly brandishes the dagger of the assassin. Every turn of expression that can convey a taunt or a reproach, every perversion o', language, every distortion of fact that can throw ridicule upon the object of his attack, every gibe and sneer that the most malignant enemy could employ, is lavished by Mr. Gladstone upon the Church of which he still pro fesses himself a devout and attached disciple. He no longer betrays with a kiss ; he no longer preserves the semblance of respect or even of courtesy. He no longer admires the meritorious character, the devo tion, the unselfish and unswerving labours of the Irish clergy ; on the contrary, he taunts them with the smallness of their flocks, accuses them as sinecurists, denounces them as men rich with undeserved wealth ; and the only man among them of whom be speaks civilly is one whose sole merit in his eyes is that of treason to the cause of his Church and opposition to the unani mous desire of her loyal and faithful members. In any case Mr. Gladstone is a man much to be pitied ; for if he retain any self-respect, any sense of good taste or dignity, he must keenly feel the depth of the fall implied in such a a speech as this—the moral deterioration which has lowered the former hope of the Conservative party and champion of the CLurch to be the accomplice of the Brights and Malls, the it athe of the Bealeses and the Bradlaughs. Grievous as his sins against his Church and country have been, we can hardly wish him a severer punishment than to read in the newspapers of yesterday what he now is, and then tc turn to "Hansard," and see in the " Mirror of Parlia ment " the image of what he was in 1842, in 1853, or even in 1859. According to the Daily News, the criticisms which have been published on the letters lately exchanged between Mr. Bouverie and Mr. Mill leave no room to doubt that that correspondence has produced an impression not at all to the advantage of the member for Westminster. And although it is true that a practised observer may perceive that here and there some old grudge against Mr. Chadwick or dislike to Mr. Mill has given point to what purported to be dispassionate comment, on the whole it must be allowed that Mr. Mill has been treated impartially. In the general prin. ciples that have been laid down on this occasion with great unanimity by our Liberal contemporaries Ws entirely concur ; at the same time we do not think that al , the eleMents of a fair judgment upon this case have been laid before the public ; at any rate, those who have only read Mr. Bouverie's statement may like to know what is to be said on the other side. Mr. Mill is reproached w 4 having sent down a sort of conge d'ilire to a Scottish con stituency ; but there is one important fact which no reader would learn from Mr. Bouverie's' letter, namely, that Mr. Chadwick had been requested by a section of the constituency of Kilmarnock to come forward in opposition to Mr. Bouverie before Mr. Mill's letter was written. If it is presumptuous and encroaching of Mr. Mill to express his opinion that Mr. Chadwick is a fit person to represent Kilmarnock, those only are entitled to blame him who have shewn their sen• sitiveness to the dignity and independence of constituencies by abstaining from a similar fault. And yet, unless our memory much deceives us, we have seen Mr. Mill cell slued in columns where the offence imputed to him, if it be an offence, is daily repeated. With what justice or decency can an anony mous j ourna li st, who morning after morning praises one candidate and disparages another in public, find fault with Mr. Mill for fairly stating the qualifications of a gentleman whom he has known many years ? The Telegraph comments on the accident in Trafalgar square. "Death in the pot" has become a household word ; " death in the boiler," it seems, must take place al a companion phrase. The explosion of the kitchen -boiler at the United Hotel, on Monday, was apparently one of those "accidents" for which elaborate and careful pre paration has been made. The structure was of the kind known as "self-feeding ;" and in theory the arrangement looks safe enough, for, as warm watei is withdrawn, cold water to the same extent ought to replace it. But, in fact, the course of tbingt is sometimes less smooth. A large quan tit y o f warm ' weather is withdrawn ; there is some obstruction or delay which prevents the cold water from flowing in the boiler grows so hot that when the cold water at lasi comes it cracks the sides by contracting the metal, 01 generates so much steam that the structure flies aeunde• like a bombshell under the irresistible expansive force within. It is from such causes that boilers burst almos' every week in the iron districts and the factory towns and most probably it was from such causes . that . the boiler at the United Hotel explm.led, burying e . igh , servants in the rubbish, and partially " wrecking' the building. It cannot be too carefully borne it mind that any device of a mechanical nature which ie meant to act of itself will not remain in perfect order and security for ever. There are hundreds of "self-feeding' boilers in London residences • and the owners must not place implicit or perpetual 'reliance upon the homely machinery. As for the thousands whose kitchen-boiler are not " self-feeding," they have only the more reason tc beware how they trifle with those natural laws that may convert the harmless structure when ce th ey draw water for the evening tea into an infernal machine scatterini around it wounds and death, GALLANT RESCUE OF LIVES FROM FIRE. On Tuesday morning a fire was discovered raging on the premises of Mr. Alfred Brown, corn dealer, of Bridge street, Greenwich. An alarm was raised, and Mr. Brown was seen at an upstairs window, with one of his children in his arms. At this moment Guernsey, of the Greenwich Brigade Station, came up with the fire-escape, and the same having been placed against the house Guernsey ascended it, and succeeded in bringing down three children in safety. The screams of Mrs. Brown were then heard, and Edward Webb, a volunteer local fireman, ascended the escape, at the imminent risk of his own life, and succeeded, amid the applause of. those assembled, in bringing down Mrs. Brown, her husband escaping by the same means. THE SONG OF A SHIRT. The following appears in the Manchester Courier Sir, will you kindly allow mo to insert in your valuable paper a caution to the needlewomen of Manchester? Being a widow, I applied for work to one of our merchant princes. I got twelve shirts to finish ; I returned them to the warehouse, and was most munificently rewarded with ls. 4d. for a week's work. I had to stitch in the linings, fell the shirts, put in the gussets, and neck and make sixty button-holes, finding my own thread. Now, sir, I ask you whether such infamous ccnduct to poor women is not pinching, and compelling them to com mit crimes which are too horrible to mention. I can now thoroughly appreciate the goodness of Mist Eye in taking away so many from the influence of such temptation to the needlewomen of large towns ; aria I hope, if only for the sake of the young girls who aro compelled to exist on such slender means as I have men tioned above, that such benevolent ladies will meet with success in their holy undertaking. By inserting the above, you will oblige yours, &c., " A WiDOw." THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The following is the weekly return by the Regiitrar. General of births and deaths in London and in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom :—ln the week that ended on Saturday, October 17, 4,431 births and 3,117 deaths were registered in London and in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 25 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000 in London, 32 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dublin ; 16 in Bristol, 21 in Birminghath, 29 in Liverpool, 34 in Man chester, 35 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 25 in Bradford, 31 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 24 in Newcastle•upon-Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 21 per 1,000 during the week ending the 3rd instant, and in Berlin 32 per 1,000 during the seven days ending the 15th instant. In London the births of 1,124 boys and 1,063 girls, in all 2,187 chil dren, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,088. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,395. It was the 42nd week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of popu lation, 1,318. The deaths in the present return exceed by 77 the estimated amount, but are less by 43 than the number recorded in the preceding week. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.792 in. The baro metrical reading decreased from:3o'lin. on 'Wednesday, Oct. 14, to 29'43in. on Friday, Oct. 16. The mean tempera ture of the air in the week was 491 deg., which is o'9 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as deter mined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 66 . 6 deg., on Monday, Oct. 12. The lowest night temperature was 35'4 deg., on Sunday, Oct. 11. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 31'2 deg. DISCOVERY OF SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES IN BRISTOL. The excavations for the branch line of railway which is being constructed by the Great Western, Midland, and Bristol and Exeter, from their terminus at Temple Mead to the Floating Harbour, have disclosed the existence of a complete network of subterraneous pas sages underneath Redcliffe parish, and branching out in various other directions. The men at work discovered the narrow entrance to a huge cavern. Further examination shewed that this portion of the subterranean passage had been severed by the railway cutting, but unfortun'ately the entrance to the left-hand passage is now blocked up by a fall of rock in blasting. On Monday night a party, consisting of half a dozen gentlemen, explored a portion of the underground network. Mr. J. IT. F. Roberts, C.E., pioneered the party, and Mr. W. Rice, architect, took a plan of the passages. Before entering the place a line was fastened to one of the opposite supports, and each of the party carried either a torch or a candle. After creeping through a narrow low passage, some twenty yards in length, the party came to a row of three arches, each of which led in an opposite direction. Taking the centre one, the party bad to crawl on their hands and knees for about ten yards under a great rock, and then they emerged into a spacious and lofty cavern, whence there were other branches. A journey of some 200 or 300 feet further, chiefly through low narrow corridors, brought the party to what appeared to he the grand saloon, or chief cave. It was perfectly circular in form, the roof being supported on eight colums, besides a very strong column in the centre. The cavern was some forty or fifty feet in diameter, and from six to eight feet high, the roof sloping to within a few feet of the ground. The spaces between the pillars, with the exception of the route the explorers had come, and one in a straight line ►with it, had been walled up all round ; and this was the first piece of masonry that had been seen, the whole having been excavated from the solid rocks. There can be no doubt that the place has been excavated, and that a good deal of skilled labour has been used in the work. Passing from this large cavern, the party proceeded along a wide corridor, beautifully arched overhead, and supported on each side on strong columns, the spaces between them being ►walled up. This had evidently been a chief entrance to the cavern, but, unfor tunately, the party could not explore it to the end on account of its being walled up. Two or three branches in the same locality were tried, and found to be walled up. Altogether the party explored some six or seven branches, "and most of them were either walled up or filled up with rubbish. In two or three places the further progress was stopped by huge masses of rock, which had fallen and blocked up the way. One of the passages was traced in a direction which must have brought the party very near the Floating Harbour, formerly the River Avon, and it is conjectured that the caverns might have been used at the time when Bristol carried on an extensive slave trade, or that they may have been used for smuggling purposes. According to a map of Bristol in Barrett's history, the Hermitage of St. John occupied this site in 1250. The dis covery has awakened a good deal of antiquarian interest, and it is intended to take down the masonry and explore some of the passages further, when doubtless some more satisfactory clue may be gained respecting the original us( of this extensive work. The young woman who was scalded by the boiler explosion of the United Hotel is dying. The two other sufferers are progressing somewhat favounbly. The Earl of Lichfield opened the Liminess of the Staffordshire Quarter S,:sions with the announce ment that he should at the close of the session retire front the chairmanship, which he has held for ten years. While workmen were engaged on Tuesday in ex cavating the ground for the new foundation of Temple Hall, they discovered a portion of a door, richly gilt, of the sixteenth century, and in a state of excellent preser vation. Her Majesty the Qucen of Holland is expected to arrive at Dover by special steamer on Thursday morning. Her Majesty will leave Dover at noon by South- Eastern Railway, and will pass through London on her way to Torquay. Mrs. William Salt has presented to the county of Stafford the whole of the magnificent library left.by her late husband. The books are valued at £B,OOO, and Lord Lichfield has been requested to arrange how they shall bo distributed. It is stated in some of the Church papers that it is not intended for the present to fill up the ecclesiastical va cancies. What the precise meaning of the announcement is it is difficulty to gi:ess. The bishoprics of Mauritius and Labuan have been vacant several mouths, and in England there are vacant canonries at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westminster, and the regius professorship of ecclesiastical history at Oxford. The Maidstone Journal regrets to learn that the Archbishop of Canterbury is confined to his room by a severe attack of bronchitis. It is statel that as soon as his grace shall have sufficiently recovered to enable him to endure the journey he will proceed to Devonshire, in order to recruit his health, which is in a very unsatisfac tory condition. A meeting of the shareholders in the late Royal Bank, Liverpool, Ivis called for Tuesday, to receive the report of the committee of investigation. The attendance of shareholders was not numerous, and reporters were ex cluded. The exclusion of tie r.prescutatives of the press is necessarily regarded Es against the parties who desire to keep the afraic; ortuut,:pbankap Quiet 29 po?aiLle. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1868. CRIMES OF WOMEN. The criminal statistics of England and Wales for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1867, show that 3,867 women were committed for trial charged with indictable offences, and 15,549 men—one woman to every four men. In England and Wales 139 persons were committed for trial for murder in the year, and as many as 53, considerably more than a third, were women. Seven women were sentenced to death in the year -four servants, a charwoman, a needlewoman, and a factory worker—all for the murder of their offspring. No woman was executed in the year ; the capital sentences were all commuted to penal servitude. Eleven women were committed for trial for attempts to murder, 55 for wounding with intent to maim, 29 for manslaughter, 18 for arson, 112 for burglary and breaking into shops, 36 for robbery, 2,731 for larceny, 287 of these last being servants ; 203 women were committed for trial for fraud, 10 for perjury, 35 for keep ing disorderly houses. Women seem to have their luck before the law ; 72 per cent. of the men apprehended for indictable offences were committed for trial, but only 58 per cent. of the women ; 73 per cent. of the proceeded against summarily were convicted, but only 61 per cent. of the women. From the returns relating to the less serious offences distinguishing between men and women the convictions, of the 335,359 persons summarily con victed before magistrates in England and Wales in the year, 55,163, nearly a sixth, were females ; 15,217 were convicted of drunkenness, one woman for every four men so convicted ; 10,930 of the summary convictions of women were for assaults, 185 of them aggravated assaults on women or children ; 7,172 were for stealing; 5,223 women were convicted as prostitutes, 26 as incorri gible rogues, 51 for cruelty to animals, 439 for unlawful pledging, 158 for deserting or neglecting to support children, 570 for using short weights or measures. 35,084 females were sent to county and borough prisons in the year, many of them more than once, and therefore counting more than once. 14,348 were there in that year not for the first time ; 2,565 had been there above ten times. The return shews, in the case of females, 44'8 per cent. recommitments ; in the case of males only 36'2 per cent., and the result was that the female commitments were more than a fourth of the whole number. 20,087 of the women in county and borough prisons were under sentence of hard labour, but one-fourth of these sentences were not carried into effect. The daily average number of women in county and borough gaols in the year was 3,746 ; in convict prisons, 1,031. 256 girls were committed to reformatory schools and 321 to industrial schools; 307 women were under detention in prisons for criminal lunatics. The number of women out of prison returned by the police as belonging to the criminal classes in England and Wales in 1867 is 47,393—a number 478 fewer than in the preceding year ; 5,445 were known thieves, 655 receivers of stolen goods, 5,753 suspected persons, 9,921 vagrants and tramps, 25,679 prostitutes. Any one who examines in detail the re turns for the great towns may doubt if this last number can be received as sufficient. It was mentioned recently that the returns do not imply that the prisons were filled chiefl' from these " criminal classes." Of the whole number of 96,932 females apprehended for indictable offences, or pro ceeded against summarily, as many as 55,657 were not known to the police as bad characters. The female popu lation of England and Wales, of all ages, was estimated at about 11,032,000 IHE COYSEIiVATIVES AND THE BALLOT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) ONE of the most remarkable signs of the times is the disposition which the Conservative party are shewing to support the Ballot. It is not in this case as in others, that they adopt a reform which they find they can no longer resist. It is not with this measure, as it was with the abolition of the property qualification, the admission of Jews into Parliament, and, last and chiefest, Parliamentary Reform itself, that Conservatives in office propose that which in opposition they prevented. The Ballot is a very long way from being an article of the united Liberal creed. In fact, its advocates have lately lamented a falling off rather than an advance in the number of their adherents ; have mourned that men like Mr. MILL and :Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, whose Radicalism no one doubts, have either always condemned the Ballot, or, having formerly approved, have now abjured it. And yet, if we mistake not, what the Ballot Society is losing on one side it is gaining on the other. There is Mr. CAYLEY, for instance, who is now contesting the North Riding as an independent Con servative, and who has just told the electors that he should be very glad to try the Ballot as an experi ment, because " anything is worth trying to get rid of the curse of intimidation." Nor is he alone. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, who is not, we suspect, an entire stranger to Exeter, declares that a Conservative candidate in a certain borough was heard to say, " If we had the Ballot I should have doubled my list in that street." This correspondent suggests that while Mr. GLADSTONE is (as he is reported) " considering " this question, it would be a great stroke of policy if Mr. DISRAELI were to announce his conversion to the measure as necessary to preserve to the people the free use of their ancient right of the suffrage. If we come to reflect, there is nothing essentially Liberal or Conservative in the Ballot. It is simply an expe dient for enabling Tories and Liberals alike to vote according to their conscience, The fact that a Tory votes secretly will not make his vote one whit the less Tory. In truth, " Constitutional " candidates are beginning to believe that it will have the contrary effect. Hitherto the weapons with which the two parties have fought have been intimidation on the Tory side, bribery on the Liberal ; since the landed class were for the most part Conservative, the money-making class Liberal. But the Reform Bill has made a vast change in the conduct of the battle, because it has made a vast change in the com batants. The enfranchisement of artisans has placed in the hands of the Liberals the weapon of intimida tion. The millowner, the ironmaster, the ship builder, the coalowner, mostly Liberals, are as well able to " influence " their employ6s as the landlords are to " influence " their tenants. This is really a formidable matter. Not only does it give the Liberal two weapons, while the Conservative has only one—not only does it enable the first to bribe and intimidate, while the second only intimidates, unless he intends to enter into a competition of purses, in which he is sure to be beaten—but it places at the control of the first so many more votes sub ject to influence than there are at the control of the second. Thus, even were they both confined to the use of the same weapon, were they both to eschew intimidation and trust to bribing, the Liberals would have the advantage. What is to be done under these distressing circumstances ? What is to be done when a " Constitutional " candidate for a manu facturing town finds that a hundred electors in that cotton mill and a hundred electors in this iron work have received very broad hints from the cotton lord and the ironmaster how they are to vote ? What can he do but cry out for protection ? He does not like the Ballot ; Mr. CAYLEY says he does not believe in it ; yet even he is prepared to try it as a remedy for a disease that seems almost incurable. It is, perhaps, not fair to assume that the Liberal party are feeling less anxious about this measure because they no longer feel the same need of it. Whatever the objections may be, we believe that the Ballot will before long become a prominent subject. Should it be actually adopted it will probably be found, like many other measures, to be less noxious than its opponents feared, less beneficial than its advocates hoped. neither girl was drunk, but one was pregnant ; the jury bring in their verdict of " unsound mind ;" the dead girls will be buried, we suppose, in consecrated ground; the living girls are allowed to enjoy their clothes and their four-penny-piece without a word of censure ; and there this tragedy, which reveals callousness and selfishness we u'd not have believed possible, ends. At the same time another inquest is held. A man and a woman were heard quarrelling by the same canal. There was a blow, a splash, a groan. The woman had dis appeared ; the man simply said, " Make haste and get some help, for there is a woman in the water," and then walked away, without waiting to hear if his victim had been saved, or had gone to her last account. The canal is dragged, with the usual result when a woman falls into it. Her heavy clothing has dragged her down, and she is added to the long list of fearful pro blems which coroners' juries solve so easily. She was "found drowned, but how the deceased came into the water there was not sufficient evidence to shew." Of course not. It is " only a woman," as SWIFT said ; and who can expect the police to trouble themselves to get evidence when no reward is offered ? LAW AND POLIO FORGERIES BY THE SON OF A LITERFOOL SOLICITOR —At the Liverpool Police-court, Arthur Pemberton, son of Mr. Charles Pemberton, solicitor, Liverpool, has been brought up on the charge of having forged three cheques for 25 each, purporting to be drawn by his father upon the North and South Wales Bank. Mr. Walter prose cuted, and in opening the case expressed the regret he felt at having to prefer these charges against the son of one of his old friends, adding that the prisoner had been the black sheep of the family ; that his father had done a great deal for him ; that when he returned from Australia a few days since in a destitute condition, his father clothed him like a gentleman, took respectable lodgings for him, and allowed him £1 a week pocket money. This did not satisfy him, it seemed, for he raised money by forging these cheques, and squandered it in extravagance and dissipation. Mr. Pemberton, sen., who was very much affected, proved that none of these zheques were in his handwriting, nor had he authorised anyone to write them. They were in the handwriting of his son. Prisoner, who admitted his guilt, saying he wile very sorry for having caused such unhappiness to his father, from whom he had received the greatest kindness, was committed for trial at the assizes. CAPTURE OF ANOTHER FOREIGN BURGLAR. —On Tuesday morning Charles Maurien, who is supposed to be the leader of the gang of foreign burglars whose depredations at various country seats round the metropolis have attracted public attention, was conveyed, in the custody of Mr. Inspector Reece, of the Berks constabulary, to Beading Gaol, where he now awaits hiE examination before the county magistrates. Maurien, it is believed, was implicated in the recent burglary ai the Leatherhcad residence of Mr. Hankey, the banker. He is, moreover, supposed to be one of the three men who broke into the country scat of Sic Edward Sullivan, at St. Leonard's Hill, near Windsor, and Mr. Lovibond's house at Old Windsor. From a description forwarded to the metropolitan police by Mr. Inspector Reece, Maurien was arrested on Saturday night in the Mogul Music Hall, London, and transferred to the Clever station of the Windsor division of the Berks county constabulary. The prisoner was taken before Mr. Foster, one of the county magistrates, and charged with being concerned in the robberies at Sir Edward Sullivan's ano Mr. Lovibond's. He was remanded. FORGERY.—A maltster, named Spong, residing at Sissinghurst, in Kent, and holding a respectable position in society, has been brought up at Bow-street Police court, charged with having forged a will. Sir Jame* Wilde, in the Court of Probate, decided that the docu ment was a forgery, and directed the present proceedings. The case having been opened, the prisoner was remanded. A LENIENT SENTENCE.—Mrs. Hunt, a marine-store dealer, convicted at the previous Middlesex Sessions of receiving stolen goods, chiefly wearing apparel, on many occasions, from a child only 11 years old, received's. most lenient sentence. Mr. Payne said that the prisoner had borne a good character, and, there being no other offence alleged against her, sentenced her to six weeks' imprison ment. IN RE MARCUS DAVIS.—In the Bankruptcy Court, efore Mr. Commissioner Bacon, this bankrupt, described as a navy agent, of No. 163, Strand, asked to be released out of custody. His debts are about £4,000. He stated that lie had been fourteen months in prison, and contended that his arrest at the suit of the Accidental Marine Insurance Corporation, then in liquidation, was illegal . He denied that the adjudication was valid, and said that he had appealed against it, but was unable to deposit the requisite funds. The commissioner said if that was the case the bankrupt had in reality not appealed, and could not now question the validity of the adjudication . It appeared that the bankrupt had written several letters to the commissioner, who had taken no notice of them. Davis said : I shall write to her Majesty, if necessary. I have been in prison fourteen months, and it is a gross shame I should be kept there through the fraud of others. —Mr. Commissioner Bacon : I have nothing to do with that. What I wish to impress on you is, that I shall never enter into correspondence with any of the suitors to the court. This is the place for them to come, and whatever they have to urge will be fully considered here. I shall never notice any such letters that may be sent to me.—The bankrupt then returned to prison. THE DEANERY OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL.-I'h9 deanery of the Chapel Royal, vacant by the selec• tion of Dean Magee for the bishopric of Peterborough, has been conferred upon the Rev. H. H. Dickinson, the rector of St. Anne's.—Dublin Daily Express. BURGLARY IN TILE ELTSTON-ROAD, LONDON.— The other evening a daring robbery was committed on the premises of Mr. Thomas Tilbury, 152, Euston-road. The entrance was effected through the front parlour window, the shutters of which had been left unfastened. A considerable amount of property was abstracted, the thieves getting clear off with their booty. Information was as soon as possible given to the police, but no trace of the burglars has yet been discovered. In the pockets of a frock coat, one of the stolen artcles was a pocket-book containing a number of papers and memoranda. ANCIENT REMAINS. —An interesting archreologica. discovery has just been made on a farm occupied by Mrs. Gilchrist, about half a mile from Stamford. While a man was ploughing in a field near to the farmhouse the plough share struck against a large stone, some three or four Mae:: only below the surface. This proved to be the lid of r. massive stone coffin, buried immediately under a footpath leading across the farm from Stamford to the village of Tinwell. With the assistance of a number of men and two horses, the coffin, weighing about two tons, was re moved, and its contents were examined by Dr. Newman, who found them to consist chiefly of human bones in a fragmentary state, apparently those of a tall man and a woman. Some of the teeth were in a perfect state of preservation. One bone was identified as the leg-bone of a large dog. It is conjectured that the human remain were those of a Roman chieftain and his wife, and that a favourite dog had been buried with them. In addition to the bones, fragments of a jar were found in the coffin, and also a small piece of glass, which seemed to have formed part of a lachrymatory, or tear vessel. During the work of excavation some bones were discovered belonging to a third body, which had been buried in the ground on the north side of and close to the LtoneicofEn. BIRMINGHAM PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. TIIE Birmingham Protestant Association, not con tented with Mr. BRIGHT'S very explicit reply to their first letter, have addressed a second. Mr. BRIGHT gives very much the same answer that he gave before. He will not expel the Jesuits from England, nor any other persons, on account of their reli gion. As to the Ritualists, he is really not competent to say who should belong to, or who should leave, the English Church. Of course, the Birmingham Protestants will not be satisfied. They cannot see that their Protestantism is really Popery in another form. The great evil of the Roman religion is not this or that particular dogma, but the denial of the right of private judg ment,punishingof their religious creed. It with civil penalties persons who offend be reason by matters not whether Jesuits torture " heretics," or "heretics " expel Jesuits ; th e one i s as muc h o f the ss as the oth er . Th e on ly t ru e Pro testantism f Popery leaves a man absolutely free both in body and mind to hold his religious creed ; Protestantism which persecutes Jesuits is a contradiction of terms. Fortunately, this is becom ing m e e generallywhich their acknowl e d ge d every day. Though services of a Roman Catholic chaplain in the work- u s coiscillienayce willa'noteceptgratuitously the permit them to Middlesex o r magistrates Birmingham Protestants may endeavour for,vur t h o ough c ompel M r . B RIGHT t o vo t e f or th e expulsion of Jesuits, and though Mr. DISRAELI may pay t seek to uphold an alien Church by raising the old cry of " No Popery," the great bulk of th e na tion refuse to participate in or to respond to such bigotry. SUICIDES IN THE REGENT'S CANAL. WHAT is ic an unsou n d m i n d ?" A ccor di ng t o coroners' juries anybody is of unsound mind who destroys his body. Yet the noblest of heathen, EPICTETUS and Mailers AnnELurs, believed that suicide was a perfectly logical and justifiable action. True, they were " heathen," and the two girls who threw themselves into the Regent's Canal on Friday were " Christian." We doubt, however, if the Christianity was more than surface deep, was at all better than, or even nearly so good as the heathenism of those great " seekers after GOD " whose lives and teaching Mr. FARRAR has just described in one of the most fascinating books ever published. Moreover, religion apart, there seems to be actually no trace whatever of insanity in this case, or in countless others, which, if jurors were honest and not deterred by the thought of " maimed funeral rites," they would return as self-felony. In the Regent's Canal case there was every ele ment to disgust, scarcely any to excite pity. Two girls deliberately walk up to a bridge over one of the foetid London canals, and on their way pass two other girls, and tell them that they s are going to " make away with themselves." The couple accompany the first as though the four were taking an ordinary walk. Arrived at the bridge, the first couple take off some of their clothing, and one of them finds a fourpenny-piece in her pocket, which she gives to the second couple, because it will be of no use to her in the canal, and she has not heard of the obolus which CHARON demands for ferrying across the Styx. The two suicides climb on to the parapet, and, holding hand in hand, leap through the dark night into the darker water. The two spectators say " Good GOD ! " pick up the clothes and put them on " because it is a cold night," pocket the fourpence with as much satisfac tion as the heir to some crabbed uncle pockets a fortune, and then walk home, agreeing to tell no one until the next morning, fearing, we suppose, that the suicides might be rescued, restored to life, and reclaim the bonnets and the four penny-piece. An inquest is held ; all these facts are stated, with the additional information that ARISTOCRATIC MARRIAGES. IN spite of the severity of the present political contest, there must be some decline of the ancient asperity, not to •say animosity, which one prevented political opponents from interchanging even the barest civilities. At all events, in the uppermost ranks, where one would have expected to see this feeling strongest—because in those ranks politics mean place and power as well as principles— there has of late been a wonderful soften ing of manners. The great ruling families are not only no longer implacable foes, but they are becoming kinsmen by intermarriages. In 1864 the eldest daughter of Lord CLARENDON was married to the second son of Lord DERBY, and the descendant of the lIYDES and the STANLEYS will himself in all probability be hereafter Earl of DERBY. Another of Lord CLARENDON'S daughters was this year married to Mr. ODO RUSSELL, nephew of Earl RUSSELL and of the late Duke of BEDFORD. Thus the two Whig families of RUSSELL and VILLIERS are closely allied with each other and with the Tory House of STANLEY. Another marriage which will have interest for politicians has just been announced. Earl PERCY, eldest son of the Duke of NORTHUMBER LAND, and who lately came of age, is betrothed to EDITH, eldest daughter of the Duke of ARGYLL, who is 19 years of age. The union of a Tory PERCY with a Whig CAMPBELL is a significant event, at all events in the political world. And it is to be remem bered that the more these alliances increase the more political animosity will decrease. It is not likely that brothers-in-law will quarrel very severely on political topics. Rather the one will find in the accession of the other to office some compensation for his own ejectment. It will be satisfactory to think that whether Tory or Liberal have the upper hand;some of theist own set will be sure to be in office. Nor do we imagine that there will be any greater danger of cliquishness than there is now. The power of the middle class is increasing so rapidly that they can very well take care of themselves and claim their fair share of political power. It is, perhaps, because of this increase that the upper class find it expedient to unite more closely than they have done. A GREAT CHANCE. (From the Anglo-American 2 Imes.) Panama, and the West Indies have, as we antici pated, killed the New Zealand and Australian Royal Mail Company, which it is now proposed to wind up. Although the line has worked into an efficient state, and is so reliable that it has become the favourite for letters, yet the apprehensions of sick ness caused by the deaths of passengers from yellow fever at the Isthmus, and subsequently in the West Indian mail boats, have destroyed the passenger traffic, and with it all chance of profit. We have then the proved efficiency of the line with the one but fatal drawback of an unhealthy locality. More than a year ago we pointed out the radical defect, at the same time showing the mistake to have been in having begun a few years too soon. The true route to the Australias is via San Francisco, and the Panama and Australian fleet should have been con structed to open communication simultaneously with the Union Pacific Railway about June next. A glance at a globe will display the truth of the figures we then gave. From Wellington, New Zealand, the distance to San Francisco is 5,864 nautical miles, or 700 less than to Panama, and this difference is considerably increased if the calculation be from Auckland, from Sydney, or from Morton Bay. San Francisco, on the completion of the rail way, becomes, iu truth, the gate of the Pacific. From London to Shanghai via Suez is 10,500 miles, via Francisco, 8,355. To Yokohama by Suez the distance is 11,509, while by San Francisco it is but 7,520. In round numbers the gain from England to Sydney or Auckland might . be put down at a thousand miles; therefore we assert that San Francisco commands the western boundaries of the Pacific Ocean from its utmost extremity in the northern hemisphere to the land's end in the southern hemi sphere. As the growing tide of travel will trans form San Francisco into one of the greatest cities of the world, it is the proper head-quarters for a fleet of Pacific steamers. There is now a monthly line to China and Japan ; semi-monthly to British Columbia ; tri-monthly to Oregon, while south the communication with the Mexican ports, Panama, and South America is constant. But more apropos of our subject is the fact that steamers make a round to the Sandwich Islands every twenty days. Now these islands are almost in the direct line from San Francisco to Sydney, and when they are reached about a third of that voyage is performed. Double the distance to the Sandwich Islands, and the vessel is near the Fee jees, whence the communication is constant with Australia and New Zealand. Here then we have an incipient line which has only to be completed and strengthened to develope into a great ocean mail service. The line, too, is more Ameri can than English, bringing San Francisco into better communication not only with the Sandwich Islands, but with other of the South Sea groups where her interests already predominate. But this is not the only reason why the flag which flies on the fleet opening a great Southern Pacific communication should be the S:ars and Stripes. The United States desire to make the Pacific Railway the world's most traversed thoroughfare, which they know would convert New York and San Francisco into the points to. which travel on the two great oceans would radiate. Although nature has enabled them to accomplish this object, nature very plainly tells them as they gaze at the snow-capped Rocky Mountains and the Sierras of Nevada th It it can be accomplished only by a united national effort. Nothing great can be achieved without labour, or, in other words, expense, and Americans have never deluded themselves into the belief that this stupen dous work would not cost in the first instance a vast outlay. Having constructed the railway, having established the ocean line to Japan and China, they have now, in conjunction with the Australias, to run an American line beyond the Sandwich Islands at least to the Feejees, whence it can branch to Syd ney and to Auckland. The collapse of the Pa nama, Australian, and New Zealand Company would enable New York, San Francisco, and those in terests generally in the Union Pacific Railway, to seize on the wreck, and with it, in conjunction with the steamers already plying to the Sandwich Islands, open out a sound, profitable, and magnificent ocean communication. In this th-y would be hand somely aided by Aultral:a and New Zealand, who now pay a large subsidy to thi Pa.ia:na line as well as the Washington Government, who would doubt less liberally assist in the estaNiilimeat of such a highly desiral)le American enterprise. The English hare burnt their fingers in meld.ling with an ocean wherein they have really no concern, and Cie Eng lish Government very naturally and properly resist subsidizing steamers which do not ply from English ports. Indeed it is not reasonable to expect Eng lish taxpayers to keep Ve 33313 running over the Pacific, but the case is widely different with the United States. The immense sums that will be left by travellers in crossing the Union would in itself re pay such an expenditure ; but there are national ob jects of importance vastly beyond such calculations which are fully appreciated at Washington. An additional value is given to the project by its direct influence in binding together the branches of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. From the cradle of the race the route will be over the continent, the greatest field of its development, to Australia, the infant giant of the family ; and the man who leaves London for Sydney, passing through New York and San Francisco, when he finally reaches his destination, after travelling over more than half the globe, will hear nothing but English spoken, and might conclude the prophecy to be realized which foretold the Anglo-Saxon mastery of the world. Whether our proposition will be at once taken up, or hang fire for years, the result must be the same, for to this it must finally come. The true port for the Australias is San Francisco, which instead of being unhealthy will make the voyage one that invalids might take for health. The sanitarium of the States will be in the Rocky Mountains, and among the most genial of climates is that of San Francisco. The journey will be one of the most in teresting on earth, embracing on a slight detour the Falls of Niagara and the Valley of the Yo Semite, the grandest water and the grandst mountain scene yet known to mankind. The traveller will pass over the rolling and the level prairies—through the American desert and the Rocky Mountains. For a spell he will stop at that city of marvellous creation, the Mormon settlement in Utah—then along the Val ley of the Hurabolt, passing mountains veined with silver—and up the great steppes of the Sierras till the smiling slopes of California, covered with golden harvests, open out before him lined by the broad Pacific. There may be difficulties in the ocean route, traversing, as it will, a sea studded with island groups ; but this is only the difficulty of ignorance, for when the Pacific is accurately mapped, the worst of these groups will be less dangerous than West Indies. It is known that they will open to the settlers of Australia as well as to the citizens of San Francisco a profitable trade. Indeed a strong tide of emigration is already flowing towards the Feejees, which will afford tropioal produce to New Zealand and Australia. We have taken up this subject in the hope of directing American attewion to a profitable enterprise, and one even more im portant to Australasia than to the United States, while we trust that the unfortunate shareholders of the Panama, Australia, and New Zealand Royal Mail Company may at least recover through the means we suggest a proportion of their outlay. TflE SOUTIIERN STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Georgia has left its mark on Republican Con ventions, as one, about to assemble at Warrenton, was warned by the sheriff outside the town to keep away, which—the memory of Camilla being still strong upon them—they did. The Philadelphia correspondent of the 7 bees says that the massacre has had a fine effect on the negroes, who are flock ing terribly frightened to the Conservative side. One of the points urged by the Southerners is that they know the negroes, which the meddling Nor therners do not ; and if the affair at Camilla makes Democrats of the negroes, Northern men must admit the truth of the Southerners' assertion. It is not a little surprising, however, that Jlajor Howard earnestly urges his re siguation on the Government, proclaiming his inability, unless strongly aided, to prevent the blacks from flocking to Camilla. We were stupid enough to imagine that their desire was to cut the throats of their white allies, until we learned from the " sleepy correspondent" that it was to vote the Democratic ticket, and otherwise support and encourage the men who had shown such an intimate knowledge of their character. But the correspondent seems to be widely at variance with General Howard, Commissioner of the Freed men's bureau, though, perhaps it is presumptuous in that Radical to profess any knowledge of the freedmen. As it is our business simply to give the most reliable information we can, without favour or affection, we are bound to pay attention to what General Howard says, and not to accept as undeniable, the state ments of the " Mastodon." At a public address, delivered at Washington on Sept. 29, the Commis sioner sketched his recent Southern tour. He be lieved the freedmen to be alive to the importance of the Presidential election, and although at New burn a coloured man had told him that the Demo crats would deceive the negroes into voting away even the right of voting itself, this was opposed to the usual impression, Wale Hampton's own ser vants having risked their discharge to vote the Ra dical ticket. An excellent story followed this, which would be worth the while of Judy to sketch. A plenter assembled his hands and told them they must vote for the Democrats, or he would not em ploy them. Satnho quietly waited till the planter's cotton whitened to harvest, when the hands, fifty in number, called on him. " You must vote, they said the Radical ticket, or we will leave in a body ;" and vote the Radical ticket he must or lie, for he gave the required promise. Imagine the agony of the haughty aristocrat when Sambo presented the dire alternative—" ruin—or a scallawag." We hope the General did not invent this, for it is too good to be untrue. The great difficulty with the negroes was, according to the General, the false teaching that hatred of the South was the controlling motive of leading Northern minds. We regard the following information as highly important, and honourable to the Southerner. In all cases the Confederate soldier gave General Howard a warmer welcome than did the stay-at-home citizens. He has tra velled over the whole South, visited nearly every State, was two months among Southerners, con versed with citizens of every class, visited the Legis latures of several States, addressed twenty public meetings, and everywhere received respectful treat ment. The only annoyance to which he was sub jected came from the newspapers. There was this amount of freedom in the South, that an officer of the Government, the head of the hated Freedmen's Bureau, could pass through all the country and be treated with civility everywhere, even while ex pressing many unpalatable truths. A bill was introduced into the Senate of Georgia -to authorize and require the Governor to d ec l are all executive, judicial, and ministerial offices of the State vacant when the persons elected are dis qualified under the 14th Article of the Constitution of the United States, which was, of course, sum marily dismissed. When the Jury Bill was dis cussed in the Representatives, a member declared that threats of Congress and General Grant being after them had been made before, yet the grey coated boys in blue are not afraid. The re considered bill passed by a large majority, but it was defeated in the Georgia Senate. The Wash ington Government is rigorously investigating the Camilla riot, and massscre is now the only word used, although the Legislature exonerates the rioters. The bill to organise the State militia has been voted down. There was a Democratic meet ing at Atlanta, September 26, when Gen. Gordon declared he would throw his sword into the scale of Grant if, on being elected President, any one should attempt to prevent his inauguration. The Democratic Convention of Louisiana has re solved to nominate no men to office-as qualified by the 14th Amendment, and the same rule was recommended to the conventions about to be held throughout the State. There has been a good deal of excitement on account of qualified persons hav ing been refused registration at New Orleans, and the Legislature has been engaged in revising the law on the subject. Governor Warmouth has vetoed the bill punishing discriminations on account of colour in hotels, cars, &c., and the veto is sus tained by the Legislature. The veto is based on several reasons, one all-sufficient being that the Constitution clearly secures equal rights and privi leges to the blacks, which they are at liberty to en force in the courts. The Senate of Louisiana has reinstated another negro as Senator from Caddo parish, in place of Reuben White, who was elected but deClared ineligible . The municipal election at Nashville, Tennessee, passed o ff q ui e tl y on Sept. 26, A. Alden, the present mayor, being re-elected by 520 majority, while most of the members of the city Government are his supporters. Both candi dates supported Grant, but Thornburg, Alden's op nent, had the vote of the Democrats and Conservatives. General J. G. Hindman, late of the Confederate army, was shot dead in his own house at Helena, Arkaus is, Sunday night, Sept. 27, an 1 there is no clue to the murderer—probably some political op ponent. The day before, near the saran 3 place, a sheriff and posse had a fight with a negro, and the latter was hung by the infuriated citizens after he had killed the sheriff and wounded t,vo other men. In Kent County, Virginia, Mrs. Stewart, a widely, and John Barker, her firm manager, were mur dered and her dwelling burned ; and four other houses have lately been burned in the same neigh bourhood. The Governor respited two negroes about to be hanged, much to the indignation Of the people, for they had been proved guilty of a crime to which the negroes are prone, and excites most intense indignation in the South. This adds to the vicious popular habit of lynching which has become so coalmen as almost to take punishment out of the hands of justice. In Mar shall County, Texas, things are in a bad wriP The county is overrun with robbers, and troops have been sent out to reinforce the small militaq force there. At Wellsville, Missouri,two men wer e killed and several wounded by an attempt to turn a Union man named Reed out of t h e town. Fletcher and his brother, both Confederate soldiers: were killed by the Sheriff and his men, some ‘..°`e whom were wounded, and had it not been for , 1 determined attitude of the citizens more We' would have been shed. DEATH OF HOWELL COBB• A telegram dated New York, Oct. 9, ga ve th r ° curt intelligence—" M r . H owe ll C o bb is d e ad.. England the impo r t ance o f th e i n f orm ation will u little appreciated except a mong those who I f 3 America well. To the la s t moment of his life, an d , JrN °o, Cobb had reached his 53d y ear , h e h a d takenn; e3 i s ing part iu national affairs, more particularly those of the Southern States, and more particularly still of his own Georgia, wherein he had been I% struinental in retrieving the State to its Demo endi allies. General Howell Cobb was born in Jef er f l County, Georgia, 7th Sept., 1815. H e ent,e,`3 M; 1 Franklin College, where he graduated in 1 After studying law he was admitted to the bari,le, 1836. Soon afterwards he was elected by th e pe gislature to the post of S o licit o r-General of to Western Circuit, which he held for three yea rs ' 1843 he was elected to the Federal House of Rep. R4-9e sentatives, a seat he retained in three snee e , ss , Congresses to 1850, being chosen Speaker in e f He was successful in the contest for Goverf 4 ) 3 o Georgia b . y a large majority, and in IS'a,lll - again selected to represent his coul ter ency in . the House of Representatives. A a. the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presiclen ) ; which . he warmly advocated, he was appein te rd i at him . Secretary of the Treasury. At the close e'0 3 . 0 Presidential term he threw himself warmly in to cause . of the Confederacy. Ile took an active P ot in the Congressional labours of that Governe3edie at Richmond, which he finally left tos'ard e l . to gen era', to close of 1861 for the post of brigadier which he had been appointed in the Confed t , er b le, army. His army service was not reina" -3 ,,er though he showed skill as a general; but, bent° strongly some may condemn his ca re er as a re be ol the Government of his country, he honestly sc,,, te , out his conviction of the duty he owed to his s and laboured with zeal and gallantry in N Y3 ot supposed to be its service. He was a man 0 ' :1' f?,ibe ability and force of character, and his loss W felt severely by his party. COLONEL PARKER ON RED INDI'IN We have lately written a good deal ah etit a i Til Red Indians, but a notice of these tribes ` g- col. have been incomplete without some account of tire , Parker, of General Grant's staff, who is a 4 . 13 :0 blooded Seneca Indian, from the town of - 133 ",,, 0 - New York. Hi s station in his tribe was - t Of manding one, and the Senecas are the large s n o, the six nations, their rese rva ti on b e ing Salao 33 " re , on the Pennsylvania border. Our readers 11 13 1 0 3 collect the marriage scene of thi s Indian chic' 'ibe United States officer, when the bride stood 0 '; 1 altar with all her retinue and Grant with 11' staff waiting for the iniss:.ng bridegroom, Iv" c tl e( l not. The country was scoured, and rumours g' l l f lys ground of a body floating down the Potomac'. ore passed, and the nation eagerly awaited intellig be of what had become of the Indian chief. 0) 1, 1 10 was found in a place to which he had been sP`e./ett away by a medicine man of his tribe. 11°11 1 - ifig e the lady forgave him ; and we hope the 01 ,`,, - is a happy one. Colonel Parker is a diligee'A quarian and a student of his own people. tioo cent letter from Washington gives a couve r ';o s, with him regarding the six tribes. The S ep i ,lo he said, aregood farmers, and set a fair examPt'4-13'dA$ he did not think the league, as the country s ho s would ever recover its ancient power, whi e " ob° sentiment only he regretted. In answer to an ni3 de servation on the mark his confederation ha d - 9,0 3 upon America, filling the portal of its histerhotil destined to become a stranger and strongern,l 0 0 0 as its period recedes, he replied that the 1 r e ,7 1 , ea were the original Unionists, and held n e3 ',"s re' much of the continent in sway as their success°'os tain. He pronounced the book called "The 1 :44' of the Iroquois" as being one of the most s 3 " - c ele tory extant upon the subject. D i scus sing b pol brated Indians, he spoke of Brandt, who, th oug an d as great an orator as Red Jacket had a Jared the finer combination of talents. He transW, $11c: gospels into the Iroquois tongue, was a rectbtiq cessful and scientific soldier, both: in forest uk s bei'l and in column ; his manners were distiegticitaili even at the British Courts, and lie was a g ° _, ; ° ol) e i and patriot. Regarding R e d Jacket, who "' fore his birth, he said " b e was o f m y tribe' - 5 $$ have very intimate traditions of him. Ile n t he ignorant man compared to Brandt, desr,:i r e 1 ' language of white men and would not ac ( l7 l - 00 1/ but he had force of character, adroitness, ae"rote' , derful eloquence. He was extremely intee3P and his life altogether was a disappointed o ne ' wished to be at the head of all the tribe'' ,01 Brandt defeated him in this ! I have hik . presented to him by Washington." The Peoria, Pekin, and Ja c k s onville I tl9 will be finizzhed in three or four montb s ' • vo rl'' lia 0f t making a direct route to Jacksonville via i• e i At a recent meeting of the stockholder s n ot : 4 Wrightsville, Yo r k, an d G e tty s burg Ra ilr e - iec t p, Pennsylvania, the following persons wer e J. e l officers for the ensuing year :—Presiden t : $l ,O O Cameron ; Directors : Philip A. Small, , e psot Shock, James Myers, A. J. Frey, J. M. St.,,, e ' p,l ll '' jr., W. L. Small, Henry Kauffelt, and H. I). 90 ,i lenberg, M.D. • WO go Work on the extension of the Utica, Clio jar , Binghamton Railroad has been resu med. • Ik . o g 0 6 number of men are now engaged in comp grading to Oriokany Falls. noi ll t , a g tto The demand for Illinois Railway shares " fr° t n.te ,of revive], and the orders to purchase en3 3 ° - , rero .t.. - the old quarters. kivices from New Yo r n ol the traffic and other receipts of the coll3r highly satisfactory. 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If taken accordi ng t o th e pri n ted instructs conquer the complaint and strengthen the system. to fu ( [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Du Barry's Delicious Health ti oeS 06, Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three _i ill ~op: nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its no s u ncll„Vj remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, 0° „,0 o 'o healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity , "' e - dili t io 0 ; to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing sP„ 8 ,01 1 P,I,o 0 : effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual C . 2; pe',ir diarrhoea, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulenrYlollV ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, co l 4.,. s 'itiet ~, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, in l l 3 ":,;idif,r.l l ?", lions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness , 1., - 0 , or,i;it.'o pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, crsOrrott';, o o • nausea, and sickness, sinking tits, coughs, asthma's pt o te 4 incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the elle.& 0 (1," 4 ,,,,Y) the pit o: the stomach, between the shoulders, &C. ~..',.0 d ;,- v ,, few out o: 63,000 cures :—The Pope's health resris6 ,, ,Di,o' Barry's Food.—Cure No. 63,413. "Rome, July 2 ' , . - 0 0,1.;if ', health of the Holy Father is excellent especially 14 ,00'.. 0 0 4 , doning all other remedies, he has condued himself oo stt'oe'i f Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he colt' I '," l i ji plateful at every meal. It has produced a s urprisl°,ol o 4o 4 cial effect on his health, and his Holiness canno t kiiii.fn, excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du „00 , 1, 0 4 25. Cure No. 49,832.—"0f fifty years' indescribable 13411'io!o dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipattA' A pri * ,42,,4, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." 12 1 11 1 '00:0, Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. ,'.l ; S S, , 0 10_,S Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham 0. 1 ,0 lor o l of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings , f til e IV , and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Bewar e °b, 0 1 ,,e,i• hie 0 , 3 , ' unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to ir, 9 ,0 / A 4 authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously 6 11, 5 1 ;'Y;,1 In tins, at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6 1 ;,,,, , A A,d, x , , ,5 12 lbs , 225.; 241bs ,40s —Also Do BARRY'S RE VAL . ,,,: - 11 ',,1 l 4 CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; r 0 `,,,,p0, - ,,0 1 2 fo s r ., 5f706r e 2 u 4 p c s u a p t s s a s t s 3 . s. B 6s. oi , u f g or 48 cups at 65., for 2 89 '..- Y ec e l i i l about one penny per Cu r OP , and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in Engla°' o of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and C ,,,' Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemis ts ............./ Births. DUGMORE—On the Ist inst., at Kingston, Outti rio ' 4 IJ 4 the lion, Mrs. F. S an d ys Dugmore, of a so n ',„7o' LINDSAY—On the 18th inst., a t B a l c arr e s Fif° s ` .l , f ee; Lady Lindsay, of Balcarr e s, of a d aug hter. t ir o o i' MAcKENzIE —On the 20th inst., at 13, WcyrO l yie , Portland-place, the wife of Dr. Morell A/acke daughter. Marriages. RIRQII - READ —On the 3d inst., at St. Goorgo' s ', square, George A. de L. Birch, son of the t Royds Birch, to Fanny, daughter of T. W• Norfolk. t. 1 MORGAN—PLAYSTED —On the 17th inst., ft' Stoke Newington, Lieut.-Colonel W. D. ku!'"Ce j r ' 1 ,10 7 gal Staff Corps, to Emily Rosa, eldest danglitviia late George Playsted, Esq., of Wick House ' k 4, Su , sox. 5 ,1 Deaths. COOKE —On the 10th inst., at York, Thos. Coo°l 0;4 UA g 6 aed 1. Q RE —On the 19th inst., at 29, Osborne-ter° O h ham-road, Jacob Hewitt Quare, Ecq., aged 7t o ite o VENABLES -On the 19th inst., at Lan holm, CP - / V ; 'William Venables, Esq., aed 50 g i z e re, WESTCAR—On the 18th inst., at lirerichloy, " - Jed ' ' Westcar, Eiq, of Burwood Cottage, Ester , f;s 1, 1 1 London : Printed and Published by WiLLIM V. : P' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN 0 7 e fOo li Strand, in the Precinct of the Se VOY Middlesex —Wednesday, October 21, 1808. soon and i an a Dane A ten Trf I K. I Thi; Ilize 1 It Sold the Ag Obs( ball's] lf hold , Ole N , Form It Ful gard e SPe Wilt flew of Nr . , 41 4( Porte Sp, 0 W 4ight 4 -Al ch n ',iglu 105, ..__ GL, Th e ,_ T' For I ever C' -Jaoli and Stree Fleet meat with 105, 6, T 1 Adve the full / at all ord e , trad e Sou: CO., r less wee bi n , est, and Lae Car peg ne , aij nay St! fo r fo r , W, 211 cal Be ti.c