The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review says the Ministry is a beaten Ministry, in a hopeless minority,. representing a policy that the country will not endure for an instant. So long as there was life there was hope. Until the verdict of the constituencies had been finally given, it was always open to the minority to say that, however much appearances might be against them, they were going to win. But now that the verdict has been given, and the constituencies have spoken, the Ministry has no pretence or claim to govern the country. It was the part of honourable men, under such circumstances, to resign. To resign directly there was an incontestable majority against them was therefore at once_ the most dignified and sensible course the Ministry could take ; nor ought they perhaps to lose the credit or having consulted their dignity and obeyed their common sense, because it happens to be signally convenient to them at this particu lar moment to resign. Mr. Disraeli, having decided to give way to Mr. Gladstone, very sensibly and adroitly determined to give way to him in the most direct and the promptest manner poseible. He advised the Queen to send at once for the leader of the House of Commons, and not to waste time by an unmeaning reference to any of the well-placed dummies of the Whigs. Liberals have cried down themselves and their party so long and so effectively that they really seem to consider that the most ordinary functions of government cannot be properly dis charged if Liberals are entrusted with discharging them. Mr. Gladstone has no greater difficulty before him than the head of a party must always have when he is fortu nate enough to be supported by more men of ability than he can easily provide with places. Some of those who look for office must be disappointed, but there is nothing new or startling or terrible in this. Able Liberals who hope for office and cannot get it will have to put up with their disappointment, and remain out of office. The headships of the ordinary departments of State will be easily filled up well enough to prevent the public from having anything to lose by the outgoing of the present Administration. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, and Lord Cairns are the only members of the late Ministry that can be called in any way eminent. Mr. Gladstone will have no difficulty in filling the Foreign Office, because either Lord Clarendon or Lord Granville is quite competent to hold the seals, to pursue what has now become the settled foreign policy of the country, to . keep on friendly terms with foreign Powers, and, we may hope, to avoid thos3 startling sallies of indiscreet speech with which Lord Stanley has lately astonished and confounded the conti nental public. There are, indeed, only two points of much interest with regard to the formation of the new Cabinet. By far the most important of these points is, whether Mr. Bright will be a member of the Government. In the second place, much interest will be felt as to the mode in which Mr. Gladstone surmounts the difficulty of filling up the office of Chancellor. The Spectator thinks that Mr. Disraeli has made a digni fied retreat from an untenable position. He understands electioneering thoroughly, and knows perfectly well that when all this talk abont the county reaction, and Lanca shire conversions, and City defections is over and for gotten, the broad facts will remain that his - party is in a hopeless minority in the country, and that his Govern ment, as he himself expressed it in a circular to his sup porters, "cannot expect to command the confidence of the newly-elected House of Commons." Party divisions in this country are affected by geographical considerations, nor does the Speaker ask whether the Noes come from an agricultural county or a smoke-stained borough. We are bound to add that in all the incidents of his resignation as yet made public, Mr. Disraeli has exhibited a spirit of straightforwardness and consideration for his foes for which we have hitherto scarcely given him sufficient credit. He has recognised Mr. Gladstone as an opponent worthy of his steel, has cut asunder a hundred webs of intrigue which might have hampered, though could not have fettered, his great rival ; and has tendered to his sovereign just the advice which the nation demanded, but which, had he been less disposed to recognise that his own dignity is bound up in his opponent's, he might possibly have evaded. He can now avail himself of any opportunity, any reflex of opinion,any outburst of that weariness with which the British people often regard a question that has been discussed to death. And he can make his attack, if his soldiers will let him, from any point, on any ground, and under any colours. He may even let the Irish question go, trusting, as we believe, under a total misconception of the national mood, that with the object of the war once achieved the victors will once more resolve themselves, like the old Italian armies, into disorderly bands of free lances and desperadoes. He has, in short, left himself free, and to be free, with Mr. Disraeli, is to be very dangerous to the Liberal cause. We shall be a little curious to see how the squires take a surrender accom plished before the echoes of their shouts of victory have died away. The' lingering belief in many county circles that the Tory Premier is not as other politicians, or even as other men; that he possesses somewhere some super natural fund of wile which might come from above or below, but was always at the disposal of his party, will be dissipated; and we should not wonder if Mr. Disraeli found that one of the best acts of his life had cost him some of his hold over the imagination ef his adherents. The London Perim remarks: That Mr. Disraeli never ought to have had the confidence of the House of Com mons is certain ; but that he did in 'a sense enjoy it is established by the fact that it would not have been safe during last session to propose a vote of want of confidence. Under our system of government, for England tobe ruled by a trickster is the country's disgrace more than his. And if a trickster who has been humoured and petted chooses to make his bow and his exit when he sees he is going to be hissed and pelted, he only behaves in his character. We shall join in no clamour against the poor fallen mounte bank who contrives gracefully to slip out of the fair at the moment when he is about to be hustled by the tardily virtuous mob. The whole disgrace of the situation lies, we repeat, with the House of Commons. That disgrace is the deeper because the tendency of the conduct of Parlia ment was to mislead the Queen upon a point on which it is most essential for her peace and for the good government of the country that she should not be deceived. It is even now possible that it is Mr. Disraeli's discretion, modera tion, or wise calculation of chances, rather than her Majesty's unwillingness to stand by him, that has led him to give up the game. And if, when Mr. Gladstone comes into office, he should meet with difficulties arising out of Royal prepossessions, the blame will fall, not upon Mr. Disraeli, who played the eart natural to him in fascinating the Queen, but upon the House of Commons, which encouraged, by its lethargy and laxity on constitutional points, that wilfulness which has characterised all her Majesty's Hanoverian predecessors, and which it is essential should not be again permitted to disturb the free action of our popular government. Personal government is no longer an English institution. The Crown is just as liable as an Australian governor to speak in the language of one Minister one day, and in the language of another Minister on the next. Conceive how old Leopold of Belgium would have treated any attempt to guard him, or any limited monarch whom he could advise, from the appearance of inconsistency ! He would have admonished the officious protectors very sharply that inconsistency was as impossible as error in a constitu tional sovereign, because his declarations are not the utterances of individual opinion, but the embodiments of the will of the people, as expressed in parliamentary sup port of the Chief Minister. The Imperial Review, which says little ornothing respect ing Mr. Disraeli's resignation, observes that it would be as absi rd as it would be hopeless, to endeavour to disguise the fact, that the Administration which the right honour. able member for Greenwich is at the present moment forming is a Radical Administration. The Liberal party exists no more. The decent equipoise so long maintained between its diverse and discordant members has gone for ever. The destructive element has triumphed over that which clung to the traditions of Lord Somers and Earl Grey. The lean kine of Radicalism have devoured the fat trine of old-established "Whigge.ry. The transformation is complete. And on Mr. Gladstone has devolved not only the difficult and delicate task of constructing a new C a bi net, b ut the grave and un enviable responsibility of in augurat i ng a new era in our Political history. The John Ball is rather jubilant than otherwise at finding its party in the bracing air of opposition. ,After this honourable conduct on the part of Mr. Disraeli, let us hear, it says, no more of Cou scrvatives clinging to office. They were forced to assume the reins of Government by the dissensions of the Liberals, and they were bound as patriots and statesmen to settle the Reform question. That they have accomplished in a manner which, while it has fully satisfied the people, has in no way endangered the interests of their party ; for, as we have before shewn, the result of the elections, though a numerical gain to the Liberals, is a great moral victory for the Conservatives. So ends the first act of the drama; but let no one imagine that the Conservative party are dispirited. To suppose that Mr. Disraeli, with a compact body of supporters, with the whole strength of the counties behind him, with the large towns beginning to declare in his favour, will quietly surrender the principle of an Establishe.l Church is simply prepos terous. The duty of the Conservatives seems to xs plain. It is to labour without ceasing, tospare no trouble, to grudge no expense, in developing the Conservative feeling throughout the country. The temptation to a one sided compromise, to a bleeding the Irish Church to death gradually, as suggested by the report of the commissioners, is avoided ; and the Conservative party are committed to nothing but a strenuous and nneensint, , opposition to the de traction of the Establishment. We believe that the principle, if honestly upheld a n d r i g h tly understood, may be successfully . vindicated ; but we say again that rather than see the Episcopate reduced an d the Church ha ve all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of an Esta blishment, we would rather, as in the ca_ee of the R e f orm Bill. bee a 9thlam gimping policy. DEATH OF CAPTAIN BROOKE. The death is announced cf Cs . :tain J. B. J. Br: e. son of the late Rajah of Sarawak. Mr. Brooke wts formerly captain in her Majesty's 88th Regiment. In 1848, at the request of his uncle, Sir James Brooke, he left her Majesty's service and joined Sir James Brooke in Sarawak. Mr. Brooke devoted himself to the service in Sarawak; and in 1868, when Sir James Brooke was incapacitated by an attackof paralysis from further active exertion, Mr.Brooke,as Raja Muda,effectually carried on tho government of Sarawak. Mr. Brooke was distinguished for the energy with which he suppressed piracy on the coast of Borneo, and for the able manner in which he rulel and conciliated the natives of Sarawak. Last year Mr. Brooke exhibited symptoms of a fatal malady similar to that which caused the death of his uncle and early friend a few months ago. Within six months the two principal actors in the scenes of Sarawak have passed away unier the influence of disease brought on by the cares and anxieties attending their position in Sarawak. Mr. Brooke married, in 1856, the o.anghter of Mr. and Lndy Lucy Grant ; of KilgraF;ton, by whom he had two sons. Mrs. Brooke died in 1858 in Sarawak, his eldest son died in Sarawak in 18611, leaving his accond son, Hope Brooke, as his hoir. Mr. Brooke married again in 1861, Mica Wel stead, of Kimbolton. Mrs. Welstead Brooke died in Sara wak in 1862, leaving issue ono daughter. Mr. Brooke was the eldest son of tho Rev. Charles Francis Johnson, of White Lackington. THE LATE PRIMATE'S WILL. The will of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, dated the 3d of April, 1868, with a codicil dated the 16th of Octo ber, 1868, was proved on the Ist instant by the Hon. H. W. Parnell, the Rev. J. R. Hall (Rector of Ilunton, Kent), and Henry Longley, Es.q. (the eldest son of deceased), the executors. The personal property is sworn under £40,000. The dispositions of deceased's will and codicil, with the exception of nineteen guineas to each executor and legacies to his servants, aro entirely in favour of his sons and daughters. Among tho specific bequests the testator gives to his son Henry the following, which ho wished him to consider as heir-looms---" The Holy Bible" and'' The Early Years of the Prince Consort," given to him by the Queen, with her autograph. The statuette of Raphael given to him by the Princess Alice, and the "Reading Boy," given to him by the Princess Helena, on their respective mar riages; the service books for the several offices of the Church which he has performed for different members of the Royal family ; the gold coronation medal and the two silver medals given to him by the Queen on the mar riages of the Prince of Wales and the Princess Helena; his correspondence with the Queen and other royal per sonages; and the three books given to him by the Queen of Prussia, viz., "La Vie Eternelle," "Lo Pere Celeste," and "Jesus Christ et son Temps." THE BISHOP OF CORK AND RITUALIS3I. The Right Rev. Bishop of Cork inaugurated a series of Advent lectures in the parish church, Belfast, on Wednesday evening. In the course of his sermon he rebuked the effeminate sacerdotalism of the day. Their duty, he urged, was to preach tho Gospel—to preach Christ—and not to imitate those who went on preaching churches, dresses, music, twists here and turns there - folly ! folly! only fit for an asylum, for a lunatic or idiot asylum, but not for an institution and agency charged with the office of preaching the Word. Con cluding a sermon practical rather than didactic, his lordship remarked that it was to him a sincere plea sure to come to this northern country whore there was so mcch Protestantism—where, he trusted, the noble Pro testant mind of this country was being strengthened, and the noble Protestant heart of the country purified. Ho felt when he went to England an elation finding himself in the midst of a great Protestant people—with the body of the people—of a great country which had risen precisely as it became more and more Protestant. THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK AT HULL. The foundation-stone of a new church dedicated to St. Matthew has just been laid at Hull by the Archbishop of York. Ills Grace made a speech on the occasion, and said—" My friends, the religion of our Lord knows no sleeping ; the Christian who is not doing some good in his generation to those that aro around him is not thoroughly a Christian at all. It is not by merely keeping and going to the custo mary pews, and subscribing to the customary charities—it is not by that steady-going christianity that in these times the evils that aro around us can be subdued. I wonder if any one would tell me if there has been a dearth of public-houses or low places of amusement, where people pass their time, but do no other good. I should be told, no doubt, that on the contrary idleness and drunkenness greatly abounded, and that there were whole regions and districts in this town where education in the fear of God was greatly and sadly neglected. As long as those things are so wo cannot take any comfort to ourselves. We can only then be comforted when each feels that ho has done his very utmost to combat these evils when they come before us. Let that blessed feeling be ours, here present. There is not one of us, whether he be dressed in the fustian jacket or the broadcloth of a gentleman —there is not ono of us but is called upon to do his part in this work. 'We of the Church of England make very high claims. We map out the whole of this town into districts, and we say wo are the ministers of everybody in this town, whether he be a Dissenter or not. If you ask the Vicar to go to the sick bed of anyone, whether Churchman or not, he will not re fuse, providing the sufferer was in his parish. If we make that great claim, it brings with it a great responsibilty. The clergy, single-handed, can do nothing. The community will only be in a healthy state when a deep feeling of responsibility rests upon clergy and laity alike, when they feel it to he their duty to strain every nerve and move every obstacle out of the way in order that the name of God may be honoured and worshipped everywhere, and sin and vice may be as far as possible banished out of sight." The Pall Mall Gazette regrets to learn that Capt. Grosvenor, M.F. for Westminster, has met with a hunting accident in the Midland Counties which confines him to his bed. No bones aro broken. The Sheffield father, George Pethars, whose ill treatment of his son caused so much indignation a few days back, has been committed for trial on a charge of cruelty by the magistrate. The Lancet has good authority for stating that tho rumours which have recently been circulated in Paris in reference to the health of the Emperor of the French are not founded on fact. QUAND MEME.—As an instance of the ruling passion, it is said that Rothschild, who knew his death would cause a great fall in the shares of the Lombard Company, of which he was the president and chief support, speculated largely for the fall just before he died! The profit, of course, goes to his heirs. The Times is authorised to state that the Convo cation of the prelates and clergy of the Province of Canter- bury will be opened at St. Paul's Cathedral on Friday, the 11th inst., when the returns will be presented to the president and a prolocutor elected ; but the Convocation will not assemble for the despatch of business until Parlia meat meets' after Christmas. It is stated that an irregularity has occured which will vitiate the election fur the country of Monaghan. The nomination was held on Friday, and the polling on the follow ing Monday. Two clear days should intervene, and Sunday being a dies non it is believed the return is bad, and a new election must be held, the expense of which will fall upon the Sheriff. Mr. R. llenly, jun., one of the Caine guardians, writes to say that it is not true, as the vicar of Caine as re presented, that the guardians have apprenticed a workhouse girl to a dressmaker of Particular Baptist principles, and exe cuted an indenture obliging her, although she is a member of the Church of England, to go to her mistress's chapel. There is, Mr. lienly says, no indenture at all, and the girl can leave her mistress whenever she likes. The Spanish Revolution has, according to the Lancet, effected a reform in medicine. Titles have been abrogated, and the curriculum has been altered. Ono of the most curious points in these changes has boen the abo lishment of I,at:n as a necessary preliminary attainment- El Senor Zorrilla considers that an acquaintance with Latin is necessary only for making "useless rhotoricans, plodding L ttinists, and sterile argumentators." An example of the kind of political toleration per mitted by the Roman Catholic pt iebts in Ireland is furuishei by the following from Sligo which is published by the Dublin Exi - )rers :—" The spirit of intimidation has not, unfortunately, diedout, and it has assumed its worst phase in the fact that the priests of the town will sot adlu:t any Catholic elector to any of the chapels who voted for tho et,nsurv,tive candidate. On last Sunday SergoaLt Boyle, a respectable memb er of tha militia staff, was °idol el out of the Friary CLap,, , l by the Rev. Mr. ll:bb..ttt., before the assembled congrep,;ation." At the Leeds Town Hail two men have been com mitted to the assizes for the manslaughter of an Irish labourer named Michael Flannagan. The deceased and several fellow-countrymen, on the 14th ult., were drinking at a beerhouse in Kirkgate, and an altercation arose on the subject of the payment for the liquor consumed. Aftar they left the house the quarrel was resumed. Deceased was attacked by two or throe of hi/ companions, knocked down, and injured severely. Ile was taken to the infirmary, where ha died. 94 WSUggday! THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, _DECEMBER 5,186 g. TELEGRAPH EXTENSION. cyt our really; :.‘ expedition organised this year for the purpose of laying the Cuba cable failed iu accomplishing its project on account of the difficulties encountered at sea and the consequent inadequacy of the length of the cable to com plete the intended line. It has been resolved to make an attempt to recover the lost cable, and with a view to effect that result fifteen miles of line have been sent to New York, and will be shipped on board a steamer fitted out with all the apparatus necessary for picking np and paying out. The end of the Cuba cable is about four miles from the shore, although about twelve from the particular spot appointed for its sanding-place. Those most competent to judge are of opinion that it has not suffered any deterioration since its submergence, inas much as it is covered with servings of hemp and bituminous compound. It is expected that the line will be in working order in the beginning of next year. We understand that about 100 miles of the cable intended for the French Atlantic lino have been manufactured. The present attitude of affairs in Spain has not been disregarded by the promoters of telegraphic enterprise. It is proposed that the telegrai2h wires on the Spanish railways be utilised for the public advantage, and that offices for the receipt and trans mission of messages be opened at the various stations. By this improvement it is calculated that 500 stations will be added to the existing telegraphic system. A plan of elec tric communication has been adopted on board the French Transatlantic steamship Europe, by means of which orders can be sent to the man at the wheel, to the officers In their quarters, and to the sailors in case of emergency or alarm. AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. .~ 4 r; Corm:has (fa) wd, one of tile ale6t genial writers of his day, has an amusing paper in this month's Blackwood on American diplomacy. He begins by telling the story of his acquaintance with an Ame rican in Florence, who wished to be rid of a con tract with his landlord, as the illness of an uncle necessitated his immediate return to the United States. The Italian flourished his contract in the face of Cornelius O'Dowd, who acted as interpreter for his American friend ; he praised the affection of the nephew, so unusual among young men of the day, but could not depart from the plainly worded agreement ; indeed, it might be necessary to de mand something for taking charge of the premises for the unexpired fifteen months. Having failed, be was compelled to acknowledge his defeat to the American. "Have you called him a skunk, Sir ?" said he, looking fiercely at the Italian. " No,.' re plied O'Dowd,, I do not know how to turn the word into Italian." " Go," said the American, "le ive me to settle with him ; I have to do this business," and O'llowd gladly availed himself of the opportunity to get away. Shortly after he met the American with a cigar in his mouth, jauntily walking the street, and asked him how he got on, considering the Italian's determination, and neither knowing the language of the other. " Oh, I settled it straight off," said the American. "how," asked O'Dowd, amazed. " I made him sit by my side on the sofa, and I put the keys in his lap. You have got to take them keys," said I. When he raised an objection, " You have got to take them keys," said I again, which I repeated five or six times, when he did what he saw he would have to do, and gave up the contract. Now this O'Dowd maintains to be the American style of diplomacy, asserting it to be generally effective—carrying the point on which the national mind is bent, the concession being demanded in a way not to be avoided. However dis agreeable it saves an infinity of trouble, and probably prevents people from drifting into war. " I remem ber," says " CORNELIUS," when in the troublesome case of Mr. MAT HER, the Englishman, who was cut down by an Austrian officer on the streets of Flo rence, happening to converse with an American Com modore, then in command of a squadron in the Medi terranean, I will not say successfully endeavouring to show him that the circuitous course of a diplomatic correspondence was in reality the shortest road to an equitable settlement of the question. " No, sir", said he somewhat bluntly, " you'll not per suade me to that. I'd settle the matter any fore noon." Being rather curious to know by what dexterity of treatment a knotty point could be so easily resolved—l asked him the question. " tell you, sir," said he, " I'd roll up my sleeves," a strong emphasis on the my, " and go in there"— his fleet was anchored off Leghorn at the time— " and I'd take the largest and comeliest craft I could find there under Tuscan colour, sell her at Gibraltar, and give Mr. ALvritsut the money. If they did not like it, and would wish is fight they've only to say so, and we'll come over any day they name and see it out." After quoting some instances, CORNELIUS says that Americans never adopt this style with England, and he points in proof to the high character and standing of the men appointed to represent them at St. James's, taking this opportunity of paying a very handsome tribute to Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON. " I am not," he writes, "speaking without book, when I say that the feeling of America towards England at this moment is markedly generous and kindly." He thinks he best shows this by the change in the reception given to Englishmen on board American men-of-war. CORNELIUS is evidently fond of sailors, and he appears to be always getting on board ship. He has lately been in the Mediterranean, and we ima gine he looked up FARRAG UT'S squadron, for he speaks of his entertainer as one of the most re nowned of seamen. Before he had often contrasted the coin parati velycoolwelcome to anaglishman with thatto a Frenchman, a German, or an Italian, but he had never experienced a more kindly greeting than thenrcceived by his countrymen from all ranks of the American squadron. We would be sorry to throw any cold water upon the instance quoted, but we are bound to state that it had this peculiarity, that the squadron had lately been in English ports, and had met a reception such as we believe had never before been accorded to a foreign fleet. Still CORNELIUS is right in both his statements; that the feeling be. tween the two countries is becoming more and more cordial, and that Americans do not adopt with England the diplomatic tone of, " You've got to take them keys," because they know they are deal ing with a people similar to themselves, who will do right according to their light, without shuffling when the truth comes home to them. Even Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON acted in the American style, and showed it in his speech. He spoke of his de parture from America on his mission of peace ; he had to remove prejudices, to settle matters in dis pute, so that they could not again arise, and to bind the nations in the bonds of brotherhood. This is what he had to do—and this is what ho has done. They are bound to be bound ; and Mr. JOHNSON is bound to do it, and he , like the American Commo dore, has tip his sleeves to the work, unde terredby any rolled o u cry. The N a ti on , i n a l a t e ar ti c l e , says that American diplomatists notoriously start ,off in their new career more awkwardly than those of any other country, while it acknowledges that the United States got as good t rea ti es as o th er Go vernments. Alluding to the late naturalization treaty at Berlin, the Nation asserts that most work was done in private, informal interviews, without legal argument and diplomatic forms, hints being " entirely in jest to moni iTt nor s Nybieh. appeared more plainlythan t g o iv rs e , ll ala F they coul I possibly have been allowed to do in a formal discussion. The assertion that the men neither d ,kitnA f a a t in about whom the United States felt so sensitive were nearly all a set of d--d rascals,' was found to be an argument not at all alarming—perhaps partly because not new —to a Western politician ; and the assurance, I tell you frankly, Count, as a friend, and as the representative of my Government, that you must not expect us to stand this thing any longer,' called out BISMARCK'S proposition to com promise on half-way ground." Like most generalities there is only a ground work of truth in what Cornelius O'Dowd asserts. Wheaton was employed by the American Govern ment for twenty years, and has loft a reputation for affability and good manners almost equalling that for ability as a diplomatist and a scholar, as well as for his knowledge of international law. We need not allude to the Adamses as types of Ameri can diplomats, nor to Franklin, nor many other shrewd politicians and acute lawyers, whose cour tesy and polish gave to their work the force of social influence. Lately many men of literary celebrity have been accredited to European Courts, such as Motley, Bancroft, and others, but we believe that sound Constitutional lawyers, with Congressional training, will be found best qualified for the highest diplomatic posts. One of the earliest questions likely to be dis cussed when Congress again sets to work is Senator Patterson's Diplomatic and Consular Bill, which aims at making the service more permanent, intro ducing a system of promotion which will have the effect of employing officers in the same posts for a longer period, adding promotion to the inducement when there to do their work well. By the present system of rapid change officials have barely time thoroughly to learn their duties when they are re moved ; and, as a supplement to the Civil Service Bill of Mr. Jenckes, Senator Patterson's measure will work a much-needed reform which we hope may soon be brought into operation. The artificial propagation of fish by the Chinese, of which much has been said recently, is confined to four species, among them the gold fish, all of 'the cyprinord family, without external teeth, and living on vegetable substances, which are supplied to them, cut or ground, three times a day. By this process the fish are made to increase in size very rapidly. [ADVERTISEAIENT.]-11olloway's Ointment and Pills.— Many aggravating sores stand ready to pounce upon the aged when an accident weakens any part, or over-fatigue and exposure to wet or cold have irritated the nerves, ren dered exquisitely sensitive by the distended condition of the veins, and the partial obliteration of their valves. This ointment is most potent in curing all cases of ulceration, abscess, and " bad legs," after every other means have failed, and the sufferings from them are utterly unendur able. Soon after the application of the ointment coolness and comfort aro obtained in the affected part, the patient finds himself more at ease, and daily becomes more hope ful as, with departing pains, a yieible growth of granula tions coulee bath.. MONEY AND BUSINESS (from the Sprirnield Republ • The ruling power of Wall-street this week has been the Erie Railway. The war of speculators, which raged so fiercely last spring, has broken oat afresh, and the struggle is more bitter and desperate, and the amounts involved more stupendous than ever. The excitement resulting from the Erie controversy has affected the whole stock and money market, making them full of uncertainty and fluctuations. The supply 'of money has been abundant enough and at low rates for all demands, but business is not brisk, and little money is wanted foiinvestment in stock purchases until the storm clears away, and there is some prospect of legitimate business. The lock-up in greenbacks has not been repeated, but the suspicion that it may be at any moment, and tho market again at the mercy of the speculators, keeps the street in suspense and ever on the alert, to catch the earliest warning of the approaching difficulty. Hostilities in the Erio war began on Tuesday, when Judge Sutherland, on the application of August Belmont and Ernest B. Luck, granted an injunction against James Fisk, Jay Gould, Lane, Diver, and the others of the ring of which Gould and Fisk are chiefs, restraining them from further operations in Erio, either of increasing the stork, common or preferred, sales or conversions of bonds, or any transactions, except such as were made necessary by . the demands of the daily business of the company. The occasion of this suit is fully set out in an affidavit of Daniel Drew, which was published on the next day, in which he detailed the operations of the officers of the Erie, of whom he was one; and Fisk, Gould, Eldridge, and others, in issuing and convert ing new bonds, to an indefinite extent and utterly un known amount, as they wanted for purposes of specula tion. Drew co-operated with his juniors in all their schemes, and, according to his own confession, entered into an agreement with them to lock up greenbacks and break the general stock market. He was to lock up $4,000,000 as his share ; but when he had $1,000,000 se cured his courage failed him, and he let out the money again, and Fisk, Gould, and Co. promptly expelled him from their cabal, and decided to operate still farther, and do it at their own risk. Drew thirsted fur revenge on his younger and sharper rivals, and, stimulated by the fact that the advance in Erie had already left him short one million dollars or so, invoked the alliance of August Belmont, and through him procured Judge Sutherland's injunction. Fisk and Gould, however. had their countermine ready, and on Wednesday they sprung it, in the form of an injunction from Judge Barnard stopping all proceedings against them on the Belmont suit, and ,tor the present securing to them full control of the situation. They had done even more than this—and several days before, probably three weeks, had secured also from nudge Barnard the appointment of Jay Gould president of the company as its receiver ; and 'when the Belmont suit was instituted they procured an amendment to the order allowing Mr. Gould to purchase the 200,000 shares recently issued by the company, and which are supposed to be all there are in the market. The future developments of the Erie struggle will pro bably be as interesting and oven more • exciting than those which have Occurred, unless the lesson already given Shall chock transaotions and stop business in this treach erous and ruinous stock. The matter is in the courts, and if it were in any but New York Courts, there would be chance that during the interference of the law the speculators might be held in check, but the Tribune speaks truth when it says : " The war having afforded some of our judges another opportunity to disgrace themselves, they, of course, grasp at the infamy as if it were distinc tion." The authority of the Now York Legislature will un doubtedly be called on to settle the quarrel; but unless it can meet the , issue more favourably and legislate more equitably than it did last year on a precisely simi!ar ques tion, it is useless to hope for relief or justice, for the pre sent trouble appears to be all caused by a repetition of the plan begun and practised by Mr. Drew, of issuing con vertible bondi without authority and for speculation. Last spring, when the Erie panic raged, it was discovered that Mr.Drewjissued $5,000,000 of stock with no authority what ever, and had cleared an enormous amount by his dii honesty. The matter was carried to the State Legislature for decision, and after weeks of lobbying and bribery, the issue was legalized and declared valid and valuable. This fall the younger members of the ring wanted more stock than they had, and they, remembering " Uncle Daniel's" success in the spring, adopted, his strategy, and issued, according to Mr. Fisk's statement, $23,000,000. Had the Legislature last spring decidedly and firmly refused to sanction the issue of Mr Drew's $5.000,000, compelled him to refund all the proceeds of its sale, and legislated to pre vent any future attempts of the sort, the present criminal and corrupt state of affairs in Erie would never have ex isted. This is the whole moral, if there is any, of the controversy, and its chief importance to the public, and dealers in stocks, is its exposition of the danger to which all are exposed, so longas such men are to be allowed unlimited field for their operations. The nominal amount of the Erie capital, legitimately issuod, is about $16,500,000, but under the recent illegal expansion, it now stands at nearly $61,000,000, and unless the ring of speculators who now control it are in some way restrained there is nothing to hinder still further issue, or a combination of their efforts against any other stock ou the list. If the Erie war should, however, result in a clearer definition of the rights of stockholders, and of their protection against the specula tors, it will not have been in vain. The general s tock market has been strong, but not very active during the week. The tone of the market is good, and with the prospect of the December and January dividends brokers are receiving large orders to purchase. The traffic of the roads, particu larly at the West, is good, and their earnings will probably show an increase over those of last year. The decline in tha market during the recent extreme money panic: was much less than might have been expected, and the stocks are coming to be considered as safe and permanent investments. Should the Erie fight be righteously settled, this feeling in the market will be greatly confirmed ; if not, panic and confusion may seize the whole list. Governments have held steadily to their previous quotations, and gold has been undisturbed save by a slight advance, on the strength :of rumours of civil and domestic:troubles in France. The dry goods market• continues more quiet than had been expected after the'Presidential election, and the re cent stringency of the money market and the subsequent speculation in stocks, producing general .doubt and uncer tainty in business, are the chief causes of the dulness. The holding back of the grain crop of the West in consequence of the condition of the New York market has also impeded the business in dry goods, and especially contracted it at the West, where grain is the only equivalent for money. Better times are hoped for as soon as the grain comes more abundantly to market, and with the approach of the winter season the business in wool and woollens will un doubtedly be decidedly better. The price of woollens, however, shows no indications of a decline. The grain markets are atilt oppressed by the scarcity of money, and but little has been done during the week. The money market, East and West; is easier. The indi cations on Thursday and Friday, that one of the banks en gaged in the late rascalities at New York was about to begin a new locking-up operation—standing creditor hea vily as it did at the clearing house for two successive days were not sustained on Saturday, and but for one thing money would be decidedly easier than for the same period last year. That thing is the fact now ascertained beyond a doubt, that a stringency amounting to panic can be produced at almost any time by the combination of a few leading brokers and leading banks. The first lock up (October 1) did not prove this, and hardly suggested it. The second, occurring as it did, showed that the first had been the result of no accident; that it was due to no periodical movement of trade ; and that such an affair required no great time to mature, depends on no peculi arities of the market, but can be produced at pleasure by any strong clique. There is not a sensible merchant or broker in New York who does not know this and feel it deeply, as col:teaming the safety of his business and the value of his property. It forms :at present quite the most common subject of thought and remark, and perhaps more than any other of the financial experience of the seven years of suspension is perplexing the public mind to demand and insist upon a restoration of the currency, which shall destroy the promium on gold, reduce specu lation to its natural limits, and give the country a medium of exchange, above the manipulations of the sec retary, and independent of the control of the cliques. Tho panic at Milwaukee, owing to the failure of two or three large houses, has fully subsided ; and the people aro wondering now, as they always do in such cases, why they were so badly soared. The South perhaps ex hibit the bust financial condition, "considering," of any portion of the country. Its' merchants are buying freely at New York and Boston, and aro unusually ready to pay cash for what they buy. The cotton crop of that sec tion hits been realized to unexpected advantage—it was all theirs; as they were not able to buy much last season on credit—and, as a consequence, they feel easy and happy. Large houses, engaged equally in the southern and wes tern trade, report that they regard it as much safer to sell South than West, on credit, at the prosont time. The wholesale trade continues depressed; and there is still much excitement in ,the market for breadstuffs and provisions. The receipts from the West aro more liberal —forced on by the approaching close of navigation and by the inability of the western banks to keep up their accommodations any longer for the purpose of holding back the crop—and this, with a stringent money market at the East, has brought .clown prices, as well as re stricted business. The "corner" in pork at New York continues, and the pressure has about reached the squeal ing point, (Front the Ivew York Tribune, Nov. 21.) The recent issues of the Erio stock have produced great indignation in the "street," striking as it has done the foundation of confidence in all the railway property dealt in at the Stock Exchange. The rumours are that a concerted movement is being made to request an im mediate and official statement of the affairs of the com pany, and an official register of the number of shares of stock now in existence, and failing to receive this, an application will be wade to the two boards to remove tho stock from their lists until this reasonablo request is complied with. :nes of Erie have shaken the confidence of all holders of railway property, and the Boards owe it to the public to take this action, which would effectually and instantly remove the present distrust. The cliques, it is now said, hold all the stock on the street, and if brokers would stop operations in it the load would remain with the parties who issued the stock, and there would be no market whatever for it until the public men had reliable information as to its affairs. No stock should be called at the boards unless registered in the Trust Company, where all holders could ascertain at once how much was issued and authorized. And any company making secret sales should be at once removed from the list. This action, taken by tho boards, would effectually stop all future issues, and restore the confidence of holders. We learn that petitions are already in circulation to carry the above suggestions into effect. (From the Wall-street Journal, Nov. 21.) Foreign Exchange is firmer, and rates are fully above the last steamer's prices. Border State Stocks are gene rally lower, and •the new issue of Tennessees have de clined to 66, consequent on the introduction into the State Legislature of a proposal for a new issue of three millions of bonds to all railroads in East Tennessee. Alining Stocks aro very heavy, and the business continues on a limited scale. Petroleum Stocks maintain their price, with good demand for the better class. Express Stocks are quoted as follows : Adams ... American . Merchants' Union United States ... 49 to 491 ... 41 to 14. 20 to 20f ... 47i to 48 ... 27 to 271 Wells, Faigo, and Co. ... NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE, Sixty Days. Three Days. liondcn Bankers Loa: n, Prime Commercial lOBl —lO9l Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 351-36 Frankfort, O.M 4Ol-41 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.161-5.171 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss The following are the quotations for coin : Amer. silver... 96 to 971 I Eng. sovs 486 to 490 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 1041 i 2O francs 381 „ 388 Eng. silver 480 , 483 Thalers Five francs 96 „ 97 CLOSING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OP THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon — to Sixes, 1881, _coupon ll4k to 1141 Ra 7. , U.S. 6s. PaCific _Mond -- to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon llOl to 1101 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lOll to 1101 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to - RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. N. Y. Central 124 Fort Wayne Erie 431 Pacific Mail 1154 Hudson ,.. 124 Atlantic Mail — Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 851 W. 11. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg Bs} Ohio and Mississippi... 30} North-West North-West Preferred 861 Cumberland Canton.; ' ' ' 46} Bankers and Brokers... 106 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 99} fM & St. Paul Preferred 83 CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N.Y. Central 6s, 1883.. 98 Chi. &F. W. Ist M 9O N. Y. Central 6s, 1887.. Tol. 41VWab. Ist MEx 9l N. Y. Central 6s, Ii Est.. Gt. Western 2 . d 31 '93 761 N. Y. Central 6s Sub'n.. Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... Gal. & Chic. Eat 100 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ...118 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 93 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 118 Chi. &R. I. Ist M 9B Erie Ist Mort, Fix 1011 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 91 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... 98 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 911 N. J. Central Ist M — Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880... N. Contra! 2d M — Erio 7s, sth Mort, 1888... 821 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M, '77 9ll Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 931 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 101 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Bud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75... Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 88 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72... Chic. &Alton, S.F. lstM 101 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 1131 Mil. .& St. Paul Ist M... 93 M Mich. new Ist Bs, 'B2 114 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... Mich. So., 7p.c. 2d M Marietta & Cin. Ist M... N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist M... 95 Morris & Essex 2d M... 88 111. Con. 7p. '7O 1141 Joliet & Chic. Ist M... Alton &T. 11. let M 93 Chi. & Gt. East'nlst M... 74 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 81 N. Y. &N.H. 6s Alton & T.ll. 2d M. Inc. 80 Dubuque &S. City,lst 31 — Han.& St.J . Land Warts.lo9 Peninsula Ist M Han. & St. J. Con — Ohio & Miss. Ist M Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 109 Ohio & Miss. Con Chi. &N. West, S. F.... 97 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Chi. &N. W. Con Cony. 93 Atlantic &G. W. Ist M — Chi. & N. W. Ex'n 8.... 86 (from Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) London, Dec. 2. We have less business to report in American securities on the London market than for some time past; United States 5-20's of 1822 close 741 to I, and the 1865's 724 to 73. The relative quotations here and in New York have more nearly assimilated, the disproportionate rise in Atm- rica having given way. Illinois Central Shares at 951 to 96„ and Eries at 261 to 27 show no alteration. For both Central and Uuion Pacific Bonds there has again been some inquiry, the latter com manding slightly higher rates. MISCELLANEOUS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is impossible to prevent influence of family, and the older the Union grows the more this will be seen acd felt. The members have only to be numerous, fortunate, with good average intellect, to acquire a prestige outweighing merit, and giving those starting in life an undue advantage. The New York Herald says, "A remarkable result of the present state of affairs is, Exit the Blair family ; enter the Washburn© family,' " though we are not sure that the latter ever went out into the cold. Who can tell where the franchise is going? No candidate dreamt that he would in England have to canvass in a workhouse ; nor did the Puritan Fathers imagine that in the old Bay State such a paragraph as this would appear in the " latest in telligence :"—" A vote was taken in the Massachu setts Lunatic Asylum on election day, and resulted in 42 votes being cast, as follows : U. S. Grant, 14 ; Horatio Seymour, 13 ; Abraham Lincoln, 2 ; George M'Clellan, 2 ; John C. Fremont, 2 ; Mar tin Van Buren, 2 ; John Quincy Adams, 1; Win field Scott, 1 ; Daniel O'Connell, 1; Jas. Buchanan, 1; Emerson, member of Parliament, 1 ; Queen Victoria, 1; Tippecanoe-and-Tyler-too, 1." Perhaps the richest silver mines ever discovered are in the White Pine . District, in the State of Nevada, a region of which we recently gave a de scription. The accounts, fabulous as they appear, are still maintained, and are producing some effect in San Francisco, from which city , the following in telligence was sent to New York, Nov. 20 :—" Rich discoveries of silver deposits are daily made in the White Pine region of Nevada. Notwithstanding the near approach of Winter, miners are rushing to that district. The richness of the silver is in credible. Many San Francisco capitalists are in vesting large sums. A Woman's Rights Convention has just closed itt labours in Boston, in the organization of a Society, called the New England Woman's Suffrage Association, a memorial to Congress being prepared demanding the suffrage for women. Among the speakers was Senator Wilson, who announced himself to be in favour of the object, and thatit will be given when generally demanded. Mr. Garrison recounted the progress of the anti-slavery agitation, and de clared, from his experience as a reformer, that the Woman's Rights reform was passing through the regular stages to a sure and speedy triumph. Two important letters are published in the Ame rican papers. One, though old, is from Chief Justice Chase addressed to the Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Georgia,Washington,dated April 27. In it Mr. Chase enunciates his doctrine that peace and prosperity to the Republic can come only through universal suffrage and universal amnesty. The other is from Butler to the Louisville Courier, wherein he an nounces that the South has no firma- friend than he is and ever has been, which has given general satisfaction throughout these States, as there is nothing Southerners so much desire as a warm. and intimate alliance with him theythave designated " Spoons" and misnamed " the Beast !" The last report from the Feejee Islands is that the people eat up a missionary and his wife, but pre serve the children. The islands are devastated by a war waged against the settlers, cruel atrocities being perpetrated. The colonists are driven from their plantations and their buildings burnt. The British war steamer Challenger destroyed a native village, killing 41 savages. King Thakornbau has paid the first instalment of the debt due to the United States, amounting to $12,500, to the Ame rican Consul at Melbourne. Attorney-Greieral Evarts has prepared an opi- nion on the Eight-Hour Law of Congress, through which the employes on public works are, he thinks, entitled to the same pay for the eight hours as when they worked ten hours a day. If so his opinion is only in accordance with common sense, for unless Congress was taking a " rise" out of the workmen, it could not have meant its acts to be construed as -inter preted by some of the public officers, who deducted twenty per cent. off their wages, and refused even to let the men work on the old system. • The Sp ing field Republican informs us that " Mr. Vice-President Colfax was married, in a very simple way, at Andover, Ohio, Wednesday, the 18th Nov., at 9 o'clock, and started at once with his bride for Washington, where they arrived the next day. The ceremony was at the house of Miss Wade's mother, and in the presence only of the members of the two families and a few very intimate friends, and with out the assistance, of groomsmen or bridesmaids. The Washington Stargives us these particulars of Mrs. Colfax :--" She is about 30 years of age (just 32), of medium size, good figure, dark hair, brown eyes, and has a pleasing face, indicating goodness and intelligence. All who know her speak of her amiability and quiet goud sense, as qualifying her admirably to preside at the house of the Vice- President elect.'" The intelligence by cable relates to the Indian war. By mail, as we last week reported, General Sheridan had taken the field in person, with Gene rals Pennas, Car, and Custer, against the Western Indians, 7,000 strong, near the Canadian river. Sheridan's command consisted of 2,700 cavalry, and moved south for the Arkansas, with fourteen days' provisions and forage, his intention being to push the campaign vigorously during the winter, the Indians being unprovided with supplies, and compelled to defend their villages, over which the General declared he would march if he had to go all the way to Texas. A Cheyenne village has been captured ; Reuter's account says in the Dacotah Territory, under the command of Custer ; while the Times' Philadelphia correspondent states in the In dian Territory ; and we are glad to say that 4 , the correspondent" for once is right, the sender of Ren ter's news being altogether out in his geography. The Indians fought a desperate action to save their villages, losing 150 killed and 60 prisoners, while the troops lost 16 killed and 15 wounded. General Sherman has published a report which exculpates the white settlers from the blame of having caused the war, of which he urges a vigorous prosecution , recommending the transfer of Indian affairs to the War Office. He holds to the necessity of forcibly removing the tribes from the settlements and lines of travel. Four successful late Indian raids are reported near Prescott, the capital of Arizona, is which two men were killed and five wounded, A telegram from New York, December Ist, an nounces that Mr. Oakey Hall, Democrat, has been elected Mayor of New York by a large majority. The vote was light and the election passed Off quietly. Peter B. Sweeney, the manager of Taw' many, was said to be on the inside track for the office, but if so, he can't run like Hall. Mr. Jolla Kelly was also nominated of the same party, n° Republican having a chance, and few Americans , it being almost essential to be Irish. The Standard' s correspondent thus enumerates the offices held by Irish :—" Sheriff, registrar, comptroller, city chain' berlain, corporation counsel, and police commis' sioner. The president of the Croton Board, the acting mayor and president of aldermen, the presi dent of the board of councilmen, the clerk of th e common council, the clerk of the board of council' men, the president of the board of supervisions are Irish. Of the six justices of the Court of Recoil' five are Irishmen ; all the civil justices are of th e same nationality, as well as six of the eight polic ° justices. Every clerk of a police court is an Irish' man. Besides these, three of the four corners, Ml ° Congressmen, three State Senators, 18 (out of 2 1 ) members of the State Assembly, 14 of the 19 cots" mon councilmen, and eight of the ten supervisors are from the Emerald Isle ;" and we say more power to their elbow, so long as they use it aright . Kelley had for years been sheriff, from which b° received an enormous sum in fees. Sir Joseph Neale M'Kenna has resigned his sea t as an ordinary director of the board of the National Bank, having previously resigned the post of managing director. 113 did this, it is asserted, to avoid creating dissensions, by transferring all hi 4 shares when he ceases to be qualified as a director , a post which in consequence lapsed without furthgr action. It is also said that Mr.A. Grant has been per mitted to transfer all the shares he held in the Credit Foncier of England, and, if so, he is no longer col!: netted with the company, even as a proprietor. It appears from a letter Mr. 11. F. Holt, solicitor for Mr. Wilkinson, published- in the morning PaPe l l that he (Holt) withdraws every imputation agallls, Mr. Lawson, on whose evidence Mr. Wilkinson W. convicted, Mr, Holt being " satisfied, after to eso gation, that Mr. Lawson, in consenting to O.! arrangement, never intended in any way to adolv that the evidence he had previously given respecting the alleged interview of the 16th of August, 1 866 ' t was in any respect incorrect." Thus gentlemen as in the City, making charges ruinous to the charsq; ter of others, and then patching up the dispute , S o that the public cannot judge. Of course all at damaged, those who bring forward the charges and . those against whom they are directed, for men air; uncharitable enough to believe that unless the was truth in these charges they would not be h usbe , " up, but met openly, and unless some inducement vi:°: offered the accuser, would not, as in the case of 0: London Merchants' Company, make au accusat i % shameful to those concerned, and withdraw it, 7.. parties consenting at the moment of investiga ti % o The tone of morality is something peculiar ill 1 ,, e City of London, and if the opportunity offer ed Cockneys would not be slow to follow the e.):‘, ample of New York, and establish a ,Tatnipalla; upon which the New Yorkers would look with 3 miration, with envy, and with awe. to CADVEETISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always sgls —i ;iss chronic complaints: but Du Banry's delicious health-resto .01„ Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 1 10 &00, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other retinoci and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, o °,o l lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fu ucti regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebleet, o red extract a few oat of 63,000 cures ; " The Pope's health r es ;s6 6 by Du Barry's Fool. 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Births. chitr a , BROWNE—On the 4th inst., at Reigate, the Lady." - Browne, of a son. 110' DISRAELI—On the 4th inst., at 89, Onslow-square' Ralph Disraeli, of a daughter. TiArfi" IlAnnisoli—On the 3d inst,, the wife of Daniel "` son, Esq., - of a son. Marriages. , PIPER—METCALF—On the 3d inst., at Brixton, Ti en. ' 0 6 -- Piper, Esq., of Glenhurst House, Duiwich, to 1- I* , second daughter of Edward C. Metcalf, Esq., of 011• House, Dulwich. PRICE—DIFFANGER—On tho 3d inst., at St. Mar),;;. ii i,4o Church, William George, oldest son of the late 11 Price, Esq., of 43, Arundel-gardens, 'c ow ing tO 0 1: 11 0. to Augusta Emma, younger daughter of the late J. D'lffanger, Esq., ii:Molina-place, St. John's -w°° Deaths. ja" BINDER—On the 3d inst., suddenly, Joseph - B i u den d 4 , Esq., of 4, Bryanstone-street, Portman-sare, ag p c i, qu FEETUM—On the 3d inst., at Darlington, 3. Fectuoll aged 43. , v • M 111. HUGHES—On the 3d inst., at 38, Southarapion-N• ' Jane Hughes . . ribesli ire ' ROYDS—On the 3d inst„ at Woodlands, l i ar tf o rd, - James Royds, Esq., aged 79. 4 . sob t " SzYmonit—On the 3d inst., at 3, Brompton -crescent~ Seymour, Esq., Colonel H.E.1.C.5., aged 7 8 . D ow TUCKER— On the 3d inst., at 35, Duncan -terrace, ton, Joseph Tucker, Esq, aged 62. 8 5 , , -------- . 1 4 , 1 9 London : Printed and Pablished by WILLI AM '''' Dom? , '"; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tlin Suit Oalc'' 3o 3l Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss. POY, in the - 1 Middlesez t --Saturdity L Deonaber 5, UM THE PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFICES. The most important of the plans deposited at the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons up to Monday last, the last day for receiving plans in connection with bills to be dealt with in the next session of Parliament, was pro. bably that which embraces the property in Westminster to be appropriated by Government for the new public offices. There may have been notices given of bills involving more important engineering works, but no other coming bill gives promise of equally imposing architectural results ; and, although some of the other proposed bills may affect more or less a large number of valuable properties, no other comes with such a fell swoop upon a large and definite area proposed to be entirely cleared away. The plan re ferred to embraces the three blocks of buildings which have the common boundaries of Charles-street and Great George street, and the outer boundaries of Parliament-street and St. James's Park, with King-street, Duke-street, and Delahay-street intersecting. The appropriation of this property seems to indicate that the public offices are designed to occupy two immense quadrangular blocks extending from Parliament-street to the Park in one direction, and from Downing-street and the end of White hall to Great George-street in the other ; Charles-street, running between Parliament-street and the Park, will be the inner boundary of each of the two quadrangles, and will exhibit the splendour of their side fronts. The partial breaking up of the headquarters of the engineering profession in Great George-street, and the dispersion of tho parliamentary agents in Parliament. street may cause regret, but the clearance of such other buildings as occupy the ground, and the substitution of the palatial structures destined to rise upon the site, can only be cause for public satisfaction. The fragmentary portion of the northern quadrangle, now in progress, will include the Home and the Colonial Offices, in addition to the India and the Foreign Offices, already occupied. The new quadrangle to the south will be required for the War Office, the Admiralty, and various other departments. It may be mentioned that the bill authorising these great works is of a hybrid character ; in so far as private property has to be appropriated, the bill has to be dealt with as other private bills ; but inasmuch as this bill is for State works, at the public cost, the Public Offices Concentration Bill will be dealt with as a public bill. — Builder. THE DEFENCE LODGE OF FREEMASONS. The consecration of the Defence Lodge of Freemasons took place at the headquarters of the Leeds Engineer Volunteers, Grove House, the other day. On this, one of the most important and interesting occasions in the annals of Freemasonry in Yorkshire, the Deputy Grand Master of all England and Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire, the Right Honourable the Earl De Grey and Ripon, was the consecrating officer, and was assisted by his deputy, Mr. Bentley Shaw, and a brilliant Grand Lodge. The following are some of the peculiarities of con. secretion The lodge is opened in the Three Degrees, and the brethren arrange themselves in order, and the P.G. Chap lain offers up a short prayer. The W.D.G.M. directs the Provincial Grand Superintendent of Works to examine the appointments of the lodge, to ascertain that all is correct, and to see that the elements of conse cration (corn, wine, and oil) are duly prepared and properly placed. The Provincial Grand Supt. of Works reports that all is correct. The P. G. Chaplain delivers an oration. The anthem will be sung. Anthem (Psalm cxxxiii.) " Behold ! how pleasant and how good," The P. G. C. offers Dedication Prayer (first portion). Musical Response, "So mote it be," and grand honours. Sanctus, " Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of Thy Glory. Glory to Thee, 0 Lord." Invocation : All the brethren turning to the east. Musical Response : "So mote it be," and grand honours. The lodge board is then uncovered, and three P.M.'s carry the corn, wine, and oil round the lodge (solemn music accom• panying), then halt in the east, and corn is scattered. The D.G.M. then dedicates the Lodge to Masonr: Ode "Hail masonry ! thou craft divine, Glory of earth from heaven revealed ! Which dost with jewels precious shine, From all but Masons' eyes concealed." Grand honours. Second Procession of P.M.'s (music accompanying), then halt in the east, and wine is poured out. Dedication to Virtue. "Come, holy Virtue, by whose aid, In heavenward steps we Tong to tread, Bring Love, bring truth, bring Friendship here, Bring Peace and 'Unity sincere." rand honours. Third procession of P.M.'s (music accompanying), then halt in the east, and oil is poured out. Dedication to Universal Benevolence : - Come, Charity, with goodness crowned ; Encircled in thy heavenly robe, Diffuse thy blessings all around, To every corner of the globe." .rand honours. The P.G.C. then takes the censer three times round the lodge (luring solemn silence), and halts in the east. Dedication Prayer by P.G.C. (second portion). Musical Response, "So Mote it be," and grand honours. The D.G.M. then " dedicates " and " constitutes " the lodge. Musical Response, "So mote it be," and grand honours, The brethren now perambulate the lodge and salute the D.G.M. Concluding anthem, " Hail! Masonry 'mine !" The estates of Colonel Amcotts, lying at Keadby, Belton, Amcotts, and Garthorpe, North Lincolnshire, were sold by auction at Doncaster on Wednesday in 62 lots, and realised £144,620. DEATH OF MR. GEORGE PRYME.—Mr. George Prome, barrister•at-law, of Wistow, in Huntingdonshire, expired there on Tuesday last, at an advanced age. Mr. Pryme, who was a native of Hull, graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, as sixth wrangler, in 1803, in the year when the late Professor Starkie (Downing Professor of Laws) was senior, and the late Lord Wensleydale was fifth in the tripos. His subsequent academical career was brilliant, and he represented the borough of Cam bridge from 1832 to 1837. IGNATIUS.—O n Friday the Rev. J. L. Lyne, Dater known as " Father Ignatius," resumed his Friday lectures at th e c h urc h of St. Edmund the King, Lombard street, and no opp os i t i on of any kind was offered to him. The organised disturbance was the act of some church association opposed to Mr. Lyre's views. Mr. Lyne, founding his remarks on a - passage in St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, preached on the final judgment, and in the course of his address acknowledged very kindly some munificent gifts he had received from City merchants and bankers in aid of his work. He did not know their names, and he could only thus publicly thank them from the pulpit. After tho service Mr. Lyne was allowed quietly to depart, without any of those disgraceful scenes which have followed some of his previous labours in the City. RESTORATION Pr GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. —At the meeting of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathe dral this week, Mr. G. Gilbert Scott, the architect to the cathedral, exhibited his designs for the restoration of the choir, which have been long under anxiou3 consideration. The plans obtained the cordial and unanimous approval of the dean and chapter, and Mr. Scott received instruc tions to begin the work without deTay. The nave will be immediately prepared for the celebration of Divine service during the time occupied by the performance of this work. The choir when thus restored will be one of the most beautiful specimens of architecture in the cmintry. The estimate for the work now to bebegun is about £15,000. The amount of the estimate for the whole contemplated restora tion is about £40,000. The exterior restoration of the south transept of the Cathedral is now compl.eted, and the beau tiful work has been admirably executed. The total cost of this part of the restoration was £793 Se. 6d. ; the cost was borne by Lord Eldon, Lord Dynevor, and the late Viscountess Downe. The of the ' south porch has also now been begun. Towards this Woe ha Price, one of the Liberal members for the city, h as • ••. tiveu £OOO, -- • _~~..,