The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT -oF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that such a career as that of the late M. Berryer is interesting, not only on account of the remark able genius of the mail, but for the close relation of his life and destiny with the modern politics and organisation of France. Everyone knows that Berryer was one of the first orators of his country. There are few foreigners of whom Englishmen have heard so much, and even those who have not listened to his energetic yet graceful eloquence are prepared to believe that ho was an extra ordinary man in an age conspicuous for forensic and political genius. It is also known that he had faculties which fitted him to play a statesman's part—an excellent judgment, a vigorous will, pride of the noblest kind, strict conscientiousness, fidelity to his friends and his principles. There was probably no leading man in France who was so popular personally among those with whom he disagreed. His eminent abilities and his genial nature disarmed the intolerance which is the greatest fault of the French political character, and the Legitimist advocate counted his friends among men of every shade, from his own Bourbon white to the reddest hue of Republicanism. In his profession he was eminently successful. He rose to fame early, and was famous to the end. The Star holds that the death of causes, as well as of individuals, demands public notice. The Legitimist cause in France died on Sunday last, at Angerville, in the person of Pierre Antoine Berryer. We shall not be suspected of any excessive friendliness towards the advocates of Legi mac), when we offer to the memory of Berryer the meed of praise due to a disinterested and unswerv ing attachment to a hopeless cause. The family to whose service Berryer devoted his great abilities was unde serving of such allegiance, as undeserving as were the Stuart Princes in the last century of the allegiance of the Highlanders. When we look, however, at the training of the great French orator, and at the influences in the midst of which his opinions were formed, we shall not be surprised at his public career, which was remarkably con sistent, honourable, and stainless. The Standard is quite satisfied with the answer of the country to the appeal of the Ministry. It is quite true we remain in a minority ; it is furthermore extremely probable that in a few days after the meeting of the new Parliament, the Conservative Administration will. retire from office. We do not underra t 3 the loss which the country will sustain from this retirement. The adminis trative ability of the Conservative chiefs of the diffe rent departments contrasts very favourably with the carelessness and incompetence of the holders of those posts in the last and in previous " Liberal" Governments. To name but one instance. Whilst Lord Stanley holds the office of Foreign Secretary the country naturally feels perfectly confident that its interests are protected, at the same time that all embarrassing entangle. ments are obviated. But, after all, the possession of office by the Conservative party is a very small matter, except to the members of the Government, and the crowd of aspirants for the honour of serving their country in some responsible and well-paid position, who plead seven years' standing at the bar, and seven years' or, perhaps, seven months' profession of Conserva tive opinions as indisputable titles to the gratifica• tion of their patriotic wishes. The Government may, probably will, go out. We shall be sorry for it, but the Conservative party, and the cause of the Constitution, will be as strong as it was before in the House of Commons—nay, stronger, because a Government which has but a minority to depend upon is always weaker for the defence of a principle than an Opposition counting the same nominal strength. The Conservatives may have to change sides in a fortnight after they take their seats in the new House of Commons, but they will be quite as strong, even numerically, as they were on the Ministerial benches last session. The Daily News notes that the elections are coming to an end. In Scotland three seats remain to be filled. When the electors of the two university constituencies, and of the hyperborean county of Orkney and Shetland--where that virtue which, according to Mr. Lowe's parable, lingers behind the north wind, ought surely to be found—have made their choice, the House of Commons will have received its full sum of members : the first Parliament elected under the Acts of 1867 and 1868 will have been completed. Without waiting for the lagging triumvirate of North Britons, the last of whom will not enter his appearance until Monday next, we may roughly compare the new House with the old one in the political elements of which it consists and in the quarters whence those elements have been derived. In the late Parliament the Liberal representatives from England and Wales num bered 266, the Conservatives 234, giving a Liber. majority of 32. In the present House of Commons the Liberal members are 265, the Conservatives 227, chewing a Liberal majority for England and Wales of 38 ; an increase of six upon the majority in the last Parliament, notwithstanding the diminution in the number of seats, Ireland returned to the last House of Commons 56 Liberals and 49 Conservatives. To the present House of Commons .it sends 66 Liberals and 39 Conservatives, thus raising a majority of 7 into a majority of 27, that is to say increasing it nearly fourfold. Scotland returned 42 Liberals and 11 Conservatives to the last House of Commons, making a Liberal majority of 31 votes. To the present House of Commons it sends 50 Liberals and' Conservatives, making a Liberal majority of 43 votes, an a Liberal gain of 12 seats. The lowest possible majorik, which Mr. Gladstone can have in the House of Commons will be 107 seats, of which England and Wales will con. tribute 38, Ireland 29, and Scotland 40. If the Scotch Universities and Orkney return Liberals, the majority will be 113. The Post, alluding to the report that a petition will be presented against Mr. Gladstone's return for Greenwich, says : The new Act has given an extinguishing blow to these transactions, and venturesome petitions will be dan gerous experiments when judges are to try the issue they raise. An election petition cannot now be withdrawn without leave of the judge, nor except with full notice given, and in each case of withdrawal the judge is required to report whether the withdrawal was the result of any corrupt arrangement, or in consi deration of the withdrawal of any other petition. The idea of a kite-flying petition against Mr. Gladstone's seat for Greenwich has therefore been aban doned, and the too clever managers who conceived it are, it is reported, organising an opposition to his re-election when he shall have taken office. There is every reason to expect, in the bands of the superior judges and with the provisions of recent legislation, that corrupt practices now may be effectually prosecuted. The next three weeks will tell us what are the petitions, and the next four months will decide the merit of the new machinery. Corrupt prac tices of every sort are believed to have been not less rife on this occasion than formerly. Bribery has extended its work downwards from the ten - pounders among new voters, and employers of labour have largely exerted power over working men. It remains to be seen how much of what is universally spoken of will be laid bare before the election judges. It is much to know that cases susceptible of proof brought before the judges will not escape conviction. The law provides severe punishments for candidates and others guilty of corrupt practices, and the law will be administered by tribunals from which clear-sightedness, firmness, and consistency are confidently expected. The Summary informs us that we may be sure, should Mr. Gladstone manage to make the Palmerstonian Liberals vote against their conscience for a bill to dises tablish and disendow the Irish Church, the House of Lords will again refer the matter to the more matured judgment of the country. The heterogeneous majority which Mr. Gladstone has secured may indeed place hin in power, but the Peers will estimate its moral, not it. numerical value. Had they seen the large town, declaring against the Irish Church, the Brea centres of population indignantly refusing a hearing to a Conservative candidate, they might have thought twice before they again undertook the responsibility of placing their House at variance with the People's House. But when they see the majority com. posed of members from small boroughs, and Scotland and Wales (for Ireland is comparatively much more Conser vative), they will not hesitate. Their duty is plain—to reject the bill and remit the subject to the constituencies. Their lordships may rely on this, that it will he their own fault if they do not maintain their position. Radicals will in vain inveigh against the Upper Chamber if the Peers rise to a sense of their own responsibilities ; if they believe in their own powers ; if they regard themselves, not merely as a privileged order, but as an integral part of the Con. stitution, the maintenance of which in all its integrity i s essential to the preservation of the liberties of the people. The clergy of Liverpool on Monday met at the Town Hall, when arrangements were made for the holding of the next Church Congress in that town. "'urn AND TUTOR.—It is remarkable that the pupil of one Anglican prelate and the tutor of another should be now a Catholic priest. Canon Oakley was educated, as a youth, by the Bishop of Winchester, and when afterwards a fellow of Balliol College was tutor to the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The canon has, we believe, always maintained the most amicable relations with his distinguished pupil and tutor.—Weckly Register. THE RESIDENCE OF THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTEIIBURY.—WhiIe the public are discussing the neces. city of the new Archbishop of Canterbury being provided with a residence in his diocese, Dr. Tait has secured one. Several months ago he purchased the Stone House, in the parish of St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, where, when his episcopal duties would allow, he has resided with his family. The Stone House is not far from Ramsgate and Broadstairs, and is accessible by railway from Canterbury, Dover, Ashford, Faversham, Deal, and very many of the other WA) QWii of East 1 44. t, . SOUTH-WEST LANCASHIRE ELECTION. Mr. Gladstone has addressed the following letter to the Liverpool Albion:--" Sir, since the poll of Tuesday I have received so many letters of the kindest sympathy, many of them from persons upon whom I have no claim whatever, that, unable as I am to acknow ledge them individually, I ask you to allow me to tender to them, through your columns, my respectful thanks. Many of them touch on topics and convey ex hortations or assurances necessarily most grateful to me, but too sacred for this letter, so far as public matters arc concerned. I beg them and all my friends to believe that the local reverses we have sustained, amidst the general triumph of the Liberal cause, have no effect what ever on my mind, except producing an equally local regret in particular. I see no reason whatever for despondency in South-West Lancashire, where (to omit naming other circumstances), while other dis tricts have gone back, we have improved our position since July, 1865, by 700 votes. Rest assured that, in the district where, under the circumstances of the present juncture, Liberal principles have been supported at the poll by 71 voters for every 76 that the adversary has pro duced, those principles cannot remain at other elections excluded from a share of the representation of the division." OUT.RAGES ON MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. _ -- d --. The Times correspondent, writing from Shanghai, October 13, gives a detailed account of the recent outrages upon missionaries at Yangchow. It will be remembered that on the 22nd of August several thousand people sur rounded the missionaries' house at Yangchow, broke into, and set fire to the lower story. The occupants were maltreated ; the ladies had to throw their children out of window and jump out after. Mr. Reid lost one of his eyes. Eventually the party were rescued by an official guard, and shipped off to Chinkiang. After their departure the contents of the house were burnt, and its lessor was imprisoned and tor tured. The causes and consequences of this affair are worthy of note. Her Majesty's ship Rinaldo was called in by the British Consul, and, ,though the excitement spread to Chinkiang, the guns of the war-ship overlooking the town very soon produced order. But there can be no doubt, says this writer, that the riot was promoted by the authorities, not by the common people. On the Bth of September, Mr. Medhurst, the British Consul, went to Yangchow, and demanded redress from the Prefect. He could get none, and therefore went to Nankin, to the Viceroy himself, and an interview, with all due ceremony, took place between the two. The following is the account given by the Times correspondent of the issue of this negotiation :—" His Excellency shewed every disposition to concede the different points asked —the punishment of the instigators, the payment of an indemnity of 2,000 taels by the actual rioters, the release of the lessor of the house, and the engraving on stone of a proclamation declaring that foreigners had a right to live at Yangchow unmo lested. Everything promised a speedy settlement of the affair, when suddenly Captain Bush withdrew the Rinaldo and left Mr. Medhurst to finish his negotiations in a Chinese house-boat. The result may be imagined. Relieved from her presence the Viceroy retracted everything; abandoned politeness for insolence ; became obstinate instead of yielding ; refused to punish anybody or to remove the magistrates ; offered 1,000 taels only as com pensation ; and though offering to issue the notification, declined to give it the required importance by engraving it on stone. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul had, of course, no option but to reject these terms, withdraw to Shanghai, and place the matter in the hands of Sir Rutherford Alcock, where it now rests. Captain Bush's departure was occasioned by illness ; but his withdrawal of the Rinaldo was utterly unnecessary. The magnificent steamers that ply between Shanghai and Hankow pass Nankin nearly every day, and he could have gone to Shanghai in one of those in as great, if not greater comfort than on board his own vessel. It is needless to say that the strongest feelings of annoyance and disappointment are entertained here at the termination of the affair, which has now become ten times more serious from our temporary defeat. The Chinese looked on this as a trial of strength between their own and our officials, and have gauged their estimation of us by its result. Our prestige has gravely suffered, and we must insist on the complete and literal fulfilment of every one of the condi tions demanded, and on a full apology, in order to restore it. It is probable that all this (i.Meulty would have been avoided had the Rinaldo staid eel ee days longer at Nankin. The effect of our temporary defeat is every day apparent. A proclamation posted in Chinkiang by order of the Viceroy, declaring that foreign missionaries had a right to reside in the interior, and that officials must aid them in obtaining houses, evoked a counter-proclamation signed 'The People of Chinkiang,' declaring that they would burn any house so let, and throw the missionaries and the landlord into the flames ; that any official favouring the lease of a house should have his yamen burnt down, and that he himself should be similarly treated. A placard has been posted outside the East Gate of Shanghai violently abusive of Catholic missionaries ; but at the instance of the French Consul-General it has been torn down, and a proclamation by the Taotai substituted condemning the terms of the original. It will be observed that through out the whole affair the people shew forth as the opponents of missionaries ; the whole demonstration is against them, not against foreigners generally. But it is believed by all who are familiar with the circumstances and with the country that the people are quite indifferent in the matter ; that the proclamations are issued by the literati with the connivance of the Mandarins, and that the mob is only collected at their instigation. By literati' must be understood men who have passed the Govern ment examinations, and are either Mandarins or expectant Mandarins. These men form the really hostile party in China to foreigners, and they specially dislike missionaries, because they dread their influence over their converts, and because missionaries travel about and reside in the inland cities instead of keeping themselves, as other foreigners do, to the open ports. It is true Protestant missionaries have never arrogated any political influence, but Roman Catholic missionaries have done so, and have created grave difficulties on different occa sions. A strong feeling is excited against mis sionaries, too, by their violent denunciation of the sole creed which a Chinaman holds dear —the so-called ' worship of ancestors.' rhis is condemned as idolatrous, and the whole system of Chinese social polity, the whole frame work of his belief, is thus attacked and outraged. The missionaries act, of course, according to their conscience, but, I think, injudiciously. Instead of conciliating, they excite antipathy. However this may be, the case has now grown beyond a mere question of reparation for injuries sustained. Our political prestige has been injured, and must be recovered." Sir Bernard Burke has just been made a Com panion of the Order of the Bath. It is related as one of the jokes circulated in Westminster-hall, that shortly after Lord George Hamil ton addressed the electors of Middlesex he received a letter from Earl Russell, stating that the fight would bo a hopeless and most expensive one. " And besides, my dear George," adds the ex-Pre mier, " you are too young to represent such a constituency." To this disinterested epistle Lord George Hamilton replied: —" My dear Uncle,- Thanks for your letter. I assure you I do not regard the contest for Middlesex as hopeless, and, as for my age, I am a year older than Ambe r l ey was w h en you sent him to Leeds." CORNELL UNIVERSITY. —Mr. Goldwin. Smith writes this to the Daily News from Ithaca, New York : " I receive numerous letters from Englishmen who are desirous of advice as to the expediency of coming over to America for the purpose of entering at the Cornell University. It may save some correspondence if you will allow me to state in your columns that though the Cornell University opened on the day prescribed by its charter, it is still in an incomplete condition, its buildings unfinished, and its power of accommodating students very limited. I would therefore not advise any Englishman at present to turn his thoughts in this direction." THE RETURN OF SIR SYDNEY WATERLOW.—OUF London correspondent intimates that an awkward mis chance threatens to annul—for a time at least—the effect of the strenuous, praiseworthy, and successful exertions made by the Liberals of Dumfriesshire for the return of Sir S. Waterlow. There is a well-known rule which prohibits a Government contractor from becoming a member of the House of Commons. In deference to it, Sir S. M. Peto had to resign his seat when making the Balaklava Railway. Other instances of the stringency with which it is enforced are plentiful. It is said that Sir S. Waterlow is exposed to its operation. If so, it is pro bable that his contract is only some paltry affair which he had forgotten, for we read that he is prepared to get out of it. The question is whether by doing so bcfore be comes forward to take the oaths and his seat Le will be in time ; and the answer which any committee would give, should it be raised, must be 4 , N 0 .,, The Act (22 George 111., C. 45) is particularly explicit. It declares a contractor incapable of being elected, as well as of sitting or voting—though it is only as regards the latter that penalties are imposed. These are severe. An offender is liable to forfeit £5OO for every day on which he may sit or vote, to any person who may me for the same. The new member will of course take care to avoid this liability; but we fear he will not be permitted to take his neat without challenge,—.llrort4 British Mail MR. MILL ON FREE TRADE. A. letter from Mr. John Stuart Mill to Mr. G. It. Holden, of Sydney, has furnished some material to the Free Trade versus Protection question, which is always more or less the subject of discussion in Australia. Kr. Mill's letter came as a reply to one from Mr. Holden, who requested his " maturer present opinion" on the passage in his " Political Economy" recognising an exceptional case in which a protective policy would be allowable in a young community. In his letter Mr. Mill writes :—" Your impression is quite cor rect that I was appealed to from Victoria in con sequence of the use made by Protectionists of the passage in my "Political Economy" which speaks of the occasional benefit in a young country of aiding the natu ralisation of an industry suited to its circumstances. I did at that time return an answer, which was published in a Victorian newspaper, to the effect that if this encouragement took the form of a pro tecting duty, it should be strictly limited to a moderate number of years, and not continue beyond. I have not altered the opinion that such encou ragement is sometimes useful, and that in many cases the most just mode in which it could be given is that of a tem porary protecting duty, on condition that it should be known and declared to be merely temporary, and of no very long duration. But I confess that lalmost despairof thisgeneral understanding being ever practically established. I find that in Australia protection is not advocated in this form, or for this purpose, but that the vulgarest and most exploded fallacies are revived in its support. As far as I can perceive, those who contend for protection in Australia mean it to be as permanent as any other legislative arrangement, and hold to all the false theories on the subject of which Europe is rapidly ridding itself, and which are declining even in America. In such a state of opinion as this, I should resist with my utmost strength any protection whatever, because it is far easier to withstand these false and pernicious doctrines before they have been carried into practice to any serious extent than after powerful pro tected interests have been allowed to grow up under tb.ix influence." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1868. THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT.. Two more victims have to be added to the long rd,. of killed by the explosion at the Hindley coalpit. Two young men seriously injured in the accident have died from their wounds, thus bringing the total to sixty-one, and it is feared that some others of the injured will succumb to their injuries. There still remain several dangerous cases under the treatment of Mr. Brayton, the surgeon, and his assistants. The principal of these are John Tyldesley, of Sta.ckyfold, who is very badly burned; John Gerrard, of Chapel-lane, Hindley, seriously burned, but doing well ; Thomas Ingram, Sandy-lane ; Thomas Sergeant Hollins and James Reyes, Hindley Green ; John Tinsley, Stackyford ; and Thomas Winnett, Stacky fold. None of these men can give any satisfactory account of their escape. They appear to have been " dazed," and to.have had the good luck to struggle into safety. Amongst those who escaped were a number of men at the far end of the workings, who first tried to work their way to the pit shaft by the ordinary route. On the way, however, they came to a door, and finding several bodies lying about, they began to notice which way the current of air was flowing. Finding the ventilation was com pletely reversed, they, after a short consultation, resolved to follow the wind, and so managed to reach the shaft. A singular escape was that of a man named Ramsdale, who was working 100 or 500 yards away from the pit eye. He knew what had occurred immediately the sound of the explosion was heard in the workings, and throwing down his tools he rushed along the level, where he was soon met by the after-damp. He came upon three little lads, who were screaming with terror and had given them selves up for lost. Ramsdale told them to hold on to his trousers, and in that position he dragged them through the foul gas. After desperate efforts he reached the shaft with his charge all safe, and he sent the boys up first, feeling, he said, that he could stand the gas better than they could. The bodies that were most burned were found in what are known as the clip workings, and in that portion of the pit along which the flames of the furnace were driven when their current was reversed. Many were scorched about the head and face, as if they had just been caught by the fire as it passed, and nearly all seemed to have left their places, and after running as far as they could to have succumbed to the deadly choke damp. On Sunday the last sad offices before burial were performed to the dead, and on Sunday morning the bodies were placed in neat coffins which had been made on the premises. The calamity has rendered nearly fifty children fatherless, and at several of the houses poverty stares them in the face. The inquest on the bodies of those killed by the Hindley Colliery explosion was simply opened—nothing further can be said of its progress—on Monday. A correspondent thus describes it :—" Mr. Driffield, the coroner, arrived at about eleven o'clock, and before long the jury had assem- bled. Mr. Higson, the Government inspector, was present, and was joined by Mr. Dickinson, the inspector of an adjoining district. Amongst the other persons present were Mr. Southworth, the manager of the colliery in which the explosion occurred ; Mr. George Gilroy, manager to the Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Colliery ; and Mr. William Bryham, manager of the Rose-bridge Collieries. The men were represented, so far as the National Miners' Associa• tion was concerned, by Mr. Pickard and Mr. Halliwell, the agents for the Wigan and the West Houghton dis• tricts. Before swearing the jury Mr. Driffield said that he did not propose to do more that day than would . enable him to grant the warrants for the burial of the dead. He had been told that there was great excitement among the people because he had not attended earlier, and that they thought he had not been acting con. siderately towards them. He could not do anything other than had been done. It was not until Friday that he received information of the calamity, and when he received it he was on his way to hold two inquests in differents parts of his district. He could not alter his arrangements for that day. On Saturday he had had also two inquests to hold. He could not send his precept to Hindley until Saturday morning. Nothing had up to that time been said to him about the excitement. On Saturday morning he was only asked to make arrange ments whereby the bodies might be placed in the care of the relatives ; and that he did. Late on Saturday night a messenger reached him at Prescot, where, after the day's work, he had gone on private affairs connected with the very recent loss of his brother. It was impossible for him to do anything until Monday. He could see no reason for the feeling which had been manifested. There had been nothing in his movements or in his conduct which he could have so changed as to afford a speedier burial than was now possible. He hoped, therefore, that the relatives would not attach blame to him. After this short speech of the coroner, the jurymen were sworn, and it was arranged that at its rising the court should be adjourned until Thursday. In the meanwhile the Government inspectors will make a formal inspection of the mine, and so be prepared with evidence. The formal evidence of identification of the bodies was then taken, and shortly afterwards the inquiry was adjourned. There was a short interruption of the proceedings. About a score of men, mostly fathers of families in which deaths had occurretl, came up the stairs towards the door or the court and chafed again at the delay. They became excited, and went so far as to threaten that they would break into the room and shew the coroner that he had, as they believed, trifled enough with them already. Their voices were loud, and they were quite capable of carrying out this th rea t, b u t th e y con . sented to go away quietly on the assurance that the coroner was even then doing what they wanted, with as much rapidity as the formal requirements of his office would permit. THE PATENT LAW. A meeting (under the presidency of Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P.) of the delegates of various industrial associations was held in the metropolis on Monday, 4o consider the patent law. Lord Grosvenor said there existed among all classes, and especially among working men, a strong feeling that the patent laws needed simplification and modification. In the new Parliament there could be no doubt that the Legislature would interest itself much more deeply in social questions than hereto. fore. Education would, no doubt, form a subject of much discussion in the new Parliament, and education was so closely allied to the objects of the institute that such discussion must affect the present patent laws.—Mr. Hume Williams spoke of the expediency and justice of the patent laws, and said that even in these days of free trade there was little ground for apprehend. ing that capital and intellect would be placed in antago nism by any attempt to abolish the protection which satisfied the just requirements of each. In this age of progress it became a matter of the utmost importance that the inventive genius of the country should be fostered and protected. To new inventions in machinery they should look for additional progress ; but still not neglect the old ones. Agreed upon the broad principle of protection to invention, it appeared to the council of the institute that the education of artisans in mechanical knowledge and their guidance in scientific study were matters not unworthy their attention, and accordingly steps had been taken to advance these objects. He con cluded by stating that it was intended to inaugurate a benevolent fund for men of science.—Mr. Savage said he had been all his life in contact with intelligent working men, and from his knowledge of the manner in which the patent laws worked, he could say that their action was tantamount to putting 50 per cent. of the intellectual power of the country into the grave. Some of the best inventions had never been patented because of the expense. The steel pen had never been patented on that account. Since 1861 very few new inventions had been exhibited lest they might be copied. It was said that the inventor of the sewing machine had derived no benefit from his invention in this country, because he was too poor to take out a patent.—Captain Selwyn, R.N., thought that a working man's patent should be solid and reliable, because the patent law was nothing but a permission to go to law. They must first of all have cheap protective law ; next, such an investigation as would assure the poor man he was not paying fur a sham ; and, thirdly, such publicity and encouragement as could on'y be given by an institute. Hitherto inventors had been pulling one way and manu facturers another ; but a better time for both parties was arriving. —Mr. Patterson, of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, asked why a man should pay a tax for having his brain-property protected. Why should a working man be called on to pay anything beyond a registration fee? It was not right to complain that working men did not invent, when they were actually fined for doing so.— Mr. Siemens thought that where there was an allegation of an infringement of a patent, commis sioners should be appointed, who, without stopping a manufacturer's business, could ascertain the truth of the allegation. —Mr. Webster believed that brains should be as much protected as property in matter. The state of the present patent laws was a disgrace to a civilised country.—After further discussion, a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the sitting. THE ELECTION RIOTS. George Clarke was on Monday brought before the borough magistrates of Cambridge charged with having thrown a stone on the day of the election at Cambridge, by which William Lofts, porter at Christ's College, was killed. Several heads of colleges were on the bench. The facts elicited may be shortly summarised as follows:—Shortly "after four o'clock on the afternoon of the polling day at Cam- bridge borough election, a crowd of persons assembled on the market hill. They overturned a cab in Market-street, and seeing there was likely to be a disturbance, Police. constable Kirbyshire tcok possession of the cab and drove away with it. The crowd followed along Sidney-street until they came close to Christ's College, when some twenty university men were set upon by the crowd. A free fight ensued; some of the gownsmen took shelter in Christ College gates ; gravel and water were thrown at them, and to protect themselves they partly closed the college gates. The deceased came out of his lodge and asking the under porter why the gates had been closed, proceeded to open them, and waved his hand to keep the crowd quiet. At that moment he was struck over the eye by a stone (produced), and which the prisoner had confessed to Detective Danby he believed he threw, but not with any malicious intent. The stone, prisoner said, was intended for a university man who had thrown it at him and hit his hat. Had deceased been a healthy man the surgeon believed he might have recovered from the effects of the blow, as there were no indications of his brain having sustained any injury. Prisoner declined to say anything at present, and was committed for trial at the assizes, being allowed bail. The adjourned inquest on the body of the deceased was held in the Aldermen's Parlour, Guildhall, before Mr. Gotobed, coroner. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the accused, who was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant. At the Bradford Borough Court, on the same day, a tall Irishman, named Michael Brennan, was brought up on the charge of having, on the 17th November, committed a murderous assault upon Mr. J. W. Ince, a clerk in the service of Messrs. W. Peel and Co., stuff merchants, Bradford. On the after noon of the 17th ult., during the titre of the poll in Bradford, a disturbance was created by some Irish roughs in Silsbridge-lane, an Irish quarter of the town, and an attack made upon the windows of four or five Ripleyite beerhouses, considerable destruction of pro perty being the result. A number of special constables, under the direction of Adjutant Page, of the Bradford Artillery Volunteers, went to the place to quell the riot, and in the encounter with the mob Mr. Ince, who was one of the special constables, fell to the ground, and when he was in the act of rising the prisoner was seen by Adjutant Page to go behind him and administer two or three heavy blows with a bludgeon on the head. Mr. Ince is lying dangerously ill. The prisoner was remanded. THE GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION OF THE TELE onArns.—The arrangements for the purchase of the tele graphs by the Government are being rapidly carried on, and a commission, appointed by the Accountant-General, has nearly concluded the inquiry into what the net profits of the companies really are. A complete collection of the instruments used has been arranged in the library of St. Martin's-le•Grand. It is said to be a most interesting display, and one which shows in a remarkable manner the vast progress which has been made since the first applica tion of electricity to the purposes of telegraphy. SCENE IN A CANADIAN THEATRE.- -A ludicrous incident occurred at the theatre on Saturday night. A soldier, on whom the good intentions of the Saturday night liquor law had evidently been thrown away, became excited during the rendition of the play, " The Lancashire Lass," and made several times for the stage, where he wanted to collar the representative of Robert Redburn, whom he evidently considered the greatest villain unhung. He was several times pulled down into the pit from between the footlights ; but eventually, to restore the tranquillity of the audience, had to be carried out of the kiint-.711m40 ,ZY.fin. Mt_ LAW AND POLICE. COMPENSATION. — The Court of Queen's Bench has been occupied in an interesting medical discussion. Mr. Allan, manager of the Worcester Engine Works Company, was hurt in January 1867 by a collision on the London and North-Western Railway, and the company's liability was not denied. Plaintiff had not been able to attend to his business since the accident, and a formidable array of medical men was called. Sir William Fergusson and the other witnesses for the plaintiff were decidedly of opinion that the brain and spine were injured ; while, on the other side, equally eminent testimony was as decidedly of an exactly contrary opinion. The doctors disagreed, but the jury decided with Sir William, and gave the plaintiff £2,650. STABBING.—Mr. Justice Byles has sentenced John Henry Morris, at Birmingham, to ten years' penal servi tude for using the knife in a quarrel. The plea of insanity was set up for the defence. ROBBERIES WITH VIOLENCE. —The winter appears to be setting in with its usual amount of garotting and highway robberies with violence. A case of singular daring and atrocity has been brought before the Lord Mayor. The other night a gentleman was passing along Alder man's-walk towards Old Broad-street, when an arm was suddenly put round his neck. He became insensible from the effects of chloroform, was thrown upon his back, and robbed of his scarf-pin and ring. This was done in sight of a man standing in front of an adjacent public house, and, fortunately for the ends of justice, he pursued the aggressor before paying attention to the victim. The thief was captured, and a new Prayer-book, with " Hymns Ancient and. Modern," in a case—evidently the proceeds of another robbery—were found upon him. The mouth and lips of Mr. Fillingbam, the person robbed, were extremely sore the next day from the chloroform. Prisoner was committed for trial. CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.— Three boys, from 14 to 16 years of age, named William Burnside, Edward Morley, and Charles Simpson, have been brought up at York on the charge of conspiring with others to set fire to and destroy the Industrial School in that city, of which they were inmates. It appears that during the temporary absence of Mr. West, the superin tendent of the establishment (in which are confined about 75 boys, and half that number of girls), some of the older boys succeeded in holding communication with some of the girls, and between them it was agreed that, at a fixed time, they should set fire to the two parts of the build ing. Opportunity was to be taken for accomplishing this on the previous Saturday, and during the whole of that flay several of the male ringleaders exhibited considerable insubordination ; but, fortunately, before night one of the girls disclosed the plot to Mrs. West, who at once com municated with the governors of the school. The prisoners, as the ringleaders, were at once taken into custody, and they had since been confined in prison. That had brought them to a state of contrition for their act, and in the hope that their punishment might prevent any further plotting, the magistrate discharged them with a caution. Two men have been severely burnt by an explo sion of fire damp at A s hton-in-3.laclierflehl. The colliery where this occurred—Pew Fall Pit—has always been con sidered a very safe one, and has been worked with naked lights. Since this accident, however, safety-lamps have been introduced, and that portion of the pit which caught fire has been stopped off by a brick wall. The shareholders of the Royal Bank are determined that the resolutions passed at the recent meeting, wjth the object of fnstituting legal proceedings against the directors of the company, shall not lie dormant. They have applied to the Court of Chancery for an order directing a legal meeting of the shareholders to decide whether or no prose cutions shall be commenced. The Chief Clerk, to whom the application was made, has postponed his decision until the (minim of col §9l pad beeu taken (31 tlaq 6ubiect. T,.OREIGN NOTES. SPAIN. The Spanish Republicans, not content with the severity of their struggle against the Monarchists, are agitating in favour of the abolition of slavery. The Democratic Com mittees have again requested the intervention of Victor Hugo to aid in the solution of the difficulty. What great assistance towards abolishing slavery in Cuba can be afforded by Victor Hugo is . not evident, but it appears that the illustrious French writer thinks his aid of some moment, for he has responded to the appeal of the Democrats by a second letter, misty, and full of notes of admiration. The burden of this epistle is that slavery must be abolished, hut M. Hugo offers no single suggestion as to the means by which that desirable end should be effected. Common sense may, however, readily supply the deficiency. Before the Republicans can put D;it end to slavery in Cuba, the ascendancy of Spain in that great island must he con firmed. This is not the case at present. Our cable tele grams show that the Government snakes progress against the insurrection, but it is evidently not yet suppressed. The insurgents are receiving assistance from without, and may greatly prolong the struggle. Spain must be mistress Cuba before she can free its slaves. GERMANT. The two deputies from North Schleswig who refused to take the constitutional oath were disposed of in Friday's sitting of the Prussian Chamber. The extreme measure first spoken of has not been adopted. By a large majority it has been determined that the two refractory members shall retain their seats, but shall be excluded from the House so long as they persist in their refusal. They have addressed to the House a declaration, affirming that the question was not one of conscience, but of nationality. In other words, as representatives of Schleswig, they pro- test against annexation to Prussia. INDIA. The news respecting the famine is more and more un- favourable. The dearth-stricken district cannot bo adequately relieved for some months. Emigration still goes on, and prices continue to rise. Worst of all, the scarcity is extending to provinces which have not hitherto suffered, the circle within which grain has risen in value is rapidly increasing in area, and even Orissa is thought not to be wholly safe. The rain there has suddenly ceased, and if it has ceased altogether the crops will not yield more than half the usual return. This would of necessity press sorely on a province just recovering from all the horrors of unmitigated famine. Her Highness the Begum of Bophal, who died recently, rendered great service to the British during the Indian mutiny. She had neither soldiers nor war munitions, but her State was thrown open as a refuge for all Europeans, and they were many, who might be driven to seek shelter there. Military operations in Affghanistan must soon cease, on account of the approach of winter. Meanwhile, both sides, that of Shere Ali and that of Azim Khan, are rich in necessities. Neither chief can pay his troops, neither can obtain recruits, and both appear to have a marvellous faculty of offending their adherents. But the recent great victory of Shere Ali, announced by telegraph, must give him a decided preponderance. Besides, he is friendly to England, and he is the rightful heir, which is something, even in Asia. It does not appear that any interview has taken place between Shere Ali and Sir John Lawrence, though nothing could be more advantageous to the interests of British India than an interview between the two. The former has been too busy defeating his enemies to fni time for diplomacy. The old prejudice against machinery has extended even to Shanghai. A proposal to get up a company to erect a cotton mill has created great excitement amongst the natives, who have petitioned against such a "calamity." THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The allies are attempting to terminate the war on the River Plate by a great flank movement. Lopez is entrenched at Villeta, and 12,000 Brazilians have been sent to make an immense circuit across Paraguay by the plain of the Chaco, and attack the Dictator on the flank. Marshal Caxias is awaiting the culmination of this movement in order to assault the Paraguayans in front from the river, force the batteries with the Brazilian ironclads, and so communicate with the army on the Chaco. We are in no position to judge of the strategic value of these move ments : they will probably be efficacious. But they arc certainly not rapid. LIBERTY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) An interesting inquiry is raised by the question whether Mr. DISRAELI or the American Minister is right—the former in asserting that the English en joy more personal liberty than any other people in the world, and the latter that if he went to Ame rica he would quickly find out his mistake, and that if Englishmen had more, the sooner they lost it the better. There is one striking difference between the personal liberty of the people in each country. The Englishman is bound by old habits, traditions, and recognized grades in society, of which he is more or less the slave. Many feel weak-knee'd in presence of a Duke ; a hare can safely grin out of a furze bush at a starving peasant, and if the wind has car ried his cap into a field, his Worship might give him a week at the treadmill for trespassing i❑ picking it up. To an American it is slavish to make the hare and the field greater than his sovereign the people, and to elevate, it may be, a bloated, sensual, stupid, and worthless Duke into a deity because of his title. On the other hand, the American submits to conduct on the part of paltry officials which no Englishman brooks. Policemen break the heads of the people—aye, shoot them, almost as a pastime ; conductors promptly ditch their passengers on the slightest provocation, ani often without any what ever. Take up an American paper, glance at the contents, and ten to one you will see some outrage by these jacks-in-office patiently borne by the majesty of the people. The stranger who sit ting next you, may be telling how he purposes to run for the Presidency, when he is ejected by an official of the class who in England touch their caps to him. Here is an instance in one of the first papers we take up—" A passenger in one of the Greenpoint cars, yesterday, presented a $5 bill in payment of his fare, but the conductor ob jected to changing it, and after intimating pretty plainly that the bill had been presented for the pur pose of evading payment entirely, ordered the passenger to leave the car. This the gentleman refused to do, when the conductor attempted to eject him by force. Further than the breaking of a window or two, and the frightening of half a dozen ladies, no damage resulted from this extra ordinary conduct on the part of the conductor." If this had occurred in England, the conductor would have been thrust out of the window, not by the individual, but by the men present, who would have resented his conduct as an attack on society. 'I he English insist on what is termed civility from all brought into contact with the people. To an hotelkeeper or a shopkeeper a charge of incivility is fatal, and there is no business or profession in which it is not injurious. Railway guards, station masters, steamboat stewards, are compelled to courtesy, a quality those who select them are careful to ascer tain they possess. This civility Americans, on first landing in England, attribute to a fawning de sire for fees, which is amusingly illustrated in Dr. HOLLAND'S account of his travels, now being pub lished in the Springfield Republican. Quoting some person well known in his town, who runs a train,' he exclaims, just imagine him looking for such paltry contributions—he to whom the citizens presented a silver service ! But the fact is that in Massachusetts the man was lord of the train, but in England he would be a common workman. If Dr. HOLLAND thought that there was any want of independence in those who treated him with what he considered fawning civility, were he thrown into their society, he would soon discover his mistake. In their official capacity they are servants of the pub lic, who oblige them to act respectfully as such, and they find that civility pays best, and gives least trouble in performing their duties. The conductor who broke the windows in his effort to eject a gen tleman from the car because he had no smaller change than a five-dollar bill, took much disagree able and unnecessary trouble, costly too, which as easily could have then been avoided, as in a thousand instances every day in the States, if the people in sisted on that respect in practice for their persons, readily accorded in theory. Now this is what puzzles Englishmen in the United States, for they cannot understand how the sovereignty of the people can be universally acknowledged, yet the people them selves be treated so rudely by their officials. It does not seem to strike either the jack in office or the atoms of sovereignty who happen to be within his reach that he is the servant, and they are the sovereign. On the contrary, his idea is, "I am the master, and these are my slaves ;" and the sur prising thing is, not that he should thus act, but that the people should submit. This thought does at thug ouggest Anil, here and there, a ih the following instance; "Make way, gentlemen," cried a fussy office-holder to some people the other night at a political meeting, " make way, we are the Repre sentatives of the people !" " Make way yourself," replied a sturdy member of the throng, "we are the people themselves." The difference most no ticeable to strangers between the nations is cer tainly this. Mr. JOHNSON spoke sarcastically when he alluded to the liberties his countrymen take with their neighbours, and it is probable he had in his mind's eye the late liberties of the Republican press with himself. I 3 is a curious fact that, at the same time, those who allow such latitude to the smallest official with whom they come in personal contact, know little or no respect for the incum bents of the highest posts, wherein the want of re verence contrasts ridiculously with their recent and uncomplaining, though ignominious, ejection from a railway car by conductors. Imagine an un known English traveller going the round of the British Ambassadors and Consuls, picking up gos sipping stories in the kitchens, throwing the whole into an official report, and sending it to the Prime Minister of England for her MAJEsTy's consideration. To complete the parallel imagine the Secretary for Foreign Affairs selecting him, of the greatest celebrity and distinction, from whom curtly and impertinently to demand an explanation. The in dignant Ambassador, as might be supposed, tenders his resignation, which is actually accepted, and we have an instance of the liberty to which Mr. JOHN SON objects. We must confess to agreeing with his Excellency that some of the liberty should be taken away, and more curbed by society, when those who lost in doing what they please would at least gain in manners—on the whole a good ex change. Most people like doing things which in no way please their neighbours, and many, unless restrained, are simply offensive. The liberty of doing what we like may as a rule be construed into the liberty of making ourselves disagreeable, and any moderate restraint, is in the interests of society. The Times objects to the liberty which allows of such a gathering as that last Sunday in memory of the " martyrs" ALLEN, GOULD, and LARKIN, which it states uo other country would tolerate, even the Reform League describing it as a caricature of English liberty; and it declares that one of the results of a Re formed Parliament will be a Government hampered with fewer scruples in preserving public order. Eng lishmen would prefer the bolder exercise of Govern ment authority, unless it be against a general move ment ; but we doubt the wisdom. What harm followed the triumph of the mob in Hyde-park last year ? That Sir RICHARD MAYNE got a black eye and divers other bruises is now remembered with intense satisfaction by most people; that Park-lane has become a handsome thoroughfare is not a mat ter for public regret; nor that the shabby park railings should have given place to that grand gilded ornamented iron. What have been the other results? Not a member of the Reform League even got into the Parliament they claim to have re formed ; and the world knows that it was not to Mr. BRADLAUGH or to Colonel DICKSON that a measure dictated by the progress of the times was due. Look at other than FINLAN'S Fenian meetings—vici ous as all were, theygot rope, and hanged themselves. If there be anything just and right in the agitation it will come out, and, very properly, eventually be remedied. But if there be not, let the orators rave, and hundreds of their hearers will detect that they might as well listen to a bagpipe, which, however entertaining in sound, is but wind. Re fuse the opportunity—shut the speakers up—and the people imagine there is a grievance of which the Government dreads the discussion. All that is required is education, but educated or not, the unanimity of feeling, the sameness of the groove of thought running through every grade of society in England has surprised, as so unmistakably mani fested in the votes cast for the members of Par liament just elected. It is evident in England that the people think they have liberty enough, but in America the question is, whether there be not liberty too much. An amendment to the Constitution will be proposed in the next Con gress, making suffrage universal, but many think the tendency is to restrict suffrage instead of to extend it, more especially in the direction of natu ralized citizeua. This subject will eouie up for discussion, and it is not improbable that the frauds perpetrated notably at New York and at Philadelphia, may lead to very important altera tions in the law. ANGLO-AHERIC ANS OF 7HE FU7 URE. Election addresses in England have brought out many interesting observations regarding the Re publican institutions of the United States, and the example they furnish, as England has chosen, it is assumed, to cast her lot in the same course. Mr. LowE, whom many think the greatest orator in Parliament, says, " Perhaps the best thing is to look at America not as a warning to deter others, but as an example to imitate ;" and continuing, he added, " We have really thrown in our lot with America as to the form of our institutions." He was driving at the necessity of education, although he commenced by alluding to the advisability of free ing the State from the entanglement of religion, and curbing Democracy by such checks as that of the Senate, a working Chamber, he considered it advis. able for England to copy as closely as practicable in the House of Lords. It may be remembered that Mr. LOWE brought upon himself much odium by scornfully denouncing any measure tending to throw political power into the hands of the unedu cated. Perhaps no man in Great Britain was more abused, and once he narrowly escaped with his life. " It will be necessary," he said in Parliament (with the sneer with which he knew so well how to point the bitterness of his remark) " to teach our future masters their letters." No man can accuse Mr. LowE of time-serving, of disguising or modifying his opinions, although such a master of language, for what he believes, whether popular or the re verse, he states in words no dullard can misunder stand, and often so pointed, that no hide can resist. Mr. LOWE then means what he says, while nobody can mistake what he means, and his late speech amounts to little more than a commentary on his own words—" We must teach our future masters their letters." " To go on, however, as we are now, making no efforts to dispel the ignorance which exists among the masses, and at the same time giving them, through the franchise, the control of the destinies of this country, would be an exhibition of rashness and folly which any intelligent Ame rican would treat with the most absolute scorn ;" and he adds that, in this thickly-peopled country, even English pride cannot suppose it would be safe to place the power of the State in ignorant and un tutored hands, which the great Republic, with her large territory and vast resources, is not able to do. Mr. LOWE'S opinions have been very widely com mented on, and have excited much astonishment ; yet a far more novel and striking announcement was made by Mr. WALTER in his speech to the electors of Berkshire. There are hundreds of Ame ricans who know nothing of Berks, who will recog nize at once the gentleman to whom we allude when we say it is WALTER of the Times. There are many reasons which give weight to his opinions re garding America. But a few months ago Mr. WALTER was making a sort of triumphal tour through the States. He was feted as are only lite rary men, and his connection with the Times was a passport everywhere. Those whose ob j ect is mere amusement might have quietly shut their eyes, drunk in the pleasant flattery implied in a warm and generous hospitality, and passed over America seeing nothing but the smiling faces of the enter tainers. Mr. WALTER, however, did not go to America for mere amusement. As a British legis lator, far more still as one whose influence is para mount, in wielding that tremendous engine the Times, it was necessary that he should have a more intimate knowledge of a country he has the sense to see is now exercising, and will to a greater extent, exercise an extraordinary influence on England. While, then, Americans were doing their best to amuse Mr. WALTER, and make his visit as agree able as possible, it is probable that he was nar rowly observing the whole working of their institu tions, and using the power his position gave to get the better insight, and the more numerous stand points that, from every aspect, he might be enabled to judge, He holds that as everybody in Great Britain is now admitted to be entitled to the fran chise, and will yet have it, therefore all should be educated as a security against political blunders. Accordingly he declares that, if returned, he will not rest till he has carried public education to every hamlet in the kingdom, till poverty shall no longer be held as a reason for ignorance and a justification for neglect. But this is the opinion of every sen sible man, more especially those who have studied America, and know how much Republican success there is due to the enlightenment of the people, and how nearly every folly and failure is directly trace able to their ignorance. What is remarkable in his address is what follows, which we quote fro:n the comments of the Windsor Express : " Steam has opened to us not only every ocean, but now every continent ; and a year or two hence there will come from the Far West a cry, wide, and long, and loud, for all the surplus hands we can possibly spare. No local tics, no bends of allegiance, will restrain the vast humaa cur rent flowing towards a land of inexhaustible fertility, oc cupied by people of our race and tongue, enjoying equal laws and free institutions. We must prepare them for the migration, as a father prepares his children, iu older to cart them in the world." Now this is what we call a noble, generous, awl therefore a wise policy, and shows a in in who has been deeply impressed with what he saw in the Republic, and earnestly desirous of avoiding a re petition of bygone errors. The first thought of the superficial and ungenerous aye, perhaps of nearly all men, would be why thus at a lavish outlay culti vate the minds of those you destine for citizens of another country, now a rival, and who knows hew soon to prove an enemy ? For the reasons that a father prepares his children—First, from a natural affection which is early reciprocated by the kindly nurtured child ; secondly, because it is wise not only to gain their affections, although their career may lie in distant lands, but that they • may succeed, as in that SUCCOSS there is no return of the bad shilling, but there is often the return of a sterling golden piece. Our third reason is the essence of the subject as seen from the national stand-point. Putting aside ha' inanity, duty, and the natural affections which cement race and citizenship, we come to a broad question of policy. What has made America hos tile to England—granting a large measure of hos tility ? One word answers this question—the Irish. Now what has enabled the Irish to produce such an effect ? The United Kingdom poured into America what ROEBUCK termed a " fecculent torrent" Of Irish emigration ; draining the towns and over crowded rural districts of their poverty-stricke a l untaught, and ignorant peasantry, which, unaided and forlorn, flowed to the broad open lands of America. 'They fled from a hopeless, despairing prospect which they deeply felt, but could onlY account for by the misgovernment of England, t° 3 country where they were confirmed in the beli ef , that they were the involuntary exiles of a shamefu l system of oppression, although had they understood the commonest laws of political economy they would have known that a modified emigration ought t° have been inaugurated an age before to relieve the pressure of population on the means of production of, however green, still not a very productive islind° Had they been taught that America was their proper field, the object to devote all energies to achieve tb° possession of a farm, and that the first step they o° ' on American soil was that for which they should re turn their most fervent thanks to their CREATOR; then they would have looked forward with hope ---13° back with regret—grateful for oppo r t un itiea ne e ' ,. before offered to au indigent people, instead of il l " dignant at being cast out of their hovels. T he !: may be something peculi a r i n th e I r i s h charact er which makes it war against progress and civili ss. tion ; but we believe that wherever they are 11 , ,h ": sorbed by a greater number, no people more red adapt themselves to the circumstances, while if all to congregate in masses they become clannish a nd most difficult to manage, developing all their ViC e3l and but few of their good qualities. What Eng: , land's Irish policy led to, was an almost simult anu ous exodus of the Irish to America, and if pat °ra aided, nature must at that moment have been hued with the strongest spite against Brite l , , for it was the means best calculated to sow bro ad cast throughout the States the hatred of England' It is just possible that this country was saved fro° a ruinous struggle by the outbreak of Civil wa r ' for who can tell what the fermenting of such a mas s of malice might have produced without that out let It was a terrible experiment, and England has 2 1.04 bably been saved from the consequences by iv b° ' to her, was, perhaps, a lucky chance. The de s te perate efforts of the Fenians to involve the fia countries in war failed, because Americans , h o f fought enough—had stored a sufficient record is glory, and in vacant seats, in desolated hornes , , be heavy burdens, were realizing disagreeably results of strife. Not only did they fall, I the their failure has been consummated by ics treaty just completed between the Anler - bto Minister and the British Government on the rig OSP of naturalized citizens and other subjects. .a was, we dare say, a last great effort, for a r s P„ l a change is in progress, and even while the North ilci",o South carried on their desolating war, ire laP te , chance of making America her cat's-paw fo r i t venge against England, was passing away. Sllc oa an exodus could not last ; the means of subsiste"ra, became sufficient for the population, and eal l g b io tion rapidly dwindled till now, when a conside rs °r , reflux has set in. Nor could the great Irish gat h r er s; ing in America maintain the isolation for Yev t a a the tendency was to scatter, to lose old a nd d up new objects and acquaintances, to marl ' a ' o llar mat American children. Therefore a doubl e P e, was at work to counteract the danger wh ich ao f doubtedly—frorn some unfavourable conjun etie . o o the stars, as ZADK[EL would say—for the lot threatened England. Mr. WALTER foresees ane o des exodus to America ; but this time it is an 131 ‘ of the English. He has witnessed what Irish o no` rance did for the Republic, how it enabled cle sig er y ing men to use it as a legalized means of N I/b and oppression in the Empire city, as a dem o , 0 009 ing influence in Congress and the State Legi ala ' in the spread of a Church which in power tolellae no other, in an anti-Negro, anti-Chinese , an a ci to anti-English feeling—in the cohesion gi ve tbe a, strikes and to secret organizations. Wha t, v on could be more advisable than to send a t act, of carefully-prepared English emigration Of ° b oa industry, intelligence, and liberty, of those 01 , 3 ,a, with a kindly, generous sentiment to the fatberlo,? coupled with allegiance to the country of ad e P o tt g iog The effect will be rapid and magical in e 11 3 .11 tb e i the former tone of American opinion. AD 'lOO nations will begin to resume the old bonds d f :best and brotherhood. America will benefit by t h f;1 3 g 15 • class of emigrants she could receive, and o glo by the kind feelings generated for the t hey Americans, who would rise to positions wh e ' a ta re o, could make their opinions felt, in the L e g iel in the press, and in the pulpit. ed lr Although the importance of the diffusion Of ' cation is now generally acknowledged in Endod of few have seen, as Mr. WALTER sees, the v i o o , carefully educating those destined to becorne w ' ag r) of another country, which is, indeed, a 6° Angl e the most productive seed in the finest soil. -- American Times. Births.t v GLEICIIEN—On the 28th ult., at St. James 's Countess Uleichen, of a daughter. of $ 1: LUBBOCK—On the 30th ult., at High Elms, the "sy---e John Lubbock, Bart. F.R.S. o f a , daug hter. of WEr j r!--70n the 24th ult., at Ro'therwas, the Wife Weld, Esq., of a son. . Marriages. 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