The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF L -1111 ?ÜBLW J 01710411,8. The Tiine3 observes that when lS.r. Bright repeats his scheme for regenerating both the Irish race and the Island of Ireland by the artificial production of peasant proprietors, he is attempting what is utterly impossible, what has no ground in justice, or in the sentiment uf equality, or in the public interest, and what can only en , l in failure and disappointment. It is due to Mr. Bright himself that he should not sully a great career and dis credit the principles of liberal legislation by following an illusion that can really lead to nothing but harm. No doubt a peasant proprietorship, or a large class of " statesmen," as they exist still in some parts of England, would be better, politically and socially, than a reign of absent-e landowners and the rest of the actual system. But the peasant proprietors or small landowners must be of spon taneous growth and must arise out of encouraging cir cumstances. When such classes appear the condition of affairs that produced them will maintain them, and will either keep them sound or develope them into something better. But where they do not exist, and are planted by force of law, no law will ever be able to sustain them against the course of nature. Mr. Bright flickers the bright expectation before his hearers at Limerick, but, so far as we knuw, scarcely hints at the inevitable, and, we fear, unconquerable difficulties. It would be impossible to obtain proprietors of this sort without great cost to the British public, great risk of further cost, and great interference with the existing arrangements and transactions of property. It would be quite impossible to bind the proposed proprietors to any condition regarding the management, letting, tenure, and transmission of their estates. It would be impossible to prevent abso- lute sales, vicious lettings and sub-lettings, divisions . 4 ,a subdivisions, perhaps accumulations, perhaps a return to the old state of things, perhaps even a resort to a worse. Mr. Bright may be ready to justify, on special grounds, the departure from the laws of free trade, for such it would certainly be ; he would not be able on any grounds whatever to justify the inequality of a boon which, if it is worth anything, hundreds and thousands of English and Scotch labourers would equally desire and rave an equal right to. The Standard declares that.iT figs become a tedious and unprofitable task to criticise Mr. Bright's oratory, for there really is hut one set of ideas and one series of argu ments running through the whole of these speeches. 'There is nothing in this Limerick oration materially different from all others of Mr. Bright's orations on Ireland, except the reticence on points upon which in England Mr. Bright was free to discourse, but which in Ireland would he inconvenient and damaging to broach. What Mr. Bright means by demanding on behalf of his Irish friends that we should undo the legislation of the past two hundred years it is most difficult to understand, unless we take it as one of the orator's familiar rhetorical devices. Is it really Mr. Bright's opinion that we should restore Ireland to the condition in which she was two hundred years ago? Are we told that we cannot do jus tice to Ireland, unless we first obtain her " forgiveness?' Is all that English wisdom and liberality have done for that island to be obliterated, and no account taken of any thing but of English errors and English follies ? To what epoch does Mr. Bright propose to carry us back as our model Irish period? To go back two hundred years is to return to an age prior to the rise of nearly all that Mr. Bright would call liberty and civilisation in England. Is it the cause for which the men of Limerick fought two hundred years ago that has won Mr. Briglit'a sympathy? Does he sigh for the return of the good old days of that enlightened monarch James 11., Would he have Ireland be as though the battle had not been won by the Protestants, and the verdict of time re versed ? To wish for this is a madness of which it is im possible to suspect Mr. Bright. He is perfectly aware how blind, how foolish, how impracticable are his aspira tions. To utter such sentiment 3, therefore, to a Limerick meeting of Liberals is nothing less than a crime against the very principles of liberty and of civilisation which Mr. Bright professes. He does not believe seriously that Ireland would be the better for the reversal of the whole legislation of the last two centuries. He only says so to catch the votes of the party in Ireland who are inclined to disaffection, and to attach them to the side of his own political leader, Mr. Gladstone. The Daily News says we shall probably-hear that what Mr. Bright says is very eloqueut,•-but wholly unpractical, and that it tends no whither. If it tend to stir up the people of Ireland to hearty co-operation in the new Parlia ment with the policy of religious equality by impartial disendowment which has been adopted by the pre-. sent House of Commons, the Daily News cannot imagine anything more practical. Mr. Bright, however, may fairly reply that he has made his contribution to the settlement of the Irish dill. • culty ; and unless the tone of the debates of the pre sent session, both on the land question and on the Church question, be very misleading, the ultimate solution is likely to be found in measures not very remote from the proposi tions which he has recommended. 1 risli landlords and Irish Churchmen may go further and fare worse. Behind Mr. Bright there is Mr. Mill on the one side and Mr. Mien on the other. A little injudicious delay may trans- ferm Mr. Bright's schemes from revolutionary projects into compromises for which the time has gone by. The Post calls attention to a peculiar feature in our recent legislation which is particularly marked in the • Bribery Bill. It will be seen that the bill transfers to a single judge functions whichuntil now have been exclusively discharged by juric3. It is a very curious fact that not withstanding we were the first nation in the world to introduce trial by jury, and although we profess to regard it as the great palladium of our liberties, there has been a growing tendency of late years to dispense, wherever it is possible, with this time-honoured tribunal. The first blow struck at trialby jury was dealt by those statutes conferring summary jurisdiction on justices of the peace in particu lar instances. Several successive statutes increased this jurisdiction ; then followed the Acts which in civil causes enable parties to a suit by consent to disp ense w ith a jury, and then came the County Court Acts, and lastly the Probate and Divorce Act, modified subsequently by a statute empowering a single judge to determine a variety of matters of pure fact in the absence of any request on the part of the suitors to refer them to a jury. In the present instance, it is proposed to leave to a single judge the functions hitherto discharged by a committee of the House of Commons, and not only to determine Whether a given individual has been legally elected or not, but, in the event of the latter finding, to impose upon him "an immense penalty "—that is to say, his exc7u3l, n from the House of Commons for a period of seven yea's. It would be a very curious circumstance if an institution on which we pride ourselves so much, and which is invariably borrowed by nations desirous of mani festing their advancement in the path of liberalism, should in process of time be practically disavowed by us. One thing is self.evident: we must have a very pure bench when we countenance such changes. The Telegraph notes that the Sale of Poisons Bill, or, as it is to be called, the " Pharmacy Act," has passed Virough committee. The object of the measure is most praiseworthy, but we are not certain that it will accom plish so much as its framers have desired. It . aims a legislative stroke at two great public perils connected with the sale of deadly drugs—one, the compounding and retailing of such commodities by ignorant dealers and apprentices; and the other, their too easy acquisition by persons either desperately weary of life, or bent upon a wicked purpose. There was yet a third mischief which might as well have been included in the Act—the adulteration of those drugs which, although deadly, are used in medicine, and may be rendered yet more dangerous by the mixture. Mr. Tennyson has written in " Maud" about the rascally pharmacist who " pestles a poisoned poison behind the crimson lights ;" and while the Legis lature was about the business, it might as well have im- posed penalties on those who thus adulterate subtle and sovereign drugs. But that, no doubt, is a minor point in comparison with the twofold public peril which has been defined. We want assurance against the guilty ignorance or carelessness which in serving the customer over the counter may give arsenic for arrow-root, or laudanum for paregoric—ignorance and carelessness which in hundreds of cases have turned the doctor's prescription into a dose of death. A complete law should also affirm the principle so anxiously maintained by Mr. Lowe, that poisons should not be sold to unknown applicants. Having these two purposes in view, the " Pharmacy Act" sent down from the Lords, and just put through committee in the Commons, enacts, undoubtedly, so me very useful regulations. ' . It provides that rom New Year's Day next nobody shall retail, dispense, or compound poisons, unless he hclds a certificate, which ms,y be obtained in three ways. He must he either examined in his knowledge of deadly drugs ; or ho must have been long enough in business to have obtained a presumable experience and skill ; or, if an apprentice or assistant, he must be of full age, and have passed two years in active employment. No doubt such provisions tend to secure throughout the trade the guarantee of actually proved competency, or of reasonable empirical acquaintance with a druggist's duty. CONFLAGRATION IN CORK. —A dreadful conflagra tion, by which nearly all the Cork Steamship Company's premises have been consumed, occurred in Cork on Tuesday night. The fire began in the oil stores of the company, and spread, in spite of all efforts, to the adjoining buildings, destroying the machinery and all the:contiguous premises. A very large amount of property has been consumed. Fears for the safety of the Steamers alongside the fire were entertained, but they were saved by cutting away the communication. The fire lasted for several hours, and it was with great difficulty that adjoining *4 wail nycit, MS . RO,Y,a 4G.211077LY7711.4L SOCIMT Al' LEICESTER. On Monday and Tuesday the final trials of clod cru.shers, harrows, steam ploughs, and horse cultivators took place, ithaving been decided to complete the competi . OnWednesday the judges, Messrs. Cauldwell, Worthy, and Thompson, were engaged in the trials of brick and tile machines, commencing with the drain, tile, and brick making machine invented and - manufactured by Mr. John Whitehead, Albert Works, Preston. The amount of power employed in the respective machines was tested the society's dynamometer, under the superintendence )f Mr. Amos. Stock is being brought into the ground -eady for the opening, and all the departments are thoroughly worked up to the point of competition. But man and beast are parched with the heat, although excellent provision is made for a supply of water. The ground is as hard and arid as a desert, the drought :ontinuing without the least symptom of change. rhe storms which hive visited other localities have altogether kept away from the Leicester show ground. The following are the awards for steam ploughs and implements :-Fowler and Co., Leeds : £lOO, pair of single winding drum traction engines, power for the culti vation of the soil ; £25, one double-drum traction engine, ditto ; £25, one traction engine, working with clips, drum, and travelling disc anchor, &c.; £1?, four-furrow balance plough ; £lO, disc travelling anchor ; £B, double drum windlass on engine ; £B, clip drum windlass on engine ; £l2, seven-tine-balance cultivator ; £l5, light land cultivator ; £B, frame harrows, rollers, &c. Messrs. J. and F. Howard, Bedford : £5O, portable engine, wiith windlass ; £l2, five-tine cultivator ; £B, double drum windlass on Frame ; • £l3, harrow ; £9, general purpose wheel plough ; £6, light land wheel ploughs ; £B, general purpose swing plough ; £5, light land swing plough ; £6, subsoil plough ; £4, paring plough. Messrs. Ransomes and Sims : Silver medal for turn wrest plough, with patent wheels ; £5, general purpose wheel plough ; £4, light land plough ; £4, general purposes swing plough ; £7, harrow ; £3, light land swing plough; £4, subsoil PrOuX, - £6., - paring plough. E. H. *Bontall r £l3, cultivator. C. Clay : £7, cultivator. Beverley Iron Works Company: £ll, clod-crusher. Annis, Barford, and Co.: £9, clod-crusher ; £6, roller. Beverley Iron Works Company : £4, roller. Judges-Messrs. John Wheatley, Thomas P. Dod, George M. Hiptvell, Francis Sherborne, Thomas Chambers, T. J. Bramwell, John Coleman, E. Cowper, John Cooke, John Emsley. LAW AND POLICE. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHIEF CONSTABLE.—At the Derby Assizes, James O'Connor, a labourer, was indicted for shooting Willoughby George Fox with intent to murder him. The prosecutor said he was in Station-street, Lit church, on the evening of the 7th March, when he heard some one say " I'll shoot you," and he replied, " What for?" Ile knew the voice to be the prisoner's, and on turning round he saw O'Connor standing in the middle of the road; it was raining at the time, and the prosecutor had an um brella, which lie held before himself, moving it up and down, to baffle the prisoner. The prisoner fired ; his umbrella was riddled, and some of the shot lodged in the leg, but none lodged in the flesh. He arrested the prisoner and took the pistol from him, and believed that O'Connor said " I did not intend to murder you." The prisoner. who made no attempt to get away, was handed over to a county policeman. The prisoner had been in the county police force ten years, but had been discharged. The jury found the prisoner guilty with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. Sentence was deferred. BREACH OF PnomisE.—At the same assizes an action was brought by Mrs. Percival, as next friend of Ellen Percival, to recover damages from Mr. Finney, the son of a wealthy farmer at Buxton, for a breach of promise to marry. The plaintiff, who is twenty years of age, lived with her mother, who keeps a lodging-house at Buxton, and on the 24th of June, 18G7, the parties got acquainted, and became lovers, and be gave her an engaged ring, They went to balls and tea-drinkings, and arrange ments were made for the wedding—no wedding ring was bought, bridestnaill were selected, but all of .a sudden defendant said he was too poor and could not marry her. He put the wedding of three months, and then declined altogether. From the evidence of Mrs. Percival it appeared that every preparation was made for the wedding—the dresses made, the ring bought, &c. For the defence it was urged that Miss Percival was really engaged to a man named Barber without the lcnowledge of the defendant.— The jury awarded £5O damages. BELIEF OF BAIL FROM RESPONSIBILITY.—An important application was decided by Mr. Justice Blackburn when at chambers with regard to the relief of sureties from responsibility. A man named Samuel Israel was com mitted to the Central Criminal Court for trial, but at his request the case was postponed to the August Sessions, and bail was taken for his appearance. The sureties soon afterwards heard that Israel intended going to America, and they then took him into custody, and applied to the judge for him to be surrendered. Mr. Jh.tice Blackburn held that the bail had acted legally, and the prisoner was lodged in the lock-up. Tins " CAPTAIN" OF A GING OF THIEVES. —At the Middlesex Sessions Timothy Sullivan, aged 15 years, was indicted for a daring highway robbery. Mrs. Willi:nu:A was the prosecutrix, and was in the Whitechapel-road when the prisoner snatched two gold chains from her neck and ran off with them. Having been found guilty, the chairman asked if anything was known of the accused. A policeman gave the prisoner an extraordinary character considering his youth. He said be was " captain " of a very bad set of young thieves, who were really the terror of the neighbourhood. Some six months ago he kicked an old lady down and robbed her; but the evidence before the magistrates was not conclu sive, and he was discharged. On the 30th January the prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, at Worship-street, for felony. He was known to his companions as " Captain Tallard." The prisoner was sent to prison for twelve months, and ordered to receive twelve strokes from a birch rod. TIORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Tbe_Courrier _du Centre gives details of the murder and mutilation at Limoges on the 21st June. A quarrel bad arisen at dinner between a man named Boudinoau and his wife, in consequence of which the man, who was wider the influence of drink, beat the woman severely, and shortly afterwards lay down on the bed and fell asleep. His wife, who had boon brooding over the ill treatment she was constantly undergoing, seeing her hus band in her power, procured a cold, and passing it round his neck, strangled him. Sho then dragged the body to the ground, and with a knife commenced cutting it to pieces During the night she went and threw some of the limbs on thu Avenue do Crucifix ; throughout the following day the body remained in the room against the wall, con cealed by a screen, and the next night the woman deposited the arm and a part of the bowels at Corgnac. As the re mains now began to decompose, she got apprehensive that the smell might lead to discovery, and so took successively the rest of the portions in open day, wrapped up iu a black cloth, and dropped them in different environs of the town. The head she concraled in the chimney for five days, and the n being forced to remove it from its state of putridity, wh:ell infected the room, she placed it in the dry ditch near the Rue Encoruho-Vineuse, wLere it was afterwards found. The woman s'nce her arrest has been taken to the house and there repated her confession, describing with horrible cynicism the manner in which she had cut up the body and disposed of it. The farmers of Surrey are threatened with aome inconvenience in their harvest operatious, the labourers having resolved to strike on farms on which Irishmen may be employed in the mowing or reaping of corn, thus fol lowing the course adopted in the counties of Hants and Berks last year. The price paid for reaping and tying up of wheat has consequently gone up from 10s. to 14s. an acre to 16s. and 18s.—a substantial difference. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. —The fallacy of the popular notion respecting the forty days' rain that is supposed to follow a rainy St. Swithin's Day has been demonstrated by observations taken at Greenwich during a period of twenty years, which chew that the greatest number of rainy. day,% after _St. Swithin's Day, have taken_ilace when' the -15th of July was dry. In 1843, when the day was fine, there Were 26 rainy days out of the allotted 40 ; in 1848 there were 31 ; and in 1860, 29 ; and both for the pubic health and the country's good it is hoped that the result of 1863 may prove the reverse to the old silage. DISCOVERY OF III:MAN SKELETONS.—In the course of alterations that are being made at the Times office, Blackfriars, which necessitate a considerable excavation below the original surface, one of the work men, on ,l ednes,lay morning, struck against a hard hollow substance, which on examination proved to be a human ekull. In the course of the morning two more skulls and the greater part of the bones of three bodies were found. Each had evidently been there for a very long period, though in a good state of preservation. One appears to be the skull of a young man, the teeth still remaining fixed in the jaw; the others are slightly broken. There is little doubt that the present site, where the noise of printing machinery rarely ceases, and the printing and publishing of the Times paper renders it one of the busy places of I oadon, was once that of the quiet monastery of 131 a klriars, and that the bones discovered on Wednesday are the remains of some of its inmates which had re- Make 1 there for centuries, in 11 . 11 at Wai at tho tin:, ow ei , ,l(gco 4 quiet rooting-place, THE SUN, r i dOisIDON, =TB URSDAY EVENING, JULY IG, 1868. A GOSSIP ABOUT THE PALV7INGS, c., 7711, 7 FALAI,: _)E _7IYDUSTI:rE. There is probably no other kind of sight seeing so fatiguing as that of visiting picture galleries. Apart from the heat of the rooms and the crowd of people, the eye and the mind become wearied by the constant variety of sub ject and colour, and the attitude of the body is trying. Indeed, few probably even of the most determined sight-seers can look at paintings with profit to themselves or fairness to the painters for more than an hour, or an hour and a half at the longest. The French have found the means of greatly alleviating to the lovers of art these self-inflicted pains, by retaining the beautiful and commodious buildinc , which was the scene of the Great Exhibition of 1855, - - for the purpose of the annual display of the works of living artists. In its spacious and airy galleries one can wander with great plea sure and ease ; and the central garden, with its gay beds of flowers and well-arranged statuary and numerous seats, forms a most agreeable change of scene and place of rest. It would not be fair to draw any comparison between the building and. the rooms allotted to the same purpose in our National Gallery ; for we are reminded by the building rising in the rear of Burlington House that a great change is at hand. That it will be a change vastly for the better, no one can doubt. Let us hope the new building will be worthy of the important office it is to fulfil. Statuary and paintings are in their place great teachers of the people ; they speak more or less to all minds ; they ennoble and dignify both those who execute and those who view them. They are wide in their influ ences and social attractions, and from the archaic daubs of the ancient churches of Abys sinia to — the great masterpieces of the six teenth century, which seem to set limits to the art of painting, all have (or should _have) the same aim and object, viz., the display of nature and of life in its purest and best,aspe.cts ; and especially the representation of sacred subjects, thus raising man above the toils, the cares and anxieties, the vain hopes and futile pleasures of the world that passes away, to the contem plation of that other and better world that awaits him. With something like these thoughts we ascend the-,spacious staircase and enter the salon carrg or hall of honour, where are placed the favoured paintings of the year. It is here that royalty looks down on us from vast canvasses in many varied phases. Let us do homage before the " Genius loci "—the Emperor himself, life-size, on horseback—on eitheir side of hill the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, and accompanied by a brilliant staff. Surely this was the supreme moment of the Emperor's triumphal career, acknowledged as an equal by the proudest and most imperious of Emperors, and by the most powerful of European kings. The occasion is the Review of the 6th of June, 1867—during the progress of that Exhibition, which was at the same time the most extensive in its aim and the most successful in its end the world has yet seen. This picture is by Meister, a Prussian painter. The King of Prussia again claims our attention in the great picture of the Coronation. The Cathedral of Konigsberg is gorgeous with crimson draperies, resplendent toilettes, and gold-laced uniforms. The King, in velvet robes, standing before a quasi altar; bestows on himself honours which he swears to respect, brandishing the sword and holding aloft the eagle-headed sceptre. The floor of the church is covered with red cloth, the thrones—are red velvet, the uniforms mostly red, the - wax lights on the altar blush the same tint, and the scene is bewildering. The Queen's robes, of cloth of gold and ermine are, however, truly regal. We may be pardoned if in our mind's eye we wander from the scene of glory to the home in a foreign land of the poor, blind, exiled King of Hanover, and think a little cf the mutability of earthly grandeur and the old, old warning--" Put not thy trust in princes." But we have not yet done wit'i royalty. Her Majesty of Spain with the chiefs of her army looks down on us grandly, and, contrasted with the very ugly yellow-faced old generals by whom she is surrounded, she looks pile handsome. It is a vulgar repre sentation of one who has a most exalted posi tion and many Catholic virtues. Royalty again, in a much more endearing phase—the sight of the first lady in France bending over a poor dying patient in the cholera hospital of Amiens, 4th June, 1866—brings a tear to the eye, and we bless the Empress for her noble philan thropy. Another Review picture in the plain of Longeliamps, Oct. 26th, 1867, of which we have little to say. The Emperor is seen in it, riding beside the Emperor of Austria. Besides the above Royal personages, the Prussian Princes arc seen in a well-painted picture, meeting the Austrians after the great fight — and, as usual, in French galleries, there is no lack of generals in elaborate uniforms, and many medals. There are also several spirited paintings of the various Mexican battles. They show the country to have been almost Abys sinian in its difficulties. The world grows more wicked, and there are larger armies and more wars and rumours of wars as "Civilization and Progress " (so called) advance ; and it is as well that artists should practice soldier paint ingif they are to perpetuate " the portrait of the ag." The French are never tired of the pomp and circumstance of war, and of the spectacle of men in smart uniforms killing one another, and they certainly paint the bustle of a fight, and particularly the more san guinary part of it with amazlng fidelity. Lite rally, miles of battle-pieces may be seen at Versailles. We will notice but one more Royal picture before turning our attention to the religions paintings of the year. It is Winter halter's picture of her Majesty the Empress of the French in the bloom and blush of female beauty ; still there are indications of those lines of thought the worked mind will trace even on the most charming features. The fine pic ture is canopied under crimson velvet, and surmounted by the Imperial crown. Is there any artist about whom more various opinions are held than about Gustave Dore P One thing most people agree about, and that is that he has lost his earlier powers of idealism and invention. We cannot find much to say in praise of the vast canvasses to which Dore has given the name of " Le Neophyte." It is certainly not a religious picture, and it is not a pleasing subject for an apartment, or a good specimen of the master for a gallery. Amongst a choir of Dominican Monks, for the most part " in the sere and yellow leaf," and with a degree of ugliness rarely found out of France, sits a Novice still in the freshness of youth, and with some pretence to good looks. His thoughts are wandering and his eyes diverted from his breviary, and some remembrance of the world lie has left has cast a mournful shade over his face. In the great picture of the " Gaming Table," exhibited last year, there was at least a moral ; but in " Le Neophyte " we search in vain for either plea sure or edification. We fear to be thought fault-finding ; but who could gaze with rever ence .on. the. painting called " Le Naissance d'Eve." Stretched on the ground, asleep, is seen our first forefather Adam—him whom we like to dream of as a being of angelic heauty— " The beauty of the world," "The paragon of animals," is represented as a swarthy giant, apparently of Abysinnian type. He is asleep in by no means a pleasant position. From his side the Eternal Father draws forth Eve, who looks about twelve years old, and bears on her face a look of idiotic surprise. The supremely Divine presence is represented in a most offen sive manner, and has rather the air of a con juror performing a feat of legerdemain. An Englishman near us remarked, " Adam doesn't even look like a gentleman ! One positively doesn't like to own having been descended from him !" Why such a picture has one of the best pcsitions allotted to it would be hard to say ? As a contrast to this is a fine picture painted for the new church of the Jesuits at Vaugirard. In the lower portion of it Adam and Eve are seen after the Fall in reverent attitudes, as thou , 'l_ they were imagining the great atono mcnL of the future, and as though they saw the " Eye by her Divine maternity restoring what they had lost. The most Blessed Virgin and her Divine Son are wonderfully well imagined, and occupy the upper part of the painting. Perhaps the most impressive picture of the year is Gerome's " Jeru salem." With great poetic feeling, as well as novelty of treatment, he combines much religious feeling. You see a procession re turning through a rocky defile into the city ; sky growing dark with clouds and tempest ; a moon the colour of blood; that procession is returning from Calvary ; the great sacrifice is even now being offered up ; the arid yellow sand of the foreground, on which a ray of sun light still lingers, throws into strong relief the shadows of the three crosses, on one of which the Saviour dies ; a part of our Lord's sacred body is seen in shadow. A picture we may appropriately notice next is Albert Devriends's picture, called " The Old Age of the Blessed Virgin Mary." We are all familiarized with our own pre-Raphaelite school, now somewhat died out, and we see in this year's exhibition a very charming picture in the corresponding school of Belgium by Baron Leys. While admitting the great charm of the old Flemish painters, and gazing with delight on the Blessed Virgin as represented by them, in the costume of a citizen of Bruges or Ghent, saying the rosary in her oratory, and with all the domestic appurtenances of the fifteenth century about her, we are at the same time of opinion that when a modern artist in cold blood repeats these naivetes, the wilful anachronism becomes a pedantry. These recollections, however fas cinating, are not a true progress in art. In this picture we see the Blessed Virgin Mary grown old, reposing in an antique carved bed, by the side of a Gothic window (without which angels are hovering, as though waiting to bear her pure body to its home in heaven). At the foot of the bed St. John writes at a quaint lectern words which the mother of the Saviour dictates; the vases, the chairs, the distaff; which the young girl who watches and tends the dying Virgin bears in her hands, the curiously embroidered hangings, all suggest the school of Van Eyck and Hemling. There is a little suggestion in these revivals as of a grown man apeing the simplicity of an infant. An archaic taint many degrees less deep pervades the very pleasing picture of " The Vow." A young girl in pale blue prays before a little statue niched in an oak tree ; her white peasant cap seems like an aureole around an angel's head. We are now attracted by a good representation of a portion of the Vatican library, with its superb Raphaelesque frescoes, its carved coffers and presses, and its parquet floor. The Holy Father is seen in it, book in hand, and near him is the porcelain medieval font made ex pressly for the baptism of the Prince Imperial, and presented to the Holy Father by the Emperor. Another picture shows a portion of the great procession of Corpus Christi return ing into St. Peter's through the colonnade. A large painting, well placed, represents that favourite subject of painters, " St. Francis receiving the Stigmata." The great event took place in a grotto near the Convent of Alvernia, situate midway between the fountain heads of the Arno and the Tiber, in September, 1224, on the day of the Exaltation of the Cross. Never was a miracle more fully attested; for two years before his death, in 1226, St. Francis went through most of the towns of central Italy, Perugia, Arezzo, Spoleto, Rieti, &c., where whole populations bore witness to the fact. Dante, eighty years afterwards alluded to it. A picture called " The Lost Soul," shows us a dreary common with night coming on ; the body of a man whom death has suddenly overtaken lies stretched on it ; near him, in a halo of supernatural light, stands his guardian angel, weeping; a priest has arrived with the sacred host, but too late. The picture, as may be imagined, is a striking one. A Franciscan monk, watching the dead body of another monk, is in the style of the old Spanish schools, and is painted with great truth; the pale dead face is hardly more death like than the ascetic who watches by it ; with true poetic feeling the light of the small oil lamp falls on the face and hands of the watcher. Who cannot read the meaning ? A fine pic ture commemorates a beautiful tradition that has come down to us, viz., that St. Anthony going to visit St. Paul the hermit found him dead, but still kneeling in the attitude of prayer, and with his arms extended in the f w .,, o f a cross. We have near it a striking painting of St. John the Baptist, as the " Vox in Deserto." Truly the traditions of the Church are to the artist a mine of wealth Aquinas attracts notice ; he was by his fell ow s t u d en t s " Th e and inexhaustible; " The first thesis of St. Th allusion t o hi s s il ence . Th e ch ll a lom p emd t b e a r si Ot i sxL's' seems , se in m bled to hear his first essay, when Albert the Great, rising from his seat, said, will that will rever beratea dumb ox, but he through the whole earth." A child ` n ‘ eWielacyalul soundstTtelriomas martyr laid in the catacombs close by an altar tomb, and awaiting burial, and by its side a youthful watcher, perhaps a brother, makes a touching picture, and with this we conclude our notice of the religious pictures.--IVestinht ster Gazette. THE INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. ............••••• THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT V. ARMAN, ERLANGER, AND CO. The action for the recovery by the United States of 2,800,000 francs paid to Messrs. Arman, Erlanger, and Company by Confederate agents for cruisers built by them has progressed to the defence, which was delivered by Maitre Lecan. The case promises to be one of- international interest, and the French judges will in their decision laydown an impor taut pre cedent. It is contended by the defence, as announced in the Pall Mall Gazette, that the United States have no right to claim money, which had never be longed to the States' Treasury, from a third party : and it is urged that M. Arman was justified in build ing the vessels he constructed for Capt. Bullock, as in nowise thereby he infringed the laws of neutrality. There was no international law prohibiting the building of even ships of war, provided the builder did not send them to sea. As long as the cruisers built for the Confederates were lying in harbour they were not contraband of war, and M. Arman never had any idea of delivering them to Captain Bullock on the high seas. If Captain Bullock had falsely represented to M. Arman that the vessels he had ordered were intended for commerce, and if Captain Bullock intended to violate the law, that was no affair of M. Arman, but concerned the French Government and the Confederate agent. If Capt. Bullock could get his ships out of harbour so much the better for him ; if the Government, made aware of the real character of the vessels by Mr. Day ton, allowed them to slip through their fingers, so much the worse for the Government. If M. Arman had a right to build the cruisers in question he had a right to be paid for them. Maitre Lecan said that there had been no violation of neutrality, that all publicists were of opinion that neutrality did not mean a new state of affairs, but a continuation of an existing state ; what neutral Powers had the right to do before war they had a right to do during war. Even commerce in contraband of war was lawful if the contraband was neither transported to, nor delivered in, a belligerent port. It was a violation of neutrality to make use of a neutral flag for the accomplishment of a hostile act, but com plete liberty of commerce existed for contraband of war upon neutral territory. Vattel and other authorities were quoted to show the difference of active and passive commerce in articles contraband of war, and also a Presidential Message issued at the time of the Crimean war. It will be remembered that of the six vessels built for the Coufederates, the Stonewall was the only one which escaped the vigilance of the French Government and the American Minister, and was delivered to the Southerners. Maitre Lecan ex plained how this was effected, and exculpated that most innocent of shipbuilders, I\L Ai man. When the French Government refused to allow guns to be placed on board his vessels, Captain Bullock proposed to M. Arman that they- should be sold le a thiri :our. Denmark, then at war with Ft'.: , sia, wLs in want of .1 " ram," and proposed to chase the • S'tt - Jnet•all, but to blind the Prussian auLho rides a treaty of sale was signed with the master of the King's hounds in Sweden ? Mr. Dayton, still suspicious, wrote to Sweden for informa tion, and the purchase of the vessel was denied by Count Manderstrom. The American Minister informed M. Dronyn Lhuys that he had been deceived, and the precautions taken by Denmark were almost betrayed. After a great deal of bother the Stonewall, or Stoer-Koder, as she then wag, got under weigh widi a French crew on board, and reached Copenhagen. The French crew returned home. Denmark no longer required the " ram," and asked for a reduction of £12,000, which M. Arman would not make ; he demanded payment in full or that the contract should be annulled. The con tract was annulled, and just then Capt. Bullock re peared and claimed his vessel. What could M. Arman, who had sold the vessel to Capt. Bullock do? Could he prescribe to Captain Bullock what he should do with his ship ? Was he bound to warn the Ame rican Government? The ship left Copenhagen with a Danish crew, and was handed over to the Con federates in French waters. This was the only vessel which escaped, and it was afterwards de livered up to the United States by the Spanish authorities in the liavannah, without having effected a single capture, and was sold to the Japanese for 2,500,000 francs. Such is the story of the Stonewall as related by Maitre Lecan. It is only fair to M. Arman to add that the charge of accepting double payment has been disproved ; he returned the money paid to him by the Confederate agent, and when the Peruvian Government paid a higher price than the original contract, he divided' the profits with Captain Bullock. M. Berryer-has yet to reply for the United States. TVHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAN7S. (From the Nation.) Are there any good reasons why the Democratic party should now receive the approval of the people of the United States, and why the management of public affairs should now be committed to its charge? In answer to this question, we state two proposi tions, which we think can be clearly established by a reference to the political history of the country. All of the principles and measures which the De mocratic party held and maintained during its pe riod of growth, strength, and activity have either been abandoned by it, or have been finally and for ever rejected by the people ; secondly, all of the principles and measures which it now holds and advocates are either in direct antagonism to those which it formerly maintained, or are in equally di rect antagonism to the will of the people most solemnly expressed by a life-and-death struggle for national existence. During the period prior to the adoption of the present Constitution two ideas were contending for the mastery—national power and local liberty. The Articles of Confederation represented the latter idea, the Constitution the former. Still, the Con stitution was so much a work of compromise that it endeavoured to strike the golden mean between two equally impracticable extremes, by giving ab solute supremacy to the General Government in those matters which are peculiarly national, and by leaving the States with the control of those matters which are local and private. But the balance was very nicely adjusted, and the old struggle has been continued, and perhaps will be continued indefi nitely. Those who originally opposed the Constitution naturally became grouped into a party which up held the local supremacy of the States. To these were added some men, like Madison, who had taken a very active part in forming the organized 'law. This party represented and upheld the idea of personal, local, political liberty. We cannot doubt that the Federalists were as patriotic, as hon ourable, and as devoted as their opponents ; but they rather wished to govern for the people than by the people. It is a mistake to suppose that slavery entered very largely into the contest which preceded the adoption of the Constitution. The opposition to that instrument was most powerful in Massachusetts, and only failed of success in New York, notwithstanding the labours of Hamil ton and Jay, by a distinct understanding that a number of amendments protecting individual and political liberty sliould be immediately adopted ; while in South Carolina the proposed scheme of Government was accepted by an overwhelming majority. To this idea of local and personal liberty was soon added that of the extension of political rights, and particularly the right of suf frage. The party which maintained these princi ciples was sure of success, and success soon fol lowed. Everywhere aggressive, everywhere pro claiming the rights of man, and sympathising with the peoples of Europe who were struggling with old dynasties, this party won an easy victory, and long held the results of triumph. But from the very beginning of the present Government many leaders of this party had not only insisted with emphasis upon the rights reserved to the States by the terms of the Constitution, but had maintained that the States not only originally were, but still continue to be, sovereign ; not only originally were, but still continue to be, the parties to a voluntary compact—a compact binding upon them only during-the continuance of their tacit con sent. This doctrine, simply because it was more logical than any other which desired the supremacy of the nation, and because it could not be success fully answered in any other way than by maintain ing the absolute sovereignty of the one people of the United States, rapidly gained ground. Jefferson was its first prominent apostle : Calhoun wrought it out with irresistible logical deductions from his pre mises, and linked it with the cause of slavery. This theory produced one necessary effect, that of deny ing to the General Government the authority to decide upon its own powers. It is true that this denial was by many limited to the Supreme Court. Jefferson, the champion of absolute State sove reignty, and Jackson, the champion of a modified State sovereignty, were ready enough to uphold the power of the President while they held that high office ; but they denied, with equal alacrity and emphasis, the capacity of the Supreme Court to settle any questions of constitutional construction, and to pronounce upon the powers of co-ordinate departments of the Government. It was Jackson who made the brutal remark upon C. J. Marshall's righteous decision in the Cherokee case, which the Tribune is so fond of quoting. We think there was a general consistency in these doctrines and prin ciples. Between the absolute State sovereignty of Jefferson and Calhoun, and the modified State sovereignty of Madison and Jackson, the line of separation was shadowy and indistinct, and was fast disappearing. It did finally disappear within our own immediate times, and the Democratic party has become united upon the theory of Calhoun. Compare this retrospect with the present position of political affairs. If there is one question which the people of the United States have finally set tled, it is the absolute nationality and oneness of themselves, separate and distinct from any State boundaries and . State organisations. _ If ,there is one claim which they have denied and for ever rejected it is that of any independent State sove reignty. Millions of dollars, burdens voluntarily assumed for generations, thousands of lives willingly given up, attest this fact. I'Ve fought for our na tionality, not for an assemblage of Sovereign States. What does the Democratic party offer us as the result of the war and of the victory ? I t proposes the doctrine of absolute State sovereignty in its most offensive form. It asserts the complete right of the insurgent States to resume their former position with no loss of political power or capacity ; it requires no conditions from the rebellious commonwealth; it denies the authority of the Congress to legislate upon the subject. Disguise it as we may, cover it up with an assumed love for the Union, this is the assertion of absolute State sovereignty, and a virtual abdication of national authority. It offers a pre mium to organized rebellion. Should these views be adopted, we believe that it would have been better had the Southern States succeeded in their war upon the nation. For the precedent thus esta blished would virtually say to every State : " There is no risk is rebellion; resist at your pleasure if 7ou succeed, y - ol wiL Lave obtaine.-.1 the object of your ,desires ; if you fail, you will have lost no political attribute ; therefore, rebel, and rebel as occasion shall permit." This is what the Demo cratic party now virtually says : the Western Democrats are not more reticent in the expression of their opinion than those of South Carolina or of Mississippi. Can the people of the United States adopt these views? We believe that the Republi can party, as represented by its legislators, has done many unwise and some invalid acts ; but we more firmly believe that if the positions of the Democratic party be adopted the war for nationality will have been turned into a farce. The other principle which the Democratic party now maintains is that this is a "-white man's go vernment," and therefore that the electoral fran chise should under no circumstances be given to the negro. We would not mistake the posi tion. If we could see any signs of a desire to establish a qualification of intelligence or moral worth we might be satisfied. But there is no such sign. The party has placed itself boldly upon the position of denying to the negro citizen any part whatever in the management of public affairs. The " visible admixture" law of Ohio, passed during the present session of the State Legislature, illustrates this tendency. We need not argue that all this is in direct antagonism with the living principles which the Democratic party once promulgated with an enthusiasm which made success certain. We do not now stop to discuss the correctness of the op posing theory in relation to the electoral franchise ; it may be a manhood right ; it may be a trust wielded for the benefit of the whole mass of people. We only say that the Democratic party originally attained its ascendancy by advocating the former theory,-and that now-it-has no argumerrir-whatever to support its restriction of the theory to white men. It appeals only to prejudice, and upon the preju dices of the " baser sort" it hopes to ride into power. But we will for a moment recall our statement. One gentleman of prominence among the New York Democrats has thought it important to sug gest a scientific basis for the rejection of negro voters. He has with much show of learning stated that the family is the unit of society, and therefore that the family should be the source of political power. We can understand this. The nation is, in fact, somewhat old—it carries us back to Abraham and the other tribal sheiks among the Western Asiatics, and to the paterfamilias of the early Roman Republic. But still the notion has a cer tain logical consistency. The head of the family may be in some sense looked upon as the representative of his descendants and dependants, and as, therefore, the depositary of all political power belonging to that aggregate of individuals. We can under stand this conception of a social organization, but can hardly reconcile it with our modern notions of a Republican Government. Bat we have misunderstood the scientfic Democrat. He gives a different term to the idea of the family. The family is the social and political unit, and therefore no persons who cannot become members of the family are clothed with any political rights. Negroes cannot become members of a white family, and therefore should not be permitted to vote. That is to say, all fami lies must be white ; all Asiatic and African connec tions are mere concubinage. We are afraid that, if the learned and scientific members of the Manhat tan Club should carry out their theory to its easy results, they would disfranchise the Sixth Ward and many other strongholds of Democracy. We have thus seen that of the two grand prin ciples now set forth by the Democratic Party, one has received the- unmistakable condemtaation of. the people, and the other is in direct hostility to its earlier and better doctrines. Our time and space will not permit us to enlarge upon some of the practical measures of policy which were once the points of contest between the Demo cratic party and the Whigs. Do we expect now any clear utterance from the approaching Conven tion upon the subjects of internal improvements, United States banks, protective tariff, metallic cur rency ? The people have settled the question of those improvements which aid the foreign and the inter-State commerce. Will the Democratic party raise its voice against the Pacific Railway ? The National Bank system has not only taken the place of the old United States Walk against which Jack son and Benton fought with such untiring zeal, but has swallowed up the States institutions. Will the Democratic party decree its overthrow ? A paper currency has driven all gold and silver out of cir culation. Will the Democratic party repeat its old hard-money doctrine. It appears as though they hoped to obtain power upon the extreme opposite measure. THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S LETTER 70 MR. GRAN. (From the Anglo-Amerkan Times.) Mr. Seward's letter of June 22 to Mr. Moran has been commented upon with severity by the Daily News. At such a juncture as the present, the active, indefatigable Seward could not be expected to remain quiet. Indeed, we fear that the British lion will have very many missiles hurled at him pending the election of the President. There will be a great deal of " dirt " thrown in every directioi in the United States, and exemption would be too much for cousin Bull to expect. At such times hii relationship is a misfortune, but as no position in this world is withoul ifs drawbacks, he must accept the bad with the good. As a State paper the docu , ment is below contempt ; and will not remove the feeling now gaining ground that the sooner the Minister of State retires the better for the country, as, however able Seward has been, human intellect will not last for ever, and may be impaired by over work as well as by age. The Daily News has very properly shown the absurdity of talking of the judicial severity of the British Government. It is true that the Queen can pardon, but beyond advising her Majesty on this point, the British Government in London had no more to do with the trial and sen tence of the prisoners than the Government at Washington. When George Francis Train appealed against his incarceration for debt, it was to the Army and Navy of the United States, wherein lie showed his sense, and when Mr Seward writes letters like this he ought to send a statement of the force with which he is prepared to cram English laws down the throats of the English people. The document is really not worth discussing, the more so as the Senate have no intention of passing the bill to which Mr. Seward alludes, which may re quire the President to make reprisals in case of judicial denial in Great Britain to naturalised Americans of the rights conceded to native Ameri cans. What he means we cannot explain, unless it be the trial by a mixed jury and the substitution of a charge for piracy instead of treason-felony. Such documents unfortunately remain as records of the foreign policy of the United States, and if Mr. Seward were spared for many years a blush might be brought to his cheek when his epistles were dealt with by the historian of the period. The following-is the letter : "Department of State, Washington, D.C., June 22. "Sir,—The correspondence recorded in your legatiop ; is full of yemsinstrance , and expostulation, which, by the President's direction I have addiessed to her Majesty's Government against the imprison tnent of Messrs. Warren and Costello. The reasons have been fully and frequently assigned why the judicial severity by the British Government in these cases has tended to embarrass the friendly relations between the two countries,. and to pro tract the political excitement which has so greatly disturbed the peace of the British realm, and of the British provinces adjacent to the United States. On many occasions I have had the honour to urge on the British Government the necessity of a modifi cation of the law of the British realm, in the case of subjects of Great Britain, who have become citizens of the United States under our naturaliza tion laws. By the President's direction, also, I have, with much urgency, invited the British Go vernment to enter into an equal treaty with the United States on that subject as a proceeding which is essential for the removal of discontents which, it suffered to continue, might involve the two nations in reprisal or war. Hitherto these proceedings have been unfruitful, although we have many friendly assurances of a favourable disposition on the part of the British Government. In connection with this matter the President now makes it my duty to give you a copy of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States 'which - Wail passed on the 15th of June. I further call your attention to the fact that a bill which has passed the House of Representatives is now engaging the attention of the Senate, the effect of which bill, if it shall become a Liw, will be to require the Presi dent to make reprisals, in case of judicial denial is Great Britain to naturalized Americans, of the rights which are conceded them to native American citizens. You will be expected to read the resolu tion referred to, together with this instruction to her Majesty's principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and to give him a copy of these papers if he shall require it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) " W3l. 11. SEWARD. "Benjamin Moran, Esq., &c." TIIE PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN CALIFORNIA AND VICTORIA SINCE TIIEIR DISCOVERY. Subjoined is a statement of the amount of gold dnd silver produced in Victoria and California since the discovery of these metals in these countries In the past seventeen years 33,910,952 ounces of gold were raised in Victoria, representing a money value of £135,643,808 ; and the yield of California for the eighteen years ending in December, 1866, was $696,658,331 worth of gold, 36,944,890 ounces, or, at £4 per ounce, £147,779,560. In Victoria the maximum yield was attained in 1856, and there has been a gradual decline since. The gold yield of California reached its culminating point in 1853, and the exportation of treasure gradually fell until 1861, when the silver of Nevada and the gold of Idaho began to come in, and the amounts of the ship ments rapidly rose again. The last estimate of the annual gold yield of California was $27,000,0 00, or 1,421,050 ounces, which is less than the lowest yield of Victoria since 1851. The falling off in the gold yield, however, was amply compensated for by the discovery of the silver mines of Nevada in 1859. There is, of course, no comparison -be tween the silver yield of the two countries, there being no silver returns from Victoria but those from the mine of St. Arnaud, at which work. can not fairly be said to have commenced as yet. The silver mines of Nevada prove more productive every year, and in 1866 they produced silver to the value of $16,500,000. Up to the end of that year the total yield from the first discovery in 1859 was $70,725,000, of which $60,000,000 were from the Comstock lead, one and a-half million tons of ore having been taken from this remarkable mine. The length of the lode at present opened up is a mile and three-quarters. There are thirteen large mills and fourteen smaller ones at work on it, one of which has been yielding $4,000,000 per annutu• The average yield per ton for 1867 was about £8 ss. The Comstock lode at its greatest known depth is fifty-five feet thick, and the ore under the water level is almost identical with that of St. Arnaud, the treatment being required nearly the same. It has been proved beyond doubt that the yield increases with the depth of sinking, and this fact should act as an incentive to the promoters . o f the St. Arnaud mine. In California the falling off in the gold returns has been more than balanced by the later disco' veries of silver, and it may be that similar goo d fortune awaits this colony. The following are the gold and silver returns of California and Victoria , but as to the former country so little care secol l to have been taken to preserve reliable statistic that the figures can only be said to be approil' mately correct :• ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OP VICTORIA. Year Ounces. 1851 (for three months) 145,146 1852 1853 2,676,345 1854 2,150,730 1855 - 2,751,535 1856 - 2,985,991 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 Total 33,910,952 SILVER RETURNS OF VICTORIA. The following quantities of silver have been raised and smelted in the colony : Silver Oro. Tons. Previously, up to Doc. 31, 1864 4,480 From Jan. 1 to Dee. 31, 1865 1,400 From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1866 , 2,133 From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1867 655 Silver. t g " Ozs. Dif 6,786 3,379 . 2,318 Total 8,684 ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OF CALIFORNIA. Year. 17849 54,921,250 1850 1851 42,582,695 1852 46,588,434 1853 .. • 57,330,034 1854 51,328,653 1855 45,182,641 1856 48,880,543 1857 48976,697 1858.. 47,548,025 1859 47,649,4 62 1860 1861 40,639,080 1862 34,704,866 1863 29,824,245 1864 26,653,099 1865 28,553,524 1860 (probable production) -..-- Total ANNUAL YIELD OF NEVADA SILVER MINES. Year. 1859 550,000 1860 lOO,O OO 1861 2,275, 000 1862 6,500, 000 1863 12,500, 000 1864 16,000,000 1865 16800,000 1866 16,500,000 Total • .470,725,0 00 —Melbourne (Australia) Argus, March 30. The New York Conzwonwealth, a Repu b-1100 evening daily, was announced to appear last Saturactiols; Mr. Isaac W. Haff is the publisher. The Lawrence secretive is to be edited by Mr. Webb Wilder, of t o Rochester Express. John W. Forney is trying to se ll re Washington Chronicle, and is said to contemplate II 4 0 moval to the Pacific coast. He was offered the Bal tire t v o American newspaper for VOO,OOO. The /risk, Patri °l removed from Chicago to New York. It suppo rts„ 00 Savage wing of the Fenian Brotherhood, but it do e rmy, without rabid abuse of its opponents. Milton H.Ner t ': of Syracuse, New York, is writing clever W a sbins " t o letters to the New York Express. " Agate" (Wil itl3 , o oo l Reid) is offered by Horace Greeley in person an euh'i the place on the Now York Tribune. He is an owner 0; Cincinnati Gazette. Mrs. R. H. Stoddard is the allt,e o ide the poem published in Putnam's, entitled, The P e- Idol." .00 The Conservative is the title of a new paper J,,,e0 started at Fall River, Massachusetts. It hoists the of Salmon P. Chase for President, and George B. J 3ll lan for Vice-President. id the; The Chicopee manufacturing company he.— The , annual meeting in Boston on Wednesday, June 24. accepted the Legislature's act authorizing increase ° / O r , tal stock. The mills have produced in the la st 1 1 0 5 ` 9,680,500 yards of goods, and sold 10,513,618 yard s, average weight is three and a half pounds per yard.,.. 0 , 0 4 f. year's sales amounted to 81,675,000. The following, elected directors :—Mr. G. W. Lyman, p r esidenVfah Enoch R. Mudge, Mr. James M. Beebe, Mr. Richaru„ber Mr. Joshua Stetson. Mr. Henry Saltonstall, whe. ( 4.7(310 ° ' the position six years, was elected treasurer, and A" E. Pollard clerk. Births. A P P FANE —Oa the 13th inst., at Apethorpe, the La d y A ti Fane, of a son. tr ee LECHMERE—Ou the 15th inst, at 14, Great Q ll°e—„, 4 Westminster, Lady Lechmere, of a son. o eft WISDEN —Oa the 13th inst., at The Warren, 13rOcilii Sussex, the wife of Capt. Wisden, of a 7. san. • • Marriages. rio' MURRAY —Surrli--On the 14th inst., at St. Joh li f ; 6 ,1111i 1 S; dington, the Rev. Richard Paget Murray, t°,Threpv W. Smith, eldest daughter of Major-Genera. If Smith, C.B. 'IA rs., ° f TRELAWNY —MURRAY—On the 14th inst., at St• '') ° A viv' t o g Hanover-square, William Lewis Salisbury T i t e oe, i .," only son of Sir John Trelawny, Bart., of l'" 19 -1:10 1*' Jessy Rose Mary, only daughter of ir John Bart., of Piiiliphaugh. Deaths. o f 05, BROOKS —On the 15th inst., Benjamin Brooks , ' - ` 4. ' i O l Jermyn-street, aged 54. 7 4 tili iii CATLIN—On the 13th inst., at Saffron Walden, ti ' r e , tie!, Catlin, Esq. „ Th ou, , i rjo DUNFERMLINE - On the 12th inst., at Colinton ..." -- f ,reP Edinburgh, the Right Hon. 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