The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review speaks of the present Ministry as the most unlucky of all Ministries heard of by the present generation. Lord Derby, of all others, has done as much as possible to damage the Ministry by counselling it to disdain the decision of the House of Commons. Mr. Dis raeli knew his business far too well to pretend that he was entitled to treat such a decision as that of Friday morning as a nullity. He knew that it made it incumbent on him to announce his intentions, and to state what the Ministry proposed to do under such a defeat. It is obvious that either he must resign now, or he must dissolve now, or he must announce his intention of dissolving early next year. It is generally taken for granted that this last will be the -- - course he will take, and Lord Derby has stated in the plainest language that this is what he should recommend. But there are difficulties which stand in the way. The Ministry will stay in at the mercy of its opponents. It will be told what to do, and then not allowed to do it. To pass the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills, the Bribery Bill, and the Boundaries Bill, is the first and most immediate of its duties. The Liberal party is not now dispirited and broken up. It is like an army that has won great battles, and is bound together by the memory of what has been done. Mr. Gladstone will of course have hard work to keep his followers together, and tact and courtesy are not much in his line ; but he is in a much stiongerposition than he was last session, and if he can keep his party together, it is he, and not the occupants of the Treasury Bench, who will reallypass the bills and carry on the work of the session. To dissolve now would be in no way justified by the position of the Ministry. They have no right to inflict so great a burden on the country unless they are morally certain of altering their position. If they dissolved and were beaten, as they probably would be, this would be only a costly and cumbersome method of resigning, and they had much better resign at once. It is entirely for Mr. Disraeli to judge, and if he likes to go through the misery of trying to manage the House for three months more, in face of a hos tile and resolute majority, he will be justified by the pecu liar circumstances of the case in taking that course. But both for his own credit and in the interests of his party, which is infinitely stronger or, Church questions when in opposition, and also to avoid exposing parliamentary government to a severe and painful test, his best course, we have no hesitation in saying, would be to resign at once. It is true that, of all courses he could take, this would be the most dangerous and embarrassing to the Liberal party; but he cannot be expected•to care much about this, and at any rate it is for himself to decide whether he will retain office merely to oblige his adversaries. Sir W. Heathcote argued that if once you admit th© principle of ecclesiastical equality—especially if you go so far as to demand that the Church of the State must be the Church of the majority of the whole people—the precedent of destroying the Irish Church cannot fail to be used with great force against the English Church ; the Catholics will ask for ecclesiastical equality, not only in Ireland, but in the United Kingdom. They will say, if you establish the Church of the majority in England and Scotland, and if we are to have equality, you must establish the church of the majority in Ireland ; and if you do not do this, you are bound to give us equality the other way, by disestablishing the Church of the majority in Scotland and England. Sir W. Heathcote added that if a vast majority, not only over every other sect taken singly, but over the total of all sects combined, is not enough to justify establishment of Roman Catholicism in Ireland, the very bare majority which the Church of England may claim, but can scarcely be expected to hold continuously, ever all other sects combined, ;ill surely not be sufficient to justify long the English establishment. The Spectator answers that, so far as this argument goes, it is undoubtedly a real one. But it is quite inadequate to the hard work to which it has been put, for two reasons. First, to apologise for injustice to Ireland in order to prevent what we should hold a great calamity in England —even if there were any danger of it—would under certain circumstances, justify any manner of atrocity it Ireland. Suppose it proved that unless we re-established the penal code in Ireland we might have to fear civil war in England, would any just or sane man support the re, establishment of the penal code by that reason ? If dis establishment in England were to follow ever so surely from disestablishment in Ireland, that would be a great calamity, but not a calamity for the sake of which we are justified in maintaining a wrong. But, in the second place, the true answer to the argument for logical assimi lation of our system in all parts of the empire is, that this is not the true direction of legislation or of modern poli tical science at all. Our modern politicians are opening the i lr minds more and more to the doctrine that you must treat different races and different localities on different principles—principles adapted to their various circum stances—if you wish to secure their political well-being. We have already recognised this for Scotland. We are now at last recognising . it for Ireland. And therefore the spirit of modern poliiics energetically repudiates the notion of a logical identity of system in the parti-coloured elements of a peat composite empire. The debate, as a whole, has proved the utter discomfiture and helplessness of the Conservatives, and, thanks to the violent rashness of " the presiding genius " of the Tory party, has gone far towards so discrediting the Government, as to render its continuance in office difficult, if not impossible. What, asks the Imperial Review, is the course which public duty makes it incumbent on the Government to follow at this juncture ? The leader of the Opposition arrogates to himself more than regal powers, in order to carry out a policy which will inaugurate among us the reign of absolute democracy. And there are not wanting sage advisers who urge that a Ministry discredited by two such crushing defeats should abandon the position in which their sovereignha.splaced them, and give up to the assailants of the constitution the citadel which loyalty and patriotism render it their duty to defend. The memorable debates in which an overwhelming Opposition attacked and defeated, over and over again, the Cabinet which Mr. Pitt had formed, in obedience to the summons of his sovereign, were ;at the time held to have reduced all other disputed ques tions to the simple issue, whether England "was to be ruled by the sceptre of King George 111. or by the tongue of Charles James Fox." Not dissimilar is the present situation ; and we may confidently expect, after a few more such exhibitions as Mr. Gladstone made on Thursday night, that the question will cease to be, as far as the constituencies are concerned, one concerning the ex istence of the Church in Ireland, and will become battle between Mr. Gladstone, on one side, and constitu. tional government on the other. If the rumours which we hear are true, and Mr. Gladstone intends, on Monday, to supersede the recognised practice of the House, and to insist on taking his remaining resolutions into considera tion before public business proceeds ; if, moreover, he it not calumniated when credited with a determination, ir. the event of his first move proving unsuccessful, to en deavour to cut down the national expenditure at a single blow by two millions, and to deduct one penny from the income tax, we may be nearer the supreme moment of the struggle than is generally supposed. The exigencies of the public service may render it the first duty of the Minister at the present moment not to dissolve the House of Commons. But if the House of Commons declines to transact public business the course is clear, and Mr. Disraeli is not the man to shrink from his duty. The London Review rejoices at the success of the Abys sinian expedition, and feels grateful to the general whose abilities have attained for us that rarest of British exploits —success without previous disaster. There is little doubt that whenever we can place a British army fairly before an enemy it will give a good account of him. But it is in bringing matters to this point that our weakness lies ; and it is not too much to say that our soldiers have less to fear from their enemies than from their friends. Organi sation is our weak point. We can fight well enough ; but our commissariat has a faculty for breaking down, and our generals are too prone to rely upon the pluck of the human material they handle, and to neglect precautions which would materially facilitate the work of war. If ever there was an occasion on which it was likely, from our antecedents in such, that we should commit many egregious blunders before we accomplished our object, it was this very expedition. The probability was so great, that we could hardly have murmured if it had taken twice the time and cost us double the outlay we had calculated upon, to carry it to a successful issue. The ground over which the expedition had to pass was unknown, beyond the fact that it would present many natural diffi culties which would not be easily overcome ; and, as always happens, prophets of evil were not wanting to dismay the conductors of the expedition with the threat of dangers which seemed to render success althost hopeless. Even the most hopeful were impressed by the difficulty of penetrating a country which was almost unknown, and of traversing it over three-fourths of its length with force strong enough to take care of itself upon its journey, and to cope successfully with any army which Theodore might oppose to it when it came to its journey's end. The exploit required, above all things, that quality for the want of which we have been conspicuous. We can afford to speak respectfully, even of King Theodore, now that this troublesome actor has quitted the scene. He has neither fled from us into the mountains, where he might have set us at defiance till the rainy season was over, nor has he murdered his prisoners on our approach. Either course was open to him, and there was a third and worse which he could have adopted—namely, murdering the captives first, and retreating into the mountains after wards. But he did not adopt this, either. If all that has been said of him be true, the manner of his death went far to redeem the cruelties he stands charged with. He surrendered the captives, but he refused to surrender his fortress or himself. Even when his army deserted him, he met the British force almost single-handed, and died, according to one account, by his own hand. There is a touch of kingly dignity in this. He could easily have fled, but he did not. He had sworn to meet the British first, Clough only he and his standard-bearer should confront them. Semi-savage though he was, he kept his word in a right 19Ya1 manner. LAW AND POLICE. Cournseron—ln the Court of Common Pleas before Mr. Justice Willes, the ease of the Metropolitan Railway v. Cross was heard. This was an action for use and occu pation. The plaintiffs claimed as assignees of a lease from a Mrs. Ackerman, of a house in Chapel-street.-- Mr. Torr referred to " Churchward v. Ford," 35, Law Journal, and upon this authority contended that Mr. Cross had never become the tenant of the railway com pany, but had occupied always under Mrs. Ackerman and paid rent to her alone.—Mr. Justice Wiles "observed that as the defendant had occupied without paying rent to any one for two years and a half it, might be inferred that rent was due to the owner of the house.—After some discussion of the terms of the statute of Anne, Mr. Torr gave way, and a verdict passed for the plaintiff for £175. ACTION AGAINST AN ATTORNEY.—III the Court of Exchequer, before Mr. Baron Channell, Mr. Kernot, an attorney, had an action brought against him by a publican, named Wickham, under the following circumstances. The plaintiff had been in the habit of lending money upon mortgage of leaseholds and other security. The defendant was an attorney. The plaintiff, having a sum of £4OO which he wished to advance, employed the defendant as his attorney in effecting the investment. In the result the money was advanced upon mortgage of a leasehold house in Boyle-street, Saville row. According to the plaintiff's case he employed the defendant to act for him, upon the terms that the latter should make all usual inquiries and inves tigations, and should take care that the security upon which the loan was to be made should be good and sufficient. He further sought to shew that, in fact, the lease mortgaged was of no value as a security, being at a rack rent. And for this alleged negligence and the loss resulting from it be sought to recover damages. For the defendant it was maintained that he had only been employed for the legal part of the transaction, and that the plaintiff had distinctly taken upon himself the respon sibility as to the character and adequacy of the security. It was further maintained that the mortgage and certain promissory notes which were taken as collateral security were, in fact, sufficient. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with £3OO damages, leave being reserved to move to set this verdict aside. VICTIMISING A MONEY LENDER.-At the Greenwich Police-court Charles Arthur Mackrell, appeared to a sum mons under the Bailee and Trustees' Act, charging him with fraudulently making away with certain articles of household furniture, assigned by him to Mr. John Baugham, of 34, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, on advancement of a loan of £3O. The evidence taken disclosed a rather singular state of circumstances. In November last the defendant applied to the prose cutor for a loan of £3O. Tile prosecutor, thinking him young and under age, questioned him, when he stated to him that he was between 24 and 25 years of age, and was about being married. The prosecutor refused to advance him the money upon his own security, and the lefendant then introduced a man, supposed to be his in. tended father-in-law, as joint security, an assignmentbeing also executed by him upon certain articles of furniturg which he had at a house. The accused agreed to pay off the money by instalments, the first of which was met; but when the second became due a few days grace was asked for. The money was not paid, and on inquiries being made subsequently it was ascertained that on the 25th of January of the present year (two days before the second instalment became due) the defendant obtained a loan of £9 ss. upon certain of the articles duly assigned . to the prosecutor, from Mr. King, an auctioneer at Dept ford, the defendant signing a conditional agreement, that if the goods were not redeemed by a given date they were to be sold by auction and forfeited. The goods were not redeemed, and they were sold accordingly, realising £9 Bs. It was also proved that shortly prior to obtainht the loan of the prosecutor, the goods, of which those sold formed a part, had been obtained of a furniture dealer at Deptford, £l5 being only paid off an account of £42 odd by the defendant, who had removed from Deptford to Greenwich. The summons was adjourned. TWO TRAGEDIES. MURDER OF A SOLDIER.—A murder has been committed at Hortiekl Barracks, near Bristol, by a sergeant of the 2nd Battalion 3rd Buffs, who killed one of his comrades by inflicting two bayonet wounds upon his head and side, and then shooting him through the body. The prisoner, Sergeant John Maxwell, was a sober, steady, well-con ducted man, but would appear to have been possessed of an uncontrollable temper, which at times led him into acts of violence. We purposely preface our account of the tragic occurrence with this description of the accused, because it will be observed that the prisoner acted in such a manner that the only reasonable and at the same time charitable construction to put upon his actions is, that be was suddenly seized with a fit of temporary insanity. There is, however, no evidence to sustain this view, for beyond the fact that shortly before he committed the act LC had a quarrel with his wife, and in a sudden paroxysm of rage broke some of the f srniture of their room, the testimony is that he was throughout the day sober, steady, and orderly. Between eight and nine o'clock in the evening the occu pants of the barracks were suddenly alarmed by hearing five distinct repoLts of the discharge of a rifle, following each other in rflid succession. Officers and non-com missioned officers ran from their quarters, and went in the direction of the sergeant's mess, whence the report had proceeded. Colonel Pearson, Colour -Sergeant Howarth, and Sergeant Jenner was first upon the spot, and they found Private Robert Synon lying upon the steps at the entrance to the mess-room. Colonel Pearson and Howarth lifted him up, and observed that he was dead. Colonel Pearson held the body up, and despatched a man for the surgeon, while Sergeants Howarth and Jenner , went into the mess-room in search of the person who had fired the shots and to call assistance. Behind the door they found Sergeant John Maxwell, rifle in hand, and having his sword bayonet fixed. They seized him, and Jenner took the rifle from him, while Howarth retained his hold of the pri soner, who struggled with him, trying to escape from custody, and they both fell to the ground. Assistance was speedily at hand, and he was then removed to the lock-up. Upon the surgeon's arrival he examined the body of Synon ; he was quite dead, and there was a bayonet wound upon the forehead and in the side, and a bullet wound in the back. No one saw the prisoner fire, but it is believed that the deceased, like his comrades, was alarmed at hearing the discharge of a rifle, and that he went to seize the prisoner to prevent him firing, when he attacked 'him with the bayonet and afterwards shot him. Deceased was an exceedingly well-educated man, and had not an enemy in the regiment, and so far from there being any motive for the outrage, there was not, as far as could be ascertained, the slightest feeling of animosity existing between. the accused and any of his comrades. MURDER OF A WOMAN. —A most brutal assault, com mitted at St. Helens a few days ago, has terminated fatally. For many years past there have lived together, in the poorest part of the town, a man and woman named Anthony Fillingham and Phillis Hayes. Both were addicted to drink, and when under its influence they fre quently quarrelled. In this state they fought on the 20th ult., and, becoming infuriated, Fillingham, after throwing the woman down, with a poker forced out one of her eyes, broke her breastbone, fractured her skull, and finally flung her down a flight of stairs. The wretched woman lay in this butchered condition several days without medical aid, and on Thursday she died. Fillingham is in custody. The Aberdeen Journal reports that in the flock of a Rev. Mr. Wood, of Grendon Bishop, near Bromyard, a lamb has been born with the letter Win black wool on its side. THE MINISTRY.—The Cabinet Ministers arrived at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, by special train from London, on Friday afternoon, about five o'clock. They embarked on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, and crossed over to Osborne to have an audience of her Majesty. There will be no opposition to the return of Viscount Ingestre for Stamford. His lordship has addressed the electors, and has been well received. Captain Cbolmeley will probably stand again as a Liberal candidate for Grantham, in conjunction with Mr. Tollemache. Mr. Chaplin, of Blankney, will be a Con servative candidate for Mid-Lincolnshire, and his brother, Captain T. Chaplin, is expected to contest Lincoln in the Conservative interest. Mr. J. Banks Stanhope is expected to retire from the representation of North Lincolnshire. THE R HYMN EY RAIL WAY. —S 01110 further par ticulars have transpi re d respecting the frightful ac cident on this line, which caused the loss of seven lives. Messrs. Logan and Hemingway are constructing a new line for the company, on which there is a tunnel one mile and two chains in length. Three shafts have been sunk in order to construct the tunnel, and the men go up and down through these shafts to their work. The accident occurred at No. 3 shaft, and the seven men were on the skip or cage, when the drum got out of gear, and the whole of the men were hurled to the bottom, a distance of over 100 yards. It is supposed the pin which keeps the winding-drum in gear was left out, but this will be more fully explained at the inquest, which is fixed for next Tuesday. The rope in use bad been tested to lift ten i tons. The bodies of the poor fellows were mutilated be iyoud deocriptiou, end prl§9ol4 §49cliipg sinqad!, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY_ EVENING, MAY 2, 1868. ANALYSIS OF 111 E LAZE DIVISION. The resolution that the Irish Church should cease to exist, as an establishment, due regard being had to all per sonal interests and to all individual rights of property, was ca rried by 330 to 265, the majority being one less and the TD inority five less than the numbers voting in the great divi si on of the 4th of April. On the present occasion the n iajority consisted of 322 Liberals and eight Conserva tives ; the minority was made up of 260 Conservatives and L :five Liberals. The eight Conservatives who voted with Mr. Gladstone -were Lord Bingham, Mr. Butler-Johnstone, Mr. Earle, Mr. Leader, Sir Joseph M`Kenna, Mr. M`Lagan, Mr. George Morris, and Colonel Vandeleur. With the excep tion of Mr. Butler-Johnstone and Mr. Earle, they repre sent Irish constituencies. Lord Bingham, Mr. Butler- Johnstone, Mr. Earle, Sir J. M'Kenna, and Mr. Morris supported Mr. Gladstone in both divisions of April 4 ; Mr. M`Lagan then voted with the Government in the first— with the Opposition in the second ; while neither Mr. Leader nor Colonel Vandeleur took part in either of those divisions. The five Liberals who now voted with Ministers were Mr. Antrobus, Lord.Cremorne, Lord Eleho, Mr. Saunder son, and Mr. Wyld. With the exception of Lord Elcho, who did not vote in the second division of April 4, but supported the Government in the first, these five hon. members took the same side then that they have now. Three more Liberals who then voted with the Ministry— Mr. Briscoe, Sir James Matheson, and Mr. Maxwell took no part in the second division. The secessions from each party have been exactly reversed. A month ago, eight Liberals and five Conserva tives went over to the opposite sides ; now the numbers are respectively eight Conservatives and five Liberals. The following Liberals who paired in favour of Mr. Gladstone's motion on April 4 now voted with their party :—Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. W. B. Beaumont, Mr. Duudas, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. G. C. Glyn, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Jackson, Lord Milton, Mr. Norwood, Mr. Tite, and Sir Hedworth Williamson.: Mr. Henry Seymour, who then paired, was not present on this occasion. The Liberals who neither voted nor paired on April 4, and now went into the lobby with Mr. Gladstone, were the Hon. W. P. Carington (since returned for Wycombe), Mr. Julian Goldsmid (returned from his wedding tour), and Mr. Jar dine (then absent through domestic affliction). On the other hand, the following Conservatives who paired against Mr. Gladstone's motion on the last occa sion now supported their party in person :—Sir P. Burrell, Mr. Barrow, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Kennard, the Hon. H. P. Liddell, Mr. Long, Sir John Pakington, Lord Henry Percy, Mr. Tollemache, and Mr. C. W. Wynn. Lord Henry Scott and Mr. Jones, who then paired, were now absent. The Conservatives who then neither voted nor paired, and now went with the Government, were Mr. Lopes, Lord Mahon, Mr. Miles, Major Green Thompson, and Mr. Tumor (since returned for Launceston, Leomin. ster, Bristol, Cockermouth, and Grantham), and Mr. H. B. Baring. As to the complexion of the last-named n. member's politics, there is, we believe, some doubt ; but as he describes himself as a Liberal-Conservative, was a Lord of the Treasury in the Government of Sir Robert Peel, and voted against Lord Russell's Reform Bill, there can be very little mistake in classifying him as a member of the Conservative party. Sir Roundell Palmer, who neither voted nor paired in the last division, was again an absentee. Lord Ernest Bruce and Sir Robert Peel, who on April 4 voted with Mr. Gladstone in one division only, did not now go with their party. Mr. Miller, the member for Leith, who then led Mr. Trail into the wrong lobby in the second division, now voted with Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Traill was not present. Mr. Sandford, who last time abstained from voting in the first division and in the second supported Ministers, did not now vote. Lord Eustace Cecil, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Beresford Hope, Sir Rainald Knightley, and General Peel went into the lobby with the Government. So also did Sir Thomas Hesketh and the Hon. Captain Stanley, the members for Preston, who lately wrote to their consti tuents to point out the impossibility of maintaining the Irish Church as it at present exists. Besides Sir Roundell Palmer, the following Liberals were absent from both the struggles on this question : Mr. Brocklehurst, an octogenarian; Mr. Brown, one of the members for Earl Fitzwilliam's pocket borough of Malton ; Sir G. Colthurst, who sits for the little town of Kinsale, in the county of Cork; Mr. Fort, ill; the Messrs. Mackinnon, who represent respectively Rye and Lymin,gton ; Colonel Packe, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, and i member for South Lincoln ; Mr. Pim, M.P. for Dublin ; ' Colonel Pryse, the representative of the Cardigan boroughs ; and. Sir Thomas Winnington, the member for Bewdley. The Liberals who voted with Mr. Gladstone on April 4 and did not appear on Thursday night, were Mr. R. M. Biddulph, Sir R. Bulkeley, Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Fitzwilliam, Mr. W. B. Hughes, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugesseu, Sir T. Lloyd, Mr. M'Evoy, Mr. Marsh, Mr. P. W. Martin, Mr. Nicholson, The O'Conor Don, and Mr. Parry. The forthcoming list of pairs will no doubt account for many absentees. The non-attendance of Mr. Hugessen, a former Liberal Whip, was doubtless c o c ti e o s n sfu th l a b t at A t i l r e . f G or ly h n is w p a a s rt n y o i t n v E e a ry st h K ar e d n l t y , a ttributable to his having on the sam e d a y f oug ht a h ar d a t hn(d)utgoh his o u o i n i s v u i pressed for one vote. The Conservatives who voted with the Government a month ago and were not present now were the Right Hon. Henry Baillie, Colonel Barttelot, the Earl of Bec tive, Mr. Bowen, Lord Curzon, Colonel Dickson, General Dunne, Mr. Du Pre, Mr. G. J. King, Captain Lowther, o who e Mr. Pugh, Sir M. W. Ridley, Lord H. Thynne, and Col. Tottenham. Sir Brook Bridges, Sir John Walsh, Sir n J o o N h v n p Cranborne,l e ' o r r o s l . lop iN e ir a . n A d li L le o s r G d askell t e then Conservative, voted, are now re ,a nadra has voted on neither occasion. The Cave of Adullam of 1866 was, as in the previous division, represented by three members only out of the two score and more which then overthrew Mr. Gladstone. These wereLordElcho,Mr. Saunderson, and Mr.Wyld. The Tea-room of last year had not a single representative, Mr. Briscoe, the solitary member of that party voting i n April, being now absent. Of the great families repre sented in the House of Commons, the houses of Caven dish, Grosvenor, and Russell voted in a body with the Liberals, while the Fitzwilliam interest was, as usual, represented by one out of three. On the other side, four members of the house of Egerton, two of the house of Stanley, two out of three of the house of Lowther, the brother and the two sons of the Marquis of Abercorn, two Lowry Coles, two Ormsby Gores, two members of the Lopes family, two brothers of the Duke of Richmond, two brothers of the Duke of Rutland, two kinsmen of Lord Tredegar, two relatives of the Duke of Beaufort, two Sturts, two of the Surtees family, two Verners, two Wyndhams, and three Wynns, are found swelling the ranks of the Government supporters. The division was taken in a House of 601 members— precisely the same number as on the 4th of April. As the House was in committee at the time, Mr. Dodson, the chairman, did not vote, nor did the Speaker. The seat at Stamford was the only one practically vacant. In East Kent the return had not been made, and Mr. Ramsay, the newly-elected member for the Stirling Burghs, had not taken his seat. THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE" AND 7HE CHURCH ES7AI3LISHMEN7. The Pall Mall Gazette has very peculiar notions as to what constitutes the essential character of a Church ; at the same time it is very candid and unconcerned in its avowal of opinions, and, far from flinching from con clusions is desirous of pushing principles to their extreme consequences ; for, as it justly observes, until men have clear ideas on what is meant by the word Church, they will not know how rightly to proceed when they have to do so, as now in Ireland, with the aboli tion of Church Establishments. The Pall Mall Gazette looks upon the Church as a department of the State, charged with the business of at tending to the moral wants of the nation, and of affording to such as require it, spiritual satis faction. The law makes provision for the cele bration of the religious services specified in the Book of Common Prayer, confers rank, endowment, and authority on the episcopate and clergy, and requires from them in return certain spiritual services for the benefit of all those who deserve to partake in them. The law puts the clergy in possession of churches in every parish, and compels them to per form certain services sanctioned by law. But the Church of England, argues the Pall Mall Gazette, is merely a name for the aggregate of all those rights and duties ; but this aggre gate, it continues, is also part of the law of England. Accordingly it concludes rightly enough from its premises—" the Church of England would be destroyed if the laws by which it is constituted were repealed." " It is no doubt true," it adds, " that the bishops and clergy individually would retain, after such an event, any personal powers which they may now possess. If they can now give absolu tion from sin, they could still do so." But the practical conclusion which the Pall Mall Gazette arrives at is that the laws by ' virtue of which a Church is established are of its essence ; repeal these laws, and the Church, it argues, is not merely disestablished, but loses its identity. Men, by looking intently at the English Establishment, and regarding its his tory as the history of the purest type of the Christian Church, cannot conceive even the idea of a Church apart from its accidents. But we, who have not learnt our idea of a Church from the English Establishment, view the re lation between Church and State in quite another light. The laws, which encompass the Church, give dignity to its position and legal force to its enactments, are, we know, of human institution, and accidental in their cha racter. To-day the Church enjoys the recog nition and support of the civil power ; to morrow, not. The law, conferring dignity upon it, is in force in one country, not in another. These Ire accidents, but the essential character of the Church is to be sought in its divine institution by Christ, in its supernatural attri butes, and in its divine organization. This divinely-instituted and organized body has certain definite rights which are superior to human laws. It was commissioned by its Divine Founder to go into every nation and teach sovereigns and subjects. Kings receiving bap tism at the hands of the Church pledged them selves to obey in every matter affecting the spiritual and moral government of their sub jects the spiritual authority. The State, the King at the head of his baptised subjects, re ceived the Church, a divinely instituted and organized body, with its spiritual hierarchy, into a friendly compact, offered it endowments, conferred upon it honours, gave a legal force to its enactments, placed, in a word, the civil sword at the service of the Church. But these gifts and sanctions and legal powers were simply accidents added on to the body of the Church ; they could not constitute the essence of a body which existed without them, which possessed an organic life before they were offered, and is, consequently, capable of sur viving after their withdrawal. Hence it follows that the disestablishment of the Church in any country does not destroy its essential character, but only its accidental surroundings. Its identity is unimpared, its divine organization remains, its spiritual authority is not lessened, the power of the keys given by Christ is not taken away by the act of disestablishing. Excommunication, whether the Church be established or not in a land, cuts off the obstinate sinner from the heritage of the Church ; the Papal Bull or Brief confers jurisdiction or creates hierarchies, equally valid alike in countries where the Church is established or not established. The Church, wrongfully disestablished and, de spoiled of its national rights, of property con secrated to its use, is not by such an act dis solved or deprived of its identity, since only its accidental, and not its essential, character is touched, but survives with all its claims unimpaired. It is the rightful owner of per verted endowments, of confiscated estates, of its ancient churches. The State has no right to lay a finger on money consecrated to religi ous uses. It is God's property. Applying these principles for a moment to the Irish Establishment, it would follow that the national endowments of which the Catholic Church was despoiled, and the rights of a national Church which are its due, must, on the principle of justice, be restored fully and completely. The Catholic Church, however, declines to be established or endowed ; the State, nevertheless, has no right to convert ecclesiastical endowments to secular purposes. The question then arises, what is to be done with the money ? But this question has not as yet been satisfactorily answered by Mr. Gladstone. Its real difficulty, even, does not occur to that large party, to return to our subject, whose views are so boldly expressed by the Pall M a ll G azet t e. F or if th e Ch urc h, as it argues, is but a moral function of the State, it can ha ve no r i g ht s apar t f rom the State ; but if, on the other hand, accord ing to Catholic teaching, the Church is a corporate body, independent of the State, divine in its institution, and possessing a moral entity, it can enjoy rights, and assert claims, which can only be fairly dealt with according to law and justice. The question which the Pall Mall Gazette is raising is one of vital importance, not only in regard to the present controversy on the Irish Establish ment, but in that far more momentous ques tion which, like a dark cloud, is impending over the horizon, whether the essential idea of a Christian Church is to be preserved in int° perish bef o re the tellectualism.—West pmPrrionsogterteesrtsansGoatfzeuEtnstneg.plirianL, or MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times) w sc as ind a e d d op t t h ed e re p so ro l v u i t d io in n g o t n ha t t he a l n 4 a th m i e n n s d t .. . The Virginia Convention, which had agreed to a A d n j o article re ment to the Constitution shall be referred by one Legislature to the succeeding one and then to the people. A report was adopted re-districting the State for Congressmen, and making one Congress man elective by the State at large, and, spite in of General Schofield's advice, the Convention re fused to modify the disfranchisement provi sions. The South Carolina election began on the 14th of April, and continued for three days, when it was believed that the Constitution had been adopted. The Georgia elections were to take place on the following week, and G enera l M ea de has issued judicious instructions as to the manner in which they are to be conducted. The Arkansas Legislature ratified the new Constitution by a ma jority, officially reported, of 1,679. The returns in South Carolina and Louisiana indicate Repub lican successes, while the latest news by the Russia announces as probable the success of the Democrats in Georgia. A Democratic mayor has been elected at New Orleans ; but the new Constitution will probably be adopted in Louisiana. Information has been received at the Bureau of Indian Affairs that the Peace Commission is at Lar amie. Two hundred lodges of hostile Sioux are there encamped, as well as large numbers of Ogal lala and Brule Sioux. Sixteen lodges of Minnecon jours, Unkapappas, and other bands are on their way and are expected at Laramie soon. General Sheri dan, returning to Omaha from the Black Hills, re ports that the Indians in the Powder River country refuse to treat with the commissioners till every white man leaves the disputed territory ; and a letter from Fort Berthold reports that the Indians are suffering from want of fool, which is one of the reasons why they are so savage this spring. In Idaho there have been some Indian raids, also some fights among the miners, at Silver City, which have called out a proclamation from Governor Bal lard, threatening the use of the military. The Rev. Stephen H. Tyner, J unior, willagain be arraigned, and the penalty on conviction will be degradation in case he refuses to yield submissively to the reprimand lately given, and keep the peace hereafter. To the information, he replied that he is not a party to any plan to defy the Church authorities ; that he has no intention to disregard the canons of the Church ; but he will continue to preach in his pulpit until ejected from it by the police. The Pall Mall quotes this case as showing that "sectional prejudices are not unknown across the Atlantic, while the disposition of a large section of the Anglican body to cultivate terms of closer intimacy with the Nonconformists has lately made itself visible in a variety of ways." As the time nears when the decisive vote on the Impeachment charges, Guilty or Not Guilty, is to be given, rumours thicken. Senator Fowler is said to visit the President frequently after dark ; &ma tor Fessenden to have remarked, that he looked for great unpopularity from the vote his conscience compelled him to give upon Impeachment ; Senator Grimes to have frequently announced his conviction of the President's innocence. The opinions of the less pronounced Republican Senators are freely dis cussed and their acts canvassed, words and deeds being attributed to them which are pure inventions. So disheartened is Thad, Stevens said to be by the Democrats, that he announced to his colleagues, "We have not any show in the Senate. I for one am willing to withdraw the Articles of Impeach ment and report to the House ;" and it is added that one of the Republican Representatives from New York was about to move that the Articles of Impeachment be withdrawn. At the same time these very people publish statements that the Hon. Ben. Wade has promised places on his becoming President, trying both tacks to damage the Im peachers. Mr. Elijah M. K. Glenn, having failed to establish his outspoken accusation of bribery against a fel low member of the New York Legislature, has been forced to resign his seat, although he maintains the truth of his allegation, which is universally be lieved. Ile was elected by a rural district, where the vice is comparatively unknown. On arriving at the capital of the State, he found himself an object of consideration, being feted, courted, and given an unlimited amount of drinks, as he was being drawn by those who had a design on his integrity into the inner ring. The tool, as they thought him, proved impracticable, and on his openly coming forward as an accuser, he found how the honest fared at Albany, which was in strong contrast with the kindly treatment he had at first experienced. He was badgered, hustled about, cut by some, and abused by others, till his health, before weak, forced him to seek the pure air of Wayne, where he _ . was not, however, long suffered to remain in peace. Called back to testify before the Committee, the attacks of his persecutors were renewed, until, sink ing under them, he resigned his seat and retired to Wayne, where it is to be hoped he will have time and repose to reflect on the fate of reformers. Sergeant Bates, of Wisconsin, has succeeded in carrying the United States flag from Vicksburg to Washington, where he was welcomed by the Presi- dent. There he endeavoured to plant it on the dome of the Capitol, but a policeman interfered, and the triumphant Bates was foiled in the finish ing stroke at his journey's end. lie was arrayed when he reached IV ashington in the guerilla uni form of Moseby, with a rebel drinking cup at his belt, and accompanied by a Confederate officer, Colonel Vaughan. On his road opposition was carefully smoothed away, the object being to show that through the heart of the lately Confederated States the Flag of the Union can be safely carried. Bates had served in the United States army, but he had made no reputation, nor attained to any com missioned rank. His reception at Washington was given by the Democrats, and the whole affair was a mere party display. A " rise" has been taken out of the New York Herald by some practical jokers, who announced i❑ some of the morning papers that the tickets of the Gettysburgh Asylum Lottery would be redeemed on the loth April at the Herald's office for the full amount. A hungry crowd of dupes rushed to the doors, and Mr. Bennett had to face numerous ap plicants, who beset not only his office but his pri vate residence at Washington Heights. The point of the joke was that the Herald had written up the lottery and induced numbers to invest in the rickets. The same privilege is accorded to a member o, Congress in the United States as to an M.P. in the United Kingdom. Members are not liable to arrest for debt, and whatever may be said of the social standing of those returned from the wilder and less civilized States, it seldom occurs that any one avails himself of the privilege. There is, however, some talk of a Senator now doing so. Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island, has been sued in a Washington Court by his late gardener, and it is said that he will take advantage of his rights as a Congressman. W e presume that the claim is grounded on an imposi tion, which the Senator can thus best defeat. Mr. Seward, it is said, has determined not to hold office under the Wade Administration which he expects shortly to be inaugurated, and he has prepared to leave Washington in May. Efforts are being made to induce the old statesman to change his mind, and the Vey, York Sun writes strongly on the subject. It is a question of deep interest to the office-holders under him. Secretary Stanton has dispelled all doubts about his course by the follow ing letter : " War Department, Washington, April 14, 1868. " Hon. Simon Cameron—Dear Sir—Perceiving in this morning's Chronicle that a communication has been signed by the Governor of your State, the It ipublican members of the Legislature, and other persons, asking your recom mendation for my transfer, upon a certain contingency, to the head of the Treasury Department, I hasten to request earnestly that no such recommendation be made. Enough of my life has been devoted to public duties. No con sideration can induce me to assume those of the .Treasury Department or continue in the War Department longor than may be required for the appointment and confirma tion of my successor.—Yours truly, " EDWIN M. STANTON." This reply was drawn from Stanton by Governor Geary, and other prominent Pennsylvanians, who asked Senator Cameron to urge on Benjamin Wade, when he became President, the claims of Mr. Stanton for the post, from which it was taken for granted Mr. M'Culloch would be at once removed. The Revolution, in commenting on some remarks of the Anglo-American Times, states that the lady editors intend to do more than take notes in Wash ington. " The next thing" that we will hear " will be the speech of the honourable lady from New York on the floor of Congress ; and it is more than probable that Miss Anthony, the owner of the Re volution, will have a place in Benjamin F. Wade's Cabinet." We have no objection, and only hope the honourable lady from New York will acquit herself well when there, and that Miss Anthony will use the power placed in her hands as a Cabinet Minister to purify and elevate the Executive. It adds that the Revolution is destined to be the great paper of the age, for it is the only one in the coun try that takes the ground of universal suffrage in the Reconstruction. Frank Leslie illustrates a very general feeling in the United States, and one we attempted to express in words in our last issue. In that picture paper of April 25, Uncle Sam is sketched in the agony of tooth ache, with his face on one side swollen as indicative of his suffering. Beside him stand " Dr." Grant and "Dr." Seward. Grant's advice is—" Out with it at once—he will have no peace with it in ;" but Seward placidly says, " I am in favour of letting it stop till it drops out quietly." This is what Frank Leslie calls " Uncle Sam's bad tooth—the Andy Johnson grinder." Most Americans, outside strong political party influence, differ exactly as Seward and Grant are representing as differing. All agree that the " Andy Johnson grinder" is a bad tooth, and that Uncle Sam has suffered and is suffering from it ; but the wisdom is questioned of dragging it out by the roots, and if the dentists who have undertaken to do this fail, they will but aggravate the sufferings of Uncle Sam. We are happy also to see that this widely circulated and popular jour nal takes substantially the same view as that ex pressed by us on the action of the people of Michi gan iu rejecting the Negro Suffrage amendment to the State Constitution. The limes, in an article on Wednesday, con founds Lorenzo Thomas with George.H. Thomas. It speaks of ad interim, the nick-name of the former, as "a person of distinction—a lieutenant-general, in high command." Lorenzo Thomas is not a lieu tenant-general, he has never been in high command, nor has he attained to any distinction except in the columns of the Times, the writer evidently mistaking him for his great namesake the conqueror of Hood. Lorenzo Thomas graduated at West Point in 1823, and fifteen years afterwards attained the rank of Brevet-Major, with the appointment of Assistant Adjutant-General. In 1846 he was promoted by brevet to Lieutenant-Colonel for service at the battle of Monterey, and that was the grade he held at the commencement of the great war, when he was appointed Adjutant-General of the Army. From this post he was removed two years ago through Mr. Stanton, who was personally his enemy, and it was but on the 14th February that by order of the President he took back his post from General Townsend, who then held it. We are the more particular to point out this error, as the Times lays great stress on the ridiculous scene in the War Office, in which Lorenzo Thomas was the chief actor, coupling it with remarks which those who are not acquainted with the history of the leading Northern generals would read to the injury of the reputation of a soldier second only to such officers as grant or Sherman. We may here repeat that the expose made by General Lorenzo Thomas has damaged the President's cause in the opinion of the people, as this " Lieutenant-General of distinction" cut so sorry a figure that the Presi dent has been blamed for selecting him as an agent. There are many in England who suppose that the Confederate Bonds may yet be paid, grounding the impression on the idea that a judgment to this effect may eventually be obtained from the United States' Courts. If the people of the United States ever decided on setting a judgment aside it would be in such a case, but it is highly improbable that they will ever be c ►iled upon to do anything so disagreeable. A. decision has just been given by Judge Arrington, of the City Court of Montgo mery, Alabama, on a case arising out of the follow- ing facts :—ln 1862 the State of Alabama advanced $359,000 in State bonds, for the purpose of enabling a company to build an arsenal and manufacture arms. Bat as the purpose of the State was to arm Confederate soldiers, the cmitract was held to be null and void. The suit was brought in the name of the Governor. Wilkes's Spirit gives the following items :—Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander is in Syracuse. Mr. Kean Buchanan and Virginia aro working north slowly. They are now iu Bridgeport, Connecticut. Edwin Forrest is in Pittsburg. So is Leo Hudson and Black Bess. Jake Offenbach's "Duchesse" is in Chicago. Mr. Frank Lawler, the emi nent Shamus O'Brien and Joh❑ Mellish of dramatic fame, has returned to New York from Now Orleans. Dan liar- kips, the comedian, was on the Erie train which went over the embankment, but fortunately escaped unhurt. Edwin Booth is in his fourth week at Philadelphia. Owen Marlowe is devoted to "Play" in the Quaker City. Maggio Mitchell was in Chicago last week. Kate Ponnoyer and the " Black Crook" in Troy. Caroline Richings Bernard and Shir Campbell aro in Syracuse. Alexander Isaacs Monken has been divorced from Ada Isaacs Menken. The suit was instituted in 1860. Helen Western and Blind Tom are in Baltimore, but in rival establishments. "Under the Gaslight "is in Montreal, in charge of Fanny Stocqueller. Snorkey is transformed into a one-armed hero " just come home from the Crimee." When the train dashes across the stage the Canucks rise and cheer. De Pol's ballet beauties are in Cincinnati. Miss Emma Madden] has made her debut at the Athena:nun in Boston. "Under the Gaslight," under guidance of stage manager Charles Pope,, is in Lafayette, Indiana. Nast's Caricaturama is in Boston. The E. L. Davenport Dramatic Club bas lately given an entertainment for the benefit of the poor in Cincinnati. Kate Mazeppa, Ray mond is in Pittsburgh with her Black Bess. " The Ha vana Gorilla" is out of an engagement. " Arrah na Pogue" is in Houston, Texas. "Under the Gaslights is also in Lexington, Kentucky. The "Great Liugard" has arrived in New York from England, and established himself at the Theatre Comique. _ _ - - Colonel Forney has made good to the Governor a defalcation of one of his clerks as Secretary to the Se nate of $lO,OOO. A committee was directed to inquire into and report upon the condition of the funds of the Secretary of the Senate, and into the conduct of Colonel Forney as clerk of the Court of Impeachment In his comments in his two daily journals of Philadelphia. Senators Cameron and Buckalew are making great efforts to oust Forney, and if they succeed in this it is thought that Dewitt C. Clarke, Executive Clerk of the Senate, will be his successor. Mr. Macdougall, in reply to a question in the New Dominion House, said the Government would do all in their power to prevent Sunday traffic on the Carillon, Grenville, and other canals. The Omaha Herald declares that a small fraction of one corner of Train's magnificent tract of land in Omaha would bring enough pounds sterling to pay at least two such items as that for non-payment of which he rejoices in his residence in a Dublin gaol. Professor Joseph Perkins has resigned the chair of obstetrics in the medical department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington, and is succeeded by Dr. E. S. Dunster, editor of the New Fork Medical Journal. Mr. Colfax, it is stated, will not be a candidate for a seat in the next Congress. Ho is supposed to be living in expectation of being nominated for the Vice- Presidency —Boston Traveller. The Adel (Iowa) Gazette prints the following singular advertisement :—" Wanted, an honest, indus trious, good-looking preacher, to settle in the new town of Tracy. We have professional men and mechanics of all sorts. We only lack the above to make our list com plete.--(Signed) W. A. WILSON, Mayor." The Gazette backs the advertisement by announcing that the inhabi tants (under 5,000) are moral people, and the town is a station at which the cars stop for refreshment. Captain Bramble, while asleep in the cabin of his vessel in Hooper's Straits, was locked in by the crew, six negroes, who get the vessel under weigh. This awoke the captain, who, alarmed at finding himself a prisoner in his cabin, managed to make a hole through the door, where he got a glimpse of the man at the wheel and shot him. Making a great effort he burst the door open, and meeting two Africans killed them both as well as two others who rushed to their assistance, the sixth only saved himself by rushing below and begging his life. Bramble ran the vessel into Holland's island and gave himself and the sur viving negro up to the authorities. On Tuesdty last a portrait and 600 guineas were presented to Mr. W. Christopher Leng, editor of the Shef field Daily Telegraph, in recognition of his services in bringing about the Trades' Union Outrage Commission of Inquiry in that town. Among the subscribers to the tes timonial were 42 peers, 38 members of Parliament, and 150 justices of the peace. The inscription attached to the portrait stated that the testimonial was given to Mr. Leng "as a public acknowledgment of the ability, courage, and steadfast patriotism displayed by him in exposing a system of trade union outrages which had existed in Sheffield for many years, injuring both the trade and character of the town, and of his successf 1 advocacy of the appointment of a Royal Commission of inquiry." The Spanish journals announce that it is the nephew of Marshal Narvaez whe succeeds to his title and large fortune. Charles N. Emerson, Esq., of Pittsfield, will be a candidate for the Berkshire (Western Massachusetts) appointment as delegate to the Chicago Republican Con vention. Mr. Ballou, of North Adams, has made arrange ments for an excursion from that place to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. His train is engaged to go out and return in ton days, but he is further negotiating with Western companies for an extension of time to four teen days for the trip. Delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention were elected by the Republicans on 'Wednesday, April 15, in the third, fourth, and seventh districts of Eastern Massachusetts. From the third the delegates aro Edward Kinsley and A. W. Beard, an l the alternates S. A. Stack pole and Roland Worthington, all of Boston ; from the fourth Estes Howe, of Cambridge, and Thomas Russell, of Boston, are the delegates, and Jonas Fitch and Jacob Sleeper their alternates; from the seventh. George F. Richardson, of Lowell, and Edwin F. Waters, of Newton, are delegates, and Addison G. Fay, of Concord, and M. T. Gardner, of Shirley, alternates. Tho seventh district Convention adopted a resolution of praise to George S. Boutwell and his course in Congress. in the Republican Convention called in the Third District, Maine, candidates for Presidential elector, and for Representative to Congress, are to be presented. Mr. Blaine, now serving his third term, will probably receive a renomination. The municipal election at Newport, Vermont, took place on Tuesday, April 14, and was very close and exciting. The citizens' candidate, James Atkinson, re ceived 549 votes, beating his opponent, R. J. Taylor, the regular Republican nominee by 16 votes. William C. Street, Republican, received a re election to the Senatorship of the 12th District, Connec ticut, instead of Charles Benedict, the Democratic candi date, and in the 16th district Seth Logan, Democrat, was chosen Senator, and not George Landon, Republican, as by first reports. The Senate thus retains the same pro portionate division, 12 Republicans to 9 Democrats. The Hartford Post places the choice for Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives betwoon Roger Averill, of Danbury, William T. Minor, of Stam ford, and Charles Ives, of East Haven, either of whom would make an excellent presiding officer. James U. Taintor, clerk of the House last year, will probably be made clerk' of the Senate, and Dwight Marcy, of Tolland, his assistant, will be promoted to the clerkship of the House, ii accordance with the usual custom. For as sistaut clerk, William A. Croffut, of Wethersfield, Henry A. Taintor, of Hatford, and MajorJohnA.,Tibbetts, of New London, are candidates. Stephen J. Meany, the Fenian prisoner who was released from prison on condition of leaving the United Kingdom, has arrived at New York. Besides the six women physicians in Philadelphia, whose incomes are given in the Revolution as ranging from $2,000 to $lO,OOO a year, the one in New York at $20,000 a year, and one in Orange, New Jersey, at $lO,OOO to $15,000, four young wome❑ are qualifying to practise medicine at Zurich, Switzerland, of whom three are Eng lish and one Swiss. A Russian girl last year obtained a diploma as doctor, and is now affianced to a medical man at Aargau. This double partnership in business and in marriage, is highly appropriate, but if the patients are to be charged for all consultations, a medical firm so consti tuted will bring iu heavy bills. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is about to give up lecturing, is now delivering three in New York, entitled " Eloquence," "The Man of the World," and "The Rela tion of Intellect and Morals." The late Henry Shaw, of Lauesboro, once the native American candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and the paternal ancestor of Josh Billings, was solicited to siTO something in aid of foreign missions. In the same town lived two hard cases, named John Lowell and Dan Barker. " Here," said Mr. Shaw, banding the applicant a $lO bill, " use that on John, and if there be anything left after he is converted, use the balance on Dan Barker." Dr. W. C. Robinson, of Portland, professor in the Maine medical school, has been stricken by paralysis. Mrs. Livesey, wife of Rev. William Livesey, 5111: 1- plied the pulpit of the Methodist Church of Middletown, Connecticut, in the absence of her husband, on a recent Sunday. Married, on the Bth April, at Portland, Maine, Everett S. Throop, of Cincinnati, to Mary J. C., daughter of G. Abbott, United States Consul at Sheffield, England. Arrangements are being made on a grand scale to give Chinese Minister Burlingame and his retinue a dinner at San Francisco, at which Governor Haight will preside, and in which Eugene Casserly, Senator elect, and other prominent citizens will participate. Mr. Train's case was again before the Irish Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency on Thursday. The matter has been further adjourned to enable the attendance of 3lr• M'llenry to be procured, the insolvent's discharge being opposed by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company. Mr. Train declared that the " matter was entirely political." After the hearing be was driven back to the Marshalsea in r.a open carriage, drawn by white horses, and cheered by a considerable crowd. vv The Telegraph is authorized to give the most positive contradiction to the statement which has been made in some London papers, that Mr. Peabody gave the Pope £200,000 ou quitting Borne. The foundation of the story is that Mr. Peabody did give to Cardinal Antonelli 1,000 francs for the Hospital for Children, open to all classes of religionists. He gave nothing more. Kossuth has resigned the seat in the Hungarian Diet to which he had been elected. His friends wished to have his letter of resignation road to the House, but this proceeding was opposed by the Ministerial party, and re jected by a large majority. 0. I. Devlin and F. B. M'Namill, prominent citizens of Montreal, who were supposed to be connected with Fenian sympathisers, have been arrested. Mr. Hines, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is at Washington to take his place in Congress. Ile must wait till the Constitution is approved and till his credentials have passed the committee on elections. John Gray, the last revolutionary soldier, has died in Ohio. It is not an easy matter for Dickens to escape giving offence, and it is asserted that Mr. Bryant, annoyed by his card being returned to him, when he called on the author at his hotel, with the reply that Mr. Dickens say ( no one he did not know, was so affronted that he declined to preside at the Press Dinner. Commodore James 'Jammu has been promoted Rear-Admiral in the active list of the United States Navy , and Alexander Spalding has been appointed collector Of internal revenue in the eighth district of Now York. Dr. John P. Batchelder, who died in New York on the Bth April, in the 83d year of his age, was professor of anatomy, surgery, and physiology in the Berkshire medical college at Pittsfield, in 1823-4, and was for several years thereafter a resident physician of that town. James W. Lauder, who died at Greenfield earl,' last month, at the age of 78, was in the United States navy during the last war with England, and was on the Chess' peaks when she fought the Shannon. He was twice e prisoner in British hands. On Sunday morning the 12th April, the Unit: States steam frigate Franklin, of 39 guns, bearing the fl 3 g of Admiral Farragut, and commanded by Captain A. D I ; Pennock, together with the steam sloop Ticonderoga, c ' h 9 guns, comm an d e d by C a pt. R. H. W yman , entere d Valetta from Syracuse. Immediately on arrival Lor e Clarence Paget and hi s s t a ff p rocee d e d on board th Franklin to pay his respects to the distinguished visitor, and the same morning Rear-Admiral Kellett and the pri n ' civil officers of the fleet went on board for a like purpos e ' Next day, at 11 o'clock a.m., after the customary salute °1 Admiral Farragut lauded t o pay a v i s i t o f ceremon y to th e Governor, Sir Patrick Grant, being received at the Custom' house by a guard of honour furnished by the 24th neg, i ,; * ment, and he afterwards proceeded to Admiralty-house t 0 return Lord Clarence Paget's visit. In the afternoon Excellency Sir Patrick Grant and staff went on board t„, 1 `,,," Franklin to return the visit of Admiral Farragut. in evening his Excellency the Governor placed his o pera-he -, at his disposal, and Mrs. Farragut, who accompanies he_ husband, accepted the offer. Several American officers were also present. On Tuesday morning the Americas Admiral visited the dockyard, where he was visite d Rear-Admiral Kellett, who, with the officers of the yar showed him over the naval establishments. In the nit e ` - noon his Excellency the Governor escorted him round ta: fortifications of Valetta. In the evening Admiral and g r ..„, Farragut wore entertained at dinner at the palace, and We't". present afterwards at an "At Home," given by Lady Grt!' n Throughout all these visits and entertainments Adtn!rat Farragut was accompanied by Mr. Winthrop, the Unitet, States' Consul, and nothing can exceed the good feel,'. l l which has prevailed in the intercourse between the Engl i l s and American officers. This morning(Wedeesda,y) there ,0 to be a display of the small-arm men and field-pieces o f the squadron on the Florian°. parade-ground, and in the afters noon, on the same ground, there will be a review of troops in garrison. In the evening the Admiral and lui' t Farragut will dine with Lord and Lady Clarence rag!„, at Admiralty-house, when Lady Clarence will also holu.7 t reception. It is expected that Admiral FalTlmut Will Ile, proceed for Lisbon, calling at Malag a an Times. The Halifax Express says that a large steamer is vow being built at St. Catherine's, Ontario, to trad e between that port and Halifax. The United States war ships Franklin, SWata l i a tt l and Frolic arrived at Lisbon on Wednesday evening , Admiral Farragut. as The ship Herald, from Manilla, given. uP to the missing, has arrived at Boston, and saved $300,00 0 underwriters. faro Women's rights triumph in New Bedford, Eas---.a, Massachusetts. In the First Congregational P aris women vote and act on standing church committees. e d A new invention for raising water was exhibuiea in Boston on Thursday afternoon, April 16. It is ti e rs the " Caloric water elevator," and consists of two cy li tor of 1,000 gallons capacity, the upper used as an air c",„; 0 - ber and the lower for water and where steam is at'",,r able will be without competition in the world for its 1) pose, discharging its contents in one minute's time. v i r The Monthly Report of the Director of th e i st reau of Statistics for the month of February last ha s ta been issued. Tho following are the aggregate statereei,n of the tables included in the report :—The total of Or t Sei commodities imported into the United States during he r, months of September, October, November, and Deee'"i -1867, are $109,185,866. Of this amount the total P',7o ing duties was $99,906,254, and total free of duty i caS $9,279,612. The amount entered for consumPti° us ° $66,413,716, and the amount entered for War e liell was $12,772,150. The total of commodities itc a were the growth, produce, and manufacture of the u, i 'ber, States, exported during the months of September ( ) el l 0, November, and December, 1867, corrected to Fo ' brus 1868, in declared quantities and values, $133,800, 69° 0 .* n itea value for foreign commodities re-exported from the yet' States during the before-named months, correcte d to lo g 6, 1868, was $6,857,594. Of this the amount dutible 4 71. $4,149,122, and the amount free of duty was $2,79; ei The amount from warehouse was $3,929,911 ; the va i s e 6ll commodities remaining in warehouse, N ov ember 3 e , was $39,104,541. Reported since publication of il t l of port, $82,154. Warehoused during December, I°' other direct importations, $8,186,695 ; transferred from the re districts, $1,175,009. Total, $49,123,079. Of this was withdrawn for consumption, $8,285,131; witbotioth for transportation, $191,292 ; withdrawn for expe l " $980,614. Remaining in warehouse Dec. 31, s 3B,9l ntS °f The director gives the following preliminary statem% the the census of the United States in 1866, as returned ' t og Bureau of Statistics :—Six New England States, 3401 1 ° a gain of $305,598 on the census of 1860 ; in five f ate , States, 9,221,223, a gain of 963,055 ; 13 Southern ,` Pacifi c „ 617, 9,568,709, a loss of 690,308 • 13 Western and Pact. e „ 627, ' 14869,440, a gain of 2,336,387 ; nine territories, 4e '' to tes' gain of 146,050. The total population of the United 1 1 00. 34,505,882, shows an aggregate gain over the census e„ tia ber In regard to the cotton crop, the report gives the "%eri' of States growing cotton as thi r t e en, and one te rn ' The number of internal revenue divisions reported, °id number of acres sown in cotton, 5,489,525 esYT, ft alet yield in bales of 400 pounds each, 1,917,380 f The following is a statement of the foreign trade Is eu United States in 1867 : —Number of American vesV o s,ool tored, 8,808 ; tonnage, new measurement. 3 + 4 be n Number cleared, 8,041; tonnage, 9,419,502. Ni" - " e veo" foreign vessels entered, 17,410 ; tonnage, old mensu r o, 4,381,673. Number cleared, 17,592 ; tonnage, 4,465,4 d t aes c i tal number of vessels entered, 26,218 ; tonnage m ix e i e surement, 7,773,725. Total number cleared, 25,9 wo th tonnage, 7,884,992. A table is also given which sb 1 •01 9( 5 value of the commerce of the United States in the P o 18' tions carried by foreign and American vessels fro Dee g ; to 1867. Total imports in gold values at foreig n 7 P B . 2, ou o exportation, carried in American vessels, $3, 011 ,' e sPe r carried in foreign vessels, $2,311,102,317. Tot tv veit e r , of domestic produce, mostly currency value in tiro ; O tt , States, carried in American vessels, $3,004, 850, ' e rao i , ried in foreign vessels, $2,268,698,385 ; foreign ra,esse dise, mixed values, carried in American g 74. $219,635,413 ; carried in foreign vessels, $175,110 Births. 11, P r' Onoz—On the Ist inst., at Berrylands, Surbiton—'lso. rey, the wife of Septimus J. Du Croz, Esq., °f 3 .besl i ` GRANT—On the 30th ult., at Balavil, Ross-shire, the Er of Major James Augustus Grant, C. 8., Stag 0f f O P. cellency the Commander-in-Chief, Abyssinia, °,,oha.ll' STIRLING—On the 30th ult., at The Lodge, Aua Haunts, the wife of Charles Stirling, Comnallua"- of a daughter. Marriages. , , St iri Pl C; LEMPRIERE—VizARD—On the 30th ult., at '"i.riti.illeVAg'ietlit Percy Reid Lempriere. late Captain Royal Ella, sixth daughter of' William Vizard, Esq.> °I t he and Lincoln's-iun-fields. 1 0 111 1 ,0 WATSON—HuGGINs—On the 30th lilt. at at _S,t . f t : Baptist's, Kentish-town, Alfred Waison DA"' O ft" -e l ; b - ty 0, rci° Park, Sydenham, and Cannon-street, ' ' i Cf o eldest daughter of Henry Huggins, Esq°l ° House, Highgate-rise. - Deaths. .. 10 . ,11 /'°. COLE —On the 27th ult., at Berkley Villa, F°res- A ir Cole, late of Timberham, Sussex, aged 61 ' o `-'' JOIINSON—On the 28th ult., at 102, Cloudesl6fr.ol'iiLic°-f lington, Jas. Johnson, Et.q., late of Kingston, "`' s u t to u REEVES—On the 30th ult., Captain Peter J. ile ele Ba tts the Adelaide-road, St. John's-wood. liTi el: SMITH— On the 30th ult., Mr. William Snlit' , ' °- OP Market, Suffolk, aged 75. 111 T iletll)3 THEOBALD —On the 30th ult., the Rev. J0 t. "13" of Denley Hall, Ipswich, aged 56. ND , " ------- Lond9n : Printed and Published by WILLI/S-3A of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tait SUN 011iee'0002•V Strand., in the Precinct of the Savoy, e Miclalosex.—Saturday, May 2, 1868.. ~.