The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUBNLLS, The Times says the Premier can scarcely suppress his astonishment that services so splendid and successes so unexampled as those of present Ministry should be requited with a sudden demand, compliance with which would be fatal not only to the Government and the Conservative party, but to the Constitution and to the Throne, to Church and State, to Protestantism, to religion, to pro perty, to security, to conscience, to social order, to the British people and empire, and— for it is impossible to stop —to the entire human race. The array of terrible consequence s happens to betoo wide for consistency. For the matter of Church and State, there is no Church that can claim the undi vided allegiance of the British State ; and Mr. Disraeli is not prepared to say that either religion or Protestantism or the British Empire suffers by the existence of a rival and, indeed, hostile establishment north of the Tweed. As for Protestantism, if the great majority of the Irish population are to be exposed to a perpetual insult for the sake of the Protestant character of this empire, there are in England not far from ten million Protestants, dissenting from the Church of England, who have a right to be heard on this question, and who will certainly make themselves heard through the operation of Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill. Do the Dissenters of England think the cause of British Protestantism requires the endowment and establishment of a handful of Church people in Ireland, the remaining seven-eighths being left to shift as they can? But Protestantism Mr. Disraeli would hardly leave to the fate of such an issue. It is a "fundamental law" of the empire, he says, which Mr. Gladstone has suddenly proposed to annul. But what sort of announcement is this for the five million Roman Catholics among us in the two islands? Are they to be told that they are really not of the empire, but are, in fact, aliens, intruders, and heterogeneous? Have we mocked the Irish Catholics with union,4vith parliamentary government, with Catholic emancipation, and with the two successive parliamentary reforms designed to give freer and more effective utterance to the voice of the people ? Mr. Disraeli boasts, and boasts truly, that he has done more than any man living to make one man as good as another in the constitution and government of this country. He boasts that he has found the class of elec tors that cannot be enlarged without losing the power of definition altogether. He boasts that to these he has entrusted the institutions, establishments, interests, prin ciples, and conscience of this great empire. In that boasted commission is necessarily included the property held by the State for the Church in Ireland, and in its disposal Roman Catholics count for five million head of electors. The work, be it sacrilegious or not, is already done. Let Mr. Disraeli tell the voices he has himself created, and he will find that " the Noes have it" The Herald thinks Mr. Disraeli's description of the Reform Bill of 1867 will hardly be impugned by any of those who were parties to its settlement ; that the Pre mier's claim on the subject of foreign policy was well founded ; and that the increase of the national expendi ture has been attended with efficiency. In regard to Ire land, Mr. Disraeli is able to claim for his Government the merit of having boldly encountered and successfully baffled a formidable conspiracy, organised by foreign mili tary adventurers, acting on the morbid imaginations of a small portion of our Irish fellow-countrymen. The general government of Ireland has been conducted all this time on the principles of sympathy and conciliation. Justice was never so impartially administered, nor have any new causes been given for disaffection. For the future Mr. Disraeli promises on behalf of his Government that they will give their earnest consideration to every measure for the redress of Irish grievances consistent with the rights of property and the maintenance of Protestant institutions. It is contended that the new policy proposed by the Opposition is not applicable to Ireland solely ; that in a country of entire toleration the adoption of a local instead of an im perial rule tends to the frittering away of the general religious integrity ; that Ireland offers certain peculiar conditions rendering it especially necessary that the Established Church should be maintained in that country; that the subversion of the Establishment would tend to aggravate religious and political rancour, and to diminish the security of property "in a land where its tenure and enjoyment are not as unquestioned as they hitherto have been in other parts of her Majesty's dominions." It is shewn by Mr. Disraeli that the spoliation of the Irish Church could not be without its effect on Great Britain— that "confiscation is contagious" —and that if the nume rical argument be used as an excuse for spoliation, its application could not be confined to Ireland. For these and other reasons the Prime Minister declares that the new policy of confiscation must be resisted. The Herald commends this frank and clear exposition of the principles upon which the Government bases its appeal to the country to the earnest and careful consideration of every true lover of British institutions. There will be no excuse, hereafter, for the insinuation that Mr. Disraeli is disposed to shrink from his duty as a Conservative leader, and no pretext for ignoring the issue upon which the coming battle has to be fought. The Standard considers the Premier's disquisition upon the grounds for maintaining the union between Church and State brief, but masterly. He scouts the shallow plea that the application of the measure can be limited to Ireland. " Confiscation," he says, "is contagious, and when once a community has been seduced into plunder, its predatory acts have seldom been single." The test of numbers will be applied elsewhere, and "if, in a country of entire toleration, a local instead of an imperial gauge be adopted, the religious integrity of the community will soon be frittered away." But, says the Premier, there are even weightier reasons why this new policy should be resisted, and he goes on to shew, in lan guage singularly calm and moderate, that the abasement of the Protestant Church cannot tend to the aggrandise ment of Roman Catholicism. The main guarantee for the preservation of our religious liberty is the con nection, through the medium of a Protestant sove reign, between the State and the National Church. It is and has been the sole obstacle to the onward march of an ecclesiastical system which is as despotic as it is powerful, and the supremacy of which is marked everywhere by the subjugation of religious freedom and the erection of a spiritual tyranny. The ascendancy of the Protestant Church is now menaced by various means and on different pleas. Personal ambition, the hostility to Establishments in the abstract, and the passion for secularism, are each enlisted in the array which is ' directed against the Protestant Church, but, as the Premier warns the country in the closing sentence of this eloquent address, " the ultimate triumph, were our Church to fall, would be to that Power which would substitute for the authority of our sovereign the supre macy of a foreign prince, to that Power with whose tradi tion, learning, discipline, and organisation our Church alone has hitherto been able to cope, and that, too, only when supported by a determined and devoted people." Such is the issue involved in the coming struggle as it peesents itself to the mind of one of the ablest statesmer who ever directed the councils of the nation. We ar' satisfied that he has discerned the real significance of th, situation, and that in his pronouncement that the loss and injury of the Protestant Church will be the gain and advancement of Popery, he has struck the key -note which will vibrate in the heart and the conscience of millions of his fellow•countrymen. According to the Daily News, Mr. Disraeli appears tc have had two great models of style before him in the composition of his address to the electors of Buckingham• shire. It begins like a Queen's Speech, and ends like a Papal allocution. All this loftiness of tone, however, fail' to hide a sinking heart. Mr. Disraeli gives battle like a man who feels certain of losing it, or who knows indeed that it is lost before a shot has been fired. The language of Mr. Disraeli's address shews that he is desperate. Ir defence of the policy to which he is now finally com• witted, he betakes himself to assertions which can only be seriously intended, in the sense that they are addressed to people some of whom, it is hoped, will receive them seriously. Mr. Disraeli defends the Established Church in Ireland on grounds which are a direct insult to a majority of the people of the three kingdoms. The Presbyterians of Scotland, the Nonconformists of England, and indeed Protestants of every communion, that of the Established Church included, may well be indignant to hear that their religion is powerless against the Church of Rome, and that it needs the sanction of the State in order to make head against that mighty foe. Tu Boman Catholics, of course, this tribute to the superioritT of their faith will naturally be very gratifying, if they believe it to be sincere ; but compliments may be purchased at too high a price. Mr. Disraeli's defence of the Esta blished Church as the necessary bulwark against Roman Catholicism clothes it again in Ireland with its old and odious character. It makes it once more a garrison in an enemy's country. Ecclesiastically, Ireland becomes the English Poland. The Broad Arrow says : "It is the talk of the clubs that we are likely soon to have another ' leading case' of a military character, in an action brought against Sir William Mansfield, Cornmander-in•Chief in India, by an officer who has recently felt the evil effects of the Indian court - martial system, on which we expressed our opinion a short time since. It would appear, if rumour is correct, that neroas have been brought, not only against Sir William Nlansfield, but against all the members of the c - Jult-inartial in question, and that no less than thirteen writs went out to India a fortnight ago to be served on the officers who composed the court. The plaintiff is Captain Cunningriam, late of the 18th Royal Irish, and there were certainly circumstances in his case which thoroughly warrant his seeking redress for what we believe is recognised by the authorities at borne as a very manifest wrong done to that officer," SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY. The labours of the day were very pleasantly supple. mented by the Mayor's reception in the Town fall last night. The building, which had an undeniably dingy, not to say dirty appearance on the occasion of the delivery of the President's address, was strangely metamorphosed. The seats were all removed, the orchestra gaily decorated, and the centre of the room adorned with a circular bank of shrubs and flowering plants ; the lower regions, in the midst of which a fountain played, being devoted to purposes of refreshment. The Mayor, Mr. Avery, the well-known scale-beam manufacturer, who is, I believe, noted for the cattle that he drives, welcomed his guests very cordially. The members of the Birmingham Festival Choral Society carried out a well-arranged musical programme, in a manner that earned the hearty thanks of the visitors. Though precisely forming a part of the proceedings proper of the Congress, I may mention that arrangements have been made for holding a conference on Tuesday, under the presidency of the Mayor, on the subject of " Reforms in the Licensing System." Dr. Martin, the secretary, has issued invitations to the members of the association, and a Large attendance is expected. All through the day we have been hard at it in the sections, and, as will be seen below, some matters of great interest have been discussed. This evening Miss Carpenter gives her address on " Education in India," and the meeting of working men is held in the Town Hall. Earl Carnarvon will preside' JURISPRUDENCE AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. The Right Hon. VT. N. Massey, president of this depart. ment, delivered an address in the Friends' Meeting-house. After some preliminary observations on the nature of the science of jurisprudence, a protest against the tendency to criticise the legislation of bygone ages, and a tribute to the labours of Brougham in the way of law reform, Mr. Massey proceeded to say: " Though much has been done, much more remains to be done before our civil code can be complete. The consolidation of the statute law has not yet been planned, notwithstanding the labours of more than one royal commission. No attempt has yet been made on a comprehensive scale to reduce the great mass of unwritten law to order or principle. Yet, until the piles of statutes and precedents have been digested and arranged, the civil law of England can make no pretensions to the character of a code. I cannot, however, consider it ,altogether a subject of regret that the work of codification has hitherto been delayed. Before such a work is under taken, questions of principle should be determined. There are many questions of this kind outstanding. Upon certain elementary points of procedure, for example, the existing practice is fairly open to question. Is there any reason, besides ancient usage, why a jury in a civil action should consist of twelve persons? Is it necessary, either in a civil or criminal proceeding, that a jury of twelve should be unanimous? The intervention of a jury at all in the trial of civil cases may, as a general rule, be con sidered unnecessary for the ends of justice. Issues of fact, as well as law, are in India tried by the judges of the Supreme Court; and in no case is it competent to the parties, or either of them, to demand a jury. The Indian Law Commissioners have in their recent report recom mended further and not less important departures from the English law and practice. They have made a radical revision of the law of contract. They give a complete title to the bond fide purchasers of moveables, without reference to the fact of the goods having been stolen, or sold in market overt. The liabilities of agency and partnership are defined by a series of enact ments and illustrations, superseding the mass of English law through which these liabilities are to be traced. The commissioners embodied their recommendations in care fully drawn clauses, which were discussed in the Legisla tive Branch of the Council of India during the last session at Calcutta. These great measures were in charge of Mr. Maine, who was of opinion that the bills, if passed, ' would place India in possession of a body of contract law which left nothing to be desired in point of simplicity and comprehensiveness, in respect of the essential equity of its provisions, and in respect of the perspicuity with which those provisions were set forth.' I will not say that every section of the Indian Contract Bill is faultless ; but I confidently refer to the work on the whole as a model of scientific legisla tion, which may be consulted with advantage by those who may hereafter be engaged in the arduous duty of simplifying, arranging, and expounding the principles of substantive law in any of its branches." Adverting to the various questions to be discussed in the department, the President dwelt as follows on the question of the right of married women to the control of their property :—" There can, I apprehend, be no doubt that the absolute right of the husband to the personal property and earnings of his wife is grossly abused ; and unless it tan be shewn that positive evils would result from depriving him of this right, the married woman is as much entitled to the protection of the law in respect of her property and the fruits of her industry as any other person. In the upper classes the property of the wife is commonly placed beyond the control of the husband by ante nuptial settlement, but among the mass of the people no such provision is practicable. Yet, a seamstress who toils for the maintenance of herself and family stands more in need of protection from an idle and profligate husband than a gentlewomen who is seldom in danger of wanting the common necessaries of life. The simple habits of the poor would hardly admit of any expedient by which the wife might be secured in the enjoyment of her own property and earnings. Nevertheless, the principle should, in my opinion, be asserted." In the section of this department devoted to the COl. hideration of questions of international law, a paper was read by Lord Hobart on the special subject, " Ought private property at sea to be exempt from capture during war ?" The answer to the question, it was stated, had been much facilitated by the admission in point of principle implied in the immunity of private property on land. That the right to this immunity during war of private property on land is now generally admitted by civilised States seemed certain. Should the same rule be applied to private property at sea? So far as the goods of an enemy went, it was impossible to discover any distinction between than when on land or at sea. It was urged as a strong reason for the exemption of an enemy's goods from plunder (being private property) when at sea, that if bound for a neutral country they were in a sense the pro perty of persons in that country, and to capture them would be a flagrant interference with the rights of neutrals. It was, in fact, denying to neutrals the power to trade. Though this was clear as regarded the goods of an enemy, the case of ships and crews was different. It was argued, said the author, and not without reason, that the enemy's ships, with their crews, were the raw material of his military marine, and that to capture them was directly to cripple his naval power, so as to bring their capture fairly within the category of hostile measures which may lawfully be taken against him : the result of the whole inquiry appearing to Lord Hobart to be, that private property, as a rule, should be exempt during war from capture, and that if there was to be any exemption to that rule, it was in the case of the merchant ships and crews as distinct from the merchandise of belligerent States. His lordship proceeded to consider what changes would be required in the " law of nations" in order that the proposition thus arrived at might take practical effect. He pointed out that since the Declaration of Paris in 1856 it had been considered that there were only two kinds of private property (not being contraband of war) liable to capture at sea, viz., the goods of an enemy carried in the ships of an enemy, and the merchant ships, with their crews, of a belli gerent nation. All that was required, therefore, was, that it should be agreed as between the principal States of Europe, that in future an enemy's goods, being private property, should no longer be liable to capture at sea during war, in whatever ships they were conveyed, and that if captured they should be restored to their owners. It would, of course, be competent to a congress of States to decide that even the merchant ships of belligerents (with their crews) being private property, should be exempt, and such a decision might not be without reason. The paper concluded by arguing that blockades were only justifiable for strategic purposes. For the purpose of cutting off the trade of neutrals (other than in contraband of war), they were in direct conflict with the principles of international law laid down by the most authoritative writers. MUNICIPAL LAW. The special question, "Is it desirable to amend the present law which gives the personal property and earnings of a wife to her husband?" was discussed in a paper by Mr. W. Strickland Cookson, who set out with the assumption that the form of the question was an admission that the state of the law at present was faulty and susceptible of amendment. It was urged against the alteration of the law to the extent of placing the earnings and property, however small, of the wife under her abso solute control, that it would be unjust while the responsibilities of the husband remained the same. Further, it was contended that the alteration would be of little practical benefit, except in the case of absolute separation, and then the wife ought to be pro tected in her property, as well as in her person, to all intents and purposes as if she were a femme sole, but with a liability to contribute to the maintenance of the children, if any. Mr. Cookson suggested that it would be a wise thing for Parliament to pass an Act containing numerous schedules of settlements in various forms, and enacting that at the time of their marriage the parties should declare which of them they intended to adopt, and that that should be their settlement. A column in the marriage register might contain conclusive evidence on the subject. With the cases of privation and misery in married life resulting from the gross misconduct of one or other of the parties, the magistrate, it was observed, had power to deal, and could protect the property and earnings of the wife in the event of desertion. Why, it was asked, should not the magistrate have power to protect that pro perty in other instances of misconduct, and order a separa tion on the application of either where the misconduct of the other has been such as to justify it? After such an order, which might, if thought desirable, be subject to appeal the husband and wife should be respectively free froN all ream e ibilities for or control over each other„ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1868. BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY. The Town Hall last night presented a sight well worth seeing. As I have already mentioned, the Council of the Association had there arranged to hold the usual meeting of working men, under the presidency of the Earl of Carnarvon. So eagerly was the invitation of the Council accepted, that half an hour prior to the time appointed for opening the doors they were besieged by an eager crowd. No sooner was admission gained, than the area of the hall was nearly filled with a compact standing mass of working men. Many of these had evidently come straight from scene of their day's toil, and still wore their working dress. Mingling in the crowd were a few, but only a few, of their wives and daughters. There were probably not less than 3,000 present, independent of those members of the association who occupied seats on the platform and in the side galleries. The clergy, as was right, made a good show, and there was a fair sprinkling of ladies. The appeapnce of the President of the Association, ushered on to the platform by the Mayor, was the signal for a tremendous outburst of cheering, which was renewed as Mr. Hastings announced the gratification felt by the Council at seeing so large a gathering. But when the Earl got up to speak, the enthusiasm of the audience rose to a pitch which was not content with cheering, and was obliged to find vent in the waving of hats and caps. Though-by no means 'an orator, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, his lordship is an exceed ingly judicious speaker, and thoroughly adapts himself to his audience. Last night he carried his hearers entirely with him as he dwelt on the greatness and widespread influence of England. Probably, however, he was carried away by his subject when, to spew how strong was the English feeling in the colonies, he said that, though in Australia the heat of the sun was intense, the inhabitants could not get rid of the English superstition of a black hat. However, the joke told well, and prepared the audience to receive in a good-humoured spirit the weighty words of advice which subsequently fell from his lordship's lips. In the midst of the earl's address Professor Fawcett, led by his wife, came on the platform, and excited a perfect hurri cane of cheers, which was only equalled by that which greeted the conclusion of the address. The earl was succeeded by Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., who made a good point by observing that whereas in the days of Peter the Hermit there were monks who wore gowns, who went forth to preach war, so now, in connection with the department of International Law, over which he pre sided, there were those, some of whom wore gowns, who went forth to lift up their voices against war. But he was even more appreciated when deprecating the phrases in which war was spoken of by the educated classes. He mentioned that it was sometimes called a "refe rence to the God of battles," and said it was, in his opinion, much more a question of " raising the devil." Lord Lyttelton, without trenching on the strictly forbidden ground of party politics, urged very strongly on the working men that they should prepare themselves by education for the exercise of their new privileges, quoting the sentiment uttered in the House of Commons : "If these men are to be our masters, let us see that at least they know their letters." Lord Houghton followed, but his speech, on the subject of health, had the disadvantage of being tedious, as most of his lordship's speeches are. Its tedium was somewhat relieved, however, by some expressions of dissension, which he caused by remark ing that he thought teetotalism was a sad comment on the weakness of self-control. When Professor Fawcett rose, at the call of the chairman, it was some moments before he could speak, so great was the cheering. His avowal at the outset that education must be compulsory was applauded to the echo—a fact which, he said, he would not forget if be were again returned to Parliament. Not a whit less hearty was the response to the challenge which he gave the working men to express their adherence to the principle that ignorance must not be allowed to continue because certain foolish people could not settle their miserable sectarian differences of opinion. Mr. Ernest Noel, the Rev. Mr. Dale, M.A. (s. Dissenting clergyman of the town, and a prcdigious favourite with the working classes, judging by the way in which he was received), and the Rev. IL Solly were the other speakers of the evening. A hearty vote of thanks was proposed to the Earl in the chair ; his lordship, in acknowledging it, remarking that when he came to the hall he was told that Birmingham working men would remain at no meeting after ten o'clock, not even if an angel came down from heaven. He thought the associa tion must take it as a great compliment that on that occasion the audience had been content to exceed their usual time of breaking up by an hour. The major por tion of the audience, as soon as they left the building by the front door, ran round to the side entrance and awaited the outcoming of the speakers, whom they loudly cheered. Professor Fawcett was made the subject of a perfect ova tion, being followed down the street by some hundreds, shouting their hardest. Miss Carpenter's address on " Education in India" was largely attended. It was delivered extempore. Two papers in two sections, and one lecture, constitute not a bad day's work for a lady. Most of the sections broke up early to-day, the visitors being off on the Dudley excursion. TURISPRUDENCE AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. The special question discussed in the section of this department devoted to the consideration of the best means to be adopted for the repression of crime was, " What are the best means for the suppression of vagrancy ? " Mr. Holland, in his paper, which was of great length, reviewed the vagrancy laws as at present administered, and commented upon the unsatisfactory results obtained. With regard to the detention of the vagrant poor, he was of opinion that masters of workhouses should be entrusted with a further discretionary power. The period allowed by law should be extended from four to twenty-four hours. There would, he thought, be little fear that the masters would exercise their power other than in a judicious manner. The desire to get rid of the vagrants was so strong in the minds of union officers that it would be more difficult to get them to use the power than to abuse it ; while, on the other hand, the knowledge that such a power was possessed would place a wholesome restraint upon the conduct of the vagrant, and the occasional exer cise of it upon the professional tramp would much harass his movements. In London Mr. Holland thought, there ought to be a vagrant hospital—a sort of reforma tory, or house of industry, where all trades should be represented. William Pitt said, a long time ago, that ignorance and idleness were the chief causes of able-bodied paupisni. The truth of his words has remained unques tioned, whilst the remedial measures he proposed have unfortunately remained unconsidered. Sir William Denison, C. 8., read a paper on Secondary Punishment, which was, in fact, a minute addressed by him to the Executive Council of New South Wales. In the opinion of the author it was by no means impossible, in adopting such a system as would act upon the fears of the prisoner or his associates, to combine it with such attention to his moral improvement as lyould lead to such a change of heart and life as would be worthy of the name of reformation. Simple imprisonment was a most objectionable form of punishment, pandering to that morbid feeling of apathy and idleness which is at the root of almost all crime. As compulsory labour in prison is ineffective unless some motive beyond the mere dread of punishment is held out, it was suggested that anything beyond the food absolutely necessary to sustain life should be purchased by the pro duce of the prisoner's labour. This rule should be general, applying to debtors, and even to persons com mitted for trial. To the latter the whole of the proceeds of their labour should be given, while the earnings of those convicted should be Appropriated according to the instruc tions laid down by the Government. Imprisonment with labour then, being the substance of secondary punishm en t, Sir William defined what the term imprisonment should mean. Each prisor er should, on his entry into prison; be pro vided with a separate apartment in which to sleep and take his meals. Imprisonment should be for certain fixed and specified periods, no diminution of which should be admitted, unless on special and peculiar grounds, and labour should be constant. On the reformatory part of the proposed system of secondary punishment, the paper suggested that steady unremitting labour would bring its own reward, and would be the best corrective to those haunts of idle ness and self-indulgence which have led the prisoner into crime. No opportunity would, of course, be lost of com municating instruction, secular and religious. THE COMING ELECTIONS. ( From the Anglo-American Times) The effect of the Republican victory in Maine has been to concentrate the efforts of both parties on Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, where the elections will take place on the 13th instant. On that day the campaign may be decided, for, if unanimous, neither party could recover the defeat. Pennsylvania gives 26 electoral votes, Ohio 21, In diana 13, making a total of 60 ; and as these States vote on the 13th, so, in all probability, they will vote for President in November. Considering, then, the tremendous issues to be decided, it is worth while very carefully and impartially to examine the posi tion. In 1866 the entire vote cast by Pennsylvania for Governor was 597,370,when JOHN W. GEA RY, the Republican candidate, was elected by a majority of 17,178. Last year the Democrats carried GEORGE SHARSWOOD, as Judge of the Supreme Court, by a majority of 922 votes, in a total of 531,570. Of the 61,800 votes less than in the preceding year, the Republicans lost 40,450, and the Democrats 22,350. At the time there was a strong reaction, but results have since proved that the feeling was directed more against the " War Horse " section than in favour of the Conservatives. Many of the moderate Republi cans refrained from voting, and the consequence wa a general decrease in the total throughout tht Union. Upwards of 160,000 Republicans absented themselves from the polls, and it was calculated that the Democrats were only strengthened by Repub lican desertions to the extent of 50,000. In no State, except, perhaps, in New York, did the feel ing inimical to the ruling party run more strongly than in Pennsylvania ; and we may remark that the office upon which this test was tried was not of sufficient importance to produce of itself an excit ing contest. HENRY WILLIAMS, the Republican candidate, was everywhere acknowledged to be less fitted as a lawyer for the promotion than Judge SIRRSWOOD ; and it was said at the time that the Republicans considered they could secure the election of any one they might nominate withont further reference to his qualifica tions than his value as a party man. They profess great confidence in the result in Pennsylvania on the 13th, and the fight has been intensified by:De mocratic efforts to neutralize their defeat in Maine, knowing that if the Keystone State decides against them, unless they can carry Ohio, they need not continue the contest. Not only is Pennsylvania the most important State, not only is the Conserva tive chance there better than in Ohio or Indiana, but it has become a proverb to say that as Penn sylvania decides, so decides the Union. We do not attempt to predict, but we believe that a careful examination would incline an un biassed person to the opinion that the Republi cans will be successful, though perhaps but by a small majority. It is not, however, with them as with the Democrats in Pennsylvania—a death struggle—for they can lose that State and still carry their candidate for the Presidency. The result of the Ohio election in 1866 was to give WILLIAM H. SMITH, the Republican candidate, for Secretary of State 256,302 votes, against 213,606 for the Democratic candidate BENJAMIN F.LEFEVRE, in a total of 469,908. Last year General ALLEN G. THURMAN, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was defeated by the Republican candi date, General RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, in a very close contest, the majority being but little over 2,500. General HAYES probably owed his election to his high record and personal popularity, for the State showed a clear Democratic tendency, electing a majority of Democrats to the Legislature, and defeating the Negro Suffrage Amendment by 38,353 votes, the side issue that told so forcibly against the Republicans. Mr. PENDLETON, who is strong in Ohio, earnestly devotes himself to the Democratic interest. It is at best a doubtful State, as shown last year when the Democrats carried nine Con gress districts, four of them by majorities under 500, five under 1,000, and the others by majorities ranging from 2,000 to 6,000. The nomination of VALLANDIGHAM for Congress is thought by many to have been a very ill-advised step on the part of the Conservatives, indicating an intention of rais ing Lisues which their best friends earnestly hoped had been settled for ever and consigned to oblivion. Freed from the side issue, and with the simple question before the electors whether the Democrats or the Republicans are to rule, the best opinions favour the success of the latter. Indiana is not in the same category as the two other great States, its Republican tendencies being outspoken and strong ; nor does it carry the same weight. In 1866 a Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction were elected with a full delega tion of Congressmen and members of the Legisla ture. 'I he Republicans were successful in electing N. TRUSLER Secretary of State by 169,601 over M. D. MANSON, the Democratic candidate, who polled 155,390, giving a majo r ity o f 14 , 211 i n a total vote of 325,000. This was the largest ever cast, being 41,715 more than that given for Gover nor in 1864, and only 15,240 less than the enume meration of white male voters. All the Republi can candidates were elected, and the Legislature, which, by the way, meets biennially in the odd years, stood in the Senate—Republicans, 30, De mocrats, 20 ; in the Representatives—Republicans, 61 ; Democrats, 39. This heavy vote resulted from the great excitement raised on the issues of the Reconstruction policy by President JOHNSON, who had himself but a month before traversed the State on his celebrated tour. It was at Indianapolis, on the night of S3ptember 10, 1866, that he made the speech most generally condemned, which was followed by a riot. These were the elections that really tested the political feeling in Indiana, for in the next year, when other States were falling away from the Republican party, Indiana increased 9 out of the 11 lepublican gain of tn go of a the previous year. itse Congressional on a majority th o itroDgi2rs great ar,iotcoto,, victorybe carryingi Phis State is conceded to the Republicans even by the Democrats, and, as COLFAX is one of its citizens, it is not likely to turn round now against the party it has hitherto supported. lowa in 1866p011ed147,124 votes, of which Wright, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, got 91,227 against 55,815 for the Democrat, Van Ananda. This was the heaviest vote ever cast in the State, exceeding by 22,257 that for Governor in the previous year, and by 10,533 that for President in 1864. On the whole ticket the majority was maintained by the Republicans in 1867, and it is not thought that there has been any change whatever in the feeling of the State since. The electoral vote of lowa being only 8, it is of considerably less importance than that of Indiana, and as the State is considered by the Republicans to be secure r it does not excite much interest. Even the Round Table in its estimate, made some time ago, gave lowa to the Republicans, while claiming Indiana and Pennsylvania for the Demo crats. Strange to say it classed Ohio as Repub lican, a State we believe to be far more doubtful than Indiana. To listen to Republican and Democratic orators and writers, people would imagine there was no doubt as to the side on which these States would vote. But on the 14th instant there will probably be extravagant demonstrations of joy on the one side or the other, showing that they had gained some thing till then uncertain. At the same time there is a feeling abroad in the North which appears daily to gather force, that Democratic success would neutralize the Union victory, and the Republican papers and stump speakers eagerly foster this notion by speaking of themselves as the " Unionists," and their enemies as "rebels." That word, now again so generally used, thrills on the Northern heart and stirs up the fire left smouldering by the war. It recals the days of loss and sacrifice when men had to throw mile their employments to shoulder their muskets and to face death by bullet, disease and fatigue, or, see their country shivered into fragments. This is a cunning device—for nothing could more effectually secure the party purpose, and they have been effectually aided iu it by the Southern leaders. It is just possible that through it an enthusiastic Republican vote may be polled, giving a majority, no one thought, a month ago, was by any chance on the cards., MEXICO. -~►- A letter signed "A British Resident in Mexico' appeared last Thursday in the Times. The writer states that he had lately returned from the city of Mexico, where he had been four years, and had witnessed the events which transpired from the French occupation up to June. Ile writes in de fence of Mexico in general, and of JUAREZ and his Government in particular, and in reply to an article in last Saturday's Times on the rumour that the United States were negotiating with JUAREZ for Mexican territory, and would eventually oc cupy the whole country to its benefit and that of the world. We need scarcely repeat our opinion that whatever good an American occupation would be to the rest of mankind it would be the reverse of a benefit to the citizens of the United States. Young countries are apt to appropriate and spread them selves over an immoderate amount of territory, thereby committing a grave error. Not only is con centration strength, but to scatter is to barbarize. No high civilization can be attained by a people sparsely spread over a vast tract, and those who concentrate will be acted on injuriously by the savagery gene rated in the wilds. It would have been well for the present and for several succeeding generations if the North American continent had been narrowed to a tenth of its size, when the just ambition of its people to place it under one Government might have been the more easilyandspeedilyachieved. We believe now, as always, that the aim of the American should be to have but one rule for the Continent of North America, but we consider that an object so gigantic is to be worked out only in decades, not in years. To hurry this may be to defeat it ; to push to) rapidly over wastes, or into provinces inha bited by men little better than barbarism, is, in the first instance, to weaken, and in the latter to import ready-made savagery in aid of the degene racy generated by the former. It is, in our opinion, a most mistaken policy to increase the boundaries of the United States, and that opinion finds an echo among masses of the citizens, who think that, in stead of advancing the ultimate object, it will in ruth retard it. The "British Resident" asserts that moderation, humanity, and good sense have charac terized the Government of JUAREZ. He maintains that immediately the President was installed in power he caused a Congress to be elected by the,people, which met and sat for six months, debating the laws, and as narrowly investigating, as Parliament , c ges, every item of the Budget. The Government party is controlled by an untrammelled opposition, and full liberty of discussion is allowed . the Press. That so desolating and long-continued a war as that which ended in the execution of MAXIMILIAN could at once be followed by law and order is not to be expected ; but he maintains that the country is safer and in a better state than during the Empire, for he lately travelled three times between the capital and Vera Cruz, unarmed and unharmed, without even a fear of molestation. Regarding the cession of territory these are his words :—" The assumption thatJuartEz would alienate any portion of Mexican territory, or would submit under any terms to the protection of a foreign Power, is equally groundless. The feel ing dominant in Mexico since she has recovered her independence is an exaggerated sense of na tional dignity, coupled with unlimited confidence in the power and resources of the Republic. Mexico will never accept a master unless imposed by force. What may be the views of her powerful neighbour it would be difficult to discover at present, but it is very certain that the United States could only ex tend her frontiers on the Rio Grande by conquest." Two treaties between Mexico and the United States have just been published in the Mexican Offi cial Diary, both the work of Senor ROMERO, during his recent visit to Washington. The most important refers to the naturalization of citizens, as it disposes of the present claim of exemption from Mexican law by foreigners long resident on the general plea of American citizenship. The term of five years spent in either country constitutes citizenship, but any person can renew his old allegiance by returning to his native country and residing there two years. The ether treaty has reference to Ame rican claims on Mexico, which a short time ago were clamorously urged. A convention is to as semble to examine these claims, and five years is allowed to Mexico wherein to pay. Not only does JUAREZ indignantly deny any intention to cede Mexi can territory, but the latest intelligence from that countryconfirms his assertion. Though we condemned JUAREZ for the needless, cruel, and impolitic exe cution of MAXIMILIAN and his most faithful Generals, we are bound to do justice to his admi nistration, rand we consider the late news from Mexico justifies thestatements of the British resident. The Puebla insurrection had been quelled, and the country so far tranquillized. Generals LUCAS and BONILLA had surrendered at discretion, and the sentence of death pronounced against them had been commuted. General RAmoN CORONA was at the capital conferring with the Government on the best mode of keep ing the roads clear of banditti. An instance is given of the value the Mexican Congress attaches to human life, for the Governor of Jalisco, AN TONIO GOMEZ CUERVO, had been impeached and deposed by it for having sanctioned the summary execution of robbers, thereby violating the Federal Constitution, which guards the life of the citizen. Though he has been reinstated, yet the fact that Congress had so acted even in the case of robbers —the bane of Mexico— speaks well for the Govern ment. A proof of the magnanimity of JUAREZ is also furnished by the present intelligence. The late conspirators against his life had been liberated from prison and merely banished. Colonels GRANADOS and TOLEDO, who had taken a leading part in the Sinaloa revolt, were also reprieved after being sentenced to death. These acts of clemency tell well for JUAREZ, and that they do not proceed from weakness is shown by his course when informed of the assassination of General PATONI. That General had been Governor of Durango, where, on arrival, he slept in his carriage in the court yard of the hotel. General CANTO, the officer in command, sent his Secretary, it is said, to tell the political chief where PATONI was, and at three o'clock a guard surrounded the carriage, dragged the Governor to the outskirts of the town, where he was shot. It was even rumoured that CANTO had drugged the General previous to his execution, but he indignantly denies all knowledge of the transaction, and the whole affair is wrapped in mystery. The PRESIDENT has, however, ordered him into arrest, and he will be tried for the murder. The Legislature of Durango has certainly moved strongly in this matter, but we believe that JUAREZ is inclined without pressure to execute the law with rigour, as well as to temper it with mercy. At pre sent every effort is being made to repress brigan dage, which is the curse of the country, and the capture and execution of several leaders shows that he does not work in vain. It is here worthy of mention that a system of taxation has been framed by the three prominent Congressmen, MAT A, IGLE SIAS, and PRIETO, which for the first time will base the plan on a direct impost. All haxiendas are annually to contribute two dollars per $l,OOO of their value, city property 3 per cent., while all tenants of farms and houses shall pay 3 per cent. on the rent. It is gratifying to be en abled to report anything favourable of Mexico. Those who personally know JUAREZ speak highly of his character, and although the execution of MAXIMILIAN has given him in Europe a bad repu tation, it is but fair that he should be judged by his rule. He may not have been able to control the position or to save the Austrian Prince, even had he desired to do so ; but whatever was the position then, we have to deal now with the conduct of the Government, and to correct erroneous impressions as far as we can when we know that the circum stances do not justify the notions current on this side the Atlantic. It is a mistake to suppose there is any coldness between the Government at Mexico and that of Washington. JUAREZ and his Cabinet, together with many members of Congress, lately attended a dinner given to the distinguished jurist RIVA PALACIO, where the PRESIDENT spoke in the best taste and humour of the United States.— Anglo-Anzerican Times. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE,I AND VALUABLE aro the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Plea,saut. palatablelat4 invigorating, hold by all Chemists.—EAdvt.) PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. TUESDAY. The Town Plate of 50 SOTS; three year olds 7st 71b, four Bst 71b, five, six, and aged Bst 121 b; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs if demanded, S:e. A Maiden Plato of 70 sovs, for two year olds; colts Bst I.olb, fillies Bst 71b ; if entered to be sold for 100 sovs allowed 71b. T.Y. C. A Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, for two year olds and upwards; the winner to bo sold for 100 sots, if de manded, &c. T.Y.C. A Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for three year olds and upwards. Ab.M. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; two year olds 7st 31b, three 9st; fillies allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs if demanded, Etc. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added; two year olds 6st 121 b, throe Bst 10ib, four and upwards 9st 21b ; the winner to be sold for 70 sovs if demanded, &c. Rut land Stakes Course. The Cesarewitch Stakes, a Free Handicap of 25 sovs each, L'At, with 200 added. Cesarewitch Course ; 73 subs. Age st lb Age st lb Julius ... ... 4 (pd) Kingsland 36 13 Hermit ... 4 9 0 Special ... 5 613 Friponnier ... 4 (pd) &ma° 3 6 12 Blue Gown ... 3 8 11 13lueskin ... 3 6 12 Tynedale ... 4 8 7 The Mariner 3 6 12 Goodwood... ... 4 8 7 Ilium 3 6 11 Dalby a 8 6 The Spy ... 3 6 10 King Victor 4 (pd) Herald ... 3 6 10 Beeswing ... 5 8 4 Eastley ... 3 6 9 0 wain Glyndwr ... 4 8 4 Minster Bell ... 4 6 9 Knight Errant ... 4 8 0 Mexico 3 6 8 See Saw 3 8 0 Donaldhain ... 3 6 6 East Lancashire ... a 712 Huguette colt ... 3 6 6 Romping Girl ... 4 712 Redcap ... a 6 5 Toriuent9r ... 5 7 10 Stradbroke ... 4 6 4 Restitution ... 3 7 10 Capsicum ... 3 6 4 Paul Jones ... 3 7 10 Ru - ric ... 3 6 3 Honesty ... ... 4 7 9 Gondolier 3 6 2 Ackworth ... a 7 8 Our Mary Ann ... 3 6 0 Abergeldie ... 5 7 8 IVarrington ... 3 6 0 Retrousse ... 5 7 7 Choral ... ... 3 5 12 Irish Queen f 4 7 7 Safety ... 4 5 12 Kidderminster 4 7 6 Wardour ... 3 5 12 Birdseeker ... 3 7 6 Guy of Warwick... 4 5 12 Nemec ... 4 7 6 Little Treasure ... 4 5 12 St Ronan ... ... 3 7 5 Ital-Tub ... 4 5 10 Mercury ... 3 7 4 Black Diamond ... 3 5 10 Blacklo - ck 3 (pd) Cecil 3 5 10 Charnwood ... 3 7 4 Lady Raglan ... 3 5 10 Corsair ... 5 7 3 The Laird ... ... 3 5 8 Bandmaster ... 4 7 1 Papillon ... 3 5 7 Suffolk ... ... 3 7 0 Bead Centre 3 5 7 Nelusko 3 7 0 Tom Bowline c01t... 3 5 7 Young Rapid ... a 7 0 Marquis of Carabas 3 5 7 Planet ... a 7 0 Casso Tete 3 5 7 Etoile Filanto ... 5 7 Aurifera......3 5 7 Vale Royal ... 3 7 01 The Royal Stakes of 200 sovs each, 120 forfeit, for three year olds ; colts Bst 121 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of the • Two Thousand Guineas, Newmarket, or Grand Duke Michael Stakes Mb, winners of the Derby, Oaks, or Doncaster St. Leger Stakes 71b, winners of any two of the above stakes 101 b extra ; the second to save his stake; A.F. ; 7 subs. The Clearwell Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for two year olds ; colts Sat 101 b, fillies Bst 81b ; winners of a 500 soya stake with 10 subscribers 61b, of any two such stakes 91b extra; winners of a plate or sweepstakes value 100 sovs including the winner's own stake 31b extra ; T.y.c. ; 39 subs. EDUCATION. In this section, Miss Marian Hill read a paper on the question, " How can we eradicate the pauper taint from our workhouse children ?" The difficulties incidental to removal of the " pauper taint," such as pauper association, feeble constitution, absence of natural training, and home life, having been severally noticed, the au th or procee d e d to slew that for orphans or deserted children there was no plan, both for cheapness and efficiency, equal to that known under the name of " the boarding -out system," practised by most of the large Scotch parishes, and in use to a certain extent, either under private or official superintendence, in Ireland, France, Russia, Germany, the United States, and also a few parishes in England. The paper then described a series of visits made to eleven houses for pauper children in the neighbourhood of Edin burgh. The houses were situated in villages three or four miles Prom the city ; they were all found to be clean and well ventilated. In one cottage the mother was found nursing her own very weakly child, while its sturdy little foster sister had been out gleaning. Any little sums of money gained by the children in this way they are induced to put by as a fund for starting them in life. In another cottage were two pretty, delicate-looking girls, daughters of a soldier away, no one knew where ; while their mother, a permanent pauper, afflicted with a mental disease, had been allowed her omnibus fare to come and see them. Suitable clothing, it was stated, was furnished by the authorities at a cost of about 30s. per annum per child, it being the duty of the foster-mother to keep the clothes in good repair. Care is taken that frocks and jackets of the same patterned stuffs are not sent to the same village, so that nothing may mark the children as different from those around them. The children who are likely to be more than four months indoor paupers are all thus placed out, the payments for their support, &c., being always made in advance twice a year at the rate of 2s. 6d. per week. The cost of each child's maintenance is about £8 16s. Miss Hill concluded her address by pointing out that the obj ec t o f th e system was not to coddle the children, not to educate them above their rank, but to employ the most natural means of training them physically and mentally for the work they would have to do, and to place them in th e mos t advan tageous position for beginning thAt wcork. WEDNESDAY. The Outlands Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs, for three year olds and upwards ; Cambridgeshire Course. A Handicap of 10 sovs each, for two and three year olds ; T.Y.C. The Bedford Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of a sweep stakes amounting to 500 sous with te❑ subscribers or upwards 71b, all other winners of sweepstakes or plates 31b extra; weights accumulative ; Bretby Stakes Course; 8 subs. The Beaufort Stakes of 150 sovs each, h ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; untried allowed 31b if both 51b ; R.M.; 6 subs. _ . The Middle Park Plate of 1,000 sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 91b, fillies and geldings Bst 61b ; winners of a stake value 1,000 sovs 71b, of 500 41b extra; maidens at start ing allowed 31b ; the second to receive 200 sovs, and the third 100 out of the stakes ; Bretby Stakes Course ; 180 subs. A Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sous each, 10 ft. ; a winner of a handicap after September 29th to carry 51b extra ; T.Y.C. Age st lb Victress ... 4 7 2 .ambition 5 7 2 Astracan ... 3 7 2 Amour Propre 4 7 1 Hatchment ... 3 7 0 Ulphus 5 7 0 Belphegor .. 3 7 0 Goodfellow ... 4 7 0 Musa 4 7 0 Courtier ... ... 3 7 0 Rampart 3 7 0 Russian Bear 3 6 13 Seisura ... 3 6 13 Clarice ... 4 6 12 Sphynx ... 3 6 11 Lady Highthorn ... 3 6 11 ... 4 6 11 Jeanie Deans ... 4 6 11 Heather Bell ... 3 6 11 Distaff 4 6 10 Contempt ... 3 6 10 Charles 11. 4 6 10 Tirnaru 3 6 10 Cornet 3 6 9 Harebell ... 3 6 9 \ Veather Isle 3 6 9 Donaldbuin 3 6 9 liedivivus 3 6 8 Mysotis 3 6 8 Laird of Scotland 3 6 7 Novice ... ... 5 6 7 Marq. of Worcester 4 6 7 Milton 6 7 Foresight ... 4 6 7 Balsamo ... 3 6 7 Traveller ... ... 3 6 7 Verity ... .. 4 6 6 Bessie Dixon 3 6 6 Kingsley ... 5 6 6 Ritualist ... 3 6 5 Miss Frances ... 4 6 5 Lady Rosehill ... 4 6 5 Coup d'Eclat 3 6 5 Roland 5 6 4 Macduff 3 6 3 Warlike 3 6 3 Freemason ... 4 6 1 Precocious ... 3 6 1 Maesllwch... ... 3 6 0 Nelly Rose ... 3 6 0 Lord Derby 3 5 12 Happy Thought ... 3 5 1( Slander ... ... 3 5 8 Bouquetiere ... 3 5 8 Lizzio Hexham ... 3 5 7 Patrician ... 3 5 7 Madrid ...3 5 7 Ago st 1 1b 0 Laneret Leonia .„ 3 9 4 Satyr ... 4 9 4 Athena Pericles s t° ••• 4 33 9 9 9 2 42 Silenus ... 4 9 0 Salliet „. 6 8 8 Moonbeamßotineeav ay 7.: 4 4 8 7 Dragon ... 4 8 8 6 6 Naivete ... ... 3 8 4 Michael do Evelina co ::: 3 8 3 8 4 4 Seringapatam ... 4 8 4 Professor Anderson 5 8 2 John Leech ... 3 8 0 SYcae ... 4 8 0 Duchess ... 4 8 0 Vex ... 3 8 0 Indian Star ... 5 8 0 Bismarck ... 4 7 12 Sir Oliver ... 4 7 11 Out and Outer ... 6 711 Fairfax ... 3 710 His orian 7 10 Master Willie ... 5 7 10 Kettleholder ... 3 7 10 Pearlfeather 3 7 10 Artesian ... 4 7 10 Samson 3 7 9 Tumbler ... ......4 7 9 Court Card ... 4 7 9 Clemence ... 3 7 9 Skylark ... a 7 8 Haymaker... ... 3 7 8 Mistletoe ... ... 5 7 8 Huntsman ... 4 7 8 Nine Elms ... 4 7 7 Volhynia ... 5 7 7 Chapel Royal ... 5 7 7 Reindeer ... ... a 7 7 Lily 3 7 7 Pirate Chief 4 7 7 Chivalry ... 3 7 5 Ecarte ... 3 7 5 Wolsey ... 5 7 5 Witchcraft 3 7 4 Gloire do Dijon ... 3 7 4 Goojerat ... 5 7 4 Bombastes ... 4 7 4 Mars ... 3 7 3 La Mousse ... 3 7 3 Monarch of the Glen ..• ... 5 7 3 Narino 1 7 3 Fal-lal ...4 7 3 Snowdrop 3 7 2 The Select Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of any one of the following stakes 51b, of any two of them 101 b extra— viz., the Two Thousand Guineas or One Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Derby or Oaks at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Groat Yorkshire Stakes at York, and the St. Leger or Don Stakes at Doncaster; R.M. ; 6 subs. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b, not engaged in the July, Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast Stakes ; winners of 200 sovs or upwards 51b extra ; maidens allowed 51b; the second to save his stake; Criterion Course. 7 subs. The Windsor Stakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds ; colts 9st, fillies Bst 101 b ; winners of 300 sovs 31b, of 500 71b extra; T.Y.C. 13 subs. THURSDAY. A Plate of 50 sovs ; two year olds 6st 101 b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 81b, five, six, and aged 9st 101 b ; maiden three year olds allowed 51b, four and upwards 121 b ; winners of a sweepstakes value 300 sovs (including the value of any cup or prize) 31b, of 500 71b extra ; mares and geld ings allowed 31b; R.M. A Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap), for throe year olds and upwards ; A Handicap of 15 soya each, 10 ft, with 50 added, for three year olds and upwards ; D.I. A Handicap of 15 cove each, 10 ft, for two year olds ; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sous oach, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b; the winner to be sold for 150 sous if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 Isovs each; two year olds 6st 131 b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 31b, five and upwards 9st 61b ; fillies allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 300 soya if demanded, &c. T. Y.C. A Biennial Post Match 200 ; colts Bst 101 b ; fillies Bst 71b. A.F. The Newmarket Oaks of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 100 added, for three year old fillies ; Bst 101 b ; the winner of the One Tlicusand Guineas or Two Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Oaks er Derby at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Yorkshire Oaks at York, or the Park Hill Stakes or St. Leger at Don caster 71b extra; maidens, if they have never saved their stakes in the above named races, allowed 71b ; tho second to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes. T.M.31. 6J subs. The Bretby Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for two year old fillies; Bst 101 b each. Last three-quarters of R.N. 15 subs. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b ; untried mares allowed 31b. Bretby Stakes Course. 15 subs. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, 200 ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, One Thousand Guineas, Derby, Oaks, or Doncaster St. Leger 51b, and of any two of those stakes 101 b extra ; maidens allowed 71b. R. 31• 7 subs. FRIDAY. A Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10ft, for two and three year olds ; T.Y.C. A Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, for threo year olds and upwards; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs, if demanded, &c. ; RM. A Plate of 50 50VS i three year olds let 121 b, four Bet 121 b, five and upwards 9st 31b ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; if entered for 300 sovs allowed 51b, 10 101 b. A.F. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olds ; CO it "! Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the winner to be sold for 1 5u sovs, if demanded, &c.; if entered for 75 sovs allowe d 71b ; T.Y.C. The Newmarket Derby of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 10() added, for three year olds; colts Bst 111 b, fillies Bst 7 1 b; the winner of the Ono Thousand Guineas or Two Tho tt. sand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Oaks or Dir b f at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, or the St. Leger at Doncaster, 71b extra; maidens, if t hei , have never saved th e i r s t a k es i n t h e a b ove mentioned races, allowed 7113.; the second to receive 100 sovs 0a; of the stakes ; the l as t m il e an d a h a lf of the 13 . 0.; subs. The Prendergast Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two S ell olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b; winners of a 90 sovs sweepstakes with 10 subs Gib, of two such stalcel 91b, of any other sweepstakes value 200 sovs, includ 4 the winner's own stake, and not having less than tea subscribers, 31b extra ; if th e w i nner o f t h e Clear should have won that race carrying 91b extra ; he i 5 carry 121 b extra for this race ; T.Y.C. ; 40 subs. Match 200, 50 ft ; T.Y.C.—Sir F. Johnstone's Brigantine' Bst 121 b, agst Admiral Bous's Amara, Bst 21b; both tire year olds. Match 200, hft ; T. Y.C.—SirJ. Hawley's Morna, Bst 10117 ' agst Mr. Chaplin's Acaster, Bst. No Day Mentioned.—First Year of a Biennial Post 3ln te ! of 500 soya each, 200 ft, two to the post; colts Bst 0 1 ' fillies Bst 71b ; T.Y.C. MISCELLANEOUS NE IFS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Postmaster-General has appointed 3 - oho C ' Hall special mail agent for Kentucky, vice J. J. removed. f The National Lincoln Monument Association ° Springfield, Illinois, out of the great number of desig n ° for a monument a d op t e d th at one offered by Larkin Mead, jun., of Brattleboro'. The die is seventy feet hi and the total height is one hundred feet. The foun dr tion and sub-base are of granite, and the artist 1 0 : poses the architectural work to be of Envere ol marble, and the statues of bronze. The obelisk is sar i mounted by the eagle and g l o b e. A t the base a pecl es,s 74 is projected in front, o n w hi c h i s a colossal statue Lincoln. On a plane below, at the four card points, are four pedest a l s , on wh i ch are groups re p' salting the infantry, c ava l ry, art i llery, and man ia° arms of the service. Encircling these pedestals tablets, on which are written the names of all the 5i 3t65. 1 , These tablets are linked t oge th er, and the whole W°l;it indicates that, thr oug h th e w i se counsels of the Presid:a", and the endurance of the soldiers and sailors, the iJ I I S has been preserved and perpetuated. On the four siaj of the base are tablets for inscription. That in front as under the statue bears the name in full—Abraham L ia coin. The sub-base is reached by stairs from the cane' of the base, and under the base is the crypt for the reinsl ng The door of the crypt is also the entrance to the 1 33 ,,,' age and stai rway, w hi c h ascends the monumen t; side. It is specified in the circular sent to the ar ts ,l and architects that th e cos t o f the monument should 13" i exceed $200,000. A premium, not to exceed $l,OOO, ' lll offered by the board of managers for the design an d cifications which should be accepted. Vermont may be proud of two such sculptors as Powers and Mead. A As is well know n th e G overnment of the son's Bay territories has long been offered to CA O- t and has been accept e d b y t h e Legislature o f th , province, subject to certain conditions. Negotiao,l between the Imperial Government and the riuds; Bay Company are in p rogress, w i th a v i ew to tg settlement of the terms upon which the latter body agree to the cession of the extraordinary privile s conferred upon it under the c h ar t er o f Charles • + - ha these negotiations may at any momen t b ear f ru it an d country be opened up to settlement, a number of g entlern e i, headed by Lord Ebury, Lord A. Churchill, and many known members of Parliament, have addressed a men lol. : it to the Premier,urging that the Indian title should be 61' 1 ," ably extinguished, and ex t ens i ve reserves o f lands se t fir* for the use of the native tribes. The desire of the Ins il rialists is, if possible, to avert the sanguinary border O r i ' fare which has been so injurious to one race an d so 1 6d to the other, in almost eve r y p ar t o f t h e North Ame rica , ` continent. Mr. Disraeli, i n a l e tt er t o M r. Fowler, 11- promised to consider the matter. The steamboat excursion and banquet g l h lately at St. Louis, by the gran d eomma n d er y of e Knights Templar of Missouri t o th e gran d encamp:lo4e° the United States, was a very brilliant affair. V,,„ 6 steamers were engaged, and after ascending the river P lit miles they turned back and steamed past the city flags flying, bands playing, and cannon roaring. ' l / 1/ afterwards visited Jefferson barracks, twelve miles be_ Ai l°' and there had a banquet on the boats, 3,000 people P* )-- , 0 cipating. One of the steamers knocked a hole in bottom on her return trip, but her passengers were tre'" - ferred to another vessel without harm or accident. A telegram, dated Bombay, Sept. 24, is as 1° ; lows :—" The Indi an G overnment have just anno enc o that the Indian int erna l t e l egrap h tar i ff w i ll be reduc ed to a uniform rate of ono rupee for ten words, irrespactiO ° distance, from Ist October next. 1 . o 3 11 Foolscap paper is so call e d b ecause the Eng•li Parliament in Cromwell's time sub s tit u t e d a cap an d b i !,,, g as a water-mark on that kind of paper fo r th e Ki n g's 1 11 ' 56 which it had previously borne. The mar k f e ll i n t o disc in a short time, but the paper still retains the name. t t The Peace and Liberty Cong ress , assem bled P Berne, passed a resolution Sept. 23, ad op ti ng t h e Confe,cle, o ration systems existing in Swit zer l an d an d North Amery 0 1 as models for the constitution of a " United States Europe." .Le Courrier Medical announces that the 931 : 0 peror of Russia has i ssue d a u k ase w hi ch proh ibits t' practice of homoeopathy in any pdrt of the Russian ( 3111 ; piro, under pain of a fine of 500 roubles and two le ° transportation to Siberia. A WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEETING.—The call has been signed by a large number of women in W u° Vernon, New York :—" Mount Vernon, New York, 21, 1868.—We, the undersigned, being desirous of educ il a ing ourselves and others in regard to the legal r ightg disfranchisement of women who own pr oper t y, earae9t;,. request that you will, at an ear l y d ay, h o l d a public ing in this village, and g i ve us th e b enef i t of your br° experience on this to us momentous question. It i s t fact not generally kn own , th a t more than s i xty per Cell; of the real estate in Mount Vernon is owned by Wc illie t ;; many of them widows ; a l so a l arge amount i s owned ,0 married women whose husbands do not own a dollott worth of proporty here, and th e l argest real estate coglieto in town is a woman. As only property owners can T % for the appropriation of money f or v il lage i m p ro ve:l o and as yet no woman h as ever vo t e d on t h e question, l is sequence is that more than 60 pe r c e nt. o f th e property taxed without the consent of the owners, and often agall' i their wishes. This is an evil we are determi ne d t o sal to no longer. 'No taxation without representation' 6113 be our shibboleth henceforth." A Cape Ann boy in California was so unforttl: nate several years ago as to be compelled to take a Wo rtli te less piece of land in San F ranc i sco i n payment o f a no o of £1,600. Now, twelv e y ears a f ter, h e i s offered $30 1 "" for the lot. The convention of brass bands held at Nashu a ' New Hampshire, b roug ht t ogether b ands from Nashilf‘. Wilton, Milford, Holli s , D unsta bl e, P epperel, Leom i u sn Groton Junctio n , F ran kli n, B rookline, Hookset, °./3,0 North Chelmsford. A co ll a ti on was f urn i s h e d by ladies; and tho concerts were attended by over 4fu people. A telegram from Gotha, Sept. 30, says that 1 1; telligenco from the German expedition to the North P° A . announces the safe return of th e s hi p G ermanza to 13ergi, On the 15th instant she re a ch e d a po i n t i n l at. 81.5. `',o though the ice and weather ha s b een very untavourtwo, for the expedition this year, t h e resu l ts, especially tb°„o obtained east of Spitzbergen, will be o f grea t va lue o ' o a scientific point of view. The expedition will go fo ot Bergen to Bremenhaven. The vessel will be available the next expedition. Some one asking an Irishman why a country o33an of his walked about New York City with his tongue dev ii , c ling out of his mouth, he replied that it w a s b eca use t" man was trying to catch the American accent. Births. BEACH— On the Ist inst., a t O a kl ey H a ll , t h e w if e o f ~11 Beach, Esq., M.P., p rematurely, of a daughter, vol. survived its birth for a few hours. Of MoENs —On the 2d i ns t., a t P ar k Lodge, Erith, the w ife A. F. Moons, Esq., of a son. STEPHENS—On the Ist inst., at Lypiatt-terrace, Cholte r ham, the wife of Capt. Stephens, of a son. Marriages. e lb DENING— HOOPER—O n th e 2d i ns t ., at Trinity tjl'" Bath, Thomas H. T. Dening, Esl., of Ottery St. . 3 of Devon, to Emma Geraldine H. Hooper, only daughte T. Hooper, Esq., J.P., of Green-park, Bath. PLASK ITT — COWIE—On the 2d inst., at St. M a ry' s Chur ch y Spring-grove, Isleworth, Joseph Plaskitt, of Lincoln to inn, solicitor, to Emily Julia, second daughter of the is John Cowio, Esq., of Calcutta. Deaths. DOBSON—On the 27th ult., at Hull, Thos. J. Dobson, aged 27. EIVING—On the Ist inst., at Eaton, Norwich, John W ill. Ewing, Esq., aged 54. f GRELLIER—On the 2d inst., Mi ss M ary A . G re llier, - o Brixton, aged 73. MARSHALL— On the 30th ult., at Rendlesham-road, liPP ef Claptou, Wm. P. Marshall, aged 63. ;alit OGILVY—OH the Ist in s t., a t R ose b an k, R os l yn , the 1 3 -v Hon. Lady M ar y O g il vy, secon d surv i v i ng d aug hter ° the late Walter, Earl of Airlie. SKINNER—On the 29th ult., at Southampton, J. Skica Esq., of East Cowes Park, Isle of Wight. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM' ANDIIIO I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tat] Sim o.llcs, No Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss +rop e in the Cauut7 MiddlEffiez.—Monday, October 5, 1808. ! ( Ti is 14celebrated vnz3 Medal. IR Pure, Mild, ] Sold. in Bottles, t he Agants i n the -p B ,REAT Observe the Red hang LL Whisky.' rjitUTUAL anco 14, 11IISSELLrp -5. PVAIs.ICES MON hold or Leasehold ahie w ceklY, mont d orms free on ree( ROYAL ") in]ita;sons of Miss t_e a x d e en it e n n t i b e niniv Dodd P Austin as Mack! all , s Bella, the bonna Miss Tren Full orehegtra, garde n and D rur3 • C A NT 1:1:1:11et through tic argti,(3ltoeume T o r f o r n I :_ n r r great :P ei Fred. e ti t . ll e : Frei 4 ' : o. :l l e a e n tl enatn Collier.ocl t t ( 1 In a "t - --The gr „ d and e ` m. Ps au ball I mmense S with uc • new scene] /garden Theatre t atB ; new danC ratitoini m i c see ; Ported by his talc Mn: Stalls and Doors ope ARGyL ttooinsEVENIN have beef ant C°. The a n attractivec Dance Music. Do .Wl] _MADAM] MOD ..Almission 1S. 4 wght. ' ntNNEF( Jur The tno proved of thi: rem out, a edy for Ac G nd Ind delicate consti dren, an I tnfai DI; 112 1 Now Boa( FURNIs par Wee 11.1inb,r of 1 0. .r4 pr unfurnished of ivdan tiltY.—Partio,l I square. ROU3ES and or SOCt PROPER, 1 1 ,, D. 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