The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS, . I THE COUNTESS OF DERIVENTWATER'S ESTATES. _ - The Post says the national accounts for the quarter which ended yesterday are calculated to shew that the produce of taxation is not sufficiently elastic to enable us to disregard the question which has.now attained so much prorninency, of the necessity for greater economy in the public expenditure. There is, on the whole, an increase in the receipts of the year, as compared with the last, of £537,091, but this has not been sufficient to meet the increased items of expenditure, and the net result is that there is in the cash account a deficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund, as compared with the current receipts to meet it, of no less than 3,007,408. This does not represent the actual state of the case to be reached when all the accounts are closed, but it is apparent that on the 31st March, 1869, there will be again, as has been the rule of late, a deficit to be met, instead of a surplus to be appropriated to the reduc. tion of public burdens. Coming to the items, we find some peculiar features about the accounts. The Customs receipts have, as usual, since the reduction of duties and dutiable articles to a minimum, increased for the year by £98,000, although, as compared with the corresponding quarter, they have diminished by £14,000, and for the corresponding six months by as much as £60,000. This would seem to shew that trade is in an increasingly bad state, and if it goes on at the same rate we may find not only the whole present augmentation eaten away, but a decrease left at the end of the year. The other chief item shewing an increase —viz., the Property Tax — displays, however, a steady advance of £412,000 for the corresponding quarter, £1,104,000 for the corresponding six months, and £1,586,000 for the year. On the other hand, the Excise bas decreased by £459,000. the Stamps by £359,000, and the Taxes by £lB,OOO, without its being possible to assign any apparent reason for the fact ; for no burdens coming under those heads have been taken off, while some small additions have actually been put on. We can only hope that the forthcoming half-year may make up for the shortcomings of that which is past, and that the deficit which cannot be avoided may at least be reduced. The Standard finds that there is going to be a "flank movement " after all ; but, strangely enough, the people who have charged such an intention on their adversaries are the very ones that now propose to perform it: The phrase, we believe, was originally applied to the current conflict concerning the Church in Ireland by the London correspondent of the Scotsman ; and the particular politician who was about to venture on the delicate operation was, of course, that tricky strategist, Mr. Disraeli. We have no doubt whatsoever that if any Liberal journal were only to assert that the present Premier had robbed the national till or pawned the Crown jewels, every other Liberal journal would copy the state ment ; and we are quite sure that the First Lord, if he happened to see the report, would not contradict it. But, as we have said, we are threatened with a " flank move ment," notwithstanding. Only the authors of it, if we are to believe themselves, are to he the Liberals. The skirmishers of the operation have already been thrown out ; and we must confess that they have commenced with much boldness and admirable audacity. " The vexed question" is the cover under which the "flank move ment" is to be performed. What do our readers suppose is this " vexed question?" It refers to the Church in Ireland, about which they have heard and read enough during the last few months ; but we would willingly give them quite as many more to solve the riddle we have put. We had better, therefore, solve it for them at once. They will be much surprised to hear that, according to an authority in the foremost and most influential of all Liberal journals and supporters of Mr. Gladstone, there is actually a vexed question as to whether the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland shall be endowed or not. •We imagined, and we fancied that the whole world imagined, that g there was one question which was not vexed and never could be vexed again, but which was for ever set at rest, it was this one. All that we can say is, what we have said before ; Conservatism will never freely consent to the disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland and the appropriation of two-fifths, or indeed, of any portion of its property, to Roman Catho licism. Further than that we have no remark to make, except that this is what Liberalism is now proposing by way of a " flank movement," its charge against the centre having failed. The Times holds that the fall of a throne, and such a throne as that of Spain, is an event of solemn imporb. It is7riot difficult to foresee that it will stand out in future days as one of the most terrible judgments and warnings of history. The greatness of the reigning family, the sex of the dethroned sovereign, the pride, the chivalry which are associated with the name of the Spaniards, the past grandeur of the country, its revived aspirations and still restless ambition --all tend to impress the imagination and make the Spanish Revolution the most notable event of the kind, even in this age of political change. Since the first fall of the Fiench monarchy in 1792 there has been no revolution so indicative of a transformation in the popular character of the nation that has effected it. The fall of Charles X. or of Louis Philippe, of the Italian Princes or of King Otho, were events at which we could feel no surprise ; but, taking into consideration the cir cumstances under which Isabella came to the throne, the great traditions of her house, and the hopes which all Spain conceived of her government, it is impossible not to be conscious that the national heart must have been slowly chilled and hardened by tyranny before such a retribution could have fallen on the Royal head. The Times pities the Queen, but cannot exonerate her. Amid the gross political profligacy that was around her it was difficult to grow up pure, and Isabella has shewn her self on many occasions a crafty and unscrupulous sove reign. Her domestic life has been sullied by misbehaviour. Immorality might have been pardoned, not so indecency; and the Queen has not had the wisdom to hide her offences behind the veil of decorum. The scandal she has given has been even intolerable even to the most easy-tempered people in her dominions, and it will have been noticed that even within the last few days the presence of one person at the Court has beeri made a political question. But even here the recollec tions of our readers will suggest extenuating circum stances. The example she found in her own home was none of the best, and at the early age of 16 she was married, if report speak truly, without any regard being paid to her own wishes. Though it must be allowed that Isabella is not by character or education fitted to govern a great nation, yet we must think that to be placed in such circumstances from earliest infancy was a trial from which few would have emerged blameless. The Herald remarks that the latest news from Spain leaves us no room to doubt that the revolution has been accomplished. The Government of Isabella Segunda has fallen, and with it ends the dynasty of the Bourbons. So unanimous was the feeling of the Spaniards against the person no less than the policy of their Queen, that the success of the insurrection never really was in any periL For the first time almost in the history of Spain, there has been a pronuneiamento of the whole people, of a character so decided and energetic that it is impossible for other nations to discredit its genuineness. Hitherto we have had isolated risings of single provinces, military revolts, and conflicts of rival general with general without number. On the present occasion there has been a general, and apparently spontaneous, outburst of the national will, before which the throne of the Bourbons has gone down with a precipitancy and corn pleteness only to be matched in the history of that unlucky family. Within a fortnight after the landing of the exiled generals at Cadiz the whole of their design has been carried out, the Government has been overthrown, and the Queen is a fugitive with her family in French territory. And even in the presence of a calamity so sudden and overwhelming there are none to utter a single word of regret at the downfall of Isabella. Not a voice cries " God bless her ! " as the late darling of Spanish chivalry, the centre of a people's hope, and the object of a thousand liberal aspirations, is dismissed from the throne with a cold indif- ference more bitter than the worst contumely. She, in defence of whose youth brave men have shed their blood without stint—who was to have been the bright particular star of regenerate Spain, has been quitted as though she were a pollution. She has gone, and her going has been a relief such as her coming never-was. The nation has resumed the sovereignty, and so ends the last chapter in the long and laborious attempt at constitutional govern went in Spain. The Daily News says Isabella the Second of Spain, and the last of the Bourbon monarchs, is still young when she goes forth to share the exile of the family to which she belongs. She has not yet completed the 38th year of her age, and is in the 25th of her reign. That reign began in circumstances of considerable difficulty, yet of much hope on the part of th e Sp an i s h people. Her majority was advanced eleven month( by a vote of the Cortes, and she came to the throne as a girl Queen at an age at which she would have been better at school. At 16 she was married by a French intrigue to her maternal cousin, Don Francisco d'Assis—a match which has proved to be the bane of her life. From that time all the hopes that were formed about her have gradually disappeared. _The Court of the Spanish Queen has been in every respect the antithesis of • one she would have clone so well to imitate. Her government has been a series of insurrections, pro nuncimnentos, and J intrigues, though through them all Spain has shewn a - most vigorous front to the outer world. Meanwhile the influences of the nineteenth century have been gradually permeating Spanish society. Liberal ideas have been kept from expression to propa• gate themselves in silence. Under the external appearance of a boasted Catholic Unity, religious Liberalism has made prodi g i ous advances among the educated classes ; while the arLisans of the large towns and the middle classes generally have been alienated from the throne by a repressive policy, and driven to desire change in the Liberal direction. But all these influences might have been reckoned with if the Queen and her advisers had not been smitten with the blindness which precedes destruc tion. The least revolutionary of all the Latin races, the Spanish nation might have been one of the easiest to rule, had the Queen been desirous of acting the part of a really constitutional • monarch. But Bourbons, like Stuarts, must be wilful. They cannot learn to rule by obedience. They cannot even conciliate a people by acquiescence in its will. Even their code of morals must be their own, and not that which common mortals obey. It is the family folly which leads to the family doom. The natural end of a Bourbon throne is for its occupant to fly, and for the record of the flight to be accompanied with such signs of popular rejoicin g as we now hear of from Madrid--" Everywhere music is heard, The streets are illuminated." Some stir has been occasioned in the neighbourhood of Dilston by the appearance of Amelia, Countess of Der wentwater, with a retinue of servants, at the old baronial castle of her ancestors, Dilston Old Castle, and at once taking possession of the old ruin. Her ladyship, who is a fine-looking, elderly lady, was dressed in an Austrian military uniform, and wore a sword by her side in the most approved fashion. She was accompanied, as we have said, by several retainers, who were not long in unloading the waggon load of furniture which they had brought with them, and quickly deposited the various goods and chattles in the old castle, the rooms of which, as most of our readers are aware, are without roofs, but a plentiful supply of stout tarpaulings, which are provided for that purpose, will soon make the apartments habitable, if not quite so comfortable as those which the countess has just left. In the course of Tuesday morning her ladyship was visited by Mr. C. G. Grey, the receiver to the Green wich Hospital estates, who informed her she was tres passing upon the property of the commissioners, and that he would be obliged to report the circumstance to their lordships. Her ladyship received Mr. Grey with great courtesy. She informed that gentleman she was acting under the advice of her legal advisers, and was quite prepared to defend the legality of her proceedings. The sides of the principal room have already been hung with the Derwentwater family pictures, to some of which the countess bears a marked resemblance, and the old baronial flag of the unfortunate family already floats proudly from the summit of the fine, though old and dilapidated tower. These energetic proceedings of the countess will no doubt soon be questioned by the authorities in London, and we shall soon have their legality tried in a court of law. One, however, cannot but express a hope that the countess will have every fair play, and that if she has been illegally kept out of posses. sion of what is properly her own, reparation will be at once made, and thus end one of the darkest chapters in the history of our country by a becoming act both of equity and justice.—Northern Daily Express. TVELSTI COAL. The following appears in a contemporary :—' The Bute docks at Cardiff were made before the value of Welsh coal for steam purposes was discovered. Coal of an inferior quality for household purposes and iron were found in the neighbourhood of Cardiff, and the docks were formed there to facilitate the export of those articles. Men of small means used to dig coal and convey it about in carts. Some Welsh vessel had carried about ten tons of it to London, and the person who possessed it applied to a dealer to take it off his hands as it was useless, and the latter sold it for a mere trifle to the manager of some of the Thames steamers. This was upwards of twenty years ago. The captain of one of these steamers reported that the coal was the best he had ever used, for it generated more heat and caused less smoke than north country coal. The manager then applied to the dealer for more of the coal, or to tell him where it could be obtained, but the latter said he had no more, and all he knew was that it came from Wales. A thought now struck this person, who is still living, that something could be made out of this coal, and he and the present Sir James Duke set out together on an exploring expedition. They first went to Bristol, and there they learnt that there were coal-pits near Cardiff. They proceeded to Cardiff and put up at the Angel Inn there. During the evening a servant came into the room with a scuttle full of coal. One of the travellers examined the contents of the scuttle, and said to his companion, ' Why, here is the very article we are in search of.' They rang for the landlord, and said to him, ' You have a curious kind of coal here ; where did you get it from ?' The landlord replied that he wished he had never seen the coal ; it would not burn well ; it covered his house with dust ; and that it came from a place about twenty miles off. The travellers at once went to the place and engaged to take any quantity that could be supplied. Soon after this Welsh coal became celebrated throughout the world for steam purposes. The French Government purchase thousands of tons of Welsh coal annually for the use of the French navy. The Welsh coal-field commences in the Forest of Dean and extends to Milford Haven. The coal dug from the former place is too bituminous to be of use, and that which is dug from the latter place is anthracite. Midway between the two places, or about the neighbourhood of Cardiff, the coal is less bituminous and less like anthracite coal ; in fact, it possesses the precise qualities necessary for steam purposes. The Marquis of Bute gets a royalty for every ton that is dug out, and for every ton of the same coal that is shipped. Hellas the dues on the shipping that comes into the docks for the coal, and he has the ground-rents on hundreds of houses in Cardiff. Hundreds of persons are getting rich, and tens of thousands of persons are getting a living out of the Welsh coalfield. There are a great number of barren spots where nothing but a smoking tall chimney is seen. Beneath that chimney, in the bowels of the earth, there are perhaps a thousand men digging and delving for coal. The rows of cottages in which they and their families live are two or three miles off. The coal fetches about is. or Bs. a ton at the pit's mouth." LAW AND POLICE. ROBBERY FROM A RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the Mid dlesex Sessions, George Leach, a porter, was indicted for stealing thirty pairs of gloves, the property of the Great Western Railway Company. The articles in question were consigned to London tradesmen, hut were stolen in transit, and the prisoner was seen going into a pawn broker's with some of the goods in his possession, and on his lodgings being searched more of the stolen property was discovered. The accused was sentenced to nine months' Imprisonment, with hard labour. THE ALLEGED FORGERIES ON EARL DIIDLEY.—The magisterial investigation into the alleged forgeries of the acceptances of Lord Dudley and Mr. Eversfield have been brought to a close. The Earl of Dudley was called as a witness, and most positively denied not only the signature across the fictitious acceptance for £BOO purporting to be his, but any knowledge of the proposed new opera " Kong Toh)," or any of the circumstances con nected with its production, put forward in defence of the prisoners. Mr. Mapleson, being in Ireland, could not be called. The Lord Mayor ultimately committed the accused for trial. THE SALES OF HAY AND STRAW.-At the Worship street Police-court a salesman named Thomas Webb attended to ai'sw•er summonses which charged him with having, on the 22nd of September, caused to be sold in Whitechapel hay market, 64 trusses of straw, the said 64 trusses' not containing the full weight of 361 b. each ; and for having, on the same day, at the same place, unlawfully sold eight trussess of straw, the insides of the same being of inferior goodness, and consisting of rotten and dirty stuff, &c. When weighed the trusses were found to be 3391 b. short weight, and eight of them were filled with wet and dirty straw. Defendant was fined ls. for every truss, making £3 48., and 2s. costs on the first summons, and Bs. with 2s. costs on the second summons. The great clock at the Houses of Parliament, which has been performing with the greatest accuracy since it vas first fixed in the clock tower eight yeirs ago, is about to be stopped for a short time for the purpose of being cleaned by the makers, Messrs. E. Dent and Co., of the Strand, in whose charge it remains. THE• FREEMASONS AND THE PRINCE •OF WALES. —ln prospect of the approaching ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the New University Buildings at Glasgow, efforts have been made by the Masonic Brother- hood to secure the initiation of the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness "doesn't seem to see it," and has for the present declined, through Sir William Knollys, the Comptroller of his Household, all enclosure in " the mystic tie" which binds so many illustrious personages. THE LEGALITY OF PROVINCIAL SYNODS.—Sir R. Palmer and Mr. Stephens have given their opinion that if an archbishop in Ireland, without a writ from the Crown, cited the suffragans and invited the clergy of his province to a synod, no law would be violated. The disuse of synods since the Reformation seems to Sir R. Palmer and Mr. Stephens, however, to make it difficult to predict what the ultimate decision of the temporal courts might be if application were made to them to restrain ecclesias tical authority. Provincial synods, they add, can only be convened for objects ecclesiastical, in which category deliberations as to the means of maintaining the " temporal, or political establishment in Ireland" cannot be placed. THE FASHIONS IN PARIS. —According to the Modes Plustrees, short dresses are to be worn in France this winter, however rude and inquisitive may prove the winter's winds, ladies wearing a waterproof. " The ladies in the streets of Paris," observes the writer, with a sigh, "will look like a number of people who have attended a funeral ceremony. Paris will be put in a sort of half-mourning. Still," says the promulgation of this waterproof decree, " the ladies will only wear this capote du soldat in the streets ; they will throw it off on entering the room, as a theatrical fairy gets rid of tlu gloomy, rusty, witch-like covering which hides the pretty winged costume of another and a better world." Th. fantastic costumes, the boots, even the false hair that flows from the back of the head, will be shrouded, hid by this cloak and capote of waterproof envelope. The writer in the Modes says that it is well to be resigned and make the best of it. He exclaims, " Nous violli oondamndes au waterproof. Heureusement que ce n'est pas b, perpiStuit6 et gull y aura biers encor quelques dial dentev." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1868. THE RISING IN SPAIN. (From the Times' Correspondent.) MADRID, Sept. 27, Evening. In order to set to rights the reader's mind, which must needs be bewildered by the crowding together of a vast farago of telegraphic intelligence, it may, perhaps, be desirable to give the shortest possible chronicle of the events connected with the Spanish insurrection from the beginning. General Prim left London on the 11th of this month ; he reached Cadiz on the 17th, and was received on board the frigate Zaragoza. He had been preceded by Gen. Milans del Bosch, who had chartered a steamer at Gravesend, and sailed for the Canary Islands. Upon Prim's arrival, on the same 17th, a Council was held on board the frigate, in which Prim advised that the outbreak should be put off till his friend should ar rive at Cadiz with Serrano and the other Generals from the islands. Prim's wishes were, however, overruled, as it was thought that there might be danger in delay, and on the 18th, at noon, the sig nal for the insurrection was given by the flags and guns of the frigate, and by the " Hymn of Riego " sung in chorus by the crew. One hour later the ex ample of the Zaragoza was followed by the San Fer nando and Carraca, under the command of General Primo de la Rivera. During the night the cry T.-:as taken up by the Regiment Cantabria. The Artil lery regiment joined in the morning. There was no resistance on the part of the authorities, no struggle, not a drop of blood shed. On the 19th the steamer conveying the banished generals hove in sight; one of the insurgent men-of-war went to meet them, and they landed in the evening. In the afternoon of the same day, the 19th, General Izqui erdo had pronounced at Seville, amid the unani mous acclamations of the people and the whole garrison. On the 20th there was a general confe rence of the insurgent Generals at Cadiz. On the 21st Serrano, De Rodas, and Lopez Dominguez left for Seville. Da Rodas was destined to the com mand of the vanguard. The proclamation to the Spaniards, signed by these Generals, was published in Cadiz on the 21st, though it bears the date of the 19th. I have also before my eyes a proclama tion of Admiral Topete, commander of the Zara goza, of the 17th ; another of General Prim to the nation, bearing the date of the 19th ; and another by Prim, of the same date, announcing the appoint ment of a Provisional Junta for Cadiz, and another for Seville. The Cadiz Junta is presided over by Don Juan Topete. The President at Seville is Don Antonio Aristequi. Each Junta consists of 17 members besides the President. The official chronicle does not go beyond the 21st, but the subsequent operations of the insurgents can easily be made out from common report. The insurgent men-of-war began to cruise along the coast, and endeavoured to rouse the various sea ports, but not always with the same success. The movement was favourably received at Ferrol, at Santander, at Santona, and other places; it failed at Barcelona and Valencia. Everywhere, however, the decision came from the spontaneous impulse of the troops, not of the citizens. These latter do not seem to have ventured on the initiative, however enthusiastically they may have fraternized with the soldiers after the event. Collision seems to have been infrequent, but chiefly, if not wholly, among the military. In the meantime the land forces of the insurgents came forward from Seville to Cor dova. Malaga, Velez-Malaga, Almeria, Algesiras, • and all the cities of Andalusia were easily and ra pidly won, and bands sho we 1 themselves here and there almost throughout the peninsila. On two point=, at Bejar, in the kingdom of Leon, and at Alcoy, in the Province of Alicante, manufacturing places, the movement was both spontaneous and self-sustained. At Carthagena and Corunna the men-of-war repeatedly summoned the garrisons to surrender. At Carthagena it seems that General Prim was in command of the three vessels, and that at the second summons he threatened the place with bombardment, when all the vessels in the ports, boats, launches, a few gunboats, and a steamer, joined the insurgent squadron. This is all that was known previous to the interruption of communica tion with the place to which I allude I in my last. At Corunna, also, the frigate Victoria and the steamer Buenaventura have threatened the garrison with bombardment. However, the main interest is concentrated upon the movements of the hostile forces in Andalusia. The Marquis Novaliches, Commander of the Royal forces in Andalusia, had already crossed the Sierra Morena, and had reached Baylen on the 23d. Bay len is 48 Spanish leagues (the league 34 English miles) from Madrid, 18 leagues from Cordova, and 43 from Seville. On the same day, the 23d, the main force of Novaliches advanced to Andujar, leagues further. On the 24th, at Andujar, Nova liches had with him the Regiment Mallorca, the Cazadores de Madrid, and the Principe Regiment, with one regiment of mounted artillery and two cavalry regiments. Opposite to him, to the best of his knowledge, he had the Baylen and Cantabria Regiments, one battalion of Asturias, the Caza dores of Tarifa, those of Segorbe, and others, be sides a regiment of siege artillery, a battalion of marines, a regiment of mounted cavalry, a cavalry regiment, and a company of condestables —possibly a local police. At the head of evidently inferior forces Novaliches came to a standstill at Andujar, and sent for reinforcements, which can, however, only have reached him on Saturday or this very day, as the passes of the Sierra Morena were strongly beset by armed bands of peasants till very lately, and are hardly altogether free at the present moment. It seems, nevertheless, that the Marquis pursued his way towards Cordova, and his van guard had got as far as Alcolea with nothing but two leagues of country and the broad stream of the Guadalquiver between him and the city: His very latest advices, however, bearing date of this day, are that " it is impossible for him to attack Cor dova." September 28. The news to-clay is serious. Concha, the Prime Minister, upon receiving Novaliches' telegram that "it was impossible to attack Cordova," sent back word that "if he himself or any one of his compa nions were on the spot, he would march on Cordova at all hazards ;" whereupon Novaliches insisted that " Cordova was not to be taken without shedding streams of blood, and that he would not attempt it, except on receiving most positive orders." The whole of this was immediately communicated to the Queen, and her answer was that they should pro ceed on the plan laid out by herself the day before yesterday—viz., that " all the loyal troops should be gathered together and concentrated upon the Basque Provinces." If such are, indeed, the Queen's orders, and if they are obeyed, all the rest of the country will have to be abandoned, and we shall soon have Prim and his friends in Madrid. Apropos to the Queen and the Basque Provinces it appears that during her stay in Lequeitio the deputation of the Fueros, or Estates, the only sha dow of ancient constitutional charters in Spain still subsisting in those said provinces, pressed the Queen to swear her constitutional oath to the Fueros, by way of a formal recognition and sanction of local franchises and liberties, which the Basques have at all times claimed, and often vindicated, but which many of the recent Spanish monarchs have disregarded. Upon the advice of her then Mi nister, Gonzalez Bravo, the Queen refused to accede to the wishes of the deputation. But her Majesty comes forward now and asks for a levy of 8,000 men from the provinces, whereupon the deputation, falling back upon their rights and privileges, refuse to entertain the demand of the Queen, and only consent to vote a subsidy of 200 men for each of the three provinces, GOO men in all, and these are to be destined exclusively to the pro tection of the person of the monarch. Another heavy blow seems to have fallen upon Queen Isabella. It appears that the only man-of war which continued to hoist the royal flag, and only because it was at San Sebastian, within reach of the fire of the land batteries, received sealed orders from the Queen to sail for Carthagena. But on leaving the commander left a sealed packet for her Majesty, in which he said that " he no longer recognised the Government of Isabel IL, and would make his best way to join the insurgents." All these tidings come to me from private sources on which 1 ought to place implicit reliance. A dis ti action should always be drawn between what I give as a mere rumour and what I state as trust worthy information. There seems to be no doubt that the insurgent bands are everywhere increasing in number and strength The interruption of cor respondence with Carthagena, both postal and tele graphical, still continues; there is every presump tion of that city having surrendered to Prim. On the other hand, Alcoy seems to have been aban doned by the insurgents, it is said, to spare the in habitants the horrors of a siege. A force of 2,500 armed peasantry quitted the place on the advance of the Royal troops. Gijon is said to have pro nounced. This, as you know, is the seaport of the Province of Oviedo, Asturias, and has in frequent instances been foremost in revolutionary movements. General Moriones, with 800 men, passed through Cenizeros, Navarra, on Saturday. The band of Rojas have torn up the rails and cut the wires at Santa Elena, near Despenaperros. The Civil Governor of Madrid has ordered the banishment, within 24 hours, of Don Juan Moreno Benites, Don Ricardo Muniz, Don Eduardo Gallet, Don Carlo Rodrigo Navarro, Don Ramon Goicor roeten, and others. It is not expected that the order will be obeyed in any instance. The gentle men who have received it will simply hide and await the hour of deliverance. SEPT. 28, AT NOON. Grenada has risen. The impression produced on the Government by this new check has been so great that orders have been immediately tele graphed to Novaliches to attack Cordova at all hazards. IVe shall see the result. Au attack. is also to be made upon Bejar. The inhabitants have rejected all terms of surrender, and declare that " they will die to a man rather than again sub mit to the iniquitous Government of Isabella II." I think I have the best reasons to give a flat con tradiction to the statements of the Madrid Gazette with respect to any horrors or atrocities committed at 'Malaga. Up to the 24th that city had gone through no such scenes as the Gazette describes, and the very best order prevailed. The good will and harmony between the troops and the people could not have been more complete. Large contributions to supply the poorest inhabitants with work and work's wages were forthcoming. More lately thieves and other criminals who attempted to ply their several trades have been shot. The impression made on the Madrid public by the report, now fully confirmed, of the execution of Senor Valhn by order of Col. Cevallos-Escotera, nephew of Marshal Pezuela, Count of Cheste, is so great that the Government endeavour to excuse it on the ground of madness. The plea, however, is not admitted. The colonel went through the form of a council of war, but the sentence was not submitted to the approbation of the general in command, as the law would have required. There is no other word for such a deed than assassination. Novaliches is said to have been furious when the wanton murder was made known to him, and Mar shal Concha is dismayed at the probable conse quences. It will for some time bring no luck to the Royal officers who may happen to fall into the hands of the insurgents. The man guilty of the first bl.oody crime in a civil war must be held an swerable for all the subsequent deeds of retaliation which he provokes, and it is remarkable that the first signal for bloodshed should have been given by a relative of that notoriously truculent Marquis of Pezuela. P.S.—The national lottery, which was to be drawn today, has been suspended till the 3d of next month, obviously because it is not convenient to the Government in its distress to make the payments. People familiar with Spanish affairs assure me that such an incident has hardly ever occurred before. BIRTH-PLACE OF THE BONAPARTES. It will always be the chief pride of Ajaccio that she gave birth to the great Emperor. Close to the harbour, in a public square by the sea-beach, stands an equestrian statue of the conqueror surrounded by his four brothers on foot. They are all attired in Roman fashion, and are turned seaward, to the ' west, as if to symbolize the emigration of this fa mily to conquer Europe. There is something ludi crous and forlorn in the stiffness of the group— something even pathetic, when we think how Na poleon gazed seaward, westward, from another is land, no longer on horseback, no longer laurel crowned, an unthroned, unseated conqueror, on St. Helena. his father's house stands close by. An old Italian waiting-woman, who had been long in the service of the Murats, keeps it and shows it. She has the manners of a lady, and can tell many stories of the various members of the Bonaparte family. Those who fancy that Napoleon was born in a mean dwelling of poor parents will be surprised to find so much space and elegance in these apart ments. Of course his family was not rich by com parison with the riches of French or English nobles. But for Corsicans they were well to do, and their house has an air of antique dignity. The chairs of the entrance saloon have been lite rally stripped of their coverings by enthusiastic visitors : the horse-hair stuffing underneath protrudes itself with a sort of comic pride, as if protesting that it came to be so tattered in an honourable ser vice. Some of the furniture seems new ; but many old presses inlaid with marbles, agates, and lapis lazuli, such as Italian families preserve for genera tions, have an air of respectable antiquity about them. Nor is there any doubt that the young Napoleon led his minuets beneath the stiff giran doles of the formal dancing-room. There, too, in a dark, back-chamber, is the bed in which he was born. At its foot is a photograph of the present . Prince Imperial sent by the Empress Eugenie, who, when she visited the room, wept much—pianse molto (to use the old lady's phrase)—at seeing the place where such lofty destinies began. On the wall of the same room is a portrait of Napoleon himself as the young general of the Republic—with the citi zen's unkempt hair, the fierce fire of the Revolution in his eyes, a frown upon his forehead, lips com pressed, and quivering nostrils ; also one of his mother, the pastille of a handsome woman, with Napoleonic eyes and brows and nose, but with a vacant simpering mouth. Perhaps the provincial artist knew not how to seize the expression of this feature, the most difficult to draw. For we cannot fancy that Letizia had lips without the firmness or the fulness of a majestic nature. The whole first story of this house belonged to the Bonaparte family. The windows look out partly on a little court and partly on narrow streets. It was, no doubt, w the hen memory of this home that made Napo leon, Emperor, design schemes for the good of Corsica.—Front " Ajaccio," in the Cornhill Magazine for October. PROP3SED REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE GENERAL POST OFFICE.--A crowded meeting of the auxiliary newspaper sorters was held on Monday even ing, at the Post Office Tavern, Noble-street, E.C., to take into consideration what further steps, if any, should be taken to appeal against the proposed reduc tion. It appears that about a week since a notice, signed by the assistant-supe►intendent, was posted in the office, stating that the hours of duty (4 to 8 p.m.) were intended to be changed to 5 to 8 p.m., and the wages reduced from 10s. to 7s. 6d. per week. This created great dissatisfaction, and at a previous meeting the men resolved not to sign for the reduced rate. The document was put forward for signature on Monday evening, and out of 130 men only four signed. The chairman con gratulated the meeting on the response which had been made by the men, and iu the course of the dis cussion it appeared that under the pew system most of them would bo away from their homes for five hours per day for the sum of 15d., and although many were men with large families, they would rather chance what they might earn at their various trades than submit to the proposed reduction. Some had been seven or eight years in the service. It was finally resolved that no fur ther action be taken in the matter till the issue of some further order from the Post-office authorities, but the men were unanimous against any reduction of wages in what over form it might be presented. L ADVERTISEMENT.] —ETolloway's Ointment and Pills Constant Success.—No diseases are more trying to the temper and more exhausting to its constitution than the pains in muscles and joints, caused by exposure to wet or cold. Wherever the seat of suffering it will only bo neces sary to foment the affected part with warm water, dry thoroughly, and immediately rub in Holloway's inestim able ointment to obtain ease. Gout, rheumatism, neuralgia, and tic-doloreux are soon relieved, and ultimately cured, by the use of this unequalled unguent, aided by Holloway's purifying and aperitive pills. Under this judicious treat ment the afflicted parts soon 'cease to ache, and shortly re gain their natural feeling and appearance. These remedies are invaluable for curing spinal affections and nervous diseases. SPEECH OF MR. ATKINSON ON THE NATIONAL £ EBT OF THE UNITED STATES. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a gentleman now well known for his sound views on finance and their lucid exposition, delivered a long and impor tant speech on the 9th instant to the Massachusetts Republican State Convention on the National Debt. He commenced by stating that he justified ; not de fended, the fiscal policy of the Republican party, which, instead of needing defence, ought to be to many a proud record. Though he bad arranged the plan he proposed to lay before them, the data had been furnished by the Hon. David A. Wells. His first point was, that the statement commonly. accepted of the maximum United States debt was erroneous, as the debt exceeded by some hundreds of millions the highest statement ever given by the Treasury, which was that of the Ist of August, 1865, when the amount was $2,757,689,571. These figures only represented the debt entered on 'the Treasury books, while a large liability remained since recognized and paid, but not at that time passel The true liability in the year 1865 was $3,287,733,329, and since that date over $800,000,000 had been paid off, or one quarter of the sum total, besides paying the interest. Mr. Atkinson personally knew of large sums due in excess of the debt, as then shown by the Treasury returns. The manufacturing corporations with which he was connected held claims for army sup plies amounting to millions of dollars, which were paid in 7 3-10 Notes, and they went to the savings' banks from whom the manufacturers had obtained the advances, to aid them in fulfilling their con tracts. After showing that his figures were official, and not to be controverted, he proceeded to prove the truth of his assertion, that from Ist April, 1865, to June 30th, 1868, the ruling party in the United States bad paid over $800,000,000 of the principal of the debt, reducing it by that sum : REVENUE. The receipts from the customs have been as follows: April 1, 1865, to June 30, 1865 530,014,387 July 1, 1865, to June 30, 1866 July 1, 1866, to June 30, 1867 July 1, 1867, to June 30, 1868 Total . 5548,978,848 INTERNAL REVENUE. April 1, 1865, to June 30, 1865 July 1, 1865, to June 30, 1866 July 1, 1866, to June 30, 1867 July 1, 1867, to Juno 30, 1868 Total 5812,336,278 MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES. The receipts under this head have been derived from the following sources, enumerated in the order of their importance : First—Premium on sales of gold. Second - Sales of military and naval stores and of cap tured and abandoned property. Third —Direct taxes. Fourth—Public lands. The receipts from the last have been comparatively in considerable. April 1, 1865, to June 30, 1865 July 1, 1865, to June 30, 1863 July 1, 1866, to June 30, 1867 July 1, 1867, to Juno 30, 1868 Total $178,743,769 RECAPITULATION.. Custom 3 Internal revenue Dliseellaneous $548,978,536 812,336,278 178,743,769 Total.. 51,540,038,583 The above total, therefore, represents the exact amount which the Treasury of the United States has received from sources other than loans since the close of the war. The main question is, How has this sum, amount ing to three-fifths of the present debt, been disposed of ? The liability contracted on army account formed a part of the debt as much as if the bonds had been issued and entered on the Treasury books on the Ist April, 1863, though the disbursements up to 30th June, 1866, on this account were as follows : April 1 to Juno 30, 1863 5414,196,377 July 1 to Sept. 30, 1865 .. 165,369,247 Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1865 68,122,511 Jan. 1, 1866, to June 30, 1866 50,857,923 Total 15 mouths . . During the same period the expenditures made under the direction of the Navy Department were as follows : April 1, 1865, to Dec. 31, 1863 Jan. 1, 1856, to June 30, 1866 Total, 15 months It thus appars that the disbursements made under the direction of the Army and Navy I/apartments during the 15 months immediately succeeding April 1, 1865, the month in which the rebal armies surrendered, amounted to 9774,865,851. But the liability .which existed at that date was even more. There were the debts which humanity and honour alike have imposed upon the country, and which Congress has recognized and paid. We were then liable for pen sions, for the equalization of bounties, for further arrears of pay of deceased soldiers, for the c:aims of States, for the property of loyal men destroyed, for additional prize money, for the reconstruction of the rebellious States, for the care of the freedmen, and for the burial of the dead. The amount of these liabilities which have been recog nized and paid, and which are not included in the previous statement, is as follows : Pensions $62,828,955 Bounties 49,382,859 Prize money Reimbursing States for war expendi tures 12,330,188 Claims of loyal men Freedmen's B , , ureau ........................ 5,617000 Miscellaneous, including all expenses , of Reconstruction and National Cemeteries, estimated .................. 3,000,000 Add expenses of the army an d navy for $145,912,401 fifteen months ....... ............ 774,865,851. Total $920,778,252 And in this total is the sum to bo added to the debt as it stood upon the books of the Treasury April 1, 1865 ...... . --- Making the aggregate of which was the actual maximum of the war debt, being the expenses of the war not paid as they were incurred. These figures are all official, carefully prepared by the Hon. David A. Wells. • At the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, the debt was ........................ $2,511,000,000 But in this amount there were included $26,000,000 of bonds loaned to the Paci- • fic Railroad, and to be paid by them...... 26,000,000 Net debt .................. $2,485,000,000 The Present debt, therefore, deducted from the maxi mum debt in 1865, proves the actual payment during three years of quasi peace of $ 8 02,733,329, or about one-quarter of the entire war liability. The Alaska purchase, advance to Pacific Rail road, reduction of whisky tax, have for the present slightly increased the debt. These figures show to what purpose the revenue of the past three years has been applied, and the balance can be struck as as follows : Income 3k years War debt ... . $1,540,058,583 War interesi.Wd ................. 430,414,883 1,241,218,212 Ordinary expense s 5298,810,371 including the cost of the late Indian war and the large sum paid under the direction of the Engi neer Bureau for river and harbour improvement. Mr. Atkinson goes on elaborately to show that in stead of extravagantly the Government has been conducted more economically than Buchanan's, though hampered by a hostile Executive, while admitting the charge of excessive expenditure against both Administrations. The difference, ac cording to him, was that the Buchanan expenditure was to arm and equip the South for its war against the Federal Government, while the extravagance of the last three years is the result of appointments to, and maintenance in office of corrupt officials by Andrew Johnson. Mr. Atkinson thus recapitulates his figures : IWe have proved that the ordinary expenses of the Go vernment for three years and a quarter, including the suppression of Indian hostilities and nearly $10,000,000 for river and harbour improvement, have been at a less rate than during the last fiscal year prior to the war. We have proved that to the alleged maxi- mum debt, Aug. 1,1865 $2,757,639,571 there must be added a. portion of the lia bility of 8920,778,252, which existed April 1, andd tf which thera was still un- settled on tile Ist of August the sum 0f... 530,013,758 and we then have the actual maximum debt $3,287,733,329 IN WHAT FORM WAS THIS DEBT ? Ist. Due within three years. Ist--The liability not then entered upon the books was all recognized and settled within three years, and most of it was due and paid within one year $530,013,758 2d—The debt upon the books was mostly due at short date, and consisted of the following obligationa : Overdue on which interest had ceased 1,503,020 Compound interest notes due in 1866 and • 1867 7 3-10 Treasury notes due in 1867 and 1868 830,000,000 Certificates of indebtedness due in 1866 Temporary loan on 10 days' notice, 5 and 6 per cent One and two-year notes at .5 per cent Suspended requisitions Six per Cent. Bonds issued before the n ar, and due in 1867 and 1868 Total debt due 'within threo years 51,825,201,473 Due Debt on Demand. Notes known as legal-tender notes, or " greenbacks," which the Republican party now recognizes as a debt due on demand, and has paid in part, or pro poses to pay, or to fund in interest-bear ing bonds 6433,160,560 Fractional currency $459,505,311 Less cash in the Treasury 88,218,055 $371,287 25 Funded Debt. Old Five per Cents. duo in 1871 and 1874 5 per Cent. 10-40 Bonds duo in 1904 172,770,100 6 per Cent. Bonds due in 1880 and 1881 6 per Cent. 5-20 Bonds due in 1882 and 1881 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad, duo 1825 1,258,000 --- 1,091,244,600 Maximum 53,287,733,329 Mr. Atkinson challenges a denial that the Re publican party has managed the finances of the country with a success before unknown in the world. Until he entered upon this examination he had not been convinced of the necessity for the issue of the legal-tender notes as a war measure, and he asserts the desire of the party to remove from the people at the earliest moment the curse of an inconvertible paper currency. If extrordi nary efforts have been made, a substantial re sult is shown, and this has been secured in spite of that worst form of taxation upon consumers, inconvertible paper money. Financial courage ap pears to have been lost since the war ended, or pro positions to issue Bonds for a long term at a low rate would not have been made. That the United States pays a high rate, and that its credit is bad, is due to the luxury with which it indulges itself of Democratic leaders, as Pendleton, Forrest, and the like. "The fraudulent proposition of the Demo cratic party, seconded by a few weak Republicans, to substitute Bonds bearing no • interest for the Five-Twenty Bonds, thus defrauding our creditors without paying our debt, has, for the time being, prevented us from availing ourselves of the privi lege of real payment, and has kept oar rate of inte rest very high ; but let us keep our faith in the nation, and not give up the idea of paying the debt within twenty or thirty years." He estimates $200,000,000 as a charge already paid for the dis honest proposals of the Democratic party, and says : " One Republican member of Congress in Maine, one in Missouri, and I know not how many more, have been or will be rejected by their constituents solely because they were weak enough to be misled by the false counsels of false leaders." The following are his remarks on the reduction of taxes :—" We have reduced our taxes $167,000,000 per annum, and when George H. Pendleton alleges that the taxes now amount to $500,000,000 a year he wilfully asserts what he knows to be false. We may well repeat the pertinent question put, I be lieve, by the Hon. William Whiting—' Are Pendleton and the Democratic leaders intentionally attempt ing to destroy the credit of the nation, in order that we may be unable to obtain the means to put down the new rebellion which they propose to in augurate ? But what is more important we have reduced expenses yet more : For the year ending June 30, 1865, the ex penses of the War Department were.,. $1,031,323,000 For the year ending June 30, 1868, the en tire expons_‘s of the army proper, exclud ing bounties, State claims, and other legacies of the war, were... 56,613,000 For the current year the estimates are less than 40,000,000 The expenses for the Navy Department for the year ending June 30, 1865, were 123,000,000 Year ending June 30, 1838 Estimate for the current year 17,300,000 " We are charged by Mr. Pendleton with heavy deficiency bills, but we reply that they are rendered necessary by the frauds of the honourable Demo crats of the whisky ring kept in office by Andrew Johnson. " Mr. Atkinson takes a different• view of the national Wealth Of the United States from that given in the Nation. He calculates immigration to have added to this wealth since the war $63,000,000 directly, and $900,000,000 indirectly. On the opening of the Pacific Railroad he sees in the dry plains be tween the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains a new central Flowery Kingdom established by the Chinese, who are peculiarly skilful in irrigation, and well calculated for that and other work, such as the production of cotton and silk. lie quotes these words of Mr. Wells :—" Since the termina tion of the war more iron furnaces have been erected, more pig iron smelted, more bars rolled, more steel made, more coal mined, more lumber sawed and h e wed, more vessels built upon our inland waters, more houses constructed, more manufactories of dif ferent kinds started, more cotton spun and woven, more petroleum collected, refined, and exported, than in any equal period in the history of the coun try, either before, during, or since the war. . Since the termination of the war over 5,000 miles of new railroad have been constructed and opened for use in the United States, to say nothing of the lines, in the Southern States which have been re stored and reopened." Referring to agriculture, Mr. Atkinson observes :—" The agricultural pro ducts of the United States have steadily increased both in quantity and value since the termination of the war, and the product of agriculture increased in quantity all through the war. We are rapidly re storing the number of animals, both horses and cattle, to their noriaal proportion. It may be that this year the crop of grain will be in full proportion to what it would have been had there been no un natural or forced stimulus to manufactures by which labour has been diverted from agriculture." The Southern States are thus disposed off :—" Let us glance. at the. condition of the - South. It is alleged that the reconstruction plan of Congress has been a failure. Let us test it by economic re sults. It is alleged that the South has been ground down under a military despotism ; that there has been no labour that could . be relied upon ; and, lastly, that they have had no capital. The last allegation, we will admit, because we know that the tendency of Northern capital to the South has been checked by its insecurity. The crops of this year are, therefore, free from mortgage, for no one would trust a planter this last spring. Now let us see what is the result. If the South has had neither labour nor capital, their crops must be the spontaneous production of nature, and they have— First, An annual supply of food for the consump tion of the whole population, say 10,000,000 to 12,000,000. Second, A crop of cotton which pro mises to equal or to exceed that of last year, which has been proved by the investigation of our Cotton Manufacturers' Association to have been nearly or quite 3,000,000 bales, or much more than the com pilers of the commercial tables will admit, and more than three-fifths the largest crop ever raised before. Third, A crop of rice which the Charleston Daily News asserts will prove sufficient to drive all im ported rice out of the home market during the coining year. Fourth, 50,000 to 100,000 tierces of sugar. Fifth, A crop of tobacco so large as to make it one of our main dependences as an article to be taxed. " THEY ARE RICH ALREADY. " In short, the South his a saleable surplus of the aggregate value of $400,000,000 to $500,000,000, and all this liith their harvest of fool is, if we cau trust the evidence of their Dcmoc,Tatic leaders, the spontaneous product of nature. What may not be the result when General Grant is elected, peace assured, labour rendered effective, and capital safe? " THE WAR WORTH ITS COST. "Let me express my profound conviction that, as a purely economic question, the war will pay for itself, since the increased production of the Southern States, which will follow the abolition of slavery, will iu the next 20 years mare than pal the entire cost of the war by which slavery No ended. -The question of taxation is therefore a mere question of distribution of the burden, and we must see to it that the late rebel States do not throw off all the' burden and reap only the benefit by allowing them to aid the Democratic party is repudiating the debt." 211 E LOBBY SYSTEM. ( From the Anglo-American Tinzes) Some of the leading newspapers of Massachu setts, more especially the Spring field Republican, have lately made a vigorous stand against the - 0 0 of corruption which had invaded even the Legisla' tare of that State. Some time ago one of its ca• respondents writing from Boston described the syo' tem of log-rolling and bribery, and openly furnished the names of those who worked as agents. Head' ing his letter " The Spoilers, the Spoiled, and the Spoils," be gave this curious information for the benefit of the voters of Massachusetts. " The chief man of the lobby is E. D. Foster, of Cheshire, a rough, tobacco-chewing Yankee, who was cut out for a first-rate horse jockey, but is probably spoiled now for any honest (?) occupation. He goes here by the name of " General," though whether the title was gained in the Home Guards or from his skill in marshaling his legislative forces Ido not know. His chief assistant and fugleman iS Robert C. Nichols, of Boston, usually called " Bob" for short, Charles Porter, and one Young, also o f Boston, and lesser lights are " Gen." John L. Swift and Henry A. Marsh, the latter the chief en' gineer and manager of the P. L. L's. It shoulhl be mentioned, and I particularly call the attew tion of Collector Russell to the fact, that Nichols, Young, and Swift are officers in the Custom House, and ought to have, if they have not, some regular duties there besides drawing their salaries. The lobby assignation house is at No. 5, Avon-plaee , a quiet, if not respectable locality, leading off how Washington-street, near the Theatre Comigne' The proprietor of the house is Charles Hayward , formerly a lawyer of Springfield, or perhaps it would be more correct to say the proprietor is Mrs- Hayward, his wife. In this house the lobby bare rooms, and there the members of the Legislature are invited to a "free and easy" every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the session. There " General" Foster and "Bob" are alwaye to b ° found, one attending at the door, while the othe r pours out the liquors. From eight o'clock in th e evening till twelve or two o'clock a.m. meo hers Of the Legislature come and go. Li q uors and cigars are plenty and free, and there ar e facilities for a hand at cards, for all who like, s ° that it is no wonder all get pretty jolly, and n ° remark is excited when the President of the Senate joins the model farmer from Bolton, lkir' Howe, in a jovial song or dance. On breaking up, each member is reminded that a " little mat" ter" is coming up to-morrow, which it is portant to have passed, and the little matter al" ways passes. It is said that 2,500 dollars a yo'l rent is paid for the place, and so anxious ar e some of the members to have it kept up that thel even contribute to its support. For instance, tins year Mr. Howe, of Bolton, is put down for 2 00 dollars, and doubtless he will get his money W I: in some way. This is, the place where Presiden t Clark, of the Agricultural College, was wont to re" fresh himself in former times after his arjuons labours in behalf of the prohibitory law, and her e is where the Senator from Eastern Hampden, Ai r : Alexander, has taken those degrees in sanctity tha t entitled him to canonization at the hands of th e North Adams people, assembled last week to Itas' e a jollification over the success of the tunnel. Her a it is claimed that thirty of the forty Senators, il l; eluding the President, h ave h a d the i r convivial head-quarters during the past session, and thre e ' fourths of the House have been more or less Co p ' stant attendants. If Berkshire people want to kao sy more about this place, let them ask one of the Pitts field Representatives, and the people of Frankli n may apply to their Senato r ." Th e correspon dent asserts the corrupting i n fl uence t o b e d ue to the Hoosac tunnel, and so powe r f u l an d b o ld h as the o lobby become that at a publi c di nner g i ven b y State printers it was defended and justified as ‘ 4 necessary and meritorious adjunct of the Legis ll ; tore—indeed the third house. Th e l o bb y d oes n° receive much money from the tunnel interes' ; they work together, each aiding the other, the lobby being paid by jobs it can put through wit h the aid of the tunnel interest, and in return aIWaP forwarding that interest. For •instance in the O r respondent's words, " th a t i n i qu i tous measure, the Maverick East Boston B r id ge pro j ec t , never wow; have gone through, especially over the Governor t veto, if its frie n d s h a d not prom i se d to vote f or the tunnel. It is notorious that Towne, of Fitch' burg, and Tompki ns , o f E as t B os t on, made t he bargain. The appropriation for Provincetown 133 r bour would have been voted down if the south sho t : folks had not gone for the tunnel. The permisai° given to the towns along the line of the Williapir burg and North Adams Railroad to take stock 11/ the enterprise wou ld h ave b een w i t hh e ld h ad not the advocates of that measure given in their adherea° to the tunnel. It has come to be useless for gap honest man to try to g e t any h ones t measure thrOlig our Legislature on its merits alone." If the O r respondent has not grossly e xaggera t e d , we 10.1/1i reasonably ask—if such thin gs can b e d one in the green tree, what can be done in the dry ? 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It has produced a surprisingly D e , c td ficial effect on his health, a n d hi s H o li ness cannot praise this e;:de lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 `'.;•„ No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' complaint, wasdng away, debility, nervousness, with a nor palpitation all over, bad_ digestion, constant sleeplessness,Srd the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; POl Stuart de Decies, Lord Lie u t enant o f W aterford, of many dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agopy, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ilaiulel4o ; spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure 91 1 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, o f F r i m l ey, Surrey, of 30 Yeod diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, y ot partial deafness. 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Marriages. , TREVOR—HAMILTON—On the 29th ult., at Lynsted, Gordon Trevor, Esq., Captain Bombay Staff Corps, l tet 80th Regiment, to Augusta Christina., second daue of the Rev. John Hamilton, vicar of Lynsted. t 9, WOLFE —CL E m ENT —O n th e 28 t h ult., at Faringdon,l „ 1 0 '0 George Wolfe, Esq., of Clifton, Gloucestershire, to A° Mary, only daughter of the late Capt. Clement, la. Deaths. - - BARNARD—On the 29th ult., at South-hill House, Torq° l the Rev. Charles James Batuard, aged 71. ,sef GRATES —On the 30th u lt. , at S t. Katharine Dock ID'. Harriet, wife of Wm. Chas. Graves, Esq. r i s ROBERTS—On the 28th ult., at Pl ease l ey - va l e, near th field, John R o b er t s, E sq., of Collin House, county J" trim, aged 78. RUTTER—On the 27th ult., Emma., wife of R. Rutter, V ( /' Morden-road, Merton, Surrey, aged 54. YEAR—On the 29th ult., a t 8, Kensington-crescent, - a -Or r ington, Thomas de Vear, Esq., of Lisle-street, Leiceste square, aged 88. 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