The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE .PIIBLIO :01111,NALS. The Tinzes says that an intelligent Frenchman residing in this country has remarked, almost in a tone of , complaint, that Englishmen appear to regard the Spanish revolution with no warmer feeling than curiosity. The observation is not quite correct, but, if it were, we do not see that we should be much to blame. The revolution in Spain has given us no cause for alarm, compassion, or anxiety. The insurrection itself was accomplished with out bloodshed or disturbance ; the Queen and her followers 'removed themselves quietly from the scene, and a con vulsion which in most cases would have been attended 'by grievous suffering is passing away harmlessly, It is a matter of uncerta , n'y whether the Government is to be Republican or MI nirchical. It is true we do not contemplate the possible adoption of a Republic with the all-engrossing interest experienced by those who think Republicanism the test of political perfectibility; but neither, on the other hand, should we regard that pheno menon with aversion or terror if the inclination or necessi ties of the Spanish people should be found to take that direc tion. The time has gone by when the spectacle of a Republic on European territory would alarm Monarchical States for the safety of their institutions. The time has not come for hailing such a spectacle with jubilation and confidence as a manifest step in human progress. But there is another branch to this question. The Republic which all people who prophesy a Republic are expecting for Spain is a Federal Republic, whereas this form of Republic is abominated beyond measure by all genuine advocates of Republicanism. In the eyes of these men Federalists are as obnoxious as the representatives of the Reform League in the eyes of Mr. Finlen and his followers ; and just as Mr. Finlen him self declared the other day that, of the two, he preferred Tories to Liberals, so a thorough-going Republi can might accept despotism itself rather than submit to any curtailment of his " one and indivisible " democracy. Spain is passing through this transition period not only without injury, but probably with benefit, and that the ultimate settlement, whatever it may be, is likely to be all the more stable from the very aspect of necessity which it will seem to carry. Whatever comes must come, to all appearance, because it cannot be helped, and a nation which has demeaned itself with such dignity through a stage of suspense may confidently be expected to do itself no less justice under the definite institutions which it may ultimately approve. The Post alludes to the Conservative victories in the counties, which it believes are in some measure to be attributed to the clergy. But Mr. Disraeli can hardly dream of building upon the Constitutional triumph in the counties. He is capable of discerning at a glance that it would be an unsafe foundation ; and he, who has moulded and modified the convictions of the Conservative party, and given it a new name, is, we may fairly assume, prepared to admit that an Opposition should be competent to do more than stop the way, and be more than a drag upon the wheel. Mr. Disraeli will under stand that in leaving Mr. Gladstone to carry out his policy he lays down a burden of responsibility which he may have to take up again, and, therefore, that it is incumbent on him to indicate an alternative policy. All that he can now propose with regard to the Irish Church is a measure based on the report of the royal emu mission, and there are many reasons why he should hesi tate to submit such a proposition to the House of Com mons. In the first place it is incredible that the House would entertain anything of the kind, and in the next place Mr. Disraeli is not less committed to the principle of religious equality in Ireland than Mr. Gladstone is, and to arrive at religious equality without disestablishing the Irish Church he must trample upon the opinions which have contributed to make his majority in the English counties. The intolerance which has prevailed in Lan cashire would be a thorn in his side, and that which could not fail to rouse the better Protestant feelings of the country would be unhesitatingly condemned by its judg ment. Coalitions and compromises are out of the question, and both parties should exercise forbearance. The Standard returns to Mr. Gladstone's autobiography, and is convinced that as soon as the figures in the census return are against the Church of England he will abandon her. He has no other alternative if he has not belied his own state of mind. The maintenance of the English Church he admits to be only a question of time and of expe diency. The root of its claims is gone already. The exact force of Mr. Gladstone's resistance t 3 the Liberation Society may be measured. He will say nothing at present. He will dissemble, as he did on the Irish Church question. He will assume the appearance of a Church of England defender, yet he will let slip, now and then, words which some Whiteside of the future shall be able to quote against him, as a proof of his early conversion to pure voluntaryism. There is nothing more unstable than the mind of Mr. Gladstone when once it has " lifted its anchor." There is no knowing whither it will take him or where it will leave him. It is a mind of which nothing can be predicated, except that by some inscrutable route it will generally be found to have arrived, by a purely conscientious process, at the conclusion which is most popular and most favourable to Mr. Gladstone's ambition. There never was a more honest mind, yet by some strange chance it always leaves its slave precisely in the situa' . i,m which secures to him the most votes ; it is always found to be working in parallel lines with the interests of the Radical party. Even when Mr. Gladstone drifts without any sails, he is somehow always carried into the port which it is most convenient to him to fetch at that particular moment. The ship may be wrecked, but the pilot is always safe, never the last man out, and always full of precious counsel when the danger is past and his own feet are on dry land. The Daily News says the old and intelligible language o English Constitutionalism has been abandoned by the party which, to hide its apostasy even from itself, assumes the name of " Constitutional." The political dialect now fashionable in Tory speeches and essays is borrowed in about equal proportions from the slang- • dictionary of American democracy and from the vocabu lary of French Imperialism. The phrase of which lately we have heard most is " the popular vote." It is used in disparagement of the constitutional majority gained by Mr. Gladstone in the house of Com mons by the votes of the constituencies. The term is borrowed from the political vocabulary in America, in which it is used to distinguish the votes given by the States from the sum total of individual votes on either side. Tolook behind the verdict as constitutionally given does not strike one as being either a very conservative or a very constitutional proceeding. The Daily News concludes by alluding to the Tory victories in the counties, and says: The ballot, which is the essential condition of honest voting everywhere, is more indispensable in the English counties than else where. The necessity of the ballot has been brought home to the minds of the doubters by the experiences of the last election. It is essential to the honest and incorrupt exer cise of a wide suffrage, embracing the poorer and more dependent classes of society. The Conservative party, who have learnt to " Americanize " in so much else, must make up their minds to Americanization in this matter also. They have the instinct of yielding when they see defeat imminent. It is probable that in the next general election the voting will be by way of ballot. The Herald remarks that there is an expressive " Americanism" which the Radical party might do well to remember in the midst of their rejoicings over a showy, but brittle majority. It is the phrase "on the fence." A politician is said to be in that predicament when he is not quite certain which side of a question it will be for his future interest to take. Assum ing that the " fence " will be invisible when the abstract motion to disendow the Irish Church is brought forward, how many members are likely to jump upon it the moment a direct proposition is made for the disposal of the funds—the " plunder?" Putting aside Liberals who have declared that they will not support Mr. Glad stone's policy as it stands—men like Sir Roundel' Palmer, Mr. Briscoe, and others—what will become of Mr. Glad stone's Nonconformist supporters when his scheme for dividing the spoils is plainly submitted ? If he suc- ceeds in satisfying them what will his Church followers say to the arrangement ? If none on either side were to be found •• on the fence" Mr. Gladstone would probably be more amazed than any of his adversaries. The most skilful party manager in the world would find his hands full in the attempt to keep in working order an untrustworthy majority in such a policy as Mr. Glad stone's. Let him do what he may, lie cannot fail to give deep and serious offence to his own followers. And no one has ever pretended that Mr. Gladstone is remarkably skilful in conducting a difficult and irritating question through the House of Commons. The Star notes that it is a favourite doctrine with certain new lights that the system on which the heads of our great Government departments are changed by the vicissitudes of party might to be abandoned, and that certain eminently competent public men should be permanently installed to manage those depart ments of which the business is not affected by party considerations. One great argument against this proposal is that the departments not liable to be affected by questions which may at any moment become of party import are very difficult to discover. The army, the navy, and education, for instance, are not political departments, but it is quite on the cards -for a great redaction of our armaments or the withdrawal of education from the domination of a clerical monopoly, to become a party issue. And in that case a permanent 'War Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, or Minister of Education, ap pointed under the old regime, vvbuld most likely prove a very awkward obstacle, if Parliament resolved to adopt a new one. Put an eqeally strong argument against per manent chief administrators may be drawn from the prone ness of eminent men to dogmatiseeatise and to f o rce th e ir crotchets on th e country. 'Mr. Lowe's late pamphlet on middle-class education is quoted as an instance of this. It will be time enough to argue against public schools from Univer s it y endowments. wheii those endowments have been tardily restored to the popular and democratic uses for which they were given. And by th a t time the universiti es will fot•in the splendid centre of an edifice of graduated puldie instruction such as must either annihilate private scheols nr compel them t o b e what " supply and demand" are quite incapable of making them at present. We re gre t th at Mr. Lowe is not disposed to help forward a consummation which lie certainly will not be able to prevent. ELECTION HUMOURS. The Daily News contains an amusing article under toe heading " Country Election Humours." " Voters," it says, " will turn stupid if much pressed, and sometimes they will leave town, or stick in the house and not come out till the books are closed. One old man, who had never been quite staunch, was once looked up by the Blues at five o'clock on the polling morning. You needn't come nigh me,' he said; 'the Yellows were here an hour ago, and I'll get up for none of you ;' and so he kept his bed all day. We remember another who had been dozed through his beer, and then put away peacefully to bed. His shoes, coat, waistcoat, and bat were also removed from the chair, as a precaution, in case he did awake too soon. As good luck would have it, he awoke about twenty minutes to four, instantly realised the situation, and, rising from bed, just as he was, in his trousers, shirt, and stockings, ran down stairs and into the street, amid loud cheers, and just got polled off in time. His friends and the committee had been looking for him everywhere, and thought that the other side had taken him out of town for the benefit of the air, although they bad guarded all the approaches night and day, and looked into every suspicious cab. In one borough bottling rose into a science, and it is among the tra ditions of its head inn that forty men were once kept there in bed, or (as they put it) out, for fear that the other party should secure and tamper with them. That borough knew its value to a nicety. It always returned one member for purity's sake, and if the second member would not pay the regulation price per head, both parties understood each other's views so well on the currency question through their mutual solicitors, that a third was brought down to ruin him, and beat him if he did not con sent to pay. In some boroughs the electors got pay from both parties. A well-known money-lender used to tell plaintively how he invited eighty doubtful electors to an early breakfast, and that they found a twenty-pound note under each of their plates. They took the notes and enjoyed their breakfasts very much, but when they departed, after cheerfully grasping his hands, it was not to the poll, but to a second breakfast at their host's opponents, who gave them ' a pony,' and secured their ultimate support. The modes of paying by the Man in the Moon' and the Good and safe man' have all been told. At one of the university towns the members got a daring spirit—a second year man, and afterwards a very distinguished Indian officer—out of one of the colleges, to hold the sack, and he was such an able financier that he won the election. When the petition was tried before the House of Commons committee, the college tutor, finding that matters were becoming hot, gave him an exeat. He took a cruise in a yacht till all was over, and the com mittee failing to discover the missing link, upheld the mayor's return. An M.A. was also very much implicated, and the opposite party having searched high and low to find him, it transpired afterwards that he had been looking on disguised in the very committee-room where he had been daily inquired after with much affection, and when all was over he returned to the place and wrote a very lofty letter, saying he was surprised at the remarks which had been made upon his absence at the call of duty, and that he was there to meet his assailant,' and with that flash of safe valour a most interesting crisis ended. Some quaint old fellows hang on the skirts of elections. They seem to live for nothing else, and annual Parliaments would be meat and drink to them. One of these was so staunch to his colours, and some old common rights, that when he was buried a bunch of yellow gorse, plucked from there, was thrown, like an immortelle, on his coffin. In another borough the Blues were so proud of the Liberal cause, that one desired to be buried by the paved footpath through the churchyard, so that the voters might pass his grave when they went to poll in the porch. A veteran miner sported an immense blue hat. Under its shadow he bad drunk oceans to the health of the cause, but once when a mean candidate came who wouldn't even ' give a poor fellow his beer,' his feelings were so outraged that, at dead of night, be marshalled a small procession of sympathisers, dug a hole, buried his bat, and abjured the cause for ever. Some voters never will be on the losing side if possible, and watch the temperament of the candidates, and other indications of the political barometer, up to the eleventh hour, for guidance. A veteran of this sort, as usual, refused to promise his vote in a county. A day or two before the nomination he came and voluntarily pledged himself to plump for the Liberal. I won't vote for Vother men,' he said, they're bate (beat). One of them's been to me and given me such a blowing up for not promising—he's bate, I know it,' and the old political weather puppet was right at four p.m. Votes are often lost through nervousness. Men won't take cards, or they fling them down and can't refer to them. Some of them tremble like aspens when they are asked the question, and perhaps give the wrong name, and down go the fatal marks before they can recover themselves. At the Chelsea election one deaf man put down his card and shouted Freake and Hoare.' in a stentorian voice, and then came, Oh, no—stop ; Dilke and Hoare,' in a still louder key, and only just in time. Some voters, again, never care to get the candidate's name into their bead—they all name the Premier of the day, and refuse to amend ;' and for some time after the late Earl of Carlisle had joined the peerage, a West Riding yellow would always declare for Morpeth, and nowt else.' Richard Cobden' was also honoured after this persistent fashion. Such are termed the freaks of elections. There alway 3 will be some spirit thrown into them ; and all's well that ends well." TIIE JARROW MURDER. —The coroner's jury in the case of the Jarrow murder have returned a verdict against Patrick Convery, and he will be sent to the assizes on the capital charge. AN IRisit BULL.—One of the two Liberals returned for an Irish constituency thus congratulated a large meeting of his supporters :—" The Liberal triumph is complete ; so complete that I cannot help remarking the absence of gentlemen of the county. I cannot see one of their faces in the court•house." THE SUNDAY EVENINGS FOR THE PEOPLE. At a numerously attended meeting of subscribers to the defence fund, .held at the Freemasons' Tavern, it was resolved to present Mr. J. Baxter Langley with a con• gratulatory address on his able and successful defence of the case in the Court of Common Pleas. Tan PUBLIC HEALTIL—During the week ending Saturday, November 28, there were 1,561 deaths regis tered, exceding by 54 those of the previous week. The annual rates of mortality in fourteen of the principal towns per thousand of the population were as follows : Bristol, 23 ; 13Irmingham and Dublin, 24 ; London, 26 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 27 ; Sheffield, 29 ; Liverpool and Hull, 31; Salford and Bradford, 32 ; Edinburgh and Manchester, 34 ; Glasgow, 35; Leeds, 36. "ALL THE YEAR ROUND."--The first number in the new series of All the Year Round is published, accompanied by the following notice :—" A very unjusti fiable paragraph has appeared in some newspapers, to the effect that I have relinquished the editorship of this publi cation. It is not only unjustifiable because it is wholly untrue, but because it must be either wilfully or negligently untrue, if any respect be due to the explicit terms of my repeatedly-published announcement of the present new series under my own hand.—CIiARLES DICKENS." A FRIENDLY CA ETTION.—The banquets to Reverdy Tohnson in England have lately been fax too numerous to chronicle. We fear the effects of these constantly recur ring banquets upon Mr. Johnson's health. The English are tremendous eaters and enormous drinkers at their " banquets." The solid, sanguinary meats and strong, heavy liquors are such as no American constitution can long stand ; and, though we have no doubt Mr. Johnson is willing to suffer and undergo a great deal forhis country, yet there are limits beyond which patriotic endurance should not be tested.—New York, Times. We have to announce the death of Lieutenant- Colonel Wiliam Bruce, K.H., a Peninsula and Waterloo veteran officer. He entered the 79th Regiment at an early age, with which he served in the Peninsula from 1812 to the end of the war in 1814: and was present at the battles of the- Pyrenees on the 28th, 20th, and 30th July, the blockade of Pampeluna, battles of the Nivelle and the Nive (10th to 13th December), investment of Bayonne, and battle of Toulouse. He served also the campaign of 1815, and was present at Waterloo, where he was severely wounded. He was made a Knight of the Royal Hano. verian Gnelphic Order in 1837. He left the 79th Regiment for the 48th Foot, from which he retired in November, 1841. AN IRISH VOTER.—A ludicrous episode is ro ported to have Occurred during the polling for the county of Cork on Friday. A simple voter from Carbery, who was not accustomed to the exercise of the franchise, and did not understand how to go about it, was prompted by his ardent attachment for Mr. Downing to go into Bandon to vote for him. A person standing in the booth which he entered asked him, by way of joke, to vote for Barry and Boyle, judging from his emphatic observations that it was one of the last acts he would think of com mitting. The farmer got enraged at the proposal, and while the usual question was put "For whom did he vote?" he kept repeating in petulant tones, " BarTy and Boyle, indeed !" The poll clerk recorded it as a vote for those gentlemen, and when the excited elector discovered he had voted the wrong way and could not amend the error, he gave uproarious expression to his' disappointment, and finally, a s th e s t or y runs , knockoff down tho practical joker who . had entrapped him THE N : 1W PARLIAMENT. * New Members.—t Old Members for New Constituencies. Constituency. Members. Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith * Mr Mellor * Mr Davies Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave * Captain Williams BILr Whitmore Mr Samuelson Mr Tite * Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread * Mr J Howard * Lord Bury * Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards Captain Kennard * Sir R Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright Mr Dixon * Mr P H Muntz Mr W H Horuby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray * Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm * Mr T Collins Mr W E Forster * Mr Ripley Mr A. W Kinglake Mr Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley * Mr S Morley Sir Harry Verney * Mr R Shaw - Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell Colonel Gilpin Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley Mr Howel Gwyn Right Hon B Disraeli Mr 7 Du Pre * Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colonel Loyd Lindsay * Mr John Walter Hon C Howard f Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham * Colonel Torrents * Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston / Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone ICaptain Brinkman 1 Colonel Stuart Mr E Potter * Sir Wilfrid Lawson * Colonel Stepney I* Mr Sartoris * Mr John Jones Mr W B Hughes I * Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway * Mr H B Samuelson Earl Grosvenor * Mr Ralkes Lord H G Lennox Mr Goldney Hon A Bathurst Mr R Assheton Mr Eaton * Mr Staveley Hill * Lord E Fitzmauriee Right Hon S Walpole Mr Beresford Hope t Sir Thomas Lloyd * Mr Richards * Mr C W Dilke * Sir Henry Hoare • Mr E Haviland-Burke * Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow * Dr Brewer Sir D Gooch * Hon F Cadogan * Sir John Trelawny * Mr B Willyams Mr St Aubyn * Mr P Vivian * Mr E C Egerton * Mr W Legh Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton * Mr Williams Sir Watkin Wynne * Mr Morgan . Mr M Chambers * Mr Lewis I * Mr Backhouse Mr M T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir T Bateson Serjeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jesse!, Q.C. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson * Mr Davison Sir H Williamson * Mr Elliott Mr Pease • Mr Beaumont Colonel Sturt Mr H B Sheridan * Sir T Gresley * Mr R Smith * Hon H Strutt * Hon Captain Egerton Lord G Cavendish Mr. Arkwright t Sir Massey Lopes Mr Kekewich Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk t Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge * Mr Bowring * Mr W Baker • Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S Ibbetson * Mr Rou,d * Colonel Brise Lord Barrington Mr IWC Torrens Alderman Lusk t Mr T. Hughes Sir John Hamner * Mr Fowler • Mr Eastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H Vivian Right Hon Sir W Hutt Mr Price Mr Monk * Sir C Wingfield t Captain Tomline Mr Alderman Salomons :t Rt Hon W E Gladstone ! Mr Onslow i* Captain Cholmeley j* Hon F Tollemache Sir M Beach Mr Holford Colonel Kingscote * Mr Marling Right Hon W Cowper t Lord H Scott Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith • ' Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd * Mr T Brassey • * Mr F North * Mr Young Mr R Dimsdale Mr Clive * Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey * Sir H Croft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervis Mr T Baring * Mr Jackson * Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst ) double 3 . Major Aldridge f return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leathern Mr H E Adair * Mr West. Q.C. Sir J Simeon * Mr Mills 1 . Mr Talbot Lord Holmesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hon G Milles Lord Stanley * Hon R Bourke * Mr Lea • Mr lilingworth ' Mr Whitwell * Alderman J Lawrence * Mr W M'Arthur Mr Baines * Alderman Carter • Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon ▪ Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr C Turner Hon A F Egerton * Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence • Mr Bell t Rt Hon Robert Lowe Lord G ; Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr H Palmer Sir M J Cholmeley * Mr R Winn * Mr Amcoats * Mr H Chaplin Mr Welby * Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves * Lord Sandon * Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten t Hon F Stanley * Mr Holt ' Mr Starkie Mr C W Wynn * Mr Bentall * Mr Wetherhed , Mr Mitford * Mr 0 Brocklehurst * Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Whatman . * Mr Powell . Mr Barley Mr Jacob Bright * Mr Birley , Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers * Mr Richard * Mr Fothergill , * Sir J Ramsden Hon C Fitzwilliam Lord E Bruce * Mr D Williams * Mr Bolckow Hon C H Tracy Sir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgkinsou Mr,E Denison Mr Headlam Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley • Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin Sir W Russell * Sir H Stracey * Sir R Clifton * Mr Wright Mr Martin t Sir E Lacon * Hon F Walpole Sir W Ilagge Hon T De Grey r Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stopford • f Major Cartwright Sir Rainahl Knightley Right Hon J Denison * Mr F C Smith , Mr Barrow Mr Hildyard * Earl Percy * Mr Ridley , Mr Beaumont Hon H Liddell Rt Hon G Hardy t Rt Hon J Mowbray . Mr Henley Colonel North * Mr Cartwright 1 L I . C. gn Constituency. OLDHAM OXFORD PEMBROKE PEMBROKESHIRE PETERBOROUGH PETERSFIELD PLYMOUTH PoNTErnAcT PORTSMOUTH PRESTON . POOLE .. READING RICHMOND RIPON ROCHDALE RYE RETFORD, EAST RADNOR ... 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MIDDLESEX NORFOLK, SOUTH NEWAILK NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NEWCASTLEATNDR-LYIJ, NORTHALLERTON NORTHAMPTON Nonwwu NOTTINGHAM NEWPORT, I. OF WIGHT NORFOLK, NORTH NORFOLK, WEST .... NORTHAMPTON, NORTH NORTHAMPTON, SOUTH NOTTS, NORTH .. Nows, 8017TII NORTHUMBERLAND, N. NORTRUDIBERLAND, S.. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OEFON.DOIL IRE . THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVINING, DECEMBER 2, 1865. Members Mr Hibbert Mr Platt Mr Cardwell * Mr V Harcourt * Mr Merrick f Mr Scourfield Mr Whalley * Mr Wells Mr Nicholson Sir R P Collier Mr Morrison Mr Childers Major Waterhouse Mr Stone * Sir J Elphinstone Sir T Hesketh * Mr Hermon * Mr Arthur Guest Sir F Goldsrnid Mr Shaw Lefevre Sir Roundel! Palmer Lord John Hay Mr T B Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Fo!jambe Lord Galway Mr Price Mr W Martin.. Mr Serjeant Kinglake Hon A Walsh Hon G J Noel Mr Finch Mr Corrance Hon J Henniker-Major Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton * Dr Lush Colonel liarttelot Hon H Wyndham Mr R H Paget Mr Neville-Grenville Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A Hood • * Major Allen * Mr Bright Mr Gurney * Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham * MrDickenson Mr Locke King Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen * Mr H Brassey Sir J V Johnstone MrJDDent Mr Hadfield * Mr Mundella Mr Clement * Mr Figgins * Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * Mr Pochin Mr J B Srclith * Mr Tippfhg * Mr J Dodds Mr Candlish * Mr Gourley Mr G C Glyn Right Hon S Cave Sir Percy Burrell * Mr Sidebotham * Mr W Peek * Hon W Brodrick Mr Briscoe Mr Cubitt Mr Dodson * Mr Scott f Mr A Bass * Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley sir E M Butler Sit' Iray Mr Ormsby Gore Lord Newport Gen P Herbert • Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly * Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn 1 Sir It Peel - Sir II Billwer Mr Barclay * Serjeant Cox * Mr Price Mr Ayrton t Mr Sarnuda Mr Williams Hon. Captain Vivian * Mr E T Smith Nir A Russell Hon G Denman * Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey * Mr Beaumont Earl of Bective Hon G H Lowther * Mr S Vickers Mr 4 Calcraft Mr Rylands Mr A W Peel * Mr Greaves * Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor * Mr W H Smith Mr H Edwards * Mr Hanabro t Mr W Mr Bent H iGlnaadstone MrWoods * Mr Lancaster Mr Bonham Carter Mr Simonds Mr R Eykyn * Mr Barnett Mr Sherriff * Mr La,slett Hon G C Lyttelton * Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowdeswell Hon. W H Carington Mr C Forster General Forester * Mr Brown Mr Antrobus Lord H Thynne Mr T Grove Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr Newdegate Mr B Davenport - * Mr H C Wise t Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce * Sir G Jenkinson Mr Lowther *Mr Brown esthead Sir F Crossley Lord . F C Cavendish Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont Mr Milbank Colonel 0 Duncombe Br S onie s r • rdr B F Denison • Mr J Fielden SCOTLAIN D. Mr Fordyce * Mr M'Combie Mr Crawfurd * Mr Finnie Marquis of Lorne * Sir D Wedderburn . Colonel Sykes Mr Trevelyan * Mr Dalrymple Mr R Duff Mr D Robertson Mr Adam Mr Traill * Sir S Waterlow * Mr Orr-Ewi ng Sir J Ogilvy * Mr Armistead f Mr Jardine Mr M'Lar en * Mr Miller * Sir G Maitland Mr Grant.Dut ,* Mr Grant Hon C ca me& Mr R Anstruther Merry Mr Dalglish W G s • a n ara * Mr Anderson * Mr Grieve Sir H Davie Lord Elcho * Mr Mackintosh • Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W II Maxwell Mr E P Bouveri e Mr. S. Aytoun * Major Hamilt on Sir E Colebrook° Mr M'Lagan * Mr Mach e Kinnaird Mr Crum-Ewin g * Mr Park er Sir G Montgome ry Sir W Scott * Mr Matheson Mr Spie r . * Mr . Campbell Admiral Erskine Lord R, S Gower Mr Ellioe Mr Baxter Mr Young * Lord Garlies ▪ Mr Loch IRELAND. Rear-Adml. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stron Mr Verner " Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis • Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'a ura Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beir ne * Captain Fagan Air Murphy Mr Magui re Mr Smith Barry * Mr Downing Mr Bagwell Sir H If Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson Mr Bruen t Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr Pin Sir A. Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan * Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr GregorY Viscount Burke Sir R Blennerhassett " Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray Mr G L BrYall Mr Agar Ellis Sir GI Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr BradY Mr Peel Dawson Sir F HeYgate * Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell Mr Monsen Mr Synan Mr O'ReillY Col GFortescNureville- e u gent Mr Mr Demo Mr Verner * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Mr CorballY Mr M'Evoy Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley Serjeant Sullivan " Mr 11I'Mahon * Mr Kirk * Captain Darner Mr Fitzpatrick * Mr Digby_ Colonel French The O'Conor Don t Major L E Knox Mr O'Conor Sir . R G Booth The O'Donoahue Captain White Mr Moore Mr CorrY Lord Claude Hamilton Mr Devereux Mr Esrnonde Mr De La Poer Mr Blake * Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard -Urquhart Mr Nugent • Sir John Power * Mr D'Arcy • Mr F Dick * Hon H Fitzwilliam . Mr C Weguelin FOREIGN NOTES. THE TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. The ground stated by our New York telegram as haVing been taken by the counsel of Jefferson Davis is, that the crime of rebellion, with which he is charged, has but one penalty attached to it by American law, namely, the loss of civil rights. This penalty was established by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was passed June 13, 1866 ; the third section of which reads as follows :—" No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Con gress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each Hoase, remove such disability." The law officers of the Government will, of course, deny this to be the only punishment attached to the culprit, who, they contend, is exposed to all the com mon-law penalties of high treason. GERMANY. A very important constitutional alteration has been submitted to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies by a strong independent party. The object of this proposal is to suppress altogether the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and transfer it to the North German Confederation. In other words, the Prussian Foreign Minister shall act for North Germany, and the expenses of the department shall he borne by all the Confederate States. The change is not likely to be agreeable either to Prussia or its satellites. It seems natural enough, as the diplomatic representation of all the States is vested in Prussia, that the expense should be divided amongst them, and that the Prussian department should become a Federal department. But Prussia would not relish the necessary concomitant of this reform—the appointment of a Minister who should be responsible to the whole Confederation, nor would the small States on their part like too much con trol in their dealings with foreign nations. The Prussian statesmen have solved the difficulty with their customary ingenuity and disinterestedness. The Foreign Ministry shall remain a Prussian department, but the Confederate States shall enjoy the privilege of assisting in paying the expenses. The debates on this question promise to be interesting. THE CONFERENCE AT ST. PETERSBURG. The International Conference on the subject of the use of explosive balls in warfare has come to a decision. A protocol has been signed, stipulating that no explosive projectile Under the weight of about nine-tenths of a pound shall be employed in battle by any of the consenting States. Switzerland and Spain, however, are not con senting States, nor is America. It is probable that all attempts to greatly restrict war by cut and dried rules must break down in practice by the dissent of certain States vitiating the agreement of the rest. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The New York papers represent the rising in Cuba as a very formidable affair. The insurgents number 10,000 men, and hold a great part of the country. They include the wealthy classes, who freely risk their all in such a cause, and their organisation is very complete. Great confusion exists. Our own telegrams leave no doubt that the rising is one of considerable extent ; but it must not be for- gotten that the Americans, who have always an eye to the annexation of Cuba, have every reason to hope for the success of an insurrection which cannot but further their great objects NEW ZEALAND. The state of affairs in New Zealand produced a sort of Ministerial crisis, the close of the session being charac• terised by the most vehement and most unsatisfactory political warfare. The Ministry were, assailed by three "No confidence " motions. The Opposition were beaten in every instance, but it was a narrow escape. On the motion relating to general policy, the Government gained by a majority of nine ; on that relating to their finance by seven ; and on that relating to native and defence affairs by one. The Ministry declined to intimate their intentions, and so the war was prolonged. During the last fortnight of the session, supply was resisted at every step. The first item was discussed from ten o'clock at night until ten the next morning. Lively political strife this. GREENBACK REDEIIPTION AND THE PREDIC7'ED COMPROMISE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Those whose impressions on the English Elections come from the Standard would believe the Con servatives had achieved a great triumph. By some unaccountable means the Radicals had a majority in the Commons, yet the judgment of the country had been unmistakeably pronounced against GLADSTONE'S policy. The man thenceforth lives in a deluson, and experiences the successive shocks of seeing measures carried into effect opposed, as he imagines, to the national will. Just so these who pin their faith about American affairs on the letters of many comt:pondents of leading London papers would live in a delusion and see things happening they thought could not happen, and events pre dicted ascertain never accomplished. If it be the object of journalism to delude, some of our con temporaries admirably answer the purpose, more especially with regard to American matters. The correspondent of the Standard openly professes Copperheadism, is an amusing and genial writer, and all know that the view he gives fairly is through a party medium. But he of the Z imes, wherein such outspoken party views would not be tolerated, disguises while he advocates so as to deceive those unacquainted with tha country that he is a mere party writer, so skilfully is his stripe obliterated. From time to time we have exposed his fallacies, which is a simple process when his predictions and the results were published side by side in the same paper ; the prophecy coming by mail and the fact by cable. Blunders thus shown up were sufficiently numerous to sink a line-of-battle ship, but when plunged overhead in what would smother others, lie appears to be in his element. Yet his say ings go the round of the world. The Times writes leaders on his statements, and the English accept them as facts. It matters not that " his careful sur vey of the field" gave the Presidential election as certain for the Democratic ticket—it matters not that " his dismal prospect " turns to a bright future, that his anticipated deficiencies prove a surplus—still he goes on predicting, and the Eag lish accepting—perhaps with somewhat diminished confidence his oracular words. But this man of parts does not confine himself to mere prophecies. He boldly gives circumstantial details of events still in the future; thus, he ton all about the elections in lowa weeks before these elections came off. Lately he sent to Printing House-square the new Con gress, though Connecticut and New Hampshire do not vote till March, Florida till December, while Georgia and Alabama have not yet elected their representatives ; and the correspondent him self selected the men to be returned for those States. In his letter of the 10th inst., he thus returns to the attack where the United States is most vulnerable—its credit, " The new Congress, with the exception of the seven members of the House from New Hampshire and Connecticut and a few of the Senators, is now chosen, and the results of the elections show that the Greenback party has a decided majority in the House." Who would sup pose that three other States, besides the two he mentioned, entitled to fourteen Representativcs,were not even alluded to? and their elections taken for granted, independent of the unreconstructed States, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas. But thisis his pecu liar style, and he presumes on the ignorance of his European readers. He then proceeds elaborately to analyse the composition of the House to ascer tain what its vote will be on the greenback redemp tion question, concluding that 82 Representatives are for gold, and 145 for greenbacks. As usual, he is positive as to the opinions of the men sent by the various States. For New England he gives 26 in favour of gold, and one (Burt.Eit, we preliutne) for greenbacks. From the Middle States all the De mocrats are pledged to greenback payment ; " but it is probable that three or four of the New York city members, when the pinch comes, will vote for gold payment, together with the entire Republican delegation from those States, thus making from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, 41 for gold and 28 for greenbacks. Of the Southern members there is not one of either pari,y who can be relied upon to support the honest side. There is no debt hell there ; the southern people hate it ; and, consequently, the entire strength of the section, thhey-three members, will be for paper payment, while probably a good many of them would oppose any payment at all if they had the chance. There arc 19 Democrats and 14 Re publicans elected to the new House from the South. In the \Vest nearly every member has put himself on record against gold payment, and both the Re publican and Democratic parties in that section support greenbacks. The Republicans had to do it in the campaign to succeed at the election'. Eleven Western members, however, may vote for gold payment ; while the others, 83, will, in all probability, vote solidly against it. The four mem bers from the Pacific States are put on the gold side of the question. . . . The next Congress goes into office March 4, 1869, but does not begin work until December next year, so that, as mentioned in my previous letter, the decision will probably not . come until 1870. The Southern and Western States, being similar in interests, will, by a coali tion, soon rule America again on financial matters, as they did before the war." On this statement the Times illote a leader asserting that Americans were applying a similar arithmetic to their elections to ascertain how the National Debt would be paid, as the English were applying whether the Iri6ll Church Establishment would be removed. In other words, the Timesconsiders that the new Congress was chosen on the Greenback question, and that the country in returning a majority for currency redemption pronounced in favourof thatfinanicial arrangement. We all know that the Republican party were suc cessful in sending a vast majority into the House ; a majority so great into the Senate as to make that Chamber almost solidly Republican, and in elect ing the President and Vice-President. The plat form of this party was laid down at Obicago in sufficient time for the public to fully digest it. One plank in that platform was an interpretation of the contract favourable to the bondholders, and on that platform the party stand—President, Senate, and Representatives—and must continue to stand. If the people have elected a Republican majority, pledged to a policy hostile to the Repub lican platform, then Englishmen may expect to find a House of Commons in favour of DISRAELI, and opposed to GLADSTONE'S Disestablishment measure ; for the English-speaking people will be working by the rule of contrary. The Standard may tell us that the one thing may happen, and the ?ivies cor respondent that the other thing will happen, but would it be wise in those who desire to be right to accept such guidance? We doubt whether a clergy man would buy an advowson in the Irish Establish ment without fully discounting the contingency ; and are men going to sell and buy Five-Twenties under the influence of this financial prophet ? The. subject to theth resolves itself simply into that most important one, money ; and those interested should have as accurate a view as can be attained. If the Timesgave the other stand-point we would considerits Philadelphia correspondent as not without his use. But it does not, and thus circulates over Europe one-sided statements, alike prejudicial to the holders of the bonds and to the credit of the United States. The Southern Representatives are described a , " carpet•baggers"-men, at best of no principle, and he predicts that they will exhibit their want of it in this controversy. As usual, Without grounds, the correspondent jumps straight to a conclusion, perhaps as allusive as his " careful survey of the field." If these " carpet-baggers" have no principle, neither have they property. Their sympathies being Republican are opposed to the great Southern element, and if the party platform be an honest payment of the debt, the " carpet-baggers" would support it as readily if without principle as with principle, being personally indifferent, not bearing tht burden, and not holding the Confederates' dis like to being taxed to pay the cost of their subju gation. Our conclusion, then, is the reverse of that at which the correspondent arrives, and a little examination will show that the Republican party, in acting as the man in Philadelphia predicts, will not only propose a policy and then violate it, but in the very act, will do, not what the common sense of mankind says is wise and expedient to do, but the opposite. Take the just conclusion of the Times leader: "So acute a people as the Americans ought surely to discern the whole advantage they can possibly hope to secure by thus dealing with the national creditor could have been secured far more certainly, and to a far greater extent, by a policy of the op posite kind. We are now told that the utmost to be expected from the approaching decision is a cer tain saving in the rate of interest paid for the loan. But what, let us ask, might be the economy in this very direction if the Americans would but raise their public credit above the reach of suspicion ? They now pay 6 per cent. for money brrrowed, and the whole interest on their public debt is something like £28,000,000 a year. If they could strike off half this charge by borrowing at 3 per cent., their gains would be enormously greater than any they can hope to realize by such proceedings as are now in prospect. These proceedings, indeed, will have the inevitable effect of impairing their public credit in the eyes of the world, and consequently of keeping up the terms against them whenever they enter the money market. Such a policy, too, is all the more extraordinary from the fact that the Republicans set out with a distinct conviction of its error." When the writer penned these remarks, did not the idea cross his mind that the Philadelphia corres pondent was -wrong ? Why should he take it for granted that Americans were fools, while he was a wise man ? Perhaps the writer was not aware that the question had been elaborately argued out by the American papers, that its legal bearings, moral bearings, and financial bearings had been ably and fully discussed, the result being that the " acute" people had arrived at exactly the same conclusion as himself. There is as much chance of a green back redemption measure being passed by Congress as there is that an honest, straightforward manlike GRANT would sanction this violation of his plat form if it were passed. The correspondent, how ever, acknowledges that it could not pass the Senate, and he concludes that the Chamber, lean ing one way and the House the other, that a com promise will be the result, such as the Funding B:11 of last summer, by which the interest would be largely reduced. The correspondent makes use of these measures, introduced before the work of the session closed, although it was well known in Ame rica that they were all election dodges, brought for ward by men feeling their way in anticipation of public opinion. Thus BUTLER acted, and nearly met the fate he deserved. But is it fair to base arguments on such political moves for advantage of position before a great election ? The real ques tion is—ls the financial condition such as to make it necessary, even as a temporary relief, for men of common sense and honesty to resort to such an ex pedient ? Now emphatically we say it is not ; for in every part of the United States, more especially in the South, business is reviving, and that great agricultural section will shortly be exporting as largely as ever. The Prairie States have regained their rapid increase in population, and those of the Pacific combine in a wonderful degree an advance in agricultural and mineral wealth. The heavy ex - penses entailed by the war have been liquidated, and in every department economy is the order of the day. the Navy has been reduced to the lowest scale, and the annual report of the Adjutant-General of the Army, just sent to the Secretary of War, shows the total army strength on the 30th Sept. to have been 48,081 men. Four thousand five hundred of these were to be discharged before the New Year ; and the main force will consist of cavalry for employment against the Indians on the plains. From an army of a million, from fleets comprising hundreds of vessels in these three years, the United States has returned to its old establishment. While the Go vernment expenses are thus reduced the taxes re- I main, and a surplus must be the result, which is almost assured by the e!ection to the Presidency of the man of honesty and common sense —:GRANT. Thus, then, we maintain that greenback redemption is not the policy of the people's Representatives— nor of the Senate, nor of GRANT. That it is inex pedient, indeed too plainly, foolish for men of ordi nary ability to adopt the Legislature being acknOw ledged to be composed of men of ordinary ability, and finally that the measure is unnecessary, the wealth and progress of the country giving promise of ample means to meet all requirements. If the question of greenback redemption be not raised there cannot be a compromise, and the whole superstruc ture of the Philadelphia correspondent then falls to the ground. MSS AELLOGG IN AMERICA. The New York Express says :—" It is always pleasant to welcome back old friends, the more particularly so when these old friends have tick led the national pride and vanity by earning for themselves au enviable name and reputation where praise is hard to earn, and true and kindly criticism difficult to obtain. So it was that last night the large audience which gathered to greet Miss Kellogg was enthusiastic to a degree which must have carried to her heart the conviction of the regard she is held in by the American public and the pride we all feel in her success across the water. In the face of the most powerful of rivals she has carried off the crown of victory ; her engagements at the Hay market were one continual series of successes, and she returns to us now with a European reputation second to almost none. This is a brave thing for our talented American girl to have done, and is duly appreciated and applauded by all of us. Miss Kellogg's musical talent has undergone no material change since her departure, save that we find in her voice a better sustained equality, and in the higher registers a more uniform smooth ness and power. The accomplishment of this latter has rendered the lady's organ as perfect as the most carping of critics could wish ; before there was just the least suspicion of the criarde in these higher notes ; now they are soft, delicate, ha; monious, and the tout en semble is irresistible. The New York Evening Post remarks, , 4 The reception given to Miss Kellogg at the Aca demy last evening was one of the most genuine and hearty ovations ever awarded to an artiste is this city. The main desire of the immense audience which crowded every part of the Academy seemed to be to give to our favourite prima donna a wel come worthy of her genius and achievements , and it must be admitted that this generous desire was most handsomely fulfilled. Showers of bou quets, which evidently were not prepared and paid for by the management, covered the stage at ever,' appearance of Miss Kellogg. The applause which followed each one of her performances was pro longed and tumultuous. Of course she was en' cored again and again, until she sang "Sweet Home " with a purity and pathos which must have touched all who heard it—giving to its hackneyed words a new depth of meaning and an affectiona te expressiveness which they seldom receive. Elbe selection was a good one, as far as regards its fit ness to exhibit the artist's mastery of some of the most trying feats of vocal execution, which, as usua l with Miss Kellogg, were met bravely, honestly, an d triumphantly." The New York 7imes thinks the Presideno salary ought to be raised to $lOO,OOO a year. In addition to the $l,OOO given by the N cWa Scotia Government, for the relief of the Red River O r ' ferers, the people of Halifax have contributed $2,000. The Worcester County (Massachusetts) F ree Institute of Industrial Science was dedicated on We d°S s i day, Nov. 11, with appropriate services. It is design ° , to furnish /practical training in mechanical and ne turn' science, and starts with an endowment of about $300,00; with Professor Thompson as president. Thera w ns a. large attendance of the leading educators of New Eng 131 3 . 11 vi The Montreal and Live!pool ocean steamers ")0 begin their winter trips from Portland on Dec. 5. 1 % weekly Glasgow lino will also run from that port. The,r,-3 will be 13 steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of &lett connected with this line. A STRANGE DlscovEßY.—An extraordinary ex humation has just been made in the Strip Vein Coal Ba ll s of Captain Lacy, at Hammondville, Ohio. Mr. Ja nee Parsons and his two sons were engaged in making t ", bank, when a huge mass of coal fell down, disclosing re large smooth slate wall, upon the surface of which o' o . fcund, carved in bold relief, several lines of hierogYl 3bie d Crowds have visited the place since the discovery , till many good scholars have tried to decipher the eb b s l; racters, but all have failed. Nobody has bee n to tell in what tongue the words are written. How n .O the mysterious writing in the bowels of the earth, wlletoro probably no human eye has over penetrated ? By viho ou t and when was it written ? There are several lines, 11.',,, three inches apart, the first line containing twenty !tip words. Attempts have been made to remove the slaire wall and bring it out, but upon tapping the wall it goof forth a sound that would seem to indicate the existence t..° be a hollow chamber beyond, and the characters w ould destroyed in removing it. At last accounts, Dr. ga r „ horn, of Mount Union College, had been sent for to a' amine the writing.— Wellsville (O.) Union. BROADWAY PROTOGRANIS.—At a given P I : every afternoon William B. Astor comes out of his l itt' a den on Prince-street, turns the corner of BroadwaYt 31 ,, With a heavy step moves up on foot toward L.tf e Y et d place to dinner. Ho is a heavy-moulded, largea -sil i:c ; German-looking man, eyes small, hair sandy, and a t wO utterly devoid of expression. At a given hour hi s s sons, side by side, for they are seldom separate, can be s s d, u alkiug from Wall-street to Fifth-avenue, plainly dr es at e ly putting on no airs, shrewd, industrious, and con s° t ho at their business; few would recognize in them co l wealthiest young mel in Now York. In n s r coupe, drawn by a single horse, sits a gentleman, parently not fifty, yet in reality over seventY-isard wiry, agile ; sandy hair ; with a face of unusual 004 ness. The plate glass in his carriage gives you a g as view of him. He sits up as erect in his carria.;ebou Mohawk warrior. His quick, restless eye sees eYe l l eso et , and everything as he passes. That is A. T. St . , bit Here comes a man who just at this moment has ni n ' e o se mark on the city. He has been a judge, and is n °l( 4, der of the ablest of our lawyers. About 50, a little 11.1'. sized, but thick-set, he walks with great deliberatillege dresses plainly, and would be taken anywhere fcr n ° f t be professor or a Presbyterian minister. He is on e sachems of Tammany Hall. He is a type of a pre tt y „. 0 0, class among us. He is not one of Mr. Seymour's " He has just drawn his check for $20,000 to help,_''.! vet ° Grant, the great captain of the age. He will put where he has sent his check. —Burleigh in Boston .M 1 et atik [ „‘ ADYERTISEMENT.] —ll olloway's Pills.—VigorO us b s titn' `With winter comes sore trials to the soundest 0 0 , 1 ' 3 to tions, while the naturally delicate and feeble fln u a e l eielP frequently a prolonged struggle against or under sn'..„ ial: All diseases affecting the nervous system arise fr o. 3, purities in the blood, irregularities of organic en u f o r vitiated secretions. Holloway's pills are invaluablenia ofo moving all poisonous elements from the body, eae°l famed for curing indigestion, flatulency, and costyLoote. as well as palpitation, pain in the side, and other 'eon' feelings. The neuralgic pains attendant on the gig, tb: class of diseases soon yield to these purifying P s oup sensations of anxiety daily diminish under their 10 '' 5 , dV . sleep supersedes nights of watching, and calm I'o ° places hideous dreams. tien , for (ADVERTISEMENT. J—llyspepsia(lndigestion), Const/P a 11,,j bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach , ' l o lEl o l3a complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and scc a by drugs of every description, but perfectly curo , b'%/ea a is Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, " y O B, 0 or thousands of cases which had been considered hope a _ co as—cough, asthma, also diarrhcea,, htemorrhoids, liveA,rossl plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the 1101 G ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, IL ° 1070, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, bestir - f kfl a o h ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spas ns, nausea and B erefrod even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stoa t :loony between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The P c ' a P„ e g ie, ; / „111 restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—'"'" oeo o lf 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, e Sbite'De since, abandoning all other remedies, he has c‘antl"..i i icb vi r entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, 0 .,f „ A ''d consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro ol'„I o cB 4 d 4 prisingly beneficial effect on. his health, and his H0 11 °,1 4. '00°0; praise this excellent food too highly."—From the `' tit a „gof " July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Rebal",4 1 0 .7 0 P merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' dieeneaft i of spitting of blood, liver derangement, and parti al Diea t kift/ Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83'1.00V years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, I ?,i o jee s oa t asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, si- o f vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Be wars. /I . a , unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations tow tunicb,' l o.l authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously a05,,1dc,4 In tins, at Is. ; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., ~.5 , AO; ot 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BARRY's REVALENiTI cell s oro CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: F° r go o ' 25., for 24 cups at Ss, 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 28 8 ear 1:1010 for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per t oo re' //, and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in Englauf,„ P' of Post Office Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and `-"'" Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemist"' Births. NORRIS —0 n the 28th ult., e at Bowdon, Che sbiret the Wm. Norris, Esq., of a son. SEWARD —On the 28th ult., at Weston, the ife ° f Seward, Esq., of a son. „ of WARNER—On the 30th ult ,at 9, Clifton-Pl-'OOO6 park, the wife of Major A. C. Warner, 20th Jo'l° a son. _. _. „di, Marriages. 1) 11 ' 0 •t C ' AUSTIN—KENIBLE—On the 30th ult , at Chri s 'll Folkestone, Thomas Phipps Austin,. *A EID I Esq 7 ,O Kemble. ( - 4 ,04. 8, EYKYN—MOSTYN— On the 28th inst., at St• — 0 o°ll ' M. p. to ti c ', - ti rsoft Hanover-square, Roger Eykyn, Esq. Mary Caroline Mostyu, eldest daughter of' Lord of 11arrowden. BROOKE—On the Ist in D s e t at : hS t . 1i 1 j°ll° I't 14 /I, 0 : 8 J of ol s )n a s r o m n ova ß k r , o t o tg k e e d , formerly Capt . t at i ;:ne c l 't •l ' lli ' l ° COWAN L. Fairer, Esq., . ia Vi'• Esq., M.D. gowt FARREA —On the 30th ult., at 66, Lincolu's-inp- of Eths.,29suthdauelnt.l,y,aatgleldoaBdoi.ng, Charles COO/1' rid GLADSTONE— A.t Blackwall, Mr. G. J. Gladstone, ... 13 s lEr to ENI the Boa of Trade, aged 70. P( I.I NG —O rd On the 29th ult Edward U. Siovek•ll3'' late of Stamford-hill, aged 79• ND : Printed and P.thliehed by wit.Luo, go c s London of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tait SON Odl e 3. 0 0 itl Wand, in the Precinct of the Se rcr, the Middlesex.-.Wedneetlay, December 2, 1868. YI ho di no