The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRITLLS, THE PUBLIC RIALTIL • The return issued by authority of the Registrar - Gene ral The Times appears to be undecided as to the real im states that in the week that ended en Saturday, 19th Sep portance of the rebellion in the Peninsula. Our contem tember, 4,332 births and 2,981 deaths were registered in porary first remarks : Perhaps it matters little now London and in 13 other large towns of the United King whether or not the Queen leave San Sebastian at all, except lom. The annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 per for France. If she ever reach Madrid, it seems that it sons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was will only be to solemnise her act of political suicide more for -20 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 22 many, as a scorpion, itis said, in a circle of burning coals, will in Dublin ; 19 in Bristol, 23 in Birmingham , w ithdraw despairingly to the c entre to die. Not the least , 30 in Liverpool, 36 in Manchester, 30 in Sal - , ominous report was th e statement that " a parley nad cord, 26 in Sheffield, 24 in Bradford, 31 in Leeds, 30 been initiated between the Government and the inane- in Hull, 27 in Newcastle -upon -Tyne, and 22 in gents." But perhaps the strangest of all was that a Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 21 per 1,000 'during new Cabinet had been formed, and that M. Gonzalez the week ending the 12th instant, and in Berlin 38 per Bravo was included in it as Minister of the Interior, 1,000 during the seven days ending 10th instant. In to go on while he might in his old course of muzzling the London the birth of 1,011 boys and 1,069 girls, in all 2,080 press and deporting political enemies of all denominations children, were registered in the week. In the correspond to distant islands.' It is something to learn that neither the ing weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, Queen nor M. Bravo was insane to that degree. On the corrected for increase of population, is 2,064. The deaths contrary, he and several of his late colleagues are already registered in London during the week were 1,220. It fugitives in France. On the other hand, from all parts of was the thirty-eighth week of the year, and the average Europe Spanish exiles, we hear from Paris, are seen to be number of deaths is, with a correction for increase of moving homewards. The Times thinks that this may be population, 1,252. The deaths in the present return another false alarm—an ordinary Spanish proven ciamiento, are, therefore, less by 32 than the estimated amount. to be followed by its usual consequences of a score It may be right to state that the disease commonly called of official changes. It is not those who live in " cholera " has been from time immemorial prevalent, and BOA of a volcano who have the liveliest apprehension frequently epidemic, in Europe. "It sets in," says of an eruption, and the perpetual smoke and sparks which Sydenham, " at the end of summer and the beginning of Spanish politics have been emitting for the last half autumn, as truly as the swallow comes in spring, or the century have made Europe indifferent to new ebullitions. cuckoo sings in summer." This disease is perfectly desig- Nevertheless, Spain remains a political volcano. Unless— nate d in the weekly tables by the word" cholera," and cannot which after such a reign of thirty-five years, hardly, we be so well expressed by any other term. It is this disease fear, can form an element in a calm calculation—the Spanish which has been very prevalent this hot summer in London, sovereign and court amend their waye, a real explosion some in Paris, in Vienna, and no doubt in the cities of Spain, day will come and hurl them forth ; and pos.sibly thismay be although the authorities there do not publish the facts. it. The difficulty withSpania' hrevolutionistshasalwaysbeen Each fatal case in adults in London of a severe the difficulty of finding anew occupant in the event of character is described and published in the words of the ejecting the actual holders of power. The idea of amalga medical certificates, which have in a few cases applied the • mating Spain and Portugal is chimerical. The Times te rms ' Asiatic cholera" to severe algid cases of common suggests either the Queen's eon or her sister. Neither cholera. But no one acquainted with the subject can mit- France nor England will be inclined to interfere. I take such an epidemic of common cholera for an epidemic The Daily Telegraph says it would be idle to speculate of Asiatic cholera. What is wanted is a true return of the on the form of government which might be introduced by fatal diseases of the cities in which quarantine reigns in a successful insurrection. To every conceivable plan all its rigour, and opportunities of studying the high there are grave objections. The Duke of Montpensier— rates of mortality from which the people suffer under that waiving the opposition that might be expected from the regimen. Tuileries—labours Under the fatal disqualification of being a Frenchman ; and the Spanish hatred still survives, not only for the French themselves, but for the Afrancesaclos—those who are " Frenchified " either in ideas or policy. Earnestness on any point is better than sceptical indifference on all ; so that, on the whole,. we are rather glad that Spain is at least a " good hater." Unfortunately, something of the same sort—an old-world feeling of national jealousy—is a serious obstacle to a much better candidature, that of the King of Portugal. The union of the whole Peninsula under one ruler must certainly seem to dispassionate observers the best solution of the difficulty ; but next-door neighbours, especially when they happen to be nearly related to one another, are seldom good friends, and Castilian pride does • not quite relish the notion of sending to Lisbon for a King. Yet worse, far worse, might be the issue of the contest; and with :anything' short' of a dynastic change we can hardly suppose that successful revolutionists, representing the nation, would be satisfied. As to Ministerial changes, the Telegraph thinks that from present appearances the Union Liberal party are likely to get hold of the helm of government. Whether they will employ their power to depose the Queen, or whether, after teaching her a lesson, they will rule the country as her constitutional Ministers, time alone can shew. The Post remarks that for some months past we have fortunately heard little or nothing of Fenianism, the excep tional powers with which the Irish Executive is armed have ceased to be exercised, and shortly after Parliament vas prorogued we received with satisfaction the assurance that through the length and breadth of Ireland there was not in custody any individual committed otherwise than according to the ordinary forms of law. The significance of the recent outrage in Cork consists in the fatal blow which it deals to our too hastily formed conclusion that we had probably heard the last of the Fenian conspiracy. It is now evident that those who take part in it simply bowed their heads to a storm which it was idle to endeavour to withstand, with the intention, when the sky became again serene, of once more renewing their endea vours to foment sedition. Without suggesting that the authorities have abated anything of their vigilance, it is quite comprehensible that, in the absence of any overt acts on the part of the conspirators, they should have found less occasion for making their supervision apparent, and the Fenians have accordingly thought the opportunity a favourable one for renewing the tactics which they pre- TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT MALTA. On Monday, the 14th September, shortly before ten o'clock in the morning, the inhabitants of the cities of La Valetta, Vittoriosa, Cospicua, and Senglea were alarmed by a loud report, which was at first supposed to be the burst ing of an Armstrong gun, but soon after was discovered to be the explosion of live or filled shells in the shell-shifting room outside Fort St. Angelo, on the south-east side of Valetta Harbour, under the Grunemberg Battery, the wall of which formed the inner side of the room, and, bad to relate, Sergeant John Mansell, gunners John Bragg, James Clark,Henry Lloyd, and John Stewart, of the Royal Artillery, the gatekeeper, and a labourer of the Military Store Department (natives of Malta) were killed on the spot, and Gunner D. Anderson mortally wounded, who died shortly after ; these persons constituting the entire working party at the moment of the accident, so that for want of witnesses the committee of inquiry appointed by the lieutenant -general commanding were unable to discover the precise cause or orgin of the accident. For several days before working parties had been employed in removing and drawing the rusted fuses of some 200 filled shells which had been lying for about four years in the adjoining powder magazine, and some twenty nine, the most difficult to be moved, were left for the last, the day of the disaster, early on which morning a working party of some eighty non-commissioned officers, privates, and gunners assisted in bringing out these remaining highly-dangerous missiles of war. At half-past eight a.m. all left but the deceased, who remained to execute and complete the task of removing the old and substituting the more modern fuses. It is supposed that a hammer (found on the spot) must have been incautiously used for accelerating or facilitating the work, and that this had caused the explosion of a shell, which occasioned the explosion of five or six others, some of which, though burst and blown into fragments, had the fuse still firmly fixed in the upper piece. One victim was found upon the wall over the Dockyard Creek, another on the rocks out side, the rest within the yard beneath the stones of the ruins of the rcom, excepting one picked up in the Calcara Creek on the day following, the whole sadly mutilated, and one actually severed in two. The elected members of Government have since addressed a letter to the Governor pointing out the inexpediency of having laboratories of warlike missiles so close to densely-popu lated places. viously pursued. The Herald has a leader upon the addresses of the City candidates in the Constitutional interest. They are all agreed on the main points of Conservative doctrine. `While deprecating the Liberal policy in the matter of the Irish Church, they agree in expressing themselves anxious for the measures of progress which are of uncontested importance to the community, but are held in abeyance \Aide time is wasted in profitless discussion and selfish party manoeuvres. One and all they are in favour of a learge measure of education for the people and an expansion of the present system of poor-law relief. Economy in taxation, with the maintenance of the dee position of the country ; a revision of the laws which regulate the claims of property and labour ; a further reform of the bankruptcy laws, giving greater security to creditors,—these are matters of importance to the whole community, but more than the rest to those who are interested in commercial pursuits. We are sure that the interest shewn in these important questions will do much to commend the candidates to the consideration of their fellow-citizens, while the soundness of their views on the great question of the day will give them a paramount claim to the suffrages of Conservative voters, and of numerous sections belonging to the late Liberal party which yet shrink from the threatened overthrow of Church and Constitution. Once more the old watchworn of Retrenehtnent appear , in the Liberal addresses. The Daily News compares the policy of the opposite parties. A Chance ll or o f the A D DITIONAL REVISING BARRISTERS.—Mr. Justice Exchequer to whom the national debt is " a mere flea. Hannen, as vacation judge, has been called upon to exer bite" has, of course, a soul above figures, and cannot be eise the power vested in him by the new Registration .expected to have made his premiership a mere time of Act, passed on the 16th of July last (31 and 32 Victoria, cheeseparing economy. There was our political constitu. chap. 58), and appoint an additional barrister for the metro tion to repair, and there were our Protestant institutions polls. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn had the power to ap to defend, and men engaged in such heroic labours ought point additional barristers, and for the county of Middle not to be called to account for a slight indifference to such sex no appointment was made beyond Mr. Williamson. mere vulgarities as pounds, shillings, and pence. It is Mr. Goren, the revising barrister who was appointed for another invention of Liberalism which, from a Con- Finsbury, found that he could not complete the Maryle servative point of view, may be described as a party of • bone registration in time, and an application was made shopkeepers. Unfortunately, however, for Conservative to Mr. Justice Hannen under the following provision in administrators, the country has utterly disregarded Mr. the new statute : " The power of appointing additional Disraeli's rhetoric, and has resolved to examine his revising barristers, in pursuance of Section 29 of the prin accounts. The people are in an economical mood, and cipal Act, shall, in the case of any event in which the said their choice of future servants may actually turn on mere power arises occurring after the sth of September, 1868, be questions of expense. Although Mr. Hunt claims 1866 as exercised by any judge of her Majesty's superior courts a Conservative year, the estimates were prepared by a at common law, at Westminster, sitting in chambers, on Liberal GoVernment. Mr. Stansfeld points out that 1867 the - like representations being made as would justify an was the first year, "not only of Conservative Adminis- appointment under the said section." An application was tration, but of Conservative estimates and Conserva- made to his lordship at chambers, and he appointed Mr. tive expenditure ; " and that . in that year the navy Chisholm Anstey an additional revising barrister, and he estimates - alone made a sudden rise of half a million. on Tuesday took his seat to revise the lists of voters for The policy adopted by those of the Liberal benches who the borough of Finsbury. took the matter in hand and chose Mr. Childers for their THE WAGES QUESTION IN THE NORTHERN IRON mouthpiece, was to reduce the foreign squadron and the TRAGE.—The wages difficulty which has - recently arisen superior officers in the navy, and to cease building useless in the northern iron trade, by the men asking an advance wooden and unarmoured vessels. Mr. Stansfeld has ex- of their employers, has been settled by the refusal pressed his opinion that " the best way of dealing with a of the masters to yield . the demand, and the accep great spending department is .to limit its total, for then tance by the men of these terms. The men have held a you drive it to consider the best way of spending that meeting at Gateshead, where the delegates from the total." Men like Mr. Stansfeld, who have made various districts presented their report. The meeting was special departments of economy their . , study, can do private, but the resolutions arrived at have been made much to give effect to a general resolve for economy, pubic. The men state that, considering the improve but they need that resolve on the part of the country I went in trade, they are entitled to an advance, but do to support them • in their efforts. Their minute not insist on it, " believing that the increasing strength study of detail becomes most useful when it comes in to of their association will ultimately gain a just recom give effect to a general determination that the totals of ' pew for their labour." They also were determined to - expenditure shall be diminished. It is to such diminution I take steps to secure legal protection for their funds. that the Liberal party is distinctly committi ng it se lf bef or e l They also urge their employers to agree to an inde - the country. But Liberal candidates need only be corn- pendent board of a rbitration for the prevention of strikes witted to the great principle of reducing the t o t a l s ; th a t and lock-outs. Though uttering a sort of moral protest is all that the rank and file of the party can do—the details against the continuance of the present rate of wages, it is of the reduction and its practical enforcement in hull. satisfactory to find that the men do not press their claim, vidual instances may be left to the departments them-' as the state of trade, though at present brisk, is not assured selves. It is fortunate that all the experienced officials of even to Christmas, great efforts being now made to get the Liberal party, the men to whom those practical details 1 -orders completed before the closing of the Baltic. will have to be left, are so entirely committed to the policy i RESIGNATION OF TUE MAYOR OF CHICHESTER. A special meeting of the town council of Chichester was of retrenchment. • The Standard looks with some suspicion upon the nature. i held on Monday evening, the mayor (llr. R. G. of the embassy. Mr. Burlingame and the plenipotentiaries Raper) presiding. The mayor said he had requested arrived with scarcely more &kit than a troupe of Japanese them to meet that evening for the he of receiving jugglers. What, in the name of the great archdragdt, his resignation in accordance with the understand arc these ambassadors ? What do they represent, and what ing come to on his appointinent. It would be in the recol is their business here ? Never was there so paradoxical lection of all present that when they did lain the honour an embassy in the annals of diplomacy: In the first' of 'placing him in the office of mayor in November, they • allowed him to couple t he acce p tance of t h at office with - a place the plenipotentiary in chie f is not a Chinaman but a full blood Yankee, who only the other day held a proviso, which was then placed on the minutes. That position precisely the inverse of his present one, being an minute was as follows :—" It was proposed , seconded, and ambassador to China from the United States. Of the person:2d of the embassy, the first Fecretary is an Irish- unanimously carried that Mr. R. G. Rapershould be elected man, and the second a Frenchman. There is only one real mayor of the city for the ensuing year, and he afterwards Chinaman in the whole concern, or rather, to use the made and subscribed to the declaration required by the Act of polite language of one of our Liberal contemporaries, only Par one w hose illustrious line is free from every tai n t of . parliament. He reserved to himself the right of resignation barbarism." There is only one intelligible object in if political events should render it necessary for him to per any Chinese mission to England, and that is to explain form any duties which would be incompatible with his office an d to excuse the non-fu of obligatio entered into by China towards lfilment th I England. s this what as mayor." The time had now come when he was called u p on Mr. Burlingame h as come about? If so, he may calculate to perform duties which he felt would be incompatible with upon a fair and patient hearing. and upon all the honour the position he then held as chief magistrate, and he now due to such an ambassador. We may have our own opinion as f availed himself of the proviso, and therefore begged to to the judgment of the Chinese in the matter of plenipo tentiaries, hut that i s rath er their concern than ours. All resign the post of magist rate of the cit y . Mr. Alderman we have to take care of i s th a t we are not being imposed . MTlaroglier proposed, and Mr. Paull seconded, that the • unon by- a very. common and familiar 'trick of Chinese h ear ty a n d s incere thanks of the council be given to Mr. di - plomacy—that we are dealing With real representatives ' . of Chine. and not with kiny foreign mediators between WI Raper. Th. re n v a . ! civried with unanimity and end the Chinese. fpli. Use: . . . , • PAPAL INFALLIBILI7 Y AND GALLI CANISM. accusation of mystery which M. 011ivier brought against the pious multitude which re sponded to our appeal. If he was able to know that this multitude was immense, it is evident that it did not enshroud itself in dark ness and mystery ; and, in truth, what motive was there for any such mystery ? Was there anything in the obligation doubtful or uncer tain or of a nature to shock the ears of a vast number of people ? Far from it. Papal infallibility is a Catholic doctrine, and although not yet solemnly defined by the Church, it is, nevertheless, a truth which in itself belongs to faith. After quoting Suarez, and other theologians, in support of the doctrine of Papal infallibility, the Civilta Cattolica observes— " It is of no use to allege the absence of a dog matic definition, for it by no means follows, that because a truth is not dogmatically de fined, that therefore it is not of faith.. For a truth to be of faith (if not of Catholic faith, certainly of divine faith), it suffices that it should be clearly contained in Holy Writ, or in ecclesiastical tradition, even though it be not solemnly defined by the Church. The non definition serves only to save from the stain of heresy him who believes the contrary in good faith. But to be of good faith it is necessary that his ignorance should be invincible, and ignorance can only be called invincible when it does not arise from any evil influence by which the mind has suffered itself to be sub jugated, and when it has not been possible to deliver itself from the effects of such influence even by care and diligence in the search after truth. But granted that Papal Infallibility is a doctrine of the Church, why, it is asked, defend it with so much eagerness, in preference to so many other truths equally Catholic? The rea sons for the eagerness which Catholics display in defence of Papal Infallibility, set forth at some length in the Civilta Cattolica, we will examine next week. The subject is one of great interest, and has already, at different times, been discussed. in these pages. To keep before the public mind the practical im portance of this doctrine in our conflicts with the growing scepticism of the age, with the spirit of rationalism which is making such ravages around us, is a duty of every Catholic writer, and we feel certain that as the attack of the enemies of the Christian faith is directed with virulent persistency against Papal autho rity, our wisest policy is to take a lesson from our enemies, and defend with a like persistency lie citadel of our faith.—Westminster Gazette. Under the above heading, the Civilta Cabo lica replies to the speeches of M. 011ivier and M. Baroche, concerning Gallicanism in France, delivered in the Corps Legislatif in July last. We commented at the time on these speeches, full of misrepresentation and of insult, in the pages of the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, and we rejoice to see the masterly refutation given by the Civilta Cattolica to the theories of the ad vocates of an effete Gallicanism. It begins by recalling the words of M. 011ivier, the ac cents of grief in which he deplored the fall of the Gallican Church, the daughter—the illegiti mate daughter, it is true—of Kings, brought up at Court, trained by Ministers and Parlia ments, the hope of politicians, who projected between her and the State a happy alliance. k " Where," asks M. 011ivier, "is that Gallican Church—that beautiful and glorious Church lof France ? Where are those priests, those 1 bishops, animated with one spirit, professing 1 opinions in union with those of the State and united in the most admirable harmony ?" 1 . . . The ancient maxims are abandoned. . . . the opinion of the infallibility of the Pope alone, which at first was an open ques tion, then a probable opinion, is now a certain opinion. It is seen in the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. From that day the infallibility of the Pope alone is become a certain opinion ; and there exists an immense association, which I will not call secret but mysterious, the members of which take a vow to defend that opinion usque ad effusionem , sanguinis. . . . In the present state of things, how is it possible to act in concert with the clergy ; how send ambassa dors to the Council 9" The Civilta Cattolica, first of all, justly takes exception to the misuse, by M. 011ivier, of the term Gallican Church. This term, it says, is not to be understood in its true sense, according to which it signifies that part so illustrious of the Catholic Church and so meritorious which exists in France, but , they are to be taken in a bad se n s e, inasmuch ! as they designate an ecclesiastical party which I in France, leaning on the civil power, was an enemy of the authority and prerogatives of the Roman Church, and consequently of the Catholic Church, of which the Roman Church is the head and centre. The Civilta Cattolica quotes largely from the " Centenary of St. Peter and the (Ecumenical Council," by Dr. Manning, " that great light of the Church of Eno-land "in refutation of Gallican opinions ; 0 ' and then returning to M. 011ivier and to M. Baroche, it remarks that it is not in the tribune of the French Chambers, but at the Vatican, that the power and right reside of declaring what is the doctrine of the Church. The proof that the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff is a certain doctrine of the Church is clear and .simple, for among the thousand bishops who govern the Catholic Church there is not one - who teaches the contrary doctrine. The Civilta Cattolica defies M. 011ivier to produce one who does so, and if he should chance to discover one, the truth of the affirmation would only be more manifest, because such an unfortu nate bishop would be, by this fact alone, the object of the reprobation of all his brethren, and of every Catholic. But if not one bishop can be found who teaches the doctrine pro pounded in the French,Chambers by M. 011i vier and M. Baroche, five hundred can be pro ; duced without any research who, supported by the formal adhesion of all the rest of the bishops dispersed over the face of the earth, profess and teach Papal infallibility. "If we are asked," says the Civilta, Cattolica, " who are they ?" we Answer, " the Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Bishops, who, at the feast of the Centenary of St. Peter, presented an address to the Sovereign Pontiff, in which the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope was clearly expressed and avowed." After reciting the words of that solemn and significant address, the Civilta, Cattolica de clares that it is a fact, the evidence of which is incontestable, that the party which had so unjustly usurped the name of Gallican. Church, a party composed of a confused mixture of Jansenists and Regalists, no longer exists, in France ; it is dead. The Papal authority is now acknowledged by all the bishops, and by all the faithful laity of France ; the voice of its 'may isteritcm, is listened to as an infallible oracle by every bishop, and by every Catholic of France. There are but two living Churches in France to-day—the Roman Catholic Church, with all its ultramontane doctrines, and the Satanic synagogue of impiety, of unbelief, and of libertinage. That hideous jumble of semi- Catholic and semi-Protestant doctrines which was called Gallicanism, has disappeared. In concluding this portion of its subject, the Civilta Cattolica recites several remarkable passages, on the origin and immediate con demnation of Galilean opinions, from Arch bishop Manning's " Centenary of St. Peter," a work which the Roman writer warmly recom mends to the attention of every Catholic reader. The Civilta Cattolica then proceeds to examine the second thing which M. 011ivier complains of—that is the association "if not secret at least mysterious," which swears to defend, usque ad effusionem sanguinis, the infallibility of the Sovereign Pontiff. This is an allusion, says the Civilta Cattolica, to the vow which we proposed last year on the occasion of the Centenary of St. Peter, as a special witness of faith and devotion to the Apostolic Chair. We are truly happy of the opportunity which M. 011ivier affords us of reverting to this sub ject. We will briefly recall the circumstances under which we proposed this vow. Struck by the twofold fact that the spirit of God had inspired the faithful in times so calamitous for the Church, to offer a double tribute, that of money by the means of Peter's Pence, and that of blood by the voluntary enlistment of so many young men from every part of the world in the Papal army, we thought that a third tribute might be added, that of the under standing and of love, by solemnly undertaking before God to believe in and to maintain the infallibility of - the Pope, by means of a vow, expressed in the following terms, for which others may be substituted, provided that the sense remains the same : "To St. Peter, the blessed Prince of the Apostles, I, N.N:, moved by the desire of offering to you, and in you to your successors in the Apostolic chair, a tribute of singular devotion, which on the one hand compensates you for the outrages done to the Roman See, and, on the other, impels me to offer it greater honour, vow to hold and profess, when occa sion offers, even at the price of blood, that doc trine now most commonly held by Catholics, which teaches 'that the Pope, in defining authoritatively in his capacity of Universal Teacher, ex cathedra, as it is called, that which ht,s to be believed, in matters of faith and morals is infallible,' and that, consequently, his dogmatical decrees are infallible and binding on the conscience, even before they have been followed by the assent of the Church. May it please 'you, 0 most glorious St. Peter, to offer in my name this vow to the Divine Founder of the Church, from whom descended to you and to your successors all the prero gatives of the high pontificate and of the supreme magisterium, and obtain for me to be now and henceforth so bound to your See, and so docile to the authority of your successors, that by constant firmness in the Faith I may participate iii the supreme blessedness of never erring in the way of salvation." Now, first of all, we will ask of M. 011ivier what is there secret or mysterious in all this ? We proposed this practice publicly and by means of the press ; our proposal was repro duced by Catholic journals of every country in,their own language. The matter of the ob. ligation, its end, and the means of attaining it were clearly stated. How could greater publicity have beets given to it ? M. 011ivier says that the 'number of those who adopted this proposition is immense. We are . very glad to hear it, for it is a proof that our proposition has 'been blessed by Heaven and is in accord with the universal Catholic sentiment. It is, moreover, - an irrefutable evidence against the MORENO AND THE I' ANA SAHIB. S.I3IBO'S (From the Anglo-American Timm) In alluding to the story told by Signor Moreno of his discovery of an island in the Malayan Archi pelago, which he desired to sell to the United States, we jokingly applied to him Roebuck's term of the " assassinating" Italian ; but if his own ac count of himself, published at Washington, be true, assassinating is a mild word to use. He BAST'S that he passed most of his life in India, where during the mutiny he was in the employ of the Nana Sahib, with whom he was present at Cawnpore as his trusty friend and aide-de-camp. It is a well known fact in India that a young Mussulman sent to England as the Nana's agent, who had spent years in European travel and bad witnessed the operations in the Crimea, attained a great influ ence over his employer prior to the outbreak of the Sepoy war. To this 'man more than to any other the Nana owed his utter ruin, and India the shocking massacres which brought disgrace on the natives, and a retaliation which for its ferocity da maged the English name. The man had been re ceived in the best circles in England with a hospi tality which seems to be reserved for designing scoundrels. The freedom of his intercourse among the English aristocracy gave him the passport of the Continent, and he saw everything worth seeing before he returned to Cawnpore. He spoke and wrote English, was shrewd, intelligent, forming and acting on opinions of his own, affable, fawn ing, subtle, as an Eastern native, selfish, treach erous, and cruel. lie flattered to betray, and most hated the hand which gave him most. The opinion he formed while abroad was that England was but a second-rate Power, a mere money-grub bing, shopkeeping nation, without the right which national characteristics and power ought alone t .) give of ruling such an empire as India. Though quick to current detect of strength Englishfail andings he saw nothing of the deep resolve which underlies the Anglo-Saxon n ature. The French, with their mar tial instincts and military glitter, in his eye con trasted favourably, and he could not conceive by what freak of fortune a country like England ruled an empire like India. There was a laughing, sneer ing devil in the m an's e y e th at harshly grate d on the British office rs with w hom he came i n con tact.ficia 1 as w a Feelings he did, ge nera l though super hie knowledge, w e can not be sur prised that his influence over the Nana on his return was great, and that he should have heartily thrown himself into a movement he considered certain to be successful, and where success would raise him to regal hipinolNivcyerew.as well defined and tho due, it is believed, the hor rrdioibgulngeillpt,ya.arntsdolir t is he Cawnpore massacre. His object was to commit the wavering to a war a l' outrance, to terrify and to madden the English, so that there could be no forgiveness ; thus those compromised, having no other choice than the gallows or the throne, wouldbe compelled to fightin earnest. When the Nana's palace was captured, scattered conspicu ously about were the letters of ladies of high rank ad dressed to this detestable wretch, who desired to leave his sting when impotent in any other way to injure. We only regret that these letters were not published that whatever scandal was contained therein might have been brought home to the guilty parties. The fellow disappeared and left no sign, and many an English officer bit his lips in anger when he thought that the miscreant had escaped. Of all men connected with the mutiny that was the man the English desired to capture. Other men implicated in these horrors might be forgiven ; but him, never ; for the Nana was a mere tool in his hands, and it was he who mainlystamped on the war its indelible horrors. Who is this Moreno, who assertshe was the trusted friend and aid-de-camp of Nana Sahib? The trusted friend and aid-de-camp was the person we have described, and if a thought that that person was Moreno crossed the mind of the British Government a de mand would surely be made for him under the ex tradition treaty. He tells the Washington corres pondents of the daily papers that he discovered an island in the Malayan archipelago of immense ex tent, boundless resources, and unequalled fertility ; that he discovered it when sailing in a small boat from Singapore ; that he was received with rapture by the twenty rajahs who governed it, and who have now, so great is the confidence he has inspireA, au thorized him to cede their jurisdiction to the United States ; that, notwithstanding the island was hitherto unknown to navigators or geographers— a perfect " Godsend island" — he found there a let ter from Louis Philippe, and one from Louis Na poleon, addressed by these monarchs to the rajahs, who had to wait for their translation till the fortunate advent of Moreno : and, finally, that he has solemnly promised the rajahs that he will not offer this island to the English or the Dutch. To make himself still more interesting he added the story of his connection with the Nana Sahib. It,is just possible that his knowledge, if he be the person indicated, was sufficient to lead hint into a gross error. he expressions in vogue towards England by Washington correspondents, and a few bitter remarks by the press, might deceive the al leged diicoverer into the notion that there was a race hatred between the nations, and that his in terest would be best forwarded by showing how active an enemy of England he had been. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and it may in this instance prove very dangerous ind eed. ninv I Considerable interest is felt in political circles iu the - United States in relation to the next Speakership of the House of Representatives. The contest will be be tween Mr. Blaine of Maine, Dawes of Massachusetts, and Pomeroy 'of New York. 'EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplough'S Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affections. Pleasant. palatable, 'and inylgorating. Bold by all Chemists.—[Advt.] THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1568. TV' SOUTH. Admiral Farragut arrived at Trieste, Sept. 16, th the Franklin and the Frolic. Ho will remain there out ten days. MISCELLANEOUS NETS. It is instructive to compare the well-considered opinions expressed in the 'United StateS regarding the .position of the negro race in the South. That position is a difficult problem to solve, perhaps the most difficult ever given to a nation. Finande, the Tariff, and, even Civil Service Reform, mighty sub jects as they are, sink into insignificance when com pared with the destinies of a race numbering four millions. It is not in truth the negro that excites the interest ; it is his effect ou a population of Anglo-Saxons, double his own number, and their effect on a nation of some thirty-five millions of citizens. Could the Anglo-Saxon race agree, the black man's destiny would be at once decided, but the trouble arises from the fact that the ruling race neither can nor are likely to agree as to the position he is to occupy. Supposing a person deeply inte rested in and well acquainted with the subject were discussing it with an educated and intelligent shep herd in the Australian bush, who knew nothing of what had occurred in the world for years —and there are scores of such men —the first inquiry the Australian would make would be— "lf the Anglo-Saxons living with the negroes are agreed as to their relative position, why should the others whom it does not concern interfere? The solution of the difficulty, if the Southerners think alike, is to let them settle matters with the negroes." A Southerner would at once reply " Of course it is, and all the trouble arises from these fanatical, puritanical, meddling Yankees, who will thrust themselves where they are not wanted, and can only do unmixed mischief." A Republican Northerner, on the contrary, would maintain that—" if left to themselves the stronger race would reduce the weaker to slavery, a state wholly opposed to the principles upon which the Republic is founded. 'the blacks were slaves, and this led to a disastrous \ war, their liberation being accomplished by a vast expenditure of the blood and treasure of the ruling race. If abandoned they would revert to the same condition, and that will lead to the same result." The Australian would naturally observe—" If the Southerners were defeated in an appeal to arms and the slaves emancipated, why do they not accept the position and work as other free communities, employing the blacks as paid labourers ?" "So we do," exclaims the Southerner ; " this is what we desire." "No you do not," retorts the Northerner, "it is. not what you desire ;" and narrowed to this really is the question. The North insists upon the negro occupying the position in the South that an immigrant occupies in the North, and that society shall there stand on the s tme footing. Theoretically the South accepts this, but practically it rejects it. The Southerner says :—" We have been brought up with the negroes, and know the race. Our interest and theirs are identical ; we can have no object but to treat them kindly, and live with them in peace. Our fortunes have been shattered by this fearful war, and more than any other people do we require peace to repair them. The effects of a servile war would fall upon us, and lead to our irredeemable ruin ; and who in his senses can sup pose that we could originate such a calamity ? But we are Anglo-Saxons, and we can live in no country which we do not rule. Le t us rule, and the blacks shall be well treated." But h)w treated ? asks the Northerner—as a poor white, or as a valuable animal ? This brings out the real difference in the social and political theories of North and South. What the Northerner means is that the black must be' a citizen, and on all points recognized by the law as such. What the Southerner means is that the negro musttake the place for which GOD intended him, that is as his servant, — and be fed, clothed, and housed as long as he be haves well and works well. It seems to be impoz sible to reconcile this difference of opinion, for it springs from a differeOce of generations of training in different climates, being most marked in the extreme North as in Maine, and far South, as in (From the Anglo-American Times.) Lieutenant Ephraim. Williams, sth United States Infantry, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, has received the brevot of captain in the United States army, for coolness, gallantry, and good conduct in action with Cheyenne Indians, near Pawnee Forts, Kansas, Sept. 23, 1867. The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, preached in Fanuail Hall, Boston, on Sunday, Aug. 30, from the words, " God created man in his own image, male and female," Genesis, chap. 1, v. 27.; and quoting the other passage descriptive of woman's creation out of man, ad duced it- as proof that Genesis was probably made up of records or fragments of records now lost. It seemed strange that this contradiction had never occurred to the vast majority of men, but that they accepted the most im probable theory of the two, and considered the female inferior.. Then he went on to give a woman s rights sermon Dr. Leonard Woods, ex-president of Bowdoin College, has just returned to Maine from a fifteen months' sojourn in Europe. While abroad he was led into some very extended historical researches, which are likely o be of much importance to students of history. He has seen and noted some seventy-seven maps of America, issued during the early part of the sixteenth century ; and Mr. Kohl of Berlin is about to publish copies of several of them under the auspices of the Maine HistOrical Society. Dr. Woods also discovered among the unarranged manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillips of Cheltenham a long-lost manu script of Hackluyt's, in 20 chapters, concerning the "greato necessitie and manifold commodyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerno discoveries.' He was very generously allowed to take copied of it by Sir Thomas, and has brought home with him an accurate version of :this rare document. The President has recognized Stephen Higgin son, a Boston merchant, and brother of Pol. T. W. Hig ginson, as Vice-Consul of Brazil at Boston. Our last reference to the domestic affairs of the Mormon apostle, Mr. Brigham Young, some months since, was on the-occasion of his becoming " slightly a widower," the prophet having lost "a quantity" of wives from the ma hidy known to cattle herdsmen as pleuro-pneumonia. A New York correspondent, writing on 25th ult., informs us that Mr. Young has just " annexed" five ladies newly arrived from England. The writer says:—" Among the marriage notices in a newspaper which reached me the other day, I found the following, which perhaps may interest some of your readers in Berks county, England Brigham Young—Several others. At Salt Lake City, 16th instant, Brigham Young and Mrs. J. R. Martin, Miss Emily P. Martin, Miss L. M. Pandergrast, Mrs. R. M. Jenckinson, and Miss Susie P. Cleveland, all of Barks county, Eng land.' "—Birmingham Gazette. The Hon. James 0. Putnam, of Buffalo, New York, late United States Consul at Havre, has been one of the most earnest and effective speakers during the re cent political campaign in Maine, which has resulted in a large increase over any former Republican vote. The liveries of the present Sheriff of London and Middlesex, C. 11. C. Hutton, Esq., exceed in richness of colour and elegance of design those of any previous Sheriff. '['ho State liveries are of gales cloth, manufactured expressly for the purpose. Tho facings are white, and the whole elaborately laced and embroidered in silver with convolvolus major and vetch major intertwined ; the cultivated, and the wild flower being emblematical of the city and county over which the jurisdiction of ihe Sheriff extends. The dress liveries contain the heraldic colours of the coat-of-arms of the Sheriff, namely, brown with white facings and pules edgings, and are also richly. laced. These specimens of elaborate and finished work manship will be on view at the well-known house of T. S . Freeman and Sons, 48, Fenchurch-street, City, on the 24th and 25th inst., who have announced their readiness to show them to visitors. Mr. Alderman Cotton, who, on the 28th inst., with Mr. C. H. Hutton, will b 3 sworn in as Sheriff of Landon ant Middlesex, has appointed as his chaplain for the year of his shrievalty the Rev. Frederick George Blornfield, M.A., Rector of St. Andrew Under shaft, and Prebendary of St. Paul's, a son of the late B ihop of London. Mr. Hutton has appointed as his chap lain for the same period the Rev. W. Foster Elliott, of St. Bees College, vicar of East Dulwich. Ex-Governor Thomas H. Seymour died of typhoid fever at his residence in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 3d September, aged sixty-one years. He studied law, prac tised the profession,. and was a Representative in Congress from Cotinecticut, from 1843 to 1815. In 1846 he went to Mexico as Major of a New England regiment, and was proMoted to be a colonel after the battle of Chepultepec. He was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1850, and re elected three times in succession, was Minister to Russia during President Pierce's Administration, and had held other offices of honour and trust. Monticello, the homestead of Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana. The question that suggests itself to those looking on at a distance is whether the New Englander is not making the same mistake that the Old Eng lander has always made. The Britisher's social system, his religion, his Government, are in his opinion the best in the world. What is good for him must be good for others—therefore he has ruled Greeks, Ilindoos, Chinese, Maories, Caffirs, Negroes, Canadian French, and Celts on this principle, and everywhere it has been perverted, done harm, and led to much hatred. Is it not possible that the negro may shake into his true position without the into rference of the New Englander, and that the social theory—though sound and good in practice with him—may be but ill adapted for conditions wholly different? What is the wish of the African ? for testimony points strongly to the fact that he prefers his old masters to those designated " carpet baggers," who now endeavour to establish them selves as negro leaders. Fro :n the best source evi dence comes that the change of feeling throughout the South is market, and that the negroes will carry most of these States for the ticket favoured by those called " rebels." If so, then the decision is conclusive, for the Southerners openly proclaim that there are ethnological reasons why the negroes cannot rise to a condition superior to that they pro pose to give them ; this the negroes answer by abandoning those whose object it is to maintain them in the dignity of citizenship, and going over to the persons who assert that they are unqualified by nature for any other position than that of hewers of wood and drawers of water. The most important act of a Southern Legislature is that of the Georgia House of Representatives, which adopted a resolu tion declaring negroes ineligible to seats, to which we elsewhere allude, and the resolution was fol lowed by the negroes leaving the House. Through out the South the greatest disorder prevails, and if one-half of the newspaper reports be true, there is but a short step from the present state into a ser vile war. It is not the negroes again st whom the Southern ire is aroused, but against the " scally wags," as the " carpet baggers" are designated, and they in truth embrace Northern men, who have merely sought a good opening for capital and en terprise in the South. The plan now adopted by the Southern leaders is bearing excellent fruit for their cause. The habits of a lifetime cannot be eradicated by a revolution, nor can the innate respect and re gard of the negro for the old planter families on whose estate he has been born and bred be sud denly transferred to a " Scallywag." SAMBO grins with delight when his old master holds out to him the hand of reconciliation, and .whether the Southern ethnological theory be true or false, it will take many years to erect the negro into a genuine freedman, and give him the habit of individual in dependence, which is the marked characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon, and found but in few other races. Whether his election to stand by his old masters be the result of astounding ignorance, or a well considered act of judgment, does not change the position he thus takes up, for if the former he is incorrigible, and had better be left for another generation to their guidance ; and if the latter, on the very principle of the freedom for which the Northerner contends, he has a right to choose, and he may choose for himself as wisely as another race who does not understand him, might choose for him..—Anglo-American Times. is the subject of a complicated law suit at Richmond, Vir ginia, the heirs of a recent owner testing his will. Sun Td.jen has bestowed $5O and the promise o a $5OO annuity on the man, George Boyce, who saved him from drowning. Big iu promise, but little in the ready. Bayard Taylor and family have arrived in New York from Europe. Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, hai also returned to America. "General Roger A. Pryor has eschewed politics and devoted himself to the practice of law in New York, backed by considerable oratorical powers and legal know ledge. The Commissioner of Patents extended the Hay wood India rubber patent, after a severe contest. The Spring field Republican says—" Cyrus W.Field will return to New York in October, buy a farm on the Hudson, and retire from active business life ;" but we have good.reason to doubt it. The funeral sermon of two widows of revolutionary soldiers was preached on August 30, in Hunting Creek church, Bedford county, Virginia. The sermon was deli vered to a large audience by the Rev. Alex. G. Brown, presiding elder of the Lynchburg district of the M. E. Church South. The deceased were Mrs. Nancy King and Mrs. Nancy Crews, both of Bedford county, Virginia, where they had resided from their youth. Mrs. King died on the 17th day of May, 1868, in the one hundred and fourth year of her age. Mrs. Craws died on the Bth day of March, 1868, nearly 90 years of age. We regret to see that Mr. Donnelly, of Minne sota, in addressing his constituents, has resumed his at tack upon Mr. Washbourne. In reviewing his Congres sional labours he made the same onslaught which had been interrupted in the House upon a man who, whatever may be his shortcomings, has mainly directed animosity against himself by his efforts to guard the Treasury of his country. If Mr. Donnelly's constituents send him back to Congress we can only conclude that one who uses this language fairly represents them : " I believe that God never made a baser man (than Mr. Washburne). And indeed I sometimes think that God never made him, but lot him out to the lowest bidder, like the Custom-house, and that the devil was the lowest bidder." The expenses of Mr. M'Gee's funeral, upwards of $2,000, have been paid by the Montreal City Council. Fung, one of the Chinese ambassadors with Mr. Burlingame, being asked what the Chinese think of Jesus Christ, replied that Christ was recognized by them as the Western Confucius. The cadets at West Point were reviewed on Fri day, Aug. 2, by Duke William of Wurtemburg, who ex pressed his pleasure at their high state of discipline. The Court Journal knows how to improve on Cable messages. The news sent by the Philadelphia cor respondent of the Tulles of the destruction of a train in New Mexico has thus been rendered by that speculative journal :—" Railway travelling is a little exciting in Ame rica. The Indians recently in New Mexico stopped a train, burnt it, and scalped the engine driver, stoker, six guards, and all the passengers." Rich this, considering hat there is no railway within one hundred miles of New Mexico. A ❑ew postal treaty between Great Britain and the United States with reference to the East India mails has been promulgated. It regulates the exchange of mails between the United States and the Ea - st, by means of the new American steam line plying between San Francisco and Hongkong, and takes effect on November 1. The rates of postage is 10c. currency per half ounce on letters, 2c. each on newspapers, and Bc. per four ounces on book packets, patterns, and samples, and the treaty includes all tho British possessionS in the East. The negotiations for a postal treaty between Switzerland an 1 England will commence at Berne next Monday, the 21st instant. England will be represented by Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, assistant secretary, and Mr. William Page, of her Majesty's Post-office. The Brazilian Government has complied with the demands of the American Minister by permitting the American gunboat Wasp to ascend the Parana. A NOVEL USE OF STEAM.—In Louisiana it is proposed to use steam directly through the share of a steam plough, to loosen the soil. The Swiss Federal Council at Berne has ap pointed as representatives to the International Sanitary Congress General Dufour, Dr. Lehmann, head of the Army Medical Department, and M. Gustavus Moynier, of Geneva. (AnvsatTisiranNT. J—Dyspopsia.(lndigestion), Constipation, Ds batty, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerate I by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Itevalenta Arabica Food, as proved by • thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, suet as—eough, asthma, also diarrhma, haemorrhoids, liver corn • plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula., tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope's health restored by Da Barry's Food. Caro No. 63,413.—" home, July 11, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has nailed himself entirely to Du Barry's Rovalenta Arabic°. Food, of which he consumes t. platcful at every mea.. It has produced a sur prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the" tla,zette du Midi, " July 23 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Dories, Lord Lieut. 01 Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,332. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness. hsttana, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sieknes s and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9,1 ; 21ba, 4s G 1; 5 lbs., 11s.; 12 lbs , 22s ; 2ilbs ,40s —Also DoBARay's REVALENTA. ARABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 43 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 1108 for 576 cups at 535. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s and Ms. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY and CO., No. 77 7 Regent-street, London; and all tamers and Chemists. One of the wealthy American banking firms is about to open a now banking how., in Paris. The firm in New York is W. J. Selegman and Co. They have branch houses in London, Paris, Frankfort, and San Fran cisco.—Court Journal. - The retrains of Charles Loring Elliott, the artist whose decease has lately been announced, arrived in New York oa Thursday afternoon, Sept. 3, from Albany, in charge of the sculptors Palmer and Calverly, also Messrs. Louis Lang, Sanford Thayer, S. P. Avery, Frederick S. Cozzens, and the deceased artist's son and his two brothers. The body was conveyed to the National Academy of Designs, on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth street, where it lay in state until two o'clock on . Friday_ afternoon, when; the fhnoral obsequies wero performed. The remains preserved a life-like appearance, itt....' . and were viewed by a very large company of the profes sional friends and relatives of the talented deceased. The burial service took place at Greenwoo I Cemetery. The new museum opened in Now York by Mr. Wood is said, in reality, to belong to Barnum. Mr. Wheatley gives up the management of Niblo's, and withdraws from the stage with a fortune of over $700,000, gained from the immense success of the "Black Crook," " White Fawn," &c. Opera Bou'cl'e controls Niblo's theatre now ; New York has run mad because of "Barba Bleue." Mr. Mapleson has taken the Academy of Music for the fall and winter, and will commence his grand opera season on the 15th October, with T tiens and Kellogg as prime donne. The former is to receive $5,000 a month, the latter $3,500 ; Demorie Lablache, $1,600 ; Bultermi, $2.000 ; Fienzi, $1,200, Santlev $2,200, Foli $1,600, and Arditi $2,000, the payments all to be in gold. Signor Foli, the celebrated basso, was formerly a resident at Hartford, Connecticut, when he was plain Mr. Foley. These salaries are large, but not extravagant, when we are told that Mdlle. Patti's benefit before her marriage realized £1,200. M. Louis Leroy cal culated that each note she sung on the occasion realised lid. Booth will open with the "Winter's Tale." Owen Mar lowe, M`Kee Rankin, and Gus Fenno are engaged for his new theatre. Mrs. General Lander (Jean Davenport) has commenced an engagement at the Broadway of 20 nights, supported by Messrs. J. H. Taylor and George Becks. The Florences follow Mrs. Lander at the "Broadway' The Rev. Bellew denies the report that in case of success as a reader in America it was his intention to stay there. It is even doubtful whether he will proceed there. E. L. Davenport will make his first appearance in Brook lyn after his return from California. It is said that Mr A. Harris is to open Covent Garden Theatre at Christmas wits a pantomime by Mr. H.J. Byron. The subject is "Robinson Crusoe," which is to be treated after an entirely new fashion. Alice Kingsbury 18 to quit the stage to study as a sculp tor. The Worrel Sisters go to Troy for a brief season of burlesque. The Spirit says :—" Col. Fitzgerald's new play " Wolves at Bay," has been secured by Mrs. John Drew and will be produced at the Arch. Theplay is said to be Fitz gerald's best by those who have seen the manuscript, and as his " Light at Last" was a flattering success throughout all the large cities, we may reasonably expect an un usually good American play. James Taylor, a comic singer from London, with a band of London concert people, gives au entertainment at Dodworth's Hall. Mlle. Nilsson has just purchased a lot upon the Avenue de. l'Empereur, at the corner of the Rue de Moray, Paris, where she will erect an elegant mansion. The debut of a third Patti is expected this winter at the Italian Opera, Paris. Madame Amelie Strakosch, nee Patti, the anticipated debutante, is said to be the possessor of a contralto voice of superb quality. The National Theatre, Washington,. opened on Monday night, Sept. 7, with " Ours." E. W. Younge, Claude Hamilton, Eta ° Germon, and Alice Gray are in the cast. F. T. Barry, Consul of Ecuador, makes an appeal for subscriptions to the " Ecuador Earthquake Relief Fund." They will be received at the Consulate, 1, Ade laide-place, London-bridge, and at the National Bank, 18, Old Broad-street, or any of its branches, and the amounts subscribed will be remitted to Ecuadcr by each mail. Juige-Advocate General Holt has replied to General Dyer's demand for a court-martial, that the sub stance of the charges being more than two years old is barred by the 88th Article of War, and the smaller offence s not thus beyond the limit are of too trivial a nature, there fore as General Dyer cannot be tried on the principal matter ho ought not to be tried on the less3r. General Dyer, in answer, asserts that the two years of limitatiou must begin with the discovery of the crime, and therefoie the offence not being barred by the Article he can he tried. The Iron Age says :—" Oregon is socially and commercially agitated upon the question of direct trado with Atlantic ports. She shipped to Francisco for the fir s , six months of the current year 391,330 quarter sacks _9;i. flour, 85,662 centals of wheat, 15,363 sacks of oats, 36134 " boxes of apples, 2,461 packages of bacon and lutr a t 2,374 bbls. of beef and pork, 2,100 barrels and 1,163 0 56 " of salmon, and has a wool clip of 7,500,0 00 pound , ' 4 But it is asserted that the Oregon producer paps -f commission to the Francisco dealer on every one ° these articles, and that the profits charged there lessen t ° market abroad, while at the same time a profit has to 13a paid in the same way on every article of consumPt i°ll ; Oregon products are in particular cured meats and bread" stuffs. The flour, when it reaches the East, is credited t° Calif ornia, since it is shipped there. But it brings teen dollars dollars per barrel, and if the fact of its prod c ; tion wore generally known, it would make a g rew market for Oregon flour, and so enrich the gr°sve a The State has five flouring mills ; is paying attenti° to sheep-raising, and making it a leading indusl has four woollen mills in operation, and two more bull ing ; furnishes an immense quantity of salmon ; o*P a- a the Pacific steamship companies with cured meats , s t il a s takes the lead in the San Francisco market for choice bil icie and dried beef. And now the demand is for direct wily with the cities along the Atlantic coast. We can re r. appreciate the feelings of the Oregonians in the Ina tte ,,, They raise . what we want, and what they k ° ` need. But they got neither cash nor credit fo v. ` 1 r t' o productions, and have to see California absorb a p r°fi.t ,. ° ,. all of their exports and imports, and in doing 50 vent the estimation and immigration they would other` ;-;6 have. There is but one rem3dy for this. That they 113;la hit in broaching direct trade. We venture to sag th.%ct cargo of salmon, dried beef, wool and flour, sent dr . here, would pay its freight and leave as good a proni , _ te, can be gained from their intercepted trade. At all eT e i ll oso one shipment could be easily made and would 1 10 t fo r tho shippers a fortune, if it did not make a le „ a r their. A return cargo could be easily made up froll1;d manufactures of iron, textiles, &c., and if the r ° ,„ be voyage proved profitable the problem would be s olved• ", t , increase of crops and of wealth and population there Etbr'ility, testing themselves in an increased disposition and a ra ileS to build railroads. A road is being built for 1 50 l e g through the Williamette Valley, and as business inerr_ito the rails are to be laid through the valley of ter P.7'4 and Rogue rivers to the California State line, where t;e will connect with those of that State; while a trunk ',A is talked of between the mouth of the Columbia B,' be Puget's Sound, 700 miles north. 'Government aid svi l i ! to , asked for the latter, as a branch of the Pacific Road. Tu 43 ,, facts show the rapid development of that region, and duce the hope that the threatened direct trade will b° augurated soon." Indian depredations have been mainly transfer re e ci r to Colorado, from whence many tales of mu fifty and arson are reported. Two hundred and fi e ld, Colorado volunteers have been called into the and a farce has also been raised in Kansas Pleoo to a war of extermination. Besides the destr.a e c a b y of the waggon train from Santa Fe, repol, te es Cable last week, with the scalping of the !1,. any Mexican guards, another train was attack captured after the guards expended all their !rot nition. As yet the operations of the soldiers Dule led to.any result, nor do the people expect r n i , e gi ost they know what an Indian war means. • rilf he dreadful part is the delight of these wret ches 10,, va' and knowing the impossibility of altering Trobe'S ture of these fiends —notwithstanding Mr. kl' it letter to the Times—we cannot but rejoice that race is becoming extinct. Let any on read fel: usual modes of torture which' are sur e c ons'' low on the capture of a prisoner, a nd 001 der the position, while aware that by no tent o e save the abandonment of the wide ° l o co territory occupied by these savages, eon P eo selef; maintained, or the settlers freed from the ovate, '01 dread of such a fate overtaking them._ a d srs, modes of torture lately described by a ut",'!, officer from the country of the Indians is tr pi pt '; Imagine in another instance the WI tO soner to have his hands tied behind In o ' er ao", thrown upon the ground, and his teeth, -13 , pit 14 0 toe nails pulled out ;to be then buried an d .0 to his arms, the dirt stamped down arous u 4 a bos e circle of fire built around him at a distanc,_°,,'" t b the a ho ten feet, and thus roasted alive. During % jo g t processes the squaws are occupied in gO O , sufferers with knives and pricking them wi th ore of to burning sticks. There are other and l a the tematic modes of torture too numerous, , mention, and which might not be believe°. "focliP" And he asserts that no man who knows the suffers himself to be taken alive. Births. °- f Ca t • BRINE-On the 17th inst., at Chatham , the lc ' ;f, 1 " 5. 4 Bruce Brine, Royal Engineers, of a son. „riscoo HEREFORD —On the 20th inst at Treg o 9 3l Voss, Hereford, of a daughter. o - f HARRISON—On the 20th inst., at Kynstotle it`ooso. wife of Colonel Broadley-Harrison, late 11 a daughter. tb 0 2 4 g 131' .: Marriages. CROFTON-1311,INKLEY—On the 19th inst., 7 Roo church of Easkey, county Sligo, Capt. F. 1 : 3- 3 1‘ . .0 0 i i i# 11 86th Regiment, second surviving son of S LI. to 1 40 0' Bart., of Longford House, county Slig, °, ca of - second daughter of Richard ' G. 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Tits SUN (1) :; '' Cl# Strand, in the Precinct of the So ooh'' 131 t- laiddlesex.-Wednesday, September 23, 1866. LAW AND POLICE. Two GENTLEMEN SENT TO PRISON.—TWO men, de scribed as gentlemen, but who gave false names, and, it is supposed, false addresses, have been brought up •before Sir B. W. Carden, at Guildhall, charged with being drunk and assaulting the passengers in Moorgate•street. The evidence was conclusive. The prisoners were out rageously drunk, using bad language, assaulting men, and molesting women. They seemed to treat the matter as a light affair, and expressed their regret. Alderman Carden committed them for seven days, with bald labour. They begged hard for the substitution of a fine, but without avail. STABBING.---John Edgar Glinn, a South American, has been charged at Westminster Police-court with stabbing John Newth, a wood-cutter. The complainant's daughter had been in the service of the prisoner, in Pimlico, but finding that he kept his house for immoral purposes, she was taken away. Prisoner afterwards saw Newth and his wife selling firewood in Pimlico. Prisoner threatened him with legal proceedings for insulting him, after which he pursued him with a bowie-knife, chased him round a lamp post, and, when Newth took refuge in a neighbouring house, stabbed him in the neck and shoulders. The prisoner was remanded for a week on the charge of stabbing with intent to murder, and bail was refused. This Prize 3 the ng SOld , Obae ban's I ADVA hold o able w Forms R~ It( It' Sec for the CA the Flyi ng Feat 1.1 • ever pe Leybot, Comic= the W e Christy The Ca rle ir e : spec NIBLO AE ItO — Orng and C . , an attl Dance 1 1 141 DER A to the • Years c till 10 / I 3 71 ' Proved retned,l Gout ; delietib dren, a 172, NI FU Or ,Infu h 1 0 ,14 4, B:ilare. 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