The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Hero is the picture drawn by the Saturday .Renew ,the femme pass& of to-day :—Dressed in the extreme of youthful fashion, her thinning hair dyed and crimped anc fired till it is more like red-brown tow than hair, het flaccid cheeks ruddled, her throat whitened, her bust displayed with unflinching generosity, as if beauty was to be measured by cubic inches; her lustreless eyes blackeneC round the lids, to give the semblance of limpidity to th 4 tarnished whites—perhaps the pupil dilated by belladonna or perhaps a false and fatal brilliancy for the moment given by opium or by eau de cologne, of which she has s store in her carriage, and drinks as she passes from ball to ball ; no kindly drapery of lace or gauze to conceal th 4 breadth of her robust maturity, or to soften the dreadful shadows of her leanness—there she stands, the wretched creature who will not consent to grow old, and who will still affect to be like a fresh coquettish girl when she is nothing but la femme passle—la femme passie et ridicule into the bargain. There is not a folly for which even the thoughtlessness of youth is but a poor excuse , -f-o which she, in all the plenitude of her abundant exptu.,..ce, does not plunge. Wife and mother as she may be, she flirts and =ices love as it an nonouranie issue was as open to her as to her daughter, or as if she did not know to what end flirting and making love lead in all ages. If we watch the career of such a woman, we sec how, by slow but very sure degrees, she is obliged to lower the standard of her adorers, and to take up at last with men of inferior social position, who are content to buy her patronage by their devotion. To the best men of her own class she can give nothing that they value ; so she barters with snobs, who go into the transaction with their eyes open, and take the whole affair as a matter of exchange, and quid pro quo rigidly exacted. Or she does really dazzle some very young and low-born man who is weak as well as ambitious, and who thinks the fii - gitive regard of a middle-aged woman of high rank sonitthing to be proud of and boasted about. That she is as old as his own mother—at this moment selling tapes behind a village counter, or gathering up the eggs in a country farm—tells nothing against the association with him ; and the woman who began her career of flirtation with th e son of a duke ends it with the son of a shopkeeper, having between these two terms spanned all the several degrees of degra dation which lie between giving and buying. She cannot help herself ; for it is part of the insignia of her artificial youth to have the reputation of a love affair, or the pre tence of one, if even the reality is a mere delusion. When such a woman as this is one of the matrons, and conse quently one of the leaders of society, what can we expect from the girls ? What worse example could be given to the young? When we see her with her own daughters we feel instinctively that she is the most disastrous adviser they could have; and when in the company of girls or young married women not belonging to her, we doubt whether we ought not to warn their natural guardians against allowing such association, for all that her standing in society is undeniable, and not a door is shut against her. We may have no absolutely tangible reason to give for our distaste beyond the self-evident facts that she paints her face and dyes her hair, dresses in a very deeollettf style, and affects a girlish manner that is out of harmony with her age and condition. But though we cannot formularise reasons, we have instincts ; and some times instinct sees more clearly than reason. What good in life does this kind of woman do ? The Spectator points out how inadequate is the provision madti in the present House of Commons for the press. The reporters of the older journals, who alone are consi dered legitimate occupants of the gallery, are cramped for room, and compelled to write in the most unnatura' of attitudes, that of worshippers in a pewed church, while new papers positively cannot get admittance. Are the members really so fond of the old ones that they are will, ing to vote them a close monopoly ? As for the provincia journals, who are daily becoming more powerful, ani whose representatives have just as much right within th' walls of Parliament as the London reporters, there is ne room for them ; while the weekly papers are subjected tc a regime absolutely grotesque in its follr and injustice. The Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Examiner, the London Review, and half-a-dozen more, are just as much read by polititians, and have just as much influence on politics, as the daily papers ; yet their conductors an debarred from listening to the debates for which they hate usually furnished half the material. They are per mitted, as a great favour, to attend in the Reporter s Gallery, in which they have no seats of right, once a week, the rule being made most stringent when the de. bates are most important and consecutive, as, for example, the debate upon Reform. The editors of the daily papers, many of whom are as powerful as any men on the front benches, are, we believe, tolerated every night, but only of favour ; and a serious complaint was made before this very committee that their presence was a hindrance and a nuisance to the reporters, who do not want either tc offend them or to be bothered with their conversation. Much of this arrangement is, of course, due to the arrogant theory that reporters and journalists, through whom alone the House is powerful, are mere " strangers," surplusage people of whose existence the House cannot condescend to be aware ; but some of it is due to the contracted limits of a house in which reporters' galleries seem to have been ar afterthought. The journalists and reporters do not asl much, only room to perform their unpaid but inestimabh services; and if it is refused in any new house they ought, is self-respect, to render members' lives a misery to them, task they could perforift very easily by ignoring them ir leaders, and reporting their chatter verbatim, with all th , repetitions, delays, interludes, interjections, hawks, ant other marks of oratorical incapacity which they now sup press. Mr. Barry's scheme for building a new house ovu the Commons Court and the dining•rooms re*sedies mos of these evils, but it is insufficient. The reporters are allowed forty-four seats, instead of thirty-eigl.t ; bu that does not ellow for the inevitable requirements of fresl newspapers, or fortll4 growing wants and power of tie' provincial press. A new institution—the editor's box—is *aowever, a decided improvement, and will, we hope speedily cause the abolition of the ban under which weekly newspapers at present lie ; and Mr. Barry will, we doub' not, if pressed, screw out ten more seats for the reporters The London Review says that there never was a tim, when people in general cared less for politics in the old loose sense of the word than they do now. Then was even some truth in the statements which usei to be made about a year ago, that the working classe were being ridden for purposes of agitation, that they ham no self originated passion on the subject of votes, and tha the question of oe , e' tension of the suffrage might har elept for a great many years to come, if it had not bee] violently whipped up. Even as it was, the agitation lackec the usual tokens of popular enthusiasm—in spite of Hyd, Tark, Trafalgar-square, and the Agricultural Hall. On• reason of this is that the working classes, and some othe classes, too, have not the faith which they once had in th, results of political flank movements executed under flit guidance of such leaders as they have a chance of return ing to Parliament. They are penetrated with high impe -1 :al ideas and social questions, and they feel, vaguely, but f ireibly enough to make "politics " less interesting t. them, that we have not yet got at the way of charging th, Legislature with the best public opinion on subjects o national wellbeing. Great as is such a question as that the Irish Church, and imminent as it is, we may be said tc have arrived at a political interregnum, and, indeed, at at interregnum which is much more than political. Thougl it may appear absurd, on the eve of a general election, ti talk of political inactivity, the political opinion prope. which is efficient at this time is not deep, sincere opinion consciously or even certainly affiliated to principles. Therm is, for instance, at the present day, no obvious political idea which is held with anything like the certainty, tin workable certainty, with which the idea of free trade oi the idea of non-intervention was once grasped. The Imperial Review remarks that the readiness of the House of Lords to adopt Mr. Gladstone's Church Rate Bill is not, perhaps, capable of being justified on any satisfactory grounds. Besides the general objections tc settling any long-pending question immediately before the first appeal to the new and enlarged constituencies, there is a peculiar reason why the church rate question was specially unfit to be finally decided at this juncture. For the first, time, the borough constituencies were to be identical with the body who now grant or refuse a church rate. From this body, just about to enter on political rights, the opportunity of uttering its voice on this questior is to be snatched by the representatives of a more limited class. The representatives of the Dissenters in the House of Commons have, generaVyspeaking,been extremely reads to accept this measure, though falling short in form what they have desired on former occasions. For this, tee(' reasons may, perhaps, be given : firstly, that in reality i' is little different from an absolute surrender ; and secondly, that these persons do not entirely trust the new constitu• envies, which will be less completely under the influence of those who form their great strength, the urban middle classes. The Imperial Review still thinks the bill a wholly unsatisfactory one, and quite irreconcileable with the fre quent declarations during the debate on the Irish Church, that no one wished to assail the Establishment in England: It seems to us, by casting the repair.; of the churches on voluntary rating, to attack the princiele of a national Church. This hasty -snrrender, in deference to the sup. posed wishes of the new Parliament, is one of the worst evils of the long interval between the Reform Bill :Ind the dissolution. We only hope that the a.menthnerCs of the House of Lords have removed some of its most objection• able and most mischievous provisions. On Monday next Mr. Bass will move, "That the evidence taken before the Eiistol Election Committee having been delivered, Mr. Speaker do not issue his writ for the city of Bristol until three days' notice of a motion for tbt 19,0PliallkaY9 1 nir4(l" THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Seldom has the weather proved such a national topic of conversation, and indeed of anxiety in many places, as in the week now closing. The extraordinary length of the drought is filling the minds of those agriculturists who have sown their crops on light soils with apprehensions for the result of such a long absence of rain. Even in many parts of Ireland such a season has not been known for seventy years. The contrast between July 1867 and July 1868 is of a most remarkable character. Shortly after St. Swithin's Day last year there was an unprecedented rainfall. It was estimated that in one day 26,000,000 tons of water fell in the metro- politan area alone ; and the vast works of the main drainage were for hours unable to carry it off. The farmers looked in vain to St. S within last year to usher in forty days of dry weather ; they now hope for a few days of rain, and the sooner it comes the better for the prospects of the harvest. —Dail y Nezcs. Scotland is under the influence of one of the most searching droughts that has been experienced within the memory of middle-aged men. We do not suppose that heavy land has been more rent since 1826. The pastures are very much embrowned on light coast land and on rocky or gravelly soils in the interior of the country, oats are etinted, and green crops are making no progress. Water is scarce on many farms where such a want is seldom felt. The channels of streams are dry, and farmers are looking wistfully for rain. Of the crops, wheat alone has not' suffered during the week. It has had a choice blossom ing season, and the earliest is filling With as sound an ear as we have ever seen. With the exception of deep rick land, the bulk of straw is much under an average. The oat crop is giving way rapidly on light and also on thin heavy land. The crop in general has run rapidly into eat when it is scarcely covering the ground. There must now be a great deficiency of straw, and oats in an early season are not likely to compensate for stinted growth by an extra produce of grain. The weather has been favour able for haymaking. The general crop is light, and there seems to be a sure prospect of another winter of scarct provender for cattle. The reports of the early potato crop are the worst we have ever had in the second week of 'NV.— A yr Advertiser. "VENTRILOQUISM IN COURT. A somewhat curious episode occurred in the Bristol . Sessions Court a day or two ago. Whilst the learned recorder was in the act of summing up in a serious case of highway robbery, and when it was necessary that his own mind and those of the jury should he free from distrac tion, a voice was heard singing with peculiar sweetnesr e song of " Home, sweet home," and with such dis tinctness that at first no doubt was entertained that if emanated from some person in court. The members of the bar, the witnesses, the prisoners, and the spectators all looked about to see the charming singer, whilst the officials, with their customary zeal in the suppression of ell extraneous noises, shouted " Silence in court." The recorder himself delivered a few interlocutory remarks, demanding that the police should " stop that noise.' It was thought, after a few moments' examination, that the sounds might arise from some one in the adjoining yard. Mr. Inspector Newton, without further ado, assumed the detective himself, but, strangely enough. no sooner had he got into the yard than the melody ceased, and there was a hearty laugh, " Ha, ha, ha 1" This wai repeated with such heartiness that all the court who were not impressed with the gravity of the occasion joined in :horns, " Ha, ha, ha !" The inspector returned into court, and the singing was resumed—the refrain this time being " Not for Joe." " Where does the noise come from ?'' was the stern question officially put to the inspector. " From tht prisoners below," was the reply ; and forthwith Mr. Wallis, the prison clerk, descended the steps to the cell, and inquired who it was that dared to sing. The cha racter of the song, " Home, sweet home," gave weight to the suggestion that it must have come from some one yearning for a return to domestic bliss, but the universa: answer of the prisoners was, "how can we sing in this strange place ?" and their weepings and moanings con firmed their verbal denial of any infraction on their part of the prison discipline. Thus baulked, the officials gave up the search, and the whole affair remained a mystery even at the rising of the court —Western Dailr Press. CAPTURE OF TWO DESPERADOES. A letter from Cuneo, in Piedmont, gives a long account of the capture of two criminals, It appears that for more than a year past two brothers, by name Giuseppe and Michele Enrici, had been the terror of the whole province. Besides misdeeds in Italy they had committed at atrocious crime in France, and fear of being given up to the justice of that country made them tery wary, desperate, and formidable. The attempts is capture them had been numerous, but always unsuccess. ful ; they knew the country thoroughly, and the gen darmes were weary of pursuing them. On the 13th of la,s 4 month a corporal of gendarmes, named Giovanni Mainero, who commanded the station of Chiusa, was returning from a long exploration, when he accidentally learnt that the, two Enrici had gone towards Villanova di Mondovi. He immediately ordered out two patrols to follow them ; one of these was composed of himself and two gendarmes, Petronelli and Sgro. It was about half-past ten at night when the three men arrived at the village of Branzolo. They were disguised, and went straight to the Cock Inn, at the door of which Petronelli stood sentry, while Mainero and Sgro entered the courtyard. There they came upon the hostess, and at once asked her if the Enric were in the house. Taken by surprise she stammeringly admitted the fact. Alarmed by the barking of the clogs, Michele Enrici shewed himself at the window Mainero sprang upon him and dealt him two blows upon the head with the butt of his revolver. " What are you about, corporal?" cried the cunning brigand, " I am the landlord." Mainero, believing him, left Lim alone, but had scarcely turned his back when the malefactor fired a pistol at him, fortunately without effect. Then Sgro fired at Enrici, who fell to the ground, crying out that he was killed. Meanwhile a desperate struggle was going on inside the inn. Mainero and Sgro perceived it, and hurried to the room where Giuseppe Enrici and the gen darme Petronelli were fighting fiercely. The latter, while on guard at the street door, had been assailed by Enrici, who fired two shots at him, missing both times, and then began a conflict in which the gendarme might have had the worst of .it had not Mainero and Sgro gone to his assistance. The room was in total darkness, several shots had been fired, the terrified landlord, who had crept into a corner, had been unintentionally wounded, the gendarmes were in danger of wounding each other. At last Enrici was disabled and made prisoner, and the gendarmes went to secure his brother Michele, whom they believed to badly wounded, and that astute ruffian had disappeared. Reinforcements were procured, and he was soon afterwards traced to a mill. Warned of the gendarmes' approach, he jumped out of a window about ten feet from the ground, and succeeded in reaching some rugged and precipitous crags, whence the gendarmes, if they ventured to follow Men up, could easily be repelled merely by throwing stones down upon them. As he stood there, firm and menacing, one of the gen darmes levelled his carbine and shot him through the leg, so that he toppled down headlong from his perch, and died in a few minutes from loss of blood. His brother was taken to prison at Mondavi. Miss Lydia Backer, the secretary of the Manches ter National Society for Women's Suffrage, announc e s that the "society is satisfied that under the 'Representation of the People Act,' all women who have paid their rates in conformity with its provisions are by law entitled to be placed on the Parliamentary register. The society is ac tively engaged in taking the necessary steps to enable such women to vote at the next election." DEATH OF AN OPIUM EATER IN PRISON.---Mrs. Constantine, wife of Mr. IY. S. Constantine, of Scar borough, was on Thursday morning found dead in one of the cells at the Borough Gaol. She was apprehended on the previous day on a charge of obtaining .1222 by false pre tences from the York City and County Banking Com pany's branch. It will be remembered that Constantine was the man recently shot at. by his landlord, and the cir cumstances in which he has since been placed by the inju ries he received may have had something to do with the conduct of his wife. She was a confirmed opium eater, and it is supposed her sudden and total deprivation of the drug acted injuriously upon her. ACCIDENT TO MR. SWINDT.TENE, THE POET.-- On Friday afternoon the occupants of the reading-room of the British Museum were startled by hearing a violent exclamation of pain, followed by a heavy fall on the floor. It was soon ascertained that Mr. Algernon Swinburne had fallen from his seat in a strong convulsive fit, and was violently struggling. He was also bleeding profusely from a wound on the head. Assistance was instantly at hand, and the sufferer was held down for a few minutes, and then removed for air to the passage outside, under the care of the superintendent of the room. Two medical men happening to be in the room, they at once proceeded to ascertain the extent of the injury, but the only wound was a slanting one on the right temple, im mediately over the eye, of about an inch and a half in length, and down to the bone, from which the blood flowed freely. In about half an hour Mr. Swinburne had recovered sufficient consciousness to be placed in a cab and taken home. It appears that he was sitting at the end of the P—Q avenue, and in falling struck his head against the iron staple, of the ring by whicktlie, table44ro moved. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1868. !;ATRAORDINARY CASE OF HOMICIDE. At the Hertfordshire Assizes, on Friday, before Mr. - ustice Willes, James Blow, carpenter and builder, of Velwyn, was charged with the manslaughter of Reuben Cobbs, at Welwyn, on the 6th June. Mr. Clark and Ir. Douglas Walker prosecuted ; Serjeant Parry and Mr. Judlow defended. The circumstances of this case are very eculiar, and appear to have excited much interest. The risoner is a carpenter and builder in a large way of busi .ess, living at Welwyn, near Hertford, and the deceased, teuben Nobbs, was not only in prisoner's service, but ved in his house, was his trusted companion and confi ant, and appears to have thoroughly reciprocated the ood esteem in which his master held him. Between nine .nd ten o'clock on the night of Saturday, June 6, a listurbance took place between prisoner and a groom lamed William Orchard, who had been " larking" with ome girls, and who had given some offence to the misoner Blow. The result of the altercation was that 31ow knocked Orchard down in the street, and then went al to his own house, and shut himself in. When Orchard :ot up, he was much excited; he took off his coat and .ap, and went and hammered at Blow's closed door, :Isallenging Blow to come out and fight. He, however, nade no sign at first, and Orchard went away, but pre ently came again, and renewed his knocking at the loor repeating his challenge for Blow to come out and ight. Blow (who was described as a man of very excit ►ble temperament) then opened his door, and rushed out ipon Orchard with a poker in his hand. He struck )rchard twice on the arm, and drove him backwards to Le gate of the front garden, which was shut. It was 'early dark, but several persons in the street saw the ray. Among them was Reuben Nobbs, who was calking with his sweetheart, .to whom he was about o be married. He rushed forward towards the corn. satants, and it is supposed that he was bending town to open the gate, with the intention of assisting - iis master, when Blow struck him a deadly blow m the skull with the poker, causing a severe fracture. 31ow expressed great sorrow, and repeatedly declared that ie bad no intention to strike Nobbs. He had the sounded man carried indoors, where he died next day, saving first expressed his belief that Blow did not mean to lo him any harm. The medical man who was called in sn Saturday night did not apprehend any danger at first, )ut a post-mortem examination disclosed the full extent if the mischief. Blow was committed for trial for manslaughter both by the coroner and the magistrates, end released on bail. Serjeant Parry contended that ?risoner was justified in self-defence, but the judge in structed the jury otherwise. They accordingly returned t verdict of guilty, accompanied by a strong recommen lation to mercy. Prisoner was released from custody on finding sureties to keep the peace for twelve months, and er4ertaking to appear for judgment if called upon. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY AND COMM UNISM. What is to be the political future of Europe, is a question which every lover of his country, every honest man, every Christian must take to heart. As things are, there seems to be only two alternatives possible—Communism, or a Christian democracy. Liberalism, which is now dominant in Europe, cannot possibly , survive the social and political conflicts it pro vokes ; it carries within itself the seeds of its own dissolution. The essential feature of Liberalism is, that it recognises no standard of right but the will of the majority, sub stituting in politics, as Rationalism does in religion, the will of man for the will of God. Nov this principle, carried to its logical con clusion, as will speedily be done in the war of classes, which such a theory must needs bring about, cannot end otherwise than in the de struction of Liberalism and the triumph of Communism. What is Liberalism, as seen in the modern State, but the government of a party, of a class, of a small fraction of the people, which, while it possesses in theory a belief in the absolute right of the will of the majority, yet, in reality, governs by the means of one class, and in no wise represents the rights, the interests, or the faith of the people? It is a standing lie. Its falsehood corrupts the moral sense of a nation ; representative government in its true sense, as the experience of mankind proves, best secures equal justice to every class, but Liberalism as it now exists in the Parliaments of Europe, is a gross per version of a true and noble theory. It is to a real representative Government, what heresy is to faith. In the modern State, the power of the Crown is virtually set aside ; monarchy is dead, or lingers where it does still survive, merely as a graceful tribute, which the present owes to the past ; but its pith and power are gone. It fares no better with the aristocracy. The Upper House in fear and trembling abdi cates its rights, and countersigns, as the Austrian Chamber of Peers did, out of dread of a revolution if it refused, the acts of the Lower Chamber. Together, with the rights of the Crown and of the Peers, the rights of the Church, the appointed guardian of the supernatural interests of the nation, are abo lished by the representatives of a single class and party, and finally the rights, interests, and wishes of the vast mass of the people, entitled to be heard in a true representative assembly, are not consulted in the remotest de gree in modern European Parliaments. What is to be the upshot of such a state of things? Nay, what is to be devoutly wished, but that Liberalism, this false idol with feet of clay, which the dominant class has set up for public worship, should be tumbled down and broken to pieces ? Europe is rushing headlong to wards democracy, and as things now are in Europe, what honest man can pretend to re gret it ? No change, however radical, can be worse than the permanent instalment in the government of Europe, of that gross political fraud which goes by the name of Liberalism, but which, even in its infancy, foreshadows the most corrupting and all pervading tyranny, the most bitterly anti-Christian form of Go vernment, which, since the days of Paganism has risen up in Christian Europe. What is the remedy against this gigantic and growing evil, which is eating into the very core of Christendom ? Is there even hope of conversion to truer ideas and to Christian prin ciples of the present holders of political power, the issue of the most corrupt class in Europe ? Let us cherish no vain delusions ; as things are in Europe, who, however sanguine, sees any chance of, we do not say immediate, but of a proximate restoration of the Christian monar chy, and of the ancient constitutions of Europe? The irresistible current of democracy is flow ing onwards—we will not say downwards, for we are hopeful enough and confident enough, that the current may be guided aright by the Divine Hand that shapes the course of events —and if in its impetuous assault on stubborn and selfish Liberalism with its false Parlia ments and Kings, the popular stream sweep away, together with every vestige of Liberal ism, the last trace of the venerable structure of monarchical Europe, we cannot but rejoice at the result, however great and painful the cost. No form of Government is in itself incom patible with Christianity, and a Christian de mocracy is infinitely to be preferred to a god less Liberalism and a sham monarc h y. B ut the natural heir to Liberalism is not a Christian democracy, but Communism. Lib era li sm de clares: that the will of majo r iti es i s th e on l y foundation of every right, that there is no ab solute right or truth in the wor ld , an d t h a t consequen tly the voice of numbers is the only rule to which man owes impli c it o b e di ence . But if this supreme will, not content with destroyingmonarchy, and sanctions, on which goes a step further b hitherto i ngcivil l s i gu orderipoenr, n at u rrested,al and declares that property has no rights other than those conferre d upon it by the will of the majority, and that , as in the alleged inte rests um a ofn and was now time tointroduce mo difi cat i ons i nto the existing d is tribution of p roper t y, w h o i s t o a pDivine, n the e, prin c ipl e o f au th or it y, had b een over th rown, it h say nay ? In the natural ord er , i n th e consti tution of civil society, Providence has ordained that property s hould b e the necessary condi tion of peace and civilization, and Christianity has singularly :confirmed and sanctioned the rights conferred by . the natural order. But if Liberalism sets aside the precepts of Chris tianity, the commandments of the Church and the supernatural sanctions of revelation, it is powerless on its own . principles to resist, if not the absolute abolition of the rights of property, at any rate a modification in these rights such as would lead to a redistribution of property—in other words, to Communism Is there anything so peculiarly sacred in the rich man's purse, that Liber a li sm w hi c h h as sacrificed so many higher rights, human and Divine, on the theory of the absolute right of majorities, can say to the m asses o f th e people—the real majorities—combi n ed in an organized attack on property, so far shall you go and no further ? Before such a movement the present holders of political power, the re presentatives of a class, the inventors of the new principle of Government; the political atheists, would be swept away like rotten leaves by the winds of autumn, and, instead of Libe ralism, Communism and anarchy would reign in Europe. But, although Communism is the natural and necessary heir to Liberalism, Liberalism in spite of its lying boasts is not in possession of the minds and hearts of the Christian peoples of Europe. Christianity, the Catholic Church, is still the master of the noblest intel lects, the highest literature, and of the vast masses of the peoples of Christendom. In the day when direct or universal suffrage gives a voice to the real people, the representatives of the popular rights, interests, and religion, will be found, in spite of many aberrations, stand ing up on behalf of civil and Christian order, against the class legislation and godless tenets of Liberalism. In such momentous changes and conflicts as must needs arise in the struggle against the present possessors of political power, the dan gers to civil society cannot be few nor slight. Infidelity, the revolutionary spirit, Commu nism, are all at hand to seize the opportunity of perverting the popular mind, and of abusing popular power. Many of the safeguards of civil liberty will have been overthrown in the conflict. Democracy is a dangerous power. Europe under the long rule of an anti-Christian Liberalism, has been profoundly corrupted ; irreligion spreading from the middle classes has made fearful inroads on the masses of the people ; artizans of many of the larger cities have been infected with Nlaterialism. By a vicious system of education, by an infidel press, the lower and grosser aims of life, have to a certain extent taken the place of higher ' and religious motives. But in spite of these evils and dangers, and the inherent weakness of Democracy ) the danger to society and to re ligion is infinitely less than under the modern State, as it now exists in most countries of Europe. The results of the democratic move ment in 1848, were beneficial to civil and re- ligious order in France and in Germany, and we have no doubt that a Parliament, the real issue of the masses of the people, the product of direct or universal suffrage in Austria or Italy, would be far more favourable to order and religion than the Governments which now in those countries represent the tenets and interests of one class. The sooner corrupt and selfish and revolutionary class-legislation is put down the better for Europe. The combat will be over a wide field. The Church, with the Gospel in its hand, will have to encounter and put down the anti-social theories of Com munism on the one hand, and on the other the selfish doctrines of a false political economy. And in so wide a field we have no fear that Christianity will prove unable to save Christian society from social anarchy and shipwreck of faith.—JYestmiusta;• Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo American 2 lines.) The Russia arrived at Queenstown at 10.40 a.m yesterday, and her news to July 1 is as follows : The Rouse of Representatives passed a concur rent resolution to adjourn on the 15th of July. The Florida member has been admitted to a seat in the House. General Canby yesterday removed the Governor and Lieutenant-Governors of North and South Carolina, and installed the officers elect. Gene ral Canby has also issued orders suspending the administration test oath to civil officers. General Buchanan has issued orders announcing that the oath prescribed by the new Constitution of Louisiana may be administered to the members of the Legislature instead of the Test Oath pre scribed by the Reconstruction Act. The Hamburgh and Americaan Company's steamer Holsatia arrived at Southampton with news to June 30. She has made perhaps one of the most extraordinary passages on record, run ning the entire distance, from Sandy Hook to the Needles, allowing for the difference of time, in nine days and four hours. The news she brings re lating to the South is that General Buchanan has removed the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana under Grant's directions, and installed the officers recently elected—Warmouth and the negro Dunn. The Legislature assembled on the 29th, and the majority of the Democratic delegates, feeling, we presume, that they were of no account against the strength of the Opposition, withdrew. The Mississippi election still progressed, the Demo crats being largely ahead. General Grant was re ported to have informed the District Commanders in the South that the military will soon have to give place to civil rule in all the States (except Missis sippi and Texas) which have been re-admitted to representation ; that is, when the Constitutional requirements had been complied with. ..tThe Bill which elsewhere we announce as having been passed by the Senate, establishing eight hours as a day's work for all mechanics in Government employ (although, as we understand the measure, it was not thus limited in its application) has been signed by the President, and is therefore law. Some months ago it was taken up warmly and strongly sup ported by the workmen of the United States, but they seem to have cooled on it, perhaps persuaded that it will not in reality affect their position. In the New York Times of June 27 the strike between the master masons and their men is alluded to as being as far as ever from a settlement, and the masters are reported as about to set to work themselves to complete the unfinished buildings in band. What effect would an eight-hours' law have on such a dis pute? _ _ The King of the Sandwich Islands, in conse quence of the annexation agitation by America, has threatened to place the island under British pro tection if his nationality is interfered with. We imagine England has causes enough of quarrel without attempting to redress the wrongs of his Hawaiian Majesty. The best thing that could happen to the islands would be annexation to the United States, and perhaps the best thing that could happen to his Majesty would be to get a round sum out of the Washington Treasury in com pensation for his loss of dignity. The action of the Democratic Convention, recom mending the taxation of the U. S. Bonds, appears by the Ilolsatia's news only to have followed that of the Republican House of Representatives, who passed a resolution by 92 votes against 55 ; di recting the Committee of Ways and Means to re port the Bill taxing the interest on the U. S. Bonds at least 10 per cent. Surgeon Boustead, of the Abyssinian Field Force, maintains the correctness of his account of a day's sport in Abyssinia, as it appeared in the Field. He acknowledges that he had very remark able luck on the occasion, while declaring that he has been equally fortunate since in " bagging" other elephants. We should have liked to see the Doctor bringing in his little bag. There is another singular fact stated by Mr. Boustead ; he adds, " Colonel Merewether killed an elephant near Massowah before the expedition was organized, in July, 1867. This was the first elephant seen in the country." Indeed ! have the Abyssinians no eyes ; and, if not, are all travellers in Abyssinia blind ; or did the expedition " grow " the elephants ? The Woman's Rights' movement is everywhere making progress. Governor Bullock, of Massa chusetts, has appointed Mrs. Rachel Howland, of New Bedford ; Miss Elizabeth Fisher, of Lancaster ; and Mrs. Mary A. Fay, of Worcester, to the ad visary Board of Women established by the Legis. lature to aid the seven men who are now the trus tees of the State Industrial School. The Legisla ture refused to allow women to serve on school Committees, and though this institution is for girls still the appointment of such a board to aid in its management is a concession. At the meeting held in the Boston Music Hall on the evening of the 25th June, to present the medals awarded to the Massachusetts exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, a resolution was adopted to me morialise Congress in favour of a Grand Interna tional Exhibition to be held at Washington, open ing on Independence Day, 1876, and continuing during the whole year of jubilee. Although rather long to look forward to, a better time could not be selected. It is a fine idea to assemble the world in the capital of the Union, and show what a Repub lic has achieved in a century of independence. A tithe of the English scattered through the United States during the centenary year, listening to Independence speeches, would have a fine effect in reducing insular conceit and send them home sadder and wiser men. We hope the project will be taken up and grand prepara tions commenced. Governor Bullock distributed the medals and delivered an address ; Commis sioner Usher, Messrs. Eustis and Loring, of Salem ; Mayor Shurtleff, of Boston ; and the Rev. Leon Pilatte, of France, also addressed the meeting. The Messrs. Chickering and Sons received the Cross of the Legion of Honour and the gold medal ; and the grand prize of a gold medal and 9,000 francs was awarded to the Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, for the promotion of the welfare of their workpeople and the development of harmony between the employer and the employed. Senator Sumner is a consistent politician, carry ing the arguments be advances to their logical conclusion. He has written a letter in reply to a citi zen of Norfolk, Virginia, to express his hope that a competent representation of the coloured race will be sent either to the House or to the Senate, or to both. He considers that until that step is taken ' the success of the object for which he has striven is incomplete. It is ridiculous to hear him described as a fanatic, by those who iu theory agree with him, for pushing his views to such an ex treme. It is no extreme ; bnt the clear end at which a man arrives who walks by the light of such reason as his ; and wherein he differs from many who profess to believe in equal rights is, that they do not, or that they have not yet seen the goal to which they are travelog. Whether Senator Sumner be right or wrong iu this course, he is a clear.-headed and consistent statesman who does not shrink to carry his principles into practice. Governor Humphreys cd Mississippi refused to vacate his office at the command of Gen. M'Dowell, and was forcibly removed in consequence. But the Governor has fitted np another room for his office, and still claims to be Governor of the State. Go vernor Holden had ordered the Legislature of North Carolina to convene July 1, and the members of the Alabama Legislature are assembling at the State capital in anticipation of the '‘‘ Omnibus" Recon struction Bill becoming a law. The Legislature of Florida elected a full complement of Senators for the next six years, and adjourned to July 7. The Mississippi election began June 22, and progressed peaceably during the week ; the negroes acting with the Democrats in numbers so great that it is believed the Constitution has been defeated by a majority of 25,000. By General Grant's instruc tions the Legislature of Louisiana had been con vened, and the New State and Municipal offi •ers were to be inaugurate 1. Only the oath prescribed by the Constitution will be required. Three of the lately elected Aldermen of New Orleans have been replaced by General Buchanan, as they failed to qualify, and both hoards are now full. The nomination of Mr. Collector Smythe, of New York, as Minister to Austria is an instance of the disregard even to decency which has at times markedthe conduct of Andrew Johnson. It is a defect in the Government of the United States that a President must almost necessarily be a par tisan. But though he can rarely rise but to the highest office except through party, yet, when it is attained, he ought to be as little as possible parti san. Mr. Johnson has carried into the Presiden tial Chair a standard of morality little elevated above the professional politician intriguing at Wash ington, and if requested to give an instance in proof of the assertion, we would select this appointment. Our readers are aware, from the evidence given by Mr. Thurlow Weed, that certain votes of Sena tors were openly proposed for purchase (by a per son named Adams) to Mr. Smythe, which would insure the acquittal of the President. Collector Smythe informed Adams that he would con sult Thurlow Weed, to whom he afterwards introduced him, and the scheme was dis cussed by the three. 'rids, following on the " Mrs. Perry" scandal, caused much comtnent, and Mr. Smythe was strongly recommended to retire. A high officer of Government, working to corrupt the Senators engaged in a solemn duty, could not fail to attract public attention disagreeably towards himself ; and while these circumstances are fresh in the minds of the people, the Pre sident selects Mr. Smythe for a high diplomatic post. He has also named Edward O'Perrin for a judgeship in Utah. On the 24th June, not con tent with these nominations, he picked out Perry Fuller to succeed Mr. Rollins as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Whatever may be Mr. Fuller's merits, his character is not spoken highly of in the newspapers of the country, and it is said that there is not the slightest chance of the nomination being confirmed. A great pressure has been brought to bear to push Mr. M'Culloch out of the Treasury, to which many Republicans have unadvisedly lent their strength. He is very unpopular with a section of both Houses, and the President is reported to have said that he would be glad if he would resign, as it would relieve the Administration from great embarassment, though he declined to ask him to do so. This was carried to the Secretary, who, it is believed, will act on the President's wish. But people say if Perry Fuller is the President's choice for the CotnmissionershiP of Internal Revenue, what will the selection be for the most important post in the Cabinet ? Whatever may be Mr. NlcCulloch's shortcomings, it may earnestly be hoped that the opportunity of filling such a vacancy will never fall into Andrew Johnson's hands. The name of Mr. Evarts has also been sent in as At torney-General, and it is thought that the appoint ment will be confirmed, though it is still doubtful. At Frederick, Maryland, a school for the Deaf and Dumb of the State was inaugurated on the 2d June, and henceforth they are to be educated within the State instead of being sent to Mr. Gallandet's school at Washington. A convention has been held at Washington of superintendents of such schools, who have discussed the best mode of treatment with regard to articulation, and adopted the views of Massachusetts. The Clarke lestitution at North ampton had been compelled to refuse many applica tions for want of room, but it will soon be able to take in many more candidates. The Principal, Miss Rogers, has been heartily received during her s pur round the Schools for the Deaf and Dumb in the West. Notwithstanding the defeat of the scheme last winter by Mayor Norcross the proposition for a new insane hospital for Boston has again been brought forward, and is discussed by the city coun cil. The estimates have been reduced to under $lOO,OOO, and they are likely to be accepted. An other wing will soon be ready for the new asylum at Middletown, Connecticut. The llartford Re treat is being repaired, and the New Hampshire Asylum has received extensive additions. On the night of the - 20th June the steamer Morning Star left Cleveland for Detroit. When about 30 miles on her way she came in contact with the bark Courtinnsi, and in seven minutes after the collision both vessels had disappeared under the waters of Like Erie. The Morning Star carried a crew of 30 men, and had on board 40 passengers ; the crew of the Court/and numbered 13, and - out of the total of 83 persons 20 are . missing. All would have been drowned, but for a passing steamer which picked up 63 persons. On board the Morning Star were the Misses Patchen, of Troy, New York, who were on their return from a wel ding they hal attended at Cleveland. Independence Day was chosen by the President for proclaiming the pardon of all participants in the Southern rebellion, excepting those already indicted for treason or felony. We approve of such a pro clamation, while strongly condemning the ektraer dinary course pursued by the President in " par doning," as an American paper says, " the rascals as fast as the courts can convict them." During the week ending June 27 he pardone 1 Joseph Has bruck, the embezzling cashier of the First National Bank of Hudson, New York, Thomas Fitzgerald, convicted in Maine for assault with intent to kill ; and Alfred Delastasius, convicted in Pennsylvania for making a counterfeit mail key. We had been trying to discover a key to this action, but could not succeed until after the Democratic plat form had been erected at New York. The appeal being to the dishonesty of the United States, Andy desires to strengthen his party by setting a; large all the gaol-birds. He is an extraordinary man, de serving of the admira'ion and support he has re ceived in England, which he has already taken an opportunity to repay in Mr. Seward's letter, June 22, and will doubtless avail himself of other oppor tunities before his term for doing mischief ends. This is the man who declares that owing to Con gressional enactments he can neither protect inno cence nor punish crime. Of course the President vetoed the biil for the admission of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida, known as the " Omnibus" Reconstruction Bill. His mes sage was brief, as he deemed it unnecessary agtiu to state his reasons at length. Congress, he says, has assumed an authority never delegated to it, and, in the case of Alabama, it has violated its own law, forcing on the State the Constitution rejected by the people under the Congressional Reconstruc tion Act. He declares the bill to be subversive of the principles of Government. The respect enter tained for the President's opinions in Congress may be judged of by the action, as it required less than an hour for both Houses to pass the bill over his veto, the Representatives by 111 to 31, and the Senate by 30 to 7. The Hon. Beverly Johnson is to sail from Balti more on the Ist August on his mission to London. Amongst the passengers in the same steamer will be Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and her son, who will proceed to Engl Ind tinder the protection of the Minister. The board of trustees of St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland, have conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. St. John's College has been proverbially chary of its academic honours. Mr. Johnson is an alumnus of that insti tution, and he is the fifth person who has received this dignity from the board since the foundation of the college in the year 1784. General Grant was to leave Washington, June 29, for the West after the " Omnibus" Reeonatrue - tion Bill hal been finally settled. He will proceed as far as the rails of boththe Pacific lines have been laid, but it is not anticipated that he will be more than a month absent. Speaker Colfax also goes to Colorado to spend a month among the Rocky Mountains, but be will not start till Congress ad journs. lie has invited his old comrades—Richard son of the New York, Tribune, Bowles of the Spring field Republican, and Bross of the Chicago Tribune, to accompany hi m.. Blaine, who will probably succeed Colfax as adeaker, is an old journalist of Portland, Maine. A strong movencroct has taken place in the North to organize measar( s by which the growing evil of intemperance among the Freed nen. may be checked. Au association has b cen formed for the purpose in Boston, of which Walliam Wells Brown is presi dent; John A. Smith,, treasurcr ; Rev. L. A. Grimes, J. M. Langston, and, ()tiler coloured men of repute, an executive comintee. It i 3 propcsed to ra,i3o $lO,OOO to send le• liurers and documents among the Freedmen, and I h measure is indorsed in gene ral Orals by Des. 13 . . irk and Miner, Revs. J. Manning and G. II- Hepworth; and with a more special approbation by James Freeman Clarke, Rev. J. D. Fulton awl others. It is not surprising that drunkenness sh .37uld have increased among the negroes during a permiod of such transition and ex citement. The Sprittg . ,6eld Republican speaks of the increase of intempe..ya.,lce even in Massachusetts, and highly approves of the energy displayed by Major Jones, the State constable, in shutting up all the places where lictuor is sold without a licence, the new law being violtated even to a greater extent than the old one. The statement made in the Times that Sherman's Bill for the Monetary Unification of France and the United States had passed, is premature; indeed the reverse of this may have happened. At any rate, if the measure be. not killed by the report of Senator Morgau's Committee, it must be delayed. Senator Morgan think:; a change at the present time unadvisable. He considers that a reduction in the quantity of the gold would be to the disad vantage of the United States as the greatest pro ducer of the precious metals, and that therefore the proposed change of the half-eagle from 129 grains to 124 9-10, making it the exact equivalent of the 25 franc-piece, is objectionable. He also urges that the effect would belto remove the United States currency still further from that of England, and as the trade with Great Britain is ten times as great as that with France, America should act with England. The force of this latter objection has been considered conclusive. Doubtless the measure is but delayed for the moment, and England will soon be enabled to act in conjunction with the United States, as the Commission now sitting must have gone far towards maturing a plan. Tex Is will not be divided into the three proposed States, it is thought, during the present session of Congress. Although the territory is so enormous, the Governor shows it might be premature just now to take this step. In bis recent message to the Texan Legislature, Governor Pease offered the following objections : " I do not think that the public interests would bo ad van cod by the adoption of such a measure at the present time—our population does not probably exceed 800,000; and to subject them to the expenses of two or three State Governments, in their present impoverished condition , would not only be a very great burden, but would greatly diminish their ability to support a proper system of publio education and to give aid and encouragement to the mos' sures that are needed to developo the wealth and resources of the State. If this measure is insisted on, it must ovi" dently delay our return to the Union, for the acts of Con' grass under which the effort to reconstruct Texas is nos/ being made provide for the establishment of only on e State of our whole territory. Should such a division here' after be desired by our people, it can be more readily inau gurated and carried out after we shall have been restored to the Union than it can be while we are without a repro" sentative in Congress." John 11. Surratt pleaded not guilty when brough t into the court, June 22, to answer the indictment for con' spiracy. Bail was accepted in the sum of $20,000 for the charge of murder, and he was discharged. The judge thought of fixing the amount at $50,000, but changed bi s mind. Ho was to re-appear on the 29th, when the trial was to commence for conspiracy. The trial has bee n postponed to the 21st September, and the Distri:t At, torney will not prosecute under the murder indictment• Thaires, Travis, or Thiers, who has been selecte d by the Popo to recruit a regiment of Americans, is by birth a Marylander. lie was at one time a pacha ; 11° was subsequently "adjutant-general" of the Fenians lay der S weeny. General Grant is about to go as far west ag Colorado, whose mountains we expect to b 3 vocal "with the name of Grant." Great demonstrations of welcome be made during the General's tour. Mr. Johnson has appointed Alexander B. Dyer , jun., son of Gen. Dyer, of the Ordnance Bureau, as 0 0e of the new class of calets at West Point for next year. Ex-Governor and now Senator Wm. A. Bueking A ham reached his home in Norwi c h on th e 24 t h June, 313" is now nearly well again. The Connecticut delegates at large to the Nei York Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention are Gen. W. 13 ; • Franklin, of Hartf or d, w h o w ill pro b a bl y b o Pres id en t co the Convention, Lieut.-C o l. L ew i s, C o l . S . B . Sumner, (, Bridport, and T. M. Waller, of New London. The latter declines ; having been only three mouths in the servic e ' ho justly thinks he ought not to assume to represent the soldiers of Connecticut. Rev. David A. W asson , th e i nva lid preac h er 0 3 essayist, has been appointed to an office in the Bosto n Custom-house. Charles Cleveland, for 35 years a rnissional among the Boston poor, was 96 years old on Sun June 27, and p reac h e d f or R ev. Ph i neas Stowe of B o sto His vigour is v er y remar k a bl e, hi s zeal una b ated, and olrell in his handwriting is slight evidence of age. Mr. Chase is no t a M e th o di st, as h as b ee n r e ported. He has long boon connected with the Episc,° ll ,:o Church, the celebrated Bish o p Ch ase, o f O h i o, having ve",„ his uncle, and Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire, being cousin. ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's ComPla il ' e t ! and Disorders of the Bowels.—lt is impossible to exagg t , rate the extraordinary virtue of this medicine in the trol l° meut of all affections of the liver or irregularities a ' so bowels. In cases of depraved or superabundant bile tho to pills, taken freely, have never been known to fail• t i v bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, but tbeJ, should then be taken rather more sparingly, for every r in ke e a dicine in their form of an aperient, requires caution. IN the bowels are disordered, a gentler or more g a r nialaperient th an th ese p ill s in mo d era t e d oses h a s Waved yet been discovered. If taken according to the prit' v o instructions, they not only cure the complaint but inW r° the whole system. LADVEIiTtsEmENT.J Consumption, and all nervous, bilioatel stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggrar i or and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfecd, curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica e d as proved by thousands of cases which had been consiac o r hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), co ug h, as thma, c o , sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric der'''',ss, ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous la ;0 biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphth er i a, ca t arr h s , c olds, ~te fluenza, noises in the head and e ars , r h eumat i sm, go ut, i' l 'e r s9, rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless!, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy c ; ie st, sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the c pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders% r.g We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Da B of Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The hea lth 9 ,11 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning 1 . 3 i8 other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du 1 3 d' r t dal Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pl","0 1 at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly beue' t Di effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise ids, excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du ''„- L er July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber ";,49, chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased Di 5. , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafuc s t of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuteift/ Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. 0 0 , years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervoUs „„a asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicknes s a nt drop at vomiting.-3la,riaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the : 7 3o ll unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, d., authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attac he In tins, at ls. 113.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 63 • 5 1b5.,;0: 11, 12 lbs , 22s ; 24 be , 40s.—BARRY DU BARRY and CO., I N ,ieco; Regent -street. London; also Fortnum and Mason, 18 2, • A ofc. dilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 10 %ts, 298, Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and che11,11.41 Births. bt BOUVERIR —On the Bth inst., at Coleshill Hone, Hon. Mrs. Bouverie, of a son. o f TAYLOR—On the Bth inst., at the Royal Militall K V lege, Sandhurst, the wife of Major Taylor, of a ( 13., " ter. Marriages. e ;' GREEN—COOPER—On the 9th inst., at Holy , j-r — f ai, Brompton, Frederick, eldest sou of F. Gre en , Esq., ° O O l Prince's-gardens, Kensington, to Alice Jane t. 8 , (3° , 0 'r daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, B ar t., o f 20, gardens, and Woollahra, Sydn e y, N ew South wrale-too, WRANOTIAM —GRIMSTON —On the 9th inst., pa l % o f East Yorkshire, Walter W rang liarn, Esq, eldest s° s lr• the late Mr Sergeant Wrangliam, to Fanny,. only ter of John Griaiston, Esq., of Beswick. Deaths. PO' CORPE —On the Bth inst., G. Corpcs Esq , Soutb2ulP ,ca road, Haverstock-hill ; and 3, Lin . colu's-inn_fields, " 52. s ure LEE—On the 7th ult., at Dodington, Whitchurcb, shire, John Lee, aged 72. sor soll LovEa—On the 6th inst., at St. Laurence Vali(/' Samuel Lover, Esq., aged 72. A paO QUESTEL—On the Bth inst., at Walthamstow, TTr5. Questel, aged 93. - • London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN 01 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN 0310, ° Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the O Q ' l 111idc11050x.—SAtUrclay7 July 11, lao, LAW AND POLICE. AN Irtrem BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—In the Irish -loud of Queen's Bench an action for breach of promise :o marry was brought by a Miss Sarah Persse, of Galway, tgainst Captain Rupert Brady, of the 2nd Regiment. Cie case was, however, amicably settled on the defendant oromising to pay over the sum of £2OO to two charities to 3e named by the lady, that he should my, all costs of the solicitors, and that the conditional promise suggested by 'e defence should be withdrawn. STRANGE CHARGE OF LIBEL--At Bow-street Police= zourt, Mr. Albert E. Elsworthy, solicitor, and Messrs. C. and E. Wyman were charged with publishing a pamphlet iontaining a libel on Mr. Thomas Cannon, journalist'. the first named was charged with writing and publishing, and the others with printing, a malicious libel, which was contained in a pamphlet entitled " The Persecution )f a Solicitor." The defendants Wyman maintained that they had simply received the document in the course of business, and bad printed it in entire ignorance of its contents. They offored a full spology for their share in the publication, but Mr. Elsworthy refused to retract any of his statements. The :omplainant, moreover, would not consent to receive an vology. Mr. Vaughan sent the case for trial. WIFE CHARGED WITH FORGERY.—At Marlborough :treet, Catherine Allen, the wife of a cattle dealer, and Charles Prince, a butcher, were charged with forging xn order for the payment of 002 9s. 3d. The prosecutor, who was the bust:land of the first-named prisoner, had nO reason to expect an improper intimacy between ais wife and Prince until about a week ago, shen they eloped, and it was subsequently discovered :hat a large quantity of proper 4 ,r was missing. A short ime previously the prisoner had £9OO in the London and Westminster Bank, but after the departure of his wife the deposit note was missing, and on inquiries being made it vas ascertained that the money had been withdrawn, the )rder bearing IV;lliam All,n's signature. Information was given to the volice, and the prisoners were appre- hended just a 5 they were leaving Queenstown for America. On the female t irisoner a large sum of money was found, which included six £lOO notes which were identified as those received from the bank. Other articles found in possession of the prisoners were identified, as belong-41g to► prosecutor. A remand was asked for and granted. ACTION FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED. - At the Oxford Assizes, Mr. Haslam, an auctioneer, residing at Reading, )ronght an action against the Great Western Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries received at the defendants' station. T plaintiff was walking quickly across the defendants' platform at the Castle Carey sta. Lion, when he fell over a trolly that had been left in the way, and was so injured that he had to be attended by a medical man for nearly three months. For the defence it was urged that the platform was well ighted, that the trolly was not in the plaintiff's way, and that he must have diverged from the straight course to have come near it. The jury awarded 40s. d ama ges, but the learned judge refused to certify for costs. VIOLENT ASSAULT BY GAMEKEEPERS.-At the same assizes William Teale and Isaac Waters were indicted for wounding Henry Rolfe, at Inkpen, on the Ist of January. The prisoners were keeper and underkeeper respectively, and Rolfe was an innkeeper at Inkpen. On the afternoon of the last New Year's Day Rolfe went to Hungerford on business, and returned to Inkpen in the evening. At about quarter past seven o'clock he wa s standing at the gate of his father's garden, when the two prisoners drove by in a dogcart. Rolfe ran after the cart for the purpose of having company into Inkpen, overtook it, and put his hand on a wing stretching over the wheel. Teale turned and asked him who he was. He said "Rolfe." This, however, was denied by the prisoners. Teale was said to have known Rolfe, and to have been at his house some twelve months before. Teale, however, took up some weapon—probably a life-preserver--and struck him on the side of the face, and then drove on. Rolfe followed and again overtook them, and then the dog-cart was stopped, and the two prisoners got down, and Teale again struck Rolfe severely. The defence was that the prisoners did not recognise Rolfe, but thought that some person intended to rob them. Waters was acquitted, and Teale having been found guilty of unlawfully wounding, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. STRANGE CASE or ARSON.-At the Hertford Assizes John Monk, 18, and v ohn Saville. 17, were indicted for wilfully setting fire to a malthouse, a barn, and other buildings, occasioning a damage of £1.500. Saville had previously been employed in the service of Mr. Wm. Stacey Spencer. The prisoner had left on friendly terms. Such being the case, suspicion never fell on him till some time after the fire, when a man named Dednem said that on the night of the fire Saville said that he meant having a good blaze before going home, and soon afterwards ;he fire broke out. When apprehended Saville said that the other prisoner set the thatching of the malthouse on fire with a lucifer. Monk was then apprehended, but charged the other prisoner with the commission of the offence. When the prisoners were under examination before the magistrate they both declared that they were innocent, and each threw the blame of the transaction upon the other. There was this additional piece of evidence in the case, that the prisoners appeared to , have taken a box of lueifers from the beer shop where they had been during the evening, and th!e box was found floating in a pond close to the scene of tb• conflagration. The jury found both prisoners guilty, and Mr. Justice Willes sentenced Saville to ten and Monk to seven years' penal servitude. The prisoners left the dock laughing. COMBINATION OF Wronx - mEN.—A bill has been laid before the House of Commons by Sir T. F. Buxton and Mr. R. Young, to repeal and amend the laws relating to trade societies and combinations of workmen. The bill declares that certain existing Acts and the common law as applicable to combinations which it proposes to repeal are prejudicial to the interests of workmen and restrictive of the right of free association. It therefore provides that personal violence or intimidation with the object of enforcing conditions upon which labour service shall be rendered shall be punishable with three months' imprison. ment and bard laboar. The mere fact of a combination for trade purposes is not, however, to be deemed a conspi. racy. Trade societies are, indeed, to be legalised when their object is mutual relief, and they do not seek to (=Pose penalties of a restrictive character respecting the terms and mode upon which service shall be rendered. 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