The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Mr. Gladstone's election address, says the Saturact., -aeriew, is more serious and more interesting than Mr. .Disraeli's, because it expresses the opinions of a majority. As far below Mr. Disraeli in, literary skill as he surpasses him in oral eloquence, Mr. Gladstone is nevertheless in no danger of being misunderstood. His intellect has the defect of inability to think of two things at once, and consequently his political declarations are sometimes wanting in calmness, in balance, and in reserve ; but his impetuous convictions, if they sometimes make his political allies uneasy, are thoroughly intelligent to the mass of the people. No statesman has for many years been so strong in the confidence of that vast majority which looks upon political leaders only from a distance. If Mr. Glad stone hereafter proves himself qualified to command, he will have an irresistible force at his disposal, fur the majority of the next House of Commons will be pledged to register his decrees. The address to the electors of South west Lancashire is strictly limited to the issues already joined between the Opposition and the Government. After a brief history of the Reform struggle from his own point of view, Mr. Gladstone, while lie expresses satisfac tion with the wide extension of the franchise, intimates that Mr. Disraeli's bill is still incomplete, and recurs with characteristic fondness to his darling compound house holders. The most forcible portion of the document contains a condensed argument for the abolition of the Irish Church. The Ministers are held responsible for admitting that religious questions in Ireland were ripe for discussion ; and, as Mr. Gladstone provokingly states, he adheres, in recapitulating their proposals, as nearly as possible to the language which they used. It was hardly worth while to repudiate by implication all party motives for the alternative scheme of abolishing the Establishment. Every line of Mr. Gladstone's expresses his pro found conviction that the substitution of himself for Mr. Disraeli, as chief Minister, would confer inesti mable advantages on the country. As he is not less firmly persuaded that it is expedient and just to abolishthe Irish Church, there is no reason why he should neglect one urgent duty b ecause it incidentally involves the perform ance of another. As long as government by party prevails, poli ticians must promote their own interest as often as they effect a public improvement. If Mr. Gladstone can amuse himself by fancying that the desire of office had no connection with his Irish Resolutions, it is quite unneces sary to perplex his supporters by an irrelevant apology. Whatever may have been the simplicity or complication of his motives, he has rallied round him a temporarily disorganised party, and he has placed his antagonists in a difficult position. In the opinion of the Spectator, Mr. Gladstone's address to the electors of South Lancashire, together with his very remarkable speeches at Warrington on Monday, and at Liverpool on Wednesday, place his claims to the confi dence of the nation before Parliament on three distinct and very strong grounds. He claims our confidence for the past by what he has done to make the administration of affairs thrifty and efficient; for the present, by what he has done to secure for the nation at large a wide and substantial representation in the new Parliament ; for the future,.by what he pledges himself to do to break clown the animosities between Great Britain and Ireland. As regards the policy of the future, Mr. Gladstone's coun sels as to Ireland are distinct and vigorous, and have already been so far acted on that the last House of Com mons endorsed his measure by large majorities. There has been no hesitation, no temporising, no ambiguous phrases —convenient either to be appealed to or explained away, as circumstances might render the more advisable. He risked a great party danger for a great purpose, and has given us the first gleam of hope that we may at length effect a real union between England and Ireland, which the present generation has entertained. That England will govern Ireland as nearly as may be as she would wish, in Ireland's place, to be governed herself, is no longer a promise that anybody will believe without an earnest of performance. Mr. Gladstone alone has given such an earnest. What Mr. Disraeli tried to do was bad—but then he left off trying it directly he saw it could not succeed, and now it is the principal feature of his Minis terial position that he knows of nothing further—even to try. He admitted that movement was needful. Then he made a false step. And now he proposes to justify stand ing still by inveighing against the Pope. Who can fail to see that he has no chance against Mr. Gladstone, who in this respect, no less than in finance and in reform, has acted, while Mr. Disraeli has floated hither and thither according as " the tides change sullenly." The Imperial Review thinks there will be, at least, no excuse in the future for anybody to affirm that he was deceived by Mr. Gladstone's professions as to the drift of his movement against the Church in Ireland. He has set it down in black and white, in such unmistakable characters, that he who runs may read. Yet our gratitude to the right honourable gentleman by no means stops here. He has taken pains to select as the ground for the great change which he recommends that on which there can be no doubt whatever of the opinion of all intelligent men, whether Liberal or Conservative. The Church in Ireland is to be destroyed, it appears, in order that the people of these realms may become united in more than the name. And this happy result is to be achieved by a process which, it is admitted on all hands, will not conciliate the dis affected part of the Irish population, and must assuredly alienate those who are at the present moment the most loyal subjects of the British Crown ! The London Review says it cannot be doubted that Prim is, by his letter, making a bid for the support of the Emperor Napoleon by holding out to him the prospect of seeing his cousin on the throne of Spain. Prim has hitherto been regarded as a Republican ; but he, like others, sees the impracticability of a Spanish Republic, and it may be added that his choice of Prince Napoleon does not greatly violate his predilections. The Prince was a Red Republican in the days of 1848-9, and, although he has since consented to accept Imperial dignity, and to stand in succession to a throne in certain eventualities, he is known still to entertain extreme democratic views. He would, in some respects, suit the Spaniards very well. He is a Catholic of southern blood, and of quick, mobile, pleasurable temperament ; his wife is also a Catholic and a southerner ; he has reached a mature period of life without being old ; and he is a man of ability, conversant with affairs, with Governments, and with human beings. It is a question, however, how far Europe would like the extension of the Napoleonic power, and whether Louis Napoleon himself would favour it. On the one hand, he might object to see his relative advanced to a dignity almost equal with his own ; on the other, he might be glad to remove to a distance a Prince who has not unfrequently given trouble by his eccentricities of independence and his vehemence of opinion. The first word, however, must be that of the Spanish people ; and if they must necessarily follow the ignominious fashion of seeking abroad for a king, instead of choosing the best man from among themselves, they might do worse than elect the son of Jerome. The Imperial Review holds that the Government have proceeded firmly to lay the basis of an Irish policy widely differing from the vagueness and unscrupulousness of Mr. Gladstone. On the education question they have neve for an instant hesitated about the duty of supporting that policy of which Lord Derby and Sir Robert Peel laid the foundation, and which the circumstances of Ireland im peratively demanded—free, unsectarian education. The attempt to hand over the Queen's University to Cardinal Cullen had, at one time, a most injurious effect upon the prospect of the colleges. The Government, without interfering directly in the quarrel which was to be decided in the law courts, yet, by allowing Convocation to be called together, gave a new life to the university at a most perilous moment. The results are to be seen in the encouraging statements which the Vice- Chancellor of the University was able to lay before the Duke of Abercorn at the annual conferring of degrees or Wednesday. Nor was the Government content with this manly defensive attitude. It adopted some of the most statements of the Ultramontane party as a basis for Lord Mayo's negotiation in April last. That whole negotiation affords the strongest proof we have yet obtained how hollow the Ultramontane cry about educa tion is, and it has done more to break down the influence of the bishops over their lay supporters than anything which has happened in Ireland for a long time. Similarly, on the Church question, the Government have collected a mass of facts of incontrovertible authority, skilfully arranged and classified, and the party are everywhere pro posing, firstly, to vindidate the constitutional principles involved in the question, and, secondly, to introduce a reform in the Irish branch of the Church which may render the sJiuibs of the Sydney Smith school of assailants power• less for evermore. Of Sir Roundel' Palmer the John Bull would speak with all respect. Ills academic reputation is undoubted. His public services are of no mean order, but we utterly refuse at such a crisis as the present to discuss points which, however worthy of consideration at another time, are utterly beside the mark when the enemy is at the gate, and the only test can be—Are you for Gladstone or Disraeli ? True it is that Sir 11. Palmer has refused to go the whole way for a moment with Mr. Glad stone —moved . it is said very much by the Bishop of Carlisle, to whom he is related by marriage—but Oxford wants a member who will speak with no uncertain sound. Mr. Mowbray is already a quasi-university member. The University of Durham, unjustly deprived of a representative, has always been Lis warmest supporter in city elections, arid to her interests he has ever paid the closest attention, and she in return has always regarded him as her member. Mr. Mowbray's connection with the S.P.G., his sound Church opinions, his genial manners, his shrewd common-sense, and his business -like habits, well qualify him to be Mr. Hardy's colleague, ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND MR. GLADSTONE. Ai correspondence is published in the Liverpool 2ifercury between a gentleman named Davidson and Arch bishop Manning respecting Mr. Gladstone and the Irish Church. The archbishop's letter is as follows:- 8, York-place, W., Oct. 12, 1868. " Sir,—l beg to thank you for calling my attention to the paragraph in which an attempt is made to calumniate Mr. Gladstone by the fact that his eldest son is my godson. This is a mean artifice, which can damage only those who use it. The fact is so. Mr. Hope Scott and 1 stood spon sors to the eldest son of Mr. Gladstone about the year 1840. Mr. Hope Scott and Mr. Gladstone were at Eton and Oxford together, and have been friends during a long life. Hy friendship with Mr. Gladstone began when we were at Oxford about the year 1830. We hal the seine private tutor, and were in many ways drawn together. From that time till the year 1851 our friendship continued close and intimate. Iu 1851 the intercourse of our friendship was suspended by the act demanded of me by my con science in submitting to the Catholic Church. We ceased to correspond, and for more than twelve years wo never met. In the last years, public and official duties have renewed our communi cations. I have been compelled to communicate with many public men in successive Governments, and among others with Mr. Gladstone, with this only dif ference—of the others most were either strangers or but slightly known. Mr. Gladstone was and is the man whose friendship has been to me one of the most cherished and valued of my life. To found on this an insinuation for raising the 'No Popery' cry, or suspicion of Mr. Glad stone's fidelity to his own religious convictions, is as unmanly, base, and false as the Florence telegram in which the same political party, for the same political ends, united Mr. Gladstone's name with mine last summer. The indignation you express at this new trick will, I am sure, be shared by every honourable man in the country. I cannot conclude this letter without adding that a friendship now of eight-and-thirty years, close and intimate till 1851 in no common degree, enables me to bear witness that a mind of greater integrity, or of mare transparent truth, less capable of being swayed by faction and party, and more protected from all such baseness even by the fault of indignant impatience of in sincerity and selfishness in public affairs, than Mr. Glad stone's, I have never known. Tho allegation that the policy of justice to the Irish people by removing the scandal of the Established Church has been inspired either by a mere desire to overthrow the Government, or by friendship with me, is imposture, and imposture is the marl: of a feeble and a falling cause.—Thanking you for your courtesy, I re main, sir, yours faithfully, f " Ilzsatr E. MANS_ING.I THE SUBMARINE RAILWAY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. A very interesting document has come into our poses sion. It is an address presented to the Emperor Napoleon by about 100 influential noblemen, M.P.'s, and other gentlemen, praying his Majesty to support the pro jected tunnel between England and France. The copy of the address contains fac-simile signatures of the memo rialists. The address is as follows : " TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON THE THIRD " Sire,—We, the undersigned subjects of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England, are informed that a committee of French and English gentlemen pro pose to ask your Majesty's support for the construction of a submarine tunnel intended to connect the railways of England with those of France, an eminently desirable work which has become necessary to facilitate the social intercourse which has so rapidly increased of late years between the inhabitants of the two countries, and for the development of their trade and commerce. " The realisation of this noble enterprise by strengthen ing the bonds which unite two great peoples will be of im mense advantage to both countries and a memorable example of concord offered to other nations. " We have the most earnest wish for the speedy success of this fruitful work, and we hope that your Majesty will deign to grant it your august protection. "We are, Sire, with the most profound respect, your Majesty's most obedient humble servants." The following signatures are appended : —W. Ebor ; Argyll ; Sutherland ; Denbigh ; Eleho, M.P. for Hadding tonshire ; Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill ; Castlerosse, M.P. for Kerry ; Ffrench ; W. Wynn, Bart, M.P. for Denbighshire ; Daniel Gooch, M.P., chairman of the Great Western Railway; Francis Crossley, Bart., M.P. for West Riding of Yorkshire ; IL Winston Barron, Bart., M.P. for the city of Waterford ; Sir Robert Harty, Bart. ; Eikanah Armitage, Knight ; R. Middleton Bid dulph, M.P. for Denbighshire, lord-lieutenant of the county ; Thomas Barnes, M.P. for Bolton ; Townshend Mainwaring, M.P. for Derbyshire; Michael Biddulph, M.P. for Herefordshire; Robert Dalglish, M.P. for city of Glasgow ; Grosvenor Hodgkinson, M.P. for Newark, chairman of London, Chatham, and Dover Railway ; W. Samuelson, M.P. for Banbury ; George Tomline, M.P. for Shrewsbury ; Wilbraham Egerton, M.P. for North Cheshire ; George S. Beecroft, M.P. for Leeds ; W. Gray, M.P. for Bolton ; C. W. Williams Wynn, M.P. for Mont gomeryshire ; J. W. Miles, M.P. for Bristol; C. R. M. Talbot, M.P. for Glamorganshire ; W. R. M. Wynne, M.P. for Merionethshire; John Henderson, M.P. city of Durham ; Edward Akroyd, M.P. for Halifax ; John A. Blake, M.P. for Waterford ; William James Clement, M.P. for Shrewsbury ; Jacob Bright, M.P. for Manchester; W. Jackson, M.P. for North Derbyshire ; William S. Allen, M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyme; Edmond De la Prier, M.P. for Waterford; J. R. Stebbing, J.P., F.R.A.S., Mayor of Southampton, ex-Iresident of the Chamber of Commerce ; Joseph Oakes, Mayor of Chester ; Francis Adams, Mayor of Bristol ; Peter M`Lagan, M.P. for Linlithgow; W. Lindsay, ex-Provost of Leith ; John G. Morris, ex-Mayor of Liverpool ; Robert Barbour, Boles worth Castle, ex-High Sheriff of Cheshire ; James Watt, the Provost of Leith ; H. Goodwin, J.P. county of Gloucester ; Charles Castle, J.P. for Gloucester ; J. N. Mather, chairman of the Madras Railway ; Philip W. S. Miles, Deputy Lieutenant, county of Somerset ; William Bennett, chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; Charles Mason, district manager of the North-Western Railway ; A. Angus Croll, chairman of the United Kingdom Telegraph Company; Henry Rawson, chairman of the Manchester Stock Exchange ; John T. T. Pilking ton, C.E., Wrexham ; Sampson Lloyd, Old Park Iron Works, Wednesbury, Stafford ; J. S. Forbes, general manager of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway ; Thomas A. Watt, managing director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ; George Wilson, chairman of the Lancaster and Yorkshire Railway; Peter Higson, H.M. Inspector of Mines; Frederick Gaitskell, Major General late Royal Artillery ; James L. Dennison ; 'William Bell, chairman of the Edinburgh Stock Exchange ; H. J. Gillespie, Major-General late Royal Marines; Alfred Brett and Co., 150, Leadenhall-street, London ; Charles Sturge, Birmingham ; Charles M. Palmer, chair man of Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company ; Grant Hodgson, 'jun., 37, Fenchurch-street, London ; 0. Dun combe, M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire ; Chapman ' and Gray, 19, St. Dunstan's-hill, London ; William Hewitt, Mincing-lane, London ; J. Grierson, General Manager of, the Great Western Railway; J. Russell Bailey, Bart., M.P. for Herefordshire; A. L. Goddard, M.P. for Cricklade ; Henry F. Beaumont, M. P. for South- West Riding of Yorkshire; George Leeman, M.P. for York ; H. Miller, M.P. for Leith ; Arthur Pelham Clinton, M.P. for Newark; H. Doncombe, Master of the Merchants' Company, Edinburgh; Robert Cunliffe, Bart. ; William Bulkeley, Bart., M.P. for Anglesea ; Frederick Cavendish, M.P. for North-West Riding of Yorkshire ; Henry Paull, M.P. for St. Ives ; Peter Walker, Mayor of Wrexham ; Richard B. Wade, chair man of the National Provincial Bank of England ; William James Maxwell, a director of the National Provincial Bank of England; Thomas B. Horsfall, M.P. for Liverpool ; John Eavenscroft, chairman of the North and South Wales Bank; Ernest Bruce, M.P. for Marl borough; Ronald Leveson Gower, M.P. for Sutherland shire ; Lorne, M.P. for Argyleshire ; Charles Hanbury Tracy, M.P. for the Montgomery District ; James Luresden, Lord Provost of Glasgow ; Abinger ; Annaly Charles White, M.P. for Tipperary County; D. Jones, M.P. for Carenarthenshire ; William Hawes, chairman of Council of the Society of Arts ; H. Lowther, M.P. for West Cumberland. It is feared that in consequence of the law's delays, th e four bishops awaiting consecration—Peterborough, Bombay, Grafton, and Maritzburg—will not be able to be consecrated on All Saints' Day, the Ist of November, a , originally intended. The ceremony will probably not take place until Monday, the 30:h of November, St. Andrew's Day. TIIE DIKE OF CAMBRIDOE AT FIIOEDUILYNESS.- The Duke of Cambridge was at Shoeburyness on Friday to witness the experiments carried on by the Ordnance Select Committee with Captain Moncrieff's barbette gun carriage and Colonel Shaw's muzzle pivotting carriage f r the 400-pounder gun. His Royal Highness also inspected 'Arr. Charles Lancaster's new demi-oval bore -rifled 10-inch gun and its studless projectiles, and Colonel Clarke's admirable hydraulic buffer for checking recoil. The celebrated Alillwall shield was next visited, the duke taking the liveliest interest in its structure and con dition. The dilapidated Plymouth casemate was also closely scrutinised. The model now erecting of detailed parts for illustrating the worldngof heavy guns in a double tier iron fort was also examined. His Royal Ilighnes expressed his high satisfaction with the working of th 11oncrieff system, and with the other important noveP submitted I.).:aim. THE SUN, -LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1868, THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION, Friday was the last day of the Congregational Dissoa autumnal meeting, which has been held at Leeds. The concluding meeting was a public breakfast to the Educar tional Board of4he Union. Some 250 ministers and others were present. Mr. Samuel Morley occupied the chair. The question discussed was education. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, adverted to the change of opinion which had taken place concerning the Government grant. He declared he was not for at all relinquishing his at tachment to the great principle that religious supervision must always have to do with a system of education for the people ; and yet in accepting the position that the great want of the people was a good sound secular education, he wished not to be misunderstood. So far as their de nominational schools were concerned, they must be religious. They did not want any dogmatic teaching. He should be very thankful to see every man an lade pendent, but he would leave people to decide for them• selves. In none of the Congregational schools did they seek to strengthen their position by education merely. There were friends of education in some parts of the country who were exposed to such competition that some aid from the State must really be looked to by them. The Government bad done as much as it could, and hence forth State pay would be given to secular teaching. The Government said, " Prove that you are giving good teach ing in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and then deal with your children religiously as you think fit." That would be a great advance in the position of Dissenters ; but he was prepared to recommend some supplement, for in London something im mense was required, and there were destitute districts in all parts of the country ; and let there be, in addition, secular schools. He had net great faith in corporations in superintending this matter, for he did not think that members of town councils generally were the persons to whom he would commit the education of the people. He was a thorough believer in local government, but all the mischief resulting from it must lay at the door of those who chose the representatives. The leaders of these matters in the House of Commons, he believed, were honestly desirous to meet the fair r equirements of all classes. The Privy Council, the Duke of Marlborough, and Lord R. Montagu had shown every disposition to meet the Inde pendents, by placing all on an equality ; the leaders on the other side were equally clear in that way; and though they could hardly wish to see any large body of Congrega tionalists taking precisely the same ground, he hoped all might be able to see in those proposals an equal degree a progress, which would be regarded as the ground that all might take in common.—Mr. Baines, M.P., in moving the first resolution, expressing confidence in the Board of Education, said the Government had pronounced in favour of a system of absolute impartiality—a system not exclusively bound up with religious instruction—but would impartially give aid to those friends of education who could produce the results of a good secular instruc tion. Therefore, he (Mr. Baines) thought they might say now with perfect truth that so far—not, indeed, as legislation had gone— but so far as the wishes and public declarations of the great parties in the State were concerned, they were favourable to a system of which this Board of Education could approve, and therefore they now accepted the aid which the State granted to education, and in so doing it was assumed there would be no interference with conscience or with any religious instruction they might think it their duty to give. They were placed in the position that the State equally gave aid and countenance to those friends who still main tained the purely voluntary system, and to those who con sented to the acceptance of State aid. Referring to their denominational college at Homerton, he claimed support for it, for they did not seek mere party success there. But he declared his solemn conviction that it would be wrong as well as ruin for them to seek to discharge the religious element from the education of the people. They ought not to insist upon religious education, but a system of per- fect impartiality should be adopted, and if the united efforts of the various religious bodies should fail to meet the wants of the community, the power should be given to boroughs and parishes to supplement what at present it was meant to do. UR, M, GIBSON ON THE ,EXPENDITURE, Mr. Milner Gibson has been speaking in Somerset on that wearisome topic, the expenditure. It was his opinion that they would never do much by small economies. They might7reduce the charge for building a ship ; they might disband a few men here and a few men there ; they mi,_,ht prove that some guns or a particular man-of-war had cost a great deal more than was right, but they might rely on it, the question of expense lay in the magnitude of their great military and naval establishments. Could they be reduced ? It was a question a man must not talk in a loose way about. The more they looked at the question the more they would find it to be an European question. All European nations seemed to be trying to rival each other in the amount of their armaments. It was, to use the words of Mr. Disraeli, a question of bloated arma ments throughout Europe, and the difficulty which bad to be met was, who was to begin to disarm. No man could do a more patriotic thing than he who, like the members of the Peace Society, employed himself in spreading sound opinions upon this question, to &hew the different nations the folly of maintaining larger military and naval establishments than were necessary for their defence, or for legitimate purposes. Our present expendi ture was L 70,000,000 a year, of which £55,000,000 was upon the military and naval establishments, and the interest on debts incurred for war expenditure. He believed he was correct in saying that out of every shilling paid in taxes, ninepence went towards military and naval establish ments, and the interest on the debt. He contended that these great bloated armaments in time of peace were not the best preparations for exertion should war overtake us, but that we should be in a better condition, if our resources were husbanded and our taxation were not so heavy in time of peace, to make the necessary effort to defend ourselves in time of war. OAPTAIN SHERARD OSBORN ON THE EXPENDITURE. Captain Sherard Osborn spoke at Salford, on 'Thursday, on the subject of the expenditure of the country. He fully recognised that this was not merely a question of saving so much money by reducing our armies and fleets. At that moment 20 millions sterling were lying idle in the Bank of England, and an equal amount in the Bank of France, all of which should be circulating and impart ing life and bread to them all. The entire revenue of this country might be put down at 691 millions, and of this, 261 millions were spent upon soldiering and sailoring, and that did not embrace the whole of what we were spending, There was, far away from this country, a hundred millions of British subjects in India, who produced a revenue of about thirty-nine millions, halt of which went In soldiering and sailoring, in addition to the first-named amount. There were 60,000 British troops in India. It was not necessary, in his opinion, to have so many. It was impossible to shut one's eyes to the great waste of life which taok place there. Within the last year, in the healthiest part of Upper India, out of 34 regiments they buried two of them. He wished them to bear in mind that we spent 26i millions upon the services in a time of pro found peace. In his younger days, when he was engaged in active service, England was just as much respected as she is now, and yet he found that from 1836 to 1854 our expenditure upon the army and navy ranged from 11i millions to 16 millions. The heritage of the educated classes, as Mr. Vernon Harcourt said, was a debt of 800 millions, for the glory of keeping the Bourbons on the throne of France, the last of whom was chased from the throne about a month ago, the supremacy of the seas, and a few captured colonies. Our vaunted supremacy on the seas was fast disappearing, and there was no doubt that we must give up that idea altogether. He had found it very difficult to bring his mind to the conclusion that the high seas were not altogether made for Englishmen. The notion of exclusiveness was disappearing, and in com pany with it the impression that England ought to keep up squadrons in all the seas of the world, and maintain the police of those seas for the rest of the world at her own expense. Various strong positions in different parts of the world, such as Gibraltar, had been seized, and the English people were told that those places were "keys" which must be fortified. The fact was, that in these days of ironclad steamers such keys were practically useless. Twenty Gibraltars could not prevent those steamers from going into or coming out of the Meditteranean Sea. Malta, he admitted, was a position which he believed it would be difficult to part with at present, unless it could be guaranteed by the European Powers as a good central neutral point. But Malta cost this country a million per annum for soldiers alone. Canada had 13,000 of our soldiers, at a cost to this country of £1,600,000 a year —a force which, in the event of a war with the United States, against whom alone it was kept there, would be utterly useless. He strongly urged the desirableness of cultivating amicable relations with the United States, and as one result of which the Canadians might dispense v.ith our army. We had also 30,000 troops in Ireland, which certainly would not be necessary did we pursue a policy of justice and conciliation in that country. He was in Ireland on duty in 1848, in connection with the Smith O'Biien affair; and, returning to the country a few years after, he met an old Irish tailor or shoemaker, who asked him when he was coming back. He replied that he did not know ; when the man exelaimed, " Oh, bedad, we must get up another rebellion. There has been no contract in the country since the last." To sum up, if we had thirteen battalions (a thousand men each) in Canada, eight at Malta, six at Gibraltar, and about twenty.five in Ireland, that would account for a very large proportion of the 140 battalions we had ; and he said it was easy for the states man who was really bent on measures of military retrench. ment to find out amongst these 140 battalions some of them, not to be paid off and the men turned into the streets without a sixpence in their pockets, but to be put down in some of our colonies where there was plenty of land for them, such as Australia and New Zealand. The next point in military retrenchment was that of fortifica tions. The gallant captain spoke at some length on this subject, shewing how absolutely useless in case of invasion were our stupendous fortifications at Portsmouth and Plymouth. He pointed out how Lord Palmerston had been beguiled into this expenditure in the first instance, and how every succeeding G overnment had gone on blundering and scrambling from bad to worse. The original estimate was for 12 millions, but he was convinced that 25 millions would be• spent upon them before all the spending was over. They were now beginning to protect each of the four thousand guns used in the forts with a shield, at a cost of about a thousand pounds a piece, and even when all was done the forts would be very little use. The greatest blunder of all was their immensity; it would require an army of 140,000 men to man them. Coming to the navy, Captain Osb orn sa id t h e d oc k yar d s were the department which required to be most looked after. He contended that the whole system of our naval administration was radically defective. If, instead of a numerous fleet such as we had at present, we were to construct a few powerful vessels of the monitor class, we might effect an enormous saving, an d a t t h e same ti me increase rather than diminish our warlike efficiency. He suggested that a military railway round the coast—if it were necessary to resort to defensive works at all—would be the most effective that we could have in case of actual .vasion. The Rev. T. Fowle, of Hoxton, a well-known writer on educational matters, has been appointed by the rector of St. Mary's, Bryansion e - square , t o th e i ncum b ency of St. Luke's, Nutford-place, Paddington, vacant by the pre ferment of Mr. Rowley to Frant. WIFE MURDER. —A man named Francis Howarit Clare has been taken into custody at Norwich on a charge of having murdered his wife by cutting her throat. Clare works as a shoemaker, and was formerly in the army. An inquest was held ou Saturday _ _ _ " C T o h o e l aesooalnceuscsutonfbeCr" is frequently surpa sse d i n rem the farce e s Mathews in life ; and we are now privileged to record one instance of this which would put that clever comedian to the blush. Two men narrowly escaped drowning a day or two past at Havre. They were intoxicated, and in this state fell into the harbour. The Custom -house officers succeeded in rescuing both from their perilous position, when one of them actually urged his deliverers to dive again and yet him his hat. CARLYLE AND THE TALKER.—An anecdote is going the rounds which is not bad. Carlyle, the man of great thought and of a big head, full of Schwarinery, was one day at a very nice dinner party, and doing his duty as a practical philos o ph er should. Opposite him sat a very rich, pompo us , l ar ge man, with five yards of shirt-front, and another big head at the top of it, full, as its pompous owner conceived, of noble thoughts and experience ripened into grand views and maxims of life. Ire succeeded in getting that awful thing at a dinner party, a dead silence, and for a quarter of an hour then gave forth the magnitude of his views on subjects political, philosophical, and social, to Carlyle and no one else, who all the while but opened the mouth of his massive tete and conveyed thereinto solid and fluid. The pompous man came to the end ; dead silence reigned. He looked round at the whole of -the company up and clown the table to see the favour able effect he was sure he must have produced, and then addressed himself to Carlyle thus : " And now, what do you really think of my views, Mr. Carlyle, on these matters I have touched upon, but briefly, sir, but briefly ?" No response followed. The question was opea.ted, when the big head was raised. Carlyle regarded his opposite neighbour vacantly for a moment, and then in his fine Scotch musical pibroch accent quietly remarked, " You're a poor critter, sir—a poor critter," and so resumed his occupation with the fluids and solids, amidst the glorious mirth of those wilco, enloye4 the well-merited gacomfe4-9/ anothe,. PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.—MoNDAY, Oct. 19. A Plate of 200 sovs (Handicap) for two and three year olds; Bretby Stakes Course. Plate of 50 scvs (Handicap), for three year olds and up wards; Cambridgeshire Course. Maiden Plato of 50 soya, for two year olds ; colts Est 101 b, ffllies and geldings Bst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 300 soya ; if for 200 sovs allowed 71b. Criterion Course. One Hundred Pounds ; three year olds 7st 1111), four Bst 101 b, five, six, and aged Bst 131 b ; maiden four year olds allowed 71b, five and upwards 141 b. R.M. Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, for three year olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 100 sow; if de manded, &c. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; three year olds Bst, four Bst 101 b, five and upwards 9st llb ; the winner to bo sold for 300 soya if demanded, &o. Bretby Stakes Course. The Criterion Stakes of 30 soya each, 20 It, for two year olds ; colts Bst 81b, fillies Bst Glb ; winners of a 500 sovs sweepstakes, including the winner's own stake, with ten subscribers 41b, of two such stakes 71b, of any other sweepstakes value 200 Boys, including the winner's own stake, a,d not having less than ten subscribers 21b extra. Criterion Course. 63 subs. A Plate of 50 sovs for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of 500 sovs 71b extra ; if entered to be sold for 100 sovs allowed 71b. • TUZSDAY. A. Free Handicap of 25 sove each, 10ft ; winners of a handicap after Thursday, Oct. 15 (at ten a.m ), 71b, of any other race 31b extra. T.Y.C. A Plato of 100 soya (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards. A.F. A Selling Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for three year olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs if demanded, &c. R.M. The Optional Selling Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 121 b, fillies Bst 81b ; the winner to be sold for 250 SOTS; if entered for 200 sovs allowed 51b, 150 101 b, 100 161 b, 60 211 b. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; three year old Bst 21b, four Bst 101 b, five and upwards 9st; fillies allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 80 soya if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. The Cambridgeshire Stakes (Handicap) of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added by the Jockey Club. 1 sweepstakes of 200 save each, h ft, for two year old colts ; Bst 101 b each ; last seven furlongs of R.M. ; 5 subs. THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT .RUABON. A coroner's inquest is being conducted into the circum stances of the great colliery explosion near Ruabon. One of the witnesses detailed how he was at work altering a door in one of the shafts when the accident took place. He heard men and boys screaming, and one man he found dead at the mouth of the shaft. But he could not tell the cause of the accident. He saw no naked lights. The over looker of the mine (Mr. Darlington) thought the accident was caused by a naked light being taken into one of the " breaks." One reason that helped to confirm him in the belief that the mine fired in the returned-air course of Fox's break was, that the boys and men at work near the eye of the pit were burnt and killed, whilst men in the distant workings escaped all injury. One lamp was found unlocked after the accident. It belonged to George Edwards. Only certain men in the pit had keys where with to unlock lamps. It was quite possible to open these lamps without a key. The Coroner remarked that it was a mere waste of time to inquire anything more about the keys of lamps. Mr. found said the lamps in use at the New British Iron Company's mine were so constructed that if they were opened detection was sure to follow. Witness, on being re-examined, said he saw the firemat on the morning of the accident between six o'clock ant half-past, and asked him how the pit was. He replied that he had been round the workings, and bad not found a " smitering " of gas. He had heard of men working in the pit getting through the doors into the returned-air course for the purpose of smoking. He had suspicion of an individual some time ago, but there was no certain evidence obtained shewing that he had been guilty of the act. He was, however, discharged. Another man was known to have done it, and a summons was obtained against him to appear before the Ruabon magistrates, but he did not appear, and a warrant was now out for his ap prehension. Mcses Morgan, a little collier, 13 years of age, was next called. On being questioned by the coroner he stated that he had been at school for a week : he did not know what an oath was, but he believed that if he told a lie he would "goto a hot fire." He was not sworn, but stated that when the explosion took place he was looking on at the bottom of one of the tramways, and he and another boy were blown away for a distance of about fifteen yards. At the moment he was blown off he was locking his lamp. The key had been given to him for the purpose of giving lights to the men when their lights went out. He had just supplied a light to a man named Ward, who had " lost his fire." The explosion took place just after Ward left him. He locked Ward's lamp when he gave it to him. He was sure of that. After some further evidence the inquiry was adiouniec LAW AND POLICE. LIBEL.—A serious charge of libel is being inveatti,"..ted at the Mansion House. The accused is a wine merchant, and it is alleged that for the purpose of injuring the Otto• man Railway Company the accused had addressed a number of letters to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "charging the directors in effect with dishonesty, and dissipating the property of the shareholders." The case just now stands adjourned. ROBBERIES.--A curious case of stealing heavy goods came before the Lambeth magistrate on Friday. Six men were charged with thieving, and four van loads of property, the result of their robberies, were piled up in the office yard. The principal victims were Messrs. Doulton, Messrs. Stiff, and other drain pipe, jar, and stoneware manufacturers near Lambeth Bridge ; bid besides their manufactures there were found in the house of one of the accused, named Ball, twenty coal and forty-seven corn sacks, door mats, carpeta, rugs, fire-irons, twenty-seven bolts and nuts, and a number of other articles, all stolen. The prisoners were committed for trial. I-TocussiNG.—A singular case of hocussing came before the Woolwich magistrates on Friday, in which a respect- able man was stupified, and now lies in a dangerous state from congestion of the brain, in consequence of snuff having been put into his beer by a sailor•like looking person who bad him in tow. No evidence was given to shew that the poor fellow was robbed ; but should he die, which, from the medical testimony, appears likely, the prisoner "evil' be placed in a most serious position. TILE SHOOTING AT CHILDREN CASE.—The boatman Buckley, who a short time back shot four schoolboys on the banks of the canal near Leicester, has been commi.ttcd for trial. THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS' OF WALLS TO KNOwSLEY.—We understand that the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Knowsley Park, 'die seat of the Earl of Derby, is to take place, so far ai at present can be arranged, on the second proximo. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of the Rik ~ ht Reverend Francis Jeune, Lord Bishop of Peterboroul ;h, D.D., D.C.L., was proved at Peterborough on the 1 th ult., by his relict, Margaret Dyce Jeune, thq, )le executrix. The personalty was sworn under L 35,000. The will is very brief, and is in words to this effect : "By this my last will, I, Francis Jenne, Bishop of Peter borough,commenil my soul to Almighty God, throuth the merits of the Saviour who loved me and gave himse2lf for ne ; and bequeath all my estate whatsoever to n 3 71 good al loving wife, whom I name as guardian of rar, children coder age, if need be, and executrix of this ik t y will '4'r..l March 23, 1803, Signed, retcocough, WEDNESDAY. A Plate of 50 SOTS (Handicap), for two year olds ; T.Y.C. A Fifty Pound Plate ; three year olds 7st 101 b, four Bst 101 b, five 9st, six and aged 9st llb ; maiden three year olds allowed 41b, maiden four year olds and upwards 121 b ; winners of 500 soya 71b extra ; A.F. The Optional Selling Plate of 50 sous ; three year olds Bst, four 9st, five 9st 51b, six and aged 9st 71b. The Subscription Plate of 50 sous ; two year olds 7st, three Bst 121 b ; the winner to bo sold for 350 soya if demanded, &c.; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; three year olds ist 131 b, four Bst 101 b, five and upwards 9st 71b ; fillies and geld ings allowed 31b. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; two year old 7st 81b, three Bst 1 01b, four 9st 11b, five and upwards 9st 41b ; T.Y.C. The Glasgow Stakes of 100 sous each, h ft, for two year old colts ; Bst 101 h each; last three-quarters of MM. ; 9 subs. The All-acged Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft ; two year olds 7st, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 1 31 b, five and upwards 9st 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; Bretby Stakes Course ; 5 subs. The Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b, not engaged in the July, Chesterfield,Rutland, Cleo.rwell,or Prenderghast Stakes ; winners of 200 sovs 51b extra ; D.M.; 7 subs. The Sussex Stakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; untrieds allowed 31b, both 61b; the winners at Lewes 71b, all other winners (selling stakes and matches excepted) 51b extra ; T.Y.O ; 12 subs.. THURSDAY. Subscription Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards. T.M.M. Optional Selling Plate of 50 sovs; two year olds 6st 101 b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 81b, five and upwards 9st 121 b ; fillies allowed 31b. Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for throe year olds and upwards. T.Y.G. Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, for two year olds and upwards; tho winner to be sold for 300 sovs if demanded, &c. Bretby Stakes Course. Sweepstakes of 1J soya each, for two years olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; the winner to bo sold for 100 sovs if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. The Nursery Stakes (Free Handicap) of 25 sovs each, fur two year olds; winners of any handicap after the pub- lication of the weights 71b extra. Criterion Course. A Free Handicap of 100 sous each, h ft, for three year olds; the winner of the Derby or Doncaster St. Leger 9.t. A.F. 22 subs. A Sweepstakes of 50 sot's each, h ft, for two year olds colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst ilb; Ab. M. 9 subs. The Troy Stakes of 50 aovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bst 71b; untriods allowed 31b ; the winner at Stockbridge 3lb extra at Newmarket; the winner of the Middle Paik Stakes 91b, of the Criterion Mb extra ; penalties accumulative up to 141 b. T.Y.C. 33 subs. FRIDAY. Tho Second Nursery Stakes (Free Handicap) of 25 soya each, the winner of any handicap after the publication of tho weights 71b extra ; A Plate of 50 sovs, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of 500 sovs 71b extra ; if entered to be sold for 100 soya allowed 71b. T.Y.O. The Audley End Stakes of 30 sovs each, 10 ft, if declared &c., for horses of all ages (two year olds excepted) A Plate of 100 goys (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards. An. M. A Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards. D.l. Fifty Soya ; three year olds ist 121 b, four Bst 121 b, five 9st 21b, six and aged 9st 31b ; the winner to be ■old for 500 sovs; if for 150 allowed 71b. A.F. The Optional Selling Plate of 50 sovs ; for two year olds 7st 71b, three 9st 41b ; the winner to be sold for 200 sous if entered for 150 allowed 51b, 100 101 b. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each; three year olds Bst 21b; four Bst 10Ib, five and :upwards 9st llb ; the winner to be sold for 400 sous if demanded, &c. A Sweepstakes of 10 s3vs each ; two year olds 7st 31b, three Bst 101 b ; the winner to bo sold for 300 sous if de manded, ix. TY.O. A Sweepstakes of 25 sous each, for three yoar olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b. A Sweepstakes of 500 sovs each, 200 ft, for two year olds colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. 9 subs. Match 500, h ft; A.F.—Sir J. Hawley's The Palmer, Bsl 131 b, Agit Mr. Chaplin's Hermit, Bst 10Ib. SATURDAY. One Hundred Pounds; two year olds sst 101 b, three Bst 41b, four 9st 51b, five, six and aged 9st 81b ; the winner (with his engagements) to be sold for 300 gs, if de manded, &c. Last three miles of B.C. Maiden Plate of 100 sovs, for two year olds ; colts Sat 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b. T.Y.C. A Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap), for three year olds and up ward. Catubridgeshire Course. The Houghton Handicap of 15 sovs each, and only 5 ft if declared by ten o'clock on Friday evening (to the second), for three year olds and upwards. T.Y.C. _ .. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each; two year olds 7st 31b ; three Bst 101 b, four 9st 9st lib, five and upwards 9st 31b ; fillies and geldings allowed Mb ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs if demanded, &c. Bretby Stakes Course. A Sweepstakes of 10 SOTS each; two year olds 6st 101 b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st throe, five and upwards 98t 71b ; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs if demanded, &c. ; ii for 100 soya allowed 71b. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; three year olds 7st 121 b, four Bst 101 b, five 9st 11b, six and aged 9st 31b ; fillies allowed 81b; the winner to be sold for 120 sovs if de manded, &c. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; tho winner to be sold for 100 sovs if demanded, dec. T.T.C. Match 500, 250 ft; T.M.M.—Mr. Brayley's The Mariner, a yrP, Bst 61b, receives 150 ft from Mr. Stephenson's Socrates, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b. . _ NO DAY MENTIONED.—Match 100 h ft. T.Y.C.— Mr. Alexander's Meteor, Bst 71b, agst Lord Falmouth's Nightjar, Bst, both two yoar olds. Beadsman, who has made himself such a great reputation through his children, Blue Gown, Rosicrucian, Poro Gomez, Greon Sleeve, Tho Palmer, &s., will stand at Hurstbourno Park next season. His covering fee is set at 100 gs, and there can be little doubt of his subscription fill ing rapidly. The two year old colt by Carnival out of Allington has been named ifocoletto. Mr. H. Hill having found a £lO note lit the Subscrir tion Room at Tattersall's on Monday last, ho handed it over to the Secretary, who will restore the same to the owner if able to supplx the number or description. In case no successful application be made within 14 days the note will b 3 given to the Lock Hospital. We learn that Exeter Steeplechases are to be abandoned and the balance in the hands of the treasurer to the race fund will bo distributed among the original subscribers in proportion. The following horses changed hands at Chelmsford: — Knight of St. Michael to Mr. Bo wtel for 20gs, Yanina, to Mr. French for 13gs, and Claudia (since named Madame Rachel) to J. Grirnshaw for 16gs. Blue Gown, who left Newmarket for Kingsclere on Fri day week to try Green Sleeve for the Cambridgeshire, re turned to "head-quarters" on Tuesday, accompanied by The Palmer and Siderolite, 2 yrs. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. FOREIGN NOTES. DISARMAMENT. The rumours that the Emperor has at length decided upon a definite policy, and has resolved to set the example of disarmament, gain strength. The Patric, a semi-official paper, confirms the statement that the army is to be reduced ; and the Memorial Diplomatique adds that six months' fourlough is to be granted to 30,000 soldiers. The force is small, but the furlough is long. If it does not signify a large disarmament, at least it looks like peace for the present. There is, however, another rumour current, that when the forthcoming manifesto is sent round, it will transpire that the fulfilment of the Fifth Article of the Treaty of Prague will be made an indispensable condition. The Cologne Gazette, too, has concluded that the manifesto is to be directed against Prussia, who could not accept it, and that a war would be the consequence. The Bourse, however, has not taken this sinister view of things. It has gone up. Another little fact may be mentioned. A map of France has been published, showing the boundary of the country in 1815, 1832, and 1868. It is said that the Emperor has ordered this publication for the purpose of showing that the French have nothing to complain of in the unity of Italy or the aggrandisement of Germany. Others declare that the meaning of this oracular map is quite different. It is to shew that the position of France is now " too restricted ;" in other words, that there is no opportunity of taking a slice out of any of the compact nations round about. Truly, the Imperial regime must be pleasant to live under. RUSSIA. According to a letter from St. Petersburg, the Russian Government is beginning seriously to fear that the Polish agitation in Gallicia will lead to trouble in Russia. A rising in Poland is not so much dreaded as the estrange ment of the great district of Little Russia and the Ukraine. It is thought that the twelve millions of this district, who were finally united to Russia by the Empress Catherine, are beginning to look towards Austria. AUSTRIA. The public business of Austria, though the Austrians, both in war and diplomacy, are proverbially slow, does not suffer from the neglect of the Emperor. His Majesty, says the Times correspondent, is probably one of the hardest-worked sovereigns in Europe. He is as well up in the details of every administrative business as any one of his officials, and, having a very good memory, he often reminds those who work with him of former decisions and precedents which may throw some light on the business in hand. Conscientious as he is, he reads everything submitted to him carefully ; but such is his military regularity, that in spite of the mass of papers he has to get through, they never accumu late on his desk. Delay and trouble are often caused, but they are mostly the fault of the red-tape officials, who are unable to see that the old style of government has passed away. The private Chancellery of the Emperor is answerable for the greatest amount of difficulty. Formerly this department was all-powerful, for it had only to keep tapers back, or forget to dispatch them, in order to ensure a delay of any extent. Its tacit refusal to reform is gradually bringing about its extinction. The vacancy in the Ministry, that of the important office of Minister President, has not been filled up. Several names have been mentioned, but it appears the post is to be kept open until the proceedings of the Reichsrath point the way to a compact Ministry. TAE DISTRESS AT THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT. A letter from Quebec gives further particulars of the state of the Red River Settlement, and the total destruc tion of the crops by grasshoppers. Last autumn these insects came in immense numbers ; but, fortunately, the wheat was so far advanced that this important crop sus tained little or no injury. It was, however, the period of the year when the grasshoppers deposit their eggs, and the soil was filled with them. The young grasshoppers accordingly came out this summer in countless numbers, and during the few weeks that elapsed before they could fly they devoured every green thing, not leaving what would produce a bushel of grain of any kind. The distress caused by this devastation bas been very great. The settlement is small and isolated, provisions have to be brought from long distances, and are so dear that the poor cannot pay for them. A terrible tornado, which swept down the valley of the Red River On the night of July 3, has increased the misery. The necessity for assistance is urgent. PRINCE NAPOLEON. Prince Napoleon bas visited Turin, and has had a long conference with the King of Italy. The purport of this interview is, of course, merely matter of conjecture at present, but the Paris correspondent of the Advertiser thinks he has hit upon the solution. This writer says Prince Napoleon has gone to confer with King Victor Emmanuel on the candidature of the Duke of Aosta, the King's second son, for the throne of Spain. The Emperor would not exactly like this choice, but it would be less disagreeable than many others. The King of Italy, however, will not hear of it. It is feared that Prince Humbert will have no children—rather a premature conclusion, as he has been married only a few months—and it is therefore desirable to keep the second son disengaged, lest the dynasty may be sacrificed. Prince Napoleon's mysterious manner of running about Europe gives rise to the strangest conjectures. His resemblance to the great Napoleon is so close as to be proof against disguise, and we constantly hear at his being recog nised in one place when he was supposed to be in another. IHE "NEW YORK - TRIBUNE," AS A CAMPAIGN PAPER. There is some curious information in the New York Tribune about the election campaign. " T he Rebels held a meeting iu Pleasant Grove, Kansas, on the 7th. A vote taken after the meeting resulted in 120 for Grant and 40 for Seymour." Judging from their votes these were " Grant rebels," 3 A u animal we now h ear o f f or th e fi rst t i me . " vote for President was taken on board the steamer United States, Captain J. C. Babbitt, on her pas sage from Plattsburg to Whitehall, on ThursdaY evening, the 17th Sept., resulting as follows :-- 47 for Grant and 17 for Seymour. Grant's majori t y 17." Our arithmetic does not bear out this calculation ; and we recommend the author 0 these figures to leave the public to work ou t the results for themselves. Here is a nother instance. On the 18th of September the resul t of the ballot was " 37 for Grant and 16 for Ser moue. Grant's m a j or it y , twenty - t h ree. In 0 . , latter instance one man re f use d to d ec l are hhilsel in apparent shame. He was i mme di ate l y e reditei l , to Seymour." Take our ad v i ce H orace , and p ii i ! an extinguisher over the man w h o ma k es these 01 culations, or no one will place the slightest faith PI the Tribune's figures, which would be unfortunate, considering that its leading columns are mainly oc cupied in blazing abroad its own mer it s , and t he huge figure at which the people estimate them. r -Lu e Weekly of Sept. 23 heads an article, " Two 1 111 e; dred and Forty Thousand," an d con ti nue s in t he highfaluten line to expl a i n w h a t th a t means,'lna' t,, ing our mouth water : "Let us glance at the magnitud e of th e businesit. 711 :: Tribune is printed on a sheet meas ur i ng 37 by 471 incin weighing 65 pounds a ream. O ne i ssue o f 240,000 eoP e " of The Weekly alone requires 480 reams —5OO sbe ets each—at 65 pounds to the ream, making the total wog i, " - t of a single issue 31,200 pound ' s •or ire than 15 0135 ; The paper when turned o u t f rom 'th e m ill s i s f o lded ba h the size of the sheet, and put in bundles containing " 7° „ reams, 1,000 sheets each. Th e b un dl es are compressed , almost the solidity of a bound b oo k, and measure about ' inches in thickness. Two hu n d re d and forty piled on upon another would make a column 110 feet in heigh, rl with 37 by 238 inches side measurement. If each of WI 240,000 . copies of The Weekly Tribune . were addresseu, singly to the person who subscribes for it, and it requir e : - but 10 seconds to write the name of the ' subscriber, P? s i " ( ; office, and State, it would take one person 67 days of each to perform the labour, but to accompli work in one day of 10 hours 67 persons would be requir e , - for each issue, or it would take ten persons working even day in the year to write a wrapper for each subscriber . y, course wo do not address each paper to an individual st l n ' s scriber, though we do so address several thousand colli each week, not with pen in hand, but by machinery; t , l l the labour is so vast in this department as we ll as others in our establishment, that, notwithstanding We b a .. in operation the most improved and effective machill e, * ,r ,' to do whatever work machines can do efficiently, w`. 3r ,,,, quest our friends to comply with the following directWl which, if followed, will save us several thousand doll3il a year in clerk hire, &c., enable us to fill orders with m u % more accuracy and celerity, and save much ill-feeling cor, the part of those who think they have been badly treat We can make allowance for men accustomed to 01° style of thing, calculating two and two to be n'' e. Poor John Smith of Morgan County, Illinois, cam grief, and is badly shown up, to point the moral al% adorn the Tribune's tale. A letter from hi° l l l l given as a specimen of " How not to do it." S ull o is earnest in his praise of the paper, and having eye to the main chance he regards it from the w e d cenary point of view, estimating what it has sam e him by its information on the markets. Mr. Ho rgw o t Greeley, to whom he addressed the letter, did n be ask him, as he might have done, for a share of , plunder. Indeed, in the first instance, no one co n as our readers will presently learn. Smith goa l ° , to say that with others, being interested in aPP e e ': he wishes them to be quoted in the report to pc vent imposition on the part of the dealers, 3% i thus winds up :—" I have sold my farm c ' h Salem and will remove to Franklin, to vybs e place you will direct my paper hereafter." neglected to state that the Salem, of vii i- o f there are many, was in Ohio—that the Franklh l, , which there are more, was in Illinois—and that t he Smith, of which there are most, belonged to a .Salem Club of 27 subscribe r s, so his l e tter dropP e o into the waste-paper basket, no one knowing he, s f ' r , e t address to him. The Tribune then says :—" lto two weeks he wrote again, accusing us of Wishiag i be swindle him, and saying he did not care for; if paper, but did not like to be cheated ;' and adds 'g• w e would send his paper from Salem, Ohio, to Fr 3v o t, lin, Illinois, he would receive it till his time was h e ic ti and then take some paper the proprietors of " 4 . 0 " would do as they would be done by." In replr,or letter from the office, friend Smith " was very se' iv o he had given us so much trouble, it was all his e t i i e fault, the Tribune is the best paper in nod world, he could not do without it, Sze./ „"pa added a postscript stating that he had fe,:". c h that the article of merchandise, in n i t . his friends were interested, was quoted in the 113 41 ket reports." Then, of course, comes the ",j story :—" A word to advertisers : For 4 32 we 5 1 ) ,, r , e ‘t, one line of the broad columns of the Weekly 9 T rw :1 1 1 .11) our lines being one-sixth to one-quarter longer -- ;0 in other newspapers—which is less than one et o, line for every I,ooo—before 240,000 subsernio thus enabling the advertiser to cotnmu nicate r wishes and make known the value and price e'oo wares to several times 240,000 readers. e . Weekly Tribune is the cheapest advertising 'o,s, dium, as well as the best and cheapest weekly °e a i 4 paper in the world." The last sheet publisb e , po t the smallest village, declares its e lf to be the 'j e t advertising medium in the world. We w i °33 , l3 e' why that sulky thing enthro n ed i n P r i n ting Il e- a il square never sticks up a poster, nor makes such sit announcement ; yet people, unasked, carry n o advertisements to the office, and pay money (. 1 ,„" for the insertions. No one can move about l o t don without being informed by the Telegraph bf it has the greatest circulation in the world, no the Standard, that it is the largest paper, whi le be modest Daily News merely declares itself to ~ree high-class Liberal paper. But although the VI je f flaunt themselves before the Cockneys' eye? , t ni fti do not devote column upon column of their ;0. space to impress these assertions upon their re ad to Itsincrease in circulation the Tribune consid.e ll t he be the best indication of Republican feeling l o ot nation. It does not desire to " choke off" tb e l i tb° Republican prints, but it does desire to have subscribers of every Republican sheet, each 138 1 60% paper reading man throughout the Union t', 3 4 0 , the Tribune as well as the paper of his a ir Such an arrangement would be highly r3 el factory, and no wonder that Horace G r oli' lays it down as the ultima Mule of 1341) bal canism. The use of a Republican is tell the the Tribune ; the use of the Tribune is to J O. Republican what he thinks, and believes, and W" the But the Tribune is Horace Greeley, therefore to d use of the party is to support Horace Greelei , r o' his use is to supply the party with opinions , ec t. 4 meats, and a policy. We are told that the pr.e 4 ,;eri of the Republicans are encouraging in Nlissouri - Z e jog encouraging indeed—to a m an w ho r a ther likes ' 1 03 3 0 shot. Their prospe c t s i n G eorg i a a re in the s cot , way satisfactory in the highest degree ; in jute" generally throughout the South. It may b e frr resting to some of our readers to learn that thee bane has discovered Roebuck's dumbfounded at iots niard, who has hithert o been supposed a er e 'S, of that gentleman's imagination. " A otP te taken on the Bloomfield and Newark .ty,a-! ~ with the following result :—For Seymour, 'to'v Grant, 126. Of the 23 votes for Seyinoll i llo o , were given by Spaniards, neither of " tr oll could read or speak English." These were. „io o ' valuable votes as expressions of American 0 P 1 " tlo and we hope that the Tribune will next g et bo vote of an " assassinating" Italian, and tel l ti fe s j s ll' political proclivities. What ticket the Wild osii; man votes, and why, the World can be t o' though the Why would puzzle the readiest l c ,:joi that ready people. Frank Leslie pictures a ti es with a hod on his shoulder replying to the„,ctiot, r t ri tion, "Do you support Seymour? " "No." np o you don't support Grant ?" "No •, I Betsy . and the children, and mighty hard 0 " OP find it." Pat might take a wrinkle frai l " Greele . y, and make that p ar t y su pp or t hina.-' Al merzean Bi. fr ACgs ALLCROFT —On the 16th i r n t s hs t. at 55, Porchester — t Mrs. John D. All cro ft, o f a daughter. If ° l o QUEENSBEDRY—On the 13th i ns t, at KiDMOUnt Dumfriesshire, the Marchioness of Queensberf.' son. D e4' 'W ARBURTON—On the 14th inst., in The Close, l'•"" ter, the lion. Mrs. W. Warburton, of a son. Marriages. S . K . (30 . t HAW F wen —On tho 15th inst at Pernbury, ,16 , John Charm--,v"-%;110 John darles Kenward Shaw ' 'Bart., of Ken``lril, Emma, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of John ' Finch, Esq., Captain RN., of Knight's-place. ,blif;',/" LONG—WicatAm—On the 16th inst., at St. Mark's u North Audio y-street, Commander Samuel LOS' o og e ; eldest son of Archdeacon Long, to Ali ce Jane, nvior daughter of the late Vice-Chancellor Sir James Deaths. AOl AUSTIN —On the 14th inst., at Clapham, Thotrin, s s '9, ff t, man Austin, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, age" o f Brun —On the IZith inst., at Wimbledon, Eliza, wif e E. Bird, Esq. 4111 BLONAY—On the Bth inst., at Vernaud, near 1-45"„53, Baron G. do Blonay. INGALL —On the 15th inst., Mrs. Anne Inga,ll, of Bt. Surrey, aged 71. h a Qy4 VANDERKISTE —On the 15th inst.,at llighbury, JI derkists, Esq , aged 53. • London : Printed and Published by WiLLI3III N ff of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam SUN 011 3 ' , „:;:f Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the Aliddiesex.—Saturday, October 17, lali£3. AMERICA. The New York Bound Fable discusses the Roebuck escapade in a tone which furnishes an agreeable contrast to that of its contemporaries. It does not think Mr. Reverdy Johnson went too far in his expressions of cor diality. It regrets all that tends to impair the warmth of relations between peoples whose interests and pursuits are so identified. "We must add, in all candour, that if American journalists were as ready when hard things are said of the mother country by American orators to rebuke and ridicule them as English journalists have just sbewn themselves to be, in the parallel case of Mr. Roebuck, the entente cordiale between the two countries would stand a much better chance of indefinite preservation." An exciting election contest may shortly be expected. The seat of Morrissey, the prizefighter, is unsafe. He is to be opposed by Mr. George Francis Train, as soon as that martyr has been freed from the grinding tyranny of British law and from the horrors of a British dungeon. The Spirit of the Times gives the following items : Josephine Orton has left the " Chestnut-street" in Phila delphia, and accepted an engagement with Floyd, in New Orleans. Her husband leads the orchestra.—The steamer St, Laurent, from Havre, brought to our shores the entire opera company of Mr. J. Grau, numbering forty- eight per sons. Prominent among them are Madame Rose Bell, Mademoiselles Declanzas, Fontanel, Villa, and Monsieurs Carrier, Beckers, Gabel, Bourgoin, etc. They will inaugurate the season of 1868-69 at the reconstructed and handsome Theatre Francais, on October 5, pro bably with "La Grand Duchess."—The Bryants, Dan and Neil, aro drawing good houses, and deservedly, as they give an admirable performance. Their bill for next week is varied and novel. We advise every body who has the blues, or who expects to have them, to go to see this popular troupe.—Lieutenant Hill says that Grant's cast for Genevieve de Brabant is undoubtedly E'arisian, but it is a plaster of Paris cast—not the real thing.—The New York Theatre is again in the hands of Worrell Sisters.—Couldock and daughter are in Cincin nati.—Kemble reads in Buffalo next Monday evening, Sept. 28.—1 t is reported that Mrs. John Wood has mar ried a journalist now London, and once of this city.— The best Bill of the play—Bill Shakspere.—Fanny Stock ton has gone to Chicago.—Mrs. D. P. Bowers played Cleo patra iu San Francisco. We have received a bill of the performance, which marks a new era in the art of thea trical advertising. Rather it takes us back to the days of the hard-handed men of Athens. and the presentments of Lion, Wall, and Thornbush. Manager Jackson, seiz ing the.idea suggested by those parts of the text of the play which reads— " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them." And : " From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharves." " He will, at the time of the galley-scene, by some simple mechanical contrivance, project into the auditorium a deli cate odour, which will complete the illusion wrought by the gorgeous set of the stage, and realize the poet's idea of the luxurious magnificence surrounding Egypt's beautifal Queen." Ada Clare is married to Mr. J. F. Noyes, stage manager of the Bryan City Theatre, Texas. John Sefton was buried from the Church of the Transfiguration, in Twenty-ninth-street, New York. The services were per formed by the Rev. Dr. Hogan. 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