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St. James's Hall, Eyery Night, at $ Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL iTAMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN'S, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on ➢londays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. il7 Suit _ ,wo 4) LOXDON, 7HUMSDAY, NOV. 5, 1838. Again the Republicans in the United States have triumphed over the Democrats. As the Eighteenth President of the United States, General ULYSSES GRANT was elected yesterday by a sweeping majo rity. The foremost soldier of the Northern Armies, the chivalrous conqueror of the heroic LEE, has been wisely selected by the vast m a j or ity o f th e peop l e o f 1 the United States as the successor to ANDREW JOHN -1 SON, who attained his supreme position as PRESIDENT simply by mischance, namely, by the fact of his being Vice-President at the time of ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S assassination. The Democratic candidate, Mr. SET MO un,was selected indiscreetly as the antagonist of Gen. GRANT. But, even if the Democrats bad chosen the fittest man that could well have been named in lieu of Mr. SEYMOUR, that fittest man, we may feel now reasonably assured, would never have successfully withstood the dominant popularity of America's first Generalissimo, the victor of 1865, the triumphant Commander of the Northern Forces, into the hands of whose troops General LEE delivered himself up on the 9th of April, in that last named year (1865), at the Court House of Appomatox. As to the two great contending political parties in one or other of which most of the smaller political parties became absorbed during the presidential electioneering agitation of 1856, they have long since lost very much indeed of their original significance. Negro Slavery having now, thanks be to GOD, disap peared altogether from the United States as a re cognised and legalised institution—the Democrats no longer signify as they did originally those advocating the views of the pro-slavery party of the Southern States—any more than the Republicans mean as they did formerly the Nordiera Abolitionists. So regarded the words are as obsolete now throughout the United States as Free Traders and Protectionists are obso lete throughout the United Kingdom. But in ano ther sense they possess a far more distinctive signi ficance throughout the United States of America, than is implied at this moment, here in Eig'and, by the two Great contending parties of the so-called Liberals and the so-called Conservatives. Gen. GRANT, the chosen champion of the Republicans is not in any way a partizan Leader. Ills extraordinary reticence leaves him at the moment of his assuming the supreme position as PRESIDENT wholly and abso lutely uncommitted. His antecedents are altogether THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1868. in his favour, and this almost as much with the Democrats as with the Republicans. As the greatest soldier of the North, he conducted the Federals to victory, it is true, to crushing and de cisive victory, over the Confederates. But, to the very last, he showed himself to he a noble foe in his whole conduct towards the vanquished South. And the triumphs won by him, overwhelming as they were, have left no heartburnings behind them—have left only, in his regard, the cherished remembrance that in ULYSSES GRANT, ROBERT LEE found " a foeman worthy of his steel," and one by whom LEE'S resplendent qualities as a General in the field were, to the full appreciated. Once the war was fairly over, the glory won by the opposing armies became the common property of the re-United States. And nowhere, as we conceive, is the fair, unsullied fame of STONEWALL JACKSON, for example, regarded with higher admiration than throughout those very States in the North which sent forth the most eagerly their serried hosts against him to cross swords with the great Confederate General's Ironsides upon many a field now of historical re nown. As the Northern States can and do now look back with the highest admiration upon the strategical achievements of General LEE, as the Commander in-Chief of the Confederates, for long successful, but eventually conquered—so now may and will the Southern States (what though they were fated to be brought into subjection through his instrumen tality) regard, without one moment's sense of chagrin, certainly without one moment's conscious ness of anything like self-abasement, the glory and honour won to himself, by General GRANT in his capacity as LEE'S successful antagonist. It was immediately upon the occasion of one of the last grand triumphs of the Republicans as a political body—upon the occasionn, amely, of the election of theircandidate, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on the 4th Novem ber, 1860, to the President's chair—that there followed thatsecession of eleven slaveholding States in the South, which brought about with such deadly rapidity the great Civil War which raged from 1861 to 1865 upon a scale of such colossal magnitude. As a conse quence of that very war, however, a war so far beneficent in its results that it accomplished the Abolition of Slavery throughout all those free States of North America, there is no room now to dread any evil whatever as likely in any way to arise from this new triumph won by the Republicans over the Democrats. There is, in truth, a particular signifi cance in the fact that upon the occasion of this last contest between the Democrats and the Republicans, this contest which was brought to a conclusion only as recently as yesterday, the latter, that is the Re pnblicans, felt in no way constrained, as they did in 1860, to form themselvesinto "Wide-awake Clubs" for purely electioneering purposes, or, in other words, to ensure as effectually as possible the triumph of their chosen candidate. Tne result now has not belied the confident anticipations felt all along in regard to General GRANT'S candidature by the great mass of the Republicans. Newly informed as we have but just been here in England—in the twinkling of an eye through that wonderful submarine cable trailed along the bed of the Atlantic—that in one day's time the candidates have been proposed, and that Gen. GRANT has been elected President, with Mr. S. COLFAX as his Vice- President—we read certainly without surprise, but certainly with no inconsiderable amazement the com ment which is made to-day in the following words in reference to that extraordinary fact by the chief of our contemporaries :—" It is a wonderful result of , science and social organisation," says the Times," that the opinions of an immense population should be taken in a single day over a territory as large as all Europe, and that in less than 24 hours after the close of the polls the issue of the contest, with the approximate number of votes given in each State, should be known in the capitals of the Old World." Our contemporary adding, " Such a triumph of civili sation is more impressive than the event which is thus recorded, and it causes us to remember how inde pendent of political action are the forces which most impel the human race in the path of progress." The secret of all this being—what? Why that the political miracle has been accomplished by means and through the agency of the BALLOT Box ! It is the same in France under an Imperial Auto cracy, as yonder in America under a Confederated Democracy. No brawling, no drunkenness, no broken heads, no brickbats, no rotten eggs, foul words, bru tality, wrangling, and all uncharitableness, but— calmly, silently, rapidly, with the utmost precision, the whole electoral body, mind, heart, head, acting like a piece of won derfully elaborated but exquisitely adjusted machinery—the Candidates are proposed and the Elections are accomplished. It is by means of the Ballet box, and by means of the Ballot box alone that " the opinions of an immense population" are thus " taken in a single day over a territory as large as all Europe." And this without any one among the candidates, whether chosen or rejected, being directly or indirectly one farthing, one cent the poorer--without any need for the public-houses being opened for the free and independent electors to liquor up at the bar ad libitum, at anybody else's expense but their own. As to the transmissTon of the news of the result within so brief an interval afterwards, to all the capitals of the Old World—that miracle, of course, is discernably the world's, through the Electric Telegraph. That is the triumph of Science ! But the triumph of Civilization to which our con temporary refers in the same breath, is as undeniably traceable to the benign agency of the Ballot Bo x The fact is worthy of recalling thus vividly to mind now that we are upon the eve, here in England, of our own General Election of members to the Com mons House of Parliathent. A c 0 UNTRY rarely knows its greatest man. England, we suspect, does not know the Vicar of Darlington, and yet this gentleman—his name is JOHN GARENCIERES PEARSON—ought to be known. lie has just made a notable discovery ; he has dis covered a race of men possessed of all the virtues and none of the vices ; a race which, if a jealous Legislature would only give it fair play, would regenerate this great empire, and banish poverty and disease and sin from between the four seas. This race is one with which we thought that we were all tolerably familiar. We ought to know it. It stands, like Wisdom, at the corners of the streets ; like Innocence, it loves the light, especially gaslight ; and (we have Mr. PEARSON'S word for it) it is the very pattern of devotion and charity, always first in church, always first in almsgiving. This race is that of the licensed victuallers. " There are," says Mr. PEARSON, " in her Majesty's dominions no better friends to order and good government than the licensed victuallers of this country. " There are no persons more regular attendants at their parish church." " The first man in his pew is the village publican." " No men are more anxious for a proper restriction than the licensed victuallers themselves." Then, too, was it not a BUXTON (TRUMAN, HANBURY, BUXTON, and Co.'s Entire) which helped to abolish slavery ? Was it not a GUINNESS (GUINNESS'S Stout) which rebuilt St. Patrick's Cathedral ? Was it not a FELIX BOOTH (BOOTH'S Gin) which promoted . discoveries in the Arctic regions ? Why, then, attack the liquor traffic ? What more would you have ? The time is coming when the Established Church will be assailed, and then the Aid of these much-maligned men mill be needed to uphold the sacred ark to the cry of Church and Queen, and. the Crown and Anchor. We confess that we find it difficult to resist Mr. PEARSON'S eloquence. When one has gone on all one's life holding a certain set of opinions about—not abstract questions, upon which there is room for difference—but visible facts, and when one finds that those opinions are shared by everybody else, it is rather astounding to be told one fine morning that we have all been mistaken, that the facts are quite the other way. Our judges have said that nine-tenths of the crime, our philanthropists have assured us that the great proportion of the poverty, our men of science have given us statistics to chew that by far the greater number of cases of insanity—owe their origin to this `• much-abused liquor traffic." Mr. PEARSON tells us that this is all nonsense. Judges, philanthropists, scientists, are all mistaken, for the publican is first in his pew in Darlington Church, and Sir FELIX BOOTH gave a portion of his enormous fortune (made out of gin) in finding out what the North Pole was like. And yet—and yet we cannot help striking in our minds a debtor and creditor account against the publican and Sir FELIX BOOTH. The publican goes to church early ; very commendable of him, no doubt ; but how many persons does he keep away from church altogether ? Sir FELIX BOOTH was inte rested in the North Pole ; but supposing that he had been interested in the London alleys where his gin was sold. Sir FOWELL BUXTON was associated with WILBERFORCE in freeing the African slaves; but how many English slaves did he bring into a far worse bondage, a bondage that bound soul as well as body, that destroyed as well as fettered ? Sir BENJA MIN GUINNESS restored a cathedral ; but how many homes did he destroy ? Where did the money come from which was spent in exploring the Arctic regions and beautifying St. Patrick's ? Out of the pocket of the bruised and battered wife, out of the pockets of the starving and wailing children, whose husband and whose father had spent it in buying Dublin stout and BOOTH'S gin. Mr. PEARSON tells us that the licensed victuallers look after their poor and build asylums for them. But what becomes of the poor whom they have pauperised their poor, inasmuch as they are responsible for the poverty ? We know well enough —we who have to pay enormous poor rates, who have to pay for the administration of justice, who have to provide asylums for the victims whose brains have been sodden by drink. The "much-abused liquor trade" has done all this. The liquor traders, Mr. PEARSON tells us, are the first to welcome stringent legislation. That is the most satisfactory portion of his speech, for their cheerfulness will, before many years are past, be put to the test by legislation yet more stringent. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Nov. 2. The reason why Switzerland has not yet acknow ledged the Provisional Government of Spain is attributable to the delay of the communication of the Spanish Circular Despatch of the 19th October, which was only presented to the Federal Council by the Spanish Charge d'Affaires on the 30th ult. So soon as the despatch above mentioned was com municated to the Federal Council they hastened not only to acknowledge the provisional Govern ment, but also the definitive form of government which should hereafter be adopted by the Spanish people. The reply relating thereto was thus : "The country of Switzerland, whose institutions are based upon the will of the people, acknowledges, as a matter of course, an equal right in all other nations, to form their Governments on the same footing. Spain, constituted anew, upon the basis mentioned in the Circ alar of the Provisional Government of the 19th ult., may rely in advance upon being recognized by Switzerland. In the meantime the Federal Council will at once enter into diplomatic relations with the Provisional Government, and this with the greater re Ldiness since the Federal Council regards the Provisional Government as the true expression of the country—added to which the principles of religious liberty proclaimed in the despatch not only ensure to Spain the esteem of the civilized world, but also the means adopted for the completion of the revolution are proof of her great moderation and skill." OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. BOMBAY, Nov. 5. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, from Southampton, 24th October, arrived on the 3d November at eight p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. The Massilia left at noon to-day for Southamp be looked fo r a b out th e 14th ton, where she may instant. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 4.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 3lOO lltalian Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt 32 Deferred — Ys. 41 per Cont. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month— 70 971 Credit Mobilier 307 50 End of month 315 Credit Foncier _1435 End of month — RAILWA _ Cash Orleans ..... Northern ....................................... /196 f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5684 Western Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman MR. SCLATERZOOTH ON THE EXPEN• DITUBE. Arr. G. Sclater-Booth, M.P., in a recent speech at Alton, advocated the strictest economy in the national expenditure. They were not, however, to forget that no inconsiderable portion of the increased expenditure which we had recently experienced is to be traced to the in creased demand upon the resources of the central Govern ment, which are to be seen everywhere around us. The old fear as to the loss of local self-government seemed of late to have greatly diminished ; or, at all events, there was no longer a fear entertained that the central Government might become so strong as to exercise any thing like a tyrannical influence over localities, and con zurrently with this feeling there had arisen a greater desire for governmental assistance and support in many operations which are in themselves of a local character. For instance, the, education:of thepeopleisbeing conducted at a vast expense to the imperial exchequer, and then there is an immense network of Government inspection carried on under the Poor Laws, the Factories Act, the Local Government Act, and in the mining districts—all of which are under the control of the Home Office, and require for their administration highly paid officers. These and the like expenses were not thought necessary in former days, and as long as they continued he did not see how we could expect a very large reduction in the total expenditure of the country fa m year to year. The proper requirements of the country, too, in regard to better pay, clothing, and food for our soldiers and sailors, All tended to swell the expenditure; and although he was far from denying that there were many expenses, especially in connection with the army, that might be reduced, yet he scarcely thought that writers and speakers on this subject had at all times reflected upon the increased demands made upon recent, as compared with former Gove , ruts when riticising their expenditure. MI?. R. JOHNSON ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMEI?IC.d. the American Ambassador, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, will not fail to acquire sj mpatby and regard, if they may be acquired by amicable speeches. He spoke again on Wednesday. He was the guest of the new sheriffs of London and Middlesex, at their "inauguration banquet." In responding to the toast of his health, he said : " I have received so many civilities from the people of England since I came amongst them that my vocabulary of thanks is exhausted. I have, however, a vocabulary which can never be exhausted ; it is that which teaches me to say to you and to pray to God that the peace between your country and mine may never be disturbed. What ever difficulties in the recent past have occurred, i$ gives me supreme pleasure to say to you, as I have said elsewhere, that they are about to be successfully removed. In part this has already been accomplished ; and by the kindness, patriotism, and love which Lord Stanley bears to his Queen and country, and by the same feeling which I hope influences me towards my Government, the rest of the dispute will, before the lapse of the present year, be also successfully adjusted. Whatever, then, may happen in the future will find us together as one people, enjoy ing one government in point of substance—that is to say, each of us enjoying a government resting upon the principles of human freedom, without which man can not live. If you suppose, or ever have supposed, that among the reflecting men of the United States there was any unkind feeling towards your Government, however it may have been in the past, you are mistaken as to the present. There may be in America, and there may be in England, some spirits so unruly (I am glad to think they are not in this room), which cannot realise the duty of observing the obligations of law, and waiting until the good sense of the two peoplesmay correct whatever errors may have crept into their several institutions. Both Governments are popular—both must respond to the popular will, and both have in the past, and are willing in the present, to respond to that will. The termination of the Presidential contest yesterday resulted, as I was sure it would, in the almost unani mous election of that man to the chief executive of the United States to whom we were mainly indebted for the suppression of that rebellion which struck at the life of the nation, and the men of America would have been ungrate ful if they had failed to place him in the Presidential chair, the duties of which he would be sure so to administer as to subserve the public interests, and to bind up the wounds of a wounded country. In that war, as you know, there was a terrible loss of life ; one million men of the North and of the South now lie under the sod. The men of the South, as I have ever said in the Senate of the United States, sincerely thought they were serving their country in the struggle, and attempting and engaging in an effort to maintain the true principles of political liberty. The men of the North, on the other hand, were satisfied that without the continuance of the Union liberty and peace in the United States were not to be accomplished. Of that number I was one. A Southerner by birth, a Southerner by education, a Southerner by residence, I felt that it was due to 'the interests of all the people of the United States that the Union should be preserved at almost any cost. And it has been preserved, thank God ; and you may thank God too, gentlemen. The people of England have cause to rejoice that the struggle resulted as it did, because, as we prosper—and prosper we should not if our Union had been dissolved—so also will you prosper. Every State which has been added to that galaxy of States which in 1776 formed and were represented bythe stars of the American standard, tends to your benefit as well as our own. What would California have been if she had not fallen under our rule or under yours ? For a century her wealth was undeveloped, but the moment free institutions " landed " within her limitA then it was discovered that that undeveloped wealth, counting by millions and hundreds of millions, found its way abroad ; and in the presence of the Governor of the Bank of England I may say, not a little went into the coffers of the bank with which he- is connected, for the benefit of the commercial world. America has contracted an enormous debt ina money, but that is nothing in comparison to the blood which has literally mired every battle-field of our country. But although we have contracted this enormous debt in money, whatever rumours you may have heard, whatever doubts may have been expressed, I tell you, in all the sincerity with which man can speak, that every dollar of that debt will be paid in that which the world recognises as money. Dishonoured (and I know my country never would be knowingly; would America be if she failed to meet her engagements, and if she did not pay in money. In concluding, Mr. Johnson commented on the position of the Queen. He declared that his country did not undervalue the power of the army and navy. On the Abyssinian expedition, .too, he complimented this country, and on the celebrated name, Napier of Magdala. We had not added to the list of our naval heroes, because we had not had the opportunity. America-, too, had produced Sheridan, Hancock, Sherman, and Grant, and in the navy Porter and Farragut. Referring to the reunion in America, Mr. Johnson said : " But we are not altogether, in one sense, united t , though we are legally united. Not an arm is now raised ; : or is wished to be raised, against the authority of my Government, and under the President for the remainder of his term, and the one who is to follow on the 4th of March, and also under the direction of the Congress which will meet in December, I tell you that you may rest assured that in a short time all our sufferings will almost be forgotten, and America will be, what she was in the past, of value to the people of England, and she will hail you one and all as friends. It was predicted by George 111. and the men who were around him, that the independence of the States would be a fatal blow to England the star of her empire, it was said, would fall, and the downfall of her honour was near at hand. What has followed? Why, the result has been to increase the prosperity and power of England, and when England's downfall happens you may expect the sun to fall. Every accruing year, whether of war or peace, adds to our mutual wealth and enhances our mutual power, and so may it be to the end. As England is powerful, and permit me to say so long as she remains at peace with the United States, nothing in the tide of time will befall her of which she need be afraid." A colliery at Elephant-lane, near St. Helen's, was discovered to be on fire on Sunday. On the follow ing day, an exploring party. headed by Mr. Na . lor, the underlooker, and Mr. John Campbell, son of the cashier, went down to the pit fur the purpus,i of ascot Lin ing the seat and extent of the conflagration, and taking steps to restrict its ravages. As the party did not return in a reasonable time, a second body of explorers descended the pit, when it was found that hfr. Naylor, Mr. Campbell, and a collier named William Foster had perished, whilst their companions were in a very exhausted state. The latter were carried to the sur face ; the bodies of the men who had perished could not be recovered. MR. WALTER ON EDUCATION. —ln a speech recently delivered at Windsor to the electors of Berks, Mr. Walter dealt with the subject of education, observing that much might be done by developing further the existing system, for lie believed that a good school under that system was probably as good as any school which could be found in any civilised country. It seemed to be imagined that nothing effectual could be done in the way of education without compulsion. He, however, was not of that opinion, and he had seen with some sur prise that Lord Salisbury, in the remarkable speech which he had made a few days ago at Manchester, had spoken of compulsion as being resorted to in America. He could, however, from his own knowledge, state that compulsion was not the rule in America, and he was informed by a gtntleman in Philadelphia, fully conversant with the subject, that compulsion Was not found to be generally AINVI§ArY. ONE MODE OF OPPOSITION, Tamworth must be a nice town to canvass, at least Sir H. L. Bulwer's committee find it so. While a party were out canvassing on Tuesday the Conservative men objected. Of this objection the canvassers took np heed. But the men persisted in their opposition, and by and by came to violence. A general fight took place, which lasted a considerable time. "After great exertions on the part of the police," as one account says, the disturbance was quelled, hut not before several had received very serious injuries, amongst whom was a gentleman belonging to Sir H. L. Bulwer's committee, named Groom. So bad have things got that Sir Henry has written to the mayor of the town, complaining and asking for protection. "I am sure," he says, " under such unforeseen circumstances the authorities will see that preparations are made in order to prevent future disturbance, if required—so that we should neither ha obliged to forego our right to visit electors, nor be called upon to resist force by force, which is most undesirable. This behaviour is the more unfair since Mr. John Peel's canvass was never interfered with ; and I address myself to you as the guardian of the tranquillity of the town and the rights of its inhabitants to protect peaceable men, who will to-morrow recommence the task they abandoned to-day from lawless outrage.* THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN 0 A r TIIE IRISH CIIURcir. The L:b:rals of Dublin had a large demonstration on Monday. Sir Dominic Corrigan, th,3 Liberal candidate for the city, Sir John Gray, M.P., the Right Hon. W. Cogan, M.P., Mr. Pim, M.P., and others addressed the Meeting. A letter was read from Dr. Cullen, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in which he says : " The people of England is now anxious to re dress our grievances, and to inaugurate the reign of justice, by putting the Irish Catholics on a footing of per fect equality with all the other citizens of the empire. In such circumstances, is it not the duty of all the constituencies of Ireland, and especially of the electors of Dublin, whose example must ha'e great influence in every part of the country, to return representatives to Parliament prepared to assist our Liberal friends in England in bringing to a favourable issue the great question of the disendowment and disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland —a question intimately connected with the peace and happiness and the most vital interests of this country. Other matters of great importance must also soon occupy the attention of the House of Commons, and it is most desi rable that men should be sent to Parliament determined to discuss them and to legislate on them in a way con formable to the wishes of the great mass of the electors of Ireland. Public instruction, for example, is in an unsatisfactory state, and parents are oftentimes prevented from educating their children according to their own wishes and in conformity with the teaching of the religion which they profess. The relations also between landlord and tenant are far from being what the country has a right to require that they should be. However, these and other matters, though of the greatest moment to the welfare of the country, cannot be settled all at once. They must give precedence to the all-absorbing question of the Protestant Establishment. As soon as that shall have been finally settled, and the principal cause of dissension removed, we may expect the land and education questions will be discussed with a proper regard to the material and religious interests of the country, and that measures will be adopted with reference to them calculated to merit the al probation of all classes. EARTHQUAKES IN ENGLAND. In Zadkiel's Almanac': for the present year 1868 —published, of course, towards the close of 1867 —on the page (19) for August, under " Voice of the Stars," we read—" The singu lar event occurs on the 3d that Saturn and Jupiter are both stationary." And, irnme mediately afterwards, we find added—" This will doubtless produce earthquakes, which may be looked for in all parts ruled by Aries and Sagittarius. These are chiefly"—says Zadkiel (and observe what is the very first name on the list !)—" England, Naples, Syria, Spain, Hungary, and Arabia." Further down that same page in the Almanac': for 1868, published in 1867, Zadkiel goes on to sap—" when the Sun forms a trine with Jupiter, shocks may be looked for. If they take place in England they will fall out chiefly in London"—(they were felt, by the way, as near to London as Blackheath and Weybridge Common !)—and in the west and south-west parts of the country." A couple of months after date, no doubt—but, for all that, surely, rather a good hit, everything considered ! CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wednes day, Nov. 4.—Admissions by season tickets, 1,007; ditto on payment, 539; total visitors, 1,566 THE VicToßrA Cnoss.—lu the Governor's Green, at Portsmouth, yesterday morning, in the presence of nearly all the troops in the garrison, Lieutenant-General Sir George Buller, Commander-in-Chief of the South- Western District, presented the Victoria Cross to the two men of the 33d Regiment who were accredited as being the first in the city of Magdala. The proceedings were of a purely formal character, and did not occupy a quarter of an hour. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, TOTUPOLI2OIIt.] Booxfort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY.-Dr. Prosser James, rather than divide the Liberal party, has retired in favour of Professor Playfair. KIDDERMINSTER.-Mr. Lea and Mr. Bristowe having submitted their respective claims to Mr. Glyn, the Liberal " whip," that gentleman recommended Mr. Bristowe to retire. He at once withdrew from his candidature, thereby leaving a united Liberal party to do battle with the Con servative candidate. NOTTINGHAM.—The great aggregate Liberal meeting was held on Tuesday night in the Exhibition building. Eight thousand electors were present. The numbers were so evenly balanced that the chairman twice appealed to the meeting, and declared Messrs. Clayden and Seely to have the majority. Upon the decision of the chairman ' , eing heard, there were loud cries of " Osborne !" ROCHDALE.—Mr. Schofield, the Conservative candidate, has come forward on the basis of a requisition signed by about one-third of the electors. Mr. T. B. Potter, the sitting member, addressed the electors on Monday night, and was enthusiast'cally received. STOKE-ON-TRENT.—Six thousand working men wsemmea at the Longton covered market on Tuesday night. Colonel Roden replied to the allegations of Mr. Hartwell, and a resolution was carried that Colonel Roden's answer was satisfactory, and that he should have the support of the Liberal party. The greatest enthusiasm exists in favour - 4 Mr. Melly and Colonel Roden. SALISBURY.-Mr. M. H. Marsh, one of the Liberal members for this city, has retired, leaving the field to Mr. Hamilton and Dr. Lush. Mr. Chapman, Conserva tive, to whom a requisition has been presented, signed by nearly one-third of the electors, has declined to stand, on account of his age. SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—Sir Dainald Knightley (C.) and Lord Frederick Fitzroy (L.) are not to he per mitted to walk over the course in South Northampton shire. Major Fairfax William Cartwright, a relative of Colonel Cartwright, and a Conservative, has issued an address. WORCESTER. — The Hon. E. C. Leigh, the arbitrator who was selected to decide between the claims of the rival Liberal candidates, attended at the Guildhall, Wor cester, on Tuesday, and decided in favour of Air. Sherriff nd Mr. Hill. BRIGIITON.—Two resident Conservative candidates have issued their addresses to the electors—namely, Mr. James Ashbury and Mr. W. C. L. Bashford. Both protest strongly against the disestablishment of the Irish Chinch, a nd profess to be supporters generally of the present Government. WARWICK.-111r. W. R. Cremer, of London, the working man's candidate, has published an address to the electors, asking them to support him against the Tory candidate. Mr. R. Crawford, who a few days ago also issued an address to the electors, has returned to Warwick with the *ntention of contesting one of the seats. BARNSTAPLE. — The differences existing between tne .uiberal party here have 'been referred to arbitration— certain gentlemen having been selected to represent Mr. Evans, and others Mr. Thomas. Mr. Beales has been nominated the chairman. The electors are to be invited to make their choice of the two candiQlates by voting for ,e object of their choice. Claret of the celebrated vintage of 1811 was sold last week at Chateau Lafitte at the enormous price of £5 a bottle. Mr. Machonochie, in a letter to the Church Reciew, says it is a mockery to say to any saint " Ora pro nobis." If the "Hail, Mary," in its ancient English form implied the same idea as " Ora pro nobis," he should forbid its use. THE BLACKBURN RIOTS.—DEATH OF ONE OF 711 E RIOTERS.—One of the men engaged in the rioting at the Blackburn municipal elections is dead, and the death of another is hourly expected. The name of the deceased is Patrick Gallagher, a bricklayer's labourer, living in M 11,1sley-street, Audley. He was engaged on Monday after noon amongst the rioters in the locality of the Darwen street polling-booths. After the military had left this part of the town to quell a disturbance in another portion of it, stone-throwing was resorted to, and a general riot ensued. The deceased was seen to throw a stone, which struck Police-constable Critchley on the head, and felled him to the ground. Police-constable Ramsbottom, seeing this, jumped over the barriers of the polling-booth, and struck the deceased a blow on the head with a trun• cheon, and felled him to the ground. Ramsbottom was himself then knocked down, and was taken to the police station in a weak condition. What became of G allaghet is not known, but at eight o'clock on Tuesday night he was so ill that a surgeon was sent for, and at one o'clock he died of the injuries sustained on Monday. An inquest on the body will be held. The name of the other man who is dangerously injured is Patrick Lavelle, and he lies at the infirmary in a critical condition. THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS AT TORQUAY. —Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands continues her residence at Nuellen's Royal Hotel, and has at different times expressed her greatest satisfaction With the beauty of Torquay, and the quietness, comfort, and excellence of the hotel honoured by the sojourn of royalty. On Friday evening Prince Napoleon and suite arrived from London on a visit to the Queen, and also took up his residence at the Royal Hotel, where his apartments had been retained. His Imperial Highness and suite left on Wednesday for London. During his staythe Prince and his suite dined twice with her Majesty and hersuite. The dinners, served in the fine great saloon of the hotel, were everything that good taste and a first-rate cuisine could procure. On Wednesday her Majesty drove to Berry Head, returning to her hotel for dinner at half-past five o'clock. The Queen will visit the Earl of Devon, at Powderham Castle, and in the course of this week her Majestyintends to honour Lord Churston with a visit. Her Majesty, with several members of her mitt, visited Exeter on Thursday afternoon last, first visiting on their way Sir Lawrence Palk, at Haldon, where the party partook of luncheon. Sir L. Palk accompanied the distinguif4hed party to Exeter. And acted as cicovne. _.~ - *1 € eontt OM DikAercitat 041 HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Nov. 3. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince and Princess Christian, and Prince LeopolJ, drove to the Shiel of the Glassalt yesterday, at tended by the Marchioness of Ely. Sir Stafford Northcote and the Rev. M. TitY l6 left the Castle. THE PRUSSIAN DIET. BERLIN, Nov. 4. The Prussian Diet was opened to-day by th l3 King in person, who delivered the following speech from the throne : " Illu , trious, Noble, and Honourable Gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet,—The session whic h begins to-day opens for you a new field of impor tant legislative labour. I trust that the same spirit of ready co-operation with my Government, to which the favourable results of the last sessions were .duc, will rule over your deliberations on this occasion. The budget for the next year will be laid before you without delay. In consequence of the concur rence of several unfavourable circumstances, it has been necessary to draw upon the extraordinary re venue in order to completely cover the expenditure , although the l a tt er h as b een curta i led as muc h a s possible. The conti n u e d b a d ness o f tra d e, an d the consequences of the un f avoura bl e h arves t of the previous year, h ave prevente d the otherwise naturally increasing revenue from keeping peace with the unavoidable increase of the requirements of the State. The reductions of the Customs duties and other sources of revenue which were resolved upon in the general politico-econo mical interest of the country, have occasioned 3 falling off of the receipts to a considerable extent. In the expectation of this, bills were at the be ginning of the year brought before the Customs Parliament, which did not, however, give them its approval. " I confidently hope that the necessity of an ad dition to the special revenue of the Confederation will be acknowledged, and that this addition will ne longer be refused. Inasmuch as, according to the present state of things, a revival of trade and its favourable influence in increasing the State revenue may be expected, we may deduce there from the hope that means will shortly be available for restoring the equilibrium between the ordinal revenue and ordinary expenditure, and that we shall be able to provide more liberally for the 0 - penses of the State than is at present possible. i° considering these circumstances, you will not hesi tate to give your sanction to the proposals of mi t Government for meeting the required expenditur e for next year. "The improvement of our administrative inst i " tutions has been the subject of searching examina tion. It cannot be intended to shake or abolish those hitherto existing institutions to which Prussia owes her prosperity, before other institution s which promise to endure and be fruitful of re sults shall have been created. But, looking a t the increased extent of the monarchy, and bay ing regard to a desire which has in many NOV been manifested, my Government recognises as its duty gradually to hand over to the respec" tive provincial and communal corporations , for independent consideration, those branches of public business which do not on ac count of any direct interest of the State, necessarily require to be retained under the direction and care of the State authorities. So soon as those corpora tions are provided with proper administrative orgs nisatious, legislation will be directed towards ex- tending their field of operation in the separate branches of public affairs, according as the experi ments made shall show such extension to be ad visable. In several of the new provinces the wag is already paved for establishing these administra tive organisations. To prepare the ground in the old provinces the completion of the system of di viding the country into districts is above all requi site. My Government will lay before you a bil l aiming at that object. " It is intended to effect a number of other ill' portant amendments to the laws through your co operation. The regulations respecting the acquisi tion or loss of the character of Prussian subject require modification as affected by the establish' ment of the North German Confederation. Wi ts reference to the settlement of the communal rela tions in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, bills will come before you treating of the constitutio n and administration of the towns and district cons' munes. " My Government devotes unceasing care to the development of the popular schools, and confi dently expects your approval of the bills which re late to the position of those schools and thei r teachers. " Your attention will be claimed in a specia l ; degree to th e i mprovement o f t h e adm i n i strat i on °` justice, and to a project for a complete identical code for the whole monarchy. " Bills will also be presented to you relative to superior law appointments and law examinations , relative to expropriation, and also a bill for intro ducing modifications urgently desired by the corn' mercial world in the bankruptcy laws. " Moreover, proposals will come before you fo r reforming the mortage laws, and a general gam ° law to obtain throughout the whole monarchy Os been drawn up. "By the conclusion of a revised Rhine Naviga" tion Act, a new international agreement has been obtained for the traffic upon one of the most impor' tant of rivers. My Government will lay this C 0 0" vention before you for approval, in accordance with the Constitution. " It affords me satisfaction that a return of the distress which afflicted a portion of the provinc e of Prussia last year need not be apprehended this winter—a result due to the measures which wer e taken with your approval, to the devoted activity of the authorities and corporations, and to this year's favourable harvest in every province of th e monarchy. " The relations of my Government with foreign Powers in every direction are satisfactory an d , friendly. The events in the Western Peninsula 01 - Europe can give rise to no other feeling within 0 than the wish and confidence that the Spanish na tion will succeed in finding in the independen t formation of her national p os iti on a guaran tee her future prosperity and power. A proof of united progress in civilisation and humanity has been a ff or d e d b y t h e i nterna tionn l, congress which has just accomplished at Gene va the task of completing and extending to the nay° the principles already settled previously for treat ing and caring for the wounded in war. We innY ti hope that the momen t i s f ar di stant w hich will call for the application of those principles' The sentiments of the Sovereigns of EarO a ci and the nations' d es i re f or peace g i ve g rown for trusting that the advancing develop ment of the ge nera l we lf are w ill no t only su er material distu r b ance , b u t w ill a l so b e f re ed from those obstructing and pa r alysi ng e ff ec t s which ha ve 0 only too often been c r eated by grou ndless fear; taken advantage of by the enemies of peace s l3u. public order. Let the Diet proceed to its work of peace, pene trated with this confidence. ACCIDENT TO AN ACTRESS.—An accident of 5 serious character occurred at the Exeter Theatre ou 6 : 1 ; turday night. Whilst the pieco of "Stolen" was 19 01°° played Miss Reignolds, in walking across a bridge, precipitated to the ground in consequence of the plans having broken. One of her ribs was broken, and she wv. much bruited. TIIE SOUTHPORT EMBEZZLEMENTS.—Yester da, y , the Kirkdalo Quarter Sessions of the Peace, the grand PI found a true bill against Hodgkinson, the late ch ief clo n e to the corporation of Southport, on six counts of the .r dictmeut for embezzlement. Tho total amount of tho G l° falcAticno is XlO,OOO. tic In Sr 65 dit 18 81 Br IV Ea gol Ali dad rec for Loi for PTO still the mei day NCI 103, at rest laae eel's emu , and Luc, der the (Li dat tnit tar( 161 79, tar { be i way Nee NeN, D 1., ...at; • D • D ante Itldi