The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

an= OF UM PUBLIC JOURNALS, The / Arm think:: the decisions already given by the revising barristers as to the right of women to be put on the register may, perhaps, indicate the course which will be followed by the other registration courts. But, what. ever the barristers may decide, the question will be brought in November before the higher courts, and there can be little doubt what the decision of the judges will be. 'Unless plainly compelled by the letter of the law, they would naturally refuse to initiate so total a change in our constitutional practice. The barrister at Manchester forcibly urges that where precedent is so uniform nothing but an express enactment could be held to sanction a change ; and this consideration is likely to carry still more weight with a superior court. The ladies will, therefore, be ultimately struck off the register, even if here and there placed on it by the barristers, and they must content themselves with exercising a purely domestic influence over the constitu tion of the first Reformed Parliament. It is evident, however, that there are those among them, as well as among their advocates, who will return to the oharge ; and the question will be again referred to the decision of Parliament itself. Stranger things, we own, have happened than their gaining the day ; and equally strange things have also happened without producing much effect one way or the other. But whatever effect the change might have, would, we believe, be extremely injurious to the position of women, and would involve no advantage whatever. We recommend one point to their observation at the forthcoming election. They will pro bably have sufficient evidence that an election is somewhat rough work, and whatever claims they have hitherto advanced, none of them, we believe, have as yet pretended to be on a level with men in physical strength. The fact is, that physical strength has a good deal to do with 'politics in innumerable ways, and for that reason alone, women are not capable of holding their own in the rough -contests of the world. We must frankly say that we should regret anything which could tend to distract the interests of women from domestic life ; and' e ,arecoEtvinced that the great majority both of =men and _women are of the same opinion. It is an old and true saying that a hapPy State can only be composed of happy' families, and by bending all their energies to make our families happy, women will exercise a far more powerful-as well as More beneficial in fluence on their country than could be exerted by even universal female suffrage. • The Standard notes . with exceeding satisfaction that the proceedings of the International Working Men's Congress, still sitting at Brussels, have so far been of an eminently `practical and dispassionate character. In so describing them we by no means intend to imply that we necessarily :agree with the views of the several speakers, much less that we literally accept all the formal resolutions at which the Congress has arrived. We refer more to the manner than to the matter of its discussions, though there is much in the matter even with which we heartily coincide. But the tone of the, deliberations of working men has been beyond all praise, and might be advan tageously imitated by many debaters who no doubt con sider themselves in every way their superiors. The .Standard, whilst questioning some of the decisions of the Congress, has no objection whatever to the most important resolution, that in favour of co-operation. The machinery must be in the hands of those that work it. Be it so. We have no earthly objection, if the thing can be done ; and unquestionably it can. But for the doing of it work• ing men must make themselves capitalists ; and in order to make themselves capitalists they must do what everybody - who ever made himself a capitalist by honest means has invariably done. They must abandon habits of self-indulgence. They must become prudent and save. They must practise and inculcate self-denial, and under stand that they have really no enemies but themselves, reckless marriages,passion for amusement, and the public bouse.• Let them cease to insist less upon their rights—an exceedingly vague phrase—and think more of their duties. We do not mean their duties to other people, but their duties to themselves and their own class. It is as idle as it is malignant to attempt to combine against capital and machinery; save by themselves becoming, through in dustry and thrift, the possessors of both. The Daily News believes that the friends of working men will learn with satisfaction that their Congress at Brussels-has declined to assume a, hostile attitude toward the introduction -of machinery into- the various depart ments of labour, but has recommended that working men shall everywhere endeavour to secure fur themselves a fair share of the increased profits arising from the use of such machinery. Experience has shewn that machinery has invariably multiplied employments. How small has been the diminution of those employed in driving coaches, omnibuses, or cabs since the system of railways began in proportion to the tens of thousands to whom that system has given employment! All history shews that money released by invention sows itself anew, and wherever it is I .l anted tends again to procluce machinery, so passing on to new investments, involving a multiplication of means and methods, each of WhiCh becoMes a fresh centre calling about it new labourers. Commenting on the correspondence between the Duke of Marlborough and Mr. Brodriek, the Post says there are influences which are not only allowable, but upon the exercise of which the whole plan and theory of election is supposed to and ought to rest. Nobody, for instance, would 'expressly deny that it is proper for a candidate to make eleetors acquainted With the views he holds upon all questions in which they are interested ; nor would any body pretend that it :is not his business and his duty to advocate those views by giving the best • reasons he can discover in their support. • Again, it must be admitted that his _friends and supporters are also justified in using in his favour the same methods of persuasion ; and the more credit and importance those supporters have in the constituency, the more clearly is it their duty as well as their right to use the methods in. gnestipn. The limits of that use are only to be found where intimidation, express or implied, begins, but short of that it must. be conceded that every influential person in.a,constituency is entitled to use his influence in support of his political opinions. This rule applies to landlords as well as to other people, and it would be absurd to deny to them the proper exercise of a right because they Are in a position to exercise it impro perly if they choose-to do so. Yet this is what a great many candidates appear to be desirous of doing, and it is higinning to be pretty clearly hinted, if not openly avowed, that . in all elections landlords ought to wrap themselves as it were in a sort of political cloud, and to make, until the contest is over, none of the signs of life and re!ason - whieh are permitted so freely to other people at those times. . Tha•Heraid admits that it is easy to find arguments fox such a change as Mr. Shaw Lefevre contemplates, viz., InaZtied.wnmen.the control of. their own property. If the operation of .equity be necessary or beneficial, it would seem By rib - means clear why the law should not stair the-same point; without all the present in genious and complicated machinery which is now neces• nary to qualify tOrmly-established but purely 'arbitrary doctrines. 'The strongest reason against change is to be found in' the fear: that separate interests will involve divided houSeholdil and .statutory s settlements . which will be the fruitful sources of faMily feuds. But the committee de not share theCielpprehensioris: In the first plade they say that no such- evil- consequences - -have been found to result from such sources -among . those classes with whom settlements are common things. In the next, they lay great stress upon the evidence of witnesses from Canada and the United States, 4he're laws, originally identical with our own, have been mollified in the way which we are advised to hnitate. , The extent df the change has varied iu different States, but the testimony in its favour is pretty nearly uniform. , Whether equally strong testimony is procurable on the other side, and whether what has worked well in America would be equally beneficial here, are points on which there is room for difference of opinion. But_ in the face of the vote of the. House and the recom 'mendation of the committee, it is manifest that the question must be exhaustively discussed • before very long. It is not a party matter, and will probably be treated as an open one by the Ministry; though past experience forbids us to — hope for equal candour from the Oppo• salon, • • • The SOst ; cqrsgratulateS the.revising barrister of West minster and , Lambeth on their repentance. On Monday the revising barrister at Westminster struck the list certain lodgers who paid 4s. Gd. a week as rent. The ground upon which .this was done was that the wordm "clear yearly value" required the reviser to take into account a SUpposed share of the rates paids.n . the whole house before recognising the rent actually paid by the lodges as the measure of the clear annual. valisf“ of his lodging. This consideration was obviously a very subtle 141 e. • Nsr decision on such a point was likely to be satisfactory, especially while the revising barrister adopted so high. a initiirgum as Must have been in his mind when he struck off the '44 people paying 4s. Gd. a week. Jjclore the court reasseurble.d on Tuesday the barrister hal reconsidered the point, and after some dubitation and discusssion with the agents, he arrived at a very sensible ,decision, ;Four shillings a week is £lO Bs. a year, and the extra Bs. is . surely enough to cover any difference *bettveen the apparent and the clear annual value of a lodging. - Upon 'this - -principle the Revis• ing Barrister of Westminster --determined to act, and accordingly persons paying fothillings Os upwards, who had previously been strucic now be r,•stored to the list. In like manner the Latriliah barrister relaxed his demand f or th e d escr ipti on o f th e la n dlord's occupation in the locker's claim. This also will lead- to the restoration of a considerable number of names which on the first day were struck off. So far so good ; but repentance should be carried further. The Lambeth barrister has other occasions to make amends ; and we hope his confession of mistake in this case will be followed by a rectification of the injustice which he did on Monday to some 450 claimants, old compounders, by rejecting then claims upon very insufficient grounds, - - THE BELGEBATZ 110SPITAL FOR CHILDREN. The medfcal treatment of children is of the utmost Sm. portance. Many a human being suffers some deformity, or exhibits thr-et.sh a hAig life same infirmity which is the result of neglect in his infancy. The children of the poor are especially unfortunate in this. To meet in some small way a very great want, there is in Cumberland street, Pimlico, an institution; called the Belgrave Hospital for Children. Lord Grosvenor is the president, and the list of vice-presidents, lady patronesses, and com mittee includes the names of some of the principal members of the aristocracy. There is no special provision made in the general hospitals for the treatment of infants, and the generally 'received opinion is that children can only be properly cared for by nurses with a special education, and in wards appropriated entirely to them. To supply this ..want. the Belgrave Hospital and similar institutions have been started. The names of Drs. Anstie and Gull, of Messrs. Brodhurst and Partridge, appear on the prospectus ; and a medical man acts as resident surgeon to attend in all cases of emergency,' and to perform the ordinary duties of the house-surgeon of a hospital. There are two nurses and two young girls, who are taken into the hospital on pay ment of a small sum for board, for the express pur pose of being trained as probationers in the work of nursing sick children. Provision is made for the treatment of out - patients as well as those in the beds. The establishment of this hospital is interesting to provincials as well as Londoners, for the benefits are not altogether restricted to the metropolis ; patients have been sent from Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Kent, Herefordshire, and Wiltshire, and the committee appeal to both London and the provinces for aid, as in all such cases the means at their disposal are very inade quate to meet the wants of the case. Infant mortality is fearfully increased in consequence of the poverty, bad lodging accommodation, impure air, and insufficient food ; and many who survive infancy carry disease with them to their graves. This hospital was started in March last year. ; twelve beds were fitted up in four light and airy rooms, the proper allow - ance of space being made. The beds have been nearly always full, and it is desirable to take many of the out-patients into the house for treat ment. The readers of " Our Mutual Friend" will remem ber the charming picture of children's hospitals given therein. THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. The Augsburg Gazette of September 13 contains the following extract from a letter written by Dr. Hermann Vogel, who accompanied the North German expedition to Aden as a photographer :—" At four o'clock on the • 18th August we left Aden, where the expedition had established its headquarters. Nine-tenths of the sky was overcast, and we endeavoured to feel as resigned as pos sible to our probable disappointment. Our object was to obtain as many photographs as could be taken of the phenomena during the three minutes they would last, and in order to do this we had practised with our machine, like soldiers with firearms. Dr. Frische was charged with the preparation of the plates, Dr. Zenker with putting the slides into the machine, Dr. Therle with drawing them out When they had been expc sed a sufficient time, while my buSiness was in the tent. With this division of labour we found that it would be possible to obtain six photographs in the three minutes. As the important moment approached, to our delight we saw, through a break in the clouds, the disc of the sun partially covered by the moon. The landscape around us assumed a strange hue, neither sunlight nor moonlight—the chemical colour rays were exceedingly weak. As a test we exposed a plate in the machine for fifteen • seconds, and obtained a good impression of the clouds ; as the di:c of the sun grew smaller, the clouds opened out. The last minute before the total eclipse arrived Dr. Frische arid I ci ept into our tent—cur work began. The first plate was experimentally exposed five and ten seconds, in order to be sure of the right time. Mahommed,. our black servant, brought me tl.e first slide into the tent. I prepared the plate, and anxiously watched to see what would appear. Just then my light went out; I rushed out of the tent with the plate in my hand, and came back with a small oil lamp, which, in case of Iteciant, I had placed on a table outside. Eagerly I gazed on the plate—the dark border of the sun was surrounded on one side by peculiar protuberances, and on the other was a remarkable horn. The phenomena were the same in both pictures. My joy was great, but I had no time to indulge in it. The second plate, and a moment afterwards the third plate, were brought intd the tent. Dr. Zenker shouted to us that the sun was reappearing. The total eclipse was over. The last two plates only shewed slight impressions of pictures, as they had been spoilt by the clouds, which, while they were exposed in the machine, had closed in. The three plates shewed protuberances on the lower border. We washed, fixed, and lackered our plates, arid took several copies of them on glass, which will be sent separately to Europe in order to ensure their safe arrival." LAW AND FOLICE. ABDUCTION.—J. P. Read, 27, described as a clerk, has been ''corrimitted for trial at the Central Criminal Court, for taking a girl under 16 years of age out of the possession, and against the permission and will, of her father and mother.- MANSLAUGHTER BY A POLICEMAN.—A. coroner's jury has returned a verdict of manslaughter against Police constable Kerridge, of the Metropolitan Police, who caused the death of Henry Frogmore, by throwing him on the pavement. The verdict was accompanied with an expres sion of opinion that he was greatly irritated by the language of the deceased. He was committed for trial at the Old Bailey.' TIIE DUDLEY FORGERY.—The charges against the prisoners Farrar and Hullett for forging the acceptance of Lbrd --Dudley to a bill of exchange for £3OO have been•• again. heard at great length before the Lord Mayor. It will be remembered that the bill was alleged to have been given to Hullett for composing the music to a 'new opera. The bill was discounted by Dublin bankers, who had taken the precautidn to write to Lord Dudley, and having no reply thought the transaction genuine. Mr. Leivis, the solicitor for the prosecution, said he had two other charges of forgery to prefer against the prisoneri; but, owing to . the gentleman whose name had been forged being abroad, he must ask for a remand. After further .evidence on the original charge this was done, and bail refused._ . FORGING AT GRIMSBY.—A case of wholesale forgery has occurred at Grimsby. Mr. Waterland, an accountant, moving in respectable society, is the accused, and it is alleged that he has forged a composition deed, and the names of nearly all the signatures, two or three only out of thirty being genuine. He was taken before the magis trates on Monday and committed for trial. The bench declined to admit the prisoner to bail. THE BISHOP OP CAPETOWN.—The departure of Bishop Gray with the Rev. W. K. Macrorie, the proposed new bishop for Natal, is' again postponed, and the farewell service at St. Lawrence Jewry will not take place before the 7th or Bth of October. It is not said whetherarrangc ments babe been made for the consccrationof Dr. Macrorie in,England. Tss Inisu OYSTER CULTURE.—IIer Majcisty's .Goverpment, on the representation and urgent request of intend issuing an unpaid royal commission, with a view to the encouraging•and promoting of the Irish oystei interest s and of extending their growth and improv ingtheir culture. Evidence 3 ,1 , 11 be taken in various plaCes in Ireland,. England, and France by the commis sioners. Mr. Blake - will 'be the chairman, and amongst the other commissioners Will be Mr. Francis Francis, and Mr. Hart, manager of the Hayling Island" Oyster Fishery.—lrish Time& SINGULAR DEATH OF A TRADESMAN.--On Monday an inquest was held at Greenwich, respecting the death of Mr. Kreekeler, a saddler and harness -maker in that town, who was found dead under the following cir cumstances. The deceased, who was 53 years of age, was a remarkably tall man. It was his custom of an afternoOn to lie down, in his bedroom, in which is a, tent bedstead, the posts of which at the foot were only Aft. I.oin. high. It was shOWn that tho deceased was accustomed to wear a neckerchief - particularly loose, and the suppOsition put forth by the friends of the deceased was; that in leaning against this- post -to• divest himself of his clothing, the deceased, who - was known to be affected in his head, had slipped, and the neekeiebief catching a . picce of iron of the bedstea,d; )10:lad : thus become strangled. The jury return( d a verdict of death frotn strangulation. A . CHILD . KILLED. BY AN EAGrAE.—A Tippah County. (Niss.) school; teacher writes • to the. Winoan Democrat :—‘ 7 A sad.-casualty occurred at my school a few days ego. The eagles have been, very toublesome in the neighbourhood for some time . past, carrying oft pigs, lambs, &c. No one thought:that they would attempt to prey upon children ; but on - Thursday, at recess, the little boys were out some distance from the house playing marbles, when their sport was disturbed by a large eagle swooping down and picking up little Jemmie Kenny, a boy of 8 years, and flying away with nn. The children cried out, and when I got out of the house the eag'e was E 0 high that I could just hear the chihi creaming. The alarm was given, and from screaming atu shoutrg ia_the air, &c., the eagle was induced to drop his vic':im ; but his talons had been buried in him so deeply, and the fall was 'EC) great, that he- was killed i or eltb 3 Wal 1 have been fatal.l!-- THE SUN, _LONDON, EDN ESDAY.EVENING_ _SEPTEMBER, 16, 1868. irrr LAW OF MAIT,TIAGE. In 1865 a royal commission was nominated to inquire into and report upon the state and opera tion of the various marriage laws now in force in the United Kingdom, in India and the colonies, and as touching British subjeCts in foreign countries. The commissioners were Lord Chelmsford, Lord Naas, Lord Lyveden, Mr. Spencer Walpole, Mr. W. Monsell, Lord Justice Clerk Inglis, Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Sir J. P; Wilde (Probate Court), Vice- Chancellor. Page Wood, Sir R. Palmer, Sir 11. Cairns, Mr. G. Young, Solicitor-General for Scot land, Dr. Travers Twiss, and Mr. A. M. Dunlop. After due inquiry and examination of witnesses the commissioners have made their report, which has been recently printed in a bluebook of 250 pages, with the evidence. Having laid down what they gather to be the present state of the Marriage Law, the commissioners proceed to make the following recommendations :- 1. TIIE CAPACITY OF PERSONS. After a long examination of the present state of the Scotch law, the report proceeds : Upon the whole, both the theoretical and the practical arguments have failed to shake our con clusion that the law of secret consensual marriage by promise subsequente copula, as it now exists in Scotland, ought not to continue. As to solemnisation of marriage the commis sioners recommend : THE CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE SHOULD BE PASSED BEFORE AN AUTHORISED MINISTER OF RELIGION OR CIVIL OFFICER. We recommend that the interchange or declara tion of matrimonial consent necessary. to constitute a legal marriage should for the future take place, in all parts of the United Kingdom, in the presence of a duly authorised official celebrant or witness ; and that no other mode of constituting marriage should be recognised by law. On the continent of Europe, wherever the Code Civil is in force, a complete separation is made, in marriage, between the civil contract and the reli gious ceremony, and a contract passed before a purely civil officer in all cases required. We do not recommend the introduction of this system into the United Kingdom. That it might in some respects have advantages we do not deny, but it would be opposed to the habits and feelings of the great ma jority of the people of Great Britain and Ireland, of all religious persuasions, and it would be incon sistent with the principle (to which we attach great value) of strengthening and consecrating the civil tie, as far as possible, by the sanctions of religion. The objects for which civil legislation ought to provide may be equally well attained when the con tract is entered into with the forms of religious solemnisation, as when these forms are absent, pro vided the contract itself is in both cases properly guarded and authenticated. Nor is there, in the abstract, any reason why a purely civil officer should be a more trustworthy celebrant or witness of mar riage for civil purposes than a minister of religion, authorised for that purpose by law. Without impos ing upon the clergy of any denomination either the name or the character of State functionaries, the State may obtain from them the same substantial gua rantees as if they were its own functionaries, by con ceding to them the privilege (which for the best reasons they must always desire) of solemnising marriages entitled to legal recognition, upon such conditions as for the general welfare it may be deemed necessary to impose. Such a system will have the manifest advantage of building throughout upon the foundations of the existing law, which in every part of the United Kingdom recognises as valid the celebration of marriage by dub authorised ministers of religion, without making that mode of celebration anywhere indispensable. We therefore recommend that the official cele brant or witness of marriage should henceforth in all parts of . the United Kingdom be either an autho rised minister of religion, or an authorised civil officer. WIIAT MINISTERS OF RELIGION SHOULD BE AtTIIORISED TO SOLEMNISE MARRIAGE. • To permit all ministers of religion to solemnise marriage would be to abandon all security for its due authentication ; and for the observance of any safeguards against sudden, clandestine, or unlawful marriages. This (as to Episcopally ordained ministers) was the actual state of the law in Eng land before the passing of Lord II trdw•icke's Act, when a regular trade in clandestine marriages was carried on by degraded clergymen, generally men of infamous character, the inmates of prisons, and indifferent to all social and ecclesiastical restraints. In Ireland, at a still later period, it was thought necessary to restrain similar practices by sanguinary penal enactments. We consider it, therefore, requisite that the authority to celebrate marriages should ba limited to such ministers of religion as are in the active exercise of official duties iu their several Churches• or denominations, and occupy positions which make them amenable to public responsibility, and to the censure and discipline of their own religious com munities. But, - within these limits, we think the power ought to be as general as possible. The posi tions occupied by the diocesan Bishops and paro chial and district clergy of the several Episcopal Churches (Protestant and Roman Catholic, Esta blished and unestablished), by the parochial clergy of the Established Church of Scotland, and by the officiating ministers of all the different bodies and congregations of Nonconformists, are, upon the whole, adequate guarantees for the general observ ance of those precautions and the discharge of those duties upon which the State, in the matter of mar riage, is entitled to insist. Such ministers, there fore; when duly certified and registered (or other ministers specially deputed by them, or officiating with their consent), may safely be entrusted with the solemnisation of marriage. We need hardly add that the contract, if entered into by the par ties, acting in good faith, in the presence of any person officiating de facto as a minister of the authorised class, ought to be held valid and bind ing in law, notwithstanding any defect in the orders, title, or authority of the person so officiating. All churches and chapels (other than parish churches) of the United Church of England and Ireland, and of the Established Church of Scot land, and all churches, chapels, and meeting houses of the Roman Catholic Church, and of all Protestant denominations, for the ministers of which it may be desired toobtain power to solemnise marriages, ought., in our opinion, to be certified by proper authority to the Registrar-General, and to be registered by him, in accordance (substantially) with - the provisions, on that subject, of the present laws of England and Ireland. The rules as to cer tifying for this purpose churches and places of worship ought everywhere to be the same, and they should, we think, be the following :—Epis copal churches and chapels of congregations (whe ther of the United Church of England and Ireland or not), organised under Bishops, should be regis tered upon the certificates of their respective Bishops. Presbyterian churches or chapels of con gregations (whether of the Established Church of Scotland or not), organised under Presbyteries, should be registered upon the certificates of their respective Presbyteries ; and all other. Non conformist places of worship (including those of Episcopalian congregations not under Bishops, and of Presbyterian congregations not under Presbyteries), should be registered upon the certificate (in each case) of the officiating ruiniiter for•the time being; and not less than ten householders, members of the congregation who have frequentedthe place its question, as their or dinary place of worship, for the period of one year next before- the -late• of the certificate. pre sent provisigns of the laws of England and Ire land, as to a change of the place of worship of the same congregation, after registration, should also be retained and made general. These rules, so far as they might vary from the existing laws of England and Ireland on the same subject, would have the effect of obviating certain minor inconveniences, which have been pointed out to us by'the English Roman Catholic Bishops and by some: Presbyterian witnesses from: Ireland, as arising in their respective churches under particular local circumstances. The minimum number of cer tifying householders, in ca.ies where the certificate of householders would still be necessary, is proposed to be taken from the Irish rather than the English law, upon the principle of giving the greatest degree of facility consistent with safety. TIMES AND PLACES OF SOLEMNISATION. We do not think it expedient to continue the re quirement of solemnisation within any certain hours, or any particular church or other place, as in any case indispensable for the legal constitution of marriage. To do so would make it necessary either to establish different rules for different parts of the United Kingdom, or to do violence to the habits and customs of many of your Majesty's sub jects, in Scotland and Ireland, on a point as to which no mischief has been found to result from those habits and customs. In England the legal hours are uniformly fro,n 8 to 12 a.m. ; in the Esta blished Church of Ireland they are the same ; but any other Protestant marriages in Ireland take place between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Roman Catholic marriages are subject to no restriction of either place or time. Some instances have been brought under our notice of inconveniences which are said occasionally to arise from these requirements ; and there appears to be no ground for believing that mischief of any kind has resulted from their absence in Scottish regular marriages, Roman Catholic mar riages in Ireland, marriages of Quakers and Jews throughout the United Kingdom, or marriages by special licence in England and Ireland. We do not suggest that any clergyman of the Established or any other Church, solemnising marriage, should be relieved by law from such obligations as may be imposed upon him, with respect either to place or time, by the law and discipline of his own Church ; but only that these points should, for the future, be remitted to that law and discipline, and should be left open and free, so far as State legislation is con cerned. In every case, if our recommendations should be adopted, the celebrant must be either the ordinary or officiating minister of some paro chial or other registered church, chapel, or place of worship (or a minister specially deputed by him, or officiating with his consent); and we think the State may well accept the official presence of such a mini ster as sufficient to authenticate the contract of marriage, although it may not be entered into dur ing canonical hours, or in the church or place of worship in which such minister usually officiates. PRESENCE OF WITNESSES. We think that it will be expedient to retain and make universal the rule now generally prevailing in England and Ireland, that the solemnisation of mar riage shall take place in the presence of, and be at tested by, two witnesses. FORMS OF SOLEMNISATION. Whatever may be the ceremonies or usages of any Church or sect, or of Quakers or Jews, appropriate to the due solemnisation of marriage, we are of opinion that the State ought not in any case to take notice of or enforce compliance with such ceremo nies or usages, as necessary to the validity of any marriage, in other respects duly solemnised. Mar riage ought, in all such cases, to be held well con stituted by words of mutual consent to be husband and wife (or of mutual declaration that they are husband and wife) solemnly interchanged between the parties, in the presence of any authorised cele brant or ofrigial witness. On the other hand, we do not propose that any deviation should be required by law from the internal regulations, usages, or discipline of any Church or religious body, with respect to the solemnisation of marriage, or with respect to the obligation of ministers to solemnise marriage on compliance with the legal requisites. MARRIAGE BEFORE CIVIL REGISTRARS. The presence of a civil registrar is, in England, now required, on pain of nullity, at all mar riages except those of the Established Church, and of Quakers and Jews; but it is not re quired either at regular marriages in Scotland, or at any marriages whatever (except those solemnised in the registrars' offices) in Ireland. When the duty of registrars quoad hoc is performed by the officiating ministers or other official witnesses of any religious denomination (as is the case in all marriages by the United Church of England and Ireland, and by Jews and Qaakers, and in all mar riages by Presbyterian and other Protestant Non conformist ministers in Ireland), the further security of the attendance of the civil registrar does not seem to be important, still less to be a condition upon which it can be necessary to make the validity of a marriage depend. We are confirmed in this view by considering how very insignificant a proportion the number of marriages to which this requirement is now applicable bears to the whole number cele brated every year in the United Kingdom ; and by the fact that the Legislature, after some years' ex perience of a law requiring the presence of a civil registrar at all marriages by non-Presbyterian Pro testant Nonconformists in Ireland, deliberately re pealed it, and that no evil is shown to have resulted from that change. The English Roman Catholic Bishops, after describing the incidence upon their own communion of certain difficulties, considered by them to arise out of this state of the English marriage law, have recommended by anticipation the course which we are prepared to advise ; stating their opinion, that the most effectual remedy for most of these difficulties would be "to constitute Catholic clergy the legal witnesses of the marriages celebrated by them, as is the case with the clergy of the Established Church, with the secretaries of the Jewish synagogues, and with the clergy of the They add, that the form " erepeated before the Cathoolf words icChu egrerhinuirlerdelatno t Ireland." registrar, when he attends at their marriages, is essentially the same as that which has already been uttered in the religious rite ; and that " this repeti tion to the registrar of what has been already de clared to the clergyman is apt to have a ludicrous effect, without any comprehensible reason for it." We shall propose, in a later part of this report, that similar duties with respect to registration to those now performed by the clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, the officiating ministers at Presbyterian and other Protestant Nonconformist marriages in Ireland, and the official witnesses of the marriages of Quakers and Jews, should in all cases, and iu all parts of the United Kingdom, be performed by the officiating minister or official witness of marriage, whoever he may be ; and if this recommendation should be adopted, we think that the law should no longer insist upon the presence of a civil registrar at any marriage solem nised elsewhere than in his own office. We are also of opinion that the option of con tracting a valid marriage without any religious cn.emony should continue to be offered, in all parts of the United Kingdom, to all those who may de sire to avail themselves of it ; and that, for this purpose, a law corresponding (in substance) with the present laws of England and Ireland on that subject, and enabling a formal and regular mar riage to be contracted by the solemn interchange or declaration of matrimonial consent between or by the parties, in the office and in the presence of a superintendent or district registrar, should be in corporated into and form part of the future mar riage law of the United •Xingdom. We use the expression " declaration," as well as " interchange," of matrimonial consent, because we think it is ex dient to enable all persons in Scotland who may hereafter enter into mutual engagements of that kind which, under the preient Scotch law, might constitute irregular marriage, to ac quire' the complete' status " of , • legal mar riage, not, any retrospective effect (except that` hich the law of Scotland ascribes to all marriages in favoui of Children previously born), but by such a form of words as to avoid giving occasion for unnecessary scruples ; and also, because it is desirable that persons whom the law of Scotland might n ow hold to be actually, though irregularly,. married, 'by reason of secret engage:- ments entered into before the proposed change in the law, should have the 'means of placing their marriage beyond the reach of controversy, without using any form of words which might imply that it was previously invalid, MIXED 3IIRRIAGES. ought to the .W c r e e l e a h r r e a t o i o f n o i p s in i i n on ot t h h e a r t r n es o p m ec a ts rri v a a g l e i , d, of which be annulled or declared void on any ground con nected with the religious profession, persuasion, or belief of both or either of the parties t'nereb at or before the time of , the marriage. We therefore re., commend that the Irish Statutes, forbidding thq celebration of marriages by Roman Catholic priests when either party is a Protestant, or has professed Protestantism within twelve months previously, should be repealed. We have. anxiously considered the question, whether it is desirable, without nullifying a mar riage when actually . celebrated, to make its celebra tion in all or any cases unlawful and penal, when solemnised by a clergyman of a religious persuasion to which both parties or one of them do or does not belong. There are, it seems to us, objection.; of the greatest weight to any legislation of this kind, in a code professing to be grounded on the principle of equality and impartiality, as between the members of different religious persuasions. The present marriage laws of England and Ireland wholly disregard that principle; which, on the other hand (except in re spect of the monopoly of the publication of banns, still secured by law to the Established Church), is consistently maintained by the present marriage law of Scotland. The clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland may, in both those coun tries, lawfully marry any two persons of any reli gious persuasion whatever. A Roman Catholic clergyman may lawfully marry a Roman Catholic to a Protestant, or one Protestant to another, in Englind, but be cannot du so in Ireland ; and in Ireland a Protestant Nonconformist minister may lawfully do what is prohibited to a Roman Catho lic clergyman—viz., marry a Protestant to a Ro man Catholic. In England persons of any religion whatever may lawfully be married by any Noncon formist minister in au3 registered buil ling, at their own option, without any inquiry whether either of them is, or is not, a member of the denomination to which the officiating minister belongs. Such a marriage would be in every sense lawful, though both parties were avowedly Raman Catholics, or members of the Established Church, or even Jews ; but marriages canuotlawfully be contracted in Eng land or Ireland according to the usages of Jews, unless both parties are Jews ; nor of Quakers, un less both parties are members of, or "profess with," the Society of Friends. And, in Ireland, Presby terian ministers cannot lawfully solemnise mar riage except between parties one of whom is a Presbyterian (though this fact cannot be inquired into afterwans for the purpose of vitiating any marriage actually celebrated) ; and other Noncon formist ministers are forbidden to celebrate mar riage, except between parties of whom one at least belongs to the particular denomination of the cele brant. As to requirements preliminary to marriage the Commissioners say— We now come to the important and difficult sub ject of the preliminary requirements which the State should exact as securities against improvident, clar.destine, and unlawful marriages. Whatever these requirements ought to be, we think that no marriage, otherwise lawful, which has beea actually solemnised in the presence of an authorised minister of religion or civil officer, should be annulled or declared void on the ground that any of such requirements have not been duly ob served. Of all the conditions of lawful solemnisa tion now prescribed by law none are more likely to be of practical value for the prevention of clan destinity than those which relate to residence, to the consent of the parents or guirdians of minors, and to the declarations required from parties about to be married. Yet, if a minor is married in a parish or district where neither party has ever re sided, without the necessary consent of parents or guardians, and upon a licence obtained by means of an affidavit in all respects false, the marriage is good, though the parties are liable to punishment. Assuming this to be sound legislation, it can hardly be right to annul a marriage actually solemnised by an authorised celebrant for any want of due publi cation of banns or licence; inasmuch as these re quisites, so treated as indispensable, derive almost all the value which they possess from those which are treated as not indispensable. Upon the ba lance of Conflicting considerations, we think it is better to regard all these preliminaries as directory, and none of them as essential to the vali dity of marriage ; relying mainly upon the sense of duty and responsibility of the authorised ministers of religion and civil officers, who are charged with the obligation of seeing that these preliminary re quirements are fulfilled ; and, in a secondary de gree, upon the penalties to which those ministers of religion and public officers, and the parties them selves, may justly be expoed for any wilful breach or neglect of such requirements. In corroboration of these views we may refer to the experience of regular marriages in Scotland, and of Roman Catho!ic marriages in Ireland, neither of which can be invalidated ou any grounds of this nature.; yet neither system is found to operate., in this respect, prejudicially to the interests of society. By adhering to this principle the security of these two modes of marriage will remain unimpaired, and the like security will be extended to all other mar riages which may be celebrated before authorised ministers of religion or civil officers throughout the United Kingdom. Considered, therefore, as directory only, the ques tion arises, what the preliminary requirements of a general marriage law for the United Kingdom ought to be. We propose, first, to examine this question with respect to the substance of the requirements themselves ; and, secondly, with respect to the per sons who ought to be intrusted with the powers and duties necessary to secure their fulfilment. 11114, SOUTHERN Si A 7 ES. A negro Convention, assuming to represent Mis souri, was lately held at St. Louis, and adopted re solutions demanding the erasure of the word 44 white" from the Constitution of the State —re commending the formation of Negro Suffrage Clubs, and setting ap trt the 29th October for fasting and prayer by the coloured popul ►tiou. From Charles ton a petition of the people of South Carolina has been forwarded to the President asking protection against the negroes and their white leaders, alleging the insecurity of life and property prevailing, and asserting that anarchy exists in place of civil go vernment. In Georgia a demand has been made on the Governor for a proclamation requiring the disbandment of illegal political societies, which are said to exist in every state of the South, composed both of Democrats and of Repub licans. In Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana, the Legislatures remain in session. In Tennessee a bill has been reported; creating a board of finance, with full power to pay the princi pal and interest on the public debt now due and hereafter to mature, by negotiating loans on the funding debt falling due in 1861; and the commit tee on military affairs has reported a bill and re commended its passage, which authorizes the Go vernor to organize hnd equip a volunteer force of one or more regiments from each congressional dis trict, to be composed of loyal men. In Georgia, Mr. Lester, Democrat, has been admitted to a seat in the Senate in place of the negro, Bradley, turned out. A bill has been reported establishing a State police force, and a minority of the House Committee on elections has made a report that members hold ing seats who are dot 'residents of the counties they represent and also free persons of colour are, under the State Constitution, ineligible. The South Carolina Legislature elected eight circuit judges on Monday, August 24, 'ex-Governor Orr being one. In the Louisiana Legislature on Tuesday, August 25, resolui ions were 'offered impeaching Governor Warmouth, charging him with having received com pensation for signing certain bills, also with having taken pay for making official appointments ; but the resolutions were tabled by a vote of two to one. Nothing further has been heard of the bill placing the electoral elections in the hands of the Legisla ture, notice of which was given sonic time ago in the House. The Inlelligencer has an editorial upon the alleged discovery of armed secret Democratic organizations in Missouri, and so far from condemning them, says that if Democracy does not everywhere meet armed organizations ofloyal leaguers, it will every where be trampled into the dust, and that if all that is said of this secret society be true, there is nothing to fear from it, but everything to hope in respect of keeping the peace. Cardinal Bonaparte is said by the Corriere hali alio to think of leaving Rome, the climate not be ing favourable to his health. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. The necessity of scientific instruction in agricul ture and mechanics is becoming recognized by the people of America, and efforts Are making to extend the benefits of such instruction to all classes of the population. The following exhibits the present condition of agricultural colleges, giving their loca tion, endowment, number of pupils, course of in struction, expense of tuition, &c. : —Sheffield Scien tific School of Yale College, at Newhaven, Counec ticut—Acres, scrip, 180,000; endowment, $160,000,; pupils, 1867-8, 130 ; cost of tuition, per annum, $125 and $75 for chemical apparatus; time, 3 years. Course of study: English, chemistry, mechanics, civil engineering, mining and metallurgy, agriculture, natural history and geology, French and German, &c. Number of volumes in the library, 73,000. Institute of Technology, B ,ston, Mass.—Endow ment, $480,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 170 ; time, four years. Course. of study—English mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, surveying, modern languages, mechanical engineering, building and architecture, science, and literature, tactics. Agricultural Col lege, Amherst, Mass.—Acres, scrip, 360,000 ; en dowment, $116,000 ; cost of tuition per annum, $330 ; time, four years. Course of study—Algebra, geometry, anatomy, botany, French, German, agri culture, chemistry, horticulture, philosophy, &c., &c. Agricultural College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.—Acres, scrip, 990,000 ; endowment, $1,000,000 ; not opened ; cost of tuition per annum, $3O ; time, four years. Course of study —Agriculture, mechanic arts, civil engineering, military engineering and tactics, mining and practical geology, history, social and political science, modern and ancient languages. Agri cultural College, Centre County, Pa.—Acres, scrip, 720,000; endowments, $2e6,000; cost of tuition per annum, $5O, and board $BO. Courie of study —General science, agriculture, mechanical and civil engineering, metallurgy, mineralogy, and mining, literature, military instruction. Agricul tural College, near Lansing, Mich.—Acres, scrip, 240,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 97 ; cost of tuition per annum,' $2O, and board $l5O. Course of study —English, mathematics, agriculture, literature, natural history, physics, rhetoric, civil engineer ing, landscape gardening, philosophy, French. Agricultural College, Prince George County, Maryland.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment, $101,253 ; pupils, 1867-8, 11; cost of tuition per annum, $75 and board $225. Course of study— Chemistry, natural philosophy, physical geogra phy, mineralogy, geology, ancient and modern languages, agriculture, mathematics. Number of volumes in the library, 1,600. College of Agricul ture and Mechanic Arts, Hanover, N. H.—Acres, scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $BO,OOO ; time, four years. Course of study—Various branches of ap plied science. University and State Agricultural College, Burlington, Vt.—Acres, scrip, 150,000 ; cost of tuition, $l5 per term, $lO for chemical ap paratus ; time, 3 or 4 years. Course of study Algebra, chemistry, drawing, French, German, natural history, minerals and metallurgy, engi neering. College of Arts, State University, Ma dison, Wis.—Acres, scrip, 286,000 ; endowment, $300,000 ; cost of tuition per annum, $24. Course of study —Mathematics, German, French, Latin, rhetoric, horticulture, astronomy, logic, theology. Agricultural College, Morgantown, Va.—Acres, scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $137,946 ; pupils, 1867-8, 138. State Agricultural and Mechanical Arts College, New Brunswick, N.J.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 26 ; cost of tuition per annum, $B3 and $l5. Course of study.—Civil en gineering and mechanics, chemistry, and agricul cure, architecture, natural history, astronomy, and navigation, French and German. Agricultural and Mechanical College, Lexington, Ky.—Acres, scrip, 330,000 ; endowment, $164,960 ; pupils, 1867-8, 190; cost of tuition per annum, 300 free, others $3O. ()nurse of study—EngliSh, French, Spanish, Ger man, Italian; other departments as above not com menced ; no detail given. Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College, Oakland, Cal.—Acres, scrip, 150,000. Not commenced, no detail given. College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Orono, Me.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment, $104,500. Course of study—Marine Architecture. Scientific Department of Brown University, Provi dence, R. I.—Acres, scrip, 120,000 ; endowment, $50,000. Opened this year, September 1, 1868. State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas.— Acres, scrip, 90,000 ; endowment., $500,000. Free, except melodeon and piano ; board, $l. Coursc of study.—Classics, agriculture, military tactics, mechanics, &c. State Industrial University, Illi nois.—Acre.s, scrip, 480,000 ; cost of tuition per annum, $2O. Course of study--Agriculture and science, as above. LETTER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. ( From the Anglo-American Times.) Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea, Sept. 8, 1868. near Anglo-American Times,—Thank s for Tem perance Journal. Glad you are friendly to re form. Men drink more than they think. 'The Mail leader you quote gives me no credit as a reformer. My ambition is to do good—practical and theo retical reform. More drunkards are made by the apothecary and our medical men than by the rum shop. Up with Turkish baths and down with drugs. Down with alcoholic medicines, and up with a cold water diet. Up with temperance, and down with drunkenness. Should you have space to-day here are some boiled-down ideas addressed to the editor of the Herald of Health.—Sincerely, G. F. T. M. L. Holbrook, Esq., M.D., No. 15, Laight-street, New York. Dear Sir, —" M. D." in England, means Money Down. Physicians who have invested four thousand pounds ster ling for the privilege of legally poisoning deluded huma nity have thick hides. Believe in Drugs? Should think not; or rather, yes, I do believe in them—believe that in nine cases out of ten they kill, while the tenth lives to curse his manhood. Drugs ! Satan's Elixir. Apothecary Shops ! blisters, scabs on society. If riot was justifiable, I would like to lead the mob that broke up and burned down the drug and medicine shops of the world. Bigotry is rampant still. The Medical College would have let Seward die the other day rather than Surgeon-General Barnes should consult au "irregular" physician! Slavery abolished! let us abolish legalized poisoners. Civil war is over! lot us settle the drug war against man kind. Nature has been seduced by Art ! Nature is strong—give her diet, rest, regularity, and she recovers rapidly, except when the system is poisoned with mer cury, when the constitution is macadamized with blue pills. Ignorance is mother of impudence, and Allo pathic knowledge makes doctors impudent, because ignorant. Have you never seen the drug-poisoners quarrel over a death-bed consultation ? The faculty are unyielding; your money or your life ! Strong minded patients sometimes live by refusing medi cine; weak ones die by taking it. Experience is the enemy of science. How many throw the poisonous drug under the bed and recover ! How many swallow it and die none can tell! Nature is often too much for the doc tors. Not always. Who taught the Indian to avoid the poisonous mineral—the animal to give a wide berth to the poisonous plant? Why do you hold the infant's nose to make him swallow the drug ? Instinct has told the baby it is poison. The air, the earth, the water, and the sun—these ele ments alone have rescued many an invalid from the clutches and crutches of the apothecary. Four-fifths of the world is, water and one-fifth land ; so four-fifths of our body is water,- and but one-fifth flesh and b9.11e ; Hence water cures 'water. Your Allopathist quotes the Bible for his system:—' 6 Him that is filthy, let him be filthy still." Your Hydropathist also quotes Scrip ture :—" Cleahliness is next to goiliness." The Feast of Purification should b 3 on the banks of the Hudson and Mississippi, as well as on the Nile and the Ganges. Wherever I roamed in the Ancient World (and I have been everywhere) everybody bathe 3. Russian baths in Moscow, Turkish baths in Stamboul, were simply impor tations from Chinese Asia. The Siamese live in the water, and the Japanese maiden swims like a duck. In Java both Mack and white have their water cures. Gayety would find no subscribers for his paper at Batavia or Sutua rang. Both Asiatics and Europeans use water, and ex press disgust at the impure habits of the Western world. Throughout Egypt are bath houses, and one is astonished iu lialy at the magnitude of the ruins of the bathing places of the Roman emperors. Hippocrates favoured cold water, and by it Severus cured the gout; while Thucy didas says many an Athenian during the Peloponnesian War cured the plague by plunging into the river. Do not the Hindoos, Mohammedans, and Jews make the use of water, inside and out, a religious rite? Water cure was a remedy for the pest, cold water cured the plague ; so syphilis and smallpox aro easily mastered by hydropathy. Water saves life, drug's destroy it. How can you clean your dwelling by throwing dirt through all its chambers? Take a peach, strawberry, cucumber; preserve it ie brandy, vinegar, or suitable drugs, and if partially de cayed you preserve the decayed as well as the sound part. So is it with meat; if diseased, the stronger the compound the more perfect the preservation of the disease. Now, then, what applies to fruits and meats more forcibly applies to man. Stomach deranged, liver torpid, blood out of order; does it not follow that the powerful drug of the Allopathist preserves instead of removes the disease ? What invalids want is sunshine, pure air, pure water, and a protective tariff agabist drugs. Your mission is one of mercy. A searcher for truth, I have passed weeks at Ilkly Wells and Ben-ridden in York shire, Malvern in Worcestershire, where Gully, Wilson, Stummes have cured thousands, and I have been at Beulah Spa, near London. The man who opens a water cure is a public benefactor. If a hydropathie establishment was built in every place where you find a drug shop, more robust men, more healthy women, less puny, sickly chil dren would walk our streets. By-the-by, why not start * mammoth water cure on the Hudson near Central Park, somewhere - among the trees; with cricket, base-ball arid foot-ball, and ten-pin alleys and billiard rooms, and plentY of Croton? It would pay. - Your drug poisoner is always a tyrant. He works in the dark. Ho is a Booth ; he fires his pistol into every family. He is Payne ;be enters the house at all hours, walks to your bedside and deliberately attempts to murder you. If he was honest, why not move in open day ? why write his despatches in an unspoken tongue ? He dare not tell us his plans. Burning hotels, infecting clothe* with yellow fever, starving prisoners, throwing trains ell the track, assassinating chiefs, is punishable by law, but the drug poisoner does all this under the cover of your family physician and escapes chastisement. Ignorance is crime ! Down with Latin, up with the American Wl' gunge. Refuse to take a prescription that is written in cipher. Why not change the labels .on the drug bottles ? Call loudly through your journal for more light. Read, reflect., ponder, and men can immediately digest. The doctor frightens his patient. You can scare a scalded cat with cold water. Few of the faculty speak well of each other. When dog oats dog, hard times are at hand. _ _ Homoeopathy is a step in advance: less drugs, 1 058 death. Statistics show a saving of nearly one-half. When humanity takes another step, Hydropathy, the graveyards will show a smaller population ; humanity will live to the average age of man. We need more physical and less mental exercise. The gymnasium is essential to th e Hydropathic system ; more muscle, more nerve, make leaf fat and gives more energy. I do not approve of vaccination; it is only a new way of poisoning mankind. Jener would have been hung among the Indians or in . Asia. How many a sound con stitution has been destroyed by introducing scrofula and syphilis in the shape of vaccine matter? Who knoWs whether it is healthy ? Those two diseases combined is the plague. They wage eternal war and crop out in the third and fifth generations, sometimes passing the second and fourth. Since Pressnitz introduced the water cure treatment into Germany, Wilson into England, and Schieferdeck er into America, great progress has been made in hYd ° ; pathy. I believe that two-thirds of the arms and logs cu off during the late war could hav'e been saved by CO lu water, properly administered. How many a mother has died or lost her babe at childbirth for want of Such treat" ment can never be recorded. Another thing, the great object of your allopathic or homoeopathic in our time is ° burn out the proud flesh of our society. No more ide mous espionage—fatal to domestic life, destructive o f all virginity, chastity, modesty—exists than the infernal con fessional of our day. No wonder the Divorce Court i 5 crowded; for they, twin sisters of allopathy—the specu lum and blue pill—have demoralised women kind as W ° ' as man. Know thyself, said St. Paul. He was in the wets" cure. The art of taking care of yourself can only b e learned in the hydropathie establishment. Weaned 11.° : drugs you are half cured ; then three baths, ten glassua of water, four walks, broad and milk for breakfast en . supper, roast beef and vegetables for dinner every day, 111 , bed at ten and up at six, with mind employed, plenty 0' rubbing and wet bandages, and the sick man is well agai n " There are few ailments that cold water, o utside and ill ; side, will not cure. I am afr a id that Jackson, Fr's te. ' toe Bedortha, and many of our Water-Cure leaders, give _much attention to spiritual bathing instead of practisli Hydropathy. A more water and a little less sP' a should be introduced at Clifton Springs, Danville, a n Saratoga. Some day 1 will give you a letter in reply to yours, I have no more time this morning than to remin d 1° that as eighty per cent.. of our make-up is water, it sh ld, that Nature did not intend to fill up the vacuum v"" drugs.—Sincerely, GEORGE FRANCIS Titeinr•so The twelve documents on which I ground 11 1 Y ci a against the gentlemen lately trading under the name O style of the Ebbw Vale Company, are —l. The W rit ~° r , 1 order of Lord Chief Justice Monahan, bearing date th e day of Marchlast. 2. The affidavit of the plaintiff, J. son, upon which said order was granted, filed 3d March JO" 3. The attested copy of the writ of capias ad respondent issued in this case, and the Sheriff's return thereon. The attested copy of the capias ad satilaciendum iss ue in this cause, and the return of the Sheriff there 5. The affidavit of Clark 8011, sworn at Veni ce, Italy, on the 15th July last, a copy of which 1 '7"; served on you in the proceedings in the Insolve, Court. 6. The affidavit of George T. M. Davis , of Nex," York, sworn before the British Consulate in New 17.°r you a copy' on the 15th day of July last, of which I send 7. The affidavit of Thomas C. Durant, of New York, 0° a before the British Consulate at New York, of whichl selll, you a copy. 8. The paper signed by James W • il e „. o f hs referred to in the said affidavit. 9. The affidav it of Grice Fuller, filed on the 17th of August, of which Wines' you a copy. 10. The Garnishee order of Justice u,,f 11. The affidavit of the defendant, filed on the 15th daalthis August, of which I have already sent you a cel:97 an several documents therein referred to. 12. The aw You $ of the defendant this day sworn, of which 1 send I copy, and the several documents therein referred to. The municipal council of Chateau-Th eat' the Echo de r Aisne, decided in one of its ree meetings to deprive the Religious Brothers to fided the direction of the schools at present pres ierrh 80 1. them. surpassADvE h ri es s e Em p pi NT. lls e over every organ of the body. Stomach, live it infly —thileiorlplouwriatyyjsusPailnlsd—N- me wo o heart, and kidneys soon display subjection to the arres tigif ence, by which all diseases of those organs are ~,a j tbilf all obstructions removed, and every function is performed. The digestion is by their influenoeFotti proved that scarcely any food disagrees ; acidity and near; lency alike are checked, nausea and biliousness disaP ri s ; firmness is given to every muscle and tone to e verf u l i o ne the mind becomes exhilarated, and the thoughts„,:i s it tbitt cheerful. 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Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable at tu joll dyspepsia, nervousness asthma, cough, constipatnXirrio, J iise spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting. 41.21, Wortham, Ling, near ' Dias, Norfolk.—Cure N 0.040, Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross , 1 0 ,,, 01 , '" aa y of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, o f th e ou t and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Bewar?„ withd. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to Wi ll ' s . ; t oile ts.; authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously , bO ,, 1 81 0 cA 5 In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. AR at 12 lbs , 22s ; 211bs , 40s —Aso Du BAnlll7'S REVALg" cUllos,. CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for fa 3 00 for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny 25., for 24 cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 cups at 65., for 23 8 _t,.r I . l3 o „ipt and 555. uns are sent free of carriage in Engle , of Post Office Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY a,ud per l i ly ou Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Ghouls,' Births. ADAIR—On the 14th lust at B e haroVe littucr i ' llp• (31 ill° wife of Major Win. Adair, ee i of a daucghter. Wig li SANDERS—On the 14th inst. at at Hazehnont, Is le of the wife of Arthur Sanders,. Esq•, of a son , 8 000e' . WARRENDER—On the 14th inst ,•at Bruntsfiela N. 8., Lady Warrender, of a eon. _HATCTIMAN—CAVEinst., at St. Ll l -. i O D i n a the r ri l a u g h e O. a nd sea Mr. o r r . t Wm. e ham -road, to Ann Maria, eldest daughter of .3. 0% cl l , lO` cl WOOD—AT • t, li c at h c e h l m se tt a n . , of LittleLove-la.cleiff:o: 01- KINSON--On the 12th inst., at Trinity. Woo o i Stepne Pred • ' E sq not erink T. Wood, eldest son of Fre u oh ter H. •_, . ile-end, to Letitia Maria, second datllioy, R A M Rp Li T 3 ,1 J cuj illioNu: Chelsea,rotKi E ti tsi Eest—DiTksis—s,lo—:son, Esq., of Camden Villas, South 114 c Deaths. 10 It. inst., s OTI on the Hon. David Plunket, aged 73. i piot On the 12th inst., at Ansleagh, c° °9ll t . aOsnedth7eB.lsth tP t villc-roadt „ s ce ll Edinburgh, James Richardson, of Messrs. Pc son Brothers. .stii"' N—On the 13th inst., at 16, Coatcs-cl lora' Joseph Raikes,.Esq., late Riding Mater 14th (t ile SCANLAN— . On the 10th inst., at 27, Wroll il3 g t°ll-94 Hussars, aged 47. 10 1.6 n the 12th inst., at 24, WeSiolll-TOad, j;jog,) TOOTELL— aged 68. . 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