The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

Erma OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review says : Mr. Gladstone has long promised itself and the country that our affairs would be conducted under a " more earnest regime" when we had a new Parliament. We are already in a position to ascertain whether this anticipation has been fulfilled. Earnestness is a comprehensive, and therefore a mislead ing word. Earnest people are a recent invention, like " brave minds" and " forthright spirits" and "workers for man." We do not profess entirely to understand what is called earnestness, though we dare to say that when Mr. Gladstone thought of earnestness he was thinking of Mr. Gladstone. Earnestness, according to the cheap newspapers, is an enemy to theory and speculation. An earnest man must be a practical man ; above all, he must not have a rag of philosophy about him. Englishmen, they tell us, are an unphilosophical race ; metaphysics they can neither abide nor understand ; they want things done, and first principles, or any abstract grounds for policy, they resent as an insult. This Peckham-omnibus view of a senator's qualifications has certainly prevailed. Of all the classes of candidates who have suffered most severely the doctrinaires have been hit the hardest. In another direc tion the electors have shown a remarkable disability to profit by new lights. In one respect the new Parliament is likely to be more dogged and pertinacious against inno vations than any, of its predecessors. For good or for evil, the new House not only perpetuates but exaggerates the character, be they the faults or the excellences, of their predecessors. .A. vast majority of LiberalS has been returned; but they arq k all of the old Liberal type ; rich tradesmen, hereditary Whigs, and the old members make up most of Mr. Gladstone's supporters. No doubt the new Par liament faithfully enough reflects the national will. The borough members have been elected to do a certain and distinct and precise work, which is simple enough, and does not require much refinement, much reflection, much, if any, independence. What seems to be the taste of the borough voters is little thought, no philosophy, no genius, no originality, no " viewincss," no large ness of conception. Such is the work, and such the instruments. Like Pope's women, Parliaments may come to have no character at all ; and it it 3, after all, not so unnatural—though it was not quite expected, and certainly the reverse of it was promised—that the House of Commons should so faithfully reproduce the narrow ness and stiffness, the obstinacy and the unarguing, if stSlid perhaps stolid, convictions of the untrained English mind. Satiety has produced apathy, and the frenzy of excitement under which the contest was begun has sub sided into a general distaste, if not disgust, for promised or threatened revolutions and innovations. The Spec'ator was thinking of the Lishop of London when it declined to name any candidate for the vacant primacy, lest respect or sympathy so dangerous should militate against his claim. Believing, as we do, that Dr. Tait is not a man to shew different phases according to his station in the Church—to lose his manliness and indi viduality as he gains in dignity—to become less simple, and less catholic, and more enamoured of that peculiarly eccle siastical capacity for " hedging," as Primate than as Bishop of London—we heartily rejoice in the firmness or the weakness, the wisdom or the good fortune, whichever it may be ; and we confess we do not see the fairness, in spite of Mr. Disraeli's general shiftiness, of denying him credit for the better motives where we should unquesti'mably, in case of a thoroughly bad choice, have held him responsible for the worse—that has enabled the Conservative Prime Minister to make so good a choice. It is true, of course, that Dr. Tait is a bitter and, as it seemed to us, unscrupulous opponent of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church policy—as where is the bishop, unless it be Dr. Thirlwall, who is not?—but in al other matters he has been a steady Liberal, and we should scarcely have attributed it to virtue, even if Mr. Disraeli had gone anxiously out of his way to put an avowed enemy of the Irish Establishment into the highest seat 01 the English Establishment. If we are to give even the. devil his due, we need not grudge to say of Mr. Disraeli at least as much as this—that if he had really had a soul, and had intended to throw it into the task of his last and most important ecclesiastical appointment, he would have acted very much as he has done. The Saturday Review is highly satisfied with the appoint ment. The attempt to make propagandists archbishops has been followed by the most disastrous results. Abbott, Laud, and Sumner are conspicuous examples of this. To give a bishopric to Dean Stanley would have offended all Evangelicals and High Churchmen. The Bishop of Lon don is sufficiently alive to the tendencies of the day to recognise them. Of Bishop Jackson our contemporary remarks that nonentity has its place, and even its supremacy. Dr. Wordsworth will be a bishop of the old fashioned type, carrying out certain accredited, if some what obsolete traditions. The John Bull regrets that Mr. Disraeli has neglected a great opportunity for breaking through the routine of safe appointments. When the history of Mr. Disraeli comes to be written the interviewbetween the Prime Minister and his Royal Mistress, on the clay when Parliament was dis solved, will probably prove, wl:en what passed may be revealed, that, as in the case of York, a higher power than a Minister made the appointment. We know well the many difficulties with which Mr. Disraeli has in more than one quarter to contend, but he would be the first to admit that he must be held responsible for his appoint ments. The Cabinet knew nothing of them. They are the personal nominations of the Minister, subject to the Queen's sanction. For the translation of the Bishop of London there to much to be said. It has precedent on side. But there was one overwhelming objection, which, if we mistake not, was the real cause (not in Mr. Disrael7; mind) of the appointment. The bishop supports - the Establishment, but he does so on the most Erastian grounds, and he is utterly opposed to the freedom of the Colonial Church. However, as the Bishop (who was always open to conviction, and was most kind and con siderate to those who differed from him) will-certainly leave London a much better Churchman than he came to it, we can onlyhope that he will, as Primate, see his way to a yet bolder enunciation of the primitive faith, as taught by the English branch of the Church Catholic. The Imperial Review remarks that the Bishop of London nas been advanced to the Primacy of All England not merely on account of the traditional sequence of promo tion which the Whigs on one occasion broke in order to deprive Bishop Blomfield of his well-earned honours, but because he had shewn himself, in St. James's Hall and in all the antecedents of his episcopal life, an earnest and resolute supporterof the union of Church and State. Such a Primate may be, we think, relied on to maintain unim paired the constitutional principles on which the present position in the country of the Established Church is founded, and to resist with the authority of his high office, as well as with his own natural energy and ability, the attacks which have already bee n ma d e and are likely in the future to be made upon the national character of the Church and upon the supremacy of the Crown. The results will, we believe, prove that the fact of the appoint ment on the part of the Premier was as well-advised as the motive which prompted it was impartial. Of the successor to Dr. Tait in the diocese of London it is hardly necessary to speak in eulogy. The judiciousness of the promotion of Bishop Jackson all will allow, except, per haps, the Ultra-Ritualistic party. The elevation of Arch deacon Wordsworth to the see of Lincoln is the last of Mr. Disraeli's appointments. This everyone who admires Christian learning, who venerates Christian piety, and who sympathises with Christian courage must rejoice in. He has long been looked up to by moderate and earnest Anglican Churchmen as one who would prove an orna ment to the Episcopal bench ; and they will now look with confidence to see their anticipations fulfilled. If modera tion without timorousness, and zeal tempered with judg ment, are elements of success, Dr. Wordsworth will be a successful ruler in his diocese. These appointments, no doubt, will be widely criticised. But they must be criti cised in connection with the actual dangers and existing necessities of the Church, and not in a narrow and partisan spirit. The Church, as a whole, is of more consequence than the parties in the Church. Extreme men may be disappointed ; but the Established Church will be the securer for the Tory-Conservative policy which has placed the influence and power which is attached to her dignities, and her places of authority, in the hands of men who are scholars, divines, and administrators, but are above all pledged, by the whole course of their past lives and actions, to maintain and to hand clown to posterity the great constitutional principle of the Union of Church and State. The John Bull says: The battle of the boroughs is over, and the small towns, the strongholds of the shopocracy and Disient, have declared against the Government. From Little Podlingtons innumerable, the electric wires flashed the news that the Liberals had triumphed, and were anxious to see Mr. Gladstone in power. The Liberal a7::rs had predicted the result; but 'they had left an important element out of their calculations. The work ing men of England, in the large constituencies, who have been enfranchised by Mr. Disraeli, are not to be so easily bamboozled ; and they have of their own free will, in Lancashire especially , rallied r o und the Conservative flag, and proved the wisdom of Mr. Disraeli in settling the Reform question on a large and broad basis. Whatever the temporary losses of the Conservatives may have been, we cannot doubt that an energy has :n infused into the party, by their gains in large con stitamcies. which will hereafter bear excellent fruit. The London Reniew notes that Mr. Gladstone will have at his back a great majority of members pledged to reli gious equality ' • and, with all its faults, the Ifouseof com mons is the last place in the world where a man is likely to forget or to violate pledges of this liberal and en lightened tenour. If the controversy should take such a turn that mere parliamentary strength will impress the H immediately succumbing, of Lords with the necessity of succumbing, all will be over; and at the next election the mantir.acturing towns will forget there ever was a religious or Irish question to frighten them into the arms of the Party they have heretofore consistently opposed. If, on the other hand, Mr. Disraeli should succeed in making a deat deal of the f ew b u t i m p or t an t Lib era l reverses , the ouse of Lords may be encouraged to prolonged resistance. In that case we shall hav e ano th er App ro p r i a ti on Cl ause story, but with a diffe ren t ca t as t rop h e. M r. Gl a d s t one will not yield to the House of Lords ; and the [louse of Lords is now weak in influence, whereas in 1835 it still retained the appear ance an d much of the reality of its historical power. Ugly discussicns are now arising as to its legislative status ; and Mr. Horsman and Mr. Lowe, who dreaded a franchise bill, are th e fi rst to propose . a revolution in the constitution and authority of the peers. If this discussion become linked with that of the Irish Church, we shall see events quite as startling as even enthusiasts expected from the Reform BIM THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS, Ts American elections did not pass off without great frauds; but there were comparatively few of those dis grawful riots which mark the elections. The correspon dent of the Tima says; "There was rioting in Augusta and Savannah, Georgia, a row of formidanie proportions being got up in the latter city, by which five or six persons were killed. Elsewhere, however, the elections passed off quietly. During the evening the streets of all the large cities were filled by excited crowds of people anxious to hear the returns, and the newspaper and telegraph offices and clubhouses were surrounded by throngs, the suc cessful party rejoicing vociferously. Elaborate arrange ments were made at various places in New York and Philadelphia, by means of large transparencies illuminated by calcium lights, to shew the returns. Ludi crous election bets are now being paid in many places. The losers are made to saw wood and do other menial things, while sometimes the loser wheels the winner through the streets in a barrow, preceded by a band of music and followed by a gaping crowd. In New York one bet was paid by the loser wheeling a negro through the streets, and thus practically testifying his regard for the African race." LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA. Lord Napier of Magdala sent the following reply to the gift of a gold sword conferred upon him by the Corpora tion of London. It was addressed to the Chamberlain of London, who read it to the Common Council : " I beg you to tell the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the City of London, and the citizens whom they represent, once more on my behalf, that lam very grateful for the generous way in which they have acknow ledged the services cf the troops under my command and direction ; that I am very proud of the gift conferred upon me in a manner which conveyed so much honour to me and the force which I represent, and consummated this day by you on behalf of the citizens of London. I trust that this sword will long remain with my sons and their descendants as a memorial of the way in which England's citizens reward those whom they consider to have faith fully served their country, and prove an incentive to further exertion. lam about to leave England, with a heart full of grateful feelings for the cordial recognition by the Queen and peorle of Great Britain of the success of the expedition to Abyssinia. A deep sense of their approba tion expressed in the honours conferred upon me binds me more closely, if possible, to devote my humble services to our country whenever they may be required." MR. WALTER ON THE MINORITY CLA USE. Mr. Walter, the principal proprietor of the Times, and candidate in the Liberal interest for Berkshire, gave the other day a long defence of the minority clause. Referring to the list of members returned, he said that list furnished, in his opinion, a very good illustration of the way in which that much-abused provision in the Reform Bill— the minority clause—was working. That clause applied, among the English boroughs which had already chosen their representatives, to the City of London, to Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester. In Birmingham the Liberal party were so superior in numbers to their opponents that they had no difficulty in securing the three seats. In spite, therefore, of all the predictions and denunciations which had been uttered with respect to it, the minority clause had at all events done no harm to the good people of that borough. In Manchester, a much larger constituency than Birmingham, and decidedly Liberal, a Conservative was returned at the head of the poll, two Liberals occupying the second and third places, so that in that case it was dif ficut to say which of them was the minority member. In the City of London three Liberal candidates were returned, the numbers being very close for so large a constituency, while Mr. Bell, the minority member, was only 85 behind the lowest on the poll of his present colleagues in the representation. Now those facts shelved, he could not help thinking, pretty clearly that whatever might be the abstract merits of the clause of which he was speaking— into that point he would not enter—it had, at all events, in practice inflicted no very great hardship on the towns to which it had been applied. MR. BRADLAUGH ON .FITS DEFEAT. -0- --- The special parliamentary edition of the National _Reformer, edited by Charles Bradlaugh, contains this gentleman's opinions on the subject of his defeat :—" To bear defeat is bitter, but I record defeat for the first time in my life. To the 1,086 men of Northampton who have been true to me to the last I tender my sincere thanks ; as to the other 600 and odd, who, having pledged them selves to support me, gave way under the most extra ordinary pressure of social and clerical influence, Ido not so much blame their conduct as I deplore their moral weak -71C83." Mr. Bradlaugh, like Mr. Bernal Osborne, is comforted by the women. It seems that the Northampton ladies have been moved to tears by the rejected candidates:—" T desire, in conclusion, to add my sincere and warn:est thanks to the hundreds of poor men, non-electors, who have risked everything to work with me and for me. Of the women who wept over my defeat, my heart is at present too full to write. I have been defeated, but without disgrace, either to myself or to our cause." In another part of the paper there is a description by Mr. Austin Holyoake of a walk through the streets of Northampton : " Across one street was supended the banner presented by our good friends of Dlillwall ; and Gold street, one of the principal ones of the old part of the town, exhibited, suspended from house to house, a really imposing-looking banner, in green, mauve, and white, in scribed on one side Bradlaugh and the People's Rights,' and ofi the other ' Welcome to Bradlaugh.' A little further along, towards St. James's End, we came to a corner public-house, and on looking up, much to our sur prise and gratification, we read as the new sign, ' The Bradlaugh Arms.' I think the spirit of the town can no further go." THE NOMINATION FOR SOUTHWARK. The London correspondent of the Elgin Couravt writes:— " I was present at the nomination for Southwark, and there heard language used by an ex-official of a Liberal Government—Mr. Layard, to wit—which, for pure disgusting lowness, I should think has never been matched on any hustings. He and his colleague, Mr. Locke, thought they were to have a walk over ; but, at the eleventh hour, Alderman Cotton, who is one of the sheriffs as well, started in the Constitutional in terest. Layard went mad at this, and these are some of the euphuisms I heard him, frotWng and raging, and shaking his fist, make use of on the hustings : I am a believer in omens. Now, at the beginning of the meeting I saw a hearse go by, and I am convinced that in that hearse will be carried away the remains of Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Cotton. Mr. Cotton's appearance here is an in sult and affront to me personally. It is the grossest im pudence, the most unparalleled, the most monstrous. Mr. Cotton's coming forward is a base and dishonouring manceuvre, and he is doing his best to corrupt and dis grace the boroughs,'—and so on, for than a quarter of an hour, till, foaming at the mouth and panting with passion, he had to give it up. His opponent's reply was as dignified a thing as I ever heard. I assert unhesi sitatingly,' said he, that no one with the smallest preten sion to be called a gentleman has ever used such language as that Mr. Layard has employed. I hope that the press will report it fully, in order that all England may under stand not only the great honour that Mr. Layard has by his own argument conferred upon the constituency, but also the moderate and gentlemanlike expressions which the ex- Under-Secretary of State, and one who aspires to office in the next Liberal Ministry, has thought it fit and decent to employ. I will not follow Mr. Layard into his ribald allusion to the sad funeral procession that has passed the hustings. The last ceremonies of the dead are surely worthy of respect, even by the savage, far more by him who aspires to be an educated and refined Englishman.' I don't think, somehow, Layard will be Mr. Gladstone': Foreign Under-Secretary." MR. GLADSTONE TNLIVERPOOL.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone went to Liverpool on Friday, and while in the town he paid a visit to the magnificent pile of grain warehouses erected recently at the Waterloo Dock, and said to be the finest building of the kind in the world. Mr. Gladstone was accompanied by Mr. J. C. Ewart (once M.P. for Liverpool), Mr. T. D. Hornby, the chair man of his election committee ; Messrs. Patterson and Blood, chairman and secretary of the Chamber of Com merce ; Mr. Brocklebank, chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board ; and Mr. Lyster, the engine, r. Mr Spence, the chairman of the Corn Warehouse Association, and Mr. Proctor, the manager, conducted Mr. Gladstone over the building, INMATES OF A 1 1 7ORKLIOUSII VOTINO.—A, curiom Mu!dant occurred on the polling day at Sunderland e/eoti on , Two Inmates of the workhouse recorded their votes in favour of Mr, Thompson, the defeated caudlarteas More are three paupers on the registrar, but only two o f them could vote, the third being an inmate of the Insane ward. The explanation of this curious incident is this : the IMMO of the three paupers in question were on the register hook before they entered the workhouse, and of course, as ovay vote counts, the supporter§ Tbetniloon were determined not to loge them, Two women, whose lollies are on the register, recorded their votes in AVM of Mr, Uourley, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINGt, NOVEMBER 21, IE6B. THE SOUTH. The Tribune thus commences an article under its old heading " The New Rebellion :"—" Russia has been styled a despotism, tempered by assassination. Is America a Democracy, diversified by murder? Read the long catalogue of political assassinations committed by the Democratic party within a month." In North Carolina it gives the murder of the bridegroom, the bride being severely wounded, when the couple were in the act of be ing married on the 27th of September, and thus continues :—" In South Carolina, in the sea-coast districts, where the negroes are three or four times as numerous as the blacks, all is peaceful and orderly." Of course under such peculiar circum stances, things could scarcely fail to be pleasant. We presume the Tribune meant whites; but as it was about to allude to the devil in the well-known lines in which he is described as turning monk when sick, it transcribed the colons of his Satanic ajesty. It is terrible to read its " month of assassinations." The Tribune always ;speaks of the murderers as SEYMOUR men, which we think unfair ; for HORATIO SEYMOUR had no more to do with the Southern mode of showing excite meat and annoyance than had ULYSSES GRANT. The account of the affair in St. Bernard's parish, of which hitherto we have had very meagre details, is thus given :—" About the 24th and 25th the Sey mour Knights of the Parish of St. Barnard, adjoin ing New Orleans, kill several negroes. in the melee a baker and his son kill a coloured member of the new metropolitan police. The blacks retaliate by killing the murderers and burning their bakery. The rebel statement that women and children were killed in the affair proves to be untrue. Forthwith the Democratic Seymour Clubs of New Orleans are in a blaze. They parade the streets night and day, demand and obtain the expulsion of 200 colourel members from the police force, and render it impos sible fur black men to appear in the streets. Mean while, the control of the police is tendered to ' Tostmv ADAMS,' who was its chief when New Or leans was under the Confederacy, and the rebel element was rampant and jubilant. The Commit tee of the Louisiana Legislature appointed to in vestigate recent violence in that State repor:, 204 persons killed, 51 wounded, an 1 143 assailed." As a leading London daily paper has very pointedly contradicted the intelligence given by a contem porary about the condition of Texas, we extract the following shocking statement, the county being Marion, and the week between the 3d and 10th October :—" In the same county 27 murders of Republicans were published in rebel papers in one week. During the same week Judge HART, a Re publican of an adjoining county, and WILLIAM S. KIRKMAN, Bureau Agent for North-Eastern Texas, were killed. No Union men or supporters of GRANT were safe from SEYMOUR'S friends in that region. In Upshur County, Texas, a Seymour paper pub lishes a glowing account of the following ' triumph of the Constitution.' Ou October 1, 11. Seymour ites, in white gowns and comic hats, and masked, took an elderly black couple out of their bed, tied the old man, a preacher, by the ankles, and bound the rope to their horse's saddle, dragged him feet foremost in a quick gallop a quarter of a mile to a bridge, lowered him heal down ward into the water till nearly drowned, and then drew him back in the same manner, and stripped and lashed his dying body till they had skinned him from his neck to his waist." ,Uter enumerating several cases the Tribune adds, as contradiction to the a3sertion so often made by the correspondents of the London journals, who maintain that these outrages are invented for cam paign purposes :--" These instances of murder which we find on a casual examination of our files for the past month are but a tithe of those which have been committed. Nine-tenths of such crimes are never reported. We mention these as a sample, not as a catalogue. In the Northern States a like spirit has been manifest on a more restrained scale. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on Oct. 7, a Republican torch light procession was attacked, fifty shots were ex changed, and, among others, the Mayor was wounded. Eleven persons were shot by roughs in Philadelphia, of whom we exported some 5,000 from New York. Ex-Governor BEALL, of Wisconsin (Republican), was shot to death by Mr. PINNEY, Democratic Editor of the Post. Finally, in New York City, CHRISTOPHER PULLMAN, an active Re publican and Councilman, was nearly clubbed to death on the 30th ult., for his services iu preveLt ing persons who were fraudulently naturalized from registering and voting." Which shows how the ex ample spreads. Degrading to the South as are these stories they must be told—toll in the face of Europe, alike to the friend and foe of America. It is vain for people to work on any other basis than the truth, and a man who undertakes to be a jour nalist sins against society as well as against himself by perverting or withholding it. No check will be more severe than the execration of Christendom, and if Southerners fall to the state of Red Indians, as Red Indians will they be regarded. Europe will make great allowances for the irritation produced on a very proud and excitable pc,‘)ple by a condition of things so novel and opposed to their prejudices, and it is this very pride which mty strongly aid in re straining their headlong course to barbarism. The gallantry of the Confederates in battle won for them the respect of the civilized world. The mag nanimity with which they appeared at first to sub mit to their crushing defeat surprised and gratified their admirers. But the course of the last few months has been such as is mildly described by the Tribune's term "The New Rebellion"—it is murder in its lowest, most cowardly, and most brutal shape —murder which it is vain to attempt to excuse— murder which has sown in the South crops of future trouble and suffering, which degrades society till it falls at the feet of the drunkard and the bully— when the scum whose lives are worthless, and are in this rightly estimated by themselves, will rule by a ready pistol and an unscrupulous conscience— when those who are useful citizens will vanish as day in the tropics, and a night of dense darkness will settle over the land. These will be the results, un less GRANT steps in with a strong and unsparing hand, and sternly insists on carrying out the Divine Law that " whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." But, can GRANT do this, powerful as he will be, unless really and effectually aided by what is good in the society of the South ? If murderers are screened by their neighbours, if juries throw out bills, if judges refuse to pass sentence, but one chance will remain for the South, and that is, the excitement on the election having passed, the shooting and murdering mania may have passed with it. It may have been an outburst of petit-up fury, which will go with the occasion, and we fervently hope that so it may prove. Yet, allowing this, the memory of these months will not quickly fade ; the degradation of these months will be indelibly engraven on the Southern character ; and the history of these months will be told as the fit sequel to the War for Slavery.— Anglo-Anierican limes. At the regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, on the 25th instant, General Walbridge offered a series of resolutions in favour of Congress nationalizing our railway system, just as the tele graph has been nationalized. They were referred, without discussion, to a committee of five. A. A. Low, chairman of the executive committee, submitted a resolution in favour of investigating the charges against Street Commissioner M'Lean, preferred by the Citizens' Association. Adopted. F. S. Lathrop, Esq., was re elected chairman of the Arbitration Committee. One of the most fashionable weddings was that of Mr. Cornelius V. Cross, grandson of Commodore Van lerbilt, which came off at Christ Church, Fifth Aveum, f , n the sth inst. The bride was Miss Emma M. Eldred. Officiating clergyman, Rev. Dr. Ewer. _ . The great irregularities that have hitherto existed in the Danubian Principalities with regard to the delivery of letters will, it is expected, henceforth cease, a new pos tal treaty between Austria. and Roumania having been drawn up, whlch the Austrian Minister of Commerce will shortly lay before the Reichsrat h for their approval. It is said that the King ..f Sweden has refused to sign any more death -warrants. We can sympathise with his personal feelings on the subject; but it is revers ing the order of things. Stop= tder lirst—the abolition of capital punishment follows. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical prof ession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home nse or exports Lion. Quotations on applicatior r to Messrs. Dunville - and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildin ss, Strand, London, W.O =-[Ad vertisentent.) MODERATION IN EXTENDED SUFFRAGE ( From the Anglo-American Times.) The elections in England have excited great inte rest in America, and the result will be received there with a satisfaction only secoal to that felt here. The extension of the franchise has been regarded by many liberal-minded men as an expe riment, attended with more or less danger ; and by some Tories it has been held to be a " shooting of Niagara." The result shows that by grounding the national institutions on a broader base the edi fice gains instead of loses as a substantial building, the new men being found to be as averse from speculative change, as the old electors they re-in force. The most noticeable fact in the elections is the clearly pronounced decision of the people that no men of extreme views can commend their confi dence. This has been displayed in a degree almost laughable, which has led to as much surprise as disappointment. First we have the total defeat — the utter disc )mfiture of the very individuals who claim to have effected the enfranchisement of those who rejected them ! There was the Reform leader, Mr. BEALES, defeated at the Tower Hamlets ; Colonel DICKSON at Hackney ; Mr. CRENIER at Warwick ; HA.RTIVELL at Stoke ; BRADLAUGII at Northampton. Mr. ERNEST JONES was with drawn at Manchester. Mr. ROEBUCK, whose speech about America contributed to his defeat, was, though of another class, also rejected. JOHN STUART Mee, who, however conscientious, had been carried to extremes against Governor EYRE, which, with his strong opinions on woman suffrage, have now coat him his seat. The electors show little in clination to take up new and untried men ; nearly all of them being contemptuously rejected. Even the candidates of the working-men, of whom there ought to be a sprinkling in Parliament,met with little support. The main result has been to give Mr. GLADSTONE a large majority, but composed of much the same material as heretofore, and the decision is taken to represent the national wish that changes which the experience of other nations, together with careful debate and consideration, have shown to be advisable, should be sparingly made. Now this is what every well-wisher of progress and of England desires to see ; and in America the debates and the resolutions of Parliament will have an in creased weight, from the belief that they speak much more generally then before, the voice of the nation. Whatever assimilates, tends to inte rest and draw together the kindred na tions. The education, and the whole habit of thought of the American, teaches him to defer perhaps almost slavishly to the expression of the people's will. His former objection to the English Parliament was that it only represented a section ; but though still restricted, most thoughtful Ameri cans allow that in the present state of education in Great Britain the franchise has been extended far enough. In both countries the Liberal party have triumphed, and they are beginning to feel that it is advisable in a certain measure to work together. The extension of Liberal principles will probably lead to a common sympathy, for the step is not vast when a man recognizes as brethren all his fellow-men of a nation, to cross the frontier, and re cognize also as brethren, those, on the other side. Narrowness is the result of ignorance ; and when the masses of a nation are said to inaugurate a policy of monopolies, protection, and selfishness, they simply act on their lights, or rather their dark ness, not perceiving the evil. Knowledge comes, however, with time; and although we may take ge nerations to arrive at the period when a restricted suffrage will appear as false in principle as now does the Divine Right of Kings ; yet., if mankind is pro gressing instead of retrograding, we must reach it at last. The former is indeed as much the result of necessity as was the latter, though when the necessity has vanished, leaving the the plain naked principle, its folly comes out as glaringly as is now the Divine Right so that man fin. Is it difficult to realize that his forefathers could have believed in it. There are thousands who live among people tolerably edu cated, who hear of but do not really comprehend the ignorance, credulity, and folly of their fellow men. When the educational goal is reached which would justify universal suffrage, (if ever) there will be a greater community of feeling among mankind, with the desire to abolish those restrictions created by man, but not by nature. Perhaps this will receive its greatest impetus from an alliance not between the Governments, but between the people of the United States and the United Kingdom —an alliance more implied than expressed, having for its object the preservation and furtherance of liberty, not to each other only, but to all. Nor by undue interference, but by the force of example, of argument, and the legitimate influence which great wealth and pre ponderating power give. Americans profess to set up Liberty as an idol, yet they neglect the most ready means of serving their divinity. That means is in a close alliance between the English-speaking people, which will be felt and understood through out the world with a weight which would surprise even themselves. Instead of this, they allow their policy and their sympathies to he misdirected by a class of immigrants, who in reality have no sym pathythe broad, honest meaning o it as Licence for f the with word,' o r de Liberty oust r i n n g them selves and Despotism for all others. The elections in America signified much the same sentiment a 3 those in England --- moderation; the violent Radicals and the violent Copperheads were either defeated or had to struggle for bare life for their seats. them eras"seid to have wrecked the party because he pro feesed an extreme policy; and GRANT to have most won support because men believed in his modera tion even more than in his Republican principles. Moderation, then, is the avowed purpose of both the nationalities, and in this they show the progress of liberty. There was a time when those who danced frantically on the top of a tub, gesticulated violently, perspired profusely, while appealing to the goddess of Liberty, were declared to be her true sons, and the more true the greater their vio lence ; but the first thing that Liberty has done has been to expose the fanatical fools and designing de magogues. In neither country will this now go down, and better proofs could not be given than the late elections in both. A community of feeling, while in reality the interests are identical, cannot fail to have a powerful effect in cementing the union ; and if people have learned to estimate at their true value the persons who thrust themselves most prominently on their notice, they will soon estimate correctly their general interests. Not so long ago clan met clan in the Highlands of Scotland with a hatred that aimed at extermination. Then the Highlands harried and hated the Low lands; then Scotehmen met Southerners, as they called Englishmen, with an animosity greater than that felt between the Northern and Southern States. Now the clans form but a part of Scotland, and Scotland but a part of Britain bound in close and lasting union. Can any man say that it would be better for the CAMPBELLS still to be cutting the throats of the GORDONS, for the RODERICK Dices to be levying black mail and lifting the cattle of the Lowland laird?--for Scotland to be carrying fire and sword over the border at the first symptom of a dispute between England and France? Yet as this is on a small scale (brought home to th e doors of the Britishers), so is the union of all the English-speaking people on a large scale—the world benefiting to a much greater extent, for if less seen, it is because the benefit is name dif fused. Here we have not only the principle, but the example; indeed it is one by which both nations should endeavour to profit ; requiring only pre judices, as idle as they are untruthful, to be dropped, and the kindred nations to know and ap preciate the good points in each other, while in a Christian spirit they bear with the bad. It is calculated that there are now about 62,000 Chinamen settled in California, nearly all being natives of the province of Canton. ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Holloway'sPills. Continued CAI —The past summer was almost unexampled for its heat and it is much to be feared that the change to wintry weather will exercise the worst effects over the delicate, infirm, and aged. Holloway's purifying Pills should now he taken to avert the ill consequences of the late trying season. Nothing beyond these Pills and their accompany ing "instructions " is necessary for every invalid to root out the latent seeds of disease, and to secure future good health. Depraved and poor blood will thus be purified andenriched, all congestions of the circulation of the lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, or elsewhere will be dispersed, the system will be relieved from oppression, and the whole animal machine will be renovated. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Nov. 7.) The crisis in the Now York Money Market, which has been inevitable,for several days, came yesterday, and con fusion, consternation, and almost panic was the result. The stringency has been growing steadily more and more rigid and oppressive, until it was next to impossible to negotiate loans on any terms. On Wednesday 7 per cent. in gold with a commission was paid, and the clique, which had twenty millions in greenbacks locked up in half a dozen city banks, seemed masters of the situation. On Thursday, however, the result of the election had become known and felt, and also the fact that the desired change in gold and stock markets was impossible. The down ward turn began on Wednesday, and on Thursday morn ing the increasing pressure to sell amounted nearly to a panic. Governments went' down fully 4 per cent. from Tuesday's quotations, and the decline was the sharpest and most decisive ever known. Stock of all kinds dropped as though the bottom had fallen out. And even the gold market was weak and unsettled quite unsatisfactory to those who had bought largely on the strength of Seymour's pros pects for election. The banks were unable to do much to alleviate the situation, having all their abilities taxed to take care of themselves, and carry their expanded load safely over the chasm. The holders of stocks of all kinds who were compelled to sell were obliged to do so at a loss, and in a steadily and rapidly falling market. Many of the Wall-street operators were severely bitten, and the bull clique received an experience which on any other men would not be utterly wasted, but Wall-street will prove better than its record if another tight market and panic do not ensue as soon as circumstances prove favour able. The stringency which has so rigorously ruled the mar ket for the past few weeks having been in great measure artificial and unnecessary, nobody will regret to see its reign terminated and its strength shattered. After this, for a time at least, we may hope for a healthier and more legi mate state of things. The money market will doubtless be firm, and shortly supplied with loanable funds, but it will give a stronger and better tone to business, and the indus try and general pro.)perity will receive direct and impor tant benefit. Fortunately, the country at large has not been greatly invc lved in the latest schemes of the Wall street adventurers, nor greatly troubled by their extremi ties, it will, in future, have less to do with politics and re construction, and more with finando and trade, now the national and practical questions. The present storm once over, and New York as the financial centre of the country once more restored to a healthy and normal condition, we expect greater and steady increase in our business and productive industry, and a free and general exchange of money between the different sections of the country. The Wall-street panic will have its advantages and the expe rience can be more easily undergone now than at any later time. With this general awakening and clearing up in Wall-street will also come the revival of business in the flour, wheat, and grain markets of the West, and the speculators, who have been loading themselves with heavy stocks, will be compelled to surrender to the necessities of the situation, and will reverse the course of the exchange of money between the West and the East, turning it back again from the Atlantic to the lakes. The grain market may strengthen and ad vance slightly in its prices under this caurs3 of events, but there will be the advantage gained of a st tble and re liable market, of business on a sound and definite basis, and of a probability that causes and effects will follow each other in legitimate and not reverse order. Under the controlling stringency of the money market stocks have been held in abeyance, and little has been done, except wait for the denouement, which came, as stated, yester day. Everything went down, the western railway stocks more decidedly and helplessly titan any others, and the lowly Mar:posa mining shares a 3ented to be the strongest of the list. Doubtless the recovery will commence at an early day, for most of the western railways have real and not nominal values, and strength in themselves to recover from any temporary depression. Fur the Erie, which, with its operators, has been at the bot tom of all the trouble in the money market, there is nothing to predict and nothing to mourn. Its victims out number its friends, and should Vanderbilt get control of the road—though he is not now accused of designs upon it-he would doubtless rescue it from the dishonour and speculation which have always followed it. Gold con tinues with little change, and will probably decline rather than otherwise from this point onward. Grant's election will hold it to this general law, whatever the daily and temporary fluctuations. The shipments abroad have fallen off to a mere nominal amount, and the transactions have lately been quite limited. (From. the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, Nov. 6, 1868. The stringency in the money market has continued un abated all the week, and has culminated to-day in a gene ral break-down iu stocks, Milwaukee and St. Paul among others having fallen 21i per cent. on the figures of yes terday morning. The whole stock market is demoralized and a very uneasy feeling prevails. Fur money on call rates are very irregular, all sorts of prices having been paid, from I to 1 per cent. commission, with 7 per cent in gold. Discounts are almost at a stand, and several failures in the Produce Market are announced. Government Bonds have been freely pressed on the market, resulting in a heavy decline in prices. Gold has fluctuated greatly, having touched 132}, closing to-day at 132 i. Large blocks of Border State State Stocks have boon thrown on the market at a decline of four and a-half to five aad a-half per cent. In Railroad Stocks an immense business has been done, with a general swamping of margins. Spite of the demoralized state of the market, first-class Railroad Bonds continua to be steadily taken up for investment, among the most prominent of which are Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis. In Miscellnneous Stocks the principal transactions have baen in Pacific Mail, which closes at a decline from last week's figures of nearly 15 per cont. Mining Stocks con tinue very quiet, with the exception of Consolidated Gre gory, Grass Valley, Mariposa and Smith and Parmelee, in which a fair, business is doing at, of course, lower rates. Petroleum Stocks sell steadily at current rates. Business in Express Stooks heavy. We quote— Adams ... ... 46 to 46; American ... 41 to 42 Merchants' Union '2O to 20i United States ... 46 to 47 Wells, Faigo, and Co. ... 25 to 23f Tho following aro the quotations for coin : Amer. silver... 961 to 97 Eng. sovs 486 to 459 Mex. dollars...lo3i „ 1041 120 francs 385 „ 388 Eng. silver 480 , 485 I Thalers Five francs .... 96 „ 97 Foreign Ecchange is unsettled, and the business has been on a small scale. NEW YORK RITES OF EXCHANGE, Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Primo Commercial lOB4-1094 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 351-36 Frankfort, 0 M 4of-411 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.18f 5.15 Amsterdam, Bankers - S wiss Latest prices of Silver Mining Stocks, by telegram from Ban Francisco, dated Nov. 4, 1868: Gould and Curry 6832 per foot Savage ... 1,380 „ Choliar-Potosi Ophir Ifolo and Norcross Crown Point Yellow Jacket Belcher Alpha..• 139 ;; Kentuck Bullion Overman Empire Mill ... Imperial Confidence Amader Exchequer ... Quartz Hill •,• ... .--- ••• • 880 ▪ 860 1,430 Lady Byron _ . Sierra Nevada.,, ••• • • 77 ... ... 780 17 RAILROAD AND MIS N. Y. Central ll 7l Erie Hudson .. l -23 Reading Mich. South. &N. I 791 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg Bli North-West North-West Preferred 77 Canton... 46 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 951- 220 ;; 64 ". *** 100 „ ..... .... 104 25 pr , s , hare ... ~ ..• 215 ... ... ... 11•• ~ CLOSING QUOTATIONS FI N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 95 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887_ 93 N. Y. Central Os, R Est 90 N. Y. Central Os, Sub'n 90 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 103 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ll9 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 —ll9 I Erie Ist Mort, Ex 101 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 100 Erie 7s, 31 Mort, 1883 90 Erie 7s, 4th Mo:t, 1880 87 Erie 7s, oth Mort, 1888 78 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E. lstM, 77 9l Hui. R. 7s, Ist M, Ilud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 101 Harlem Ist H, '66 '72 103 Mich. C. Ist AI, 'B2 1131 Mich. new Ist NI Bs, 'B2 113 Mich. So., 7 p. c 2d M 9O N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B 98 Alich.S.&N.l.S.rd7p.c.l ol 111. Cen. 7 p. e, '7O 1161 Alton &'l'. 11. let 91 Alton &T. 11. 2d pfd Alton & T. 11.2 d M. Inc B3 Han.&St...l. Land Warts 105 Ilan. & St. J. Con 100 Chi. B. & Q., Ist DI 1 1 91; Chi. & N. West, S. F 971 & N. W. Con Cony 92 Chi. & N. W. Es'n B BB 0010 000 1000 71 ••• ••• ••• ••• 17 25 „ 'ELLANEOUS STOCKS. Fort Wayne Pacific Mail ll4 Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 284 Boston Water Power lb4 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers lO7 M dc St. Paul MSt St. Paul Preferred 77 at RAILROAD MORTGAGES. Chi. & N. W. Ist M 9li & Wab. Ist 31 Ex 9l Gt. Western 2d M '93 76 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M 100 Gal. & Chic. Est 9B Gal. & Chic. 2d NI 95 Chi. & It. I. Ist M 101 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 94-1- Cleve. & Tel. S. Fund 100 i N. J. Central Ist 31 101 N. J. Central 2d 31 103 Pitts. Ft,W., &Cll.lst M 106 Pitts. Ft. NV., & Ch. 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3:1 M 9l Cleve. & Pitts. 2d NI 9O Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 92 Chic. &Alton, S. P.lstAl 101 Mil. & St. P•till Ist 31 9l Mil. & St. Paul 2d Marititta & Cin. Ist 31 9l l & Essex Ist M 964 Morris & Essex 2d AI Joilet & Chic. Ist 31-103 Chi. & Gt. Easen Ist M 74 N. Y. & N. H. 6s 9O Dubuque &S. City,lstM 92 Peninsula Ist AI r 0 Ohio & Miss. lst ➢1 95 Ohio & Miss. Con B6 Tol. P. \V. Ist Nl. E. D Bl Atlantic & G. W. Ist M 7O CLO3ING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon .. Sixes, 1881, coupon llll to 1111 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon .. 1011 to 1041 .., ‘. , _ Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lO3l t 0 41.034 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 — to (From the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Nov. 5.) A fire insurance case was decided last week at Chicago, in which suit was brought to recover from the Merchants' Fire Insnranco Company, of Hartford, on several policies of insurance, in the whole amounting to $46,000. Two defences were opposed: First, That the plaintiffs either set fire to their own store or acted so grossly negligent as to affect the policy. Second, That they furnished a false ac count of the value of the goods. Judge Davis in his charge was explicit, if either of the defences is true the plaintiffs can not recover. But if the plaintiffs show that they had no intention to overstate the amount of value of the property lost, then the law allows them to recover the actual amount lost. In the case of such accidental misrepresen tations the Law is indulgent. In such a case the burden of proof is thrown on the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for 52,718 75. A motion for a new trial was made by defendant. The Tribune, writing on Thursday evening, the Gth inst., on the state of the market during the day, observes: —" Erie Railway shares, which were supposed to be the chief point of attack by the present combination, were strong throughout, and, notwithstanding the rumours cir culated to damage their market value, did not yield to the attack on the balance of the market. At the one o'clock board the market was dull, but free of panic. At the Second Board prices were steady at the close. New York Central broke to 120, afterwards rallying to 121, closing at 1201. The balance of the market presented au unsettled appearance, ending in panic, and there were no purchasers for anything but shorts. The Government market has been panicky. The decline was 31 per cont. on the new bonds from the opening quo tations of yeaterday. This great break on the election of Grant is unexpected to all holders, domestic and foreign, but is to be easily explained. It is now reported that Mr. M'Culloch, who has on several occasions taken pains within the past month to say that uo further sales of bonds would be made, has sold fully eight millions of 5-20 s within the past ten days, and has been a seller to-day, on the most stringent money market ever known on the street. It is incredible to believe, after all the assurances to the contrary which have been made, that this can be the case, with fully $60,000,000 surplus gold in the Treasury after paying the November interest. Any further in crease of thegold-bearing debt is an outrage on holders of bonds. The present depression is caused by a Democratic ring, who have locked up 12 to 15 millions to break all values, and, assisted by secret sales by the Treasury, they have been able to give an appearance of a want of confi dence to our securities that is entirely artificial and false. Government Bonds close weak and unsettled. (From Messrs. Sattertloaite's Circular.) LONDON, Nov. 18, 1868. The market for United States Government Bonds in Loudon has since our last been steady, the price of the 5-20 Bonds, 1862, reaching from 734 to 74i, closin g ► 74, buyers. The fluctuation in Erie Shares, with large transactions, has been again of a very extraordinary character, and altogether subversive of the usual calculations ; that two opposite par ties in America are operating largely in the shares is c - tail; and various circumstances are put forth from time to time as causes for the eff...ct. T nat the wildest excitement has prevailed in the hew York market is evident from the fact that within the past week Erie s'►ares have been down to 361 and up to 62. The latest information we have by tele graph is that an injunction was sought fur by Mr. Belmont and others to stop further issue of stock, and to restrain directors using money. There continue to be inquiries about Pacific Central Railroad Six per Cent. Bonds and Union Pacifies, and transactions in the latter have taken place at 69. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures have improved about 1 per cent. on the peaceful termina tion of the suit in Chancery, which: is the first step to wards the removal of the receiver in America. Illinois shares remain steady. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Almost the only news by Cable refers to casual ties. Two ferry boats came into collision last Sa turday in New York harbour, whereby two persons were killed and about 15 others wounded. The packet ship Isaac Webb, from Liverpool to New York, was ashore leaking, her sails gone, and the captain dead. The Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Cleve land was burnt on Wednesday, with six of its in mates. By mail we learn that a storm, on the Ist inst., had been severely felt on the Lakes, several vessels being destroyed, and much life lost. The propeller, Congress, from Bdffalo to Chicago, was lost in Lake Michigan, on Tuesday, Nov. 3 ; the vessel and cargo were valued at $30,000. A freight locomotive on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, 18 miles below Cincinnati, exploded, Thursday night, Nov. 5, killing the conluctor and fireman and three boys who were standing near. The motion to dismiss the suits of Kimberley Brothers against General Butler, at Baltimore, has been refused by the judge of the Superior Court of that city, on the ground that General Butler's pri vilege as a member of Congress did not protect him, except from arrest of person, or service for person. A. fine crop of actions is likely to arise from this decision, and on the ruling that those injured by acts done in his military capacity are not barred the right of appeal. Some one predicts that he at the head of the Radicals will attempt the impeach ment of Grant within twelve months of the date of his inauguration, but neither Grant nor the Repre sentatives are the same as the enemy against whom he so signally failed, Andrew Johnson. It cannot surprise, in the face of the alleged frauds in New York and Philadelphia, in the for mer of which, it is asserted, American opinion was swamped by the vote of ignorant emigrants, that an attempt shouldbe made to revive Know-Nothing. ism. Nor will it surprise that the great spread of Roman Catholicism is being met by the organi zation of secret American Protestant lodges. They have been established in Boston, where they sus tain an organ called the American Protestant, Lowell, and other towns in Massachusetts. It is said that in 16 other States lodges have been esta blished, so that they ramify, and are nothing more or less, we presume, than Orange Lodges. Virginia went through the form of an election on the 3d November, the Democrats claiming that she cast her electoral vote for Seymour and Blair. It is said that she will demand its recognition in the Electoral College, and if refused she will take that opportunity of testing the legal position of the State iu the Federal Union. Florida was the only State in which the Legislature chose the electors. All three are Republican, and one of them the only negro member of the Electoral College. The vote was 40 for the Republican against nine for the De mocratic ticket. The United States appear to be carrying on two little wars—the one against the Ku-Klux, and the other against the Red Indians. Last Thursday it was announced from New York that a Ku-Klux band had been routed at Centrepoint, Arkansas, by the militia, nine being killed, many wounded, and 20 captured. General Sheridan reports some successful skirmishes with the Usages, that 13 of their chiefs had arrived at Fort Hayes to consult with him as to the terms on which they could take the field against the Cheyennes. The latest courier reports the United States troops to be pressing vigorously on the Indians, who were reported to be suffering for want of supplies, and to be living on mule meat. The troops were so actively engaged in driving the hostile tribes that the savages have no opportunity to collect food. The soldiers have fifteen days' supplies, and the Indians, it is as serted, will be reduced to the alternative of a battle or else death by starvation. Affairs in Cuba are not very promising. The cable informs us that the Havannah correspondent of the New York Herald states that the insurgents are in large force in the vicinity of Puerto Principe and Santiago. They were besieging Mazanilla, and according to some accounts had captured the place. We fear that American citizens may be induced to lend their aid. The United States Consul in Havannah had an interview with the Captain-Ge neral, wherein it appears he put his. caveat against harsh treatment to Arose icons, who might get involve I in the insurrection. Lersundi's reply not being deemed satisfactory the Consul proposed to telegraph to Washington for a man-of-war, to which Lersundi very naturally objected. On the Consul insi,ting the Captain-General refused to allow the despatch to be forwarded. A compro mise regarding emancipation is suggested; the planters asking for a delay of six years, and the exclusion of the negro from the right of voting, If the Spiiit of the Times is indignant with Eng land and Mr. Laird for the Alabama affair, it cer tainly makes no distinction in favour of the United States when its own c)untry takes a similar course. The contract for the sale of the monitors, Oneota and Catawba, to the Peruvian Government by the firm of A. Swift and Co., of Cincinnati, in behalf of a " ring" of American speculators in ironclads, is severely censured, as being a shameful infringement of the laws of neutrality. The contractors agreed to supply and deliver on board the monitors four 15-inch guns, with 600 rounds of amtuunicion ; fifty breech-loading muskets, uniforms for 180 men, and the ordnance stores required for such vessels, provisions, naval stores, and 250 tons of coal for each. The monitors were to ba delivered to Peru vian officials appointed to receive them "on the coast of the Gulf of Mexica, in Mexico, or on the high seas," as the Minister of Mexico to the United States might direct. This is not a bad commentary on the Alabama affair, which, by the way, is alluded to immediately after; the Spirit's advice being that a home commission should be ap pointed by the Union to adjudicate on the claims, fairly reimbursing each loser by orders on the Trea sury, retaining the whole account to prosecute against England. We would all like to be made judge and jury on our own affairs; but it would be easier to give orders on the United States Treasury than to recover the amount from the Treasury of Great Britain ; and, on the whole, we prefer the settlement made by that much-abused Minister, Reverdy Johnson. General Reynolds has been removed from com mand in Texas, and General Canby appointed his successor. General Wallace succeeds General Canby in command at Washington. Canby suc ceeded General Sickles in command of the Caro linas until they were reconstructed. He was to have started for Texas last week, and, in addition to his military command, will act as Assistant- Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas. lie is greatly disgusted at the transfer from Wash ington, and has been condoled with by his friends. Reynolds assumes command of his regiment, the 26th Infantry, at Austin, and when notified of the relief exclaimed, " Thank the Lord." General Steadman resigned his position as Superintendent of the New Orleans police on Saturday, and Geo. L. Cain was appointed temporary Superintendent. The Water-street revival has now wholly come to an end. The results have been summed up by the researches of the New York City Mission, and they are anything but satisfactory. It. appears that it was got up and carried on by a body called the Howard Mission, which appears to have raised funds by public subscription during the furore to work the conversion of the Water-street sinners. But thay, from the " wickedes:" man, John Allen, to the " wickeder than the wickedest," and from him to the " wickedest of all," have relapsed into their wallowiugs, and the public are eagerly asking for the numbers among whom the regeneration was said to be " sweetly and quietly making its svaf. Far be it from us to insinuate anything against the Howard Mission ; but it does look uncotnmonli strange, and it is possible that there may be something still worse than Water-street itself. Considering the excitement New York derived, there may be io: gratitude in inquiring about the expenditure 01 subscriptions and looking up the benevolent Howar d Mission, with awkward questions about its directors , trustees, managers, its business, and its office. California was expected to go Republican, whil e San Francisco was likely to be carried by the Demo' crats,andso it hasproved. Great excitement prevailed prior to the election, and Gen. Halleck, at the re' quest of Governor Haight, had ordered troops ° f the different military stations under arms from nin e a.m. until midnight, on November 3, to assist j u quelling any riotous proceedings. The sailing of the steamship Japan for Hong Kong had been post' poned until the arrival of the Constitution frora Panama. The telegraph operator who handed to Bade r the despatch he proeurel and used so unscrupw lously, addresse I by Mr. Samuel Ward to Mr' Edward Atkinson, has resigned, finding discovery inevitable. Mr. Okey Hall had refused to pro secute in a former case, th)ugh the District Attor ney, on the ground that the man had only done what th 3 Butler Committee of investigation did. last Spring in a larger way, an I that it would be hp' proper to punish him for acts perpetrated with 1 punky by the Congressional Committee. The Presi dent of the company, was willing to prosecute, WS°O this injurious precedent stood in the way. Butler's antecedents became at least valuable to Ilia own accomplice ; indeed, men like Edward Atkin' son might well shrink from punishing this when he, for whom he stole the message, and 1 13 ‘ h used it publicly, was about to be returned to C°ll - by a moral Massachusetts District. Mr. Peabody is in Brighton, where it is said tl Mr. G. W. Childs is to be his guest, and that lair' Walter, of the Times, and Mr. Dickens will avail they:" selves of the presence of the eminent Philadelphi a° in England, to extend to him .the same hospitable reception they met at his hands while in America' Mr. Childs has lately been staying at the Langha ° Hotel. ------- The great litigation which has been penling since 1858 between the Receiver of the Accessory CSi c° : ragua) Transit Company and Cornelius Vanderbilt 1 13 ' been brought to a close by the report of the referee, t b° Hon. John T. Hoffman, appointed in the case by Ju el , e Ingraham about three years ago. The pending litiga tion is to compel Vanderbilt to account for about $3,000,00' The finding of the referee holds Vanderbilt liable gala for the value of the steamships—for six of which he " a previously accounted—and a very small portion of t subsidy, and none of the goodwill money received 10 : the Pacific Mail Company. The amount due the c0mP 313 4 from Vanderbilt, instead of $3,J00,000, is fixed a t °au $185,000, with an offset of $25,000 for certain papa l° made by Vanderbilt. 10 10 [ADVERTISEMENT.J—Henceorth no one will doubt the Vs- oco properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ar 5 ,,,g0 Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bless4o it has already received from Invalids whose position ha (l 4,e, deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the ;of whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty yea r , unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gaze%ll Midi," July 25th :—"Rome„luly 21,1366. —The health of the Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other 17,30 dies, he has confined himself entirely to Da Barry's Itelr 6 _, l 01 , Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health , 8 09 his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly' , 6, of extract a few out of more than 63,000 cures:—Cure No. A 2 ;40, the Marchioness de Brehau, of seven years' liver comPlical wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpits all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most, 'a., tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Stua r %iii. Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dysPePo, No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dysPe l :os, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, sPa sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased liTir spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafness- t ot; portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron La b name is most audaciously attached. Is• In tins, at Is. 1.A.; Ilb , 23. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 61.; 5 1b 3 . , -„ / c/ 12 lbs., 225.; 24lbs ,40s.—Also DU BARRY'S REVAIENTA CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 clO. , 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 61, for 43 cups at 65., for 233 cups a. 3 * for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. 'fi l ' ee il); and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England On ,f e r , ii of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., I's' Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. BOOTHI3Y—On the 18th inst., the wife of Captain l ' - Bootliby, York, of a daughter. tl 3° C2ESAR—On the 20th inst., at Champion-hill, Surrei , wifo of J. Ca3sar, Esq., of a son. . 0 of isos—On the 20th inst., at Bromley, Kent, the W I G. Grant Wilson, of a son. Marriages. 0 1 ' MARTIN—ROBERTS—On the 19th inst., at St. Mary . 'toth burn, Albert, fourth sou of Wm. Martin, Esq., of u F or go Essex, to Saerh Harriet, youngest daughter of Ge Roberts, Esq., of 18, Kilburn Priory. W. TURNER—JAGGAILS —On the 19th inst., at Elmore, S c r o otP set, Henry William Turner, of Enmore, to Ellen , :per daughter of Henry Edwin Jaggars, late of Have r ' hill, Hampstead. Deaths. . 11l , ir EDMISTON—On the 19th inst., at Brompton, J. ‘-'••" j ton, Esq., formerly of Brixton, aged 77. : ,tet MOON —On tho 20th in at Southwood Lawn, ilig i tili' Henry Moon, Esq., of 3, Great Winchester-stre et -1) ings, aged 43. io er, PURSER—On the 18th inst., at Bow, Major WW• r` aged 61. REEVE -On the 19th inst., Lieut.-'colonel Williale liel3ri ltueve, late Coldstream Guards, aged 41. ' goie t' SOMERVILLE —On the 17th inst., Hugh, 18th Baron '- villa, aged 29. Ur " SuAw—On the 19th inst., at 17, Sussex-garde ns, park, Sir John Shaw, Bart., aged 81. __..-!- " • 141) 0 tli' London : Printed and Published by WiLLIAI: Rio - of No. 112, Strati 1, Printer, at Tait Suet 11, ' , ,,0ti - Strand, in the Precinct of the &ray, in the v° Iliddlesex.—Saturday, November 21, lauS. at , Ord tra, Ro CO, fes We bi r est hie Fin, L a Ca