The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says the visit of the American Minister to Liverpool has not only given occasion for a display of mutual courtesies between the leading people of our chief seaport and the representative of a great commercial nation, but it has allowed Mr. Reverdy Johnson to give assurances on important public matters which will be received with general satisfaction. It is quite natural and fitting that the town of Liverpool should be forward in welcoming an American Minister. Liverpool is more connected with America than any other town in these islands ; one may say, indeed, that if there had been no United States there never would have been a Liver pool. In this great emporium are centred the chief deal ings between the two continents. Those miles of docks are filled with vessels in the American trade; American captains and dealers are to be met with at every turn ; huge bales of American cotton are piled on the quays before they are sent forth to feed the countless factories of Lancashire. The chief differences between the mercan tile communities of Liverpool and other English ports arise from the close connection of that town with the business of the Republic on whose prosperity its own prosperity mainly rests. We may, therefore, ascribe more than usual importance to the addresses which were pre sented to Mr. RevenlyJohnson. lie stated that two of the subjects in dispute were substantially settled, and that the third will soon be settled. Mr. Johnson is understood to refer to the dispute about the island of San Juan and that concerning naturalised Americans as the matters on which the two Governments have arrived at a substantial agree ment. The third subject is the claim for damages done by the Alabama. In conclusion, the Times congratulates Mr. Johnson's hosts on the cordiality of expression they have elicited. Complimentary words between the two countries are, indeed, not new ; they form the invariable accompani ment to any meeting of their citizens; and we must do American representatives the justice to say that they have never been wanting in courtesy. But there are in the speeches of Mr. Johnson an unreserve and earnestness which bid us believe he really wishes to distinguish his mission by practical peacemaking between the two coun tries. Such an object is well worthy a statesman's ambi tion, and the achievement may be a fitting crown to an honourable life. The Post finds the prologue to the play rather wearisome, and the speakers over many. And after? What shall we get by way of a House of Commons, and when we have got it what shall we do with it ? It looks very much as if we should get a House not very different in essential cha racteristics from that which, practically, is without functions, and will soon have no existence. There will be more capitalists, more new men of middle age placing their foot in the House of Commons, on the ground of their direct connection with great industries, and who, singularly enough, will probably owe their return in great measure to the support of the working men with whom they have been supposed to be in antagonism. As regards the political aspect of the coming House, it cannot now be doubted that the forces of the Opposition will be con. siderably increased, and Mr. Gladstone may reasonably hope to find himself on the first great division with a majority at his back. What he will do with it is another question. What his future position will be will depend upon the manner in which he manages his majority, and the mode in which he proceeds to carry out his principles and jut his policy in action. The Post then concludes by asking what Conservatism means in 1868, and what its professors propose to conserve. The Herald notices that the more clearly Mr. Gladstone's "campaign" speeches are seen to be failures the louder the Radical claqueurs become in their applause. That is an old manoeuvre—when everything is going wrong to try to look pleased. But if intelligent Liberals are obliged to admit that they can no longer read Mr. Gladstone's amazing outpourings of emptiness and misrepresentation, the violence of his more unscrupulous devotees will scarcely save him from collapse. Apart altogether from Mr. Gladstone's inexcusable perversions of fact, which no writer of the day is able to explain or defend, his speeches are seen by everyone to he the poorest, vainest, and most frivolous ever addressed to the public by an eminent man. Mr. Gladstone's melancholy struggles to be funny always awaken the deepest sympathy with him ; he has not the faintest perception of a joke ; but of late his uncouth gambols, his unwieldy and elephantine jests, his paltriness of thought and language, his desperate humility, his eternal repetitions, his puerile exhibitions of personal spite—all these characteristics of his style must have tended to reveal to the public on what a slender foundation he has contrived to build a great fame. Is there a single thought or a single expression in one of Mr. Gladstone's ponderous and lifeless speeches which any man in this kingdom of sound mind and understanding could call original, striking, or happy ? The Herald calls attention to what Lord Macaulay said of Mr. Gladstone's distorted vision and ambiguous language, and thinks the latter has now degenerated into mere froth. The Daily News has a leader upon the lecture lately given by Mr. Goldwin Smith, in St. George's Hall, London. It may be not uninteresting, perhaps, at this critical moment in our domestic history, to take note of the passages in this lecture on " Chatham," which roused to applause an audienee of by no means an excitable dis position, who had evidently come to listen and to learn, and not to make any show of their own sympathies or opinions. When Mr. Goldwin Smith contrasted the cold, worldly, sneering, vicious scepticism of Chatham's age with the earnest and fundamentally religious scepticism of the present day, there was an audible murmur of intelligent assent. Applause greeted the observation that "in framing a Constitution, you cannot divide power." A similar testi mony of approbation greeted the remark that the power of political rhetoric had had its day, and that we shall now see political questions dealt with as questions of science; and was renewed at the mention of the name of John Bright as the fourth of the great orators in the parlia mentary history of England, and the comparison of his speeches with those of Demosthenes as being emphati. cally not declamation, but counsels. Perhaps a still louder burst of applause was elicited by the lecturer's refutation of the vulgar error, that Chatham made commerce flourish through war. " Commerce never does flourish through war," said the lecturer, and the audience, among whom there were probably more small traders than small-arm manufacturers or military contractors, cheered the sentiment heartily. The lecturer, it should be remarked, never for a moment deviated from his subject to personal contemporary allu sions. It was no fault of his if the audience pointed at a Premier of the day the interpretation of a sentiment which should be " of all time "—" The first duty of a statesman is to preserve his own honour." No sentence in the whole course of a lecture which was listened to with profound attention seemed to call forth so eager and earnest a manifestation of approval as this. With due respect to Mr. Disraeli, we must confess this manifestation appears to us a healthy sign. The Standard thinks there is no more bigoted set of men in the world than that coterie who claim for themselves the monopoly of free thought and liberal opinion at Oxford. Perhaps the most notorious and one of the ablest among them is Mr. Goldwin Smith, and we venture to say that there is not in England a politician more borne, more absolutely wedded to a few fixed and extreme ideas, or a writer more offensively dogmatic, more prejudiced, and more narrow-minded. Because he, and such as he, happen to prefer a republican to a monarchical form of government, they have chosen to repre sent England as no less than criminal in her resistance to the lawless aggressions of the French Revolu tion, to fix the name of patriot on the men who systemati cally advocated the cause of the first Napoleon, and deny it to those who made their country the liberator of Europe. No party is more insolent in its contempt of opponents, more bigoted in its opinions, more fanatical in going all lengths in their support, more arrogant in the assertion of their own exclusive claim to wisdom, virtue, and enlighten ment, than that Oxford coterie whom the Times repre sents as the salt of the university—the men of wide minds, of liberal spirits, of enlightened thought, the cham pions of impartial science, and the enemies of prejudice and intolerance. The Star holds that it is not easy to gather from a neces sarily imperfect newspaper report all the lessons which Mr. Goldwin Smith drew from the career of Chatham, a id the manner in which he applied them to the duties of the English citizen and the English statesman in our own time. But one plain lesson and one simple a pplication, which, if the speaker did not directly point out, he left consciously to be discovered by the common sense of his hearers, cannot escape notice. It is this : Whatever qualities a statesman may lack, there is one that he must have if he hopes to shape the policy of a nation and to set his mark upon its history. He may want eloquence, as did Cromwell ; or prudence, as did Chatham ; or administrative capacity, as history will pro bably say of Earl Russell; but he must not be deficient in earnestness. That is the salt of political life. Without that, no industry, no prudence, no prescience, no eloquence, no administrative successes, will obtain for a man the enduring fame of true statesmanship. It is because lie was earnest that we call Cobden a statesman, though he never held office in the State ; it is because he is intensely earnest that we foresee for Mr. Gladstone a career of splendid statesmanship ; and because Mr. Gold win Smith himself infuses into everything he writes and everything he says a spirit of earnest devotion, that we most deeply regret the decision which, at an exigent time, has severed him from an active political career in his owr country. On Wednesday, as five men were Loisting some bags of rice by means of a cbain sling and crane in Tooley--street, the bags slipped and fell upon them. killing one and injnriug ;he others ygy THE AMERICAN MINISTER'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL. Mr. Johnson's replies to the numerous aadresses which were inflicted upon him on Thursday at Liverpool all pointed to a speedy settlement of those questions which have so long agitated England and America. To the mayor and corporation he replied : "It would be a departure from the reticence which belongs to diplomatic intercourse to tell you at this time how far the negotiations between your Government and mine have gone ; but it is no departure to add that they have gone so far as to assure me, and to assure your Government, that there is nothing in the past, and that there can be nothing in the present, which will disturb the peace which now so happily prevails. Two of those subjects of differ ence are now substantially settled upon terms alike honourable to each ; and the third—l leave it to you to imagine what that is—will soon be settled upon terms equally honourable to each ; and these severally removed, there can be no peril in the future which will for a moment interrupt the peace which is so essential to the happiness and prosperity of both nations." In answer to the Chamber of Commerce, too, he repeated that everything tended to peace, and :spoke of the country he represented and this as "rivals in peace." On the question of free trade, however, he forebore to express an opinion. The tone of his speech at the banquet, too, was " forget old difference 3." " I had been advised," said he, " that I should not be present upon an occasion like this, because therewould be at it certain gentlemen who byword ,by speech, or by act, aided or encouraged my Southern brethren during our late unhappy conflict. My answer was, that if it should be so, so much the more gratifying would it be to me, because it would afford an assurance to the people of my country and to my Government, as well as to myself, that former differences are forgotten, and that the heart that beats in Liverpool is like the heart that beats through out the kingdom—a heart full of friendship for the people of the United States." Adverting to the bonds between the two countries which existed in the large trade, he declared there was no possibility of a rupture. " Because of the close connection between your land and my own, it is impossible that anything but absolute insanity upon the part of the members of either of the Governments can involve us in any serious conflict. (Loud cheers.) I make that remark, gentlemen, for the future, and not for the present, for you will not be surprised when I tell you that the furthest thing from my mind—and I should be insane if I indulged in any such thought— is that there is any insanity on the part of the minds of the present Government, or on the part of any Government which might in future time suc ceed them. (Loud laughter,) I have alluded to the present Government, gentlemen, for the purpose of saying —what I hope my noble friend next to me on the left (Lord Stanley) will pardon me for saying— that so long as be represents the foreign relations of his country, and I or any other man feeling as I do shall represent the foreign relations of my own Government in this kingdom, the preservation of peace between the two is placed beyond the possibility of a doubt. (Tremendous cheers.) We have thrown aside—indeed, we never felt it —we have thrown aside all mysteries of diplomatic inter course. We have been frank to say what each wanted, and we shall be to the end frank and free to ask from the other what is thought to be right, and to expect to receive from the other what he may think to be wrong." What had been done he left them to guess. In his " peroration" Mr. Johnson lauded commerce and its effects. Commerce held the world in its grasp, and it had led to the bridging of the Atlantic. That would bring the countries into closer coin , munion. In former days we were separated by an ocean which it was perilous to pass ; now there is a bridge of boats, upon which you may go in a few days from shore to shore in perfect safety. That has been the result of the joint enterprise, the joint wealth, of our two countries. But more has been accomplished still. By means of the same joint enterprise, of the same skill, you have enabled us to grasp the band of friendship beneath the sea, although above its waves were running mountains high, threaten ing destruction to all within their reach. And we are indebted for this, the marvel of the age, to your wealth and your enterprise ; to the skill that your engineers and your scientific men, amongst whom, as well as I remember, worthy of special note, are Sir C. Bright and Mr. Whitehouse, Professor Faraday and Mr. Morse, aided by the never-failing energy, the never-despairing confidence, of our countryman Mr. Cyrus Field. We expect to remain under the Government which we enjoy; you to remain under the Government which you enjoy. They differ but in form. Now, Mr. President, the foundations of each are those princi ples essential to the preservation of human liberty, the just rights guaranteed by Magna, Charta, the personal security afforded by writ of Habeas Corpus, and all pro tected by the right of trial by jury, and satisfy us that throughout all time, if we are true to ourselves, our respective Governments will last. They may for a time be interrupted in their actual operation, there may be some error in some portion of the structure of each, but that we will correct ; we will be able to remove the nuisance without defacing the shrine, and at the end I speak it with all the confidence with which a man can speak—at the end we will remain in unity. The unity of my own government is now established, the unity of yours has never been seriously threatened, and God grant it never may. (Loud cheers.) Lord STANLEY, in his speech, took up the subject of the over-armed nations of Europe. lie claimed that there was one principle on which both political parties agreed to act. " 1 think," said he, " that there are general rules of conduct which are equally acceptable, equally endorsed, by both the great political parties into which this great country is divided, and which are therefore quite certain to be carried out by the Foreign Office of this country, whether the guidance of that department be in my hands, or w bother it passes into the hands of any follower or colleague of the eminent statesman who, with us, is entertained as your guest to-night. And it will be a happy day for England, for Europe, and for the world, when those ideas and those feelings, which in this country are not merely dominant but universal, which pervade every class of society, from the highest to the lowest—the desire for peace and absti nence from aggressive designs and the respect for interna tional rights—shall be universally diffused among the populations of those great neighbouring nations on the continett of Europe with whom we have so many ties. Then we shall see, and not until then, an end put to that which is at once the greatest drawback to material pro gress and the great blot and scandal upon the civilisation of continental Europe—l mean the necessity, be it real or imaginary, for those enormous military preparations which in our day have attained proportions never, I believe, approached before; which are increasing our taxation, depressing our industry, and drawing heavily upon the resources of the future ; which introduce in the time of peace a social condition only one degree removed from war, and which, if the system is to last for two or three generations, can only end in one of two results, financial ruin or dishonest repudiation. Well, gentlemen, if you ask me, having said that, what is to be done to supply a greater degree of mutual confidence between the various powers of the world, I must say frankly that I am not ready with an answer. The man who shall solve that problem will be perhaps a greater benefactor to humanity than this present generation has seen. Ido not profess to do it. All I say is, that it is competent to point out the evil, and to show where it lies, even if you cannot indicate the remedy. I will say this, further, that though it is utterly absurd to suppose that if any two great nations are deter mined on fighting one another, the amicable interposi tion of anybody else can hinder them doing it, yet in nine out of every ten of the quarrels which arise, if they are dealt with at the outset, a great deal may be done to stop them by the frank and friendly interposition of neutrals, who are perfectly well known and understood to have no object except that of the general interest. Speaking of the general idea that a general war was inevitable, Lord Stanley exclaimed : " I do say this, having some means of knowing what I am speaking about, that I do not believe that in any cabinet of Europe there is any statesmen who looks at the prospect of a general war with any feelings except those of aversion and apprehension. There may be men who look upon such a result as inevitable, or iLt any rate as probable ; but, without being too sanguine, there is every reason to hope that that which everybody depre cates and desires not to happen will not happen." On America Lord Stanley said very little. He declared that it was a pleasure to do business with Mr. Johnson, and repeated that two of the outstanding questions between this country and America had been settled, and the solution of the other was not, he hoped, far off. " I for one take this for granted, that as civilised men on both sides of the Atlantic it is our duty to be friends ; as kinsmen, it is the wish of an enormous majority of us to be friends ; and, as a commercial country, carrying on already a gigantic business, and wishing to make that business a good deal bigger before we have done, it is very decidedly our interest to be friendly. Now that is rather a strong combination of motives, and where you have g( t men with feelings and pecuniary interests all pulling the same way, I think it will take a very strong disturbing influence or adverse force to overcome this inducement to remain on good terms." In conclusion, he commented on the honour of being able to settle these questions, which, he said, compensated him for the anxiety of the not always enviable position of Foreign Secretary. Mr. GLADSTONE, replying to the toast of " The House of uommons," after thanking them for allowing him the plea sure of being present, thus alluded to Lord Stanley's speech :—" I have heard the speech of the noble lord. We are separated, to my regret—l cannot dissemble it—by differences upon pending questions of domestic interest of the deepest importance ; but to the speech which he has delivered—setting aside only those senten ces o f th e s p eec h w hich refer to his official knowledge, in which it would be presumption on my part to pretend to intermix—l am ready to subscribe to the whole of that speech with a cordial agreement." Mr. Gladstone then referred to the wars which had devastated the earth. In most cases—though not in all — both parties had been in the wrong. But dynastic ambition had been narrowed. New forms of government (or, rather, modifications of old) had been introduced. Truer notions of political economy prevailed, and now our commerce led us to hope for peace. Lord Stanley, in introducing his speech, spoke of the flood of matter which, in consequence of the electi on , was now b e i ng inflicted on us, and hinted that there might be sonic who would wish that there was not so much talk. Mr. Gladstone, "by way of returning good for evil," alluded to this, and stated amidst much laughter that he had rea d lord Stanley's address to his constituents, and hail come to the conclusion that no censure in that way could possiWy he applied to the noble lord. The address concluded by a compliment to Messrs. Adams and Johnson, the former and present envoys at this Court from America. Mr. REVEHDY JOHNSON, in proposing the toast of the President's health, said : " I was struck when at Sheffield with the wisdom and good seeso of the motto which the Cutlers' Association had adopted—"To ensure success, preserve your credit." That principle is as important to nations as to individuals. What would England have been if she had not strictly observed it? What would the United States have been if they had not strictly observed it? What would they now do if they should disregard it? I forbear to look upon the dark picture which would then be presented ; but I desire not to look upon it ; nor, as I lino r, can I with propriety look upon it, because I am satisfied that for you to disregard your credit is impossible, and, as I believe, for us to dis regardequally impossible. There may be some - doubt about is e matter of creditors, but policy requires justice, requires honesty ; requires, if there be such a doubt, that doubt should be given to the benefit of the creditors,'; THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1868 THE ENDOWMENT OF THE BISHOP Or OXFORD'S TRAINING COLLEGE. An attempt is being made to raise a fund for the endow. ment of the Cuddesdon Theological College, which witis founded by the Bishop of Oxford some fourteein years ago, for specially training students about to enter holy orders. "As a mark of respect and affection for its distinguished founder, the fund so raised is to be called the Wilberforce Endowment." Making this announcement, the Guardian remarks :—" A few years ago special training for the clergy was often scouted as worse than useless ; but now even such imagi native writers as "S. G. 0." cannot in a long letter to the leading journal, please the popular ear with any more attractive suggestion for Church reform than "a better training in those who occupy desk and pulpit." We aro glad to see that the promoters of the " Wilber force Endowment Fund" do not ask for any large sum of money. They aim at no more than making Cuddes don College as secure and permanent as possible—providing for the sustentation of the buildings, and freeing its officers from the excitement and temptation which must belong to an income depending wholly on their popularity ani the number of students within the college walls. FATHER IGNATIUS AND THE JEWISH RABBI. The Rev. J. L. Lynn writes to the Guardian on behalf of the converted Jewish Rabbi. This man was converted many years ago to Christianity. He left the Continent for .A merles., and was ordained by the Episcopal Methodists to the minis try of their community. Ho has since then worked ener getically among the different dissenting sects in England. A few months ago he visited St. Edmund's, Lombard street, although warned that Ignatius " would de ceive the very elect." The result was that the Rabbi consented to join the Benedictines and throw up his situa tion if they would only provide him with the necessaries of life. His son also wishes to join them. The Rabbi has been delivering lectures at their religious house, and his scholarship is much valued. Before Igna tius can receive him and Lis son, money is required. He says, "My profession of the monastic life is not a lucrative or a popular one, and the struggle to support my work is a hard ore. Were this not the case, gladly would I have received the Rabbi and his son without an appeal to others for help. I have just heard that the society to which the Rabbi has for some time belonged are about to expel Lim for his association with us. Will your readers, Sir, send me such assistance that we may at cnce receive our Jewish brothers ? We propose to raise sub scriptions to the amount of £lOO a year: this would enable us to offer the Rabbi and his son the help they need. A clergy man has kindly promised ss. a week, or £l3 a year as long as they remain with us, and a Sister of the order has promised a subscription (annual, I Lope) of £2. Will any charitable readers of this letter send us enough to make up the £2 a week, or £lOO a year, and so befriend two of that holy nation from whom "as concerning the flesh, Christ came ?" Subscriptions should be sent to me at the Benedictine Mis sion -house, 51, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, W.O. PRESENTATION TO MR. GOLDWIN SMITH. A farewell address from the council of the Reform League was presented to Mr. Goldwin Smith at the Adelphi Club, Adelphi-terrace, on Thursday. It was originally intended to present the address at a public meeting, but Mr. Goldwin Smith preferred receiving it in an unostenta tious way. Mr. Howell, at the opening of the proceedings, spoke of the great services Mr. Smith had rendered to the Liberal cause in this country. Mr. Passmore Edwards, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Beales, read the address, which stated that the council of the League were desirous, before Mr. Smith quitted England for a temporary residence in the United States, to express their deep and grateful sense of the very valuable serviceshe had rendered to the cause of parliamentary reform, and political progress generally, at a time when the predominant state of feeling in our universities was lamentably anti-liberal, and imbued with narrow and exclusive class and caste prejudices; and when the majority of the upper and governing classes so far belied the spirit and character of Englishmen as to sympathise with the slaveholders' rebellion in America, and risk the plunging of this country into the most criminal and fratricidal of all wars. In bidding Mr. Goldwin Smith God speed, the address stated that England would lose in him at least one of her most gifted sons and illustrious citizens, and concluded with these words —" May our American brethren welcome and cherish you." Mr. Edwards having handed the address to Mr. Goldwin Smith, the latter gentleman acknowledged the compliment paid him, and said, with respect to the coming elections, that the old parties would combine to keep out of Parliament the popular candidates. He spoke of the uselessness of the Reform League, whose work, he said, was not finished, but only just begun. He said, although he was now about to leave England in the pur suit of his historical studies, he should still feel he was an Englishman, and should duty ever call him home, he would at once relinquish his position in the new country and come back to the old, to take his share of active duty in the service of his native land. Mr. Goldwin SmitF leaves England for America next Tuesday. It is reported that the Lord Provost will receive the honour of knighthood in acknowledgment of the loyal reception given by the citizens of Glasgow to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Hon. T. B. Portman is officially engaged in catrying on an inquiry in South Devon similar to that which has been pursued in other counties, namely, the employment of women and children in agriculture, the state of education, and the dwellings of labourers. In the first week of July last 916,000 paupers were in receipt of relief in England and Wales; being an increase of 37,000 as compared with last year. There were 913,000 in receipt of relief on the last day of the same month. THE BARNSLEY EXPLOSION.—The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed by the boiler explosion at the Elscar Works was resumed on Thursday. From the evidence it was shewn that no blame was attributable to anyone, and a verdict of acci dental death was returned. The Liberte says that Queen Isabella cannot come to any decision respecting her future abode. Her advisers are unanimous in recommending her to leave the frontier, and to take herself to Paris or Rome. Messrs. Baring and Co., of London, and a French house, are said each to have offered the Spanish Minister of Finance a considerable loan. the Rev. W. Reyner Cosens, Vicar of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, is anxious to place a memorial window, or rather, if possible, to fill the chancel windows with stained glass, in memory of the late Archdeacon Bentinck. The Archdeacon built the church at the cost of .£16,000, and has left it £5,000 more. Ho has also left as much as £30,000 to the great societies and charit able institutions of the Church of England. LANDER, TRH AFRICAN DISCOVERER.—III the Chapel Royal, Savoy, there is a monument to the memory of Richard Lander, the distinguished African discoverer. A member of the Royal Geographical Society has bequeathed a small sum of money towards the resto ration of the monument, and the Rev. Henry White, of King's College, London, the chaplain of the Savoy, has invited such as are disposed to add their subscrip. tions, so that the restoration may be carried out. The chapel is open to the public every day between eleven and one o'clock. The Bishop of Ripon on Wednesday presided at the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Leeds Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Philosophical ilall. lie made an emphatic address in support of the inspi. ration of the Bible, strongly urged the duty of every man to read and study the word of God for himself, forcibly sup ported the claims of the society as a means of disseminating the Scriptures thro ug h ou t the world, and hailed with plea sure the fact that Ch urc hmen and Dissenters, without any sacrifice of principl e , could meet on the same platform to advocate the same noble cause. • InNorthWarwickshire,onWednesday,Mr.Newdegate is reported to have said :—" If Ireland, however prompted, presumes to dictate thewithdrawal of the National Church, then I will say this to Ireland, ' You have repudiated the chief condition of the Act of Union. Now repeal the Union !' and then if the Union was repealed 1 would say to her, ' Accept your position as a dependency.' If Ireland is not content, then let Ireland bear a severance of the union. What she now seeks is consistent only with a severance of the union ; and if she will have that severance of the union, we will consider the proposition ; but we will not allow this —we will not allow a Boman Catholic mino rity to dominate over us here, being Protestants, and a ma jority of the United Kingdom." THE STRAW TRADE IN BEDFORDSHIRE.—The adjourned meeting for the purpose of taking into con. sideration the depressed state of the straw trade, and to adopt the best means for the improvement of the same, was held in the Temperance Hall, Dunstable, on Wednes- day evening. The mayor presided, and a large number of inhabitants were present ; indeed, very many were unable to obtain admission. The principal business was the adoption of three resolutions--I. That a prize be offered for the best shape of a hat and bonnet in straw, the patterns to be sent in for the approval of the com• mittee. 2. That a hat and bonnet be sent to the Queen, the Princess of Wales, and the Empress of the French, and to any other part of the world the committee may think fit. 3. That the committee invite other trades t 4 ozuf to the town. i LI THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND EDUCATION. The foundation-stone of St. Chad's College, Denstone, Worth Staffordshire, was laid on Thursday by the Rev. Canon Lonsdale, in the unavoidable absence, through Illness, of the Marquis of Salisbury. This is to be one of those great middle-class schools of which several have already been founded in Sussex. The ceremony, which was of a simple character, was attended by a large number of the clergy and leading families of the district, and subse quently about 500 ladies and gentlemen sat down to lun cheon in a marquee erected on the site, under the presi dency of Mr. Woodard. Amongst the toasts drunk was that of " The Trustees," to which Mr. If übhard, M.P., responded. The hon. gentleman took occasion to remark that it was a delusion to suppose that a reli gious education could be given apart from denomina tionalism. Education, to be effective must be conducted by sincere and earnest men, and he had the fullest confi dence that the schools founded by Mr. Woodard would be conducted honestly and fearlessly in accordance with the doctrines, the formularies, and the articles of the Church of England. "The health of Mr. Woodard" was pro posed by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, who said that since he had ceased to be amenable to a constituency he had felt a singular sense of freedom, and he begged to assure all present that he had the fullest confidence in the sound churchmanship of the promoters of these great schools. Mr. Beresford Hope, M.l'., gave " The Local Committee " in a characteristic speech, in the course of which he said these schools were the best-abused institu tions in England, and if they were not already a power in the land—if Mr. Woodard was not doing a good work by means of them—people would not be so ready to abuse them, and tell all sorts of lies respecting them ; just the kind of lies which are only to be met with in strictly religious periodicals. He would venture to say that the Church had not yet put forth all her strength and power, and that, great as she was, and great as her works had been, she was only beginning her glorious history, for her mission was to teach the world the spirit and the practice of primitive Christianity. She had a great future before her. But because she was great and good was no reason why she should he despoiled. It seemed to him that of all extraordinary perversions of logic which man's intellect had ever played, there was none so extraordinary and wonderful as for men of piety and religion to get up and say that such and such an institu tion did a good work, that such and such an institution fulfilled all its obligations to heaven and earth,' and there fore that in the name of heaven and earth it ought to be stripped of all it had that its virtues might be more appa rent. That seemed to him to be very bad logic, but very good brigandage. If ever the Church of England were disestablished and disendowed, he had the firm conviction that Mr. Woodard's schools would be one of her strongest supports. TRADES UNIONS. The trades unions' delegates have in two meetings been discussing the bill brought forward by Sir Powell Buxton on trades societies. At the last meeting an attempt was made to shelve the question, and the following resolution was proposed :--" That the power assumed byVice- Chancellor Malins, in his decision 'ln re Springhead Spin ning Company v. Riley, Butterworth, and Carrodus,' to con - trol and destroy the combination laws, namely, 6 George IV. and 22 Viet., c. 34, is, in the opinion of the meeting, unconstitutional, and his decision leading thereto one sided, arbitrary, and unjust ; and that this meeting pledges itself to use every legal means to set aside a decision abhorrent for. its injustice and its tyranny." TInA motion, however, was negatived, and the following was brought forward :—" That this meeting, composed of representatives of the various trade societies in the metro polis, having fully considered the bill which has been pre pared for the purpose of obtaining legal protection for the funds of trade societies, and which was brought before Parliament during the last session by Sir Powell Buxton, is of opinion that it is sufficient for every legitimate purpose, and that it should receive the support of every well-meaning member of the House of Commons." Mr. Nesbitt proposed an amendment in favour of the omission of the third clause, which deals with the punish ment of unionists for violence. He said that under the clause as it stood, a wink or a shake of the fist might be con strued into a threat of violence, and asked, if an ordinary man were only bound over to keep the peace for threaten ing violence, why should a member of a trade society be punished by three months' imprisonment for a similar offence ? Mr. Crampton stated that the adoption of the amendment would entirely negative the third clause of the proposed bill. An ordinary person who committed an assault might be sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment ; but the punishment for the same offence by a trades unionist was limited to three months' impri sonment. 'What most affected trades unionists was the law of conspiracy. Mr. Lloyd Jones supported the dame in question. Mr. George Potter moved the appointment of a committee of six, with the view of reconstructing the third clause, and after some discussion the proposition was agreed to. LAW AND POLICE. RAILWAY KEYS.—A case involving in some measure the right of persons to use keys for the purpose of unlocking the doors of railway carriages came before Mr. Alderman Gibbons, at the Mansion House, in the shape of a sum mons against a Mr. Thomas Good, for having unlocked a first-class carriage at Cannon-street. But it was by no means a test case, for the defendant appeared to have acted with considerable and unnecessary violence to the inspector at the station, and for this, perhaps, as much as for the breach of the bye-laws, he was fined £4 Bs. FORGERIES BY A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.-Mr. Colin Alexander Drysdale, who carried on an extensive business as a hide and leather factor, in College-lane, Liverpool, has been brought up at the police-court of that town, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £143 is. 11d. He had an account at the National Bank of Liverpool, and in June last he paid in there the bill in question, which purported to be accepted by Mr. David Alexander Scott, tanner and wool merchant, of Silver Mills, Edinburgh. The bill was negotiated and sent to a bank in London. Their officials there com municated with their correspondents at Edinburgh, when the forgery was discovered. The bill arrived at maturity on the 2nd inst., and was retired on that day by a Mr. Kneeshaw, a banking agent, who received from Drysdale the amount for which it was drawn. The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes, being admitted to bail on finding two sureties in £5OO each. It was understood that there were other charges against him, but they were not gone into. BURGLARY.—Two experienced thieves have been tried at Lewes Sessions for a robbery at Brighton during the races there in August last. Master Vivian, a son of Lord Vivian, happening to pass down the staircase about noon, when all the household were at the races, saw two men in his mother's bedroom. They took the alarm, and made their way out of the house as speedily as possible. In the meantime Master Vivian found an elder brother, and the two young gentlemen followed the thieves. An interesting chase ensued; the men separated, and so did their pursuers, who thus never lost sight of them until they were severally hunted into the hands of thepolice. In the possession of one of them jewellery of the estimated value of £l,OOO, taken from Lady Vivian's room, was found. They were con victed, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude each. Borr v. BAMFORD.—In the City of London Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, an action was brought to recover £5, " money lent." It appeared that defendant had received an anonymous letter containing a£s note. It subsequently appeared that a nephew of the plaintiff had robbed his uncle's firm of between £5OO and £6OO, and distributed the money for charitable purposes. A good deal was sent anonymously to Government clerks. Amongst those who benefited by the charity of Mr. Bott's nephew were the Bishop of London's Church Building Fund and the Royal Maternity Charity. The defendant (a Government clerk with a sick wife at the time) was very glad to have the £5, but on learning the circumstances of its being sent gave an I 0 U to the plaintiff for the amount. —His Honour : You must pay this money, Mr. Bamford. No doubt it is a hard case upon you, but then you have given an I 0 U.—Defendant : Your Honour knows how badly we are paid, and I wish to have time to clear this off. When I received the £5 I confess it was a most accept able sum, and I used it innocently. I did give the I 0 U, but it was more as a question of honour than anything else.—His Honour: Well, there is the I 0 U, and you must pay the money ; perhaps, under all the circum stances, the plaintiff will give you time.--Verdict for plaintiff, with costs, EARLY WINTER.—Pendle Hill is covered with snow, and through Emit Lancashire about six inches of f-l! on Monday morning. All the hills by Buckden • tlrwell arc covered with snow, and the tempera tut, • ry cold. •1N PARIS. —A tradesman of the Quartier .; tin was walking with his wife in the Rue de or two ago about eleven, when he stopped a In. !.. Lo light a cigar. The lady, who had gone slowly on, !ely accosted by an individual, whom the bur ban.', approaching, told to go away or he would call The ruffian replied, " You shall not have tira.!," and drawing a poniard struck him three times in the trektst. The assailant was arrested. One of the wounds is serious, but hopes are iiiiertained that it will not prove m0r4.4 LAST WEEKS ELECT lONS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The elections last Tuesday proved, as we antici pated, decisive. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, which, with Nebraska, form a Northern tier of States, running almost from the Atlantic westward to the Rocky Mountains, rang out on that day no uncertain sound, and with the night, closed SEY MOUR'S last hopes of success. Of the 24 members of Congress elected in Pennsylvania, 18 are Re publicans ; of the 19 from Ohio, 13 are Republi cans ; of the Indiana 11, 8 are Republicans ; while Nebraska has done for that party all she can, elect ing from it her Governor, and her single mem ber in the Federal House of Representatives. Governors were elected in Indiana and Nebraska, but not in Pennsylvania and Ohio, for GEARY was chosen in 1866 Governor for three years in the for mer, and HAYES last autumn for two years in the latter, and both therefore have another year of office. The Auditor and Surveyor-General were elected in Pennsylvania, and Senator BUCKALEW will be re placed by a Republican, as well as Senator HEN DRICKS, of Ohio. In Pennsylvania the reported majority—the returns being still incomplete— was 10,000, and in Ohio one telegram announces it to be 20,000, and another 30,000. The first ma jority reported from ludi tna was 8,000 in favour of the Republican candidate for Governor, Mr. BAKER ; but a later return reduced that to 2,000, a very probable result, as Indiana is bounded by Kentucky, and it was said that the Southern dis tricts would be inundated by Democrats from that State. The Democrats have elected 'l'. H. HoAG ' for the Tenth Ohio District to Congress, defeating the present Republican Representative of Impeach ment notoriety, J. M. ASHLEY. General SCHENCK has secured his re-election against C. L. VAL LANDIGIIAM for the Third District of Ohio, and Judge BINGIIAM for the Sixteenth District. It is acknowledged in the United States that GRANT will, to use an American term, run a long way ahead of the State ticket, which means that he will command votes in thousands withhell from the Republican candidates for State appointments, and even many cast for Democratic candidates under the influence of personal and local feelings. The Eng lish do not distinctly separate in their minds the State and the Presidential Elections. Throughout, the Republicans have calculated with confidence on some States voting their Presidential ticket, wlio might defeat their State tickets, as they regarded the Presidential ticket as far stronger than any State ticket could be, GRANT being the most fa mous, and COLFAX among the most popular of their public men. These majorities, then, the Republi cans expect to be doubled or even trebled in the Presidential Election next month. The elections have therefore lost all the interest of uncertainty, the remaining excitement being wholly centred in the comparative strength of the present and the coming Republican majorities in Congress, as well as in the Legislatures and Executives of the different States. But beyond all question the fast is con ceded that the Republicans are to rule in "Wash ington, in the White House, in the Senate, and in the Representatives. The importance of the decision is but little understood in Europe. General GRANT'S election now so assured that no man could change it except himself is decisive of many events. It secures for the United States a strong, undivided, and permanent Government. We say permanent, because GRANT, now in the full vigour of his physical and mental faculties, but commences in all probability a long reign, which the people every four years will be asked to continue or to change ;—undivided, for he is in accord with Congress, therefore there can be no duel between the Executive and Legislature—strong, because permanent and undivided. The effect will be to soothe down the South, as weakness and uncer tainty evoke lawlessness and opposition. Even Tuesday's decision will have a tranquillizing influ ence, for these distracted States will know that the reconstruction policy of Congress must be carried out, and their leaders are not disposed to resist fate. Few will dispute the assertion, that it is better with vigour and honesty to reconstruct these States even on a bad principle than to let them drift into anarchy, servile war, and chaos, on no principle at all. Once settled, beyond cavil the Southerner will turn from politics to agriculture, trade, and labour. Money will be forthcoming in his aid, and the South will rapidly resume its productive place in the world. The next point in importance is the re form now certain in the Civil Service, for it includes not only the honest levy of the national imposts, but the annihilation of such gigantic systems of fraud as the whisky ring. We have so often discussed this subject that we need not here pursue it further —but touch on a topic intimately connected with it and of general interest to Europe. It has been again and again repeated that the Chicago plat form, when properly interpreted, means repudia tion, but if we desired to bring forward an instance of the impossibility of so framing a resolution that it could not be asserted to mean the exact reverse of what its authors intended, -we would select this. Not many months ago we took some pains to explain how the article came to be worded " not only ac cording to the letter but the spirit." It arose from the anxious desire of some of the delegates to place beyond question their intention, which appears im possible to do, although every man who supports GRANT clearly knows the platform upon which his candidate stands. Not only then is GRANT pledged to a Civil Service Reform, emphatically the platform he has distinctly laid down—for people must not:"orget that a trusted friend announced the objects GRANT would endeavour to accomplish if elected a people's President, and not that of a party—but through the Chicago Convention, he is pledged to an honest discharge of all national obligations. The one fol lows directly on the other, for the reform is but the first step in a policy which will enable the United States to bear with ease its financial burdens, and with that ease will disappear the desire to evade any partion of the national obligations. Thus the execution of his own intention will best enable him to carry out the Republican policy of good faith. Broadly, GRANT'S election will be but the sequel to the surrender at the Appottomax Court House. An interval of years will have elapsed, chequered by changes and misfortunes, but the nation will have come round to the same position, with GRANT in the front, demanding the fulfilment of the terms the North fought to accomplish in the civil war. Essentially that object was the maintenance of the United States as a nation, and the election the Republican candidate will be the emphatic de claration of the Northern people that they intend to maintain the objects contended for in the war, and uphold the sovereign power of the Union, in contradistinction to the principle upon which the South justified secession. Great as are these considerations, there are others only of lesser importance ; among them the individual characteris tics and aspirations of GRANT himself. As a tried and famous soldier, like all who know war best, he hates it most. One motto he has already engraved on his shield, and earnestly is it to be hoped he will emblazon it in letters on the walls of the room wherein he sleeps that it may be the last words on which his eyes rest, and the first which greet him in the morning, " Let us have Peace." (ADVERTISEMENT.]-11enceorth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—".Rome, July 21,1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has conned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of :he Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation ill over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in ,olerable nervous agitation. • Cure No. 1.771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. go 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, s'ckness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.270: Mr James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafness. Im portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more thau . sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig s name is most audaciously attached. 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Let the reader then picure the gushing counsel em-. bracing on each side, the noble-hearted accuser lavishly praised for his quick and generous manner of appreciating the real intentions of the accuse:l, and withdrawing at once all imputations, while the supposed burglar was complimented on the honesty of his character, the suspicious case, but) the better showing what an industrious, sober, and worthy man he was. If the ju age interrapte 1 these price :d -ings by asking for an explanation, and it was alleged. that the accused htd with crowbar fore his way through the win low, thtt he hi 1 picke 1 up some silver spoons, au 1 decamp el with a.ceneider able amount of plate, but on hearing that a clue had been gained which would leil to his capture, 1 theoption had been given to the prosecutor, who elected to get his plate blck r Wier then to punish the delinanent. Were all parties permittel this t 3 leave the court society would t Ike alarm, fee'img that a premium he I been offere 1 to robhery; for the robber, if such co:npromises were permitted, in success gets clear off with his plunder, while in failure he has but to return it. Yet a c tse, not widely differing in appearance, actually occur red in the Lord M tyor's court last week. If Mr. Benjamin henry Meore's allegation was true, Mr. Richard Stuart Lane, Mr. Horace Ed ward Chapman, and Mr. Frederick John Helbert Helbert, should not, as they did, have left the court, bat if untrue, then Mr. Benjamin Henry Moore ought not. What he affirmed against the others, all persons of consideration and position in the City of London, was that by the issue of a false prospectus they hal induced himself and others to form a Joint-Stock Company for the purchase of their trading business of Lane, Hinkey, and Co., which, though represented by them as a flourishing concern, making large profits, was, in truth, hopelessly ins elvent, an I 303:1 proved to be so, as the company suspended a few months after it was formed. Though his own deposition was read, as well as that of the colonial manager of the coin pany, who asserted that he was intimately ac quainted with the house, and the fact of the failure, yet, as an arrangement prior to the hearing of the case had been agreed to, Mr. Moore, through his solicitor, withdrew his accusations, stating that he had uo vindictive feeling, and as he was persuaded th it the accounts did not show the discrepancy he imagined between the facts and the prospectus, he also withdrew any imputation that might have been thrown upon the defendants. Whereupon, the solicitor for Mr. Lane, thanked his brother solicitor for the frank manner in which he had relieved and exculpated Mr. Lane from any dishonourable motive. Then the counsel for the other gentlemen also thanked the solicitor for his frankness, though the hon. gentlemen he represented rather courted investigation, an-1 while hinting at other parties pulling wires behind the scenes [wicked men] he allowed the matter to drop, as the defend ants had been completely exonerated even from any suspicion. All this was delightful, and would probably have continued so had not the harmony been interrupted by the Lord Mayor, who insisted on the information laid before him by Mr. Moore being read. The Counsel interposing, asked if it was right to damage the defendants by reading in Court what had been found to be fallacious. "By whom?"—inquired the Lord Mayor. "By those who had made the charge," replied the counsel. A. quiet little question, later in the day, came from his lordship. " Pray, Mr. Moore," he said, " have you received or been promised any considera tion for withdrawing the charge ?" After some fencing Mr. Moore a Imitted that an arrange ment had been come to by which he was to receive back the money he had invested in the company, and thus the affair droppe I—so far as his lordship's court is concerned. But what about the public?— what about these gentle.nen themeelves, accuser ani accused? Are we thus to regard these circum stances? Mr. Lanehaving come forward as the Con servative candid ate for a South of Eaglael constitu ency, besides being the promoter of the Merchants' Company and vendor of the business on which it was founded, has the a lditioual qualification of being a director of the Credit Foncier of E ngland, and thus hiving fully proved his competency to frame laws for the commerce of this country, he can with confidence offer himself as a fit and proper person. No better proof could be furnished than this scene of thepresent tone of English commercial morality. In Liverpool the gentleman appointed to investigate and report on the affairs of a great bank that had failed puts this question to the shareholders—" If I pub lish this plain, unvarnished tale, I will break up a preserve of rascality in this co:n'nercial centre ; but, in doing so, you will suffer severely. If I garble the statement the rascality may blossom into fruit which you may gather, and thereby avert loss. Which shall Ido ? For the honour of England, we are happy to say that the shareholders were not unanimous in accepting the compromise with dis honesty, an 1 Mr. James Finley, of Burton-on- Trent, ought to meet with a hearty support in the effort he is making to unravel the mys teries of the R oyal Bank of Liverpool —et task more disagreeable, than people who have not trodden such paths, can imagine. Could we step back from the present with such exposures a. decade into the past, we would everywhere see mouths assuming the shape of an " 0," and hair standing on end. Now they excite no surpriseAtil but a faint emotion of indignetioa, and no sig.) could be worse for the national fat-ire; indeed we believe it would be better to see crimes of violence, burglaries, and highway robberies make vigorous head against the powers of suppression. The fore runner of national decay has ever been this in sidious corruption. It is not that liars, thieves, and accomplished swindlers permeate society, but that when they stand confessed they excite lit tle horror an 1 disgust. On the contrary, as a general rule they propose themselves now as candidates for Parliament ; but in saying this we must be ualersto ol only in general terns, for we know nothing of the case in question beyond its extraordinary termination. The lealing pipers, with the honourable exception of the Pall Mall Gazette, are almost silent on the subject, probably dreading the effect abroad of a forcible exposure and denunciation of the pitiless frauds which have brought such suffering and disgrace upon England. Indeed a lawyer can throw in on the occasion to which we have referred. a little pleasant " chaff" to raise a laugh in the Lord Mayor's Court. Grim irony, in truth, on these circumstances. The Mer chants' Company, he stated, had averaged during six years £116,000 per annum of profits ; on the paid-up capital the vendors had, we believe, gua ranteed the shareholders 10 per cent. for three years; yet, notwithstanding this flourishing business and this valuable guarantee, the company com menced in October, 1865, and failed in November, 1866. "It had," said Mr. Valiance, " paid dividends before it failed, and stood through the panic of 1866." "There is a general recollection," observed Mr. Lewis, " that everybody failed on that memorable had been except lawyers." It in deed for England if the mo ne y squandered wo'lbe well ul been England's total loss. Infinitely more disas trous is the loss of that keen sense of honour— that public feeling which stamps those who have broken. through the code of morals, that safeguard of man in his dealings with his fel'ows, upon which even gamblers pride themselves, and rigorously bring into operation against those who violate their code. It was with such a flippant remark and with the laugh that followed that this shameful scene closed— a scene, more calculated, to make honest men blush, and weep for the degradation of their country.—A nglo-American 7 imes. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL AIR.-111 RS. S. A. 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Presently we may begin to peep ou t of our hole to see if the monster is still near before we recover breath and return to our gambols. When the coast is clear, and we are no longer under the shadow of the half million, we begin to wonde r what tc Greeley g tins by this display ° f his huge proportions. The Tribune is very big , —it lies an immense circ u l a ti on ; it i s , in Radie .a estimation, an excellent carn i ,aign paper—we "' I to Mr. Greeley, and ackn mledge his success as 3 j mrealist. Next issue out comes the intelligence th at the Tribune has an immense cir c ul a ti on , an .I i s the best campaiga paper published. Again we bow t 9 Mr. Greeley, and acknowledge his nniuestioned success in the Tribune. We rest on the Sabbath--- but the first thing we see on Monday morning is the assurance that the Tribune has an immense eir cu'ation, is printed on good white paper, and if tke issue was piled up in a column it would make something bigger than the Nelson 'Monumen t ill Trafalgar-square. Again we waft our congratu lations across the ocean to Mr. Greeley, at al same time delicately hi n ti ng th a t we now know all about the campaign paper, and would like t° know more of the campaign itself. But ha ck comes the response—the three in one are to g c o up at once to half a m illi on , f or no thi ng the wor ld has ever seen will equal the Tribune, which is t he best and cheapest Weekly, Semi-weekly, and Vo l ll paper, spreading before the eyes, &c., &c. The n-- ; moved beyond endurance— w e exclaim, Hold Enough!! If the readers o f th e T r ib un e do nn4t now know all this, it is in vain for you, Horace, t ? attempt to enlighten them. Surely these are ne t the articles which bring in the thousands of new subscribers weekly ? Although we cannot supPe se they would be published with this wearying e. monotony if they did not produce some result. Th Tribune was very severely handled for a lo de entitled " lloratio Seymour as a Liar," but the only effect of the comments has been to bring forth the sequel in the issue of Sept. 30, "A 1)91 without Shame." Mr. Greeley must be aware that his responsibility is in proportion to his circulation; which is so large as to give him a vast power f i r) , " good or evil in the United St a tes, an d he is too ° , O a journalist and too able a literary man not 'to k°o of that he can strike as effectively without the u se ° epithets which are as inapplicable when applied of men like Horatio Seymour as w o u ld b e the gift " a few cents in charity to himself, the leading 1 31 '.°: prietor of the Tribu ne h e t a k es so muc h delight l describing. There may be some point in sendig 5 battered spoon to Butler or a pocket-handkereril' to Seymour, but as to calli n g a ge n tl e man of lnig th character a liar because his figures do not tally those of the Tribune is to combine a want of for% and object with a most injurious example, W hic , the small fry, following at the Tribune's heels 0 not slow to copy. We have shown the gribfl6 it that when it comes to subtract 15 from 3 ' be brings out a curious r e sult, but we do not assert t plper to be " A Liar without Shame " becans e . oo thus errs. Campaign tactics doubtless authorlir the publication of such paragraphs as , 4 Frank 1316 0 on the War Path," as it is only paying Derne i ers to off in their own coin, and nobody is expecte d 01 believe it. The original report, too, comes f A l9 O t the Cincinnati Commercial, and the scene is laid Galion, Ohio, Sept. 26 :—" The hall was s° o crowded. Frank, after whiffing away at his 4 0 , for 10 or 15 minutes, arose and addressed his Demo, cratic brethren for the full space of an hour. xl3 cratic speech was very tame, eliciting but little. ,10 plause. The Democrats were much di sa ppoint him. Upon taking his seat it was as qui et be at a funeral. Not one cheer. He looked as I' u p. had been on . a big drunk and was still keeping it uis , All through the a udie nce y ou cou ld hear it WP 00 pered, he is too full of whisky.' He is On ° „a of his drunks !' After he sat down there were lo' r , calls for II ibbell, but Hubbell would not come f ° l , ward, and the meeting finally adjourned. F r .,1„ 1 0 . was escorted down to the Atlantic and Greatl"iit, tern depet, and took the 2.30 train cast. Grew by this time had to be helped int) the coach. S e ' for ral Democrats who saw him, say they c zn't vot e his such a man, and his coming here and m tkin speech has made at least 30 Republican votes.' 0 While thus commenting on the Tribune , I ' 9 o compaign paper, we are fully alive to its meritsi4o .t ti difficult to appreciate the wor k p er f or med 11 journal, and the able and skilful manner iu tot it has been transacted. Not o n ly h a s a paper a"t the size of the London 7 inzes or Telegraph to be boo up daily, with its volume of news but a few h ° o f old, but it has to be supplied in the proportion to at least three copies for one of the former an d A ir for one of the latter. In London the labour of 'h ro tribution is taken from the offices of leading P a Y OOl by newsagents, while the Tribune is forwarded Ir i , the chief office to thousands of individual sub ser hers, and in parcels to clubs all over the Arner ic3 , :o continent. To get throu g h so g i gan ti c a hus ig h ' a requires as much ingenuity as t o ge t up su e is business requires ability and industry. Th ere w nothing like it in London, for tho ug h Lloyd's I Y ee . on , m alt News and so:ne such papers publish half a this is done but weekly, while the Tribune is date semi-weekly, and weekly. It is no wonder that paper is lost in admiration of itself, and that tbe party acknowledges that it has ably performe d i l l, work of the campaign. When that is over it W e d we presume, settle down, with greatly finer bo p s strength, to its ordinary busin ess , w hen we " - 5 1 that it will become less Radi ca l an d more nat ion —less demonstrative and more moderate, and 'ro n l e take the place whi c h seems o p en i n g to it 0 . 1 great American j ourna l, suc h as th e 7 inzes has oe, copied for so long a period in England. THE PRESERVATION OF EGGS.—Many meth° 45° 1: preserving eggs have been recorded. There is one ' hi d is used in the provisioning of Paris cn a great se•an9 which is described as the most sure. The eggs are plo s f in wire baskets each holding a doze n , into ca ldron s : 0 boiling water, during about a minute. A thin layer ° f tro op; coagulates on the inner surface of the shell, an d P i to vents the infiltration of the air, which is speedily fate" the freshness of the egg. —British Medical Journal. [ADyFunsEmEsT.] -Holloway's Pills and Ointtuntl Unparalleled Popularity. —The wonderful cures off se t lJ by these unequalled remedies in all parts of the w° pd have won for them their present favour. Both Pill s ft t ho ointment are composed of ingredients which purifY di blood, reduce any disordered organ to its proper ec aj ' he a tion, and heal up sores at the same time they stre n g t ot the body and invigorate the mind. No one can of health depends upon pure blood and the natural autto-.olt the animal organs. Bath objects are affected withou t or danger by Holloway's medicaments, which are `L4 i° the nocent as they are potent, when used as directed intelligible directions enveloping them. Internal dis ol. ' e and external blemishes succumb to their power. Births. lIANBURY —On the 20th inst., at Belmont Hodg e ' o f - Barnet. the wife of Charles A. Banbury, }in" daughter. . d Win—On the 20th inst., a t W o odeote, the wife of 5 " Wise, Esq., M.P., of a son. Marriages. Ga ry 's, IORGA —PL A.YSTED —On the 17th inst., at St. Stoke Newington, Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Morgan' tie, gal Staff Corps, to Emily Rosa, e lde s t daughter ;Lot, late George Pl a ysted, Esq., of Wick House NA r3 "'" Sussex. 0 14 NEWALL —DEsBuRY—On the 19th inst., at Kensingtlory , ,;,Church, Lieut.-Colonel Newall, of tha Royal A rt ' to Maria Margaret Dosbury, of -IA Norlaud-squ to, Deaths. viq r B RAGGr' —Oa the 20th inst., at 1, Porchester-gardens, "'" water, John Bagg, Esq. bir ° 'F DOUGLAS —0 a th r l leitli inst., at Stonebyras, Lanaricil o. General Sir ThOMIS Monteath Loughs,li•C'vq _ . Stonebyres and Rosehall. 4 , 164 1)1 6*. PANE—On tho 20th inst., at Richmond House, b''" don, the Lady Adino nine. ell KNOX —On the 20th inst., at London. the Hon. 1 4 - , -r siAPI Knox. —o.i. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.NI A.: 4 ° ll° 11 2, , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits SUN Wile? ' Strand, in the Precinct of the Se troy, In the 1 : 32%/-* bliddlesex.—Friday, October 23, 1808. ~gi Rn Wl. Yq{