The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the appendix to the 29th Report on Public Peti- , tions, just issued, there appears "the humble petition of John Parsons, a convict, No. 3,942, under sentence in Pentonville Prison," which was presented in the House by Mr. Denman. When 19 years old, on the 20th day of October, 1854, he was sentenced at the Birmingham Quarter Sessions to fifteen years' transportation for housebreaking. He served the first portion of the term in gaol in England, and in March 1867 was transported to the convict settlement in Western Australia, where he served four years and a half in the convict prison. He then received a ticket of leave, and worked as servant to the brother of Colonel Henderson, the commandant of the prison, for two rears and a half, and then left with a certificate for good conduct, and obtained a pardon for the remainder of his term. Afterwards he lost the docu ment 'granting his pardon, but he believed that it contained a condition that he might go to any part of her Majesty's dominions, except to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until the expiration of the term of his sentence. Being desirous of remaining in Australia, he went to Adelaide, where he was, imme diately on his arrival, recognised by the police as a pardoned convict, and taken before a bench of magistrates, who told him that he must leave Ade laide in seven days, or they would send him to prison for three years. He produced to them his pardon, and was told by one of the magistrates that it was of no use to him there ; that he must go back to England ; and that if he wanted the *leans to do so he should be sup plied with them. Not wishing to infringe the terms of his pardon, hp applied to a captain to be car ried to Melbourne, but the captain declined, on the ground that if he toJk the prisoner he would be liable to a penalty of £lOO. Before the seven days had elapsed, and to avoid the threatened imprison ment , he embarked in a vessel bound for Singapore. with which our law abounds—the utter absence of all There, on landing, he was told by the police that, being a provision to enable a man who is convicted of a criminal discharged convict, be had no right to come. He pro offence to insist on the validity of that conviction, either duced his pardon, but was told they did not care for that, in point of fact or of law, being solemnly determined by and that he could not remain. Thereupon he hired him another tribunal. The verdict of the jury is considered self to a Dutch vessel, called the Valvish, bound for conclusive of the guilt or innocence of the ac- London, at which port he arrived in March 1863. He cused, and, however overwhelming may be the returned to Birmingham, where he resided about nine evidence forthcoming to demonstrate the innocence months, was recognised ly the police, who knew that the of on© who has been declared guilty, there term of his sentence had not expired, but that he had re can be no new trial, and the sole expedient to which ceived a conditional pardon. Then he went from Dir. the Crown can resort to prevent a manifest act of injustice mingham to reside in Worcester with his wife, and is to grant a pardon for an offence which, ex hypothesi, on the 3rd of February, 1866, was arrested there has not been committed. In cases, on the other band, on a charge of being illegally at large. He was where a convict has reason to complain that he has not committed for trial without bail, found guilty before been tried in due form of law, his position is nearly as the Hon. Baron Pigott, at the ensuing 'Worcester Lent bad. It is true, error in law may be assigned, or, if the Assizes, and at the following assizes was brought up for judge so pleases, he may in the course of the trial reserve judgment before the Hon. Mr. Justice Keating, and was disputed points for the consideration of a superior sentenced to five years' penal servitude. His solicitor had court ; but, extraordinary though it may appear, error 2ince memorialised Mr. Secretary 11 „ alpoie without success, cannot be assigned as a matter of right, but simply by and he now prayed the House to take the case of the un the favour of the Crown. If a convict or his counsel fortunate convict into consideration. has reason to believe that the conviction is bad in A CONVICT'S STORY. The Tima remarks that it is sometimes a very great assistance to a jury when a party in a suit will insist on making an appearance in court. Of course, he comes in his usual form ; his looks, his dress, his interruptions, his glances, and his evident proclivity to adventures of one sort or another, all combining to add the best possible comment to speeches of counsel and the evidence of witnesses. The Irish Orangemen have made this mistake. Had they con sulted any friend of sober judgment, be would have advised them by all means not to shew themselves for the present. The advice, if given, has been set alt naught, and there has been the usual "demonstration"—that is, a public exhibition of the manner of men who claim to be the paramount masters of Ireland, its conquerors and lAwful possessors, its proper leaven and salt, its authorised models of religion, duty, and manners, and the special objects of British industry and favour. There had been no hypocrisy on the part of their advocates. They have not been described as lambs, unless of a breed well known in our boroughs ; nor has their roar been described as that of sucking doves. Their pretension to the exclu sive possession and government of Ireland, with com plete civil and religions ascendancy, has been fairly and unreservedly stated and honestly defended. All that remained was that the claimants of this proud position— I the persons who claim to lord it over, not merely the remaining seven-eighths of their own countrymen, but the entire people, Government, Constitution, and State to which they belong—should bo brought before us. They do not hide their light under a bushel. At the first chal longe they spring out into the glare of noonday. The Times feels bound to thank them for this, but also takes the liberty to tell them that they had better have lain quiet for a while, and let themselves be described as it might suit the convenience of their parliamentary spokesmen. law, a petition is addressed to the Attorney-General praying him to issue a fiat, in order that the question of law thus raised may be solemnly argued and determined. It is in the power of the Attorney-General to grant or withhold the fiat, and, in doing the one or the SINGULAR CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench the other, he exercises a judicial function, being practically case of Richardson v. Du Bois was heard. It seemed that the representative of the Crown, with whom this singular Mr. Du Bois was formerly an eminent proctor in Doctors' prerogative rests. In fact, it is held as law that a writ of Commons, and when the Probate Court was established error in cases of treason-felony and misdemeanour can only the defendant obtained £350 per annum compensa te obtained, however manifest the error, by the favour of tion. At the latter end of 1865 Mr. Du Bois, in the sovereign, and that against the decision of the consequence of overwork, had to be sent to a Attorney-General there is no appeal. lunatic asylum. At that period he had purchased and occupied a house in Thurloe.square, and after his removal The Herald advises a watching of the policy of Russia his wife and three chitirm remained in the house, just now. Our contemporary does not advocate an armed and in the year 1867 Mrs. Du Bois called the interference, but it remarks that when a European power begins to make encroachments in Asia the difficulty is not plaintiff in to paint slid r e pair the house, which so much to proceed as to stop ; and Russia has avowedly he accordingly did, and w a s paid money on account. found out a fact of which it can scarcely be supposed that At that time he was not awa r e that the plaintiff was insane ;but on the death of Mrs. Du Bois the present she was ever ignorant. Her mission is one of peace and love, but unfortunately it cannot be accomplished without action was brought. For th e d e f e ndant it was first urged war and hatred. She is very sorry, but savage nations that the wife was not the agent for her husband ; that in will not always see their own interests ; they two years she had received a sum of £2,219, consisting of the allowance in respect of the Probate Court, and sums prefer a bad government which is their own, to a kindly and voluntarily all owe d by Mr. Du Bois's partner ; good government which is somebody else's ; and when they mistrust their chance of fair fighting and it was contended that this sum was sufficient for the they try treachery as an equally legitimate resource. The necessary expenses of the wife and family of Mr. Du Bois, and work of civilisation is not to be impeded on account of for all necessary repairs to the house. The jury found for the barbarian prejudices, so the invader puts forth his strength, plaintiff, believing that the wife was the agent of the and takes a material guarantee for maintaining it. Such husband. has been the course of Russia in Central Asia—a course ACTION AGAINST THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAT.—In which is bringing her nearer and nearer to our frontiers, at the Court of Common Pleas judgment was given in the which, aided by an alliance with Cabul, she might in a very case of the Metropolitan Board of Works v. the Metro short time arrive. That she has as much right to that politan Railway Company, which involved an important postion as we have to our own must of course be conceded. question of law. The defendants, by their Act of Par- But the position would be too powerful to be regard& liament, were to submit the plans of their works to the without uneasiness in this country. i plaintiffs for their approval. This they had done, and the plaintiffs had approved the plans. In the course of work ing according to their plans the defendants came within 15ft. of a large sewer belonging to the plaintiffs. The con sequence was that there was not sufficient earth to support the sewer, and it gave way, in consequence of which the Metropolitan Board of Works had to expend £lB,OOO in reconstructing the sewer, and they now sought to uphold a judgment for that sum against the railway company. The Lord Chief Justice:and Mr.-Justice Byles held that the board had no right to the lateral support of adjacent ground for their sewers unless they had purchased the ground through which they ran, and that as they had not done so in the present instance there was no duty cast upon the railway company to carry on their works in such a way as to leave sufficient soil to support any such sewers as might be ne:r. Mr. Justice Willes was of a contrary opinion, but the verdict was that of the majority of the court. In concluding some comments on the Social Science meeting at which Mr. Gladstone presided, the Daily News observes that at this meeting, as on like occasions, the case of the working man was forcibly and ably put ; but hardly a thought was given to the general condition of the employers. Judging from the tone of the speakers, we . might infer that the possessor of capital is unburdened with cares, while the possessor of labour is continually buffeting with misfortune. The actual state of the case is forgotten. The fact that the man who is able to employ thousands of men may have com paratively as little ready money at his disposal as one of his workmen never receives a moment's attention. But the existence of inequalities on both sides is the most striking argument for something being done in the common interest of labour and capital. It is this, and not the prevalence of trade unionism, which justifies the appointment of an influential committee for the purpose of joint action with a view to discover defects and devise remed:es. Happily, the time is ripe for the enterprise. It is no longer possible, as it was never justifiable, to attempt to repress unionism by sheer denunciation. The mischiefs engendered by the uncompromising attitude of both parties are gradually dying out. The injustice of condemning every union because one or two merited unsparing rebuke, will not again be repeated with even a show of plausi- bility. It is the determination to criticise in a hostile spirit, rather than to inquire in a kindly tone, which has embittered the working man against a portion of the press and a section of our public men. To this let there now be an end. We believe that all the working men desire may be attained without continuing certain arrange ments on which they have set their hearts. LAW AND POLICE. The Standard declares that there is no doubt that the anticipations of the public in regard to the elevation of Sir Robert Napier to the peerage will be speedily realised, and that Parliament will shortly be asked for a grant to the general who has added so brilliant a chapter to the military annals of the nation. The question to be con, sidercd, however, will be whether the grant should take the form of a pension, with remainder to the General's h&r, or a sum of the value of the pension capitalised and voted in a lump. There are considerable advantages in • the latter plan. In the first place, the House . of Commons dislikes pensions ; in the second, the element of chance enters too strongly into their dispensation. It is possible that Sir Robert Napier and his heir might live many years to enjoy the pension ; on the other hand, the legal recipients might be cut off in very few years, and the family might lose the benefit of the nation's gift at the moment when it was most required. But the sum, say of £50,000, might be invested toproduce an equivalent to the pension, and secured to the family under all circumstances. We are inclined to hope, there. fore, that the nation's tribute to the distinguished soldier will take that form. About the unanimity of the vote there can be no uncertainty, Men of all political creeds vic with one another in eagerness to do honour to the General and his army, and the severest critics of our military administration can only praise. ACTION AGAINST THE SHERIFFS OF MIDDLESEX.—In the Court of Common Pleas an action was brought against the Sheriffs of London for allowing a prisoner to escape from their custody. Mr. Chalmers, a stationer, had advanced one Dolby the sum of £225 upon a bill of exchange. The bill not having been met, the plaintiff caused Dolby, who he understood was about to leave the country, to be arrested. After Dolby was arrested his father undertook to pay the plaintiff the sum of £l5O on account within a week, and to give security for the remainder of the debt. Before the week had expired, however, the defendants allowed Dolby to escape, and in consequence Dolby's father refused to pay the money. Dolby was afterwards prosecuted and sentenced to penal servitude for forgery. The jury awarded the plaintiff £255 What, the Telegraph asks, shall be done with the House of Lords ? No one who considers what the new House of Commons is likely to be—not only in the next Parliament, but in after years, when the people shall have gradually possessed themselves of :the franchise—can doubt that it will be most desirable to make the House of Lords work in fuller harmony with the Chamber which more directly represents the nation as a whole. The remedy for the present want of accord would be to make the Upper Douse the indirect representative of the selected worth, manliness, and mental power of the whole nation. Even the inn - ending change in the Irish Church will make a reform more needful. Whatever other causes may compel us t ) exclude them, we must regret being obliged to send away from the House of Lords the only Irishmen —the Protestant bishops—who sit there because of personal merit ; for the Irish representative peers, like the Scotch, are merely the nominees of Lord Derby, or the Tory leader for the time being. With a life peerage properly organised, distinguished Irishmen and Scotchmen, as well as Englishmen, would bring to the House of Lords a rich. ness, a strength, a variety, and an influence that are now wanting to i`s debates and decisions, and that would enable it to represent with fidelity the most thoughtful classes of the United Kingdom. Mr. Disraeli's first peer, Viscount Briclport, enjoys a somewhat exceptional honour. He exchanges a barony in the peerage of Ireland (an honour which confers no right to a seat in the House of Lords) f( r a visamntcy. As a rule an Irish earl or viscount is content with the lowest order in the English peerage—a barony. For instance, the Earl of Dunraven sits as Baron Kenry. Viscount Monck as Baron Monck, and Viscount Boyne as Baron Brancepeth. During a little over 35 years 24 Irish and 16 Scotch pee!s have been created lords of the United Kingdom. damages. rIZOSECUTIONS FOR DRIBERT.-At the Bristol Police court Charles Stephens was charged with having at the late Bristol e!ection unlawfully and corruptly offered a bribe to Albert Hawkins, Edward Bennett, and Aaron Stiles, in order to induce them to vote. Albert Hawkins stated that he was going to the poll to vote for Morley, when Stephens alighted from a cab and asked him where he was going. He said, " To vote for Morley," whereupon the accused said, "Don't be a fool ; vote for Mr. Miles, and I will pay your expenses and give you 10s." Edward Bennett said that the defendant offered him two days' work and " gold "to vote for Miles. Aaron Stiles gave corroborative evidence, the words used to the witness being identical with the language made use of by the defendant when addressing the preceding witness. For the defence it was contended that the accused was very j drunk, that he talked a lot of inflated nonsense, wanted to ! become member for Bristol himself, and that his offers to bribe were mere idle words spoken while under the influence of liquor. Witnesses having been called for the accused, the magistrate sent the case for trial. ACTION BY AN AUTHORESS.—An action of a rather novel character has been tried in the Westminster County Court. The real plaintiff was Mrs. Whitcombe, wife of a solicitor, who sued Mr. Adams, of the firm of Saunders, Otley, and Co., publishers, to recover a sum of £5O alleged to have been agreed upon ss the amount to be paid for a work entitled "Folklore of England." A sum of £3 had been paid on account ; but the contract was afterwards repudiated, on the ground that the work was not original. His Honour decided against the plaintiff, inasmuch as no written acceptation of the MS. had been given, and no verbal contract could be entertained. TIIE ELCHO CHALLENGE SIIIELD.—A corre spondent of the Times sends to that journal [the result of the competition for admission into the " English Eight," which took place at Epsom last week. Twenty-one among the best shots in England had been selected to com pete, and the highest scores made were as follows: Metford, 330 ; Paget, 313 ; Norsworthy, 311; Martin Smith, 310 ; Ileaton, 309 ; Radcliffe, 309 ; Fenton, 307 ; Pixley, 303 ; and rumbas, 302. THE RECENT MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE DEVONFORT RIFLE RANGE.—The two young gentlemen accidentally shot on Thurs lay at a rifle match at Devon port have since died at the Royal Albert Hospital, Devon port. The medical officers of the estal;lishment having decided on the necessity of amputation in both cases, on Fi iday afternoon Mr. Norman's leg was taken cff ab.mt midway between the knee and hip-joint, and that of Mr. Gard just beneath the hip. Roth operations were very skilfully performed, and all appeared to be going well until midnight ; but at a.m. of Saturday 111 r. Norman succumbed to the shock. At ten o'clock his fellow-sufferer, Mr. Gard, Vrai found to be in a sinking state, and died the same day. The evidence given at the inquest sheaved that the ball did not ricochet, as stated by some journals. Great excitement has been caused by the occurrence, and much sympathy is evinced for the friends of the two young men. Mr. Keast, who was the cause of Ile accident, is retort :d to be Nli d wjth grief,—Western Morning YelVe. TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1868. ROMAN AFFAIRS. :From the Roma Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette) ROME, June 27. I mentioned by anticipation in my last the mode of keeping the Pope's coronation day, and I did not notice any departure from the usual programme. The Allocution delivered in the Consistory, held next day, will reach you in its entirety before this, and I need not therefore sum marize it ; more particularly as it touches no important matter but such as I have already announced. The occasion of the bishops for Mexico being preconized, was that Juarez wrote a letter to the Pope, couched in very respectful terms, to announce that the Mexican Republic, in virtue of the great principle of " a free Church in a free State," will abstain from all interference with the nomination of the Mexican bishops. The Pope went on Wednesday, being St. John the Baptist's day and his name day, to St. John. Lateran, to hold a Capella Papale, according to custom. The Cardinal Arch priest of Basilica sang the Mass. After first Vespers on the eve, the same cardinal had blessed the sprigs of carnation which are dis tributed to the sick. The ancient order of Knights of Malta, some remnants of which still cling about Rome, celebrated on the same day at its church of the Sta. Croce, a solemn Mass, in honour of St. John, who is one of their patrons. It was sung by one of the chaplains of the order. The mischief to the new camp havinc , been repaired, the troops received orders to take up their quarters there on Tuesday. The de tachments appointed to make the first trial of camp life, started off with admirable spirit and enthusiasm. The Annuario Militare, for 1868, just published, shows in the additions of its summarized tables the immense prepon derance of the native element in the appoint ments of the army. It appears there are altogether 704 officers, and of these 462 (more than two-thirds) are Italian ; 129 French ; 59 Swiss; 19 German ; 20 Belgian; 9 Dutch; 4 English ; and 2 Spanish. Among new re cruits for the Zouaves, we have an Abyssinian, a very fine-looking fellow, though with skin of the deepest hue. There has been some little excitement to day, about an alleged accident, or worse, to the Ancona mail train. It certainly was pulled up at an unusual point for stoppage, a short distance on the stage between Monte Rotondo and Rome. Any railway irregularity is so unusual about here, that a thing which would scarcely have given the most timid passenger a moment's anxiety at home, becomes the sub ject of much canvassing. The. form the story finally assumed being that fifty Garibaldians had overpowered the signalman, hoisted the danger signal in order to bring the train to a stand, but were so alarmed at the idea of com ing to close quarters with some half-dozen Zouaves who happened to be in the train, that they made off too fast for one of them to be seen. The probable state of the case, how ever, was that the signalman was a new hand, and gave the wrong signal by mistake. Prince Dorea has, I am told, just made arrangements with the Passionists to give a regular series of missions in the various little villages which own him for a landlord—some forty in number. The turn of each will come round about once in eight years ; they will begin early in July at St. Martino, a village near Viterbo. Giving missions being a special work of the Passionists, the Fathers will re ceive no fee or reward for their labours, but will be entertained during their sojourn in each place at the Prince's expense. It is not altogether a new project, but a more syste matic and abiding plan than has hitherto been in operation. RAILWAY MORTGAGE SYSTEM. (From the Anglo-American Times) The Erie Railway War has had an effect which ' neither VANDERBILT nor DREW desired, as it must be injurious to the interest of speculators. Public attention, first attracted in the direction by this remarkable fight, has been fastened inquiringly on railway management in the United States. The Nation has followed up a very powerful article on the subject by giving the main reason why rail roads are there badly managed. One word com prises that reason—Mortgage ; the assertion being " it is scarcely too much to say that leaving oat of view half-a-dozen exceptional lines, the railways of the United States are on an average mortgaged for an amount fully equal to the market value even at present inflation prices of the whole of their stock, while many are mortgaged for more than the nominal value of their stock, some for more than all the road is worth, and others never had any real stock capital at all, but were built exclusively with the money raised by the Bile of the bonds for which the money was pie aged." Looking over the full list of American railways, and comparing the shire capi ta with the mortgage debt, we find that there is no exaggeration in what the Nation says—the sum raised in bonds being often in exess of the share capital. For instance, take Indiana, and the follow ing is the result : Paid in on On Bonds, shares. $5,6001 1,210 1,25 1,3( Chicago and Great Eastern Evansville and Crawfordsvillle 1,112,831 1,240,000 Indiana Central 611,050 1,254,500 Indianapolis and Cincinnati Ind, Pittsburg, and Cleveland Jeffersonville ....... 1,015,907 621,000 Indianapolis and Madeira ......... 819,900 640,000 Louis v. N. Albany and Chi ego . 2,800,000 3,000,000 Terre Haute and Indianapolis ... 1,983,150 5,000 The bonds are independent of other liabilities, which, in the case of the Louisville, N. Albany, and Chicago Railway, amounts to $2,000,000. These lines, on the whole, owe more than the shareholders have paid, the larger interest being then not in the owner of the property, but in the mortgagee. Yet the bondholders have no vote in the management, and it sometimes happens that the rule falls into the hands of men who have, as the Nation asserts, never fairly invested a single dollar in the property, and this is shown by the operations in Wall-street. A prosperous road earns enough to pay say 7 per cent. to the bond holder and 7 per cent. to the stockholder. Bad years come, and the earnings decline, while the expenses remain the same. Then the stockholder receives nothing, the profit being only sufficient to pay the interest due to the bondholder. The violent fluctuations of the dividends are fol lowed by violent fluctuations in the stock, and as the gain of speculators consists in the extent of these fluctuations, their object is to increase them to the utmost degree. They make money by being on the spot and having the means instantly to avail them selves of early information, and they play against the stockholders with all the chances in their favour. But the fluctuations so profitable to speculators are disastrous to investors keeping them constantly in anxious insecurity, so they sell such property, and the shares become the foot-ball of the speculators who have no permanent interest in the road, and neither know nor care anything about it. It is always worth something to have the control of a line, which means the monopoly of the transport between two points. Those whose purpose it suits experience little difficulty in being elected if they are prepared to pay for the proxies of the men who care so little about the management of the property. "Armies of drummers are employed previous to an election, canvassing, begging, bribing, and buying proxies, until at the election itself proxies of half the stock of a company are in one or two hands, and until a stockholders' meeting of a company, re presenting ten millions of capital, owned by 500 individuals, frequently consists of half-a-dozen smiling knaves and a doorkeeper. The directors elected at such a meeting have full control over all the property of the road for one year, with no earthly power to call them to account save the next yearly meeting of stockholders, similar to the one just described." Yet these are the men who manage a road upon which thousands daily risk their lives, and sometimes lose them. When the line has reached this stage the public are pretty sure to be the sufferers. The stock is avoided by honest investors, and is used as a mere means of gambling by men who have otherwise no interest whatever in the property. It is managed by those who intend to subserve other than the interests of the line. The greater portion of the capital has been advanced by the bondholders, and they neither have a control, nor do they desire it so long as the road can return the stipulated percentage. Failing this payment a foreclosure takes place, followed by a sheriff's sale, when the share capital and the oc cupation of the directors are at once lost, which, of course, it is the business of the managers to avert by every means. But should the line be intrinsically good there is even a temptation to the holders of the first mortgage bonds to give the preference to the worst management, for in default of payment the first mort gage holders can foreclose and perhaps acquire a de sirable property at far less than its value. The Nation maintains that the chief step towards railway reform is the abolition of the entire system of mortgage in debtedness. The subje ct is occupying much atten tion in the United States, but the system continues, and is glaringly the case in that greatest of a ll rail way undertakings—the Union Pacific —which must be the most powerful of railway corporations. And who are the shareholders ? No such thing as shares are ever offered on the market, nor are the y likel y to be, so long as the ag reeable p lan now follow e d will answer. The rail wa y is built b y Governm e nt g to ra t n h ts e sums and t hus by M ortg age °rtgage Bon d s , and in proportion obtained the subscriptions received from the shareholders are contemptible in amount. Out of an estimate of the cost of 1,100 miles, amounting to $85,145, 750 but $5,369,750 is the capital stock paid in. By such a system the corporation uses the money of the public to work out a speculation which in all probability will yiel d an enormous gain to themselves, while the risk is mainly borne by the Government and those who cannot get more than a certain interest for their mogey. What the country surrenders may be estimated from these words of SAMUEL F. CAREY, of Ohio, " That more land had been given to the Pacific Railway Company than is contained in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, with enough over for a State twice as large as Massachusetts." This contribution is not to those who furnish the money and run the risk, for they are the bondholders, who have, for an imaginary security, stipulating only for a certain percentage. The Nation asserts (and quotes the recent ex ample of England in proof) it to be susceptible of almost mathematical demonstration that the depreciated value of railway shares is mostly due to the recklessness and mismanagement which the Mortgage system has engendered, and that had it not been introduced the shares would to-day in nearly all the roads be far better than the bonds now are. We believe that the case of the English lines will fully bear out the Nation in the assertion that the common stock of the companies wou ld be a better security than the Bonds had no such system been permitted ; and the single instance of the London, Chatham, and Dover fully proves how the system can be abused in the hands of the unscru pulous. That railways will pay in America better than in England has been shown by experience, for the grand desideratum is a rising country, where the land can be obtained cheap, and to which the railway itself gives the chief value, connecting towns growing all the more rapidly from the benefit of such communication. But no advantages can bear up against careless and unscrupulous mismanagement; and even in the United States railway shareholders are made painfully aware that the most bountiful gifts of nature, and the best conceived plans, may be thus defeated, and result to them in total loss. The full remedy has not yet been discussed by our able contemporary ; but this main reform of raising no capital except by the sale of shares is strongly insisted on, and we anticipate that the Nation is not unfavourable to Government control. The argument is that there are three principal par ties interested. First, the railway fraternity ; next, the actual stockholders ; and, lastly, the great body of travellers and freight-senders, between whom, throughout the world, a civil could is pre- paring, of larger proportions than any witnessed since the abolition of feudalism. It is a popular error to look for relief against the railroad men from a change which restores the control of the roads to the shareholders, and it is evident, if for what each strives be considered, that the people will not gain what they want through such a change. They complain of the imperfect accom modation, the insufficient number of trains, the high and arbitrary rates of fare and freight, the difficulty of obtaining redress for wrongs, and, above all, the constant and frightful risk to life and property. But what the stockholders com plain of is the way in which their property is wasted and rendered unproductive, and being held at least in part responsible for the shortcomings of the railroad men who in their turn throw the blame upon the system, alleging the incessant, urgent de mands of the people for more roads, and the indif ference and want of co-operation on the part of the stockholders. The public, who are better able to ap preciate the errors of the managers than the errors of the stockholders, accept the views of the latter and tender to them their aid and sym pathy. We rejoice to see a subject of such over whelming importance thus earnestly taken up, and it gives promise of an exhaustive discussion. A check to investment in railways is a check to human progress, and if unwise and unscrupulous manage ment be permitted such a check cannot fail to re sult, far there is no burnt child who so dreads the fire as he who has invested in confidence and finds that he has been sold a bargain. The great mass of railway property in the United States is not only good, but certainly among the best and most secure in the world ; but there is a danger in the very security into which it lulls the investor. The point of the Nation's ranarks, however, is to protect the public against the evils of railway com panies without responsible owners, against bad rails, ill-built bridges, and construction generally, as well as the want of accommodation, of comfort, and of punctuality. TIll? FINAL fIECONS7 RUCTION BILL. THE RESTORATION OF SIX STATES. The following is the text of the bill for the ad mission of North Carolina, South Carolina, Ala bama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida, as passed by both Houses of Congress and sent to the President : —" Whereas, the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Flo rida have, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act entitled, An Act for the more efficient Govern ment of the Rebel States,' passed March 2, 1867, and the Acts supplemental thereto, framed Consti tutions of State Governments which are Repub lican, and have adopted the said Constitutions by large majorities of the votes cast at the elections held for the ratification or rejection of the same : Therefore, be it enacted, That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State of the Union, when the Legislature of such States shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress, and known as Article 14, upon the following fundamental conditions : Sec. 1. That the Constitution of neither of said States shall never be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote in said State who are entitled to vote by the Constitution thereof herein recognized except as a punishment of such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to all the inhabi tants of said State ; provided, that any alteratio❑ of said Constitution, prospective in its effects, may made with regard to the time and place of resi dence of voters; and the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and admitted to representation upon this further fundamental condition : That the first and third sub-divisions of section 17 of the fifth Article of the Constitution of said State, except the proviso to the first sub division, shall be null and void, and that the General Assembly of said State, by solemn public act, shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing fundamental condition. Sec. 2. That if the day fixed for the first meeting of the Legislature of either of said States by the Constitutio❑ or ordinance thereof shall have passed, or so nearly arrived, before the passage of. this Act, that there shall not be time for the Legisla ture to assemble at the period fixed, such Legis lature shall convene at the end of twenty days from the time that this Act takes effect, unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene the same. Sec. 3. That the first section of this Act shall take effect as to each State, except Georgia, when such State shall, by its Legislature, duly ratify Article 14 of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress ; and as to the State of Georgia, when it shall, in addition, give the assent of said State to the fundamental condition hereinbef ore imposed ur on the same, and thereupon the officers of each State, duly elected and qualified under the Con stitution thereof, shall be inaugurated without de- lay ; but no person prohibited from holding office under the United States, or under any State. by section 3 of the proposed amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, known as Article 14, shall be deemed eligible to any office in either of said States, unless relieved from disability as provided in said amendment; and it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ten days after receiving official information of the ratifica tion of said amendment by the Legislature of either of said States to issue a proclamation announcing that fact." A COMPARISON. The House of Lords has thrown out the Suspen sory Bill by 192 to 97, being a majority of nearly two to one. This finishes so far the dis-establish - meat of the Irish Church ; and raises a question re garding the House of Peers. It is amusing to com pare the comments of many English papers in the face of a pig-headed opposition to a pet scheme of their own, with their comments on the contest be tween the President and Congress. Constitutional Eight is the string they harp on when Congress, fuming under the irritation, takes active mea sures to suppress Andrew Johnson, but concession, moderation, good sense, and a forgetfulness of strict legal right is the tune they dance to themselves. Nor do they confine their remarks to the words of wisdom, advising moderation and caution, but they accompany them with open threats. The legal right is acknowledged, but the Lords are warned to take care how they use it, as it may be necessary, if they attempt to exercise an independent judgment, to " re-construct them." This, too, on the first taste of an opposition to a question opposed by the Go vernment,and one nearly equally dividing the Lower House itself. Life Peers are hinted at, and the Lords are told that there are dozens of the eminent in the several professions—lawyers, civil servants—both in England and in India—Colonial Governors and military men, whose knowledge and ability have been vastly increased by the practical experience gained in their tussle with the world, and whose personal respectability equals in every way the average titled country gentleman. Because the Lords will not tie coolish the ecclesiastical structure in Ireland, the great English " reconstruction" battle threatens to be that of the Upper House. It is a pity these newspapers did not apply some of their reasoning against Congress to themselves. If they concen trated all the mulishness of all the Peers into one Peer, we doubt whether that one would be a more mulish animal than Andrew Johnson, one that more resisted going the right way, or who kicked more viciously at any who attempted to drive him. Had Parliament to deal with such an ob struction, we would learn how patient and long suffering was Congress. Indeed the only thing that saved Andrew Johnson was the abusive epithets showered on him by the Representatives, for the nation felt, if his enemies took out their change in that way, they had no right to have it again in another way. Important as is the subject involved in the dis pute between the Commons and the Lords, it is small when compared with that between Congress and the President. The former affects an eighth of the population of Ireland, and remotely the other seven- eighths, doing away, if enforced, with a grievance of long standing. Directly it affects a profession, but only as regards the future—existing rights being preserved. The latter affects ten Irelands, not merely ecclesiastically, but in restoring civil rights to the population, and bringing outcasts back into the family of the States. It affects the social connection between two races ; the one lately in slavery to the other. In truth, Reconstruction in America means the most gigantic question of the age, and Andrew Johnson, blocks the way. Why, if such an obstruction existed in England with such in terests at stake, the whole State machine would be driven furiously over him, and he would be left like a victim under the Car of Juggernauth, crushed and flattened, and the marvel is that Congress should have borne with him so patiently. But the English cannot see it. They have but little idea what the interests are, and the aggravation of the opposition offered, and they argue on legal technicalities as if the framers of the Constitution were writing with the circumstances of 1868 in their minds' eye. But there is a strange forgetfulness of all this, when their own comparatively insufficient measure is checked. The check comes from the highest class in the world, time-honoured, renowned in story, and exercising an extraordinary social influence on the nation, assembled in a legislative capacity as old as the Constitution. The measure they obstruct bears the same proportion to Reconstruction, that Andrew Johnson bears to:the Lords as the obstruc tion. Yet at once, so impatient are the English when what is asserted to be public opinion is thwarted, that they instantly talk, if not of impeaching, at least of reconstructing, without any trial, the House of Peers. If Americans began to read the sup porters of the Commons lectures on their disre gard to their venerated Constitution, on their law lessness and impatience of opposition, on their in fringement and usurpation of the rights of others, they would have the measure meted to them, they meted to Congress. But wait—let us see what they will do when the two Houses come into direct col- lision, should the Lords act the President's part, and refuse to give an inch.—Anglo-American Times. MINING IN2ELLIGENca GOLD IN ARIZONA.—Late advices receired from California confirm the cutting of a rich lode of gold ore by the Specie Basis Mining Company in Arizona. The ore yields over twenty thousand dollars per ton. This company has recently com pleted the construction of reduction works, together with a twenty-stamp mill. The shares are conse quently in great demand, as this company bids fair to return large dividends during the present year. XEVADA.—Territorial Enterprise, May sth. We yesterday saw a gold brick from the Wilson mine, Pine Grove; vhich weighed 1,099.15 ounces, and is worth $20,346.02, being the moat valuable bar ever moulded in this State. An Aurora telegram, dated May 9th, is as fol lows :—" A rich discovery has been made at Brodie, within a few days. Dan. Olstein has discovered a quartz ledge on High Peak, near the Empire Co.'s works. Joe. Hutchinson, one of the owners, brought some of the rock in town to-day, and it is certainly rich—principally gold. It has created a great quartz excitement amongst the mining com munity. The owners think it will average $l,OOO per ton." H U 31130 LDT . —Register, May 9th : The Essex mill, at Dun Glen, is in complete order and doing fine work. One hundred tons of ore from the Monroe mine has just been put.through the battery, and is now being worked in the pans. About 100 tons more of this ore is ready for the mill, and will be converted into silver bricks immediately. The Silver Bend Reporter's Hiko correspondent says, April 20th : The first silver brick of the Pahrauagat Valley S. M. Co., located at this place, has just been retorted, weighing about 1,100 ounces, and 867 fine. You should see this mill to know what perfection of machinery is. From that part where the ore is dumped to the driver, the battery, the furnace, the pans, and the retorting room, every thing gravitates. THE Si ATE OF SPAIN. The news which we (Westminster Gazette) receive from Spain is more and more favourable for the cause of religion and the Monarchy. Let the present Government do what they may to conceal it, they will never suceed. Out ideas gain ground even in the adversaries' camp. In the political circles at Madrid, and in the provinces—nay, even in the Chambers themselves, they speak with interest and affec tion of the young men of Don Carlos, the eminent persons and illustrious generals who surround him. As the actual Government at Madrid is like a ship which leaks at the four corners, it is only prudent and natural that the people should look for succour beyond them. It is no longer doubtful that our principles are not mere phantoms, which disappear ; but, on the contrary, are harmonious echoes which touch agreeably the hearts of the Spaniards. The true spirit of patriotism advises, and all the world agrees, that it is only by returning to the ancient institutions and principles placed in regard to the necessities of our days that Spain can again become, as she was, a great and powerful nation. The death of Marshal Narvaez clearly proves this. He was the corner stone of the actual system. His name was respected both at home and abroad, and his fame can never be re placed. The first days of .7.:ourning over, we have seen the secret movemants of groups of Con servatives, who quarrel and set at variance even their own camp. The others prepare for the struggle, if not with probabilities of suc cess, at least with the certainty of causing trouble and agitation. The situation is very complicated. Gonzales Bravo has much talent, great courage, and ov erwhelming ambition. From his words and his actions we might imagine he was the head of a party. But his rule would be like to an opaque comet—very violent, and quickly effaced from the horizon. He would probably be replaced by the Marquis of Pizuela, but this representative of the middle ages would be powerless with a Revolutionary Govern ment. The ardentless rage of Gonzales Bravo, nor the stoic dignity of Pizuela, could present no political solidity—they would be lost in the void. The uncertain and troubled state at present announces coming storms. A struggle is inevitable. All parties prepare. Each one sharpens his sword. In the Palace one is besieged by sombre terrors, and moral force is wanting. They tremble at the idea of the Carlists, and the very picture of the King is a menace. Let him, then, who will, save us from this abyss forthwith. We are as yet scarcely spec tators. To-morrow we will be combatants and revengers. Let us have the head to foresee and the heart to act. Messrs. Caird and Co., of Greenock, have launched the Westphalia, screw, for the Hamburg-American Steam packet Company. She is a sister ship to the liolsatia, Bammonia, Umbria, and other Transalantie steamers built by Messrs. Caird and Co. for the same owners. She is 3,200 tons register, and will be supplied with engines of 6 00-horse power by Messrs. Caird and Co., who are about to construct two sister ships to the Baltimore and Bremen, lately built by them for the Bremen and Baltimore trade. lADVERTISEUENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints in every stage . are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ments, hremorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fit's, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, tie We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68413 .—" R0me, July 21, 1 866 . — The heal th of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other iemedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Ara,bica, Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. ' It has pro laced a surprisingly beneficial effect on. his- health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No, 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Fernley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. — Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart do Decios, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly: Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is. 1;d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs , 11s.; 12 lbs , 22s ; 24 bs , 40s —BARRY DU BARRY and CO., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Picca dilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 298, Oxlvrd-street; 830, strand; and all grocgro Oad.chgraisto. MISCELLANEOUS NETVS. (From the Anglo American 2 imes.) Mr. Batley (according to the Washington corre. spondence of the Cincinnati Gazette) has been showing around a private note from Assist:tat Secretary Cooper to President Johnson, speaking of Henderson as "safe," which is understoo I to have been stolen for But- ler from Johnson's desk. The correspondent—who ev dontly has a rather curious idea of honour and morals— adds —"lf this furnished any conclusive evidence, mon would overlook the way in which it was obtained ; as it is, they are beginning to question whether the results secured are sufficient warrant for the means employed." " We must confess our inability," remarks the New l'or4l Times," to see any justification whatever for such dishonourable con duct ; and we can see no evidence of bribery or corrup tion in Mr. Cooper informing the President that Senator Henderson was safe.' " General Joseph E. Johnston is paying a visit to some friends on the Eastern shore of Maryland Postmaster-General Randall is said to have bought a fine residence at Elmira, New York, to which he will re tire on leaving the Cabinet. Superintendent Snyder of the Union Pacific Rail road, writes from the head of the line :—" Young men from the East with good recommendations that C. 31110 here must not be afraid of their scalps, must be content with rude fare, be willing to sleep ou the prairie, and work hard." All legal and political disabilities have been re moved by Congress from Roderick R. Butler, member elect for Congress from Tennessee. The committee on elections favour the right of Samuel 31'Kee for the contested seat of the Ninth Con gressional District. One of the bills reported to Congress provides for the distribution of the reward for the capture of Jeffer son Davis. NV The principal nominations made during the week ending June 20 were—James Corey to be collector of In ternal Revenue for the first district of California; Alex ander M'Mahon to be United States Attoiney of the terri tory of Montana; J. B. Dennison to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington territory ; and New ton Robinson to be Superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern superintendency. The Surratt trial was postponed, nominally, till Monday, June 22, but there was no prospect that it would begin then. The new indictment charges him with compli city in plots to murder President Lincoln or to kidnap and deliver him to the Confederates. J. G. Abbott heads the Massachusetts delegates to the New York Democratic Convention, who make the Fifth Avenue Hotel their head-quarters. General M'Dowell, commanding the military dis trict comprising Mississippi and Arkansaq, has removed Governor Humphreys an l Attorney-General Harker of the former State, and appointed to the vacancies Major- General Adelbert Ames and Captain Jasper Meyers of the United States army. The Grant and Colfax wigwam was opened at Now York, Monday night, June 22, with a display of fire works and speeches by Horace Greeley, George W. Bun gay, and others. The New York Uuion League Club has struck Andrew Johnson from the roll of membership. An Irish emigrant named O'Brien, a baker of the First Ward of New York city, has created .a sensation among his fraternity by coming home in a coach after be ing buried from a hearse. He was declared to be dead after having been for some time ill ; his wake was celebrated, and he was deposited in a vault on the 14th June in the Cypress Hill Cemetery. On coming to his senses he had the inexpressible delight of finding himself wrapped in grave clothes, coffined, and buried. Rightly conjecturing that instant and vigorous action was necessary, ho kicked off the lid, and finally escaped by the aid of a grave digger. _ _ The United States Minister was received, June 27, by the King of Greece, at Athens. The case of Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co. has been brought up in bankruptcy, and Mr. Gilead A. Smith and Mr. Charles W. Scofield were appointed creditors' assignees. It appears that George Washington Belding had been arrested on his arrived at New York, and a sum of £3,150 recovered. Rumour states that he committed suicide, and it bogins to appear that he could not have boon in a sound state of mind. The liabilities have not yet been ascertained. At a meeting of the directors of New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, A. L. Dennis has been unanimously re-elected president, and Hon. Hamilton Fish, vice-president. . _ Jem Ward, the renowned Black Diamond and ex-champion of England, was expected in New York by the City of Boston, whore the sporting fraternity are pre pared to give him a hearty welcome. - Mr. Pickett, of Paterson, New Jersey, after a wrestling match at Hamilton, Ohio, was killed on the 12th June in a saloon affray. her 11Iajesty Queen Victoria will shortly visit the castle of Reinhardsbrunn, near Gotha. The Princess ar....• Royal of Prussia is expected in a few days at that castle where she will sojourn for a few weeks with her mother. A new military district has been formed, consist ing of the country between the Black Hills and the eastern boundary of Utah, styled tho Rocky Mountain district, and the command is placed in the hands of Major-General Gibbons. Timothy, brother of the celebrated pugilist, John C. Heenan, was shot on the 11th Juno in a drinking saloon, corner of Fifth and Spruce-streets, Philadelphia, by Jerry Eaton. Heenan belonged to the Revenue De partment, and was active in his duties, and the murder appears to have been premeditated, as Eaton, who was accompanied by others, after the altercation left the house and took up a position on the other side of the street, and ffeenan was shot when in the door-way, ono of the balls taking effect in his stomach. His brother John was with him when ho died in the Penn:ylva,nia, Hospital on the .4th, and he was buried on the 17th June in the Cathedral Cemet3ry, Philadelphia. On the 16th of June Pius IX. commenced the twenty-third year of hii Pontifical reign. Sinco St. Peter, to whom history assigns twenty-five years, there have been bat three Popes oat of 238 who have lived to connuoaco or to finish their twenty-third year of govern ment. They are—Adrian L, the Pope of Charlornagne ; Pius V.l„the Pope of the Directory; and Pins VII., the Pope of Napoleon I. Pius IX. will be the fourth. dves until June 16, 1869, he will stand alone with Pius VI, ; if ho lives till June 16, 1370, ho will be matched only by St. Peter; but if ho survives Juno 16, 1871, he will have outdone not only all preceding Popes, but St. Pater him elf.—Glasgow Daily Herald. Wendell Phillips does not approve of the ap pointment of Reverdy Johnson as Minister to England. Butler calls him "a white-washed Maryland rebel," and Wendell Phillips " a Maryland go-between." "We warn our British cousins," the latter says, " that he represents only the burglars who have got possession of the house for the moment; and he only represents the dastard city which murderod Massachusetts soldiers in 1861, and then slunk, like a whipped spaniel, at the heels of our Massachusetts soldier, who, if he conquered nowhere else, did certainly throttle Maryland with his left hand and hold New Orleans in his right. Mr. Reverdy Johnson repro sents Woolley, Snook, Mrs. Cobb, Wood, Chase, and, in part, a timid and disheartened Senate. In the name of Antietam, and the 19th of April, 1861, we aver that no rebel-hearted Senator from a conquered and still treacher- ous State can represent the American people. His con firmation, born in the eclipse and rigged with curses ;trk, only marks low tido in Senatorial instinct and tonour." A young farm - T, named Joseph Le Clerc, ha.. been carrying on a pretty game in the woods near the Noir River, Lower Canada. lie was absent for days, and on his return, told a story which converted the sinner into a saint among his pious Catholic countrymen. He had been lost in the forests, and he prayed to his patron saint, when a tali lady very white and very beautiful appeared with fresh supplies of food. At night she flew like a dove with a large quilt in, which she wrapped him, and he eventually sue ceeded'in finding apath out of the woods. Why the lady flevt like a dove did not throw the pious farmer into the bosom of his family is not explained, nor can we poor mortals divine the reasons for the acts of such celestial messengers, and must be c3nteut to accept Le C lore's story as he tells it William Herring, son of Silas C. Herring, the Safe man, attempted to shoot J. Weeks, proprietor of the Nassawauno Hotel, in Palmer, Saturday afternoon, Juno 13. A dispute about a horse which he (Herring) had hired from Mr. Weeks led to the attack. The ball passed be tween Mr. Weeks' right arm and body without inflicting any wound. Herring has not been arrested. We wish the son was as "safe" as the father. Mr. Longfellow, who has been staying at Lea mington, paid a visit on Wednesday last to Stratford-on- Avon. Ho was accompanied by his daughter, and was conducted by Mr. E. F. Flower to those spots connected with Shakspere's memory. His familiar poem, "The Old Clock on the Stairs," was penned after a summer sojourn at the old mansion house of Nathan Appleton, the poet's father-in-law, in Pittsfield. Mr. Y. Z. Adams declines the nomination threat ened on his behalf for the Vice-Presidency, saying--" I feel that the accident of birth has thrust me upon the public attention before my time." Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, the general agent of the Peabody Southern Educational Fund, presented to the trustees of the half-yearly meeting iu New York a detailed report of his operations for the last six months, in which time he has travelled through all the Southern States ex cept Texas, and met everywhere a cordial re ception from all classes of the people. In soene cities he was received with distinguished honour, and the spirit and temper of the Southern people, seem to bo exceedingly favourable and friendly towards the work which he represents. The efforts so far have been mainly preliminary and in the way of preparation for the more effectual and economical expenditure of Mr. Peabody's benefaction, and the prospects of the enterprise are amply encouraging At the forthcoming (Ecumenical Council, to be convened by Pope Pius IX., America will be, for the first tim , , represented by her bishops in a general authoritative assembly of the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world. The Labour Exchange in San Francisco continues to work most satisfactorily. During the week ending May lee 400 men obtaiued employment through the aid of this association-3f whom 172 were labourers, 44 farm hands, 16 teamsters, 23 lumbermen, and 143 other trades. The wages generally offered for country labourers is about $3O per month and board ; for harvest work, $lO to $5O and found ; artisans from $3 to $t per day—ell in gold. Farm ing help for the interior is much sought for, and the supply of able-bodied men for such work is deficient. The Transcript thus sketches the way in which to fete the Chinese Embassy at Boston:—" The Chinese Embassy will be received in this city in a manner worthy of the metropolis of New England. They will be escorted from Cottage Farm Station by tha military. Among other festivities contemplated is an elegant dinner at the St. James, a concert by the children of the public schools and perhaps an excursion down the harbour." Mr. James B. Rumrill, wife, and daughter, have returned to Springfield from Europe, the ladies having been absent two years, and Mr. Rumrill since last fall. Tho German steamer for Bremen lately took out among her passengers from New York Mrs Dr. Austin Flint, formerly of Springfield and Northampton, her daughters, Mrs. Sheverick and Mrs. Isham, and the two daughters of Mr. Erastus Hopkins,e3f Northampton, all of whom pur pose a residence of two or three years in Leipsic. If " Eb" Washburne be elected for Illinois—he has been re-nominated—this will be his twentieth year of Congressional life. He is the Joseph Hume of America, the bulldog of the Treasury, and even the vile squabble in which he lately took part originated in his efforts to ex pose and counteract a job. The $lOO prize offered by Dr. Jacob Bigelow through the Massachusetts Medical Society, last year, for the best essay on the share of nature and time in the cure of diseases, called forth three, among those sent in, equally worthy of the award. The donor accordingly authorised three such prizes, which were given to Dr. Robert T. Edes of Hingham, Dr. James F. Hibbard of Richmond, Ind., and Dr. John Spare of New Bedford. Thurlow Weed is, it is said, about to proceed to Europe. To say the least, it is passing strange that Vinnie Ream and her statue of Lincoln should be the victims of Impeachment. After Butler had been storming and blus tering for months, bad it not been for Vinnie Ream be would have done nothing more than he did at Fort Fisher except to waste valuable time. Considering that the mountain has so long been in labour, tho result may truly be described as the birth of a mouse. After all the great doings at the Capitol, while the Senate listened to the exaggerated eloquence of the first lawyers in the Union, while fierce debates followed on questions propounded, and the Government at Washington was supposed to be passing through a revolution, the result is that Vinnie Ream is expelled. Some how or another the valiant Butler, when he lets himself down, always drops on the head of an unfortunate woman. I ADVERTISEMENT. 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CHRISTIE—On the 3d inst., at Heigbam Grove, Norwicb , the wife of James Christie, Esq., of a daughter. PALK—On the 4th inst., at 13, Westbourne-place, Eaton " square, the wife of Wm. H. Palk, Esq., of a son. Marriages. CO OPER—BHIGB—On the 2d inst., at St. Jude's Church , Southsea, Edward Cooper, Esq., of Silchester, Hants, to Catherine Anne, eldest daughter of John G. Biggs, Esq. , of Southsea,, and late of Swansea. CRESER—WHITING —On the 2d inst., at the Church of St- Mary, Stoke Newington, Thomas John, oldest son of Capt. °reser, R.N., to Jane Susan, eldest d a ughter of the late Frederic Whiting, Esq. Deaths. BEIsTEDIOT—On the 31st May, at 24, Chawringbee Road , Calcutta, Fanny, wife of Ernest Benedict, C.E., in he r 25th sear. CHILD—On the Ist inst., at the Rectory House, Little Easton, Essex, the Rev. V. K. Child, aged 62. CRANSTOUN-011 the 3d inst., at 32, West-square, George Cranstoun, Esq., merchant, aged 75. FORT—On the 2d inst, at 24, Queen's-gate-gardens, Ricil• Fort, Esq., M.P., of Read Hall, Lancashire, aged 46. lIINDE—On the Ist inst., at Rodney Lodge, Clifton, CaP l/ ' J. W. Hinde ' late of the 15th Hussars and Middles e% Militia, aged 78. HALDANE—On the 3d inst., at Bridge of Allan, Stirling" shire, Scotland, Malcolm Haldane, Esq., of London. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREIiS' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam SUN 011 c), No 11 / 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coulty • blicidiesex.--Monday, July 6, 1868! IT i 3 si IAT il tb ) In B Atlc Agent, th Oh, S ' (41 tE ban's • , 3rve the R LL whis), TUTUN] it, Rry s , T. , h Ab VANe or T _eas ehS Al( y . F orms free on r ROYAL TRIUNIU LOTTIF j t hts lelCTVlraPrriß(;3lkll°' DPNIEI'' s e et111;2:,4 14 ": 1 1 , T, ks6 l aro Nix. J. Pr ivate 80, , lomenarle 1 Sa The wh) CAN Ft' a li ,- ...„ , t 1 e'1,111.1,1741e t ra l e l r. l e e:la i : v e l C ie l : l a 3 giTi r r b !l e a ev : a l. :' With n , . 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