The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times opines that the course of the Lords' debate) on the Suspensory Bill is now the single object of political curiosity. The bill simply prevents the creation of fresh interests, leaving the spiritual wants of the mem bers of the Protestant Church in Ireland provided 'for, and the bill ought therefore to command the support of all who admit the necessity of redistributing the revenues of the Irish Establishment. Yet it is certain—though the leading opponents of the bill, and every educated man who holds that the Irish Establishment cannot be maintained as it is, are morally bound to support it—that the Suspensory Bill will be rejected. Lord Russell will of course be conspicuous in its support. Lord Kimberley will support by his later experience Lord Clarendon's conclusions. The Duke of Argyll will probably repeat his argument of twelve months since, and a few independent Liberal peers will give their aid to the bill. The Govern ment are equally pledged to oppose it, and Lord Derby will probably be found fighting with Lord Cairns in defence of an Establishment which Lord Stanley has pro nounced indefensible. Unhappily, the opposition to the Bill will not be confined to the Government and their im mediate supporters. Lord Salisbury fought against the resolutions in the Commons. Lord Grey will doubtless be followed by others on the cross benches, and the bishops have in something like a corporate capacity announced their intention to oppose it. A debate of considerable interest may be anticipated, though the result is fore known. The bill will be rejected, and the question of the day will be presented at the hustings not merely as the redress of an enormous grievance in Ireland, but also as a contest between the popular and the hereditary branches of the Legislature. It is plain, indeed, that the rejection of the bill cannot prolong the existence of the Irish Church, and this consideration may prevent any exasperation of the public mind, unless it be provoked by the injudicious language of some of the defenders of the Establishment. But if there be no exas peration, it will be only because something like contempt has displaced it. The popular verdict is certain and irre sistible, and the House of Lords, although conscious that they must presently yield to what they now resist, aro about to disparage their reputation and weaken their influence by solemnly recording their vote in favour of ruaintaining an injustice which the nation has decisively condemned. The Post, commenting upon Count Bismarck's tempo rary retirement from public affairs on account of ill-health, says Count Bismarck has, in the now concluded session, proved that he is prepared to accept the r(lie of a constitu tional Minister. lie has descended, as it were, from the steys of the throne to the floor of Parliament, and taken the part that was imposed upon him by circumstances. The King and hia Minister have read, and read alike, the handwriting on the wall. They can discern the signs cf the times. The Father. land, which was a poetical expression and a political illusion, is only not secured by the bond of unity, and it is understood that conciliation and fair and honour. able compromises are essential to the consentient action which is required to perfect and consolidate success. Nothing short of this will suffice to vindicate the high handed policy by which the Prussian mission was inau gurated. The improvement of . the victory for the benefit of Germany and the peace of Europe is indispensable to the ratification of the arrangements that have resulted from it, and the acknowledgment of the collateral and contingent provisions which are thereby entailed. The Herald notes that the adjourned debate on the Telegraphs Bill brought out a fact which will supply the advocates of the measure with a new and powerful argu ment in its favour. Its opponents have dwelt with much emphasis upon the potential evil of placing the control of the wires in the. hands of a vablic department, and have drawn by no means too flattering a picture of the conse quences which may result from making telegraphy a Government monopoly. Of course there is something to be said in support of their hypotheses, and, if we lived under a pure bureaucracy, we might be justly appre hensive of the reproduction here of the evils of espionage from which some of our continental neighbours suffer. But from some statements made on Thursday night it seems that the Government for the time being is not the only foe to the freedom of telegraphic communication. Mr. Leeman, the advocate of the railway vested interest in telegraphy, withdrew his amendment, and by general consent the bill which the Chancellor of the Exche quer bad introduced was about to be referred to a select committee with very little stir, and no opposition whatever, when Mr. Norwood made a disclosure which ought to stimulate those who deprecate monopoly and dread the mischiefs of a system which may be grievously abused. It seems that companies can " put on the screw " as well as Cabinets, and can use their powers quite as unscrupnlously as Ministers of State. In some cases, at least, newspapers have been threatened with the withdrawment of existing facili ties, and have been told that they had better look out for fresh means of communication. In plain English, the practical remedy on which the companies, or some of them, appear to rely, is the rescission of existing contracts, and the consequent compelling of newspaper proprietors to accept any terms that those who now command the telegraphs may think proper to impose. There is an old saw which tells us that companies have neither bodies to be kicked nor souls to be saved. It might, perhaps, be said in addition, that though they may have interests to promote they do not always adopt the best way to take care of them. When an oppo sition spings up, and changes are advocated, the suariterin mode is generally better than the fortiter in re. Those who feel that they have grievances already sufficiently grave to induce them to advocate the transference of the telegraph from the hands of private traders to those of a Government department are not likely to be won back by intimations of the pains and penalties which will be in store for them whenever those of whom they complain can get their own way. Yet this is exactly what has already been clone, and this single circumstance will, we trust, tend greatly to help the bill in its passage through Parliament, and to quicken the action of the select committee to which it has been referred. The Daily News observes that the course of railway legislation shows little or no improvement. Parliament certainly does not seem to know its own mind on the sub jest, and in all probability is halting not between two but among a dozen different opinions. The past fortnight's experience has certainly not been encouraging. A decision passed one day is overruled the next, owing, it is said, to some " misapprehension " a plea which we may readily admit to be true, not only on one, but very likely on both occasions. Uncertainty is now the pre vailing rule. In old days, when two or three powerful railway companies were battling for the privi lege of constructing unprofitable extensions, they at least sw their way clear. What was wanted lay in, if not a narrow, at least a well understood compass : clever counsel, thoroughly practised to sway a committee—a rare and difficult art ; plausible engineers, acid as many local wit nesses as could by influence or interest be possibly got together. For years these tactics never variel The only question debated before the committees was the right to certain privileges. A new class of questions has now come before • the committees directly out of the routine which has prevailed for years past. Delicate financial arrangements, the necessity of passing some measure for the relief of a great company with immense liabilities, and at the same time the care to sanction nothing that will prejudice one class of shareholders to the advantage of another, are not easy matters to decide upon without pre vious experience. It is not surprising, therefore, that the committees hesitate often in pronouncing or maintaining an opinion. Yet this hesitation is the one thing that does most harm. Railways cannot afford to wait. Better to have an immediate though faulty decision at once than to experience constant delay. One class of persons certainly benefit by the . present to of "aff a i rs . If par li amentary io.h.,(stroon leaves companies in difficulty, or seems about to extricate them, it at least causes the price of the stock to fluctuate considerably on the market. Hence the small fry of speculators are only t(x) glad of the opportunity to gamble in a security that may rise or fall 2 or 3 per cent. in a day. It is not equally pleasant, however, for legiti mate shareholders to find the value of their property varying at every moment, and surely these last are entitled to chief consideration. To stop altogether even the worst kind of speculation FPA been often tried, and found impossible. Still it is a duty to carefully avoid any course tending, however indirectly, to its encouragement. The Standard says that there appears to be a greater possibility' than it should have supposed of the selection of Chief Justice Chase as the Presidentiat candidate of the Conservative party. " The objection which, underprdinary circumstances, would render a proposition simply laugh able—namely, that until lately Mr. Chase was an active member of the Radical faction, and that he has not aban doned any of the avowed Principles of that party, is of th e less consequence at present, that on matters of principle there is little avowed difference in the views of the opposed parties, that whicli does exist being a dif ference of spirit and intention, of unavowed wishes and secret policy, rather than of such opinions as can be stated and defined in a political programme. Li the manifesto of the Chicago Convention there is nothing that Mr. Pendleton might not sign, except that earise which is supposed to denounce repudiation. Simi - lor!y, it is not improbable that the Democratic programme w ill contain nothing inconsistent with the known princi ph•s of the Chief Justice. There may be, some danger lest, if elected, he should disappoint the N IeWS of his sup porters. and reconcile himself NVith his former friends— a course which is not without precedent in American history, and IA fore choosingliim as theircandidate the Conservatives u ill pr, )1 'ably be caretsl to take securities againstsuch a deser tion. As between eneral Grant aml Mr. Chase,theStundard has no reason for feelilig any decided preference. Both are men of position and repute; both are gentlemen. The one has had the training of a lawyer and a statesman ; the other, as a successful commander of large armies, cannot but be a man of administrative capacity. Both are men of strong will and of sufficient weight to give effect to their will ; neither of them is likely to be over home by Congress without sturdy resistance, and neither is one whom it would be quite safe to badger and bully as Congress has badgered Mr. Johnson. Grant Is probably the stronger, Chase the more capable of the two, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, June 20. The Classical Moderators have this day issued the fol lowing class list : Barnwell, C. E. 8., Ch. Ch. Jervis, G. G., Ch. Ch. Clarke, R. L., Balliol Jeudwine, G. W. C.C.C. Cruttwell, C.T.. St. John's Kenyon,Hon.W. T., Ch. Ch. Forster, A. S., New College Richards, F. T., Queen's Godley, J. A., Balliol Richard; H. P., Balliol Greg,.F. J. Balliol Shattack, G., St. John's Hardy, R. E., Balliol Theobald, H. S., Balliol Heard, W. A., Trinity Almack, A. C., Worcester Biddick, H. J., University BrnekenbiFy, M. J. F., Lindaell, W. H. 8., C.C.C. Lovell, SY., Exeter Matthew, W. E., St. John's Merry, G. R., Lincoln Moncrieff, F. C., New Coll. Morgan, E. S., Lincoln Morice, F. D., New College Rankine, A., Balliol Ritchie, F., Lincoln Rooper, T. G., Balliol Russell, S. C., C.C.C. Sharpe, R. IL, St. John's Thompson, J. E., Wadham Thorold, G. A. G.. Exeter Tupper, C. L., C.C.C. Turner, G. K., New College Wilson, F. H., University New College Brock, W., Magdalen Buckland, C. E., Balliol Cremer, J. D., Wadham Croker, A., Trinity Digby, R., New College Diuitt, It., Christ Church Ewing, R., Balliol Fowler, W. W., Lincoln Freeman, J. T.. Brasenose Gilliatt, H., University Hartley, J. F., Brasenose Hodgson, J. T., University Humble, W. J.. Exeter Lesley, J., Pembroke Ady, W. H., Exeter Bagot, L. R. C., Wadham Bazalgette, C.N., Magdalen Coleridge, E. H., Ballot Copleston, B. G., Ch. Ch. Croombe, W. M.. Trinity Edwards, A.G.. University Graham, F. R. M.. Lincoln Greenwell, W. J., New Col. Gregory, R. S., Trinity Grosvenor. R. C., Ballot Harries, IL, Worcester Hughes, J. P., Balliol Jackson,W. A., St. Mary H. Kenyon, It. L., Ch. Ch. Mackenzie, A. M., C.C.C. Mozley, A. D., Jesus Steward, A. 8., Magdalen Symonds, E., Exeter Taylor, E. G., Wadham Taylor, R.F., Ch. Ch. Waite, F. U., Balliol White, A. C., Ch. Ch. C. W. SANDFORD, H. F. TOZER, Moderators. J. Y. SARGENT, R. S. WRIGHT, The Mathematical Mcderators have this day issued the following class list : MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL. Chirol, T. A. A., Exeter Muir, R. J., Magdalen Clarke, R. L., Balliol Muir• Mackenzie, M. J., Harrison, J. 8., Queen's 13i asenose. Morris, S. S. 0., Jesus Shattock, G., St. John'! Buckland, C. E., Balliol I Sparks, F.. Worcester Hull, IL E., Brasenose Theobald, H. S., Bank; B. PRICE, T. 11. B. SHAND, Moderators. C. L. DODGSON, LAW AND POLICE, ACTION AGAINST A 13ABBISTER.—In the Court of Com mon Pleas an action was brought by Mr. Yeatman, a barrister, agaitst Mr. Price, the well-known Q.C., for slander alleged to have been uttered under somewhat peculiar circumstances. The plaintiff was the petitioner in a divorce suit, and the defendant was counsel for the respondent, and in his address used,words that expressly meant that Mr. Yeatman was a designing man, and skilled in getting up cases had trumped up a charge of adultery against his virtuous and innocent wife, merely for the purpose of obtaining a divorce, and by that means removing the only obstacle that remained in the way of his marrying a rich woman. The plaintiff also alleged that during the hearing of th'e case Mr. Price had made use of certain words alleging that witnesses had been suborned for the purpose of bearing out the charge of adultery. Witnesses were called on behalf of the plaintiff ; but the jury virtually stopped the case by stating that it was their opinion that the language was used without malice, and that being so, of course no action could be maintained. The plaintiff elected to be, and was non suited. DISHONOURING A CHEQUE.—In the Court of Exchequer, Mr. Talley, an attorney of Piccadilly, brought an action against the London and County Bank for dishonouring a cheque when there was sufficient cash of the plaintiff's to meet it. Mr. Talley drew the cheque on the defendant's branch at Knightsbridge, but had also transactions with them at Reading, and a sum of £23 4s. was lodged there in order to meet the cheque now in question. The duty of the manager at Reading was to have apprised the establishment at Knightsbridge that this lodgment had been made, but, instead of doing so, he notified that a Mr. Tallis, and not Talky (the plaintiff's name), was to be credited. Under these circumstances, the manager at Knightsbridge failed to ilentlfy tl a plaintiff's er ft, and refused payment of Vic cl.equ". It writ aomlted that the plaint'ff hal a ense against the defendants, and a verdict (by consent) for 10 was taken. THE rEIVILEGES OF POYAL RESIDENCES.— In the Exchequer Chamber judgment was given in the case of the Attorney General v. Dakin, which was a special case stated pursuant to the 22nd and 23rd Vic., clip. 21. The short question involved in the case was, whether Hampton Court was such a palace or royal residence as to have extended to it the general immunity belonging to resi• deuces of the sovereign, as regarded the service of writ 4 within its purliLui. In the cc urt below the Barons were of a divided opinion, Barons Martin - and Bramwell holding the proceedings of the sheriff had been regular, whilst the Lord Chief Baron held a contrary opinion. Mr. Justice Lush, Mr. Justice Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Mellor concurred in upholding the decision of the court below in favour of the sheriffs ; and Mr. Justice Willes read a contrary judgment of Mr. Justice Keating, in which he and Mr. Justice Smith concurred. Their lordships being thus equally divided in opinion, the judg ment of the court below stands. WHAT ARE NECESSARIES FOR A YOUNG GENTLFMAN ! In the same court the case of Ryder v. Wombwell, which gave rise to the above-named question, was argued. The cause was originally tried before the Lord Chief Baron, and the action was brought by a firm of jewellers in Bond. street against the younger son of the late Sir George Wombwell, to recover the price of goods sold to the defen dant, and the defence raised to the claim was that at the time the goods were supplied the defendant was under age, and that the articles in question were not necessaries even for one in his condition of life. The articles in question consisted of, first, a pair of crystal, ruby, and diamond solitaires, price £25 ; secondly, a white glass smelling -bottle, silver mounted, and ornamented with coral, pearls, and turquoises, EG 10s.; thirdly, an antique silver goblet, with inscription, a pre sent to the Marquis of Hastings, £l5 15s. ; fourthly, a pair of coral earrings, £l3 13s. The solitaires were used as sleeve-links, and they were formed of crystal set in gold, and inlaid with diamonds, in the form of a horse-shoe, the nails being represented by rubies. At the trial it was proved that the defendant had an income of £5OO a year, and that he lived alternately with his mother and eldest brother. The Lord Chief Baron held that the smelling bottle and the earrings could not be meant for a gentleman, and ordered those items to he struck out of the account. For the other articles the jury gave a verdict. Leave, however, was reserved at the ti ial to both parties to move the court in opposition to the ruling of the Chief Baron. Accordingly, a rule having been granted on behalf of the defendant on argument, the majority of the court held that the Chief Baron's direction was correct, and that he ought to have withdrawn the question as to the solitaires and the goblet from the jury, but Baron Bramwell dissented from this decision, and held that the Chief Baron ought to have with:lrawn the case altogether from the jury, on the ground that none of the items in the account could be held to be necessaries. The court took time to consider judgment. A splendid stained glass window, just erected at he eastern end of the Guildhall, has been presented to the corporation by the operatives of Lanes-shire and the cotton manufacturing districts, as a memorial of the exertions of the Mansion House Relief Committee during the distress in the cotton manufacturing districts in the years 1862 and 1865. The amount which was raised for the purpose in penny subscriptions exceeded £l,OOO. The arrangements for the Norwich meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science are in a forward state. The reception rooms will present special conveniences for business, correspondence, reading, &c. The International Archaeological Society will hold its meeting this year at Norwich, contemporaneously with the sittings o the British Association. Among the distinguished foreigners who have accepted invitations to attend one or other meeting may be mentioned Padre Secchi, from Rome. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is named as the presi dent of the section of Economic Science and Statistics. I DEATH OF A ROYAL PAGE.—Mr. Batchelor, late page to her Majesty, expired at his residence at St. A lbans street, Windsor, on Wednesday, in the 83rd year of his a ge. The deceased gentleman was well knot nby a large circle of friends and inhabitants of Windsor. Mr. Batchelor entered the royal household in the nign of Ceor,e and was page of the backstairs to George IV., William IV., and her present Majesty. He r2tired from the service on a pension in 1861. Her Majesty, with her characteristic solicitude for the welfare of these who have long been in her service, during Mr. Batchelor's illness sent from Balmoral repeated inquiries after his health, and most considerately called to see him on Wednesday, the day of hor Majesty's return from Scotland. Mr. Batchelor, however, was unable to recognise the honour clone to him by his sovereign. Since his death her Majesty has nu,. t kindly seat her condolence to the LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY. The struggle for political power in Europe now in reality lies, it seems to us, as we said last week, between Liberalism and Democracy. In this struggle our sympathy is with Demo cracy as against Liberalism, with the masses of the people comparatively uncorrupted, or at any rate, guiltless of political crime, as against the most irreligious class of modern society guilty of the present political degra dation of Europe. The modern State, con demned by the Holy See, is the concrete form of Liberalism, the highest expression of its essential idea—namely, that material well being is the paramount aim of society as of the individual. Liberalism, however, is of an ac commodating character, and can tolerate any system, any form of error however various, which does not directly and effectually oppose its characteristic principle. But since Catho licism is open to no such compromise, and by its very existence asserts the direct contrary, between it and Liberalism no reconciliation is possible. The modern State may be defined as the Go vernment of the middle classes, to the exclu sion from any appreciable share in political power of the Crown, the Church, the nobility, and the people. Kings are merely nominal rulers, bound, as the Emperor of Austria in forms the Pope, to ratify, at any sacrifice of principle, of right and of justice, the decrees of a Parliamentary majority. But modern Par liaments are composed, for the most part, of representatives of the bourgeoisie, and of the professional classes. Lawyers, professors, stockjobbers and money-lending Jews dic tate at Vienna, for instance, terms which the Upper Chamber of the Iteichsrath accepts with servility, and which the Emperor is compelled, under penalty of a threatened re volution, to ratify. The first work of Liberal ism triumphant in the State is to repeal every law which bas its root in Christian dogma; it would gladly preserve the outward sem blance and sanction of religion, but then it must be a religion of undogmatic character. Liberalism does not wish to appear bigoted or narrow in its views, far less persecuting in its character. It welcomes all forms of religious opinion, but on the distinct understanding that they must acknowledge themselves to be opinions merely, susceptible of change and modification according to time and circum stances. Such a union with religion, Liberalism delights in, but as Catholicism is not an opinion but a dogmatic faith, it is everywhere pro scribed in the modern State. The people, as well as the Crown, the Church, and the ter ritorial interests, are put aside by the domi nant Liberalism of the middle classes. Now they are reviled as ignorant and abject, or as reactionary and superstitious ; now as being under the influence of the Church, or of the landed interest, or as inspired by an unreason ing attachment to the person of the Sovereign, or even of the ruling dynasty ; or, on the other hand, they are regarded with terror as Com munists, hostile to the existing state of things, and awaiting but the opportunity for an attack upon the sacred rights of property. Even in England the lower classes of the people are contemptuously spoken of as the residuum, to be excluded from the franchise, or poiiited at with scorn. At all events, it is a fact that, wherever the Liberalism of the middle and moneyed classes dominates, there the rights of the people, reli gious and political, and their economical in terests—a dangerous provocation under the cir cumstances in which we are living—are sacri ficed to the Materialism and to the selfish in terests of the dominant class. Such obvious injustice increases the danger, lest the rise of Democracy should lead to a terrible retalia tion, to a war of classes, to a war, even, of ex termination. The revolution of 1848 in Europe was a democratic revolution, intermixed, unfortu nately, with a large element of destructive socialism, enough at least, to foreshadow, if the evil be not averted in time, the impending danger. Nevertheless, the democratic move ment of 1848 was a great benefit to Europe. In Germany it broke the chains of the Church, and conferred liberty on the people. It struck terror for awhile into the heart of Liberalism. It forced Kings and Governments, in trembling and fear, to respect th e r i g ht s o f th e i r sub jects. It overthrew the gigantic structure of fraud, corruption and impiety which Liberal ism had raised in France. The reign of Louis Philippe was, indeed, the apotheosis of the middle classes. He reigned in their name, and by their will ; he was avowedly the citizen King. The Church, the people, the noblesse were proscribed. Materialism, moral degradation, and intense selfishness displayed in legislation brought about the Democratic outbreak against the mean and sordid tyranny of the middle classes ; and universal suffrage gave liberty to the Church, to education, and, if it did not give liberty to the people in France, it destroyed the worst of tyrannies-- a selfish class legislation. Democracy, the government of the many for the benefit of the many, is, we have no hesitation in saying, infinitely superior to Liberalism—the govern ment, that is to say, of a class notoriously the most selfish, tyrannical, and anti-Christian in modern society. But Democracy is also tainted with its peculiar sips, and we cannot speak of it apart from its incidental evil, Com munism ; and what is Communism but the natural offspring of Liberalism ? Liberalism has proclaimed that material enjoyment is the end towards which society should aim, and the people, relieved by Liberalism, as far as its power ,goes, from the , presence and re straints of religion, demand at least as a material guarantee for happiness a redistribu tion of property. But the danger with which society is threatened is no ground for giving our support to Liberalism. On the contrary, it is a greater reason for its abolition. For the longer Liberalism governs Europe, the deeper will Materialism and Communism sink into the hearts of the people. So if Liberalism cannot be induced, out of fear of disastrous consequences to itself—if not out of higher motives—to rehabilitate the Christian State, we must do our best ,to aid the peoples of Europe in a Christian movement to throw off the yoke of Materialism. The danger to be ap prehended is lest the Democratic movement, which is spreading throughout Europe, should partake more of a Communistic than of a Christian character. But the Church has power still over the peoples, and the issue of things under a Democratic revolution in Europe offers better hopes than are afforded under the permanent domination of an im pious Liberalism. Who can deny that in revo lutionary Italy or in Austria—the latest apos tate from the principles of a Christian State —the transfer of power from the hands of the irreligious class to the people would not serve the interests of justice, order, and religion ? In England itself, where practical sagacity suggests to many a political compromise, the lines which divide Liberalism and Democracy are being gradually obliterated. By the Re form Bill of 1832, and by Catholic Emancipa tion, which was a concession to popular power, the Constitution of England was considerably modified, a blow Vas given to outward religi ous unity, and the first step taken to free the State from its identification with heresy. Poli tical power was transferred in a large degree from the Crown, the aristocracy, and the Anglican Establishment, to the hands of the middle classes. But this shifting of power was tempered, as is the case almost always in Eng land, by compromises and counterbalancing influences, as in our day the democratic move ment against the predominant Liberalism is met by large and speedy concessions. Liberal ism, under its chosen leaders, Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone, drew up a Reform Bill of its own, whose "hard and fast line" was intended to admit to the political franchise only the lower section of the middle classes, or those on the border line whose interests and political feelings were more closely allied to the pre sett holders of political power. But Mr. Disraeli met the Democratic movement, and threw open the franchise to a large section of the people which has little or no sympathy with the Liberalism of the middle classes, and is at open war with its class legislation and its class interests. The Anglican Establishment, as a class interest, has no claim on the support of the people. Its strength lies with the middle class. It is the embodiment of Liberalism and the most complete expression that exists in England of the religious aspirations and opinions of the class to whom hitherto, at least since the Reform Bill of 1832, the government of the country has belonged. Mr. Gladstone is scarcely a representative of Liberalism pro per. He is "stepping westward," he is advanc ing with the democratic movement, which is destined to be the destruction of Whiggery, of Liberalism proper, of the bigoted and exclu sive rule of one class ; but no fitter repre sentatives of political and religious Liberalism exist than Earl Russell and Dean Stanley. And both regard the abolition of the Irish Establishment, and a fortiori of the Anglican, as the greatest mistake that could be com mitted, and only to be conceded under the pres sure of political or party necessity. Dean Stanley sees in the Anglican Establishment the symbol of all that Liberalism holds dear. It is a State-created religion, undogmatic in its character, expansive, and flexible, ' open to almost every becoming variety of opinion, and with a latitude of interpretation and a toleration of differences which are of the essence of Liberalism ; moreover it combines forms hallowed by usage with a progressive spirit equal to the adoption of the newest ideas on religion which the age we live in may sanc tion or science suggest. The maintenance of such an Establishment, in Dean Stanley's opinion, and in the opinion of pure Liberalism, unmodified by the ruder sense of justice and of the fitness of things which Democracy im ports, is to uphold in England, and to sur round with a peculiar and attractive sanction, the essential idea of Liberalism, that religion is not a dogmatic affirmation of positive truth revealed by God, but the sanction of the mo mentary prevailing opinion entertained by the cultivated classes as to the relations of society , with its Creator. Hence, to abolish the Angli can Establishment, is to deal a heavy blow and a great discouragement to Liberalism, to destroy the outward symbol of a false and de grading idea of religion, and to prepare the way for the advance of truth.— WeBl7ninster Gazette. FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI IN SPAIN. Perhaps some of your readers might like to hear of the ceremony at Madrid on the Sunday within the octave of Corpus Christi at the Royal chapel. This chapel is on the first floor of the palace, and the corridors or galleries are splendid. On this Sunday a procession of the Blessed Sacrament takes place round these galleries, at which the Court assists. Every one who is decently attired is allowed to go up by a private staircase and walk in these gal leries, but ladies are obliged by etiquette to wear black dresses, short sleeves and low bodice, black ornaments, and veil—no bonnets, nor colours. Every one that can go to see this feast, air the procession is over, inspect the tapestries, which are unequalled either for size or beauty. The galleries are very lofty, still these immense pieces of tapestry hang from the ceiling to the ground, a great portion being rolled up below. Some of them repre sent the war at Tunis under Charles V. You have the galleys rowed by men all life-size, and so natural that you can scarcely persuade yourself they are tapestry. One notable piece is the Sacrifice of Abraham, where you see young Isaac carrying the wood for the sacrifice, the altar, and the angel appearing to Abraham. Another represents Abraham sending forth Agar and Ismael, some scenes from the Italian wars —one more beautiful than the other. As these rich works of art are only to be seen this one d ay , crowds continue to fill the galle ries until even i ng . Th e co urteousness of palace etiquette in Spain allows the humblest person, if cleanly attired in the national dress, to see all these artistic beauties, and they are only required not to touch anything and ap pear decent—no money nor douceurs required. It is the same at the splendid Museum and at the Royal Academy. The latter is not always open, but the Museum is. Upwards of 5,000 paintings of the best masters are to be seen in a building built purposely for them.. The different schools are arranged in different rooms to avoid inconvenience. The processions of the Corpus last the whole octave. In the provinces they are far more splendid than at Madrid, but we must not forget to state that the Queen generally goes to the (in English) Mansion House, in the Calle Mayor, to see it pass, but it is at a very early and inconvenient time. In the provinces they usually extend large sailcloths from house to house in the line of the procession, to save the clergy, who are obliged to go bareheaded, from the intense heat of the sun. The procession is always accom panied by the civil and military governors of the place, together with the authorities. If it is less poetical than in France, it is more really religious. Generally speaking, only those con nected with the Church, besides the authori ties, have any part therein. Sometimes some members of confraternities follow; but women, unless simply following behind, never have any part therein. The military bands and all the troops in the place take part in the pro cession. Generally the persons of most dis tinction hold the cording of the dais. On the feast itself and the octave day the procession is very grand, but during the intervening days it is on a less magnificent scale. In some provinces, the evening of the Vigil, bands are playing in the * principal squares, together with illuminations and all kinds of, Southern amusements. The people assemble, sit, talk, eat ices, and pass away a few hours until about midnight in the cool. These Vigils are very and are c a ll e d Verbenas. general in Spain, There is one for St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, the Feasts of Our Lady, and almost all the principal feasts following. In the fine season people of all classes indiscriminately assemble on the same walk, but never inter fere with each other. No intrusion or rude ness. All amuse themselves, and the greatest sobriety and decorum prevail ; indeed, the sad vice of drinking—the bane of all English diver sions—is unknown in Spain. A tipsy man is a novelty, and a drunken woman a thing unheard of. Houses on the line of the processions are always carefully adorned with pretty hang ings, mostly coloured. In this they vary from the French, who are particularly given to white ones—often not too white, consequently not graceful. In Spain, too, they hang the balconies, not the walls, as in France.—Cor respondent of the Westminster Gazette. At the recent memorial services in West Spring field the fact was mentioned that that town, with a popula tion of only about 2,000, furnished 208 men and expended $50,381 for the United States service in the Into war. Of 44 who died only three are buried in their native soil. West Springfield has also a patriotic revolutionary record. Of a single company raised in that town and Westfield in 1780 sixteen were slain and scalped by the Indians in one battle, and lie buried in one grave on the banks of the Mohawk. Capt. Levi Ely commanded that company, and his grave stone in West Springfield tells the story. 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From the "Gazette du Midi, July 2:5 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchi oness d e Brehan, of seven years' liver complain, wasting a*ay, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpiC.%lion all over, bad di ges ti on , cons tant sleeplessness, and the m sst intolerable ner vous ag it a tion.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart tie Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agoiy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Rohorts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig'd name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls. 1 d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d ; lbs., 11s.; 12 lbs., 228.; 24 bs , 40s —BARRY Du BARRY and CO., No. 77, Regeut-s'r3et, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Picsa dilly, and at 61, Gracecturch-street ; 4. Cheapside; 63, 150, anal 298, tiziord- . street ; 310, Strand; mut grocers and chemists. GEN. GRANT AND SPEAKER COLFAX ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR NOMINATION. General Grant and Speaker Colfax accepted the nomination of the Chicago Convention in the fol lowing letters. The " famous correspondent" of the New York Tribune has a little story to tell how Grant wrote his. On the Monday morning gentle men of influence called at his headquarters, and the conversation turned on the nomination. "By the way," said General Grant, " I have to write that letter ;" and, as he said so, he turned to his desk and wrote it in a few minutes. After it had been written, he called in the members of his staff and read it to them. Only one word was objected to, and the General yielded and changed it. The whole thing did not occupy more than ten minutes, and it was copied and put into the mails within half an hour. The .Arew York Citizen discussing this under the head of " Itoorback" about Grant, reminds the correspondent of the line, which says— " Your easy writing is very hard reading." There is a pretty little story also about Colfax, who, when surrounded by eager and influential friends, broke away at the receipt of the third ballot to send a special messagi to his mother, apologizing on his return for his absence that she was so anxious. It is noticed that both the letters end with the word peace," which is considered a good omen. TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1868. GENERAL GRANT'S LETTER. " Washington, D.C., May 29, 1868. " To General Joseph R. llawley, President of the National Union Republican Convention : " In formally accepting the nomination of the National Union Republican Convention of the 21st of May inst., it seems proper that some statement of views, beyond the mere acceptance of the nomi nation, should be expressed. The proceedings of the Convention were marked with wisdom, moderation, and patriotism, and I believe express the feelings of the great mass of those who sustained the country through its recent trials. I indorse their resolutions. If elected to the office of President of the United States, it will be my endeavour to administer all the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the view of giving peace, quiet, and protection every where. In times like the present, it is impossible, or at least eminently improper, to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or wrong, through an admi nistration of four years. New political issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising ; the views of the public on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people. I always have respected that will, and always shall. Peace, and universal prosperity, its sequence, with econo my of administration, will lighten the burden of taxatioa, while it constantly reduces the national debt. Let us have peace.—With great respect, your obedient servant, " U. S. GRANT." THE LETTER OF SPEAKER COLFAX. " Washington, D.C., May 30, 1868. " The Hon. J. R. Hawley, President of the Na tional Union Republican Convention :—Dear Sir,—The platform adopted by the patriotic Con vention over which you presided, and the resolu tions which so happily supplement it, so entirely agree with my views as to a just national policy that my thanks are due to the delegates, as much for this clear and auspicidus declaration of princi ples, as for the nomination with which I have been honoured and which I gratefully accept. When a great rebellion, which imperilled the national exist ence, was at last overthrown, the duty of all others devolving on those intrusted with the responsibili ties of legislation evidently was to require that the revolted States should be re-admitted to participa tion in the Government against which they had warred only on such a basis as to increase and fortify, not to weaken or endanger, the strength and power of the nation. Certainly no one ought to have claimed that they should be read mitted under such a rule that their organization as States could ever again be used, as at the open ing of the war, to defy the national authority, or destroy the national unity. This principle has been the pole star of those who have inflexibly insisted on the Congressional policy your Conven tion so cordially indorsed. Baffled by executive opposition and by persistent refusals to accept any plan of reconstruction proffered by Congress, ^ jus tice and public safety at last combined to teach us that only by an enlargement of suffrage in those gt"taa .30.1.1 the desired end be att.i.eo, end that, it was even more safe to give the ballot to those who loved the Union than to those who had sought, in effectually, to destroy it. The assured success of this legislation is being written on the adamant of history, and will be our triumphant vindication. " More clearly, too, than ever before does the nation now recognize that the greatest glory of a republic is, that it throws the shield of its protec tion over the humblest and weakest of its people, and vindicates the rights of the poor and the powerless as faithfully as those of the rich and p o werful. rejoice, too, in this connection, to find n your platform the frank and fearless avowal that naturalized citizens must be protected abroad, at every hazard, as though they were native born. Our whole people are foreigners, or descendants of foreigners. Our fathers established by arms their right to be called a nation ; it remains for us to establish the right to welcome to our shores a ll who are willing by oaths ~of allegiance to become American citizens. Perpetual allegiance, as claimed abroad, is only another name for perpetual bond age, and would make all slaves to the sod where first they saw the light. Our national cemeteries prove how faithfully these oaths of fidelity to their adopted land have been sealed in the life-blood of thousands upon thousands. Should we not, then, be faithless to the dead if we did not protect their living brethren in the full enjoyment of that na tionality for which, side by side with the native born, our soldiers of foreign birth laid down their lives ? It was fitting, too, that the representatives of a party which had proved true to national duty in time of war should speak so clearly in time of peace for the maintenance, untarnished, of the national hon our, national credit, and good faith as regards its debt, the cost of our national existence. Ido not need to extend this reply by further comment on a platform which has elicited such hearty approval throughout the land. The debt of gratitude it acknowledges to the brave men who saved the Union from destruc tion, the frank approval of amnesty, based on re pentance and loyalty, the demand for the most thorough economy and honesty in the government, the sympathy of the party of liberty with all throughout the world who long for the liberty we here enjoy, and the recognition of the sublimeprin , ciples of the Declaration of Independence, are , worthy of the organization on whose banners they are to be written in the coming contest. " Its past record cannot be blotted out or forgot ten. If there had been no Republican party, sla very would to-day cast its hateful shadow over the Republic. If there had been no Republican party, a free press and free speech would be as unknown from the Potomac to the Rio Grande as ten years ago. If the Republican party could have been stricken from existence when the banner of rebel lion was unfurled, and when the response of " Nt• coerzion" was heard at the North, we would have had no nation to-day. But for the Republican party daring to risk the odium of tax and draft laws our flag could not have been kept flying in the field until the long-hoped-for victory came. Without a Republican party the Civil Rights Bill, the guaran tee of equality under the law to the humble and the defenceless as well as to the strong, would not be to day upon our national statute book. With such inspiration from the past, and following the example of the founders of the Republic, who called the vic torious General of the Revolution to preside over the land his triumphs had saved from its enemies, I cannot doubt that our labours will be crowned with success, and it will be a success that shall bring re stored hope, confidence, prosperity, and progress, South as well as North, West as well as East, and, above all, the blessings, under Providence, of na tional concord and peace.—Very truly yours, " SCHUYLER COLFAX." Senator Grimes has replied to the scandals circu lated in the West arising out of his vote for ac quittal, and his plain, straightforward statement is worth recording : " Washington, May 26, 1868. " It is not tree that I have now, or ever had, any hostility to Mr. Wade. I never had the slightest misundorst anding with him in my life. It is not true that. .1 have ever sought to be, or ever desired to be, a candidate for Vice-President, or President pro term; bore of the Senate. It is not true that Chief Justice Chase sought to influence my judgment in the Ito peo.chment trial. I never had a word of conversation with the Chief Justice on that subject, nor on the subject of a new party or of any political party, nor did he ever mention the subject of the Presidency to me. I have not been in the house of title Chief Justice for more than two years. "It is :not true that 1 have ever been dissatisfied with the , :Reconstruction plan of Congress. So far from it, - was one of the seven Senators who were members cf the joint Committee on reconstruction and signed the report. I was Chairman of the Sub- Committee on the State of Tennessee, and it was upon my :recommendation that that state was so early rest.ffel to the Union. " It is :not true that I am now, or ever was, either directy or indirectly, interested in the Chicago 7 rap i ne nftwspaper. Ido not know, nor ever have known, hoer the Tribune corps is organized, what is its capital, who are its stockholders, or the value of its stock. :Nor have I ever sought to influence the course of that paper on any measure, public or private. lam sorry to be compelled to add that the story so circumstantially related and published that the wife of the editor of that paper is my daughter is not true. "It is nob true that I ever had the slightest sympathy with the general policy of Mr. Johnson's administration. I have had no personal intercourse with Mr. John son for two years ; never asked him for a favour, and never received one from him. "It is true that when I took an oath that in all things appertaining to the trial of the Impeach ment of Andrew Johnson I would render impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws,' I ceased to act in a representative capacity. I be came a judge, acting on my own responsibility, and accountable only to my own conscience and my Maker ; and no power could force me to decide in such a case, contrary to my convictions, to suit the requirements of a party, whether that party were composed of my friends or my enemies. " JAMES W. GRIMES." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Senate has passed a bill creating a new Ter ritory of Wyoming, which consists of portions of Idaho, Colorado, and the Lilian territory. The attempt to name it Lincoln was frustrated by those who desired to preserve the Indian name. On the sth June the Chamber also passed and sent to the House a bill providing that contracts for payment in ;gold shall hereafter b valid ; an enactm - ent of great importance to commerce, as traders may now legally base such operations as they choose, on a gold medium. Before this Act such contracts could not be enforced, they were a mere matter of honour between the parties ; and in case of dishonesty, of bankruptcy, or of death, such agreements were worthless in law, greenbacks being a legal tender for the amount. Oar readers may remember that Thad. Stevens quoted an instance in approval of the action in his celebrated letter, recommending repu diation, wherein a person who had expressly stipu late) to pay in gold paid in greenbacks, and in this was supported by the court. It is thought that th!E law will greatly lesson the practical inconvenience of an inconvertible paper currency, but it may thereby retard the rerurn to specie payment. Thi s is, however, a mere conjecture, for if a large por tion of the mercantile transactions of the country be based on gold, it may facilitate the change. A bill of great importance has come up from the Re presentatives, which allows imports to pass direct to the interior posts of the country, making St. Louis and Cincinnati ports of entry for collection districts, &e. IVe regret to see by the report that the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian line of steamers does not pay. The revenue for the year was £296,107, And the disbursements £326,991, exclusive of £21,428 for interest on debentures, leaving a total deficiency of £55,315, which, with the former ad verse balance of £9,581, raises the sum at the debit of profit and loss to £61,893. This unsatisfactory result is at least in part attributable to the fear of yellow fever in the Nock Tn,lios lacit autumn, and to the bad reputation for salubrity of the Isthmus, people not being able to overcome the dread that they may by some ae,;id,ent be detained there. If the company can hold on for a year or two more they will be all right, for their port then, whether they like it or not, must be San Francisco; and they will undoubtedly, when the Union Pacific Railroad is completed, carry all the more wealthy New Zealand and Australian passen gers. If they would amalgamate with the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, and make their terminus San Francisco, they might have a great future ; but whatever may be the fate of this company, nothing can prevent :the eventual esta blishment of a line between the Australias and California. Perhaps the American Government might aid the company if they made this change in their port of departure. General Sanborn, President of the Indian Peace Commission, concluded a treaty with the principal chiefs of the Sioux on the 25th May, and he was about to conclude others with chiefs then waiting at Laramie. He thinks there will be no further diffi culties this summer along the Union Pacific Rail road, nor have there been any during the past four weeks. The pending treaty with the Osage Indians in Kansas had been completed, by which the re maining land is ceded to the Government, and the tribe removes to the Indian territory on increased annuities. Two of the tribe were arrested, and are to be tried, for murdering two white men in Butler . county, Kansas. The Indians in New Mexico are still very hostile, and several settlers have been killed, and. others have petitioned General Grant for the protection of an efficient mounted force. In Para rise Valley, California, Captain Munson, with fifty men of the 9th Infantry, defeated a party of Indians, killing an 1 wounding several. In the sitting of the North German Parliament, on the 13th instant, the bill for the institution of the decimal system of weights and measures was adopted. The metre is to be the basis of measure ment, and the mile, as a measure of distance, will consist of 7,500 metres. The law is to come into operation on the Ist January, 1872. The bill intro duced into Congress to bring the Unite I States into the system, as regards International Coinage, has been amended, sO far as to secure its adoption, and bring it into harmony with that already so widely in force over the European Continent. The two are intimately associated, as there is no such measure and no such weight as coin, and that adjusted all others will quickly be made uniform. The diffi culty of assimilating the gold currency of the Union to the system recommended by the Convention held last year in Paris was in compensating creditors for the depreciation of about three per cent. in the value of the gold coinage. This has, we believe, been overcome, and America is in a fair way to enter the system. There has lately been a strange Convention held in Missouri. It consisted of editors of the Republican party, who met to pledge themselves to express only their own thoughts on political questions, and not to accept the thoughts forwardel from Congressional politicians, nor to advocate everything sent to them by the caucases in Washington. However ridiculous it m ly appear, if the principle sprea Is, and is re.illy acted on, it will work a great revolution. The party power in America is so strong, because it is ad mirably organized, the leaders being narrowed down to a few individuals, who give the ideas on which nearly every one must work, with a despotism which would be tolerated in Tut few other countries. Thenceforth, were the Misnari " platform " gene rally adopted by elitors, Vie party woll.l be held together by a few grand Finciples an I objects, and individuals might differ freely on minor points. Then it would not be easy to direct the whirlwind against such men as the " recreant" Senators, for the editors, when they thought out the subject for themselves, would not be likely to condemn the course, while a luau who really behaved badly could look for but little countenance from the Press. The number of Republican newspapers who supported meu like Trumbull and Fersencleu ahowa how many there are guided by the independent opinions of tbelr Editors, but the mass seek in their letter-boxes f c ' t opinions, and act with fidelity on the impressi°►s thus received. A special committee to inquire into the charge s brought aga.ins , ., Mr. Donnelly, by M r . W as hburne, which led to the "slang-wanging" which we lately CO ul c i tuented upon, repo r t s th a t M r. Washburno withdraws all his charges, and everybody is whitewashed, and all thil lo Are lovely and very nice indeed. Previous to the arrival of the Baltimore la st Tuesday off Cowes, on her way to Bremen. the passage° presented a complimentary address to Captain Veock thanking him and his officers for the care and attention devoted to them during the passage, and wishing su ccess to the new Baltimore line. The New York Citizen is inconsolable over t llB 'oss of a charming family who left New York by the 8 00 , Scotia for a two y ears ' v i s i t to Europe. Mrs. Lawrence, of Twenty -third-street, and her two daughters form the theme of an articl•?, wherein the Citizen declares itself to be disconsolate and determined not to be corn . forted by any event short of their return. The less t ° :America will be a gain to Eurcpe, and while welcotal3s the ladies, whose safe arrival we announce, we desire to console the Citize n b y th e re fl ect i on that it is an ill Wi t ' that blows nobody good. Colonels W. Archer Cocke and W. 0. Girardcal lately had a str ee t encounter, at Monticello, Flor id a , 3-ni Girardeau was shot through the body, the wound Ito fatal. Colonel Coclfo was formerly of Richmond, litr ginia, and has considerable fame as a lawyer and author' Ex-Governor Thomas H. Seymour has gone to Laurel Hill, North Carolina, to deliver the annual addr e "" at the college there. of Chief Justice Ch ase i s engage d i n t h e tri: a` causes on the Civil Docket in the United States Court a' Richmond, and will remain about ton days. ManY Pro minent citizens have paid their respects to hint. Governor Burnside was elected President of the Narragansett Steamship Company,—known better as the Bristol lino, at the stockholders' meeting in Providenc i e ' The action of thedirectors in re d uc i ng f ares was s ustaiuc w Instead of losing, the company is making money rapid'' '. On Monday, Juno 1, its boats conveyed 3,000 passeage r6 both ways, between Bristol and New York. Woolley, the contumacious witness, is confine d in Miss Vim:do Ream' s room i n th e C ap i t al , w hi c h s he bad occupied as a studio, the Managers thus killing two De' mocratic birds with one stone. Ile is allowed to see wife, his physician, and his lawyer, and rather enjoys notoriety, intending, it is even said, to run for Congressl": the autumn for his district in Ohio on the strength of this imprisonment. The Tribune says that Woolley's ituP ri ,, sonment is all right, but protests against his being shut 3 r with Vinnia Ream's statue of Li nco l n , b ecause it ccon es under the head of the cruel and unusua l punishmo nt Wh ich the Constitution forbids. • The Republicans of West Virginia have not nated William E. Stevenson for Governor, General 1..",; Duvall for Congress from the first district, and tr* McGrew from the second. The Impeachment trial of Canal Commissioner Dorn, of New York, is progressing at Albany, wheneve r 5 quorum of the Senate can be got together, but it is e°11 ; ducted with very little spirit and is not lik e ly to amoilat,' much. Mr. Collector Smythe, of New York, has 1[1( 11 A resigned, notwithstanding the suggestions of many fa ti ,, l ; ential papers. Tho Sun thinks, "had he been gifted W" right feeling, ho would have retired at the time of It Perry's scandal." The Nation says, "We excused 131 8 for his share in that affair, however, on the ground that ,: had just taken his first plunge into 'politics '—as this (1 '; gusting jobbery and intrigue is called—and in conniving 3 i a the misappropriation of the public funds, simply ",„ what his predecessors had been doing, and what, n° i 9 the present system, any collector must do to keep '„ - t place. But the bribing of Senators in an Impeachrue-4 trial is something entirely novel, and is not, under t existing theory or practice, a legitimate portion of duties of a United States collector of customs. In 'c ell ; suiting' upon it—if consult' ho did—Mr. Smythe dre" from his own private fountain of wickedness, sat l - 11 :: therefore again suggest that he either answer Mr. AV ee "g charge, or pay his neighbours a small tribute of resP e ' by resigning." Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, the inventor of O r ; dian cases, by which many most interesting exotic 1) 13° have been introduced into this country, and which " ni l' s enabled so many to cultivate ferns in their own ro c ; with delight and instruction, died, at the age of 77, 3t Leonard's, on the 4th inst. Horace Greeley is in Washington, consultingi it is said, with the Republicans on the coming Presidentis election campaign. During the debate in the House of Commons last week on the Married Women's Property Bill, Mr. bellf stated that there are 800,000 women in the receiP t ° weekly wages in factories. The husbands have an ab scr a lute right to the earnings of these women, a n d may sP ell everything in drink to the detriment of wife and children,: As au illustration of what con ti nua lly occurs , Mr. Jae ° ' Bright mentioned the case of a man who had married 5 woman with a good business, and who sold off her stock and furniture and went to America, leaving her destitute' He alsO mentioned another ease. in which an elderly la di o had been married to a ma n con sid era bly h er junior, “'!, - 0 was deserted after her property had been wasted, and w" - died in a workhouse. Mrs. Mary Carpenter delivered an interesting address in Islington on Thursday night on the importu nc° , of "Female Education in India." She intends establis hi" a normal school for female teachers at Bombay, o,lloo'll her own money and all the funds she can command fo r tti purpose. Her aim is a purely secular and moral tra.inint of the young women of India. A distinguished Pa rs ' spoke at the meeting. 13t Major George A. Hickman, formerly Adju ta e of the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, is prePa rip ' a memoir of Major-General Hancock. A petition has been presented in the House °I Representatives for the removal of the United States Ja Ai ag s e , Busteed of Alabama, for alleged incompetency and honesty in office. George Francis Train was not fortunate in - be reception at the Liverpool Exchange, out of whic h 4 7.,0 was hissed on Wednesday, but ho met an entbusi as ",. - t welcome from a large audience of Irishmen in the Con ce 't Hall. He told them ho was to be the next Presid e °. of the United States, that ho had the promise o f h million of Irish votes, and he enumerated at lung d , not only what he had done for America, but for Irelone He regarded Mr. Gladstone as the Head-Centre of nianism, and ho had no doubt that in ten year s , Disraeli would be the President of the English P:0 public. Three groans were given on his call for assassination of King Theodore, and he rather surp ri ld his hearers, who are not in the habit of reading the i rer b e and the I?.erolation by describing the things he had don e ' 110 style of man he was, the terror he had excited ill the British Government as the scathing denouncer of big ° and intolerance, and the post to which he aspired. II; following The nominations have been sent to II; to 1 Senate by the President :—H. G. Worthington , , 0 Minister Resident in the Argentine Republic, in 19 , a7,ter Asboth, deceased ; Thaddeus P. Mott to be gi u r for Resident at Costa Rica, in place of Lawrence, removed .o° fighting a duel with an Attachd of the Prussian Leg n ,,`" a tt at Washington. who has been reported to his Governs, a 4 Rear-Admiral J. A. Dahlgren to b e Chi e f o f the 13n- gl; of Ordnance, in place of Capt. Henry A. Wise, resig n : o rl Commodore Thomas Turner to be Rear-Athniralt, - 0 , Capts. A. M. Pennock and John L. Word e n to be (Je modores. ot , Mr. Union Adams, the well-known merob a t ho has been jocosely nominated for the Presidency bY, c ri New lark Tribune. The Citizen says the joke is no,t ; Iell D apparent. Mr. Adams, who is the President of the '''.„eri National Bank, is one of the most successful business '- of tADTER T his city, o ISEMENT.] and has n political Holloway's aspiratioPills. n-Safety -. -403 i(is t , is- Dangers.—Surrounded on all sides by the causes cu r e , ease man must keep up a constant watch if he would I:' n t serve or recover his health. These purifying Rills Pll ol;' the most certain and effectual means of removing a noxious matters from the blood at the same time that tia;ll.7g regulate any disordered actions which their presenc e s o f induced. The harmless and strengthening bals ani e or which Holloway's pills aro composed render thon t. l) c an Early well adapted for the young and delicate, vi"°,3or with impunity boar only tender treatment. In the ta al sery this mild aperient and universal purifier sl.l o % j elo' ways be at hand. ..In rising families attention to i - "*"eet way's directions and their early application will P re much future evil. Births. bt lllll DAwsoN—On the 19th inst., at 3, Spa-place, Chelt en ,d, the wife of Major A. H. Dawson, R.A., of a daug hiw- e %, LEE—On the 19th inst., at Pawk Farm, itomford, the wife of Ms. Joseph Lee, of a son and heir. I‘, tir TINLEY—On the 19th inst., at Park-side Princes'a Pn, Liverpool, the wife of Lt.-Col. R. J. Tinley, of a 5°- Marriages. O bi GASKELL —BALDWIN—Oa the 18th inst., at Cove Cb , l3 o ld Kinsale, Gerald M. Gaskell, Esq., Lieut. 101 .4,, t ° Regiment, second sou of J. M. Gaskell, Esq., . fl 'do'i th Anus Louisa, youngest daughter of Godfrey P A. Esq., of Brookfield, county Cork. ROWE—ALLPRESS—On the 18th inst., at St. o°7 o o Tufnell-park, John William, eldest son of the lat e bo rf , Rowe, of Change-alley, and St. Paul's-road, Ca n°° ,4o. l ' to Katherine Elizabeth, eldest daughter of th e Allpress, of Islington and Tufnell-park. Deaths. aro ARMITAGE —On tho 18th inst., at Kensington, IV—JO. Armitage, Esq., lato of Egremont, Cheshire, ag el - , CREAM—On the 19th inst., at Rye, Suffolk, Chas. Esq., solicitor, aged 52. NY . CAPE —On the 19th inst., at 112, St. Paul's-roa d ' George A. Cam Esq., aged 70. O lf ROBERTSON —On the 18th inst., at Stirford Motto-, miuster, Robert Robertson, Esq., aged 83. co o SHARMAN—On the 16th inst., at Wellingborougbt C. Sharman, Esq., surgeon, aged 45. 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