The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITENALB. Who, asks the Times, can hope ever to get to the bottom of a genuine Irish row? When once it is fairly roused and the combatants are in the heat of the fray, it matters not whether words or shillelaghs be the weapons of attack, there is no finding out the cause of the quarrel or even of discriminating between the two sides engaged in the conflict. A confused hurly-burly is all that can be seen. If the war be one of arms, you may see the glancing of :cudgels and hear a crack or two amid the hullabaloo, but the fight is a free fight, and men hit right and left, without respect of persons, from the mere love of fighting. If the contest be verbal, the same disorder is closely observed. The arguments tumble over one another. All discrimination of fact disappears. Speaker answers speaker as he sees opportunity, without even inquiring whether he is friend or foe, and not unfre quently without waiting for the advantage of silence. There is the wildest extravagance of assertion and ap parently of belief, and when it is all over the deadly enemies of five minutes before astonish bystanders by be coming the best of friends. Looking at the general question involved in the debate, the leading journal observes : It is perfectly clear from Lord Mayo's comparison of the number of polling-places and of electors in Irish and English counties that the number of polling-places in Ireland is too small in many counties, and it was not denied that voters have in some parts to travel 25 miles to give a vote. It was silently admitted also that complaints had been made and difficulties had been found to exist in the way of increasing the number of polling-places. What, then, was the objection to the bill? Sir George Bowyer, who as an Englishman, though sitting for an Irish borough, may be pardoned the weakness of giving a reason, urged that the magistrates would have too much power under it ; but this reason will scarcely hold. According to the theory of the present law, the magistrates appoint additional pol ling-places, subject to the approval of the Lord-Lieutenant in Council ; according to the bill they were to assemble and select additional places when authorised to do so by the Lord-Lieutenant ; and it would have been very easy, if this difference in procedure had been the sole objection, to have added a proviso that no selection should be valid until submitted to and approved by the Lord-Lieutenant. The true secret appears to be that the Irish Liberal members object to the increase of polling-places at all. It seems to have been considered that if the polling-places be brought too near the voter, the voter can be more carefully "nursed" by his landlord or his landlord's agent, and the usual incident of a concerted rescue would not be so easily managed. But if this were the true reason and we can only guess at it why should it not have been avowed ? Was it that the Irish members who opposed the bill thought that to magnify the dependent condition of the Irish voters now would be inconsistent with their pro posal to reduce the county franchise a month since ? By the light of last night, to say nothing of previous expe rience, we cannot believe that any Irishman is afraid of using inconsistent arguments, and the omission to give any valid reason against the clauses so strenuously opposed must be attributed to that strange perversity which says everything that need not be said, and leaves unsaid what would be really to the purpose. The Standard declares that there is nothing which the Irish Radical or Catholic members apprehend more than any increase of facilities for recording votes at county elec tions. Their great chance, we may say their only hope, of winning a contested county election rests upon the intimidation they can bring to bear, by the agency of the priests, upon the voters. Experience has proved that it is not sufficient to curse all electors who may vote for Conservative candidates from the altar on the previous Sunday, but that the most effective and the safest way of defeating a Conservative and loyal candidate is to put the freeholders and occupiers who think of voting for him in danger of their lives. This is easily effected by instigating a large mob to assemble around the few polling places, or to lie in wait upon the principal roads for any parties of electors who may be expected to come up with the intention of voting for the Conservative candidate. The fewer the number of polling-places, and the longer the distances voters have to travel to reach them, the more conveniently can these Radical arguments from the bludgeon and the stone be applied, and it is quite in telligible, therefore, that the Irish Radical members should regard with the greatest alarm the application to Ireland of a principle admitted without any ques tion in England. Under the law as it at present stands the Radicals have it pretty well their own way- With a view to remedy the evil, Lord Mayo introduced into the Registration Bill clauses which provided an effec tive means of establishing additional polling places wherever the magistrates of the county assembled in special s :ssion might consider it advisable and the Privy Council should be of opinion that sufficient grounds existed for their establishment. When the Irish Radicals found their nearest interests threatened by this proposal to enable the electors to give a free and unbiassed vote they hurried back to London from their country seats in a very great rage. The Daily Yeirs admits that the present machinery for the alteration of polling-places in Ireland certainly is very difficult to work ; the Opposition, it says, frankly admitted that an wr.c:ultrent of the law Li accessary. But why could net the Jaw of Ireland be placed precisely on the same fox tag with that of England, leaving to the Courts of Quarts r Sessions the settlement of the changes in polling places, or additions to their number, with au ultimate veto vested in the Lord-Lieutenant in Council ? Lord Mayo has proposed a plan of legislation wholly exceptional, and liable to excite suspi cion in the minds of the people. The bill proposes to enact that the changes in question shall be determined, not in quarter sessions, but at a special sessions, convened at ten days' notice, for the discussion of this subject only, It is obvious that this scheme is pregnant with conse quences most dangerous to the freedom and purity of elections in Ireland. It would place in the hands of the Irish magistracy—that is to say, the Irish landlords—the power of putting the screw on their tenantry more effec tually than they have ever hitherto been able to do. It is an altogether inexcusable attempt to mete out to Ire land a different measure of justice from that which is accorded to England. The Post enlarges upon the service rendered by the select committee appointed to consider the Electric Telegraphs Bill. The principal service rendered by the committee has not been so much that it has established the merits of the bill, as that it has disposed entirely of all the objections which have been brought against it. It is to be observed that none of these objections struck at the broad principle upon which the measure is founded, but that they were aimed solely and exclusively at the practical details of the scheme by which it was proposed to be carried into effect. In the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it would indeed have been useless to deny that the assumption of the telegraph service by the State must result here, as it has elsewhere, in great advantages to the public, and thus the opponents of the plan have had to fall back upon details. All the arguments which had ever been urged against the bill itself were finally and satisfac torily disposed of, and it was established as being beyond contradiction, a measure at the same time most desirable in principle and perfectly unobjectionable in detail. But there remained the question of the terms on which the Government was to obtain possession of the telegraphs ; and as in a matter of bargain there is always room for differ ence of opinion, it is upon this that the opponents of the measure have made their last stand after being overthrown upon every other point they have urged. A little atten tion, howe rer, to the course which this part of the discus sion has taken will ahem that the objections based upon it have as little foundation as all the rest. Twenty years' purchase cannot be considered a bad bargain for the State, especially when it is remembered that the Government can raise the money for the purchase at three and a half per cent., and that it will get at least five per cent. return upon its investment in this manner. Thus the last objec tion to the measure is disposed of, and it 'is to be hoped that it will be passed into law, so as to enable us to reap the benefits of it with as little delay as possible. The Telegraph, while vindicating the right of public Alerting, is rather indignant with the" demonstrators" of Sunday. When (says our contemporary) we have to con template an unmistakable fiasco like that perpetrated by Messrs. Finlen, Wade, Thomas, and their colleagues, it is lime to declare that the right of public meeting must be respected by the humbler classes as well as by the higher. We frankly confess that the first of the three whom we have mentioned is scarcely a person to make the cause of justice to Ireland purer or more dignified by his pre sidency. He may be a misunderstood man; but the associations coupled with his name in the public memory are not exactly those which should attach to the spokesman of London artisans when they ar a about to exercise their new privilege of citizenship. Thus unfor tunate in their leadership, the promoters of those demon strations aro further guilty of having, demonstrated nothing. It is as absurd to call the handful of spectators in Hyde Park on Sunday a gathering of "the people," as it is to doubt that the people are heart and soul with Mr. Wadstono, and thoroughly bent• upon disestablishment and disendowinent. Of this last fact we are so perfectly well satisfied that we scorn t > hide our condemna tion of such half-baked batches of political effort. Certainly there was nothing to be concluded from such a "one-horse" show of heads as that of Sunday last; hut where our opponents are believed, we also claim the right to be satisfied, as true Liberals. We should have been sorry to see success achieved under the guidance of individuals who— in a very strict sense—have no moral riht to tak e th e gu id ance o f h ones t wor ki ng men. Far better fail absurdly, with such a burlesque of representation, and such lamentable and un-English ideas of political warfare, than achieve the object. 'the break down of such an ill-considered business as Sunday's, cannot possibly injure the Liberal campaign but a " triumphant success" would have been 39metinn" g diz• quieting and gnwelpsag i 4 d e g - - . SIX BOYS DROWNED. A melancholy occurrence is reported from North Wald where no less than six boys have met their death by being drowned whilst bathing at Prestatyn, a village a few miles distant from Rhyl. Eight boys went to bathe as they came from school in the afternoon, and were surrounded by the tide and caught In a gutter about a hundred yards wide. The shallowest place at which they could get out was three or four yard; deep. Two of the number, named Robert Evans and David Wells, of the respective ages of 14 and 11, were able to swim, and as soon as they got out they ran for assistance; but it was of no avail, the six boys on their return being out of sight. Their names and ages were—Walter D. Williams, 10 ; Thomas Ellis, 11 ; William Ellis, 9 ; Samuel Gilderoy, 11; G. Gilde roy, 9; and Martin M‘Mahon, 10. Three bodies were found about an hour after the accident, the other three were discovered at ono o'clock on the following morning. Five out of the six were choristers in the village church, and had, as they thought, just time enough to bathe before going t) tho usual weekly singing practice. Side by sido have they sung God's praises on earth, and side by side aro their remains to bo laid in the pretty village churchyard. The clergyman of the parish proposes to commemorate this sad event by filling with painted glass a small lancet window in the south side of the chancel, just opposite the scats these poor lads long occui ied. DASTARDLY OUTRAGES. On Monday afternoon, a dastardly outrage was per petrated in the Crosvndale-road, Camden-town, near Oakley-square. Mr. Williams, corn dealer, of No. 19, in that road, was sitting at dinner with his family in the parlour attached to his shop, which has a large plate-glass front, when they were startled by a sharp mall, and some glass and other material falling from the wall just over the head of a young woman, a member of the family. A small round hole was cleanly cut through the upper part of one of the thick sheets of plate-glass forming the shop front, and some bags of flour had been shattered. On examining the wall in the parlour, an in dentation was found in the paper and plaster, which was broken. No report of firearms was heard, and it is believed the bullet, or whatever other missile it was— it has not yet been found—was discharged from an air gun, or some such projectile. The police are making every effort to discover the miscreant. Another outrage of a similar description took place a day or two ago at the house of a lady in Bayham-terrace, near the Mother Bed Cap, at Camden Town. She was resting herself on a bed in an upper room at the back of the house, when she was alarmed by the crashing of the glass of the window, which was open, a bullet having been fired through both sashes. It struck the wardrobe opposite, and was picked up on the floor. The house backs upon houses in Hamilton-street. The police have not yet been able to obtain any clue to the affair, which was very nearly having serious results. LAW AND POLICE. THE AFFAIRS OF THE JOINT-STOCK DISCOUNT CO3l rANy.—Before the Lords Justice; the appeal case of Shepherd v. Gillespie was heard. The defendant was at one time a director of the Joint-Stock Discount Company, and Vice-Chancellor Stuart decreed that he should pay calls made since 27th December, 1865, and any future calls that might be made, on 250 shares in that company which stood in the plaintiff's name. The decree of the Vice- Chancellor was affirmed, and the appeal dismissed, with costs. A GAOL BIRD.—At Dublin, Christopher Cassidy, a man 30 years of age, was charged with a violent assault on a woman, and was sentenced to four months' imprison ment. Although not yet 30 years old, he has spent eleven years in penal servitude, besides which he has been seven times convicted before the Recorder, and fourteen times before the police magistrates, for various offences. In fact, he has: spent more than half his life in Prison. WHAT ARE CHARITIES ?—A suit instituted in the Court of Chancery, which raised the above question, under the title of Beaumont v. Oliveira, has just been decided by Vice-Chancellor Stuart. The object sought was to ad minister the estate of the late Benjamin Oliveira, who for some years had been M.P. for Pontefract. By his will Mr. Oliveira gave £4,000 to each of the following institu tions :—The Royal Humane Society, the Royal Institution, the Royal Geographical Society, the Marylebone Girls' School, and the Albert Orphan Home—making altogether £20,000. The pure personalty had realised only £6,700, the leaseholds about £B,OOO, and some real estate in Madeira £BOO. The Vice-Chancellor held that all these institutions were charities, and all of them should partake rateably of the pure personalty in priority to costs and debts, and that the land in Madeira must be considered pure personalty, and the proceeds of the sale thereof be paid to the charities. SENDING DISEASED MEAT TO MARKET. —At the Guildhall, flenry Murrage, a farmer, of Chelmsford, was charged with sending four quarters of a cow to the London market which were unfit fur human food. The defendant had a cow suffering from lung disease, and as soon as he became aware of the fact, an order was at once issued that the cow should be killed. The carcase was sent to a London salesman, but the latter had evidently not intended to sell it. The defendant was fined £2O, and ordered to pay £5 ss. costs. ANNOYING A CONGREGATION.—At Worship-street three Pound men were charged with annoying the con gregation of St. Matthias, in Hackney-road, by offering pigeons, rabbits, &c., for sale close to the boors of the church, on Sunday last. A policeman who was doing special duty in the neighbourhood saw one of the prisoners with a small hamper vending rabbits, and another had pigeons for sale, and the disturbance they made at the very doors of the church must have been heard by the congregation. The accused were fined 40s. and costs, or a month's imprisonment. ALLEGED MURDER.—The coroner for West Middlesex cold au inquest at Erith to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man named James Bishop, who, it was alleged, expired on Sunday morning last from the effect of injuries received on the previous Saturday night at the hands of two young men named William Pink and 'John Fletcher, without any provocation on the part of the deceased. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was knocked down, beaten, and severely kicked in the streets of Erith by the prisoner Pink, whilst the prisoner Fletcher was standing near, but the latter did not appear to have taken any active part in the assault. Later in the day the prisoners were placed at the bar of the Woolwich Police-court, before Mr. Maude, the sitting magistrate, on the charge of murdering the deceased man Bishop, when sufficient evidence was taken to justify the prisoners being remanded on the capital charge. MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY. —At Bonhill, Scot sand, a few mornings since, a young man named M`Vean was stabbed by a man named Gilchrist, and died in a few hours. He was found lying in the street, but was able to Identify the person who stabbed him. Gilchrist was Apprehended. It is thought that the deceased was stabbed by mistake for another person, of whom it is said the pri soner was jealous of maintaining an improper intimacy with his wife. We read in a pamphlet just published at Paris, -written by M. L. A. Bourguin, and entitled "La Viande de Cheval :"—" Some people are surprised to find the ass and the mule figuring along with other animals in the butchers' shops of Paris. They will be more surprised still when they learn that, ►ccording to the unanimous testimony of the members of a committee who have tasted them, the flesh of the mule is better than that of the horse, and the flesh of the ass is better than that of the mule. It is probable that so valu able an article of diet will be no longer neglected by our armies in a campaign, since even in Paris the bouchcries de ..Ireval are doing an excellent trade." THE NEW REGISTRATION ACT.—The new Act .or the next registration has been issued. It contains thirty-seven clauses, some of which are declaratory of the next registration and the next election. The revision is to take place between the 14th September and the Bth October. One hundred and thirty-two revising barristers .nay be appointed. In the event of the power to appoint additional barristers, under the Act 6 and 7 Vic., c. 18, )ccurring after the sth September, the power is to be exer cised by the judge sitting at chambers. There is a pro vision that notwithstanding the clause in the new Reform Act, the "lodgers" are to appear on the lists and registers )f voters in separate liEts. STRANGE ACCIDENT.—Roger Onions, first whip to the Quorn, was accidentally killed the other day. The circumstances, as spoken to at the inquest by the hunts man, were these. He (the huntsman) and deceased, with the other whipper-in, were in Garendon Park with the young hounds, shewing them the deer, in order to break them from running them. On their way through the park deceased saw a lame deer, and seem anxious to show it the hounds, so he trotted towards it. he deer ran away, and deceased started his horse in order to turn it in front of the hounds. He called to deceased to stop, but he ap peared not to hear him, and went on, and the deer and his horse came in collision. The deer fell and the horse rolled over it sideways. The deer got up and ran away, and deceased was left with his loft leg under the horse for a few seconds, when the horse jumped up, and, deceased's foot being in the stirrup, he was dragged, but only about two yards, when his foot was liberated, They raised him up, but he was insensible; He Aqci aud ant tilSl falgag, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1868. A GOSSIP ABOUT THE PAINTINGS, I-Y THE PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE. (CONCLUDING NOTICE.) _ _ _ The age of intense admiration and appre ciation of works of art, is apparently passed away. Let us hope not for ever. Comparatively few young men of the present day care much for paintings or statues of a high class, and, compared with the vast sums expended in the vulgar luxuries of the day, the amount of money laid out in the purchase of works of art would make but a poor figure. Modern houses are but seldom adapted for the display of paintings or statuary, and but too many prefer to adorn their walls with gigantic look ing glasses (which only reflect and multiply the insipid men and women of the world) rather than to decorate them with works of art. The idolatry of the horse is a crying evil of the day. In England, men prefer to build stables rather than galleries; while in France they decorate, with a lavish expenditure, the apart ments of women of the "Traviata " class, and the pictures they purchase for them are in keeping with their miserable lives. Thus, many painters are made to prostitute art for gain. The large class of pictures called "genre" are usually of small size, and represent familiar or still life. These obtain a ready sale. Such subjects as sporting incidents, breakfast or pic nic parties, " Babies awake," or " Babies asleep," " Love Letters," " Absent Thoughts," " Lights of the Harem," &c. ; may be classed as "genre." The absence of many great names from the gallery this year, is attributed to the artists hav ing been largely employed in decorating the new churches—the grand opera, &c. Many of the newly-made millionaires of Imperial France do, indeed, give a certain amount of support to the artists of the day, but not in pro portion to their luxurious expenditure in other ways. There is many a great fortune, too, spent in both London and Paris, without any portion of it going to the support of art. The reign of the Emperor Napoleon 111. will not be remarkable for a display of refinement and education among the richer classes. A very pleasing " genre " picture represents a Roman peasant girl, in the charming cos tume of her people. She is just fixing the last pin that completes her toilette. Another shows us Madame Vestris, then in her full beauty, superintending a rehearsal of the Gavotte, (the danse that supplanted the court minuet). Madame Recamier is seen dancing with the Duchess of Bedford, preparatory to a ball, to be given by the Duchess of Gordon. Having spoken of the men, we may ask how do the women of France pass their time ? They do not study the fine arts; few play the piano, or sing; none read ; you do not find them walking or riding. In the matter of church going, they set English ladies a good example, but that occupies only a small portion of the day. We fear that the painting some of them, at least, practice is personal, and that a not inconsiderable sum is expended in golden tinted locks, and the various hues and tints, and subtleties of the toilette. We may remark of the numerous female portraits, that they are nearly all anonymous. When in England we see, on referring to the catalogue, Miss X—or Mrs. B—, we know for a certainty that a mo dest dislike of notoriety, beyond the circle of family and friends, dictates the concealment of name. In France, we have always a suspicion that the name will not bear publicity. In fact we fear but too many are portraits of the demi monde. Of the nude in art, whether in sculp ture or painting, much may be said, both for and against. Ancient art was nearly always nude, because it was in accordance with the habits of the people, a plea which may still be put forward for nude art in Southern Europe, where much of the old classic absence of dress remains, and where, consequently, the represen tation of the nude figure is not looked upon as in any way immodest, even in religious art. Surely, no one could see anything immodest in such works of modern sculpture as Gib son's "Venus"—or Power's "Greek Slave"? Prudery is an English failing, and is carried to a ridiculous excess. The barbarisms recently done in Rome, in the way of disfiguring statues, even down to the smallest cherubs ' —and not only with the primitive leaf, but with plaster draperies—have been done at the suggestion of an Englishman. Even Canova's pure Genii, on the Stuart monument, have been thus disfigured. The representation of the nude is, however, more open to objection in painting than in sculpture, and more in the modern French School than in any other. French painters seem to revel in Nature un adorned. Out of 2,587 canvasses nearly a third represents undraped figures. We may add that if there never had been Venuses, Nymphs, or Syrens more attractive than many of these, the world would have been a happier and a better place. The great picture of the year, and of which it is hard to get a good view, on account of the number pressing to see it, re veals the fact that the study of the nude is not always a picture. A woman of great beauty is lying asleep on a couch, veiling her face with her uplifted arm ; the figure abso lutely stands out from the canvas, and is a marvel of flesh painting. The same amount of talent on a worthier subject might have created a painting that would have survived all time. However people may differ as to the relative merits of French, English, Belgian, German, and other schools, most will yield the palm to the French in the matter of choice of subject. The French galleries, and more especially the French department of the Great Exhibition of last year, fully prove this. We are disposed to place the Belgians next, then the Germans, and the English last. In our Royal Academy what repitition, year after year, of subjects nearly similar—how many. Shakspeare subjects, to our mind always unin teresting, except, perhaps, when they contain likenesses of actors or actresses of the day —how many corn fields, fishing boats coming in or going out, picturesque bits of Thames scenery, an occasional far-fetched historical subject, nearly always badly selected, generally one or two dreary and futile attempts to make some practice of the Catholic Church look ridi culous, or make a laughing-stock of a monk or priest; and how often subjects selected from dreary poems or episodes of the (real) dark ages of the" Four Georges." Even in the few pictures of still life, where one would think monotony impossible, the fact remains the same. In a painting in the Palais de I'lndustrie we see how a flower subject may gain in interest. Purple and red poppies and white roses are shown clustering round a rustic beehive, about which bees are swarming, painted with marvellous truth to nature. A touching picture is called a "Death-bed Mar riage." At the bidding of the priest, a child, the offspring of illicit love, supports the hand of its mother while the dying lover, too late a husband, places on it the wedding ring. The subject has a moral. We find great orignality in the idea of " Hornets disturbed by Mice.' A hornet's nest, hanging from the decaying timbers of an outhouse, has been molested, and the air is filled with the hornets. The mice, who would fain escape by flight, are seen suf fering the penalty of the act ; many are stung to death. The execution of this painting is excellent. An allegory of the " Papacy " where a Pontiff is seen, attended by Justice and Clemency—would have better suited sculpture than painting. Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius, out on one of her midnight excur sions, is a tine picture. The Empress half ashamed of her evil doings, the low quarter of the city, the character of the den she is about to enter, the associations of the familiar life of the ancients, are all well given. We are all familiar with representations of the Prodigal S on , both ancient and modern. The time usually selected is the return. Often a very uninviting father is embracing a very naked son, and in the background preparations for the banquet are seen going on. In medieval pictures a woman is generally seen in a quaint costume, turning the fatted calf on a spit ; in the pic ture we notice a different period has been chosen—namely, that of the poor prodigal's greatest abasement. The swine he should be tendinc , are wanderinc , off unheeded ; they are admirably painted, but are decidedly French in breed ; the Prodigal weeps bitter tears, covering his face with his hands ; the scene is a hot, thirsty desert ; the distinctness of the distant rocks and hot burning sky are all true to nature. The " Morning Star ' is an ex quisitely-conceived airy figure, bearing in the edge of her mantle the star. The orphreys of her garments reflect the many-coloured tints of dawn. One cannot but feel happy on looking at the " Return after Victory." A handsome soldier is being welcomed home ; his wife clings to him ; his mother weeps fo x joy; the children, - the domestics, all seem over come with happiness. As a contrast, we see in another picture groups of women on the evening after the execution of the Emperor Maximilian making the devotion of the Way of the Cross. On little heaps of stones in the cemetery rude crosses are set up, and many candles are lighted round them ; the women seem wild with grief; " wayside plants " are growing in almost tropical luxuriance near a roadside cross, which we may imagine r ecor d s some violent death, of which the flowering plants seem trying to obliterate the memory. The various paintings of Roman slaves are too curious and interesting to be passed over without notice. We see them first as the petted favourites of rich patricians, and then in very different positions, undergoing the many tortures that ingenious cruelty had de vised, one of which (invented by Vidius Pollio, the favourite of Augustus) was the placing them in walled enclosures where serpents abounded ; we see them dying either of their venom or of hunger. Some are driven like beasts of burden, working on the burning shores of Ostia; and one is dying, poisoned by Locusta for the entertainment of Nero. Louis XVII., in the Temple, in misery and rags, and with a look of intense suffering on his face, is a painting few can pass by without ob serving. The "Afterglow in Egypt," with a woman driving cattle to water, gives us quite a new version of this wonderful effect. There are many happy illustrations of Italian life. A Neapolitan boy, with the scantiest amount of clothing, and the happiest of faces, is playing with the oranges he should be and keeping two or three in th e a i r w ith the adroit ness of a juggler. A very charming picture gives us the main street of Torre del Greco. It is a fête day ; the facade of the church is gay with coloured lamps ; the procession of the Blessed Sacrament is passing out from it ; people are kneeling near it ; mendicant friars are hurrying home with the proceeds of their " quest.' One can well imagine the noise made by the vendors of fruit and fish. Two " Forestieri," probably English, are look ing on at the busy scene. Behind the town rises Vesuvius, with its usual thin stream of smoke. It has more than once laid the town in ashes, and mayl;do so again at any moment. We notice in passing, a good view of " The old port," Marseilles, with a " Turneresque" effect of shipping ; also a well-conceived idea of " Monks superintending the excavations at St. Clement's," Rome. These excavations have disclosed the original Basilica and house of St. Clement's, and well-preserved frescoes of the earliest ages of Christian art. In a painting of the Refectory of the Monks of the Trinita, Rome, the bright lights contrasting with the dark shadows are most cleverly given. The Monks—some in deep shade and some in bright sunlight—are eating their mid-day meal, and the various pets of the m onastery—magpies, dogs, cats—are painted with great truth. One can quite feel the cool, modest air of the " Bosquet, near Meaux," where an ornamental canal winds sluggishly under high green trees, and on which swans float languidly. Quite a chef d'ceuvre of animal painting is a cluster of seven asses—the heads only seen—drinking at a fountain. With a great deal of humour another artist gives us an enthusiastic student of nature painting in the High Alps, and so busily engaged, that he is quite unconscious of the bear who has crept up behind him, and who is contemplating a friendly hug. " Pene lope and Phryne " shows us that the quiet, home-loving girl, in modest attire, may be more attractive than the haughty beauty arrayed for conquest. Quite a solemn picture is that of " Evening on board of a French man-of war." All bow bare-headed before the crucifix, while the aged priest recites the evening litany. French artists, muc h more than our own, record the passing ev en ts of the day ; and surely there never w as a subject more fitted for a painting than that of t he present saintly e Pro a en ri te b i pi f a d "Love P i a i ll prisoners,USiX:iilpursuance o f th e di v i ne many o your enemies,"—vi s iti ngf th e precept, whom, sm itt en with remorse and deep l y touched (as all arc), in n ro t u h ndand k the presence s sof f h t e fee the litly of Father, b ow t o th e g the Pontiff King, who, in his whit e robes, a nd with his face glowing with love for tho se who have hated him, forms a great contrast to the red-shirted ruffianism by which he is surrounded. What can be said in favour of the intense naturalism now so much in vogue in Eng land ? Beyond the pleasurable, though but momentary, sensation of seeing some every day commonplace cleverly rendered, how little is there to admire ! Pictures of this kind may be most dexterously rendered, and may be valuable records of the time, but ad they are not, any more than real carts and horses and real Hansom cabs are drama. So natural istic have we become, that some one h as sa id (speaking of the stage)_,, People will soon have to hold their noses while Hercules cleans out a real Augean stable." What vast sums have been given for pictures of railway stations and race-courses, capital for engraving to sell for public-house parlours, but not of much value as pictures. The French, who are always prone to carry an English idea to excess ( as we see in the matter of "Le Sport " generally, and "Bull-dogues" and tight trowsers in particular), are outstripping us in this branch. A room full of men (whether gentlemen or waiters, is hardly clear), all in black coats and white ties does not make a picture, and what is there but waste of time in the elaborate (and certainly clever) painting of a real raw hind quarter of beef, and another of the inside of a pig ? There was once a rage at Florence for paintings of the various stages of decay the human body undergoes in the tomb—and they are true to a sickening degree. Shall we get to this again ?—Westminster Gazette. Samuel Bowles and Co., issue, immediately aft er the of Springfield, will passage of the amended re venue law now befo re Congress , a n annotated edition of ongress, the same, edited by Charles N. Emerson, assessor of the 10th Massachusetts district, and author of the "Revenue Guide" and "Internal Revenue Hand-Book," which works have had extensive circulation, and become internal re venuel law text-books. The propsed edition will be issued as a supplement to the " Hand-book," and will be important and indispensable both to internal revenue officers and taxpayers. Isaac Sherman of East Thomaston, Maine, is building two houses roofed and sided with manilla paper J— Consumption, LADVERTHEMENT.biIious, and all nervous, stomach,and liver comp l aints in every stage ar e only aggravated and accelerated by d rugs of every d escr iption, but perfectly Du by Barry's health- res t or i n g Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by tho usan d s of cases whic h h a d been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual const i pation, diarrhoea, a ll gastric derange ments, hEemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises i n th e h ead and ears rheumatism, gout, impu rides, eruptions, hy s t er i a, neuralgia, , i rr itability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, Ric We quote a few.—Th e Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 6 8,413.—" Rome, Jvly 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has conffnod himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro Weed 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 Friniley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. — Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart do Docies, 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.—Be ware 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. 14d.; 1 lb , 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs., 1 Is. 12 lbs., 22s ; 241bs , 40s —Also Do BARRY'S REvALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d. for 48 cups at 65., for 28 8 cups at 30 5., for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.—B.Laay DU BARRY and Co. No. 77, Regent-street, Laudon; and all Cirecers and Chemists. THE LATIN AND THE ANGLO-SAXON RACES. (From the Anglo-American Times) The Saturday Review, last week, discussed " buncombe," which it declared to m2an vulgarity, the exaggerated display of the parvenu chiefly de veloped during the transition state from early setile meat to established society. The writer who dwelt on it as applicable to America, the word being American, and signifying an American idea, made the usual mistake of applying his English thoughts to Ame rica. When men spoke, in what appeared to him exaggerated language, of the geographical features of the country, it was " buncombe," when they sketched what to them seemed its future, being to the Englishman extravagant, it was " buncombe," when in illustrating the conceptions of his brain, the American used grand metaphor—he:reached the acme of " buncombe." The Englishman does not make allowance for the change sure to be wrought in the mind in the course of time by the features of a coun try. It is morally impossible that an American of three generations could think in the same groove as an Englishman. The first impression an American teceives on landing in Great Britain is the sense of confinement; the notion that if he goes out after dark he may be drowned in the Irish Sea or in the Ger man Ocean, or if he steps off the road he may fall over the chalk cliffs into the English Channel. In America the Englishman is impressed with vast ness. Accustomed to his little streams, he never realizes what a river is till he sees one such as the St. Lawrence or the Hudson ; or, what space means till he has been borne for days acrass a lake at little less than railroad speed, and seen the sun rise on a boundless plain over which he was rushing behind a locomotive, and the sun set still on the broad prairie, with the sense in his mind that he had been hurrying without cessation over a country not a feature of which had changed. The preface of the book La France Nouvelle, which has created so much sensation in France that the first edition was ex hausted in four days, discusses the future of the Anglo-Saxon race in terms which, if adopted by an American, would be styled " buncombe." The writer considers that the world is Anglo-Saxon, past praying for. lie describes creation, with the ex ception of Europe, as being dominated by two rival Powers, though one in race, language, customs, and laws. Yet this is but a feeble image of what an ap proaching future has in store for the Anglo- Saxon. The United States must number by the end of the century 100,000,000, without calculating its extension to Panama. South America will be absorbed when desirable. Nor can this future be averted by any division of the Republic, for the fractions will be more active devourers of territory than the whole. Had secession succeeded, the Confederacy would have invaded Mexico sooner than the Republic. The author thinks that under any circumstances the American continent, North and South, will belong to the Anglo-Saxon race, and that the change will be accomplished in a century, or a century and a half. When Americans talk in this style they are gene rally accused of spreadeagleism, buncombe, or higbfaluten ; men smile, shrug their shoulders, and mutter he is off on the manifest destiny doc trine. So it is when these remarks are confined to their own branch of the family, But it has quite another aspect when described from the general stand-point, which embraces in the landscape all the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The French author discusses the occupation of America as but a part of the progress of these nations. It is not less certain, be says, that Oceana belongs for ever to the Anglo- Saxons of Australia and New Zealand, the footing obtained in the Pacific insuring to these descend ants of England the control of that ocean. On one side is the American sea-board, on the other that of Australia and New Zealand, and with the thousands of islands dotted over the Pacific, sooner or later China must acknowledge them as masters. The author has evidently no idea of the progress of San Francisco, and the connection between that city and the coasts of Japan and China. He thinks that Australia will rule in these countries, and, if England should collapse, also in India. We hold a very different opinion, but this does not disturb the author's conclusion, for he writes of the race as a whole, not of the predominance of any of its sec tions, and he assures his countrymen that their children are not the less certain to see the Anglo- Saxon, Mistress of Oceana and of all the countries of the furthest East that may be dominated, worked, or influenced by the possession of the sea. He gives two centuries as the outside of the time required to reach this climax, when it will be impossible to deny that from end to end the world is Anglo-Saxon. The French are awaking to the conviction that they are hopelessly beaten in the race for Empire ; but they may see with some degree of satisfaction that other countries have been still more decidedly defeated. In the sixteenth century, for a short space, mankind were deluded into the notion that the world's sway was about to pass into the hands of Spain. Three European nations were tried one after the other to act the part of everywhere pro pagating their tongue and blood, by means of dur able colonies, and by transforming, so to say, the globe to their own likeness. Spain failed, and France failed ; then came the turn of England, and she so succeeded that if a convulsion of nature was to swamp Great Britain, the future of her race would not be sensibly changed. Now this we believe to be an exaggeration, holding that Germany would, through its vast emigration and its intellectual capacity, produce an immense effect on the nations now formed by England. As the case stands, we think with the author that neither Russia nor North Germany, should they attain the highest fortune, can pretend to impede the current of things, nor pre vent the earth becoming Anglo-Saxon. Should Russia possess Constantinople, still she cannot balance the naval power of the Anglo-Saxons, and her military progressings on the Asiatic continent will be at once stopped when she meets England in India, and Australia, or the United States in China. The idea of the Frenchman is, that a race cannot attain this sovereignty by mere conquest, for it is the result only of colonization, and the Russian has not developed the necessary emigration and colonizing qualities. Germany has, but too late, for there is no space open to her. Australia is occupied, and America closed, and should she, always jealous and proud, resolve to direct her tide of emigration towards some war colony where her flag could wave, its situation is not easy to ascertain, nor could it ever counterbalance the American and Australian continents henceforth belonging irrevocably to the Anglo-Saxon race. Thus he arrives at the conclu sion that the greatness once established cannot be menaced from without like Rome, surrounded by a barbarous world. The contemplation of this picture, however agreeable to the Anglo-Saxon, raises any but pleasing sensations in the Latin mind, and the fitful efforts of France have again and again been directed to counteract the growing influence by the erection of some great Latin empire, where the family might take root and spread. This was the idea which dictated the invasion of Mexico, the establishment of Saigon, the occupation of New Caledonia and Madagascar. But the French are a conquering, not a colonizing, people, and every attempt has been a failure. One chance alone re mains, and it is to this the author desires to draw attention. Algeria, he says, must be the source of this New France, and a hundred millions of French men established on both sides the Mediterranean would resist the Anglo-Saxon current. He recog nizes the fact that it is necessary to infuse a new life into the nation, and that they must, in the proper sense of the word, colonize the country. In numbers alone he can see strength, and lie asserts that if a great political and moral change does not take place in France, if the population, obstinately attached to the rural soil, continues to increase with painful slowness, the French will weigh relatively to the Anglo-Saxon as Athens did to Rome. Literature, wit, grace, and pleasure will reside with them ; life, power, and solid glory elsewhere. In this division we doubt if the French will not have the best of it, but they are not content with a large share of the good things, so they desire to trespass on the Anglo-Saxon preserve. The author in counting heads scarcely gives a just estimate of the future of the Anglo Saxons. The greatest war of modern times has been carried on by that race, not between its two great branches, but between two sections of one of those branches. If the Anglo-Saxons again set to cutting each other's throats, the Latins may look on and thank God that they are not as other men, pushing, greedy, quarrelsome, and, like the dog crossing the stream with a bone in its mouth, dropping the material fact to bite at the shadow. There is nothing that would better pleas 3 us i han to see France set vigorously to work to raise up a Latin counterpoise on so legitimate a sphere as the shores of the Mediterranean ; for nothing will more tend to reconcile conflicting differences and to unite the English speaking peoples than the danger of such a rivalry. The moment that earth's dominion passed into the hands of Rome the world was shattered by the conflict of the Romans. The United States have decreed and adopted it as a settled policy that no European nation shall raise its flag on any por tion of the American Continent, North or S outh, as the It public intends to rule from T erra del Fuego to the North Pole ; as she can enforce this resolve that continent is barred. England holds Australia, and even if she did not no other European nation has yet developed the colonising qualities necessary for the successful establishment of a settlement at the Antipodes. Nothing can, as the author says, impede the climax he anticipates, except the dissensions of the race. It is this that may destroy a future so magnificent, and it is a singular fact, and a striking instance of the folly and wickedness of our nature, that such a contin gency is possible. What we do with such persist ence on both sides the Atlantic is to cultivate feelings inimical to each other. The first grand idea of every leading statesman of the Anglo-Saxon race should be the unity of the family. For this purpose laws should be enacted on naturalization, on literature, on commerce, including all the minor subjects of uniformity of coinage, weights and measures, cheap and speedy postal communication, and a general order to the ships of war, whether British or Ame rican, to protect the persons and property of the citizens of either country, when assailed in semi civilised or barbarous lands. Such little statesmen as Andrew Johnson can never grasp the real grandeur of the Anglo-Saxon future, or rise beyond the party interests of the hour in his own locality, and he finds but too many as narrow-minded there as here. Our own belief is that England should drop dominion over the great colonies, and seek to establish a confederation of independent English speaking nations, into which the United States might be brought. Then the future anticipated a century hence by the author of "New France" might be realized in a quarter of that time. It is to what we might have come, had common sense prevailed in the councils of George 111., but we may hope that it is yet possible to retrieve the fearful blunders of that ill-advised monarch. FINANCIAL MEASURES OF CONGRESS. The telegram from Washington of the 15th inst., published in London yesterday, shows the effect on the Senate of Mr. COBB'S resolution in the House, and of the platform of the National Democratic Convention of New York. Mr. BLAINE, of Maine, failed to get the Representatives to adopt a resolu tion directing the Committee of Ways and Means to prepare a bill for funding all the National Debt into Five per Cent. Ten-Year Bonds, Four and a Half per Cent. Thirty-Year Bonds, and Four per Cent. Interminable Annuities, the National Creditors to have their choice in exchange for these Securities. Mr. BOUTWELL, of Massachusetts, de sired to substitute for the bill brought out by COBB'S resolution one authorizing the issue of new bonds for fixed sums bearing coin interest for limited periods when the principal would become payable in gold. So closely is the country divided on the question of the National Debt that even the best informed cannot predict the result of a vote. Generally the Republicans support the most honour able interpretation of the law, and the Democrats that they consider most to the interest of the tax paying people. But the party line is no strict division ; indeed, judging from the tone of the papers on the COBB proposition, to tax the interest on the Bonds, the line is more geographical than party. In the West the bill is supported by nearly all the newspapers, irrespective of party. In the East the Republican newspapers condemn the measure as a dishonourable attempt to defraud the bondholders, and the Democratic journals either keep a discreet silence or only mildly approve. In analyzing the vote for the resolution to tax the bonds we find that 61 Republicans went for the bill, and all the Democrats except two. Of the 61, 49 were from the West, while only 22 Western men opposed the measure. The Committee of Ways and Means brought in the bill, with their protest against it affixed thereto, declaring that they acted only in obedience to the order of the House, in opposition to their judgment, and with the intention of oppos ing the Bill in every way. They deny BUTLER'S assertion " that it was the same tax the English put on their Bonds"—there being no precedent for the law on the statute books of England —or, they add (but in error) " any other civilised country." They affirm the proposition simply to be to pay the public creditors less by 10 per cent. than the nation agreed to do, which was swindling people out of money borrowed to save the nation. The Com mittee then proceed to show how injurious the passage of such a measure would be, and its da maging effect on the national credit, and they end by presenting the bill in its undisguised deformity as follows : "Be it enacted, &c., that from and after the passage of this Act there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a tax of 10 per centum on the amount of interest hereafter due and payable on all the bonds and other securities of the United States. To secure the collection of the said tax, the amount of interest hereafter paid on any bonds or other securities of the United States bearing interest at 6 per centum shall be at the rate of only 5 and 5-10ths per centum, and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum s h a ll be at the rate of only 4 and 5-10ths per centum, and if bearing interest at the rate of 3 per centum, shall be at the rate of only 2 and 7-lOths per centum per annum. No higher rate of interest than is here prescribed shall be paid in any bond or other security of the United States now outstanding or authorised to be issued, all conditions of any such bonds or other security and all laws and parts of law to the contrary notwithstanding." Of course, where there is anything nasty in Wash ington, General BUTLER will be found actively stirring the mess. His bubbles come up to the sur face, assume the intelligent aspect of the General, and are followed by others, the whole being dept fermenting. lie was at the bottom of COBB'S resolution, and came to its rescue at the nick of time. But, to have another iron in the fire, he has brought in a bill of which the first section provides the taxation of 10 per cent. on the interest of the Bonds, exempting them from all other taxation. The second section authorizes a four per cent. in terminable issue, exempt from taxation, to be ex changed foe 5-20's at the option of the holders. The third section authorizes 10-40 Bonds at Four and a Half per Cent., exempt from taxation, to be issued in lieu of 5-20's. From all this patching it will be seen how strongly the attention of the country has been directed to the subject, and with no surprise we learn the action of the Senate last Wednesday, which Reuter thus gives :—" The Senate has to-day passed a bill autho rizing the issue of bonds redeemable in coin after 20, 30, or 40 years, and bearing 5,4/, and 4 per cent. interest respectively, also payable in coin and exempt from all taxation whatsoever, except the ordinary income tax. These bonds are to be used exclusively for the redemption at par, at the option of the holder, of any of the present interest-bearing debts of the United States, except Five per Ceut. Bonds and Three per Cent. Certificates. Bonds may be issued to an amount sufficient in the aggregate to cover all the principal of all outstanding obliga tions, but to the amount redeemable iu 20 years is not to exceed one-third of the whole issue. The bill further provides for the reduction of the debt by the appropriation of a sum which, including the in terest of the public debt and the maturing funded debt, shall amount to $135,000,000 annually. Finally, the bill enacts that any contracts hereafter made specifically payable in coin shall be legal and valid, and may be enforced according to its terms, anything in the several Acts relating to United States notes to the contrary notwithstanding." We cannot pretend to pass a judzinent on this impor taint measure with these bare facts only before us, but what moved the Senate is too clear to be mis understood. In the first place, the question was rapidly reaching the point of partial or total repu diation. It is evident, from late events, from the Democratic platform, and from the course of events, that the bondholders could have no peace, the coun - try being kept in constant hot-water until Congress had taken action on the subject. A matter which concerns the pocket is a dangerous one to keep un settled, and the more so as the division is geogra phical, the interest of the Eastern being op posed to the interests of the Western States. There are subjects enough for dispute between them without this addition, and if the notion is conceived that IVestern agriculture is mulcted for Eastern manufactures—that the Western tiller is heavily taxed to supply luxuries to the rich Eastern bondholder, there is a double instead of a single danger, and one the Senate might well con sider incumbent on them speedily to reduce to the narrowest limit. Knowing that something must be conceded, even in the interest of the bondholder, they have passed this measure as the best open for all. What mainly concerns the present bondholders is the additional security they will possess if the Senate's bill becomes law. The old thought will arise—What guarantee can I have that this will be the final settlement ? If the pre sent arrangement is interfered with, why not this arrangement, and the next the terms being worse at every change till the value of my bond is whittled away? What is to be the gentle pressure by which the bondholders are to be induced to ex change Six per Cents. for Five per Cents at par? There must be a threat in the back-ground to leave the owners of the 5-20's out in the cold if they do not rush in through the door opened by the Senate. Our opinion is that the measure is honestly intended, that the Senate consider it to be a necessity under the circumstances, and that they regard the question as one of compromise, doing the most they can to protect the creditor of the nation.—A nglo-American Times. 211ISCELLANEOUS .NETVS. (From the Anglo-American 2 inies.) A memorial was sent to Congress by William Jewett, and presented in the Senate by Mr. Trum bull, and in the House by Mr. Banks, praying that Alaska be paid for " as a national measure for the protection of the national honour and the people's appreciation without regard to party of the life long public services of the Hon. William 11. Seward." General Banks is strongly pushing the measure, and is to be rewarded, if he succeeds, by the mission to Austria. The vote was to have been taken on the 9th instant, and there can bo little doubt that the appropriation of $7,500,000 will be made to Russia. Indeed, Alaska has been organized as a Department, General J. C. Scott t 3 command, with head-quarters at Sitka. ' It is even said that Mr. Seward is now turning his attention to Salvador and Greenland. Mr. Washburne, " the Treasury watch-dog," strongly opposed those ac quisitions, and does not mince matters in accusing Mr. Banks of giving an untrue account of the value of Alaska, which is without fisheries, mines, or valuable timber, and had been pronounced utterly worthless in the reports of Russian officers to their Government. A practical instance of its value was, however, given by a Democratic mem ber, who declared that a company of capitalists were prepared to pay $10,000,000 in gold if the United States would make it over to them. Mr. Horatio Seymour accepted his nomination as the candidate of the National Democratic Conven tion for the Presidency on the 11th instant, and General Frank P. Flair accepted his nomination for the Vice-Presidency on the next day. General Gillem, who succeeded Gen. M'Dowell, has assumed command of the 4th Military District, and a writ of quo warranto has been taken out by Governor Humphreys of Mississippi, against Gen. Ames, :requiring him next November to show by what authority he claims to be Governor. Ames was appointed by General M'Dowell. In Florida Reconstruction is complete; the civil authorities on the Ist inst. having taken over the Govern ment, but the country officers remain till new ones arc appointed. In North Carolina the Legislature was to meet July Gth, awl in Alabama on the 1:3 th. The Message of Governor Scott of South Carolina was able and excellent, as well in spirit as in temper; that of Governor Liolden, of North Caro lina, was to be delivered on the 4th July. The lately elected New Orleans City officers, after taking the Constitutional Oath on the 27th June, assumed their functions. Major Frank Manny, of Nashville, was fatally stabbed in New Orleans on the 30th June, and the assassin who is unknown has escaped. The civic functionaries at Washington have not been slow to follow the example of their brethren in London who discussed the dis-establishment of the Irish Church by administering to the Lord Mayor " a heavy blow on the stomach," while Alderman Rose squared up to Beales, M.A. Ex - Mayor Wallack and Mayor Bowen, of Washing ton, fought it out on the night of the 26th June. The Mayor had the worst of it in punishment, re ceiving a severe blow on the mouth ; but the ex- Mayor came to grief in law, being arrested and held for assault and battery. The negroes of a village near Washington indulged in an attack on the police, who were ordered to remove the " hogs" permitted so to increase and run at large as to be come a nuisance. Sambo's weapon, strange to say, is a razor, and he freely used it against the myr midons of the law. THE PIIENIANS.—The word Fenian is said to be derived from the Phoenicians, who, having made Carthage a powerful maritime State on the Mediterranean, pushed outside the Straits of Gibraltar, established themselves at Tarshish on the S.W. coast of Spain. They afterwards carried the elements of civilization to the Celts of Ireland, and were the Phenians to whom the Irish in all ages have looked back so fondly. A colony of Phenians worked the mines in the county of Wicklow, and another discovered metals at Killarney. Some ancient bronzes dug up in Ire land aro found to contain the exact proportions of the Car thaginian relics, and their shape also corresponds. They were merchants and navigators, and could not have op pressed the Irish, as they are remembered with so much affection. The class of 1868 at Yale College graduates 108 men. During its four years it has numbered 168. The freshman class promises to be remarkably large, nearly 200. The secret society known as the Spade and Grave is dying of Unpopularity, its elections being respectfully declined. A Charleston paper says that a movement is on foot among the largest planters and property holders of that State to give free grants of alternate sections of their land to new actual settlers, provided they are white men. We hear it is in contemplation to add two more steamers in the autumn to the Guion Line. They are to be of the most powerful and swift class, and be named the Idaho and Montana. _ [ADVERTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Pills. Indigestion flatulency, bilious disorders, liver complaints, and nervous ness, and general debility, and all evils that may be easily and speedily subdued by these inestimable Pills, which are at once the mildest and most efficacious medicine ever yet discovered. 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