The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP "THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times claims the right to be very much dig• appointed tbst the Archbishop of Dublin has not done more for his cause. The least we could expect from him was that be should chew either faith or a graceful Tesignation. We cannot say that he writes either as though ye expected the Establishment to stand, or as if preferring to make the best of an inevitable disaster. His future is as dark and cheerless as his present is unsatisfactory, and his past a compilation from the worst pages of Irish history. When everything that can be said for or against the Irish Church has been said many times, with diminish _. _ _ ing. freshness and increasing acerbity, and when Mr. Murphy is handed to a policeman and ordered to find bail, we had hoped that the former Dean of Westmin• ster would at least give new life to the wearisome question. Dr. Trench treats with the utmost indifference the argu ment of numbers, of national sentiment, or of popular will, Ex cathedra he lays down that the wealth, the worldly wisdom, and the physical superiority of the Pro• testants should in this matter make tip for the numerical disproportion. If they are fewer, he adds, they cannot help it, for it is not their own fault. Their forefathers, or rather the people who should have been the forefathets of a more numerous body. were massacred by the Papists. Protestantism did wonders, and flourished, and went far to convert the wDole island, but, unfortunately, once in forty years or so, the converts, or the people who ought to have been converts, rose in a body, and murdered the very excel- lent teachers to whom they were under such obli. gations. In the face of this wholesale periodical extirpation of the Protestants, it is a comfort to hear, on Dr. Trench's authority, that there remains an immense number of small farmers descended from the soldiers invitedby the British Government to take confis cated Irish property, who, if they are not treated as friends to the English cause. will be the other thing, and will make Ireland a hot country. For anything the arch bishop says, he regards this as a natural and proper course, worthy of good wishes, if not of a pastoral bene diction. • The Daily News notices in Archbishop Trench's recent charge a very ill-judged and dangerous resort to the his torical argument in favour of the Establishment. The archbishop attempted to account fur the paucity in numbers of the Irish Protestants as compared with the Roman Catholic population by the astonishing statement that the progress of the Protestant faith in Ireland " had been checked by a hideous catastrophe _nothing short of a tearing up by the roots and trampling in blood and mire of all that had been previously accomplished." This imaginative pic ture referred, it seems, to the Rebellion of 1641, in which, according to some accounts, forty thousand Protestants were massacred. The loss of these, the archbishop argued, was crippling to the advance of Protestantism, for, at the general rate of multiplication, they would by this time have increased in numbers fourfold or fivefold. We fail to see how the addition of two hundred thousand or less to the numbers of the Established Church could redeem it from the imputation of failure; but, setting that consideration aside altogether, is it wise for a Pro testant ecclesiastic to arouse Irish Roman Catholics to turn back to the dark history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to invite a comparison of what Protestantism may be held to have lost in sanguinary outbreaks of rebellion, with what Catholicism may be held to have lost by the policy of repression, which down to the time of the Union was sternly maintained by England? From the days of Spenser and Raleigh to the days of Cornwallis and Castlereagh the strong hand of the law or the fiercer grasp of military domination was ever at the throat of Catholicism in Ireland. No reasonable man will compare this studied and relentless oppression as an engine for crushing out a destested faith with the fitful bursts of Irish insurrection in 1641 and 1689 and 1798. The Standard thinks the termination of the deadlock in Victoria remarkably illustrates the wisdom of that course which is so often foolishly and ignorantly deprecated as Imperial interference. Here we have had a direct Impe• rial interference with the action upon which the nume- rical majority of the colonists had vehemently set their hearts, and yet that interference has been most happy in all its results. It has had the effect of bringing peace to the colony when peace seemed to have fled for ever, and of maintaining the balance of the colonial consti tution when all local contrivances for restoring that balance had utterly and grievously , failed. The Standard is, however, disgusted with the M'Culloch Ministry. The Opposition made use of their numerical strength in the Lower House to carry a vote of want of , confidence against the Sladen Ministry, and thus to ' revenge themselves for their discomfiture in the matter of the Darling grant. The M `Culloch Ministry have returned to power, weakened, however, by the seces sion of all its more respectable members, and damaged irretrievably in the eyes of the mob by the loss of the one cry on which they had been trading. To fill up the vacancies in his ranks, Mr. M`Culloch has been obliged to look for his colleagues in a political stratum lower than was ever reached by any Ministry which has yet been formed in Victoria. Of the new Ministers, it may be said that they are below the grade, morally, intellectually, and socially, of those who would be considered eligible for ministerial office in any civilised country. Of the two law officers both are barris ters of recent and colonial creation, neither of whom has ever held a brief in the Supreme Court of the colony; while the gentleman to whom has been allotted the portfolio of Public Works and Roads and Railways, has only lately failed in the humble trade of journeyman tailor. The Herald falls foul of the International Working Men's Association. This association pretends to repre sent the interests and hopes of labour. What business, then, had its general council to address to the British Executive a memorial " demanding a commutation of the sentence of the three victims of Manchester !" Had that anything to do with industrial rights ? It is amusing— nothing more —to note the prodigious complacency with which the committee assure all persons, past. present, or to come, that they have " forced " the French Empire " to drop its patronising airs to the working classes." When did that particular change come over the spirit of the Imperial dream ? When did the Third Napoleon submit to this joint-stock dictation ? We have never heard of it. If not, who else did ? But mightier yet have been the works, and mightier yet are the words of the association. In Belgium itself, we are informed, " the coal lords of the basin of Charleroi" have been defeated in the courts of law ; but this is not held to be enough. The King himself must be careful, or the Leaguers will discrown him. For, they say," the Belgian Government ought, at last, to understand that petty States have no longer any raison cl'ltre except they be the asylums of liberty." This is almost cool enough to atone for the atmospheric excesses of the season. Still it is not the climax. Prussia has offended the association no less than France. " Always ready to fall foul of one another," says the report, " the military Governments are cheek-by jowl when entering upon a crusade against their common enemy, the working class." In Austria the Congres promise nothing less than revolution. But it is not "political." In America its battle is being fought out against "rebellious capital." And this is the new gospel of industry—that " capital " is " rebellious " whenever it resists a demand on the part, not of " labour," but of the "labourer." Leaving out of view the monstrous bombast which predicts, as the task of this society, the future " regeneration of mankind," we would put it seriously to intelligent working men whether their true interests are not damaged by this sort of stilted balderdash. The German exploring expedition has advanced to the 80th degree of north latitude. Captain Koldewey, says the Telegraph, has done wonders, but he is not yet so far north at one point as Parry was many years ago, or the American Hayes was at another. Parry tried the despe rate experiment of journeying over the ice itself to the Pole. It was on th e 22 n d June that, having left his ship behind him in safe quarters, he commenced his strange enterprise. Half sledges, half boats, his vehicles served alike for solid ice or open water. Whenever a pool of water was reached the boats had to be launched • as soon as the pool was crossed they had again to be dragged heavily along, often up steep and dangerous cliffs of ace. Hard Pas the men toiled they made but eight miles in five days. On the 22nd July they were fortunate, and made seventeen miles—their best day's work. Soon afterwards the wind shifted to the north, and, faster by far than they could travel towards the Pole the ice was drifting beneath them to the south, bearing them helplessly with it. Then only they give up the attempt ; but they had reached the high latitude of 82 deg. 40 min.-2 deg. further north than Xoldewey has achieved. The German captain's chance, however, lies in his having a steamer. Where Parry was helpless and encumbered with his boats, Koldewey may probably be able to make a dash through some of the open channels that are almost always to be found in a movinr ice -field, and press on to the Pole itself. Englishmen are fond of boasting about the freedom of the press, and this freedom is supposed to extend wherever the Union Jack waves. It seems, however, says the Star, that we need not go to Paris to find a plac: in which the pleasure of the ruler is made superior to the interests of truth or the convenience of the public. A printing firm in Gibraltar announced some time since the publication of a newspaper under the name of the Calpense. The town had already one journal, the Gibrolcar Chronicle—the . Atoniteur, so to speak, of the Governor—and possibly the Governor thought, as it is ;said some eminent persons at Paris think, that opposition newspapers are a nuisance. At all events, the proprietory of the new journal.were instructed that if they attempted to publish the paper as they proposed an ordinance would NI issued making such publication illegal without a license, which would only be granted under stringent conditions. The printing firm were rash enough to embark on their speculation in spite of this friendly hint, and accordingly the ordinance was made—that is to say, the law was altered to suit the notions of Sir Richard Airey and the convenience of the Gibraltar Chronicle. The proprietary of the Cape= then applied for a license. They were told they could get it only on con• dition of publishing nothing else in their paper but tele• grams and shipping news; and, of course, these hard terms they were compelled to accept. Such is the story of the speculation of the Gibraltar printing firm. If it can TUE SUN, LONDON, TIVJESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1868. AUSITALIAN MEAT FOR ENGLAND, IL-111:WAY AND QT.HER COMPANIES. EAST SOMERSET. The report of the directors states that, notwith standing the extreme depression of trade during the half-year ending Juue 30, the returus showed a slight increase over the corresponding half of 1867, and the directors felt sanguine that with a revival of trade the steady increase of traffic on the line would be maintained. The gross earnings for the past half-year amounted to £3,582, which, after paying 1.1,033 for interest on debenture debt and rent charges, left £1,530, or 60 per cent. of balance, to the Great Westeen Railway Company for work ing, and £1,020, or 40 per cent., to the company. The directors recommended a dividend on the pre ference shares at the rate of 3/ per cent. per annum for the last half-year free of income-tax. Sxperimente in the preservation of meat still excite public interest. Prom New South Wales we learn that an attempt is about to be made by Mr. Mort in conveying a cargo of meat, frozen by his process, from Sydney to ! England. The process has been for a long time before! the public, and a practical test of it will be watched with interest by all concerned in what is now one of the most , important questions of the day. An instance of the success of the process carried on by the Victoria Meat Preserving Company, under the management of Mr. R. M'Cracken, has recently been brought under notice. Two legs of mutton cured by their process were hung in the rigging of the brig Greyhound, and remained there six weeks, while the vessel made a trip from this port to Hobart Town and back. The meat was afterwards cooked, and proved to be perfectly sound and palatable from the outside to the bone. The Victoria Company supply meat cured in this way at a cheaper price than salt beef, and it will no doubt come into extensive use a mon g the shi pp in g . The Melbourne Meat Preserving Company still carry on ' ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. their operations, under the management of Mr. Ritchie ; ' The traffic receipts on this company's lines and in the preparation of tinned meat, to which they limit amounted for the second week in August to themselves, they will inevitably take a leading position $103,813, against $119,016 in the corresponding among colonial preservers of meat for the home market. week last year, showing a decrease of $15,203. A gratifying piece of testimony to the success of Mr. Ritcbie's process was afforded by Messrs. Wilkie, Welch, NORTHERN OF FRANCE. and Co., in a letter to this journal a few days ago, stating The traffic receipts of this company for the week that a most satisfactory trial had been made by Mr. ending Aug. 18 amounted on the old and new lines Welch, in London, of some Australian roast mutton, cured by Mr. Ritchie before his connection wit h the com- to £ 77 2 413 , aud for the corresponding week last pany. Mr. D. Medlock's process of curing joints of meat year to £85,190, showing a decrease of £7,777. Ihe by dipping them in bisulphate of lime was put to a total receipts from January 1 to the above date public trial the other day at the Governor Arthur Hotel, amounted to £2,166,479, and for the same period Little Bourke-street, where a number of gentlemen dined in 1867 to £2,263,974; showing a decrease of off roast and boiled legs of mutton, and roast and boiled £, 7,495. beef, which had been subjected to the process about three 1..........1 weeks before. The meat was served up hot, and ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH proved to be quite equal to fresh cats , t he g rav y being ' retained. Mr. Medlock's process is expected to prove very (LIMITED). useful for families and shipping. He is, however, like A special general meeting of this company was almost all the numerous projectors of schemes for meat held yestetday at the London Tavern to consider preservation, ambitious of trying to get at the home the propriety 'of selling and conveying to her Ma market, and a shipment of meat prepared by his process jesty's Postmaster-General, upon the terms specified was sent to England by the Lincolnshire on her last trip. in the Electric Telegraph Act, 1868, the comp my's The result of the experiment cannot be known for some undertaking ; the tlou. IL Griins.on in the chair. time to come, but should it prove successful, a cheap way • [he seal of the company having been taxed to will have been found of solving the problem which has the re gister of proprietors, engaged so many ingenious minds among us.—Melbourne Age, July 18. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was convened i ! for the purpose of obtaining the confirmation or rejection of au agreement provisionally entered into EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. by the directors with the Government for the sale -• to the Government of the business and plant of the The Italian journals give some details of the blowing - up undertaking, provided that Parliament should of the powder magazine at Cagliari, in Sardinia. Three distinct detonations succeeded each other with the rapidity pass . the Money Bill in the next session ; and therefore he had to ask the proprietors for their of lightning, and the next moment the entire building was a heap of ruins. The prison and the military approval of that agreement as the first step in the hospital of San Vicenzo were also seriously damaged. matter. The bargain for the sale of their uu- Five dead bodieswere f ou nd a t once , horribly mutilated, dertaking did not touch the company's reserve and subsequently two others, those of a major of artillery fund, cash, or any of the past or undivided profits and a young doctor. A large number of persons were also of the undertakin g . aAll that the Government wounded. The disaster is believed to have been caused by sought was the business and plant to carry on that the explosion of a steam-engine, which was out of order, business. The terms of the bargain were that the and to the state of which the officer above•mentioned had previously called attention. All the local authorities were Government were to pay 20 years' purchase of the present at the interment of the victims, and a subscription net profits of the company to June 3U, 1868. In has been opened for the families of the workmen killed. caseof difference between the ciinp my and the Go- The inhabitants now demand that the magazine should be vernment the amount of net profits w.:s to be settled rebuilt outside the town. , by arbitration, either by one arbitrator mutually I agreed on or by two arbitrators and au umpire. It I was impossible to say what the arbitration would give them ; and it would be undesirable to make any FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. A sad occurrence has taken place at Stratford New estimate of the probable amount. II: kuew it was Town. Last month Mr. John Bennet, a licensed said out of doors they had made a good bargain, victualler, entered into possession of a large tewly-built and that the Government had made an improvident hotel on the right hand side of the Great Eastern Railway bargain, but all he had to say iu that respect was Station at Stratford. On Tuesday evening, observing * that he did not ask the proprietors to - negative the smell of gas, he went to the billiard-room to see what was proposition, but to confirm it. If they aegatived the the matter. His wife followed him, and when they entered the room 111 r. Bennet lighted a match. An explosion in• proposition the Government would eater info com stantly took place, and the windows were blown out into the petition with them. He thought it better to accept a roadway, and the doors were also blown away. The alarm reasonable offer than be forced into competttiou created in the neighbourhood was very great, and upon with a powerful rival; and, besides, Government some persons rushing upstairs and e ntering the room they had the idea of establishing cheap telegraphy 311 over perceived Mr. and Mrs. B e nn e t lyi ng o n the floor. They the country, and the various Chalabers of Commerce were both severely burnt. Mr. Bennet was insensible, had urged that view before Parliament, some hav and from the first no hopei were entertained that his life ing suggested a 6d. rate for messages from London would be spared, and he expired on Wednesday afternoon. to Glasgow. Under these cireunistauces, such The injuries received by Mrs. Bennet, although not so severe, have left her in a most precarious condition, and undertakings could no longer be carriel on by pri her recovery is doubtful. vate enterprise, and he therefore recommended the proprietors to accept the offer. lie then moved a THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS IN formal resolution authorising the Board to sell and BIRMINGHAM. convey the undertaking of the Electric and Inter - I national Telegraph Company to her Majesty's Post master-General in his corporate capacity in terms of the Electric Telegraph Act, 1868. The DEP UTY-C II AIRMAN seconded the motion. He said he had always taken a deep personal interest in the success of their undertaking, and the direc tors had brought it to a point of prosperity that made him very reluctant to part wish it. They were compelled, however, to surrender the un dertaking to the Government, after having brought their long labours to a successful isitie. lie re gretted parting with the undertaking, which was to be extended so that every man, woman, and child in the country might avail themselves of its utility. An inquiry was held by the Birmingham borough coroner, on Tuesday afternoon, upon the skeleton remains discovered below the surface, a few days since, in Great Hampton-row. From the evidence it appeared that while several workmen were engaged digging a trench for a sewer, they came upon something like a box, at a depth of about seven feet. The removal of a part of the box revealed the fact that it contained bones and pieces of rope. An old man, aged 73, deposed that about fifty-eight or sixty years ago he remembered to have seen, when passing along the lane that was afterwards called Hangman's-lane, and now Great Hamp ton-row, a number of people standing about there, and he afterwards learnt that it was on account of a man who committed suicide by hanging himself being buried there. A surgeon, who had inspected the remains, gave a description of them. He had no doubt that they were human remains, and they formed a perfect skeleton, with the exception of the fibula, which was absent. It was about sfeet 9 inches long, and he believed it to be that of a middle-aged man. At the foot of the coffin he found six, pieces of rope, about 3 feet 4 inches in length, and about a third of an inch in thickness. There was nothing in the appearances in contradiction to the conjec ture that the body had been interred fifty or sixty years ago, when it was the law of the land that suicides should be buried at cross-roads. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that a skeleton of a middle-aged man had been recently found. After a short discussion the resolution was car ried ; and a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman, directors, and officers of the company for their valu able services concluded the proceedings. ROSS AND MONMOUTH. The half-yearly meeting was hell at the offices, IMonmouth —Mr. Powles in the chair. ! The report stated that the subscriptions, with few exceptions, had been satisfactorily paid up, and the works would shortly be commenced, the contract having been let to Mr. Firbauk. I• The report was unanimously adopted. A public meeting fo , lowed at the Borough Court, the Mayor (Mr. Powles) in the chair, when resolu tious were passed approving the scheme, and le er)gnising the importance of increased efforts on the part of the shareholders, and the share list received a considerable accession of strength. the banker. At the same time, he would be happy to receive any suggestion that Mr. Hoyes had to make, and it should have the careful consideration of the board. He hoped the trade in Belgium would improve during the next six months, as it was very dull at present. '1 he report and statement of accounts were ap proved, and it was agreed that the shareholders could not do better than re•elect Messrs. BraPsey and Austin, the retiring directors, at the general meeting in Brussels. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. dents, and especially, his mistakes, reproduce them selves. The Commission of 1867 was pretty nearly moulded upon the exemplar of a -certain Commis sion called " of Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patro nage Inquiry (Ireland)," which was also appointed by himself during his Chief Secretaryship for that country, as a member of the Administration of the late Earl Grey, and whose four Reports of 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1837 are, with their " Sum mary of Digest of Inquiry into Revenues and Patronage" (1833), in all the. libraries. That Commission, like the present, was limited to the inquiry, " What are the revenues and property of the Irish Establishment, and what are the duties of the satne ?" The more important question, What part have the people of Ireland in these things, and how ought they to be appropriated for their benetL.?" was then, as now, entirely laid out of sight. But there was more excuse for the omission then than now. The Commission of 1832- 7 was mainly composed of archbishops and bishops of the Irish Establishment ; th a of. 1867-8 unless, indeed, Sir Joseph Napier has secretly received the imposition of hands—contains not a single ecclesiastic. It is not to be denied that the reports of the former Commission contained much to amuse and instruct, and it is very possible—for jobbery is of perennial growth—that the report of the actual Commission will be equally edifying. But again, it must be said, all that is really not germane to the matter. The Irish of to-day feel as the Irish of 1835 felt. They cared but for one thing—the getting rid of the incubus of ascendancy altogether. They cared not to be told by the most reverend and right reverend Commissioners of the shocking abuses which their graces and lords dps confessed themselves to have winked at so long. Protestants, superior to jobbing, might redden with shame and auger to, be told of such scandals, and might clamour fur a new reformation ; but Irish Catho lics cared for none of those things. Of what moment was it to them that the aggregate income of the Irish Episcopal bench was at least £128,808 Bs. 3id in 1834 ? that whilst the richest areh.sishopric (Armagh) in that year boasted of a present rs;venue of " £14,494 Os. 31d.," and a possible one of " £23,930," the poorest (Cashel) posses,ed a revenue of £6,308 ss. 2 t. ? that whilst the income of the Bishop of Derry, the wealthiest of mere bishops, was £12,159 3s. 6J., that of his poorest brother, him of Cloufeit and duagb, was the not inconsiderable sum of " £2,097 11s. 6id." ? that when the reductions enacted in 1833 should be made there would still remain two out of fuur archbishoprics and eight out of eighteen bishoprics? that an aggregate sum varying in estimated amount from " £152,606 16s. Bid." to " £160,000" represented the income a 281 persons in respect of deaneries, precentor ships, chancellorships, seven treastirerships, .two vostships, twelve archdeaconries, twenty-three prebeuds, and one canonry, " there are not any duties annexed ;" and as to the rest, the only duties annexed were said to be either preaching in the - cathedral church (" twice," " twice," or about " fuur times in the year," or " in turn with the other members of the chapter," times not specified) or "attendance at chapter meetings," or " occa sional management of the Economy Fund," for the benefit of self and fellows ? that the tithes of Ireland " were estimated at £665,000 " ? that the church glebes amounted in ail to " 91,137 acrt, ucluding above 87.000 of protitAble," and esti mated at " £65,200 per annum "? And hat, hilst on the one hand there were many of these oelieticed clergymen who had no cure of souls at all, there were, on the other hand, as many as 4,5ii0, or thereabout, of Anglican souls (no incon siderable fraction of the little flock!) without the pretence of a single Anglican clergyman, beneficed or utibeneticed,"to cure them? The disclosure, no doubt, was very painful—in a merely Protestant point of view. There was no thing having the faintest likeness to it iu Protestant Church history, except perhaps the revelation in the English Rolls Court of that much less shocking " anomaly," the sinecure establishment of the Canons of Windsor ; as to which the late Master of the Rolls, in continuing a receiver of the income of one of the canons at the suit of a creditor, is re ported to have thus judicially delivered his senti ments :—" If the residence in Windsor Castle and the attendance on divine service had been stated in the answer, or in any way shown, to be for the benefit of the public, or for the maintenance of the dignity of the Sovereign, I should have thought the case very worthy of a different consideration. But as that is not the case, it is a service to be performed for the benefit of the party himself." This, how ever, was the wiliest aspect of the " anomaly." The most shocking feature was the numerical in significance of that very minority for whose pre tended benefit the rich mouoply was supposed to be kept up. In all the reports of air. Secretary Stanley's Commission of Inquiry into "revenue And patronage" that feature was studiously kept out of view. It was without the scope of Ins in structions. As with Lord Derby's Commission of last year, so with Mr. Stanley's Commission of 1831-3, the play was to be " Hamlet," with the part of the Prince omitted " by desire." In 1834 his 'col leagues of the Grey Ministry took heart of glace upon the occasion of Mr. Ward's famous motion for a further progress in the spirit of Mr. Stanley's Irish Church T,mporalities Act of the previous year, and consented to supply that strangely' anomalous omission. Lord Grey, supported by the great majority of the Cabinet, caused a new Coin• mission to issue to a number of laymen, presided over by Lord Broughatn, then Lord Cuaucellor, and called the " Commissioners of Inquiry into Public Instruction iu Ireland." They were directed by the terms of their Commission " to ascert.in the number of persons iu communion with the United Church of England and Ireland in each (Irish) benefice or parish, distinguishing, in the cases of such benefices as comprised more than one parish, the number belonging to each parish sepa lately, and to the whole collectively ; . . . to state generally whether the numbers had been for the last five yearsincreasingo:a iouary, or diminish ing ; to ascertain the number of places of worship belonging to Roman Catholics, or Presbyterians, and other Protestant Dissenters" (with the like . instruction as to the fluctuations of the last five years), " and the proportion of the population of each parish belonging to each of such persuasions respectively." The promulgation of the new Com mission was attended with one memorable inci dent. Mr. Stanley, already at variance with his colleagues, took that occasion to retire from Earl . Grey's Cabinet, and to break with the Liberal party for ever. The Commissioner& report upon the above-men tioned particulars of inquiry was published in the spring of 1835. They had made a new and careful census of Irish population for 1834, founded, how ever, upon the last census, that of 1831, and classi fied according to professions of faith and parochial domicile. There were 7,943,740 of Irish people within Ireland. Of these no less than 6,427,712 were Roman Catholics; the Anglicans were set down at 852,064, but in that bUtil were " included a considerable number of Wesleyan (Primitive) Methodists, who " (although separated in worship) " wished to be classed as members of that body ;'' there were 642,356 "Presbyterians ;" and " the other Protestant Dissenters" amounted to 21,208 in all. There were 1,338 " cathedral and other churches and chapels" of the Establishment, be sides 196 temporary meeting-houses of the same. The Roman Catholics possessed 2,105 churches and chapels ; the Presbyterians 452 ; and the other Protestant sects 403. There were 1,385 " bene fices" belonging to the Establishment. Of these 907 consisted of " single parishes," and 478 were " unions of two or more parishes." In only 12 " benefices" did the whole body of Anglicans (in cluding the Primitive Methodists mentioned above) exceed 5,000 ; in 91 others it reached to 2,000 only ; iu 139 others to I,ouo only ; in 209 others to 500 onty ; in 286 others to 200 only ; in 221 others to 100 only ; in 160 others to 50 only ; in 124 others to 20 only ; and in 99 others to 1 only. Not less than 42 benefices are specified, in whicu, say the Commissioners, " there is no member of the Es!ablisnment." Of the coluparative dhaihaut4oll or iwrease of the respective numbers of the several denominations during the past five years the Commissioners seem to have been , unable to judge, the large emigrations or changes of domicile during that period having largely operated to disturb any calculation under that head. But the steady growth of decline in the numbers of the Anglican, and of increase in those of the Roman Catholic, classes of population ever since the days of Sir William Petty was abundantly ascertainable by a comparison of the received statistics with those of the report. If the Eal of Derby's Commission of last year had been instructed to continue that census of 1834, with similar classificatio.A, down to the present time, the appearance of the long-delayed report would now be looked for with very general interest. As it is, we shall not be far wrong in supposing that by the time the contest begins in the new Parliament on the disestablishmeut of the Irish Church, the report—should it even have appeared in the brief interval—will have been found useless for the purposes of debate. In the meantime, how ever, the Commission has certainly had its uses, and what these are we have endeavoured to ex plain. LAW AND FOLICE. INCENDIARY FIRES IN NORTHUMBERLAND. —At North Shields six navvies have been brought before a county magistrate on suspicion of setting fire to the stack-yards of Messrs. Bolton, Stewart, and Watson, farmers, at Earsdon, on the nights of Saturday and Monday, by which between fifty and sixty stacks of corn and hay were destroyed. The prisoners were remanded. They had been working on a new line of railway in the neighbourhood, and the county constabulary are in possession of certain evidence which they will not disclose, but which they state will connect some of the prisoners at least with this act of incendiarism. IMPORTANT CASE UNDER THE MASTER AND SERVANTS A CT.-- At Fraserburg Justices of the Peace Court a case under the Master and Servants Act, which exhibited some features of interest, came on for hearing. The com plainant, Alexander Smith Currie, had engaged Donald M`Leod for the herring•fishing season of eight weeks, at £l2 12s. wages. Five weeks after the date of the engage ment 3.l`Leod deserted the service on the plea of the complainant having struck him while at sea. For Lille breach of engagement the action was raised, and it was proved that, beyond addressing some angry words to M`Leod, who appeared not to have been performing his work satisfactorily, the defence had no foundation in fact. After a long debate between the litigants' agents, the justices found for the complainant, and gave judgment to the effect that of the five weeks' wages-27 17s. 6d.—which they allowed defendant to have earned, £3los. should be forfeited in the name of damages to the complainant, together with 15s. modified expenses. The Church Hews states that at a harvest thanks giving festival,, held at Wimbledon, Surrey, last week, the organist actually played the Dead March in " Saul " as a voluntary: INLAND REVENUE ADHESIVE STAMPS ANL VALUATIONS.—In reply to an inquiry, the Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue writes : "I am directed to inform you that adhesive stamps cannot legally be used for denoting the duty payable on appraisenaents."— Scotsman. SUICIDE AT A RAILWAY STATION.—On Wed nesday afternoon a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, named Robert Welsh, threw himself out of the window in the wooden bridge at the Woolwich Arsenal station on to the line beneath, falling about thirty feet. When picked up he was found to be quite dead. The =Se of the suicide has not transpired. - - THE LATE LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN.-0/1 Tuesday the mortal remains of Lord Howard de Walden, late English Minister at the Belgian Court, were brought to Antwerp, on their way to England. Every demonstra tion of respect was shown to the memory of the deceased nobleman. A military escort accompanied the funeral cort4ge from the railway etation to the Scheldt, where the coffin was received on board the Harwich steamier Zealam. The governor of Antwerp, the burgomaster, and other local functionaries, the resident British consuls at Antwerp and Brussels, several English clergymen, and a hrge number of the English residents, took part in the precession through the streets to the steamer. When the coffin had been placed in the captain's berth, the military fired a pig salute, and the Atunier p ark g e 4 Jae: mut. , SAMBRE AND MEUSE. The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the offices, Moor gate-street—Mr. G. Sheward in the chair. Mr. A. Suellgrove, the secretary, having read the notice c..n% cuing the meeting, the report, au abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. 'lle CHAIRMAN said he had but little to tell the shareholders ; the company was going on in the usual way ; there bad been some change in the tariff ; the trade in Belgium was bad ; and au in crease of about one-tenth had been made since the last meeting in the mileage. lie then described that the Grand Central Belga consisted originally of three lines—the Antwerp and Rotterdam, the Est Beige, and the Sarnbr.e and Meus . ?. Subse quently other railways had been added to the system, but the. Sambre and Meuse Company had nothing to do with the new arrangements, as they were en titled to a first charge of £40,000-a year, which was paid in four instalmeuts : one every three mouths, under the agreement. The minimum receipt of £440,000 a year had not yet been reached after which the Sambre and Mouse Company would be entitled to participate in surplus profits to the ex tent of 16 per cent. cf the excess in the net re ceipts. There were five or six companies working under as many different agreements, and separate accounts bad to be kept. They were at present working very amicably with the Grand Central, and the £lO,OOO every three months was paid punc tually to the day, which enabled the directors of the Sambre and Meuse Company to pay without delay the dividend to the shareholders. It was possible that some new arrangement might be proposed by which the accounts of the joint working of the several lines might be simp,ified and the cost of keeping them reduced, but nothing in that respect could be done without the sanction of the share holders. Mr. lions said he had been to the office, and had perfectly satisfied himself that the accounts of the company were correct. lie hoped the gentle men who managed the undertaking, which wa3 now a very large oue, would be contented with the num ber of lines they had now to work, and not add any more new enterprises. lie hoped, when the coin tany was in receipt of a larger income than at pre sent, that about 1.:400 a sear would be set apart as a sink►ng for the gradual rt,detuptiuu of the SilateS ot the company. _ Ihe CHAIRMAN said they were already devoting £324 each half-year, being the divideuds on 1,623 •nares, to tbat purpose for the redemption of dilate& The shams as redeemed were devositvl with NIIMIMPION GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 221 of August ainouuted, f. r 31,650 passengers, to £10,364 ; for 747 emigrants to £661 ; for mails, &c., £1,027 ; fur live stock and 18,434 tons of freight to £l4,oBl—total, £26,133, against £25,413 fur the corr. spouding week last year, showing au increase of £720. The total re ceipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to ,£188,261 for 53 days, and fur the saute period last year to £188,819 for 55 days, showing a decrease of £558. LONDON LABOURERS' DWELLINGS (LIMITED)._ The 14th Report of the directors of this society stated that they had purchased for £1,550 28 t,tnali leasehold houses in and near Prospect-place, Rother hithe, by which the company's tenements were increased to 243. They had also commenced the erection of a block of buildings to contain 18 tenements of two ranns each at Vauxhall. The contract price was £1,613. Between the Ist of January and the 30th of June last 19 additional shares were allotted, thus raising the share capital of the society to £33,400, divided into 334 shares of £lOO each. The total amount of rent for the half-year would, if all were let, have been £1,875, to which must be added £66 due for previous arrears, making £1,941. Of this sum £1,796, or nearly 92i per cent., had been received from the tenants, which was about the usu 1 proportion. During the past six months the loss from tunpty houses had been,lBB, and from bad debts £l6. making a mai of £lO4, which was about £24 less than iu the cor responding six months last year. The present ar rears of rent amounted to £4l, which was about the same as last year, and probably about one halt would nil eventually received. The cost of repairs had been gradually increasing up to the present time, but had probably now reached its fall average amount. The directors continued to allow one week's rent in the half-year to those telants who. paid quite regularly, and also kept their houses in good order. The amount of bonus for the half year was £25, which was, of course, an additional item of expense. The total net rents amounted to £BB2, and the net profit of the half year to £Bll, which was sufficient to pay the usual dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, tree of income tax, the surplus £7 being carried to the reserve fund. The sinking fund for leases amounted to £1,026. The reserve fund now amounted to £3,995 The total payments on capital account amounted to the 30th of June last to £33,710. ................... The bridge across the Missouri River at Omaha May now be looked upon as a sure thing, and will soon be begun. The people of Omaha and Coun cil Bluffs have both decided by their ballots to aid he Union Pacific Railroad Company in accom plishing the work, the former city to contribute $250,000, and the latter, pcmooo. Steel rails have been laid on the Hudson River Railroad as far north as Cold Spring. The London Stack Exchange Committee have appointed 'Wednesday, 9th inst., a special settling day in the new shares of the Illinois Central Rail road Company. Fractions of new shares to be set tled at £2O ss. per new share. It is bard times, says the Cheyenne Star, for water in the vicinity of Bitter Creek, on the Union Pacific Railroad. The workmen on the railroad there have no water but what is brought from the mountain streams, between thirty and forty miles from where they are at work. Men and animeals have to be supplied in this manner, and the latter frequently suffer greatly when the supply fails, as lit does sometimes before they are able to replenish it." The annual meeting of the stockholders of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad Company was held at New Haven on Wednesday, Aug. 19, and the following officers el-cted for the ensuing year :—President, Joseph E. Sheffield ; vice-presi dentxteeandi e superintendent, C. N.,Yearnans ; treasurer, Stephen secretary, A. L. Kidston ; o essrs. Sheffield, Kids t o n , an d epe uhtenvD. Pardee ra itt,; l M. G-. Elliot ; and directors, Messrs. Sheffield, Pardee, Kinston, and Elliot. and William W. Boardman and William Johnson of New Haven, yW. atl V a e PWeshei New York, a nd Charles N. W pS of Westfield. The newly-elected direct ors o f th e V ermon t e N Ior Valley Railroad are Hugh H. Henry, G overno . Morris, Alex. Hamilton, G. R. I. Bo w doin, Chas Joel Paget J. H. Willi a ms. Th e presi dent is H. H. Henry. u l h o a rr p i i s n , , The Hartford and New Haven Railroad are re laying portions of their rod with steel-headed rails, which are fastened with screws and rubber washers in such a way that the destructive jar of the trains is almost entirely obviated. IRISH CHURCH INQUIRY IN 1834 AND 1868. " Conatni:sion of Inquiry into ,he Irish Ch urc h " h as a l rea d y h a d it Lordvnut uses. sue of .11 s e l r t b s y t ' he s report—which, with the evidence in so many former Blue-books lying before it, need ° weeks necessary for the labours na w nd transcr ption—is s , ill "i Yhare of occupiedoajp l i, a iu the state of ` t dummy." No mortal eye s s. perused it. The world knows as much about it possible contents as WaS known on the 241 of e she io few June, 1867, w hen the addriss praying that the Commission might issue wai carried, and when Earl Russell's attempt to give it a useful form, by the addition of an instruction to inquire as to " the more equitable application" of those reve nues " for the benefit of the Irish people," was negatived by a majority of ninety to thirty-two. All that we know of the report is that it will con, twin s me information—which we have already concerning the nature and amount of the pro perty and revenues of the Established Church in lrel .nd, with a view to their more producdve management." Nevertheless, the report has already hail it: uses. In the first place, the expectation of it has furnished Ministers for about fifteen months past with a e pretext for saying nothing about the policy, if they have any, w hi c h thy mean to reeimmend. In the next place, they are able to instruct their support, rs to te 1 the courtituencies that, until the report comes in, they cannot pledge themselves one way or the other : beyond this, that they will abolish anomalies, even while they withstand spo liation ; but what are " anomalies," and what " abolition," and what " 40liation," will be seen when the report is presented. Meanwhile, " Magherafelt" and " Achonry," and many another benefice, are to hold their breath as they may in a sta te o f s uspended animation ; " Liberal Cons ervat i v , s"— whether their Libe ralism makes them to wish for abolition of anoma lies, or their Conservatism to wish for the repression of the yet unseen danger of spoliation —will unite cheerfull at the polls, and vote for the same " Constitutionalist" candidate. No man of sense will be deceived by all this. Of what consequence is it to the question of establishment or disestablishment whether the revenues of the English Church in Ireland are now productively or unproductively managed? or whether the endowments and tithe rentseharges of sinecure benefices might or might not be more suitably appropriated to the augmentation of the " valor ecclestasticus" of benefices a little less sinecure ? of whether in that case the incumbents of tue last would or would not cease to thunder against saci liege, and to take up their testimony iig-iiest spoliation? rlhe Irish poop e are to all such questioi s profoiind.y in tilierent ; being aware that their solution iu no wiaa assists that of the real question—Shall the Establishment exist at ail? It is curious to sso how Lord Derby's utoce- DR. GOSS UN THE CO.IILNG ELECTIONS. On Sunday afternoon, Dr. Goss, the Bishop of blessed a new bell and opened a new tower at the Catholic chapel at South Hill, about three miies from Cherley. After the certAnony he delivered a discourse, iu the course of which tic referred to the Ritualists, and said their putting on of vestments and their ceremonies were nothin g wore than a mockery ; they lacked the true signifi cance. Some newspapers in Liverpool had sneered at the lass, ceremony of blessing a bell, siying that although it had been blessed, it had by some means got cracked, and had done no good. The blessing of a bell would not prevent accidents happening to it ; it was only blessed that thereby, wnerever its sound might be heard, the evil spirits might be dis pelled. In referring to the principal quesdon of the day, he said it was supposed that the Catholic bishops and clergy were banded together to pu; down the Established Church in Ireland, and when that had been accomplished to pull the E,tabdshed Church in England down. Now, the Catholic priesthood held aloof from all political matters, :aid left every Catholic perfectly free to do as he liked. lie had bceu a bishop for fifteen years, and during that time had never interfered iu poll tical matters. Although he had a right to use what influence he had, still he had not dune so. lb would have every one to know that whoever paid taxes, whether he be Churchman or layman, he had a perfect right to use the vote he possessed as he liked ; and, although his influence had been solicited during the cowing contest, he had pre ferred to keep himself aloof from those blinl nesses and JealouSies, and left his people to act for themselves. Let every wan exercise the vote which the State had given him according to the dictates of his own conscience, and without in fluence. If any Catholic hears it said that the Bishop said they must vote in a certain way they must not believe it, for he had never opened his. mouth upon the subject more than he had now doue. If the Catholics were striving to pull down the Church in Ireland it was not because it was Protestant, but because it was the Church of a minority. he Catholic priesthood resented any inteiference on Church matters on the part of th. laity, so on political matters they left their flocks to act according to their own consciences, for they knew as well as he did what were the political views of the candidates. After relating the persecu tions which the Irish had undergone for the last 300 y ears, the Bishop exhor.ed all Catholics to keep :heir temper during the coming election. He th:n proceeded to say that he regretted that the cry of .No Popery " had been raised by Mr. Disraeli— a cry which was a disgrace to him and his party, but respect for the sanctuary in which he was pre vented him from using the term which would be sufficiently condemnatory of Mr. Disrae:i's conduct. 711 E CATTLE DISEASIS Ifv AMERICA. The Times' correspondent writes :—" The ex citement regarding the cattle disease has consider ably abated, although it still lingers auout New York, and has appeared in some new localities. Where have been additional importations of the pest to New York city. It appeare I at Boston a few Jays ago. It is now reported at the towns of .lug-Sing and Amenia, in New York State, and has attacked the native cattle at Paris and Dundas, iu Canada. Its appearance at the latter places is ascribed to the transmission of Western cattle to New York, along the line of the Great Western Rail way, the disease being communicated in passing to the Canadian cattle. The Canadian Board of Agriculture has appointed a committee to proceed to the Western States and investigate the disease ; and the New York Board of Commissioners, having (men convened by Governor Fenton, has published elaborate rules for the inspection and treatm.-mt of infected animals. Similar measures have been taken in Massachusetts. The American journals, con irary to their usual habit, do not make much of a sensation out of the matter, hence the absence of great popular excitement. The beef market, however, continues very dull, not withstanding the repeated assurances that there is nothing now to be feared, and mutton is decidedly in the ascendant. On Wednesday, August 19, the New York Board of Health were notified of the arrival of sick cattle at four different points, and it was discovered about the same time that an in fected herd had quietly arrived a few days previous and been offered for sale in small lots. There is a fear of a serious outbreak of tit) diseas in a few days, as it has been ascertained that the e eriod for the development of the fatal fever is irom ten to thirty days. There is nothing later from Chicago respecting the disease there, but h is announced that the Board of Health of that city gas decided to establish a cattle quarantine. As to the nature of the diseasi there is still much uncertainty. Whether it be the Spanish fever or not, whether it be true or not that Texan cattle sent north in summer communicate the disease, while those transported in winter communicate no iufec.ion and remain healthy themselves, few people now accept Professor Gaingee's theories as correct. It is now known that cows, calves, and bulls are at tacked by the disease alike, though mulch cows are most liable to it. ' • A Western journal further states that, when the fever is virulent, under certain cir cumstances it will attack sheep and horses. There is danger in handling the carcases of the in fected animals, as the virus may be communicated to the human body, through a scratch or sore. rwo cases of serious illness have occurred at Amenia, New York, in this way. The only disin fectant that can be depended upon in the cattle yards is carbolic acid, but no remedy is found for the disease. All, or nearly all, of the cattle in which the symptoms are developed die iu spite of the most careful treatment. No statistics of the general mortality have yet been published. It is stated that in Central Illinois 3,000 cattle, valued at $120,000, have perished. The New Orleans Crekent, talking of the excite ment there concerning the Texas cattle disease, says —" The truth is, the iutrodurtion of these cattte has been deadly to nothing in the West but the profits of Western cattle-raisers." Its remedy for the disease is, " Get rid of Radical despotism." There can be no doubt as to the sanity of the editor of the Crescent. The Chi,la brings news that the malady is spreading throughout the country. [ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Pills.—All our Facul ties.—Almost all disorders of the human body are dis tinctly to be traced to impure blood. The purification of that fluid is the first step towards health. 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The more the Northein continent of America ig explored the more satisfied savans become that civi lization, starting from that continent—and travers ing the globe, ever following the sun's course—ha returned to the land of its birth. It is Uot then the i'Vetv but the Old World. If civilization really to this extent travelled West, its last traces on the continent would be bordering the Pacific, and not the Atlantic.sea board. It is known, although but dimly, that there are more 'remains of an ancient civilization along the country of the Colorado and some of its branches than in any other part of the Union. Only the other day a party of surveyors ,n Arizona, engaged in exploring for ttie best ma i:oat routes, cawe upon a wide area of ruins ou the Jauks of the Little Colorado river, along which tbeY' extended fur a great dista.ice. Sithe of the walls of buildings are yet in their places, and stand sig or eight feet high. 'Die streets may be traced for aides. The old irrigating calals and ditches ore yet in a fair state of preservation, and may also be so traced. Theground is srawn with broken crockery ware. The party found vessels in curious form in t'" cellent preservation, but of a different quality acd liner than those found at most of the ruins in An cowl. Many of the walls of the houses were built of sewn stone, in a wcirkinanlike manner. To all ap. pearance here once stood a city of many thousands of inhabitants. Who they were or to what tribes they belonged there is no rezord left to show. ° II the ease bank are the ruins of a large structure or castle, covering several acres of land, with walls yet standing to the height of 2U or 30 feet. The period, nowever, to which the savans refer is of a date far anterior to the building of such cities—coeval, O r perhaps even before the construction of the mound s in the Mississippi Valley, from which :,he river ha s retired in the lapse of ages. Professir Leidz, of Philadelphia, has in course of publication a work of great interest on the extinct animals of America. Among these are reckoned several which are nor confined to Asia and Africa, such as the camel, the rhinoceros, the elephant, and mastodon. Thei r former existence is interred from the fossil bone , t )articularly the teeth, which are found in consider' tble quantities in the West. And the conclusion which these fossils, and those of different races 01 men, bring the savans is, that the Western cooDi" ueut is really the Old world, and the Eaitern is in iact the IVew world. LITERARY NEWS. (Front the Anglo-American Times.) The Rev. Newman Hall has commenced a series ni papers in the new issue of The Broadway, giving an accetin of his recent visit to America. In the first paPe r t i l handles a subject difficult to treat in an original way'? °- however new and interesting to himself may be his ve.Y 4 ,!:: it is not easy to excite that interest in the general OP P ; in so common and matter-of-fact an affair. Failing ali incident in the . Cuba's passage he extracted a little st°'r"nqj from one of the officers. "Two women Married tW Cunard sailors, who both fell from the mast in the sh i p on the same voyage, and ware killed. The widows roar' vied again, and their husbands sailed in the same 5 11 ' 1). ci One of them, in New York, fell from the foreyarcl, a ds while falling thought of his predecessor's fate. He sv „: t . caught iu a sail, but was disabled for life. Two days "a the other man fell from the niaiuyard and was killed, au e .among two women were again widows. There was a 5i1Y.,t,1% .mong the men, 'Beware of a Cunard widow !' " J 3 '7 indeed ! if these women are in the habit of making t"' -' d ~elves widows because a man is disabled. That the o'lll3. ru t widows must form a leculiar class even the gr"'''' te ; woman hater will allow, as the sex are n ut ,he habit of finishing off their disabled 10 ,4 'We suspect that the sailors were at their vas Lricks. There is nothing iu which they more ' h g a d than in taking a "rise" out of a "long shore fellow , a their zest is whetted if he be a parson and a literary 1310311: iikely to put what they tell him Into a book . We toy' c , i6o fluent that the delight of the Cunarder will be iota ' s, warn he finds his "yarn " going the rounds of the Pr.'oo.. and we hope our brethren will admiuister to his gis „g Lion by giving the Cunard " widow" as muchnotorieis he could desire. Although the freshness of novelty etaa perienced by Ms. Newman Hall in the proceedieg s °i f li es Cuba has been. communicated by him to the acco unt ° Lot passage, yet we only notice this iu. anticipatio n of sir we hope will be of real interest, the account of h is Yisl a sphere he really does understand. Tuere is a pleasant article in London Society on ° rt American Watering Place and its Frequenters." N e "„',o .s well described, and the " upper tea-dom" t " - gr assembles every summer. Mr. Hobbs, a wholesale seeo. dealer, is dragged by his wealaufulk from his offieu York city_ to that fashionable watering place. r t truthful sketch of the passage and tae steamers, Il es % of itself is described. We regret our space does not adtu" o f our transferring this to our columns, nor the accouat o t.ue society, but in justice to American girls we extraet following :—" Fur instance there is Miss Laureate, fre've Ysu 'aced, um-loving, early rising, exeursiou-planniug the 8 11.1, whose papa is rich and has a French cottag,o O r 4 sea,' who has just left school behind for ever , ° v ie' came down to have, as she says, 'a summer-lonS o b- Like the sensible girl that she is, she laughs at the t ° l , ll t i t Lash notion widen. prevails at the Ocean gourd,ia is vulgar to be enthusiastic, an i rude to exert oast:pill healthy out-of-dour pastimes. You will see her et f4°. the morning tripping down to her father's boathouse' 0-00 fr a little craft, as neat, as jaunty, and brisk as herself, s vra o out upon the water, rowed by its gay-hearted Laist rss3 'f 11 4 bends to her oar splendidly, and lends to the fuoti all et aro s boat something of her own airy grace. Of coursesile r . te , st with the heartiest and most unsentimental o f aPPsv i s ,cl t ) which Miss Juliana, Hobbs, who has really ita a " vlP i 6 mail a promise to breakfast with her friend lit w dthet expressahly shocked, and debates within herself out she should not drop the acquaintance of suc h a 111° t ilia in Crinoline. Miss Laurence eschews the relit' 1:og, or hotel, and vastly prefers a little evening tea-ririojilacli an impromptu strawberry-leto on the lawn. b h° S aci l d ; little time to visit a favourite ledge of rock, sa",:priaJ to exercise her swimmiug powers twice a di), ia 1 ; b0 0 0 14 1 ; ocean itself ; to continue her course of history inn, 01 join as many pic.nics and clam - bakes as she cis d ll5/` always ready to assist in planning one ; rides towedl 0000,, on her beautiful new grey pony, and with them ) 50 oga ir• occupations happily and healtnfuilY spends ile r '° rue aliases hobos spend theirs very differenilit s o iSe t. affect to be seen in thou - appearance. Poor Hobbs g able, and as he described aimself whe n the Y°ll,,,utut marked down by the ladies as his s on-iu - la W perch, when he asked" Why mill like that per,:u ?"it iii.oos° said the iniouded sun-in-law, looking at hint w ~ 0. 6 dsto u ish num t. " Because I ain a fish out of Wa ter. ti ogl isl j ' only difference between the American and the svori, watering places is that there is inure of wil 3t t oo , Ve i % calls gaiety iu the former -the amoun t of iriv°,33,, 051Uda. about equal. in both the mothers bri n g their 0.11 into the matrimonial market ; in both t he saute 'tris are a ures, and wiles are practised ; both the suoo e ' 00 0 14 alike—the most desperate huuters -being those foiled. that . - TIIE FRENCH COTTON TRADE._IG aPP e3I-543tuv " th total quantity of cotton imported into Fr'" - A rel' 8$ c01 . 0 ,1' 68 61 first Jive months of this year lts 56,810 tons, 1"" t0 ° with 43,767 tons in the corresponding period of ..57,423 tons in the corresponding period of 180. Idui,:itig nports the receipts of raw cotton from the Voi Le- tt o Or r 'torn figured for 8,951 tons, against 10,091 too B ill . : ) .peo ci 0 .0 e . ori .-- . eo rug period of 1867, and 15,2J6 in tug period of 1866. The imports from the Voittts o'6 to May 31 this year, were 30,754 tons, against lef v ‘ to tiP w to r t r h e e sp c o o n rr d e i s a p g on da d t in e g of d l a B tc 66 o . f 1867, and '2 3,424 t°6 ---- Births. Artl'lll. MANsm—On the 6th inst., at Oakers Wood, fro. to Mansel, of a so , Soni er99 NArtEß—On the 7th inst , at Pennard Iroise' , e r. the wife of Berkeley Napier, Esq., o f a daugd, Da" IiOUTLEDGE—On the 9th inst., a t 3, Crorawoll-r° ton, Mrs. floury Itoutledge, of a son. ATKINS—KERBEY— the late U. li d. Kerber, f S' 0 11. 1 ouse, Barbican, to Augusta KerbeY, Y c b 0, 0 Clio r : i 0 Matthew, City-read, J. Edward Atkius, ° 0u g, 13 ,est - 00 1) 6 5 1 n ic teebtB,yh.si :qs.t., at the e tit , „,tio f OSMOND—RILEY—On the Bth iust at the Cortgleb 0 00 c . b ß o o t r h o ug i h c U th hurah, Lewisham High-road," Watson, eldot_orelt, , k B ham out - h tts w r a r i t. k., ec' (wed l': J . E. U. Osmond, Esq., a 60, foucburTo ic, Mary, o.dest daughter of Uuorge ittleY, Vi,,ao' park, Norwood. aljutle7BslutreWlidg)l,-:VS 1 ' of '.ie. Deaths. hP ief CHADWICK—On the 6th inst., at 13:.oadfield, Julia Chadwick, Esq., aged 7s; also, on the 4%. , Fo e rm y Es and pl"e, Ellen, his youngest daughter, tl,o`vorpeoo widow of the late Richard VValtsr Forbes, 0 , '' NatGersicOvon. the 7th in at Greenwich, lklapxotertg Aberdeenshire, aged 90. 000 G 1 jy tt enney, PENNEY—Oa the 9th inst., at Cauoubury, .Ij l/1; Cbar le6 0 , 0 0 ROBARTS —On the 7tb itrt., at Bohnore q L t a . h , Grantee, : 6 1 te t hua Es .t Sahgieril }.neary Soutbao - James Ww. Robert s, a g ed 47. Watassex—Ou the sth inst., at Villeneuve, A. Wilkinson, Esq ., Post Captain, Hoyal NOY .11) 0S' ,ondon - : Printed and Pablisned by VLLI,III.g• A' . oY Yo. 112, Strand, Printer, a Tits Sus u'll°'ivtlf,34 °I strand, in the Precinct Of the Ss voy, in 0 0 sOptealter 166th,