The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, 'The Times notices that but one material defect is alleged against Captain Moncreiff's system. It affords, it is •aid, no protection against " vertical firing." As the Moncreiff gun-pits are at present constructed, the top, from which the gun rises, is wholly uncovered. A shell, therefore, accurately fired from a mortar might be dropped vertically into the pit, and of course would Inflict terrible destruction. Now, in the first place, even admitting this danger, Captain Moncreiff will still have effected an enormous advance on the present system. In order to guard against shells in our existing fortifications we not only Luild up a wall in front, but construct a strong roof over head, and the gun chamber thus protected becomes a case mate. We have, therefore, two weak points—the front and the roof ; but of these two, even at the worst, Captain Moncreiff absolutely annihilates one. lie removes all danger in front, and leaves us with only the roof to pro tect. In a word, if vertical firing be a danger to Mon- creiff's system, it is equally a danger to every other system ; and if we can construct a roof over a raised battery, we could equally construct a roof over a sunken battery. As to the tactical results which may be expected from this invention, it will be obviQus how momentous must be the effect on the movements of an army of the circumstance that all the enemy's guns and batteries may be completely:hidden ,from view. A regi ment may be marching over a slightly undulating ground, or even over a level plain, unsuspicious of anything but a perfectly unbroken surface, when suddenly a hundred heavy pieces of artillery may start from the earth as if by magic, and deliver the most accurate and most deadly fire. We have heard of masked batteries, but under this system every gun in position may be masked. In fact, every undulation and every hillock in a defended position may become a battery, at once more secure and more powerful than the Plymouth. Moreover, two or three guns under this system may be made to do the work of several. The effect of an embrasure is, of necessity, to confine the range of a gun, but under this system a gun will range round all the points of the compass. Consequently, the whole fire of a dozen guns may be successively concentrated upon any single point within their range, and great economy may thus be effected in the number of guns required. It was conclusively shcwn at Shoeburyness the other day that the movements of the gun may be effectually directed by a single word of command from an officer outside the pit. It would be as easy to direct ten or twenty guns at once as to direct one, and 'the fire of a whole battery, there fore, would be under the instant control of a single officer. Upon the North Schleswig question, the Standard admits that,rof course, Prussia ought not to do anything which she is not called upon to do in honour,merely to satisfy France. No one would think of asking such a thing from her. But in this matter she is decidedly and incontestably in the wrong. She has pledged herself to restore North Schleswig to Denmark, and she puts off the fulfilment of the pledge because Denmark is weak and must wait her pleasure. We trust that when Count Bismarck returns to Berlin he will settle this paltry, yeVangerous question. Prussia is secure enough to spare a couple of hundred thousands of unwilling subjects ; strong enough, without asking any guarantees, to ensure justice to any Germans who may be included in the retrocession ; and strong enough, too, to do an act of justice and honour without having it attributed to foreign pressure. Speaking of retrenchment, the Daily News says the people of England are chiefly taxed for their army and navy. It is in these departments, if anywnere, that retrenchment must be effected. The charge against the resent Board of Admiralty is, that in the year 1867 they spent half a million more than their predecessors had done, and that they wasted what they spent ; in fact, that they threw the money into the sea, not in the form of useful armour-clad fighting ships, but in that of weak, slow, small, unarmoured vessels, fitted rather to run than to fght, and not very well fitted for running. Lord Henry Lennox has combated this assertion, and he has done so by confounding estimates with expenditure—what the Government thought of spending with what they actually did spend. The excess of half a million which the estimates record is for shipbuilding generally, without distinction of armour• plated or unarmoured ships. Lord Henry Lennox takes advantage of this ambiguity with a skill which shows that he has been in some respects an apt pupil of Mr. Disraeli. Unfortunately for his argument, the same tactics have not been practised by his chief at the Admiralty, who is a statesman of an elde; school—a disciple of the late Sir Robert Peel. MIS. Corry has republished in a pamphlet the speeches which he delivered last session in reply to Mr. Seely, and in proposing the navy estimates. From his statements it appears that the expesuliture on unarmoured ships was in 1865.6, the year of Liberal estimates and expenditure, £360,619, and in 1867-68, the year of Con servative estimates and expenditure, £020,333. That is to say, the present Board of Admiralty has spent on vessels admitted to be useless half a million odd more than its predecessors. This was the original charge made by Mr. Stansfeld. The magnanimity which " disdains the lose of nicely calculated less or more " may be very imposing, but it is out of place in a Government depart ment. It is satisfactory to find that the emulation of rival statesmen is taking the direction of a competition for the credit of efficient and economical administration. The Standard says the Conservative party owes it to Oxford university to bring forward the best candidate it can furnish ; especially as, if rumour speak the truth, the Liberals intend to put forward the very best men in their ranks. It would be a terrible mistake—a political sin—in any Oxford Conservative or Churchman to vote for Sir Bounden Palmer. His return would be accepted as an evidence that Conservatism had lost its hold on the uni versity, and consequently on England. It would be a sore discouragement to the good cause, a sinister triumph far the cause of evil. True that upon the Church question Sir R. Palmer differs from his party. But he differs Father on practice than on principles ; he would accept eisestablishment; it is only disendowment which, as a 'awyer and an honest man, he feels to be an iniquity that he cannot sanction. He can renounce and sacrifice -the interests of Protestantism ; it is the rights of property that he refuses to betray. While, therefore, we entertain sh© highest respect and admiration for Sir Bounden Palmer ; while we admit him to be an honour to the university and an ornament to the House of Commons ; while we reverence his political courage and unselfish loyalty to principle, we should regard his return for the University of Oxford as little less than a national misfor tune, and those who might contribute to it as having grievously mistaken their duty to their country and their Church. The Herald is by no means of opinion that there is not a cure, and a complete cure, for the undoubted evil of university extravagance—that there are not principles which, if properly exercised, might regulate with infallible accuracy the relations between tradesmen and under graduates. The world of the university being a kind of model of the world without, why should not the same laws as those which characterise the dealings of trades men with their customers in ordinary life be acted upon there? A tradesman in an ordinary way will not give you unlimited credit unless you are able to produce some satisfactory guarantee of substantial income. If undergraduate extravagance is to be checked, it must be an open recognised fact that those who pander to it in the shape of tradesmen shall be fully aware of what they are doing; in plain words, that those who sell should come to consider it a bounden duty previously to inquire into the worldly condition of those who buy. Why should Oxford be the only town in which the ordinary laws of commerce should labour under a chronic suspension ? If the Oxford tradesman could but once be made thoroughly to realise the fact that he trusted each under graduate customer at his own peril, and if the decisions of the law in any suits for the recovery of debts contracted during the university residence were to enforce this fact, little more would be heard of the temptations to extrava gance at Oxford. Apart from the legal merits of the question, there is, says the Telegraph, something peculiarly striking about the way in which "the Countess of Derwentwater " has chosen to assert her fancied rights. That a century and a half after the beheading of the rebellious Earl and the confiscation of his property, a descendant of his should claim to be the heir of his dignities and estates, is a strange enough fact in itself. And a touch of the picturesque is given to the legal contest by th e l or dl y way i n which the lady took possession of the ruined family mansion, aild in which, when thrust out by the unsympathetic law, she encamped under the greenwood tree on the ancestral estate, declaring that she would die on " her own laud" rather than leave it in the hands of the Commis. sioners of Greenwich Hospital. The Chancery suit has begun in the woods, in a semi-feudal fashion. The 1 - 1 1 manifestly been told on legal authority that her a. 3 las claims are valid,' and it is easy to see why a strong, fervent temperament should be aroused to the most determined course by the thought of wearing a proud name and owning a great estate. Nor, when the law of attainder is manifestly bad, and when a shadow of right thus rests on the lady's claim, is it possible to regard her struggle without some sympathy. Quite apart from all technical speculations, the encamp ment at Dileton is a visible protest against a law which is not defensible. The right of the Crown to the lands and chattels of convicts eiepends upon no uniform rule, but is subject to many arbitrary exceptions. For instance, attainder for murder. or treason disinherits the heir, but attainder for other kinds of felony has • not the same operation. It is impossible to justify these distinctions by any satisfactory reasoning. They are capricious and artincial, and the existence of them suggests that the law of forfeiture is fundamentally erroneous. It was the creation of a cruel age ; it applied to a state of society which no longer exists ; it is as much out of date as the headsman's axe, and we may hope that at no remote day it will be abrogated altogether, BITUALISM IN BRIGHTON, The recent harvest festival services at St. James's Chapel, Brighton, has caused much dissatisfaction to the inhabitants of that town holding strict Church of England principles. Strict censures have been passed by a consi derable portion of the local and metropolitan press. The consequence was, that on the following Saturday the vicar (the Rev. H. M. Wagner, visited St. James's Chapel, and expressed great dissatisfaction with the altar arrangements, &c., and told the Rev. J. Purchas that on the following day he should himself attend and preach, bringing his own choir with him. Subsequently the Rev. J. Purchas wrote the vicar that the chapel was his private property, and that as his (the vicar's) preaching there the following day would upset his arrangements, he trusted that he would not persevere in that determination. Consequently the vicar did not preach there, but placed himself in com munication with the Lord Bishop of Chichester on the subject. In the meantime some of the principal inhabi tants, headed by Mr. W. Hamilton, of Ship-street, pre pared and signed a petition to the bishop on the subject, and in three days it was signed by 648 members of the Church of England, including five Brighton incumbents, Mr. J. White, M.P., the mayor, ex-mayor, twelve magis trates, the churchwardens, and several overseers. A copy of the address was also sent to the Rev. H. M. Wagner, who in the course of a lengthy rely on the fol lowing day, said : " While you were acting as one of the promoters of the memorial, or possibly even before a word of that memorial was penned, the bishop and myself had been in communication. In the course of that -communi cation I had explained the sentiments, not of 648 persons only, but of thousands of Brightonians, lovers of the beautiful and simple services of our Church, and there fore all the more shocked by the revival of obsolete and superstitious practices. The Church Discipline Act is now before me, and I have good reason to believe that the bishop will promptly and effectually put it in force." The next day the following letter was received from the Bishop of Chichester, and on Sunday last, it should be observed, the Rev. J. Purchas did not officiate at St. James's : " The Palace, Chichester, Oct. 10, 18GS. " Dear Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, by yesterday's post, of your regiiitered letter, dated October 8, togetner with the address to me, signed by 648 members of our Church—communicants, clerical and lay—resident in Brighton, on the subject of the Ritualistic practices at St. James's Chapel, Brighton. They deserve a much severer censme than that of Ritualistic. They are often profanely irreverent violations of the rubrics and doctrines of our Church. I am advised that this is not a proper case for the issuing of a commission, but that, if the matter is to be brought before any eccle siastical tribunal in the present state of the law, it should be taken before the Court of Arches in the first instance. If, therefore, you, or any of those who have signed the address, wish to prosecute Mr. Purchas, I would refer you to 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 86, s. 13 ; and it would seem that your proper course would be to have the Charges on which you are prepared to prosecute reduced into a legal form, and then to apply to me, through the registrar, for letters of request to enable you to prosecute Mr. Purchas in the Court of Arches. I am advised that the report of the Commission on Ritualism renders it probable that the questions which would be raised in any such suit in the Court of Arches will soon be settled by legislation, and that it would therefore not be wise to commence such a suit at pre43ent ; but such is my pympathy with those who signed the address, that if any of them, properly qualified to promote the office of the judge, and knowing that I have rcceivl this advice, should wish to prosecute, I should (assuming the charges when reduced into legal form to be such as I expect) exercise the discre tion vested in me by allowing them to prosecute Mr. Purchas in the Court of Arches. I have already, by awriting addressed to him, inhibited Mr. Purchas from preaching, administering the sacraments, or officiating in divine service in my diocese ; but he maintains that he is legally justified in disregarding the inhibition. In all the distress which these matters have brought upon me I derive con solation from the trust I have in the unshaken fidelity and tight-mindedness of the inhabitants generally of Brighton ; and the address which I yesterday received at your hands from G4S of them, yourself included in that number, sup ports me in the belief that that trust is not misplaced.— I remain, dear sir, "A. T. CICESTER. "To Mr. W. Hamilton, 19, Clifton-road, Brighton." MR. ROEBUCK ON TRADES UNIONS. Mr. Roebuck, on Monday, addressing his supporters at Sheffield, took up the subject of trades unions. The hon. and learned gentleman commenced his speech by referring to his early connection with the town, remarking that from the first he told them that he was not a party man. He then went on to say that there were two great ques tions which would come before the next Parliament, the Irish Church and trades unions. He had told them before that he was opposed to all church establishments, and he adhered to that opinion. He was, however, not so weak or blind as to believe that the disestablishment of the Irish church would satisfy the discontented people of Ireland. It might remove some cause of discontent, indeed he believed it would ; but to suppose that those who cried out for a repeal of the Union and were Fenians at heart would be satisfied with the disendowment of the Irish Church was to him an idle forethought. Then upon the subject of trades unions, Mr. Roebuck said : " If you re-elect me, what I intend to do is this. If a man with his eyes open enters into a society and undertakes certain obli gations in that society—legal obligations I mean, not ille gal ones—if he does it with his eyes open, Ido not see why the law should not enforce those obligations. And therefore, if A. 13. enters into a trades union —(a Voice : " Voluntarily ?")—yes, voluntarily, not coerced, mind you —if he voluntarily goes into a union and undertakes to make certain payments weekly, the non-payment of them ought to be considered a debt to be enforced by the ordi nary provisions of law. But the moment illegality steps in, the moment there is an attempt either to coerce by fear or fright, or to do any illegal thing, or to ask the member to do any illegal thing, then that legal bond is gone, and the moment that any band of unionists does an illegal thing, their rights are gone. That's what I intend to do ; so that if a man be encouraged to ratten, if a man be encouraged to shoot at another—and such things have happened—if a man be encouraged to beat another, away shall go all the rights of the union. I think there can be no mistake about that. But there is one other thing I want to speak about—for I have been asked, and the question has been put to another Candidate—would I limit the number of apprentices by law? I say no—and I tell you why I won't do it. It is giving a monopoly to a certain number of men, and consigning all beyond that narrow circle to indigence, and preventing them from exercising the powers that God has given them in the field of labour. I have heard it said that I myself belong to a trades union. Well, I am a lawyer, and every step of my progress in my profession has been to throw the gates of that profession open. Only last year there was a law in the statute-book that no clergyman of the Church of England could be elected a member of Parliament. The same law was adopted by the benchers of the various inns, and they con sequently would not allow any ecclesiastical member of the Church of. England to become a barrister. Well, what did I do? I opposed my brother benchers on that very point ; we called together the four Inns of Court, and we carried my proposition against them. And now the bar is open to the clergy as well as anybody else; But mark again —the trades union to which I belong does not say that no man shall enter it but the son of a lawyer. Who was Lord Tenterden ? Why, Lord Tenterden was the son of a barber, and I could go through a long list of luminaries of the law who have sprung from quite as low an origin as that. Well, then, I say, if we are a trades union, we are an open trades union. Any body can be called to the bar ; anybody can be a lawyer ; and I say that exactly in the same way anybody ought to be able to become a grinder. Don't you think that it is very cruel to shut out a poor man who may have half a dozen children, and say to him, ' You are not a grinder, and none of your sons shall be here.' I say that is cruel, and if you don't elect me for it I can't help it. I tell you I won't support it. Now, in the next place, I would put the penalties of the law upon a defaulting trades union officer. I think the decision which was come to respecting this kind of offence a very unwise one. I dare say, though, it was a legal decision, for it was given by men in whom I have every faith that they were honourable, holiest, and upright. But I would challenge the law, if that be the law, and I would say that the paid secretary of a trades union, if he runs away with the cash-box, ought to be sent to gaol. That at present is not the law, and I will, if you elect me, support such a law ; and if it is not proposed by anybody else, I will myself propose a law to that effect. These, gentlemen, are the two crucial instances that are now put in the face of every politician. You have heard what I intend to do if you re-elect me. I pledge myself to that; nd that to which I pledge myself I do not go from." TENACIOUS MEMORY.—Tsvo respectably-dressed men have been charged before the Lord Mayor with " loitering " in Lombard-street. It was shewn by the evidence of detectives in plain clothes that they were dogging persons who went into the banks, with, there could be little doubt, an intent to rob. The case afforded a remarkable example of tenacity of memory, inasmuch as a police-officer stated that seven years ago he had one of the prisoners in custody on a similar charge. The prisoners were sentencea to three months' hard . - labour, THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN DEATH OF SIR (1, SINCLAII?: Sir George Sinclair, of Ulbster, Caithness-shire, has Just died, in George-street, Edinburgh. He was born in 1790, succeeded his father in 1835. He was M.P. for Caithness 1811 and 1818, and 1831-41. He was married in 1816 to Lady Catherine Camilla Tollemache, daughter of Lord Huntingtower, who died in 1863. The present baronet, Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, was born in 1825, and in 1853 married Emma, daughter of W. S. Standish, Esq., of Laxbury Park, Lancashire. The first baronet of the family was the Right Hon. Sir J. Sinclair, D.C.L., F.R.S., distinguished as a scientific agriculturist and statistician. The late baronet was a Liberal, in politics, until the passing of the Reform Bill, which he regarded as final. He was the chairman of the committee for the election for Westminister of Sir Francis Burdett, when the latter had declared for Conservative principles. Sir George Sinclair sat on the same form at Harrow as Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel, with both of whom he kept up a correspondence and friendly relations. Sir George was not only a scholar of great classical attain. ments, but was master of the modern languages, several of which he spoke and wrote fluently. He was the author of various political and literary works. During his early travels he was taken prisoner in Germany, and brought before Napoleon 1., who vainly interrogated him in order to turn to account information of the Prussian army. VII'SUVIUS. The announcement of an approaching eruption of this mountain, which has already been twice in eruption within the last twelve months, indicates an unusual activity in the South European volcanic district. It is a remarkable circumstance that the temporary cessation in the action of Mount Vesu vius, which since the end of August has done no thing but fume and grumble, has been marked by the occurrence of several earthquakes in the south of Europe. Two shocks were experienced in Gib raltar ; then a large portion of Turkey was shaken, and lastly a sharp shock was experienced in Malta. These disturbances following each other within so short a space of time suffice to confirm the opinion that the subterranean forces whose effects have been experienced from time to time over a district extending from the Canaries and Azores across the whole basin of the Mediterranean into Syria, form a single system, of which Vesu vius, Etna, Stromboli, and the volcanoes of the Gre cian Archipelago are the outlets. We do not remem ber any former instance in which the evidence has been so decisive. The fact that Ischia and Vesu vius are intimately associated with Stromboli and Etna had been confirmed by several striking phe nomena. When Ischia was in full activity before the great outburst of Vesuvius in '79 the fires of Etna had seemed to be gradully expiring, insomuch that it was ranked by Seneca among extinct volcanoes. But during the long interval of rest which Vesuvius experienced before the great erup tion of 1,500, Etna was in a state of unusual activity, a circumstance which Sir Charles Lyell considers to indicate that " the great Sicilian volcano sometimes serves as a channel of discharge to elastic fluids and lava that would otherwise rise to the vents in Campania." But although such facts as these had been noticed, and the connection of the Italian with the Archipelagic and Syrian volcanoes had been suspected by many geologists and seismologists, yet we do not remember any former instance in which the temporary quiescence of Vesuvius has been followed by earthquakes oc curring in portions of the South European volcanic system so widely separated as Turkey, Malta, and Vesuvius. It is worthy of notice that from the time of the great eruption of '79, Vesuvius has been in activity only at distant intervals until the eruption of 1666. in 1631, indeed, it seems as if the mountain were gradually assuming the condition of an extinct vol cano. At that time Bracini wrote as follows : " The crater of Vesuvius is five miles in circumfer ence, and about a thousand paces deep ; its sides are covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there is a plain on which cattle graze. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harbour." One is re minded by this description of the condition of the mountain before the convulsions which preceded the eruption of '79. At that time the mountai❑ presented so small an appearance of activity that the bands of slaves and pirates which flocked to the standard of Spartacus found refuge within the very crater of the sleeping volcano. In December, 1631, the mountain behaved much in the same way as in '79. It first blew away, by a violent eruption, the covering of rocks and cinders which had supported the woods and pastures described by Bracini. Then seven enormous streams of lava poured from the crater. Resina, built over the site of Herculaneum, was entirely destroyed ; and tor rencs of mud, caused by heavy showers of rai❑ which fell on the heaps of ashes and volcanic dust around the cone, effected an amount of destruction scarceley less terrible than that which resulted from the lava streams. But since the eruption of 1666 Vesuvius has scarcely ever beer at rest for ten years together. Many of the eruptions also which have occurred during the last 200 years have been as remarkable as any which took place before the eruption of 1666. In the great eruption of 1779 molton lava was propelled vertically upwards to a height of at least 10,000 feet. According to the account of Sir William Hamilton, Vesuvius was surmounted continually by what appeared as an enormous column of fire, the heat of which was distinctly per ceptible at a distance of at least six miles on every side. Equally remarkable, but quite different in character was the great eruption of 1793. In place of lava streams millons of red-hot stones were propelled into the air. Dr. Clarke relates th ,t these stones reached a height at least equal to half that of the cone itself. Enor mous masses of white smoke were vomited forth by the disturbed at ag mountain, e i and gathering themselves together several thousand feet above hht cf the cone they formed a huge and resplendent canopy, constantly illuminated by the glowing fires within the mountain, and sculling to open from time to time, to hurl down dark streams of volcanic dust and vapour, mixed with cascades of red-hot rocks and scoriae. In the great eruption of 1822, so enormous a mass of earth and rock was pro pelled from the crater that an abysm was formed extending for two thousand feet into the very heart of the mountain. The same eruption flung down the whole of the upper part of the cone, so that the mountain was reduced in height by about one fifth. In the eruption which took place twelve years ago lava poured down the slopes of Vesuvius for three weeks together. A rivtr of molten lava swept away the village of Cercolo, and streamed nearly to the sea-shore at Ponte Maddaloui. Ten small craters were formed within the principal one. In the eruption of last winter these ten craters united into one, and continued pressure from be neath actually converted this crater into a cone within the great exterior crater. This cone rose gradually until it readied beyond the rim of the crater, and then the molten matter of which it consisted poured in streams down the slopes of the mountain. After this tremendous outburst a long interval of rest was anticipated. But the mountain con tinued to fume and mutter as if its pent-up forces had but half found relief. At length, on June 13, the cone began to show signs of renewed ac tivity, flinging out largequantities of basaltic stones. Nine days later Vesuvius was so violently shaken that the inhabitants passed the night in the open air, fearing lest they should be crushed beneath the ruins of their houses. The throes of the mountain grew gradually more violent, and the quantity of erupted matter (chiefly basalt stone) greater until the beginning of July. The cone was rent in several places by the violence of the mountain's in ternal throes. The disturbance continued through out the whole of July, and after a fortnight's rest began again, and lasted until towards the end of August. Since then the mountain, as we have said, has been comparatively at rest, but Gibraltar, Turkey, and Malta have been shaken by more or less violent earthquakes. It seems that the moun tain has not yet vomited forth the elastic gases which have been disturbing its repose during the past year, and we shall in all probability soon witness a renewal of the energetic eruptive pro cesses which prevailed last year at the correspond ing season. Mr. W. Bradford has returned from New foundland, where he has passed most of the summer in making sketches of the wild and picturesque coast scenery of the region. 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Two large barrows have been examined, both of which are prolific in remains, and have yielded results of a valuable nature, some of which have hitherto not been pre viously observed. The details of these discoveries are briefly these :—Barrow No. 1 was GGft. in diame ter and 2ft. high, formed of earth and chalk rubble. Six feet south of the centre an unburnt body, con tracted and laid on the left side, was found, the head being to the south, and both hands up to the face. This burial WPS upon the natural surface of the ground. Three feet north of this was a burnt body, the bones forming a round heap 10in. through, and Bin. above the natural surface—a later introduced burial, among the bones being two pieces of a funeral urn. At 6f t. south-east of the centre, also on the natural surface, was the body of a young person on the right side, with the head to the west ; and at 9ft. west of the centre was a second burnt body at the 'same centre of the barrow. Here a grave was dug into the rock, north-west by south east, being Bft. Gin. by Oft., and 31t. 10 in. deep. In the filling in of the grave some teeth and va rious bones of a:disturbed human body, with three pieces of urn and a piece of .jet were found doubt less the remains of a primary interment dis turbed by the digging of the grave for a later period. At the bottom of the grave was the body of a man lying on his left side, at the south east side, with the head to south-east, the body contracted. In front of the head was a fine pierced stone axe-hammer, the edge of which was touching the face, the handle having been held in the right hand. The edge had never been intended for cut ting, it being carefully squared, more like a modern thin-edged hammer. The weapon or implement is a splendid example, and has clearly never been in use before it was interred with its owner. Behind the head were a thumb flint and a flint flake, and there was charcoal about the body. Closely ad joining this grave was another, north-east by south-west, the two being united by an excavated passage 2ft. wide. The second grave was Oft. by 4ft. Gin., ‘ and a few inches shallower. At the north east end was the body of a woman, contracted, the head to the north-east, the two burials, therefore, being made facing each other. Touching the tem poral bones of the skull were two earrings of pecu liar construction, one on each side. They were formed of bronze, and had been made thus : a piece of bronze bad been beaten out flat at one end, having a circular edge, the other end being hammered into a pin. This had been passed through the lobe of the ear, then the flat part rolled back and the pin turned into it. When once attached, therefore, the earrings must have remained permanently fixed. Behind the head of this British lady were two flints, and under the body were remains of wood, as if it had been buried on boards, and then strewed with charcoal. The unbared skeletons lying within twin graves pre sented a curious spectacle. It NM generally agreed the burials were those of man and wife. In the ma terials of the mound was a large number of flint chippings, there being examples of a thumb flint, a drill, and a tool of enigmatical use. Charcoal was found throughout the hone, but there were very few potsherds. The second barrow was 70ft. in diameter, and only 1i -ft. h;gh, formed of earth and chalk. At 16ft. south-south-west of the centre, on the natural surface, was the body of a man, con tracted, on the right side, with head to west and hands up to face. Two feet east of the hip of this body was a child's skull, the other bones, if they had ever been there, having quite decayed. Touch ing the face of the child was a very small, chisel like, greenstone axe, the cutting edge to the face. Ten feet south-east of the centre was a hole 2ft. Gin. in diameter by 2ft. 9in. deep. In this were charcoal and various flints, and near the top a tooth and some animal's bones. Six feet north west of the centre was the body of a young man, on the left side, head to the east. Behind the head were a thumb flint and a fine owl-shaped flint knife. Nine feet west of the centre were part of a human pelvis and various other bones, disturbed by rabbit digging, or perhaps by interment of the body above-mentioned, Immediately west of that body, the feet of which extend over it, was a grave north-west by south east, 7ft. 10in. by 7ft. Gin., and 3ft. Bin. deep. At the east end of the grave was the doubled-up body of a young man, on the left side, hands to face and head to south-east. This body had been en cloaed in wood. About 2ft. above the body was a remarkably fine javelin head of flint, 3lin. long, most beautifully chipped. The investigations - are being proceeded with on the Ganton, Sherburn, and Wellerby Wolds. RA ILP AY INTELLIGENCE. ST. ANDREW'S. The report of the directors states that the origi nal stock of the company amounted to £21,000, and the debentures to £5,300, total £26,300 ; the expenditure on capital account amounted to £26,212, leaving a balance in the Bank of Scotland of £BB. The revenue for the half year ending the 31st of July last amounted to £2,051, and the expenditure for salaries, wages, and maintenance of way, taxes, Cc., to £727, leaving a balance of £1,324, out of which was deducted £lOl for interest at 4 per cent. on loans, £461 for diN :demi on capital at the rate of 4 7 3. per cent. per annum (less income tax), and £595 paid to the North British Rail way Company for running 11,900 train miles at Is. per mile, leaving a surplus of £167 55., of which one-half was paid under agreement to the North British Railway Company, and the other half was retained by the St. Andrews Com pany. The traffic receipts showed an increase of £7l, as compared with the same half of 1867. The reserve fund showed a balance of £lB2, and the sinking fund £6OO in favour of the company. The directors congratulated the shareholders on the continued prosperity of the line, and recommended that the dividend for the half-year on the capital stock of the company be at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. Mr. W. Barrie, the company's engineer, reported that the perma nent way and works had been efficiently maintained during the past half-year, and that 160 yards of the railway bad been relaid with rails, fish jointed, weighing 751 b per yard. The late storm had done considerable damage to the break water at Kingcaple, which was in course of repair. MERCHAN7S' COMPANY. (From a Correspondent.) THE LORD MAYOR is a very decided Conserva• tive ; so decided :that he has called down upon himself numerous animadversions for allowing his political partisanship to discredit his public func tions. Nevertheless, he was not at all satisfied with the termination of the charge brought against the Conservative candidate for Plymouth and two other persons concerned in the defunct "Mer chants Company." We are not surprised at his lordship's dissatisfaction. The more we examine into this affair the less satisfactory does it appear. We find that two gentlemen who had been induced to connect themselves with the above-mentioned company on the strength of the prospectus, applied for a summons against Mr. LANE, Mr. CHAPMAN, and Mr. HELBERT, on certain grave charges. These charges impute the grossest misconduct to the gentle men in question, amounting, in fact, to fraud, such as that for which the directors of the unfortunate 0 verencl and Gurney Company are about to take their trial in a criminal court. Nevertheless, when the time comes for hearing these charges, there is a remarkable reconciliation between accusers and accused. The first are thoroughly satisfied ; the second are magnanimously for giving. They shake hands, metaphorically, in public, and ask the LORD MAYOR not to take any further notice of this little misunderstanding. They are the best of friends now, and of course there is nothing further for them to do but to walk out of court together arm-in-arm. The recon ciliation is so complete and so sudden, that Lord Mayor ALLEN'S suspicions are aroused. What does it all mean ? he asks. Why was this case brought before him at it was not to be prosecuted What is the nature of the charges upon which he was asked to issue his warrant ? Pray do not ask, say complainants by their counsel. It was all a mistake. There were sundry money disputes ; we have got an accountant to look into the matter, and are perfectly satisfied. But the LORD MAYOR wishes to know the grounds of their satisfaction. Has anymoney passed ? The reply was in the negative. Well, then, will any money pass ? Well, one of the complainants had left all that to his solicitor. The solicitor is then interrogated ; and it then comes out, after much mystification, that the " loss" which his client had sustained would be " recouped " to him. Then there was a loss, after all. Yes, the company had unfortunately failed— had gone down during the great crash, which had ruined everyone but lawyers and accountants. The LORD MAYOR stopped short here. He probably does not feel himself entitled to ask why Messrs. LANE, CHAPMAN, and HELBERT should " recoup " Mr. MOORE his " loss," if that loss had not occurred through any fault of theirs. It was, perhaps, beyond his province to inquire if Messrs. LANE, CHAPMAN, and HELBERT meant to " recoup " the losses of all the other shareholders, and if not, why Mr. MOORE, and, we presume, also Mr. BARLOW, the other complainant, should have been favoured above the rest. We expect that the public will be a good deal more curious than his lordship allowed himself to appear. We frankly confess that we are. It must not be supposed that this is idle curiosity. It is excited in the first place by the extraordinary charges brought against the defen dants, and is justified by the extreme importance of this case to the public welfare. The charges reach us only through the pertinacious suspicious ness of the LORD MAYOR, who insisted that they should be read, in spite of the great reluctance of both complainants and defendants and the protests of the counsel. The accusations are certainly pre cise and definite enough. Mr. MooRE asserts that Messrs. LANE, HANKEY, and Co., (under which name Messrs. LANE, CHAPMAN, and HELBERT carried on their business), did, in transferring that business, sell for £62,500 one which was absolutely worthless, or " rotten," as one of the partners himself declared it. They support this charge by stating that within ten months of the transfer the partners declared themselves bankrupt, and that according to their own account the debts of the partner ship were £282,498, besides £89,295 private debts of the partners, whereof Mr. LANE owed £70,000. Mr. MOORE adds, that no divi dend has yetbeen paid on this total of £372,000, and that "consequently, at the time of the issuing of the said prospectus (of the company), the said Messrs. LANE, HANKEY, and Co. were and had been for some time past hopelessly insolvent, and must have stopped payment but for the fraud committed upon me and other shareholders of the said company by the misrepresentations aforesaid, and the amount of debentures, shares, and cash contained by them thereby." Mr. BARLOW, who took the post of " colonial manager " of the company, is even more explicit. He declares that " the statement in the prospectus that Messrs. LANE, HANKEY, and Co. had made profits during the six years prior to the year 1865, and which justified the sale of the goodwill of their business to a com pany for £62,000, is false ; for I say that in the year 1865 they were hopelessly insolvent, and had so been for years past, and, instead of making profits in their business they made losses." He adds that Mr. CHAPMAN (one of the defendants) on May 2nd, 1866, "informed me that the said firm of LANE, HANKEY, and Co. ought to have stopped in the year 1861. He further said, when he joined it in June 1863, the said LANE declared there was £65,000 capital in the concern, instead of which it was £75,000 the other way, and completely rotten. I say that the said LANE, HANKEY, and Co. were not in a position to guarantee 10 per cent. to the shareholders, as stated in the prospectus, being at that time utterly insolvent." What is the answer to these terrible charges ? They are withdrawn. Withdrawn ! Would a man suffer himself to be called a rogue and a swindler in a court of justice, and then allow the accuser quietly to " withdraw" his words, shake hands with him, and hand him over a sum of money. One of two things. Either the charges are false, or they are true. If they are false, Messrs. MOORE and BARLOW have done Messrs. LANE, CHAPMAN, and HELBERT a cruel wrong, for which they deserve a criminal information for libel. If they are true, the matter should not rest here. Messrs. MOORE and BARLOW may think that they are not bound to act the part of public prosecutor, and having got their money back may wish to with draw from the case ; but public morality demands that it should be thoroughly investigated. The defendants, if they are the honest men we hope them to be, have been most ill-advised in allowing this matter to be hushed up. They should have been the first to demand that it be sifted to the uttermost. LORD ALBERT CLINTOY. To young gentlemen beginning life the story of Lord Albert Clinton, as revealed in the Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday, may be recommended as an exhibition of those things which they ought "most to avoid. The bankrupt told the court he "had done nothing for years beyond getting into debt." He had £OOO a year when his father died, and £lO,OOO under the marriage settlement. He has now succeeded in reducing his income to £4OO a year ; he has spent the £lO,OOO, and he owes £30,000 besides. The present age of this intelligent young scion of a noble house is twenty-three. He has "seen life "—so much so that he lately passed five weeks intimate observation of existence in Whitecross-street. THE ROYAL BANK OF BOMBAY. The story of the Bank of Bombay, says a con temporary, has not been made more pleasant by the investigations and discoveries of the commis sion appointed to inquire into the affair. The evidence, thus far, proves too clearly that the bank opened its coffers to almost anybody who chose to go and help himself. So generous a way of doing business was natu rally very enticing at a time when the speculative fever beset all classes of the community, and when everybody was eager to find money to buy shares with. Mr. Norman, an official director of the bank, could only tell the commission that the bank lent money whether wisely or not he declined to say. Premchund Roychud admitted that he advised the directors to lend a certain speculator " one lac, and risk it," and that he himself borrowed on shares a lac (210,000) more than they were worth on the day when they stood highest in the market. The commission will shortly continue its researches in England, and it is said that Sir Bartle Frere will be examined. The ex- Governor of Bombay will be glad of this opportunity of giving his account of a very scandalous episode in Indian commercial history. DISCOVERY OF A WOMAN'S BODY. The remains of a human body which there is little doubt has been that of a woman have been discovered near Ludlow, under circumstances which have given rise to a suspicion of foul play. A labourer was walk ing through a wood in a lonely neighbourhood, about two miles distant from the town, when his attention was drawn to a woman's garment lying upon the ground, and very much torn. A little further on he saw a thumb, with a portion of the flesh adhering; and lying about in different directions, as if torn to pieces and than scattered, he found a skull and various other bones of a human skeleton, some with pieces of flesh banging to them, but for the most part bare. A heap of clothes showed where the body had origi nally rested, and the skull lay apart from them about a dozen yards, while the ribs and portions of the spine were found nearly 20 yards off in another direction. Among the clothes were a black imitation sealskin jacket, a gingham dress, in the pocket of which was a purse with a small sum of money, a brown crinoline bonnet of a fashionable make, and a pair of ►tags, in which a portion of the body remained. Near the stays the hair of the deceased, which the police describe as being "long, fine in quality, and of alight brown colour," was picked up in a perfect state c f preservation. The re mains were found near a ditch, and there are indications which show that the body, when entire, had lain in this ditch and had been rooted out and devoured by pigs. The locality is, as wo have stated, an unfrequented one, the turnpike-read being 400 Yards distant, and ther3 being no footpath anywhere near the ditch. An inquest has been opened, and adjourned, pending the completion of a surgical domination of the remains. ' Meanwhile the police are dili gently engaged in the endeavour to get at the bottom of the mystery. At present the only clue they have to the identity of the body (which the doctors say has been dead about two months) is a partially illegible name wiitteu with marking ;nk upon a portion of the underclothing. The letters that :an be deciphered spell E. Cham-," and in another place ".E. C." is written, followed by a figure, supposed to be ‘!6." Canon Conway is likely to succeed the late Canon Hawkins, as representativo of tho Chapter of Westminster, in tho Lower House of Convocation John Savage, one of the New York Fenian head centres, intends to sail for Europe about the middle of October, landing at Havre. THE NEW RO➢LAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. -Mr. Pugin denies, in the Catholic papers, that he has been entrusted with the erection of the proposed new Roman Catholic Cathedral, near Buckingham Palace. Sir William Knollys has written to the authorities of Glasgow to express the thanks of the Prince and Princess of Wales for the University arrangements on the occasion of their visit, and has enclosed a cheque of one hundred guineas for the building fund. THE NEW BISHOP FOR NATAL.—It is said that all difficulties about the consecration of Mr. Macrorie as the new Bishop for Natal, in opposition to Dr. Colenso, have been removed, and that it is likely the ceremony will be performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in England. THE LEIGH HUNT MEMORIAL.—Mr. George W. Childs, proprietor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, writes as follows to Mr. S. C. Hall : —" I have seen a para graph going the rounds of the papers that you lack £BO to complete the fund to raise a suitable monument to Leigh Hunt. If this is the case, I will gladly contribute the full amount of £BO to so praiseworthy an object." Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer, the hon. treasurer, states that Mr. Child's very handsome offer has been acknowledged in suitable terms, but as the sum required has been well-nigh received, Mr. Child's proposed donation is unnecessary. An affray in a court in Poland-street, off Old nam-road, Manchester, on Saturday night, resulted in the death of one of the parties. A number of Irishmen, living in Poland-court, were quarrelling, and two of them, Michael Hughes and William Conroy, began to fight. Conroy was seen to fall suddenly, and Hughes ran away. It was found that Conroy had been stabbed on the upper part of the thigh, and the wound severed the femoral artery. Such wounds are inevitably fatal in the absence of immediate assistance, and Conroy died in a few minutes. His body was taken to the Royal Infirmary, where it awaits the inquest. Tho police were informed of the murder, and Sergeant Bladon arrested Hughes. Tho neighbourhood in which the murder was committed is infested with thieves, and both Hughes and Conroy are well known to the public. THE GOVERNOR-GENERALSHIP OF NEW 13nurrs- WICK.— The St. John's Telegraph, speaking of the Colonial Secretary's despatch announcing the disallowance of the bill to reduce the Governor-General's salary, says : "There is nothing surer under the sun than that the Duke of Buckingham's address will not be accepted by Parliament in the stead of Dominion legislation, The opinion of one man or half a dozen men in England, given to sustain the saddling of an outrageously extravagant salary on the people of the Dominion, will not quietly be received in the place .of the legislative action of those who lawfully represent the aggrieved taxpayers who understand their means, their circumstances, and their wishes whco see the country already saddled with every descripti,on of taxation ; offices and officials multiplied on every land, and money squandered on sinecures or frittered away to maintain the ' dignity' of some great magnate. When Parliament meets, it will find that its honour, as well as the determination of the electors, will require that it vindicate its action, and claim for itself the right to regulate the salaries which the people pay. And we may safely predict that the attempt to snub Parliament and limit its powers will only have the effect of pushing on the work of retrenchment more vigorously than ever." MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY UNITED. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the four weeks ending the 13th of August amounted, on 17 miles of railway, for passengers, &c., to £5,885, and for goods, &c., to £2,4sB—total, £8,313 ; and for the corresponding four weeks of 1867 to £8,715, showing a decrease of £372. MONT CENIS. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending the 29th of September amounted to 32,667 f. (£1,307). The total receipts from the 15th of June to the 29th of September amounted to 198,153 f. (£7,926). The Clara, which has been chartered by the Go vernment for the conveyance of detachments of infantry troops, of various corps, to Ceylon and Japan, will, in accordance with an order to that effect received at Chatham, be ready to embark her troops at Gravesend to-morrow. She will be pre viously inspected by Major-Gen. F. Murray. !ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Agonising pains. —It is gratifying to hear sufferers recount the ease they derived when they first applied this Ointment to their ulcers, sores, or abscesses, with which they had been afflicted for years. Soon after its application to a bad leg or inflammatory ulcer, it restrains tho excitement of bloodvessels and nerves, which at once brings coolness and comfort, and furthers the gradual deposits of healthy materials to fill up the ravages caused by violence, debility, or disease. It expels all noxious matters, and heals all sores soundly. It gives ease to varicose veins, bad legs, and swellings of the feet and joints, when the agony is almost unremitting and the pain too much for a giant's strength. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. CITY OF LONDON.—The Liberal Electors Central Commit tee have issued a spirited address to the liverymen, house holders, and lodgers of the City of L ondon on the workin g of the minority clause of the Reform Act. ITACKNEY.—Tbero is a rumour to the effect that after Mr. Homer's meeting in the Shoreditch Town ball on Thursday night, and while that gentleman was leaving tho building surrounded by a crowd of friends, a man was seized near Mr. Homer, having in his hand a large open bladed knife, as if about to strike. The man, however, managed to escape. TOWER HAMLETS.—It is understood that another at tempt is to be made to bring about such an arrangement as will secure the retirement of two of the four Liberal candidates. CARRICHPEROUS.—ThO address of Mr. Robert Torrens to the electors of the ancient borough of Carrickfergus has just been issued. Ha is a Conservative, and hopes his principles will be approved by the constituents. COVENTUY.—Mr. Stavelev Hill, who contested this city some months ago, will be the second Conservative candi date in conjunction with Mr. Eaton, tho present member. DARLINGTON.—The adoption of the test vote being re commended by Mr. Sparks' supporters, his reply with Mt. Backhouse's have been read at a Liberal meeting. The former is in favour of it, the latter not. A. resolution con demning Mr. Backhouses's answer was passed. Irswicir.—A requisition is being sinted to invite Mr. J. P. Cobbold to come forward as a second Conservative can didate. Mr. Bulwer, Q.C. is the other. GENERAL DJX'S LETTER. ( From the Anglo-American Times.) This letter of his Excellency has fallen like a thunderbolt in the Democratic camp. His sup port of the Conservative ticket was taken for granted, and openly announced. So openly, indeed, the the declaration has at last attracted the Minister's attention, and induced him publicly to contradict an assertion quite opposed to the truth. There are many reasons why a gen tl ema n holding a high diplomatic post should not meddle in politics, how ever strongly his own feelings and prejudices may be involved. Firstly, a Minister placed as is Gene"' ral Dix is too distant to interpose with effect, no r can he feel and appreciate the full force of the under currents and ceasele s s i n t r i gues a t h ome , many ,0f which never work up to th e sur f ace a t a ll, though n a must if he intends to act with effect. lie can only g et his information second-hand on paper, instead of imbibing it by personal interviews, and the very atmosphere of the contact, through which a feeling, often correct, is absorbed, without the person know ing how it is communicated. Even could this be conveyed to him, when his reply reaches the United States everything is changed, and a tepid join t ' half demolished, might as appropriately be p u t down for guests at dessert, as the Minister s answer if published at a time so very inopportun e. Secondly, an Envoy to a Foreign Court represents the United States, not a section of it. It is injurious to his influence with the Government to which he is accredited if he appears to them associated on l y with the Democrats or the Republicans. Nor i 3 this feeling false, for a Minister obnoxious to 8 party will have his acts furiously assailed, even when his intentions are purely American, as his opP° nents can readily misconstrue his meaning. But more than all is it necessary that there should be o n personal hostility between himself and the Chief of his Government, and General Dix must have bee a strongly moved before he penned such a letter about the candidate whose propects of success at the time he wrote, appeared to be almost better than those of General GRANT. If SEYMOUR succeeds to the Pre" sidency there will be no love lost between himsel f and the author of this later, for it hits fearfully hard, and coming from such an unexpected q uarter might well send Mr. SEYMOUR into his private apart ment to drop a few more tears. The ex-Govern or ought, however, to have steeled himself to these bitter disappointments before he permitted his o n : mination for the proud but d angerous pos t, thong': we fear it took him by surprise, and that he allowe d , himself to be carried away i n th e en th u siasm 01 the moment. Of course Mr. DIX is abused, his de; tractors asserting that he eagerly sought for himse lf the Democratic nomination to the Presidency, fail il36 which, he gave vent to his feelings against his ti c ' cessful rival. But the cruel part of the D em ocratic, position is that it is committed t o a goo d opinion of General Dix, and can only commence abuse 131 suspicious recantation. The letter was addressed to a friend in New York, and published with the Minister's consent : PARIS, September 4, 180. My dear Sir,—lt was my hope that my distance fr og home would have saved me from all paAicipation in the e political excitement pr eva ili ng th ere , b u t I no ti c e in , °11 „ of the newspape rs th a t I am h ear t an d h an d with AP; Seymour. lam n o t aware o f an ythi ng i n th e present or the past which could rightly subject ma to such an i llt ; putation. I h ave b een acqua i n t e d w ith M r . Seyiri° ° more than a quarter of a century. He is an amiable gentle:a man, of unexceptionabl e p r i va t e c h arac t er an d re specteb - 4 talents; but you know as w e ll as I th a t h e has no t - single qualification for the successful execution o f the high official trust to which he has boon nominated' and he is especially deficient in that firmness of purpes e a which, in critical emergencies, is the only safeglls against public disorder and calamity. Ile has twice, at different times, Go v e rnor o f th e St a t e of j' 4° York, and has in neither case h a d th e t a l en t nor t , ' r tact to keep the Democratic party of the State tort/ Je t more than two years. I should regard his election e _ this juncture, when steadiness of purpose, docis ioa l and self control aro so much needed, as one of the gre 3te 4, calamities that could befall the country. Moreover, :5 has boon put in nomination by a convention which b openly declared the purpose of these it represents to 1 3 % the greater part of the public debt, contracted to proserVi: the Union, in depreciated paper. Such a measure woul'!0 in my judgment, b 3 a palpable violation of the Pu b ' ' , faith, pledg,e3 under circumstances which should 113 ‘ r ; been binding on all honourable men. Mr. Seymour lit ' v made public speeches to show that it is our duty to P IL o the debt in specie. In accepting his nomination to t ha b Presidency he adopts the declaration that it ought t ° ; :, paid in paper. I know nothing so humiliating in the 1 - 1 ; tory of American politics as thi s t erg i versa ti on . It Wi ; 11 perhaps, not unfit th a t M r . S e y mour ,' a ft er pres iding) ' e 1861, over the Chicago Conv en ti on , w hi c h d ec lared t f war a failure, should preside over the Convention of 1868, in which a prop o siti on t o di scre dit the do' contracted to carry on the war was received with tren tell : dons cheering, and that ho s h ou ld b e th e c h osen inetr - ; anent to execute this act o f t urp it u d e. I d o no t belie' , " that the wishes or opinions of the great body of the D r mocratic party are fairly expressed in these p r oceeding s ' They have nothing i n common w i t h t h e state s ma n-lik e of policy and th e hi g h sense o f national s honour Wh ieil e L' guided the party wh en M ar ti n V an B uren, 'William '; Marcy, Silas Wright, Lewis Cass. and Stephen A. Done`, were among its most conspicuous members. I see but 0 0 source of safety for the country under existing cirett ill . ; stances, and that is the ele c ti on o f G enera l G ran t. I tt/1 ., 1 decision of character, good sense , mo d era ti on , a nd disi"; rested patriotism, I believe the South will have f'l ti etter hope of regaining the position in the Union to 1 8 ' 1 ' ie is entitled than under a man whose political career P t, een in nothing more conspicu ous ly mar k e d th an in 9 ,11 11 ; , ter infirmity of purpose. Independently of all these coOsio derations, I should be greatly surprised if the Peep" of the United States were to e l ec t as th e i r c hi e f m agien t : a man who was making, at th e A ca d emy o f Music, tg 4th of July, 1863, a speech deficient in the characterie tw o of an elevated love of country, at the very hour 10° 0 General Grant was c arr yi ng th e v i c t or i ous arm s of tb Union into Vicksburg, and when thousands of our fallen countrymen were pouring o u t th e i r bl oo d on the plains f Gettysburg in defence of their homes and the Governil lel3 _, which Mr. Seymour was doing all in his power to ew ic t barrass and discredit. lam quite willing that you shoo show this letter to any friends who may t a ke an inter e o in my opinion in regard to the coming e l ec ti on ; and I s ' it particularly desirous of removi ng th e i m p ress ion O f . , exists) that I am in fayour of Mr. Seymour or the repa d/ .4 tion of any portion of the public debt.—l am, dear sir, '0" truly yours, JOHN A. V' A telegram from Bombay, dated last Mond* la to the following effect :—" The Octavio, which has arri g i e to at Trincomalee, reports that Dr. Livingstone is believed be within a week's march of Zanzibar." a g Hon. John Hillyard Cameron has resigned Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge. Commodore Perry's statue has arrived at N ell : port, Rhode Island, and will at once be placed in V ero park and unveiled with public ceremony. hAt Of the prisoners at Ottawa, it is probable t• Murphy, Enright, and Eagleson will be admitted to -t ill l while Duggan and Slattery will have to stand ove o t next assizes. Buckley tried to feign insanity, but did succeed. The reason the execution of Whelan is so I°l3 p deferred is that the Government of the Dominion desire t pass a bill in the interval authorizing private executions' o Governor Oglesby, who has been speaking Indiana, says that State will give 15,000 Republican 13111 / rity this month. 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