The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-24 00:00:00

IntratT or7nrg WALE tOtrISALg The 2'iniEsobserves that the capitalists, great and small, who lent their money to the Austrian nation in its difficul ties at a fixed rate. of interest, secured upon the faith of the empire, have recent'y been informed that the security is insufficient, and that the stipulated payments will be subjected to deductions made for the relief of the Austrians themselves. This proposal to tax the incomes of foreign creditors provoked a grave though not unfriendly remon strance from certain eminent financiers of this city, and Baron Beusthas now addressed himself to the subject in an elaborate despatch, with the hope of allaying " exagge rated apprehensions," and justifying the conduct of the Imperial Government. We cannot consider the attempt successful. One half of the note is nothing to the pur pose ; the other half comes with scant propriety from the representative of the defaulting State. Of course, it was known that Austria was in trouble, but " the cure of the bleeding wound which his Apostolic Majesty had under taken ", is a process which simple creditors cannot be expected to follow through the descriptions of an official despatch. The Austrian Empire is in pecuniary diffi culties. It cannot, with its present revenue and its present rate of expenditure, contrive to pay its way. The obvious remedy in such cases is to increase the revenue or diminish the expenditure, and those who suffer from the deficit have some right to expect satisfaction on these two points, so as to understand why the outlay of the State cannot be diminished by retrenchment or its income raised by taxation. On the latter of these points the Baron assumes his whole case, and is content to refer briefly and by way of passing allusion to " the impossibility of increas ing the charges which weigh upon the taxpayers." On the former he says absolutely nothing, and the only retrench ment explained in the despatch is that to be practised upon other people's dues. Austria does intend to curtail her expenditure, and her idea of doing so is by omitting to pay a portion of the interest on the money she has bor rowed. This interest will be " taxed," so that the creditor will lose the amount of the tax, which will go to the benefit of the debtor. It is in defending this proceeding that Baron Beust forgets the tone of apology which would befit the occasion. The Austrian Minister tells the creditors of Austria in a few words that from such a debtor they had nothing better to expect. Good interest, as the world has long been taught, is only another name for bad security. The Austrian Government offered very good interest, and it ought to have been understood that its security was proportionately bad. " Every one knows," says the despatch, " that the rate of interest is necessarily always in inverse proportion with the security of the capital, and every man who entrusted his money to us was aware beforehand that to draw 7,8, or 9 per cent, he exposed his capital to chances which he might have avoided by satisfying himself with 3 per cent. in the English Consols." This is certainly true ; but it does not quite become Baron Beust to say it, nor will it, it thinks, tend in the least degree to reassure those merchants and bankers to whom the explanation is addressed. These gentlemen ventured on warning the representative of Austria that the proposed proceeding might have the effect of damaging Austrian credit in the money market, and inducing people to distrust the Imperial securities and place their savings elsewhere. Baron Beust's comment is that the security of Austria is notoriously and transparently bad, and that those who look for better faith in their debtors had best go into Consols. This, it seems to the Times, is simply to reiterate the remonstrants' own words and to re-echo their warning. The Post comments on the report issued by the select committee appointed by the House of Lords to inquire into the operation of the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, and the Ecclesiastical Titles Act of 1851, in connec tion with the assumption of episcopal rank by the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Reminding us of the kind of pani c under which the last-named Act was passed, it confess es that it cannot recognise the cogency of the reasons ad vanced by the Lords' committee for leaving the Act unrepealed. Although its provis ions have never been enforced, they are of opinion it has exercised a salutary influence, and even assuming it to be inoperative, and thus far harmless, they think that its repeal would have a tendency to awaken that angry spirit of religious controversy which is now dormant. We do not concur in these conclusions. We doubt if any law can effect any good purpose which is universally regarded as a dead letter, and which everyone knows no Government would venture, even in case of infringement, to endeavour to enforce. But if this law, which is thus practically useless, does, in truth, give offence to several millions of the subjects of the sovereign, this circumstance ought not to be com pletely disregarded. It is not because a measure has passed the House of Commons that it should necessarily be accepted by the House of Lords ; but, when the former has been the case, we think some stronger reasons than those advanced by the committee ought to be given before a measure sanctioned by one branch of the Legislature is peremptorily rejected. The House of Lords will do well to pause before it endorses the recommendation of its select committee. The Herald looks upon the failure of the Guildhall meeting as a matter of course. There could not be such a thing as a meeting for the " free discussion" of such a question as this. It repudiates, however, the idea that the Conservatives were a body of " roughs," and asks whether it Ras " roughs" who disturbed the C onservative meeting. The Herald adjures the Lib erals to lay toheart the moral of this catastrophe. It is that violence begets violence ; that a sentiment trampled upon and denied free utterance will vindicate its existence somehow or other ; and that sooner or later tyranny works out its own retri bution. A couple of years hack a public meeting for the assertion of Conservative principles was almost impossible. On Monday last the opposing sections met under appa rently equal conditions, with the result which the Liberal papers find so intolerably galling. The Herald is not sur prised at it. It has never concealed its conviction that the policy of Mr. Gladstone was calculated to arouse those bitterest of all animosities which take their rise in religious feuds. Every day we witness the growth of those animosities, and all experience teaches us that those which have their root in religious susceptibilities are stronger and deeper than any mere political sentiment such as that which inspires the followers of Mr. Glad stone. The agitation against the Irish Church died out months ago, but the resentments to which it has given birth are growing in force and intensity dayby day. This is said in no spirit of exultation. On the contrary, the Herald regards it as a deplorable fact. The Daily IV - c es says that the Liberals of Bristol are doing good service to the country by proceeding with their petition against the return of Mr. Miles. Nothing could possibly be more opportune than the inquiry which is now going on into one of the very latest elections held under the old law. Neither the Government nor the House of Commons seem to be very much in earnest about the sup pression of electoral corruption ; and only Mr. Disraeli's desire to postpone as long as possible the prorogation and dissolution of Parliament affords any guarantee for the full discussion and passing even of the Government measure. But new revelations and a new scandal will probably rekindle the old feeling that something must be done. By the vigorous determination of the Liberals of Bristol, the Conservatives of that ancient city are permitted to supply the example and the illustra tion just as they are wanted. The necessity for further legislation cannot be escaped when the evils of the present half-hearted system of prevention are set forth in a picture lesson, which even babes in political knowledge and electoral experience cannot fail to under stand. The inquiry may not have the result of shortening Mr. Miles's tenure of his seat by many days, but it will at least shew how a much-noised Tory victory was foully . won, and a much- vaun t e d Lib era l d e f ea t was h ero i ca ll y incurred ; and it may probably exert very considerable in fluence in stimulating the flagging resolution of Parlia• ment to apply a prompt cure to an increasing evil. The Star, in discussing Lord Elcho's proposal for inaugu rating personal military service, declares th a t suc h a prin. ciple is entirely inappropriate to the time and the A ate of ;,hings in this country. There are two conditions under tither of which this sort of conscription is reasonable. Where the mass of the people are mere peasants, or where the soldiers are members of a profession to which it is an honour and a patriotic satisfaction to belong, there is nothing very unjust and nothing very impracticable in the general liability to military service. The establishment of this general liability is in such cases only a question of necessity or discretio n. But in this country we have no such state of things. Our poor are not mere peasants, but to a vast extent persons employed respon sibly in the arts and industries by which our home and foreign commerce is supplied with manufactures. And our army does not open to anyone a profession such as a respectable man can willingly agree to belong to even for a time. In a state of things thus doubly unfavourable for a landwehr system there are preliminary questions to be settled before we come to consider whether its establish ment is necessary or desirable. And in answering these questions it is found that the system is simply imprec• ticable. THE EXPECTED NEW VICEROY OP INDIA.—It iU stated that a sort of compact or understanding subiists between two eminent statesmen with regard to the suc cession to the Governor-Generalship of India, which will be vacated by Sir John Lawrence before the new Parlia ment meets. The compact, said to be recognised by the present Government, is to the effect that Sir Stafford Northcote will accept the appointment should the Minis try be presently disselv,d ;bt th t ould it continuo in office after the meeting of ti e new Parliarc:nt Lord . I .a)rs) Will succc9 ,§4 41.1 r, Lawn uoet THE PUBLIC HEALTIti It appears from the return issued by autheilty of ft)! Registrar-General that in the week ending on Saturday 1,546 births and 2,754 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United King dom. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000 in London, 21 in Edinburgh, and 11 . in Dublin; 26 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 26 in Liverpool, 30 in Manchester, 23 in Salford, 27 in Sheffield, 20 in Bradford, 22 in Leeds, 16 in Hull, 24 in Newcastle-upon ryne, and 28 in Glasgow. In London the births of 1,024 boye and 1,001 girls, in all 2,025 children, were regis tered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years (1858-67) the average number, corrected for increase Df population, is 2,054. The deaths registered in London luring the week were 1,228. It was the twenty-fifth week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,250. The deaths in the present return are !ess by 22 than the estimated number. The annual rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000 in West London, 20 in North London, 21 in Central London, 21. in East London, and 20 in South London. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 328, the corrected average number being 335. Five deatl:s from small-pox, 59 from measles, 32 from scarlatina, 2 from diphtheria, 58 from whooping-cough, 35 from fever, 66 from dir.rrhega, and 8 from choleraic diarrhoaa were registered. The prevailing high temperature has caused an increase in the mortality from diarrhc., , a, and has also occasioned some deaths from choleraic diarrhea. The deaths from fever were at the annual rate on 10,000 living of 4 in West Lon don, 4 in North London, 6 in Central London, 13 in East London, and 3 in South London. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. A very sad and fatal accident happened in Peterhead Bay on Saturday afternoon, by which five persons lost their lives. There is a great deal of mystery about the circumstances of the sad catastrophe, and thcaa will never in all human probability be fully known. It appear■ that a boat with trio men and three boys on board left the harbour about eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon, for the purpose of prosecuting the handline fishing in the bay. The boat was seen, by one account, at about half-past eleven, about a mile off the South Head, and was not again heard of till about six o'clock in the evening, when shQwas found about a mile off Scotstown Head, bottom uppermost. The parties on board were— James Stuart (53), Alex. Mackie, sen. (60), Alex. Mackie, jun. (18), James 'Main, jun. (18), and Alex. Strachan (14). There are many stories and conjectures afloat as to the cause of the accident, but, so far as can be ascertained, nothing of a reliable nature is known regarding the cir cumstances. It is stated that had the accident been seen from the shore, and immediate steps taken to reach the drowning crew, some of the unfortunate men might have been saved. The boy Mackie was known to be a► me at expert swimmer. On Sunday a couple of oars were cast ashore lashed together by a wonted jerkin, indicating that someone had fixed them in this manner with the view of using them as a raft. The tiller of the boat was also cast ashore on Sunday. None of the bodies have yet (Monday) been recovered. The two old men leave wives and grown up families. The sad affair was the cause of much excite ment amc•ng the fishing population on Saturday, and, in view of the approaching herring season, has cast a gloom over the preparations for that hazardous industry.— Dundee Advertiser. MURDER IN DORSETSHIRE. On Tuesday, a seaman named George Ivamy, of Poole, was committed by the coroner to the next Dorchester Assizes for the wilful murder of a girl named Anne Han cock, aged about 16. It appeared that the girl, who earned a living as charwoman, was keeping company with the prisoner, and from the evidence given there can be no doubt that he was jealous of her. Early on Sunday morning last they were seen together, and a man named Sandy stated that about one o'clock he saw Ivamy with a young woman who undoubtedly was the deceased, walking across the quay. They were then talking roughly to one another, and after some conversation the deceased ran away, and the prisoner followed her and seized her. Sandy then says he walked away and saw nothing snore either of the prisoner or the deceased. About two o'clock the same morning Mrs. Cams, the wife of a pilot, was awoke by hearing loud screams and a splashing of water. She opened the window and looked out, and saw a man, whom she could not identify, walking very quickly from the direction whence the cries proceeded. Mrs. Cains called repeatedly to the man, but he took no notice, and did not stop for an instant. At the same time Police-constable Maidment was walking on his beat in the Strand, when he heard the screams. He could not tell exactly the spot whence the cries proceeded, and he looked up and down the quay in vain, and in the meantime the cries had ceased. The officer at once went to the nearest house, and called two men, named Dominey, who, with another man, named Oates, dragged for the tody, and found it about half past three. There were several marks on the face as if from blows, and in the opinion of the medical men death had resulted from drowning. The prisoner stoutly denied the charge, and stated that he was in bed at half-past twelve on Sunday morning. This latter assertion was clearly incorrect, for after the body of the de ceased had been recovered and given into the care of the police, the prisoner was on the quay and spoke to Oates, the man who dragged for the body. He inquired what wam the matter, and Oates told him a young woman had been found. Prisoner then saw the body, which was in a boat covered with a sail, and directly afterwards he jumped off the quay, apparently with the intention of drowning him self. He, however, quickly emerged from the water and reached the quay again by means of what are known as the Broad-steps. Oates remonstrated with prisoner on his conduct, and he muttered something, which was not heard, and walked away. Ivamy was taken before the magis trates on Monday, and remanded. LAW AND POLICE. UNLAWFUL SEIZURE.—In the Bail Court, the case of Martin v. England, an action b. ought to recover damages for trespass and unlawful conversion, was triel. It appeared th tit in May 1866, the pla'ntiff, who is foreman to a provision dealer, hired and furnished a house in Islip. street, Kentish Town, but circumstances arising which prevented him from occupying it hi.neelf, he put h's father and mother into the house in order that they might let ont a portion of it as furnished lodgings. On Easter Tuesday last the defendant, who was connected with the Britannia Advance and Discount Cot-'many, 30, Polygon. street, Clarendon-square, St. Pancras, forcibly broke into plaintiff's house, and carried away no less than two waggon loads of furniture, under the authority, as he alleged, of a bill of. sale given him by the plaintiff's mother. The defendant urged that the plaintiff's mother was in the house, and represented that the goods belonged to her. The jury gave £l5O damages. ACTION AGAINST THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COM PANY.—In the Court of Common Pleas, Miss Reeve, a milliner, claimed damages from the South-Eastern Rail way Company for damage sustained by her and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants. Ibis was one of a series of actions arising out of a collision which occurred the day after Christmas Day last on Cannon-street Bridge. There was a dense fog, and the train in which the plaintiff was bad been brought up by a fog signal, and was run into by another train. The plain tiff, a cap milliner, had her knee cut, and Wa3 otherwise rather severely injured. The jury gave the plaintiff £350 damages. THE MODE OF ELECTING CIIIMCIIWARDENS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench the case of Regina v. the Arch- Deacon of Exeter was heard. It seemed that at Halberton, in Devonshire, the parishioners appointed the two church v a .dens at a vestry mceing. Mr. Clarke and another gentleman were chosen. On Mr. Clarke refusing to act a Mr. Cooke was chosen to succeed him at a vestry meeting subsequently convened, which excused Mr. Clarke from the performance of the duties of the office. Before Mr. Cooke had made the requisite statutory declarations he agreed to resign on condition that Mr. Clarke would consent to accept the office. Mr. Clarke did so consent, and a thirdvestry meeting to confirm his former election was convened by a notice stating that the object of the meeting was such. T he va lidi ty o f t hi s procee di ng was th e p o i n t a rgued. The court w as o f op i n i on t h at a f ter Mr. Clarke's rEsigna tion had been accepted, a meeting convened simply for the purpose of confirming his former election, and giving no power to nominate any other person to the office, was irregular, and the notice of the meeting insufficient, and therefore that Mr. Clarke was not entitled t o fill the office of churchwarcl,n. The condition of Ireland, so often the subject f impassioned harangues in the Houses of the Legislature, is frequently treated in the proverbially dry pages of par liamentary blue-books. One of these, issued on Tuesday, shewed an increase of pauperism in the year which ended in Febuary last. At the same time, testimony was borne to the unremitting industry of the agricultural population, to the little apparent increase of distress which has attended the political disturbances of the past two years, and to the cheerful payment of the farm-rents and poor rates during the same period. A remarkable evidence of the improved condition of the Irish peasantry has been their compara tive freedom from epidemic disease since the great famine of MS passed over t' a island. CELEBRATED SANCTUARIES OF THE MADONNA. (From the TVestnzinster Gazette.) There is nothing, perhaps, in the whole round of Catholic religious practices, which rouses Protestant indignation, or initiates Protestant spleen, so much as devotion to any definite object or place. Devotion to our Lady and to the Saints and the cultus of their images are, of course, condemned in the general ; but, when this devotion and this cultus are ex emplified in actual detail—when a peculiar reverence is manifested for some individual image or picture, or a peculiar efficacy is attri buted to prayers offered in some specially favoured locality—the feeling excited is that of positive anger and repugnance. To vene rate the Nladonna is bad enough, but to vene rate the Madonna of this place or that place, as if she were more gracious or more powerful here than there, or were (so to say) a diffe rent person in one spot from what she is in another—this is a form of superstition so de graded as to fall almost below contempt. We all remember how Walter Scott availed himself of this particular feature of Catholic devotion in drawing the portrait of Louis XI. Of course, as represented in the acts and expressions attri buted to that unprincipled and double-minded King, the devotion in question is simply ridicu lous, though even he can hardly be held re sponsible for all the absurdities which our novelist has brought together for the amuse ment of his readers ; still the undoubted fact remains. The good and pious Catholics have ever been attracted to honour, with a peculiar honour certain places, images, and pictures more than others, and have been en couraged so to do by the authoritative sanctions of the Church. Even amongst such of our separated brethren as have the strongest lean ing towards the Catholic faith, and who (it may be) would willingly subscribe to all its articles, save that most practical one which condemns their present position, the supre macy of Peter's successor, there are those who would still fain regard this character of Catho lic devotion as an accidental peculiarity attach ing to some particular age, or resulting from the temperament of particular races, especially the southern. Yet, nothing is more indisputable than that, on the one hand, these "superstitious tendencies," as they are called, are as rife as ever among Catholic people, and that, on the I other, in the days when Catholicism was the religion of North as of South, no difference was observable in the respect between the faithful of England and those of Italy ; Our Lady of Walsingham being venerated in our own dear country with a devotion as tender and as warm as was, and is, the Madonna del Carmine in Naples. The real fact is, that the aversion to which we refer results from the vagueness of Pro testantism itself ; its cold withdrawal from all immediate contact with the embodied truths of the faith, truths which are ever embodying themselves because God Himself has become incarnate ; its love of putting dry dogmas and intellectual conceptions in the place of a substantial faith—these dry dogmas (be it remarked in passing) having a direct tendency to wither up altogether, and these intellectual conceptions to evaporate, or, in other words, to reason themselves away—and, more than all, from its corresponding lack of devotion to the objects of faith, including pre-eminently the Blessed Mother of God, and even the Sac red Humanity itself. Protestantism, in short, realizes neither the objects of faith nor the objects of worship. Unfortunately our own position as a minority in a Protestant land has hindered us from presenting Catholic devotion in all its rich and manifold proportions, and indeed, has had a tendency to curtail those pro portions, and even to abate the warmth of our personal love and veneration for Mary and the Saints. We hail in Dr. Northcote's book, therefore, an addition to our higher class of literature, as opportune as it is delightful. " What is a sanctuary ?" is the heading of his introductory chapter, in which he demon strates, by the brief and cogent argument of facts, that from the very first centuries the Christian religion " contained as an integral portion of itself, a special devotion towards cer tain sanctuaries ;" and, moreover, that it was believed, as St. Augustine testifies, " that it was the will of God to honour His saints by making more frequent or more wonderful manifestations of His presence in these places than in others." The Church of the 18th century did but therefore express the belief of the saints and doctors of the sth, when she " condemned as rash, mischievous, and con trary to the pious custom of the faithful, that declaration of the Synod of Pistoia, which condemned all special cultus of one image of a saint in preference to another ;" and it is only in accordance with the faith of the earliest times that " theologians lay it down, as con fessed by all doctors and placed beyond dis pute, that God sets this mark of difference upon certain holy places according to His own hidden counsel, the reasons whereof we cannot under stand, whilst we daily experience its blessed results." Dr. Northcote's book is neither contro versial nor apologetic, but it is something much better for the purpose. His account of the sanctuaries, which he notices, takes the narrative form ; he does not pretend (as he says) to enter upon a critical examination of the exact nistorical truth of what he relates, a lthough in one or t wo i ns t ances , an d, i n par ticular,in the case of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette, he has given the evidence in somewhat fuller detail. Nevertheless, the mere simple narrative. characterized as it is by a peculiar lucidity which enables the ordinary reader to grasp without effort the main proofs which establish its truth, is, we think, calcu lated to be more convincing to common sense, unfettered by prejudice, than would the most laboured argument, while it furnishes matter of edification to every pious mind. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the style adopted in this singularly interesting volume, is quite perfect of its kind ; while the manner in which, by incidental allusion to God's dealings as re corded in Holy Scripture, the writer occasion ally disposes of or auticipates an objection without the necessity of further notice, dis plays a skill not a little remarkable. The abso lute amount of information contained in the work is considerable; and we believe that many amongst ourselves will be surprised to find how much solid historical evidence exists for events and circumstances which Protestants are in the habit of classing under the sweeping and convenient category of legends. We may par ticularly specify the evidence adduced by our author in support of that most famous and most miraculous of sanctuaries, the holy house of Loreto. Dr. Northcote gives an excellent resume of this evidence, and of the history of the sanctuary, to which we would earnestly direct the attention of all who have hitherto regarded the subject as one that would not endure the test of historical criticism, and espe cially of any who may have been perplexed by Dean Stanley's objections. But there is evi dence of a different kind, which speaks more powerfully to the Catholic heart than historical proof, and belongs to a higher order : it is that which springs from the innumerable graces and favours which have been received in this and similarly favoured spots. On this subject, in connection with the Santa Casa, which holds a special pre-eminence of its own, our author says, " Our limits will not allow us to specify instances of miraculous cures, deliverance from demoniacal of o possession, r e Loreto abound and the ; bu he like, with th which the histories cannot conclude without briefly noticing miracles of another kind, yet more wonderful and equally numerous. Everybody who has had the hap piness of visiting Loreto, bears testimony to the devotional effect of the sanctuary. More over, it was observed by its old historians— and the observation has been commonly re peated by modern writers, as being still con formable with the truth—that there are few persons so utterly hardened in sin, but that on entering this holy place, they are conscious THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEI STING, JUNE 24, 1868. to themselves of a certain supernatural power, touching and softening their hearts, and mov ing them to repentance." Canisius, he tells us, has recorded that nothing was more com mon than the instantaneous recourse to con fession of sinners, stained with the blackest guilt, the moment they entered this sanctuary; the conversion of heretics to the true faith; the transformation of the cold and indifferent into devout children of God ; the grace of love and forgiveness poured into hearts estranged from each other; the discharge of debts ; the restitution of goods unjustly acquired ; while the administration of the Sacraments of Pen - ance and of the Holy Eucharist was more fre• - I quent in this sanctuary than in any Church throughout all France, Germany, or Poland. Such in substance was the testimony rendered by Canisius, " who by his missionary labours in those parts of Europe, was singularly quali fied to speak with accuracy." The graces which Canisius has recorded, still continue to flow abundantly, and "we cannot but recog nize and be thankful for the presence of tl - ,e finger of God, yea, rather of the strength of His right hand in thus honouring, to the a )n -solation of the whole Church, the calks of Mary in this sanctuary of Loreto. Heretics may mock and laugh it to scorn ; but a tree which has borne so many and such excellent fruits of Christian piety, can only itself be good." Loreto has stood the test which our Saviour Himself gave us for distinguishing the' true from the false, the evil from the good. The devil, indeed, must have strangely over reached himself, had a tree of his own planting, rooted in superstition and imposture, produced such fair and goodly fruits of paradise. Dr. Northcote's familiarity with many of the holy places he describes, imparts a peculiar freshness to his narrative. He is well ac quainted with the Italian people, and with those of Naples in particular, of whose lively child like faith and piety he gives several pleasing instances. Whatever their faults may be, these excellencies the Neapolitans undoubtedly possess, or must we say possessed ? for his experience (as he observes) dates twenty years back, and since that time the country has been cursed with an irreligious Government, whose object seems to be to stamp out every spark of genuine Catholic devotion in the hearts of the people—not so easy a task, we opine, as this very book may serve to show. Our author's account of the Madonna del Carmine is remarkably interesting, an observation we might apply to each notice in succession. In ancient nctuvLith of the miraculous and very Santa Maria Dell a mr B rijaunad, popularly , y relateshe a c al led pro digy, the very publicity of which attests its truth. It was the result of a pious venture on the part of one of the old Aragonese Sovereigns of Naples, which was justified by the event, but whose non-success would have been too palpable to escape public condemnation. Cer tain miraculous cures having in the year 1,500 revived the devotion of the people to this pic ture, Frederick 11., in a spirit the very opposite to that of King Ahaz, who erred by not asking enough, collected " all the sick and infirm, the blind and the deaf, the lame and the withered, everybody, in a word, throughout the whole of his kingdom who *as labouring under any bodily infirmity," and had them conveyed to Naples and placed in a hospital prepared for their reception. " Each person was to bring with him a properly attested certificate of his name and age, the place of his birth and residence, the exact nature of his malady, the length of time during which he had been afflicted by it, and every other detail which could be required for settling beyond dispute the authenticity of each particular case." On a stated day they were ranged, a sad and woeful spectacle, on benches in front of the altar where hung the veiled picture of our Lady. The royal family and the nobility occu pied reserved seats, and the public was admitted to the rest of the sacred building. A secretary read aloud a list of the names and maladies of the sufferers, and then Mass began. During its celebration (probably at the " Gloria ") the curtain was withdrawn. Those who have been in the habit (says our author) of frequenting any Church at Naples or its neighbourhood, where some statue or picture, the object of special devotion, is thus uncovered only during some portion of a Mass, can easily imagine what fervent cries of supplication burst forth from the lips of the unhappy sufferers; but, who can describe the extravagance of their shouts and gestures and their exclamations of wildest joy, when, at the same moment, a ray of light was seen to descend from heaven on the face of the Madonna, and was reflected thence upon the assembled people ? Every sick and afflicted person in that great crowd was instantly healed. Catholics can readily believe this most wonderful miracle ; indeed, it is diffi cult with any shadow of reason to question so patent a historical fact : but the Bible Chris tian, at least, ought to find no special difficulty in the number of the healed, seeing that (as Dr. Northcote opportunely observes) in the Acts of the Apostles, it is recorded that "more than common, miracles were wrought by hand kerchiefs and aprons, brought from the body of St. Paul ; and that when St. Peter was in Jerusalem (after the miraculous healing of the lame man at the gate of the Temple) the people brought their " sick into the streets, that his shadow at the least, might rest upon them, and there came together a multitude out of the neighbouring, cities, bringing sick per sons with them, who Were all healed ;" even as all who touched but the hem of our Lord's garment in the country of Genesex, had been made whole. (Matt. xiv., 3. Acts v., 15, 16 ; xix. 11, 12.) The sanctuary of our Lady of La Salette, founded in our own day, has peculiar claims on our attention. Although several interest ing narratives have been published of the Apparition, with which our readers are pro bably well acquainted, we believe that they will peruse with renewed pleasure, that for which we are indebted to Dr. Northcote, who has himself made the pilgrimage, and has also enjoyed the opportunity of conversing with one of the children. They will find here matter, which (so far as we know) is not contained in any former account, and, in particular, a very striking extract from a statement published in February, 1866, by Maximin (then serving as a Pontifical Zouave), for the purpose of contradicting reports, current at the time, which had their origin in the flippant assertions of a French journal, to the effect that he no longer believed in the reality of the Apparition, and had retracted his former declarations. The journalist had to retract its false assertions — assertions which had been reproduced by cer tain of our own newspaper writers, who of course—for it is their habitual practice—did not reproduce their contemporary's retracta tion. An account of our own Anglo-Saxon and old English sanctuaries, from another pen emi nently qualified for the task, completes this charming volume. No land was so rich in sanctuaries of our Lady as Catholic England, once beautifully styled " the Dowry of Mary," and a closer acquaintance with the history of these ruined shrines, will show (as the writer well observes) "how identical in all ages and countries is the spirit of Catholic devo tion, and how wholly without foundation is that theory which represents the religious practices in use among Catholics of other lands, as childish superstitions, opposed, not merely to _Pm c.//c.apt prejudices, but to Enyligh good sense. The Englishman of the seventh, the tenth, or the thirteenth centuries, though he doubtless displayed many of the characteristic features which we commonly attribute to his race, had as lively a faith in the supernatural, and as tender a devotion as the Italian, or the Spanish Catholic of the same date, and his devotion was expressed after the same simple, and often poetic, fashions as theirs." To miny an English Catholic, this portion of the book will probably prove the most fascinating, as it is that to which he will naturally turn on first opening the volume. We can assure our readers that they will fuul, the general con tE 'nts as deli ghtful as they are inviting ; and w , 3 will conclude, what we feel to be a very un worthy, notice of a very valuable contribu tioi t to our popular literature, by saying that this is a book which every Catholic family ough t--not to borrow for a single perusal, but to purchase as a household possession. M ONEE-N 0. 2. (From the Anglo-American Times.) If the produce of gold is decreasing in California, that of silver has immensely increased in Nevada and other of the Pacific States. California is assum ing relatively to the mining regions a position not unlike that in days gone by of the Atlantic States to the Far West. It has become a base of operations to the army of prospectors, gold-diggers, mining companies, and those enterprising individuals who flock in shoals to the place where life is a lottery, full of prizes and penalties, finds and blanks. The Express Companies alone in 1866 carried from Ne vada $16,171,381, of which the City of Virginia contributed $7,807,626; Gold Hill, $7,100,268 ; the rest being from Carson City, Austin, and Aurora. The returns for 1867 give a largely in creased export, and the estimates for the present year will probably be far short of the actual re sults. But the rapid rise heretofore • shown in Silver Mining in Nevada is small compared with what may fairly be expected when the Union Pa cific Railroad is completed, the rails of the Central l 'acific branch being now laid along the Humboldt Valley One of the consequences is that attention is being directed to Silver Mining, and Eastern ca pital attracted for its development. It is but rean sonable to suppose that a country so enormously rich in- ore will, under such favourable circum stances, yield an abundance which cannot fail to disturb the values ,as at present existing between gold and silver. Contrasting the present value of money in Eng land with that of a few centuries ago, we find a difficulty in selecting the commodity which fur nishes the best test. Wheat ought to be, but its fluctuation during the middle of the 14th century visas from eighteenpence the quarter, to twenty shil lings, and although the average was 6s. Bd., a staple liable to such an exceptional range can scarcely furnish a standard. Generally speaking, wages and the price of food were fixed by Act of Parliament, and the law as regarded wheat was, that the mer chants might import when it rose above the aver age, and farmers might export when it fell below it. Barley averaged at that time three shillings the quarter ; beef and pork were a halfpenny a pound, and mutton three farthings—so fixed by Act of Parliament. Fat oxen sold at twenty-six shillings and eightpence ; fat wethers and calves for three shillings and fourpence; and lambs twelvepence. In London the butchers sold to the poor penny pieces of beef, each weighing from 2&lbs. to 31bs., and thirteen or fourteen of these were exchanged for one shilling. Although the Act was repealed regulating the price of meat, as it was unpopular with both buyers and sellers, yet, as late as the year 1570, beef could be purchased in the gross at a half penny a pound. Rent was never fixed by statute, and therefore comparative rates can only be conjec tured. "My father," says Bishop Latimer, in his sermons, page 101, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and here upon he killed so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for 100 sheep, and my mother milked 30 kine ; he was able and did find the king a har ness with himself and his horse. I remember that I buckled on his armour when he went to Black heath-field. He kept me to school, or else I would not have been able to preach before the king's ma jesty now. He married my sisters with five pounds or twenty nobles each, having brought them up in godliness and the fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the same farm." If such was the rent of a farm of such a capacity, Fronde, in his history, surmises that labourers' cot tages could not have cost much. Strong beer, which is now eighteenpence a gallon, was then a penny, and table beer less than a halfpenny. Carriage, both along the coast and along the interior, was cheap. A vessel, including the crew, was 23. a day. A cart, two horses, and a man carried corn at about a penny per ton per mile. French and German wines were eightpence the gallon ; Spanish and Portuguese a shilling ; and these were declared to be the highest rates allowed. Fronde considers the penny, in terms of a labourer's necessities, to have been equal in the reign of Henry VIII. to the pre sent shilling. Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, iu his history of agriculture and prices in England from 1259 to 1773, compares the earlier condition of the farm hand with his condition in 1771, taking his facts for the latter year from an author of that day, who wrote of what was actually occurring around him. The nominal value of wages in the last half of the 14th century was one-seventh of what they were in 1771, while many of the necessaries of life were one-twelfth of the price of the 17th cen tury, bread being an eighth; for, taking wheat at 48s. in the latter period, it would make the 41b. loaf 40., while at 6s. Bd. the same loaf would be under three fax things. Comparing the two dates, it is found that the price of commodities had risen from 8 to 12 times, while the farm labourer's wages had risen but little over four times the amount of those prevailing for long after 1318, the year of the plague. Professor Rogers then compares the present prices with those of 1771, and he finds that every thing excepting wheat is dearer now, while agricul tural wages are only beginning to move upwards. He says that they remained stationary, but there are on all sides signs of a rise in the agricultural dis tricts. However, his conclusion is sufficiently clear, which is, that the laboure r of 1318 was in a much better condition than his descendant of 1771, while he of 1771 was in a better condition than his descendant of the present day. On this subject Fronde is also emphatic, for, in writing of the latter part of the fourteenth century, he asserts that the labourer could then, with a penny, buy more beef, bread, beer, and wine, and do more to provide himself and his family with lodgings and s upply his daily wants, than the labourer of the 19th century can do for a shilling. With thisknow ledge in our minds a grave question is suggested, when we contrast the daily wages of a labourer in the time of Henry VIII., and his wages in the time of Victoria. Nor while agricultural labourers averaged fourpence a day, was this scale, high, though it be, as compared with the present, his only advantage. Nearly every parish was surrounded by large ranges of common and unenclosed forest lands, which furnished fuel gratis, where pigs, ducks, and geese might range, and where, if he could afford a cow, he could keep her. An artizan's wages were Sid. a day. Statesmen at that time held the physical wellbeing of all classes to be of far greater importance than the increase of wealth and population ; and the care of the State was directed to promote this object. The average in come of an earl in the days of Henry IV. was estimated at £2,000 a year. Under Henry the Eighth, the Duke of Buckingham, then the wealthiest English Peer, had an income of £6,000, and that of the Archbishop of Canterbury was rated at the same amount. The state in which such incomes enabled noblemen to live may be imagined by the expenses of a court at that period, remembering that the palace was the focus of in trigue —was maintained on a scale of comparative grandeur, the king himself being the fountain of honour and promotion. Henry Vll.'s Court cost little more than £14,000 a year, inclusive of the king's personal expenses and support of castles, forests, yeomen of the guard, and all necessary outlay for public business. Under Henry VIII. the expenditure had risen to £19,894 16s. Bd., yet when we compare what that monarch was, what he did, and how he lived, with the outlay of her Majesty we may feel assured that the sum repre sented much more than twelve times such an amount in the present day. We assert that a change is in progress more marked in wages than in anything; else, but more observable in America than in Eng land. The subject was discussed in an article in the New York Railway Timm, May 22, which gave an analysis of the difference effected within the last eight years, the fact being supplied by the lion. David A. Wells, who lately, as Commissioner of Revenue visited Europe to gather information which he might utilise in his department, " A 'careful examination of a rolling mill in Pittsburg, Penn sylvania, making band iron, showed a disbursement of wages per week of $5,200 in 1866 against $1,700 in 1860 and 1861, the mill working to the same capacity, and employing exactly the same number of hands in both cases. The average wages earned by melters, forgers, and rollers employed in the steel works of Pittsburg, and working nine hours per day, during the month of October, 1866, was reported to the Commissioner as $8 per day. - The following rates of wages are also reported to have been paid during the- past year in the same city in the manu facture of iron and glass :—Skilled hammermen, working oa an average five days per week, $8 per day ; head-nailers, superintending four machines, $ll per day ; blowers of bottles and window glass, $275 pa. month. During the months of April and May, 1866, the rates of wages paid in certain of the glass works of Pittsburg are reported to have averaged $ll 40c. per day. Bricklayers and masons have received from $4 to $7 per day in different sections of the country during the past year. It further appears, from an examination of the United ' States Census statistics of manufactures in 1860, that the average monthly wages of employe's in all branches of manufactures were, of males, $27 10c., and of females $l2 50e. ; while, by the census of the State of New York in 1865, the average monthly wages in the whole State were, for males, $44, and for females $2O, being an increase over the wages of 1860 and 1861 of 62 per cent. for males, and 60 per cent. for females." In comment ing on this the Times says—" Assuming these to be the rates still current, and that 40 per cent. of the increase is to be accounted for by the depre ciation in the paper currency, in which wages are paid, there is yet a remarkable margin of advance which must have a peculiar influence on all manu facturing operations in the United States—unless, indeed, as is perhaps the fact, a corresponding ad vance has taken place in most other countries ; in which case the movement would simply indicate the progress of the reduction of the purchasing power of gold, owing to the steady continuance of supplies from Australia, California, and elsewhere. THE AMERICAN MINISTER. The appointment of REVERDY JOHNSON to suc ceed CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS as Minister to St. James's is the best proof that the United States de sire to cultivate friendly relations with Great Britain. America treats Euglani in the nomina tion of Ambassadors better than England treats America, for she sends her most influential and eminent citizens as her representatives. Mr. ADAMS, the inheritor of a name renowned in American story, an able and accomplished diplomatist and statesman, influential among New Englanders, after a long residence as Minister in London, is succeeded by Mr. JOHNSON, an able and accom plished lawyer and statesman, and a represen tive man, as Americans say, of another section of American citizens. For many years REVERDY JOHNSON has much influenced the Senate, though a member of the party in a minority so great as in it self to be almost powerless. The weight of his per sonal character is best shown by this fact, and he is recognized as an authority, indeed as the greatest authority, on constitutional questions, alike by po litical friend and foe. Personally, Mr. JOHNSON has few enemies, although he can be, and often is, bitter and satirical enough in his denunciation of what he thinks wrong. For instance, the other day he came down with a very heavy lash on Colonel FORNEY, Secretary to the Senate, for the part taken by his newspapers against the Republican members who had voted the PRESIDENT'S acquittal. Judging from the extract we gave last week of what Mr. WILKEs wrote of him in the Spirit, we imagine he must have been equally severe in that quarter. The way in which he suppressed General BUTLER at the crisis of the Impeachment Trial, and succeeded in having evidence recorded injurious to the Managers' cause, proves what a strong and vigorous stand ho can take when the occasion demands it. General BUTLER was at the time brow-beating everybody, and by the sheer force of his individual qualities had gained his point, when REVERDY JOHNSON threw himself into the breach. Had the General attacked Fort Fisher as vigorously as he then attacked RE VERDY JOIINSON, it is not probable that he would have met at the battered fortress so decisive a defeat as he did from the Senator. To REVERDY JOHNSON, more than to any Democrat, is due the acquittal of the PRESIDENT, for his opinions on the constitutional questions involved had great weight with his brother Senators, and they were freely and forcibly given. He was born in Annapolis, on the shores of the Chesapeake, in the State of Maryland, May 21, 179 G. His father was the Chief Justice of the State, and REVERDY JOHNSON pursued his profession iu the great capital of Maryland, the city of Baltimore. After being admitted to the bar he continuel to practise to the present time. One of the latest cases of importance, in which his opinion was considered almost conclusive, had reference to a constitutional question affecting his native State. Governor SWANN, in November, 1866, determined to remove the Police Commissioners of Baltimore, and to appoint others in their places. The Com missioners acknowledged his right of removing them and appointing others, provided that they bad been found guilty of misconduct by a competent tribunal. The question, therefore, hinged on the Governor's right to try them, which he claimed and insisted on, being fortified by the legal opinion of REVERDY JOHNSON. So great was the excitement that followed, as our readers may recollect, that General GRANT at the head of some troops was de • spatched to Baltimore, and Governor SWANN issued a proclamation threatening in case of a disturbance to use the entire power of the State for its suppression, and he tried the case, deposed the Commissioners, and appointed a new board. But though REVERDY JOHNSON never dropped the practice of his pro fession, he has for many years sat in the Legisla ture of the State as well as in Congress, and taken an earnest part in the government of the country, remaining pure and without even a breath of sus picion in the midst of corruption. In 1845 he was first elected from the Legislature of Maryland to the United States Senate. On General TAYLOR'S succeeding to the Presidency, in 1849, Mr. JOHNSON was chosen for the post of Attorney - . General, but on the death of the PRESIDENT, which followed shortly after, he returned to Baltimore. He had filled the office of Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors, as well as that of Attorney-General, and he had been repeatedly elected to the United States Senate; but, as the country was approaching the period of strong political excitement, which culmi nated in the Civil War, and as Mr. JOHNSON was a man of moderation, he was not employed by his fellow-citizens till Secession was impending, when he was sent to the Peace Conference which assem bled in Washington in 1861, where he earnestly worked to avert the darkly-impending storm. During the War he remained firmly loyal to the Union, but the time had not arrived for the counsels of men of sense and moderation to have weight. He again took his seat in the United States Senate in 1863, and his term, therefore, ends next year, W. F. HAMILTON being already selected to fill the vacancy. If his party be not weakened by his absence so far as a vote is concerned—a Demo crat:succeeding him, and, in accepting the appoint ment to England, only a few months of his Sena torial term is sacrificed—yet it will sadly miss his guid;aice, his influence, and his logical power. RE VERDY JOIINSON is frank, genial, and merry, and he looks like one who grew stout on a happy combination of good temper and good cheer. Although seventy-two years of age he has worn well, and his intellect is as bright and vigorous as ever. Being by birth and training a gentleman, Conservative in politics, and alike eminent as a lawyer and statesman, he cannot fail to be accept able to the British aristocrats with whom he will associate. He has always regarded England in the main as a great, and friendly Power, and the natural ally of the United States, and has frequently shown this by his conduct in the Senate, as well as on the Committee for Foreign Affairs, where his influence has been most bene ficially exercised. Ja Leaden be will receiye a hearty welcome, as England cannot fail to see in the appointment a desire on the part of the Wash ington Government, not only to make an agreeable selection, but one to be relied on for strenuous exertion to maintain and to increase, as far as pas sible, the friendly relations now existing.—Anglo - American Times. PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STA TES. The following list comprises those also who were candidates for each office since the organization of the Government : 1789—George Washington and John Adams; two terms without opposition. 1797—John Adams, opposed by Thomas Jefferson, Nvio having 'the next highest electoral vote, became Vi"" President. 1801—Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, beating Joll a Adams and Charles C. Pickney. 1805—Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton, beating Charles C. Pickney and Rufus King. 1809—James Madison and Goo. Clinton, beating Charles C. Pickney. 1813—James Madison and Eldridge Gerry, beating Da Witt Clinton. 1817—James Monroe and Daniel E. Thompliins, beat ing Rufus King. 1821—James Monroe and Daniel E. Thompkins no 0P" position, and only one dissenting vote. 1825—John Q. Adams and John C. Calhoun, beating Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Mr. Crawford, there being four caudidxtes for President, and Albert Gallatin for Vice-President. 1829—Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun beating John Q Adams and Richard Rush. 1833—Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, beating Henry Clay, John Floyd, and William Wirt for President , William Wilking, John Sargent and Henry Lee for Vine - President. 1837—Martin Van Buren and Richard M.Johnson beat ing W. H. Harrison, Hugh L. White and Daniel Webster for President, and John Tyler for Vice-President. 1841— William H. Harrison and John Tyler, beating Martin Van Buren and I. W. Tazewell. Harrison died one month after his inauguration, and John Tyler became President for the remainder of the term. 1845—James K. Polk and George M. Dallas, beating Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen. _ _ 1819—Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore beating Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren for President, and William 0. Butler and Charles F. Adams for Vice-Pre sident. 1853—Franklin Pierce and William IL King beating Winfield Scott and W. A. Graham. 1837—James Buchanan and John U. Breckinridge, beat ing John G. Fremont and Millard Fillmore for President, and William L. Dayton and A. J. Donelson for Vice-Pre sident. 1861—Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, beating Stephen A. Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckin ridge for President, and Edward Everett, Herschel .v Johnson, and Jos. Lane for Vice-President. 1865—Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, beating George B. 31 4 C1cl1an and George H. Pendleton. Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore, since the death of Buchanan, are now the only surviving Presidents of the United States. The following is the list of the Maryland delegates to the New York National Democratic Conservative Con vention :—Delegates at Large—from the Eastern Shore -- Hon. Richard B. Carmichael and Dr. George R. Dennis. From the Western Shore—Charles J. M. Gwinn, Esq. , and Hon. Montgomery Blair. First District—Col. Edward Lloyd, of Talbot county, and Hon. Hiram McCullough, of Cecil. Second District—Eon Stevenson Archer, of Harfora county, and William Byrne, of Baltimore city. Third District—William P. Whyte and Dr. George W. Benson , of Baltimore city. Fourth District—Hon. A. K. Syester, of Washington county, and Outerbridge Horsey, of Frede rick county. Fifth District—George E. Bowling, of F• George's, and G. F. Maddox, of St. Mary's. The nomina tions were unanimously confirmed by the Convention. A few days before assuming the War-office, General Schofield, as military governor of Virginia, aske d General Grant to request Congress to take some action to remedy a very serious evil existing in States which bap s not been " reconstructed." It appears that the operatio n of tho pending " constitutional amendment" will diEquiv lify in Virginia all persons capable of filling civil ofllcee• There are several thousand civil offices in Virginia for the supply of which General Schofield has been able to find but 500 persons qualified by intelligence and by ability to take the test• oath. The scientific expedition that started iron' William'g College some seven or eight months ago to ex plore South America has returned. The party travelled in two divisions; one started from Guayaquil upon th° western coast, crossed the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes, penetrated to the river Napo, and thence by canal to steam navigation on the Ainazun. The other started from Cara has upon the coast of Venezuela, struck inland to th° Orinoco, and down the Rio Negro to the A mazon, travel ling a distance of 2,500 miles by canoe. The new artesian well drilled in solid rock 11 Thomas Colt, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the us o °f , his paper mill, has reac bed the depth of four hundred a nd seventy-five feet, and discharges water of perfect purity to the amount• of two hundred and ninety-six gallons Pe r minute, or 426,000 gallons every twenty-four hours, wilie h ! is equal to thirty-three gallons a day to every inhabitant ° f that town. The total annual receipts reported at the recent anniversary meetings in Boston were $1,132,685, of whieb the $400,000 of the American Missionary Association sill / the largest, and the $506 of the Now Free Religion As sociation the least. The exact net proceeds of the recent musical fes tival of the Handel and Hayden Society at Boston Wel l $3,336, which increases their fund to $7,576. During last year over half a million of money , £510,884, was transmitted to Ireland from America by emigrants to their friends, £202,914 of the sum being iu the form of prepaid passage orders. _ On the 20th April a leading firm in San Fran' cisco, engaged in the China trade, received an importa nt message from Shanghai, which was dated April Ist. Th i° message was sent by way of Pekin and St. Petersburg by courier, thence ria London by telegraph, thence to Se lf York by cable and San Francisco, by three thousand miles of overland telegraph, in nineteen days from the time it left Shanghai. We believe this to be an unpreceden ted feat, and it seems to show the facilities that have been afforded to business transactions within the two or thre e years last past. The beet sugar manufactory, at Chatswort h, Illinois, is now shipping a car load of sugar every week' The American war steamer Shamrock sailed 0 the 12th inst from Lisbon for Now York, and the Ameri can transport ship Guard has sailed for Civita Vecchia. LADVERTISEXIENT.]— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only ag gravat t l i and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perf ee curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Fo ° as proved by thousands of cases which had been consider o _ hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, C o ":, sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric deraili; , ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousti eS biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, iln% rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessue' acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drop tit cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or ekes sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the ekes pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders , . 0 We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du lio,rrY,i Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health ~°ll the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning % other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bite al Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pla r , te ,i a l at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benew:', 44 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise . 1 , 1: , excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Ai l July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lun spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafneo•4 Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuten , aA ft 'y Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. ' r e & years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervo us], asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Cando n.—Be ware of then . u s unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, Ni'i tP authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached' _ . In tins, at Is. 1 id.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ' ; 2 lbs., 45. 6d. • 5 lbs , 12 lbs., 225. ; 21 bs , 40s —BARRY DU BARRY and Co., N°: e vy Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, r 1 dilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4. Cheapside ; 63 , 150,, ,0d ,„. 298, oxford - street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chenUP" Births. BRUCE—On tho 22d inst., at Dover, the wife of capt sl' Bruce, R.N., Superintendent of Packets, of a son. COTTON—On the 22d inst., at 10, Sussex-square, 119' f park, the wife of H. Cotton, Esq., Q.C., of a daughter., GoscHEN—Ou the 21st inst., at 66, Mount-street, the of the Right Hon. George J. Goschen, of a daughter. Marriages. f el), CALROW—HELFRICH—On the 20th inst., at Christ Col' i 3O Forest-hill, Richard Calrow, Royal Engineers, 0n19, 6 ,,, i b of the late Rich. Calrow, of Bury, Lancashire, to -r.'"`" Amelia, second daughter of Francis Helfrich, Esq. i o FORBES—CARRICK—On the 18th inst., at the EnVi, Church, St. Petersburg, Francis A. orbes o f Bic1( 1 °, 1 Kent, to Jessie Mary, only daughter of the late An dy° Carrick, of St. Petersburg. Deaths. Vag , K ACERMANN—On the 22d inst., et 13, Park-village Regent's-park, Rudolph Ackermaun, aged 75. 1V• GOULD—On the 221 inst., at The Brook, Feckenharo, Warner Gould, Esq., aged 59. oc/A LAmoNT—On the 20th inst., at 50, Eldon-street, Grail Colin Lamont, jun., Esq., banker, aged 79. OAKE—On the 19th inst., at Ring wood, Henry Oake, -.- aged 78. • O'CONNELL —On the 2 lst inst., at Longfield, Cashel, ~;o ' both Mary Agues, infant daughter of M. J. ucoelle Esq. SMITII—On the 22d inst., at The Manor House, Credit°l3' F. E. Smith, Esq., solicitor, aged 56. 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