The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times says that both Dissenter and Churchman assume that the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church will lead to that of the English. In the opinion of our contemporary there is a vast difference in the position of the two, and it is enough to deal with the Irish branch by itself at present. All experience proves it best to deal with one question at a time, and upon its own merits. If one settlement may possibly lead to another, the second settlement is not deferred or alleviated by the denial of the first. The Churches are unlike in their national aspect and in their relation to the habits and tastes of the several populations. They are like in being State institutions ; they are like in being under a Government which inherits and exer cises a quasi-Papal authority over them ; they are like in having bishops and pastors, it may almost be said, in partibus infidelium—that is, in the midst of popu lations more or less disaffected to them. The position of the Church of England has often been alleged as the best reply to Protestant objectors against Papal supremacy; but the position of the Irish Church is vastly worse, and therefore a still better retort. If the British Parliament, expressing in this instance English duminion, may force a Church and a doctrinal system on the Irish people, and demand for it even an extravagant maintenance, why may not the Church of Rome claim obedience and support frcm willing subjects everywhere, without regard to their nationality? It is this very aspect of the " Unitcd Church," as the dictation of one people and one Church to another, which is most dangerous now to the Church of England, and therefore most to be reprobated. How it may be on this side the Channel, and what ills or what deliverances are in store for the old Church of England, is beyond human ken. Let the question be dismissed altogether. What is to come will come, and the worst that men fear may possibly prove the best when it comes. But the Irish Church is the matter iu hand, and there is neither sense nor fairness in compelling candidates to commit themselves one way or the other on questions not yet before us. The Herald remarks that the Conservative candidates for South-West Lancashire have at length taken the field, and henceforth Mr. Gladstone will speak under the wholesome check of prompt correction. It bad become quite necessary that the right bon. gentleman should no longer be allowed to monopolise the ear of the constituency, and that the charges and insinuations he had levelled against the Government should be answered on the spot, and without delay. Judging from their speeches at Southport on Saturday, at the crowded and enthusiastic meeting with which they opened the campaign, Messrs. Turner and Assheton Cross are fully equal to this part of their duty. Mr. Cross has replied to Mr. Gladstone's charge of profligate expendi ture on the part of the Government, by quoting the words of Richard Cobden, delivered in 1862, in which he said the Liberal party was the most extravagant Govern. ment ever known in this country in a time of peace. The Conservative candidates shew a very earnest and intelli gent appreciation of the true character of the issue upon which the approaching contest will be fought out. As Mr. Turner says, the questions before the country are whether we are to have a Radical or a Conservative Government, and whether the union between Church and State shall be maintained or destroyed. That Mr. Gladstone should link his candidature with so extreme a politician as Mr. Grenfell gives additional significance to the first point, while the second condition of the quarrel has been affirmed by him over and over again, and even so recently as in his speech at Newton on Saturday. It is true that the right honourable gentleman pretends to limit the application of his principle to Ireland, but, as Mr. Cross asks, when he is besieged by his own followers with demands that the English Church shall share the fate of the Irish Church, does any one believe that Mr. Gladstone will hold out at the sacrifice of the position he has won by tvking the first step towards universal dis establishment and dif.endowment ? The Daily News holds that the parish clergymen and the country gentlemen whose votes in 1865 displaced Mr. Gladstone from the representation of the University of Oxford rendered a real service to their country. They humiliated the university, and they inflicted, no doubt, some temporary mortification on the statesman by whose election they had for nearly twenty years done themselves honour. But they liberated Mr. Gladstone from the exceptional restraints which his political connection with the university imposed. That grave, reverend, and learned body, silently revolving the weal of the nation, does not allow itself to be disturbed by the intrusion upon its deli. berations of even the candidates for its suffrages. It does not permit them to plead their cause and urge their respective claims before it. It takes counsel with none but itself. Written addresses are contrary to university etiquette, and speeches, of course, could not for one moment le tolerated. Possibly, the university would choose members more wiFey if it to( k the ordinary means cf informing itself on public questions. Country gentlemen and clergymen whose politics are taken out of the county paper and the " bi-weehly " religious journal, need more rather than less stimulus to keep them well up with the questions of the day. Be this as it may, Mr. Disraeli must lament, as he has good reason for doing, the Oxford University election of 1865. He would probably give all that he holds most dear-- Mr. Gathorne Hardy, say, or Lord John Manners—to have Mr. Gladstone back again at Oxford. If the leader of the Opposition were compelled to be silent now, the elections in some places might go differently. Mr. Gladstone, as a candidate for Oxford, could not have issued that written address to his constituents which has enabled the country to contrast a statesman's policy with the arts of a place man, and the language of conviction and purpose with mystic ambiguities which a doctor of the Cabala might envy. Hardly anyone, the Times thinks, will be missed from the House of Commons more than General Peel. His popularity with all parties is decidedly great, and his faculties are so unimpaired in power that it is hard to believe in the age he has attained. On his own side of the House his place can scarcely be filled, for his professional and official experience have given him singularly accurate and yet comprehensive acquaintance with one of the most important and controverted topics of the day. It was something to be able to explain the real direction and application of the vast expenditure actually entailed by our present establishments, and that information General Peel could always furnish. He took the estimates to pieces with practised dexterity, and put the figures before the House in the clearest manner. He could make even the Army Reserve schemes intelli gible, and give us the exact measure of every successive failure. Such a special faculty as this, derived not only from study, but from long personal experience, represents a rare and valuable gift, all the more valuable because in this instance it was combined with recognised uprightness and sincerity. It is strange, indeed, to reflect that a man who bad carried his political honesty so far as to oppose even his own brother on the Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829 should have survived to take part nearly forty years later in the first debates upon the: consummation of that measure as repre sented in the disestablishment of the Irish Church. But from one end of his public career to the other General Peel bas preserved the reputation of an irreproachable politician, and the loss to the Legislature occasioned by his retirement will assuredly be felt by all parties in the House as well as by the public at large. The Standard says one of the devices most in favour with the Liberal party just now is that of exchanging certificates of good character. In fact, the Liberal leaders have constituted themselves into a sort of Mutual Admiration Society. A vouches for the excellence of B's principles, and C has an earnest conviction of the moral worth of A. C, in his turn, receives the homage of B, and soon till the circle of compliment is completed. It is a pleasing and innocent game, which seems to afford every player in it unlimited satisfaction, and contributes not a little to the gratification of the public. Lord Amberley recommends Mr. Mill, and Mr. Mill becomes earnest for Mr. Bradlangh. Mr. Bradlaugh is not ungrateful, and Northampton rings with the praises of Mr. Mill. Thus the whole party is hound together by a chain of reciproc a l o bli gat i on, and e ach member of it is a kind of general bail for the rest. If the public are nr,t by this time convinced that every Liberal leader is an angel of light, and a fountain at once of good morals and correct principles, the fact must be attributed to the ineradicable prejudices of vulgar human nature. Mr. Gladstone is specially favoured. The cheers of a hundred mobs, the spontaneous homage of several physical demonstrations, the admiration and sympathy of Fallen, have testified to the great statesman ; the letter of the head of the llornish Church in England crowns him as orthodox Protestant. TI e value of this last document, as to the perfect sincerity of Mr. Gladstone's religious policy, could hardly have been greater had the Pope him self been Mr. Gladstone's witness. Tory calumniators, for their own miserable ends, had accused bar. Gladstone of being swayed by his RAmish friendships in his more recent religious policy. They had fastened upon the sponsorship of his son as evidence of a leaning towards the side of the illustrious godfather. '.These and all other suspicions (for whatever mysterious purpose they may have been circulated) are henceforth silenced. Archbishop Manniog himself comes forward to vouch for the religious fidelity of Mr. Gladstone. _Roma locuta, masa jinda est. The Doily Tdcgraph remarks that the reporters of the press seem to usur p th e f unc tions of ' the dignitaries of the Church, a n d newspapers arc I; —d te step in to " i counteract the - negligence indifference, or timidity " the of 1 'bishops. In th ese dreadful C t lays of innovation, w licentiousness of the press" bas attained wide scope, we presume that we must forgive the intrusion ; but we hope no sacrilegious writer will suggest that the bishop's salary should be transferred, even in part, to the gentlemen who have done his work. Though bishops inay be as meek and decorous in demeanour as St. Paul advised, there is a limit to the patience of eventhe gentlest of men, and that limit is passed when the t emporal i t i es of any Church are even partially touched. In everything else latitude is allowed ; one clergyman may preach Calvinism, another Popery, a third Rationalism, a fourth E rast i an views ; bat the funds " once delivered to the Saints" must be kept sacred "roes daring hands, BOILER EXPLOSION IN LONDON. A boiler explosion occurred at five mijantes past two on Monday afternoon at thelTnited Irotel, Haymarket. The hotel adjoins Her Majesty's Theatre, which is rebuild ing, and for some minutes it was thought the acci dent had occurred in the extensive works now being carried on in connection with its re-erection. It appears, however, that whilst the boiler at the hotel was in full work it suddenly exploded, causing a great destruction of property. Six of the servants who were near the spot received severe injuries, which necessitated their removal to Charing-cross Hospital. One policeman, who was standing at the corner of the Haymarket, was carried off his feet by the force of the explosion, and all the glass in the neighbourhood of the hotel met with instant destruction. OUTRAGES ON MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. Serious outrages on missionaries have taken place near Chinkeang. The Shanghai Becordcr gives the fol lowing account of the occurrence :—" A corespon dent, writing from Chinkeang, under date 21th August, says : " Mr. Allen, of her Britannic Majesty's consulate, and Mr. Sands, of the United States consulate, at this port, have just returned from Yangchow, to which place they went in order to institute in quiries into a most outi ageous attack IN hich has just been made upon the Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Protestant Mission, and his party. They have been mobbed in the most barbarous manner ; about eight or ten thousand men rose in a mass, broke into their house, and destroyed the whole of their property. The ladies belonging to the mission have all more or less suffered from wounds and bruises, and the Rev. Mr. Reid had his eyes so severely injured that there are very serious doubts of his ever recovering his sight. The Chinese mob set fire to the house, and did all they could to burn the inmates out of it. They were driven to such extre mities that they were forced to throw the children from the upper windows, and the ladies were obliged to follow at the risk of their lives. One of them is within a month of her confinement. The outrage was caused by the literary class, who spread a report to the effect that the missionaries boiled up children to use them for medicine. The silly, impotent authorities knew of the difficulty fully a week beforehand, and instead of taking steps to prevent a breach of the peace, encouraged it by their indifference, if not actually by their connivance." TILE NATAL DIFFICULTY. The Dean of Maritzburg, in a sermon at Fenrith a day or two since, said that for his own part he could not simply re joice in the thought that, the Church having declared with ono voice that Colcneo was cut off from its communion, the victory was won; ho asked for the prayers of tlie congregation that the Church in Natal should grow up holding the truth, not in part, but altogether. For what had they been chastised? The Church had been neglectful and silent when she should have spoken. When the State required certain things of Churchmen she expected at the same time that the Church would exact of her that she ghoul 1 fulfil the spiritual conditions of membership. But tho,priests had be n neglectful and had failed to carry out the conditions which the State of old established. Thi Church had not, therefore, so much to blame the powers of of this world as to lament over her own carelessn as. T 1.4 Dean at a meeting in the same town said the real stet 3 o the case in Natal was now that the Church is stronger tha; ever it was before. They had carried out the sentenc, of the Church against Dr. Colenso; they had scparatec themselves from him, and now they had nothing to do with him. If Dr. Colenso:chose to reside in Natal ho could do so, and while there ho resided upon Church property. Ho (the Dean) had not yet thought fit to appeal against the decision ; if he did, he had no doubt the Privy Coun cil would reverse it. Still, if they were to got that judgment reversed, althcugh they would get restored to their churches, they would not get rid of Dr. Colenso. They considered, therefore, that for a time it was better to let Dr. Colenso have the property and get churches of their own. Ile had no doubt that in the next twenty years they would get their own back. ST. JAMES'S, BRIGHTON. Some curious facts are stated with regard to the church of St. James's, Brighton. It appears that from its first commencement, half a century ago, this chapel has beer found a rather troublesome encumbrance, both by thi Vicar of Brighton and also by the Bishop of Chichester Only a few years after the opening of the chapel its con gregation " dissented from the Established Church," and a very large number of them " seceded" in a body—of course in the direction of Nonconformity. Whether theit pastor " seceded" with them is not stated positively. The late venerable incumbent, too, the Rev. C. D. Maitland, it appears, was in the habit of varying from the customary usage and the rubrics of the Prayer-book by the interpo lation of a few words, harmless enough, or, rather, excel lent enough in themselves ; for as each railful of communi. cants quitted the communion table at St. James's he used to address to them, in an earnest and affectionate tone, "God be with you, my children," or words to that effect. For this departure from the letter of the law he was informed against, and the bishop summoned him to the palace ab Chichester. The bishop was obliged to admonish him that the use of such words at that place in the service was not only unauthorised, but unallowed by himself. Mr. Maitland owned that he was wrong, and promised not to offend again. After Mr. Maitland's death the chapel was closed for about a year, and it is only just two years ago that it was bought by Mr, Purchas and re-opened for service. The following letter has been forwarded to the Bishop of Chichester in the matter of the inhibition :—" M Lord Bishop, we, the undersigned, the clergy of Broad water and Worthing, pray your lordship to receive our ver3 sincere thanks for the decided expression of your opinion as :to the ritualistic extravagance at St. James's Chapel, Brighton. Believing as we do that such scandaious viola tions of the rubrics and doctrines cf our Church tend greatly to the encouragement of her enemies, we rejoice that you! lordship has exercised the power which the law placed in your hands, and we earnestly hope that you will proceed further, as may be necessary, in restraint of any who set at naught the authority of their diocesan, and prove them. selves traitorous ministers of the Church.-- (Signed) E. K. Elliott, Rector of Broadwater ; Francis Pilcher, Curate of Broadwater ; William Read, Incumbent of the Chapel of Ease, Worthing ; Francis Cruse, Vicar of Christ Church, Worthing ; Walter S. Lewis, Vicar of St. George's, Worthing ; W. 0. Purton, Assisting Minister Christ Church, Worthing." On and after January next the charge for telegrams by Atlantic Cable will be Two Pounds for ten words, instead £3 7s. 6d. as at present. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has refused to receive a deputation from the Limerick Town Council to present a memorial praying for the discharge from prison of the Fenian convicts. The Cavan tenantry of the late Lord Farnham are subscribing to erect to his memory a Grecian column, with a suitable inscription, and surmounted by a statue, on an eminence near the town of Cavan. George Hamilton, a captai❑ in the army, who was convicted last sessions of an assault upon Esther Grimes, was brought up at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday for judgment. The sentence on the prisoner was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. On Sunday morning three houses, which had lately been erected in the Holloway-road, adjoining Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, fell with a crash. For tunately no one was in the house or passing by at the time. The cause of the accident has not been ascertained. Sir Velters Cornwall, Bart., whose death is an nounced, took comparatively little interest in strictly political affairs, his attention being chiefly directed to social matters. He was born in 1824, succeeded his father in 1835, and was educated at Eaton. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Hereford, and Major of the Herefordshire Militia. He never married, and is suc ceeded in the baronetcy by the Rev. George Henry Corne. wall, who was born in 1833, and was educated at Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge. The Liverpool Courier announces the flight of the ex-manager of a Liverpool bank. The gentleman in ques tion for many years held an important situation in a bank ing establishment in Liverpool, and on its failure two years ago transferred his services to the bank of which he first became sub-manager and latterly manager. Ho resigned the appointment of manager a month ago, and until his disappearance has been continually in public. Pecuniary difficulties in connection with certain mining and colliery speculations are supposed to to the cause of his disappear ,tnce. The Lank of which he was manager does not suffer by his flight. The Leeds magistrates have bad to decide a case invcdvicg an unuf ual po;nt, as to the law of friendly socie ties. Charles Edward Wild and Thomas Merryweather Ivere charged with having illegally dissolved the Loyal Victoria Lodge of the Free Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which lodge they were the trustees. The dissolution had been acceded to by a majority of the members ; but the complainants, who were averse to this proceeding, had refused to participate in the div:s:on of the effects. The grand lodge of the d'Orivt hnd des ded that the dissolution was illegal. The mag strates rcd the same opinion, and sentenced the defendants, suLject to the result of a eau for tha Qu en's sea b, to 0110 u.inyles imprisoraot, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1868 NAVAL EXPENDI7URE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) CAPTAIN SHERAItD OSBORN'S speech on our naval expenditure deserves fuller notice than we have yet given it. It is one of the most remarkable election speeches delivered this year. We have heard a good deal about naval extravagance. The report of Mr. SEELY'S committee has made us acquainted with the way in which the public money goes. We have laughed or stormed (accordingly as we read the report after dinner or before) at ships sold for £5,000 with their copper and machinery, and the said copper and machinery subsequently bought back, minus the, ship, for £20,000. We have been amused or irritated by the naïve admission that the country would have been richer if it had burnt its old ships than if it had sold them. We have followed with more or less closeness the controversy between the Liberal ex-officials and the Tory existing officials on public expenditure. But all these dis cussions are merely about questions of detail. They do not go to the root of the question. We may get our ships built hereafter more cheaply in private yards ; we may sell our old ships to men who will not afterwards have the impudence to ask us four times as much for a part as they gave for the whole. But Captain OSBORN goes far beyond this. He contends, not only that we pay more for our new ships and get less for our old ships than we ought, but that we have far too many ships, far too large a navy. Ile denounces in the first place the supposi tion that the high seas are a British highway, that England is bound to provide police for the ocean, that Britannia has any more right to " rule the waves " than any other Power has. The " patriotism " which made us claim that superiority for our country was really selfish arrogance. Not only is the claim inadmissible ; we have no longer the power to enforce it. One of the authors of the " Essays on International Policy " declares that scarcely a Spaniard ever lays his . head upon his pillow at night without thinking of Gibraltar. Captain OSBORN does not argue with the essayist that we are therefore as much bound to offer restitution as we should think the Spaniard to be if he held possession of Portland, but he simply declares that Gibraltar is no longer of any use to us. He denies that either that place or Malta are " keys" to the Mediterranean. Steam has overturned that theory, has opened the gates of the Pillars of Hercules. Malta costs us a million a year. It is probably as useless to us as Corfu was. If any one in West Lancashire ventured to say that these places ought to be given up he would be told that he was "no Englishman." Nevertheless, on the other side of the Mersey Captain OSBORN, himself a naval officer whose courage, whose genius, whose ability no one can deny, is bold enough to make this assertion and to challenge a denial. He points out another source of extravagance—the large armed force which we keep in our colonies and in Ireland. He told an amusing story of the Irishman who declared that they must have another rebellion in Ireland because there had been no contract since the last—a story which will explain a good many of our " rebellions " in New Zealand, the Cape, and Canada; and he called upon the Government to withdraw, or at least diminish, the troops in these countries, and make the colonists pay for such as they chose to retain. This is a bold policy for anyone to announce. It is not new, for Mr. COBDEN advocated it long years ago. But it is new that a naval officer should advocate it. When such a phenomenon is seen, we may be sure that we are near the beginning of the end—that we are near the realisation of a policy which is, as regards economy, as much above the reductions proposed by Mr. STANSFELD and Mr. CHILDEItS as these are above the cheeseparings of the late Mr. HUME and Mr. WILLIAMS. One by one the doctrines taught by Mr. COBDEN, and which made him hated at the time, are being adopted. Free trade and non-intervention have already been accepted by Tories even. They will soon be com pelled to surrender " Rule Britannia." There will then remain only equal electoral districts for them to receive, or perhaps propose as a mode of dishing the Whigs. MI?. GLADSTONE A? NEWTON. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Mu. GLADSTONE does not let the grass grow under his feet. In six days he made four speeches, which must have taken something like nine hours to deliver. As specimens of oratory they vary considerably. The finest speech—and it was one of Mr. GLADSTONE'S greatest efforts—was that which he made at Liver pool ; the driest speech was that delivered at Newton. Of course we cannot expect the most accomplished orator to be always the same. It is, in fact, a part of oratory to differ from time to time. Now he appeals to the heart, now to the head, now to the imagination, now to the reason. To-day he makes passionate appeals : to-morrow he brings forward incontrover tible statistics. Mr. GLA , DsToNE's speech on Satur day was of the latter kind, He began by pointing out Position the country is placed. On the an oneno m siadleou is s an Opposition which has in what a proposed a definite policy with regard to the Irish a Ministry which has no it denounced the icy, oafntdhe Irish Ch urc h C omm i ss i on policy y ch ;aotn all. At oth A e t r is first asked the count r y t o wait untilOpp ositionthe p r o eport l was issued. That report is published, and there is scarcely a man who will venture to say one word for it, or to contend that it ought to be made the basis of legislation. This resource having failed, the Ministry is at its wits' end. It has nothing else to fall back upon. So Ministerial candidates go about the country talking with imbecile vagueness of their willingness to reform any abuses of the Irish Church, butwould reform them, nor, inde t e e d ll , us w n ha e t it t h h e e r how ahnse t s he a y re. The Commissioners are certainly a little less barren of suggestions, They propose to annihilate parishes which contain only forty Protestants, and transfer their revenues to other districts. Why they fixed upon forty, puzzles Mr. GLADSTONE as it has puzzled us; and he has now suggested the solution which we offered several weeks ago—that the figure was chosen because it repre sents the Thirty-nine Articles and one over : not a satisfactory solution, we admit, but the best that can be offered. The revenues of these unfortunate parishes where the population can even now with difficulty "keep alive the lamp of the Reformation," is to be transferred to populous Pro testant parishes where there is already plenty of wealth, and where there is abundant oil to feed the said lamp. remarkable application this of the saying, "To him th a t b a th shall be given, and f rom him that bath."hat ga hnot :sihnsaltl this b policy Mr. GLADSTONEe taken away even th a t which protests. He calls it " spoliation." He declares that the tithe rent c h arge was intended for the individual parish in which it was raised, and for no other, and that to take it away from that parish will be wrong and robbery. Here is a definite principle which we commend to that fertile originator of "prin ciples," Mr. DISRAELI. There is no " hard and fast line" here, like the "forty" of the Commissioners. It is a definite foundation upon which to erect a policy that shall be just and equitable. The other great expedient of the Commissioners is to :sacrifice four bishop s an d nearly twoscore deans. We do not imagine that any one will interpose on behalf of the latter dignitaries ; but will none of the staunch Churchmen who swear by Mr. HARDY protest in behalf of the first ? Already the Commissioners have been outbid. A pamphleteer, who considers Mr. GLADSTONE a revolutionary, proposes to reduce the bishops to one. He would roll the whole episcopate into a single man. How this dignitary is to discharge his episcopal duties in con firming, consecrating, ordaining, from Cape Clear to Fingal's Cave, and in addition to spend six months of the year in England as a spiritual peer, is not explained—is, we suspect, not capable of explanation. It would be well for the supporters of an Episcopalian Church to con sider well what this proposition and that of the Corn mizsioners amount to, They really mean the sacrifice THE SUICIDES IN THE _REGENT'S CANAL. On Monday Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an inquisition at the Green Man Tavern, Hoxton Old Town, respecting the death of Mary Jane Haycock, aged 17, and Esther Watts, aged 18 years, who were drowned on Friday morning in the Regent's Canal. Before, however, taking the evidence in these cases, the learned coroner went into the circumstances attending the death of a third woman, whose body was found in the same canal near the spot where the above two were recovered. Verdict : " Found drowned, but no evidence to show how the deceased got into the water." The inquiry into the double suicide was then gone into. John Haycock, a dish-cover maker, living in the Cale donian-road, said that the deceased girl Haycock was his daughter. She was a servant out of place. On Thursday night she sent her little brother in to witness to say that she had got a place. He never saw her alive afterwards. On Friday. a policeman brought witness her portrait, and he identified it. She had a will of her own. Esther Watts, 1, Whitby-court, St. Luke's, the wife of a stonemason, said that the girl Watts was her daughter, and she was also a servant. On the Thursday she came home from her place. Witness said to her, " Getting on with your impudence again ? " She replied, " You believe everything that they say." There was no quarrel, and she went back to her place again. The next that witness heart of her was that she had been dismissed fur impudence. She kept company with a young man. Witness did not know that she was enceinte. Caroline Booth, 50, Golden-lane, St. Luke's, said that she was 16 years of age. On Friday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, she saw the two girls together on the banks of the canal. She asked them what they were going to do, and they replied, "We are going to make away with ourselves." Witness knew the girl Haycock. She said to witness, " Take this portrait to my father. When you see him you will see me." The girls got up on the bridge and threw their arms round each other. They then leaped from the bridge into the water. Before they did so they threw their jackets and hats on the ground. We looked at the water after they jumped from the bridge, and the water was moving. We were then frightened, and we took the clothes up. It was cold, and we put the hats and cloaks on while we were walking home. There was another girl with me. When we got home to "Blind Con's," Golden-lane, we sent for a policeman, and he took the things from us. The inspector said that the witness had not stated that the deceased girls had given her 4d. and a purse before they leaped into the water. The witness said that the deceased Haycock said, " The money will be of no use to us now; give them 2d. each." They did not intend to say anything about the girls until the next morning. Emma Fox, the girl who was with the last witness, corroborated her statement. Dr. Forbes said that the girl 'Watts was enceinte. The other girl was not. The Coroner said that the two girls, Booth and Fox, thought more of the deceased's clothes than they did of saving life. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased girls committed suicide while of unsound mind, and the jurors request the coroner to censure severely the girls Booth and Fox for their conduct." LAW AND POLICE. CONVICTION OF PRIZEFIGIITERS.—At the Notts Quarter Sessions, two men, named John (alias "Bony") Flint and James M`Nara, have been charged with being engaged n a prize-fight on Monday, the frith instant. On the morning in question, at about half-past six o'clock, Sergeant Allwood and Police-constable Porter were on duty in Thorneywood-lane, near Nottingham, when they came upon the prisoners, who were fighting, surrounded by thirty or forty men. On seeing the police they decamped, but were followed by the officers, who (guided by the sound of their voices) came upon them again in Scout-lane. The prisoners were stripped. Sergeant Allwood, after seeing two rounds fought, proceeded to apprehend them, and after some resistance succeeded in arresting M`Na.ra ; Flint was apprehended in Nottingham during the day by Detective Hulse. Prisoners pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. FORCERY.—A sad case of forgery was investigated by ibe Lord Mayor. A youth named Way, the son of highly respectable and well-to-do parents, in the employ of Mr. Devaux, a wine merchant in Whitechapel, cashed a forged cheque for £278 145., at Smith and Payne's bank. This took place in March last, when the prisoner absconded, and had not been heard of until, on Sunday last, he called at the Mansion House and gave himself up. He pleaded guilty, and offered, on behalf of his friends, to repay the money with interest. He was, however, committed for trial. INJtSTICE.-A case which shews that the rule of red tape is not yet at an end was mentionedat the Westminster '?lice-court. A respectable old man stated that on the lith September, his son, 20 years of age, was sent to prison an an unfounded charge of having been a deserter. The man for whom he was then mistaken had since beer arrested, yet his son was still detained in prison. On thf 12th instant he made the facts known at the War Office, and was told that the young man would be liberated on the following morning. He had not, however, been kieleased, and the applicant now wished to know what wm to be done. By the direction of the court a letter was. written to the War Office, calling the attention of V authorities to the matter. THE HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF EXETER.— We are informed that the Bishop of Exeter is very ill, and that he is not likely to recover. The btatement which appeared in the Guardian a few days ago, " that he is gradually sinking to his rest," is understood to be true. although it has been denied—Western Morning News. The Scotsman publishes a letter written by Lord Westbury to Mr. Anderson, Q.C., in reference to his lord ship's refusal to serve upon the Royal Commission or Scotch Judicature. Lord Westbury is annoyed that hit right of precedence to the commission was set aside, and he complains somewhat bitterly of the manner in which he has been dealt with by the Lord Advocate. Great as was Mr. Gladstone's work last week the task he bas set himself this week is, at least, as formidable To-day he addresses the electors at Leigh. On Wed• nesday, at 2.30, he will meet the electors of Ormskirk and, at 6.0, these of Southport. On Thursday he will be present at the banquet given by the Liverpool American Chamber of Commerce to the American Minister, at the Law Association Rooms, Liverpool; and, en Friday, he will ad dress the electors at Wigan. The London and North-Western Railway Com. pany are carrying out the recommendation of the jury at th, inquest arising out of the Rugby accident. On the nume• rous inclines on the branch between Leamington and Rugby dron spikes have already been substituted for the modern trenails, the employment of which Captain Tyler, the office' of the Board of T 1 ade, said had caused the accident ; and the joints of the nails are being fished at different point: along the line. A sad domestic tragedy has been enacted neat Goole, where the wife of a sailor, whose mind Lad evi• dently been unhinged 1 y the fear of poverty, took het two grandchildren, aged four and seven, to the banks o. the Ouse, threw the elder boy into the water, and with the other child walked into the river until the cur rent, which was running strongly at the time, carried them both away. The scene was witnessed at a distance by a woman who was unable to reach the place in time tc prevent the unhappy woman accomplishing her object. THE GENERAL ELECTION.—The committee of the Scholastic Registration Association has passed the follow ing resolutions :—"That it is expedient, in the prospect o 1 a general election, to remind schoolmasters throughout the country of the valuable opportunity thus presented of enlisting the future members of the House of Common' in favour of such a bill of scholastic registration as shall give to the public the means of discriminating between duly qualified teachers and incompetent empirics." "That the committee recommend to the association to introduce a bill into Parliament early next year." THE CHANNEL BRIDGE.—It is stated in the Courrier du Pas de Calais that some important experiment' have taken place in illustration of M. Boutet's system for a bridge across the Channel. The power of resistance of a single wire of coir cables and of a tress or plait of :Wes was successively tried. The company present, some of whom were engineers well competent to judge, were astonished with the results, which clearly esta• olished a very great proportionate increase in the power of cables when combined on M. Boutet's system. THE " COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER."—A WOOd house, fitted up with great care, having a partition acrosi the middle, and suitable doors and windows, has been placed at the end of the countess's tent. It was visited and inspected by a large number of inhabitants, all of whom expressed themselves astonished at the neatness of the " Countess's house." No obstacle was presented to the placing of the house. It is understood that a meeting )f the Hexham Highway Board will be held on Tuesday to consider the case. It is reported that even amongst that body majority is in favour of no action being taken. An amusing feature of the case was that when the watchers )n the opposite side of the road saw the wood house put down, they pulled down their tent and set about mnstructing a more substantial one, - 279rfhfrn Atily 644114 of the organisation of the Church in order to retain its funds. The chief officers are to be suppressed, in order that the money-bags may be spared. Queer churchmanship this ! Dr. BRADY has shewn how this policy will work. There are, for instance, fourteen benefices in Ireland in each of which there is a curate receiving 100 guineas a year, and the aggregate population of members belonging to the Established Church is 1,332 souls ; i. e., 1,400 guineas a year are paid for looking after less than 1,400 persons. But there are also fourteen incumbents who receive between them £8,192 a year, which, taking the curates into account, may fairly be said to be paid for doing nothing. The Commissioners will, some forty years hence, if their recommendations are carried out, have " reformed " this state of things after the following fashion :—Five churches out of the fourteen will have ceased to exist as benefices ; for the re maining nine there will be 1,172 persons, and for these 1,172 there will be nine curates, at 100 guineas a piece—not very hard work ttha ; and there will be nine incumbents, having nothing to do, who will receive £5,639 a year for doing that nothing. It is not surprising that Mr. DISRAELI and his followers say as little as possible about the Commissioners' report. There is another matter which need cause no sur prise. The great body of Nonconformists whom Mr. DISRAELI hoped to rally by the cry of " No Popery" have absolutely refused to answer to that cry. It is useless to tell them that the Establishment is the bulwark of Protestantism in Ireland. They do not believe it. No wonder that they do not. A pamphleteer has just been very angry with Mr. GLADSTONE because, when pointing out that the proportion of Protestants to Roman Catholics was less now that it was formerly, he omitted to mention that the proportion of Protestant Episcopalians to Dissenters in Ireland was greater. So it seems that this " missionary " Church is making its converts, not among the Roman Catholics, but among the Presbyterians and the Wesleyans, and yet Mr. DISRAELI expects • these to come forward in behalf of the " missionary" Church ! MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. GOLD DISCOVERIES. Another gold discovery is announced. This time it is in the United States, in the territory of Idaho. The American papers speak of the deposits as being of extra ordinary richness. It is not likely, however, that this region can be rendered available before the Indians are quieted. Fresh discoveries of gold and other metals are continually being made in the district lying near the Pacific, which is beyond doubt the richest in the world. The Natal Immigration Commissioner gives his authority in favour of the recent discoveries in South Africa. He says it is a fairly settled question that the precious metal exists in considerable quantities and in several localities in the north of the English settlements. THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. Was the late Emperor of Mexico the author of the decree of October 1865, which ordered the punishment of death to be inflicted upon all who appeared in arms against the Empire ? On the one band, it is alleged that Marshal Bazaine originated the decree, and that Maximilian was opposed to it, and even tried to prevent its being carried out. On the other hand, it is put forward as a fact that he signed it, and Marshal Bazaine denies being the author of it. The Daily News is inclined to trust the partisanship which defends the dead, rather than which attaches itself to those who can acknowledge it. The decree in question was utterly opposed to Maximilian's character. It is certain that he was cruelly deceived when he signed it, and that he afterwards took steps to mitigate its operation. CUBA. The annexation of Cuba to the United States is again being agitated in the latter country. The New York papers are all disposed to entertain the project, and some urgently advocate it. INDIA. The news from the north-west frontier leaves the cam paign pretty nearly where it was. Some of the tribes were endeavouring to abandon their confederates, and have sent in deputations assuring the authorities that they had no part with the Hussanzyes, the most peccant tribe, in the late disturbances. The advance of the British has been slow, movement in this hilly country being very difficult, as well as dangerous, if the whole force be not kept well together. The Times of India continues very rashly to write down the apprehensions caused by the advances of the Russians. But the Russians do not cease to lessen the distance between their outposts and the Indian frontier. The Levant mail brought intelligence of another onward movement. If fear may be carried too far, so also may confidence. It is thought that Sir John Lawrence will not leave India until the middle of January, after the arrival of Earl Mayo. It will probably fall to the new Governor- General to receive the Duke of Edinburgh. GERMANY. Although Count Bismarck remains at Vargin, the Liberte says he is sufficiently recovered to reassume the direction of affairs. The rumours of a quarrel between King William and the Chancellor are not confirmed. The letter of the Pope to non-Catholics has met with a somewhat incomprehensible reception in Prussia. The chief council of the Protestant Church at Berlin has ordered all clergymen to read the Pope's letter to their congregations, either literally or by giving an analysis of it. The circular containing this order expresses the satis faction which the council has derived from the Holy Father's communication. It likewise takes occasion to exhort the faithful to contribute to the utmost of their means to the endowment of schools and Protestant churches. Irony is hardly suitable on such a subject; but if the council is really gratified at the Pope's letter, his Holiness is not likely to be gratified at their response. The Pope invited Protestants to return to the Catholic faith : the leaders of the Prussian Protestants express their satis faction at the appeal, and reply by asking more money for the service of the Protestant Church. RUSSIA. The Russian Government has published a ukase which it is feared will give rise to international difficulties. For the purpose of preventing smuggling the Russian cruisers are empowered to board and examine any vessel which may be suspected of carrying contraband goods. This authority is available for a certain distance beyond the Russian coast ; but if a cruiser has given chase to a vessel, it is stipulated that she may continue it in neutral waters to any distance. The commercial societies of Prussia are endeavouring to get this decree repealed. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) The United States have recognized the successful revolutionary Government at Madrid, having con firmed the action of the American Minister, who was the first publicly to acknowledge the Junta ; and in a sort of semi-official way the Government of Crete, which is now represented at Washington by an authorized agent, who is working hard to secure an actual recognition of the independence of that island. The agent, Mr. Julius Bing, was formerly connected with the Greek Legation at Washington, and has long worked in the interests of Candia. The question whether General Grant is hostile to England has assumed additional importance by the elections of this week. Not only has it been often asserted that he is so, but yesterday the Standard, in a leading article, stated that he " had made no secret of his hostility to this country, and that a large number of Fenians have supported hitn in his candidature on that ground alone." We have often put this question to inti mate friends of the General, always eliciting the mine reply, " It is a great mistake. General Grant means what he says, let us have peace ; and although in cotntnon with the Northern Army during the war he viewed England with hostility as the main support of the Lost Cause,' that feeling has died out." It is improbable that a man of Scotch descent should be smitten with Anglopho'lia ; and as far as the best testimony goes, we can assert that it is not the case with Grant. As regards the Irish support it is confined to the ratting of the New York Irish People, which the Democrat says, on the authority of Nagle, went over for $5,000. General M'Clellan is noticed as having grown stout, and looking remarkably well. Although he desired to avoid public displays, yet no sooner had he landed than he became the object of marked at tention. On a serenade, a procession of soldiers, who had served under him, passed in review, and dense crowds gathered before his hotel, welcoming him with the warmest salutations. Three cheers were proposed for Seymour, but not well received, as the meeting was wholly intended to do honour to M'Clellan. General J. Hobart Ward introduced M'Clellan as the great commander of the army of the Potomac, when he said—" I know, my friends, you will not expect a speech from me ; I am sure you will be content with the expression of my most sin cere and heartfelt thanks for this kind and cordial welcome on my return home —more, a thousand times, than I had any right to expect. You will, I know, excuse me from making any speech." Ritualism is exciting some attention in America, both north and south of the St. Lawrence. The Canadian Provincial Synod not only condemned by unanimous resolution the elevation of the elements, the use of incense, mixing of water, the wafer bread, and vestments other than surplice, stole, or scarf, but the Synod would not even hear the com munion table called "an altar." In Memphis, Mr. Rogers, the pastor of the church " Blessed Virgin," has received au admonition from his bishop, but not in the meek spirit of the dove. St. Alban's, New York, continues its ritualistic practices to the great annoyance of many. The General Convention was about to hold its triennial session in New York, and Bishop Potter had already de livered his charge to the Conventio❑ of the dioces2. At the general Convention of the Episcopalian Church the subject of Church Reform in Italy will probably b.:3 brought forward, and a reubiou of the churches discussed. In San Francisco the mem bers of the Greek Church have become so numer ous that the Bishop of Sitka has sent a pl lest to organise a congregation, who now regularly per forms services there according to the rites of his Church. THE SUPPRESSED SEX. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Such is the title of an article in this month's number of the Westminster Review, which pro pounds a theory regarding Women somewhat simi lar to that of IdErwanni DIXON regarding Manners. Yet on examination, in points, they are almost contradictory, though both have a strong colouring of truth. The Reviewer traces the condition of women from its lowest stage in the Asiatic cradle of the race, rising with the march of emigration westward till it reaches its highest elevation in America. Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON in the same way ' traces gentle manners westward from the original home of mankind, declining at every stage till the contrast is reached between the soft, courteous, polite Hindoo, and the roughness of Denver. Both acknowledge the refining influence of woman. Yet we have the sex in her lowest degradation in the country of gentle manners, and the sex in the highest estimation in sueh a State as Kansas. There is something contradictory in this, although susceptible of an easy explanation. The reviewer regards war as the first cause of the degradation of the sex, as men who made it almost their only busi ness learned to regard strength and animal courage as the highest attributes. As in both, women were deficient, they fell into contempt, which. the neces sities as well as the effects of war increased. The necessities which compelled the males to be under arms forced the females to be not only domestic, but agricultural drudges, and the effects in destroying men brought about a disproportion of the sexes, by which many women fell to the lot of one master or husband. It is an economic law that things become cheap in proportion to their abundance, and in a community where women were in excess they ceased to have much value beyond their productive power as slaves. The march of emigration west wards, changed the proportion of the sexes. The emigrants mostly were males of the more enter prising portion of the community, and where the women were few the economic law which told against their sisters in the old c)untry, told in their favour in the new, for when' three or four men strove for the hand of one woman she naturally rose in estimation, an I was able to assert an individual opinion. With the steady west ward progress was the rise, until at a certain period of European history it was in the power of the female sex to achieve the position to which they now hope to attain, but they then lost their oppor tunity by that bane of wom ►okind--vanity—and the mere personal desire to shine in society. They became the toys of Courts, where they might have been the rulers and guides ; and it was not till the still onward march westward brought the race into America that the chance again offers itself. The councils of the Puritan settlers of Mas sachusetts were deeply influenced by women, and the records of the New England States show what part the Goodys took in public affairs. Unfortu nately for them, and for the sex generally, St. PAUL had written the 31th and 35th verses 14th chapter Ist Corinthians, and this was a stu nbling-block which no Puritan of that day could get over. The earnest desire, however, that all should read the Word of GOD led to the general education of the people without regard to sex ; and where the girls had an equal chance with the boys, they quickly asserted their equality, aye, even their superiority, in intellect. Men maintain their inferiority, and appeal to the history of the world for its confirma tion. The reply is, that they are inferior in physical strength, and that that inferiority degraded them in the minds of our savage forefathers, a remnant of barbarism which still exists, having pro duced a system of education and society, suppressive of their intellectual equality. A nation whose corner stone is slavery quickly resolved itself into two classes—the haughty aristocrat and the degraded serf. The aristocrat points to the degradation he has himself caused, as the reason for the position of the slave. He makes the class by his tyranny and selfishness manifestly his inferior, and then declares that inferiority to be the work of the ALMIGHTY, and a full excuse, for his using the creature whose humanity almost he denies, as a beast of burden. Though woman was created to be the helpmate of man, and though so intimately associated with him as the mother of his children, such is the innate selfishness of the lords of creation that wherever their intelligence rose but little above a state of war, they degraded the sec mpanions into a condition little superior to that of slaves. Of course, this was accompanied with the declaration that the animal was inferior, and therefore was in her proper place. We go on accepting these tradi tionary statements as truths, without inquiry, and it shocks all our notions of propriety when they are called in question. So completely are we the crea tures of habit and of early training that women are the first to oppose the new notions regarding them selves. They scouted the idea of employing a female doctor, and the ladies who have risen superior to all opposition in qualifying themselves for this profes sion have found no small portion of their trials to ma.- nate from their own sex. The question which really concerns mankind is, whether it would be beneficial to the race that women should be granted terms of full equality, which means, that the law recognizes no difference, that education be alike, schools and colleges being open, as well as the professions. They would then take the place in the world, from day labourers to seats in the Cabinet, to which they could attain, and why should they not ? We very well know that their place will be no higher than that for which they are qualified, and if it be lower, not only is an injustice done to them, but also to the human race. It is manifestly so when a lady who might aspire to eminence in a profes sion becomes " a girl of the period," and developes to the " Fashionable woman." If these descrip tions approximate even distantly to the truth, it is clear that our system has been a false one which permits a fertility of intellect to run into such a wild waste of weeds. We have the fact demonstrated beyond contr tdiction, both in England and America, that if there be any dif ference in the mental capacity of girls and boys, it is in favour of the former, the test haying been tried again and again in the schools and colleges of both countries. But beyond this we have not advanced, and the opponents of change are enabled to assert that women are physically incapacitated fro:n pur suing the professions and handicraft labour of men although as children their intellectual capacity may be even superior to that of their brothers. Were it not that this question had been tried, it, also, would be denied. Would it not be better to test the after result likewise, and see whether women could develope useful faculties in medicine, in law, in divinity, in journalism, as well as in the skilled labour of the compositor, the watchmaker, and the like ? If they could, and the worl I does not utilize the power, so much the worse for the world. A man having an orchard might with as much wis dom enforce the barrenness of half his trees to en hance the value of the fruit of the other half ; or, to take steps, if he had a dairy, to keep most of his cows dry, while they eat as much as those that gave milk. The reviewer says :—" We believe that man is only half living in so much of his world as woman is excluded from; that he is only half seeing truth, only half discovering the laws and the beauty surrounding him, because one of his eyes with a subtle light of its own is closed, in the ignorance of woman." We go on from cen tury to century, blind to a fact which nature has made as plain as sunlight, awl after adopt' ing it marvel greatly at the dense stupidity of generations. We then find that it was what nature intended, and that we have been neutralizing her benefits through a system as artificial as that whic h pro laces the feet of the Chinese women. Th a :' we be!told with pity, ityligna:loa, c:)ntem2t, yet , ' it prevails ampng a large portion of the human race' Is it not possible that our own convention diti2s have something of the mental narrowness .‘ we there see physically illnstra.tel? " Wornee's home duties employ their time" is the ready reply triif those who urge a broaler field for the sex, as most of the ladies of the upper classes in England had any home duties, or any object except the half hopelessone of getting married. Many of them are f ar superior in intellect to the brothers who are earniog their livelihood in professions, an 1 why should ne t the positions be changed, the mentally gifted sist er being in the profession, and the handsotue brother looking out for a wife! Clearly this would be t he natural arrangement ; nor would the circumstan ces be altered by marriage, when both the woman an d the man earned money by professions. Indeed the security would then be nearly double, and th e means of living more ample, while we grant that a family would lessen but not destroy the lady ° opportunity of earning money - . Doubtless, a radical change would be effected in society, a° women would lose much of that feeling of de, pendence and with it a portion of the charm it conveys, but many false theories would be dis; sipated, such for instance as the notion derive d from Eastern countries that the f re e intercourse of the sexes, although bred and educated to that treourse, would increase immorality. That ittnigil. t : under present circumstances, we do not deny, but it has been proved in America that it does not under th e altered conditions of the training, while it has also been demonstrated that woman retains and exercise° a beneficial, refining influence on men, i n all the seminaries into which she has yet been admitted. Miss Burdett Coutts has kindly conseatel to open on Saturday, the 24th instant, the new wings lateli, added to the Commercial Tra ve ll ers ' S c h oo l s , building at Pinner. The council of the Manchester Chamber of Cor r merce resolved on Thursday to invite the Hon. Reve rl Johnson, the United St a tes Mi n i s t er , t o a b anq uet NviDi f is to be given on the 27th instant to the Marquis Salisbury. ' We have an amusing instance of " Wh a t's i n a name ? t Captain Parr, a delegate from Nause m o n d to the rec en Constitutional Convention in Vi rg i n i a , was the inven tor of the now wall-known epithet, "Carpet-bagger." In eoll6e queues of this term, carpet-bags have fallen into sueb reput3 that not one can be sold in the South; and th ose have suffered who had a stock on hand of an article bef or e readily saleable. As usual men have run into the opP° ; site extreme, and althougli the habits of the carpet-bagg er . have changed as little as his wardrobe has increas e ' yet nothing but trunks the size of a Newfoundland's kenne l will now suffice, and the railway officials aro disgusted at the change. An expostulation lately elicited the follevi; ing reply from a genuine specimen of the tribe : " 9° 6 suppose," said he " that the trunk, big as it is, c ontains wardrobe ; there is in it a s hi r t front and a dozen PsPeor collars." We may here mention that " scalawag, is given by Bartlett, in his vocabulary b of A ra° , rr e =isms, as something especially vulgar, and in tt illustrated edition of "Webst er ' s Dictionary," 8a rt; ... , 16 , is quoted, and the word is d e fi ne d as a m i sera bl e sea''' ay a scapegrace. Wade H amp t on d e fi ne d it t o b e the Ina - d , the most degenerate, and ill- con diti one d ca ttl e of a l' ef ilt ; a and it has long been known in the So u th as a term of vilest reproach. Indeed, those to whom it was aPPI, merited there the most opprobrious epithet in the I! guage—a man of Southern birth, who has deserted „ side for a political reward. The New York Times gives an interesting L e i count of the settlement of the Dutch in the lin, s T, States :—" T wenty-one years ago. in the winter of ao 33 Netherlands arrived in the United States and ro ta' their way to a tract of land which t h ey p urc h a sed in o f was then an unbroken wilderness, on the eastern shorever Lake Michigan six miles from where the Black D i g empties itself into the lake. Here they erected tWo cabins, large enough to furnish all with temporary ( 1 t1 ; h o ters. Plain rugged men, th ey se t t o work to subdue stubborn ground and f rown i ng f orest and make con,."-sli able homes for th emse l ves cu d t h e i r families. Fre • arrivals from the fatlierlaud added to their n urnbe.ra,' in due time log ho uses gave p l ace to su b stant i a l JA I & lags ; mills for sawing and grinding, furnaces for o ';' l , / ing farming implements, shops an d s t ores gradtl3`l, arose. At this day the city of H o ll an d h as a popula tl° o, of three thousand, with its mayor and commoa cc tool its three Dutch journals, four church e s, u nion SG"„i, with four hvudrod and fifty scholars, grammar soh' a college, and theological seminary, the first profess Ic a, theology being installed last mo n th. Th e e ntire tt , land colony proper is 20 miles by 16 in extent, the P °2 o - lation some 15,000. Fine cr o p s o f grass an d gr ail; „ e a ward their toil, the magnific en t f orests supply abtina B- 0 of fuel and timber, fruit thrives admirably, and Chict. and Milwaukee across the lake are markets for the suP A P Four-fifths of the population are pure Hollanders, 10 ,,7, •0 three of the four c h urc h es th e serv i ces are st ill y whn"J„, l o Dutch, the congregatio n s si ng i ng every S un d a y the P o d psalms to the same tunes that in the 17th century elt? e b o the souls of their persecuted forefathers. Hellman „ s , hitherto sent comparativ e ly fe w em i gran t s t o o ur shl r j r the plenty and content of its p o p u l a ti on prec l u ding v ° ,big tary expatriation on any large s ca l e ; th e su c cess of of experiment may invite more ventures on the part an these who desire a wid e r scope f or th e i r ener gies " their circumscribed country a ff or d s . I n w h a t e ver n b n er a bers they come, their cha r acte r a n d h a bit s w ill m ak° th e ir an element of strength a n d p rosper it y t o th e l an d of tm adoption. The Worcester County, Massachusetts, F ree 1 1 1. 0 : stitute of Industrial S c i ence w ill b e opene d Novernb er . si examinations for admission b e i ng h e ld t h e wee k preCi°3oot tuition is free to residents of the county and s 6° others. 140 0 [ADTFRTISEMENT.] -- Holloway's Pills. Ini, cc. -1i Maladies. —ln our variable climate bronchitis, coughs, colds , W 1 10 many other chest and thr oa t com pl a i n t s, mar k w i t h r egre tt l i, At regulari.y the change of seasons, and - we are all aware t": of certain tames disease runs through the people like the pla0".0 old; under such critical circumstances we all should ii-W O l know that Holloway's Pills can check ' an d arres t these na'n' te o ties. This purifying medicine ex p e l s fr om th e bl oo d a nd 6% 0 s all obnoxious matters which breed both c on t ag i on an d Wel l y( maladies. It institutes a radically curati ve ra th er than 3, p v. oo o tive treatment. Holloway's Pills s h ou ld b e taken witlt°lls.• moment's delay when disordered stomach, headache, or re:it-' — ness betokens derangement of the frame. , o eS. LADVEHTISEHENT Consumption, and all nervous, biii stumach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggr 3 , ° „ s o tli and accelerated by drugs of every description, but Per,` - „ 0 ,1, curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabica I' as proved by thousands of cases which had been cons l "7, o hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma , : s r surnption, habitual co n stip a ti on, di arr h coa, a ll gastric dertAss, ments, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous' - it , biliousness, fevers, sore th roa t s , di p hth er i a, ca t arr h s , colds , u . flueuza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, rities, eruptions, hyst er i a , neura l g i a, i rr it a bili ty, sleepless"#, acidity, palpitation, h e a r tb urn, h ea d ac h e, debility, d r° ,l: At cramps, spasms, nausea a n d s i c k ness, even i n pregna ncy sea, smking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness , of the c t o he pains at the pit of the s t omac h , an d between the shoulders ,•0 We quote few.—The Pope's health r es t ore d by Du Food. Care No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The heal' 1 1 the Holy Father is excell en t, es p ec i a ll y s i nce, aban donie;,l-9 other remedies, he has confi ne d hi mse lf ent i rely to Da be te l Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pl e io ,l at every meal. It has pro - laced a surprisingly bens c o i effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise . ... a i, excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber ' - g9, chant, of Friuiley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 1a , 11 0. ,.. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafto't of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord LieutellTJV Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. „ e 59, years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervolls'ocl asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness 5 n9 vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Ca u ti on .—B a waze o f the .'„ o ut unsavoury and more than sloppy i m i tat i ons to w hi c h, ifi t „",l. authority, Baron Liebig's name is mos t au d ac i ous l y attace":is.l In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 93 ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., ; ;Li cA 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,40s —Als o Du B ARRY ' S R EVALENTA At CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 esPiap 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 43 cups at 65., for 283 cups t t ,, se! for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. T`''',,eir and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on Ls - ilt of Post Office Order. —BARRY DU BARRY and CO., No. Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. __.4% Births. HUGHES—On the 15th i ns t., at. 70, South Audley - s eott Mrs. R. W. Hughes, of a son. OMMANNEY —On the 16th inst. at .0 at The Planes, East shpt the, wife of Mont agu F. Onemanney,. Esq., Royal ° neers, of a son. WAKE—On the 3d ult., at Simla, the wife of CaP a Wake, 21st Hussars, of a daughter. Marriages. 11 BODDA—Pi - NE—On the 12th inst, at Trinity ‘-`'` g eo Marylebo ne , F ran k H . B o dd a, o f 2. Nottingham York -gate, Regent's-park, to LouiSa, youngest chop 0 1- of George Py ne , E sq . , 28 , Devonshire -street, Porta.' place. TuomsoN—HEIDEMAN —On the 19th inst., at Brib' "of David Lionel, eldest son of David Thomson 1 - I . ,s c l i "ell' Eastbourne-terrace, London. to Antonine, onlS'."ls' ter of W. P. lleidman, Esq., 'of Holland-road, 130 - Deaths. ATTWOOD —On the 18th inst., at Hoxton-square, 11,,v. E. W. Attwood, 8.A.. Oxon, aged 54. n oYf FORD—On the 17th inst., at Stamboul House, AlleY ll-1- Norwood, Captain John Ford, 0.N., aged 63. v e a" GOWERS—On the 17th iust , Mr. Samuel Gowors, s °l ford-gardens, Kensington. NoYEs—On the 17th inst, at Ch e l sea, Ch ar les Nos e ' Esq., late of the Board of Trade, aged 78. 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