The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC The Saturday Review, pointing out the inconsistencies in the Ritual Commissioners' Report, speaks of it as waste paper. It may not be an objection to the commissioners' report that it seeks to restrain variety only on one side, but not on the other, and that it prohibits excess over and beyond the appointed order or usage, but says nothing sboi;t defect ; because it may be pleaded that the existence of the commission was occasioned by a one-sided complaint, awl because it may be suggested that, some day or other, the commission may inquire into absolute neglect of prescribed order, as they have already inquired into extra ordinary zeal beyond prescribed order. But it is a pave objection to the report, that it seeks to set aside law by an authority which is above or beyond law. As things stand, lighted candles at Communion are lawful ; the Court of Arches ha. , ; pronounced them to be lawful ; but the com missioners say that, however legal, they are henceforth to be, net prohibited by law, but prevented by what is not law. For what they propose is, not a new law, but a new executive. They ask that the bishop shall be forced to forbid what the law has not ventured to say is unlawful in one case, that of vestments, and which the law has actually declared to be lawful in another case, that of lighted can dles. In other words, the report proposes to give to the bishop, or rather to impose on the bishop, the necessity of doing an illegal thing. And under what circumstances ? The inculpated and objectionable usages are to be put a atop to only on complaint. Where there is no complaint they may still be retained. But where there is a minority of dissentients, and such a microscopic minority as amounts to three per soil., the very thing is to be disallowed in one parish which is to be silently permitted in another. This is a new way to seek the Church's peace and ensue it, and to secure uniformity by providing that one man should impose his views of Church order on three hundred and thirty men, or that, ex hypothesi, five parishioners should override fifty thousand. It is almost incredible, but it is unfortunately true, that this wonderful eirenicon is seriously proposed as a " precaution against frivolous applications to the bishop." And certainly the force of jesting could no further go when these grave and learned personages, two-thirds of the commissioners, fully im pressed with the necessity of the National Church enjoy ing those "rightful liberties" which flow from its consti tution as " including men of varying shades of opinion," actually prohibit observances which may be " welcome to some "—say a thousand—" but are offensive to others " say three. And who are these three or four in a thousand who are to regulate the public service of the Church? Of course, the salt of the earth, the saints of the saints, the cream of the Church's cream ? "Three resident parishioners, who shall be householders, and declare themselves to be members of the Church." The Tory Reform Bill bears early and promising fruit, and the house hold suffrage of the majority in politics is now converted into the household suffrage of the minority—three in a thousand in religion. A whole and perhaps united con gregation of many hundreds is to be dictated by three persons who may make themselves churchmen for a single emergency, or a single vestry meeting. The commissioners inform us that they have other work in hand, and that they are engaged in revising rubrics, and doing a good many other things, in which, among other qualifications, it is probable that common sense may be required. Having hitherto, in their many labours in preparing two reports, drawn but little from the stores of this quality of common sense, which undoubtedly many of them possess, and some of them in other departments of duty generally exercise, we shall expect that their future reports, if they Venture upon any, will be distinguished by a business-like and practical Character which the present recommenda tions of these venerable and dignified personages cer tainly do not possess.' It is, however, premature to speak of future reports, since it may perhaps be generally consi dered that the commissioners may be relieved from further labours. The Spectator comments uprn the extraordinary nature of the attempted murder of a distant relative by two boys in the City. It never heard of such a case before. What caa be the cause of an extraordinary attempt to murder like this ? We have here two children, with a home they appear to have regarded with some love, designing and carrying out a war against society with all the cruel and hard unscrupulousness of men who had measured them selves against the world, and decided that they would prey upon it, instead of belonging to it. Can it be that that faculty of woßde,r, which belongs most to the early stages of knowledge, and which, in children accordingly, usually exaggerates the awfulness of law and public authority, and the dangers, both physical and moral, of transgressing their commands, can ever be totally absent, so that the conscience of children is neither more nor less startled by crime than by ordinary childish guilt ? Evil as these wretched little boys' acts have been, they seem to us not so much more guilty, as much more unnatural in their type of guilt, than the usual sins of boyhood. Most chil dren brought up by respectable parents are guaranteed against such crimes by the mere awe which law and all its paraphernalia inspire—through the mere fear of the world, inexorable rules, and its carelessness for individuals— V:rough the mere contrast, of. which they are so keenly aware, between the safety of the home and the dangers which accompany all drifting in, and, still more, defiance of the big, hard, unknown world. These boys, one would think, can have, had no safeguards of this kind. They must have felt like men who had ceased to need the pro tectiun of the home, and who had ceased to feel awe of the unknown severities which society keeps in store for those who make war on it. They must have had little or none of that imaginative dread which awakens children's con sciences, even when the sense of right is feeble. The fear of violence and blood, and all the accessories of crime, wears off with old criminals, but here it does not seem to have existed. They robbed and slew, or apparently intended to slay, when other children at worst pilfer and lie and torture dumb animals. We doubt if the moral guilt is worse, hut there is a strange and lurid absence of social wonder about the deed—of that faculty which makes children shrink from pitting themselves against the visible and acknowledged forces of society, even when they not shrink from secret indulgences at its expense. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE FINE ARTS. Mr. H. Ottley, according to annual custom, has deli vered a discourse "On the Art Season," at the rooms of the Society for Encouraging the Fine Arts,before a numerous assemblage of members and their friends. The speaker made a rapid but comprehensive survey of the art history of the year, including all points of interest connected with public works, and the products of art as displayed at the exhibitions of the season and in the printsellers' windows. In the first-named branch of his - subject he referred par ticularly to the late competitions for the law courts and the National Gallery, which had each resulted in a dead lock, and which had been so unsatisfactory that he hoped they would be thrown aside altogether and the questions reopened anew. There had at least been gained this negative advantage from these abortive contests, that the competing artists as a body had shewn themselves utterly unappreciative of the special characteristics and purposes of the buildings they proposed to erect, and that this had been acknowledged to be the secret of their failure. In any future competitions a lesson, it wns to be hoped, would be taken from the past, and buildings be produced as the result, which, withc.ut adventitious ornamentation, too often incongruous with the main purpose, should meet all the essential require ments of each particular case. Speaking of the hundreth exhibition of the Royal Academy, now just opened, Mr. Ottley said that, whether considered as a whole or in its parts, it did not warrant the repetition of the hackneyed description of newspaper critics, as being "fully up to the average of former years." On the contrary, he considered that it was an unprecedentedlybad exhibition, and one dis creditable to the arts of the country. Tic did not think there was a picture in the range of it which the country would be prepared to put forward, whether at home or abrcad, as fairly repres:nti the s'attt 3of our art. This was a sad reflection, and on this hundredth anniver sary of the foundation of the Academy the question thrusts itself upon the mind how far that institution would have to be held responsible for the result as it stood before them. The votaries of art amongst the community had increases a thousandfold in number and intensity of appreciative feeling during this eventful century. The artists had also greatly increased in point of numbers during the same period, but had the Cha racter of our art improved, had the number of artists of first-rate merit increased amongst us in anything like the same proportion? He thought not ; certainly there were not three artists amongst us at the present day to compare with Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Hogarth, a grand tr;univirate of the last century, f whom owed anything to academic instructions. The discourse, which excited considerable interest by the boldness of the Principles asserted in it, was followed by a discussion in which several artists and connoisseurs of distinction took part. The canonry in Well 3 Cathedral, vacant by the &Ali of Canon Pinder, has been given ty the Dean and Chapter to the Rev. Prebendary Bernard, rector of IVa!eet. The Bishop of Salisbury has now sufficiently recovered from his recent severe illness to be able to resume his confirmation tour in the Dorsetshire portion of his Alocese. Sir Wm. Jenner, Dart., M.D., has (says the he;ll.:h Medical Journal) entirely rooovered from his indis posltion, and has returned to town. It has been arranged that on her Majesty's visit this year to &MUNI ahe will be attended by t. of CQWO, THE Bl_ SHOP OF OXFORD O 2 THE CHURCH. The Bishop of Oxford lately attended a crowded meeting at the Town Hall, Colchester, presided overby the mayor of the borough (Major Bishop), in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In his opening observations his lordship said he conceived that in the settling of our race in different parts of ttie earth we were following the Providential law, and enabling them to reproduce in the land of their adop tion the religion of their forefathers. (Hear, hear.) Take, for instance, the hundred TY illions who dwell in India, and for whom the Crown of England was respon sible. It was but that very morr:ag that, in answer to an argument for maintaining our own Established Church in Ireland, there was a taunt thrown out that we ought to establish our Church in India. It was as easy as possible to shew any sensible man the fallacy of this argument. It was one thing to keep and another to found. (Hear, hear). But these things always pointed to some truth. There was never any smoke, be it ever so blue or faint , .a tint, but there was the smouldering of a little fire that caused it, and when men pointed out such inconsistencies as that, they pointed to a truth, and that truth was this —that if the people of Great Britain were for maintaining religious establishments at home, because they believed it to be the duty of a Christian Government to maintain such aids to religion, they must be inconsistent in leaving the multitudes in India so little taught as Christianity at home leaves them taught at present. (Hear, hear.) His lordship then read some extracts from a letter from the Bishop of Calcutta, giving Most encouraging accounts of the stir in the rative mind that was taking place in India. But what were we doing (continued the bishop) if we took from these people by giving them our own science and our own doubts, and set before them our unchristian leaven, and shaking in this way all their own belief in that which once did lift them up, if we were giving them nothing in the place of it? But this work could not be done by the Government or Parliament of the country, and for this plain reason—our divisions at home made it impossible—it would make it unjust to attempt to do it. The first duty of each Chris tian community within our common land was by earnest endeavours within itself to do that which belonged to its proportion in the whole community on the common work, kccording to the consciences of those who did it. Their cLairman had alluded to some threatening of our Church at borne—to talk of disestablishment and the like. Thank God it was nothingmore than talk at present. (Applause.) Like many other mischiefs, it spent itself in a little talk. (Hear, hear.) Political necessities, we all knew, were very strong—if they could accomplish their work by a little talk, and we could come in afterwards and turn their talk into vapour, he thought it would be very well for us. (Hear, hear.) His lordship then alluded to the evil inflnehmes which were constantly going from this country, citing as an instance the instructions that were sent from England for the recent dastardly attempt to destroy the life of our Prince Alfred in Australia. But, thank God, said his lordship, there had been in that Australian land a settlement of our English Church, and on the previous Sunday there were prayers offered in all the churches for the life of that young prince, and who could doubt but that angels' hands had turned aside the point of that weapon of death in answer to those prayers? (A pplause.) THE CONVICT MICHAEL BARRETT. The memorial presented to the Home Secretary on be half of the condemned Fenian Barrett is a most elaborate document, and argues at great length that the evidence given at his trial altogether failed to establish his identity with that of the man who caused the explosion. Several fresh affidavits are given. An inquiry seems to have been instituted in Glasgow, beginning on Monday last, and the memorial proceeds to state : " That James Lindsay, in his affidavit, declares that he saw the said Michael Barrett on the 20th and 21st of November last in Glasgow, and was employed by him to post bills announcing the torchlight procession. That the said Michael Barrett was seen by Sergeant Deakin, of the Glasgow police, in company with the said James Lindsay, ' when engaged in posting the said bills, and that the said Sergeant Deakin took down the nanie and address of the said Michael Barrett at the said time. The said James Lindsay further declares that the whiskers of the said Michael Barrett were then short, and not long Dun dreary whiskers, as alleged by all the witnesses for the prosecution, who on the trial of the said Michael Barrett professed to identify him. That if the evidence of the before-mentioned Charles M`Manus, Arthur Burgoyne, and Peter M'Corry, and the statement on oath of the said James Lindsay be true (and they testify to a fact on which they cannot be mistaken), the said Michael Barrett must have had short whiskers on the 21st November, and been at that time in Glasgow, a fact utterly irreconcilable with the testimony of Henry Morris, the apprentice of the approver, and Jane Koeppel his workwoman, who con curred in stating that the man who passed by the name of Jackson, and who they professed t o o identify as the said Michael Larratt, visited their master's house constantly for six weeks previens to the explosion, and that he had long whiskers coining below the chin. It is also inconsis tent with the testimony of every witness called by the Crowd who professed to identify him, and who said that when they saw him he had loeg whiskers below the chin. It is inconsistent with the entire theory on which the prosecution rested, and is utterly irreconcilable with the only evidence on which the jury could have based their verdict." The memorial concludes by expressing a hope that a respite may be granted in order to give time for the truth of the facts set forth to be sifted. The Glasgow Herald, in a long editorial article, reviews the evidence given at the trial on both sides, and adds many facts ascertained since the convict's condemnation. One singular incident is, that a letter was found at the house where Barrett lodged which bore the name of Jack son and the convict's address. This letter was not pro duced at the trial. "If the prosecution:' says the Herald, " does its duty, witnesses may be forthcoming who can supply the missing link in Barrett's history or habits for two or three months previous to the Clerkenwell explosion. These witnesses are neither Feniaus nor sympa thisers with murderers, and they are able to name the very house at which Barrett was a daily visitor and a frequent nightly lodger up to a period within three weeks of the explosion, when these visits suddenly ceased. They can Ore the names of his associates in Glasgow, the colour of his clothes when be left, and they can speak most distinctly to the uninjured state of his Dundreary whiskers after the torchlight procession in November l.ast. Some of them heard O'Neill make mention of his burnt whiskers, but none of them either heard or saw anything wrong with the whiskers of Barrett. The boot -bottoming story of Michael M`Nulty has been shaken to its foundation already ; and one of the witnesses above referred to is in a position to give some information about a pair of O'Neill's boots which were mended and given to Barrett about two months before the explosion. We have heard all this within the last few days ; and if it be true, it will go a great way to confirm the evidence against the convict, and just as far as to nullify the Glas gow alibi with its fifteen additional affidavits." The Bishop of 111.turitius is about to undertake a number of episcopal engagements for the Bishop of Win chester, who is AS yet unable to resume his duties. As the shipment of wheat has been begun from the West by way of the Mississippi, its old channel, to the Atlantic ports, it is announced that the trade is to be extended, and that arrangements are being made to ship wheat direct by water from St. Louis to Liverpool. The accounts of the harvest in France are more satisfactory. Under the influence of the alteration of rain and sunshine the wheat looks well, and the fields which seemed bare ten days ago now shew a beautiful green covering. Round Paris and in the centre of France the ground has now received sufficient moisture, and only wants heat ; but drought is still complained of in the Var, Bouches du Rhone, and Ardeche. Advices from the vine- bearing districts are also more favourable. SALARIES OF RAILWAY CHAIRMEN.—Mr. Moon, the chairman of the Loudon and North-Western Railway Company, receives a salary of £2,000 per annum. Sir Daniel Gooch, M.P., the chairman of the Great Wes tern, receives £l,OOO ; while Mr. S. Laing, M.P., the chairman of the London, Brighton, and South Coast, has £2,500, although the Brighton is a much smaller concern than either the North-Western or the Great Western. EMIGRATION FROM htELAND.—Emigration from Ireland is proceeding on a very extensive scale. Last week over 440 persons from the counties of Cavan, Monaghan, and Louth sailed from Dundalk fur America; and every week, ft , r mont:ts past, large numbers have left Queenstown for the same place. Six hundred emigrants embarked on the vessels belonging to the Gulon and the Cunard lines which sailed front Queens. town for New York on Wednesday. Hundreds are daily arriving in Cork to get berths in the vessels that will sail next. STRIKE AND CO-OPEEITIVE MOVEMENT AT BRAD. ronD. -- The operative painters of Bradford some weeks ago struck work for an advance of wages—from /5./d. to Cd. per hour. The masters resisted the application on the ground that it was unreasonable ; and the men, who alle . ;el that an implied acquieseenoe had been previously made, offered to submit the matter to Arbitration, but their employers refused. The different masters have now obtained a supply of hands from London. The men who itruck work have, consequently, btarted an industrial <•.:;eet , 7 OW40), with, it Pt EPA, argit KolAlifie of @WWI, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVtiktiNG, MAY 9, 1868. 711 E IRISH CHURCH. On Wednesday afternoon a large and influen tial Protestant meeting was held in St. James's Hall in support of the Irish Church Establish ment. The chair was taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury. On the platform there was a strong muster of peers and bishops of the Irish and English branch of the Establishment. The body of the hall was crowded with clergy men anxious to defend the outwork, as it is called by them, of the Anglican Church. The meeting was clerical in its character, and there was a "No Popery " flavour in some of the speeches. It was very comprehensive in its composition, embracing in its religious brother hood every section of the Establishment, from Dr. Wilberforce to Dean Stanley. The Bishop of Oxford, on seconding the first resolution, was interrupted, and for a time silenced by a storm 'of hisses. He grew defiant, and denounced those " sibilant geese" who, for the sake of miserable and paltry differences (do the Ritualists think them paltry ?), would jeopar dize the great object of the meeting. At last the Archbishop of Canterbury threatened to leave the chair unless a full and patient hear ing was given to the Bishop of Oxford. But the lesson of the " sibilant geese" was not lost upon Dr. Wilberforce. He took the hint, and spiced his speech not a little with "No-Popery" ingredients. He expatiated with an unctious ness which he so well knows how to exhibit on the " Supremacy of our Queen," on " Our Reformed Church,' on the " Open Word of God," and contrasted these glorious results of the Royal supremacy with the " Mediator ship of the Virgin Mary," the " usurped supre macy of a foreign bishop," and a "Christianity as is now. taught by Ultramontane Doctors." The Bishop of Oxford argued that the funda mental error of holding the supremacy of a foreign bishop in place of that of the national crown made the Establishment of Catholicism in' Ireland a moral impossibility. But the denial of the Royal Supremacy in Scotland did not prevent the establishment of Presby terianism. " We," says the Bishop of Oxford, speaking of himself and his confreres,. " are the national Church. How can it," he asked, "be an insult to the people of Ireland that England provides that which she believes to be the truth and God's way of salvation ?" We notice the Bishop of Oxford's speech as being the first symptom outside of the excited arena of a party fight in the House of Com mons, of raising again the religious issue in England between Catholicism and Protestant ism. Ireland is to have the Establishment thrust upon her as a national Church because, in the opinion of the Bishop of Oxford, it is " God's way of salvation," and because the Papal supremacy is an offence to English Pro testantism. The vast majority of the people of Ireland are to be oppressed and insulted by the presence of an alien and hated Establish ment to satisfy the Protestantism of England, and to protect the English Establishment from , the attacks of its enemies. The answer of the people of Ireland is simple. They don't believe in the Bishop of Oxford's " way of salvation" and don't care a fig for what be comes of the English Establishment, but that, as a Catholic nation, they repudiate now and for ever English Protestantism and its Church, and that, if a "No Popery " issue in the country and on the hustings is to be raised, and it can only be raised successfully by the Protestant bishops and clergy of the English Establishment, then the people of Ireland will, for every meeting, such as that of Wednesday, in St. James's Hall, muster in monster meetings like that lately held in Limerick, in which the determination of the masses was manifested in a manner not to be mistaken, no longer to endure, for the sake of English Protestantism, the oppressive and insulting injustice of the Irish Establishment. Indications, indeed, are not wanting, of which the meeting in St. James's. Hall was one, that the Protestant party in the Government, in the Established Church, and in the country, will try as a last resource, in order to save the condemned Irish Establishment to raise a "No Popery " cry. Such an attempt would r not ult mate be most ill-advised on the part of the E ng li s h Establishment, discomfiture. a Catholics nd can onl are yes respon sible for -such a mischievous duty is clear in the coming conflict, however prolonged prolonged and however severe, and prolonged and severe no do u bt it will be. A' every cost let justice be done. Let no minor or ephe meral interests stand in the way of a ()Teat act of national justice. In • • through inconveniences t ough inconveniences or losses may occur to Catho lics, as in the passing of the Emancipation Act ; but what are such • inconveniences but mere flea-bites when compared with the en during benefit both to Catholicism and the Empire of the settlement, • lit a fair and equit able manner, of this great question.—West , minder Gazette. discussion of the terms of the treaty of peacre with Austria, a question arose, among othe.ts, as to the ancient Order of the Iron Clown. The Italian Government maintained that it ought to pass to Italy along with the Iron Crown itself. The Austrian plenipotentiaries, however, declared that it was one of the , inherent rights of the Austrian Empire, and could not be alienated. Upon this it was pro posed, on the Italian side, that Austria should retain the rights to which she clung so tena ciously, but only as regarded the past. That the order should continue to be considered an Austrian order, but that the Emperor should undertake to confer no new decorations, so that it might in effect die out. Austria, how ever, resisted this proposal also, and handed over the Crown of Monza, without fettering itself by any conditions whatever as to the order ; further, as an irrefragable proof of the non-alienation of his rights in this respect, the Emperor nominated an Italian to be knight of the order within a few days of the ratification of the treaty. Menabrea did not fail to perceive how Italy had been outwitted, and, on his accession to power, avenged her in the best way he could by instituting the new Order of the Crown of Italy. One of its crosses has been bestowed on Rossini, who has at the same time been misled by the Minister of Public Instruction to put himself at the head of a great musical, association for all Italy, to be called the " SocietA Rossiniana." It must not be forgotten that the great composbr who is thus called to preside over the harmony of Italy is a Roman. The unsettled state of the neighbouring kingdom has many disadvantages, for, as notably in the brigandage with which our bor ders are infested, it is a harassing influence we cannot help deprecating, notwithstanding that it certainly affords, to some extent, a school of warfare for our young soldiers. True, many of them feel it au ignoble exercise of their powers, but it teaches them submission to authority, alertness against surprises, hardi hood as well in sudden encounters as in the privations of wearisome tracking and watch ing. The brave gendarmi are admirably cal culated for training them in all these exercises of the military calling. Many a weary hour is thus spent, and many an act of endurance performed of which the world hears nothing ; but now and then there is a brush redounding 'to the honour of our brave and patient de fenders. Thus one day last week our troops, aided by a reinforcement of the armed pea sants called squadriglieri, succeeded in closing round a small band of these desperadoes, whose traces they had long been following up in the woods round Monte Romano. The whole party was either killed or captured, and proved to be disbanded remnants of the late Garibal dian hordes. Numbers of idle and violent men are, doubt less, continually being lured from the pursuits of industry by the spasmodic efforts of the Revolution against Rome, and once thus un settled they are almost driven to pursue, on their own account, the system of lawless de predation to whichthey have been called. The Italian Kingdom, which must be suffering much more severely at their hands than we, ought to learn a lesson of the insensate folly of creating nurseries of such foes to its own order and coherence. The renewed strength of these depredators is; perhaps, accounted for in our hearing less of late of Garibaldian gatherings. - We are threatened now by rumours of a league between Prussia and Italy against France, cemented during the attendance of the Crown Prince at the wedding festivities. This, as you may imagine, is far from disquiet ing us. Nothing, probably, could be a stronger earnest of our security than creating a neces sity for France to defend the Roman border on its own account. Arrangements are made, it is said, at the Mediterranean stations by which some five and twenty thousand men could start for the Papal port at a few hours' notice, and the formidable works so long in progress at Civita Vecchia show that we are by no means unprepared. In military circles it is confidently expected that the autumn. will not pass without a call to arms. . The health of the Holy Father continues excellent. On Monday he walked on the Pincio ; on Wednesday, being the feast of St. Peter, martyr, and the eve of that of St. Catherine of Siena, both Dominican saints, he visited the church of the Minerva, and presented it with a handsome chalice. He knelt for some time at St. Catherine's shrine, and addressed. her in a Latin prayer aloud in her character of pro tectress of the people of Rome. On Monday he had all the wounded from Mentana remaining in Rome, or near enough to come `np, presented to . him. They were thirty-fiire in number, and were brought to him by General Sanzler himself, together with the Sisters of Charity and surgeons who had at tended on them. They were drawn up in two lines, arranged down the sides of the great sales of the l 'Swiss Guard. The H o ly F a ther went round, finding something kind and ap propriate to say to each. Every one was astonished at his memory. The moment a man's name was mentioned to him, he recalled at once all he had previously heard about him in the hospital, the different engagements in which he had served, and the manner in which he had distinguished himself. He then ad dressed them together in something like these terms—" Bear in mind, dear children, that the Pope is ever grateful to you for all you have done and suffered in his service. What more can a son do for a father than to pour out his blood and offer his life for him ? Well, this May the Divine bless ingto pour out upon your is what w hi c y h ou I haveam about done. wounds overflow upon your families and upon all dear to you ; and may it keep you always in that straight path which you were follow ing so faithfully the day that you were wounded in cause of the Vicar of Jesus Christ—in other words, in the cause of truth and jus tice." I have already had occasion to mention that Cardinal d'Andrea has been absent from all the great functions. His health has always been given as the reason of this abstention ; but, of course, it has been ascribed to a contumacious spirit. I hear now, however, that he is now, beyond doubt, seriously ill. There Was a great funeral service at S. Eustachio on Monday, at which a great num ber of bishops assisted, for Mgr. Pila, who died rather suddenly of pleurisy. A grand triduo was celebrated at S. John and Paul, ending on Tuesday, being the first feast of S. Paul of the Cross, canonized last year. It was an occasion for a very brilliant cele bration, and was crowdedly attended. The Mass was sung the first day by Cardinal Bar nabo, on the second by Cardinal Clarelli, and on the third by Cardinal Bi lio, on the even ing of which day Cardinal Guido pronounced a panegyric. The music throughout was very fine ; the parati, or adaptive hangings magni ficent ; as were also the external illuminations. The fine band of the gendarnti played outside in the evening. S. Paul of the Cross died on the 18th of October, but that day being already St. Luke's, his order begged to have a day in the spring fixed for his festival in stead. A similar fête is, I hear, being held, to be closed to-day, at the church of SS. Cosmo and Damiano, in the Forum, in honour of S. Leonard of Port Maurice, canonized at the same time. This church was selected because the neighbouring church of S. Bunoventura, where it would naturally have been held, was deemed too small for the occasion. A very interesting retreat, intended for the poor peasants of the Campagna, three miles round Rome, has just been conducted by the Frjres de la Miserecorde of the Piazza Pia. It was wonderfully well attended by men of all ages. Many neglected lads came to it and made their first Communion at its close. One of the meditations each day was led by a cardi nal. Cardinal Borromeo lent his assistance one day, and Cardinal Milesi Ferretti, a near relative of the Holy Father, another. MISCELLANEOUS IVEIVS. (From the Anglo-Ameri:!vz 2 i:ws.) The Secretary of the 'Treasury's account of the United States' debt to Ist May has been issued, and proves satisfactory. The total amount was $2,639,500,000 against $2,612,000,000 on :the Ist April, being a dscrease of $2,500,000. The cash in the Treasury on the Ist May was $139,000,000 against $122,500,000 on the Ist April, being au in crease of $16,500,000, making the gain to the United States for the month $19,000,000, or, in round numbers, not much less than three millions sterling. This is a most satisfactory return, but we are not told what portion of the cash in Treasury is in gold. The coupons due on the 5.20's of 1862 had to be paid after the Ist instant, and the large shipments of speeie lately for warde 1 to Europe have been mainly for this purpose. The steamers on Cie 2d May took $903,000, on the 4th $1,000,000, on the 6th $625,030, and on the 7th $1,100,000. The Scotia brings news that a resolution had been introduced into the House, asking the Presi dent to take measures to protect American fisher men in Canadian water, and a telegram from Washington states that, on the 7th instant, the House of Representatives passed the resolu tion, asking the President to send vessels of war to the Gulf •of St. Lawrence to protect the rights of American fishermen. This, Messrs. Neill's cotton report of last Saturday, and Mr. M'Culloch's Treasury statement, are the only other telegrams received this week. According to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts of cotton have been 19,000 bales, and since the Ist of September, 2,062,000. Week's export to Great Britain, 28,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,111,600. Week's export to France, 3,000 ; since the Ist of September, 200,000. No export this week to other foreign ports; since the Ist of September, 218,000. Total exports for the week, 31,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,529,000. Stock at all ports, 220,000 bales. It is pleasant to record the kindly interchange of good feeling between the great military services of the United Kingdom and the United States. Per haps no sailor ever received such an ovation from the British Navy as Admiral Farragut ; and we do not doubt that General Grant felt the compliment implied to the United States Army when he re ceived from the Head-quarters in Abyssinia a col lection of beautifully executed photographs of the camp and positions of the Field Force in its Mag dala raid, sent to him by Sir Robert Napier. We ►nay here mention that the General expects the force to reach the coast about the 25th inst. The head quarters were at Talanta on April 21, but the troops we►e then leaving on their retorn, having burnt Magdala and destroyed 30 guns and mortars, and no political complications have arisen in Abyssinia. The widow and son of Theodore were in the British camp, under escort to Tigre. The troops were well and the wounded progressing favourably. It is -difficult always truthfully to report the current of public opinion in the United States. SJ loud and continued at one time was the cry fcr greenback redemption that we were deluded into the belief that it gave expression to a general and growing feeling, and some leading politicians did calculate it to be a good cry with which to go to the country. The question was fairly argued, and its iniquity so forcibly exposed, that the honesty of the nation was aroused against it. Butler's rscord is of that pecu liar character that stains fade quickly ; but Pendle ton is fairly suppressed—and , we hope for life. Th e Repudiator died the death of the dishonest, having just lived long enough to stigmatize everything and everybody connected with it, even St. Louis, where the paper was started. It met with no support; and how could it hope that anybody would keep faith with a journal launched to advocate a great public breach of confidence? Why, if anything could justify people it was this in doing what we most heartily disapprove—ordering advertisements and subscriptions, and using this paper for their own advantage, but repudiating payment. The fast is, that trade and business are rapidly improving in the United States, and the more marked the im provement, the less we will hear of any schemes for defrauding creditors. The only great branch of industry that remains stagnant is ship-building. On - the 21st April manicipal officers were chosen in Chicago, and the Democrats elected their candi dates for judge and clerk of the Recorder's Court by a majority of 500, besides carrying their muni cipal ticket. The Council now stands 20 Republi cans to 12 Democrats. This is the first electio❑ in which the Republicans have been defeated in Chicago for nine years ; at one time the R ►dical majority reached 8,001 The Republicans of that city will hold the National Convention in the Crosby Opera House, though a wigwam, after the Phila delphia pattern, to accommodate 12,000 people has been suggested. The middle of this month is the time fixed for nominating candidates for President and Vice-President and adopting the platform of principles. The delegates of 23 States are in structed to vote for Grant as President, but the nomination for Vice-President is the difficulty— Wade, Colfax, Curtin, Fenton, Senator Wilson are named. The Convention when complete will num ber 450 delegates, being twice the number of Sena tors and Representatives sent to Congress. The Democratic National Convention does not meet till the 4th July, when it is to assemble at New York. The Chicago Convention requires a majority of the whole number for a candidate to be declared, while the New York Convention insists on a two third vote before the Presidential candidate can be proclaimed to be the nominee of the party. Several outrages indicate more Indian disturb ances. In Nevada Mr. W. 11. Pierson, wife, and daughter were murdered at Red Rock ranche, in the Valley of Nevada ; as well as John Sutherland, another man, and a boy, the savages escaping. In Arizona the mail carrier has been attacked, and two of his escort killed. In Dacotah several outrages are reported ; ranches burnt, and three or four sol diers and settlers murdered. A telegram from Fort Macpherson says that a party of Indians, supposed to be a part of " Spotted Tail's" band or Cheyennes, made a dash upon a company of men, April 22, killing four and wounding two, who were brought in. The killed are James Brown, Gus. Hall, Geo. Kline, and Joseph Vert. E. Hoffman was scalped and badly wounded by an arrow. A boy named Tanny, aged 11, was dangerously wounded. 'The Virginian Convention having adopted its constitution, with the iron-clad test oath, retained against the advice of General Schofield, has ad journed. The time for the election is not yet named, being postponed by the General until Con gress makes an appropriation for the expenses, but both parties are working vigorously. The Missis sippi Convention has excluded press reporters from the House, and twelve members resigned their seats in one day. In Georgia and North Carolina the reports indicate that the constitutions have been adopted, and in the case of North Carolina and Louisiana the news by the Scotia informs us that the constitutions are officially announced as carried, the former in a total vote exceedingthaton the Con vention by at least 75,000. Both States choose members of Congress, and the calculation is that the Democratic gains will be five, and the Re publican eight, all whites. In South Carolina the • majority for the Constitution was 43,000, and the whole Republican ticket has been chosen, headed by General R. K. Scott for Governor. In Louisiana three Republicans and one Conservative have been elected. On the 231 April a disturbance was reported in Georgia, but generally the elections passed off quietly. It is asserted that Senators and Representatives from Arkansas, South Carolina, and Louisiana, will soon be a knitted into Congress, but it is considered doubtful i❑ each case except that of Arkansas, but bills have been introduced into the House not only to bring in these States, but also North Carolina. Frederick Law Olmsted has sent a letter to the New York Nation, in which he relates a story to show how charges of drunkenness are trumped up against General Grant. In 1863, a few miles above Vicksburg, he was in a steamboat with the General and Mr. Frederick Knapp. Grant took the opportunity of discussing some of his plans, which he did, so as forcibly to impress his hearers with the grasp his mind had of all details, diffi cult as they were at the time. While talking, be was disturbed by a lady to whom he listened attentively and differentially, though annoyed at the interruption, and after hearing all she had to say he fixed the following morning for an interview between her and a person named to act for him, when the lady withdrew, and the General, resam. ing his cigar, said he thought her propo3i.ion a r2a sonable and humane one. A week after, Mr. Knapp met the lady, and was surprised to hear her de plore the habits of General Grant. He endea voured to correct the erroneous impresiion, but the lady asserted that she had certain knowledge of what she advanced. Then describing her inter view, she said he Was engaged in a carouse with two companions, when she came unexpecte fly, that he rose with difficulty, could not stand without stag gering, and supported himself with a chair. Ilis voice was thick, he spoke inccherently, and evi lently conscious that he was unfit for bu3ines3, bad put her off till the next day. Mr. Knapp, who had lined - .vide him, and had been fully three hours face to face, declared he had drank nothing stronger than the unqualified mud of the Mississippi, and that he had never seen a man more thoroughly sober and clear-headed than Grant when she entered. But he failed to remove the impression, and Mr. Olmsted supposes that she still asserts that all three were drunk at the time. A letter addressed to Mr. Johnson in 1865 by the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell has been published; advising the removal of that most unpopular Minis ter both in and out of the army, Mr. Stanton. This is not a bad document figuring by the side of that-addressed to Senator Cameron by the Penn sylvania Republicans, wherein they begged the Senator to urge on Benjamin Wade, when he be comes President, the claims of Mr. Stanton for the Treasury, from which they take it for grinted Mr. M'Culloch will be removed. It is bad taste in the President to have published this letter, no matter what the provocation ; and it is this un justifiable use of documents that come into his hands as a great State officer which has tended so much to create the odium in which Andrew Johnson is held. Daniel Drew has succeeded in passing his bill through the New York Legislature legalising the acts of the directors with reference to the Erie Railway, nullifying the judicial proceedings against them, and protecting and supporting their interests against the rival line. No director of the New York Central, Hudson River, or Harlem Roads eau be a director of the Erie Road, so that " Uncle Daniel" has completely beaten the " Commodore." The bill was carried by more than the two-thirds necessary to protect it from the chance even of the Governor's veto, and Drew has made arrange ments to procure the adjournment of the Legisla ture when the bill is safe, that the members may not be in the way of temptation. It is calculated that he has spentin the little job nearly $1,0.00,000. Vanderbilt came too late into the field. The spe cial train, loaded with picked agents which he sent to Albany, reached that city only in time to find the work effectually settled; bat rumours announce that the rival chiefs are in treaty henceforth to work together, and if so the public mty look out. Some papers assert that Vanderbilt fought the question to the last, freely using his money, and alleges that grave Senators " carried water on both shoulders," which, we presume, means that, they took bribes from each side, " net ting a moderate fortune by their skill." One Republican Senator supposed to be safe beyond suspicion, and who had drawn largely from the old Commodore, passel straight over to the enemy, and was instrumental in checkmating Vanderbilt. We now learn that the Erie war has assumed a wholly new and unexpected phase. For some time previous to the departure of the mail it is said that Drew had come to an understand ing with Vanderbilt, and had arranged as trea surer to deliver over to Mr. Osgood, the receiver appointed by a New York Court, $8,000,000 of the new stock sold. It was also stated that the real Simon Pure was the motive power of the Drew side, then came to the front in the person of the president, J. S. Eldridge, with- the directors lately in exile at Jersey City, Fisk, Gould, Devlin, and others. The scheme being discovered, Drew was ousted from the treasurership, and Jay Gould, an expert Erie diplomatist, was put in his place. The capitalists have combined to control the Toledo and Wabash Railroad, which will secure to the New York Central the necessary western connections to Chicago. 'iho lawyers assert that the fight may last for years and be an heirloom to their families. In consequence of the Erie Railway disaster the superintendent limits first-class passenger trains to a speed not in excess of 25 miles per hour, and not more than 12 for second-class or freight terms. No deviation from the time-table will excuse breaking this rule, and no fast: running will be allowed to make up for lost time. These rates are considered to be the fastest that can be run with safety, though they barely equal one-half the speed of trains in England. An American contemporary says :—" Fenianism is spreading in New Zealand, where of late the heavy gales have been very destructive of human life and of property." The two are somewhat ridi culously coupled in this paragraph, but if we had to choose we would take our chance of the storms, which at any rate clear the atmosphere and are fol lowed by calms. Fenianism has as much chance of a footing in New Zealand as it has in the Queen's Palace. The most loyal portions of the Empire and those most devoted to the English con nection are Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps distance lends enchantment to the view of the mother country, but at any rate those who desire to hear old England spoken of with an enthusiastic affection should go to New Zealand. The colony has lately been the scene of something like a shower. It rained incessantly for thirty days, and then the wooden houses were floating about like arks. The builders thought they were providing against earth quakes, but they found they had made a happy selection of material for an inundation. It is fortunate that General Butler will be heard no more during the Impeachment Trial, and there are very few who care more to see him than to hear him, as he is not fascinating from either point. He and his family have proceeded to Mount Vernon ; William., Thad. Stevens, and Bingham are the Managers yet to speak ; and Groesbeck and Evans, of the President's counsel, and they will do so in the following order. Williams will lead, on the part of the prosecution, in a speech which, he says, will not occupy more than two hours. Groesbeck will reply. Thad. Stevens will then come up, and he asserts that all he wants is one hour. Evarts will follow, and Bingham will close. The committee on the Pacific Railroad is about to report a bill to Congress, authorizing a commis sion, composed of the Secretaries of War and of the Interior, the Attorney-General, and two Presidents of Railways, annually to regulate the rates of fares and freights on the Pacific railroads when completed through from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and when the dividend exceeds 10 per cent. The Omaha line is now constructed to a distance of 560 miles west ward, asd is working on the other slope of the Rocky Mountains, having crossed the range at a height of 8,242 feet above the sea level, the greatest elevation at which a locomotive ever snorted. The stock of the company is daily growing in favour as a permanent investment for capital, an I is ltkely soon to take one of the highest positions in the world, as the stock in truth represents the greatest of man's undertakings. An article in a magazine compares it to the Bank. of England or the East India Company, but it is not in reality similar to either, the first being a mere monetary corporation, representing no indistrial enterprise, and the last a trading community that 1)0.3 - 3e3 ie.' its3lf of and lost the Empire of the Moguls; while the Union Pacific Railway Company is the corporation through who.:e means the grandest work of modern times has been constructed. We are surprised that Eng lish capitalists have not directed more attention to tire stock, and the fact that an undertaking so costly should still be confined to the United States, no aid being asked for in Europe, is that which best shows ita worth. Finance-mongering in New Zealand loans has lately been active. A considerable sum has been obtained on the Londoh market by the agents for the colony, and the hollers of the provincial debts have been invited to convert them into the Conso lidated Debt of the. General Government. The innocent English people consider the security of a colony to b 2 better than that of a province, but the truth is that the debt of such a province as Canterbury, with the tangible security of the rail ways now in progrefs, more especially that jtk.t opened between I,ytt,lton and Christ-church is superior to the colonial guarantee. A great danger lies before New Zealand. The colony consists of two islands, the debtand the Maories being the cha racteristics of the Northern ; and population, flocks, and the gold &Hs, the features of the Southern. The colonists of the South have always objected to being taxed to keep up such a town as Auckland, and to support soldiers they never see nor require. They have agitated strongly for a separation which might hereafter take place, when it would be uo easy matter to apportion the debt, and the bonds that fell to the North to pay might prove little better than a Spanish debt to the holders. Great provinces like Canterbury and Otago are put on the same level as Hawke's Bay ; we wonder they did not add Southland, which ridiculous province had the audacity to raise a loan o❑ its own account, and a bailiff actually turned his honour the superinten dent out of his chair as the only tangible security. People who meddle in the Ncw Zealand loans should strive to make themselves acquainted with the country. It is becoming the fashion on the other side the water to accuse the most prominent public men of drunkenness. Columbia, however, thinking it un fair that she should enjoy a monopoly of topers, has traversed the Atlantic for instances among her English cousins. The correspondent of the New York Tribune had not to go far to put his hand on the man he wanted. The Right llon. Ben. Disraeli is the Premier, and, in virtue of his office, the first whose conduct would be investigated by the corre spondent. Nor was he long in coming to a conclu sion about the habits of that distinguished member of the Press. He thought he looked rather sus picious on the closing night of the Maguire debate ; but his speech on the 3d of April, at the end of the first debate on the Irish Church, settled the matter. " Dizzy," according to this gentleman, was, iu truth, dizzy, not under the influence of excitement, but of drink ! The fact is, that the work of such debates is too exhausting for men to get through without some restorative, and when a man has been speaking for two hours after midnight, he had better confine himself to tea or coffee, as even a slight stimulant might have an effect he did not anticipate. Lord Hobart has arrived at Constantinople and assumed the governorship of tha Imperial Bank. He has always baen among tho most outspoken friends of America. The Rev. Dr. 111‘Cosh, a professor of Queen's College, has, without any application on his part, been unanimously elected President of Princeton University, United States, and has received a telegram announcing the fact. Rtrson Brownlow has come forward to decline 3 nomination, which no one as yet has asked him to accept, for the Vice-Presidency, as if the American people were likely to go to Tennessee and pick out a Brownlew after their recent experience. A contemporary describes the social change in Washington since the rebellion, and illustrates it by 3 de scription of Senator Sumner's house Not that it is at all palatial, or over-expensive in material or work-. manship, but that it is the very perfection of convenience and tasteful arrangement. No such art gallery is in all Washington as comprise the Senator's rooms. His busts, his engraving's, his bronzes, his books, his few paintings, are all of the choicest character, and they are hung and placed with rare appositeness of companionship, and of course with the highest artistic effect. So of his book-cases, his writing-desks, his draw ing and dining-room furniture—all bespeak the work of thorough artisans and an appr ciative owner's suggestions. And if the genial occupant be, as we found him, in posses sion of an hour's leisure, late in the evening, his visitor may be accounted enviable in the delightful season of personal intercourse that is sure to follow. Mr. Sumner maintains his establishment with proverbial Boston hes' pitality—a dinner always ready after the senatorial labours of the day for a chance friend or two, and the varied de tails of a well-ordered household moving like clockwork without care or annoyance to himself." Mr. Cunard has denied the statement that one of his vessels (the Cuba) is engaged in an ocean race with the Inman steamer City of Paris. Sergeant Bates met with a warm reception il l Baltimore. Mr. Bancroft is about to proceed to Munich to present his credentials as Ai - aerie:ln Minister. Anna Dickenson was lately applied to by a corn: niittee fora po7itic a l l ec t ure , an d o ff ere d "B rea k ers Ahead, to which Lhay replied, " That will do—give us Break his head. " An American in London lately said to an Eng' lisp friend, "Just now I passed Lord A— (probably meaning Lord ..A.mberley) in the street. You remembe r how civil and atteniive I was to him last year in N° l ' York. He told mo before he left America that wheneve r I came to England I was to be sure and call upon bin , . Well, he met me down at the corner there, by Berkeley' street, looked mo full in the face, and walked on—cut tn° dead. Would you believe it ?" "Believe it :" replied 1 0 friend, "of course I would. If you could be of any use t° Lord A— here, he would not cut you. But the table s aro turned. He would be very glad to meet you in Broad" way, but Piccadilly is a very different thing." Secretary M'Culloch thus replied to this question of a Congressman :—" Do y ou thi n k th e P res id e nt will make any resistance when convicted ?" "How can be' ? who will obey any orders from him ?" We learn that Mr.' Reuben Lowell, one of the proprietors of the Now York Theatre, and the former pro prietor of the Westchester House, died at New Orleans 012 the 22d inst., on his way home from Havana. Ex-Governor Pierpont charged Gen. Schofield on the 22d April, before General Grant, with setting toil the laws of Virginia and C ongress f or th e p u rpose ° enabling ox-Confederates who could not take the oath to occupy valuable offices in the State ; and further, th' t Schofield's appointments have tended to discourage the Union cause in Virginia. In the Cole-discock trial at Albany the proseew tion closed their case by examining the policeman wi l d ° made the arrest of Cole, and a few other witnesses, and the defence, it is stated, was to be opened by James T. Brain of New York. The chief defence 30 • 4 on the ground of the temporary insanity of the prisoner' caused by the knowledge cf his wife's guilt with gig cock. General Cole had three of his brothers present" Unitod States Senator Cole, of California, Gilbert, for merly counsel at Acapulco, and David, a Tomkins coun t y farmer, and among the spectators was Mrs. Dr. g iirj Walker. •• George IL Pendleton rAurned $9,816 income 1867. His chance of the Presidency is on so s lender ti scale that there is not much chance of his increasing it that direction. Fifteen more persons are reported to have been by the a cc id en t a t C arr ' s R oc k on th e Erie railro l Sir John A. MacDonald announced, on the 2 15 0 April in the House of Commons at Ottawa, that the etle e • bad signified her intention to create Hon. Georg° Cartier a Baronet of the United Kingdom, and ll °o. Hector L. Langevier a Compani on o f th e B a th. The late Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee had one of til: heaviest brains on rec o rd, heavier by several o unces 11 ' 3 that of Dupuytren or of Daniel Webster. di/ 0 Baron Stoeckl, Minister for Russia, has aske, - rt• Government to extend the time of payment for A-' 6 ' 6 iir n Ward H. Lamon has been sent as agent to St. Peters b ye .. to negotiate the matter, as Congress has made no _„" ic) , o , meut with reference to an appropriation for the Purr_j- Births. t lO CUMBERLEGE- -012 the 6th inst., at Astwood, BU wife of R. Cumberlege, Esq., 11th Regiment, of a B°l.o, HARVEY—On the 7th inst., at 1, South Bank: goon park, the wife of Augustus J. Harvey, Esq., O f 3 6.- 1;111:1, KENNEDY - On the Gth inst., at 8, Henrietta-street, Dg the wife of Tristram Kennedy, Esq., M.P., of a 00' Marriages. ACKLOM—GANNON— On the 7th inst , ti" Christ - ti bo Cheltenham, Capt. George E. Acklo.m,l6th Reginl%oe, Louisa Octavia, widow of the late Capt. Edward nlet. Madras Army, and youngest daughter of the lato John Rocke, of Clungunford, Shropshire. 1. ilre nt BOYES—NEWTON —On the 7th inst ,at East Retford O v iA - v eg, John Frederick, eldest son of the ' late George E,q., of East Sheen, and Abchurch-lane , to -..°l;et youngest daughter of Wtu. Newton, Esq., of .06" ford. (I, recic. ROMAN AFFAIRS. (From the Roman Correspondent of the IVestmin.ster Gazette) ROME, May 2. The numbers of our visitors have been rapidly thinned this week ; the weather, which has just become delightfully warm, has sent northwards those who do not appreciate its genial temperature, while the wedding fetes have attracted away the lovers of sights. Flo rence has never been so fall since the com mencement of the present regime as on this occasion. Wherever there are gay shows, crowds may always be collected, but the ab sence of anything like enthusiasm, I am as sured, is most marked. Idlers may always be collected to stare, and elaqueurs may be hired for all occasions, but the exhibition of hearty and genuine enthusiasm can never be feigned, the spurious can never be mistaken for the true article. The proverbial loyal affection of even the good Turin folk has been sadly damped by the vicissitudes which the fortunes of their monarch have brought upon them, and the title of capital of Italy has never recon ciled Florence to her loss as capital of Tuscany. To be the seat of an invisible court is no com pensation fur her gay and brilliant existence of former days ; and she has been so long out of practise in wearing her social attractions, that this spasmodic and short-lived assumption of them wore an aspect manifestly forced and ghastly ; her widow's weeds peering sadly and ominously through many a hiatus in the bridal wreaths. Every one wishes well to the young and amiable princess of Savoy ; no one could look on her child-like, innocent beauty and not try hard to give her a greeting and a blessing on her wedding-day, but the misery and disorga nization of the country are preoccupations which contract men's countenances, and make it difficult to assume a smile. The columns of every paper chronicling the festivities of the royal party are forced to set forth side by side with them tales of the distress and discon tent prevalent throughout the kingdom. While every town is thus more or less disaffected, there is no doubt that the most open expres sion of it is to be expected from the south. Calabria is all but in open rebellion. Sicily, where contempt for the new Government is chronic, is ready to rally round any leader that promises a change. Francis 11. or Gari baldi might either of them command a party ready to reinforce an army of liberation. The present authorities are only held in position by the presence of overwhelming forces de tested by the people. Of all expedients devised at Florence for healing dissensions none have failed more signally than that of the new order. Nothing but discontent has arisen from it, and num bers on both sides have refused to accept its decorations, while the opposition journals load it with opprobrious epithets. One, refer ring to the expedient of Alcibiades for avert ing the attention of the Athenians, asks if it might not be appropriately entitled the order of the dog's tail. Another styles it in ridicule the order of SS. Gualterio and Menabrea. The Gazetta de Milano calls it Menabrea's sting, and gives this account of its origin :—At the Deaths. --- GLAISTER— On the 7th inst., at 11, Lyndhurst-roaa, hat», Surrey, ichard Cilaister, Esq., aged 66 *. 0 . .Wen t DENVEN— On the y ; tEt hist t B ' ~ a IMAM, M. aged 41. cou ntf MONTMORENCY—On the 6th inst. at at Castle Morr 43 ;%, J. • Kilkenny, Irvland, JOhn do:Montmoren e Y , and D.L., of Castle Murree, aged 54. ldt grg. MULES —On the 7th inst., at Byeullah House, Bu-ic Mulles, aged 85. St' - ROWLAND —On the 6th inst. at at Brunswick .--11°115e' Alban's, William 11. Rowland,. Esq., aged 66 %,, in burg bi TROTTEIt —Oa the 7th inst. , at The Bu sh, Archibald Trotter, Esq ., of Castlelaw, ttg° d 19. —•••"' , N 11 310; London Printed and Published by WiLLI93: / 4 • - • 1 1 ' . of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TDB SUN 00 00, I° ty ° I Str Ind, in the Precinct of the Sr Yoy, in al ° G" Middle ex.—Situ r aaY . 9, 1868.