The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE P' OLIO 3011141,&1,8, The Saturday _Review thinks it will best describe the ink- pression which the Duke of Abercorn's speech at Derry makes on the reader by saying that if he had taken orders he would certainly have been made a bishop. There is some thing about it which irresistibly reminds one of an episco. Pal charge. The Lord-Lieutenant maunders about the state of Ireland just as an average bishop maunders about the state of his diocese. The one talks of so many new churches built here and so many restored there, so many parishes which have three services on Sundays instead of two, and so many more which have prayers on Wednes (!ays and Fridays besides ; the other talks of so many more acres laid down in this crop and so many less in that, assures his hearers that the decrease in cattle during the last year does not surprise him, but owns himself puzzled at the statistics of pigs. The Duke: of Abercorn was not bound to express any opinion on the state of Ireland, but when of his own free will he undertakes to express one, it should not be to the effect that Ireland would be in all respects what her friends wish:to see her, if only there were a few more turnips. Every other drawback—and the Duke of Abercorn admits that there are some others—is so happily neutralised by an attendant blessing, that it really. Lmounts to nothing. An outrage " has occurred in a locality in Tipperary not altogether without a sanguinary shade," hut even this has been a blessing in disguise, since " the verdict which has been most unmistakably pro nounced by honest and right-minded men of all parties and all creeds upon the case will render such cases rarer, if not impossible, hereafter." So that, after all, we come back to turnips as the one real speck on the cloudless blue of the Irish horizon. What evidence is there, to begin with, that Fenianism is either dead or dying? The agita tion always consisted of two distinct elements—an external and an internal ; and by suspending the ordinary safe• guards of freedom, and putting Ireland into something like a state of siege, we have for the time scotched the former. But it is premature, to say the least, to assume that we have more than scotched it. A mine full of fire damp may be described as "in a state of the greatest repose " so long as no one tqes a candle into it ; and if you have made up your mind never to work the mine again, no exception need be takiii to this version of the facts. The Irish policy of the Government is an exact illustration of this principle. They leave all the materials of Fenianism untouched, prevent any one going near them whom they think likely to have matches in his pocket, and then call upon us to mark the diminu'. Con of " seditious disturbances and disloyal feelings." We prefer to suspend our assent until the mine has been reopened, without any resulting explosion. The Spectator remarks that a man is not always wise because he is always conscientious, and Sir Roundell Palmer's grand self-denial cannot blind us to the weak ness of his proposals as to the Irish Church. The speech in which he expounded his views upon that great question to his constituents in Richmond may raise his fame as a Conservative lawyer, and will undoubtedly exalt his repu tation for fairness and good feeling, but it will not deepen the Liberal faith in his capacity as a statesman. With the exception of Sir J. Kerslake's, it is perhaps the least complete speech yet delivered upon Mr. Gladstone's pro posals. To those proposals, and to the leader who made them, Sir Roundell Palmer, as might have been expected from his character, is studiously fair. He brushes away Tory cobwebs with a heartiness which almost disgusts them with his advocacy of their dogma, the sanctity of cmperate property, and has done, we doubt not, more good to Mr. Gladstone himself than injury to his cause. But with all this fairness, a fairness springing, as all his ideas spring, from a conscientious regard for justice, Sir Roundell Palmer when he approaches the real issue spews himself a lawyer in grain, a man unable to conceive of a power higher than that of a regularly established court. He will not consider whether the political security of Ire land demands the removal of a gigantic grievance, whether it is just or unjust that the religious endowment of Ireland should be monopolised by a creed in which the bulk of the Irish people do not believe, but treats the whole question as if it were one of property alone, and of property in the narrowest legal sense. The property was granted in trust for certain purposes, which purposes have not been and cannot be fulfilled, and the property, therefore, on the extinction of the life interests, reverts, like other property without owners, to the State, which has as much right to dispose of it as of any other property similarly situated. That it will be highly expedient to dispose of it for the spiritual or intellectual good of the people we not only admit, but contend ; but the State has a moral right, if it pleases, to pay it away in bounties to encourage the capture of sharks. Justice, we fully admit, could be secured by equal endowment, and we, at least, are not yet convinced that equal endowment would not have been the wiser course. The nation, however, Catholic as well as Protestant, has decided almost unanimorsly against that course, and the only alternative is the disconnection of the State equally from all creeds. To this Sir Roundell Palmer will not consent. He will give up the State control, but will not discontinue State aid ; will give £300,000 a year, raised by land tax, to the Church of the minority, and some £50,000 a year, paid from the Consolidated Fund, to the Church of the majority, and then wash his hands, and say the ascendancy is none of his making. All religions are equal before the law, although only one of them obtains its dues by legal aid. If, he says, you give the parsonages and the churches to the Protestant Church, why not also give the means to maintain them? Just because the people who furnish those means from year to year do not choose to do it, and because it is highly unjust to make them do it, as at present, by sheer physical force. The truth is, Sir Roundell Palmer cannot conceive of property changing hands except by virtue of a decree of court, is in this matter lawyer and not statesman, and it is for this reason that the Liberal party, which, of all men alive, would prefer him for Chancellor, is compelled to postpone the fulfilment of his otherwise undoubted claims. The London Review says that the shock produced by this catastrophe has been so great that as yet we scarcely feel inclined to consider the practical suggestions it obviously offers. One is tempted to reply that the mis chief has been done, that such a thing it is almost impos sible to imagine will occur again, and that to take pre cautions against its recurrence is only adding a ghastly mockery to it. Each railway accident, however, seems the ultimatum of railway accidents until some other one appears to tell us that our prevision was wanted here or wanted there. We insist on the alteration of some petty point of railway management, and fancy that now every avenue has been stopped up by our extreme care, and that henceforth negligence will find it impossible to creep in and kill. The next week or the next month a hasty telegram in the morning papers tells us that again some blunder has occurred, with its result of loss of life. In the present case, whatever disclosures may be subsequently made about the cause of the accident—and, doubtless, that will be found attributable to what can never be wholly guarded against, that is to say, human negligence-- there is one point upon which the country should at once insist. Let the practice of locking passengers into car riages be at once and for ever abandoned. It is a practice for which not a single word can be advanced. It is simply out of the question for railway companies to say it has been employed to prevent fraud. That the unhappy creatures who were thus imprisoned in the burning carriages could not have escaped had the doors been open is a mere assumption which facts tend to disprove. It is not proved that the flames of paraffin at once enveloped and ignited all the carriages which were subsequently consumed. On the contrary, it is distinctly stated that the guard ran and unlocked the doors of one or two carriages which were afterwards burned, and that Lord Castlerosse's governess heard a lady cry, " For God's sake, let us out." We are not told whether this was the same lady who was urged to throw her child out of the window, seeing that her own escape was impossible. The manner in which the mail bags were secured, coupled with other circumstances, tends to produce a painful impression that, had not the doors been locked, a certain number, at all events, of the lost lives might have been spared. The probability is that the concussion, the flames, and general confusion so de prived the travellers, who otherwise might have assisted, of all presence of mind, that when they thought of saving the poor wretches in the burning carriages it was too late. There is something so horrible and awful in the thought of these poor creatures being absolutely barred in and thrust upon a fearful and agonising death that one might almost wish that the possibility of their escape could be disproved. It is a doubtful question whether the most protracted inquiry into the matter will shew whether their death, from the mere ignition of the paraffin, was or was not inevitable ; but in any case the custom of locking the doors of railway carriages must be abolished. The public is long-suffering with regard to railway companies, but we are mistaken if the lesson taughtby the deplorable calamity of Abergele be not sufficient to sweep away this intolerable and unnecessary practice. The Imperial Review states that those who have been engaged during the last few weeks in canvassing the new electoral bodies, called into existence by the Reform Act of 1867, have generally observed the prevalence of one particular phenomenon—the accultation, so to speak, o' the less advanced section of the Liberal party ; or, to use a more generally appreciated metaphor, the eclipse of Whiggery. Now the age of political shams is past. The era of Whiggery is over. The people have not even sufficient care for it to discuss what it was. Slowly and sadly the old Revolution families are beginning to realise the truth. They must either march on with Mr. Stens feld at d Mr. Forster, or they must join the ranks of those who fight under Mr. Disraeli's banner. The Duke of Portland sends a cheque to the National Protestant Union ; Lord Amberley declares in favour of an ingenious scheme for the limitation of working men's families. And those who have constituted the Whig party must choose between the two. It is necessary tc decide between a policy of destruction and one of develop. ment, and the old Whigs are afraid of one and i !capable of the other. So they get back to their one idea—that of demolishing the Irish Establishment. One institution, they think, may be thrown to the wolves ; but there they must stop. Perhaps, if they can get back into office on this cry, they mty pacify the wolves with colonial governorships and commission rships in bankruptcy. Vain delusion ! The people abou. to be represented in Parliarnant is not to be fooled by their stale party devices. Either we must shew the capacity of the Constitution for vigorous government, or we must see the Radicals pull it down. Meanwhile, the old Whigs sit alone, apart from the real political battl e , an d d rone over the one cry of their youth which the advancing century has left them. ENGLISZt TIZTEPES IN BRUSSELS, A clever and daring robbery was committed last Tuesday afternoon by English thieves in the shop of M. Coutel, a Brussels jeweller. M. Coutel received family diamonds of the value of £BOO in order to set them as a necklace. The necklace, having been finished, was placed in the shop•window for a few days, on show. It was handsome and attracted notice, as well-set diamonds do. On Tuesday a group of English, travellers apparently, and respectably dressed, stopped before M. Coutel's window, very much interested in the less costly jewellery exhibited, and utterly regardless of the diamond necklace. The group consisted of three men and three women. The former entered the shop, and asked to see some trinkets. After 'a good deal of huckstering they bought one. In the meantime the three ladies entered the shop, and ranged themselves near the window, the one covering the others, but all deeply interested in the purchase that was being made by the gentlemen. They operated so effectually, however, that the slip board of the shop window ran in its groove without the least noise, the diamond necklace was adroitly removed and concealed under a shawl. The group then quietly left the shop. It was only when M. Coutel went to replace the trinkets he had removed to chew his English customers that he became aware of the robbery. He went to the door, and ran down the Rue de la Madeline, but the thieves were nowhere to be seen. THE ASSASSINATION IN YOUGHAL. The details of the fatal stabbing affray, already briefly alluded to in this journal, are these :—A ball was to be given at the residence of Mr. Maxwell, Moore-hill, county Waterford, and a band, of which F. Wynne, musical instrument seller, Old George's-street, Cork, was the conductor, and which consisted of two persons besides himself, was engaged for the occasion. A car was hired at the Imperial Hotel, owned by Mr. Keane, Youghal, and the three parties, accompanied by a !river named O'Grady, went on their journey. About three or four miles outside the town they overtook t, car in which were seated a countryman named Doyle, the deceased Deglin Hegarty, and a woman. Both parties wishing to go first a dispute arose between them, which mded in both cars going on their way, the car in which ieceased was being first. After about a mile of the road had been traversed the two cars came together again, when he dispute was recommenced. The man Doyle, it is stated, 'truck O'Grady, when Wynne interfered to separate hem. A general row ensued, when Wynne was seen to craw a knife, and threatened to stab the first man that :ame near him. Doyle walked towards Wynne, but Teeing the knife in his hand did not go near him, but Elegarty at once rushed towards him, and Wynne carried nit his threat, Hegarty receiving a stab in the left breast, which killed him instantaneously. Two policemen, belong. ing to the Red-forge station, who were on patrol, having some upon the scene, made an attempt to arrest some of the parties, but were rather roughly handled, and were obliged to go for assistance. Having received an accession if two other constables, they went in search of the car in which O'Grady and the other men were (the deceased having been taken in charge by Doyle and the woman), md arrested them in the yard at Mr. Maxwell's. After having been searched, a pocket-knife stained with blood was found in the possession of Wynne. The four men were then taken into custody and lodged in the bridewell 'll Tallow. The body of Hegarty was removed to a house 'll Scart, to await an inquest. The deceased was in the town of Youghal selling honey during the day of the sccurrence, and is stated to have been under the influence of drink when he left. The party who occupied the other sar were also said to have been drinking. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION AGAINST THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —At the Liverpool Assizes Mr Guiders, a haberdasher at Birkenhead, brought an action !or injuries sustained on the London and North-Western Railway. The plaintiff was travelling on the defendants' hie on the 2nd of September, and when near Crewe a ;ollision took place. He sustained ase vere blow on the back thehead at the time, and when brought home and visited ay his doctor the same evening he was found vomiting and with every symptom of a severe shock to the nervous system ind concussion of the brain. This was succeeded by route inflammation of the brain, according to the ,vidence of several medical men who were called on his aehalf, the results to be feared from which were chronic lisease and softening, and he remained very ill for a con liderable time, but in December gradually improved, and it the end of that month was well enough to be moved tc New Brighton, where he remained till March. According :o the statement of the accounts rendered on the part of ;he plaintiff, the loss incurred in his business since the tccident had been nearly £l,OOO, and after this evidence m his behalf an agreement was come to to give him x verdict for £2,500, to cover everything. THE CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN.—At the Mid. Ilesex Sessions, Frederick Winder, a butcher, was indicted 'or stealing thirty-nine sheep, the property of Henry Cook. This case was most unusual, from the fact that two con rids and accomplices of the prisoner were evidence tgainst him ; and it was further remarkable as connected with a lad named Bell, who was wrongfully convicted at ;hese sessions on the 28th of March last, and sentenced to lye years' penal servitude, the jury in that case disbeliev .ng Bell's witnesses to an alibi. The offence alleged tgainst Bell was that he stole twelve sheep ; but it was ?roved during this trial that the real offenders were two nen new undergoing penal servitude, and that Bell had nothing whatever to do with it. Winder was sentenced to !ourteen years' penal servitude. The post of Deputy Master and Controller of the Royal Mint has become vacant by the death of Mr. W. H. Barton, a son of the late Sir John Barton, treasurer to her late Majesty Queen Adelaide. The appointment is in the gift of the Lords of the Treasury. From a return issued yesterday by an order of the House of Commons of March 26, we find that the de falcations of collectors, receivers, or other officers of Inland Revenue, appointed during the last twenty years, amount to upwards of £41,200. The most part of this amount has been recovered by realization of the defaulters' effects and payments by sureties. Proceedings are pending for the re covery of a few hundreds, and a loss of about £7,000 alto gether is shown. A committee, consisting of the Earl of ilarrowby, Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Major-Gen. Sir W. Dill, the Bishop of Meath, the Deans of Canterbury, Chester, and Cork (with the Bishop of Gibraltar as president), has been formed for the purpose of establishing an Italian Church Refor mation Fund. The object is to be the assistance of those Italians who have evinced a tendency towards reforming their own Church after the example of the Church of Eng land. In the year 1865, for which the returns have re cently been issued, there were 133 snicides in Scotland one in every 23,579 of the estimated population. Fifty-eight cf these deaths wero by hanging, 40 by cut-throat, 17 by poison, 12 by drowning, two by gunshot, two by precipitation from a height, two in ways not stated. The number of suicides in England in the same year was 1492, or one in every 15,080 of the estimated population; so that to two suicides in Scotland here were three in England in a like number of population. According to notice served on Messrs. Lewis ana Lewis by Mr W. R. Roberts, the solicitor for Mde. Rachel, two persons, named Davis and Slack, were to appear at tho Judges' Chambers yesterday, to justify in £5OO each for her ap pearance at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. The hour appointed was twelve o'clock, and by one no ap pearance was made, and it was then ascertained that notico of withdrawal bad been served. It was said the bail was to be put in at Guildhall Police court, but there also the appli cation had been withdrawn by notice. Madame Rachel still remains in Newgate. LORD AMBERLEY ON OVER POPULATION. —A correspondent informs us that Lord Amberley denies the accuracy of our report of the proceedings of the Dialecti cal Society, published in our impression of July 22, at the same time calling upon us to verify our report. To this request we are happy to comply, as the gentleman who represented us at the meeting, upon reference to his notes, informs us that the report is strictly correct. The wording may be somewhat different, but the meaning con veyed by the several speakers was unquestionably that recorded in our columns.—Medical Press and Circular. THE CONDEMNED CONVICT MACKAY.—The con demned convict Mackay, for the Norton Folg,ate murder, has signed a petition to her Majesty for the exercise of the Royal clemency, and Mr. George Lewis, who defended the prisoner, has forwarded it to the limic Secretary. Mr. Justice Lush tried the prisoner, who was strongly recom mended to mercy by the jury, and he will no doubt be consulted by the Home Office. It i 3 not true, as stated, that the Home Secretary had already intimated that it was a case in which the law must take its course. The execution is appointed for the Bth of September. DAMPER.—Two or three clays since a party of Secularists went from Nottingham to Mansfield to support a lecturer on Secularism. He took up a position in the market place. Soon after he had commenced his address, one of the fire-engines was brought into the market place, and those in charge of it stationed themselves on the oppo. site side of the Monument, in the rear of the speaker, and commenced playing upon him, his friends, and the audience. The people rushed at the engine, and cut the pipe in several places. The lecture came suddenly to as end, and weat excitement and noise_ continued for uric than an hour afterwards, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVE.NING, AUGUST 29, 1868. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (F,-om the Anglo-American Times.) The news by the Royal mail steamship Russia, which arrived at Queenstown at 3 a.m. yesterday, is to August 19. It is clear that great anxiety is felt for the peace of the South, where large and enthusiastic meetings have taken place, both of Re publicans and Democrats. Several of the Go vernors have applied to the Secretary of War for arms for the militia, which he ha 3 refused to furnish until Congress shall have legislated more definitely on the subject. The Governors, it is said, are pre paring an appeal to Congress. Mass meetings, with reference to the Presidental election, have been held throughout the country, and at Atlanta, in Georgia, a great Republican demonstration took place, while many negroes attended those of the Democrats in North and South Carolina. The Russia brings further intelligence from Hayti, which had appeared in the New York papers. Salnave had imprisoned the Prussian con sul, and also threatened the life of the British con sul, whereupon her Majesty's ship Favourite made preparations to bombard Port au Prince. Tele grams from Jamaica (via Havana) state :—The authorities of Jamaica propose to obtain a loan from Great Britain for the completion of the works now in progress. News from Port au Prince of the 10th inst. indicate that the revolution is likely to succeed. Salnave was preparing for flight. His family had been captured by the Cacos rebels. The feeling in Nova Saotia against Confederation appears to be growing stronger, and other resolu tions, besides one moved by the Attorney-General protesting against it, have been passed by the House of Assembly. The Ministerial mission is regarded as a failure, and the party has returned to Quebec. Repeal meetings have been held, the one at Wey mouth being largely attended, and some of the speakers hinting at annexation to the United States were received with loud applause. The Royal assent to the Extradition Treaty between the Do minion and the United States has been published, and the Canadian Parliament prorogued until Sep- tember 19. The New York World calls Sir John A. Macdonald the Disraeli of America, and pre dicted a greater success than he met for his mission to Halifax. The Toronto Leader threa tens Nova Scotia, telling the people there is a point beyond which they will not be per mitted to go. By the Russia we learn that the Canadian authorities hold the volunteer corps ready for an emergency, an assembly of Fenians being spoken of at Ardensbury, and that the Government continues to take precautionary measures through out the country. _ . . A great mass meeting was held in the Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednesday evening, the 12th inst., by the working men of that city and Brooklyn, to forward the Eight-hour movement. They resolved to support the bricklayers on strike, and maintained the justice of their claims to ten hours' pay for eight hours' work. The contest so far has been narrowed to the bricklayers against their employers, and it is watched with interest as involving a result affecting all the trades. The employers declare their power to win, and the workmen are equally confident, :and well backed by their fellow labourers. The chalkers of Boston also continue on strike. The car-drivers have " asked for more," and as they only receive for twelve hours half the wages claimed by the brick layers for eight their demand is not unreasonable. The Government men have been glad to get back with the loss of 20 per cent. on their previous wages and the gain in time of two hours, so that the Congres sional legislation has done them more harm than good. Mr. Johnson received the delegation of the Inter national Tailors' Union Convention, and drew a touching picture of his recollection of the times passed in his tailor's shop. Considering that A DA3I was a tailor, he thought no man could be disgraced by being one ; he was proud of his trade, and ad vised the creation of an aristocracy of labour. The associated workmen of New York sent Mr. Osborne Ward to France to report on the condition of the labouring classes there, and the action of the co operative system. Some time since he arrived in Paris, and he will proceed to Germany, Switzerland, and Italy to complete his investigations. I I The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill to establish a State lottery, as the only means of fur nishing the Treasury with funds. It has also passed the Militia Bill, giving the Governor discretionary power to accept, arm, and commission officers of the volunteer militia, whose organization meets his approval ; also to call out and disperse the militia at his pleasure. The Senate has adopted the minority report of the committee on elections, con firming the rights of the three sitting Demo cratic members from New Orleans. In the North Carolina Legislature the State Police Bill has been defeated, but a bill organizing a spe cial vo:unteer force will probably be adopted in its place, and the Legislature will at once adjourn. In spite of all remonstrances the Tennessee Legis lature is likely to pass the bill calling out the, militia, and giving Governor Brownlow absolute power to arm and equip as many regiments as he chooses, and they will probably be made - up mostly of negroes. There have been alarming stories afloat recently about a plot to burn Nashville and other Tennessee towns; but, reduced to their lowest terms, it appears that the plot really existed only in the brain of a half crazy negro named John Caspar. The South Carolina House of Representatives pro poses by enactment to do away with any distinc tions on account of colour in hotels or public con veyances, but they will find it easier to pass laws than to change customs and prejudices. The South Carolina Treasury is empty, which can scarcely be regarded as news worthy of Reuter's notice, as no body expected it to be full. A few weeks ago we noticed the departure from Liverpool of the ship Emerald Isle with 871 Mor mon passengers for Utah via New York. This makes 3,000 persons who have arrived in that city for the Mormon settlement during the year. The majority of the Emerald Isle passengers were Danes and Welch, 37 of whom died of typhus fever on the passage. The sickly passengers were put in quarantine on arrival at New York; where we are sorry to notice some cases of cholera have occurred. The premisesof thegreat publishing house of Apple ton and Company, in New York, were burnt on the 14th inst., the loss being estimated at $200,000. The conflagration in the Canadian forests con tinues, though not raging so fiercely. Townships and lumbering establishments have been destroyed; among them St. Aymar, where 11 houses were con sumed with the Northern Railway buildings. The province of Quebec has been devastated by similar forest fires. At Hunter's Point, Long Island, a factory with its superintendent, Mr. Johnson, was burnt; and the Humboldt Tannery, Camdon, New York, has been also consumed. Attorney-General Evarts being consulted by the President regarding Mr. Rollins's resignation has decided that it cannot be acted on till his successor is confirmed, the office only then being vacant ; but Mr. Rollins will doubtless take an early opportu nity of getti ng r id o f a pos t w hich, under the cir cumstances, he has no desire to hold. The President, it is said, withwill tw su o pp o o r rt m t o h r e e Seymour-Blair Cabinet ; butticket, together Chief Justice Chase will go for Grant and Colfax. In a recent charge to a grand jury at Parkerburg, West Virginia, Mr. Chase took occasion to call the attention of the jurors to secure the faithful execu tion of the revenue laws, without which the national honour was endangered, and the burden of taxa tion shifted entirely to the shoulders of the honest. The national debt was the price of the national existence, binding irrevocably the good faith of the people. Its inviolable obligation had been recog nized by the adoption of the Fourteenth Amend ment to the Constitution. " The debt contracted must be paid, and paid in perfect goal faith." It was to be regretted that the currency of the coun try consisted wholly, or almost wholly, of paper. At the last General Convention of the American Episcopal Church a committee was appointed to collect information on the Church Reformation movement in Italy, and to report to the next Con vention. On the committee were the bishops of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with several leading clergymen and laymen. The Rev. Chancy Langdon was appointed secretary, and sent to Italy to collect information, accompanied by Mr. Goodrich. A pamphlet has ju3t been published by Georg llerbert, Dublin, giving the result of their investigations, which are in the highest degree encouraging to the prosecution of Church Reforma tion in Italy, as it has its strongest supporters in the Romish priesthood, and only requires the move ment to become national for these divines openly to declare their sentiments. The case of Cardinal d'Andrea sufficiently shows that not even the highest rank is a safeguard to the Pontiff. As the move ment is of deep interest, as the characteristic of the men engaged appears to be sound common sense, their statements being wholly free from cant, and expressed in plain, simple language, we will read up these letters, with a view to condense the matter for the benefit of our readers. The object is furthered by a committee established in London, consisting of the Earl of llarrowby, Sir Joseph Napier; Bart., Major-General Sir W. llill, the Bishop of Meath, the Deans of Canterbury, Chester, and Cork (with the Bishop of Gibraltar as president). for the Governorship, and the other in the canvass for Congress. In Columbia, South Carolina, the Democratic Electoral Convention assembled, represented by the ablest public men of the party. It was re markable for a resolution and a statement by Wade Hampton, who said, " While entering a pro test against R tdical Reconstruction Acts, we rely confidentially on the constitutional agency and peaceful measures alone to bring us the relief sought and the reforms needed." Alluding to a recent reported utterance of his, repro luced in the Northern papers, in reference to the Confede rate flag, he said :—" This statement is in every way false. On the contrary, when I spoke of the flag of the Confederacy, I remarked that it now was furled for ever, to be buried in the grave of the lost cause." The women of his State (South Caro lina) had presented his family with a flag, which was in the hands of his son when he fell, and it was to it he alluded. Talking of Wade Hampton, Gen. Preston, of Kentucky, denies that he or any South erner placed the words " unconstitutional," " revolu tionary," and " void" in the Democratic platform, as it was done by a Free-soil Northerner. One of the Columbia Democratic clubs passed a resolution to patronize no Radical and to employ no freedmen who could not show that they were members of a Democratic association ; and Wade Hampton, ac cording to some accounts, has endorsed this. Massachusetts has been endeavouring to extract the political sentiments of two celebrated ex-Ministers of the United States. The Quincy-Grant Club plumply asked Charles Francis Adams to address them on the subject, but they got very little in response, for our late Minister tells them in diplo matic phraseology that he is still devoted to the self-evident truth in the great Declaration of 1776, and he holds in his attachment to the same prin ciples he held before he left the United States. Having represented the whole people, he could not condescend all at once to identify himself with a section, and he had private affairs to attend to which had suffered from neglect. Mr. Motley was the other, many leading citizens being desirous publicly to recognize his eminent services abroad, but this invitation Mr. Motley courteously declined. lie considers the seven years he had been absent the most eventful in the annals of the race ; he speaks in very warm terms of the courteous, kindly, and sincere marks of friendliness he had met in his official capacity from Austria, and he hopes for that ancient empire a bright future, not withstanding the clouds which hang over the present. The historian, alluding to the civil war, said—" De mocracy has been upon its trial, and irrevocably has the American people vindicated the right and the capacity of the people to govern itself. Self government might have perished from the earth had the great Republic fallen in its struggle with oligarchy, had our faith in the Democratic prin ciple faltered during the awful conflict to which we were doomed by the inexorable logic of history." A telegram from Berlin last Wednesday was to the following effect :—" The representative of the North German Confederation at Washington has been instructed to open negotiations with the United States Government with the view of har monising the regulations concerning emigrants by means of international legislation. A favourable result is expected." MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Aug. 15.) Money continues easy without any indicatious as yet of that fall demand which the advocates of " an elastic cur rency" prate about so much, and so foolishly. A more complete misapprehension, not merely of the principles of business, but of the meaning of words, than is involved iu that phrase, it is not possible to conceive—yet we hear it every day on the street, and read it every day in news papers that ought to know bett3r. What is elasticity? There are two elements, but the one which those sage financiers intend by that term, is the power or capacity to " give" under pressure. In the name of common sense doesn't our currency " give" enough now ? That is precisely what the present condition of the market means. Money is easy—loose —now, because there is no strain or pressure. Two months from now it will become tight— tense —because there is an increased demand for it. Busi ness "takes up" just as much of it as it wants, and when it wants it. Just now it does not require the whole of the extravagant supply furnished by the Government legal tenders and by the national Bank notes ; and accordingly it rejects the surplus, which lies idle in bank or coffer, and is for use at very low rates. earning October busi ness will have taken up the whole of the issue, there will be no excess, and interest will rule high. What greater adaptability to the wants of trade can be asked than this? Yet the Trilmne, and many other journals clamour that our banking system should be modified to give more elas ticity to the currency. They would have the banks authorized to issue a certain number of millions more of currency between September and January than between May and September, so as to meet the wants of the fall trade and the crops. But is not that just what the banks under the present system do ? No man whose opinion on finance is worth a whit more than George Francis Train's will say that we have not currency enough—with our twelve hundred and fifty millions of circulation and de posits. Elasticity with these gentlemen simply means ex pansion. But elasticity, in its proper sense, implies the power both to expand and contract as the occasion re quires, and that is just what our currency does, what any currency, when let alone, will do. Elasticity is a property of bodies in thems'elves. - It is not elasticity when the alternate changes are produced by manipulation. All money, good or bad alike, value or credit, is elastic neces sarily. Commerce takes up just what it wants of it, and lots the rest alone. As a consequence, when it wants a little there is an excess and low rates of interest. When it wants much, there is no excess, and interest rules high. The situation in Louisiana has been the cause of much comment and controversy throughout the country. Governor Warmouth, in his application to the President officially asserted that 150 per sons had been murdered within six weeks. Mr. Jewel, in the State Senate on the 7th inst., asked for a committee of three to wait on the Governor and ascertain the time and place of these 150 mur ders, and to this the New Orleans Republican re plied with the list of the people killed as alleged. The World says the agents of the freedmen's bureau of Louisiana contradict the Governor's statements. The former journal states that the Radical societies in the city include 10,000 trained soldiers, of whom 3,000 could be assemblel in Dryades-street ready for service within half an hour. The Democrats say that Governor Warrnouth has mapped out the city and the State into military districts, and deposited 5,500 stand of arms in the Republican headquarters, near the Capitol. He has appointed a military staff, and taken precautions such as indicate preparations either to use or to repel force. The Governor's ac count says that there is no protection in the courts, that men are shot on the highways and in their homes, while the offenders go at large unmolested. Prominent Union men in the parish of Cad lo are beset, and their lives only preserved by a guard in their houses of armed volunteers. In the parish of St. Landry many persons had been murdered ; the Judge of the Twentieth Judicial District refuses to go to the parish of Franklin unless under the protection of a force ; and the Sheriff of that parish, though a Democrat, unable to make arrests, has resigned office. The Governor announces the existence of a secret organization with military branches in the city, who openly drill in the streets at night or in public halls. They propose to keep dowel coloured men, they threaten the Legislature, and they design to assassinate the Lieut.-Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he concludes by stating that a sanguinary revolution is meditated. Such documents are re ceived with caution at a time of political excitement, whe❑ people have little scruple in drawing largely on their imagination in aid of their party. But the President has directed General Grant, through Secretary Schofield, to send to the commanders in the South a circular of instructions to act only in reply to such applications, when it is evident the State Governments are powerless to repress insur rection, and this is accompanied with a copy of the laws bearing on the subject of military interference in the affairs of the States. Our twelve hundred millions, with interest ruling at no more than 3 to 3 per cent., are now performing the work of only eight or ten hundred millions. Much of it is not be ing employed at all. What of it is employed is not doing by any means all it could. When the fall comes, and cotton and corn make their demands, the twelve hundred millions will be worked "on full thus." There's elasticity for you—that is cAupleto adaptation to the wants of coin in!rce. What difference does it make—except that the latter is clumsy and ineffectual—whether trade be left to accomplish this through its own agencies of discount, de posit, and exchange, and with its own wonderful and per fect, because natural, powers of selection—or human law bo called in to adjust the volume of the currency to the season and the condition of the market, and to provide that in October there shall be so much money afloat, and in August so much less ? Trade no more needs an act of Congress to prescribe the amount of money it shall have at any given time than I need a commissioner to squeeze the air out of my lungs and then blow them up again, twenty times a minute. I am perfectly competent to do that for myself, and Ido it without thinking of it. So trade is per fectly competent to use currency, or let it alone, according to its wants at the time; and it does so instinctively and always aright. The only possible way in which any signi ficance whatever could be given to the expression "an elastic currency" (all currency being intrinsically and necessarily elastic), would be by issuing india-rubber money. Mr. Jefferson Davis met with a civil reception on landing at Liverpool, a town on the whole of Southern proclivities, which is natural, consider ing that its great trade was with the South. To read some Republican papers it might be supposed that the ex-President of the ex-Confederacy had passed under triumphal arches, with salutes thunder ing, bonfires blazing, and fireworks fizzing. What we know mainly of Mr. Davis's arrival was from the correspondent of a London evening "daily," who wrote an offensive and most uncalled-for remark on that gentleman's family. Considering the position Mr. Davis has filled in history, and the enthusiasm he managed to excite in a certain class, his recep tion was remarkable for its absence of ostentation and of demonstrations. The New Orleans Picayune informs us that Mr. Davis intends to accept the invitation of an eminent merchant to join him in partnership, and will reside in New Orleans as a representative of the firm. At Boston individual deposits are on the increase, though the banks keep their loans well up by offering easy terms. Call loans on Government collaterals vary from 4 to 6 per oent., and discounts from 6 to 7, very fair paper being offered at 7i to 8. New York funds are heavy at a slight discount. As for some months past, money at Boston ap pears to be less in excess than at any other principal city in the country—owing probably to the greater discrimina tion in regard to paper, and the greater care in making discounts. At New York money continues abundant. Call loans are made at 3 per cent. in Governments and 4 per cent. in railway and miscellaneous stock, but with much greater discrimination as to collaterals and with a wider margin. The best commercial paper is in demand at 6 per cent. The gold held by the banks has been in creased somewhat more than $4,000,000 during the week by the transfer of that amount from the Treasury, on ac count of the Alaska purchase. At Chicago there is a fair inquiry for loans, but the supply is largely in excess. The market is easy at 10 per cent., with little doing in Eastern exchange. At Cincinnati the demand for money is im proving, but is quite freely met. There is more activity in business circles generally, and currency is moving to the country for the purchase of produce. Loans are made at 8 to 9 per cent. in bank and JO in open market for first-class paper. Exchange is in good demand at par to 50c. premium. At New Orleans the money market continues without any marked change. The street rates are 1 per cent. a month for prime paper, and 18 to for anything second-class. Loans are made on mortgage at 10 to 12 per cent. Bank discounts are made freely to regular customers, but, as for some time past, country paper has to go begging. At San Francisco, the demand for money is rather better, but the supply is re ported as still abundant. Rates remain at Ito I per cent. a month in bank and 10 to 12 per cent. on real estate se curity. Gold closed last week at 149, having made 150 the day before. The advance from 146 had been too rapid to give any assurance that it would be maintained, and accord ingly, on Friday, at the close, it was off 2 per cent.; on Saturday a little better; on Monday down to 1168 to I ; on Tuesday a fraction lower ; on Wednesday it rose to 147 i, and closed for the week at 1471. As we said in our last report, we consider the figure 145 as thepresent minimum of gold, and anticipate a further advance. During the day on Saturday it touched 1451 for a momont, and imme diately rebounded. The boldest operators covered their shorts at that figure and at 146-}, and the bears bought freely—the strongest testimony possible to conviction of the community that the rise in gold is genuine and per manent. General Butler has given his constituents at Gloucester, Massachusetts, the benefit of a long address. Acenrding to him the Congressional majority has been earnestly engaged in legislating in a most unexceptionable manner, of course under his leadership. it has displayed great magnanimity towards the South ; it has considerably reduced the public burdens ; it has defeated all jobbing schemes for public plunder, or for the depletion of the Trea sury ; it has stopped the contraction of the currency until the rich harvest promised by a kind Provi dence gives to the United States a balance of exports over imports. He considers the financial question to be one as regards the claims of the bondholders on which Republicans might honestly differ, which still remains open, and substantially undiscussed, but not one now to divide the party. He was more distinct, however, about impeaChment and the part he took therein. The seven Republican Senators who voted against conviction he likened to the seven devils which were cast out of Mary Magda lene, and from this it is no great step to reiterate his charges against them, maintaining their corrup tion either through money or the lust of power. As he cannot occupy a conspicuous place in the eye of the nation on the floor of the House, he does so in the columns of the press. His letter in the Tribune, headed " General Butler Strikes Back," wherein he declared that both the suits at Balti more were brought by John Surratt's counsel, has been replied to by R. T. Merrick, who says that Mr. Butler twice urged on Miss Annie Surratt his desire to defend her brother, and was not employed because Messrs. B:adley and Merrick refused to be associated with him. This statement has demolished Mr. Butler's design of leaving his constituents under the impression that he was an ardent patriot, persecuted by those who defend the naln who aided Booth to murder Mr. Lincoln. He has turned over a new leaf reg trding General Grant, whom he now highly eulogises, and for whom he intends to vote, as is natural, considering he predicts civil war as the result of Democratic success. But what con cerns him even more nearly is that without some declaration in Grant's favour he would have very little chance of sitting in the next Congress, and he took the earliest opportunity of announcing his re conciliation. Ex-Adjutant-General Schouler is likely to be the opposing candidate. Butler has formed an alliance with Dr. George Loring, who formerly was a Democratic ally of his, on the un derstanding that they tender mutual aid—•the one Governments have fallen off slightly since last report with the fall in gold, but the amount of business done has increased and a large investment demand been experienced. A noticeable featurb is an improvement in new 65's; with a fractional advance over 1867'5, which have heretofore commanded the higher price. It is rumoured that large amounts of 1865's have been quietly shipped during the past few weeks, although they are not classed with exportable bonds. A more noticeable feature is the advance in Ten- Forties (five per cents.) Those have risen to a level with the Five-Twenties of 1862—two months' interest on. This appreciation is a tribute to the repudiation theories, and may be regarded as an indication that a new loan, clearl3 expressed as payable in gold, would be preferred to the old bonds with the uncertainty which has been attached to them by the unprincipled efforts of our demagogues. It is perfectly unreasonable, of course, that five per cont. bonds should bo so nearly on an equality with six per cents and shows the discredit which has been brought upon our national credit by the agitation of the bond question. It is shameful that it should be so ; but it furnishes an addi tional reason for the immediate funding of the debt, with a full assurance as to the terms both of principal and inte rest. The August statement of the national debt, made public since our last report, is fully as favourable as could bo expected, considering the fact that July and August are the months of large disbursements and small receipts. The most noticeable feature is the large increase in gold interest bonds, and the corresponding decreaso in those bearing currency interest, indicating the final extinguish- =IIM rant of the groat 7-30 loan, which " ran' ovt " on the 2d instant. About $8,000,000 remain unconverted, which will be redeemed in currency according to its terms. In the railway market, Hartford and Erie still makes a prominent figure ; but as its appreciation is due to the success of unprincipled combinations, as well as to the facility, to say the least, of the Massachusetts Legislature, it is not a proper subject of public congratulation. The present direction, under the ener getic lead of President Eldridge, promises the completion of the road at the end of two years more. The injunction on the stock dividend of the Rock Island Road has finally been dissolved, and the books will be closed for transfer on the 15th inst. The New York roads have undergone great changes, the result of a combination of the Drew and Vanderbilt parties to bear the stocks. The present Erie management, with Jay Gould for president, promise great reforms in administration, and appear to have seriously undertaken the searching retrenchment of expenses and the thorough repair of the road. In the miscellaneous stock market the only matter of interest is the strength of Pacific mail. Rumours are current that the Webb oppo sition is to be withdrawn, but nothing authentic is given to support this notion, while, to all appearance, that party is even more strong and defiant than ever. In the general trade, the most marked experience of the week has been the fall in the boot market, which has been almost unprecedented. Many of the large dealers have been caught with heavy stocks on their hands. The mischief is local, and has not affected the demand or price for shoes and brogans, which are in good request, at full prices. Hay is just now a prominent article of export, in the comparative failure of the English crop. Old hay is in quick demand for shipping, at an ad vance. Hops continua to be weak and depressed. Of the dry goods market the New York Independent says:— " The first week in August has proved duller than had been anticipated among dry goods men, and a few weak holders of domestic cotton have been disposed to ease themselves of their heavy stocks at a small concession of prices ; but there has been no decided change in the market since our last report. There is some uncertainty still felt as to the ruling prices of raw cotton for the next 90 days, but the sudden rise in gold of last week, and the growing conviction that higher pirces will yet be realised this fall, tend to prevent a fall in the market value of all kinds of manufactured goods. The continued favourable re ports of the harvest from all parts of the South and West make it certain that there will be an unusually good fall trade. The country is not overstocked with goods, and the West will be abundantly able to pay for all it purchases." The cattle disease has been not only the topic of the week, but, if we regard the extent of the interestslinvolved and the frightful possibilities of such a post, transcends in importance all other industrial features of the time. The leading newspapers of the country have confined their in quiries and remarks almost exclusively to the importation of poisoned meat, and to the effect of the disease upon the animal tissue; and for the best reason in the world, because to dwellers in the large cities, who are wholly at the mercy of the butchers, and have no means of ascertaining the condition of the meat slaughtered for market, this is, if not the most important, at least the most instant concern. But that is properly, and indeed almost solely, a matter of domestic interest, and for municipal regulation. The country generally is more anxious to know what are the probabilities of the pest breaking over all bounds and getting wholly beyond control so as to become a perma nent burden upon our industry. From the West the ac counts are angry, excited, and confused, and while they add to the impression of the ca:amity, they give no clear and reliable data for determining its character or methods. At the East its progress can be more distinctly traced. It has appeared at all the great cattle markets, though not as yet with very alarming effects, and at all the great railroad ganglia. The symptoms are variously reported, and there is unquestionably a great deal of ordinary fever that passes for Dr. Harris's "malignant typhus." But the concurrence of deaths in such unusual numbers at AlLany, New York, Brighton, Communipaw, &c., proves that it is the veritable scourge, and that it does not de pend upon local atmospheric influences, but is contagious in the fullest sense, and may be rapidly transmitted along the lines of railroad communication in any direction with fatal certainty. The introduction and domestication of such a disease is a great fact economically, and is likely to prove a sore blow to our national industry. The public debt of the United States on the Ist of August, according to the usual Treasury statement, was as follows : Debt bearing coin interest Debt bearing currency interest 81,601,890 Matured debt not presented for pay ment Debt bearing no interest 410,302,891 37c. Pacific Railroad Bouds 32,210,000 Total 52,633,588,756 81c. The cash in the Treasury amounted to $110,054,276 14c., of which $83,409,917 93c. was coin, the rest being cur ency. The total debt increased $10,164,809 since the Ist of Juno. Of this increase of debt $6,308,000 is due to bonds issued to the Union Pacific Railroad, which are secured by a mortgage on the road. No debt statement was issued on July 1, it being the close of the fiscal year, and the comparison is therefore with the June statement. Prices of Stocks aad Shares in New York: -American gold 117 to 1471, United States co ipon sixes (1881) 1131, United States Five-twenties (1862) 1141, (1861) 1101, (1865) 114 (1863, now) 109 to 1091, (1867) 109 to 1091, (1868) 109 to 1091, United States 10-40's 1091, Virginia 6'S 56, Missouri Sixes 93, Tennessee 6's 61 to 614, North Caro lina Sixes 73 to 741, New York Central Railroad 1271, Erie 571, Erie Preferred 70 to 701, Hudson River 1361 to 137, Harlem 123 to 124, Reading 91 to 914, Milwaukee and St. Paul 741- to 741, Milwaukee and St. Paul Pre ferred 82 to 821, Toledo, Wabash, and Western, 501 to 51, Toledo, Wabash, and Western, 71 to 72, Michigan Central 120 to 121, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 85}, Illinois Central 1481 to 149, Cleveland and Pittsburg 87 to 871, Cleveland and Toledo 100 to 10011 Chicago, Rock Island,7and Pacific 1118 to 1111, Chicago and North-western 82k, Chicago and North-western Preferred 82i, Hartford and Erie 22 to 23, Adams E% - press Company 52 to 52k, Merchants' Union 24 to 24k, Western Union Telegraph Company 331, Pacific Mall Steamship Company 1021, Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 30 to 33, Canton 461 to 47, Quicksilver 211, Ba ton Water Power Company 161- to 161. At Hartford, City National Bank 107, American Na tional 1101, City Insurance Company 129, New York and New Haven Railroad 145 i, Adams Express Company 5 2 7 United States 45-1. (Prom Messrs. Sattertliwaite's Circular.) London, Aug. 26. In the London market for American Securities the only noteworthy change during the past week has been 1 0 Erie Shares, in which the fluctuations have been almost entirely regulated by the daily telegraphic quotation s from New York. The lowest officially recorded trans" action on the 21st was at 30, but from this there has bee° a reaction to 321- to 33, with an apparently healthier mar ket than for some time past. Illinois Central Shares, at 911 to 921, are slightly fitAiers but United States Government Bonds show no altera tion, the 5-20's of 1862 closing 711 to I, the 1865 issue 7 0 to 1, and the five per cent. 10-40's 66 to 1, ex the so tember coupon. Atlantic and Great Western securities are without change. 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I V _, portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more thl,;,. sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebl name is most audaciously attached. 18. ; In tins, at ls. ltd.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., - 12 lbs , 228, ; 241bs ,403,—A150 Du BARity'S REVALENTA AH&B i ;t CHOCOLATE :!0V, , ,),*.a, is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups,,, , 25., for 24 :Alps Gd.. for 18 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at 3 ° 7 8. for 576 tuns 555. I.3:as nuoat one penny per cup. The and 555. tiffs ere seat free of carriage in England on reel,/ of Post 0111,e Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., No. Regent-street, London ; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. elf COURAGE—On the 27th inst., at Pembury, Kent. the V of E. Courage, Esq., of a son. STEELE— On the 27th inst., at 11, Ormonde-terrace, Bey gent's-park, the wife of R. S. Steele, of the Inner Te ll ' plo, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. WALLACE—On the 26th inst., at Southa m pt o n, the w ife 0 Major R. R. Wallace, Bombay Staff Corps, of a sou. Marriages. 41 BECKETT—ROBINSON—On the 26th inst., at the p a n to church, Lewisham, Henry John Beckett, of Le e, • s . Emma Ann, youngest dau g ht er o f th e l a t e T. W. B c4 son, of Greenwich. WELLS—ROWLANDS—At St. Peter's Church, Catinalthel O ii Charles 11. Wells, Esq., on l y son o f Captain We lls ' o d Penally and Tenby, P em b ro k es hi re, to N a nno, O c car . daughter of James Rowlands, Esq F.R.C.S., of marthen. Deaths. Bax—On the 26th inst., at Shephard's-bush, Mi ddicSe°' Daniel Bax, aged 91. of Joussox—On the 23d inst , 14 Thomas Johnson, r•s c f" - Tamworth House, Burnage, and Queen's Hotel, .241 chester, aged 60. LORKIN—On the 9th Jan., at Taupeka, Otago, li° vl Zht; land, George Robert, the younger son of the lat e Lorkin, Esq., Deputy of dersgate Ward. George MANNERS —On the 26th inst , Al at Cheltenham, Capt . Manners, late 13th Light . Dragoons, aged 71. st' bIATsoN - On the 27th inst., at Dartmouth Lodge, - w ° r° hill, Kent, George Matson, Esq., aged 73. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.X I 1 0, of No. 112, Strand, Printor, at Tam SON g° of Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the 0u 3./ Aliddleeex.—Saturday, August 29, 1468, IV MAY S PLACE 1N NATURE, The British Association at Norwich, in its zeal for the improvement of " Economic Science," has undertaken to determine anew woman's place in nature. This attempt was made by Miss Becker, in a lecture on the " Supposed Difference in the Minds of Men and Women." To treat the place which woman occupies in nature as a subject appertaining to the department of Economic Science and Statistics is a fallacy, for this subject belongs to a higher order, and refers to the end for which both men and women were created. In the order of nature there is not similarity but difference ; between men and women this difference is not accidental, but essential ; it is rooted in the nature, physical, moral, and in tellectual, of the two sexes. This radical dif ference affects in every way the relations be tween men and women, and forms their highest bond of union. It is not a question, as Miss Becker supposes, of equality or inequality, but of co-ordination. If both sexes were, as the lecturer contends, in all but physical respects not only equal but similar, this necessary co ordination, which is visible in the whole scheme of nature, would be interrupted, and rivalry and confusion would take the place of sympathy and order. The moral and intellec tual, as well as physical, difference between men and women is the source of mutual attrac tion ; perfect similarity repels, but common observation teaches how variety attracts. If the object of the creation of the two sexes be to render them helpmates to each other, the one to supply what is wanting in the other, it is impossible to conceive how this end could have been better carried out than by the crea tion in each of qualities, capacities, and powers equal in force, but different in kind. - The moral and intellectual qualities of woman, in asmuch as they differ from those of men, not only exhibit the pleasing variety which is the characteristic charm of nature, but con joined with those of a different kind, natural to man, produce as their joint result the per fect man. For woman to remove, even were it possible, the moral and intellectual differences which, as the universal sense of mankind attests, dis tinguish her, would be to destroy the beauty of variety, to disturb the harmony of order and to lessen, by the withdrawal of sympathetic co-operation, the beneficial results now spring ing from the union of the various qualities of the two sexes, The truer woman is to her nature the greater is her power. How great her power is, how subtle and mysterious her influence in the formation of character, how deep the reverence and love she inspires in her highest quality as mother there is not a man living, who is not utterly worthless and reprobate, that does not bear grateful testi mony. To attain to perfect moral and intellectual similarity with man, at the sacrifice of her womanly qualities, would be to destroy her peculiar influence and to lose the hold she now has upon the world. Her chief charpa, too, would be lost. Schiller truly expresses what every man feels— Des \Veibes groiste Zierde ist die Weiblichkeit. Woman's chief charm is womanliaess: The British Association at Norwich is not competent to settle by lectures delivered in the section devoted to " Economic Science and Statistics," the place woman ought to occupy in nature. We prefer to leave to the natural instincts of woman rather than to the discrimination of a Scientific Society the choice of her place in the Christian world. We feel certain that she will never sacrifice the power she now exercises over the minds of men, the hold she has on their hearts, for the sake of attaining to a moral and intellectual similarity with them. It is nobler far and truer to her nature, as exhibited since the be ginning of time, to reign in her peculiar way than to enter into a contentious rivalry. Under the Christian dispensation, in the meantime, we must never forget how noble and glorious is the task imposed upon woman. To her is confided the care of the Christian family, her highest duty to bring up children as the co-heirs of Christ,to set them a bright example of faith and fortitude ; in life and in death to teach them, by acts more even than by- precept, perfect obedience to the will of God ; and when a Christian mother has ful filled in constant fidelity the charge entrusted by God to her keeping, what reverence and love does not her name inspire on earth, and what a crown of glory may she not expect in Heaven!—Westminster Gazette. AN ADDRESS TO MR. G. F. 7RALV. Mr. G. F. Train has elicited a manifesto from some of the National School teachers of Ire land, in the form of an address, which is pub lished in the Nation. The document begins with an expression of admiration for " the great Republic, of which he may well feel proud to be a citizen," and then proceeds to deliver the opinion of the learned and loyal body upon the state of Ireland :—When we cast our eyes over this lovely land ; when we gaze upon its beautiful scenery—its fertile plains—its romantic ruins—its commercial and manufacturing capabilities—its fair women and stalwart men, and all the while feel con scious that a stranger lords it over us, we may well feel sad and exclaim, ' How long ! 0 Lord ! how long !'" They refer to the system of education which " they are compelled to administer," complain that it is calculated to crush the national spirit, but add, with a feel ing of pride, which rises above all minor con siderations of duty,--" Unfortunately for the founders, they suffered Irishmen to be the teachers, and without egotism, we lay claim to some portion of the merit of having made the national spirit what it is to-day." They ex press deep sympathy for Mr. Train, whose suf ferings they can appreciate, the more fully from a recollection of the martyrdom in the cause of nationality which some of their own body, they say, have endured, and they indignantly assure him that they recognize in the strong arm which holds him in prison, the " tyrant that has long fattened on our land and forced our little ones to wander over the earth in search of that bread denied them at home." Some doubt has been raised as to the genuine ness of the address, but the Nation does not impeach its authenticity, and it is due to the patriotism of the teachers to say that it has in several instances attracted the special notice of the police. Mr. Train returns a gracious reply. He says :—" All kinds of addresses, from all parts of Ireland, have been showered upon me, but none have been more welcome than yours, gentlemen, for it is your teaching that has kept burning the sacred fire of liberty. Old men and fair maidens—brave youths and little convent girls—have made me many pre sents" but you have spoken the voice of a mil lion of children who sing ' The Wearing of the Green.' England made a sad mistake by educating Ireland ; for the educated mind will not long remain in slavery. The patriot spirit of the three-eights—'9B, '4B, and '6B—has made a unit of Ireland. To-day the best educated people in the world are the Irish. When England destroyed by her free trade tactics the factories of Ireland to build up her own manufactories, she liberated Irish chil dren and enslaved her own offspring. The Irish went to school and are educated—the English child went into the factory and is ignorant."—Manchester Guardian. The seats now vacant in the Canadian Cabinet —the one by the death of the Hon. Fergusson Blair, and the other by the promotion of the Hon. Mr. Howland— are to be offered, it is said, to gentlemen of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 'ADVERTISEMENT. 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